MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stale2002 | 2025-10-02 21:45:48+00:00
> How can you negotiate with someone who just killed your negotiator?

The only other option seems to be that Israel is about to destroy the rest of Gaza City, and take out the last major location that Hamas controls. So their options are to either accept the peace plan, or die.

I don't think Israel cares that much which choice Hamas choses. But yeah accepting this peace deal sounds like it it quite obviously the mostly likely option to help prevent all the buildings that are about to be destroyed and people who will be killed.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-02 21:45:56+00:00
> the roots of the conflict date back to the founding of the Zionist Organization by Theodor Herzl in 1897 with the purpose to facilitate the escape of Jews from persecution in Eastern Europe by establishing a colony in Palestine

Please, the roots of this conflict go back millenia. Nothing done in the last hundred years have helped it. And the Palestinian people keep getting fucked by outside powers using them for their own ends, whether it be the Arab countries invading Israel or Iran having their sock puppets invite bombs. But it's a bit silly to imagine that if we poofed Israel and turned Israel & Palestine into a democracy that we wouldn't, within like two minutes, start seeing missiles flying.
by munk-a | 2025-10-02 21:46:29+00:00
I'm not certain if it still exists this way since I've been removed from the actual email templates for a while - but when I originally wrote them for my company they were multi-format supporting with the plaintext chunk as the lead portion - after that came the fancy HTML version with all the bells and whistles that the business required.

Did anyone ever read the plaintext version of the email outside our company? Probably not - but it was super useful for testing that the content was correct by dumping the full message contents to console.

Would I have been applauded for only providing customers with a plain text email? Nah, you need a really niche audience to appreciate that - I love that audience, but that audience isn't our customer base unfortunately.

The actual mechanics of email formatting are quite simple (it basically hasn't changed at all in 50+ years) so it can be quite straightforward - it just gets difficult when you try and get fancy.
by chasil | 2025-10-02 21:46:37+00:00
I don't think that the assertions are nonsense, but I don't understand how this works.

I have heard variants on this assertion:

"Two of the most prominent purported underlying causes of aging are chronic inflammation and senescent cells."

One thing that surprises me is that telomeres aren't mentioned.

I also don't understand how this is happening (is apoptosis somehow triggered?):

"Now, the Academy researchers demonstrate that SRCs reduce senescent cells, measured using a blue dye called SA-β-Gal, in multiple organs, including the brain, heart, and lungs."

The main mechanism of action appears to be:

"The therapeutic efficacy of MPCs is largely attributed to their paracrine actions, with exosomes playing a pivotal role in mediating these effects."

The researchers do not appear to fully understand how this is happening:

"Among the diverse geroprotective functions of SRCs in the brain and ovary, the restorative effect of SRC-derived exosomes on aged cells and their surroundings emerges as a key mechanism. Rejuvenation of aged cells by exosomes likely involves multiple pathways and targets."
by in_cahoots | 2025-10-02 21:46:48+00:00
Do blind people and nearsighted people have the same treatment? Saying people with profound autism need the same treatment as people with autism commenting on Hacker News is patently absurd. Go ahead and try offering therapy and workplace accommodations to nonverbal people living in a residential home. You're proving my point for me, we've lost sight of these people.

Even with cancer- the diagnosis and treatment vary tremendously depending on what type of cancer you have, how far along it is, and more recently how your particular genome responds to that version of cancer and each version of treatment. We don't just say, "whoops you have cancer" and start chemotherapy on the targeted area. Your argument doesn't make any sense.
by npc_anon | 2025-10-02 21:47:10+00:00
"If you don't like it, don't use instagram."

I get what you're saying but by current EU privacy law interpretation this approach is not allowed.

You can of course charge for services but you cannot charge people just to get rid of tracking. This is not to be confused with ads. You can run ads and offer a paid version without ads. It's about the tracking.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-10-02 21:47:13+00:00
The easy answer is to follow the same rule that you have for every other certificated aircraft and operator: Never fly under a structure. When humans do stupid shit like this, we take away their license.

I don't think they will take away their license, but AMZN should have to explain exactly how their drones managed to crash by flying themselves under an obstruction twice in a row.
by thewebguyd | 2025-10-02 21:47:29+00:00
> You know that other operating systems can manage without that, right?

Not for kernel updates (Linux, by default), and not for macOS which is now RO root fs and also requires a reboot because updates are image based, a. la. Fedora Silverblue.

Also FWIW, Windows now has hotpatching, albeit not available to consumers, it's attached to enterprise licensing
by throwup238 | 2025-10-02 21:47:36+00:00
It still can't satisfactorily draw a pelican on a bicycle because that's either not in the training data or the signal is too weak, so why would it be able to satisfactorily draw every random noun-riding-noun combination just because you threw a for loop at it?

The point is that in order to cheat on @simonw's benchmark across any arbitrary combination, they'd have to come up with an absurd number of human crafted input-output training pairs with human produced drawings. You can't just ask ChatGPT to generate every combination because all it'll produce is garbage that gets a lot worse the further from a pelican riding a bicycle.

It might work at first for the pelican and a few other animals/transport combination but what does it even mean for a man o' war riding a pyrosome? I asked every model I have access to generate an SVG for a "man o' war riding a pyrosome" and not a single one managed to draw anything resembling a pyrosome. Most couldn't even produce something resembling a man o' war except as a generic ellipsoid-shaped jellyfish with a few tenticles.

Expand that to every weird noun-noun combination and it's just not practical to train even a tiny fraction of them.
by throawayonthe | 2025-10-02 21:48:08+00:00
i know of ~3 currently working methods to take screenshots on snapchat

it isn't "weird that signal doesn't use any of them" because it does [1] use both, just not for giving a false sense of security to your correspondents

[1] https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360043469312-Sc...
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by 9rx | 2025-10-02 21:49:28+00:00
Much like LLMs. There are approximately 10 reasonable players giving it a go, and, unless this whole AI thing goes away, never to be seen again, it is likely that one of them will still be around in 100 years.

H100s are effectively consumables used in the construction of the metaphorical rail. The actual rail lines had their own fare share of necessary tools that retained little to no residual value after use as well. This isn't anything unique.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-02 21:49:52+00:00
> UN commission uses word genocide

Yes, that's the credible third party I referred to.

> ICJ used word "plausible"

Correct.

> HRW has used the word genocide

In the phrase "may amount to the crime of genocide" [1].

> the list of explicit accusation of genocide is quite big

Yet not amounting to "all big humanitarian organizations." Like, the two you chose to highlight stepped back from making that claim prematurely because they don't want to cry wolf with a word that should have a lot of meaning, but which activists have effectively neutered in American political culture.

[1] https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/12/19/israels-crime-exterminat...
by fragmede | 2025-10-02 21:49:52+00:00
But how would you know it's from what you would consider cheating as opposed to pelicans on bicycles existing in the latest training data? Obviously your blog gets fed into the training set for GPT-6, as well as everyone else talking about your test, so how would the comparison to a secret X riding a Y tell you if an AI lab is cheating as opposed to merely there being more examples in the training data?
by dyauspitr | 2025-10-02 21:50:24+00:00
There really aren’t that many books with genuinely masculine men. I haven’t read the ones you brought up, but usually it’s not the specific events in the story that matter- it’s more about the overall vibe, the way the character carries himself. And a lot of the time, that’s where the sense of masculinity just doesn’t come through anymore, at least not in any way a young boy could look up to.
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-02 21:50:35+00:00
Is there any version in your mind that stops Israel from genociding innocent Palestinians while also allowing them to get hostages back?

What does that look like? Is it realistic?

Ukraine gets the luxury of fighting an internationally recognized country with internationally recognized borders who wears compliant uniforms and recognized infrastructure that can be targeted. When Russia faked "separatists" in Ukraine in flagrant breach of laws of war, there was minimal international response and Ukraine was left to fend for itself.

Russia tried to freeze all of Ukraine and Europe to death early on in the war. It's not really a war crime, because blowing up infrastructure and cancelling trade is fair game. Countries did not give Ukraine immense aid even after that. The thing that got Putin labeled a war criminal was abducting children. Not shooting missiles at children, which he does regularly, but abducting them.

Hamas is breaking international law by fighting without official uniform, and is therefore in breach of the Geneva Convention. I don't think they actually recognize it so it doesn't matter. Hamas members commit a war crime every time they shoot at an IDF soldier, so don't lend much credence to "war crime" as a morality thing.

At some point though, you should be willing to recognize that "leave Palestine alone" without putting any requirements on Palestine is just "Let Hamas do whatever it wants", right? Palestinians are not jumping at the chance to replace Hamas. They are being oppressed by Hamas, and dissent is met with murder. Hamas is clear that they intend to keep killing Israeli people, regardless of religion even. Nobody has demonstrated an ability to liberate a populace from terrorists like that. So what strategy can we use to actually fix things?

Israel accepts like 10:1 innocent casualties for every Hamas member they kill, which is obscene. But whats the correct number? If it's zero, you have decided that it should not be possible to fight against non-traditional combatants.

Lets agree Israel needs to be stopped from controlling food going into Palestine (and probably other things). I would also advocate for Netenyahu in prison forever. What next? Assume a magical organization rose up and waved it's hands and those things happened. How do we go from there to both no more Palestinians dying AND no more Israeli people dying?
by chermi | 2025-10-02 21:50:45+00:00
It's pretty well accepted now that for pre-training LLMs the curve is S not an exponential, right? Maybe it's all in RL post-training now, but my understanding(?) is that it's not nearly as expensive as pre-training. I don't think 3-6 months is the time to 10X improvement anymore (however that's measured), it seems closer to a year and growing assuming the plateau is real. I'd love to know if there are solid estimates on "doubling times" these days.

With the marginal gains diminishing, do we really think they're (all of them) are going to continue spending that much more for each generation? Even the big guys with the money like google can't justify increasing spending forever given this. The models are good enough for a lot of useful tasks for a lot of people. With all due respect to the amazing science and engineering, OpenAI (and probably the rest) have arrived at their performance with at least half of the credit going to brute-force compute, hence the cost. I don't think they'll continue that in the face of diminishing returns. Someone will ramp down and get much closer to making money, focusing on maximizing token cost efficiency to serve and utility to users with a fixed model(s). GPT-5 with it's auto-routing between different performance models seems like a clear move in this direction. I bet their cost to serve the same performance as say gemini 2.5 is much lower.

Naively, my view is that there's some threshold raw performance that's good enough for 80% of users, and we're near it. There's always going to be demand for bleeding edge, but money is in mass market. So if you hit that threshold, you ramp down training costs and focus on tooling + ease of use and token generation efficiency to match 80% of use cases. Those 80% of users will be happy with slowly increasing performance past the threshold, like iphone updates. Except they probably won't charge that much more since the competition is still there. But anyway, now they're spending way less on R&D and training, and the cost to serve tokens @ the same performance continues to drop.

All of this is to say, I don't think they're in that dreadful of a position. I can't even remember why I chose you to reply to, I think the "10x cheaper models in 3-6 months" caught me. I'm not saying they can drop R&D/training to 0. You wouldn't want to miss out on the efficiency of distillation, or whatever the latest innovations I don't know about are. Oh and also, I am confident that whatever the real number N is for NX cheaper in 3-6 months, a large fraction of that will come from hardware gains that are common to all of the labs.
by runako | 2025-10-02 21:50:57+00:00
The "hand wave" comment was more to preempt the common pushback that X has to get to scale for the economics to work. My contention is that 700m MAUs is "scale" so they need another lever to get to profit.

> AI has gotten good enough that next year people can continue to use the current gen AI

This is problematic because by next year, an OSS model will be as good. If they don't keep pushing the frontier, what competitive moat do they have to extract a 70% gross margin?

If ChatGPT slows the pace of improvement, someone will certainly fund a competitor to build a clone that uses an OSS model and sets pricing at 70% less than ChatGPT. The curse of betting on being a tech leader is that your business can implode if you stop leading.

Similarly, this is very similar to the argument that PCs were "good enough" in any given year and that R&D could come down. The one constant seems to be people always want more.

> Not unlike the Uber/Lyft wars

Uber & Lyft both push CapEx onto their drivers. I think a more apt model might be AWS MySQL vs Oracle MySQL, or something similar. If the frontier providers stagnate, I fully expect people to switch to e.g. DeepSeek 6 for 10% the price.
by xp84 | 2025-10-02 21:51:10+00:00
Yeah the out-of-market-only rules of the national sports subscriptions is really goofy. I guess they’re trying to protect the Comcasts of the world who own a lot of those regional sports networks where the baseball games are shown, because they pay a lot for those deals and would probably refuse to pay as much if MLB let MLB.tv have them. But it still sucks.
by vel0city | 2025-10-02 21:51:14+00:00
The last tower I worked in wasn't some really big tower (only about 16 stories) but in the lobby near the security booth there was a set of shelves operated by a food delivery company. Every day there would be a few restaurants listed, you'd place your order, and they'd deliver everyone's food around noon to the shelves. You'd just go down and grab your meal.

Seemed to work well enough for the times I used it. Honestly though I really valued the time to take a break and go for a walk and have lunch away from sitting at my desk.
by jph00 | 2025-10-02 21:51:37+00:00
As the post mentions, a year ago we did a trial of it, and have been working with that group of 1000 users since then.

The course is about a methodology, not a product. It's the ideas Eric Ries and I have been working on for decades. 5 weeks is a crash course that can only touch on the ideas. And it covers learning data structures and algorithms, foundations of web programming, system administration, startup creating, and much more.

It's really a rapid "how do to <x> the solveit way" for a variety of x. Each of those x is likely to become a full course in the future.
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by some_guy_nobel | 2025-10-02 21:52:20+00:00
Small thought exercise: What if the numbers were real? Would that change any of your stances/views? Would you self-reflect and consider that you had been tricked into spreading lies at the expense of thousands of lives?

Maybe it helps to start smaller. Many (Israeli's) have told me that the IDF is the world's most 'honest' military - one that even warns buildings before they're bombed!

Then, you can imagine how difficult it was for me to reconcile that with many facts from the ground. Here's one. Only one. The Rafah paramedic massacre:

"Israel at first claimed that the medics' vehicles did not have emergency signals on when troops opened fire but later backtracked. Cellphone video recovered from one of the medics contradicted Israel's initial account."[0]

Is that a one-off lie?

0: https://www.npr.org/2025/04/20/nx-s1-5370617/israeli-probe-k...
by thaack | 2025-10-02 21:52:47+00:00
I think streaming is part of why I DON'T watch baseball. The DTC streaming package for my local team is $20/month. Baseball is something that I would flip on the local team and watch after work passively. The value just isn't there for $20!/month.

I also think it has a huge negative impact on youth interest in baseball. I personally got into baseball as a kid because my father would do the same - get home from work and turn on the game because it was on OTA TV. How are you getting kids interested in the sport if they can't even watch because the parents don't want to fork over that cost? Huge ripple effect. The RSN's which typically carry a vast majority of local baseball games (mlb.tv is blacked out for local markets) bet big on streaming and lost a ton of money[1]. They, in turn, attempted to gouge the remaining dedicated fans at an inflated cost. I already pay $82/month for YoutubeTv. If it's not on there, I just won't watch - in turn, I also go to the ballpark less and really don't keep up with the local team at all.

[1] Bally Sports (Diamond Sports Group) 2023 Bankruptcy
by freehorse | 2025-10-02 21:52:57+00:00
I used to do it while coming back from work but lately I feel too exhausted and want to be home asap. Going to work no way, too much stress. But I go by bike which is still something.

The point of higher intensity exercise taking additional time requiring shower etc makes sense indeed. And I agree that walking is much more accessible: I can suddenly just decide to go out and walk, other types of exercise do require more of a plan or preparation.

Another thing I enjoy during walks is listening to podcasts. I cannot really stay focused on most podcasts unless I am walking.
by alborzb | 2025-10-02 21:53:11+00:00
I'm not sure why you're being down-voted... But here's two credible sources:

Reuters estimates the deaths at 60,000 [ https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/how-many-palestini... ]

The UN estimates it to be at about 65,000 [ https://www.ochaopt.org/content/reported-impact-snapshot-gaz... ]

Neither of which are around 600 thousand as the previous commenter posted. The French News Channel called France24 did a quick video explaining the current fake news that certain NGOs are spreading with misleading death counts -- https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/truth-or-fake/20250624-...
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-02 21:53:35+00:00
I am not exactly sure about using containers (most likely you mean docker/podman) as sandboxes...

Please correct me wrong but for a better form of sandboxing, I would recommend something like microvm and the bottlefire thing which was recently shared if that might pique your interest as I found it to be interesting and then using it with something like https://github.com/Zouuup/landrun

There is also tinykvm and other projects too which can simply take a binary and run it and I think that maybe developers should also try out all the different sandboxes and different things just for understanding as well I suppose too. To me, I really like playing with different form of sandboxes or such technologies in general.

Also do note that I am not sure if bottlefire provides sandbox/isolation by default as they mention Sandbox with Landlock seperately so I am now a bit confused if they provide sandbox by default or not as I previously thought it might have.
by yibg | 2025-10-02 21:54:14+00:00
A lot of problems with this.

1) As long as Israel treats Palestinians the way they current do, there will always be another Hamas. That or completely remove Palestinians from the area, which seems to be the current goal. So no, completely destroying hamas is not the only way to get to a real permanent peace.

2) How Israel is going about things is the exact issue at hand. You can't just hand wave it away.

3) Let's say for the sake of argument destroying Hamas IS the only way to achieve long lasting peace, how much death and destruction does it justify? 10% of the population? 20%? 50%?. So again just because it's an armed conflict, doesn't mean anything goes.