skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One aspect of the 2020 COVID lockdown I found distressing was the complete shutdown of my usual spin classes.

Most of us regulars were on a first-name basis, but did not meet outside the gym: it sufficed to see each other at class. This casual sociability didn't return when the gym restarted the classes. The new attendees aren't as friendly with each other.

The 1991 film _Danzon_ has a poignant narrative about trying to find an acquaintance who has vanished.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danz%C3%B3n_(film)
John McCall (Swift team) gave a talk on Swift replacing C++ earlier this year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgivCGdmFrw

Selfishly I wish mixed C targets were a priority before C++ but I get why this was more important to them
Whoever runs the central banks and the hedge funds are the parasites. We're just not allowed to name them.
Google seeks authenticity in the age of AI with new content labeling system
Ha! That seems to answer my next question: what’s its story for web development? Does it have one?
It's been such a disappointing trend of companies initially welcoming developers, just to then eat their lunch. Twitter has been one of the worst: they killed their developer ecosystem.
This is a strong statement that probably isn’t true. The power transformers in those devices usually aren’t controlled and the things which are controlled will only sometimes be able to start fires. No doubt that some “smart” devices will have vulnerabilities that could cause fire, but just because there’s an available controller does not mean there’s an avenue to set fire to a device.

In short, unless a device is profoundly poorly designed, there’s no way to blink an LED so incorrectly that it starts a fire. (And many smart devices really aren’t doing much more than that)
If you ask an LLM what color is the sky it might say purple but if you give it a paragraph describing the atmosphere and then ask the same question it will almost always answer correctly. I don't think hallucinations are as big of a problem as people make them out to be.
Great idea. France and Paris has some of the best developers that I have ever worked with. Although the work culture might clash? The French love to live life and have a healthy work / life balance. I don't know how the OpenAI culture is though.
I haven't seen embedding using graal/vm, or inter-op using the native JVM FFI.

There is (active, 2K stars) https://github.com/pvieito/PythonKit and I've heard of people being able to deploy apps with python on the app store. YMMV.
This site helped illuminate the use of the word 'spectrum' for me:" https://neuroclastic.com/its-a-spectrum-doesnt-mean-what-you...

> But when people talk about autism they talk as if it were a gradient, not a spectrum at all.
I wrote lots of Applets too. My parenthetical "(Applets)" in that post was misleading, sorry.

Java and Applets pre-existed JavaScript, 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.
Reuters has specific shipments and provenance for the pagers attributed now, and also notes that the explosions were concentrated in Hezbollah strongholds (Dahiah, Bekaa, southern Lebanon), lending further evidence that these were not off-the-rack pagers.
Unfortunately Netanyahu has gained and lost the prime minister position multiple times without wars. He's just somewhat popular. Between his first government in 1995 and today, people forget there were prime ministers Sharon, Olmert, Barak, Lapid, Bennet, just 18 months before 10/07 his opposition was in power. Did they not have any part of ignoring the preperations?

Even if he would have lost his position if 10/07 never happened, history has shown he always ends up back in leadership due to a million+ voters for his own party, and millions of votes for other religious and right wing parties.

People can rightfully hate them all they want, but he has the votes, and Israel doesn't have a limit on the number of times you can be prime minister

This is only half joking but the only "solution" to the Netanyahu problem is to replace the voters
The Astro Pi 2024/25 challenge has launched
I recall seeing something (likely a youtube video on cosmology) that suggested that the Big Bang would be the white hole horizon (i.e. a singularity in out past) and that does make some kind of sense as it'd be impossible to go inside the Big Bang. I recall there being some good reasons as to why that's not believed to be the case though and also why the visible universe doesn't have an event horizon.
Thank you for letting me be the 1st hacker on my island ;)

https://meet.hn/city/fr-Petit-Bourg
Urologist Adam Weiner, runner Usain Bolt: can a last name determine your job?
One of my favorites: Professor John Fish, marine biologist at Aberystwyth University.

Also, record-breaking Russian hurdler Marina Stepanova
Old Computing Books
Analysis on the Execution of the Pagers Attack
- Mossad has been tracking Hezbollah's communications loopholes since the beginning of the war last year.

Mossad tried to intercept Hezbollah's wireless communications networks several times and tried to penetrate the party's wired communications network.

- After 3 months of fighting, the Hezbollah leadership asked all its members to stop using mobile and smart devices, and the Mossad was looking for alternative means of communication.

Mossad succeeded in intercepting a shipment of “Pager” devices on their way to Hezbollah outside Lebanon.

Mossad planted a small amount of the highly explosive PETN behind the device’s batteries, which made its way to Lebanon naturally and was distributed to thousands of Hezbollah members.

- PETN is flammable at 190°C, and ignition is ensured by raising the temperature of the battery as a result of raising the voltage.

- A number of UHV waves of the "Pager" device used by Hezbollah to ensure that all devices explode at the same moment were hacked.
The comment you are replying to was focusing more on the low-level features of Swift for systems programming (hence comparing it to systems languages). Kotlin is cool but it is not a system programming language and the native code compilation from Kotlin is not aimed to be.
>That is, they were not uniformed soldiers engaged in combat. Hence, they were not legitimate targets. They may not even have touched a gun if they served in Hizbollah's civil administration.

Had precision strikes existed in 1944, nobody would complain if a Nazi office party got hit with a missile just because "they were civil administrators, not soldiers"
well you could swap israel for any foreign nation really. this is public but even friendly countries have been caught hacking eachothers shit.. (belgacom?), so can you trust anyone really?
they are talking now about supply chain, but if explosives were put why would the heat be needed? I'd imagine it would then be an electronic trigger. idk much about tiny explosives tho.. maybe heat was not the battery then? its weird mixed messaging on this one. its not really clear to me atleast if it was actually supplychain attack, i think theres too little to go on.
It's a little weird to me that getaddrinfo() is considered a "low-level legacy API". Maybe things are drastically different on macOS, but getaddrinfo() is the way to resolve names on Linux and I suspect the *BSDs.

Sure, I expect most macOS apps will use something in Foundation or some other NetworkKit-type framework to do DNS queries, but it's odd to me that the code there wouldn't then call down to getaddrinfo() or the like to do the dirty work. I guess GAI is blocking, so presumably there's some other low-level non-blocking call?
Voters don't even understand this is happening, honestly.
This is unlikely to be a shaped charge, there is not enough space. High explosives are inherently directional depending on the geometry of the explosive and point of detonation. As a practical matter of fitting explosives into a pager, I would expect most of the explosion to be directed perpendicular to the face of the pager in both directions. In almost all cases, carrying or using the pager would put the person directly on the main axis.
for context, ADHD, Parkisons, Autistic are different mechanisms of dopamine deficiencies...

Never ever will be one gene....For example Parkisons has one gene that affects VMAT2 formation and one involving the GI lining that is involved in taking up dopamine building blocks from GI actions on food.
I've found selenium with undetected-chromedriver to work best.
When there's a lot of civilians nearby. Not like that has ever stopped Israel though.
Vapor works great on Linux and macOS. Haven't tried Windows (pretty much only run Steam there these days)
I've been mixing Swift and C++ in an app and it works pretty much as advertised.
They didn't care. They had one person supporting the old platform, which was written in a weird mix of Ruby on Rails and PHP, which also had the entire copy in code, so every single promo was code and needed a code push. Anyway, I was hired to migrate to Magento Enterprise. We first migrated Ray-Ban in no time, then migrated some other online properties, and then finished migrating the Oakley site. Rarely would you see the migration of a large e-commerce website happening so smoothly, as Oakley had a lot of requirements that needed custom code, but it was done on time and budget. But, I guess the Italians decided they are just an eyewear manufacturer. They chose (without telling us) to eliminate Oakley's Web Team, responsible for most Luxottica brands' online presence. So, they engaged the entire organization and we had more than a month of reviewing different enterprise e-commerce platforms, then we had to vote after we carefully reviewed all platforms, had long Q&A sessions with the vendors, etc. So, the votes overwhelmingly picked vendor A. But the manager-from-hell told us unofficially that he doesn't have only platform B on his resume, and he overwrote the voting for tens of people. Then, he presented a close-to-him consulting company, which used people on work and L1 visas to reimplement everything into platform B. When I said "harassment," I meant even physical harassment, making comments about people's looks and posture, verbal abuse, calling people offensive names, etc. So, one by one and in groups, everybody left. I was checking the various properties - it took them over 3 years to finally implement the new platform; meanwhile, they were using the old, buggy, and maintained by a single-person platform!

Oakley used to a dream place to work! We had a secret bar inside (called "The Engine Room"); we had a Russian armored personnel carrier, which we called "tank", which was driving employees around the HQ; we had all kinds of competitions, some sponsored by Red Bull, too, huge employee discounts for eyewear and apparel (which included all Luxottica brands, including some of the super expensive brands). I remember one iconic employee was leaving, and he was very much into boats, so Oakley bought a boat, created a small pond, let the boat float in the pond, and then ran it over with the APC just for fun! Oakley used to wave the Jolly Roger flag and was getting fined monthly by the city of waving it above the US flag. If I'm not wrong, the fine was more than $5,000. We also used to have a gun and shoot it across the road into the wilderness. In the outside cafeteria, some crazy scientists were melting and burning all kinds of metals - I think once they managed to burn a huge hole in the concrete even. It was crazy, but after Luxottica took over, slowly, all this went away! I found this website, which captures some of the old Oakley [0].

[0]: https://www.pinkbike.com/news/oakley-factory-2010.html
what's the advantage of this over JPype?
Scientific Visualization: Python + Matplotlib (2021)
Neither HCI nor Interactive Intelligence require GA. In II it's one of two courses courses you get to choose between. I think a lot of people select those two specializations just to avoid it. II is also close to the ML specialization, so people who have trouble with or want to skip GA can move to it pretty easily.
> packaging materials off AliExpress to make something that looks visually similar but has lots of space left over for explosives.

But this, arguably, would be detectable, through low battery life?
To paraphrase a guy on the 'tube, intelligence officers are seldom armed with more than a ham sandwich but are still legitimate targets.
Trichloroethylene: An Invisible Cause of Parkinson's Disease?
On a Mac, I use keyboard maestro, which can interact with the UI (which is usually stable enough to form an interface of sorts) — wait for an graphic to appear on screen, then click it, then simulate keystrokes, run JavaScript on the current page and get a result back... looks very human to a website in a browser, and is nearly as easy to write as Python.
Autism is first diagnosed in 1911 and Asperger's in 1944.

It wasn't commonly diagnosed during any of these people's lives, so you're not going to find conclusive evidence.

None of them were diagnosed (obviously not Newton).

So you're only going to find people arguing over straws.
Some of the first examples of fake comments on social media (e.g. 38 years old German woman saying that giving up Russian gas has damaged the country's economy and that Germany doesn't have to hurt itself for Ukraine) express perfectly legitimate and quite obvious opinions that certainly don't need a Russian agent to be spread or even suggested- probably there are millions of German citizens thinking the same.

It's definitely great for an adversary of Russia to be able to claim that such an opinion is illegitimate, having being spread by an enemy agent. Now you don't need to engage with the argument and you can just dismiss it as an example of enemy propaganda.
MoErgo Glove80 programmable ergonomic keyboard
Yet remains unsolvable.
Solid point. Not sure. I barely use social media and I don't think I have shared a meme in my life. Not sure I will change much about what I would do, but I have considered contacting my representatives about things like this. (I have contacted them in the past about other issues) Beyond that I think engaging in constructive discussions about the discussion is an important thing we are missing and I hope I am trying to do that now with responses like this. Maybe.
A battery without pressure relief is definitionally a pressure vessel. How much damage it actually does when it explodes is another question entirely.
Taking another perspective here, is suicidaility an individual problem or a social one?
Yes. The term you used was "operative" and it is not synonymous with "member of armed force".
> because the tooling and patterns change almost daily.

That is just plain wrong. And that comes from someone who stayed from web dev for the same reason. Nowadays it’s vite/esbuild and you’re good to go.

And you don’t need any web framework to come up with basic ui.

touch index.html;
touch styles.css;
python3 -m http.server

And you’re good to go.

> "I know a fair amount about computers, I want to write a web application," is just about as fanciful as saying, "I know a fair amount about airplanes, I want to design a jet engine."

This analogy makes no sense.
If it did, I'd be a politician.
Weiner, Wiener, fccking German, how does it work?
Oh man, I want to build one with my kids
Huh?

Objective-C was in the kernel.
Anonymous for obvious reasons: speaking as a current Red Hat employee I disagree with the statement “they haven’t managed to mess it up like they did with SoftLayer”.

IBM policy has definitely infected the company and while outwardly the host still resembles its old self, the infection is spreading and the host is as good as dead.
Don't forget to read the comments section there. This is even worse than in the US or Russia
First, you're changing the subject. I never said Israel didn't commit any crimes - of course it did. I just said that Israel doesn't explicitly target aid workers. In the case of the Kitchen Aid workers that you linked to, not only Israel apologized, the chief of the army fired two very high commanders and punished a few others. Not sure why you're saying there was "zero consequences".

I'm also not sure why you mention the killing of 3 Israeli hostages, "in cold blood". Do you mean that Israel explicitly targeted them too? The fact that in this situation, unlike with the aid workers, no one was fired, only speaks to say that there's an understanding that mistakes happen even when these mistakes are killing Israelis.

With regards to hurting Palestinians, the list of Israeli soldiers that were trialed and punished for hurting Palestinians is too long to list here. The list of Palestinian freedom fighters that were trialed (forget about punished) for hurting Israelis is... well, [].
Not me, someone else in the company did, I don’t remember why it was dismissed.
It works both ways - that's how terrorist organisations operate.
As a self-proclaimed cognitive engineer (it’s really easy to proclaim stuff these days!), I absolutely agree with you, for two basic reasons:

1. I don’t think the author was just saying that math is hard or “a struggle”, I think they were specifically pointing out the unusual nature of math(s) as a collection of meaningfully novel cognitive tools rather than facts or recombinations of existing tools. AKA “feel stupid” means “feel embarrassed you don’t understand earlier because now it’s obvious”, not “take a long time to understand” or other synonyms for struggle. We all agree on the vague shape of the proposed improvements to pre-graduate math education, I would guess!

2. That’s not how first language acquisition works, at all: the rules of grammar—not to mention etiquette-are far more complex than most laymen imagine, and intentional parental involvement via correction or the occasional picture book is absolutely the exception, not the rule. This is the core insight driving Noam Chomsky’s lifetime of scholarship, and I think he would agree that childhood linguistic development is more similar to mathematics education than practically any other activity, if we’re talking about “feeling stupid” like the author is.
It wouldn't matter. They would have been considered combatants then, and are explicitly designated so under the Geneva Conventions now. Unless you're a medic or a chaplain, you cannot safely work for (or, really, even be "under the effective command of") Lebanese Hezbollah under the laws of armed combat.

To Kasey's point, the reciprocal is true, too! The laws of armed combat permit Hezbollah strikes on Israeli command and administrative staff.
>I really feel like this is just the trick the food (and healthcare) industry was waiting for to allow those people to eat as much as they want and don't get fat (and possibly get ill later)

The whole point is you don't want food. You spend significantly, massively less on the food industry.

If anything, it would be better for the food industry for it to be banned.
Killing everyone in Gaza would have certainly killed many of their targets. You claim they don't care about collateral damage. So, why haven't they?

Wow there's a lot of anti-semitism on HN lately, absolutely vile.
Why Times of Israel isn't a legit source? It reports on main news in the region. Given a location of the newspaper in a democratic country and being it mainstream news in Israel, I don't see a reason to classify it as propaganda source. If you compare it to Al Jazeera which isn't published in a democratic country, which one would you believe?
Piggybacking to recommend another video of his, "The Hustle", which is a fast-paced memefest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U
There are no hallucinations. It's just the normal bullshit people hang a more palatable name on. There is nothing else.

https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/112006855076082650

> You might be surprised to learn that I actually think LLMs have the potential to be not only fun but genuinely useful. “Show me some bullshit that would be typical in this context” can be a genuinely helpful question to have answered, in code and in natural language — for brainstorming, for seeing common conventions in an unfamiliar context, for having something crappy to react to.

> Alas, that does not remotely resemble how people are pitching this technology.
Try searching universally for stuff like invoice and you will get a copy of the invoices you have taken a picture of.

Google photos has a feature where it recognizes documents like credit cards and so you can search for them.
That’s really smart. I was previously a data scientist who only knew python and made the transition last year to become a full stack web dev and I honestly had no idea what I was in for. I probably won’t use your tool, but I’ll happily recommend other data scientists check it out so they don’t have to go through what I did.
I'll pile on, as someone who has never developed for Apple systems: What APIs are supposed to be used for DNS resolution?

* Host file
* Configured DNS server
* App-specific DNS server if it exists

What "API" is there? Why doesn't an app doing system-wide DNS modifictions just modify the settings for default resolver?
In this case let's just say that I doubt post office workers are first in line to get brand new, secure, one-way pagers from Hezbollah.
Alternately, we could amplify the gene in the entire population, so that allism becomes a disorder.

From DSM-2300:

https://www.fysh.org/~zefram/allism/allism_intro.txt

edit: "The underlying trait that makes people allistic is a dysfunction of
the parts of the brain dealing with emotion. Allistic people lack the
capacity to independently experience emotions. That is not to say they
lack emotions: far from it, the allistic mind experiences emotions
just like any other. The dysfunction is that the allistic person's
emotional state is not determined by eir own thought processes but
instead is borrowed from other people that are expressing emotion nearby.
Emotional cues in tone of voice, posture, facial expression, and so on,
cause the allistic person to automatically and unavoidably experience
the same emotion being expressed."
No I'm not.

I certainly agree that acceptance and societal accommodation for autism is necessary. However, there is a loud set of people with ASD who will say that any sort of therapy or treatment harms people with ASD.

Therapy doesn't cure ASD and I've never thought that or been told that as a parent with a child with ASD. Therapy helps a kid cope.

I do understand that early autism therapies were brutal and inhumane, however, those are by and large completely gone from modern autism therapy.

What's extremely insulting is believing that all forms of autism are just societal misunderstandings that need no therapeutic interventions for the individual with ASD.
Please read the essay "Don't Mourn For Us" before discussing the possibility of an autism "cure." It's short. Do yourself a favor.

https://philosophy.ucsc.edu/SinclairDontMournForUs.pdf
Did you try it? It appears to use AI for search and summary but not for a foundational knowledge base. I asked it about a niche topic and I got a very useful encyclopedia-type report that included real links to published research. This is a topic that I have previously spent a lot of time on in Google Scholar where I had to skim and reject a lot of false positives that show up with simple keyword search.

Just like on actual-Wikipedia you should read the linked references and not completely trust the body text, but also like on actual-Wikipedia the majority of the report's text seemed aligned with the content of the linked references.
Exactly! This was Oakley's legacy they wonted to get rid of. We had some of the best web designers, and it used to be a dream workplace with many, many exceptions. When I first went to work there, the entire huge room was completely dark, everybody had his own light, some people had their own minifridges stocked up with beer. I wrote above, we also had a bar. Supposedly, it was employee-run with various beer on tap, which ("supposedly" again), was supplied by employees... but that wasn't exactly true. :)