MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Cyph0n | 2025-06-28 13:38:25+00:00
The commenter is probably referring to Hezbollah and Iran.

And yes, the IDF has been relying on abhorrent & violently escalatory tactics since at least 1982 (Lebanon invasion).

On that note, I recently picked up an excellent book (“Our American Israel”) that dives pretty deep into the US-Israel relationship, and spends a good chunk of time on how the invasion of Lebanon was received by the West.

There are definitely some parallels between 1982 and the ongoing Gaza genocide with regards to the use of violence. But the most salient point to me is that it is quite clear that Israel learned a ton on how to ensure its image in the West does not easily get tarnished going forward.
by ben_w | 2025-06-28 13:38:54+00:00
> However, I wish they’d grow a pair and just outright block the FB and other similar dependencies that make such stuff necessary.

When the giants fight, which one of them is an evil monopolist, and which is the defender of freedom?

(This is why I actually like the iPhone approach more than the macOS approach these days; thought I do miss the late 90s when I didn't need to care because nothing had any mechanism to spy on me anyway).
by cubefox | 2025-06-28 13:39:00+00:00
> A maintenance-free power source capable of lasting the 200 or so years it would take to make it to 542 AU

It wouldn't take nearly that long. The proposal is to use solar sails. There is a nice video about the details on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQFqDKRAROI
by cornfieldlabs | 2025-06-28 13:39:22+00:00
True though. We will be adding support for images in the next release.

We can add an option to export all data (in the pipeline) and let users delete account and data in one click (available on first release) but I don't know what else can be done.

End to end encryption is hard and I am not a programmer capable of implementing it safe enough to stop NSA level threats.

We will do what we can.
by nchmy | 2025-06-28 13:40:35+00:00
I was elated when obsidian came out, because it brought to reality exactly what I thought I had wanted for a few years prior - ability to link, especially graphically, all of my notes.

But I quickly realised what you described - it's a futile effort to maintain such a thing, and that the only people who do it are absolute slaves to the systems they've created.

Worse, they surely don't really generate truly unique insights from it all because the insights don't really come from addition and interconnection, but instead from subtraction and refinement. The cultivation of wisdom, in other words - which is the opposite of accumulation. I've seen various versions of this chart and I think it summarizes the situation well - though I'd go further and be culling the noise from it all. https://magniapartners.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Magnia...

I still use obisidan, as it's just great software. And mybnotes could absolutely benefit from better structure and discipline in filing them - I do almost none of what I mentioned above. Though, perhaps I'm just mentally doing the culling and just focusing on what actually matters. Full text search usually finds me what I need quickly enough.
by xg15 | 2025-06-28 13:40:52+00:00
I find it exemplified in the disagreements even in the beginning of the conflict. I feel, pro-Israeli commenters either prefer to start with 1948 (The state somehow appeared like some sort of divine creation and was immediately declared war by all surrounding countries) or in biblical times.

Pro-Palestinian commenters usually start with the Balfour Declaration or Theodor Herzl's books, I believe.

I found 1881/1882 a good starting point, because this was the first time there was organized immigration that explicitly followed Zionist plans and ideology - I.e. people were not abstractly thinking about "returning to Jerusalem" and they weren't immigrating into the Ottoman empire for other reasons, but they were deliberately immigrating with the intention of (re-)establishing a "Jewish homeland" in the biblical Land of Israel.
by yoavm | 2025-06-28 13:41:29+00:00
I would argue that the Muslim world has gained quite some political power in the West, perhaps as a simple result of immigration. The EU for example seem to have about 50 times more Muslims than Jews.

Anti-terrorism rhetorics has indeed previously led to terrible crimes, but I wouldn't suppose that's a reason to support pro-terrorism rhetorics. It's probably best to look at the content instead of the type of rhetorics.
by FooBarWidget | 2025-06-28 13:42:11+00:00
Welcome to most China news. Many "well-documented" China "facts" are in fact cases like this: the media taking rumors or straight up fabricating things for clicks, and then self-referencing (or different media referencing each other in a circle) to put up the guise of reliable news.

This is why we need to be critical of journalists nowadays. No longer are they the Fourth Column, protecting society and democracy by providing accurate information.
by jbmny | 2025-06-28 13:43:27+00:00
What a well-written piece.

It reminded me of my own habit of logging my pour-over coffee brews. For months I saved every variable about every cup, imagining that one day I'd analyze that data and arrive at the perfect recipe.

I never once looked at the data. Eventually I realized that I'd rather learn by just paying close attention to this cup, and using it to change my approach for the next cup.

It feels like a more human, living knowledge.
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-28 13:45:14+00:00
That guy’s ideal form of government seems like it would lead to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Crusade

My take is that solar economy monarchies had poor state capacity although it’s hard to make categorical statements because they cover such a wide range of times and times. There was not a formalized conception of individual rights for the masses so the state did not enforce that. Various sorts of kayfabe were in effect, such as the Japanese emperor, allegedly descended from the gods, being under the thumb of the Tokugawa shogunate. The Tokogawas made shows of ruthlessness which, in the long term, turned into a bluff. Behind the mask of absolutism that kind of state may actually require the consent of the daimyo class, who mainly want impunity over their own domains. Servants of the emperor in China would need to work with illegal folk religionists in the hinterland if they wanted to get anything done. We think of Rome as a pinnacle of state capacity but it evolved that capacity as a republic.
by diggan | 2025-06-28 13:47:13+00:00
> New to me: is more context worse?

Yes, definitely. For every model I've used and/or tested, the more context there is, the worse the output, even within the context limits.

When I use chat UIs (which admittedly is less and less), I never let the chat go beyond one of my messages and one response from the LLM. If something is wrong with the response, I figure out what I need to change with my prompt and start new chat/edit the first message and retry, until it works. Any time I've tried to "No, what I meant was ..." or "Great, now change ..." the responses drop sharply in quality.
by apitman | 2025-06-28 13:47:19+00:00
> Personally, although I do use wasi-sdk (clang) and the wasm32-unknown-wasi triple, the result can be basically free-standing, depending on what flags you use.

This is what I've been doing for my little non-WASI runtime. For my minimal programs I find only a few wasi exports are required, which don't appear to actually be used and I just stub them out. Would love to figure out how to get rid of the code depending on them entirely but it's lower priority.
by cogs | 2025-06-28 13:47:56+00:00
Clickable links for convenience:

* 2 min demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5QoSrc_E_A

* PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/pobshell/

* GitHub: https://github.com/pdalloz/pobshell

Note: This is an alpha release. Built and tested with Python 3.12 on MacOS, Ubuntu, Windows (native + WSL).

I’m especially curious to hear how devs use this: — Exploring packages? — Debugging data state? — Teaching Python? — Something unexpected?

Any feedback is appreciated!
by cropcirclbureau | 2025-06-28 13:48:15+00:00
That's an interpretation of events that I've heard from a lot of Israeli folks that are in some way horrified what's happening in Gaza. I think it's very naive and I don't even think most folks saying this believe in it themselves. What actions from the IDF, what imbalance of power, what civilian casualty rates will you need to see to believe that it's no longer a war? Are you really waiting for the actual mass starvation to take place before accept there's intent? Does it have to be gas chambers? Does the death toll have to pass 1 million? 6 million? Do you really think that the Israeli government wants to brings the hostages back? What do you think would happen after they did bring them back? Will you rescind your support then?

Jews in the Ghetto didn't get the chance to shoot rockets at Berlin but had they been able to fight back, I'd have given them the same understanding that I currently extends to Palestinians that grew up in the concentration camp that is Gaza. Hamas is the direct results of Israeli policies of the past decades. Even if the IDF manages to somehow invent some purity test for Gazans that it can use to confirm there are no longer any Hamas members left and it finally declares it's operations concluded, you'll have people shooting rockets at Israel if they keep their policies with the Gaza strip and the West Bank. But long term solutions come later, right now, Israelis need to wake up and say no to what is unfolding in the name of their security.
by melodyogonna | 2025-06-28 13:48:16+00:00
I have a simple philosophy in how I approach everything: Too much of anything is bad.

When I started taking notes with obsidian I almost fell into this trap of over-analysing everything in terms of what should go into a note, making folders and sub-folders. It became quickly obvious to me that the mental burden of this can accumulate quickly.

These days I store most of my notes in one folder. The only times I now make a note are: 1. When I'm reading. 2. Very rare these days, but sometimes I still have nagging thoughts that wants to be written down. 3. When I have important information that needs to be stored, like IP address, things like this.

I've found that not thinking about notes obsessively like this helps me better, most thoughts are useless and fleeting, they're not worth writing down imo. Best to be in your mind in those.

The outcome of this is that my vault has remained simple and small even after a year, and when I search it for information it is almost always for some important detail I knew I wrote down, I don't get overloaded with junk.

To keep my notes space clean I also regularly move things to archive, which I rarely check.
by latexr | 2025-06-28 13:49:41+00:00
> I'll give you one more, but I probably wont respond. It's not personal, it's just not valuable for either of us.

Then why did you bother responding in the first place, and why should anyone bother reading beyond that point? If you’re not interested in discussing, don’t. Throwing a bunch of words at someone and then going closing your ears singing “la la la” is worse than not being valuable, it has negative value for the discussion.

Frankly, that made me only skim the rest of your post instead of engaging properly. It was still pretty obvious you lack real empathy for the author, their needs, and are unable to understand people who have a different view of the issue than you do.

Here‘s the thing: The author isn’t making a general commentary or recommendation, they are recounting their own personal experience. Pretending you know what makes sense for them is arrogant and misguided. That you are unable to understand other people have different needs and ways of approaching life is a you problem.
by joshvm | 2025-06-28 13:49:42+00:00
The biggest issue is the sheer separation required. EHT operates in mm wave light, visible is 4-6 orders of magnitude shorter wavelength. There are several smaller scale interferometers. They can already do quite impressive things because even a 50m baseline is better than any optical telescope that exists.

The way that timing works for EHT is each station has a GPS reference that's conditioned with a very good atomic clock - for example at SPT we use a hydrogen maser. The readout and timing system is separate from the normal telescope control system, we just make sure the dish is tracking the right spot before we need to start saving data (sampling around 64 Gbps).

I'm not sure what the timing requirements are for visible and how the clock is distributed, but syncing clocks extremely well over long distances shouldn't be insurmountable. LISA needs to solve this problem for gravitational waves and that's a million+ km baseline.

Some problems go away in space. You obviously need extremely accurate station keeping (have a look how LISA Pathfinder does it, very cool), but on Earth we also have to take continental drift into account.
by nopelynopington | 2025-06-28 13:49:44+00:00
> The neighborhood was quiet. There was a chill in the air. The scent of Spanish moss hung from the cypress trees. Plumes of white smoke rose from the burning cane fields and stretched across the skies of Terrebonne Parish. The man swung a long leg over a bicycle frame and pedaled off down the street.

I stopped halfway through this paragraph and just googled Peter Putnam.

If I want an article to take hours to get to the point I'll go read a recipe blog.
by scarface_74 | 2025-06-28 13:50:49+00:00
Simple:

iCloud + Google Drive + OneDrive

Photos and videos are automatically synced to all three. My few important documents are copied between all three manually via the Files app on iOS.

I used BackBlaze in the past when I had a large media library of videos that fell off the back of a truck. But once I took down my Plex server , I copied all of my media to my personal AWS account to S3 Glacier Deep Archive. It’s less than $2 a month for 2 TB.
by xg15 | 2025-06-28 13:51:01+00:00
> "the narrative inside Germany has been turning around"

Fully agreeing with your post - and also, it's not. Maybe for parts of the population (though even there, many are extremely conflicted) but definitely not for the current (conservative) leadership. What worries them is that they find the country increasingly isolated and there is a growing risk they could become personally liable - this forces them to make some concerned noises if the atrocities become undeniable.

But they never stopped practically supporting Israel wherever they can, be it with military aid or preventing EU actions that might put pressure on it. They will also snap back into the unequivocally pro-Israel narrative as soon as they can get away with it.
by rogerrogerr | 2025-06-28 13:51:19+00:00
The vast majority of the cost of aviation parts is paperwork. This won’t ever fly again, so there’s no need to get parts that are certified.

If they need a part and can find one that is used up, they’ll be able to get it dirt cheap - it’s literally trash when it’s reached its service life limits.

Not to mention, they can buy hardware (e.g. bolts) from Home Depot at 1% the cost of certified stuff.

Wouldn’t surprise me if they can hit the 250k budget and have something that looks serviceable (but will never fly again; that bridge was crossed long ago anyway).
by mpalmer | 2025-06-28 13:52:03+00:00
Your country, at least to the extent you seem to claim it as such, only started letting its women drive in 2018. As recently as 2011 there was no law prohibiting violence against women. So that's one way of keeping the crime rate low, I guess.

If someone were paying you to defend the Saudi state in online forums, you would probably go to the trouble of giving your posts at least a tiny bit of nuance.
by netsharc | 2025-06-28 13:52:39+00:00
I feel like tribalism is natural (as in, it's the law of nature): our prime concern is the survival of our individual selves. And then of our families. And since we are social creatures, the survival/well-being people around us. And if we're programmed to identify "people who look like me are family", then a tribalism based on appearance is pre-programmed. The next level of programming is "people who think like me and share my values are family"...

And the pessimist in me doesn't see how the tribes won't get smaller and more egoistic in this world: population is growing, the melting/burning planet provides less and less resources, and social media is building up the jealousy...
by guicen | 2025-06-28 13:52:47+00:00
I have similar feelings. In the early days, Facebook was more like a cozy corner of the Internet, where you could see the latest news from your high school classmates and the dinner photos posted by distant relatives. It was very relaxing. Now when I open the app, I feel like I am being manipulated by the algorithm, constantly pushing you to click and watch things, and I can't stop. It has become smarter, but also more indifferent.
by chrbr | 2025-06-28 13:52:52+00:00
I’ve also struggled with over-analyzing where stuff should go. I’ve restarted a new Obsidian vault based on PARA [1], and am experimenting with using LLMs (both Cursor and Claude Code) to help me decide where stuff should go. Been a big help so far.

[1] https://fortelabs.com/blog/para/
by mrbluecoat | 2025-06-28 13:53:13+00:00
I've wondered for some time about the privacy impact of AR glasses and how people could opt out in the real world from being captured and analyzed by other's use of AR glasses in a public setting. Similar to how Google StreetView would blur the faces of people it inadvertently captured. In a more extreme example, high school locker rooms and Japanese sentō come to mind. Even the wearer could be vulnerable as they use a restroom throughout their day.
by roscas | 2025-06-28 13:54:16+00:00
Considerer doing the same for enterprise distros, like RockyLinux (based on Red Hat Linux). Maybe Ubuntu server. I don't like Ubuntu but had to use it because some companies were using it. Rocky or RHEL are more conservative about packages releases so It is very important to test and use "older" versions, as ArchLinux is (almost always) on the latest versions.
Show HN: Neural network digit recognition on a Game Boy
by jongoiko | 2025-06-28 13:54:45+00:00
Some weeks ago I had the silly idea of doing neural network inference on the Nintendo Game Boy. I chose the MNIST handwritten digit dataset, read up on int8 quantization and got to work.

The result is a playable ROM that fits in a single ROM memory bank (16 KB) and contains both a trained NN and inference code. The NN running on the Game Boy achieves 93.86% accuracy on the MNIST test set; although not a good result for MNIST (since it is such an easy classification task), it's quite decent for a model running on a Game Boy.

You can find the compiled ROM on the Releases page (https://github.com/jongoiko/gb-nn/releases), feel free to try it out!
by seadan83 | 2025-06-28 13:56:03+00:00
I don't think 'Tribe' is really defined as merely a "political" group in the OG article. It's more a system of government rather than political affiliation. In tribalism, it is rule-of-the-strong, dominance over the weak; it is not 'rule of law'. Any group that believes in rule of law rather than dominance of the weak is not tribalistic. The article posits that the shift of tribalism comes about as a group can tear down the barriers that the rule of law provides - at which point society readily devolves to tribalism.
by Barrin92 | 2025-06-28 13:56:16+00:00
>All of the author's concerns could've been solved or greatly mitigated by loading her PKM into a model as context

No, because the correctly identified concern by the author is much deeper. Knowledge isn't some repository of data, or some solipsistic LLM simulacrum of it, it's practiced, social, contextual. A real brain, unlike the "second brain", intentionally forgets.

To have agency is to purposefully erase, cut through BS, and start from a clean slate. Any person who has done anything meaningful starts with an empty sheet of paper. There's a reason all these note taking gurus have exactly zero actual work to their name, it's just productivity LARPing. Every single time you see one of these "productivity" advocates you try to look up if they've build something that has helped even one person with all their productivity, nothing. They just keep yapping about their notes.
by boricj | 2025-06-28 13:57:40+00:00
That reminds me of a three week, three person group project I had back when I was in university. There were a couple of topics we could pick from, including writing a very simple operating system from scratch. I asked the professors if we could instead port MINIX3 to the Raspberry Pi (given that it already had an ARM port to the BeagleBoard) and they accepted.

What was supposed to be a reasonably straightforward project proved to be a huge challenge as we encountered numerous unforeseen technical difficulties. One particularly harrowing one was that the Raspberry Pi 3 booted into hypervisor mode instead of supervisor mode and QEMU's Raspberry Pi emulation accuracy was so abysmal back then to be borderline useless for osdev. I recall it took me an entire week of low-level hardware debugging just to figure that one out.

By the end, we pulled through and delivered a working port with UART, GPIO and framebuffer drivers that could run on the Raspberry Pi 2 and 3. We run our presentation with the port on real hardware, using a shell script that displayed bitmaps from the ramdisk and monitored GPIO pins to move slides forwards or backwards (I used a knife to short-circuit the pins as needed). It was by far the coolest presentation of all the groups just on originality alone and I think I still have the image of that SD card somewhere.
by PicassoCTs | 2025-06-28 13:58:45+00:00
Eh, the west has forgotten it. The rest of the world, played along and embraced it. The middle east- genocided flat along tribal lines. 99% shia, 99% sunnis, the rest all gone or about to go, copts, zhorotastrians, jesidi, druse, alewite, jehudi - and the genocide is still going on, burning its way through sudan.

Nobody cares about it, its right there in public, in the population statistics of the middle east- provided by the UN who never made a single resolution against it.

China is a pure ethno-state where every minority dwindles and vannishes - and some are kept around for a happy Disney dance around the reservation.

Turkey has thrown its proxxies ISIL/HTS into syria to continue the genocide on the kurds, driving them out of the towns towards the mediterranean, after its ally to the east has driven the armenians into retreat in mount kharabach.

Russia is deeply tribalist, the moscowian throwing the other minorities into battle to capture new minorities to throw into battle.

Its a grim world out there, once you rip the western centric googles from your eyes. Nobody cares about the law, about the west and about morals or history books.
by yonatan8070 | 2025-06-28 14:00:22+00:00
I actually attempted to create a Facebook account recently to be able to access Facebook Marketplace. During sign-up, I was asked to upload a video selfie of myself to confirm I'm a real person.

Never did a 180 so fast in my life.

I guess I simply won't communicate with anyone selling anything there, even if it's the best deal possible or not available anywhere else