skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it can be disabled when your device is off

If you trust Apple's software, and the firmware of every discrete SoC/IP core to be truthful and bug-free. And obviously this does not require cellular tracking, which is frankly unlikely to be prevented in airplane mode. Once again, regardless of your justifications: I refuse to carry a tracking device, so stop arguing that I should because "It'll totally be fine, trust me bro."

> Tile and GPS receivers with 4G transmitters

I'm aware of Tile and the physical and power footprint of other trackers. The AirTag is a substantial leap in capability. If you disagree: Why do so many people prefer AirTag over Tile or these other devices? But again: All these surreptitious trackers should be banned from commercial sale. The risks far outweigh the benefits, and the risks are entirely externalized to the rest of society.

> The number of things like parking that seems to require a phone is growing. While I dislike that as a societal arc, this is within that arc.

So, just straight up, "Fuck your human dignity. Carry a tracking device or GTFO and forget your right to a normal life in society." Human rights are apparently not important to you; I should just bend over and accept my lot, because that's the "societal arc".

Once again: Unacceptable. And moreover: A miserable and weaselly dismissal not only of my human dignity but also of your own.

> Yes, you don't want to be tracked. But I own things and I want to track them. So do companies. Outlawing trackers imposes a very large cost on them.

I disagree with that frankly ridiculous characterization. Legal surreptitious trackers impose a very large cost to other members of society.

But this entire issue would go away overnight if Apple designed their system only to detect and find lost items instead of as a generalized surreptitious global tracking system.

Simply only report beacons back to the mothership if the user of the tracking device (the "phone") has previously manually added the tracking device ("AirTag"). Allow up to 10 devices to add an AirTag, so everyone in your family/friend group can help find your lost property. No more snitching back to Apple when the tracking device sees any beacon at all.

This will satisfy the vast majority of use cases where you lose a physical possession ("where are my keys?") while preventing the vast majority of stalking and targeted muggings, rape, and burglaries, etc.
I really hope this is successful. If we can automate delivery of goods, above ground roads could have a much longer lifetime as heavy truck damage could move underground.
Europeans can get exposure to dollar interest rates but that brings along currency risk between USD and EUR.
OK, that's four states. But you said "I believe the other states are only slightly behind California in terms of housing crisis phase." That sounds like all the states, or at least most of them. And I'm pretty sure that's not true.
for AES, for example?
Stocks dividends are now in 5-10% range, e.g. Verizon is at 7%.

Obviously, markets are volatile and are in "search of direction", but quite a few dividend-paying stocks are trading at near 5-10 year low, so picking them up is not that much of a gamble if your investment horizon is long.
just enough light to prevent tripping over things post eye adjustment would be ideal.

If you don't mind going old-school, I picked up a five-pack of directional nightlights at the local hardware store for $20.

They plug into an outlet, only turn on when it's dark, and swivel so you can aim the beam at the tripping hazard of your choice.

I also put one in the bathroom outlet over the cat's litter box, to help her out.

It's just a tiny light bulb and a photodiode, so it's super simple, ultra-reliable, and completely unhackable.
"Quick wins" sounds a lot like taking out a loan of technical debt.
This system is only employed at the most popular locations -- your random rural land isn't going to be competitive with a top-10-in-the-world attraction.
You face a lot if opposition, but I fully agree with you. This is basic economic thinking.

Somehow people are fine with having healthcare, education, housing, transportation etc. being driven by market forces, but parks not? In my opinion the state should absolutely cash in on the lucrative public parks. Otherwise you will and up with scalpers and other perversions that will take their cut in pricing the true value of this good.

Giving poor people money in form of UBI or tax breaks is the way to go in distributing all public goods.
It'll be interesting to see if any of the reparations stuff ends up happening.
Fancy Pigeon
Public transportation is for peasants and communists, don't you know
> now on our second unelected Prime Minister.

Of this election cycle, even - we had one (Cameron -> May, May -> Johnson) in each of the previous two cycles as well.

(We've had 5 swaps 2000-2023 compared with 12 1900-1999)

> The current UK government are on their last legs

I hope you're right but the UK populace does show a distressing talent for ignoring the past and electing horrific parties when it comes to a general.
Isn't the request to delete the data? Just removing it from the outputs wouldn't be sufficient anyway.
The largest change shown on those graphs is a gain of about ten thousand followers, the smallest shown is a couple hundred. Without more data, it kinda feels like this could be natural fluctuations.
Who Will Have the Last Word on the Universe?
Almost, but not quite. I'm quite sure the government itself will run IA without any compromise against whatever problems it thinks it has (either foreign or domestic). So this would regulate privately run AI but not government run black/undisclosed AI.
Why can't they put electric vans or buses in these tunnels? shuttling everyone in 4 person cars seems inefficient... Lay down a track, and they can be autonomous very easily (compared to relying on tesla self driving tech)
>Relative to the more traditional markets though they seem fine.

This is your brain on constant high volatility.
As much as I think a website like this is beautiful, I always get highly annoyed when browsing stuff like this. There's a giant scrollable area with no text at the beginning, so I thought I had to click the little mac-like titlebar window buttons. When text finally appears, I have to wait for the animations before I can read. If I decide to scroll fast I lose text. My laptop fan keeps running all the time, which highly annoys me. People, please stop making websites like these. Keep the beautiful graphics but please kill all animation, make the site static.
Has anyone made a light gun replacement that would work with modern LCDs? Or is the frame delay too inconsistent for such a thing to work?
Souls for Sale – The Times Interviews Noam Chomsky
Maybe you're talking about Google News, which I don't remember how worked, but what product did Meta have of this kind?

Isn't the argument just that when users post links to news stories on Facebook, the feed will grab the headline and first paragraph as a "link preview"? I don't think it's summarizing anything from multiple sites.
Yet they're not offering those managers IC positions, they're just cutting and targeting managers with higher salaries for the most part. Also heard of a few staff engineers that went.
$1,000/night is pretty much in the range of relatively primitive camping on private land in primo locations. I've been shocked at the price tag associated with so-called glamping (which isn't quite like pitching a tent but close enough) in locations I don't even think are that primo. Absolutely an auction for Yosemite slots on a summer weekend would be at least in the high three figures.
Paragraphs 6-10 of the article are entirely about the new popularity of money market accounts and the reasons for it.
IMO part of it is the increased runtime. The original (depending on which cut?) was under two hours.
Loved these two movies, and BR 2049. Agree with others that Dune felt paint by numbers and overly spare.
>the C# integration is bad, the new ECS translates C# to C++ (or some cpp like IR)

This makes me suspicious of your take seeing as IL2CPP has been part of Unity for years and years and not the ECS stack.

They also have a package manager now as well as custom/3rd party repo settings.

But on the whole, yes. Unity is not a shining example of C#. Although its an example of how far you can hack with it.
...maybe it's a good thing a state is concerned about the individual privacy rights of their citizens and are willing to take big steps to enforce it.
> The company leadership doesn’t believe that.

Starting rather recently and suddenly, don’t you think? The company leadership did apparently believe that each and every time they made a hire. And I bet a lot of the people laid off today were hired fairly recently.
https://archive.md/Vg8yW
The engineers at Open AI have developed the most intelligent LLM in the world.

I’m sure they’re not doing basic string matching.
> "Deceptive patterns" is now the preferred term

Preferred by whom though? The authors of the article preferred "dark patterns" — probably as something more commonly used in their circles.
My experience is that splitting lexing and parsing is by far the norm, even in recursive descent.
> Also am I stupid for buying a switch instead of emulating it?

For me, the form factor counts for a lot. That is part of the experience. The Switch itself also makes a great emulation platform for gaming on the go.
What kills that board (and many like it) is the absolutely proprietary SYZYGY connector, which is surface-mount (so hobbyists won't develop a board ecosystem for it, and aliexpress circuit cloners won't do their thing unless there's a proven ecosystem), and probably $10 in high quantities (if it's even in stock). RIP.

I'm not even sure that board has enough overall I/O to connect a VGA output, controller inputs, and a SDRAM chip (all of which are essential to a viable MiSTer replacement - note that no one has figured out how to use DDR RAM for emulation yet, too much seek latency).
Your property tax is tied to the property value at purchase rather than reassessed over time. This, coupled with the enormous growth of CA property prices over the last 70 years, results in existing land owners paying way less taxes than their neighbors. Like 10x less tax is not uncommon.

This creates a ton of really perverse incentives - but an overwhelming one to buy and hold rather than sell or move. So it limits California housing stock.
>I’ve stuck it in equities and funds, where at least the yield will be better than a kick in the goolies, which is the best most banks offer.

Highly liquid money market ETFs[0] are paying ~5%, that's hard to beat with minimal risk. Individual equities are..not doing so well.

[0] https://www.purposeinvest.com/funds/purpose-high-interest-sa...
Sounds like you are describing an attempt at diversification that has failed in some areas and is now being pulled back. Businesses try things, some work, some fail.
I come down really hard on passkeys sometimes, but I'm not opposed to the idea of using keys for authentication. I think that's an amazing idea.

I'm mostly down on the passkey ecosystem and who's in charge of it. I guess I don't do a good job of clarifying that always.

There is a theoretical alternate world where the FIDO Alliance approached this differently where I would be 100% on board with passkeys and would be encouraging everyone to switch to them. I'm just really worried about the implementations I think we're going to actually end up with.
> the use of the state to control society is what folks are describing as fascism

The vast majority of people who casually throw around the word "fascist" are very happy to have a large, interventionist state that controls society. All "fascist" seems to mean here is that the interventions chosen don't align with the speaker's values.

> I'd argue in Utah it's just plain Ole theocracy.

I can definitely go for theocracy as an accurate description.
That doesn't cover PII obtained without your involvement, though.
> For hundreds of thousands of years, pre-historic man became very skilled at cutting rocks in order to make stone age tools....When metal working developed, all of the hundreds of thousands of years of skill in making stone tools was meaningless

Relevant Mitchell & Webb Look sketch: https://youtu.be/nyu4u3VZYaQ

Also that's all well and good, but people won't necessarily take their skills being obsoleted lightly, just shrug their shoulders and disappear into the sunset. It could get to the point (especially if predictions about A.I. replacing a large swatch of jobs turns out to be true) that the people will get violent if unemployment gets too high. Just look at riots in Greece (when youth unemployment was 50%)[1] or France[2] for just a couple of examples.

Granted, that's not going to happen with this particular layoff, especially with the unemployment rate at a low 3.5%, but if it gets back into the double digits, it starts becoming more likely.

This is probably the real reason we gave out stimulus and PPP loans at the beginning of the Covid pandemic - to stop people from being so jobless, broke, that they take it out on the government. Not out of empathy.

[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2014/11/26/protests-in-greece-expected-...

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/11/business/france-economy-m...
"I remember the days when the internet was vast, when there seemed to be more places to go than anyone could ever visit and infinite things to read. What you saw was not determined by some highly protected coded algorithm that lives somewhere in the cloud. You could just go out and find it."

The internet is still vast. People just choose to congregate and use the same handful of apps. People are choosing not to go out and find it. Most people are also choosing not to go out and create it. It's a people problem, not a tech problem, in my opinion.
Extend to adults while at it.

Statistically, it destroys lives and makes people miserable.

After it ends in divorce (which statistically is most of the time), there's all sorts of follow-up issues with splitting goods and the insanity that is alimony.
You seem to confuse "ur language" for meaning "the original that others came from", which makes sense if you're familiar with the term "ur", but is not how this article uses the term. They use it to mean type specimen (as noted in the article). As type specimen, Self makes a lot more sense: it took the OO concepts pioneered by Smalltalk and then made them even more OO.
> I can’t really think of harms I suffered as a child from watching ads.

Nor me. But in those days, they couldn't push cigarettes, booze and gambling at us.
Reservations only became required for Old Rag somewhat recently. I think this is a covid thing. I'm really torn, I want people to be happy and healthy outside but covid and social media has made doing this a mad house. Regulating day tickets is a necessity at most places nowadays
The recent Shopify memo re "Main Quests" and "Side Quests" applies.

I'm hopeful GitLab can turn it around, but at this point it feels like GitLab might be going the way of Jira.
Politely disagree. Keep these sites because they’re cool and I think they really flex the muscle of the medium, but for people who just want some straightforward long form journalism, have a “simple” style sheet.
I read it as 'msdn.social', only now I see it's mastodon.
>Meanwhile in the US I am getting 4.5% of a few high interest savings accounts I have open, I am not sure if these options are available to Europeans

They aren't. In my Euro area the highest interests on savings accounts I can find at banks is 2,5% and that's as a special offer for new customers.

We in Europe are being fleeced from all sides, while banks, energy, real estate, food companies are having their most profitable quarters ever. Something's gotta change.
Terrorism requires a political objective. This is some combination of theft, ransom, extortion, or sabotage, unless there's reason to think Dallas in particular was targeted for political reasons.
Currently the financial income tax is 22%, and is being taken into account when saying the resulting outcome is 1.8x the mortage interests.
No, that call isn’t difficult. What is more difficult are examples given on things like Angular University, where there are pipe, subscribe, catchError, among others, in a single call chain. It’s not obvious to me at all what the order of execution is in this call chain for instance:

http$
.pipe(
map(res => res['payload']),
catchError(err => {
console.log('caught mapping error and rethrowing', err);
return throwError(err);
}),
finalize(() => console.log("first finalize() block executed")),
catchError(err => {
console.log('caught rethrown error, providing fallback value');
return of([]);
}),
finalize(() => console.log("second finalize() block executed"))
)
.subscribe(
res => console.log('HTTP response', res),
err => console.log('HTTP Error', err),
() => console.log('HTTP request completed.')
);

Once you see the output it begins to finally make sense but intuitive it is not
The designers of the androids do not want them to be detected as non-human and killed, hence they do not program in a debug function.

This is a major plot point in the book.
Book is pretty short too. And one of PKD that holds up really well.
Gold is almost at its all-time high. Might not be the best time to enter.
unironically this
I assume you mean specifically software engineers?

Most traditional engineers are quite familiar with Matlab and Fortran.
The corollary of this is that at least in Berlin you can’t survive without cash as many bars, restaurants and even shops will not accept any other form of payment.
>Mostly real estate that can be bought in cash without a mortgage.

So then where are the sellers putting their cash? This is a closed system.
Yeah , it happened a few weeks ago and i couldn't focus on anything after that event for a few days. The fear of it could be me and my family , anytime is overwhelming.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35094410
Kagi doesn’t have a chatbot, but they have recently added some thoughtful Generative AI features. They tend to start with the search results and then summarize.

See https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-ai-search
it's been more than 3 hours:
https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/ tried postiing something on hackernews but it got flagged as a dupe.
it's pretty shady that it's not on the frontpage
I don't think The Pokemon Company is a holding company, I applied to a software engineering role there a while back
Yep. My hope is that other states learn from California's mistakes and correct their policies before they get tested by serious population growth in cities. Seems like that's happening to a degree (supported by examples in the article you linked).
I think individually we all have the right/option to make our choices, but I'm speaking to the market makers. If you want to be a vinyl shop (Kagi, Bandcamp), go for it. But you're not going to be Spotify -- or the Apple Music Store ($0.99 per track, remember?) -- in a world of TikTok and bundled music platforms.

And I have my personal version of vinyl, I listen a lot to soma.fm and Radio Paradise. It's very interesting to me personally how few other services like those really exist out in the world. There are things like DI.FM and Mixcloud, but I don't know anything else like Radio Paradise (music channels, forums, etc). I've scoured all the channels and platforms expose on TuneIn and the like, and there aren't quite as many variants as I would personally expect. So the niche music world isn't even as numerou$ as you'd want a long tail to be.
I find your description of the things that happened as "too bizarre to be easily believable" to be somewhat comforting, as it lets me know I'm not nuts to be frustrated by the process.
Depends on what the scope is. It's a lot easier to go to the store and buy food with emergency cash if there is a 1 month blackout or internet outage. The grocery store isn't going to accept gold and the conversion rate from gold to cash isn't going to be great in that situation.

For inflation proofing a fortune, sure, keep a large chunk in gold (or something else that is stable and movable). But for "emergencies" I'd try to keep some cash.
To California residents they have to provide the ability to cancel online. Some people change their billing address to be able to do it online without the infamous calling
musk's companies do this precisely in part because it's inefficient. By lobbying hard against good transit infrastructure and building flashy but sucky alternatives, they lock in dependance on their product, automobiles.
There are dozens of other US cities with trains running through tunnels, and they all operate at a loss. Why not try something new?
It doesn’t help when search engines only want to show the most SEO optimized trash available though.
In a perfect world, 100% accurate facial recognition and record-keeping would encourage apartment owners to make their leasing decision based on a person's actual rental history, instead of deciding based on prejudice.

But my own prejudice is that the people selling the renter blacklist software solution will only care about sales, and not the software accuracy or people affected by false positives.
Stocks, even blue chip ones, have a very different risk profile from money in the bank.
Court: Man took leaf blower so brazenly, it wasn't burglary
I hesitate to drift this far off-topic, but I feel it important to point out that within my lifetime (as one approaching retirement age) the word "dark" was the root of a word to describe black people in the U. S., and it wasn't complimentary. Hell, go look up the lyrics for "Old Kentucky Home" that gets sung every year at the Kentucky Derby (though I'm confident the lyrics have changed; or maybe not).

That said, I don't make the association, either. But I'm willing to make the change, if not for basic politeness, then to use words that are more descriptive.
You don’t always have control over what is published about you online. Comments are only one aspect of this. I’m sure you would not be happy if I widely published your full name, address, birthday, names and ages of family members, occupation, etc. just because I was able to piece it all together from public info.
Right, I think it's helpful to define the most probable types of emergencies where having a non-electronic form of payment is useful. In the US that's likely some sort of natural disaster (hurricane, snow storm, blackout or brownout during the summer). Going to your local grocer and using cash won't raise any eyebrows where I'm not sure how likely anyone is to accept gold or silver in one of those situations.
They are promoting tightly packed structs as fast. For high-performance language I would expect native struct-of-arrays support because structs are bad for CPU cache and SIMD.
I guess you can say that the ideas are similar if not identical, with some vital differences: portability of usernames (domains as usernames), federated servers, self-managed algorithms for feeds and based on a protocol (The AT Protocol)
I agree the score is really excellent.
PlusCal is very much in the ALGOL family (with the extension of nondeterminism, which is needed to serve its purpose of verification).

TLA+ is similar to Prolog, extended with a next-state operator and the temporal operators (again, to serve its niche purpose).

(Though the main TLA+ implementation, TLC, doesn't implement logic variables as richly as Prolog does, so coding style within a relation tends to be almost a bit more imperative. They exist in the language though, via the unbounded ∃ operator.)
Shh. Please don't give the EU regulators any ideas here.
I wonder if all the banks in the world consume more energy vs Bitcoin network? What if we didn't have these big institutions that employ hundreds of thousands of people to basically increment and decrement a counter in a computer. Imagine all costs that we wouldn't have to incur (e.g transport to work, operating buildings, etc). Today's banks seem very archaic.
Alright, Satan.