skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple uses some dynamic analysis as well, but of course this is limited to what they can see during review.
Same for me. I have no idea why, but it excites me to learn rust. Maybe because it have a so obvious source to learn from (The book), and that it still is fairly a new and "limited" language? I can't wait to get some major work-hurdles out of the way so I can go through the book. Not sure if I'll use Rust that much professionally, but my experience so far is that I learn so much about programming while I am learning it.
Show HN: We made a starter kit for SaaS (microservice instead of boilerplate)
Yeah we are talking about 5 figures if that

7 figures max
Substack and free-to-paid newsletter services in general, dev.to for tech.
Still a mars colony would have a better chance of bypassing some of the problems inherent in the legacy system, largely because you will have to worry about thousands instead of billions of people at the start. This is a main advantage vs a desert or arctic colony -- those would be way too close.
Is density not a concern?
Yeah but most older cars have steering wheels with no place for an airbag, and a slip-ring with 1 conductor for the horn. Maybe something from the 80s will have a 3 conductor slip ring for cruise control or something... that would be the hard part. Nobody who has an old car will want some ugly airbag tacked on somewhere. It has to be tightly integrated and be invisible or nobody would buy it.
The topic was iOS devices, not macOS.
> The replies to this are emblematic of HN culture -- a whole lot of quick dismissals without engaging with why this might exist, who it might benefit, and who it might turn away.

Curiosity comes from exploring both positive and negative consequences. You now have the top comment, so how emblematic of HN's culture is that?

This is the third time today I've read this sentiment and it's always someone frustrated that their view isn't as widely supported as they've hoped it would be. It's a big crowd here, from all across the world and the US. Trying to box HN much less HN users up is fruitless. Feel free to look at some of my post-history where I assumed I knew things about a user or their intent.
To buy my phone location data the perpetrator needs to know my phone number firsr, which can be not that easy.

Ok. Another scenario. A serial rapist sees a girl he likes at the shopping mall, exiting her car. He attaches an AirTag to the car, and in a few short hours he knows where she lives.

Of course, he could do it with GPS tracker, but such tracker needs to transmit data, and cellular connection is rarely anonymous, creating risks for the perpetrator. So this wonderful technology makes all sorts of stalking much more accessible.
Ask HN: Is Bitcoin part of the Money Supply? Is it affecting Inflation?
So I was getting my head round https://www.lynalden.com/inflation/#cpi

If M2 is all the currency in bank accounts and wallets etc, the have we expanded the money supply by Trillions? Is it measurable?

Just thinking out loud
Yup, their contrast on a lot of elements is already way too low and this isn't helping. And light mode is honestly worse for accessibility on Discord because the vast majority of their base use dark mode and make choices for things that only work in dark mode. Like having a bright yellow for your username, it looks great against the dark grey background of dark mode, but is completely unreadable on the white background of light mode.
>Whatever course the de Blasio administration decides to pursue, it cannot afford to do nothing.

This is a misdirection. de Blasio can no more screw over the real estate interests that control NYC politics than anyone else. He's an unpopular ineffective weak leader propped up by their system. His job is to take up space and be a punching bag, and he's doing a great job.
>I think for anyone who has a kid, the best way to get them interested in this stuff is to have a bad computer, or at least one that primarily uses the shell (not that those computers are bad, I use one myself).

I got deeply interested in technology the opposite way. I got an iPod touch as a kid, and I was amazed by how well designed it was. The thing felt completely delightful to use compared to the Windows XP/Vista systems that were around in the day. I immediately had dreams of writing apps for the iPod that were every bit as amazing as the rest of the system. It didn't take me long after unboxing that iPod touch for me to boot up an old Mac to start on my programming journey.

And to this day, creating great user experiences is what drives my interest in software above all else.
Good job nobody has posted a teardown of the device, with detailed notes on how to open it without damage and where the speaker is mounted. Otherwise anybody could prevent their airtags from beeping and alerting their stalking targets that they're being tracked.
The word meritocracy was defined in a work of fiction that used it ironically.

People are so literal minded they dropped the irony.

That is, people in power are so desperate to believe that they deserve every microgram they have that they grab to ideas like that.

In the case of the article there are questions like: "what do the members of the team believe about the competence about the other members of the team?" and "how competent are the members of the team really?" and that is in the context of an industry where it is commonly believed that "anybody who uses Microsoft SQL Server is a buffoon" or "anybody who uses MySQL is a buffoon" together with many similar beliefs.
Would not have mattered since this guy was stupid enough to use Coinbase in the first place.
I have bought 2 for our outside cats. I call them in every night around Midnight so they aren't out all night, and I want to use the tags to know if they are nearby. The challenge has been coming up with a good collar attachment that isn't too bulky. You can get away with a bit bulkier on a dog, but not on a cat.
Trade deals, plus subsidies by other governments are the general categories.
Nice to see Milind and the rest of the team are still making progress! One of the alternatives explored in the original proposal was using a go library that wraps perf, which I explored quite a bit previously. I haven't had time to continue that work, but it is possible to use a perf library within benchmarks (ex: https://github.com/hodgesds/compressbench) to some success. Getting this profiler merged into runtime would be really nice. Alternatively, if someone wants to extend a perf library that is able to resolve runtime stacks using eBPF that could be an interesting alternative.
AFAIK the Vermont plant is owned by GlobalFoundries and is still operational.
"A future in which ransomware and mass data theft are so ubiquitous they’ve worked their way into our daily lives"

>>> True

"The singular reason why these attacks are even possible is due entirely to rise of cryptocurrency"

>>> False
Totally yeah, no car though. I walk in to a shop and I'm already tagged. I walk in to the streets, I'm tagged. There's no hiding from surveillance. But now to allow a tag report back where your X is located is ridiculous.

Why you want to submit to a heat map of your objects, and what you do with them, I don't know. Call me cynical. I pity the people who feel its a fantastic toy when normally it's the same people criticizing about X FANG company thing. Yet they go and buy the recent crud they release. Talk about hypocritical.
I think OP was concerned about AirPlay which would assume he already has an AppleID. You could setup a Raspberry PI with AirPlay capabilities as well...or, use one of the many SMS receiving sites online to setup a new/private AppleID ;)
The latency is low once the controller is on and connected. How long does that take? With all of my game controllers (switch, ps3, xbox 360, steam link) it's several seconds.

Latency to register a button press at the other end doesn't really matter for a TV remote unless it goes to extremes. It doesn't matter if you try and turn the volume up and it takes 50ms instead of 10ms. It does matter if that jumps to several seconds.

And since your remote can now travel through walls (and your TV can now receive remote controls through walls!) you now need to worry about security and pairing since there's no longer isolation being provided just by the simple act of having walls. I definitely don't want to try and support my mother in pairing her remote after the batteries need a change every three months.

Have you tried replacing the batteries in your remote? Is your entire room covered in mirrors? It could be something silly like that or maybe that your remote is just terrible. The basic technology has worked for pretty much everyone for decades now without much issue.

I generally just leave my remote sitting on the floor when I'm down there playing with the kid or resting on the arm rest of the chair or something and press buttons on it without picking it up. If it's pointing anywhere within like 60 degrees on either side of my TV whether at the floor or the ceiling it registers every time. This has consistently been my experience across pretty much every TV I've dealt with in 20 years (and I still have a 20 year old LCD TV here I use frequently whose batteries I've replaced maybe 3 times now).
Does NYC need more untaxable real estate for billionaires?
I would just assume it was a euphemism for suicide
Haskell is a ton of fun and is a neat way to just learn a different paradigm of programming.
Sure, it could be confirmation bias, but I think that's pretty unlikely

I've gone to msn.com thousands of times over the past 8 years when I've had shaky internet

It actually works. Going to other websites doesn't work. Internet is slow or non existent. Then I go to msn.com and internet works again, or much faster

I'm really curious to understand why
It’s a question that continues the misunderstanding.

Zoom gets to be a partner in this because they had an ‘edge’ already in terms of having good product market fit and a huge customer base. That’s what makes them a good parter to help develop the api.

I could today create a simple video chat app, but it would be silly for Apple to make me a partner in their development process because I know nothing about the users of video chat and have no customers.

There is no benefit to the world in me just cloning Zoom, so access to a small feature refinement makes no difference.

Generally being one of the best at what you do gives you an edge because people value your experience and want to work with you.

That is fair.
Stock buy backs are just more tax efficient dividends for investors. If the company is suffering from mismanagement, dividends are good, because it returns capital to investors rather than letting managment destroy it.

Intel has been building fab capacity pretty much always, it's just that their 10nm process doesn't work as intended, and they haven't really been able to fix it, so their development is stalled and their production numbers aren't great and they haven't been able to stop making processors at 14nm to do other things with those fabs. So far, I think we've been hearing of delays on their 7nm node as well, so no good news there.

That said, if there's a market for a 14nm or more fab in the US, Intel has shown they can build that, but they'd probably prefer to spend their money getting 7nm to work than building an old tech fab; spending other people's money on a new 14nm (or whatever) fab in the US is still good for Intel though, so it's no wonder they'd put their hand out to do that.
Falcon Heavy technically has a little more payload to LEO than New Glenn, but it's stuck with an extremely undersized fairing for that job, so really it's better treated as Falcon 9 that's able to go further out. For the bulk of the market, New Glenn is more capable.
It's "beyond a reasonable doubt," not "beyond all doubt."
Why would firms like TSMC be members of this lobbying group? https://www.chipsinamerica.org/about/
The COVID-19 vaccine is less effective against the variants, and arguably unknown if immunity developed from dead-virus based vaccines would provide higher effectiveness against variants and reduce potential for escape.

You're arguing to ban critical thinkers having a conversation, perhaps instead you should be ban off social media for wanting to censor intellectuals/critical thinkers?

Especially since you're seemingly giving a well-thought out response but you immediately admit you skimmed it, and then wrongly claim they're pushing for herd immunity.

You also reference cross immunity, however those weren't using mRNA vaccines afaik, and so the mechanism and spread that the immunity will cover for variants won't be the same.

I was wrong, you're not as rational or thorough of a person I thought you might be based on your initial explanation that I responded to.
Apple's PR efforts are important here but I think the more nuanced take I see on this is that it's currently a competitive advantage for Apple to care about privacy concerns.

No clue if that's true. People should generally assume that if a big corporation is doing anything at all (in America) - it is to make money. They will only "protect you" to the level that it makes them money and they'll be happy to change their business model to something a little more like Google/Facebook for something as simple as a change in leadership.
Ask HN: How do you stay relevant in your field?
I'm setting 1, 3, and 5-year goals for myself around working to stay relevant. I find myself seeing articles on HN that mean less and less to me (Swift Actors? TF is that? :) ) and I want to make sure that I'm not letting myself stagnate.
Didn't they just take the "n" in Anker and it turn it around to get "Aukey?"
SaaS Sprawl and the Potential for Market Consolidation
> A push back against globalisation and more domestic production in each region of the world.

There are many countries that have always wanted to be self reliant but the powers be can't allow it. Coz it's sets a bad example that countries can exist without certain giants. I don't think they are about to allow that
Funny how in this case, we're talking about two tracking efforts, so it would be expected that both were opt-in to respect our privacy. The difference is that one kind of tracking helps Apple make money, and the other doesn't.
Sounds like something that is a function of your domain knowledge and your data science skills will have very little to do with it
The Price Wildlife Pays for Your Perfect Vacation Photo
He'll probably wait til he makes it to mars, proclaims the planet as his and starts civilization 3.0. Bitcoin then becomes the only form of planetary commerce.
You have good reason to be wary, it is added complexity that should not be taken lightly.

The reason to pay this cost is that the alternatives are: (1) do nothing: keep developing solely in C, (2) rewrite the big C project in Rust in its entirety. The cost of option (1) is significant: memory safety errors contribute to 70% of defects not detected by test [1]. Even with static+dynamic checking tools, developers keep introducing bugs into C projects that aren't possible in safe Rust [2]. The cost of option (2) is significant risk. Big C projects have grown over time and have many implicit requirements already satisfied. Discovering all of those incidental bugs and features that are necessary takes a long time and scales with the size of the project.

[1] https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/07/16/a-proactive-appro...

[2] http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/08/why-qemu-should-move-from-c...
There's at least one prominent physicist [1] who is working on showing that time is an emergent property of quantum physics rather than a fundamental one.

[1] https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2013/10/18/is-time...
If I were working for the SCP foundation, I'd be putting some D-class personnel on the problem of figuring out where exactly the line between ideograms/pictures and "textual or verbal form" lies. Can you describe it in Chinese writing? A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebus? Is the determinant whether any sound sequences used for human communication are being encoded? What about only using the purely pictographic Chinese characters, or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blissymbols?

(What about a picture of the waveform of a verbal description? ...a complete scifi brain scan of someone who understands what it is?)
>Or you can go COBRA, but that's hella expensive.

Well, it's expensive, in many cases, because you're paying for an unsubsidized high-end company plan.
Right, it's definitely a contributing factor as to why it's profitable, but the attacks themselves could be done entirely out of malice if they wanted to.
That's not an appropriate use of "SHUM".
And this guy:

https://www.nytimes.com/1982/05/25/us/ohio-candidate-tells-o...
Yes, you can pay people and have them murder others. Some do it on a grand scale even (Academi/Blackwater/Xe Services). Same goes for a bunch of other taboo/illegal things, you have the right amount of money, anything is possible.
This comment could be slapped on either side of the fanboys in this thread and it would still do nothing except be inflammatory.
I'm keeping watch on Crystal and Zig personally. Crystal looks like a near perfect language for my style with one major caveat being compilation speeds. I'm a sucker for a dynamic language feedback loop, I'm curious how Nim is on that front if anyone knows.

I tried Rust but it was too much for my small brain and seeing multiple blog posts about people spending years with it and still not getting the borrow checker down perfectly is putting me down a little. Perhaps I'll try it again down the line.
Ransomware is great.

1. Creates a huge financial incentive to try and break PGP encryption.

2. Pushes aside all of the lame corporate compliance "infosec" people whose job it is get lied to about PCI compliance and bitch about version numbers that they don't understand.

3. Proves useless all of the "ex-special-forces" "red team" "master safecracker" Defcon LARPers.

4. Gives the insurance companies enough room to attribute attacks to nation-state actors, making them "acts of war," and thus uninsurable. If companies can't half-ass this stuff and let their insurer clean up the mess, they're going to stop half-assing this stuff.

5. Put an end to the "I dunno, I pulled it off Dockerhub" madness.
As somebody who's not that familiar with how financial institutions handle fraud/money laundering detection, is it possible for ransomware to have become so prevalent without cryptocurrencies? I know HSBC was in the news a few years ago for turning a blind eye towards a drug cartel, but would this type of attack at scale be tolerated by the major banks/credit unions?
Nah, 2521 would just take the piece of paper it's written on. If someone said it out loud, then they're fucked.
https://webmonkeyuk.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/putting-a-gps-t...
The notification was described by Apple as being tied to you, person having an AirTag you don’t know, having a Home location on your iPhone’s “myself” contacts card, which presumably then also requires you to have certain System Services permissions to have been left enabled to allow recognition of location by the iPhone in question.

Phrasing clumsy, but essentially: If your iPhone doesn’t have a Home icon in Maps for your home, you might not get AirTags tracking protection. Someone should test, or ask Apple to clarify.
This is where I'm wondering if 3rd party MFI accessories could come into play. I'd love to see a smaller version for cases like this (maybe without the U1, with a smaller battery) that still work on the Find My network.
Blue Origin has spent ~$2.5B on New Glenn infrastructure, including the factory and launch structures, and likely under a billion on New Shepard. This is perhaps a bit more than SpaceX would have needed, but not by all that much.
Apple devices anonymize MAC address for WiFi discovery
https://support.apple.com/guide/security/wi-fi-privacy-secb9...
There are a few interesting things you say here. I won’t comment on the others, but the e-waste one is a valid point.

I wonder how many more of these have sold than is “necessary” just because they are cheap and nifty, only for the purchaser to get bored with it after a while and forget about it?
I think you're underestimating the value of "you can breathe the air" and "water is easily available via melting snow" when comparing it to Antartica.
Palantir now accepts Bitcoin payments and may add it to it's balance sheet
> By the time it was posted HN had had a massive number of threads about it (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26713650).

Almost all the threads you linked to were misinformation or anti-RMS posts with no substance.

Stallmansupport.org is a website made by a group of women, with articles only from women, debunking the sexism claims. It is rich in primary sources.

Yet it gets flagged.

Non-substantiative news like "Red Hat supports the removal of RMS" doesn't get flagged, but an in-depth website by a group of women does.

"Red Hat Pulls Free Software Foundation Funding over Richard Stallman's Return" is a dupe. Also, less than 3% of FSF funding is corporate, so it's not really relevant.

There were far more "calls for RMS to be removed" that weren't flagged than substantiative in-depth articles that looked at the issue.

I suggest a simple remedy: Don't count flags from people who didn't click to open the article. To implement this, require a min delay between the time the link list is loaded, and the time they flagged.
2. The Moon's low gravity and lack of atmosphere mean that you have to carry extra propellant to land.

Lack of atmosphere I get, but how does low gravity require more propellant to land?

(edit: maybe you meant lack of atmosphere due to low gravity, and I got the other meaning contrary to your intent)
I would perhaps argue, especially for projects like Android, that memory safety should be considered table stakes going forward. The class of risks that are mitigated or eliminated by memory safety are well worth the effort. There isn't a great excuse to not prioritize memory safety when it's an option.
Good thinking - those of us with some grey in our hair remember when coming out of college with a CS degree into a $45-50k government contracting gig was cause for celebration rather than disappointment, after watching our slightly older friends take loans for Porsches on their snazzy dot-com salaries... and then struggle with the fallout a year or two later when said dot-coms drastically cut staff or disappeared entirely.
I’ve travelled enough to hear urban legends slightly distorted

Basically anywhere you go in the world there is a group of people that “has genes that dont metabolise alcohol” and this is presented as scientific fact with no study existing whatsoever, and masquaraded as the tolerant way of acknowledging problems integrating with that group of people

“But I heard from” doesnt matter who you heard it from, show the study and show why it is a good study, or drop the idea completely (or fund the study)

It can be the US, the UK, Central Europe, Asia, people repeat the same thing about another group of people in that area. Maybe its true in one of those places about one of those people. Or not.
I still prefer text-only emails. I block as much external content as possible and usually those marketing and elaborate designs are all broken. It is very rare that I allow exceptions.

That being said, I can see the usefulness of this tool for developers, I just wish people would rely more on plain text.
This same scenario exists with Tile Trackers.