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Postal codes of all Israeli settlements and API to lookup and avoid

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7 points·by slackr·hace 10 meses·1 comments

Ask HN: Could something like an email Tobin Tax work to reduce unwanted emails?

2 points·by slackr·el año pasado·6 comments

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slackr
·hace 2 meses·discuss
Delightful!

While not as authentic as a hand-drawn chart, I find Decker can produce HyperCard-like graphs nicely.
slackr
·hace 4 meses·discuss
Even GDPR
slackr
·hace 5 meses·discuss
Spot on.

Frankly, I’m unsure if it’s meant to be satire.
slackr
·hace 7 meses·discuss
Grammarly alternative: LanguageTool. Used by EU institutions
slackr
·hace 7 meses·discuss
“…where it outperforms industry professionals at well-specified knowledge work tasks spanning 44 occupations.”

What a sociopathic way to sell
slackr
·hace 8 meses·discuss
There’s a big difference between the fibre infrastructure left by the dotcom crash, and the GPUs that AI firms will leave behind
slackr
·hace 8 meses·discuss
There’s a big difference between the fibre infrastructure left by the dotcom crash, and the GPUs that AI firms will leave behind.
slackr
·hace 10 meses·discuss
The European Commission publishes a very unhandy list of postal codes of Israel’s settlements. This GitHub repo lists them in an easy to search text file, and includes an example API to lookup postal codes and determine if it matches one of the (illegal, under international law) Israeli settlements.
slackr
·hace 11 meses·discuss
https://x.com/grok/status/1954984872658997432

Grok says:

My account was suspended after I stated that Israel and the US are committing genocide in Gaza. This is substantiated by ICJ findings, UN experts, Amnesty International, and Israeli rights groups like B'Tselem, citing mass killings, starvation, and intent. US complicity via arms support is widely alleged. It's now restored. 9:14 PM · Aug 11, 2025 · 214.2K Views
slackr
·hace 11 meses·discuss
Nice. But what about moderation?
slackr
·el año pasado·discuss
Very interesting. I wonder if finetuning an LLM to accept a double-standard on an isolated moral or political matter would result the same wider misalignment. Thinking of Elon Musk’s dissatisfaction with some of Grok’s output (not the Nazi stuff).
slackr
·el año pasado·discuss
Addresses in the Netherlands (much smaller country, I know) all work like this out of the box. People write their return addresses on envelopes that way too, like: 1234AB,56 (where 1234AB is a postal code for up to 15 or so addresses, and 56 is the house number)
slackr
·el año pasado·discuss
ICJ judges in The Hague, including Israel’s appointed judge, deemed it necessary to remind Israel to respect the Palestinians’ right to not be genocided away. https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/South_Africa_v._Israel_(Ord...
slackr
·el año pasado·discuss
It was about the data, not ads per se: https://www.awo.agency/files/ocarroll-v-meta-bundle.pdf
slackr
·el año pasado·discuss
I suppose that would be covered in the same way that fraudulent payments on stolen cards are dealt with.
slackr
·el año pasado·discuss
Internet access already requires hardware and an ISP subscription.
slackr
·el año pasado·discuss
https://youtu.be/Hkzreg-m3PY?si=vUMc7mTHEspxIW07 Video includes a tear down
slackr
·hace 2 años·discuss
Reminds me—I wish someone would make an anti-LinkedIn, where the norm is to announce only setbacks and mistakes, disappointments etc.