MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by specproc | 2025-10-02 22:27:28+00:00
The old English 'ᵹ' has visual similarities with the Georgian 'გ', also our 'g'.

We've two letters that are visually similar to yogh 'ȝ': 'ვ' (an English 'v', or 'w' if you're Tbliseli), and 'პ' (a hard 'p'). Our 'gh' sound is 'ღ'.
by an0malous | 2025-10-02 22:27:35+00:00
Israel has rejected every peace offer from Hamas, including ones brokered by the US. They invited Hamas peace negotiators to Qatar and then bombed them. They have shown no indication that they are willing to agree to a peace deal in exchange for the hostages, it’s just a rationalization they use so that people like you can counter every anti-Israel argument with “well what about the hostages?”
by akkartik | 2025-10-02 22:28:17+00:00
Fennel looks quite great! And I love Lisp so there is definitely some allure there. I don't use it for mostly the reasons mentioned in OP:

* to minimize dependencies. Lua < Lua + Fennel. I'm more extreme than OP in that I don't even use LuaRocks. When I need a library I copy it in, and I pick a library that won't change often so that is a reasonable approach. I try to avoid native libraries.

* for even greater stability. Fennel is pretty stable, but I use Lua 5.1 for the most part which hasn't changed since 2008 or so. I'm more extreme than OP in even avoiding later versions of Lua.

Bottomline: the reasons I like Lua have nothing to do with syntax and are much more about these operational meta characteristics of the language. If I cared more about syntax I'd be on Fennel in a heartbeat.
by phgn | 2025-10-02 22:28:45+00:00
From the Wikipedia article you linked:

> Bernard Avishai states that the Gaza withdrawal was designed to obviate rather than facilitate peace negotiations [...]

> Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's senior adviser, Dov Weissglass, explained the meaning of Sharon's statement further: The significance of the disengagement plan is the freezing of the peace process, and when you freeze that process, you prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state [...]

> Shimon Peres, then Vice Prime Minister, stated in an interview that: "We are disengaging from Gaza because of demography"
by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE | 2025-10-02 22:29:13+00:00
Yes, many thousands of years ago the land was populated by Jewish peoples. Then Romans sacked Jerusalem and kicked them all out. The Eastern Roman empire never reversed that ban. After the muslim conquest of Levant in about 630 AD, caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab lifted the Christian ban on Jews entering Jerusalem some time later during his reign. After a millenium of mixing and slow but gradual conversion to the dominant socio-cultural muslim group, we know that the Jewish population of Palestine at the time (1917) that the British government initiated the process of handing over Palestine to jews in return for Lord Rothschild's money that they needed to keep fighting WW1 [1], was only about 7%.

Subsequent immigration of mostly European jews into Palestine, resulted in about 30% jewish population by the time Western powers decided to declare an independent Jewish-dominated state of Israel on top of Palestine in 1947.

The vast majority of the current jewish population of Israel are absolutely foreign invaders and their second or third generation descendants.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration
by quickthrowman | 2025-10-02 22:29:34+00:00
I’m very curious about the details, I work in (non-art) construction.

-Did you sketch something out and then have an architect and engineer create architectural and structural plans? Plus landscape plans for the plants, I’m guessing.

-Did you have the architect lead the project? By this I mean have them ultimately handle payments and hiring the GC and so on.

-Contract terms, since this was not your typical job, were the contractors OK providing a fixed price or did you work out a T&M or cost plus type of arrangement?

-If it was fixed price, how much did the contract go up due to change orders?

If you have photos of the sculpture, I’d be interested to see it too, no worries if you don’t want to share due to it revealing who you are.
Show HN: A collection manager and marketplace for physical retro games
by cheerioty | 2025-10-02 22:29:55+00:00
I’m building sumthings.com, a product-first marketplace and collection manager for all games, with a special focus on retro. You can track your collection, mark wanted items to get notified when sales pop up, and browse today’s listings. Things are still early and changing fast, so I’d love your feedback on what’s useful, what’s missing, and what would make this most valuable for collectors.
by danielbenzvi | 2025-10-02 22:30:35+00:00
Calling the old PA-led status quo “far better” ignores how dysfunctional and destructive it was. The PA was given territory, money, and international legitimacy after Oslo, yet instead of building a transparent, functioning state, it became notorious for corruption, power struggles, and failing to deliver basic services. Worse, during that same period, suicide bombings and the Second Intifada erupted under its watch, so for ordinary Israelis, that “status quo” meant buses, cafes, and markets being blown up.

Even for Palestinians, the PA’s rule was hardly a path to peace or progress. Billions in foreign aid were stolen by elites, elections were canceled, dissent was crushed, and everyday life was marked by both authoritarianism and insecurity. So while today’s Hamas reality is undeniably worse, pretending the old PA era was some kind of lost golden path to peace overlooks that it was already a dead end for both peoples.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-02 22:30:36+00:00
> Israel has rejected every peace offer from Hamas, including ones brokered by the US

Which offer did Israel reject that was put forward by Hamas and endorsed by the U.S.?

> They have shown no indication that they are willing to agree to a peace deal in exchange for the hostages

Maybe you're right. The Palestinians' hand is significantly strengthened if this is shown to be true. If Hamas unilaterally turned over the hostages and sued for peace, I really don't think Israel could continue the war. If they did, they'd lose a massive amount of of international indifference.
by nis0s | 2025-10-02 22:30:57+00:00
I am surprised that you think lack of poverty is the only thing which keeps such factors at bay. But to address the main premise, only about 32% of the population makes $50K or less, that’s counting individuals not couples. A couple with $35K each clears about 70K, whereas the median cost of living is about $61K. So, on average the U.S. population is not that poor. But no one is climbing the social ladder with these numbers, which raises a lot of concerns from various groups, but there’s no real poverty per se. But of course, that varies by state, and whatever they have going on locally in each county, and so on. Feel free to correct me.
by gorgoiler | 2025-10-02 22:31:17+00:00
One word:

Cricket

One of the many standout features of a sport that already includes:

- being famous for taking five days to play and often ending in a drawer;

- where a major component of play is the nature and timing of the ball falling apart; and

- where regular fielding positions have names like silly mid on, third man, cow corner, and square leg,

…is that since time immemorial cricket has had a symbiotic relationship with another deeply weird pastime, the art of cricket scoring, namely the erudite process of keeping track of the score:

https://preview.redd.it/englands-first-innings-scoresheet-v0...
by quink | 2025-10-02 22:31:23+00:00
Note: highest, not tallest. Highest should technically be the building here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole which is more than 12km above ground, that is to say 12km high. Or, rather, was, having been destroyed since. There’s other boreholes too though.
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-02 22:31:27+00:00
> The ICC has found a significant risk of genocide more than a year ago

Both the court and the finding described are inaccurate: it was the ICJ, not the ICC, and it didn't find a significant risk of genocide (it found that Palestinians plausibly had rights under the Genocide Convention, South Africa had the legal right to bring a case to vindicate those rights, and there was a risk of harm in the period of adjudication of those rights were provisional measures not adopted.)
by hansmayer | 2025-10-02 22:31:38+00:00
Without the intent of hijacking whatever it is you are trying to achieve: I've found the best antidote to the AI-fatigue is to rely less on it. There is no way I am going to spend my day, or my employees day for that matter in reviewing thousands of LoC of bad AI-slop. In my teams we've dialed it back to just consulting mode and asking suggestions,e.g. replacement for good old search, because once you ask the GenAI to write a few thousands of LoC for you, you're also abandoning a lot architecture decisions (which you then have to figure out ad-hoc again, when you do the review of the slop, or at the latest when you notice the "smart" tool has yet again put a secret in plaintext or something similar). So yeah, if you have the so-called AI-fatigue, just use less of the so-called AI.
by suzdude | 2025-10-02 22:32:07+00:00
> abide to the 'progressive' narrative

You 'othered' people from the get-go. Why are you so upset about others doing it?

> You automatically assumed that I was a conservative.

Where did anyone call you a conservative? Referring to conservatives in the 3rd person is not referring to you?

Why are you taking things personally?

> You assumed that I was using the term 'your justice' as a reference to ideological instead of national identification

Because that is often how it is discussed. Having never met a person who uses the words the way you are using them, so why assume that someone is using a term in a novel way? In Dutch, are you going to assume people are using terminology to mean something, while technically correct, that no one you have met uses? Props if so, but that's sounds like a tall tale.

> You have now listed a long list of things which according to you apply to those other people who you do not agree with

They apply to many people. If you do not have personal experience, that's fine.

But, don't try to invalidate other people's lived experiences.

> When I asked a direct question on whether something applied to your circles

There was no deflection. Simply a response. If you cannot parse the response, it can be clarified to your benefit.

> You tried to imply 'racist' motives

Explaining why something is racist is not prescribing intent. Why are you prescribing intent, but while criticizing others by falsely reading into their intent?

> When called out on this you bring up the tired old trope of 'dog whistles'

Pretending something isn't a problem is a rather poor defense.

> using a severely biased Wikipedia link.

Maybe you're the one with a rather large bias? Or maybe small bias? Who knows.
by TheCycoONE | 2025-10-02 22:32:23+00:00
Lua 5.1 to 5.2 was a fairly significant breaking change; one that has forked the community to this day with luaJIT never coming on board. 5.2 to 5.3 also broke things with the introduction of integers but mostly at the level of bindings. There is also very little included in terms of standard library and while luarocks exists many significant packages go abandoned. There are breaking language changes in the upcoming 5.5 as well though they are relatively minor.[1]

All to say I think if long term compatibility is the primary goal there are probably better languages.

Have you already discounted php or perl?

[1] https://www.lua.org/work/doc/manual.html#8
by RustyRussell | 2025-10-02 22:32:37+00:00
I want signal to act as a transport bus. In particular, I want to give certain contacts permission to ask my phone for its location, so I can give my wife that ability without sharing it with Google.

Signal has solved the identity part, now encourage others to build apps on it.

(2fa via Signal would be better than SMS, too, though I know this may be controversial!)
by koverstreet | 2025-10-02 22:32:49+00:00
Look, it wasn't just this one thing. There had been entirely too many arguments over bugfixes, with the sole justification on Linus's end being "it's experimental garbage that no one should be using".

I can't ship and support a filesystem under those circumstances.

The "support" angle is one you and a lot of other people are missing. Supporting it is critical to stabilizing, and we can't close the loop with users if we can't ship bugfixes.

Given the past history with btrfs, this is of primary concern.

You've been looking for a compromise position, and that's understandable, but sometimes the only reasonable compromise is "less stupidity, or we go our separate ways".

The breaking point was, in the private maintainer thread, a page and a half rant from Linus on how he doesn't trust my judgement, and then immediately after that another rant on how - supposedly - everyone in the kernel community hates me and wants me gone.

Not joking. You can go over everything I've ever said on LKML, including the CoC incident, and nothing rises to that level. I really just want to be done with that sort of toxicity.

I know you and a lot of other people wanted bcachefs to be upstream, and it's not an ideal situation, but there are limits to what I'm willing to put up with.

Now, we just need to be looking forward. The DKMS transition has been going smoothly, more people are getting involved, everyone's fully committed to making this work and I still have my funding.

It's going to be ok, we don't need to have everything riding on making it work with the kernel community.

And now, you guys don't have to worry about me burning out on the kernel community and losing my last vestiges of sanity and going off to live in the mountains and herd goats :)
by Wilduck | 2025-10-02 22:33:40+00:00
Really cool project. A quick note, I had to dig in your FAQ to find your definition for LOQ:

> "What does 'LOQ' mean in your results? > > Limit of Quantification (LOQ) is the lowest concentration we can reliably measure. Results below LOQ are marked "<LOQ" - this doesn't mean zero, just below our measurement threshold."

IMO this definition should be on every results page, since most of the pages have more LOQs than anything else.
by erikgaas | 2025-10-02 22:34:55+00:00
One thing I loved about the first solveit course was how create the community is. It goes back to fast.ai too, but everyone is super kind, smart, and has diverse backgrounds.

We've captured a slice of that on our main site. Testimonials: https://solve.it.com/testimonials Some blog posts: https://solve.it.com/#showcases on the main page

And on of the students even made a project dashboard page showcasing all the things everyone has built! https://solveit-project-showcase.pla.sh/

He even blogged about it : ) https://himalayanhacker.substack.com/p/how-i-built-solve-it-...
by jeffbee | 2025-10-02 22:36:20+00:00
That article mentions family income as possible confounder only once, while in an article of this extent I would expect it to appear dozens of times and be the central point. You simply cannot draw conclusions from comparing general populations and kids in schools that cost $500k for a 13-grade education, or that cost any amount. Students from low income households have so many headwinds. They don't come to school because their transportation is unreliable, because their teeth hurt, because they can't afford sanitary pads, they can't sleep because their neighborhoods are too loud, and so on. When this school opened in Brownsville and preferentially enrolled only the children of employed aeronautical engineers, that precluded any possible comparison of outcomes.
by oortoo | 2025-10-02 22:36:32+00:00
I agree. Of course genes are involved... but that doesn't make it Mendelian. Autism would be caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors.

The fact exists that there is no singular autism gene. And there could never be a genetic test for autism. It could predict the likelihood, but it wouldn't be pass/fail. Because there are many autism-related genes but no single gene trigger like a light switch. And you could still have all of those genes turned on and not have autism due to environmental factors.
by dudeinhawaii | 2025-10-02 22:36:35+00:00
If I can take a slight tangent. This is what I will remember OpenAI for. Not the Closed vs Open debate. They caused the democratization of access to AI models. Prior to ChatGPT, I would hear about these great models Deep Mind and Google were developing. They'd always stay closed behind the walls of Google.

OpenAI forced Google to release and as a result, we have all of the AI tooling, integrations, and models. Meta's leaning into the stolen Llama code took this further and sparked the Open Source LLM revolution (in addition to the myriad contributors and researchers who built on that).

If we had left it to Google, I suspect they'd release tooling (as they did with TensorFlow) but not an LLM that might compete with their core product..
by xp84 | 2025-10-02 22:36:38+00:00
> have broken our government in ways that are going to be very difficult to undo.

The cowardice of both parties to never balance the budget in the last 50 years (Except Clinton!) has done more damage, arguably, in miring us in permanent debt.

I suspect the people who are fine with the government shutting down and who are fine with questionably legal tactics to do away with departments like USAID, feel that even though these things are probably legally wrong, they’re better than just continuing to piss away more and more of future generations’ money, money that we don’t have.

I think the greatest sin involved in all of this is the government’s ridiculous magical, thinking that they can set tax policy and spending policy independently of each other. In my opinion, one of the two should be a fixed function of the other. Either we agree on our tax rates and government benefits, automatically adjust to fit in the budget, or we agree on what we’re going to spend, and taxes automatically adjust to match — either way it should be something everyone can calculate before the bill is voted on.
by latexr | 2025-10-02 22:37:15+00:00
> I can imagine a world where, if you film a protest through the Instagram app, you'd get some kind of "this is real" badge on it

On Instagram? The website owned by that guy who loves AI slop and wants to fill your feed with it? That Instagram? Yeah, doesn’t seem likely.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/25/meta-launches-vibes-a-shor...

https://fortune.com/2024/10/30/mark-zuckerberg-ai-generated-...

https://futurism.com/zuckerberg-lonely-friends-create-ai
by kirb | 2025-10-02 22:37:29+00:00
No - one dev evangelist accidentally diverged from the marketing language for Windows 10, and now his words in a conference talk nobody previously cared about are being used as “proof” Microsoft lied. It’s like if Bob from accounting accidentally mentioned future plans on his LinkedIn years ago, then years later it’s being used as proof of the company going back on their words, despite them issuing a statement back then distancing from it. At some point, someone in a big company will say the wrong thing out loud and it needs to be carefully retracted without confirming or denying future plans.
by some_guy_nobel | 2025-10-02 22:38:14+00:00
You're right that there are two sides to every story, things aren't black-and-white.

To your first point, I've already agreed that the numbers seem faulty. Beyond that, I'm not sure what you're asking me to consider, beyond suspending belief. 60k people did die on the low end, many of them children.

From an outsider's perspective, the killing of 60k people in a small, corralled environment, many of which are children, says everything that can be said about the actor in question. This is without the additional context of years of West Bank occupations, experiencing the crazy two-tiered apartheid like system that is Israel (I've visited and was personally quite shocked), and other things.

Is Hamas terrible? Certainly. Would they do the same to Israel if they had the capabilities? Probably. But that doesn't change the facts on the ground.
by ACCount37 | 2025-10-02 22:38:19+00:00
Raw model size is still pegged by the hardware.

You can try to build a monster the size of GPT-4.5, but even if you could actually make the training stable and efficient at this scale, you still would suffer trying to serve it to the users.

Next generation of AI hardware should put them in reach, and I expect that model scale would grow in lockstep with new hardware becoming available.
by gnulinux996 | 2025-10-02 22:38:22+00:00
> raises the question of whether they can see cables

Should the drone's vision be comparable to a humans though? I feel like drones can either see or don't. If we go and try to tackle every corner case then nothing would come of it.

Also, do I - as a citizen - have to bear the externalities of Amazon's beta testing?

> Genuinely curious what the solution here is

Walk to the store to get your package.
by gizmodo59 | 2025-10-02 22:38:49+00:00
Not necessarily. I’m sure there is many cheaper android phones that are technically better in specs but many users won’t change. Once you are familiar, bought into the ecosystem getting rid of it is very hard. I’m lazy myself compared to how I was several years ago. The curious and experimental folks are a minority and the majority ll stick with what works initially instead of constantly analyzing what’s best all the time
by rufus_foreman | 2025-10-02 22:39:19+00:00
>> There was a time that a bonkers deficit, violations of personal freedoms, domestic troop deployments, and expansive executive power was antithetical to conservatism

President Eisenhower sent 1,000 soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division into a US city to escort some kids to school.

That was a domestic troop deployment. Was that antithetical to conservatism?

Was Eisenhower no true conservative?
by legitster | 2025-10-02 22:40:29+00:00
> they don't deserve the benefit of the doubt.

I really implore you to reconsider this position. Our world is wrapped up in injustice and political violence because everyone is jumping to extremist positions. And the last thing we need is declaring people guilty merely by association or poor attempts at empathy.

From a good faith reading of DHH's article, it's pretty clear he is expressing empathy for the feelings of the marchers (and even TR) without much care to the particulars (it doesn't sound like he himself marched or was personally witness to them). In the same way we allow for people to feel empathy for Luigi Mangione's motives without accusing them of also being homicidal.

You would be better off digging into DHH's actual problematic idea that he is trying to put forward: that the UK, or more specifically London, should fetishize and emulate the policy of anti-immigration countries. His actual thesis is bad enough and easily debunked without trying to pick apart "dog-whistles" and subtexts.

DHH is expressing a terrible idea, but in good faith. To maybe prove his point for him in an ironic way - Denmark can have actual harmful, racist, anti-immigrant legislation - but because no one cared about the rhetoric that was used they got it done.