skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Owning and using arms are very different. The ownership typically has an avenue available in all parts of the US. If the avenue isn't broad enough or too restrictive then the courts re-broaden it on 2nd amendment grounds. Using is much more tightly restricted and illegal in most areas of the US, there is no area of the US where you can shoot mortars off of somebody else's building, at someone else's property, without consequence from the state itself.

But the primary difference between areas within the US borders and areas within Israel's borders is how the consequence materializes.

In the US the expected response would be an investigation, finding the munitions, taking the munition as evidence, finding the owner or user, interviewing people, indicting and convicting the owner, seizing the owners assets or finding the building somehow culpable too, only for the purpose of temporary ownership by the state, not destruction. If something occurred during the investigation or the presence of a law enforcement, the law enforcement may shoot back on the spot.

In Israel, right now the expected response is lobbing a missile at the building and gaslighting everyone that questions that particular approach.
OK, so how is this "hacker news" material?
India has nuclear capabilities and also a population thats 120 times bigger than Israel...read much about India lately?
The world needs to de-Google. For videos that might be rumble.
In general, I wouldn't say Israel gets that much press attention. Honestly, I'd say it doesn't get enough.

There has been an uptick in coverage recently, but that's because of the uptick in violence and atrocities - like Israel ordering Palestinians to destroy their own homes (or pay for demolition if they don't), evicting Palestinians, Israelis expanding into Palestnian territory, the Israeli military destroying Palestinian tower blocks (resulting in numerous civilian deaths, including children), etc.*

Oh, and it's a nuclear power, and the spirtiual home of Judaism.

* I'm just giving reasons for news coverage; I'm not trying to start an ideological flame war here, and I know the Israeli government != Israelis. I also know that there is the odd rocket being fired into Israel from Palestine, so it's not a one-sided thing, but the point is that human rights atrocities being carried out with impunity by a US and UK ally is pretty awful.
To be fair, it's also priced dramatically lower. It's not fair to compare a current iPhone, priced at more than $1200 on the open market, with the Pine Phone priced at $150. This is where they chose to bring a phone to market and I think it's a smart move. They'll attract a bigger audience and make it easier for people to sim-swap and experiment.

When the distros get good enough, they can price out higher end hardware.
> Since Israel has to spend the money on US hardware, that money actually goes to maintain Jobs in the US military industry

Israel is also a gem of technological innovation. We probably get the public spending back in NYSE listing fees and trading profits alone.
> Most politicians, even in 3rd world countries like mine, have at least one degree.

Much better than in my country, Germany, where we get regularly news of diploma forgery from top politicians. (eg. Baerbock, von Guttenberg)
The language game we're playing is defining the rules for the language game we're playing. In your extension of the rules, adding a requirement of extensibility (to add 'indices') is a valid move; in your opponent's version it isn't. It could just as well be argued that it is adding the extensibility requirement that is “too clever by half.”
I'm not sure I understand the point -- that's a different complaint entirely. The "cobbling together extensions and swapping out applications" is the customization, that's exactly what you asked for initially.

Edit: If the issue is that some extensions break and become unmaintained sometimes, that's unfortunate, but the only other solution there would actually be to put heavy limits on the extension API. Which would probably not be to your liking either because it would actually reduce customizability.
Local rates went up before stabilizing, long distance rates quickly tanked.

In May 1984, AT&T implemented its first rate reduction in 14 years, knocking an average 6.1 percent off interstate long-distance prices. Long distance prices fell 38% by 1988 ignoring inflation. And continued to drop in the years afterwards.

Now how much this was a net benefit at the time really depended on how much you used long distance calling. Longer term it paved the way for people to call long distance ISP’s which made a real difference in early internet adoption.
Yeah I heard that. It's GPLv2 licensed so he's free to use it (if he can even migrate his services database without corrupting it) but his lackies have been informed that they will be banned on sight if they try to ask for support.
Porn is the fastfood of relationships. The proper food is just out of reach for most of the people.
> US military industry.

What a completely depressing world
Lee has to destroy Freenode to save it.
Israel isn't a microstate though.
Xfce is fantastic.

I made the switch when gnome 3 happened and have never looked back.

It’s themeable enough for me - xubuntu usually looks pretty good, you can get the themes on Debian easily enough.

It’s featureful enough, while still being relatively lightweight.

But the best thing about it? It’s not opinionated. You can decide what goes on your bars/panels, where they go at what size etc.
Israel supports the dreaded regimes of Saudi Arabia, and Egypt

It also reality really doesn't mind Iran messing up their northern neighbours, unlike what the public sentiment says

Hezbollah, and Baathists were like a present from heavens for them
Yes. Almost daily. There practically isn't a single day where India isn't in the news, especially wrt Modi and COVID.
> the officer being more scared of a black person

That's a hypothetical that you created, it's not a fact: The fact is that civilians do not oppress police officers. They very rarely kill them, imprison them, stop and frisk them, etc.

> I can be a penniless, poor homeless person and still be a racist piece of shit. I don't require power for that.

> Certainly issues arise when the two intersect (having institutional power and discriminating) but don't conflate the two as the same.

I didn't call them the same; they are certainly different. The point is that it doesn't matter too much if there is discrimination without power. The penniless poor person will have little effect on the passing African-American's life; the police officer can easily ruin their life.

> this whole argument rests on the fact that power is some binary thing which isn't true at all. Power imbalances exist in every facet of life and sometimes, traditionally "oppressed" classes of people have more power than "oppressor classes" in some situation or another.

I agree, I actually thought about that, but I left out that nuance (I can't write a dissertation on HN; something must be left out). But since you bring it up: Yes, anyone can suffer discrimination on the micro level. But that is much less of an issue; it doesn't rise to the level of a society issue for two reasons:

As an example, I was going door-to-door for a political campaign and one person said to me, 'get your [deleted] ass off my porch': They were in a vulnerable group and I wasn't.

First, I wasn't feeling threatened because, again, they lacked power. They couldn't call the police and have me arrested; their neighbors wouldn't beat me up. It was just one person being jerk. Think of it this way: I've knocked on doors after dark around elections (which are in November in the U.S., and polls usually close after dark). Doing that in a white neighborhood, I've thought - what if I was a black man? It would be dangerous for me.

Second, it's just an isolated event and not a macro, society-wide problem. African-Americans have been suffering widespread discrimination by almost every institution and large sections of the population, creating great harm for generations. I had a bad experience for a few seconds. While the person shouldn't have acted that way, it wasn't a big deal; it doesn't rise to the level of a major society issue requiring legislation and Constitutional amendments. It also didn't evoke a lifetime of abuse and threat; it was just annoying. I said 'ok' and went to the next house.
It's not like Israel wouldn't have happily sold that tech to the US even if it got zero military aid from them.
You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning…

And that, I think, was the handle— that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting - on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave…

So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.
Some archives store books in image format in addition to text, is that 10 petabytes of pure text?
> To this day, I have no idea what 'powerd' is, for instance.

You're in luck, there's an extremely helpful and well written man page on exactly that subject. I will quote in its entirety:

"NAME

powerd -- Daemon that manages Energy Preferences.

SYNOPSIS

powerd is a launchd managed daemon.

DESCRIPTION

powerd is a launchd managed daemon."
Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster Collection Revealed
To me the main change that internet got is this: the old internet was like a parallel universe, you picked up a random username, and no matter who you were in real life, you could socialize and share interest with other people without any prejudice.

This is especially important for introverts like me, that if they have to put their real name on something, for example a comment on Facebook, they think about it 100 times, while being anonymous they are more inclined to share things with strangers. You don't have to worry about what people thinks about you, or about prejudice that people have based on your age, your social life, your job, because nobody knows who you really are. The only thing that matters is your contribute to the discussion. I still remember discussions that I made with people that I only recognize by a username, and they were so interesting, much more interesting than everything you can find on Facebook.

In the old days you were told to never share your real name on the internet, to always pick up usernames, nowadays companies forces you to register with your real identity, Facebook can even ask you to provide a photo of your ID, and YouTube won't let you watch content for over 18 if you don't identity yourself. There are even countries that would like to force internet companies to ask for the identity of the people!

In the old days internet was a place where an introvert that didn't know how to relate with other people in real life could have escaped to share it's interests with other people freely and without any anxiety. Nowadays it's no longer like this, unfortunately. Forums are desert, nobody still uses IRC, and everything is a Facebook group or something like that on a social media platform where I don't want to sign up. Even websites in the old days had comment sections, nowadays you want to comment? Do it on Facebook. There are only a few exception of course (one of this is this website, that I like a lot for exactly this reason).

The only website that still maintains the old web philosophy, and the only social media that I use, is Reddit, that still doesn't require you to register with your real identity. But I fear that it will not last for long...

Also in the old internet there was a spirit of collaboration and community that I never saw in the modern web. You were a newbie in something, for example using Linux? Sign up to a forum, or ask on IRC, and people would have helped you, helped solving the problem, for free, only for the gratification on doing so. And most of the time even the person helping you to solve the problem learned something new in the process! It was fun for everyone. Nowadays even on the few forum that remained, go and ask a newbie question, and they will tell you "just search on Google", make fun of your ignorance, or something like that.
That sounds like a profound experience, would you say these insights had any lasting impact on your life? And, if may ask, in what way was it a bad trip? I once took LSD and was hoping for that level of experience, but only got nice visual sfx and some bad emotions later on.
Freenode staff and Andrew Lee is calling IRCCloud a "MITM service":

<@root> > if irccloud functioned like AndChat or any other client and didn't route all of your private communications through its MITM servers it would probably not have been banned <-- +1

I wonder what they think about PIA.
Alien Aqueducts: The Maps of Martian Canals
> While it can be wrong the cost of a wrong is minor

NO. NO NO NO. The cost is VERY much NOT MINOR. In the 80s and 90s, DNA was over used and it was incorrectly used to put the wrong people in prison for a very long time. The cost of mistakes is NOT trivial.
Can someone explain the steplike shapes in the curve in the "time to filter a request" plot? I was under the impression that ad blockers used hash tables or a similar structure which is agnostic of the address being checked with O(1). Are these some kind of cache misses?
The backwards compatibility guarantee of Rust applies only to stable releases. Firefox is weird in that it is enabling nightly features in an unnoficial compiler build that, for some odd reason, they want to tag as "stable". But it isn't.
Are American Jews still politically aligned with Israel? A honest question out of ignorance.

I know that American Jewish community tends to vote Democrat and that Democrats have a young cohort of politicians that is very vocally pro-Palestinian. So I would expect some drift. But I am not sure how to even measure it, or if someone tried to.
Calling someone a religious extremist because they think an act is immoral seems to me to be watering down the phrase "extremist" to a useless degree.

Good luck with life, friend, as you're bound to encounter many other "religious extremists" if your POV is so easily challenged.
So you're asking for something a bit richer, say maybe Markdown, that is still well-contained and limited.
What the Rich Don’t Want to Admit About the Poor
I tried it just for an afternoon, but I did find it easy to work with.

I find git easy to work with too though, as long as everyone sticks to a well-defined workflow and doesn’t do anything weird.
Quantum leap for medical research as microscope zooms in on tiny structures
Both the people and the country are not so powerful, that sounds borderline anti semitic though I dont think you have bad intentions. But it shows me my original question is spot on.
Very possibly you don't want the US to be an empire and to spend money on the "security" of Israel (eg preventing us from developing fighter jets - for our own security, no doubt) or eg Germany which can't even give asylum to Snowden who broke the news that your intel agencies eavesdrop on their Chancellor's phone. Just don't blame the vassals. Raise this point with the imperial government. You're a voting subject, maybe you can pull it off.

(It could be that for the US taxpayer the empire is a good deal. eg could you print all those dollars and get the entire world to hold them without the empire? You get a nice windfall from this. But again it's between you and your government. Maybe if you called yourself an empire, it would enable more open and productive discussions wrt cost/benefit analysis per vassal state.)
Lots (hundreds? thousands? a large cross section of the population of every music music festival on the planet for the last 50 years) of human beings report them encouraging a good time with increased enjoyment, openness, creativity, ability to do things, and they where praised by the creators of AA to be helpful in the treatment of alcholism. Very few of the doctors, nurses, lorry drivers, support workers, shop keepers, crafters, farmers, scientists who attend these events and lie about their participation go on to develop serious social or medical problems or they wouldn't have the money to go back year on year for more illegal fun. Unfortunately the majority of these positive experiences are not recorded by government backed science, since reporting LSD use to the government results in the loss of jobs, driving privileges, children and ultimately homes and freedom. Users complained about the war, lsd was banned (- over simplification for brevity.). Laughter has no accepted medical use and trying to prove otherwise is a crime
Completely true, Rwanda (details suppressed by courts), Bosnian massacre... you name it.
IIRC my commodore 64/128 manual came with BASIC and some assembly documentation. Different world when your turn on the machine and ... Get basically a REPL.

I did the same thing as the author, wrote BASIC until I needed a faster inner loop (doing some simulation like cellwar or something) and picked up asm to make it (just the inner loop) faster.
> a malicious actor can cause you much of the same trouble with your IBAN as they can with your credit card number

I disagree with this.

A malicious actor may be able to cause some trouble if they have your IBAN, but it would appear to be significantly harder to steal money _and get away with the crime_ using an IBAN compared with someone's credit card details.

In the Jeremy Clarkson story from 2008, someone set up a direct debit to a charity using bank account details.

Given the hoops you have to jump through to be able to be able to set up a direct debit - and knowing that KYC would apply to the receiving bank account - it would appear to be significantly harder to profit from money withdrawn in this way.

With a stolen credit card you can purchase something online from a merchant that isn't obliged to do any KYC checks and the fraudster is gone long before the crime is detected.
I'm fairly certain that literally doing nothing at all after the takeover / Libera-split news broke would have been incredibly better for them. Just... hunker down, don't touch any policies, or do anything beyond normal maintenance for three months or so.

I bet things would have died down, with far less migration off Freenode. Even if they started to do these current objectionable things later, the momentum would be gone.
There's always social drama because humans are social creatures and not machines. Hiding your head in the sand doesn't make it go away but merely means you're at it's whims with no influence on it. The difference is that if you're viewed as a friend other people first give you the benefit of the doubt since they assume you had good intentions. If you're not they don't and then things can escalate very quickly and not in your favor.
"Use our bouncer or else."

Sounds like a very democratic, open source, do what you will solution to me.
Using your own link, SOTA is 2.6%. WER could be lower for the much smaller vocabulary used in a drive-thru.

I'm not sure what you mean by "that doesn't work in practice" re: using logits. Word-level confidence is pretty useful with GCP Speech-to-Text [1]

[1] https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/docs/word-confidence....
No it doesn't.
You only have to change two lines to vanilla javascript.

document.getElementById("myRoot").appendChild(svg.node());

and remove the yield

Thats it. But apparently you all don't know this, because you don't want to understand D3 or basic DOM APIs beyond ctrl-c/ctrl-v.
Interesting, I do penetration tests as my day job and would therefore say that means I'm working in IT security. But also I'm not a native english speaker so I might just be wrong. Just to make sure, what you call IT security is the securing of IT infrastructure, and what penetration testers do is, well, the testing thereof?
Most hotels I've stayed at seem to be significantly limited on speed; anything <=5 floors is almost always faster to just head for the stairs and not even bother waiting. After a week, it's 6 floors.
Populations:
United Arab Emirates 9,503,738
Honduras 9,450,711
Israel 9,357,509
Belarus 9,349,645
Papua New Guinea 9,122,994

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_depend...
pine64 and purism are lot smaller than qualcomm and the like. They don't have that type of leverage.
Oddly enough, you'd have better results if you asked the person to help you out instead. I'm missing the research but hand-wavy explanation is that you justify having done something for someone by becoming more attached to them. I also think asking for help is a sign of vulnerability and signals trust
Yeah - you can’t beat an indifferent 3rd party. They’ll find all the stuff that you either code around or innately know not to do.
I am not really in the FOSS space, but Andrew Lee increasingly seems like a comic book villain.
That doesn't make sense to me ... Israel gets more coverage than China and Russsia because it's a democracy and they aren't?
> Israel will be an attractive place to continue funding with US taxpayers

Probably not. The US supported Israel to keep Iran/Russia in check in the region and frighten the rest. If the US is pulling support, it's probably going to rely on Iran (the legitimate heir?) to run the place. They'll have no incentive to keep propping Israel.

Imo, that's why Netanyahu tried to spark a war with Iran. They went on to make several alliances with Arab countries, in a bid to create a military alliance against Iran. He was wrong, however, in that Arab countries (surprise, Saudia Arabia) was more interested in making peace with Iran than starting an all out war.

For that, Netanyahu tried to spark a conflict and he had the right ammo for this (he knew the guys in Gaza will retaliate). At surface, it looks like Netanyahu hates the Gaza guys (Hamas) and they hate him. In reality, their existence depends on this conflict.

It seems, however, that everyone is willing to move on. There will be peace in the future and also higher oil prices :)
The first wooden satellite in the world
I say he is so serious to the point of being silly
Naftali Bennett: Hard-right tech millionaire set to become Israeli PM
There are actual genocides happening as we speak in countries no one knows or cares about. If your point is that Israel gets attention proportionate to the human suffering taking place that is nonsense.
There’s an app called Memos on iOS that has that capability. It’s great for searching images for text, for example I use it to take photos of my receipts, menus, screenshots, and entirely it’s on device and nearly instant (with 40k images). I’m sure other apps exist for various platforms and in the same niche. Looks like iOS 15 is adding text selection to their photos tool so if there’s a phone number visible it’s selectable and interactive.
A friend of mine just posted this today, and I totally agree:

https://weisser-zwerg.dev/posts/software-engineering-vcs/
It’s very easy in CVS, which is why some people prefer CVS to any distributed solution.