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Why is no one talking about the privacy implications of 5G (and by no one I mean mainstream adoption efforts)? It feels like all the nutcase 5G conspiracy theories are to distract from the real issue at hand, which is that the legal and societal framework to handle the fact that you need a mobile phone to function in a modern society (keeps getting worse) and that 5G can be used to track your whereabouts with sometimes better than gps precision simply do not exist.

Even if such frameworks exist, I personally don't think i want cops to track me with precision even with a warrant. I am not against better tech, I am against lazy tech, there has to be a better solution!
I share some of this frustration. I once spent a ton of time finding XSS vulnerabilities for a Delta Airlines bug bounty program. One by one I would find and submit a report with instructions and screenshots. Every time they would reply saying they were already aware of the bug so no bounty. While I don’t doubt they were telling the truth it took away my motivation to invest time in this type of exercise going further.
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This isn't an attack on the author, it's the fact that we're seeing a lot of this kind of article on HN, but it's almost always about the exact same person.
DuckDB is the better SQLite with APIs for Java/Python/R and it's got potential
DuckDB is a sweet API for most programming languages and allows you to write SQL queries against parquet files, exploiting columnar storage (SQLite uses row storage).
Does any one know what runtime and gc the author was using? Those are important details.
We've seen how they've adapted: secrets related to self-dealing and CYA are prioritized over secrets related to security or other national priorities.
From private ownership accounting to commons accounting (from ERPs to NRPs)
I find the headline to be incomplete to the point of incomprehensibility. Both Facebook and Christianity are international in scope – what on Earth makes a Christian page on Facebook "foreign"?
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I haven’t used linear can you expand on what they do that pushes the paradigm? Gonna try it this weekend.
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That's another way of saying "all code input must be escaped" :-)
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Yes and:

> Just the old 49.7 days cycle...

I've encountered datetime bugs and learned to take preventative measures.

I generally add a virtual clock shim to my projects, eg wrapping System.currentTimeMillis() or equiv.

Then I write unit tests for anticipated edge cases. Like midnight, end/start of year, etc. To ensure reporting, rollups, logging, grooming, etc. are working correctly.

Also allows me simulate elapsed time, so I verify out of order event processing and so forth.
asyncio doesn't solve any "problems" of threads in Python. it just provides programming patterns that a lot of people like, which are well suited towards having hundreds or thousands of arbitrarily slow IO bound tasks at once. A threadpool in Python can do the same thing with mostly similar performance. asyncio certainly isn't affecting the GIL issue, asyncio is "GIL-ish" by definition since all CPU work occurs in a single thread.

meaning, if the GIL were removed from Python, the performance of threaded concurrency would soar, asyncio would not move an inch.
Windows can do the same. My home PCs have been running Windows 7 and Windows 10, I never turn them off and they've probably been rebooted maybe 20 times, several times because of moving house, since 2009.
It's been a while since I've seen this. I don't know if it's a product of a different era or just luck of the draw but I saw this a fair amount in the 90s and early aughts. It never made much sense to me for obvious reasons.
People who want to find memes to repost on their social media.
So really we need to make as many Alexandra Elbakyans as possible. Cloning is probably our only option.
Physics PhD here, I would extend your comment that 90% of CS papers are garbage to include engineering and physics as well. The vast majority of those are what people refer to as "status updates" where long term projects provide minor updates that don't really contribute anything to the general knowledge but exist solely to advertise their work and provide a bullet point in their quarterly report to the funding agency. This is also added to the fact that most PhD programs require a candidate to publish at least 3 articles in peer-reviewed journals, where some programs even discriminate based on the impact factor, further entrenching the paid-for journals as open access are not ranked as highly. I personally really like the IEEE journals as they are cheap ("free" with IEEE membership to a given society) and reasonable high quality (exceptions as always of course). Years ago I looked at trying to get my department a subscription to the major Elsevier journal in our industry and was quoted almost $6,000/yr, mostly for historic papers published back in the 50's, 60's and 70's where authors were long since dead and the utility mostly on filling in gaps in modern theory. While neither bandwidth nor website design infrastructure are free, high access costs are unnecessary and just equate to greed IMHO.
Many people wont know, notice, or look twice. It doesnt help many popular services use weird url shorteners, so some weird looking url is normal now
Framework libraries or languages that have types for separating taintable data from executable code.
We used to run a production service written in JRuby until a year or so ago (at which point it was rewritten in kotlin).

It was a minimal pure ruby service deployed as a tomcat servlet.

Despite not using any heavy weight framework (eg. rails etc.) its performance (after warmup) was nowhere close to "almost C like".

JVM gives you true multithreading etc. but claiming that JRuby performance is C like is just misleading.
Yes my guess is that they are trying to get government support for building it now that it is even more strategic.
I think the OP's point was that it forces you to do all the number crunching via those extensions, and if what you want to do doesn't match up with their APIs it's a bit of a pain. Granted, they have fairly complete and flexible APIs but I can still imagine it being very annoying sometimes.
One of my dream projects is a graphical, single-user operating system for, say, small ARM microcontrollers. You can easily get 10x the computing power of an Atari that runs in tens of milliamps.
I suppose that's an alternative use case for the tech - to simulate and get an understanding of how to build UX that is friendly towards those with poor eyesight. Haha.
From the study:

1) Troll farm = Professionalized groups that work in a coordinated fashion to post provocative content

2) Through internal Facebook research in which documentation was leaked to journalists.

3) That's irrelevant to the story. The point is that the claimed motives behind the operators of the page are inauthentic and dishonest, and those claims could apply to either/both human and bot-generated content.

4) This question just makes your entire post sound like disingenuous trolling, but people of course expect honesty, and a page called "Kosovo engages with American Christians for profit" would not be criticized in the same way.

5) That's an obvious strawman - the people running the pages have shown to be dishonest in every way that their honesty can reasonably be measured.

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21063547/oct-2019-fac...
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XSS isn't in the phone field. S is in the phonr field. XS is in how Apple delivers the phone field value.
> For one, their map isn't restricted to areas that have paved roads or are otherwise regularly occupied by people, unlike the cellmapper map.

So the question becomes which is more useful for determining whether or not a given phone will work in a given location. My experience is that the cellmapper data was far more reliable.

My folks have a place in on the beach in a (summer) resort community up north. It's sparsely populated and has very spotty mobile phone service.

I've had Verizon and AT&T (post-paid) which worked everywhere, including on the beach (without picking up service across the lake), Google Fi which worked in some places, but not anywhere on the property the home existed, Sprint and T-Mobile which were nowhere within ten miles of the city.

And then there was Visible. This an MVNO owned by Verizon but is not Verizon, however, it's cheap, fast (where it works) and simple/pre-paid. I had assumed, "hey, Verizon worked great, this is cheaper than them, so this will work, too." I'm not normally terribly naive, but more wrong I could not have been and I should have expected there to be no service.

The Verizon map shows a large dead zone north of where the home is, and smaller ones nearby, but it appears I'd have adequate coverage for the location of the lake house with any provider. Verizon post-paid works brilliantly because post-paid service phones end up in the "Extended Network". Visible had absolutely no service, much less than indicated on the (non-extended) Verizon map and the FCC map.

The cellmapper map was the most accurate but suffered from the problems you mentioned -- it strongly indicated that I'd have no service with Verizon (Visible) in those locations.

For these maps to be useful, they have to tell me what quality of service exists for an average phone in a given area. Having poor service (anything on my current phone that's two bars or less[0]) is no service. I'm sure it's a surprise to nobody that the provider maps are overly optimistic, but the fact that a 20-mile by 20-mile area that's bright red on the Verizon map (which indicates non-Extended service) has zero bars -- absolutely no service whatsoever -- and the surrounding ten miles has non-functional service is ridiculous.

Do they have more accurate information about coverage internally? I hope so -- if they're basing network expansion on this marketing map, they'll see the population density and the current performance and figure it's not worth fixing anything. If a business is connecting devices, wirelessly, you'd expect them to have service quality/reliability information that's far more accurate than what they presented to me. Admittedly, it's a "hard problem", but the existing maps are unacceptably bad and seem far worse than they should be. The moral of the story, at least as far as MVNO-Verizon is concerned, if there's a dead zone anywhere near where you need service, expect that lack of coverage to be an order of magnitude larger than indicated.

[0] I'm fairly certain that "2 bars" means "the phone briefly connected to a tower it can't otherwise use" -- it's a tease, but ultimate it's no service.
The lowest level EC is the best for when you are building a QR code generator in Minecraft, trust me
Does it affect your manager's view of you? it happens to me often but somehow I always pull it off at the last moment without anyone noticing, this leads to a sever imposter syndrome though.

One way to mitigate it is to take tasks that are actually harder and more challenging, even try to do a small innovation project or something "off the books" to stimulate yourself
Is putting scripts in a phone number field (or any input field) a well known way to hijack requests?

It’s on the front page of Hacker News with clickbait headline, so yeah.
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Alternatively, they might prioritize small packets and ping will be misleadingly fast compared to bigger data flows.
To be clear, I'm not arguing that this is a good system. I'm simply stating that it is the way it is right now. And while these counterforces are indeed gaining traction, they are still far away from toppling the status quo.
Same here in Ohio. I know the justification given was to offset the taxes on fuel that go towards road maintenance, but that math never held up. Just another regressive tax against the little guys instead of the heavy industry that causes the vast majority of road wear and tear...
I can see your viewpoint so I'm not sure why you are getting voted down.

> I follow this thread with interest, my extension is something that grew a bit out of control, and I grew tired of maintaining it.

The quote above is from the maintainer. Looks like he is happy to let it go!

Quote source: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/128465#issuecomme...
I've been using a TreeSitter-powered colouriser in Vim, it's fantastic and, like with everything TreeSitter related, extremely fast.

https://github.com/p00f/nvim-ts-rainbow
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I don't think it's a good idea to explain away valid criticisms as inertia. I also don't buy the implicit claim that giving up the anonymity of the peer reviewers could improve peer reviewing. It seems obvious that giving up anonymous peer review would make things worse and that putting the reviewer's reputation on the line would not improve things. It creates all kinds of conflicts of interests and biases. You also need to understand that the people who game the system have a low reputation anyway. They find a niche, build up their collusion ring with people they meet at conferences, and get a tenure-track position or full tenure because of their high, though low quality publication track record. Moreover, if the peer review is properly anonymous, then reviewers are way more critical than if it's not anonymous. Hence, acceptance rates in top journals in my area are below 5%. If the reviewer is not anonymous, they would be way more permissive, since they don't want to completely shatter their relations with their colleagues. Higher acceptance rates means lower value publications, not higher standards.

There are many things that needs to be addressed to improve science, not just peer review. Hiring policies need to change and indicator counts need to be used more adequately, empirical studies need to be pre-registered and the p-value needs to be 1% or lower. Peer review is just one factor and mostly a monetary issue. If all research institutions would spend enough money to make all commercial journals available for everyone, there would be no particular problem with peer review. The problem of many researchers in poorer countries is that they don't. The problem is not that peer review does not work.
Nothing justifies it when the US does evil. The important difference is that as a society, in the US we have remarkable capacity for self-criticism and the power to loudly rebuke our government. We're far from perfect, but we can at least acknowledge the atrocities committed in our names, and hopefully account for them and try not to commit them again. The same is not true in Chinese society. Currently, it is only external pressure that keeps them in check. There won't be internal resistance to the Chinese governments expansionist behavior, because it simply would not be tolerated. The PRC will even use its power to silence criticism from abroad, much less tolerate it at home.

Again, we're not perfect, but we hear about almost every drone strike that harms civilians, or the abuses our prisoners of war face in Guantanamo bay. Does anyone in China rebuke the government for stealing land from neighboring countries[1] and building on it?

[1]: https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/05/07/china-bhutan-border-vil...
Oh! Duh. North Korea would be on that list too.
Agreed. Presumably the same logic applies to harming a child before birth as well.
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I imagined damage to the heart muscles or blocked blood vessel.
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Also due to their anycast network and the large no of pops, the traffic stays local.
I've been looking for something similar and found a lot of approaches, spanning CRDTs, reactive databases, etc all of which look really promising. For me one of the missing pieces is situations where some parts of the object graph should not be visible or editable by certain users. That sort of thing comes up the whole time and can be pretty complex yet is often just handwaved away.
Well that's really what I was getting at with my question, so if that's also what you were suggesting then we're both questioning the previous poster's idea that they can just happily "spam" nuclear missiles at all of America's carriers around the globe, let alone even a single one operating near China's waters.
The thing is, because of Facebook's algorithm, even a hobby DIY group doesn't get treated as a completely-neutral public utility space.

FB will still prioritize things that generate interactions. So if little bits of controversy slip into the DIY discussions, that's still what bubbles to the top of everyone's feed.

It hasn't necessarily happened to your group, it may not necessarily happen, but the point is that this is what the algorithm was optimized to do.
Also tangentially, I agree, and definitely enjoy these too, but have noticed that a lot of Show HN posts miss out on more visibility due to some basic omissions by the submitters.

My suggestion for people posting a “Show HN” would be to always write a brief comment describing the project (even if it’s just a sentence).. Don’t just blind post with zero context.

And most importantly be available to engage with any comments promptly. This is critical.

I’ve commented (as the first commenter) on a few recently and I’ve either never had a response to questions I’ve asked or it’s taken several days for replies to come in.

Not being engaged in replying to comments just negates half the benefits of posting it in the first place, not to mention makes others less likely to engage too if they see that existing comments are not being replied to.

On the flip side (and probably in the majority) I’ve had some great follow up with Show HN posters who are naturally very happy and excited to talk more about their project - and I always find these discussions positive and uplifting.

People who make things are cool.
First, never quit until you got the final signed contract with everything cleared, including, background check, drug tests, etc..

Funny enough, one of my coworkers from previous job did what the author did, he lost both jobs, so he sued both. I don't know the outcome (NDA), but he did managed to get settlement from my old company.
You don't need to emit (that uses a lot of power) so that's already one factor.
My company won't give references and won't even allow managers to give a reference. They also blacklist you, so when you do leave you won't be allowed to come back.

If that's the way they play it, my plan if I get a new job is to simply ghost my current one.
Can this be combined with original gps to get super accuracy?

What is the practical value of this? Stronger signals than old gps?
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Very true but the reason for it is that it is insanely profitable. This is the real ends for everything on FB. I always say "ain't no one convincing nobody about nothing" on FB. It is faux outrage for profit and until we start taxing digital advertising revenue, this will continue to be the world we live in.
What innovations are we losing from unique pricing?

I think it's abundantly clear that Amazon is using its size to make shipping be basically free. It's just about scale, it's not about offering particularly better service. It's the price of books. Of shipping!

If the internet will be destroyed by asking people to pay for shipping, it's honestly not that great.

I always feel a bit weird about these kind of piecemeal efforts, rather than a larger coherent movement with more well-defined goals around having values beyond shareholder value and.... cheapness. But Amazon charging 1 cent for shipping of books is blatlantly disregarding the spirit, intent, and I believe letter of the law on fixed pricing for books in France.
Well, "the Bible" is a complex concept. Not all Christians accepted the Old Testament. Since the very beginning there were groups that saw an enormous conflict between the basic message of the Old and and New Testament. First there were Gnostics and Marcionites, and then many others until Cathars in the 14th century when the Pope said that anybody who kills a Cathar can get their castle. So in the history of Christianity, there were longer periods of (some) Christians not believing in the ST than believing in it.

This distinction is crucial because the ST contains all sorts of atrocities. Modern Christians try to justify them by allegoric interpretations but the logic of this approach is very weak and basically indefensible. Whereas when you don't feel limited by the ST, things become much easier (and a bit more logical).
> The feature can be enabled by adding the setting "editor.bracketPairColorization.enabled": true.

Interesting this NEEDS to be enabled.
...or will it be set to `true` on new installs?

Seems like a super useful feature that should be on by default to me..
YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content
Not a lawyer (but did take a business law class!) and there is something known as promissory estoppel (likely the same detrimental reliance).

No doubt I’m butchering how it works, but basically one can sue for “damages” incurred due to someone not following through on a promise or implied agreement. Contract not always required, just reasonable actions based on a reasonable expectation of someone following through.

A good example might be a neighbor agreeing to build a fence if you purchase the wood. You buy it, they back out and you can’t return it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estoppel
It is not irrelevant. It is a suceptible pool of people who "believe." Ripe for whatever con you want to operate at internet scale.