skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The optics of equating a terrorist organization on the one hand with a democratic state with functioning judicial system and accountability for any crimes committed on the other hand by putting them in the same press release is pretty bad for the court.

I don't think anyone is actually doing that, though. The leader of a terrorist group and the leader of a democratic state can both commit war crimes. We need not compare them directly or try to say which one of them is worse in order to acknowledge that fact. Putting them in the same press release (this isn't a press release, though; this is a CNN article) seems fairly natural to me, since both are actors in the same conflict, regardless of how it started.

> I'm all for investigating if there were any orders of directly targeting civilians being given to the Israeli military, etc, but that's a pretty far fetched assumption in my opinion.

You don't need direct orders to target civilians. You merely need negligence or a lack of care that causes civilian deaths in excess of what is "necessary" (ugh) to achieve the military objectives. I personally believe that Israeli forces have been indiscriminately killing civilians in Gaza in a way that would constitute war crimes, and apparently that just means I'm in agreement with the ICC.

> On the other side you have what's a pretty clear case of a large scale terror attack against innocent civilians.

Again, it is perfectly possible to acknowledge that two different parties have committed war crimes, even though they've done so in completely different ways, and the organizations they represent are completely different.

> In addition, why doesn't the ICC look into Egypt's conduct of refusing to allow civilians to flee from this conflict?

Because that's not against international law. Even if it was, your question here is just whataboutism.
Have you tried https://cursor.sh/ at all? You still keep your GH copilot, but it has a better experience IMO.
It’s always had the subtext of “follow your (reasonable) dreams.”
There are several other topics that also get flagged into oblivion fairly quickly. However I won't spoil the fun by saying what they are.
ChatGPT's mobile app revenue saw its biggest spike yet following GPT-4o launch
That's really cool - didn't know this was the case.
And the hollow-state triode is more or less the same thing as JFET, except it needs higher bias voltages.
Hands-On with the Fujifilm X-T50: An X-T5 Lite, or Something More?
The output is actual an CSS file - so it’s not quite the same as other CSS in JS libs
I tried using GPT-4 as a better way to search papers - it can be very annoying when you know the gist of a result but not the authors or enough details about the methodology for Google. GPT-4 was pretty good at figuring out what citation I wanted given a vague description.

However, the confabulation/hallucination rate seemed highly subject-dependent: AI/ML citations were quite robust, but cognitive science was so bad that it wasn't worth using. Eventually I went back to the Old Ways. But there are a good number of academics that use it as an alternative to Google Scholar.
The whole point of enshittification is that companies don't need your data but they take it anyway.
A reminder for all the people that are going to accidentally eat some bear?
Intel's going inside AI PCs, too – its Lunar Lake chip is coming later this year
It looks like it's pulling from the MDN docs for the dataset (the grid and language are identical.) In this case, it's not going to be up to date, because MDN has fallen behind. For example, MDN still lists container style queries as unsupported by Safari, but Safari has supported them for three months.

e.g.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_contain...

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=246605

Because of stuff like this, the gold standard is caniuse.com, not MDN.
The RINOs are moving towards the welcoming arms of Democrats and the "progressives" don't have a home anywhere as they are barely even tolerated in the Democratic party.
> They somehow want everyone to be on the bleeding edge. What happened?

It is one order of magnitude easier to ship a software to the last version of the major browsers than supporting all older versions of them including IE with disabled javascript.
How Are Microchips Made? (By Branch Education)
As best I can tell VCs largely attribute their 99% failure rate to largely random chance rather than their own inability to pick winners - so the failure of an entrepreneur is not a particularly strong mark against them and a weaker mark than the fact they got funding in the first place.
You joke but the drive to increase profits at any cost is having pretty insidious impacts on the world. Enshittification is everywhere now with companies being forced to degrade customer experience to appease shareholders. Nothing wrong with making a profit but making additional profit every single quarter is making the western world hostile to most people on average wages. It's too expensive to even live here with only a small percentage of people doing well under these circumstances.
The cameras at the entrance to the building run some sentiment analysis on your face at 8am.
It's not a terrible name either. Assistant would be better, but they can't use that name[1] of course... I'm having a hard time thinking of something else that instantly communicates this idea of an intelligent subordinate aide that doesn't have negative associations.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Assistant
I don’t know what happened but these days Miguel does seem very salty about w/e happened at his time at MS. Like you, I would take what he says with a grain of salt.
Nocobase, Notion for creating production-ready apps
I agree its disputed, but i don't think it follows from that that it is both. Like hypothetically (i say hypothetically since this is not the situation at hand afaik) if there was one crime that only applied to non international armed conflicts and one that applied to international, i don't think it would be just to charge with both just because its a bit unclear which is the correct one.

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I also found in the legal report the following that partially explains the reasoning https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/2024-05/240520-p... :

War crimes require a nexus to an armed conflict, and for some war crimes this conflict
must be international.5 For this reason, it is necessary to assess the situation in Gaza
and in Israel to determine whether an armed conflict exists and if so, its nature.
13. The Panel agrees with the Prosecutor’s conclusion that the conflicts in Israel and Gaza
comprise an international armed conflict and a non-international armed conflict running
in parallel. Hamas is a highly organized non-State armed group, and the hostilities
between Hamas and Israel have been sufficiently intense to reach the threshold of a
non-international armed conflict. The Panel’s assessment is that the non-international
armed conflict between Israel and Hamas began, at the latest, on 7 October 2023, when
Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups launched Operation al-Aqsa Flood against
Israel and Israel launched its Operation Iron Swords in response. The Panel has also
concluded that there is an international armed conflict between Israel and Palestine on
the basis either that:
a) Palestine is a State in accordance with criteria set out in international law, for which
there is a sufficiently strong argument for the purpose of an application to the Court
for an arrest warrant, and an international armed conflict arises if a State uses force
against a non-state actor on the territory of another State without the latter’s consent;
or
b) Palestine and Israel are both High Contracting Parties to the 1949 Geneva
Conventions, and that pursuant to the text of Common Article 2 of the Conventions,
an armed conflict between two High Contracting Parties is international in
character; or
c) There is a belligerent occupation by Israel of at least some Palestinian territory.
14. The Panel’s assessment is that the international armed conflict began at the latest on 7
October 2023, when Israel first started responding to the Hamas attack on its territory
by using force on the territory of Palestine without the latter’s consent.
You'd consider wrong. Given iOS and macOS are exponentially more popular than when Objective-C was the primary language for both OSX/iOS, Swift is far more relevant than Objective-C ever was.

Also Objective-C had comparably miniscule community effort in open source, the Swift on Server community is humming along, active, and businesses are using it on Linux. It's only grown in popularity... not sure Objective-C ever saw any amount of growth outside of Apple's platforms!
IDK if you just wrote that all on the spot but well done, you need a blog! I knew most of those facts individually but never tied it all together into a narrative, or made the connection with Read the Freakin Manual.

To only slightly elongate this tangent: I’m giving the Reddit crowd cultural victory on this one with “OP” (for Original Post) rather than “TFA”/“TLA”. I’m curious what is typically used on platforms like Instagram and TikTok, but I’m guessing no one here knows lol
Training Exact Ambient Diffusion Models with Noisy Data
Seems like you're talking about OpenConnect. In that, Netflix ships an OpenConnect Appliance (a server for sending out Netflix video) to an ISP that meets the minimum requirements and agrees to set up networking to the OCA in a certain way.

> A CDN is when you set up servers in datacenters around the country and distribute content to them so that your content is closer to your users.

Yes, exacly - the server in the Netflix case is called an OCA, and is set up in datacenters all around the country - in this case they are owned by the ISP rather than being a 3rd party data center where the ISP has a fiber and the CDN rents space. Here's the thing though.... Akamai, Cloudflare, and Fastly all do the same as Netflix too. The ISP wins because it saves transit, the CDN wins because it doesn't need to rent dc space, and customers of both win because the content is delivered faster to the people using that ISP.

Or maybe you're talking about the peering guidelines? Hate to break it to you, every CDN is happy to peer with just about anyone with a mutual POP - keeping the transit bill lower is always a win.
Agree. If you want a fully reactive database (and not just hierarchy-based reactivity like Firebase) but want to keep your ACID + relational data modeling, check out https://convex.dev .

Plug notice: this is my company.
More details at
https://bconnect.bmmonline.org/
You have to understand that Windows comes from a separate division than .NET and they have no overlap. Microsoft isn't a cohesive company. .NET comes from the developer division (DevDiv) and UWP comes from the Windows division (now Server & Cloud). The Windows folks always hated .NET and the developer division has been lukewarm about UWP.

The Microsoft panel of this comic sums it up nicely: https://bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts
https://dumbphones.pory.app/

https://www.wired.com/story/dumbphones-reddit-last-good-plac...
Everyone learned it somewhere!
You assume he hasn't consulted with top-notch lawyers already...
Maybe these slipped through the cracks since they also seem to clear both those bars yet were allowed to be flagged:

Israel Says Iran Launched Drones at Its Territory in Retaliatory Strike
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40026150

Iran said to begin attack on Israel, launching drones
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40025617

How the Gaza Ministry of Health Fakes Casualty Numbers
Two examples I can think of off-hand:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Proenneke

and

https://www.jeanaspen.com/about-us
On a touchscreen, every use case is equally painful compared to more precise input methods. That's only an advantage if your users spend a significant fraction of time in unexpected input situations.

Personally, while I am able to do most everything I do on my computer on my smartphone, I almost never enjoy doing so – one big exception being content consumption. And even then, not being able to quickly make a note or comment on what I'm reading feels constraining.

> I also think there's a big advantage to the vertical form factor for many applications - just look at how we've settled on a vertical format for almost all reading material.

One seems to be strictly a consequence of the other.

> most phones can switch between vertical and horizontal modes as necessary.

Horizontal mode is usually horrible, both in terms of being able to hold the phone with one hand, and in terms of UI. On iOS for example, Safari's UI becomes extremely wasteful in horizontal mode.

> And it's not like it's just the first thing that we tried that stuck - there are a myriad of failed smartphone concepts that have been tried out but just aren't as convenient.

I think it has at least as much to do with industry momentum. Even if I'd personally prefer another form factor, I won't have many apps optimized for it if it's not in line with mainstream phone usage.
Michael Dell Says AI PCs Will Be 'Pretty Standard' in 2025
You wrote "Taxing the super-rich might be admirable from a jealousy point of view." which is a rather uncharitable way to describe a desire for the wealthy to pay their fair share of taxes.
Parents who are saying no to "extracurriculars"
I use it a lot. Win and start typing to launch just about any app or open any document is really handy. Win and a number key launches or switches to that app pinned at that position on the taskbar. Win+L locks the screen whenever I get up from my desk. Win+Shift+S starts the screen clipper. Win+Left/Right snaps an app from one side to the other, win+shift+left/right switches between desktops, Win+Tab lets me drag apps from one desktop to another and see what's open where if needed, Win+E opens a new explorer window, Win+. opens the emoji keyboard. Those are just the ones I use almost every day, I probably use a few others a lot as well.
You sure it is improving and not just getting worse the other way
>produces a document from the Israeli Supreme Court

This would mean that Netanyahu has been charged, tried and eventually acquitted of the same crimes. ICC investigates if the national proceedings are genuine.

To start the process, Israeli prosecutor must prosecute.
Buffet rule number one: "If it sounds too good to be true"
What I've Learned Building Interactive Embedding Visualizations
> HN has insightful discussion?

Well that's the hope anyway. :|
It always baffles me how long it takes for Windows to search for a file while the GNU's `find` command churns through filenames and paths like it's nothing.
May I ask what makes aella overrated? I mean, I didn't understand whether it was in a sense of purely related to escort activity or for her writings, surveys (...), I'm asking because this isn't the first time I read about aella being not reputable. Searching on hn.algolia a user came - pun intended - up with a script to hide certain website on hn, and aella's substack was one of them. I glanced at her Twitter/substack in the past and I found content varying from crappy to at least interesting or quite interesting
And to add on to JumpCrisscross, ICC warrants are only valid in countries that are currently member states of the ICC [0], though countries will gladly turn the other eye depending on mutual interests (eg. Narendra Modi's close relationship with Japan, France, Singapore, UAE, and Israel because they didn't enforce US travel sanctions on him when he was CM of Gujarat in the 2000s).

Notably, the US is NOT a signatory of the ICC (this was a whole thing in the Iraq War days).

[0] - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ICC_member_states.sv...
Bush's settlement policies didn't work at all. West Bank settlements drastically increased in the years following that showdown. Can you look at a graph and spot the point where Bush "brought Israel in line"?

(I kind of like Bush 1, at least as a competent operator with some discernible principles, and think Israeli settlement of the West Bank is abhorrent).
Closest might be gamedev.net, but I'm not sure there's anything out there that qualifies as a HN for game development.

Might need to spread out. Go to engine-specific forums, programming subdomains (eg, graphics programming), news and industry etc.
Windows 7 was the best _windows_ based OS for me.
Is Israel a signatory of the ICC treaty? Does the ICC have universal jurisdiction?
Wow. Yes. You've no idea how long that's been! Thank you throwaway38375, what a legend.
It saves me a lot of keystrokes as a coding copilot. Pretty good at detecting my usual patterns, and most of the time it can auto-complete a line with either something correct or something very close to correct (usually just a few small tweaks required). I write a lot of SQL and it's especially good at autocompleting big join clauses, which my carpals greatly appreciate.
>One thing has been very clear during the last couple of years with Russia-Ukraine war and now this genocide: the world doesn't buy Western sht anymore.

Does it actually matter though? Much of the world hasn't bought western sht for decades and it hasn't really made a dent in any of the west's operations or goals.

China has proven they are just another sh*tty wannabe knockoff of the west (see BRICS and when countries default). They aren't any better.
True. Still, I'm trying to explain why a post like this would get flagged. I am not intending to insist that it must be flagged.
Given Microsoft‘s track record to only make every second Windows version decent, Win 12 would actually be good news.

Vista < 7 > 8 < 10 > 11 ? 12
related, NTSB's preliminary report on the incident:

https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Documents/DCA24MM031_Pre...

(the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is a very well-regarded agency that analyzes such accidents)

Starting page 9 is a detailed sequence of events.
I'd never heard of gumroad, so I took a look into it.

The Wikipedia isn't much help, but does do a decent definition.

"Gumroad enables creators to sell digital products, such as e-books, music, videos, software, and physical goods."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gumroad

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Then MakeUseOf has an article, which makes it sound good. They compare it to Etsy as another site for selling things on.

see:
https://www.makeuseof.com/what-is-gumroad-what-can-you-sell-...

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Checking on scamadvisor, the site rates it pretty highly, but user score is low. I'm guessing this has to do with creators getting burned by their history and/or price increases.

see:
https://www.scamadviser.com/check-website/gumroad.com

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Some reddit posts have positive things to say. With a common theme of BYOA (Bring Your Own Audience), as gumroad seems to do a minimal job of pushing content; Which matches up with my experience of never having heard of it before.

see:
https://www.reddit.com/r/selfpublishing/comments/h02pls/anyo...
https://www.reddit.com/r/artbusiness/comments/17ij8nz/is_gum...

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Checking pitchbook and crunchbase shows it's a private company with pretty good financials. And so there's minimal risk of being "Actively Evil" that public companies can be; i.e., selling out the company for short term profits while grifting customers for all their worth.

see:
https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/53830-99
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gumroad/

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One caveat is that they don't seem support commissions; That is, paying a fee to an artist or creator for a customized piece.

see:
https://www.reddit.com/r/selfpublishing/comments/h02pls/anyo...
Ask HN: Why would I want to disable exposed key protection in Google Cloud?
Dear J,

We’re writing to remind you that Google Cloud is introducing an organizational policy change on June 16, 2024. This change allows organization administrators to define how Google Cloud should respond if we become aware that a private Service Account Key has been publicly exposed. We are integrated with several programs, including the GitHub scanning program, to identify publicly exposed private Service Account Keys.

What you need to know

Service account keys must be kept private, and exposing them publicly can compromise your Google Cloud environment. A compromised Service Account Key could be used by bad actors to access, modify, or delete your data and/or consume expensive resources. We understand this could be disruptive to your organization and we are taking proactive measures to protect your environment.

To enhance the security of your environment, this organizational policy change will take effect on June 16, 2024. This change will proactively disable any publicly exposed Service Account Keys that we become aware of. This will affect all uses of the exposed Service Account Key.

What you need to do

You have the ability to modify this behavior ahead of time by taking one of the following actions:

Opt-in early by setting the IAM.serviceAccountKeyExposureResponse constraint to DISABLE_KEY which will enable the protection immediately.
Opt-out anytime by setting the IAM.serviceAccountKeyExposureResponse constraint to WAIT_FOR_ABUSE which will disable the protection.
Do nothing, in which case Google will enable the protection on your behalf on June 16, 2024.
Again, we understand that these changes might require some planning, but they are designed to enhance security for your environment, which remains a top priority at Google.

Thank you for choosing Google Cloud.

---

From the email they sent out.
For me, it's when companies build a bot for their platform or app.

Which has been trained on all this data, documentation, GitHub issues, Jira, Zendesk issues, Slack messages, etc. It's a sort of customer service bot that can help you code.

That's been the real magic that I've experienced.
This reminds me of that man who was stuck in egypt on a boat for 4 years.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-monday-ed...
they don't, in general

but they also don't want to die, want flowing water, food, electricity, medical infrastructure etc.
Huh.

I felt that it was pretty obvious, once one was read up on the law, that this would be the result. I'd expected arrest warrants for a larger group (maybe 10-16 people, thereabout), but I wasn't surprised by that it was a small group either.
Downvoting you because that is a very emotional view and not necessarily rational.
Interpersonal Communication - My employer is a big fan of the Clifton StrengthFinders school of thought, and I have found that generative LLMs are really helpful in giving me other ways to phrase asks to people that I tend to find difficult to successfully communicate with.

I usually structure it like:
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My top 5 strengths in the Clifton StrengthFinders system are A,B,C,D,E and I am trying to effectively communicate with someone who's top five strengths are R,T,∑,√,S.

I need help taking the following request and reframing it in a way that will be positively received by my coworker and make them feel like I am not being insensitive or overly flowery.

The way I would phrase the request is <insert request here>.

Please ask any questions that would help provide more insight to my coworker, other details that could resonate with them, or additional background that will help the translated request be received positively.
---

While the output is usually too verbose, it gives me a better reframing of my request and has resulted in less pushback when I need to get people to focus on unexpected or different priorities.
Text correction or generating a full sentences from scraps.

Like I write a super messy barely coherent paragraph and ask LLM to streamline the text and make it easy to understand while avoiding the LLMs grandiose language. Obviously it needs some corrections but it's way faster than normal.

Also just to shorten a longer text or even reformat the text accordingly to some direction.Like to convert daily notes to proper zettelkasten ones.
Dell's ultra-popular XPS 13 exclusively used Intel chips – until today