MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dc396 | 2025-10-10 18:06:36+00:00
A subset of the criticisms on Kissinger:

• Vietnam War and Bombing of Cambodia: Kissinger played a key role in the secret bombing of Cambodia and the escalation of U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia, which expanded the conflict, resulted in significant civilian casualties, and destabilized the region, enabling the rise of the Khmer Rouge and contributing to mass deaths.

• Bangladesh Genocide (1971): Kissinger and President Nixon strongly supported Pakistan’s military dictatorship during its violent suppression of Bangladesh’s independence movement, despite well-documented human rights abuses and U.S. officials’ warnings about atrocities.

• Support for Dictatorships and Coups in Latin America: He was instrumental in U.S. support for right-wing military coups, notably the 1973 ouster of Chile’s democratically elected president Salvador Allende, and the subsequent support for General Pinochet’s regime, which was responsible for widespread human rights violations. Kissinger also backed Operation Condor, a campaign of repression and assassination by South American dictatorships.

• Indonesia and East Timor: Kissinger has been implicated in supporting Indonesia’s 1975 invasion of East Timor, which led to widespread killings and humanitarian abuses.

• Undermining U.S. Principles and Rule of Law: Kissinger’s tenure saw numerous secret operations and violations of U.S. and international law, including illegal arms transfers and covert interference in foreign elections and governments.

• Sabotaging Vietnam Peace Talks: He was accused of interfering with peace negotiations in 1968, potentially prolonging the Vietnam War for political gain.
by tzs | 2025-10-10 18:06:43+00:00
> It's not clear if these violations actually represent a real environmental hazard or are more reflective of NIMBY degrowth sentiment.

Here’s an article that has some details on some of the violations [1]. The sound like things that the state legitimately should be regulating and that this would have minimal impact on growth.

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-boring-company-...
by Seattle3503 | 2025-10-10 18:06:57+00:00
You are falling prey to the myth of the cynical genius

> A further three studies based on the data of about 200,000 individuals from 30 countries debunked these lay beliefs as illusionary by revealing that cynical (vs. less cynical) individuals generally do worse on cognitive ability and academic competency tasks. Cross-cultural analyses showed that competent individuals held contingent attitudes and endorsed cynicism only if it was warranted in a given sociocultural environment. Less competent individuals embraced cynicism unconditionally, suggesting that-at low levels of competence-holding a cynical worldview might represent an adaptive default strategy to avoid the potential costs of falling prey to others' cunning.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29993325/
by leptons | 2025-10-10 18:07:04+00:00
If you are trying to teach yourself programming and never read any documentation, you're going to make a mess of it.

If you're trying to work out at the gym on your without reading anythi g about it first, you'll probably make a mess of it.

There's a lot of info out there about how to train at the gym, as well as how to write code. People who know how to read can certainly get a long way by reading a few simple tutorials.
by ProofHouse | 2025-10-10 18:07:06+00:00
Fundamentally, for OpenGL, "getting shaders" meant moving from a fixed, built-in set of graphics effects to giving developers custom control over the graphics pipeline.

Imagine you hired a robot artist to draw.

Before Shaders (The Old Way): The robot had a fixed set of instructions. You could only tell it "draw a red circle here" or "draw a blue square there." You could change the colors and basic shapes, but you couldn't change how it drew them. This was called the fixed-function pipeline.

After Shaders (The New Way): You can now give the robot custom, programmable instructions, or shaders. You can write little programs that tell it exactly how to draw things.

The Two Original Shaders This programmability was primarily split into two types of shaders:

Vertex Shader: This program runs for every single point (vertex) of a 3D model. Its job is to figure out where that point should be positioned on your 2D screen. You could now program custom effects like making a character model jiggle or a flag wave in the wind.

Fragment (or Pixel) Shader: After the shape is positioned, this program runs for every single pixel inside that shape. Its job is to decide the final color of that pixel. This is where you program complex lighting, shadows, reflections, and surface textures like wood grain or rust.
by throwup238 | 2025-10-10 18:07:46+00:00
If the pilot is wrong you hope the copilot or someone else on the crew picks up on the error and corrects it. If they’re both wrong, or if they don’t feel empowered to challenge the pilot like in Korean Air 801, everyone is usually fucked.

ATC doesn’t have the kind of situational awareness or manpower to fix these kinds of problems the vast majority of the time. It only seems like they could have done something after the fact when the disaster has already happened and hindsight activates.

Like the GP said, ATC second guessing pilots is a really, really bad idea. A few incidents doesn’t change that.
by tallowen | 2025-10-10 18:07:48+00:00
Thanks for sharing this, I had understood prior to this video that the combo of self driving tech + dedicated tunnels might have capacity that rival a light rail system like Seattle has but that's clearly not the case in the current system. I'm curious why more of the autonomous driving tech isn't being used in what I might have thought would be an "easier" place to do it.
by kllrnohj | 2025-10-10 18:07:51+00:00
Platforms usually deliver significant value that is hard to replicate. OpenAI doesn't have any such thing. It's trivially replaced, and there's many competitors already. OpenAI is ahead of the curve, but they don't seem to have any particular way to do sticky capture. Migrating to a different LLM is an afternoon's work at most, not nearly the complexity of porting an app between OS' or creating a robust hardware driver model.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-10 18:08:03+00:00
> not a "political philosopher" which is oxymoronic

What would you call someone who waxes philosophy on politics?

> By nature, irrational things or behaviors are not logical

Lovely, so logic—by your construction—is useless given nature itself, lacking the ability to understand, is not rational.

(You’re mixing up sub-definitions of rationality. None of this is relevant, however, to the broader topic.)

> Please adhere to a scientific, or axiom-based argument

Was this written by AI?
by scrumper | 2025-10-10 18:08:12+00:00
Okay that's fair.

I had no issue with the contribution itself, the route summary is helpful.

> And they did well enough by citing that the info came from an LLM.

In terms of acknowledging AI contribution, you're damned if you do, damned if you don't. Here it's sidetracked a discussion; but transparency is better than otherwise I suppose. Perhaps it just boils down to taste - and I don't like it.

Anyway, you made me think!
by TrainedMonkey | 2025-10-10 18:08:35+00:00
There are lies, damn lies, and statistics. Let's say you define top 10% of copilot using companies as excellent. By definition 90% of companies are below that benchmark and can use that to justify more AI investment. The subtle part of this is that it is dynamic. As companies use AI more top 10% is going to keep shifting up creating an AI race.
by dismalaf | 2025-10-10 18:08:36+00:00
Andre Arko seems to be trying to reframe this by concern trolling and appealing to people's sense of community.

Here's the thing: when a corporation terminates you, no matter the situation, you delete all your credentials, apps, everything, wash your hands of everything and never attempt access again. It's nice to say that the corporation should be better at rotating passwords but legally, you need to simply delete everything and move on.

Hence the letter from RC's lawyer to Arko. And a good chance he'll be prosecuted.
by graeme | 2025-10-10 18:08:53+00:00
It's easy to write a cynical reaction, but the simplest explanation is usually true. In this case, it's just a very good headline.

I read Stratechery. Ben's articles are what he makes for public consumption. This weekly summary thing is a new roundup for subscribers, and just happens to be public, and if you're not a subscriber you can't follow the links. If Ben could choose something to be #1 on Hacker News it would likely be a full article with this headline, rather than a weekly summary post for subscribers.

OpenAI has been at the top of the app store for years now. A lot of people are interested in it. That trivially explains the upvotes without a conspiracy.

Kudos to the headline writer on this one.
by JohnMakin | 2025-10-10 18:10:13+00:00
If you are writing a tutorial, please for the love of all that is holy do not just make it a bunch of copy/paste steps without much or any explanation. Make me work through it, debug it, take me down the wrong path on purpose for the "aha!" moments. Leave copious amounts of explanation and documentation. Tell me what can go wrong and how I can fix it. I do not want a video. I hate videos. I know not everyone does and people learn differently but videos suffer even worse from the copy/paste problem, I'm essentially just parroting what I'm watching usually without much explanation either. And also, going back and referencing is difficult without taking copious notes.

"Now we do x,y, z, and voila! here you have it, a fully fledged (whatever)." Ok, but what did you just do? Why doesn't it work on my machine? etc. I've seen tutorials that do this stuff right and it's a very obvious night and day difference.
by garaetjjte | 2025-10-10 18:12:01+00:00
Here's some code: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/OpenGL-API/issues/46 But yeah, GL_MAX_VERTEX_SHADER_STORAGE_BLOCKS limits usefulness of that.

I wanted to say that with some compiler hacking it should be possible to lower SPIR-V using GL_EXT_buffer_reference into bindless image loads, but SPIR-V doesn't have standardized bindless texture, duh!
by somenameforme | 2025-10-10 18:12:44+00:00
I'm skeptical of this. There is an extremely large barrier to entry in terms of the cost of the supplies and hardware. And how would you even begin to realistically get practice/experience working on and solving the countless issues plumbers are responsible for, all in different contexts with different setups? And then there's also a safety issue - plenty of environments and tasks plumbers are responsible for can be quite dangerous. Danger and self-learning isn't entirely a non-starter, but it's certainly an part of the 'balance' here.

By contrast software just isn't comparable at all. You can sit at your desk, pay $0, and the only limitations to your experience is the amount of time you're willing to dedicate.
by leakycap | 2025-10-10 18:13:23+00:00
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/41/102-34.120

> "Motor vehicles that have been exempted from the requirement to display official U.S. Government license plates under section § 102-34.160, § 102-34.175 or § 102-34.180 must be registered and inspected in accordance with the laws of the jurisdiction where the motor vehicle is regularly operated."
by vaylian | 2025-10-10 18:13:38+00:00
> LSPs its too hard". What?

Back when I explored helix as a long-time vim user, I had some LSPs set up with neovim. But I was very much in doubt how to take advantage of these LSPs and what kind of configuration options make sense. The "hard" part is understanding what LSPs can do for you and what kind of key bindings I need to set up, so that I can use the relevant features.

Helix gives you a sane user interface to LSPs that is discoverable
by cheeze | 2025-10-10 18:13:44+00:00
Can you expand here? What are you looking for in specific?

I think I have a framework-like TV. It's a high end TV set to store mode which has no smartOS annoyances. From there, I have expansion modules (they connect via HDMI) like a HDFury Vertex with CFW, Nvidia Shield, PS5, etc.

Decoupling the TV from the OS has helped a ton with longetivity

What more are you looking for?
by csours | 2025-10-10 18:13:57+00:00
Wow this has a lot of replies!

Yes, you get a lot of the energy back, BUT there is a huge problem!

Large airliners incur a LOT of additional drag to slow down while landing. Some of that is entirely intentional, some is less intentional.

It is highly preferred to deploy the landing gear before touching down. Failure to do so may lead to a hard landing and additional paperwork, so airlines do not allow the captain to exercise their own discretion.

Extending the flaps maintains lift at lower speed, and higher flap settings allow even lower speed. The highest flap setting generally also deploys leading edge slats.

If the wheels of the airliner touch down and detect the weight of the plane then spoilers kill the lift of the wings, air brakes fully deploy, as well as thrust reversers.

All of these things add drag, which uses up all that energy you've been converting.

The upshot is that each landing attempt uses a LOT of energy, and you have to use fuel to replenish that energy after every attempt.

In other words, yes you get it back, but only for one landing attempt.
by like_any_other | 2025-10-10 18:14:53+00:00
TechInsights is Canadian, and Canada has a so-called free trade agreement with China [1,2]. If China can simply use a vague excuse to blacklist Canadian firms despite this agreement, then what exactly is its point? Tying Canada's hands from responding in kind? It seems it's even more one-sided than initially thought.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/fipa-agreement-with-china-wha...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada-China_Promotion_and_Rec...
by chmod775 | 2025-10-10 18:15:50+00:00
You mean the social network that is currently dying the same death as countless other platforms before it, just on a larger scale?

Maybe some are too young to remember the great migrations from/to MySpace, MSN, ICQ, AIM, Skype, local alternatives like StudiVZ, ..., where people used to keep in contact with friends. Facebook was just the latest and largest platform where people kept in touch and expressed themselves in some way. People adding each other on Facebook before others to keep in touch hasn't been a thing for 5 years. It's Instagram, Discord, and WhatsApp nowadays depending on your social circle (two of which Meta wisely bought because they saw the writing on the wall).

If I open Facebook nowadays, then out of ~130 people I used to keep in touch with through that platform, pretty much nobody is still doing anything on there. The only sign of life will be some people showing as online because they've the facebook app installed to use direct messaging.

No, people easily migrate between these platforms. All it takes is put your new handles (discord ID/phone number/etc) as a sticky so people know where to find you. And especially children will always use whichever platform their parents don't.

Small caveat: This is a German perspective. I don't doubt there's some countries where Facebook is still doing well.
by cheschire | 2025-10-10 18:16:13+00:00
I've always thought this feature might have more potential if more modern deep-learning tech was baked into the video and not just dumb frame interpolation.

I can imagine that there would be a potential to generate interpolated frames that intelligently make fast-moving scenes more understandable while leaving slow-moving scenes more or less at their intended 24 FPS.

Many action movies, especially with close hand-to-hand combat in tight spaces, are difficult to understand visually because 24 FPS just doesn't quite catch the movements.
by wahnfrieden | 2025-10-10 18:16:17+00:00
Musk uses his resources to lobby against mass transit in America.

He is degrowth in ways that suit his selfish preferences (contracts for his companies over better alternatives, and wanting to avoid any proximity to other Americans in public).

edit due to rate limiting: Yes Musk is one of the reasons we don't have high speed rail in California at least. He admitted to creating Hyperloop as a fake and hopeless project simply as a campaign to get high speed rail canceled. And he used DOGE against it to further cripple the project. He used government authority to contribute to regulations against mass transit. His projects are literally fake psyops that don't deliver transit and exist to spoil mass transit options from growing.

We had mass transit before he got rich. Are you opposed to it because it's not perfect so we shouldn't do it at all instead of doing more of it? I don't understand the degrowth attitude of preferring luxury options that scale worse.
by leetharris | 2025-10-10 18:16:19+00:00
In the last 50 years, well before Elon was involved and supposedly sabotaging all this great subway progress, how many new subway projects in America were started and successfully finished?

Maybe Elon's solution is a requirement to make ANY progress because the other ones have stalled out?

I would love a subway. Here in Austin, they proposed a bunch of new trains and subways for billions of dollars. We all voted yes and funded it. After a multi-year study, they revised it to about 1/10th the scope and doubled the cost. It still hasn't materialized.

Do you all realize the problem here?
by andrewflnr | 2025-10-10 18:16:40+00:00
Having separate commands for creating/modifying selections and for editing their contents is more orthogonal. In kakoune, you can select a word, multiple words, multiple search results, a brace-delimited block, or an arbitrary sequence of characters (it's pretty common that I want to include a bit of whitespace, or instance), and the same 'c' command works on all of them. The same 'd', 'i', and 'a' commands also work on all of them. In straight-line editing it's no more keystrokes than vim, and hardly more than any other editor, but for complex operations it lets you tailor and preview them as you go. The thing that confuses me is why it would even be a debate that this is better.
by zkmon | 2025-10-10 18:16:44+00:00
I think platform monopolies are a thing of the past, where, when most of the world was asleep, a few silicon valley garage companies took over the green field and locked-in a huge customer base irreversibly, thus colonizing the world. The world is now much more awake and connected, ruling out any concentration of dominance. You can't have a repeat of colonial times.
by icyfox | 2025-10-10 18:17:01+00:00
All of the products you mention already had research teams (in the case of ChatGPT and Claude that actually predated most of their engineers). So knowing how to build small language models was always in their wheel house. Scaling up to larger LLMs required a few algorithmic advancements but for the most part it was a question of sourcing more data and more compute. The remarkable part of transformers is their scaling laws, which let us achieve much better models without having to reinvent new architecture.
by yalogin | 2025-10-10 18:17:10+00:00
I am not sure about this. They definitely created a brand new service and data flows that didn’t exist before and they have the majority of the mind share, however it’s already commoditized. The next two to three years will show how the chips fall. I can see that it’s tough or almost impossible for apple to get a share in this but google is right there to take the consumer side. For enterprise again we have to wait and see how gcp and AWS do.

The value is not in the llm but vertical integration and providing value. OpenAI has identified this and is doing is vertical integration in a hurry. If the revenue sustains it will be because of that. For consumer space again, nvidia is better positioned with their chips and SoCs but OpenAI is not a sure thing yet. By that I don’t mean they are going to fall apart, they will continue to make a large amount fmloney but whether it’s their world or not is still up in the air.
by yubblegum | 2025-10-10 18:17:11+00:00
> Migrating to a different LLM is an afternoon's work at most, not nearly the complexity of porting an app between OS' or creating a robust hardware driver model.

I question this. Each vendor's offering has its own peculiar prompt quirks, does it not? Theoretically, switching RDBMS vendors (say Ora to Ingress) was also "an afernoon's work" but it never happened. The minutia is sticky with these sort of almost-but-not 'universal' interfaces.
by yc349833874923 | 2025-10-10 18:17:30+00:00
People say you're wrong but I agree. Facebook is nothing more than a rent-seeking middle man between you and your friends/family. Instead of just talking to your family normally, like over the phone, now you have to talk to them in between mountains of Sponsored Content and AI-generated propaganda. It provides no productive value to the world except for making the world more annoying and making people more isolated from one another.

When you realize this, you realize that a lot of other supposedly valuable tech companies operate in the exact same way. Worrying that our parents' retirement depends heavily on their valuations!
by whywhywhywhy | 2025-10-10 18:17:39+00:00
> tax unicorns

> graduate more entrepreneurs

Why would I focus towards being an entrepreneur if the state is just going to step in and steal from me after taking all the risk, after giving up time with my family, after taking on all the stress for the extremely small chance of success and if by amazing odds I manage to hit that success the government will knock at my door and scalp the actual payoff for my risk, talent, and years of time despite contributing nothing other than paying a teacher who isn't an entrepreneur and has never run a business to pretend to teach and graduate me on the matter.
by zenolijo | 2025-10-10 18:17:49+00:00
It's possible to dual-boot. My favorite method is to have a device with a SD-card slot and have android on the eMMC but PostmarketOS on the SD-card.

Currently only do that on one of my older devices, would love to do it on my main device but when I bought it I was in a hurry to get it going and did not have time to unlock the bootloader. Unlocking the bootloader now means having to factory default the device but I simply have too much important stuff set up that it's not worth it. Apparently there's also no great way to backup all partitions of the Android device which I find to be quite strange.
by MrSkelter | 2025-10-10 18:18:17+00:00
As someone who has been involved in dating sites you have no idea how standard this is.

Until Match bought the industry it was pretty much impossible to launch a dating site with profiles. The industry standard was to post fakes. Real users would then receive stock responses to keep them around until real people showed up. No AI needed. Just a bag of standard emails. Guys are incredibly dumb and ego driven. It’s very easy to get them to think a beautiful stranger is into them.
by ToValueFunfetti | 2025-10-10 18:18:37+00:00
>It's not clear if these violations actually represent a real environmental hazard or are more reflective of NIMBY degrowth sentiment.

>it's not clear if you know what environmental regulations are or if you are just shilling for polluting billionaires.

This is pretty clearly an escalation beyond what you're describing.

e: Because you did already read these lines, I guess I should spell this out: the former says we can't trust this datapoint as reflecting the issue we're concerned about; the latter says that the former person is either completely ignorant about the subject matter or lying due to corruption. The former is disagreeable; the latter is an ad hominem assuming bad faith against HN guidelines.