MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fakedang | 2025-06-22 05:52:11+00:00
According to my Iranian friends (even the most hardline Ayatollah haters), most Iranians hate the regime, but they'll rally behind them if boots land on the ground.

Many of them still look at the Iran-Iraq war with a shade of Iranian patriotism (not sure there's a word to capture that actual feeling of sad memories of losing family members, coupled with a patriotic sense of duty).

The younger generation, not so much, since they didn't have to live through that hell.
by scott_w | 2025-06-22 05:52:16+00:00
100% this. I’ve seen people get too excited to A/B test everything even when it’s not appropriate. For us, changing prices was a common A/B test when the relatively low number of conversions meant the tests took 3 months to run! I believe we’ve moved away from that, now.

The company has a large user base, it’s just SaaS doesn’t have the same conversion # as, say, e-commerce.
by yyyk | 2025-06-22 05:54:18+00:00
>Now, Prior

Ukraine started in 2014. Libya in 2011. The truth of the world was already clear at that point, as well as Iranian intentions. The JCPOA was never going to handle a Iranian nuke but would have facilitated it. You cannot use economic incentives to fix a broken world, and Iran had many other motives for nukes.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-06-22 05:54:22+00:00
So Hitler was jealous of the fact that the Romance speakers had history and the Germanic speakers didn't. And he solved that problem by appropriating the history of India and claiming it was also the history of the Germans. He used Indian symbols and Indian words.

But that doesn't mean that he took them from India? That's crazy. What else would you say he did? That they were from India was the point. Without their Indian identity, they would have failed to serve his purpose of giving a history to the Germans.
by adventured | 2025-06-22 05:54:26+00:00
The US, Israel and possibly Britain will install a no-fly zone over Iran. Israel is going to be entirely unwilling to allow Iran to go right back to building again what just got destroyed. This was a once in decades shot for Israel to take against Iran, in its very weakened state (with its proxies out of commission, Syria knocked over, and Russia very preoccupied). They'll attempt the post Gulf War I approach against Iraq (as an invasion will never be on the table). Sanctions and no-fly zone. They'll retain control over Iran's sky and in doing so will be free to bomb as they see fit if Iran attempts to build or re-start something like Fordow. If they attempt to install new air defenses, they'll simply bomb them. Whether that one bombing took care of Fordow is going to be moot, they'll hit it ten more times if that's what it takes, and destroy anything that attempts to move in or out of there. Israel can't maintain a no-fly zone over Iran so the US will be enlisted to do the heavy lifting on that.
by joegibbs | 2025-06-22 05:54:56+00:00
Some of this AI criticism is ridiculously hyperbolic. Sure, sometimes it makes mistakes and I don't believe that simply making a bigger LLM will somehow result in a godlike superintelligence in the near future. I don't think that the stock market believes that either.

But regardless of that you've got to admit it is actually useful for lot of tasks and therefore has huge economic potential. You could only say that it's useless "for most tasks" when you define that as tasks that nobody would think of using it for - it's not going to dig you a ditch. But how can she say that it's both no good at most things and simultaneous dangerous because of the job losses it will cause?
by eesmith | 2025-06-22 05:55:13+00:00
If you don't want to be arrested, don't visit somewhere which will likely arrest you. It's as simple as that. I don't see your issue about the ICC.

Pinochet was arrested after he was no longer president. He expected Chilean amnesty laws meant he was untouchable for his crimes. He was wrong.

If I commit an international war crime and get the US President to issue a pardon, then I'm free from legal problems in the US, but why should I expect to be able to visit The Netherlands without being arrested?

State visits are a different topic, with promises of safe passage/diplomatic immunity arranged before hand.

Castro visited the US several times during his presidency, for example, and Hungary recently promised to ignore the ICC arrest warrant on Netanyahu before his visit.

If guarantees cannot be made, the visit doesn't occur. It's as simple as that.

Why should becoming the president of France give Macron the right to sell old GREs online to people in the US, without fear of lawsuit and being tried in abstentia?

If such an exception exists, then Macron could make good money selling illegal drugs online to US citizens.
by cryptonector | 2025-06-22 05:56:15+00:00
You start with natural uranium, which has .72% U-235. Getting from that to 20% is _hard_. You need large cascades of centrifuges to do this because it's only .72%, so each stage gets you just a wee bit more enriched. You do this over and over and over again until you get to higher enrichment. Once you have HEU enriching further is very easy for the same reason that it was hard when it was unenriched: now the stuff you don't want (U-238) is much less. To get from 80% HEU to 96% is trivial using the same centrifuge cascades, and how long it takes really depends on a) how much 80% HEU you have, and b) how much 96% HEU you want. If you have 100lbs of 80% HEU then to get to 10lbs of 96% HEU might really only take weeks if not less when it might have taken years to get from .72% to 80%.
by LAC-Tech | 2025-06-22 05:57:10+00:00
I can't help but conclude the primary rogue state in region is not Iran - it's Israel:

- Did not sign the non-proliferation treaty

- Does not allow IAEA inspectors into their country

- Nuclear weapons program widely believed to have started from material stolen from the US

- Prime Minister wanted by the ICC for war crimes.

Since 2023, they have:

- Invaded and occupied parts of Syria and Lebanon

- Bombed Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen

- Killed nearly 70,000 people in Gaza

The Islamic Republic of Iran appears sane, rational, and peaceful by comparison. Quite an achievement!
by yyyk | 2025-06-22 05:57:30+00:00
There's no evidence the fatwa even exists (aside from statements by self-interested parties), much less any details of its contents and any exception it may have. At any point they could point to an exception in subsection 4) c) and do whatever they want. Because the fatwa isn't published, they can add whatever exception they want later. If it really exists and is really meaningful, they would have publicized it in advance and so been bound by it.
by 1659447091 | 2025-06-22 05:57:39+00:00
> The alternative was to do nothing

Yes & No. Thats what I understood the Trump campaign promised, to stop military meddling in other countries religious (or otherwise) conflicts.

Diplomacy is not nothing, and has kept the Iran program from restarting (going by US reports that it was stopped). Now it is all but sure to start up again. Unless the goal was for the US to be suckered into forcing a regime change, and we all know how well those attempts have gone.

> I am surprised we hadn’t attacked them earlier given what they did to our troops in Iraq with EFPs

If it happened at that time with proof and congressional approval then okay, but thats not an excuse for now. Thats how states end up in a war that lasts for a couple or more millennia
by kragen | 2025-06-22 05:58:11+00:00
> If you could only focus on one aspect, I would keep the average temperature of L1 in mind constantly. If you can keep it semi-warm, nothing else really matters.

This is easy, as Dijkstra points out. Allocate an array ¾ the size of L1D, and write a subroutine to reverse its contents, but don't use the array otherwise. Call the useless reversal subroutine often enough (at the beginning of every other subroutine and loop body should generally be enough) that the CPU spends most of its time running it. That will ensure that most of your data references are to the array, and most of your instruction references are to the reversal subroutine, both of which are always in cache.

Other things do matter.
by einpoklum | 2025-06-22 05:58:31+00:00
> America and loads of other countries have been working to stop Iran from achieving nuclear weapons.

1. America is a continent. You probably mean the USA.

2. What the US has been working to stop Iran from is being independent of its near-control - which it had gained with the 1953 CIA-fomented coup d'etat against the Mossadegh government, and lost again in 1979 when the Islamist-headed faction of the rebellion gained power. While it's true that the US would not like Iran to have nuclear weapons, that has served more as an excuse to try and suppress it rather than actual motivation.
by SillyUsername | 2025-06-22 05:58:41+00:00
Funny you should say that. The US has Bomb Iran as a parody of Barbara Ann, available on CD:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb_Iran

So apparently it's humourous to kill.

It's not like for like, but if you have a rabid population with low education being told to say stuff like this, they will, just because of social pressure and brainwashing.

Related, example of that brainwashing at scale:

- Killing people bad, but patriotic as a soldier.

- Killing people fine on TV, procreational entertainment bad.

- People told what to wear bad, but telling people they must be clothed, good.

- Religion says no killing, or protect those not of the same religion. People still kill, seen as no conflict of interest at all.

- Hording wealth seen as successful, yet society and the world has people suffering and illegal immigration as a consequence of not having it.

- People who don't work are grifters, but most people secretly want to quit their job and not work. Told to see the non workers as people sponging off society.

- Forced to work until your health fails, seen as acceptable.

Point being, no moral high ground because we're all brainwashed.
by tguvot | 2025-06-22 05:59:18+00:00
A system described in the 2003 United States Air Force report called Hypervelocity Rod Bundles[10] was that of 20-foot-long (6.1 m), 1-foot-diameter (0.30 m) tungsten rods that are satellite-controlled and have global strike capability, with impact speeds of Mach 10.[11][12][13]

The bomb would naturally contain large kinetic energy because it moves at orbital velocities, around 8 kilometres per second (26,000 ft/s; Mach 24) in orbit and 3 kilometres per second (9,800 ft/s; Mach 8.8) at impact. As the rod reenters Earth's atmosphere, it would lose most of its velocity, but the remaining energy would cause considerable damage. Some systems are quoted as having the yield of a small tactical nuclear bomb.[13] These designs are envisioned as a bunker buster.[12][14] As the name suggests, the 'bunker buster' is powerful enough to destroy a nuclear bunker.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment?useskin=ve...
by psychoslave | 2025-06-22 06:02:37+00:00
That's not how it works at societal level. The social structure is funnelling people to some mind-time eater. The fact that it's labeled free doesn't matter much. There is nothing as free content consumption, because people necessarily need to pay with time and attention they allocate to access it, not even mentioning all the extra burden like acquiring access to the device/platform/seat/whatever without which there is no way one is going to be spectator of anything.

One can always pay more attention at the continuous flow of local events that cosmos provide to self, instead of whatever other humans wish they would focus on.
by mindslight | 2025-06-22 06:03:33+00:00
Yes, thank you. Anyone who has taken care of old people recognized Biden as the passive type that was content to sit in a chair while other people did stuff around him - which wasn't all that problematic given our bureaucratic delegation-based style of governance. Meanwhile Trump is the manic aggressive type. The more you try to get him to recognize his limitations the more he denies he has any and acts out to prove it.
by sfifs | 2025-06-22 06:04:39+00:00
Let's not confuse capability with intention and consequences Straits of Hormuz is barely 40km wide and the Persian gulf is very shallow. Blocking it very feasible for nations bordering it who are willing to take the consequences. We don't know if they are and if so, unblocking it also has consequences in terms of requiring committing to prolonges military occupation. Ultimately, it appears the military industrial complex has won by replacing defense $$ in Afghanistan & Ukraine with yet another conflict.
by cryptonector | 2025-06-22 06:06:28+00:00
> How the heck does a US president have military powers so powerful and broad? If congress can only declare war [...]

It's been this way since the Vietnam war, it not the Korean war. Every president since then has been able to engage in relatively small military operations without congressional approval. And the UN is what ended formal declarations of war, too. Basically Congress can stop military actions started by the President by taking the money away or not providing it to begin with, but if the operation is small then it's a fait accompli before Congress can do anything about it.

See the Bay of Pigs, Vietnam, Cambodia, Grenada, Iraq, Somalia, Serbia, Libya, Syria, etc.
by Defletter | 2025-06-22 06:06:56+00:00
> Glad you're cool with it though, I guess?

Just to be clear, the advertisements that I'm referencing are ones like this (https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-signs-at-roadside-advertis...), where the goods being sold are sold on the property the sign is on, ie, they're basically shop signs. They are usually pretty small too, with larger ones needing the approval of the local authority. There does seem to be pretty good enforcement on this too. I'm definitely against advertisement billboards: those big slabs that are just there to distract you with any arbitrary advertisement that paid to be wallpapered onto it.
by rich_sasha | 2025-06-22 06:07:06+00:00
I'm not saying I have beef with it. I would be happier with a world where fewer countries, including Iran and Israel, have nukes. I'm saying legality of nukes seems 100% derived from a calculus of power, not first principles - that includes US, UK, Russia, China, everyone.

If a mafia boss defines anything he gets away with as legal, that's not aligned with what we commonly think of as legal justice and thus a pointless distinction.
by jameslk | 2025-06-22 06:07:56+00:00
This is not the end. This is the beginning of another Iraq war, set up exactly the same way: claiming, with dubious proof, an imminent risk from weapons of mass destruction.

Iran’s options here are to bomb US bases, which are a lot closer by, mine the Strait of Hormuz, blow up oil infrastructure in nearby countries who are harboring US bases.

This might risk Iran a much larger war but the alternative of doing nothing and showing the world they won’t defend themselves is worse.

The US will again bankroll another big, more expensive war to the tune of trillions more in debt. Another decade of war ahead with no end in sight.

Meanwhile, new enemies will be made for the US as a young generation grows up living through this. The cycle repeats.
by wuming2 | 2025-06-22 06:08:19+00:00
Small codebase. Must be on GitHub which kills my browser and is used to train Microsoft LLMs? As an Alt-something kind of service they could spend the additional (small) effort and switch to something more suited. Chisel as example is currently hosting development of the entire Arcan framework, IPC system and all UI implementations on top of it. I believe Chisel would be more than capable to properly serve Ygg dev ops as well.
by reissbaker | 2025-06-22 06:09:34+00:00
There is no public information about what kind of material 60m refers to, and the best guesses of reinforced concrete are 18m. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBU-57A/B_MOP While a single bomb would be insufficient, you don't need that many to get to 80m.

And US military assets are often much more powerful than publicly advertised...
by motorest | 2025-06-22 06:10:14+00:00
> Care to elaborate? A random person doubting things doesn't help other people or bringing a discussion forward.

I don't know if you noticed, but what you are arguing for is in fact for mindlessly accepting unverified claims and extrapolate them to an optimal outcome. This is the opposite of critical thinking, and goes well beyond wishful thinking.

Meanwhile, if you pay attention to OP's point, you'll understand that Iran's nuclear sites have been continuously designed and developed for decades, while subjected to an almost evolutionary pressure, to continue operations even after withstanding direct attacks in scenarios matching exactly Trump's attacks.

In the very least, you must assess the effect of those strikes before making any sort of claim.

Another factor which it seems you somehow missed was the fact that Russia, another nuclear-capable totalitarian regime, is nowadays heavily dependent on Iran to conduct it's imperialist agenda. If Russia was negotiating handing over nuclear capabilities to North Korea in exchange for supporting it's war effort, do you believe Russia now has no interest to speed up Iran's nuclear weapons programmes?
by buangakun | 2025-06-22 06:10:51+00:00
As usual, the people who like war are the people who've never gone to war.

They cower behind their the comfort of their home, AC, keyboards, western paycheck and standards of living while trying to be (seen) as "rational" and "stoic".

They talk like there is good sides and bad sides in war, right sides and wrong sides.

Most of them are these small powerless men who dream of power fantasy.

I wonder, will today's children who is seeing this spectacles of war in 4K, all gore and guts and destruction, will grow up to be better leaders for all?

Or are they going to grow up just like their parents, small powerless trigger-happy men filled with mid-life crisis.
by rich_sasha | 2025-06-22 06:12:31+00:00
I think GP is right, sadly. The logical conclusion from Ukraine, Iran and North Korea is, get nukes. UN designations of illegal wars turned out to be BS, the only thing that may work is nukes.

Let's hope NATO doesn't get compromised, else I see 30 new nuclear programs starting soon.

We all hooray (well, some of us) the "good" countries having nukes, to bring peace and stability. But it only takes one funky election to get a crazy person in charge of such "good" nukes. And if you 10x the number of nuclear powers, that's 10x more shots at that.
by Manuel_D | 2025-06-22 06:12:34+00:00
Yet again, none of the examples you've posted are contamination from nuclear waste from power generation. Pre-burnup radiation exposure is not nuclear waste. This isn't a pedantic distinction, someone getting contaminated while manufacturing fuel rods is a totally different failure mode than what we're discussing about waste buried deep underground.

> What about mining waste causing increased cancer and largely poisoning a river?

What about it? Mining copper and rare earth minerals for magnets is polluting too. Producing aluminum to build transmission lines is also polluting. Mining, in general, is a pretty dirty industry. But surely nobody is suggesting we stop building electric motors or transmission lines? Uranium mining is not an exception in this regard.

You've given 3 examples, none of them are contamination from spent nuclear waste from power generation.
by LAC-Tech | 2025-06-22 06:12:50+00:00
I do agree with the sentiment here, but "no amount of diplomacy" isn't really a description of Iran's government.

That's completely unfair to Iran. They had IAEA inspectors in their country and they were negotiating with the US (a nation who has put crippling sanctions on them).

Then a country that doesn't have IAEA inspectors bombed them, killing the people that very people who were negotiating with the US. Their message since than has been reasonable; "we won't negotiate while Israel is attacking us".

How much more diplomatic would you like them to be? They can't just roll over and take it, or they'll be finished.
by nsingh2 | 2025-06-22 06:12:55+00:00
Empathy for the Iranian people, whose budding democratic movement was crushed by the United States, for oil. The ones who are trying to fight for their own freedom from a repressive government, in the middle of this whole mess.

All these events risk spiraling the whole region into chaos, and creating another ISIS-like militancy, the brutality of which is going to be felt by the Iranians first and foremost.
by nine_k | 2025-06-22 06:13:17+00:00
The missing flavor: Texas mineral rights are very bizarre (they dominate surface land rights, and there's no state registry of them), the detailed power grid analysis completely contradicted the preliminary analysis, and the costs of upgrading less than 2 miles of wiring to carry 3 MW is nearly $800k.

I'm used to think that California is an overpriced legal quagmire if you want to build something. I didn't expect Texas to fare not much better.
by EvgeniyZh | 2025-06-22 06:16:14+00:00
> the Muslim world, one beset with colonial extraction for centuries

Surely you mean on the side of extractors? The Ottoman Empire practiced mass movement of people (sürgün), basically settler colonialism; earlier Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates are among the largest empires in history, and their population was mass converted to Islam.
by SllX | 2025-06-22 06:16:56+00:00
There is no justice nor glory to be had in nuclear weapons, but they exist, and need to be contained to as few entities that can use them as possible. Like seriously, the ideal number of nuclear warheads in the world is 0, but that is not the world we were born into.

So I've made peace with mafia boss power politics keeping the number of countries with nuclear weapons on the low end of the spectrum, and for that matter I'd support a much more aggressive approach to that end than we have seen these last 30 years.
by ebb_earl_co | 2025-06-22 06:17:21+00:00
In my view, religion is the set of ideologies that plays the children’s game of one-upping each other’s numbers until one of the children says “infinity” and sticks fingers in ears, sayin the game is over.

By this I mean the religious ideological move is eternal punishment for what they deem unsatisfactory or eternal bliss for compliance, no other branch.

Other ideologies invoke similar (infinite growth in capitalism, e.g.) but those are hyperbole for proselytization. An ideology that attempts to persuade with either the most egregious stick possible or the most delicious carrot possible makes religion the least palatable of ideologies.