MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lemonlearnings | 2025-10-03 03:18:43+00:00
With search you dont fully trust Google. You trust Google to find good results most of the time them trust those results based on other factors.

But with AI you now have all trust in one place. For Google and OpenAI their AI bullshits. It will only be trusted by fools. Luckily for the corporations there is no end of fools to fool.
by xenocratus | 2025-10-03 03:18:44+00:00
> Lately every few days I go outside and run hard to beat my last time (currently PR is 28:10). [...] a few days ago [...] I suddenly had a terrible calf cramp that took a few days to get past.

As someone with horrible back pain issues after a very intense block of training for a 1/2 marathon at the beginning of this year, I do hope you'll reconsider that first part of the quote above, since it's probably one of the causes of the latter. Took me a while to internalize the "run slow to run fast", but it does make a huge difference for injury prevention.
by labcomputer | 2025-10-03 03:19:34+00:00
Depending on the implementation, kinda, but maybe not in the way you are thinking.

More generally, when you get down to the bottom of the pile of elephants, you are requesting some software currently running on your computer to write some bits to some kind of storage medium.

But there is no law of physics that says the software must to do as you ask! If the software is malicious, it can refuse. It could even pretend that it updated the bits but not actually do so.

"Oh, but I booted into $OTHER_PROGRAM and it writes the bits!"

Maybe. But how do you know that the boot loader faithfully loaded it? You don't. Maybe the boot loader is malicious and patches your firmware updater so that it won't actually write new firmware.

If you squint and tilt your head, it kinda looks like Ken Thompson's "Reflections on Trusting Trust".
by StopHammoTime | 2025-10-03 03:19:46+00:00
You've run a false equivalency in your argument. Growth is not representative of the entire economy. The economy is, in aggregate, much more than tech - they have the biggest public companies which skews how people think. No exclusive sector makes up "most" of the economy, in fact the highest sector, which is finance only makes up 21% of the US economy.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/248004/percentage-added-...
by mindslight | 2025-10-03 03:20:02+00:00
> In a society with rule of law

We no longer have a society with the rule of law. The fish rots from the head. You can thank everyone who voted for the wanton criminal promising everything yet nothing but destruction, now creating cruel spectacle after cruel spectacle to distract from the fundamental fact that he should be in prison. And additionally his enablers in Congress and on the Supreme Council who've decided that our Constitution is worth less than toilet paper.
by tguvot | 2025-10-03 03:21:56+00:00
in this case they divert more desirable goods that they sell and make aid agencies pay protection money for "securing shipments".

as example, there was a story on Israeli news a couple of months ago, about some NGO that setup a new aid distribution network. One day they got some of their people killed in Gaza and received a phone call demanding payment "or else"
by K0balt | 2025-10-03 03:22:02+00:00
It’s truly remarkable to me that in the late 70s/early 80s it was considered that programming your own computer in basic was not something that required special skills or technical ability.

It just goes to show how far out expectations have dropped, with basic human ingenuity and capability for expression having been crippled by reliance on increasingly advanced automation with increasingly simple interfaces.

Humanity is not going to fare well in the world of pervasive synthetic intelligence with simple language interfaces. I fear we will see an unprecedented dumbing down of the population, a new “dark age” perhaps.
by ckw | 2025-10-03 03:23:40+00:00
My slow solution:

class Solution: def trap(self, height: List[int]) -> int: l,r,s = [*accumulate(height,max),[*accumulate(height[::-1],max)],len(height) return sum(max(0, min(l[i], r[s-i-1])-height[i]) for i in range(s))
by chc4 | 2025-10-03 03:24:24+00:00
> Exactly-Once Event Processing

This sounds...impossible? If you have some step in your workflow, either you 1) record it as completed when you start, but then you can crash halfway through and when you restore the workflow it now isn't processed 2) record it as completed after you're done, but then you can crash in-between completing and recording and when you restore you run the step twice.

#2 sounds like the obvious right thing to do, and what I assume is happening, but is not exactly once and you'd need to still be careful that all of your steps are idempotent.
by angoragoats | 2025-10-03 03:24:30+00:00
I've heard this "Elon is great at selling" thing a few times and I simply don't understand it. The guy stumbles over his words frequently, is often awkward, and always attempts to appear smart but often inadvertently reveals his lack of knowledge in whatever topic he's discussing. Clearly not great at selling to me. What am I missing?
by parineum | 2025-10-03 03:25:23+00:00
> They have 700 million weekly users and growing much faster than Google.

Years old company growing faster than decades old company!

2.5 billion people use Gmail. I assume people check their mail (and, more importantly, receive mail) much more often than weekly.

ChatGPT has a lot of growing to do to catch up, even if it's faster
by ants_everywhere | 2025-10-03 03:25:28+00:00
This is just a bunch of cold-war style anti-science critique stuff. It's frankly not worth responding to.

There are reasonable things to say about science, but the anti-objectivity bit was an attempt to undermine science and reduce opposition to political rule by fiat. The rise in authoritarian rhetoric and beliefs is why we're seeing the anti-science and anti-expert ideas become fashionable again.

Notice that the anti-expert/anti-intellectual/anti-science people always have something else they're selling you that conflicts with the experts/intellectuals/science.

Anyway, good luck.
Ask HN: Has Hacker News been unusable on Chrome for anyone else?
by sss111 | 2025-10-03 03:26:10+00:00
I'm running into a frustrating issue where Google Chrome slows down or goes into a loading state while reading big threads on hackernews. (For example this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002195 or this post:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45427982 )

All I have to do is start clicking the minimize button on threads and my entire PC stops responding.

I have a really beefy setup so its most likely not from there

Has anyone else run into this?

So far been able to replicate on: - Windows 11, Chrome v140.0.7339.208

Also tried incognito mode in Chrome, disabled all extensions. Interestingly, doesn't happen on macOS.
by YZF | 2025-10-03 03:26:45+00:00
I'm not sure where you get "Jews and Muslims have been allies since the start of Islamic history" and then you pivot to hate for Jews 20 years ago.

Antisemitism is alive and kicking. Hate to Jews has not been "displaced into Zionist hate". It's just s/Jews/Zionists/ the hate is the same hate. The blood libels are the same blood libels. The stereotypes the same stereotypes.

If you are talking about how Jews have been treated in Muslim countries it ranged between second rate citizens (dhimmi) to outright massacre. Yes, there have been a handful of examples, in a handful of countries, where Jews managed to thrive despite the discrimination but it was the exception that proved the rule.

I would love to see Israel's government gone and the Palestinian government of Hamas gone. I'm not seeing any analogy to Japan.
by goku12 | 2025-10-03 03:27:32+00:00
You're dismissing the parent argument merely based on a narrow interpretation of the word complicity. The way they use it is common and correct in English language. All it needs is to aid the wrongdoing in some manner. That's exactly what you do when you choose to support and lend credence to Apple's flawed arguments on safety and thus blunt the opposition to their hostile practices. This is significant because Apple has been forced on occasions to backtrack on bad decisions in the face of public backlash. (Anybody remember their plan to scan all photos in the phone for CSAM?)

Now even if you want to go the pedantic or legal route, the meaning of complicity changes according to jurisdictions. Many legal jurisdictions consider interference in the opposition to a crime or even silence in the face of a crime to be complicity if you had sufficient knowledge about wrongdoer's intent. In this particular case, people had been warning for decades of this exact outcome, down to the details of the headline.

You could argue that this is policing of thought and opinion. Obviously, we're talking about moral responsibility here, which is just another opinion too as far as consequences are considered. (Except in cases of astroturfing and sock puppeting where the complicity is more direct. But we will ignore that possibility for now.)
by holmesworcester | 2025-10-03 03:27:37+00:00
I think "if their authorities can kick down the door of the house you were born in" is a good enough guide here to see the problem as distinct from other military interventions, not like the invasion of Iraq was a good idea.

The US was not established in Iraq long enough for generations of adults born in Iraq to have grown up under US control.

The border between US and Iraq is not like the border between two suburbs, and there were never Iraqis crossing that border daily to drive a taxi or clean someone's house or see a doctor.

They had enough control over Gaza before October 7th to deny Gaza a port, an airport, and even the right to do peaceful commercial fishing without getting their boats lit up.

And for whatever limited access their law enforcement institutions had to Gaza for kicking in doors, they just did missile attacks on cars or apartments instead of kicking in doors, because they had no reason to care how many bystanders they killed.
by captainkrtek | 2025-10-03 03:27:39+00:00
Nice work and great blog post!

If it's any inspiration to other folks out there, or if my anecdotes are of any value, I went from 220lbs down to 165lbs over the course of about 2 years and have kept it off now for another 3 years so far.

The main things that worked for me: - Eating things that kept me full enough: I would wake up and have a light breakfast (one of: bagel, eggs, toast, yogurt), exercise mostly fasted (30min low-intensity run, 1hr bike ride), get home and have a protein shake (some say casein protein leaves you feeling fuller longer than whey, I experienced this), snack on healthy things throughout the day (eg: nuts, protein bar), drink lots of water, eat whatever I wanted for dinner but not to the point of feeling stuffed (I really like pasta), and going to bed around 10-11pm.

The shift for me was not working in the office anymore, which meant no shortcuts like burgers for lunch or expensive food trucks to fight the office depression.

Consistent cardio was also the other piece for me, not only did it help a ton with my mental health and stress, but the low intensity cardio day over day I saw producing weight loss results.

No gyms, no fad diets, just consistent daily-ish cardio, not eating too much, sleeping well, drinking water. Though I know everyone is different :-)
by concinds | 2025-10-03 03:28:07+00:00
Okay. So your point was not really: "I disagree on moral philosophy, responsibility and the attribution of guilt", it was: "I support Apple's centralized control on all apps you can run, but I don't want to be criticized for the moral implications of state control, censorship and authoritarianism, nor do I want to defend my position on the merits". That's cheap.
by istajeer242 | 2025-10-03 03:28:57+00:00
I've lived in the US since around 9/11; there was lots of discussion around the responses to Iraq, and Afghanistan. It went on to Yemen, and Libya. There was always criticism and utter disappointment with Obama in many circles over this. Many US soldiers came forward and condemned the Iraq war.

Also, the people who voted for Hamas over 20 years ago? Considering how young the population is, I doubt many were alive then. Hamas won 74 of the 132 seats back then. It's very dangerous rhetoric to say collateral damage should not be limited. Did the babies and the many women who were slaughtered in endless bombing campaigns vote for Hamas to deserve their very end? This rhetoric is exactly why the world has turned their back on Israel. In the US, huge majority of under 35s do not support the state, for example.
by jameshilliard | 2025-10-03 03:29:01+00:00
> Is there any way to starve people deliberately, and win a media war ?

I guess by doing what Hamas does[0]?

> I’m not sure this has anything to do with Muslim vs Jewish population sizes.

Mostly it's just an issue of Muslims being largely supportive of the Palestinian cause for religious reasons and having much larger populations.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crr2dwn7q40o
by captainkrtek | 2025-10-03 03:29:47+00:00
100% this. I now walk down the snack aisle, look at nearly all the things I used to regularly grab (doritos, lays, etc.) and feel gross. If I'm feeling lucky I'll maybe buy a bag of tortilla chips with guac/salsa as a treat, but i'm now completely turned off of most "junk" food.
by Apreche | 2025-10-03 03:31:46+00:00
My problem is I can’t do 1. If I could do just 1 I feel like I could slowly work my way up to 2, 5, 10, 100, whatever. Starting at 0 trying to get to 1 feels insurmountable.

I have tried all kinds of advice from the Internet. I tried doing pushups against the wall or on my knees. I kept that up for quite awhile, but still never got close to doing 1 real normal push-up correctly. I don’t have the discipline to keep going when it takes that long to get any results.
by culi | 2025-10-03 03:31:49+00:00
> In fact, it really seemed, and still seems, like no strategy at all

Since 2005, Israel has maintained a strategy for managing Gaza called "mowing the grass"[0][1] in which every few years they attack and conduct short, sharp military operations. This is in contrast to their strategy of (illegal) settlements in the West Bank. In fact, they removed 8,000 settlers in 2005 when they began this strategy.

Besides the major hostilities of 2008/9,[2] 2012,[3] 2014,[4] and 2021[5], Israel infamously tests new weapons and technology on Gaza, allowing their weapons to be labelled "battlefield tested". One of their largest export is surveillance technology (guess who's the largest customer of that), but they also test drones, air force tech, and even guns. In October 2020 an IDF sniper boasted to Israeli newspaper Haaretz about breaking the "kneecap record" after shooting 42 Palestinian kneecaps in a single day. The snipers purposefully target kneecaps to permanently disable protestors, especially younger ones and increase the burden of care for Gazan society. This is "peacetime" between Gaza and Israel.

Gaza has been called an "open air prison" and "laboratory"[6] for Israel's military industry. The point I'm making is that Israel has never stopped keeping its eye on Gaza. I find it extremely hard to believe Israel didn't know, with extreme detail, what they were getting themselves into

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mowing_the_grass

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/05/14/israel-gaza-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_War_(2008%E2%80%932009)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Gaza_War

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Gaza_War

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Israel%E2%80%93Palestine_...

[6] https://www.versobooks.com/products/2684-the-palestine-labor...
by beeflet | 2025-10-03 03:33:10+00:00
Whatever the word is, the cause and effect is this:

1. Apple users tolerate the status quo through inaction, which is the centralized distribution of software. 2. Governments take advantage of this status quo to control apple users.

If it was the case that the OS was open, then the US Gov. would have no leverage to prevent the distribution of the software mentioned in the article. However apple's stakeholders enable and justify the centralized software distribution as a feature rather than a bug.

Developers are in on it too: the locked-down ecosystem is more lucrative for them because there are higher entry costs to producing software, and thus reduced competition. It prevents piracy for example, at the cost of preventing the distribution of pretty much all open source software.
by JeremyNT | 2025-10-03 03:33:37+00:00
Precisely. They could simply say "not our problem" and move along if they didn't have this capability.

But since it exists, it can be abused.

I keep hoping enough people inside Google still give a shit to push back on their plan, but I'm not banking on it.

The idea of a world where users have no control over their own devices is just too attractive for the oligarchs.
by andyferris | 2025-10-03 03:33:55+00:00
I think the beneficiary is wrong here. Those teens will grow up to work for organizaitons using Azure AD, Windows, Office and OneDrive/SharePoint/Teams.

If any company is going to get the windfall of "AI provider by default" it is going to be Microsoft. Possibly powered by OpenAI models running on Azure.

Google could make a "better" (basically - more sublime) advertising platform but little to attract new users. Perhaps Android usage would rise - Apple _is_ behind on AI after all. On the other hand, users will either use the AI integrated into Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams, Edge and more, or else users' AI of choice (ChatGPT) will learn to as competently drive the Windows and Web UIs as Claude Code drives bash, giving a productive experience with your desktop (and cloud) apps.

Once you use _that_ tool, its now where you start asking questions, not google.com. I am constantly asking ChatGPT and Claude about things I might be purchasing, making comparisons, etc (amongst many other things I might possibly google). Microsoft has an existing interest in advertising, and OpenAI is currently exploring how best go about it. My bet isn't on Google right now.
by saintarian | 2025-10-03 03:35:53+00:00
Great project! Love the library+db approach. Some questions:

1. How much work is it to add bindings for new languages? 2. I know you provide conductor as a service. What are my options for workflow recovery if I don't have outbound network access? 3. Considering this came out of https://dbos-project.github.io/, do you guys have plans beyond durable workflows?
by KraftyOne | 2025-10-03 03:35:59+00:00
The specific claim is that workflows are started exactly-once in response to an event. This is possible because starting a workflow is a database transaction, so we can guarantee that exactly one workflow is started per (for example) Kafka message.

For step processing, what you say is true--steps are restarted if they crash mid-execution, so they should be idempotent.
by wjgilmore | 2025-10-03 03:36:04+00:00
Maybe try doing curls with 3/5 pound weights instead! Or standing shoulder presses. Do that for a few weeks and then return to pushups. At that point you'll be strong enough to do 1. And then as you say, 1 becomes 2, 2 becomes 5, and 5 becomes 100. I couldn't do more than 15 in a row on January 1. On August 16 I did 525 in 2.5 hours (I know this because it is in my Google Sheet).
by beloch | 2025-10-03 03:36:36+00:00
Some have described what we're seeing as an impassioned overreaction to Hamas' initial strike and kidnappings. However, Netanyahu's actions appear far more deliberate. Rhetoric from his own cabinet ministers is now impossible to ignore.

The IDF has taken a very slow and careful approach. There are typically under a hundred Palestinians killed at a time, but they are killed most days with a high degree of consistency. Headlines like "50 civilians killed in Gaza overnight" no longer make it to the front page. There has clearly been careful management to ensure that the numbers don't climb high enough in a single day to upset the new "normal". Israel has banned foreign journalists and the IDF has deliberately targeted those inside of Gaza to further minimize coverage. On top of that, the IDF has targeted healthcare infrastructure and workers while carefully controlling aid to bring about famine without provoking any significant foreign response.

The big concerns now should be how quickly an incipient famine in a region whose healthcare system has been largely eliminated could cause mass deaths, and how long the fog of war Netanyahu has carefully crafted over Gaza might hide it. The remaining window of time in which intervention might prevent tragedy is rapidly closing.
by plantwallshoe | 2025-10-03 03:36:39+00:00
Have you tried just doing negatives?

Hold yourself in the top of the push up position then as slowly as you can drop into the lower position with your chest on the floor. The slower the better. When you’re on the floor, reset and go again.

Do 10 in the morning and 10 at night for 2 weeks and I guarantee you will be able to do at least one real push up.
by angoragoats | 2025-10-03 03:37:15+00:00
No, this is completely wrong. The DHH article that people are referring to here is straight up white nationalist propaganda. It's not even being coy or beating around the bush about it. White nationalism has always been a fringe belief, and is clearly not a "normal middle-of-the-road" opinion.

It's funny to me that those who tend to jump to calling out "information bubbles" seem to be the ones most ensconced in them. It's not just you; for example, the most recent DHH blog ("We've all had enough of this nonsense") ranting about how people are trying to "cancel me from Rails" contains a sentence full of links calling the outpouring of support overwhelming, and every single link is a link to a Twitter post. It's equivalent to a pro-LGBT candidate boasting that they have overwhelming public support because they polled everyone at the Pride parade.

I'm actually convinced that many people who claim "that normal middle-of-the-road opinions are becoming normalized once again" believe this _solely_ because of the overwhelmingly hard-rightward shift of political beliefs on Twitter. These people don't seem to understand that Twitter is not real life.
by delbronski | 2025-10-03 03:37:50+00:00
This is the story American billionaires tell poor Americans every day. Those lazy Europeans may have it good now, but just you wait another 10 years. That affordable healthcare? There won’t be a doctor left! All those parents having a year of paternity leave? Unsustainable!

You guys keep working 80% harder! We will keep 99% of the profits, but don’t worry it will eventually trickle down to you. Hey, maybe one day there will be enough cash left over to fix our healthcare and education systems. Those Europeans are asleep on the wheel. Always protesting and striking and vacationing. Those fools.
by fasdfa3432 | 2025-10-03 03:38:35+00:00
Survability to human behaviour for an ASI would be a non-issue.

Think about ants, have you been worried anytime about the ants taking over the world?

Maybe that time a life ago with that McGyver episode, but not more than five minutes till Mac just found an easy solution. And at the end the ants (mostly) survived, as the higher intelligence.

The higher intelligence does not even need to be in control to survive the ants. It just handle (handsomely as possible) whatever the ants throw it to its face.

These things, if they came to actually exist, will probably just ignore us like we ignore ants. But we are not ants, and could learn how to do not mess with them.

Yet, I think Eliazer has a great point: nobody can control higher intelligences. Think Einstein, Von Neumann, they changed the world and they were probably not even trying to do it so.