MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wfn | 2025-06-29 01:56:07+00:00
Do you mean the data sources it lists in those two articles are not valid? (I am referring to raw figures and not to actual textual content even). The charts themselves (and the proportions thereof) have been observed everywhere incl. in the mainstream media?

Can you present one counterexample as regards quantities / proportions of figures please? One source. (More of course if you'd like)

(My implicit point is that the proportions are so one-sided (orders of magnitude in difference; yes plural) that you will not find one; but please do find one (with actual quantities) and we can all check veracity of your source)

P.S. edit here is one of the sources the first wiki article lists (of multiple):

Lappin, Yaakov (2009). "IDF releases Cast Lead casualty numbers". The Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on 26 March 2013. Retrieved 5 January 2024. =>

- https://www.jpost.com/israel/idf-releases-cast-lead-casualty...

- https://web.archive.org/web/20130326192603/http://www.jpost....
by ryandrake | 2025-06-29 01:56:12+00:00
I’m not going to pay for something and still be the product. These sites would have to be fundamentally different from what they are today, for me to justify paying for them, starting with: they should not be collecting, selling, or profiting off of data about me. They should also not be deciding for me what ways I can use their products.

People bemoan “nobody’s willing to pay for an online newspaper” and that’s true: they won’t pay for them in their current user-monetizing form. Same with YouTube: I’m not going to pay for an ad-free YouTube in its current form: with auto-playing next videos, algorithmic recommendations, Shorts, and sponsored content embedded in some creators’ videos. Give me a different, better product that does not try to monetize me, and I might pay for it.
by stego-tech | 2025-06-29 01:58:10+00:00
“We shouldn’t keep trusting nation-states for meteorology data. They can and will cut off access if the powers that be demand it, even if it hurts billions of others by doing so.” - Me, circa mid-2010s

“You’re overreacting, nobody would be dumb enough to cut off access to data like that. Stop being alarmist.” - Everyone I have shared that thought with since.

Unfortunately, “I Told You So’s” don’t pay my rent, otherwise I’d have a decent home of my own by now. Here’s hoping ESA or JAXA help fill that gap until the UN can take over (an organization ideally suited for global meteorology tasks).
by viccis | 2025-06-29 01:58:21+00:00
>GHF Interim Director John Acree stated, "There have been no incidents or fatalities at or in the immediate vicinity of any of our distribution sites."

Isn't there a video of dismembered body parts after the mortar shell hit and killed a few dozen?

It sounds like if he is making such a clear statement as this, there should be an investigation, and, if it turns out there were such fatalities, then Acree (and many others) should be tried for covering up war crimes.
by 0x38B | 2025-06-29 01:58:44+00:00
I opened a-Shell(1) on my iPhone, typed `telnet issue3.anewsession.com`, and I was in! Probably my first time connecting to a telnet server.

The works in the issue aren’t static; from the help page:

> New Session's third issue emerges into a world where we’ve had to change parts of who we are to survive. […]

> Both you and this issue will change with each viewing. Select a story by pressing the key associated with it in the index. Read it again. Come back to it tomorrow. Is it the same? Are you?

1: https://github.com/holzschu/a-shell
by Jhsto | 2025-06-29 01:58:57+00:00
There was a law change about European Union citizens settlement scheme last week. It's a UK law which is like a tutorial for getting to play the passport game. Anyway, the following was written this year. It starts off by checking if you are a Lisp interpreter:

Changes to Appendix EU

APP EU1. In Annex 1, in sub-paragraph (a) of the definition of ‘continuous qualifying period’, after “(b)(i)(ee) below”, insert “(or unless sub- paragraph (b)(i)(ii) below applies)”.

APP EU2. In Annex 1, for sub-paragraph (b)(i)(ii) of the definition of ‘continuous qualifying period’, substitute:

“(ii) (where the person has limited leave to enter or remain granted under paragraph EU3 or EU3A of this Appendix) any period(s) of absence which did not exceed a total of 30 months in the most recent 60-month period, as at the date of application or (as the case may be) at the date on which, under paragraph EU4, the Secretary of State is considering whether to grant them indefinite leave to enter or remain under paragraph EU2 or (as the case may be) EU2A, without a valid application under this Appendix having been made; or

(jj) any period of absence due directly to an order or decision to which sub-paragraph (b)(iii) below refers, where that order or decision has been set aside or revoked; or”.

APP EU3. In Annex 1, for sub-paragraph (c)(v) of the definition of ‘continuous qualifying period’, substitute:

“(v) a relevant reference is concerned; or

(vi) sub-paragraph (b)(i)(ii) above applies, where, under paragraph EU4 of this Appendix, the Secretary of State is considering whether to grant the person indefinite leave to enter or remain without a valid application under this Appendix having been made”.
by protocolture | 2025-06-29 01:59:05+00:00
Its nice to think that way but for my clients it isn't the case. Its simply friction and inertia.

The box I am in has my employer on one side, happy to have made the suggestion to move away from old technical debt, but happier still to reap the rewards of a customer who will pay massive amounts of opex to keep shit running. And on the other side the customer, too lazy to have any internal conflict over technical debt and paying massive amounts of opex is preferably than directors having arguments with each other.

None of their technical debt is customer supporting. They do supply serial keys via a truly ancient aspx website but they can also port the backend component that handles those serials pretty much instantly. It really is a choice.
by dmix | 2025-06-29 01:59:49+00:00
Most plausible reason. National security hawks have always been extremely protective of intelligence even when the risk is tiny. Probably some DoD people (or person) wanted to keep it closed and new hawkish leadership let them do it.

Who knows, the Navy hasn't released any statement beyond "cyber security risks" so there's only politics to fill in the blanks.

It seems to be this agency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet_Numerical_Meteorology_an...

Who recently got a supercomputer system https://www.montereycountynow.com/news/local_news/a-new-supe...
by twoodfin | 2025-06-29 01:59:53+00:00
Contemplating this, it’s too bad the Unix scripting ecosystem never evolved a tripartite symbiosis of ‘file‘, ‘lex‘, and ‘yacc‘, or similar tools.

That is, one tool to magically identify a file type, one to tokenize it based on that identification, one to correspondingly parse it. All in a streaming/pipe-friendly mode.

Would fit right in, other than the Unix prejudice (nonsensical from Day 0) for LF-separated text records as the “one true format”.
by alexpotato | 2025-06-29 02:00:52+00:00
Michael Lewis, in the Fifth Risk, has a whole chapter on how during Trump 1 the head of Accuweather was basically trying to shut down free distribution of weather updates from NOAA/National Weather Service.

The reason:

For profit weather companies don't want free government weather updates going out to their potential customers.

PS. Having been on HN for many years and watched the full "disrupt old industries!" cycle, I'm not that surprised this is where we have ended up.
by stego-tech | 2025-06-29 02:02:23+00:00
If we want to revive interest in the desktop or laptop computer, and cost is a concern, then we should be steering more folks towards pre-built NUCs and SBCs with an efficient OS on top (like a friendlier Linux Desktop). The problem is that so much of the internet is so bloated and heavy that, with the way the average person uses a computer, the specs quickly become anemic.

So I guess I’m banging my efficiency and optimization drum again, is what I’m saying.
by popalchemist | 2025-06-29 02:02:35+00:00
We should not encourage everybody to pursue the arts. But a society that disregards the importance of the arts (one symptom of which is that the pursuit of the arts as a career/way of life is inviable) then the society as a whole will -- 100% absolutely guaranteed -- suffer as a result. The arts are the means by which the unconscious comes to consciousness. Music is a means by which the sublime, and of course even various mundane psycho-spiritual-emotional states -- become accessible for the vast majority of people who can not access said states without aid.

In the absence of that, neurosis is certain to flourish.

So, it is not an economic matter but a matter of the psychodynamics of society. For the sake of the health of the whole, some members of the whole must be able to bring in certain vibes, patterns, states of mind, ideas, etc. And without the ability to pursue that and only that skillset, they won't be able to succeed at that. And it is required for the functioning of the whole.

It's a bit akin to the way the entire body depends on the cells that process ATP. If you eliminate all cells that serve that role, the entire body dies, even though they are a miniscule aspect of the entire operation. That is where the animating spirit comes from.
by mouse_ | 2025-06-29 02:02:41+00:00
It's not harmful at all, as long as you connect through a normal router, which will have a rudimentary firewall enabled. That's all you need, really.

Other than that it's just the normal understanding that you shouldn't run virus.exe or virus.pdf.exe, and if you do, you'll have less protection versus on Windows 10/11.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-06-29 02:04:35+00:00
If I recall PostgreSQL had GPU accelerators many years back.

Personally, the risk associated with GPU failure rates is important, and I have witnessed NVIDIA cards take out entire hosts power-systems by failing closed. i.e. no back-plane diagnostics as the power supplies are in "safe" off condition.

I am sure the use-cases for SQL + GPU exist, but for database reliability no GPU should be allowed in those racks. =3
by soraminazuki | 2025-06-29 02:05:11+00:00
It's covered in much detail as the other eras of Japanese history. At least it's widely understood that there were massacres, rapes, targeting of civilians, displacement and forced labor, etc etc.

It's true that the far right, disproportionately loud in online circles, tries to downplay all of this like in the sibling comment. It's concerning how social media amplifies these voices, but it's still not mainstream opinion.
by skiboyec | 2025-06-29 02:05:33+00:00
I did not see your comment before I left mine! But yes the second half makes sense.

I do think you might able to deduce the orbit even if the data release is delayed by a random time period. If you’re a foreign adversary that has its own satellites, you can measure the same information from a known orbit. Then one could compare the published data with one’s known dataset to deduce things like the angle from which the data was measured.
by vFunct | 2025-06-29 02:05:35+00:00
Reposting as it was flagged by Zionists:

You don't have to have sympathy for them. Their religion literally tells them to kill children to steal their land:

"However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. Completely destroy[a] them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the Lord your God has commanded you." - Deuteronomy 20:16-17

And now they are literally doing it.

I wondered how an entire ethnic group could be so depraved and removed from humanity, where literally hundreds of thousands of their members in Hebrew Telegram channels cheer on children being burned alive. And now I know that, it was always their religion that caused their depraved behavior. From a philosophy of racial superiority to literally commands to kill children to steal their land. It was always going to come to this genocidal conclusion.

It's perfectly fine to say Judaism should be canceled, given how Jews are behaving publicly and without shame in their desire to steal land and kill children. They literally don't know that they're not supposed to steal land and kill children. They believe that's completely fine.
by AndySurtees | 2025-06-29 02:05:58+00:00
Make a bot that sounds like your friend, or has a wild opinion, or always mentions the same one fact regardless of the conversation.

You have a 5000-character prompt to make it do something, then it'll do that thing forever, for free.

It's based on the free models on Openrouter, and has a fallback tree that makes sure it's always using something reasonably good - mostly Deepseek, or last-generation Gemini, or Llama, or Qwen. It also has a semi-decent conversation memory.

You can also embed it in a website via iframe.

This could probably be used for business purposes at a push, but it's mostly for fun. My kids love it, and have discovered that it's funny to make every response to every conversation involve dinosaurs.
by 627467 | 2025-06-29 02:06:41+00:00
Writers have been experimenting with paywalls (substacks etc) - musicians aren't? Indies keep complaining about streaming and platforms killing their livelihood but I wonder if this is just because the target for "justice" seems clearer (eg. Spotify cut, etc)

Seems to me that music has an additional challenge which is most revenue channels requires middlemen: streaming infrastructure, merch factories, venues owners, technicians, etc which artist can't/won't replace.

At some point musicians - as product creators - need to have a clear biz model for their enterprise and passion to try it. Not just passion to create, passion to sell.
by andrekandre | 2025-06-29 02:09:10+00:00
> trade labor, goods and services voluntarily

small nitpick, but trading != capitalism

capitalism is using capital (money, materials, and employees/work) as inputs to produce finished products with the goal of re-investing those profits into said production or into other markets

simply trading or rendering services can be done without the need for constant growth/profits or investment as capital over time (e.g coops, traditional businesses etc)
by mcdeltat | 2025-06-29 02:09:17+00:00
Obligatory: what colour space?

Yes I know it's probably sRGB because that's ubiquitous on the web, but "RGB" technically is not a colour space.

Also interesting people talking about how they estimate the colours in their head - sRGB is not perceptually linear so if you're good at this game you've kinda reverse engineered the sRGB transform in your brain.
by userbinator | 2025-06-29 02:09:45+00:00
Depends what you mean by "design". They get to choose some aspects of how it looks in general, but as for the actual schematics/PCB layout, that's based on the CPU manufacturer's reference design.

Edit: the amount of downvoting the original comment got, and the sibling that got killed for saying effectively the same thing, makes me think someone is trying to push a certain narrative, but the truth is out there. No one except a very small number of OEMs actually designs PC mobos, and they are also based on reference designs from Intel or AMD.
by troad | 2025-06-29 02:10:08+00:00
Wrong. Palestine is a state party to the ICC, effective 1 April 2015. The ICC has jurisdiction on the territory of its member states.

It is the position of both the ICC itself and the United Nations General Assembly that Palestine is a state and ergo entitled to be a member of the ICC. Whether Israel (or you) accept this definition of Palestine is largely irrelevant.

Moreover, whether Israel is or is not a state party to the ICC is completely without bearing on the ICC investigation in question, since Gaza is not part of Israel's territory under any definition, including Israel's own. To my knowledge, no state recognises Gaza as part of Israel, including Israel itself.

TLDR: It is Palestine's membership of ICC that results in the ICC lawfully exercising its jurisdiction on the territory of Gaza.
by trinsic2 | 2025-06-29 02:10:19+00:00
The word "Common Good" has a specific meaning. It steams from the word "Common" which means the people that share common values at our most basic levels, and "Good" means whats best for the people that share these common values.

What you are talking about is imposed self-interest at the level of the population from one or a small population that do not represent the common good. Not the same thing IMHO.
by drmpeg | 2025-06-29 02:10:41+00:00
I used the equipment for the same reason, to communicate through the Oscar 10 and 13 satellites at home. Oscar 10 was launched in 1983. At that time, I was living in an apartment. I strung up some smaller yagis on the balcony that fortunately faced towards the southwest. I was able to use some, but not all passes of the satellite.

I also used the equipment for terrestrial communications. When I started renting a house, I put up a large yagi for 2-meters. With SSB, you can make contacts out to about 300-400 miles. Enough for contacts between Silicon Valley and the Los Angeles area.

I also made much longer distance contacts with that station with special propagation modes. Meteor bounce, sporadic-E and trans-Pacific (Hawaii) ducting (about 2400 miles).

For the 70cm equipment, I participated in VHF/UHF contests with multioperator groups. This is where we'd go to mountain tops to operate. I was lucky enough to operate from Mt. Pinos a couple of times before ham radio was banned from there. Mt. Pinos is a 8847 ft. mountain at the southern end of the central valley and by far the best location for VHF/UHF operating.

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

Of course, this was in the 80's and 90's. Nowadays, weak signal VHF/UHF may not be very active where you live.
by anon7000 | 2025-06-29 02:15:29+00:00
In other words, there’s no commonly-used, agreed upon standard for creating APIs. The closest is REST-like APIs, which are really no more specific than “hit a URL and get some data back”.

So why are we all bitching about it? Programmatically communicating with an ML model is a new thing, and it makes sense it might need some new concepts. It’s basically just a wrapper with a couple of opinions. Who cares. It’s probably better to be more opinionated about what exactly you put into MCP, rather than just exposing your hundreds of existing endpoints.
by gwerbin | 2025-06-29 02:15:34+00:00
Yes. Quoting Projct 225:

> Break Up NOAA ... NOAA consists of six main offices ... Together, these form a colossal operation that has become one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry and, as such, is harmful to future U.S. prosperity. This industry’s mission emphasis on prediction and management seems designed around the fatal conceit of planning for the unplannable. That is not to say NOAA is useless, but its current organization corrupts its useful functions. It should be broken up and downsized. NOAA today boasts that it is a provider of environmental information services, a provider of environmental stewardship services, and a leader in applied scientific research. Each of these functions could be provided commercially, likely at lower cost and higher quality.

https://envirodatagov.org/project-2025-national-oceanic-and-...

Tldr: shut down NOAA to suppress climate change evidence, research, and preparedness; outsource to private industry the remaining parts that are considered directly useful for commerce.

Is it any wonder that the CEO of Accuweather Barry Myers was a Trump donor who became a NOAA head administrator appointee in Trump's first term? The appointment fortunately failed. Now they're trying again.
by IG_Semmelweiss | 2025-06-29 02:17:43+00:00
Streaming is only the next step of the ladder, the reality is that ever since recording was possible (then broadcasting, then the internet), music (and most of the arts for that matter) has increasing winner-take all effects, where a minuscule amount of artists reap huge gains, while the rest just scrape by.

Now, with AI, all signs seem to indicate that the industry will finally reset to what was the norm for hundreds of years : Artists would be supported on their craft by patrons and benefactors. Most didn't make it to be wealthy, but at least, they got to enjoy time in their craft.
by whoisyc | 2025-06-29 02:17:56+00:00
The hard part is how to acquire that 10000 paying users and how to make them stay.

I think a the problem is for every social media user who finds it valuable enough to pay, there are ten more who don’t use it enough justify paying. And if you only serve the first group but not the later, then the first group will just get bored and move back to X or Instagram, or they just ditch social media entirely and move into private group chats. And if you serve the later then your operation expenses will multiply.
by keeganpoppen | 2025-06-29 02:18:05+00:00
it’s true. i have a friend who got prescribed via “knowing the right answer”… and honestly i didn’t know myself whether my honest answers were “honest” or not. i vowed to never tell a lie throughout the diagnostic experience, but a lot of it is super ambiguous… i feel confident in my self-understanding now, but i certainly didn’t then, and i was absolutely an adderall enjoyer at the time (now i portion out my pills fastidiously, because days without them suck ass, and i didn’t want to self-inculcate any sort of adverse relationship with the medicine that unambiguously makes my life better… but i absolutely was not as mature on the whole concept at the start.).
by dehugger | 2025-06-29 02:18:34+00:00
Once you hit scale there are very few off the shelf solutions. Every major application is going to have some degree of customization involved.

Personally, I maintain a legacy codebase of a propietary application running several distribution centers. New feature requests, bug fixes, integrations, ever-changing business requirements mean its worth having staff on payroll to do it, as the contractor costs to do so are exorbitant.
by k310 | 2025-06-29 02:18:44+00:00
Another forum I frequent has only "recommendations" and the rare flagging that goes to a jury. Replies push an OP to the top of the most recently replied posts list.

It also allows self-deletion and post-deletion, no time limit.

So, while there is a visible change log, there is none for deletion, and one can take the context away from a troll post-facto.

No downvotes, only flagging for cause (there's an itemized list ) and jury. So, the jury knows why.

Obscurity is the "penalty" in most cases for lack of interest. Flame wars just refresh the most recently replied date.
by diskzero | 2025-06-29 02:19:41+00:00
Extracting the licensed 3rd party code and doing the other cleanup needed to do a release would be a chore. I have done this for other code bases and it always ends up being a lot of work that involves lawyers.

The BeOS code wasn’t huge (I remember the tarball being 98mb) but there was licensed code in the codecs, drivers, compilers, dev tools, possibly in NetPositive and more.

It is cool to look at from a historical perspective, which would be the main reason to release it. I wouldn’t advise using the code as a foundation for any future project.
by dr_kiszonka | 2025-06-29 02:20:03+00:00
It sounds like this method is I/O intensive as you are writing the complete image at every backup time. Theoretically, it could be problematic when dealing with large backups in terms of speed, hardware longevity, and write errors, and I am not sure how you would recover from such errors without also storing the first image. (Or I might be misunderstanding your idea. It is not my area.)