MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by churchill | 2025-10-03 01:32:52+00:00
>My point is this isn't a realistic threat for Israel. Its exports are highly desirable to too many parties. Technology. Weapons. Energy.

Everything Israel makes is fungible. The middle east is a river of gas. Israel's defense technology industry can't exist without Western partners. Hell, America denying them F35 repairs/upgrades effectively kills their airforce.

>Yes, if the war in Gaza continues for another half decade, Israel will run out of goodwill. But if it wraps up within a year or two? I don't see anything happening quickly enough that they can't adapt. Apartheid was a permanent state. The war need not be.

The damage has been done. Hundreds of millions globally now voice opinions about Israel openly that they wouldn't have allowed to just a few years back. These people vote in their countries, buy products, interact in the real world. We're seeing Israeli tourists get harassed openly. Would have been unthinkable in, say, 2020.

>Yeah, I'd say a strategic prerogative for Israel at this point is to diversify away from America. For the aforementioned reasons, however, I don't see that being a problem. Particularly given India and China have what they consider to be problematic Muslim populations within and around themselves, too.

India cannot even field 4.5 generation jets. Their airforce (French Rafales) got whooped in the recent confrontation with Pakistan. In fact, after China delivers Pakistan's J35s, India would have nothing to counter it. Israel's military core is air supremacy so much so that it is state doctrine to use nukes if the IAF is ever destroyed.

And China, trying to project an image of fairness to the third-world, as an alternative power, supports a two-state solution. Unlike Western politicians, they can't be lobbied and bribed to support endless wars.

I have my gripes with the West but they're still a superpower bloc. If they sanction you, you're fucked. There's a reason even China keeps its dealings with sanctioned Russian companies plausibly deniable. To avoid contagion.

You just don't understand how dependent Israel is on the West. 53% of their exports are technology goods. If you're cut off from Western markets, not only will China not buy much from Israel, they will copy their products and compete with them.

The only country you can build a shared resistance towards Muslims is India. For now, their economy is small and irrelevant. China has their Islamist problem under control and they won't want to offend the moneybag Arabs by supporting Israel (LMAO).
by frollogaston | 2025-10-03 01:33:47+00:00
XMPP was a well intended idea but a bad protocol. Sure federation is good, but they needed a proper standard instead of making everything an optional extension that C2S and S2S never agree on. Like getting the right auth and encryption is even messier than on email.

Also, XML was the wrong choice. Pissed me off as a dev, back when I was doing stuff with ejabberd.
by Esophagus4 | 2025-10-03 01:33:57+00:00
Eh, this seems like a cop out.

It’s so easy for people to shout bubble on the internet without actually putting their own money on the line. Talk is cheap - it doesn’t matter how many times you say it, I think you don’t have conviction if you’re not willing to put your own skin in the game. (Which is fine, you don’t have to put your money on the line. But it just annoys me when everyone cries “bubble” from the sidelines without actually getting in the ring.)

After all, “a bubble is just a bull market you don’t have a position in.”
by psadri | 2025-10-03 01:33:59+00:00
The average is $x. But that's global which means in some places like the US it is 10x. And in other less wealthy areas it is 0.1x.

There is also the strange paradox that the people who are willing to pay are actually the most desirable advertising targets (because they clearly have $ to spend). So my guess is that for that segment, the revenue is 100x.
by dangus | 2025-10-03 01:34:19+00:00
I have said this a few times and it goes somewhat against the grain but Peter Thiel is just another idiot with too much money and not enough people around him pushing back on his dumb ideas. We as the working class shouldn’t be afraid of him, that’s what he wants.

I also did some rough napkin math on his net worth and he’s barely more successful than the S&P 500. His two big breaks were getting lucky with PayPal and Facebook investments. The rest of his net worth is pretty much just as good as dumping those two companies’ proceeds into the stock market and sitting there.

People get scared of his companies but I bet their products kinda suck.
by hxorr | 2025-10-03 01:34:48+00:00
I watch a GPU repair guy and its interesting to see the different failure modes...

* memory IC failure

* power delivery component failure

* dead core

* cracked BGA solder joints on core

* damaged PCB due to sag

These issues are compounded by

* huge power consumption and heat output of core and memory, compared to system CPU/memory

* physical size of core leads to more potential for solder joint fracture due to thermal expansion/contraction

* everything needs to fit in PCIe card form factor

* memory and core not socketed, if one fails (or supporting circuitry on the PCB fails) then either expensive repair or the card becomes scrap

* some vendors have cards with design flaws which lead to early failure

* sometimes poor application of thermal paste/pads at factory (eg, only half of core making contact

* and, in my experience in aquiring 4-5 year old GPUs to build gaming PCs with (to sell), almost without fail the thermal paste has dried up and the card is thermal throttling
by eduction | 2025-10-03 01:35:01+00:00
If people knew about all the vulns in their software the vulns wouldn’t exist. You can’t disclose if you don’t know. And establishing when you “should” know or what counts as an actionable report will require basically a lawyer to untangle. CYA = hire a lawyer for your open source code. No thanks I think I’ll keep it on my drive and off GitHub.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-03 01:35:43+00:00
> After the October 7 attacks it was critical that Israel re-establish deterrence, not doing so would be inviting more attacks

Sure. They did that when they killed Sinwar. After that, they could have just continued to Mossad individual leaders in Hamas.

> Israel losing the media war was probably somewhat inevitable, the extreme disparity between worldwide Muslim population sizes and Jewish population sizes being a big factor

Not relevant to America.
by danans | 2025-10-03 01:35:47+00:00
> English spelling has a reputation. And it’s not a good one." - never have i ever agreed with anything more

Quick reminder that writing != language. Even the highest fidelity writing systems are lossy encoding systems. In fact, the more phonologically accurate a writing system is to its language, the more it obscures the history of its words, especially words borrowed from other languages.

So from the perspective of someone interested in etymology, English writing's tendency to preserve old and foreign spellings is a good thing.
by andsoitis | 2025-10-03 01:36:38+00:00
> are complicit in this stuff

I don’t know that that is fair.

This framing is designed to shame people into feeling guilty for their point of view, rather than their actions.

Being complicit means to be knowingly involved in or facilitating an illegal or wrongdoing act. In my books, it requires a level of participation that I don’t think your characterization meets.
by Spivak | 2025-10-03 01:37:13+00:00
And it was wrong then too. Preventing people from sharing publicly available, literally visible from the street, information has got to be the brightest line violation of 1A. I'm really over how much the supreme court—not just this supreme court—has let the government end run around the constitution using tricks like this. Especially with the tax and spend power. If the government couldn't pass a law doing X then the government shouldn't be allowed to achieve X by any means.

Congressional dysfunction isn't an excuse to allow the creation of a shadow government orchestrated by the executive but here we are.
by jadbox | 2025-10-03 01:37:40+00:00
100% agree. It's not a BINARY choice though! I prefer to do the demo live, and if it fails, have a one-push switch over to a recording and quickly declare that live projects are a work in progress. I think this is ultimately how you show both strength of live demo preparation, but can humbly recover the show if the live version fails by switching to recorded.

But, NEVER TELL ME IT'S A LIVE DEMO WHEN ITS PRE-RECORDED. You will lose my business forever if I catch it.
by Full_Clark | 2025-10-03 01:37:59+00:00
> Repeated baking shows a steady decline in migration and emissions, suggesting depletion of siloxanes in the products over time.

I wonder what the fall-off curve looks like for siloxane transfer out of the bakeware. If e.g. 70% of it comes out in the first 15 baking cycles, there could be a reasonable path to massively reducing exposure from this source. Just cook a few sacrificial recipes on new bakeware and throw them out uneaten.
by fn-mote | 2025-10-03 01:38:07+00:00
Sorry, all that stuff might be true but this whole process is nuts.

The code segment containing that code looks like a no-op.

The rest of the post seems sane and well informed, so my theory is that this is a C / packet filtering idiom I’m not aware of, working far from that field.

Otherwise I’m already freaked out by treating a 32 bit field as a pointer… even if you extend it to first.
by more_corn | 2025-10-03 01:38:28+00:00
The only people who think hydrogen is a sane fuel are people who are willing to change what they believe based on who pays them the most.

It is a batshit idea and always has been. Stored in pressurized cryogenic tanks? Check. Made from petroleum? Check. Highly explosive? Check. Difficult and expensive to store and transport? Yep.

What more could a boy ask for?
by awesome_dude | 2025-10-03 01:38:32+00:00
>> I firmly believe you're a sock puppet.

> Genuinely, I read this as feedback that I empathized well given that I'm not. But especially because I disagree with their point. (The presumption that the first commenter meant "The dude's not diagnosed" is very reasonable and obviates the other commenter's point, except as a general reminder to be more careful with phrasing, which their question wasn't.)

FTR I read your initial comment as being critical (but fair) of my posts. How the person you are talking to missed that and jumped to you being me is quite the jump.
by holmesworcester | 2025-10-03 01:38:36+00:00
Israel's main best option is to give Palestinians, at least those unambiguously born under Israel's control, the right to vote in Israeli federal elections.

A government that can kick down the door of the house you were born in has a duty to give you voting rights.

(And if your ethnic group is denied voting rights, you have a basic duty to your fellow man to raise hell until you get those rights, because arbitrary starvation is always on the table for your children until you get them.)
by sandworm101 | 2025-10-03 01:39:51+00:00
No idea, but i know that apple regularly responds to government takedown requests. This was from last year:

https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-removes-whatsapp-threads-from...

Apple even has a website about it: (there dozens of such takedowns each year.)

https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/app-removal-request...
by darango6 | 2025-10-03 01:39:57+00:00
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by davefol | 2025-10-03 01:41:20+00:00
Trio Labs Inc, Full Stack SWE | Full-time onsite in Morrisville, NC

We design and build printers that we run in house to make incredibly small metal parts, primarily for the med-tech industry.

We are looking for a full-stack engineer to join our small team to help us build out both internal and customer facing software.

Email resume: davefolarin at triolabs.com

This is a fully onsite role.
by bigyabai | 2025-10-03 01:41:29+00:00
> they could have leveled most of Gaza in the first week following the terrorism of October 7.

How exactly would we know the difference from this hypothetical and reality? 92% of the livable housing in Gaza was demolished or damaged following October 7th: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1616491/gaza-war-infrast...
by da_chicken | 2025-10-03 01:42:02+00:00
Yeah, I agree with you.

Between Android, Chrome, YouTube, Gmail (including mx.google.com), Docs/Drive, Meet/Chat, and Google Search, claiming that Google "isn't more trusted" is just ludicrous. People may not be happy they have to trust Alphabet. But they certainly do.

And even when they insist they're Stallman, their friends do, their family does, their coworkers do, the businesses they interact with do, the schools they send their children to do.
by tschwimmer | 2025-10-03 01:42:14+00:00
I don't agree that a bad live demo is a 3/10. The recent demo showed me conclusively that the Meta Ray Bans are not at the quality level where I would buy them, especially not for $800. That's pretty much a 0/10 in my book. Since it was live usage, it's indicative of the real quality of the product.
by furyofantares | 2025-10-03 01:42:36+00:00
I had a professor who had taken courses from Paul Halmos, who authored one of my favorite math books, Naive Set Theory. I regarded the book so highly that I was somewhat star struck to learn my professor had taken courses from him.

I asked my professor what it was like, was he an incredible professor? He told me the lectures were useless! I was shocked and he said they were so well prepared they were effectively a recording of the material - and no advantage over reading the book. At that point I reflected and realized that, by far, my favorite professor was one who constantly made mistakes while solving problems on the board. He'd have to notice something wrong and track down the error, and it was wonderful and highly instructional to watch the process.
by gus_massa | 2025-10-03 01:42:53+00:00
I'm super skeptical. I teach math in the first year of the university of Argentina. I usually have to oversee like 20 TA, that rotate because they move to another hour or building or something. As the sibling comment says, it all about the instructor.

> how do you convince people it’s not junk content?

Do you have some free samples? Are the parts of the course choose wisely? Is it correct? Are the slides good or wall of text or just irrelevant photos? Is the narrator fine or too boring or a screaming idiot?
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-03 01:43:03+00:00
> Everything Israel makes is fungible

Israeli weapons are absolutely not fungible, particularly not for non-Western buyers. And something being fungible doesn't make it less valuable.

> America denying them F35 repairs/upgrades effectively kills their airforce

Correct. I am guessing we'll see diversification here.

> India cannot even field 4.5 generation jets. Their airforce (French Rafales) got whooped in the recent confrontation with Pakistan

...and guess who makes a state-of-the-art integrated air defences? And knows how to penetrate (and thus harden) state-of-the-art Russian air defence systems?

> China, trying to project an image of fairness to the third-world, as an alternative power, supports a two-state solution

Uh, China is doing whatever it can to keep America distracted. If Israel can give China technology, China will continue calling for a two-state solution while buying what it needs. (Chinese-Israeli trade has increased throughout the war.)

> have my gripes with the West but they're still a superpower bloc. If they sanction you, you're fucked

Israel is not at material risk of blanket sanctions from the West in the next decade. And being a democracy, there is a lot of good a change of face can do.

> 53% of their exports are technology goods

Why does this have to go to America and Western Europe?

> China has their Islamist problem under control and they won't want to offend the moneybag Arabs by supporting Israel

Which of the Arab monarchies is particularly distressed with Israel? Which has even walked back its previous support and recognition? The Gulf is more than happy for Israel to fight their wars against Iran. If the war dies down, they've got more important things to worry about. (Their populations have never liked Israel. Not super relevant.)

It seems that everyone in this conflict has doomsday fantasies for their opponents. The Gazans will all shrivel up and die. Israel will poof away because young Americans decide foreign policy--not jobs or housing or the rule of law--is their single issue. These extreme outcomes are incredibly unlikely.
by crossroadsguy | 2025-10-03 01:43:06+00:00
I have a completely unrelated question - why does their base custom domain plan starts at 60GB of storage? This has always escaped me. Not that one can use those surplus too many GBs in any other meaningful way (i.e. object storage, or something usable like Nextcloud, Seafile et cetera). This is odd. Just in case any founder or exec from Fastmail is lurking around here do have a look at it.
by chasil | 2025-10-03 01:43:10+00:00
I will first offer you a cliche from a movie that I saw in my pre-adolescence in the '70s from a much older era, the title of which I do not recall:

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

How I obey this rule at the end of the day is to continue my code in the necessary points, interspersed with "blahs" if I am feeling verbose (and necessary means that nothing critical is left out, and nothing irrelevant is included in reminding tomorrow).

How I disobey this rule is to verbally say (out loud) the idea that comes to mind in odd moments, as they are prone, followed by "note this" (at which point everyone around you admires your incomprehensible spontaneous demeanor). This imposes a tag on the inspirational memory of perspective and involvement, and I find that I retain it until no longer needed.

This works for me.
by Tehnix | 2025-10-03 01:43:25+00:00
Nothing has opened my eyes more to how much mainstream media is distorting reality to fit their narrative, than the genocide Israel is committing in Gaza.

You can sit with literal video of an incident, and then see media headlines tell a completely different story than what actually happened.

Social media in our generation has been a weird amplifier of both misinformation as well as truth from the ground that contradicts misinformation in the media.

My selection of topics I trust media to report on has greatly narrowed down to ones that are completely apolitical, which is sad (they’ve always been biased, but at least I felt you could tell that they were biased and read through it).
by vlovich123 | 2025-10-03 01:44:01+00:00
> What is the source of these supposed "natural born rights?"

The US Declaration of Independence lists it:

> We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

But I’m not sure what you mean by “origin” and clearly these truths are not self-evident to some.

> The federal government doesn't have the power to regulate medical care

Tell that to the FDA, DEA and FTC.

> That's not what it says! It says: "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

And yet we’ve regularly infringed that right if that right is interpreted at the individual level. Also “arms” as understood in the constitution was specifically around personal weapons an individual could carry (muskets, pistols, swords). Not necessarily machine guns or weapons of mass destruction; even Scalia, one of the more conservative justices recognized this, writing in Heller that weapons that are “dangerous and unusual” (e.g., machine guns, bombs, or military-grade explosives) can be restricted.
by gottorf | 2025-10-03 01:44:13+00:00
In a society with rule of law, it is generally understood that adhering to laws, even ones you don't personally like, is a good thing; and that it would be a bad thing to pick and choose which laws to follow and enforce.

I suppose you're making the argument that current US immigration law is unjust and immoral to begin with and therefore should be actively circumvented?
by jameshilliard | 2025-10-03 01:44:20+00:00
> Sure. They did that when they killed Sinwar. After that, they could have just continued to Mossad individual leaders in Hamas.

Killing one enemy leader is insufficient to re-establish deterrence, with how severe the October 7 attacks were I don't think Israel can possibly accept any outcome that doesn't effectively remove Hamas from power in Gaza.

> Not relevant to America.

It still has some effect in America, but less so than other parts of the world.
by bigyabai | 2025-10-03 01:44:38+00:00
> First, there is no such thing as a Palestinian

A quote from the Minutes of the Ninth Session of the League of Nations, 1922:

Colonel Symes explained that the country was described as "Palestine" by Europeans and as "Falestin" by the Arabs. The Hebrew name for the country was the designation "Land of Israel", and the Government, to meet Jewish wishes, had agreed that the word "Palestine" in Hebrew characters should be followed in all official documents by the initials which stood for that designation.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110628180414/http://domino.un....
by holmesworcester | 2025-10-03 01:45:12+00:00
A country loses its right to "re-establish deterrence" when the population it's "deterring" is born inside its own de-facto borders, and when the only reason it needs to deter so many of them is that they would (rightly) like one of a) sovereignty or b) voting rights inside the federal system that controls their borders and can kick down the doors of the houses they were born in.

If Israel would like to give Gaza full sovereignty, or Palestinians born inside the occupied territories the right to vote in the federal systems that determine their law enforcement environment, we can talk about deterrence and law enforcement respectively.

Israel has unilateral control of who it recognizes as its citizens, and what sovereign states it recognizes. No complaint about current or past bad behavior by the Palestinians excuses its failure to grant sovereignty or voting rights to people under its territorial control.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-03 01:45:43+00:00
>Of course if you tried to solve coordination problems, then it would probably be a lot harder to sell to management because we'd have to do some collective introspection as to where they come in.

Sad but true. Better to sell to management and tagline it as "you don't need a whole team anymore.", or going so far as "you can do this all by yourself now!".

Sadly managers usually have more money to spend than the workers too, so it's more profitable.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-03 01:46:05+00:00
Most of the automating in retail isn't even automation, it's just corporate laziness. They're passing their job off to their own customers.

Why am I bagging groceries? Am I on your payroll?

Great, you put in a machine and replaced half your workers. Expect you replace them with me, your customers. The machine is just for kicks.