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Ask HN: Is it ethical to work for an Israel company?
I have a question to fellow tech workers that are working at an Israeli company. In particular I want to ask people that believe in the human rights of Palestinians (e.g. Palestinian lives matter).

Seeing the rising violence in the Israel-Palestine conflict, seeing the buildings collapse, and Palestinians die at the hands of the Israel military, I am personally at an ethical dilemma. Half a year ago I was transferred to a remote position, at a recently acquired startup based in Israel. My work is being used by high-ups in Israel. When they showcase their software and brag about Israel start-up culture my work is contributing to it. This would be fine if it wasn’t for the fact that these same people have voiced support for the Israeli military.

Now as I try to do my work as I hear more news about Palestinians loosing their homes or lives and limbs because of Israel state violence, I feel less and less motivated, and more and more discussed at my self for catering to people that support this.

My question to HN: Are there more people that feel like this? How are you dealing with your feelings? Do you consider quitting?
They're describing typescript...
I quite liked Workshape[1], but there isn't many companies on it.

I mostly use LinkedIn and friends who work in recruiting agencies.

[1] - https://www.workshape.io/
You know, I agree fully on trying and not being a coward. I wonder why it sounds otherwise to you. I just think there's no need to spread life beyond those of us who are here right now. It's worth keeping currently living individuals alive and happy as long as they want to live, because it's a great ill when something with a desire to keep living has their life forcibly taken away, but I don't see the intrinsic good in breeding.
I kinda agree. Actually what I wanted to say is I see where you are coming from but I disagree that my proposal would get rid of its main feature. I just want some way to have easy defaults for new users. I wouldn't propose to remove any features. You should still be able to do whatever is possible right now and for the advanced users nothing would change. I suggested an additional easy mode to help new users. This could be set as default by the organization admin or just make it opt-in. Nobody should be forced of course. I am confident that it would be still possible to push users into using threads/topics but without the considerable friction that currently exists. The fact that Zulip has to include these little tutorial bubbles for new users to show them how to write a message and other chat apps don't need it shows that Zulip is more complicated to understand and use as a newbie.
Graal Native takes JVM bytecode as input, and Scala 3 is binary compatible with Scala 2, so it should be compatible with Graal Native out of the box.
Your argument reduces to: "progress" is always good, even if it's bad.

I think we're perfectly allowed to discuss whether we think a particular kind of change is a good or bad thing.
Early on, I read that even though people who die of covid are typically old, they have plenty of time left. E.g. an 85 year old dies, who would be expected to live 10 more years.
FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims
But they still make mistakes (ask me how I got into Google /rpcz pages by shodan dorking and slightly mangling an HTTP header...). And just a few of these mistakes strewn together can have a massive blast radius if exploited by a motivated entity.

That, and all the high security cloud hosting in the world will not help the most commonly exploited security issues: unpatched wordpress plugins, world readable storage buckets, poorly secured privileged accounts, ransomware, phishing... A shoddily managed on-prem enteprise IT infra moved into the cloud will be just this: a poorly managed AWS infra, just as exploitable as before, but now also 10x as expensive to run.
A bit like the stock markets right now.
Kapp – Deploy and view groups of Kubernetes resources as “applications”
> You argument effectively reduces to: never innovate.

You chose to reduce it to that. There is no need to reduce every argument to its black and white extreme, although that is the easiest interpretation.

Bitcoin in particular requires truly ridiculous amounts of compute and has made hacking a far more profitable enterprise than before.

There are already digital currencies tackling the first problem, the 2nd could potentially also be solved.

So a more charitable interpretation might be, more innovation is needed to get digital currencies right.
The greater good in this case means following rules/mandates that do not in any way lead to an outcome of supporting atrocities. There is no valid critical analysis by which one concludes that not wearing masks or engaging in social distancing is a fight against atrocities.
It’s too late for a carbon tax–it’s time for a world war against climate change
true, though arguably it's a good thing. In the sense that it moves more of the costs of malware to the organisations that are meant to be securing the data.
Previously, these costs were more borne by customers/clients/etc, and thus not taken as seriously - abstract costs and externalities.

Putting a clear number of the cost of poor cybersecurity should push more organisations to actually do something about it.
That sure helped the trust to CDC.
There's a fairly significant difference between the Tuskeegee Experiment, and having to wear a surgical facemask while in a supermarket.
Wow, that is some serious rationalization right there.

Am I the only one remembering them claiming to be fully backed by USD in some bank accounts?
I don't think 'the game' refers to video games here.
Because if you get it wrong, lots of people die, so you err on the side of caution.
Right, I can see that, thanks for clarifying.
This style of writing is so present tense sensationalized, I cease to believe what is written simply because all this fictionalized present tense prose they dress the article up is 100% made up - so how is one to take the "facts" seriously?
It is.

Scala does not use semver. The last major release was 2.13.0, not 2.0.0. That's a bit confusing I guess.

What that means is, they haven't just added some features, they redesigned/rewrote to language from ground up to simplify it and make formally sound. I actually don't know any other language that does that (though I'm sure there are others, maybe Haskell is one of them).

In addition, a lot of features are very impactful and unprecedented, such as match types. To me, for a mainstream language (even though a smaller one), it certainly feels fast pasted.
> The importance of following the principles for public health is greater than the importance of the advice being unbiasedly perfect

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Also, even if this is true at some point, as more people adopt your mindset of conformity, it would become very valuable to manipulate, which is easy to do (Goodhart’s law).
Short dated treasuries are practically indistinguishable from "cash". They're counted together on corporate balance sheets.

Also, what do you mean "cash"? Printed bills? Deposits in commercial banks' checking accounts? Would savings accounts count too (they can be frozen for some amount of days)? Deposits in Fed accounts?
This isn't really true. The actual chain of command is, of course, completely different people until you get to the President. But more importantly, intelligence agencies conducting covert actions don't reveal their activities to all of Congress. With respect to funding, only select committees with specific clearance get to see the real budget. Everyone else sees a line item that says "classified budget." As for oversight, see here: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/3093

The actual committees:

https://intelligence.house.gov/ (23 members)

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/ (14 members)

So that's 37 members of Congress they're accountable to, but not directly. If you read the actual law, it only says the "President" has to inform these committees of what the intelligence agencies are doing, and if they happen to do anything illegal, the President has to tell Congress (but only these 37 members).

Theoretically, the President is not above the law, but as we've seen in recent history, if the President is of the same political party as the majority party of Congress, they're not likely to actually enforce the law.

Practically speaking, all of Congress isn't going to care what all of the Executive Branch is doing all of the time given the limited number of hours in a day, which is why they they have committees, but at least in the case of the CDC, NASA, and IRS, if all 538 members of Congress request information, they have to give it to them. With the NSA, only 37 members of Congress are authorized to even receive information and only through the President.
I'm not making an argument "for progress" at all. I actually 100% agree that we are allowed to, and should, discuss the ramifications of any kind of change.

My point is only that the original comment didn't attempt make any argument, other than the reduced one I outlined.
Cryptocurrencies are what allows criminals to scale these attacks. They also significantly decrease the risk of getting caught, compared to accepting cash in a briefcase.

I’m not sure what point you are trying to make.
Masks are a minor inconvenience but they affect millions. It adds up.
All national authorities did this, because the advice originated at WHO.
It gives other companies with more responsible practices an opportunity to get a competitive advantage from their failure.

Without widespread ransomware scammers, the risk of getting compromised is just theoretical, not tangible. Companies can get away with ignoring security concerns for a long time and might never be impacted by it.

Thus, companies which are paying a premium for better security might never be able to benefit from the mitigations they are implementing, and could be outcompeted by the companies which simply got lucky enough to avoid being attacked.

Eventually we end up with major too-big-to-fail megacorps like Equifax getting hacked by trivial exploits because nobody took advantage of them when they didn't have such a strong market position.
As an American abroad I'm very jealous. I've strongly considered flying back to the states to get vaccinated.
A friend of mine has partnered with comic shops and larp teams to do specific custom things for general games, tournaments, and more. He makes good money on this, by the way. He also prints on 2d printers for them some instructions and so on in the style of games. He also has 2 3D printers and 1 regular printer (it seems to me that he can become an ambassador https://www.mrdepot.ca/products/brother-dcp-l2550dw-toner because printed stylized instructions spend a lot of ink).
Translation: Elon and Tesla successfully manipulated the crypto-currency markets and his minions threw their money at BTC, DOGE, etc and majority fell for the dump, panic sold or are still baghodling.

No money was 'stolen' unlike the classical crypto-currency scams. His minions willingly bought the coins for someone to exchange it for a particular price. Given they were late, they were buying the coins at very high prices, thus they're helping the whales and the smart money exit at those prices.

Now the early DOGE and BTC crypto-investors and Elon are laughing at the ones who fell for it, panic sold or are still hodling.
That's not entirely true either. The Trump campaign did receive intelligence briefings in 2016 and there is evidence, although no official confirmation, that Russia was discussed. [1]

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/20/did-fbi-w...
The vaccine keys your immune system on a mostly unchanging part of the virus. It’s such a key part of the virus that for the virus to mutate that part it would be a dramatically different and less deadly mutation.

In an infection your body randomly keys on any of a large number of characteristics of the virus. Those almost certainly will be less lasting than the vaccine.

That’s why to get the vaccine.
Forget the relatives, where did those BUTONS on her shoes come from!
Did you even read how they attained 75% efficiency on the SOFC with gas turbine? They fed 25% of the fuel to the gas turbine and it was creating at least 25% of the power, they then tried 45% of the fuel with a 50/50 power split.

Is a gas turbine sitting next to an engine being fed half the fuel and putting out half the power a turbo charger?

Did you miss the combustion chamber and generator for the gas turbine when you face-palmed?

The Garrett link you presented isn't even a heat recovery turbine, it's just a electric compressor it draws electrical power from the fuel cell to compress the air. The other links are similar, they actually use power rather than generating it, they allow reduction in fuel cell size not increased efficiency:

"The process temperature of modern fuel cells for cars is rather low. Therefore, the exhaust gas enthalpy provided to the turbine is not sufficient to drive the compressor. Hence, a powerful electrical motor is necessary to drive the compressor; in fact, it is an essential component of the FCAS system. Even a variant of the FCAS system without a turbine is available as part of the FCAS family."

A turbo charger compresses air using heat, then rejects much of that heat in the intercooler very little of it is recovered as engine output power. Its purpose is to increase volumetric efficiency not thermal efficiency. More air + more fuel = more power with less displacement.

A heat recovery turbine increases thermal efficiency not volumetric efficiency, that is the distinction between a turbo charger and heat recovery turbine in all literature I can find. They operate on similar principles and share a component (the turbine) but one is simpler than the other and they are not the same.

Please show me a fuel cell using just a "simple" off the self turbocharger as a heat recovery turbine.
This looks super cool, congrats on launching! A few quick thoughts after spending about a minute on your landing page:

It took me too long to figure out exactly what Remake is (note: I didn’t watch the video and I think most people won’t either). I got the general gist but it didn’t fully click until I saw some code. If I wasn’t coming from your hacker news post, I probably would have bounced. Vague copy like “It works by converting your webpage's visual elements into interactive data” didn’t really enlighten me.

In the live code example section, it would be helpful to be able to see the HTML, JSON data, and live preview all at once (I’m on mobile, not sure if this is different on desktop) to illustrate the connections between each of them. This relationship seems to be the highlight of your product, so highlight it. If this change was implemented and the section was placed up near the top of the page, maybe just below the fold, I would have understood immediately.

Other than the code, the graphic showing the dentist website builder with edit buttons and explanatory callouts did the most to clarify what this tool does, but it also confused me a bit. I suddenly wasn’t sure if Remake was meant specifically as a tool to create site templates that others can customize or as a general purpose framework for creating interactive applications. My understanding now is that it seems the latter enables the former, and more. If this graphic technique was used in the context of the trello example, I don’t think I would have had this confusion. All that said, I do think this graphic technique is much more effective than just showing screenshots of the 3 example projects, maybe you could add some callouts to those images too to show exactly what Remake is enabling in each of them.

Regarding UX on mobile, the testimonials section is causing layout jank as the testimonial changes and causes the section to grow and shrink in height, repeatedly shifting all of the content below up and down by a few dozen pixels.

Final thoughts: Right now, I feel Remake is a bit unsure of its target customer. It seems split between people who know very little code (e.g. designers who know the basics of code and want a simple tool to increase their power), and people who know code well (e.g. web developers who want to save time but maintain flexibility). I think the landing page tries to appeal to everyone and falls a bit short on both. I certainly think it’s possible and smart to go for both and I think you’re very close, but you may benefit from targeting each of them more strategically.

All in all, great work! Hope my thoughts were somewhat helpful. Best of luck.
Did I read Ben Kuhn's article right? For engineers at almost every level (except maybe right out of school), they can easily make 100k/yr more by choosing a big co. So if money is all you're optimizing for, it's never worth it to choose a startup unless you're very risk adverse.
I don't like Slack but Discord is a great piece of engineering. They hit all the right spots for many types of communities. Personally for searching I actually with people used chat groups less and opened stackoverflow questions more. I hate having to search through unstructured chat to find if someone asked my question previously or if no one answers your question right away it gets buried under new questions. What zulip needs to compete against Discord is voice chats. I feel like many communities feel the need to exist on voice and chat channels at the same time and not having that forces people to have 2 disconnected services
it's actually an argument in favour of well-protected centralized collection. It's more probable that smaller entities arre less protected than bigger ones even if the data they can disclose is more limited.
In Astronomy STP is the exception not the rule. Not much is a gas at 3 kelvin in deep space, the other common option is stars where everything is a plasma. And that’s ignoring white dwarf’s which are mostly electron-degenerate matter, neutron stars which don’t have chemical elements, and black holes which are even stranger.

So, really hydrogen, helium, and everything else is a perfectly reasonable classification as everything else acts the same outside of fusion.
Do you believe then that the majority of Scots who voted against independence were, in fact, English nationalists?
I wonder how these realtime content sharing services will be compatible with new EU terreg regulation. How such content is going to be moderated?
From the article:

In February, Match Group agreed to buy Azar’s parent company for $1.7 billion.
As a "side read" I started "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" in Dec 2020, and finished a couple or so weeks ago. The book is thorough. It covers history, political systems, individual psychology, sociology, and more. The context being (data-based) surveillance as a means to nudge and manipulate behavior - individually and masses. While it focuses on big tech, it's lessons are in fact universal.

In any case, stepping back from the pandemic and other personal biases, the tactics and narrative of the last 15+ months begin to feel like some new (covert?) form of totalitarianism.

- There's an evil enemy that must be intricated for the good of all.

- There's hyperbolic fear and widespread death. The deaths are real, but data is cherry-picked in a propaganda-y sort of way. Correlation is more important than causation.

- There is a lone figure-head we must promise our allegiance and dedication to. Signs on front yards, t-shirts, etc. Note: No one voted for Fauci. And while he's certainly accomplished it's difficult to imagine one single opinion - in a cloud of unknowns - could carry so much authority.

- Churches were closed, as were other assemblies. The State persists. It's powers broader.

- There is a tide of "The State knows best (your rights and liberty be damned.)" Do as you're told or you will be marginalized or (socially) silenced. As long as you cooperate and follow the gov's you will be safe.

Please try not to knee-jerk. The above list are simple facts.

All that aside, for anyone still trusting of the CDC it's best to check the data on causes of death prior to this pandemic. Make note of how many of those conditions are preventable. Nrxt track down the Covid death's comorbidies - which are rarely mentioned - that killer Covid pairs well with. To say Covid killed someone who was (e.g.) morbidly obese is misleading. It's called morbidly obese for a reason.

Ultimately, Covid 19 is a symptom. It's a symptom of our heath personally and as a society. It's a symptom of bigger and broader forces "at war" over who is in control.

Yeah, sounds like madness. But please keep in mind, so did totalitarianism.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/living-und...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Surveillance_Capi...

p.s. There's a chapter in Adam Grant's book "Think Again" on jabs, and how to go about convincing someone to think again about their anti vax ideas. What we've been doing for Covid is off target. Yet why is that? Adam Grant knows something the whole of the USA readership does not?
doesn't work for me, because the cron job doesn't know when i no longer need the file on the phone.

if i sync deletes from the backup device to the phone then a cron job to move files would potentially cause files to be removed from the phone before i am done with them.

rsync would cause the files to be duplicated (although i could still hardlink using rsync)
nothing, it's just that buprenorphine has certain advantages that it lacks: because it's a partial agonist, it causes less respiratory depression/is much harder to overdose on/you can safely titrate it faster; high receptor affinity means it largely blocks the action of other opioids (to the extent that it can be used to reverse overdose https://ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13054-02...), longer half-life at high doses so you can maintain smoother levels/administer it less frequently. this is more speculative but it also seems to have an antidepressant effect, & in general I think it's less harmful to cognition & mood than other opioids incl. methadone. doesn't work better than methadone for everyone but availability issues mean we're still not at the point where that decision can always be made on a purely clinical basis
I was hoping to see something about xDS. I've seen a lot of work being done on adding support for it in gRPC on git but (as usual with gRPC) the docs and blog posts seem to be rare and terse, so I haven't had a chance to learn it yet.

Also, does anybody know how gRPC is used at Google? Why do they support its development (other than GCP clients)? I'm under the impression Stubby is a completely different codebase and is far superior and fully integrated in their stack.
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Reminds me a lot of Winamp that popularised such kind of music visualisations.
Well as a European from the Netherlands this means I won't even risk a city trip or holiday to the UK. Can you imagine being imprisoned rather than just being refused?

Have they gone mental? This is war.

Living in Amsterdam in tempted to report any british tourist now.

Enough with the tolerance.
wouldn't disrupting healthcare services be an act or terrorism or even war?