skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for some actual evidence. First, to add some detail from reading it, first the cut off part:

However, without compromising its rejection of the Zionist entity and without relinquishing any Palestinian rights, Hamas considers the establishment of a fully sovereign and independent Palestinian state, with Jerusalem as its capital along the lines of the 4th of June 1967, with the return of the refugees and the displaced to their homes from which they were expelled, to be a formula of national consensus.

And from p.2, where 'Palestine' is defined geographically, which seems to include much or all of Israel (including Israel in a two-state solution). However, a quick search did not turn up Ras Al-Naqurah or Umm Al-Rashrash.

The Land of Palestine:

2. Palestine, which extends from the River Jordan in the east to the Mediterranean in the west and from Ras Al-Naqurah in the north to Umm Al-Rashrash in the south, is an integral territorial unit. It is the land and the home of the Palestinian people. The expulsion and banishment of the Palestinian people from their land and the establishment of the Zionist entity therein do not annul the right of the Palestinian people to their entire land and do not entrench any rights therein for the usurping Zionist entity.

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Second, though I think it obviously weighs significantly on the question, I'll point out some considerations:

* Hamas doesn't speak for Palestinians generally. What does the Palestinian Authority say? Optimally, we'd need information on the Palestinian public now or before Oct 7, when the issue was less politicized and information more reliable.

* Again, the document is significant, but generally, something in a document doesn't reliably tell us the beliefs of the public. Even scripture won't tell you what people are doing or thinking (even the leaders - compare some of their ideas with scripture).

* It's from 2017; I wonder how old the phrase is.

Anyway, hardly criticism; thanks for contributing. It's not an easy question.

> calls for ceasefire appeared while Hamas terrorists weree still in Israel, by no less than U.S. representatives

Warfare, including as currently conducted by Israel, is not the only means of Israel defending itself. IMHO elliding the two seems like an obviously disingenous attack, and it undermines all supporters of Israel by making their other claims equally suspect.
Here's one: https://www.october7.org/

And another: https://oct7map.com/
Interesting study for sure but it feels very preliminary. As someone who deals with trauma from childhood, asking “how far back can it go” is a very interesting question.

Interestingly. The crowd that is *most* in favor of male genital mutilation has some overlap with the crowd that has problems with full grown adults consenting to a medical gender transition.

The lack of consent (it is a newborn after all) is far more disturbing to me than the procedure itself. I wish I wasn’t mitigated for goofy religious reasons.
> and when we chant "From the river to the sea" we don't mean to kill anyone

Don't you think it may be useful to use a different slogan from the people who mean and do that?

> if we can be free and live together, but have dignity and human rights, so be it!

But we can't. There won't be a one-state solution that satisfies everyone, and the earlier we understand it, the better. For the same reasons, the right of return for every descendant won't work. We need to come up with a meaningful two-state solution, but that failed multiple times. So what's left? What solution do you think both sides may agree on, assuming good faith negotiations? Do you think any side is ready to give up West Jerusalem or their right of return stance?

> let's imagine a world where Hamas doesn't exist, and let's call it for example the west bank.

I think the situation in West Bank is much better both for Israelis and Palestinians than the situation in Gaza (even before 7/10), and more importantly, there are ways to improve it.

> how do you justify what's happening there and the settlements expansion?

I don't justify the settlement expansion; I think it is a wrong practice. Do you think removing settlements (plus, say, some territory exchange where removal is too complicated) would solve all West Bank problems?
No, it’s exactly what I’d expect. It’s not what I want to see, but it’s happening.
Usually, the hard way.

I've worked on so many poor-quality projects. I've had so many heated conversations trying to teach people that there are no such things as rules in SE and it's important to _know when to bend/break the rules_. Rigorously following rules doesn't mean high quality, automatically. Some things simply don't exist in the little world you're building.

Translations, for example, usually live outside of any layered cake you are making. If you write a string that will be shown to a user deep down in your code, it needs to be marked for translation and translated. If you try to layer it ... gods help anyone who comes along to change that switch statement.

There are lots of other cross-cutting concerns that people try to put into a box because of "rules" that don't belong in a box. That's usually where your quality starts to plummet.
> Where do these strange ideas come from?

Here is a link to a site that is promoting LVT, so any biases they have would be in favor of LVT.

https://www.progress.org/articles/the-implementation-of-land...

Quote:

"A third possibility is for the retired persons to move to a lower-rent neighborhood, as many anyway move to assisted living or to an apartment."

We can see that it is an accepted goal of LVT to pull poorer/fixed-income people out of their homes so developers can have the land.
Very clearly. Thanks for sharing.
No, it's true. Roughly 1% of Gaza's pre-war population has already been killed by Israel. 81% has been displaced and over 60% of all buildings have been damaged or destroyed. The amount of destruction Russia was brought upon Ukraine doesn't even come close.
I agree, PS5 has a real problem with a lack of games. AAA single-player development cycles have now gotten so absurdly long, a studio might release a single game an entire console generation, if the studio is brave enough to make a single player game at all. Thats a problem for Sony, who've staked their claim with AAA single player experiences. They think a pivot to live service is going to fix this, with something like 12 upcoming first party live service games in the works. I tend to think thats a horrible strategy, and they should focus on building up AA studios instead.
Ok. More German children died in WWII than US children. Are the Nazis the good guys now?
Is there a reason why you created an account specifically for this comment thread?
I would love to sit here and write a comment about how youre absolutely right.

But, I empathise fully with Israel and also with the Palestinian people.

On Israels side you have what amounts to a large motivated but not universal contingent of people who will literally slaughter themselves to make you look bad on the world stage, pulling out long protracted altercations where the intent is clearly to provoke the most disgusting outcome and whom have a history of invading, slaughtering and rioting. Sometimes bringing in half the Muslim world to do it.

I would be fucking terrified.

But for the Palestinians, you have an interloper, stealing the best of your ancestral lands, relegating you to tiny torrid stretches of impoverished city because they claim that they “don't trust you” based on nothing but your accident of birth. living every day knowing that this tiny population of privileged people who dont look like you at all and are so heavily financed that they live significantly better lives on your land. Meanwhile hearing constantly that they continuously kill your countrymen. For all you know: for the crime of existing.

I’d be pissed too, and I wouldn't let up either.

Both sides feel like the victim, its easy for us to sit here half a world away and conjure up idealised scenarios. But Israel is scared of the entire middle east and having an irate and catastrophically motivated population bent on its eradication and tries to handle it the best it can.

Palestine is scared of being obliterated and is outright hateful towards what it considers oppressors.

Trust is hard earned and fragile, and there are external actors involved that would like this tension to go on indefinitely.
Unregister them, just like when so switch from iOS to android I guess
Payments online are a giant nightmare pit because the US finance world is very very scared of sex work. As long as that doesn't get solved, I don't see easily accessible and distributed payments working in a way that doesn't involve hoops most folks don't want to jump through (i.e. sending in ID to some corp that will definitely leak it a week later or cryptocurrency).
The Impact of the ESG Backlash
https://archive.ph/ezbXt
It does though. My example of adding two ints within a known finite range would operate to spec 100% of the time.

You would have to introduce things like tolerance to hardware failure, but that is outside the spec of the software as stated.
I think that is a very fair point. Most of the university action against free speech is targeted not at students, but against controversial faculty and other 3rd parties.

Most of these actions are demanded by the student majority.

The underlying phenomenon is that the children are running the daycare and administration is doing their bidding. It is perfectly consistent that the admin only takes action against the most egregious students. However, a book, paper, or statement might get faculty removed. Similarly, invited guest speakers can be shut down by hecklers veto.
Only children dies in Gaza and only adult civilians got bombed in Nazi germany by the allies?
That's not an ethical system at all. Your logic allows for desperate people to sign themselves into slavery and have that be a net good for the world.

Ethics isn't a solved problem, but capitalism definitely isn't an ethics system.
I encounter bugs everywhere all time. List goes very long.

Microwave has random errors from time to time.

Robo vacuum freezes.

Parking meter malfunction.

Public transport ticket machine don't want to give me a ticket.

Online banking failing to make a transfer because I use UI with other language.

Mobile banking failing to make a transfer because I use not native currency.

Car has issues as well, incorrect fuel amount is injected by computer.

Online pages have tons of bugs, many are barely usable.
What would be better? Change tools every 3-5 years like the industry does, so by the time any given instructor actually has a grasp on a particular tool or paradigm, its already obsolete (or at least fallen out of fashion) too?

I'm no fan of UML, but the exercise is to teach students how to plan, how to express that plan, and how to reason about other people's plans. The students will certainly draw a lot of flow diagrams in their careers, and will almost certainly deal with fussy micromanagers who demand their flow diagrams adhere to some arbitrary schema that has only limited impact on the actual quality of their work or documentation.

UML is complete, at least.
I've been watching Project Ask recently:

https://www.youtube.com/@CoreyGilShusterAskProject/videos

It's fascinating to hear opinions on the ground from both sides. Some things I've learned or concluded:

Young Palestinians are much more radical than older ones, who seem more flexible.

I personally think the two-state solution is a non-starter, and watched these videos to see if a one state solution is at all viable (meaning make Palestinians into Israeli citizens with full rights- basically the Zionists conquered the land, but they must also take the people). The problem is that neither side wants this.

Many Jewish Israelis think the Arabs would outnumber them due to birth rate, but recently Ultra-Orthodox Jews have an even higher birth rate, and Palestinian birth rate has fallen (I speculate due to increased education). Extremist settlers absolutely won't have it, and there is rampant racism. Palestinians want the Jews gone from their lands, but when pressed would probably accept those of Palestinian descent.

Sadly, I think we are going to continue with the one state with Apartheid. And, an interesting thing has happened in post-Apartheid South Africa: the realization that they are collectively poor, and not a rich first world country. One example from SA is that the electrical infrastructure was sized for only the whites, now that the full population is counted, there is just not enough, it's a big current problem. Any per-capita measurement of Israel should include the Palestinians to see the depth of this problem.
It's also interesting that immediately after 9/11, the majority of American still had a positive view of the Afghan people[1].

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/9994/public-opinion-war-afghani...
No he’s talking about Shifa hospital where the IDF later showed an underground bunker: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-army-displ...
All deaths are tragedies, yes. But it is not valid to say that all deaths are equal crimes. These are not morally equivalent:

A. 1,000 people killed in the name of religion

B. 1,000 people (civilians) killed despite efforts to target only military targets

I don't claim to know the _quality_ of the IDF's efforts to minimize civilian deaths, but I do know that intent matters here. The IDF has attempted (imperfectly of course) to reduce civilian deaths. Hamas does nothing of the sort. They are happy to kill non-combatants; any infidel will do.

I want fewer deaths. Yes. It is heartrending to see the suffering on both sides. I welcome pressure on the IDF to minimize non-military casualties.

Would any amount of public opinion stop Hamas from murdering again? Only to the extent it reduces their funding, recruiting, and operations. Israel, OTOH, is much more receptive to public opinion, inside and out.

Hamas has designed their entire operation so that innocent people take the brunt of even the most targeted military operations. If the IDF attacks, there will be collateral damage and lost Palestinian lives. It is awful. However, this does not mean than IDF attacks are immoral in the big picture. Allowing Hamas to continue risks future violence. So what response is ethically warranted?

Netanyahu and the IDF arguably could do better. No major actors in the region are blameless. But blamelessness isn't the standard here; I reject any claims of moral equivalence. Hamas massacres indiscriminately. The comparison matters.

The basic argument in favor of Israel goes like this: some degree of IDF incursion into Palestine and aggression against Hamas is required to save future lives from more massacres. It is only question of how much and when.

Perhaps the IDF should have waited some length of time to build more of an international coalition? I'll grant this. I'm not an expert. If it were possible to merely assume a defensive posture and stop them, I would say, sure try that. But I think that has been tried and it cannot work. Am I missing something?

Minimizing death isn't the perfect ethical metric, but it is a reasonable starting approximation. To do so, we have to factor in all deaths, across a long time scale. I don't think there is any neat way to do it. It is a fucking mess; we chose the least worst option.

I have no hate. If someone I knew had been killed, it might be impossible to have any emotional distance. I reject ideas that cause people to hate each other. I don't claim to know the right answers. But I know some answers are worse than others.

I'm also less interested in blame. I'm interested in the future. What options might work? What actors would undermine the potential for a lasting peace? Find extremists wherever they are: Palestine, Israel, or the surrounding region. Neutralize them in the least invasive way possible. Use public opinion if possible. Condition aid if needed. Use coercive action, including military action, if the previous options don't work.
I understand that and that is why I said "ironically" and "it can" while technically not "antisemitism" as most people define it. It can be viewed as valid use of languages, because well for a fact jews are not the only semetic people.

But anyway that wasn't my actual point anyway and you picked this over the main point. It is still valid, and you are free to pick a name specifically for it. Antiarab, antipalestanian or whatever you want.
All cats are lil babies.
This is still baffling. The tweets make it sound like they're competing against google and stole traffic from google, but their landing page makes it look like they're some sort of business modeling SaaS? Why would they be competing against google?
People aren't asking for a reciprocal death count from Israel, they want them to resist escalation.
> their "2017 charter" rather dramatically toned down the language. Go look up the original version which makes no attempt to be politically correct.

Do you happen to know where to find it? Is there an English translation (not an English version published by them, but a translation by someone reliable)? Often all sides in Israel speak differently in English and local languages, afaik.
The immediacy of analog is so nice compared to the constant lag of software.

Audio effects and synthesizers all have software driven versions that sound effectively identical to analog and are typically cheaper. Yet, analog has been hanging on due to the simplicity and immediacy.
Were you really taught that, or were you taught cargo-cult things that don't make for quality software. I've had some of each in my past.

This is a big area that I wish researchers would focus on. What really does make for long term high quality software. What are the actual trade offs. How do we mitigate them. What are the limits to TDD - is it good? Detroit or London mocks - when to use each? When is formal verification worth the time and effort? There is a lot places where we as an industry have ideas but are in heated debates without knowing how to find a truth.
New Cample.js benchmark result in the table
Do you think China provides a better way of life to Uyghurs? Serious question.

Given Israel's misleading and lying stances as other nations inspect the conditions of the conflict, and their regarding of Palestinians as less than human, I am not convinced they are interested or even capable of providing other cultures a better quality of life. Apparently invading other lands and engaging in colonialism is cool in 2023.
yes it's both actually! Potatoes are wildly toxic to humans when they have any green on them, and that can actually happen in the refrigerator if left to long and then consumed. They have the capacity to really F us up. Editing those strikes me as like threading a needle between hair triggers. You don't want to miss your target.

But also yes exactly, the whole family can cause inflammation and difficulties in people sensitive to them (which tragically because I love spicy food, includes me D-:). So that means that any cool stuff they do I won't be able to try.
What discourse you see online is entirely dependent on who you follow. TikTok is not force feeding you pro-Palestine content (and pro-Palestine ≠ pro-Hamas, people who are unironically pro-Hamas are not to be taken seriously since they usually come with other nonsensical takes on everything). Neither is Twitter, Youtube, Instagram, or any other platform where content is recommended based on user preferences. Don't like what you see? Close it or use whatever feedback function built-in to strongly signal your distaste, and the algorithms will recommend less of that. My tech twitter timeline was unusable for weeks after October 7 because many people I follow started posting pro-Israel messages nonstop, to the point where I had to mute them because it's not what I followed them for despite having sympathy for Israelis after the attack from Hamas.

I started getting ads obviously funded by the State of Israel and pro-Israel organizations on Youtube, on Twitter, on Instagram, and on TikTok (for a day or two). There were "Missing Person" posters of October 7th victims in my neighbourhood street which is located more than 10000+km from Israel (I feel bad for them and hope they will return home safe and sound, but what are these posters trying to achieve here in my neighbourhood? My local representative legislator is already supporting Israel and condemning Hamas). I'm not going to stop recognizing propaganda for being propaganda even if I mostly agree with its underlying message. That's a basic critical thinking skill and evidently that skill is lacking even mong highly successful and "intelligent" people on HN, tech Twitter, and so on.
Ok, but we've known for a whole now that the number is around 1200 killed. Not what most would call "a few dozen".
This is a side issue, but it seems to me like this general problem is what is making strict typing so popular. If there were tests and documentation in place and parameters were being checked then strict typing wouldn't have much benefit because types are just one aspect of making sure the whole system is working as intended. Instead in many cases development is chaos with little if any documentation and testing and strict typing is great because it is the only tie holding the bundle of sticks together.
From the article -- At some point, I realized that I wasn't using the right arguments either. Explaining that the software will be 'more stable' or 'make maintenance much easier' is not palpable for someone who doesn't work in the codebase themselves. We need to speak about money. As developers, we need to speak about the cost of not doing QA. This is the language of business and managers in general.

The more general way of saying this is, "If you need someone's approval to do something, explain it as a good idea for them." Took me a bit to learn this in engineering, you would think "but it will be correct!" would be an unassailable argument but as the author notes, the person who has to sign off on it may not care if it is correct, even if you passionately do care. This works for everything at the job, not just fixing software correctly.
Hence the "spinning out the fiber" bit. Likewise, whey protein is a byproduct of cheesemaking where fat gets separated from milk, otherwise it'd be a very high-fat powder.
Oh nice! I hate PHP a bit less than I did before!

One of my biggest issues with PHP is that it doesn't cleanly separate the app and the system.

You configure your server to work with PHP, you set up access control rules on the server for what files they can see, you enable modules.

So then you need an extra tool to manage the configuration, and lots of YAML to declare what it should be.... meanwhile with Python you just plop it in a virtualenv and pip manages all the moving parts.

It's good to see the PHP ecosystem getting tools like this! Maybe we'll see more self hostable stuff we can install with one click now!
Well, that's better, but I still think posting the snippet is pointless and obnoxious and mostly a way to make it look like there's already discussion -- Potemkin Posting.
Apple has seemingly found a way to block Beeper Mini
I literally can't figure out how to buy the book from that site. I clicked ebook, then amazon, and the link is dead. You should probably just share a working link.
This was about income tax. Not inheritance tax.
HN doesnt let you make pretty hyperlinks, it's why another comment in the thread has numbered footnotes instead.