MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Qem | 2025-06-22 20:57:01+00:00
Let me get the full paragraph:

> 5.5.2 STATE INTENT The jurisprudence on genocidal intent on the part of a state is more limited. The ICJ has accepted that, in the absence of direct proof, specific intent may be established indirectly by inference for purposes of state responsibility, and has adopted much of the reasoning of the international tribunals.380 However, its rulings on inferring intent can be read extremely narrowly, in a manner that would potentially preclude a state from having genocidal intent alongside one or more additional motives or goals in relation to the conduct of its military operations. As outlined below, Amnesty International considers this an overly cramped interpretation of international jurisprudence and one that would effectively preclude a finding of genocide in the context of an armed conflict. The organization considers that the Genocide Convention must be interpreted in a manner that ensures that genocide remains prohibited in both peacetime and in war and that ICJ jurisprudence should not be read to effectively preclude a finding of genocide during war.

Regarding state intent, it appears this means that Amnesty is just remarking that a state can't launder genocide intent by parallel constructing additional motives or goals that are legitimate sounding.

So that does not support your conclusion that "Israel is not commiting genocide according to existing definitions, thus definitions should be changed". Alas, the text is misquoted, as it doesn't appear anywhere in the document. Those are not Amnesty words, neither the text actually in the report supports it.
by gametorch | 2025-06-22 20:57:04+00:00
I don't have a good, rational answer.

I think the idea is vaguely that the upper-upper class statistically must've done something wrong or have the power to cause extreme harm, therefore it's okay to snitch on them but not your regular Joe.

I'm just espousing the standard American middle class views about freedom here. Not trying to argue they are sound or rational.
by wlesieutre | 2025-06-22 20:57:05+00:00
I agree, hate how everything is a subscription now but $40 is a reasonable price for lifetime access.

For better or worse (mostly worse) developing an iPhone app isn't like making software for Windows XP where you ship it and it's done and will still run 20 years later with no additional work. There will no doubt be ongoing expenses and continued development work to keep it functional on new devices and new OS versions. So I get why subscriptions are a thing (especially since Apple has never allowed for paid upgrade pricing), the part I don't get is how so many of them think I want to spend $15/month forever on an IoT toaster that will revolutionize my bagel experience with AI.
by chasd00 | 2025-06-22 20:58:11+00:00
> North Korea does have nukes, but they don't really have any significant or interesting way of using them. They could hit SK and Japan, but that's about it. We leave them alone. Why?

Attacking North Korea means millions of starving brainwashed uneducated refugees flooding into China. China will make any deal to avoid that nightmare, that (and Seoul’s destruction) is why no one bothers with North Korea.
by bigyabai | 2025-06-22 20:58:19+00:00
Yes. As long as we're confident in our definitions, that makes the questions easy. Is that the same as a feedforward algorithm inferring static weights to create a tokenized response string? Do you necessarily need an electrochemical network with external stimuli and feedback to generate legible text?

No. The answer is already solved; AI is not a brain, we can prove this by characteristically defining them both and using heuristic reasoning.
by yibg | 2025-06-22 20:59:18+00:00
Probabilities.

Given the track record in the region and the relationships involved, not getting a nuke seamless will lead to getting bombed with almost 100% certainty over a long enough period.

If they botch the quiet part, they'll almost certainly get bombed in the short term, which may or may not lead to the end of the project. But then will almost certain prevent getting bombed more in the future.
by revskill | 2025-06-22 20:59:24+00:00
No lol. The quality is mostly bad. Basically u need to prompt in detail like writing a novel for llm to understand. At that price, we want real AI who can really have common sense, not just an autocompletion tool.

Stop adverting LLM as AI, instead sell it as a superior copy & paste engine.

What's worst about LLM, is the more you talk with it, the worse it became to the point of broken.
by mrtksn | 2025-06-22 20:59:54+00:00
Subsidized is probably not the correct word here, it's probably more like loss leader in the race of the land grab.

It's like the early days of the internet when everything was amazing and all the people who put money into this thing were "losing" their money.

It's going to be like this until monopolization and moat becomes defensible and then they will enshittify the crap of it and make their money back 10x, 100x etc.
by Zenbit_UX | 2025-06-22 21:00:26+00:00
I’ll never understand how people believe bike and pedestrian “infractions” to be the same as that of motor vehicles.

Members of this “get off my sidewalk!” group often fail to realize this: Did you study to become a pedestrian? Did you go to a bicycle driving school to acquire a permit to operate one? Was an exam at all given in order to use public foot or bike paths?

If the answer is no, then you aren’t held to the same standards as cars, which are heavily regulated and require licenses to operate.

Obeying road signs for bicycle and pedestrians are suggestions, rarely enforced, and the worst case scenario is usually you hurt yourself. Your ability to hurt others has an upper bound that society deems acceptable.
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-22 21:00:37+00:00
Stan Lee made a comic about how he and his co-workers made comics, and in one frame he says something like "How dare it he say it is hackneyed? I stole it from the best classic I could find!" That is, if superhero movies sell today, stories about Hercules and Theseus sold 2500 years ago.
by sltkr | 2025-06-22 21:00:47+00:00
You need 16^16 for 32768 because 0 is used to represent an empty tile (2^0 = 1 is not used) which is exactly equal to 2^64.

The state in this implementation also stores a random seed (between 0 and 99, exclusive), so using 16^16 for the state would leave nothing for the random seed.
by afandian | 2025-06-22 21:01:10+00:00
In this case it's querying the relevant DOI registration agency's API for the metadata (statistically that's likely Crossref) that the publisher themselves registered. So it doesn't look like there's any extraction going on here.

Could you share _your_ work though? It's always interesting to see new approaches to metadata.

Traditionally, it was a bit of a one-way street (data comes from publisher) but there's some interesting work being done by COMET [0] and (separately) OpenAlex [1] around cleanup of the publisher-supplied data within the community.

(I used to work at Crossref; am a little involved with COMET)

[0] https://www.cometadata.org/

[1] https://openalex.org/
by opan | 2025-06-22 21:01:14+00:00
>or they should just make sure emacs can work with the machine thru ssh, then there is nothing to install ;)

While (neo)vim doesn't have TRAMP and dired, it has netrw, which does the same stuff (on a basic level). You can do the following to edit a remote file:

vim scp://user@hostname/path-to-file-here

You can also replace user@hostname with an ssh alias you've configured, which makes it easier to work with multihop ssh and different keys and users. One useful usage of the remote editing is to combine it with opening multiple files to compare two files on different machines:

vim -O ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf scp://htpc/.config/mpv/mpv.conf

To browse a directory instead of a specific file, just put the dir instead of a non-dir file and it will open a filebrowser view where you can then pick a file to open. In the above examples, leave off mpv.conf and you'll then be able to pick either your mpv.conf or input.conf or files related to your mpv scripts.
by fredoralive | 2025-06-22 21:01:38+00:00
To avoid breaking stuff basically, easier to have ugly UA strings than persuade every site that does weird UA parsing to fix themselves.

The main exception to this was Opera back when it had its own engine, which did use Opera at the start of its fairly clean default UA string. Then when they reached version 10 they had to make the primary version 9 with a second real version later in the string as sites couldn’t cope with two digit version numbers…
by Lerc | 2025-06-22 21:02:09+00:00
That's a special case. You could have a single bit for special case mode and then very few bits to say what happened.

Usually you can encode special states in a more compact form because the type of specialness is additional information meaning the single special bit is all you need to grow by.

A bloated form for the final state would be a bit to indicate specialness, 7 bits for specialness mode. End state mode is encoded as the turn before plus direction. So adding 10 bits in all, there's almost certainly enough in the knowledge that it is an end state to encode the board in 10 bits fewer, eliminating all expansion except for the specialness bit.
by Dig1t | 2025-06-22 21:02:47+00:00
Yeah you can track all transactions, but any blacklist system you come up with is likely to be defeated because of the decentralized nature of the coin. i.e. people can just ignore the blacklist. Also you can easily taint other people’s wallets by just sending them some bitcoin:

A: Recipients can’t refuse transactions. I can go send all of my friends a few dollars from my wallet that’s on the government list and oops now all of our money is tainted. Do we all just consider our money to have disappeared? No, most likely we continue to live our lives and ignore the government list.

B: A huge number of people will accept free money even if it puts them on some kind of list.

C: Even if one of my wallets is on some kind of government list I can still transact with anyone willing to transact with me. A tainted wallet is still useful. For example I am perfectly willing to sell my motorcycle to Bob if he pays me in Bitcoin even if it puts my wallet on a government list. I know that Nancy and Pedro will accept coins from tainted wallets and I want to buy something from them. All of these transactions take place without consent of the government.

Cash is useful yes. But one big advantage: a SWAT team can break into your house and take your cash away with guns.

Bitcoin, if the key is encrypted, cannot be taken away by force. I can share my password with my family/friends and even if I’m arrested my mom can still use and move my money for me.

You can come up with all kinds of systems to make peoples lives more difficult when using bitcoin yes. But at the end of the day the power to forcibly take someone’s money is missing and so all these systems will ultimately not be enough to prevent it being used as money.

>Bitcoin is not money.

Anything is money if you use it as a medium of exchange.
by voytec | 2025-06-22 21:03:12+00:00
> Taiwan, Japan, Poland, Canada, Spain, Australia, many others (...) have a great political and economic relationship with the US, and are currently at 0% risk of attack or invasion

I'm sorry, are you from the past? You literally listed Canada which Trump threatened with invasion.

The U.S. has no stable economic relationship with any country under the current administration and won't regain the trust for years or decades to come.

There's just these two quite different non-economic relations - not relationships - Israel and Russian Federation. The latter may even be Trump's hallucination but I'm giving him a benefit of the doubt. He finds common language with warmongering dictators.
Ask HN: Best books for designing a weekly schedule?
by yura | 2025-06-22 21:04:10+00:00
I’m a software engineer who's currently struggling with deciding what to do with the time when I'm not at work. I'm currently following GTD to organize my personal action items: I capture ideas/tasks into an inbox, and regularly go through the inbox to clarify those items into "next actions"/delegate/defer. By now I have a ton of "next actions" in my list, all of which are reasonably important; for example: "prepare and file my taxes", "research a new place to rent", "read non-fiction book X", "study computer science topic Y", etc.

The problem is scheduling: I don't know when to tackle those actions, nor how long to spend working through my next actions list. And while I can prioritize these next actions to decide which one is the most important/urgent that I should tackle next, I don't know how to balance this "productive" time (next actions work) with time for other things that I don't want to let go of, such as: gaming, hanging out with my girlfriend and friends, watching movies or TV shows, going out to try something new, or just doing nothing (rest?).

What I've been doing so far is to have no weekly plan/routine whatsoever and just do whatever I feel I should be doing at any given moment, but lately that's not working out so great (either I spend too much time on fun/gaming/social, or I spend too much time doing productive things and start burning out). So I'm looking for good books/methods that specifically tackle the allocation side – that is, that teach you the skills and philosophy for designing a realistic weekly routine that balances productive work (as in personal/life work, not day job), admin, fun, and rest.

What books fixed this for you?
by da_chicken | 2025-06-22 21:04:39+00:00
"The web interface to the version control system doesn't parse the here-string correctly" isn't really a criticism of the PostgreSQL extension. It's a bug in the syntax highlighting.

The COMMENT feature isn't even a good choice for a VIEW, PROCEDURE, or FUNCTION, each of which already supports comments inline in the object definition on the server. No, the main benefits are adding comments to objects that DON'T retain them, like a TABLE, COLUMN, CONSTRAINT, ROLE, etc.
by fwip | 2025-06-22 21:05:06+00:00
Yes, the savings in labour translates to savings in time. This should be obvious.

Using Electron to package your application often saves time over writing a native app.

Giving a regular user a ready-to-use app saves them time, because they aren't googling "how to use terminal" for five minutes or trying to copy-paste the magic command out of their notepad app.
by yibg | 2025-06-22 21:05:57+00:00
A democratically elected government invaded Iraq and killed a lot of Iraqis.

If Iraq got some sort of super advanced technology that made them the superpower in the world, would they be justified if they:

- Started bombing US cities, including hospitals, schoolsetc and killing US civilians?

- Would they be justified in cutting off food and water supply to all of the US?

- Sniping kids and people waving white flags in the head?
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-06-22 21:06:04+00:00
Maybe they’d be bought as last-mile vehicles for FedEx contractors or similar?

Selling them off really doesn’t make sense, though. I understand that the USPS operates in many areas that aren’t conducive to EVs and that ICE models are needed there, but these electric models would be extremely well-suited for urban areas where drivers are making frequent stops given how poorly ICEs perform in constant-stop-and-go scenarios.
by lisper | 2025-06-22 21:06:09+00:00
> In the blog post you linked above

Again, huh??? Where in that blog post do I try to "get this [sic] statistics from one measurement"?

> I provided 3 ways to demonstrate it experimentally, even in principle, not sure what problem you have.

No, you didn't. You apparently don't understand what is meant by "branches with different macroscopic configurations than our own" and I don't have time to explain it to you. Sorry. Go read up on decoherence, and then come back and describe an experiment that can demonstrate the existence of a fully decohered branch. You can't, because if you could it would by definition not be fully docohered.
by nine_k | 2025-06-22 21:06:25+00:00
13 possible states, because the empty state is important, too. But they fit nicely into 4 bits.

It would be mildly interesting to super-package the state into the theoretically smallest possible amount of bits: 13 * 16 = 665416609183179841 possible states, which is approximately 2 * 59.2, so 60 bits would be enough, with some margin. A whole hex digit shorter!
by bamboozled | 2025-06-22 21:07:53+00:00
You called the war for Russia? Did they win ?

Anyway why don’t we see videos from Iran of Israeli jets being shot down ? Why is there no footage of Irans airforce engaging Israel ? Why didn’t the B-2 spirits get attacked ? You can say it’s all lies and propaganda , but it’s not because there is no evidence to the contrary being presented.
by tart-lemonade | 2025-06-22 21:09:28+00:00
Scrappers? UPS and Fedex would need bigger vehicles than this. Maybe some other country's postal service would take advantage of it and buy them up, but that's about it as far as I can see.

It's all part of a much larger plan to cripple the USPS so republicans can justify outsourcing mail delivery to the private sector. Take a great investment the USPS made that would decrease health premiums (because it's so much better ergonomically for drivers) and lower operating costs, and throw it into a fire. Now USPS has to continue to maintain the LLVs, even as they continue to fall apart and the drivers suffer.
by tehjoker | 2025-06-22 21:09:53+00:00
It’s possible the MOP was sufficient but I suspect not. Probably parts of the facility are shallower and others are deeper, such is the topology of a mountain.

If you ever engage with what Daniel Ellsberg said, or US plans in north korea or vietnam, you’d know just how close the US comes to actual use in war. It’s never off the table. They are currently concerned with peer competition with China. There is likely a faction that would propose to attempt to show american strength on an unarmed target just like we did with Japan.

However at this juncture i’m starting to think this is all a show and they only care about the optics. Iran has already moved its equipment out of Fordow. However if the Iran war continues, expect things to get increasingly ugly.
by ndiddy | 2025-06-22 21:09:55+00:00
This library was originally written to parse GNOME configuration XML files. It was never intended for parsing untrusted data. From GNOME's perspective, if you can crash the XML parser with a malformed config file, that's just a regular bug. If an attacker is able to write to arbitrary files in your home directory, he's already won.

I agree with the maintainer's perspective that it's irresponsible for Apple, Microsoft, and Google to rely on this library for parsing untrusted data in products that they make billions of dollars off of, not provide him any monetary or other support, and expect him to prioritize fixing "security bugs" that don't impact security for his use case. If I was the maintainer, I'd make the same decision he made.
by tmtvl | 2025-06-22 21:10:03+00:00
I believe there's also a hypothesis that our ancestry back to the Devonian or Cambrian was based on neoteny/paedomorphism where a particular creature living on the sea floor, when in the infant stage, has a limb for propulsion which it loses when it finds a nice spot to settle. Our very distant ancestors didn't lose those limbs and evolved into the distant precursors to placaderms, bony fish, and, well, terrestrial fauna.
by crosser | 2025-06-22 21:10:32+00:00
I once worked for an organization known for providing good documentation.

This is how it worked:

They had a documentation-writing branch. And you (developer) knew that if you don't write documentation, they will. And then if will cost you _more_ time and frustration to review and correct what they wrote than to write it yourself and give to them.

So you did write it (and they proofread it, corrected grammar etc.).
by Magmalgebra | 2025-06-22 21:11:27+00:00
This is situational - as a strong engineer I have more leverage than ever to demand ever more eye watering compensation.

Weaker engineers and junior engineers are in more the situation you describe. This is tough and I feel for these folks but it is possible for many people to become stronger engineers if they choose to put in the work.

I'd encourage you to not take on a feeling of hopelessness here.
by unignorant | 2025-06-22 21:13:14+00:00
I really enjoyed this article but the claim of no literary fiction making the Publishers Weekly yearly top 10 lists since 2001 isn't really true:

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

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

It is true that there isn't that much literary stuff that breaks through, and the stuff that does is usually somewhat crossover (e.g., All the Light We Cannot See in 2015 or Song of Achilles in 2021) but it exists. These two books are shelved under literary codes (though also historical). Song of Achilles in particular is beautifully written and a personal favorite of mine, at least among books published in recent years.

Then there are other works like Little Fires Everywhere and The Midnight Library that I might not consider super literary but nonetheless are also often considered so by book shops or libraries (e.g., https://lightsailed.com/catalog/book/the-midnight-library-a-... the lit fic code is FIC019000).

I was really surprised that Ferrante's Neapolitan series, the best example (I would have thought) of recent work with both high literary acclaim and popular appeal, did not actually make the top 10 list for any year.
by default-kramer | 2025-06-22 21:13:41+00:00
Not so much with video games. The industry is so young that most of those "classics" are actually much less fun than I remember them. (Super Mario World does hold up very well though.) But since you mention Persona, consider how much better Persona 3 Portable is than Persona 3 FES. Game design has come a long way, and I believe it still has a long way to go. Not to mention the technical improvements that allow a game like Uncharted to exist, which cannot be compared to any 16-bit or earlier game.
by i80and | 2025-06-22 21:14:19+00:00
I would be a little surprised -- Amazon already has their own custom electric delivery trucks, and FedEx and UPS could probably order these from Oshkosh directly if they wanted. These vehicles are also optimized for mail, less for parcels. None of these players need to play backroom shenanigans.

That said, blatant corruption is just the name of the game at this point in America, so who knows.
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-22 21:14:21+00:00
A friend of the family gave my son a guitar a while back and more recently tried to get him to play Sugar Mountain by Neil Young. He worked at it pretty hard and struggled with it because even though it is simple it has to be played with great precision to sound good. Then he discovered grunge and bar chords and had a breakthrough with The Day I Tried to Live by Soundgarden and Rooster by Alice in Chains.

Now he's looking for good songs he can play and that's gotten him into David Bowie songs from The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. For a long time I thought of David Bowie as one of those classically trained musicians like Frank Zappa who played rock because it had commercial potential, but he found many songs on that album to be great songs that were within his reach. Now when we have houseguests who say they like Rush he will be able to play the chorus of a few songs in 24 hours and he's building instruments like a Guitar-harp-ukulele (fretless guitar with two bridges, one of which has a harp section) and he's asking me about the physics to build a bass guitar tuned an octave or two below a regular bass guitar.