MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ath3nd | 2025-06-29 18:59:59+00:00
> Israel's war in Gaza is what any western country would be doing in response to the Oct 7th attack

All I hear is twisting of the truth, not surprising from an apartheid genocidal regime.

Let's look at the statistics before Oct 7-th, for the years 2008-2020:

https://www.statista.com/chart/16516/israeli-palestinian-cas...

- 5590 dead Palestinians

- 250 dead Israeli

And, the most recent ones:

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

- 56772 Palestinians

- 1706 Israeli

What else is there to say? Your genocidal government is:

- Withholding humanitarian aid (war crime): https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-attacks-ki...

- Shooting at civilians and children (war crime): https://www.dci-palestine.org/israeli_forces_fatally_shoot_1...

- Bombing hospitals (war crime): https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2jvx3yjg3o

- Yoav Gallant called the Palestinians "human animals", which, ironically, is similar to what the Nazis were calling the Jews during WW2: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ReZEJPwrM1k

- Using starvation as a weapon (war crime): https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0k3d1y10pzo.

> Israeli soldiers, attacks Israeli civilians (there are still occasional rockets fired out of Gaza).

Maybe don't use your civilians as human shields then. Why is your military next to your civilians? See how that works?

> Israel does not "annex territories" not belonging to them. Israel e.g. returned Sinai to Egypt. Israel gave Gaza to the Palestinians in 2005. Israel in negotiations with Palestinians created the Palestinian Authority and gave it control of large swaths of territory.

They do, illegally occupying and expanding on land that doesn't belong to them https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1j5954edlno

So, everything you said is a lie, which is 100% expected from a supporter of a genocidal state
by fwip | 2025-06-29 19:00:44+00:00
At very large numbers, even ratios don't really matter.

For instance, if you personally owed $100 trillion, you wouldn't be much relieved by a court order that reduced your liability by 99%. Or, if you're looking at numbers in scientific notation, you don't much care about the difference between 2e40 and 5e40.

In this case, the ratio is around 10^200. An incomprehensibly vast number, to be sure.

But because tetration is the next operator up from exponentiation (the way exponents are from multiplication), any fixed divisor ceases to "matter" very quickly. The difference between 10^^10,000,000 and 10^^10,000,001 is (10^^10,000,000 to the tenth power), if my understanding is right.

There's basically no way to get it into comprehensible territory even with repeated divisions. 10^^1 = 10, 10^^2 = 10^10 (ten billion), and 10^^3 is 10^(10^10) = 10^10,000,000. Already, dividing by 10^200 isn't going to meaningfully affect your number (10^99,999,800).

10^^10,000,000 is that kind of incomprehensible growth that we just saw from 1 to 2 to 3, repeated 10 million times.
by Glawen | 2025-06-29 19:00:47+00:00
Aka how to shoot yourself in the foot and hand over the market to Chinese manufacturer. In Europe, only Renault created a low cost brand (Dacia).

Once chinese brands become commonplace everywhere, tradional carmakers will have a hard time taking back market share. In Europe they closed or are closing the last HCOL factories, killing any remaining brand loyalty.
by michaelt | 2025-06-29 19:00:52+00:00
> This is a kind of principal/agent problem that the private sector partially manages with equity or deferred compensation

The private sector also has the option (and usually the motivation) to just quietly disappear failed projects.

Wal-Mart buys an automation system for their distribution centre and it's a huge success? Tell the stock market. The system is a complete failure, we remove it and trash it? Uhhhh of course the secrets of our highly efficient warehouses are commercially confidential, couldn't possibly tell the stock market what we did or did not do.
by ahmedfromtunis | 2025-06-29 19:01:07+00:00
That's a s(p/c)ammer's dream if there's a lesson to be learned from the.tk experience.

I think this should fall on governments to create such a system for their citizens. A cheap web.de or website.au, would be very practical.

Also I think national regulators would have more legroom to control such domains as they can exclude non-residents and avoid to deal with international rings.

On a personal level, I'd suggest buying a short domain (I own a couple of ab.xy ones) and use that as a personal tld of sorts.

And with Cloudflare, you don't even need to manually configure the DNS settings or let's encrypt.

Having a website up and running in 10 seconds without having to go through the process of registering a domain is such an amazing experience!
by ralferoo | 2025-06-29 19:01:21+00:00
The real question then is why the "professionals" in these fields are able to command such massive incomes, and why people are prepared to pay multiple hundreds to watch their favourite singer but won't drop into a free gig at an open mic night. Why some footballers can can earn millions per week, and the lower tiers of the sport are paid so little. Why top actors can earn more from one film than even most doctors or lawyers will earn in their lifetime, while other decent actors spend their entire careers working as an extra, etc...

Clearly everyone can see that the system is "unfair" in almost every industry, so the question is why does everybody perpetuate this system. It seems to be that by and large, people are prepared to pay more to get more of whatever they consider "the best" and they care much less about everything else in that space.

But shift the focus away from people and to products - why are so many people willing to pay over $1000 for the latest iPhone, when they already have the previous year's phone, and a $100 phone probably does 90% of what they need.

Again, it's because people want the best they can afford, and so the market increases the price to the point that maximises the product of price and people prepared to pay that price. Sadly, for the aspiring musician that hasn't been scouted yet, the price is low and even then not many people are prepared to pay it. This is why we have record labels who scout for talent, front them some money up front, handle publicity and building an audience, hoping that one of their 100+ artists might make enough that they can pay for the rest and still make a profit.
by taha_moji | 2025-06-29 19:01:36+00:00
I didn’t follow the usual path into tech.

I grew up in Sudan. Learned to memorize scripture before I ever touched a keyboard. Came to the US, made it into Georgia Tech, and almost fell apart trying to stay there.

This piece isn’t a teardown of academia or a playbook for job hunting. It’s a reflection. On what it means to move through systems that weren’t built for you, and how easy it is to get overlooked when your story doesn’t fit the frame.

It’s also about building. Not just code, but clarity. Not just skill, but self-definition.

If you’ve ever felt like the best parts of you didn’t show up on paper, or got filtered out before they were seen, this might resonate.
by stevekemp | 2025-06-29 19:01:55+00:00
In my case, as a British citizen married to a European living outside the UK, I had way fewer requests/demands for documentation.

All I needed to do was submit my own details, and a copy of both the marriage certificate and birth certificate for the child.

The assumption was made that as a married couple the child had me as the father, and as I'm British then so were they.

No references at all to grandparents, or even the mother's details, in the online wizard I filled out. Quite a quick process, which reminds me I probably need to renew their UK passport since it has expired a couple of years back.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-06-29 19:02:24+00:00
> Some very common differences in sex-specific sexual attraction are likely genetic as well. For large swaths of sexual attraction, we have absolutely no evidence of a genetic link

Sure - it seems there may be a large degree of imprinting as well, but homosexuality does seem to be an important special case given that it typically means lack of descendants. Of course evolution is really about sub-populations and gene-pools, not individuals, and it seems there has to be some benefit at that level otherwise this trait would have been out-competed in the population.
by zeroq | 2025-06-29 19:02:39+00:00
Reminds me of that one recruiter:

- I need to run a quick survey on your tech, ok? - But you have my CV, it should be rather obvious if I fit or not. Doh. Whatever. - Perfect. How many years of experience you have with JavaScript? - Dude, really? ... I don't know, I've been using it since '99. - Perfect. More than 3 years it is. Onto the next question!
by ryukoposting | 2025-06-29 19:03:13+00:00
Here's some more research, since I have a tiny ozone generator in my fridge and I got worried:

Ozone concentrations as low as 70ppb are hazardous when you're exposed to it for several hours [1]. Estimates for Ozone's olfactory threshold aren't trustworthy, since you go nose-blind to it pretty quickly [2], but it seems like it's probably around 20-40ppb before olfactory fatigue sets in [3,4].

My takeaway is that Ozone generators for rooms/basements/etc are definitely a bad idea. The best-cited olfactory thresholds are all in the same order of magnitude as that 8-hour hazard threshold, and with nose-blindness being a significant factor, you just don't want to mess around with that.

Inside a fridge, though? As long as you don't actually smell any ozone when you open the fridge, and you don't just shove your head in the fridge for hours on end, I'd think you're probably fine.

[1]: https://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/facts/SH.html [2]: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/chapter-I/subchapter-H... [3]: https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/full/10.5555/19602703... [4]: https://spartanwatertreatment.com/ozone-safety/
by cpard | 2025-06-29 19:03:31+00:00
I wonder how this interoperability hype in the industry, induced by MCPs, will affect companies where the lack of interoperability is almost a moat.

I remember when I first interacted with Marketo and I was wondering why people even bother trying to use this tool just to learn that Marketo has the best integration with Salesforce and thus, it’s almost a certainty that as you scale you’ll get to use it.

Salesforce in particular, relies a lot on the vendor ecosystem built on a platform that is so painful to inter operate with.

I’m very curious to see what effect this will have to them.
by dmurray | 2025-06-29 19:04:18+00:00
This should be obvious. There are the same number of 32-bit integers as 32-bit floats [0], so for every float that is not an int, there exists an int that is not a float. Clearly most floats cannot be represented as integers, so the converse must be true as well.

But I still see people building systems where implicit conversation of float to int is not allowed because "it would lose precision", but that allow int to float.

[0] don't reply to me about NaNs, please
by lxgr | 2025-06-29 19:04:35+00:00
So does "Too Good To Go". Missed a pickup notification because I didn't remember having angrily turned off all notifications one day, since they don't have any more fine-grained option.

I let their support know, but they don't care. I guess as long as it still brings in more additional sales than it costs in lost users, it works for them.

This is something I like better on Android: As far as I remember, separate "notification channels" are mandatory there, and deactivating a given one is possible purely from the OS notification UI, without having to dig through inconsistent and hidden in-app options.
by mlyle | 2025-06-29 19:05:31+00:00
Did DOGE not ditch hundreds of probationary employees at NOAA, cancel numerous contracts, get 1000 people to take early retirement offers, get rid of buildings, etc?

And now the current funding request enacts a ~30% funding cut.

I'm not sure the factual issue you're seeing. Is it that the statement wasn't definitive enough in saying that DOGE apparently was a large part of instituting these cuts?

(Yes, I know OPM implemented many of these programs, but they're apparently at DOGE's request, named after the "Fork in the Road" initiative at Twitter, using data gathered by DOGE IT staffers, &c. If we give credit for any cuts, we have to give them credit for significant cuts at NOAA.)
by bdesimone | 2025-06-29 19:05:51+00:00
Quick note since it was mentioned. Pomerium does support Kubernetes at pretty much every level you mentioned (although I'm not entirely sure what a "a complete Kubernetes-tier platform" means) including:

- "remote access" : https://www.pomerium.com/docs/capabilities/kubernetes-access

- "access control" https://www.pomerium.com/docs/capabilities/authorization

- "visibility and auditing" : https://www.pomerium.com/docs/capabilities/audit-logs

- "user and identtiy management" https://www.pomerium.com/docs/capabilities/authentication to which I'd add device identity as well.

- "centralized policy management": https://www.pomerium.com/docs/capabilities/authorization & https://www.pomerium.com/docs/internals/ppl

- deployments using Ingress Controller or GatewayAPI https://www.pomerium.com/docs/deploy/k8s/ingress, https://www.pomerium.com/docs/deploy/k8s/gateway-api

- "for an arbitrary number of resources" not sure what to link to but there's no limit here

Congrats on the release. I saw your thread on MCP and completely agree with the approach. Happy to trade notes :)
by sshine | 2025-06-29 19:05:53+00:00
> If they are successfully able to get a gTLD as described in the article everything will be able to use them.

The entirety of that speculation in the article, as far as I could read, is three words: “potential ICANN accreditation” — that’s it.

> maybe that Brave will stop renewing the gTLD when it goes out of business

I wasn’t considering they would actually register the gTLD. But yes: gTLDs are only as good as their general appeal. Why get a .brave? Seems similar to .ovh; I don’t see the appeal.
by HK-NC | 2025-06-29 19:06:15+00:00
I genuinely havent washed properly in over a decade. I wash my armpits, genitals and asscrack usually daily with some all natural "soap" and thats it. No baths or showers. I get compliments on my skin daily and when I tell people my "skincare routine", followed by that I'm eating healthy, sweating daily through exercise, sleeping good and getting sunlight, they assume the not washing part is a joke because I "would stink if that was true" and I would have dreadlocks in my hair.
by DFHippie | 2025-06-29 19:06:40+00:00
I think Kevin Drum (R.I.P.) covered this better than the author of this piece.

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/lead-exposur...

https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/02/an-updated-le...

And, addressing the meta-analysis the New Yorker author places so much weight on:

https://jabberwocking.com/yet-another-look-at-that-lead-crim...

The clincher is that competing hypotheses are almost exclusively concerned with phenomena in the U.S. and fall apart as explanations for the same cresting and subsidence of the crime wave in other countries, or even simply in other cities in the U.S. One city does broken-windows policing. Another doesn't. Both experience the same decline in the murder rate.
by timr | 2025-06-29 19:06:41+00:00
> It is funny that at the start literally everyone is interesting, even the most boring conversations. I was more of a blank slate and more likeable too.

Yes! I've found the same thing.

> That's gone away

Also noticing this -- I knew that it would happen, but was surprised that it didn't take very much fluency before the natural human tendency to judge people re-appeared.

> ...but the things I enjoy are more enjoyable in a deeper way, and the scope of things I can do is larger. Goes both ways imo.

That's good to hear. I'm about to come back for another extended round, so I worry about the other stuff fading over time.
by predkambrij | 2025-06-29 19:07:38+00:00
I regularly create a new folder with current date and work in it until it gets overbloated and then create a new one. Past ones remain until they are still relevant. If something is generally (evergreen) relevant, it gets placed in a text "longnotes.md" where they can also be searched and also found roughly by its date. Do whatever works for you.
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-06-29 19:08:07+00:00
OK, I'll do my best: Economies of scale.

Consider two toy economies: One in which purchasing power is fairly evenly distributed among the population, and one in which it's concentrated via a power-law distribution into the top 1%, and 0.1%, etc.

In the first case, the quantities of mass-market products demanded will be much larger, because more people can afford to purchase them. This means demand for things like cameras, cell phones, breakfast cereals, movies, video games software, etc, go up. However most of these are also things where economies of scale makes production more efficient as order quantities increase. Factories can invest in jigs, automation, and high-throughput lines to make enough quantity for everyone. The jobs that produce these goods also become better-paid, and easier to secure investment for, because order quantities are higher and less volatile. And doubly so for intangible goods like software, ebooks, music, and video games: production can scale to infinite demand, so there can never be a production shortage, but people who work in these industries can be better rewarded for their efforts because a bigger audience can afford to pay more.

So order quantities grow, and so do incomes, but inflation is relatively low because of the increasing efficiency of production. This means real GDP per capita increases greatly, and the population as a whole becomes materially more wealthy. Even though wealth is being distributed away from top earners, there are huge material rewards available to anyone able to supply goods and services to the masses, because the masses are able to pay for those goods and services.

In the wealth-concentration economy, those mass-production industries have to fight for scraps, because the top 1% has as much purchasing power as the bottom 99%, and the top 0.1% has more purchasing power than the 1% below them. More purchasing power is directed towards luxury goods: golf courses, supercars, yachts, country club estates, Rolex watches, art, private jets, and real estate. Production quantities are low and inefficient, and in the case of land, production is effectively impossible. Prices go up for these assets, but there is little productive benefit to the economy. The excess wealth of the 0.1% is put towards buying political influence, buying news media, and so on, which becomes another negative for society as a whole. Meanwhile an entrepreneur might identify a pressing need among the bottom 25% of the populace, where very simple things (eg. vitamins or eyeglasses) could create an incredible increase in social welfare, but they will not be able to secure investment nor be rewarded for such efforts because there is no profit in it; the poor cannot afford to pay.
by ang_cire | 2025-06-29 19:10:24+00:00
> As far as I can tell, there's no real explanation of how it supposedly came about.

Critical awards are a huge boon in getting your book on the very limited and dwindling shelf space (and especially on endcaps and displays, where they're going to be noticed), or on the front page of online book stores.

In a field that is hurting for readers, that's a huge deal. That will get books sold for a *very tiny* number of titles, but not create a stable fanbase. So everyone is competing for those critical awards, causing the genre to spiral.
by FredPret | 2025-06-29 19:11:02+00:00
The minimum amount needed to ensure the basic spirit of the law actually happens.

The less regulation and tax you have, the quicker the wheel of innovation above turns.

OTOH, there are some cheap and easy regulations with a large societal return, like pollution regs. These low-hanging fruit should be picked, as long as the fruit-pickers don’t redirect the whole economy towards ever-taller fruit-picking ladders.
by divan | 2025-06-29 19:11:06+00:00
It's well studied topic in psychology of motivation. In the main theory of human motivation, Self-Determination Theory (SDT), it's one of the three main predictors of motivation change. It's called "relatedness" – the need to feel connected to others (others two are autonomy and competence). These three function almost like a slider that you can increase or decrease in order to influence yours(or others) motivation in your particular domain or situation. It's one of the life-changing theories in psychology. Similar to "game theory" you don't need to get deep into it, but rather learn the fundamentals to start seeing world (mostly motivation/wellbeing of you and others) differently.
by bigyabai | 2025-06-29 19:11:21+00:00
I am not attacking your character. This is specifically aimed at HN's cognitive dissonance surrounding Apple doing anything possibly bad. It is pointless to shield Tim Cook from ancillary flak, the hypocrisy here is exactly why this topic is so important to discuss. The comments here confirm that, everyone is saying this isn't what they expected. It isn't orthogonal.

> Making a correction about a point is not the same as defending it.

That is called astroturfing, and it is a deliberate bad-faith discussion tactic. If you genuinely don't think their comment is relevant to your point, then there would be no reason to write a reply to it. This is exactly the subliminal shit that depresses me, this site is whipped by Apple and will do anything except admit it.
by fwip | 2025-06-29 19:11:30+00:00
Not sure why you got downvoted. The researchers state:

“If we buy a sofa from major furniture company, it’s tested for harmful emissions before being put on sale. However, when we sit on the sofa, we naturally transform some of these emissions because of the oxidation field we generate,” said lead author Jonathan Williams, who heads the study of organic reactive species at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry. “This can create many additional compounds in our breathing zone whose properties are not well known or studied. Interestingly, body lotion and perfume both seem to dampen down this effect.”

Which, if you're worried about the effects of unstudied compounds, lotion will help protect you against.
by DennisP | 2025-06-29 19:11:32+00:00
Sure, here's a sampling with a favorite from each. I'm a synth fan, some of these guys are good keyboard players and others are just really good with synths, as far as I know. Some of the handfuls are bigger than others.

Gabe Churray: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGufuxRFqAM

Pete Calandra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUxNw2MEg0Q

LtN Jones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qke-hC7RnXQ

Johannes Winkler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1tySFkXUUA

Caught In Joy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhxM9MNau3U

Jay Hosking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCLqevwWE1g

Gattobus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGeAMOwW01k

Dexba: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3PB05qVI38

Tefty & Meems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILVIzsoc6_0

Vox Mnemonic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnQi3dnWrKE

Oxix52: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDNZPzSaYKo

JP Blasco: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKiB04JlQqY

Kris Lennox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC3GNZYcXUU

Singing Circuitry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwdxTuFosdo

Winterdagen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhNfUDs6TGY

Noah Lifschey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVFg-ZxNns0