skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Android isn't just Google though. Amazon ships Android devices that don't even have Google's Android store on them. Amazon also ships their own store which Android users can download and install even on Google devices - and they're not the only 3rd party store on Android.
To expand on #2, we are also open source, with our main app code at https://gitlab.com/upchieve/subway

Our long-term goal is to have engaging, fun feature work for community contributors to work on, and we do have those come up occasionally now, but we can use a lot of help just finishing our conversion of the backend to TypeScript, updating dependencies, small bug fixes and similar work, that we have issues ready for.

We also have a weekly tech community Zoom meeting that I'd be happy to send an invite for to anyone who emails me with interest. dave.sudia at upchieve dot org
why? even if they open the designs the CapEx requirements for modern chip making leaves it in the realm of megacaps and governments.
Interesting that this is downvoted, it's the actual answer to the question.
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Completely agree that this is what it comes down to. We see it as our responsibility to make it hard to use the platform in that way, and of course to respond appropriately if something does happen, but ultimately we cannot control the behavior of students or volunteers. The only way to keep a child completely safe is to never let them interact with anyone (including family)!
Is this possible with other tag systems? Seems like a great way to send something with "better tracking" which is expensive.
One reason why this is dangerous is that you can see extremely large changes in the CPU load. For a bunch of cycles, there's apparently nothing to do, then there's a whole bunch of stuff to do, then there's almost nothing etc.

This makes it hard to reason about the overall capacity of the system (in terms of numbers of sensors and actuators). You will always end up uncertain whether you've ever really evaluated the "full load" condition, even if you formally test it in ways that say you have.
Personally, I think Seb burnt his own rep and the rep of Rome tools, and unfortunately it reflects really really poorly on his cofounder as well.
Brood X fungus making their butt fall off, produces psilocybin+amphetamine(2018)
It’s different… and for me in many ways better.

I have 12.9 Pro model from 2020 with only folio case and pen. I own an external keyboard but only use it at home. I also have SIM, so more or less I have always a decent internet connection no matter where I am. Feat that is impossible with MBP without hotspot from iPhone. ;-)

Yet, the whole magic for me is in applications, having native app for Netflix, HBO, Reddit (Apollo) is a game changer for someone who used only Safari, Figma nad iTerm2 in full screen on a Mac, and rest was just browser based stuff. I could lie down and read some news, respond to tweets, scroll through Reddit, code in Blink and design using pen and Figurative at the same time watching Netflix without having a MBP on my laps baking my balls. ;-)

And, yes, external keyboard isn’t as bad as most people tell.
It's simple and it works. It's cheap, it's responsive (button presses are responded to instantaneously, all of my game controllers take several seconds to power on and connect before they're useful), it's completely passive when not in use and gives you great battery life, in regular use (i.e., one TV per room) there's no practical issues with pairing or interference.

The only limitation is that you need line of sight to the TV.

Which might be an issue except generally if you're using a TV, you have line of sight to it because... it's a TV and that's its function.
Being actually innocent isn't enough to protect you from the FBI, so no, any suspicious trail at all is too much. Once you're a person of interest, any of the many possible opsec failures is enough to build a case. And for (attempted) murder, the spouse is usually a person of interest.
In addition to what gtirloni said ..... Dan G (hn@ycombinator.com) is a reasonable fellow that is always happy to answer these eternal 'Why doesn't HN do xyz' type questions.

I would suggest that going that route is better than polluting the HN submission queue with these and similar ‘Eternal September’ ask HN type postings.

Karma be damned, It needed to be said.
It's a lot of money to a poor person.

The fact that it's also not a lot of money to the economy in general just amplifies how little is needed to make a big difference to a lot of people.
Barn door trackers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barn_door_tracker

https://hackaday.com/2013/08/08/building-a-barn-door-tracker...
Their marketing is a little dishonest though.

https://i.imgur.com/QD32T7r.png

They show all the other trackers with an Alt-Az wedge, but show their tracker without that piece, to make the other trackers look big.

With the specific 2 other trackers pictured, you can detach that wedge and use them exactly like the MSM tracker without their Alt-Az mounts and they would be a lot smaller.

Personally I own a SkyGuider Pro and use it with a pan-tilt head tripod and no wedge.
How the Apple AirTags were hacked
How much tax did Bezos pay on his fortune? Not income tax but capital gains, and probably not as much as you'd expect.
You can use NFC on an Android device to read the owners details on a lost AirTag.

The firmware was recently dumped so maybe someone will figure out a way to build an alternative network to Find my.
Apple is surely against tracking and in favor of opt-ins for privacy... as long as it's the competitors' products and not its own.
Yeah, that was the point I was trying to make.
Do corporations pay tax on their payroll? I'm not understanding what's being doubly taxed here.
It’s completely normal in software development to work with a limited set of partners to develop and test APIs before they are made available publicly. The reasons for this are fairly obvious, and Apple has never made it a secret that they do so. They talk about it openly at WWDC.

The idea that APIs should always be available to either nobody or everybody simply ignores the reality of how software is built.
no, providing an alternative explanation is not the same thing as proving from first principles.

Just look at various explanations for "dark matter" phenomena
> Why are we even allowing the concept of [] to exist before it's legislated against? Have we learnt nothing that we should probably make laws first, otherwise it's essentially a free-for-all situation which is not good for society.

"Free-for-all" is actually one of the founding objectives of the USA.
Fair enough. I intentionally cultivate a preference for novelty which is at odds with that description. Between that and the presumption a lot of the hype around advertising has, I can get defensive around the subject.
> seems to have unrealistic expectations

Well, the expectations aren't unrealistic - if you were to grant the "good data scientist" a reasonable amount of time rather than demand that everything be done by this afternoon, which is what most "real data scientists" are up against.
They started development in 2012. It was planned to be 2020 and it has already been delayed to Q4 of 2022 and that actually means 2023. And the timeline slide could very easily continue.

But the thing is that BlueOrigin has spend a gigantic amount of money compared to Falcon 9. Its not close.

They are not spending SLS money, but their budget is huge and they made very aggressive public targets and stuck to them for a long time. Then they blamed the military on them missing their target.
Pay them a small chunk of that billions in campaign contributions, and it's easy.
In terms of fairness to these companies, yeah. They're rich and it sucks to give them our tax dollars.

But in terms of maintaining the competitiveness and security of the US, seems like they do.

As a rule, I don't care if giving someone money is fair. I care about whether it causes a general increase in the welfare of our society.

Even as a non-recipient of these subsidies, I might be better off if they existed if they reduce risk to the supply chain I'm downstream of as a consumer. If it's unfair to me but makes me better off, I'm not going to cry over the unfairness.

(Maybe tariffs on imported chips are a better solution, but I suspect that's more politically fraught, and solutions that work are better than solutions that don't.)
Should have used Monero.
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Vancouver gang wars increasingly putting public at risk as death toll climbs
I think this is a great question. And I don't have an answer for it. I do think it's much less clear though:

If I attach it to your car to find out where you're parking your car, according to your logic it also presumably wouldn't trigger. But it's still a problematic and unintended use of the technology.

What if I merely want to find out where you live, not where you are at any point in time. This creates lots of problems for people at increased risk here that to me aren't answered sufficiently.
Something similar was "thought of" for rare earths but I don't think anything practical has come of that yet. Opening new mines in the US is not a process I'd call quick. It's more in the "I'll believe it when I see it" column. You think getting a pipeline across the Midwest is difficult? Just try strip-mining in Alaska.

But yeah, if the government is serious about securing supply chains, then it's not enough to have semiconductor manufacturing here, one also needs to be able to source the inputs closer to home (quartz, etc).

And I'm not even sure it requires government to directly fund the manufacturing/mining - it would be enough if government took a "not-hostile" attitude towards the environmental and engineering approvals, and then incentivized domestic sourcing.
It would mean big greedy companies with skittish legal departments would be forbidden from using it without paying for a commercial license.
Patent Suspensions Threaten Germany's Booming Biotech Industry
I can't imagine Andy Grove would have supported that.
Yeah, to be clear, we absolutely see it as our responsibility to minimize risk and do everything we can to protect our students.
What are the geopolitical consequence of a de-coupled chip supply chain? Recall TSMC is headquartered in Taiwan, which has been a point of contention in US-China relationship since the 1950s. Please discuss civilly.
> The SCP Foundation[note 3] is a fictional organization documented by the web-based collaborative-fiction project of the same name. Within the website's fictional setting, the SCP Foundation is responsible for locating and containing individuals, entities, locations, and objects that violate natural law (referred to as SCPs). The real-world website is community-based and includes elements of many genres such as horror, science fiction, and urban fantasy.

> On the SCP Foundation wiki, the majority of works consist of "special containment procedures", structured internal documentation that describes an SCP object and the means of keeping it contained. The website also contains thousands of "Foundation Tales", short stories that take place within the SCP Foundation setting. The series has been praised for its ability to convey horror through its scientific and academic writing style, as well as for its high standards of quality.

> The Foundation has inspired numerous spin-off works, including the horror indie video games SCP – Containment Breach and SCP: Secret Laboratory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCP_Foundation
It is always nicer to do things with somebody else's money. Not with out own, right? Even if we have money to spend.
To all those saying that those companies can afford it themselves, remember that there are reasons they don't. The economics don't add up. Companies tend to do what is in their economic interest to do.

Something like this can change the economics, which could be a good thing.
Did you read the linked story? How does demonstrate any tech vision or leadership for AWS by Bezos? Do you just blindly believe all of the claims (that don't even relate to AWS vision/tech leadership) made in the story? Do you honestly believe Bezos - the business leader and highest level manager of Amazon, who has an enormous amount on his plate, who has no technical background, is coming up with all of these high level architectural and tech decisions, instead of, say, the highly qualified and experienced engineers at Amazon? You seem to think billionaires are some kind of superheroes from fantasy land instead of actual human beings. You have to be a naive child to believe half of the claims about Bezos made in this story.
Screenshot of the above message: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2152766/117868229-... ;D
That really is a great hack if your camera is light enough. Genius.
Protip: Just because something is legal doesn't mean it's ethical or good
Is there any way to opt out of the AirTag network?
Don't stop at sci fi. LeGuin's magical fantasy archipelago of Earthsea (starting with "A Wizard of Earthsea") is my favorite set of books from her.
Yeah, the privacy section only mentioned 'encryption,' nothing about personal data or data collection.
Raw footage: Israeli missle defense system against 10s of rockets
It doesn't have an RSS feed and it's presumably banned from the sites he got deplatformed from, so how is anyone supposed to follow it?
I wonder what the "strings attached" will be. Perhaps the back doors the FBI has always wanted? Sounds like a double fleecing of the taxpayer. We get to give them subsidies and they get to give law enforcement an easier vector to spy on us. What a deal!
It is more than just following around, you need to be followed home or to a known location in order to be alerted:

https://youtu.be/vjLbxywixro

(Unrelated, but kind of sad that I got more information on how airtags actually work from a bike components review channel than dedicated tech reviewers)
Who Buys Fonts?
No they're not usually, except a few communities
Yes, let's subsidize a domestic TSMC competitor and pay for it by increasing corporate tax rates / closing loopholes. This is not a snarky comment btw.
It's doubly annoying when you consider that apps like Discord that leverage web tech have a very capable themeing system built in to them via CSS and the user styles web standard.
FragAttacks: new security vulnerabilities that affect wi-fi devices
It was an Internet phenomenon caused by a quirk in Google's "I'm feeling lucky" ranking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_am_lonely_will_anyone_speak_...

HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25532050
It's not a matter of whether the products are bad or not. It's a matter of being able to trust the reviews. I've purchased from one of these brands and received a little card along with it requesting a 5 star review in exchange for a $5 coupon. This totally distorts the reviews.
I don't understand what the target audience of your suggestion is - it's certainly not something CEOs, managers or employees can do.

I mean, there's a strict hierarchy there of who answers to whom and who gets to choose who to work with.

If the CEO tells the board "our growth target this year is 2%, our growth max is 10%, if we grow more than that I'm concerned about the pressure on my employees and my goal is to have a great and sustainable place to work and not to fill the universe with paperclips" then the board is likely to answer "it seems that our goals are not aligned, you'll be replaced with someone who does not share your concerns". If the board tells something like that to shareholders, then there's going to be a shareholders' meeting to replace the board.

"We're not letting you into the board if you disagree with it" - who's "we"? CEO's certainly can't say that unless they happen to be majority shareholders since e.g. founding the company; CEOs don't get to veto who comes on board, the board gets to choose who will be appointed CEO.

"you'd better price this assumption into the stock if you want to hold stock." - those who bought the stock get to set the rules including changing most company bylaws, so it's a legitimate tactic to buy stock in a company that's focused on being a great workplace instead of growth (i.e. the stock is likely to be cheap due "pricing in that assumption"), then destroy that assumption and replace the management to focus on growth, and sell the (now more expensive) stock. And it's very likely to happen since there are organizations whose whole business is to identify such opportunities and execute on them.

You don't have to grow forever just because you're a company, you're required to try to grow forever because the company shareholders want to. Companies can register as a public benefit corporation iff shareholders choose to do so, it's certainly not a way for someone to stop having shareholders.
Could they still end up treated like terrorists? Totally. Some drug lords are still called terrorists even though their only goal is monopoly control of the cocaine market by any means necessary.

But their loudly and public disclaiming all intent to harm puts them a huge step away from being terrorists in the public’s eyes. Even if the government designates them so, they still have to make a case as to why money should be spent in going after them instead of criminals the population actually cares about.
dlang has exactly this, with both marking functions as @nogc and being able to both use the gc in one block, and malloc free in the next. You can also limit D a subset called 'BetterC'. I Really enjoy being able to gc my way though a problem until I need some explicit memory structure for putting together a ECS or similar memory management heavy patterns.
The worst part is that they might get such handouts. I don't understand how, given their mighty fortunes, they haven't achieved 99.9% automation to keep costs as low as in cheap labour countries. If anything I think the EU, US and UK should subsidise research in achieving near full automation. Sucks for low skilled labour but they’ve already been fucked when jobs were moved overseas.
If this truly comes to fruition, it would be a prime mover in displacing Chinese global hegemony and stave off its bullish nature.

China maintains economic well being by donating the chip market and also the supply chains.

The Quad has emerged to dislocate Chinese tyranny in the Indo-Pacific, and US chip takeover will be one of the last strokes in China’s downfall.
> When is the last time you have heard of any data leaks from Amazon?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-scooped-up-data-from-its...
The money printers are going full bore. Why not get it for free?
I had a lot of fun restoring this hunk of junk and trying to make it work. But there is still a long ways to go. Surprisingly there really NOT a lot of information out there on the Ultra 1. But do stay tuned for part 2.
The main difference I can think of is that Airtags can piggy-back on all Apple devices around it to track better.
Yeah, I just left my dog (her leash has an AirTag on it) with my parents on 5/8, and presumably the leash was sitting in their home somewhere.

They took her to the dog park on 5/9, and got the notification that an AirTag was following them. So I was gone for a little over 24 hours, but they only got the notification after they took the leash with them for a couple hours and then went home.

https://imgur.com/a/RawzEP9

I believe the 3 days is for the audible beeping when it's moved, but they haven't seen that yet and they marked it as "pause safety alerts" so I'm not sure if it'll still beep.

Edit: Also, I have a bag at home with an AirTag and it's constantly updating location, so presumably one of my neighbors has an iPhone that's nearby. Kind of cool that it updates so frequently, and I'd say it was worth replacing my Tiles because of it.
There's a common theme among fantasy stories of a race of (usually dwarves) that 'dug too deep' and uncovered something evil underground. It's interesting that this cautionary tale already seems embedded in our lore. I wonder why? Have we made this mistake before, at some point in our forgotten past?

Probably not, but it's interesting to think about.
> Good DS starts simple, ships, and then iterates. Bad DS starts with the most advanced technique they know.

> Good DS is constantly learning & evolving their toolbox. Bad DS stagnates and sticks with what they know.

These are the big ones imo. But not super obvious. As a junior data scientist I never needed to use anything but regularized linear models and decision trees. Maybe a random forest but the explainability usually wasn't worth it.

Recent explainability tools like SHAP have changed this somewhat. But for the most part I think its still ok for the average data scientist to be regularized linear models, decision trees, and then occasionally, idk, a LightGBM or Catboost + SHAP for explainability. A lot of people still don't know about these, and it's now a decent test for whether people are really trying to stay up to date.

But if they're not, I don't really care.
I'm imagining someone building a utility looking box that can be stuck in apartment complex gardens or in the gardens of office complexes that has some dummy wifi that captures this exfiltration for its own means. If they want to be really sneaky they could put distance between themselves and the fake utility box using a LoRa bridge.
Bingo, same thing caught my eye. "You're saying that when you asked them to do something a spammer or criminal might want to do, they just let you? And you say their IP block has a bad reputation? Yes, quite a mystery."

[EDIT] though I'm not disputing that it would feel shitty and unfair, for a normal user, to be stuck dealing with CAPTCHAs because of that.
I liked the article, but realize that in a decade of work in Tech, I haven’t meet a good data scientist!

I’ll also add: a good data scientist knows his/her strengths, and doesn’t try to become a unicorn.
‘New normal’: IEA raises growth forecast for wind and solar by another 25%
I suggest Pharo[1]. It's an actively developed Smalltalk dialect. There's a MOOC[2] on it, and there are several free books that cover the basics of the language itself[3][4], data visualisation[5] and numeric stuff[6]. The whole environment is sweet, for example, you can actually search a method just by giving a example of what you want to do. The only issue is, as it is developed at a fast pace, documentation tends to get a bit dated quickly.
[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharo [2]. https://mooc.pharo.org/ [3]. https://books.pharo.org/updated-pharo-by-example/pdf/2018-09... [4]. https://books.pharo.org/deep-into-pharo/ [5]. http://agilevisualization.com/ [6]. https://books.pharo.org/numerical-methods/
I would say despite feeling a bit of sadness that deplatforming is the thing that it is today, that it's hard to really blame any company for it these days.

We are in a hyper-political environment, where your company is going to be judged by one group or another for any action or inaction. So if you're protecting far right nuts, your left side is going to drop you. In a very real sense, protecting 8chan or Daily Stormer is a company deciding to solely make itself palatable to supporters of those sites, at the expense of basically... all your other customers.

No company that wants to be successful is going to stand in defense of a customer or two that's known as a source of terrorism and violence.
Curious, do you find an Airtag on your dog's leash to be effective?