MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 827a | 2025-06-22 05:35:55+00:00
Please do not lose grasp on what we're talking about here: These were nuclear enrichment facilities with the goal of enriching fissile material for nuclear weapons. These were not civilian, or even conventional military, targets. There is a gulf of difference between one overnight mission to dampen the nuclear prospects of a dictatorial, authoritarian, religious-extremist regime, and China launching a multi-modal invasion of a near-peer ally.
by PeterHolzwarth | 2025-06-22 05:35:56+00:00
I understand what you mean, but we've been in this conflict for decades already. America and loads of other countries have been working to stop Iran from achieving nuclear weapons. Remember that in much of the middle east, Iran is considered an enemy. A nuclear armed Iran would result in the rest of the middle east rapidly pursuing nukes by way of defense against Iran - a country most of the middle east views as a combatant and an enemy.

I won't comment or discuss who you voted for - that isn't germane here. What is important is that America has been working for decades - often quite blatantly, sometimes with the thinnest veneer of deniability - to stop Iran from getting nukes. We're now just saying the quiet part out loud.
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by fakedang | 2025-06-22 05:36:13+00:00
Be the cause of the terrorism, then talk of how you're the "tip of the spear" in preventing terrorism. You'd need to be special to be that kind of deluded.

With these strikes, it seems more like Israel has ample intelligence on the US government than it has on the Middle East, since even DNI concurred that there was no proof of WMDs.
by viccis | 2025-06-22 05:36:52+00:00
The epistemology skews analytic and also "philosophy of science". It's not inherently an issue, but it does mean that there's a reason that I spend a lot of time here on orange site talking about Kantian concepts of epistemology in response to philosophical skepticism about AI.

A good example of the failing of "rationality" is Zionism. There are plenty of rationalists who are Zionists, including Scott Aaronson (who I incidentally think is not a very serious thinker). I think I can give a very simple rational argument for why making a colonial ethnostate is immoral and dangerous, and they have their own rational reasons for supporting it. Often, the arguments, including Scott's, are purely self interest. Not "rational."

>My personal view is that she does some interesting semi-rigorous surveying

Posting surveys on Twitter, as a sex worker account, is so unrigorous that to take it seriously is very concerning. On top of that, she lives in a bubble of autistic rationality people and tries to make general statements about humanity. And on top of that, half her outrageous statements are obvious attempts at bargaining with CSAM she experienced that she insists didn't traumatize her. Anyone who takes her seriously in any regard is a fool.
by scott_w | 2025-06-22 05:36:59+00:00
> it just depends on the skill level of the players as to whether that is interesting to you or not.

The people denigrating football are referring to the Premier League, La Liga, etc. It’s nothing to do with skill and everything to do with snobbery.

> It takes years of learning and practice to be able to make even the most basic piece of software, whereas my 2 year old child can reliably kick a ball into a net.

You’re starting to sound like those people.

> Why does everybody have to enjoy everything?

I didn’t say you did, all I said was that it’s a sad cultural behaviour that I’ve seen to denigrate things other people enjoy.

I don’t even watch football that much, I picked it because of its popularity.
by ant6n | 2025-06-22 05:38:58+00:00
I sometimes her proposals like that, and it sounds kind of attractive - you get into your pod and forget everything until you arrive.

But in a sense, night trains are already like that. Since they can stop at multiple places, you can depart and arrive downtown. In the meantime you’re in your cabin and forget everything.

Entering the train „with“ the pod instead of just yourself is gonna make boarding and alighting take forever, and the logistics of storing and moving the pods are a nightmare. It’s going to reduce capacity by a lot because you cannot optimize the layout and every pod needs to be „insertable“ as a whole. (3x reduction in capacity means 3x increase in ticket cost).

Homologation is going to be a nightmare - in Europe, realistically, it’s gonna take more than 10 years or develop something like that. You need a new infrastructure because right now stations are for people - that’ll probably take 20 years (in Europe).
by SllX | 2025-06-22 05:39:07+00:00
I get this a lot from a guy I do trust, and his old man is an Iranian immigrant, but I also recognize my sources are very biased against the regime.

Is there any good reporting out there or sentiment analysis that can show this? Or is it all word of mouth on the Internet? It's okay if there is nothing, but I'd feel a lot better if there was something substantial to back this up too.
by sublinear | 2025-06-22 05:39:20+00:00
> The average human doesn't need to be that fit and strong anymore. Just like the future human won't need to be so intelligent anymore.

I disagree. What saved us from physical toil was not physical fitness, but ingenuity. What keeps the world running is still ingenuity, and all signs point to the exact opposite of what you're saying: we'll need even smarter people in the future.

In most cases AI doesn't even lower the bar for anyone and makes topics harder to understand on a sufficiently deep level to do anything useful with that knowledge. With LLMs too many conflate communication with understanding. A robot middleman merely relaying the understanding of other humans does not itself possess that understanding.
by YZF | 2025-06-22 05:39:23+00:00
The US has no desire or intent to occupy Iran. It would take a year just to move enough forces to even contemplate it. Iran is mountainous which makes this a lot harder than Iraq.

It is also completely unnecessary. There are two options. Either the current regime makes a "deal" or it's going to get crippled to the point of irrelevance or removed.

Iran and Iraq are very different. Different culture, people and history. It's also worth remembering Iran is not homogeneous, only 61% of the population are Persians. There are Azeri, there are Kurds and various other ethnic/region minorities.

Iran is extremely vulnerable. It has internal issues, constantly oppressing/suppressing its people. Its economy is in terrible shape. Most of its economic engine can be easily taken out (its main oil terminals). The bulk of its military can be destroyed from the air, it has little defensive or offensive capability. They know it.
by GuardianCaveman | 2025-06-22 05:39:34+00:00
Oh we stopped them? They’ve steadily advanced towards being a nuclear state regardless of all the diplomacy deployed. How many countries don’t have nukes that aren’t being invaded. Canada, Italy, Japan, Costa Rica etc. they don’t have nukes and I don’t think they’re about to be invaded because they’ve joined the international community and are not sponsoring hezbollah or houthis etc.
by Animats | 2025-06-22 05:39:59+00:00
For a good sense of how to think about industrial design, here's Lowey's autobiography, "Never Leave Well Enough Alone".[1] Look for the before and after pictures of common objects he redesigned. In most cases, sales went up.

As a bad example, see "Design for Dreaming", a 1956 General Motors promotion around the time the auto industry was reaching peak chrome and peak tailfin. This also introduced the first self-driving car, the Firebird 2.[2] (The self-driving didn't actually work in the Firebird 2. It did work in the Firebird 3, on a test track equipped with a guide wire.)

[1] https://archive.org/details/neverleavewellen0000raym/page/38...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG_KxSM6bTI

[3] https://youtu.be/tG_KxSM6bTI?t=427
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-06-22 05:40:13+00:00
> This has always been the policy.

To the best of your understanding, what is the unambiguous, demonstrable way this policy benefits the nation? What are the gains that outweigh the cost of decades of doltish enforcement?

I am asking because of all the potential benefactors I can come up with, none of them are the American public. I'm hoping your experience can provide some unforeseen nuance.
by 827a | 2025-06-22 05:40:56+00:00
You can let this context paralyze you into feeling that there's no morally right response to any action anyone takes in this complex world. Or, you can just say: what they're doing is wrong, so we're going to stop it. If you don't learn to do the latter, you'll spend the rest of your life beholden to the tyranny of the people who do.
by bruce511 | 2025-06-22 05:41:30+00:00
Except it's not "for life". It's until they feel free to lift the non-compete. My guess is that most information you take from a company is irrelevant in a couple years. Maybe 5 tops?

Plus it'd almost certainly end with zero notice. You'd get a email saying "you're free to go". Suddenly. After say 26 months.

So it's not like a "pension for life" - just a gap in your employment history.
by jiggawatts | 2025-06-22 05:43:57+00:00
a) Russia plans to conquer Ukraine and use its resources. Nuclear power plants are very expensive and critical to industry. Russia wants to capture these for their own use, not blow them up and irradiate the countryside that they wish to be a part of their own country!

b) Active reactors contain very "hot" decay products that are very bad for your health if atomised by an explosion and spread around. Chernobyl is the prototypical example of this. Enriched Uranium is less radioactive than natural Uranium, that's the point! Natural Uranium would "trigger itself" prematurely due to its constant background decay radiation.
by const_cast | 2025-06-22 05:44:24+00:00
1. For the love of God please stop saying "Huh?" This is not Reddit, nor is the is comment you're replying to so unbelievably stupid that you are literally dumbfounded. I can tell, because you managed to put together a reply after the "Huh?"

2. 80% of the posts in that article-thingy are "no longer available".
by YZF | 2025-06-22 05:44:34+00:00
Israel hasn't really engaged in regime change. If anything the opposite. There was a single failed attempt to get the Christians into power in Lebanon. But mostly sort of the devil I know. We have Hussein in Jordan. We had Assad in Syria. Egypt had its own turmoils but not much Israeli involvement. The PA and Hamas were also viewed as a stabler alternative to chaos. Saudi and the emirates pretty stable. Turkey (not quite middle east but whatever) also have their internal turmoil. Iran has been stable as well.
by PostOnce | 2025-06-22 05:44:41+00:00
Late reply but I hadn't considered that, it's an interesting problem, it might be worthwhile to just buy a second American-standard optical table, if the cost is only a few thousand dollars, and most of the money is spent on other hardware and labor, assuming this software actually saves anyone any time.

Then again, this is coming from a guy who had to call nearly every fastener supplier in a country in order to source a specific kind of countersunk UNC screw to fit foreign hardware he ordered. That still stings.
by psychoslave | 2025-06-22 05:45:10+00:00
> We aren't shooting rockets into space.

Most of us don't, indeed. So still aligned with your perspective, it's good to take in consideration what we are currently working on, and what will be the possible implication. Sometimes the line is not so obvious though. If we design a library or framework which is not very specific to a inconsequential outcome, it's no longer obvious what policy make the more sense.
by rich_sasha | 2025-06-22 05:45:16+00:00
> unauthorized

It's a weird one. I don't disagree with your post, still, what is "approved" nukes? A bunch of countries got them, then decided that no one else is allowed them. Then Israel also got them, also "unauthorized", but countries who don't mind pretend they don't know.

In the end there is no authorized and unauthorized nukes, only a calculus of power.
by snickerbockers | 2025-06-22 05:45:23+00:00
Are they a court or a historical society? Surely they don't operate under the premise that they will never have an opportunity to fulfill their own mandate?

Netanyahu or Putin accidentally wandering into a hostile country sounds like a ludicrous scenario but if that ever happens to any signatory they are treaty-bound to arrest him and extradite him to The Hague. What's the plan for dealing with the blowback? Either the host country violates the Rome statute or they have initiated a war with a hostile, well-armed foreign entity.
by scott_w | 2025-06-22 05:46:07+00:00
> The consequences of getting it wrong are... you sell fewer widgets?

If that’s the difference between success and failure then that is pretty important to you as a business owner.

> do no harm, see if we're heading in the right vector, and trust that you can pivot if it turns out you got a false positive

That’s a reasonable, and in plenty of contexts the absolute best, approach to take. But don’t call it A/B testing, because it’s not.
by viccis | 2025-06-22 05:46:46+00:00
>extremist Muslims or familiarity with what the Quran and hadiths

You can easily find stuff in the Bible and the Torah or Talmud that would shock you. And Israel even acts on the latter. But conveniently it's just the Muslim world, one beset with colonial extraction for centuries, that you care about. Not the people in the US who supported wars killings hundreds of thousands over the last few decades for religious reasons. Hmm.
by einpoklum | 2025-06-22 05:46:51+00:00
Are you suggesting that states may bomb each other when they don't want to "take the risk" of the other state possibly carrying out a dangerous attack on them in the future?

Plus, the nuclear issue is the excuse, not the reason. Palestine, Lebanon, Syria (+ regime change, sorta), Iraq (+ regime change), Afghanistan and now Iran. All attacked repeatedly and extensively over the past two decades.
by jack_h | 2025-06-22 05:46:57+00:00
So it seems that due to imprecise language people disagree on the exact place of the red line the US (and Israel) were drawing. The post you responded to was indicating that the red line was, as a sibling comment mentioned, the breakout time from political decision to working nuclear weapon. Many other people, yourself included, seem to consider the red line to be the political decision itself. This red line now may be crossed in response to our first strike after their violation of the breakout time red line. If we were successful it seems as though the message is clear, we will use overwhelming military force to prevent them from having a nuclear weapon. So even if the political decision gets made to build one, any attempt to restart the process - which isn't exactly stealthy - will be met with similar force. If we failed though, then we might get to see a nuclear weapon being used in modern times.
by const_cast | 2025-06-22 05:47:19+00:00
The best part is those two things have only gotten worse over time. Turns out, they were never really that good of an idea, they just had money to burn and legislative holes to exploit. Now Uber is more expensive than Taxis ever were, and AirBNB is virtually useless now that they have to play the same legal ballgame as hotels. Oh, and that one is more expensive too.

Tech companies forget that software is easy, the real world is hard. Computers are very isolated and perfect environments. But building real stuff, in meatspace, has more variables than anyone can even conceptualize.
by motorest | 2025-06-22 05:47:41+00:00
If you read up on Iraq's history of WMDs, the relevance of Iraq's chemical and biological weapons was that Saddam's regime had already a long history of developing and using these types of weapons both against neighbors and its own civilians. When Saddam decided to invade and annex Kuwait, half the world united to act, drive him out, and eliminate Iraq's WMD programmes. After the first gulf war, the UN was in charge of verifying that Saddam's regime destroyed it's existing stockpile and WMD programmes, but Saddam not only actively prevented the UN from doing any form of verificarion but also outright antagonized the UN.

It was with this backdrop that the "Iraq has WMDs" campaign managed to get traction. If you learn history and pay attention to the events, you'll quickly understand that Saddam's antagonism and mockery of the whole UN institution, specially when they self-isolated, was an easy sell even with weak evidence.

Making this out to be a simple matter exclusively and bounded to the existence of WMDs is naive and outright ignorant.
by mo_42 | 2025-06-22 05:47:53+00:00
> Back to the dashboard experiment: after you applied the Bonferroni correction you got... nothing.

I guess you got something: Users are not sensitive to these changes, or that any effect is too small to detect with your current sample size/test setup.

In a startup scenario, I'd quickly move on and possibly ship all developed options if good enough.

Also, running A/B tests might not be the most appropriate method in such a scenario. What about user-centric UX research methods?
by coffeebeqn | 2025-06-22 05:49:05+00:00
Not necessarily but this is also not the end of the campaign. If Israel and US take out their ultimate bargaining chip and have air supremacy then the room to maneuver for the ayatollah is quite small. What happens next inside Iran is anyone’s guess. There have been multiple waves of very large protests in the past five years. What’s stopping mossad from delivering rifles to them from Syria or an airdrop at this point of escalation
by missedthecue | 2025-06-22 05:49:20+00:00
They can penetrate 60m of soil. They cannot penetrate 60m of concrete. Reinforced concrete at about 5000psi would only get penetration of 8-15m.

The facility is beneath 80m of limestone which in the Qom formation is roughly equivalent to about 5000psi concrete.

Beneath the limestone, sits the facility itself which is encased in high performance concrete. So these bombs need to pen 80m of 5000psi material and then a unknown depth of high performance concrete.
by jcrawfordor | 2025-06-22 05:50:00+00:00
Silent films were inconsistent on frame rate, especially early on. The cameras were hand cranked and so the frame rate was determined by the operator. It wasn't unusual to speed up and slow down the frame rate within a scene to achieve a desired effect. The person cranking the projector, in the early days, had to make a similar judgment. As hand cranked projectors have way to electrically powered ones, handling abnormal speeds became difficult, which lead to standardization. Early silent films almost always run too fast when projected on modern projectors. As a result, variable speed has always been a desirable feature for projectors used for historic films. Film preservationists would often modify projectors to provide it.

It can similarly be very difficult to find aperture masks to fit the unusual aspect ratios of older films, so a projectionist might have to fabricate one. Fortunately that's pretty easy with a file.
by wkat4242 | 2025-06-22 05:50:03+00:00
I think special offers are not really advertising.

I view advertising as something brought to my attention that I wouldn't otherwise buy. Being made aware of special offers is more to tweak the moment of buying stuff I was going to buy anyway but waiting for a decent price.

If I go to MediaMarkt and there's a signpost at the phone area saying "Samsung S25 100 euro discount" then I don't think this is advertising. After all the S25's are lying on the shelf right there whether the offer is there or not. I am there to at least consider buying one and I am there already looking for one before I saw the sign, it's just a notification that the price is low.
by cryptonector | 2025-06-22 05:50:14+00:00
> As I understand it enrichment is by gas centrifuge or thermal diffusion.

Centrifuges. They got them via the A. Q. Khan network. We learned about if circa 2005 from Qaddaffi who gave up his to secure peace and his safety (and it didn't turn out well for him because Obama did not respect the gentleman's deal Qaddaffi had with Bush).
by crossroadsguy | 2025-06-22 05:50:43+00:00
As someone who absolutely hates American bullying of a hegemony. This is one case where I believe people of Iran might come out beneficial of it. In the long term? I am not so sure.

But will that happen? I doubt it. A country like America likes authoritarian regimes that like to listen to America. So Iranian things in the best interest of America would be the same theocracy but docile to America at least in the near future (or worse a full fledged military dictatorship which they anyway installed once).

However I just hope/dream (and it's too much of a hope) for the sake of Iranian people - it ends up getting a democracy after all (maybe).

However there is one thing clear - there is no rule based foreign relations, business, diplomacy anymore in this post truth world of ours. It's plain simple - you look after your own hind lest you find someone is at the door wanting to take it; might be an ally just as well.

A side note: I can't thank four of my country's ex PMs [0] enough that they ensured we had nukes inspite of stringent sanctions from other nations which ironically, among them, almost all already had nukes :D

The point is - we wish there were no nukes in our heating beautiful world; but tough luck, so you better get your own and get it soon.

[0] esp. Indira Ghandhi; also, probably the only head of sate that actually succeeded in "selling freedom" thing. Something America specialises in and uses as a premise to routinely reduce various parts of the world to rubble. A positive outcome of such endeavours - its defence industry getting push from it and of course it goes about trying to re-build it, giving push to other of its industries, half or quarter way and then finds other sundry places to subject to this routine.
by simonh | 2025-06-22 05:51:00+00:00
It's not so much them being a theocracy IMHO. It's that they believe they have a religious duty to destroy the state of Israel.

Put those Israeli shoes on. There's a state armed with ballistic missiles in easy range of you, they have the facilities necessary to enrich weapons grade Uranium, recently acquired more advanced centrifuges, they have the uranium already enriched far beyond what's necessary for civilian use, they have far more of it than they credibly need for such civilian use, and they believe god has ordered them to destroy you.

How well would you sleep at night?
by const_cast | 2025-06-22 05:51:28+00:00
Automation returns more power (abstract) to the owning class, which will make inequality more severe over time, which then results in said owning class having enough power to change legislation and market dynamics to their own desires. So, in turn - more poisoning, less quality, and more consolidation.

A lot of people think wealth inequality isn't a big deal, but I disagree. The more proportion of money a select few have in comparison to everyone else, the higher the likelihood those select few can mold society to their whim. Corruption thrives off of wealth inequality. Without it, it cannot exist.