MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by johnnyanmac | 2025-07-29 02:39:56+00:00
If so many other cases didn't end the other way in the US, there may have been a point. Websites aren't accountable for user content published on their servers. Gun manufacturers aren't accountable for school shootings, fast food isn't accountable for the obesity crisis. Police aren't accountable for shooting black people.

There's a lot that needs to change, but I don't see these businesses bothering. So forgive my lack of sympathy.
by pton_xd | 2025-07-29 02:40:37+00:00
> The modern anti-vax movement has been traced back to Andrew Wakefield's fraudulent 1998 Lancet paper

As far as I can tell, the modern movement is fueled by personal anecdotes of family members / friends having young children present with autism after certain developmental milestones. The family goes, what went wrong? Well, we recently got them a bunch of shots, maybe it was that. Combined with the expanding vaccination schedule those coincidences are increasingly likely to occur. Then yeah that paper comes up when the families do a bit of research which does add more conviction to the belief.
by pdxandi | 2025-07-29 02:40:47+00:00
I get where you’re coming from, but I don’t think the article is misrepresenting the study. The research looked at over 1.2 million children and specifically examined whether increased exposure to aluminum containing vaccines was associated with autism or 49 other health conditions, and it found no evidence of a link. Since aluminum adjuvants are one of the most commonly cited concerns in vaccine skepticism, especially in claims about autism, the study directly addresses that idea.

So while the article’s headline simplifies the finding by saying “no link between vaccines and autism,” it’s not inaccurate. It reflects the key takeaway, that within the vaccines that include aluminum, which are widely used in childhood immunizations, there is no indication of increased risk. That’s important and relevant.

It’s fair to expect transparency, and I agree that people should be encouraged to read the actual research, but in this case it seems to me that the summary is consistent with what the study actually tested and found.
by orbisvicis | 2025-07-29 02:40:50+00:00
What's everyone's thoughts on the GHF? They're the only way that food officially enters Gaza. IDF is not supposed to be immediately present at the distribution sites, and yet are shooting civilians. As are contractors hired by GHF. In fact there are cases of nationals joining IDF for the explicit purpose of shooting civilians, seemingly. There are movements to disband the GHF, but how else would Gazans eat?
by const_cast | 2025-07-29 02:41:15+00:00
> clearly that's abusive and should be targeted.

You can't abuse a company by buying their services and using them to their own terms and conditions. The T&C is already stacked against you, you're in a position of no leverage.

The correct solution is what Anthropic is doing here - change the T&C so you can make money. If you offer unlimited stuff, people will use it... unlimitedly. So, don't let them call your bluff.
by bbor | 2025-07-29 02:41:25+00:00
Chatbots identify themselves very often in casual/non-technical chats AFAIK -- for example, when people ask it for its opinion on something, or about its past.

Re:sed, I'm under the impression that most chatbots are pretty pure-ML these days. There are definitely some hardcoded guardrails, but the huge flood of negative press early in ChatGPT's life about random weird mistakes can be pretty scary. Like, what if someone asks the model to list all the available models? Even in this replacement context, wouldn't it describe itself as "GLM Opus"? Etc etc etc.

It's like security (where absolute success is impossible) but you're allowed to just skip it instead of trying to pile Swiss cheese over all the problems! You can just hookup a validation model or two instead and tell them to keep things safe and enforce XYZ, and it'll do roughly as well with way less dev time needed.

After all, what's the risk in this case? OpenAI pretty credibly accused DeepSeek of training R1 by distilling O1[1], but it's my understanding that was more for marketplace PR ("they're only good because they copied us!") than any actual legal reason. Short of direct diplomatic involvement of the US government, top AI firms in China are understandably kinda immune.

[1] https://www.bgr.com/tech/openai-says-it-has-evidence-deepsee...
by elcritch | 2025-07-29 02:42:03+00:00
Yes, powerwashing would be wanted. That's an IP69K, not too hard to hit with some basic mechanical protections.

Unless you need delicate sensors which need direct contact to samples to work.

Maybe it's not a complete necessity, but generally it's gonna be mixed in with big farm equipment that is power washed. The more you have to "coddle" the equipment the less cost effective it'll be for farmers.

Farm workers generally know how to wash themselves. Still I'd wage good money farm hands have used power washers on each other. Probably work well to clean off work coveralls!
by cyphar | 2025-07-29 02:42:08+00:00
Just be aware that Nheko has still uses the deprecated libolm (which has known security issues and is unmaintained) and the maintainers have said they are not interested in moving to the supported replacement library[1] for the past year. As a fellow Matrix user, I would be cautious about using E2EE with any third-party clients -- the history of issues for the past decade speaks for itself.

[1]: https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko/issues/1786
by rayiner | 2025-07-29 02:42:28+00:00
Etsy or Pinterest didn’t create women who like to collect fabric samples, those satisfy an existing demand. Similarly, I don’t think alt-media created this anti-institution sentiment. It’s catering to a consumer base that already exists.

I think you need to go back further to the education system. I’m a 1990s kid, so I grew up having teachers tell us to “think for ourselves.” In high school, a bunch of our teachers joined the students in protesting the administration over a (completely innocuous) dress code. GenX and millennials were positively marinated in anti-establishment, anti-institution rhetoric growing up. The Joe Rogans of the world are a predictable result of that education.
by bigyabai | 2025-07-29 02:43:17+00:00
To echo the parent; it doesn't matter. It didn't matter 2 weeks ago when Israel killed 3 Catholics bombing a church.

The IDF's doctrinal destruction of civilian infrastructure and attacks on hostages are illegal under international law. If the target was entrenched personnel, then leveling a hospital reflects absolutely miserable trigger discipline on the IDF and their officer's behalf. It's not WWI anymore, if we can't agree on international accountability then we learn nothing from the horrors of our mistakes.
by willprice89 | 2025-07-29 02:43:51+00:00
> people are either still too afraid of looking like they don’t understand, still too deferential to Silicon Valley’s supposed technological expertise, or still too busy doing other things, to voice any skepticism about blockchain-based solutions

I'm not afraid of looking like I don't understand - I simply don't understand. I've tried reading a few "yellow papers" for crypto projects and they are so abstract and full of jargon that I never come away knowing more than when I started reading.

If anyone has a good resource for getting into the technical details of crypto please let me know. I would like to gain a full enough understanding that I can finally decide for myself if it's revolutionary or overhyped.
by sontek | 2025-07-29 02:44:02+00:00
I disagree with this assumption. I work at organizations that have follow the sun coverage so we ended up having engineers in all timezones even though the majority of engineers are in the USA.

One common thing I've noticed over the years is APAC is always the most productive timezone from an engineering aspect because they don't overlap with the disruptive/time consuming meetings.

They get the most focus time out of any of the timezones.
by YZF | 2025-07-29 02:45:25+00:00
I think us Zionists are pretty consistent and what we are saying agrees with the objective reality. It's the anti-zionists who are cherry-picking and can't form a coherent argument other than "colonialism" or something and are excusing the agency of Hamas and the Gazans.

It's true that Netanyahu is and was opposed to a Palestinian state and that dividing the Palestinians between Hamas and the PA was strategic in that regard. However he misjudged Hamas as not having motivation or ability to attack Israel. A by the way is that since 2007 Israel has attacked Hamas in Gaza and Hamas attacked Israel as well so it's not exactly like they were pals. It was more of the devil we (thought we) know kind of situation.

But there is a previous there which is the failure of the Oslo accords due to Hamas' suicide bombing campaign on Israel. Hamas bombed the peace process to death (alongside with hundreds of random civilians) and also directly cause the rise of the right in Israel and the change of opinion in the Israeli public from accepting the idea of a two state solution to a belief that Israel can not accept that solution. Dividing the Palestinians as a strategy came after the Palestinians showed Israelis that living side by side is impossible. And if the Israelis needed further proof we got the Oct 7th attack.

It's also worth mentioning that short of re-taking Gaza (which we see is not simple) Israel didn't really have a lot of choices once Hamas took and established itself in Gaza. Maybe the right thing to do was to retake Gaza immediately in 2007. I'm sure the world, including you, would scream bloody murder occupation if that happened. Otherwise there's not a lot that could have been done. The civilian aid that made its way into Gaza and Hamas' hands was also a result of international pressure on Israel under the idea that if there was some sort of stability/prosperity in Gaza that would lead to peace. What happened in practice is Hamas channeled all of that into its military efforts and we see where that led us.
by halfcat | 2025-07-29 02:45:35+00:00
> So how do you balance this?

You don’t.

The leader’s job is being available, a high speed router constantly context switching. The IC’s job is the opposite.

Striving to be good at being available and not being available (what?) is like compromising when you can just find the answer. I think it’s 5 and you think it’s 7. Let’s just agree to disagree and call it 6. That’s mediocrity. You could just walk over there and measure it.

But measuring, in this case, doesn’t happen in a planning meeting. It happens when you give the user something to interact with, from which you can get feedback. You give them the thing that has 5 or 7 and let them say, ”what the hell is this? It’s off by a factor of 10. You’re using the wrong units” or whatever. Then you know.

Sitting in meetings and correcting people’s assumptions feels good. But here’s the thing: that’s not actually your job.
by king-geedorah | 2025-07-29 02:46:33+00:00
This has not been the case the last 10 years in most of the top 50 programs. Capstone projects and senior seminar classes often touched upon more "serious" topics. I've seen classes focusing on projects related to distributed/cloud computing, complex web apps, or then often hot-topic of the year technologies (game AI, computer vision, machine learning)
by const_cast | 2025-07-29 02:46:37+00:00
It's not a public good - these people weren't shitting in the park. It's a paid-for service and they were paying customers, getting their money's worth.

The price simply did not reflect the cost, and that's a problem. It happens to a lot of business and sometimes consumer's call their bluff. Whoops.

You wanna cheat and undercut competitors by shooting yourself in the foot with costs that exceed price? Fine. It's a tale as old as time. Here, have your loss lead - xoxo, every consumer.

Just charge per unit.
by dang | 2025-07-29 02:47:52+00:00
This post doesn't violate the site guidelines, nor does having it on HN's frontpage.

There's long precedent here, going back at least to 2008 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869). Here's a memorable (to me at least) case from 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4922426.

If you want to understand how we think about and approach moderation of political stories on HN, probably the best set of explanations is https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so.... If you (or anyone) familiarize yourself with those explanations and then still have a question that isn't answered there, I'd be happy to take a crack at it. But do please read some of that stuff first because the questions (and therefore the answers) are nearly always the same.

p.s. All that said, I appreciate your watching out for the quality of HN and I understand the concern.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-07-29 02:47:55+00:00
> Did the UN send peacekeepers when Russia invaded Ukraine? Do they send peacekeepers to stop the war in Sudan? Intervening in an active war is not what peacekeepers are for.

True. But what's happening in Gaza is not an active war. Its oppression of a civilian population by a powerful military force.

But certainly we've let other genocidal atrocities go by without intervening, such as Rwanda in '94. So you have a point there.

> which countries will accept refugees from Gaza? Obviously not the US with the current administration. Why not France, Germany, or other European countries?

Good questions. At this point as far as I know they can't even get out because Israel has closed the borders, much less apply for asylum. Also, countries accepting them as asylum seekers would be acknowledging that Israel is the aggressor. AFAIK France is one of the few countries that has said that Palestinians can apply for asylum.
by ecb_penguin | 2025-07-29 02:48:17+00:00
> It's the failure of CS programs that is causing job market issues for college graduates.

Definitely not. These failures have existed for decades. But it ultimately doesn't matter. You have the capacity to learn or you don't. CS programs are a waste of time, sure, but they have nothing to do with the job market.

I'd go so far as to say your comment is a perfect example of the problem. "kubectl" doesn't mean jack shit to being a good engineer. It's a technology we will use for a few years and then move onto something else.

Absolutely nobody is cutting junior positions because they don't know "kubectl"

The problem is developers are now DevOps, QA, PMs, Customer Support, and everything else.
by msgodel | 2025-07-29 02:49:01+00:00
This was the issue I had doing anything interesting on Android in the past. It just randomly kills things so you can't do much more serious stuff than web browsing/social media on it.

I suppose normal GNU/Linux might have this issue as well if you run an OS with lots of background services that randomly consume large amounts of RAM or if your desktop environment does. I don't so outside of kind of insane environments like raspberry pi zeros or weird situations on servers I don't typically run into this. (and no. It's not 2010, phones are normal PCs not a weird embedded environment.)
by Barbing | 2025-07-29 02:49:13+00:00
So NYSE-traded Planet Labs PBC would be affected given their San Francisco HQ, and it could be higher resolution than this perhaps w/o that law?

For reference, link to the AP's reporting including satellite photos with before/after sliders (2023<->2025):

https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-gaza-destruction...

(Disclaimer: I'm out of my depth on satellites, photography, and international relations... & almost everything really)
by PlunderBunny | 2025-07-29 02:49:56+00:00
Implicit in this is an assumption that the purpose of a higher education is to give graduates the skills demanded by the businesses. What if it (the purpose of a higher education) was something else? What if it had always been something else, and only in the last few decades did a certain segment of the population try to convince us that the only reason higher education existed was to churn out workers that could slot straight into entry-level jobs without businesses having to invest in any training first?
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-07-29 02:50:18+00:00
No, they really didn't.

Institutions made mistakes, sure, as they always have. None of these mistakes, individually or in aggregate, justify anything close to the discredit they've received.

Had there been similarly ignorant, ideologically motivated, and orchestrated media to report on all these institutions' past failures, they would've "failed" long ago. But because there wasn't, the institutions carried on despite their "failures" and delivered huge amounts of value to society.

For every modern transgression I can point to analogous historical ones. You can say "see, they've always been rotten!" and my response is "yet despite that they've delivered value." Almost as if real life is full of tradeoffs, complexity, tensions, and imperfections everywhere.
by sndean | 2025-07-29 02:50:46+00:00
On page 8 of the supplemental material, they pasted some R code, at least. Hopefully that code runs once you load the packages they reference. I wish they made it easier to download and start working with the data, though. It’s from a national registry, so I suppose it’s available to those who look/make a request, but I’d like a 100 MB CSV.

But to really answer your question - not really. In fields where Jupyter Notebooks are common, those are generally available via a Github link, but in medical fields code and data are still relatively difficult to find.
by const_cast | 2025-07-29 02:50:49+00:00
Okay. But this isn't an argument.

They're already acting as a public good - so why can't we just make them a public good? That's not a rhetorical question.

We're already paying taxes for this public good. So why can't we pay actual taxes for this public good? Again, not rhetorical.

> Get the government to draw boundaries of what’s ok or not and it’s less of a problem.

Yes, we can do this. But we have already done this. It's our common laws and the US constitution.

If we want free speech, we don't need to go out here and write a super special law to target Visa. If they were just part of the public sector that would already apply to them - no new laws required.

You can't just say something is a fairy-tale because you're ideologically opposed to it. We already run many, many public services and do it successfully. It's not a fairy-tale, it's real life and we've been doing it for hundreds of years. Yes, even in the US.

Not to mention, we'd get a lot of extra benefits for free. Don't want your payment history leaked? Great, now the police require a search warrant to invade your privacy. Don't want to be debanked? Great, now we have more stringent discrimination protections. Want to pay less? Great, we don't have to turn a profit anymore.
Show HN: Agentic Coding Tools – Directory for AI agents and vibe coders
by jv0010 | 2025-07-29 02:51:05+00:00
I put together a directory of agentic coding tools & things like autonomous app builders, CLI agents, VSCode copilots, and multi-agent dev platforms.

Most of these tools can plan, scaffold, and write code with minimal input. Some are polished, some experimental. I wanted a way to compare them all in one place.

You can filter by autonomy level, LLMs used, pricing, open source, etc. It’s a compact UI—works on mobile, has dark mode, and no signups or fluff.

Would love feedback:

Are there tools I’ve missed?

Anything that should be organized differently?

Info you wish was included?

Cheers.
by elihu | 2025-07-29 02:51:22+00:00
Israel has sufficient control that they can decide whether or how much food enters Gaza, and they have substantial control over the means by which food is distributed. (Aid organizations apply to them for travel permits so that they don't get attacked by IDF forces.) That's the relevant thing here, not whether they have 100% control on the ground.

Siege is permitted only so far as it doesn't leave civilians without food or vital supplies. Occupying powers may remove the civilian population to a safe place temporarily. I don't think "we asked them to leave and they didn't" is regarded as an acceptable middle ground. Starvation of civilians as a method of war was specifically one of the charges by the ICC against Netanyahu and Gallant. (That was based on things that happened earlier in the war.)

Besides, for several months recently, Israel blocked all food and aid into Gaza. The civilians had absolutely nowhere to go.

If similar war crimes happened in Mosul those should be prosecuted too.
by jedberg | 2025-07-29 02:51:28+00:00
I never said it was a public good. I said it was a shared resource.

The tragedy of the commons is the concept that, if many people enjoy unfettered access to a finite, valuable resource, such as a GPU farm, they will tend to overuse it and may end up destroying its value altogether.

That is exactly what happened here. The price was fine if everyone upheld their moral obligation not to abuse it.
by FabHK | 2025-07-29 02:51:33+00:00
Your quotes are not in the article cited, which does say though that

> According to various reports, Netanyahu made a similar point at a Likud faction meeting in early 2019, when he was quoted as saying that those who oppose a Palestinian state should support the transfer of funds to Gaza, because maintaining the separation between the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza would prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state.
by loveiswork | 2025-07-29 02:52:17+00:00
The fact that the confidence interval range includes 1 means that the finding was not statistically significant.

The population for those two specific diagnoses were low in the study. Diagnostic patterns change over time for these type of disorders. Considering neurodevelopmental outcomes as a group may add more color.

You are correct that the study failed to disprove a link between aluminum and aspergers. But the study did prove a that if there is a link it does not result in a moderate to large increase in aspergers risk.
by starik36 | 2025-07-29 02:52:19+00:00
> Anyone still need testimonies like these to be convinced that Israel

You are operating until a false premise that Palestinians/Hamas are some sort of children and bear no responsibility for anything at all.

Where in reality, the war could have been over in 5 minutes if they released the hostages at any time during the past 3 years. It still can be over in 5 minutes if they choose to do that. But no, they will put as many of their own people in harm's way as necessary to get to the world opinion to be what it is. And literally no one, including you, is questioning that. But please, do tell me that hostages have nothing to do with anything or Netanyahu bad or whatever else you can cook up.

> while Soviet citizens starved

As someone who grew up in the USSR, I can assure you - no one was starving.

> what killed the Soviet Union was disillusion. People at all levels realized that a system that couldn't provide its people the basics didn't deserve to exist.

That is such a simplistic view of what happened. I don't think that the system cared what its people thought at any time during the existence of the Soviet Union.
by jiggawatts | 2025-07-29 02:52:20+00:00
Apologies, it was The Guardian not the BBC: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/02/gaza-palestini...

The logic underpinning my comment is the Survivorship Bias: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

The source for that is the “pretraining” we all share: children generally don’t survive multiple gunshot wounds from military battle rifles. One… maybe, but not two or three to the chest… or anywhere really.

I mean, you can debate that point if you choose, but you’d have to make a convincing argument that children are more likely to cling to life with more gunshot wounds.