MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by csa | 2025-06-22 08:56:11+00:00
> Are you rich and want to own something like a soup company?

This already exists.

> Just lease a fully-automated factory and a bunch of AI workers,

The current solution is not “fully automated”, but it can be fairly hands off for the owner.

> and you're instantly shipping and making money!

… but this is the hard part. Just because you can make soup doesn’t mean anyone will buy it.

Marketing and distribution are very real challenges in markets like this, and the players in those markets will put tremendous pressure on the owner via their costs such that the owner doesn’t make money unless they commit to producing a relatively high level of volume.

Source: My family members who have retail food product lines.
by arjunchint | 2025-06-22 08:56:31+00:00
As others have mentioned, these agentic capabilities are fully achievable within a Chrome Extension.

In fact, we built one, rtrvr.ai that has even better Web Agent performance than Open AI's Operator with human assistant and 7x faster than leading competitor: https://www.rtrvr.ai/blog/web-bench-results

Your Accessibility Tree requirement is a poor excuse, rather you should build up an agent from a first principles understanding of DOM interactions.

A browser is a SERIOUS security risk, you need a dedicated team to just pull in the latest security patches that Google pushes to Chromium or your users are sitting ducks to exploits and hacks...
by PartiallyTyped | 2025-06-22 08:58:17+00:00
I’ve contributed quite a few patches into clippy, it’s a great project and a great way to learn how the rustc “sees” code; from the AST, to HIR, to using typeck — sometimes we even construct types at runtime to validate the code against — to tracking traits and their implementations across a whole crate!

Clippy really is a labour of love project, and it’s been great to work with these folk <3

I will try to pick up some issues in the coming weeks.
by throwanem | 2025-06-22 08:58:22+00:00
May as well get on the record here and now I'm against it, I guess. Not that anyone's asking my opinion, I'm from among the social classes whose job it is to go get killed in these things so the wealthy have something to be erect and/or lachrymose about. But this way at least when I'm old and facing kidney failure I can tell some smug young snot I espoused their politics before they learned the word "cool."
by roenxi | 2025-06-22 08:58:26+00:00
> You imply here that those countries woes are primarily due to Israel. They are not.

The comment didn't suggest that exactly.

> One would hope, but if Allah is protecting them why would they need to fear retaliation?

Israel just launched a perfidious pre-emptive defence by assassinating a lot of their top military leadership. They've probably figured out retaliation is a possibility here - if this is Israel's defence when they aren't even being threatened, imagine what they will do in their defence when the Iranians actually do something directly! Even if the Iranians are legitimately stupid at some level the campaign of missile strikes must have registered that they are vulnerable to missiles.
by dreghgh | 2025-06-22 08:58:36+00:00
There's only 3 problems with this old claim.

1. You have to define 'Israel' quite carefully to make it work. Palestinians in East Jerusalem cannot vote in Israeli elections. Is East Jerusalem part of Israel or not?

2. There are several other democracies in the Middle East, for example Iraq and Lebanon.

3. Some of the countries which aren't democratic, would be democratic, except that representative governments were overthrown by the United States, in part to enforce cooperation with Israel, against the wishes of most of the people in the country. For example, Egypt.
by imperfect_blue | 2025-06-22 09:00:33+00:00
>> It's that they believe they have a religious duty to destroy the state of Israel.

> And the US is full of Christo-fascists who believe they have a religious duty to "defend" Israel by any means necessary.

How do you even begin to equivocate this? One wants to destroy a country, one wants to protect it from destruction.

> How do you think Palestinians sleep at night? With the threat of Israel, funded by the largest military in the world, looming over them every night?

Israel has never actually wanted to end the lives of every Palestinian - and they've had ample capacity to do. The reverse can't be said to be true. If there's a button that the Iraqi or Palestinian leadership that can press that would wipe out the state of Israel and everyone in it, do you think that they won't press it as fast as they can?
by KaiserPro | 2025-06-22 09:01:04+00:00
> nobody would let Iran to come even close to remilitarizing again. No centrifuges, and no placing them or anything similar under ground, etc.

Well given that we've been trying to stop that for many years, I doubt its within the US's gift to change that.

Also what has iran got to loose now? like its already being bombed to shit. It's lost a generation to the iran/iraq war, why not another one where they take the USA, israel and saudis with them?

> I do think that US may get involved in enforcement of no-fly zone over Iran.

that sounds like a forever war. Moreover trump doesn't have the attention span to deploy a nofly zone for any length of time.

also, have you see the size of iran?

> Israel has had very good intelligence from Iran, so i'm pretty sure that general parameters like the depth were well known to them

yup, but the performance of munitions is unknown. Moreover they are not actually going to tell anyone the real results of the strike. Can you imagine generals telling Hegseth that his plan idea has failed because the clearly articulated unknowns came to pass. let alone trump?
by dartharva | 2025-06-22 09:01:26+00:00
Wasn't so with India. Their first experimental test detonation was in 1974 (Smiling Buddha) in which they used nuclear material that US and Canada themselves supplied under "Atoms for Peace", but it wasn't until 24 years later in 1998 (Operation Shakti) that the country managed to test enough to call itself a nuclear state. They did all this while they were in consistent active conflict with large and powerful neighbors on three sides, along with explicit hostility from the US.
by int_19h | 2025-06-22 09:03:48+00:00
In echomail they were known as "Origin" because the intended purpose of that line was to identify the originating node. It looked like this:

* Origin: any random text (12:34/56.78)

The text was supposed to be the name or description of the node, but this wasn't mandated by the rules, and the address at the end unambiguously identified the node anyway for anyone who cared, so people quickly repurposed it for taglines.
by invalidname | 2025-06-22 09:03:55+00:00
> Again, I’d encourage you to stop thinking you’re dealing with people fundamentally different than you, and start considering why they’re acting the way they’re acting.

So you're saying that there are motivations that would make you perform suicide bombings?

There are incentives by which you would sacrifice your children?

The vast majority of Iranians and Palestinians are good people. Same as everyone. The leadership and nutcases are vastly different than normal people.

I have friends in Gaza and the west bank. They are victims of these nutcases, this sort of mentality is tolerance of intolerance. They are victims of Hamas as the Iranian people are victims of their leadership.

> but to consistently act surprised when people act “irrationally” is to suggest either your definition of rational is wrong or your understanding of the circumstances are wrong

It isn't that they're irrational. Their decisions don't match western rationality which is based on different standards.

If you think that the death of your child will send him on a fast track to heaven that can seriously impact the rational choices you make down the line. It doesn't mean you can't speak calmly or even pretend to have a different set of objectives.

Their definition of reality leads them to a very different set of incentives and decisions. I understand exactly why the leadership wants nuclear weapons. They're paranoid and they aren't wrong in their paranoia, but that goes both ways. If Israel had listened to voices like this in the past then Saddam Husein and Assad would have had nuclear weapons. Luckily they don't and now we don't have to know what the Iranian leadership would have done. That's a good thing for everyone, especially for the Iranian people in the long term.

Assuming you're from the states, imagine the Mexican president calling death to America constantly, claiming it's their religious prerogative to destroy America and launch multiple terrorist cells against America... Then imagine them developing nuclear weapons... The USA would be justifiably paranoid.
by perihelions | 2025-06-22 09:04:14+00:00
You know how Shannon entropy works in CS, compression and stuff? Atoms work the same way: their mixing entropy is that same x*ln(x) sum which is an extremely steep function near its boundaries. That's your non-linearity. That statistical entropy corresponds to macroscopic thermodynamic properties, enthalpy and work. The starting uranium atom ratios, 0.7%/99.3%, are a very unbalanced mixture deep into that non-linearity side.

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

(The other half of it is that, as you progressively enrich, you start to discard the "depleted" part of the mass flow, and work only with the, gradually smaller, "enriched" mass flow).
by nicism | 2025-06-22 09:04:16+00:00
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by georgyo | 2025-06-22 09:04:37+00:00
I'm not so sure most people would agree with you. Though I think plenty would.

I dare say that developers like environment variables more than before. Consider that Docker images, and hence Helm charts, are entirely controlled via environment variables. These very popular dev tools suffer from the same problem of having near-zero easy discoverability of what those environment variables might be. Yet they are very popular.

But I don't think Make usually uses all that many environment variables. You're usually specifying build targets as the command line arguments. Automake and autogen usually generate these makefiles with everything hard-coded.

Also, it makes it very easy to get started with, and it is universally available. Makes it very easy to like.
by dreghgh | 2025-06-22 09:05:03+00:00
> Where do you think they've got the weapons from?

Ultimately, from the United States taxpayer. Who supply the Egyptian military government, who turn a small proportion over to the Islamists to keep them from too much rabble-rousing. Who smuggle them to Hamas.

Both Qatar and Iran supply money and other forms of support to Hamas. But no RPG makes it into Gaza (across a shorter than 10 mile border) without the Egyptian military sort of knowing about it.
by adastra22 | 2025-06-22 09:05:48+00:00
I don’t think you understand what you linked to. That is about government census forms that track ethnicity, same as any other country. Nationality here doesn’t mean citizenship, but rather something closer to “tribe.”

Some well meaning citizens said “I want to check Israeli rather than Jew, Druze, Arab, etc.” Except Israeli is not a nationality in this sense. Nor is Jewish, on this form, a religious identification. It is a way of tracking, for census reasons, something closer to ethnicity. Not for nefarious purposes, but just to track demographics.
by tempodox | 2025-06-22 09:08:29+00:00
Came here to say something like that.

Since there is purportedly “AI” involved, I'd expect exactly zero privacy.

You have to give your email before you get info on pricing.

Given how unresponsive the “service” is, it looks like a crude experiment to see how many gullible people can be found with one HN submission. For all I know, collecting user goals and email addresses are the only functionalities this “service” actually implements.
by bmacho | 2025-06-22 09:08:37+00:00
A web extension is an unnecessary security risk. A userscript will do it just fine.

edit: one of my previous attempt: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35229211

I actually have made it extensible, with closely coupled source of rules and domains; but then I lost it Edge forgot all my userscripts :(
by lenkite | 2025-06-22 09:08:44+00:00
> The US didn’t have anything more to do with this.

Only if one is utterly blind and put fingers in their ears, can one truly believe that. Nuland's call was leaked where she was proudly deciding who would form the next government in Ukraine and who should be kept on the outside. And her personal choice of puppet: "Yats" did in-fact become the prime minister. Nuland was even handing out cookies to anti-Yanukovych protests for Christ's sake. Mc Cain actually flew in and congratulated the protesters.

Imagine if that was happening in the US against a US President - members of foreign nation's government cheering on a coup and deciding who would be the next President. There would be Absolute War.
by lenkite | 2025-06-22 09:10:36+00:00
All politicians "mispresent themselves". Kicking them out during elections is the way they are thrown out in a functioning democracy. Or do you believe Americans should storm the White House and beat up the President anytime a campaign promise is broken ? And one that is magnified by the funding and urging of a foreign government ? Such actions - which break the "deal of democracy" naturally lead to civil war - which is exactly what happened in Ukraine.
by spwa4 | 2025-06-22 09:11:01+00:00
"they [Israel] aren't even being threatened"

Are you even arguing in good faith? Over the years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op9EFTPQhw8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulXulltxXZg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V21yoWN_U3w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hLDjGdJC0Q
by lelanthran | 2025-06-22 09:11:10+00:00
> "Better to have it and not need it; than to need it, and not have it..."

Having it is pointless if your SNR is so low that it costs more money than simply waiting for the bug the next time it comes up.

IMO, if a bug never surfaces again, that's not a bug I care about anyway. Keeping all generated data in case someone wants to see the record from a bug 3 months ago is absolutely pointless - if it hasn't surfaced again in the last three weeks, you absolutely have more high-priority things to look at!

I want to see this mythical company, where a paid employee is dedicated by the company to look at a log from 3 months ago, to solve a bug that hasn't resurfaced in that three month period!
by Freak_NL | 2025-06-22 09:11:59+00:00
I've listed four major causes. These are cumulative, not mutually exclusive.

You can't compete with aviation on price currently. Not while its environmental costs are graciously overlooked and left out of the ticket price. This is a political problem.

Comfort, reliability, sustainability, elegance, ease-of-use: those are the major selling points for night rail travel done right. This includes legroom, luggage space, and the ability to move around outside of your seat and to toss and turn in bed¹ — something current generation sleeper trains provide. If your goal is to cram as many people as possible in every metre of train length, you are optimising the wrong parameter at the wrong time.

1: The coffin beds in these hotel pods are clever from a space filling perspective, but I fear I would be nastily banging my knees several times in the course of the night, and that's ignoring the fact that sleeping that low close to the rails is just not pleasant.
by em-bee | 2025-06-22 09:12:21+00:00
i find the discussions of weigelts political opinions not really interesting. they will probably lead to his eventual downfall, but these discussions hide the real problem: that a significant group of people are unhappy with X11 support going away.

Xlibre may just be successful despite weigelts opinions (and maybe even attract some supporters because of them) and the only way for Xorg/wayland to counter the rise of Xlibre is to address the concerns and not to write off Xlibre because of weigelt.
by dudefeliciano | 2025-06-22 09:12:33+00:00
> pivoted to Palestine as her issue

Is that the case? she supports many other causes too, and they do not conflict the idea of climate change being the greatest risk. In her own words climate justice and social justice are inseparable and I can see that point.

We are now discussing the narcissism of Greta, a well meaning activist, rather than that of the president of peace, who just bombed Iran. The narcisism of the man who ran on "drill baby drill" is somehow acceptable, was exactly my point.
by nine_k | 2025-06-22 09:13:06+00:00
Indeed, nuclear weapons are a tricky thing. On one hand, there are nuclear non-proliferation treaties, on the other, peaceful nuclear power plants. To obtain nukes, you have to have good relationships with the current big powers, build peaceful nuclear installations, and very covertly produce the weapons based on it, while the big boys look the other way, or maybe even secretly help. That's approximately how China, India, Pakistan, and Israel obtained their nukes. (North Korea is a special case.)

Once you've obtained some nukes, complete with decent rockets to liv them, nobody is going to mess with you too badly, or try to take the nukes back; you're now a member if the club.

Japan or South Korea would likely be able to produce nuclear weapons in a few months if they needed to. I bet even Ukraine could, with its remaining nuclear plants and relatively advanced industry, and are on friendly terms with the US.

But if you made enemies with the big members of the nuclear club, and with the US in particular, they will do everything to stop you, and your situation would become much harder; that's the case with Iran.
by mahkeiro | 2025-06-22 09:13:57+00:00
3 years ago Saudi Arabia set into its law (on the international women’s day) that a male relative always have control on a woman. A few years ago only, women were allowed to drive but as of today they are very few female drivers. But that’s not the point, the point is the hypocrisy to point at a political regime because he his not aligned with your views while having as a best friend the worst absolute monarchy.
by mykowebhn | 2025-06-22 09:14:44+00:00
> It's that they believe they have a religious duty to destroy the state of Israel.

I believe this is very important to highlight, and, unfortunately, many Iranians will suffer because of the Iranian government's views.

But I do believe there are viewpoints held on both sides that can make achieving peace in that region extremely difficult. Consider these two video excerpts (You only need to watch about 10 seconds for each)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYoa9hI3CXg&t=1948s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEiL_5h14pY&t=452s
by sandreas | 2025-06-22 09:15:08+00:00
I think a used condition Keychron (e.g. Lemokey P1 + M3 Mouse) could tighly fit your budget.

I would probably split the devices (2 receivers/usb), raise the budget a bit and get a wobkey crush 80 re, an Evoworks Evo 80 or if you prefer low profile, a lofree flow or logitech G515 tactile in used condition together with a cheap cable logitech G-series mouse
by contrarian1234 | 2025-06-22 09:15:36+00:00
But why a nuclear bomb?

I never understood the logic.. (or maybe it's the theatric element?) There are other WMD that seem much simpler. If they hypothetically release some horrible biological agent in Israel - it could incapacitate the country overnight

Or set off a dirty bomb to make huge regions unlivable (just the perception of radiation risk would preclude many from living there.. see Fukushima)
by int_19h | 2025-06-22 09:17:08+00:00
Unless we're talking about ancient hardware terminals, the computer sees the actual raw scancodes coming from the keyboard. Control (whether by itself or in combination with something else) is no different than any other key. It's the software that maps those combinations to ASCII control characters, which is why this works the way you described on most Unices (where, if I remember correctly, it's the tty that is doing the mapping) but not e.g. on DOS/Windows.
by Aaron2222 | 2025-06-22 09:18:12+00:00
Terminal.app has a setting "Use Option as Meta Key" that needs to be enabled. It's under the Edit menu as well as in Settings > Profiles > Keyboard (if you want, you can click use Command-A to select all the profiles to apply the change to all of them at once). Ghostty will have a similar option.

Also surprised you haven't encountered this earlier, given it affects all usage of Alt in the terminal.
by spwa4 | 2025-06-22 09:18:17+00:00
In essentially all cases it is very well known which individuals have committed these crimes. This is an excuse.

And yes, I do agree with your general point: the ICC idea is beautiful. The problem is that the parties to the Rome statute (the real "meat" behind the ICC) has no intention to provide justice to the world, but want to use the ICC as a political weapon, in some cases to prepare for war.

If you intend to do nothing, a center that keeps files on individuals, nothing more, documenting all known human rights abuses, would achieve more.
by kikimora | 2025-06-22 09:23:30+00:00
There is a lot more - Aurora to handle our spiky workload (can grow 100x from normal levels at times) - Zero-ETL into RedShift. - Slow query monitoring, not just metrics but actual query source. - Snapshots to move production data into staging to test queries.

Besides this we also use - ECS to autoscale app layer - S3 + Athena to store and query logs - Systems Manager to avoid managing SSH keys. - IAM and SSO to control access to the cloud - IoT to control our fleet of devices

I’ve never seen how people operate complex infrastructures outside of a cloud. I imagine that using VPS I would have a dedicated dev. ops acting as a gatekeeper to the infrastructure or I’ll get a poorly integrated and insecure mess. With cloud I have teams rapidly iterating on the infrastructure without waiting on any approvals and reviews. Real life scenario 1. Let use DMS + PG with sectioned tables + Athena 2. Few months later: let just use Aurora read replicas 3. Few months later: Let use DMS + RedShift 4. Few months later: Zero-ETL + RedShift.

I imagine a dev. ops would be quite annoyed by such back and forth. Plus he is busy keeping all the software up to date.