skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the iPhone it just goes to sleep.

This is a killer.

But it's not the end of it. Bluetooth can't measure distance well, it's totally not in it's design. Every phone model is different, I think including software version.

So there are databases of phone models to try and fix this. But it's still far from perfect since it's still not in the Bluetooth design.

Measuring time of exposure is hard with Bluetooth.

Now Apple and Android released frameworks to try and fix these issues. But governments had already invested in the old solution and it's not clear if the new framework will fix much.

To do what they want to do with Bluetooth would be pretty amazing. It's basically Geo Location using beacons using existing phone tech. That's fucking cool, yet for some reason it's never been done before this, Covid solves all technological issues it seems?

GPS tracking works really well. You will also know where. So you can see if it was inside, outside, walls between them, all things vague Bluetooth apps can't do. Lot's of context with GPS.

So, what do we think governments will do when Bluetooth has been shown not to work, but this privacy invading app works really well, which it should.
Similar dynamic to StackOverflow (and probably for similar reasons.)

Also why I am exceedingly unlikely to ever post anything I've done or written as a "Show HN".
Mangers not understanding what you are doing or why it is not instant.
Why wouldn't they?

Chrome doesn't care what DNS server software is in use (even if it could figure that out), it cares whether it's behaving properly or not.
That really depends. My understanding is that ones where they take some of your blood to do a sensitivity test aren’t real science, but the ones where they prick your skin with a bunch of allergens are. I’ve had the latter done by a real doctor in a real hospital and had real medical treatment done as a result of it.
In the mid-90s, downloading Linux wasn't feasible for most people and getting a manual with the install media was a plus because you couldn't just google for help the same way you can today. But I guess Coherent could have been competitive for no more than a few years, at best.
Google should be broken up. It’s a rent-seeking behemoth no longer innovating except in ever tuned rent seeking.
I don't understand the argument against Slack. Obviously this is not about people making fun of co-workers. That's just a bad culture and toxic environment and can happen even at the office. It's also not about Slack creating distraction. That's just how they're utilizing it if they have that issue, which is easy to fix.

Employees organizing union and protest is the big problem for some companies. And I don't think they can live without a communication tool either. Perhaps those companies wouldn't be happy about any tool for this matter unless it can provide some surveillance features.
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> Dear so-called "social" websites.

> Your catchword is "share", but you don't want us to share. You want to keep us within your walled gardens. That's why you've been removing RSS links from webpages, hiding them deep on your website, or removed feeds entirely, replacing it with crippled or demented proprietary API. FUCK YOU.

> You're not social when you hamper sharing by removing feeds. You're happy to have customers creating content for your ecosystem, but you don't want this content out - a content you do not even own. Google Takeout is just a gimmick. We want our data to flow, we want RSS or Atom feeds.

> We want to share with friends, using open protocols: RSS, Atom, XMPP, whatever. Because no one wants to have your service with your applications using your API force-feeding them. Friends must be free to choose whatever software and service they want.

> We are rebuilding bridges you have wilfully destroyed. Get your shit together: Put RSS/Atom back in.

From that readme. Nice project!

I wish someone would make a social rss reader. It would be pretty neat. Although, activitypub might be better protocol for that.
I find the interface, speed and functionality of C1 better than LR's. I've switched to it completely and never looked back, I can recommend it unreservedly.
Haha that's such a fun story!
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Why on earth is there someone with shell access to the DNS root zone and running tcpdump?
“Slippery slope” is an (often misused) metaphor; the bottom of the slope is generic badness, the top is a good place to be, and the slope is slippery because if you start sliding down it can be very difficult to stop.

While “arrest” normally means a police officer putting someone in handcuffs, it is derived from derived from the French word “arrêt“ meaning 'to stop or stay', and can still be used in that sense.

Thus, “arrest the slippery slope” means “prevent bad behaviour”.
It is setup for google.com but you'll need to receive a message from Google to see the selector used. It's not possible[1] to establish if domain is DKIM enabled by doing DNS queries without knowing the selector used.

[1] You'd need permissions to enumerate the entire DKIM zone of the domain which you wouldn't have for a random domain and whilst you could by to bruteforce all selector names combinations between 1 and 63 characters long I wouldn't recommend doing so.
At best, they do what the majority of their members want. Which may be completely at odds with your interests.

For example a union of mainly older members voting for pay-by-seniority and damaging younger people’s pay.

Democracy in a union can become a tyranny of the majority. That’s one reason many people don’t want unions.
If everyone learned to deal with the world as it is, nothing would ever change.
I believe there is evidence that the action of writing by hand forms memories more strongly.

Since all my meetings are video calls now, I've reverted to writing notes, simply because I can't feign concentration on the call and type into a different window at the same time.

I finish my days surrounded by scraps of paper to be typed up. Can't wait for my ReMarkable 2 to arrive.
Note: This is a comment I wrote to another article in HN and it still holds today:

No. Just, no.

I want to share something that I experienced very recently.

I use Firefox and Chrome (just for using Taskboard) at work. I also use Firefox at home. Both systems are Debian. The perceived browser speed was Chrome (Work) > Firefox (Work) > Firefox (Home). I always thought it was about DNS resolution, so I started running DNSMasq at home on an OrangePi Zero but, it didn't make much difference.

Two days ago, my home ADSL modem suddenly died. I replaced it with a more modern version and everything about speed has changed. Now The speed of Firefox at home is equal with the speed of Chrome at Work, Firefox at work is slightly behind.

It can be said that Firefox is much more sensitive to network parameters like DNS response times, but its rendering engine and other capabilities are not behind Chrome.
Or you can just use the automatic preset that puts you in a stable orbit depending on the distance from the surface you chose. The default is synchronous (a.k.a. "standard orbit").

These functions are a hard requirement for passenger transportation anyway because you need to match orbit with the station you are docking with. Protocol is to jump to a random position a couple light seconds from the port, get authorization, then short jump to your assigned docking exit point.
You can also use stub zones to forward traffic for a single subdomain to your AD servers, while the other dns server handles recursive queries to the internet.
Yeah, as a French I can only completely agree. The amount of paperwork is just absurd. For instance, when you create a company, you have to pay a separate fee (~200eur) to a private "official journal" to publish the fact that you're creating a company. That's just plain racket, and that kind of things is everywhere.

France is dying, because France can't have a private sector because of its regulations.

The fun part is, now that France is in the neo-liberal EU, France is dismantling its super-big-yet-working-ok public sector to make place for private companies... That can't exist because of regulations.

France is dying to me. As an 18-yo, I'm seriously concerned on what to do for my future. The country has a super good education system (I would easily say the best in the world, by far) (just check out the ENS's Nobel prize / admissions ratio) but has no companies where people do any work. Most of the brilliant French minds go to work in other countries where it's possible to create and operate a company.
What's a good array of tests to get? I feel like I need something more if I have to go to my family doctor and just ask them to "test my gut" ...
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> I mean the US president is doing it

Norway is a first-world country and has working oversight and anti-corruption procedures. Trust me, he will be policed more effectively than Donald.
On the other hand, this one is incorrect, so it's a bad trade-off no matter how you put it.

Besides, the meaning of "stellar mass density" ought to be obvious to anyone who's gone through high-school level science classes, even if they're not "into" astronomy. Even if that weren't the case, it's pretty easy to look up a simple explanation of the term. I doubt someone who isn't willing to put even that tiny amount of effort into it would even bother reading popular science articles in the first place.

To put it another way: it takes less time and effort to figure it out if you don't know what it means that it takes to even read the article. The overlap between "people reading the article" and "people who don't know what SMD is, can't figure it out from the name, and aren't willing to look it up" is unlikely to be too high.

Optimizing for lazy readers isn't good scientific journalism, it just makes the experience worse for interested readers -- the ones who are willing to do things like pay for a subscription, for example. It's a bad trade-off to make.
This isn't going to be decided on some theoretical dashboard with a "pay everything" button but on something more concrete.
The Marist College offers a time-limited z15 Linux on z/VM for free with their LinuxONE Community Cloud project.
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Interest rates can't fix a broken economy. Interest rates are like annoying parents nagging you to get a job, they accelerate an existing trend. If there are enough jobs then you will simply get a job earlier than you planned but you were going to get that job eventually. If there are no jobs then the only thing that changes is that your life is getting worse (=stagflation), not better, because your parents start hating you more and more.

Of course the government can always create jobs out of thin air through stimulation or a jobs program, but that's not the same thing as playing around with interest rates.
Many of the X-Pack features are actually available in their "Basic" license and even public source: https://www.elastic.co/what-is/open-x-pack but just not under an actual OSS license.

e.g. "Data Streams" is covered under the Basic license so you can use it for free (I think? As far as I can tell at least). You can find the feature on their subscriptions page: https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions

I find the whole situation with X-Pack, Subscriptions and OSS vs Basic super confusing and the subscription page seems very bad at explaining it all.
lpc/pike is a runtime compiled language much closer to python and java than to c. it is as much of a c dialect as javascript is a java dialect. other than c-style syntax they don't have much in common.

the best part of lpc/pike is that it compiles code in units of classes. that is, each file is a class, the filename being the classname. the compiled class would then be used to instantiate objects, and here comes the kicker:

in order to add or update objects in the mud world it was necessary to compile classes at runtime without restarting the game. so when a coder made a change to an object, the game would recompile the class, replace what it had stored, and new instances of that object were created from the new class. old objects lived on until they were destroyed.

lpmuds were the ultimate example of making and testing changes to a live server in production
I went so Safari as my default browser when Firefox (which I was using from Phoenix 0.3 irrc) became slow and bloated.
Chrome and Google marketing had nothing to do with it.
Facebook’s old web design will disappear in September
I recently impletented an extension to sqlite - https://github.com/itroot/sqlite-brotli-compress - that adds ability to compress blobs to sqlite via brotli, and I think it is trivial to add any compression format to sqlar (with some format extension, of course). But sqlar I believe is not very popular, and just an example of how sqlite can be used.
It seems to include botan, which is a fairly large C++ library. You can be assured that by far most of those 30 seconds are linking. The compile step itself for D is going to be done in <1s for the code shown.
I remember one of the reviews, where the reviewer complained he couldn't get uucp working between Coherent and a Unix box and he suggested it be called "cccp" (Coherent to Coherent Copy Program) instead.

edit: s/could/couldn't/
I managed to get syncthing running well in my rpi4 but the sync was just abysmally slow. I'm on gigabit internet however the time delay between syncing and then syncing itself was slow. I think it is more to do with a delay in handshake or device discovery than the transmission of data itself. Any tips for making the discovery better/faster?
Even Discontinuity implies that Nothing was there before Beginning, so it's same as "Infinity", but with legitimate excuse to refuse to study times before the Beginning.

Anyway, if Universe is infinite, it is infinite in all 4 dimensions. It cannot be infinite in just 1, 2, or 3 dimensions.
"everything in the universe exists, since the big bang"
> The amount of taxes a company has to pay and the amount of paperwork to do (or money to delegate it) is just absurd.

How much are taxes if you live in SF again? Or NY?

> is having all employees as associates... otherwise literally more than half of the salary is gone in taxes

The income tax rates in France in 2020 are as follows:
Up to €10,064: 0%
€10,064–€25,659: 11%
€25,659–€73,369: 30%
€73,369–€157,806: 41%
€157,806+: 45%

Source https://www.expatica.com/fr/finance/taxes/a-guide-to-taxes-i...

+ social fees, so for a salary of 100k you're getting back 65k approximately https://taxleak.com/france/?salary=100000 (though yes the employer needs to add some more to this value)
In 2015 I was rolling out Hashicorp's vault to deal with secrets management in a small Brazilian startup, I believe that Uber 2014 had the engineering resources to deal with this issue much better than my two-men team could.
DaVinci Resolve is, if anything, excellent for professionals. I have used it professionally for years, but realize it was originally only available with a grand console system that only large studios could afford.
Add a bullet point to Boring company’s mission plan.
how would they maintain the root servers and correct issues without shell access or tcpdump? Make blind guesses and restart the server until the problem goes away (it won't)?

No matter how high-profile the environment, eventually, the rubber will hit the road and some human will be in a privileged position to be able to fix a problem.

That is true for every single service out there. Yes. Including Gmail. Including AWS. Including Twitter. Everywhere.

Depending on size and profile of the service it's more or less people in need of jumping through more or less hoops to get there, but this must be true for any service.

Always keep this in mind when you make the decision to move your data to a cloud service.
Can I ask what kind of apps and functionality you use on it. I have a BB Passport in my drawer and occasionally turn it on.
Yet hundreds of companies are created every year.

You just illustrate the tipical French mentality ingrained by media all year long. A comment full of cliché. If France is so bad, move out. You'll learn a thing or two in the process. Beginning with the grass is not always greener elsewhere.
I smelled some little shark-ettes [dog fish] on the dock once and they had a very strong ammonia smell. If I remember correctly, sharks “pee” through their skin.
If you agree that most money made on apps from within the App Store are from pay to win games, are you really shedding a tear over the lost revenue on loot boxes and coins to get past a level in Candy Crush?
I never understood how it works in a bank. For one e-commerce purchase, my bank may send me an sms code to approve even minor amounts. But for the other it may not require that even for substantial sums. I think that some banks have this functionality built in, but it's the seller who decides which one to use. That is strange. As a result, I'm using a virtual card with a tunable limit for all less trusted services. Anyway, legal issues still apply. Adobe basically tricks users into a year long, autorenewable loan contract here, and that has nothing to do with their (in)ability to grant payments. It is a law that allows these terms is insane, not banks.
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It's one of the three of his books I own, I'm afraid I can't easily narrow it down further. (I own all three as audiobooks, and I recall Simon Jones reading it, but it turns out he read all three.)

• Predictably Irrational

• The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty

• The Upside of Irrationality
For a low-level, systems programming language it really comes down to Rust and Zig if you are migrating from C. I like Idris, but I don't see it in this category, nor Kotlin, although Kotlin Native perhaps? Yes, Zig is exciting! I find it easier than Rust and I have given both equal time so far.
Can you add a citation for that paper?
Ignorance isn't stupidity. But it may be classified as stupid to purposefully remain ignorant so idk.

But I do see your point.
this is nice, and a clear step forward. but more is needed to fix a semi-broken system. because publication bias is one thing, but there is also something like a _reception bias_.

there are already null result journals and workshops. it is increasingly possible to publish negative results / unsurprising results.

still, imv those results are less likely get cited. because negative results are often messy that can be hard to understand. and people don't want to pick up a paper and then not understand. so it's no surprise that positive results, certainly the way they are framed, often neatly come together. the 'stories' they tell you are often easy to grasp mono-causal stories. it's almost like you read them and you feel good about yourself, because you feel like you suddenly understand a difficult problem.

and then, which paper will you cite in your own work? the paper you understood, that has that catchy title? or the one that you struggled through, the one that painted a picture of a far more complex, messy reality?

this kind of reception bias will be very hard to fix. it takes more critical editors, reviewers, and readers to fix this.
You can't find a negative value, or a lie, in a text search, which this is.
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“Anna Forest the National Trust curator who is overseeing the work, said it was the first time anybody had searched under the floorboard in centuries.”

Having lived my whole life in the US, that’s an incredible sentence to read.
But you also have people like DHH claiming otherwise.

To those of us not living in US, America just feels like a nation that constantly shout at each other, and now it is amplify by its a dominant media platform; Twitter. Considering lots of news media quote, find new information and use Twitter.

And no one wants to compromise.
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Measurement-Based Evaluation Of Google/Apple Exposure Notification API For Proximity Detection In A Commuter Bus https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.08543.pdf

"We find that the attenuation level reported by the GAEN API need not increase with distance between handsets, consistent with there being a complex radio environment inside a bus caused by the metal-rich environment... Applying the rule used by the Swiss Covid-19 contact tracing app to trigger an exposure notification to our bus measurements we find that no exposure notifications would have been triggered despite the fact that all pairs of handsets were within 2m of one another for at least 15 mins"
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Does it matter for the video sharing sites in the US? DMCA gives them a pretty good format - immediate block and forward the notice to the uploader and they're free of pretty much any responsibility.
That's true. But for parent's objective of keeping their fitness and hopefully their strength, a couple of kettlebells are probably better that mountain biking, and it takes far less equipment and space than a proper rack, bar and plates.
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You're off by about an order of magnitude there. The human body uses ~10MJ per day which is ~100W. This not only includes radiation losses but also convection and evaporation.
Why do you say you lose your negotiating power? The union will ensure that you have the same basic rights (and salary) that everyone else in the field. That doesn't mean you can't ask for a raise or a higher starting salary.
Turing-completeness is not just a benefit, it also puts a huge maintenance cost on you. An S-expression is something you can edit in your level editor, process with a script or do a lot of fun stuff with. It's just data. You can even convert it to JSON, XML or binary if you ever get tired of S-expressions.

Once you are no longer dealing with data, but with actual Scheme code that is no longer the case and it becomes virtually impossible to do anything with the code other than directly editing it in a text editor. It's extremely inflexible and every tiny API change will break everything with no automatic way to fix it.
As the other commenter says, and I'll add: I think French people love complaining while continuing on their bubble

A lot of countries have more regulations, but if you complain about every one of them and take it as an obstacle, yeah, really, nothing is going to come out of it.

France is not, by a long shot, the most bureaucratic country in the world. Wow 200eur to open a company? How much does that compare to, I don't know, a yearly salary? Of course it's stupid fee, the US is full of them as well but I don't see people whining.

People in France can't complain that the taxes are high and there's no money when every time some reforms are proposed such and such union goes to protest because god help them if the train conductors don't have high fashion vests right? Or complain about "loss of work rights" like, I don't know, a "right" to a lifetime employment.