skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can someone explain why a Mastodon account is so intrinsically tied to the instance it was registered on? This has always confused me and is part of the reason I haven't started using it, I couldn't decide on which instance to use. Why can't an account be globally unique and not tied to a specific instance? Why, as a user, do I have to deal with the low-level concept of an instance?

Is this all just a consequence of keeping user data private-ish? I understand the data has to be stored somewhere, and if user data were distributed to the entire network, it obviously wouldn't be private. Couldn't e2e + public key encryption be used to work around this somehow?
Just wait until AirTags have accelerometers in them too (capturing all the abuse to bags)!

Seriously though, I'll be surprised if Apple puts any serious resources into future versions of the AirTag, given the amount of bad PR[0] they've generated for Apple, and how allergic Apple is to bad PR.

From the perspective of Apple, the cost to benefit ratio doesn't seem to be there, especially for a product that is a rounding error on their balance sheet.

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=airtag+track
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Must not be very much of an issue since there’s basically zero messaging around what airplane mode is for.

Not once has any of my carriers even said “please turn on airplane mode to help the network”. Instead it’s an in-passing recommendation made by air stewardesses so boilerplate it feels like superstition.

I wonder what the actual impact is and how that relates to the low effort messaging around airplane mode.
Hopefully someone is thinking clearly enough to realize how stupid and unlikely it would be for Putin’s external enemies to attempt something like that at this moment. Putin’s standing in Russia is as tenuous as it has ever been and getting worse with each day. The only play at the moment is to watch and see if he manages to wriggle out of the noose.
Ed Boon showing where "Get over here" sound effect comes from (21 seconds): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vmW8FMIxYo
> why just dots? Why not a mix of dots, curves and straight lines?

Because it was easier for the technology of the day (invented in 1824) to reliably emboss dots.
What's airport mode?
> It’s actually an FCC regulation that requires it

I don't believe you. Regardless, I have never used airplane mode on an airplane and I never will.
OK, first, this is a UK article. Social security is irrelevant.

Second, why do you assume all retirees are relying on social security? I'm not. It will certainly be nice if I ever get to collect any, but I'd have to be a fool to count on that in the current political, economic, or demographic situation. Especially when I see how prevalent comments like yours are among future voters. People might have no expectation or intention of ever collecting one penny (in either currency) of public money, and still consider re-entering the workforce because of what the market manipulators have done to their savings.
Which you mostly don't want to use if you use Telegram. The nice features of Telegram are the ones that are not e2ee!!!

Having secret chats is mostly for marketing, to pretend it's private. But it's mostly confusing.
Putting an AirTag in my passport wallet, has saved me a ton of unnecessary stress, both before, after (and during travel).
This is great. However how to find other such niche searches. A request for you.com/niche returns a 404 page which means you cannot find other niche searches like this one
Lol Lufthansa is the absolute worst when it comes to lost luggage... Last time we flew with them they not only lost our luggage, but the luggage of every single person on the same connection (about 50 people). It seems as though they are actually simply incapable of figuring out how to keep track of luggage.

And of course allowing airtags would make that even more obvious.
For security and theft prevention yes.

For market research no. The purpose is very important (which is why it's so key in legislation like GDPR)
The reason for picking a marathon as the specific analogy, which Scrum intended to do (but got backwards) is that:

1) It's a (very) long haul. Pacing yourself is mandatory. (In most of the legends of the first marathon, the runner collapsed to the death after delivering his message in Athens.)

2) It's explicitly an A to B with a long-term goal in mind. From software product idea to finished software, in theory. (This part of the Scrum analogy has largely been forgotten/ignored/killed of course in the modern view of software as a constant Ship of Theseus that is never finished and always has infinite backlog.)

3) Pacing yourself while running a marathon consists of breaking your run into smaller time boxes. Most runners do plan specific paces for different "splits" within a marathon. Some runners pay coaches lots of money to try to come up with these plans. (Again, here Scrum screwed up the analogy by using the exact wrong term, "Sprint": a short fast race where pace is as fast as possible, and no need to think about "the next mile" after the "Sprint".)

4) The type of race doesn't change in a marathon. A triathlon might make a similarly good long haul project development metaphor if you have to shift entirely different contexts every so often (swimming, biking, running), but software development doesn't (necessarily) have drastic context switches like that. "Mile to mile" ("week to week") in software development you are still largely doing the same tasks.

I kind of agree with the Scrum originators that the marathon was a good analogy for software development projects. I just wish they hadn't immediately broken the analogy by getting fundamentals wrong like the relationship between Marathons and Sprints.

(ETA: I'm not myself a runner. Most of what I know is from siblings and friends and trying to be a good sideline supporter.)
My mom separated from my dad and, with a young child, went back to grad school at age 40. She got her PhD at 55, and tenure at 67.

While she's a very difficult person, I do admire this trait and willingness to reinvent herself, and I think I've been more fearless in some ways because of it.
You don’t need to be an “elitist” to be scared of strangers in Chicago in 90s in the night.
Check out the script included in one of the comments of this PR. It allows displaying recoll query output in pdfgrep.el buffers. The fix in the PR itself helps to avoid an error in cases when recoll doesn't provide highlights in the snippets.

https://github.com/jeremy-compostella/pdfgrep/pull/8
Stadiums are actually challenging problems for mobile network builders. That's tens of thousands of people. 300 people in a passing airplane are not a problem. Computers are fast. 3MPH, or 300MPH no longer matters to mobile networks until you actually overwhelm the number of calls/connections you can pack into one place's infrastructure.
You're failing to read my argument: for some people normal 2FA is too hard, and they need help from a local organisation.

But not for ALL people. Just for the people who need it.

You keep using TOTP and GPG email all you want, just don't get in the way of them getting basic services like social security.
tcb... thread control block, aka task_struct?
> I have my own data point in this discussion. Back in May, there was a long thread on Emacs-Devel about removing ns-do-applescript from the Next Step branch. The problem, according to the instigator, was that applescript runs only on macOS which is not a free operating system—although it does represent over 25% of Emacs users—and therefore ns-do-applescript should not be in Emacs.

This isn't the first time that free-software spite has led Emacs developers to disable perfectly good features. Back in 2016, Emacs developers deliberately prevented color emoji from being displayed on the macOS port because Linux (and other free software platforms) didn't support color fonts at the time.

http://xahlee.info/emacs/misc/emacs_macos_emoji.html
Really? It seems to me that that the percentage of source opting for a BSD/MIT type license vs GPL is much greater than 10-15 years ago.

FSF is stuck in a world where everyone still writes everything in C.
> an intangible sense of "realness" that's difficult to attain with an emulator.

I wonder if this is due to input latency, because no matter how good the emulator, input devices have gotten waaay slower due to all of the layers in between, before even getting to the emulator... unfortunately it's not really something you can throw money at with modern computers.

> PowerBook G3 Pismo

I owned one of those, that thing is capable of frying an egg for real!
Exactly: it's not a secure messenger. It has an option of secret chats which is not as private as Signal.

If you want privacy, use Signal. If you want UX, use Telegram. Just don't pretend Telegram is private. Both are fine, but people need to know what they are doing.
The richest people I know are fully capable and inclined to stop and smell the roses. The trick is to convince people to keep working for the same wages while charging ever-increasing prices and keeping the difference for yourself. Folks will practically kill themselves for the opportunity to make the same real wage as last year!
Great answer. I realized this pretty recently that I have been thinking a lot of doing things and never getting to it. I joined a startup and seeing every having the "do things" mentality made me realize this.
> Guess you have to manage real estate all over the world and work with every government.

Or, you know, pass a deal with post offices or banks. Bank ID is pretty widespread in nordic countries for instance.

But as with other topics (e.g. banking services) we're getting the usual HN answer where anything unheard of in SV but common elsewhere is considered luxury science fiction.
Did you consider making a claim against his insurance? Or taking up matters with your state's corporation commission? Or talk to your attorney general or your consumer protection department?

You have options.
Even that isn't the same. It's still being displayed and then rendered on my computer.

For example using an adblocker on my PC while viewing a website is perfectly legal. Same with scripts that interfere with tracking.

Now, if I go to the physical store and remove posters and cameras, I bet that will lead to some more resistance.
Seems like a silly argument. But just for fun, Apple could add a "timer to on" functionality to the AirTag, so you can turn it off temporarily and it'll turn on by itself after X hours. So turned off first, and around when you land, have it automatically turn on.

Call it "Travel Mode" just like what 1Password calls it, as it's a defense against the same entity: adversaries.
They thought about that, but it's harder than you think. They even explain why on their blog.
As a casual outside observer, it seems to me that dropping self-hosted support was a very sensible move. They probably didn't want to spend resources on PC hardware support, particularly for laptops. And of course, a developer's PC doesn't just run development tools; it also has to handle things like connecting to VPNs and being manageable by company IT departments. Some people need accessibility accommodations (e.g. screen readers, magnifiers, or alternative input methods), and there's no reason to assume that this group doesn't (or couldn't) include some developers of niche embedded systems. The list goes on and on. Even desktop Linux doesn't do a great job on all these things, never mind a niche OS like QNX. So doing cross-development from Windows or macOS makes a lot of sense.

Edit to add: Just had a scary thought. What if Red Hat and whoever else is actually spending money on desktop Linux development applied the same logic to desktop Linux itself that I retroactively applied to self-hosted QNX? After all, non-developers don't use Linux, right? (I'm speculating that they'd make that assumption, not saying it's actually true.) And developers can work with Linux by connecting to a remote machine or running a VM on a "normal" (i.e. Windows or Mac) computer. Is there enough economic incentive to keep maintaining and improving desktop Linux that this won't happen? The death of desktop Linux wouldn't actually hurt me, as I mainly use Windows, but I'd still be sad.
> Is it not possible to cross-compile OS/2 software?

No idea. Back in the day the hardware requirements would have been prohibitive, however you could install a compiler such as Visual Age for C++ in a OS/2 VM and download technical documentation such as the famous IBM Red Books.

Some relevant links:

https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22OS%2F2%22

https://archive.org/details/vac_3-0

https://www.os2site.com/sw/info/redbooks/index.html

https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php/OS/2_Books_and_Docum...
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Interesting, the SE/30 page on everymac gives the initial price of $6500 I quoted above - but maybe this was not the price for the basic configuration.

I had an SE/30 many years ago (gave it to a friend in the late 90s) and used it to run A/UX. Good times :). Now I only have a Classic II which badly needs recapping...
> At one point, when both cell phones and laptops were new, there was perhaps a risk to the airplane's electronics.

There was never any risk. Someone wrote an article in the times suggesting "perhaps" and people freaked out.

There has never been a single instance or study to support this claim. The entire idea airplane mode is a farce.
Before landing on the last flight I was on, the flight attendants requested that everyone turn off their phones (even if in airplane mode) due to the weather conditions while landing. Does anyone know what purpose that could possibly serve?

This was in France if that's a relevant clue.
That position is crystal clear and makes sense.

If absolutely nobody can replace the firmware (without desoldering chips and such), then the playing field is level; the firmware is effectively part of the hardware, like a voltage controller chip on the circuit board.

If the firmware is flashable, then until someone actually flashes it, the situation sort of resembles the above, which is why the original firmware image is acceptable.

Would you prefer that Stallman declare unacceptable any proprietary factory firmware that can be overwritten?

Basically the FSF concerns itself with things that are programmable: who controls that. If only some privileged players can produce images for the device (like the original manufacturer or some parner or other cohor thereof), then the user is disadvantaged: the field is not level.

A device with a nonprogrammable ROM could be be harmful, and that could be due to code. But it is not fixable by programming, just like a harmful toaster.
i suppose i thought you meant insurance against theft, not loss of value
I would argue the airlines and airplane manufacturers are far more at fault here.

The fact that aircraft systems are sensitive to frequencies outside their allocation is ridiculous. If literally anyone else was camping on frequency bands they didn't have the rights to the various regulatory bodies would be up in arms.
Absolutely! I would hope that any popular offering would have competitors. And I would expect that the creator of the linked service would at least notice that you offer only an iframe embed, as opposed to my SEO friendly JS embed. And I guess you would have to know if one was released before the other. I am sorry if we had similar ideas.
And honestly the idea that a PhD in Mathematics from one of the top universities in the world could easily transition into CS or software engineering is one of the least controversial ideas out there.
I also like Pink Floyd's Time. It also really reasonates with me.

In the song, the young folks waste/enjoy their time when they are young. You spent your time working. In the song they spent their time laying in the sun and staying home to watch the rain. Actually it seems like a pleasant youth, but then they later they regret it. I guess they had hustle culture in the UK in the 70s too.
They have more money now, and $17,500 doesn't get as far as $500k in terms of burn.
Had the same happen a couple of times on flights to Alaska from the US west coast. Surprised to see messages from Bell Canada
Yes, and they are working on it. It's just harder than it seems, and it is not as important as people seem to think. I value much more the work Signal did on metadata than the username vs phone number debate.
The retina is a very complex structure. I’m skeptical that if major damage happens to the structure, like wet macular degeneration or in retinal diseases like PIC, that the structure can ever function again.
The smallest I ever did was 4x8 on a Commodore 64. The actual text was 3x7, with a one pixel spacer on the right and bottom. Did this for a terminal emulator that output 80x24 text (plus a status line) on the 320x200 screen.

Rending was slow, but that's OK because 1200 baud was state of the art at the time, and the computer could keep up OK. 2400 baud worked, if there wasn't too much scrolling.

Eventually we came up with a way of doing a 8x8 characters on a 640x200 screen using some of the scrolling methods we saw from the demo scene, but it was blurry, even on a good monitor, and we couldn't output the characters fast enough to be usable. By then the 128 was out, and it was assumed people who wanted 80 columns would just use that machine's real 80-column mode.
That's the Spectre V2 from the OP title. What's the point this link is meant to convey?
Definitely possible, 100%. Can confirm getting texts at 25k feet while not in airplane mode. I was on a flight from JFK->SEA and got welcome to Canada texts above Toronto area.
Not learning how to invest my money in early 20’s instead of spending it all on crap I didn’t need and not having the foresight to know I could have been in a much better position today financially had I just put my money away in the market rather than lighting it on fire with stupid material purchases that are in a landfill somewhere today.

If you are young and have an income stream, do your future self a favor and invest in a diversified fund as much as you can and a 401k and don’t touch it until you’re ready to retire. Compound growth is insane.
Makes me wonder what system US security agency has for these. Can they ask Apple to disable them for certain areas or by device if you happen to be a target of interest?
Probably because the pilots were going to be flying an IFR approach. (flying on just instruments through low visibility near the ground, a worst-case scenario for interference being able to cause a fatal crash)
Consumer-facing rules need credibility to have effect. Airlines have squandered customer trust for decades.
Looks like the text on some of the modern Atari 2600 games.
P values already incorporate assumptions about the distribution under the null hypothesis, so it's not such a stretch to report bayesian statistics
It’s happened enough to me flying intl, that I refuse to check now. One time FinAir lost my bags for so long, I was thinking they were gone forever.
Good luck with that. If the medical group you are a part of is in their regional, statewide or a country wide HIE, you'd have to check with every connected partner to see what other systems may have queried for your data and potentially have copies as well.

You typically won't have your data in too many other systems unless you are hopping between different medical groups/hospitals. There's just a possibility that the above could happen because, seeing and making the sausage, I wouldn't trust anyone to be able to tell me who has seen my health records.
Yeah, I mean, apart from missing intellisense, Fauna forces you to set in stone everything, which is not good for fast iteration and prototyping. I understand it's for performance, but things, especially in startups, continuously change.
Ask them how many users choose to sync their contacts :). I did.
Knowing German I read through the sources. This article is pretty misleading.

The [primary source](https://www.watson.de/leben/urlaub%20&%20freizeit/879935671-...) is a slightly clickbait article asking the questions: "Are AirTags allowed in checked luggage?".

They reached out to Lufthanse asking them. They responded: "Luggage trackers are electronic devices so they have to be turned off when the luggage is checked".

It is unclear wether they really understood how AirTags work and that they are not active trackers.

There are a bunch of other magazine echoing this response but I have yet to find an official statement by Lufthansa explicitly banning AirTags.
It happens and just like the meme they drive it hours to you once found, even across states. Just happened my sister and brother in law who had trained to another state by the time theirs was found.
The France clue actually contradicts my guess, because I'm guessing that was an Airbus? Anyways, he's one theory:

Boeing has an issue where its radio altimeters are affected by C-band 5G transmissions. I believe maybe the pilots were relying more on the precision of the altimeter because their vision was impaired due to the bad weather? The whole 'turn off phones' instruction could be because people would follow the unusual request to turn off their phones instead of just telling them to put it in airplane mode (which is so common that some people just don't bother)
yes, i agree, but that is still a distinction, is it not? i'm not making a value argument, i'm merely pointing out that possession of the currency itself is not the same as the keys required to exercise control over the currency.

arguably, if we are making value statements, there are a set of similar trade-offs for physical protection of keys vs. primary material. 700kg is harder to move: that's a security feature. keys are small: that's a security feature, because they are a small O(1) surface area to protect regardless of how much value they maintain control over at any given moment.

these are simply tradeoffs. it is only "easier" to steal keys if they are left unprotected.

here's the enormous truck you would need to carry $40m in gold, apparently:
https://www.tkingauto.com/mini-truck/rear-single-tire-truck/...
Interesting. When i first heard this I assumed it’s bad benchmarking but photonics saying same suggest otherwise
I’d interpret this as a “pay attention and be ready” rather than something from the phone itself.
People use everything for programming. Android has the AWD ide which is not bad overall for development
Cash? Clothes? I don’t keep receipts for every pair of jeans I own.
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Can't speak for Iceland specifically, but can confirm that if you fly from Seattle or Portland down to SFO, you follow a corridor of fairly strong mobile coverage most all the way, and it's occasionally usable at cruising altitude for a moment here and there. Definitely enough to get text messages.
That Javascript can be used to build 100% server-side apps, 100% client-side apps, and anything in between makes it really hard to parse the messaging/intent sometimes in posts like this.
Probably so that if there was an issue people are paying attention and not screwing around on their phones/listening to music
Yeah, that's a good point. As new ones get built, we will need a way to make them discoverable.

Also, just as a heads up, there is a link at the bottom of the search page [0] if anyone would like to build one of these search pages on any topic that might be interesting. It's just a form now bc we are working through the process.

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