MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ciconia | 2025-09-16 21:44:43+00:00
I couldn't find any info on intimidation of HR council members. Nevertheless there were reports of the Israeli Mossad chief intimidating the ICC chief prosecutor at the time Fatou Bensouda. [1]

Her successor Karim Khan has also reported threats were made. He was later implicated in a sex scandal [2]. It would not surprise me if this was a Mossad sting operation.

[1] https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240528-israels-mossad-ch... [2] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgeg738rvdeo

Edit: as the sibling comment states, the Americans have put in place sanctions against members of the HR council, along members of the ICC.
by jakderrida | 2025-09-16 21:45:03+00:00
I'd argue that Anthropic still has a hard edge on creativity for things like emulating people's comments.

I've fed into several models my past reddit comments (with the comments it's responding to) and asked it to duplicate the style. Claude has always been the only thing that comes even close to original responses that even I think would be exactly my response, wording and all.

GPT or Gemini will just borrow snippets from the example text and just smoosh it together to make semi-coherent points. Scratch that. They're coherent, but they're just unmistakably not from me.
by al_borland | 2025-09-16 21:45:13+00:00
I moved up to a team lead and then decided to shrink back down for a lot of the reasons mentioned. While the team was successful, and practically ran itself with all the system I put in place, the weight of it never went away and I didn't like it. The job also became a lot more about politics, which I had no interest in. I sometimes wonder if I should have stuck it out to see if I got over the hump and hit some kind of stride, but there were so many people I talked to who regretted their moves into management, that I suppose it's good I stepped back when I did.

One of the harder parts for me was giving feedback. Certain people craved it, but I didn't want to seem like I was nitpicking or making them afraid to come to me, so I let stuff slide that I would have fixed if it was me doing the work. This kind of stuff was easier when I was just part of the team. I'd nitpick our presentations, mentioning things were a single pixel out of alignment. Eventually other people started noticing and calling out this little issues as well, which was good. But I felt less comfortable doing that in a leadership position, because I'd sound like a nagging boss instead of someone who just wants to make sure we're presenting ourselves well. I struggled internally with this a lot. It was probably ultimately what broke me.
by impossiblefork | 2025-09-16 21:45:15+00:00
But the Palestians and Hamas are distinct. There are even Christian Palestinians who are of course, since Hamas is so fundamentally Islamist, not at all represented by the group.

Palestinians who are not part of Hamas are third parties and when they are attacked, you can't tell them to ask Hamas to release hostages or do anything, because they have no more influence over Hamas than anybody else does.
by vharuck | 2025-09-16 21:45:23+00:00
In the US, recommendations come from the United States Preventive Services Task Force. They explicitly do not consider cost in their decisions. They look at harm vs benefit, usually with a focus on mortality reduction. Most insurance companies will base their coverage on the USPSTF.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/hpv/hcp/recommendations.htm...
by churchill | 2025-09-16 21:45:47+00:00
Israel systematically abducts, tortures, and imprisons Palestinians old and young with reckless abandon. I hate to defend Hamas, but the goal of the abductions was to use them as a bargaining chip to get their own captives who'd been unjustly imprisoned in hellish conditions, for years on end.

Settlers in the West Bank openly murder Palestinians like animals, as well. The State of Israel is a violent terrorist state.
by kypro | 2025-09-16 21:46:28+00:00
Dating is unbelievably easy in some ways though. I'd argue the problem with dating today is that people don't do the hard things and instead look for love on apps and other bad places.

Dating is just a numbers game. Roughly speaking it's about maximising interactions with potential partners and taking a shot in as many of these interactions which go positively as possible.

You can game dating in your favour with a bit of strategy. Unfortunately job searches are much harder to game since you can exhaust the number of active positions for your preferred role quite rapidly. The only advice I can give on job searches is to keep your skillset as broad as possible. Specialising is good if when you find work you want to be paid well. Being well-rounded is good if you want to find work as easily as possible.
by cyanydeez | 2025-09-16 21:46:40+00:00
I don't understand how many parts people really upgrade these days.

For one, the memory is soldered on because it's integral to the GPU the same way it's integral to the Apple's M3, and can be used the same up to 96gb.

At the form factor, what else are you expecting to upgrade over it's lifetime?

This statement makes it sound like there's a lot to upgrade when it's mostly just memory people seem confused about.
by 8note | 2025-09-16 21:46:48+00:00
this is to say, that natural gas isnt the necessary evil to account for intermittent power sources.

its a necessary evil to fully capitalize on other investments. i dont care if the hyperscaler can run their GPUs overnight. perfectly happy for them to delay their training because theyre running in daytime.

the capital owners who bought the GPUs sure care, but why should i accept their pollution in order for them to run a bit faster?
by bsder | 2025-09-16 21:47:10+00:00
1) If your wife was having a high risk pregnancy and couldn't get vaccinated, she really shouldn't have been working on the front lines during Covid, anyway.

2) Take a look in the mirror and try blaming the people who have made "getting a vaccine" a culture war political statement rather than something routine and uncontroversial. If vaccines were uncontroversial, medical exemptions from them would also be rare and uncontroversial.
by Melonai | 2025-09-16 21:47:11+00:00
I think it's also important to note that Near identified as non-binary. This isn't just a "respect their pronouns!" type of thing, but an important aspect of the KiwiFarms propensity to target trans and queer people.

Notably this also isn't the only suicide attributed to the forum, another trans woman by the name of Chloe Sagal also was harassed by them into suicide in 2018, alongside a Canadian woman named Julie Terryberry in 2016.

The forum takes credit for this (though of course, not officially by the admins), with it being basically an explicit goal. I believe they also had a "kill counter" in a thread to count the people they brought to kill themselves. And the fact that they love targeting trans people, autistic people, and basically everyone who's different is a big part of the whole culture they've build.

Note that I prefer to not expose myself to that, so I invite other people to add info or refute something I said.
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by danohn | 2025-09-16 21:47:31+00:00
mcpcap is a modular Python MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server for analyzing PCAP files. mcpcap enables LLMs to read and analyze network PCAP's with protocol-specific analysis tools that accept local files or remote URLs as parameters.

Landing page: https://mcpcap.ai

Docs: https://docs.mcpcap.ai

GitHub: https://github.com/mcpcap/mcpcap
by the_af | 2025-09-16 21:47:48+00:00
You left out the full argument (to be clear, I don't agree with the author, but in order to disagree with him you have to quote the full argument):

The author is arguing that the main reason rewriting a C++ codebase in Rust makes it more memory-safe is not because it was done in Rust, but because it benefits from lessons learned and knowledge about the mistakes done during the first iteration. He acknowledges Rust will also play a part, but that it's minor compared to the "lessons learned" factor.

I'm not sure I buy the argument, though. I think rewrites usually introduce new bugs into the codebase, and if it's not the exact same team doing the rewrite, then they may not be familiar with decisions made during the first version. So the second version could have as many flaws, or worse.
by lucb1e | 2025-09-16 21:47:51+00:00
Same as if Paypal screws me, or the store I just bought something in... you talk to them and if they don't cooperate you take it to court (small claims hopefully). So far, nobody I know has needed to take a shop to court. It's extremely rare, but yes it sure happens

If I really don't trust the seller, I can always still get some sort of insurance thing, but an X% insurance fee needn't be the default for every transaction. (Even if the % is invisible to you, then the seller updates their product's prices. The seller won't choose to eat less just to finance your transaction fees... the only way to not pay those is operate a deficit, which eventually leads to bankruptcy and loss of your warranty, which isn't a desirable situation either)
by brw | 2025-09-16 21:48:02+00:00
Isn't that what lockfiles are for? By default `npm i` downloads exactly the versions specified in your lockfile, and only resolves the latest versions matching the ranges specified in package.json if no lockfile exists. But CI/CD pipelines should definitely be using `npm ci` instead, which will only install packages from a lockfile and throws an error if it doesn't exist.
by IncreasePosts | 2025-09-16 21:48:08+00:00
I think, if one of the most prominent C++ experts in the world(herb sutter), who chaired the C++ standards committee for 20+ years, who has evangelized the language for even longer than that - decides that complexity in the language has gotten out of control and sits down to write a simpler and safer dialect, then that is indicative of a problem with the language.

My viewpoint on the language is that there are certain types of engineers who thrive in the complexity that is easy to arrive at in a C++ code base. These engineers are undoubtedly very smart, but, I think, lack a sense of aesthetics that I can never get past. Basically, the r/atbge of programming languages (Awful Taste But Great Execution).
by gnabgib | 2025-09-16 21:48:28+00:00
Ontario gets 21% of it's power from hydro-electricity which provides closer to baseline power than variable-generation. The report never mentions hydro (although due to a quirk all electricity is called hydro in Ontario and BC) which is concerning.. Nuclear generation isn't particularly large at 2x hydro, gas 1x, solar and wind are less than half. Gas is the only peaking source listed.

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=251000...
by IshKebab | 2025-09-16 21:48:33+00:00
Yeah I'll believe this when I see it. Most UK roads are significantly harder to drive on than anything in the US. That's why they always test these things in Milton Keynes.

Also a lot of UK driving requires communication with other drivers (letting people out, etc.) in a way that US roads don't. I'm not sure how driverless cars can handle that.

I really wish we could get them, because they're great. But I'd say we're talking 10 years behind the US simply because of the extra engineering challenge.
by neo2006 | 2025-09-16 21:48:55+00:00
it's not a war Netanyahu is killing innocent people and taking a full population hostage.

Also, most of the people in Gaza are not Hamas members and are regular civilians. What Natanyahu is doing is basically analog to the following:

A killer take a member of your family as a hostage (Hamas in this case is the killer) so you decide to kill a member of their family every hour until they release your beloved one. Do you think that this is acceptable or are you trying to make it acceptable?
by anthk | 2025-09-16 21:48:57+00:00
No Spanish fascism winning; thus, the Spanish left siding with the Republican France. Nazis gets lots of less support and they get crushed fast, many years earlier 1945. As for Spain itself, it wouldn't suffer a war, postwar and a National-Catholic ruralist shithole regime. No 15-20 years of backwardness compared to France/Europe until 1986 (Spain joining the pre-EU, and the postwar 1940-1950 Spain almost was on par on Europe at 1910-1920... if any, modulo the boost in the 60's because of Tourism), making itself a role model in South America. No polarized left and right in that continent, so they achieve European level standards of living. People merges Iberian humanism with the German engineering.

People like Torres Quevedo happen to exist everywhere because there are no anti-scientific people messing the education to the levels of something coming from the 18th century and before. I am no kidding. Pure creationism with Franco. By law. If you said something against religion, you were either fined, jailed or beaten up.
by bluGill | 2025-09-16 21:49:00+00:00
Nobody is putting wind turbines near housing developments. Wind turbines are noisy up close (you don't want your house next door), and they build to a lower safety standard on the assumption that even in the worst case failure nobody is close enough to be hurt (they still build to a high enough standard that I'm not aware of any failure that could kill someone if they had be there, despite tens of thousands in the world)

They put them in farm fields, you just rent the whole field for the year from the farmer, land the planes, and next year it is framed again. (the farmer will likely be allowed to plant hay in the field and work with you to cut that)
by qnpnp | 2025-09-16 21:49:02+00:00
> Who do you accuse of genocide now?

The one doing it

> They've just been denied the chance.

Perhaps. Perhaps if they somehow had the time, means and power to do it, they would have killed as many people on the other side, although this is high speculative as the past decades would have played out very differently anyway.

I'm not sure where you're going with that though. Nobody claims Hamas are kind and gently guys.
by ivewonyoung | 2025-09-16 21:49:10+00:00
Again, you're putting words in our mouths just like she did to Kirk.

You should never be attributing verbatim quotes to someone while signing their name to it, especially as a journalist, it's simply wrong and unacceptable.

The reader can decide for themselves what Kirk actually meant after reading his actual original quote with you or her deciding for all of us.
by giobox | 2025-09-16 21:49:17+00:00
I'm not so sure there is no problem to be solved. Being able to see the world around me annotated visually has massive potential - I for one would love the Google Translate camera feature that lets you translate text seen by the camera in real time and overlay the translated text on the document but built into a pair of normal looking glasses, freeing my hands etc.

While I accept some will take issue with calling it an "AR device", the current Meta RayBans have sold very well with major YoY growth and I only expect them to get more popular as they get more capable and add more "AR"-esque features in future versions. I see them already as a first step on road to real AR products much, much more than I do the Quest line.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-16 21:49:36+00:00
Indeed, so how do you replace the gas peaking? Solar, wind, batteries, existing nuclear and hydro, and perhaps some balancing with existing interconnects with Manitoba, Québec, NYISO, and MISO.

https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/CA-ON/12mo/monthly

(75% of Ontario's trailing twelve months electrical consumption was generated by low carbon technologies, the remainder is the gap to fill; adjacent Manitoba and Québec grids stand at 90%+ low carbon for the same time period)
by andrewmcwatters | 2025-09-16 21:49:49+00:00
What's worse in languages like Go, which I love, is that you won't even immediately how to solve this unless you have experience dropping down into doing things you just would have normally done in C or C++.

Even the Go authors themselves on Go's website display a process of debugging memory usage that looks identical to a workflow you would have done in C++. So, like, what's the point? Just use C++.

I really do think Go is nice, but at this point I would relegate it to the workplace where I know I am working with a highly variable team of developers who in almost all cases will have a very poor background in debugging anything meaningful at all.
by fsflover | 2025-09-16 21:49:56+00:00
> only 20 community supported devices

You realize it's a result of reverse-engineering done by volunteers? To me it looks like a large number actually. The main hurdle for true "Linux Phone" is the lack of free drivers and specs, such that volunteers must spend tremendous efforts to make basic things work.

> which Linux phone should I buy and how could I contribute to its success?

To help Linux ecosystem on mobile, you could support vendors who intentionally provide free drivers or specs and help improve the software running on their devices. AFAIK only Pinephone and Librem 5 fit here. The former is in stock from time to time.

Also many users of GNU/Linux phones run Phosh developed by Purism. Helping to improve it would help the whole community.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-09-16 21:50:03+00:00
> I italicized "who refuse government assistance" for a reason

This does not make an objective misrepresentation. It doesn't even make it a subjective misrepresentation. They would be objectively misrepresenting it if "mass-murder" is objectively incorrect and/or if "mentally ill people" is objectively incorrect. As I said in my previous comment: mass-murder is, at worst, subjectively incorrect and mentally ill people is obviously correct.

I don't have to wonder why they refuse government assistance. It's the mental illness. You are stating that you believe the policy is justified because they are mentally ill.
by homebrewer | 2025-09-16 21:50:07+00:00
Generate builder images and reuse them. It shaves minutes off each CI job with projects I'm working on and is non-optional because we're far from all major datacenters.

Or setup a caching proxy, whatever is easier for your org. I've had good experience with nexus previously, it's pretty heavy but very configurable, can introduce delays for new versions and check public vulnerability databases for you.

It's purely an efficiency problem though, nothing to do with security, which is covered by lock files.
by bdangubic | 2025-09-16 21:50:17+00:00
Inbox is the biggest compromise of them all IMO. I realized this a decade ago and use a different email for every account that I have. None of them have anything to do with my name in any way, I use 4 random words to create new email for any new account that I need. Accidental takeover of any one account does not lead to total take over of my life :)
by johnh-hn | 2025-09-16 21:50:24+00:00
> Yeah, it probably has something to do with this. In X11 sessions, the display server does not typically handle scaling. Instead, the desktop environments provide scaling preferences to UI toolkits that then do the scaling themselves. In Wayland, the display server does handle scaling.

Presumably this leads to a more unified scaling experience. This was one thing I was concerned about before, as it didn't seem that way. That's a solid improvement on its own.

> Also possibly useful: if you like the KDE Plasma session, it has a built-in magnifier; just hold Ctrl+Meta and use the scroll wheel.

This is useful yes, along with the rest of your comments. Thanks for your help.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-16 21:50:54+00:00
For me, this is meaningful because for the first time a legitimate international body is calling this a genocide.

Previously, it’s been activists and claims that this might be genocide. I haven’t read the report yet. But I will, and I intend to leave my mind open as to whether this raises the profile of this war in my mind relative to domestic issues.
by zahlman | 2025-09-16 21:51:06+00:00
> I never want to see another Wheel error until the day I die.

What exactly do you mean by a "Wheel error"? Show me a reproducer and a proper error message and I'll be happy to help to the best of my ability.

By and large, the reason pip fails to install a package is because doing so requires building non-Python code locally, following instructions included in the package. Only in rare cases are there problems due to dependency conflicts, and these are usually resolved by creating a separate environment for the thing you're trying to install — which you should generally be doing anyway. In the remaining cases where two packages simply can't co-exist, this is fundamentally Python's fault, not the installer's: module imports are cached, and quite a lot of code depends on the singleton nature of modules for correctness, so you really can't safely load up two versions of a dependency in the same process, even if you hacked around the import system (which is absolutely doable!) to enable it.

As for finding significant whitespace (meaning indentation used to indicate code structure; it's not significant in other places) hard to read, I'm genuinely at a loss to understand how. Python has types; what it lacks is manifest typing, and there are many languages like this (including Haskell, whose advocates are famous for explaining how much more "typed" their language is than everyone else's). And Python has a REPL, the -i switch, and a built-in debugger in the standard library, on top of not requiring the user to do the kinds of things that most often need debugging (i.e. memory management). How can it be called hard to debug?
by pie_flavor | 2025-09-16 21:51:26+00:00
Fresh codebases have more bugs than mature codebases. Rewriting does not fix bugs; it is a fresh codebase that may have different bugs but extremely rarely fewer bugs than the codebase most of the bugs have been patched out of. Rewriting it in Rust reduces the bugs because Rust inherently prevents large categories of bugs. Rewriting it in C++ has no magical properties that initially writing it in C++ doesn't, especially if you weren't around for the writing of the original. Maybe if there is some especially persnickety known bug that would require a major rearchitecture and you plan to implement this architecture this time around, but that is not the modal bug, and the article is especially talking about memory safety bugs which are a totally separate kind of thing from that.
by aucisson_masque | 2025-09-16 21:51:42+00:00
It can either end in the death of one side, most probably Palestinians, or in peace agreement.

Currently there is war, peace is out of the window. First step is to stop the war, second step is to make both side actually negotiate.

It was attempted by Clinton a while ago but assassinations from mossad and hamas prevented the process to success.

To be honest, politicians have failed us too many times for my sad brain to believe that there will be a good outcome.

Most probably Israel society will keep radicalizing itself, Palestinians will be killed and Gaza bombed/annexed leading to the death of both Palestinian and Israeli civilization. Palestinian will be all dead and Israeli will have become in all manner what they initially sought to destroy, literal nazi.

I’d even bet that death by zyklon is more human that seeing your family and yourself getting slowly hungered to death. And contrary to nazi Germany, no Israeli can pretend to not know what’s going on.
by Jtsummers | 2025-09-16 21:51:47+00:00
This one has been submitted a lot, but only these 4 have anything more than one comment (and most of those were links to one or more of these).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25222601 - November 2020

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17427593 - June 2018

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2498868 - April 2011

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1627246 - August 2010