skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your perspective on the complex situation in the Israel-Palestine conflict raises important points, but it's crucial to consider the broader context and implications of these actions. Firstly, the concept of "acceptable losses" in warfare, while a grim reality, should not be accepted without rigorous scrutiny, especially in conflicts involving highly asymmetric powers. The Palestinian civilian population often bears a disproportionate burden of these losses, raising serious humanitarian and ethical concerns.

Regarding Israel's efforts to minimize civilian casualties, such as evacuations and roof knocks, these measures, while notable, do not always prevent significant civilian harm. The dense population and small geographical size of Gaza, for instance, make it nearly impossible for civilians to find safe refuge during conflicts. Moreover, international law obligates all parties in a conflict to avoid civilian areas for military operations, and this applies to both Israel and Hamas. The use of civilian areas by Hamas for military purposes is indeed condemnable; however, it doesn't justify the scale of response that results in extensive civilian casualties and infrastructure damage.

The humanitarian impact on the Palestinian population extends beyond immediate casualties. The long-term effects of the blockade on Gaza, restrictions on movement, and economic hardships cannot be overlooked. These factors contribute to a broader context of suffering and human rights issues.

In discussing moral failings, it's essential to recognize the complexities and nuances of this conflict. The focus should be on seeking solutions that prioritize the protection of all civilians, uphold human rights, and work towards a just and sustainable peace for both Israelis and Palestinians. The sanctity of human life must be the cornerstone of any military strategy, and efforts towards peace must include addressing the root causes of the conflict, ensuring accountability, and respecting international laws and human rights for all parties involved.
> but in reality they just couldn’t handle the data

If you mean from a "critique" standpoint then no. If you meant from a "data wrangling standpoint then yes, as binary like/dislike data is just a lot easier to work with for recommendation algorithms.

There are many good reasons to move from a five star rating system to a binary rating system, and yeah, I think many of those fall into the "people lied to themselves" category:

- People tend to note use five or ten star systems on a continuous scale with certain points on the scale being biased

- People tend to go into "movie critic"-mode when they see a 5/10-star scale, as those are usually used on sites like IMDB. That drives them to try and rate the movie "objectively" and in accordance with an intellectual image they want to portray, rather than what they actually like/dislike consuming and spend their time watching

- Netflix also displayed the ratings as 5-star "adjusted ratings for the viewer", which already took your preferences into account. Not a single person I've talked to back then was aware of that, so everyone tried to do the same mental gymnastics they do when trying to project global IMDB ratings to their personal preferences. Moving to a "XX% match for you" together with the like/dislikes is something that people understand a lot better

All-in-all, I don't think the rating system really has been an issue in the recent years. The catalog has been a much bigger issue during that time. I'm pretty sure that Netflix's rating and recommendation system has been good enough that it has served me everything that I'd like to watch on their platform and now I'm out of content.
How long do you keep such cars? Also, 5/6 years old depending on mileage & make is usually the time for some expensive part replacements. Eg. water pump, thermostat & related sensors for BMW F30.
just remember that feedback loop implicates us, our language, psyche, culture. i guess it will be a challenge _not_ to unwittingly converge with LLMs.
It is tricky isn't it? Because both sides in this conflict have the right to exist and defend themselves. Terror attacks are not self defence, nor are illegal settlements or what amounts to terror bombing.

Honestly, I have no idea how solve this besides some larger power stepping in. And that won't hapoen for all kinds of reasons. Displacing all Gazans isn't a solution neither so, and if tried it would isolate Israel internationally. And by extension of that risking of deviding the world at large into supporters of Israel and supporters of Palestinians, in which case this whole thing could blow up in everyones faces.
The problem is that there is no "Israel should or shouldn't do" - countries don't have agency like that, their governments do. And those currently in power intentionally wanted to make a peace deal harder to achieve, because they don't want peace.
I created a Flask app called holly. It was originally made to record when I'd given my kids different medicine, but has now expanded to an event scheduler, meal planner, and checklists.
They do use it but you can force passcode requirement by holding down the power button until 'slide to power off' appears. From daringfireball:
'(One way the scam would run: Chat up the victim in a bar, and offer to use the target’s phone to snap a photo of the victim and their friends. Surreptitiously lock the phone out of Face ID when handing it back to the victim. Then, when next the victim wants to do anything on their phone, they need to enter their passcode. Either the thief or a partner in a team gleans the passcode. Then they steal the phone, knowing the device passcode.)'
Great memories. All females around us (wife, sister, mother) hated those toys and my wife was really happy when she heard that one of the tanks broke.
> Google don't quite understand that other companies aren't idiots and they didn't want a replay of the phone situation.

And yet the LG app store is terribad, and constantly pushing garbage the CEOs son in law wrote or something.
E paper calendar with sync to all of my online calendars and project planning tools. Not pc app :D
https://www.hazumi.news/

I made Hazumi News for web and iOS to browse HN. It's the only side project that I've stuck with for years and still enjoying working on.

It's more of a modern presentation layer on top of HN with images and summaries of the linked article. The goal is to try connect a more casual audience with this amazing trove of tech news and discussion.

Funded mostly by myself and the handful of people who subscribe for €1 per month on iOS.
Didn't pretty much everyone hang out with with
Jeffrey Epstein as well? Or with war criminals like Bush? How can people think "oh, he hangs out with Alex Jones" is an argument?
Ask HN: Low Stress Employers?
Asking for a friend :)

It seems a lot of companies have been pretty stressful for the past 5+ years. Perhaps it’s anecdotal and not an industry trend. Anyways, where do you all find jobs that keep you sane, healthy, and still make sure you can pay your bills? Surely some of us would be happy to give up part of our paycheck for a better life.

I just realized that asking this question on a site tailored towards investment capitalism might not be the best audience, haha. Fingers crossed.
Many years ago, I built a personal budget software. It started as a simple dashboard to analyse data with my wife, then I added a telegram bot to insert expenses on the fly.

Made with Django
Anyone can set up a blog and write whatever craziness they’d like just like you can with a pen or notebook. But no one is entitled to unlimited reach, and that was the case before personal computers came along.

No newspaper has published every single letter anyone sends to the editor without using some discretion.
There's nothing wrong with being unproductive. We should totally rest and enjoy life once we've covered our needs for the day. This thing about productivity being a goal of society is stupid. Who says being productive leads to happiness?

I actually like to be productive, and I suspect you do too. But if people don't, that's fine too. I do wonder if we might be addicted to productivity, though.
That’s not the actual plan for GNU Hurd that was Brian wishcasting.
For the nostalgic folks amongst us with a bit of a hacker spirit, you can apparently side-load Apollo and patch it to use your own reddit api key.
Yeah. This is why I doubt it's a good strategy for Google in the long term. Sooner or later, someone will be finally pissed off enough to go after this practice (either a government or another big US company).

That said, there seems to be no legal way for a big Czech company to go neither against Google or the scammers, otherwise this would have been already resolved. CEZ (one of the companies being impersonated by the scammers here) made a press release about this almost 2 years ago (references are in Czech):

https://www.cez.cz/cs/pro-media/tiskove-zpravy/klamave-rekla...
https://www.cez.cz/cs/podvodna-reklama
> The Romans would have never allowed something like that. Their slaves had better lives than that.

That’s either sarcasm or you certainly know almost absolutely nothing about how the Romans treated their slaves. You could try looking up the conditions of slaves working in mines or agricultural estates or some of the laws related to slavery they had… (also sexual exploitation was on a whole other level which is hard to even grasp for us)

> Scampia

I’m sure it’s much nicer that some of the slums in Ancient Rome, the city itself (Pompeii and Herculaneum were relatively well off cities at the time in probably one the richest regions in the world (Campania))
> Swiping right from the left edge of the screen does the same as pressing the Back button.

Wish you could disable that, so common horizontal scrolling in web pages that don't fit activates the Back function
why is the sidebar not on the side, so frustrating to use
Ask HN: What does the techscape look like in 50 years?
Even 20 years ago today, the world was very different in terms of technology. Obviously many of the same ideas were around, but the rate of improvement and invention still seems staggering in such a time.

My biggest concern is that as the bar for discovering technology gets higher, it may get withheld from the public. Feel free to share your concerns too.
It is definitely true that the display and input latency on the headend screen is in control of the car manufacturer, so not all Carplay/AA implementations are equal. I've seen it on rental cars-- some are great and some are crap.

But the software on the screens is great! Not something that can be said about, for instance, Ford SYNC (TM).
Google maps or waze are much better than the on board tesla maps. You need to pay to have traffic data on tesla, waze and Google maps gives you that for free.
> I think it's interesting to believe that Israel can effectively and permanently take out Hamas (and the like), while they cannot prevent October 7th. Either they have sufficient intelligence/surveillance or they don't.

That's a false dichotomy. Preventing surprise attacks on your soil, given an enemy that is smart and tries to outsmart you, is a completely different thing to engaging in war.

> The people of both sides suffer, but those outside and those with political power on both sides are eliminationist. I think it's important to listen to member of cabinet when they say "nukes are on the table" or a settler when they say that everything from the Nile to Tripoli are rightfully theirs, when you evaluate similar Hamas rhetoric.

These are fringe views among the Israeli public, which you can see because that minister was widely condemned for that remark and withdrew it, and most statements made by Israeli politicians state the opposite.

Hamas's leaders have repeated the claim that they will perform October 7th over and over and over. And they actually did it when having the chance. There can be no doubt in any rational person that, were they to have the means to do it again, they would.

Both sides are simply not equal here in their desires, and there's no reading of the facts that shows otherwise.

(And btw, like many people on the Israeli center-left, I hate the settlers too, and definitely consider some of their actions to be terrorism much like Hamas's, though far smaller in scope, fortunately.)

> Israel claims that 55 Hamas commanders have been killed. What is the proper ratio of that to civilian deaths (17,700)?

I have no idea where you're getting that figure. Israel says that it estimates are that 5-7k militants have been killed.

> How does Israel know there are bunker/tunnels under the Al Sharif hospital? They built them.

What is your point? That Israel built some tunnels at some point doesn't prove anything. The Israeli claim is that an entire tunnel network was built out by Hamas for the purpose of using it as headquarters and to commit terror attacks. Which is true and verified.
> I doubt you actually believe Stephen King might be a p zombie and I'm skeptical you really think consciousness is an illusion.

Consciousness is an unobservable, undefinable thing which with LLMs in the mix we can theorise has no impact on reality; since we can reproduce all the important parts with matrices and a few basic functions. You can doubt facts all you want, but that is a pretty ironclad position as far as logic, evidence and rationality goes. Consciousnesses is going the way of the dodo in terms of importance.

> If I sawed off your leg would it have the moral consideration of removing the leg of a barbie doll's leg if you feel your consciousness is an illusion?

For sake of argument, lets say conclusive proof arises that Stephan King is a philosophical zombie. Do you believe that suddenly you can murder him? No; that'd be stupid and immoral. Morality isn't predicated on consciousness. I'm perfectly happy to argue about morality but consciousness isn't a thing that makes sense outside of talking about someone being knocked unconscious as a descriptive state.

> When I feel the desire to urinate, or post comments on hacker news, or admire a rainbow, or sleep am I also "doing statistics?"

No, you're responding to stimulus. But right now it looks extremely likely that the creative process is driven by statistics as has been revealed by the latest and greatest in AI. Unless you can think of a different mechanism - I'm happy to be surprised by other ideas at the moment it is the only serious explanation I know of.

> You seem to be referring to what people traditionally call "thinking" or "cognition" and rebranding it as "statistics" in search of some rhetorical point.

I don't think I've said anything about thinking or cognition. Although statistics will crack those too, but I'm expecting them to be more stateful processes than the current generation of AI techniques.

> Copyright existed far longer than the last 50 years so how is our 50 years of culture relevant? The U.S. has had copyright since 1790.

Yeah but the law has been continuously strengthened since then and as it's scope increases the damage gets worse. The last 50 years are where new works are effectively not going to enter the public domain before everyone who was around when they were created is dead.
I think it's the same kind of math the studios use to estimate the damages from piracy: ignoring that people will simply give up when not presented with a reasonable alternative. How much money would a movie bring in if everyone who cared enough to watch it illegally for free had instead chosen to see it in theaters or buy the blu-ray? How many man-hours would be spent crunching this data if Netflix hadn't dumped it in a convenient format but everyone interested in the data was willing to process it the hard way?
You're confusing open and available for licensing
No one found inside documents showing apple was playing games, but I struggle to believe there is none of that going on.
I think if Netanyahu loses the next elections and is replaced with more moderate voices (like Ganz or former PM Lapid), and if the US/NATO/UN peace keeping forces will agree to PLO's leadership wishes to back them into taking control of the Gaza strip with Hamas as a junior partner in its government we may get there. But a lot of these things may not happen.
If you take this man on face value, this would be the most terrifying situation to be in. You end up on the wrong side of a border control, without any idea how you ended up there, sleep deprived and hungry.

Not that you should take this man on face value.
Tyrannosaurs eating them drums
Best site on the net and a bunch of google and apple techs want to 'fix' it.
>> Methadone clinics are a decent example

Sure, they can help, but wouldn't you say that's treating the symptoms rather than the disease?

>> the actual deaths happening now are due to the unavailability of those same prescription drugs

But you just said the initial reason was "criminally-encouraged over prescription". How do you not trace the deaths now all the way back to that? The thing about opioids is that you develop tolerance. I guess if those people were still getting higher and higher prescribed doses, they would never need to dip into illegal markets where their drugs might be contaminated with fentanyl. But it's hard for me to cut off the search for a root cause of deaths at this latest unavailability. The root cause is the over-prescription in the first place.

Stigmatization serves a role. I'm a smoker - but I know anti-smokers will agree with me, that stigmatizing my behavior prevents more people from starting to do something terrible to their health.

And if that's true, then legalization would be a root cause of the next wave of deaths. It's the addiction that kills; the erstwhile lack of good drugs is just the way it happens to kill some people.
> and later polished

You weren't kidding. Your apps are stunning!
It seems to me the federal govt can't make up its mind about Musk. On the one hand the Administration detests him on a personal and political level, while on the other (including and perhaps mainly DoD) he is professionally and technically indespensable.

So we see these inexplicable charges and investigations such as rocket pieces falling in the desert, cancelled a little while later when it turns out they can't launch enough military stuff.
Isn't this the case with git? If you only do basic stuff I think you don't need more than 10 commands. And if you wanna go more advanced, you have the other commands and flags. Git has also added some new commands like `switch` to make it easier for newbs.
What's important here is the context, which is the drama around the Rwanda scheme and legislation.

The Rwanda scheme is a plan to send certain groups of asylum seekers who arrive in the UK to Rwanda to be processed and then to live. This has been an attempted policy for over a year now, but after a lot of legal wrangling, was eventually blocked by the courts as being unlawful due to issues with Rwanda's asylum system. In response, the British government have written a new law that attempts to prevent a number of legal avenues for blocking future flights to Rwanda, and declares that Rwanda is to legally be considered a safe country.

This has been a very controversial proposal for a variety of reasons, ranging from people's distaste with the policy itself, to criticisms of the bill's attempt to circumvent the legal system by preventing legal challenges to be heard, and even to groups of MPs who argue it isn't going far enough, and that it should include more ways of preventing European and international courts from intervening. Yesterday, the bill was voted in for the first time in Parliament (the "second reading"), which is normally just a formality for Government bills, which can then get more deeply scrutinised and amended in later stages before being voted on again.

Because of the many competing criticisms of the bill (and particularly because the Government needed to satisfy two groups of their own MPs with conflicting desires), there was some question as to whether the bill would even pass. (This would be a rare event - not unprecedented, but a significant demonstration that the Government now longer can pass legislation and must step down.) As a result, there were a lot of deals being done yesterday, and a lot of people being suddenly called back to Parliament to vote on this, for whom other measures would typically be available.

The vote passed, and the bill will eventually be discussed further, probably amended, and then face further votes down the line. In many ways, this is to be expected for a Government with a 40 seat majority - they should not be losing votes like this in general, especially for flagship policies that they are staking their reputation on. However, the fact that the Government seemed so rattled as to pull MPs back from significant other engagements - and arguably far more important engagements - is a sign of the lack of confidence that they had in this legislation.

In practice, this was a huge waste - not just in terms of carbon emissions, which, as you point out, will be minimal compared to other situations - but also a waste of opportunities of discussion and negotiation at the conference itself. It clearly shows that the British Government's priorities lie with keeping itself in power, rather than using the UK's influence for more useful, long-term effects.

In that sense, pointing at this event is very much pointing at the moon - it demonstrates so much about the current British Government in such a relatively small action.
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The last time anyone seriously considered crypto as money was 2016. Even Steam started accepting Bitcoin. You can see how it went for them [1]. Fraud, volatility, transation delays and fees were unacceptable. And that was the time before the total KYC pressure.

While some of these issues might have been solved (kind of), there's no way anyone touches crypto for end-user microtransactions with a 10-foot pole today.

[1] https://www.pcgamer.com/50-of-transactions-were-fraudulent-w...
Nah, that's not how you debias, you mostly doing by practicing calibration (give odds for things and then checking what proportion of the 90% probability things actually happened).

The reasoning improvements primarily cone from a greater awareness of words (ambiguous meaning, context sensitivity, considering things as if they were statements in set theory) and tools like word tabooing or outside view.

I doubt the author has had much contact with rationalists (who the hell says "rationslism"?!).
On the flip side, the custom weird UI the car manufacturers contracted some cheap outside firm to write at low cost, and is filled with paid product placement and data mining, will be flawed from the start and never fixed.
This is promising if they can scale it economically for the farmer. Here in Michigan there are some large dairy farms producing electricity from their manure. But the only reason they can do it profitably is because the cost of the installation was subsidized by both the government and the manufacturer.

When I was an agronomist I worked with several large dairy's in West Michigan on composting their manure. It eliminated most of the odor and had the additional advantage of greatly reducing the volume so they could use an ordinary fertilizer spreader and transport it to fields that could actually benefit from the nutrients. That was 25 years ago and they're still doing it so I guess they found it beneficial.
>What would it take for humans to rule the Earth for two hundred million years?

Probably either a miracle or some form of damnation. Or both, depending on how you look at it.