skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has been especially frustrating to read about Apple Intelligence on my 2022 iPhone with iOS Safari, where some JavaScript bugs that have been around since 2012 seem to be slightly worse in the latest update, and occasionally the entire app just freezes for no good reason, even if I've closed all other tabs. Not to
mention how often I have to reset my entire 2021 iPad because the audio drivers get into a bad state.

I suppose "stability improvements in WebKit" doesn't do much for Apple's stock price compared to SiriGPT. But this is feeling like death-by-1000-cuts: I don't think users are deeply committed to Apple UX/etc. I believe Apple's US market dominance is largely due to burnt fingers around Android's unreliability and annoyances between 2010-2020 (e.g. Google and Samsung not playing nice, badly orchestrated version changes). This was never a permanent state of affairs; Android has stabilized significantly and is more harmonized among competing manufacturers, while retaining its advantages on price and ease of development.

Apple seems complacent on the basics, and is overextending into an AI product few users seem to want.
This wasn't the case with the subsystems approach, which is also validated by all micro-computers from IBM and Unisys still in use, being further developed, with incompatible differences between their mainframe heritage and UNIX compatability workloads.
How can you be confident in this when you don't even see their sales data?

Still, I would like to see a smaller regularly updated phone. Bonus points if there is a high-end version, because small shouldn't mean budget (like with iPhone SE).
Man I really just want email, texting, and a web browser on my phone. More "stuff" to do is an anti feature for me.
LaunchDarkly has a mix of OpenFeature providers they wrote, and quite reasonable community-contributed ones, depending on language. They are also very actively engaged with OF in meetings, discussions, etc.

(We are a big LD user at work.)
There isn’t always. AA still honors AAirpass, their lifetime free tickets for $250k

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAirpass
It also sometimes asks to unlock my phone for commands that plain old Assistant was happy to do while locked. I haven't really found it useful at all yet, free ChatGPT is just better than free Gemini for "LLM stuff" and Google Assistant is better for "smart home stuff"
How is it working for you to just email users? I've done this in the past and didn't get great response rates.
I have a bunch of "premium" smart outlets(eve energy, some are "THREAD" enabled, all the bells and whistles) all named and connected to things I want to toggle with voice: a small radiator, an air purifier, a humidifier, some accent lamps, a fan, an infrared therapy lamp etc. -Before anyone asks, I ordered the European version of their energy strip for higher wattage stuff-. I give each one a clear and unambiguous name, and still, at least one in ten times Siri will be confused about what I'm asking and turn off EVERY SINGLE OUTLET IN THE ROOM. It's endlessly frustrating. For what it's worth the outlets never de-sync or disconnect like the random amazon ones do so I blame it purely on Siri.
It's like making a robot that can walk up stairs instead of roll up wheelchair ramps or use elevators. It's harder, but more capable.
I'm comparing the number of people killed. I'm not here defending Russia.

One of these we have 0 control over (Russia). The other one (Israel) we're funding, supporting, aiding, and abetting.
They didn't even develop Siri, they acquired it. Doesn't seem like they've done all that much with it beyond integrating and marketing it, but I could be wrong.
Oh boy I hope that doesn’t happen to me. It took them a week to get iPhone 13 mini battery in.
For me, I don't come up with them, they come to me.
The trick is letting them find me.
Do stuff you like, hang out with people, go places.
How much volume does 5kg of hydrogen take up?
Except it isn't Bitcoin it's index funds. If you already have it out for the USPS and believe it's useless then you won't care. But any reasonable person can see it's a meaningful difference.
Yeah, yet that is exactly the approach being pushed by those on the profiles camp.

Further, the clang tidy and VC++ analysis based on some of the previous work, e.g. lifetime analysis paper from 2015, barely work, full of false positives.

I was looking forward to it in VC++, and to this day in VC++ latest, it still leaves too much on the table.
Interestingly, none of those impact me, since they involve an authenticated attacker. I trust all the users that can log into my vaultwarden instance.

Were there any other recent issues?
> so there's no need for anything online to be private

I disagree. Unless you’re being sarcastic?
at least we'll mine them. with helium, we put it in party balloons and lose it to space.
Goldfish Crackers Temporarily Changes Its Name to Chilean Sea Bass
Boeing Explores Sale of Space Business
I'm a project-attempter who likes silly ideas.

With Emojiton I don't need Emojipedia. Too much hassle to find a simple emoji...and too many ads.

Emojiton solved a simple problem for me
If you were an important CEO or something, and you had a competent human Personal Assistant - would you allow them to reschedule your appointments if you were running late?

Seems to me the problems are (1) the "assistants" aren't anywhere near good enough to be trusted to make the right decisions, and (2) a trustworthy assistant isn't compatible with the adtech business model, so it's unlikely facebook or google would produce such a thing.
An undo button would be nice :) (for when I need to backtrack)
On computational irreducibility, inference time compute, and learning programs
To clarify, these are the elaborated, corrected points:

- If there was no strike, the workers would continue to make money (albeit less than they would like), and Boeing would continue to lose money, this was the status quo before the strike

- If there is a strike with no resolution, both Boeing and workers lose money, but Boeing would lose anyways (see the line item above)

- If there is a strike with a resolution favoring Boeing, workers continue to make money (albeit less than they would like), Boeing would probably keep losing money

- If there is a strike with a resolution favoring the workers, workers continue to make money (albeit less than they would like), Boeing continues losing money

> Isn't the free market supposed to magically work this out somehow? The workers and the union made the calculations on how much they need to be able to have a reasonable salary. If Boeing can't pay that, Boeing is doing business wrong somehow.

Boeing and the workers both calculated what they each want. If you believe that a failure to come to a negotiated agreement constitutes "doing business wrong", then both parties are guilty of "doing business wrong". Personally, I don't.
I think the gigantic bumps that Kyle pointed to "discovered" the higgs.

The statistical interpretation showing a 5 sigma signal was certainly essential, but I suspect it would have taken the collaborations much longer to publish if there wasn't a massive bump staring them in the face.
I use bar soaps for everything. Ethique is an amazing brand. https://ethique.com/
That’s horrifying. But thanks for pointing that out, now I’ve got a real reason to dislike artificial odors (“air fresheners”)
How NotebookLM Was Made
The TLA+ book, freely available online: https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/book.html
A "needs improvement" is a kiss of death for a normal tech worker. For him, it makes him look humble and deserving of the tens of millions he'll get anyway. Gosh, he might even brag about it.
> Anything that is convenient is not real 2FA.

That's a pretty user-hostile attitude. Sure, some combinations of factors are pretty unergonomic, but I'd call that a bug, not a feature.

It's also incorrectly suggesting that somehow complexity/painful usability automatically yields security, while usually the opposite is true:

An effective secure authentication solution absolutely must consider usability, or it's doomed to be circumvented by users in one way or another (either via some insecure practice, or by your users simply ceasing to be your users).
Sorry I think I was talking about a different thing. With depth as scaling axis it should be NP-complete, but not with depth=1 which is what was being talked about. My bad.
I think the implementation in C++ does not do realloc on push_back, but allocates new memory, creates the new element and only then deallocates it.

I believe the reason f3 is safe is that the standard says that the iterators/references are invalidated after push_back – so push_back needs to be carefully written to accept aliasing pointers.

I am pretty sure if I were writing my own push_back it would do something like "reserve(size() + 1), copy element into the new place", and it would have different aliasing requirements...

(For me this is a good example of how subtle such things are)
It is true in every particular.

The population of Israel approximately doubled from 1949 to 1965. It did so because of immigrants from places like Egypt, Iraq, and Yemen.

The overwhelming majority of those immigrants were not voluntary, but were forced to leave by formal expulsion (Egypt, semi-formal in Iraq); revocation of citizenship (Algeria, Libya); massive official discrimination (eg Syria); or simple mob violence (Libya again, Tunisia, Morocco). In Egypt there was a wonderful trick of forcing expellees to sign papers saying their departure was "voluntary".

In countries where only mob violence was involved (Morocco, Tunisia), some Jewish communities remained. Then there's the interesting Lebanese case, where the Jewish community thrived until targeted during the civil war.

But yeah, don't pretend that the complete nonexistence of Jewish communities in Yemen or Iraq or Egypt happened by chance.
One reason was being able to bring home "free" software from work.
I’ll upgrade the second a new mini comes out…but I’m keeping it for now.
You do solely rely on the declaration.

From P3465: "why this is a scalable compile-time solution, because it requires only function-local analysis"

Profiles uses local analysis, as does borrow checking. Whole program analysis is something you don't want to mess with.
Aren't they both plastic?
I think you misunderstood me. I agree that biometric plus password or device key would constitute two factors. I perhaps believe that you can’t really trust the device to have performed biometric verification without some sort of software attestation. So if the security if your protocol depends on two factor, you’d need to yes have a biometric signature or remote attestation that a biometric check has been performed.
A bit of a chicken and egg problem, isn’t it? Since really useful AI feature’s don’t really exist yet, why would one expect the general public to want it?

Check again in six months.
By that line of reasoning, the moon does not exist.
I mean, I think Googling would have given you a more useful answer. The magic robot has chosen to concentrate on how it _works_, without really saying what it _is_ (a kinda-decentralised Twitter clone, without the most objectionable component of Twitter).

For that matter, the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article is also far more helpful than what the robot gave you. Of all the weird uses of LLMs, "what is [thing which has a wikipedia page]" is perhaps the most pointless.
Captchas were already outsourced to cheap labor, maybe 10 or 20 cents a pop? AI using image interpretation is not any cheaper so the captchas efficacy is unchanged
142mj/kg is great, but not if you need a bus size volume to hold 1kg
Tom Scott is still producing podcast and/or gameshow via Lateral and The Technical Difficulties. It's certainly not a British guy in a red t-shirt explaining interesting trivia, but it's still entertaining.
Which came first in your mind? Are you trying to go back to 1948 here? I mean why stop there we could say this is all stems from the assassination of Franz Ferdinand leading to the invasion of and break up of the Ottomon empire. But we have to live in the reality we have today.

In this reality Hezbollah started attacking Israel after Oct 7 in support of Hamas’s attack on Israel. But for that happening Israel would not be invading southern Lebanon to try and put and end to these attacks now.

There is nothing at all wrong with criticizing Israel, I am deeply annoyed with a lot they do, the right wing element and the West Bank settlers are really ruining the ability to reach a two state solution. (Palestinian leaders also share blame in not reaching this outcome too sadly.)

The problem is that people so often have double standards and expectations of Israelis they would never apply to anyone else. And they definitely never seem to have similar expectations for Hezbollah or Hamas. This isn’t constructive and gets kind of antisemitic after a while (Jews are different, hence unrealistic expectations, they should just take the rocket fire and never respond). It’s a weird lack of empathizing with Israelis as also being real humans behaving as real humans anywhere would. This really doesn’t help bring about any kind of peace.
Besides containing microplastics, the dryer lint is also radioactive

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35990858
Don't forget the comment above proposes another alternative, "rewrite it in Rust".

The problem with such a proposal is that the cost is impossibly high for many, many cases. Effectively, across the entire existing C++ code base, you get "X% rewrite it in Rust plus (1-X)% do nothing at all", where X is probably a lot closer to 0 than 1.

If your goal is to address as many vulnerabilities as possible, you might want to look for a better plan.

I don't have a ready plan, but the general approach of incrementally improving the safety of existing C++ seems likely to be more effective than rewrites to me -- it could let the X in my formula move a lot closer to 1. Possibly one of the existing mechanisms for this is already better than "RIIR".

Edit, I meant to add:

For many, many things it's not the eleventh hour. For a lot of existing C++ code, no one has reached a final decision point. Many haven't really started at all and are at the 0th hour.
> If you Google “Zionism and settler colonialism,” for example, what you get is a Wikipedia article automatically anchored to the very top of the Google search results, with its own knowledge panel to the right. A fringe concept that would have only shown a smattering of unfocused articles just two years ago

I'm just going to stop you right there. Zionism and settler colonialism has been a hot-topic international issue for the past 100 years following the Balfour declaration in 1917. Then it was brought up again in the past 40 years as Zionist political action has annexed the Golan Heights and condoned the harassment of it's natives with the support of the IDF and Israeli judicial system.

So it's not just "a fringe concept" that has only come into the spotlight recently. It is literally the single most salient detail concerning the legitimacy of Israel as a nation and the respect they have for the borders of their neighbors. It deserves search results, it is an inherently important part of Israel's identity since it's founding and even the modern way it's policy functions today.
So if I’m hearing you right, it sounds like you’re looking for net loss to justify the statement that “good CEOs punish themselves”, a statement made by another HNer and not by Nadella himself?

He did take a loss but not a net loss, so it didn’t go far enough is what I’m sensing?

Thus it’s an empty gesture devoid of any commitments to improve?

For me when I see gestures like this, I’m like oh ok. At some level I know it’s symbolic but it still sends a good signal. It doesn’t scream hypocritical to me.
> Google took the Justice Department's hint, responding to last Monday's filing with a blog post contending that "splitting off Chrome or Android would break them—and many other things."

Quick question, (I think) if YouTube and Google split, which userbase would get to keep their purchased content (Movies & TV)? This has been bugging me since a lot of Google services are connected in some way. IIRC you shouldn't be able to purchase new content on Google TV platforms.
AI companies are desperately trying to find actual use cases but it seems like there is not that much to justify current investment.
Isn't what how all JS runs in the browser? There are different restrictions based on where JS comes from, and what context it gets loaded into.
>>66% have no privacy concerns?

> no stat on this but...

I think we could presume an answer - if the respondents first received a full accounting of how their phones track and record their lives, along with a full list of who is getting that data.
So replace the battery? It's not some impossible task.

https://www.ifixit.com/products/galaxy-s10-replacement-batte...

It's slightly annoying to replace, but even if you have a shop do it, it's far cheaper than a new phone.

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Samsung+Galaxy+S10+Battery+Repl...
The union had already compromised, and if Boeing has unfunded pension liabilities, why in the fuck were they doing stock buybacks? Unfunded pension liabilities = undelivered compensation for people who have already worked for you.

What in the Sam is wrong with this bloody country man? Does anything actually bloody work?
>The ban will not apply to rechargeable or refillable devices.

My impression was that these make up the lion's share of "disposable" vape sales. I've certainly never known anyone to use anything else, but I'm also not 14 and vaping in the bathroom.
I've been thinking about trying the OpenAI integration for home assistant[1], because controlling things in my home is primarily what I use my assistant shortcut for. The normal assistant works well enough but can be frustrating if you don't remember the exact phrasing it wants to activate a certain command.

[1]: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/openai_conversati...
As much as I hate having my quiet "hidden gems" become popular, I feel its very egotistical of people to actively try to remove it from the spotlight when I'm sure the owners very much appreciate the extra business.
Honestly, I blame MSVC for a lot of lost momentum when adopting new standards, given it takes them more than 4 years implementing those features. Ofc, this isn't the case for C++11 today, but a lot of projects were started prior to 2015.

And don't get me started on C itself. Jesus Christ.
A map is really just a data cache, I've been surprised so many technical people see it as a flaw. It seems like an important feature to me!
You might be looking for a kind of understanding that doesn't exist in math. John von Neumann said, "In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them." So even one of the greatest mathematicians of all time didn't feel like he "understood" concepts that he was adept at applying to both abstract and real-world problems.

This is why there are monad tutorials that use dozens of different analogies for monads, and nobody feels like they understand anything better after reading them. But if you use monads enough, eventually you get used to how they work and how to accomplish things with them. And then you stop caring if you "understand" them.
Good to see this. Bitwarden is one of the few companies that I actually like. And even them can dissappoint when profitability requires it seems.
Nice puzzle, reminds me of Zachtronics' Dungeons & Diagrams.
The Boeing employees aren't either, it's 8-9% over multiple years.

Additionally, this makes it seem like you are implying, "They are getting something that others aren't, so they should be happy and take it.". IMHO the takeaway should be, "The union has got them a much deserved raise, more Americans who are being underpaid should join a union to get fair compensation.".
That's great for you, but also a sample size of one (probably technically sophisticated) user, i.e. irrelevant to the bigger picture.

The phishability of TOTP really is exactly as bad as that of passwords, except that a once-phished TOTP isn't reusable by the attacker(s), unlike a phished password.

But even one-time access is often catastrophic, especially if it allows the attacker to rotate credentials.
I dunno.

The earth is pretty big, and vape batteries are tiny, and we keep finding substitutes.

I'm all for reducing waste, but it seems unlikely we'll run out of metals in our lifetimes.

Keep in mind, things keep getting more efficient, and rich nations are finally tending toward using LESS per capita.

Sure, the poor nations might eventually become rich and the global population has not yet peeked, but there's no reason to assume our materials usage will grow exponentially forever.

And, even if you assumed we were going to run out of whatever is in these tiny vape pens - the percentage of all usage going to tiny applications like this is a rounding error. It's not what you would attack if you really wanted to move the needle.

You'd probably try to reduce the number of people buying new cars, for example.
Interesting: I'm curious, what about it helps here specifically.

Approaching it naively and undercaffeinated, it sounds abstract, as in it would benefit the way any code could benefit from a persistence layer / DB

Also I'm curious if it would require a special one-off integration to make it work, or could it write JS that just imported the library?
To each their own, except apple's not making new mini form-factor iphones anymore so us mini preferrers will at some point not have our own.
Too much faith/credit in the UN. With the security council, not much has or can happen. Beyond that there’s also incompetence. Look up jadotville or Dag Hammarskjöld (suspected to have been assasinated)
Huh? This is a ban for everyone, not just children
Yep. Specifically, why are 100% cotton socks so ridiculously hard to find now?

It used to be that they were a little more expensive - now you need to go online to find them.

'Fun' fact - the average brain has about 7 grams of microplastic [0] in it now, up 50% from 2016. At that rate...

SEVEN FUCKING GRAMS. Guys this is beyond stupid.

Even if plastic were totally inert, as I've heard people insist with certainty (where are they getting these ideas!), 7 grams of plastic in your brain is terrifying.

0 - https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/23/health/plastics-in-brain-...
I've heard horror stories and have held off so far in 'upgrading'. In the end I don't really want the fully flexible responses people are leaning into with these llm tools. All I want is to be able to give a precise instruction with my voice and have the machine reliably perform the action that it performed the last time I gave that instruction.

Since that seems to be an increasingly niche desire (at least as far as the product managers are concerned), I've been looking more and more seriously at setting up my own local voice assistant. My main barrier has been hardware—the mic arrays in the Home devices are surprisingly good and hard to beat with cheap off-the-shelf components, and you need a good mic for good STT.
Yeah; GPLv3 seems designed to give pure *aaS companies an unfair advantage over people that want to give users the option to buy commercially supported hardware that runs the company's software.

For instance, Google can use bash in their backend infrastructure, but Apple cannot ship it on MacBooks or iOS anymore.
I lost a keyfob a long while ago. I wonder if this could help me find it?