MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by magicalhippo | 2025-10-03 01:13:13+00:00
Netanyahu himself has said that:

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended Israel’s regular allowing of Qatari funds to be transferred into Gaza, saying it is part of a broader strategy to keep Hamas and the Palestinian Authority separate, a source in Monday’s Likud faction meeting said.

The prime minister also said that, “whoever is against a Palestinian state should be for” transferring the funds to Gaza, because maintaining a separation between the PA in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza helps prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state.

https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/netanyahu-money-...
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-03 01:13:23+00:00
> in the next millennia, as the objective historians review the last century, they will write that the civilian towns were fire bombed in ww2 to gain military advantage and nobody cared about the innocent, just like how we talk about how Caesar becoming an emperor without getting lost in the daily politics and blindness of the day

Doesn't your example suggest the opposite? You're arguing for reductivism. The reductive view on WW2 would almost certainly skip over the bombing of Dresden and even the Holodomor, because those didn't have long-term strategic effects.

Also, Caesar was never an emperor. And plenty of people love to obsess about the daily politics of the late Republic.
by MontyCarloHall | 2025-10-03 01:13:32+00:00
>I don't see why these companies can't just stop training at some point.

Because training isn't just about making brand new models with better capabilities, it's also about updating old models to stay current with new information. Even the most sophisticated present-day model with a knowledge cutoff date of 2025 would be severely crippled by 2027 and utterly useless by 2030.

Unless there is some breakthrough that lets existing models cheaply incrementally update their weights to add new information, I don't see any way around this.
by churchill | 2025-10-03 01:13:53+00:00
You may not realize it but Israel is slowly becoming Rhodesia/Apartheid South Africa. And i don't mean the word 'apartheid' as a cudgel.

During the Rhodesian Bush War, their forces ran circles around the ZIPRA and ZANLA with multiple battles and encounters where they'd routinely record 500:1 KD ratios like Operation Dingo, etc. They had complete freedom of action to bomb any infrastructure obstructing them, reach deep into neighboring countries and slaughter guerillas copiously.

Hell, South Africa had a dozen nukes.

Once the sanctions came on, it unraveled everything they had.

Israel is in such a precarious situation right now. Their economy depends on technology exports to an extreme degree. Cutting off that source of FX would literally half the economy overnight because cash would stop sloshing around internally from its main sources.

If that happens, all the smart kids propping up the economy will move out while you're left with extremists who want war but won't fight in the army. In fact, it's ongoing right now with people leaving the country in the midst of a war they're 'winning.'

You might think sanctions are a far-off notion, but key Western powers are breaking with America on recognizing Palestine. That's a red line designed to signal to Israel that it's losing ground. People across the world are calling for sanctions and it won't be long before they materialize.

And America? Israel's main power base are American boomer evangelicals who're going the way of the dinosaur. Like I said in another comment, their kids are either not religious, don't like bombing kids, have been radicalized by the atrocities they've witnessed, or are aligned with people like Fuentes.

I hope they can smell the coffee; if anyone had told South Africa that a nuclear power could be disarmed without a gunshot, they'd never have believed it. But, look what eventually happened.

Thanks to the ongoing genocide, America's voting demographic for the next 40 years has begun to see Israel as a genocidal terrorist state. They will be voting for the next 50 years, while the boomer evangelicals die off.
Ask HN: How do robotics teams manage data and debugging today?
by Lazaruscv | 2025-10-03 01:14:33+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m working on a project in the robotics space and would love to get the community’s perspective.

The problem I’ve seen: robotics teams generate a massive amount of data (ROS2, MCAP, OpenLABEL, etc.), but debugging and analysis often means hours of digging through logs, building custom scripts, or fighting fragmented formats. For small and medium robotics companies, this can really slow down iteration.

I’m trying to understand:

• How do you/your team currently manage and analyze robot data?

• What are the biggest pain points you face (e.g. debugging failures, comparing test runs, searching across logs)?

• Have you tried tools like Foxglove/Rerun/etc.? What works, what doesn’t?

• If there was a solution that actually made this easier, what would it have to do for you to adopt it?

I also put together a short (5 min) survey here: https://forms.gle/x57UReg8Yj9Gx7qZ8

If you’re willing to share your experiences in more detail, it would really help shape what we’re building.

We’ll anonymize responses and share the aggregated insights back with the community once we’ve collected enough.

Thanks in advance — I know this is a niche problem, but I figured HN has some of the sharpest robotics engineers, founders, and tinkerers out there. Really curious to hear how you’re solving this today.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-03 01:15:38+00:00
Can we both at least agree that 95% of comapnies investing and failing in a technology with 400b+ dollars of investment constitutes a bubble popping? I pretty much agree with you otherwise and that is what the article comes down to as well:

>I believe both sides are right. Like the 19th century railroads and the 20th century broadband Internet build-out, AI will rise first, crash second, and eventually change the world.
by flyinglizard | 2025-10-03 01:15:46+00:00
It’s borderline bigoted to force your values onto a completely different population that’s Islamist, tribal and radicalized. After Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza people thought it would be a good idea to hold elections there. Hamas, the Palestinian equivalent of ISIS, won. There haven’t been elections since. In the West Bank, no PA elections since 2005 because the PLO feared Hamas would win there too.

So what democracy are you talking about?
by tomyedwab | 2025-10-03 01:15:46+00:00
Honestly, good for you. I am almost two years into my spreadsheet and I try to get in 10 minutes a day of intense exercise and half an hour or more of walking to counter sitting all day at the computer. Many people try to "get healthy" and change their entire daily routine at once and that is impossible to do while also living a normal life. It sounds like you layered in one activity at a time and each success motivated the next ambitious goal. This is a smart strategy and one I would recommend to others.
by lazyasciiart | 2025-10-03 01:15:59+00:00
oh man, you're right - there are some people in California who get that! I should have said "90% permanent salary replacement is so far from normal that nobody can in good faith call it a major part of the compensation story. Anyone who used that as advertising for the job would be sued for lying. The average length of service at time of retirement across the entire California public education system is only 25 years. Only around 11% of all CA education employees even hit 35 years at retirement, and less than a quarter of those make it to 40, so a maximum of 5% of all education staff end up with a 90% salary replacement - and this group is more likely to be administrative staff than elementary school teachers, and more likely to be out of SF than in it."

BUT for the arbitrary reason that it supports my argument, we are going to ignore any teachers that are getting 90% salary replacement, as a fair way to compensate for arbitrarily discarding all private sector benefits from the comparison. So I was right after all - nobody in the comparison group is getting 90% salary replacement.
by MeetingsBrowser | 2025-10-03 01:18:21+00:00
Exact quote from the video

> returning back to Detroit this morning after the republicans failed to show up in the US house. We got to make sure Americans have the healthcare that they need, and if that means we've got to shut this government down than so be it.

Not sure where you are getting the illegal immigrants stuff from.

And both sides have the power to avoid the shut down by coming to an agreement with the other side.

If democrats are intentionally shutting down the government to keep healthcare for Americans, republicans are equally as intentionally shutting down the government down to oppose healthcare for Americans.
by stingraycharles | 2025-10-03 01:18:46+00:00
Isn’t Apple mostly interested in making more money, though, instead of spending money?

The way I see it of all the top tech giants, Apple has the most to lose with all the tariff shenanigans, so it’s in their [shareholders] interest to stay friends with the current administration.

Apple has never had moral values other than earning money by making great products.

And I say this as someone who is deeply embedded in the Apple ecosystem.
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2025-10-03 01:18:57+00:00
I realize it started as somewhat of a joke, but more analytics would have been fun. Tracking your body weight or other quantitative numbers to monitor the improvement.

Couch potato zero to 10k anything physicality has to have a noticeable impact, and I am inspired. I like that even though you had multiple low times, there is still enough buffer in the year to hit the goal without having super saiyan discipline.
by jjcm | 2025-10-03 01:19:26+00:00
I've done a lot of stage demos. I've done pre-recorded ones, I've done live ones.

I prefer live ones, by a significant margin, even for non-deterministic AI things. In general I find live ones better, but it does depend on your circumstance. It's worth asking yourself three questions when you're doing a demo:

What is the outcome when it goes great?

What is the outcome when it goes wrong?

What percentage of the time do each of those occur?

With a pre-recorded demo, when they go great it's usually a 9/10. Things are solid, but they aren't adaptive to the situation, which means you might have lost an opportunity to insert a quip from something that happened earlier. When they go wrong though, it's a 0/10. You've told people that you don't have enough faith in your product to show it live - why should they have faith in it?. Now you might say that the demo goes right 100% of the time(ish), but there's also a human element to it. Someone might play the demo early, someone might not act in time with the live demo, any of these can give away that it's pre-recorded. I'd put their success rate at 95%.

With a live demo, when they go great they're 10/10. You can adapt them, you can show it live, things react instantly instead of slightly-out-of-sync due to scripted content. It's incredible. When they go wrong, it's a 3/10. You've got egg on your face. People make fun of you after. But they know at that point that you ran a live demo. That does count for something. We know Zuck did that demo live. They do fail a bit more, especially in the age of AI. 10% failure rates are pretty good for live demos. To me though, the higher failure rate is worth it for the better PR if you do fail.
by yieldcrv | 2025-10-03 01:19:33+00:00
Executive Order 14046

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/09/21/2021-20...

this financial blacklisting was done on the mere allegation of famine and no court tribunal was involved at all and nobody split hairs on the definition

find and replace Ethiopia with Israel, Eritrea with Gaza, and that's all we need to do

happy Yom Kippur! there's a lot to atone for, as some say, and an easy way for the US Government to ensure it
by throwaway2037 | 2025-10-03 01:20:06+00:00
You can also read more about it on the FT Alphaville blog from Financial Times (free to sign-up):

OpenAI’s era-defining money furnace

https://www.ft.com/content/908dc05b-5fcd-456a-88a3-eba1f77d3...

Choice quote:

> OpenAI spent more on marketing and equity options for its employees than it made in revenue in the first half of 2025.
by wrs | 2025-10-03 01:20:37+00:00
"Try to solve the issue" is the key phrase there. In my experience you're generally wrong about how long it will take to solve any nontrivial software problem, and that's exactly what's hard about results-based planning.

If this is a process to decide what to commit to start working on, not to finish, then that makes sense, and I congratulate you on having an environment that acknowledges and accepts the impossibility of planning results rather than planning activities.
by mandevil | 2025-10-03 01:21:57+00:00
If you have done the out-of-band safety number verification, then impersonation attempts will give you a warning that their safety number has changed. I know this because I got that error when my wife replaced her cell phone.

I believe (though I haven't verified it myself) that even if you haven't verified the numbers using an out-of-band exchange mechanism, you will get a warning if the safety number as observed by their server changes. I believe they would need to know your Signal PIN to restore from backup, which means that even if you've set that it will give an alert, presuming basic security competence from the people you are conversing with.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-03 01:22:20+00:00
> Cutting off that source of FX would literally half the economy overnight because cash would stop sloshing around internally from its main sources

My point is this isn't a realistic threat for Israel. Its exports are highly desirable to too many parties. Technology. Weapons. Energy. There is too much money to be made, too much advantage to be had.

Yes, if the war in Gaza continues for another decade, Israel will run out of goodwill. But if it wraps up within a year or two? I don't see anything happening quickly enough that they can't adapt. Apartheid was a permanent state. The war need not be.

> America's voting demographic for the next 40 years has begun to see Israel as a genocidal terrorist state. They will be voting for the next 50 years

I'd say a strategic prerogative for Israel at this point is to diversify away from America. It's unfortunate. But they screwed a golden goose.

For the aforementioned reasons, however, that isn't existential. Particularly given India and China have what they consider to be problematic Muslim populations within and around themselves, too.
by tdeck | 2025-10-03 01:22:22+00:00
It's more accurate to say "as many Palestinians as they thought the US would let them get away with". This is why each new kind of atrocity was first messaged and checked with the US before proceeding. Without cover in the UN and unlimited bombs from the US Israel's actions in Gaza would not have been possible.

Folks may remember when Israel thought they had to cook up a bunch of fancy 3D renders of a "Hamas command center" and do a multi-week propaganda blitz before attacking Al Shifa hospital. Then they eventually realized that the Biden administration didn't care, nor did they care about the lack of evidence for this supposed massive complex [1] after the fact. So they could bomb hospitals with just a generic justification after the fact.

It was the same with every escalation, from murdering UN aid workers to dropping 2,000lb bombs on tents to completely flattening cities they had designated as "safe zones".

Israel would push the envelope a bit, see that their key patron didn't care, and push it further. What was once a line they feared to cross became the new normal.

[1] It turned out to just be a couple hospital rooms that a former Israeli PM admitted they themselves had built.

https://www.newsweek.com/israel-built-bunker-shifa-hospital-...
by throwaway2016a | 2025-10-03 01:22:50+00:00
Thank you on presenting the research. I appreciate that.

To address you points though:

> A handful of very bad students can easily derail the education of an entire class

Private school had plenty of bad apples too. In fact, some kids I went to school with were explicitly there because they were trouble makers and their parents though the nuns would break them (they didn't). In contrast, I've found my daughter's public school to be pretty zero tolerance when it comes to disruptors.

But even if you are right, that is also the strength of public schools. The same thing that makes them unable to turn down the bad apple is also what makes sure kids with special needs or low family means don't get left behind.

> math is racist, or the contemporary 'reimaginings' of history that mix critical theory and contemporary values, and retrofit them into the past in an antagonistic fashion.

Except every time one of those stories come out and you dig deeper it is almost never actually what the media says. It's usually either extremely isolated or taken entirely out of context for sensationalism.

For example, there have been several documented cases of public school teachers teaching creationism, and also that the Civil war wasn't about slavery (despite slavery being specifically mentioned by multiple states when they joined the Confederacy), but I would never represent that as wide spread and try to tear down the whole system over it.
by FloorEgg | 2025-10-03 01:22:53+00:00
For the record I'm all for changing the status quo. I'm pro people getting involved and doing their part to make their lives and the lives of other people better.

What I'm not for, is people not doing those things, and instead putting all their energy into a circle jerk of complaints that doesn't accomplish anything other than distract people from actually making things better.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-03 01:22:59+00:00
> Israel an the US are a single entity when it comes to security matters in the middle east. It was already the de facto regional power

Not independently. At this point, Israel is independently a de facto regional power. The strike in Doha drove that home. (As did the attacks on Iran, which delivered a geostrategic win to Riyadh that Washington was never able to.)
by muzani | 2025-10-03 01:23:02+00:00
China has actually slowed down drastically over the past few years. They shot to middle class and are now facing middle class problems - unemployment, overpriced housing, low fertility rates, insane traffic, social welfare, etc.

The trade war since 2018 does impact their livelihood. But I think most impressions of China are just well outdated; they've been ahead of the curve for years now. Funny enough, a Google search on how China is doing will pop up what Americans think of China, despite me being geographically closer to China than USA.

If anything, there will probably be a lot of social reforms in the next 50 years or so because the political censorship is starting to crack. They'll need to loosen it to have control, ironically. We'll probably see it evolve to something similar to Western style surveillance and censorship, e.g. FBI kind of stuff.
by etimms | 2025-10-03 01:23:06+00:00
I am learning Russian and Spanish and always found Anki + other flashcard / spaced rep systems boring. I tried to improve on this by building Relyc. It keeps track of words you have been exposed to, and keeps an internal score for each word. When you "study" on Relyc, it selects words you are learning via a spaced repetition algorithm and plugs them into an LLM for content generation. So you study the same words, but rather than flashcards, you get tailor-made content for you. I've had mixed opinions so far, would love to hear some thoughts. Thanks!
by FridayoLeary | 2025-10-03 01:24:11+00:00
Look at the situation on October 7. 6000 armed terrorists swarmed across the border of gaza, commiting atrocities the like of which were not even thought to be possible in todays day and age among civilised people. I was never under any illusion of what hamas was and i was still shocked. The political climate in Israel up until that day was trying to help gazas economy and assuming hamas were pragmatic enough not to seek a war.

But it became clear that not only did they spend their main efforts in the previous few years planning this massacre, but they had embedded themselves as deeply as possible in every single part of gaza as possible. Their tunnel network is more extensive then the London underground. Their bases are in hospitals and schools. Undeniable facts except to the most cynical and dishonest people out there.

But what dismayed me the most was the response of the average palestinian on the street. Ecstatic celebration, i saw videos of crowds literally shrieking and crying for joy, at the single most shameful crime against humanity that was ever committed in their name.

No other country in the world would do anything different in Israels place. Most would go much further. You can express disgust at their actions from your place where you would never have to confront such barbarity. Hamas planned and created the entire situation you just described and left no other course of action for Israel to take. What else should they have done? Don't tell me some stupid idea like make peace with them and stop the settlements etc. Those are grievences entirely made up of anti israel people and does not address the reality of who hamas and far too many palestinians are.

War is horrible. I don't want it. No one wants it. This one is just and necessary. The world can sit and wait or they can help meaningfully.

If you want to argue explain to me how Israelis and any human being should view and respond to the scenes of joy and celebration they saw on and after Oct 7. Even today there is very little remorse or even regret.
by ecommerceguy | 2025-10-03 01:24:13+00:00
Insurance agents—unlike many tech-focused sales jobs—are licensed and regulated, requiring specific training, background checks, and ongoing compliance to sell products that directly affect customers’ financial stability and wellbeing. Mortgage brokers also adhere to licensing and compliance regulations, and their market expertise, negotiation ability, and compliance duties are not easily replaced by AI tools or platforms.

t. perplexity ai
by dangus | 2025-10-03 01:24:13+00:00
I think some of the comments on the post summarize it nicely: if an iPhone is a struggle, maybe that person doesn’t need it at all.

Alternatively, I think OP actually should look into the accessibility mode (“Assistive Access”) because it doesn’t take “hours” to configure. It basically turns the iPhone into a wildly easy dumb phone-like experience.
by bitpush | 2025-10-03 01:24:16+00:00
You can look at comparables to see how that'll workout

Arguably the most mainstream and well-known subscription company is Netflix. People all around the world know about it, most have subscriptions and yet it hasn't "taken over" the world.

That's before we consider any other company (Anthropic, Google) can undercut OpenAI in price or just simply be good

Unless something drastically changes, OpenAI will have tough time justifying high valuation.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-10-03 01:24:26+00:00
> They generated $4.3B in revenue without any advertising program

To be clear, they bought/aired a Superbowl advert. That is a pretty expensive. You might argue that "Superbowl advert" versus 4B+ in revenue is inconsequential, but you cannot say there is no advertising.

Also, their press release said:

> $2 billion spent on sales and marketing

Vague. Is this advertising? Eh, not sure, but that is a big chunk of money.