MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by HSO | 2025-10-02 23:57:32+00:00
I participated in the first batch and am not a shill, look through my comment history.

The dismissive comments here pain me as Ive seen them work hard on this over the last year as they integrated many of our feature requests and built out the platform. I’ve also had time to let the ideas sink in.

You definitely cant hang back and expect some magic ai to do all the work for you.

I also cant say „you will definitely benefit“ since everybody is difft.

But i can honestly say it‘s the real deal, no ifs and buts.
by jameshilliard | 2025-10-02 23:57:46+00:00
> Germany and Japan also got to keep their countries in the end.

Germany was split in two for many years. Ultimately they were able to keep their countries because the occupation forces were successfully able to largely de-radicalize those countries.

> What guarantees do the Palestinians have that they'll get to keep Gaza and not have it be overrun by Israeli settlers (who are already wreaking havoc in the West Bank)?

I suppose that would depend on the surrender agreement and whatever agreements are subsequently put in place, but the settler issue differs significantly between Gaza and the West Bank for various reasons. For example the issue of religious sites is a much bigger issue in the West Bank, there has been little desire amongst Israelis to settle Gaza compared to the West Bank. The security issues in the West Bank tend to also be more problematic due to proximity to major Israeli cities.
by epolanski | 2025-10-02 23:58:05+00:00
Of course there is.

There's always individuals, developers or not, whose impact is 50 times greater than the average.

And the impact is measured financially, meaning, how much money you make.

If I find a way to solve an issue in a warehouse sparing the company from having to hire 70 people (that's not a made up number but a real example I've seen), your impact is in the multiple millions, the guy being tasked with delivering tables from some backoffice in the same company is obviously returning fractions of the same productivity.

Salvatore Sanfilippo, the author of Redis, alone, built a database that killed companies with hundreds of (brilliant) engineers.

Approaching the problems differently allowed him to scale to levels that huge teams could not, and the impact on $ was enormous.

Not only that but you can have negative x engineers. Those that create plenty of work, gaslighting and creating issues and slowing entire teams and organizations.

If you don't believe in NX developers or individuals that's a you problem, they exist in sports or any other field where single individuals can have impact hundreds of thousands or millions of times more positive than the average one.
by teachrdan | 2025-10-02 23:58:07+00:00
> Ukraine were backed into a corner, multiple times, they didn't resort to October 7 levels of horror either

While I personally condemn Hamas's tactics and don't recognize their political legitimacy, Ukraine has billions in modern military equipment, including tanks and fighter planes. They have conventional military options Palestinians could only dream of.

Ukraine has also been supplied with intelligence, weapons and materiel from other countries in Europe, with which they also share land borders, as well as the United States. Palestinians can't even get food from Egypt, their immediate neighbor.

> there is not a single documented case where they [Ukraine] have attacked civilians or civilian infrastructure.

It must further be observed that Israel has likely killed over 100,000 civilians and miles of civilian infrastructure, even as they enjoy the upper hand economically and militarily. Whatever damage Hamas has done to Israel, Israel has retaliated far out of proportion to Palestinian civilians, in a way that is judged calculated to be genocidal.
by ashirusnw | 2025-10-02 23:58:14+00:00
It wasn't just him, all the governments for the last decade tried to keep the peace while enforcing the blockage but allowing cash for salaries, humanitarian aid etc which made Gaza flourish with hotels, restaurants, beach resorts and high end shopping (see the videos). All no longer :(

A few months prior to October 7th, Natenyahu had allowed the highest number of work visas for Gazans to work in Israel proper. They genuinely thought economic prosperity would bring an slowdown and eventual end to terrorism. Now try and find Israelis who support the idea of 10s of 1000s Palestinians cruising the borders for work each day - thanks to Oct 7th.

Doesn't quite fit the narrative you want to portray, does it?
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by ajmurmann | 2025-10-02 23:58:41+00:00
I wonder if two things are massive factors in this:

a) The US is already prosperous. When you have much too lose, your mental trade-offs between gaining something and losing what you have become different.

b) US politics has been dominated by the massive post-war generation. It seems like we drastically stopped building when the boomers had bought their first homes.

Both of these also work for other Western countries that also stopped building.
by NooneAtAll3 | 2025-10-02 23:59:19+00:00
> Wonder why China thought this was a worthy investment. Guizhou is a poor part of China

I mean... that's exactly the reason?

Government funds get used to improve poorer regions to spread development. Improving transport links is a good way to do that

Plus it connects the country, which helps long-term stability

Think of these as more of interstate highways kind of projects
by d3vnull | 2025-10-03 00:00:32+00:00
That post complaining about lack of context took longer than typping "immich" into duck duck go and reading the single sentence that pops up at the top describing exactly what immich is. ----------- Immich Immich is a project that lets you back up, organize, and manage your photos and videos on your own server. It is under active development and available under GNU AGPL v3 license.
by godelski | 2025-10-03 00:00:34+00:00
> the security problem

You're confusing privacy with security. Phone numbers are a privacy problem and NOT a security problem.

Think of it this way. There's a vault that's locked with secrets inside, but the door is transparent. This does not prevent privacy. But the vault provides security.

Signal is not a transparent door, but is opaque. You can't see inside the vault. But the phone number reveals that you have access to the vault. This is very different than a security problem. Anyone connecting the two can see that you have a vault (security)[0], but they cannot see inside (privacy) or even when you access it (privacy).

There is no security issue with phone numbers.

[0] or can see that at some point in time you had a vault or someone that previously had that number had a vault
by pedalpete | 2025-10-03 00:01:10+00:00
I'm deep in category creation myself, so I know exactly where you're at.

But as I'm sure you know, you need to get the language right in order to create the desire to try.

I don't personally have AI fatigue. Nor do I have the time to spend 5 weeks taking a course to use a tool that I don't have enough context for.

Being in Australia timezone wise, and launching a start-up doesn't help.

This doesn't mean in any way that I'm not rooting for your success. But as you know, the language of understanding something new is a long iterative process.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-10-03 00:02:04+00:00
ot but i recently discovered that the latin alphabet western languages use has it's roots in the semitic languages of the middle east. It is of course obvious when you think about it, even the name alphabet is basically the same as aleph bet, the first two letters of hebrew. It's even more obvious when you look at the similarities in the names of the Greek alphabet which Latin is based off.

What happened in short was that the greeks copied the ancient and now virtually defunct phoenican script, varieties of which were used across the region and kept the names even though they made no sense in the context of Greek, added vowels and wrote it from left to right.

The russians adapted the script in one way, Latin in another, Hebrew and arabic took entirely separate paths and now the only thing they share in common is alphabets that follows vaguely the same ordering.
by defrost | 2025-10-03 00:03:14+00:00
> Why do you think that a solution that takes more than 5 years isn't practical?

A better question would be why do you think that is what I said or implied?

I'm well aware that in the future we will all be flying jet-ski's and teleporting to Mars, today I'm more interested in near and mid term policy, for one of many examples the recent CSIRO cost and benefits report on nuclear vs renewable strategies in Australia (what did that conclude, and will it swap policy decisions).

Given you've apparently taken the mantle of one who lives in the real world rather than the dull fantasy world I inhabit perhaps you could expand on the existing abilities and plans for carbon storage and fuel from air and contrast the achievable volumes within time frames that matter against the current and projected volumes of carbon emissions.

We're mostly all looking for a path forward in my neighborhood, a little less interested in wishful thinking about distant futures, so any pragmatic detail you can provide about next steps would be constructive.

> I don't think the real world is actually where you're living.

Cheap swipe kragen, I've previously thought you could do better.
by runlaszlorun | 2025-10-03 00:03:16+00:00
Ngl, totally envious of a log cabin lifestyle.

I dated a girl who was a project manager for high end homes in SF. What hit me as sad was that a long list of things that are now ultra luxury were basically attainable by any hunter gatherer - a view, a fireplace, living near a lake or river, a large yard, indoor outdoor space, etc.
by serf | 2025-10-03 00:03:29+00:00
I don't really believe that premise in a world with competition, and the strategy it supports -- let AI companies produce profit off of old models -- ignores the need for SOTA advancement and expansion by these very same companies.

In other words, yes GPT-X might work well enough for most people, but the newer demo for ShinyNewModelZ is going to pull customers of GPT-X's in regardless of both fulfilling the customer needs. There is a persistent need for advancement (or at least marketing that indicates as much) in order to have positive numbers at the end of the churn cycle.

I have major doubts that can be done without trying to push features or SOTA models, without just straight lying or deception.
by godelski | 2025-10-03 00:03:32+00:00
> the compromises are significant. > I use Secure Scuttlebutt, Cabal, Spritely Goblins, Tor,

And which of those are you able to communicate with your grandma on?

Honestly, I don't care how secure or how private (phone numbers are a privacy issue, not a security issue) if I have no one to communicate with. You need to solve the mass adoption problem.
by yibg | 2025-10-03 00:03:54+00:00
If Hamas attacked a military target on Oct 7th, killed 1000+ IDF personnel and took a few hundred more hostage, you don't think Israel will be bombing Gaza today? There isn't a way to prove either way, but I'm highly doubtful. I think the demands would still be the same; "return the hostages or we'll keep bombing you".
by brewdad | 2025-10-03 00:04:53+00:00
You won't be priced out if you were already fine with paying $20/mo. You will be blacked out. The MLB package doesn't include local markets. All of WA and OR are "local" for the Mariners. I think ID and MT are as well.

A terrible way to run a sport. Fortunately, the Tigers are my favored team but it would have been nice to see some Mariners games this year too.
by netsharc | 2025-10-03 00:04:54+00:00
Man, in a scenario where all the hostages are freed, I can't image Netanyahu stopping the genocide... so far he's been "Well, what are you going to do about it?!" about all the war crimes and killings, I would bet my left nut he'd continue the bombings even if all the hostages are returned. It's too easy to say the terrorist want to annihilate Israel (and so, Israel being a rules-abiding civilized democracy, must annihilate the Palestinian state first - terrorists, civilians, all the same...).
by cogogo | 2025-10-03 00:05:38+00:00
As a self taught hobbyist I progressed pretty far in advent of code 2023 until I gave up and less so in 2024 but my approach seems to be close to the one described (if you dig a little deeper into the signup page) or so I imagine. I was disciplined about not asking for help with the problem itself and went to chatgpt for help with components or syntax I needed to build a function I already had in mind (which was closer to the state of the art - especially in 2023 anyway). I think the advent of code problems are really interesting and have enjoyed solving them and watching others solve the ones I couldn’t. They are a fun way to frame the course. However the real value to me is learning how to approach more ambiguous problem spaces. I am definitely interested.
by godelski | 2025-10-03 00:06:07+00:00
My points are positive now but the variance has been huge. I'm surprised how often a comment like mine swings or gets entirely downvoted without a reply. I do not know if it is zealots, bots, or people just feel like the issue is "so obvious" that it needs no addressing. But I'm not sure how that's different than the first item.

It is also crazy to see how on HN of all places there's still a lot of confusion between the difference of privacy and security. People are saying phone numbers are a security issue. That's flat out wrong. It is a privacy issue.
by sgjohnson | 2025-10-03 00:07:45+00:00
> The damage to the Israeli state is incalculable.

Is it? Because not even the Arab countries that have recently recognized Israel don’t seem to particularly care about what Israel does in Gaza. Aside from a press release or a vote at the UN. All empty words.

Not a single Arab country that recognizes Israel has suspended (or even lowered) diplomatic relations with Israel.

I’m pretty sure that once the war in Gaza ends, everyone will be all too happy to forget that it even happened. Even if they won’t say it out loud.
by 9rx | 2025-10-03 00:07:59+00:00
> the government put the thumb on the scale for trucking and cars to drive postwar employment and growth of suburbs, accelerate housing development, and other purposes.

The age of postwar suburb growth would be more commonly attributed to WWII, but the records show these railroads were already losing money hand over fist by the WWI era. The final death knell, if there ever was one, was almost certainly the Great Depression.

But profitable and viable are not one and the same, especially given the immense subsidies at play. You can make anything profitable when someone else is covering the cost.
by lelandbatey | 2025-10-03 00:08:00+00:00
They're not claiming that it's like the dot com boom because no one is actually making money. They're claiming that this is more like the dot com boom than the housing bubble, which I think is true. The dot com crash didn't cause Jane-on-the-street to lose her house while she worked a factory job, though the housing crisis did have those kinds of consumer-affecting outcomes.
by epolanski | 2025-10-03 00:08:29+00:00
Jm2c I couldn't care less about this vibecode style benchmarks and I'm sick of them.

The things that I see represented here, may or may not be impressive, but sure as hell have never been the major blockers in achieving progress on complex tasks and software.

I understand you're merely reporting, thank you for that, not criticizing you, but those tests are absolutely irrelevant.
by analyte123 | 2025-10-03 00:08:38+00:00
It seems like you've been referring to "Hospital Services", which was 31% of all healthcare spending in 2023, and "Physician and Clinical Services", which was 20% of all healthcare spending in 2023, according to the CMS spreadsheet. But this is made up of revenue to the hospital or doctor's office, not just compensation for the medical professionals. These numbers include all the administration/dealing with insurance that has to be done at the hospital or physician office, as well as rent, malpractice insurance, drugs provided at the hospital, imaging costs and almost everything else that pays for capital spend, etc. The fees at the point of service basically have to account for all the bloat in the system, which of course includes some overdelivery and bloat inside the hospitals and clinics. But I really don't think this builds a case (like you seem to be doing) that doctors and nurses need to be squeezed in order to reduce US health care costs, especially when total healthcare expenditure has grown much faster than clinician pay over the past decades.
by godelski | 2025-10-03 00:08:46+00:00
Yeah the onboarding process isn't the best but... is CAPTCHA requirements really that big of a deal? Where on the internet can you go where you don't face these? Maybe my grandma can't handle that, but my already retired parents can (and that's a pretty low bar if you know them). For my grandma, yeah, I'll set it up. For my parents and anyone under 70 I think CAPATCHA is not too high of a bar.

I think your threshold is too high. How high off the floor is a CAPATCHA? Because it looks like a bar rolling on the ground to me. You can trip over it but it is almost trivial to get over.
by djtriptych | 2025-10-03 00:09:29+00:00
i mean they both flew into invisible drone traps.

I don't know that amazon engineers should be expected to see e.g. a moving small steel cable under tension.

That and customers are required to select safe delivery drop zones.

I would like to see better "oh shit we're crashing let's try not to kill anyone" protection, e.g. research on improving controlled landings on damaged drones. Maybe refusal to deliver if there are any detected humans in the drop zone (which may well already exist).
by tguvot | 2025-10-03 00:09:29+00:00
yeap. lets look at west bank. there is so much hamas in west bank that there are areas that PA doesn't go to. Last/this year PA tried to clean it up [0] but failed and asked Israel to help

There are occasional attempts at shooting rockets from west bank. Rocket workshop was found two week ago in Ramallah [1]. The only reason that we don't see 20,000 rockets from west bank like from gaza, it's presence of Israeli army and security services there.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%E2%80%932025_Palestinia...

[1] https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bjbqu9qolx
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-10-03 00:09:43+00:00
Israel's response to Oct 7th has been a major blackpill.

Their strategy was, I think, as bad as it could possibly be. In fact, it really seemed, and still seems, like no strategy at all -- they lashed out wildly and extremely destructively, without a clear picture of what the post-war Gaza Strip will look like.

Hamas successfully baited Israel into a disproportionate response that killed tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, which played directly into the dynamics of guerrilla warfare where a strong state's extreme actions against a weak opponent undermine its legitimacy.

Walking into such a trap tends to be a real world-historical blunder for any nation.

Yet, rather than adapting, Israel's network doubled down with censorship campaigns, crackdowns on protests, and weaponizing "anti-semitism" accusations to silence critics -- actions that have all backfired. Now international support is collapsing, the EU is pushing sanctions, and the US is slowly distancing itself. Israel's best option right now is to end the war as quickly as possible, and devote all of its efforts to repairing damaged relationships and mitigating the war's effects, before isolation accelerates to the level of sanctions similar to those imposed on South Africa.

I'll also note that it's interesting how all sides seem to have lost. Hamas lost the shooting war, the people of Gaza have lost lives and livelihoods which may take more than a decade to rebuild, and Israel lost the information/media war so damn badly that it may genuinely not recover from this.
by tptacek | 2025-10-03 00:10:38+00:00
I agree that the figure includes administration costs. CMS won't tell you that US physicians are paid 2x-3x more than they are in Europe, but OECD numbers will. CMS won't tell you about upcoding and overprescription, but the Dartmouth Atlas will. Meanwhile: the CMS picture will at least tell you that the majority of spending in our system is in on the provider side, and not in either prescription or insurance.

Again: I'm not out on a limb with these claims. I'm literally just remembering things Jonathan Gruber told Derek Thompson on a podcast, then looking up and bookmarking the numbers to confirm them. Many of the most popular message board narratives about healthcare disintegrate in the face of even these simple CMS numbers!
by JimDabell | 2025-10-03 00:11:14+00:00
That archived page doesn’t debunk what I am saying, it supports it.

> Open Source Alternative for Zapier/tray.io

They claimed to be open source…

> (Apache 2.0 with Commons Clause)

…but they were not. The Commons Clause means that it isn’t open source. It’s a commercial restriction.

The founder directly said this when discussing it here, the day before that archive was saved:

> > This is not open source - it is source available.

> Yes you are correct. Wrote an extra section about it here in the docs: https://docs.n8n.io/#/faq?id=license

— https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21192277
by Lammy | 2025-10-03 00:11:30+00:00
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https://admx.cengizyilmaz.net/policy/force-a-specific-defaul... “Note: This setting only applies to Enterprise, Education, and Server SKUs.”

https://admx.cengizyilmaz.net/policy/disable-all-apps-from-m... “This setting applies only to Enterprise and Education editions of Windows.”

And of course the really important one where only Enterprise is allowed to fully disable Telemetry: https://admx.cengizyilmaz.net/policy/allow-diagnostic-data “Diagnostic data off (not recommended). Using this value, no diagnostic data is sent from the device. This value is only supported on Enterprise, Education, and Server editions.”
by jameshilliard | 2025-10-03 00:12:25+00:00
> The indigenous people of Palestine did not start this conflict.

These arguments are not particularly helpful because you can easily make the case for either side being the indigenous people depending on how far you want to go back in history.

> They did not choose to be colonized by Jews fleeing persecution in Eastern Europe.

At this point the majority of Israelis were born in Israel and hold no other citizenship, so if you're suggesting the Jews all go back to Europe that isn't a realistic expectation, also many Jews were forced out of other middle east countries shortly after the founding of Israel. You can make these same arguments about many countries like the United States or Canada as well as being colonies that pushed out their indigenous people, but these arguments are not going to be particularly productive as nobody is expecting these countries to return all land to their indigenous populations either. By the way these Jews fleeing Eastern Europe prior to Israeli independence were largely purchasing the land from Arab landowners which is arguably better than them haven taken the land by force.