skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, a curve which gets arbitrarily close to every point in the unit square actually touches every point in the unit square. This is because (by definition) a curve is a continuous map from a compact space (the unit interval) to a Hausdorff space (R^2), and so its image is compact, and thus closed. A closed set contains every point that it is arbitrarily close to.
TikTok Whistleblower Claims Chinese Police Kidnapped and Threatened His Father
> The pressure to announce more and more at reinvent while the quality of what was being announced dropped was the specific feeling I'm talking about.

Yea, I can certainly see this making one feel claustrophobic.
This seems like a really backward way of thinking. You seem to be advocating for complex tax loopholes to be opened for individuals rather than advocating for simple, but lowered taxes.
> AI startups aren't getting funding

Corollary: 99% of AI startups are not providing real customer value and do not deserve to get funding on merit.
That doesn't mean much when the discord TOS forbids use of anything but the official client to connect to their services. They seem to turn a blind eye to the various unofficial clients mostly, but also do occasionally ban a subset of their users occasionally despite no other TOS violations.
Ask HN: Bose-Einstein Condensate Qubits
As I understand it, Bose-Einstein condensates get more stable as they get larger. Why are quantum computer developers not making their qubits out of them?
> but that doesn't mean that Vietnamese names are bad writing.

Not everybody agrees: https://www.jesusandmo.net/wp-content/uploads/2011-05-31.png

On a more serious note, I watched a Chinese drama with my parents, and the fact that the characters' names were in Chinese caused enormous problems for them.† This is hard for me to empathize with, but clearly it's something that some people can't handle.

† Another thing that caused them problems is that Chinese characters are addressed differently by different people, sometimes by name, sometimes by title, sometimes by a kinship term that will vary with the relationship between speaker and addressee....

That's easier for me to empathize with; it causes difficulties for me too, but those difficulties are mostly in the nature of nailing down a bunch of different pieces of information about each character, not in the nature of "why are you speaking a language that isn't English?!?"
I don't think there's a default excel adapter in rga.

(I wanted one somewhat recently, and then doing a find for xls on the linked page returns 0 results)
100 years ago Lebanon didn’t have running water and still had slavery. The Middle East hasn’t been a producer of goods, even domestically, since antiquity.
So how do you think that airport security will adjust to the widespread knowledge that you can hide an explosive alongside the battery?
Yeah, I wish they would just keep the boilerplate OFL intact. I spent way too much time trying to figure out what the "real" license was, and if I could use it in my open source projects.
Probably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott,_Divestment_and_Sancti... ?
If they aren't providing hard numbers, then we should infer that to mean the figure is on the low side and failed to meet expectations.

Nobody is vague about a home run. OTOH, "there was no compromise in the number of swings the batter took" sounds an awful lot like a strike out.
Since I discovered Iosevka a few years back it has been my daily driver for 80% of the time. I use other fonts from time to time but I always go back to my custom build of Iosevka.

Yours actually looks a bit more readable than mine, gonna check it out your build plan.

Thanks!
Agreed. I don't think the police response is inherently unwarranted (well except literally, ha ha) but the protocol surrounding how to handle the situations appears completely busted.
What I don't get here is the title. It's either referring to the employee who goes and creates the autonomous system, or even the system itself, but is "high agency" a corp buzzword the same way IC is?
This might have unwanted consequences. If a studio relocates a head office? Perhaps moving a shoot to another state/country?
This is a bit like the spinning machines in the UK in the 1800's - it might be an inexorable shift, much like movies impacted live theater in the 1900's - progress is inexorable and people adapt to work with it.
Right now 4K and even 8K cameras are well under $5K - I can remember when a studio betacam cost $80K and rented for $1K/day, with a 3 day week. Lenses have not fallen as much = down 60% or so, but they live for decades and with adaptors fit the new cheap cams, You can even shoot a passable film with a high end phone(usually with a holder to steady it).
The whole props rental business is in decline with photographs being capable to be mogged into scenes with modern photo editors.
I think the screen actors guild is well aware of this and are scurrying to adapt , hence the law.
The real answer IMO is how they (don't) integrate with generics, first-class functions, and the type system in general. If you try using a checked function inside a stream() call you'll know exactly what I mean. Yes, it's technically possible to make a "functional interface" with a fixed number of checked exceptions, but in practice it's a huge PITA and most functions just don't allow checked exceptions at all.

Compare to ATDs, where any generic function taking a T can also be used with Result<T> exactly the same. (Not a perfect comparison, but there are lots of other scenarios where ATDs just compose better)
Weirdly, I got eye strain from that page. I think it's not the font itself to blame, but the combination of its default size in my browser with being #000000 on #FFFFFF - too much contrast.
It's so easy in node. I miss node.

Setting this up in the mess that is Python/Gunicorn/asgi/wsgi/celery/Django has not been as easy
> the general, informed will of Americans somehow chose cars over public transportation

This is a fantasy in any society, not just America. No piece of social infrastructure on the scale of "cars vs. public transportation" in any country gets decided by "the general, informed will" of all the people.

The "mechanism of choice on an individual level" in a free country is simple, and I've already described it: people look at the alternatives reasonably available to them and choose the one that suits them best. And the aggregation of all those individual choices shapes the infrastructure, which in turn of course affects what alternatives are reasonably available to the next generation. That's how free markets and free societies work. But of course such a process does not involve any "general, informed will" of the people as a whole. It just involves a huge number of individuals interacting.

The other possibility, in a country that's not a free country (such as one large East Asian country one city of which has been mentioned, not by me, in this overall discussion), is for some small group at the top to decide how they think things should be arranged, and then just impose that on everybody. In such a country there is no "mechanism of choice on an individual level" regarding large scale infrastructure at all; it is imposed by those in charge. People do of course still make individual choices in such countries, but their choices don't really affect the social infrastructure the way they can in a free country.

The US today is not fully a free country in the sense I described above, since there is quite a bit of top-down imposition of things (and not just by governments--there were of course a number of large corporations pushing car-centric infrastructure in the late 19th and 20th centuries), so it's really a mix of the two possibilities I gave. But neither possibility involves "the general, informed will of Americans" deciding anything.
Because if they’re lying about the quantum dots, they may also be lying about brightness, color gamut, and reproduction - all things I don’t have the ability to verify at home.

Alternatively, if their TV was designed to meet certain specs for the above with quantum dots, and faulty/fraudulent panels are missing said dots, it likely won’t meet all of those specs.
It is straightforward. There was no conflict there for that past decade plus, Hezbollah started attacking Israel in October to join their Islamic brethren.
> I really wish we could avoid this tone of petty superiority.

I wish it wasn't an effective strategy to minimize downvotes. But my anecdotal experience is that it helps! My comment was in the negatives when I edited to add that line.
Anything 2:50:00 or below is 100% and anything 2:55:00 and above is 0%

Is this actually accurate or did I find a bug?

If not, such a weird 5 minute window
You're right. It existed and had a short span of life/fame in some countries but that is all. Most pagers were on their own protocol/frequency. the protocol seems to be mostly the same theses days: POCSAG

Many commenters here also assumed like I did it was some cellular/SIM devices but it wasn't that much widespread.
Am I susceptible to this if I redirect all DNS traffic on my network to a pihole, which is the only device I let make external DNS requests?
Why would they benefit? When duckdb/Polaris are being used correctly, all the work is happening in the native stack. It should already be very fast compared to the Python runtime.

I recently moved a large ETL process that was mostly Python runtime processing to pyarrow/Polaris and wrote all the ETL logic in SQL. I've seen processes that used to take a week to run drop to about an hour (no exaggeration).
It's about the lack of visible flame, but more about the velocity of the burn, essentially instantaneous at normal camera speeds.
It's not meaningless (such applications are quite heavily inspected for signs of malfeasance by many parties that would stand to benefit from widely publicizing any backdoor), but it does substantially reduce the value, especially if your threat model includes being specifically targeted for a bypass.
What's worse, Apple Vision Pro doesn't even feel like a Lisa or Newton type of failure. This isn't just an expensive slice of future technology. It's a shaky foothold in a market Apple cannot confidently compete in. It might be the first time Apple released something that's just simply a dud, and nobody had the confidence or capability to stop it from shipping.

All the "innovations" in the current hardware feel destined to get removed as a cost-saving measure. Eye tracking is sketchy is frankly just worse than traditional locomotive pointing in other headset software. The passthrough screen is worse than the living devil and needs to be removed STAT. The software is fixable, but currently in a state that barely supports WebXR and doesn't support SteamVR or OpenXR. A good iteration on this headset would look almost nothing like Vision Pro, which suggests to me Apple really just doesn't know how to capitalize on their market.
Since when has Israel cared about civilians or aid workers
It is amazing how much is added by the eyeballs. Imagining it without would seem somehow lifeless in comparison.
Cookie cutters:

<https://allthetropes.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age>
I think about how cool something like this would be, pretty frequently. Hopefully, you have plans on porting the add-on to Safari.
Reference counting is not tracing garbage collection. To also quote a Wikipedia Link:
„The main advantage of the reference counting over tracing garbage collection is that objects are reclaimed as soon as they can no longer be referenced, and in an incremental fashion, without long pauses for collection cycles and with clearly defined lifetime of every object.“

+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_counting
No, actually, they don't. Go read some Lebanese newspapers - they are more critical of Hezbollah (and sometimes Iran) than are Israel.

Unless by "the other side" you mean Hezbollah and Iran. I'd love to hear your defense of them. Is Hezbollah protecting Lebanon by getting involved? Do you believe that they are they "on the road to AlQuds (Jerusalem)", as they say?
Does that mean that U2 will no longer be a Dutch band ?

https://taxfoundation.org/blog/u2-abandons-ireland-name-taxe...
> The Boston T is not anywhere near as good as the NYC subway

My experience of the T is some decades old; I understand it has indeed deteriorated quite a bit since then. But when I used it, I had reasonably contemporary experience of the NYC system as well, and the latter, at that time, was not as good. Any such comparison will of course change over time.

> how it affects city life.

Which, again, is all that appears to be on your radar. But not everyone's life is "city life".
A Text-to-Image Stable Diffusion Workshop on a Cloud Platform
Hezbollah has been accused of employing similar tactics of hiding among civilian populations and hiding military equipment in civilian buildings which makes sense both given that Iran is backing both these groups and from a strategic view if you’re fighting a significantly more advanced enemy.

As for ideology vs money, it’s hard to distinguish which motivates them more va Hamas given these movements started from seed money and personnel from the Iranian revolutionary guard.

But certainly hezbollah started indiscriminately shelling Israeli civilian targets and Israel is responding by targeting military personnel and infrastructure. It’s up to the Lebanese government to control Hezbollah (which they cant) and Hezbollah is responsible for collateral civilian casualties that stem from attacking them

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rjhi11ibu0

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/03/21/idf-hezbollah-stores...
For anyone with this response to any given story: you can use HN's "Hide" feature.

If you have the spoons for it, flags / vouches (and mod emails) help, though on highly contentious topics, such as this one, there's a limit to what can be done.
What It's Like to Solve a Math Olympiad Problem
> It's more complicated because the Irish law people were following was found to be invalid,

It wasn’t found to be invalid per se. The European Court of Justice found that the tax breaks Ireland was offering were unlawful state aid (a corporate subsidy that violates EU law) in the case of large multinationals such as Apple. From what I understand of the ruling, it only applies to large multinationals, and Ireland is allowed to continue to offer the same tax breaks to smaller firms.

https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/202...

Also, while IANAL, I have read some EU law textbooks, and one thing they make clear is that ECJ decisions do not always have “direct effect” - the ECJ can declare a national law to be in violation of EU law, but whether that by itself invalidates the national law depends on the specific grounds the ECJ used. So, without having looked into the legal details of this specific ruling, I’m not even sure if it makes the Irish law invalid, as opposed to merely illegal. The distinction is, an illegal law, the national government is obliged to repeal/amend it, and if they fail the EU can punish them, but it remains in force until they repeal/amend it; whereas an invalid law they have to immediately stop enforcing it.
> What city was that?

Boston, some decades ago. As I noted elsewhere upthread, I understand that the T has deteriorated quite a bit since then. But at the time I lived there, I never felt any need whatsoever for a car and I never had any problems getting where I needed to go safely and in a timely manner.
For fast web servers, you could use .NET, especially if you care about Windows. It gives you good ecosystem and consistent experience across all platforms. Even FreeBSD support has improved considerably as of lately. It is already built on top of what Swift, Java and others call "NIO". In .NET it's just "SocketAsyncEngine" users will never know about unless they look for it :)
At least one innocent farmer just trying to safeguard their farm might have suffered contusions and destruction of property!

"Farmers attempted to herd the emus using trucks, but this proved ineffective; one truck even crashed after hitting an emu"

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Emu-War
> they don't need to worry about mobile.

They don't really need to worry about anything but being a middleman. But they always seem to know when to tap into untapped markets. That's why I'm surprised. But maybe they are simply complacent as of now.

>Microsoft wanted to open their mobile games store[0] but idk what's with that..

Part of that was definitely from legal battles with Apple over Xcloud so I'm sadly not too surprised it was put on the back burner.cloud was clearly their biggest priority before the economy tanked so they won't worry about native mobile games until they feel secure in cloud.

But yea, Microsoft is seemingly giving up control on consoles and is more or less the de facto desktop (honestly, it's still baffling they didn't make a steam deck first), so I think eventually they will go to mobile. It'll be quite ironic if they end up being late to the party a second time, though (the first being their attempt with the mobile Windows OS).
Naming alone, this is complicated.

- It could be just what it says on the tin "letting the blind see".

- It could be a reference to the real neurological condition where one can in fact see but the conscious mind is convinced they cannot.

- It could be a reference to the novel "Blindsight" by Peter Watts, which is relevant to the above neurological condition but is really about just how bad humans are at perceiving the world around them and being unreliable narrators.

I realized back when he started naming the spaceships, Musk has read many of the novels I have, but seems to have taken radically different lessons. The potential misinterpretations of "Blindsight" are the utility of sociopathy in society and acceptability of manipulation to manage unreliable humans.
As an engineering manager, I found it quite easy to see the contributions of remote engineers and had no trouble evaluating what was going on. I wonder about the structure of some companies
both objects have a space cone that is overlapping - since they can observe each other, but also have a small bit they xor can observe, since they are a spatialtime distance apart.

regardless, once they are inside the event horizon, their spacetime ends in a "singularity" - that only they experience, since everyone else just saw an ever-slowing couple of observers that never quite reached the event horizon (to the outside observer, who would eventually be either iron or protons, depending if God had decided if they protons should decay or not yet)

i was just pointing out cone versus cylinder, since the black holes' effect is polynomial af
On the other hand, one could view this a show of force to try and scare Hezbollah away from further escalation
Found a git issue that indicates the slashed 0 is in private use area of the font

https://github.com/polarsys/b612/issues/20#issuecomment-5448...

To answer the grandparent, unslashed 0s are used in numerical figures (speed, pressure) while slashed 0s are reserved for the alphanumeric figures (headings and other idenitifers)
Yes. Killing more of theirs in response to an attack on yours is fruitless. It just perpetuates the situation. And also, every time you kill one civilian there, their kids become terrorists for life (or at least have a good chance to). Hitting military targets is ok, but just lobbing a few missiles that way in retaliation because they fired some on you last week is really not going to help in any way. It only perpetuates the death and destruction.

Netanyahu seems to be very much against negotiations and keeps blowing the situation up because he doesn't want to 'look weak'. But this does nothing to actually help the Israeli people get safer. The only way they can actually be safe is to sit down and make peace. And of course not to keep taking more and more territory as Israel has been doing (and was even condemned by the UN).

Seriously, this shit has been going on since the founding of Israel. If they keep it up they will never feel safe. Neither side will ever be fully bombed into submission. Remember both Russia and the US tried that in Afghanistan, it didn't work there and it won't work here. All it does is keep the military industrial complex fed and wrecking lives in the process.

Someone has to take the first step and stop retaliating. And make some agreements which are fair to both parties. Then they can both build up a society and have less reason to upset things because they have a thriving society to lose.

I'm not defending Hamas nor Hezbollah. But this has to stop and 'responding' or 'retaliating' isn't going to help.
> I would imagine the rewards of silent surveillance (tracking, audio) would be of much higher value than this kind of attack where 3 out of 1000s targets were killed.

The reason they were using pagers, as opposed to phones, was to avoid exactly this kind of potential attack.

Pagers are (typically) a broadcast technology, the pager has no transmission capability. A page is broadcast from every tower, it has no idea where the receiver is. A targeted page is done by the receiver filtering out and ignoring pages that it isn't the recipient for (eavesdropping all pages is trivial).

The pager device is simple, it doesn't contain a GPS or have any concept of it's own location. No microphone or audio capability, very little processing capability. And adding such capability with something like a bug would be reasonably apparent to anyone opening one up and inspecting it.
The question is why did the rocket fire start. The ICJ ruling should tell you why.
I used a reverse-slashed zero in my programming font [1][2] for exactly that reason. I wanted it to be clearly distinct from an O with stroke (and by more than just the slash not extending past the bowl).

[1] http://eastfarthing.com/luculent/

[2] https://usemodify.com/fonts/luculent/
I need that too for hyper-OCR-able monospace labels.
Because it's an expensive and lengthy process. And every version would need to be re-certified.
I believe they may have been referring to the Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income (GILTI) tax, which from what I've read is as bad as the OP describes in their post.

https://www.investopedia.com/global-intangible-low-taxed-inc...
The Breakthrough Devices Program [1] is just a special review program. Designation just means you get to go through a non-standard approval process because your technology is too different to be well-served by the normal review process.

It is not a endorsement or approval of the technology. It is basically just approval to get faster responses from the FDA.

[1] https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/how-study-and-market-you...
They can deduce age from their vocabulary, no cap.
It was wrong to allow Google to acquire them, openRTB has allowed the opportunity for 3 or 4 ad networks to control all of advertising.
>innovative gameplay just doesn't convert that well

Mobile gaming might be casual but the touch UI is huge innovation by itself. Touch gaming controls is the real thing that makes the difference in mobile gaming compared to other types of gaming.
If pihole is using DNS encryption for upstream lookups, the this would only affect you on your local network.

In other words, it would be unencrypted to the pihole but encrypted when going out to the internet.