MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bccdee | 2025-10-02 19:09:46+00:00
I'll bite the bullet and respond to this.

Those claims have been investigated and were found to be insubstantial. Given that the government of Israel is extraordinarily biased in this matter and would never, under any circumstances, admit to deliberately starving civilians, we can safely disregard whatever excuses they put forth in the absence of external corroboration.

> Sam Rose, the acting director of affairs for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in Gaza, says Israel – which has near-total jurisdiction over what goods enter and exit Gaza – has controlled “to the calorie” the volume, type and overall flow of food into the enclave. “The system is designed not to function smoothly,” he said.

> Last October, Israel’s government banned UNRWA from operating in areas under its control, a prohibition that went into effect in January, having accused the agency of failing to stop Hamas’ alleged theft of aid. An internal US government review found no evidence of widespread theft by Hamas of US-funded humanitarian aid in Gaza.

Additionally:

> since when did negotiating with terrorists like Hamas even become acceptable

When people say they "don't negotiate with terrorists," what they mean is that they will not make concessions in response to terroristic threats. This idea has no relevance in this situation.

> Why has the rest of the Arab world not volunteered to receive Palestinian refugees?

You're describing forced displacement, which is a component of genocide. The reason why the Arab world has not collaborated with Israel's efforts to commit genocide in Gaza should be self-explanatory.
by monocasa | 2025-10-02 19:09:48+00:00
There has been smuggling of course, but (perhaps unintentionally) Israel gives them most of what they use.

> But recent intelligence has shown the extent to which Hamas has been able to build many of its rockets and anti-tank weaponry out of the thousands of munitions that failed to detonate when Israel lobbed them into Gaza, according to weapons experts and Israeli and Western intelligence officials. Hamas is also arming its fighters with weapons stolen from Israeli military bases.

> “Unexploded ordnance is a main source of explosives for Hamas,” said Michael Cardash, the former deputy head of the Israeli National Police Bomb Disposal Division and an Israeli police consultant. “They are cutting open bombs from Israel, artillery bombs from Israel, and a lot of them are being used, of course, and repurposed for their explosives and rockets.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/28/world/middleeast/israel-h...
by adventured | 2025-10-02 19:09:53+00:00
There is an exceptionally obvious solution for OpenAI & ChatGPT: ads.

In fact it's an unavoidable solution. There is no future for OpenAI that doesn't involve a gigantic, highly lucrative ad network attached to ChatGPT.

One of the dumbest things in tech at present is OpenAI not having already deployed this. It's an attitude they can't actually afford to maintain much longer.

Ads are a hyper margin product that are very well understood at this juncture, with numerous very large ad platforms. Meta has a soon to be $200 billion per year ad system. There's no reason ChatGPT can't be a $20+ billion per year ad system (and likely far beyond that).

Their path to profitability is very straight-forward. It's practically turn-key. They would have to be the biggest fools in tech history to not flip that switch, thinking they can just fund-raise their way magically indefinitely. The AI spending bubble will explode in 2026-2027, sharply curtailing the party; it'd be better for OpenAI if they quickly get ahead of that (their valuation will not hold up in a negative environment).
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-10-02 19:09:58+00:00
Ethnic cleansing is deeply wrong. Starvation as a tactic of war is horrible and evil. But it doesn't sound like people here do know what is happening.

The CNN article gives the low calorie consumption amount as 1400. 1400 was a specific time/event and the worst case CNN listed.

The US, in post war Germany, doing it 'the right way' according to history, targeted (so many received lower) 1500 calories a day. Or 1000 a day when airdropped.

According to the CNN article, Israel's action during an ongoing conflict is about par with how the US did it for years in post war Germany. And remember Germany is much larger than Gaza, so people had much larger distances to cover. Those that couldn't be reached received airlifts that only targeted 1000 calories per day.

War sucks. It sucks that the government of Gaza chose to start a war. What we are seeing is the impacts of that. And it is awful. But it's also in line with the conditions in post WW2 Germany, arguable one of the best historical treatments of an aggressor by victors over it.

Germany isn't referred to as a starvation, but as a successful reconstruction. It is the 'norm' to which people speak when they speak of how to treat an aggressor population when they lose to victors. It is the literal 'norm' that people are calling for in Gaza. I only looked into it because people here were pointing to it as how Israel should be acting in Gaza on last weeks Gaza story. And I was surprised to find that Israel is acting within that established norm that people here were calling for just last week (until I looked up what the norm/numbers were and brought those facts into the discussion).
by pixl97 | 2025-10-02 19:10:18+00:00
>I believe it's because if you are easily replaceable, then screwing up means you're not worth the trouble.

These ideas work great when you have a large/growing labor population, we're seeing it start to fall apart in a tight/shrinking labor population. "nobody wants to work" is the drum beat of the employers that used to burn employes.
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by EdisonDonovan | 2025-10-02 19:11:11+00:00
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by ModernMech | 2025-10-02 19:11:13+00:00
As someone who is familiar with the budget for a large university, I'll tell you that yes, it is true that these foreign monies help keep tuition low for domestic students. It's not through any subsidies or formal program of any kind, just the fact that if that cashflow didn't exist we would have to raise our tuition prices to keep delivering the same level of service.

I'll give you an example. I teach at a not well known school but it's got a nice enough reputation for undergrads. Our MS program is nothing to speak of though. Our MS class consists almost entirely of foreign students from Asia who pay full tuition just so they can get a stepping stone into America. They come to America, study at our program, then go to work in big tech firms around the country with a degree from a US university, which opens doors for them.

For the university's part, that full tuition money is where any "profit" could possibly come from if the university were a business -- every other functional aspect we have from UG education to PhD education to research is break-even or operating at a loss. But because foreign students are so eager to come to America that they are willing to pay full tuition, the MS program actually makes money. And because the University is nonprofit, we use that money to keep costs lower and to fill in budget gaps in other areas.

The upshot is if all that money dries up, because the US is no longer a desirable place for foreign students to want to live and learn and work, then that means the budget gaps will have to be filled in by raising tuition on... you guessed it: domestic students.

So I don't know whether you believe any of that or not, but that's how it works at least in one instance.
by Ajedi32 | 2025-10-02 19:11:31+00:00
Disappearing messages were never a real thing in the first place. You can have a gentleman's agreement that the person you send your message to will delete it after reading it, there's no way to guarantee anything beyond that.

(Fair point though that probably "disappearing" messages shouldn't be included in backups since that obviously prevents them from being deleted. Idk if Signal implements that or not.)
by dns_snek | 2025-10-02 19:11:41+00:00
You don't seriously believe that last few years have been sustainable? The market is in a bubble, companies are falling over themselves offering clinically insane deals and taking enormous losses to build market share (people are allowed to spend ten(s) of thousands of dollars in credits on their $200/mo subscriptions with no realistic expectation of customer loyalty).

What happens when investors start demanding their moonshot returns?

They didn't invest trillions to provide you with a service at break-even prices for the next 20 years. They'll want to 100x their investment, how do you think they're going to do that?
by dang | 2025-10-02 19:11:50+00:00
> They do not value their own lives [...] If the Palestinians valued their own lives

You can't post slurs like this to HN, no matter which people you have a problem with. No more of this, please, regardless of how divisive the topic and how justified the strong feelings about it are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(Edit: yes, we moderate HN the same way regardless of which population is being slurred)

Edit 2: please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45454073 also. You went even further over the line in that case.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-02 19:11:58+00:00
> If it was that simple, the current administration would've gotten rid of the Supreme Court

Remember the nuclear option [1]? That was the Senate removing the 60% rule for judicial appointments.

("Originally, the Senate's rules did not provide for a procedure for the Senate to vote to end debate on a question so that it could be voted on, which opened the door to filibusters. In 1917, the Senate introduced a procedure to allow for ending debate (invoking cloture) with a two-thirds majority, later reduced in 1975 to three-fifths of the senators duly chosen and sworn (60 if there is no more than one vacancy).")

> To abolish the Supreme Court, the Constitution itself would need to be changed

To abolish, yes. To restructure, no. Again, § 1 of Article III and the Appointments Clause are everything the Constitution has to say about the supreme Court.

> You can expand the supreme court with 60 senators

You can expand it with 50. Nothing in the Constitution says anything about 60 Senators--the only time it requires a supermajority is in § 3 of Article I in respect of impeachments [2].

Senate rules say 60 Senators. A simple majority can amend the Senate's rules.

> You can expand the supreme court with 60 senators - but that's only happened a handful of times (13 - 4 of which happened under FDR, 5 of which happened from 59-69, so 4 times outside of that, and only once since 79 after the 2008 meltdown)

Nothing here is correct.

SCOTUS was expanded five times: 1801, undone in 1802, 1807, 1837 and 1863; then thinned in 1866 and 1867; then expanded again in 1869 [3]. FDR threatened to expand the court, but didn't. Nothing happened in 1979 or 2008.

Most of those votes did not occur with a supermajority (we literally don't even have the vote counts for many of them). None of them required 60 votes because during all of them the Senate had fewer than 100 members.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_option

[2] https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-1/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_St...
by incomingpain | 2025-10-02 19:12:48+00:00
2020 republican trust was 10%, it's now 8%. 2% drop isnt much. I'm Canadian but my trust in the US media is perhaps 1-2% tops.

What's shocking is that democrats are above 50%. I'm blown away by that number.

I think this might be a key root cause of polarization for you americans. Democrats absolutely should not be trusting the media that much.
by JeksonFerguson | 2025-10-02 19:12:54+00:00
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by k2enemy | 2025-10-02 19:12:55+00:00
It seems like MLB themselves have been experimenting with this. On their website, they have a feature called "gameday" that animates the game. For a while now they've had a 2d view, but now they also have a 3d view that you can switch to.

It is buggy as hell, but neat that you can move around the field and watch player movement off the ball. But there are a ton of glitches, like players getting frozen or duplicated, batters, umps, and catchers getting swapped (funny to see the ump at bat), and mixups with mount visits. In time, I can imagine this as a great way to watch though. Especially for novice players and fans learning the game and trying to figure out things like who should back up which throws in which situations etc.
by sho_hn | 2025-10-02 19:13:01+00:00
To be fair, according to OpenAI they started ChatGPT as a demo/experiment and were taken by surprise when it went viral.

It may well be that they also didn't have a product culture as an organization, but were willing to experiment or let small teams do so.

It's still a lesson, but maybe a different one.

With organizational scale it becomes harder and harder to launch experiments under the brand. Red tape increases, outside scrutiny increases. Retaining the ability to do that is difficult.

Google does experiment a fair bit (including in AI, e.g. NotebookLLM and its podcast feature are I think a standout example of trying to see what sticks) but they also tend to try to hide their experiments in developer portals nowadays, which makes it difficult to get a signal from a general consumer audience.
by byefruit | 2025-10-02 19:13:07+00:00
And even when it does copy other products, it seems to be doing a terrible job of them.

Google's AI offering is a complete nightmare to use. Three different APIs, at least two different subscriptions, documentation that uses them interchangeably.

For Gemini's API it's often much simpler to actually pay OpenRouter the 5% surchargeto BYOK than deal with it all.

I still can't use my Google AI Pro account with gemini-cli..
by lkramer | 2025-10-02 19:13:11+00:00
This could be solved with comparison websites which seems to be exactly what those brokers are using anyway. I had a broker proudly declare that he could get me the best deal, which turned out to be exactly the same as what moneysavingexperts found for me. He wanted £150 for the privilege of searching some DB + god knows how much commission he would get on top of that...
by barbazoo | 2025-10-02 19:13:12+00:00
Is there such a thing as a family account?

> Add a user to your billing plan to give someone their own Fastmail Inbox and login. Build your team, be it work or family, and share calendars, contacts and more. Give users extra addresses for free

The way my UX works is I can add users but they always have to have their own paid plan. Makes sense for heavy email users but not so much for my partner or our kids. I was hoping there was a 5 accounts for the price of 3 thing like Spotify et al do.
by port11 | 2025-10-02 19:13:13+00:00
I agree with a sibling poster that it's not necessarily about wealth. I think it's about power.

Those who attain power are corrupted enough to seek to hold on to it; and spying on those you govern is one of the ways to hold on to that power. “What are they up to? Scheming? Against me?”

It's ironic because if politicians do a good job, and don't have much to hide, we'll trust them more and re-elect them.
by instagib | 2025-10-02 19:13:39+00:00
I see why Fords ceo does not like Apple CarPlay Ultra. You can control everything from your phone or a tablet.

“CarPlay Ultra is Apple's advanced, next-generation CarPlay system that deeply integrates your iPhone with a vehicle's entire infotainment system, including the driver's instrument cluster. It extends the familiar iOS interface to all the screens in your car, allowing for comprehensive control of vehicle functions like climate, radio, drive modes, and vehicle settings directly from the familiar CarPlay interface.”
by slowturtle | 2025-10-02 19:13:41+00:00
> Israel values the lives of their hostages above all else and will try to rescue them no matter the cost.

Then why did the Israelis violate the ceasefire in March earlier this year, after they refused to move on to the second phase which would've seen the release of more of the hostages? They broke the ceasefire by killing 400 Palestinians in one day, including over 200 children. [0] Conveniently Netanyahu used it as an excuse to get out of a court appearance for his corruption trial the next day.

[0] https://apnews.com/live/latest-updates-israel-launches-new-w...

[1] https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahus-testimony-in-graft-...
by dang | 2025-10-02 19:13:43+00:00
> [Palestinians] will raid and murder, rape and destroy

> those savages

Wtf? I already responded to a later comment of yours here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45454043, but this rhetoric is unacceptable on HN and if you continue to post like this we will ban you—the same way we ban accounts that post like this about other groups.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
by dh2022 | 2025-10-02 19:14:07+00:00
Thanks for responding to my messages. I really do not think that if "ICE start shooting at cops we have won the battle" I do not think Gavin wins the presidency if Trump puts him in custody.

In both of these situations I think the follow up is civil war. (which makes me wish we could separate from the deplorables peacefully. Unfortunately we cannot)
by acdha | 2025-10-02 19:14:11+00:00
They at least were not historically archived. This came up during the Hunter Biden laptop investigation where people were able to verify some of the messages only because the Gmail key was archived in many places because that service is so popular. I’m not aware of anyone making a comprehensive archive but I’d be unsurprised if someone did based on news like that.

https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/hunter-dkim#but-gmails-...

EDIT: this one exists but is incomplete: https://archive.prove.email/about
by baobun | 2025-10-02 19:14:13+00:00
> Correction: After publishing, Red Hat confirmed that it was a breach of one of its GitLab instances, and not GitHub. Title and story updated.

> After publishing our story, Red Hat confirmed that the security incident was a breach of its GitLab instance used solely for Red Hat Consulting on consulting engagements, and not GitHub.

> While Red Hat did not respond to any further questions about the breach, the hackers told BleepingComputer that the intrusion occurred approximately two weeks ago.
by cogman10 | 2025-10-02 19:14:15+00:00
The US was the victim of a terror attack at 9/11. It became the bad guy by invading Afghanistan and Iraq for 20 years using one terrorist attack as the justification.

You could argue Israel's right to strike back on Oct 8th, 15th, 31. That justification has vanished as the onslaught has continued. 2 years later.

Yes, Israel is the bad guy for committing genocide. Being the target of a terrorist attack doesn't give a country the right to wage war on civilians.
by LAC-Tech | 2025-10-02 19:14:42+00:00
It's amazing to see how support of Israel has started collapsing. Scores of US-aligned nations now recognise Palestine. Even inside their traditional support base in the US, it's on the decline; 50% of Republicans under 50 don't support Israel. At least one republican is calling it a "genocide". MAGA split over Iran.

What's interesting is that I don't see the zionist talking points changing at all. They still hold out hope they can accuse everyone of "anti-semitism" and they'll all get back in line like it's 2020. I think they're holding out hope things can go back to normal, but it will be hard to put the toothpaste back in the tube.
by __loam | 2025-10-02 19:14:56+00:00
They're being pushed by world powers to provide aid for civilians that have been caught up in a war zone and who are being systematically starved to death, according to a lot of reputable organizations including Israeli human rights organizations.

If you want to discuss aid to the regime then maybe we can start with the suitcases of money Bibi's government sent Hamas for years because they thought a more extreme group would be easier to control.
by bigyabai | 2025-10-02 19:14:59+00:00
> Apple already provides the translation layer to convert from DirectX 11 or 12 to Metal that Wine uses on Macs.

To registered developers, with no upstream or downstream support whatsoever.

> Proton does the exact same thing

For everyone, with upstream and downstream vendoring.

It's quite exciting to have two competing standards like this, it really makes you wonder which one developers will side with.
by hvb2 | 2025-10-02 19:15:01+00:00
> Is anybody who identifies strongly with a political party is interested in hearing fair or balanced news?

Yes. Same for conflicting opinions. Since this is HN I'll use a software analogy: I love it when people tell me how bad my idea is because they'll follow that up with theirs. And that's how we all learn.

To put that in real life US politics: we've made politics something you don't talk about because we fear disagreement and thus we slowly drift apart...
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by bigyabai | 2025-10-02 19:15:03+00:00
Apple gives developers almost all the compute drivers you could want from them. If you can't express your GPU acceleration as a Metal Compute Shader, you probably aren't leaving any GPU horsepower on the table. ANE and MLX will get exposed in higher-level CoreML frameworks, everyone should be happy.

35% raster improvements, it's worth noting, is not super impressive on the GPU side of things. Most raster compute is a square function, to double your render resolution you need a 4x the GPU power (on-paper) to handle the pixel count. That's what, six years of annual iteration? A large component of Apple and AMD's inability to break into Nvidia's CUDA empire is their obsession over raster optimization in a world where DLSS and FSR exists. It's a noble pursuit, but even as a gamer I've gotta admit they're wasting their time. We have software methods that can close the gap in render quality between $100 GPUs and $1000 GPUs, but no such solution for GPGPU compute.