MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 7sigma | 2025-06-28 13:14:13+00:00
This point of view whitewashes a lot of the history. Israel has been doing horrible things since its founding to Palestinians, starting with the Nakba in 1948 which was an ethnic cleaning campaign to create an ethno state. Many massacres occurred like in Deir Yassin in 1948 and continued with other massacres like in Kahn Younis in 1956 where they lined up more than 200 men over 15 and executed them against the wall.

With the continued persecution of Palestinians, whether its the illegal occupation of the west bank or the siege of Gaza which was essentially a concentration camp, that was "mowed" like grass every few years in terrorist bombing campaigns by Israel, its no surprise that organisations like Hamas, originally a humanitarian charity, exist.

Israelis want peace through domination, just like the French in Algeria. Be aware that Jews are not native to Palestine, except those that had been living there before the state was founded. They are living as colonialists on stolen land, and are continually denying the native Palestinians the right to return, which is part of the definition ethnic cleansing.

I say this as Jewish person originally born in Palestine (or Israel) and who had grandparents that survivide the Holocaust. Once I read about what really happened in 1948, that it was zionist terrorist militias that started the conflict and that Palestinians did not "simply leave", I became an anti zionist. I don't think Israel has the right to exist. People have the right to exist and they have the right to fight back against jewish supremacism.
by 1dom | 2025-06-28 13:15:54+00:00
I don't disagree with anything you're saying apart from the last few words.

The solution to this problem is the same it has been for literally centuries: archiving.

The whole point of an archive is that it's out of the way and takes no effort, even more so a digital one. But if you have/need/want the time/space, you or someone else can check it, and find a gem.
by luckylion | 2025-06-28 13:15:55+00:00
We'd have to see how ACLU-members react/reacted to transgressions of friends or allies vs opponents. Would they not be affected when evaluating e.g. corruption charges? It'd be very rare.

Defending both left and right against the government is another story, I think. There are more tribes than just left and right, and even left and right I'd see more as meta-tribes, tribes made up of other tribes. Depending on the issue you're looking at, alliances shift, e.g. on Ukraine or Israel where the fault lines are not the typical left/right divisions in most Western countries.

That "law" probably resonates with lots of people who aren't fans of conservatives, but that's a low bar to clear and doesn't say much about whether it's true and only conservatives form tribes (calling everything conservative that forms a tribe would turn it into tautological reasoning). Every political movement I've ever witnessed was tribal at its core. I'm not sure it's impossible to have a cohesive movement without forming a tribe, but it doesn't seem to be easy or we'd see it more often.
by dist-epoch | 2025-06-28 13:16:28+00:00
> solve a harder problem than I can solve

If you've never done web-dev, and want to create an web-app, where does that fall? In principle you could learn web-dev in 1 week/month, so technically you could do it.

> maybe you're referring to producing software which utilizes LLMs

but yes, this is what I meant, outsourcing "business logic" to an LLM instead of trying to express it in code.
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-06-28 13:16:46+00:00
>communication is used to elect a random group member and follow her lead toward the option she would have chosen if alone... in the context of a confusing puzzle where... the majority of individual choices are wrong, this tactic, intuitively adopted by groups, is strictly superior to majority decisions

Humans elect random leaders when the going gets tough?

Also:

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-impairs-teamwork-individual.ht...

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/03/nx-s1-5406260/a-surprising-tr...

https://www.innoq.com/en/articles/2025/06/wieviel-denken-ert...
by diggan | 2025-06-28 13:18:14+00:00
> Hmm, I'm barely even a dabbler, but I'd assumed that the seed in question drove the (pseudo)randomness inherent in "temperature" - if not, what seed(s) do they use and why could one not set that/those too?

Implementations and architectures are different enough that it's hard to say "It's like X" in all cases. Last time I tried to achieve 100% reproducible outputs, which obviously includes hard-coding various seeds, I remember not getting reproducible outputs unless setting temperature to 0, I think this was with Qwen2 or Qwq used via Huggingface's Transformers library, but cannot find the exact details now.

Then in other cases, like the hosted OpenAI models, they straight up say "temperature to 0 makes them mostly deterministic", but I'm not exactly sure why they are unable to offer endpoints with determinism.

> I can see how a non-technical person might, but surely programmers wouldn't?

When talking even with developers about prompting and LLMs, there is still quite a few people who are surprised that "You are a helpful assistant." would lead to different outputs than "You are a helpful assistant!". I think if you're a programmer or not matters less, more about understanding how the LLMs actually work in order to understand that.
by Ozzie_osman | 2025-06-28 13:18:25+00:00
This article seems to reduce the world to "fair and non-tribal" vs "unfair and tribal". These probably correlate. But it's not that simple.

For example, in many tribal societies, if a man from tribe A harms a man from tribe B, his own tribe might offer restitution to tribe B (or punishment for the criminal). In fact, disputes would often escalate to tribal leaders, who of course might be biased and only look out for their own, but not always. This was how peace was generally maintained. Otherwise, anytime someone from a tribe harmed someone from another tribe, there would be war.
by firesteelrain | 2025-06-28 13:19:15+00:00
If someone is deported before they can prove their citizenship, then due process hasn’t worked, and that’s a serious failure

The distinction I was trying to make isn’t that undocumented people have no rights and it’s just that the process they’re entitled to is different in scope

There are safeguards that could be added such as access to interpreters, better identity verification, etc

But the answer can’t be local injunctions which is what this entire SCOTUS decision was about

Congress could budget and pass a law to fix things. It’s not up to the Executive and Legislative Branch.
by eviks | 2025-06-28 13:19:27+00:00
The analogy doesn't make sense since you can't avoid physical things you moved, they still take space and you see it every time you visit the garage.

> has a real effect

Sure, and I've mentioned one such effect - inability to access knowledge when you change your mind later.

And redoing doesn't require doing anything differently, you could end up doing exactly the same thing finding that useful info, just wasting more time in the process.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-06-28 13:19:34+00:00
> didn't read the study

> study isn't credible based on misreading of a comment about the study

No, nuclear isn't the best in $/TWh, though it is quite close. The reason it's so uncompetitive has to do with the gigantic payback period and the fact that renewables (increasingly) eat into its demand intermittently which lengthens the payback period even further.

But if you include environmental impact, nuclear is absolutely amazing. Which, if you'll recall, was a dimension named as important by the GP: "[space based solar generation] would be highly useful for reducing climate change and increasing climate resilience"

It seems you have plenty of time to form your opinions about what's scientifically and economically sound based on sci-fi novels, but not enough to read the executive summary of a NASA study that actually investigated the proposal at hand.
by diggan | 2025-06-28 13:20:20+00:00
> That seems like terrible API design to just truncate without telling the caller

Agree, confused me a lot the first time I encountered it.

It would be great if implementations/endpoints could converge, but with OpenAI moving to the Responses API rather than ChatCompletion, yet the rest of the ecosystem seemingly still implementing ChatCompletion with various small differences (like how to do structured outputs), it feels like it's getting further away, not closer...
by ithkuil | 2025-06-28 13:20:46+00:00
There are a lot of interpretations of Satie's work and a random playlist on YouTube may not necessarily get you the best performers, also because not everybody has the same tastes in music.

My favourite interpretation of Satie's is played by Reinbert de Leeuw. He plays very slow, playing just a bit behind the beat, with astonishing precision and expressiveness.
by spacecadet | 2025-06-28 13:21:01+00:00
I wouldn't consider this "lumping the groups together", or that they must exist together in time... its likely a group may require many generations before they can "oppress" another group.

My list of examples is very similar to this one and the ven diagram here is "was oppressed became oppressor"... in most cases it appears that only if the oppressed are destroyed or I would argue in the case of America- controlled at the margins... then they don't circle back around to abuse their newly acquired power.
by cjfd | 2025-06-28 13:21:33+00:00
One can present these two systems as equal alternatives but there is a very big difference. The system with the rule of law leads to much more prosperous societies than the tribal one. Corruption is economically extremely expensive. Like, one it really gets going, it can easily decrease GDP by a factor of 10. The same with dictatorships. As long as the dictator makes somewhat reasonable decisions it is more or less okay but any dictatorship is only a few bad decisions away from becoming much poorer. And when it depends on the good judgement of a single person these bad decisions are certainly going to come.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-06-28 13:22:05+00:00
Sounds like Hoarder’s Syndrome, but digitally.

I’m a cable hoarder. It’s pretty bad. I have cables for tech that’s been dead for a couple of decades. “Just in case.” Need a FireWire 400 hub? Got you covered. Even better, how about SCSI?

Every now and then, I go through them, and toss out a few, but many remain.

I’ve also been in Recovery for a while. Suspect the Venn diagram overlaps a bit.
by cropcirclbureau | 2025-06-28 13:22:48+00:00
Hamas are not Shia, they're Sunni. And Shia is not some some inherently violent ideology as your usage of the word there implies. And, while I'm at it, you should know the human crimes in the Gaza strip long predate Oct 7. Chemical weapons, starvation, terror bombing, these are tactics that the IDF's deployed in short time I've been alive (21st century).
by lproven | 2025-06-28 13:24:00+00:00
> This is less true in C, I think, because it doesn't have the power

It may be, but even so, C is famously unreadable to the extent that it's a common observation that people can't read their own code from a few months earlier.

I think there is an argument -- one that would be very unpopular among Lisp folks, I suspect -- that says that for languages to enforce some forms of simplicity would help their uptake and use.

Most language advocacy revolves around poorly-defined notions of "power" where more power is seen as desirable.

I think Niklaus Wirth was on to something when he took the ideas of Pascal and kept simplifying as well as improving: Modula, Modula-2, Oberon, Oberon 2, and finally Oberon-07. (There are more -- Active Oberon, Zonnon -- but Wirth had retired by then.)
by yoavm | 2025-06-28 13:24:43+00:00
I am an Arab Jew, and I actually have many friends in Gaza. I don't disagree about the usage of the words Genocide, though I think the terms is a little too easy to apply. I think a Holocaust is a completely different thing. There are Palestinians in the Israeli parliament, in the Supreme Court. No one is gathering Palestinians in gas chambers, and in general the Palestinian population only grew since the establishment of Israel. If there were more Jews in Europe after WW2 than before it, no one would remember it as a Holocaust.

There is war in Gaza in the simple sense that rockets from Gaza still shoot into Israel, that Israeli hostages are still being held, and that Hamas itself (the elected goverenement) says it would attack again. It's a very unbalanced conflict, and in it terrible crimes are committed that you can call genocidal. But Jews in the ghettos weren't bombing Berlin - not during WW2 and not after it.
by roscas | 2025-06-28 13:25:40+00:00
I would not remove the tmp files, unless you reboot after the script execution. Even orphaned packages might be there for a reason and should not be removed. The only thing I do when disk space get's low, is to remove the cache folder, if the systems is stable. But building this scripts and others, it is always a great experience. We all did this. Always read the wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System_maintenance
by palmfacehn | 2025-06-28 13:26:04+00:00
Depending on who you ask, there have been a variety of external powers stirring the pot. Most people are horrified by the violence. Beyond the territorial, religious and cultural disputes there are opposing geopolitical factions.

Of course it is understandable to be outraged by the violence and atrocities. The human suffering is real, but arguments focusing on these points can miss the larger picture. The underlying incentives dictate outcomes. Atrocities are often marketed as rationalizations for further violence.

We want to prescribe an outcome without atrocities. Yet discussions fall into recrimination before they can describe the conflict coherently.
by ben_w | 2025-06-28 13:26:21+00:00
I'm literally in that comment describing the IDF as genocidal and dominant. In another comment on this thread, I liken the damage the IDF is causing to "a nuke going off". If you think this is "underplay", what words would you have used? Would you insist I blame all jews, even though this linked story is literally showing jewish people living in Israel being critical of their own government's actions? Would you insist that I said "Palestinians" instead of Hamas, when it's just the militants and not the civilians whose actions on that side I blame?

I do not divide either my criticism or sympathy by nationality, I divide it by victimising and victimhood — and even then with the humility to know that I cannot see through the fog of all the propaganda I'm being shown.
by layer8 | 2025-06-28 13:27:09+00:00
Assuming human-level AI capabilities, not much of a difference, obviously. But I also don’t think that human operators are a bottleneck currently. Cost, failure rate, and technical limitations of drones is. If you are alluding to superhuman AI capabilities, that’s highly speculative as well with regard to what is needed for drone piloting, and also unclear how large the benefits of that would be in terms of actual operational success rate.
by andrepd | 2025-06-28 13:29:30+00:00
> It’d be convenient if Jews just stopped existing so the Arabs could take their homeland again

This argument betrays your bias: that the land is yours (Jewish I mean), and "Arabs" stole it and want to steal it again.

Of course, the other side sees it differently. They see a half a century of immigration to their land culminating in a partition that was imposed from the outside in Western colonialist fashion without the consent of the people living there. They saw massacres and expulsions and ethnic cleansing. That is the root of the conflict.

Of course now 80 years and many complications have passed; both sides have legitimate complaints about the other and many people have been born in both territories making them natives and not part of either colonisation or expulsion. It's difficult.

> All of the death toll coming out of Gaza are from Hamas and they revised the numbers back in April to show 72% of the deaths are military aged males.

This betrays it even more. Not only do you cite a non-credible source going against the consensus, but your argument is literally "Palestinian males between 16 and 45 are fair game for extermination". Not sure what to reply to that.
by roxolotl | 2025-06-28 13:29:33+00:00
> I delete what I don’t need. I don’t capture everything. I don’t try to. I read what I feel like. I think in conversation, in movement, in context. I don’t build a second brain. I inhabit the first.

This is a really important insight especially today. There is a ton of pressure to move faster, produce, consume, be the absolute best. Use AI to do things you’d never be able to before. Build a zettlekasten that insights will fall out of. Give up your attention to the next big thing.

For some I’m sure that’s fulfilling and I do not mean to say to stop. But for those whom it brings anxiety, a feeling they can never have or be enough, that meaning is just around the corner this is an important insight.

It reminds me of a favorite quote of mine from Emerson’s Self Reliance: Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim. This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes; for that for ever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside.
by VWWHFSfQ | 2025-06-28 13:29:56+00:00
> he hopes the plane can serve as an educational tool and visual attraction to bring more excitement to his hometown. And he already has a name in mind: “Hangar Hangout.”

> back-of-the-envelope math and estimated they could probably complete the entire project for around $250,000—maybe less if they did most of the work themselves

This sounds pretty cool and I wish them luck, but I suspect their estimate is pretty far off.

Everything about old jets like this is highly specialized and "refurbishing" anything with real parts, or even just matching "period" parts, is likely to be an absolute money sink.

But good luck! Sounds fun
Show HN: A Hacker News Reader Built Using Gemini CLI with REFui
by ClassicOldSong | 2025-06-28 13:31:39+00:00
rEFui is my own Solid.js like frontend framework, no information about it should be present in the pre-trained data. 90% of the code is written by Gemini-2.5-Flash(not even Pro), with only documents about rEFui provided. Really impressive.

This demo is built with official HN API, so each story/comment is fetched separately.
by otabdeveloper4 | 2025-06-28 13:31:49+00:00
We need 1000 different specialized LLMs, not one huge LLM with 1000 times more parameters.

Whoever figures this out from a technical point of view will probably win this AI bubble iteration.

Also, the big money is in local inference, not cloud chat. The pendulum will swing back towards personal computing. Whoever figures out the solution to this technical problem will also win.

(I have no use whatsoever for C# or Java knowledge. I would pay for LLM weights that can figure a complex Nix codebase, preferably my own. I want to buy the weights though, cloud is a complete non-starter here.)
by maeil | 2025-06-28 13:32:28+00:00
I'm Swedish. Since I was a child, for decades, I was taught and never questioned the idea that Germany had learnt from their history, in the most admirable way. That it was really ingrained into the German culture to never let anything like the holocaust happen again. That the education system there was very good in really making people understand why it happened, what went wrong, and how to make sure there would be no second one.

In early 2024, I was chatting with a German colleague of mine. Great guy, politically we were the most aligned out of anyone in our team. The genocide in Gaza was already well under way, so the topic came up. He told me, as if it was incredibly obvious "Well of course as Germany we couldn't possibly say anything about Gaza, given our history." For the rest of my life I will remember exactly that moment, where we were stood, the scene, because it came as a shock; this belief that I'd had since childhood turned out to be entirely wrong. It was the exact opposite - Germany had learnt nothing, in fact they'd learnt even less than the countries they had occupied. It was all a complete ruse, and I really lost all respect I had for how Germany has dealt with it all. A country like Japan at least doesn't even pretend to have learnt anything, and I'm not convinced that's the worse option.

I should've known the second news started flowing out of Germany such as "Award ceremony set to honor novel by Palestinian author at the Frankfurt Book Fair canceled “due to the war in Israel,", along with stuff like designating B.D.S as "antisemitic" but I wanted to believe that was just a tiny minority of ignorant people.

Yes, I know that now "the narrative inside Germany has been turning around" but imo it's far too late, and can't possibly be sincere, being entirely fuelled by external pressure rather than any kind of actual realization.
by latexr | 2025-06-28 13:33:56+00:00
> they still take space and you see it every time you visit the garage.

And the digital things take space in your disk and, more importantly, the mind.

> inability to access knowledge when you change your mind later.

If you change your mind later. I’m an avid deleter, have been for years, and have never regretted it. It won’t happen, the upside of deletion is just too good.

That regret is a you thing (shared by many others), not a universal human characteristic. You’re not the author of the post, so your feelings don’t apply to them and their decision.

> you could end up doing exactly the same thing finding that useful info

Yes, you could. That is extremely unlikely, but you could.

> just wasting more time in the process.

And it still wouldn’t have been a waste of time. Not only would you have confirmed everything, which is extremely useful, it is very unlikely you wouldn’t have thought of new ideas or gained new insights in the process.
by navane | 2025-06-28 13:38:12+00:00
But the comment he's responding to already talks primerely about Hamas, it's not he who switched the topic from IDFs horrors to Hamas crimes.

> I guess the Israeli government's original plan to arm and support drug gangs and literally ISIS (euphemistically called 'clans') as "aid security" wasn't working out? Especially after it was revealed said "security" was stealing and reselling the food aid under the protection of IDF while the Israeli govt. and media blamed the looting on Hamas.

To which he responded his opinions about drug and faith dealers.
by alganet | 2025-06-28 13:38:25+00:00
I was planning to do a very in-depth analysis of multiple shell interpreters, with tests, prose, tutorials, examples. Even bought the domain.

Now I know AI companies would likely steal it and not give attribution.

I'm not some big shot author, and I wasn't planning to earn money from this stuff. Just wanted to share my work (for free!). However, I want the attribution, it's the only thing I would get from it.

It makes no sense anymore. Why would I write something knowing that it will be stolen and repackaged?

I want to see the fields dry out now. People losing faith in writing new original stuff, to the point that only useless garbage remains as new training data. It's the only way, there's no reason with these companies.