skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So they can more than double detection if Apple opens a web service that lets you find out if you're recent coordinates were also tracked by giving such a service to Google. So instead of having your phone ping Apple, Google could do it for you and find out if you're being tracked.
Thank you for the kind encouragement. Believe it or not, it's quotes like these that form my last line of defense against permanent discouragement. In truth, I'm not interested in math because it's easy, but because it's hard. I just wish I could consistently make some progress, even if it's small.

Ah well, no use raging against reality.
We were gifted a butt whistle (and a whole Frida set, which was great), and fortunately never got the opportunity to use it.
Crypto is all speculative value, it's no more similar to fiat-in-savings as shares in Meta or Tesla are. The speculative value of all that crypto is a reflection of the most recent trades for fiat; and if there is a run on crypto it will most assuredly crater in value.

So who's the greater fool?
Well, as I say, I may not be of any help, but at least you'll have someone with whom to share your confusion. I'll look for your email.
I was worried about that too, but yes, there was a comment box asking to explain the reason for the cancellation, and I was careful to make it clear.
Thank you for doing the design work for me! I'm literally copying the well thought drawn in system.

I was just wondering how I would make the wood thing, and now you've inspired me to have this system on my desk by the end of the day. Brilliant!
"Look, once you put in enough liquidity, so that I can bail out of here, and you're stuck where I was, then you'll finally get it." is how I usually read those sorts of responses.
My guess is, it has to do with how you handle 1, 2, N. The first time we write something, we write it just for that specific case --- no point overengineering if you don't know you'll need it. (Hence the "YAGNI" advice that is common.)

Now, there are two things that code has to handle. You could put in a simple bit of special-case logic, or a case statement, and move on, OR you could instead spend time, codes, and tests making it robust to handle many different types of input, with a type-specific config system that makes it easy to add new type-specific behavior.

Our predilection on many teams is to skip the middle part, and write robust automation the first time we hit a special exception. ("This used to be about ordering burgers but now we want to also order shakes, and they don't have a cook-time.") It seems like the OP was suggesting that we do a "crappy" good-enough solution to that intermediate phase of complexity, as there's a chance you might not need more than that.
Satisfactory was fun for a while, and I want to try the v5 features still, but even as an FPS vet I get headaches and frustrations trying to do accurate placement of buildings, let alone tightly optimal.

Amazing graphics optimizations, considering the dynamic lighting and how many objects are rendered.
I think besides all the stuff happening with NFTs, there will be a lot of good stuff that will come out of the web3 tech stack.

EDIT: I love the downvotes. Doesn't matter that I wrote an article explicitly calling out web3 as a scam. The article in question got over 100,000 views to date.[0]

[0]: https://stackdiary.com/web3-scam/
Please don't repeat generic flamewar tropes here. We've had hundreds of these threads already, and they're all the same.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I am honestly surprised to find that the cards used in this incredibly overproduced riff on Getting Things Done's method are the same size as commonly-available index cards, so you can use the cute tray without spending $10 for a pack of 50 cards. Or maybe not - the tray has rounded corners designed to fit snugly with the branded cards, while a $5 pack of 300 blank white index cards from Office Depot has sharp corners.
I appreciate your concern.

Her own staffer did ask me some time ago, unprompted, if she too must fear criminal charges. There exists proof of this.

I do feel bad for her and even the judge's superior, the court president, who I believe failed to take action not because she couldn't recognize the problem but because this judge wields more power than her boss.

Finally, some documents have been designated a state secret because public knowledge would be disadvantageous to the state, something I can agree with. These were circulated before I could interpret the acronyms thus outside my control now.
Great quote.

For me, as a physics major, calculus didn’t “click” until I had to use it for solving physics problems.
US believes Putin has decided to invade Ukraine, Biden tells NATO leaders
> So it's basically just translated to a relational database in normal form

So... just an ORM ;)
Transition from Blogging to YouTube
I would be motivated to do it. If you were a happy wordle player and also have a marginalized identity, it might suck to finally get the word right and see a slur against that identity bouncing across the screen in happy green letters. Seems to me like this makes Wordle a more welcoming game.
You generally need that and typically reasonable experience wrangling different legal matters at scale. I guess Musk was just being Musk.
Could an LCD display be used as a sensor?
On YouTube they're now demanding a credit card number to verify I'm over 18. I guess someone said a swear word in the video I'm trying to watch. Yeah not giving them my credit card number.
It's Kamu, not Kami.
"Game" gets used to analyze human behavior a couple of unrelated ways.

Game theory as a branch of mathematics is about analyzing adversarial and potentially limited knowledge systems. It is unrelated to whether some theoretical game is embedded in any particular social or moral system. You can look at dating, the voting patterns of the United Nations, and poker all under the lens of game theory even though the former two wouldn't generally be considered "games".

Unrelated to that, over in the world of "ludology" or game studies and game development, people discuss what it means for a certain system to "be a game" or "not be a game". Likewise, they discuss what makes an activity "play" versus "not play". Why do we feel some moves are "play-like" and others aren't. What defines our notion of fair play? What is sportsmanship? What is cheating? Where is the line between the game and the metagame?

I'm using "game" in the second sense here, which I think applies. When people say something "is a game", often what they are implying is that "all legal moves are fair play". But I think that value statement is only morally justifiable in an environment that is actually game-like. And for a social system to be game-like in that way means that everyone participating has agreed to the rules of the game and accepts that all moves are fair play.
If someone is going to write an article about tracking and surveillance, to me it reduces their credibility if they don't understand something very basic about how GPS works. It makes me wonder what else they got wrong in the article, and whether or not I should trust their overall conclusions.

This might not matter to you, and that's fine; it does matter to me.
I can't think of a single time I've needed to implement a linked list but knowing how to do it is still useful.

A quick search tells me that factoring quadratic equations is covered around grade 8 or 9. I'm guessing that the instructor assumed that everyone would have enough math to know how to do this or quickly refresh their memory so they could focus on the programming aspects and not the problem solving.
Take 2 or 3 presses for Enter to submit on Firefox on Android.
Would you say there are people whose financial gains depend on preventing the things “Web3” claims to do?
Having also attended both public and ivy league schools in STEM from undergrad to PhD levels I can say from what I have seen there is a huge lack in mathematics education. This is especially true in the lower undergrad courses where profs see it as a burden to deal with in terms of teaching and the classes devolve into mechanistic / memorization exercises. very few teach students to reason with mathematics mostly prb bc 1 the profs are bad or disinterested teachers or 2 bc the profs have fundamentally other interests and are forced to each elementary classes in subjects they may mot have an affinity for or deep knowledge in- ie functional analysis or prob theory ... Once you get into the later classes math education steeply improves where fundamental questions are investigated and asked. i remember auditing a math physics class with 4 students and a prof al phd students - it was incredible and was totally outside of my area of research.

all this to say i think undergrad math education is poorly designed/ incentivized and run in my experience and leads to a huge loss of talent from the practice and art of mathematics.
Hugely important fixes that can’t arrive soon enough.

Melee desync has been a nightmare. Halo5 did not have this issue
That would be AGI by another name.
I have tried SMS alerts for various things. What happens is that I start ignoring SMS. So this isn't something that will work for everyone, especially if the SMS messages become too frequent.
Your ability to find work will basically define your success as a freelancer.

The public websites for contract work are not great places to look unless you're okay taking the lowest common denominator jobs.

Your personal network is the best place to start. You need to start reaching out to contacts and offering your services for hire. If you're uncomfortable with this, you're not a good candidate for freelance work.

Some people get lucky and find a constant stream of niche work from their network right away. Others will have to work hard to find each additional contract. It will get easier over time as you build a reputation and expand your network, but it will take work to get there.
Because it's not only Infosys, there is a whole industry of selling underskilled labour for the cheap.

I haven't worked with Infosys, but I have with other four companies providing similar services, and they all do the same.

It's extremely frustrating, because the budget folks only look at the bottom line and would sign contracts with any of these firms, leaving hiring managers with the responsibility of taking subpar consultants in.
You deserve an answer, and I apologize if my tone was overly harsh. There is always a human at the other end of everything...

So, your article reads like an "X is great" piece that fails to mention all of the previous times the same sentiment was spouted and shown to not be true, because something human-centric was missing from the techno-centric solution X.

This same sentiment "the future of education is X" has been espoused with X ∈ {radio, television, internet, MOOCs, AR/VR/metaverse, ...} yet it keeps eluding us, and I don't think I can articulate it better than the former director of Microsoft Research Asia:

http://edutechdebate.org/ict-in-schools/there-are-no-technol...

Here is your unsexy QotD:

"Quality primary and secondary education is a multi-year commitment whose single bottleneck is the sustained motivation of the student to climb an intellectual Everest. Though children are naturally curious, they nevertheless require ongoing guidance and encouragement to persevere in the ascent. Caring supervision from human teachers, parents, and mentors is the only known way of generating motivation for the hours of a school day, to say nothing of eight to twelve school years."

The one-sided way you wrote your post fails to mention anything of the other dimensions that would have to be tackled by modern media in order to succeed where others have failed (another comment here mentioned Postman's "Amused to Death", and I recommend it to you as well). You omit discussion of any weaknesses inherent in these media (and how to possibly tackle them). If you even outlined these aspects, it would really strengthen your essay as something valuable to read and learn from.

I hope the above was somewhat more constructive and actionable feedback than my initial (admittedly harsh) comment.
Yeah they certainly are. But their services catalog only recently started to approach the: "hell, I can pull an entire commercial app just out of Cloudflare infra". There are still a few missing spots, but seems they'll close the gaps pretty soon. Excited to see.
A binder clip works well too. It's the Hipster PDA! http://www.43folders.com/2004/09/03/introducing-the-hipster-...
PostmarketOS // v21.12 Service Pack 2
All: if you're going to comment here, please respond to something specific in the article. If this article is of interest, it's because Tim O'Reilly coined the phrase Web 2.0 and therefore what he has to say on it might be interesting.

Don't just repeat generic points on the topic—this is the most repeated and therefore the most boring flamewar topic that exists right now, so those sorts of comments are off topic. We want curious conversation here [1]. Curiosity withers under repetition [2] and thrives on diffs [3], so let's have the diffs, please.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
UK exports to EU fell by £20bn last year, new ONS data shows
Another couple user in the wild. My girl and I used that for SO long! It's sad to see it gone. I stole the cute little dog and beaver emojis before it went offline and incorporated them into whatsapp.
I'm not sure this is a good metaphor since weapons are designed for violence, regardless of whether that violence is legally justified or not. Just to be clear, I'm not trying to make a political stand, this is simply the dictionary definition: "weapon /ˈwɛp(ə)n/ a thing designed or used for inflicting bodily harm or physical damage".
The suspicion I have about self sufficiency pessimism is that it's an apples to oranges comparison. Are there any modern analogies? As near as I can tell, it hasn't been required after the 16th century, due to access to relatively timely transportation.

And if it hasn't been required, then how are we to look at existing practice and say we're bad at or incapable of it?
> She had to hide her title on her resume when she left

An easy fix for that would be to add the number of employees she managed and the size of the company. The title is scary but she did manage people and did report to the CEO, so to me it is a VP position. Of course, that won’t map 1:1 when hiring into a new company (doubt she’ll be reporting to the CEO) but the person she might report to would be managing an org of a similar size to her previous company.

> because no established firm wanted to hire someone whom they assumed they'd need to pay a quarter million dollars to be competitive.

250k total comp (including some equity) doesn’t sound outlandish to me. Very much in the market for someone who had lead experience in her 20’s. Some fresh grads land that out of school.
If I hire you, I'm going to be a lot more interested if you know how to get a backtrace for every thread in a process than if you can whiteboard Dijkstra's algorithm. I'm going to be a lot more interested if you know anything the issues with denormals and use of -ffast-math than any of your familiarity with sorting algorithms (which will no doubt exceed mine). I'm going to be a lot more interested in whether you understand how to iterate over a utf8 string than your understanding of how to construct an AST and use it.

I worked in a (good) CS department for 4.5 years. They did not teach programming skills to anyone. Most (not all, but most) of the jobs you might be hired to do require far more from the programming skills area than the "computer science" area. People coming out of that program (even at the PhD level) often didn't not even understand how to use a debugger!
“Stars with a mass of less than 0.25 solar masses do not evolve into red giants.… Toward the end of the blue dwarf phase, Proxima will become considerably more luminous, reaching up to 2.5% of the Sun’s luminosity. Once it runs out of hydrogen fuel, it will evolve into a white dwarf, skipping the red giant phase, and gradually lose all its heat energy.”

So we just need to tackle climate change and learn to live sustainably on Earth, then we’ll have a few billion years to figure out how to get to Proxima Centauri.
On the other hand later tweets from the same journalist:

>.@jakejsullivan: "We are not saying that a decision has been taken, a final decision has been taken by Putin."

https://twitter.com/nickschifrin/status/1492214102630019072

>Asked about my earlier reporting, @JakeSullivan46 says the US has not concluded that Putin gave the order to invade.

https://twitter.com/nickschifrin/status/1492216395483996160
Please change title.

Article has nothing do with chess, literally or figuratively.
My cofounder and I just used “Design Lead” and “Dev Lead” as our titles for nearly a decade - I only reluctantly took the mantle of “CTO” after taking outside investment, as they insisted on grandiosity - said it was amateurish to have small titles whilst employing 50+ people.
I've worked in a couple of different industries, and from what I've seen an associate is generally a title for junior staff. After a few years, most graduate some type of specialist or project management job title.
Yes, this isn’t good journalism.

“I drove over my husband with an F150 for journalism. Ford clearly needs to do more.”
It doesn't really capture what the paper encompasses, it highlights a specific part as if that was even a primary observation. The one I propose is dull as hell but its captures the extent of the study mostly trimming from the original and substituting synonyms for character constraint.
Why is a link to CBS making it to the top of HN? There is nothing new or interesting in this article either. These links to generic, MSM news sites are a more recent phenomenon, to the point that I wish there was a built-in domain filter on HN.
SO has been around for far longer than Quora has, and most "experts" who post there are actual experts. I also have the feeling that the more "serious" types of people would like to keep SO as a reliable source of advice, and so with against any trend that may compromise the integrity of the answers (including posters not taking things seriously).
As someone who claims to be concerned about the effects of repetition on curiousity, you do seem to repeat yourself an awful lot.
chess is smarty and computers are smarty.
a) the Silver Spring monkey page was an interesting read. Real shame if the allegations are true, but at least very useful findings and treatment came out of it.

b) from the NYPost: “Many, if not all, of the monkeys experienced extreme suffering as a result of inadequate animal care and the highly invasive experimental head implants during the experiments, which were performed in pursuit of developing what Neuralink and Elon Musk have publicly described as a ‘brain-machine interface,’”

Let's say the inadequate animal care is true, and it gets fixed as it should, I don't know what can be done about the invasive experimental head implants. That's the whole purpose of the research.
Cloud, Load, and Modular Code: What 2022 Looks Like for Shopify
The trees grown from space-faring seeds
This was a while ago, but IIRC there were some fairly major software-reliability rough edges (frequent crashing/bugs/etc). Beyond that the major shortcoming was that it was constrained to pdf's only, and that's only one part of my reading workflow.

For a while I was trying to sync a Zotero library (since I need citation management when writing papers), and do all my academic reading (which is mostly pdf's) in Polar, but it was just a bit too much overhead to stick with.
Who qualifies as a "safe registrar"?
What exactly is web3? The current web with NFT profile pictures and crypto microtransactions? Something more?
No. I'm upset by lame uninteresting HN content.
Just ordered Schaum's Outline on Graph Theory. Thank you for the recommendation!
Yes, saying "I have never needed to factor a quadratic equation" is akin to saying "I have never needed to fly on an airplane".

Both statements can be true, but neither negates the utility of the activity.
I agree especially from the authentication side of things.
I think your best bet is to fund a study group to do an independent public report on the risks around these products and recommendations for mitigating them. Put domestic abuse survivors, parents, infosec people, lawyers, etc on there. Stakeholders and people good at reasoning about risk. You might not like all of the conclusions but to the extent you adopt them it will give you the most credit for having done the right things.
> Whatever you do, don't borrow against the value of your crypto holdings.

That's like, the whole premise of yield farming, so I think that horse has fully escaped the barn.

He's probably right though, I have no idea what a "worst case" scenario looks like if all of the yield farmers lose their collaterals; feels like a negative feedback loop, but IDK, maybe it's not because the provider of the loan has guaranteed recourse on a default.
Wow, thanks for the link! What a great guy, he really engaged with almost everybody who asked a question.
Grade AAA gold coated bullshit is the life blood of most of those departments. It defines their careers. Way to give them what they want.
A nuclear reactor can only do this (depending upon combustible bars state) at most twice per day. This is a severe limitation.
France is a leader in this field.
Source (French language ahead!):
https://new.sfen.org/rgn/expertise-nucleaire-francaise-suivi...
You realize rarity is referencing the relative percentage of an event or item and not the absolute number right? If you have 1 million people in the numerator, but 100 million in the denominator, then the rate is pretty rare
Such links are by no means a recent phenomenon. HN has for many years downweighted most major media sites—if this article appearing on HN seems unusual to you, it's probably because that system is working. But we override those penalties when an article seems interesting, and I thought what Tim has to say in this context might be interesting. Maybe I was wrong about that.

If people keep posting generic yay-crypto-boo-crypto flamewar tropes and hopelessly generic comments—the most boring kind of comment there is—then obviously this thread is hopeless.
Hm yeah I think it's an interesting concept, perhaps it's not preferred under current NFT definitions to my mind something can be both non-fungible and mutable. I can own a house, but I can renovate the interior, add rooms, paint walls etc - those changes are done _to_ the house, it's still the same house, and I still own it.

Off-chain solutions where longevity is concerned don't sit well with me - I don't personally trust oracles to be available for eternity or remain benevolent. Your approach based on a smart contract sounds good as it's on-chain. But would it be preferred to have a dynamic / mutable NFT standard with this capability baked in somehow?

Anyway not really my wheelhouse, and as you say probably off topic for now. Just something I find interesting to consider.
If I would be tempted to use forEach but can’t because async, I usually don’t want for…of semantics, though. I probably want something like

await Promise.all(collection.map(thing => some_async_function(thing)));

instead of:

for thing of collection {
await some_async_function(thing);
}
What exactly do you have in mind? I've read Moxie Marlinspike's little takedown†; my takeaway was that web3 is hard to work with, so it's mostly a loose collection of platforms which everyone centralizes around. But we already have centralized platforms like that; what's the good new stuff that's going to last?

†https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html