skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In your example, attaching it to someone's car (presumably while at work, shopping, etc) it will follow them home and their iPhone would see that tag the entire trip until they get home at which point it would notify the tracked person.

Okay, but is that really different than driving down a random street, choosing a random house with a car in the driveway, and thus learning that that car parks at that address?

Knowing that the car you chose to put a tag on at the store later parked at a certain address is hardly that useful, isn't much easier than just following the car from the store one time, and presumably wouldn't upset most people because most people's security models don't rely on their home address being private and thus no one ever following their car home from the store.
The overwhelming majority of criminal commerce is conducted using traditional currencies such as U.S. Dollars or Euros. I truly don't get the ethics of it. It is killing people, literally blood money...
>All of this, while being paid the exact same as someone on the SWE or PM track.

Actually at FAANGs especially they are usually paid less, sometimes substantially.
Those rockets really explode and kill people. Make holes in buildings. There is already a bunch of dead people and few tens of wounded.
The only reasons that numbers are low it's that Iron Dome intercepts majority of rockets and that building code requires in every apartment bomb shelter (and in every commercial building )
If Apple had the appetite to let that M1 on the iPad run macOS I'd buy that in a second, just for the ability to develop.

The iPad is already so versatile, adding the ability to do my job or just to update a small side project every now and again (waiting at the airport etc).

I understand the hesitation in doing so, but its so frustrating. Given that the iPad now has a keyboard and mouse if you want it & a CPU that we know is fast, just unleash it!
macbook pro, macOS.

Error: Media Recorder API is not available in debug.ts

and nothing ends up rendering, all divs are empty.

(editing to add, since I can't reply to the child for some reason):

Mojave, safari 14.1
I wouldn't call it boring. Deluded to the point of hilarity I'd say.

From 2:45 today:

>When I was in office we were known as the Peace Presidency

By whom?!
I'm not sure even his supporters would agree with that
Would using a VPN prevent the malicious DNS packet?
What happens if a laborer shows up to work drunk, and sexually harasses a colleague and then starts a fight?

What will happen is that they will get fired with no news coverage and no impact to the share price whatsoever.

What happens if a CEO does a fraction of that? It will affect the share price. Share holders will be pissed off. People will protest about it, people will stop buying the products, there will be news coverage and social media coverage about it... It will be a mess that will affect not only the CEO but everyone under them either directly or indirectly. Once the CEO is replaced, the new CEO will bring a new team and that will trigger a reorg... All the stuff above comes with risks and it's possible the new CEO is unsuccessful and has to be replaced again.

And the losses generated by the outing of the crazy CEO will likely affect the laborers too somehow.

As you can see, even if the laborer works hard and contributes to the company, but they do not have the same responsibility as the CEO.
We shouldn't fall into the trap of thinking more years in school equals higher intelligence. We also shouldn't judge a person mainly on their intelligence level or level of schooling. There seems to be a strong current in contemporary society that believes sitting around in a classroom hearing about life makes one superior to those out living life.
Instant Cash Advance App – Cash Advance with Instacash – MoneyLion
Looks like about 1/2 of Americans buy lottery tickets [0], and they spend roughly $1,000 per year on them each [1].

So, not so special, and I would argue a good proxy for the population at large.

[0] - https://news.gallup.com/poll/193874/half-americans-play-stat...

[1] - https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/12/americans-spend-over-1000-do...
I love how they have a $75B surplus and immediately jump to spending $100B. Government just can't help spending more than they have.
And that still doesn't change the fact that Apple controls their ecosystem and has in place a substandard browser with restrictions built to keep people locked into its appstore.

Nothing in your 'Google Bad' diatribe challenges the fact that Safari is substandard, limited and - to your diatribe - safari in no way shape or form "makes ideas" and brings new things to the table... or "makes it easier to enter the market" (opposites of your complaint that google makes it harder).

Google is "Evil"? Okay? What does that have to do with a substandard experience and browser/app-store lock-in from Apple? It's not like Apple is "good" to counter apples "evil"...

To your IE6 point... Safari is the IE6 of Apple - stagnant, tied to the OS and blocks innovation because of company decisions. Its even worse because alternatives aren't allowed on iOS.
This looks great! Pleasantly surprised by how native it feels. The instrument dots on the grid tiles is a nice UX touch.

How do you find the transition into software development so far?
Cross-platform functional dependency manager written in Racket
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Working on OSS doesn't only mean pushing commits
Future Wi-Fi devices will be able to see through your home and business walls, for activity monitoring and biometric identification, https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/31/wifi_devices_monitori...

> In three years or so, the Wi-Fi specification is scheduled to get an upgrade that will turn wireless devices into sensors capable of gathering data about the people and objects bathed in their signals... When 802.11bf will be finalized and introduced as an IEEE standard in September 2024, Wi-Fi will cease to be a communication-only standard and will legitimately become a full-fledged sensing paradigm... tracking can be done surreptitiously because Wi-Fi signals can penetrate walls, don't require light, and don't offer any visible indicator of their presence.

IEEE 802.11bf paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.14918

Papers on device-free wireless sensing (DFWS): https://dhalperi.github.io/linux-80211n-csitool/

Remote sensing with low-cost ESP32 and 802.11n: https://academic.oup.com/jcde/article/7/5/644/5837600
Not right, in Berlin FFP2 is required in supermarkets, on the train and so on. This may be because the individual state not the federal government set up the rule, but there you go.
I think the calculation was wrong. It's not a question of whether being outdoors was safe or not, it's about whether or not it's safer than gathering indoors. Instead, they naively thought that closing outdoor gathering spaces would leave people with no option besides privately quarantining rather than--predictably--gathering indoors away from regulators. And while we didn't know precisely how much safer it was to be outdoors than indoors, we certainly knew that it was quite a lot safer.
They are examples of how Apple's policy decisions stifle competition and result in a worse product for consumers.

Apple's devices cannot adequately protect my privacy, because of their efforts to prevent competitors from making products in any of the markets that they participate in.
Ford. Let's not forget Ford himself got an medal from Nazi Germany
Oh, this is fascinating. Seven years ago I architected a true-realtime telemetry pipeline with end-to-end sequential guarantees (with roundtrip times <200ms excluding network latencies, and cloud processing times <20ms, leveraging BOND/ProtocolBuffer over AMQP over Websocket). It's still used by every 1st-party game for a large publisher.

It allowed for non-windowed event sequence analytics, enabling realtime feedback (think achievements that have multiple conditions).

And then the requirement was dropped, and (as you've found), everyone just uses it like a standard telemetry stream and is OK with 5-15min bins. :P

I still have a passion for the space, will definitely be reading up on this. I firmly believe this is the future of telemetry analytics; Congratulations on your efforts seeing the light of day!!

Disclaimer, I currently work for Microsoft, all words here are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer, etc. ;)
When I went to the page it asked me if I wanted to sign up for the mailing list
var x : u8 = 5;

allows making type optional while keeping the code about the same, e.g.

var x = 5;

This arrangement has this nice consistency to it, with the type info being more of a hint (to the compiler or to the programmer) than a required component.
If you have an existing Bluetooth device like a Tile then you can reprogram it to emulate an AirTag and Apple users will help you track it https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/4/22313461/openhaystack-appl...

The worrying part is this could be combined with countermeasures to prevent the anti stalking measure from working and even prevent it being discovered by a bug detector. Thankfully Apple has a lot of visibility of the system so presumably would be able to track down bad actors and aid law enforcement.
That's really sick, UI is really pretty! As an idea for a follow-up project, I wonder how difficult it would be to make it non-deterministic; i.e. play a different variation each measure.
It's ethical how? By making rich Americans even richer, and removing one of the few ways developing countries can enter the global market?
In your hypothetical scenario what have you (the stalker) saved other than the trouble of following one of the targets home once? Or placing any number of existing tracking devices (like a cheap smartphone) in one of their bags? Or, you know, looking them up in the phone book?
This is brilliant and I wish you all the very best.

Can I ask about safe-guarding? It's not the first thing you think about but if you cast your mind back to Airbnb or Uber, their biggest issues were safety.

I would imagine background checks would be insufficient - do you plan to monitor / record sessions? What training is in place for the 30k volunteers? Will there be mentors / chaperones who can drop in on calls and check?

Even with the best of intentions a middle aged guy trying to teach statistics for two hours a week to a 16 year old girl is going to be awkward. Without the best of intentions that's a minefield.

That said - hope you blow the doors off!
European economies were fairly integrated, though. Not as much as today, but enough that the war caused a massive disruption to everyone involved.

Europe of 1914 was actually much more liberal than people tend to think. With the exception of Russia and Turkey, which required passports from visitors, you could travel passport-free around the entire Europe, settle down and work wherever you wanted.

There were many railway lines crossing the borders and cargo flows among countries were fairly heavy. The social elite was used to sending their kids abroad to study languages and spending vacations in fashionable foreign resorts.
Because there was no such thing as cyber crime prior to the invention of cryptocurrency.
> What I'm very curious about is what makes me perceive risk so much differently than these others. I'm wondering if it's conditioning (I spent a big chunk of my life building houses, and therefore climbing on extension ladders and walking on roof trusses was a daily ritual), childhood (I was in unstable environments a lot), or just brain wiring from birth.

I'm guessing conditioning is a big part of it.

I'd wager the majority or people with more hysterical reactions have lived fairly comfortable lives, without having to face much in the way of dangerous risks. And without that, they also fail to also learn that risks and dangers can be controlled and mitigated. Or that even mild preparedness can mean the difference between recoverable injury and death. So absent this personal experience of a counterpoint to the hysteria on the news, they're more likely to accept prognostications of certain horrible doom uncritically.
great job! Totally enjoyed playing with the sequencer.
>Third, and largely as a result of that barrier, Microsoft's customers lack a commercially viable alternative to Windows.

Do Apple customers have commercially viable alternatives? Apple's current customers and, not only alternatives, viable alternatives?

I personally know many people who lament, "All my stuff is Apple, I can't leave!" Of course they could leave if forced to but it is not viable. Perhaps their other devices would stop working. Those people aren't choosing Apple products because they think they're better, they are choosing Apple products because they are a victim of Apple lock-in.
Tile recently announced an agreement with Amazon to use their new Sidewalk network which should help them stay relevant.

https://macdailynews.com/2021/05/07/tile-teams-with-amazon-i...
You've gained very little in that scenario over simply following their car home.
Like falling in love with a new discipline much like when I first started playing drums. Complete (but healthy) obsession. And marrying the two together with the app kept me going for 10 weeks straight without getting bored with it. Excited to keep growing.
Sceptre picture quality was pretty shit though, last time I checked...
I think you're misunderstanding his post. "Marginal" doesn't mean "small", it means "at the margins/edge". He's saying the same thing you're saying, that's how a progressive tax rate works: there are multiple tax brackets, each of them is taxed at an ever increasing tax rate, but always lower than 100% (so the more you make, gross, the more you get, net, too).

In your example, even in Germany, the total tax rate for someone making more than €274 612 is not 45%. It's lower because the lower brackets get taxed less. Realistically, it seems like the actual tax rate for someone making over €274 612 would be somewhere around 36-38%.

And anyone making that much in Germany will live like a king, anyway.
Phones? Probably nil. But tablets, firesticks, and kindles have to enjoy reasonable marketshare. Kindle is something like 70% of the ebook market, 85% if you include KindleUnlimited.

I believe non-Google Android phones are quite popular outside of the USA.
Billionaires tend to be much more pragmatic about their politics than dogmatic. They support politicians on both sides of the aisle, because they know the value of having a politician owe you a favor. They don't really care if that person is R or D because at the end of the day as long as that representative votes for the policies they like, they don't really care about the rest.
I guess the vest thing is a good analogy to the weird politics here. The vest doesn't matter if enough bullets are fired. You are still dead. The Iron Dome thing has not entirely prevented the Palestinians from causing death and destruction in Israel and is thus a failure. It is clear that technological approaches will always be imperfect and that leaves the Palestinians with leverage for some sort of political solution to the current situation.
CoopCycle
Twitter shouldn't be the public forum, and that may be a long-term positive effect of all this. Maybe real competitors to Facebook and Twitter will eventually grow out of this.

People en masse may rediscover blogs, forums, and such and realize there is a world outside of social media walled gardens.

Hopefully that world doesn't just consist of nothing but pro-Trump or political sites and forums.
I'm seeing it work fine on Safari on iPad 14.4.2 and Big Sur on an MBP, but I get a blank black screen on another Mac running Mojave.
so it's nice that it notifies me there's an airtag on me but only when i get home - however if someone's nefariously tracking me, at that point it's too late.

If i have an Android i wouldn't even know that.
Thank you :) Don't be bashful... share your beat!
I agree, the author contradicts themselves immediately. Cryptocurrency is not the "singular" reason, and it is not why these attacks are even "possible."

The hypothetical they picked might not work. The methods that ransomware was using for decades to extort hundreds of thousands of dollars did, and will continue to work.
>due to TI banning assembly programs

they did _what?!_ I recall TI-Basic programs running at a snail's pace on my TI-8whatever, without assembly nothing of any scale can be done, even numerical analysis.
Not to speak to the author or the article, as I’m not familiar with their other writing, but this exact argument is why I think this battle for free speech ultimately gets lost.

Given two options A and B:

Option A) Status quo stays as is.
Option B) Legally ban end-to-end encryption.

My experience has been that most tech people advocate for A.

Personally, I have no desire to have every conversation I expect to be private with the government watching over my shoulder, but that’s exactly where we’re headed if the tech community’s response to the problem of perverts/pedos/launderer/druglords boils down to “oh well gotta break a few eggs”.

Techies can balk all day long at the idea of the government legislating away end-to-end encryption but the voting public won’t (and I don’t blame them, given the tech community’s response of ignoring this issue so far).

Now, you might be thinking “but it doesn’t make sense! if you ban encryption, evildoers will still use it, and everyone else will have lost their privacy for nothing”. True.

The tech community needs to find an Option C that resolves criminality before Option B is forced on everyone.

(I have no suggestions for this, and doubt it’s possible, but maybe there’s a novel idea no-one has thought of.)
I live inside a giant faraday cage, so no problem
The opener of the synopsis - that scientific interest is skewed toward charismatic organisms is one of the least interesting points I think you could raise - it is obviously true due to the fact that people are going to study things that interests them. If a plant is suspected as being a big leap toward the cure of cancer we'll see a lot of scientists suddenly invest a lot of effort into studying it - similarly we see a lot of scientific focus around relatively novel plants because they have interesting attributes.

The interesting thing for me in this study is that we've got a strong tie to surface level appearance - color and morphology in particular. So, we may have to supply some incentives to love those drab beige plants that aren't getting enough attention.
> Since speed is definitely not discrete,

Why is it definite that speed isn't discrete? Distance is discrete in plank length, and time is discrete in plank time.

Speed being distance over time, is one discrete unit over another. Isn't it by definition discrete?

At a macro level we may abstract over it's discreteness, but isn't it necessarily discrete if it's made up of discrete units?
"The singular reason why these attacks are even possible is due entirely to rise of cryptocurrency."

So-called crytocurrency may not be the sine qua non, but it is arguably a substantial factor in what is causing these campaigns of automated attacks. Without an easy way to launder the "ransom" payments, could these attacks be systematically executed on a large scale with a level of success (receiving the payments without getting caught) necessary to justify the risk.
Wow. Thx for finding this. I'll get on it. Which version of macOS?
Fusion 360 has tolerance parameters, that should work for you: https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/fusion-360/learn-expl...
> We shouldn't fall into the trap of thinking more years in school equals higher intelligence.

The person you are replying to never said anything about education being correlated to intelligence or superiority.
And let’s not forget also Amazon Sidewalk

Scary times.
Not a Zig expert, but safety is a factor for Zig, it just treats it as less of an absolute than Rust. I think the thing to keep in mind is that something can be a priority without being an absolute priority. I'd make a comparison to OpenBSD vs Linux. Both have security as a priority, OpenBSD just has a more absolute focus on it.

For example, a couple of features come together really nicely to make memory safety easier to test in Zig:
* You need a reference to an Allocator to be able to allocate memory, so as a general rule, the caller can control which allocator is used.
* Unit testing is integrated well into the language.
* Therefore, you can create an allocator for each unit test, and fail the test at the end if any memory was leaked.
* This process can also happen at the application level with the General Purpose Allocator, which can let you print an error when the program exits if anything was leaked.

The above doesn't solve every memory safety problem (and there are other features like native bounds-checked slices that solve other kinds of issues), but it provides an extra layer that can probably get us quite far into the "quite safe" camp.
reason I asked, and probably why you're getting downvoted is because it comes across as a bit of a humble brag
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Immediately thought about that fighter pilot article as well. I read it some years ago and still have spontaneous moments of “better be careful with this lighting situation” or “let’s check the blind spots here extra carefully” when driving. Highly recommended, should be required driving school reading in my view.
>anyone who is in the presence of an AirTag that has been separated from its owner for three days will get an alert on their iPhone

That sounds exactly like extortion.

"Buy an iPhone, or we won't tell you whether people are tracking your every movement."

This is screaming for real regulation.

Yikes.
Amazing how quickly people forget the past.
"Bone shave - Sciatica"

People die of Sciatica!?!? :-|
up side is similar to what we see with vaccine manufacturing. When we need it, we have access to it. When we don't need it, we can sell it.

With good regulation and unionization this can lead to great wealth distribution in the US along with worldwide economic power.
Uh, it's more like the cost of switching your preferred convenience store chain vs. your phone platform. There are alternatives and you might like one more than the other, but at the end of the day both serve the same purpose (buy milk, or computer in my pocket). If this analogy breaks down it's not because Apple has a monopoly, it's because Android ecosystem has not delivered something similar enough to 7-11.
It's enabled with WiFi6 so a forward compatible vulnerability!
Query performance would be affected in so far as ingest jobs share the same thread pool as query jobs. As I am writing this I am also realising that perhaps we should have an option to separate these jobs... If we ignore resource usage and commit() latency, query performance would remain unaffected. Reader remains lockless largely unchanged code-wise. This was one of our major objectives to maintain data model as seen by the readers. I hope I'm making sense here?