As an "operating system provider," the law as written still requires me to provide an accessible interface for you to indicate your age to the operator.
Should we be asking your age every single time you use a credit card reader or ATM? If not, embedded operating system providers need exceptions to the law in each state that adopts their own non-standardized approach.
They don't but frankly no one who matters actually gives a s#it about HN anyhow.
HN is also much less representative of the demographics within the American tech industry now as well - almost all the references I see on here are stuff only men in their late 30s to 50s would recognize, and an increasing amount of users appear to be based in Western and Central Europe.
Heck, I'm on the younger end by HN standards (early/mid 30s) and when I introduced HN to my peers over a decade ago (this is my throwaway) even back then they complained that it was "toxic", "snooty", and "unhelpful". And it's reputation amongst the younger generation has only gotten worse.
HN has "SlashDot"ified, because most people are either in private groupchats on signal/imessage/discord or meeting each other with Luma invites.
Usually they serve military families, but at least in the United States those kids probably aren't any safer from getting killed in an off-base school given how common school shootings are now.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - Police responding to reports of a stabbing found instead a bleeding 20-year-old man who lost a confrontation with a pay telephone, authorities said.
According to police, Richard A. Anderson had tried to call a friend from a pay phone and when the call went unanswered angrily tried to jerk the receiver out of the phone.
Police said Anderson just managed to stretch the wire webbing that covers
the telephone cord. The receiver stayed put. So Anderson again vented his anger — this time by throwing the receiver, police said.
But when the receiver reached the end of its cord, it snapped back and the cord wrapped around Anderson's neck.
The sharp edges of the wire webbing dug into Anderson's skin, cutting him. When Anderson struggled to free himself, the webbing cut deeper.
"Once we got out what had happened," said one police officer. "it was, 'Be real. This did not happen."
Anderson was treated at University Hospitals and released.
I believe it. People born after the payphone era might not realize that the telephone cord in this case wouldn't be the cushy plastic home-telephone cord such as you can find by googling "strangled with telephone cord," but rather a "payphone armored cord", which looks almost like a "metal-clad electrical cable" except more flexible and stretchy (such that you conceivably could get a nasty pinch from it when it contracted again).
Also, while I believe a payphone-cord pinch could draw blood, I don't believe any hospital staffer could mistake an actual stabbing wound for such a pinch. So the guy couldn't have actually gotten stabbed. Although I guess he could have been covering up for the drunk friend who dared him to pinch his neck in a payphone cord...
RE Frontier models/hardware: I'm interested to see what happens with their "private cloud compute" marketing concept now that they're moving from running Siri AI experiences on Apple servers to Google servers instead.
Easier to hire consultants to add AI to do your software engineering for you than temporarily hire humans with needs and benefit costs to add AI to do your software engineering for you.
“Passive” in the sense there’s no rule they can’t “actively” take bribes then make decisions to passively allow unconstitutional action by the other branches of the “checks and balances”
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