skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know the stories behind some of the regions, or at least some hypotheses.

Interference in the U.S. is almost always the result of military testing or training. If you check against another map (Google maps, or skyvector.com/globe.adsbexchange.com to see sectional charts) you'll see that the interference region is usually centered on or close to a military base or Military Operations Area. There are often FAA notices to pilots about potential GPS outages in those areas.

Around Syria, C4ADS did some research a few years back identifying Russia as the main culprit; I think the conclusion was that Russia is jamming GPS to defend their bases from drone attack. https://www.c4reports.org/aboveusonlystars

At least some of the jamming around Moscow is thought to be an anti-drone measure (to stop nosy photographers? assassins?): https://www.gpsworld.com/jammers-at-dachas-add-to-russias-ab...

In the Baltic, the assumption seems to be that it's usually Russian military.

I wish someone more knowledgeable about what's going on in other regions with interference would write about them! I just don't have the time and expertise do dig into all of them.
> Let's just remember some people have really bad really underpaid 40 years of work.

Good point.

> I think the idea is to squeeze as much as you can now,...

I really, really don't think that's healthy. Be unhappy now so you can be happy later is misguided, because you need to work on being happy now to be happy later: putting it off is self-destructive. I recommend "The Power of Having Fun" by Dave Crenshaw.
The "major problems" this talk seems to address are essentially that Signal doesn't support third party clients.

Really? Supporting SailfishOS won't move the needle on Signal adoption. Just say the truth: you want the ability to hack around with the protocol and clients, for fun.
I came to say pretty much this.

It's high time for somebody to write a guide to linux networking.

The closest thing to a comprehensive guide is the Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO (https://lartc.org) but the last update (as far as I can tell from the website) is from 2012.
Yes. I found it incredibly disorientating, even after the event because time has passed and I have no awareness of it.
Why is Moscow almost constantly red?
Can we have upright cylindrical goats on the flat parts for our horse to knock down like skittles? Please?
All these "north star goals" and "company bets" are often pipe dreams.

Waymo has been around for 13 years now. It's bet is to have full level 4 autonomy, at least. And that is another 20 years away in an optmistic scenario.

Well, unless you only drive on sunny days in a geofenced region in Arizona and call crashing into a bus "a misunderstanding and a learning experience".
Thank you, that actually made me laugh out loud. I’m getting funny looks now.
There's an option in newer git. For cloning new repo:

git clone -c "core.sshCommand=ssh -i ~/.ssh/bitbucket-work -F /dev/null" git@bitbucket.com:example/example

For existing repo:

git config core.sshCommand "ssh -i ~/.ssh/bitbucket-work -F /dev/null"

Where "bitbucket-work" is the name of the key for that particular repo.
Drives internally do this with their reserved sectors. They also reallocate sectors between 'fast access' and 'long term storage', where the long term storage uses larger logical pages and hierarchical ECC, allowing a lower percentage of ECC overhead at the cost of performance.

At some point, I wouldn't be surprised if an SSD manufacturer releases a drive with a driver which can reduce the user-visible disk size as it ages. It would probably involve using a 'balloon file', in a similar way to Memory ballooning [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_ballooning
Then just leave for Telegram which is infinetly better (their native windows client is just incredible compared to the other atrocious electron based chat apps) or even better for Signal which is not as feature rich yet but open source.
gpx files sometimes include a sort of "precision" field[1]. Phyphox[2] also has a readout of the uncertainty: Location (GPS) -> Simple

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/9624761

[2] https://phyphox.org/
any problem can be solved with one more layer of indirection...
Almost all large companies doing huge layoffs.

Projected famine.

Record breaking inflation.

Big increase in homelessness and crime.

Some countries absolutely falling apart.

Other countries just "too big to fail" (but not to big to threaten WWIII).

You and I live in parallel universes apparently.
I'm thinking this python.com file would be so, so useful for DevOs / admin tasks. Use it as a lightweight binary to run Python scripts for all platforms. Would probably be very useful for setup / installation scripts or install commands.
With how much McDonalds has raised their prices in the last 2 years, I don’t understand how they can even be competitive on DoorDash. When I can get actual food for less money and the same exact effort, why eat McDonalds?

Until very recently I used to be able to get a full meal for ~$4, but now it’s hard to get out for under $12. The only reason to ever eat McDonalds at this point is the “it’s there” factor when I have left the house.
How is TikTok a threat to Google?

Their core business (advertismenet) isn't affected so far.
as is the case in todays information landscape, depending on which sources you prefer
OT: what's heroin like (when used not to excess)? I have some drug experience but none with H or opiates in general, and admittedly no plans to, but I'd like to know.
It’s a site based on deception from the get go. I don’t know much about the site or owners, but I wouldn’t assume that it wasn’t another sort of business including a pure scam.
i couldn't see myself running ARM especially if it wasn't apple silicon, i feel like the OS/app support would be terrible and I'd run into bugs that I couldn't fix. x86 just werks
I have a group chat in Signal of 12 people. Only me, and another person, have a moderately technical understanding of what Signal provides. Besides the obvious "secure chat".

There is no path for non-tech users to start using Element/Matrix or some Fediverse thing. These are excellent concepts, but they will remain there, as nice ideas. Because they are not a quick three-step process of Download -> Setup -> Chat with Friend
may as well go for EPYC
> still need to work

Us needing to work does not meant that the jobs will still be there for us to work at.

The reason so much money goes into automation is simply because it cuts the payroll. The argument that there have always been jobs in the past, so there will always be jobs in the future, simply does not follow..
basically the redesign is exactly the same as its always been, only they sexied up the lefthand column with friends, saved, pages, now marketplace is there because presumably a lot of people just use fb to sell or buy crap. The top bar with notifications got moved to the left hand side, and the chat window is expanded to the entire right third of the screen. It looks like any other electron-esque app now basically, and it takes longer to load to the point where they've added a splash screen. Every other item in your news feed is a sponsored post or something someone put up days ago versus the most recent content.
Same. I don't drink caffeine after noon and I have a much easier time maintaining a functional sleep schedule.

I had a older relative who often complained about poor sleep. I asked if they drank caffeine in the afternoon and they scoffed at the idea it could be the issue. But I have noticed they are not drinking caffeine late in the day now, and the complaining about poor sleep has ceased.
>Nobody hates Facebook users more than Facebook

Not disputing that facebook is uniquely poison, but that's most sane users on social giants. Users of reddit and twitter specifically absolutely and openly loath them, users of instagram and linkedin are too stifled by the ultra-superficial cheeriness of the platforms to openly admit their hatred on the platform itself, but it's burning inside them quietly.

Socials are an amazing\terrifying experiments in how you can use the herd instincts of humans to hold them hostages against their will.
The lead free stuffs not that bad. You do need a hotter tip. It's increasingly hard to find leaded solder and more difficult to dispose of legally. For manufacturing it's been phased out for 15-20 years.

I've never used bismuth based solder. Have read that it doesn't mix well with lead based solder. Last time I looked it wasn't available in flux-core. But appears to be now.

The lead/tin/antimony solder I used to use in the 80's was pretty nice.
How is it cooled?
Not taking one position or the other, but you can't make any conclusions about whether a separate consciousness exists from anesthesia, only that no memories were formed that can be accessed by that consciousness (even if it did experience qualia during that time).
DALL·E 2's version of Eames Powers of Ten
Yes, their desktop clients were mainly written in Python (with Qt) and shared a lot of code between platforms.

Right now I'm looking at their installation folder under Windows. It still comes with python38.dll, as well as a whole bunch of .pyd files. There is some .exe of course, but that could be a small wrapper written in a different language. Anyway, a bundle doesn't make much sense in this case.

Although I can't be bothered to look for sources, I remember reading that they used a quite heavily modified interpreter, at least for obfuscation and optimization purposes.

Some clues can be found on their blog: https://dropbox.tech/application.
> For all we know the entire DAU drop could be from Ukraine and Russia alone.

The DAU drop happened before the war, in the quarter up to December 2021.
Plus there's one small detail: you can still enjoy e.g. a pizza that's not hot anymore; other food (Indian, Chinese, ...) can mostly be kept hot without losing its quality. With burgers and fries (especially McDonalds), you have to eat them hot, and trying to keep them warm during delivery results in a soggy mess that's not enjoyable at all anymore IMHO.
Poland is in EU, so your dream car will be a lawn/garage queen unless you plan moving to Russia or Africa.
Decades of Alzheimer's Research Allegedly Based on Fabricated Data
Didn't that just put the modem into "command mode"? I thought you needed +++ATH.
In Ricón's Fund People Not Projects III article [0] he relates:

> Ioannidis et al. (2014) note there are 15M scientists that published anything in the 1996-2011 period, but only 1% that has published every single year in this period. This smaller 150k-strong group accounts for 40% of all papers and 87% of all papers with >1000 citations.

One percent seems like a good size for a major niche; those who do the bulk of the publishing.

This is important, but if that's the only niche you're looking at you're bound to miss 99 percent of what you want to find.

[0] https://nintil.com/newton-hypothesis

Edit: Maybe the people that need to be funded most are secretaries for some of the other 99 percent.
> If consciousness is not generated by my physical brain, how come physical chemicals can manipulate my conscious state? If the brain is a receiver for consciousness, surely my consciousness should exist independently of my brain? Interfering with a radio doesn’t change what’s happening in the recording studio. Why does the state of my brain affect my conscious state at all? If consciousness is fundamental, how can it ever stop?

I loved your analogy. So using the same analogy, is it possible that the radio's frequency tuning is changed (if the brain is a receiver for consciousness) or going under anasthesia is an interference that stops it from receiving things at all (if chemicals can manipulate the conscious state) ?
I have a gut feeling that there are many fake accounts on other dating sites as well. One thing I've noticed with tinder in Israel. you will see profiles of presumambly "jewish" women (i.e. jewish names / hebrew writing) where it says their university is al quds university or al aqsa university.

While its conceptually possible that a jewish woman might have attended them, I find it somewhat implausible (especially in number and combined with the style of pictures). Its as if someone just created profiles randomly that might fit the general geographic area.

The primary Q I would have is if this is generated by Tinder itself or by external scammers who don't know better.
Not quite so for me, needle in then suddenly I'm waking up elsewhere, but I felt that some, but unquantifiable, time had indeed passed.

Edit: not quite true, I felt a significant chunk has passed but I could not have estimated it. The nurse who was sitting next to me waiting for me to awake told me it was 20 minutes. That was far shorter than it felt.
Chinese smartphone sales sink to levels not seen since 2012
Kind of an unusual paper, they seem to mix up things like SIM swappping which are more in the area of policy with things like S3 buckets being left open (mentioned as an example on page 1) which are easily caught by CSPM style solutions and are down to individual customers.

One of the conclusions, that regulator based policies are needed to correct behaviour is likely correct. In some cases the incentives of the companies who operate the control (telecomms companies in the case of SIM swapping) don't line up with the people affected, so it needs regulator/legislator intervention.

On a related note, one of the best ways to affect change as an individual in security is working to set policy and industry standards. One requirement in a CIS benchmark is likely to have more impact that 100 recommendations written in pentest reports :)
Reducing the brain to a more complicated version of a pocket calculator doesn't change the platonic ideal of number.
Perhaps they are jamming GPS and Galileo in favor of Glonass. They are certainly concerned about US GPS-powered artillery like the HIMARS given to Ukraine. They’d need fairly precise jammers because the frequencies are only 50MHz apart (GLONASS uses a frequency of 1.602 GHz, whereas GPS uses 1.57542 GHz).
Disc: Googler, opinions and comments are my own. Not in Ads.

I mean, 4 months ago, I posted this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30401241#30402432

Ads fraud is generally a no-op from internal escalations though, something that personally I won't touch unless I know the person.

As I see it, Ads generally won't ban an account that has historical spend even if they see something lightly suspicious, and that's where the business is. With smaller spenders, new accounts, and various other flags, your risk of cancellation is _significantly_ higher, but Google's risk is lower since they didn't have the spend already.
> Their management UI is an order of magnitude better than AWS garbage. It's clean, informational, and easily navigable.

I've never seen someone calling a glacially slow, inconsistent, cannot-even-display-graphs-90%-of-the-time, information-hidden-behind-multiple-steps abomination of GCP Console that.
As a hiring manager making a fairly low volume of hires annually I always told the candidates why. I also did this in all F2F interviews. If the candidate didn’t make it, Id tell them and then take them through what we thought and why they didn’t make it.

Some candidates were outraged — they thought they did fine. Some would fight back and start clarifying stuff and then you’d have to start clarifying stuff and so on. Some would be very grateful.

On the balance I believe it to be the ethical option since you’ve just wasted an hour or 10 of someone’s time, and if they want to improve outcomes you’ve made available the information to take or leave.

I also kept artefacts documenting the hiring process for every candidate — both for future managers (who invariably didn’t care) but also for FOI requests or complications.

Personally I think hiding information and being guarded for fear of legal troubles is a slippery slope to less trust and more legal trouble.
The lack of files is exactly the point. Any kind of blobs need to be bundled with the compiled code in a -defined and preferably portable way, and this is the domain where it's used the most. The way the OP described just doesn't work in that context. We had a recent thread about the new #embed which does this properly and portably.
> Europeans have a lot going for them that should make them more competitive

And they are competitive. They have a big tech space rendering every single product and service that US tech renders. Except, there is no such obligation in Europe to constantly hawk stocks to increase stock prices. From cloud providers to social networks, all kinds of things are in Europe. In China. In Japan. Americans dont hear about them.

> Pink goo

It was an example. Those corporations have no obligation to tell you what exactly they put in the 'food'.
Unfortunately, unless your family and social circles are all within some particular niche, you're at the mercy of the platforms exploiting the masses. I remember when Twitter was a bit like early Instagram, hanging out with friends, then the bulk moved to Instagram and just left business people and sub-interests. I'm lucky in that my Twitter feed is not very political/enraged like much of the US, so it's a pretty decent place for me.
r/changemyview is a good one, it's people in conversation about contentious topics, politely trying to change each other's views.

There's very little censorship of discussion compared to the rest of Reddit, the only rule seems to be politeness and topicality. It's almost like HN in that sense.
Tor Browser – 11.5.1 (Windows, macOS, Linux) Released → (July 26, 2022)
Perhaps consciousness is just an observer of those physical systems that exist in the brain, and under anaesthetic the interface between consciousness and those systems is interfered with.
I don't know what I'm getting at.
I'm using data reported by aircraft equipped with ADS-B. Those aircraft broadcast their positions, and they include information about how much uncertainty they think is in their position estimate. When an aircraft that has been reporting low position uncertainty (< 1 nautical mile) starts reporting high uncertainty (> 4 nautical miles), it seems to correlate well with known areas of GPS interference, so that's what I use to make the map.

This paper describes in more detail some experiments using a GPS jammer and flying an aircraft around Edwards Air Force Base with ADS-B and what happens to the position reporting: https://web.stanford.edu/group/scpnt/gpslab/pubs/papers/Liu_...
Could machine learning fuel a reproducibility crisis in science?
I presume this is a hobby / solo effort?

Unfortunately there are grammar errors throughout this page.

E.g. the heading "Your communities place to connect" should be "Your community's place to connect".

In fact, reading through more of it, it comes across as if English is not your first language? It would be worth it to find someone to copy-edit all your content.
> I'd still get a hard drive for videos and backups rather than pay $25.

So would everyone who's only motivation for buying storage is $/TB and nothing else. The vast majority of those people think 8 or even 80TB is alot and are pefectly happy with subpar drives being packaged in external usb enclosures. And there's nothing wrong with that, but that demographic of consumers is not the driving economic force in what gets developed, invested in, and brought to market.

HDD's ~$15/TB bargain values wont be sustainable if Enterprise drops HDD's for WORM/WFRM workloads because their TCO is too high (and many are). Disk shelves chew through Kilowatts like candy while capacious focused flash hosts seem comparatively allergic to electricity, and repairing/rebulding arrays on spinning rust compared to flash arrays alone is impetus enough for a lot of shops to dump rust and embrace solid state.

> That depends on how much those supposed 50TB hard drives cost in four years.

For sure. I'm highly skeptical they can pull that off in that time frame though. the pace of innovation in the HDD space is woefully lacking. They need a win like that, with competitive pricing, or the industries days are numbered. If they can pull it off though that's great. I'm all for cheaper/better storage options, even if it's mechanical (or optical or whatever).
You don’t recall NSA doing interception on your internal network? You don’t recall Jared Cohen from the State department being recruited to run Google Ideas? You don’t know that State is used for cover for CIA?

Maybe you’re just not aware of these matters? If so, maybe you could share why you would be qualified to do counter-intelligence? If not, people should not disregard you, but you should be aware that this is commonly known as being a useful idiot in the intelligence field. I am not calling you names, only raising that your knowledge of the terms of art and awareness about events might not be informed in this area. Eleven years of working at Google doesn’t mean eleven years of looking for spies or even reading the news about Google being owned inside and out. We haven’t even discussed operation aurora where the Chinese compromised the FISA interception system at Google.

It also sounds like your literal job is to respond to the lawful requests which you disregard as a problem because … you believe it’s lawful in … America? Okay then, good to know, the rest of the 8 billion on earth don’t appreciate that so much.

By the way, “SSL ADDED AND REMOVED HERE” sounds exactly like your infrastructure was targeted. Please don’t make excuses for this criminal behavior against a U.S. company and against U.S. users, not the mention the criminal behavior against foreigners.
Rex Airlines to retrofit fleet with electric engines in regional trial
100% agree. Matrix is great and while it took a bit to setup everything I liked the direction it's going.

Started using Beeper which is built on top of the Matrix protocol. Even with this nice abstraction app, there were several steps to set up and then connect to the various bridges they have. They're still very much a beta product.
Why even multi color human? Nothing more racist than making a point about color anytime you use an emoji.
Sadly most internet users do not care. 1984
Perhaps you posted this comment on the wrong thread? I'm pretty sure orzig isn't Aline Lerner, because she's the CEO of a recruiting company who used to work in engineering, and orzig says in a recent comment that they are an American engineer. So what could Lerner's viewpoint on MS degrees possibly have to do with unpacking what orzig meant to write when they said "even Masters program into science"?

I notice you haven't answered either of the questions I asked you in my comment, which seems like a pretty hostile attitude to me.
From a purely empirical standpoint our minds go nowhere. Your whole life is nothing but an unbroken stream of consciousness, you never slept a day in your life. Just because you can wake up, point at a clock and create a story that so-and-so many hours have passed doesn't mean anything.

There might be more time passing for the people who are "awake" during this time, but this is not a problem for the universal mind. It simply squeezes the missing time in there and synchronizes individual minds together again later.

Also interesting: The thought "I was under anaesthesia for 12 hours" is itself an object that appears in consciousness.