skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Civilian deaths are a violation if they are intentional

Well close, they are a violation if that is the intended goal of the attack, they are not necessarily a violation if they were done intentionally as part of an attack against a military target and the porportional military gain outweighs the expected civilian damage (this is a bit of an oversimplification)

> There is an abundance of evidence,

I think this overstates things. There is definite evidence that civilians have died. Whether there is evidence that those deaths were the illegal under the rules of war is much more ambigious. There is probably evidence for some isolated incidents, i'm not sure i agree there is strong (i.e. sufficient for a conviction) of widespread illegal civilian death. I'm not saying it for sure didn't happen, just that the publicly available evidence is mixed and often requires making unverified assumptions. (Truth is the first casualty of war)
No mention of my fav Nokia of all time, the N9; also no mention of MeeGo and Maemo
So invest in s&p 500 and do nothing, right? That's a good strategy for someone young, because it makes sense to be risk tolerant then. As you age you want more and more of your portfolio in bonds/cash, because you want the reduced fluctuation in purchasing power (i.e. comfort) that that brings you. These are the bare fundamentals of portfolio management.
Seems a very elaborate way just to do some work.
> My lived experience is by definition my objective reality.

Just glossing over your complete misuse of objective here btw. There is nothing objective about your subjective* "lived realiy".

*Definition of subjective: 1. Dependent on or taking place in a person's mind rather than the external world. / 2. Based on a given person's experience, understanding, and feelings; personal or individual.

Source: https://www.wordnik.com/words/subjective
> Static page... As in it won't change after you load the page.

That's not what static means in the context of web development. It means that the html is delivered from the server in a static form and doesn't need to be changed in any way to be displayed.

> The JavaScript sent by Mastodon is obfuscated, so it isn't reasonable to expect to be able to audit it and mark it as safe

This is what file hashes are for. But agreed, you do need to trust the upstream file provider. I had assumed that a federated system like Mastodon had considered this already and had a way of confirming js hashes to ensure against rogue nodes. Is that not the case? If so it seems like an oversight.

But anyways, thanks for replying to me. I asked because, as a web developer, I'm always curious about why people disable JS. I have yet to be convinced of any valid reasons for most people to do it, but I can understand that some people have stronger security concerns. For those people though, it always feels like it would make more sense to spin up a VM and browse inside there with all the unsafe JS, rather than enduring a daily struggle through a litany of websites that don't work properly.
You did not answer my question. I meant defend Taiwan with what means?
Just because it wasn't used as pejorative doesn't mean that the meaning then is something we today should consider it not a problem. What they meant was the same thing we do now. Its just that we now consider it something not all that nice.
Soon it will be a different name under a different symbol.

You cannot break the cycle of hatred with more hatred and violence.
There must be a name for this bias. "Everyone else's stuff sucks but the reason my stuff sucks is because someone is keeping me from doing good work"

Other people are always the problem. It's like the anecdote that most people think they are better than average drivers. "L.A. has bad drivers, but not me. The quality of everyone's output is down, but not mine."

Ask an engineer why their code is bad and they blame past engineers or managers, ask past engineers and they blame time constraints, ask managers and they blame bad engineers, ask a CEO and they talk about boards and stock price

It's always really interesting to see.
> insufferable cunts

You mean pedants.
I wonder if the software empowering this data is an open source project?
Oh, that's a shame---at least from my perspective as a reader---but Nate seems to be quite ok, and I guess it makes sense to quit when you're "winning". As a victim of burnout, I wish I had that insight too.

At least we still have Coffeezilla and Data Colada!
Exactly. I started buying NVDA in 2020 and I still hold almost all of it.

If you do rebalancing then you might as well hold an ETF that does it for you at the lowest cost. If you hold individual equities, keep your winners.
I've been using zoho. It just gets out of the way, but I mostly use email clients and their web interface rarely, but it seems good enough. And their prices are much lower than competitors.
Worst part of any SpaceX live stream.
You have linked to all kinds of videos that can only be described as malicious propaganda, and yes, that sadly includes the Amnesty ones. A few years ago that org drifted in a strange direction. But these videos try to manipulate you.
If they would ban what they think tiktok does wrong. Mr Zuckerberg would be very sad I guess.

But so much this, just banning TikTok will change nothing but more distrust in American politics
> The lessons here are very specifically from one company and a very specific kind of a horse-race

Yes, pretty disappointing article that never addresses the title.
just out of curiosity, why do you say that spark is "in-memory"? I see a lot people claiming that, including several that I've interviewed in the past few years but that's not very accurate(at least in the default case). Spark SQL execution uses a bog standard volcano-ish iterator model (with a pretty shitty codegen operator merging part) built on top of their RDD engine. The exchange (shuffle) is disk based by default (both for sql queries and lower level RDD code), unless you mount the shuffle directory in a ramdisk I would say that spark is disk based. You can try it out on spark shell:

spark.sql("SELECT explode(sequence(0, 10000))").write.parquet("sample_data")
spark.read.parquet("sample_data").groupBy($"col").count().count()

after running the code, you should see a /tmp/blockmgr-{uuid} directory that holds the exchange data.
> Can it be?

I have no idea.

The common criticism is that Netanyahu never really worked on a day-after plan, so while the IDF managed to take lots of territories and gain many military victories, there was no clear idea of what to do when the fighting stops, which allowed Hamas to re-take areas that were already taken, and to set themselves up for the future.

I think ideally what should have been done is setting up alternative leadership in Gaza, namely the PA with assistance from Saudi Arabia or something like that. But I wouldn't be surprised to learn that in back-channels, the PA was asked to take this kind of role and basically said "until Hamas is gone, it's too risky for us, please finish off Hamas first".

> At what point does Israel prosecuting its own Vietnam in Gaza meet the same razor?

I mean, people make these kinds of comparisons all the time and insinuate that Israel should stop fighting. But the Vietnam war lasted, what, twenty years? And it was far less important to the US's security than this war is to Israel. As Ezra Klein once said, if you look at the timeline of the US's reaction to 9/11 and map it onto Israel's reaction to October 7th, the US had still not even begun the Iraq war by this stage - it started more than two years after 9/11 iirc.

(I'm not saying that I think the war should continue, btw - I'm very much in favor of this current deal, and I highly suspect the war is dragging on for political reasons and not actual reasons of security, which is both harmful to Israel in various ways, and devastating to the civilians of Gaza, who deserve so much better than their current situation. Ideally Israel could take out Hamas which would be better for the people of Gaza themselves, but it's unclear if that's possible, and the price they are paying in the meantime is far too high!)
Long > short.
To my knowledge: nothing. Intel is exiting the network switch silicon business¹. Broadcom and nVidia are dominating (different parts of) the market; Marvell and Microchip are fighting for the scraps.

The only "cool" player is Microchip, who have been providing full datasheets, register maps, and open sourcing their drivers for years now. But I'm under no illusions they're doing this out of the goodness of their heart, they're doing it because it's one of very few competetive advantages available to them.

(Which is perfectly fine! FOSS drivers are a great competetive advantage! It's not working super well sadly :/ — but part of the problem here is Broadcom's anticompetetive behavior. To my knowledge, any switch OEM producing Broadcom-based gear will get their NDAs and silicon access revoked if they so much as dream about making devices with non-Broadcom silicon.)

¹ Intel has already exited this business some while ago, they only bought Fulcrum Micro to get better NICs basically since every NIC is nowadays also a switch. Tofino was always a "special beast", not quite competing against e.g. Qumran or Trio. Tofino is (was?) better thought of as special purpose FPGA…
you might want to look into fossify.org as simple tools(of which simple gallery pro was a part of) has been sold to an israeli adware company.

see: https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issu...
eMail verification system fails to send the verification eMail.

And no, I run my own eMail server… nothing has hit my own domain from the loops.video domain after 5+ hours.
You (the US) should definitely make same laws banning aliens from owning social media before it's to late! Think about the children!!1!
Mathematicians discover new way for spheres to 'kiss'
Maybe he means the New Glenn should have had aerospike engines.
It was just Bibi being friendly with a fellow neofascist who happens to be the next elected POTUS, not some great diplomatic maneuvers from Trump.
In the netherlands I have seen green street lights with motion sensors. Only on smaller streets and pedestrian paths, though.
> growing smaller since 1973

Propaganda machine at work, I see.

Israel is clearing land in the West Bank to this day, even if they haven't "annexed" the land officially.

But hey, according to their own maps it's already part of Israel, so yeah, you're right:

https://www.gov.il/en/pages/topographical-map-of-israel
> Taking hostages has practical benefits.

So is leveling a country if you want to demonstrate consequences of an attack.

We should not argue like this, but this is the level you propose and demand with your justifications for terrorist attacks.
That's not it. Those had roll wheels or something and no touch screens.

I have seen picture of the prototype somewhere. It was square blue prototype with big screen with shape like iPhone. It might not be in the design archive at all because it was R&D prototype.
>The McDonald's touch-screen self-order kiosk takes 27 clicks to get a meal. They try to up-sell you 3 times. Just let me pay for my fucking burger, Jesus Christ. The product manager, the programmer, the executives. None of these people care.

The author could stop eating at McDonald's and send a message to the company with his behaviour. But he does not care.

>The guy on the hiking trail is playing his shitty EDM on his bluetooth speaker, ruining nature for everyone else. He does not care.

The author could ask the guy to turn off the music and make the hiking trail more pleasurable for everyone. But he does not care.

Et cetera. He cares for views on his blog so he writes on his blog.
As has been noted by others, the emoting is a distraction. I could only watch this for a few seconds.

Another thing: why are they reporting speed in miles per hour, and altitude in feet? Surely anybody interested in space is familiar with SI units.
Same here.

Also, TFA sounds like something I could've written.

Anyway, besides other anecdata, I don't have anything to add.

But I wanted to thank you, azeirah, that at least you tried
I don't blame you for getting angry.
Hahaha! This is quite inventive fantasy gymnastics to protect your apparent "prior beliefs" that psi/RV is impossible based on humanity's clearly "Godlike" command of all reality and the laws that govern it. Hahaha :)

However, I sense your deception - you actually believe this is real and have some experience (tho maybe difficult for you to process?)

So in light of that, your inventive fantasy was merely for sport. How without morals! Don't you know that new (in this environment) ideas like this should be protected and nurtured? Sure, takes some cojones to do so, but I see you are no retiring wallflower when it comes to enduring social ostracism, so why not channel your courageous individualism into something actually good (and true!), huh?

That said, your experiment is actually a great idea. I suggest you ask it as a question at: https://reddit.com/r/remoteviewing

If inclined you could even construct an app to run these types of targets. There are a few RV apps that do daily practice, but your idea is new.

And please, unless you are too arrogant that you already know all about that, try for yourself by following the "Introduction" ( https://www.reddit.com/r/remoteviewing/comments/184cl9k/star... ) and going to the beginner's guide link in the "How can I try it out?" section of that.

I believe they also have regular public targets, so you could try that too. I have a feeling you'd actually be really good at this. I'd love to hear if you tried and posted back here :)
i sent an email to have them removed. it was a thing some years ago at least (though I don't know if US-ians are allowed to do that or if it's just in the EU)
Have to agree with others that the horrible laughing ruins what should be a monumentous occasion for the company and humanity.
There is no distinction in logic between a positive statement and a negative statement. Every proof of a proposition P is also a proof of !Q where Q = !P.

Proof by contradiction is just that, assume P -> get contradiction, therefore proof that !P.

People really need to retire this canard.
True FH has better LEO performance but NG has better GEO/GTO performance (the main difference coming from the more powerful LH2 upper stage). The difference in fuel in the NG will probably mean a higher cost for NG (amongst a host of other reasons), but the question is by how much. FH also has to fully discard all the Stage 0/1 boosters to achieve 65t LEO. SpaceX on the other hand get much better economies of scale as they launch far more frequently.
I rebuilt the Auth0 Activity Page with webhooks and some LLM magic
I cloned the Auth0 activity page - and made it better - by connecting the Auth0 logs to Tinybird and sprinkling on some LLM magic.
Show HN: Track product alternative requests on Reddit to find product ideas
I often browse through subreddits like r/iosapps, r/macapps to find product opportunities & market gaps.

I noticed a pattern: users frequently ask for alternatives to existing tools when they're frustrated with current solutions.

These posts are a great source of inspiration for product ideas as users are actively searching for alternatives to products that they already use & they describe their pain points with the the current solution.

So I build a free tool, AlternativeWatch.com to collect & curate such posts.

What it does:
- Monitors product-focused subreddits for "alternative to X" posts
- Displays live feed of recent alternative requests
- Lets you browse historical data of past requests
- Sends curated opportunities twice a week via email

Looking for feedback on:
- Which additional subreddits would be valuable to monitor?
- Better ways to categorize & enrich the opportunities
- What other data sources can I use to add more value?
I could argue that ethanol has 1/3 the latent heat of vaporization of water, and would boil off 3 times quicker. However, what ultimately matters is the rate of heat transfer, so my nitpick may be irrelevant.
Even people posting comments don't care.
Doctors are at the very top of my list of people who don’t care. Not necessarily that they got into the field not wanting to care, but that in practice they quickly get to the point of caring largely about getting through their day — maybe a few select patients stir them out of their bizarrely intense waking slumber where they go from patient to patient and immediately prescribe nearly the first thing that comes to mind for nearly the first diagnosis that comes to mind. Given the volumes of patients they are expected to churn through though it’s not surprising that they become desensitized and divorced from the ramifications of shoddy work with minimal research — for many (especially nonspecialists) it’s effectively impossible to do thoughtful work for every patient. I think overwork desensitizes many/most and few actually have the time or energy to do more research or think deeply about an individual patient, but ultimately decisions which consume minimal resources from them drastically affect the lives of patients.

Healthcare professionals know this to be true. This is why when their own loved ones are the patients they have such a strong tendency to become very actively involved —- it’s not necessarily that the person attending to their loved one is incompetent, but chances are that their loved ones will similarly be just another face that occupies another physician’s mind for a few minutes.

Artificially high barriers of entry in the field may lead to massive compensations but also to a huge ratio of patients to physicians — this takes a toll.
I think that's how you're supposed to use stabilizers, so they don't touch the ground but still protect from leaning too much.
i use aves[1] which has many features. especially useful if you travel and take pictures a lot.

[1]: https://github.com/deckerst/aves
Yeah right.

In other news: Israel strikes Gaza within hours of ceasefire accord with Hamas, residents say

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-hamas-cease...
They are one and the same people. Only through the lens of ethnocentric histories is any distinction made.
Without offering any opinion on its merits, if you think justifying this controversial claim is off topic, then so is the claim and you shouldn't have written it.
> What can the actual experts tell me about my child

That's the exact sort of distrust in authorities you purport yourself to be against.
Absolutely. It means there are lots of investors willing to fund development of new ventures.
Ugh, I just listed things from the top of my head, no rigorous correct physics!

I'd be interested to know where those so many other people who feel that would be an optimization are, because I don't often see opinions like this at all, only either rigorous physicists posting equations and papers, or people not knowing anything about it at all to even philosophize about it.
Vietnam has an area of 331,000 square km. America dropped over 5 million tonnes of bombs on it over a ten year period.

That's 1.51 tonnes/km2/year.

Gaza has an area of 365 square km. Israel dropped over 85,000 tonnes of bombs dropped on it over one year [0].

That's 232.88 tonnes/km2/year. Over 150x more.

Don't forget! Gaza is one of the most densely populated areas in the world - about 50 times more densely populated than 1970 Vietnam. 50% of whom are children.

So, Israel dropped 150x the bombs per year on Gaza, an area 50x more densely populated. Proportionally, Israel's bombardment is 7,500 times worse than Vietnam, on an area that's fully half children.

This last year has delegitimized the West's claims to any moral high ground, ever, far, far more than we yet realize.

0 - https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241107-israel-dropped-ov...
The original context was unsafe drivers, with the gist of the response being that when you have everyone paying for exactly the costs they themselves incur, insurance has become meaningless.

It’s hyperbole of sorts, but it highlights that until such a time, raising the cost of insurance doesn’t just punish the people who actually cause the damage.
Look up Dubai Philips LEDs. The problem with most consumer LEDs is that they are overdriven, so their life is short. In Dubai, the Sheikh basically mandated that the bulbs need to be underdriven, so the lifetime is about 25x that of incandescents. They only deliver about 1/4 the power to the individual “filament” that most similar Philips lamps would at the same light output.

https://hackaday.com/2021/01/17/leds-from-dubai-the-royal-li...
Exactly. There are people deleting menstrual tracker apps in the US because the information might be used against them by law enforcement. But what's the risk to them of the Chinese government having that? Other than turning it over to the US authorities, of course.
I worked with engineers daily for around 40 years and now I work with trades people daily. In general the trades people are better communicators.
Everything Musk says is suspect until proven otherwise.

And he has the history to substantiate this point. Some of which is referenced in other posts here.
Show HN: WasmBots – A WebAssembly-powered programming game
I've been working on a browser-based programming game where you write bots to explore procedurally generated dungeons in any WebAssembly-compatible language. It's like a minimalist roguelike where your character's brain is a program you write. There are pre-made libraries for C, Rust, Zig, Go, and AssemblyScript.

The game mechanics are intentionally simple for now, but the challenge comes from building up your bot's understanding of the world from limited local information. Your code needs to handle mapping, pathfinding, and strategy while dealing with monsters and potentially hostile other players.

Some interesting technical bits:

* Pure WebAssembly modules with no JavaScript dependencies (not even using wasm-bindgen for Rust)

* Cross-language development with native debugging support via language-specific trainer builds

* Custom messaging protocol implemented across the five example languages using code generation

The project started as a way for me to poke around WebAssembly, especially exploring its potential as a universal plug-in language. There were a lot of yaks to be shaved as I went, though, and I ended up also learning a bunch about various build systems, roguelike exploration mechanics, procedural generation, etc. It's been a fun experience so far and I feel like it's hit a nice point (decently polished presentation of bots exploring the dungeon) before I start the next phase of adding actual game mechanics.

Intro Video: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGkkTYJrflI>

Deployed site: <https://shaneliesegang.com/projects/wasmbots>

Auto-built: <https://sjml.github.io/wasmbots/>

Source (Monorepo): <https://github.com/sjml/wasmbots>

The whole thing so far has been a one-person show, and I was often learning bits of tech as I was building with them, so feedback (technical or otherwise) is very welcome.
"murder in any way" covers a lot of ground, which gives whoever gets that discretion a lot of power. But isn't that a good thing because it discourages people from murdering?
A hostage and a prisoner is not the same thing under international law.

> Their courts have no jurisdiction over them

Israel is the occupying power. International law requires that an occupying power provide law & order, so it does have the authority to persecute people who commit crimes (although they are required to keep the laws the same as they were pre-occupation, with some exceptions).

They are also allowed to keep prisoners of war (although i am not sure if hamas counts as that as they are a non-state group). They are allowed to persecute war crimes that enemy combatants commit (as long as they give a fair trial)

> have no issue calling anyone a terrorist.

The phrase "terrorist" doesn't really have much meaning under international law. Israel is free to call its enemies dirty names if it wants, there isn't any rule against calling your enemies mean names.