skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was able to determine that someone with the exact same bag had taken mine from baggage claim and retrieve it from them before they left the airport with it. We both had much better vacations as a result. I’m going to keep mine in my luggage, sorry.
Swift passing C++ is a big deal
They report in via Bluetooth, not NFC.

My phone won’t scan one from more than a few inches, but I can locate them with Find My iPhone 20+ feet off.
I feel strongly that it should be possible to do this better.

4x4 box, yet most characters seem to be confined to 3x3 box. This can't be right.
TBH, that seems the more reasonable way of dealing with it. If they are truly worried about transmissions while in flight, then yeah do that. Once the luggage is on the ground and unloaded the AirTags will still work. Seems like a win win for everyone — if what they say about in flight transmissions is the real reason.
Initiate Streisand effect!
I literally advocate for violence against anyone proposing this at any level. No qualifications
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As a native English speaker, I adore your version.
The problem will solve itself. People unwilling to sign up for a mobile plan for playing a game will automatically boycott the likes of Overwatch 2, which will result in revenue lost (perhaps to competing games that allow prepaid cards).

I have only ever used prepaid cards. I would rather be cut off from communication (or buy a local prepaid card) than get a surprise bill of hundreds of euros for visiting a country outside the EU.

I guess a lot of people have the same thought process as me around Europe, because there are lots of smartphones available with dual SIM cards.
Eh, I greatly prefer ability to move the very reliable thing from one phone to another, just use another phone instead of going into paperwork to move it if my phone gets damaged or something
>Which includes a mistaken recipient or amount, even without any fraud.

You keep saying that; but that's not what Regulation E says.
Nice but keep in mind that 5x5 font just punted on lower case letters entirely. So there are no descenders and they use the full 5x5 for upper case.

The 4x4 font has lower case, so it reserves the bottom row for descenders gjpqy. Its upper case letters don't use the descenders row so they're really 3x3, which is barely readable. It's actually interesting that the all caps 3x3 is almost readable!

For comparison it would be interesting to see a 4x4 all caps font, or a 5x5 with lower case.
You might get money for your troubles if your flight or luggage is delayed. For luggage being lost the maximum liability is $3,800 for domestic flights and about $1,800 for international flights

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/19/what-travelers-need-to-know-...
Nothing demystifies a subject like putting it into quasi-biblical verse.
My friend Norm told me he remembered the first time he learned the idea of a linked list; IIRC it was from one of the IPL-n manuals. I've tried to read this one previously, but it's hard to get much out of; so much changed during the 01960s that for me it's like reading computer science papers in Dutch. (I don't speak Dutch.)
Yes.

Banks are given a monopoly over an unavoidable, and very lucrative, aspect of modern life. No reason to give them that for free.
MK2? →→A,→→A, and my sister screaming that her little brother was "cheating". (I played with Mileena quite a bit.)

I'm giving this a try.
I would think just taking everything at face value on the main wikipedia article might not be a good idea but if after reading the article, doing some verification by following the citation links or using the article and citation links as a jumping off point for further research would work as well as anything from the card catalog library days of my education.
You could. That would be a reasonable thing to do.

I suppose you could even do an iterative process: rescale, remove the lowest-scoring candidate, rescale, remove the lowest-scoring candidate, and so on until there's a winner. That'd be like STAR but with multiple runoffs instead of one.
NFC has a range of around 5cm and has nothing to do with how AirTags work for tracking purposes. Do you really think AirTags only update their location when someone with an iPhone comes over to intentionally scan it?

Even if you bury the AirTag in the middle of the luggage, it will still be trackable, but NFC will absolutely not come even close to reaching it.

They’re not going to have off the shelf equipment capable of locating an AirTag quickly enough to matter even if they can tell there are AirTags somewhere in the general vicinity of the luggage area. That’s just not how any of this works.

Whether the rule itself is ridiculous or not, as others have pointed out, the main benefit seems to be that they can tell customers to stop bothering them about luggage that they’ve lost.
I've often wondered that with a valid ID, that the gov does not give us an email noawdays. Especially one that does not require this asinine phone-validity garbage. I'd even suggest that maybe not use email-addresses as a login-name along with plenty of alias's for inbound and outbound that do not expose your "main" or account.

And google is not alone here; many other major "free" email providers require a phone as well (dagger eyes at you, MS, yahoo, ect); and the icing on the cake are some websites even require a particular set of domains to register with them to prevent multi-accounts/bots/spammers/ect => just a big ol download-spiral of decisions that feed into eachother, just to put a physical ID on anybody to tag-em-to-sell-em

The biggest gripe is that it is mandatory; it is not an option and nothing we can do about it other than "vote with our wallets" - and google does not even allow ToTP use as an alternative to phones, lol

The beatings will continue until morale improves; always has been, always will
To conflate this with discrimination of the old days and use it as an excuse to prevent the ill from receiving care is contemptible.

It's not like the government couldn't make you disappear if it wanted to badly enough already.
> This is the sort of performative response that is the problem. Let's say we force Google to switch off 2FA. Now we have exposed millions of people who don't know any better to phishing attempts and financial loss.

Could be just option hidden somewhere in the settings. Don't need to turn it off for all

> And the group we are trying to help isn't really better off.

That's just your assumption
> I remember even heavily scratched cd's would work if you cleaned them with toothpaste of all things (?)

I've had even better results with this three-step stuff that's actually meant for plastics, with most scratches not needing more than step 2: https://novuspolish.com/

That works great for bottom-side scratches, but sadly it's not usually possible to repair any damage done to the label-side of a Compact Disc due to proximity between the label and the reflective data layer underneath. It's really common for well-intentioned people to remove discs from a drive and (in absence of the case) set them upside-down to "protect" them not realizing it's the worst possible thing they could do. All-over-print labels add an extra margin of protection over discs that leave the label's negative space as bare disc silver: https://cdn.hswstatic.com/gif/cd-crosssection.gif
I'd be a little surprised if 50% of cell phone owners even know how to turn on Airplane Mode.

Yes, I know it's usually right there on a screen you'd think they'd look at pretty often.

I stand by that.

Beyond that, several on every flight who might do it, will forget to, and several more just don't give a fuck. Despite this I've never once seen anyone get hassled over it.
NFC and Bluetooth have different ranges. AirTags use both for different purposes.
The strongest hurricane known to hit Florida hit in the 1930s. The evidence is that climate change should worsen many kinds of disasters but not hurricanes in Florida. When I was a kid I remember there being a lot of news coverage of increasing danger from hurricanes in Florida circa 1980 but that’s because people were moving in great numbers to Florida and construction standards were much lower than today.

However people have a general bias towards believing anything bad is getting worse, the primary bias of the media is ‘if it bleeds it leads’ and the state of polarization is such that if you say that something is not getting worse because of climate change you’re a climate denier, even if the models and the observations indicate that that thing is not getting worse.

That blog, for instance, seems to be generally contemptuous of climate science and seems to be pointing out the gap between climate science and media coverage on this one to stir trouble. Because of it’s own contradictions it is able to make much less of the story than it otherwise could.
Doing the Lord’s Work lol.

I need to rebuild my Ccmp collection. I ended up selling or giving it all away due to having to move. sniff

I ran a NeXTstation Turbo Color as my daily driver up till around 2010. Me and some friends ported over newer line and what not for openstep 4.2.

33mhz 040 with 128mb of 60ns EDO RAM, SCSI HDD. Amazing what you could do with adequate performance on that.

Also ran a BeOS r5 system with massive amounts of hacks and updates for way longer than was really reasonable lol
Is it just me or is that even more cynical?

Moving my belongings to an off-site location is _precisely_ the sort of thing I'd want to be notified of, and if the airline doesn't feel that I deserve to know that, ahh, well. That would be problematic.

I appreciate that you're trying to find alternate explanations, and it's my first impulse to do the same, but I've been racking my brain and I just can't come up with any. This one isn't better, it's worse.
Unifont[0] covers a lot of Unicode codepoints.

[0] https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/unifont/
Curious, what’s new about this?
Isn't it a case of false information?

I thought the tags communicated with nearby Bluetooth devices that have gps, which there should be none active nearby lost luggage... so people would scream that their luggage is somewhere around while the location is in fact outdated?
Amex went down the tubes about 10 or so years ago. Their CS is terrible now. Prices went up, perks went down. The only card even worth entertaining is their blue cash, for 6% grocery.
These things are bluetooth at only 2.8 mw UWB in the GHz range[1]. Anything with that power at that band in an aluminum walled cargo hold is probably nil: kitchen foil attenuates 80 dB over 100 Mhz [2] and bulkheads are much thicker.

So yeah it's not for technical reasons.

1. https://fccid.io/BCGA2187

2. http://www.aluminium-foil.org/aluminum-foil-for-electromagne...
Generally, this is the type of regret I finally came to terms with. The bottom line is that you did not know the future when you made the initial decision. After the fact you have the information that would have made a difference but we CAN'T, no mater how hard we try, foretell the future. What you are are actually regretting is a fantasy. Look at the world around you and you'll see many places where you wished you could have made a better decision but you can't be upset over them. Again you can't know what the future will be. None of us can so don't beat yourself over something you had no control over. Additionally, in your case, changing someone is not possible unless they want to change. You can only learn from the situation and hope to make a better choice in the future.
Every job, every person, every industry mistakes happen. You can minimise them with better systems but its never going to disappear
No; Zelle and ACH are exactly the same from this point of view.
All you have to do is learn astronomy. It's more civilized. Lunar calendar = more technologically advanced society.
While I'm at it, I want to write down the lifecycle of that company.

The router served as a "security endpoint", meaning it could "terminate" (decode), thousands of IPSec connections. Thus it would serve as the "border router" for a network operator.

The company's big hit was providing this product to NTT Docomo for its LTE infrastructure. NTT had the (turned out unique) architectural challenge where they controlled the base stations, the core network... but not the backhaul (connection between the base stations and core)! The backhaul was on shared leased network. So they needed to encrypt [1], hence the IPSec, and hence the need for a "router" that could receive all these connections and decode them to feed into their Core Network.

I joined the company shortly after they scored that huge contract, when they were flush with money and looking to grow.

NTT Docomo was a pioneer in LTE deployment, so our company tried to sell this operating model to the rest of the world... but no-one took it. Turns out most operators just own their backhaul, so didn't feel the need to encrypt, or at least have the same architecture as NTT.

So our company tried for a while to adapt our router (really, network middle-box, and really, its upgraded next version) for other emerging use-cases, but it was hard to get a grip both in emerging network architectures and against the incumbents (lol the number of times we had bugs with Cisco equipment which we proved was Cisco's fault but nope we just had to work around it).

The company was eventually bought at fire sale price by one that did cheap Software-Defined Networking on commodity hardware. Our expensive router was discontinued.

(Also, fuck Broadcom)

[1] It occurs to me that Snowden's revelations in 2013 happened during my tenure there. However the response of many operators was to have one fat encrypted pipe (which we didn't stand out for) rather than many small encrypted ones (which we did).

(edit: also working with NTT Docomo was another level of reliability requirement compared to the half-assery that was tolerated everywhere else!)
> Perhaps they should all be required to go manage a McDonalds for a year or something?

I'm a middle aged man and I wish I could do a 3 month internship at a McDonalds. I'd probably learn a lot and RUN back to my current job.
Airtags are great for tracking luggage. Last time I travelled I put one in both of my checked bags and was able to track them as they moved around the airport and onto the plane. My phone in the passenger cabin was even able to receive pings from them during the flight when the bags were in the cargo hold. I have had my luggage lost before and Airtags give me great peace of mind that my luggage is headed to the destination and that if my bags do get lost I can hopefully help direct the airline staff to exactly where they are. I’ve never flown Lufthansa but this ban wouldn’t stop me anyway. The benefit is too great.
As someone who works in a consumer loan-related field, I know from experience that this is not correct. With very few exceptions, creditors do not have incentives to barely perform identity verification. Even if 90% of identity thieves paid back their loans, the losses on the remaining 10% would swamp any profits -- and of course far fewer than 90% of identity thieves pay back their loans. Industry losses due to incorrect identity verification are in the tens of billions annually. There are many vendors that financial institutions pay big bucks to in order to improve their ability to correctly perform identity verification. However, like everything else, there are tradeoffs involved, and it is rarely if ever optimal to try to push identity fraud to nil.
Right, but they charge, which connects to your identity just like a sim does.
Need that red mercury…
I got a lot more relaxed about hard and fast rules around the same time I really started having some success growing plants. I couldn't tell you which order it happened in. Organic systems can't be controlled, they can only be guided. And at the end of the day, while the software itself is inorganic, it is and continues to be created by a bunch of meat sacks, flapping their meat at each other to communicate. If you have an evolving system created by organic creatures, it is going to behave organically itself.

I will say it's a little weird the ways in which some people think they've found a 'gotcha' and instead what's happened is that they're thinking 3 moves ahead and you're thinking 6.

ETA: What happens in plants is that I can walk down a street, and see dying trees that the owners think are healthy, and mostly healthy trees that the owner thinks are dying (when just a few strategic cuts would give them another 30 years). Sometimes you can read the sad story of decline in the dying ones, a repeating cycle of waiting too long to do preventative care, and overreaction leaving scars that never fully heal. Getting either tree owner to act is often like talking to a wall. Basically the same problem happens in software.
I don't think so. One of those things that are not surprising but also unexpected.
Technical: Take her out of the 'contacts' list, forward all emails from her to the 'spam' folder.

Personal: Grow some.
Is that true though? Or is it just something that your monkey brain feels?
The ones that don't suck are happy if you can help them fix their error, though.
Patients can now access all their health records digitally
Yes, they communicate with nearby Apple devices which have opted in to being part of the AirTag discovery network.
Note that the reason for airport mode is a courtesy to cell-phone carriers. It's not any air safety issue. Rather, 300-500 cell phones all trying to contact the next cell tower, multiple times per minute, would wreak havoc on cell service.

https://www.inverse.com/article/51015-cell-phone-use-on-airp...

At one point, when both cell phones and laptops were new, there was perhaps a risk to the airplane's electronics. Modern cell phones have been steadily tuned to reduce interference with other electronics though - good thing, otherwise you couldn't use them in a modern home with its dozens of connected devices. And modern avionics have been shielded to protect them from outside electronic interference - also a good thing, otherwise the next terrorist could simply turn their laptop on. The ban on electronic transmission is one of those regulations that was a response to technology at a particular point in time but now is largely vestigial. You can tell because it's rarely enforced, and yet bad things do not occur just because you forgot to turn your phone to airplane mode.
So the original article states that the evidence is not there for a change in the hurricane activity, but Nature says that we undercounted before, but think there's an increase that was hidden due to a lull in activity from aerosols in the 70s and 80s?
> running simulations to see if models give sensible predictions, but that is itself a pretty frequentist thing to do

Is looking at probability distributions “a pretty frequentist thing to do”? Even when those models and simulations include _prior_ probability distributions? Sure, one can (re)define frequentist to include Bayesian models - as Gelman seems to want to do in that post. I just don’t see how this helps to clarify anything.
This makes it completely unusable.
Do you support all the barbaric teachings in it, like stoning your daughter when she lost her virginity before marriage? Is that a truth we should blindly follow?

It’s better to come up with a new book which teaches ppl how to live in harmony and working together without instilling fear, guidelines based on science and using simple language.

You could say the human brain and the scientific process is God’s gift… use it rather than blindly following the words of some powerhungry and controlling folks from the past.
I think (at the risk of sounding like a shill; I don't use them) you.com is an interesting search engine that is not very well known. I'd be much happier seeing it be used for that than some we.com type branding play (although I take your point that in the hands of some branding expert it could have maybe a more clear connotation than anything related to search.
> For people unfamiliar with a subject (students) I think Wikipedia pages are misleading, poorly organized, and sometimes wrong.

This is true even if you're reading works from experts in a field. For instance, Robert Hoyland, Fred Donner, and Patricia Crone (until her death a few years ago) are some of the leading academics in the studies of early historical Islam. However, Donner's review of Hoyland's textbook thought it was misleading[1], Crone's review of Donner's textbook considered it misleading, and Crone's Hagarism is generally not accepted by any current scholar as far as I can tell.

That is to say, one needs to be skeptical no matter the source, as well as humble enough to realize that know more than others doesn't necessarily make your understanding more correct. It's also useful to try to understand the disagreements in the field and how they've developed.

[1] http://www.middleeastmedievalists.com/wp-content/uploads/201...
[2] https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articl...
I wonder if - and if so, how much - its readability improves with readers' experience with it.
Yes, it was pretty easy to switch to a SWE role within Google. I just had to talk to a few managers to identify a mutual fit and that was pretty much it - there is no formal interview (which I've seen some other companies require to switch teams). And the fact that I had SRE experience was actually a positive when it came to switching.
I'm not sure what are all the differences but one I have come across that you can't do in JS is to simultaneously destructure an object/array, and at the same time bind a name to the entire object/array. For instance here in Clojure we can extract the a,b,c keys from the passed map, and at the same time bind the whole map to the variable bar.

(defn foo [{:keys [a b c] :as bar}]
[bar a b c])

(foo {:a 1 :b 2 :c 3}) ;; => [{:a 1, :b 2, :c 3} 1 2 3]

in JS you can do

const f = ({a,b,c}) => [???, a, b, c]

but how do you bind to the whole object as well?
It's an interesting question. Maybe it's just scare tactics. The battery that goes in an AirTag is the same as in a lot of wristwatches and I expect it would look like a wristwatch via x-ray. And it is exactly as dangerous as such a thing, which it to say: not.
NFC range is so low you’d have to scan the exact right spot in the bag. Good luck.
“People on this forum” are not free from the ubiquitous human cognitive failings. You display one or two of them with a single remark. Soooo.
We do standups three times a week, and I will flat-out hang up Zoom once we hit 15 minutes. I find standups helpful, but not if they're longer than 15 minutes!
Americans with PhDs are the most reluctant to get vaccinated against COVID, study finds

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9893465/Americans-P...
This is exactly why I’m so opposed to government bail outs - even though it was repaid in most countries (famously Austria chose the worst way to save them, give them free money to not repay).

It would have been nice to see this massive company (with monopoly on many routes in Germany) broken up and under new ownership competing for customers, rather than treating them as a massive burden.
In a similar boat, only I am 31. So it's been 10 years at sea.