skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How do they know where my SSID is? Is my phone sharing that info with them? Did they grab it with Street View cars?

It's crowdsourced from android devices (apple does the same with iOS devices). AFAIK google also grabs it with street view cars.

>Is their advertising now using the SSIDs I pass by to track me even when I explicitly turn off GPS?

>If I turn off location history in Google, does this prevent that information being shared with others in the ad industry chain?

Yes, but AFAIK on android grabbing SSIDs require the "location" permission for this exact reason.

>Do I need to track all them down and find how to opt out of them having a database of my frequent locations?

That's on them, not google.
What you're saying about WSL was true of WSL 1, but WSL 2 is a virtualized Linux kernel.
While the technique is powerful, it may also not work : there are conditions to check to be allowed to differentiate under the integral sign.
What will the updated timeline look like?
I guess I'd be a data-point against your claim haha. Purchasing beyond meat over red meat, stevia based sodas, signing up to Orange Theory and Spin classes, getting a Peloton, signing up to a gym membership, buying a Keto diet book or magazine, buying an Apple Watch to track my steps and heart rate and remind me to stand up, buying a weight lifting app and program, buying protein powder and easy low calorie snacks, etc.

The casual "exerciser" is a large market and I'd say it boomed in recent years driven mostly by a desire from people to be healthier and live longer, and not so much because they wanted the beach bod. The latter is still part of the equation too I'm sure, but so is the health crave.
In the US you go to the doctor and have no way of knowing if you will pay $50 or $1500. I've been lied to directly by both providers and insurance reps about what the cost to me would be. Then it's on to appeals, and second appeals and so on.

The entire situation is appalling, and it's even more appalling that people have accepted this nonsense for generations.
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a gang of narrow minded bullies?

This is what we are calling the field that ended polio and smallpox.
PDF. Short summary: Court of Justice of the EU rules that data protection authorities may, under certain preconditions, prosecute cases outside their original jurisdiction. In the present case, the Belgian authority may prosecute Facebook although it is seated in Ireland.

I think this may end the "Irish Model" of systematically turning a blind eye to violations and dragging their feet on prosecution, because others will happily pick up the slack and collect fines.
You bastard!
Most of the replies to you seem to be focused on the relatively uninteresting individual act of recording the location of your publicly broadcast SSID.

But the issue arises from the fact that this is done in bulk and is comprehensively catalogued centrally. I think that commenting on a person photographing your house misses the point, because the scale is the thing that matters here. It's not the individual act of recording your SSID, but the scale of doing it in bulk that transforms this activity into something that is unlike photographing your neighbor's house.
To this day I wonder why this kind of blatant interference in other countries isn't considered an act of war.
But it could also limit your future opportunities as it's still unclear which employers will offer attractive remote options.
Still not explaining "why", but Wikipedia suggests that it was part of a list of standardized sizes, this one being a "micro bar": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_banner#Standard_sizes
Good overview, but the attacks on Cuba didn't stop after the bay of pigs. The CIA continued terrorist attacks on Cuba well after that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mongoose
Thank you for being specific. You're ignoring the fact that for the requirements listed here [1] to be valid, you need to have already registered to vote. To register, you need to (among other things) sign an affidavit affirming that you are a US citizen. It sounds like your real complaint is about CA not following through on punishment for those who lie on this form.

https://ballotpedia.org/Voter_ID_in_California

For a non-citizen to vote in CA, they either need to lie about their identity or lie about their citizenship. They are not "allowed to vote".
So basically your argument is:

- JavaScript is too slow

- Too many JavaScript projects try to not be slow

Am I getting this right?
I hope that they release a Linux distro with baked-in "Wine" for easy win32 backwards compatibility.
This is amazing interective dashboard like notebook.love it
What’s driving the never-ending cloud startup boom
The quality of education is dictated innate ability, parents, and school system. I like to think of as a three leg stool. If one leg is missing, it's possible to balance. If two are missing, no amount of money will solve the problem.
I almost exclusively refuse to wear sunscreen. The data isn’t exceptionally clear if wearing vs no wearing leads to overall more or less cancer system wide. Further, it definitely reduces vitamin D production and has harmful chemicals when in the water supply and absorbed into your skin.

You can wear very lose light cotton clothing, hats and avoid too much direct sun. Further, going out regularly will typically keep a tan (for most).

The Amish have notoriously low rates of cancer and don’t use sun block AND work outside all day. I typically try to imitate their methods.
I recall learning this for an entrance exam and it was a right proper nightmare.

Fifteen years ago and still terrifies me.
I use a low-resolution widescreen for the same reason. Zoom almost every site. Are there really people who can read in high density screens?
Hats are good, as is sun-protective clothing in general. There are a number of companies providing some kind of ultra-thin sun-protective hoodie which is surprisingly comfortable to wear even in hot temperatures. I have a few echo hoodies from outdoor research.
It's not for Amazon...

And historically it's taken forever for streaming services, etc. to find their way.

Lol, I have HBO Nordic, as in they literally wrote a dedicated platform for serving HBO to Scandinavia!

If you start a tech company you start with customers in the US because the market is huge.
Divers find more than 500 e-scooters on the bottom of the Rhine
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The usual method is to computer a reasonable number of solutions and do curve fitting.
A lot of undergraduate math programs in the US start with unnecessarily hard calculus classes "weed-outs" which is unfortunate, since it discourages students who might have pursued mathematics otherwise. I can say from personal experience that Calculus II was my worst math grade, I fared much better in rigorous and challenging classes like real analysis or differential topology. To do well in elementary calculus one has to seemingly practice integration techniques in various permutations for hours, and honestly for what future purpose I cannot say.

EDIT: I finally understood calculus after taking introduction to real analysis, and it was amazing because for the first time all the hand-waving disappeared and could be replaced with rock-solid arguments and increasing levels of abstraction (starting from the very definition of what the real numbers are). This is also important because functions can get very pathological[0][1][2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weierstrass_function (continuous everywhere but differentiable nowhere)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor_function (derivative is zero almost everywhere but f(x) goes from 0 to 1)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomae's_function (continuous at irrationals but discontinuous on rationals)
I think you're kind of making my point for me, which is that if US democracy is so fragile that organizing facebook rallies is a "legitimate threat" we have some serious issues regarding the longevity of this system. If the solution we're implicitly talking about is just a blanket ban on social-media-organized political activity, I'd probably support that (obvious 1A issues aside for a moment). Perhaps the more interesting discussion to be had in that case is how well US-style democracy functions in the 21st century, with mass media and mass access to the internet.
Same textbook. The amount auxiliary material I needed to watch off YouTube to grok it was very real. I had one of those impenetrable profs that only explained calc in the most theoretical terms.
Unless they are Comcast. Then it’s ok to work on a sliding scale.
Parallel construction is actually quite difficult; it requires an independent chain of evidence not built upon the illegally-acquired evidence.

We hear about the cases where parallel construction worked because those cases are rare, and thus are news. We don't hear about the vast majority of cases where the police couldn't parallel construct their way around 4th Amendment violations.
The incentives created by our current instantiation of IP law has broken the connection between competence and success, and this fact is slowly eating our culture from the inside out as a result.

The division of the bounty of invention (or, attribution of credit) between nation, organization, and individual is fundamental and will never be fully "solved" -- only continuously negotiated -- but the current tilt is doing unsustainable damage to our society. The sudden appearance of Information Technologies and their unprecedented scalability has changed the game in a profound way, enabling a new class of exploitative monopolistic behavior caused by the failure to reward competence in alignment with its addition of value over time. This is the biggest problem facing humanity this century.
It’s so useless it’s needed.
> Address data being freely available doesn't make other privacy abuses any less bad.

If the mapping of SSIDs to GPS coordinates is a "privacy abuse", what does it say about mappings of house numbers to GPS coordinates? Should companies like google/tomtom be banned from collecting such mappings?
What do you mean? They all appeared at once for me.
>Running a custom server means no deploying to Vercel. I understand that one the most, since Vercel has decided to lean on serverless

For those who want simple serverless deployment, but don't want to vendor lock in with Vercel, checkout serverless-next.js, it makes deploying to aws lambda@edge directly a breeze, it's awesome![1].

1: https://github.com/serverless-nextjs/serverless-next.js
I was hoping for Windows 11 to finally have a consistent look, not have two settings, and merge the Win32 world and the UWP world… Alas, from the screenshots[0] it looks like the split continues :-(

[0]: https://twitter.com/goranmoomin/status/1404856884767592451
steal phone at gunpoint (get code), leverage uber on phone to steal a car.
Looks like https://modeldepot.io shut down, which was another model-as-a-service marketplace. You can check out https://paperswithcode.com/
Except an average person can’t be expected to understand what “broadcasting an SSID” even means, compared to putting some numbers on your house that are required for essential services. It’s even doubly deceptive because then you need to understand the privacy implications of Google’s data capture, how it feeds into their ad business, etc. I understand all of this stuff but I don’t think it’s reasonable for people in general to, and I think people do have a “reasonable expectation of privacy” when it comes to their SSIDs. Nobody installs a router/AP and thinks “okay good, now Google can index my SSID”, they think “now I can securely connect my devices to my private network”.

(Just to be clear this is not a legal argument.)
More black market companies should be publicly traded so that exposure and price discovery is established. Or certain categories of vices whether they are legal or illegal in their jurisdiction.

Whats the revenue multiple or the price to equity ratio on a brothel? If you don't know, thats the reason to float those shares.

People treat being publicly traded as a reward, and thats the mistake that clouds their judgement.
Yeah, they even say the list is non-exhaustive (I guess it has to be), but Condor is a big one to miss. Maybe it's because in this case the CIA was more of a conduit for long-standing official policy than a leading force?
That's really interesting actually, thanks for letting me know!

Not sure trading out remarkables cloud for microsoft's cloud is exactly what OP wants though ;)
>Sure, they are an adaptation. One that's best avoided _while you can_

Why do you want to avoid this damage?

Sun exposure and solar elastosis (sun damage to the skin) is associated with reduced mortality from melanoma:

https://academic.oup.com/jnci/article/97/3/195/2544082?login...

and a literature review which backs this up:

https://adc.bmj.com/content/91/2/131.short

And sun exposure reduces all-cause mortality:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/joim.12251
There are sun sleeves which you can wear with your casual clothes too.
One of the goals of science is to explain the world.

* While computational tools will symbolically solve a lot of integrals, they won't solve them all. Resorting to numerics often means you have lose some understanding along the way, because you no longer have a closed form expression to analyze.

* One general strategy in Physics is to take a complicated expression and make different sets of simplifying assumptions to reduce it to simpler forms. This adds explanation to your model because you understand how the system is said to behave under different limitating scenarios. But if you are not adept at manipulating complicated expressions, you won't be able to use the strategy fully. Computer solvers are really bad at writing mathematical expressions in the nicest way possible so that the simplifying assumptions pop out naturally.

Full disclosure: I am a physicist, who uses Mathematica quite a lot to solve various expressions (but I know the limitations of the tool).
This has been upgraded from "screenshots leak" to "he entire Windows 11 OS has appeared online". The reporter of the article has it running, and is sharing more details as they discover them.
Innovation requires instability. Europe decided long ago that life security and 'quality of life' was their goal, which is a worthy goal, but every decision you make means there is a path you didn't take.

You can't have everything.
A physician published a description of what sounds like ADHD in 1798.[1]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3000907/
Is there a list somewhere of actual CIA successes? I'm no fan, but it sometimes seems like the CIA has never really succeeded at any intervention. Have they ever had an unqualified success that actually helped people?

Edit: I mean by any measure. They don't seem to actually succeed in furthering any of the possible motives, whether you think it's about democracy or business interests, as soon as the CIA touch it it gets worse.
Not that long ago there was a story about the google analytics opt out addon at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout not doing anything.
One of my ideas over the last decade has been to create a website of resources to demonstrate to the world that USA should be an example of a country no one else should aspire to be. Unfortunately, I never got the time or patience to create it. Seeing this is motivating - I need to find that time after all.
No, what I’m calling into question is that 10x wages for employees results in a 10x premium for groceries. Wages are not that high a component of consumer price.

Another tongue in cheek way of responding to GP would be that we should pay JavaScript developers $12.50 an hour with no benefits.
Nonprofits Need to Embrace Transparency
Street view is pictures of houses taken at scale and comprehensively catalogued centrally. Most people don't seem to have an issue with that.
Ask HN: What do you wish was taught in college?
What do you wish was taught in college?

I ask for both practical reasons and curiosity. I'm teaching a systems class at Stanford this summer and would love to refine the syllabus, but I'm also curious about all the other random things (life skills?) people have learned.
It's correct, but with extra steps required for comparison.
Also see the CIA trafficking cocaine through Mena Airport.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mena_Intermountain_Municipal...
This comment is full of assumptions about an extremely complex and poorly understood relationship between two things that are themselves very complex. The fact is, we evolved to live in the sun, just as most other land animals did. While it can damage us (just as anything in nature) it's unclear to what extent this damage might be offset by the benefits of sun exposure, or to what extent sun exposure might have a hardening effect against further damage, extending the benefits even further. Sunscreen didn't exist for most of human history, and yet there were no plagues of skin cancer. The fact is, we simply cannot say with any certainty that "the skin should be protected as much as possible".
What if I came to work at your company as janitor? And I did a great job. Worked hard. Attention to detail. Polite, and easy to work with. Arrived early every day. Stayed late. The best janitor in every way.

What are the chances I would move into another position at your company?

My guess is 0%.

You might keep me employed, and not fire me. Maybe pay me a little more. But there would be no realistic hope to jump up to the next level.

That's been the case for a long, long time.

But now something new is happening. Now professionals at many companies are realizing that they are in the same position. They see that hard work will not lead them to jump to the next level.
RAIDz expansion code lands in OpenZFS Master
The patent system is probably fine, it's the COST of going after Amazon. They'll bury you. If you're a small studio that makes maybe 200-300k of revenue a year, how are you supposed to go after Amazon?
I can see value in being able to casually integrate vision models into different applications.

I would urge everyone involved (OpenCV and people using the models) to not use this in any safety related application. The example given on the site is person detection for construction site safety. If you're going to use ML for something like this, hire someone with experience using it for such applications, that can understand the operating condition and failure modes. Your worksite is not safe if you just plugged in an online person detection model to a video feed.
I'm not saying that anyone should be banned from doing anything. I am just saying that the information is not hard to correlate.

People who are concerned about their address privacy will often put their home in the ownership of trust or a corporation. That data, despite being regularly collected, is exploitable, and is often exploited. I'm not saying this should be legally changed, but pointing out that it is reasonable to bring up the concern.
Voice commands like "Hey Siri, add X to my [grocery/hardware/project] list" and "Hey Siri, remind me [tomorrow at 10] to do X" have made me more effective at pretty much everything.
The Amish are also notoriously covered head to toe in clothing. Obviously if no sun touches you, it's difficult to be affected by it.
and yet, the machine churns on. Just wanted to put a reminder here that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has not been able to audit the CIA for over 40 years [0]. Evil likes to be unaccountable, and it's gotten just that. How much more blood will we allow to spill as an American populace before we demand an end to the CIA? This list focuses mainly on foreign engagements by the agency. The domestic activities by the CIA are vast and unaccounted for, bordering on the unimaginable.

We (Americans) have been living in lies, living in shadows, living in death. There is no tangible difference between the acronyms USA and CIA. We have been sold to the devil, and we've made him our master.

[0] https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-01-975t.pdf
It should be. I also think economic sanctions, when done by a great power or groups of countries, should be considered an act of war.
Chrome has a large marketshare, in part, because Google paid to have it installed along with free software (such as free antivirus utilities) through the use of dark patterns.

Users who do not pay attention during software install wizards ended up with Chrome installed and changed to their default browser without knowing how it happened.
It's harder to find but it still exists. The hardest part is finding the retroscape <communities> rather than individuals/people. For example, I can browse a lot of retro-ish early 2000's design sites on Neocities but it is difficult to call it much of a community. Same thing with mmm.page.

https://neocities.org/browse and recently-posted-to-HN https://mmm.page/xh.inspiring

I'd love to find (or even make) a community for people who still enjoy the aesthetic of the amateur-crafted web.
They don't do it to help people. They do it to advance western business interests, usually at the expense of the people.
* And random effects over nature also, some negative, but other beneficial. The war submarines acting as a new top predator and the deploy of sea mines were a bless for fisheries, for example.
There will never be post-scarcity, because we'll never have enough. Using cutting-edge technology always requires people to work hard to build said technology. If it didn't require work and just wishful thinking we'd already have it. The builders and engineers will always want _something_ in exchange or they won't make said tech accessible to you. The curiosity of nerds only gets you so far (see open source UX).

Maybe you won't have to work/pay for food if accounting for it becomes more work than producing it (if sufficiently automated and not resource-constrained). But if you want to live in a hip neighborhood (by definition there is limited availability), have your own flying car, go on vacation on the moon once a year where real people service you etc. you'll have to work for that. Because the ingenuity and work necessary to make this all happen will still be enormous.

Maybe you think you'd be happy with your today's lifestyle, which might be attainable for ~free. But I think the reality for most is that they'd grow jealous of their friends posting selfies from the moon and resent "the evil rich" again.

The small amount of work necessary to _survive_ today would sound marvelous to someone from even 100 years ago (clothes, food, shelter outside major cities). Mowing one lawn for 1-2h every day would probably be enough for that. But surviving isn't the point of being human, it's about stretching the limits of what is possible and that will always take as much work as we are willing to put into it.
It’s actually more fine grained than that, which is what makes it work. You can add responsive variations and hover styles all in the same place. It’s effectively inline styles on steroids.

And actually, today for the first time in ages and ended up having to add “real css” to style an input[range] and it was so weird and disjointed to me to not define it right where I needed it.
Hard part is finding sunscreen which isn't cancerous or poisonous itself. 1 in 4 seem to have benzene in it. The sunscreen sitting on my shelf has talc in it. Etc

If only I could just buy sunscreen without having to worry about any of this shit.