MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-07-28 22:22:29+00:00
Ha. We're a little north of there and were dealing with screaming hvac condenser fan motor yesterday. I ordered another motor and a start capacitor but it'll be a few days before they're in.

Once the motor cooled enough to be handled, son #3 disassembled it, smoothed out the shaft and applied some super sticky grease. Motor spins freely but only starts sometimes. I've got a construction fan on top, blowing up for now.
by theggiveth | 2025-07-28 22:24:38+00:00
As others mentioned, this is backed by the "open" standard FedCM. While this seems like an open play on the surface (and the standard is open), in practice this is a highly anti-competitive and will just lead to Google being in even more control of the web.

The vast majority of users will chose the default for identity. On Chrome this is Google. On Android this is Google. Even on iOS this may be Google because identity is often tied to email and Apple does not have a strong email story. Identity is huge. It gives you moat that outlives platforms.

And all the while, Google gets to claim this standard is open, while in practice this is clearly intended as a monopolistic move to increase their share of identity on the web.

If they were forced to show a randomized list of identity providers a user needs to choose from (similar to search engines on iOS), I bet you they would reconsider this whole approach. But by the time regulators figure out what's going on, they will have already cemented their lead.
by RickJWagner | 2025-07-28 22:24:45+00:00
Rogans podcast is giant.

If the list were diverse in ideology, I believe it would be on the list. As it sits, Rogans take on some issues will sharply diverge from some of the listed ones.

I suppose the list is consistent if it were composed by a single listener. A single listener is going to like similar things.

If it’s intended for a wider audience audience, it should cover more territory.
by tqwhite | 2025-07-28 22:25:30+00:00
This is my strategy as well. I definitely have surges of usage.

Except for one catastrophic binge where I accidentally left Opus on for a whole binge (KILL ME!!!), I use around $150/month. I like having the spigot off when I am not working.

Would the $100/month plan plus API for overflow come out ahead? Certainly on some months. Over the year, I don't know. I'll let you know.
by ars | 2025-07-28 22:26:31+00:00
Israel is not an occupying power in Gaza, but rather a warring power. And Article 23 of the 4th Geneva Convention says:

".... are no serious reasons for fearing:

(a) that the consignments may be diverted from their destination,"

i.e. if the warring party believes the supplies will be diverted they have no obligation to supply them.

And that's what is going on here.
by bigyabai | 2025-07-28 22:27:26+00:00
Targeting and detaining fewer journalists from reputable independent organizations would go a long way in reforging the foreign relations Likud has insisted on burning.

https://gulfnews.com/uae/israel-detains-second-reuters-journ...

https://www.tag24.com/topic/israel-war/american-journalist-j...

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/haaretz-photogr...

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-07-11/ty-article/ha...

https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-police-detain-palestin...
by geor9e | 2025-07-28 22:29:00+00:00
>affecting less than 5% of users

Notice they didn't say 5% of Max users. Or 5% of paid users. To take it to the extreme - if the free:paid:max ratio were 400:20:1 then 5% of users would mean 100% of a tier. I can't tell what they're saying.
by ianbicking | 2025-07-28 22:30:30+00:00
The piece (and lots of commentary) keeps talking about "AI Companies" as though it's this fixed set of companies that are destined to all be the same. But anyone can start an AI company... the models are all available, and the surrounding technology is fairly accessible. Yes, there's a lot of companies that will always maximize engagement. But... anyone could make something that doesn't serve that goal.
by NekkoDroid | 2025-07-28 22:30:57+00:00
> Nobody knows how much anything costs.

Slightly off topic, but I have this exact feeling every time I visit the US and buy stuff in a store.

"Sorry, we don't include tax in the price that is displayed, so you'll need to either figure that out in your head or just pull the slot machine of what you are actually gonna pay at the register."

And don't give me the "taxes are different from place to place" cuz the store ain't gonna change place while I am in it. So much is just psychological warfare in the US, which just has no reason to be...
by davidw | 2025-07-28 22:31:31+00:00
I guess it makes sense that because of the shorter summer days and high humidity they don't see highs that are that extreme there. Still seems a bit unexpected if you're going by simpler mental models where "south == warmer".

I dug up this map (which isn't very good, maybe someone has a better one) where it shows the highest temps in various places. Florida is behind states like Oregon and Washington.

https://eldoradoweather.com/climate/US%20Climate%20Maps/Lowe...

The humidity really does make a big difference though. Here east of the Cascades in Oregon it's quite dry, so even on a hot day, a bit of shade, breeze and a cool drink makes for pleasant conditions.
by autoexec | 2025-07-28 22:32:28+00:00
> We have somehow decided that chromosomal advantages are unfair

That somehow was mostly because people with certain chromosomal characteristics were heavily disadvantaged in sports, but increasingly wanted participation in them. Because those people (who we called "women") would largely be unable to be competitive and/or would face considerable increased risk of physical harm if they played in/against the same teams as everyone else, people with those chromosomal characteristics splintered off to compete in/against teams of themselves.

This was extremely successful and many women have been happily participating in sports, enjoying the ability to win games by virtue of their training and the non-sex defining aspects of their genetic make up, all without having to unnecessarily accept outsized risks of bodily harm and injury.

It's also worth mentioning that there hasn't been much effort to keep women from competing outside of their own divisions if they're willing to accept the lower odds of success and higher risks of harm to themselves that'd come from that. For the most part, they have been deciding for themselves that it isn't worth it.

It's not even as if chromosomal advantages are the only place we've done this. We have weight classes in certain sports. We have teams that only accept people within certain age ranges. We have divisions based on demonstrated ability. We even have things like the special Olympics. These really aren't a problem or a bad thing to have.

People can't choose their biology, but they can choose to play sports in a way that's more fair and safe for themselves and the others they play with and that's a perfectly acceptable practice that we should encourage. This is true even when it means that some people are excluded from specific teams or events because of things they cannot change about themselves. There are still places for pretty much everyone who wants to play if they look hard enough, even if not everyone is able to be a part of any team or division that they'd like to.
by eterm | 2025-07-28 22:33:14+00:00
It's a huge mess in the real world. Without good understanding and discipline, I've seen components which react profiler says re-render 15 times on an initial load because of cascading useEffect hooks.

I lack the expertise to be able to go in and rip it all out, and while I can share articles like this and others such as "You might not need useEffect", there isn't a really obvious way to deal with it all, especially if there are places which genuinely could do with proper memoisation.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-07-28 22:33:16+00:00
In so weaponizing "antisemitism" through unethical and immoral political attacks, it increases actual antisemitism and makes the term lose its importance. Meanwhile, 20k Hasidic Jews met in an arena in NYC to denounce what Israel was doing and that they don't speak for them. The sheer arrogance of a secular political regime claiming to speak for an entire people whom aren't citizens of their country and never agreed to this association.
by arcfour | 2025-07-28 22:33:34+00:00
Freedom of speech is freedom from being arrested for your speech. It is not the freedom to force others to give your speech a platform. Just like how it's not freedom to force other people to listen to your speech. If it is, then I exercise my freedom of speech to place bumper stickers on YOUR car that say things that you find distateful. "But that's my property!" Yes, and Steam's servers and software are Valve's property. Mastercard and Visa's platforms are theirs.

If you ran a bookstore, and I could force you to carry a bunch of books that glorified Nazism, you would probably find this objectionable. Why? Because if you walked into a bookstore and there's a bunch of books there full of Nazi propaganda, you would probably wonder if the owner of the store was a Nazi. You don't want to be associated with or seen as promoting it.

This is why it's akin to speech.
by sathish316 | 2025-07-28 22:34:07+00:00
Isn’t this the basis of GAN (Generative Adversarial networks), which is how most GenAI image models work? The purpose of generator network is to generate data that is as close to the training set as possible. The purpose of discriminator network is to distinguish the original from generated data.

Is blue-team and red-team like a post-training generator and discriminator?
by pxc | 2025-07-28 22:34:16+00:00
Could this be in part because many of the recent Chinese models (which seem great, tbh) show signs of having been distilled from one or another Claude models?

Or is that a silly idea, because distillation is unlikely to be stopped by rate limits (i.e., if distillation is a worthwhile tactic, companies that want to distill from Anthropic models will gladly spend a lot more money to do it, use many, many accounts to generate syntheitc data, etc.)?
by crystal_revenge | 2025-07-28 22:34:29+00:00
> a divisive and emotional topic.

I strongly suspect that this "divisive" nature of the topic is precisely the illusion being created. That's exactly what I am challenging here.

In my non-online life I've known many vaccine skeptics, climate skeptics, crypto enthusiasts, extreme right/left-wingers, people with complex view of trans issues, divisions on BLM topics, gun fanatics, gun abolitionists etc, etc.

But the opinion around what's happening in Gaza right now doesn't fit into this category. Regardless of political opinion, outside of Zionists, I have not met anyone who will not, in private of course (for the reasons mentioned previously), agree that what's happening in Gaza is genocide and is not in the interests of the United States. The strength of the opinion can vary, but the general direction of opinion is consistent.

Another reason I added "clearly" is because, compared to say climate change posts that are often filled with climate denial comments, there are typically very few commenters engaging in any controversial discussions. Nearly all the top level comments are in agreement, the majority of the replies are as well. Compared to genuinely controversial topics which often do quickly devolve into impossible arguments.

There's also the broader issue that silence is not always a neutral position. When one side benefits much, much more from silence than the other, you can't simply shrug your shoulders and say "well it's controversial so let's not talk about it". In this case, silencing conversations about the genocide in Gaza is very beneficial to the state perpetuating this genocide and likewise very harmful to the people suffering from it.

The strategy is simple: make the topic appear to be more divisive than it is, which makes it easy to silence as "divisive and emotional", which is essentially the most desirable outcome.
by jahewson | 2025-07-28 22:34:30+00:00
That’s not true. It lasted 3 months, which was the entire duration of the agreed phase 1. Phase 2 did not begin because Hamas turned the hostage/body releases into a propaganda circus [1] and refused to accept modified terms for phase 2 that prevented this.

I don’t love either party’s behavior here, but there’s no need to mislead like this.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/world/middleeast/israel-h...
by rossdavidh | 2025-07-28 22:35:21+00:00
Not hugely. I think we're headed for another "AI winter" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter), which will be either our third or fourth depending on whether or not you count the one after IBM Watson. But who knows how long it takes for that; you can know that the bubble would burst, but not when.

Which is a shame, because neural networks are useful tools to have in your toolbox, they're just not the entire toolbox. I wish we could just use them like "finite state machine" or "model-view-controller" or any other useful-but-not-overhyped algorithm or code pattern.
by amluto | 2025-07-28 22:35:42+00:00
> Cells senesce and die and get replaced, and the immune system is always active in the background. If the virus particles are released, the immune system is going after it and cleaning up. As essentially no new virus is being created, this is the body's opportunity to clear the virus at a slower, manageable pace where it doesn't have to contend with a rapid, expanding infection.

If this really applied to HIV, then people with HIV who take effective antivirals for long enough would be cured. But they generally aren't.
by Scramblejams | 2025-07-28 22:36:14+00:00
allowing no discussion to happen seems wrong

Could it actually be right?

It's hard for me to feel like these political flagfests make the rest of the site any better, while the rest of the site is what I find value in. If I want to witness mobs possessing massive standard deviations in knowledge and experience with the subject matter flamewarring each other, there are already a whole lot of places on the Internet I can go for that. It's the tech-and-genuine-curiosity-not-yelling part of HN that's the value prop for me here, and FWIW, for a sample size of one, threads like this do little to improve on that.

Of course I can hide this story and move on. But it's hard for me to believe that all the stress hormones flowing in the people reading and participating don't have some kind of negative knock-on effects on other, more peaceful threads.
by ars | 2025-07-28 22:36:16+00:00
The head of the BDS supports the expulsion and/or murder of all Jews in Israel.

Quote:

Omar Barghouti, the founder of the BDS movement, made that perspective clear: “Good riddance! The two-state solution for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is finally dead. But someone has to issue an official death certificate before the rotting corpse is given a proper burial and we can all move on and explore the more just, moral and therefore enduring alternative for peaceful coexistence between Jews and Arabs in Mandate Palestine: the one-state solution.”

Barghouti also opposed a bi-national Arab and Jewish state: “I am completely and categorically against binationalism … because it assumes that there are two nations with equal moral claims to the land and, therefore, we have to accommodate both national rights. I am completely opposed to that.”
by thelastgallon | 2025-07-28 22:36:19+00:00
If a global war can stop food imports/exports, you are very close to a civilization collapse if dependent on fossil fuels. Once the oil supply is cut off (which happens long before food), everything stops. You'd be better off relying on solar panels and having energy security, which is the most critical thing to have. Fossil fuel-based power plants can be bombed, but solar panels all over the country can never be bombed. And, there is already an overabundance of food production, specifically corn, soybeans, and milk, in the US.
by mjamil | 2025-07-28 22:36:48+00:00
You (a) did not respond to my question and (b) now stated a claim that I'm arguing for confirmation bias without articulating an argument backing this new claim.

I would love to understand what you mean by my lack of understanding of Israeli perspectives. I talk to Israelis regularly. What perspectives do you believe I'm missing? If you're think I don't care about the safety and wellbeing of Israelis (and, to be specific, Israeli Jews), you'd be incorrect. I believe in Israel being a strong and prosperous state. If you think that means I should blindly ignore the fact that Israeli polls show that the Israeli public is unconcerned about the fate of Palestinians in Gaza and that this consequently leads me to believe Israelis are shortsightedly reducing their own security in the long term, then I wouldn't be able to agree with you. If you think I should similarly ignore that - under Bibi and Likud - Israel has deliberately acted against US policy to encourage the formation of a Palestinian state, and has created a defacto one-state reality which again reduces the security of the Israeli state, I wouldn't be able to agree with you either.
by badc0ffee | 2025-07-28 22:37:07+00:00
The temperature right now in Tampa is 90F with a dew point of 77F, which is extremely muggy.

Compare to Vegas right now, at 108F but you can actually cool off. The dew point there is 17F.

Having been to the Blackhat conference which is held in Vegas in August, I know which one I'd pick. Stay in the shade and Vegas is no big deal.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-07-28 22:37:13+00:00
> are you saying that there is a scenario where it is legitimate for a person or group of people to believe that another group of people should be deserving of starvation, economic ruin, and forced displacement?

No, I'm saying the opposite. That you can be judgemental of Hamas and even suspicious of the motives of those claiming to speak for the Palestinian people while still condemning Netanyahu's tactics in this war.
by CharlieDigital | 2025-07-28 22:38:12+00:00
> I hope this example shows why I'm passionately against applying memoizations. In my experience, it breaks way too often. It's not worth it. And it adds so much overhead and complexity to all the code we have to read.

React's complexities are almost all self-inflicted footguns created as a byproduct of its design that points the reactive callback to the component function.

This design means that unlike vanilla JS, web components, Vue, Svelte, Solid, etc. where your state explicitly opts in to state changes, React requires component code to explicitly opt out of state changes (making the model much harder to wrap your head around and harder to do well).

This is the actual root cause of all of the underlying complexity of React. In signals-based frameworks/libraries and in vanilla JS with callbacks, there is rarely a need to explicitly memoize.

For the curious, I have some code samples here that make it more obvious: https://chrlschn.dev/blog/2025/01/the-inverted-reactivity-mo...
by drdeca | 2025-07-28 22:39:19+00:00
But “difficult to substantiate” isn’t what I mean? I mean something more like whether something is there independent of what people think of it. (“Reality is that which, when one stops believing in it, doesn’t go away.”)

Distinctions between categories are often somewhat fuzzy, but in some cases there are processes independent of peoples’ opinions that behave largely like there are distinct buckets. Such as “has a left arm”.

With “race”, while there are certainly correlations between various genes and where one was born (and where one’s grandparents were born), and correlations between genes and other genes (which is partially explained by the correlations with location), any lines one may draw to split humanity into “races” will be fairly arbitrary, and at least substantially more arbitrary than splitting by whether someone is male or female (even though there are edge cases there as well; like I said, categories are often a little bit fuzzy).

Now, there may be other concepts that are even less real than race, but I don’t know if any of them are cared about enough to - oh, astrological signs! A person’s astrological signs are probably even less real than race, and people care enough about them to give them names.
by tombert | 2025-07-28 22:39:31+00:00
A lot of people say this, but honestly this kind of sounds like someone who doesn't understand the ethos around NixOS. NixOS isn't just a vanilla Linux distro with Nix preinstalled

The whole point of NixOS is that the entire system is managed by Nix. The entirety of everything is declarative in your configuration file(s) and the entire system can consistently be rebuilt from the configuration. The root system is immutable after being built and as such it is trivial to snapshot.

This isn't just a trivial implementation detail, it changes the entire way that you use the computer. Boot parameters, drivers, installed programs, everything is done via configuration, as opposed to installing Nix on Ubuntu where most stuff is still managed haphazardly and mutably.

You might not think that's good or worth it, but I dispute the notion that installing Nix on a non-NixOS distro gives you the "best of both worlds". They're very different things.
by jlawson | 2025-07-28 22:39:35+00:00
Not just Rochdale. You forgot Rotherham, Telford, Oldham, Oxford, Derby, Bradford, Huddersfield, Keighley, Halifax, Bristol, and Newcastle.

Your second point is a hallucination on your part. Nobody is saying it's bad because they're minorities. We're saying it's especially bad because the government was implicated - they very people charged with keeping children safe sacrificed them for political reasons, by the thousands, for years, and still are. That, combined with the scale of crimes by the Pakistani and other rapists and the acceptance these crimes received in their community, form a different type of crime - a massive crime committed by authorities and a whole community over years. That's what's so especially horrifying.
by crinkly | 2025-07-28 22:39:42+00:00
Well having worked for the government in an ancillary security role about 20 years ago on contract, I don't think they could produce a parody notably worse than reality to use as a contrast. Today, I suspect it is worse.

Hire an expert they said. From the pool of experts they had heard about through contacts in the civil service. None of whom have any industry or real world experience. At best, someone was on an industry eating and drinking with the right people panel. I was there for 3 months and crawled back to my previous job cap in hand, bruised and educated.

It was long enough ago that I can away with rounding errors of months on my CV thank goodness...
by YZF | 2025-07-28 22:39:49+00:00
This is simply not true. The first part isn't true, people have gotten killed during UN related aid operations. The second part isn't true either, GHF has not committed "frequent massacres" during aid distribution. The single event I've heard about involving GHF directly is where there was a stampede in one of their facilities:

https://abcnews.go.com/International/dozen-killed-stampede-g...

It's not clear what caused the stampede.

The IDF has used live fire for crowd control but there is zero evidence that it directly or intentionally attacked civilians. This is definitely a problematic practice but the exact causes and the number of casualties related to these events is unclear.

What has happened though is that Hamas attacks aid distribution centers, e.g.:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3kx9pwxwwo - "US aid workers wounded, says Gaza Humanitarian Foundation"

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-says-hamas-...

What's also true is that the UN and Hamas are doing their best to make sure the alternative efforts to distribute good to Gazans fail. Neither of these organizations actually care about Gazans. They care about their existence and power.