skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Digging wells is illegal, all Gaza water is owned by Israel

That's not true. There are over 10,000 wells in Gaza. Hamas controls who is allowed to dig wells in Gaza [0] – Israel lacks effective control over the territory of Gaza so has no ability to stop anyone from digging a well there.

The problem Gaza has, is a lot of the water from the wells is undrinkable, in part due to intrusion of seawater into the aquifer. Israel extracts a lot of water from the same aquifer further inland, which is argued worsens the seawater intrusion problem. However, desalination is used to deal with this problem, and international donors have spent significant sums on providing desalination equipment to communities in Gaza. That requires electricity (of which there is not always a reliable supply), and parts and consumables for repair and maintenance (for which there can sometimes be difficulties getting Israel to permit their import.)

> Fishing is illegal

According to [1]: "The total catch in Gazan waters has risen in recent years, according to the Palestinian bureau of statistics, from 2,322.9 metric tons in 2006 to 3,943.4 in 2019, when Israel expanded the permitted fishing zone to 15 nautical miles in some areas from six, but still short of the 20 nautical miles agreed to under the Oslo accords, the 1990s peace agreement that was supposed to lay the path for Palestinian statehood."

It is true that Israel has a negative impact on Gaza's fishing industry – through limiting how far out to sea Gazans are permitted to fish, and by restricting import of goods needed to repair boats, many of which are classified by the Israeli government as "dual use" technologies – but a 2019 catch of over 3900 metric tons is hardly "fishing is illegal"

[0] https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/08/gazans-fear-wor...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/27/world/middleeast/israeli-...
I am dying to know who purchased a new Wii U in 2023
Additionally, "engine" braking is less stressful on electric motors, which function as generators when used that way.
This is the most strained connection employed to engage in Apple-bashing that I've seen in quite some time.

I feel like we need an Apple-themed Godwin's Law - namely that no HN thread is complete without someone somehow managing to bring up Apple and how evil and undervalued they are.

The irony is that high-end Macs have been widely laughed at by people who don't have a use for them...while various creative and scientific sectors gladly pay that expense because unlike the commenters they're actually using them to make money; for example, the G5 and first-gen Mac Pro had enormous memory bandwidth that made them ideal for a lot of scientific data processing, medical imagery, running instruments, etc.
Does an analog circuit understand differential equations?
But did they do that? Employer changed a policy, if people individually complied with the company policy they continued their employment. If they didn’t comply, they were insubordinate and were fired. That seems like a one on one decision to me.

How many company policies can you intentionally break and maintain employment, at any company, pretty much anywhere?
The expectation of privacy is changing with technology, and the police are actively pushing these boundaries. For instance, see: https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/new-york-police-drones-m...
Tommy Edison recently made waffles. I don't think he's ready for master chef.

https://youtu.be/se-NnydBolE
They don't actually own the resources, that'd be untenable for any individual or even large family. They own a token that represents a claim to resources, and realistically they can only use so much for themselves.

The difference in actual material wealth between the rich and the poor isn't that excessive today. Beyond a certain threshold you're only buying novelty. And the gap is shrinking every year.
This fun and understandable. I had to use a pnumantic drill to drill and tap a hole once under water. Lots of bubbles... Hydraulic motors make sense. Also they have a super high power to weight ratio.
> Wasn't he the one that died while living in a giant mansion covered in dog shit like something from a Hoarders episode?

No. He died in a house fire at someone's house that he was visiting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hsieh#Death
If lots of people regularly make fun of your branding, then you have won the branding game. Your brand awareness cannot be higher, and you have joined the hallowed company of Micro$oft, Mickey D’s, Tarzhay, Whole Paycheck, and WhyCombinator.
I have no idea. I used to read Texts From Last Night and people would say stuff like "Me and my boss are getting high." Or "I'm going to go nap for an hour in the bathroom sitting on the toilet. They pay me $100,000 annually. God, I love this job."

And, of course, there's the tale of the forgotten employee.

https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee/

But Elon Musk seems to have Opinions and it's his company. (Shrug)
Israel's demand for Gaza evacuation will lead to deaths, experts warn
Your ground meat is wet- are you defrosting it before cooking? Hard to get up to temp- are you using vegetable oil?

Heat the pan. Heat the oil. Put the meat in. It's basically starting to brown immediately.

Like the blind kitchen says- use your ears and nose. It should sizzle immediately when you put the meat in (just a gentle sizzle, NOT a violent sizzle). And it should start smelling good pretty quickly.

Defrost first. Don't try to brown too much at once (the meat needs to touch the oil and the pan).

EDIT: Oh, I think you're trying to make chili "all at once" by skipping the browning. Yes, it's safe. No, it won't taste as good. Browning is about flavor, not safety. When you cook a steak, you sear it for the crust, then continue cooking to get it up to temp. If you cook a steak in a low-temp sous vide bath, you do the reverse. You get the meat up to temp in the bath. Then when you're ready to eat, you finish it by searing it in a pan.
Assuming the cause leading to the mass firing was just. Losing a WFH benefit for a highly paid but small segment of society really doesn’t arise to the level of an injustice being done.
My car still has an amusing WMA logo above the CD player to advertise its support for playing CDs with WMAs burned to them. Never actually used that functionality though.
Microsoft sends their own lawyers and lobbyists, influences lawmakers to pass laws barring the IRS from using outside law firms, and that slash the IRS' funding, and this has been happening for years. Hence, you get results like this one:

For corporations with assets over $20 billion, the audit rate has declined from about 100% in 2010 to under 50% in 2018.

We can thank our representatives in Congress for siding with corporations over the IRS.
I think Apple does a good job here. My iPhone 6S still getting updates last month. I think it’s around 8 years old now.
It seems they actually do audit the poor disproportionately, and they profess that it's because their funding has been cut over the past nine years: https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-sorry-but-its-just-ea...

And as the original article posted shows, entities like Microsoft will spend money on lawyers, lobby Congress, and spend time in court to fight the IRS, whereas the poor won't.
> But title bars are mandatory, so that's why not.

What does that even mean? That's the whole point of the discussion - standard UI elements have been bastardized so much, might as well just keep the trend going.
Bought a CPU and motherboard from NewEgg a couple of months ago using BTC (through BitPay). Have also paid for Mullvad and iPredator VPN in the past using BTC.
We’re a couple of hours away from totality and it’s likely to be cloudy where we’d be able to view it. We’re still going to try.

My wife and I got a great view of the total Solar Eclipse in 2017 and it’s a fantastic experience. I encourage everyone to try to view one if you can. In this case, an Annular Eclipse should be interesting.

Also, please use appropriate safety glasses and equipment. Take care of your eyes.
That was very interesting.

I can see the huge value these videos provide. Listening to her spend so much time describing how it looks really sold the point home. To me - its shape and how it unfolds is obvious.

Really shows how much better we can make content for the disabled. How many ecom store descriptions would have even taken the time to describe the shape of the devive so TTS/screenreader would even have a chance to read it?
There are observed cases of very rapid adaptations occurring.
> There's only a finite amount of money in the game

Technically untrue, you can use Meowth's Pay Day to generate cash.

https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pay_Day_(move)#Gener...
Nahh…

The IRS isn’t stupid. If they don’t think they can win, they don’t fight.

And when the stakes are this high, it provides more incentive to fight because the potential outcome is far higher.

If you want to blame someone for this, blame Congress and their vague tax laws.

The idea the IRS should have the authority to interpret tax law as they see fit isn’t how the system works. If there is uncertainty, you can challenge it in the courts.

Clearly the IRS didn’t think their odds were that great of winning.
What also pisses me off is fake excessive positivity. If there are genuine things that are bad or negative people should feel free to voice those opinions even if it hurts someones feelings.

Facts and truth are more important then feelings. We shouldn't lie or be fake just to cater to someones feelings. Ultimately the truth is better in the long term.

Because this is a real thing. Who would use this when there are other more popular languages out there that have basically the same syntax? What does this language excel at above all others ? If the author wants his language to have any chance or shot at real success he needs to address this.

If we just took your advice and didn't be negative in the spirit of "tinkering", "play" and "experimentation" then ultimately that advice is more poisonous than the negativity. You need to identify and test your product for it to be successful. Your advice is to blind him.

Seriously just looking at the web site my first thought was why wouldn't I just use python?
It is believed that Apple hasn’t gotten Cloud and Social right yet. Remember they tried multiple times with Music Sharing, Find My your friends, Share directly to Twitter, Facebook, etc.

Like the author, I have Dropbox besides iCloud. However, iCloud is an Apple thing — share/backup/store settings, preferences, temporary edits/work, and share with families. If something is essential, even for Pages, Numbers, etc., I store the files in the local version synced to the cloud (Dropbox for personal/family and Google for work).

I haven’t faced the problems people keep mentioning on the Internet, so I stay cautious enough. However, it has been my pattern for a while — Own your content and use everything else as tools[1].

I manually back up Photos every month. I need to find a simple way to automate backing up the photos, contacts, etc., and keep a copy in Open formats.

iCloud is convenient and works as long as we stick to Apple’s prescribed lane. However, try to have a way to walk out if the need arises.

1. https://notes.oinam.com/digital/
That might (or might not) be the case, but it doesn't take away from the fact that it's also a casino.
The study says: "Randomized controlled trials, however, have shown variable results or even possible harm [10,11,12]. Moreover, current guidelines and a Bayesian re-analysis of a previous trial have led to recommendations not to use intravenous vitamin C in patients with sepsis because of possible harm [13, 14]. Regrettably, these studies used ascorbic acid, a compound associated with the induction of metabolic acidosis and acidemia [15]. This makes it uncertain whether the unclear effects in human sepsis were due to the administration of a suboptimal preparation of the study medication. In contrast, sodium ascorbate (NaAscorbate) has a physiological pH, does not contribute to acidosis, can be given at a much greater dose, and may carry a different efficacy profile [16]."

https://ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13054-02...
NASA should consider commercial alternatives to SLS, inspector general says
> It's like saying "Human brains are just meat".

No, it isn't, because human brains have rich semantic connections to the rest of the world. LLMs do not. So "LLMs are just generating text" is a justified description of their limitations, in a way that "human brains are just meat" is not.
> four engines is $582.7 million, or $146 million per engine. This means that a single engine on NASA's rocket costs roughly the same amount that the space agency paid for an entire mission on the Falcon Heavy rocket—$178 million for the Europa Clipper spacecraft.
> We’re not going to quit

Ok. So be fired then. If you want to put a termination taint your employment history for the same result, that is certainly your right.
Can you provide a source showing that “Microsoft lobbied to cut the IRS budget”.

This is FUD
JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon warns world facing 'most dangerous time in decades'
I've been here 13 years and am not aware of this pattern.

Also, gently, note:

> Not singling out Apple, I’m sure all are comparably bad, it’s just what I happen to use :)

The Xcode thing is often an in-joke with iOS developers.
The problem is that their game is proprietary due to necessity to make profit. If Valve was a non-profit and made their game engine (Source 2?) free software, AMD would just send their patches into upstream, or, if Valve refused to accept them, they would fork the game, so AMD users could play with each other with less lag.
You think Apple is expensive? Licenses for Dassault Catia start at $12,000.
> Humans do not _know_ the external world either. All humans have is perceptions

Wrong. Human beings can act on the world as well as perceive it, and humans have rich internal models of the world that get updated continously as a result of those rich two-way interactions.

> I would argue, human reasoning is conceptually not so much different from LLMs as one might think.

I would argue that this is either an incredible over-estimate of LLMs, or an incredibly impoverished view of humans.
They audit low income because of the EITC which has been rife with fraud.
>What your mental plan is doesn't matter though

Of course it does. It makes the difference between being wrong and being a liar.

>I guess the person taking the VC deal isn't actually against getting filthy rich if they have a chance. If you say "I think this can get big", burn cash and work hard for a while, then recognize the moment where it's not sustainable anymore and scale down, then you did what was expected.

But if at the time you said that you actually neither believed it could get big nor intended to try to make it big, you've committed fraud even if the ultimate outcome is expected.
Hmm, I want this but for node. Those dependency trees are wild.
> we'd have a bunch of fat lazy companies with expensive, crappy products.

But we do have a bunch of fat lazy companies with expensive, crappy products.
Cool device, doesn't seem to be available in the US.

After 50 years, the $1500 Thermomix cooking blender arrived in USA in 2022, https://www.foodandwine.com/lifestyle/kitchen/what-is-thermo... & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermomix

> There have been numerous accounts of a Thermomix machine "exploding" and scalding people with hot liquids ...
Choice told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) that it was aware of 87 cases where Thermomix consumers had been burned. The ABC understood that 18 of those required several weeks of treatment in hospital burns units ...
In April 2018 Thermomix in Australia was handed a $4.6 million fine because they had violated consumer law by failing to report dangerous defects.
Crucially, when they spend the money, it goes to someone else. Either they do nothing with it and the money is effectively scrap, or they spend the money for $1B in resource and give others the money which they can claim for $1B in resources.

Edit: money kind of represents a debt society owes to the individual. By owning the most money, it actually means that society is most indebted to them, or that they have loaned that many resources/value to society which has not yet been paid back, ironically enough.
I don't think these things are exclusive to each other. Someone who is struggling mentally can be very successful in their career and can have a sea of people ready to reap the rewards of their success. That kind of behavior can absolutely manifest in the person spiraling or spiraling further.
What was your argument? Apple's historic monochrome devices are irrelevant. And Apple used color on color displays in those times.
> One of the things that has been on my mind of late is the idea of how much of what humans call “correct” or “right” is actually socially generated pressures to conform

And the only reason that is even a thing is that we humans have a concept of actually being right, which we can distinguish from "responding to socially generated pressures to conform".
VCD is a very undercovered format. Any budding media scholars out there could make a good book out of the format.

It connects to an area I'm growing increasingly interested in, the early history of the Chinese Internet and tech industry. (VCD players sold in enormous numbers there.) See for instance this fascinating piece on the Chinese Flash gaming scene: https://www.chaoyangtrap.house/flashing-for-fun-and-no-profi...
It's amazing how short signed Ford franchised dealers are. They're going to wreck Ford's EV business and allow Tesla to win by default.
The primary channel for communication right now is https://github.com/nature-lang/nature , where you can engage and keep up-to-date through issues, discussions, and watching the repository.

Additionally, this is my first time hearing about the Mastodon platform, it looks really cool.
> That's not a big difference lol.

You must be joking. You really think there's not a big difference between a corpus of text downloaded from the Internet and the entire actual world? Or even the sense-data that humans (or birds, for that matter) take in from the world? (And that doesn't even take into account the actions that humans, and birds, take in the world, and then compare the results with what their internal model predicts in order to update the model.)

I don't even know how to respond to something that is so totally off base.

> You think you experience the "true" world ?

I have made no such claim.

> To the birds that feel and sense electromagnetic waves intuitively to guide travels, your model of vision and direction is fundamentally incomplete/incorrect.

Yes, but an LLM isn't a bird any more than it is a human. LLMs don't experience anything.
Related: [Names and faces of Harvard students linked to an anti-Israel statement were plastered on mobile billboards and online sites](https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/12/business/harvard-doxxing-...)

Calling Israel an Apartheid State seems to be dangerous to people's liberty. What happened to freedom of speech? In the US, it is a federal crime to boycott Apartheid Israel.
I know, but there's probably some "thinker" out there that believes it's a good idea to select for the misfits that think they don't belong and pay the really gung-ho ones to leave.
UnbuNTu
Note this is an annular eclipse, not total, so protection is required throughout the event (not the entire sun will be covered).

The total eclipse will happen in April next year.
Hi from Seattle. It's currently raining, and I wish I'd left my jacket at home. We get an almost constant drizzle of wet in winter.

Once or twice a year, it'll rain for 48 hours straight and dump three inches of water on us, but the rest of the time, it's like unpleasantly heavy fog
Think they were making the opposite claim, but then that the quality was low too.
The guy's upset about the school not silencing student groups voicing their opposition of Israel. Seems like the school is better off without him.
The price of an SLS launch is crazy, but I'm not sure the problem is in NASA. The Congressmen, who decide what NASA budget is, have pervert priorities - both because they want to have federally funded jobs in their states and because they depend on private funding for their re-election campaigns.

Starship may be able to lunch a heavier payload at 2% of the price of an SLS launch.
Yeah, feels like in a different era this criticism would've been levied against Microsoft/MSDN.
My bad; it was CEETA that lobbied for it, the Coalition for Effective and Efficient Tax Administration, of which Microsoft is a member. You can read it in the article posted.

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It was a setback for Microsoft. But as the court case ground on, the company and its allies went to work on Capitol Hill to make sure something like this never happened again.

In the autumn of 2015, a new trade group emerged. It was called the Coalition for Effective and Efficient Tax Administration, or CEETA. Among the members were Microsoft, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a host of other business and tech groups. The new coalition hired lobbyists at PwC, another Big Four firm and one with a stable of well-connected former government officials and congressional staff.

The new group’s clout soon became clear. In October 2015, just a few days after CEETA members fired off a letter to the IRS decrying the use of outside counsel on audits, Pam Olson, one of CEETA’s PwC lobbyists, sat down for a two-hour meeting with Doug O’Donnell, the head of the IRS division that audits large corporations.

“When it comes to the tax law, I don’t like the word ‘enforcement,’” Olson, who oversaw tax policy as a Treasury Department official in the early 2000s, said in a speech to corporate tax executives that December. “Let’s remember that the agency is the Internal Revenue Service,” she said. Olson forwarded a copy of her speech to O’Donnell, who responded, according to emails obtained by ProPublica, “Thanks for sharing — I appreciate your perspective.” He said he would pass it on to other senior IRS officials.

CEETA’s lobbyists stalked the halls of Congress, urging reforms in response to the IRS’ newfound aggression. They found a ready audience. In late 2015, a senior aide to Hatch participated in an online seminar for tax professionals along with a senior Microsoft executive. According to a description, participants discussed “the actions of an increasingly aggressive IRS” and the need for reform. (The aide, Christopher Armstrong, has since left Congress and now works as a lobbyist. He did not respond to requests for comment.)

“Focusing on litigation destroys cooperative relationships between taxpayers and the IRS,” read a document distributed by CEETA’s lobbyists to lawmakers around that time and obtained by ProPublica. The proposals targeted the three bold steps Hoory had taken in the Microsoft audit: CEETA wanted lawmakers to curtail the IRS’ ability to block taxpayers’ access to the Office of Appeals, rein in the use of designated summons and prohibit outside lawyers from questioning witnesses.