skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Be aware that this account has only one post (this one) and was created around 8 months ago when reports started to appear about Israeli influence on American public opinion online.

"Israeli State-sponsored Internet propaganda include the Hasbara, Hasbara Fellowships, Act.IL, and the Jewish Internet Defense Force. Supporters generally frame this "hasbara" as part of its fight towards improving their image abroad given continued Israeli human rights abuses, and also against anti-Israeli agitation and attempts to criticize it. There is substantive evidence that Israel heavily uses data-driven strategies, trolling and disinformation and manipulated media, as well as dedicating funds to state-sponsored media, for overt propaganda campaigns."[1]

"In June 2024, Israel's Ministry of Diaspora Affairs was revealed to have paid $2 million to Israeli political consulting firm STOIC, to conduct a social media campaign, fueled by fake accounts and often employing misinformartion, targeting 128 American Congresspeople, with a focus on Democratic and African-American members of the House of Representatives. Websites were also created to provide young, progressive Americans with Gaza news with a pro-Israel spin. Among the objectives of the campaign was amplifying Israeli attacks on UNRWA staffers and driving a wedge between Palestinians and African-Americans to prevent solidarity between the two groups. "[2]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-sponsored_Internet_propa...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misinformation_in_the_Israel%E...

3. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2024-0...
Interesting, as an American, I read the date in the video (02.04.2025) as February 4th, 2025 (I agree that the DD/MM/YYYY format makes more sense, but dates are commonly listed MM/DD/YYYY everywhere here). It makes me realize when doing a worldwide release, it's important to be as explicit on the date as possible.
We talked quite extensively about Stadia
Well, $500 in 2007 is $756 in 2025, not exactly a "budget phone" price.
> people will take a single sentence, ask some LLM to blow it up the correct length and in the process make it a complete waste of time for everyone.

It's more complicated than this.

The short form isnt actually the best form. It's incomplete. The LLM is being used to decompress, because it can be difficult to do. Blindly using an LLM isn't the solution but it can be part of an effective workflow to write good feedback.

Also, I'm sure some people take a brief, complete idea and expand it into an entire paragraph because they have some warped perception. That's bad, but I dont think most people are doing that because most people dont see any reason to.
Most of the time we do simple CRUD operations, I want this plumbing to be as straight forward as possible. Don't be patronising...
IRC technology news from the second half of 2024
Prismatic was even worse (better?), IIRC it scanned your twitter feed and then gave you a set research articles, academic websites, etc. To say I have a breadth of interests is an understatement. My twitter feed looks like arxiv and and a british tabloid had a baby.

What prismatic gave me was pages and pages of Art, Design, Philosophy, Mathematics, Literature and all of it hours to days old. Every single article it back I wanted to read and there was pages of it, never ending. There was no way I could even filter out what read and even what to be aware of, there was simply too much.

I closed it and never went back. I also realized that even knowing of knowing is itself a Faustian bargain, we are all on a temporary atoll in a giant sea.
While we're at it, can we take color away too? Dark mode should be a browser feature, not a site feature. If I want green mode for work tabs and blue mode for personal ones, and red for one's my peers find dubious... That should be between me and the browser without the site author's involvement.
> I believe his motivations are beyond getting rich. At some point in life money become means to goals, and goals are driven by real motivation.

They are now about acquiring power and respect from other people, after he became rich and everyone started making fun of him.
They probably are magnetically attached but also feature a latch somewhere to make sure they don't accidentally pop out.

Alternatively they could just be using really strong magnets and tight tolerances for the fit inside the Switch 2. That's a tough thing to get right though because if they make it too tight it'll be annoying to get them lined up juuuuust straight enough to snap in but if they make it too loose they can pop out too easily.
Sorry, you're right. I forgot because literally nothing supports it other than maybe wifi password entry and navigating some menus.
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Isn’t the norm not crashing and succeeding? it’s only space x who normalized so many failures to “move fast”?
but quite different architectures
> get the majority of the profit in the market

But they werent able to just do this from the begining. It took a lot of building on the success and positive consumer appeal of the iPod.
I agree. I get a nasty feeling that Apple is going to get away with a significant level of malicious compliance.
Real prices account for CPI, not the dollar's fall against international currencies. From our perspective, the Nixon Shock appeared to have little effect. That wasn't true for our trading partners.
That's not even close to comparable. You vote for elected officials to pass bills that are attempted and sometimes failed. And often failed projects produce things of value to society so I'm not sure how you would factor that in, for example if you'd like a refund on the Challenger explosion. You don't vote for criminals to take your money.
Did the residents of Dresden have to live in an open air prison for 75 years in a tiny corner of the city after they were bombed?
I'm sure it's possible to serve the website entirely from outside the US. I suppose there's a chance it wouldn't be cost effective.
Yes. And the little-understood reason why microservices became the answer is that the tools for defining clear ownership boundaries in a single service were (and to an extent still are) lacking.

Defining a clear public contract in most existing programming languages that cannot be violated by a lazy programmer is tricky. Java's package-private should be the answer but is too blunt and ends up requiring a team to make things public so they can use them. C# has a bit more control that might make clear contracts possible (I haven't tried), but not everyone wants to use it because Microsoft. And most of the popular languages at the time of the rise of microservices had basically no mechanism for defining public versus private interfaces.

Microservices allow you to do that in any language— your HTTP API is your public interface. Anything inside of that is physically impossible to access without adding an explicit build-time dependency, which would be trivial to catch in code review.

Yes, code review could theoretically solve the same problems, but in practice no organization is that disciplined. You need tooling, and those tools didn't exist yet when microservices came to be. We're seeing them develop now (Rust's visibility modifiers are very powerful, and monorepo tools are starting to develop lints that can impose module boundaries on languages that lack them natively), and it's not a coincidence that around the same time we're seeing a lot of people moving back to monoliths.
Where does he lie about a video game? Maybe he has someone boost his level. Did he say it's not true? Just doing that can have many reasons - maybe he likes a shiny number there, wants a bigger challenge, more fun because of higher level and more items or whatever.

Just playing on an account that I didn't level up myself is not lying. I know that some competitive amateur players think it's the end of the world but no, nobody cares.
Might be possible if the Switch 2 contains a "cast" feature, but the cast landscape may be too incomplete and fractured (AirPlay, Chromecast, Miracast, etc.) for Nintendo to bother with that.
Anyone: What is a business you know of that you would be sad to see go?
> Israel isn't a superpower.

On the middle east scene, the balance of power is so lopsided in favor of Israel that I stand with this qualifier even though I use it in a way that isn't the most common way (as a “global superpower”, which Israel isn't)

> Even so, you only don't appease an adversary if you know you can win

Winning can take many shape, you don't have to be able to eradicate an opponent to be better off than if you tried to appease him and lost everything. For instance
even if Ukraine were forced to accept a peace deal that involve losing all of the occupied territories, they would be far better off than if Zelensky caved before the invasion.

There's no doubt that the outcome for Nasrallah wouldn't have been worse had he declare open war on Israel directly after Oct 7th. The problem is that he though he had a lot to lose, when instead given Israel's long term plan he could only have improved his position.
Fair. A shame, still, especially for GC compat on WiiU.
Great point to always consider people's humanity when doing something.
This is the view of many deeply in the space, but not that of the broader public. This divide needs to be crossed and this is where Bluesky is ahead of Mastodon.
Basically this happens because the DVLA and the stock market don't have any competition. Customers in a competitive market won't be angry when you need to be offline for 12 hours every Sunday morning; they'll just switch to your competitor some Sunday, because the competitor is providing them something they value that you don't provide.
It was always about ethnic cleansing. Either they get away with it or somebody stops them.
I'll take your word on the reviews you actually received.

As for the commenter you are replying to, you dont have any specific information on the review. Yet you declared its hallucinated, generic, haphazardly thrown together, simply copy pasted, etc. Consider that your conclusions are based off an idea in your head and not his actual review.
> But sure, just assume it's because everyone is stupid.

He didn't say everyone was stupid. He said that no body cares. There is a very big difference between the two.

I tend to agree with him. Yes we can find examples, most commonly when it comes to safety standards, where there are systems in place that prevent the really bad stuff from happening. But why do those systems and checks need to be put into place? Because a lot of people simply do not care and would cut corners if their jobs didn't depend on them following the standards.

The problem with broad sweeping generalizations is that they never apply to all individual cases. It doesn't change the fact that the broad generalization is, well, broadly and generally true. Most people don't care about almost anything other than getting home to their families or pets. Most people will even happily admit that. It's not even that they're lazy necessarily (though a few people are). It's that they are working in what is, to them, "just a job / pay cheque." That's not even always a problem. It's just a fact of life that is as true as taxes and death. It's worth acknowledging because it is something that needs to be accounted for after identifying or choosing your fault tolerances. The systems and standards that you cite are the result of acknowledging this fact of reality.
> The limitation is not usually the film itself but the development process' used

I respectfully doubt that, development process is a combinaison of techniques that lets you do many thinks with your row data and the line between that and special effects is quite blurry (joke intended).

One way to make HDR-like with films and cheap-not-advanced material is to do a several development of the same film to the same paper, with different exposures parameters. That way you combine different ranges of the image (eg stop 1-4 + stop 4-10 + stop 10-18) to produce you final image. This is a great craft workship.

The only limit is the chemistry of the films used (giving grains at almost nano scale), multiplied by the size of the film.

Side note: development is basically a picture of a picture (usually) done with different chemicals and photographic setup.
I guess, but it feels more than a little like calling Amazon a video streaming company. I don’t think someone who understood that Block is Square would identify it this way.
> No one inhales six apples in a sitting

If hard ciders count then I sure have.

> It's useful to go for more "natural" foods because they aren't designed to make me eat as much of it as possible.

I'm not saying that fruits, vegetables, legumes, and other foods you get from nature aren't healthy, of course they are. The fallacy is to say that because it's natural it's inherently better then an artificial or synthetic counterpart. Instead of worrying about if the food dye in your fruit loops uses red bell peppers or is synthetically extracted from petroleum, how about we worry about people consuming too much ultra-processed, high calorie, and low nutrional foods. That will make a greater impact on the general populations health here in America. Banning additives and food dyes won't stop people from eating 2000 calories of fried oreos.
This doesn't work like you think it does but even if it did, do you have the money to sustain several years long legal battle against OpenAI?
But it's fun, right?
> And it's certainly not authoritarian. Israel has full powers of protest, free speech, and in fact it's generally the press that have the strongest voice not the government.

Israel maintained a prerogative from early in the war to assassinate essentially every known journalist in Gaza, and they did it by bombing their homes and killing their families. West Bank and pro-Arab Israeli journalists were merely arrested and held without charge.
There's a couple of different sides to the story:

- Both WASM and asm.js don't incur JS garbage collector overhead, but it's also possible to write (mostly) garbage-free Javascript by hand.

- Both WASM and asm.js don't use Javascript objects or strings (only numbers), and especially not JS objects where the interior structure changes randomly - which in turn might cause JIT recompiles, but it's also possible to write such 'static' Javascript by hand, especially when using Typescript.

That's basically about the claim 'Javascript performance can be close to WASM'. It's possible to write JS manually which is 'optimization-friendly', but is not necessarily idiomatic JS - the extreme version of this optimization-friendly JS is asm.js, but nobody would want to write that by hand.

Then of course WASM pushes the optimization wall a bit further then what's possible with JS, which may increase the performance gap in very specific situations:

- WASM has native 64-bit integers (JS has BigInt now, but I don't know if they optimize as well under the hood)

- modern WASM has SIMD instructions, which was once an ECMAScript proposal, but has been abandondend in favour of WASM SIMD: https://github.com/tc39/ecmascript_simd

Finally there's the historical angle (e.g. "why does WASM exist in the first place"):

TL;DR:

- with the end of native plugins, Java and Flash in the browser, people were looking for new alternatives to Javascript in the browser

- around 2008(?) Emscripten demonstrated that compiling C/C++ to a subset of Javascript can give surprisingly good performance

- this subset was then formalized into asm.js and browsers started to add specific optimizations for that subset (via "use asm")

- but this JS subset was a dead-end in the long run because requirements for a "Javascript-as-compile-target" clashed more and more with "Javascript-as-programming-language"

- ...so a split was made and WASM was created, from now on, Javascript could focus again to be a programming language, and WASM could focus on being a compile target

I guess that's it...
I am curious why 10 launches by day ? Is a launch registering a product for sale ?
If yes, why not restrict to 1 launch a day, or 1 launch a week. It's not like anyone is that productive that they create 10 products in a day.
Biden made several attempts to raise them, he pushed and got a corporate minimum tax. He got a global minimum corporate tax rate as well.

I keep seeing this. Everyone, before you comment on something, maybe check to make sure your understanding of laws/events is actually anywhere near true before making definitive statements. This is how disinformation works.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/07/business/corporate-minimu...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/07/03/global-mi...

“On September 12, 2024, the Department of the Treasury (the “Treasury”) and the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) issued long-awaited proposed regulations (89 FR 75062) (the “Proposed Regulations”) on the application of the corporate alternative minimum tax (the “CAMT”), which was enacted two years ago as part of the Inflation Reduction Act (“IRA”). In general, the CAMT imposes a 15% corporate alternative minimum tax on the adjusted financial statement income (“AFSI”) of certain large corporations for tax years beginning after December 31, 2022.”
designers entire profession is around figuring out what looks good to the most people, not just fonts; your comment is so ignorant and dismissive of an entire profession that it's startling.

you are hereby cursed to use papyrus to code and you will be forced to drive an AMC Gremlin until you appreciate the value of visual design
For those implementing feeds, "RSS" seems to get a lot of mentions, but how much of it is RSS-as-such and how much is "RSS" as a generic term for "feed", with Atom also perhaps being implemented:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(web_standard)
Yes, those are web-safe fonts.
> N-Series and SEMC Walkman probably need to clearly undercut iPhone pricing to succeed in the market.

I think this is where they went wrong. They got scared of the new cool kid in school and immediately dropped all their prices, essentially marketing themselves as budget to Apples premium.
I'm not sure how leaving the rest of the booster would make a propulsive landing easier. It seems like more complexity than just leaving some fuel in the tank, for less benefit. But ULA's Vulcan (which incidentally uses the same BE-4 engine as New Glenn) plans on using a helicopter to catch it's engines as they parachute down [1]

[1] https://www.planetary.org/space-images/smart
It's called breaking up walled gardens, (quasi) monopolies and protecting consumer rights. It's outright wrong to call this 'annoying'.
SE's J2ME implementation was top notch. It just worked and it was fast.
They neighboring countries are allowed sovereignty by the west with the condition that they do what Israel tells them to do
I’m an American. I’m not a pure materialist. The us vs them in your comment feels quasi-political and unfounded.
SpaceX have had much worse recent failures on launches of their new generation rocket.

Blue Origin have moved glacially slow by comparison, but they achieved their primary goal with this launch (get to orbit) and failed a secondary goal (land the booster).

If this were a SpaceX launch of a brand new rocket we'd be calling this a success and noting how they'd almost certainly achieve the secondary goal soon.

I think the question is how well and quickly Blue Origin can iterate to achieve first stage reuse. It took SpaceX quite a long time with a lot of lessons learned to reach the maturity they have now with Falcon 9 landings and re-launches.
I'm trying to say that it doesn't cancel but that doesn't mean I won't listen.
A system can break without crashing. Incorrectly processing financial transactions due to a bug in price calculations would be a good example of a serious breakage that may well be worse than crashing.
C# has a much awaited and active proposal to add DUs to C# so I suspect C# will also support this once live (and continue its legacy of plucking great features from F#).

https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/main/proposals/Typ...
I love that the controls are split between two hands. It makes certain types of lounging gameplay (e.g. one hand behind head) possible that aren't with single controllers.
It’s more for playing in your room where you don’t have a TV, than necessarily on-the-go. Just how smartphones are nowadays used for gaming at home by the younger generation. You still don’t want to be tethered to a power outlet.
My point, however, is that the Levant as a buffer state against expanding empire and a chokepoint of overland trade has ceased to be the source of conflict. Marine shipping means the Levant is no longer the chokepoint of trade with Africa. We don't have empires trying to grow contiguous swaths of land anymore. To the extent states have tried to grab land in the Levant, they're doing so because the land is adjacent to them, not as a buffer against external empires who find the land strategically useful to control.
Israel bombing Gaza after the ceasefire deal. At least 81 people were killed and at least 188 people were injured. I don't know if those 81 deaths includes the 45 deaths Israel killed from another bombing shortly after the ceasefire was announced.

On Israel's side, Israel claimed Hamas has reneged on parts of the agreement. I can't find any specifics.
No, it is solved by ethnic cleansing or by prevention of ethnic cleansing.
They still charge those 99$ a year, don't they?
my anti-procrastination settings prevent me. This is OP.
No, these are not disruptors. Substantial incremental improvements, but part of the larger battle.
On the other hand it can recover. I am not going back to reading sequential pages on a forum. Good enough until something better comes along.
But Mr. Anderson, how can Tears of the Kingdom run better on an emulator... if no emulators for the system can legally exist?
> Sorry but no, this is absolutely not what happened

What didn't happen? I didn't provide you a narrative, I gave 2 examples of uncrewed propulsive landing which literally happened.

> There is an incredible gap between the tech demo you're speaking about, and actually landing a heavy orbital rocket, and then doing it 100 times in a row without a hiccup.

I agree. Now please point to me which part of the self-landing booster Elon built.
They probably could, but it's become such a pain in the ass, it's no longer worth it.

You can still go to the mobile web version; but that doesn't give the same level of access to devices and data that an app does.
wrt portability - this console will be competing with a healthy market of PC handhelds, which Xbox is preparing to enter soon.

In a couple years we'll have a new console war between Switch 2, Steamdeck 2, and Xbox portable.

This is where your first point is critical. People who want to play Mario/Zelda/Pokemon etc will buy the console, regardless of form factor.
This seems kind of close to what city mapper gives you.
IMO, there are too few entrants to meaningfully draw any conclusions about "the norm" in this industry.
What same-process modularization does _not_ solve is independent lifecycle management. In a monolithic system your change rate often becomes tied to your slowest, most bug prone module or team. If you've some integration test that bakes some piece of important code for 48 hours, you can only make a change _everywhere_ else every 48 hours.

Now sometimes folks (the Windows team famously did this) build systems which identify which tests to run based on changes that occur in the codebase, but that's _not_ easy.