skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firstly, your source is incredibly biased - it is a Palestinian advocacy organization.

Secondly, you make the claim that they attained the evidence by torture - with no evidence of such.

The fact remains that two Palestinian accountants testified in court that these "charity" organizations were funneling money to the PFLP terrorist organization.

HRW and AI may not think that the evidence is strong enough, and maybe it isn't, but given the testimony, it seems much more reasonable that the Israeli gov't conduct espionage on them if they suspect there is possible terrorist financing happening.

Let's also remember that HRW and AI are hardly unbiased sources when it comes to the Israel/Palestine conflict. They have both repeatedly taken sides in that conflict.

This also wouldn't be the first case of a "human rights" organization in the middle east being used to funnel money that ends up in the hands of terrorists, so I think espionage on these organizations should be expected, and is likely ubiquitous, whether they use NSO tools or not.
I think the two factors being compared - open vs. proprietary, poor vs. wealthy - are orthogonal to each other.

Does the author imply that open-source advocates believe that secrecy is bad for profits and that open-source is a way to get rich? I've not personally heard that. I do recall arguments that opening your source code will not lead to financial ruin, but that still leaves open the possibility that they're uncorrelated or only weakly correlated.
Thanks! Some URLs can take a while, like longer than usual

I'm not sure if it's because the serverless function needs to wake up. But after the initial load it will load instantly for new visitors because the page is cached

I'm not too concerned about the initial load time for now because I mainly built it for my own use, but if a lot of people use it, I'll do what I can to improve, of course
get an air conditioner lol
Social ECommerce – The Online World Is Going Social, Your Business Should Too
Don't matter to you maybe ... to many people finding reason is important.
How to multiply available AWS instances x 200 in 90 seconds (for bot detection)
For books the analog hole is probably widening with better ocr now than ever.
have a look here [0], Fig 1; the spacer serves really as a mechanical spacer (if dies are same or similar size); also nice for heat spreading.

[0] https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Productivity-improveme...
Hopefully no one ever funds "gain of function research" using this corpus of data...
Just FYI for anyone wondering: I believe this parallax effect specifically uses the UIMotionEffect API. It’s designed to be a simple and straightforward way to implement these kinds of effects without the developer having to worry about cleaning up the raw, noisey motion data.

It has a few limitations/features. I don’t think it necessarily always runs at the screen refresh rate. It will also “self level” after a while. So if the user rotates their device and this causes a UI effect, if they hold their phone still the effect will reset after a few seconds.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uimotioneffe...
Circumcision is kind of ingenious - physically mutilate the essence of a man's fundamental sexual identity before they have a say in things and BOOMPH! tribal lock-in for the rest of their life, and that of their progeny and ever thereafter.

Savage.
It's something that kind of flies under the radar, excepting some rare mention (e.g., in Sex and the City). People all over the world consume American media and glean all sorts of facts about American culture from it, but the prevalent (though declining) practice of male genital mutilation is something people outside of the US aren't generally aware of. Most people think it is something only done by some following orthodox religions.

Amusingly, the signs are there in US media. Almost every masturbation joke comes with a mention (either referred to or more often simply shown) of that ubiquitous hand lotion. Hand lotion? Who needs hand lotion to masturbate? Well, men endowed with a penis (and other bearers of penii) don't normally, but apparently many do when they've been circumcised.

It's often an eye opener here in the Netherlands when you explain that the cornflakes guy inspired generations to mutilate their sons.
>Wish the hardware was better

Well I have good news for you

https://www.pine64.org/2021/10/15/october-update-introducing...
Project managers, product managers, etc. are still human beings. They can insulate you from the users themselves, but they still rarely turn everything into formally specified requirements. The job still involves a lot of discussions with co-workers, managers, etc. about exactly what it is that needs to be done.

It even shows up in the code. Code will one day be read by another human being, for maintenance, and maintainable code is often more important than mere correctness.
I see no Hume-ian distinction here with is/ought. The context seems pretty clear. But regardless, perhaps for some the verbiage could be clearer with adding the kludge of "ought to be."
It was always cited as a legal risk.

Stripe handled this by having an extra interview baked in by default. People who were viewed as no risk hires didn’t have to do it, but the default was an extra interview to cover risks. Because it wasn’t an aberration, it wasn’t giving a candidate preferential treatment.

I honestly think it’s one of the smartest interview loops I’ve seen. I think they are one of the few large companies gambling a bit on the false positive side of things to shave off false negative points. And honestly, I was impressed with the people I interacted with at stripe more than AWS. They’re doing something right.
Neat. I like the name.

Eventually we'll have ocean-faring station keeping barge "interceptors". With wave glider style propulsion. https://www.liquid-robotics.com/wave-glider/overview/

Plastic will be captured as shown in video; slowly enough for critters to scoot away.

Their belly's will bail the detritus. Larger barges will collect the bounty, service the interceptors, and so forth.

Barges will have bioreactors reduce the plastics to feed stocks. Then either sell the harvest. Or pump it back into the ground (for carbon capture credits).

###

For collecting microplastics, we'll have various submersibles. Which mimic jelly fish, baleen whales, and the like. They'll rise to the surface for collection.

Submersibles will have membranes which preferentially extract plastic from water, allowing organisms to go about their way.

###

These plastic harvesters have to be simple, durable, and tenacious. Not necessarily efficient.

With a hundred thousand interceptors, jelly fish, whales slowly, tirelessly cleaning our oceans, I'm certain we can reach Ocean Cleanup's goal (remove 90% of plastic by 2040).
The fact based claim is that the Israel government haven’t provided evidence to their claims and therefore the claims are unsubstantiated. Any discussion of conspiracy can be put to rest with some proof.
You don't need precise sensor data to achieve this. Afaik IOS notifies the app when the orientation changes.
I probably didn’t go the most direct route, so I doubt I can help you much.
Got the same opinion about it. Unprofessional? Yes. Hilarious? Also yes.
They're not even Christian, really, if they're still doing this horrible Abraham-and-Isaac stuff. Jesus was the blood sacrifice to end all blood sacrifice. Paul makes this abundantly clear.
Names aren't unique. I have a pretty common name, I even have the same name as someone else at my current (not very large) company.

Should I be blocked from everywhere that has fired someone with the same name?
So would cutting off their penises. Utilitarian arguments maximizing for single variables suck.
I'd love to see people doing their taxes on their console, since by that argument it would be more streamlined.
This does not sound like opinion:

"Mark Perry, professor of finance and business economics at the University of Michigan-Flint, says administrative bloat is hurting higher education.

Perry used Department of Education data to find that between 1976 and 2011, the number of U.S. college students increased by 91 percent, while the number of full-time college administrators increased by 139 percent, compared to an increase in the number of full-time faculty of only 76 percent."
> I grew up in a country that rhymes with toroko.

I'm very curious why you chose to take this tack. Are you in not-Toroko now and are concerned about being tracked?
Not actually a joke: audiobookbay.ws
Important meeting notes I've turned into doodles over the years
To NIMBYs, there is no distinction.
Speedometer 2.0 Browserbench results on a new MacBook Pro
Tens of thousands of people being displaced seems pretty general to me.
I upvoted this, but it's not quite true. It's not wrong to say that the press has always incuriously reprinted the press releases of the powerful, but in days of yore there also used to be a thing called "investigative journalism", largely snuffed out now, thanks to the consolidation of media ownership. What that's done to the structure of newsrooms, the compensation offered therein, and hell, the whole mission of print media, is only obvious to those old enough to remember what local papers used to look like.
There's a difference between supporting beliefs that differ from the mainstream and supporting people's freedom to form their own beliefs, and the second of these is much harder. One can't help but wonder how tolerant this crew will be of faculty or students who depart from their opinions.

It might be worth noting that the biggest affront against academic freedom recently has not been from the supposedly ubiquitous leftist conspiracy but professors in Florida being blocked from testifying as expert witnesses on a voting-rights case, because the facts don't suit the decidedly non-leftist establishment there.
> why their members opinion is more accepted than the Israeli politicians who did that?

Why does the opinion of multiple third parties carry more merit about the adversarial facts of a conflict than one of the participants to said conflict? Really?
There's a scene in Game of Thrones where the slavemaster makes a circular cut to rip off a slave's nipple. I hope people were smart enough to understand what this was a sanitized version of.

Making a person a "slave to Jesus" is a total perversion though. The New Testament is very clear about that sort of thing. On this, you can challenge Evangelicals in their own language on their own ground.
You bring up good points. I don't want to undermine them. I think I understand the people on the ground somewhat. My country was occupied for five years and it stuck around into well into my childhood ("Germans" were our natural enemies and the bad guys in pulp literature as well as war comics until well into my childhood at least.)

That said:

Want to hear a joke? The UN. [1]

Have you ever seen me defend the UN on this site?

But, when the UN is responsible for todays situation to such large degree, and when someone pulls out that map, then the fact that only one part agreed to that map becomes a point.

[1]: This however is not a joke: You know why there are so many resolutions from the UN against Israel compared to the other way around? Because USSR used its veto power to block almost every single proposal that suggested condemnation of Arab states while USA allowed a number of those who condemned Israel to slip through.
Run a Twilio-like service at home with Fonoster
Unfurling is showing the preview of the link within the tweet.
That the result may be considered a derivative work of something in the training set.

And to give my hot take: My current thinking is that the law should take a strict stance here, as the produced images will compete with, and may substitute for the original ones.
That's what i signed up to many years ago. I liked their health reports. What's the reasoning for no longer allowing them to give us updated health reports? I don't personally care about my 6th cousins, i can barely keep up with the 2nd ones.
It can't be that intensive considering Apple's done that parallax homescreen effect since like iOS7. Also when you're in the Safari tab overview, it reads the gyroscope to do a 3D effect where the tabs tilt forwards/backwards. Probably a few other areas I'm not thinking of too.
Ten Minute Physics (Videos and Browser Demos by Nvidia Physics Research Lead)
I wonder how a Bayesian classifier would handle accelerometer data?
In 2018 all payment processors (MC/Visa/Amex) banned payments to Al-Haq due to allegations that they forwarded money to PFLP, so this is not new news.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-8-2019-00193...

This was based on testimony given in court by two Palestinian accountants that Al-Haq was funneling money to terrorism.

It should be noted that Al-Haq does not make disclose either the sources or destinations of donation money.
Thanks. Output is here if you have any ideas.

https://gist.github.com/ccampbell/9a0118b0e3e607ec56a3a2cc59...
The cred isn’t to stroke a researcher’s ego, it’s because the alternative is to not get to do any research. Or to not have access to research institutes. Or to not eat. Privileged researchers in areas that aren’t as affected by this problem (eg. compsci) can afford to publish on Arxiv, but others aren’t so fortunate.

Publish(-in-prestiguous-journals)-or-perish is real, and the for-profit journal system is a parasite profiting from it. Ultimately the fundamental cause of this is the application of capitalist and for-profit systems to scientific research - but good luck speaking out against that.
Neanderthal Bone Flute Music
Having camped underneath one briefly, I can tell you there is no way I could live with one nearby my house. It's an extremely low frequency noise with a huge amplitude. I can tolerate it for a while, but it really wears on me quickly. Also, earplugs & hearing protection do nothing to actually stop the noise. It isn't loud enough to cause ear damage anyways. But I can still hear it even with the hearing protection on.
The only true/intelligent thing Margaret Thatcher ever said was that there is no such thing as society, only individuals.

> I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand ‘I have a problem, it is the Government’s job to cope with it!’ or ‘I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!’ ‘I am homeless, the Government must house me!’ and so they are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first.
Ask HN: Market for developed but struggling SaaS companies?
Hi HN! We've been developing a SaaS solution for e-commerce for the last few years now and have a few customers but we're struggling with the B2B sales.

I'm convinced that our product solves a real problem (actually a few)
but lacking b2b sales skill in the team are withholding us.

Is there a way/platform/possibility for us to sell our software (deployed and ready to be sold to customers) to a company/party/investor/team that has b2b skills/experience?

Oh, and if your interested, mention your email in this thread (I can't mention mine for obvious reasons ;-).
There's definitely more obstacles in way of gaming, but I find consoles have way less of them than PC gaming does. A gaming console can really only get an OS update or a title update to slow you down, but on a gaming PC, you also have a bunch of drivers that want to update themselves and a bunch of gaming launchers that want to update themselves.

Also, I find Windows updates much more annoying than I find PlayStation updates.
Do you also have the same age, e-mail address, phone number etc.?
> it's the bare minimum that can be done for PR purposes

This is an edgy dismissal from an armchair, but it’s wrong. Functionally, this designation cuts the company and its employees off from the American financial system.
You are taking diversity of thought comment, which I mentioned as an attribute of a team and trying to apply to an interview, which is not what I intended. Your interview processes need to ensure that you do not hire based on biases, so that you will have a diverse team.

Also interview processes are not just interviewer protecting against his/her bias, but also against bias of interviewee which seems to be somehow lost in these discussions.
Wait, you're just outright saying that you are OK with the Taliban to committing human human rights abuses?
Broadcom, as I understand, is as secretive as they are as a defense against patent trolling. When you have NPE's gobbling up garbage patents to sue everyone and their brother with, locking up the IP tightly is one adaptation to defend against that sort of thing. Still pisses me off to the ends of the earth.
My late step-mother put on an Oculus Go and played basically every rollercoaster simulator available on the device back-to-back.

It was like the Matrix scene where Neo was learning, then leaves the simulation and says "I know Kung Fu".

She used computers for social media and looking up recipes, so not very savvy at all. I don't think there's a correlation between interest in VR and technicality. Maybe between _vocal_ interest in VR and technicality.
We're using 2D schemes because we live in 3D world and we can move heat into third dimension. With 3D circuit you won't be able to transfer heat from the insides. I guess it could be possible with some integrated cooling nano pipes, but it's hard to imagine how that would work.
Stoic Letter
You cut off the next sentence of the quote:

> The idea really was, well, we should do that. Instead of relying on Stanford or Harvard or Pfizer to go and solve a disease or how to be healthy, we the people, we can do it.

When you use language like "we the people", users assume they'll be part of it. Not that Anne will be monetizing their data years later.

I also doubt many consumer read this interview or had any idea their data would be used this way. Maybe it's their fault for not reading the ToS carefully enough, but it's pretty hard for most people to really understand a ToS and also think about how the data could be used in the future.
> Israel, a country that terrorizes Palestinians on the daily accuses

They don't. Sending a Police Riot control unit against a group of people throwing stones and molotovs does not qualify as being terrorized.

> accuses everyone that fights it as terrorists.

If they hurt bystanding civilians (and they do) or funnel money for it (and they do) there is nothing wrong with that.

> Maybe some are

They are, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran and many more... not some and not maybe.

> please provide evidence for any terrorist accusations

They do.

Israel have problems. It should solve them. Hyperbolic discussion will never achieve it.
It would have been funny if he played the interview straight rather than show up with a fake moustache. If you're going to troll like that, don't reveal your power level or else the game is over.
I very much agree with the general point that you make. What I'm personally concerned with is the power relation between the casino or game publisher and the group of players that are susceptible to addiction (specifically not your grandmother - in fact I found it very fun to imagine how she enjoys playing).

In my opinion when there is an asymmetric power relation like that, then there is a question of responsibility. Especially if the incentive is to exploit the relation - which is almost undeniable in this case.

So I'm not making a statement about the general case and I don't think things can be boiled down to "this type of game is evil". It's the specific connection between these two extremes that I find worrying, or saddening really. But I'm 100% not the type of person who would deny your grandmother her fun. I think these types of problems start with things like education and attempting to heal the human connection between the powerful and the weak (sorry for the pathos).
The ending:

> It's a massive problem, and we're all partly responsible. I'm trying to take a bite out of it now by writing stuff like this.

suggests to me that maybe she has recently had a change of heart about such rants. I'm willing to give her the benefit of the doubt, because we all need to give each other the benefit of the doubt these days.
I think they should be experienced enough to verify what people say. The world is full of bullshit because it works and experience teaches you to be aware.
Just to reiterate: people have a problem with making a permanent major modification to a functional part of an unconsenting baby's body.

That means that your arguments regarding whether you think your circumcision is cool irrelevant, or whether you think it's hygienic, or whether you think people prefer how it looks. Nobody has a problem with individuals choosing to get circumcised.
Not sure about postgresql, but in MS SQL turning on the page or row compression usually improves the performance AND storage, esp. on spinning discs, because it's faster to transfer compressed + decompress on the fly that transfer uncompressed - which is a win-win situation.