MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jameshilliard | 2025-10-08 07:15:30+00:00
> Is it? I'm afraid I disagree, but then again, I've read the documents I mentioned. Feel free to ask for help if you want more clarity!

You seem to just want to use vague terms and play word games.

> Unfortunately this is not true, because it does not meet the definition (even you acknowledge "exceptions" in your post, and 1 exception disproves the rule). You also keep switching "Gaza" out for "Palestine", which is the country we're discussing.

So you're saying Egypt and Israel were the rulers of Gaza...I mean if you really want to use ridiculously confusing definitions go ahead, but that's not particularly helpful.

> israel thinks the entirely of Palestine should be israel's

Then why did they leave Gaza in 2005?

> is effecting this goal via genocide

You have to really ignore the facts to make that claim, exactly like many UN officials do.

> And yet, in Palestine, israel does that even more, and also israel's latest conflict has killed journalists at a greater rate than any other in history. Let that sink in.

What people call journalists in Palestine often includes individuals holding actual hostages[0] and others that are part of Hamas, so those claims are quite problematic in general.

> When it comes to unconvincing israeli claims that any and every critic in the world is biased against them, we certainly aren't referring to facts or truth.

There are plenty that disagree with the claims, either way UN officials showing their bias isn't anything new and certainly didn't start with this conflict.

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/19/middleeast/gaza-neighborhood-...

> If israel wishes to credibly prove their claims regarding bias against israel, they can submit their claims for judgement by the UN or international court.

There are cases in progress with the ICJ, Israel isn't the one making the claim of genocide, they are defending against a claim, the burden of proof is on the parties making the claims, and they have so far failed to provide sufficient evidence to back their claims.

> claiming that everybody who criticizes them is biased, israel's claims can be assumed false wherever they would be self-serving.

The burden of proof is on those that make the claims against Israel, and the UN has a way bigger credibility issue than Israel does when it comes to this conflict.
by pj_mukh | 2025-10-08 07:15:51+00:00
I see this take a lot, but it confuses me. There is no guarantee that LP’s would take that money and instead invest it in <tech I respect that is not AI>.

They would just as likely hoover up housing around the country or some such insanity to capitalize on the scarcity.

VC is actually a pretty effective vehicle to separate rich people from their money so society can try crazy things. You just don’t agree with this particular adventure and frankly there will never be the perfect alternative adventure.
by grues-dinner | 2025-10-08 07:15:58+00:00
I'm not saying they won't (the "if" is an important word in the sentence), it's just that datacentre growth is not the same as AI growth. It's related, but it is, by definition, temporary as datacentres are soon completed.

There's obviously evidence people use LLMs. That's not necessarily the same as people paying a noticeable fraction of all their money to use them in perpetuity. And even if "normal" people do start taking out $50 subscriptions as a matter of course, commoditisation could push that price down as could "dumping" of cheap models from overseas. A breakthrough in being able to run "good enough" models very cheaply, or even locally, would also make expensive cloud AI subscriptions a hard sell. And expensive subscriptions are the only way this pans out.

It hasn't yet been shown that AI is a gas that will fill all the available capacity, and keep it filled. If bread were 10 times cheaper, would you buy 10x as much? That has more or less happened to food availability in the West over the last 200 years and OpenBread and BunVidia don't dominate the economy.

None of that is sure to happen, and maybe the AI hype train is right and huge expensive LLMs specifically drive a gigantic productivity boom¹ and are worth, say, 0.2*GDP forever. But if it isn't, and it turns out $5 a month gets you all people actually need, it's going to be untidy.

¹: in which case, why is GDP not growing from the AI we already have?
by techpression | 2025-10-08 07:18:32+00:00
And Claude is more expensive than ever, efficiency gains and all. Those investments doesn’t necessarily pay off, and historical performance is not indicative of future ditto.

I don’t think it’s a matter of efficiency at current pricing but increased pricing. It would be a lot more sane if the use cases became more advanced and less people used them, because building enormous data centers to house NVIDIA hardware so that people can chat their way to a recipe for chocolate cake is societal insanity.
Ask HN: Great Firewall in Iran?
by minebreaker | 2025-10-08 07:20:04+00:00
I'm kinda burnt out and took a 2 month vacation, and decided to fulfill my dream of visiting Persepolis. The last time I traveled abroad is decade ago, so I assume a lot of things have changed. It was after 911 but the phone censorship was not a thing yet.

- I got a used iPhone SE as a burner phone and created a fake Twitter account, although it hasn't aged yet. What else should I do? (Apparently I'm not gonna put my HN account on my social media list)

- Looks like China's GFW is so sophisticated[0] that it seems evading it is almost impossible. Is Iran's as smart? Do they use deep packet inspection?

- Does Cloudflare Zero Trust work in Iran? Should I create a SOCKS proxy?

- How severe is the internet censorship in Iran in general?

- Not specific to Iran, but I'm a bit surprised that border cops in almost all countries have the authority to force me to unlock my phone. Dark times.

Any advice will be appreciated!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44958621
by aliher1911 | 2025-10-08 07:20:12+00:00
Curious if you saw any difference in far IR vs near IR on cameras with removed filters. When I tried camera without filter or camera with IR filter (one that only lets IR through and look redish black to naked eye) attached I had nice b/w images of trees on long exposures or better pictures of tv remote leds. But if I make a picture of an iron or pan they look the same when either cold or hot. This is very different from thermal cameras I used where you can clearly see unevennes of the pan heat, dark image on tshirt being warmer on the sun, person at night etc. I can speculate that thermal exhaust falls into the second category.
by spoiler | 2025-10-08 07:20:24+00:00
tldr is "kettle calling the pot black"

Both extremes don't listen and arguments always fall on deaf ears, especially when perceived as ideologically different. Merits of the argument are irrelevant. Most don't evolve past"My dad is stronger than your dad", it just morphs into "my God is better than your god", or in more recent years "my politics/policy smarter than your policy".

The people at the top want the same thing: to remain in rule. They agree the best way is oppression, they just don't agree who the oppressors should be.

People in the middle usually all want the same thing: better lives, but can't agree which oppressors are the lesser evils
by jeroenhd | 2025-10-08 07:21:35+00:00
Capabilities are printed on the side of ethernet cables and the text printed on the cable rarely seems related to the actual capabilities of the ethernet plug. Some cat5e cables are rated for 1000mbps but will happily run 5000mbps or 2500mbps (because those standards came after the text on the cable was last updated), other "cat6" cables are scams and struggle achieving gigabit speeds without packet loss.

Plus, it doesn't really matter if you put "e-marker 100W USB3 2x2 20gbps" on a cable when half those features depend on compatibility from both sides of the plug (notably, supposedly high-end devices not supporting 2x2 mode or DP Alt mode or charging/drawing more than 60W of power).
by ikurei | 2025-10-08 07:23:13+00:00
Although I agree with other commenters that your command can't compare to all of bat's features, many of which I appreciate... thank you for sharing this tip, I didn't know about `highlight` and I can't install `bat` at work.

This will live in my .bashrc for a long time:

cat() { if [[ -t 1 ]]; then command cat "$@" | highlight --force -O xterm256 else # plain cat to pipe into other things command cat "$@" fi }
by fzeroracer | 2025-10-08 07:23:32+00:00
PBS has always been political, it's just the unfortunate reality that conservatives are upset over the past 80 or so years of progress and want a 'great reset' to try and reorganize things to benefit them. When the very notion of empathy is deemed to be woke, it's unfortunately no surprise that they would target PBS immediately.

Mr. Rogers frequently pushed the envelope in terms of welcoming Black individuals during a period where segregation was still very publicly affecting people even after the civil rights act. We look back on these episodes and don't see anything radical, but at the time they were very much so.
by KronisLV | 2025-10-08 07:25:21+00:00
I mean, most of my friends (especially the artists but also software devs) seem to hate AI with a passion: sometimes because of the ethical bankruptcy, other times because of the amount of slop it produces and how in your face it is due to the hype cycle, other times due to a belief that it more or less leads to brainrot and atrophy of cognitive abilities.
by theshrike79 | 2025-10-08 07:27:36+00:00
You could build the most technically perfect MS Office competitor and still get zero users.

It's not about quality, it's market share, vendor lock-in, people being set in their ways and refusing to change from a known thing in general.

Jira had to get REALLY bad before we switched to Linear for example - and there are still growing pains from heavy Jira users who had very specific ways of working.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-10-08 07:27:39+00:00
Hrrm. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68839043

Furthermore https://duckduckgo.com/q=toxicologic+assessment+of+jet+fuel

and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fume_event

Are the fumes less bad, when they don't leak into the cabin by bleed air, just blown away backwards?

The solution to pollution is dilution (in the atmosphere)? With the current amount of global air traffic, no matter if civilian, or military?
by empiko | 2025-10-08 07:27:39+00:00
It becomes feasible when people are willing to pay more than it costs to run it. But I think this will be a pretty uphill battle, as many use cases are hard to monetize (eg proofreading) and for many use cases you will feel pressure from smaller models (you don't need the most expensive SOTA model to generate an email). There is probably just a very limited amount of use cases that are in the goldilocks zone with their difficulty so that people will be willing to pay for them, AND AI is able to solve them. I think programming might be one of them.
by sharkjacobs | 2025-10-08 07:28:37+00:00
I mean, they seem to address that pretty directly in the post

> Two years ago, I wouldn’t have bothered with the rewrite, let alone creating the script in the first place. The friction was too high. Now, small utility scripts like this are almost free to build.

> That’s the real story. Not the script, but how AI changes the calculus of what’s worth our time.
by avighnay | 2025-10-08 07:29:20+00:00
Totally agree on this. It has delivered a substantial value for me in my projects. The models are always going to give back results optimized for using minimal computing resources in the provider's infrastructure. To overcome this I see some using/suggesting, running the AI in self correction loops, the pro being least human intervention.

However, personally I have got very good results by taking the approach of using the AI with continuous interaction and also allowing implementation only after a good amount of time deliberating on design/architecture. I almost always append 'do not implement before we discuss and finalize the design' or 'clarify your assumptions, doubts or queries before implementation'.

When I asked Gemini to give a name for such an interaction it suggested 'Dialog Driven Development' also contrasted it against 'vide coding'. Transcript summary and AI disclaimer written by Gemini below

https://gingerhome.github.io/gingee-docs/docs/ai-disclaimer.... https://gingerhome.github.io/gingee-docs/docs/ai-transcript/...
by apeytavin | 2025-10-08 07:30:12+00:00
There's several things but for example, there is no LiDAR on it nor even a good place to put one. If you're going to navigate around, without a LiDAR or good compute for VSLAM (which is very hard to setup and VERY demanding in compute), you will very quickly get lost. At this point the Kiwi is only for very local navigation (and you will still have IMU drift).

There is also a possibility for it to tip the base if the arm is fully extended. And the SO-101 has quite poor repeatability.

The base is also slow to move, and depending on which surface you are the omniwheels can get dirt in quickly.

Finally, external compute means you need in particular to teleoperate from your computer, so you have to be far from the robot and not necessarily in the same orientation than it which is very, very uncomfortable. This app system we made is one of the things people love the most about MARS.

Ah, and RGBD really does matter for navigation AND for learning (augmenting ACT with depth yields better results).

The wheels are indeed these ones, and the camera on the video is a luxonis oak-d wide, pretty expensive but comfortable to work with. However, the version we're shipping includes a much cheaper stereo-depth camera that we calibrate ourselves - I can't get you the reference right right now cause it's late at night but feel free to reach out on discord
by DocTomoe | 2025-10-08 07:30:40+00:00
That's the main crux with the current EU proposition: that they want to surveil all chat, regardless of whether the citizen involved is suspected of a crime.

Wiretapping a chat if the citizen is suspected of a crime AND after a judge has reviewed the evidence and green-lit such surveillance is - imho - more acceptable. We do that with phones, why would we not do it with chats?
by troad | 2025-10-08 07:30:50+00:00
Going against the grain here, but I liked Stimulus so much I lifted it out of Rails and plopped it into a Phoenix app.

I think the problem here is a disconnect of assumptions. Stimulus isn't meant to be an alternative to React.

If your app is (tens of) thousands of lines of JS, and that is all you know a web app to be, then React may be a sensible, battle-tested approach for you.

But if all you need is a few dozen lines of JS to polish the UX of an overwhelmingly server-side app, then Stimulus is a neat way to encapsulate and surface it when desired. In Phoenix, it slots nicely between static HTML views and dynamic LiveViews.

I don't think anyone has ever suggested you should use Stimulus to try to replicate a SPA, and I imagine you'd have a very bad time if you tried.
by DaSHacka | 2025-10-08 07:31:05+00:00
> Why wouldn't it be successful? Truth Social seems to be doing pretty well,

Is it? No one I know uses it at all, the only time I even remember it exists is when seeing screenshots of Trump's posts reposted on mainstream media and twitter from his account there. It's essentially the "trump-branded-twitter" and I never even hear of anyone else actually using it.

Compared to twitter, where most people I know still have an account in one way or another, including most notable mainstream figures.

> Not everyone wants to debate politics all the time. Sometimes they just want to exist as trans people, share posts with their other queer friends and enjoy their day.

Well they'd be poorly served by Bluesky, seeing as how someone merely existing on the platform without even breaking any rules has become a hot-button issue.

The whole platform is filled with politics, and people complaining about politics(/political figures). Perhaps politics they agree with are more tolerable than having to see opposing politics on their feed, but I find it hard to believe they truly are attracted to Bluesky for the total lack of politics.

Well, unless they go there for furry porn. There's so much of it for those that seek out such content, perhaps it really goes drown out any semblance of political discussion.
by pfannkuchen | 2025-10-08 07:31:05+00:00
This would be a fabulously dramatic plot twist. I’ve never considered this as a possibility before, but between Altman orchestrating some masterful play to bring the next transformative technology to market first for massive profit, and Altman orchestrating some masterful manipulation to scam everyone, the latter feels massively more plausible.

Are all the people who are super duper worried about GenAI and safety in reality a planted foil? Men cowering in front of the fake paper tiger, so men further away say “this tiger is powerful, just look at how those men are cowering before it”.
by pjmlp | 2025-10-08 07:32:17+00:00
Java 1996, C++ only got standardized in 1998, C in 1990 (tehcnically the standard is from 1989, but there was a short retification in 1990), Delphi is from 1995 (not that big player nowadays, but plenty of its influences live on C#, Typescript and Kotlin).

It goes to show how much investment is required for a programming language to actually take off at scale.

However in a couple of years, we will be asking the computers to perform tasks for us and the actually compiler frontend will be irrelevant to the AI runtime.
by allie1 | 2025-10-08 07:32:37+00:00
The slop is real. Especially when I see promoters of platforms for vibe coders. They don't understand the implications of lack of security in potentially viral apps. It's easy to consider them as WMDs.

People have the same password across services. They share personal information. In a geopolitical climate as today's, where the currency of war is disruption, it can wreak havoc.
by iancmceachern | 2025-10-08 07:32:48+00:00
"During field performance testing before the accident, the G650 consistently exceeded target takeoff safety speeds (V2). V2 is the speed that an airplane attains at or before a height above the ground of 35 feet with one engine inoperative. Gulfstream needed to resolve these V2 exceedances because achieving the planned V2 speeds was necessary to maintain the airplane's 6,000-foot takeoff performance guarantee (at standard sea level conditions). If the G650 did not meet this takeoff performance guarantee, then the airplane could only operate on longer runways. However, a key assumption that Gulfstream used to develop takeoff speeds was flawed and resulted in V2 speeds that were too low and takeoff distances that were longer than anticipated.

Rather than determining the root cause for the V2 exceedance problem, Gulfstream attempted to reduce the V2 speeds and the takeoff distances by modifying the piloting technique used to rotate the airplane for takeoff. Further, Gulfstream did not validate the speeds using a simulation or physics-based dynamic analysis before or during field performance testing. If the company had done so, then it could have recognized that the target V2 speeds could not be achieved even with the modified piloting technique. In addition, the difficulties in achieving the target V2 speeds were exacerbated in late March 2011 when the company reduced the target pitch angle for some takeoff tests without an accompanying increase in the takeoff speeds."
by Scoundreller | 2025-10-08 07:33:23+00:00
iPhone / iOS Find My function doesn’t require cellular data.

https://support.apple.com/en-in/104978#:~:text=If%20Find%20M...

Still lots of devices that have physical SIM cards and would be senseless if the device couldn’t be tracked if the SIM was removed.

I figured it worked more like an AirTag and pinged nearby devices.
by thot_experiment | 2025-10-08 07:34:30+00:00
Is arduino even relevant at all in 2025? I mean i gotta hand it to em they're getting an insane amount of life out of marketing a 20 year old chip but I haven't seriously considered using one for a decade or so because of how much better in literally every way the esp32 is. I mean it's like $10 for three of them, they're dual core, have a radio on board and you can even use the arduino IDE for em, what's the downside? I especially love the two cores because I can have a web stack and bluetooth on one core, and whatever realtime actual programming i need to do on the second core.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-10-08 07:34:56+00:00
Or if they do, it's anecdotal or wrong. Worse, they say it with confidence, which the AI models also do.

Like, I'm sure the models have been trained and tweaked in such a way that they don't lean into the bigger conspiracy theories or quack medicine, but there's a lot of subtle quackery going on that isn't immediately flagged up (think "carrots improve your eyesight" lvl quackery, it's harmless but incorrect and if not countered it will fester)
by jama211 | 2025-10-08 07:35:16+00:00
Honestly the way you keep trying to tie this all back to screen time is worrying, it feels like you’re taking the preconceived conclusion that screen time is a huge part of this and trying to make it fit the data, when it’s just as likely it’s quite a small component of the issue compared to much larger societal and economical reasons young people are in these situations.

I think you want it to be screen time because seeing people with high screen time affects you emotionally, and you subconsciously want it to be something that simple - and potentially something that can be changed through choice so some blame can be placed on the victims. Such a thing is attractive to a certain type of mind. That’s why I said you were holding a hammer looking for nails, you’re holding a screen time hammer and that’s not the way you should approach this if you want the scientific truth.

Good luck out there.
by ruszki | 2025-10-08 07:35:45+00:00
That’s true, however the current vibe coding ecosystem is clearly not written in this mindset. You will have a hard time to dive into anything if you previously generated 2k LOC/hour, which is absolutely possible. Typing was never the bottleneck, understanding, and knowing that you did something well was always the real bottleneck. LLMs make this even worse. You can move Jira tickets to done faster with it, but even bad developers can do that many times compared to better ones, because for example they mindlessly copy-paste StackOverflow answers whose half of the code is absolutely not necessary, but they don’t care, because “it works”… until it doesn’t.
by pjmlp | 2025-10-08 07:35:52+00:00
More like a better Objective-C, and with a syntax that was appealing to C++ developers.

https://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/stuff/java-objc.html

.NET was being designed with J++, Microsoft's Java extensions, Cool research language only became C# and took over J++'s role in .NET due to Sun's lawsuit.

The lawsuit is more than well known, and the background to .NET planned used of .NET is on the papers published by Don Syme of F# fame, regarding the history of .NET and F# HOPL.
by throwaway290 | 2025-10-08 07:36:39+00:00
Some economy related articles here, I literally can't find something about GDP/unemployment/inflation except this article)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45507195

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45500699

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45510726

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45506365
by indigo945 | 2025-10-08 07:36:55+00:00
> Or the literal communist party, Die Linke. Why are they never referred to as the extreme left.

It's definitely not true that people never refer to Die Linke as extreme left. In fact, all kinds of people - including prominent politicians from e.g. the CDU - refer to Die Linke as extreme left.

This is not commenting on whether that is a correct moniker or not, I'm just pointing out that your dichotomy is nonsensical because the thing that you suggest to not be happening absolutely is happening.