MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by itopaloglu83 | 2025-10-03 01:47:16+00:00
I’m saying that those historians, being divorced from the guilt of committing those atrocities, will call things out as they see them. Fire bombings of Dresden, Tokyo, and many other cities were done to gain military advantage, knowing full well that they were killing innocent civilians, because a) they were forcing the enemy to come out, and b) killing an entire population en masse. But only the losers of the war had to admit their part in these atrocities, although this was a crime against humanity.

Regarding Ceaser, I meant emperor in the modern sense not that he held the bundle of sticks during war time. The dude practically took over a republic from within using political games and bribery, assassinations and all kinds of stuff, but the gist of it is that, he wasn’t elected democratically by popular vote or anything, he took an army and pass the Rubicon and if you didn’t vote for him you could die in mysterious ways, and some people loved him because he handed out free grains (who cares), in the end, in ww2 innocent civilians, kids, elderly were killed by millions of tons of high explosives on purpose, and my conscience is just not okay with it.
by chis | 2025-10-03 01:47:52+00:00
The question I wonder when reading this is why did this work for you when other exercise routines didn’t? It sounds like you at least tried the gym before and couldn’t stick with it - so why did this one stick?

To me it seems a lot of healthy people end up not needing discipline because they find healthy things they enjoy and want to do.

Like I wondered if someone copying this would be better off targeting 1000 air squats instead. But maybe that’s not as “cool” and wouldn’t have brought as much intrinsic motivation.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-03 01:48:27+00:00
> in a scenario where all the hostages are freed, I can't image Netanyahu stopping the genocide

Okay. Are you certain enough about your imagination that it's not worth attempting? Two, it may not end the war. But it reduces Israel's leverage. If you think any of the international pressure and opinions have any effect, then returning the hostages is a winning move.
by gottorf | 2025-10-03 01:49:21+00:00
> There's nothing stopping ICE from raiding where you live and destroying your shit.

This isn't specific to ICE, and sovereign immunity especially around law enforcement is a topic that has been contested for a while. Every now and then there's a story that pops up of some innocent's house being destroyed due to a clerical error leading the local SWAT team to look for drugs at the wrong address.
by badosu | 2025-10-03 01:49:28+00:00
Lua is the scripting language of [Recoil]. I've been writing some fairly complex game code on it for a few years now, I lost a lot of prejudice over time on 1-indexing.

In fact, at least for this application I've come to enjoy its practicality!

Recoil: https://beyond-all-reason.github.io/RecoilEngine
by sandspar | 2025-10-03 01:49:57+00:00
Awesome. I like how fitness snowballs. Once you develop a decent body, it feels like a shame to eat bad food. And so on. It's like a guy who has a beat up car, doesn't like the way it looks, so doesn't take care of it - then buys a nice car, likes how it looks, so starts taking care of it. Staying fit becomes easier and easier.
by bigyabai | 2025-10-03 01:50:10+00:00
- De-escalate. Disproportionate violence legitimizes Gaza's resistance, reinforces domestic support for retaliation and signals to third-parties like China and Russia that they need to have a stakeholder in this fight. It also weakens American support for Israeli right-to-defense.

- Negotiate a release of all illegally held hostages and fair international trial for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detainment. Hamas should have no illegal captives, but neither should Israel. Without a solid and agreeable plan towards releasing these captives in a timely matter, neither side has an incentive to stop fighting.

- Establish a good-faith interrim government to rebuild trust with the international community. Defer some power back to the UN as a gesture of goodwill, draw-back from annexed Gaza but draw the line firmly on pre-October 7th borders. Give up on the idea of annexing anything else. In a perfect world they also give Mount Hebron back to Syria, they'll be asking for it soon.
by affidavid | 2025-10-03 01:50:30+00:00
I believe that planning out 5 year vision, 2 year vision, and quarterly goals would be best, but it’s really difficult when the vision is just making more money and quarterly goals are either “I want you to develop a product it took another company 10 years to create but make it our idea and better” or it’s some boring feature or maintenance work.

I used to think we needed our company to explain their problems, so that we could fix them. I less and less believe this is true. You can’t define some things. Home Depot doesn’t sell pre-packaged solutions for every need. They just sell a bunch of stuff, and they have people you can talk with to order what you need and even drop it off or install it. That is what some people need- a selection of stuff and solution experts. And that’s why MCP sounds so attractive; it’s a bunch of tools, prompts, and resources- a type of Home Depot, and the LLM is the solutions expert.
by 1attice | 2025-10-03 01:50:35+00:00
Actually, this is now a solved problem. Root-of-trust pattern.

- Use Bitwarden or similar

- Set BW to recognize the Yubikey as one (of several, incl. TOTP ('Authenticator') code) second factor.

- On all other sites and services, generate passkeys (which are essentially virtual yubikeys) and save them in BW.

- In BW, save the password and TOTP. BW itself, on another device (or in a separate incarnation - e.g. the desktop app when authenticating the browser extension) is now your everyday means of authenticating to BW.

- BW-stored passkey is now your standard means of authentication for e.g. GitHub, Google, etc

- Put the yubikey in a safety deposit box

- Bravo, you have a very professional trust system
by rurp | 2025-10-03 01:51:07+00:00
It's both. Apple very intentionaly designs their phones so that they can immediately cut off their user's access to various apps with the flip of a switch and no recourse. It's obvious that this has and will continue to be abused.

At the same time the government of an ostensibly free country that values free speech should absolutely not be making these demands.

At this point I expect such behavior from this administration, they aren't pretending to be anything other than incompetent and corrupt.

Shame on Apple for helping these scumbags, now and in the future.
by efskap | 2025-10-03 01:51:39+00:00
Plus, a more phonetic writing system is also problematic for dialectal variation. I pronounce marry/Mary/merry identically, as well as bag/beg, but other dialects distinguish them. I don't think the written standard would benefit from spelling them identically. That's relevant for everyday use, not just upsetting etymology enthusiasts.

Of course it also depends on how conservative the language is, like Finnish orthography is practically IPA, and yet Finnish is a freaking time capsule for words like borrowed Proto-Germanic *kuningaz and *wīsaz, which became king and wise in English, but kuningas and viisas in modern Finnish. So you can have both phonemic writing as well as etymological transparency if your phonology doesn't change much.
by gaoshan | 2025-10-03 01:52:08+00:00
The site that is linked here is a site dedicated to the sale of the drug NAD so it is not objective on the topic of aging. Not trying to debunk anything but let's put on our skeptic hats here and be extra vigilant, given the source.

Regarding NAD, not the article but it pertains to the subject, I actually think it has promise and as an older person take NMN to very (like... WOW, very) positive result (an NAD precursor that is arguably better as it is used by the body to create NAD whereas the consumption of NAD itself via the digestive system is in need of study as the suspicion is that it doesn't make the journey very successfully).
by whacked_new | 2025-10-03 01:52:18+00:00
I was a long time org mode user and used babel extensively [1]. It was a marvelous experience, but the market chose markdown. I still drop into org-mode some times for specific features, and the babel integration is still in its own league, but technically there's nothing preventing something similar for markdown.

I pulled some org-babel code to make a code fence evaluator for markdown a while back [2] but haven't found myself needing it that much. So without a need to wrangle reports or run exports, I think it's a 1% feature for text file connoisseurs.

[1] https://ess.r-project.org/ with babel is an experience I find superior to jupyter tools even after all these years

[2] https://github.com/whacked/emacs-markdown-babel
by wjgilmore | 2025-10-03 01:53:44+00:00
I have no idea why this worked other than I really took to the process of doing the exercises and then logging it all. Once I had a little bit of data I started writing Google Sheets formulas, creating charts, etc and it suddenly became fun. Then when I did get into shape it became a game of beating my previous 5K and 10K times. Lately every few days I go outside and run hard to beat my last time (currently PR is 28:10). I would have smashed this time a few days ago but about 2 miles in I suddenly had a terrible calf cramp that took a few days to get past. Not going to tempt fate again until after completing the Columbus 1/2 marathon on October 19.
by onestay42 | 2025-10-03 01:53:47+00:00
"Cattle labeling meat labeling supervision task transfer act" is just as bad as Rinderkennzeichnungsfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz, English just gets to use spaces where German doesn't. The underlying construction is the same. (I definitively got that translation wrong)
by VirgilShelton | 2025-10-03 01:54:25+00:00
I'm old and have been on the Internet since the Prodigy days in 90. Open Ai has the best start of any company I can remember. Even better than Google back in 98 when they were developing their algo and giving free non-monetized search results to Yahoo.

These guys have had my $20 bucks a month since Plus was live, they will indeed be more than fine.
by themafia | 2025-10-03 01:54:50+00:00
> This framing is designed to shame people into feeling guilty for their point of view, rather than their actions.

Having a point of view and then using that point of view to make public claims, often counter-claims in face of precisely this type of criticism, is an action. Examples are easily found on this forum.

> or wrongdoing act

Which includes simple dishonesty.
by zdragnar | 2025-10-03 01:54:52+00:00
Google got a massive leg up on the rest be having a better service. When Bing first came out, I was not impressed with what I got, and never really bothered going back to it.

Search quality isn't what it used to be, but the inertia is still paying dividends. That same inertia also applied to Google ads.

I'm not nearly so convinced OpenAI has the same leg up with ChatGPT. ChatGPT hasn't become a verb quite like google or Kleenex, and it isn't an indispensable part of a product.
by BergAndCo | 2025-10-03 01:55:01+00:00
They figured out that autism is actually four completely distinct disease clusters with four completely different symptomologies, with some overlap of symptoms in the middle. One of the disease clusters correlates with Fragile X retardation. The idea that we clump together an actual genetic condition that causes retardation with 3 other disorders is ludicrous.

Therapists need to understand that many disorders can produce "autism-like" downstream effects, just like many things could cause anxiety or depression. Not understanding the disorders doesn't "help patients".

https://www.princeton.edu/news/2025/07/09/major-autism-study...
by nine_zeros | 2025-10-03 01:56:15+00:00
Lots of problems in China. But if I were a betting person, I would bet they'll fix their problems far better than America because of 3 reasons

1. They care about citizens more than billionaires

2. They are not obsessed with partisan and religious takeover

3. They don't have a narcissistic tyrant driving the country down.

This can all change if they get their own narcissistic tyrant someday - and they have a poorer political system to deal with tyrants. But that's only in comparison to historical America. Trumpistan America might be comparable in political weakness to communist China.
by estearum | 2025-10-03 01:56:49+00:00
Not really. Very very early on we knew (verifiable objective fact) that Israel used very different math on combatant:civilian casualty ratios than coalition forces in OEF and OIF.

This isn't "they're waging a more intense war and accidentally killing more people" -- it is that their actual decision framework was to authorize killings with several multiples higher ratios of civilian deaths than the US authorized in the Middle East.
by pfych | 2025-10-03 01:56:57+00:00
I was just thinking about this for F1 - someone mentioned plaintextsports but it doesn't seem like F1 is there.

Already thinking about the ways you could represent a race with a text[^1], could be a very interesting project but not sure if there's any APIs.

[^1]: Baseball for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45453733
by gottorf | 2025-10-03 01:57:39+00:00
Take a breath. Obama drone-struck and killed more than one American citizen. Biden's rhetoric against his political opponents was no less "fascist" than Trump's. Do you find yourself nostalgic for the civility of the McCain-era Republicans? He was called a Nazi by his detractors, as well.

Trump doesn't hold a candle to FDR when it comes to being an authoritarian.
by valleyer | 2025-10-03 01:58:05+00:00
> Cook, clearly trying to remain calm, shot back: “When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind, I don’t consider the bloody ROI [return on investment]. When I think about doing the right thing, I don’t think about an ROI.”

> Cook then offered his own bottom line to Danhof, or any other critic, one which perfectly sums up his belief that social and political and moral leadership are not antithetical to running a business. “If that’s a hard line for you,” Cook continued, “then you should get out of the stock.”

https://alearningaday.blog/2016/03/12/tim-cook-on-roi/
by dceddia | 2025-10-03 01:59:07+00:00
This article reminded me of a talk I gave a couple times that went very smoothly because I pre-recorded the typing parts. Something like this:

- record the screen as you type out all of your code as you would do live

- don't need the audio, just the video

- edit it down to remove typos and pauses

- speed it up to a nice fast typing pace

Now you can drop the video into Keynote or whatever, and Play/Pause the video as you speak.

A crucial part of this is that the video has effectively no pauses. Maybe just a few short ones between sections, to leave time to hit Pause before the next keystrokes appear.

Instead of a 30 minute video that I had to perfectly keep pace with, it was like 5 minutes of rapid typing that I could speak along with and pause when it was time to explain something.
by neilv | 2025-10-03 01:59:15+00:00
If you're launching some fragile and finicky AI thing before a crowd like you're Steve Jobs, but you're not Steve Jobs, then, sure, pre-record it.

But when the standards are lower, people appreciate the live demo. Videos are much less compelling, and they could've watched that at home in a few minutes, rather than fly out to you.

In grad school -- in a lab where, instead of "publish or perish", our mantra was "demo or die" -- we were giving demos most weekdays, usually to only a few people at a time. Always live. I think once I had to play a video of someone else's stuff, and it fell flat.

My best demo story is when I was showing a new thing (just a class project), to a few people crowded around a computer in my lab area at an open house event, typing into my software agent in a chat window (pre-LLMs), ad-libbing and speaking aloud what I was typing, "I'm interested in... thinks Microsoft and... thinks Oracle..." Then I turned my head around to look at the people behind me, to see that they were following, and I swear to gosh, Larry Ellison himself was standing in the doorway of my lab area, giving me this fiercely aggressive stare. Whether he was glaring because I said Oracle or Microsoft, I do not know.

My worst demo story was at the very start of my demo career. I had just arrived on campus, and I was borrowing a computer in an open area. A research scientist comes up, and sees on my screen this Web-scraping personalized newspaper thing I had made. So I'm showing it to them, and they're interested, then all of a sudden they say, sadly, "Mother Theresa died..." Which was what my "demo" was showing.

So maybe don't include an uncontrolled live data feed of depressing or distracting news in your demo.

Also, implementing early software agents in Java apparently summons Larry Ellison.
by ursaspark | 2025-10-03 01:59:27+00:00
this is what I dont understand. so many apps are almost website-like in functionality, and you can save a shortcut to the desktop / main screen and it will launch / look like an app. complete with notifications (if enabled). What's the barrier? (another poster mentioned not knnowing anything outside of the appstore, but then "Share -> Add to Home screen" is a pretty damn simple flow.
by gottorf | 2025-10-03 02:00:28+00:00
VPNs can serve a legitimate purpose, like shielding your traffic while using a public network. Seems to me the better technology analogue to ICEBlock is The Pirate Bay; maybe there's some flimsy pretext of it being used for a legitimate purpose, and maybe it's not outright illegal, but everyone knows that it's almost always used for an illegal purpose.
by churchill | 2025-10-03 02:01:24+00:00
>Israeli weapons are absolutely not fungible, particularly not for non-Western buyers.

My claim was specifically with China in mind. Pretty much everything the Americans will let Israel sell to non-Western partners can be gotten from China, Turkey, etc. cheaper and with less headache.

>Correct. I am guessing we'll see diversification here.

Yep. Introducing my magical new fighter jet that replaces the f35!

>...and guess who makes a state-of-the-art integrated air defences? And knows how to penetrate (and thus harden) state-of-the-art Russian air defence systems?

Well, it probably didn't work great given how India fared recently, did it? They're a committed partner of Israel and collaborate on military tech.

>Uh, China is doing whatever it can to keep America distracted. If Israel can give China technology, China will continue calling for a two-state solution while buying what it needs. (Chinese-Israeli trade has increased throughout the war.)

The only thing China reliably does is single-mindedly pursue their interests. Propping Israel up doesn't achieve that. In fact they're quite chummy with the Palestinians and lots of the weapons used for the Oct. 7 raid were Chinese-made.

>Israel is not at material risk of blanket sanctions from the West in the next decade.

If you say so. The chances of the Five Eyes breaking with America on recognizing Palestine were also exactly zero just a few months ago.

>Why does this have to go to America and Western Europe?

Because they're the only ones who have the money for it. No non-Western company/country has the amount of tech demand/cash to have completed the Wiz acquisition for $32b in cash. Their software markets have no viable customers outside the West.

>Which of the Arab monarchies is particularly distressed with Israel? Which has even walked back its previous support and recognition? The Gulf is more than happy for Israel to fight their wars against Iran.

Good point.

>It seems that everyone in this conflict has doomsday fantasies for their opponents.

I have no dog in the fight. Both countries could disappear overnight and it wouldn't affect my quality of life. I'm simply a student of history and I'm trained to see patterns.
by groby_b | 2025-10-03 02:01:25+00:00
At this point in time, it is absolutely trivial to pre-record whatever you'd like, and it will look glorious, and it doesn't need any basis in reality.

As a customer, when you show me a video, I default-assume you're lying.

Also, as a presenter: If your live demo fails and you can't turn that into a win, maybe you're not good at presenting. Your audience wants you to succeed, it takes a minimal amount of charm to make it work. (Heck, even Mark turned this into a win, and he's not exactly a charm bomb)
by epmaybe | 2025-10-03 02:01:27+00:00
Eye surgeon here: FLACS isn't really that amazing. I would actually argue that a man made incision using steel or diamond (yes, diamond) is better than the incision made using the femto laser for long term safety/sealing. Number of studies have borne this out.

95% success rate seems low. you need to define success in this scenario. Are we aiming for 20/20 vision outcomes? Just getting the cataract out in full?
by Kranar | 2025-10-03 02:01:58+00:00
People said the same thing about so many other online services since the 90s. The issue is that you're imagining ChatGPT as it exists right now with your current use case but just with ads inserted into their product. That's not really how these things go... instead OpenAI will wait until their product becomes so ingrained in everyday usage that you can't just decide to stop using them. It is possible, although not certain, that their product becomes ubiquitous and using LLMs someway somehow just becomes a normal way of doing your job, or using your computer, or performing menial and ordinary tasks. Using an LLM will be like using email, or using Google maps, or some other common tool we don't think much of.

That's when services start to insert ads into their product.
by jrexilius | 2025-10-03 02:02:08+00:00
I'm a bit confused.. are people suggesting that the poor pay in the EU is a _good_ thing? These aren't lawn maintenance or car mechanics here. We're talking about saving peoples lives. I would think the people in the EU would feel a bit of shame for paying them so poorly..

[disclaimer] my wife works in pediatric cardiology and saving kids lives seems worth a hell of a lot more than a software jockey job. The dead baby days are the worst and make a rough merge or code deployment appear as trivial as they really are. The EU should be ashamed of paying their people so poorly. None of that is to say that our system isn't broken and wasteful. It certainly needs fixing. But paying critical care givers less is a really bad suggestion.
by dang | 2025-10-03 02:02:13+00:00
Yes of course, and we warn/ban accounts that do that too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45266839 (Sept 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44738555 (July 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44362828 (June 2025)
by array_key_first | 2025-10-03 02:02:58+00:00
IMO the main difference is that identity is more or less immutable. If it could be easily changed in childhood, nobody would be gay. We spent, like, the last 200 years trying our absolute hardest to make sure nobody is gay. We practically beat them over the head with it. We told people it's the worst thing ever and they deserve to die if they're gay.

And people still came out gay.
by JustExAWS | 2025-10-03 02:03:00+00:00
So now you’re going to list times when Biden sent armed forces into American cities, withheld funds passed by Congress, personally extorted companies to give him money and targeted conservative “non woke organizations” or spread propaganda on government websites…

Let’s not forget you also need to list times that he fired DAs for not going after his “enemies” and installed his personal attorney with no courtroom experience.

Or when he told a private company - in this case Microsoft - to fire someone he didn’t like. https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5528090-trump-d...