skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having always had airtags in every checked bag for my wife and I for years now, we'll never go back. Has helped us in numerous situations not to mention peace of mind.

Good luck preventing me from putting one in there. We're not going back.
Is the cell phone transmission theater even lifted in the US? I still get asked to turn on airplane mode regularly (though Wi-Fi is okay)
Unfortunately there’s no hope for upgrading it to full Unicode coverage, as 2^16 is less than half the number of Unicode characters :(
Not if you're conserving battery life I suppose..
I looked into it, and it was technically interesting, but honestly much harder than compiling from source.
Improving My Directory Workflow
I'm Jewish but I don't get it... am I to take it that Jews going to temple added enough traffic to L.A. to slow down his commute by forty minutes?
That’s the thing about the 2009 Mac mini in particular…it came with a dedicated NVIDIA GeForce 9400M whereas most of the other models have integrated Intel graphics.
We could create a affiliated but a 3rd party bounty hunter business :)

Ok, I lost my luggage in Brussels, provide the "bounty hunter" my information (i.e., location), give them a legal authorization, and they go claim my baggage from where it is stuck, and help it move to where it needs to be.

Of course it will not be straightforward, but if we can make it happen with one airline, maybe others will follow.

Of course the name will not be a bounty hunter service, but something that is more marketing driven.
As someone who uses 2FA extensively and even has 1Password autofill the OTP codes - 2FA is objectively fucking brutal.

Half of you in here have never met a non-technical user. These folks should not have 2FA on ever, because they can't even use the damn thing with it on.

Yes, those users run a higher risk and should be notified of that extremely clearly. But 2FA is a garbage solution to the problem and it should always be possible to disable it.

I'm going to continue using 2FA happily like most of those in here - but man the lack of empathy is outstanding in here. I feel bad for your users.

And fuck Discord for not allowing me to reset my account with my own damn email address when my phone broke that one time. Total morons, through and through. I'd never want to work with anyone so objectively ignorant and unwilling to admit their ass backwards position.
> dropping self-hosted support was a very sensible move. They probably didn't want to spend resources on PC hardware support, particularly for laptops.

Self-hosting support doesn’t require PC hardware support. You totally can run your toolchain in a VM (every developer using WSL on Windows is doing it). In the past, I’ve put development environments in Docker containers - it makes it easier for people to get started, and on Windows or macOS that’s a VM too.

Making a system self-hosting is exposing it to a broader range of use cases which can help shake out bugs, limitations and performance issues which other use cases don’t. Even if you don’t strictly need it, I still think it is a good idea to maintain that support (even use it in your CI) unless doing so becomes unjustifiably expensive.
We switched to a bridged Libera IRC, FreeGameDev IRC, and a Discord channel, when the freenode drama happened, and our total lurker count went 10x.
As we age, the likelihood we get scammed approaches unity. Hopefully we figure this out some day…
Depending on what you're doing. Many apps that reach out to the internet at launch will hang if there's an unstable connection, but will recognize when there's no connection and open in an offline mode.
Feds ink $26M contract for deception platform for defense agencies
IBMs culture is varied.. It’s a huge company. I work at Red Hat, it’s culture is varied.

I saw some people furious because of personal prejudices against IBM but many seem to be looking at this opportunistically.
Do actually secure smartphones exist? Ever heard of Pegasus?
But can they run 32-bit Mac apps?
Can't help but think any "disable" function would be used by thieves to steal stuff.
They don't appear to have GPS. Rather they contact local Apple devices over Bluetooth, and those devices know where they are. But then they don't have cellular access either, so this discussion is moot.
I am terrified to think what AMD's predictor structure is if it's easier for them to do _this_ than it is to simply add privilege tags to their predictors. I don't personally buy this explanation anyways; trying to optimize retpolines in hardware would be an absolute pain in the ass and require an insane amount of synchronization with the backend since retpolines always trash the RAS.
Interesting. Not disagreeing with you, but just out of curiosity, are there any other reasons why you believe research quality has declined at Mila specifically, outside the broader trend that progress in deep learning is starting to slow, and besides your opinion that RL/CogSci research are dead ends?
Whats confounding to me is how disciplined they are with media coverage. Early in the war, you could follow Ukrainian retreat, Russian "misfires" into civilian habitations, russian frontline advance etc. I thought to myself that any counteroffensive couldn't be done secretly and that the war would be fought inch by inch. I was obviously very wrong (i'm not remotely educated on this questions, i just really like planes).

They still upload combat footage to diverse repo, but nowadays its less accessible and more delayed, sometime 5 days "late".
> These rules and tools go in to fix a hurt caused by making mistakes, and somewhere it gets twisted away from "not making the same dumb mistakes repeatedly" to "never make any mistakes" (except for the chiefest of mistakes for a capitalist venture: never shipping).

tools cant really prevent mistakes anyways, because people will always find a way to "get the job done anyway" by working around them... the end result in many cases is actually... more mistakes!

at some point you have to hire people you can trust, no tool or process can fix that!
The secure enclave guarantees cryptographically that you are running the code you say you are running. That code (private contact discovery) is open source and authenticated by your client using remote attestation.

It's not just a hash, it's an SGX enclave.
> For example, you'd find that sysadmins are much more prevalent on Gopher than Twitter.

I'd say ratio of sysadmins to actual users of the service is good indication that something is dead
you touch on a good point in that because cloud compute requires pretty knowledgeable users in order not to waste massive amounts of money it effectively imposes a much higher level of competency requirement onto the users. You can view that different ways, one is that its a good thing if everyone learns to use compute better. But another is you are locking out a whole tier of scientific users from doing computation at all which is a pretty unfortunate thing - we may miss out on real and important scientific discoveries - even if they are horrifically bad at doing it efficiently.
Not for apps like Audible which (this is my guess based on personal experience) prevents you from doing anything if you seem to have connectivity but can’t get a real response. Offline mode is simply more stable, unless you need to sync status from another device.
I'd also be curious about how rclone's parallelization compares to gcloud storage's in practice:

> Second, it utilizes a new parallelization strategy that treats task management as a graph problem, which allows more work to be done in parallel with far less overhead.

> ... In gcloud storage, all operations happen in parallel. As an example, parallel composite uploads are enabled automatically based on bucket configuration. This is a vast improvement compared to gsutil, which requires the -m (parallel operations) flag to improve the performance for uploads and downloads.
A lot of apps have cached experiences that they'll only show you if you have no network connection. If the app detects a very weak LTE connection, it'll try to load data over the network. That means that on a weak connection, I often end up being served nothing, rather than the data that's already cached on device.

As a tangent, I feel that a lot of these problems are fundamentally because engineers don't understand how poorly their software performs on unstable networks. Unless you live in a large metropolitan area with a well used underground transit network (in the USA, I suppose NYC would be the only qualifying city... sigh), you'd likely never experience these symptoms on a daily basis.
> Don't forget the AC terminal strips that power the whole thing, sourced from the local dollar store.

Love how you’ve fuzzed the root cause to make it seem like the “dollar store strip” is the problem and not that it was plugged into an overloaded outlet or run inside a closet at significantly elevated temperatures, leading to plastic melting and wires shorting.

Always helps to keep the “magic” a secret so the rubes have to keep us wizards employed, right?
“Do do you know why radio silence on cell phones is called Airplane Mode?”

‘Because of the long historical association of activating that mode on airplane flights?’

“Well, yeah, but, like, it’s actually anachronistic, because it doesn’t really affect the airplane anymore if you’re transmitting.”

‘Okay, but, I mean, it is the mode that, even today, in 2060, most commonly comes up when you’re on a pla—‘

“Look, I was just trying to sound wise. Just let me have this one.”
Rivian recalling nearly all of its vehicles
Last flight I had from SFO->CDG was on a Boeing 737-800. AirFrance doesn't mean it's always Airbus.
Twitter is terrible medium for conversation in the first place so unless musky boi decides to completely reengineer it I doubt that would happen
Imagine creating a financial system that incentivizes some of the smartest folks in the world to legally spend nights and weekends robbing those that are less intelligent.
It’s basically theseus’ ship at that point.
Cool how you use the acronym RCD and don’t expand it anywhere. Or any of the other homelab acronyms you used!
Introducing Unsplash+
Iceberg doesn’t use the directory structure to represent what objects belong to which table. The change allows objects to have significant entropy in the object keys prefix. This avoids hot spotting s3 and allows for greater bursts to s3 QPs.
C# also adopted generics earlier in its life. 2.0 was released in 2005 and added generics, the language was first released, announced?, in 2000. It was also around the same time as Java added generics.
You mean like this?

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1064203?hl=en
> UK agents were somehow able to drive him out of Moscow

If the story of the defection on his wikipedia page [0] is accurate then it was more elaborate than that. He got himself close to the Finnish border and then the MI6 agents smuggled him across the border.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Gordievsky#Escape_from_th...
I was born right at sunset between the 29th of Cheshvan and the 1st of Kislev. It's like I was trying to be born on the 30th. It's not actually totally clear when my birthday is but I generally use 1st of Kislev. Fun fact, the year of my Bar Mitzvah there was a 30th of Cheshvan so it was something like "I turn 13 on Tuesday or Thursday, but definitely not Wednesday".
GP has already lost that battle.
I’m biased but look for less known programs from reputable universities or part-time working programs. You’ll typically get down to earth, nice people in my experience.

I went for an MBA because I wanted to continue university education and it worked out well for me. I would have loved to have done in-person night courses for a different degree program too but nobody offers those for stats or engineering courses, unfortunately.
By the complexity of the password you choose?
Direct YT link: https://youtu.be/_4QVBbv99rA
If this were a thread on ever declining US education outcomes, this comment would be relevant.

Please, just don’t.
At that point, your phone is vulnerable. As is your computer, and your connected fridge.

If your threat model does not allow it, use manual e2ee with pigeons. Otherwise, well secure enclave will get better with time, which will make Signal better too.
Yep, and here's the one I was thinking of: http://twitter.com/spoonhenge/status/2878871344
I don't know much more, which is the frustrating part of the experience. When we got an actual court date they were suddenly happy to give me all my money back, and I was too tired to push further. But until then it was block, stall, ask for more copies of the same identity verification documents or claim that they somehow didn't meet the requirements (e.g. claiming that my bank statements weren't acceptable identify verification because they didn't show the account being in active use, despite it being my main daily account), insist simultaneously that they couldn't tell me anything but it would all be resolved soon.
> the GPL is nearly everywhere except firmware and phones

GPLv2 is still a tenable license. GPLv2 also has huge flaws around libre intentions, and it is reasonably easy for a company to sidestep the intent of a copyleft license.

GPLv3, which was created to prevent companies from side-stepping the intent of FOSS, is a huge limiting factor to any project - companies simply cannot risk the implications of using it. And thus, projects using it rarely see commercial commits back - a huge source of contribution for any popular library.

As for firmware and phones, well, those are increasingly the majority of devices in existence. And servers are increasingly forgoing shipping userspaces, as they move to a more hardened and lightweight role.

The GPL is only in places where it is defanged (v2). Its use is steadily declining. The amount of use-cases for it is steadily declining. This has been the general trend of the industry and computers.

They are not on the winning side of libre/copyleft, and have not been for over a decade now. It is tragic.
IATA guidance is "Any tracking device with a transmitting function must automatically shut down when inside the aircraft." The cargo tracker industry has already dealt with this. Cargo trackers are usually GSM devices with GPS receivers. Those have to turn themselves off when in flight, and that seems to be working OK.[1]

For low-power devices that don't turn off, there's DO-160() Section 21 Cat. H evaluation [2].
This is the EU standard for equipment intended for use aboard aircraft. Emissions must be
very low for that.

Apple AirTags emit a ultrawideband signal for location, and use low-energy Bluetooth for local communication. Whether that can pass Category H evaluation (the toughest spec, OK next to an antenna) or even Category M evaluation (inside the cabin) is a good question. Not sure about UWB.

[1] https://www.easa.europa.eu/en/the-agency/faqs/cargo-tracking...

[2] https://do160.org/emission-of-radio-frequency-energy/
I'm pretty sure AirTags emit less RF than a pair of Bluetooth headphones, and you can of course use them throughout the flight.
I visited Germany in July. At the time Frankfurt airport was a huge mess.

https://newsrnd.com/business/2022-07-08-travel-chaos--5-000-...

Edit: improved source and removed misleading numbers from previous article
Although we may open-source parts in the future, currently no part of Pinecone is open-sourced. Instead, there are several proprietary index types available, packaged along with hardware/compute resources into what we call “pods.”
I find that my music/video streaming apps work a lot better with no network than with an unstable network.
As you've seen, we're open source -- https://github.com/tritondatacenter. There are tons of repos.. Mostly Nodejs and some golang/rust!
Related: I recently built https://github.com/arthtyagi/serverless-notion-blog which helps you use Notion as a CMS.

It's like https://github.com/NotionX/react-notion-x but much less worked on (bare essentials) and doesn't need a server per se, it runs on a serverless worker.
I fell ill far from home and while the care was subpar I did get to take along a CD with my xrays on it. Nobody seemed to know what to do with it and I ended up getting a redundant set of xrays within days of the first set. No weird file formats, they were full-resolution and exactly what the xray tech and docs were looking at previously.
we don’t sell licenses, we sell subscriptions :)

IBM has left us alone. I don’t get paid by IBM, my benefits are Red Hat, My CEO is Red Hat’s CEO and funny enough when we work with IBM we lead the calls because IBM is letting us do what we do best.

I could sense storage was changing. We had product delays, we kept pushing things out to future releases to expand ODF to our managed services. Evrything was always next quarter. Now it makes sense.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Jboss is next.
That's not copyright infringement, that's trademark infringement. They're two entirely separate concepts.
This is a straightforward wealth transfer.

69.5% of filers by count in the bottom groups, generate 10.5% of tax revenue, max refund, 79% of total refund.
4.5% of filers in the top groups, generate 55.2% of tax revenue, zero refund.
Middle two groups are 12.3% and 14.2% of payers, generate 8.8% and 25.5% of revenue, receive 10.6% and 10.3% of total refund.

These categories don't match exactly, but close enough.

Sources:
https://www.ftb.ca.gov/about-ftb/newsroom/middle-class-tax-r...
https://data.ftb.ca.gov/California-Personal-Income-Tax/PIT-A...
Be very careful with who you shack up with. Don't settle for partners that mess you around or manipulate you. Make sure you take precautions. The last thing you want is to have a baby with someone who isn't a good person.
I think if you trolley-problem this you'll still end up with Google's choice being the right one.
nah. Storage will do better at IBM.
I don't know why you are being down voted. I'd watch a Netflix special on this stuff
Honest question, why? Is it your stance that people should work until they absolutely can't anymore unless they can privately save for retirement?
If you are writing with an expectation that your audience knows those acronyms, there's no reason to stop to explain them.

When personal blog posts like these get picked up by HN there's always someone who wants to die on the hill of "but you're writing on THE PUBLIC INTERNET and thus you can't ASSUME that your posts will only be read by your regular readers," and, I mean, sure, you're technically correct -- but on a practical level, do we really want to archly insist that everyone writing any blog post anywhere must write it as if they were writing for a widespread mainstream audience on the off-chance that it becomes the one post that gets 50,000 views instead of the usual 500?
If you're going to sling insults, you should explain what you actually mean. Here I assume "bad at math" means "does not accept an explanation that focuses on the size of the M2 money supply", or something.

But is the original post really so wrong-headed?

China is engaged in fairly destructive lockdowns, no? (If this is because they don't have a good vaccine, and this hurts the US economy, should the US simply supply them with MRNA vaccines? Or is some zero-sum game with China more important? Or will China not buy them?)

Gas to Europe is definitely restricted. This definitely hurts European industry, particularly in Germany. This in turn could be expected to lead to shortages of whatever those industries make.

More importantly, gas is made into fertilizer, so we can reasonably expect agricultural yields to drop, and/or for food to be more expensive.

These are all the kinds of supply-side issues that OP seems to be talking about. These points don't seem dumb to me. Why are they?

Is it just because he led with a complaint about lockdowns, which used to code affiliation with the political Right? I think we're past that now, since western countries no longer do lockdowns. Now it should refer more to China and to supply-side issues. And, a focus on supply-side issues is now more Leftish, in fact. So political tribalism isn't a very good guide here.

Me, I happen to think that the supply side issues have a lot of weight to them.

That is all, admittedly, based more on narrative than on numbers, though. So what "math", if any, does this leave out? If something is missing, I actually want to know.
I left my AirPods case in my seat, realized walking toward baggage area, wouldn’t let me go back to get them.. assured me someone would go get them for me… I filed a claim, they said they couldn’t find them there… now I see my AirPods case in an apartment complex in the Bronx… nothing I can do….
The hold is pressurised. Unless it is a DC-10 with a cargo door popping open in mid-flight, in which case the pressure differential is enough to collapse the floor of the cabin and throw passengers bodily out of the plane.
> You can either have a federation of commoditized servers or you can ban people you don't like -- you cannot have both.

That's not incompatible. You can go anywhere you want but you can get banned from place if you're an ass there is entirely sensible way for federated network to work.

More than that, it's necessary if you want any resistance to bad actors
Well, they used to come scream at you if you were reading a Kindle during takeoff, so that part has relaxed at least

So far as I know you're supposed to put your phone into airplane mode to turn the cellular radio off, but they don't seem to care if you use bluetooth any more
You mean like the entire history of "civilization"?
Looks like page 18 in the linked pdf.
I was referring to this

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/nati...

Have I missed something? Because that page says pretty clearly that it's fully precompiled. It's not default, but it's an option
We use a phrase around my job: the only attack we suffer from is "denial of wallet"
Fortunately Google doesn't require phone numbers for account access. See, for example: https://www.androidauthority.com/gmail-without-phone-number-...

You do need to be able to receive a texted code at a phone number to create a brand-new account. This is to deter spammers from creating lots of accounts. But once that's done, you can remove the phone number from the account.
One thing that surprised me at our company is how many people actually respond to automated lifecycle emails - especially if they seem like they are coming directly from you.

if a user spends an hour in the app or hits some other minor usability metric you can send them something like (obviously you can customize it / expand on it as needed)

Hey John,

This is Thorum the CEO - I've noticed you've been using the app for some time now. Do you have any questions or anything I can do to help you understand the product better? I'd be happy to hop on a zoom call - here is a link to my availability if you have a time in mind

if you can get them on a call or screenshare that is the best possible outcome - there is nothing better than directly talking to your customers about their problems or why your app is not seeming to solve them
does it really matter? no.. absolutely not.
I think your point is more interesting but the problem is tabula-rasa knowledge starts. A human isn't born knowing about quantum mechanics, christoffel symbols or what pushforward measures are. If there was just a method to learn facts from scratch as cheaply as brilliant humans do, it would be so amazing. Even if you count from elementary school years, humans still end up with less energy spend by several orders of magnitude.

Transformers themselves are a lot more effective compared to n-gram models or non-contextual word vectors. I imagine there is something to Transformers as Transformers are to word2vec.
Great point. Not long ago, it was not commonly imagined that large nuclear reactors anywhere in the world would be on the border of moving front lines between warring armored forces. People aren't great at imagining how things can change.
For what? For Classic Mac OS gaming you could probably get Sheepshaver or Basilisk II running. Why you would need OS X 32bit apps on a retro gaming system I have no idea.