skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are you talking about. Hamas is primarily funded by Turkey and Qatar. Both countries with massive US military bases. For four decades we've now been hearing how Iran almost has the nuclear bomb[1], how Iran funds Al-Qaeda, when it fact it's the other way round because Shia's are considered infidels to these people. Various Israeli government officials including Mossad guys have on various times admitted that they propped up Hamas to keep a legitimate government from forming.

Hamas is an offspring of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Egyptian army hates them, the Syrians fought them, Iran fought them. Israel, Turkey and the US all fought on the side of Alqaeda in Syria[2][3].

US shut down Turkey's banking integration with Russia with a simple threat of turning off the tap to their banking system. They could shut down Hamas funding in a heartbeat. But they don't it, why[4]?

[1] https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/04/24/Ayatollah-bomb-in-pr...

[2] https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/23225

[3] https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE81N1EX/

[4] https://www.timesofisrael.com/mossad-chief-top-general-visit...
I would say that's a straw vulcan. Emotion are data and drivers of our actions.

A Vulcan would not say "emotions are illogical." They would say "What does this emotion says and does it make sense in this situation?" Or "how would I feel more appropriately for this situation?". Or "this emotion doesn't make sense for this situation."

Sometime, it's more appropriate for us to rely on intuition and instinct and it would be more rational for us to do that instead. Imagine someone's about to be hit by a car. You have only seconds to move them out of the way. You don't have time to ponder so you just do it.

Thinking and logic is a general problem solving tool that's very useful in certain context, but they are very slow to use. By itself it is not a complete toolkit for dealing with emotional issues. Can't exactly make yourself less angry using just logic alone. You need some emotional tools to dial down counterproductive emotions.
> Insurgents don't need control over the area to be a serious pain for the occupying force

Fair enough, I should have said influence versus control. It looks like Hamas won't have influence in Gaza after this war.

That doesn't mean there won't be insurgents. As you point out, there absolutely will be. In part because of this war. But I doubt they'll show loyalty to Hamas--their surviving leadership will be too far away.

> Taking out insurgent leadership is like offing Bin Laden; someone else always volunteers

Al Qaeda's income fell off a cliff following the American response to 9/11. (Not after 9/11 per se.)

> What proxies? What's the evidence Hamas doesn't want them doing what they're currently doing?

Islamic Jihad, for one. Proxies can have proxies.

Look, if Hamas intended what happened they are incompetent and evil. That strengthens the argument for their liquidation; it says they cannot be reasoned with.

I don't think the last decade of Hamas' rule shows them incapable at achieving their ends. (Islamic Jihad, on the other hand, seem like nutters.) Add to that the operational incoherence of the October 7 attack, and that Hamas lost its hostages, its sole source of leverage, and it's not difficult to conclude things went off piste.

> Iran is likely quite happy with their performance, given the brewing international condemnation of Israel's response

Yes and no. They're happy because it shows their strength, brings them to the negotiating table and makes their oil more valuable. (It also curtails Arab-Israeli normalisation.)

The international response has shown that Israel can do what it wants. The Arab states softly condemned. Hezbollah and the Palestinian Authority chose self preservation. America sent through arms. The one PR battle the Palestinians need to win, sympathy in America, has gone backwards.

> We saw the same in Afghanistan

The Taliban took back ground control. Their fighting forces were preserved. That does not look like it will be the case in Gaza; Jerusalem is being far more brutal than we were in Afghanistan. It might be that's the only way to win. (If you're correct, that Hamas intended to kill thousands of Israelis and tens of thousands of its own, then this is a good thing.)
It’s less that this allows new unprecedented weapons, and more that this allows one to validate material properties in similar conditions to a nuclear bomb detonation without actually testing a full scale device. This lets one verify and refine the otherwise “magic number” constants in computer simulation code that were empirically derived 50-80 years ago.

Of course, if you’re a nascent nuclear power along the lines of NK, you just do full scale tests, treaties be damned.
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That was the other point, that the more direct route that avoids US and allied naval assets is across the interior of Saudi Arabia and Jordan.

But it starts being politically sensitive when Israeli radars see cruise missiles and drones coming across national borders.

Which means there are probably some murky bargains to the effect of "Israeli doesn't care about a few Houthi drones, compared to Hamas and Hezbollah, and so looks the other way so that Jordan and Saudi Arabia can avoid inflaming their populaces by taking an active stance."
> Why would the government police such matters?

Because at the end of the day this is fraud?
Yes.

There is nothing logically inconsistent with saying disarming the native population was a tactic used to further subjugate them, as an example. Racially motivated violence has almost unilaterally been the causal result of insufficiently armed minorities. Im all for letting non violent offenders out of prison.
Somehow, “Douchebag Syndrome” sounds like a much better name for this than “Apollo Syndrome”.
Maybe if so many people are "missing the mark" it is because of poorly chosen words?

It is important when writing such a long speech to keep in mind that at best 1 or 2 sentences, slogans, et will be remembered or used as extra short summary of the essence of the speech. If the idea was empathy and not feeling then that's the word that should have been used.
This is untrue. See articles like this:

https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2019/4/21/fatherhood-fin...

> Today in China, gestational surrogacy is illegal for everyone, regardless of sexual orientation. Adoption is restricted to people in heterosexual marriages. This means gay people can't have kids.

China lags significantly behind basically any European country in terms of gay rights and gay families and it’s getting worse:

https://www.latestly.com/socially/world/china-bans-gay-coupl...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna85528

Asserting people don’t care when the government continues to pursue obviously anti-LGBTQ policies is silly.
Most websites I build outside of work are for fun / personal projects. There's no faster toolchain to setup than vanilla HTML. As a professional frontend dev I am good enough at JS / CSS to build whatever pieces I need sans tooling. It's easy, pretty instantaneous, completely free and dependency free.
There absolutely are, but when’s the last time that stopped us advancing new tech?
https://archive.ph/IoTWt
Do people not think of _anything_ while they're reading besides the text that they're reading? I think of all kinds of other stuff while I'm reading books.
> used as a scientific basis to justify many attrocities

That's the operating phrase though. Throughout history, atrocities were justified using whatever was seen as the higher authority at the moment - the will of a deity, the words of a prophet, the decree of a king, appeal to destiny or legacy, and yes, science too. Especially in the early XX century, when science was kicking into gear, and delivering miracles left and right for everyone to see - it was easy tool to abuse to justify whatever the leaders wanted or needed to.

Doesn't mean the science itself is at fault here.

I didn't read up much on phrenology so I won't comment on it, but RE eugenics, I see it as a mix of good and bad ideas that sprouted in an environment full of aforementioned hatred and otherwise devoid of moral and ethical boundaries[0]. I feel it's more of a historical coincidence of fledging science and then-contemporary zeitgeist, rather than an innate feature of science. The resulting effect is that even the word itself - eugenics - casts a long shadow on research in fields like genetics, medicine and economics. There are whole subsections of those fields you can't discuss in polite company, 'lest someone rounds your thinking off to "eugenics" and therefore paint you as "nazi". This is a bad outcome.

> Easier to trust more fundamental aspects of math and physics, but even in those fields, on the bleeding edge many things can change.

That's true. There's this thing though. I can't put my finger on it, so it might be just a benefit of hindsight, but there's a notably different feeling when you reason from current state of knowledge in a correct way, vs. when you abuse it to justify whatever self-serving or atrocious idea you want. The atrocities committed under the label "eugenics" feel very much like the latter. But again, this may be just hindsight, and we may all be vulnerable to a new flavor of that mistake today.

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[0] - Notably, some of which were developed only after those events. E.g. the Nazis weren't the only ones willing to do brutal, lethal scientific experiments on POWs, and, to my understanding, the consensus and principle to not do that was achieved in response to the atrocities of WWII.
Too many policies are based on too little reason, with too much feeling, all while thinking they're scientific, but without taking human feelings into account, they fail harder each time they are tried. But who am I to know better; Surely with the right person in charge, this time it will work…
When in Rome. Early in my career I was hesitant to call myself a software "engineer", but then everyone started calling themselves that, and quite a few of them can barely produce a working CRUD app. Calling myself a "programmer" or "developer" would serve no purpose at this point except to put me a step below them in the eyes of employers.
If I'm not mistaken it's used instead of actual nuclear weapons tests. Wikipedia says the following about the NIF

> It supports nuclear weapon maintenance and design by studying the behavior of matter under the conditions found within nuclear explosions.
It's only useful for the 'service' part if it can actually do stuff, and with the current state of LLMs it wouldn't be long before somebody argued such a service into giving them 200% refunds on everything and published the steps for everyone else to do the same.
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Thats more like 10 steps away, not really the next step.
Those who think I am making it up:

https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1736349872427585588
It’s quite often illegal to go off-grid and the power companies will also create financial disincentives (formalized via regulatory powers) for backfeeding the grid when they don’t want it to happen.

They have made sure it’s a heads they win, tails you lose situation.
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Facts and reason mean little to fascists and authoritarians. Any excuse is sufficient to justify the hatred, fear, and greed needed to run such machines of repression. If the facts don't support the narrative then "alternative facts" will be made to. They are populist enterprises arising from how people feel, and continuing because nobody wants to admit they're wrong.
I know it's the law in Canada. I think it's a silly law.

> If you don't like the law/regulation, you can try change it.

Not really; I'm not Canadian.

I'm not campaigning for a change; I'm just commenting on a news report about a guy that was prosecuted for calling himself an engineer.

> You and I don't get to decide what "should" be allowed.

I can't decide what is allowed; but it's incumbent on anyone with a brain to take a view on what should be allowed.
No idea what you’re trying to say or who you’re responding to. I haven’t expressed any moral claims in my previous comments, and haven’t written an essay. I think the right thing to do would be to provide Gaza’s population with food and medicine. I also happen to believe Houthi's strategy makes it way harder to actually do so.

No idea what that has to do with twitter discourse or US issues with healthcare, something I know literally nothing about.
From what I have seen from some tests at my company, you can almost always get hallucinations that are potentially very destructive.

But for front line "get this person to shut up and go away in frustration" customer service - not something for solving actual customer issues - it's a no-brainer.

I would guess that looping, no-human phone systems are just cheaper to keep for now.
With half of individuals reportedly having no internal monologue, would this be useless with them? Or just render unintelligible results?
A great example of how cowards installed in a bureaucracy can bring down the entire organization. The "no assholes" rule for hiring should apply at every level, no matter how prestigious that asshole is. I wish this would be a warning shot for how organizations can be destroyed by lack of action, but I unfortunately doubt it. Bullying exists everywhere and people are mostly afraid to do anything about it and the only way around it is through strong leadership, which is sadly lacking everywhere. Even at famed tech companies, this happens ALL THE TIME and bureaucracy protects them.
That was a pliosaur in the movie, not a mosasaur.
"Cost and production scale are different questions"

No they aren't. At any given time cost is determined by supply and demand. If you can't supply enough to meet demand, then the cost is high. If there is no supply, then the cost is infinitely high. It really isn't very complicated.
You're arguing that America and Israel are more dangerous than Hamas? I mean yes, of course. That's the point of having a military.
I've been running the GitLab Omnibus for 4 years now. Easiest upgrades ever. Never once had a bad update that required manual workarounds.
> What is a "hapaxnym"? I can't find a definition or even any results for this word online.

A portmanteau word of "hapax legomenon" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapax_legomenon) and "pseudonym", i.e. a pseudonym that is used nowhere else.
"Do you know how to fix my [hardware device]?"

"Nope, no idea."

Stick by this religiously.
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Sounds like they'd benefit from being in a sensory deprivation pool to enhance the quality of the signal!

https://i.stack.imgur.com/0Rtya.png
Not just everyone and everypony, but every creature, great and small.

Eg https://www.evogeneao.com/en/explore/tree-of-life-explorer#h...

The last herring I ate was roughly a 120 millionth cousin, 61 million times removed.
The other thing you people are missing is how technology compounds. You don't need to have people come in to the police station to have their thoughts reviewed when everyone is assigned an LLM at birth to watch over their thoughts in loving grace and maybe play a sound when they have the wrong one.
> Go-to for correctly operating a dated tool deep in the bowels of the machine? Cog.

> Go-to for all questions related to the machine, its history, future, and all machines like it? Not cog.

The difference between these two is the people you work with. If people come to you to have their questions answered but can't execute on it properly then... you become #1. Of course this can be twisted around to theoretically be a you problem or it could be an endless churn of warm bodies coming through hiring.
That’s right, it’s not
Yes I didn't mean to say it was at fault, I was mostly bringing to light that _at the time_ the people doing these things thought they were being scientific about it, or convinced themselves of it. I agree with all your points in the follow up and think about it in very similar ways.
> With the new wave of technologies enabled by Generative AI (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs), corporations are starting to look into ways of streamlining their design processes and eliminating manual tasks from the designer’s plate. While this will allow designers to be more productive and acquire some new superpowers, these optimizations will inevitably lead to smaller teams in the coming years. Both things can be true at the same time.

GenAI makes everything look samey. Then with enough time people will crave something handcrafted and bespoke, created by actual humans.
I have a Gigabyte RTX 4080, it’s the same size and weight as a 4090. The card is over 340mm long and tall enough to occupy more than three PCI-e slots in my case. It weighs more than many laptops, and I had to add a physical reinforcement bracket to keep it from sagging and straining against the PCI-e slot it’s plugged into.

Looking at the article it’s fairly obvious the damaged cards came from system builder(s) who thought it would be sufficient to use two PCI-e bracket thumbscrews to secure the cards before throwing the whole PC in a shipping box and letting God sort it out.

Sure GPUs are becoming too large, but issues like this could be solved with a little care during assembly. Many high-end GPUs actually come with the necessary support brackets, which should be a hint.
The fact the department had to be dismantled to solve the issue indicates the bad actors had effectively taken over.

This is clearly a failure of leadership that dragged for way too long.

Those kind of personalities need to be punished early and decisively otherwise everything rots.
Right, anything at a higher level than like vibrations in quantum fields is a mental construct and doesn't exist as such.
Yeah, it’s kinda like healthcare, just put out the hat when you get sick and all your friends and family kick in, right? There are actually a lot of people who think that’s a viable solution.

But wait, it’s not a viable solution for everyone. So we build organizations which formalize this commitment in the form of a monthly payment.

After a while this becomes predatory and sharp, and the need emerges for this to be formally socialized as a part of living in society.
Maybe Miso will ultimately foot the bill for the hardware. As I mentioned, the current system probably isn't capable enough to replace the equivalent of one full time employee. And employees must be paid for in discrete units, so you wouldn't save any money there. E.g. You can't fire the cashiers just because they no longer have to tend the fries.
Thanks! Looks like that was just after they got started, though, so perhaps things have changed? It all seemed pretty simple and will organised later on that year, do could have been teething troubles.
The article exposes in my opinion one of the great weaknesses of the way Swedish society works.

Generally Swedish society is very conflict averse and decisions are made trying to achieve consensus (or at least to give the impression they do), everyone's voice has to be heard and nobody wants to appear to actually force decisions.

This leads to a process that is slow when decisive action is required and particularly in light of bullying allegations ignores the impact of having the situation continue for a long time in order to appear fair.

I had a colleague experience a similar situation when his child was being severely bullied at school. Everyone was occupied with assessing the impact of a decision on the bullies and avoided making an decision, without considering the impact of dragging their feet on the bullied child
"For the children" is the first excuse usually.
What changed with Excel 2003?
While mainland China's land ownership is more like a series of 99-year leases, those leases are notoriously difficult to break. There are loads of examples of buildings in China being built around a few land holdouts. In fact, it's so common that real estate developers in China call them "nail houses[0]".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holdout_(real_estate)#Nail_hou...
If you are interested in this, take a look at NaiveSystems Analyze [0] which is a free and open source static analyzer for checking MISRA compliance etc.

Disclaimer: I'm the founder.

It has been battle tested with real customers in automotive, medical devices, and semiconductors. AFAIK this is the first FOSS tool that achieves commercial use standards (extensive ruleset coverage, low false positives based symbolic execution (which Coverity relies heavily on) and SMT solver, ...)

[0]: https://github.com/naivesystems/analyze
As pointed out by Pitch Meeting: he invites his young grandchildren to the under construction park where a worker was just eaten. He's pretty terrible as a person, not just as a manager.
It happened in 2013 lol. This is just about how its happening easier. This is a research milestone, it will help us model fusion plasma, but in no way is a prototype for a fusion power plant.
I am like disturbed that two people thought complimenting Erik’s work was worth a downvote. Who the heck hates nice people so much to spend that.

I’m an arch contributor, your’re barking up the wrong tree.
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Helping programmers earn side incomes.
One thing that surprised me a bit was that exceptions are more or less recommended in these guidelines. In the section "4.18 Exception handling", it is mentioned that "most compilers provide options (such as -fno-exceptions) that can be used to disable exceptions in order to eliminate the code and size overheads". Then it goes on describing how this makes it impossible to comply with a bunch of other rules.

Since these are "guidelines for the use of C++17 in critical systems", I would have expected it to prohibit exceptions due to their non-determinstic nature. On a side note, dynamic memory is prohibited (rule 21.6.1).

I haven't read the earlier MISRA C++ guidelines so I don't know if this have changed.
In my experience, becoming a go-to person gets your boss promoted. This was the case in 100% of my roles, until the very last one, when I refused to become this person....and my boss was fired.

Sadly through that process my role was orphaned, so I was also let go in the round of 2,000+ layoffs that shortly followed.
With love & respect to the Man in Black:

I keep a close watch on this heart of mine

I keep my eyes wide open all the time

I hold my pants up with a piece of twine

If you are mine, I'll pull the twine.
Thank you for elaborating for me. That’s what I was trying to say but my response was lazy.
What if it went the opposite way?

What if perfect brainreaders/liedetectors became as common as smartphones.

Used on everybody all the time. From politicians and cops to schoolkids and your own siblings.

What would be an optimistic version of that?
I strongly advise against incorporating in the US, if you never plan to live in the US.

Given you're in Thailand, both Thailand and Singapore are fine; the difference is that a Singaporean company would be seen favorably by pretty much any other company or investors in the world; a Thai company is simply less seen by others, and therefore it might raise eyebrows.

You can check out Sleek.sg [0], they help you incorporate online. Very similar to Stripe Atlas in the US. No affiliation, just a happy customer.

If you don't care about external investors, then a company in Thailand is going to be much less expensive, and just as fine.

[0]: https://sleek.com/sg/incorporation/foreigner/