MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tptacek | 2025-10-02 21:32:26+00:00
I mean, if the argument is that exogenous supply constraints are the root of most of our economic problems, and that the economy is rigged for the upper-middle class and the billionaires are just along for the ride, we probably share a lot of politics, but either way: my point on this thread is just: start with the total picture of where money in our system goes.

A lot of people think most of it is going to insurers and pharma companies, which is the literal opposite of what's happening.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-10-02 21:32:37+00:00
The guy who invented it tested it at various speeds and angles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_strike_protection_system. There are also numerous documented cases of these working as intended in the NTSB database. The FAA did a study and found that wire strike cutters significantly reduced fatalities https://skybrary.aero/sites/default/files/bookshelf/3288.pdf

So no, not a dumb idea according to the FAA's data backed study, the US military, and the people that operate helicopters.
by stale2002 | 2025-10-02 21:32:42+00:00
> way past where it made sense.

If they don't destroy Hamas now, then a war will happen again in another 10 years. At which point 10s of thousands of palestinians will needlessly die, again. The only resolution to all of this, will happen when Hamas is completely disarmed and out of power.

You can criticize how Israel goes about achieving that goal. But that goal is the only one that gets to a real, permanent peace.
by nicce | 2025-10-02 21:33:00+00:00
> Human rights organisations (and credible third parties) agree that Gaza is in famine. The term genocide is not universally applied, though it is increasingly and increasingly credibly, albeit at the expense of the clarity of the term.

UN commission uses word genocide [0].

ICJ used word "plausible" [1].

HRW has used the word genocide [2]

...actually the list of explicit accusation of genocide is quite big [3].

Is there some single, powerful organisation left that does not agree that there is genocide? All the big mentioned also [4].

[0]: https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/israel-has-c...

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3g9g63jl17o

[2]: https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/12/19/israels-crime-exterminat...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_humanitarian_and_human...

[4]: https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/09/1165856
by acabezas | 2025-10-02 21:33:25+00:00
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by nikkwong | 2025-10-02 21:33:40+00:00
That might not be true, if you look at the paper:

"The super stem cells prevent age-related bone loss while rejuvenating over 50% of the 61 tissues analyzed." (including the brain).

What do people die of when they die of 'old age'? There's the 3 pillars: cancer, cardiovascular, neurodegenerative. These are often (but not always) metabolic diseases; i.e. cardiovascular death often arises from kidney insufficiency. If you can regenerate the liver, kidney, etc. indefinitely, a large vector of metabolic disease is probably diminished or disappears.

In the paper, monkeys restored brain volume. They reduced the levels of senescent cells to youthful levels. They increased bone mass. This reduces or eliminates many of the threats that inflict casualties among the centenarian population.

Sure, something else could come up that the monkeys start dying from instead. But, given the way humans and monkeys die of old age—by reducing or eliminating all known threats—it's hard to see how this wouldn't extend lifespan.
by taylodl | 2025-10-02 21:33:51+00:00
You're right that Taiwan held the China seat at the UN until 1971, and that the ROC and PRC are rival claimants from the Chinese Civil War. But it's important to clarify that most countries do not formally recognize PRC sovereignty over Taiwan. They acknowledge the PRC's claim under the One China Policy, but do not endorse it as a legal fact. This is a deliberate posture of strategic ambiguity, not recognition of sovereignty.

> When did China threaten to invade Korea or Japan?

China has not threatened to invade Korea or Japan in the modern era, but the US also did not invade those countries in the way you're implying. The US occupied Japan after its surrender in WWII and intervened in Korea under a UN mandate to repel North Korean aggression. And just to be clear - Japan attacked the US first and declared war, not the other way around.

> Taiwan is a Chinese affair...

That’s the PRC’s position, but it’s not universally accepted. Taiwan has its own government, military, and democratic institutions. Whether one sees it as a "Chinese affair" depends on whether one prioritizes historical claims, self-determination, or geopolitical stability. All three are valid lenses, but they lead to different conclusions.

> South China Sea... uninhabited reefs, undefined borders...

The South China Sea disputes are governed by international maritime law, particularly UNCLOS. In 2016, the Permanent Court of Arbitration ruled that China’s Nine-Dash Line has no legal basis. The issue isn’t just about reefs - it’s about exclusive economic zones, freedom of navigation, and militarization of contested areas. China’s posture in the region is increasingly assertive and cannot reasonably be described as peaceful.
by stego-tech | 2025-10-02 21:33:58+00:00
I genuinely appreciate the shared perspective and information! This is, admittedly, an area I lack concrete data in because it’s not required to be public in many cases, and I have no way to effectively judge the accuracy or transparency of the data that is; your sharing helps fill in gaps, which I’m appreciative of.

Alright then, let’s assume I am woefully mistaken in my understanding of how international student tuition affects domestic student tuition. There’s still the reality of college tuition grossly outstripping inflation and COLA, even accounting for the prior government subsidies on tuition older generations enjoyed. Yet despite the cost of tuition skyrocketing, the return on investment continues to dwindle - namely that credentials alone no longer guarantee even a middle class existence, nevermind a potential ticket into the upper classes.

In that context, why does tuition remain so high, and how would you recommend we address the issues of tuition cost relative to ROI? Should we raise admission standards to deter enrollment and divert students to tradework? Should we eliminate credentials from non-specialized roles, thereby further depressing the ROI and thus future enrollment? Or is the answer just baking-in a college education into primary schooling, and making a Bachelor’s gratis via government subsidy at state/public schools?

Genuinely curious where you’d recommend I focus my efforts or learning on, because you have a better grasp on this than I do.
by pfdietz | 2025-10-02 21:34:07+00:00
To go into more detail: you want to really aggressively minimize capex, even at the expense of round trip efficiency, for long duration (like, seasonal) storage. The interesting example from Standard Thermal is something that could reach a capex of $0.10 per kWh-th of storage capacity (yielding heat at 600 C). This is three orders of magnitude better than batteries. Even tossing in 40% round trip efficiency from converting this back to electricity using steam turbines it would be vastly superior to batteries for seasonal grid storage.

There are varieties of batteries with somewhat lower capex and lower charge/discharge rates. Form Energy's iron batteries are of this kind. They would occupy an intermediate timescale, perhaps ~1 week, which could be good for leveling wind output.
by bitwize | 2025-10-02 21:35:13+00:00
So the best way to get induced pluripotent stem cells is through the Yamanaka factors, which are proteins coded for by genes which are not expressed in mature cells. Using all four Yamanaka factors is a one-way ticket to tumor town. But, as it turns out, using three of the four still gets you IPSCs without the elevated cancer risk.
by MattPalmer1086 | 2025-10-02 21:35:45+00:00
Right. I have two perfectly serviceable machines on win 10 that can't upgrade.

But they still work and honestly, I don't see much downside to running them without any updates for a while.

Eventually I'll replace them and maybe they will get win 11 or 12. Or Linux as that's what everything else is already running.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-02 21:36:32+00:00
> even a single one active in Gaza that is not saying that a blatant genocide is taking place

Anyone saying, definitively and prior to 17 September [1], that a genocide was or was not taking place in Gaza is probably not credible.

[1] https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/israel-has-c...
by talideon | 2025-10-02 21:36:44+00:00
Nah. There are ways to mitigate the blast radius of experiments like this.

You can't utterly wrap developers up in cotton wool. Ultimately, people learn strong lessons from screwing up. You can at least make sure they're doing this learning within a sandbox in which the damage is contained. Like, maybe containerising it so it has limited access to anything that could do any real damage. If somebody builds a blogging app and the worst thing that happens is that they learn the value of sanitising your input, preventing SQL injection, that spam is an unfortunate fact of life, and that you should be very careful with how you manage cookies, I would consider that a _very_ big win for that novice developer.

Because we're talking about _developers_ here.
by eries | 2025-10-02 21:37:49+00:00
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by bena | 2025-10-02 21:37:53+00:00
First of all, I firmly believe you're a sock puppet.

Where is the "good explanation"?

The first thing he did was demand qualifications of the poster. Exclaiming he's diagnosing something. He started aggressive.

I then pointed out that his friend also made his self-diagnosis with the same qualifications.

He then got all huffy and basically said "So you agree his story is rubbish", which is also rather aggressive. And all through this, he's been dismissive and condescending to people. And everyone else has been rather polite to him even with his attitude.

And I don't think anyone is misunderstanding him. Everyone acknowledges his point that the poster is likely not a qualified professional. However, they are pointing out that neither is his friend. And I also pointed out, diagnosis or not, there's no excuse for being an asshole. Being autistic does not give you carte blanche to treat people like shit.

So it's more like his refusal to understand everyone else's point. And likely why he's getting downvoted. But that shouldn't matter. So, you know, stay awesome, dude.
by unethical_ban | 2025-10-02 21:38:39+00:00
9/11 was different. Yes, that's the difference. airport security was more lax, the way we dealt with hijackings was different, and the security on airplanes was minimal.

You had a heavily fortified military DMZ between the massive surveillance and military state of Israel and Hamas flying in with kites, bulldozers, and motorcycles. I hope it was merely a massive failure due to arrogance and misallocation of resources, because a plausible alternative is sadly realistic and believable.
by axython | 2025-10-02 21:39:17+00:00
Just out of curiosity, what does "destroyed" mean in Israel case? Is this a situation, that can potentially lead to Israel ruled by Hamas and Hamas having a nuke and army, that can easily reach Europe? How is that "better"? There is a reason why no one, except extremists (on both sides, both Greater Israel or whatever, or Greater Palatine) support one state solution.
by k310 | 2025-10-02 21:39:53+00:00
Solved! Put up a blank screen. If it's snowing, get out the microfiber. If it's hailing, wash them.

Next up, a holographic display that corrects for your vision. Optionally, adjusts to changes in real time.

Next up next. Eyeglasses that automatically dispense your eye drops. (You need to look up for this to work)

OIMV (Order of invention may vary)

Reminder, everyone. Use your monitor in a well-lighted room. A bright monitor in a dark room causes eye strain. Lost the study, but I can speak from experience.
by duskwuff | 2025-10-02 21:39:56+00:00
As an aside: it's only relevant on microcontrollers nowadays, but ARM T32 (Thumb) code density is really good. Most instructions are 2 bytes, and it's got some clever ways to represent commonly used 32-bit values in 12 bits:

https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0403/d/Applicatio...
by catlover76 | 2025-10-02 21:40:00+00:00
If you watch Peter Beinart's channel, he has had Ehud Olmert and Avraham Berg on. IDK if they touched upon starvation specifically, but it seemed like they were not in denial about Israel's actions, especially the latter (I think Beinart lightly pressed Olmert on whether Israel's actions constitute genocide, and Olmert disagreed, and I don't know that I begrudge him that, given his position).

Neither of these former politicians are current leaders, of course.
by ACCount37 | 2025-10-02 21:40:01+00:00
I mean, if you gain +20 years of longevity to most of the body, but not to mind? That's still 20 extra years of lifespan if you're lucky. And if you aren't, it's still better health in general, until your mind goes.

There are old people who remain lucid and active well into their nineties, not getting dementia or cancer - through some combination of good luck, good genes and good lifestyle choices. They live a good life - until a stroke cripples them, or the heart fails them, or a very mundane illness like flu puts them in bed and they never quite recover from it. If that couldn't happen to them, how many more good years would that buy them?

Any treatment that addresses the aging-associated systematic decline in bodily functions should be extremely desirable. Even if it wouldn't help everyone live longer, it would help a lot of people live better lives nonetheless.
by sparacha | 2025-10-02 21:40:30+00:00
Hi HN — we’re the team behind Arch-Router [1], A 1.5B preference-aligned LLM router that guides model selection by matching queries to user-defined domains (e.g., travel) or action types (e.g., image editing). Offering a practical mechanism to encode preferences and subjective evaluation criteria in routing decisions.

Today we’re extending that approach to Claude Code via Arch Gateway[2], bringing multi-LLM access into a single CLI agent with two main benefits:

1. Model Access: Use Claude Code alongside Grok, Mistral, Gemini, DeepSeek, GPT or local models via Ollama.

2. Preference-aware Routing: Assign different models to specific coding tasks, such as – Code generation – Code reviews and comprehension – Architecture and system design – Debugging

Why not route based on public benchmarks? Most routers lean on performance metrics — public benchmarks like MMLU or MT-Bench, or raw latency/cost curves. The problem: they miss domain-specific quality, subjective evaluation criteria, and the nuance of what a “good” response actually means for a particular user. They can be opaque, hard to debug, and disconnected from real developer needs.

[1] Arch-Router: https://huggingface.co/katanemo/Arch-Router-1.5B

[2] Arch Gateway: https://github.com/katanemo/archgw
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-02 21:40:36+00:00
> UN calls it a genocide now

One, really important to specify that the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel said this, not the UN as a whole. "The UN" is generally held to be the General Assembly.

Two, I'm not disputing that it probably is a genocide. I'm just saying that people have been calling it a genocide well before we had evidence it was one. As a result, the term has lost moral weight.

Put another way, I don't think support for Palestine increases by calling it a genocide again. I do think it increases by showing, specifically, what the famine means for the kids on the ground can change hearts and minds. (Nobody, at this point, is probably going to be swung on a fundamental opinion. People may, however, re-prioritise this politically.)
by srj | 2025-10-02 21:40:39+00:00
Yes I'm talking about LLMs in particular. I'm in the stochastic parrot camp. Though I could be convinced humans are no more than stochastic parrots, in which case it does have a path for development of AGI.

If I'm right the breakthroughs will plateau even while applications of the technology continue to advance for the next several years.
by yibg | 2025-10-02 21:40:46+00:00
This is just a variant of "it's war, bad things happen", with the addition of "they started it".

Putting the debate of who started what aside, does someone starting a war justify war crimes against them?

- who started what

- specific conditions to end things

- who agrees to what

All of these are distractions. The core issues are, are there war crimes being committed or not? Is the population of Gaza starving or not? If so, is Israel actively contributing or deliberately causing the situation or not?

EDIT: this is a good example of how collective punishment is being justified, to blame the population of Gaza for the actions (or inaction) of Hamas. "Well, if they just do X, then they wouldn't have to starve".
by shkurski_ | 2025-10-02 21:41:07+00:00
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by leephillips | 2025-10-02 21:42:17+00:00
I see what you mean. So instead of claiming that Python employs class-based object orientation, I should have said something like:

Much existing library code is needlessly rigid and complex, even when supplying simple functionality. This is encouraged by Python’s mechanism of method specialization, which uses single dispatch and class objects. An attempt to re-use methods from a library leads to the expression problem.
by dlubarov | 2025-10-02 21:42:17+00:00
> "Anyone who wants to thwart ..."

That's an unverified quote which Netanyahu denied saying.

> Hamas changed their charter in 2017 and supported the 1967 borders.

First it's only certain Westerns who like to frame it as a new charter, while Hamas never used such language and never recanted their original charter.

More to the point, Hamas' 2017 document accepts the concept of a state along 1967 borders, presumably as a stepping stone, "without compromising its rejection of the Zionist entity", i.e. while still demanding "the full and complete liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea".

> Israel does not.

There's nothing sacred about the 1967 armistice line in particular, but the 2ss offers Israel made in 2000 and 2008 would have been pretty close.
by ath3nd | 2025-10-02 21:42:18+00:00
You are basically saying that regardless of criticisms and international condemnation, Israel has no choice but commit war crimes and genocide? This is like "look what you made me do" defence in court, not sure it will save genocider Netanyahu from rotting in the Hague jail.

Nor would it stop us from boycotting Israel and calling out their genocide.
by Alupis | 2025-10-02 21:43:36+00:00
At this point, either political party pretending to care at all about fiscal responsibility is absolutely hilarious.

The standoff is about a component of the Affordable Care Act that is expiring. Democrats don't have the footing to win this battle - so the longer the standoff holds the worse outcome they can expect. Trump's administration seems to have wanted this shutdown... and Democrats walked right into the landmine.
by asacrowflies | 2025-10-02 21:44:12+00:00
This is actually a huge part of "getting better" as an autistic. A large amount of this masking is a trauma response from childhood when authority figures were a threat and not understandable so you pretend and "mask" and appease.

But once you are older and able to sieze your own power and set your own boundaries? The healthiest high functioning autist I know share this "don't give a fuck " attitude.

Very sad for the hell lower functioning ones must live in... Almost like the horror stories of locked in comas.
by LorenDB | 2025-10-02 21:44:12+00:00
For y'all asking why we're all gung-ho on beating the Chinese back to the Moon:

NASA's lunar ambitions include surface bases on the lunar South Pole, where there is water ice trapped in craters with permanent shadows. China has similar plans. If China gets ahead of the US, it could just claim all the good spots and leave NASA's program in a bind. Hence the urgency to stake a claim near lunar ice deposits.
by zabzonk | 2025-10-02 21:45:43+00:00
Well, I dunno. On my lock screen I get local weather, local events and such, which I don't mind and are not really adverts. I never see anything else. Nothing in start menu or taskbar.

This is Windows 11 home. I wonder if people complaining about ads have some 3rd party adware installed, or are just parroting what they have heard about the evils of Microsoft?