skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m the CEO of Life360 which owns Tile. We are exploring a program that would disable anti-stalking features if we could verify someone’s identity to then enable our devices to be used to protect against theft, which is not possible with AirTags (a thief can just scan for your tags).

Our belief is that by adding more friction and increasing the risk of punishment we can make these devices far more powerful for the 99.999% of users who are responsible. We don’t want outliers to ruin it for everyone.

If a stalker wants to track someone there are inexpensive stealth GPS devices with their own cell connections that allow real-time location - we make them too - but for whatever reason there hasn’t been any negative attention on this side of the location device category.

Are there any thoughts or implementation suggestions on this?
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US moves to make federally funded research free upon publication
That's my current approach with Outlook's IP block blacklists.
Ubisoft delays server shutdowns, prevents purchased DLC from going away
Built a point-and-click tool to help our users protect their visitors' privacy
> Post enough slurs about queer people and somehow the harrasment happens without anyone having been explicitly told to do it. Post enough slurs about Muslims and someone will eventually shoot up a mosque in New Zealand.

They'd do that anyway.

Personally, as a gay woman, I prefer letting people say slurs because then I know who to avoid. (Which isn't to say that I think services/people can't set their own rules - Cloudflare and DDoS-Guard are within their rights to drop KF as a customer). Stopping people from calling me a dyke or carpet-muncher doesn't make them not homophobic, it makes it harder for me to suss out who to avoid.
None of the options you listed offers same autonomous life, cheap price, invasiveness, ubiquitous detection network, and, on top of that, plausible deniability in case you are caught. "Oh that's where my keys ended up! Thanks you, officer!"

Also, I admire your audacity in denying reality, dismissing the dangers of technology as negligible right under that article that reports on its malicious use.
> I guess the alternative to that is for Google to build this in?

Probably better, but still not sufficient. It will probably take years before Android users get this builtin, and not everybody has a smartphone anyway. I don't currently use one.

If you really want to avoid tracking you may also want to avoid having a phone with you too. Both things enter in contradiction.

I guess Pandora's box is already open anyway. AirTags are not the only device with this feature if I understand correctly. There's probably no coming back to a world where there's no risk for you that someone puts such a device to track you. I don't know what is the solution, other than legal.

I guess my computer has Bluetooth/Wifi and could be used to detect such devices when they use Bluetooth since I'm using it for the most part of the day and all my stuff is within the Bluetooth range. But that's because I use a computer everyday.

I still think Apple should not have made this mainstream. If this kind of device already existed, the idea of using them was probably less in the mind of regular people and Apple's product is probably very convenient and possibly affordable enough. Obviously, I understand why this kind of thing is useful for people who keep losing their stuff, I'm one of them. Still, I'm not sure it was worth it.
I think the argument is that the parts that work are just rebranding of chemistry, physics, and materials engineering.
For reference Yahoo are absolute shits when it comes to mail delivery. They literally will black hole addresses, domains and IP addresses with no recourse ever. The sending server will get a response code back of roughly "fuck you until you've manually filled in this form at this URL". The form is submitted by any attending mail admin if they even notice the response code, then silently with no confirmation they will either ignore you until the universe dies or suddenly mail will start working. If you fuck the form up, you have to wait 6 months to try again.

They actually stopped me hosting my own email because I couldn't be bothered to deal with this shit any more.
Always get the most ram you can afford
There are also RTC chips out there that will monitor a tamper-detection switch [1] and keep a timestamped record of the switch changing.

Which is nice because the manufacturers have made sure it'll run for years on end from a coin cell battery.

[1] https://www5.epsondevice.com/en/products/rtc/rx8901ce.html
That's not what I'm seeing.
I started with sarcasm, snark, trolling, etc.

It came naturally.

The thing about those, is that they are writing for an audience.

They are public performance.

And that's what writing in public fora is.

If there's joy in that public performance, then it can become a sticky habit. If you don't find joy in it, it won't stick.

After a few years, I started developing this punchy style as an alternative to my Kantian inspired circumlocutions I developed writing philosophy papers as an undergrad, perhaps it seems because reading Kant gave me caution regarding the fallibility of my own cognition in particular and all human cognition in general. Which is to say that, the "probably's", "perhaps's", "etc's", etc. are a reflection of my own aperception...of my own reflections on my inner experience.

Anyway, for me, it's fun to write shit like that and shit like this.

If it wasn't I wouldn't continue to do it.

Be yourself. Nobody but you is watching. Nobody but you is judging. And your writing is probably better than you think. Good luck.
Said it above; but I 100% agree with you. My point has "second-order" effects.

I'm not necessarily saying your email has to go away and you HAVE to use hostdime. I'm saying the goal of McDonalds is to dominate and obsucre everything and anything that cuts into that is useful, especially third-parties like Hostdime. For someone like me that finds it too hard, but also finds gmail unacceptable this is a good (and should be obvious) solution.

How I explain this in real life:

"You'd be stupid to run a business off of gmail. When your phone or internet or electricity goes down, you can call a human and yell at them because you pay them. What happens for google? This is why I pay someone."
Nitpick: the BBCs Doomsday project used a proprietary data format on standard laserdisc medium, which is why they ended up not being able to access the data decades later as the custom hardware to decode it no longer worked.

The laserDisc format was a standard format, and working players can still be found for sale on eBay etc.

Compared to DVD and VHS, it's true it wasn't a commercial success though.
Who is expressing doubt that some do? Such doubt cannot, for example, be deduced from the lack of a direct accusation over this case, especially given libel laws.
Your knowledge is now arcane black magic. The reorg probably shuffled away the people who knew that you knew what you knew, you should be proud.
Anyone can go on vaers and lie. You aren't proving the point you think you are.

https://hillreporter.com/dont-be-fooled-antivaxxers-misrepre...
Given someone's name and rough location, I can probably find out lots of things about them. It might take a few bucks to find their home address but probably not very hard.
You have some answers but what makes it extremely juicy is that if effectively is the same as a tracker when the person who stalks you knows you have an iphone.

If they throw it under your car for instance, your phone will always show where your driving and you most likely will never hear any chirps coming from it.
…no?

I’ve never had work, airplanes, or hospitals check for vaccines. Nor restaurants, entertainment venues, etc.

There was nothing standard about how this was deployed — and pretending otherwise is gaslighting.
Ask HN: YC misses that went on to do well (like veed.io)
Its quite possible that even YC would miss a few good founders. One that I came across recently was veed.io. They have raised 35 million in funding from Sequoia. What other startups that YC rejected went on to do well?
Win32 applications from (almost?) 30 years ago also still run on modern Windows. By a far margin, it’s a choice of keeping compatibility or not.

In contrast, I had to stop using my favorite SSH application on iOS because the author had died and Apple stopped supporting 32-bit apps instead of providing a compatibility layer.
>> The excess risk of serious adverse events found in our study points to the need for formal harm-benefit analyses, particularly those that are stratified according to risk of serious COVID-19 outcomes.

This is the conclusion by the authors of the paper.
Education is obviously important. Making school less expensive for everyone would be great. I just don’t understand why of all those that have ever or will ever borrow, current borrowers get this pay off. Why are they special?
This is just going in circles.

There are certainly valid criticism of exceptions. But the original claim was that exceptions was like goto's, and that is just not true. A goto is a jump to a statically defined location (label or line number) in the code independent of any lexical structure or call stack. Exceptions are just not like that at all.
'Serious errors' in research linking deaths to red meat
At least for tabular data there is no clear evidence that a neural network is superior than a tree-based model [0].
Many Data Scientist colleagues go straight to neural networks thinking that they will have a better result.
Considering the complexity and computational cost, I think it is convenient to evaluate which tool to use for each case.

[0] https://sebastianraschka.com/blog/2022/deep-learning-for-tab...
Did I misunderstand the question?
Drexler's book is a great piece of science fiction. The kind that goes and inspire people to try to achieve some very hard but technically possible goal, with great reward.

But it's not a science work at all.

(And then, this article seems to be outdated on all specific complaints.)
Yes. But they stopped making it like that. The new Leaf base models are $28k minimum, have lane assist, auto braking, high beam assist, smartphone integration, 8" multi touch display, voice recognition, and more. I paid around $12k in 2017 for a used 2015 Leaf. You can't do that anymore.
That a regular language may be parallelized does not mean all can be.

That said, there are techniques around to evaluate a context free grammars (and thus also regular grammars) in parallel. One way to do it is as follows:

Break up the input string into n separate strings.
The processing of the first string starts at a single state, the starting state. Each other string starts at the set of possible states, with the output being a mapping between state at the first character to the state after the last.

Then at the end the output is stitched together.
> an electric car with no extra bells and whistles

You can have this, but you have to import it from China, and the minimum level of bells and whistles required to legally operate it on the roads in the US is incredibly high.
Would you support the same attitude towards fat people?

They disproportionately drain medical resources due to life choices they made.
Does it matter? That's up to the people hosting the content right?
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Native support for buying PWAs (or at least in-app purchases) would probably be a game changer yes.

It sounds possible in theory: Apple gets to keep their 30% cut while allowing devs to sell even more apps.

But they would have no way of screening the PWAs, and if a PWA reaches enough feature parity to be usable by big sellers of subscriptions like Netflix, those sellers will surely invest effort in creating a PWA with their own payment SDK that bypasses Apple’s cut.

This is where I think the incentives are not aligned. Small devs want an easy to use monetization framework and are happy to give a percentage of their income for that, but Apple might want more large sellers which bring far more money for less managing effort.
> We first presented this scenario before the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, when most military officers were thinking in terms of conventional combat [seizing the town]. We suspect that after two decades of irregular warfare, the minority approach described here [of negotiating with local leaders] might be more prevalent today.

Most games only let players do the former: shoot till the enemy HP is depleted. Would love to see more development along the second path that isn't just dialog trees: where the enemy's morale is depleted.
It's 1795, and you're a farmer asked to build a ruler based on divide-by-10, or divide-by-2. Anyone with a compass can do the latter; the former is nearly impossible.
How is that a counterargument to Drexlerism? The fact that it already exists would seem to make it more likely that human engineering will leverage it.
> As a platform for developing interactive applications the web is simply terrible. There is no good way to develop a UI in HTML/CSS/JS, all attempts to do so rely on layers upon layers of wat are essentially hacks to build something resembling a UI toolkit on top of a document markup language. The result a UI that is unnecessarily complicated and fragile. Laying out and rendering HTML and CSS is incredibly complex compared how traditional UI toolkits do the same task. That complexity comes at a cost, both in development time and in UX.

This is so disingenuous and untrue that I‘m close to calling it an outright lie. Development of UI has never been easier, more accessible and better for the disabled than with web tooling. Any businesses from tiny startups to gigantic corporations can build value creating applications which generate billions of dollars of revenue which runs on almost all devices, using just one language and one code base. Browsers HTML and CSS parsers are incredibly generous in what they accept, allowing small markup mistakes in a latest update to not grind your operation to a halt. Modern HTML and CSS are dead simple to use, deliver sane defaults and capabilities which most browsers understand all the same. Never before has it been so easy to develop an application for your business with a language and frameworks millions of developers speak. Prototyping is incredibly simple. Modern browsers deliver incredibly tight sandboxes so malicious applications can neither access the information of other applications nor anything else on a targeted users system. Fake applications can be identified with SSL certificates in ways native applications never could.

The web enables the famed „write once, deliver anywhere“ which native desktop always aspired to be. My apps run on android, iPhones, MacOS, rare Linux operating systems, Windows and Tablets alike. The only thing they need is a browser. I only need one programming language for this.

One developer can do with the web what 10 couldn‘t do with native. How one could take a look at fortune 500 companies which are almost all at their size in thanks of the web and its advantages and then go on to declare the latter the worst platform to build is beyond me.
> there is quite a lot of mechanism for complaint and due process in the military.

Sure, and sometimes that due process ends at "do it". That's been the case for vaccinations for quite a few decades, and hasn't historically been much of an issue for folks.
> What happens when I plug my hypothetical iPhone with USB-C using a “standard” USB-C cable into my computer to transfer my 4K video?

Your phone will charge and you'll be able to transfer your 4K video. Isn't lightning still limited to USB 2 speeds? If so, then it won't be any slow.

USB-C isn't a problem for Macs and iPads that use it, so not sure why it would be a problem on the iPhone.

(I didn't understand your second question.)
The Dodge Charger has been around a lot longer than EVs. It is has also recently been announced they are discontinuing the Charger as an ICE model.
That is some Olympic-level mental gymnastics to argue that just because other, much more difficult, ways to track someone exist, that a tracking device played no part in making that particular sequence of events (including the crime of murder) easier to commit.
If you reject a third of applicants, the 90% figure is obviously misleading even if technically true in some sense.
Lengths aren't as important to farmers as volumes — those are base-2. Remember: 1790, not 1990.
I know, I was replying to 'if you were totally colour blind (by far the rarest sort)'.
I'm not concerned about them lying so much as the bag just not being scanned for some reason. I'm not really that concerned about their computer lying to me (in the sense of providing information it knows to be wrong).
People screaming about this stuff on twitter are not ddosing anyone, different demographic.
That sounds like the right answer, thank you.
The low purchase amount is a supply issue, not a demand issue. I’ve talked to many people who want to buy an EV but can’t because all the dealers nearby have a waiting list of over a year long to buy one.
10% of your EV cost, added to your roof solves this at least by 50% of the year.

Some places let you invest in solar farm that you then use power at all your abodes and at municipal chargers.

FWIW we should have waaay more incentives towards adding rooftop solar + batteries than towards EVs.
20 watts, actually.

But anyway, the point isn’t whether lightning is better than USB-C. It’s about whether USB-C is good enough that we want to accept being locked to it for all time. If Apple wants to invent a better connector, they can’t, assuming this European regulation goes through.
It's been a couple years since I had to report risk ratio (RR), and it's not something that I have used much in my research, but hear me out.

The RR CI must be >= 0. The calculation is based on the incidence in a population and the incidence in a sub-population, which are themselves fractions of positive integers (e.g., 1/1000 and 1/100). I don't think RR can ever be negative, or at least I'm not sure how you would get that without messing up your data or calculations?

RR of >1 means there is excess risk, and <1 means anti-excess risk which is a word I cannot think of right now (just, less risk than the baseline anyway). But RR is also just a measure of risk over baseline to begin with, so a 1.5 RR on something that happens 1/10,000 times is ... not that concerning? I wouldn't be concerned, anyway. Depending on what the risk is, I guess.

So, no, I don't think we would expect RR CI to be centered around zero at all.

The fact that the main effect is so small and crosses from neg to pos is by far more concerning. I would not submit results like that for publication.
I don’t get why other chip manufacturers don’t go this same route. For example AVX is done on the same core that also supports integer math. Many companies have a separate GPU but AVX seems to always come prepackaged.
ThinkPad X1 Fold: Lenovo's foldable laptop
Fold a piece of paper in half perfectly. Easy

Fold a piece of paper into 10 equal parts perfectly. Easy?
32 hosts officially but there are ways of protecting onion websites (caching reverse proxies with some sort of challenge) that protects drug market places that have governments trying to DDOS them offline. Not to mention that Tor has been working on anti-DDOS (From what I remember that will be based on proof-of-work) which will massively increase the cost of DDOS attacks against hidden services.
Hydrogen is an extremely inefficient (200-300% the energy waste of an EV) battery that’s notoriously difficult to handle, contain, and transport safely. Unless we’re mining gas giants hydrogen is not a fuel source, so you have to immediately toss 40-50% of the energy you produce to create it. You lose a ton then transporting it to its point of consumption, and even then converting that (wastefully) stored energy to kinetic energy is STILL less efficient than an EV. Instead, all of that energy used to make hydrogen could have been sent via the grid at 90-95% efficiency to an EV that will store and convert that energy to motion at 85-90% efficiency.

A hydrogen economy means tens of PWH of waste energy vs a pure EV economy.

The only reason you’d want hydrogen is if you’ve invested trillions in the oil industry and hope to repurpose that infrastructure.
The difference is probably that KF mocks individuals in easy to locate and follow threads. 4-Chan's set up is just too chaotic; proving that 4-Chan is going after a specific person would be...difficult. KF organizes its mocking into easily discoverable forums and threads, which makes it easy for the individuals in question to find all the nastiness.

Finding ANYTHING with any kind of historical evidence on 4-Chan is difficult. The thousand+ posts about keffals are all collected together where she and others can read them all at once, which also contributes to making it look 'worse'.

A haystack may have more needles in it than a sewing kit, but you KNOW which ones are in the sewing kit.
>Are you asking if a phone which has specifically been told to ignore AirTags will see AirTags?
Why are you asking this question? The answer borders on the tautological.

The victims are almost universally people oblivious to what can be done technically, they never adjust preferences; everything is 'on', as per a typical iPhone setup.

So the question remains... If a typical user turns off 'Find My' will they still get notification that they are being tracked?

The implication is that unless 'Find My' is on, they will be still tracked but not be notified.

See my point?
We need somebody to yell at when things go wrong.
I had a 2015 model car without a CVT, but it was replaced with a next year model with a CVT after the non-CVT was totaled in a wreck. The 2 cars drove/felt completely different. It took some time to understand why (I'm not a grease monkey), but I'm not really sure I ever liked the CVT model.
The latest vanmoof bikes have one built in. Thief will not be able to get it out without breaking the electronics of the bike, rendering it into a very heavy no-fun to use ebike without motor/smart features.

I LOVE how this prevents my bike from being stolen.
Apple's approach changed drastically over the years. Back in the 90s they were discouraging people from making apps that expected a screen size larger than 512x342 and color, because a lot of the installed base still had the equivalent of a mac plus. Your app was supposed to start with the basic functionality and ask the system if it supported more using the Gestalt manager. Then, finally, Open Transport made lots of machines obsolete and eventually 68k was gone altogether. Newer apps could assume 256 colors and at least 640x480.

When they released Carbon, they were putting the handwriting on the wall for old apps. You will be left behind.

Mac OS X frequently obsoleted old apps. Newer machines couldn't run your app, newer OS had different quirks and incompatibilities. New apps frequently obsoleted older machines and systems, just because. XCode made it somewhat less easy to code to an older standard, and if you did, it might not work in the newest system. Apple also had their writers chasing the latest and greatest look. Finished your glassy and lickable interface? iTunes is now brushed metal, you look so 2003. Got your icons' perspective looking like you're staring at the desktop? They're flat now, get with 2007.

I think mac users have been happy so long as the actual machines last about 8-10 years before becoming obsolete, which they generally do. Phone users can make do with 4-6.

But if you want to take an old app and run it, good luck. Apps are no longer finished products, ever. They adapt to the platform or die.

* dates are approximate
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