MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bubudrc | 2025-06-22 02:17:19+00:00
I use an app called [Newsreadeck](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/newsreadeck/id1593025917) to follow several local and international news sources at the same time and get the articles ready to read, so, I can see un a fast look, what several similar sources are writing about a same event. Then, I can choose what to read and believe
by akoboldfrying | 2025-06-22 02:17:20+00:00
> what's so difficult about flashing a stock image to a device being serviced?

Yes, I think that would cover most cases if we take it to its logical conclusion of wiping all device state (hard disk). OTOH, a few points:

1. I would accept the need to wipe the hard disk if I had messed with firmware or the OS, but not if a couple of keys on the keyboard had stopped working. This implies that (for me at least) a meaningful distinction remains between these two "levels" of warranty service. Do you agree?

2. Activities like overclocking or overvolting a CPU have the potential to cause lasting damage that can't be reversed by re-flashing. Under the policy you're suggesting, it would be illegal for manufacturers to offer users the option "You can pull this pin low to overclock outside the supported range, but you will void the warranty by doing so", and too expensive for them to endlessly replace parts damaged by these activities for free under warranty, so that consumer option, rare as it already is, would go away completely.

3. I still think there may be some devices that are impractical to completely re-flash. According to this 2021 Porsche article [0], modern cars contain 70-100 ECUs (microcontrollers), each of which will have its own flash/EEPROM.

[0]: https://medium.com/next-level-german-engineering/porsche-fut...
by mabster | 2025-06-22 02:17:37+00:00
Totally missed that, thanks! I don't know the library very well, but as far as I can tell they don't support .xyxy style sizzling with the SIMD Vec4 type.

They're using the same "proxy object" method I was doing for their sizzling which I'm pretty sure won't work with SIMD types but would love to be proven wrong!

I haven't deep dived into the library as I'm no longer doing this kind of code.
by yencabulator | 2025-06-22 02:18:01+00:00
The difference is in targeting cities. Civilian targets. Let me remind you of the paragraph above:

> Beyond that, there are moral questions about the use of nuclear weapons. I know people who think it would have been more moral to force a Japanese surrender via many Japanese and American soldiers to die during an invasion of Japan, than for the US to kill civilians with nuclear weapons. [...]
by abletonlive | 2025-06-22 02:20:47+00:00
"just like it didn't happen in korea, vietnam, iraq1, iraq2, yemen and afghanistan."

that's a fancy retelling of history you got there. MILLIONs died in those wars and less than 100K US troops died. Out of those wars, iraq 1 led to iraq defeat and withdrawal from kuwait. iraq 2 had saddam dragged through the streets and a regime change within 3 weeks, yemen was counterterrorism - there's no regime to topple, in afghanistan the taliban regime was removed for 20 years and only once the troops were withdrawn were they able to crawl back.

the current Iranian regime is over.
by jordanb | 2025-06-22 02:20:55+00:00
Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapons program. That was the assessment of Trump's own government back in March, according to testimony of his national security advisor under oath before congress.

We knew about these sites because they have been under IAEA supervision for many years.

The smart thing for Iran to do at this point is do what Israel did: not submit to any arms control and develop their own weapons in secret. Clearly this is the only way to be safe when people in Tel Aviv and Washington are openly discussing the "Libya solution."
by arp242 | 2025-06-22 02:21:40+00:00
"But this time it's different!"

IMHO the Israeli policy of punching everyone so hard they're reeling is a massive mistake for Israel in the long term. It works great short-term, but 50 years? 100 years? Who knows what the world will look like then, and being surrounded by enemies is not going to work well when you no longer have your fancy US-backed missile shields and whatnot. The best long-term bet is for normalised relationship with its neighbours, and every time something like this happens that gets set back 20 years at least.

Then again, they had already given up on that with how it treated the Palestinians both in Gaza and West-Bank...

This doesn't mean military action is never an option under any circumstances, but no nation can perpetuate hostilities forever. Whether it's 50, 100, or 200 years: this has a massive risk of coming back to bite Israel hard.
by spauldo | 2025-06-22 02:21:42+00:00
When you press CTRL and a letter or symbol at the terminal, shift doesn't do anything (unless it's required for the symbol, as in CTRL-@). The code that gets sent is the same either way. Emacs users have to be wary when setting custom keybindings because GUI Emacs can see the difference but terminal Emacs can't.

Likewise, ALT just sends ESC assuming you're using the standard US keymap.
by Kirby64 | 2025-06-22 02:22:00+00:00
> Yes, they absolutely do. Especially under-cabinet lighting - it's deliberately underdriven via voltage because the thin strips of aluminum are basically a backing support strip and nothing more.

Under cabinet lighting and more generic cosmetic lighting tends to use constant voltage for the input supply, but is regulating its current elsewhere, within the cabinet module or LED itself. This is literally how the most common example of RGB LED strips (WS2812s) work. They have current limiting circuitry within the LED module itself. Getting the most brightness isn’t the most important thing, unlike in actual bulbs.

> Let's grab what under my cabinets, for example. 4 LEDs in series. Okay, assuming 3V that's a 12V chain - the included wall-wart power supply is a 10.5V output supply at 200mA.

Nobody is driving a standard white LED at 2.6V for lighting. Please, show me a datasheet of a white LED that has a reasonable lumen output at 2.6V forward voltage drop. That also doesn’t include any voltage drop allowance in any wiring, boards, or any circuitry, which can be significant in low voltage applications. Especially when cabinet lights tend to be daisy chained together. I’d guess your cabinet lighting is actually driving a string of 3 white LEDs in series.
by woodruffw | 2025-06-22 02:22:14+00:00
"Architecturally" refers to the architecture of OpenPGP's message and certificate formats, not some kind of architectural standard. You can see Delta Chat's own community struggle with this[1]: unbounded certificate growth doesn't mesh well with acceptable rotation periods for ephemeral keys. There's also the problem of OpenPGP implementations encrypting to all subkeys instead of the "latest" one, which of course blows a hole in the FS property.

[1]: https://support.delta.chat/t/autocrypt-key-rotation/2936
by gh02t | 2025-06-22 02:22:25+00:00
Uranium, especially highly enriched uranium, is not very radioactive. That's one of the reasons its useful for weapons. UF6 is chemically really nasty, but it's heavy and also you have criticality issues that limit how much you can pack into a confined space before it explosively disassembles. That is to say, it would make an extremely poor dirty bomb that would do very little. It'd scare people of course but there are far easier things they could use to achieve that.

Far more concerning is the possibility that they give it away to someone else. Enrichment is nonlinear, going from 60% to the 90% needed for weapons is a fairly trivial amount of work.
by guelo | 2025-06-22 02:22:59+00:00
This is the opposite of how I see it. This move is a complete repudiation of the post-ww2 order that emphasized the system of international laws and treaties developed by the UN. For the US to blindly follow Israel into a war with a sovereign country without even taking it to the UN or Congress is preposterous and signals the end of the post-ww2 and American domestic order. Both the UN Charter and the US Constitution are trashed and we won't recover from it in our life times. There's a reason Bush W sent Colin Powell to the UN, we still paid lip service to the rule of law 20 years ago. We don't even pretend anymore. We are trashing our laws and institution all at the behest of some a tiny racist religious extremist country.
by lwansbrough | 2025-06-22 02:25:02+00:00
I discard any pro-proliferation arguments at face value.

You’re arguing for a greater number of uncontrollable parameters governing the world’s most deadly weapons. I can’t think of a more idiotic position to take. And the “nothing bad has happened yet” belief system is just insane. Stanislav Petrov? Able Archer 83? Read a book man.

How many times has the world’s most capable military accidentally almost detonated a nuclear bomb?
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-06-22 02:25:21+00:00
I get the feeling you're willfully playing dumb, but to take it step by step:

Now, after having proven that deals mean nothing both in Ukraine and Iran, the only sensible move is to develop nuclear weapons.

Prior to us having broken both of these deals, there was a believable argument for the US being an honest broker who can ensure security in lieu of you having your own nuclear weapons.

> Except there never was any plan or idea on how to get another deal

What do you mean? You do the same thing again: economic normalization for non-proliferation.
by 827a | 2025-06-22 02:25:36+00:00
How do you, logically, draw the line from "cavalier use of deadly force" to "our enemies are going to take bolder action against US allies"? That leap of logic doesn't make sense; its a leap of pseudologic someone speaking from fear would make.

If anything, a better standpoint is: Illogical and cavalier use of deadly force should scare our enemies, because it makes expression of our nation's military power more unpredictable. If China invades Taiwan; Trump might just blow up the Three Gorges Dam. Other Presidents might move with care, logic, and intrinsic sanctity for human life; Trump doesn't.
by mupuff1234 | 2025-06-22 02:26:38+00:00
Those can be bombed right at the beginning. Israel will probably try to establish a similar status que as in Lebanon right now - "if you make a move we immediately take it out".

And the development of a nuclear sites leaves a significant intelligence trail, not sure it can be hidden.

(Of course they can always be gifted a bomb, but that's a very different story)
by abletonlive | 2025-06-22 02:28:20+00:00
you don't have to squint to see reality.

saddam is gone and there was a regime change.

that's it. that's what we were talking about.

no need to go into other areas of the conversation that didn't exist before you came along to insert some reason why you feel justified defending a regime that oppresses women through a "morality police" force. i don't care why you think they should be allowed to have nukes. i'm sure you can argue for it all day. you don't need to get philosophical about what is "winning" or "working".

if you can't agree on objective reality and what we are discussing, we have nothing to discuss. move on
by akoboldfrying | 2025-06-22 02:28:22+00:00
> Yes. If I really _want_ to execute malware on my device, I should be allowed to do so by disabling the antivirus or disregarding a warning.

I agree.

> already the rule of law in "sane" jurisdictions, that manufacturer and mandated warranties are not touched by unrelated, reversable modifications to both hard- and software.

Do you have any examples of such jurisdictions? I think whether this is reasonable turns on how "reversible" is interpreted. If it means "reversible to factory settings", including wiping all built-in storage media, then it seems reasonable to me that manufacturers should support this (possibly modulo some extreme cases like cars that have dozens of CPUs). But I would not be happy with having my hard disk wiped if I sent in my laptop for repairs because a couple of keys stopped working, which tells me that (to me) there remain at least two classes of "problem that should be fixed for free under warranty by the manufacturer".
by scythe | 2025-06-22 02:28:22+00:00
If this was about the benefit to the United States, then we would have had months of public buildup and debate like we did with the war in Iraq. It is hardly an example of a good decision, but history shows that it was at least a popular one; the majority of poll respondents and of legislators were both in favor of the initial invasion of Iraq. I was only eleven at the time, but I remember most moderate Democrats and independents who I knew (including, particularly, my seventh-grade history teacher, who was no fan of Bush) were in favor of the war.

Contrast that to the situation today, when polls show Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to involvement [1] and even some prominent Republican legislators (Gaetz, IIRC) were against the war. This is the Trump show: it's motivated by his ego and hopium. He's more erratic than ever. Historically, American presidents almost never started a major war without popular support (Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq were all popular when they started, and I think Libya and Kosovo were too). I can't even think of a case where the country was dragged into a war that was opposed 60% to 16% in favor. I would be very interested to hear if there ever was one.

1: https://www.axios.com/2025/06/19/israel-iran-war-americans-p...
by tguvot | 2025-06-22 02:28:39+00:00
it could be as simple as previous presidents playing realpolitik to pacify arab countries and trump didn't.

another point, arab countries dropped "no normalization without palestinian state" approach (the see in past decade palestinian leadership as corrupt and incapable) and signed abraham accords. saudia was supposed to seal the deal as well but oct7 happened.
by jodrellblank | 2025-06-22 02:28:40+00:00
> "It's our minds that are special. We should be able to transplant every other part."

The gut has the enteric nervous system with half a billion nerve cells and a hundred million neurons. Where's the clear divide between 'brain' and 'everything else'?

> "full head transplants could tackle every disease except"

except being quadraplegic and in an Iron Lung because reconnecting the spinal column is indistinguishable from magic at this point. What about the risks involved in major surgery and rehab? The hospital staffing and effort and costs involved in doing multiple organ transplant surgeries per lifetime for each of hundreds of millions of people? Saying "it's so simple" doesn't make it simple.
by ericmay | 2025-06-22 02:28:57+00:00
A civilian is just a soldier who hasn’t put on a uniform in this scenario, and a soldier is just a civilian who has put on a uniform. You’re making a meaningless distinction in this context. There isn’t some sort of magic status that changes here - the same Japanese civilians were working at shipyards and ordinance factories to build weapons to kill American soldiers - you think we shouldn’t bomb those factories because we would kill Japanese civilians building weapons to kill American soldiers and that’s ok because the Americans were wearing a costume and we call them “military personnel”?

Nuts!
by bgwalter | 2025-06-22 02:28:59+00:00
That may be the perception from the outside due to theater (Trump holding Netanyahu's chair for the cameras etc.), but these plans have existed forever. Here is a plan from the Brookings Institute from 2009:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/j.ctt6wpgvg

"CHAPTER FIVE Leave it to Bibi: Allowing or Encouraging an Israeli Military Strike"
by aisenik | 2025-06-22 02:30:36+00:00
Indeed. The lowest of the horses, however, is clearly the USA. Our history and our actions (POSIWID is the most effective heuristic in the modern information environment), including the capricious abandonment of the very successful JCPOA, suggest complete dishonesty in this realm. There is zero reason to believe we have any legitimate reason for attacking Iran and every reason to distrust our stated motivations. Iraq was 22 years ago.

We presented outright fabrications to the UN to justify an imperial war after the president campaigned against "nation building." It is hard to ignore the parallels to Iran and Trump, proclaimed "anti war" candidate that you had to vote for to prevent WW3. Here we are.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-06-22 02:31:54+00:00
Yeah IMO the last 2 years (and especially 5 hours) have pretty much permanently shattered Israel's privileged child status in the US. Their actions in Gaza have fractured leftwing support, and dragging the US into this war have fractured rightwing support.

Hope they're building other friendships in the region, I don't see the unquestioning US patronage lasting much longer.
by komali2 | 2025-06-22 02:32:35+00:00
In the case of Taiwan, because there's not really a path to victory from straight up invasion that accomplishes anything really meaningful, unless Xi is down for his legacy to be 5 million deaths and the sudden burden of tens of millions of infrastructureless refugees that are apparently full throated PRC citizens now.

The PRC's only realistic hope is a soft power takeover which it seems mildly competent at progressing on. About to have a serious setback with the KMT recalls though.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-06-22 02:33:11+00:00
> Minimal interest in what workable improvements (from the US Nat'l Security Establishment's PoV) would look like.

An obvious improvement would be to not prohibit people with a security clearance from looking at documents that are already publicly available.

If the concern is that the documents could be forgeries, train them to have a suitable skepticism about the authenticity of leaks rather than prohibiting them from reading it. What if they are already skeptical and want to view the documents for some other reason? What if the government has already conceded that they're authentic, or it's something that can be easily verified given the information, so the authenticity isn't in question? What if they're in a position to prove that it isn't authentic, which could be highly useful information to the government, but nobody ever finds out if they avoid reading it because of a senseless prohibition?
by ggm | 2025-06-22 02:33:21+00:00
Case hardening. Making something which if propelled fast enough (secondary issue) and with a G force resisting detonator (secondary issue) which has sufficient integrity and inertia to penetrate as deeply as possible before exploding. Materials science in making aerodynamic rigid, shock tolerant materials to fling at the ground.

I am sure the materials science aspects have come along since ww2, as has delivery technology, but I'd say how it goes fast, hits accurately and explodes is secondary to making a case survive impact and penetrate.

I would posit shaped charges could be amazing in this, if you could make big ones to send very high energy plasma out. I'm less sure depleted uranium would bring much to the table.

(Not in weapons engineering, happy to be corrected)
by mikewarot | 2025-06-22 02:33:48+00:00
It's my suspicion that most of the 60% enriched material was moved prior to the attack(Edit: which recent statements from Iran seem to support), and now undergoing enrichment to 90% in a facility the US doesn't know about. Enrichment gets easier as the percentage goes up.

I expect (ok, I WORRY) a major US city to have a nuke set off in it by Iran within the next 5 years.

It didn't have to be this way, we had a working treaty and inspections regime until Trump pulled us out of it.

Decades of effort to prohibit nuclear proliferation have just gone down the toilet.

EDIT: Ya'll are right, the idea of them doing a test and going public makes a lot more sense.
by CliffStoll | 2025-06-22 02:35:09+00:00
I wandered lonely as a clod,

Just picking up old rags and bottles,

When onward on my way I plod,

I saw a host of axolotls;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

A sight to make a man’s blood freeze.

//

Some had handles, some were plain;

They came in blue, red pink, and green.

A few were orange in the main;

The damnedest sight I’ve ever seen.

The females gave a sprightly glance;

The male ones all wore knee-length pants.

//

Now oft, when on the couch I lie,

The doctor asks me what I see.

They flash upon my inward eye

And make me laugh in fiendish glee.

I find my solace then in bottles,

And I forget them axolotls.

//Mad Magazine, issue 43, 1958 //
by ggm | 2025-06-22 02:36:28+00:00
I doubt anyone here works in defence materials sciences and like the rest of the world would be 49/51 regarding voting intention. I've never voted for a pro war party fwiw but if I'd been of an age, I would have called ww2 a just cause war.

This isn't a just cause and it's not even a war. It's state sanctioned terror. I don't know it has ism in it.

Australian legal opinion says it's unlikely a credible defence in international law exists for this attack. It may redefine the norms for (un)lawful acts by the state, other states, weak and powerful will undoubtedly reflect on this.

It's also being claimed a success. Words like "obliterated" used. Time tends to tell a story there. I think it's a little too soon to say how successful these strikes were, tactically or strategically.
by tguvot | 2025-06-22 02:36:47+00:00
for people who don't follow news. last year Iran strikes on Israel with IRBM (two times, 150 missiles each time) weren't particularly effective (either intercepted or falling in empty fields). On the other side Israel attempt on taking our Iranian AD was success.

It led Iran to make 2 decisions

- Accelerate production of IRBM in order to have 10000 in stock and to build 1000 launchers in order to execute massive launches that will not possible to defend against

- Apparently the did decide to mate their IRBM with nukes as recently there was meeting between whoever managed iranian missiles problem and heads of nuclear project (there is economist article about it).

This comes against backdrop of hamas and hezbollah been wiped. especially hezbollah which was supposed to be strike force against israel with estimated 100k-200k missiles and rockets.

PS. to those who write that jordan/usa intercepted most/a lot. they (together with saudi arabia, uk and france intercepted drones and cruise missiles. out of all IRBM only 6 were intercepted with SM3 missiles from USA ship)