skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this the rule or the exception? No doubt there are reported failures, but is that the average experience for a reporter (even accounting for race, gender, etc.) of a stalking or other similar personal security concern? Stories such as these are useful for motivating the public and our government to fix the problems, but they have a side effect of discouraging people from taking useful action where it would not be harmful.

We should be giving our most helpful advice here; let’s not make people panic unnecessarily.

The fact of the matter is that Apple will only provide the identities of AirTags owners to law enforcement officers in the course of legitimate investigation work; in the interest of privacy, they won’t give them out to just anyone who asks. So if you want to get help, getting LE assistance is practically the only way to go.
Not a book, but you might like to have a look at https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/paths

We're adding more paths soon, including a More Python path and an Introduction to Unity path.

The paths build up skills and then build up independence.

Kids can start with Scratch then move on to Python etc/
The entire idea of a modernization project doesn't make sense to me. The author seems to be mixing in the MVP strategy used to validate product-market fit (which still has nothing to do with simple or easy, it's about lowest-cost value demonstration) with some sort of prototyping or technical spiking approach. Neither is pursuing "modernization", which is a valueless idea. You update things like architecture or implementation so that you can DO something with the result. It is not the end production.
I just installed AirGuard to help prevent this attack... It is available on F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.seemoo.at_tracking_detect.... Hope it works as advertised... time will tell.
In my evaluation AVIF's tools occasionally create artefacts on the image even at relatively high quality (above that of mozjpeg). Most often this is blurring or banding occuring in the image.

Look at sky here for an example of the blurring: https://storage.googleapis.com/demos.webmproject.org/webp/cm...

This kind of blurring can occasionally happen on the face of a portrait, too.

An example of banding here:

https://storage.googleapis.com/demos.webmproject.org/webp/cm...

WebP, WebP2, and AVIF show banding in the sky, MOZJPEG to some extend, JXL and HEIF seem to be mostly free of banding.
that's one of the worst in term of privacy

get rid of it!

just cut & paste in their website the cut & paste back
Bringing China into the world of global trade has lifted literally hundreds of millions of people out of abject poverty, and created a consumer surplus for billions of people in the developed world.

I agree that China shouldn’t get a free pass to pull this schoolyard bully BS, but the economic consequences of “just cut them off” need to be factored in.
I feel like the failure avoidance systems have been eroding steadily now for almost 5 decades.

Just pick a criteria on which to judge a societal system and you'll find the us near the middle bottom of the pack.
> Is it more of a genetic thing where it makes the pain of responsibility more pleasurable?

Is responsibility painful?
Right? After that rant…
I mean it’s surprisingly cold right now. Isn’t calling anything under 55F freezing part of the California lifestyle?

But yes in summer the only real upside is getting to dress like a bank robber.
What makes the general concensus on HN the Truth, superior what the hoi polloi believe (especially about their own lives)?

(And the bigger questionn: people who aren't on HN are hoi polloi? Wow. What does that make us? And it's so easy to get an HN account ...)
Hmm, maybe then even crazier idea would be to set minimum age for college education. Let's say 25. Simply do not allow anyone to make the decision before that age.
Thanks, but I wasn't asking about history. You can't roll the clock back.

I'm old enough to remember when you could pump gas before paying, and there was actually at least one place that had full service in town (I've never lived in NJ or OR).
Great to see that making ammonia production more environmentally friendly is actively being worked on from different angles. There was another process announced recently that produced ammonia from supplied nitrogen (which would still be separated from air as I understood) in an electrolysis cell. These are links for this other approach:

Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abg2371

Article on the paper: https://newatlas.com/energy/green-ammonia-phosphonium-produc...

Submission here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29427914
I would be interested too if those tests were performed with facemasks for the investigators or maybe fully remote. They mostly seem to focus on the modelling and not how they gathered the data pre/during pandemic.
I think we are in agreement. Did you mean “and” instead of “but”?
I think they do. It's more, which should you fear more: your bath tub or someone rampaging in the street with a knife? The statistics say you should be far more afraid of your bath tub, there is a decent chance it will be your cause of death. The 'stranger' in the street is about as likely as lottery odds.

So when it comes to children, abuse at home is several (if not many) magnitudes more likely than a stranger trying to track and abduct your children.
I think the key to learning FPGAs, as in most other languages, is to find a small project that really grabs you and blunder along with that until you've got something that works. Then you realise how you'd do it better and what you don't know and ...

For me and FPGA's it came out of a friend asking why you have 12 semitones in a scale, and what would happen if you had 13. The idea of a polyphonic synth with 13 semitones in a scale was born. That led to trying to understand clocks, dividers, metastability on inputs, synthesis for testing and test rigs, simple DAC and all sorts that I can't recall now.

And 13 semitones in a musical scale is a really dumb idea. A great way to twist the head of musician friends but dumb...
Ideology is important and if they truly believe in this fight, more power to them. But it's not easy being a battering ram for somebody else, which seems like the more probable case.
That is wrong. Not sure where you got that idea from.
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> am i missing something? i don't see anything about research or studies in the original email.

That is, in fact, the entire problem. The researchers doing the study lied about who they were and where they were from (in another case, they claimed to be from France; in this case, from Germany) and did not tell anyone it was a study until after some subjects contacted lawyers.

Also the CCPA isn't supposed to apply to hobby/no-revenue sites, but one of the things that qualifies you for CCPA is having PII from 50k Cali residents, so if you log IPs in just the 'right' way and Hackernews finds your site you may end up qualifying overnight.
My learning was all for play/toys.

I just wanted to tell people about anime and make weird things like site counters that used letters instead of numbers or guest books so that people who couldn't code/afford the internet time for chat rooms could still talk about cool stuff. It turned out I had a knack for it and later I liked to help with things like emulation and make game mods or web stuff for fandom communities.

I wouldn't have read a computer science book as a kid (and I was a VERY nerdy child who was a hyperlexic mental calculator). I agree that learning by doing is good, especially since when you run into a programming problem, you usually don't solve it by finding a book on the problem. So starting with projects also lets them practice problem-solving, which is a HUGE part of programming.
> It's problem with these people who genuinely believe that rank, and status is a license to violate things, and that is the reason to get it.

If you watch `donghua` (Chinese anime) you can see the same logic all around. Status is a license to violate things. It's funny how pervasive it is.
You can’t add a password to Bitwarden while being offline.

Discovered this when I tried to add a WiFi password before connecting to it.
My understanding is that if you want to avoid the occasional oversmoothing artefacts when using AVIF, you need to turn off many of the tools giving compression density. For example main smoothing tools have control fields that govern 64x64 pixels at once -- so you end up having either too little or too much smooting in some areas. In JXL the respective smoothing control field is 8x8, so you have much more opportunity to do the right thing.
Or use a computer without a mic/webcam permanently embedded or attached. I'm glad I'm constantly reminded that not having such peripherals can be a good thing.
exa isn't a scripting tool designed to be tied together with other scripting tools that also only do one thing. I think that it's probably better to consider the end user experience rather than the catchy parts of a design made decades ago for an entirely different context.
Why do we still permit busybody bureaucrats to receive public funds?

Bureaucrats like the NIH have no societal benefits. None. It can be argued that public goods, one of the thousands of effects bureaucrats have, can have positive effects on some aspects of society, but getting public goods from an unelected bureaucratic institution may be likened to sucking on a tail pipe to get oxygen – it’s there but it’s not going to do you any good. /s
You’re making a big assumption about me. I simply said I’m not convinced this is a priority for police. Prove me wrong!
> In the 80s interest rates on long term treasuries were around 10%

It's only useful to talk about interest rates in the 80's in the context of fighting inflation. In other cases, it's a cherry-picked number.
That's going to be hard to hear when driving on the highway, also, the seems like a long time if someone is following you home from a bar.

I don't think there's any good way for Apple to fix this. On the other hand, it's been possible to do something similar for a long time, just not this easy, and at this price point. You could suggest that the AirTag disable tracking if it move along with the same phone for more than 15mins, but that's would mean you could steal anything with an AirTag and just keep moving for that period of time.

The Android app also isn't helpful, because many don't know that they need to install it, nor should they have to. Nor does it help say elderly people with no smartphone.

It's a product where Apple really didn't consider the real world implications. It's a neat device, and I'm sure it's well intended, but it's not fit for the world we're currently living in.
> Leveraging a large on-going longitudinal study of child neurodevelopment, we examined general childhood cognitive scores in 2020 and 2021 vs. the preceding decade, 2011-2019. We find that children born during the pandemic have significantly reduced verbal, motor, and overall cognitive performance compared to children born pre-pandemic. Moreover, we find that males and children in lower socioeconomic families have been most affected.

Blatant, blatant, family-level confounding is driving this. Having kids dropped like a stone in covid, because who would be so irresponsible as to have a child during a pandemic? During lockdown? And with global warming the way it is? (The opening of _Idiocracy_ is justly famous.) So, who then is having kids...?

It's like maternal smoking. If you look at kids with mothers who smoke vs the kids with mothers who don't smoke, the latter are healthier and more functional; however, if you look at siblings whose mother smoked during one sibling's pregnancy but not the other's, they are often identical. That's because what you are measuring is the effect of 'having a mother who will smoke', not the effect of 'smoking'.
This study has recently made HN's front page 3 times this week via multiple blog posts. Last night, it was updated with a letter from the Principal Investigator with information about immediately ending the study and where they go from here.
If you're interested writing embedded Rust firmware, I suspect will also be interested in this.

https://cliffle.com/blog/on-hubris-and-humility/
Thank you for the explanation. I will be more careful in the future. However, according to your wording the parent comment also breaks the guidelines, doesn't it? As in "a noticeable step into flamewar."
The state of Maharashtra in India has a personal drinking license (min age 21 for Beer/Wine and 25 for the rest) that’s needed for drinking privately. I have never heard of it being enforced - I think it is a colonial-era leftover but I might be wrong.

A friend of mine spent some effort acquiring one , and shows it off very enthusiastically :)

https://www.wikihow.com/Obtain-an-Alcohol-Permit-in-Maharash...
Aren’t prospective employers also able to check the credit agencies for salary information of applicants? I’d assume both jobs would show?
> South Africa is the furthest along in the Omicron world, from what we can see, and although their cases have rocketed up, their rates for hospitalization and death have only been a fraction of what was seen in the earlier waves.

That is pretty good though, all things considered. Spreads fast, but is mild enough. If the next variant is going to be even better in this regard, we should be happy. It may, given enough people catch this variant with mild symptoms and develop immunity. Maybe we should re-think the strategies involving restrictions and vaccination.
> Heh, that sounds like a nightmare for me personally.

I will share my anecdote with you.

I did light jogging and weights in the gym, 3x a week. Then in 2020, the gyms shut down. COVID was raging throughout my country. I stayed at home all day and worked from home.

I struggled with work ever day. I felt work was too hard. Not being in the office and not being able to whiteboard with teammates felt like a rapid change i didnt know how to handle.

My stress and anxiety shot up to an all time high. I would work from 9am-6pm, keep thinking of work into the night, and feel tired, exhausted.

I was desperate to get some sense of my former life back. I started ordering food on Uber Eats and Door dash for comfort.

I tried eating healthier options, but my weight ballooned by 20lbs. I went from being able to do 30 push ups in one set to not being able to do 3 push ups.

This year, I rejoined a gym. I started going 5 days a week, even if it meant just sitting idle for 15 minutes of my 35 minute work out.

I not only lost a bunch of the weight, I got much stronger. I learned to realize when I was feeling anxious or stressed, and my exercise actually helped me overcome it. Regardless of the work situation or tight deadlines, I wouldn’t skip the gym. I wouldn’t skip meals anymore. I’d drink lots of water.

Now - my health comes first. And for the most part, I’ve gained more peoples respect in my professional life. My company didn’t lose any money because I started valuing myself as a person. My company didn’t fire me either.
Why allow anything in an ad besides text or images? Why allow others to run arbitrary code through your network. Inexcusable by Google imo.
> the consideration for what is outlawed isn't how beneficial an activity is for the person who engages in it but how dangerous it is to others.

We aren’t consistent in that regard, or at least, we often consider that someone who sells a harmful substance is harming another person.

Our laws often prohibit Pfizer from selling dangerous drugs, as well as your local street drugs dealer.

These decisions are always a tradeoff between cultural expectations and harm. There’s no hard and fast rule.
Politician incentives to win elections are not the same as whats best for the country.
> Also, there's virtually zero non-American companies that pay those kind of salaries--save for a few select places like Singapore.

What Singapore companies offer US-level compensation? I was interested in relocating to Singapore a while ago but was unimpressed by salaries there.
I’m not making an assumption about you. I am saying that that is how statements such as yours can be (and often are) interpreted.
I get the feeling that generationing is an extremely extremely niche thing, perhaps in terminology exclusive to R986 and his social circle, and then the rest of this is just assholes who don’t tell their sexual partners about having STDs
Only STEM education, apprenticeships and trade schools. I don't want my taxes to fund some obscure PhD in babylonian dance history and then their only contribution to the society is brewing coffee at a Starbucks while living a greek life in college party town. We need liberal arts but the reason why they become Baristas is because there isn't much need for them.

Liberal arts education in universities is a disaster. 10% of the students are actually passionate about it, take it seriously and go on to contribute to the society. Rest of them are rich kids who are out there to party.

We need to push students to think about their career choices before picking them.
You can always buy more stuff. Lowering the bar for stalking seems like a bad trade off, doesn’t it?
I'm getting the impression that people are avoiding saying "it's a thing outside the US".

I'm in the US, though, so I was interested if it was a thing in the US.
This has never made sense to me. I'd be interested to know if there are numbers to back it up. You still have your most expensive years (the ones that come before death), they just come much sooner and are much more likely to involve expensive debilitating disease. In any case, the expense of old age mostly comes from pills and surgery which are artificially expensive due to our shit healthcare system. And I doubt we accurately measure the economic benefit of having the elderly around to help with young families, provide wisdom and experience, etc.
Ask HN: How to follow the Chinese tech startup scene?
Hey people! I was wondering if you have any favorite sources (preferably English) when it comes to Chinese startups? News websites, Message Boards, Bloggers, Twitter accounts etc for example.
its quite easy to imagine in my opinion.

she drives home and gets these notifications, which clearly spook her, which is why she made extra turns etc.

she sends a few messages to friends and/or family, because she's freaking out about it, but goes to sleep because she doesn't know what to do

one of these friends or family comes by in the morning, sees her car and checks it out before ringing her door bell

the given facts are quite believeable, though i doubt there is a human trafficing relation which she seems to think. its more likely a potential stalker, upset boyfriend or similar.
What about the current system, where it's not prohibited but people tell you it's bad all the time, where does it fall on the scale? Is it the best solution?
Just to clarify, the TPU (version 1) does not multiply two 256x256 matrices per clock cycle as that takes 256^3 MAC operations to perform. It produces one row of the product matrix per clock cycle (each 256 element row takes 256^2 MAC operations to calculate).
Cool, but what if your son stops watching interesting YT videos and starts playing Fortnite 10 hours a day?

And: How old is your son and at what age did you start the unlimited screen time policy?

Because as you say, there is more nuance to screen time. It depends on the kid’s personality, the age, the environment, friends, access to outdoor activities etc.
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I prefer lsd over exa because the flags are more compatible with standard ls
This is some kind of bias, the reason this is true is because it’s far easier for those people to abduct a child whose habits they know well. Now that the technology to track anyone is far easier to come by, maybe that will change.
The owner of the tag knows, in real time, where the tag is and only iPhones receive the tracking notifications.
You told the GP how they should not act during dinner conversations, and double downed despite the GP telling you that you didn’t know how close they were. That comes off to me not respecting what they were telling you about their relationship, which is uncharitable in my book. Given my upvotes, I’m not the only one that feels that way.

Separately, plenty of good relationships can discuss politics without issue, and to not do so would leave the world only to their information bubbles.
Oh yes, and I've started preparing those patches. It's just a bit of a bummer to have the churn when you're just starting out and iterating through ideas.
The potential of transformers in reinforcement learning
I predict a midwit curve. The low-intelligence/low-conscientious people will just have kids as usual; those of middling intelligence will think as you; and those of the highest intelligence will keep having kids as much as they did before.
> bankrupt in both their pedagogy and their budgets

The budget woes are a myth. The US spends more on education than most other countries in exchange for middle of the pack results comparable to less developed countries with far lower budgets.

The main budgetary problem is bureaucratic. The schools get more than enough money, but the teachers aren't the ones who decide how to spend it, so a teacher who wants more school supplies than are allocated has to pay out of pocket and then we get these anecdotes.

The solution is a combination of two things. First, stop trying to regulate education from the top. Let the individual teachers do it. Provide resources, don't enforce conformity. Second, let the parents choose the teachers, or more realistically, the school. Then you get competition between schools to provide the best education instead of the existing system of like it or lump it. Also, give the same money to the parents who are homeschooling. Homeschool is school and the families doing it shouldn't be financially penalized for choosing something that by most accounts gives better results.
Everything is cheap in China, especially talk
Fair enough, but draconian measures and their side effects (making many poor even poorer, and enriching Marc Rich) were pretty much universally espoused and employed against South Africa. Of course, China >> SA, but the per person human toll could be similar.

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-marc-rich-got-around-san...
Which is why lawyers and media operators run the country. While you're rejecting the argument, they're using it against you.

And you're being persuaded by them. Successfully. While still being convinced that the status quo isn't just the best of all possible worlds, everything you believe about it is your own idea.
They will always tell you $X in stock, how else would they value it? But there will be a set date on which that $ amount converts to a number of shares, which then vest over time according to a schedule.

I have never seen an offer from a public company that has a # of shares attached to it. Only a dollar amount. Then it converts based on market value at conversion time.
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The abstract is very different from the content: having and wanting unprotected sex in spite of living with HIV is not the same as having sex with the purpose of giving HIV to another person.
This is brilliant!

Ah, gives me nostalgia of civcraft conspiracies...
How's that any different from any disease in the history of humanity? We "dont't" know (even though we know covid is harmless for the vast majority of people), so why risk the adverse effects of a shutdown again. Aren't you worried about the mental health of children, the women at risk of being shut in with a domestic abuser, or the resulting inflation disproportionately affecting low income people of color?
It’s economic addiction which, like any addiction, is painful to deal with, but it’ll only get worse if left untreated.
What made me happy is more money. The more I have, the more security (for the future) I could provide to my family.