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ArXiv will establish itself as an independent nonprofit organization

mef51 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 02:11:50 +0000

Article URL: https://tech.cornell.edu/arxiv/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47645512

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New comment by mef51 in "Voxile: A ray-traced game made in its own engine and programming language"

mef51 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 02:35:38 +0000

You can try not using Claude

New comment by mef51 in "Open-source Zig book"

mef51 — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:05:03 +0000

The em dashes?

New comment by mef51 in "Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet"

mef51 — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 20:43:36 +0000

Acting like the dominant political stream in Israel has not been interested in occupying Gaza since at least 1967 to this day is a bald faced and shameless misdirection.

New comment by mef51 in "Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet"

mef51 — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 20:15:25 +0000

The colonization of Gaza and the West Bank is entirely driven by western interests and ideology. Namely Zionism[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism

New comment by mef51 in "Criticisms of “The Body Keeps the Score”"

mef51 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 19:57:06 +0000

Trauma to me means there are ways of responding to painful experiences that can keep you in that painful state for a very long time, and/or make things worse. I recognize that simple fact from my own experiences. In that lens, its helpful to reflect on your responses to painful experiences to stop them from developing into long term traumas. Maybe that's why this book, or at least the title, seems to resonate with people. (I haven't read it)

...But it's also good to know the author of the book was wildly mis-citing things

New comment by mef51 in "How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized"

mef51 — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 18:22:09 +0000

From the article: "An internal US government review found no evidence of widespread theft by Hamas of US-funded humanitarian aid in Gaza." Other reporting supports this.

So what is going on is that the IDF are lying to justify their genocide. There is a massive propaganda machine at work to muddy the waters.

New comment by mef51 in "How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized"

mef51 — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 17:53:38 +0000

Israel blocks the entry of Plumpy Nut into Gaza, a peanut-butter like paste meant for treating severe acute malnutrition. They say it is a luxury item Hamas might steal.[1] The amount of evidence Israel is committing genocide is embarrassing.

[1] https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1971582137947295831

New comment by mef51 in "Terence Tao: The role of small organizations in society has shrunk significantly"

mef51 — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 17:05:37 +0000

I'm not sure I entirely agree with the framing, despite agreeing with many of the points raised. I think it's relevant to recognize that large organizations often become large by consuming smaller organizations. And that they consume smaller organizations precisely because they offer something like purpose and meaning, and other emotional/spiritual needs. When there are no more smaller organizations to consume, the larger organizations fracture out of an absence of these necessities. The division of 'small' and 'large' organizations is maybe relevant in today's economic structure but it does not feel absolute or permanent. Anyway, this well highlights the importance of genuine connections and activities at the individual level.

New comment by mef51 in "What Problems to Solve – By Richard Feynman"

mef51 — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 18:10:22 +0000

I read this letter for the first time many years ago when I was in my physics undergrad and thinking about starting grad school. It still crosses my mind pretty often as a postdoc.

New comment by mef51 in "4-7-8 Breathing"

mef51 — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:28:02 +0000

Plum Village (a Buddhist community founded by Thich Nhat Hanh) has a free app with hours and hours of different kinds of breathing and other types of meditation. They also upload meditations regularly on their youtube.

This web page also has some good resources and breathing meditations. https://plumvillage.org/mindfulness/mindfulness-practice

Highly recommend

New comment by mef51 in "Leaked data reveals Israeli govt campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on Meta"

mef51 — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 18:41:57 +0000

I think in this instance the perpetrator is central to the story/article

New comment by mef51 in "Leaked data reveals Israeli govt campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on Meta"

mef51 — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 18:39:40 +0000

"The civilians should be evacuated." They don't want to leave and Israel uses these "evacuations" to make sure Palestinians never return, as they did in 1948, 1967, etc[1][2]. This is whitewashing genocide and is an extremely violent view, packaged in reasonable sounding words. Israel has a long documented history of using terrorism to build its state. If you truly oppose terrorism I recommend starting with the books I've sourced.

[1] The ethnic cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé

[2] The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 by Rashid Kahlidi

New comment by mef51 in "Leaked data reveals Israeli govt campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on Meta"

mef51 — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 18:33:01 +0000

The HRW report[1] goes into details, at least on the 1050 takedowns they documented

> A Human Rights Watch (HRW) report investigating Meta’s moderation of pro-Palestine content post-October 7th found that, of 1,050 posts HRW documented as taken-down or suppressed on Facebook or Instagram, 1,049 involved peaceful content in support of Palestine, while just one post was content in support of Israel."

[1] https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/12/21/metas-broken-promises/...