skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's.. interesting. When others say they will do things people take them for their word that they will do those things (if Putin stated, hey, I'm going to interfere in lections, for example --oh, we don't know, let's stick to what we know now...). But here, we have equivocation and uncertainty? Huh!

If a government initiates an unannounced attack on neighboring one, specifically seeking out and killing civilians without any restraint whatsoever and moreover mercilessly kills the most vulnerable of a population in personal and gruesome ways, I usually come to the conclusion they would not hesitate to undertake their stated purpose and promises.
Danidin wrote:

> "Health Ministry in Gaza" literally the health ministry of Hamas. Why would such organization lie?

This is language that justifies death, by minimizing it. There are likely not perfect, but in the past numbers from the Gaza health ministry haven't been wildly wrong: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/despite-bidens-dou...
As someone who's previously been involved in KYC/AML I've a long held suspicion that these policies are in place to benefit the United States while deliberately inconveniencing everyone else.
Some comments try to justify this - they’re wrong.

Even if it was just 1% of users, outright ignoring their issues is not acceptable. And far more than 1% travel abroad or do other suspicious activity (such as buying things at a place you’ve never purchased from before).

And there are services that handle this correctly. Starling bank (UK) is a fave of mine. Confirm in an app, enter full password in some cases, but that’s it. I had to make some sketchy looking transactions and no matter, they never block your account or make you jump through additional hoops.
> I don't think it's safe to write off that 1% if you don't first make sure you understand who that 1% is and how decisions like this, especially at scale, could harm those people.

Businesses prioritize profit, not "safety" or whatever else you're talking about. Profit always comes first.
> I wish there were a way to detect fraud while never having a false positive.

There is: networking. People you trust will tell you about candidates they know about.

> it’s also not realistic to optimize for the 1%

It's not about what's realistic, it's about what's right. Nobody should be falsely treated like a criminal. That 1% should carry enough legal liability to completely offset if not exceed the gains of preventing the 99%. If even one innocent person suffers, it's unacceptable.
> My favorite joke scene about a cashless society was that some criminals couldn’t figure out who to rob because no one accepted cash anymore or held it in a store. Their only option was to rob another gang.

In a cashless society, the robbers who are left are the ones in the credit card money chain itself, where everybody is taking their share of the money flowing through it. I.e. “The best way to rob a bank is to own it.” The best kind of crimes are the legal ones.
2 weeks ago...
I don't use X, but can you explain more about why this change has been harmful?

"People have often accused Twitter of being full of people trying to shout the loudest"

It sounds like maybe the subscriber change has actually addressed this problem? Instead of people trying to should the loudest, you get "random comments by $8 subscribers"?

Given the choice between people paying for attention, vs people being deliberately inflammatory for attention, I think I'd prefer the former. But again, I don't use X, just looking for more details here in order to understand.
This statementof yours:

> The monarchy of Canada is the monarchy in the UK.

is false.
The passenger who wouldn’t sit was on my flight home to LA. The flight attendant asked him to sit or we would miss our pushback deadline. He took his sweet time and finally sat. After like two minutes he’s getting this attitude like why aren’t we moving.

The flight attendant comes on the intercom and says there will be a delay until the tower clears us for pushback. 90 minutes later we are pushed back. Apparently in that scenario, your plane goes to the end of the line. So every other jet that was fueled up and loaded went before us.
If not for the 'massively more powerful army' I'd have a hard time to know who you were talking about. And that's the problem right there.

The US response to 9/11 was to attack the wrong country.
What if Israel stopped killing Palestinians and normalized relations with Gaza? Israel could choose a different path.
I'm not saying it's not proportionally equivalent. But look at the political blank check 9/11 gave the US to do some insane things. This is why that line is being repeated over and over again in Israeli news. They want that same blank check. Never mind the fact that the amount of Israeli lives lost during that surprise attack pales in comparison to how many Palestinians have been killed in the last decade. Or even just a single year! Look at how many Palestinians (civilians only, even) were killed in 2015
cribbed from Skin in the Game (Taleb)
Roof knocking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roof_knocking
Oh wow thanks I understand
paulvnickerson wrote:

> This number comes from Hamas, so I would take it with a grain of salt. Hamas intentionally uses its civilians as shields for their military equipment.

Both of these statements are spreading FUD around death numbers that most people in the know believe are accurate: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/despite-bidens-dou.... It isn't a great look for you.
I can say anecdotally that when Covid hit and I started working from home I really started to feel like garbage. I think a big part of it was that I didn’t have my daily park and walk to the office building routine anymore. That and the rest of the surrounding movement to get ready, get into the car, get out of the car, etc. I think it was a pretty big change for the worse.
I think this evokes the static vs dynamic linking argument again though. If you consider your browser client code as your "source code" and the browser as a "dynamically linked library", then there are substantial pros and cons.

Your proposal, while feasible, turns this into a static linking affair. This comes with many risks, like becoming complacent and not updating the "inner browser" due to browser incompatibilities and bugs. It creates a giant mess of dependency update hell if you aren't regularly updating the webview.

At that point, you might as well ship a desktop app that does something similar and proxies ads through the first party server since it's probably less work.

You are right that it would work. I just don't know if going to such lengths is required to achieve the same thing.

A good counter is that a desktop app could be exploited to alter the behavior via reverse engineering. But a browser would show you the WASM as well, so I'm sure you could reverse engineer it and alter it with an extension like a traditional binary.

Maybe I'm missing something though - I'll admit that I'm an advocate of WASM but don't keep super up to date on all advancements.
I don't know, I'm not an Israeli general. But it wouldn't involve the intentional targeting of civilians, as Israel appears to be doing.

Beyond that is a rabbithole of decades of Israel/Palestine conflict, the Gaza strip, occupation of the West Bank and settlements that I really don't want to go down.
I'm mourning their lives right now, but I have no idea what I could do about any of it.
AI promting for automated GUI builds
Apparently old-Twitter had a feature where blue checks had a special DM inbox for messages from other blue checks.
Balloons In Space are a good idea, and an antenna is not the only concept they've been proposed for:

https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/infrastructure...

https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/enginelist.php...

Even at large volumes, you get a ton of surface area for the mass, as well as a good spherical or parabolic shape for reflectors.
They stopped that practice in this war.
It's relatively easy and omnipresent. Arguably the only indispensable programming language, at least for the foreseeable future.
When Israel "resettles" Jews in Gaza, they do it by giving them a home in Israel.

When Israel "resettles" Palestinians in Gaza (interesting concept), they do it by bulldozing the homes they want them out of.
that doesn't sound like a well established way to communicate "leave this shelter".
They are but not the same extent. Not that this makes it better.
Wait until you find out what Canada, Germany, England, China, Russia, Turkey, India, Mexico... did.

Singling out countries is naive.
Not displaying the ad has even a bigger impact on the clickthrough rates
Fair points, I don't really have any data to counter that, but doubt you do either. At the end it can all be shown to be interconnected, whether good products are driving more adoption or just being default is ensuring the cycle continues, I'm not sure google understands it or is too scared to find out and so pays out.
Random side note: Something with this website causes a bizarre issue when opened: I have youtube open in another browser window and it starts lagging like crazy when the website is opened. I checked to see if there was any spike in gpu/cpu usage but i didn't see anything that stuck out
Seems like housing prices are always the last domino to fall.
Given the choice of old-Twitter's "shout to win" and new-Twitter's "pay to win", which is better for the overall discourse? Doesn't seem obvious to me.
Israel killed nearly twice that in 2014 alone. Also the beheading of babies fake news has never been proven despite the Netanyahu administration's insistence on repeating it.

Over 70% of Palestinians killed in the last decade are civilians. It is Israel that is killing indiscriminately. The entire world has tried over and over to pass UN resolutions to hold Israel accountable. The US has used its veto power to overrule these 34 times since 1954
Ads have been telling me that my computer has been broadcasting an IP address for years now, and I'm still doing fine /s
I wonder if we'll see this space you describe grow as AI startups and scaleups - or even internal departments in large enterprises - start to increase in number...

I know there's already plenty of concerns about giving cloud-based AI services access to corporate data, so maybe there's a growing market there..
From the wikipedia piece linked to by the person to whom you are replying: Roof knocking occurred during some strikes in the October 2023 Gaza−Israel conflict.

And it links to a piece describing the conflict that began October 7th.
Google fi phone numbers are not VOIP they operate as a MVNO. Google voice numbers are VOIP.
We showed this in our original scaling law paper:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.00409.pdf

The slope of the power law is determined by the problem and dataset. Compute, parameter count, and data move you along the curve. Change in architecture/bias is a constant offset.

So architecture can give an advantage, but that advantage can be overcome by scale.
tell yourself whatever gets you to sleep at night, but the hegemonic consensus decides where the big bombs drop
It doesn't. Barely did when they were online, either. News media were in danger quite a lot, because of it, "late, vague, inaccurate, or never delivered" has been a common refrain about such warnings.

Hell, even the IRA did a better job of issuing warnings about their bombs in The Troubles...
Hackernews

Especially HN comments
https://freebeacon.com/media/reuters-fact-check-suggests-isr...
Peter Todd wrote:

> That does not change the fact that Hamas does have widespread support!

I already linked you this survey that showed that Hamas doesn't have widespread support: https://twitter.com/ForeignAffairs/status/171800792755696451...

> If Israel did nothing other than kill the ~40,000 Hamas soldiers, along with destroying military and economic infrastructure, they'll easily buy themselves another 10 years of relative safety. At which point they can do it all over again.

Oh, okay. You are fine with just repeatedly bombing a captive population. It takes all kinds I guess.
Antibodies do not target bacteria or viruses. They target protein that are present on bacteria or viruses. Protein are not alive, but they are a component of live organisms.

Protein present in peanut butter come from the plant that produces peanuts, which is just as alive (if not more) than microorganisms.

The only difference between the two are the time scales involved, and the natural selection forces in play... But that seems irrelevant here.

Your immune system has no notion of whether an antigen is alive or not. One way or another, it makes no difference. For the allergy example, there is nothing special there either. Your body is reacting to the allergen (a protein) in essentially the same way it would react to a helminth (or rather, to helminth protein). It doesn't know the difference.
Israel has given repeated warnings for the north of Gaza to evacuate south for the past two weeks while Gaza has had internet. In addition, they have dropped leaflets all over the are stating the same thing.
There's plenty of in pharmacies besides those two. Most grocery chains have pharmacies. This is just retail being retail for the workers. Without a differentiated service or product, it's a race to the bottom. The bottom is when a pharmacy chain stops accepting a brand of insurance because they feel the bid was too low. https://www.federaltimes.com/fedlife/health/2022/11/14/thous...
#3 factor was brilliant. According to other accounts she also speaks her mind very forthrightly. [0]

[0] https://www.wsj.com/health/after-shunning-scientist-universi...
See HN comment guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I’m exactly the target market for this.

I won’t pay for subscriptionware. I switched from Premiere to Resolve just to avoid having to be someone’s MRR and I now pirate Lightroom pending its replacement.

It’s a terrible, user-hostile
model.

I don’t think developers should be entitled to payment in perpetuity for work they did once.
I was making a bit of a joke there, sorry. It was more about the rather rare scenario of setting up a data centre in a hurry than about the long-term quality of the result.

Elmo's experiment came to mind so I tossed it in there.
It sounds cool but I don't think it would change much practically. I have hypertension and a BP monitor is cheap and easy to buy and use. We have plenty of data on how a measurement taken at rest correlates with CVD risk.

For the 45% of people with hypertension without a BP monitor, they probably aren't going to buy something 5-10x more expensive to do the same thing either.

Not to mention that it doesn't change any of the lifestyle or medical interventions we have to reduce BP.

I've just found the whole biohacking crowd to be generally misinformed and lacking foresight on this stuff. It's very simple - you can measure your BP in the morning as soon as you wake up for one week. If its high, you can get medicines or change lifestyle to reduce it. If you're interested in how BP changes with different activities, you could measure that quite easily too, or just look it up. Physical activity increases BP, weightlifting increases it a lot, and none of these temporary increases mean much for overall health. I don't see how getting some more data or a nice graph in Apple Health is going to change anything.
I've used Schwab for 11 years and nobody has ever transferred securities into my account without my request. My biggest complaint is not supporting U2F/WebAuthn/Passkeys. My second biggest complaint is that their brokerage billpay was extremely broken and always locked me out of my account. That was always a "call support" type situation. But... they fixed that! They knew the system was bad, so they replaced it with one that's not bad.

In general, I think they have done a fine job. I have worked with them to transfer in old 401(k) accounts. I used a wire transfer out of Schwab to buy my apartment, which cleared in less than a minute. I have called support and they have been helpful and efficient. I really don't have any complaints.
It is a lot easier to write a paper demonstrating some feature than to write a production-quality ecosystem based on that feature. There isn't much either the academic side nor the engineering side can do about that.

And it's not like every academic idea that worked in a paper has worked as well as hoped when someone tried to turn it into a production-quality ecosystem.
I don't know what the situation is since I am not in Gaza, but this CNN article I read early says that it was abandoned recently:

https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-ga...
Are you saying that Israel didn't help Hamas then? Because at this point this isn't even a secret anymore.
I put a $20 lamp behind my monitor and turn it on when it’s dark outside. Works amazingly well.
Right, so Germany declared war on Poland, and during their occupation of Poland during that war, they conducted genocidal activities.

I don't see how your comment refutes anything.
It most definitely does not. And I find that to be the case with a lot of the things posted here.
That's exactly what they are for. KYC/AML is just the financial arm of their total global surveillance program.
I wonder why that would be the case.
There are more individuals and couples than bedrooms. Now what.
Between killing Rabin and the settlements this isn't going to stop for decades to come unless something changes, and for that to work both sides will need to want to solve it. I don't see that happening, and you seem to think that only Gaza citizens have the power to stop the conflict. But for that to work they'd have to have something to work with and that just isn't happening. De-occupation is clearly not sufficient to allow a nation state to be established, it needs a lot more security than that. That 6 to 8% of the entire adult male population makes it to Hamas (a figure which I can't verify but it sounds entirely believable) is a reflection of how little people in Gaza have to live for.
"The best way to counter the smaller UAVs that operated with roughly a 6k-10k range is via EW."

EW has been brought up a few times now in this thread. I know both side have been able to defeat UAVs with EW on occasion during this conflict. However, I also know that the Russians have lost a lot of costly EW gear to Ukraine: EW is inherently vulnerable because EW lights up the world with RF signatures that get targeted. Also, despite the large amount of EW gear that Russia has employed, they lose lots of tanks, IFVs and men to hobby grade drones every day. Russian EW hasn't been able to stop that.

So I question EW and whether it can really deliver against systems that rely on RF. Then, when you get to fully autonomous systems that don't rely on RF at all, I write EW off as next to pointless.
I assume this is in part because the $150k startup hire can get fired just as fast if they don't impress, while the corresponding academia process takes months or years.
As I understand it, historically it's been fairly accurate and reliable. Does this guarantee they're accurate today? No. Do I blindly trust anything that's being said? No. But merely "it's Hamas, therefore the figures are false" also doesn't really cut it.

See e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/26/can-we-trust-c...
Timing is good for sharing this now, with NaNoWriMo right around the corner. I have heard a similar approach advocated to get through a first draft of an entire novel in a month: just write it all down, never backspace, and save the editing for December!
The only real problem is that there isn't anything to evacuate to and whatever they leave behind they'll lose forever.
Healthcare is hard to automate. So companies need a lot of labor. Some high wage, but a lot low wage. Offering pharmacy technicians $14/hr in 2019 was enough to be fully staffed. $16/hr in 2023 is not enough to keep the pharmacy open all the time. A lot of people retired early, died, or moved up to better jobs after the Covid-19 pandemic began. The same thing is happening to EMT staffing, doctor's office support staff, hospital support staff, etc.
excuse my naivete, but if they're giving two week notice about bombings, why even waste the ordinance?
Not everyone can get port forwarding, though. If you're stuck behind one of those terrible CGNAT+no IPv6 ISPs, you can't host your own services from home that easily. There are more of those shit tier internet providers out there than you'd hope or expect.
FYI, most of what you say is true but the IDF uses the domestic Merkava, not Abrams. They have a similar "modern western MBT" aesthetic, but they're not related.
Smart Pipe is a registered sex offender

https://youtu.be/DJklHwoYgBQ
It’s acceptable to reject a candidate because they’re not “a friend of a friend”, but it’s not acceptable to reject a candidate because they submitted an application with an IP address from Pakistan with a VOIP phone number?
Absolutely love it, it's already perfect!
"Israel didn't warn them."

"Okay, they did, but it doesn't matter."

Got it.
Would you mind doing the calculation of what the Palestinian casualties corresponds if they were happening in the US? or this does not serve your point?
>You linked me to a website for a US organization that apparently encourages the extremely wealthy to create more tax shelters for themselves

It's true that the tax code encourages philanthropy. That's not the same thing as philanthropy being purely a tax shelter.
love how those comments in [2] have aged haha
UNICEF:

> We have lost touch with our colleagues in Gaza. I'm extremely concerned about their safety and another night of unspeakable horror for one million children in Gaza. All humanitarians and the children and families they serve MUST be protected. Catherine Russell, UNICEF Executive Director

https://twitter.com/UNICEF/status/1718006187000746048
I'm talking more in terms of retaining a competitive advantage. The processes you might implement in Japan wouldn't be implemented in the US despite them having a basis in international law.
So what does that mean?

How is it like a "Chromebook"? Are they selling a piece of hardware? If not, then how is the comparison apt?

For example, it would be a weird thing to say "compare Ubuntu 23.x.x with a Chromebook, which one should I use?" because one is an OS and one is a hardware + OS combo, with the hardware manufactured by multiple different companies.
Except it was just a an eyewash, people tried to move got killed on the way, people also got murdered in the so called safe areas by Israel.
That seems consistent with my claim. Teaching experience is a "plus", no attempt is made to evaluate the quality of someone's teaching. A few CVs I've seen don't even mention teaching experience despite people having some.

There definitely are deal breakers: no (high enough impact) publications would be an easy one. There is no amount of teaching quality, be it proven and famed, that would offset that in places I've seen. Staying in the same country (or even the same university) is a hard deal breaker in a lot of places...
I agree that he's in panic mode about revenue. I think "Pay us money to feel like you matter." could be shortened to "Pay us money."

I don't think they have any idea what they are doing. They seem to be throwing spaghetti at a wall and seeing what sticks wrt to revenue models.

"Uhhhhh...Pay us money for the API?"

"Uhhhhh....Pay us money to get verified?"

"Uhhhhhhhhhh....Pay us money for (insert latest monetization scheme du jour)?"
Is the rendering here something wonky with my browser? I'm getting white text on a light blue background, which is basically invisible.