MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kelnos | 2025-06-22 00:35:45+00:00
Yeah, that's a fair interpretation.

But I think the way I look at it is in a sort of "work product" type way. If I'm employed by a company to write software, I'm the one who wrote it, but I agree that the software I write is the property of the company, and I can't take it with me when I leave.

Is a salesperson's "work product" those relationships, and does that make them the "property" of the company? I don't think it's reasonable to say that those relationships are solely between the customers and the salesperson; those relationships wouldn't work out in that way if the salesperson's company was selling garbage, or even just a product that those customers didn't want. That is, the good customer-salesperson relationship is both a function of the salesperson's personal skills, and of the good fit between the company's products and the customer.

Ultimately, though, whatever you agree to in writing when you start the job is what you should honor. I'm fine with the law protecting people from predatory practices by employers (of which I think non-competes qualify, and employees shouldn't be able to sign away a right to change jobs like that), but if an employee signs something that says any customer relationships belong to the company, then that seems like a reasonable thing to me.
by gspetr | 2025-06-22 00:35:46+00:00
> The influence of money in politics is one of sharply-diminishing returns. It is invaluable for name recognition

This part is true.

> There is a tendency, when we disagree with an election, to tally up the donations made to the other side while ignoring all the times the best-funded candidate got trounced. (Jeb!)

While this is too specific to a particular type of election to hold true in general (no pun intended). The POTUS election is almost by definition the most high profile election in the US, therefore the money does the least to boost your name recognition, as evidenced by $2B in "free" media publicity for the 2016 winner.

However, the WH is not the only race that matters. According to https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/money-and-elections-a-c... "For house seats, more than 90 percent of the candidates who spend the most win."

This article goes into great length to explain why correlation does not mean causation, but it also makes the case that a lot of the races that are indeed somewhat low-profile, and that's where money makes the big impact.
by madsmith | 2025-06-22 00:36:54+00:00
Something like 400 people just died because of a claim about nuclear weapons which is not backed up by evidence. Claims that have been echoed for decades…

Purportedly 400 people just died… Was it because a sovereign country wants to have Nuclear power? Maybe? Maybe not? Was it because Israel already has Nukes? Who knows… But it’s not a simple end of story situation unless lives have no value.
by sodality2 | 2025-06-22 00:37:08+00:00
Flies in the face of the US intelligence community’s report at the end of March [0], but, I am not floored if true. Do you have any sources?

Edit: If you mean "Verification and monitoring in the Islamic Republic of Iran in light of United Nations Security Council resolution 2231 (2015)" [1], that report explicitly mentions up to 60% which is not weapons grade.

[0]: https://www.newsweek.com/tulsi-gabbard-iran-nuclear-weapon-2... [1]: https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/25/06/gov2025-24.pd...
by OptionOfT | 2025-06-22 00:37:51+00:00
You fork the repo which has a GitHub action that builds the container & publishes it, or if it doesn't, you add it to your fork.

And then you create an action on a schedule [0] which checks upstream for updates, and syncs it to your fork. Mind you that that sync needs to be done with a PAT [1], otherwise that sync (push) will not trigger a new build.

[0] https://docs.github.com/en/actions/writing-workflows/choosin...

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/actions/security-for-github-actio...

> When you use the repository's GITHUB_TOKEN to perform tasks, events triggered by the GITHUB_TOKEN, with the exception of workflow_dispatch and repository_dispatch, will not create a new workflow run. This prevents you from accidentally creating recursive workflow runs. For example, if a workflow run pushes code using the repository's GITHUB_TOKEN, a new workflow will not run even when the repository contains a workflow configured to run when push events occur.
by yongjik | 2025-06-22 00:39:21+00:00
> Ironically, South Korea wanted to do this to North Korea in 2003

Where did you get that info? Makes no sense. South Korea has been consistently against starting another war with NK for at least 30 years or so, and besides, in 2003 South Korea was ruled by Kim Dae-Jung, famous for he's staunch support of improving relations with North Korea (he got a Nobel prize for that), and then Roh Moo-Hyun, from the same party and largely following Kim's foreign policy.

Thanks to them we had no wars, and of course now we have some young whippersnappers complaining about their "pro-NK" policies, saying we could have totally bombed NK, starting a war, and burning the peninsula to the ground, but at least North Korea won't have nukes today!
by yencabulator | 2025-06-22 00:39:30+00:00
Imagine if you will a site where links are shared amongst a very tech-heavy audience. I for one think it's reasonable for the average HN reader to understand the sites linked to.

"If you don't understand it, you don't belong" is a crap attitude. They wanted to learn, if they didn't they wouldn't be asking what it means. What happened to good writing?
by jm4 | 2025-06-22 00:39:35+00:00
Admittedly, I was one of the people who wasn’t impressed with the deal Obama made in 2016. I didn’t like that it allowed Iran to keep enriching uranium or that we paid them.

In recent years, that deal has been looking better every day. We are undoubtedly worse off today than we would be had Trump left the deal in place. This is a bad situation.
by know-how | 2025-06-22 00:39:47+00:00
Yea, why don't we let the most destabilizing state sponsor of terrorism obtain a nuke? Surely that's only in Israel's interest...

You know, none of this would have happened if Hamas didn't attack Israel on Oct 7. Iran should know. They paid for it.

If Iran had a nuke, they are crazy enough to use it by slipping it to their cells.

"If someone says they are going to kill you, believe them."

Iran: Death to Israel Iran: Death to America Hamas: Death to Israel Hamas: Death to America

So, hugs and pallets of cash? ...or you destroy their ability to kill a million of your civilians.

If their enrichment wasn't for weapons-development, why was it being done in a hardened under-ground bunker?

In 2023, unannounced inspections uncovered uranium particles enriched near weapons-grade. The so-called agreement was toilet paper to the terrorist state.
by tptacek | 2025-06-22 00:39:59+00:00
It's really hard to say, but probably not good (there was an Atlantic article about this last week). Part of the dynamic here is the idea that the SL can't back down without losing so much domestic credibility that he puts the regime at risk; being in a shooting war with the West probably reinforces the regime's position. The flip side of this is that I don't think there were many signs that the opposition was in position to challenge the SL any time soon.
by hackyhacky | 2025-06-22 00:40:03+00:00
That doesn't seem like a good reason to cancel the only thing stopping them from developing nukes. Of course they fund proxy armies, but that's a reginal problem that can be addressed through conventional means.

Cancelling the Joint Agreement is a case of cutting off your nose to spite your face. In particular, it was clearly an expression of Trump's animus to Obama.
by NAHWheatCracker | 2025-06-22 00:40:43+00:00
I worked for about 8 months on an internal product for doing transmission studies at a large utility company. Basically, it would feed a PSS/E [1] file specifying most of the transmission grid into a power flow simulation software called TARA [2]. We would add a few extra elements to the grid to simulate a wind or solar plant. TARA would spit out all the components that would be overloaded, with or without contingencies. We would read the results and estimate the transmission costs.

Essentially, we were replicating the process that the ISOs used internally. The users of this product were all former ISO employees. The goal was to speed up the process of determining whether transmission costs were going to ruin a project before any money was spent. ISOs take months to do their analysis. The users told me that they were usually looking for $0 transmission upgrades on $50m+ projects.

The grid and contingency files from the ISOs were under confidentiality agreements. This rubbed me the wrong way from a competition point of view. We also had data about projects slated to be built which could take away capacity from our projects.

I could see a SaaS in doing this sort of analysis. It's probably bureaucratic between reselling TARA, NDAs, and maybe legal issues if the analysis was wrong. I have doubts about the market, most of the money is in big projects at big companies that are already doing this sort of thing.

[1] https://www.siemens.com/global/en/products/energy/grid-softw...

[2] https://power-gem.co/software/tara-software/
by cmurf | 2025-06-22 00:41:07+00:00
https://bsky.app/profile/brma64.bsky.social/post/3ls5ntn5bns...

It could be worse.

But this is still bad, may be illegal, and isn't over yet. We don't actually know what they hit, if those sites were empty, and what's happened to ~1/2 ton of highly-enriched uranium or the regime's ability to produce more.
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-06-22 00:41:36+00:00
The last formal declaration of war by the US was during World War 2.

We got very good at gray area nonsense. The Korean War is not a war, it's a conflict. The Vietnam War is not a war, it's an engagement. We have police actions, "peacekeeping" operations, and a hundred other things...but not "wars".

We have the "global war on terror" and the accompanying Authorization for the Use of Military Force, created in the wake of 9/11 and still in effect today.

Congressional approval of military action is fundamentally dead.
by II2II | 2025-06-22 00:41:45+00:00
I realize that your /s key is broken, but ...

... you would be shocked by how much could be surveilled back then. Pretty much any voice communicated were sent in the clear. It didn't much matter whether it was sent over wire or over the air. Snail mail was virtually always sent as clear text. Even digital communications were rarely encrypted. Even ignoring the legality of it, few people had the creativity to envision a world of secure communications or wanted to expend their (limited) computing power on it. There were, of course, exceptions like the military.
by YZF | 2025-06-22 00:42:01+00:00
The original deal didn't address the core issues. It was just a delay.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Comprehensive_Plan_of_Ac...

The relief of sanctions enabled Iran to fund their other activities in Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen. It also enable the regime to invest in other weapons programs including weapons Iran has been supplying to Russia and those it and its proxies are launching against Israel.

I'm not sure Trump withdrawal from that deal was the best idea but the deal wasn't great either.
by Calwestjobs | 2025-06-22 00:42:41+00:00
yes, but... if youre manufacturing plant with expected electricity usage, then build solar plant next / close to your manufacturing facility. or municipality or water treatment plant or .... build solar plant because you need electricity, do not build solar plant because you need money. same as with agriculture, it is nonprofit endevour, you are not getting rich from corn, you are rich from corn sirup, from tortillas... ( unless you are bill gates and divert tax breaks / subsidies away from agriculture and put them into your wallet instead, worsening situation forr every person inside of US borders )

solo solar plant are very weird edge case which was viable only because people with 20 years of schooling could not understand why is solar important, (after multiple oil crises ) so govs invested in this nonsense to speed up adoption. not because it was sensical thing. to open eyes to people that solar is working.

build solar as part of your corps supply chain. dollars are not goal, dollars are means for better life, stronger communities, better republic.

"Failure of the state to prioritize energy sufficiency over hypothetical mineral rights. "

where is battery ? so no this is not about energy self sufficiency, this is just pure only money endeavor. soft power here is not sane. also with battery you can get order of magnitude higher profit AND higher UTILITY, so there are multiple bad things in that endeavor.
by maqp | 2025-06-22 00:42:42+00:00
Majority of new users will be. It's still a niche product.

Also, I'm unsure if it's smart the client just picks a server for you at random. AFAIK this uses email as back-end so it's not like you can just swap your email address host like you can swap telco while keeping your phone number. One option would be to have the user first whitelist the email providers they'd trust, but most users usually prefer trusting the app vendor as they're trusting it with the client anyway.
by hedora | 2025-06-22 00:43:33+00:00
I wasn't referring to the rugged bags. I mean the ones that are made of something similar to large trash bags, and that end up getting small holes in them on the first use about 10% of the time.

Rugged bags would be OK if they actually got reused. Canvas would be drastically better. I usually go for paper bags (they make good kindling, and are reusable a few times), but some chains here in California seem to be phasing them out in favor of the thick plastic ones.
by alephnerd | 2025-06-22 00:43:36+00:00
This was during the 2002-03 standoff during which the Yeongpyeong crisis occured.

It was after the Six Party Talks started in Aug 2003 that tensions started cooling down, before North Korea stunned the world in 2006.

Edit: though now that I think about it, I might be confusing this incident with the 1993-94 incident.
by M95D | 2025-06-22 00:43:51+00:00
A few separate comments on this article:

1) The original title should say it's about AWE cards, not the "simple" SoundBlaster cards.

2) I consider this a futile effort. Linux is abandoning old hardware. I'm actually surprised they didn't remove ISA support yet.

3) Why would anyone put such a card in a Linux machine (or vice versa)? I'm really interested to know.

The way I see it, the main use of these cards now is to enjoy old DOS games, although they're not a good fit even for that purpose. The AWE cards didn't have the old Yamaha OPL3 FM synth and the game music is worse than older SB cards. A Yamaha OPL3SA2 sounds way better. Very few games supported the AWE synth.

And AFAIK, DOS emulators for Linux and virtual machines don't allow programs to access real hardware, so it's not possible to use these cards for DOS games in Linux.

So why the effort? What am I missing?
by hypeatei | 2025-06-22 00:44:06+00:00
The IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) released a report in May saying they enriched up to 60% U-235 at one of their facilities[0].

> As previously reported, on 5 December 2024, Iran started feeding the two IR-6 cascades producing UF6 enriched up to 60% U-235 at FFEP with UF6 enriched up to 20% U-235, rather than UF6 enriched up to 5% U-235, without altering the enrichment level of the product. The effect of this change has been to significantly increase the rate of production of UF6 enriched up to 60% at FFEP to over 34 kg of uranium in the form of UF6 per month.

0: https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/25/06/gov2025-24.pd...
by const_cast | 2025-06-22 00:44:42+00:00
It's not about being tech-heavy, it's about specifically running a Linux desktop on a distribution where you're running a very modern software stack, and you're not using a bundled desktop, so you're in the market for a compositor built for Wayland.

That's just a very specific usecase. You can be extremely tech-heavy but if you run Windows then this wouldn't matter to you.

I'm a very tech-heavy guy, and no, I don't understand everything linked on HN because it's just outside of my scope. Anything with Mac OS? Couldn't tell you.
by sodality2 | 2025-06-22 00:45:38+00:00
By "others", you presumably mean credible threats from enemy states (since we allow Israel to secretly harbor nuclear weaponry with no problem). But no, I don't think that. I think it's nuanced, and I think that it's wrong to frame it with language like "let", instead of saying it like it is: starting a war to intervene. War in the Middle East is historically a bad idea, and there better be a good reason to justify the senseless death. I think the seriousness of that decision should not be minimized by statements like "well we couldn't just let them do anything". There is a serious chance of this escalating into something far worse.
by trhway | 2025-06-22 00:46:14+00:00
I'd think it isn't about employee getting 30%. It is about the companies would be paying money really for nothing in most cases, and thus forcing the companies to avoid blanket enforcement (and unpredictable at that as it avoids the company having the free option of coming after you nilly-vanilla when they feel like it years later) - and such avoidment is great for innovation industry-wise. If your confidentiality agreement is really meaningful, then probably you can negotiate much better payment.
by throwanem | 2025-06-22 00:46:29+00:00
Who's being sarcastic? My point is precisely that a typewriter is not a magic bullet, and I lived back then; I assure you I am very well aware.

I really do grow frightened of people's reading comprehension on the internet, having observed a qualitative decline especially in the last twelve months. Granted, this seems more due to indolence than actual impairment, thus far at least, but atrophy must eventually tell.
by amlib | 2025-06-22 00:47:12+00:00
The solution to this problem requires you to interact with the OS, so a solution that requires tools found in the OS itself isn't a bad one. Its so simple you can have a script triggered by a desktop shortcut and be done with it.

That all said, a simple GUI API provided by the OS for simple programs like this would be nice, just to give the user better feedback on the process. Is it done? Is it doing anything? Did it run correctly? Etc.. Zenity on linux kinda does that but is not guaranteed to be installed...
by protocolture | 2025-06-22 00:47:40+00:00
>Let me offer a different perspective. Having an LLM that is trained on copyrighted material, memoized (or lossily compressed it) and then some "safety" machinery that tries to avoid verbatim-ish outputs of copyrighted material is fundamentally not really distinguishable from simply having a plaintext database of copyrighted material with machinery for "fuzzy" data extraction from said material.

Right so sort of like a search engine that caches thumbnails of copyrighted images to display quick search results? Something I have been using for years and have no issues with, where the legal arguments are framed more about where the links go, and how easy the search engine makes it for me to acquire the original image?
by josephg | 2025-06-22 00:49:06+00:00
Yeah. I’ve been thinking of writing a blog post doing the math on that. If I spend $2000 on a computer, and that gets me a certain amount of ram and cpu and so on, we can figure out a dollar figure on that bloat.

Then multiply by the number of people who use a piece of software (eg slack) and we’d get a figure for the externalised cost of a piece of software.
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-06-22 00:50:30+00:00
Breaking promises with them means we give up the ability to work with them diplomatically on other goals. "They haven't done everything we'd like them to do" isn't a valid response to someone fulfilling the terms of an agreement you've made with them.

Trump chose to break promises. Now we are seeing the outcome of the resulting breakdown of diplomatic relations.
by defrost | 2025-06-22 00:51:35+00:00
Enrichment to levels suitable for domestic nuclear power (the goal, and follow on decoupling from Russia as the supplier and extractor of fuel for existing Iran nuclear power station) is a magnitude and more less time and effort than enrichment to levels suitable for weapons.

Isotope separation by centrifuge as a physical process follows the laws of diminishing returns, getting rid of all the uranium variations save the rare target weight takes more and more time as percent purity increases.

"Just a step away" was more a hard bridge to cross back when third party inspectors were at the enrichment centres and leaving locked and logged "long soak" spectrometer instruments behind. It's hard to enrich to greater levels without leaving a ratio fingerprint behind in the gamma spectrum.
by wvbdmp | 2025-06-22 00:51:44+00:00
Unlike, India, Pakistan or, say, Israel, Iran is a ratifier of the non-proliferation treaty and subject to inspections making sure they don’t. Meanwhile Israel not only has had nukes for decades but also continually refuses any accountability for them.

Indeed, to venture off-topic, Israel has sought nuclear weapons for as long as it has existed, which one might plausibly construe as further evidence that their state was knowingly and willingly established by military force, without much pretense that it could ever persist otherwise.
by maqp | 2025-06-22 00:51:50+00:00
>How much more secure is that?

It's much more secure wrt metadata. There is no third party server that's able to amass metadata about the two users conversing. SimpleX doesn't hide your IP-address from the server, and given that there's exactly two parent companies hosting ALL of the official servers, it's not too hard for Akamai or https://runonflux.com/ or anyone who compromises their OOBM systems to perform end-to-end correlation between two users.

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/simplex-vs-cwtch-who-is-... has a lot of discussion about Simplex vs Cwtch.
by const_cast | 2025-06-22 00:53:07+00:00
This is exactly what the company is hoping for. In actuality, you can put literally anything in a contract. Sell your first born baby, sacrifice a goat, whatever. Signing a piece of paper doesn't make it true or required.

Companies are really banking on people making the value decision that doing the legal stuff is too much work, time, and money, so they're hoping for self-enforcement. It's the same reason we still see companies commonly doing things like terminating employees before maternity leave. They know a new mother (who is now jobless) isn't going to bother with the trouble of a potentially multi-year wrongful termination suit.
by ryan-duve | 2025-06-22 00:53:11+00:00
Good news: no p-value threshold needs to be passed to switch from one UI layout to another. As long as they all cost the same amount of money to host/maintain/whatever, the point estimate is sufficient. The reason is, at the end of the day, some layout has to be shown, and if each option had an equal number of visitors during the test, you can safely pick the one with the most signups.

When choosing one of several A/B test options, a hypothesis test is not needed to validate the choice.
by hagbard_c | 2025-06-22 00:53:16+00:00
While it is hard to predict what the future will being and while the middle east has been a hotbed for conflict since times immemorial it is likely that taking the Theocratic regime in Iran out of the equation is a net-positive when it comes to limiting the amount of conflict in the region. I intentionally do not use the word 'peace' because I do not see peace ever breaking out there given the historical record and the many sources of conflict.