MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sudopluto | 2025-07-29 05:51:56+00:00
you bring up an interesting point, in that after two years of war, almost none of the pre-war hamas leadership is left alive. why is hamas refusing to surrender even though all of it's higher leadership is dead? it should be clear that the "axis of resistance" wasn't coming to help on oct 8th itself, and two years later iran and it's proxies are toast. yet hamas opts to continue fighting, at this point it looks like a suicide cult that wants to drag civilians down with it for the purpose of martyrdom
by Aunche | 2025-07-29 05:52:45+00:00
> Does anyone still need testimonies like these to be convinced that Israel is systematically exterminating the Palestinians using kinetic force and starvation?

Before October 7, activists insisted that Gaza’s border restrictions were driven purely by hatred rather than any legitimate security concerns. That view was completely discredited by the attacks on October 7, so forgive me for being skeptical of similarly absolutist claims being made now.

To be clear, preventing famine should take far greater priority than intercepting a few more rockets with Iron Dome. The suffering in Gaza is undeniable. But I see Israel’s actions as driven more by indifference or strategic rigidity than by a calculated intent to exterminate.

Maybe that distinction doesn't matter to you, since it doesn't change how people are dying needlessly, but how we interpret Israel’s intent shapes how we respond. Backing Israel into a corner tends to make things worse, not better. That’s why the Biden administration’s approach of supporting military aid while applying diplomatic pressure was the only viable path to avoid even greater catastrophe.
by slg | 2025-07-29 05:53:18+00:00
The information might be viewable from the public, but there was still an expectation of privacy at the start of this. It isn't a naked person walking down the street, it is someone getting naked in their own home and you're peering through their window. Neither the legal status of that action nor other people also being able to see in the window makes it morally justifiable to violate the original expectation of privacy.
by ars | 2025-07-29 05:54:02+00:00
So you should know that this definition of Zionism that you use was created by antisemities.

No actual Zionist uses this definition. It's also not a factual reality of how Israel started, Israel is not a settler project, it's not colonial, and it was not built on Palestinian lands. None of that is true. Zionism is Jews returning to their own land, not the land of others.

But I am well aware that people like to pretend it's true, (and then criticize it). If you spend a lot of time online you'll hear this definition over and over, and people actually start to believe it's real.

Israel already has equal rights for all civilians inside Israel. The people in the area not in Israel of course are not Israeli, and they were offered a state of their own, which they refused (multiple times).

> because if they did support that, they wouldn’t be Zionists, at least not in my books.

Tons of Zionists want that, they call them leftists in Israel, but they are also Zionists. They used to be far more numerous, but multiple Palestinian attacks have greatly reduced their numbers. (It's one of the ironies of Oct 7 that the Palestinians primarily killed those people advocating for a Palestinian state.)

The fact that you say "they wouldn't be Zionists" makes it quite clear that you don't actually know what Zionism is!
by nenxk | 2025-07-29 05:54:07+00:00
They could still accept crypto/other methods as far as I’m aware steam has a low upkeep for the amount of profit they generate. Gaben has a whole fleet of gigantic yachts I’m sure they could stay a float for awhile ( pun unintended ) but now they gave them an inch and the next time a payment processor doesn’t like something they will take that down aswell until visa just becomes a second moderation team if they aren’t already.
by kstrauser | 2025-07-29 05:54:13+00:00
Those are very nice! I like the Uni Jetstream RT: https://www.jetpens.com/Uni-ball-Jetstream-RT-Ballpoint-Pen-...

It feels really nice to write with. I also have a Kuru Toga I picked up at a neat little stationery store on vacation, but I was reminded when I got home that I don't care for writing with pencils. Should that change, there it is waiting for me.
by Kurtz79 | 2025-07-29 05:54:15+00:00
If I understand correctly, looking at API pricing for Sonnet, output tokens are 5 times more expensive than input tokens.

So, if rate limits are based on an overall token cost, it is likely that one will hit them first if CC reads a few files and writes a lot of text as output (comments/documentation) rather than if it analyzes a large codebase and then makes a few edits in code.
by germandiago | 2025-07-29 05:54:57+00:00
Bureaucracy and institutions are by definition slower. It has always been like that.

If they want to have more impact, they need to adapt to more market-like techniques.

Whether an institution moving faster would be good or bad, I am not sure actually. Probably moving too fast for something that belongs to "everyone", with all kinds of heated opinions, etc. is not the best place to move fast.

OTOH, and this is as a spanish (I do not know enough about the specifics of America), I feel that nowadays part of the insritutions are "injected" changes that the society is not demanding from them. Destroying the established base and traditions of the (in this case) society. Social engineering and influencing campaigns I would say.

Maybe this is not the main topic of the article. Just was a brain dump I was doing about observations of my own.

These things have always existed actually. It is just that with technology and many people using it, information from individuals, etc. this influence is probably made more effectively.
by solidsnack9000 | 2025-07-29 05:55:03+00:00
I do think that Israel doesn't have to be fighting this fight; instead it could be playing the soft power game in Gaza much better...

What makes you think that?

You mention the Marshall Plan, but the Marshall Plan worked in part because of Germany's unconditional surrender and the Allies complete assumption of control of Germany. If Israel wanted to follow the same game plan, they would have to do what they are doing, until Hamas was utterly defeated militarily.

It's important to recognize that Germany's surrender was not conditioned on any aid or support or anything else. Imagine if the Marshall Plan had been started prior to Germany's defeat -- it would only have prolonged the conflict.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-07-29 05:56:07+00:00
That's an interesting correlation between the sizes and latencies for cache levels. Thanks for linking it.

Though once you're at the "distributed" tier, I wouldn't expect further increases to be sqrt. Distributed within a datacenter is probably going to have a log(n) topology of links, and distributed across datacenters is a fixed number of milliseconds based on the area you're serving with no real connection to amount of RAM.
by r14c | 2025-07-29 05:56:31+00:00
We already have a planned economy in a lot of ways anyway. We just don't have much collective control over who governs those levers. Particularly when it comes to resource allocation. VC might look like a free market approach on the surface, but it gives huge power to shape the economy to unaccountable un elected randos who likely "come from money" with a lot of skeletons in their closets. Even if they don't, having that kind if power with essentially no checks is a recipe for disaster.

We don't have to copy the Soviets exactly, but it's foolish to pretend like their system didn't work. Sure they killed and imprisioned people, but we do the same on at least the same scale. Socialism at least in principle isn't specifically aiming for that outcome. Whatever we're doing here kinda does. Our country would crumble if the war machine ever stopped. Changing our approach to anything is just too expensive to consider and dissent can't be tolerated for the same reason. What options do we really have?

Surely we can do better
by friendzis | 2025-07-29 05:56:33+00:00
GP: this describes the whole crypto world so well I can almost taste it.

Someone completely misunderstands how the real world works, misrepresents that even more when trying to articulate, uses convoluted wording to hide their total lack of understanding of the real world. Then create a "solution" for the problems that do not exist in the real world in the first place, in the process reinventing problems that are solved for centuries already or running head first into ideas that have been proven multiple times in history to just not work.

This whole machinery is then used by criminals to launder money, scammers to scam people out of money and speculants hoping to get rich quick, providing real money liquidity for the previous two.
by ars | 2025-07-29 05:56:34+00:00
Is it really that hard? Go see the stats on how much food GHF distributed, then add in the UN brings in (which never stopped).

Then go look at photos of fat healthy people holding starving kids, and wonder how that's even possible. If you read interviews (and I have) you'll get your answer: the food is very unevenly distributed, the strong have stolen it from the weak.
by dvt | 2025-07-29 05:57:59+00:00
> making employment more attractive than company-building

This is decidedly untrue. You can make a few clever(er) points here: VC meddling is rotting at the core of ingenuity (which I happen to agree with) or even that large companies (GOOG/MSFT/etc.) are tangentially capturing startups via incentives (think free credits, etc.). But author doesn't make these, so I won't argue against (or for) them.

> Today, higher-leverage actors are strip-mining institutional commons—democratic norms, social trust, educational relevance, economic mobility—faster than lower-leverage actors can regenerate them.

This will seem like a technicality, but for a pedant like myself, it's quite important: this is absolutely not the tragedy of the commons. It might be a new tragedy (maybe we'll call it "theft?"), but the interesting and paradoxical nature of the original has nothing to do with this reformulation. What makes the tragedy of the commons interesting is that all agents will favor maximizing their local maxima in spite of minimizing the global maxima. A sort of "missing the forest for the trees" thing.

> The stakes couldn't be higher. If we don't develop conscious approaches to managing leverage arbitrage, we risk a future where technological capability advances exponentially while social coordination capacity deteriorates linearly—a recipe for civilizational breakdown.

This seems a tad dramatic; "leverage arbitrage" was significantly higher during colonial or industrial times and society didn't exactly collapse. I agree with the sentiment, but not sure about all the "боже мой."
by foota | 2025-07-29 05:59:00+00:00
I want to say again that I don't think their plan pricing is straightforward, but (at least when I was looking at it the other day) I came away with the (correct, imo) impression that the 5x and 20x were just marketing terms and I should take it with a grain of salt. I agree it's not literally what it sounds like.

I think the disconnect here is that the 5x or 20x is true within a single session (and you'll see their website seems to always say this, clearly their legal team went over it with a fine tooth comb). The above about weekly quotas etc., isn't within a single session so the 5 or 20x no longer applies.
by halayli | 2025-07-29 05:59:53+00:00
When you read the title, "Why everything feels broken and what can we do", it is obvious op turned a me problem into an us problem.

It's a common pitfall to take yourself out of the equation when you are about to make assertions without evidence to back them up. The title could have been written as:

"Why do I feel everything is broken, and what can I do about it".

you will end up writing a completely different post as a result. a more sincere one, and one that is closer to the reality of the situation that needs to be addressed, and that is one's perceptions, biases, and feelings that come from our own personal experiences.
by xdennis | 2025-07-29 06:00:26+00:00
Saudi Arabia, Egypt[1], Morroco, Jordan, and others have used American weapons to attack Yemen for 10 years now. [2]

No one ever says anything because there are no Jews to blame.

[1]: second highest recipient of US aid [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi-led_intervention_in_the_...
by atoav | 2025-07-29 06:00:47+00:00
So let's make the assumption that all politicians flip-flop in their opinions, depending on what the popular opinion is these days.

Given that assumption: If our goal is to get politics to take a tougher stance on a foreign government does it really matter that much how they arrived there?

I get it, I too would love my politicians to hold principled humanitarian values and I know it doesn't feel good and it is certainly not ideologically pure, but those are the politicians we got now, if they come over at our side we could just welcome them with a knife hidden behind our back. We can always vote them out of office next time anyways, what we need now is their representation and vote.

IMO this mixes up two issues (genocide in Gaza and the wrong people in political office) and tries to solve both. But one of the issues has a different urgency than the others and I am afraid by purity-testing too hard a broad movement against Netanjahu is delayed.

If you don't want a specific politician vote for someone else next time and ensure there is a viable alternative when you do. That means you have lists who flip-flopped and try to tackle those who can be easily replaced first. But it is a separate problem.
by sien | 2025-07-29 06:01:28+00:00
The number of unicorns was 39 when the term was coined in 2013. Then there was 119 by 2018 and then there were 1284 unicorns by May 2024.

From :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn_(finance)#History

So not only is there no data to back up the authors claim but it is wrong and could be checked by looking at wikipedia.

You don't have to be right, you can make claims, but when you make grand claims you should at least check wikipedia.
by M95D | 2025-07-29 06:03:26+00:00
It still doesn't make sense.

Fire/emergency stations are placed so they can get quickly anywhere in their assigned area. If they're at another call when a real fire starts, it's not statiscally probable to be closer than if they were at the base station. They could be delayed even more by the traffic jam caused by the car accident they're responding to.

So better send one of the vans to heart attacks and car accidents and keep the fire truck at the base stations for fires only.
by solidsnack9000 | 2025-07-29 06:03:26+00:00
One reason to doubt that Israel is systematically exterminating the Gazan population is simply that the population is not decreasing or projected to decrease, which is to say, the excess deaths due to the conflict are not all that great relative to the natural rate of increase of the population.

Israel should be as aware of the statistics as anyone, especially when undertaking the systematic extermination of a population. If Israel actually intended this, don't you think it would go much faster, with the tremendous amount of ordnance that has been expended and the overwhelming military force Israel has in place? It just doesn't add up.
by canterburry | 2025-07-29 06:04:31+00:00
I have tried all sorts of UI based workflow and orchestration tools over the last 20 years.

As someone technical, I start, I build something simple quickly but then start thinking edge cases, exception handling, alternate flows etc and suddenly all that is easier to handle in code directly.

Much of the power of these solutions is the pre made integrations into other systems, and not the flow control to someone technical. Once you realize that, you start looking for integration platforms and not workflow.
by ecocentrik | 2025-07-29 06:04:35+00:00
FL has had excellent drag shows for 30-40 years and nobody gave a shit until a few party poopers pulled their heads out of their asses and decided to do some event searches. It's non-explicit adult entertainment usually for a mixed crowd, all laughing their asses off and cheering on the entertainment. Florida has more than enough titty bars, prostitutes and international sex trafficking rings to keep a Southern Baptist pastor happy but somehow men dressed like women singing popular music is too crazy.
by 9dev | 2025-07-29 06:05:16+00:00
Do you realise how incredibly cynical you sound? We're not discussing the finer details of a logistical challenge here, but the fate of people starving to death. People that by and large are innocent.

Also: It'd require infrastructure that did exist before the IDF destroyed it. To feed people that weren't hungry before Israel blocked humanitarian aid. Don't reverse the guilt.
by tdeck | 2025-07-29 06:07:02+00:00
What Netanyahu is doing in Gaza to Palestinians is broadly popular in Israel. The "opposition" coalition leader has made genocidal statements about Palestinians and there's no reason to think his leadership would be any better. This is a society where people directly benefit from ethnic cleansing and have spent decades already justifying it to themselves to get to this point. It's not going to be an easy fix of replacing one guy and focusing on him misses all the institutions that were constructed to facilitate genocide.
by TFYS | 2025-07-29 06:07:05+00:00
> said it wont rest until all isrealis are dead

You would say the same about any group that did the same things to you as the Israeli have done to Palestinians. Answer this: will these actions by Israel decrease or increase the number of people who think that way? Even if they kill all the Palestinians and get rid of the threat in Gaza, they'll just create more, deeper and stronger hate against themselves in the region and the world. If at any point in time they lose the support of the most powerful country on earth, they'll be in huge danger and they can only blame themselves for creating that danger.
by 9dev | 2025-07-29 06:07:36+00:00
No, that's a logical fallacy. I can be against something obviously wrong without offering an alternative action. In fact, this is a case of "something needs to be done, this is something, so this must be done". Wrong. Doing nothing—not starving Gaza—was also an option; one that the Israeli government decided against. They are responsible for the current situation.
by benjiro | 2025-07-29 06:07:40+00:00
Noticed that my productive usage of CoPilot dropped like a brick, after they introduced those limits. You feel constantly on the clock, and being forced to constantly change models gets tiresome very fast.

Unless you use "free" GPT 4.1 like MS wants you (not the same as Claude, even with Beast Mode). And how long is that going to be free, because it feels like a design to simply push you to a MS product (MS>OpenAI) instead of third party.

So what happens a year from now? Paid GPT 5.1? With 4.1 being removed? If it was not for the insane prices of actual large mem GPUs and the slowness of large models, i will be using LLMs at home. Right now MS/Antropic/OpenAI are right in that zone where its not too expensive yet to go full local LLM.
by pjmlp | 2025-07-29 06:08:38+00:00
Ignored by HN folks like yourself, that is, industry knows what they should care about.

"- Mobile games generated $81 billion revenue in 2023 across both platforms

- iOS was responsible for $47.7 billion of that revenue, Google Play generated $33.3 billion

- Mobile was responsible for 49% of total game revenues, close to PC and console totals combined"

https://www.businessofapps.com/data/mobile-games-revenue/

Laugh at will, we don't want sad people.
by rich_sasha | 2025-07-29 06:09:21+00:00
In team-based group start road racing, like TdF, a lot of people aren't really competing. They are top sportspeople by ability, but their job is to support the team star. They are often called in French "domestiques", servants.

I wonder if this contributes. Imagine you're a sport person, your job depends kn your performance, you are at the mercy of your team, and it's not even like you can win. So why not help yourself to some pills.

But then, as siblings say, I don't even know if cycling is worse than other sports.
by true_religion | 2025-07-29 06:09:40+00:00
I agree. I was using an LLM to test some assumptions I was making about a chemical combination, and although it's reasoning was logical it made an error about how pH works when you combine two acids of similar strength then it held onto that incorrect conclusion for the rest of the chat.

Since I wasn't asking anything related to pH, I skimmed past that section and didn't notice the error until much later in the chat when the LLM decided to build upon erroneous reasoning.

I think someone who hadn't studied chemistry would've relied on its' answer since all the rest of the logic would've been correct if the solution really did become more acidic.
by alterom | 2025-07-29 06:10:06+00:00
> Time to teach all local birds the AACS key :)

BTW, forgot to add: the video literally suggests that when they estimate how much data can be stored in birds.

The visualization of the byte sequence coming out of the Bluetooth speaker [1] (at 18:36 -18:38) starts with the oh-so-familiar 09 F9 11 02 9D ...

Ben is one step ahead of you :)

[1] https://youtu.be/hCQCP-5g5bo?t=1116
by raincole | 2025-07-29 06:11:39+00:00
The articles on this blog before 2025 never contained em-dashes. Not even a single one.

And the articles from 2025 onward all use em-dashes.

Curious, huh?

> Each operates at a different mathematical order: linear, exponential, and systematic respectively.

This was where I stop reading. "Systematic" mathematical order. Sure.
by JuekMorningstar | 2025-07-29 06:11:40+00:00
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by solidsnack9000 | 2025-07-29 06:12:03+00:00
For everyone in this thread hoping for a "Marshall Plan" or other functional aid regime for Gaza, keep in mind that the Marshall Plan began with defeat. It was only with Germany's unconditional surrender that the Allies could establish security and make a plan for the future. Hamas has had many opportunities to surrender and hasn't taken them.

Hitler had many opportunities, as well; but chose not to. Surrender was not a choice the Allies could make for him or for Germany; and it is not a choice Israel can make for Hamas or Gaza.
by WantonQuantum | 2025-07-29 06:12:34+00:00
That's a pretty broad question. What sort of context are you asking about?

For example, if I'm starting a new development project or task, I will solve the difficult problem first in order to reduce risk early.

On the other hand, "low hanging fruit" generally means "things of value that are easily obtained" and therefore would usually be what you'd do first unless there's some reason not to.

On a personal level, there may be opportunity for growth and development for avoiding the easy wins and doing something more challenging.