skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is odd that neither article quotes from the policies linked from the domain they're talking about.

I think the relevant section is "Qualcomm GNSS Assistance Service" on https://www.qualcomm.com/site/privacy/services

> The Qualcomm GNSS Assistance Service downloads to your device a data file from QTI containing the predicted orbits of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) satellites. The Qualcomm GNSS Assistance Service also uploads a small amount of data to us comprised of: a randomly generated unique software ID that is not associated to you or to other IDs, the chipset name and serial number, the Qualcomm GNSS Assistance Service software version, the mobile country code(s) and network code(s) (allowing identification of country and wireless operator), the type of operating system and version, device make and model, the date and time of connection to the server, the time since the last boot of the application processor and modem, and a list of QTI software on the device.

> As with any internet connection, we will also receive the IP address the device used to send us data. We use the data we collect to evaluate, maintain, and improve the performance of our systems and to determine general location (but not specific geolocation). We do not sell (as that term is defined under the California Consumer Privacy Act) the full IP address, unique software ID, or chipset serial number, and we share personal data only under the limited circumstances described in this Policy.
I'm not sure Sel4 can be considered "at scale", given the rather extreme amount of effort that went into it.
Actually I just saw this suggestion which I think is very nice: https://kagifeedback.org/d/512-automatically-redirect-search...

The idea would be that people can set a hard limit after which Kagi would redirect everything to a fallback of their choice. If my limit is set to 10$ and I reach it by the 21st of the month, then all my searches will automatically go to e.g. DuckDuckGo until the next month.

Wouldn't that make sense?
Your comparison between China and US from 1973 to now is fundamentally wrong. In 1970s, US already was a developed country, while China was barely rising from poverty.

It's unfair when the western countries demand lowering emissions from the third world. West was able to enjoy unlimited carbon emissions for years, while the third world was mostly agricultural and had poorly developed economies. Now, when other countries undergo the same economic transformations US had long time ago, Americans demand them to ditch progress for the sake of preventing climate change. And that's while outsourcing "dirty" manufacturing and waste management to the same third world countries.
No! I want every single request my phone might make explained to me in advance!
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Hm, I don't think that's quite it. I went through my own process of learning how neural networks work recently and wrote this based on my learning: https://sebinsua.com/bridging-the-gap

As far as my understanding goes, you can represent practically any function as layers of linear transformations followed by non-linear functions (e.g. `ReLU(x) = max(0, x)`). It's this sprinkling of non-linearity that allows the networks to be able to model complex functions.

However, from my perspective, the secret sauce is (1) composability and (2) differentiability. These enable the backpropagation process (which is just "the chain rule" from calculus) and this is what allows these massive mathematical expressions to learn parameters (weights and biases) that perform well.
This reply (and several others) is focusing on one part of the comment and ignoring the overall point.

The question is: if companies are no longer giving dividends, no longer giving voting rights, and you get nothing if it goes to zero, then what, intrinsically, is the value of a stock tied to? Is it something other than "stock will go up so someone will buy it at a higher price"? How does it differ from, say, Bitcoin?
Yeah there's plenty of people who would get badly hurt if they fell from the level they show in the CV (or the level of their ego) to the level of skills they can actually show.
Yes? I'm not sure how that's even a question. Passing on someone that seems like a good hire because they worked on a technically impressive thing which had some major non-technical problems would be really stupid. Both of those are things which would make me more interested in bringing them in for an interview, not less.
Your Android would need to be connected to an external firewall at all times through which you can monitor and control traffic. pfsense / firewalla are some of the popular firewall devices. Don't forget to remove the SIM card (airplane mode isn't enough). May need a wifi / cellular jammer too, to be absolutely sure the device will always connect via home router / firewall.

You could use an on-device firewall app, too; but OEMs / ODMs can always bypass it as they pretty much control not only the software but the hardware, as well.
In principle AGPS can send the GPS radio data to a remote server and have the server do the difficult maths then send back your position. This is apparently a thing somebody actually designed, however since "doing difficult maths" is now very cheap you'd obviously just do that on the phone.
> permaculture setups that integrates animals and a food forest into their operation.

This is a premise from a bygone era. Replace modern farming with integrated permaculture and billions will starve. Such farming techniques only persist in developed countries today as niche activities to amuse yuppies who want to buy some connection to nature at the grocery store.
> they see 3 spreadsheets of numbers representing the RGB values of the picture.

This needs expanding: it's the sort of thing that's easy for a programmer to say, but few non-{programmer,mathematically trained person} are going to see that an RGB value has 3 parts and so a collection of RGB values could be sliced into 3 sheets.
It's the classic failing of everyone's casual "alternative to dark matter". It's not X because we can't detect it, what if instead it's an undetectable form of Y?

Far too many people get hung up on the idea that in science what things "are" matters: because it doesn't. What matters is predictive power for future observations - if whatever you're proposing doesn't predict anything different to "invisible matter" then it's exactly as bad an explanation as "invisible matter" which so far is a perfectly good explanation for current observations.
I love the aesthetics, but he must have screwed up something lately, because it slows my Firefox to a crawl now.
> Coalton has S-expression syntax. No indent rules. No precedence rules. No expression delimiters.

This is a great selling point for a language in the ML family. Programmers can't abuse infix operators when there are none. :-)

Besides this, Coalton looks appealing. A highly interactive statically typed language is something I have thought of. I am sure I am not the only one. It is also a good sign that you are using it as it is being developed.
Not just thermal cycling but a giant solar collector is literally a giant solar sail. There would be significant force applied to a giant collector.

You'd need propulsion to maintain position and orientation. You'd also need a number of propulsion units to balance solar pressure gradients as the collector entered and existed the Earth's shadow as well as the thermal expansion/contraction of the structure.

It's likely not a lot of power but a non-trivial amount of fuel.
This comment was absolutely painful to read. It's just so out of touch, it's unbelievable.

There was a time in my life when $100 was my monthly food budget. I had to get dental work done, and even with insurance, it was $400. I had to take out a god damn credit card to pay for it and cut my meager food budget even further to make payments.
Great! So, let's refactor that UI code out into a function. Something a beginner is very likely to do as that code becomes more complex.

Oops. The borrow checker is going to beat you over the head. And beginners aren't likely to understand that it isn't their fault.

Rust needs to figure out a way to do GUIs ergonomically without requiring closures.
"Oh no."

In the best timeline, this forces Silver to return, humbled, to what he is genuinely talented at. One silver lining (ha ha HAH!) to the death of Twitter has been a marked drop in my incidental unsought exposure to Dunning-Kruger punditry gone off the rails.
F*ck! This is horrible!
This wasn't a mistake. It's the way activist shareholders push lagging stocks to rise. A common procedure is for someone to buy a large stake in a company that's been around for a while that has lots of assets but the stock has lagged. They then get a few board seats and push the company to borrow against the assets of the company to buy back stock or give a special dividend. This makes the stock rise and they can get out at a profit. The company is then left with a truckload of debt which makes it hard to invest in the company's future. It happened to ToysRUS, Sears and other well-known brands. This usually happens after a company has been around for a while and is unable to keep up with the competition and it's asset rich.

It's the way public companies are attacked if they can't protect themselves from raiders. It's hard to tell whether it's a good or bad thing since the company was lagging even before the activist shareholder took control so it could have collapsed anyway. It's the CEO's job to keep the shareholders happy so this does not happen.

Here's a story about one hitting Bed Bath and Beyond last year. I suspect there have been others.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/25/bed-bath-beyond-strikes-deal...
It's only been an hour, but no mention of Bing or Samsung in the comments so far. Some mentions of ChatGPT. Seems the market is not so concerned about their impact, or they're concerned, but think Google is handling it appropriately.
Without a visual, will they ever be able to determine what happened?

Are there camera satellites that pass by, close enough for a visual?
Recent and related:

The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35461011 - April 2023 (426 comments)
IRC is still alive. I have irssi on a monitor on the side all the time, both for friends and work.

IRC is not as big as it used to be, but at its highest it was mainstream even for computer illiterates.
Disney is shrinking FiveThirtyEight and Nate Silver (and his models) are leaving
In a way, I think it was inevitable.

Microsoft strength was always their ability to understand and talk to their business customer. Microsoft always makes the effort to speak your language and bridge the gap between what you are looking for and what they offer.

Curious to see if they are going to end up eating AWS lunch or not.
> This is the original comment in this chain that I was really wanting to address and build on. Charities and non-profits need to have some kind of input more than just existing, or else they probably won't achieve their goals. If the FSF stopped being able to host things and potentially sponsor free software and lobby for the goals of free software, if a scholarship foundation's grants exceeded their incomes for too long, if the tool collective stopped getting parts of fuel to run the forge, they'll eventually for all practical purposes cease to be. If the inputs fall below the outputs, there will eventually be a time where the outputs stop. This was my main point. Do you disagree?

Well, I'd have to wonder what units you're using that you think are relevant for all inputs and outputs. You might, for example, consider what units you'd measure "all of the inputs you think are necessary for software development" and whether that's an appropriate unit for measuring "software" in.

> Let me rephrase since you're seemingly willfully missing the point: all that stuff is beyond the basic needs.

Agreed! I never disagreed, I merely misspoke initially.

But I've amended that error two posts ago and you're still ranting on about how I don't understand all of this is beyond basic needs. You're trying to argue with me on a point we agree on. Until you stop doing that, it's clear you aren't reading what I'm writing, so I'm not sure why I'd keep writing it.
This isn't limited to a couple degrees of temperature. We are killing the planet with the current mass extinction event. We don't have the right to do that.

But I agree with you which is why I devote my time to research related to climate mitigation topics such as co2 sequestration.
Linux Kernel 6.3 is released with some major new features
I suppose I should have worded it differently to follow up on the "unconscious bias of recruiters" angle
no such thing as free lunch - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_free_lunch_theorem
I thought this was brilliant! I managed to get $30k for the art sale, but would love to know if I could have done better. Negotiation is a big part of my job, so thoroughly enjoyed this. Now to try the other negotiation... I thought the summary at the end was very good too.
It's not that unreasonable an assumption. Qualcomm offers a different opt-in service under the same name that does use location data.

Basically your phone uploads sensor data like cell tower strength and WiFi strength, and their service estimates your location. The your device locally uses gyro/accelerometer to fine-tune.

See Qualcomm Location Service (formerly “IZat Location Services” or “IZat”) on https://www.qualcomm.com/site/privacy/services
> The thing that needs more discussion is the closed source stuff Android OEMs / ODMs run at higher ARM privileges rendering all of Google's grand ceremony around Android security moot (other than on Pixels).

You're mentioning security, which is interesting, because here it's not a question of security (don't get me wrong, izat did have security flaws in the past, and I wouldn't bet that modern devices are all properly corrected), but only to who you are sending your private data to.

It's also fun that you mention Google doing security around Android... because the vast majority of people do send their private data to Google!

My personal take is that if we want to control who we send our data to, we need to start from the easy steps: I personally use a modified Android to send the least amount of data to Google. Disabling gps xtra is pretty easy. I think I already have it disabled, but I'll check.
How is it reductive? Literally speaking, climate change will most impact the people who benefited the least from the burning of fossil fuels. Those are the people who come from poor and hot countries in the global south and near the equator, who have historically burned far less fossil fuels per-capita, but nevertheless will be harmed the most per-capita given their climates are already precarious. Then, when the consequences boil over in a few decades and their countries become too hot to be healthily habitable, they will be banned from migrating to colder, richer countries by those countries' local conservatives, who will lobby government to restrict or ban immigration intake. What a sick and hypocritical situation that will be. Those rich and cold countries' wealth was generated by the fossil fuels that were burned that put those poor people in the global south in that awful predicament to begin with, and now they'll be stuck there to deal with the consequences that they didn't primarily create. It's a world-scale theft of opportunity, wealth and life.
Microsoft is literally twice the size of Amazon
> What I'm surprised by is that Edge wouldn't have been reporting the full browsing history already

IIRC one of Sysinternals tools allows to pull list of accessed files, folders and sites regardless of the browser. In such case Edge wouldn't need to report history because OS does that already.
Dude, don’t be such a clock blocker.
I sometimes get into a new area that gets ahead of my understanding

and then after the CPA and tax counsel does it one year, then I know how to do it future years and its back to the excel spreadsheets for me
Sounds cool, but how many people have the 9k USD to sink on the radio required? Security through price barriers.

Except it’s not security of course; the difficulty in obtaining hardware is a large reason as to why industrial control systems had such abysmal security for as long as they did.
It's actually pretty great, I really like it.
Every person I know who's tried to use a Hackintosh ends up just buying a mac. The hassle of keeping it working perfectly just isn't worth the time. Sure you save 2k or whatever but what do you lose when a sleep bug makes your machine crash, or you're dodging security updates to preserve a working config?
This doesn't really make sense unless you're making weird assumptions around liquidity/investment that probably don't add up in reality.

Most people who invest in a stock will reinvest dividends, and so a 2% dividend ends up with you holding 2% more of the stock at the same value. A buyback that results in a 2% price increase results in you holding the same # of shares at 2% more value, with the overall market cap the same.

As long as you assume the market is fairly efficient and liquid, you can sell your shares, or not, in either case. If instead you choose not to reinvest your dividends, you can also sell off excess value after a buyback (e.g., say "I will hold no more than $1000 and when the value increases beyond that I will sell excess shares to reduce my value to that number", or sell buyback/market cap% of your holdings, or whatever).

Ultimately the difference is taxation, where buybacks win out (cap gains, not income).

> BBBY bought back 50% of shares over the last 10y and what did that amount to for shareholders in the end?

Well, for the shareholders of the 50% that was bought back, probably pretty well I'd assume.
Which UI code specifically are you referring to and why would the borrow checker prevent you from factoring it out?
Not in this case; his time was up.
I agree it's not a certainty at all. That's why I referenced the risk that it happens, rather than proclaiming it was definitely going to happen.

Alphabet has mediocre leadership for this time and place. Sundar Pichai is to Alphabet as Ballmer was to Microsoft. Perfectly fine managers (both managed considerable expansions, courtesy of inherited momentum), but that's all they can do. They're the wrong types to have in charge during a critical tech inflection that threatens the overall business. Nadella was the right person to have in charge of Microsoft to make the needed changes; and despite being behind the curve due to Ballmer, they were still able to recharge Microsoft and right the ship. The sooner Alphabet gets rid of Pichai the sooner they can begin attempting to avoid the beating that is bearing down on their core business rapidly. They're going to have to be willing to cannibalize the Google business as needed and Pichai can't pull that off (and the founders are probably not remotely hungry enough to want to try to do it, to put in the sweat necessary, based on their last years in management there and how they left). Amusingly Alphabet is facing this threat similarly as Microsoft did, under the very bright lights of anti-trust. It's probably not far-fetched to say that if Ballmer had remained in charge for another 5-7 years, it might have been too much, too far gone to recover from (they would have missed the ramp to the next era by too much); I believe the same is true about Pichai and the present leadership at Alphabet, they can't do what needs to be done, and if the board/large vote holders wait five or more years to make the needed changes, it'll probably be too late to fully recover from.
General inflation?
Did they change the definition of what counts as Cloud? I remember Google Workspace being kind of a suspicious inclusion into "Cloud".
The Sienna is often the cheapest minivan available in the US. The Transit Connect Wagon is currently available for cheaper in some regions, but was never really marketed as a family vehicle, and is being discontinued this year, in its 10th year of nearly zero updates.
Especially as all it offers is a tab tree and split content windows. Something that you can have since ages in Vivaldi natively or with just two add-ons in Firefox.

Also it's of course not a new browser. It's just the next Chrome GUI.
Or exactly the other way around.

Without "engineering society" we'd still live in tribes killing each other at first sight. We have reduced that substantially. Some societies are a bit behind (like allowing lethal military-grade weapons at home), some are further advanced. Overall, it seems a good idea to use our intellect to advance societies and we've come a long way from the dark ages.

Our earth engineering has come so far that with the exception of a few national parks and reserves, we've used every little corner to cut off and kill everything that existed on it and turned it into less-and-less usable farmland. A few areas are cities or golf courses or transportation highways, the rest are terrible monocultures or their next stage: deserts. We've extinguished more species than we know and of those that we have not, we have brought lots to close to it. 95% of all fish are dead. Sea levels are rising rapidly. Large areas have water shortages. We need less "earth engineering", not more of it.
That sounds super stressful. Especially since moving is considered one of the most stressful moments in life.
You do want to see it, you maybe just don't know it yet!
> SSH is a flexible protocol of which "terminal emulation" is just one use case

I had hoped we weren't going to go down this path. It's not the responsibility of the free world to try to pry the exact details from closed systems to demonstrate their exact insecurities. Based on the functionality they have (remote update) plus the various bits that have been reported about their infrastructure (remember that reddit post about MSWin+bubblegum?) plus the general pattern when any proprietary system says "trust us we're sooper sequre", Tesla (any every other centralized system) really does not deserve any benefit of the doubt that they have done work to actually design a telemetry/privilege minimizing system.

> If the evidence shows Tesla is being dishonest and operating in a way that is not in accordance with their privacy policy

Meh. The penalty for violating privacy policies in the US is zilch, and even if it weren't such policies are generally non-binding and can be retroactively changed at any time. Without a privacy law ala the GDPR, the sensible thing to do is to assume that any piece of information you feed into the surveillance industrial complex will be stored indefinitely and may eventually be used against you.

> What I'm advocating for is making [trust] decisions based on facts and evidence

I feel like we could have some common ground here, but your previous arguments have carved off way too much in defense of lazily-implemented centralized control, based on seeing no evil. If it's possible to architect systems such that they don't backhaul information to their manufacturer or give their manufacturer ongoing control, then we should criticize those that do - regardless of the pragmatism of using them anyway because they are the least worst option and/or beneficial in other aspects.

I myself use many things that compromise my own privacy through suboptimal implementations, but I'm not going to sit here and defend the companies because they haven't been caught doing anything too hostile at the moment. Rather I accept that they're inherently attackers that I've chosen to trust (NSA definition) with some amount visibility into and control over my activities due to other benefits they provide - while remaining generally interested in more secure alternatives.
I didn't ask about what the policy document says, but about what is actually transferred by the chip itself, independently of the OS. Since it's not encrypted this can be determined.