MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jakelazaroff | 2025-07-08 05:15:09+00:00
They also regularly say there are no innocent Palestinians [1] [2] [3] [too many others to count] but weirdly it's not considered evidence of genocidal intent when Zionists say it!

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/israel-posts-video...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eICdhG1qgI

[3] https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/poll-overwhelming-majority-of...
by theGeatZhopa | 2025-07-08 05:18:09+00:00
I'm just thinking of people at age moving to a different country and start a new life in new surroundings. It would be the same situation, like kids learning a new alphabet / transition. Imagine language changes like Arabic <-> Latin or Cyrillic <-> Chinese and vice versa. One needs time & practice, but one can't blame the alphabet learned in the early Years. I feel like the transition came in the age when it was most important and the kids weren't prepared and struggled with further studies. But again, me myself also learned one language and moved to a different country & started to learn another language at 12 and another one at 14 and 16 and at 24 started to learn Chinese and also went there to study abroad. I can spell in each of the languages. Although not perfect, but fluent enough I think :)

May be it's some other cause. Dyslexia, some shape of. Bad learner. I dunno, but learning another language would be impossible for that good woman featured.
by gregfjohnson | 2025-07-08 05:18:12+00:00
On the topic of Microchip and secrecy: I downloaded and installed their IDE, MPLAB X IDE v6.20. It is for a pic3mx chip. The compiler looks like a completely generic gcc, built to cross-compile on a Windows host. However, they want a $1000.00 “licensing fee” in order to enable any optimization level above -O0. This seems wrong. Wouldn’t this be a violation of the copyleft license covering gcc? I’m guessing there’s some loophole, since otherwise EFF and folks would be going after them. Or perhaps they don’t know about this situation? Should I alert EFF to this situation
by peteforde | 2025-07-08 05:18:34+00:00
I am (definitely) not telling you to act shy or not be proud of your accomplishments.

Ultimately, it's up to you if you want to redeclare your bona fides in almost every paragraph. It doesn't make for great reading, but it's your call either way.

If anything, I'm encouraging you to let your narrative and actions speak for your skills.
by YZF | 2025-07-08 05:20:43+00:00
Nobody chants "death to the IRGC" in music festivals in Israel (or anywhere in Israel). Not to mention we're talking a third party here, the UK.

The Israeli government doesn't say "Death to the IRGC". Iran however regularly (like weekly) has massive crowds chanting "Death to the USA" and "death to Israel", stepping on and burning Israeli and American flags.

Israel consistently says they consider the Iranians their friends who are also oppressed by the regime. There are zero calls for death of anyone from Israel.
by shawndrost | 2025-07-08 05:21:48+00:00
The below DOE link substantiates my quotes about US data centers and power usage, which I'll reproduce here. "[D]ata centers consumed about 4.4% of total U.S. electricity in 2023 [and ~1.5% in 2014]." "[T]otal [US] data center electricity usage climbed from 58 TWh in 2014 to 176 TWh in 2023 and estimates an increase between 325 to 580 TWh by 2028 [which would be circa 20% YOY growth]."

These quotes are ~compatible with your 4.4TWh number. If you still think the below DOE link is wrong and "...exceeds 2023 estimates for all data center usage globally" could you share why you believe that?

(Note that my "extremely wrong" is not directed at the literal text "LLM inference has a carbon impact of, like, a couple Google searches" but with the implication that LLMs have negligible carbon impact. If you think DCs were using 4.4% of US power in 2023 and growing at 20% YOY, and are a sizable-and-fast-growing carbon impact -- but that one LLM call is a small carbon impact -- I'll concede the latter and soften "extremely wrong" to "your original comment carried implications you didn't want".)

https://www.energy.gov/articles/doe-releases-new-report-eval...
by NaOH | 2025-07-08 05:23:17+00:00
>I think by playing the brinksmanship card of "there can be no level-headed discussion" you inadvertently discount a lot of perfectly coherent and important digression, on both sides."

The brinksmanship card of HN is the reverse of this framing: There must be level-headed discussion. To wit:

>The most important principle on HN, though, is to make thoughtful comments. Thoughtful in both senses: civil and substantial.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
by palmotea | 2025-07-08 05:24:57+00:00
> Unrelated to article per se, but I’ve noticed a distinctive shift as to who tourism-dependent countries cater to. Thailand, Malaysia, etc. all shifted their tourism to cater to the Chinese tourist market, as Westerners don’t spend as big when travelling.

I don't know about Malaysia, but IIRC Thailand is one of the few places Chinese nationals can travel visa free. Westerners have a lot more options.

If travel restrictions focus the the firehouse of Chinese tourists on a few locations, I'd expect those to end up catering to Chinese more than other nationalities.
by WaxProlix | 2025-07-08 05:24:59+00:00
Aside from the fact that nobody is lionizing a group in Sudan (vs say Israel), and so there's no direct comparison here?

One major difference that I see - though of course I can't speak for the journalists - is that my country and tax dollars are directly involved in this conflict. Every child who burns alive, every man woman and child raped in an Israeli camp, every doctor or medic killed by targeted drone or sniper fire is in a sense in my name. I'm not saying Sudanese political instability isn't impacted by western actions, but this conflict is very real for a lot of people because of a direct, material involvement.

Journalists maybe feel this way, too?

I do also think this is a pretty straightforward distinction, and suspect your bringing up a fundamentally different conflict to say something like "well you think Israeli deaths get too much coverage in this war, why do Sudanese deaths not get very much?" is weird and borderline disingenuous.
by AuryGlenz | 2025-07-08 05:26:45+00:00
I recently used ChatGPT (o3) for a therapy-type question for the first time - how to deal with absolutely hating birthdays/other special days aimed at me like father's day. It gave some good pointers on how to handle it, it explained that I'm certainly not alone in feeling like that, etc.

I found it helpful, and it's not something I'd find a psychologist and schedule an appointment for. A lot of us need very occasional help, and I think LLMs are fitting a real niche there.
by jmb99 | 2025-07-08 05:28:23+00:00
GoT still blows me away. You had about as close to an infinite budget as you can get in television, access to some of the best writers on the planet, as well as general guidance from Martin, and yet somehow you end up with season 8 (and 7, and to a lesser extent 6). It wouldn’t surprise me if Winds of Winter never gets published due in part to the TV series’ writing, which is to me the biggest loss.
by wishfish | 2025-07-08 05:28:24+00:00
To me, the sequels were worthwhile just for one solitary scene. In the third movie, Trinity is piloting the ship and has to gain higher than usual altitude for some reason that I've now forgotten. This takes her above the black clouds permanently enveloping the Earth. Sunlight pours into the cockpit. For the first and only time in her life, she sees the real sun with her own physical eyes. She's overwhelmed. It's just a brief golden moment before the black clouds swallow her again.

#3 was not a good movie. But that scene has stayed with me longer than many scenes in much better movies.
by darkoob12 | 2025-07-08 05:28:24+00:00
It's mostly anout how Israel army controls the way journalists report the war or regime in west bank that walks, quacks, and swims like an apartheid but apparently they can't call it that.

Sadly no one will be able to document the carnage in gaza. They plan to create an internment camp in the south and move civilians into at after making sure they are not linked to Hamas. Then they are going to basically follow Trump's plan to clean Gaza by building new jewish settlements and kill anyone outside the internment camp. While doing that they will not allow independent journalists to go in gaza.
by jakelazaroff | 2025-07-08 05:30:26+00:00
At this point what you're doing is tantamount to writing long essays trying to convince people that the Earth is flat. It is very very obviously a genocide — probably the most well-documented one since the Shoah! — and everyone but the most hardline Israel supporters can see that.

There's a reason that support for Israel in the US has dropped to just 12% among Democrats. [1] Even among Republicans, it's down 18 percentage points! And this is despite heavy censorship of pro-Palestinian narratives (as evidenced by the article).

[1] https://mondoweiss.net/2025/06/the-shift-just-12-of-dem-vote...
by AuryGlenz | 2025-07-08 05:30:37+00:00
I made another comment about this, but I went to a psychologist as a teen and found it absolutely useless. To be fair, I was sent for silly reasons - I was tired all the time and it was an actual undiagnosed medical issue they just figured was depression - but if I was depressed I think it perhaps would have made it worse. I don't need to sit there and talk about what's going on in my life, with very little feedback. I can effectively do that in my own head.

I just asked an LLM about a specific mental health thing that was bothering me and it gave me some actual tips that might help. It was instant, helpful, and cheap. While I'm sure someone with severe depression or anxiety should see someone that won't forget what was said several thousand tokens ago, I think LLMs will be super helpful for the mental health for the majority of people.
by syockit | 2025-07-08 05:30:54+00:00
While the search feature is nice, the reference itself still lacks some details about what an instruction actually does. Take for example, [1], and compare it with say [2] (with diagram), [3] (ditto), or [4] (only pseudocode but helpful nonetheless). Of course, all the alternatives mentioned only cater to x86 but still it'd be great if this site also follows the approach taken by the other three.

[1]: https://simd.info/c_intrinsic/_mm256_permute_pd [2]: https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/vpermilpd [3]: https://officedaytime.com/simd512e/simdimg/si.php?f=vpermilp... [4]: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/intrinsics-guid...
by theothertimcook | 2025-07-08 05:32:15+00:00
Australian here.

Answer: No, nope, negatory.

First hand encounters with high school aged teens addicted to online gambling, in particular slot machines or pokies as we call them, following the lead of influencers who will wager $10AUD per spin and post win porn to insta/tiktok.

Online casino gaming is banned in Australia and requires technical ability to access and establish accounts.

They’re also hooked on disposable vapes which are illegal in Australia but are sold openly in every city/town nationwide, along with imported asian cigarettes and Tobacco. Shops are raided a couple times a year but are never left closed for long, there’s normally a few kids retailing at most schools.

We also have hoards of teenagers “terrorising” public roads on high powered e-bikes, again illegal to operate outside of private property in Australia.

I can only speculate as to the percentage of these young ones who’s gambling, vaping, and vehicular menacery was facilitated by their carers but I know that $3000-$7000AUD Surrons don’t grow on trees.

These changes will be unpopular with teens, parents and the companies required to enforce them, there is almost no way this happens, as much as I believe it is truly imperative.

I’d be happy to be proven wrong, but our governments do not have a good track record with this stuff.
by troupo | 2025-07-08 05:33:33+00:00
> And, of course, they never even bothered to make sequels to The Matrix.

The fascinating thing about the two Matrix sequels is that they still tried. There are fascinating action sequences and visual effects in both.

In comparison, most modern movies (not just sequels, movies in general) are Matrix 4: empty, lazy, uncaring https://dmitriid.com/matrix-resurrections
by ryanrasti | 2025-07-08 05:34:51+00:00
Yeah that captures what I've been feeling: our work is changing from being craftsmen to managers.

Engineering used to be my go-to to enter flow state. Now, I spend a few minutes thinking about what I want and then a lot of time babysitting Claude code -- similar to experiences here.

Has anyone found a way to make the "manager" part feel as engaging and creative as the "craftsman" part used to?
by EigenLord | 2025-07-08 05:36:18+00:00
Diffusion is just the logically most optimally behavior for searching massively parallel spaces without informed priors. We need to think beyond language modeling however and start to view this in terms of drug discovery etc. A good diffusion model + the laws of chemistry could be god-tier. I think language modeling has the AI community's in its grips right now and they aren't seeing the applications of the same techniques to real world problems elsewhere.
by bokchoi | 2025-07-08 05:37:21+00:00
I spent many hours hogging the phone line to play btech 3056 back in high school. It was so cool talking to people all over the world. I wasn't very good at the actual game, however. I do remember encountering a bug where I was placed on a level-4 high building and I couldn't get off of it because my mech wouldn't let me intentionally fall.
by YZF | 2025-07-08 05:37:30+00:00
A minority of Israelis do say this. It's not something shouted in a music festival e.g. The official position and policy of the IDF is that Israel does not target civilians. I would say the majority of Israelis do not agree with this statement. [EDIT: for clarity that there are no innocents in Gaza]

Not to justify but they (the minority) are partly referring to the complicity of random Palestinians in cheering and participating in parading hostages and dead bodies brought in from the Oct 7th attacks. Civilians that followed the militants on Oct 7th to pillage and kill. The general support Hamas has in the population, including for the Oct 7th attacks. The celebrations after the attack. Civilians involved in holding Israeli hostages (some/many of the Israeli hostages were held by civilians) and otherwise actively participating in the conflict.

Either way civilians should not be a target, regardless of the views they hold. Trying to draw a target on all civilians, is not ok. The statement that there are no innocents in Gaza (that's usually the framing) is also very obviously wrong. Even if a large number is Hamas and engages in the kinds of behavior described above it's certainly far from all. Many Palestinians are under death threats from Hamas as well.

This expression isn't at the same level of calling for their death (though "Death to Arabs" has been chanted by the Israeli right wing after e.g. terrorist attacks in the past). It's possible some Israelis use this to support more aggressive tactics but in general the official policy is that the IDF targets Hamas and not civilians. It's also different when these things come out of parties to the conflict vs. random third parties.
by ahazred8ta | 2025-07-08 05:37:31+00:00
> No one has yet found any war-like purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity or quantum mechanics, and it seems very unlikely that anybody will do so for many years. - G.H.Hardy, Jan 1940 > A few decades later, we stand waiting for nuclear bombs guided by GPS to be launched when the cryptographic auth certificate is verified. So it goes.
by littlestymaar | 2025-07-08 05:38:41+00:00
Honey contains spores of Clostridium botulinum, not live bacteria. And as such, honey cannot in itself cause botulism.

But the intestinal microbiot of infants (not their immune system) is not necessarily developed enough, and as such Clostridium botulinum can colonize their intestine (it strives in anaerobic environment) and then they can develop a special kind of botulism where the toxin is actually produced in their own body (as opposed to ingested, like in regular botulism).

It's not the only way a child can stumble upon the bacteria's spore though.
by topspin | 2025-07-08 05:38:56+00:00
> we would have long since been calling it a systemic genocide

Without knowing what "we" means, allow me to cite a few more recent BBC headlines, these related to "genocide":

Gaza war: UN rights expert accuses Israel of acts of *genocide* (March 26) UN experts accuse Israel of sexual violence and *'genocidal acts'* in Gaza (March 13) Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of *acts of genocide* in Gaza over water access (December 19, 2024) Amnesty accuses Israel of *genocide* against Palestinians in Gaza (December 5, 2024) Saudi crown prince says Israel committing *'genocide'* in Gaza (November 11, 2024) Brazil's Lula compares Israel's Gaza campaign to the Holocaust (February 28, 2024) ICJ says Israel must prevent *genocide* in Gaza (January 26, 2024)

So the "genocide" narrative appears to be alive and well around the world, and the BBC is a fine place to read all about it. The ICJ is literally investigating a genocide case against Israel as we speak.

Again, this notion that there is some pro-Israel bias plaguing the BBC just doesn't compute for me. Were the claims of this anonymous open letter valid, I wouldn't be able to tap a couple keywords into X and dump a list of such BBC headlines. Apparently any leader, pressure group or institution on Earth that cares to make a headline need only accuse Israel of "genocide" and it will be on the BBC the same day. Whatever supposed editorial bias is in effect appears to be highly ineffective.
by vingilote_t2t | 2025-07-08 05:39:49+00:00
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If you're interested and want to get game updates, or just to share LotR related memes, we have a Discord, Facebook group, and newsletter that goes out at least once a year.

Newsletter signup is on the website. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/t2tmud The link to the Discord can be found in the game by typing "help social media", after you complete the tutorial of course!
by Walf | 2025-07-08 05:39:52+00:00
Another one that just doesn't get it. In that scenario, if you texted Jimmy, it would be a choice, if someone with ADHD did, it wouldn't. Again as stupid a response as telling someone in a wheelchair they chose not to walk upstairs.

Not everyone's experience is the same as yours. Denying that only makes you look like an idiot.
by dawnofdusk | 2025-07-08 05:41:02+00:00
Actually in most deep learning schemes for science adding in the "laws of nature" as constraints makes things much worse. For example, all the best weather prediction models utilize basically zero fluid dynamics. Even though a) global weather can be in principle predicted by using the Navier-Stokes equations and b) deep learning models can be used to approximately evaluate the Navier-Stokes equations, we now know that incorporating physics into these models is mostly a mistake.

The intuitive reason might be that unconstrained optimization is easier than constrained optimization, particularly in high dimensions, but no one really knows the real reason. It may be that we are not yet at the end of the "bigger is better" regime, and at the true frontier we must add the laws of natures to eke out the last remaining bits of performance possible.
by nayuki | 2025-07-08 05:42:01+00:00
> Somewhat confusingly, we can also give our function expression a name. One that’s separate from the variable name [...] This throws an error. If we can’t use that name, then what’s the point of it? Well, takeyWhiley will show up if we throw an error in our code.

There is another reason: If you give a name to a function expression, the function can directly recurse on itself without the use of combinators. For example:

const factorial = function fact(n) { if (n == 0) return 1; else return n * fact(n - 1); };
by downboots | 2025-07-08 05:42:51+00:00
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44461610

from epistemic import peer_review as pr from real_analysis import trapezoid_rule assert pr("Tai_Model")==pr(trapezoid_rule)

Graph here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZeH_8sTyKA&?&t=2951

Graph over there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS7CxAtV5Ks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_board
Jack Dorsey Will Help You Bitchat Someone
by giardini | 2025-07-08 05:44:05+00:00
Penisland.net is the original model for bad Internet names. They once were a site for selling ink pens:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14343545

Now we have Bitchat.com.

Who wants to Bitchat their friends? I certainly do, sometimes. Dorsey makes it possible.
by seanhunter | 2025-07-08 05:45:58+00:00
Exactly. We use anthropomorphic language absolutely all the time when describing different processes for this exact reason - it is a helpful abstraction that allows us to easily describe what’s going on at a high level.

“My headphones think they’re connected, but the computer can’t see them”.

“The printer thinks it’s out of paper, but it’s not”.

“The optimisation function is trying to go down nabla f”.

“The parking sensor on the car keeps going off because it’s afraid it’s too close to the wall”.

“The client is blocked, because it still needs to get a final message from the server”.

…and one final one which I promise you is real because I overheard it “I’m trying to airdrop a photo, but our phones won’t have sex”.
by Walf | 2025-07-08 05:46:06+00:00
What a fuckwit. No, not everyone else manages it. I decided no such thing, you're just fabricating bullshit to feel better about being an arsehole to people who weren't born neurotypical. I have a career with pretty good pay and benefits, and you obviously didn't read anything else I wrote about managing my issues. I'd rather be late than a sociopath.
by Anduia | 2025-07-08 05:46:08+00:00
Originally it was the TMI-2 mudlib running on MudOS [1], though my understanding is that they heavily modified the codebase over time. The library was never officially released as open source [2], but the code (in C) is included in a ZIP file alongside installers and related files [3].

As for the JavaScript client, it appears to be proprietary.

[1] https://t2tmud.org/boards/news/1402345353.php

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LPMud#TMI_Mudlib

[3] https://mudbytes.net/files/view/1041