skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Will cell phone Companies claim Customer location data is just QoS, used to produce Maps?

Search: >'US Cell phone Companies told the FCC that they track their Customers locations and keep the records for up to five-years'< :

<https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/?q='US Cell phone Companies...>

Mobile phone tracking : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_tracking

When you power up a mobile/cell phone, the handset transmits a handshake to all mobile/cell bases it can hit.

Handshaking between mobile/cell phone and mobile/cell bases continues somewhere between every 10 to 20 minutes.

Data exchanged include; IMEI [1], IMSI [2], and both handset transmit power level, receiver power level to each mobile/cell bases databases.

Coupling both the mobile/cell bases databases and the locations topographical data allows RDF [3].

So even if you have location data turned off, you can still be tracked.

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[1] International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMEI

[2] International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_mobile_subscri...

[3] Direction Finding (DF) (aka) Radio Direction Finding (RDF) : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_direction_finder

See Related;

>Why bother with warrants when cops can buy location data for under $10k? : https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/01/eff_fog_data_broker/

HN discussion thread of the article: 4 days ago – 60 comments : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32685046

>Cops wanted to keep mass surveillance app secret; privacy advocates refused : https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/09/cops-wanted-to-k...

HN discussion thread of the article: 4 days ago – 141 comments : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32686750
I would say that Google monetized organizing the world's information by selling ads. That is pretty exactly what they did with search and search ads.
It could be interpreted as him owning 100 gigs of RAM across all his devices.

I'd estimate I'm around 50-60, so I'm sure plenty of HNers are over 100 total?
Wikipedia link for some background — I hadn’t heard of this before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms
https://archive.ph/MTvXB
> (...) it means that nature with its own means did not manage to manufacture such a highly-transmissive disease (...)

I think I'm less optimistic than you in this matter. There's at least one counter-example to that statement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu that has the same order of magnitude of deaths as COVID-19, but in a world where population was ~4x smaller and I'd expect less mobile / interconnected.
So I should never visit a doctor in Chile?
It's even more interesting than that. Nintendo was created shortly after Japan made it no longer illegal to manufacturer or play card games (seen as something from the West to be banned). They started creating original card and board games, as well as card designs. They focused on playing cards, not necessarily trading cards, though. The entire business was able to exist or started due to government regulations and a partial lift.

Sort of unrelated, but Japanese companies have a history of convincing Disney to do things they'd otherwise never do. Nintendo famously got a license to use Disney characters on their playing cards in the 1950s... something nobody else was able to do, and it was one of their most lucrative lines. Square Enix managed to convince Disney to license their IP for use in Kingdom Hearts, which is bizarre in numerous ways for the Disney MO, and it turned into something incredible. Studio Ghibli famously managed to prevent Disney from destroying it's films when released in the US by pulling a power play (they sent a samurai sword to Harvey Weinstein... yes that Harvey with a note that just said "No cuts.").
Whoa, I thought they were almost completely neutral to these sort of issues. I guess not.
Yes, designated for that and night patrols (I used to have spectacular low-light vision).
This is ridiculous and has been a cascade of awful precedents for the Internet. This is legitimately an extremely bad sign of what's to come for the Internet's future.
Who said anything about owning it? Just making it available for processing through their platform too.
Same. It's very weird that he did that. It is even more work and doesn't bring him any benefit.

I want to know if he had any reason to do so.
I agree. NASA has hit the jackpot by using fixed-price contracts from vendors which don't have a legacy track record from the Apollo days.

The Cost-plus contracts have made them fat and lazy and somewhat remind me of that Bugs Bunny cartoon where the cats don't mind the mice emptying the fridge.

NASA is taking a small risk, but the rewards can, as SpaceX has demonstrated, be HUGE.
> Great so will you volunteer to support a high rise behind you overlooking your house and backyard, a methadone clinic to your left, and train tracks to your right? Throw in a homeless encampment or two across the road to appease your bleeding heart.

Your argument boils down to "if you allow anything more than a single family home this worst-case scenario is what will come of it".

Most of those issues are issues caused by current zoning practices. If moderate density was allowed almost everywhere, then there wouldn't be this stark divide between the 99 lots that are single family homes and the 1 lot that the developer has spent 12 years getting a development agreement for and needs to build a high rise to recoup the cost. If you can build more housing almost everywhere, you eliminate much of the housing and homelessness crisis. If there are specific land uses that are incompatible with residential areas, that can be addressed.

No one who is pushing for more development wants a chemical refinery in your back yard. But maybe your the house on the corner might get turned into a modest 8 unit apartment building, same as happened widely before the 1970s.
You're right, it does much the same thing, but this works on external sites so a webmaster doesn't need to create a bunch of anchors to specific information on a page. Instead you can link to any site and force the browser to highlight/jump to an arbitrary location on that external site.

It's the kind of thing I'd disable because of the privacy leaks it makes possible (Ctrl-F on the new page works just as well and keeps the user in control), but I can see how some people might like the extra convenience (when it's not being used maliciously to collect sensitive information from otherwise secure websites).
that's not how an archive should work. but perhaps Internet Archive is not an archive and it doesn't want to be one.
You can't launch an ISA into space and expect it to do anything. At some point, hardware has to be designed and built based on that ISA.
How do bytecode compilers like Cranelift compare to native images generated out of bytecode that's easier to optimize for pure machine code execution (Java, dotnet)?

Perhaps more relevant: what's the point of taking machine code capable software, compiling it into WASM, and then compiling that back into machine code? A reinvention of FFI perhaps?
I'm new to Go, still finding my way with the idioms. Since there's nothing internal and this is just a small library I can see how it's simpler to flatten the directory structure, which also seems to be how other libraries do it.
Learn to develop Key-Value databases from scratch (Java)
The author builds complexity of the databases step by step. Each step has detailed explanations, code, benchmarks and tradeoff decisions that are being talked through. Some of the topics include

Persisting records and indices on disk for both read-only and read/write databases (LSM trees)

Write ahead logs for durability

Managing concurrent operations through different locking approaches
Next challenge: make the find/replace dialog better than the confusing tabbed mess it is today. And make it non-modal for simple search/replace.
Netscape started as a virtual conference room back in the 90s before they had to scale it back to just a browser.

Twitch aka JustinTV, at one point the founding team tried to sell coffee tables with your blog post of choice printed on it.
I have no experience as a user, but I've heard about it in the past and have been following the keffals story. From my understanding it was a site largely dedicated too, or encouraging, or at a minimum allowing people to dox trans people and harass them by contacting employers/friends/family etc with pedophilia accusations. Keffals has been lobbying Cloudflare to drop hosting/DDOS protection for them after being forced to move to a new country, and due to them having a large online following for support they're having way more success than a lot of other people that they've harmed in the past
That's your understanding of a discussion. Good one.
Go pester someone else.
That's sort of my point - when you see a random dbcontext read inside a function you have no idea what the fetch will actually do. It might just return an object that was already fetched elsewhere in the context and modified but not saved. It might return the first value. It will automatically plug related entities into navigation collections - even if they are queried completely independently.
I wish to read such posts. OP's comments are often tendentious but also generally substantive. Given a history of FB being criticized for the ethics of political advertising both domestically and internationally, the criticism seems on point to me.
Or maybe it's government involvement that has caused the whole issue in the first place and more government involvement would lead to an even bigger problem.
Moores law held for RAM until about 2016.

If you start in 1980 with 32K and then double it every two years, you get a reasonable approximation of the RAM of a desktop-class computer all the way until then.

You hit 8GB in 2016 and then the rule goes out of the window.
Not true. There's a large number of industries that prefer reliable older tech to unreliable ephemeral new tech.
8 gigabytes is not enough to run Windows. It ok for an iPad, but any Windows computer with 8GB ram essentially unusable and will crawl to a halt the second you open a web browser.

What normal users don't use browsers?
Yes. In. My. Back. Yard. Please.

I don't see the point of adding homeless encampments. We already have those. What I want is a Housing First model as it's proven to effectively address homelessness in multiple countries around the world.

But yes, I would love public transit coming closer to my house, I would love a dense living situation that's walkable with cafes, pubs, and shops underneath. I want to live in a so-called "5 minute neighborhood" and/or "15 minute city". I hate having to drive 20+ minutes through traffic lights to do anything.

I wanted these things before I bought my house, but it's too expensive to buy a large enough space for my needs in a place that has all of these things nearby. Not because it has to be, but because zoning laws enforced by NIMBYs enforce it.
That's surprising to me especially for rapid but you're better than me (2000 lichess). Under time pressure, if I have a passed a or h pawn and can simply trade down and promote I will opt to do that rather than try to calculate a deep mating combination.

> other than in end-game

This is frequently where such scenarios occur. Many end games are difficult for humans to play with absolute precision, even seemingly simple ones like knight and bishop vs. king. But when there are fewer pieces on the board is exactly when computers are able to perform incredibly deep calculations.

A good example is the notorious 30 move forced mate that Caruana "missed" in game 6 of his world championship match with Magnus, which occurred with only 3 pieces and 3 pawns left on the board.
So, you don't have evidence then? Having information about people is not evidence that it is being misused, which in it self requires context of what is "misuse".
No I meant by itself
Now we are talking about mirrors, temperature control, salinity control, food sources, killing competing organisms, water intake and filtering, somehow shielding them from radiation (while still allowing sunlight!) and probably a billion things I haven't thought about yet. Mess it up and your organisms are all dead.

MOXIE sounds better if all you want is oxygen (and CO). Give it power and off you go.
As two quick examples, both Switzerland and France have private healthcare providers and insurers. I think that’s enough to falsify your assumption :)
Thanks. It's a pattern I saw in https://github.com/LMAX-Exchange/disruptor.
When I was single and dating, I found a high correlation between how a dating partner treated service workers (including waiters) and how nice/desirable a partner they were. Garbage people tend to treat service workers as their personal servants, to bully and abuse.
What do you think about how Kaiser has handled the whole thing? The insurance company employing the doctors and just paying them a standard salary seems to create all the right incentives.
8GB ram is not enough to run any kind of modern web browser
The newer designs aren't actually RAD-hardened, but fault tolerant.

It's physically impossible to produce RAD-hard semiconductors at the small scale we're currently producing high-end CPU's with.

I read this in an article somewhere but don't have the link.
Tell HN: Windows 11 made my $80 laptop much faster
Coming from a Apple/Linux background, I recently got a budget Windows 10 laptop as my work machine (for my work as a field tech, I need something cheap that can flash IoT images and which I don't care about should it break, get dropped, etc). After scouring eBay for half an hour, I bought an $80 budget laptop, a HP Stream 11 with a whopping Celeron N4020, 4 whole GB of RAM, and 64GB of advanced eMMC.

Two months later, I have found performance to be predictably mediocre. Today I noticed that the option to upgrade to Windows 11 finally had been made available to me, and two hours later I was blown away. It feels like a totally different machine. While the performance gains probably won't be as noticeable on machines with better hardware, this budget-laptop definitely got a big boost from the update -- something I can only conclude is due to specific attention on this sector by Microsoft.

With Windows 11, lag is no longer an issue and I'm surprised to find myself discovering how nice of a machine it actually is. The keyboard has a good amount of travel (in fact I'm typing this on it right now since I have momentarily fallen in love with the keyboard), the case is well built and is not as apt to flexing as other budget laptops, and the battery life is decent since I treat it fairly well. It's hard to explain but there's something oddly satisfying about a slim, budget laptop that actually is mostly okay. It just feels oddly delightful.

I imagine ChromeOS is going to be taking a hit once more budget laptops with Windows 11 hit the market. And while I'm usually hesitant to give Microsoft credit, it appears they've gotten this one right.
We can just measure this. What percentage of people we give just housing to get off their feet after say a year or two? What percentage of people we allow to shoot up in city approved areas go clean after a year or two? From what I have read, it is a percentage in the low single digits.

We are perpetuating a permanent dependent underclass along with a bureaucracy that is incentivized to maintain the class to maintain their power.
Maybe you're mixing that up with Facebook? Mark Zuckerberg started FaceMash to compare students in a 'hot or not' type website. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook#FaceMash
Sometimes people do a thing where they see certain keywords in combination and reflexively respond without regard to the meaning those words are expressing. For example, it's what happens if I use a word like "welfare" near that one uncle at Thanksgiving. The signature feature is a very strong negative reaction but with content that doesn't seem related to what the previous person was saying, except that it involves certain keywords.

I think that's maybe what happened here. You saw "Google," "data," and "ingest," and your sentiment analysis report came back positive, and it triggered a response.
> Weird Al had 100 gigs of RAM

And he needed it because of his 2000" TV!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbDostWXpcU
> Many of the private health providers are for-profit and lobby against rule changes that would reduce complexity and save the system money.

This is almost certainly an anti-competitive move. By keeping many rules and regulations, you need more staff to deal with them - and smaller insurers have fewer patients to amortize those salaries over.
Tangential question: When the Wayback machine retroactively excludes a site's content – e.g. a site owner adds a robots.txt that specifies exclusion — the data isn't deleted, right? Just flagged to prevent being found in search again. In other words, if exclusion of KF turns out to be an unnecessary or unwanted (or if researchers want to study the KF data in the future), it's just flipping the flag, right?

Here's an example of a site that was retroactively excluded by webmaster request, but was later (forced?) to remain in the searchable archive:

http://blog.archive.org/2018/04/24/addressing-recent-claims-...

edit: to answer my own question, seems like retroactive exclusion has, at least since 2007, not been interpreted to be a mandate for actual data removal:

https://archive.org/post/133690/robotstxt-only-gives-tempora...

> Hello, I want all old content from immortal ia.com REMOVED permanently from The Wayback Machine. So I read the exclusion policy, placed up a robots.txt file and requested the Alexa bot go to my website. Then checking The Wayback Machine, I got a notice that the site was blocked by the robots.txt file. But after I removed the robots.txt file, the archived pages reappeared. Is there a way to permanently purge all old pages of a website so that they will NEVER reappear in The Wayback Machine? Am I obligated to keep the robots.txt file in place forever?
The Bootstrap Movement
So if they scrape a kiddie porn site, they should keep that publicly available in perpetuity? That's not how the world works.
Memory addresses were never 8 bits. Some early hobbyist machines might have had only 256 bytes of RAM present, but the address space was always larger.
There's also a shallow aspect in quantitative only messages. Your body is complex and soft, move more but move smart, move soft, breath deep, pay attention. Move in groups, focus on energy efficiency. Your cardio vascular system is a bit of a plumbing.. so lay flat at times to move the blood more easily. Yoga people also aim at matching breathing oxygen intake, lung sucking blood to improve the overall blood flow efficiency. This kind of approaches should be more efficient than just zumba hard at the gym club.
Note: I run a vuln scanning company in this space (our GitHub[0]), so I can add some context to this.

GitHub has this for Dependabot via CodeQL which is a part of their "Advanced Security" package. ($$$, ie "contact us", but I've heard ~$1-1.5k per dev per year roughly)

Other big ones are SonaType, FOSSA, and Snyk (which OP mentioned). There are some smaller vendors too which I can add if anybody is curious.

GitHub CodeQL is by far the best and their tech comes from their acquisition of Semmle/LGTM a few years ago. When I was at Uber, we used Semmle to augment the efforts of the bug bounty and to "scale" our AppSec team to keep up with an ever growing engineering team.

The lack of flexibility with CodeQL and the other proprietary scanning tools is actually the reason why, when I decided to start a security company, I decided to center the company around building publicly on GitHub.

It's harder to make money, at least initially, but it's also the "right" choice to actually push this industry forward. (The thought on how to make money is a hosted SaaS, of course.)

Anyway, I'm happy to answer any questions around this stuff!

0: https://github.com/lunasec-io/lunasec
> 100 m/s through soil and 5 m/s through solid rock

The Wikipedia article says meter/minute where it mentions those numbers, not meter/second.
"Further, the licensing has f-all to do with whether a particular engineer is endangering public safety."

This is completely contrary to what every engineer is taught multiple times before they are licensed. Licensing is essential to the goal of preserving public safety as the profession is self-regulating. This lesson was learned at the cost of human life and I'm not sure what has given the impression that it's some administrative convenience. Inescapably, in applying for a license you confirm that you understand the role of the licensing body and the rules the license is granted under.

Marohn got fined because someone registered a complaint that he "held himself out as a professional engineer while he was not licensed" and "falsely represented on his reapplication for licensure that he had not done so". Quite plainly, this isn't some injustice: this is literally the system working as intended -- complaint, assessment, and resolution. As to your point that "they don't exercise this right for years" you are incorrect: about a dozen fines have been assigned in 2022 alone.

Do you have experience with professional licensing that suggests the above is inappropriate?
Popular endorsement of harassment to the point of suicide seems like a worse sign, personally.

When it comes to threats to freedom of expression, I'm much more concerned about the religious right's abuse of government authority to censor education, ban books, and suppress the vote, than I am about private institutions taking steps to protect human life.
Can you actually disable them, or just disable what they do by finding and toggling some obscure option in the settings? There's a difference between changing how an extension running in the browser works and removing it so that it isn't running at all.
I would assume these get negotiated as a large list with each payer so if you have 500 services, and 4 payers, you probably and up with 1k-2k unique prices?
Brian Armstrong pivoted from "payments enabler for Bitcoin" (Bitbank) -- to -- "cryptocurrencies exchange" (Coinbase) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26815403

In other words, he pivoted from an idea analogous to Visa/PayPal/Stripe/etc -- to -- a forex exchange market and financial broker/custodian.

[To downvoters, if my information is incorrect, please add the correction. I linked Brian's 2012 text where he described what he was initially trying to create.]

EDIT ADD reply to: >because you pretty clearly need to build the exchange to make the payment thing work.

Thank you for your comment. I'm using the term "exchange market" in the sense of a full blown currency trading platform that has a "order book" to constantly match buy/bid and sell/ask orders. His initial description of "disrupting credit-card fees" did not require building that type of exchange platform. Instead, he just needs to be a "bank" that acts on behalf of users via the "custodian" ownership model. This would let users convert USD$ into BTC and they can then pay each other. The first business name for the website on his prototype screenshot was "Bitbank" which makes sense for the idea that emphasizes ecommerce payments rather than the trading of cryptocurrencies itself. E.g. Stripe enables payments and deals with 135+ currencies but does not have a "currencies trading platform with a buy/sell order book".