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by olyjohn | 2025-10-02 23:14:46+00:00
Meh... technically, you're probably right. In practice, it probably won't make a damn bit of difference. It's just like how everybody was scared to run without anti-virus years ago. More people got their computers fucked up by AV than by actual viruses. Still to this day Defender is there fucking up your computer and really not doing a great job protecting you from anything. Ransomware is still running amok despite everything being "up to date" and running AV, and 30 different corporate security defense suites.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-02 23:15:34+00:00
> Israel fully controls USA (especially this administration)

This is the political equivalent of Flat Eartherism.

The 'Earth is a perfect sphere' take would be that there are significant numbers of Americans for whom Israel is a single-issue item, and significantly more for whom it's a top three. These voters can swing elections in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia and possibly Michigan, and so are given a lot of deference by the Congress and President.
by Humorist2290 | 2025-10-02 23:15:44+00:00
I can't disagree. Modern famine is a tool used to cause harm indiscriminately. It is a testament to the human capacity for cognitive dissonance that so many people can be against the starvation of children yet support politicians responsible for mass starvation.

Though my point was more about considering the historical context. Famines used to happen all the time but largely because of crop failures. That famine is _caused_ has become common knowledge is, I think, at least an improvement. ~All~ Most of the famines that could've happened for the old reasons haven't.

Admittedly, I'm grasping at straws to avoid dwelling on the horrid situation at hand.
by LightBug1 | 2025-10-02 23:16:08+00:00
Comparison of two peoples occupation and suffering and response to it is quite unfair.

And you act as if Oct 7th is the be all and end all of the story of the Palestine/Israel. "Oct 7th levels of horror". I won't excuse Hamas for what they did, but worse levels of horror have been inflicted on the Palestinian people. It's odd you ignore those levels or are ignorant to them. Just saying.

And you say 99% of people lost the ability to feel sympathy. I'll dispute that because the sane among us don't blame civilians for the actions of a paramilitary organisation gone wild. But let's pretend you're right. Isn't it ironic then that the world has so strongly turned against Israel now? (at least in the UN and your average people).

I'll contend that Israel may have destroyed Gaza, but in so doing they have destroyed their reputation and brought ill and hatred to their people now for a generation.

I'll defend Jews always as many have stood side by side with those against what's happening in Israel. But Israel has made their lives harder. Israel's actions have now made it much, much easier for the crazy people among us to do crazy things (c.f. today's Manchester, UK synagogue terrorist attack).
by kossTKR | 2025-10-02 23:16:09+00:00
The way you conflate upwards of 150.000 slaughtered civilians (numbers directly from Isreali military sources - who are being ethnically cleansed according to UN experts, with Hamas is sinister and beyond dark, especially when you also completely ignore 75 years of Israeli violence and occupation before october 7.

Yeah the over thirty thousand dead kids really shouldn't have "done" october 7, a response done by completely different people to decades of violence, it was so stupid of them.

This is vile and incredibly dehumanising if not straight up violently racist.
by red369 | 2025-10-02 23:16:19+00:00
Your comments, and your other reply to the parent post I was replying to, really resonated with me.

I think by default I imagine things the same way as you - not images, not words, but just knowing how something is. I think perhaps that is similar to what I called remembering. When I think of something that way, I can think of, for example, a whole house. But I don't see anything.

But, if I try to picture something instead, as an actual image, I can actually picture smaller specifics parts of something. I think when I do that I am actually doing what people are talking about when they say they are picturing something, or seeing something in their mind's eye. All I get then is like an outline, or faded details, and I can only do small details at a time. Between a 3 and 4 in the Wikipedia representation of aphantasia. It sounds to me like you aren't able to switch to seeing something at all.

A while ago, after reading about someone curing their aphantasia, I thought about this a lot, and I think at the time I suddenly remembered something that made me think I could picture things clearly when I was a child. I also know that I see things when I dream, so I decided I should be able to get the ability back.

I used to try quite often to picture things in my mind, and would do some of the tricks like having eyes open a crack, and just waiting to recognise things in the patterns on my eyelids, etc. Occasionally I would suddenly see something as if it were really there. Like a 2 on the scale. The one thing I remember now is that I saw an entire chair, well enough that I could have sketched it. Have you tried often, or I guess practiced?

Edit: I tried some of the things this person described. They took a Better Living Through Chemistry approach that I didn't want to try though, so I skipped all drugs/chemicals/teas:

https://old.reddit.com/r/CureAphantasia/comments/vrih14/how_...
by rgblambda | 2025-10-02 23:17:42+00:00
Apologies, I thought you were referring to the Taliban.I've had previous conversations with people who had that misunderstanding.

Bin Laden claimed that neither he nor his specific group of Arab foreign fighters (which became the genesis of Al Qaeda) received funding from the US. Though the reality was that the US funded proxies which funded the Afghan Mujahedeen, so it's possible he may have indirectly benefited. Bin Laden was independently wealthy and largely self funded his group though.
by Dig1t | 2025-10-02 23:17:45+00:00
Shri Thanedar, a Democrat senator, said outright that Democrats are intentionally causing this shutdown.

https://x.com/ShriThanedar/status/1973393877122818079

Using taxpayer money to pay for healthcare for illegal immigrants is also a self-destructive act. China isn’t funding healthcare for illegal immigrants either, for good reason.
by chatmasta | 2025-10-02 23:19:38+00:00
AI Commentary seems fun, especially when you can choose different personalities, biases, etc.

It’ll be a while before it can replace a true play-by-play announcer, but with seven second TV delay it’s maybe close to feasible.

The Finals is a video game with AI voiceover for its commentary, and it’s pretty engaging. I’d expect to see this in FIFA soon if it isn’t there already.
Show HN: Running QR codes for YouTube audio (share moments with a scan)
by loopology | 2025-10-02 23:19:40+00:00
I made a Python script (with considerate help from AI) that takes an audio file and turns it into a video with continuously updating QR codes.

Each QR code points to the current time in the audio. The idea is: if you upload the audio as a video to YouTube, anyone can pause, scan the on-screen QR code, and jump straight to that exact moment.

Use case: podcasts, lectures, music jam sessions, or any long-form audio where you want to bookmark/share precise moments without scrubbing.

How it works: - Generates QR codes like https://tinyurl.com/arp20130725?t=565 - Muxes them with the audio into an MP4 using ffmpeg - Optionally writes a `.srt` file with matching timestamps - You set up the short URL (e.g., with TinyURL) to redirect to your YouTube upload

Code and README here: https://github.com/bwagner/self_ref_yt_vid

Much of the code was generated with AI and adjusted for my needs.
by protocolture | 2025-10-02 23:20:13+00:00
>Everyone claiming Israel is the worst of the worst - just put yourselves in their shoes, and imagine for a moment that your friend/your husband/wife/baby/kids are still kept hostage by brutal people. Hostage. Not prisoner because they had done something. Hostage - grabbed in the night while sleeping or whatever.

Ok, so I have systematically erased a people, and colonised their land in full view of the worlds media. I built my community right up against the wall of their open air prison while ignoring their rights and supporting a blockade of their country. Heck, the foundations of their original homes are probably still somewhat visible in my back yard.

They fought back and took hostages and am sad now HOW DID THIS HAPPEN TO ME!!!!! I could have stayed in Europe and not built my house on land that people in the adjacent prison have a reaffirmed right to return to.

Pretending that zionist colonists are civilians instead of a militia is crazy. Talk about human shields. Building a farm on land cleared of palestinians less than 50 years ago, right next to where those palestinians are imprisoned, is the biggest case of FAFO you could possibly imagine.

Is it bad to kill unarmed people and take them hostage? Yes. Can I empathise with a single person living next to the imprisoned refugees whose land they occupy? Never.
by TheCycoONE | 2025-10-02 23:20:23+00:00
Sure that's an option, most distros continue to include every lua version back to at least 5.1; and since luaJIT stayed there a lot of the rest of the community did too.

I guess I'm not sure what advantage lua has in that regard: you could stick to an old version of any language, including node, which was called out as being hard to keep up with.
by jorvi | 2025-10-02 23:21:08+00:00
> Before Thuisbezorgd, it was mostly just pizza that got delivered. Maybe also other Italian food, and maybe a little bit of Asian.

> But the standard Dutch takeaway food has always been Chinese (Dutch Chinese-Indonesian, actually),

Well, those and things like spareribs, burgers, kapsalon, etc., which makes it a rather broad spectrum of takeaways that already had delivery.

In case you didn't know, Takeaway = Thuisbezorgd (or rather, the other way around). And in the 2010s, Thuisbezorgd and Just Eat had a pretty active fight for marketshare, until they decided the most profitable course of action was for Just Eat to operate in the countries where it held a majority marketshare, and Takeaway to do likewise, creating regional monopolies. Later on they merged, which any sane regulatory agency would have blocked.

What is interesting is that UberEats hasn't tried to compete on price at all. They charge similar, semi-extortionate prices. They just offer delivery from more and more upscale places.
by hamdingers | 2025-10-02 23:21:48+00:00
> You get nearly endless chances to fail at work...

One of the more refreshing things to me about the working world is how failure actually has consequences. If you have a habit of bungling projects, disrupting coworkers, or otherwise engaging in antisocial behavior, I probably won't have to work with you for long.

I'm sure it's different elsewhere, but in the US you are never expelled (fired) from grade school simply for failing. Not only that, you can intentionally disrupt the education of those around you and effectively nothing will happen, and one poorly behaved student can derail an entire semester. Nothing short of repeated violence or actual crime is cause for dismissal in school.
by watersb | 2025-10-02 23:22:18+00:00
> they're bringing people down. It was that way in the USSR, and it's that way here.

This claim about the USSR seems strange to me.

In high school, I had a couple of classmates from the USSR and they had been attending advanced schools since childhood. They were brilliant mathematicians. The state-sponsored educational system had recognized their talents and lifted them up.

I understood the collapse of the Soviet Union to be a net loss for educational funding, but I am by no means sure of this.
by chermi | 2025-10-02 23:22:21+00:00
Do we actually know how they're degrading? Are there still Pascals out there? If not, is it because they actual broke or because of poor performance? I understand it's tempting to say near 100% workload for multiple years = fast degradation, but what are the actual stats? Are you talking specifically about the actual compute chip or the whole compute system -- I know there's a big difference now with the systems Nvidia is selling. How long do typical Intel/AMD CPU server chips last? My impression is a long time.

If we're talking about the whole compute system like a gb200, is there a particular component that breaks first? How hard are they to refurbish, if that particular component breaks? I'm guessing they didn't have repairability in mind, but I also know these "chips" are much more than chips now so there's probably some modularity if it's not the chip itself failing.
by nndan | 2025-10-02 23:22:40+00:00
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by stavros | 2025-10-02 23:22:52+00:00
Why does this article not mention what solveit is at all? It talks about what they did, then that they made this tool, then that it's great, but what is it? Watch this video!

No, give me a sentence or two about what it does. I'm not watching a video about a tool while reading a blog post about it because you couldn't be bothered to write a line or two about it.
by heldrida | 2025-10-02 23:23:25+00:00
1) "I even created detailed plans for easy to build features that users requested" 2) "I know exactly what to build and how to build it"

You seem to have a nice specification of what you want to build and how. Unfortunately, you feel burned out. Thus, one option is to try to leverage LLM by feeding your well-defined specifications and then revising them.

I believe this can help you make progress.
by ChuckMcM | 2025-10-02 23:23:42+00:00
In a different comment, I had mentioned the story of salvaging a Roman trade galleon and how one of the divers had made off with the lead keel weights (which turn out to be valuable because they don't have radiation in them) and while I have not been able to find an online link to that story, this one came across and it is of a similar vein. Pre-atomic age raw materials without the Cesium signature are "valuable."
by leptons | 2025-10-02 23:24:16+00:00
> And no, it's not just one party that does this

There's some very heavy lifting you have to do to make the parties look at all close. If the Democrats had a supermajority for long enough, you would see some real change for the better, because we can actually protest Democrats to get them to do things, while the Republicans will just silence any dissent using US military against its citizens. Unfortunately a Democratic supermajority is unlikely to ever happen again the way things are going now. And this is 100% because how people voted, or didn't vote at all.
A better GPT resume builder for job seekers
by cvnomist | 2025-10-02 23:24:19+00:00
I’ve been testing different “GPT resume builder” tools and most of them have the same issues:

They generate generic resumes that sound obviously AI-written

They miss the actual job description keywords that ATS filters for

Recruiters can spot them a mile away

What worked better for me is CVnomist. Instead of rewriting your resume into some fluffy template, it takes your base CV and the job posting, then matches the two. The result is still your resume, just tailored to the role in seconds — and it doesn’t hallucinate skills you don’t have.

If you’ve been searching for a GPT resume builder that doesn’t overdo the “AI voice,” this might be worth checking out.

Link: cvnomist.com
by lern_too_spel | 2025-10-02 23:24:31+00:00
> There Palestinians simply preferred hamas and terrorism over the PLO.... They need to commit to non violence between themselves before it's possible to commit to non violence with their enemies.

Hamas won 44% of the vote and then, as you noted, they murdered their political opposition. For this, everybody in Gaza should suffer both under a terrorist group running their lives and Israel bombing them?
by alickz | 2025-10-02 23:25:07+00:00
I have also had some success with this method

I asked ChatGPT to analyze its weaknesses and give me a pre-prompt to best help mitigate them and it gave me this: https://pastebin.com/raw/yU87FCKp

I've found it very useful to avoid sycophancy and increase skepticism / precision in the replies it gives me
by xdennis | 2025-10-02 23:25:59+00:00
The only reason more Israelis haven't died is because Israel builds bunkers and iron dome rockets to protect its civilians. Hamas builds tunnels to protect its rockets and hides among civilians.

You can't compare the death of people who are willing to release 1027 terrorists to get back just one solider to the death of people who are taught from kindergarten to kill and die for Allah. [1] Nobody criticizes Britain because it killed more Nazi civilians that the Nazis killed British civilians. Back then we understood that war is between good and evil, and we didn't take the side of evil.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DMCqrgaNR0
by nemo | 2025-10-02 23:26:00+00:00
If you've learned even a little about the history of Rome then you'll quickly bump into SPQR, Mary Beard's recent popular, and very good book on the Romans it titled "SPQR", in the city of Rome you'll see SPQR used all over, in films when Romans are depicted, SPQR is always there. While not everyone will have a background where it's familiar, it's also not at all obscure. If you're not familiar with the Romans you won't know, but lots of people like to learn about the ancient past since it's really interesting to some types.
by aappleby | 2025-10-02 23:26:07+00:00
You certainly don't have to believe me, but that's what happened according to my mother. My mother was busy with my twin sister and didn't have time to read to me, so I would take all the Berenstain Bears books and sit down on the couch and try to sound them out. After a few weeks of that I told my mother that I didn't need her help because I could read now. She didn't believe me and had me read some other children's books - turns out I could.
by Telaneo | 2025-10-02 23:27:34+00:00
> it seems at least in the same ballpark (ha, ha) as claiming that professional sports players use lots and lots of complicated trigonometry.

It's maths in the same way as when your brain hears a note at 440 hz and you go 'that's a C', i.e. while it may be practiced, the maths part of that is subconscious and its completely detached from the conscious maths anybody except mathematicians think about.
by presentation | 2025-10-02 23:28:21+00:00
Rightists are scared of energy sources beyond coal and oil; leftists are scared of information technology that could replace human workers; homeowners are scared to make any physical changes to their neighborhoods and cities because it would "change the neighborhood character"; legislators are scared/incapable of making any fundamental changes to governance because it would be difficult, and can't agree on anything; the president and the average American are scared of anyone and any ideas that don't come from within the country's borders; and for anyone who isn't scared, the cost of enacting change will be a realization that everyone who has skills have either retired or abandoned their trades to become software engineers optimizing ad revenue; and that the young are no longer interested in taking on these challenges because they're doomscrolling TikTok all day; and if they proceed, they will be mired in lawsuits for decades by naysayers; and the financial costs will be 10x the true value paid anywhere else in the world.
by orwin | 2025-10-02 23:28:26+00:00
In my country, you just can't build or sell houses in flood zone. What happened nearby (20km away from my house) is a mayor, who was also a developer, decided that an area 4-5m above sea level (with high tide at +3.5m with coefficient 70 I think, so +6m at 120) was "protected" by the new 3m tall dike/embankment (not sure about which word to use in english).

Scientists and experts told it wasn't enough, he built houses anyway, i think the oldest house lasted ten year and the most recent five until a tempest came, with a high tide. 3m of water in the area (that couldn't go out because of the dike), houses were fully automated so people couldn't pass through the electric roller shutters to leave there home and go on the roof, and i think half the people died. The mayor was still reelected.
by bigyabai | 2025-10-02 23:29:27+00:00
> And why is there never any posted articles with criticism of Hamas?

There definitely is; discussion of the Yemen conflict has been constant on HN. The Israeli criticism of Hamas gets much less coverage because it's less globally important. The consequence of one side or the other "losing" has very little bearing on global affairs.

Many of the Israeli articles criticizing Hamas lack impartial corroboration, largely as a consequence of the urban warfare campaign: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_...
by jvolkman | 2025-10-02 23:29:41+00:00
I don't think Google was ever going to be the first to productize an LLM. LLMs say stupid shit - especially in the early days - and would've just attracted even more bad press if Google had been the front runner. OpenAI came along as a small, move-fast-and-break-things entity and introduced this tech to the public, and Google (and others) was able to join the fray after that seal was broken.
by Fwirt | 2025-10-02 23:29:44+00:00
Having owned at least 3 such devices, I have to disagree. It "works", but desktop apps expect desktop interactions, and touchscreen functionality feels cobbled together at best. There are a handful of apps developed specifically for touchscreen PCs that work well, everything else is a toss-up. On the other hand, apps developed for a tablet OS support touch as a first class interaction, and have OS support for hardware keyboard and (usually) mouse input if you so choose. Not to mention that the vast majority of combo machines I have used are too heavy to use as a tablet for any reasonable amount of time, or have an incredibly clunky transition method. I have yet to see a platform where touch and mouse can both coexist as first-class input methods. Even the cognitive load of transitioning is an irritation.