MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hashim | 2025-11-15 00:08:41+00:00
Fair enough, that particular kibbutz is not military, but most in the vicinity around Gaza were, and as I'm sure you know, the killed hostages along with most adult Israelis were either serving or former members of the IDF, the army of the occupying state that was formed by the merging of the Irgun and Haganah and still shares much of the same people and ideologies.

Yes, both of those kids were killed by Israel as clearly stated in your link, along with many others, because Netanyahu preferred carpet bombing as many Gazans as possible and didn't care whether it included hostages.
by nobody9999 | 2025-11-15 00:09:15+00:00
Fair enough.

Legal recourse is definitely an upside of not dealing with a black market. I agree.

I'm not familiar with the laws around hemp growing and/or the Federal loophole, but I hope you're right about at least minimal regulation (and legal recourse for) of non-consumable products, especially if they're being consumed (can you sue the makers of clothing or rope if you get sick eating or smoking their products?).

As I said, hopefully we'll eventually get to a sane policy regarding cannabis.
by nathan_compton | 2025-11-15 00:09:23+00:00
> on American-dominated forums people often view public libraries nowadays as a place for the smelly homeless to hang out, look at porn, and possibly shoot up.

Don't get where you are coming from. I'm american and everywhere I've ever gone into a library its been great. Everyone I know with kids (including myself) visits the library all the time, often daily, at least weekly.
by landryraccoon | 2025-11-15 00:09:47+00:00
I'm sorry to say you're very out of touch. This rosy picture is objectively wrong when it comes to housing.

Start with the fundamentals - construction has gotten more expensive. Unlike virtually every other industry in the US, it actually costs more to build residential housing per square foot (inflation adjusted) than it did in 1960. Construction workers in 2025 are *less efficient* than they were 50 years ago, despite all of our technological advancements.

This translates to housing construction that has not kept pace with the growth of the population. The average first time homebuyer is now over 40 years old, and the median homebuyer is 55 years old.

Everyone needs housing. If you bought your house 20 years ago, you likely did not notice that housing has become unaffordably expensive for most young people. Sure, you're having fun biking around the city, but people aren't going to enjoy life in the city if they cannot afford housing.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-11-15 00:10:14+00:00
The immigration betrayal was obvious to anyone familiar with UK history.

It's how the ruling class works. They import cheap labour from the (former) colonies to drive down wages. Then they pay their puppet politicians to hyperventilate about how terrible immigration is, how filthy these foreigners are, and how it Must Be Stopped.

It's been happening for centuries - the same scam, over and over.
by miki123211 | 2025-11-15 00:13:07+00:00
It's not just the prompt that matters, it's also field order (and a bunch of other things).

Imagine you're asking your model to give you a list of tasks mentioned in a meeting, along with a boolean indicating whether the task is done. If you put the boolean first, the model must decide both what the task is and whether it is done at the same time. If you put the task description first, the model can separate that work into two distinct steps.

There are more tricks like this. It's really worth thinking about which calculations you delegate to the model and which you do in code, and how you integrate the two.
by emilfihlman | 2025-11-15 00:13:09+00:00
Incus is very nice and super featured, but suffers from a few issues, namely unintuitive/hard onboarding and bad defaults, which makes giving access to people annoying, as it requires teaching them first and that they can't just make a vm with a few clicks immediately, limited authentication and user control options, like if no external auth users must exist on underlying system, and with limited but very strict auth options requires a full domain and no proxying, currently (might get fixed partially later).

And finally, it suffers from hardcore tracking upstream, ie canonical/lxd(-ui), meaning they won't really do any changes that lxd wouldn't do, and thus are slaved to them : (
by HeinzStuckeIt | 2025-11-15 00:13:10+00:00
If you do a DDG search site:news.ycombinator.com "libraries" "homeless", you find some such discussions from this very site. But as I said, you can also find this across the internet when forums are dominated by Americans and it’s certainly not limited to obscure and dodgy venues.

I suppose it is the big-city Americans who are complaining about the social problems. But it’s also common to see from small-town Americans that opening hours at their local library have been slashed, which also speaks to declining support for them.
by vpShane | 2025-11-15 00:13:22+00:00
As if adtech and blackbox algorithms don't already have that. It's scary to think about, especially in regards to spirituality, but I've seen the implant(s) allow people who wouldn't be able to move at all, stuck there; be able to move the cursor around a screen. Be able to play video games, and communicate with their loved ones.

There's good in things, will it be used for good when somebody links their brain to their own super-AI? Probably not, but for medical purposes it makes more than enough sense.

To understand alzheimers, dementia, the good for it all is limitless. Do I want privacy invaded? God no, but we know what it's coming to. With Neuralink and Elon's squad of young-and-upcomings that leave things like xAI keys on git commits, HIPAA data even if protected means nothing if somebody (some random) can just connect in, take it, and then sell it.

For me, and it's just my opinion is that the risks outweigh consumer good, and it's for sure got 'evil super villain hooked to an AI' written all over it.
by Brian_K_White | 2025-11-15 00:13:35+00:00
Obviously, you won't understand or agree with the reason once explained, so really what's the point?

The reason is (yes I will be so bold as to speak for all on this one) both using ai to do your thinking for you, and essentially advocating to any readers to do the same simply by writing how well it works for you. Some people find this actively bad, of negative value, and some find it merely utterly uninteresting, of no value, and both responses produce downvotes.

But it's automatic that you can not see this. If you recognized any problem, you would not be doing it, or at the very least would not describe it as anything but an embarrasing admission, like talking about a guilty pleasure vs a wholesome good thing.

So don't bother asking "What's wrong with using this tool that works vs any other tool that works?" If you have to ask... There are several things wrong, not just one.

Or for some it could just be that "I used to use awk but now I just use ___" just doesn't add anything to a discussion about awk. "I used to use awk a lot but now I just use ruby". Ok? So what? Some people go as far as to downvote for that.

Also now that you whined about downvotes, I wouldn't be surprised if that isn't the cause of some itslef, because it absolutely does deserve it.

There might possibly also be at least some just from "I'm not a programmer but here's my thoughts on this programming topic" though that isn't very wrong in my own opinion. You even say you've actually used awk a lot so as far as I'm concerned you can absolutely talk about awk and probably don't need to be so humble as to deny yourself as a pragrammer. It's admirable to avoid making claims about yourself, but I bet a bystander would call you at least a programmer, even if we'll leave the actual level of sophistication unspecified.

Since I wrote this comment, I did not up or downvote myself. But for the record, I would have downvoted for the ai.
by throwup238 | 2025-11-15 00:14:06+00:00
I use the Portal de Archivos Españoles [1] for Spanish colonial documents. Each country has their own archive but the Spanish one has the most content (35 million digitized pages)

The hard part is knowing where to look since most of the images haven’t gone through HRT/OCR or indexing so you have to understand Spanish colonial administration and go through the collections to find stuff.

[1] https://pares.cultura.gob.es/pares/en/inicio.html
by immibis | 2025-11-15 00:15:11+00:00
I didn't say Jews. You said Jews. I said Israelis. I don't care what their religion is - bombing all the hospitals and universities in a region and drone striking little babies is terrible horrible no no very bad stuff.

By the way, if we're talking about tribalism, the distant descendants of the Jews who lived in that area thousands of years ago, are (largely) the Palestinians. The modern Israelis are (largely) an entirely separate group of white Europeans that immigrated from Europe after WW2.
by nandomrumber | 2025-11-15 00:15:40+00:00
Yeah nah. I agree with the comment you replied to.

The error bars on around 24 hours and more than 24 hours over lap at least a bit.

If I had a tick for 23 hours and the guidelines say ‘more than 24’ I’d be treating it the same as ‘more than 24’ for practical purposes.

There is at least some natural variation in the host and the pathogen for there to be at least some people for who the guidelines aren’t strict enough.

Public health policy is a balance of factors, one of which is trying to not overwhelm services with trivial / non maladies.
by versteegen | 2025-11-15 00:16:44+00:00
Obviously the financial sector provide a lot of value, but they also extract a LOT of value and probably even worse employ a LOT of the smartest people (I recall the rebalancing of Iceland's economy after its banks failed), and couldn't we get nearly the same benefits with far less of the global economy being dedicated to financial services and trading (which neither I nor it seems the OECD categorise under "services")?

For example according to the OECD [1] 25% of Luxembourg's GDP (excluding interest and trading profits [2]) and 10% of employment is due to financial services! For comparison, for the UK and USA it's 8.8% and 8.3% of GDP.

In particular it's hard to me to see how market trading activity that provides a price for equities to the second, instead of say holding auctions every hour (which would probably greatly reduce profits for day traders and HFT), helps any drug development or aircraft leasing company to raise money. Financing deals don't happen on the market, and if market price is involved, typically something like the last month's average daily closing price is used.

We might call middlemen parasitic if they extract more value than they provide, but as you say, without finance the global economy wouldn't function. Let's instead consider the marginal utility of more of the economy being dedicated to finance. I'm convinced it's negative.

[1] https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/2025/04/oecd-economic-s...

[2] Quote from [1]:

> In the national accounts, financial services output is measured as the sum of financial intermediation services indirectly measured (FISIM) and fees, for instance on account keeping, credit cards, brokerage, financial advice and asset management. ... Trading profits and other interest income, for instance on bonds and derivative products, are excluded from the national account measure of financial services output.
by skeeter2020 | 2025-11-15 00:17:19+00:00
Zoom, Slack and Google Meet all work as well or better than Teams for it's primary purpose: video calls. Teams freezes up, consume ALL your resources, going from one call to another and it just stops working. The only thing I've used that's worse is Chime.

>> I didn't find the chats/discussion UI at all clear initially, but once I'd had it explained to me, I could see what was going on.

This is an example of how bad it is: you had to have the chat UX explained to you. Combined with MS cramming as much crap into teams as possible and trying to tie you to their other products with integrations that barely or rarely work - and the AI features are terrible (and yet another MS AI offering called Copilot?). It really is that bad and I'm glad I no longer have to use it.
by naijaboiler | 2025-11-15 00:17:20+00:00
That’s exactly and inherently what capitalism is. Rate of return on capital is higher than rate of return on labor. The people with capital continue to pull ahead. And in America, we now decided to compound this by not taxing and undertaking capital. Which then allows those with capital to transfer some of their capital to political power that then accrues even more advantage to capital owners
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-11-15 00:17:24+00:00
This is just naive.

The EU is still a major trading partner, and regulatory divergence would kill trade, not increase it.

Elsewhere, the only way fewer regulations would increase GDP would be if the UK was selling goods and services that benefited from lower standards.

It already does that, because tax evasion and money laundering are a significant part of GDP.

But there are very, very few areas in normal international trade where buyers want to see looser regs and lower standards.

As an argument, it's just incoherent.
by apparent | 2025-11-15 00:17:44+00:00
Without knowing how many units were sold, how much the famous designer was paid, or how much they spent on marketing (probably not a ton because it got a lot of organic coverage due to how outrageous it seemed), I'm unable to determine whether anyone made a material amount of money. If the designer made $10M I'd say he printed money. If Apple made $10M I'd say that's not remotely material to their bottom line.
by morshu9001 | 2025-11-15 00:17:58+00:00
Language can be bottleneck if there's something huge missing from it that you need, like how many of them didn't have first class support for cooperative multitasking, or maybe you need it to be compiled, or not compiled, or GC vs no GC. Go started out with solid greenthreading, while afaik no major lang/runtime had something comparable at the time (Java now does supposedly).

The thing people tend to overvalue is the little syntax differences, like how Scala wanted to be a nicer Java, or even ObjC vs Swift before the latter got async/await.
by shmulkey18 | 2025-11-15 00:18:44+00:00
Odd that you talk about concentration camps when the George Washington of Palestinian nationalism collaborated with Hitler and help recruit Muslim SS troops in order to commit actual genocide.

"In 1941, Haj Amin al-Husseini fled to Germany and met with Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Joachim Von Ribbentrop and other Nazi leaders. He wanted to persuade them to extend the Nazis’ anti-Jewish program to the Arab world." -- https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-mufti-and-the-f-uum....

Projection is an interesting phenomena.
by stormking | 2025-11-15 00:18:56+00:00
It can do VMs, "system containers" like LXC and Docker/OCI-compatible application containers.

There was a project to implement a dockcer-compose compatible "incus-compose" but unfortunately, it looks dead, right now.

You can even set up a kubernetes cluster entirely composed of containers: https://github.com/lxc/cluster-api-provider-incus
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-11-15 00:19:04+00:00
Are you joking?

Estimates are that between 1870 and 1913 net emigration of British citizens averaged about 131,000 per year, i.e. more people left the UK than arrived:

>https://docs.iza.org/dp81.pdf

In the 1881 census of England and Wales, "natives of foreign states" were 174,372 people, just 0.671% of the population.

In the 19th century, England was a country of emigrants, with net migration at roughly -100k/year. From 2014–24, you're looking at typically +200k to +900k per year. This is totally unprecedented to put it mildly. And now, like it or not, I'm sure that things are going to get ugly.
by txrx0000 | 2025-11-15 00:19:11+00:00
A device-side IP filter locked behind a password that parents can configure in the device's settings would be much more effective and easier to implement than censoring the Internet. This should be the default solution, yet it's not proposed by governments. These online content censorship laws for kids are wrong in principle because parents are supposed to be in control of how they raise each of their own kids, not the government or other people.

The other excuse being used to push these laws is CSAM scanning. But CSAM scanning ignores the actual problem, which is the trafficking of children in physical space, not the tools used to transmit and store child porn, which are general purpose tools used to transmit and store anything. A society's efforts and resources, as a matter of priority, should be spent on preventing children from being trafficked in the first place.

These attempts for more surveillance and control are being pushed under the guise of these very bad excuses, and we need to call them out in every conversation to reduce the number of gullible dorks that might vote for it.

People need to actually understand that governments are very close to having the tools needed for authoritarian governance all around the world. It might not happen immediately, but once the tools are built, that future becomes almost inevitable.

We can't just hope to rely on technological measures because we can't out-tech the law at scale all of the time. But we can and should fight back on both fronts. On the technological front, the first step is securing VPN access to ensure anonymity on the Internet. The best effort at the moment IMO is SoftEther, which is VPN over Ethernet wrapped in HTTPS.[0] It's open-source. It has a server discovery site called VPNGate.[1] You can host a server to let somebody else use, then use a server someone else is hosting.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftEther_VPN

[1] https://www.vpngate.net/en/

We're really only missing a few things before there's decentralized VPN over HTTPS that anyone in the world can host and use, and it would be resistant to all DPI firewalls. First, a user-friendly mobile client. Second, a way to broadcast and discover server lists in a sparse and decentralized manner, similar to BitTorrent (or we may be able to make use of the BT protocol as is), and we'd have to build such auto-discovery and broadcasting into the client itself. Third, make each client automatically host a temporary server and broadcast its existence for other clients to discover.

If we can make and keep the Internet a free place, these discussions can keep happening without fear of censorship and prosecution, and people can coordinate to fight authoritarianism and create better technologies to guard against it in the future. This is very much doable if we tried. So let's ensure the free flow of information is not a temporary blip in the long arc of humanity's history.
by BirAdam | 2025-11-15 00:19:11+00:00
Not quite. The crystal icon set is not, to my knowledge, the default in any GNOME version though it was in some KDE3 releases. The menus and window design of EDE are very Win98, while those of GNOME are slightly different depending upon the Metacity theme in use. EDE has a few other tweaks and add-ons, but it lacks the MATE/GNOME2 plugin ecosystem.
by vladgur | 2025-11-15 00:19:44+00:00
Lets make the order of operatons clear.

1) Hamas started a war with Israel by invading it, slaughtering and raping hundreds of civilians at the music festival and in their homes as well as taking hundreds of civilians hostage, including as we all know an toddlers, womens and elderly.

2) Israel in order to rescue its citizens as well as protect them from future attacked invaded Gaza and attacked Hammas and its infrastructure

So yeah, it makes sense to support the country trying to rescue its hostages from an enemy government.

We can debate how Israel prosecutes the war, but its a war that Hamas started and yet in your accusation of Israel above there is no mention of role Gazan goverment -- Hamas -- played in this war.

I doubt that my country -- the US -- would prosecute the war any better, had it been invaded by thousands of Mexican federales killing 42,000 people -- an equivalent of population the city of Cupertino where Apple is headquartered -- while kidnapping 9,000 of our citizens. I doubt any country would do better as a matter of fact.
by imiric | 2025-11-15 00:19:45+00:00
Here's a thought experiment: if modern machine learning systems existed in the early 20th century, would they have been able to produce an equivalent to the theory of relativity? How about advance our understanding of the universe? Teach us about flight dynamics and take us into space? Invent the Turing machine, Von Neumann architecture, transistors?

If yes, why aren't we seeing glimpses of such genius today? If we've truly invented artificial intelligence, and on our way to super and general intelligence, why aren't we seeing breakthroughs in all fields of science? Why are state of the art applications of this technology based on pattern recognition and applied statistics?

Can we explain this by saying that we're only a few years into it, and that it's too early to expect fundamental breakthroughs? And that by 2027, or 2030, or surely by 2040, all of these things will suddenly materialize?

I have my doubts.
by standardUser | 2025-11-15 00:21:15+00:00
I honestly believed that Britain would find a way to hold a second referendum before Brexit, given that the polling almost universally favored "remain" after the vote, and the vote itself was so close (52% to 48%). Now what surprises me is the lack of enthusiasm for Scottish independence (62% voted to remain), though I can't claim to keep up on Scottish politics. Maybe someone knows?
by mmooss | 2025-11-15 00:21:18+00:00
Most of those are in the same class - not things that directly affect many people. Most people in the UK don't know what 'soft power' is (I'm not being condescending; most people don't get into international relations on that level of detail) and its effect is indirect. How many people are directly affected by the quality of universties? - of the population that attends, many are just as happy regardless and aren't concerned with world-class professors and research.

Brexit can be a bad idea and at the same time the GP can have a good point about globalization.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-15 00:21:58+00:00
> long term it will increase GDP due to the UK being able to have better (fewer) regulations than those allowed by the EU

Speaking from finance view, the trade from Britain has been moving capital out for years. Not in. The stock market has shrunk,

If real deregulation comes at some point, maybe the curve changes. That remains unlikely, however, given to export anything the UK would have to meet their importers’ (read: America and Europe’s) standards.

(The benefits of deregulation are absolutely swamped by the benefits from trade. This inequality grows the smaller your economy is relative to your trading partners’.)
by roncesvalles | 2025-11-15 00:22:18+00:00
The nice thing about Go is that you can learn "all of it" in a reasonable amount of time: gotchas, concurrency stuff, everything. There is something very comforting about knowing the entire spec of a language.

I'm convinced no more than a handful of humans understand all of C# or C++, and inevitably you'll come across some obscure thing and have to context switch out of reading code to learn whatever the fuck a "partial method" or "generic delegate" means, and then keep reading that codebase if you still have momentum left.