MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mjburgess | 2025-06-22 15:00:18+00:00
I'd be arguing first that the operation failed, and has made no meaningful impact on the mountain and esp. the nuclear facilities over 100m under granite.

Generous estimates place relevant bomb capacity in the US at 100, though I believe only ~1/3 of that is confirmed. Reports say ~10 were used. So, speculatively, the US has used 25% of its capacity to bust deep fortifications -- and, imv, failed to make a dent.

Credible estimates I'm aware of talk about dozens of bombs (per similar deep fortification), seriously depleting US capacity. It's unlikely the US would be willing to use up more than 50% of its bombing capacity here -- since a very large number of bombs are required for deep fortifications of this kind.

ie., US capacity is about "destroying two mountains", and it really needs at least to retain capacity to destroy one.

A well-designed nuke could take out the mountain, that's really the best air-supplied shot at taking the thing out.

Either way, none of this can be confirmed without ground forces. So one wonders if at least some of this theatre is to provoke iran enough to react in a way that justifies a ground invasion.

To your point, yes, china would absolutely love the US to degrade as much capacity as it possibly can. One images, even, they'd spin up a nuclear programme in iran very quickly again, just to try to drag the US back in. The US has done much worse.

China's geostrategic goal at the moment is stamp on the rope-pins around the US elephant: ukraine, iran, israel, and so on. Have the US blow as much as possible of its rapidly depleting military arsenal everywhere but around china.

Trump was the first president to really take this problem seriously, it's a little unfortunate that he's found himself in the same trap as every US president for the last 25 years.
by hilbert42 | 2025-06-22 15:01:11+00:00
"You cannot provide accidental-damage insurance for a user adjusting their BIOS."

Rightly so because adjusting the BIOS won't cause harm!

PS: if you are referring to damage caused by oveclocking (if perchance it's available in the BIOS), then this is a user-accessible feature. As such, it'd be covered under warranty.

If a manufacturer played hardball and tried to dishonor the warranty then they wouldn't stand a chance against most consumer legislation in most parts of the world. They'd be toast where I am, not only would they have to honor the warranty but they'd be fined in the process.

Perhaps you're in a part of the US where consumer legislation is essentially nonexistent then things might be different. (The US is known worldwide for having the worst consumer legislation in the Western world.)
by cardanome | 2025-06-22 15:01:22+00:00
One thing that finally worked for me was using: https://one-sec.app/

It basically forces you to do a little breathing exercise before you can visit the site that you have on its block list.

It has been life changing. It adds enough friction for me to stop any impulsive visits but also is not so annoying that I would completely disable it in a weak moment.

One Sec was developed by someone with ADHD, I think and it definitely shows.

It is important to understand that not every solution will work for everyone. There can be many reasons why you struggle with social media addictions. Ultimately those corporations are spending millions and employ state of the art psychological manipulation tactics to keep you engaged so it is important to be kind to yourself. Don't give up. You might find something that works for you.
by pelagicAustral | 2025-06-22 15:01:29+00:00
Mildly related: I have not seen eggs in the Falkland Islands' stores since at least late-April... I know some times early morning people have been able to buy them, but the stock wont last until lunch time. It's been months since I had an omelette, or whatever... true story.

Just to complement, in recent times, there's been points were there is no milk for a month, or more... Toiler paper, flour, bottled water, and a few other items... the one thing I have never seen a shortage of is beer.
by motorest | 2025-06-22 15:02:33+00:00
> Tup.

I don't think Tup managed to present any case. Glancing at the page, the only conceivable synthetic scenarios where they can present Tup in a positive light is built times of > 10k files, and only in a synthetic scenario involving recompiling partially built projects. And what's the upside of those synthetic scenarios? Shaving w couple of seconds in rebuilds? That's hardly a compelling scenario.
by superkuh | 2025-06-22 15:02:59+00:00
Simple. They claim it is despite the fact that it's not. If I learned anything from the smartereveryday attempt to make a simple mechanical product in the USA it's that the suppliers are going to lie and say $part is from the USA. It's not. But when the original project is itself a scam that's of little importance. The importance is not the thing, or the ideology, but the public perception. They need not have made any phone at all. Just announcing it would do.

It's a shame to see a real company like Purism get wound up in all this though.
by JdeBP | 2025-06-22 15:03:45+00:00
It wouldn't have been Matthias Andrée's makel, then.

* https://git.maandree.se/makel

Or unmake.

* https://crates.io/crates/unmake

Or checkmake.

* https://github.com/checkmake/checkmake (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32460375)

Or make-audit.

* https://github.com/david-a-wheeler/make-audit

Or the Sublime linter for makefiles.

* https://github.com/giampaolo/SublimeLinter-contrib-makefile

It hasn't taken quite the 50 years that we are told, has it? (-:
by lucb1e | 2025-06-22 15:03:57+00:00
> worse, essentially escaping Google's tracking just to give our data to random strangers

I'd much rather send random tidbits of information, that are nearly useless in isolation, to strangers than to the central tracking corporation

In the end, there is no way to reveal what information you're interested in when retrieving data, short of retrieving a ton of data and doing the filtering client-side, which is also an option with these third parties if you so desire
by dekelpilli | 2025-06-22 15:04:00+00:00
This was Israel's thinking with Hamas - they're deterred, they're comfortable and in charge and they wouldn't do anything to jeopardise that, etc. Israel's thinking was wrong, and they've learned to believe their enemies when they say they want to destroy Israel. There isn't a country in the world that would allow their enemies, who have repeatedly stated that said country's demise is a key goal of theirs, to develop nukes if they have with the capability to stop it.
by lukko | 2025-06-22 15:05:02+00:00
Ah was it based on SpiroSmart at all? It's a smartphone tech Google purchased in around 2017 [0].

Yep, it has been tricky to get over the line as a medical device and used in the NHS, hence the focus more on wellness initially.

[0] https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/alphabet-acquires-seno...
by energy123 | 2025-06-22 15:05:33+00:00
There was regime change against the Russian Tsar in response to his failures in WW1. The rally around the flag didn't count for anything. If the weakness and failures of Khamenei becomes a reality strong enough to pierce through the perceptions shaped by state run media then I am putting my money on regime change. Maybe not right now but soon.

Happened with Japan in WW2, too, although that was a surrender rather than bottom up. But still a form of regime change. There are many ways it could play out.
by Rover222 | 2025-06-22 15:06:02+00:00
Obviously complicated and dangerous, but I’m surprised (or, not really) how many people here are quick to condemn Israel and the US, with no consideration that the official Iranian policy is the ELIMINATION of Israel. Of course Israel cannot allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon. Israel has many nukes, and in fact does not commit genocide, despite being capable. Some Islamic regimes would be much more likely to use that power, IMO.
by lelanthran | 2025-06-22 15:06:03+00:00
> I bet it already exists, but what about an issue tracker in plain text maintained by git itself?

I have an issue tracker file that can be added to a project. While it's technically plain text, the interface for the file ensures that a format is used, and the format ensures that changes reflect only a single ticket.

Just as long as no one edits the file using a different program, it will work just fine.

Don't think anyone uses it, though.

https://github.com/lelanthran/rotsit
by GlacierFox | 2025-06-22 15:06:53+00:00
I see this reponse a lot after I comment on a product which doesn't make it crystal clear on what they mean by "one time purchase". It's a great draw but most of the time it's disingenuously false in an environment (software) where it's almost impossible to offer that.

I have zero issue with developers charging for a version 2, updates, maintenence, etc. Just make it crystal clear.
by MDWolinski | 2025-06-22 15:06:58+00:00
The application looks nice but…

Why do all these Notion “replacements” seem to think Notion is just an MD editor and note taker. It seems the unique position of notion is the ability to integrate databases into documents much less within each other. That’s the feature most of these replacements are missing.

Honestly if Notion would offer a self hosted version for companies, that would be a killer feature. Until then, I’m waiting until a feature for feature open source replacement appears.
by mystified5016 | 2025-06-22 15:07:25+00:00
I don't think Google deserves money for ai generated ads for fake boner pills.

Google already makes untold amounts of money from spying on me. Yesterday I started seeing new recommended videos related to a show I watched on my private jellyfin server.

Google spies on me everywhere, tracks me across the open internet and my local network, then sells this data to whoever for God knows how much money and you want to tell me I owe Google even more money?

Buddy you need some perspective.
by thatjoeoverthr | 2025-06-22 15:07:33+00:00
The pointless text is a complex, visual distraction and false positive. Hypothetically, if I'm really tired and have bad reactions, pedestrians better hope I'm not reading that text at the wrong time. You seem to think it's a safety feature to ask the driver to read while driving. I just think that's interesting.

As for the AR-Navigation, I already see what's ahead of me by looking forward at the actual road.

Embedding everything into a grainy image, and using a transition effect to command attention, is unhelpful in a tense moment.

It was enabled by default. I disabled it.

Normally, I would have used Google Maps, which shows very clear and strong, clean icons to indicate lanes. This is extremely helpful! Smart and empathetic design that understands my needs when driving in an unfamiliar place.

But the Car Play was too dysfunctional to use.

As for the microphone button, I didn't see a microphone button. Maybe they should make it more visible, or find a more ergonomic way to handle an error.
by floatrock | 2025-06-22 15:07:35+00:00
> signatory of the NPT

>> A bunch of countries got them, then decided that no one else is allowed them.

you're both correct.

Also note the Iranian monarchy signed the NPT in 1970, while the Iranian Revolution was in 1979. When your national origin story is built on the illegitimacy of the previous government, why would you consider yourself to be constrained by the actions of your illegitimate parents?

When the west has had such overthrows, we've tended to declare the acts of the previous administration null-and-void https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinance_of_9_August_1944

Not saying the current Iranian government is good, just acknowledging that legitimacy is determined by the victors, and the current regime has been victorious over the previous, just as last night's B2's were victorious against the air defenses. Might makes right, morality is increasingly a propaganda story, and history really is written by the victors.
by LeonardoTolstoy | 2025-06-22 15:08:04+00:00
I faced a similar thing at one point. The thing that fixed it for me was going back to fiction. Started with a fantasy series. Did a little sci-fi. Did some easy classics (e.g. Dracula). Eventually that joy of reading, long focused reading, and effortless comprehension all came back. Just took practice.

Much like advice for writer's block being often "just write!". The same goes for reading. Start with something easy breezy and eventually it'll all start flowing again IMO.
by woodruffw | 2025-06-22 15:08:11+00:00
> if both of those servers are in control of the sender and recipient and the connection between them is encrypted then the metadata remains private.

Why are we entertaining this hypothetical? It isn’t true in practice; the average user doesn’t control their mail server. The average user is using Gmail or Outlook, where their metadata is a single subpoena away.

And again, it just isn’t true: you need not just control over the server but also strict transport security for this property. This is not widely true of mail servers on the Internet.

> rejecting deltachat is rejecting something that improves the current state for something better that is not obtainable by some.

I don’t agree. I think the average user has multiple high-quality E2EE messaging technologies available to them, and that Delta Chat effectively muddies the water by providing a worse security posture with the trappings of a familiar-but-unsecurable ecosystem (email).

(I also don’t know why people think Signal shares your phone number with people other than recipients. To my knowledge, that has never been the default and presumably never will be, even with their private contact discovery protocol.)
by sweezyjeezy | 2025-06-22 15:08:23+00:00
Yes 100% this. If you're comparing two layouts there's no great reason to treat one as a 'treatment' and one as a 'control' as in medicine - the likelihood is they are both equally justified. If you run an experiment and get p=0.93 on a new treatment - are you really going to put money on that result being negative, and not updating the layout?

The reason we have this stuff in medicine is because it is genuinely important, and because a treatment often has bad side-effects, it's worse to give someone a bad treatment than to give them nothing, that's the point of the Hypocratic oath. You don't need this for your dumb B2C app.
by floundy | 2025-06-22 15:08:50+00:00
There are some interesting thoughts here, but reading this I can't help but think the author is themselves afflicted by some sort of internet-addiction-induced psychosis. This reads like the mental dump of a mild schizophrenic, and perhaps that's what makes it interesting enough to read until the end despite the lack of any clear or convincing conclusions. Definitely a writer in need of two or three additional editing sessions, but I think with more work the author has an interesting stylistic element that could endear in an online world increasingly filled with mediocre and predictable AI slop.

Regarding the "do you remember" section, I honestly don't think I ever knew who three of those people are, and I lack context for what another two events are supposed to mean to me. But then again I've been opting out of most news for several years.
by 827a | 2025-06-22 15:09:21+00:00
Right right; and Americans have not forgotten how "he has nukes" was very much a reason for starting the post-9/11 forever wars across the rest of the middle east. Of course; no nukes were found. If there's any foreign (or domestic) policy decision the vast majority of Americans agree on, its avoiding putting American boots on the ground in the middle east.

1. No one should have nukes.

2. That probably won't happen in our lifetimes, so the second best world is: No one new should have nukes, and those who do have them should have as few as feasible, and fewer every year.

3. Global superpowers, obviously including the United States but others as well, have the moral authority to police the restriction of nuclear weapons development in other countries. We should work with international agencies, we should start with diplomatic solutions, progress to economic sanctions, then progress to unilateral, targeted, kinetic strikes. Try non-violent means first. Minimize loss of civilian life.

4. There is no distinction, in my mind, between "trying to develop nuclear weapons" and "successfully developing nuclear weapons". There is no distinction, in my mind, between 60% enrichment and 90% enrichment, or whatever. Non-nuclear countries should attempt no stage of development, at all, and if they do, should see their efforts stopped by any means necessary. Very hypothetically: If a non-nuclear nation lays a single brick to build a structure destined to aid in nuclear weapons development, I would support destroying that brick; there is no stage too early to intervene. Obviously this is hypothetical and there are realistic feasibility concerns with that, but when speaking morally/ethically.

5. All of this is true regardless of the governance structure or ally/enemy relationship of the country, but it should be obviously true, in triplicate, for a nation ran by religious extremists, who has a history of funding terrorist groups who attack our ships and allies, spanning decades, who tramples on the human rights of women and minorities in their country... to be frank, we have launched full-scale invasions of countries far better. If Iran wants a shred of my pity, their leadership could start by making any effort to join the 21st century in any way except weapons development. But, they don't. Why anyone defends them for any reason is so far beyond my understanding that I'm convinced half the people in these comments are russian disinfo bots.
by hajile | 2025-06-22 15:09:27+00:00
This is simply not true.

Iran's religious dictator issued a Fatwa declaring nukes haram. This is why they've consistently stopped at 60% enrichment.

In a religious cult, everything rides on the leadership. He can't just come out and change his mind. He must have a very definitive reason that doesn't disagree with the reasoning in the previous Fatwa. His only real out is an existential threat where threatening a nuke becomes a tool to preserve lives.

Israel and the US have now given him that out. It remains to be seen if he actually takes it.
by UmGuys | 2025-06-22 15:10:12+00:00
Sure. Make a technical analysis of a casual comment. Of course he has support from others. At the very least defense contractors who profit from this. My comment was from his perspective. He only cares to get richer.

There's always been an authorization for military force even if it's a blanket one and they claim they're fighting ISIS, at least there has been deniability. Here there's no authorization, it's unconstitutional. I don't care about partisan politics. Most politicians are scummy.
by RugnirViking | 2025-06-22 15:10:21+00:00
it's literally a hypothetical person. He studied marketing and made okay money for a while, but he's been out of a job for a bit over a year and a half now too :) His one good friend died a little while ago too.

I made a profile of a person that fits the profile of somebody that might be a little angry at society. Clearly I've struck a nerve here, and maybe thats something worth interrogating.

For what its worth, there are plenty of guys I know who are divorced, and it was probably the right decision, and they're great people. Most marriages end that way, in fact. It doesn't mean the "divorced jaded man who lost his social place in the world, struggles to find kindness or peers, and lashes out" is a stock character that will go away. It's a real problem
by bob1029 | 2025-06-22 15:10:22+00:00
> If anyone has found a way to turn that tide, I'm all ears.

Leading by example might not seem like it has immediate or direct impact, but it does have an effect nevertheless. You don't necessarily need to beat everyone over the head with a new way to live life. This tends to have the opposite of the desired effect. If others passively observe you and think "wow that person looks super healthy and happy" they may subconsciously seek to emulate your behavior.
by samjones33 | 2025-06-22 15:10:27+00:00
>(For example, see how Hamas will not surrender

Yup.

Hamas will fight to the last Palestinian. They could have ended the Gaza war a year ago (or more). All they have to say is: "Here are the hostages. Here are our weapons. We are now shoemakers."

Why don't they do this?

Because they would rather fight to the last Palestinian child.

Hamas has agency. They could end war any time since October 8, 2023.
by sheepscreek | 2025-06-22 15:10:29+00:00
Maybe with further augmentation to the process. The 3D printing seems to leave pretty big grooves on the glass - which can distort the passage of light. For any real optical application, that will have to be removed somehow. Such as baking the glass structure in a high heat oven with a centrifuge/fast spinning base and some kind of mould to put the initial piece on.

The high heat and spin action could, in theory, fuse the individual grooves for a more uniform dispersion of light, and the mould shape would further press on the glass to maintain or alter its shape to be closer to a lens.

Finish that off with fine “sanding” and/or polish, and that might do the trick?

Honestly, experimentation might be the only way to find out.
by sepisoad | 2025-06-22 15:10:36+00:00
As Iranians, we are exhausted and frustrated with the Islamic regime in Iran, which has proven to be more destructive than any weapon. Despite numerous attempts to peacefully change the regime, each effort has been met with brutal violence, mass killings of civilians, and imprisonment of anyone who dares to oppose them. Over time, we’ve realized that protests alone cannot overthrow this regime; it requires a force stronger than them to bring about change. Now, after 45 years, Israel’s strikes on the regime’s key figures and military installations have given us a glimmer of hope. When my non-Iranian friends ask how I feel, I tell them I’m overjoyed—this is something we’ve dreamed of for decades. War is not ideal, but in a far-from-perfect world, it can sometimes prevent greater harm. This conflict is doing just that by challenging a regime that promotes a toxic ideology, one that disregards human life and thrives on death and destruction to achieve its goals. While many Iranians feel hopeful that this could pave the way for real change, it’s disheartening to see left-leaning activists worldwide aligning with apologists for the mullahs’ regime, chanting “Stop the war.” This is deeply troubling. Where were they during the past 45 years when the regime slaughtered thousands, forced countless people into exile, oppressed women and minorities, executed LGBTQ individuals, and held Western travelers hostage to extort foreign governments? To those who believe they’re doing good by opposing this war, you are, at best, a useful idiot supporting the mullahs’ regime. You cannot fathom the consequences if this conflict ends without decisively weakening them—Iran’s people would face an even darker era. I’m not here to glorify Netanyahu or Trump, but their actions have achieved something we’ve long hoped for. My hope is that this leads to the complete dismantling of the regime and its proxies.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-06-22 15:10:37+00:00
Thanks for showing your work, I guess my intuition just doesn't involve objects of this size often enough to be accurate.

It does seem like we're nearing the limit of what can be done with aircraft though. The challenge of hitting the ground much harder seems to be greater than just digging your facility a little deeper (that said, I've nevler dug a hole that deep either so perhaps I'm wrong about that also).