skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The point of these alerts is to let people know if they’re being tracked surreptitiously by someone who placed an AirTag in their bag, their pocket, or their car. Three days is already much too long, but the fact that no alerts are occurring after four days is disturbing."

As I understand this feature monitors the signal strength of nearby airtags to identify ones that are travelling with you. In this case, if the person left it on a table at their house, they would constantly be moving in and out of range, so it's not moving with them.

"It’s also not clear how often AirTag locations update. I gave my partner an AirTag last week for her to take when she went on an errand, driving about 20 miles from home. Since she has an iPhone, I expected to see frequent updates in the Find My app, but that wasn’t the case."

Again, this is probably by design. If it worked as the author expected and gave you frequent updates, it could easily be used to track an unsuspecting person's location. This design seems much better. It still will give you enough information to locate your lost item, but it is not enough to track down the location of a single iPhone user.
This is more or less my car.

Volume and tuning are knobs and steering wheel controls. HVAC is all controlled through physical knobs and switches for the heated seats and reported on a small (non-touch) display on top of the dash.

The touchscreen is for maps and more detailed radio/audio controls.

Configuration and preferences are configured through whichever system it's relevant to. Driving settings are configured on a small screen in the gauge cluster. Configuring the small display that shows the time/date and vehicle metrics (boost, tires, etc) is done via a small button near that screen. Configuring the radio/maps/etc is done via the touchscreen with the radio/maps on it.

It sounds kind of complicated in the way I'm describing it, but it's pretty intuitive in practice. "I want to configure that thing" = "Use the buttons on that thing".
never spend your own money when you can convince the government its in national interest and thus worthwhile for tax dollars!

~Montgomery Burns...probably
> Some of the world’s biggest chip buyers, including Apple Inc, Microsoft Corp and Alphabet Inc’s Google, are joining top chip-makers such as Intel Corp to create a new lobbying group to press for government chip manufacturing subsidies.

> “Government should refrain from intervening as industry works to correct the current supply-demand imbalance causing the shortage,” the group said.

What do they think "intervening" means?
Haha, I noticed the same thing. I've started watching some of their tutorial videos, and have some other nit picking comments as well. However, these will probably get someone that's never done astrophotography up and running with the ability to get some great shots totally unachievable 15 years ago in this price range.
Bitcoin is a dream come true for the FBI/CIA. There are companies building sophisticated software to track the routing of shady payments through the blockchain (wouldn't be surprised if Palantir does this). Eventually, crypto finds it way towards a tangible asset that can be tied to somebody and it's just a matter of a paper trail.
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Rubeola (measles) and Rubella (German measles) are two separate diseases caused by different pathogens.
I absolutely agree with the examples you mention, but I have to believe there's a middle ground! The American system of work-till-you-can't-anymore is just as (if not more) awful, only in different ways.

If someone wants to take 6 months off, someone else needs to be trained to handle their responsibilities during that period. Companies should be incentivized (somehow!) to provide good customer service; providing bad service should be more expensive for them than providing good service.
It's just to see what they're doing with her, not really to track the dog if she runs away (she's a pug, she doesn't move far or fast). My parents are on my Find My Friends so it's not like I can't see where they are, but it's just peace of mind to know if the dog is with them.

I used to have a Tile and the AirTag is so much better with updating location just because the sheer number of iPhones.
Pretty much everything you said is wrong.

Tesla and Amazon have nothing to do with it.

BlueOrigin has the money to do what SpaceX does, in fact they are spending just as much or more. Go look at the launch pad BlueOrigin build in Florida and compare it to the one SpaceX build in Texas.

> This is a terrible business (like everything Musk is involved in except Neuralink).

Based on all objective measures they are not.

> Bezos should have known better. When Musk insults you, you just do what Bill Gates does: You smile, compliment him, stroke his ego a bit and then go back having de-facto veto power in institutions such as the WHO and UN, operating way above Musk head.

Gates was commenting on Musk and his companies before Musk ever said anything.

And the believe that Gates has a veto at the WHO and the UN is nonsense.
Eavesdropping app that pays you to name-drop brands
I love Rust, but one thing that seems like a glaring design flaw is that adding a new trait implementation can change the behavior of existing code. This is very counterintuitive, because it seems like a purely additive change. In my opinion, the convenience of auto-dereferencing "as much as possible" to make method call syntax magically work through the indirection of references is not worth the lack of stability guarantees that it causes. This isn't a normal kind of breakage where the compiler points out what code you need to fix; this is a much worse kind of breakage where you might not even realize your code now behaves differently. In my opinion, the notion of "editions" is not an acceptable solution to this.

For a language that prioritizes safety, there are a surprising number of gotchas in Rust (another example is the large number of partial functions in the standard library).
edit: lol ok HN hates thought experiments, got it.
An open source project funded by donations is not the vehicle to use to try to hike developer wages. Especially when that project is already underfunded.

The concerns about the project not making efficient use of the donations it recieves seem spot on.
You can't know what kind of pre-existing immunity, if any, you have against covid.
I feel like in about 4 years time there's going to be a massive bust in chip prices from massive oversupply based on the plans for chip manufacture around the world?
If there is a lot to build, like data pipelines or software apps, as opposed to just “analyze”, I think it helps to add a word for the discipline of “engineering”, eg software, data, backend engineering.

The role mismatch between data and other engineers, vs actual (data) scientists, makes it difficult for decision makers to figure out which one they need

References

https://www.oreilly.com/content/why-a-data-scientist-is-not-...

https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering
You can't model your way out of poor data.

It's a near certainty that good data + basic modelling delivers the overwhelming majority of real value, globally.
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> How about you spend some of that cash hoard and do it yourself?

Because they are for-profit entities with shareholders interest as top priority, and it is much more profitable to use TSMC/Samsung for them. With subsidies, the situation may change.
This is a much better investment than more f22
They exist[1]. The pricing is likely out of your budget though.

The included ads, large volumes, and low margins all drive down the cost of consumer displays. Your dream might also end up quite expensive.
[1] https://pro.sony/ue_US/products/broadcastpromonitors
In this case though Thermoworks has their own branding on Thermapens sold through official channels. If someone were to copy that branding I believe it would be a legitimate counterfeiting situation.
It's in the same order of magnitude as the interstate highway system, as long as the chips are sold fairly, I think it counts as infrastructure.
> Finally, for those who think that it would be better to maintain centralized, monopolistic infrastructure and legislate privacy through legal means instead, I would argue that the arc of government is long, and bends toward control & surveillance.

Right now the arc of private industry is to maintain centralized, monopolistic infrastructure and legislate privacy through even less accessible "councils" and "boards", with the same exact negative implications. That's not any more appealing, and it shouldn't be surprising that people want to use the one avenue available to them (government) to right it. In fact, it's somewhat discouraging when someone is so suspicious of government power, but openly embraces concentrated corporate power. We shouldn't trust any of them - Amazon, Apple, Verizon or AT&T. The government is the one organization we have some level of influence over.
> There's this misconception that bitcoin is private / "safe" for criminals.

Is this why we've successfully caught every single ransomware operation transacting in crypto?
> effectiveness of deplatforming

... or the danger of giving unelected, unaccountable ideologues this much power over elements of our actual government.
No.

But (and this is a Big But), the value of data science comes at the end of the data journey. Businesses need to be capturing data that is relevant and accurate before they can start analyzing it and deriving any value.

My experience with clients is that they get a ton of value out of that first step of thinking about what information they want to collect about their customers, then actually collecting it (or, conversely, surfacing what they already collect in a meaningful way). So while they come in wanting some kind of neural network powered prediction engine or whatever, they are often really impressed by pretty basic dashboards about their customer behavior.
The article doesn't talk about Cloudflare One, but I think that is a bigger opportunity than Edge computing in the short term, given the rise in ransomware attacks targeting tech-naïve institutions forced online due to the pandemic.

Re: Edge: AWS has answers in Lambda at Edge (PoPs), Wavelength (5G Edge), and Local Zones (metro DCs); whilst Google has similar arrangements through its Anthos product line, if I'm not mistaken. Though, where Cloudflare shines is they architect their products to deploy and run from all locations around the world.

Cloudflare also positions its ("global") products as being the simplest of all cloud providers to use. We stand to see how long they can remain as simple once they start ramping up on newer product lines and eventually have to support different integration points among them.

The article points out that Matthew Prince, being a HBS graduate, quotes Clayton Christensen in his TechCrunch Disrupt Q&A; and from what little I gather, Andy Jassy comes from the same school of thought, as well [0].

I'm looking forward to more innovation from Cloudflare [1]. I've slowly moved all workloads that Cloudflare Edge could support out from AWS to it; only regret is AWS credits lay waste especially given we are pre-revenue. That said, Cloudflare's (limited) offerings are a better choice if you're a small engineering shop and couldn't be bothered with a gazillion bill items, IAM rules, and VPCs.

[0] https://archive.is/tBpsj

[1] ...and new-age cloud computing companies like railway.app, replit.com, darklang.com, stackpath.com, deno.land, vercel.com, fly.io to name a few.
They're not more expensive _just_ because of the lack of ads subsidization.

They also generally are just better built. The expected hours of operation and MTBF of the components is generally much higher than consumer displays. Many of the ones I dealt with had metal cases and stronger glass.

They're expected to stand up to much more abuse or often be installed in places where they're inconvenient to service.

If you wanted to build a non-smart panel with the expected lifespan of a typical consumer TV a significant portion of the current cost could likely be cut if it were done at scale.
How hey.com is crushing objections to acquire new users
"excited delerium" is not a medical term and has only been invented fairly recently by law enforcement authorities so don't expect it to appear on historical medical documents.
I think that depends on what perspective you're looking at. There is still a fractal nature to this. I think there's still an advantage if you're coming from the perspective of empowering your country. If you're a rich elite and trying to profit maximize I think your perspective matters more. But the goal makes a difference.
That’s what I’m using mine for. The keychain holder blends in with his other tags and.. why not? I sincerely doubt I’ll ever need to use it, but it’s cost effective insurance.
Because TVs are smart home Trojan horses. The other IoT stuff you can avoid because they’re totally new categories of thing (smart locks, smart speakers) but TVs are bog standard devices that get creepier every generation. Sidewalk makes opting out of the creep factor harder.
> There are companies building sophisticated software to track the routing of shady payments through the blockchain

https://www.chainalysis.com/ (no affiliation)
Not really.

The reason this works so well is the massive amount of IOS devices participating.

I have some Tile-trackers (which I think used to be the biggest player in this space - until Apple came along), and while they are OK, the number of devices tracking them is abysmal compared to the Airtags.
The assumes the price of goods outpaces wages raised. NYC minimum wage buys you more McDonalds in NYC compared to Alabama. So the cost of goods in NYC has not risen past the gains in wages.
A lot of `expr.expr` would need to become `(&expr).expr` or `(&mut expr).expr` if auto-dereferencing wasn't a thing. C++ has `.` and `->` but Rust only has `.`

(To be clear, what's happening with `array.into_iter()` is unsize coercion, not auto-dereferencing. `[T; N]` does not impl `Deref<Target = [T]>`. But the point is the same.)
The difference is that a tag mailed to someone didn't follow them and their iPhone, it just shows up one day. In that case the person sending the tag obviously already knows where you live anyway. In your example, attaching it to someone's car (presumably while at work, shopping, etc) it will follow them home and their iPhone would see that tag the entire trip until they get home at which point it would notify the tracked person.
You’re suggesting that a cubic meter of stone weighs just 3 kg (6.6 lbs)?

That doesn’t sound right.
Low-temperature physics gives insight into turbulence
Yep, some research-oriented DS people are (rightly) obsessed (correct word) with a particular family of techniques (variational inference! random forests! adversarial networks!) and work to find problems to apply that family to. They literally do pattern-match on their techniques with every new problem they encounter, and move on if it doesn't fit.

A lot of the other of your distinctions do still apply to such people, like knowing where the data comes from, knowing when to stop, and adjusting the message to the audience. So, still a good list.

Also, even the research DS people need to evolve their techniques over time.
That's true. A lot of the characters are very memorable and stand on their own, even without any context of the urban legends.

Isn't that right Chrrrrris-TINA!!
Planet-forming disks around stars may come preloaded with ingredients for life
What Happened to Van Morrison?
Obviously they don’t need subsidies.

But economics works on incentives. Problem is these incentives are discontinuous and can change on a dime. You can accelerate a change by aligning incentives.

Chip manufacturing is important for products, but its also a security risk. The government should put up support to incentivize these companies to redirect capital towards US manufacturing. Otherwise the incentives for these companies are not going to align on a timeframe that is acceptable to employees and shareholders.

Now we can make all kinds of normative claims about how this should play out, but I honestly don’t have the energy to entertain that kind of conversation anymore.
We could start on Mars by building stuff in the canyons first at the lowest possible elevation to increase the air pressure. Then you can dome sections of the canyon and pump up the atmosphere allowing large "outdoor" area.

Would also provide radiation shielding.
For what it’s worth, there’s just a normal way to install custom root certificates on iOS, no jailbreak required.
So then Trademark begins to be used as a copyright extension mechanism and Trademark law has no expiration? That doesn't seem like a good idea.
Agreed. The second point about pipelines stuck out to me:

> [Good DS] will often build these pipelines themselves. Bad DS thinks it is someone else’s job.

In a small environment, sure, do the job so it gets done! But in larger more corporate settings the 'cowboy' approach to pipeline building is not sustainable or even feasible. Am I a bad DS because I can't provision VMs, open firewalls, replicate production DBs and build hooks in other teams' services to expose data? No, its not my job. A good DS collaborates with other teams and sysadmins to build a pipeline that is maintainable and monitorable, and doesn't do it all themselves.
> An unhealthy attitude is expecting somebody with a good idea to put in 100% of the effort themselves, because that requires them to relearn/reinvent everybody else's specializations. This happens more with a rigid or competitive culture.

Yeah currently suffering from this... losing my mind coding the fifth 'refactor' (or better, learning I did everything wrong the last four times) so I can get to a product to generate enough revenue to appreciate a teammate's time by putting bread on their table. Self-inflicted.

I'm lucky I don't need many calories to maintain a healthy body weight, but I may have traded all this for some crispy dendrites.
To be fair, you have to look at the enormous number of ransomware operators that are conducting their business in fiat...

Humm. I suppose that there aren't very many of them. Perhaps cryptocurrencies do make some forms of criminal enterprises much easier to operate. I'm willing to accept that 'Hitman for hire' might not be one of them, though - mostly because you need a local presence, at which point, taking payment in cash has a number of advantages.

It would be quite difficult to operate a ransomware operation out of, say, Belarus if you expected your victims to pay by posting you envelopes stuffed with cash.
That's exactly it. If you don't have to work, you shouldn't. The idea that hard work and endless toil is some sort of virtue that gives life meaning and is necessary for a strong, moral character... is just puritanical garbage.

The long-term goal of humanity should be an end to scarcity, and automation of everything possible. No one should have to work to live comfortably, though people should be able to choose to work if they enjoy it.
Oh I'm well aware of the disconnect. I just disagree that there are only people who care about privacy to the degree that they have to self-host everything. I believe there's room to ride the line between being 'privacy-first' (in that we care about privacy, first and foremost) and offering convenience (i.e. providing a web app).

I'm sure my customers who signed up with ProtonMail and Fastmail addresses can attest to that fact.

And for those who do fall all the way to the self-hosting side, well, there's plenty of other options on the market! Of course, there's nothing stopping us from being one of those options, it's just not our priority at this very moment.
This post is filled with assumptions. In aviation, the specs generally come down from the OEMs like Boeing or Airbus, who have systems engineers who've done a lot of work creating the specs and defining the nuances. Granted, there are errors (and external bosses who push requirements), but when they are seen down the line by a supplier, they get raised and discussed with the systems engineers at the OEM. Generally, these specs are pretty tight and specific. For something like this, the OEM probably had the operating time set to something like 25 days (over 3 weeks of never turning the plane off once), which gives the timer plenty of room. However, if the customer then doesn't restart for more than 6 weeks, and that's outside of the OEM's specs for the plane, then you're going to have issues no matter what.

The actual larger cost is not the maintenance or updates but the verification. There are definitely issues, especially when it's a code base you've been maintaining for 15-20 years, but generally it's the verification that takes the most effort, since often you're not just verifying the new functionality but downstream functionality as well.
There's reason to believe many things if you sprinkle on some infinity-dust.
> As a rule, I don't care if giving someone money is fair.

Sure

> I care about whether it causes a general increase in the welfare of our society.

But by what metric do you measure that? There has been a tech boom in the last couple of decades but the inequality divide has been growing day by day.
What's the CoinBase method for connecting via ACH or is it only wires? Funding via ACH would just be two numbers, at the easiest.
This is just the PR spiel we're seeing. What they're really saying is the usual: Local cost is too high to be competitive, subsidize or lose jobs. It's a naked power play (or pragmatic statement of fact, depending on your viewpoint). They're just framing it in a way they think will fit the current, protectionist mood.
Subsidise chips based on RISC V architecture?
Is this for US companies only? I mean if all they want is Fabs in US surely the funding should be available for TSMC as well?

Otherwise why should TSMC invest billions in US while having US government handing out money to American companies competing against TSMC with their own money?
Perhaps because there is a metric ton and a US ton.
CEOs make important decisions... acquisions, mergers, layoffs, expanding, shrinking, key partnerships, etc... or entirely changing the direction of the company.
How long until they tag these to our ears and assign us a personal number? With Elon's offer of servitude[1] on Mars and these, we may encounter George Oswells 1984 pretty soon.

Airtags, just another piece of e-waste to poison the planet.

[1] https://twitter.com/PicklePunchD/status/1217991463503446016

How long until Apple decides to discontinue the tags on their current generation of devices forcing you to upgrade?
There are also people who actually enjoy face-to-face interactions with coworkers/clients and working together in the same physical space. Even with friends and hobbies, for many careers, WFH still means spending most of your day in relative isolation.

That's great for some people, but looking at everyone else, I'd imagine there's a split between people who _only_ have meaningful social interactions at work and people who just happen to _enjoy_ it.
FCC to launch $7.17B connectivity fund program [pdf]