skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You could of course argue that the iOS ecosystem should not be based around a curated app store and sandboxed applications, but that would make it a MacBook...

Exactly what I would argue, and the only thing that would bring me back to iOS at this point.

> Maybe we should put the whole idea of having one device that does everything to rest and accept that there are advantages to have a split between 'real computers' and tablets/phones.

Google "convergence Pinephone", and imagine how powerful that would be with an iPhone running convergent macOS. And how much more powerful having macOS (with a mobile-optimized GUI) on the phone would make it on the go.
Don't put your wifi credentials into your TV, then you've effectively got a giant monitor/commercial display.

If you're feeling especially crafty, open the back of your TV and disconnect the wifi/bluetooth board. It's a discrete board in all of my TVs of different brands. I assume they build them this way so they can use the same network board design/production for years and just upgrade the main logic board in newer models.
My partner and I had GPS trackers on our MTBs almost a decade ago, with cellular data just as you describe. Our doubled as rear lights, but the same company sold another model that could be hidden inside the frame, amd a thid model designed to be attached to cars, boats, motorcycles, &c.

Stalking via GPS tracker is not new. What is new is going to be the “crime of opportunity:” Somebody who doesn’t plan and think through how to stalk somebody else, but in the heat of the moment they decide to try it, and the AirTags or Tiles or whatever they already own is close at hand.

I suspect that’s the factor of concern with AirTags being likely to become ubiquitous.
I have multiple projects I'd like to think I'd put more time into, in reality I'd probably just do way more HN.
Fourier Image Transformer
Getting Started with Puppet – Basic Installation and Setup
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dina_Katabi

> her work on X-ray vision was chosen as one of the "50 ways that MIT has transformed computer science."

And the housing market.
Those basically measure VOCs and use that to guess what the CO2 concentration is (the two are often correlated, or something like that). So the 'CO2' reading they give is often inaccurate, and can be heavily manipulated by the presence of certain gases/VOCs. The one that AirGradient has chosen is a true CO2 sensor, AFAIK.
Can't edit: AND* the O5's.
After Cicada and 11b-x-1371, I've been collecting some examples of coded messages in music for what I had hoped would be an article decoding a bunch of them, but alas, I'm giving it up here instead.

There is a mysterious group called Gescom, who were associated with artists from the Warp label, whose samples I've done some decoding on with Audacity. Interestingly, Max Richter used to do work with Future Sound of London, and some of his pieces appear to have coded artifacts, most notably, the morse code on "Infra," and what appears to be either a map of the Thames or the bus route of the 7/7 bombers, and a couple of pieces with "Cypher" in the title.
I almost wish I'd spent more time on them before forfeiting the surprise in an HN comment, but I'm probably never going to finish it.

KMFDM's "blood evil" has some signal encoding at the end that you can hear and see in the spectrogram which I think might be a video signal, but I haven't figured out how to demodulate it.

In my own music to figure out how much trouble artists go to on these, I created a sample library of sound encoded images and use it on a very old sampler. The distinctive buzzing noise of an encoded image is something that grabs you once you know what it is, and the hunt begins!

(edit: can't bear to mention this without a shoutout to Master Boot Record and his mbrserver.com bbs as well)
A few scams slip through, but millions are stopped. You may not care, but a lot of people have been saved from a lot of problems.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/05/app-store-stopped-ove...
So that experiment ended up being people that knew about the device, in the description of your linked video he explains what happened.
> techs would stop traffic for a chance to so much as talk to someone from GenZ about the trade.

Pay more. Stop asking people to give up their physical health to compete on the job. Give them a career.

Construction wages have decreased, adjusted for inflation, so it's not a surprise there's no interest in taking those jobs.
Sorry, my modern laptop does not have a numpad, not even a pseudo-numpad with the fn-key.
Any roles going?
Stephen takes an anti-crypto view and he's not trying to hid it. He's isn't some "hater" that got burnt on a random ICO, but a thoughtful engineer who backs up his opinions with technical, societal, and economic arguments based in part on his own experience in the blockchain space.
I understand very well thank you. I have lived in both tax systems ;)

Germany does not in fact have tax brackets but instead has the aforementioned progressive tax. I think there's a problem of translation in the as well as the bracketing system used in many if not most countries are also technically progressive taxes. But progressive is the literal translation of how the taxation system is called in German ;)

As the OP mentioned the 40% marginal tax rate only applies to the income above the threshold for that bracket. He is absolutely right about that and that's how I'm taxed where I live now.

In contrast the German tax is applied to your entire income after the basic free amount and it is applied. To quote Wikipedia:

> The German income tax is a progressive tax, which means that the average tax rate (i.e., the ratio of tax and taxable income) increases monotonically with increasing taxable income.

The bracketing is only done above where it reaches 42%.

To quote https://www.icalculator.info/germany/income-tax-klasses/2020...

>... use geometrically progressive rates which start at 14% and rise to 42%. This means that those rates are calculated as a linear evoving ratio rather than a straight percentage as typical in most other countries around the globe.
Dueling should be legal.
`wait_for_next_tick();` in any microcontroller-based embedded system will put the CPU to sleep, often lowering your overall power consumption from the mA range it uses while actively running, to the uA range.

Some systems, like those based on coin cells, will completely shut down the chip, leaving only a single timer or input active, and when triggered will turn back on and initialise the entire CPU again to handle the input/timer. Some microcontrollers give you a small allocation of you can preserve under these conditions. That's how you get year+ runtimes on tiny batteries.

Edit: if you want to nerd out on this, I would start with Jack Ganssle's excellent guide: http://www.ganssle.com/reports/ultra-low-power-design.html
But you don’t build factories to fund quarterly profits. It should be normal risk mitigation if you are dealing at that scale to have a plan B. Even if it’s your own plant.
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Check out "The Order of Time" by Carlo Rovelli! You might find it interesting. He explains (WAY more eloquently than I could) that time is most likely an interpretation of underlying physical law, rather than a fundamental part of it!

An illusion, if just a fancy one.
>The digital world has evolved since 1997, and email simply hasn't kept up.

Evolved beyond instant text messages? because that's all email is.

Honestly I hate IM tools. The threading is crap, the search is crap, the startup time is crap. there's no understanding of who can read what or what the edit history of messages are (I've been in IMs with people who will edit their messages days later to gasslight you, that alone is enough to make me hate IM apps.)
An iPad Pro and a MacBook Air have the same core hardware - even the same M1 CPU. Add a keyboard and they look really similar except that the iPad has a touchscreen!

But there are lots of hybrid tablets and touchscreen laptops. What makes the iPad an amazing device for me is its outstanding software library (e.g. Procreate) and the Apple Pencil.

I could certainly imagine Apple bringing its Pro apps - notably Final Cut, Logic, and XCode - to the iPad. But I can't imagine
Apple opening up iOS any time soon any more than I would imagine Nintendo opening up the Switch.
Let’s say that I know precisely where the AstroTracker is - X,Y,Z all within ~ 1 centimeter, and my goal is to point a laser in a specific vector from the base, how accurately could I do that?
Yup. One of the major reasons cell phones outperform laptops on battery life is because they go to suspend to RAM aggressively. I think a similarly aggressive mode would be needed for laptops on battery power to compete effectively (& might require OS optimizations to make the wake scenario to be as instant as it is on mobile).
The "infinite backlog of work" is the problem. It will be used as an excuse to ding you on your next performance review. Th fact that companies are structured to ensure that there is always too much work for anyone to do is what leads to stress and burnout.
>a more intelligent person is inherently superior

I also disagree with this statement.

>a "more intelligent" person is defined as "having more consciousness" which, in a system that ascribes value to humanity and consciousness, is equivalent to saying that a more intelligent person is "more of a person", and therefore inherently "superior in value"

This is what I meant. Do you still disagree with this statement?

And, well... should I make my posts more detailed or less, considering they fail to communicate the idea? Or should I go back to just saying nothing?
> The BLS can simply say the price increase is due to enhancements.

Hedonic regression actually quantifies the expected year-over-year price changes due to quality changes. It doesn’t give automakers carte blanche to increase prices, because a year-over-year price increase without quality increases commensurate with previous years will increase the residuals of the regression prediction for the current year.

> Is this person going to feel wealthier than they did in 1990?

Yes, because a 10 year old car in 2021 is still leaps and bounds better than a 1990 equivalent new car. Drive a few miles in a 2010 Civic (an entry level car), then drive a few miles in a 1990 Accord (a midrange car). You’ll be amazed at how much better the 10 year old Civic is in every aspect.
The person was who runs this occasionally pops up around here

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ahaucnx
Then don't create Airtags? Has anyone seen Jurassic Park? You were so busy thinking how you could, you didn't stop to ask if you should.
Do you think making it a standard is required to use it? The technology exists now. Writing it down isn't breathing it into existence.
> start offering trade jobs, which have been starving for new hires for 40 years. plumbing, HVAC, electrical, mechanical maintenance, and engine techs would stop traffic for a chance to so much as talk to someone from GenZ about the trade.

Salaries in those fields have been flat. That shows that there is NOT some magic pent-up demand in the trades.

Yes, a lot of people would like a flood of tradespeople to drive those flat salaries down but that does not mean that there is a shortage.
Such a lack of imagination... Official third-party requests require paperwork and official approvals and ??? 10 out of 10 political parties/espionage front companies/ex-boyfriends endorse this product because there is no paperwork (and it's cheap, too!). Hooray!
The embargo for binary patches was May 3rd. Of course, if random me knew about these issues, every interested party also did. Think about vendors like Qualcomm, Intel or Mediatek; they were all informed and all of them then had to inform their chip buyers because they don't make any of the actual customer products.
Has it occurred to you that we already built ones where they're geographically and economically feasible, and that's why we've slowed down their construction?

Reservoirs require land with natural geographic boundaries (such as valleys), will displace any human populations in them, and will completely destroy whatever existing flora and fauna exists in there. Perhaps Californians are trying to wrangle with the idea that destroying ecosystems at great financial expense to deal with the problems caused by destroying other ecosystems isn't the right way to approach problem-solving.
Their total earnings over the last 10 years at their job is likely around $1mm or more, and I assume they also have assets which are appreciating in value. It doesn't seem outlandish to me, and a break after 9 years at one company sounds nice. Professors and other such people somehow find the money to take regular sabbaticals.
For the past nine years I've worked at a place that pays well, and saved a very large percentage of my income. I did this specifically so I have the flexibility to take time off, and potentially choose jobs that don't pay nearly as well in the future, without it affecting my ability to retire. I don't want to imply I deprived myself to do this; we work in an industry where many of us can do all of that and still live beyond comfortably.

While I realize this isn't an option for many people due to lack of opportunities, kids, lifestyle creep, etc., I have both planned for it and been very fortunate. So no, I'm not worried about it.
> but silencing speech in what has effectively become a public forum doesn't help us treat the underlying cause of what caused Trump to become popular in the first place (IMHO the thing that we really need to address as a country).

Trump wasn't deplatformed because he was popular, he was deplatformed because he went batshit insane and tried to undermine the legitimacy of the election by spreading conspiracy theories and lies which led to a riot and attempted coup. If he'd been left alone, his rhetoric would have amplified the atmosphere of paranoia and violence. He was left alone for nearly four years across all of social media, even treated with a much lighter hand than anyone else, bit there's a limit, even for the President of the United States.

As far as addressing what caused Trump to become popular, you're right - deplatforming Trump didn't address that, nor could it have, nor was it intended to. I believe it did keep a bad situation from spiraling out of control, so it was the correct decision in that regard.
He has been stringing his fans along for over a decade. It is rude and cruel. It would be like teasing a puppy with a treat but never giving it to them. For 10 years. That is what he has done. His editor disagrees with me [1] but makes an equally strong point.

[1] https://i.redd.it/4g1jexk7i9e51.jpg
Microsoft Azure Blob leak a lesson to CISOs about cloud security responsibility
unfortunately each of those apps has their own protocols. I don't really remember wave well but wasn't the idea there is that they provide the networking portion but allowed people to build apps on top of the wave protocol. Essentially giving you the potential for a 'global inbox'.

I think this concept of a 'global inbox' is exactly what I want. In a general day I'm using Jira, Slack, Email, SMS, gitlab issues, etc for my 'work input'. Which means many different interfaces that I'm constantly checking or are constantly beeping at me.
It's a valid concern. Bitcoin could plausibly move to proof of stake at some point, though. And if it doesn't, there are still some PoS-based cryptocurrencies out there that won't have that problem, so disliking Bitcoin doesn't necessarily imply one should dislike all cryptocurrencies.

From what I can tell, that's only one of his many criticisms, if you read his blog. I'm sure he's sincere about all of the criticisms, and I agree with many of them in a general sense, but I don't agree with the conclusions or the (IMO) hyperbolization.
Prime today, gone tomorrow: Chinese products get pulled from Amazon
I think that's a little too much victim blaming. It's true that some people are more susceptible to burn out. But having been in the workplace for almost 30 years now (ouch!) I think the modern work environment is much more set up to take advantage of people than it used. When I started out, working times were pretty fixed and once you were home you were home and no work was done. These days you have to make an effort to disconnect from work in the evening and in many companies there is a lot of subtle pressure to constantly respond to E-mails or other messages, even during nights and vacation.

So yes, people should resist more but the system is more and more stacked up to take advantage of people's weaknesses. And blaming it on the employees is the same strategy fast food or tobacco companies are using. Yes, you can resist but you are up against a lot of well paid people who constantly try to hack your psychology to make you do the things they want you to do, even if it's harmful to you.
What are other decentralized open science collection projects like this that we can participate in?

Edit: Site finally loaded (HN HoD), is this actually a decentralized monitoring program? From reading, it kinda sounds like it's just for your own monitoring rather than aggregating the data to give a broader picture across the globe.
Yeah, I appreciate Safari for fitting in with the rest of the OS and integrating with the services it provides.

I can easily share my passwords with other apps/devices I own, and use it as a password manager. I don't want to cede that to another service.

So yes I begrudge Google for forcing me to use their services instead.
Slightly unrelated but your comment led me to actually learning what the Planck length is, and the Wikipedia article for it has a great section on how to visualize it [1].

Figured others might enjoy this!

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_length#Visualisation
VOC: Volatile organic compounds -- aerosolized oils, greases, perfumes, "bad smells", solvents, exhaled breath which would contain normal biological material, or anything else having to do with carbon compounds

A VOC/CO2 equivalent sensor is measuring VOCs and using them as a proxy to estimate CO2 concentration levels.
CO2 is of course fairly non-reactive so it'd difficult (read: expensive) to make a chemical sensor for this. VOCs are more reactive and easier to make a sensor for.

Basically, you're getting a sensor for VOCs that, based on some assumptions about outdoor or indoor air quality, is then being used to estimate CO2 levels.

This is fine if all you want is a loose estimate, but if you have reason to think your VOC/CO2 ratios are going to be different than "usual" (e.g. a CO2 storage facility, next to a poorly maintained combustion system) or where CO2 detection is of paramount importance (e.g. life-or-death situations), then a VOC detector is not acceptable.

EDIT: tried to improve the VOC examples
I've actually thought about starting one. It seems like a software consultancy would probably be the best fit.
seriously, have we learned nothing from Battlestar Galactica?
Professors are paid (though sometimes only ~50%) during their sabbaticals. Otherwise you're exactly right.
Can make a lot of interesting products. Lights that turn on or change color when different people enter a room. home security systems that can detect motion. the ability to summon help for people who fall.

I've been looking into this for a while, should be mature enough in a year or so. there are already dozens of companies in this space
The problem with outsourcing semiconductor munufacture (as well as other things)and then trying to re-introduce local manufacture again means that the US is in roughly the same place as China is. Both the US and China are starting from scratch in building up new indigenous semiconductor fabs.

The US doesn't have the spare trillions to throw at the problem, whereas China does. Forcing China to build their own fabs by banning sales of US chips has been the US shooting itself in the foot.

The new US semiconductor manufacturers will be out-competed and and outsold by the new Chinese semiconductor manufacturers.

US semiconductor manufacturing will go the same way as US paper production, US tools production, US textile production, US contsruction-materials production, US auto production, US shipbuilding production, ....., (You get the idea).
The deleted tweets:

> Babel used by millions, so why are we running out of money? Bluntly: Because funds were misallocated for years, and the project has been too slow to improve.

> The reason there's no money is because someone took a $130k annual salary and didn't actually work on the project.

> I am sitting on an ivory tower so I know this is a terrible look. The elephant in the room is being ignored and it's hard to see so much sympathy for a self-inflicted problem that isn't being honestly publicly addressed.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210511084825/https://twitter.c...
Good to have threats documented, so technology/spectrum can be regulated and legal frameworks developed.

e.g. lockpicks are regulated, how about wallpicks-via-WiFi?
Okay, so Zuck really is a sociopath, then. Good to know.
Actors are for isolating state, concurrency is a side effect of that.
I grew up in the ussr. I do not believe in institutional responsibility simply because I have not seen any manifestation of such thing. Federal bureaucrats are too distanced from the voters to suffer any consequences
On the flip side the costs of many essentials are going up and the fewer people employed at the higher prices will be buying less with their 2021 $15 than they could've with their 2019 $15, but if people are satisfied with simply seeing a higher numerical value on their paycheck so be it.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/consumers-adjust-to-higher-pric...
>"Companies exported manufacturing because the government, elected by its citizens, did nothing to stop them."

Another way to look at this is to say that other countries are now more appealing places to manufacture certain goods than the USA is. Everything is relative, and other countries have agency too.
keep it down, i really hate salesforce, seems like productivity goes up when i don't use it
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FYI, in case this wasn't your intent (I only mention this because you said you were fairly new up top), while you've provided the source you haven't given anyone a license to edit/duplicate/branch it.

Open Source usually implies a license, e.g. (reductively) the MIT ("do whatever you want as long as you credit me"), GPL ("If you use this code, you also have to share your code"), etc.

Check out https://choosealicense.com/ for more info.