skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen this issue in a slightly different context. A few years ago, my Android phone began dying much more quickly than before. Looking at the built-in battery stats, nothing was amiss and there were no apps causing excessive wakeups. It was only when I used Android Battery Historian that I saw there was a ton of bluetooth wakeups caused by Google Play Services.

But why would it be waking up so much? Usually the wake requests originate from some other app, but I didn't see any associated wakeups in the stats dump. After a while I remembered that I installed GasBuddy recently, and a Google search revealed that other people had Bluetooth battery drain issues after installing it. Apparently GasBuddy had an ads SDK that aggressively scanned for Bluetooth beacons. Removing the app stopped the drain.

I was shocked that no battery stats screen showed GasBuddy was the culprit. Even the Battery Historian tool (which requires the user to run a Docker image and dump a bugreport) only hinted that there was some Bluetooth wakeups, but didn't show which app they originated from.

This AirTag seems to be a similar issue, especially if a less experienced user doesn't realized all the "Find My" wakeups are caused by nearby AirTags.

I think Apple needs to make the "deep sleep" states of their devices more strict so they can minimize drain when sitting (both when sitting overnight on a nightstand, or for a week in a living room). Notifications (besides calls) can usually afford to be batched since users are asleep or not nearby. As for AirTags, if one is being carried through an area, there's probably other iDevices that are being actively used nearby. They're already awake and using RF, so they can handle the AirTag ping with virtually no additional power consumption.
Not what I was trying to say at all, I'm saying that NFT tech is good because the default option is that the artist gets royalties and this happens probably >95% of the time?

I think I felt compelled to mention that people send it anyway because it's good behavior and not all scams/crimes people say it is. In general I think the royalty thing is just one nice bonus of using smart contracts
Before the changes talked about in this article, the HOV lanes on US101 in NorCal were all "open access". You could enter and exit them at any place you wished, just like any other lane.

That's the case for many other highways with HOV lanes in NorCal as well.

I imagine the main difference is that most of these "open access" HOV lanes are time-limited; outside of the morning and evening weekday rush hours they're not HOV lanes. It makes more sense to have stronger separation for full-time HOV (or toll) lanes.
> I trust the freedom and liberty of people

"Trust" is usually earned. On what basis have "people" earned your trust?
On the one hand, security guidelines are fairly OS independent. Likewise, it helps whether it's self hosted or not.

On the other hand, I guessed most people would post Linux stuff, so I added FreeBSD content for those who want an alternative or a heterogeneous infrastructure.
I recommend Fastmail: https://www.fastmail.com/

It's not free, but you get decent support, and it's their whole business, not a sideline, so there's a good chance they won't yank it.
The same could be said of the US, especially since the NDAA made it legal for the government to use propaganda on the domestic population.
> Then you aren't trying very hard to stay informed

I don’t disagree with this, but I don’t think the burden should entirely be on us common folk. We are the ones being lied to. We can’t only focus on “staying informed,” it is critical that we start demanding the truth from the institutions we’re supposed to trust. If they don’t change, we need new institutions.
I mean, do you feel that Fox and OAN deserve the same "reputation score" as Nature? If so, why?

For as much whining here about the importance of free and open discussion, it's unfortunately verboten to say it, but fortunately people will usually bring it up of their own volition. It is like the "why are all the highly educated people so liberal!?!?" thing, deep down you know the answer, and it's not actually "because of liberal indoctrination!", it's that truth itself has a bias, and so "unbiased" results that merely prefer truthiness can have a bias themselves. The fix for that isn't to present both as equally reputable (or worse, for the answer to be "unknowable" simply because "two parties disagree"), it's for the affected party to stop pushing disinformation and falsehoods.

Not all sources are created equal. Not even all news sources are created equal. And if you agree to that, then we agree on the merits, and it's just the outcomes that you disagree with.

(And lest you disagree - Fox News themselves went to court to argue that their programming is not "news media" and is not intended to be a source of truth, in response to slander/libel suits for saying and writing things that are factually untrue to service their political agenda. So even Fox News agrees they should have a lesser "reputation score" than even other news media.)

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/new-yor...
LightBlue is available for iOS users as well.
Seeking the Tootbird
Studs Terkel’s magnum opus, 'Working,' turns 50
Big Brother would like to invite all outer party members to the two minutes hate
That is question-begging of the first order, and also circular logic. "A unanimous response is not fishy, because it is incontrovertibly wrong; it is incontrovertibly wrong because the response is unanimous."

Very odd reply.
DistroWatch counts by clicks to the distro's page from what I remember. Its statistics represent the "interest", rather than install count.

With regard to Alpine Linux on Docker, the install count[0] of the base image should give an idea (over 1 billion!).

[0] https://hub.docker.com/_/alpine

Edit: clarity
I agree, and my reading of Substack's content guidelines is that this would be allowed. A sex worker could write on Substack about issues important to their community, and then link to their Onlyfans for the porn. That means people who want to avoid the porn could easily do so, and those who want to see it know exactly where to go.
WC: is World Conquest
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28621288
> If you're a government client, we'll give it to you cheap enough to get a foothold in your organisation, then pull in massive deals over years and take away discounts once it's too hard to get rid of us.

This concerns me as a non-government agency. I hope vendor lock-in isn’t your business strategy.
Bold of you to assume GET requests do not have side effects
enjoy your long covid!

https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2022/03/living-with-covid-mo...
From How The Dutch Economy Shows We Can't Reduce Wealth Inequality With Taxes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot4qdCs54ZE

> The Netherlands skew falsely high on the GINI coefficient because house loans are insured by the state, causing many families to technically be in large debt, beyond the value of their houses.

That makes it hard to trust the wealth numbers, e.g. things like "the top 10% of the country owns 60% of the wealth" (according to the OCED). The bottom 60% of the country owns "almost no" wealth. It also explains why, if you visit The Netherlands, it doesn't seem like it is struggling with inequality…

Source: https://www.oecd.org/netherlands/OECD2015-In-It-Together-Hig...
Yes, I can see why this is great for the big CAD vendors. Not so great for CAD vendors which still need to get big..

It probably also becomes clear now why Russian systems use a different product.. :D
Geez, this seems like if Timecube was opensourced on GitHub. Is it a serious project or a parody?
You can add any RSS feed to the app via reader.substack.com. As long as other newsletter providers support RSS, this should be no problem.
Most of the answers to this question seem to make the argument that you could not automatically generate safe Rust wrappers for an existing C library because it would be impossible to automatically know the safety requirements for a C API.

That's also true, in general, for C++, but CXX is nevertheless attempting to solve that problem.

CXX requires you to give some extra information when declaring the bridge. Presumably that can allow things to be less automatic.

I'm guessing that the reality is that if your C++ code is relatively idiomatic then CXX will work with it, but stray too far from idiomatic C++ - i.e. towards a C-style interface and CXX won't be able to do such a good job.

But it would be good to hear something more definitive.
The reason we carve out a category of tensor, even when you could in principle just define ad-hoc functions on vectors and call it a day, is that we notice the commonalities between a number of objects which are invariant with respect to coordinate changes. Machine learning generally does not use this invariance at all, and has arrays which happen to be tensors for largely unrelated reasons. Calling them tensor makes more sense than calling, say, real numbers tensors, but less sense than calling reals reals.
The flu once mutated to be very deadly, and there's no particular reason it couldn't happen again. For all anybody really knows, the next super deadly flu strain might show up tomorrow. Are you going to spend your life terrified of this "what if" scenario too?
That is a valid claim. The artificial bioreactors in question are rarely as efficient as the body of an animal. So these "reduction" claims come from thinking about how much animal meat production is reduced by meeting the demand with fake meat, not taking the energy demands of fake meat production into account at all.
I've been on Gentoo since 2005. It's a great distro if don't mind compiling everything ;)
You do realize there is a happy middle ground between hiding inside forever and pretending COVID doesn't exist, right?
Lol, not a question, but I love that the first release notes are “minor fixes and improvements”
Netgear Equipment Bricking Itself?
Since it is impossible to get in contact with anyone from NETGEAR through any of their public channels, I figured I would try here. I have reason to believe that there is a major issue with your products. Please reach out so we can discuss privately.
Which mathematician disagrees with what exactly?

Tensors are introduced by physicists to ensure various physical quantities (which involve coordinates and their derivatives) do not depend on the arbitrarily chosen coordinate system. This is ensured through the transformation properties of tensors.

The name tensor itself comes from the theory of elasticity, Cauchy stress tensor, which BTW is uniform in many practical cases, and obeys the following tensor transformation rule:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy_stress_tensor#Transform...

like any other (contravariant) tensor must.

Matrices are not examples of tensors. Matrices can be used for representation of tensors, in which case tensor product becomes Kronecker product, but matrices in general don't have to represent tensors. You can put anything, including your favorite colors or a list of random numbers, in a matrix, and it won't be a tensor in general, not unless it must transform like a tensor under coordinate system changes.

Similarly, TensorFlow "tensor" is just a multidimensional data array, with no transformation rules enforced on it, and therefore is not a tensor.
Can I Get a Job in Canada as a Foreigner
Could someone help me understand this gender pay gap issue? My understanding is that it would be illegal to just pay a woman less for the same job. And in my company for SWE women are actually paid more on average. Is the issue with total averages? Like on average, across all jobs, a man is paid more than a woman? If so, I don't think attacking brands is really gonna help anything, instead we would need to persuade more women to enter economically valued careers like Finance and CS.
Still going to mask up when going indoors.

I don't want the flu, I don't want a cold and I don't want to get covid.
The other day I visited a 3 years old Reddit thread. OP posted a playlist for a certain topic. There were about 100 links to songs on Youtube. About a third no longer work. For many Youtube doesn't even tell me what the titles were, so I can't search for alternatives. I'll never know what those links pointed to.

Not long ago they nuked old unlisted videos, too.
Not really. It is hard to get disparate nations to agree on anything, unless you suspect there is a secret, central party coordinating the response. Consensus of this unusual sort gives credence to the claims.
My mid-1980s digital alarm clock came with a full schematic. Can you imagine that today?
Nyet. All is good.
Ask HN: Does No-Fly zone mean declaring a War with Russia?
Why West is saying no the no-fly zone over the Ukraine while sanctioning Russia? Are sanctions alternative to the No-fly zone?
Right- I feel a Raspberry Pi and a bluetooth module (or a handful of them) would be a lot cheaper. Set it up to repeatedly ping everything in range, stick it to a battery pack, and just go about your business. It would certainly illustrate some of the many shortcomings of Bluetooth, and always-listening services.

I'm not advocating that you should, keep in mind. It certainly seems to be in poor taste, but there may be a platform for using it educationally, I.e. hacker cons.
that's me.

and my experience of the web has been painful for the past 5 to 6 years. it feels like no one cares about zoom level or accessibility...
I've already seen this move compared to the "Two Minutes Hate" from 1984, and I have to agree, it's not that far off tbh.
I grew up with the Kamm tail cars (and later the ugly rubber duck tails), but always preferred the Roundtail cars as the perfect expression of that body. You're right, you used to be able to buy them relatively cheap (although the Alfas were always just a bit more than the Fiats, MGs, Triumphs, Datsuns, etc), but now they're getting pricey. One just sold on BaT for $97K! Though you can still find ok runners in the $20K's.

The owner of this white '67 wanted $30K, too rich for my blood. But I had fun helping to diagnose a carb leak and rotor phasing issue with it. Old Italian cars are like boats, most fun when playing with somebody else's. Besides, I've got a Porsche 951 that more than keeps me on my toes.
And then what? Or do you mean the Americans should have listened to him? Eastern Europeans can't do anything but react to the USA's prodding in Mearsheimer and the like's view, they're just pawns to be played by the USA vs. the if-then AI known as Russia. The world is a 1 player game, everything that happens is ultimately due to the right or wrong decisions of the Americans
Nietzsche was staunchly against nationalism, socialism, and Prussian militarism. Pretty much the anti-Hitler.
> maybe things from other places, like RSS etc

This is exciting to hear. When I saw the announcement, but my first thought was "They're making an RSS reader that only reads from Substack". If you're actually building a _better reader_ that's bigger than Substack (and doesn't push Substack content too hard) then you've got my support!
I think your company has done a lot of work around building resources for up-and-coming writers—legal services, health insurance—as well as educational offerings. Most of those have requirements tied to Substack usage or revenue. If you offered a package that made these accessible to non-Substackers, that would be a useful contribution to the space in general.

I think promotional options within the ecosystem would be nice for newsletter creators outside of Substack, but at the same time, I think the work that you’ve put into building significant resources is a unique offering in the sector that nobody else is doing to the same degree.

A good model to compare this to, in my mind, would be the Freelancers Union (https://www.freelancersunion.org), which offers a lot of services to people who freelance. That I think could be of interest even to people who don’t publish with you.

I’ve been around the block for a bit, and I think a big part of the reason the blogging ecosystem died is because there weren’t any nets. You have done a good job of creating a net for your audience. There’s no reason that net has to be for Substack users alone.
Great way to destroy your immune system
An iOS app designed to waste money/ show off how rich you are
All general critiques about DDG aside, it is absolutely untrue that search engines never target American news sources for downranking. Google/DDG and other sites have removed and downranked American news sites on multiple occasions. Scroll through this very comment section and you'll find someone complaining about DDG's handling of Drudgereport[0].

It was not that long ago that we were having really fierce debates about when and how aggregators and algorithms should filter/downrank vaccine misinformation, and a ton of that debate revolved around downranking American news sources and commentators.

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[0]: I do want to note that it isn't immediately clear to me that DDG did downrank Drudgereport, and sometimes people just get kind of conspiratorial about things, but I'm taking commenter at their word since I assume they have some source for that they just didn't mention.
Preparing for the worst and mitigating risk != being terrified
Definitely. The current Discover tab in the app is admittedly pretty basic - just search, the same featured publications from the homepage on substack.com, and categories. We have a lot of ideas for how to improve this tab, as well as other discover mechanisms throughout the app.

One area I'm especially excited about: discovery through the lens of the writers you trust. What are those writers reading themselves? What else are their readers (whose taste you ostensibly share) reading? We have a light version of this already with reader profiles in the app (and on web) - when you subscribe to a publication, you can choose whether to display it on your profile. Lots more we could do though.
There are a ton of interesting distributed systems problems in cryptocurrency. More generally, open source projects will often share issues for beginners which might be good to start with. Find a project you like and see if there's any way you can help.

Most projects label their low-hanging-fruit issues with "good first issue". Start there and filter down as required. https://github.com/search?q=label%3A%22good+first+issue%22&t...
Absolutely beautiful little OS - I love that it manages to balance well between being light, secure and rather versatile for server environments. I run it as a WireGuard & Docker server on a low-end VPS, and it just works without any problems at all thus far.

Its wiki does a fine job at being a pretty good resource for documentation, too, and both ArchWiki & Gentoo Wiki work well as fallbacks.
We're 100% focused on subscriptions, so we're unlikely to do this any time soon (or at all).
You're supposed to start typing a country name and then you'll get an auto-complete list in that drop down.
an even greater way to destroy your immune system? dying from covid!
I don’t in general have too much fondness for US military adventures or alliances, though I think in fairness they fall on a spectrum from pretty sketchy to at least well intentioned.

But that doesn’t make me unable to judge other events on their merits. Two wrongs don’t make a right, false equivocation and all that.
You have to squint pretty hard to call Ukraine a western nation.

Is it the "western nation" part that makes this different?
Using musl instead of glibc leads to enough surprises that I've migrated my alpine containers over to Debian-slim based ones. If you have a bunch of containers built on the same base, the storage of Alpine vs Debian becomes less substantial, and you avoid a lot of weird bugs and a surprisingly large performance hit (at least for python)
BlocPower is turning every home into the equivalent of a Tesla
> It's hard to tell whether the reason beginners pick languages is because they are not typed

No, it is not hard to tell. Programming beginners positively do not choose languages by evaluating concepts that they have no clue about.

> You don't see much lisp among beginners, despite the absence of type notation.

Lisps are simply not widely promoted to beginners; there aren't enough people to do that.

Beginners end up learning whatever is thrust at them most frequently and loudly. Basically, the non-beginners more or less decide that for the beginners.
Just downloaded the app last night. It was the first time I realized how many great Substacks I’m subscribed to, and this is definitely going to be my preferred method of consumption. Looking forward to seeing the future of Substack.
It looks as though the URL has been changed along with the update to the source, the original link was to https://archive.ph/TV8DV#selection-475.71-475.118
> When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along with an FM broadcast of the overture to Rossini’s ‘The Thieving Magpie,’ which has to be the perfect music for cooking pasta.

Look I haven't seriously studied literature or anything, so maybe I'm being a philistine. But what in the world is the appeal of this? Doesn't balance clarity and curiosity - a lot of mundane details, not reason for me to care about their phone call. I guess it's weird in a meta sense, in how it bucks the trend for good openers?

I don't doubt some people genuinely like that line, but that just says to me that this question is so subjective and so unimportant in the grand scheme of things (do people seriously stop reading after a single sentence?) that it sounds bizarre to go as far as teaching a class on the topic.
>War makes unlikely alliances. If you're fighting for the existence of your country you're not going to say no to the help of nazis.

Well said. When Nazi Germany occupied Denmark it was a far-right conservative Danish resistance movement that helped Danish Jews flee to Sweden.
Every lane change that anyone makes significantly increases the risk of a crash vs. just staying in the same lane. This is basic driver's ed right here.

Passing on the right is illegal most places for a reason: it's harder for the driver to your left to see you. The whole point of the convention of having faster traffic to the left and slower to the right is to increase predictability of behavior.

I agree with the parent you're replying to. Chill out and stop weaving in and out of traffic. Yes, it's annoying that people don't move to the right to yield to faster traffic, but ultimately you only save seconds or a small number of minutes. The risk -- assessment of which you seem to be not particularly good at -- isn't worth it. I'm not saying I follow my own advice 100% of the time, but I am under no illusion that I'm being safe when I don't.
That depends on the level of preparation and the steps taken to mitigate risk. Further, sometimes those levels of preparation and mitigation are actually more harmful than the danger itself.
U.S. President Joe Biden signed executive order on cryptocurrencies
Technically that was the 2nd release ;)

We submitted v1.0.1 the moment that v1.0 was released and shipped it on launch day as soon as it was approved by Apple.
It would be nice to be able to see pricing too.
Practical intro to User story mapping and Jobs to be done
I gave a talk at IBM recently for some product folks and talked about Jobs to be Done and User story mapping. Would love any feedback / advice on doing better next time! :)
The fundamental problem here is that since you (and I) are anonymous, there is no real way for us to communicate what we believe a "reasonable" muscle mass is. Even if we try to be specific and talk about specific numbers and mass indexes and how much we can bench, it's still futile. The nature of body disorders is such that somebody can have laughably incorrect beliefs about themselves without consciously meaning to lie. We could tell each other our BMIs but if we both stay anonymous, it's all meaningless.