MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pimeys | 2025-06-22 19:33:34+00:00
Bingo.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-urges-china-dissuade-...

WASHINGTON, June 22 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday called on China to encourage Iran to not shut down the Strait of Hormuz after Washington carried out strikes on Iranian nuclear sites. Rubio's comments on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo" show came after Iran's Press TV reported that the Iranian parliament approved a measure to close the Strait of Hormuz, through which around 20% of global oil and gas flows.
by mattmaroon | 2025-06-22 19:33:55+00:00
Historically yes. They’ve since renounced it and seem to keep it confined to their region.

I don’t think there’s any evidence at all that fighting terrorism creates more terrorists than it kills, that’s just a thing people say and reality seems to show the opposite. We haven’t had waves of terror since gutting Al Queda, ISIS, etc. There’s neither research nor data to support it, people just like the way it sounds so they repeat it.
by Reqeique | 2025-06-22 19:34:18+00:00
I built a tool that turns raw text into interactive quizzes with spaced repetition support (SM-2 algorithm). It uses the Gemini API to parse input intelligently—even figures out correct answers if you forget to mark them.

The quizzes are versioned and stored privately using Hugging Face Datasets, and the app includes automatic deployment to Netlify so you get a public quiz site in one click. There's also gamified learning (XP, streaks) and all data stays under your control.

Built with Streamlit and open source on GitHub. Feedback welcome, especially from folks building educational or AI tools.
by michaelmrose | 2025-06-22 19:34:24+00:00
They used a computer program to target hamas members based on signals and other intelligence inclusive of people who are not in any way combatants.

Bombs including and especially large not particularly sophisticated bombs were dropped on entire buildings preferentially at night to ensure the target would be likely to be home with their wife and family and you know any other families in the same building.

Previously such strikes with very large numbers of collateral damage were authorized to kill top members of Hamas. Now they were authorized to hopefully an 18 year old cook irrespective of the 7 children that would burn to death painfully in the fire.

They recovered around 150 hostages at the cost of 50,000 children being killed or injured.

https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/unimaginable-horrors-m...

Remember that Gaza isn't a democracy. Hamas is 50k people out of 2M of which the number of people that actually have decision making power would fit in a small room. Most people in Gaza aren't Hamas.

Israel is presently starving a large city full of people under the pretense of forcing them to leave knowing that can't do so. Starving people isn't morally different than herding them all into gas chambers.

If there is a place that needs immediate intervention it is using force to enforce peace in Gaza before all the remaining people in Gaza die.
by Spivak | 2025-06-22 19:34:28+00:00
This argument basically boils down to "because I think they're bad" as being the differentiating factor. That's not a strong argument when every country has a rap sheet of horrible things they've done. Half the damn world has a legitimate moral claim to nuke the US into dust based on what we've done/continue to do to them.

Trying to moralize actions that are simply in the strategic interest of the US and our allies will lead you nowhere. Ukraine could have a king and stoned the gays and we still would have backed them against Russia.
by bartvk | 2025-06-22 19:35:08+00:00
Weird how you're downvoted. IMHO, it should not stop its construction, but it's an interesting question. Undoubtedly, after dumping soil on the bridge, shrubbery and even trees will grow, so yes, it could act as a wildfire bridge.

Note that the article also says it offers an escape route from wildfires, so it goes both ways.
by citizenpaul | 2025-06-22 19:35:14+00:00
>That may say something about the declining quality of writing.

It might but I'm not sure its all of the story.

I know how business and money works. I can say for sure there are forces out there saying. "Our focus group didn't understand this, make the message POP more,more,more" To writers/producers before they are willing to cut a check.
by x2tyfi | 2025-06-22 19:35:25+00:00
Undoubtedly a big opportunity area for LLMs. I’ve recently observed engineers deliver LLM-generated (or iterated) docs that blow away any technical writing they had done in the past.

Network Engineering design docs can be somewhat formulaic structurally, making the LLMs job simpler. I imagine in the near future we’ll just ask them to follow doc templates or reference other designs within a RAG system to ensure there aren’t gaps in the doc, etc.
by jama211 | 2025-06-22 19:35:34+00:00
Many good apps use subscription models still to great effect, if their user base is of the right type. E.g. overcast the podcast app. It makes excellent money because of the type of user who pays for it is looking for a premium experience. The $0 app thing is for race to the bottom style app markets, which, let’s be honest, has always been that way.
by lukko | 2025-06-22 19:36:01+00:00
I think there’s a misunderstanding - it’s not static, the exercises updated regularly and there are frequent updates, even if no server. As well as time and development costs, there are also ongoing costs from having an app live. If recurrent payments don’t work then there is a lifetime access option ($40), which is lower than many similar apps’ annual cost. I don’t think this is unreasonable at all.
by marcinzm | 2025-06-22 19:36:02+00:00
Theres a difference between something being easy, and something being achievable given a large investment of time and effort. FAANG is the second. Not for everyone but if you have anxiety then practice, therapy and possibly prescribed medications for anxiety. I’m sure there whole groups of people who mutually pair mock interview to get over anxiety like this. Or that you can pay to interview you.
by libraryofbabel | 2025-06-22 19:36:05+00:00
Oh boy, Left Hand of Darkness is a good book. And I always tell people to not skip the introduction, because it is brilliant. “Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist's business is lying.”

I get the feeling Ursula Le Guin could have been a pretty successful realist “literary” writer if she’d chosen to. I am grateful that she chose genre instead.
by pms | 2025-06-22 19:36:16+00:00
You can ridicule this idea, but we're already having the US (partly through NATO) taking the role of a global sherif, except without aiming for neutrality, accountability, nor justice, so we end up living in a geopolitical world in which "might makes right". If we continue like this, we will have another World War, but learning by mistakes is sometimes the only realistic way forward.
by McDyver | 2025-06-22 19:36:35+00:00
> BTW can your neighbor, who keeps saying that he's going to kill you, or maybe your friend, obtain a machine gun?

Thy are currently doing to Palestinians what they are suggesting Iran would potentially do to them.

If they had a deterrent, Israel would think twice. But since this neighbour stole a machine gun, they can do what they want...
by dang | 2025-06-22 19:37:35+00:00
This isn't trolls - it's people getting triggered by a provocative topic. For plenty of obvious reasons, different people have different reactions to this kind of thing.

Btw, "Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-06-22 19:38:03+00:00
Maybe a bunch of people just don't agree with your position. (If they're idling and I report them, I'm a snitch. If I don't, I get to breathe the pollution. Why is snitching worse than poisoning people in your city? Why should the snitch be the bad guy in that situation, rather than the polluter?)
by chasd00 | 2025-06-22 19:38:08+00:00
I think it would mean nuclear weapons in the hands of Hamas, hezbollah and other organizations who could use them without a state/regime to blame. Iran could say “it wasn’t us, you can’t prove anything” meanwhile city after city in Israel is destroyed. Further, any action to destroy Iran’s stockpile would be met with a nuclear response and the claim of self defense.
by Qem | 2025-06-22 19:38:13+00:00
Your calculations appear to be off by a factor of ~1000. Not half a kiloton, but half a ton (~500kg), assuming fall in a vacuum (upper bound on impact energy):

Python 3.10.12 (main, May 27 2025, 17:12:29) [GCC 11.4.0] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information. MOP_potential_energy = 13607*9.8*15000 # E = m*g*h MOP_potential_energy 2000229000.0 TNT_specific_energy = 4.184e9/1000 # joule/kg TNT_specific_energy 4184000.0 MOP_potential_energy/TNT_specific_energy 478.0662045889101
by EvgeniyZh | 2025-06-22 19:38:21+00:00
Bringing up Al Jazeera as an unbiased source about Israel is weird.

Amnesty international emitted report that say "Israel is not commiting genocide according to existing definitions, thus definitions should be changed":

> As outlined below, Amnesty International considers this an overly cramped interpretation of international jurisprudence and one that would effectively preclude a finding of genocide in the context of an armed conflict.

Somehow people cite it as a proof of genocide.

BBC has produced a documentary with narrator being son of Hamas official, and were forced to apologize for that [1]. They sheleved another documentary with impartiality concerns. They have contributors calling to "burn Jews like Hitler" [2].

So yeah, there are unbiased critics of Israel, just none of those you listed

[1] https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/statements/gaza-how-to-survi...

[2] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/26/well-burn-jews-l...
by dang | 2025-06-22 19:38:42+00:00
People are certainly allowed to say that. Your comment, for example, hasn't been flagged.

However, a lot of the comments tending in that direction have been (1) generic and (2) flamebait and/or fulminatey, which are bad for HN threads and against the site guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: you went on to post many of that type of comment yourself in this thread. Please don't do that again.
by wombatpm | 2025-06-22 19:39:02+00:00
The majority of our apps were Java, running Tomcat on windows server using MSSQL or oracle. That was tested as part of DR. Our Linux servers running Python and Postgres were not as high a priority apparently.

The lack of working backups made it a problem because if assurances and certifications we were required to maintain.

When starting a new project I now request a dev database with a dump from prod more than 30 days ago just to see the process work. Does it waste their time? Maybe. In which case it encourages more automation. Do I care no? But I am not getting burned again.
by sanderjd | 2025-06-22 19:39:20+00:00
Ukraine had nuclear weapons after the fall of the Soviet Union. They were persuaded to get rid of them.

I don't think you're disagreeing with me, you're just comparing to a more recent status quo.

Nuclear non-proliferation was based on the idea that small countries didn't need their own nuclear weapons, because they could ally with a superpower / bloc with nuclear weapons, and piggy-back on those superpowers not wanting to go to war, to avoid nuclear confrontation.

It is true that some countries, like Israel and North Korea, never bought that idea, and went ahead and got their own nukes.

That those countries who didn't buy into non-proliferation have fared better in the last couple decades than the ones on your list who have been attacked with little repercussion, is exactly the point.

Ukraine was willing to give up its nukes decades ago, now it's clear they shouldn't have. Iran was willing to enter into a non-proliferation agreement a decade ago, now it's clear they shouldn't.

But this is a much worse equilibrium than if we could have actually made non-proliferation work. Now every small country should clearly be trying to build nuclear weapons, if they can. And I think that's bad.
by adamgordonbell | 2025-06-22 19:39:23+00:00
Okay, but not really, right? once you upload a couple videos you become eligible to join the partner partner program. You just click yes that you've joined it and then you get the ability to select yes or or no for monetization. Certainly, WebMD is part of the partner program and is monetizing these videos on purpose, the same way that they have ads on the WebMD site. Having to sign in to use YouTube is not really that big of a bar. WebMD is making these choices, not YouTube.
by jama211 | 2025-06-22 19:39:32+00:00
It’s also easier to pay for something that I feel I’m entirely getting as a treat for me. Sure, that snack is $5, but it’s all a “treat”. Software often doesn’t feel like a treat to own, outside of games that is, having to pay for apps you’d just use in every day life feels emotionally more like an annoying tax you have to pay to just continue existing, just like an electricity bill or something. I honestly think that’s the main psychological difference that people aren’t considering or even mentioning.
by toast0 | 2025-06-22 19:40:32+00:00
> I feel it's Orwellian, or Stalin-esq to have us being paid off to snitch on each other.

Sure, but it's a different kind of dystopia to have commercial vehicles idling and fouling the air outside of normal driving. As described where you have to capture 3 minutes of idling (1 minute near schools) and assuming most people take a while to notice, rather than starting the timer immediately when the vehicle stops, it seems like a reasonable way to enhance compliance.

Idling while parked may not be a large contribution to total emissions, but it's harder to justify than idling in normal operation, and easier to enforce against, so there you go. Sometimes refrigerated transport more or less needs to idle to keep the contents at temperature, not sure if there's exceptions for that or if they just need to retrofit with more insulation or batteries to run the compressor or etc in order to comply.

Idling at lights probably gets reduced by auto start/stop in new vehicles as well as congestion charges reducing traffic and probably dwell time at lights. Auto start/stop isn't a universally loved thing; it makes some cars really frustrating to use, but when done well, it seems like a reasonable tradeoff to reduce unneccesary emissions.
by samjones33 | 2025-06-22 19:42:27+00:00
Israelis are brutalized, by the actions of Hamas and at having no choice but to fight Hamas in horrible circumstances.

Hamas could have ended the war in Gaza a year ago. Or on October 8 2023.

Do they? No. They will fight to the last Gazan child.

Is it nice that Israelis see no alternative to Gazans being resettled elsewhere? No.

Do you have a path for Gazans to go back to the mid 1990's when 100+ Gazans came to Kibbutz Nir Oz for a peace festival?
by jt2190 | 2025-06-22 19:43:11+00:00
Do you consider yourself an _excellent_ negotiator already? It really feels like you’re trying to suggest that negotiation can’t ever work for anyone except a handful of celebrities, even for those who are excellent negotiators.

Someone’s already asking about your BATNA, and I’m wondering if you negotiate all benefits (amount of time off for example) since your story focused on salary alone.
by ssfrr | 2025-06-22 19:43:17+00:00
Cool and surprising to see built-in support for the Snyderphonics Manta [1], which is a pretty niche controller. I wrote the `libmanta` library [2] that is vendored into sapf. Haven't touched the library in a few years (though I still use my Manta), so it feels good to see it pop up!

[1]: https://snyderphonics.com/manta.htm

[2]: https://github.com/ssfrr/libmanta
by pms | 2025-06-22 19:43:25+00:00
In a reasonable world, the first step would be reforming NATO so that it becomes more neutral and focused on preventing wars rather than countering Russia. I'm saying this as a Pole, so definitely this isn't self-serving, since Poles are second most hated by Russians after Ukraine. This step should, however, happen in parallel with the EU developing its European army, to defend itself from Russia if that's needed, which is another challenging and non-obvious step, but we're closer to this now than we were before Trump.

However, we don't live in a reasonable world, so I suspect the first step will be, as much as I don't want it, World War III.
by 8note | 2025-06-22 19:43:35+00:00
i think you missed the point.

they're saying in fewer words "watch what leaders say, not what they do"

iran might be saying a lot, but if it wanted war, it would have been attacking, the same way that israel is attacking gaza, not threatening gaza.

even now when iran has responded to israel's attacks, you still seem to care more about iran's threats than iran's missiles.

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on your very long aside, you are mislabelling the positive sum behaviour as zero-sum.

you might see the point in putting at least equal blame between israel and hamas for the conflict with the positive sum descriptor. israel is in a mutually beneficial escalation and continuation of violence with hamas. an extreme right wing populace in israel is a win both for hamas and for israel. neither care about the palestinians, nor the israelis.
by throwaway743 | 2025-06-22 19:43:50+00:00
Like a dragon is different than the rest of the series. It's turn based, focused on Ichiban, and it's meant to be ridiculous.

The main character essentially hallucinates that he's a character in dragon quest and the bad guys you encounter at first look normal but transform into "sujimon"/monsters during encounters.

The core gameplay is really fun, the writing is top notch (first like a dragon > infinite wealth tho), character classes/"jobs" picked out at an unemployment center are fun/funny, your "mage" is a homeless guy who summons pigeons to attack and uses a bottle of alcohol which he spews into a lighter to cast flames, and the mini games are just there if you want to play them and many are fun.
by sanderjd | 2025-06-22 19:45:03+00:00
There is nothing "doomer" about my comment that they replied to! It's just true (as this person agrees) that everyone has the incentive to build their own nuclear weapons, because they can't trust anyone else to protect them. That's just how it is now. And maybe non-proliferation was always a pipe dream. But I do feel like we could have given it a better go!

But it's also just how it is that the biggest countries already had huge nuclear stockpiles. I'm not convinced that small countries trying to build them also is a huge contributor to that base level of risk. But we've been surviving in that state of the world for about three-quarters of a century now.

It can't be the case that being open-eyed about the current state of things is "doomer", right? I'm not speculating impending future doom, just describing current conditions as I see them.
by ryandrake | 2025-06-22 19:46:02+00:00
Morbidly curious, I'd love to see a full cost and time breakdown of these projects to understand exactly where the $100M and 3 years goes. How much of that is actual people wearing boots and hardhats, and how much of it is paperwork, and waiting for this inspector to inspect that thing and then unblock this other bureaucrat to stamp onto that other paper. I'd bet the actual amount of time and money spent actually building was a single digit percentage vs. the amount of time and money spent on process and paperwork and waiting for clerks to go through their 1,000 item backlog of forms to fill out and stamp.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-06-22 19:46:59+00:00
A) a job is a job sometimes. Few people get to mix passion with vocation.

B) Most jobs don't even respond back. Most that respond back just give a generic rejection.There nothing to reflect on. I have a pretty good resume in my industry but had a much harder time then as a new grad in 2017. The only reflection is that the market right now is rough.

C) cover letters came up in 3 of m roles I got hired for. They all said they never read them. Granted, one was a referral but I'm not very confident cover letters are being read, let alone is the factor determining job prospects.
by samjones33 | 2025-06-22 19:48:43+00:00
Well said.

What I try to emphasize is that Hamas has agency. They make the decision to keep fighting, or stop fighting.

To deny Hamas agency is to dehumanize them. They have as much agency as Israel or any other actor.

And they are a death cult.

With two million Gazans between their tunnels and the IDF.

There is no way to make that nice or neat or pleasant.
by deepsquirrelnet | 2025-06-22 19:48:55+00:00
Worldwide, it’s always the presidents who need to cling to power to avoid accountability.

We already pulled the “they have WMDs” card, despite significant credibility problems.

We have a completely inexperienced 22 year old in charge of terrorism prevention at a time when any act of terrorism against the US would be a nightmarish scenario for escalation.

To me it looks as though we sent the invitation and left a note that the front door is unlocked.
by antasvara | 2025-06-22 19:49:19+00:00
Around 54% of adults read at a 6th grade level or below: https://www.apmresearchlab.org/10x-adult-literacy

Based on this, you could reach both of these conclusions:

1. Most literary fiction is inaccessible to the average adult.

2. It's a big problem that even moderately complex novels are inaccessible to the average adult.

The first statement (which I think is where you're coming from) is absolutely true. If you want to write a very popular book, it should be easily readable at a 6th grade level.

The second statement is more a statement of values. Some people (such as myself) find it problematic that the average adult can't read/understand a book that is more complex than Harry Potter.

You don't have to agree with the second statement. A lot of people don't. But I think understanding why someone might find that problematic is important. Personally, I think there are a lot of things worth knowing that can't be written at a 6th grade level.
by int_19h | 2025-06-22 19:49:22+00:00
There's a lot of nonsense there, like:

"They were skeptical that the shitty cloth that the power loom produced would be a net benefit to society because it meant that customers would inevitably have to buy their clothes over and over again, turning a one-time purchase into a subscription."

This is such an obvious attempt to reframe history to fit the modern discourse. What Luddites cared about was their own jobs, not "net benefit to society".
by reaperducer | 2025-06-22 19:49:38+00:00
They are enriching to 60%. Far from what’s needed for a weapon.

83.7%, according to the United Nations: https://apnews.com/article/iran-nuclear-uranium-enrichment-g...

Only 6.3% short of weapons-grade.

As for the rest of your comment, you might find information about modern-day bunker busters interesting: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/20/world/middlee...

The ones used for this operation go 197 feet, including 25 solid feet of high-strength concrete, with just one bomb. The idea is to use multiple bombs trailing one another to achieve extra depth. It's too soon yet to tell if that worked, or not.
by lemmsjid | 2025-06-22 19:49:46+00:00
Huh, I agree with your last sentence but think the author did a good job of explaining that the cost of layout experimentation in a startup can grow over time if the results of the experiments are overstated. The first question for a startup should always be: is this work worth doing in the first place? Tinkering with layout can be a tempting but fruitless rabbit hole. Even if it doesn’t tie up resources it can lead to a false sense of progress and get product thinking stuck in local maximae.