MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hdgvhicv | 2025-09-02 20:33:54+00:00
If you ignore any statement other than form the Israeli government then sure

> The world's leading association of genocide scholars has declared that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

> A resolution passed by the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) states that Israel's conduct meets the legal definition as laid out in the UN convention on genocide.

> Across a three-page resolution, the IAGS presents a litany of actions undertaken by Israel throughout the 22-month-long war that it recognises as constituting genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

And then there’s

> B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel released separate reports on Monday based on studies of the past 21 months of conflict. The organisations, which have been active in Israel for decades, said in a joint statement that "in these dark times it is especially important to call things by their name", while "calling on this crime to stop immediately".

What level of proof would you find acceptable?
by ozim | 2025-09-02 20:33:54+00:00
I think that comment overestimated how much people really remember.

That bartender most likely has 3 to 5 worse assholes every shift and dozen usual assholes . He is not going to remember he doesn’t care.

Local non profit after 2 years most likely won’t have the same people and top guys won’t remember all one off volunteers.

Believing any of it having more significance would be attributed to “spotlight effect” in my opinion.
by Majromax | 2025-09-02 20:33:55+00:00
Not in the United States, but it is illegal in some jurisdictions.

Additionally, the entire "payment processors leaning on Steam" thing shows that it might be very difficult to monetize a model that's known for generating extremely controversial content. Without monetization, it would be hard for any company to support the training (and potential release) of an unshackled enterprise-grade model.
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by jayd16 | 2025-09-02 20:34:10+00:00
What's the scale for inference? Is it truly that immense? Can you ballpark what you think would make such a thing impossible?

> the electric and water company doesn't advertise like these groups do

I'm trying to understand what you mean here. In the US these utilities usually operate in a monopoly so there's no point in advertising. Cell service has plenty of advertising though.
by p1necone | 2025-09-02 20:34:15+00:00
Unfortunately this approach seems to fly all the time for large businesses.

Plucky startup takes the 'ask forgiveness rather than permission' approach and ignores a bunch of regulations, legal system doesn't care because they're just a plucky startup.

10 or so years later plucky startup is a massive corpo, another 5 or so years later the legal system catches up but they're a massive corpo making piles of cash and the worst the legal system can do at that point is penalize them with the equivalent of pocket change compared to the piles of cash they made while ignoring those regulations.
by asgraham | 2025-09-02 20:34:26+00:00
It’s partially that for sure, but I think it’s also a kind of “common sense” feeling of the public that if people use technology to commit a crime, there must therefore be a record of that crime and therefore the police should be able to use that record to easily stop technology-crime. See: every police show ever.

That was never possible before. Historically, conversations didn’t leave records, and when they did, they were trivially burned. There was no sense that the police should have access to the records because there were no records.

The technical and ethical problems of this “common sense” are far from obvious to most whose primary exposure to and mode of thinking about policing and technology is what we see on TV.
by tptacek | 2025-09-02 20:34:44+00:00
Try this. :)

https://kel.bz/post/lll/

(If you work through the prerequisites and use "understanding this post" as a sort of roadmap of what you actually need to know, this gets you about 2/3rds through undergraduate linear algebra, and you can skim through nullspaces --- all in the service of learning a generally useful tool for attacking cryptosystems).
by mjb | 2025-09-02 20:34:50+00:00
Always nice to see folks talking about VM snapshots - they're an extremely powerful tool for building systems of all kinds. At AWS, we use snapshots in Lambda Snapstart (along with cloning, and snapshots are distributed across multiple workers), and in Aurora DSQL (where we clone and restore a snapshot of Postgres on every database connection), in AgentCore Runtime, and a number of other places.

> But Firecracker comes with a few limitations, specifically around PCI passthrough and GPU virtualization, which prevented Firecracker from working with GPU Instances

Worth mentioning that Firecracker supports PCI passthrough as of 1.13.0. But that doesn't diminish the value of Cloud Hypervisor - it's really good to have multiple options in this space with different design goals (including QEMU, which has the most features).

> We use the sk_buff.mark field — a kernel-level metadata flag on packets - to tag health check traffic.

Clever!

> Light Sleep, which reduces cold starts to around 200ms for CPU workloads.

If you're restoring on the same box, I suspect 200ms is significantly above the best you can do (unless your images are huge). Do you know what you're spending those 200ms doing? Is it just creating the VMM process and setting up kvm? Device and networking setup? I assume you're mmapping the snapshot of memory and loading it on demand, but wouldn't expect anywhere near 200ms of page faults to handle a simple request.
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-02 20:34:54+00:00
Apologies - I’m not sure how to generate those archive links people seem to share frequently. Here are a couple other news articles from across the spectrum, that discuss what Ray Dalio told the Financial Times:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/sep/02/rising-ineq...

https://fortune.com/2025/09/02/ray-dalio-america-debt-induce...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/consumer/article-15057...
by palata | 2025-09-02 20:34:59+00:00
How is that effectively ceding control of your online identity?

You can buy a security key (that does not have your name on it), have it generate a FIDO2 key and use it as a passkey. You can have 100 Yubikeys for 100 different websites if you want.

But you can't ever export the private key from the Yubikey, and that's a feature. That's the whole point of the Yubikey.
by jcranmer | 2025-09-02 20:35:05+00:00
> Even the "why does matrix multiplication look that way" is incredibly deep but practically impossible to motivate from other considerations.

It's only difficult if you are wedded to a description of matrices and vectors as seas of numbers that you grind your way through without trying to instill a fuller understanding of what those numbers actually mean. The definition makes a lot more sense when you see a matrix as a description of how to convert one sense of basis vectors to another set of basis vectors, and for that, you first need to understand how vectors are described in terms of basis vectors.
by nomel | 2025-09-02 20:35:19+00:00
IANAL, but that cases seem very different. This appears direct (prevent the federal officer from completing their enforcement action), where the Bundy brothers appears to have been indirect (in response to a federal officers that completed their action):

> In response to the imprisonment of two Harney County ranchers, who were prosecuted for arson, Ammon and Ryan led a group of activists in an occupation of the Malheur national wildlife refuge, an obscure sanctuary for birds.

> Ammon declared that he and other protesters, some who openly carried firearms and took over government buildings and equipment, would stay until the ranchers were freed and the refuge land was given to locals to control.
by patmcc | 2025-09-02 20:35:41+00:00
SMS 2FA is good enough for most people most of the time. It's very bad at preventing high-skill targeted attacks against individuals, but it's perfectly good at preventing mass brute-force attacks.

It's popular because it solves the problem (not ALL problems, but the one they're trying to solve) and it's easy and low-barrier to implement and use.
by mac-mc | 2025-09-02 20:35:53+00:00
I was the manager in this case, and I also hated JIRA with a passion. It's often the managers doing the alternative spreadsheets too and only using JIRA as necessary. I found you didn't need to "hound" developers with Phabricator and part of the hounding was me being hounded further up about it. Tools matter! Developers love automated organization!
by DSMan195276 | 2025-09-02 20:35:56+00:00
"Operating system" has no real technical definition, it's a term that doesn't cleanly map to all the stuff we call "operating systems" today. Even the "technical" definition you gave is murky, that definition does not care _where_ the software is running. It easily encompass software running outside of the Linux kernel, much of it is expected to be there for the system to function properly and support various kinds of programs.

This thing is distributed as an installable OS image and has pretty specialized software for make it manage your programs and data in a pretty specific way, IMO that's good enough to call it an operating system.
by tmtvl | 2025-09-02 20:36:09+00:00
I don't understand why people will have these stupid preconceptions about food which normally you unlearn during childhood. Complaining about food without tasting it is stupid and childish. Of course if you try something and it doesn't suit your tastes then it's fine to complain, but dismissing something offhand because you aren't familiar with it is rather narrow-minded.
by nemo44x | 2025-09-02 20:36:16+00:00
They’re just so used to not having opposition. Even less than that. Just being able to blatantly walk all over their opposition and poke them in the eye. Their opposition assumed good will but after decades of being deceived they’ve finally decided to resist. And this resistance is a new feeling for the left.

They’re continuing their tried and true tactics but they aren’t working anymore.
by fancyfredbot | 2025-09-02 20:36:27+00:00
So many negative comments here! The fact that one of the top players in a new market segment with significant growth potential can raise $13B at a 20x revenue valuation is not the bubble indicator you think it is.

It's at least possible that the investment pays off. These investors almost certainly aren't insane or stupid.

We may still be in a bubble, but before you declare money doesn't mean anything any more and start buying put options I'd probably look for more compelling evidence than this.
by gwbas1c | 2025-09-02 20:36:40+00:00
The article linked in this thread claims no one has ever sued based on constructive feedback: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22258113

(Not that I give it when rejecting most candidates, because I don't want to deal with an argument. In practice, I only gave constructive feedback once, and then posted it on my blog: https://blog.andrewrondeau.com/software/careers/interviewing...)
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-02 20:37:09+00:00
No, for a while after the shakeup of the US political landscape resulting from Johnson embracing the Civil Rights Act and the Republican Party exploiting disaffection of racists from the Democratic Party in a way that they had not tried to do after the similar Democratic split over integration vs segregation in the 1940s that produced the short-lived State's Rights Democratic Party, the Republican Party placed heavy rhetorical emphasis of libertarianism because it was a framework within which the “State's Rights” code for racial discrimination and laissez-faire capitalism of economic conservatives could be appealed to under the same verbiage. This was not an attempt at a compromise with the Left; insofar as it was a compromise rather than just a joint propaganda effort, it was a compromise within the Right.
by adventured | 2025-09-02 20:37:40+00:00
So if you push eg Claude Sonnet 4 or Opus 4.1 into a maze scenario, and have it record its own pathing as it goes, and then refresh and feed the next Claude the progress so far, would that solve for the inability to maintain long duration context in such maze cases?

I make Claude do that on every project. I call them Notes for Future Claude and have it write notes for itself because of how quickly context accuracy erodes. It tends to write rather amusing notes to itself in my experience.
by vFunct | 2025-09-02 20:38:09+00:00
NSA isn't allowed to spy on US citizens. NSA is a US military organization under Department of Defense, and Posse Comitatus act makes it unlawful for the US military to act as a police force in the US.

One of the few good things revealed by Edward Snowdens leaks was the fact that the NSA has filters for intercepted communications to filter out comms from US citizens. This was in top-secret programs that had no reason to be publicly known, and yet the NSA still had these filters installed anyways, because everyone in the NSA understands that they're not a law-enforcement agency, because of Posse Comitatus.
by jaequery | 2025-09-02 20:38:33+00:00
I built TierBuddy because I was frustrated with how clunky TierMaker felt, especially when working with lots of items.

No more endless dragging and scrolling, the UX is simplified so even non-techies can use it.

You can search and add images directly inside the app, instead of downloading/uploading one by one.

Designed with streamers and content creators in mind: making a tier list on stream is fast and seamless.

It’s free, and we’re working on features to better support the creator economy (collaboration, monetization, etc.).

Would love feedback from the HN community on the UX and what features you’d want to see next.
by palata | 2025-09-02 20:38:44+00:00
I don't get the downvotes here.

I feel like people mix up the protocols and the implementations. Because one can share their passkeys with a Google password manager does not mean that they have to. Passkeys are just WebAuthn, which works on its own.

Since I'm getting downvoted as well: I am using passkeys with Yubikeys, without depending on any TooBigTech.
by elptacek | 2025-09-02 20:38:48+00:00
Your logic is side-stepping the point. There was a period of time, at least in the USA, where the goal was economical and social stability (New Deal, GI Bill, unions). Over the course of my life, the goal has morphed into wealth transfer. You can track this with the Gini coefficient, right? Sharp upward climb during the Reagan years. A "losing faith" metric is also a bellwether. The promise of economic gains is the reason to show up. No gains, no show. There's only so much you can pump out of a system with churn before it collapses. Meanwhile, there is no such thing as "make your own path," and this is a direct contradiction to "what people want to pay for" -- definitionally a "pre-made path". We all make choices from the options that are available to us in a system where many of the variables and constants are completely out of our control (eg, what the market desires). In fact, I'd go so far as to say everything about capitalism trends towards pre-made paths.
by scellus | 2025-09-02 20:38:59+00:00
Not currently, but imo they _could_ sell both data products and identification to research institutions. Like having the raw data still free, but charging for derivatives, or for professional service, incl. support, related to that data.

Especially selling identification services, which is related to keeping the models private, would make sense. Museums and various kinds of biodiversity monitoring schemes need mass identification, and having AI there to partially replace people would be a cost saving for the researchers and potential funding for iNaturalist. Offering such a service for free is neither practical nor justified.

(Meanwhile, I can imagine there to be lots of naturalist who hate the idea of their services being partially replaced by AI. It may lower the quality but the cost margin between a human and an iNat model is really wide.)

I think EU had a plan on using AI identification in some of their monitoring schemes. It could have been iNaturalist or someone else, anyway it demonstrates the need.
by flanked-evergl | 2025-09-02 20:39:06+00:00
> Its not about the technicalities of whether someone got deported or not, its about detaining a green card holder like Jemmy Jimenez Rosa in an illegal fashion.

As far as I'm aware, there is no ruling that the detention of Jemmy Jimenez Rosa was illegal.

> Its not about citing evidence or giving statistics,

If someone claims there is a systemic infringement of constitutional rights, evidence is the only thing that can back the claim up.

> Right now, ICE can bowl up to anyone on the street wearing masks, not identify themselves and bundle them into a van and take them to an undisclosed location for weeks, if not months with zero recourse.

Why could they do that right now and not 12 months ago also? Has the law changed?
by dylan604 | 2025-09-02 20:39:28+00:00
Web scrapers earned their bad rep all on their own thank you very much. This is nothing new. Scrapers have no concern about whether a site is mostly static with stale text vs constantly updated. Most sites are not FB/Twitt..er,X/etc. Even retail sites not Amazon don't have new products being listed every minute. But that would involve someone on the scraper's side to pay attention and instead just let the computer run even if it is reading the same data every time.

Even if sites offered their content in a single downloadable file for bots, the bot creators would not trust it is not stale and out of date so they'd still continue to scrape ignoring the easy method.
by uncircle | 2025-09-02 20:39:45+00:00
> I say this as a man who unfortunately has suffered the fear, paranoia and threat of the Provisional IRA, ISIS-attributed cells, and the hard-right provoking riots in the cities and towns I've lived in from an early age.

> that is the point of terrorism - it is meant to induce fear and paranoia and a sense of threat that makes us all want to do anything to make it go away, including surrendering our fundamental rights and rubber-stamping legislation that gives agencies the right to erase our privacy

Are you describing bomb-wearing terrorists here, or the fables of child safety that's being used by people in power to erect a surveillance state before our very eyes?
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-02 20:39:46+00:00
Here’s the direct link to the actual master plan, which apparently is Tesla’s fourth such plan:

https://x.com/Tesla/status/1962591324022153607

Honestly I cannot tell what it is proposing. It goes over some of the past stuff we’ve heard of already - electric cars, solar power generation, batteries / grid storage, autonomous cars, robotaxis, humanoid robots - and then goes on in a vague idealistic way about “sustainable abundance”. But it doesn’t seem to say anything concrete. It could just as well be AI generated.
by TrackerFF | 2025-09-02 20:39:48+00:00
Since I can't edit my first reply, I'll also say this:

Many of these shops are strategically preying on the infamous "insecure overachiever" types.

The idea is to work smart and ambitious (but insecure) people to the bone for a short period. 1-3 years. Then when exit opportunities arise, most will leave. Those that stay will have been indoctrinated to think that the toxic culture is normal, or they simply just thrive.
by htrp | 2025-09-02 20:39:55+00:00
> As part of our response to this incident, we did our own search through the compromised data to look for tokens or passwords and found 104 Cloudflare API tokens. We have identified no suspicious activity associated with those tokens, but all of these have been rotated in an abundance of caution. All customers whose data was compromised in this breach have been informed directly by Cloudflare.

Great response

> We are responsible for the choice of tools we use in support of our business. This breach has let our customers down. For that, we sincerely apologize. The rest of this blog gives a detailed timeline and detailed information on how we investigated this breach.

And a mea culpa for their 3rd party vendor choices (impressive)
by chambers | 2025-09-02 20:40:25+00:00
Hats off to Statsig. They built a stellar product. Superior to many of their industry competitors like Optimizely. Back when I was on an internal Experimentation platform, we were impressed how they balanced dev velocity & stat rigor https://www.statsig.com/updates These guys ship.

Business-wise, I think getting acquired was the right choice. Experimentation is too small & treacherous to build a great business, and the broader Product Analytics space is also overcrowded. Amplitude (YC 2012), to date, only has a 1.4B market cap.

Joining the hottest name next door gives Statsig a lot more room to explore. I look forward to their evolution.
by conor- | 2025-09-02 20:40:34+00:00
What specifically is heavyweight about OTEL? At its core it's a standard for producing structured logs along with some standards for exporting/collection. The heaviness is really implementation-specific and can vary stack to stack

There's even a handler for monolog in PHP - they are not necessarily mutually exclusive

https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-php/blob/mai...
by mperham | 2025-09-02 20:40:35+00:00
> a boom in solar that saw the country [China] add 92 gigawatts of capacity—that’s 92 billion watts—in a single month in May, compared to all-time U.S. installations of 134 GW.

That's an insane stat. China added 92GW of solar in May 2025 alone.
by like_any_other | 2025-09-02 20:40:47+00:00
The mass migration has been going since before 1986, when Republicans gave amnesty to illegal immigrants, on the promise of getting better border control [1]. They didn't get it, nor was legal immigration reduced in any way, nor did the Republican party itself fight too hard for either. No surprise voters felt betrayed. California passed a referendum to stop literally funding illegal immigration, only for it to be judicially overturned [2].

Again and again and again, any kind of limit on immigration, no matter how popular, was rejected. Is it any surprise it came to this?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Reform_and_Control...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_California_Proposition_18...
by cj | 2025-09-02 20:40:55+00:00
The compound I was researching was [edit: removed].

Problem is it's not FDA approved, only prescribed by compounding pharmacies off label. Experimental compound with no official guidelines.

The first result on Google for "[edit: removed] dosing guidelines" is a random word document hosted by a Telehealth clinic. Not exactly the most reliable source.

Edit: Jeesh, what’s with the downvotes?
by finalarbiter | 2025-09-02 20:41:19+00:00
Massive wealth aside, I would argue that any decrease in crime is nullified in recent years by the increase in sensationalization of specific crimes. That is, reading "crime rates in <city> drop to historic lows in 2025" does not have as much emotional weight as seeing a social media video of a violent crime happening near one's home, even if the statistic is true.

Consider how many children were terrified to swim in the ocean after seeing Jaws for the first time... statistics do very little to allay existing (irrational) fears for most people.