MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lanyard-textile | 2025-06-22 14:26:22+00:00
You know, in moments like these, you have an opportunity to build a connection — to meet someone in the middle who sees the world a little differently, who is perhaps indoctrinated into a disrespectful aspect of capitalism and is unable to see through it yet, or who perhaps offers a perspective you don’t have yourself.

And you slam dunk any chance of connection for what seems to be the sake of argument and posture. All because of a difference in opinion? Because you have the mighty all-seeing eyes of an objective opinion we should all see through too?

I “had” to know my response would get no love? The only mistake I made here is my continued thought that this was a place for some kind of industry togetherness: It is just a constant stepping over each other for no apparent reason than to satisfy a kind of unfulfilled ego.

I wasn’t concerned with how much you would love my response. I didn’t cater it for you. You are not the only person in my god damn universe. It was meant to be my authentic perspective, to be helpful, or to invite conversation and debate if I missed another perspective unhad.

But with responses like these, gosh, why bother? What a waste of my love.

I think the argument you made is just an entirely different one. The inequality in your argument is basically whether you should be compensated for interviewing with a company — which, I don’t know what’s economically fair there and I’m not making an argument about. I’d love to be paid to interview :) I don’t know the economic impact of it though. I wonder if it would just lead to more selective hiring practices and worser mutual fits.

Requesting payment for just the NDA is weird to me. Without something like this, you’re asking the company to provide detailed specifics of the role you’re interviewing for, but you won’t give them any legal peace that you won’t run away with the secrets you learn: It’s a free and permitted distribution of anything your interviewers go and share with candidates.

It leads to interviews where you have no idea what the role actually is and what you’ll be doing on the job. Every question stonewalled with a generic answer so the employee doesn’t get in trouble. An atmosphere of curation and inauthenticity, to gauge how you will potentially spend years of your life.

Lovely.
by throw0101c | 2025-06-22 14:26:27+00:00
Somewhat related, US border officials noticed an increase of eggs smuggled into the US (+116% from Canada):

* https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/us-border-officials-hav...

* http://archive.is/https://thelogic.co/news/canada-us-trade-w...

* https://archive.is/https://www.wsj.com/articles/mexico-egg-s...

* https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-border-fentanyl-eggs-1.7486...
by Nopoint2 | 2025-06-22 14:28:03+00:00
No, I'm not. Explain it. If iron is healthy, and heavy metals are, indeed toxic, why did we end up with a crowd of hare brained idiots, and not super geniuses who built a moon city?

reply to below:

It doesn't have to be space, that was just an example. It could be anything else.

What I'm saying is that the cerebellum is the statistical machine. But its power is limited by fundamental limits. You start getting correlations everywhere as the number of inputs grows. And you get paranoid. This is probably why even land birds don't get brains much larger than what they have, there is no point.

So you need data reduction (like the autoencoder, or similar) that reduces the data into fewer outputs that carry all the essential meaning, so that the correlation machine only operates in the latent space that only contains sensible things. (I suppose you could use it to make an actual AGI with resources that I don't have)

The thing is, if you disable the neocortex, the data reduction machine, you get people that seem smarter. They make conclusions that others can't and understand things that look like nonsense to everybody else. But all that extra stuff is delusions, hallucinations, and pure nonsese.

Yes, as far as I know iron and iron rich foods are traditionally known to be harmful in china, agriculture depended heavily on recycling, which keeps heavy metals in soil, and some foods that limit lead absorption (such as cheese) have been abandoned at some point in their history. But more or less, they are just lagging behind in the "cleanup" and "fignting anemia".
by gruez | 2025-06-22 14:28:04+00:00
I'm well aware of how markets work, but that doesn't make it less bonkers. Bottled water companies take municipal water, do some "filtering", and sell it for a 10x-100x markup. I'm sure the people buying the water thinks they're getting their money's worth, but that doesn't mean we can't point out how absurd it is, nor is " in most markets, price is a function of the value perceived by buyers and relative pricing of similar products" a satisfying counterargument to that.
by michaelt | 2025-06-22 14:29:38+00:00
nvidia, who make AI chips with kinda good software support, and who have sales reflecting that, is worth 3.5T

google, who make AI chips with barely-adequate software, is worth 2.0T

AMD, who also make AI chips with barely-adequate software, is worth 0.2T

Google made a few decisions with TPUs that might have made business sense at the time, but with hindsight haven't helped adoption. They closely bound TPUs with their 'TensorFlow 1' framework (which was kinda hard to use) then they released 'TensorFlow 2' which was incompatible enough it was just as easy to switch to PyTorch, which has TPU support in theory but not in practice.

They also decided TPUs would be Google Cloud only. Might make sense, if they need water cooling or they have special power requirements. But it turns out the sort of big corporations that have multi-cloud setups and a workload where a 1.5x improvement in performance-per-dollar is worth pursuing aren't big open source contributors. And understandably, the academics and enthusiasts who are giving their time away for free aren't eager to pay Google for the privilege.

Perhaps Google's market cap already reflects the value of being a second-place AI chipmaker?
by gruez | 2025-06-22 14:29:52+00:00
>Unless someone else makes an equivalent product and sell it for $14/year, and every user switches to the new product, this statement is moot. A product justifies its price tag as long as people are willing to buy it at that price.

adguard is free and I don't think I've encountered an ad that it didn't block. There's also open source adblockers like ublock origin lite, and some other one that was mentioned earlier this year but I forgot the name of.
by password54321 | 2025-06-22 14:31:21+00:00
Domestic military production in Turkey is ramping up especially in air defence while currently building the "Steel Dome" obviously inspired by Israel's Iron Dome [0] and partially in response to Israel's military conquest. Israel funded the PKK in Syria to attack Turkish armed forces [1] though the PKK have recently dissolved.

[0] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/17/heres-a-look-at-tur... [1] https://www.dailysabah.com/opinion/op-ed/dark-and-dangerous-...
by somenameforme | 2025-06-22 14:31:26+00:00
Pakistan was historically one of the most active sponsors of terrorism worldwide. [1] Their activities over time have moderated, but again exactly as I was suggesting would happen with Iran - this is likely in large part because they're not a target of various offensive activities, precisely because they have nukes. Each time you attack a country and kill people, those friends, relatives, and parts of the unconnected population do not forget nor forgive. You create the radicalism you claim to fight against.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_and_state-sponsored_t...
by k2enemy | 2025-06-22 14:31:35+00:00
Just curious what field you are in? I've noticed that in latex and "latex alternative" discussions the problem of journal templates/styles often comes up. However, every journal I've submitted to (dozens of different ones (with lots of rejects!)) just require vanilla latex and the editorial office does the work of getting it into their format. Clearly this isn't the case for everyone though!
by invalidname | 2025-06-22 14:31:47+00:00
> If you are direct descendants of the original Jews that have been living in the area for many centuries, I really hope that you and your family are safe from all the troubles.

That is an very problematic take. Some would might consider it racist.

Judia was here. That's a historic fact. Somehow you decided that the timeline for this being the "native country of a given people" is exactly in the right timeline to exclude the Jews. Like our right for the country has somehow elapsed because we experienced a genocide and didn't come back in time to reclaim our lost country...

Not that it matters but both me and my spouse were born in Israel as was the vast majority of this country. The claim that we're westerners is ludicrous and part of the typical anti-Israel propaganda.

My parents immigrated. My father escaped Morocco, my spouses father escaped Yemen. They both lost their homes as did 40% of the Jews who came to Israel from the east/south. Our mother's sides had vast families in Europe. Again a pretty common story...

> But if you're of the new recent Jewish immigrants to the promised land of Israel, I've really bad news for you. Personally I'd migrate elsewhere than accidently caught in the perpetual crossfire.

This sort of rhetoric is even more problematic. Many Jews are looking at people who say that and feel that Israel is our only home. This promotes Israeli nationalism and immigration to Israel.

Every time I'm in Europe and see the "pro-Palestine" demonstrators I'm thankful that I live in Israel. We might get rockets occasionally, but I feel safer walking the streets even if we have suicide bombers and shootings. At least we're together.

> I'm not sure whether you're naive or pretending to be naive, but don't be fool to think that the Israel - Palestinian conflict is a nationalist or secular agenda, it's not and it's never was.

I've been here for the past 50 years. I've had youth activities with Palestinian youths in the 80s and 90s. I know this very well.

I didn't hint in any waythat it's a secular conflict. It's 100% a religious conflict.

I said that Israel is mostly secular and had only one religious prime minister (for one year) and he had a Muslim party in his cabinet which was one of the most diverse in history.

That means that the religious problem that is at the root of the conflict is more to blame on the deeply religious element... Which is not Israel.

> It's highly religious matter and as you probably know the area surrounding Jerusalem is the holy land site for the three world's major religions namely Jewish, Christian and Islam, and the Jerusalem is mentioned specifically inside the Old Testament, New Testament and Quran, all originally in Semite based languages.

Are you seriously mansplaining my home country and its history to me?

> The term Israel was used in the Quran more than thousands it's being adopted by current Israel govt.

It's from the old testament, sons of Israel. I read the books.
by cheptsov | 2025-06-22 14:32:06+00:00
It’s so ridiculous to see TPUs being compared to NVIDIA GPUs. IMO proprietary chips such as TPU had no future sure to the monopoly on the cloud services. There is no competition across the cloud services providers. The only way to access TPUs is through GCP. As the result nobody wants to use them regardless of the technology. This is the biggest fault of GCP. Further the road, the gap between NVIDIA GPUs and Google TPUs (call it „moat“ or CUDA) is going to grow.

The opposite situation is with AMD which are avoiding the mistakes of Google.

My hope though is that AMD doesn’t start to compete with cloud service providers, e.g. by introducing their own cloud.
by chantepierre | 2025-06-22 14:32:53+00:00
Hey, I missed your comment. Nowadays the best source for optics is often a secondhand instrument where you scavenge the optics. If we specifically talk about a 6"f/5, most recent industrial tubes have really decent optics.

Buying new optics online, avoid any ad where the price seems surprisingly low. For example you can find 6"f/5 mirrors advertised as lambda/8 precision. There's a lot of abuse with this denomination : some sellers use surface precision, whereas we usually talk about reflected wavefront, so lambda/8 becomes lambda/4.

Then, there are a lot of ads for optics at great prices that aren't specified as parabolic (in the case of newtonian mirrors). Most often those are spherical, which is totally unsuitable except for longer focal ratios (and that quickly becomes impossible as diameter grows).

On the other hand, I recently ordered a 40$ "lambda/8" spherical mirror, and it was a great sphere, so a great starting point to polish it to a parabola.
by erkt | 2025-06-22 14:34:21+00:00
ICE must cast a wide net in blue cities because they are not sharing data on the criminal undocumented residents. They are shielding the illegal migrants who are already in jail or released on bond. Red areas are not shielding their criminal element and there is less need for such a wide net. Sanctuary cities ignoring the constitution and delegation of powers to do whatever they want is causing much of the escalation.
by em-bee | 2025-06-22 14:34:22+00:00
Centralization is not a security property

true, i wasn't thinking about security here but reuse of infrastructure. signal doesn't reuse infrastructure because it needs its own servers.

End-to-end encryption that the user can’t accidentally downgrade from

that's a fair point.

that doesn’t spray valuable metadata across the Internet

i find that a gross exaggeration. yes. metadata can be read by every server the mail passes through. but in practice most mails are only touching the sending and the receiving mail server. 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.

also, where i use deltachat, the alternative is to use email.

I think the average person doesn’t know what an encrypted email is

which is why we need more encryption by default.

adoption outside of corporate S/MIME is marginal.

because it is to hard to use. deltachat makes it easy to use. next possible step: delta mail. a more traditional mail client that makes encryption as easy as deltachat does.

The goal is to actually put users in a position where adversaries struggle to collect the kinds of data and metadata that would allow them to harm people

there is a long road to get to that. more encryption is just one step, but a necessary one. i agree with you, but the goal can't be reached if we don't work on multiple fronts. one of those is helping people to learn about encryption and privacy, which only happens by slowly getting them to use better tools and by improving those tools.

rejecting deltachat is rejecting something that improves the current state for something better that is not obtainable by some. sometimes that makes sense, especially if the solution promises more than it holds. and deltachat would fall into this if it were to promise complete privacy. but i don't think it does that.

i have friends who outright refuse to sign up to a new service. but deltachat is ok because they can use their existing email for it. technically that sounds the same as saying that with signal you can reuse your existing phonenumber, but people already have much higher privacy expectations to sharing their phone number, and also deltachat doesn't share your email address except with recipients so it really isn't the same thing.
by lcuff | 2025-06-22 14:34:22+00:00
For some "a little friction" is enough. For others, not. I keep less-healthy food treats in a cupboard in my garage, because the friction of walking out to get them is enough to reduce my usage to an acceptable level. Even less healthy treats I don't buy, because the friction of going to the grocery store to get them when I'm craving them is enough.

It's an interesting exercise to think about how this could be engineered to increase the friction.
by invalidname | 2025-06-22 14:35:16+00:00
> I'm going to play a childish game with you: who started it first?

You can say that the CIA. Not Israel. But again that's a child's game just like you said.

How many Jews conducted suicide bombings in Germany after the holocaust?

We moved on, I can't say forgive and forget but we go to Germany and Austria. We talk and we live.

> Are you saying people on the internet lie?

Yep. And exaggerate and simplify the wrong things.
by palmfacehn | 2025-06-22 14:36:10+00:00
Good points. Although it should be easy to understand how Damsky would read his own ideology into the definition.

>"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights."

Ultimately the founding documents are part of a tradition of liberal individualist thought. Racist ideologies and identity politics can be broadly characterized as collectivist and illiberal. Although the founders may not have explicitly condemned slavery, the seeds for individual freedom (self-ownership) were there.
by kyrra | 2025-06-22 14:37:59+00:00
> The first Iran deal in 2015 was not perfect, but it would have provided some guarantees for 15 years.

And then what? They have nuclear weapons? Which is what Israel and the US doesn't want.

Also, Iran didn't even let inspector into all of the enrichment sites they had, so they were breaking the original deal with Obama from the start.
by slv77 | 2025-06-22 14:39:10+00:00
Iran sponsored insurgents in Iraq and provided the training and means to build explosively formed penetrators that killed 196 US troops:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/01/03/...

The US assassinated Soleimanis and Iran reponded with direct middle attacks on US bases:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Martyr_Soleimani

Iranian activity agains the US goes back decades and has escalated recently:

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2025/06/19/iranian-and-iranian-...

Other than a brief thaw in relations in 2015 there is nothing that would suggest that Iran’s anti-US rhetoric is for domestic consumption and for show.
by phoronixrly | 2025-06-22 14:39:11+00:00
I think both you and the commenter you responded to are misreading the article. I read it as 'hey, currently everyone on social media is discussing $latest US political news, posting over-directed short-form content, etc., so you posting a family photo, a photo of your favourite plant, sharing a favourite song, or a passage of a book you're reading would be considered odd, weird, despite being a completely normal thing to do and many people used to do regularly.'
by IOT_Apprentice | 2025-06-22 14:39:22+00:00
lol. Embeds among civilians? Like the IDF does, with military underground bases? Disable Hamas via genocide? By destroying every hospital in Gaza? By raping Palestinian women & girls? By looting their homes? By bombing and starving them?

Exactly who is the Dragon here? You think Israel’s bloodlust is done with Iran? They want much more Territory across the Middle East. They are occupying parts of Cypress right now, And have craving for parts of Egypt and more.
by jonyt | 2025-06-22 14:39:22+00:00
Iran isn't being attacked because it's not nice to its own people (which is a shame really, all dictators and theocrats should worry for their lives). It's being attacked because it has ballistic missiles, a nuclear weapons program, a giant sign in the middle of Tehran counting down the existence of Israel and its leaders have repeatedly called for Israel's destruction. So weapon, opportunity and motive. It's of course free to work towards the destruction of Israel but then it's hardly fair to complain that Israel may try to preempt that.
by Ale0407 | 2025-06-22 14:40:26+00:00
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by pliny | 2025-06-22 14:40:32+00:00
>All photographs or videos you have seen have been placed there for you to see them

The source of most of the videos from both sides is random social media users.

Even the videos and info from the IDF I would regard as credible, since they released similar videos and info from the Lebanon operation last year that was consistently corroborated by evidence from social media (there was no internet blackout in Lebanon so every IDF strike on an urban area had multiple videos from different perspectives).
by stared | 2025-06-22 14:40:47+00:00
I think we should declare a moratorium on the use of p-values.

If you don't understand what a p-value is, you shouldn't use it. If you do understand p-values, you're probably already moving away from them. The Bayesian approach makes much more sense. I highly recommend David MacKay's "Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms," as well as "Bayesian Methods for Hackers": https://github.com/CamDavidsonPilon/Probabilistic-Programmin....

At the same time, startups aren't science experiments. Our goal is not necessarily to prove conclusively whether something is statistically "better". Rather, our goal is to solve real-world problems.

Suppose we run an A/B test, and its result indicates B is better according to whatever statistical test we've used. In this scenario, we will likely select B—frankly, regardless of whether B is truly better or merely indistinguishable from A.

However, what truly matters in practice are the metrics we choose to measure. Picking the wrong metric can lead to incorrect conclusions. For example, suppose our data shows that users spend, on average, two more seconds on our site with the new design (with p < 0.001 or whatever). That might be a positive result—or it could simply mean the new design causes slower loading or more confusion, frustrating users instead of benefiting them.
by Aerbil313 | 2025-06-22 14:41:20+00:00
Preach. I've noticed this exact effect and wrote about it recently, calling it 'ungrounding': https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44046389

I don't think anybody can even begin to notice the effect unless they detach from the various channels first. If you don't consume any content (including TV, radio, Hackernews) for a few months (near impossible, but I did it once) you realize the absolute mental captivity literally everybody else, including your very loved ones are living in.
by WillAdams | 2025-06-22 14:41:30+00:00
AI (obviously) driven tool which uses a photo of tools (which includes a sheet of A4 or Letter sized paper) which then automatically generates outlines and allows arranging the outlines to cut out of foam, or use to 3D print a holder (such as for Gridfinity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33919316)