MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jabroni_salad | 2025-10-02 22:18:50+00:00
I looked at the NOTAM guidance and they are simply not required if the crane's boom is lowered at night. Actually this pattern appears in a lot of NOTAM requirements. The FAA is permissive by default and they seem to think you don't need to report things that are 'visible'.

Also, I dont think any of the equipment in this scene needs to be advertised to aircraft. None of this stuff is taller than a normal tree and we aren't filing NOTAMs for the presence of every public park, right?

https://i.imgur.com/fmxVXQz.png
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-02 22:18:54+00:00
>The Israelis (and their suppliers) are the ones with the power to end it

Israel cannot unilaterally end hostilities any more than Hamas can.

Peace requires two willing parties.

Israeli people need to remove Bibi the genocider and be willing to concede land and leave Palestine alone

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

Israel can end the genocide it is perpetrating, and then accept more death in a few years when Hamas feels like doing more marketing (which, fyi, is the point of their terrorism: Fundraising). Is that desirable or useful?

Please show me where Hamas has signaled in any way that they would leave Israel alone if Israel completely left Palestine alone. Right now neither side can even manage a token ceasefire. There's no trust, and there's no accountability.

The real question is this: How many dead people are either side willing to accept to work towards lasting peace?

Lasting peace, a solution to the Palestinian horror, requires people willing to give up legitimate grievances from the past. Are Palestinians willing to move on from half of their children starving to death? 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.
by zdragnar | 2025-10-02 22:18:55+00:00
I saw an article today from the BBC where travellers are using LLMs to plan their vacations and getting into trouble going places (sometimes dangerously remote ones) to visit landmarks that don't even exist:

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250926-the-perils-of-le...

I'm mildly bearish on the human capacity to learn from its mistakes and have a feeling in my gut that we've taken a massive step backwards as civilization.
by Animats | 2025-10-02 22:19:21+00:00
Read both. This is fascinating. Notes:

- 1 on 1 tutoring yields about 2 standard deviations of improvement, but costs too much.

- The Alpha system is very effective but costs about $40,000/student.

- It's not that complicated. 2-3 hours a day of intense computer-monitored study, about half using off the shelf tools, and the rest of the day is developed to less structured projects. This is a useful insight. Push kids hard for about 2-3 hours a day and then get to the fun stuff.

- Works on ordinary kids. Strong claims in this area. Needs outside validation.

- Lots of carrot, including cash payments for achievement. Not much stick.

- Staff/student ratio about 1:5. No teachers from bottom quartile of teacher population.
by bigyabai | 2025-10-02 22:19:23+00:00
The late Harlan Ellison contested this narrative throughout his lifetime: https://youtu.be/P6gtHQGbXmM?t=194

All of you guys out there in the Middle East are out of the same melting pot. And you're all as crazy as a butterfly on absinthe. I don't know whether you're all Canaanites at the base, or you're all Jews at the base, or out of the Land of Nod, or whatever the hell you were at the get-go, "semites" or whatnot. But you've been fighting it out for something like eight thousand years! And you've never had five minutes of quiet and peace! You're forever killing each other, and sticking knives in each other, and burning babies - and the world has had to suffer with this. Great things have come out of the Middle East - great things like the *Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam* - but *stupidity* seems to be your chief export! Stupidity, and violence, are your cash crops. All you.
by lelandbatey | 2025-10-02 22:19:31+00:00
Note to the developer: you may want to consider simplifying the CSS you're using to display the "clever" dot in the background of your page. On my computer, opening viewing your site in Firefox, scrolling the page has a nearly 2000ms delay caused by whatever is going on. This is improved but not fixed by disabling the `.bg-dot::before` background CSS property.
by baobun | 2025-10-02 22:19:54+00:00
Why do you not consider mass shootings as terrorism? Why would poverty be the major contributing factor? What statistics are you basing your observation on?

BTW, did you see my replies to your other recent AskHN threads? Please take a look.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45454270

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45444561
by Humorist2290 | 2025-10-02 22:20:20+00:00
So focusing on the details of the situation in Gaza is quite awful. The general tone of the comments in this thread, along with basically any public forum I think speaks for the reverberation of human suffering throughout this -- civilians are being made into casualties, Israeli and Palestinian, and it's terrible.

Taking a broader perspective, large parts of the human race have come to realize famine is a relic of the past. Modern agriculture, synthetic fertilizer, and the technology of the last 100+ years has made famine optional. There is without a doubt the technological capacity to supply every person on earth with food and clean water. Nobody needs to go hungry to feed every person in Gaza. The same could be said of Sudan, or Bangladesh, or Haiti.

200 years ago, famine was usually a natural disaster; now it is almost exclusively a political choice.
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-10-02 22:20:23+00:00
AI is non-deterministic as we know.

That makes its results unpredictable.

So don’t have AI create your bugs.

Instead have your AI look for problems - then have it create deterministic tools and let tools catch the issues in a repeatable, understandable, auditable way. Have it build short, easy to understand scripts you can commit to your repo, with files and line numbers and zero/nonzero exit codes.

It’s that key step of transforming AI insights into detection tools that transforms your outcomes from probabilistic to deterministic. Ask it to optimize the tools so they run in seconds. You can leave them in the codebase forever as linters, integrate them in your CI, and never have that same bug again.
by themadturk | 2025-10-02 22:20:41+00:00
Root Sports in Seattle started streaming this year at $20 a month. We haven't been watching baseball in recent years because we don't have cable or OTA TV. Root Sports Streaming at $20/mo was a bargain, and it turned out everyone in the family (Mom, Dad, two adult sons) was totally onboard. And of course it was a great year to catch all the games.

And now the Mariners are closing down Root Sports and putting their TV on MLBTV next season. I hope they don't price us right out of baseball again.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-02 22:20:58+00:00
> the ANC gained freedom for South Africans because of its decision to resort to violence

This is a genuinely ambiguous question--I respect your position. What we can agree to is there were no large-scale terrorist attacks leading up to the negotations that ended Apartheid. (The Boipatong massacre almost did, and that was forty something casualties.)

> the response to their democratically gained “seat” was a coup by Fatah backed by the US and Israel

This is entirely accurate. It's also a fact that Hamas proceeded to never hold an election again. (Which isn't grounds for ignoring them. October 7th is.)

Hamas can't credibly represent Gaza. It continues to call for the destruction of Israel. It's shown a complete lack of concern for its own civilians. And it has no evidence of a popular mandate.

Gazans need a seat at the table. They can only get that through peace.
by jph00 | 2025-10-02 22:21:30+00:00
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.

(We actually built the tool for ourselves, and only decided to make it publicly available when we realised how much it's helping us. We're a PBC so our mission is not entirely financial. We're not trying to compete with existing tools, but provide an alternative direction.)
by danielbenzvi1 | 2025-10-02 22:21:33+00:00
The idea that simply empowering the PLO would have produced peace ignores the reality of what happened when they were empowered. After Oslo, Israel handed over cities in the West Bank and gave the Palestinian Authority control in Gaza. Instead of building the foundations of a peaceful state, the PLO leadership became riddled with corruption, failed to create functioning institutions, and tolerated or even encouraged waves of violence. The Second Intifada, launched under the PLO’s watch, was one of the bloodiest chapters in the conflict and shattered Israeli trust in their willingness or ability to deliver peace.
by romantomjak | 2025-10-02 22:21:39+00:00
Signal keeps cranking out brilliant crypto papers, but from a product perspective, it feels like they're throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks. We've got post-quantum handshakes, stories and money transfer experiments, but still no SDK, no APIs, no bots. The official libsignal library is undocumented and incomplete. Large parts of functionality are still buried on clients. Don't get me started on "but they have published all protocol specs on their website, go on and roll your own library"! That's not how you run a product. It's borderline negligent for a platform used by millions.

Every other major messaging app exposes something to developers, but Signal is allergic to the idea. Makes me wonder if they even have a head of product because whatever they're doing now is a far cry from a coherent product strategy. Signal is basically a pile of hot cryptography duct-taped to a messenger that's more hostile than any product in Apple's walled garden. And that's from a day one user who's been advocating for them the whole way.

</rant> thanks to everyone involved in building the product <3
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-10-02 22:21:48+00:00
Bureaucracies run on process. You call that "politics", but (when arguing with programmers) I call it code. The Linux kernel project is a bureaucracy.

> citation needed

I'm sure you're familiar with "separation of concerns" in programming: it's the same principle. My experience of bureaucracies is experience, but I'm sure most good books on the topic will have a paragraph or chapter on this.

> bcachefs was being singled out because he and the other maintainers involved had no real interest in the end goal of getting a stable, reliable, trustworthy modern filesystem.

I imagine they would dispute that.

> No exceptions were needed or required,

I know that Linus Torvalds would dispute that. In this HN thread and elsewhere, you've made good arguments that treating your approach as an exception is not warranted, and that your approach is better, but you surely aren't claiming that your approach is the usual approach for kernel development?

> undermining me as maintainer

Part of the job is dealing with Linus Torvalds. You're not good at that. It would make sense for you to focus on architecture, programming, making bcachefs great, and to let someone else deal with submitting patches to the kernel, or arguing those technical arguments where you're right, but aren't getting listened to.

People are "more concerned with politics" than with engineering concerns because the problem is not with your engineering.

> bcachefs has always had one of the better track records at avoiding regressions and quickly handling them when they do get through

That's not relevant. I know that you don't see that it's not relevant: that's why I'm saying it's not relevant.

> have you been getting your background from youtube commentators?

No, but I'm used to disputes of this nature, and I'm used to dealing with unreasonable people. You believe that others are being unreasonable, but you're not following an effective strategy for dealing with unreasonable people. I am attempting to give advice, because I want bcachefs in the kernel, and I haven't a hope of changing Linus Torvalds' mind, but I have half a hope of changing yours.

Rule one of dealing with unreasonable people is to pick your battles. How many times have I said "dispute" or "argument" in this comment? How many times have these been worthy disputes? Even if I've completely mischaracterised the overall situation, surely you can't claim that every argument you've had on the LKML or in LWN comments has been worth bcachefs being removed from the kernel.
by nerdsniper | 2025-10-02 22:21:52+00:00
Yes. There are a lot of good non-FDA drugs that have been available for online purchase by US citizens. It's illegal to get them shipped to you, but enforcement has historically been nearly non-existent and given that 75 million Americans are under-insured ... it probably has been the rational option for many. India, China, and Turkey are perfectly capable of making high quality pharmaceuticals when the business owner actually cares about quality.

Also, compounding pharmacies in the USA sometimes get their raw active ingredients from even the shadiest suppliers in China and India. It's not always perfectly legal, things aren't always QA/QC'd at any point in the process the way they should be, but it happens. So again, "buying American" isn't exactly a golden ticket.

European HMG from reputable pharmacies is probably great quality - but it's still rather expensive compared to Chinese HMG and there's really no way to trust anyone selling it online, you'd basically have to fly to Europe yourself. And taking it back on the airplane would still be illegal, and you'd be rather more likely to be caught by customs than a mailed package.
by Yenrabbit | 2025-10-02 22:22:40+00:00
We made the tool, and that will eventually be available on its own. But the method requires some discipline and 'unlearning'. It's very hard to show someone an AI tool and not have them treat it just like ChatGPT/Claude/... - that's the part that takes the time, and having a community of people working through different examples and case studies together is a lot more motivating for this than just staring at an empty prompt box :)
by onetimeusename | 2025-10-02 22:23:17+00:00
There are articles about Israel planning for Gazans to emigrate for months. The idea is they would 'voluntarily' emigrate to several African countries Israel made deals with. So I think that is more proof the starvation is deliberate. They can claim they aren't forcing anyone to migrate but if you stay you die. Not only is that evil but they are forcing some other country to deal with the problem.
by p_ing | 2025-10-02 22:23:23+00:00
> I'm frustrated that it has less functionality than it did before

How can anyone claim that's true? It does a lot _more_ than Windows 7 did. It has Defender as a full built-in suite. It has VBS. It has a completely different scheduler. It supports the App model. It has a mature virtualization framework. It has ReFS (and the ability to disable file system filters!).

...On and on and on. Windows 11 isn't a 7 with a bit of new GUI paint.

I mean, why stop at your Windows 7 v. 11 complaint? Windows 3.11 only required kilobytes of RAM and ran great; NT was the hefty one with a 12MB minimum! But each one ran Notepad, had Word, NT4 had a couple browsers, etc.

Generally commercial OSes don't take away major bits of impactful functionality that are going to magically minimize their footprint.
by Animats | 2025-10-02 22:23:57+00:00
Yes. The ownership by Harmon (an audio company) was clueless, and Blackberry was, strangely, no better.

I once told one of their marketing guys "Quit worrying about being pirated and worry more about being ignored."

I wonder if a business model like Epic's would have worked. Unreal Engine is free until you hit US$1 million in revenue, and then they want a cut of revenue. This works in games because any game with significant revenue is publicly visible. Less so in operating systems. You could have QNX inside a million traffic lights without anybody knowing.
by akk0 | 2025-10-02 22:24:11+00:00
In many places getting an adult ADHD diagnosis is near impossible. I was diagnosed at age 8 personally, but I now live in a country where adult ADHD is borderline not acknowledged as even existing, and I know people have to fight very hard to get diagnosed and even harder to get access to medication if they can get it at all.

There can also be palpable downsides to having a diagnosis at all, eg in my birth country everyone with an ADHD or Asperger's diagnosis is legally required to pay for medical evaluation out of pocket to be allowed to get a driver's license and will face medical reevaluation on renewal as well.
by thereitgoes456 | 2025-10-02 22:24:17+00:00
According to Karen Hao's Empire of AI, this is only half accurate. And I trust what Karen Hao says a lot more.

OpenAI mistakenly thought Anthropic was about to launch a chatbot, and ChatGPT was a scrappy, rushed-out-the-door product made from an intermediate version of GPT-4, meant to one-up them. Of course, they were surprised at how popular it became.
by iszomer | 2025-10-02 22:25:45+00:00
My place of employment is trying for a 12h/3d with the remaining 4h given for free. Their main objective is to have workers on the floor 24/7 with no overlapping shifts. This is a nightmare scenario on logistics and circadian rhythms if you don't drive but benefits for having free week days. Also, it would benefit the employer too regarding managing global operations more efficiently due to time zone differentials.
by rayiner | 2025-10-02 22:26:09+00:00
Same story for my middle kid. He’s bored out of his mind in 2nd grade math. He overheard me explaining square roots to his older sister while he was working on a coloring page at a restaurant waiting for our food. Then he pops his head up and says “so square and square root are the opposite of each other” (which isn’t something I said). He’s an exact clone of my brother, who has a BS in Physics from Yale.

It’s not because he “works hard,” and I don’t tiger parent. There’s just smart kids and average kids and dumb kids.
by lm28469 | 2025-10-02 22:26:19+00:00
"just wait for the magic solution of the now+10 years" is what Germany has been doing for 70 years while France invested in nuclear. They're paying their electricity about 2x more than France while producing almost 10x the co2. Of course now that everyone fucked up for the best part of a century nuclear seems like a bad option... Nuclear didn't have to be expensive
by allaffa | 2025-10-02 22:26:54+00:00
Hey HN,

I’ve been working on EdgeFoundry, an open-source DevOps and observability toolkit that makes it easy to deploy, monitor, and manage local LLMs on your own machine or private server.

What it does EdgeFoundry helps you: • Run quantized LLMs locally (like TinyLlama or Phi-3) using LlamaCPP • Monitor telemetry such as latency, tokens per second, and memory usage • Use a simple CLI to deploy, start, stop, and view models • Store and visualize metrics in a local SQLite database and React dashboard • Keep everything offline-first and privacy-friendly

In short: Ollama runs your model — EdgeFoundry helps you deploy and observe it like a production system.

Key Features (MVP) • CLI: edgefoundry deploy/start/stop/status • Local agent (FastAPI + LlamaCPP) to run the model • Telemetry logging for latency, memory, and token throughput • Local dashboard (React) for visualizing metrics • SQLite backend for offline data storage • Support for TinyLlama and Phi-3 Mini out of the box

Why I built this While building local AI projects like offline RAG assistants, I realized there was no easy way to deploy and track local models with observability and lifecycle management like we have in the cloud. Developers want control, privacy, and insight — but tools like Ollama lack monitoring, telemetry, or multi-device orchestration.

EdgeFoundry fills that gap by offering the DevOps and observability layer for edge AI.

Who it’s for • Developers running quantized models locally • Teams building offline-first AI apps • Startups needing on-prem AI for compliance • Anyone who wants visibility into local LLM performance

Quick Start

# 1. Install pip install edgefoundry

# 2. Deploy a local model edgefoundry deploy --model tinyllama-1b-3bit.gguf

# 3. Start the agent edgefoundry start

# 4. Open the dashboard edgefoundry dashboard

You’ll see live metrics like latency, memory usage, and tokens per second for each inference.

Future Plans The next phase of EdgeFoundry is to enable mass deployment and testing of local AI models across devices. The goal is to make it possible for companies to: • Deploy local models at scale to phones, laptops, or IoT devices • Collect telemetry and performance data from real devices or simulations (for example, using Android Studio or local emulators) • Use this data to evaluate, tune, and monitor model performance before and after rollout

This would let teams building privacy-first or on-device AI systems manage fleets of local deployments with the same level of visibility and control they have in the cloud.

Feedback wanted This is an early MVP. I’d love feedback on: • What features you’d want for multi-device orchestration • Whether cloud sync or over-the-air updates would be useful • What matters most for large-scale local deployments on phones or computers

GitHub: https://github.com/TheDarkNight21/edge-foundry

If you try it, please share your experience or open an issue. I’m eager to hear from others building privacy-first AI tools or deploying LLMs locally.

Thanks for reading. I’ll be in the comments to answer questions and discuss next steps.
by ctrlp | 2025-10-02 22:27:00+00:00
Someone who enjoys this please enlighten me or show me a way into McCarthy's prose using examples of what's good. I tried several times to read his novels and I'm sorry, but it's just terrible. It's hard to put my finger on what is so unappealing. The closest I can come to what is bad about it is that it reads like farce without humor (if you take 'farce' to be a question of tempo, as in "tragedy sped up"). The opening to Blood Meridian (his masterpiece, I'm told) is just this endless stream of backstory that The Kid is supposed to have done or been but no exposition of anything. It sounds like the imagination of a 13yo boy playing with his GI Joes or super heroes. The fragmentary style and purply-pulpish register is very hard to take seriously. Where's the beef? Please post some passages that don't sound like common pulp fiction, unless that's what people are crowing about, in which case...I got nothin'.
by chris_va | 2025-10-02 22:27:20+00:00
Maybe someone with more of a bio background can comment on the actual paper. When I look through the figures, I don't see a strong an evidence as they are claiming in the text.

E.g. figure 1G... naive image analysis (to me) does not match the claimed statistics. And the statistics are all on n<10, which also adds a lot of uncertainty.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-02 22:27:28+00:00
> ending an occupation and apartheid is not “changing borders”

"Poof[ing] Israel and turned Israel & Palestine into a democracy" literally is.

> are you seriously saying that people’s feelings have nothing to do with injustices waged upon them by force?

Nope.

> the theoretical worsening of a situation in response to ending injustice never justifies the maintaining of said injustice

I'm not talking about justification. Famine is unjustified. The war is unjustified.

I'm saying Y would be worse than X. That is true. It doesn't justify X. But it does make Y stupid.