skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US and UK have a checkered record with respect to accepting people fleeing the Holocaust [1].

Saving them was not an objective of the war effort and was opposed by many due to domestic anti-Semitism and ethno-nationalism (Nazism had significant open sympathy in the US at the time).

Until the political tides changed in the US/UK, both countries definitely wasted time during which many perished in the Holocaust. Mostly people watched as the Nazis killed millions. There was no public uproar to intervene while the events were happening.

It's also not clear that either country would have ever accepted millions of Holocaust refugees, even though the US certainly had the space. The creation of the state of Israel after the war in a way helped them not have to face that question.

1. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-united...
Anomalies in the law don't always reflect this kind of bias. The fact is that an increase in cycling and increased (defensive?) use of pavement (sidewalk for americans) to ride on, has led to an increase in risk. And, there is an outbreak of antisocial behaviour in places like the canal towpath which is leading to a problem.

I suspect motor vehicle drivers already have laws governing reckless driving. Thats all.
http://archive.ph/cr759

https://nitter.poast.org/BobbyAllyn/status/17926794357010149...
$750K in revenue? <$300 million on-hand? I'm surprised it's lasted this long. But most shocking of all: $6.6 billion-with-a-"b" market cap? Who the hell bids this shit up? Who but DJT himself would touch this stock?

But while Truth Social is on it's way to being delisted, today I learned a valuable lesson: don't make the stock symbol your initials. Someone is not going to be pleased when "DJT" is a penny stock trading OTC.
> stock is a legal way to buy favors from Trump

It’s closer to an NFT. He doesn’t directly benefit from holders; there are more direct ways to enrich him, e.g. loans.
Sadly not much will come of this. Even if they’re fined, so what?
This is an opportunity for Israel to reverse course. They can blame everything on Netanyahu, throw him out of office, stop all attacks into Gaza, stop depriving Gaza of food and water, and start deliberately working with respected members of the Gaza community to help build local businesses. They can make an international call to all successful Palestinians around the world to bring their business back to Gaza. Make it like when Israel was formed--a call to build something good for their ethnicity.

Honestly this could be a really great thing for the region. It could be an opportunity to shift blame from an entire ethnicity, the Jews, onto a single member of that ethnicity, in order to let the Jews and Palestinians be at peace with each other.
>>Is my kid really going to be a better student because she volunteered at a hospital or played high school softball?

Yes, IFF the activity was pursued seriously, as in a serious sustained effort seeking mastery. There are lesson learned in serious endeavors that simply will not be learned in any class, yet apply to every part of life.

My example: I was very serious about alpine ski racing in my teens+; it was not really affordable, but I found support, put in sometimes crazy effort and got to international levels. The small role it played in getting me into college was the least benefit - the lessons learned played a huge role in my being able to succeed in college and in life. For example, I completely leaned to control test anxiety and knew how to reliably put down my best performance (pretty easy to do it sitting in a chair vs launching out of the starting gate on an iced trail where the test is at 85mph). Applying oneself to study vs physical training, again the training improved the study. On and on. Also, pursuing activities usually entail travel, and if it is international, it's far better. Going to other countries as something other than a tourist gives a far broader perspective to life, which lasts a lifetime

And I can tell you similar stories from every athlete, musician, and other person I met at my college and others. Being 'well-rounded' is a real and valuable characteristic.

Of course, as others mentioned, this must be a serious effort, not merely an exercise in box-ticking. But even having said so, even just getting experiences as an exercise in box-ticking can provide more experience than sitting home.

The key thing is to have kids try enough different things so they find the thing THEY are passionate about. Then, organize their studies and activities around that. I just read one very interesting story about a girl doing just that -- fun read [0]. She got interested in mycology, made a boat from mushrooms, and would up with a full-ride scholarship. THAT is how it should work.

[0] https://theheartysoul.com/this-community-college-student-mad...
Thanks for taking the time to write this, you write well and I really enjoyed reading it.
My understanding is that inexpensive test prep boosts scores comparably.

That it’s possible to prepare for the SAT to score better doesn’t seem intrinsically opposed to its purpose.
Because motorists cause thousands of deaths every year, whereas bike riders cause about 0.

Motorists kill so many people it is too logistically difficult to prosecute them for murder, or manslaughter, or even using health and safety law. Normalization of deviance in action.
Most interesting part is that Putin on that list for “kidnapping” children, while in fact just providing a temporary refuge.
While Netanyahu bombed and killed like 15,000 children and it’s not a war crime for some reason, huh.
Well if you believe it was unprovoked then I can understand why this point of view would be so confusing.
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Seems reasonable and worth adding that we've long since blown past any point where the numbers would be tolerable. About the best you can say for Israel is that they're in an extraordinarily bad position (one in part of their own making!) where their only moves involve modern dense urban combat, the worst possible thing.
This statement about Israel creating a new generation of terrorists is said a lot but I think we have pretty strong counterexamples. Germans didn't become motivated terrorists after WW-II despite great devastation and killing of civilians by the Allies. Neither did Japan. I'm sure there are similar WW-I examples. One might argue that not fighting this war until the enemy surrenders is a much stronger motivation for terrorism. A more recent example might be Russia's campaign against Chechnya or Sri Lanka's campaign against the Tamil Tigers, both fought until the enemy was crushed and both seemingly have for now resolved the terrorism issue.

With respect to your proposal. Can you be more specific about how Israel is supposed to target Hamas leadership when they are in tunnels underground below civilian populations and holding hostages? That Hamas leadership is not dead is not due to lack of Israel trying to target them specifically. I don't think it's possible to get at Hamas without taking over the entire Gaza strip which leads me to repeat the OP's question of what would you do. Another question is whether you're suggesting to give free pass to the Oct 7'th attackers and kidnappers (which seems to be implied by saying "focus on Hamas leadership").
Managing extreme AI risks amid rapid progress
Children are notoriously bad at self-control.
I'd say to keep them away from it for awhile unless you closely monitor which games are being played. There are too many games out there that are tailor-engineered to trigger biochemical/endorphin responses that I'd say to keep away for as long as possible. Maybe consider a leapfrog learning tablet or just say f-it and go zero electronics. Games like Animal Crossing is probably okay but even there I had to discuss w/ my (then) tween that usually when you go into debt you have to pay something called "interest" and so going into debt is generally not a good way to live your life haha.
I think that "an enforced naval military blockade of Gazan seafront since 2007" is a more accurate phrasing of that state of affairs than "Israel's leaders may object...".
I agree with your "no unique perspective" point, but I don't think that's, well, the point. I would rather have a discussion about nearly any topic on HN than in most/all other places. I think the quality of discussion here is generally much higher than most/all other places.

Your reference to X/Twitter is in a way the point for me: I never really enjoyed Twitter when it was Twitter, and since the Musk acquisition I actively avoid it like the plague (I've deleted the app off my phone, and have signed out on the web to raise the barrier for me). I don't want to have conversations there, ever, really. I don't agree that resulting HN discussion on a topic like this would be indistinguishable from a discussion on X; I still believe the quality here will be higher.

I do agree that HN isn't for every single topic under the sun. But I hope we can both agree that there's no absolute arbiter of what should and shouldn't be here. It's ultimately a matter of subjective opinion, and even the people who run the site aren't going to be absolutist about it in most cases. I think in general there's a decent balance struck: while an article like this might not be completely on topic for HN, it's not completely off topic either, as long as articles about this topic don't dominate the front page, and we mostly only see articles with new information, and not just re-hashes of stuff that's already been reported on (and discussed here) for days/weeks/months.
Cotinine
Many of OpenAI's productization ideas make more sense when you remember that the guy in charge also thought Worldcoin and it's eye scanning or were a good idea.
Maybe one day the buck2 ecosystem will evolve to be that bazel replacement. It has a much smaller core. Right now it’s lacking in ecosystem support, tooling, examples, and a local build sandboxing (which could be fine if there was an easy to use local implementation of remote build that felt natural). Also no go support is sort of painful, and it’s a bunch of work as i understand it to get something like rules_go to work for buck2.
Same here. I don't even go through it that fast -- it takes me three months or so to get through a jar.

Refrigerated peanut butter sounds like an unnecessary hardship.
> news requires money. Bullshit doesn't

Had a thought about this.

We could once have argued that volunteer editors would bullshit too much for use in an encyclopedia. But Wikipedia taught us that a special kind of person will contribute high quality edits for free in their spare time, just because they want to fight against knowledge scarcity.

That same knowledge contribution instinct could be tapped for news. That gives us back news without seo spam essays and ad cascades. In fact one of the most reliable sources of world news is already the Wikipedia current events index. I feel like this idea could scale up a bit more to specific niches, like various industry news, local news, special interests, etc.
Forgive me if I misremember, but I believe the US refused to recognise the jurisdiction of the ICC over it's own citizens and soldiers, and continues to require that its forces have effective indemnification against actions in economies they are invited into.

They state that actual crimes will be dealt with by JAG, but I think the Okinawan community disputes that they were taken seriously when it comes to domestic violence and sexual assault.
Yeah, you can definitely fuck it up, but the same can be said for flex/grid/masonry layouts yet you wouldn't say "and grid spanning errors on resize are why we never use grid". HN does a lot "wrong" in its design (like the aforementioned table hell) but that doesn't mean every mistake it makes is a universal thing to avoid and inherent to the way it was implemented. Reddit, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Netflix, X, Amazon, and most modern sites do the same kind of content box snapping on either the header or content area (or both) via breakpoints. Most do it a lot better than HN :). The top site I know that doesn't really do that (but it does do the minor breakpoint things) is Yahoo.com.
they should add filters in the store search results now: published before 2023.
It was posted by the tech reporter at NPR. Inb4 “journos can’t be trusted” blah blah blah, here in reality NPR is a reputable org and a reasonable person’s Bayesian priors would put this at “almost certainly an actual statement from ScarJo.”
> ...and furthermore it calls the entire "court" into question. It's pretty obvious this is not a real court, and it should be ignored by all.

Yeah, it's not a real court, it's just a bunch of "transnational" bureaucrats imitating the forms of a court, without the foundational basis [1], and at great remove from whatever situations they're pretending to judge. At best, it's a political prop.

[1] Which would include things like de-facto power over its claimed jurisdiction, and having law known and respected by the people there.
The title and story are rather misleading, he's been charged with “exposing a child to harmful material” and “sexual contact with a child under age 13" rather than for generating the images per-se.
ICC does not have trials or conviction in absence.

After the arrest warrant goes out, everything stops until people charged are in custody. It's very unlikely that Gallant or Netanyahu will ever be arrested. Their travel will be just limited for the rest of their lives.
> But for a mere mortal, I expect proof of work.

How can you make a fair comparison between the two if you haven't read one?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/magazine/native-language-...
Vitalik Buterin addresses threats to Ethereum's decentralization in blog post
> I couldn’t fathom why anyone would use Windows²

I saw this sentence, was about to type something in response, and then I expanded the footnote (side note: is it really a 'foot'note if it's not in the footer of the page?):

> I became significantly more tolerant since my early university years. Windows (specifically the NT family) is a great operating system. I even have it installed on my gaming pc so that I can buy games I never play.

It's pretty rare to see such a balanced perspective with respect to Windows when someone starts off with 'UNIX'.
Nooo. I've been enjoying that voice for a few months on my iPhone ChatGPT app. Launched... and tested... the voice is someone else now.
Among the topmost cases of usefulness of LLMs you should place the possibility of obtaining information (or pointers to information) that search engines will not return as they "do not understand the question", or produce excessive noise in the results...
“People” need to be better defined. In the case of pure math, “people” are your fellow mathematicians in your specific subfield or adjacent.
> Israel [...] will be facing a generation of motivated terrorists in about 15-20 years

The Palestinians are taught from primary school to hate Jews[1] (books paid with western money). They couldn't possibly hate Jews more.

[1]: https://www.cfr.org/blog/teaching-palestinian-children-value...
I don’t get it but it’s awesome. It’s like intergalactic tv.
and an octet of data carried through a gate like this is a... Trilobyte?
I don't understand why they needed 2 weeks of immutable transactions in Dynamo. Could anyone give any hints?
I'm aware of co-working places, but the ones I've seen (here in the US) don't have the AYCE drinks and snacks. I'm a fatass, that sort of thing matters :)
it seems most of the big companies try to break the rules while in the process become so strong they trade it off for what becomes a marginal fine & cost of doing business. Facebook, Uber come to mind first. This may just be the same.
Go to an undervalued school like Western Washington University which has a 90% acceptance rate and regularly sends CS grads to Google and the like. Someone could probably automate creating a list of such schools by scraping LinkedIn profiles, class size data (to know what % of each class goes to a top company) and cross referencing with each school's acceptance rate.
How is pedophilia considered psychologically? Is it a treatable condition, an untreatable permanent condition, or simply a criminal choice?
And try different bread varieties. I adore bread and always have -- but there are certain grains and styles that I very strongly dislike.
Well we may have to agree to disagree. I abandoned Apple's ecosystem (Mac included) because the axe fell and my apps broke. First it was the OpenGL depreciations, which were annoying but manageable. Then 32-bit libraries quit loading and more than half of the Mac apps I paid for stopped working. Apple's advice to me was to pester the developers, and the developer's advice to me was to pound sand.

> It’s especially great when you need the real world and computing to interact, “in the field” as it were.

I agree in a certain respect. Parallel to this statement though, I also see another two things as true:

- Anything an iPad can do, a Mac can do better.

- Many things a Mac can do, an iPad can't at all.

Adding software functionality to the iPad would not detract from the few areas it excels in today. It is absolutely and entirely undeniable that the iPad's software capabilities pale in comparison to what the hardware can do. Apple has no reason not to give people what they want; except for the fact that it might stop people from buying Macs. Therefore they create an artificial (and entirely unnecessary) segmentation scheme that drives more people away than it attracts.

The apologism for Apple's blatantly anti-consumer practice is baffling. Do we just... pretend like Apple doesn't break things on a constant basis for the express purpose of pushing proprietary shitware? Should we smile and pretend like nobody misses OpenGL or wants Vulkan support? They're the largest company in the world by now, I should hope they've learned how to share their damn toys.
Depends on whether it has enough power and enough strength.

In general the answer is 'yes' but I don't think many commercial aircraft would be officially rated for such aerobatics.

"Go ahead and try it, but I don't want be be seen to know about you doing it."
> So these buildings were built during the peak of France's imperialist plunder. That's not a very good example then

We're likely past peek US imperial dominance as well or at least close to it, and thinking about 150 years in the future is a good comparison. And there won't be much left because reinforced concrete is not a good material over a long period.

> But so is recyclable materials.

Why not, but concrete isn't recyclable either. It's even less recyclable than stone. So why bring that here?

> Where I live I can actually see the environmental damage of stone quarries every day

But concrete comes from quarries too!
SpaceX is a space exploitation business, Starlink being the foremost example but also commercial and governmental launches of Falcon 9 and eventually Starship. Even going to Mars is ultimately a mission of exploitation, not exploration.

Space exploration is the duty of governmental space agencies such as NASA, who (assuming sufficient budgeting) can all literally afford to run red ink for entire projects and not have to give a damn.
I don't understand why you say "unprovoked". Gaza has been under occupation for decades (yes, it's technically an occupation, regardless of whether there are settlers or not). It's been periodically bombed, each time with as many victims as an October 7th. It's been under a complete blockade for 16 years. The fact that everything was fine in Israel on October 6th doesn't mean that there was a peace- it just means that they weren't expecting their victims to be able to fight back.

> What would you do in such a situation?

The situation is that Israel is an oppressor and an occupier, so what should it do? Well, first of all it should have made different choices in the past, honest and fair and peaceful choices. Which it didn't make, and it's its fault. But it's never too late. It should have made honest, fair and peaceful choices also in this occasion- mourned its deads, vowed to bring those responsible to justice, and engaged with Palestinian counterparts to withdraw within the 1967 borders and promote the birth of a Palestinian state.

Of course, it didn't do any of those things. It did exactly what Hamas expected.
Actually, I think what a lot of real systems do is equivalent to pre-computing a "random" table that has suitable balancing properties, and then use the hash to index into it.

e.g. Ceph used to have a big problem with overloaded placement groups, causing some disks to get twice as much load; max throughput was when those maxed out, leaving the rest half-idle. I don't recall the details of the current solution, but I think it's equivalent to generating a random assignment, and then tweaking it to get rid of over-full bins.

The original Chord-style consistent hashing is easier in the P2P environments it was designed for, but typically consistent hashing is used today in much more closely-coupled systems.
That’s all successful tech companies out of Silicon Valley.

It is a silly place.
Which CSS framework out of curiosity? I don't know many that won't let you use px, which is 1/96th an inch at any DPI, and if it really doesn't let you use the most basic sizing element on the web then the problem seems more with the chosen framework than anything to do with browsers :p.
It was very confusing, and for a while there every team inside Microsoft started adding .NET to their name for some internal visibility points regardless of any connection with the common language runtime.

That's how you ended up with names like Windows .NET Server 2003.
I imagine one just claims they had a "medical issue" and the pedestrian "came out of nowhere" and nothing much changes. So long as you're not outrageously the lunatic on a fixie who intentionally laughs at a death, you'll probably get away with it.
Keep in mind loosness of terminology...

RSUs are taxable on vesting, and California wants its piece of that, if any of the vesting happened while you were a resident or working in California. But after they vest, they're just stock, and when you sell stock, California considers the capital gains to be sourced to your state of domicile.

If the OP was being loose with terminology, and the 'RSUs' to sell already vested, there's no California tax due on sale if they've moved out of state before the sale.
Things that can kill you are generally at one end of the spectrum. You're not handing the kid a crack pipe.

The other side is something like broccoli... Good for you, tasty (or not) but not something one normally gets excited about.

IN the grand scheme of things the switch is much closer to brocoli than crack. All the things that you are going to worry about are life lessons that come with the device. Do your home work first, moderation, outside still matters... Nothing wrong with starting all that early!
This reporter appears to have confirmed it from a direct source https://x.com/yashar/status/1792682664845254683?t=EwNPiMPwRe...
What do you mean they wouldn't arrest? Israel's foreign minister Tsipy Livny had arrest warrants issued against her by courts in the UK and in Belgium.
It's very much "figure out what AOs want and fake it" rather than "show ambition and ability to get shit done", and kids are acutely aware of the fakeness of it all.

Like, it's a meme among the "applying to Ivies" crowd just how many nonprofits high schoolers start that are total shams, designed for the sole purpose of being able to say they "founded a nonprofit dedicated to giving ukulele lessons for historically underserved neighborhoods" on their application without technically lying.

It is an important lesson that the biggest controllable factor in success is figuring out how to play the game, rather than actual passion in doing something.
One word: "Her"
In the US we added laws to make it less illegal to kill people as long as you are driving. It’s not “manslaughter” it’s “vehicular manslaughter” which I guess we’re all just supposed to accept in the name of progress.