MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tmnvix | 2025-06-22 01:58:51+00:00
FWIW one take on all of this that I have considered is that Israel and the US have been looking for an out that allows them to claim to have successfully achieved their objectives. I wouldn't be surprised if this attack was unsuccessful but won't be followed up if that becomes apparent later.

Israel only just (before this US bombing) claimed they had set Iran's nuclear program back by 2-3 years. I found the timing of the announcement curious.

This after suffering extensive damage from direct missile strikes (Haifa port/refinery, Mossad headquarters, Wiezmann institute, C4I/cyber defense, etc). I think the missile strikes have been much more damaging than expected and understandably under-reported. Weapons expert Ted Postol of MIT claims Israel's missile defense is only intercepting around 5%.

I think Israel will be very unhappy if things continue to escalate without further US involvement. Depending on how Iran retaliates against the US, further involvement might not be forthcoming. We've seen seen Iran attack a US base in Jordan without causing escalation from the US. Could expect something similar.
by tguvot | 2025-06-22 01:59:14+00:00
if you will read a wiki entry on apollo affair you will discover that loss probably was due to "what was called "previously unidentified and undocumented loss mechanisms", including "contamination of workers' clothes, losses from scrubber systems, material embedded in the flooring, and residual deposits in the processing equipment"

also, there was loss after shapiro left his position numec
by TeeMassive | 2025-06-22 01:59:46+00:00
It's a country of 100M people. They're not just gonna be have their "ass handed to them", just like it didn't happen in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq1, Iraq2, Yemen and Afghanistan. Countries do adapt to bombings, especially when there's a superpower nearby.

Also if they "were just about to have the bomb" then they could develop it and use it after. So there is the conflicting position that they are both insane to use it and but both sane to not escalate the conflict. This is where most pro-war arguments fail the basic logic test in the nuclear bomb era.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-06-22 02:00:01+00:00
Hot take: Sign these agreements without worry. When you change employers in the future, make no public announcements about it -- don't post anything on social media, including LinkedIn. Do your best not to transfer any IP between employers. You will be fine.

Finally: Yes, I think these agreements should be illegal. I recently signed a new employment contract that requires me not to disparage my new employer... forever. Literally: There is no end date. I could be an old man in a squeaky rocking chair that says something bad about my (then) former employer, and they have the right to sue me for breaking a non-disparagement agreement. I laughed to myself when I signed that contract.
by upofadown | 2025-06-22 02:00:30+00:00
Yeah, that was a figure of speech. Encrypted email is probably still the most secure thing available to most people, even these days. That's because it as asynchronous and offline. You can do it in your air gapped system in your shielded and guarded basement if you really want to. That is as opposed to some instant messaging scheme running on an inherently insecure device like a smart phone where there is access to the messages all the time.

Delta Chat is an instant messaging scheme. It is still good to use preexisting standards where possible.
by TulliusCicero | 2025-06-22 02:01:00+00:00
Iraq and Afghanistan were long wars because we had a ground invasion and then nation building in countries with relatively weak civic structures and identities. It doesn't seem like anybody is seriously considering a ground invasion of Iran here, Israel will probably just continue airstrikes and sabotage/assassination. The US might join in on more airstrikes but it seems extremely unlikely it'd go beyond that, the appetite for nation building is obviously gone ever since Iraq and Afghanistan went terribly. Nobody in the US wants a repeat of that.
by oskarkk | 2025-06-22 02:02:01+00:00
IAEA declared that Iran has violated the previous agreements, hides their enriched uranium, and their enrichment is essentially weapons-grade.

> The IAEA report raised a stern warning, saying that Iran is now “the only non-nuclear-weapon state to produce such material” — something the agency said was of “serious concern.”

> The report by the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency — which was seen by The Associated Press — says that as of May 17, Iran has amassed 408.6 kilograms (900.8 pounds) of uranium enriched up to 60%.

> U.S. intelligence agencies assess that Iran has yet to begin a weapons program, but has “undertaken activities that better position it to produce a nuclear device, if it chooses to do so.”

https://apnews.com/article/iran-nuclear-iaea-uranium-7f6c996...

> "The Board of Governors... finds that Iran's many failures to uphold its obligations since 2019 to provide the Agency with full and timely cooperation regarding undeclared nuclear material and activities at multiple undeclared locations in Iran ... constitutes non-compliance with its obligations under its Safeguards Agreement with the Agency," the text said.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/iaea-board-declares-iran...

Anyway, there's a difference between having enough enriched uranium for a bomb, and actually making that uranium into a bomb. But it's not that big of a difference, it's not like enriching uranium to weapons-grade isn't bad.
by heavyset_go | 2025-06-22 02:02:27+00:00
I'm probably mixing up analogies with actual implementations, but I'm basing my question on sentiments like this[1]:

> While nostr offers the ability to send encrypted DMs to user pubkeys, the metadata of these messages are broadcast publicly via relays. This is the same as a bitcoin transaction being viewable on the public ledger. The contents of the direct message will be encrypted, but other metadata like the sender and recipient can be viewed by anyone.

[1] https://ron.stoner.com/nostr_Security_and_Privacy/
by airstrike | 2025-06-22 02:02:39+00:00
no, unity was dying for low profitability and ads had higher margin

I argued against the acquisition at the time, including against accepting the framing that it was a "merger", and I think everything that's transpired since then has validated my views.

Sadly, I was outnumbered and “it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it” applied as it always does.

John Riccitiello was a terrible CEO

I think there's non-zero chance this company will go down in flames. I think its only hope at this point is a sufficiently motivated activist shareholder.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-06-22 02:02:40+00:00
Most jobs are giving no feedback on B, and you can only stare at a wall and meditate on your own failings for so many hours before you run out of insights. Maybe one in 20 jobs you find something you can spend several hours on. You could always do showoff projects as a completely separate activity, but I don't file that under improving your application skills.

For C, I figure by the time you've written 50 proper and sincere cover letters you can do them in under an hour. What could you be doing that takes a very long time and still counts as a cover letter?
by TulliusCicero | 2025-06-22 02:02:41+00:00
"It's working" in terms of NK not nuking anyone, but it also means that people are scared to do anything to North Korea even when they're belligerent, because they're a nuclear power now.

> Listen, don't bring up the bullshit framework everyone used to get into the Iraq war.

Ridiculous comparison. No one's talking about a ground invasion here.
by stevenzzzzzzz | 2025-06-22 02:03:45+00:00
Many people even working in power/energy don't realize how much interconnection costs are a hinderance. Example: see study group DISIS-2021-001 in SPP (a grid region similar to ERCOT/Texas), a good 25 % of the planned capacity was hit with an interconnection cost approx > $300k/MW (which is similar to the cost of the OP).

Predictably, all of those projects dropped out of the interconnection queue / process

https://www.interconnection.fyi/clusters/spp/disis-2021-001
by throwaway2037 | 2025-06-22 02:04:30+00:00
> reasonably common for it to be as long as a year

Absolutely not. For ibanks, less than VP is one month. VP/ED/MD is three months. Sometimes it is six months for an MD, but that is extreme. The longest that I ever heard was someone who left Citadel as a portfolio manager had a TWO year gardening leave. How can that make any financial sense for Citadel? Before the HN crowd jumps in about that Citadel example being "reasonably common": There are probably less than 1,000 people globally who would fall under such an extreme contract.
by gwern | 2025-06-22 02:04:31+00:00
One of the problems with undisclosed and thoughtless use of LLMs for writing, like ChatGPT in this case, is that it undermines trust.

Take the many quotes in this article, which all sound like ChatGPT. Obviously, none of those people said those words, or even anything all that like what they supposedly said, because that's not what real people sound like.

If the author is willing to silently do that (which could be uncharitably described as "lying"), why should I trust anything else, like the numbers, or the factual claims?

Did any of this actually happen? (I note that there's not a single external link or fact that an ignorant layman like myself could quickly and easily verify, including the Astral Codex Ten part.)

Incidentally, there are a lot of typos in the titles in https://7goldfish.com/ .

> This is a much better read than I expected.

Hm...
Ask HN: Why do none of the LLM providers let you delete/edit messages in the UI?
by tristenharr | 2025-06-22 02:05:07+00:00
This drives me crazy. At one point I built a tool that basically gave me full control over the chats. You were able to delete or edit any message in the chat.

But many of the providers lock their best models behind their interface before the developers get access, or lock features behind them.

Why can’t we delete messages? It just seems like common sense to me. I spend way too much time “ruining” a thread then spending 20 minutes getting a new thread back to where I previously was. All because I can’t delete the messages that derailed everything.

Just being able to right click and “delete” or “edit” any message in the chat would be the biggest upgrade to user experience in my opinion. Then when the LLM inevitably hallucinates or misunderstands you don’t have to fight to get it back on track or abandon it altogether and start a new chat and potentially spend 20 minutes priming the chat.

It’s also trivially simple to implement. I wonder if the providers have some explicit reason for this? Is it to bias people to start new chats rather than have long ones which saves them money? I just feel like there has to be a reason this dead simple feature isn’t possible. In the API it’s literally just changing the messages array that is the input.

Does anyone know the reason they don’t have this? (Surely someone before has said: “we could let users delete or edit messages” and it was shot down.. right?)
by sammycage | 2025-06-22 02:06:08+00:00
I feel this so much. File IO on flaky or network drives is a nightmare, and blocking calls make it worse. It’s good to see the async iterator and substring search moving forward, though it still feels a bit fragile with the thread workaround.

One thing I wonder is how you plan to handle cases where files vanish or change mid‑operation. Will the API just bubble up errors, or do you plan to hide some of that under retries or caching?

Overall, really enjoying these devlogs. Seeing the tradeoffs laid out like this is helpful for anyone building similar tools. Keep it up.
by jprokay13 | 2025-06-22 02:06:40+00:00
Claude recommended I use Tilt for setting up a new project at work. I wasn’t sure if it was worth it…is it pretty easy to set up a debugger? Not only do I have to adopt it, but I have to get a small team to be OK with it.

Our target deploy environment is K8S if that makes a difference. Right now I’m using mise tasks to run everything
by hwillis | 2025-06-22 02:06:56+00:00
> His install would have a net negative value to the Texas grid without it.

Absolutely untrue. Solar and wind can always just be disconnected at any moment. Wind resources are also a huge inertia source- windmill blades are massive grid stabilizers.

Renewable tech does not have a big coal fire they need to keep at a constant temperature. How about instead of requiring batteries with solar, we require coal plants to have sufficient bypass cooling that they don't need the load of a grid connection to stay cool.

Renewables are a boogeyman. The reality is simply that they are always able to undercut any fossil plant and they don't like that. It has fuck all to do with grid stability.
by ericmay | 2025-06-22 02:07:01+00:00
I don’t think there’s a particular moral concern and I’m not sure where that meme has arisen from. An atomic bomb is just a bigger bomb than other bombs. There’s nothing special about it besides it being exceptionally large in its destructive capability.

If you were firebombed or killed in a human meat wave in Stalingrad you are just as dead as someone killed with big bomb.

I think the moral argument about killing more and more Americans or Japanese during an invasion is a fun theoretical discussion, but in a war your people matter and the enemy’s don’t in cases like this where you have two clear nation states engaged in total war. Certainly the circumstances of the wars matter, but in the case of World War II I think it’s rather clear cut, and opinions to the contrary are generally revisionist history meant to continue to make America look like a bad guy in order to cause moral confusion and social division.
by rmason | 2025-06-22 02:08:08+00:00
Dan with a partner started a WordPress support service. Pay a monthly fee and receive as much support as you need. Dan had started multiple startups without much success but this one took off. GoDaddy purchased the company making both partners multi-millionaires.

He wrote a book on what he learned from startups from knowing both failures and success. He took the earnings and bought a small coffee house chain (don't know what happened to that) and the Black Hops brewery where he spent most of his time and capital.

Here he tells the story of how he was forced out of the brewery for dating an employee.

https://dannorris.me/inappropriate-conduct-or-falling-in-lov...

Dan is an excellent writer and I have been following his blog for years. In my heart I know he will bounce back. But there are lessons to be learned in these two blog posts.
by arp242 | 2025-06-22 02:09:23+00:00
> Blair and Bush lying about Iraq, doesn't mean Iran isn't working towards weapons

You're correct. However, Netanyahu also claimed that Iran was behind the two assassination attempts on Trump during the campaign trail. A laughably transparent lie obviously designed to woo Trump. Then there's that this war is politically very convenient for him as it distracts from some Knesset political drama, increasing international criticism of the Gaza situation, and it obstructs Trump's attempts at a politician solution with Iran.

I don't know if Iran has nuclear weapons. Clearly they've been playing with fire for a long time but that doesn't mean they actually have nuclear weapons. But I consider anything the Netanyahu government says as deeply and profoundly untrustworthy. So colour me highly sceptical on it all.

Iraq was also not giving sufficient access to inspectors, which was one of the reasons people were convinced he did have WMDs. Things like "you can just sit back and say 'well, hopefully it's all innocent'" is pretty much what people were saying at the time as well.

Wars have unpredictable outcomes, all of this may very well cause more problems than it solves.
by kragen | 2025-06-22 02:09:27+00:00
Electrical generation is a competitive market. It's the expected and even desirable outcome that only the most efficient producers will remain profitable. You're not just plugging in solar panels; you're competing with other companies to see who can plug in the solar panels more cheaply.

And it's even plausible that ERCOT currently can't handle additional PV in whatever area the Roby parcel was in without adding BESS, although the person you're responding to has no idea if that's true or not, since neither they nor I knows where that is.

The conclusion in the post:

> Run five projects through the process simultaneously. Most will fail for reasons you cannot predict. With five, one might succeed. And switching to batteries instead of solar. Or at least solar plus storage.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-06-22 02:09:40+00:00
Breakout time was not reduced lol. You have a deal, then you get another deal, then you get another deal.

"I just got a 1 year discount with a vendor"

The wise man lowered his head and muttered: "No, you have earned a price increase in 12 months."

> They could just give up.

Which makes literally no sense, as we are seeing. The only sensible move for any country is to develop a nuclear weapon as quickly and secretly as possible.
by ericmay | 2025-06-22 02:10:04+00:00
It will matter because they can have policies like “stricter border control” to stop legal or illegal immigration. It’s like Pakistan and how they closed their border to refugees from Iran.

> Economy will matter only if there will be no fallout in Iran which is not guaranteed.

Sure it depends on what all happens, but my point was it is different than Syria or Libya in many aspects.
by jay_kyburz | 2025-06-22 02:11:40+00:00
The same goes for household solar. You don't put it on the roof because you think you'll make money from feed in tariffs, you do it to reduce your electricity bill.

People here in Australia expect feed in tariff to drop to nothing in the next few years, but electric prices are still climbing.

Our new government has promised battery subsidies as well, so I expect batteries to take off. There is a lot of money to be saved by time shifting all that sun that is wasted during the day until the evening when you get home.
by YZF | 2025-06-22 02:12:23+00:00
I honestly don't care about the oil companies. I'll lead with that.

I'm not an American but my argument would be that a free and stable world is better for the US.

A regime like Iran's that has killed Americans, is openly calling the US "The Great Satan", is supporting militias in places like Iraq that attack Americans. That funds, supports and trains organizations the US considers terrorist organizations. Is abusing its own citizenry and actively seeks to export its values to other countries. Is supplying weapons to Russia for attacking Ukraine. This sort of regime can't just do whatever it wants under the label of "its own nation" since what its doing impacts others.

The US is the big superpower of the "west" and the "free world". For the most part it is its deterrence against Russia and China that is standing in the way of those doing whatever they want (e.g. China taking Taiwan by force). I don't think the world would be a better place if the US just stands back.

All that said, intervention, and use of force, needs to be sensible/reasonable/calculated. It's not easy to say where this is going. But it's also not easy to say where it would have gone otherwise. I can also understand Americans not having an appetite for any of this after Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan. But to contrast that I think failure to intervene in the Arab Spring led to pretty bad consequences, prolonged civil wars, a refugee crisis, etc. So perhaps some intervention and support would have helped. Also the US withdrawal and lack of support to democracy in Russia were probably factors in the reversal of that country back to where it is today.

Anyways, that's my very long opinion on this topic. But I can totally understand Americans not wanting any part of this. But don't think that you can just hide, things that happen in the world impact you.
by spauldo | 2025-06-22 02:12:27+00:00
It baffles my mind that a lot of schools don't even offer keyboarding anymore. I took it in high school, and I was fortunate to be born late enough that being male wasn't a barrier (only girls could take it when my parents were in school) but early enough that they offered it at all. Out of all the skills I learned in high school, it's probably the one I use the most.
by travisjungroth | 2025-06-22 02:12:40+00:00
Completely agree. The sign up flow for your startup does not need the same rigor as medical research. You don’t need transportation engineering standards for your product packaging, either. They’re just totally different levels of risk.

I could write pages on this (I’ve certainly spoken for hours) but the adoption of a scientific research mindset is very limiting for A/B testing. You don’t need all the status quo bias of null hypothesis testing.

At the same time, it’s quite impressive how people are able to adapt. An organization experienced with A/B testing will start doing things like multi variate correction in their heads.

For anyone spinning this stuff up, go Bayesian from the start. You’ll end up there, whether you realize it or not. (People will look at p-values in consideration of prior evidence).

0.05 (or any Bayesian equivalent) is not a magic number. It’s really quite high for a default. Harder sciences (the ones not in replication crisis) use much stricter values by default.

Adjust the confidence required to the cost of the change and the risk of harm. If you’re at the point of testing, the cost of change may be zero (content). It may be really high, it may be net negative!

But in most cases, at a startup, you should be going after wins that are way more impactful and end up having p-values lower than 0.05, anyway. This is easy to say, but don’t waste your time coming up with methods to squeeze out more signal. Just (just lol) make better changes to your product so that the methods don’t matter. If p=0.00001, that’s going to be a better signal than p=0.05 with every correction in this article.

If you’re going to pick any fanciness from the start (besides Bayes) make it anytime valid methods. You’re certainly already going to be peaking (as you should) so have your data reflect that.
by rkuykendall-com | 2025-06-22 02:12:40+00:00
It sounds like this is just a relic of you beating the well-designed tutorial? Once you start advancing through the decks and difficulties, as well as unlocking more vouchers and jokers, it becomes quite complex. I have many, many hours in it and I can't even beat ante 8 on White Stake consistently. But streamers can consistently beat Gold Stake, as well as playing PvP, so it's clearly not a cookie clicker.
by yyyk | 2025-06-22 02:13:24+00:00
>You have a deal, then you get another deal

>The only sensible move for any country is to develop a nuclear weapon as quickly and secretly as possible.

That's in contradiction, no? Except there never was any plan or idea on how to get another deal. Iran would have been in a position where no deal was possible, and all the same arguments against what happened now would actually apply against a x100 stronger Iran.
by Retric | 2025-06-22 02:15:44+00:00
Probably mangled the expression. (0.95)^9 = 63%, 1 - (0.95)^9 = 37%

Hmm, (1 - (1-0.95))^9 also = 63%. No idea why 64, closest I can see is 1-(0.95)^20 or 1-(1-0.05)^20 = 64%.
by ggm | 2025-06-22 02:15:53+00:00
The distinction between theoretical computer science and programming as a praxis for outcome seems to be missing. We have as many theoreticians as we seem to need, for the rate of change in computer science.

Prompt writing is going to need teaching. Logicians, semantic specialists, computer sciences people will all be needed.

I don't see LLM replacing VLSI design engineers, and nobody has yet said circuit design, fpga is being leveraged.