skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How do you solve the Mickey Mouse problem? E.g., you have a character that has created an "empire" that an organization has the means (cultural/monetary) to prevent their creation from entering the public domain. You have to figure out what to do about those rare situations because they're the driving force for extending copyrights.

We have a mechanism for solving the problem of Derivative works that purport to be creations of the "empire": trademarks.

BTW, everyone focuses on Steamboat Willie (entering the public domain in 2024), but there are already several Mickey Mouse cartoons in the public domain: The Mad Doctor, Minnie's Yoo-Hoo, and Mickey's Surprise Party.

So, it is possible to create derivative Mickey Mouse works, just make sure that they can't be confused for works or products created or licensed by Disney.
> If your ISP isn't keeping track of which customer is using which IP addresses and handling complaints sent to their abuse

To be clear, I am the only person (so far as I know) who has the ability to do this. Subscribers are ordinarily segmented by VLAN and the DHCP server hands out a single, predefined IP address on a /30. If a subscriber moves between apartments, their IP goes with them (the VLAN is simply relocated to the new physical port in the new apartment). Which customer has which IP in which apartment is all documented in their customer management system.

What they've permitted me to do, as part of testing, is to manually assign myself an IP by removing the VLAN and DHCP restriction on my specific port. If I try to this same stunt in a friend's apartment, on the same ISP, it does not work.
But... trustless! /s
The instances of outdoor infection that have been documented aren't just random strangers passing each other on the street or sitting near each other - as I recall they involved people who knew each other, which obviously makes contact tracing easier. Also, one of the ones I know of was in New Zealand during the period where every case was headline news and aggressively investigated, and the other was in China which similarly had very few cases that were very aggressively traced. This does not say good things about how well countries with more cases are detecting outdoor transmission.
It may be, but wider technological trends are taking everything good about computing out of the picture. What good is computing for all when the computing all sucks?

You call it an evolution, I call it a cycle. It's arrogant to think that SAAS' time in the sun will be forever. Remember mainframes? When the pendulum swings back, the power users will be ready for it.

There are already cracks in the foundation. Internet fragmentation, increasingly onerous data regulation, sloppy 5g rollouts, societies with regimes that like to cut net access... hell there are even some new WiFi vulnerabilities that are on HN today. One day some business revolution is going to come along and eat SAAS's lunch... I can't wait to cruise the net on a highway paved with the corpses of dead subscription companies
> Often trade deals do include agreements about subsidies.

Yes but it's complicated when you're dealing with China where the govt is heavily involved in many "private" cos
The latency caused by the speed of light around us is so tiny as to be irrelevant.

Our reaction times are far greater than the time it takes the light to get to us from anything that could affect us quickly (anything we can eat or that could eat us).

If there were another similar-but-faster thing out there, even if it were thousands/millions/infinity of times faster it would give no real advantage. This feels like basically Amdahl's Law applied to fight-or-flight timing.

Human reaction time is ~0.25 seconds. Light from even 100 meters away takes 300 nanoseconds to get to you. Those are ~6 orders of magnitude off.

If light were millions of times slower, this would stop being true (but then physics wouldn't work anything like the same either, so the point is a bit moot).
Plom – a system for giving tests on paper, but marking and returning them online
From the server side perspective, this Actor implementation is cheap(to develop), safe and more developer friendly.

But i don't know if it will be the most performant implementation as it will depends of how much state copy between threads its involved (as this is the common bottleneck in performance on a multi-threaded implementation).

So a more classic implementation might perform a little better, but i don't know if this will also stand true in Swift as the compiler might use tricks behind the curtains to optimize things giving the people behind this also control the Swift compiler.
Just in time for fire season to use all those funds.
I'm guity there, never is the wrong word, so I've edited it to not-often. Not Often have I lost such possessions.

But still, a gimmick which those with will get bored within the next six months and will be left with a thing that will constantly tag it's position.
This an outrage! We should increase taxes on the middle and upper middle class to compensate. That'll show em.
Sure it can be done entirely out of malice, but it is now clear that cryptocurrencies enable the incentive of doing it for money.

It is becoming more and more evident that ransomware attacks are the killer app of crypto.
Yep, AirTag has definitely enabled all of that. No other, better options exist, AirTag is the first way for the baddies to covertly track people.

Oh, unless the people they want to track also have an iPhone, because then they'll get alerted to the tracking. Damn!
I'm happy to rebuild the binary when I'm stuck on a performance problem. Obviously, the best case is having all the instrumentation on the production system that is experiencing problems, of course. I've run into problems that only manifest themselves after running for several hours, so the debugging cycle is slow when you aren't collecting what you need to debug the issue. In other cases, I've had bugs where a test case can reproduce them immediately, but the profiler still provides more targeted guesses than randomly changing something to see if it improves the outcome (even if the edit/test cycle is fast enough to support this). That's the case where this sounds helpful.
So if Apple had had any market share in the late 90s then Microsoft+Apple would have been allowed to put a strangle hold on the web the way that Google+Apple do to apps today. In that sense we are really lucky that Microsoft had that monopoly or the open web would not exist today.
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I wonder if hardcoding your DNS servers will help. I guess sometimes this is not possible because in corporate environments DNS servers are sent via DHCP.
I just used some tape and wrapped it around the collar and the airtag.
SpaceX doesn't sell to the public, it doesn't have normie consumers who make purchasing decisions based on brand, at least not as yet.

That can change when they start selling their internet services, but again up to now all the promotional energies to build a brand have not been monetized.

The Free Advertisement and brand rising that you mentioned is only valuable if you monetize upon it. As of NOW the only way they have to monetize is selling advertising space during launches and I suppose they get the ads on Youtube as well.
It's still amazing that folks here in the USA somehow justify that paying starvation wages or not raising the minimum wage for 20 years is somehow good. If a company can't pay a minimum amount for someone to live, then that job shouldn't exist. This has been raised in parts of the country, and in countries overseas and the economy hasn't collapsed.
I would never trust something anything I've only been exposed to for two days in production. The chance of some kind of subtle error is wayyyy too high.
Isn’t this a demonstrate he isn’t censored? He’s literally one browser tab away, and yet even that was too much for his followers.

I think this is more effective as a demonstration of how users of these sites only function within these sites.
I think there is this false stereotype of the DS obsessed with cool techniques and detached from the business. Most DS want their work to have impact, actually like most people. But successfully applying data science is hard. We have incredibly mature tech for other problems, like for example databases, a marvel of engineering, and in comparison DS is a kludge. The value DS provides per $ is much lower although is considered a competitive advantage (DBs are a commodity) and I think this is one of the reasons it feeds this stereotype.
I remember reading about malware like this some time back. I tried everything I could to prepare but got vetoed at every turn by management. My idea was to do "pull" backups to a server, instead of "push" backups to shares, instead my boss's boss bought some commercial backup package that while ok, when it bombed a t-log chain, they blamed microsoft's implementation of native sql server backups, and of course was nowhere near my dream "pull" server thing, heck, I don't know if my idea was even valid, I'm not that smart a guy honestly, you gotta know your limits.

I wanted flash removed from my desktop, because being the intellectual slug I am, I google everything, like how to get the correct date and time. My previous job was as a convenience store clerk, and as I'm in the process of getting fired right this very week, I suspect it'll be my next job too. I was told by my boss's boss and his cousin the gaming guy who built servers that "our firewall blocks everything".

Of course, I got a text message one morning from my boss, while I don't remember the exact text, I remember it included the word "armagghedon". I came in to work carrying my uninfected laptop, and heck, my pc looked pretty normal except the icons had changed and sort of "doubled up", each second version contained the same message, you know the drill.

I'm an sql guy, I know I'm not all CS smart like everyone here but I gotta say it was obvious even to me what was coming, its like an enemy doing bombing raids in the next city over and people are still out there watering their lawns like nothing is happening. Friggin malware, I guess it pays well tho.
This looks great, well done! Out of curiosity,are you having lots of traction with this project?
To each their own, but personally I much prefer to be driven somewhere in e.g. Lyft than to have to drive myself. I would bet that's worth at least a few dollars per hour to most people and thus would be relevant in the calculations I was originally responding to.
I have ADHD and live in an apartment <1000sqft and have lost my keys moments after finding them, but before I made it out the door. My second most frequently used command with my smart home setup is "Where's my phone?". I ordered 4 air tags. As to the e-waste concern, I'm trusting Apple's recycling program to handle them for me once they're no longer in service. It's admittedly not ideal for the environment, but I think it's better than the companies that sell disposable commercial trackers that are intended to never be recovered.
Herd immunity. If enough people get vaccinated R0 gets under 1, and the spread stops by itself also protecting those who cannot get the vaccine or are unlucky that the vaccine does not work for them. They are protected by the herd.
This is a great conceptual introduction to the topic. I've worked on many TDA applications over the past few years and often struggle to explain the concepts to others without adequate background. It is great to see this area start to gain a little more attention lately.
Doubtful.

> several of the newly discovered design flaws have been part of Wi-Fi since its release in 1997!

And spectre is also based on a decades old documented flaw.

It's just not very practical to predict every feasible attack until a lot of people have real systems to explore.
Who said it was cheap? There's clearly an opportunity for Apple here. Government premium plan: 1000$ per tag per day to disable the alerts.
You're missing the point. When OP says "How do I protect myself against this, if I am an Android user?" it's clear that the more relevant point is meant to be "if I am not an iPhone user".

He won't be participating in the network, but he's also unable to be warned of being tracked which does seem unfortunate.
I don't really have any answers. I don't think cryptocurrency really makes the 'ransomware storm' possible. Maybe it makes it easier or easier to get away with the cash.

I do know that I work at a company with very tight controls on what we can and can't do with our computers. But we're free to install Chrome extensions as we please. Which doesn't strike me as a great idea, but maybe that's not really even the problem.

A lot of what I see in big corp environments comes down to finger pointing. I'm on a weeks old thread this very day where different groups are saying 'this isnt X's fault it's Y's fault' and it is going nowhere. At the end of the day we need to stop assigning blame and work together to fix problems. But that means we have to be able to actually admit 'maybe this system isnt as fool proof as we thought' which, of course, opens the company up to legal liability. It's a tough and complex problem, I think. Because no one wants to 'admit fault' for fear of being sued, but not admitting fault ends up obscuring root cause. And round and round we go.
Incentives matter. Bitcoin incentivizes certain types of criminal activity. As Bitcoin grows the negative externalities will become more pronounced. I truly don’t get the ethics of it. It is killing people, literally blood money as a great new technology. Bonus points for incentivizing climate destruction and burning of fossil fuels. I don’t understand the ethics of it.
Mathy strikes again ! This has been fixed in Linux and certain firmware / driver already: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/20210511180259.159598...
The big corporate targets and the >1m ransoms aren't doable with gift cards.

A large hospital chain in San Diego[1] last week was hit with a $100m[2] ransomware attack that shut down the hospital. Can't pay that with gift cards.

[1] - https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/health/story/2021-...
[2] - Source internal said that was the ransom amount
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How can the adversary construct unencrypted Wi-Fi frames so they are accepted by a vulnerable device? First, certain Wi-Fi devices accept any unencrypted frame even when connected to a protected Wi-Fi network.
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This actually made me angry. How fucking long are we doing this already? This is so. basic. Why is this possible? This should incur liability, we know the IT environment is adversarial.

I understand one can make technical mistakes, or shoot oneself in the foot in low level languages that are difficult to handle correctly. But this is a conceptual mistake, involving crypto! How can you possibly have written this code for an issue like this to occur? What is the control flow that leads to this? I almost cannot imagine how someone could code this up by accident, this must be a backdoor. Just imagine:

if decrypt(encrypted) == false
{
memcpy(plaintext, encrypted); // lets try to use the encrypted data anyway, you never know!
}
handle_packet(plaintext);
No way this could possibly come back to bite people at the opposite end of the political spectrum. Nope.
By now it's probably easier in mind to treat any Wi-Fi as Open Network and always use something like WireGuard/Tailscale for secure communication between devices.
I don't know enough to say, but it wouldn't surprise me if our speed of thinking (and perhaps also time in general) is indirectly tied to the speed of light; meaning, if the speed of light were faster, we'd be thinking faster, and thus the round trip speed to Hetzner would appear just as annoying. I'll be happy to be corrected.
^ ^ ^ If there's any Keanu-pill to swallow, it's this. Intelligence agencies don't "make us safe," they drive financial gain for insiders. I'd bet the ratio of effort spent on "market manipulation" versus "find the evil doers" to be 10:1.
The EU and US each spending billions to subsidize semiconductor fabs on their soil. Let's pray the Chinese don't figure out EUVL and crack the bottom of the market.
I suppose the answer is "Apple minimalism" but I wondered a bit why the tags don't have a tab with a small hole sticking out. It seems it would be easier (and cheaper) to come up with ways to attach to things. (Though I suppose it would also be more fragile than what they did for attaching to keychains.
Why web technologies? You may have to build a web app to display some data or results.

But like some top comments say, data science is super broad and it just depends on your team.

Mature orgs and teams have a clear idea what their focus area is, while others don’t have a cogent conception of what constitutes “data science”
why do you need complex systems at all? just use a flat memory system with no kernel. no stack cookies. in fact, no internet is probably better.
How would a victim know if someone in a coffeeshop used this attack?

> these issues are mitigated through routine device updates once updated firmware becomes available.

Unless you are one of the millions upon millions of people who have an Android device that launched >3 years ago.
The belkin holders are the smallest I’ve seen, but I don’t believe they’re in stock anywhere :\
No worries, thank you for taking the comment in the (constructive) spirit in which it was intended!
> Or an other way of saying it is that your approach of walling off modules as either java-collection or scala-collection is kind of like saying "Java and Scala collections work well together, so long as you don't have to use them together too much. If you minimize how much they need to interoperate, the problem is not so bad."

Yes, that's actually a very good way to rephrase it. That being said; I myself wouldn't limit that to just the collections; Java and Scala on the language level have excellent interop. For Scala-the-ecosystem the story is a bit different.

Java is not the primary target for most of the Scala libraries. Not even a secondary one, I dare say. (I'm not even sure how you would model a Java API for a library - say; Cats - that uses implicits for the heavy lifting.)

That of course stems for the fact that Scala makes use of concepts that have no correspondence in neither Java or Kotlin, so there will necessarily be something lost in translation.
> The MBAs running US manufacturers need to scrap their JIT strategies, build some warehouses, and start keeping a store of the essentials.

Just the other day here on HN I read an account from a founder who did just that- in early 2008. He ended up having a warehouse full of raw materials and no cash to make payroll. That's one way a business dies.

So, this talking point sounds good, those damn MBAs and their JITs!, but carries its own set of risks. It's important for each business to balance those risks and arrive at their own decision. It's not as cut-and-dry as one would necessarily think.
Can't argue against that. I'll read up more on it since I plan to start using DeFi investments in the near future.
Timber shortage is kind of the wrong way to put it. We have a lack of redundancy in sawmills. We actually have a lot of timber - just not enough sawmills to process the timber and turn it into wood products that people can use in construction. Just like the CPU shortage - no one wants to build new fabs/sawmills because everyone assumes demand is just high for now and won't stay high forever... So, for now, they all get to raise their prices and rain in the profit.
>I don't use tiktok myself, but from what I've seen their core user group is (mostly young) people doing irresponsible and silly things to get views on the platform.

TikTok isn't all that different from YouTube. Like YouTube, you can find a lot of stupid or outright irresponsible content. But also like YouTube, there is a ton of amazing, informative or outright entertaining content on the platform.

In short, TikTok is whatever you want it to be. Just like YouTube.
A 9 month embargo is disgusting. Linux users have been sitting ducks while others may or may not received silent updates.
> Social media, particularly to Gen Z, and particulary TikTok, has a major focus on projecting success, wealth, beauty, and other aspects of vanity - often in unhealthy ways.

As if it wasn't true for basically entire human history.

It is just the way in which the success or image of it is being projected that is changing.

You, Mister, need to study history a little bit before you start to compare generations. Also get a little bit of distance and learn about your biases.
I wonder if it’s as simple as that? Presumably making their own fab would mean they had more chips, but then the chips need to get to their production line.
Shipping is a significant problem at the moment.
I wonder if this is legal. I know Apple asks you to disable location tracking when returning devices to them for warranty. This could be abused by terrorists to use the postman nefariously...
Well, couldn't they stop the buybacks for a little while and invest their bazillion dollars of cash themselves?
Ulillillia

https://web.archive.org/web/20161203081232/http://www.ulilli...

I bought his book back in the day. His main website is offline but he's still around and doing ok it seems
Human language is a social construct, and words carry whatever information users have decided to assign to it. Looks like quite a few language users disagree with you
If people on the opposite side of the spectrum start acting like trump, I’ll advocate for them to be deplatformed, too. Until then, Trump’s blog is where he belongs.
I don't think there is a single correct answer here, but I'll offer a few insights from personal experience.

Firstly, valuable data tends to live in places accessible via web technology. Maybe you need to fetch a bunch of XML files from an FTP site? Having a clear understanding of all the nuances you're about to encounter will set you up for success.

Secondly, valuable data tends to be generated by web technology itself. Understanding that lifecycle can inform analytical strategy.

Finally, some data scientists add value by informing decision makers. One of the most powerful things you can do for them is give them a mobile friendly secure web experience that puts the data they need directly at their finger tips. While yes, Tableau et al. are an option here, you'll be ahead of your peers by knowing how to DIY it when it counts.
Agreed. There is some room for someone that can provide great ideas, however, small businesses need to (at least) pair them with someone capable of executing. This is more "exception" than rule though.
i get your point, but surely despots, dictators and presidents would already have access to GPS tracking technology? i thought those things were basically commodities by now
Something something covid vaccines and 5G base stations
Please don't downvote-bait. It's tedious and against the site guidelines.

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If an Amazon device which supports Sidewalk is hacked, and that device has formed an ad-hoc network with my own Amazon device on my home Wi-Fi, then the attacker is now on my network even though they started on my neighbor’s.

There is literally no comparable possibility with Find My. A random AirTag isn’t using my phone’s network connection to talk to Apple. Instead, my phone is telling Apple that it’s seen this random AirTag.

This isn’t me being an Apple fanboy or an anti-Amazon hater. The two scenarios have nothing in common. If a stranger’s AirTag was hopping onto my Apple network, I’d be furious about that. It’s not how that works though.