MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wredcoll | 2025-07-28 23:57:08+00:00
> I have no problem with the initial invasion of Gaza to stop Hamas and get their people back. I’m not sorry for saying so, or holding that position after Hamas gave them such a clear casus belli. But it doesn’t seem to be about that any more.

The point is that you were told this was the inevitable consequences of such actions and yet chose to ignore it. That's probably the kind of mea culpa they're looking for.

Predicting the future is notoriously tricky, but pretending like this outcome was in any way unlikely is extremely disengenuous.
by gus_massa | 2025-07-28 23:57:30+00:00
Does the AI has access to newspapers? If John Doe is a MP, then he is probably the most famous Joe Doe in the last 5 years and the AI may grab his photo from a newspaper. I don't know about the national ID in UK, but here in Argentina the national ID number is public. A lot of public documents include "John Doe (DNI 23.456.789)", and the are sites where you can search it (the DB has problems with almost coalitions, so you may get a number 23.456.789 from one "John X. Doe" that is a 50yo in Buenos Aires and another "John Y. Doe" with number 59.876.653 that is a 3yo in Ushuaia, so in many cases it's easy to guess)
by steve_adams_86 | 2025-07-29 00:01:05+00:00
One could argue this is like paying a subscription for gasoline and saying you better use it up or it's a waste. There's an externality at play.

I know LLMs aren't as much of an environmental scourge as people sometimes make them out to be, but if they're used eagerly and aggressively, their impacts certainly have a capability of scaling in concerning ways.
by impossiblefork | 2025-07-29 00:01:13+00:00
Yes, I should say firms doing manufacturing in the EU.

But the result is the same. It becomes impossible to invest in the EU.

If they refuse to take measures against unfair competition (tariff for the firm manufacturing in the EU, but no tariff for the firm manufacturing in the US), then they're throwing you under the bus and it's not an acceptable use of resources to manufacture there.

You can't trust someone who isn't willing to protect your investment.
by YZF | 2025-07-29 00:01:21+00:00
Israel is not occupying the areas of Gaza where there are civilians in any meaningful way. If it was then the war would be over.

Israel is considered an "occupying power" in Gaza by some from a legal perspective simply because the status of Gaza was not fully resolved following Israel's withdrawal in 2005. I.e. because Israel withdrew unilaterally, not as part of an agreement, some consider it to still be the "occupying power" since 2005. However Israel is not present in Gaza, does not run Gaza, does not physically control Gaza, since 2005.

The current military situation is that Israel controls 65% of the ground, where there are no civilians, and the rest is controlled by Hamas.

Starvation of civilians is indeed prohibited. However siege is permitted as long as civilians can leave. So a siege of Gaza city or the northern Gaza strip would be permitted as long as civilians are allowed to leave that area. A similar example would be Mosul that was under siege while being controlled by ISIS.

Killing civilians in the course of attacking military objectives is not prohibited. Intentional killing of civilians for no military purpose would be a war crime. Israeli soldiers who intentionally kill Palestinian civilians for no military reason should be put on trial. Either way, the context is the armed conflict/war which is what Hamas started and is still pursuing. IDF soldiers are killed and injured in Gaza every day, this just doesn't make the news or Hacker News.
by zahlman | 2025-07-29 00:01:44+00:00
>The 'extreme' feminism & LGBT tends to revolve around

There are countless statements from feminist authority figures that are impossible to reconcile with this claim. But HN is not the place to have this argument, or even to attempt to turn it into a discussion; and elsewhere on the Internet, I have repeatedly seen people persecuted as misogynists simply for collating such evidence.
by westurner | 2025-07-29 00:01:46+00:00
SELinux on a host should restrict KVM (and X/Wayland, and the sound server,).

SELinux in a guest [VM or container] should restrict processes in the guest from interfering with other processes and resources in the guest.

IMHO, Nested UIDs like uid1.subuid1.subuid2 would be better for rootless containers than root-writeable /etc/subuids.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-07-29 00:02:57+00:00
When you tell them something they want to do anyway, you only need a few calls to confirm their bias. When it's something they hate, they will throw millions to resist the change.

It can't be cancelled, but it can be inconvinienced. Emails can be ignored, but snail mail is overwhelming, and call centers can be gummed up. For some reasons, these businesses respond more to these old medium, so gotta make use of it.
by quacksilver | 2025-07-29 00:03:12+00:00
Would it even be possible to enumerate all edge cases and test all the permutations of them in non-trivial codebases or interconnected systems? How do you know when you have all of the edge cases?

With fuzzing you can randomly generate bad input that passes all of your test cases that were written using by whatever method you have already been using but still causes the application to crash or behave badly. This may mean that there are more tests that you could write that would catch the issue related to the fuzz case, or the fuzz case itself could be used as a test.

Using probability you can get to 90 or 99% or 99.999% or whatever confidence level you need that the software is unaffected by bugs based on the input size / number of fuzz test cases. In many non-critical situations the goal may not be 100% but 'statistically very unlikely with a known probability and error'
by gruez | 2025-07-29 00:03:24+00:00
This might work for making reservations at hair salons that don't have an online booking system, but for companies that can obviously afford an online system and are forcing people to call in to increase friction, what prevents them from blocking this service (and similar) for "security reasons"? After all, the AI discloses up front that it's an AI, and lying about it might be dicey. Concerns about security aren't unreasonable either. Basically all companies authenticate you via random pieces of information about you or your service, like your birthday, or address. If you're providing all this information to a chatbot, it also means there's a treasure trove of information scammers can use to compromise accounts or do a password reset.
by garciasn | 2025-07-29 00:04:29+00:00
I've been to Vegas at all different times of the year. Folks there definitely notice when it's not 120; they were wearing jackets, hat, and gloves when it was in the 50s at Christmas in 2005.

I was there for Google Next in April and it was hovering between 95 and 100 and I was comfortable in jeans and a polo, but I would have been just as comfortable at 60.

Living in the Upper Midwest, I find it so interesting that we deal with -40F to >105F (sometimes with 80 degree temperature swings in a day or two; going from -40 to +40) just fine but folks in places like Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Tampa, FL cannot seem to handle even 10 degree swings. Crazy.
by danbruc | 2025-07-29 00:05:37+00:00
Israel will not agree to a right to return that might result in the destruction of its status quo. So even if you think that this would be the morally desirable outcome, it is not going to happen. How many of the people displaced during the Nakba are even still alive? We are not talking about letting people displaced a couple of years ago return, we are talking about people and their descendants that have been displaced generations ago, most of them have never lived in the place you want to let them return to. Make them a good enough offer to forfeit their right to return.
by YZF | 2025-07-29 00:05:57+00:00
Netanyahu does not "support Hamas". Netanyahu did historically prefer Hamas to be in control of Gaza both for some sense of stability (vs. potential total chaos) and as a way of dividing the Palestinians between Hamas and the Palestinian authority. This has obviously turned out to be a big mistake but it's not the same as "supporting Hamas".

Since you're saying "70 years" that's sort of a sign you're approaching this from some sort of ideological perspective. The West Bank and Gaza were under Jordanian and Egyptian rule respectively until 1967, so about 48 years ago. I.e. your problem is with the existence of Israel in the 1967 lines and Jewish presence and rights in the region and you, like Palestinians, do not support a two state solution. I'll take your 70 years and raise 3000 years in this case. The Jewish people are the indigenous people of the region, not the Palestinians, and they have the historical rights.

EDIT: It's worth noting that Israeli governments have done a lot. They agreed to give the Palestinians autonomy as part of the peace agreement with Egypt. They were engaged in good faith efforts to resolve the conflict during the Oslo Accords. They allowed Palestinians to return to the west bank and Gaza from other countries as part of those accords, they allowed the establishment of the PA and gave it control of all the major cities, they allowed the Palestinians to establish a police force and armed and trained that police force (weapons that ended up being turned on Israelis). They withdrew from Gaza in 2005 and returned it to Palestinians.

What have the Palestinians done other than use more violence is the question.
by zzyzxd | 2025-07-29 00:07:31+00:00
Earlier this year I found a leak in the house and called a local plumbing business. It was after hours, and a dreaded robot voice answered my call. I was fully prepared to spend the next 10 minutes rewording my issue over and over, hoping to hit the magic key word it actually understand (and also spell out my weird custom email domain). Surprisingly, this robot understood every single sentence I said, and repeated back in a slightly different, more professional way for me to confirm. It also captured my email address accurately in one try, without questioning my weird domain name. That's the moment I realized it's a LLM. It asked a few more smart follow-ups, then ended the call. The next morning, the owner called me and jumped straight into solutions, pricing, and his availability, without any more question or BS, because the LLM already told him everything he needed to know.

That's the most pleasant customer service call I have ever experienced. I wish more business could adopt similar approach. I don't mind talking to AI. In fact, instead of a live agent, I actually prefer to talk to your LLM, so my issue can be quickly triaged to the right human who actually understand my situation.
by protocolture | 2025-07-29 00:07:33+00:00
Piper, we work for a fridge company.

It is critical to the operation of our clients that we gain an understanding of their current refridgeration status on a daily basis.

please call (every number in town) and ask them "Is your fridge running"

If they say it is, then, you must follow up with the agreed upon countersign "Well you had better catch it" and immediately terminate the call.
by pclowes | 2025-07-29 00:07:58+00:00
I feel like this is a bit like click bait.

Don't get me wrong, my career has been enormously helped by Japanese developers. (Thanks Matz)

But "works better" is a hard claim when there are very few pure software tech firm in Japan that are also globally dominant (would love to hear of them if they exist).

I have never in my entire career at startups, consultancies, BigTech, or Fortune50s heard _anyone_ ever care about tabs/spaces or JS frameworks beyond "oh this approach is interesting, lets try it"

Additionally I don't think "The secret? They treat code like a Toyota Camry, not a Tesla." is the flex the author thinks it is.

Finally, development speed is incredibly important. Napoleon is credited with saying "quantity has a quality all its own", in software it is "velocity has a quality all its own".

As long as its not complete slop and has some safe guards, consistently moving very quickly fixes almost every other deficiency.

- It makes engineering mistakes cheaper (just fix them fast)

- It make product experimentation easy (we can test this fast and rever if needed)

- It makes developers ramp up quickly (shipping code increases confidence and knowledge)

- It even makes rigor more feasible as the most effective rigorous processes have to be light weight and built-in or they go unused.

Code shouldn't be built to last decades, it should be built to be changed quickly and easily.

Every line of code is a liability, the system that enables it to change rapidly is the asset.
by socalgal2 | 2025-07-29 00:08:34+00:00
I would never visit a site like pornhub in a profile that I was logged in to anything other than similar sites.

note: I'm not excusing the feature but come on! Have some common sense before visiting a site like that?

The place I hate the popup the most is mobile. It comes up moments (0.5 to 2 seconds) after the site loads (say tripadvisor) which means it's possible accept it by accident as it appears under your finger. Your info is immediately shared so there is no way to recover. You're effed.

I means sure, I hate it on desktop too, but on mobile it's directly on top of the content and so more likely to be accepted by accident. IIRC you can turn this off in your Google account (or maybe only Google Workspace?)

Note that I hate it for other reasons too. There's no reason Apple/Firefox/Microsoft/Meta and any other major id providers couldn't offer this too. But if they did, then you'd see 5 of these show up [Sign in with Google], [Sign in with Apple], [Sign in with Facebook], [Sign in with Microsoft], [Sign in with Firefox]. So in other words, this seems like a tragedy of the commons in progress.

To steelman the feature though, easily sign up and easy login would be super convenient if that's what I wanted. It might be nice for a Web API that made this more privacy focused (or maybe that already exists). But yes, I'd like to see Google's specific popup disappear - be banned.
by alisonatwork | 2025-07-29 00:08:42+00:00
I'm mostly backend but have been fullstack in a few positions and remember expending a bunch of political capital advocating for moving to React when it first came out because it seemed to solve a lot of problems we were having with projects that used Angular or a jQuery patchwork. I still think that it was the right decision at the time, but what React has become today is so much more esoteric and spaghetti-like that I'm not sure having it "win" was the best thing for frontend.

Now I actively go out of my way to avoid doing any fullstack because I spend more time trying to fight against the various fragile towers of incantation-like hooks than just implementing the business logic in a way that feels readable and maintainable. I'm not sure there is a way to remove the complexity either, but so much of modern programming with React just feels unintuitive and convoluted, which is exactly the opposite of how it used to feel when it first came out. I'm not sure how to solve it.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-07-29 00:09:57+00:00
> but Valve have made excellent progress at getting games to run on Linux now.

Until the answer to "Will this new game run on Linux?" becomes "Of course it does. Why wouldn't it?", it's not good enough.

That said, I've heavily considered running a Linux VM in my Windows box and doing nearly all my day-to-day activities inside the VM and only switching out to Windows to play games. I've got 128 GB of RAM, so I could dedicate a healthy 32 GB to the Linux VM and still have far more than I need for gaming in the Windows host.

Dual booting is a pain in the ass. I won't do it.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-07-29 00:10:36+00:00
Sure that mildly annoys me but does it really matter? Everything in the store is taxed according to the relevant laws for the region. It's not as though this TV will have 10% tax but that TV will have 50% tax. They'll both be taxed according to the item category they fall under.

It's not as though most people are in a position to shop around when it comes to tax authorities.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-07-29 00:10:41+00:00
So we're supposed to capitulate to censors because it's hard to do business? If it's too hard, don't do it. I think Visa/Mastercard get more than enough business to justify the inevitbale costs/abuse of the system.

>The amount of lawsuits that these processors get co-named in for providing payment rails is probably enormous

yes, that's called being a billion dollar business. Literally any billion dollar business is facing dozens of lawsuits on the daily. They have dedicated lawyers on hand for this ineviability.
by actionfromafar | 2025-07-29 00:12:17+00:00
Wow, I clearly didn't think this through. That's brutal.

That leads to another idea - if something more substantial was placed in its path - the resulting debris and gas cloud from the impact could reveal something about the contents of the object.

Or, if it's an alien probe, it would force their hand. :-D We could see some exotic manuevering.
by mynameisjoseph | 2025-07-29 00:12:55+00:00
This is a bit off topic, but mobile first has caused some websites to not support the desktop version at all. They say there are not many users access them from PCs. I'm very shocked that they just have decided to end the desktop version support because of current # of visitors, even though they have given superior experience through the desktop version. These days I feel like our window to look around the world getting smaller. I have a 32 inch monitor but to shop something, I have to use my 6.8 inch phone.
by Jtsummers | 2025-07-29 00:14:28+00:00
> Surprisingly, not a single mention of Georges Lemaître

The article:

>> Pius XII stopped suggesting that the big bang required the orchestration of God after he had a conference with Georges Lemaître, the Belgian scientist and Catholic priest who had laid the groundwork for the theory with his hypothesis that the universe had expanded from a “primeval atom.”

There's a single mention of him in the article.
by red369 | 2025-07-29 00:14:35+00:00
I have only just found out about this feature introduced in iOS 18.2. It also allows exporting of bookmarks, history and the reading list.

It might just be me, but I don't think Apple did much to bring attention to this.

With being able to export passwords, and the addition of a standalone Passwords app on iOS 18, using Apple's built in password management might finally be a useable solution for iPhone users.
by buu700 | 2025-07-29 00:16:07+00:00
Yeah, I don't think any healthcare system is going to be a silver bullet so long as supply is ultimately a bottleneck. Which is a bit broader in scope, being impacted by macroeconomic factors, the educational system, regulatory requirements, technology, and so on.

We should take steps to optimize both supply and demand, but I don't think it'd be accurate to characterize the situation as "single-payer = long waits and multi-payer = short waits". More like higher demand with all else being equal means relatively longer waits, and all else being equal single-payer increases effective demand. But improved health, improved safety, and lower population are all things that drive down demand, all else being equal, so obviously there are a lot of factors here.

Despite not being single-payer, and despite its suppression of effective demand (with high latent demand among those priced out of the market), I'd argue that the current US system is far from optimal at maximizing supply of actual care relative to its full potential.
by const_cast | 2025-07-29 00:16:11+00:00
We can't go banning things just because they can, potentially, be used for "child fetishization".

Movies can be used for that purpose, and certainly Hollywood knows that. Books. TV. Any form of media.

Not to mention, rape and torture "simulators" (do you by change mean media?) are integral to our understanding of those things. What if rape survivors could not speak it, for it is too shameful?

And, the elephant in the room, sex is alone on this pedestal. Sex, alone, is uniquely stigmatized to a degree that nothing even comes close. Violence, no matter how gruesome and vile, does not reach even 1/1000th the scorn of even modest sex.

This is a purity game, plain and simple. The shame around sex and the extreme desire to control it comes from the patriarchy and religious ideals. These should not be humored.
by Esophagus4 | 2025-07-29 00:16:34+00:00
That's part of why I use the investment brokerage I do: their customer service is absolutely fantastic. I get a highly capable human agent with no hold time who is able to resolve my issue.

The ones who really drive me nuts are the call-to-cancel services where they try to retain you. I'm not sure why that triggers my moral outrage so much, but WSJ and NYT are definitely on my naughty list.
by jonahhorowitz | 2025-07-29 00:16:52+00:00
As long as they spend so much on marketing, it's hard to believe them when they say the only way they can recoup their R&D investments is to charge high prices.

- *For many large pharmaceutical companies ("Big Pharma"), marketing costs often exceed R&D spending.* In analyses of the top 10 drugmakers by revenue in 2020, 7 companies spent more on sales and marketing than on research and development. For example, Johnson & Johnson spent $22 billion on marketing compared to $12 billion on R&D; Bayer spent $18 billion on marketing vs. $8 billion on R&D[1][2].

- The combined marketing spend for these top 10 companies exceeded R&D by $36 billion (about 37%) in 2020[1][2].

[1] https://www.ahip.org/news/articles/new-study-in-the-midst-of... [2] https://www.csrxp.org/icymi-new-study-finds-big-pharma-spent...
by vorpalhex | 2025-07-29 00:17:48+00:00
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-01/israel-claims-targets...

In Dec 1 in 8 WCK workers were fired for Hamas ties

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/12/11/aid-group-fires-doze...

Even your link calls out that one of the vehicles that split from the convoy was carrying armed gunmen.
by g-b-r | 2025-07-29 00:17:49+00:00
Supported (with weapons, protection...) by Israel (https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-providing-guns-to-gaza-...) and which happen to be the ones actually doing the looting (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/11/18/gaza-looting...).
by red369 | 2025-07-29 00:19:46+00:00
I have no idea when the import feature was added. It feels ironic that it's only now there is finally an export option that I am interested in the import button for the first time. But perhaps like the examples in the Alanis Morissette song, I think it's not irony at all. Without a way out, it really shouldn't matter to you if there is a way in.
by asdfasvea | 2025-07-29 00:21:11+00:00
First, what is there to wonder about? Stakes. There are things to be gained from winning (and purposely losing).

Second, no one sport has more cheating than any other with similar stakes.

Third, "cheating" is more of a spectrum than binary. Travelling with the basketball is cheating and sometimes penalized. Having your husband kneecap your Olympic skating rival is cheating as well.

Fourth, "cheating" is relative and always in flux. You could head slap an NFL receiver in the 1970's, but no longer. Forward passes in the NHL were illegal in olden times, but fine today.
by vessenes | 2025-07-29 00:22:40+00:00
Do not love. I used opus on api billing for some time before the new larger plans came out, so I switched. I routinely hit the opus limits in an hour or two ($100 plan). There are some tasks sonnet is good with but for many it’s worse, and sometimes subtly so.

Upshot - I will probably go back to api billing and cancel. For my use cases (once or twice a week coding binges) it’s probably cheaper and definitely less frustrating.