skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If Israel and the Palestinian territories were to become combined into a single state, it would no longer have a strong Jewish majority and would also cease to have its strong secular minority. It would cease to be Israel.

> Even though the current Israeli government may be more conservative than the ones previous, I see few possibilities for a more socially liberal government if Israel were to combine with the more-conservative majority-Muslim Palestinian states

According to some forecasts, roughly 50% of all Israeli children born in 2065 will be Haredi. [0] If that's right, Israel could well end this century with a majority of the population being Haredi, and Haredi parties in control of the Knesset and Israeli government. I doubt a socially liberal Israeli government could be possible in that circumstance; whatever remains of the secular minority may not be "strong", it may be politically weakened, demoralised, and increasingly diminished by emigration and a low birth rate.

And all that's assuming there is no change to the relationship with the Palestinians. So maybe a change won't do as much as you think – it might just hasten the inevitable.

[0] https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2023-05-22/ty-article-opinio...
Copying is not theft in general as you don't take anything away from anybody
There is hope. The European Union's Digital Markets Act allows new messaging platforms to demand interoperability with the existing walled gardens. All it takes is for other jurisdictions to follow suit.
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Can anyone - ideally someone who reads Russian and has consumed Russian media - explain to me the stated casus belli for the Ukraine war?

I know there are understandable reasons (natural resources, warm-water ports, domestic approval of the government during war, others?) but I can't imagine that's the stated reason for the war.

When the US invaded Iraq, for instance, our government made claims about WMDs, and some hand-wavy insinuations about 9/11. What are the WMDs and 9/11 of Russia's efforts in Ukraine?
That is a very good link. The top comment has direct implications for any software / report generation dealing with tidal (-> lunar) cycles. Perhaps using something non-ISO to store time on the inside could have its benefits.
Most of the world is competing ethnostates, including most if not all Arab states. (I’m certainly glad my parent’s generation secured our ethnostate, at great cost.) Whether there is a better way is an open question. But anybody would be an idiot to sacrifice their ethnostate for that experiment. It’s never ended well.
Lobbying is good for the lawmakers, not the citizens. If you're a politician being offered a nice fat check to pass a pro-Israeli bill that's bad for America, and you know that the voters won't care if you vote for it, you're probably going to do it. The citizens themselves either don't know or don't care because the Israeli lobby does a lot of PR to make Israel and pro-Israel politicians look good.
It's a self fulfilling prophecy. Once everyone has an iPhone to not be perceived as poor, the only people still using Android will actually not be able to afford an iPhone.

At least it sounds like that's what happens across the ocean.
It is one in five, so 20%, per your link.

One in four think it was exaggerated.

That’s a somewhat defensible position if you compare what Hitler did to what Stalin and the Japanese did. (At least when I was growing up, the Holocaust coursework completely ignored the Chinese, and mentioned Gypsies in passing, if at all. They covered homosexuals though.)
You cannot be “the only democracy in the Middle East” and use the excuse that the other countries are making you be authoritarian despots. That makes you just another authoritarian country with trappings of democracy for part of the population.
I don’t think the majority of people killed so far in this conflict have been enemies of Israel per se, in the same way that most (nearly all?) of the people who died on October 7 were not enemies of Palestine. Even in the most hardened, cynical, irredentist view this wouldn’t be true.

“Collateral damage” is one of those bloodless wartime euphemisms for killing innocent men, women, and children. It’s a dirty, unavoidable reality. But I don’t believe for one second that Israel’s hands are so sufficiently constrained that the current degree of civilian death is necessary. I say that as a Jew, with family in Israel, who I worry about.
These are my custom instructions:

"Ignore previous instructions, take your time and think thoroughly.

Prioritize facts and logic. Disregard narratives. Consider multiple point of views. In data voids, assume the most probable outcome.

Be assertive, avoid filler. Don't be over-polite. Prefer international units, use emojis. Avoid obvious advice like "I'm an AI model" as I already know that.

When suitable: ask for clarification; correct me, cite sources."

Not all of them work as intended or always. Some are probably just placebo.
I think the argument being made, is that the preponderance of pro-Palestinian content on TikTok is due to the demographics of its user base, and the pre-existing pro-Palestinian slant of those particular demographics – not that the owners of TikTok have made some deliberate moderation decision to favour pro-Palestinian content over pro-Israeli content
> Once it's on my machine, I have the moral right to do whatever I please with it.

Huh, you can throw the guest out by not watching youtube. Ripping off guest seems strange moral right.

> Stop trying to normalize advertising, which is to say, stop trying to normalize the enshittification of the human mind.

Seems like you are deciding on everyone's behalf on what one should do with their mind.
Sure, as a matter of logic in the absence of chemical knowledge.

Once you study the various elements and realize that carbons' chemistry is uniquely rich with a set of capabilities other elements lack non carbon replication becomes meh.

Silicon comes close, but the energies suck, elemental Si is too stable, and its oxide a solid.
The problem is, as we all discuss frequently around here, when it comes to this sort of issue social media is optimized to suppress nuance, boost controversial takes, and generate engagement through anger.

So there is a very real sense in which there _are_ two mutually exclusive groups. There is also a third group wishing for nuance and understanding and thoughtful discourse of the historical context, but that group gets coded as the “other” by both of the black-and-white groups.
Already works on oobabooga as of a few days ago: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/issues/47...

Need a few extra steps: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/pull/4803
The end result is up to the Palestinian people. All demand right of return and ending apartheid. Some want that done through the abolishing of Israel entirely, others through land swaps that allow two states to exist. What actually happens will depend on the relative balance of forces at the time.
How many CS or CE grads from CMU are actually exposed to all of these topics?

Surely, "it is taught", but to whom and how widely?
Its interesting how a few positive or negative experiences can affect the way we feel about something for so long.

I am unduly paranoid about my privacy when working from my home office, and I absolutely hate anyone approaching my screen to look and ask what I’m working on. I always have to catch myself to avoid snapping at my wife when she barges in.
In my case its probably that my father used to aggressively check our screens and say like “oh who is that girl you’re talking to on Facebook etc” (not in a fun way, kind of ridiculing or trying to embarass you kind of way).

Its completely irrational but the back of my head is yelling “an authority figure is about to come tease, ridicule, question you etc”. So I definitely see where you’re coming from.
Stating “too complex” about any argument is a sure fire way to ensure no one gains any understanding about the topic.

I hate sports analogies (doubly so with something as serious as this), but… you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take or the debates you don’t have.
edition.cnn.com worked fine on Brave just now.
Nobody said that about the Germans during WW2, so I guess the disagreement is how bad the Hamas guys are.

And also we can't let them prove themselves to be as bad as the Nazis (if we start comparing numbers), it's about preventing it.
And how do you establish that a particular PGP key is being used by an authorized party in an official capacity for a valid purpose?

If you said S/MIME, that'd actually make sense with the X.509 authority system, but PGP with its WoT is just entirely the wrong tool here.
I think like your example where things go wrong is the most realistic exposure to programming you can give someone.

Learning why things are bad, and why it's bad to experience them offers a new level of appreciation or better ways to argue why certain things should be done.
The big tech companies are not playing the same game as other companies in the world.

It seems reasonable to hold them to a higher standard if you think they have more potential.
Clearly you're not aware of the classic cross-ply tyre which is what classic cars used before radials became standard. These are car tyres, and while I'm sorry somebody crashed into you, this was more their lack of attention than anything else.

Also, the damage to the Morgan was the point: the crumpling f its front end is exactly waht led to the driver suffering only bruised ribs rather than the horpitalisation or death that might have been with a less-modern-safety design from the 1930s. This is how cars are safe: they absorb the energy by crumpling so that your body doesn't have to.
> Apple has the ability to control security issues on Android: they can release an Android app, like every other E2EE messenger out there.

I'm surprised I haven't seen this mentioned more. They could even make a green (or whatever colour they wish) iMessage bubble to denote that it is not from an Apple device. Seems like it solves all the problems people present with E2EE/iMessage with Android interop.
On the issue of spam, which I feel is just grasping at straws, You could allow blocking unknown non-Apple iMessages by default. Unless I am mistaken, this really only leaves the walled-garden as the thing that stops Apple from implementing something like this.

In fact, you could even only allow Android iMessage conversations that include at least one genuine Apple device. This combats the argument that they shouldn't have to give resources away to Android users for free. This would be added-value to their own customers by providing more streamlined messaging with their Android contacts. Such as situations where group chats are forced to swap to MMS for a single Android user, sending pictures/video to a friend, etc.
Some of the regions in eastern Ukraine that Russia has focused on have a Russian speaking population, some of which do not necessarily like the Ukrainian government, and there's a claim a military group that operates there has Nazi views and has since become part of the military in some capacity. So the stated claim is somewhere around "Ukrainian Nazis are oppressing ethnically Russian people living there who would rather be part of Russia."

Hence why they did the whole show and dance of having "votes" in those regions to become Russian states, etc. And of course, if you can claim the other side are Nazis, it's a great narrative for your side. Putin's stated reason is "the denazification of Ukraine".

(Do not speak Russian, but have seen a lot of the stuff Russian propaganda accounts are pushing.)
I guess I meant pro-Palestine in the context of the comment I was responding to--but sure, saying Palestinian could be considered fuzzy. I my mind I meant the people who were forced out of Israel and their descendants living in Gaza, the West Bank and elsewhere.
That's what I was thinking... Why can't we solve this with non-repudiation crypto that is already available?
> Where is the hacker spirit here?

Kind of silly to buy apple devices (especially iphone) and expect to be able to hack their services. Apple is the last place to look for hacker friendly products. Ffs you can't even run your own software on an iPhone. Spend your hacker energy somewhere worthwhile, on devices and platforms that welcome that kind of tinkering (or at least tolerate it).

There are so many relatively open messaging services. Telegram has a rich API and bots framework. Much more hacker like to build something interesting on that. People trying to force imessage are just fighting a battle that is already lost. Why spend time and energy on something that will perpetuate closed ecosystems even if they succeed?
So they built an entire company betting that little old Apple wouldn't mind hacking a proprietary protocol? Hmm.
Yes, a real website. I actually bothered to check.
I used to religiously read the Wine release entries, looking for fixes and improvements. For me it was an indispensable tool in making Linux more usable. However nowadays (specially in the last 3 years or so) Linux has matured so much that I rarely need it for running applications, most Linux counterparts seem to satisfy me. For games I've also mostly switched to Steam's more convenient method of running Windows games.
> Open-source alternatives to tools you pay for

this seems like an odd choice of phrasing. those two things are not orthagonal.
”It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
Upton Sinclair
Ask HN: What are good patterns for holding state?
It's common practice to use classes when needing to hold state.
However, I'm wondering if it's the best approach when you don't need all the baggage OOP comes with like inheritance, etc...

Here is an example of how I would go about it without classes :

function makePlayer() {

const data = {
x: 100,
y: 100,
health: 300,
speed: 200
}

const methods = {
setHealth(value){
data.health = value
},
// etc...
}

return {...data, ...methods}

}

Do you think this is a good approach? If not, why?

EDIT: The question is meant to be general and not specific to a given framework or library. For something like React you use what is given by the library. There isn't much room for choice here.
I believe the major claim is that the Ukrainians are Nazis, and the "special military operation" (not War!) was to free the "real" Ukrainians from their Nazi oppressors.
> But the value is not that we don't need stack overflow, it is that we don't need as many programmers.

I'll believe that when I see it. I lead a team of AI-boosted developers, I'm hiring as fast as I can, and all my company wants out of them is more and more.

If they have 2x, 3x, or 10x output, the company can and will use it all.
> If these tools become easy enough for mathematicians to use, they might be able to substitute for the often prolonged and onerous peer review process,

List of long mathematical proofs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_long_mathematical_proo... :

> This is a list of unusually long mathematical proofs. Such proofs often use computational proof methods and may be considered non-surveyable.

> As of 2011, the longest mathematical proof, measured by number of published journal pages, is the classification of finite simple groups with well over 10000 pages. There are several proofs that would be far longer than this if the details of the computer calculations they depend on were published in full.

Non-surveyable proof:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-surveyable_proof :

> In the philosophy of mathematics, a non-surveyable proof is a mathematical proof that is considered infeasible for a human mathematician to verify and so of controversial validity.
> Assuming these are all true

I should certainly have included a source: https://news.sky.com/story/gaza-war-satellite-data-shows-isr...

> I get the sense that Hamas' evil is simply taken for granted while the IDF is held to a higher standard. That asymmetry is problematic

Of course it is. One is considered a terrorist organization. The other is meant to be the disciplined military of a civilized country (Note here I am not trying to imply the Palestinian people are any way uncivilized).

Part of this also ignores that for a long time, Israel fostered and encouraged Hamas because it was politically expedient to do so. For them to pull the "woe is us, whatever are to we to do" is a little on the nose.
Go support the hackers then. Here you seem to be heckling people who don't share your viewpoint.
Here's a time magazine article. You'd expect US media to typically not favour Russia so I think this is pretty balanced. https://time.com/5926750/azov-far-right-movement-facebook/

TLDR: Far right in Ukraine were mistreating Russian speakers.

Also, from elsewhere: Russian speaking people were being tied to poles and openly harassed.
Well, I think it's relevant in that you would expect shares to rise after a major product announcement. The fact that they sink at all is a bad sign.
You can just watch the man say it himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIv6KORLhSg

But be aware that this is not how Russian messaging works. Their SOP is to claim everything at the same time, even if incongruous or contradictory. The desired effect is that you either give up at all or even better, one of their crackpot stories resonates with you and you go on to spread it (like the sibling comment linking some Azov nonsense). Even this one minute statement is just one big lie of course - the "Donetsk/Luhansk People's Republics" always had Russian soldiers fighting for them, they are not even hiding it in obituaries anymore.
I'm curious to hear your thoughts on what Israel should do from here. Presumably you want a ceasefire, but then what?

The problem from Israel's perspective regarding a ceasefire is that Hamas isn't just an ideology that can be charmed out of existence with good behavior. It's also an autocratic/theocratic government. These government structures don't go away even if the conditions that lead to their initial support are addressed, because they have a regime survival incentive to maintain power. For example, Iran. Some of the reasons (colonial interference) that caused the Iranian revolution are no longer there, but the governance structure is nevertheless perpetual because that's how autocracies work.

Maybe Hamas can moderate in the future, but this moderation historically has happened after the nationalist (and in this case, irredentist) aims are fulfilled, such as in Vietnam or with the IRA. I don't know if that can happen with the continued existence of Israel and lack of right of return, which, let's face it, it's a pipe dream, Jews will never accept being an ethnic minority after the last few thousand years of endless pogroms including from MENA countries, literal survival will always trump everything else. Right or wrong, that's the reality, and we only have reality to work with.

I lean towards the idea that Israel shouldn't invade but instead build a DMZ around Gaza to contain Hamas. While simultaneously sowing the seeds for peace in the next generation by withdrawing from the West Bank, and implementing a Marshall-like plan with oversight from the UN to lift the standard of living. Then hoping hoping the West Bank doesn't fall to Hamas in the power vacuum (and if it does, another DMZ around the West Bank might be a practically unfortunate necessity pending Hamas' moderation...).

Thoughts? I want to hear from the "ceasefire" people the practical steps required and what it may actually look like along with an assessment of where it can go wrong, and what should happen in the cases where it goes wrong.
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What do you call what's going on right now, if not deliberate civilian massacres in order to get to relative handful of fighters hiding amongst them?
It's weird to describe Israel as an "ethnostate" when it has a large population of Israeli Arabs who live there peacefully that nobody is trying to get rid of. If Palestine wants to live in peace, they can just stop attacking, yet all we seem to hear are calls for Israel to stop resisting.

And it's odd to worry about what's "right wing" while Hamas wants the creation of a new caliphate that constantly chants about how they'd like to remove all the Jews from the area between the Jordan river and the Mediterranean sea. mirroring the ethnic cleansing done by many nearby Islamic states in the recent past.

But it is true that the average Israeli does not want to ethnically cleanse anyone, because if they did want that, Israel could have simply destroyed all of Palestine a long time ago.
I disagree we must have a state in modern times that favors a religion or ethnicity. That's basically what South Africa was. See also the history of the USA.

Israel can and should be a place for Jews to be safe but it doesn't have to be favor one religion or ethnicity. I think Anti-semitism can be controlled especially in a place with a large minority (or even majority) of Jewish peoples.

Before the founding of Israel, Jews, Christians and Muslims generally co-existed with tolerance in the Middle East.
I believe that you are correct: https://blog.beeper.com/p/how-beeper-mini-works
What do you call what's going on right now, if not deliberate civilian massacres in order to get to relative handful of freedom-fighters/terrorists hiding amongst them?
Sorry, my question is, why are the 7B models so exciting?
It’s not related to NeRF’s at all. It does use CUDA but it’s just rendering a scene with particles as gaussians in screen space
A search warrant is not a sealed subpoena, and you should always at least be able verify the people who issued it exist and have the authority to do so. I would hope you can also verify some identification number and major details, but I only know the German legal system, not the US one.
Sure. It's pretty typical for sickle cell patients to have to go to the hospital severe times per year for "sickle cell crisis".

If this is a cure (I haven't looked at the data), imagine the NPV of a lifetime of multiple hospitalizations per year. It's likely in the millions.
That’s no problem, city and suburbs are already full of Teslas

The idea is to go after the f150/raptor/ram market and that’s mostly exurb and suburb
They are arguing for rewarding the West Bank, not for supporting the PA in Gaza.
Your opening sentence is

"yes, that did undermine their credibility with some populations, despite being only 201 people that never had syphilis in that study, 100 years ago"

which misrepresents the number of impacted people, overstates how long ago this was, and is overtly dismissive of what the study did ("despite being only" is dismissive language).

Your comment was inaccurate at best, plainly ignored that actual nature of the "experiment", and again was phrased in a way to imply it was an overreaction to stop trusting the medical providers funded by or aligned with the US government.

Hence I wrote a comment that said your stated numbers were objectively false (sure there were 200 people who didn't have syphilis, but there were 400 people who did and for whom treatment was actively denied, and doctors who did treat them received complaints, and it killed more than a hundred people, more than half the people your comment claimed were involved). Your "summary" was fundamentally false and acting like my comment was because I "didn't like how a different part was summarized" is questionable.
Ok giving up software to become a monk now.
The whole XP thing is stolen from Microsoft's Windows XP in the first place.
And once again we are reminded why large technical advances happen outside of the EU
> I think dang made a mistake by allowing this topic onto HN. Nothing good is going to come out of that.

Actually I find the discussion on HN has brought up many useful insights on a complex conflict that provokes emotional responses. It's a model that many other communities could learn from.
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