skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most SSIDs are not unique

It's enough to look at your profile to find out you're in Stamford, so locally unique is sufficient. I don't intend to find out your address, but it is usually quite easy to narrow down someones location to state or city level (you'd probably be able to do the same for me). So unless there are hundreds of SSIDs with the same name in your city, finding you is probably not that hard. For mine, state would be sufficient.

> and can't be used to geolocate on their own.

Sure thing! https://wigle.net/ has a perfectly fine API which allows you to search by SSID.
from a social democratic perspective, it just means your employer has eroted your rights of a stable living and extracted even more value from you through pressure.
Here's a good recent overview of reasons to doubt the efficacy of sunscreen against fatal skin cancers:

https://www.outsideonline.com/2380751/sunscreen-sun-exposure...

(Most recently discussed on HN at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23086211)

Similar doubts have existed for decades – here's a 1993 variant reporting some of the trends that already didn't add up, back then: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/1993/05/melanoma-sunscr...

Another branch reply provides more sources about sunscreen chemicals & sun-longevity correlations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27520144
FYI, there are usually non-hospital businesses that do xrays and MRIs for substantially less than a hospital charges. They usually know their fees, expect payment at time of service for the uninsured, and have no surprises.

Example: https://priorityradiology.com/

Xrays were under $250 and MRI was $600 last time my family needed it.
> The rewards are capped due to supply and demand.

Is this what your CEO tells you from their private flight when you ask for a raise?

If you think there is a lack of malicious intent informing reward caps then I have a bridge to sell you.
Laptops and mobile devices are an ergonomic nightmare. 13" laptop is great when working on a plane.
I'm confused why you think Americans are relevant to this story. The word "cock" and it's status as an English language vulgarity is a product of England. It predates the U.S. by centuries.
A friends family doesn't have a single desktop/laptop/tablet/printer in their house. They all have decently highend cell phones. If the children need to type up a book report one of the adults brings home their work laptop.

Meanwhile, I've moved back to desktops. If I ever need a laptop again it will be the lightest weight one I can get, and will use it to remote access my main machine.
Neat. While it would draw away from the visual elegance, the game would be bit more playable if it had numeric indicators, both for current level of influence and the change for next turn.
Possibly! Though I have no idea what any of those are.
All conspiracy theories are ideas but not all ideas are conspiracy theories.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CF5Kh57Aw5L/?hl=en

Clearly I am talking about the upper regions of this pyramid, not simply new/uncomfortable ideas.
88x31s were still alive and well on early deviantART: https://www.deviantart.com/fractalmbrown/art/Baby-deviantART...
> Maybe they should make an OS that doesn't get pwned if you connect it to the internet when it's two weeks behind on updates.

do you really believe that they AREN'T working on this? of course they are. the field of software development is extraordinarily young. we still don't know how to do things very well, and we're still discovering new ways to know we aren't doing things well.

> Linux and BSD machines manage it.

it's a matter of target value, and the number of people who would be inconvenienced enough to pay a random to unlock their files on Linux is FAR smaller than for Windows. So attackers go where the money is. Governments overwhelmingly use Windows as a desktop OS as well. Attackers go where the secrets are. etc.

And when you count remote exploits capable of remote code execution, last I read there had been slightly more of those on Linux than Windows. don't quote me on that until I find a source.

> Remote 0-days don't come by that often.

yes they do. not all of them get media attention, though. the most recent monthly patch from MS for Windows 10 included fixes for six of them. All were actively being exploited. SIX.
I think Emacs did permanent damage to my hands before I got a special keyboard. "Works for me, wontfix" isn't a good position to take on that kind of issue.
Didn't that turn out to work?

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.28.21258012v...
You are kinda' making my point in highlighting AMP: one of the most hated Google 'contributions' to the web.

Why did they do it? Because news website were heavy, slow, bad experiences compared to Facebook Instant news and Apple News etc. and so they those proprietary options were winning. AMP was designed to allow web sites compete with that.

It was reported that Apple News is taking 50% cut. When media companies keep customers on their own sites they have many options - more are now running their own ad business entirely (NYT most recently). For many reasons I hated to see those proprietary platforms crush the web sites, but the web sites really were too slow and heavy.

I'm certainly not telling you to like AMP - my point is that even their most hated, ham fisted product fits into this mold. It is totally open in every important way (look it up if you don't believe me) and it made a big difference in allowing sites to compete with proprietary platforms.

MS is happy to use/embrace Linux, Chrome (even AMP) etc. but contributing is new to them. The embrace & extinguish thing is not the same when the company is creating and contributing the tech themselves.
The large Canadian Telcos (until maybe in the near future) are actually regulated quite heavily to provide sub-services at competitive rates to competitors along their vertical integration. So you can spin up an ISP in Canada, buy capacity off Telus, and provide a decently priced competing product assuming you can undercut their overhead & admin costs.
>> I can tell you it's simply superior to a Wacom tablet for drawing

IMO, yes & no. For certain types of work, an iPad Pro is amazing. For direct sketching, drawing, for sure. It's easily my favorite drawing table for these.

For certain other types of work, for example: colorists work of filling large areas precisely within black lines (like comicbook coloring) or maneuvering around a huge document, a commercial grade Intuos tablet (or the like) is a better match.

One of the biggest reasons is that the Intuos has physical, raised "quick action" buttons which can be programmed to switch between tools, so you can zoom, rotate, brush, erase without ever looking at a keyboard or even looking away from the screen. This is crucial in certain workflows. Edit: also, the fact that your hand is never in the way on an Intuos is really key.

Admittedly, this is a very specific use case, but I figured I'd mention it for completeness sake.
also, many small companies which are world market leader in a very tiny and specific thing.

For instance, there is a company in germany which is able to produce very high quality lead sheeting to a unusual size, which allowed mythbusters to create a lead balloon.

No company in the US was able to achieve this
thickness.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h70kbIzPgig
> extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. there is zero evidence of a lab leak besides circumstantial.

The claim is not exactly extraordinary - you have a lab with a history of poor controls, performing gain of function research relating to SARS-like viruses, knowing that SARS (the first one) had broken out of labs multiple times. That's not hard evidence, but it is a strong set of priors that makes the lab leak theory an obvious candidate for an origin story. It shouldn't be surprising that there isn't hard evidence when the world hasn't been allowed a timely and transparent investigation. And why would China allow such an investigation when there's no pressure to do so, when people are rushing to their defense to dismiss the valid lab leak theory as a "conspiracy theory"? Their work was done for them by news media and tech giants who institutionalized that dismissive attitude, again motivated by their own political biases. You can't have evidence until you take the speculation seriously and perform the necessary investigation properly, so I'm not sure how you could for "extraordinary evidence".

> weird how that works, huh?

You're ignoring the point I was making, which was that the people opposed to Trump were desperate for any way to attack him, given that he was on a clear path to re-election. Since this was the only crisis at the time that they could leverage, they did so (and did so viciously). That included dismissing any scrutiny directed at China, even though it was valid.
If you're shooting far enough, you need to account for the Earth rotating out from underneath you while the shot is in flight.
I'm holding off buying WebAuthn stuff until fabled YubiKey Bio comes out since WebAuthn support is still so insignificant even compared to TOTP. But big players like Cloudflare supporting it might change the picture.
I understand, but it is not obvious this provides a performance benefit which outweighs the potentials slowdowns I mentioned above. I am concerned about the trend of JavaScript tools advertising how they are “blazing fast” without any benchmarks or serious technical analysis.
Ya, hotels have always had to be highly competitive. But i suppose in areas where the number of available rooms had been somewhat fixed for a long time due to the difficulty of building any new hotels, you would see a difference as the hotels start to see their vacancy rates go up.
> She never lost interest in it, using it for the rest of her life.

Oh no! Did she pass away?
Definitely this. It just feels so natural to have all those functions in the same scope without dealing with modules, hierarchies or something involving both.

I also believe that none of the languages with module hierarchies are suitable for some kind of REPL driven development. You can't just dump all of your program into the REPL and expect it to work. You need globally unique names for these. And I believe this is a must for a language that is running inside an editor.
How the Great Zoom Migration Upended the Housing Market
I was on Adderall for roughly 10 years, and it really didn't make me feel great. I tried taking larger doses when I was going through my 'experiment with all the new drugs' phase in high school, and didn't really get the euphoria I hear about. In general, Adderall in any dose makes me sweaty, smelly, and antisocial.

I hated taking it. Yet it would in fact improve my performance. For 3 years since my last filled prescription circa 2012 I had enough adderall to just take it whenever I felt like I 'needed it', which was rarely, because I hated taking it so much. Since I've run out, I do have issues with ADD still, but fortunately have been able to cope as an adult in my (now) 30s.

I do think having it on hand is really great for some people, but I don't think 'feeling great' is a unanimous experience.
Unfortunately these days it seems to be the only way to get a Nvidia 30x0 GPU. (By getting a pre-built computer).
I don't think the phrase you quote is intended as a dismissal of the data. It comes across as an acknowledgement of the data's limitations, and a caution about what kind of conclusions can be drawn. During my statistics course in college, one of the first sections of the course covered sampling, and the various ways sampling can be done badly, thereby biasing the sample, and thereby leading to conclusions about the sampled population that don't reflect the reality of that population.

Cautioning against that failure mode strikes me as intellectually honest, not anti-science.
I agree with OP. I started off my career at a derivatives trading firm in NYC. There were thousands of other firms making billions of dollars doing the same thing for even more esoteric financial instruments. And I'm a realest, they were just shuffling numbers around to get rich.

Payments and transactions are not the value, fintech automation with Defi is where the money is.
https://archive.is/0hGwx
Blastomere links to Nick Szabo blog posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=blastomere

...links to:

http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2005/12/bit-gold.html
Sure, a class size of 35 is a problem. So are a lot of factors that can lead to kids not learning. However the city I currently live in has a 20:1 ratio...and there are plenty of kids not succeeding (better than average though). Another local school in Portland has a ratio of 19:1...and they are 22% proficient in math. Thornwood HS in Chicago...13:1 ratio, but 8% proficient in math. It's not always about staffing...
It might be controversial but I feel Spotify have never done good ui.
Yes, I think you’re right. As a mediocre mathematician, I don’t know of anyone in my good-but-not-top PhD program that struggled with computational math. This is the feeling that I got from their relaxed attitude towards TAing those classes. My classmates also had close to 4.0 gpas in undergrad.
https://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/michael-santoli/gold-not-ant...
Interesting. Instead of just using shades or green and blue, would you consider displaying numerical values too? I was confused about how close the tiles were to flipping to my color.

Side note: I’m working on a game that has some similarities that might interest you: https://simondorfman.com/volcanoes1
Exactly, I'm just extracting masks from the channels in a way that is easy for me to specify through my render.

For browsing my blog you can also click on the tags at the top of each post, which will show you other posts with the same tag. For my game that's: https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/tag/dailydriver/
Thanks, I hadn't seen (or don't recall) those details.

Even that story portrays the payload collection as basically one "rogue" engineer's intention, not a part of a business or project plan. While other engineers accessed the collected payload data later, they may have reasonably assumed that if they had it, someone had ok'd it.

So rather than a coding error, it was an organizational failure to oversee the engineers' work, the FCC's report says as much.
> It's not fine for this to be the law.

This law sounds silly and counter-productive enough for EU to actually implement it!
Statements like this are ambiguous, because "European" can mean many different things. Over 40% of Europeans live in former communist states, so the median European in the literal sense does not tell much about the standard of living in the traditional first-world European countries.

I did a comparison between Finland and the US some time ago. My conclusion was that the median households were about as wealthy in both countries, but the average household was 3x wealthier in the US. The biggest caveat was that household wealth includes retirement savings but not pensions, making the median Finn wealthier than the median American. I estimated that the crossover point for the standard of living was somewhere around the 80th percentile, depending on things such as local costs of living and whether you have kids or not.

After a few years in America, nominal salaries seem low in Finland. On the other hand, Finns have fewer major expenses. Their out-of-pocket costs for education, childcare, and healthcare are much lower. The concept of an emergency fund does not really exist in Finland, largely thanks to income-dependent benefits. Pension contributions are mostly paid by the employer on top of the nominal salary, making saving for retirement much less important.
Wonder if its more than just brand. Eg.https://www.chobachoba.com/direct-from-our-farms/. They ship the ferment and dry the beans, but then it gets shipped to Switzerland to be made into chocolate.

Similarly Belgian chocolate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_chocolate) has also developed into a brand.
With eBay rolling out more and more restrictive policies on what can be sold, it's a relief to see some new developers keeping the flame alive after OB1 went under: https://github.com/mobazha
Sure, it's a thing - but not at the scale, schedule, and price of the european system. Comforts aside that is what makes it a great alternative to flying there. I could have been more specific.
All 300 million American consumers doing all of their business, emails, dating, instagram, phone calls, photography, etc. on Raspberry Pi?

No. The solution is to regulate iPhone and make it a common carrier / open platform. It won, and now Apple has to bear the consequences. If their device was in niche usage, you might have a case.
I've recently considered if I've always had ADHD and have gone back and forth on it in my head. On one hand, symptoms sound common to most people. On the other there's a lot of anecdotes that match my life to a tee.

I was "gifted" in school growing up. I breezed through school ages 5-12 with ease but loathing homework. At 11, a teacher told my parent and I that I'm able to get great grades now by intellect, but when college comes I'll come to a reckoning unless I also learn to study and put in time to do the work.

Ages 13 - 20 were just a continuous slide down in academics. I spent all my time zoned into various MMORPG's, video games, and obsessed about an outdoor sport. Couldn't stay awake in class and never did any homework. But I'd manage to skirt out some A's on math and chemistry tests (learning on the fly), do some crucial projects at the last possible minute, midnight to 5am the night before, and managed to graduate with a 2.5 gpa (C's and B's).

When it came to college, it was the same until I realized I needed to get better grades to transfer to a real University, so I had one amazing year I got A's, got in, and then it was business as usual. Worst person at staying on top of homework in friend groups, constantly more distracted by video games, only completed C's by doing projects at the last absolute moment midnight to 5am.

At work, I'm constantly distracted by HN, and only get through projects by a sudden burst of sheer deadline fear at the end. I was falling behind and finally buckling, until I tried some Adderall secondhand. Suddenly I felt like I had X, Y, Z to do, and I spent my day going from X to Y to Z and couldn't believe how much I was getting done. Eventually I lost this source, used it 1/3 tapered down to little effect, and stopped, conflicted. Due to various reasons, I've burnt out and haven't been able to attempt any real work for 6 months, basically spending half my time on HN.

Guess I'm just hoping someone knowledgeable would be able to confidently tell me what's been going on. I probably need to see a psychologist.
> Maybe if Google offered more free GCloud credits and subsidized conversions they generate, that would be a different story.

I'm pretty happy with all the free youtube content, search engine results, email, storage, word processor, spreadsheet, slide shows, messaging, and more I get
Microstrategy files to raise up to another $1B in new equity capital
> Jackass revealed that the very nature of fame was changing in early-aughts America—that you could become famous by doing whatever it took to hold an audience's attention.

Another good example of this is Mystery Science Theater 3000. They've had the reaction video patented and perfected since the 1990s, and it still feels like nobody can quite hold a candle to how well-presented MST3K is. They also have a great (official!) YouTube channel[0] that uploads their best episodes. Go check it out if you've never heard of them, or just want to come back for the laughs.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/user/mst3kofficial
Sequoia’s Maguire on decision to back social crypto network BitClout
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=8+trillion+%2F+328+mil...
'If you can eat out, you can go to the office', says bank boss
And people could ask to be delisted from it. Many celebrities and public figures exercised this option.
OpenCage here. We set a higher number of requests for the user now, seems to work again.
If the government deems all banks “too big to fail”, does that remove the risk?
You could have a million downvotes, but you're eternally correct. Thank you.
I agree with you that inexperienced (lower paid) or young developers might find the US attractive if there weren't visa issues. The older better paid ones, maybe with families even, would probably still choose the social safety of Europe, the mix of people and ideas, the density of interesting places, cultural events, etc.

I mainly reflected on the current trend I observered. Did not consider a sudden change in the US visa policy.
This is great! I also get Classic Macintosh vibes from it. In fact, another of my projects is to use Classic Mac 1-bit drawing apps under emulation on an iPad Pro. Painting with dither patterns is so satisfying! I've done a few fine-art style pieces with this technique. https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2021/04/17/turning-an-ipad-p...
People want to pretend that it is all about "financial skills". Mostly because they want to blame poorer people who are bad at something because they are good at it and thus get to show off their superiority. It's not about useful skills, it's about the relative difference in skill to support a mental model/world view.
With consent. Please say with consent.
This is death by a thousand cuts. Yet another small annoyance that can be easily dismissed or explained away as is happening in the comments, and we never realize the precise point where we have been stripped of any possible privacy or anonymity in the name of profit and ads.
Indeed, even with edgy "out there" content it is important to have "restraint" like you said...someone with a vision of what the product will be.

This can also be seen in the Trailer Park Boys TV show. Seasons 1-7 under the direction of Mike Clattenburg do have a lot of swearing and dirty jokes, but it is always genuinely good humor, or serving plot and character development maybe. I'm sure I don't describe it well, but "I know it when I see it."[0] The following seasons with other directing/production have lost that tact and restraint; like they just call someone 5-6 dirty words in a row, funny only for the shock value of the words. Not funny.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it
The upside of being maximum risk
Rounded window borders has to be one of the dumbest decisions ever. When I maximize windows, I don't want awful groups of 5 or 6 pixels in every corner showing the colours from what was under it. Same when I snap windows next to each other. Honestly I have a pretty strong negative reaction to just this.
> I think we in the general public have a tendency to underestimate just how bad the flu is.

Holy hell this.

I wanted to punch people who were saying "Covid is just like a bad flu."

I've had bad flus. "I would kill myself but I can't get out of bed to do it" is something that goes through your mind.

Anyone who dismisses something as "just a bad flu" should get infected with flu for the next 10 flu seasons. That would teach them.
> Any opinions stated here are my own, not necessarily those of any past, present, or future employer.

Is it common to get in trouble with employers if this is not stated? I don't understand how a clearly non-work related blog post like this could land someone in hot waters with their employer. And even if it were I still don't understand how this statement alone can help.
No Code data platform for Google Cloud
The biggest desk/workstation upgrade I have had in years was putting my monitor onto a wall-mounted arm. The desk space under the monitor magically opened up into a vast empty plain that I could then fill up with... more cables. But at least I can do more now :-)