skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The headstone (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gau%C3%9F#/medi...) does not (it does feature the star of David, but I couldn't find any notion that Gauß was jewish).

But there's a statue with that star (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gau%C3%9F#/medi...)
Who exactly is Amir Tsarfati and why is this a trusted source for numbers? I can't find anything reliable about him by search engine.
Breaks my heart to see high tech used to create mayhem rather than improve the world
I think the grocery store security video supports the two directions idea. If you watch carefully it looks like a pressure wave away from the target and clearly something takes the target down. Perhaps a pressure wave in the opposite direction too.
20 grams of C4 or similar plastic explosive would be more than adequate to produce the effects seen. CL-20 wouldn't be a good choice for this deployment: it's not particularly stable for rough handling even with a good phlegmatizing blend, and tends to decompose at the temps one would expect a pager to be exposed to (hot car, etc).
Or, from another point of view, getting just those engineers most attractive to competitors to quit.
Is the magical number 7 still valid?
Some here: https://www.justice.gov/d9/2024-09/doppelganger_affidavit_9....
Pure-CSS WarioWare
You can look at the incentives from the other direction: we probably don't want a system where any FAA regulations can be effectively repealed simply by lobbying Congress to not increase FAA funding as needed. If the FAA can't or won't do their job properly, the fix should take the form of positive action from higher levels of government, not a passive fail-deadly default.
> And in that some people have autism don't view it as something that needs to be cured.

Please, don't conflate these people with the other end of the spectrum, where those suffering are absolutely unable to live any kind of life at all. I have a friend who has an autistic son. The autism makes him a 5-year old hyperactive child in a 20-year old body. He needs help.
My mistake, as I assumed they took the same decision as jython and IronPython.

https://jython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Concurrency/#no-glob...

https://wiki.python.org/moin/IronPython

The difference between JVM, CLR and C in regards to parallel and concurrent code is that they are built for those kind of workloads, and have a memory model proper, hence not needing a GIL.
The thing about the alternative you offer is that none of the names in it are made-up, other than that Kowalski may be a fictional character.

There is nothing inherently wrong with made-up names, and some genres will require more than others, but I suspect that sentences in the style of McCaffrey's are partly intended to draw in the reader who feels, vaguely and probably subconsciously, as someone who has the inside scoop on esoteric knowledge from having deduced what sort of entities these names denote. To be clear, I am not immune to the effect, and it can be pleasant in small doses if the rest of the story is engaging.
Lebanon has incredibly unreliable cell service. Anyone who needs to receive messages in a timely and reliable fashion would have no choice to have a pager or similar device. That would include many people in schools and most people in a hospital.

> they don't all re-up from Iran all at the same time

Who says anyone does? Hezbollah has 40k fighters, and we have reports of 2000 people being injured, so clearly Hezbollah, military or civilian, didn't "all re-up from Iran all at once", the numbers are more than an order of magnitude off for you to conclude as much.
To begin with, almost every day I try not to purchase anything.
Graal is many things (a marketing nightmare). The guest language part is orthogonal to the native packager AFAIK.
This argument is plausible for short range so long as there's no mass produced spacecraft with a payload capacity of 100 tons and with a range to reach Mars (at a launch cost expressed in millions, not billions). I'm cautiously optimistic we'll have that capability in the next decade or so.

At the same time we don't have the ability to reach other solar systems at all, nor projected in the next few decades. So we know relatively little about them in fact. Only as much as can be obtained by remote sensing over light years. (Which is to say: not very much.)
Specifically, it's that these foreign workers are not afforded the same protections as American workers. If they were, it would be a much more even playing field, and corporations would not have a "second-class" set of workers they could so easily bully.
Translation of the original text the recipe at the end is based on:

Tuh'u. Leg meat is used. You prepare water. You add fat. You sear. You fold in salt, beer, onion, arugula, cilantro, Persian
shallot, cumin, and red(?) beet, and [you crush] leek and garlic. You sprinkle coriander on top. [You add] kurrat and fresh cilantro.

From https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/ancient-mesopota...
To be fair, they rotate the burners in the series every 2 weeks and it takes the police more than a week to get up on the new ones.

It was cool to see that it was in fact an opsec fail (the guy buying the phones all over the country got lazy and bought too many from the same shop) to break through that. Pretty realistic. Like most of the wire in fact.

Although one thing in the wire I don't understand. Pagers are really easy to intercept, anyone with a scanner (with discriminator output) can do it and could do it in those times. I did it many times during the days when pagers were still in full swing. I really don't understand why they needed a court order for that (in season 1).
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Valid, yes. But this should never be the sole method of discovery.

Good UX provides clues to discovering additional functionality without intruding on the user.

What’s the alternative? That’s a question for a UX team - something Apple can certainly afford.
Digital Antiquarian has a few posts up recently about Douglas Adams, and it all sounds like it was a great deal more painful than I had ever realized as a kid reading _Hitchhiker's_: https://www.filfre.net/2024/07/the-later-years-of-douglas-ad...

Considering how much he loved everything else and how well he was able to do things like radio shows or video or inspire text adventures, I do have to wonder if forcing him to write books was pounding a square peg into a round hole.
Not OP, but my take is that it’s really not great for American workers or immigrants.

For immigrants, their ability to stay in America is predicated on maintaining a good relationship with their employer. If they have a spouse in the US who isn’t American, an interruption at work is a huge problem. And navigating the legal immigration system (USCIS) is a nightmare.

As an aside, when people list “immigration” as an election issue, I wish they were talking about USCIS. It sucks. They are slow, unresponsive, and their instructions are ambiguous. People pay thousands of dollars to lawyers to help them navigate it. Oh and you have to send everything via snail mail.

For American workers, the main problem is that our ability to organize depends on the threat of withholding labor. If companies can prevent unionization it makes it pretty much impossible to negotiate with companies. Working conditions and salary are two of the main things workers would collectively negotiate but can’t.

Also, there are many instances of H1B workers being paid far below market rate. You can check H1B salaries online. One blatant example I found was an “AI scientist” being paid $75k in San Jose, CA by Zoom. San Jose is basically Silicon Valley and has one of the highest COL in the US, and an AI Scientist is an expert who should be paid handsomely.

More broadly there was an investigation by the EPI on this trend of underpaying workers below prevailing wages:

https://www.epi.org/publication/new-evidence-widespread-wage...
Related:

The Expert Mind (2006) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41282574 - Aug 2024 (111 comments)

https://personal.utdallas.edu/~otoole/CGS2301_S09/15_expert.... ("The Expert Mind") (Page 68, right column "Chunking Theory")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Plus... ("Wikipedia: The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two")

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/piq.20099 ("Seven plus or minus two")
There is alot of Apple shade being thrown on this RCS promotional page
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If the library you are alluding to is GameInput, then I tried that and it sadly did not solve the problem.
From a strategic perspective can any nation or large organization continue to allow Israeli suppliers anywhere in a supply chain?
Several killed, 2,750 wounded, as communication pagers exploded across Lebanon
But show me someone that's starting at zero? You said it "seems like everyone" is doing that. Where?
Applets did run in the browser, I wrote a couple.
I see this sort of question whenever this topic comes up, and I think it's interesting that there's a baseline assumption of a false dichotomy between "in-office interactions with employees of the same company" or else "isolation", as though those are the only two options (which is understandable, since American culture is pretty skewed towards defining people by their jobs -- the classic problem where people tend to answer "what do you do?" by talking about their job).

I've been working hybrid or fully-remote on and off since about 2009 (with "fully-remote" being my state since about 2019). I get quite a lot more time to spend around people who are close to me -- friends, family, my community -- precisely because I'm not driving 60 miles round-trip every day anymore.

Encountering this same type of dichotomy in my adult context is kinda amusing to me personally, since I encountered it often as a kid, too; I grew up homeschooled, and heard the same baseline assumption (but with "employees at the same company" swapped out for "students at the same school") presented in another frequent question: "but how do you kids ever socialize with other people?"

In reality, I was often involved in daytime extracurricular activities (and weeknight/weekend ones) that had me working, volunteering, field-tripping, or just hanging out alongside multiple groups of adults and other kids on a regular basis.

Living in community can happen by choice, not just by [employer || school] coercion; it just requires that you make that choice.
I don't get it. Why does Lebanon need to resist Israel? When in recent history has Israel attacked Lebanon or threatened it in any way, except in retaliation or defense against Hezbollah acts?
I only want one feature from Swift: faster type-checking. If you write a few lines of math, or a moderately complex SwiftUI expression, suddenly the typechecker starts timing out. Swift is the only language I've ever used with this problem.

https://hachyderm.io/@evanw/109859384302551859

https://www.cocoawithlove.com/blog/2016/07/12/type-checker-i...

https://danielchasehooper.com/posts/why-swift-is-slow/

This isn't mentioned at all in the announcement so I'm kind of disappointed.
A Milestone for TypeScript Performance in TanStack Router
That would indeed be a victory. Look at the status quo.
Easy transitional/establishing shots. Serves the same sort of purpose as when the show/movie serves up some wide shots of a city or the country, informing the viewer "we are at a new location," but more personal.
> You can use GraalPy with GraalVM JDK, Oracle JDK, or OpenJDK

https://www.graalvm.org/latest/reference-manual/python/
Reading that the GBC standard specifies 1 ball per second, it’s fun to imagine a module that puts 1,000 balls in slow moving storage, taking 15 minutes to warm up and cool down
I don't agree; I think you're pushing some vague nonsense media conspiracy here. I haven't been following the war that closely, but I hear about Hezbollah attacks fairly regularly. I'm very critical of Israel right now, but it's not even remotely unknown that they're facing attacks from multiple fronts.
It is actually also a config option that can be passed to the setup function. Many of the modifiers actually just change the config value under the hood. All production formatters have timestamps by default, only pretty does not so it shouldn't be anything you need to worry about. You can also set timestamps globally in the setup function.

https://adzejs.com/getting-started/setup.html

https://adzejs.com/reference/configuration.html#user-configu...
It's a spectrum. Anyone that is advocating that it need not be cured is someone that is on the less severe side of the spectrum. The severe side implies significant mental handicaps.

I don't think that it will ever be "cured". But I'm happy for research that helps with symptoms and improves the quality of life of those with autism.
First of all, the discussion is purely hypothetical – noone ever put George W Bush in prison for his Iraq invasion. No matter what you, or the world, thinks of it, it's not going to happen.

Second, what Israel and its enemies are doing is far from the land warfare the laws were written for. Do all Hezbollah soldiers wear uniforms indicating their affiliation and rank? Yeah, I thought so.
RTO drives away top performers who have the option to go anywhere. Is that worth it to weed out some low performers?
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Great question. First, we have a ton of respect for the work the DeepEval team is doing. That said, we took a fundamentally different approach in building Opik as an open source project. With DeepEval, if you want to log your data or use the UI, you need to use Confident AI's cloud platform (which as far as I'm aware, has no free plan). So, if you want to visualize traces, do production monitoring, labeling, etc, you can't just use the DeepEval open source library.

All of Opik's functionality, including the UI and logging, is available in the open source version. The only "features" that are inaccessible from the open source version of Opik are things that are actually features of the Comet platform. For example, Comet Artifacts allow you to store your datasets as versioned assets, preserved as an immutable series of snapshots, which automatically track any experiments they've been a part of in order to preserve their full data lineage. You can use Opik with Artifacts, but that will require a free Comet account. Any Opik-specific feature, however, is fully available in the open source version.
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> Apple is not trying to potentially attempt to aim for maybe replacing every other programming language with Swift

Apple's stated goal is to make Swift a viable language up and down the technology stack, which goes way beyond Objective-C. They are actively working on making Swift viable in baremetal environments, firmware, drivers, etc. IIRC they even referred to it as a C++ successor language at WWDC this year.

I agree that they're not trying to "replacing every other programming language," but they're investing in it becoming a viable language choice in most environments.
The Seattle port has had so many corruption scandals, I'd be surprised if they were even allowed to pay as that would be an excellent way to embezzle.

The other facet of this, is that the Seattle port is so poorly run that it does almost no business. Everyone goes to Tacoma.
> if Israel wanted to achieve similar results via a conventional war against Hezbollah, it seems virtually guaranteed that far more innocent people would have been injured and killed

"It's OK that Israel causes excessive amounts of civilian casualties, because in the alternative scenario Israel would also cause excessive amounts of civilian casualties"
> The new Iridium pagers are two-way as far as I've heard.

Apparently that's optional:

> Iridium Burst-enabled devices can be configured as receive-only so that no transmissions are made, a feature valued highly by some customer segments.

(from https://www.iridium.com/services/iridium-burst/)

> I think the service is finally being decommissioned due to the Iridium Next satellites not supporting it anymore.

If that's the case, it would have been inoperable since 2017 – they deorbited the old satellites immediately after confirming deployment of the new ones.
Yup. Most factory workers are playing the worlds tiniest violin for all the privileged laptop class having to go back to the office.
I wouldn't expect it, ever, frankly. Seen multiple Apple people come and go while explaining how they were going to solve that (c.f. 2016(!) for link #2)
Do you think manufacturing pagers in Lebanon is a viable alternative?
I'm confused.

Hawking temperature is inversely proportional to the mass. I assume most black holes except the very small ones would thus have a hawking temperature lower than the CMB.

Does that mean that effectively no black holes will ever evaporate not even a tiny bit well until the future time when the CMB will be so red shifted that black holes will start to have net radiation?
We will save man-years, because an LLM will do that.
Who's garbage you gonna shoot?
The reasons for all this stuff having been developed in Python also make Python interesting right now, all by themselves. It did not happen by accident; this stuff was developed fairly recently and there was no shortage of mature languages to choose from.
Wow, the headline severly overstates the case then...
Pagers are truly receive only. A pager is effectively a pocket FM radio fixed to one station, that vibrates when a relevant message was digitally read aloud on the radio.

GSM on the other hand is cellular and bidirectional so triangulation problem applies.
> RTO drives away top performers who have the option to go anywhere.

Where is the proof that all "top performers" want to WFH?
Discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41567299
> Seriously, what's the point of this?

A straightforward, accurate, explanation for the eponymous headline.

I don't care about the lore related to Gauss. I read that in school and promptly forgot most of it. This article won't resonate with me, except to attribute the heptadecagon with Gauss in a nebulous way. Maybe I'll even remember what his proof was for, in a few years.
They've been firing hundreds of rockets, daily, into Israeli territory. You think they need more excuses to do anything?
I don't think the folks that say this usually mean "never done before" in the way that you are saying.

"never done before" in my experience usually translates to "this combination of things doesn't have precedence internally [to the team or company], so I have to figure out how to glue all of these parts I don't understand together".
If the US government was sanctioned to the extent Hezbollah was, someone like an elementary school principal would most likely have to ask a higher-up to provide them with something like a pager, which would likely have been smuggled together with others.
we know but it’s actually pretty good.
In python specifically I like lxml (pretty sure that's what BS uses under the hood?), parse5 if you're using node is usually my go to.
Ideally though you shouldn't really have to parse anything (or not much at all) when doing browser automation as you have access to the DOM which gives you an interface that accepts query selectors directly (you don't even need the Runtime domain for most of your needs).
The next phase of Microsoft 365 Copilot innovation
Your language hints at something that I've always wondered about:

> with the other end of the spectrum

I had always figured that the use of "spectrum" here implied that we're all on it, and that some of us are on it in more or less problematic places. Is that not so? Are there people who are not on said spectrum?
SpaceX is currently drastically reducing the price per currency unit as is, and their current prototype is intended to smash a few more price barriers; to the point where the number of probes might hit diminishing returns, and actual human scientists become affordable. We'll have to see! At any rate it seems to be becoming commercially viable, even if SpaceX aren't the ones to do it (they do have competition chasing their tails).
>Back in the day we did plenty of "real world professional projects" with jQuery.

And they were terribly unperformant, bug ridden, messes of spaghetti that I wouldn't wish on anyone in the year 2024. Things evolved past that for a reason.
There is some research near me using tags on bats to see if their cross sea migration is affected by wind farms. Cameras clearly wont work.
Generations of workers coveted Boeing jobs. Strike reveals how much has changed
Large Language Model's Context Windows Get Huge
"This internal AI project will power generative creation on our platform. Our 3D foundational model will be open source and multimodal, and it will power 3D generation through text, video, and 3D prompts. We see a powerful future where Roblox experiences will have extensive generative AI capabilities to power real-time creation integrated with gameplay. We’ll provide these capabilities in a resource-efficient way, so we can make them available to everyone on the platform."

https://corp.roblox.com/newsroom/2024/09/rdc-2024-robloxs-ne...
And there are managers that understand this and those that don't.
> they even referred to it as a C++ successor language

Nice!

I'd gently warn against parsing that too closely: having been in the community and the weeds starting in 2014(!).

ex. the cross platform Foundation was announced and open sourced in 2016.

I'm sure a lot of things were upgraded or more consistent and its better etc., but it's a painful to remember what was expected + communicated at the time, and how much later it is.
Which I think that makes sense for them to want it to be viable all over the stack. It also directly benefits them also. I am assuming a lot of the motivation for embedded swift is being able to use it in their own stacks. I think even the presentation for WWDC gave examples of it being used in some pieces of hardware like on the AppleTV?
So I think one thing that seems to pop up in people’s anecdotes is “well someone wanted to just talk about what they did yesterday.”

Which I suspect comes from the manager/PM going “so what’d you do yesterday?”

I’ve been taught, and I teach others, that in the standup you drive the questions. Usually along this framework:

1) I assigned you Task A yesterday. Did you finish Task A?

2) If yes, awesome. I have Task B for you. Or, go help Bob with Task C.

3) If no, cool. Why? What happened? Is there anyone in this circle that can help you? How can I help you.

4) Open Ended Questions/Comments that we need to circle up on later

5) General Announcements

15 - 30 minutes depending on the size of the team, scope complexity, etc. No one should be talking for more than two minutes. If whatever they need takes longer than 2 minutes, that’s taken offline and a flag something is wrong.

If you’re going to treat the software development like a factory, you must assign and manage work like a factory.

If you’re going to treat it like magazine publishing, you must assign and manage work like a publication.

Pick one. And stop having hour long standups y’all are crazy.
The title sort of implies this is intentional or privileged to Apple, while it rather seems more like just a bug.

I also wish people would post the FB numbers and the details of their report when they say they've reported things like this.