MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by amirhirsch | 2025-07-30 14:50:44+00:00
The entire bible is a story of the Jewish people losing their land due to moral failings. Repeatedly. From Judges through 2 Kings, Israel repeatedly loses divine protection precisely because of its own wickedness. Being “chosen” meant bearing covenantal responsibility, not enjoying a blank moral check.

Deuteronomy 20:15-18 is more appropriate to the current conflict, as it relates to how the Jews should fight wars in the land of Israel. It commands the utter destruction of the inhabitants of the land, not sparing any that breathe (not just those who “pisseth-on-the-wall”)

Discussions about modern Israel/Palestine are full of shibboleths that reveal where people are drawing their information:

In the Hebrew the word in 20:16 for inheritance is “Nachala”. Worth Googling: Nachala is also the name of a present‑day Israeli settler movement led by Daniella Weiss, whose own literature says it’s “continuing the biblical mandate to settle the land.” In other words, the same term that the Torah uses for a gift that can be forfeited is now used as branding for a modern political project—illustrating how ancient vocabulary still shapes today’s arguments about the land.

For an example from the Palestinian side: you do not have a full understanding of Hamas if you do not know about the Hadith about the Gharqad tree. Hamas charter writers alluded to this story; many Palestinians learn it young, while most Israelis have never heard of it.

Recognizing these code‑words doesn’t require agreeing with the theology behind them. It simply keeps us from talking past each other—and, one hopes, from letting someone else’s apocalyptic script dictate who lives and dies. I think we all agree that the other-sides’ eschatology is a dumb reason to die.
by gishglish | 2025-07-30 14:50:48+00:00
Reminds me of when I lived in a shit meth town. Dead economy, propped up entirely by a single military base. Lots of drugs and violence. Most people I knew there worked a shitty low skilled job and sold meth.

One guy I knew had it in his head he could just go back to school for welding and make 6 figures. Of course that didn’t work out. Turns out the local CC doesn’t have anything for underwater welding. Welding programs for sure, but mostly designed to funnel workers into local, lower paying positions that need filled.

I have a suspicion this push towards blue collars jobs is just another learn to code grift.
by xyst | 2025-07-30 14:51:02+00:00
Maybe, but what’s to stop “scrappy upstart” from becoming the next HPE?

We need companies owned by the people that built the company. Not by the C-level executives that are appointed by a board of billionaire lackeys, bankers, trust fund kiddies who are hellbent on flipping a profit at all costs.

Also of course more regulation, and higher corporate tax. Get rid of the stock manipulation tactic known as stock buybacks that only encourage short term growth/pump in price of stock.
Show HN: GetEles, a browser extension that helps you easily understand webpages
by WayneFung1992 | 2025-07-30 14:51:15+00:00
Hey HN, I used to be a frontend engineer, but for the past two years, I've been working as an independent developer. I'm building tools to solve problems I encounter in my daily workflow.

Every day, I use F12/devtools to debug web pages. Honestly, I often just want to see how an element is written or which styles are affecting my layout. In 2024, I upgraded to a new laptop with a smaller screen (14") compared to my old one. Now, whenever I press F12, the webpage gets squeezed, sometimes even switching to mobile view. This frustration inspired me to create GetEles, named after JavaScript functions like getElementsBy*.

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by Waterluvian | 2025-07-30 14:51:16+00:00
The thing that’s usually on my mind when people are lamenting how the Web has evolved is that all the tools are still there to build websites however you want. So the lamentation is really, “other people are doing things in a way I don’t like and that upsets my experience.”

Which is this mix of… yeah I guess that’s true. I feel the same. But also, I have absolutely zero right to really externalize that grievance. People can do whatever they want for good or bad reasons, whether I’m equipped to understand those reasons or not.

But what we can do is be the change we want. Just make my own little oasis. Find other oases and hook ‘em all up.

Which then got me thinking about if there could be a special Web Classic experience we could voluntarily hook into. Maybe someone runs a search engine that only indexes crawled pages that have a X-Web-Classic header or whatever. If people actually want it enough to put the work in, can’t we make it? I guess corporations would come to capitalize on its success if it became successful. But I’d be willing to fight that battle if we got to that point (ie. curation or tech limitations or whatever…)

I’d love a browser that I switch into Web Classic Mode and it pretty much only reaches these resources. Example.com doesn’t implement an X-Web-Classic header response? Give me a 404. Does it try to load cross origin resources that aren’t X-Web-Classic? 404. Straight to 404.
by troyvit | 2025-07-30 14:51:33+00:00
Weird how this story came out a ~few hours later~ at about the same time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44723316

That isn't an open source model, but a quantized version of GLM-4.5, an open-weight model. I'd say there's hope yet for small, powerful open models.
by mystraline | 2025-07-30 14:51:37+00:00
> There was discussion about how they thought candidates asking about compensation to be something of a negative signal because they wanted people who weren’t in it for the money, basically.

I've heard this from multiple hiring managers and C levels. The cognitive dissonance is amazing.

Do you know why I show up and work? Because I am paid for it, and in this country, medical is also gatekept by employment.

If I wasn't paid, I wouldn't work for them.

But somehow, I'm supposed to not care about money at the same time caring about money.
by mxuribe | 2025-07-30 14:53:00+00:00
Oh wow, are in luck! These kinds of communities have been building up over the last few years (maybe decade or so?), and now they're quite prevalent. I was about to share a few links (like indieweb.org, fediring.net, etc.)...but, then remembered stumbling upon the following blogroll/link page that does a wonderful job of capturing some really good starting points: https://shellsharks.com/indieweb

Enjoy! :-)
by kspacewalk2 | 2025-07-30 14:53:32+00:00
To each their own. I much prefer to live in the neighbourhood where each neighbour does what they feel like with their property, within reason. It ought not be any business of yours what I do with my yard, front or back, as long as it doesn't adversely affect your enjoyment of your own property - and this last part is key - as a reasonable person would interpret it. In other words, smells and health hazards - sure. Unexplainable hatred for wildflowers, uncut grass and the laughter of children - go ahead and send a passive aggressive note straight to /dev/null for all I care.
by rob74 | 2025-07-30 14:53:33+00:00
Yup, that was the thing that jumped out at me too: in the photos with the golf players, the trees in the background appear much smaller in the iPhone photo than in the "real camera" photo, which means the "real camera" photo was taken from further away and zoomed in, so it obviously will have less distortion. Same for the building and car pictures, but the article doesn't mention that at all (except for writing that "the fish eye iPhone lens creates distortion" - of course it does, that's why the iPhone has other lenses as well)!
by FollowingTheDao | 2025-07-30 14:54:02+00:00
This article is remarkable incomplete. Why is he only talking about the effect ion the NMDA receptor when ketamine effect much more than that and a lot of stuff we do not know. At higher doses it start effecting other receptors which is why a higher does has seemingly opposite effects.

You can see the K values for the receptors ketamine effects on wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketamine#Pharmacology

He does not seem to know ketamine is a D2 receptor agonsit, the same as PCP, yet he mentions it for PCP!

Like most of the "nootropics" people I read they speak only in "vibes".
by spmurrayzzz | 2025-07-30 14:54:13+00:00
Ah didn't realize you were referring to NoPE explicitly. And yea, the intuitions gained from that paper are pretty much what I alluded to above, you don't get away with never modeling the positional data, the question is how you model it effectively and from where do you derive that signal.

NoPE never really took off more broadly in modern architecture implementations. We haven't seen anyone successfully reproduce the proposed solution to the long context problem presented in the paper (tuning the scaling factor in the attention softmax).

There is a recent paper back in December[1] that talked about the idea of positional information arising from the similarity of nearby embeddings. Its again in that common research bucket of "never reproduced", but interesting. It does sound similar in spirit though to the NoPE idea you mentioned of the causal mask providing some amount of position signal. i.e. we don't necessarily need to adjust the embeddings explicitly for the same information to be learned (TBD on whether that proves out long term).

This all goes back to my original comment though of communicating this idea to AI/ML neophytes being challenging. I don't think skipping the concept of positional information actually makes these systems easier to comprehend since its critically important to how we model language, but its also really complicated to explain in terms of implementation.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.00073
by js8 | 2025-07-30 14:56:18+00:00
Is two-state solution possible? Just look at the map of the territories under palestinian control, they're bantustans. Israel/Palestine is factually one state, which simply doesn't accept half of its population as citizens.

You could also say that "two-state solution" has been tried in 1948, but (for whatever reasons) didn't work out. So support for 2-state is just a form of delaying the inevitable.

I am now firm believer in one-state solution as the most fair one. Peter Beinart has some good arguments in its favor.

And I think it would be a poetic justice for all the racist settlers (or islamists) to have the people they hate as their neighbors.
by stasyanko1 | 2025-07-30 14:56:24+00:00
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by wing-_-nuts | 2025-07-30 14:56:31+00:00
Honestly, I think AI will eventually be a good thing for the environment. If ai companies are trying to expand renewables and nuclear to power their datacenters for training, well, that massive amount of renewables and battery storage becomes available when training is done and the main workload is inference. I know they are consistently training new stuff on small scale but from what I've read the big training batches only happen when they've proven out what works at small scale.

Also, one has to imagine that all this compute will help us run bigger / more powerful climate models, and google's ai is already helping them identify changes to be more energy efficient.

The need for more renewable power generation is also going to help us optimize the deployment process. I.e. modular nuclear reactors, in situ geothermal taking over old stranded coal power plants, etc
by diggan | 2025-07-30 14:56:40+00:00
> If I wasn't paid, I wouldn't work for them.

That's great, but useful to know not everyone thinks the same. When I transitioned to software development (from basically random "whatever pays my rent" jobs), besides my first software job, they were all because I liked the particular product in some way or another, and what the compensation was is basically the least interesting thing for me.

Of course, some level of base payment is needed, because I still needed to pay rent, but if I was choosing between two jobs where one was utterly boring but paid 3 times more than a fascinating job, I'd take the latter in a heartbeat. And no, I'm just an individual contributor who wants to like what I work with, not an executive, manager or similar.
by westurner | 2025-07-30 14:56:59+00:00
> probably never again going to publish

Does this mean that ScholarlyArticles that authors choose to publish with ACM can be uploaded to e.g. ArXiv in full instead of only the preprints?

(If you upload PostScript and PDF to ArXiv, they can generate an HTML5 rendering of the article.)

Open access > Effects on scholarly publishing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access

I learned OO from lots of great resources, and may have been disadvantaged to have have never read Ingall's paper; which isn't yet cited in Wikipedia's OO page under History.

Object orientated programinng > History: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming#Hi...

"'Considered harmful' considered harmful"

Considered harmful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful

Edsger Dijkstra published "Go To Statement Considered Harmful" (1998) with CACM.
by throwanem | 2025-07-30 14:56:59+00:00
What kind of volume are you doing? I see three examples. Hell, I get more people than that stopping me to ask for pictures or try to hire me for event work when they see how I use a camera, most days when I'm just out for a walk.

Really, what it looks like to me is just that you have a product that costs ~nothing to operate and seems like it sort of makes sense for smallish wedding-and-anniversary party venues - but you've discovered too late what a nightmare that market is and that the fit's not actually that great, so you're pitching to people like me to try to salvage with a pivot, not realizing that the ask to add a Wal Mart style belt mounted printer to my kit in order to produce these QR code tickets is really just never going to happen.

It's bizarre to me in what world you live where this constitutes "easier," but I also don't care. You want to intermediate and transactionalize a relationship so ephemeral it can already be nearly overlooked even to exist, and where your presence is unneeded and unwelcome - and mine is the most HN comment ever? But it does explain why no one in your sample shots is smiling.
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by mardifoufs | 2025-07-30 14:57:06+00:00
The settler was in someone else's land, and actively participated in displacing the people that were "terrifying" them. An easy way would've been to just leave. It's not even controversial, almost every country on earth recognizes that the settlements are illegal.

If a Russian soldier in Ukrainian territory shot some civilian in the face, I guess you'd also have put yourself in their shoes and given them the benefit of the doubt? I mean, they were terrified!
by mxuribe | 2025-07-30 14:57:31+00:00
While i am not aware of a browser that behaves like you described exactly, i vaguely recall that there is a browser plugin that is similar to what you described....but can't find it right now.

That being said, there is a search engine named Wiby [https://wiby.me] that focuses "...building a web of pages as it was in the earlier days of the internet.", so maybe that be nice to check out?
by exasperaited | 2025-07-30 14:57:38+00:00
It's literally a guy who has no right building his home where he has built it on land he doesn't own, and has spent years aggressively and violently trying to drive other people out so his friends and family can build houses on land they don't own where they also don't have the right to build, defending himself from a crowd whose behaviour he provoked.

This is undeniable.

The man saying "shoot me" is saying it to a man who is a documented illegal aggressor. It's rhetoric, not actually an invitation to shoot him, and wouldn't excuse the man shooting him if it was.
by amiga386 | 2025-07-30 14:57:46+00:00
We're going round in circles now, so let's just say we will see what happens.

Project Zero seems upbeat, but acknowledges this risk:

> We understand that for some vendors without a downstream ecosystem, this policy may create unwelcome noise and attention

> This is a trial, and we will be closely monitoring its effects.

They don't explicity spell out what they would consider a failure of this policy trial. I think failure would look like the example I have outlined, but at greater scale.
by K0balt | 2025-07-30 14:57:54+00:00
A clarification was appropriate because it really did miss the physics, but doubling down on the definition of wave without talking about speed, length, and volume (which is what had confused OP in the first place) was not only suboptimal in teaching useful knowledge to OP, it was also misleading in a way that could (and did, in at least one case of a commenter in this thread) lead to a dangerous misconception about characterising tsunamis.

Perhaps it wasn’t intentionally pedantic, but the way that it was doubled down on later makes me suspect an argument in bad faith, or at least an epic case of missing the opportunity to usefully inform.

I value this site for the general character of people trying to educate more than just troll, and I think it’s important to try to educate trolls as well to understand a more constructive and respectful way to interact here. Ostensibly, we take off our clown shoes and leave them at the door.

OTOH I may have read multiple comments in similar tone that were not all attributed to one poster , giving me a mistaken impression of the intent. In that case, I owe an apology for perhaps overreacting.
by myrmidon | 2025-07-30 14:58:32+00:00
You a re being very reductive in order to make your point, but thats fair enough, I don't entirely disagree.

But I would like to point out that the situation is significantly less symmetrical than the picture you paint:

Yes, lots of Israelis treat the other side as second class citizens (apartheid analogies make a valid point).

BUT if you flipped the power distribution, and gave the Palestinian side a fully functional modern army, then we would no longer need to be arguing about the semantics of "genocide", because practically every single jew in the region would be killed within weeks. There is significant restraint on the Israeli side that they deserve quite some credit for, in my opinion.

I believe it is very important (and right!) to keep the ruling side (Israelis) "honest", and to speak out in favor of the "underdogs", but the "both sides" argument feels dishonest and misplaced here to me, and IMO "the West" fully supporting the Palestinian side would have been genocidal from the start, and escalated into an unmitigated disaster basically immediately (my position is that the current situation is still a barely "mitigated disaster", and de-escalation instead of October 7and its lead-up would have been an actual possibility with some effort from all sides).
by zwnow | 2025-07-30 14:58:33+00:00
> So the lamentation is really, “other people are doing things in a way I don’t like and that upsets my experience.”

Well put. Personally I have zero issues with SPAs and the amount of Javascript we are facing in the web industry right now. And if you try to build some kind of business that wants to present itself successfully to potential customers, on the web, there is no way to write a appealing website without Javascript.

Most target demographics at this point and in the future have grown up with beautiful websites and the internet being really interactive. I highly doubt they'd be interested in what you have to say if you wrote your page in a way the web was supposed to be used.
by mc32 | 2025-07-30 14:58:37+00:00
Pop density before the 1870s was generally low in most places with a few exceptions.

After all there was no "industry" it was 95% + agrarian, pescatarian, pastoral. Many populations had a preference for coastal, riparian settlements and mountainous areas were less favored... but were where displaced peoples could move to. People clumped, they were not evenly distributed so any region would have unsettled areas --just like today you have vast areas in Alaska that are not populated -even Wyoming. There are towns here and there but most areas of those states are not "populated" though they are under local, state and federal control. Government did not work that way back a few hundred years ago.

The Zulu only relatively recently moved into ZA (around the same time as Europeans maybe a bit before --the Khoisan are the native peoples of ZA).
by ghaff | 2025-07-30 14:59:35+00:00
It's not universal but B2B sales in particular have evolved to incentive/performance compensation to a large degree. Wasn't always the case but (most?) of those companies aren't in business any longer. Also extends to the sales hiring process. Not that companies don't look at track records but it's also the case that sales managers don't have any issue firing people who don't meet their numbers.
by 9rx | 2025-07-30 14:59:54+00:00
> I am not sure if investors will continue to give him a blank check.

What are they going to do, exactly? They explicitly invested in the company knowing that Zuckerberg would retain full control.

If they can show gross negligence there may be a legal avenue, but it would be pretty hard to justify chasing potentially profitable business ventures, even if they end up failing, as being negligence. Controversial business decisions are not negligence in the eye of the law.

Sure, they can sell their interest in the company — if someone else wants to buy it — but that just moves who the investor is around. That doesn't really change anything.
by canadaduane | 2025-07-30 15:00:27+00:00
This is brutally honest. In all seriousness, consider that external metrics are not the only way to value life. Economics looks from the outside and judges value. Art looks from the inside and expresses experience. Also, check out Internal Family Systems therapists. I'm learning a lot, and believe this is a very valuable line of inquiry into self & getting unstuck.