MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-03 19:07:01+00:00
> neither party’s candidate can dare be “anti” israel

Plenty do. They lost their primaries because most Americans don't want to be lectured on foreign policy while their grocery bills are going up.

Most Americans won't rank any foreign policy as a top-10 issue. Out of those that do, until very recently, most of them were passionately anti-China or Russia, pro-Israel or anti-Cuba. So those become electorally-salient divides.

You're now seeing, in Democratic politics, the winds sort of change. Hence less explicit pro-Israeli rhetoric from some electeds. But that still doesn't mean the median American voter cares about a war in Gaza more than they do their personal finances.
by Matthias247 | 2025-10-03 19:07:56+00:00
Some other material that has been written by me on that topic:

- Proposal from 2020 about async functions which are forced to run to completion (and thereby would use graceful cancellation if necessary). Quite old, but I still feel that no better idea has come up so far. https://github.com/Matthias247/rfcs/pull/1

- Proposal for unified cancellation between sync and async Rust ("A case for CancellationTokens" - https://gist.github.com/Matthias247/354941ebcc4d2270d07ff0c6...)

- Exploration of an implementation of the above: https://github.com/Matthias247/min_cancel_token
by archdang | 2025-10-03 19:08:44+00:00
You move goalposts and mire yourself in falsehood.

Point 1 empirically wrong. Of course more food was provided after guns went silent.

Point 2 you sound like you agree with me and disagree with your original post.

Point 3. Reveals you as a propagandist.I've demanded that Hamas releases the hostage. From your rather uninformed framing it's clear you think there's a war on all of Gaza and not just Hamas. You just read an article on how Israel engineered a famine, correct? This reveals quite a lot about your relationship to truth and human suffering.
by fkyoureadthedoc | 2025-10-03 19:09:15+00:00
So you know how to do it. You had no trouble figuring it out. It just doesn't work exactly how you want it to.

> I'm upset that I have to change my existing wallpaper from the existing wallpaper rather than from the Photos app

This would have been much more accurate than trying to portray it as complex and broken. Bad UX isn't when something doesn't work exactly the way you personally think it should. Overall, it's fine. People just fucking love to complain.
by awesome_dude | 2025-10-03 19:09:39+00:00
The biggest problem research has is that its almost never clear what the result will be to the bottom line.

People complain bitterly about two things with research

1. That it's looking at obvious things and they could have told the answer (What's really happened is some researcher has actually looked into some common school of thought to check its reliability)

2. That there's no "use" for the thing be researched (it's absurd). This type of research is really "document phenomena, try to understand it" the use of that phenomena is often not clear for decades, or centuries (our cryptographic systems currently rely on research into math that was once considered absolutely worthless)
by tavavex | 2025-10-03 19:09:39+00:00
This blog is written by an anarchist - a member of a group that's infamously opposed to both things you mention as bad.

Would you mind providing a more specific critique of what they're arguing? So far, all you've said just comes off as ideological reflexes. I don't even need to caricature you to say that your post is just "My thing is always good, and the only good. Any other thing is bad." with no further argumentation.
by Jcowell | 2025-10-03 19:09:39+00:00
> Let's say Google release a new phone that is significantly cheaper and/or smarter than an Apple one. nobody would stick to apple.

This is not at all how the consumer phone market works. Price and “smarts” are not only factor that goes into phone decisions. There are ecosystem factors & messaging networks that add significant friction to switching. The deeper you are into one system the harder it is to switch.
by dkarl | 2025-10-03 19:10:01+00:00
Eh... if you're fat, and your friends call you fat, they mean it. You're fat.

They just don't mean for it to hurt, and that's the wholesome part. Every time they call you fat, they're showing you that it's okay with them that you're fat.

If you're fat, and your friends tell you you're not fat, then to me that implies that the truth is too awful to say, but for your sake they'll pretend you're a different person. Which to me seems like it really underscores that it's not actually okay to be the way you are.
by camreon | 2025-10-03 19:11:01+00:00
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At my last job I led a team and helped build a Windows desktop app that pulled data from native node modules and added overlays to games. I used Electron, Node, Typescript, React, and Redux to build it, AWS for CI/deployments, and finally TrackJS and Sentry for logging/monitoring. I also started learning Rust from working with other engineers on the native node modules.
by lvl155 | 2025-10-03 19:11:23+00:00
It has everything to do with it considering where things are with current admin. Also why do you think people are sacrificing so much to study in the US? It’s mostly funded. They even get stipends. We are basically paying them to get their degrees here. But you seem to think that they’re doing us a huge favor. What an odd way to think about it.
by vessenes | 2025-10-03 19:11:26+00:00
> expand brief please

OK!

Longcat-flash-thinking is not super popular right now; it doesn't appear on the top 20 at open router. I haven't used it, but the market seems to like it a lot less than grok, anthropic or even oAI's open model, oss-20b. Like I said I haven't tried it.

And to your point, once models are released open, they will be used in DPO post-training / fine-tuning scenarios, guaranteed, so it's hard to tell who's ahead by looking at an older open model vs a newer one.

Where are the wins coming from? It seems to me like there's a race to get efficient good-enough stuff in traditional form factors out the door; emphasis on efficiency. For the big companies it's likely maxing inference margins and speeding up response. For last year's Chinese companies it was dealing with being compute poor - similar drivers though. If you look at DeepSeek's released stuff, there were some architectural innovations, thinking mode, and a lottt of engineering improvements, all of which moved the needle.

On treadmills: I posit the oAI team is one of the top 4 AI teams in the world, and it has the best fundraiser and lowest cost of capital. My oAI bull story is this: if capital dries up, it will dry up everywhere, or at the least it will dry up last for a great fundraiser. In that world, pausing might make sense, and if so, they will be able to increase their cash from operations faster than any other company. While a productive research race is on, I agree they shouldn't pause. So far they haven't had to make any truly hard decisions though -- each successive model has been profitable and Sam has been successful scaling up their training budget geometrically -- at some point the questions about operating cashflow being deployed back to R&D and at what pace are going to be challenging. But that day is not right now.
by mandevil | 2025-10-03 19:11:41+00:00
The consistent emphasis on the value of speed and mobility over the other parts of the combat triangle (mobility-firepower-survivability)- to the detriment of them as weapons systems- is a sign that there was a coherent influence and direction being put on those programs, to their detriment, by the SecDef's office.

Basically, Rummie's approach was to emphasize speed and mobility over all other aspects of fighting, and it created ships with high speed and little sustainability or effective mission packages (LCS) and ground vehicles which were hideously expensive and way too vulnerable (EFV, FCS). Some things that happened under him (like the F-22 line being closed permanently) were more due to Congress' than him, but those programs were closely associated with him and his office at the time, and were gigantic CF's that, in the best case, ended without a single production unit ever reaching service.

I say this as someone who worked in Army procurement doing FCS things. In my opinion as someone who was there, it was Rumsfeld's baby, and it was such a disaster both Presidential candidates in 2008 promised to kill it. And it deserved that killing.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-03 19:12:08+00:00
> they didn't come through via tunnels? They used bulldozers and hang-gliders to go above ground

And the 9/11 terrorists used planes.

Unless there were literally zero unusual bulldozer and hang-glider citings ever made in Gaza, it shouldn't take that much imagination to see how the three thousandth one gets put to the side.
by craftkiller | 2025-10-03 19:12:20+00:00
Hah, I ran into the same issue on Linux. I forgot that I only install a couple fonts on my machines (noto, cascadia, and adobe-source-*) so I was also looking at them thinking "Why are these all the same? Even hand-written looks like a normal typed font". Thanks for the suggestion to go to the github for the screenshots: https://github.com/system-fonts/modern-font-stacks
by angoragoats | 2025-10-03 19:12:35+00:00
I do get what you're saying, but at the risk of being overly pedantic, this doesn't really make sense as written.

Usually "wealth redistribution" implies actual money or other liquid or semi-liquid assets being transferred from one group to another, and the kids in the community aren't receiving any of the money being put into school taxes.

I suppose one could argue that school taxes are wealth redistribution from the community to the _teachers and staff_. As someone who counts quite a few teachers among my friends and family, I wholeheartedly support this redistribution of wealth.
by gouggoug | 2025-10-03 19:12:41+00:00
> but would fail hard if you intend to support multiple release versions of an app, which happens often in the embedded world with multiple hardware targets, or self-hosted, large enterprise apps that require qualification sign-offs.

I don't have experience in this world, indeed.

But isn't "multiple release versions of an app" just "one application, with multiple different configurations"? The application code is the same (same version), the configuration (which is external to the application) is different.

Your build system takes your application code and the configuration as input, and outputs artifacts for that specific combination of inputs.
by reducesuffering | 2025-10-03 19:13:29+00:00
Bernanke's opposing views on the Great Depression??

"Let me end my talk by abusing slightly my status as an official representative of the Federal Reserve. I would like to say to Milton and Anna: Regarding the Great Depression. You're right, we did it. We're very sorry. But thanks to you, we won't do it again." - Bernanke

https://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/2002/20021...
by HaZeust | 2025-10-03 19:13:33+00:00
>"and have never once needed a phone. You can print the timed entry codes (which I often do because of lack of cell service in some)."

I mean OK, fair enough; it's not NEEDED to have a phone. But short of printing out, they heavily incentivize timed entry codes being shared by phone; either by screenshot or sharing your phone for the code.

When we do group visits to Estes Park from here in Denver, all members of the group use a phone.
by smallmancontrov | 2025-10-03 19:13:37+00:00
Academia didn't make it financially impossible to have kids. Just what control do you think academia has over the market? Over the government?

"Raise house prices now or I'll send you to the principal's office!"

The gays didn't send house prices to the moon. Mexicans didn't send the jobs to China. No, it's the people with assets who pursued asset-pumping policy to great effect. You're right to be angry, but you're a fool to believe them when they point at universities as the source of the problem.
by duxup | 2025-10-03 19:13:49+00:00
>Some of the most sweeping commitments are aimed at promoting conservative viewpoints. Universities would have to ensure their campuses are a “vibrant marketplace of ideas” where no single ideology is dominant, the compact said. They would have to evaluate views among students and faculty to ensure every department reflects a diverse mix of views.

Thought police.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-asks-9-colleges-...
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-03 19:14:20+00:00
> If you gave the jewish resistance in Nazi Germany the same deal, would you be just as suprised if they continued to fight for total freedom?

Yes?

Just so I understand the hypothetical, the Jewish resistance in Nazi Germany (not really a singular thing, but I'll read this as the French Resistance and ghetto leaders) are offered amnesty, i.e. an end to the Holocaust, in exchange for literally anything? Why wouldn't they take it? It's literally a choice between life and death.

And again, it gives time for regrouping, clear thinking, rallying support. Turning it down seems to scream that the offer, in this hypothetical an end to the Holocaust, in our timeline a ceasefire, isn't actually that important. At that point, both sides are choosing to fight. European Jews didn't choose the Holocaust. I don't think Palestinians are choosing this war, but if they turned down a peace deal, they by definition are.
by penultimatename | 2025-10-03 19:14:35+00:00
That same justification can be applied to block web browsers, any social media platform, and any navigation app that allows user alert inputs.

The entire thing reeks of the same Biden-era pressures on companies that had pandemic misinformation that Republicans were so vehemently opposed to. Somehow harming law enforcement is a better justification than harming random citizens.
by AstroBen | 2025-10-03 19:14:52+00:00
Here's what I know:

- Ed has no insider information on the accounting or strategy of these AI companies and primarily reacts to public rumors and/or public announcements. He has no education in the field or any special credentials relating to it

- The people with full information are intelligent, and are continually pouring a shit-tonne of money into it at huge valuations

To agree with his arguments you have to explain how the people investing are being fooled.. which is never brought up
by MattRogish | 2025-10-03 19:15:29+00:00
What strikes me immediately are the vibrant colors of the houses.

Walk through most any suburban American neighborhood and you'll primarily see neutral shades of white, gray, beige, or the occasional muted blues and greens. Sometimes someone will be daring and paint their house in a deep, dark blue or purple (or even black) but that feels relatively rare.

If near the ocean, typical "seaside pastels" come into view.

What's the backstory to the Faroes' colors? Are they set by some local entity/government? Left up to the homeowners? Was there a push to make them colorful? Do the locals have a particular eye for color composition? Did someone help them?

Why are American homes so bland and the Faroes' so delightfully colorful?

So many questions!
Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?
by commodorepet | 2025-10-03 19:15:37+00:00
It was pretty cool to see that many one-person SaaS survived test of time and actually turned into bigger companies. Let's bring it back for 2025.

Editions:

2019 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19701783

2016 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11924009
by guax | 2025-10-03 19:15:47+00:00
While I was there I did some search around and it seems that the wind, weather and soil is just part of it. The largest reason is sheep. They'll eat any tree before it has any chance of growing. So you get naturally sparse growth already, add the sheep, you get grass everywhere. Which makes everywhere very walkable and surreal at the same time. Plenty of trees on cities and gardens.
by AnthonyMasiello | 2025-10-03 19:15:53+00:00
Really eye-opening post. It’s wild to think how much we rely on the internet for everyday stuff—news, school, even just shopping or finding hobbies. When it’s taken away, people lose access to so many little things we often take for granted.

I was actually reading up on bifocal sunglasses the other day and it hit me how even simple lifestyle resources like that wouldn’t be reachable during a shutdown. Posts like this are a good reminder of how important open access really is.
by cal_dent | 2025-10-03 19:16:45+00:00
No one is obligated to like anything because someone else likes it. It doesn't work for you, it's a big whole world out there and this is just one of may subjective representations of it.

On the point about punctuation, you just infer where they should be. It takes some getting used to but once you're in the rhythm and cadence of the style (& era Cormac writes about) you kinda don't notice it and pause at the natural places.

Anyway I like his stuff. Not all of it but plenty of it. One of my more favourable lines from him (Blood Meridian I think): "All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage"
by theli0nheart | 2025-10-03 19:16:53+00:00
What's different is the available leverage.

It's fairly trivial to write code that can autogenerate hundreds or even thousands of AI-generated videos using Veo 3 with individual characters to push any narrative you'd like and push to Instagram or TikTok.

That's way scarier to me than a newspaper having a bias, or someone with an audience publishing a controversial blog post.
by onejgordon | 2025-10-03 19:17:01+00:00
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We are looking for:

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Ask HN: What happens to founders after their startup fails or fizzles?
by pkdpic | 2025-10-03 19:17:03+00:00
I've been curious about this but not sure how to ask the startup founders I know since they're generally so busy and I don't wana be a downer.

But just wondering if this ruins you financially or what happens if you're paying a mortgage / have a family etc? I really have no idea.

Thankfully not even asking for a friend, just curious.
by surgical_fire | 2025-10-03 19:17:03+00:00
This is always a bad take.

The dotcom bubble was not about "the internet" itself. The Internet was fine and pretty much already proven as a very useful communication tool. It was about business that made absolutely no sense getting extremely high valuations just because they operated - however vaguely - over the internet.

Generative AI have never reached the level of usability of the Internet itself, and likely never will.
by mrWiz | 2025-10-03 19:17:38+00:00
Right now I'm using a grandfathered-in free Google Workspace account to send/receive email from a custom domain. I'd like to transfer my email to another provider (Zoho, maybe?) to avoid getting rug-pulled by Google down the road. I'm assuming that if I transfer my email and domain (via IMAP, probably) I'll need to make new Google account for non-email related things (Docs, Drive, Youtube, etc). Does anyone know if this assumption is valid?
by kergonath | 2025-10-03 19:17:45+00:00
Matter is not continuous and yet we don’t need atoms to predict how a metal sheet will bend. There are a lot of sound theories about how to deal with discontinuity, and how the problem solves itself when numbers get large enough.

Or think of it like weather and climate: we cannot predict that there will be a thunderstorm on a given day 2 months from now, but we can be fairly confident that in x years, the average global temperature will be y±z°C. Because when you aggregate enough events, statistical effects become dominant.

"But reality is not linear" is not really a gotcha.
by vessenes | 2025-10-03 19:17:48+00:00
I think one answer is that they'll have moved farther up the chain; agent training is this year, agent-managing-agents training is next year. The bottom of the chain inference could be Qwen or whatever for certain tasks, but you're going to have a hard and delayed time getting the open models to manage this stuff.

Futures like that are why Anthropic and oAI put out stats like how long the agents can code unattended. The dream is "infinite time".
by angoragoats | 2025-10-03 19:18:03+00:00
Fair enough.

However, you said: "If the app in question is being used by some to commit targeted violence, ..."

Was this a pure hypothetical? If so, I don't think it needs to be addressed until it actually becomes a real problem. Apple itself ships an app that alerts me when a police officer is nearby (Maps), but I haven't heard about any police being targeted with violence because of that.

If it was not a pure hypothetical, I'd be interested to see a link, as I'm not aware of any violence committed due to the existence of ICE-tracking apps. To my previous point though, I am aware of private citizens committing violence against the same groups that ICE targets with kidnapping and trafficking.
by Zak | 2025-10-03 19:18:07+00:00
The question was "What purpose outside abetting in avoiding a DUI is there for publishing a live map of DUI checkpoints?".

As a technical point, being an undocumented immigrant is still not a crime in the USA though it can result in law enforcement actions with impact as severe as criminal penalties. Expired registration or insurance is a civil infraction rather than a crime in some jurisdictions.

Edit: I should clarify why it matters that some of these are civil infractions rather than crimes. Navigation apps that Apple allows, including Apple's own maps app informs users about police and speed cameras, which helps people violate the speed limit without being punished. There doesn't seem to be a coherent principle at work here though.