skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not so easy to find them when they are intermittent and mobile. The prime example is truck drivers who want to briefly disable the GPS tracking systems their company put on their trucks. One of these guys was occasionally driving past a major airport...

https://gizmodo.com/jamming-gps-signals-is-illegal-dangerous...

And the penalties seem pretty mild:
https://www.fcc.gov/general/jammer-enforcement

If one thought the FBI (or a partner or ex-partner) was prone to putting a GPS tracker in one's car, one might grab cheap jammer from a Chinese e-commerce site for $20.

This is all for simple omni-directional jammers, whether chirp or wideband. Directional jamming of an aircraft is simple, and let's you put lots of energy on the target and also mask your transmission from surveillance systems. Sophisticated systems don't simply overwhelm the receiver, they trigger decoding errors, and with much less power.

The full scope of the problem is masked at present. It is relatively trivial to provide fake GPS signals so as to seduce a target receiver (e.g. mobile phone, plane GPS system) to believe it is somewhere else entirely, or off track by hundreds of meters. If a plane believes it is elsewhere, and transmits that via ADS-B, it could easily cause havok.
This was a fascinating read. The roasted lamb looks really bizarre and alien. I didn’t know what it was until the text described it.

I love the painting. The colors are spectacular and the expressions are very original and full of life.
> sometimes I think having lower ethical standards gives an edge during competition

Which means people aren't willing to enforce higher ethical standards as customers. So is the problem the companies, or the customers?
The worst that can happen is nothing
Nest has been so terribly mismanaged seemingly from the beginning of the acquisition; has there been any management level change to compensate for the poor execution?

I really like the look of the Nest thermometer, but I definitely don't want Google in control of anything in my house, or listening to anything in my house, with how the manage this stuff.

If I do automate anything, I will be going with Home Assistant, even though I kind of despise home rolling these sorts of things. I don't trust any of the major players, and their recent behavior and lack of care for the user makes me nervous for the future of tech.
I think the presentation exposes the big picture: D is a very loaded language. It tries to serve every possible exotic need imaginable. Probably not as much as C++ but that’s a committe-designed language, it doesn’t count.

The feature bloat makes it very hard to learn D, let alone being an expert on it. I think it’s telling why its creator focuses on individual features to assess its success. Now, all those missed features either have to be maintained or carefully removed which is a lot of work and might actually break existing code.

I like D because of its vision: C++ for humans. It fails on that vision simply because it has become a gigantic incoherent product like a research project.

It probably needed a harsher approach to feature requests to make sure the language stayed on the vision. Now it’s a programmer’s dream and a programmer’s nightmare at the same time.

I think Go, for instance, has made a better decision to stay barebones.

I see that the creator intends to include Rust’s borrow-checking semantics which reminds me that Rust is probably what D should have been in all aspects.
It doesn't even need to be a data processing bug. There's nothing surprising about the experiment's results in the first place! Just because A happened a few milliseconds before B doesn't mean that A caused B. Both could have been caused by a third event that wasn't observed. Or maybe they actually happened at the same time but B had a higher latency to the observer. It's just bad science to assume otherwise and jump to conclusions.

The latency difference is actually quite a reasonable thing to suspect, since it probably takes much longer for an "I hereby make this decision" transaction to be committed to the brain's data store than it takes for an fMRI machine to detect electromagnetic signals. There's no evolutionary advantage in waiting for your logs to sync to disk before you initiate run_away_from(lion);
> what happens with politics 100 percent impacts me at work and I should be able to talk about it

What happens with politics impacts me at work too, but my response is not to spend time talking about it at work. My response at work is to make my work valuable to my employer. My response outside of work is none of my employer's business.
Enjoy a fictional exploration of this phenomenon, introducing the concept of a scissor statement. https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/

Then realize that we have algorithms optimizing for these statements already - news, social media, gossip.

Some examination: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9sw0yr/sort...
Wasn't that a serial fanfiction published over a pretty long period of time? I seem to remember reading the chapters weekly. Fanfiction like that tends to be its own category, with the better ones rising to the top of the rather large pile. Another example is Metropolitan Man.
AlphaBeta report shows NBN Co is fast approaching peak BS
Where I am, it seems it could be off hundreds of miles in any direction and I’d still be far away from any volcano whatsoever.
Pathfinding isn't hard if you have full information and enough memory to store it. Most full info grid pathfinding algorithms, like A-star, are basically variations on flood fill.

I had to develop a new pathfinding algorithm recently.[1] For fun, I've been working on adding NPCs to Second Life. These have to be coded under these constraints:

- Each program is limited to 64KB, for stack, heap, and code. But you can have lots of programs that intercommunicate via messages.

- Finding out about the world is done by ray casting. You get about 100 ray casts per second.

It was interesting to code a maze solver under those constraints. What I wrote is basically "head for goal; if obstructed, wall follow." I do wall following in both directions simultaneously, so the shortest path wins. This finds paths around simple obstacles with minimal time wasted examining cells not of interest. Then, after finding a path, I tighten it up, removing inside corners where possible. This is not absolutely optimal, like A* is, but it's usually pretty good, and requires far fewer ray casts.

[1] https://github.com/John-Nagle/lslutils/blob/master/npc/mazes...
Christiansburg, VA is the "slightly bigger town" next to Virginia Tech.
It's the same kind of thing that happened with indie games and Steam. The barriers to entry have become so low that everyone who fancies themself an author can publish a book regardless of how bad it is. The net result is potentially more good books, but realistically finding the good ones has become really difficult because there are so many bad ones.
The way this comment was initially italicized through so many breaks was truly surprising and took me a few seconds to figure out. By the time I clicked reply you'd already updated it though. For those reading this, it connected everything between the initial A* and the second A* and was jut weird.
Is Facebook on Erdogan's Side?
This annoyed me quite a bit as well. My Google Assistant device has a LED display that ordinarily displays the time and the temperature below it, but the temperature part was just blank without the history enabled which seems incredibly vindictive to be.
Oh no, little kids absolutely love familiar, boring, repetitive things. They also like routine a lot and can get upset when given too much choice. Look at how often toddlers want to re-watch the same cartoon over and over.
The "radical honesty" culture, is it true?

And what is your opinion on it?

What software and tech stack do they have there?
Webcams in the drone bay with self diagnostics for internals, in the roof of a shopping center with fiber to a cheap control center a few msec away.
Yeah, I meant the article.
Interesting article!

”Now, researchers who questioned Libet and those who supported him are both shifting away from basing their experiments on the Bereitschaftspotential. (The few people I found still holding the traditional view confessed that they had not read Schurger’s 2012 paper.)”
Hah, devilish idea. I was thinking you could stick them in Lime scooters but once one was found the jig would be up.

Ideally you'd want something where people would earn money (bitcoin?) for operating it, they just stick it in their bag when they catch a bus/train somewhere, it only turns on briefly/sporadically, when commanded, etc.
>but marcus aurelius had some genuinely unique thoughts and viewpoints.

The thing is though, Marcus Aurelius's thoughts were never intend to be made public. It was his own personal notes to himself and therefore has little to no conflict of interest. Where as Ray Dalio is selling books and influence. While the first part may be a sum that is meaningless to him, the latter part could not be easily discounted.
Good old February 31.
when i worked at NCR beginning during late 1989, mark hurd led a point-of-sale (POS) division effort which deprived me personally of intellectual property now worth approximately $30MM/day to the company in credit card settlement transactions. what's even worse is how they sued others e.g. verifone for vast sums, using their fabricated claim to stolen property. like his crooked & overpaid "management" buddies, mark was rewarded for what he could get away with (havoc), not what he actually created. mark's bad karma has finally caught up with him and i hope that he rots in hell!
Hey, at least you had microswitches! When I first saw that, I thought it was a membrane keyboard.
Of course they're leaving. Their shares are now effectively worthless, or at least of indefinite value with no known timeline to cash out. They have to actually turn the business into something appealing to investors (i.e. profitable) just to keep it alive. And now everyone knows the CEO is a bad actor and the brand is pretty tarnished. I don't know why they would stay, to be honest.
PG&E Says It Could Impose Blackouts in California for a Decade
Agreed. My experience with regulators, CFTC and SEC, was they were pretty no-bullshit about auditing and compliance. We jumped through a lot of technical hoops to make them happy.

My colleagues would get called away for hours, days explaining how our systems worked, how we verified it. etc. I recall some had to go testify in court about them!
Are you posting user credentials to a free form tool that then emails them to you in cleartext?

https://imgur.com/a/dzF5Kq9

https://imgur.com/a/p3umOwS
I use Wyze cameras for baby monitors, home security, etc., and I’ve been pretty happy with them. They’re cheap enough that you can throw a camera at pretty much any idea. They are a cloud-based product so they come with all of the associated privacy concerns, but if you were using Nest then that’s maybe not a huge deal. Not affiliated with the company, just relatively pleased with the products.
Add to that that it contains lithium batteries so it can also catch fire in mid air and set property it falls on alight.
Looking at wikipedia, these guys are playing "the floor is lava" for a short time.

"Largely due to the extreme high temperatures of their habitat, but also due to the threat of predators, the ants are active outside their nest for only about 10 minutes per day"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saharan_silver_ant
Do you chroot to ~? Do you still use 90s SunOS?

Neither do I.
Hah, if versions were enough for consistent performance I'd be in heaven.

I'm plagued by cases where the same schema with the same indices on same version of servers running on the same architecture gets different plans and performance.
This was a while ago, and Things have changed since I've had my ATM eaten. Now, they do not dispense cash until the card has been removed.
Spikes – and other ways disabled people combat unwanted touching
... if isnull/coalesce is really non-sargable, it's time for me to give up and switch to Mongo.
History will not be on Facebook’s side, no matter what Zuckerberg says
The submitted title broke the HN guideline that asks not to editorialize. Please don't do that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(Submitted title was "‘South Park’ Nears $500 Million bid for its US Streaming Rights, Apple won't bid".)
This is a pretty big allegation, and though I work in the energy sector and have a working but limited knowledge of the way these markets work, it’s just not as simple as the article implies. As mentioned in the slate article, these are likely but hedges against other trades either in physical markets or other financial markets. These trades mean someone loses just as much as the winner wins. Futures markets are typically just risk management trades and not speculative, at least in my experience with this stuff.
Make friends with chinese people online or IRL with chinese nationals who will return home. Have important conversations. Make connections. Undermine the control of information.
Cherry-picking one detail from an article is editorializing. If you want to say what you think is important in an article, please do so not in the title but in a comment, where your view is on a level playing field with everyone else's. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
Build, Install, and Develop from Source with the NXP MCIMX8M-EVK
Seconded. Following React's paradigm of "markup is a function of data", I recently built a new personal site generator where I just swapped JSX for JS template literals. Pages are a set of those functions composed together. Markdown is handled by a library, which (you guessed it) also just generates HTML strings. Works like a charm, incredibly easy to build and use.

Plus, because my rendering is all just pure JS functions, it'd be a flip of a switch to go from static site generator to an Express server that renders pages at request time.
Many of them have been already.
You don't miss your sunset til it's droned
How to Code? – 6
Another reason to get off your phone: The blue light might make you age faster
Windows1 (1985) PC XT Hercules
Interestingly, this is quite easy to do if you focus yourself on achieving knowledge (i.e. you attempt to falsify your hypotheses and test your beliefs adequately). The real problem is that this isn't, maddeningly, a winning approach. You can be right[0], know you are right, follow a logical chain to the rightness and still lose. Superior knowledge guarantees nothing!

It's sort of like the amusing story of The Wandering Earth (the short story, not the movie). In an ecosystem where other things win, the smart approach if you find truth is not necessarily to champion it. Sometimes you have to take the Kolmogorov Option https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3376 Related: The Parable of Lightning https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/23/kolmogorov-complicity-...

0: Or to hold a reasonable prior of a hypothesis, if you want to be strict
Ah, the memories!
Isn't insider trading the crime of trading on confidential information about a company?

Dealing in securities (in the case of TFA, futures on broad index funds) in general on non-public information is not itself insider trading, as I understand it.

There's lots of non-public information, even on specific companies, that one can legally trade on (provided they did not abuse a confidence themselves, such as an entirely outside party doing deep research on an investment).
I think that's a fair claim.
I think in all the dozens of times I've tried it I've never had a view pass their draconian requirements for indexing.

There's always a self-join or a left join or a sqlclr function or a format or an unsupported aggregate or something else that was a critical thing that I really needed in the index.

If the Microsoft SQL Server team really thinks this feature is a critical selling point, maybe they should work more on it since they were introduced back in like SQL Server 2005 and still have the same miserable whips-and-chains-bondage level masochism experience.
There is another sneaky but time consuming way to find hidden clues.

You need scrape every new-registered domains, extension with .io or filter with keywords, then manually check each newly registered domains, typically, you can find some very new projects or products.

Btw, except ProductHunt and IndieHacker Marshallbananas mentioned, another website that list popular small business ideas, but I forgot its name, damn it.
The blue VFD (?) on that calc had it's charm though.
They're basically only usable on a super blue moon lunar eclipse.
It's tangential to the discussion but I find it surprising and slightly upsetting the fact that people downvote someone who basically quotes the definition of a word as-it-is, verbatim. It happens quite often on hacker news.

Are the folks here denying definitions and they make up their world instead and get upset when they encounter reality, or why does this downvoting happen? I'd really like to know.
Thimbleweed Park was such as joy to play. I originally played it on my desktop, but ended up buying it again later for the Swtich. I was delighted to see my daughter start playing it one day, and she was really enjoying the unique and now-rare gameplay. She liked it so much, she now has a ThimbleCon '87 poster on her wall. If you're around here, Ron, kudos for an excellent artistic contribution to humanity.
American Dream Mall Is a Nightmare for New Jersey Shopping Centers
I saw that at the beginning with kindle books, and I gave lots of bad reviews.

I think as printed sales dropped off publishers would shovel older printed books into OCR and publish the results immediately.

Over time, the situation has got better. Many books I purchased years ago have updated versions available. I suspect it is because most of the valuable pre-digital books have been OCR'd and proofread, possibly by the customers.

Newer books were always digital and didn't suffer OCR problems.

I'm surprised Kindle doesn't have a "popular typos" like "popular highlights".
Definitely not production ready. It's got exposed PCBs on the side of the boom. Probably the engine drivers.
Wow. Several daily? Are you able to stay on top of it yourself or do you outsource the task?
https://outline.com/JUHxC3
> If it’s patently false prove it.

Why? Just find someone you respect to explain it to you. The CME Group doesn't have to do anything here.

If something illegal happened let one of the enforcement agencies subpoena them.
Who wakes up saying "gosh my life would be so much better if I could just buy things faster"?
I'm actually surprised there isn't a small and cheap off the shelf internal hardware solution that could be used to rebuild a Pebble equivalent. I know driving the display is probably a pain, but China has been pumping out smart watches and components for a while now.
Total bullshit
Fire Phone notwithstanding, Amazon seems to offer good long-term support for their devices. I've been very pleased with my e-Ink Kindles, first-gen FireTV, and first-gen Alexa. I expect the Amazon Cloud Camera to have a similarly lengthy product lifetime.
"Half the stuff you called "bullshit" on have been scientifically tested (and proved) in reputable journals."

I called two claims bullshit, so I presume you believe that one of them has been proven. Which one? Citation?

I'm not projecting anything onto anyone. I--like many other reasonable people--am bewildered by the intersectional left's refusal to accept reality. They are in fact the ones who become enraged when you point out obvious truths, such as that men and women are different.

The topic doesn't scare me, but if the discourse in the West continues down its current path, intersectionalism could become a dangerous thing. The core of the ideology is resentment, and history has shown that these resentment-based ideologies often have horrific results. (See, e.g., the the Rwandan genocide, the Holocaust, the Russian Revolution, etc.)
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16248810
"Apple, and the tech industry more generally, has embraced a particular approach to philanthro-capitalism, one in which the products they profit from are presented as powerful forces for good themselves"

This is a bit of an overlooked tidbit that I haven't seen "discussed" before much, or even articulated before.

Tech industry people for the most part really do genuinely believe that the things they build and profit from are inherently forces for good, that they "improve" the world in some way, usually however is defined by marketing. Even when the reality is in stark contrast.

Are the things we make really improving the world like we think they are?

Do things like Facebook and Twitter truly enrich our lives, or do they prey on our psychological need for community and attention in order to sell our "data" to advertisers.

Does a new $SMARTPHONE or $COMPUTER make the world "better" every year? Or does it simply compel people to buy the "new shiny" as the "old" is pushed out to pollute landfills and poison 3rd world countries.

Being in tech we live in an extremely isolated bubble. Quite literally, for most of us. We live in "tech hub" alcoves like Silicon Valley or Seattle with our climate controlled, Wi-Fi enabled existence. We work in ivory towers for wages that many would only dream of, with comforts that even the richest could only dream of a hundred years ago.

Of course even though it's a bubble, we can still see outside it. So we naively project the world we want out around it, our values and assumptions on how to fix it. We "make the world a better place" by shipping millions of "$100 laptops" to 3rd world countries. We have billionaires pledge to fix crises like Flint's drinking water. We have our companies act as extensions of ourselves with LGBT representation in "pride month"
As someone who studied meterology and paleoclimatology in university, the result seems completely obvious that a whole lot would be different if circulation was reversed. Weather is mostly large-scale turbulence, driven by the entropically irreversible phase change of water. I suspect a mild case of Dunning-Kruger effect here -- on encountering evidence, you changed your position quite quickly.

If you look at some prehistorical events, like the closing of the isthmus of Panama or the opening of the Tasmanian sea, these had a huge effect on heat flow throughout the atmosphere continents away, enough to inaugurate new geological eras, you can see how everything changes based on the shapes of the turbulence.

There are interesting things in the results though. When the wind direction switches in California now, you turn into a downslope wind driven desert with power failures. But if you reverse the flow everywhere, this study looks like it's doing some sort of eddy thing through the Gulf of Mexico, and probably driving a bunch of hurricanes to L.A. Can't really tell looking at that weird ITCZ though... but it looks like the Congo would get absolutely slammed by hurricanes in this scenario.
I can’t upvote this enough. Beautifully crafted website
Possibly before the neural implants if IT becomes so ubiquitous that there's no need to carry around a phone.
Yeah exactly. I think a lot of people don’t realize that. Elon is so busy and no other person with his level of power is really doing that kind of ground work. But I think about it this way: Elon can do whatever he wants, and he loves rockets. Being the lead engineer on the first Mars colony rockets (and first reusable first stages) is his life’s work. It’s what he wants to be doing.
Ok, we've changed the title from "Run heavy desktop apps from any device" to what it says on the page.
The V language now compiles itself in 0.09 seconds
I’ll have to check our Marcus House. Scott Manley is so good! Super talented.