<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: megous</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=megous</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 02:29:48 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=megous" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by megous in "Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Right. I was not very careful with "only if". :)<p>In any case ICC warrants are not public. Only state parties know the content of the warrants. We don't know what's exactly in them. Only PR is public.<p>Anyway, it sounded like you're arguing that ICC warrant is something OTP asks for willy nilly on suspicion of a crime. But there is a long prior process where even opening the investigation has to be approved by the chamber or asked for by a state party. Then there's investigation, which in this case was likely quite extensive and helped by third parties, given that just Pillay's UN commission of inquiry alone provided ~7000 pieces of verified evidence and that's just scratching the surface, given that several state parties refered the situation in Palestine to the court, including Palestine itself, court does its own outreach to victims, and I know several projects that periodically sent/d tons of data collected from social media where Israeli state itself publicly posted its massacres of hundreds of civilians per strike early on.<p><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2024/6/19/never-seen-anything-like-this-un-commission-of-inquiry-on-israel-gaza" rel="nofollow">https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2024/6/19/never-see...</a></p>
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<p>Value of contributing/sharing small tools (< 5-10 thousands lines), that can be written by a LLM in an hour or two is perhaps too little to bother.<p>But it's still possible and useful to contribute (or to contribute to) complex well tested programs, that are just not reproducible in a weekend by a LLM.<p>Also organizing projects maybe in a form that makes them easy to reliably customize and extend by a LLM, if that's how the people will interact with open SW development in the future, may also be something useful.<p>Though I dunno what "complex" will mean in the future, if LLM can at the moment already write state of the art well tested C23 compliant re-targetable C compiler for various 16/8-bit MCUs, along with SW simulators, along with timing exact system verilog IP cores, for 5 different architectures, in two weekends on a cheap $100/mo. plan and it all just works. :) It's going to be hard.</p>
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<p>Warrant issuance is only done if pre-trial chamber deems the suspects would continue the crimes (they very apparently did - total blockade of Gaza in 2025 leading to starvation of around 1 million people), or tamper with investigation (killing witnesses, etc. - also happened, many journalists were killed on purpose since, organizations tracking harm were banned as "terrorists" in Israel, and that's just what's easy to see, and lots of evidence is being destroyed to this day as Israel continues blowing up and buldozing Gaza, also on purpose, and also against orders of ICJ in the case against Israel as a state, not just against Netanyahu).<p>And you don't know much about the ICC process and could not have observed it if you think warrant is step 1. It's like step 7. If you did not watch the process, you can still learn the ICC procedure from the rules of the court. It's all freely available on their website.</p>
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<p>I mentioned several examples of US sanctioned human rights organizations just in this comment thread. That's some US law applied to foreigners.</p>
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<p>Country that supports war criminals and helps genocidares and land thiefs by giving them free bombs and planes, sanctioned organization that punishes such acts. Not a big surprise.<p>Also directly targeting foreigners who provide evidence to the court is also pretty clear evidence of american intention here. Hide their crimes. Several such human rights organizations were targeted independently of this for cooperation with ICC, like Al-Haq, Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights, and PCHR.</p>
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<p>Datacenters don't sprout out of the land by themselves, as opposed to the plants. There were water resources consumed elsewhere that made building this one possible - manufacturing all the chips, metal, raw materials, whatever went into building one. Like we have concept of TCO, you'd probably need something like total electricity/water usage concept that would take into account all that spread into the expected lifetime of the datacenter, to compare apples to apples.</p>
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<p>He's certainly right about his modus operandi: "If I'll say it often enough, enough people will believe it."<p>And I'd think he himself can't hack shit. :D</p>
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<p>Does it work, though? What is the standard for "works" here?</p>
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<p>It's called sampling. It works. :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:23:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49894925</link><dc:creator>megous</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49894925</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49894925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by megous in "Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I understand Israeli perspective already, from what I've seen last few years, and read about the history.<p>Or is there some other perspective, other than what Israelis can be observed as doing? I assume what I've seen is what Israel is like.</p>
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<p>You really need to quantify each of those things and many more to be able to compare. Otherwise it's meaningless.</p>
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<p>Yeah, we can look at how Mariupol looks on satellite images. It looks nothing like Rafah. You have to be completely blind to not see the difference.</p>
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<p>It does not look the same, at all.</p>
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<p>Yeah, this is not what happened here. You can look up Israeli articles from the time that described that nothing was going on for weeks on end other than demolitions. Basically no fighting. You get Israeli politicians repeating beforehand that Rafah will get leveled.<p>They wanted to level the city, they did. That's all. There was some fighting eventually with a few fighters holed in in Rafah, but nothing that would justify this. And Israelis continue leveling entire areas the whole year after so called "ceasefire" during which there were almost no attacks on them, yet they managed to murder more than a thousand of people.</p>
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<p>Seek help.</p>
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<p>My enjoyment is shifting from this to having a well designed, tested, good looking, and very usable hobby SW, with features I need and can play with or do fun or useful stuff with. :)<p>I can also work on very fun things with computers now, that I'd just not even think of previously. I just love the idea of the program, but I'm not interested in learning details of how to implement it. Last such thing is teaching computer to dance and improvise Bachata to music. :) Yeah, I can spend months on details of 3D, or physics simulation, or skeleton animation, or things like that, but that's not what I'm interested in. I'm interested in the dance aspects itself and matchin to music, and lead-follow simulation (where the computer plans the lead actions to some extent, and follow is just a reactive machine with some degrees of impovisational freedom) and all the details of how the actual skeletons are visualized on screen I literally can care less about. All I care about is impairing knowledge of freedom of movement of lead and knowledge of freedom of what can be led while hands are connected or visually by what follow can observe and lead can signal through intentional movement, and not how the program will execute this.<p>Nothing like that existed previously, and I would not be able to get to fun interesting things without wading throught shit ton of uninteresting parts. But now I within a span of 24 hours have something that I can have a base implementation of a 3D dance lead/follow emulator with weight transfer, balance skeleton joint lead-follow hand connection weight trasnfer and ground connection based emulator that I can paly with emulating the dance on top of, and I can focus on the actual dance/music conenction, and tiny details that make the emulated dance look fun, surprising, natural, and fit Bachata style and playfulness.</p>
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<p>I delete all comments (except one liners that explain meanings of non-obvious constants / register values, etc.) from actual code, and just keep a plaintext README of overall current concepts/design in the given directory that has to read as a human useful prose (eg. have a defined audience, describe unfamiliar concepts first, then goals, how they are achieved, benefits/drawbacks, quirks).<p>Code is easier to look at/read that way. I skim the README, then read the code.<p>Otherwise code comments are just nuts and unmanageable, because there's no hard/enforcing feedback loop on those. They can contain anything, even non-sensical things, old information/decisions, history of development, wrong information, contradictory information, and code still compiles. There's no pressure to keep them in check.<p>Lint step that fails build if code contains long comments is also useful as a hard-constraint.</p>
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<p>"A private corporation has the right to restrict speech on their own platform at their discretion."<p>Not really. Let's say Meta banned all blacks from advertising on facebook tomorrow. That would run against federal law.<p><a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/1981" rel="nofollow">https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/1981</a></p>
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<p>not for PIC</p>
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<p>Slightly larger switch() statement and you'll run into peephole optimizer just eating away at jump target instructions without telling the jumper to adapt the destination address for the case. Of course the result is completely random code execution. Things like that. :)<p>But I wrote non-trivial code with sdcc regardless. My favorite 8051 targets are FX2LP USB boards from aliexpress. :)</p>
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