MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by adrian_b | 2025-07-03 03:46:35+00:00
"Semitic" is a word that includes both hebrews and arabs, because both are classified as descendants of Shem in the Bible.

Despite that, most people who use the word "antisemitic" apply it only to something that is done against hebrews, and not to something done against arabs.

Therefore it makes sense to request clarification about what someone means by that word, i.e. if they meant that BBC is anti-Israel or it is anti-arabs.

It would be much better if everyone who means that something is anti-Israeli, would say it clearly, instead of using the ambiguous word "antisemitic".

The word "Semitic" has been created due to a misunderstanding of the Bible, because there the classification of the people was not based on real descendance from common ancestors, but it was based on the political dependence of those people at the time when the Book of Genesis was written. Unfortunately, nobody has found a suitable replacement for this word.

(In the Bible, the descendants of Shem were those dominated by Assyro-Babylonia, while the descendants of Ham were those dominated by Egypt, regardless of their true ancestors. For instance the Phoenicians were classified as descendants of Ham and the Hebrews as descendants of Shem, despite being 2 extremely closely related populations, separated by little else except their different religions.)
by Kranar | 2025-07-03 03:47:57+00:00
Yeah I am aware that most teachers, like another commenter said, do teach math just by spitting out the rules and then people memorize them and sure who am I to argue against that. It's not how I learned math and most people I know who are well versed in math including those with PhDs (and working as a quant I am fortunate enough to work with many) also don't really learn things that way either...

When I taught my daughter chess at the age of 5, I did not teach her by laying out the rules and in general when I teach people anything, I don't start by emphasizing rules. Rules are often the least interesting part of any subject and I find rules are much easier to learn once a sufficient amount of motivation has been given first, and then we get to a point where we use rules to crystalize our intuition and express rigorously what we've come to learn. The rules are the end result of learning, not the starting point.

With chess, I taught my daughter by simply playing a simple game where I had a queen, and she had one king and two pawns, and her goal was to get one pawn across the board and my goal was to stop her.

The king and pawns are arranged so that with perfect play she is guaranteed a win, and eventually she learned the pattern that allows her to always win. I then switched it up so she gets the queen and I get the king/pawns but I arrange the king/pawns so that I will always lose if she plays perfectly.

After this, I added more pawns for white and a bishop for black. The motivation for adding these pieces is that to play perfectly and always win as white, you need to learn how pawns define the physical structure of the board, making walls and allowing for control over certain parts of the board, but this also comes at the cost of introducing clutter and making it hard for the king to maneuver.

After these principles are learned, then I introduce the knight, because the knight can jump over walls and isn't as burdened by clutter. I don't just put a knight in the game out of nowhere and make her memorize how it moves... by the time the knight is introduced, it feels natural to want a piece that has better maneuverability over the extra pawns.

And so on so forth... each piece is introduced with some kind of motivation for why it exists. It's not just there for the sake of existing because of some rule that you just need to memorize. It exists because it adds some kind of flavor and richness to the game and you end up absorbing the rules rather than just memorizing them.

Now I'm dwelling a bit on chess here... but the principle applies to programming as well. I don't think if you ever just listed the rules you did as a means of teaching someone about monads anyone would ever come to appreciate why these rules matter or why they should waste any time learning them and in fact I am fairly confident that this kind approach to teaching people functional programming is why it's taken so long for mainstream languages to appreciate these features and adopt them.
by prmph | 2025-07-03 03:50:26+00:00
In other words, the old adage still applies: there is no free lunch.

More seriously, yes it makes sense that LLMs are not going to be able to take humans entirely out of the loop. Think about what it would mean if that were the case: if people, on the basis of a few simple prompts could let the agents loose and create sophisticated systems without any further input, the there would be nothing to differentiate those systems, and thus they would lose their meaning and value.

If prompting is indeed the new level of abstraction we are working at, then what value is added by asking Claude: make me a note-taking app? A million other people could also issue this same low-effort prompt; thus what is the value added here by the prompter?
by readthenotes1 | 2025-07-03 03:50:43+00:00
Try asking Perplexity for a real taste. It works far better than google's--good enough to make searching fun again.

Try coding with Claude instead of Gemini. Those that do tell me it is well beyond.

Look at the recent US jobs reports--the draw down was mostly in professional services. According to the chief economist of ADP "Though layoffs continue to be rare, a hesitancy to hire and a reluctance to replace departing workers led to job losses last month."

Of course, correlation is not causation, but everyone white collar person I talk with is saying AI is making them far more productive. It's not a leap to figure out that management sees that as well.
by kbenson | 2025-07-03 03:51:35+00:00
Hmm, from some light reading I'm unsure how active he was as "part of the plot". In any case, that sort of supports my original claim, in that the British royals not only have a history of Nazis attacking their country, but trying to meddle with their royal line and succession, which also wouldn't enamor the royals to them.
by chrismorgan | 2025-07-03 03:51:56+00:00
> Your IP reputation must be bad.

And for an extremely large number of honest users, they cannot realistically avoid this.

I live in India. Mobile data and fibre are all through tainted CGNAT, and I encounter Cloudflare challenges all the time. The two fibre providers I know about use CGNAT, and I expect others do too. I did (with difficulty!) ask my ISP about getting a static IP address (having in mind maybe ditching my small VPS in favour of hosting from home), but they said ₹500/month, which is way above market rate for leasing IPv4 addresses, more than I pay for my entire VPS in fact, so it definitely doesn’t make things cheaper. And I’m sceptical that it’d have good reputation with Cloudflare even then. It’ll probably still be in a blacklisted range.
by jrflowers | 2025-07-03 03:53:49+00:00
> you don’t have to be racist (as in believing in racist ideas) to be a racist troll (propagate racist ideas)

Exactly. Racism has nothing to do with what people say or do, it’s a sort of vibe, so really there is no way of telling if anything or anyone is Real Racist versus fake racist. It is important to point this out b
by singron | 2025-07-03 03:54:32+00:00
I'm sympathetic to this knowing how few people actually read their emails (and slacks etc.). If you've ever sent out a 30 second survey to your coworkers, you know what I'm talking about. But I also know people don't really pay attention in these meetings either.

I feel async communication could work this way with the right cultural hygiene (e.g. consistent labeling, brevity, novelty, and relevancy), and some places I've worked were better about this than others, but they all tend to suffer from tragedy of the commons. If anyone works somewhere where you and all your coworkers actually count on each other to read emails, please tell me where!
by magicalhippo | 2025-07-03 03:54:55+00:00
The paper[1] has some actual details, like this:

Under low-heat-pumping, with minimal role of parasitics, TFTEC modules offer four times the Coefficient of Performance (CoP) advantage over bulk devices. As an example, system-level CoP with a 16-couple TFTEC module is ~ 15 for small temperature differentials of 2 °C, pumping about 1.2 W heat load using 80 mW of electric power. Such small-scale high-CoP cooling is relevant for distributed refrigeration or compartmentalized refrigeration as well as for use in future electronic thermal management

They also note that the maximum cooling power density depends inversely on thickness, and this is where the thin-film TECs like this gets most of their improvements from, compared to millimeter thick regular TECs.

Just a quick scan before going to bed, but looks interesting for certain applications.

[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59698-y
by noobermin | 2025-07-03 03:56:38+00:00
The US has no real exports. All of its economic might was because it has its top tier market, and all that wealth is essentially from its soft power and position. The more you peel off that soft power, the weaker that position especially as wealthy and educated people leave.

I don't agree that the US won't be relevant, it's more like the US will resemble the position of Russia in the next decade than the position it is in right now.
by Nursie | 2025-07-03 03:58:54+00:00
I'm a fan of the Gibb River Road in northern Western Australia, it's around as long, has some beautiful gorges along the way for a little swimming, there's a river crossing at the Pentecost.

There are a few campsites along the way, and there is fuel at around the halfway point, and a town at each end, so it's not quite as far from civilisation as the Trans-taiga, plus you don't have to drive back the same way to get out! It's also significantly warmer, so much so that you want serious sunscreen and bugspray.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibb_River_Road
by shagie | 2025-07-03 03:59:45+00:00
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https://github.com/Distrotech/phoon

https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/phoon

curl https://wttr.in/Moon
by chii | 2025-07-03 03:59:52+00:00
> A much larger percentage will only be able to work on things like CRUD apps and grunt work.

which is lower valued, and thus it is economically "correct" to have them be replaced when an appropriate automation method is found.

> When these jobs are eliminated, many developers will be out of work.

like in the past, those developers will need to either move up the value chain, or move out into a different career. This has happened before, and will continue to happen until the day humanity reaches some sort of singularity or post-scarcity.
by apgwoz | 2025-07-03 04:01:55+00:00
> I really don't think I need to cite a study that 5 years of time is a lot to give up on a company that goes nowhere.

I think your problem is that you have one definition of success for a startup and that’s to become a unicorn.

> working any other job than at a startup you cofounded that limps for years before winding down.

Not everyone starts a startup to become a billionaire, and not everyone seeks to _make more money_.

But aside from that, the way you’re going to _make more money_ in another job is by working at a large company that can pay you more money. That large company has lots of people and lots of jobs that are specialized… because? Lots of people are there to do them. If I work on a team in a large company, I very likely have a narrow focus and I am not “solving interesting problems” on average.
by bravesoul2 | 2025-07-03 04:03:13+00:00
Nerd snipe: given a compass and dropped in a random location what is the best strategy (based on direction assuming no clues from terrain) of finding a road. E.g. strategy might be 1000 steps south then 1000 east, repeat.

Nerd snipe 2. Same without a compass or any sense of direction. Assume you can accurately make a 90 degree turn and count steps
by scythe | 2025-07-03 04:04:02+00:00
From the abstract:

>system-level coefficient-of-performance is ~15 for temperature differentials of 1.3 °C.

There's a long way to go. As far as I know, the leader in condensed-phase refrigeration cycles is still the sodium iodide ionocaloric method, which blew past all of the competing methods (magnetocaloric, elastocaloric, thermoelectric) when it was announced in 2022:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade1696

...but the temperature drop of 25 C is just barely practical for air conditioning in warm (but not desert) climates.
by pcthrowaway | 2025-07-03 04:04:04+00:00
> Tokyo has very affordable real estate because dwellings are appropriately-sized for dense urban lifestyles and are nearly uniformly mixed-use buildings with retail space on ground floors and residence/office above

I thought being early to the low-birth-rate party, culturally valuing new construction more than "old bones" or whatever (preventing sitting on real estate), and a low-growth economy over the last ~100 years were much more relevant contributing factors than the type of construction they've prioritized
by prmph | 2025-07-03 04:04:36+00:00
Exactly. I made a similar comment as this elsewhere on this discussion:

The old adage still applies: there is no free lunch. It makes sense that LLMs are not going to be able to take humans entirely out of the loop.

Think about what it would mean if that were the case: if people, on the basis of a few simple prompts could let the agents loose and create sophisticated systems without any further input, the there would be nothing to differentiate those systems, and thus they would lose their meaning and value.

If prompting is indeed the new level of abstraction we are working at, then what value is added by asking Claude: make me a note-taking app? A million other people could also issue this same low-effort prompt; thus what is the value added here by the prompter?
by ethbr1 | 2025-07-03 04:04:37+00:00
> Look at the Taxicab unions. We could only get a cab in person or through the phone, because the unions had no incentive to innovate. It look a non-union startup to push them to actually make it convenient and better for the customer.

OTOH, gig drivers are being paid below minimum wage, with no benefits, no retirement plan, and no stability of work.

As a customer, yay technology and UX! But as a human, it's objectively worse for society.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-07-03 04:06:10+00:00
You divided 230 by .03 wrong, which would be 10000-ish, but you underestimated the PS1 by a lot anyway. The CPU does 30 MIPS, but also the geometry engine does another 60 MIPS and the GPU fills 30 or 60 million pixels per second with multiple calculations each.
by skissane | 2025-07-03 04:06:44+00:00
If we are talking about Daeseong-dong, Wikipedia says “Only individuals who lived in the village before the Korean War, or are descendants of those who did, are allowed to move to the village”

So the market of potential buyers is quite limited. (Unless they allow absentee landlords-i.e. you can buy this house, it is illegal for you to live in it, but you can legally rent it to someone who can legally live in it.)

Although I imagine “former residents and their descendants” may be a much larger group of people than the current population. Not sure how many might want to move back to their (great) grandparents village though
by bob_theslob646 | 2025-07-03 04:06:53+00:00
> July 2025: You won't be able to use the autofill password function. > August 2025: You'll no longer be able to use saved passwords

There has to be some sort of cost benefits analysis for this as this will certainly piss a ton of people off especially the tech illiterate. Maybe passkeys are extremely simple but saved passwords being disallowed is a huge pain point.
by theGeatZhopa | 2025-07-03 04:07:05+00:00
Nice find. I'm still under win 10. I think it's an exciting feature Microsoft dp present here. What's not so exciting is the reordering on usage of items (as said in the article). Then, if the apps are really shown in categories like in the article "without a caption text" - that's hurting my intelligence!

I'm not telling to keep everything like it is, but asking for leaving options not to reorder on usage (rather keep the order bc memorisation) and be more informative, at least.

Why is that JSON so big? Does it contain all the apps Microsoft have in store and the catalogue is then pushed to users? Can't imagine they do it like this. That in conclusion would mean, the article's shown screenshot of the JSON is a system of an archiver. May be.

I'm looking forward to modding it. It was always fun to sort things out and adapt the systems to me. In the end, it's just a bunch of config files.
by GolfPopper | 2025-07-03 04:07:08+00:00
Bacon's Rebellion [1] in colonial Virginia, 1676-7, was a a multi-race and cross-class uprising against the colonial government and the aritocratic planter class. The rebellion's failure was followed by measures that served to alienate the poor white population from the enslaved black population.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon%27s_Rebellion
by nabramow | 2025-07-03 04:07:35+00:00
Couchers Frontend Team Lead here. Aapeli is out for the night so I'm popping in to answer from my POV.

I think the main difference is that we're trying to capture the spirit of what CouchSurfing.com used to be: modern, easy to use, welcoming to newbies and centered on genuine social connection. But we also want to go beyond that. Build for today’s world—with better safety tools, better moderation, and more community-driven features that help people find each other easier.

Couchsurfing was initially about free hospitality and cultural exchange but is now largely driven by monetization. They also haven't really provided many new features to users since going for-profit.

BeWelcome is another alternative that came out of the CouchSurfing community years ago. It has a more ideological focus around democratic decision-making and they are not as newbie friendly, have an older UI, and are a bit slower to adopt new tech.

WarmShowers on the other hand is for a completely different crowd: it's for bike tourers that leave at the crack of dawn and arrive at sunset. They need a shower (hence the name), a place to put their bike, and a bed to sleep on. They'll probably be a bit too tired to socialize. That's very different from the traditional couch surfing platforms where socialization is the focus.
by jessehorne | 2025-07-03 04:08:31+00:00
Okay cool yeah. Just letting you know. I know building trust quickly is a challenge so figured I'd mention that. I'd change copy and probably add more context in general.

I could go on for hours about the $199 plan but tl;dr, I think it's a bad strategy here. As a potential user who could utilize this quite a bit, It was a turn off. Just letting you know. Probably be a good idea to switch that up. Paywalls "sound" great to you as a way to filter committed users, but to me, the potential user, it doesn't. I get where you're coming from, trust me. It's not the way imo. If it were me, I'd open this up to anyone and everyone when you launch with a free tier. Get users. Any and all of them as much as you can handle and have as much meaningful convo's with as many of them as possible. That $199 isn't going to get you "valuable" users. It's going to get you people that paid $199. I think there's a lot more value to make from this project than what you'll make from that paywall. ANYWAYS.
by grogenaut | 2025-07-03 04:08:41+00:00
I had an engineer once show up to the re-scheduled "lets get the engineers ideas meeting before the yearly plan ships" meeting that we scheduled so they could be there who then proceeded to spent 15 minutes complaining how they didn't get any input before finally asking what the meeting was for, and finding out they had 45 minutes remaining to give feedback (they had skipped the meeting the previous day, and I wanted to make sure they gave their impact). (I tried to interject earlier but was asked "please let me talk" so I did).
by andrewflnr | 2025-07-03 04:09:56+00:00
Not sure that's necessary. Shocked quartz is distinctive, and strongly diagnostic of either cosmic impact or nuclear detonation; I think you can safely think of this as the required control digs having been done decades ago. It's either there or not. If it's there, that place had an impact. We just need some unbiased people to go check the physical facts.
by GolfPopper | 2025-07-03 04:10:38+00:00
>How you get from that to "we don't know if they'll ever publish it again!" is beyond me.

In case you've missed it, the current administration lies constantly and loves suppressing views it doesn't like. Hosting a document is not rocket science. There is zero reason to take something down before having the new host up and running. That this has been done anyway suggests malign intent. And the current administration is long past getting the benefit of the doubt.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-07-03 04:10:59+00:00
Compounded by efforts in France to place a moratorium on new renewables. Terrible idea considering this evidence of greater periods of nuclear throttling due to cooling limits during more frequent heat waves into the future. We’re going to need all the low carbon energy we can deploy.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-20/french-la... | https://archive.today/mDjz8
by PKop | 2025-07-03 04:11:07+00:00
How do we even know this person was upper class or some itinerant migrant worker that came from somewhere else?

Even the citation claiming the burial method was associated with upper class raises doubts: following the link mentions "pot burial" which has commonly been associated with the poor. The problem with identifying bones with "population" is it often says what the common man was like but not the minority elite that ruled and had power if one isn't careful about who they think they're identifying or the demographic structure of society in these ancient cultures.
by marcus_holmes | 2025-07-03 04:11:11+00:00
> The biggest issue I see with a brain drain in America isn’t necessarily Americans going abroad, since it would be a major sacrifice giving up family and friends to move to a place with an unfamiliar language and culture

So, all those people you met did exactly this.

> it would be hard for American scientists with spouses and children to relocate.

No harder than it was for any of those other people to relocate to the USA.

I know that Americans like to believe that everyone in the rest of the world really wants to live in the USA, but that's actually not true. There's a certain fascination, for sure, but (and especially recently) the USA is not the shining beacon on the hill that it once was.

> I don’t foresee a lot of Americans moving to China, partly due to the language barrier, and also partly due to China’s political system

I suspect that both these barriers are easily overcome with the simple realisation that the choice is "be a scientist in China, or not at all".

If the USA cuts funding for all science, then all scientists must move abroad. There's no option to stay in the USA and be a scientist, because science in the USA is government funded and the government stopped funding it. If the individual chooses to stay in the USA, then they must also choose to stop being a scientist.