skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Read the article and you'll notice that the AirTag gave the stalker plausible deniability. You don't accidentally lose a GPS-tracker — find one of these in your car and you'll know someone is stalking/tracking you — but for an AirTag (or similar product) it's much easier to claim that the stalker uses them for their own possessions, and that they simply lost that one. The stalker in the article (partly) got away with that excuse: he claimed to have just lost the AirTag when he put the child seat back in the car of his ex with whom he has shared custody.
It was definitely sold as the next step in computation.

A real performant quantum computer could potentially revolutionize a lot of industries. But selling it as an accelerator of molecular dynamic simulations is not quite as sexy.
> Sometimes it feels like there is a group of EV elites out there that are predicting the complete demise of ICEs while conveniently downplaying the problem of charging access.

I see the opposite. Every single discussion of EVs, people come out of the woodwork with all the edgecases/usecaes where current EVs don't fare so favourably to ICEs.

Guess what! EVs don't have to be perfect in every scenario to be better for a growing number of people. The cars and infrastructure continue to improve, and the number of edgecase are slowly falling like dominos.

Range not suitable for people that are regularly driving 1000km commutes? Lots of people have driving habits where a > 200km trip is a rarity. And available range keeps increasing as the tech improves.

Battery charging not so great in places with subzero temperatures have the year? Lots of people live in warmer climates. No doubt, someone is looking at improved battery chemistries or thermal regulation to help here.

Can't charge at home because you live in a studio apartment with no off street parking? There a lot of people that own their own homes, or have apartments with off-street parking. Meanwhile more charging stations are being installed at shopping centres, businesses, in reserved on street parking.

Why do people think EVs have to serve every single person perfectly before we'll see adoption? Why do they think the cars and infrastructure is going to remain static going forward? This transition is going to happen over a 10-20 year period as EVs improve, and old ICE cars are retired. It's not all happening next year.

Personally, I will buy one as soon as I have determined they make the most sense for me, just like everyone will. For some, that will be now, for others it will be five years from now, for some it will be 20 years from now.
> my life got ruined irreversibly.

Not yet, we humans are resilient creatures. I'm pretty sure you can rebound from this.

Maybe you can try to find psicological help, to help you deal with this problem.

Best of luck
And yet all photo print sizes, even internationally are defined in inches. Sigh.
I believe you refer to Allen Carr's "Easy way to stop smoking".
Surely Accenture is already training thousands of people to help businesses transform their strategy towards web4 qApps and the quantumverse.
this is more like couple hundred million TBH
World Sensorium: The World Social Olfactory Sculpture­­
It is quite surprising that they took action. I wonder if this will negatively affect DDoS-Guard's reputation as the first choice for hosting illegal content.
This is really cool. It's projects like these that makes me want to experiment with random things. It might not make sense or feasible but that is what's fun about it :)
I tested another HDMI cable and it's been running smoothly so far.
That's beyond impressive. Will be interesting combining this with a map like OP's.
Conway’s Game of Life is also Turing complete.
Transition to what? The only available technologies providing base load are fossils and nuclear.
So, enough iPhone users opt in to surveillance to make this a globally useful method for stalking? Wow.
Yes. An extreme example: "Shoe size in the United Kingdom, Ireland, India, Pakistan and South Africa is based on the length of the last used to make the shoes, measured in barleycorns (1⁄3 inch) starting from the smallest size deemed practical, which is called size zero." (Wikipedia)
I don't understand this argument at all. Of course it isn't making money yet-- that's because it's an early technology that is still being researched. Sure it might never mature, but it seems crazy to call it a "bubble" or to analyze it based on current sales figures.
Something I'm curious about in this whole thing: who is DDoSing kiwifarms? Most people find their content reprehensible but does that usually translate into people DDoSing something?
Looks like you're left having to trust the super rich to solve it then. They called from their super yacht after flying on a private jet from their 4th 10,000 ft^2 fully air conditioned summer home and said they got this and not to worry.
And Udo Kier
> Project Nimbus is a joint effort of Google, Amazon, and the Israeli government that provides futuristic surveillance capabilities through the use of advanced machine learning models.

> Nimbus training documents emphasize “the ‘faces, facial landmarks, emotions’-detection capabilities of Google’s Cloud Vision API,”

The "training documents" he mentions are basically a GCP manual. [0]

"facial recognition, landmarks, emotions, ..." These are ML 101. Does my face have a second degree equation pointing up? Happy. Is it pointing down? Sad. It's like the car dealer rambling about the leather seat that reclines, when you're only interested in the horsepower. It's a sales pitch.

This reminds when the Intercept made a whole piece about the brazilian DMV's "dystopian system" that could "integrate multiple data sources" just to say it was a SQL join.

[0] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22119705-core-infra-...
It happens at my workplace. If someone who has access to elevated privileges leaves their workstation unlocked and unattended, it's highly likely that a colleague will send an email to the team to embarrass them.

I've pointed out that this technically breaches company policy regarding use of someone else's user account/identity, but it falls on deaf ears.
Why does so much of this moralizing crap seem come from employees of a certain company whose core revenue model has so many moral issues to criticize?

Like, "Hey, I work at ExxonMobil, let me tell you how you eating that hamburger is destroying the planet"
Why _can_ you write &arr[0] in the first place? There is at least some logic behind it (which probably breaks down with multidimensional arrays, a feature that probably wasn't there from the start). In C, I suspect that at least in the beginning, there were never arrays on the type and expression level - only pointers.

What security problems are exactly caused by pointer decay?

A similar thing also exists with calls through function pointers, and I do not think you can find many programmers who are willing to write (*foo)(x, y, z) when using function pointers (at least not when there are many, like when using e.g. OpenGL). Or worse, (&foo)(x, y, z) with normal functions.
What makes AirTags different from other tracking devices:

1) AirTags take advantage of Apple's global "Find My" network of hundreds of millions of Apple iPhones. No other tracking device has this capability.

2) AirTags are mass produced and mass marketed by the world's largest corporation, whose every move is followed by the news media. No other tracking device has this capability either.

3) Battery life is excellent, more than a year.

AirTags are inexpensive, easy to use, powerful, and pervasive, all due to Apple. For most consumer devices, these would be things to celebrate, but not in this particular case. Apple has "revolutionized" stalking.
You can socialize without alcohol and you should, like people do literally all the time. Imagine being able to talk to others only when you are "socially lubricated"... a slippery slope for alcoholism.

Struggling with socializing is a matter of being inexperienced at it, like you would struggle to play guitar or to swim if you've never done it long enough to be at least proficient at them. Luckily socializing is one of the few things we've been doing since we were born so we got a degree of experience there.

If the struggle comes from having underlying issues that undermine your ability to socialize, say, lack of self esteem, depression or any other mental health issues, those need to be addressed as well and drinking is not going to solve them.

Actually those conditions will most likely improve by socializing without alcohol. Alcohol is just a false friend.

As a moderate outgoing and sober person, alcohol actually makes me shy, it numbs me down and takes away the edge I've been sharpening all my life. In other words it prevents me from actually be myself.
Ask HN: What tech-stack would you use for the following?
Lot of questions appear on HN about which tech-stack to use. So I thought let us all do a thought experiment together. I collected most common features required by apps today(you can suggest additional features, and I will include them in the post), and came up with a hypothetical product. Say, we want to develop a platform with the aim of monetising it and later scaling it to millions of users. The product has following requirements to start with:

0. A user should be able to login via various methods: username/password, finger-print, face-recognition. Login should support 2FA.

1. A user should be able to create a:

1.1. Post.

1.1.1 A post could have an optional title.

1.1.2 A post could have optional tags.

1.1.3 A post could be edited later.

1.1.4 A post could be hidden by creator.

1.1.5 Multiple creators could collaborate on a post; and a post could be moderated.

1.1.6 A post could have comments and up/down votes.

1.1.7 A post could be reported by users to the moderators of the platform.

1.1.8 A user can mark a post as favourite.

1.2. Request for post.

1.2.1 A user can request a post on a topic from other users on the platform.

1.2.1 As with the post, the request can have similar features e.g. title, tags, votes, comments etc.

3. A user can create a group; posts and requests can be posted to a group.

4. A group could be moderated, private, open, or invite-only.

5. Users will earn karma/points for the content they create and the upvotes they receive.

6. Users can create tags that they can use with a post or request. These tags will be available to others too.

Now, this is the basic requirement. But we are ambitious and we dream of building a platform that millions of users will use everyday. And we want to build more features into this platform later on; like specifying Authorisation for users, Real-time text, audio and video communication, collaborative editing, casual multi-player games like snakes-and-ladder, multilingual support, and support for web and native platforms like mobile and desktop. We also want a mechanism where multiple users can share an account, if required. Allow real-time notifications. Also, when we become a unicorn (heck, why not dream big ;)) we want users to be able to contact support using the platform. Later on we also want to do analytics, and also want users to know their history on the platform. And last but not the least, we want to add payments support where users will be able to pay each other for the content and the platform takes commission on each transaction.

Now, keeping these requirements in mind, and the often repeated mantra on HN that one should use the language and stack one knows best to start the project, my stack for the project is as follows(please suggest improvements to this C/C++ based tech-stack if you think it can be better):

Backend:
C and C++, uWs, cppgraphqlgen, sqlpp11, postgresql(with pgpool, postgis, patroni, pgbouncer, greenplum), rethinkdb and haproxy.

Frontend: Flutter

What would be your tech-stack for this hypothetical project? Please chime in. Let the crowd be educated :)
I have to be the voice of unpopular opinion here, and say that the reasoning behind the sentiment "It's only a tool. The tool can be used in a bad way, but that doesn't make the tool a bad thing", glosses over some nuance which would otherwise make it suspect reasoning.

A hammer is a tool. You can use a hammer to kill somebody so effectively, that you could argue to an alien who knows nothing of hammers, that they're actually murder weapons. That doesn't make hammers inherently bad.

An Airtag is also a tool, but it is different in an important way for this comparison; it works by using the internet, thereby providing one degree of separation from the user and the victim. This single degree of separation has an important psychological effect on the user; that of a false sense of security.

Some proof of this, is the fact that people continue to use Airtags for stalking, despite the fact that they know they can be caught easily. It's a psychological safety that they allow to trick themselves with, rooted in how we work as human beings; "physical things are real, screens and ephemeral things aren't".

So yes, the Airtag is also a tool, but it's likelihood to be used by people (so inclined) for stalking, is higher than somebody using a physical object inappropriately (and illegally).
I don't think I've ever seen so many exclamation marks on a single Twitter timeline.
What a curious article.

- don't say "there is a concern the figure is wrong". Concern is not the salient point - correctness is. Is the data wrong or right?

- why are we focusing on the figures at all? Is the data correct but the figures don't represent? Or is the incorrect data correctly represented by the figures? This is a critical point left unaddressed
LSM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log-structured_merge-tree
Interestingly, there are huge number of monopolies like that on the consumer side too. Let's say you're a big fan of Marvel - then, you have to pay Marvel prices for tickets and merch, as they have a monopoly on Marvel universe IP. Same for Magic:the Gathering - for millions of fans of the game, there is no substitute, so they begrudgingly pay whatever Hasbro commands them.
Works fine for me on Tor.
yes, you still write checks to pay online and rocket boosters to this day are single use $100M pieces of hardware that we throw away into the ocean after each use.

seriously. musk is shady and weird, more so in the last couple of years, but come on.
No. Nowadays, EV don't need battery replacement. Degradation is negligible for the current fleet:

Bullshit. https://www.geotab.com/fleet-management-solutions/ev-battery...

And these are for 10-year old EV. Battery packs made today won't have to be replace after 15 years, and they'll certainly be used as stationary storage past their time on wheels.

More importantly, most EV will switch to LFP chemistry (already more than half Tesla's vehicles production), which degrades even less.

-https://www.geotab.com/fleet-management-solutions/ev-battery...

- https://electrek.co/2018/04/14/tesla-battery-degradation-dat...

- https://www.tesla.com/ns_videos/2021-tesla-impact-report.pdf (p. 67) for Tesla S/X fleet wide results.

And this is for nickel-based batteries. Most EVs will be LFP in the foreseeable future, and they degrade far less. We'll certainly use the battery as long as they car can drive, and then, it will be added to the grid for stationary applications. Then, it will be sold and recycled.

More from the International Energy Agency latest report on EV/batteries: https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/e0d2081d-487d-4818-...
Automatic Detection of Speculative Execution Combinations
"...we develop a framework for reasoning about composed speculative semantics that capture speculation due to different mechanisms and implement it as part of the Spectector verification tool. We implement novel semantics for speculating over store and return instructions and combine them with the semantics for speculating over branches. Our framework yields speculative semantics for speculating over any combination of those instructions that are secure by construction, i.e., we obtain these security guarantees for free. The implementation of our novel semantics in Spectector let us verify existing codebases that are vulnerable to Spectre v1, Spectre v4, and Spectre v5 vulnerabilities as well as new snippets that are only vulnerable to their compositions..."

[PDF] - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.01179.pdf
So you agree that the argument for it "feeling more natural" is actually, "I've already memorised a number"?
Even better than both those is someone who can teach the team to be 10x better.
One of the non-extreme solutions is publishing the doc for the extension + explicit usage grant on any related patents. They don't need to go full standardisation route before the first release. It would still be a proprietary extension under their control, but not a haha-screw-you proprietary.
"Quantum computing as a field is obvious bullshit"

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2019/01/15/quantum-comput...
Ask HN: What your experience working with freelancers?
Companies of all sizes work with freelancers to benefit from their expertise and boost product development without hiring extra staff. But it's usually hard to find contractors who meet 100% expectations.

We're launching a tool - "Hot Pies" - that connects companies and contractors fast, accurately, and securely. As a part of US customer research, we are looking for startup representatives who outsourced people on short-term projects. Companies with 20+ employees, which got Seed and A rounds would be the most relevant.

If you are interested and would like to share your experience - please, contact me:

Dana Abramenko, CMO at Hot Pies
Email - Daniela.abramenko@gmail.com
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/daria-o-a758b581
I wonder what their suspension criteria is. Maybe it's just "too much bad press"?
How so? Google collects more data in absolute terms, but Apple collects quite a lot of data too. Neither of them can be said to be a truly privacy-conscious choice.

See the following reference:

Leith, D. J. (2021). Mobile Handset Privacy: Measuring The Data iOS and Android Send to Apple And Google. URL: https://www.scss.tcd.ie/doug.leith/apple_google.pdf
When you understand the relationship between directors, producers and studios it's not surprising at all.

Directors rarely see their version of the movie on the screen. Sometimes they don't even see the final product before it is on the screen.

It is easier afterwards to work on a directors cut/version since studios see that as an opportunity for an additional cash grab after the 1.0 is no longer generating money.
It's still attached to the user though. At the _very least_ it should be flagged as edited. Still a bit iffy either way.
That green CRT "Ridley Scott Alien" demo is really compelling. I know it's from an actual CRT decades ago, but it would still work well today.
Tatami mat size is basically a one-person bed - so you are measuring rooms in terms of how many people would be able to sleep on the floor if spaced evenly :)
I would pose the opposite question. Why in 2022 someone would choose to go to Germany instead of the UK?

German politics and government look like a total mess to the outsiders in 2022.

Also being an immigrant in the UK vs Germany - I will choose the UK any day.
Agreed. Also "there is a concern the figure is wrong" is written in the passive voice, which is obfuscatory.
If the receiving e-mail server doesn't acknowledge that it has received the e-mail, the sending server will try again for 5 days. Maybe it timeouted due to the huge e-mail spam.

This might explain why he got the same mail for days.
Agreed - integration testing will not help you when your code is actually functional against a remote API server that is broken (or poorly documented).

The extra work required to properly separate concerns near to a foreign API surface, in my experience, pays for itself: you expected (and wrote tests for) three outcomes, and provided an observability hook for those outcomes, but a fourth raises its ugly head in real life, forcing you to revisit the API docs and add it to your mock. You add references to the API doc relative to those outcomes, and your code can be easily followed and troubleshooted by the next person. What's not to like?

I feel as if I've seen the same arguments raised over and over against mocks, all of which fall back to "I'm too lazy to maintain the state-space of unit tests", which is, quite frankly, not my problem–it's yours. Grow up and be responsible.
I'm not saying it's better. I'm saying I've thought of a similar idea but with a different notation.
> As a child of an architect, when I was a kid my dad would bring old A0 drawings home as paper we could draw and paint on the back of. Loved it.

You brought me memories of being a very small kid drawing on A0 roll scraps bigger than me on the floor of my parents' studio :)
I have worked in companies.
How to get paid to do drugs (men only)
Why would someone get raided?
Ask HN: Dashboard with muteable notifications for scripts and cron jobs
I have a bunch of Python scripts running on different servers, some of them scheduled as recurring cron jobs.

Now I'd like to have a central place to collect status messages from all of these "services".

Basically, I want to sprinkle snippets into my scripts that say, "If X happens, notify my dashboard", either as an error message ("Crashed, OOM"), or a success message ("35 items added to database".

Same for when I run a command on my terminal that takes a long time.

Then I'd like a dashboard that shows all separate services in a table. Green for those that work, red for those that don't. And the ability to drill down into the log of status messages over time for each of them.

The dashboard should also be able to configured such that a worker will be considered "dead" if it hasn't posted any status message within the last n hours. In an ideal world, I wouldn't even need to set this up on the monitoring server itself. Instead, I'd just pass the maximum time window allowed between messages along with the message itself:

Dashboard.log(name="WeatherBot", success=true, message=f"{n} items added", max_seconds_until_next=24*60*60)

I'd also like phone notifications.

However, it's important to me that I can choose to mute notifications for any specific type of message. I want to be able to say, "Don't notify me about this particular thing anymore, but please continue to keep a log, and please do continue to notify me about everything else".

Getting the message that my new service is running successfully is great for the first two or three days. But then then info becomes noise, and I'd now rather be notified only when something goes wrong.

So far, I've been using Prowl (similar to Pushover). But I'm afraid of using it too much, because I have no way of disabling the notifications from the place where I receive them (my phone). Instead, if a notification starts to get annoying, I need to log in to the server and disable the Pushover code there (provided it isn't a running process). Also, just because I don't want notifications about an event right now doesn't mean I don't want to still collect a log of these status messages, which I can inspect at my leisure.

When researching this, I've found services like Gatus [0] or Statping [1]. The latter, so far, seems closest to what I'm looking for, though it doesn't quite fill my requirements.

I was thinking about building it myself. But it seems such a common problem that I'd be surprised if a solution like that wasn't already out there.

Thanks!

[0] https://github.com/TwiN/gatus
[1] https://docs.statping.com/#doc-general-notes