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> I ask - what new insight did this article offer on Airtags? I don't think anyone can conclude either way on the effectiveness of Apple's "safety measures" when it comes to Airtags, from this small anecdote.

While I understand where you're coming from, I think there's value in adding to the chorus when it comes to putting pressure on a company to rethink a strategy.

Certainly, while articles such as this may not be news to you or I, they are likely to be news to a number of people on HN, their friends & family, etc.

> The author also seems to be somewhat deceptive - "I sound like a terrible wife, but it's for journalism!" No, it seems like the author played a prank on her husband a while back and used that to neuroticaly follow him, then tried to excuse that behavior by writing this fluff piece.

This point misses the mark IMO. The issue with AirTags at their core is that they permit people who are deceptive and shady to do bad things much easier than they could before.

I think the cat's out of the bag now on this type of tech though. Tile's been around for a while, AirTags are now everywhere, the goal now should be developing detection systems (which shouldn't be too hard).
Tell HN: Zoom wants to know my location
I just got a popup from Zoom saying

"ZOOM [sic] would like to access your location for when you make an emergency call. Location can be based on IP addresses, wireless access point ID, GPS coordinates when available. This will help the emergency response team determine where you are.

[Don't allow] [Allow]"

Here's a screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/cF0mFBI

This is going a bit far, and the explanation is a far fetched too. Who'd make a Zoom call to call an ambulance or the police?
Since we're being a bit pedantic in this thread, the biblical descriptions of hell are limited to darkness and gnashing of teeth.
I saw that it's mostly severe infection that results in high levels of auto-antibodies. But the studies I saw seemed to indicate that they only focused on acute infection. I wonder what the prevalence of anti-autobodies are in mild cases and how that correlates with the main article's finding of cardiovascular risk increase even in mild cases. Specifically, if these individuals already had auto-antibodies or some other outlying issue, or if this reaction is representative of the entire group.

It could take years for some autoimmune issues to arise. It would be quite concerning if this affects nearly everyone infected, including asymptomatic or mild infections following vaccination.
I see people use JavaScript Array.map a lot when they aren't doing anything with the returned array, which I find kind of irritating.

So if you're using map sensibly, no there's nothing wrong. But I don't like the dogma I read a lot which is "use map always" because it leads to inexperience developers using it in the wrong circumstances.
Right, as a Brit, out of the US words I know:

Tilapia - a kind of white fish popular in the US, not in the UK

Kwanza - an African American holiday/festival, I want to say around Christmas?

Tamale - a Mexican food of some kind?

Tomatillo - another Mexican food, I want to say a sauce

Provolone - A kind of cheese

Luau - a type of Hawaiian festival or party

The rest, no clue. I've heard of Manicotti and Hibachi, but couldn't say what they are.
Can someone change the title? This is GPT-NeoX-20B, not GPT-3.
Terrestrial and rocky are both far better choices to communicate the concept.
>Hopefully whoever they outsource to can continue the good work.

I've never seen this go well. My most recent experience is one of many where "improvements" were terrible for me as a customer.

Amerigas, a national propane company, did the same thing the year before last. When I needed someone, I'd call the local office and talk to someone who knew the area and the business and would get whatever question or issue resolved almost immediately. When they "improved" customer service by firing all of these local people and consolidated them into a (not offshore, at least) customer service center, it was a total nightmare.

We were in the middle of a backyard renovation that required burying the propane line for our grill and stove. I called the local office and scheduled everything a couple months in advance. When the appointment time came, I received a notification that it was going to be delayed by a week, which would also hold up my project at a cost of $1000/day to pay for an idle crew and their equipment. Unfortunately, between the time I made the appointment and the time I called to see if it could be moved back, the customer service "upgrade" happened.

Every rep was super friendly, but no one had any knowledge of the business and every call required about 40 minutes of hold time just to speak with someone, 10 minutes of conversation, and then another 40 minutes of hold time to speak with the supervisor who was more knowledgable. Even the supservisors didn't have answers and would promise to call back by the end of the day. Of course, out of the 5-6 conversations we had with that promise, exactly zero resulted in a callback. When the work was finally done, it was done without a permit, which could only be pulled by the gas company, so the project was on hold again until that was resolved.

In the end, I had to find a customer service VP on LinkedIn and send them a very polite note about the "unpermitted gas line work" done on my property. That resulted in the issue being resolved the very next day. Before the upgrade, I could have spoken directly with the local rep, who would then just speak to the local tech, and resolve things almost immediately every time.
Some people, though not me, would probably dig wearing display textiles.

Clothes are integral to contemporary human experience, a massive industry, and a well spring of technical innovation (e.g. Nike shoes).
Tbf, it'll also take us a few decades to get human Mars transit figured out so sounds like we're on schedule.
Same. I have heard it (addiction) described as an inability to 'decide not to'.

My most effective strategy has been to simply distract myself. Always listening to music, reading, anything to keep my mind from wandering.
Because socialization is utterly and fundamentally critical to human development.

We may not need to be with each other 8 hours a day, but that bit is a matter of pragmatism.

FYI you are not 'forced'. If your parents want you to stay at home, they can do that. If they want the state to provide your education, it's 30 to a room. And of course, you can pay $50K/year to have 5 per class private school.
I think any Booking user knows that 8+ - awesome, 7+ - okay, less than 7 - handle with care.

At least it's more consistent than "star ratings"
TikTok has the most 3rd party trackers of any social media app
I approve this post. /s
> Addiction can be defined as a persistent, compulsive need to use a substance, despite the negative consequences to you or others.

If that describes you, you likely have an addiction.
Bad! Page invokes bogus alert:

“VPN update required

Your Mobile Safari browser cannot display the webpage.
Please download the recommended free app to solve this problem.

Installing will take about 10 seconds.”
The effect is called time dilation. The section of interest here is „Time dilation caused by a relative velocity“:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation
Huh? What numbers are you looking at?

On my laptop (i7-1165G7, DDR4 3200 MHz) lz4 decompression is ~3000 MB/s, compression is ~485 MB/s (on my 3960X desktop it’s ~1.5x that) (numbers from lzbench). Zram by default uses one stream per CPU, so theoretical max is (I think) 8x those for the laptop and, well, a lot more for the Threadripper. Non-Optane SSDs only really have a potential advantage in sequential writing. Max throughput aside, Zram will generally have better latency (and thus likely IOPS as well), and better consistency since most SSDs get their max performance from DRAM caches.

In the end, though, quibbling over synthetic numbers doesn’t matter much if you have benchmarked your actual use case. I don’t know what “not beneficial” means (the same? 10x worse?), but part of my original point was that
I think that the fire and sulphur part is mostly from Muslim tradition. They kind of got close to what Venus is.
It sounds like a very chicken or egg problem to me, who's to say that progress in robotics doesn't come from trying to establish a base on Mars? Progress is often times non-linear, I mean here we using computers and communication technology based on Integrated Circuits technology furthered by the Apollo program; say we never went to the moon, computing technology and Moore's law might have been set back a decade or two.
> has to be a lie - they haven't died from lack of sleep

It does not work like that.

This close acquaintance of mine had an accident, and he spent every night in years not really sleeping, but bearing attention to the damages borne in the accident, which remained too loud to allow his conscience to go in normal sleep. He spent his nights listening to the pain. People would guess a largely wrong age looking at him, or would say he looked horribly - but he survives today.
This isn't a good test because addiction is a dynamic situation. One can not simply remove the offending substance from their life for X days and confirm they are not addicted.

Persistent and compulsive is key to understanding how it works.
This version is more legible: https://seekingalpha.com/pr/18660932-kpmg-in-canada-adds-bit...
There is an inherent urgency in all of his plans, mainly because he wants to see it done within his lifetime. He's got 40 years left tops, but more like 20 during which he could still theoretically do anything significant in. Rockets take decades to develop.
My first large employer was Best Buy, and at the time (and I believe still?) a large majority of their phone customer service operation was outsourced.

I will still never understand why companies do this. Your quite literal last line of defense (and sometimes first) with a customer is people that aren't directly accountable other than a corporate contract? Never made sense to me.

Also, the fact that they are generally the lowest paid is also bizzare.
Mix and Jam: learn game development by recreating games mechanics
Not sure you read my comment correctly - I mean that the employer will not be able to build a case that he did not show up to work in case his card is disabled.
> now, discourse around love and sex is far more "agnostic", for lack of a better word.

I don't think 'agnostic' is the term: modern discourse is pretty strongly on the side of complete and total libertinism. The idea of chastity is considered laughably impossible by the vast majority of media voices. The western world even has an entire month of the year dedicated to being proud of sexual adventurism.

'Agnostic' is way to anodyne to describe the modern world's view of sexuality IMHO.
I hate this AirTag because besides being pointless (nothing you couldn't do before), it fosters a fear of your neighbor while placing tech companies as your trusted friends. There's no evidence these, "people have freaked out after finding AirTags hidden in their bags and on their cars" are anything other than just stray airtags their owners would very much like back. Just because police (or journalists for that matter) are helping to foster this environment doesn't matter because most police are technologically illiterate and under-trained, and frankly don't know what they're doing.

Google using hidden terms to track your every location is your enemy. Your wife leaving an AirTag in the car is not the enemy. You live in a tech dystopia, not a Liam Neeson film. Nobody is following is following you to QuickCheck to kidnap you.

Also, AirTags suck. If you drop one in your friends car and drive around trying to find it you're now (1) effectively a stalker (2) won't find your AirTag if they have Android which kind of defeats the purpose, since these things are supposed to want to be found, and (3) correct me if I'm wrong, but even if someone finds your lost item and doesn't immediately send the police on you -- they have no way to contact you to setup a return of your lost item? You have to go through the police? Why would anyone want that?

EDIT: Appearantly Apple says you can give it a message if lost of how to contact you, but no way to message without giving additional contact info, and only if you mark it as lost.
> Long story short, it turns out that Workers KV also works for storing static sites generated by Hugo, Gatsby, and other SSGs. This makes complete sense if you think about it. When you access a static site, you point your browser to a unique URL, and the server returns a pre-generated static HTML file. In this model, the URL is the “key” and the contents of the HTML file is the “value”. Thus, a static site can be stored in a key-value data store like Workers KV.

Why not just use Cloudflare's standard CDN? It makes no sense. By this logic, a file system is a perfect key value store, because ya know, the key is the full path and the file is the value.
US and A: you can't ban people from owning guns because it could be against the constitution (2nd amendment) but you can ban encryption and ignore 4th amendment to the constitution :)
Doesn't mention what amount was added. KPMG has not been added to Bitcoin Treasuries yet: https://bitcointreasuries.net/
https://archive.is/VGDKw
I feel like the definition should just be "Addiction can be defined as a persistent, compulsive need to use a substance".

Surely one can be addicted even if it doesn't have negative consequences right?
I actually tend to agree somewhat with your arguments. However, from the article, I don't think you can reach those conclusions like:

"Apple needs to improve, but still drastically better than everything else out there"

Where does the article talk about this class of device? Nowhere is a competing product mentioned or compared against. Even a Bluetooth keyfob, used to track keys by emitting a sound (and widely available) could have been used there.

I like and agree with what you said, I just don't think the article makes those points, to its detriment.
It always amuses me that it was ostensibly Christian America that legalized divorce first not Europe.
My impression was that she was both a) already up with the baby all night, and b) was too tired to drive 30 minutes to the nearest hospital with their baby. The article didn't say if the husband was also up with the baby all night. While tired I'd be wary of drifting off while driving with my newborn in the car.
I’m aware of time dilation, my point was that a “week vacation” to something “over 4 light years” away is just hyperbolic.
Robot photos appear to show melted fuel at Fukushima reactor
> What is the difference between wind turbines and highways or utility poles festooned with cables?

Assuming this is an honest question, both the frequency profile and decibel level are dramatically different. Frequency profile is the main factor of concern. People have considerable ability to adjust to white noise, but not noise dominated by certain harmonics. I'm too lazy to look up references right now, but you can search on effects of low-frequency noise. By the way, I'm not referring to infrasound, which is frequency below the hearing threshold, and whose health effects are less well established or studied.
Let me add: If you find yourself short in storage, you can also mount a Hetzner Storage box (or something like that) as an external storage to your Nextloud. That adds 1 TB of storage for 3,50 €/month or sth. like that.
It's not just huge companies, it makes sense that reviews for anything usually skew negative. Because if someone orders a product/service that worked out great, not many people take the time to write a "thank you letter." But if something was amiss, the user will have no problem venting their (warranted) frustration. I would be livid if Gmail locked me out of my account for no reason, or I received a fake product from an Amazon seller, and would certainly let people know.

However, on the same note, I hate when I see someone blasting/suing Walmart or similar for what one cashier did to them. No amount of corporate training can prepare someone for a bad day.
Ask HN: What browser extensions do you recommend?
I just found out about SponsorBlock (https://sponsor.ajay.app/) from the uBlock Origin thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30287172).

What are some other extensions you think people should know about?
Title says gpt-3, but gist says gpt-neo-20b which was recently open sourced but only 1/10 the size of gpt3.
i don't understand what you mean. Are you referring to performance or implementation details?
People are definitely surprised when they blunder mate in one. But after it happens and the pieces are knocked to the floor, perhaps seeing what you did wrong and understanding it quickly is a feature of the game rather than a bug. This allows faster learning cycles, a feeling of mastery, and progress towards the 2000+ level. Don't forget the competitive dynamic too. Can you learn faster and do better over time than your opponents? This is motivating to many. I certainly enjoyed improving rapidly vs my peers in high school.

I would add that, having now reached 2000+ myself years ago, the same punishing tactical dynamics apply at master level and it's harder to continuously make progress. At some point all chess players turn to other activities, often ones that are more creative, because chess does become repetitive in the confines of the 64 squares. Of course, it's still near-infinitely variable, but the contours of games and the player's progress within them are somehow bounded. Within the last year, I've made a serious effort to switch to Go.

Chess really isn't for everyone always, and as AlphaZero shows, it may not be for any one either... us mere mortals will struggle along, occasionally indulging in puzzle brain crack, and sometimes making meaning out of the journey. In the right context, it can be enjoyable too.

The conclusion of the book states that rather than being viewed as unilaterally boring, I hope chess can be respected and appreciated by all, just like chocolate. You don't have to personally like chocolate, but that doesn't mean it's intrinsically bad, and many people do like it :)
It is a great pleasure to be among people who respect each other, listen, focus on the topics instead of on ego/politics.

Sad if most companies are not like that, I must have been lucky to be in the right teams then.
> This sounds really americentric

His whole comment was about how he want to let traffic route through Russia even though he doesn't like it... but it's really Americentric? Could you explain that point please?
I honestly don't understand. If your point is someone who has only worked jobs for minimum wage is never going to suddenly start a rocket company I'd say you're correct. Especially if someone built or found their safety net on their own, I don't think we should begrudge them having it.

How do you think this works? Do you think 'anyone can do it' means winning the lottery? It means working really hard, getting lucky along the way, and being smart - that likely means getting into finance if it's the 80's and early 90's and tech if it's late nineties and aughts. It doesn't happen overnight.

The reality is, though, that you don't have to be born to millionaires to be one of the richest people in the world.
It's not hard to discover that the population of MA went from 6.54 million in 2008 to 6.89 million in 2019. Just one look at the housing price indices is enough to tell that there's a severe shortage. (Anecdotally, around here (Western MA), ruins of type as-is-where-is that no bank will give you a mortgage on sell for > 125 USD/sqft.)

Anyone who disagrees should be cheery about the shortage of automobile parts and make sure it continues. Nowadays you pay more for a 3-year used car than you used to pay for a new one three years ago! Finally, you can invest in a car!
I made a simple iOS app for designers called as UX Assist. It has been around for 6 years now. I’m just happy that it’s out there and helping some folks now and then. [UX Assist](https://apps.apple.com/in/app/ux-assist/id1491649877)
See here: http://wordlist.aspell.net/12dicts-readme/#whichlist
This is not how HN tends to work with discussions. The parent I originally replied to said what they liked about YSFlight but that they've since found multiplayer to be too quiet for them. I suggested an alternative which does what they seem to be interested in and has a more lively multiplayer population.

You seem to be taking this as a slight on YSFlight which is not the intention and perhaps a bit overly defensive.
You are right. Print the qr and put in your wallet like any elderly person I know does.
I was looking at capacity not generation

So capacity of fossil fuels went up, but I suppose natural gas shuts down while renewable generation is high so it doesn't use its capacity all the time - my bad
>The way I knew was by trying to stop for at least a week, if I could accomplish that, then it wouldn't be a problem.

Not being able to stop for a week shows you are an addict. But being able to stop for week doesn't really show you aren't one. Most addicts do quit for weeks or even months at a time.
I am definitely biased but I feel someone from the UK would have an easier time identifying the other list because alot of the US list is food brought from european immigrants
Btw, thanks for posting these types of links - it's appreciated.
FlightGear
And aside from that, you can't just transfer employment contracts to random third companies in the Netherlands either.
Work-Life Balance: Fear vs. Happiness
It is not illegal, it comes with strings attached because in general, in the EU the employee is seen as being the weak side of a contract, and is protected (to a point) against arbitrariness from the strong side.
Beautiful website, beautiful content. I have learned and taken account into considerations in facing addiction.
Show HN: Cross Browser Chrome Devtools
>The issue with AirTags at their core is that they permit people who are deceptive and shady to do bad things much easier than they could before.

But that's just not true. Seriously, right now, go to Amazon and type in "GPS Tracker" and look at the results:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=gps+tracker

Literally $30 gets you a 1oz cellular magnetized tracker you put a SIM into for real time tracking anywhere with cell coverage with voice monitoring included! Literally for tracking and they proudly advertise it. No warnings or nags about "a device is following you", no noises. Comes with Prime shipping, get it as soon as Sunday February 13!

Apple being Apple may well have brought more publicity to the issue but no, AirTags do not do what you say they do. If anything there are reasonable arguments that Apple has been too careful to the extent of making them pretty irritating in family/friends usage where everyone gets nagged for normal shared item activity and cannot use them in a shared way (despite being able to do so for devices!).
The donations are about to crack $1M total now. Wonder if this will be seen in the future as the moment when crypto currency usage started to click in the developed world.
A screenreader doesn’t literally read the screen, it reads the accessibility tree that apps build for their interfaces. If your user interface kit doesn’t create an accessibility tree then your users’ screenreaders are completely lost at sea.
It would be cool if TUI tools like Quattro Pro and Wordperfect or WordStar could be ported to Linux.
Can't backspace on Android chrome. To replace a letter I have to long press to highlight then hit my new letter
I don't have that take at all. The husband knew he was being tracked, she got permission from him prior to putting any tracking devices on him.

> It could have been "forgiven" (if this word even applies) had it contributed something meaningful

Just because you are aware of the dangers of tracking and how these devices work it doesn't mean others are equally aware.