MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jedimind | 2025-07-08 03:19:00+00:00
"Comprehensive new research finds the BBC coverage of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza is systematically biased against Palestinians and fails to reach standards of impartiality.

Analysis of more than 35,000 pieces of BBC content by the Centre for Media Monitoring (CfMM) shows Israeli deaths are given 33 times more coverage per fatality, and both broadcast segments and articles included clear double standards. BBC content was found to consistently shut down allegations of genocide."

https://novaramedia.com/2025/06/16/bbc-systematically-biased...
by disposablese | 2025-07-08 03:19:06+00:00
That’s such a STEM thing to say. In finance, this is considered a badge of honor.

Your genius physicist hedge fund operator who "broke the game" in the investment world ended up paying $7 billion in a tax settlement [0]. There’s no algorithm—it’s all about regulations and manipulation. In the investment world, fines, "bureaucratic investments," and similar costs are just operating expenses. Guess what? Everything is a line item in a financial report.

You hire STEM researchers from Ivy League schools—why? You hire these guys, not just because they’re smart, but because they come with "back home connections" —maybe a multi-millionaire businessman for a father or a politician for an uncle. Nobody makes it to these colleges or financial institutions by merit alone. You need those connections. That’s entirely how finance works.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/james-simons-robert-mercer-othe...
by lossolo | 2025-07-08 03:19:09+00:00
I was in the same place not long ago, convinced that democracy’s march and market liberalization meant we’d finally broken the old chains. But the more I watched what people actually do, versus the rhetoric they spew, the clearer it became that most of our "freedoms" are just stage props. We have the illusion of democracy so we can feel free, the illusion of equal justice under law so we can feel secure, the illusion of meritocracy so we can feel hopeful. And thanks to this, they get stability. In reality, there are always those who want to be above the law and steer the masses and today’s new kings just wear different robes.

Media conglomerates manufacture consent far more subtly than the Church ever could. Student debt servitude, rent extraction, and opaque health insurance bureaucracy bind millions in ways that feel inescapable. Yet because it’s all cloaked in market-speak and "public interest" we barely notice our chains. Recognizing these illusions is painful, but it’s also the first step toward tearing them down. If we’re honest, the next century of political and economic evolution won’t be about perfecting the PR, it’ll be about building genuine checks on power, creating institutions that can’t be gamed, and demanding real accountability, even when the robes change.
by gruez | 2025-07-08 03:19:40+00:00
Coming from an outsider, the letter is frustratingly vague. The only concrete allegation is the pulling of the documentary "Gaza: Medics Under Fire", but without a statement from BBC explaining why they pulled it, it's basically impossible from an outsider to know whether censorship is indeed happening or not. The rest of the letter basically down to a he-said-she-said over bias/censorship happening. Owen's article doesn't really add much either, seeming to take everything at face value and then using that to slam the BBC. This is all great if you're already predisposed to think the MSM has a pro-Israel bias, but otherwise leaves you at least confused.

Is there another source that does a better job at substantiating the claim that BBC has a pro-Israel bias?
by jjmarr | 2025-07-08 03:20:04+00:00
CAMH and other hospitals provide free outpatient mental health services from psychiatrists to the underemployed/poor.

As you acknowledge, if you end up so badly that you are committed, you can get a referral. They might be underfunded and understaffed but it exists.

"Might be a chance to talk to a psychiatrist" is inaccurate. You will see a psychiatrist quickly if you go to a hospital in Toronto. Can't say the same about rural areas.

The USA is much worse and we shouldn't try to generalize from their experiences. America has hundreds of free outpatient mental health clinics and their goal is to "suicide-bait" you into saying the wrong thing. Then they involuntarily commit you and bill Medicaid/insurance until it runs out.

Those are the hospitals you will never see a psychiatrist in, because they focus on profit and churn.
by Daishiman | 2025-07-08 03:20:07+00:00
> "The term "terrorism" should accordingly be used in respect of relevant events since it is the most accurate expression for actions which involve violence against randomly selected civilians with the intention of causing terror for ideological, including political or religious, objectives, whether perpetrated by state or non-state agencies."

I have never heard the BBC accuse the Israeli settlers of terrorism against West Bank Palestinian villages.
by ByteDrifter | 2025-07-08 03:20:15+00:00
When my kid was under one year old, we were especially careful about this we didn’t let her have even a tiny bit of honey. It really drove home the idea that everything has two sides. Honey can sit on a shelf for years without spoiling, but it can still be dangerous for the most vulnerable. It’s a reminder that just because something is natural and long lasting doesn’t mean it’s safe for everyone.
by jader201 | 2025-07-08 03:20:22+00:00
I think parent just means that it’s a divisive topic, which means on the internet, that inherently makes it flamebait (and not necessarily through any fault of the reporting).

Even on HN (and sometimes, especially on HN).

There are some divisive topics that are less prone to flame wars on HN vs. other discussion platforms, but those are fairly limited, and often not political (in my experience).
by keyle | 2025-07-08 03:20:27+00:00
I wonder if my kids will feel the same about their iPad 8 or whatever version this is... My guess is not.

Technology feels so "all worked out" today, with the right to repair out the window, everything is fused, and just dies one day and that'll be it.

I do fantasise about being reunited with my 386 DX 33, 4MB of ram and 40MB of hdd! It was the cream of the crop. Oh, that reset button has seen some action.
by bravesoul2 | 2025-07-08 03:20:31+00:00
They could have gone back to something not unlike what happened with power wrangling at OpenAI where OpenAI goes on later to build the machines that take over. In this world it is not LLMs but maybe more robotic like intellegence. Robot assistants. Kind of completely different. Maybe someone there sees the future and tries to prevent it but just narrowly fails. While not that fun it would be nice to see the Matrix situation explained how it got to that.
by jkaplowitz | 2025-07-08 03:20:39+00:00
But he has been publicly threatened by the Attorney General:

> "We are looking at him," she said on Fox News, "and he better watch out."

(Source: The submitted Apple Insider article, citing Wired, which as noted in the quote was citing Fox News.)

When the head of the DOJ publicly threatens someone, saying that she "goes after" that person is entirely accurate.
by bongodongobob | 2025-07-08 03:21:54+00:00
As a former musician, yes, we do. Any above average musician can play "Riders on the Storm" in the style of Johnny Cash, or Green Day, or Nirvana, etc. Successful above average musicians usually have almost encyclopedic knowledge of artists and albums at least in their favorite genre. This is how all art is made. Some artists will be more honest about this than others.
by jjmarr | 2025-07-08 03:22:57+00:00
Drugs aren't considered healthcare for whatever reason. If I got an ADHD pill in a hospital that's free, but if I wanted to get the same at an outpatient pharmacy it'll cost money in most cases.

Ditto for dental.

So while there isn't any overlap between public and private, there's still a gap. Though our drugs cost 10% of American prices.
by HeavenFox | 2025-07-08 03:23:21+00:00
I just tested it out. Since this uses OpenStreetMap data, it is very easy to adapt to other cities.

All input data and scripts are in src/data. Run the two Overpass queries, replacing New York with a city of your choice, and you will get JSON data on the infrastructure, as well as services. Replace the two existing JSON files, run the two transformation scripts, and you are done.
by haswell | 2025-07-08 03:23:56+00:00
FTA:

> "We're working with the Department of Justice to see if we can prosecute them for that because what they're doing is actively encouraging people to avoid law enforcement activities and operations," Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem said to press, "and we're going to actually go after them and prosecute them... because what they're doing, we believe, is illegal."
by frollogaston | 2025-07-08 03:23:59+00:00
Web backends tend to have lots of concurrent connections doing IO-bound things. Processes or OS threads have too much overhead for this; they're more for when you want CPU parallelism with some communication between threads. Thread pools are still only a compromise. So JS with event loops made a lot of sense.

Greenthreading like in Golang is even better cause you get the advantages of OS threads, but that requires a runtime, which is why Rust didn't do that. And I guess it's hard to implement, cause Java didn't have it until very recently.
by JSR_FDED | 2025-07-08 03:24:17+00:00
This resonates so hard with me! Except in my case it’s the Apple ][.

I’ve decided it’s completely unnecessary to justify this retro computing passion, there’s nothing wrong with venerating the ingenuity, ethos and craftsmanship of the time.

The excitement we felt at the breakthroughs that were coming fast and furious back then, the community and camaraderie of fellow nerds, the realization that those massively constrained systems with 10,000 to 100,000 times less power than we have today still managed to offer massive value to us as users and programmers - that’s pretty amazing.

Another reason to love that era was that there was still genuine idealism in the industry and everything was far less corporate than today.
by epidemian | 2025-07-08 03:24:29+00:00
> Requiring perfection would either mean guardrails that would make it useless for most cases, or no LLM access until AGI exists

What?? What does AGI have to do with this? (If this was some kind of hyperbolic joke, sorry, i didn't get it.)

But, more importantly, the GP only said that in a sane world, the ChatGPT creators should be the ones trying to fix this mistake on ChatGPT. After all, it's obviously a mistake on ChatGPT's part, right?

That was the main point of the GP post. It was not about "requiring perfection" or something like that. So please let's not attack a straw man.
by dqv | 2025-07-08 03:25:22+00:00
> But also we have a serious problem where taking away someone's license to drive is to sentence them to poverty if not homelessness and starvation.

This is why I always get uncomfortable about people saying things like "seniors should not be allowed to drive". They get the part about it being a safety risk, but then the suggestion of increasing the availability of public transit is, like you say, "communism" and "an attack on businesses".

Just today, I communistically attacked a business by walking to it, which communistically saved a parking spot for someone who would have a hard time walking there, necessitating them driving.

In all seriousness, the freedom of walking and being able to interact with the environment outweighs the "freedom" of going long distances in a vehicle.

I have this weird optimism about the decline you are talking about: that somehow a new, more thoughtful, culture will arise from the ashes. One that is less concerned with monetary profit and more concerned with social profit. It does suck that there will be so much suffering and still no guarantee that any such culture arises, but I do have a tendency to smoke hopium until I am comatose.
by pomian | 2025-07-08 03:26:09+00:00
We are going up, slowly, in health, literacy, education - globally. But, like all progress, it is up up and down, then again up up and down. Thanks to retro grades like Putin and Trump. As to health indenture -that form of slavery is primarily in USA. Most other countries have figured it out. I agree with hope for the future though. Star Trek, not Star Wars!
by doitformango | 2025-07-08 03:26:16+00:00
A lot of steps are missing, seems like OP doesn't have much experience. Sure, you can license ARM or download RISC-V, configure and validate the RTL (even configurations with no RTL changes require RTL validation, and a mountain of test vectors), license some analog IP from Synopsys for analog, power and clocking; synthesize your design, place and route, timing converge, functionally validate against the RTL, lay out pinmap and bonding rules, fracture the DB, send the GLS to TSMC, validate the package characteristics and process corner, do post-silicon debug of ROM/timing/package/digital/analog, and maybe if the gods smile on you it'll only be one stepping and won't need any FIB edits ... but that requires an army of people to get it done in under a year. Re-designing a modern ISA would take one person decades, look how long the first cut of RISC-V took with genius volunteers. Maybe if you want to build a 6502 on your own for fun and can cough up $50k for a 0.180 micron shuttle at TSMC or Global Foundries. It's fun to fantasize about AI making all this happen automatically, but chip design is wildly nontrival. Its funny, Sematech talked about 3rd (or 4th?)-generation silicon design where humans would be taken out of the loop entirely within the next decade... back in 1993!

(Source: I've been a CPU Architect going on my fourth decade.)
by defrost | 2025-07-08 03:26:27+00:00
In the case of Australia you're correct in that it's not Israel reaching into Australia to alter opinion.

What is the case (in a many layered complex fabric) is that Australian Jewish groups have both actively pushed a narrative and worked hard to discredit any inkling of voice given to Palenstine by the public broadcaster that does work hard to be in the vicinity of neutral.

For better or worse they have gamed the Australian media system in their favour.

This recently hit the Federal Court of Australia which determined that (former) ABC executives (senior staff of the public broadcaster) caved to a pressure campaign to fire a radio broadcaster who tweeted a link to a Human Rights Watch report (that was unfavourable to Isreal) "in her own time" (not on the public clock and not contrary to any employment agreement).

Court Documents: https://www.fedcourt.gov.au/services/access-to-files-and-tra...

Extensive other reporting elsewhere.
by physix | 2025-07-08 03:26:51+00:00
I was curious to know the statistics on the mentions of various programming languages on HN over the years, so I got me a copy of all HN comments from a BigTable public source. But now I need to interpret each comment and so what I need is a semantic grep. The easiest would be to prompt an LLM.

Comments are pretty short, but there are many millions of them. So getting high throughput at minimum cost is key.

I'm hoping that Inception might be able to churn through this quickly.

If you folks have other ideas or suggestions, what might also work, I'd love to hear them!

The idea is having a semgrep command line tool. If latencies are dropping dramatically, it might be feasible.
by overstay8930 | 2025-07-08 03:28:40+00:00
I mean even putting the politics aside, you do kind of ask for this to happen when you start putting actual pressure on real people. Someone was eventually going to do something about this.

Pretty authoritarian but it's not like this just didn't happen under previous administrations. It just didn't happen publicly. You could definitely get someone visiting you at your door if you made apps that make certain things too easy.
by bravesoul2 | 2025-07-08 03:28:50+00:00
I've always gone back to work but I haven't had that level of money and the breaks shorter circa. Few months.

Something to consider is fractional work, which is take to mean part time high value work. Like a CTO for 10-20 hours a week. Choose if you prefer advising or writing code or a mix.

But "burned out" is serious so no rush just to feel meaningful. Health first.
by nrclark | 2025-07-08 03:28:57+00:00
It's also worth noting - the Bible isn't a single book, and it never was. It's 66 or 73 separate books (depending on the flavor of Christianity), bound together in a single binding. Much more of an anthology than a single book. The books were separated in time, authorship, culture, and even language. Never intended to be taken together as a single document.
by jedimind | 2025-07-08 03:29:05+00:00
"Instead, the report says, the BBC’s coverage has involved the systematic dehumanisation of Palestinians and unquestioning acceptance of Israeli PR. This has allegedly been overseen by BBC Middle East Editor and apparent Binyamin Netanyahu admirer, Raffi Berg, who is accused by anonymous journalists of “micromanaging” the section." - https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/bbc-impartiality-trust-isra...

"Comprehensive new research finds the BBC coverage of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza is systematically biased against Palestinians and fails to reach standards of impartiality.

Analysis of more than 35,000 pieces of BBC content by the Centre for Media Monitoring (CfMM) shows Israeli deaths are given 33 times more coverage per fatality, and both broadcast segments and articles included clear double standards. BBC content was found to consistently shut down allegations of genocide." - https://novaramedia.com/2025/06/16/bbc-systematically-biased...
by JimDabell | 2025-07-08 03:29:26+00:00
> the feature in OP isn't something that people would have found useful

This doesn’t seem likely. The utility is pretty obvious.

> chatgpt could have just directed the user to the site and told them to upload that image to OP's site.

What image? Did you think the first image shown is what is being entered into ChatGPT? It’s not. That’s what the site expects to be uploaded to them. There’s no indication that the ChatGPT users are scanning tabs. ChatGPT is producing ASCII tabs, but we aren’t shown what input it is in response to.
by bee_rider | 2025-07-08 03:29:50+00:00
Aliens and Terminator 2 also make sense as continuations. Of the character growth of the protagonists (growing more competent). And also of the “size” of the threat.

It is no coincidence that the first in each series is a horror movie (the enemy is overwhelmingly stronger than the protagonist, survival is the goal). And the second is an action movie (the enemy is strong but the protagonists have a fighting chance). It is the only way the momentum can keep building.

I think this is the main reason why so many series stall out at 2. There isn’t a third popular genre they can go to that keeps building. Maybe Alien:Earth will pivot into the Disaster genre, that would be a novel try at least.
by ithkuil | 2025-07-08 03:31:29+00:00
I guess it's hard to define words. Surely terrorism has this vague meaning of doing very evil and violent things.

But a picked up a random dictionary and it says: "the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims".

I struggle to understand what political aim Israel is pursuing when using unlawful violence and intimidation.

If you believe that Israel is performing a genocide what is the point of explicitly instilling more fear in the victims? Just sadism? I genuinely don't understand what advantage would Israel have in employing terror tactics against Palestinians. Is the idea that they do so in order to make them even more angry so they can justify their genocide? Is that the argument? Or am I not giving the same meaning to the word "terrorism" as you do?

I don't want to argue about which side is on the right side or whatnot; I found that this kind of conversation is is highly unproductive online. But I am interested in understanding how words have changed their meaning over time. Is terrorist now just a synonym for "murdering civilians"?
by pbohun | 2025-07-08 03:33:08+00:00
It's interesting how more "amateur approachable" both old cars and old computers are. Old cars can be worked on by anyone with some basic tools and know-how, and old computers could be understood and programmed the same way. MacPaint was made by one employee.

I think this is partially why people want these types of objects. You can actually own them. You can understand them. You can mod them.

Modern cars, games, computers, etc. aren't owned anymore. They always have updates, and could be bricked at any moment if the manufacturer wishes, gets bought or goes out of business.

There's nothing preventing this from being the golden age of computers. The capabilities of the hardware are near magical. We just need to bring back the concept of ownership.
by wenc | 2025-07-08 03:33:32+00:00
I think that's a bet that is contingent upon not getting laid off for more than a year during a period when there is 20-30% drawdown. If that happens, then any growth differential between equities and SPAXX's 4% is going to be wiped out -- in which case it was better to have stayed with SPAXX which offers liquidity and modest but stable growth at near zero risk.

It's not a sure win rule.

A better strategy is to hedge (bet maybe 3 months of your 1 year emergency runway), but that requires some acumen.
by MichaelRo | 2025-07-08 03:33:45+00:00
Well, that's because in law, you can't attend a 4 week bootcamp, call yourself a lawyer and inflate the ranks of desperate looking for a job. Now, also remote.

And as a doctor, you can't attend a 4 week bootcamp, call yourself a doctor and inflate the ranks of desperate looking for a job. And at least you gotta be in person, no remote.

Much of the problems of software engineering stem from the highly inflationary nature of it's people. There's a trillion of us already and more keep coming. That's what you get when there's a dozen for everything: a dime's worth.
by filterfish | 2025-07-08 03:33:50+00:00
I had a planter wart surgically removed which they packed with Manuka honey and because it's a deep open wound it needs to heal from the inside. I changed the dressing and repacked it every few days for weeks and the wound was absolutely pristine ever time.

I live in the tropics where people die because due to infection which makes it even more interesting that they use honey.
by molteanu | 2025-07-08 03:34:13+00:00
I still cannot get over the fact that we, in Europe, have banned RT on the grounds that it is a publication sponsored by a "foreign" government and, as such, it cannot be trusted.

For one, so many publications here in Europe are financed by the local governments and we have no problem allowing them to function and act in the interest or said governments. Two, it flies in the face of an independent, free individual who can choose what to read and discern what the truth is. By blocking it, you are saying, "You, as an individual, are not able to take your own decisions, you are not able to separate truth from lies and fiction." If, supposing the later is actually the case, then all this "free" media is actually dangerous as it becomes a game of "don't trust them, trust us!" and whoever has the better image, the best marketing and exposure wins over the others.