skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All major browsers now implement the ability to use a browser-defined resolver.
In general case, won't it eventually hit the liability diffusers, i.e. insurance? Kid gets paid from an accident insurance, building owner will cover their costs from civil liability insurance, and the elevator designers or installers will get shielded by professional liability insurance.
It feels like Embrace, Extend, Extinguish to claim that a portable API is "legacy" and that its replacement is Apple-only.
Spreading fear is generally considered terrorism - not a proper military objective. You have to realize that the argument you're making goes both ways here.
Meta testing new ways to corral teens into teen accounts, if they lie about age
Full headline (too long for HN): "Instagram to automatically put teens into private accounts with increased restrictions and parental controls"

Sub-head: "Meta says it’s testing new ways to corral all teens into the accounts, even if they lie about their ages."

Several paragraphs discuss AI-based "age-prediction tools". Excerpt:

> The age prediction tools, scheduled to go into testing in the U.S. early next year, will scrutinize behavioral signals such as when an account was created, what kind of content and accounts it interacts with, and how the user writes. Those who Meta deems could be teens will then be asked to verify their ages.
Evidence could be that Microsoft isn't in trouble for shipping Windows with RDP servers/clients in Europe, which is equivalent to this iPhone mirroring feature.

Why is Microsoft able to do it just fine (without running afoul of the DMA) while Apple supposedly can't, despite MS having an ever larger marketshare of its field than Apple and this would warrant even more scrutiny?

The multitude of third-party RDP clients (and nobody being threatened with legal action for implementing one) out there may be at least part of the answer.
You can write imperative programs in Haskell and many people do. You get effect tracking, giving perhaps the "the worlds best imperative language" :)
Same thing as Java. You could use this to run python in your clojure JVM process.
Spark SQL is getting pipe syntax
> and purely due to a 10 day timing constraint put on him by Netscape management (right after their deal with Sun Microsystems), Brendan Eich, wanting a Java-syntax, but not having enough time to do it right, cobbled together JavaScript instead.

Stop spreading FUD. You have no idea what you’re talking about.

Stuff that people hate wasn’t even part of the original demo.

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/did-brendan-eich-...
First off, what makes Israel's efforts/existence legitimate but Hezbollah's/Hamas's/Houthi's illegitimate? To start with Israel is an occupying power (illegally by definition), a bully and a terrorist state (by the historical record), so any counteraction to such depravity certainly has more legitimacy.

Second, you mention the children casualties, after the Majdal Shams attack, in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. You should know that the Druze community despise the Israeli government and asked that no government ministers attend the funeral. But you try to use their deaths as a pretext for more deaths. As if the more than 40,000 direct deaths (the number of indirect deaths is possibly in the hundreds of thousands) of civilians and children in Gaza weren't enough. That's just for starters.

I'll add a third point and stop here. If similar measures were to be taken to make sure that the state you support will never again kill or terrorise, Israel would be no more
Thanks. There's an example page (markdown) at the very end. You can pretty easily spot some weaknesses in the generated text, it's uncanny valley territory. The most interesting thing is that the article contains numbered references, but unfortunately those footnotes are missing from the example.
heptagon is not "constructable", but it's easy to draw. I played around with this back in college.

You're looking for a line that is 2*sin(π/7) of the radius. That's 0.86777. The square of that is 0.7530, which is pretty darn close to 0.75 (1 - (1/2) ^ 2).

So make a triangle whose height is half the radius, hypoteneuse is the radius, and the other edge is 0.8660, within 0.001 of the real value and much more accurate than I can possible draw with a straight-edge and compass.
Look, once again that’s not how rates work.

What you’re describing is segmentation, which is another way of saying geico charges the people without speeding tickets less than those with speeding tickets.

If ACME co decides to charge everyone the same, then the drivers without speeding tickets will go switch to geico leaving ACME holding the bag of speeders… and losing a ton of money since prices weren’t set for that.

Switch speeding tickets with hard breaking or whatever other thing correlated with accidents.

Also, as far as fairness goes, using actual driving behavior sound far better to me than using credit scores. But strangely I don’t see nearly the same level of complaints about that
Flip model swap chains were already available for D3D11 since DXGI 1.2 (Windows 8) and also as an extension to D3D9 (but not 10/11) since Win 7.
That earlier comment didn’t actually mention “systems” at all (although it does include “low-level”).

I feel like “systems programming” is getting increasingly ill-defined these days, anyway. If Kotlin and Java aren’t allowed, how about Go? Are you ruling out all languages with garbage collection?
Who said anything about eugenics or killing autistic people? The comment chain is discussing hypothetical cures for autism
This article seems to disagree

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/imaging-study-shows-dopa...
Yeah but the Earth is a geologically active planet hosting life. The moon is neither of those things, it's a ball of rock in orbit that we can explore all of "several square feet at a time", so once you've done that a few times: what's left to do? Realistically?

Sure: if we had the ability to actually send a proper mission that can drive around the entire thing, with a pop up lab (arctic research style) on the moon itself, that's a different matter, but we are nowhere near that level of proficient at space science yet, and going to the moon a few more times won't make a difference to that aspect.
You can read about the trade-offs in the language proposal here: https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-evolution/blob/main/propo...

In particular:

> Even with the introduction of typed throws into Swift, the existing (untyped) throws remains the better default error-handling mechanism for most Swift code. The section "When to use typed throws" describes the circumstances in which typed throws should be used.
Why Unknown Types Are Useful
The shell company isn't a strict requirement, and I'd wager less likely. Infiltrating the delivery process would be easier and would instead require knowing about the pager purchase and being able to swap the actual package for an alternative package. Theoretically all of this is possible with some data interception to discover the pager order, a team to construct the exploding pagers, a person to deliver the exploding pagers, and a person to intercept the actual pagers (which could be the same person delivering the exploding pagers).
As a side note, zig supports arbitrary width integers. I'd like more languages to support that. You can have i7, i3, i1024 or whatever you want (I guess up to some limit).

Makes it a lot easier to handle packed binary files etc.
I just went to Brickfest in San Jose, and was so sad they didn't have a GBC! It was the number one thing I was looking forward to.
It does not work with long form conversations like podcasts.

"I was unable to retrieve the transcript for this video due to its large size."
Doesn't get around Cloudflare's anti-bot
This actually reminds me of another claim that I think is wrong for the opposite reason;

That that the Hilbert Curve covers the totality of the square; but the square contains all bound points of the form [real, real], and you can see from the rational construction of the recursive vertix generator that one of the two values for each co-ordinate pair must necessarily be a rational number (albeit one denominated by an infinite integer exponent of two).

Even if you covered all of [real, rational] + [rational, real] (which you don't), you'd still never reach all of [real, real].

Effectively 100% of the plane is not on the curve and 100% of the plane is within an infinitesimal distance of the curve.

Which I actually think is more interesting than saying that the whole damned thing is in there, which it isn't.
I have always felt pwsh is one of those "great idea, poorly implemented" things.

I mean, who puts Verbs-InCommandNames? No one who wants to actually remember all of their CLI tools. That's who.
These Russians bought their domains through Namecheap. That doesn't seem like a smart move when you are bombing all their Ukrainian staff.
Threads is not fully open. If they looked at Threads and thought "that's a lot of people", then it would be *one more* reason to have their own instance.

But anyway, I do agree that having their own instance is kind of pointless. We need to get rid of "servers" and get back to an Open Social Web. I wrote in May what I thought would be a smarter approach for them (https://raphael.lullis.net/a-plan-for-social-media-less-fedi...). Instead of yet-another mastodon server, they would be better off if they started building something like https://browser.pub inside of Firefox.
Traditional denominations are probably less prone to party politics than evangelicals.

In decades of going to Catholic and Anglican churches (not in the US, but in multiple varied places) I have never heard a candidate endorsed from the pulpit. The only political thing I recall was being told we should stand up for people of other religions who were at risk of persecution - apart from unarguable and nonspecific things about the poor
there is a certain term well known amongst IBMers: "Blue washing"

R.I.P. Kubecost
In principle you're right, and yet if you examine the world empirically you find that birds of a feather tend to flock together. It's such a truism they even coined a proverb to cover it. And I don't necessarily think there's anything wrong with that either, particularly for members of oppressed or minority groups.
In regular armies, activated reservists are valid combatant targets. Reservists become civilian, under the principle of distinction, when they are deactivated and fully integrate into civilian life. More applicably to the situation with Hezbollah, which is an irregular army, functional criteria apply; meaning, very roughly and in my paraphrase, "is some aspect of the armed wing of Hezbollah your day job?"

I don't know that we disagree much here. We both agree that simply because Hezbollah operates a school does not distinguish the employees of that school as combatants. There are civilian combatants; for instance, whether or not your yourself were ever going to take up arms in Syria, if you work in a Hezbollah arms depot or weapons factory, even if you're just counting the bullets, you're most definitely a combatant. It depends.

You're refraining from speculating on something I am clearly not refraining on. I get that. I am (much) further out on the limb than you are. When the evidence shows I'm way off on this stuff, I'll absolutely say so. The big place where our premises differ is: I believe Hezbollah pagers to be military equipment, and you believe random Lebanese people with weak associations to Hezbollah might carry them as well. I'll say right now that is not a crazy point of view; it's just one I don't currently share.
No. Searching for an autism cure does not bring stigma to autistic people, the same way searching for a cancer cure does not bring stigma to cancer patients.

Searching for a cure is just trying to improve people's quality of life. If a cure were hypothetically found, nobody would be forced to get it. If someone likes having autism, more power to them!
To those already eligible for work visas sure - they are probably eligible for immigration to multiple countries

For the others asylum is not only an option to escape persecution but also a much better economic outcome
That's really beautiful :')
Throws in Swift are not traditional exceptions. A throwing function in Swift is actually a function that can return an error instead of a result. This is hidden by the language.

So something like

`func foo() throws -> Result`

Is actually

`func foo() -> Result | Error`

The compiler also forces you to handle any returned errors using `try`. So to call our example `foo`, you'd do:

`let result = try foo()`

You must either handle any throws error or include this call in an enclosing throwing function.
This story maybe continues - the killed pilot was allegedly seen alive in Czechia. Though this information is unconfirmed [1].

[1] https://denikn.cz/1510394/cesti-zpravodajci-resili-zda-byl-z...
N-Dimensional Identity Prism
??? We're discussing the assumption that people don't make false accusations? Nobody is making any moral claims about germany, it's just historically an equally terrible assumption as in this country. I do agree this is likely a terrible assumption in every country!
VanillaOS 2 Orchid – Stable Release
I think most things exist on a spectrum, though it is better modeled by a much higher order feature space and the spectrums we talk about day to day are stereotypes made to easily explain this, because a 1d scale going from 'no x at all' to 'so much x they can't function day to day' is much easier than a 3000d space with different factors that barely map to common everyday concepts.

Any attempt to diagnose mental disorders is an attempt to create simple classifications that don't really exist. Much like how species don't exist. Pick yourself and any animal out there. Now imagine a chain of you holding hands with your mother who holds hands with her mother, going all the way back to a single common ancestor. Many species exist along these chains, but these are all fictional groups we use to classify the N number of creatures, with no guaranteed way to map all N to their species. It isn't like atoms, where any atom, even theoretical ones which might one day be created in a lab, can be directly mapped to a single element (maybe as an isotope, but still belonging to that element).

It has been fun watching AI discussions in feature space start to give more rigor to these ideas, as I've questioned them going back to when I first learned about the Kinsey scale and asked "why does it go from 1 to 7 as natural numbers instead of from 0 to 1 with any possible real number, and why only 2 dimensions instead of many more". Or was it 0 to 6. I've done forgot the details.
To Catch Up in EVs, Detroit Needs to Invite China In
Citation indexes are the devil and Google is hell. Try as you might to avoid it but you're already on an index. Security through obscurity isn't secure or obscure in this modern age.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03054985.2024.2...
Agreed - but would you wager a bet on what in TFA (or the related discussion) is physically/mathematically impossible?
On the css side, I can tell you that rio (that is by no means the first library of its kind) actually does not require any knowledge of css to be used. It does not use the same concepts. While the simplification costs you some levels of customization, it is not something that would truly matter in a lot if not most of its use cases.

The simplified layout system comes with its own inspection tool built into the dev version of your app so you get productive in an hour or so. They really got that part right in my opinion. As soon as they make custom components done I’m gonna discuss adopting it for our internal tooling.

I am not affiliated with them btw.
> Teens will get notifications telling them to leave the app after 60 minutes each day.

It is insane that someone thinks that an impressionable child/young adult wasting ~ 1/16 of their waking time every day on this drivel is OK! But, I guess profit motive gotta win over sanity.

I could justify "5 minutes", maybe "10 minutes". But I am not the one making money from selling their attention and selling them pointless shit.

In my household the policy is and remains: kids can have instagram/facebook/tiktok/$latestMindRottingShit when they buy their own phone and their own cell plan.
I understand your general point and I'm not trying to make a general refutation of it.

I'm just reporting some actual events from my own life where group based activities did not result in friendships, and doing some initial reflection and analysis on why that might have been, which I thought might be of interest.
In every military conflict in the history of warfare, combatants have taken steps to inspire fear in their adversaries. You may be providing a definition of terrorism, but I don't think it's a useful one; I think you need to refine it more if you want to make it operable here.

In any case, where you use the word "fear" I would probably use "deterrence".
> …you would let people keep shelling civilians by hundreds and hundreds of rockets?

I said no such thing though do find it interesting that any questioning of the methods used by one party is interpreted as blanket acceptance of all methods used by the other.

> Pun unintended. But it’s a very good question. Shouldn’t they distance themselves from active murderers?

How could they possibly know? I’ve never been in line for a sandwich and thought to ask if the person in front of me might spontaneously explode.
No major AI model is safe, but some do better than others
Shady shit? Not every network request is a call to an HTTP REST API.

Blocking socket APIs would break every app that supports other protocols. Goodbye file transfer apps, VPN apps, file sync apps, database tools, SSH clients, remote desktop clients, audio and video conferencing apps, etc.
No, if the data you’re querying contains the information you need, then it is mostly fine to ask for that data in a format amendable to your needs.
Coming soon! Currently, it works for videos under one hour. This limitation is due to ChatGPT's context window when using Plugins. I don't know why since it should support 200k tokens... Alternatively, you can use https://textube.olivares.cl to get the full transcription for any video in English.
I read elsewhere that Hezbollah recently changed to this pagers to communicate, maybe it those who put the bombs bet on the fact their victims wouldn't have time to realize that the battery have shorter life than advertised
I find it hard to believe that people are seriously considering the cybersecurity angle in this situation. Yes, there may be some extremely rare and unlikely scenarios where you could hack into a device and cause the attached lithium-ion battery to overheat and combust. However, it’s important to understand that lithium-ion batteries don’t actually explode—they combust gradually over the span of a few seconds to minutes. Even if they did explode, which they don’t, we’re talking about something with the energy equivalent of a single AAA battery, not a large and powerful EV cell. Given these facts, it’s far more plausible that those pagers were intercepted and deliberately implanted with explosives, rather than being manipulated through hacking.
I think Netanyahu's champing at the bit for escalation, and there's plenty of precedent for relatively small things triggering big responses.

As a concrete example, the last big Israel-Lebanon war resulted from the capture of two Israeli soldiers in a border raid; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Lebanon_War
Your starting "of course" presumes that you are right. I'm disagreeing because I truly and honestly think that you're wrong.

People who are struggling with math, even in elementary school, will often say things like, "That's so simple, why couldn't I get it? I must be stupid!" I've heard this over and over again in a wide variety of contexts. Including from my own children. We honestly believe that if it is simple, it should be easy to understand. And so the experience of having struggled with something simple, leaves us feeling stupid.

Even people with an incredible amount of math success, wind up feeling this. And pretty much universally have also developed coping mechanisms for it. But the experience itself is pretty much universal. My son felt it in middle school when he was struggling with long-division.

Now does a poor education system make this experience more likely? Does it serve us poorly? Absolutely! I consider it a crime that Singapore has developed a better way of teaching elementary math, and we have not adopted it. Singapore is now moving to #1 across different subjects according to PISA, and Western education systems aren't even curious about how.

However that is orthogonal to the key point here. Which is that math tends to be simple in a way that our brains aren't built for. And when we're confronted with how hard it is for us to learn something simple, it is easy for us to feel stupid. This can be very demoralizing. And it is very helpful for us to learn to accept and deal with that feeling.
Pretty universally seen as a mistake by those people who see them as a mistake. :)
> It's sophistry, rhetorical slight of hand, to say that talk of a cure contributes to stigma.

It absolute does not. You must not be aware of prominent ASD voices criticizing organizations like "Autism Speaks" for this exact thing. No one is trying to deny anyone a cure, the argument is that saying it SHOULD be cured is stigmatizing (plus all the second order effects like kids being medicated/treated that wouldn't necessarily need or want it). How is it not?

> Having any kind of condition is neutral, while stigma is relational. They are unrelated.

This is complete nonsense.
It's a fair point, but radically different 8 years on.

Swift type inference is two-way, so you can often improve things by annotating types instead of using inference.

Also, it very easy to have complex builders and nested closures that complicate inferencing, so it's a bit of a side-effect of how much people use the powerful features.

The big compile-time gotcha now is using macros. To be safe, each macro runs in its own process hogging cores, and the new Xcode compile scheduler isn't quite sensitive to that, so sometimes command-line builds with less parallelism are a fair bit faster. The solution there is judicious use, particularly of libraries depending heavily on macros.
Hard to say without a lot more detail on location and specialization. All I know is software engineering in DC metro pays well enough to live comfortably. If you’re working a .gov contract on a TS/poly, even better.
Personally, I was expecting him to solve the problem but then be faced with a "now you have 18 standards" problem of having to approve access to his new tool via tickets.
not fully stable yet
you can build it yourself from github
Snap unveils Spectacles 5 AR glasses with AI partnership with OpenAI
Seeing this getting downvoted is fucking wild.

I remember 20+ years ago when one of the most commonly seen attacks was malware configuring a proxy server in Internet Explorer which by design overrode the operating system's configuration.

What a lot of software does today by ignoring the operating system in lieu of their own shit is just like the above. If your program doesn't (or can't) respect the operating system, your shit is malware and you should reconsider who you write code for.
It's a very minimal amount of pressure it can withstand, is the point. Certainly nowhere close to lethal explosive pressure. It's not a pressure vessel in the sense of the kind of pressure vessel it takes to make an effective bomb.
It most likely just received a code message that triggered the device.
> Both sides are lobbing missiles at civilians?

Well, one's hitting civilians with missiles, the other's hitting them with rockets.
Anyone making an absolute claim of knowledge of the nature of self-awareness needs to demonstrate how qualia arises by making a testable way to disable qualia in humans or to demonstrate qualia in a non-human system. The latter is preferred.