skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mostly off-topic, but I love the scale used for score bars on this site. Each category has a scale from 0 to {highest score of all devices of this class}.

So every category where the current phone is the best has a 100% full bar. Where it’s not, you can immediately visualize if it’s 70% as good as the best device or 99% as good - even if the high score for that category is, say, 136.

A lot of stricter review sites will say something like (made up example) “no phone gets above a 4/10 score for zoom; only a DSLR/mirrorless exceeds that.”

Which is totally valid! But I want to know how the device I’m reading about scores within its category. Those smaller bars make it look like this gadget has one major weakness despite its other high scores, when the reality might be that it actually has the best - or close to the best - zoom ability out of all devices in this class.
I'd totally use them on my mobile devices if versions for them existed. They're just too convenient even though they lack a keyboard. Wish I could use them to write software.
Supervised learning on tabular data with numeric, categorical, and text columns
A common business application of ML is to model data that contains some text features as well as numeric/categorical features as well. For example: predicting something about a product based on its text description/title, sale price, weight, and listed product category.

While developing ML methods for such data, we noticed there are hardly any benchmarks out there. So we made our own public benchmark containing 18 such datasets from various enterprise-related applications, each with a different number of text vs. numeric vs. categorical columns:
https://github.com/sxjscience/automl_multimodal_benchmark

Using this benchmark, we discovered a simple and effective text+tabular data modeling strategy that you can easily run on your own data via our AutoML library: https://auto.gluon.ai/stable/tutorials/tabular_prediction/ta...

Here's our NeurIPS paper describing this benchmark: https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.02705

Hope you find it useful!
A big mistake you make is to think that someone would be powerful enough to find you personally on Signal, but would fail to find you on an insecure chat in a video game.

If you are not interesting for the NSA, giving your phone number to Signal is fine. If you are... run. The counterstrike chat won't hide you.
I seem to remember reading about an earlier attempt to do this that brought down twitter; The twitter server was attempting to follow the tweet chain and didn't have mitigations for this. Anyone have that link?

Object ID Prediction is a classic class of security attack, but thankfully with their data model it doesn't much matter.
It's saying something when RMS is the voice of pragmatism.
If airlines adopt this more generally maybe Apple will create a feature to turn off air tags for a length of time. Ie: don't transmit for the next 6 hours but then start again. That would make this ban look quite ridiculous.
I too have gotten similar sorts of texts on my last trans-Atlantic flight from DIA to Frankfurt.
Ideally mobile devices in theaters, malls, and stadiums aren't traveling at hundreds of miles an hour with a vantage such that they're in range of multiple towers simultaneously. It used to be (and maybe still is with 5G) that adjacent cells used different channel pairs. That way a handset at the edge of cell A could talk to both cell A and B to negotiate a handoff. Handoffs can happen pretty quickly.

If cells A and F are on the same channel pair and a handset can see both towers the tower the handset is not talking to just has a higher noise floor. It's like in an apartment if the next unit over is on the same WiFi channel.

You'll note that in older generation cell systems theaters, malls, and stadiums were terrible places for cell signals. Now many have micro/nano cells that cover much smaller areas to deal with congestion. Handsets reduce their output power when the received signal strength is better. So a handset will readily talk to a microcell at a stadium rather than try to talk to a tower further away (with a worse signal).

But for planes, hundreds of passengers hitting dozens of towers simultaneously on the same channel pairs would be rough on switching. Carriers need to know where in the network to route messages to handsets. If a handset is handing off to multiple towers quickly or worse hopping seemingly randomly to towers as a jet flies over it'll be difficult to keep it connected. Multiple that by thousands of people in the air at any given time. Areas near busy airports would have absurdly unreliable connections for people in the air and on the ground.
This is incredible news. Lead is so clearly damaging and now that 100UL is approved we need to stop selling leaded fuels for aviation immediately. The reputation of ga depends on it
fwiw, the passcode challenge is for decrypting your keychain. If you fail that, you lose your passwords and other E2E data, but for better or for worse, not that much stored stuff is E2E encrypted and so you don't lose too much. I don't know if it's still true, but a few years back if you lost everything (i.e. didn't know your passcodes, didn't have a device to approve the sign in from) you could still get back into your account by waiting two weeks and recreating your keychain. This also means that if you are ever away from the internet for two weeks and someone knows your password that they can jack your shit but that's quite the edge case imo.
Two "nines." Not acceptable in most products/services.
Finally! It strikes me as ridiculous that we still use leaded fuel for anything.
Receipts for the personal items that the airline lost, not for the airfare. You need to prove how much your damages are in order to make a claim.
Trusted Computing Base.

i.e. The code that needs to be trusted. For Linux, it includes the whole kernel, and it is huge.
What you're describing is called interpretation of the law, and weirdly enough, legal systems have been doing that for the better part of 600 years.
The biggest problem with the FSFs religious and dogmatic set of beliefs is that it leads to bizarre outcomes that don't make any sense. Like shipping proprietary firmware is ok as long as you don't change it because then it's not really software and it doesn't count, or whatever. So your software is free if it's proprietary and old but it's suddenly not free if it's proprietary and new, try to explain this to anyone not steeped in free software theology.

It has the same energy as only being able to walk x steps on the Shabbat. It's important to recognize when your doctrine has started to hijack you rather than making and adapting rules to serve your long term goals.
> Is Signal working on secure group messaging? Well, they won the Levchin Prize at RWC for the work they're doing on it.

I perhaps should have clarified but I was talking about group messaging without phone numbers attached
I really want to be optimistic about this but as a us consumer of us healthcare its almost impossible to get even my vision prescription.

I'm betting whatever I get from the hospital is in an ocean of binary formats too arcane to digest, from a graveyard of bankrupt health data applications and in a shorthand I'll never comprehend because the legend to it is in some healthcare billing system only god and bill collectors can see.
I haven't looked it up, but I can't imagine this is acceptable under the ADA. For the vast majority of blind people I guess this would just be an incomprehensible bunch of bumps, failing in the accessibility mission.
But still plenty popular - at it's peak it had 200 million users. For comparison, that's nearly 2/3 the population of the USA
C Programming on System 6
That seems like a disaster brewing. The whole spectre family of vulnerabilities is a side effect of CPUs keeping state around to optimize things and leaking that data between privilege levels.

I mean, in the humorous extreme: imagine if some enterprising group at AMD got together and realized they could "optimize" all that retpoline code by making the RET instruction aware of the branch prediction cache!

"Fundamental architecture changes" are, in fact, what is actually required here.
I mean, if you're self taught, you can take whatever path you want.

My comment was in the context of students, which generally is backed by public funding. I'm worried about getting less value for the same number of public dollars. That being said, maybe it does still work out as an increase in total value, we should probably do a study on that.

That being said, I'm self-taught too, so I actually benefit if these classes provide less value, as it's easier to convince business folks to hire me instead, but it's the principal of the matter in this case (also I'm not really competing against recent college grads anymore).
Python, with Django, and Django Rest Framework. Steep initial learning curve, but its integration of many features (including auto DB migrations), great docs, and long-term track record.
Being 6 miles up and 8 miles horizontally is only 10 miles from a cellphone tower. As rural cells can easily be more than 20 miles this seems reasonable.
Bags are lost often enough there’s a charity selling the bags that never get claimed.

https://www.unclaimedbaggage.com/pages/how-it-works

They say a 3 month search, but if you read around you’ll see 5+ days and your bag is basically gone. They say .03% of all checked bags end up lost and then unclaimed. How many must get lost to reach that unclaimed number?
I’ve got a few Notion products. Would love to connect. Feel free to reach out at the domain linked in my profile.
It's not just about the weight on the plane. It's about the equipment and people who move the bags around. Clearly, people have some upper limit they need to be expected to lift as baggage handlers.
I had to open an account and wait for two months for my Medallion. Having a credit card was not sufficient.
They’re also an absolutely horrible neighbor. Diplomats are terrors on the streets and regularly rape New Yorkers without consequences.

I have no respect for them - can’t stop Russia, the Uighur genocide, or Iran. What are they good for?
I would point put out that the symbolic structures that enhance han intelligence were implanted during that patient's early life and while the external connection to those structures may have been severed, that doesn't mean that the complicated semantic structures don't still exist.

The contrapositive would be to show a clearly intelligent human with no communication ability that can still model the human world accurately. Past such examples don't tend to show this, though the co morbidity with no early human contact and severe developmental nutritional deficiency makes it hard to be sure.
Duff's Device.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff%27s_device
Nice, if this plays out. I've been using Django. Prefer Rust as an overall language, but it currently (prior to this) only has Flask analogs.
Thanks for such a detailed response! At a glance it seems pretty interesting, and the performance is quite good too. I’ll have to toy with it for my next project.
The FSF and Stallman are pretty mid tbh. The whole thing seem hopelessly outdated. Some of the media on the FSF website is extremely cringe, the weird cartoons in particular. Stallman is problematic and it feels like that tarnishes things. The front has long moved on from writing C and package jannying your distro together.
> FSF is stuck in a world where everyone still writes everything in C.

And in a world where software is always compiled from source code to an executable binary file which is stored and run by the user's own computer.

There are a number of situations in modern software development which the GPL handles spectacularly badly, including:

* Software which usually runs on other people's computers, like cloud hosted services.

* Software which is exclusively delivered and executed over the Internet, like Javascript-heavy web applications.

* Software which is distributed in a form similar, but not identical, to its source code, like minified Javascript.

* Software which is written, distributed, and used in a source or source-equivalent format, like Python applications or shell scripts.

* Software which runs on embedded hardware which is not trivially modifiable.

* Software whose operating environment is another piece of software which may have an incompatible license, like browser extensions or game mods.

* Software which is not precisely executable, like web site templates or C++ template libraries.

* Software which isn't precisely software at all, like FPGA hardware designs.
"Messaging with push notifications only"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo_(app)
Also there is an element of friendly fraud. You say you were scammed in fact when you were justing laundering the money through your friend. The bank pays you back for “fraud” and now you have doubled your money.

“Our research suggests that friendly fraud will represent 61% of all chargebacks by 2023.”
Actually, a single phone can easily cause a plane to crash.

Source: This is a lie but sitting behind someone on a plane who gets a call is super annoying.
Quite often the best thing to do is:

1. Wait until TS complains about a possible null

2. If you have a good default value, use that instead

3. If not, throw a meaningful error

Either way, don't propagate the nulls further than they need to go.
I highly recommend reading Calendrical Calculations, a book by Edward Reingold and Nachum Dershowitz. It is a beautiful combination of computer science and calendar systems. Also, the Hebrew calendar truly is a marvel, as the book goes through.
I'm friends with someone who worked on a discussion board system for a popular kids' show channel. Every post was first read by moderators before being allowed to be seen. It's a 100% attainable goal for companies that actually care about providing safe places for children to interact online.
> through some efforts to deliver the luggage

I was in Greece once dealing with lost luggage. The airline threw it on a ferry and told me to run on and look/grab my bag when it got to the island I was on. I guess that’s some effort lol

And, this time I had AirTags in my bags which ended up being super useful for tracking.
Orkut was super successful and was eventually shutdown.. Meta will live on forever but facebook might well be a relic of the past. Most people don't even log into facebook anymore than a few times a year.
Best comment in this thread. This should really be about the article being a well executed recipe for clickbait.
Besides the qnx thing, a whole os on a floppy disk wasn’t anything cool at that time (the article is from 2008 and I suspect the disk images were some years older).

I remember playing with menuet os and some other linux “floppydistros” back in the day…
Apple Health successfully scrapes my medical records from multiple health systems (as well as Labcorp) using OAuth authenticated public API endpoints provided by their Epic EHR instances. I'm somewhat optimistic because of this. The technology implementation was not the problem, the policy stick was lacking. Thwack.

Tangentially, if you have an iPhone, I highly recommend connecting your health systems so that the records are retrieved and stored in your iCloud account, from a data sovereignty perspective.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Healthcare_Interoperabili...

https://fhir.epic.com/Documentation?docId=fhir

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208647
If there’s material difference in quality of startups in YC now and 10 years again, I am not seeing it. If anything, they had 19,000 applications the batch.

If applications are not good enough, then problem is they’re not communicating what they need and a path to anyone proving they’re making progress. Per YC, this proof of progress is the best predictor of founder success.

Beyond that, they also claim their alumni network is their greatest asset. Obviously growing it requires quality control, but there’s no reason no to add “levels” to maintain quality within the network.

Simply put, there story neither adds up, nor fits their claims. To be it appears they have switch to competing on cash offers, which if true, is a bad signal.
> I wonder if this will boost the market for airtag competitors.

Probably as much as Samsung’s competitors were boosted after a bunch of airlines made noise about exploding smartphones. That is, not at all.
Controversial pages on Wikipedia (contemporary politics, etc) are typically hard to edit.
Others are easy to edit. Vandalism is rare and temporary, and nobody is going fight earnestly over topics such as how a light bulb or an electric engine works, or when a certain building was build or most historical events, etc.

Wikipedia does not absolve you from checking references or the credibility of the text, but it does a damn good job collecting and pre-checking a lot of the content.
You still need to be able to recognize hot-button topics and take those with a grain of salt. And as I said usually those pages cannot be edited by everyone.

The school does not seem to understand how Wikipedia works. At all.
<<we enforce a 'little a agile'>>

The word enforce here is a marker that shows that you failed to do Agile. You do something that is not the Agile as in "Agile Manifesto" and brand it like that.

Because in the original agile concept, that is the team itself that can "self-organize" to what fits them the best. If management impose an organization, like mandatory meetings and co, it is not anymore Agile.
And my comment was about what happens if one of the proposed millions of megawatt reactors required for this to contribute meaningfully to decarbonisation gets under the control of someone powerful with motives to become a nuclear threat.

If you can run it on thorium and U233, then it's much easier to run on U238 and Pu.

Also you wouldn't need 'heaps' of depleted uranium, just the number of depleted uranium bullets lodged in the wall in the average afghani kindergarten
A long time ago when we found out that iPhones were keeping track of where you went, I learned that my phone had associated with some Russian cell towers when I flew over Russia flying from Newark to India, or somewhere like that. It’s highly probable.
Half of the world phone numbers have leaked already (including with a Facebook leak a few years ago).

But that's not what's valuable. What's valuable is the social graph: who are your contacts, and who are you writing to. Signal works very hard to not know any of that. And it does it better than the alternatives I know.
Twitter and Facebook has users.
I’m not sure what exactly has changed - I feel like software development has been mostly stagnant since the 80s. Most everything web-dev wise is just rehashed ideas from 30-40 years ago, so I doubt they have too much to catch up on.
I would think the antennas on cell towers are polarized to limit radiated power up.
Very nice. I wish I could do that.
I consider myself really lucky. Besides the really simple OS's like found on Commodore Vic 20, 64, PET and CBM, QNX is the first full fledged OS I learned on. I'm still a Unix style evangelist to this day. Students one year younger than me learned on Windows, and they didn't cover nearly the amount of ground that my year did.

We had QNX running on a system called an ICON, which had lots of bells and whistles that made using them quite fun. It came with all the languages (the year-after students only learned BASIC and Turing), and had a voice synthesizer. Oh, and way better graphics - you could draw something in QPaint or Logo, and then export it as a header file to use in your C, Pascal, etc programs. We used that functionality for making splash screens for our assignments, even though that wasn't an actual requirement.
I'm pretty ignorant of airplane models, Air France flight but it was a large plane so may have been a Boeing 777.
Can I play this on a normal switch?
It's routine in disaster relief situations that people lose all their documents but then governments step in and allow identity verification via vouching: this other person Alice says you're Bob. Then Bob gets his photo on a temporary ID document and gets a DR payment.

Social workers, shelters, libraries etc are well placed to support that. They know these people because they see them every day.

If you choose to enrol in the "community assisted recovery" process then you could enrol a new device into your email with their help. Put a big red banner at the top of the email client saying "Community recovery via Topeka Library, Kansas".

Lifeline numbers aren't portable because people have no way to prove their ownership of the previous number, because they have no ID.
Switching your phone transmitter off is technically required by FCC regulations: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/chapter-I/subchapter-B...

Realistically there isn't an issue with leaving a cell phone on and out of airplane mode going purely based on how many people forget or ignore the directions everyday and how infrequently there are problems. But I'll make two points:

The idea that a cell phone transmitter can interfere with an airplane is by no means outrageous. Sure, a modern iPhone/Pixel/whatever has to meet certain emissions and interference standards. And modern airliners are designed with some interference rejection in mind. And ancient airliners from the 70s don't rely on a lot of electronic systems at all. As for airplanes designed in the 90s, well it's not silly to ask whether 200 people with 1W transmitters would interfere with the electronic systems. A properly functioning compliant phone shouldn't, but there's still some risk. Incidents do happen, though they are generally minor. I was on an airplane that had to abort a landing and go-around because they couldn't hear the tower over cellphone interference (voice comms are analog). Obviously no one died, but we were still delayed a bit.

It probably makes sense to relax the rules, but it is incredibly frustrating to see the attitude of "if they don't force me to turn it off it must be OK". The FCC requires you to turn off transmitters to avoid interference. The airline asks you to do so for the same reason. Experts in the field (myself included) are telling you there's a small risk and you should hit the airplane mode button. There's zero benefit to keeping your cellular service active in flight at all. But everyone's seen some article on Facebook (or in this case inverse.com) that says maybe there's a big conspiracy and everyone's lying to them. So they take a risk (albeit an extremely small one) with the lives of 200 other people. For no gain at all.

So do whatever you want, there's nothing I can do about human nature, but believe me when I tell you there's no government conspiracy to make you press the little airplane button funded by the cell phone companies. Yeah, the risk is probably negligible - it's just really hard to prove it and easier to make a small ask of passengers.
Don't worry, the NIMBYs assure us! We can build those apartments!

Just not here, because you must respect my lifestyle choice of living in a single family home that is a 5min drive from the city.
There definitely was theoretical risk with 2G-era mobile phones, which blasted considerable amounts of radiation.

I was in university once doing a signal interference lab: we had set up an circuit and we're trying to induce current in it from another circuit. Suddenly the oscilloscope on the receiving end showed a couple of wild spikes, and I received a text message on my trusty Nokia 1611: apparently 900 MHz was in the sweet spot.
I have received messages over Russia (traveling from US to India, 2-3 years back). And I received from one more country that I do not recall. It happens.
Wow that's wild! They weren't letting him off easily because someone died in the park that week and they were all on edge.
Pyinstaller is the most actively maintained and in-use, but nuitka is on the rise as well. There are less-active but still serviceable ones like py2exe as well

https://pyinstaller.org/en/stable/usage.html

https://www.nuitka.net/