MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by colechristensen | 2025-10-03 00:41:05+00:00
>It feels like the idealism of some on the left is failing to understand the prisoner's dilemma, and so they just keep losing.

The "idealism" of the left is increasingly just bigotry. There is a small set of people and problems they like and a large set they dislike or are simply disinterested in. This becomes indistinguishable from fascists who seek racial superiority for a particular group. It's not there yet but it's certainly going in a direction.

The left hates the south, hates poor white people, hates rural people, hates men. The left is comfortable with open expression of this hatred. The left has a severe sense of "we know better than you" superiority and confusion as to why folks "vote against their own self interest".

The left forgot that they made most of their societal progress by slowly normalizing things instead of loudly shoving changes in people's faces. The left wants to fight a culture war and when they win something they look for more things to be angry about accelerating divisiveness instead of slowing it down.

The left doesn't want everyone to just be people, they've grown increasingly obsessed with categorizing people and then demanding performative celebration of new categories, you can't just be a person you've got to have a collection of adjectives.

The active left are mostly bored people who want to fight for other people's problems and feel inadequate letting those people do it for themselves.

The bigotry and divisiveness of both active sides of the political spectrum are becoming indistinguishable, the silent majority is leaderless. There is no one standing up rejecting both extremes arguing for sanity, rationality, and fairness.

Liberté, égalité, fraternité should be the goals we're fighting for

In the Weimar Republic there was the Iron Front with this flag with three arrows representing opposition to monarchy, fascism, and communism and what we need is some modern version of this opposed to the divisiveness, authoritarianism, and rejection of reason common across the political spectrum of America. We need the center to unite and reject both poles and return to a sense of individual thought and decision-making in our leaders instead of one thought per party.
by zahlman | 2025-10-03 00:41:27+00:00
> Here are the top packages that still depend on six:

Curious. `python-dateutil`'s dependency appears to be unconditional, but it also gets more downloads than `six` does. It's as if there are CI systems out there that can cache `six`, but not `python-dateutil`.

I also have to wonder who the holdouts are who demanded an update to `python-dateutil` in 2024 (as well as one in 2021) that still supports 2.7, and who can't be satisfied with the pre-sunset versions.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-10-03 00:41:30+00:00
The Red Cross sets a floor of 1500 calories within the USA, lower than the floor Israel sets for Gaza. Does the Red Cross starve American's/use food as a weapon?

https://emergency.lacity.gov/sites/g/files/wph1791/files/202...

The UN itself has cut food distribution/caloric intake in Kenya (in need in huge part because of war refugees from Sudan) in half, is the UN using food as a weapon? The UN is saying it wants to provide aid at a much higher level to the people of Gaza than it provides to the people in Kenya.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-03 00:41:49+00:00
> relationship between Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu and between Israel and America military matters more than public opinion

The relationship is absolutely guided by public opinion. If Israeli support among registered Republicans starts hitting 50%, Trump is constrained.

It's currently 64% net sympathy for Israel and 9% for Palestine among Republicans. 55% of Trump voters say "Israel should continue its military campaign until Hamas is fully eliminated, even if it means the civilian casualties in Gaza might continue," while only 29% say "Israel should stop its military campaign in order to protect against civilian casualties, even if Hamas has not been fully eliminated" [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/02/polls/times-s...
by etlun | 2025-10-03 00:42:10+00:00
Hi, I'm Etienne, one of the cofounders @ ZeroPath.

We do not use traditional static analyzers; our engine was built from the ground up to use LLMs as a primitive. The issues ZeroPath identified in Joshua's post were indeed surfaced and triaged by AI.

If you're interested in how it works under the hood, some of the techniques are outlined here: https://zeropath.com/blog/how-zeropath-works
by TimorousBestie | 2025-10-03 00:43:29+00:00
> From a very particular pool of sources. Jewish sources like Jewish Chronicle, ADL and JVL are largely banned, as well as most of the major conservative news sources.

This is a misunderstanding of Wikipedia policy. In particular the ADL is still considered a reliable source outside of a few narrow circumstances.

Unreliable sources may still be cited as a reliable source of the source’s author’s opinion of a matter. So they are not, in any real sense, “banned.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources

> Meanwhile Al Jazeera has the highest status, and is the top source for most articles in the topic area. . .

This is incorrect. Wikipedia’s list of perennial sources contains the following disclaimer:

> Al Jazeera is a Qatari state-funded news organization and in the 2024 RfC there was consensus that it is generally reliable. Most editors seem to agree that Al Jazeera English and especially Al Jazeera Arabic are biased sources on the Arab–Israeli conflict and on topics for which the Qatari government has a conflict of interest.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/P...
by ares623 | 2025-10-03 00:43:40+00:00
Apologies for the snark.

I don't think they can stop the 3 things you mentioned though.

- Stopping R&D means their top engineers and scientists will go elsewhere

- Stopping marketing means they will slowly lose market share. I don't care for marketing personally but I can appreciate its importance in a corporation

- Stopping/reducing compensation will also make them lose people

The costs are an inherent part of the company. It can't exist without it. Sure, they can adjust some levers a little bit here and there, but not too much or it all comes crumbling down.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-03 00:44:01+00:00
> They were wrong, just as the people of Israel would be wrong.

They may be. Maybe India and Pakistan could peacefully reünify, too. I'm doubtful. But that matters less than the people there being very much more doubtful.

> No war was fought over the end of Jim Crow

Sorry, fair enough. Ending Jim Crow wasn't a credible threat to the South at that time. The war had already been fought.

> At the moment, probably. That can change

Sure. But sentiment has to shift before one can peacefully move borders.

> Those Knesset members are not asking western intervention to end their ethnostate

I've lost your argument. (Also, ethnostate and nation-state are practically synonymous.)
by GreyZephyr | 2025-10-03 00:44:19+00:00
Do you have any resources for your sql workflow in emacs? I use eMacs for everything else, but keep going back to dbeaver whenever I write SQL or interact with PostgreSQL. All the tutorials I’ve turned up seem to be doing simple things with small tables, rather than a more complex workflow. I’m sure there are ways to use emacs effectively for SQL but I just can’t find out how.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-10-03 00:44:48+00:00
> Where is the "good explanation"?

It was in the comment four up from my first one in this thread.

> No, he made a diagnosis - neither party appear to be in a position to do so.

(They also gave other explanations elsewhere in the thread but that is what I was referring to because it is enough for a reader to understand the point and you actually replied to it.)

Their point is that the other commenter should not have written "The dude isn't autistic" because that is a negative diagnosis rather than an agnostic statement.

> So it's more like his refusal to understand everyone else's point.

Others were failing to make substantive points against the commenter in question because their point was going misunderstood. It took a few back-and-forths to get to the actual point (in fairness, that's because of the vagueness in their initial comment) but that point is consistent with what they've written in this thread.

> 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.)
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by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-03 00:46:06+00:00
>Productive how and for who?

For me, quality is the biggest metric, not money. But time does play into the metric of quality.

The sad reality is that many use it as a shortcut to output slop. Which may be "productive" in a job where that busywork isn't critical for anyone but your paycheck. But those kinds of corners being cut seems anathema to proper engineering or any other mission critical duties.

>their jobs don't actually change the world and thinking of the shareholders only gets you so far.

I'm worried of seeing more cases like a lawyer submitting cases to a judge that never existed. There's ethical concerns about the casual chat apps, but I can leave that to others.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-10-03 00:46:11+00:00
The trouble is that most people can read English effortlessly and are completely unconscious of it's many, many inconsistencies. It's also not that hard for an average child to pick up. Also, i enjoy the sophistication of english because i've mastered it.

One thing that worries me is the widespread adoption of english words and nouns in many languages. The list is ever increasing, even though the word makes absolutely no sense out of the context of English, cannot be adapted by a mon english speaker to have anything more then a single, rigid meaning. It's annoying enough for me when some books use French words. I don't know how everyone else copes.

As for literacy, i find it hard to believe the true statistics are as dire as you say but i'm prepared to accept that it is. Firstly, what are the statistics for contemporary societies with more sensible spellings? And can better education help? A final point, you clearly know far more about this topic then i do, but would adding half a dozen letters to the alphabet really help with increasing literacy?
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-03 00:47:30+00:00
Top comment: "The claim I've heard them make is that the food aid is making it in, but being stolen by Hamas so that it can be resold at markup."

> the relevant thing is that they're being intercepted and not making it to ordinary civilians

Hell of a straw man. People care that the aid is getting to militants. Israel said it was getting to Hamas. That's the justification for limiting aid. If it's not getting to people who are shooting at Israeli troops, then it's not a security risk to provide more aid.
by vayup | 2025-10-03 00:47:40+00:00
Counter argument: When the sole reason for existence for Signal is private/secure messaging, it makes sense to resist opening up to third party development.

That's a big can of worms that invariably will impact their ability to deliver on their main mission - private IM. Eg of problems: Who gets dev access, how do you vet plugins/aps from deceiving users, would users understand the risks, when an app gets compromised how to fight malicious campaign to discourage using Signal etc. etc.
by jgalt212 | 2025-10-03 00:47:58+00:00
Your benchmark may or may not be dumb, but it is definitely widely followed. So much so this is what Bing AI has to say on the matter.

> Absolutely — the “pelican riding a bicycle” SVG test is a quirky but clever benchmark created by Simon Willison to evaluate how well different large language models (LLMs) can generate SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) images from a prompt that’s both unusual and unlikely to be in their training data.
by FpUser | 2025-10-03 00:48:56+00:00
>"Look at how much companies overspend on cloud just to not have to do IT work."

I think they are doing it for a different reasons. Some are legit like renting this supercomputer for a day and some are like everybody else is doing it. I am friends with the small company owner and they have sysadmin who picks nose and does nothing and then they pay a fortune to Amazon
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-03 00:49:08+00:00
>Is it so hard to believe that ChatGPT is actually productive?

Given what I've seen in the educational sector: yes. Very hard. We already had this massive split in extremes between the highly educated and the ones who struggle. The last thing we need is to outsource the aspect of thinking to a billionaire tech company.

The slop you see in the workplace isn't encouraging either.
by jim-jim-jim | 2025-10-03 00:49:48+00:00
The classic ideal of terrorism—an underground cell engaged in asymmetric warfare for concrete political gains—hasn't existed since what, the IRA?

All "terrorism" in the US occurs with varying degrees of foreknowledge and encouragement from its own intelligence community. That's not to say that everything is an "inside job" as much as a strange fungal ecosystem with overlapping responsibilities and incentives has bloomed that no one actor can possibly hope to contain. OKC was probably the system at its most chaotic, while post-9/11 they've seemed to stabilize things into a "groom a loner, catch, repeat" cycle with a few oopsie shooties here and there.

While it doesn't have the best track record preventing civilian deaths, this approach has arguably been very successful at redirecting all the energy that could go into coherent resistance towards nihilistic slaughter. As I alluded to in a recent post, there's no way that a platform like Discord isn't riddled with feds egging some of this shit on.
by defrost | 2025-10-03 00:50:32+00:00
> It's why we flew our bombers in the day

Is a questionable statement, many of the joint US|UK WWII bombings were carried out at night, in the Japanese theatre the Tokyo bombing by the US was carried out at night time as were most (IIRC) of the 71 bombings of other Japanese cities (not including Nagasaki and Hiroshima).

The atomic bombings in Japan were carried out in daylight, accompanied by photography aircraft, with radio calls to proceed based on low cloud cover - the primary objective in the bomb | not bomb on the day decision was visibility to record the effect of the new weapons.
by itopaloglu83 | 2025-10-03 00:50:42+00:00
Bombing civilians wasn’t right when Germans did it and it wasn’t right when it was done to them in retaliation either.

I think in the next millennia, as the objective historians review the last century, they will write that the civilian towns were fire bombed in ww2 to gain military advantage and nobody cared about the innocent, just like how we talk about how Caesar becoming an emperor without getting lost in the daily politics and blindness of the day.

Edit: Added “in ww2” for clarity.
by tguvot | 2025-10-03 00:50:43+00:00
most recent palestinian poll.

When asked whether it supports or opposes the disarmament of Hamas in the Gaza Strip in order to stop the war on the Gaza Strip, an overwhelming majority (85% in the West Bank and 64% in the Gaza Strip) said it is opposed to that; only 18% support it.

When asked whether it supports or opposed the eviction of some Hamas military leaders from the Gaza Strip if that was a condition for stopping the war, 65% said they oppose it and 31% support it. Support for this step stands at 47% in the Gaza Strip and only 20% in the West Bank.
by hajile | 2025-10-03 00:50:52+00:00
Both rely on groups of characters. Both are non-phonetic. Both rely on multiple memorized pronunciations for those character groups based on surrounding character group context. Both preserve symbol shape for reason of historical context.

There are certainly differences, but if you place current English spelling next to something like Shavian (or some other language with near-pure phonetic spelling), I'd say that Modern English learning patterns are closer to Kanji than the pure phonetic alphabets.
by someothherguyy | 2025-10-03 00:51:40+00:00
Table 15 is a survey of state prison inmates, it isn't a sample of the general population. It is just saying that 66% of the surveyed state prison population are reoffenders with "some college". That is not really a representative sample to draw inferences from for this discussion with regard to educated people who have been released from parole.

Also, you have to consider what is the definition of an offense is to be considered as reoffending. Normally, that data includes parole violations as arrests. You can violate your parole engaging in what most people would consider benign behaviors. It is a confounding factor that many people don't even think about when looking at that sort of data.

Additionally, the "some college" stat is cherry picking. Many state prisons offer "some college" to inmates in the form of courses. It is likely inmates in a state prison system for any significant period of time have have taken "some college". That survey states that a good number of inmates took "some college" while in prison (page 7).

Look at college graduates. That document itself states that it is incredibly unlikely for someone with a bachelors degree to even go to prison. 2% of white state prison inmates aged 20-39 have any college degree (almost 3 decades ago in 1997, and crime rates have fallen since then).

Finally, the reimprisonment rate is much lower in the US in general, some 37% over three years, even as low as 19% in Oregon [1]. And that is for all persons, not bucketed by educational attainment.

Some programs claim around 2% - 4% general recidivism rate for inmates they fostered to obtain college degrees [2]. Again, "recidivism" is a large bucket that includes supervised release violations, rearrests for anything (including violations), re-convictions, and re-imprisonments.

I would wager that, if you could find data on it, that the chance of re-conviction for a new offense for someone who has completed parole, a bachelor's degree, and found gainful employment in said career is near-zero.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6743246/

[2] https://www.vera.org/news/back-to-school-a-common-sense-stra...

[3] https://www.ussc.gov/research/research-reports/effects-aging...

[4] https://www.uschamber.com/assets/documents/uscc_business_cas...
by vayup | 2025-10-03 00:51:49+00:00
This is a good time to remind everyone the technically sound choice of hybrid crypto is discouraged by NSA. I wish they didn't. PQ is a major overhaul to crypto systems. Setting aside the risk of yet-to-be-discovered algorithmic vulnerabilities, there is a huge risk of implementation mistakes leading to compromise. Mature classical crypto should be used as a backstop by deploying PQ in hybrid mode along classical crypto.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-03 00:51:59+00:00
>It isn’t a question asked by people generally suspicious of productivity claims.

Why not? If you ever got an AI generated email or had to code-review anything vibecoded, you're going to be suspicious on who's "more productive". I've read reports and studies and it feels like the "more productive" people tend to be pushing more work onto people below or beside them to fix the generated mess.

I do believe there are productive ways to use this tech, but it does not seem like many people these days has the discipline to establish a proper workflow.
by hx8 | 2025-10-03 00:52:12+00:00
One of the side effects of having a chat interface, is that there is no moat around it. Using it is natural.

Changing from Windows to Mac or iOS to Android requires changing the User Interface. All of these chat applications have essentially the same interface. Changing between ChatGPT and Claude is essentially like buying a different flavor of potato chip. There is some brand loyalty and user preference, but there is very little friction.
by aurareturn | 2025-10-03 00:52:40+00:00
You just said that everyone will be able to run a powerful AI locally and then you said this would lead to a pop of the bubble.

Well, which is it? That AI is going to have huge demands for chips that it is going to get much bigger or is the bubble going to pop? You can’t have both.

My opinion is that local LLMs will do a bulk of the low value interference such as your personal life mundane tasks. But cloud AI will be reserved for work and for advanced research purposes.
by jameshilliard | 2025-10-03 00:52:43+00:00
> Naturally the opposing Arab leaders were against a plan that saw a majority population receive less land, a plan that was being put forward by people openly stating it was a first step to total control of everything.

Keep in mind that there is a state with a Palestinian majority population that came out of the division of the territory under the British Mandate system, that country of course is Jordan.

> It's a shame a better deal could not have been struck for the benefit of all the people with a millennium plus history in the Levant, of all faiths.

I think it's pretty clear that the Arab leaders at the time would never have accepted an independent Jewish state regardless of how fair the land division was.
by JSR_FDED | 2025-10-03 00:53:40+00:00
First time I recorded a demo was when it became too hard to return things to a known good state after every demo. In this case that meant multiple RAID arrays, 3 servers, an application with DB, and monitoring software.

All so that I could demonstrate that when I turned off a RAID controller a red light came on and the application just…continued.

So much work for something largely unspectacular meant that a recorded demo that could be run anytime from a laptop was far more appealing. My junior colleagues were now doing demos they otherwise wouldn’t, and the seniors turned off the sound and edited the video into snippets they could introduce and talk around
by anigbrowl | 2025-10-03 00:54:20+00:00
I'm pretty sure people said the same thing after operation Cast Lead and other previous crackdowns. A country making itself into an international pariah while pursuing local security from an antagonist it nurtured in the first place is extremely myopic. As this conflict has dragged on, it has become more and more apparent that a great many Israelis (including in government) view their strategic situation through the lens of ancient historical conflicts from >2000 years ago and fantasize about resorting to the triumphant excesses of legend. Mass psychosis is not a good basis for long-term security.