MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nielsbot | 2025-10-02 23:44:57+00:00
> Israel cannot unilaterally end hostilities any more than Hamas can.

They absolutely can! For a moment consider the power differential in this assault. Do not equate Hamas' attacks with Israel's blockade, exploitation, starvation and war crimes of the entire Gazan population. The displaced Palestinians imprisoned in the Gaza ghetto don't have war planes, armed drones, and tanks, let alone nukes and billions and billions of aid from allies.

Also, consider Israel has a total blockade of Gaza. Nothing gets in or out without Israel's say so. And we haven't even talked about "the hostilities" of the expanding illegal occupation of the West Bank.

Israel can stop their genocide and starvation today. They can stop further occupying the West Bank today.

> Palestinians need to be willing to evict and eliminate Hamas, run the country in a non oppressive way, and leave Israel alone

Israel's flattening of Gaza has nothing to do with Hamas. You don't get to starve and murder everyone in Gaza because of Hamas. You don't get to commit genocide. (An intent stated many times by Israeli officials BTW)

> Please show me where Hamas has signaled in any way that they would leave Israel alone if Israel completely left Palestine alone.

Hamas existing or now is irrelevant to Israel starving everyone in Gaza and destroying every building, hospital, school, house, cemetery in it including all the farm land. This is rank inhumanity.

> Right now neither side can even manage a token ceasefire. There's no trust, and there's no accountability.

One side holds all the cards and it's not Hamas nor the civilians in Gaza. IF you want to talk about accountability, maybe the world should actually hold Israel responsible for its actions. Maybe we can get the Israelis to kick the genociders out of its government for a change? (Netanyahu, Smotrich, Ben Gvir for starters)

> Are Palestinians willing to move on from half of their children starving to death?

Wait--The Palestinians are blockading themselves?

> Lots of Israeli people were willing to protest their own government before October 7th to agitate for less Palestinian oppression. Hamas targeted some of those young adults for that.

Polling consistently shows Israelis are in favor of what's happening in Gaza.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-10-02 23:45:08+00:00
>Is it actually important in Islam? Or is it just a way for fundamentalists to make a claim to land that was historically Jewish?

A little of both. Mohammed was sort of a weeb, but for jews. But the jews snubbed him, and he said he'd run off and start his own Abrahamic religion. So while it was just to make a claim to land, it was done right at the beginning, and nothing that any muslim alive today is guilty of... or even their great-great-grandparents, come to that.
by eries | 2025-10-02 23:45:49+00:00
Jeremy attempted a summary here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45456928

but, honestly, I hope that list makes you see why we had a hard time figuring out how to summarize what solveit is. For example, I use it for research and writing all the time, but you'd have a hard time seeing why a notebook plus a private VPS would do much for that use case. But it does! Having a general-purpose computing environment is just very, very useful in a wide range of situations.
by monocasa | 2025-10-02 23:45:51+00:00
One piece I would find interesting to see data on, but don't really know how to get meaningful information on against modern, non-academic cores is the fact that reorder buffers I've seen aren't just arrays of single instructions (and dependency metadata), but instead look more like rows of small traces of a few alu/ldst/etc instructions, and one control flow instruction per row. It kind of ends up looking a lot like a a modern CISC microcode word with a triad/quad/etc of operations and a sequencing op (but in this case the sequencing op is for the main store, not the microprogram store). That means in some cases, you have to fill the ROB entries with NOPs (that to be fair don't actually hit the backend) in order to account for a control flow op in an inopportune place.

The conventional wisdom is that conditional moves mainly uplift in order pipelines, but I feel like there could be a benefit to increased ROB residency on OoOE cores as well with the right architecture.

But like I said, I don't have a good way to prove that or not.
by dylan604 | 2025-10-02 23:45:53+00:00
YouTube VR and other platforms with VR can be viewed similarly so you don't need to have googles strapped to your face. It's not nearly as immersive, but you can at least look around in the VR environment and see things. Of course there were things like Google Cardboard as well to get over the hump of no goggles available. There's not really a viable AR use case, so I'd imaging things like this will keep popping up
by rubyfan | 2025-10-02 23:46:00+00:00
By the time it catches up with them they will have IPO’d and dumped their problem onto the public market. The administration will probably get a golden share and they will get a bail out in an effort to soften the landing for their campaign donors that also have huge positions. All the rich people will be made whole and the US tax payer will pay the price of the bail out.

And Microsoft or whoever will absorb the remains of their technology.
by theoa | 2025-10-02 23:46:35+00:00
Nearly sixty years of coding under my belt here.

The OP proposes a valid and reasonable pattern.

Nonetheless, not all of us are so wise.

There are dozens of frustrating all-nighters and near all-nighters in my timeline.

And, dotted in and about, there are those several times when, half-asleep, you press the enter key, look up and gasp "OMG, it's working!"
by at_compile_time | 2025-10-02 23:46:50+00:00
When I say they prioritize social stability, I mean that they won't stop producing cars regardless of how little economic sense it makes because they need to keep people employed to stave of massive civil unrest. And global competitiveness counts for little when the countries they want to export to implement anti-dumping policies to protect their own industries from government-subsidized Chinese exports.
by simonw | 2025-10-02 23:46:51+00:00
My point here is that if someone breaks your blog, they've broken your blog. The blast radius of that should be strictly limited.

Obviously don't go rolling your custom CGI scripts on a server that also hosts your personal email - but these days we are spoiled for choice in terms of isolated hosting strategies for a blog.

Heroku, Vercel, Cloudflare Workers, Fly.io, GitHub Pages, a $5/month VPS...
by ipaddr | 2025-10-02 23:47:56+00:00
It’s true that the post-Oslo period exposed serious failures in Palestinian leadership, but the picture isn’t one-sided. The Palestinian Authority was granted limited autonomy under Oslo, not true sovereignty. Israel retained control over borders, resources, movement, and security, meaning the PLO never had the conditions to fully build a state. Corruption and mismanagement within the PA certainly damaged trust, but so did ongoing settlement expansion, restrictions on movement, and the lack of progress toward final status negotiations.

The Second Intifada was indeed devastating and eroded faith on both sides, but framing it only as a PLO decision ignores the buildup of frustration from years of unfulfilled promises and worsening conditions on the ground. Empowering the PLO in a genuine way, with real authority, accountability mechanisms, and mutual commitment to peace, might have led to a different outcome.

In other words, both leadership failures and structural limitations played roles. Reducing it to "the PLO blew it" risks oversimplifying a very complex situation.
by bayindirh | 2025-10-02 23:48:27+00:00
The problem with this approach, that I discovered is, normally what we assume as a filler can have a lot of information for other parts of our brain or life in general.

I have enlightened from many small details in articles, books and papers. While looks unimportant and irrelevant, these parts can knock down dominoes in one's subconscious, resulting in enlightenment or closure on another subject.

Even if that doesn't happen, I learn a couple of more things.

tl;dr: reading tl;drs only is akin to chewing caffeine powder instead of drinking coffee. bland, uninspiring and non-rewarding. What we assume as useless is generally is the spirit of the matter.
by murderfs | 2025-10-02 23:48:35+00:00
https://guidetogrammar.org/grammar/twain.htm

For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all. Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli. Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
by Fwirt | 2025-10-02 23:49:30+00:00
I think the fundamental barrier is that I have yet to see a system where mouse and touch can coexist as first-class input methods. Either your UI is optimized for touch with large input buttons and heavy reliance on gestures, or mouse with small input buttons that require precision to interact with and keyboard shortcuts for efficiency. The cognitive, not to mention physical burden of transitioning between a pointing device and a touchscreen means that users will favor one over the other. And if your UI has to target both audiences, then you're going to have to figure out how to seamlessly transition your UI or provide 2 parallel workflows, and at that point you might as well just segment your product.

It's easy to blame "Apple greedy" but optimizing either device to support an alternate input method degrades both. Apple is (supposed to be) all about a "polished" experience so this doesn't mesh with their design ethos. Any time I have seen a desktop environment get optimized for touch, people complain about it degrading the desktop experience. MacOS isn't even there yet and people are already complaining.

There are plenty of good AUs on the App Store (to name a few: DM10, Sonobus, the recent AudioKit modeled synths), but yes the selection of AUs on desktop is far greater. Most AU developers aren't going to pay the developer fee and go through the effort of developing, again, an entirely separate user interface, not to mention go through the app store approval process, to target a smaller market. It's a matter of familiarity. Just because your workflow depends on products that don't exist on iPad, doesn't mean that someone else's workflow isn't entirely productive without it. The entire industry is built on path dependence, so it's no wonder that software that has codebases that span decades and depend on backwards compatibility, i.e. the music production and CAD software, are not finding a lot of competition in the mobile space. Apple isn't designing their next unibody Mac chassis on the iPad, but that doesn't mean that a small business that makes 3D printed widgets isn't going to be happy using Onshape.

To be clear: I don't think an iPad is a _substitute_ for a desktop machine in most professional workflows. Partially due to path-dependence, and partially due to the greater information density that a desktop environment affords. But there are some workflows where the iPad feels like a much more _natural_ interface for the task at hand, and then that task can be transferred to the desktop machine for the parts where it isn't.
by gertlex | 2025-10-02 23:49:35+00:00
Thought at first this was maybe just being applied to external product demos, but this reads like dev demos, too:

> Since most of the time you're demoing something you previously worked on, this prevents you from working on current stuff right up to the demo, because you're worried you might break your local setup for the demo by installing different node modules, switching to different Git branches, etc.

This isn't the case for me generally... probably more of problem for web-apps things I guess.

I keep multiple workspaces locally for the multiple things I'm working on, but that hasn't been my pain point. Usually it's that I'm demoing a work in progress (not my choice generally) that has rough edges.

I enjoy the internal demos where questions can be asked about doing XYZ, and that can be shown if it's quick. Recordings tend to take away from that, and be less memorable/engaging I guess.
by underlipton | 2025-10-02 23:50:13+00:00
Scalability is the issue, though, isn't it? Any number of esoteric pedagogical approaches have been tested, to great success, with the children of people wealthy enough to fulfill all of their scions' material needs and subsequently move onto purchasing immaterial things like "attention".

You have to figure out something you can apply kids in spite of who their parents are. If not, you have to admit that there's no such thing as a meritocracy divorced from what the parents are willing or able to provide (which opens up questions of how much children deserve to have that deficit filled, it if happens to exist in any individual case).
by asadeddin | 2025-10-02 23:50:37+00:00
Hi there, I'm Ahmad, CEO at Corgea, and the author of the white paper. We do actually use LLMs to find the vulnerabilities AND triage findings. For the majority of our scanning, we don't use traditional static analysis. At the core of our engine is the LLM reading the line of code to find CWEs in them.
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-02 23:50:51+00:00
>That something else could also be stuff like malpractice insurance, legal settlements, etc.

This claim is regularly brought forth as why US healthcare is expensive and it just doesn't work.

First of all, are you aware Texas has fairly rigorous limits to rewards for Medical Malpractice suits? You can only get half a million dollars above what the malpractice cost you. There's also a two year statute of limitations from when you found out about the malpractice, and if you find out that your surgeon willfully fucked up your treatment more than 10 years after it happened, too bad, no case for you period.

Does Texas have cheaper healthcare than the rest of the country?

Nope.

Second, the primary cost of a medical malpractice suit is fixing the medical problem which is only a large number because medical care in the US is stupid expensive. Blaming the cost of healthcare on malpractice suits and insurance is putting the cart before the horse.

Meanwhile, most medical lawsuits never even come close to large sums.

When my sister was being born, the doctor broke her shoulder to get her unstuck. There is a correct way to do this, but he did it wrong and permanently disabled her. Turns out, he was literally not allowed to practice medicine in some states for doing exactly that to several other babies, and ended up doing exactly the same thing to another baby a few years later in the same town.

We got $10k. Permanent, life altering disability with no treatment or fix for outright malicious incompetence. My sister isn't supposed to be left handed, but she is.

$10k

If you've ever gotten upset about the McDonalds "hot coffee" lawsuit for example, you should be aware that the plaintiff originally was only asking for $20k to treat her fused labia and permanent damage. The court awarded significant damages because it was discovered that McDonalds had done this to multiple people and was purposefully keeping their coffee hotter than they were supposed to despite how it had directly harmed multiple people. They also ran a literal propaganda campaign to libel this woman that it was somehow her fault for not knowing the coffee was hot or something. You can bet they spent more than $20k on that. Oh, and the $2.7 million she got in punitive damages for McDonalds willfully contravening safety and helping melt her lady parts? It was specifically equal to 2 days of coffee sales. And then the judge said "no" and only gave her $600k. Then McDonalds appealed the case and settled privately.
by stavros | 2025-10-02 23:51:14+00:00
I prerecord all my live demos, and wouldn't have it any other way:

https://gitlab.com/stavros/itsalive

I can even pause the replay mid-demo, take over, and resume again later. People are always impressed at how flawless my live demos are, and with some judicious audience participation, the illusion is perfect.
by bayindirh | 2025-10-02 23:51:15+00:00
Pomodoro is my secret weapon when the push comes to shove. I pulled out a couple of hard things in "deemed impossible" amount of time with it.

You can tune Pomodoro's work lengths. 25 minute is the sweet spot for me, but you can go 20 or 30 depending on how your mind works and endures.

Also, don't forget to take your long, 15 minute breaks after every 4th pomodoro.
by Spooky23 | 2025-10-02 23:52:08+00:00
Agreed - I don’t think they are particularly brilliant as a category. Hereditary kleptocracy has limits.

But… I don’t think there’s an example in modern history of the this much capital moving around based on whim.

The “bet on red” mentality has produced some odd leaders with absolute authority in their domain. One of the most influential figures on the US government claims to believe that he is saving society from the antichrist. Another thinks he’s the protagonist in a sci-fi novel.

We have the madness of monarchy with modern weapons and power. Yikes.
by runlaszlorun | 2025-10-02 23:53:27+00:00
> If you can spend $100 BILLION on data centers, you have the budget to stand up a proper school.

That is a good point. Odd that our reactions, including my own given that I think the AI data center boom is pretty nuts, to that much being spent on data centers is "not surprising" while a company standing up a school sounds like something from science fiction.
by o11c | 2025-10-02 23:53:36+00:00
I've played around with respelling quite a bit; one of the most difficult adaptations is forcing yourself to correctly use "dh" (few-but-common words, "thy", "either", "teethe") vs "th" (most words, "thigh", "ether", "teeth").

j -> dzh is more weird than anything.

Vowels, of course, are a cause of war between dialects; nobody can even agree how many there are.
by wredcoll | 2025-10-02 23:54:16+00:00
> Funny how literally every written record of history agrees the Jews are the people of Israel, but the Arabs don't.

Why do people keep bringing this up as if it matters? Every piece of land has had someone living on it for the last 10,000 years, how does it matter that some group lived there in like 500 bce then a jewish tribe came in and then later some other tribe came in and so on.
by corysama | 2025-10-02 23:54:31+00:00
They spell out the problems on the page:

* If you are a VR dev, popping in and out of a headset dozens of times a day is a pain. * If you are in marketing, getting someone passing by to put on a headset is a challenge. * If you are a player, buying a headset without checking out the content first is risky.

All of this comes down to the fact that VR/XR is awesome if you commit to a full session that makes it worth strapping in. But, has been no middle ground that lets you just stick your nose in the door and check out what's up inside.

I saw a live demo of this at SVVR. You would definitely get gorilla arm if you tried to hold a tablet up high for a long contiguous duration. But, holding it casually, walking around with it down low, and looking through it in spurts is no problem.
by greatgib | 2025-10-02 23:54:41+00:00
I'm so conflicted about Meta, because at the same time I despise the company, Facebook, and their business activity, so I would not mind seeing them going down.

But, on the other side, I think that it is one of the nicest one of the big tech in term of Open Source. They have great valuable project that are technically good, and respecting very permissive Open Source licenses in the spirit of "here is a gift, we don't care what you do with this".

Even Llama is a little bit in this spirit, even if the license is not that "free" in theory. But how many of the self-hosted and tinkerer AI users owe to Meta for their models to have bootstrapped the field and still fueling it.

On that aspect I would be quite sad to see them going down.

So, in the end, I'm more in a split-ed brain spirit where I enjoy their contributions avoiding to use it and give them my data, but being thankful to the poor clueless users that sacrifice themselves by using it.
by bcrosby95 | 2025-10-02 23:54:53+00:00
The hard part about scoring little league is the rules are different and, in my experience, the apps don't account for it. So you just gotta flub it in some way to make sure you record the important bits.

A big one is pitch counts. That should absolutely be correct for safety. But if you're at an age where it goes kid pitch -> coach pitch, you gotta figure out a way to do this and keep an accurate total.
by nielsbot | 2025-10-02 23:55:20+00:00
Tried to withdraw? Seems like they like things just how they are. (Well except for the part where they want the Palestinians to give up any claims to the land that was stolen from them and just evaporate.)

The result of Israel:

- subjugating Palestinians in a ghetto, controlling everything that goes into and out of Gaza - preventing Gazans from having their own power, airports, piers, and more, and - "putting them on a diet", and - propping up Hamas to have a plausible enemy to fight against in Gaza, and - occasionally "mowing the lawn" to kill hundreds (or thousands)

is the creation of anti-Israel hatred. Once that boils over, you get what happened, which is the murder and kidnapping of innocent people in Israel.

> Hamas on the other hand does indeed have the power to end it all - if not with all their dreams and wishes being fulfilled - which is a pretty outrageous expectation for the losing party

Maybe instead petition Netanyahu et al to stop committing a genocide? They can stop flattening Gaza and starving Gazans at any point. They hold all the cards.
by nojs | 2025-10-02 23:55:24+00:00
I think people are massively underestimating the money they will come from ads in the future.

They generated $4.3B in revenue without any advertising program to monetise their 700 million weekly active users, most of whom use the free product.

Google earns essentially all of its revenue from ads, $264B in 2024. ChatGPT has more consumer trust than Google at this point, and numerous ways of inserting sponsored results, which they’re starting to experiment with with the recent announcement of direct checkout.

The biggest concern IMO is how good the open weight models coming out of China are, on consumer hardware. But as long as OpenAI remains the go-to for the average consumer, they’ll be fine.
by joering2 | 2025-10-02 23:56:34+00:00
Italian advertising is weird in general. Month ago leaving Venice we pulled over on a gas station and I started just going thru pages on some magazine. At some point I see advertising on what looks like old fashioned shoes - and owner of the company holding his son with sign "from generation to generation". Only thing - the ~3 year old boy is completely naked wearing only shoes with his little pee pee sticking out. It shocked me and unsure if it was just my American domestication or there was really something wrong with it. I took a picture and wanted to send it to my friends in USA to show them how Italian advertising looks like, before getting sweats that if I were caught with that picture in the US, I would get in some deep trouble. I quickly deleted it, just in case. Crazy story..