MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by spwa4 | 2025-11-04 21:44:25+00:00
My complaint was not at all about the first sentence but about the total absense in the entire article of any alternative viewpoint, or even references to the conflict or the totally different treatment of scholarly consensus (because there is a scholarly consensus that hamas committed genocide too, in fact, there is consensus about multiple hamas genocides, and about many genocides committed by other palestinian factions including the PA). And as I pointed out even the beginning of the conflict, Hamas' attack, which is a genocide without any discussion about it, is barely mentioned at all, and only as an "attack".

Because once again, your comparisons just doesn't work.

Wikipedia title for an article that 90% of scholars (WITH academic credentials) agree hamas and palestinians committed genocide on Jews:

"Allegations of genocide in the October 7 attacks"

Wikipedia title for an article that 90% of scholars (who paid 20 euros to be considered scholars, the IAGS) agree Israel committed genocide against Gazans:

"Gaza genocide"

(IAGS does not require academic credentials to be a member, and many members have none)

Here is the link to the page about Hamas' (and random Palestinians) committing genocide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_genocide_in_the...

Note that the scholars alleging Hamas' committed genocide in the October 7 attacks are largely the same as the in the "Gaza genocide" article. In ONE of those articles both genocides are represented ... in the other they aren't (except in the non-user-editable part).

Of course, on the page describing the hamas' genocide, none of the your arguments apply. The various viewpoints are represented (frankly ad nauseam), including arguments by individual scholars denying the genocide. On that page Wikipedia seriously makes the argument that "a massacre with genocidal intent" does not constitute a genocide. On that page scholarly consensus that a genocide occurred is described as "allegations of genocide". It continues like that, with for every scholar mentioned every tiny caveat they put anywhere in their paper repeated. For example that information sources may not be reliable as to intent.

On that page it is extensively mentioned that there are accusations against Israel committing genocide in Gaza, whereas on the "Gaza genocide" page it is not mentioned at all that hamas' committed genocide (except in that consensus is that hamas' definitely committed genocide against Israeli too ... oh and of course, there's the title.

I could keep going, pointing out that even in this article it is not mentioned that hamas' has in fact committed multiple genocides, including against Palestinians (in Al-Shifa hospital, among other places), and that the Palestinian Authority has done so as well, including against Palestinians, Jordans, Lebanese, ...
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-04 21:44:52+00:00
Look at the modern labor market and tell me they aren't trying their darndest to make it one.

And yes, we should "hold back the successful". Taking 99% of a billion dollars still lands someone with a career's worth of savings to tap into. That's how utterly ahead they are. And it's clear they used that power to ransack the nation. So be luck "holding them back" is the only stipulation here.
by wyday | 2025-11-04 21:46:16+00:00
I disagree. Someone with these views on humanity should not have a platform. They should be shamed and shunned. They should not be an "influencer" (however minor).

Look, I grew up in a cult too (the Baptist flavor). I also grew out of it mostly unscathed. He's a grown-ass man that still believes these truly heinous things. He has not grown as person. Or addressed his ignorance. And he's never retracted or apologized for his hateful views.

Which... it's his right. He can be an asshole. But people should be informed and, like I said, he should be shunned and shamed.
by kelnos | 2025-11-04 21:46:52+00:00
I think the right way to frame it is that the particular format of a site doesn't necessarily dictate whether or not something is "social media". It's important to look at how people actually use the site[0], as well as whether the voting/ranking/whatever system looks more like a popularity contest or objective moderation. It usually won't be 100% of either of those, but it will certainly lean one way or the other. I think HN leans toward objective moderation much more than Reddit does, even though HN's moderation is certainly not fully objective.

[0] This use can be heavily influenced by how the owners of the site push things, e.g. HN's guidelines and in-house moderation decisions vs. Facebook's algorithmic news feed that chases user engagement above all else.
by pstoll | 2025-11-04 21:46:56+00:00
It’s the “no longer evil” marketing without actually proving that “no longer evil.com” is in fact … from from evil.

I was assuming that I could point the nest data stream & control UI to my own hosted thing on eg my local NAS or docker farm. That’s what I think would warrant the moniker “free from evil” in this kind of strong privacy preserving marketing.
by genezeta | 2025-11-04 21:47:06+00:00
While you might not get the exact same numbers (^1), you can get a very similar result in your browser's devtools, in the network tab, by doing a clean reload of the page. It will give you a total (both compressed/transferred bytes, and uncompressed).

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(^1) If the page, as HN does, has some headers or additional content for logged in visitors, the numbers will generally be a bit different. But the difference will usually be small.
by balder1991 | 2025-11-04 21:47:13+00:00
> This is a bit related to external dependencies vs build yourself (AKA reinvent the wheel). Quite often the external library, long term, causes more issues than building it yourself (assuming you _can_ build a competent implementation).

I feel like this happens mostly because simpler is better, and most of these dependencies don’t follow a good “UNIX” philosophy of modularity, being generic etc. something that you’d notice the standard libraries try to achieve.

Most of these third party dependencies are just a very specific feature that starts to add more use cases until it becomes bloated to support multiple users with slightly different needs.
by MangoCoffee | 2025-11-04 21:48:04+00:00
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20190709009300320

"Samsung is a major buyer of Japanese chemical companies producing fluorine polyimide used to make flexible OLED displays, as well as resist and etching gas needed in the semiconductor fabrication process."

Samsung's CEO went to Japan to try and secure Japan's chemicals back in 2019 during the bad blood between South Korea and Japan.

China will have to take on the entire supply chain from chemicals, machines and talents if they want to avoid a chokehold. That's a very tall order.
by gnarlouse | 2025-11-04 21:48:26+00:00
A few things to point out after reading and thinking about this:

- Another AI firm building products focused on Fortune 500 scale problems. If you're not at a F500, this tool isn't necessarily a good fit for you, so YMMV.

- static analysis tools that produce flowcharts and diagrams like this have existed since antiquity, and I'm not seeing any new real innovation other than "letting the LLM produce it".

They say it's ZDR, so maybe I don't fully understand what problem they're trying to solve, but in general I don't see the value add for a system like this. Also onboarding isn't necessarily just presenting flow charts and diagrams: one of the biggest things you can do to onboard somebody is level-set and provide them with problem context. You COULD go into a 30 minute diatribe about how "this is the X service, which talks to the Y service, and ..." and cover a whiteboard in a sprawling design diagram, or you could just explain to them "this is the problem we're working on", using simple, compact analogies where/when applicable. If the codebase is primarily boilerplate patterns, like CRUD, MVC, or Router/Controller/Service/DB, why talk about them? Focus on the deviant patterns your team uses. Focus on the constraints your team faces, and how you take the unbeaten path to navigate those constraints.
by whatshisface | 2025-11-04 21:49:08+00:00
It comes down to whether everyone who lives in Palestine can be killed or removed before the direct financial support reverses into sanctions or something beyond the heavily suppressed critical online comments they're facing right now. Once they are all gone, the pressure to save them will be as well. I think they are at peace with "reputation" (among who, western intellectuals? progressives in Europe?) in exchange for achieving a goal that has defined rightwing Israeli politics for generations.

Besides, what do they have to be afraid of? They know the accusations of antisemitism are false, and will not become true any time soon. The idea of a widespread vendetta against both the violent and peaceful elements of Israel has always been a fiction, used to justify the extraordinary measures employed to "defend" against it. All they have to do is kill or expel two million people, and then the crime will become history (probably not in US textbooks).
by Terr_ | 2025-11-04 21:49:13+00:00
> if you assume that AGI is fake and impossible

That seems like a bad straw-man for "AI boosterism has the following hallmarks of conspiratorial thinking".

> offer some reasoning that it's impossible

Further on, the author has anticipated your objection:

> And there it is: You can’t prove it’s not true. [...] Conspiracy thinking looms again. Predictions about when AGI will arrive are made with the precision of numerologists counting down to the end of days. With no real stakes in the game, deadlines come and go with a shrug. Excuses are made and timelines are adjusted yet again.
by muldvarp | 2025-11-04 21:49:24+00:00
Compete for what exactly? Under the assumption that AI agents will make human software engineering obsolete there won't be a market for you to compete in. Everyone that wants a piece of software will ask their AI agent to create it.

My ability to create software is only really useful to me because other people pay me for it. If AI agents take that from me, it won't matter that I can now create awesome software in minutes instead of weeks. The software was never really the thing that was useful for me.
by AlexandrB | 2025-11-04 21:49:44+00:00
One thing that struck me recently is that LLMs are necessarily limited by what's expressible with existing language. How can this ever result in AGI? A lot of human progress required inventing new language to represent new ideas and concepts. An LLM only experience of the world is what can be expressed with words. Meanwhile, even a squirrel has an intuitive understanding of the laws of gravity that are beyond the ability of an LLM to ever experience because it's stuck in a purely conceptual, silicon prison.
by ACCount37 | 2025-11-04 21:50:04+00:00
By now, if you claim "LLMs aren't thinking", the burden of proof is on you. They obviously and openly do.

The pile of capabilities that were previously exclusive to human intelligence is ever growing - and the amount of claims of "LLMs can't do X" that are followed up by examples of LLMs doing X shortly after is staggering.
by RustSupremacist | 2025-11-04 21:50:18+00:00
The Rust Foundation is a 501(c)(6) and not a 501(c)(3). The Rust Foundation would do better for the community if they were a 501(c)(3) and more transparent about finances.

There is no need for a new fund, the existing funds should be directed towards development and there should be greater transparency about how funds are gathered and spent.

This post is devoid of details and action. It should read that the Rust Foundation is going to convert to a 501(c)(3) and ensure that current funds are spent on development. Otherwise, this is a shell game with the existing funds and how they are going to be spent. Understand that sleight of hand bodes poorly and suggest impropriety.
by masfuerte | 2025-11-04 21:51:54+00:00
> I found another PNG picture here

That image has a similar problem to yours. It has been scaled up using some kind of interpolation which introduces a load of extra colours to smooth the edges. This is not a great fit for PNG, which is why it is 64KB.

The article claims that it is only 5.9KB. I guess it was that small originally and it's been mangled by the publishing process.
by 9rx | 2025-11-04 21:52:07+00:00
> Why would we care what they think?

Well, with the exception of Hong Kong, which isn't exactly a farming mecca, Singapore, and Eswatini, all other English speaking countries are democratic. Which means that the government and the people are the very same thing, so when the people have decided that's what farmer is, that's what farmer is to basically everyone (there are always outliers who like to go against the grain, of course).

> we can just ask the people what the words mean.

There's an old saying: "Actions speak louder than words". People will make up bullshit if you ask them. More revealing is to look at how people actually use the word "farmer" in practice. And it turns out that we do — and then record that use in a book known as the dictionary. Like I said in an earlier comment, it echoes the same.

> And the people say that 'farmer' includes folks doing the actual cultivation

Sure. There are also people who use the word "farmer" to refer to someone who creates web/social media content. But these are outlier uses. Obviously all words have been made up on the spot, and can be made up on the spot (again) any time you so wish. You've not stumbled upon any kind of revelation there. But in going that way you've made it clear that you're not paying attention to the discussion that is taking place.
by JosifA | 2025-11-04 21:52:43+00:00
Location: Lithuania (EU) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: C++, Embedded Linux, Networking, Concurrency, Docker, Github Actions, Pytorch, CUDA, OpenCL, Image Processing, Video I/O (codecs, containers). Resume: http://tulon.github.io/assets/CV_Joseph_Artsimovich.pdf Website: https://tulon.github.io/ Email: joseph <dot> artsimovich <at> gmx <dot> com

I am a seasoned C++ developer with 23 years of experience in the industry. I have experience in Desktop, Embedded and Mobile development. I also did some back-end work and even some reverse engineering, though that was a while ago. I also have some ML experience (PyTorch) - also a while ago, but not that much. Most recently I've doing 3D graphics (simulation and later maps). My Linear Algebra is quite decent - I use it regularly.

My preferred next career move is independent contracting. 6-12 months contracts ideally. I will also consider permanent fully remote positions, but only quite senior ones - Staff Engineer / Architect level.

I've been fully remote since 2018 and I intend to keep it that way.
by JohnFen | 2025-11-04 21:52:56+00:00
That's my understanding. Also, particularly with public figures, the entity making the defamatory statement has to have known (or a reasonable person would have known) that the statement was false.

But as you say, it's very hard to see how saying someone is shorter than they are is defamatory in the first place. There would have to be some additional circumstance that makes such innocuous misinformation damaging.
by EvanAnderson | 2025-11-04 21:53:32+00:00
> ...looks like they reverse-engineered the nest thermostat and wrote a firmware...

Not to diminish what this project has done, but they modified existing firmware to make it communicate with a different server. They've also implemented a server for the thermostat API.

It's pretty neat but, at this point, it's just a hacked firmware that talks to a different proprietary server.

Edit: It's not even a modification to the firmware binaries. They're just injecting /etc/hosts entries into the firmware[0]. If the Nest device just uses DNS to resolve these names then you wouldn't even need to modify the firmware-- just point it at a DNS server that's authoritative for the necessary names.

[0] https://github.com/codykociemba/NoLongerEvil-Thermostat/issu...
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-04 21:53:49+00:00
No one earns a billion dollars. By that point you aren't "earning" money anymore. Tax it 99% for all I care. You or someone else should be spending that by thatpoin. If you're a multi-billion aire then that's rough, but o don't think your QoL will be impacted.

Also, your loins did hot "earn" that money either by popping out of a uterus. Inheritance tax is probably the easiest to push of you can convince people that children aren't entitled to be billionaires by existing.
by kelnos | 2025-11-04 21:54:11+00:00
I think HN has aspects of social media, but I wouldn't call it that. I do get some similar feelings and "rewards" from reading and commenting on HN that I used to get with Facebook, Instagram, etc. But I quit FB & Insta years ago because those sites were overall making me feel bad and unhappy. HN isn't perfect, and I do occasionally get those negative feelings, but overall I enjoy reading the articles people post, and reading and discussing people's reactions to them.

Certainly I waste some amount of time on HN when I could or should be doing something else, but I think I've also learned a lot from HN, and get to read reasonable points of view that differ from my own.

I think HN's user moderation system (as well as HN's guidelines, and how the in-house moderators moderate and engage with the community) also push more toward HN being a discussion forum and not social media. While HN's moderation isn't perfect, it's not the engagement-at-all-costs popularity contest that plagues most social media sites and makes things unbearable.
by RustSupremacist | 2025-11-04 21:55:37+00:00
The perception of Zig and Rust within different communities can vary, and Zig may not attract the same level of "lukewarm response" as Rust due to several factors, including their design philosophies, target use cases, and community engagement.

Zig's appeal lies in its deliberate simplicity and explicitness, offering a different path to high-performance, low-level programming compared to Rust's safety-first, more complex approach. This divergence in philosophy and implementation leads to different reception within the programming community.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-11-04 21:56:42+00:00
> I am vaguely familiar with ALGOL but have never used it before. Do I need to put down OCaml and learn ALGOL first in order for my syntax complaints to be well-justified?

Your syntax complaints will never be well-justified. It’s just a syntax family you are unfamiliar with, not an actual downside. You can either put up with it or change language. The syntax is however in no way inferior to C style syntax because that’s what you are used to.

> I am doing this now, as I stated in the article. Compare against Rust's strictness, where bad ideas like not annotating function signatures are not allowed.

There is no point in forcing you. The language doesn’t need to be strict. You can do whatever you want with your type annotation. It works just fine when you do annotate but no one is putting a gun to your head to do so if you just need a quick script. Best of both worlds.

> You have to put enum types in separate modules otherwise they will step on each other.

You do but it’s entirely normal and expected to define a new module inside your file in Ocaml and "let open" or assigning module is a common construct. It’s expected that you will not dump everything directly in scope.

> The part that I don't understand is why OCaml wants to be like C with these tools in the first place. These tools exist in C because C doesn't have match statements, but OCaml does. What gives?

They exist because generating parsers and lexers are nice and no one wants to learn a new language when they already know yacc and lex.

> ppx_show is an external library. Imagine having such a cucked stdlib that you have to call to an external library to print

No need to be vulgar. Ocaml has a lean standard library. That’s how the language is. You want macro and derivations you import them. They exist. Everybody uses them. The comment is a bit rich coming from someone who likes Rust.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-11-04 21:56:48+00:00
> This does not describe anything like Starlink. (Nor does Starlink do heavy onboard computation.)

Irrelevant for spacecraft dynamics or for heat management. The problem of keeping satellites from colliding or shedding the watts the craft gets from the Sun are independent of the compute that's done by the payload. It's like, the basic tenet of digital computing.

> Which is great if your whole datacenter fits in a few dozen racks, but that's not what Google's talking about here.

Data center is made of multiplies of some compute units. This paper is describing a single compute unit that makes sense for machine learning work.
by scarmig | 2025-11-04 21:56:52+00:00
If it makes you angry that people want to work to build AGI--people who have thought about it a lot more than you--you can't convince them to stop by repeatedly yelling "I don't think it's possible, you're a fool!"

No more than yelling "electricity is conspiracy thinking/Satan's plaything!" repeatedly would have stopped engineers in the 19th century from studying and building with it.
by VBprogrammer | 2025-11-04 21:57:02+00:00
This is just hubris. These vans are used hard every day by people all over Europe. It's not unusual for one to be caught loaded to double it's GVWR. Mechanics like what they know. The fact that the US manufacturers are building vans designed in the 90s using engines designed in the 50s undoubtedly means they are easier to work on.
by free_bip | 2025-11-04 21:57:36+00:00
One of the few times I vehemently disagree with the EFF.

The problem is this article seems to make absolutely no effort to differentiate legitimate uses of GenAI (things like scientific and medical research) from the completely illegitimate uses of GenAI (things like stealing the work of every single artist, living and dead, for the sole purpose of making a profit)

One of those is fair use. The other is clearly not.
by branon | 2025-11-04 21:57:39+00:00
There appear to be ulterior sociopolitical motives held by the author, which involve using the blanket term "genocide-friendly software" [1] to refer to anything OSI-licensed (implicitly suggesting all contributors to anything not using his homebrewed license are supporters of genocide?)

This does not look like a technical or business decision, but rather a malicious function used to identify users (and/or their employers) for arbitrary reasons, under the guise of "licensing compliance."

[1] https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi-license?tab=readme-ov-fil...
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-04 21:57:56+00:00
>There's an unproven assumption that somehow the inequality of outcome is 1) unjust, and 2) something to be "corrected."

There's decades of research into this if you care to look up wage theft, worker productivity vs compensation, the lobbying against unions and minimum wage and any other labor protections, and the fact that we ruled that it's okay for billionaires to buy politicians.you talk about enabling opportunities, but lobbyists have used it to pull up all the ladders and pay less back to the people. So yes, we're due for a correction.

If you're a millionaire this doesn't really apply to you. Your taxes go up maybe 2-3%. "Wealth tax" is in the realm of 100m and definitely by 1b.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-11-04 21:57:59+00:00
You really need someone to explain to you why the systematic destruction of all of Gaza, murder of tens of thousands of civilians, and intentional blockade of food, water and electricity by Israel, a country with overwhelming military superiority over the Palestinians, is viewed as a genocide, while the Hamas raid on Israel on October 7th, 2023 isn't? There are some people - primarily Israeli propagandists trying to distract from Gaza - who have called the latter a genocide, but the former is being called a genocide by huge numbers of scholars of genocide and human rights organizations.