skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure I agree with you, in the Humans Right report and Amnesty International report they clearly show evidence for systemic apartheid. Also former UN chief says Israel’s treatment of Palestinians may constitute apartheid [2].

Overview[1]:

"Since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, successive governments have created and maintained a system of laws, policies, and practices designed to oppress and dominate Palestinians. This system plays out in different ways across the different areas where Israel exercises control over Palestinians’ rights, but the intent is always the same: to privilege Jewish Israelis at the expense of Palestinians.

Israeli authorities have done this through four main strategies:

Fragmentation into domains of control

At the heart of the system is keeping Palestinian separated from each other into distinct territorial, legal and administrative domains

Dispossession of land and property

Decades of discriminatory land and property seizures, home demolitions and forced evictions

Segregation and control

A system of laws and policies that keep Palestinians restricted to enclaves, subject to several measures that control their lives, and segregated from Jewish Israelis

Deprivation of economic & social rights

The deliberate impoverishment of Palestinians keeping them at great disadvantage in comparison to Jewish Israelis"

1. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2022/02/israels-...

2. https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-occupation-ap...
Based on my experience, I would imagine some management type grabbed the reins and claimed that the engineers just don't know how to present information! And then of course he proceeded to make the message worse and less clear.
but did it ever, really? Kissinger died a peaceful death of old age
OK, I could have been more precise: the "hardware rich" program is what gave them the current reusable configuration of Falcon 9, Block Five. Which is what I would describe as the most reliable and technologically advanced launcher on the planet.

The series of failures when attempting to land for the first time was spectacular.
> That said, even in war, there are long established rules of engagement in war designed to protect (as possible) non-combatants. Israel is not respecting these rules at all.

Israel absolutely should be respecting the rules of war. As far as I know, it is.

People often like to claim that it's not, hinting at some vague "war crimes" or claiming that Israel is targeting civilians, but there is no proof of that happening on purpose, that I'm aware.

This is complicated by Hamas deliberately using human shields and trying to get Gazans killed to make Israel look bad. It is a very complicated situation to fight in and Israel is absolutely making mistakes, but I urge you, show evidence of it actually committing war crimes in the killing of citizens.

> And beyond the insane death toll and indiscriminate bombing, Gazans are hungry and without water and shelter.

Hamas is the government responsible for Gazans. if they are hungry, it's because Hamas is failing in its duty to its citizens. They are literally stealing food from aid trucks in order to feed themselves (and probably stockpile food in tunnels) instead of feeding their own citizens.

Not to mention, they could return the hostages and surrender and spare themselves and their citizens all of this death and pain.

As for the "insane death tool" - what makes it "insane" in your mind?

Note: every death is a tragedy. Civilians dying, on either side, is tragic. Hell, even soldiers and Hamas militants dying is tragic - every death is a tragedy. I'm talking about all this analytically but the death and suffering here is horrible.
Is there a worse time of year to do layoffs than just before the holidays? Do they do it because their fiscal calendar is aligned to the … whatever you call the normal calendar? My company has its fiscal calendar about 5 months off from the normal calendar and while we have had layoffs, they have never happened at the holiday time.
Surprised to see The Glory in the top 3 since it's a Korean show, but it's definitely one of the best Netflix shows.

Seems like the Korean entertainment industry is big for Netflix, seems like it might be second to Hollywood.
Google didn’t incentivize you to choose A. They incentivized Samsung not to give you choice B at all so you’d have to install it yourself.
Same opinion historically, but in the last 3 years they've done a lot of upgrading around where I am and actually seem to be doing a better job.

We'll see how long that lasts. But at the moment they are being good.
>Even that, has x10 less the civilian rate death.

What a blatant lie. The Siege of Mariupol alone is estimated to have killed somewhere between 25000 and 75000 civilians. The UN's fraudulent claim that "only 10,000 Ukrainian civilians have been killed" is a blatant lie to keep China and Russia happy.

Any discussion about collateral damage should take population density into consideration. The population density of Ukraine is 63 per square kilometer. The population density of Gaza is 5500 per square kilometer.
Israel has a proven ability to do precision strikes on apartment buildings that would basically only target the terrorist - we've seen them do this - but they choose to level entire buildings instead. You can probably figure out why they choose that option.
Yeah, we never taped anyone to the ceiling but that was very much the vibe of our regular little 12 person group. The host lived at his parents house (college student) and they had an addition on the side of the garage that we packed into.

A big deal for us was pooling money to buy a 24 port 10 mbit switch back when those were new and fancy. Such a huge improvement over having to shut down the whole party and redo coax connections because one person in the middle of the line wanted to leave early.
NYC is pretty good for internet, because there's Fios in many buildings, so the cable companies really try. There's competition here. I've lived here for about 11 years, and outside NYC for 20 years, and as a techy and heavy internet user my whole life, the difference in pricing, performance, and customer service _of the same company_ (actually a conglomerate which acquired other ISPs over the decades) is quite significant. I have an amazing deal on Fios right now, but had Time Warner for 6-ish years across 3 apartments here, and it was way way better than Time Warner in California, or Comcast in Delaware ... where they really just DGAF
"Hey, why can't I log in?"
"Don't worry about it."
> The oldest still in effect copyright I know of is from 1611.

I can beat that by over 4000 years.

As far as Icelandic copyright law is concerned the copyright on the
Diary of Merer[1], written 4500 years ago, will be held by the French Egyptologist Pierre Tallet until 2039.

This is because the copyright protection commerces when the work is made available for sale, loaning out etc. to the public.

If you discover a previously unpublished work that's not protected by copyright you get to enjoy 25 years of copyright protection, i.e. the copyright is assigned to the person who discovered and published the work.

I only have a source in Icelandic, it's article 44 of the copyright act [2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diary_of_Merer

2. https://www.althingi.is/lagas/nuna/1972073.html
This “everything is a subscription” thing just cannot be sustainable. I mean, sure, some companies with a huge moat can probably sustain this well enough, but eventually consumers and businesses will simply run out of money, and then can’t buy anything anymore. Not to mention that it means that no one can make investments anymore, and can only piss away money every month. I have no clue how to stop this from happening though either from a regulatory perspective or a free market perspective.
In this context I believe "plotting genocide" probably refers to the participation in an explicitly white supremacist / Nazi organization. But you knew that, which is why you felt the need to introduce a totally separate situation to argue about.
It isn't a gyroscope that physically resists rotation. It is an active sensor that is used to control a PID loop to control the actuators and reduce the disturbance.

The technology in the linked article is even different, they put a sensor far in front of the wing and preemptively control the surfaces to counteract turbulence.
Gaza has border with Egypt not controlled by Israel. In fact, ~150k people left Gaza in 2022, and numbers from 2023 are of similar scale [1]. I wouldn't call it a prison

[1] https://twitter.com/Aizenberg55/status/1665745935589076992
Ask HN: Got contacted by LLM scam-bot on Telegram. How to DoS it?
It's got my contact from a thematic group I'm in. I can see that the messages are LLM-generated. It wants me to either visit a website or share personal data.

The bot must be API-based (OpenAI) or built on open-weights model. In other words money-expensive or computational resource-expensive. I wonder if it's possible to engage it enough to cause some harm.

What to write to spin it as much as possible? What's a heavy prompt? Or sequence of prompts. I'm a programmer and I think I could code the Telegram messaging.
I'm not going to defend Israel's actions of the last weeks, but

Israel cannot be called a colonizer. That's stretching the meaning of the word too far, only for demagogic effect.

And yes, the UN are biased. The number of resolutions against Israel is absurd. From wikipedia: "Since the UNHRC's creation in 2006, it has resolved almost as many resolutions condemning Israel alone than on issues for the rest of the world combined." I don't think any Israeli loses sleep over UN resolutions, nor does it give any Palestinian hope.

Hamas cannot win the conflict with Israel, at least not in the foreseeable future. So they'll keep suppressing Palestinians (because they've got quite a tyrannic regime in Gaza), and do stupid things against Israel. Which then retaliates, and has also taken it as an excuse for other policies.

That cycle is not broken by some contorted, meaningless analysis using fashionable terminology. It will only make enemies in both camps. In a recent interview, John Gray said (about climate change, but it fits here too): "I think that’s the politics of narcissism: “I want to feel good.” But in the meantime, you’re wasting resources and you’re wasting time."

This conflict needs actions by a party with enough power to provoke a change on both sides. Ok, that's my bedside analysis, but the politically correct name calling (colonizer, fascist, terrorist) only widens the divide.
Nothing reported on the status page at this time. Frontend stores seem to be up, but the Admin seems to be down for all stores. Even partners.shopify.com is returning an nginx 504 Gateway Time-out.
Incredible that old shows have gone on to enormous success after streaming on Netflix - Suits, Breaking Bad, Friends, The Big Bang Theory, Brooklyn Nine-Nine. I wonder how much these streaming hours compare to the original network viewerships. It would also be interesting to understand the licensing deals that go onto extending these shows onto Netflix, seems like a no-brainer for any older show to get a second life, especially after seeing Suits and others doing 600M hours.
The 6502 was a better chip (designed with hindsight on the 6800), and also cheaper. Z80 could run 8080 code.
It would be interesting to see how this can be used for open models.
> I would not expect office occupancy to EVER fully recover in the US.

Remote work was already growing, COVID just accelerated a societal change already in progress. Without COVID, we probably would have eventually ended up in the same place as we are now, it just would have taken longer.

And even years before COVID, I think the US was already ahead of many other countries in this transition. I remember my first business trip to the US in early 2008, I went to Oracle’s office in Orlando, it was near-deserted-I asked where everyone was, I was told “they’re all working from home”. Whereas, back in Australia (Oracle included), there was still a very strong culture of “if I can’t see you at your desk then you aren’t working”. Or similarly, even back then many of the US Oracle executives had remote EAs - remote EAs were not much of a thing in Australia at that time
Thank you for this great explanation of where "singularity" comes from in this context. Always wondered.
Many Scam ads and they ask to pay by Paypal. When you are scammed Paypal refuse to refund. This is something that Youtube must be knowing and Paypal must be knowing and they are allowing users to get scammed.
Laying off the workers at the toy factory two weeks before Christmas is the thing the villain in an 80s kids movie would do.

I don't mean that to be hyperbolic - like, literally, that's the sort of thing that was culturally cast as villainous behavior a generation or two ago.
I don't know how managers aren't paying for RedHat products excitedly. It's the only business which competes with itself and where an acquisition by a private equity firm will, by the application of the typical strategies, destroy it's own customer base in days.

Not like open-source won, more like proprietary eats itself.
I think MtG and D&D have a lot of potential though.

My four year old son found a "search and find" D&D book for kids at the store, and it is now one of his favorite books. He loves the kid friendly D&D products, and will presumably continue to be a fan.

Unlike other huge IP franchises that are spear headed by a single set of characters or story, D&D has an enormous world with no single focus that makes it easily adaptable to various media and spin offs.

My son is now enthralled with the various dragons, monsters, and the idea of heroes looking for treasure. I hope they continue to make toys, games, minis and media for all age groups!
YouTube Music is way better. Spotify is laggy like slack.
I hope that people will remember the callousness that these employers show when talk of unionization/worker's rights happens again.
Every time somebody says this, I always ask the same question - what is the alternative? What should Israel do instead?

This is war. War is horrible and tragic, and far more so because Hamas hides within civilian buildings and used human shields.

What should Israel do instead to protect itself and to fight Hamas?
> I am interested in preserving this high level of civilized interactions.

Are you opposed in principle to even higher levels?

> Time and time again, when it comes to the subject of Israel and Palestine, it has been shown that the discourse never meets the minimum standards I usually enjoy here. To the point where I am not sure if it's even theoretically possible.

How much compute did you apply to the proposition, and what set of algorithms are you personally working with?

> To use your metaphor - if this were a forum about juggling, I would generally expect people to have an honest interest in juggling, and to have discussions about juggling.

Agreed. This site is, to some degree, about systems and programming, which involves analysis and logic. I would therefore expect that people would at least have at least some interest in the exercise of sound analysis and logic....and yet, as you note, on certain topics our normal standards within this system (HN forums) cannot be met. Is this not a rather curious phenomenon? Do you believe that it is perhaps worthy of some analysis (especially considering lives are literally in the balance)?

> If every discussion about curling, on my juggling forum, devolved into abuse - it would be reasonable to avoid discussing curling (at a certain point).

A problem: that which can be "reasoned" is not necessarily true.

Another problem: sometimes action (and inaction) has deadly consequences. If it was you living in Israel or Gaza, do you think you would be advising complacency and disinterest on this matter?
We must be thinking about this different because it seems very straightforward to me for this particular scenario.

By the way, I don't care if it slows down Apple's phones sold per minute/hour metric.
And they're shocked that people want to run ad blockers? LOL
Show HN: A dictionary of untranslatable words from around the world
Have you ever come across a word in another language that just perfectly captures a feeling or concept you can't quite express in your own tongue?

I created coolforeignwords.com because I wanted to share those "aha" moments with fellow language lovers, and created a website to make those words easier to find.

So, whether you're a word nerd, a traveler, or just curious about the world, please feel free to visti my website.

Try it out and please share your feedback. It's still very early stage, so would love any advice.

Thank you
It was similar. Users flagged many posts, and we applied the same principles as I've described in this thread, as best we could. That involved turning off flags on certain stories. Unfortunately, the threads did not go well.

That experience is one reason why I'm taking a different approach in the current thread. We're trying to learn over time how to support some discussion (but not too much) of these difficult topics, while remaining within the intended spirit of the site.
Some in the old media would love to see the internet reduced to a "view-only" set top box and getting rid of 230 is a step towards that.
I appreciate the willingness of HN to allow discussion on this topic.

Despite the inevitable low-quality or even overly-biased comments, I find the comments from both sides of the discussion to be generally informative and thoughtful. Certainly more-so than in any other online context that I'm aware of. I come here to learn and reading opinions that I haven't considered before is essentially how that works (especially when those opinions are well founded and backed up with sources).

In short, I find HN to be a relatively knowledgeable and thoughtful community and I appreciate the opportunity to hear this community's thoughts on what is a very important and complex topic.
Warning: There is more than one “D&D Movie”: <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dungeons_%26_Drag...>

According to most people, the one from 2023 is the good one.
And if Rivian, then all of the tire manufacturers as well!

I've been taking photos of Rivian front tires and it's comical how shredded they get while the rears look pristine.
remote computing is so late '90s when people moved away from PCs to servers (the dot in dot com).

Turns out this sort of stuff is cyclical.
Maybe the fact Google doesn't police Ads is a signal that advertising isn't as lucrative as it once was...
While a formalized concept of 'turing completeness' which could prove the equality of sufficiently advanced LLMs will not exist yet, it will become clear that all models of a certain capability are equally capable(just as all CPUs are equally capable) and LLMs will become a comodity traded by speed, price and context window width. Furthermore, it will be realized, that beyond a certain size, larger context windows lead to diminishing output quality and we'll start talking about the theoretical limit for context window size (this will be a function over the amout of training data). OpenAI will still be a valulable company, but there will be at least 5 LLM providers to choose from and none will significantly outshine the rest.

At least one company will raise over $1billion on entirely fraudulent AI (using gpt's API and sleight of hand).
This recent blog post explains what happened here: https://www.tweag.io/blog/2023-08-10-rust-static-link-with-m...

"When it comes to musl, there’s a certain performance trap: its allocator does not perform well in multi-core environments."

"A common cause of the above symptom is thread contention: multiple threads are fighting to acquire the same resource instead of doing useful work. Although it’s better than deadlock or livelock, since the application runs to completion, it’s still a significant waste of CPU."

"The real source of thread contention is in the malloc implementation of musl. A malloc implementation must be thread-safe, as multiple threads may allocate memory at once or even free memory allocated in other threads. Thus, the thread synchronization logic could become a bottleneck.

Although I have not deep-dived into the musl malloc codebase to locate the contention, replacing it with a cutting-edge malloc implementation like mimalloc is sufficient to rectify the problem and enhance performance. Mimalloc minimizes contention and enhances multi-threaded performance. In fact, this replacement can make the application run even faster than the default glibc build."
This is silly, and it reduces women to beings without agency. It is a cultural thing, and sex has nothing to do with it. One could even argue that it is women who raise those boys like that (which is of course not correct).

It is the dominator culture, which feminism until the third wave was trying to abolish. Fourth wave feminism is a product of it.
The US does have a history of helping fund terrorist organizations, just like Netanyahu has helped fund Hamas.
Yeah, but maybe, if you are constantly losing market share... maybe you should work on things that appeals to a wider audience. Except if you have a trump card and intend to use it as a deus ex machina to suddenly show people you are THE browser, the way forward.
I disagree. I was laid off at holiday time decades ago. That year we had nothing for the kids for Christmas and the holidays were incredibly stressful. I can’t think of a worse time for layoffs.
My impression is that leaders of both militaries have a goal to remove the civilians of the other side from the borders of Israel, permanently.
You’re not really helping the argument for not firing people in the middle of December. During this end of the year period, a lot of companies are basically paying people for doing little to nothing at all. I’ve closed maybe two tickets.

edit: nooo don’t downvote me I wasn’t saying to fire them
What you are doing is effectively mental gymnastics to avoid admitting you used the incorrect word.
Drug addicts are victims of a very civilizational pathology, so more like the opposite of savages. I was more getting at whatever good they might do (?) in their own very informal societies—societies that most people either shy away from or are oblivious to, so it’s very difficult for most people to know whatever pro-social activities they do.
I feel like a lot of attention from this is on the WotC side, which is doing very well, bully for them, I consume a lot of the D&D product line. But what's up with the rest of the company doing poorly? They have a huge trove of great IP that's failing. Play-doh and Nerf seem like they're still children's play staples no? Is there a big shift in consumption of action figures I should know about? Or is the story more about issues with inflation/affordability for these types of toys?
Wow, nice domain. I'd work there for the name alone haha.
We had women at our LAN parties in the 2000s, usually GFs or girls from the friend group. Not many played games so they'd just hang out and socialise amongst themselves or maybe play a console if there was one. So much fun.
You are willfully ignoring the part you don’t like and hoping it will go away.
Does anyone ever answer to known/unrecognized numbers anymore?

Recruiters ruined that for me.
more freedom
Unless you want to start a city-run ISP.
You will not find any current or reliable source for this line of propaganda.
I have a Netflix subscription. I have watched exactly 0 hours total of the items called out in TFA; am I out of touch? Am I missing something of particular cultural value?
Modern IT integrations connect the HR system to the IT to auto-provision (ie, hire) and auto-deprovision (ie, terminate) user access in near-real-time. In this case, once the termination is completed (& approved) in the HR system, the user loses access immediately without any IT involvement.

Here's an example of how Microsoft supports auto-provisioning from SAP Successfactors for this: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/saas-apps/s...