MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bjoli | 2025-09-17 05:39:45+00:00
UNRWA -as tens of thousands of people| in Gaza, mostly locals. What would be surprising is if no-one of them supported Hamas.

regarding the number of condemnations: the un is directly involved in gaza, and has been for 70 years. At the same time, the US has blocked any binding resolution in the security council.

At the same time Israel is supposed to be the only democracy in the middle east, and thus subscribe totl the values that funded the UN. That makes it's transgressions feel even worse to many - myself included.
by scrubs | 2025-09-17 05:40:15+00:00
I was raised in a fundamentalist evangelical household where speaking in tongues (spirit) and all realted new testament stuff was done. Also involved: the second coming, anti-Christ, books of Daniel and Revelations. They took it literally.

Through my teens there were three distinct e.g. during AIDs onset for one my parent's church pushed the second coming as imminent which meant there was triple emphasis on being saved ... man oh man what an emotional and intellectually distorting time that was.

I ended church by 17 and never looked back.

Extended focus in that mind set also tends to lead to a kind of short-termism: if God is going enact the final judgement why bother about tomorrow? It is a very, very strange business to live through.
by gorgoiler | 2025-09-17 05:40:18+00:00
When a discussion like this happens on the front page then it at least provides some useful data for testing the software and moderation tactics for highly flammable subjects.

My conspiratorial mind wonders if it’s done on purpose as a fire drill, but a kind of The Office sitcom fire drill where someone lights an actual fire. (That’s an example of irresponsible behaviour, but I don’t actual think an HN/Israel fire drill is equivalently irresponsible.)
by giardini | 2025-09-17 05:40:51+00:00
1718627440 sez>You claimed the mother has authority over the life of the baby...<

No, I did not. I don't believe in "life" - it's a nonscientific concept.

1718627440 sez> There is a fight between a compiler and a memory model.<

There is no "fight": both are present, one completes it's task, neither "wins".

1718627440 sez>"Petrus was a roman citizen..." <

and other stuff he read in some text written by religious fanatics thousands of years ago (and randomly amended by other fanatics since).<*

"Nothing to see here, move on, move on please,..." - Frank Drebin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSjK2Oqrgic
by bazmattaz | 2025-09-17 05:40:51+00:00
Ah right. I suppose by that same logic software engineering might not be a real job soon either. Maybe companies will realise that expensive, emotionally immature engineers can be rotated and just replaced by AI. Maybe the ex-PMs will be the ones controlling the AI since they were paid less than the engineers. Wendy’s is always hiring so you’ll be alright
by danboarder | 2025-09-17 05:41:06+00:00
A lot of his ideas remind me of the BeReal app, it limits posts per day and is geared toward 'friends in real life' and with just a few friends on it I've stayed engaged. But it's sparse for me and can be a ghost town much of the time, but that may be just because my friend group isn't using it much. There needs to be sufficient network effect to maintain and grow it's reach as a network, which may be antithetical to its founding principles.
by tdeck | 2025-09-17 05:41:14+00:00
For those who don't know, Cuomo volunteered last year (apropos of nothing, he doesn't have relevant experience) to defend Netanyahu in the ICC. So any "change of mind" he might be expressing now is a little bit... Suspect.

https://nypost.com/2024/11/25/us-news/andrew-cuomo-joins-hig...
by superice | 2025-09-17 05:41:52+00:00
Yes, and I want FireWire. Oh, and I'd really prefer 16 bit real mode CPUs. While we're at it, why not go for support for serial connection mice?

This reads like such an arbitrary wish without a reasoning WHY you would want this. I'm sure OP has a reason for preferring it, but what makes the 80x25 superior in their opinion?
by zzo38computer | 2025-09-17 05:42:30+00:00
I had thought of some similar ideas, including the similar working of proxies, and I also had the same idea of how proxies could be used (although proxies have many other uses as well, not all of which are related to security), and also network transparency (which is also implemented by using proxies; it is not a feature that the kernel knows about). A program that receives a proxy does not know if it is a proxy or not (or what it is a proxy of); it can only send/receive messages.

I also had similar idea like calling programs in the command shell, although in mine, a program cannot even return a value without being given a capability to send the result to (although there may be syntactic sugar to handle this without needing to write that explicitly), and the result will always be the same if any input it receives is the same (and in the same order); a capability is even required to determine the current date/time, etc. (One of the forks of a program file would specify the expected type of the initial message, which the command shell can use for type checking and related stuff like that.)

Their "vats" are similar to my idea of how processes might be made, but different in many ways. A process consists of memory, which may include references to capabilities, and also includes the processing state. It does not necessarily use a event loop, although it can be implemented in that way. I did not consider using promises; I am unsure if it is necessary, which it might not be.

However, my idea uses native code (with its own instruction set) rather than Guile or Scheme or Lisp, and system calls will be used for doing I/O with capabilities (and there aren't many system calls for doing other things than that). (Emulation would probably be possible (directly of the instruction set, or of the command shell and other higher-level stuff, or a combination), although I also have a different keyboard layout and other things different from existing systems.)

Also, there are more things to be considered than related there. For example, nested transactions of multiple objects at once (even if they do not necessarily know each other), multiple locking, the hypertext file system model, etc.

I also would not use JSON and would not use Unicode.
by scrubs | 2025-09-17 05:44:31+00:00
Totally agree: what is the objective or payoff to thiel's behavior?

As i say above the antichrist was on the way according to my parent's church a bunch of times in the 80s which is obvious twaddle. So either Thiel is a dilletant of bs because he's a moron (so why listen?) or there's a hidden objective.
by autoexec | 2025-09-17 05:44:33+00:00
While some people might not see the need for it, the author lists several reasons why it'd be nice to have. The article mentions that there are multiple old (and no longer working) workarounds and tricks that used to allow for 80x25 and presumably those existed and were shared online because others also wanted it.

I don't see why it shouldn't be possible? It seems like a reasonable thing to want to be able to change and even force resolutions to whatever your hardware will support, especially if there's a large amount of old software out there which expects a certain resolution. Old computers are very nice to have, but increasingly difficult to find and find working parts for. They also tend to come with some pretty big trade offs in terms of size, noise, and energy inefficiency. It'd mean a lot of less than ideal hardware just to get back something that people already had.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-09-17 05:44:37+00:00
As long as Israel controls the lives of millions of Palestinians who have no rights and who are treated like trash, there will be conflict.

In order to be effective, US pressure would have to be aimed at forcing Israel to do one of two things:

1. Withdraw its military from the Palestinian territories (East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza), dismantle all of its illegal settlements there, and recognize a fully sovereign Palestinian state. This is basically asking Israel to give up its dreams of taking over the Palestinian territories and to withdraw to its own borders - a simple ask.

2. Alternatively, Israel gets to keep the Palestinian territories, but it has to grant full, equal citizenship to the Palestinians who live there. That would mean that 50% of the Israeli electorate would be Palestinian, effectively ending the Jewish nature of the state of Israel. The next prime minister could be a Palestinian - who knows?

Israel has held onto the Palestinian territories for nearly 60 years without granting the people who live there (except for Israeli settlers) any rights. It has to either leave the occupied territories or grant everyone who lives under its control equal rights. It's actually quite a simple and reasonable demand.

Right now, because of unconditional US support, Israel has no incentive to do either of the above. Israel's leaders correctly believe that they can have it all: they can keep the land without granting the Palestinians who live there any rights. They operate with complete impunity. The US could end that impunity and impose real costs on Israel for its actions.
by antonvs | 2025-09-17 05:44:56+00:00
The problem with the meaning of “intifada” is that in the US at least, and some other English-speaking countries, it has strong connotations of violence and terrorism dating at least to the 2nd Intifada. The “correct meaning” then becomes somewhat beside the point. Further, if someone in the US uses that term, when speaking in English, it raises a question of which sense they mean it in.

There’s no doubt that this is then used as a weapon against people like Mamdani for having used phrases such as “globalize the intifada.” But that’s going to be an uphill battle to “correct”, because you’re dealing with people who are already biased, are often unaware of their bias, and are interpreting things in a way that fits that bias.
by integrii | 2025-09-17 05:45:20+00:00
I have a full time job and also maintain another significantly large open source project solo (Kuberhealthy), so my flags package for Go was often neglected despite having 850+ stars and being used in lazydocker and others. I had a lot of guilt about this, but now that I've been getting used to using AI, returning to this project to add the features I always wanted it to have (completion for shells) was doable from my couch with family and kids as a constant distraction.

I am optimistic that AI is a good thing for software and it's certainly made it possible for me to stay on top of my open source projects for the first time in many years.
by kingstnap | 2025-09-17 05:47:58+00:00
Somehow laptop makers all write complete garbage firmware.

I'm sure dell does the same terrible handling of DGPU power and badly written ISRs that pointless raise system latency. I had shoddy crashes for months that would cause my dell laptop to BSOD and burn up in my backpack because the DGPU got stuck on I a loop during some ridiculous windows modern standby wakeup.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-09-17 05:48:10+00:00
If you are doing something equivalent to placement new on top of existing objects, the compiler often sees that. If that is your case you can avoid it in most cases. That is not what std::launder is for. It is for an exotic case.

std::launder is a tool for object instances that magically appear where other object instances previously existed but are not visible to the compiler. The typical case is some kind of DMA like direct I/O. The compiler can’t see this at compile time and therefore assumes it can’t happen. std::launder informs the compiler that some things it believes to be constant are no longer true and it needs to update its priors.
by taneq | 2025-09-17 05:48:56+00:00
I have a 2024 Zephyrus G14 and it has bursts of stuttering which seem to be directly linked to running off USB-C power. It doesn't do it on the original power brick, but on a 70W USB power brick, it slows down massively every now and then, to the point where the mouse cursor is only updating every few seconds and any playing audio starts underrunning buffers. Unplugging USB power immediately clears the issue up for a while. It's fine running off battery, and it's fine when I plug USB power back in, even straight away.

It does other stupid things with power management, too:

- There seems to be some "cooldown" logic that keeps it awake with the fan running for a while (sometimes minutes) after closing the lid. If I just unplug the laptop stick it straight in a backpack, it'll keep doing this (getting hotter and hotter, and burning half of the battery capacity) until it hits the critical high temp shutdown. It's great fun taking it out at the start of a plane flight and finding out it's on low battery and has bbq'd itself.

- Even if I do wait for the fan to turn off before stashing the laptop, when I open the lid and wake it up, it immediately goes into hibernate mode, and I have to wait for it to finish hibernating, turn it back on, and wait for it to boot up, which is really frustrating.

The solution to both of these (for me) is to reassign the power button to be 'hibernate' instead of 'sleep', and to explicitly hibernate it every time I'm packing it up. It's still stupid and annoying, and a damn shame because it's otherwise a really nice laptop. The OLED screen is beautiful and the build quality feels great. I just wish it wasn't crippled.
by eastbound | 2025-09-17 05:50:17+00:00
It all failed when .stream() appeared. Why make people use .stream() for functional programming, plus streams aren’t even reusable, I almost wish they invented a new operator based on an exotic UTF-8 character than those 9 extra characters. Fonts should have a ligature for .stream().

And now let’s talk about .collect(toList())…

And records which look like ugly beans…

Java is the land of the verbose. But it can probably be solved with 9 extra characters on every line.
by ukblewis | 2025-09-17 05:50:43+00:00
It is called a rhetorical device. It is considering the ends of your argument. If you are British, French, German, American, Spanish, Portuguese, etc. and you support the argument that displacement or control of a people is bad, I agree, but consider what you would want to do and apply the rule fairly. Criticising one country for “taking” land when it was given that land by the same UN you use to claim that it is a genocidal country today… well that really is rich
by selcuka | 2025-09-17 05:53:00+00:00
Unfortunately there were also badly written, overwriting viruses that destroyed the host.

I made a COM-to-EXE convertor back in time so that I can compress them with LZEXE (I don't remember anything about it, but I guess I just prepended an empty relocation table). It would have been interesting to incorporate that functionality in a virus.
by malux85 | 2025-09-17 05:53:18+00:00
I love watching this in tech, the pendulum swings, this is static linking in another dress,

Soon everyone adopts this, and then someone complains “why is there 500 libc libraries on my machine” or “there was critical bug and I had to update 388 containers - and some maintainers didn’t update and it’s a giant mess!”

Then someone will invent dynamic underlying container sharing (tm) and the pendulum will swing the other way for a bit, and in 2032, one dev will paste your comment in a slightly different form - why muck up my mindvisor with a bunch of tiny apps? Isolated runtimes are built by the devs,

And so on, back and forward forever
by fulafel | 2025-09-17 05:53:39+00:00
Impressive that they managed to ship crippling stuttering for 4 years in gaming laptops specifically. Makes you wonder about the end user psychology, evidently they didn't get a show stopping rate of product returns.

A quote from one of the linked reddit threads. I wonder if the warranty trip is part of their scheme.

"I did everything you suggested , but nothing changed. I send it back via garante. I am curious what they do whit it."

"what was it at the end? did they respond?"

"They have claimed that the plato works perfectly. So basically i just got use to it. I am using bluetooth earbuds all the time so i cant notice the problems."
by grumbelbart2 | 2025-09-17 05:53:43+00:00
There are some results from Scotland already, all very positive https://academic.oup.com/jnci/article/116/6/857/7577291?logi...

> No cases of invasive cancer were recorded in women immunized at 12 or 13 years of age irrespective of the number of doses. > Women vaccinated at 14 to 22 years of age and given 3 doses of the bivalent vaccine showed a significant reduction in incidence compared with all unvaccinated women

For the second group, cases dropped from 8.4 to 3.2 per 100k.
by p1dda | 2025-09-17 05:54:01+00:00
That is a truly naïve way of thinking about a pharmaceutical product. Would you say the same about any other drug? What about blood pressure medicines, should everyone "consider getting it"? Completely ignorant, you have to consider multiple factors for the individual before taking any pharmaceutical drug and then you have to consider the risk from the drug, yes, low and behold, even vaccines can give side effects! The level of ignorance of the comments is staggering!
by simianparrot | 2025-09-17 05:54:03+00:00
Nothing. I see them when I see them. If there’s something urgent we call each other or send an SMS. There’s no need for daily, weekly or even monthly updates. This makes meeting and talking in person always interesting because there’s so much to sync that we’ve all had time to digest beforehand.

In the beginning when I left Facebook over ten years ago it felt alienating. Then it felt too quiet. Then whenever I met people, months apart or even years for distant family, I realised it didn’t matter. We connected like it had been days since our last meeting. Eventually more and more of them have also quit social networks entirely, though most use group chats for their immediate family — parents and kids to orchestrate activities etc.
by tdeck | 2025-09-17 05:54:18+00:00
> People seem to have this concept that there is some supra national legal system, or even moral system that can hold a higher truth than what powerful countries want,

Can you blame them? The same countries facilitating this genocide have been telling everyone they uphold principles of human rights and democracy, and a "rules based international order*, and that they oppose genocide. Only now are enough horrors breaking through in such a surreal way that people are forced to notice the contradictions.
by sigmoid10 | 2025-09-17 05:54:24+00:00
For anyone believing he might be a sane person after reading this, consider this part:

>He even named a suspect: Greta Thunberg.

It's insane how much hatred industrialists and boomers in general seem to focus on a kid who's fed up with their bullshit and tried to rally up other kids. I guess subconsciously they believe this mindset threatens their wealth so much that they can literally compare it to the antichrist.
by gabriel666smith | 2025-09-17 05:54:30+00:00
I think that sometimes we forget the fact that famous people have regular people brains under their famous skin.

I knew a guy who, hitting fifty or so, with more time on his hands, got really into collecting the wrappers of "Tunnock's Tea Cakes", which are a confectionary product housed in elegant gold packaging. Other people get into horse racing, or MLM scams, or - very, very frequently - history.

It is interesting that Thiel has become more interested in 'the antichrist', given a lot of people would cast him as such. But if I was a billionaire, and my new hobby was religious history - particularly the idea of "the antichrist" - there is absolutely no way I wouldn't be using my money to hold conferences about it and shit like that. I mean, wouldn't you, about your thing, were you a billionaire? He's a gigantic nerd like the rest of us.

Maybe it's an edgy, mid-life-crisis, "I'm so scary" emo pose - in a kind of Hot Topic way. Or maybe Thiel is actually the antichrist, or trying to summon him. Or whatever. But, usually, when a person does this sort of thing, it's usually just because they're interested in it and have the time.

You can take the bad-faith, more exciting view of it, obviously. Or - and this is arguably more embarrassing for Thiel, I think - see it as what it likely is: The hobby a middle-aged man might choose when his obscene wealth meant you would need a really, really, really large amount of Tunnock's Tea Cake wrappers - perhaps the whole company - to scratch the same relative itch.
by lelanthran | 2025-09-17 05:54:38+00:00
> LEGAL NOTICE: Any intentional mispronunciation of Cex.C or cexy$ (build system), officially pronounced /ˈtsɛk.si/ ("tsek-see"), into an incorrect form may be considered intentional tseksual harassment of the project — which identifies itself with the code gender (it/its) — and may be subject to legal action under the MIT License. /LOL/

Nice :-)

I wonder how many sense-of-humour-impaired people are going to bristle at that
by gyomu | 2025-09-17 05:54:47+00:00
"But the truth — despite the unique challenges that accompany majority stakes in the world’s resources — is that most of the ultrarich seem to die bloodless, unperturbed deaths, and at advanced ages [...] The Dead Billionaires of 2022–23 enjoyed an average lifespan of almost 86 years, outperforming average Americans by more than ten years."
by dreamlayers | 2025-09-17 05:55:39+00:00
If you want a custom resolution in Linux drm.edid_firmware= works well with the right EDID.

For me, the worst things about the Linux graphical console are lack of scrollback and horrible performance. Linux still has scrollback in VGA text mode, and of course it is super fast because each character is only 2 bytes. In graphics mode you can only fix this by running a program that provides its own graphical terminal, like kmscon or fbterm.

The best thing about the graphical console is ability to use bigger fonts, so your characters can be smooth and not pixelated. I like the Terminus fonts. As long as performance isn't a problem it's better to increase font size than to decrease the resolution.
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-17 05:55:54+00:00
I don’t know about Thiel specifically, but since the Charlie Kirk assassination, I’ve noticed many on the right have suddenly become a lot more religiously political rather than just political. For example they are now talking about Christian values being the foundation of the country or how different cultures (like Chinese or Indian or Latino) aren’t compatible with a Christian society and its norms or whatever. I see this on YouTube and social media. It’s strange seeing the theological twist on political topics suddenly become central, and also the religious supremacist tones. I wonder if Thiel’s adjacency to those groups is also the cause of his use of the Antichrist metaphor.
by fredoralive | 2025-09-17 05:57:10+00:00
Erm. No, like lots of games during the era quite a lot of stuff is tied to the frame rate, so the 50Hz region game just runs slower than the 60Hz one as next to nobody bothers to adjust for it. The clock for the hidden weapon does run at the same rate for both unfortunately, hence it being harder to get in 50Hz regions.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-09-17 05:58:52+00:00
Was it really the "same" UN? In 1947, most of the world was still colonized, and had no UN representation. France, Britain and the US might not have had much of a problem with telling some people in the Third World to give up their homeland, but sentiment in colonized countries would have been very different.

Also recall that it was only a UN recommendation, not a binding resolution.