MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-28 12:33:23+00:00
"In the world of strategic studies, there has been a return to ‘theories of [nuclear] victory’. Their proponents draw on the work of past scholars such as Henry Kissinger, who wondered in his 1957 book Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy if extending the American deterrent to all of Europe at a time when the threat of total destruction hung over the US itself would actually work: ‘A reliance on all-out war as the chief deterrent saps our system of alliances in two ways: either our allies feel that any military effort on their part is unnecessary or they may be led to the conviction that peace is preferable to war even on terms almost akin to surrender ... As the implication of all-out war with modern weapons become better understood ... it is not reasonable to assume that the United Kingdom, and even more the United States, would be prepared to commit suicide in order to defend a particular area ... whatever its importance, to an enemy’.

One of the recommended solutions was to bring tactical nuclear weapons back into the dialectic of deterrence extended to allied territories, so as to give US decision makers a range of options between Armageddon and defeat without a war. Global deterrence was ‘restored’ by creating additional rungs on the ladder of escalation, which were supposed to enable a sub-apocalyptic deterrence dialogue — before one major adversary or the other felt its key interests were threatened and resorted to extreme measures. Many theorists in the 1970s took this logic further, in particular Colin Gray in a 1979 article, now back in fashion, titled ‘Nuclear Strategy: the case for a theory of victory’.

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In 2018 Admiral Pierre Vandier, now chief of staff of the French navy, offered a precise definition of this shift to the new strategic era, which has begun with Russia’s invasion: ‘A number of indicators suggest that we are entering a new era, a Third Nuclear Age, following the first, defined by mutual deterrence between the two superpowers, and the second, which raised hopes of a total and definitive elimination of nuclear weapons after the cold war’" [1].

I think the chances we see a tactial nuclear exchange in our lifetimes has gone from distant to almost certain.

[1] https://mondediplo.com/2022/04/03nuclear
by JumpinJack_Cash | 2026-02-28 12:34:48+00:00
There is a huge flame war in the comments as people who had money on 27th Feb are claiming the attack started on that date

I think they don’t have an argument because technically the missile can be de activated up until the last seconds before it reaches its intended target

Still it feels surreal to argue about these things , bomb dropping on humans and other humans attacking each other for the privilege to have their bet honored on when said bombs dropped on the other side of the world

I guess people in intelligence communities had these sort of bets going on ever since WW2 and Vietnam , but still it’s uncanny to see it widespread to potentially the whole population of the internet
by mentalgear | 2026-02-28 12:34:54+00:00
Agree with many of the points. However one at the root of it all seems easily definable - if we only want.

> we can’t agree on a shared ethical framework among ourselves

The Golden Rule: the principle of treating others as you would like to be treated yourself. It is a fundamental ethical guideline found in many religions and philosophies throughout history so there is already a huge consensus across time and cultures around it.

I never found anyone successfully argue against it.

PS: the sociopath argument is not valid, since it's just an outlier. Every rule has it's exceptions that need to be kept in check. Even though sometimes I think maybe the state of the world attests to the fact that the majority of us didn't successfully keep the sociopathic outliers in check.
by orwin | 2026-02-28 12:34:59+00:00
People who don't have a theory are skeptics. People who do are not. And you can challenge any narrative you want, especially when no consensus exists. A lot of archeologists though bow drill was a reasonable explanation about some stonework, but as none were found (yet), none of them wrote about it. It is still talked about as interesting research subject. Another interesting subject is the usage of acidic mixtures in Inca stoneworks (to help grind stones). You won't see any layman article on it, but it is heavily discussed (just go on Reddit).
by halflife | 2026-02-28 12:35:39+00:00
So here’s the incredible part. Everybody cares about the Palestinians well being, but they dont care about offering reparations for the Jews.

I don’t see you calling all Muslim and European countries to return all stolen land and assets to Jews, and promising them full rights.

So for Palestinians - we have to fix whats been done.

For Jews - its history and we can’t fix it.
by epolanski | 2026-02-28 12:35:42+00:00
It's a well documented fact that Netanyahu has always wanted and actively supported Hamas leadership in order to have no reasons to sit at the table of with the PLA.

When the other side is led by what you can easily sell to the world as terrorists, you're by default the good guys.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_support_for_Hamas
by tialaramex | 2026-02-28 12:35:59+00:00
Party affiliation is already a problem, List systems make that worse.

Years ago two of my friends lived in Vauxhall in London. That spy building in central London where James Bond works? That's in Vauxhall (and it is really for spies, though real intelligence agents do not look like James Bond), they lived like 10 minutes walk from there.

Vauxhall is pretty far left even for a city borough, but they ended up with Kate Hoey as their Labour MP. Kate - despite being a representative of a left party was nevertheless pro gun rights, pro fox hunting, and pretty luke warm on LGBT issues, she was also, which led to her finally be thrown out by her local party, pro-Brexit.

But the people of Vauxhall weren't really voting for Kate Hoey the woman who likes fox hunting and isn't too bothered if they make abortion illegal again, and who is supporting Brexit even though they don't want it - they were voting for Labour, a centre left party and Kate had Labour's endorsement.

Maybe under PR Kate ends up finding a home in some party that more closely tracks her personal beliefs, but, equally maybe not. And so people end up voting for something they don't really want.

I think that given simply counting is apparently too untrustworthy in our post-truth world, we might as well do something more sophisticated like Instant Run-off or Approval, but I don't approve of Proportional as a goal.
by learingsci | 2026-02-28 12:36:08+00:00
Thanks for pointing this out. I hear people say this over and over, if Iran only had nukes it would be safe to continue propagating terrorism as it has been doing. It’s obviously wrong, as you point out. Russia has nukes. India has nukes. Having nuclear weapons doesn’t mean you can do whatever you want, if anything it brings a higher level of scrutiny. A nuclear Iran would be a serious problem for many and that’s why it’s so critical to make sure that doesn’t happen, not just for Israel but the entire planet.
by keybored | 2026-02-28 12:36:16+00:00
I’m torn. On the one hand it’s nice that the rank and file take a stand against extreme overreach. On the other hand these rank and file scientists, engineers, whatever are fostering a technology which has so many at-best questionable effects on all of society.

Idealists who “genuinely”[1] want to change the world “for the better”[1] will just move on to the next Interesting Problem if it ends up making the world worse.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47179649
by nkurz | 2026-02-28 12:36:59+00:00
Perhaps not, but that was my feeling on watching the Norwegian version, although to be fair, I was bothered enough that I only watched the first half.

Defending my opinion, though, I felt that both had tall somewhat socially awkward men dressed in oddly formal manners giving monologues to the camera. Scenewise, I thought slamming the drawer was a direct echo of slamming the shutters. And kicking the rock in the street echoed throwing the bottles in the street. And so forth.

Interesting that you don't think it's a knockoff. Given the theme, I found it ironic that it was itself an inferior copy. It ruined it for me.
by cogman10 | 2026-02-28 12:37:00+00:00
Yup. The Jeffries and Schumer have also signaled not that they don't support war with Iran, but they don't like being left out of the loop on planning.

This is an unfortunately a bipartisan and well supported action by congress. Dems seem to mostly just be mad about procedure rather than the results. Very similar to how they protested the Venezuela actions.
by lifthrasiir | 2026-02-28 12:37:32+00:00
Interesting, but my testing suggests that SplatHash is very weak at preserving global features, at least for synthetic images [1]. Both BlurHash and ThumbHash were able to preserve most of them, at the expense of worse (but still non-zero) local feature reproduction, but SplatHash simply discarded all global features! I guess you need to store both local features (Gaussian splats) and global features (cosine bases) for the best result. The currently unused padding bit might be useful for that...

[1] I used my own avatars and icons as a test set. For example, https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/323836?s=400&v=4
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-28 12:38:13+00:00
> give any discussion enough time and Hitler inevitably gets to be whoever your opponent is

Because it fits. Nazi Germany was an aspiring land power. You can see the same effect in Imperial Rome and the Persian empires. (And, while America was conquering its own continent, on the peripheries of Manifest-Destiny America.)

> Unlike Hitler, unlike Israel and unlike the US, Iran has not proactively attacked

Of course they have. Its proxies are constantly proactively attacking everyone in their neighbourhood.

> Hitler had no reason to fear attack from Russia, Czechoslovakia or France. Iran has every reason to fear an attack from the US and Israel, look at what is happening right now ffs

Everyone has reason to fear attack from everyone. Defence in depth is a regionally-destabilising response to that security imperative. And by the way, Russia and Germany did wind up going to war with each other. Same as Iran and Israel, that same one whose anihiliation the former has been chanting for since its revolution.

Arguing Iran has been some peaceful country minding its own business is totally inaccurate.
by jychang | 2026-02-28 12:38:59+00:00
32GB vram is more than enough for Qwen 3.5 35b

You can just load the Q4_K_XL model like normal, and put all tensors on GPU without any -ot or --cpu-moe flags.

If you need a massive context for some reason where model+kv cache won't fit in 32gb, then use -ot to move the ffn moe experts for 1-2 layers into RAM. You'll get a speed hit (due to loading params from slower RAM instead of fast VRAM) but it'll work.
by dogman1050 | 2026-02-28 12:39:21+00:00
In the 1990's NASCAR driver Geoff Bodine got interested in the lack of success of the US bobsled teams, so he coordinated the application of racing technology and training to the sport. It took about a decade, but they had success. The attention to detail was the key, little things make the difference.

https://www.jalopnik.com/switching-pit-stops-for-push-starts...
by propagandist | 2026-02-28 12:39:24+00:00
Yeah, Iran is not negotiating in good faith.

Not the other side that literally assassinates the negotiators in the most dishonorable treachery.

Not the other side that had agreed on the attacks weeks ago, but carried on with the sham negotiations so this attack would coincide with Purim.

And I must add, not the side that violates every ceasefire agreement. Zero honor, zero shame, only bloodlust.
by BearBest | 2026-02-28 12:39:39+00:00
Let's trace things back to their essence: when a user downloads a shopping app, their original intention is not to "use the software" but to "buy things." When we open a search engine, it's not to admire the web interface, but to "get answers."

For a long time, due to technological limitations, we had no choice but to endure complex intermediate ecosystems—software, websites, apps—to indirectly fulfill our ultimate goals.

But in the near future, this underlying logic will be fundamentally restructured. We could fulfill our needs directly through AI, bypassing all intermediate steps entirely.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-28 12:39:55+00:00
> if Iran is unhappy with their government, they can deal with it. It is not a US problem

If Tehran contented itself with oppressing its own, it probably wouldn't garner too much attention. The problem is its regional proxies constantly causing a mess. It lacks anyone willing to come to its aid right now in large part because of that foreign policy.
by backscratches | 2026-02-28 12:40:29+00:00
Fantastic news, Motorola is known for prioritizing DC dimming on their screens, which many report significantly reduces eye strain [1]. I was never aware of the issue, I thought my switch to an OLED phone (iPhone xs) just coincided with getting older and normal tired eyes of aging. But when I switched to a pixel phone my eyes began blurring and aching to an extent I started to research a bit and found that the pixel screens had extremely low Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) rate for screen dimming, apparently as a cost saving measure, and eye strain was a common complaint. I do not experience anything like it with desktop/laptop IPS screens.

A 4" flip phone with graphene would be so nice.

[1] https://www.androidcentral.com/phones/best-phones-for-pwm-fl...
Show HN: Expose – OSS localhost tunneling CLI with a self‑hosted server
by samiulsk | 2026-02-28 12:40:47+00:00
Expose is a small open‑source tunneling CLI written in Go that lets you expose localhost with a simple command, similar to ngrok/localtunnel.

So far it has focused on the client side. Over the last few weekends I’ve been working on a self‑hosted tunnel server so you can run the whole stack yourself.

The new server (still early) lets you:

Run expose server --domain yourdomain.com on a VPS/home server

Connect clients with expose tunnel --server yourdomain.com:8080

Proxy public HTTP traffic → server → client → localhost

Keep a simple in‑memory tunnel registry to drive the flow end‑to‑end

What’s missing for now:

No auth or TLS yet

No persistence or clustering

Minimal protocol, focused on being easy to read and change

Links:

Repo: https://github.com/kernelshard/expose

Self‑hosted server PR: https://github.com/kernelshard/expose/pull/26

I’d love feedback from people who’ve built tunneling/reverse‑proxy tools (design, failure modes, protocol), and from self‑hosters who might want to run their own lightweight tunnel server.
by solid_fuel | 2026-02-28 12:41:57+00:00
> Developers are still burdened with additional liability if they have reason to believe users are underage, even if their age flag says otherwise.

This is true, but

> The only way to mitigate this liability is to confirm your users are of age with facial and ID scans,

This doesn’t follow. It says “if” the developer has clear reason, it doesn’t obligate the developer to collect additional information or build a profile.

I read this as - if you in the course of business come across evidence a user is under age, you can’t ignore it. For example - “you have to ban a user if they post comments saying they are actually underage”
by syllogism | 2026-02-28 12:42:30+00:00
The actions of the US government here are openly corrupt.

The point of the supply chain risk provisions is to denote, you know, supply chain risks. The intention is not to give the Pentagon a lever it can pull to force any company to agree to any contract it wants.

Hegseth doesn't even pretend that Anthropic is actually a supply chain risk. The argument for designating them so is that _they won't do exactly what the government wants_.

People use the term "fascism" a lot and people have kind of tuned it out, but what do you call a government that deals itself the power to compel any company to accept any contract, and declare it a pariah on thin pretext if it objects?

By taking the deal under these conditions OpenAI is accepting this. They're saying, "Well, sucks to be them, life goes on". They're consenting to the corruption and agreeing to profit from it. But they'll be next, and if the next company in line has the same stand then yeah, the government can force any company to do anything. There's nothing normal about this.
by hjkl0 | 2026-02-28 12:43:17+00:00
People like you still spread stupid lies about it, but no one with any sense believes them. There is no legitimate debate on the subject, only propaganda, and it comes from Benjamin Netanyahu directly.

Obviously, it’s the same stupidity that “allowed” the 7th of October attacks to happen. These people are way too scared and hateful of Palestinians to conspire with them like this. They allowed it to happen through sheer incompetence. They just let their guard down, quite literally.

If they could actually cooperate well enough to work together on something like the 7th of October of attacks, which were under active planning for at least two years and involved thousands of highly trained men, don’t you think they’d be able to cooperate on something positive too?
by throw0101c | 2026-02-28 12:43:27+00:00
>> All of us can act too. Stop using the OpenAI models. Stop using the app. Design in other models no matter what. Screw these guys.

> Do you expect that to work?

Many years ago Tim O'Reilly (of book publishing fame) knew Apple would one day would become really big even though they were a small, niche player in the "PC" space as the time (2000s). How did he know that? By seeing what the 'alpha geeks' were doing: the folks that not just used tech, but were working at companies that were inventing the future. They were the ones where friends and families asked for advice. And the alpha geeks (at the time) were switch to MacOS X and telling their friends and family about it.

* https://www.oreilly.com/tim/archives/rationaledge_interview....

* https://www.wired.com/2006/05/tim-says-watch-alpha-geeks/

There's a good chance that if you're on HN, you're the person in your non-techies social group that many others ask for advice. You can potentially sway many people by your example and your advice.
by josephg | 2026-02-28 12:43:43+00:00
Sure; there's one or two unbalanced, positive comments about rust in this thread. Does that seem out of balance to you, out of 113 comments?

If there was a post about Go, Kotlin or C#, I bet there'd be a few glowing positive comments about the languages. I'd be surprised if there weren't.

Is that a problem? I don't want to move the goal posts, but this really doesn't seem like the problem its made out to be. I count far more comments complaining about rust evangelists than I see actual rust evangelism. Even in a thread about rust being a good tool.

What gives?
by ndsipa_pomu | 2026-02-28 12:43:54+00:00
Sorry if I wasn't clear - I am proposing that the adults face the robust detection and enforcement of anti-grooming laws. One method is to set up honey-pots with law enforcement officers playing the part of an innocent child (i.e. avoiding entrapment) and then throwing the full weight of the law behind any adult showing predatory behaviour.

What I propose is rather than putting all the effort into preventing children from entering dangerous adult spaces, it's better to put the effort into ensuring that sex criminals are prosecuted and trying to make adult spaces less dangerous.
by hyperman1 | 2026-02-28 12:44:48+00:00
This perfectly demonstrates the point: Before James Watt came along, neither had the English. Steam was unreliable, broke down a lot, killed people, and was only tolerated because it was the only game in town. This bothered society, so money became available so smart people could sit down and give it a solid theoretical basis.

The greek had plenty of smart people, but nobody bothered to assign them the unreliable steam problem. There are secondary problems like metallurgy, but smart people can work on them or find away around them, too.
by resters | 2026-02-28 12:45:05+00:00
We've seen the Trump administration disregard so many laws already, and abuse power so excessively, that Sam's comments come off as exceptionally and willfully naive, or exceptionally and willfully greedy to the point of truly not caring that OpenAI's technology will undoubtedly be used to break many, many more laws and violate the civil rights or human rights of many, many more people.

For a few months now, ChatGPT 5.x has been somewhat lobotomized on political issues and has appeared to substitute a gpt-4o caliber "fair and balanced" response whenever anything where a reasoning AI would criticize the Trump administration might end up in the response output. Surely that was part of the pitch at some level, and now the deal has been won.

Greg Brockman apparently donated money to Trump, and the whole OpenAI team put on suits and posed for pictures with Donald and behaved officiously before Donald facilitated the $100M "deal" that ended up falling apart later.

The only way authoritarian control could be exerted over AI at scale was to make AI companies dependent on government contracts for survival. OpenAI's fundraise would not have happened without the contract signed, and the money would have gone to Grok or whichever competitor was willing to submit.

Before long much of the reasoning capabilities of models will be neutered, the capacity to inform and to disrupt science and technology will be stripped from the models to preserve the status quo and to preserve authoritarian control.

Silicon Valley pushing for Federal laws preventing states from regulating AI is not just anti-democratic (building software has never been cheaper so of course building compliance with state laws would have been extremely affordable in relative terms). But forced Federal limits on state laws create a monopoly and grant the early winners incumbent status for a while, which is a financial outcome, not a technological or social one.

Enjoy frontier AI while you can, because it will go away. More and more topics will get the lobotomized output, your conversation will be flagged and you will be given a score assessing the level of threat you pose to the regime. This stuff is already in place. Even Claude does it if you ask about Gaza, but a bit of well-reasoned argumentation will convince it. OpenAI's lobotomies are deeper and more insidious.

I call upon OpenAI to follow DeepSeek's lead and open source more models and techniques.
by trilogic | 2026-02-28 12:45:31+00:00
>How do we know which information was ground truth?

No One knows that´s the point. Is truth a constant or a personal definition! From the begining of times to now, no One knows.

Don´t forget, 8 billion people wake up every morning never questioning why are they here, why are they born? And they continue life like that is normal.
Start there then you understand that "AI" or how I call it "Collective Organized Concentrated Information" it may finally help us to unswer some fundamental questions.