skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not clear it would be a net positive for most readers of HN, who are in the income ranges or building businesses which would be affected by the new tax rules.
If the first one wins, that would mean that if an artist produced something, someone else makes an NFT even though they don’t actually own the art, then sometime later the artist wants to create their NFT, they’d be shit out of luck.
> Maybe the last sentence where they put a deadline on it, but that part was strange anyways since they explicitly said this is NOT a CCPA request, so that deadline doesn't even apply to this email.

That's the threat, yeah. And yes, it's not technically correct--but, as many others have pointed out, you don't need to have a correct legal claim to inflict thousands of dollars of legal fees on a target. Hell, part of what those legal fees pay for is an expert to explain whether or not that deadline applies.

More than that, most people simply do not have the time to memorize laws, or to get the legal background required to understand whether a law applies. This is partly a problem with laws being complex and having their own jargon--but that doesn't excuse what's going on here.
You're trivializing "cultural genocide" by comparing it to child marriage bans in India or Burqa bans in France. Cultural genocide is not just banning random specific practices, the near complete eradication of local languages or cultures by the French state throughout the 19th and 20th centuries is a better example or what the British did in Ireland. And if "cultural genocide" is not the appropriate name for that what would be a better one?
I once asked a person working on a large music instrument website why products "Made in USA" or "Made in [European Country]" were labeled as such, but the ones made in other countries aren't, and the answer was pretty simple: they A/B tested it, but "Made in China" or even "Made in [Asian Country]" drives people away. Japan and Korea have a good reputation for instruments, though.
So you are making the argument that one should apply different rules to different people depending on how much money they have. Well, no way that could go wrong.

Interesting how you also make the tortured argument that privacy laws create victims.
how do I see airtags around me with my iphone? on "find my" I just see my own apple stuff.
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A whole lot of wtf in this. I am not sure what compelled to keep reading.
I think that once you start looking for hard evidence on software company stocks, you're in for a learning experience.
Please define what you mean by "just fine". "Just fine" is what parents who abused their kids say. Those kids later go to therapy to understand their treatment was abusive and to deal with it, and they don't turn out just fine, they turn out traumatized. I really have no idea what the situation is, but "they turned out just fine" is to abused kids the same as saying the phrase "calm down" in a heightened situation doesn't do shit to calm the situation down.
“Blatant ripoff” is a bit harsh. “Bottles” isn’t exactly that original or clever when considering the software that undergirds it.
I find myself completely withdrawing from all social engagement at work because of this. our company even has a program for reporting micro-aggressions. So I basically refrain to talk about anything that is not work related at work.
No health benefits. You're missing the key word in that statement.
"What happens in the sleep sack stays in the sleep sack"

I'm sure the design space for zero-G sex furniture is going to be thoroughly explored well before anything can be tested. Wonder how many will include adequate airflow? "stuff" aint gonna soak into the sheets on its own. How hard will that airflow have to be heated so as not to chill the mood?

We're gonna have change them filters often, too. Someday, someone's gonna have the title "first orbital mop boy"... assuming there's no one holding that honor already.
Wow! Thanks for that comment, I have a Dell U3818DW with a KVM switch and I didn't know you could control it with DDC commands!

So for linux (e.g. fedora):

dnf install ddcutil
ddcutil capabilities -d 1 # show the available commands
ddcutil setvcp 60 0x11 # for example switch to HDMI 1
# assign a global shortcut key to the `ddcutil setvcp` command you need

And for windows:

- download the "Dell Display Manager" software from their support site
- assign a shortcut key in the Dell Display Manager: "Input Manager" tab => "Favourite Input Shortcut Key"

I used the same shortcut (Ctrl-Alt-ScrollLock) for both linux(kde)/windows
But isn't employment in the US largely at-will? Meaning that the employer can fire the employee for any reason except for protected classes discrimination?

So it doesn't matter if it's fraud or the employer just doesn't like the employee. The implications are the same.
> But the title seems to suggest Google is doing something malicious here.

Aren’t they? They’re quite literally distributing malware.
It's what made the web. Literally and figuratively. As in, it made the web the web, and it made the web popular. Sadly, these days many web sites are single page JS monsters which break linking/bookmarks/opening-in-new-tab and everything we took for granted.
Couldn't someone just slip a phone in a bag to do the same thing?
iPhone will send an alert to you if unknown AirTag is following you around.
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Oh yes, sorry - I meant 227 (too late to edit)
Some of these APIs are not overridable inside javascript - overriding is pretty much the only way this can be prevented - short of browser features like CSP and FP. This needs to be the first thing that happens, but there's no standard api to run on your browser to do that, so things have flaws.

A static analysis is often relatively easy to circumvent, something like base64Decode(encodedMaliciousScript) can by-pass them.

Google does various runtime/dynamic analysis to figure out issues, but scripts can do interesting things to circumvent those too (like targeting specific devices through user agent and so on).

It's an arms race, often, where google catches up pretty fast, but bad actors move faster.

Feature Policy check addresses these but ad system and chrome features don't always move at the same speed, and often time there are trade offs that needs to be addressed first before it can be widely deployed.
Wait till you hear about the magna Carta....

The queen has no more control over the country than a hood ornament has over the direction of a car.
They could, you know, actually work out their differences and legislate, instead of acting to the CPAN camera and following whatever their party says.
I've been using the past tense this whole time, I am not claiming that it is occurring in the present.

In the 80s and 90s, 1 out of every 3 young black men was under current custody by the criminal justice system, and the lifetime rates were close to the 1 in 3. Today, you are correct that it is closer to 1 in 4 (although still above).

I don't think this makes a very large difference in my point.
As has been pointed out elsewhere: "Consent" here is the correct term. This was a study, and studies are supposed to gather consent from participants before they start (barring certain very specific examples).
It's not a book, but check out things like Swift Playgrounds, Redstone in Minecraft, and Roblox (for Lua). Otherwise, work on projects with them.

I'm a child who learned to code with adult resources as well, and the only reason I stuck with it is that I was making things. Stupid, silly things, but it hooked me for life. I also liked the social aspect: I was a rural child who had nobody else around who liked nerd stuff other than my parents, and I was more than willing to learn to code if it meant I could have friends and not be bored like I was in school.

I can't recall ever using a book, actually. It was mostly documentation + discussions. I'd actually say it might be better to take them through projects and when you get stuck, show them how to look up the answer to their problem. That's what devs do in the real world.
The comparison of abortion with vaccination is a horrendous piece of libertarian propaganda.

No one is strapping people down and injecting them with a vaccine, it’s not a forced medical procedure. However the involvement in certain activities by the unvaccinated is limited and this is similar to many other public health orders such as not being able to smoke inside a restaurant.
Sure, which is also part of Ukraine Russia would be least interested in.

As with most polls[1], very uninformative: if the question was if you would go to war/protests in Eastern Ukraine, I doubt we'd see so many people willing to go that far (other than saying, "I would, but... life, job, family...").

I mean, it's already obvious from the actual situation on the ground in-not-really-Russian-we-promise-occupied part of Ukraine.

[1] most are designed with questions to drive an agenda, not with polls being a bad methodology to gather particular learnings from a sample of the population
> Its incorrect to call opening an office for Taiwan a "rash, emotional move"

> but I was not specifically referring to that but rather to closing the embassy in China and other actions against China

Could you clarify what other actions did Lithuania take against China? This is the timeline afaik [0]:

- In August 2021, the ROC opened its representative office in Vilnius under the name of "Taiwanese"

- In response, the PRC recalled its ambassador in Vilnius, Shen Zhifei, and demanded that Lithuania recall its ambassador in Beijing, Diana Mickevičienė.

- On 3 December 2021, Lithuania reported that in an escalation of the diplomatic spat over relations with Taiwan, China had stopped all imports from the Baltic state. It said Beijing has delisted Lithuania as a country of origin, preventing items from clearing customs, and was rejecting all import applications

- As a result of the conflict China pressured Continental AG and other international companies to stop doing business with Lithuania.[7] The spat spilled over to the rest of the EU when China banned the import of goods which contained Lithuanian parts potentially disrupting integrated supply chains in the common market.

^ not included in the timeline: internal propaganda to smear Lithuania as a nation once the PRC deemed the tiny country a threat for allowing ROC to open a representative office under the name "Taiwanese" in its capital

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93Lithuania_relati...
You can't. You only get an alert after one's been following you around.
It ought to be entirely clear from a review of https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html why that comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29615960) was flagged. It was a noticeable step into flamewar. We don't want that type of argument on HN. It leads to dumb, nasty, predictable threads.

It also broke other site guidelines, for example with this:

> Did you read the comments? A quote for you

Btw, please don't post like you did here. It's basically doing an end run round HN's moderation system. That's not cool.
> ...Children born in the pandemic have significantly reduced cognitive performance

In the COVID-19 pandemic means we're talking about 2yr old toddlers and younger. Assessing toddler's cognitive abilities is not trivial by any means, let alone using it as a basis for far-fetched projections. So first thing that comes to mind is sampling approach.

Also a factor is a degree of social interaction, as it got harder to keep kids in peer groups esp. during the lockdowns and work from home stretches.

Either way, at this age 'performance' is almost meaningless term. There's plenty of ways and time to 'catch-up'.
Antivax is literally as old as vaccines are. There’s an enormous Victorian corpus of antivax literature, complete with crazy claims that vaccines were causing leprosy. In this respect, nothing has changed.

Nor does it evince the collapse of rational thinking. If people just suspended their critical judgement and did whatever they were told unquestioningly, there would also be no antivax movement, but their compliance would not speak to their capacity for rationality, only their bovinity.
I always wonder, if the effect is so clear as they present in the title, why do they need such a complex model to show it? I call a stepwise regression complex because it requires thinking about what effect the steps have on the outcome in regards to overfitting
I don’t know the intricacies of the politics at play here, so could you explain why this is “insane”?
You can see the concentration camps in satellite photos.
So I and my wife both have AirTags. Every time we take a walk together, we both get notifications that there's an unknown AirTag with us (each others'). You can pause these notifications for just one day, which means we get notified every single day.

Does anyone know how to disable this for specific known AirTags?
Can we make an example of those "boring" companies?
A ... a net negative? Okay, like maybe I get that some people abuse this thing and maybe that's bad and maybe ten extra people got their car stolen this year or something although even that is questionable given that Tile already existed. But net negative? All the utility from all the people that found all the things they found this year with AirTags is counteracted, is wiped away by... what?
Cops have been known to push stalking, domestic violence, rape and similar cases under the carpet or, even worse, abuse the contact information from the criminal complaint to stalk the victims themselves (see [1], [2] or whatever turns up at Google for "police officers stalking women"). Not to mention the organized denials of service that regularly crop up as "backlog of rape kits discovered" headlines.

Women have all kinds of valid reasons to stay as far away from cops as they can, women of color, queer/nb/trans women even more.

Some PDs have changed procedures and established special, often female-led, teams to deal with cases involving such sensitive scenarios... but they're not many to begin with.

[1]: https://psmag.com/news/stalker-cop-police-protection-danger-...

[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/oct/20/my-frie...
Say thank you to you minister Lanzbergis Gabrielius who technicaly fucked-up with China. By the way you can not change your mind.
All shippings relocated to other counties allready. Latvia / Estonia / Poland etc.
then I don't see how this is a problem having someone else's airtag on the car. the owner of the car is the only person being "followed" by it.
Didn't the US seize a bunch of Iranian oil recently? The newspapers say no military ships were involved [1], but it seems fairly straight-forward that the US is using its clout and military might to impede free trade between two independent actors (Iran/Venezuela).

The same could be said of America's failed attempt to block Nordstream-2, where the US unceremoniously tried to insert itself between two third parties trying to trade (Russia/Germany).

These examples are, obviously, not about using "navy to threaten shipping", but the general point stands -- US actively uses its position to punish its geopolitical opponents by disrupting their trade.

China aspires to do the same. That you Westerners are fearful and angry about it is understandable, but this behavior is not unique to China. China is literally learning from you.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/world/middleeast/trump-ir...

edit: "seize" not cease
This is news just because it's an Apple device being used for something that was already trivially possible.

GPS trackers designed to be magnet-attached to a car which report their location via cell signal cost ~$20 on Amazon. You then tend to need to pay for either a SIM card or a subscription to the device maker's service
-- bringing you up to about the cost of an AirTag. These are much harder to detect, as you might imagine.

The Apple device does try to make itself less useful for abusive purposes. Nearby iPhones will notify you if there's an AirTag following you. Apple released an Android app to scan for them (manually -- it'd probably be nice if they released something that did the same passive scanning as iPhones get, but there's battery trade-offs there, and obviously most people won't have that app). AirTags will also beep if they're separated from their owner.

In fact, this is news we're hearing about because of the steps Apple took to make it harder to use these devices for bad purposes. The tweet author got a warning about the device following them.

It's tricky to make something that lets you find where you dropped your keys while walking the dog that can't also be used for nefarious purposes.
No we don't. We have a concept of "35 hours of work per week" but it gest complicated once your time is not metered per the hour.

People whose work is counted in days get special "extra vacation days to catch up" (this is more or less the real name), around 15 per year I think.
(Waiting for company issue M1 Pro MBP)
Nim's GC is optional - you can switch it off and do manual memory management, if you want.

There's also no need to use any of the language features that you don't want?
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(Essentially) everything’s a fireable offense in the US. And if you don’t get caught, there’s no risk.

If someone’s the kind of person to work 2-full-time jobs simultaneously then I think they’re the kind of person who’s OK hiding some of the facts on their resume.
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Some of the (dumb) reviews don't change the fact that Apple's app requires you to perform manual scans and doesn't alert you if you're being tracked. Only iPhones do that.
"In a lab environment" -> Certainly happens, but what if the script targets "specific devices" like "samsung galaxy s10" which google won't be able list exhaustively?

What if bad actors figured out a way to identify google's emulators and avoid doing bad stuff in that situation?

The part i said "google develops browser solutions to prevent issues like this" is exactly what features policy will end up doing. But google's ad systems and chrome features don't always move at the same speed, but you can be sure that whatever ad malware team is finding will help chrome team to strengthen their defense.
Mine would be qualified service to society. 2 years of public service, with no option to bypass. Service being tailored for your particular skills and abilities.
17 year olds are known to not always act in their long-term rational self-interest.
> GPL it.

MIT/Apache/BSD it, IMO.
Wow, I haven't heard of this one, thanks for the suggestion gonna try this out tomorrow. I usually pipe to less but this could be nicer.
I aim for 4 hours of focused work per day, 5 days/week. Now that I've read this, I may tone that down to 3 on some days. :)
> If the largest-scale detention of ethnic and religious minorities since World War II, involving forced labor,suppression of religious practices, political indoctrination, forced sterilization, forced contraception and forced abortion does not qualify in your view as genocide than you are out of touch with the accepted definition of the word.

There are 2.5 million black people in prison in the US, compared to a high end estimate of 1.5 million Uyghurs. (To be fair, there are 3x as many black people as uyghurs, but you said largest-scale.)

I would not expect a population to increase while it is undergoing genocide.

> based a study from 2001, at the peak of US incararation rates across all population groups

I've been consistent in using the past tense when referring to this study.
I'm trying really hard not to come to this conclusion, but the tweet thread doesn't make any sense.

>I didn’t wanna go home, so I spent the night somewhere and just said I’d figure it out in the morning.

So they stayed somewhere and said they would figure it out in the morning. Ok, that's reasonable.

>this morning while I was asleep I had someone close to me check my car

How did they tell someone to search the car while they were asleep? They said they would figure it out "in the morning" when they were awake. Some time between deciding to figure it out in the morning and waking up, they told someone to search their car?

If it didn't happen, being asleep while someone searched your car would be the reason why they threw the device away without your permission. If you were awake when they threw it away, that would be a lot more difficult to believe.
The human cost of Log4j maintenance
Are people against the idea of GPS trackers?

Lightbug uses GPS and has a 6 year battery with a size smaller than a credit card. Ultimately there's no way to put the cat in the bag.

I'd argue it's not possible for a tracker to exist that cannot be used for bad purposes.
Humans can be so strange.
Indeed, meritocracy is among the biggest lie to the middle class/the poor.
If you squint closely, you'll see my issue is not hairsplitting but rather a practical one about trouble with MinGW headers not being super up-to-date (missing DirectX 12 APIs, etc.)

I'm a huge fan of MinGW-w64, though. I would bet most involved in the issue are. We all win by improving the status quo - I'm just a buffoon figuring out the best way to do that :)
I think if the op was talking about non-monetary costs.

But if we're limiting this to monetary costs only, I believe you're right. I saw a similar study from the UK circa ~2008ish that compared long term smoker/obese/healthy medical costs, and healthy people are indeed the most expensive (mostly because of tremendous end of life care costs).

Edit: I dug around a bit and found the study I was thinking of. It was actually a study on obesity (also not done by the UK), but used (non-obese) smokers as a group for comparison.

Link to article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2225430/

See Table 1 for lifetime medical costs.
Not a lawyer, but I'd imagine the most useful point to make is that the researchers misrepresented their identity while sending these threats. Lying about who you are while trying to sue someone is a pretty big no-no.
They should go where ever their doctor tells them to go. But quite frankly I don't see cancer patients going to bars/resturants/clubs etc. This includes the world prior to 2020
I didn't see this mentioned as I scanned the comments,
"Facebook Quietly Admits In Court Its Third-Party 'Fact-Checks' Are 'Opinions'"
https://brjm.org/2021/12/facebook-admits-its-fact-checks-are...

For anyone who has not read Neil Postman's works, look him up.
I'd start with Amusing Ourselves to Death but How to Watch TV News is particularly relevant. All his books are fantastic.
https://www.amazon.com/How-Watch-News-Neil-Postman/dp/078611...
Yes, ~~but~~ and the fact that some police departments are broken doesn't mean we need to propagate learned helplessness about all police departments.
The paper trail is useful.
Javascript is Turing complete so it is impossible to determine what the script is going to do in all environments without running it in all environments.

The script could just detect the test environment and avoid triggering its malicious behavior.
it might have been law enforcement. they might be using this to track potential drunk drivers (i am not saying you were drunk driving or anything) but i do know there was a few articles on it this year, here is one i found

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/07/19/police-find-unexpected-...

or it could be worse and you could have a unhinged stalker on your hands. both are intrusive.

but it’s hard to say, is there a way to find out the owner or look at log files to see what op or which provider is accessing the location details of a tag? i know about these tags but i’ve never used one before so understanding is fairly fresh
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