MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by BartjeD | 2025-06-22 07:09:04+00:00
I appreciate your position, but I think it's mainly one in hindsight, 20/20 etc..

The reality is that the EU has had plans for strategic autonomy in case of necessity, for a longer time. But hasn't enacted them because the US was a trusted partner. And this has been the balance of things since the 2nd world war, so roughly 85 years.

The reality now is upside down: In most of the EU the US now has a reputation on par with Russia and China, and the theme is to enact strategic autonomy as soon as possible.

This is a tipping point, because up until now the US enjoyed the position of uncontested dominance, backed by a multiplier equal it's economic weight and global influence etc.. This is no longer self-evident, because of reasons, but at the end of the day this is due to decisions Americans made and which their children will also have to live with.

I genuinely wonder if this isn't the decade in which the US shot itself in the head and crippled itself for the next 85 years. For basically no reason, other than self-interested and self-enriching politics.

It's literally incredible how much hard work and effort was thrown out in the span of two years, which took hundreds of years to accumulate. And I don't think the second time roud will be any easier or quicker.
by woodpanel | 2025-06-22 07:09:45+00:00
Exactly. Ill intended actors (Soviets, competing European interests, Islamists etc.) even propped up the propaganda fiction about the "evil" Crusaders, while in fact the Crusaders fought against colonization.

The entire north of Africa, as well as the Levante and Asia Minor was still 80-90% Christian when Crusaders came.
Show HN: Progressor – coach that breaks down big goals into actionable steps
by murahovsky | 2025-06-22 07:10:25+00:00
I built Progressor to help with a problem I kept running into: setting ambitious goals but getting stuck in planning, motivation, or knowing what to do next.

You start by describing your goal — the more detailed, the better. Progressor then asks a series of targeted questions to understand your situation. Based on your answers, it creates a personalized step-by-step plan with small, focused daily tasks.

Each task comes with relevant guidance and resources. You can adjust the plan at any point, and Progressor sends reminders to help you stay on track.

This is not a habit tracker or to-do list — it’s a structured way to move forward on goals that usually feel too big or vague (e.g. launching a product and reaching €10k MRR, switching careers, finishing a personal project).

Would love feedback from anyone who’s ever struggled to push a long-term goal over the finish line.
by edanm | 2025-06-22 07:11:03+00:00
> Iran opposition to Israel's occupation of Muslim lands and territories, predates the current government of Iran.

And yet, the previous government of Iran had friendly relations with Israel, as do some other Arab and Muslim countries.

The US also has friendly relations with countries with whom it disagrees vehemently, and that do (IMO) far worse things than Israel does.
by tguvot | 2025-06-22 07:11:07+00:00
some yes. left over weapon. they can booby trap buildings, attach explosives to apc/tanks. maybe some rpg. Occasional rocket info Israel. A bunch of undiscovered tunnels

but now after their command was wiped out and they can't sell aid, they have serious financial problems (they need to pay their fighters. it's very transactional).

but in case idf will leave gaza, they will have enough power to dominate the strip.
by foogazi | 2025-06-22 07:11:16+00:00
> I think I understand your point, but isn't calling this "bootlicker ethos" a bit strong?

It is strong but I thought merited by Tzubiri’s glee at the imposition of more stringent immigration process

I’m also an immigrant and was able to follow through the long process to immigrate to the US

I quote from Tzubiri gp comment:

> The stance of the US on illegal inmigration has always been clear

Obviously not true - as proven by the fact that millions of illegals immigrants are currently employed in the US, pay taxes, can buy homes, have drivers licenses

> From what I read, the rules haven't changed, rather they are being enforced. My perspective as an outsider is that the people that complain are mostly leftist extremist from one of the most left leaning and inmigrant heavy states (CA).

Even president Trump acknowledged the dependence of US businesses on illegal immigrant labor when calling of ICE raids on farms. The most anti-California president elected not to enforce the rules they swore to follow.

> I see these changes in enforcement as positive to me, as they do not restrict me in any way except in false positives, as I was already complying with the law and my visa terms.

The US visa system makes people jump through arbitrary hoops just to stem the flow of foreigners.

Immigrants that follow the rules then come to believe that instead the system accurately measures worthiness

Why are EB3 wait times for India 10+ years but other countries 2 years?

Why did the US cancel the visas of Haiti and Venezuelan workers thus turning them into illegal immigrants overnight

Why were Cuban immigrants granted special status ?

Why are Cubans banned from US visas ?

The bootlicker is because Tzubiri could do everything by the book and still have their country be banned - they don’t know how additional enforcement will affect them or their loved one’s
by schobi | 2025-06-22 07:11:37+00:00
I agree, this seems really odd. The solution should not be a modern projector with 1kW electrical power converted into heat.

The Cob array of leds is the problematic choice, while on paper you get a lot of light, you don't get a point source.

If you look at the large theater projectors, I remember laser sources (but no speckle, is this pumped phosphor?) or expensive xenon bulbs. At least 10years ago...

I remember a solution (car headlights?) of decoupling the phosphor (for converting uv to while light) from the UV Led. So you have multiple diodes pumping a small piece of phosphor for a nice bright point source. Not sure how this can be replicated open source.

Another approach (studio led lights) wasomething with glass mixing rods? You insert the light of multiple leds into a glass rod, and a uniform beam emerges. But I guess this was more to improve CRI, rather than to increase brightness/point source.
by PeterHolzwarth | 2025-06-22 07:12:34+00:00
No, America is a country - you demonstrate this by knowing exactly which country I refer to when I say the word. Pop quiz: how many countries have the word "America" in their name?

#2 is not worth responding to, as you didn't feel the need to respond to my broader point: anti-proliferation in the middle east has been a long-pursued initiative by the west and much of the rest of the world for decades.
by mrtksn | 2025-06-22 07:13:06+00:00
First footage from the area doesn't appear to show any extended damage, so maybe it was all a show.

Regardless, a sovereign country was bombed tonight just because they can. This, IMHO, can have very bad outcomes for the peace worldwide since it means that anybody who can bomb someone can just go ahead and do it. No more international order.

What's next then? Bomb Brussels because EU doesn't buy chicken from USA? This stuff isn't OK.

The regime change in Iran can be a silver lining if it changes with something more cooperative. But yes, I agree that this is unlikely.
by skissane | 2025-06-22 07:14:09+00:00
Australia's future nuclear submarines are planned to use HEU not LEU.

HEU has clear advantages over LEU for submarines – LEU submarines need to be refuelled once every decade (give or take a few years), weapons grade HEU reactors are never refuelled – the initial fuelling is enough to last 30-40 years, and by the time refuelling is becoming needed, the submarine is retired/scrapped.

This was also part of Australia's justification for backstabbing France over AUKUS. Australia was paying France for diesel-electric submarines, but if it wanted nuclear, France can provide that too – but French nuclear submarines are LEU not HEU – the US and the UK are the only nations which have weapons grade HEU subs. [0] Of course, an arguably much bigger factor was Anglosphere strategic alliances versus greater cultural/political distance from France, but it is diplomatically helpful to be able to appeal to a justification which is more objectively technical in nature.

In an attempt to manage non-proliferation concerns, I understand the AUKUS plan is that when they start constructing nuclear submarines in Australia, they'll build and fuel the reactor in the UK (or possibly the US, but the UK is apparently more likely), ship it fuelled to Australia for installation in the submarine, and then at the end of the submarine's life, the reactor will be removed from it in Australia and then shipped back to the UK for defeuelling and disassembly. But, I guess it is an open question to what extent such an exercise is required by the letter of the non-proliferation treaty, versus whether it will be done that way simply to close down a potential line of diplomatic and political criticism.

[0] Russian and Indian sub fuel is HEU by IAEA definitions, but significantly less enriched than the US/UK subs, which use weapons grade uranium as fuel. Some Soviet era subs did use weapons grade HEU
by tripletao | 2025-06-22 07:14:13+00:00
> they were not working actively towards a bomb

I think this becomes a definitions game again. I'd consider a country to be "working actively towards a bomb" when it's taking costly steps that provide no commensurate benefit except towards a nuclear weapons program. At that point, there's no rational explanation for their actions except that they're working towards the bomb.

So e.g. enrichment of uranium to <3.67% (as permitted by the JCPOA) is not such a step, since that's also economically useful for civilian nuclear power. Enrichment to 60% is such a step--the only conceivable civilian uses are niches for which the cost would far exceed any benefit.

It seems you agree they're enriching in the latter way, but you don't count that as "working actively towards a bomb". So what definition are you using for that phrase? We obviously can't just let the Iranian government decide, or they'll define everything short of a successful test as part of their "peaceful explosive lenses program" or whatever.

My general sense is that the JCPOA was working reasonably well, and it's unfortunate that Trump exited. To the extent these strikes were a necessary solution, they might be to a problem of his own making. I agree that Iran could be emboldened and merely delayed here. That may imply an inevitable endgame of either regime change or near-total destruction of Iran's economic capacity, big escalations and risks.
by karmakurtisaani | 2025-06-22 07:15:12+00:00
Iran has actually been quite willing to negotiate. It has not withdrawn from the talks, it was the US that did it the last time under Trump.

Are you aware that Iran approved of US invasion of Iraq in the Gulf War? It even allowed the use of it's air space.

Are you aware that Iran was the only country excluded from the Madrid peace talks of 1991 between Israel and Palestine? To counter this exclusion, Iran strengthened it's ties with Hamas and Hizbollah.

Iran is not some insane theocracy seeking of everyone's destruction. The regime is bad for the people, but self-interested just as any other, and benefits very little from full exclusion.
by syntacticsalt | 2025-06-22 07:15:23+00:00
Permutation tests don't account for family-wise error rate effects, so I'm curious why you would say that "it doesn't overcorrect like traditional methods".

I'm also curious why you say those "cover every case", because permutation tests tend to be underpowered, and also tend to be cumbersome when it comes to constructing confidence intervals of statistics, compared to something like the bootstrap.

Don't get me wrong -- I like permutation tests, especially for their versatility, but as one tool out of a bunch of methods.
by nine_k | 2025-06-22 07:15:33+00:00
Realistically, a secular Iran would be the only real ally of Israel in the region. This is how it was under the shah, until 1979.

Israel is set to benefit enormously from an economically functional Iran, with sanctions lifted, and a sane, non-fanatical, non-oppressive government. Iran used to be a pretty cool and developed country in 1960s, and could be now.

(Edit: typo)
by dotancohen | 2025-06-22 07:15:35+00:00
> Links to a page that shows the exact opposite

This isn't Reddit. Many people here actually do read sources. All the censuses in the decades before the fall of the Ottoman empire show a Jewish majority. And for the century preceding that, the censuses flipped back and forth.

> Isn't that exactly what happened, i.e. Israel declared half of the land "Jewish land" and proceeded to ethnically cleans 800 thousand palestinians with whom they had been living side by side in the previous decades?

No. The UN designated the malaria-infested marshes Israeli (not Jewish) and the majority of the rest Arab (not Muslim, not Palestinian, and not Egyptian or Jordanian). The Arab states rejected this, and opened a war with the newly formed Israel. Many Israeli leaders pleaded with the Arab residents not to heed the Arab states' calls to evacuate. The situation in Haifa is well documented, I know this from living with Arabs in Haifa two decades ago. They tell how the Haifa mayor pleaded with their families to remain in 1948.
by sksjvsla | 2025-06-22 07:15:47+00:00
The network allows relevant ports from the respective IPs and so does the UFW so the servers can communicate between in each other in a restricted way. Needless to say communication is encrypted with certificates.

Our logging server will switch primary DB in case the original primary DB server is down. Since we are counting on downtime, the monitoring server is by default not hosted in the same places as the primary DB but in the same place as the secondary DB.

We assume that each clod will go down but not at the same time.
by reify | 2025-06-22 07:15:54+00:00
link to a 2008 papper that you cannot read

War, Manipulation of Consent, and Deliberative Democracy

William S. Lewis, Skidmore College Document Type

Article Publication Date

2008 Published In

The Journal of Speculative Philosophy Volume

22 Issue

4 Pages

266-277 Recommended Citation

LEWIS, W. (2008). War, Manipulation of Consent, and Deliberative Democracy. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 22(4), 266-277. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/25670725
by FilosofumRex | 2025-06-22 07:16:38+00:00
Yes indeed, if white British people were expelled from their lands and their homes confiscated by anyone, Norse, Germanic or Russian, it'd be considered ethnic cleansing and a war crime.

The jews of Ottoman era were Sephardic and Mizrahi jews of N. Africa, not the Yiddish speaking Ashkenazis of Germany, France and Russia.
by fastball | 2025-06-22 07:19:38+00:00
No, these bombings are not a negotiation tactic, they are a response to a dangerous action (violating non-proliferation treaties). The regime hoping that this action might be useful as a negotiation tactic does not somehow strip the action of its consequences.

If I point a gun at my wife during a divorce proceeding and a cop shoots me, that's on me, no? Even if I never meant to pull the trigger and the gun wasn't even loaded.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-06-22 07:20:55+00:00
I'll rephrase.

It's something that can help you get a job, but it's not "how do I get better at writing a resume?"

There's unlimited time you can put into side projects. But that's very different from figuring out what you did wrong when applying and trying to fix it.

And the time you put into side projects isn't based on how many job applications you're filling out.
by edanm | 2025-06-22 07:21:03+00:00
> I'm not saying it because I like Iran (I don't) but because it sets the tone where countries just do what they want, if they can get away with it.

Well, Iran has been funding armies to the tune of millions (billions?) of dollars to attack Israel, as well as funding multiple terror attacks against Jews and against the US for many years.

So, alternative view - the fact that Iran has been allowed to do this, while the entire time stating quite clearly that they intend to destroy another sovereign country, while at the same time develop most of what they need for nukes - the fact that they've been allowed to do all this is actually proof that countries can do whatever they want and get away with it. And stopping their program is actually a way to show that countries can't just get away with it.
by trhway | 2025-06-22 07:21:06+00:00
The JDAM precision is 5m.

More than 30 years ago:

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

"At 04:30 on the morning of 13 February, two F-117 stealth bombers each dropped a 910 kilograms (2,000 lb) GBU-27 laser-guided bomb on the shelter. The first bomb cut through 3 metres (10 ft) of reinforced concrete before a time-delayed fuse exploded. Minutes later, the second bomb followed the path cut by the first bomb."
by motorest | 2025-06-22 07:22:24+00:00
> Regardless, a sovereign country was bombed tonight just because they can.

The dictatorial nature of Trump's order to attack a nation is far more concerning. Supposedly the US requires an act of Congress to authorize this sort of operation. Sidestepping congress underlines US's descent into totalitarianism and one of the very first acts crystalizing a dictatorship.
Show HN: Witmo – AI-powered gaming coach from screenshots
by myyke | 2025-06-22 07:22:26+00:00
Hi HN, I’d like to share a project I’ve been working on: Witmo – an open-source, terminal-based tool that gives you in-game advice by analyzing screenshots from your gameplay.

I created Witmo after picking up Elden Ring and constantly running into questions mid-game. I wanted a tool that would let me quickly get advice based on a screenshot — without having to type long explanations for an LLM or repeatedly pull out my phone to retype the same prompt. So, instead of playing, I built this.

Witmo connects to your Android phone (via USB and adb), grabs a photo of your game screen, and uses OpenAI’s models to analyze what’s happening. It then gives you contextual advice based on a prompt you chose (from built-in packs or your own), with customizable spoiler controls. Optionally, it can crop images to the game area and read responses aloud using text-to-speech.

Repo and install instructions: https://github.com/ymyke/witmo

(So far only tested with Windows Terminal, Pixel 8, Python 3.11, but all the code used should be cross-platform.)

I had fun building this, and maybe it can help others too. If you have feedback, I'd love to hear it. And if you'd like to contribute to take this further, please do!
by VagabundoP | 2025-06-22 07:22:26+00:00
I started computing in the early 80s and have always wondered why there wasn't a standard keyboard button with Cut,Copy,Paste.

Thing of all the (wo)man-hours in computing lost due to the slight difference in people finding the modifier key+key (including the slight increase in error rates) and the just having a dedicated Cut/Copy/Paste keys.
by ur-whale | 2025-06-22 07:24:12+00:00
Hey, sorry to hear about the predicament, when business collides with insane regulations, it's a very frustrating thing to be caught in.

number 2, btc mining environmental impact, I generally disagree,but I can understand the argument, however ...

number 1, the crypto exposure aspect

a) what prevents your from selling the BTC the moment you mine them to pay for OPEX, and then invest what is leftover in tradfi? b) While many on this site will violently and deeply disagree in spite of being proven wrong over and over and over again (the definition of insanity, etc...), I'd argue that being "over-exposed to BTC" over the last 15 years has not exactly been a bad thing if you can stomach the volatility.

And I'm very sorry to hear S'pore wasn't good to you, this is one of my very favourite place on Earth (in particular the food).
by dehrmann | 2025-06-22 07:24:29+00:00
> 3. Highly enriched U-235 is only for weapons - Modern medical, propulsion and research reactors use HEU

If you genuinely have no interest in uranium for weapons, it makes more sense to buy it from a country known to supply it at purities and quantities for peaceful purposes than to build you own centrifuges under mountains. Iran is/was either using uranium enrichment for weapons development or a political bargaining chip.
by nine_k | 2025-06-22 07:25:50+00:00
The rabbinical courts exist for sorting out religious issues, such as religious marriages and divorces of Jewish citizens. Judaism is not even special-cased: «Such courts exist for the recognized religious communities in Israel, including Muslim courts, Christian courts, and Jewish Rabbinical courts.» (Wikipedia).

The Basic Laws, which sort of comprise the makeshift constitution of Israel, don't seem to make any religious references, but rather refer to the founding UN principles like human rights.
by throw310822 | 2025-06-22 07:26:39+00:00
> This isn't Reddit. Many people here actually do read sources.

Exactly. The Ottoman rule of Palestine spans 400 years, and the graph at the top of the page you linked shows that Jews became a majority in Jerusalem only at the very end of it, following zionist immigration at the end of the 19th century.

> The UN designated the malaria-infested marshes Israeli (not Jewish)

The problem is that this isn't reddit and people actually read the sources. This is the text of the Partition Plan:

"Independent Arab and Jewish States and the Special International Regime for the City of Jerusalem, set forth in Part III of this Plan, shall come into existence..."

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/res181.asp
by jmward01 | 2025-06-22 07:26:48+00:00
I believe the complete dominance of the preemptive attacks shows how little capability they actually have to use any such weapons and that likely trickles down to any development of those weapons. I no longer believe in the 'They have WMD and will take over the world in days' wolf cries. Iran is not some nice country being picked on, but the entities attacking them also aren't being truthful in their reasons either. I have no love for any of the parties in this fight at the moment. They are all wrong, but one side did throw the first punch so they are, in my view, the most wrong here and the US just backed them.
by dotancohen | 2025-06-22 07:27:19+00:00
Thank you for your support.

After the UN divided the holy land into an Israeli and an Arab state, the Arabs began their ethnic cleaning campaign. That is why there were zero Jews left in Gaza or the West Bank after the war. The war that was started with the stated goal of eliminating the Jews.

And note that despite Arab calls for the Arabs to evacuate the holy land, it remained 20% Arab. And let's not get started on the Jews in the other 20 plus Arab states. What at happened to them?