skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's happening here is the normalization of the practice of supplying real-time location information of devices to various government agents by way of an "unassailable good".

This is a great feature given 911's notoriously poor ability to locate mobile callers, but let's be real: this shifts the Overton window.
> neither do macs any more

iMacs and iMac Pros still have ethernet ports: https://www.apple.com/imac/specs/
https://www.apple.com/imac-pro/specs/

and, I don't know how well it works, but it's possible to run ethernet over USB-C into a MacBook:
https://www.apple.com/shop/product/HJKF2ZM/A/belkin-usb-c-to...
There is lots of studies by this author:

Pall, 2013; Pall, 2014; Pall, 2015a; Pall, 2015b; Pall, 2016a; Pall, 2016b; Pall, 2018
You'all spoke and we've listened. I've dusted off my old very barebones prototype, pushed it to a branch at https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/tree/ellismg/add-dotnet, and will be hacking on this over the course of the next week. Collaborators are welcome (please do join the #contribute channel in our slack at https://slack.pulumi.io). And watch the branch, I expect we'll have something usable in a few days and it might help folks who are interested in supporting other languages with Pulumi.

In the meantime, as someone who had to learn TypeScript to start using Pulumi when I started here, I do encourage you to look at some of the examples we have and play around with them. It's actually a pretty nice language and with VSCode it's pretty easy to get started.

(Disclosure: I still work at Pulumi)
Carriers know your approximate location all the time, even without this feature. If you don't want to be tracked, you must pull out your SIM card.
> Experience building software can lower the testing requirements.

This is a good point. The longer I've been at this, the less often, "this is likely to work" is a thought that I let go unchallenged.
I'm also not an expert in this field, but I agree that the conclusions presented here appear at first glance to be much too strong. For one, we should all be highly skeptical of meta analyses to begin with - there is every incentive to report "significant" results, and a documented tendency for such studies to be preferentially published, so the current literature should be enriched with respect to rejections of the null.

Also, did I miss it, or is there zero discussion about how the discussed publications were selected? A quick google search turns up lots of additional null results.

The authors also do make some correct criticisms of common statistical mistakes. For example, it is true that failure to reject a null hypothesis is not evidence for that null hypothesis in a frequentist framework. Even so, we should consider the power to reject the null, which depends on:

1. The practical or clinical effect size
2. The sample size

Even if we do detect statistically significant effects of EMF/WiFi, that in no way implies that the results are of practical significance. The cited studies do have small samples, but no discussion is given to the magnitude of effect which would be expected to have been detected.

They also note that previous studies should have published their data and p-values, which is true.

My takeaway is that more information is needed, and that we should hear from someone with a good grasp on all the relevant literature to see how representative these studies are. Also, this kind of thing would be clearer if we were all Bayesians, and published our data :P
I would say it's at least not uncommon. Danger of collusion / "Verdunkelungsgefahr" ist an often cited reason for that.
https://openflights.org/data.html
How soon until Lifeline is a reality for a subset of patients?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-Line
The underwater group especially interests me. How do a group of people stuck in a submarine in deep ocean survive for centuries?
Why the promise of big data hasn’t delivered yet
There might be cases where a criminal would want to call 911 on a victim (possibly collateral damage of their crime).

Not saying this happens, but the only way it could happen is if the guy calling has some guarantee of not being identified.

I'd much prefer having a criminal get away and saving a life thanks to the 911 call than him getting away and letting someone die because he had no way to call 911 anonymously without disclosing his device's location.
Along a similar vein the rain forests were supposed to have disappeared 10 years ago and I think we were all supposed to suffocate. That’s what I remember hearing as a kid in the 90s.

I wonder what went wrong with those predictions? Did we end up taking enough action to stop that?
I automated half of my first desk job by writing this Python CLI tool, which wraps the OpenCV `detectFace` method:

https://github.com/leblancfg/autocrop

Pyimagesearch is a great repository of everything OpenCV related, great to see them on the front page.
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external agency, 1-2 weekly tests, specially critical in the first stages of the product.

good price, cheap compared to a dev’s salary, or compared to my time,
paying less than $500 per month.

do 5-second tests, usability, card sorting, path testing, all ux and ui testing for greater chance of success
This seems like the absolute worst time for anyone to be touting the amount of help they're giving to a federal agency, especially one that is ripping children away from their parents.
What is the legality of something like this? Really cool project!
New Mexico was actually named before Mexico. It was only under uncontested Mexican control for about 13 years, between the 1824 invasion and the beginning of the Chimayó Rebellion in 1837.
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There is a slowly but steadily progressing engine being developed at https://freeablo.org/
>>"A proprietary program puts its developer or owner in a position of power over its users. This power is in itself an injustice."

>This seems to be slightly ideologically loaded.

It is, until it happens to you. Then the recourse is HN/Twitter/Reddit. If you let yourself have your data exfiltrated, then your final answer is primarily bad PR and/or begging.

One example that sticks out in my mind is the Firebase debacle as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14356409 where costs went from $25/mo to $1700/mo . Because of the extraordinary bad reporting across tech media, their C*O positions responded in kind. This could have ended in a multitude of much worse outcomes, since this is software as a service (aka: data ransom)

https://startupsventurecapital.com/firebase-costs-increased-...
it is hard to identify a specific economic
problem which they currently solve

Receiving, owning and spending money anonymously. Remember when extortionists had to be paid with a suitcase full of banknotes?

Receiving money without being exposed to the danger of fraud. Receiving money via Credit Card is surprisingly risky for the merchant.

Transferring money internationally without additional costs.

Portfolio optimization. Crypto currencies are probably not perfectly correlated to other assets. So it stabilizes the portfolio to add some crypto.

All kinds of contractual setups. Example: "This accounts money can only be spend if 2 of the following 3 account holders agree: ..." .
In a recent thread about the Daimler diesel recall, a poster claims the issue is more systemic than just cheating at individual companies.

> The actual programmer & designer of the software is the supplier of the engine control units (ECUs), in most cases Bosch. The software that they supply actually already contains these cheating routines. These routines are delivered as a part of the software packages, and can be turned on/off with some flags.

It is up to the auto company how to set these flags. [0]

Is it legal for Bosch to sell ECUs that can cheat? Should it remain legal?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17286697
The trouble with OOP is that objects you can send messages to are already too complex to reason about. You can't send the same message twice and expect to get the same reply (or even, in some implementations, get a reply at all). So the fact that you can implement anything with objects isn't that surprising, because saying something is an object doesn't really constrain what it can do - you might as well say you can implement anything with a "thing", which is true but useless. Functions - or rather, constructive, well-typed functions - occupy a nice sweet spot where they're constrained enough to reason about, but powerful enough to do what you need.

https://tahoe-lafs.org/~davidsarah/noether-friam4.pdf has a more concrete set of tradeoffs: starting from a small, highly symmetric core, you add more capabilities to the language but you break a symmetry each time. One of the levels in the rainbow is an OOP language, but that requires breaking enough symmetries that I wouldn't want to work in it if I could avoid it.
YouTube seems to be more of a monopoly than Google Search. If only Facebook created a dedicated site for Facebook videos. Fbtube, fbv.com...

Microsoft has a YouTube like service but limits it to enterprise.

Since video hosting is such a resource intensive undertaking, I wonder why many free porn sites don't have outages and have no limit on uploads for free users - unlike YouTube competitors.
You're among the 1% of engineers who both care enough to know and actually know about these kinds of facilities. For the rest of them, whatever they got at school or off Stack Overflow is as far as it goes, unless some business priority demands something different - and even in that case "throw more hardware at it" is often the route taken
It says this:

> The VGCCs each have a voltage sensor which is made up of 4 alpha helixes in the plasma membrane, with each such helix having 5 positive charges on it, for a total of 20 positive charges (Pall, 2015b). These voltage sensor helixes are each called S4 helixes because each is the fourth helix in a distinct multi-helix domain. Each of these voltage sensor charges is within the lipid bilayer part of the plasma membrane. The electrical forces on the voltage sensor are very high for three distinct reasons (Pall, 2015b, Pall, 2015a, Pall, 2016a). 1. The 20 charges on the voltage sensor make the forces on voltage sensor 20 times higher than the forces on a single charge. 2. Because these charges are within the lipid bilayer section of the membrane where the dielectric constant is about 1/120th of the dielectric constant of the aqueous parts of the cell, the law of physics called Coulomb's law, predicts that the forces on those charges will be approximately 120 times higher than the forces on charges in the aqueous parts of the cell. 3. Because the plasma membrane has a high electrical resistance whereas the aqueous parts of the cell are highly conductive, the electrical gradient across the plasma membrane is estimated to be concentrated about 3000-fold. The combination of these effects means that comparing the forces on the voltage sensor with the forces on singly charged groups in the aqueous parts of the cell, the forces on the voltage sensor are approximately 20 × 120 × 3000 = 7.2 million times higher (Pall, 2015b). The physics predicts, therefore, extraordinarily strong forces activating the VGCCs via the voltage sensor. It follows that the biology tells us that the VGCCs are the main target of the EMFs and the physics tells us why they are the main target. Thus the physics and biology are pointing in the same direction.

If I ever write a paper I hope it will be more persuasive than this.
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Uh, you're confusing this with the distinction made between Western standard medicine and folk or alternative medicine practices.
I don't see why users can't be content with Windows downloading programs without telling or asking them, the way it was intended to work.
Impact factors aren't really comparable across fields, or a general indication of the quality and rigor of particular journals.

With that being said, I am skeptical of this paper.
Imagine the call is from a gay bar (or the vicinity). The data leaks. Now coworkers know, none of them are okay with it (even if they never confirm their assumptions), and there are no legal protections when they get fired.

There are a lot of non-obvious ways seemingly-innocent data can harm marginalized groups.
The scenario in your example is served by anonymous tip lines, not by 911. 911 is for immediate emergencies, usually involving imminent danger.
Both Greece and Macedonia are national countries, so in this case will of the people == will of the nationalists.
There is zero incentive for any EU country to be flexible with the UK exiting the EU, as that would incentivise even more disruption. If you cancel your membership at a club, you shouldn't expect to maintain some membership benefits of said club, no matter how small they may be.

This (and many more) effects were clear to anyone wishing to look into them before the Brexit vote, and so nothing is happening that couldn't have easily been anticipated.

As a side note, I don't believe that the Brexit decision is legal under UK law, as it's a parliamentary democracy, and as such the referendum was non binding. For a decision like this to be made, parliament has to vote on it, and as far as I'm aware, parliament has done no such thing yet.
How about currency monopoly? Hyper inflation? Debt slavery for all mankind?
Why not? Those phones can fit into a purse, they are really credit card-sized, don't look like phones at all, and 911 can anyway identify persons by their speech when they run them through any modern voice recognition system if they need to de-anonymize them.
Privately buy/sell Toronto real estate through your network
Because of rules of NATO.
Since 1850s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_temperature_record
An anonymous 911 call is possible if the phone itself is anonymous.

911 will always get your phone number, to make call-backs possible.
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I can second this. Having done extensive research on gut health for my own issues, I have read everything nih.gov has to offer. Some articles are based on proper scientific method and decent numbers of test subjects and controlled environments. There are also plenty of papers based on pseudo-science, dogmas and hearsay. After reading through every article they had to offer, it became apparent which articles I could borrow from for my own research and my own health.

I would love to see nih.gov implement a voting and discussion system similar to HN so that folks can debate the poor quality research and improve upon the good research.
And yet here you are making a call on a cell phone. Turning off location services does not make your phone invisible on the cell network. Your provider knows with fair accuracy where your phone is at all times that it has service (and often even when it does not).
This is sensationalist. Wi-Fi is a brand based around a protocol. If they're talking about low power microwave transmission, they'll have to include cell phones, microwave ovens, and everything else. Not to say RF can't be dangerous, but something like this just feeds the tin hat folks (which, BTW are just big wave guides. You'll need to wrap yourself like a potato for best results ;)
1. We haven't had anything close to a free market for many years.

2. The market pulling billions of people out of poverty is probably the opposite of failure.
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I've been advising UK colleagues to avoid .eu and other EU ccTLDs for domains recently specifically for this reason. Even if it is possible to buy them now, what happens at renewal? Even simple things like cross-border taxes could be a hindrance.

Too much uncertainty as to whether the UK will be receive a 'Swiss pass' or not. Actually .ch is a good stable ccTLD.
Does disagreeing with a single (admittedly shitty) law really mean you would align with Brexit? What a terrible situation Europe is slipping into.
maybe apple could actually pay taxes and those could be used for the same benefit ;)
Your phone already has your location through a number of means, it’s not like 911 is suddenly creating this fact. If you’re going incognito, and you have your phone on you, you’re not incognito.
There are also tip lines that you can call from payphones and such.
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It's not even limited to teens - those with the most money to spend are probably more likely to be in their 20s working their first "real" jobs and having "fun". They've learned about "disposable" incomes, low attachments/commitments (being truly free of parents/guardians), and feel that spending is their just reward for slogging it Monday to Friday. It's a typical "work hard, play harder" mentality, and encouraged by many cultures (including Japanese?).

Alcohol is also factor in some way with many decisions - it probably doesn't come as a surprise to non-drinkers just how expensive a weekly habit can get. It also helps to be able to work on spreadsheets and compound interest calculations whilst staying strictly sober. ;)

Overall in the end, it's still the same old phenomenon; advertising, but carried through a newer medium. TV infomercials, print ads and telemarketing used to be big, but that's passé now.

Perhaps what I find more interesting about the OP is how there are still so many businesses with informal processes when it comes to promotion - even something as a simple as an up-to-date Google Maps listing can sometimes go neglected.
Oh boy, why on earth would you boast about your collaboration with one of the most controversial US government agencies at a time when they’re on the news for operating what is essentially concentration camps.
I must be missing something, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_9-1-1

Hasn't 911 location been shared via gps location in pretty much every cellphone for the past decade?

I remember shitty verizon kyocera clamshells advertising gps for 911 in like 2004.
I know this is just filtering for now, but I've been backing up entire channels for fear they'll one day disappear because global policy or legacy media conglomerates won't allow for it. I imagine the "you" in YouTube will be mostly gone in the next decade. The writing's on the wall.
Really how? Remember you don't need a number or SIM or service to call 911.
Agreed. He also thinks electromagnetic waves cause autism (and he's not an MD).

http://www.autismone.org/content/martin-l-pall-ba-phd-autism...
Dated January 24th, for what it's worth.
By my back of the envelop calculation, as long as its less than 25 shoes over 10 years, stock market is the winner.

Where Allen Edmond shoes are the real winner is compared to the shoes a level or two below them. Like Cole Haan. They last a lot longer but only cost twice as much.
Well, to be fair, the linked post was published in January, well before any of the kid-snatching articles were in the news.
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Being from Slovakia, I guess people in our current government don't really care. The company SK-NIC that was running the TLD has ties with people in the government. It was recently sold to CentralNic, based in England.
Some tip lines have anonymity policies. I think 911 generally isn't anonymous because of the abuse potential.
How should he respond instead? Complacency?
I bet the vertices are correct, but shouldn't the lines in between them look like curves? They are projected solutions for the points that are equidistant by great circle distance to two airports, so I think they should themselves be great circle arcs.
You can turn down the TX power on your router...
well then, lets start a quick wordpress and self publish
For those not aware, enhanced 911 / 112 has existed in some way shape or form for almost the past 20 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_9-1-1
The point of 911 is to have emergency responders come to your location. If you don't want emergency responders to come to your location, you shouldn't be calling 911, full stop.
Apple currently still encompasses all.
Buy a cheap phone with cash. Call 911.
There are paints and other materials that can block the signals. Even wire mesh added to the insulation can block signals.
I go back to "Winter's Tale" by Mark Helprin once or twice a decade. It has an uncanny combination of page-turner pace and sheer stop-and-savor-it writing beauty that makes it a sheer joy every time.
> the Americas won the agricultural jackpot

I Don't think so. The trouble with America was that the people wiped most big fauna before doing any serious domestication attempts. America always lacked force-power for agriculture by lacking suitable animals. Deer and antelopes are un-trainable and intractable, specially when in heat; big cats pose a lot of problems; bears are too solitary and individualistic and pronghorn were skittish, designed to run fast and go away, not easy to confine in small spaces. And Lamas, almost the only big animals available suitable to domestication, are still too small and lack power to help with a plow. Maybe glyptodonts would made marvelous and valuable domestic animals. We'll never know.

The old world instead had the horse and the bull, that made an huge success in agriculture. Small details like egyptians having a small friendly carnivore around made a huge difference in an economy based on grain. And the carp recycling agriculture debris and the chicken where a blessing for China also.
Yeah. I regularly test myself when bored while driving to verbalize where I am. "Highway 401 East.. uhh I think I passed an exit for Guelph a while ago? I don't see a marker at the moment."

Off topic: if you're often bored while driving, learn the NATO phonetic alphabet using license plates around you. It helps me four or five times a year when reading off things to people in customer service. The beauty of it is that people who don't know it can still understand it when said to them.
Climate predictions, the accepted scientific ones, have consistently been more conservative than what has actually happened: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-science-p...
SEC Comments on Digital Assets as Securities
"The issue with all of this is that people are trying to fit a new technology into a series of boxes when it doesn't fit into any of them."

No, I think it's more that it does fit into those boxes, but those with interests in the technology desperately want to think it doesn't.

"What we need is for the law to more explicitly allow the internet to work like the real world."

Why?
To be fair, this article is from January. Still a controversial/dumb time to brag about working with ICE, but it wasn't published during this press cycle.
I bring up the "dispute" in quotes because it's something that was entirely manufactured for the purposes of manufacturing a dispute. The Persian Gulf is an appellation that is millennia old, and the Arabs decided to call the gulf something else because they didn't like the Iranians... and then pretended to make up the entire fact that it's called the Persian Gulf as some weird Iranian conspiracy.

At least the dispute of Macedonia has some kernel of truth to it (the Slavic peoples who moved into the Balkans during the Age of Migrations bear no relation to the Ancient Macedonians).