MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by einpoklum | 2025-11-21 18:13:40+00:00
Let us remember what this is about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFUkfmnCR7U

the scale of destruction in Gaza is horrendous: Its dense cities reduced to rubble, as though after a nuclear strike. The death toll is not yet known. the lower bound - the number of bodies counted by the ministry of health - is at around 69,000, while the Lancet estimated over 186,000 (and that was over a year ago), or nearly 7.9% of the entire population of the Gaza strip. Around 90% of the deaths are civilians (though estimates vary on that point as well).

The US has been participating in this operation, with funding, provisions of services, equipment and most of the weapons platforms, armament and ordnance, diplomatic backing, and even military presence of aircraft carriers and other forces. US tech companies have sold Israel cloud services and various computing solutions; US military, auto and other industries are in on the action as well.

Now we see the US and some of its corporations flexing the imperial muscle to try and deter international institutions for holding Israel accountable.

The ICC has tried several political leaders before, and even convicted and jailed some, but - they were not important enough to US' strategic interests (or if you like, the interests of the donors and backers of the political elite), so the US did not have any such qualms.

Having said all this - it is interesting to note the article does not mention the judge's accounts with Google or Microsoft, e.g. for email or office app services. I wonder if he has any, and whether those have been excepted or whether it's a different story.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-11-21 18:13:41+00:00
I don't like it personally, but I fail to see what's controversial. It's a private business with rules. It's not very different from places requiring you to wear a tie. I can imagine some other establishment requiring you to bring a pet. A singles bar can require the opposite and exclude groups from entering. Part of the experience is socializing and I can see why some bars might want to have rules that cater to a specific audience.

If their rule was "no single men after 21:00" I could see that as a sex discrimination thing. But this is a perfectly reasonable rule, I don't like it or agree with it, but it's also entirely the business owner's right.
by owlninja | 2025-11-21 18:14:39+00:00
In my case the city had to publish their agreement with Flock and I was able to find the city council presentation showing exactly where they put the cameras, and many selling points of how great Flock is. In fact, someone else in my town had already marked them.

Obviously, this website does nothing for us, just glance up at any egress or ingress to where you live (in the US) and note you've been tracked. Or feel free to update the node with better information if you have it.
by gizajob | 2025-11-21 18:14:49+00:00
It’s really trivial to prove but the issue is that sentience is not something you need to negate out of existence and then attempt reconstruct out of epistemological proofs. You’re not faking it, and if you were, then turn your sentience off and on again. If your idea comes from Dennett then he’s barking up completely the wrong tree.

You know at a deep level that a cat is sentient and a rock isn’t. You know that an octopus and a cat have different modes of sentience to that potentially in a plant, and same again for a machine running electrical computations on silicon. These are the kinds of certainties that all of your other experiences of the world hinge upon.
by lysace | 2025-11-21 18:14:55+00:00
The cost increases are real: beef, wheat, labor. Some of it is from inflation during the covid period, some it is from the Russia-Ukraine invasion causing havoc in fuel and grain supplies globally.

There is currently a beef shortage in Europe (of sorts). The reason is that buying cow feed has gotten too expensive/unpredictable.

I think people generally underestimate the global impact of shutting down production in Europe's bread basket, Ukraine. There is a reason Russia wants this land. It's, as usual, a war for natural resources.
by rootnod3 | 2025-11-21 18:15:02+00:00
Sorry, but that "doomsday" "alarmism" is exactly what is needed and warranted. But this practice of sneakily opting users in into things they don't want instead of a very clear full on pop up saying "We now use your data and private emails for AI training" is exactly the problem.

> I know that Google does a lot of bad stuff but we don’t need to make up stuff they just aren’t doing

No no. a) they ARE doing a lot of bad stuff and b) that shit ain't made up and they ARE exactly doing that. Or do you also think that Github is NOT using priI know that Google does a lot of bad stuff but we don’t need to make up stuff they just aren’t doingvate repos to train Copilot? Do you honestly and truly believe that?

If you do truly believe that I got a bunch of bridges to sell to you.
by jcalvinowens | 2025-11-21 18:15:50+00:00
> A “cooldown” is exactly what it sounds like: a window of time between when a dependency is published and when it’s considered suitable for use.

^ This is what you wrote. I don't understand how that could possibly be interpreted any other way than I wrote above: an enforced delay on deploying the new code after upstream releases it.

> The post definitely does not say "thou shall not update before the cooldown," the argument was that cooldowns are a great default

Sorry, that is such a cop out. "I didn't actually mean you should do this, I mean you should consider if you should maybe do this and you are free to decide not to and don't argue with me if you disagree every case is different". Either take a stand or don't.
by jerf | 2025-11-21 18:16:15+00:00
Also, if you are updating "right away" it is presumably because of some specific vulnerability (or set of them). But if you're in an "update right now" mode you have the most eyes on the source code in question at that point in time, and it's probably a relatively small patch for the targeted problem. Such a patch is the absolute worst time for an attacker to try to sneak anything in to a release, the exact and complete opposite of the conditions they are looking for.

Nobody is proposing a system that utterly and completely locks you out of all updates if they haven't aged enough. There is always going to be an override switch.
by twoodfin | 2025-11-21 18:16:26+00:00
I’m trying to be illustrative through glibness here, but…

If consumers can’t afford the prices required to pay a restaurant’s labor living wages, then perhaps they’re not viable customers of that restaurant.

Minimum wages above the market-set rate are a form of price control. The distorting effects of price controls—in this case, contributing to shortages of low-margin restaurant meals—are economically inevitable.
by Dwedit | 2025-11-21 18:16:31+00:00
WebAssembly seems like a big workaround for JavaScript only supporting doubles, strings, and objects/arrays. Its big features are to allow using a byte array as stack/heap storage memory, and having actual integer types, along with allowing C code to be compiled to WebAssembly.

Oddly enough, Zig is the nicest C to WebAssembly compiler I've used so far.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-11-21 18:16:32+00:00
> The homeowner, 62-year-old Curt Andersen, allegedly had fired through the front door.

It sure sounds like Mr. Andersen killed a house cleaner.

> “After some time,” investigators wrote, “Curt said he didn’t mean for anything to happen to anybody.”

What does he think happens when a bullet goes through someone?
by overfeed | 2025-11-21 18:16:52+00:00
My apologies to you and the entire Qualcomm marketing team for my brand-guideline violations - I was going off the top of my head. What I meant in my inscrutable comment was: "Elite X" => "X Elite", "Elite P" => "X Plus", I really should not have mangled the products using such an elegant and intuitive naming convention.
by toast0 | 2025-11-21 18:16:53+00:00
Look at thrust on the 737 Max vs thrust on the original 737.

There's a lot of other changes, of course, but more powerful wing engines let you build a bigger plane in the same kind of shape. Changes in flight rules are also significant; if twin jets can't serve all your routes, you most likely want trijets to cover the routes that can't be served by twins and don't demand a quad ... with current flight rules and current engines, twin engine covers pretty much everything.
by lachieh | 2025-11-21 18:17:07+00:00
This would be really cool if I knew how to read tabs lol

I can think of a few improvements that could be fun to see;

- visual indicator for chord progression

- timing/tempo/click track for practice

- play the chord via audio output

- verify the chord via audio input

On a higher level, this is the sort of app/experience that really opens up learning to a whole new audience, particularly if there's no easy or affordable access to instructors. Nicely done!
by wat10000 | 2025-11-21 18:17:37+00:00
I don't think Putin would have an exit. Losing the war would result in a major risk to his continued rule, and thus to his person, from a collapse of domestic support. A Ukrainian nuclear strike would present him with a choice: risk internal revolt, or risk the consequences of nuclear retaliation. I'm not remotely confident he'd choose the first. And, to be very clear, the second would make Ukraine (and likely the rest of the world) a lot worse off than they are today.
by einpoklum | 2025-11-21 18:17:55+00:00
Because that president is also soaked in some of that blood. Just in terms of ordnance alone - Israel would have run out of bombs to drop on Gaza a long time ago in the US were not supplying it with them.

On the personal/political level - Trump's largest political backers in the 2024 campaign have been: Elon Musk, Timothy Mellon, and Miriam Adelson. Musk is an avowed Zionist, Mellon I don't know about, but it is Adelson's $108 Million that come attached with the string of staunch support for Israel and its policies of death destruction and oppression.
by summa_tech | 2025-11-21 18:18:19+00:00
I wanted to give a quick explanation of the odd and off-hand "lightbulb" comment in the article. Why would an oscillator need a lightbulb? Especially since the article does not get into the weeds of building oscillators that would actually care about this.

A somewhat difficult part of making (moderate-frequency) analog oscillators is getting a clean sinewave without harmonics. It sounds like the easiest thing in the world: a delay, a low-pass filter, a linear amplifier that compensates for the loss in the delay and filter, and boom, sinewave. You can even put the low-pass filter and the delay in a single phase shifter circuit.

The difficulty is hidden in the "compensates for the loss" language. If you amplify too little, your oscillation will decay. If you amplify too much, you will inevitably saturate the amplifier, introducing lots of harmonics (like a squarewave output in the article). So you need some way to stabilize your gain at exactly the right level.

A lightbulb is an interesting device: it is a very linear resistor at short timescales, but nonlinear at long timescales. As the filament heats up, resistance rises. The thermal constant can be fairly substantial, certainly more than kHz or MHz oscillator frequencies. So you can exploit this sweet and clean nonlinearity to produce an oscillator that self-stabilizes!

Design your circuit so that the amplifier gain is controlled by lightbulb's resistance (which is quite easy: you use the lightbulb as one of the gain-setting resistors). And boom, pretty much a perfect sinewave.
by tredre3 | 2025-11-21 18:18:35+00:00
Android didn't have a way to share files between them for the longest time. Initially there was Beam but it never worked. The first semi-reliable way to exchange files between two android phones, without using a third party utility, was Nearby Share dates from 2020.

So yeah, it's a low bar, but one that only Apple bothered to clear from the get go apparently.
by somenameforme | 2025-11-21 18:18:39+00:00
I feel like this whole article is seeking to 'maximize engagement', which I'm using as a lofty euphemism for trolling its readers.

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Mariam Gergis, a registered nurse at UCLA who also works a second job as a home caregiver, said she’s better off than many others, and still she struggles. “I can barely afford McDonald’s,” she said. “But it’s a cheaper option.”

On Monday morning she sat in a booth at a McDonald’s in MacArthur Park with two others. The three beverages they ordered, two coffees and a soda, amounted to nearly $20, Gergis said, pointing to the receipt. “I’d rather have healthier foods, but when you’re on a budget, it’s difficult,” she said.

Her brother, who works as a cashier, can’t afford meals out at all, she said. The cost of his diabetes medication has increased greatly, to about $200 a month, which she helps him cover.

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by Barrin92 | 2025-11-21 18:19:11+00:00
No, inflation is a monetary and political phenomenon. Companies cannot set prices arbitrarily, in particular not the fast food industry which faces what is probably the strongest competition on the planet. The entire restaurant industry does not collude on the prices of burgers.

In this particular case it's wage-push inflation. The lowest quintile of workers has seen very strong wage gains among other reasons because of tight labour markets and minimum wage legislation, which on the consumer side prices a lot of people out of the service economy.
by beej71 | 2025-11-21 18:19:43+00:00
I tell the students up front that AI is capable of solving all the problems we give them as undergrads. But I elaborate and tell them that it's because all the problems we give them are easy for software developers with any experience, regardless of how difficult the students find them to be. They're dumbbells designed to help you build muscle. Do you take your robot to the gym to lift the weights for you? Eventually you're going to get to a job interview and they're going to see that you don't have any muscles. And then you'll be 80 grand in debt with no job prospects. You might as well just quit now and buy a Corvette.

I like to think that it has some impact, and yet I know they still use AI.
by randallsquared | 2025-11-21 18:19:47+00:00
The "what it's like" is often bound up with the additional "what would it be like to wake up as", which is a different (and possibly nonsensical) question. Leaving aside consciousness transfer, there's an assumption baked into most consciousness philosophy that all (healthy, normal) humans have an interior point of view, which we refer to as consciousness, or in this paper and review as "phenomenal consciousness". Sometimes people discuss qualia in reference to this. One thing that I've noticed more very recently is the rise of people claiming that they, themselves, do not experience this internal point of view, and that there's nothing that it is like to be them, or, put another way, humans claiming that they are p-zombies, or that everyone is. Not sure what to make of that.
by underlipton | 2025-11-21 18:19:53+00:00
But it's not just that a business was sold; it's that it (usually) was sold in such a way (leveraged buy-out) as to weaken the business and make it more desperate from jump. Doctor's practices et al. used to change hands all the time without much trouble; it's only now that PE is allowed to buy them with massive amounts of debt that they're allowed to use aggressive tactics to pay off (and pay themselves) in just a few years that we've started to have these troubles.

When you buy a house, the mortgage is associated with the buyer, not the house, and you can't just dismantle the house and sell it for parts to cover payments. Could you imagine if we could, though? Pretty soon, we'd have a lot of on-paper debt associated with empty lots that mortgage holders could simply walk away from (perhaps after a nominal sale). Then, the house declares bankruptcy and the bank is just out all that money. It's preposterous, they'd never let that happen. So, why with businesses?
by thenaturalist | 2025-11-21 18:20:22+00:00
It would be really, really great when the open Israel hate and borderline Antisemitism displayed in many threads related to these topics could be moderated to the same tune.

It's the same hate that has killed Jewish Americans in the past year.

Many of these replies are very low on facts, very high on emotionally loaded subjective opinions.

It's a challenging task as BBC and so many more Western media outlets had to retract and amend their own faulty reporting over the last few months, but if we're talking about the spirit of the site, everyone should be held accountable equally.

Example at the top of this thread:

> Why is the president of the United States protecting a blood soaked war criminal?

https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=46006941&goto=item%3Fi...
by johnisgood | 2025-11-21 18:20:32+00:00
Oh man, these are great.

Check out https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues/ for more.

Gosh... and people on HN tell us that they have yet to meet a Rust fanatic. Just look around the GitHub Issues I linked.

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BTW I stumbled upon https://github.com/r9os/r9 as well. Reading the source code, it is mainly unsafe blocks and assembly. :| Who would have thought?
by mschuster91 | 2025-11-21 18:20:33+00:00
My photoshop skills are near zero, otherwise I'd have long gone and edited xkcd 2347 [1] to say next to the pillar "Something Fabrice Bellard probably implemented while half asleep just to prove he could do it".

There's a lot of FOSS projects that have something written by him in their dependency chain.

[1] https://xkcd.com/2347/
by bediger4000 | 2025-11-21 18:20:42+00:00
The paper is pay walled, but there's something wrong with the phylogenetic tree diagram in this PR article.

Looks like they have a triceratops as ichthyosaur ancestor, and maybe a turtle as plesiosaur ancestor. A very obviously fully aquatic animal is in the "ambiguously aquatic" ichthyosaur line. A front leg of a mosasaur ancestor gets expanded into a hind leg.

Is this an AI generated diagram? If so, shame on them for either not noticing the wrongness, or being sloppy and leaving it in.
by Orphis | 2025-11-21 18:20:59+00:00
It's not that relevant for video conferencing, most apps are still either doing H264, VP8 or VP9 and jumping to AV1 directly.

And for video streaming, AV1 is becoming increasingly used on Youtube and Netflix for example ( https://aomedia.org/av1-adoption-showcase/netflix-story/ )/.

It is used a lot more for people who don't have to worry too much about licensing at scale, such as pirate content or local streaming (quite often backed by an OS wide license). Doing a quick search on various pirate content search engine, I can see a lot of AV1 content now, so it'll eventually get more popular!
by tristor | 2025-11-21 18:21:09+00:00
I liked the concept here, but tried it out and couldn't figure out how to add the very first thing successfully. I set up my employer's 401k as the first account, and went to add the first investment in the account, but it's a mutual fund not an ETF, which means I had to disable symbol lookup. I had a cost-basis, I had a current value, and I had a count of shares, but you only asked for an average cost-basis and count of shares. I had no way to update the current value. When starting out the first entry should have all three of these. I tried to figure out to update this, but the only value adjustment was via providing a spread (open/high), and I couldn't figure out how to use this to get it to an accurate value. Honestly, it would have been better to have cost basis tracking in a more advanced place and started with current value and count of shares, and then simply update current value on a time-basis.
by nawgz | 2025-11-21 18:21:16+00:00
> Companies cannot set prices arbitrarily

[Source required]

Edit: how are you downvoting me? Go look at corporate profit margins now, 10 years ago, and 40 years ago.

If you believe you can hand wave with simplified BS like "Supply and Demand" you probably have some heavy reading on price elasticity to catch up on.
by dingnuts | 2025-11-21 18:21:23+00:00
.. no, corporations raise prices in response to the falling value of the dollar which has been occurring predictably since 2020 when the money supply was increased 20% (remember the "printer goes brr" memes and the "stimulus checks")?

Make more money supply -> money is worth less -> prices go up

simple stuff

I guess the next step is: blame corporations, nationalize them, see it causes economic problems (we're here), and then repeat (Trump promises $2k checks to everyone, this is coming soon)
by pyrale | 2025-11-21 18:21:43+00:00
> Of course it would be absolutely disgraceful for the US to drop sanctions on Russia and have normal relations with it while it continued its invasion. But that's what the US voted for.

The reason US sanctions Russia is because the US has been pushing its oil insustry in Europe. For instance, EU tariff deals included buying a minimum amount of hydrocarbon products:

> As part of this effort, the European Union intends to procure US liquified natural gas, oil, and nuclear energy products with an expected offtake valued at $750 billion through 2028.

In that context, US sanctions on Russia serve a purpose which isn't solely helping Ukraine ; I don't see the US lifting these sanctions anytime soon.
by ApolloFortyNine | 2025-11-21 18:22:06+00:00
The US never ratified any law claiming the ICC has jurisdiction over Americans.

And they basically put it into writing, they're not the only country that would do something if an active duty military officer was arrested.

Here's a map. [1]

[1] https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2024/05/ICC-Mem...
by ksaj | 2025-11-21 18:22:08+00:00
The culture where I live seems to be very different. In the mid-afternoons and late evenings, going to the bar alone or otherwise, is very common. The intention and effect is to spark up conversation with others at the bar. This is very much the norm here in Toronto at least, and certainly seemed to be the case other places I have traveled. We do still consider it rude to "mither" people sitting at the tables. But if you're at the bar itself, unless you're wearing headphones or buried in a book, it is assumed you're there for the chatter.

We also have quiet lounges, where the intentions of this bar owner would easily be compatible.

Speaking of - the bar owner's policy indirectly excludes most travelers.
by pgalvin | 2025-11-21 18:23:02+00:00
OTOH, no company or item exists in a vacuum. If McDonald’s suppliers have increased prices, and their employees expect higher wages due to inflation, then McDonald’s must increase prices or eat the cost (unsustainable in the long-term). Does this only contribute to inflation? Yes. But so does every worker who wants higher wages - unfortunately everybody in the chain has such little influence on the wider economy that they must simply prioritise themselves.

This is an overly simplistic view, of course, not least because it presumes good faith, but that is really my point: the economy has too many moving parts to simply say “you’re to blame for inflation because you increased your prices”.