MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tsimionescu | 2025-06-22 07:27:19+00:00
The USA is not a theocracy, though. The majority-Christian senators are not generally enacting theocratic laws and regulations (though there are some tendencies and influences, as seen with the recent repeal of Roe v Wade, for example).

However, Israel does have highly theocratic tendencies. Their constitution places Jewish identity on the same level as their democratic statute. They have even more religious influence on public life than the USA does (which is already somewhat high by European standards), with businesses in many cities being boycotted into respecting the Sabbath and other religious holidays (not selling risen bread during Passover, making elevators stop automatically on every floor during days of rest, observing kosher restrictions on food etc). Many of their foreign policy decisions are explicitly influenced by religious tenets, such as believing they were gifted the "land of Israel" by their god (which includes modern day Israel, the Occupied Territories, and several parts of modern day Syria, Lebanon, and others).

They're nowhere near the level of religous rule and/or fanaticism as Saudi Arabia, but they have much more religious influence and control of public life then a modern European/US-style democracy.
by edanm | 2025-06-22 07:27:50+00:00
> The secret is most employees in a 1000 person company don't need to be there or cover very niche cases that your company likely wouldn't have.

That is massively wrong, and frankly an insulting worldview that a lot of people on HN seem to have.

The secret is that some companies - usually ones focused on a single highly scalable technology product, and that don't need a large sales team for whatever reason - those companies can be small.

The majority of companies are more technically complex, and often a 1,000 person company includes many, many people doing marketing, sales, integrations with clients, etc.
by motorest | 2025-06-22 07:28:55+00:00
> Israel defines itself as a "jewish" state (...)

I think the "Jewish state" refers to how the country serves as the homeland for the jewish people, not how they force a religion upon others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_state

Israel's legal definition is "Jewish and Democratic state", which explicitly ensures "complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_and_democratic_state
by CactusRocket | 2025-06-22 07:28:59+00:00
I tend to disagree with that, also. :) Even within one codebase there's immense value in having separate structs/classes per "layer" or domain. E.g. a different set of structs for the database layer than for the "business layer" (or whatever your application's internal setup is).

When that boundary is moved to outside the application, so an HTTP API between microservices, I feel even more strongly (though indeed still not as strongly as in what you call a "public API").

E.g. I have seen plenty of times a situation where a bunch of applications were managed within one team, the team split up and now this "internal API" has become an API between teams, suddenly making it "public" (when viewed from the teams perspective).
by mcdeltat | 2025-06-22 07:29:19+00:00
I think your point is great and we are on the same page. It very much is an issue of philosophy towards wellbeing. Without trying to sound too up my own ass, I think people differ on their perspectives here because they are on different points in the journey of understanding life and their wellbeing. I used to be of the opinion that limitless technology in all forms is brilliant, and no of course mobiles phones are not an issue, social media is fine, and me watching 6 hours of youtube a day is great! You could argue with me all day and my opinion wouldn't have changed because it was beyond my framework of thinking about life to have a different opinion. And then gradually, after a lot of learning about the world and myself, my framework has changed. Now I realise my opinions before were not as aligned with my own wellbeing as they could have been. I would invite everyone to take time to reflect and consider alternative ways of living which could be more beneficial for them and the world.
by yyyk | 2025-06-22 07:30:06+00:00
>I believe the right to "do whatever they want" is one generally valued by sovereign entities.

Most theocracies do not declare themselves sovereign over God. If it's truly a religious duty than it exists independently of anything in our world.

>The ability to "do whatever they want" is probably not really a good reason to bomb them.

I meant that the fatwa proves nothing until it is publicly published. Bombing was due to the nuclear program and no other reason.

>capriciously discard the JCPOA, which is an agreement they adhered to restricting their enrichment of uranium

The agreement had sunsets, it would have very soon expired. It's better to actually solve problems and not leave them to successors.

>illegally starting another US war of choice

Every modern President violated the War Powers act. It's unworkable.

>Would we have bombed them if they'd secretly been violating the JCPOA

The way some people talk, very likely not.
by karmakurtisaani | 2025-06-22 07:30:14+00:00
And when the best available intelligence says Iran was nowhere near close of obtaining a nuke?

The real reason is this: Israel is in a unique position where they have removed all threats at their borders so they can finally attack their biggest enemy. So they do that, and while doing so pull the US with them. We are at the brink of a massive war that will have millions of casualties, with even more millions fleeing to Europe, destabilizing the world even further.

You probably bought the reasoning about Saddam's WMDs as well.
by energy123 | 2025-06-22 07:30:28+00:00
The challenge for Israel is there's always a small chance your intelligence has a blind spot or is wrong. You can't prove a negative.

This is why I think the most likely scenario is that Israel will commit to regime change. Israel can't trust the current regime to not race to a nuclear weapon at this stage, and Israel can never be over 99% certain that a clandestine effort isn't being done outside of the current understanding of intelligence. "Assume the worst" seems to be a doctrine they adhere to.
by recroad | 2025-06-22 07:31:42+00:00
What are you pointing at there? Their position from 1979 which is 12 years after 1967?

Also, let’s leave rhetoric aside. What is the actual record of violence between Israel and anyone else? It’s not even close https://www.ochaopt.org/data/casualties

Israel here is the aggressor. Not acknowledging that makes no sense and doesn’t leave grounds for any meaningful discussion.
by motorest | 2025-06-22 07:32:22+00:00
From wikipedia's article on the history of Palestine:

> "Most of Palestine's population, estimated to be around 200,000 in the early years of Ottoman rule, lived in villages. The largest cities were Gaza, Safad and Jerusalem, each with a population of around 5,000–6,000."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Palestine
by muzani | 2025-06-22 07:32:50+00:00
I find it incredibly sad. It tugs at a lot of old memories, as we've been talking about an Iran war since I was in college. Plenty of friends on both sides.

Bloodlust is one thing, but the dehumanization is just far worse. Maybe they go hand in hand - you can't want to see someone die unless you think of them as inhuman.

There's something about social media where it has been amplifying this dehumanization as well. So another layer of sadness where it feels like we could have, should have prevented this. Like an asteroid strike or a global pandemic, it feels like one of those things that should never happen until it does. I remember looking at 80000hours and thinking, nah... nuclear warfare will never happen, let's focus on AI.
by dotancohen | 2025-06-22 07:33:33+00:00
From Wikipedia:

> The First Aliyah, also known as the agriculture Aliyah, was a major wave of Jewish immigration (aliyah) to Ottoman Palestine between 1881 and 1903 ... An estimated 25,000 Jews immigrated.

Jerusalem was already Jewish majority before 1881. And the large waves of the movement were towards the end, not towards the beginning.
by dudefeliciano | 2025-06-22 07:33:35+00:00
>they accepted Islam in the 7th century

Oh i didn't realize we're going back more than a millennia. Well, in that case every modern nation state is the product of one form of genocide or another - the USA being the worst genocidal state, going back just 500 years.

>The Arab culture, identity, and distinct racial features formed in the Arabian peninsula

Seems silly to me to claim a land that "your people" inhabited centuries and millennia ago, as it honestly seems silly to me talk about "racial features" when talking about humans. Arab culture? Are you telling me an arab jew, muslim, christian, druze and aheist have the same culture by virtue of being of the same "race"?
by Palmik | 2025-06-22 07:34:16+00:00
This isn't just a startup thing. This is common also at FAANG.

Not only are expriments commonly multi-arm, you also repeat your experiment (usually after making some changes) if the previous experiment failed / did not pass the launch criteria.

This is further complicated by the fact that lauch criteria is usually not well defined ahead of time. Unless it's a complete slam dunk, you won't know until your launch meeting whether the experiment will be approved for launch or not. It's mostly vibe based, determined based on tens or hundreds of "relevant" metric movements, often decided on the whim of the stakeholder sitting at the lauch meeting.
by marhee | 2025-06-22 07:34:28+00:00
I wonder, in reality, if a Lua program uses large (consecutive) arrays, its values will likely have the same type? At the very least it is a common use-case: large arrays of only strings, numbers etc. Wouldn’t it make sense to (also) optimize just for this case with a flag and a single type tag. Simple and it optimizes memory use for 98% of use cases?
by phatskat | 2025-06-22 07:34:31+00:00
> did a property developer lobby for this?

Maybe not a real one but…surely there’s a way this is a scam, right? Could this be feasible: “we bought all this land for houses but oops did some market research and found out <no one would live here/it’s too far away/etc>, guess we’ll have to sell it to someone who can strip it for resources. Sorrrry teehee”
by soganess | 2025-06-22 07:35:22+00:00
Motherboards with ISA slots were made as recently as 2020 (Intel Coffee Lake):

https://www.dfi.com/product/index/1502

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/spectras-new-lga1151-mothe...

I realize that doesn't answer your question as to why someone would put an AWE card into a machine that modern, but hey, at least it is possible.
by dreghgh | 2025-06-22 07:35:46+00:00
The thing is, the United States is self sufficient in petroleum. But domestic prices will go up to reflect the effect on world supply.

Arguably the same could happen given widespread use of non petroleum sources of energy. Prices will go up to reflect the marginal cost of hydrocarbon based energy, even if that use is minimal, until the point where the energy network is completely decoupled from those markets.

This happened in the United Kingdom after the invasion of Ukraine. More wind was used as gas became more expensive. But the price of electricity from wind also went up.
by pbhjpbhj | 2025-06-22 07:35:49+00:00
We can produce 3D scans of the gold, do mass spectroscopy.

Do you feel that vikings somehow embedded secrets in their coin?

Scrolls have writing on, if we can't yet read them we'd know that there was something else to discover (known unknowns) and clearly wouldn't dispose of them.

Of course the Vikings might have embedded secret extraterrestrial technologies in their coins, but I'd take the bet that they haven't.

The downthread comment about leaving things in the ground is right though -- it was, and is imo, the right thing to do.
by McAlpine5892 | 2025-06-22 07:35:52+00:00
> It's that they believe they have a religious duty to destroy the state of Israel.

And the US is full of Christo-fascists who believe they have a religious duty to "defend" Israel by any means necessary.

It absolutely blows my mind that in this day and age people are taking sides on a religious war. Stay out. Stay far out. There is no winning. There is no stopping the conflict. Every side has an ordained right to blow the others off the face of the planet. The only thing to see is human atrocities as far as the eye in the name of <your god of choice>.

> There's a state ... [that has] ... the facilities necessary to enrich weapons grade Uranium

Do they? It's oft repeated. But I vaguely remember this country being sold on an Iraq invasion due to nukes. Nukes that never existed and never were close to existing. This wasn't a simple miscalculation. The nukes were entirely and knowingly fictional. And that's just one example of a bullshit made-up reason this nation has started a war to waste lives.

How do you think Palestinians sleep at night? With the threat of Israel, funded by the largest military in the world, looming over them every night?

Why should I believe my country today? Why is today the day of all days that the truth is finally being told? Why is today the day that god is real and I should jump in on the bloodshed?

Your masters are lying to you, to their benefit. They didn't wake up today and decide to be honest.
by CactusRocket | 2025-06-22 07:36:46+00:00
> In what sense Israel is not a theocracy.

I find this very disingenuous because the person you replied to was talking only about Iran, and stating that Iran is a theocracy in their opinion. They never mentioned anything about Iran, let alone stating that Israel isn't a theocracy.

So asking this question, this way, is quite strange in my opinion.
by dotancohen | 2025-06-22 07:37:00+00:00
> Arab culture? Are you telling me an arab jew, muslim, christian, druze and aheist have the same culture by virtue of being of the same "race"?

Not by virtue of being the same race, but by virtue of being the offspring of parents who are proud of their heritage and teach their children.

Denying the existence of Arab culture, of which the Arabs are (rightly, in my opinion) very proud of, is racism. Not everybody has the same values and customs as you do.
by nine_k | 2025-06-22 07:37:46+00:00
No, once-valid input can be rejected after a period of depreciation.

What actually makes sense is versioning your interfaces (and actually anything you serialize at all), with the version designator being easily accessible without parsing the entire message. (An easy way to have that is to version the endpoint URLs: /api/v1, /api/v2, etc).

For some time, you support two (or more) versions. Eventually you drop the old version if it's problematic. You never have to guess, and can always reject unknown fields.
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by cewblog | 2025-06-22 07:37:52+00:00
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by loandbehold | 2025-06-22 07:38:18+00:00
Iran was one of the first countries in the Middle East to recognize Israel. But it all changed since Islamic Revolution. Their official position since than have been that Israel cannot exist. They don't even refer to it as Israel but as "Zionist Regime". It's their official public position and what they say on their (government controlled) TV. They've been fighting proxy war with Israel since 80s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_Israel_in_Irani...
by CalChris | 2025-06-22 07:38:52+00:00
The Basic Law (their Constitution) of Israel defines it as a Jewish state. Its first page says:

The Land of Israel is the historical homeland of the Jewish People, in which the State of Israel was established. (b) The State of Israel is the nation state of the Jewish People in which it realizes its natural, cultural, religious and historical right to self-determination. (c) The realization of the right to national self- determination in the State of Israel is exclusive to the Jewish People.

Not irrespective of religion, exclusive to the Jewish People.
by motorest | 2025-06-22 07:39:42+00:00
> both have nukes and that acts as a strong deterrent for both of them not to escalate (which they didnt).

Your original point was that nukes prevented attacks. India vs Pakistan rejects your hypothesis.

You then proceeded to move the goalpost from "$(country_without_nukes) got attacked because it didn't [had nukes]" to "yeah countries with nukes get attacked, but attacks don't escalate" which is also an absurd argument to make.

It's a particularly silly point to make in light of India Vs Pakistan because it was described as an electoral stunt to save face, which means nuclear nations still attack themselves even for the flimsiest reasons.
by hotmeals | 2025-06-22 07:39:44+00:00
If it wasn't suicide and I was the big boss, I would get some nuclear subs for my irrelevant South American nation ASAP. The "rules based order" is just wet toilet paper, who's to say that in 50 years we or our neighbors aren't next?

Gringos have always been crazy, but now y'all are getting extra spicy. Qaddafi, Ukraine and now Iran. Get nukes or bust is the name of the game now.
by mcdeltat | 2025-06-22 07:39:48+00:00
Your point about community is valid, we need community.

I would argue though that digital community is a tenuous definition in comparison to in-person community. I won't claim this doesn't differ person to person but for me doing a hobby with people has no comparsion to watching youtube videos about the hobby (even though I am introverted). I like to consider to myself: "is this digital interaction preventing or taking the place of an in-person interaction I could be having right now?" 6 hours of youtube a day was preventing a lot. Further I considered my own hobbies which themselves were primarily digital and may be unhelpful for finding fulfilment in social aspects of life.
by dkjaudyeqooe | 2025-06-22 07:40:43+00:00
A non sequitur followed by a claim that Biden is responsible for Israel's security on the ground against Hamas.

Well Israel's security forces were out to lunch on that score, given how Hamas literately walked all over them, so I can see how you might think that.

But don't let me get in your way while you try to divert attention away from Trump's current recklessness.
by skissane | 2025-06-22 07:42:06+00:00
> This new editor is actually a reimplementation of the classic MS-DOS 5 EDIT program from 1991

MS-DOS 5 EDIT is actually just a stub which runs QBASIC in editor mode, in which all the BASIC-related features are disabled.

Windows 95 EDIT was different, it actually had BASIC removed from the binary. I don't know if it was a rewrite or if they just deleted (or even #ifdef-ed) out the BASIC parts out of the source code.

QBASIC was basically just a cut-down build of QuickBASIC with some features disabled. The TUI part was provided by the "Character Windows" (aka "Character-Oriented Windows", CW or COW) library, a TUI-mode analog to the Windows 3.x API for DOS TUI apps, it was also used by some other Microsoft products such as Word for DOS. It would be great were Microsoft to open source it (although from what I've heard, significant chunks of this stuff have already been included in various leaks of DOS and Windows source code, but it would be nice to have it publicly available in a completely kosher way)
by sudahtigabulan | 2025-06-22 07:42:08+00:00
> Signal does not have access to your social graph

Their contact discovery uses SGX, which has a long list of vulnerabilities [1], and is even deprecated by Intel.

With access to the server, my guess is that getting someone's social graph is not entirely impossible.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Guard_Extensions#List...
by VagabundoP | 2025-06-22 07:43:18+00:00
What always shocks me is how much negligence is shown by politicians and cyber inteligence wrt to standard mobiles.

Anyone who runs a country, especially senior politicians, just shouldn't have a standard mobile.

It should be a built from the ground up phone by your own countries government services. Running GrapheneOS or something.

And you shouldn't have a second phone to have your affairs either.
by dotancohen | 2025-06-22 07:43:23+00:00
The censuses were always flip-flopping back and forth, until the 1880s. You cherry picked one nice one, but I could check pick over half a dozen censuses that show Jewish majority during the 19th century - no less than the amount of censuses that promote the other competing narrative. And all the later censuses, after 1880, show Jewish majority. That was over three decades before the fall of the Ottoman empire.

Source for census data: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Jerusalem
by AlecSchueler | 2025-06-22 07:43:31+00:00
I'm not sure that answers my question. They could have a political belief that Israel must fall but you haven't shown a reason to believe it's based on their religious beliefs. Obviously the two things are tied up together but I don't believe that if a Jewish homeland state had been created in Western Europe or in Antarctica that Iran would have an issue with it. Their problem is surely that Israel represents an historical and continuing power play by Western forces, a springboard from which the US and it's allies can encourage coups, wage wars and dominate the trade of the natural resources in the region. It seems like a very practical concern more than a religious one.
by scbzzzzz | 2025-06-22 07:43:52+00:00
My major problem with ads is the disrespect of my privacy. People deserve to get paid for the hard work they put. I have immense respect for creators .

But at the same time, these yt creators are relying on google ads . Which are intrusive, doesn't acknowledge and care about privacy. If you turn on ad privacy, you see gambling, scams ,crypto ads. How is that responsible? You as a creator is ok with getting money and ok with indirectly making people addicted, fall for scams? That's not right.

I am ok with sponser ads and am against sponsorblock. They are not tracking me, violating my privacy and telling me about new products .

youtube subscription doesn't stop youtube for collecting you data and use it for ads during other google service .
by eesmith | 2025-06-22 07:44:02+00:00
Since that's your objection, don't lead with a complaint about precision.

Just to confirm - you do not object to the use of cluster munitions on troops, right? Only civilians, because of Article 51(5)(b)?

But the use of explosive pagers on a civilian population is fine because ... why?

And the bombing of the civilian population of Gaza is proportionate because ... why?

Which court do Israel and Iran recognize has having jurisdiction?

What do you expect other countries to do?
by Freak_NL | 2025-06-22 07:44:43+00:00
Besides, sleeper trains really are modular already, using existing standard rail infrastructure. Wagons are the natural unit of a train consist.

Ideally, we end up with a big enough network of sleeper lines that it makes sense for ÖBB, European Sleeper, or whichever operator to have the luxury of taking some wagons out for maintenance and standby, and even scale up and down depending on the season.