davidf18

It is from July 10.

Not true. Please don't tell falsehoods in HN. The US, EU, UK, and individual countries have all determined no genocide. Moreover, civilian deaths stop in Gaza the moment Hamas surrenders and returns the remaining hostages.

Remember, the tech revolution started in the US so have some respect for my country's opinion on the issue. Israel is a large supplier of tech including computer chip design.

The unfortunate truth is that the Palestinians in a fair election elected Hamas, a terrorist organization that seeks to destroy Israel.

The MTA costs only $162/28d full fare and seniors and others get it for half that. I conveniently pay by swiping my Apple Watch. This is for transfers throughout the entire system. Compare with the price of Washington DC, a far, far smaller system than NYC and compared with other US cities. Moreover, the NYC subways do not stop at night like almost all world subway systems.

Palestinians were given opportunities for self-determination in 1948, 2000 (Camp David), 2008, and 2006 in Gaza (blockaded by Egypt because of Hamas elected to run Gaza). In 1948, they along with 5 invading Arab countries tried to destroy Israel, resulting in their own destruction of their Arab state. In 2000, Arafat turned down a peace agreement with Bill Clinton starting terrorism that resulted in 3000 Palestinian and 1000 Jewish and Israeli Arab deaths, in 2008 Abbas turned down a peace agreement.

After 10/7 almost every Israeli knows that the Palestinians are not interested in their own state.

Of the 32,000 Hamas stated deaths, 13,000 are terrorists, thus resulting in a far lower civilian-to-combatant death ratio than in other urban conflicts such as Mosul.

The lesson learned with Japan in Germany in WW II is that total military defeat is necessary. The AI technology enables the targeting of all terrorists, not only senior-level terrorists as before, resulting in a quicker end to the conflict than otherwise and thus resulting in fewer civilian deaths.

As we know these terrorists hide among civilians including in and under hospitals, making these legitimate targets. The high number of civilian deaths occur from the terrorists hiding among civilians.

Israel uses AI to detect targets with all of their intelligence gathering. It uses precision weaponry. It drops pamphlets (which the US did in Iraq), calls apartments before bombing, has 4 hours of quiet the same time each day for civilian evacuations -- these are Israeli innovations. Meanwhile Hamas hides in tunnels that are under hospitals, schools, mosques, residences making them military targets. They don't wear uniforms. They captured hostages.

Rooting terrorists out of tunnels is a very complicated task. Most cases of Urban combat such as Mosul don't involve tunnels, yet have much greater civilian to combatant ratio of casualties (3:1 in the case of Mosul).

Hamas never built bomb shelters for its civilians, unlike Israel. They had plenty of concrete to build tunnels for themselves.

The war would have been over by now except other nations have been slowing Israel down. These nations claim that they want the conflict to end but it won't unless Hamas surrenders or Israel finishes the job.

"Blaming the pilots, or flatout stating that one design pholosophy is better than the other, is just ignorant."

I work with safety, I study it. The Airbus was poorly designed. You want to have forcing functions in the hardware, not depend of operator training, the "software" in safety terminology. Airbus should have had the proper design philosophy so that the forcing function was in the "hardware", eg, the yoke of Boeing. The poor choice of having independent joysticks brought the plane down. Not certain why the FAA, which does know better, approved of the Airbus design. That alone is worthy of a study. Was it politics?

In summary, safety guidelines mandate putting safety in the "hardware" of real forcing functions and not "software" -- training. That is the reality. 447 crash occurred because of poor Airbus design and the FAA for approving this design that goes against safety principles.

447 occurred from a design flaw in Airbus aircraft that have independent joysticks instead of the Yoke available on Boeing fly-by-wire. The first officer who had more experience than the pilot flying the plane was unaware that the pilot was pulling back on the joystick. If the plane were properly designed as Boeing fly-by-wire craft were designed, eg, 777 at the time, then the accident wouldn't have happened because the first officer would have realized the pilot was pulling back on the yoke for the stall.

A principle in safety is that you want things encoded in the "hardware", eg, you can't put your car in reverse without putting your foot on the brake, even though you are taught this in driver's ed. The Airbus designers forgot this major principle by using independent joysticks, a lesson not forgotten by the Boeing fly-by-wire craft.

I live in NYC and subways (with both express as well as local) are very time efficient, especially during the few hours of rush hour. My iPhone appointments would tell me to leave 45 mins early since it assumed I as using a car, but the real transit time including walking was 15 mins using subways.

Changing zoning laws so that there is more density would shift demand to mass transit.

Actually, the fact that Gazans are far better off than Syrians and other Arabs in other conflicts is rarely discussed. Israel is required to destroy Hamas in Gaza as the US was required to destroy Germany and Japan. But Israel has been using hi-tech weaponry rarely discussed even on HN, a tech website. For example, Iron Sting, a mortar guided by both GPS and laser is used even at night so that when a Hamas terrorist emerges from tunnels, they are immediately blown up. This helps to preserve Gazan civilian lives but not discussed in the media.

Iron Sting Mortar | How it Works | Israel Gaza https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UueA6HIA0Pg

Rarely mentioned by the media is that Hamas builds command and control centers under hospitals intentionally putting civilians in harms way.

I yearly upgrade on the iPhone for the better modem support. I always buy Apple leather case, also a yearly upgrade, to protect the phone. A number of years ago I had a screen break and I mentioned at the Genius Bar how I did the best I could using the Apple Cases, and they ended up replacing the screen, a $150 charge, for free. This is Apple.

You may have had a firmware incompatibility problem. That is what had happened to me when a few month-old AirPod Pro v2 earbud battery lost charge. I have AppleCare+ (I recommend that for all AirPod purchasers because the batteries wear out after 2 years of use). I used the Apple Support app, selecting my device, and selected for Apple to call, which they immediately did. Apple did the CC hold sending out a replacement. When I received it, it did not work, and the reason was that the firmware on the case and airpod earbuds was recently updated and the earpiece sent to me was not. It is a kind of race condition that occurs whenever Apple updates firmware.

In the process of trying to get things to work initially with the replacement earbud, I disconnected my AirPods from the phone, following instructions. When I could not get it to reconnect, I tried to contact AppleCare+ for the AirPod Pro with the Apple support app as I had done 2 days earlier, and this time my device was not showing up in the device list, even though I still owned the device. This is an Apple bug.

So, I called 800-APL-CARE, but had to wait on hold to talk with someone a couple of minutes. Then I asked to be escalated to 2nd tier tech support. I explained the firmware incompatibility problem to the advisor. I expressed my annoyance since Apple has known about this problem since shipping Airpods, yet never fixed it. The tech rep had me go through a couple of more steps, including the 30 minute charge of the case with the earbuds (they called me back after 30 minutes). Then they resolved the issue for me.

So, Apple had 2 repeatable bugs. 1. Firmware incompatibility with parts replacements. 2. Even though I still owned the AirPods Pro with AppleCare+ support associated with my AppleID, when disconnected the phone, it no longer showed up on my device list.

But overall, Apple has been great at support.

With AppleCare+, you don't have to go to the store for replacements. They send it to you with a CC hold and then have a prepaid label for Fedex Pickup returns. Call Fedex for the pickup, and that is that.

I use my iPhone and cellular iPad for 80 GB tethering per month used outside of home and work, for instance in a NYC cafe or outside during the summer. I don't like relying on public WiFi for security reasons. I also bring a nice large powercell for additional charge. It adds about an extra pound, but gives me a full recharge on the 16" MacBook Pro.

Using fast.com (Netflix server) I get 56 Mbps down and 24 Mbps up on Verizon with my iPhone 15 Pro Max in Manhattan which is another reason to use WiFi.

In large part because with the iPhone Pro (Max) you can run 10 Gps data rates with the proper USB 4 or Thunderbolt 4 cable.

I have the 15 Pro Max. I yearly upgrade because the modems and RF electronics are substantial annual upgrades. I live in NYC with skyscrapers, subways, underground parking garages, cell tower congestion during certain parts of the day. Also, I attend busy conferences, drive on highways, and take trains. In each of these cases one can encounter weak signals. The X70 Qualcomm modem and RF electronics are a substantial upgrade over the iPhone 14 Pro Max. The iPhone 15 Pro (Max) does better in weak signal conditions than the new 2023 Samsung s23.

"The iPhone 15 Pro Max also performed better in low-signal regions, measuring speeds of 21Mbps down and 14Mbps up compared with the S23 Ultra's 17Mbps down and 9.3Mbps up in the same spot."

"The phone did well when tested at the Wi-Fi network's edge, where it peaked at 8.1Mbps down against the S23's 6.35Mbps."

https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/apple-iphone-15-pro-max

The article above is referring to UCLA.

"California on Thursday became the first state to guarantee free health care for all low-income immigrants living in the country illegally..."

https://apnews.com/article/health-california-immigration-gav...

Billions of dollars are being spent on health care for illegal residents instead of spending the money for California residents at California Universities.

There is plenty of money in California. The problem is that the leadership doesn't prioritize affordable university education, preferring instead to fund people living in the country illegally. California residents are taking out student loans to subsidize people living in the country illegally. It is tremendously unfair.

Busses are way too slow. I live in NYC with the subways. We do have dedicated bus lanes and express busses in NYC and they are way too slow. There is something called, "traffic" A 45 minute drive during rush hour, which is when most people take transit and which is faster than buses, is 15-20 mins door-to-door by subway including some walking.

If you live in urban areas such as NYC, upgrades are important because of signal interference from skyscrapers, subways, below-ground parking garages, basements,and tower congestion etc. The improvement in modems (eg, now X65 going to X70 Qualcomm) and transceiver electronics are improved as well as battery life. I yearly upgrade primarily but not only for that reason. The newer modems are particularly good at weak signals, eg, < 120 dBm.

I use Verizon and use iPad Pro and Apple Watch also on cellular. Works really well together.

Examples:

1. Alsace Loraine, the region between Germany and France now French, was German prior to WWI. 2. Upper Silesia, once part of Germany, became part of Poland after WWII. 13 million ethnic Germans were kicked out of Upper Silesia by Poland and fled to the reminder of Germany.

In 1948, Palestinian irregulars led by Amin al-Husseini, who had been The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who spied for he Nazis and was a guest of Hitler's in Berlin during WWII and who organized SS troops for he Nazis from Bosnia, as well as 5 Arab nations all sought to destroy Israel. They lost.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_al-Husseini

If the Germans can lose Alsace Loraine to France after WWI and lose Upper Silesia to Poland after WWII, then certainly the Palestinians, Egyptians, Syrians, and Jordanians should lose land for attacking Israel.

Israel left Gaza, but Hamas, elected by Palestinians took over Gaza and has been shooting missiles into Israel, most recently 10 days in May 2021, when they shot over 4,300 missiles towards Israeli cities. Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system shot down most, but 12 Jews and Arabs died and 300 injured.

There cannot possibly be peace for the Palestinians while Hamas and not Fatah rules Gaza.

The best hope for The Palestinians is to extend The Abraham Accords -- the peace agreement of Israel with UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan to include Saudi Arabia and other Arab states. Israel was previously recognized by Egypt and Jordan.

M1Pro and M1Max are designed in Israel, so not certain if Apple has lost designers in Israel.

"...as well as the integrated circuits that were developed in Israel, and the jewel in the crown: the Israeli team played a central role in developing the premium version of the company's flagship M1 processor, including the M1Pro and M1Max chips designed to support premium Mac computers such as MacBook Pro and MacBook Studio. These chips were built here in Israel while working with other teams worldwide, including at the headquarters in Cupertino. The integration with the verification applications and processes was also carried out here."

https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-apple-to-open-jerusalem-d...

AV1 would be ideal to support. It is resource intensive for software, but with M2 MacBook Pros, for example and upcoming iPhone A17 processors, the AV1 decompression and compression codecs could be put in the hardware.

AV1 reputedly is 30% more efficient than HEVC, important for a number of cases, such as more efficient use of bandwidth over cellular. For FaceTime over cellular Apple today uses the HEVC codecs if available on source and destination phones.

In software AV1 is very resource intensive.

https://www.apple.com/support/products/mac/

AppleCare+ is $70/year for M1 MacBook Air and covers damages. It also covers accidents such as coffee spills or drops.

I have 3 year AppleCare+ for 16" MacBook Pro.

The newer chip fabs, eg. TSMC N5, and upcoming N3 cost around $20 billion. This Italian plant is not for fab, but for dicing the wafers, packaging, etc. The advanced fab processes used by Apple, Qualcomm, NVidea, Samsung, Intel (soon), and others rely on ASML's EUV (Extreme Ultra Violet) lithography (for fine lines in printing. Each succeeding process has more layers done with the EUV thus requires more of these machines and the cost is around $160 million each. A newer version, for processes such as Intel plans in having in production in 2025, costs about $330 million each. Again, many of these machines are needed for each wafer fab.

The ASML EUV machines are extremely complicated and rate limited by the polishing of the Zeiss mirrors which require 9 months to manufacture. Zeiss is in the process of scaling up, but in the meantime the EUV machines are very much backordered and that supply limitation is partially responsible for the slowdown in the release of updated nodes. There is an update of the ASML machines which are far more complicated that cost twice as much and should be part of a fab line in production in 2025.

There are YouTube videos of Seymour Cray.

Learn about the CDC 6600 and the architecture compared with top IBM 360 computers. Learn about Cray I.

Cray was the builder of the fastest computers in the world for a long time. Always sold early machines of each model to scientific govt labs and NSA. The first 6600s were delivered to Livermore and Los Alamos (Wikipedia CDC 6600).

With less than 30 people Cray built a computer (the 6600) about 2 times faster than anything IBM with its massive budget could build. There is a famous letter by IBM's Chief Watson Jr. about this fact at The Computer History Museum website.

When IBM used ICs for the 360's, Cray still used transistors for the CDC 6600. His reasoning is great.

Looking forward to the TSMC N3 node Apple MacBook Pros coming out next year, 2023.

These M1 Max machines are already very impressive at a reasonable price. M1Max + 64GB + 2TB is about $4K.

The free market approach would work but the real-estate markets are not free markets: There is rent-seeking zoning density restrictions that make the land artificially scarce.

Reverse the zoning density restrictions and this will be a return to eliminating the market failure in real-estate.

I live in NYC.

I can't tell you how important it is to keep people who are unvaccinated away from those of us who are vaccinated.

For those that don't know, NYC has very crowded indoors situations because of the cost of real estate. We are all close together.

No sympathy whatsoever for those who refuse to get a vaccine and even offered $100 to get the vaccine.

People never have the right to infect another human being. That is just the way it is.

No "rights" supersede the right to not be infected by non-vaccinated people. None.

Computer chip design in major in Israel.

Intel has 2 design centers there. Apple has a design center there. Broadcom, Qualcomm and many others.

It is not only software....

Actually the tests help the poor to get admitted against quotas.

100 years ago there were Jewish quotas in Ivy League schools and others. The way that they finally were able to get over the quotas was when universities started accepting the SAT for admission, thus making admissions merit-based.

This is easy history to look up on the web, so the reality is that merit-based exams help to overcome quotas.

I wonder if now the universities will re-instate the quotas for Jews, since Jews are overrepresented in universities compared with the proportion of those that appear in US population.

Any opinions about this?

I am confused why I am being downvoted?....please help me to understand why anyone would support terrorists.

Would you like to be a plane that was hijacked?

If you were on a plane that was hijacked, would you praise the rescuers as heroes?

This is not difficult, so why are people downvoting mentioning that terrorists belong in prison?

Seriously. Do HN readers support terrorism and giving a voice to terrorists?

The speaker, Leila Khaled, is a terrorist that hijacked Flight TWA 840 (Rome to Tel Aviv) in 1969 and who attempted to hijack El Al Flight 219 (Amsterdam to New York City) in 1970.

We should never give terrorists a voice on Zoom. Can you imagine if someone wanted Al-Qaeda terrorists to speak on Zoom?

Terrorists belong in one place: prison.

BTW, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is a hero that was part of a 16 member special forces team that stopped the 1972 hijacking of Sabena Flight 571. He was injured during the rescue. There is even a movie about this called,

"Sabena Hijacking: My Version" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4998338/

Netanyahu as well as former Israeli PMs Barak and Peres are in the movie.

Trump was attempting to fix the broken H1-B Visa system, raising the wages that one must earn which is only a start.

H1-B Visa, by law, is only for those jobs where there are no Americans to fill the role, eg. theoretical physicist PhD with masters in data science.

But firms and hospitals use this to get foreigners at cheaper wages to supplant Americans from their jobs from programmers to doctors (MDs).

Biden, Schumer, Harris, all wish to make the job market and wages worse for American STEM workers/doctors (MDs).

During the 2016 primaries, when Disney CEO Bob Iger replaced about 200 American STEM workers with H1-B Visa abuse replacements, it was Trump and Sanders who complained vociferously about the illegal use of H1-B, which the Obama DOJ did nothing about, perhaps because Clinton received a $100,000 donation from the same Bob Iger for the Hilary Victory Fund.

Trump recently fired the CEO of the federal TVA for attempting to replace 200 American STEM workers H1-B Visa abuse foreigners and then made an exec order to prohibit any federal agency from doing so.

Biden, Schumer want to increase the number of H1-B Visas (Schumer wants to triple them). VP (and former Sen Harris) was Democratic sponsor of senate bill S.386 which seeks to double the number of Indians who get green cards.

The moves of Trump helps Americans. The moves of Biden, Schumer, Harris harms Americans.

Those are the facts, irrefutable, as have been presented above. So, ask yourself, do I want an American President that give in to donors like Bob Iger and brings more foreigners into the country or do I want someone like Trump, who cannot be bribed and does what is best for Americans and not foreigners.