MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by colonCapitalDee | 2025-07-28 22:52:20+00:00
The problem isn't that LLMs can't be critical, it's that LLMs don't have taste. It's easy to get an LLM to give praise, and it's easy to get an LLM to give criticism, but getting an LLM to praise good things and criticize bad things is currently impossible for non-trival inputs. That's not say that prompting your LLM to generate criticism is useless, it's just that any LLM prompted to generate criticism is going to criticize things are that actually fine, just like how an LLM prompted to generate praise (which is effectively the default behavior) is going to praise things that are deeply not fine.
by tim333 | 2025-07-28 22:52:41+00:00
In fairness there was a lot of uncertainty between 'hard brexit' which we got and 'soft brexit' which wouldn't have changed much. My biggest gripe about the whole thing from a democracy point of view is no one really knew what exactly we were voting for. I think it should have been two stage - do you want to leave and then here's the deal - do you still want to do that? I think we would have remained if people had seen the real terms and condition rather than "have our cake and eat it" make believe pushed by certain politicians.
by godelski | 2025-07-28 22:53:05+00:00
I appreciate the comment, I know I can be a bit wordy. I tried to organize so it's visually easy to get the tldr and each block could tell you the tldr from the first sentence. If you have suggestions of how to distill, I'm open to the feedback. Or if you'd like to add a tldr yourself that's a good contribution.

But also, this is HN. I wouldn't have this conversation on Twitter and I hope we can have more nuanced conversations here, as well as I hope the average user has a bit more intelligence/attention than a place like Reddit. Maybe I'm assuming incorrectly
by aaaja | 2025-07-28 22:53:18+00:00
At the 2016 Olympics in Rio, all three medalists in the women's 800m were male athletes with male physiological advantage. None of the three has, or had, a transgender identity.

Fundamentally, this issue isn't about trans. The problem is, competition organizers across many sports decided that including males in the female category is more important than fair competition for female athletes. That's the problem that needs to be addressed.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-28 22:54:06+00:00
React is astonishingly clever, the kind of use of functional ideas that is talked about in On Lisp [1] Comparing it to many systems like Microsoft's WPF or Oracle's JavaFX it's an amazingly simple way to implement components. On the happy path life is easy, but go off that path and you're in trouble. Visicalc had real reactive programming in 1979, all that useX stuff is a way to fake it without needing a compiler -- which systems like Vue 5 and Svelte need.

Sometimes I think it would be fun to make an immediate mode rendering framework similar to React -- and given that it can take 10x or more refreshes for a page to be done rendering, it might as well be immediate mode.

But yeah, I figured out the need for signals back in 2006 or so when I was working on a knowledge graph editor based on GWT and having to explain why there were "race conditions" depending on whether or not data was cached. When I got into modern JS around 2017 everything seemed worse than the frameworks I'd built for some very complex (think Figma) applications more than a decade ago.

[1] Of which 80% of the examples don't really need macros
by mjamil | 2025-07-28 22:54:32+00:00
What is your source to justify your claim (stated as a fact) that Hamas is diverting supplies and then selling them? Here [1] is a recent article in the NYT this week quoting two unnamed Israeli military officials saying Israel has found no proof of this claim despite Israeli officials repeatedly stating otherwise, and that the UN had been largely successful (via UNRWA) in feeding the Gazan population.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/world/middleeast/hamas-un...
by myaccountonhn | 2025-07-28 22:54:56+00:00
Yeah I intentionally said it a bit provocatively, but I don't necessarily think it is bad. I personally increase the font sizes on my phone as well.

Though while some designs are necessary for accessiblity, some design decisions seem to be cultural preferences: Japanese UIs tend to be information dense, and they tend to prefer it whereas some westerners would probably scream if they had to interact with it.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-07-28 22:55:20+00:00
Okay. That isn't their argument, though.

>We do not make moral judgments on legal purchases made by consumers. Visa does not moderate content sold by merchants, nor do we have visibility into the specific goods or services sold when we process a transaction.

So they are trying to outright lie or they are so disconnected they are ignorant of what other parts of their company are doing. Neither are a good luck.
by arrowsmith | 2025-07-28 22:55:54+00:00
The generated images are very obviously AI fakes. I don't think anyone is going to be seriously fooled by this.

> I would pre-populate the list so when entering a new postcode, it doesn't stall waiting for AI.

It looks like it already works like this? It was slow the first time I searched for my postcode, subsequent times have been very fast.
by asdefghyk | 2025-07-28 22:56:48+00:00
Need to be careful here ...

apparently Hamas in control of convey ....

".... At the WCK Welcome Centre, locally-contracted security personnel got on and into the trucks and the convoy continued the journey to the warehouse. As the trucks moved away from the Welcome Centre, one locallycontracted security person on top of the trailer of the third truck fired his weapon into the air. This was clearly visible in the UAV video, observed by the UAV operator and assessed by the Brigade Fire Support Commander to be consistent with Hamas hijacking the aid convoy. During the aid convoy transit to the warehouse the Brigade Attack Cell contacted CLA with concerns there were armed individuals on the convoy. CLA attempted through various means to contact WCK, first directly to the convoy, then to international WCK contacts. CLA eventually made contact with the WCK Headquarters in the United States who, after multiple attempts, made text message contact via WhatsApp with a WCK member who had gone ahead of the convoy to the warehouse. They replied that the locally-contracted security personnel had ‘fake guns’. WCK Headquarters replied to CLA that they had made contact with WCK in Gaza and would address the gun issue when WCK completed the task. It was difficult to tie down the exact timing of this extended set of communications; however, they appear to have continued after the WCK vehicles had already been attacked, indicating a lack of awareness by CLA of real-time events. Once at the warehouse, the aid trucks entered and the WCK vehicles joined up and parked outside along with the locally-contracted security vehicle. At this point the UAV operator identified the original gunman dismounting from the truck and joining with another individual identified as a gunman. Over the next ten minutes approximately 15- 20 people, including two to four gunmen, moved around the escort vehicles. During this period, the gunmen were classified by the Brigade Fire Support Commander and Brigade Chief of Staff as Hamas. P ....

https://www.dfat.gov.au/sites/default/files/special-advisers...
by amradio1989 | 2025-07-28 22:56:57+00:00
Generally speaking, powers frown on public gatherings. When people gather, they exchange dissenting ideas, protest, or even rebel against the ruling authority.

Its similar to how a controlling boyfriend/girlfriend will isolate you from your friends and family first. You are much easier to control that way. You stay "compliant".

This is much harder to see in democratic nations. The strategy in America has largely been controlling public discourse to the point where we self-censor.
by panzi | 2025-07-28 22:57:02+00:00
Several people pointed out pre-built binaries linking libraries they don't ship. Yeah that is a problem, I was only thinking of open source that can be easily recompiled.

And AFAIK glibc provides both functions, you can chose which one you want via compiler flags (-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_TIME_BITS=64). So a pre-built program that ships all its dependencies except for glibc should also work.
by Bender | 2025-07-28 22:58:16+00:00
Not really. It's still just big-data combined with language models. It will be great for number crunching, sifting through petabytes of garbage at the risk of garbage in, garbage out. I think it's great that there is a popular thing that is giving data scientists work to do given so many others are out of work. It is still my opinion if a job can be replaced by big-data + LLM's then that job position was already at risk and probably did not need to exist in the first place. I see AI as an optimization of existing data that likely could have been performed by companies on a smaller scale. So this is really just a sweep and clean. I have not yet seen anything earth shattering come of it. I fully expect AI to be weaponized much like social media algorithms weaponized the internet once it reaches critical mass and reviewing the source code will mean nothing. The risks will be how each instance is tuned and operated like any other tool.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-07-28 22:58:17+00:00
Hardware accelerated graphics in such an environment is certainly impressive... Looks like they did it via GPU virtualization, even. Isn't that one of those features used by manufacturers to segment the market?

Google is certainly demonstrating some good habits here. They did good work in opening up their laptop hardware. Their pixels are the most friendly devices for alternative operating systems. They added standard API access to GNSS raw data. Now it looks like they're doing GPU virtualization. They just keep breaking down barriers.
by jedimind | 2025-07-28 22:58:37+00:00
I'm clearly specifying a subset of Zionist-Jews in a specific location at a specific time "The leadership and foot soldiers of the early Zionist project *in Palestine* ..." and the crucial part which you simply dropped in your quote "which they also documented themselves [i.e. their experiences with the natives of Palestine] ("the Palestinians are child-like and easy to befriend")"

I honestly don't get how one can read that sentence and come to that conclusion, but at least you already suspected yourself of misreading
by alias_neo | 2025-07-28 22:58:49+00:00
Yes, I think you're spot on there.

You also don't have childcare costs once they go to school, so the loss of that outgoing makes up for the loss of the tax credit.

I'm also liberal, and I think that everyone should be given the child tax credit, if the government wants you to work, and earn, and have children (it does), the tax credit is an effective way to help everyone work harder and earn more.

The issue I've been trying to describe, is that after you've already had children, and you then hit 100k, you lose it entirely, making you 2k per child worse off, so let's say you get to 100k, and you already have two children in childcare, you lose 4k, then you get a pay rise to 110k, with the loss of the 4k and at the same time you also hit a marginal tax rate of 60%, you now earn exactly the same as you did at 100k.

If you got a with-inflation pay rise every year from 100k onward, you'd be earning less for almost all of that time until those children go to school.

Lowering the higher band threshold to 100k from 125k and not tapering the personal allowance would actually leave you better off.

EDIT: Typo in my numbers (100k > 110k).
by funac | 2025-07-28 22:59:08+00:00
> "Zoom into this image so that the width of each vertical line is 1 mm or the whole image is 3.2 inches wide." > > Is it possible to pick one system? Also, "3.2 inches" is difficult to measure. Rulers that measure in less than an inch use fractions, not decimals. It usually goes by 1/8ths, then 1/4 and 1/2, but some rulers have 1/16ths. 3/16" is .187 inches which is pretty close I guess.

decimal inch rulers (& tape measures) are available; i have several. imo they're much more useful than fractional rulers in the context of machining, where the natural base unit, if you're not in metric, is 0.001” ('one thou')
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-07-28 22:59:17+00:00
Ethanol corn is not the food corn, to be clear. It is bred to have as little sugar and as much starch as possible. It's inedible, unless you're a pig that likes corn byproduct or drinking corn oil. And, in the event of global war, I think we could end our enormous agriculture exports and be more concerned with a nuclear war than if we can eat corn for every meal.

If this was about that, we would grow something else. This is about agricultural lobbiests bribing congress to steal unfathomable sums of wealth from the public through subsidy.
Show HN: FastLaunchAPI – A production-ready FastAPI template batteries included
by niklasdev | 2025-07-28 22:59:25+00:00
Hello HN

After building numerous FastAPI backends, I consistently found myself repeating the same configuration, including auth, email, payments, migrations, etc.

In order to handle all the boilerplate, I developed FastLaunchAPI, a production-ready startup package.

Included are:

JWT authentication with social login and email Webhooks and Stripe billing together Alembic, PostgreSQL, and SQLAlchemy Background work for celebrities SMTP email that includes templates Integration of LangChain and OpenAI Setup for Pytest + API documents

It is designed to bring you to production in less than half an hour and is modular.

There is a comprehensive documentation, which can be viewed before pruchase.

I would be happy to hear any comments or inquiries!
by hirvi74 | 2025-07-28 22:59:26+00:00
The person I was responding to was unlikely a pro-Israeli activist, so I am not certain why you felt compelled to mention your caveat. Are you implying that because pro-Israeli activist allegedly created the conflation that others are justified in perpetuating it?

I literally wrote that Israel does not represent all Jewish people. Yet, you beeline straight to mentioning pro-Israeli activist. It doesn't matter who created the irrational conflation or not. People need to stop perpetuating it.
by protocolture | 2025-07-28 22:59:34+00:00
>Reportedly, Jared Isaacman, the rumored Musk's NASA pick of choice, wanted to cut down SLS/Orion and axe Gateway - and was opposed to science cuts.

I have read third party commentary on the SLS/Orion stuff that agrees. And actually, IIRC, Gateway requires multiple launches contracted out to Boeing and SpaceX, so this would be cutting off musks nose a little.
by zetazzed | 2025-07-28 22:59:36+00:00
I see an increasing number of politicians taking the position: "I supported Israel's government's actions when they first attacked, given the goals of destroying Hamas' leadership and freeing hostages, but now that it has turned into a brutal siege with mass civilian casualties on a horrific scale, I'm strongly against their actions." E.g. Macron, Angus King, and many people I know personally. And I think we need to say "Great!" The dumbest reaction is "screw you, you were for Israel's invasion and you're an asshole." Movements that want to grow should accept people who change their minds when the situation changes, they get new data, or they learn a new perspective.
by x0x0 | 2025-07-28 23:00:21+00:00
There's an (iirc) several hundred page long document, available only to merchant banks, detailing in excruciating detail what is allowed. It's not a fraud thing; that's controlled by rates. It's a few banks want to deal with the hassle and the audit requirements to work with porn producers. Because the banks themselves must audit per visa/mastercard's requirements.
by sarlalian | 2025-07-28 23:00:31+00:00
1. Written in Go, not C so I might be able to contribute. 2. Not crazy complex to configure (lost my old weechat config, and I'm not going through all that effort again). 3. Can be embedded into other go applications (see above where it was originally written to be embedded into a music TUI).

Will this project end up as a small weekend project with only a few users? Possibly, but that isn't a reason not to create something and share what it with people.

There's a ton a great software that started to solve a problem that the developer had, that eventually hit pretty mainstream usage.
by tialaramex | 2025-07-28 23:00:36+00:00
TAT-7 which was in operation in 1985 when I cited the £2 per minute price carried 4000 simultaneous calls, ie up to £8000 per minute

Its successor TAT-8 carried ten times as many calls a few years later, industry professionals opined that there was likely no demand for so many transatlantic calls and so it would never be full. Less than two years later TAT-8 capacity maxed out and TAT-9 was already being planned.

Today lots of people have home Internet service significantly faster than all three of these transatlantic cables put together.
by mschuster91 | 2025-07-28 23:02:06+00:00
You could use that to have a chungus dGPU with a massive amount of VRAM keep all the assets, position data and god knows what else to do the heavy lifting - determine what needs to be drawn and where, deal with physics, 3D audio simulation etc. - and then offload only a (comparatively) small-ish amount of work to the client GPU.
by xtracto | 2025-07-28 23:02:19+00:00
This is actually so fascinating to me. I remember when we had metered & very expensive long distance calls, "metered" dial-up Internet (Todito Card!), then capped DSL internet, then metered Mobile calls, SMSs and then Metered Mobile internet (that last one we still do).

The stuff that we do now, my 13 year old self in 1994 would never dream of! When I dialed my 33.6kbps modem and left it going the whole night, to download an mp3.

It's exciting that nowadays we complain about Intelligent Agents bandwidth plans!! Can you imagine! I cannot imagine the stuff that will be built when this tech has the same availability as The Internet, or POTS!
by YZF | 2025-07-28 23:02:31+00:00
The Oct 7th attack on Israel is textbook genocide. Hamas wishes to kill all Jews in Israel. It indiscriminately slaughtered civilians. And worse:

https://thedinahproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/The-D...

Israel however does not wish to kill all Palestinians. It is not trying to kill all Palestinians in Gaza. It is not killing all Palestinian Arabs who are Israeli citizens. It is not trying to kill all Palestinians in the "West Bank" or in areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority.

Killing people in a war is not genocide. The people in Gaza are provably not targeted (as a group) because they are Palestinians. The attacks on Gaza are directly related to the war that started by Hamas' attack (or we can even say attacks including previous attacks since they took power in Gaza). Each bomb that drops in Gaza has a military objective.

You can prove this pretty easily with a thought experiment, just have Hamas (and the other Jihadi organizations in Gaza) surrender, lay down their arms, and we'll see if any more Gaza civilians are killed.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-28 23:03:16+00:00
EVs make sense for passenger cars, not so much for heavy vehicles. People might still want to be driving classic cars in the future too. Hydrogen for any kind of vehicle looks dead in the water, though green hydrogen looks essential for chemical manufacturing. (Funny, as with carbon capture, some of the best economics are in the oil business; there is a huge hydrodesulfurization plant in Saudia Arabia that lower its Scope I carbon footprint significantly by using hydrogen from PV)

Battery storage looks practical to smooth out diurnal variation in power supply and demand but doesn't look so practical to smooth out seasonal variations, some kind of chemical storage could be the way.
by borgel | 2025-07-28 23:03:39+00:00
Same. It's very handy to be able to ask for one-off tools for things that I _could_ try to figure out, but probably wouldn't be worth the time. My favorite example so far was a Python script to help debug communication between a microcontroller and a motor driver. I was able to dump the entire datasheet PDF for the driver into Gemini and ask it for a Python CLI to decode communication traffic, and 30 seconds later it was done. Fantastic bang/buck ratio!
by Maxious | 2025-07-28 23:04:23+00:00
> The identification of the armed individuals on the convoy and near/in the WCK vehicles had not been done in a professional manner. The mindset involved in the decision making was wrong.

> It was inferred a number of times that not only had the gunmen associated with the WCK aid convoy exhibited tactics similar to Hamas, but that in fact ‘they were Hamas’.

> Head FFAM confirmed that only the video feed being used by the UAV operators was used to identify the gunmen as Hamas.
by ruszki | 2025-07-28 23:04:51+00:00
That hormone is testosterone. And that means that no matter how much testosterone those people with Y chromosome(s) get, their body cannot use them. Hence, they have a disadvantage even in women sports.

In theory.

The problem is that for example in women boxing these people are overrepresented. This indicates that testosterone is possibly not the only answer, and we don’t know the full picture AFAIK. But of course it’s also possible that simply Y chromosome causes changes in behavior and not physical performance, and it’s more likely that they like boxing more. We don’t know.

The current best proven differentiator AFAIK is testosterone level and whether their body can process that.
by elihu | 2025-07-28 23:06:26+00:00
I think the thing that should have been a clear unambiguous sign (if nothing up to then were convincing enough) that Israel's intentions weren't just to defeat Hamas but cause severe harm to the civilian population of Gaza was when they blocked all food and aid into Gaza for months. I mean, why would you do that unless you want people to die?

Even the stated explanation that they wanted to deprive Hamas of the ability to fundraise by stealing food and selling it back didn't make sense. Food shortages would cause the market value of hoarded food to rise, thus helping Hamas. Flooding the region with food would collapse the prices and deprive them of a revenue stream.
by ljm | 2025-07-28 23:07:03+00:00
I don’t know about this law specifically, but every other law attacking the internet or encryption has attempted to exempt people in government.

That defeats the point of the legislation since it creates a gaping wide backdoor to exploit official people, who are now the most valuable targets because of that exemption.

Never mind the matter of providing a rule for the people and making the people who made the rule immune to it.
by arp242 | 2025-07-28 23:07:10+00:00
> Western developers are obsessing over the latest JavaScript framework or arguing about tabs vs. spaces

Most "Western developers" are not doing that; this is a minority.

I don't really know anything about Japanese software development, but I'm reasonably sure there are some Japanese developers doing unreasonable things too.

e.g. was that Toyota firmware that caused acceleration developed in Japan? An audit revealed it was absolutely horrible.