MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by diggan | 2025-07-30 16:11:23+00:00
The settlers been at this for a long, long time. It was hard for me to understand their perspective as well, because surely they most be seeing what they do as something good, like everyone else. There is a BBC documentary that goes into more depth, but a short snippet of the documentary can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrdldVhfbaU which includes a short interview with Daniella Weiss, a Orthodox Zionist who founded a organization focusing on creating these civilian colonies for Israelis.

As far as I can tell, from talking with Israelis both living in Israel and outside, there really isn't one majority thinking a certain way, it seems to me that there is an equal amount of people cheering the settlers as there are people against what they're doing.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-07-30 16:11:36+00:00
> Is two-state solution possible?

More than a one-state solution.

Would it be nice if people could get along and not require militarised borders to keep them from killing each other? Sure. This was essentially the colonial assumption when the Middle East (and Africa’s) modern borders were drawn—that local preferences could be overcome by force of will.

In reality, where you draw borders on a map matters less than the people on the ground’s identities and guns.
by blinkbat | 2025-07-30 16:11:59+00:00
> Advances in technology have steadily freed much of humanity to focus less on subsistence and more on the pursuits we choose

I'm sure people working multiple minimum-wage jobs that still struggle to cover their bills agree.

> people have used our newfound productivity to achieve more than was previously possible, pushing the frontiers of science and health

which must be why the average life expectancy is down, and cancer rates continue to grow.

> as well as spending more time on creativity, culture, relationships, and enjoying life.

right, the same creativity that is now being outsourced to AI for pennies on the dollar, or the culture and relationships that social media has completely monetized or eradicated.

of course, the general trend has been an improvement in lifestyle compared to that of 200 years ago. but to not mention the current challenges facing even developed nations feels really out of touch.
by bambax | 2025-07-30 16:12:08+00:00
At the (very) low end it's pretty easy to build your own "cloud" with a NAS, containers, and reverse proxies and tunnels to the outside world. And this will get you suprisingly far.

But at the high end, I think the market is litterally infinite. Every large company should want this, and want it now. Cloud providers are extremely expensive and, outside of the 1-tier where prices are really outrageous, they perform poorly and often offer little support.

This really feels like the future.
by paulgerhardt | 2025-07-30 16:12:12+00:00
Love this. Have a friend that regularly sends $30 balloons a few times around the world. They routinely end up over interesting areas like hot spots in the Middle East or North Korea. Would be great to issue commands to a light weight camera but the bandwidth is so limited - payload is a factor too - can only be under 100 grams or so. Bandwidth is in the order of 30 bytes per minute. Would be fun to take picture remotely and then drop the payload/memory card when the balloon circled back to friendlier territory.
by afthonos | 2025-07-30 16:12:21+00:00
So what would be impossible to explain in a world where “corporate greed” is indeed what causes all these things? The answer can’t be “nothing”—or “corporate greed” doesn’t mean anything.

I can say, for example, that under gravity, an object will not accelerate upwards when entering else stays down; if you show me that happening, I either have to say gravity didn’t cause it, or that gravity is not what we thought it was (and we should probably get a new word for whatever it has).
by benreesman | 2025-07-30 16:12:21+00:00
Fair enough, this is a topic with a high and asymmetrical charge quotient and misunderstandings are a fact of life in such.

I also regret any degree to which I've singled you out for a generally regrettable trend among the long-time community members: it's very easy to see the world through the lens of one's own experience and I've been as guilty as anyone of doing just that on plenty of occasions.

We should all strive for empathy and understanding, that goes double for people like you and me (and Thomas) who have been around forever.
by DrillShopper | 2025-07-30 16:12:26+00:00
The only reason the Palestinians are considered "ethno-nationalist" is that they are opposing a facist, genocidal, actually ethno-nationalist state that has spread its propaganda that any disagreement on any grounds is anti-semitism.

It's ridiculous and I know the moment I see someone dig into their bag of slander with that they are not arguing in good faith.

JIDF out in force again.
by supermatt | 2025-07-30 16:12:50+00:00
These are a form of ovitrap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovitrap

There are many forms that require even less investment. I made some out of some plastic water bottles and a few pairs of old socks, for example.

There are also lethal ovitraps, which kills the mosquito, but I havent experimented with those.
by Arainach | 2025-07-30 16:13:23+00:00
These don't work because suburbs are a ponzi scheme that is collapsing.

People are grudgingly willing to pay to put in a brand new sewer once. No one wants to fund maintenance or pay millions to replace it in 60 years and cities are literally going bankrupt because the population density isn't enough to maintain the infrastructure.

Cities realized this decades ago which is why many are reluctant to add more unsustainable public roads/sewers/etc. and insist new development owns and funds them privately....which tends to require a HOA to fund maintenance from communal contributions/reserves.

https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/01/benjamin-h...
by Aurornis | 2025-07-30 16:13:37+00:00
> Hmm, probably true in some places, but here (Spain) that wouldn't even be legal. When I worked in sales we had minimum wage + commission, but I'm sure the salary would be 0 if they were allowed to set it up like that.

In the United States having "zero base bay" is hypothetical. If a full-time employee had no commission payouts they'd be compensated minimum wage as necessary to comply with laws.

Sales jobs often come with a warm-up period with either a higher base salary or they get paid part of their commission target for a number of months regardless of how many sales they make.
by bluetomcat | 2025-07-30 16:13:41+00:00
Big Tech drove us towards techno-feudalism. It's a wider social phenomenon and their hiring patterns for programmers are only one aspect of the problem. Small businesses are forced to do business on their platforms according to their rules, or else they go bust. Programmers are forced to learn their APIs, so that their "app" can live in their walled gardens. They soaked a huge amount of talent to optimise their ad and recommendation engines. This is a huge opportunity cost to society - that talent could be doing great creative stuff for small and medium-sized businesses instead.
by slt2021 | 2025-07-30 16:13:49+00:00
you cannot defend the genocide (murder of people) by the increased birth rates. In fact, high birth rates is caused by high mortality rates.

The more jews engage in genocide and murder of Palestinians, the higher will be fertility, this is the law of demographics.

as for your Islam argument, the Islamic conquest was how many millennia ago? Is your argument that today we shall live by the laws of 7th century ? This only highlights the level of Israeli thinking: you guys still think like barbarians from 7th century and have no concept of human right and international law
by 8200_unit | 2025-07-30 16:13:53+00:00
While it's true that women's professional opportunities were limited in the past, I disagree that this was the sole or even primary reason for single-income stability. My grandparents' generation, for example, often saw one parent (usually the father) working a manufacturing or union job that paid enough to cover a mortgage, raise several children, and afford basics, even with the mother not working outside the home. The purchasing power of those wages was simply far greater.
by david2ndaccount | 2025-07-30 16:13:54+00:00
The author relies on the compiler fitting the bitfield in unused padding bytes after “speed”, but that is implementation-defined behavior (almost everything about bitfields is implementation defined). MSVC will align the unsigned bitfield to alignof(unsigned), whereas GCC and clang will use the padding bytes. To portably pack the struct, use unsigned integers and use flags (monster.flags & CAN_FLY instead of monster.can_fly).

See https://c.godbolt.org/z/K7oY77KGj
by kortilla | 2025-07-30 16:14:10+00:00
This has been the biggest red flag to me about oxide since these blogs came out. You don’t join a startup for salary and every startup I’ve been at that emphasizes fair salaries is doing that to intentionally discourage people from pushing on total compensation.

Employees apart from the very early ones are likely really getting fucked on equity because oxide explicitly treats candidates asking about equity as a red flag.

Companies structured like this end up turning into a combination of rich people who don’t need money and are just interested in the problem space and then mediocre people who can’t get a better offer. (If you are good, remote work with high TC is definitely available.)

Unless Oxide is giving out huge equity bonuses for good perf (which would make their comp post hypocritical), it’s going to have a continuous talent decline as it grows. There aren’t enough independently wealthy high performers interested in what Oxide is doing to sustain a talent pool.
by cestith | 2025-07-30 16:15:07+00:00
Ask a local real estate agent or real estate broker how much base pay they make. Or, heck, a car salesperson or an ad salesperson at your local TV or radio station. It’s all commission-based. In some of these fields in the US the norm is 100% commission-based with no base pay. In others someone might make one to three times minimum wage, but will end up being some of the highest-paid people in the company based on commissions of anywhere from 1% to 50%, depending on the industry.
by throwup238 | 2025-07-30 16:15:10+00:00
The arms race might not even be realistically winnable for the mosquito. Most of the time when we talk about resistance it’s to a single molecule or evolutionary adaptation. That mosquitos have not developed a resistance after decades of heavy use (we’ve been using Bt as a pesticide since the 1920s and its the most used pesticide today) implies that the Bacillus thuringiensis used in the dunks/bits is attacking the larvae with multiple different mechanisms of action.

When that happens, natural selection almost always fails to develop a resistance because a resistant organism needs to have a defense against every mechanism of action at the same time. The probability of two beneficial mutations lining up perfectly to create that resistant organism are just extremely unlikely. That’s the basis for modern oncology, which uses combination therapy to prevent tumors from growing resistant to any one drug.

Edit: yep I was right. Against mosquito larvae, Bt produces multiple Cry toxins that bind to specific protein receptors in the microvilli of midgut epithelial cells and Cyt toxins that directly interact with membrane lipids [1]. It’s a triple whammy because there’s six major toxins (Cry4Aa, Cry4Ba, Cry11Aa, Cyt1Aa, Cry10Aa, and Cyt2Ba), Cyt1Aa creates more binding sites for the Cry toxins to attack the cell, and Cyt1Aa itself has two mechanisms of action, one of which disassembles the cell membrane, leading to cell death. That is an incredibly difficult evolutionary hole for an organism to dig itself out of.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0505494102
by runjake | 2025-07-30 16:15:17+00:00
Apple has three basic support categories: Supported, Vintage, & Obsolete. These are based on the last production dates of their respective products. It has been this way for a very long time.

Supported = 0-5 years

Vintage = 5-7 years

Obsolete = 7 or more years

If you buy any more Apple products, keep this in mind for product lifecycles. I will point out that Apple generally tends to be more generous than its competitors on support.

If you are not OK with this, reconsider your purchases. In cases like this, consider choosing products and workflows that use more open standards that are less likely to vanish.

More here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102772
by lightaime | 2025-07-30 16:15:21+00:00
It is a desktop app. We built it with:

Backend - Framework: FastAPI - Package Manager: uv - Async Server: Uvicorn - Authentication: OAuth 2.0, Passlib. - Multi-agent framework: CAMEL

Frontend - Framework: React - Desktop App Framework: Electron - Language: TypeScript - UI: Tailwind CSS, Radix UI, Lucide React, Framer Motion - State Management: Zustand - Flow Editor: React Flow

Check the source code for more details
by deepfriedchokes | 2025-07-30 16:15:33+00:00
I think perhaps it would be useful to completely ignore the nice words people use and just judge everyone based on their behavior.

From Zuckerberg’s behavior, since the beginning, it’s clear what he wants is power, and if you have the kind of mental health disorder where you believe you know better than everyone and deserve power over others, then that’s not dystopian at all.

Everything he says is PR virtue signaling. Judge the man on his actions.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-07-30 16:16:08+00:00
> the international community owning up to the situation and offering full asylum and permanent resettlement with a short-term path to citizenship to every single person living in Israel & Palestine who prefers to live than to stay there, and then just letting those who prefer to stay and kill each other

This roughly describes the current situation. Israelis are internationally mobile. And while Palestinians are not, it’s hard to imagine enough of them emigrating to destabilise the current conflict conditions.
by sergiotapia | 2025-07-30 16:16:22+00:00
I haven't used C#/.NET since .NET 4 - I remember it was great, yet heavily tied into Visual Studio, and forget about using CLI for things like most other languages. It was all GUI or nothing. Insurmountable XML files.

How are things these days with .NET 10! Jesus, 10!

Dudes who use it daily, what is your favorite feature you think?
Show HN: CanonForge – spark weird headcanons with AI
by TheraDeng | 2025-07-30 16:16:24+00:00
Hey HN,

I built a small side project: https://characterheadcanon.net/

It helps people generate oddly specific headcanons for fictional characters. You just enter a character name and a few traits or hints — it gives you back hidden motives, quirks, or backstories. The idea is not to replace writing, but to spark “what if” moments for fanfiction, OCs, or just for fun.

Why? I write short fanfics sometimes, and I realized brainstorming headcanons takes time. So I thought: why not use AI to kickstart that process?

How? It uses Claude Code (Anthropic) to generate text, built on Next.js + React, deployed via Cloudflare. It’s browser-based, free to try, and doesn’t need sign-up.

It’s intentionally small and niche — for people (like me) who overthink fictional characters at 2am. Would love feedback: things to add, UX improvements, or if you’d actually use it.

Here’s the link again: https://characterheadcanon.net/
by quickthrowman | 2025-07-30 16:16:47+00:00
> Well sure, my questions is why is the Union charging over double what seems to be 90th quartile for electricians in small to mid sized MSAs and only a bit more than the 90th quartile on high COL cities.

The union is charging that because *that is what’s in the contract that was signed by the union and the local union contractors after negotiation. Electricians get paid a lot where I live because it’s a wealthy growing area that people want to live in, and not a dying rust belt city.

> I suspect the electrician they send over isn’t just pocketing $100/h on wages.

Did you read the post I wrote initially?

I give the breakdown of how much of the money I pay to the union goes to the worker on his paycheck (55%) with the rest going to insurance, taxes, union dues, pension, etc (fringe benefits, which are 45%)
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-07-30 16:17:32+00:00
> Which miltary body other than any linked to one of the conflict parties did Israel propose to do the peacekeeping?

Hamas didn’t counter with a preferred peacekeeping composition, they rejected peacekeeping to retain their monopoly on violence (and Gaza’s resources).

To the extent there are evils in this story, they’re the leadership of Hamas and Likud.
by Catbert59 | 2025-07-30 16:17:47+00:00
Interesting!

I'm thinking of building a small PCB for ballooning too.

But I most likely will shift the design decisions a bit:

- 2.4GHz LoRa for high-rate telemetry as reciving can recycle Wifi-Antenna gear. The Semtech SX128x chips are easy to handle.

- Low rate telemetry on 433MHz with a SX12xx or SX17xx.

In terms of chips most likely something around the STM32U series.

The company ePeas has very interesting energy harvesters. Not super cheap - but still affordable. They have special profiles for supercaps which are very resistant against freezing.
by thisisit | 2025-07-30 16:17:54+00:00
I don't think the writer is aware how regular business cycle works.

It starts off with some companies in a particular industry generating great margins. Slowly more companies start joining the industry and there are still great margins. The early employees see huge jump in salaries. But with time everyone wants to pile in - both companies and people. You start seeing hype that this industry is the next big thing and you can't survive without being part of the industry. Once the industry becomes too saturated companies start exiting, people are laid off, industry services become worse etc etc. Nearly every industry goes through this boom and bust, spring and winters. Most destruction leads to a new spring.

Software has seen two springs though. First, the dotcom boom. During the dotcom boom lots of OPEX was spent on undersea cable because everyone was going to use these new fangled "websites". But after the 2000s crash the data prices crashed and it led to the 2013-2020/21 boom. We have to see where things go from here.

The same thing is happening in AI. It is started off with some companies making good margins, there are huge salaries being doled out to early AI experts and give it enough time the market will be chockful of AI related stuff and also going down. That time we can see similar commentaries about how golden age of AI was killed due to greed.
by blehn | 2025-07-30 16:18:01+00:00
Counterpoint: I worked there for years and the demand for more people wasn't natural. It came from (1) typical employees not getting much done because they were either not very motivated, not very competent, or stuck in meetings all day, (2) proliferation of people managers who weren't producing anything — product teams of 200 with 50 of them being managers, (3) managers playing the headcount game because it was a path to promotion — all things being equal, who's getting promoted: an L6 manager with 3 reports or an L6 manager with 12 reports? Constant headcount battles
by mapontosevenths | 2025-07-30 16:19:01+00:00
> Didn't the documentary show possible ties President Clinton?

The documents do. However Clinton did not invite Epstein to his wedding, or buy Epsteins jet after his suicide because he liked flying it in so much.

More importantly, Clinton was asked about the release of the files last year, in court. He did not object then and he has recently stated that he does not now. Meanwhile, republicans actually dismissed Congress early, stopping the business of governing, to prevent it.

> redistricting in response to TX

It is "in response". They're trying to STOP the gerrymandering, not make it worse. Gerrymandering should be illegal in all cases. It's not, but I think we can all agree that it does not serve democracy and should be.

> Who set the precedent?

Are you seriously defending concentration camps because someone else has done it in the past? Take a look at yourself in the mirror and really think about this one.
by slt2021 | 2025-07-30 16:19:41+00:00
not true, in fact, Israel was created via terrorism. The famous hanging of British officers in the mandate, the King David hotel bombing.

Fun fact that all of the Israel's prime ministers were terrorists and engaged in terrorism.

IDF was created out of terrorist organizations like Irgun.

One can make argument that it was in fact israelis who brought terrorism to the middle east, which didnt have terrorism problem before
by chrisg23 | 2025-07-30 16:19:47+00:00
Late (born in 79) gen-x here. I learned early on that I wouldn't have a reliable pension or retirement, I would not have the same level of upward mobility that previous generations would have, and that I had to think of my future and plan for it in a different way.

To have a basic skepticism or distrust of any promises made to me that came from either the government or any medium to large corporation. To save aggressively from an early age, and most importantly to educate myself on finance and finance related topics.

The most important thing I learned or made myself do is to get out of the mindset of spending more money to match the rise of income I experienced as I got older, basically to live below my means and evaluate really really hard if I need to buy the latest tech, or fashion, or transportation, or trendy food, or clubs, etc. etc. etc.

Also to have my credit card paid off in full each month every month. The only exception to that rule I've made in the last 20 years was when I bought a house and built up a balance I couldn't pay off right away.

To summarize, what I learned is to direct my life as much as possible so my future well being is, as much as possible, not reliant on the government being able to take care of me, or my job at Corp X or even small or medium business Y being a certain thing. Or that the skillset I had which was in demand in the job market would be in demand forever.

I completely understand the pessimism of generations after me, from my point of view they are facing the same thing but worse. The general situation is seemingly going to be harder for them than Gen-x.
by janalsncm | 2025-07-30 16:19:52+00:00
You keep saying people who disagree with you don’t know what they’re talking about. I build neural networks for a living. I’m not creating brains.

Just because a plane is named a F/A-18 Hornet doesn’t mean it shares flight mechanisms with an insect.

Artificial neural nets are very different from brains but in practice are very different, for the reasons I mentioned above, but also for the reason that no one is trying to build a brain, they are trying to predict clicks or recommend videos etc.

There is software which does attempt to model brains explicitly. So far we haven’t simulated anything more complex than a fly.
by a904guy | 2025-07-30 16:20:08+00:00
I built a Krita plugin called Smart Segments that lets you easily select objects using Meta’s Segment Anything Model (SAM v2). Just run the tool, and it automatically finds everything on the current layer. You can click or shift-click to choose one or more segments, and it converts them into a selection. No more struggling with the magic wand or cutting stuff out by hand. It supports GPU and CPU, works on Windows, macOS, and Linux, and sets everything up on first run without needing to install anything manually.