skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who wants to read some crummy blog? He once threatened to make a platform to rival twitter's. Instead, he built himself a soapbox. Social media success is tied to engagement. A soapbox is antithetical to that.

Gab was poorly executed, but they had plenty of engagement with people who were "deplatformed" elsewhere. This doesn't show the effectiveness of deplatforming, it shows Trump's lack of vision
On HN, it only counts as a dupe if the previous submission got significant attention. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. Lots of past explanation here too: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
AirTag or similar tool could be a great way to track important packages we mail. Courier services could use this by default & provide better tracking data for their customers. I recently mailed a document to India & I have no clue where it is.
You have just described literally every generation of humans that ever existed. The ancient Romans complained about their lazy, disconnected successor generations.
> Should I quit before or after returning to the office?

> Consider going back for at least a week or two. Think of it as a test of your hypothesis. Humans tend to be really bad at predicting how they’ll actually feel.

This is really bad advice for a lot of people. Especially tech people.

1. Currently you're working from home, and almost all the other companies you'd consider working at are also home. This means you don't need to take unexplained time off work to go into the city for an interview -- you're at home, your interviews are remote, and most companies have been willing to work with people to interview outside business hours, since everyone's home anyway. This is the time to look, not only because you have time and aren't commuting and coming home exhausted, but because companies are being more flexible with remote. Instead of fighting with your current company for a flexible remote policy, while you're stuck back in the office, you can work out a full or hybrid remote arrangement with a new company, as part of the terms of starting there.

2. At least for tech employees, this is a sellers' market, and you're the seller. Tech unemployment is around 1.2%. No matter what you're currently making, someone is going to be willing to pay you more to do it there. I've watched medium sized tech companies streamline their byzantine interview processes because they couldn't interview people faster than they were hired elsewhere. If you have good tech chops, it has never been easier to find a job quickly, and never easier to set your own terms and salary. The big tech companies are still being stodgy, and the small silicon valley tech startups still want to pretend they're big tech companies, but if you get your resume in front of a recruiter, they have small and medium sized businesses lining up to hire literally anyone they can.

So if you're in tech, which is probably why you read Hacker News, this is not good advice. If your company isn't giving you real plans for coming back that you're comfortable with, throw your resume out there and watch companies fight to have you. They will work with you on those plans, and you're in a better position than you think you are for those discussions. Everyone's laughing at fast food places putting up signs saying "No one wants to work anymore" because people realized they didn't have to. We're a few months from some tech companies being in the same spot.
But wouldn't you agree that those qualities are very difficult to achieve and thus expensive?

I don't think I would agree with that. With software, durability is the default. I can write a program once, and run it on the same hardware until the capacitors fail. It takes active intervention in the form of forced upgrades and planned obsolescence to make software "decay."

For a producer as I'm using that term in my previous comment, software is a tool. If I buy a physical tool, I will pay up front for fine craftsmanship, but from there on that tool belongs to me, and I expect it to last as long as the care I give it allows. I expect to do the same with software. If a software vendor wants more money, they need to provide more value in return.

Note that this does not mean I would never pay for subscription services, but I will not stand for companies trying to blur the line between service and tool.
The point I was more making is how do you handle successful things that are long term viable. Such as Mickey Mouse, Sherlock Holmes, etc. Though, yes, it's overstated the impact. The 1976 act was more impactful than the Sonny Bono Act.

Everything having a lifetime copyright has it's own problems, but cutting everything to 20 years creates it own.
I think you're giving me an uncharitable reading, and in doing so support my stated concern:

> I feel the issue is exacerbated by the fact that if you can follow along with Terry then you likely will be unable to recognise the issue.

On the topic of "heterogeneity" it would seem to follow from my saying "If you can follow along with Terry" that I recognise some people are capable to find his explanation clear.

On the heterogeneity of pure mathematicians it is very frustrating to see someone try to claim, in a public forum where people unfamiliar with the subject can read, that a Mathematician uses anything other than "numerical reasoning while trying to reason about a subject", and I feel it causes great harm to people outside of mathematics.

You say, "some use graphical reasoning", well where did their graphical intuitions come from? Are they born with it? Or perhaps they were taught graphical reasoning by way of numerical reasoning and now are able to just use the graphical reasoning on new problems.

This is part of what I was trying to express by referencing Gowers. Using identities to reason about a problem is fine, and arguably necessary, but introducing identities when teaching without explanation is befuddling and I argue deters learning.

The op said "I'd like to learn more about symmetry", you used the word "introduction" and Tao used the word "simple".

If the op said, "I went through a physics program in undergrad and grad school and I feel like I have all the mathematical pieces but I'm still struggling to put them all together... can anyone recommend a resource that avoids getting bogged down in prerequisite explanations and just focuses on the relations."

Then I would have scrolled past thinking, yeah that Tao article is perfect.

If you would have said, "After years of higher education this article made it click for me in ways multiple professors failed to but you'll need an equivalent amount of the numerical examples from my education of the various topics used to understand this."

Then I would have scrolled past thinking, yeah Tao does a great job of illuminating concepts.

If Tao would have used any other word than "simple".

Then I would have left out the "novella" jab. I'm tempted to ask what about the short book was more difficult, because in my similar library experiences the short books were the ones that just had equations and identities and left out any of the numerical reasoning. Is that what you discovered when you Haha'd at that little textbook?

I worry for Mathematics when someone says, "Hey I think I might be interested in that thing..." and the response they recieve is a bludgeon of latin characters, and the dubious unqualified follow up "well other people get it".

It is now doubly hard for that person to explore their interest because they need to both find their own resources that actually teach the material, as well as decide whether its even worth it if this is the community they are working to become part of.
Our team will be gearing up for this soon, any additional details you can share?
I, for one, don't like losing my keys or umbrella and really like AirTags.
Interestingly, this is exactly the type of behavior I would find distasteful.

If I do you the favor of watching your dog, I'm going to be pissed if you're spying on me during the process.

I'm sure they knew about it, so I don't think it's unethical, just sort of ugly.
This is a strange argument. Are you saying that we should never raise minimum wage? It isn't even keeping up with inflation.

As for the history books, I recall we've raised the minimum wage in the past. The US still exists, so i guess the history books say its ok?
Getting 6 GCP certifications in 3 weeks
See what YouTube / Facebook / any website looked like in 2008 with this tool
US Patent Number 11M
> [...] but even I'd balk at paying a subscription for a code editor. A paid upgrade every few years? Sure, take my money (see also: Jetbrains).

Funny you bring that up - Jetbrains only switched to its current model after a massive outcry. Their original plan was to completely brick your IDE when your subscription lapsed. That did not go down well[1]. Fortunately, they abandoned the plan within a day

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10170089
Now I wonder if he detects indirect statements and exhaustive lies, e.g. "The creature is in $CONTINENT" for all continents but one.
tl;dr: it is a deliberate consequence of the NYC tax code to encourage real estate development.
> or the first cloud provider, etc.

This is just as uncharitable to Amazon as all those trashing Musk for his extracurricular Twitter activities are in dismissing his technical credibility.

AWS was absolutely revolutionary with EC2 and S3 and Amazon was the first in every meaningful way here.
> Especially since the feature to alert users of the possible privacy invasion outlined here, seems to not yet be working as advertised.

The AirTag was not moving, hence the lack of notifications. Otherwise you'd get a ton of notification practically anywhere you approach an AirTag. It is working as intended.
I don't really think either of those things apply here, although the implementation is pretty crucial.

AirTags have some protections against using them to track people, and the AirTag network doesn't appear to leak any private information. That last part could be completely wrong, for all we know: it relies on the software to be correct. The whole point of the gizmo is to "track", and I struggle to come up with an improvement to their solution to allowing users to track things but not stalk people.

This is being automatically enrolled in some kind of public good, where "public" is the Apple ecosystem. Is that bad? I mean, I don't mind, but offering an opt-out seems... polite, at least?
Ah, but they did it while still supporting ISIS sites. With the loving slow-motion execution of infidels.

On one hand, cartoon frogs. On the other hand, real human beings with det-cord wrapped around their necks waiting for actual death, their heads popping off like soda bottle tops.

It's all about the priorities.
My aunt and uncle both died of this, together with around 5 or 6 more people in the early 90s when one of their neighbors, an old lady, baked a cake for a birthday and mistakenly used Paris Green. She managed to poison all these people and, none survived, while she didn’t manage to have any of the cake and lived. Wanted to see if I can find anything online about this, but there’s not much saved from newspapers in Bucharest, Romania from that time.
Same here. I jumped -- new gig starts in 2 weeks -- and I know literally all of my coworkers are actively looking.

At least one has an offer (not sure if it's been taken), and another sounds like she's going to have an offer soon.
I bought my first Tile a couple years ago:

Someone had their rental car broken into, and their stuff stolen. He had a Tile on his keys, and noticed that he got a ping outside of SLU in Seattle, so he posted in the /r/seattle subreddit.

I happened to be working there at the time, so I messaged him and went for a walk. It took me about 30 min to find his keys (his bag was gone, they must have dumped it elsewhere) in a bush, which I was able to mail back to him.

So, I bought a couple Tiles since that was proof to me that it worked.

But, looking back, over the day or so it was there, he only got two pings to my recollection: one person that walked by (and caused him to post to Reddit), and me once I found it. AirTag's network is just so much bigger. I'm pretty convinced you would get at most a single ping if you mailed a Tile somewhere.

I also use a Tile in my snowboard bag. I was always able to confirm the bag made it on the plane because my phone would connect through the floor of the plane into the cargo hold, but I'd be very lucky if I got a ping when the bag was in the baggage belt system underneath the airport.

Tile was a great idea and worked well if you had other Tile users nearby. It's not really their fault the network is so small, it's a hard problem to solve to seed that network unless you happen to own a billion devices...
As an Android user I hate AirTags because it will reduce the power of Tile's cross-platform finding network making it less likely that my tiles will be found. This means that Google should fight back by integrating a finding network into Android OS. It's more anti-competitive platform lock-in.
The airtag will start making sound after being separated from its owner for 3 days. That at least gives you the opportunity to locate and disable the airtag.
Fireside Chat with Peter Norvig (2019)
Sounds like it worked just great for one of the criminals...

From TFA "The FBI has not, however, been able to identify the hitman as yet. The reason is almost certainly because the hitman did not use a commercial service like Coinbase, which must comply with know-your-customer laws, for the Bitcoin transactions but instead relied on his own personal wallet—one that did not reveal any information about his identity."
Yeah, the 'Settings > [Name] > Find My > Find My iPhone > Find My network' option will turn the collaborative tracking off. But yeah, it's buried, poorly explained, and an opt-out rather than an opt-in.
I've not-often lost my keys nor umbrella, do you live in a castle? How often do you loose those things?

And now your tagging your items just for apple to see besides no one has answered how does that justify the e-waste these tags produces?

Seeing as I've been rated-limited.

> Not sure what you mean there, but Apple doesn't get to know where anything is.

To say Apple doesn't get to see any information, pfft. I trust them as much as any thief. Can you prove this?

> Something something covid vaccines and 5G base stations

Not at all. I'm hoping to get my covid vaccine, have you?
SolidRun HoneyComb LX2K Certified as an ARM SystemsReady ES Compliant Platform
Okay, cool. We can get back on track then instead of randomly pointing fingers at resellers and miners.
TSMC is a member of this Semiconductors in America Coalition lobbying group already, apparently https://www.chipsinamerica.org/about/
I’m actually from the UK myself. So I picked random Googled US min wage and assumed the poor driver would have to beg for tips and go bankrupt if he was sick.
I was about a second from flagging it when I saw it - I didn't remember what's on wikidot.com, and that domain + Unicode dots smelled like something that doesn't belong. But then I realized it's an SCP, so it got my upvote instead :).

I consider many of the SCPs as intellectual curiosity equivalent of catnip; they take your mind to places it never expected to find itself in. But it takes reading some to realize that, and this one definitely requires context.
Amazon-first gadget brands Aukey and Mpow are disappearing
This assumes that javascript has stopped evolving at some point.
IBM use to manufacture PowerPC chips in New York and Vermont. They may still, but I'm not sure.
Can you send me an email: jgreze plaid.com -- I'll see what I can do to help. For the vast majority of cases onboarding should be self-serve until you hit a certain level of scale, so I'd love to understand what's happening here and what we can do better.

(VPEng at Plaid)
I strongly believe he would have bragged about it by now if he did.
Sounds like an effort to take down a competitor. If Rome tools is to replace Babel, people need to lose faith in Babel. Seems like a transparent conflict of interest.
They are much more expensive and require way more power, so they can't track you for a year without recharging. Also, they need to transmit data using cellular network, which also drains a lot of power.

The problem is that this new service makes such snooping very casual.
> The reason these items are not produced at home is because of government policies.

Which policies? I believe you, genuinely curious
Does anyone think in the future we’ll see DIY AirTag alternatives that can participate in the Find My network? They’re just BLE beacons right?
I thought that was kind of implied by the ‘Enable Find my IPhone’ setting that is required for the tags to work..which isn’t a condition I’m upset about. IE—want to benefit from this feature? Thanks for pitching in! Don’t want to be part of the helpful network? Okay, disable Find my IPhone
The odds of there being a photo in these kind of articles seems exactly inversely proportional to how cool the subject is.
No, in the case of attaching it to the car it is moving with you (and would thus trigger the alert). Your point still stands though that it can be used like that to find out where someone lives.
I think the accomplishment is impressive but the headline is a bit disingenuous. Starship, being fully re-usable will be, for me, a more impressive milestone.

But what I find really interesting is the evolution. At the beginning everything was thrown away after one use, all boost stages and the spacecraft they launched. Then the shuttle came along and reused the spacecraft but still threw the boosters away. Then SpaceX where one of the boosters is re-used, and the Dragon/Crew Dragon spacecraft (can be) re-used. And then Starship where all boosters and spacecraft are reused. That is an interesting road.

I also think it is fascinating the the governments of China and Russia are now working to re-create what a private company in the US did (Falcon 9). Not since Buran has the Russian space program been tasked with duplicating something the US could do that they could not.

And then there is the private Crew-Dragon mission that SpaceX is planning. It may suck all the demand out of Blue Origin's and Virgin Galactic's "edge of space" experience if you can pay a bit more and spend several hours in space. (potentially days if you had somewhere to go).

These really are amazing times.
The quickest solution would be to stop using Android.

Any cellular device will report its location to the nearest cell tower. This data is sold to private parties and available to query nominally by law enforcement only but really to any bidder willing to pay Zumigo or Microbilt a fairly reasonable fee.

Further that location is in realtime and contains historical breadcrumbs.

The periodic pings from your device not masking it's MAC address by attempting to query nearby wifi points, your bluetooth sending out rotating EID's are useful for in store tracking of customers but worse than running footage through collected CCTV footage. Likewise the wifi/bluetooth breadcrumbs are worse data than the LTE pings we're already getting.
If Google thought they could get a solid return on investing $50B rather than holding cash, they would do so.

The fact they are holding it as cash is an indication they are not bullish on the fundamentals.
Doesn't it just mean that the meaning of the word has changed?
Yeah, Find My is an app that needs your location services to work. ...If your Location Services is off, or your Find My app doesn't have permission to access Location Services, it shouldn't be able to report your device (nor other peoples' devices) location to Apple.
Yeah to be fair I haven’t been to the US for about 5 years so that’s probably well out of date on car rentals.
The not having a magnetic field is a smaller problem then people think. The rate of reduction in the atmosphere is not very large.

If you manged to create the atmosphere the radiation on the surface would already be reduced. The extra distance to the sun plus the atmosphere more then makes up for the missing magnetism.

Also, medicine is advancing, if this is actually still the major issue in 30 years is questionable.

But overall I agree, we are not there yet with plans but if we can build a research station there and have constant flights and constantly people living there, space technology will continue to improve and eventually we might reach that level.
Yes.

Rust does not consume C headers. For every function and data structure of the API surface you gonna need two language projections, C header and Rust source file. For large API surfaces, especially when both sides of the FFI evolve over time, bugs are inevitable.

The problem is not specific to Rust. It affects all languages, except C++ and Objective-C which are backward compatible.
Bypassing Golang's lack of constructors (2019)
Very few people practice consistent logic regarding opt in versus opt out. In nearly every case I’ve observed people are pro opt in for things they don’t like and pro opt out of things do like. Hence the push to make organ donation opt out and privacy invasion opt in. I don’t think there should be an expectation of being consistent, it’s just an observation.
I’m sure you’ll agree that this is an inadequate provision, but it will start beeping after three days.

I can’t really think of a solution to this beyond Apple and Google working together.