skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google and Apple app store pages say no personal
data is collected or sent to 3rd parties.

"It turns out it's sending GPS, cell phone tower cell
IDs and Wifi beacon data to servers in Hong Kong and
mainland China on a continued basis"

It seems to me that app store providers should drop the "no personal data collected or sent to 3rd parties" language entirely.

Instead, the warning should be: "this app has permissions to do network stuff and can potentially send whatever the f-- it wants to whomever it wants" or "the app maker claims it won't give data to 3rd parties but we have absolutely zero way of verifying this."

Because the reality is that neither Apple nor Google can have any idea what a "3rd party" is. Those servers in China and HK may well be 1st party. Who knows? Who can know? Nobody but the app maker.
Isn't this all an anti-trust thing at this point? Of the type which Microsoft got done for in 2000s?
I'm the other way, I find IPTables less intuitive and featureful than PF. The way Netfilter/IPTables works under the hood seems much more over-complicated[1] than it needs to be (which is how I feel about a lot of Linux system stuff these days). The architecture of PF[2] (and thus how the rules get processed) just makes more sense to me.

pfSense/OPNsense is just a stripped-down FreeBSD under the hood. If there are things that you want it to do that you can't with the base install, you can look into installing FreeBSD packages.[3][4] I personally just use vanilla OpenBSD for most edge router/firewall tasks and then if I need mesh wifi or some modern gear that is not well supported, I just delegate the BSD box to run a strong PF firewall (which is what pfSense uses) in front of it all. Ubiquiti mesh wifi and RTSP stream play really nicely with it.

It's so easy to overcomplicate a routing setup which is probably why these off-the-shelf solutions are so popular, but I agree, I prefer to have less of a magic box approach to routing/firewalls whenever possible.

[1]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Netfilte...
[2]: https://mailing.openbsd.misc.narkive.com/jtIB9W3w/pf-packet-...
[3]: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/recipes/freebsd-p...
[4]: https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=21739.0
I don't understand how Microsoft benefits from getting everyone to use their web browser? Is it all to spy on people's browsing habits?
The parent opened their comment with a false claim. At no point did the article conflate gut diversity with gut health.
Hotel lobbies, especially those like Ace, CitizenM, Public, and Moxy, are my favorite public spaces. You could practically spend the entire day there. Start with a coffee and end it with a nightcap.

There’s almost always a place to sit. You could show up with your laptop and work, and not get the kind of side eye you’d get from coffee shops. Or you could show up with a friend or a date and actually hear yourself think. You can make conversations with strangers. You don’t feel obligated to buy a drink every hour. And you don’t look like a loser if you’re drinking solo.

And the bartenders know what they’re doing. I’d take it over the cramped hipster Williamsburg speakeasy with a 1 month in advance reservation requirement.
You name and shame them, the louder the better. Most people don't want to be, you know, known for being a snake (if nothing else, it removes their ability to virtue signal at a later date).

Of course you don't get to do this without some amount of risk of retaliation and collateral damage. But there is no conflict averse solution. The problem with the "structure" of society is that it has become too conflict averse.
Depending on the manufacturer the digital odometers are even easier to tamper with. There are a dozen people on my local craigslist that will reset/rollback odometers for you for $100.
This isn't true. Homeowners vote in favour of policies that benefit landlords as well. It will look like the landlord is conspiring against tenants but landlords hardly have any political representation compared to tenants.
Damn, that is actually a really cool approach.

I suppose most LLMs are not smart enough to make the connection and can be probably told to avoid doing it, but I would imagine that it's not impossible for it to figure out that Name1 is likely Wayne Gretzky from context?

Edit: Yep, it's definitely a problem unless the facts are also anonymized I guess: https://chat.openai.com/share/84dbe124-dca7-46e3-be73-79b194...
Interesting so many useful commands, but they didn't have time to fix basics like scroll wheel, so you have to install 3rd party apps to set it independently from the touch pad and then it still manages to swap it around at random times.

Am I the only one who finds macOS so annoying?

I mean the apps for scroll wheel, alt-tab and what not...
The fact that it does it at all is the issue. Someone wrote code that literally is watching for users trying to download another browser.

You usually download a browser just once, so turning if off isn't the issue. I suspect some of less technically inclined might abide by it and not download the new broswer.

It almost seems like trial run for stopping the download. I can imagine "clippy" popping up an saying "I see your trying to download a browser, I'm sorry, I can't allow that"
You should give nebula a try. I've recently switched my private VPN setup from wireguard to nebula and am looking into using it for work. It has some really nice features (for our use case), so ymmv. But so far it's been fantastic and very easy to use.

https://github.com/slackhq/nebula
> this experience isn't right for you

What kind of post-Orwellian shitfuckery is this? It really grinds my gears when a prompt puts words in your mouth (e.g. "Yes, please" or "No thanks, maybe later") but this reaches a new level by trying to reframe something as simple as wilfully ignoring a stated preference. It sounds like a modern car ad in that it's all about catering to you the "main character" writing your own story and presenting themselves as the facilitators of your perfect customised destiny.

But they're just trying to change your browser and hope you have enough to worry about that you won't notice and their metric will tick up.
Hypothesis: an implicit secondary reason that so many young people want to be social-media "influencers", is that holding a microphone and having a cameraman following you, creates a magic circle of this kind of "space" around your own person, such that people who ordinarily would never give you the time of day will be perfectly willing to talk to you for a video.
I understand your point, but it's also true that "the people" don't exactly have a unified opinion of much. Any politician will be going with what some of the people want, and against what a different group of the people want, all at the same time.
What a bunch of corporate nonsense...

it seems that many people in the west always try to find the _magic pill_, something you can swallow and forget, but in reality what's need to change is the way of living.
You cannot expect working 16 hours a day, being stressed whole day, take acid on the weekend and make it go away.

in addition this article is evil, since psychedelics are not for everyone, it requires a specific state of mind to actually benefit and learn from them in the long run.

I am an avid user (LSD), was an abuser, I had lost 4 friends to crazy...

also, Ketamine is not a psychedelic and is bad for you in non small usages.
This was a coding nightmare that I don't wish to re-live. IE6 was a tremendous resource sink.
https://imageupscalerai.com/ got good feedback in its 'Show HN' last week https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36418648
In my experience the vast majority of people do not understand how monetary policy affects inflation. People very quickly adopt a “if you see prices rising, it's corporate greed" attitude when facing resistance or throw their hands up and say “We need price controls and limits on corporate profits."
There’s no AutoHDR at all, so yeah.
> It doesn't always work.

This is the bummer. I want consistency and I don't care about it being in the voice of my favorite author. I personally don't have a favorite. I want it to be fine-tuned on me personally so the collaboration is more meaningful
Oh interesting thank you, I thought they were using it.

There's nice stuff you can do with the probabilities, a shame it's more restricted with the chat models. I hope they add some lightweight thing you could pass with your request to constrain the response.
> They're for an application to tell you what is going on. Come on dude.

I mean yeah, but the format is unique to every app. trying to rationalise them to reduce them to a tertiary value (ok, degraded, fucked) is as unique to each app.

Plus, with every update, it'll change, means that its loads of work
Believing the opposite extreme, that there is zero harm associated with moral panics, is necessarily true based on heuristics is arguably not optimal thinking either.

Thinking better than dummies is not hard, but thinking without error is a lot harder than it seems. I think if more people started thinking in terms of both relative and absolute comparisons the world might improve. If you only think in relative terms, you are living in a dream world of sorts.
Well yes. That's how a connection pool works. You're not really supposed to be creating extra threads inside a request. Things can get wonky unless you know what you're doing. Best to use ActiveJob, which will have its own context even if it uses threads underneath.
> The final twist: Benoist-Méchin grew into a prominence of his own as a historian and journalist who enthusiastically collaborated with Nazi Germany’s takeover of France in World War II. He was condemned to death as a traitor after the war and eventually had his sentence commuted after seven years in prison.

In total, Benoist-Méchin was interned for 10 years: arrested in Sept. 44, sentenced in June 47 and released in Nov. 54. He went on to write well-respected history books; I have read a couple of them. I knew about his conduct during WWII but never knew he was friends with Joyce.
Neal has outdone himself yet again. I had it until the roman numerals and adding upto 25 ones but lost my cool when it said it must include today's wordle answer.

Screaming and crying.
> The problem with me and tracing is nobody uses it. When I monitor the teams usage of traces, it is always a small fraction of the development team that ever logs in to use them. I don't know why the tool hasn't gotten more popularity among developers.

I think there's two primary reasons:

1. Historically it was too hard to get easy value early. That's probably changed with OpenTelemetry since it has so much automatic instrumentation you can install. Even 3 years ago it just wasn't feasible to install an agent or write 5 lines of code and then get most of the libraries you use instrumented for you. Now it is, and it's fully portable across tools.

2. Cost, which still isn't solved yet. Tail-based sampling is still too hard, but you need it if you want to do stuff like always capture 100% of error traces but get only a statistically representative sample of 200 OK traces. There's some solutions for that today (e.g., my employer Honeycomb has such a tool), but it's still locked away with vendors and too hard to use.

I do expect the narrative on tracing to change in the coming years, though. OpenTelemetry is growing in popularity and it has enough features and stability for a wide range of people to adopt it. I think the cost issue will also be dealt with over time.
You have an obligation, that doesn't mean you can reach it in time or that you're equipped as US battleship for such a rescue. Big difference.
The measure of a society is how it treats its weakest members.

These headlines are showing that the class of "weakest members" has grown to include most of the population.

A representative of "normal" criminals demonatrates they are free to operate with healthy profit margins.
Network Link Conditioner rules. I pair it with `mitmproxy` for debugging native apps.
Ironically, Outlook has been opening mailto links in the Windows mail app for me, which I’ve never once used. So if they want override defaults somewhere, this is the only one I would allow.
alias pbg='pbpaste | fgrep --color -i "`pbpaste -pboard find`"'

select all in a terminal window with pages of log data and cmd-c copy; find the one phrase you want to find in that data and cmd-e to put it in the find pasteboard; cmd-n new window, type pbg to isolate the log lines.
> [0] https://github.com/patcg-individual-drafts/topics/blob/main/...

Nice v1 at the end. We can assume that this list is final and will not be changed?

> nor (by policy) other kinds of sensitive PII.

Yeah, it just exposes interest in family planing, loans, ..., which we do know have absolutely no potential for abuse.

Or given the attempts to outlaw drag there is probably no potential way to use interest in Nail Care or Makeup in a negative fashion, right?

> Yes, if you assume the people who designed this API were idiots

I assume they are getting paid well to play the role.
Thanks for checking it out! That repo is not related to this project, did you see it on the main list on https://github.com/capeprivacy or somewhere else? We will try to avoid the confusion in the future.
That syntax would be valid, but I usually let a dice decide, so the value is Yes or No.

And since I usually take 400mg ibuprofen, I have introduced a string for this in particular: Take_Ibu400. So in my log it looks like this:

2023-03-23 12:44 Take_Ibu400? Yes

If I would not have a specific string, I would track it like this:

2023-03-23 12:44 Take_Ibuprofen? Yes (400mg)
800 MW max nameplate capacity over 62 turbines, or about 6% of MA's summer generation (as of 2021.) Amazingly, the actual construction only takes a year, including the power lines which I assumed would be the time consuming piece. The next project is a similar 800 MW offshore wind project in CT, which will generate up to 14% of that state's electricity. Here's a list of planned projects in the US, which will total 19,158 MW on the East Coast alone before 2030 [1] assuming they all get built.

The only good news about all these delays is that there is a learning curve: equipment and installation prices are getting cheaper. I would assume that future incremental expansion of these facilities will be cheaper than the initial construction.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_offshore_wind_farms_in...
Of course it’s important to also not accept without question the facts that a person gives you, because people do lie. For example, do you really think that shirt is 40% off today only? That’s probably just a lie. I saw a TikTok video yesterday that showed a picture showing a picture of a girl with an underdeveloped jaw and the voiceover said it was because she breathed through her mouth too much. One of the comments pointed out that this is actually a specific genetic condition. So the poster of the TikTok invented a new “fact” out of thin air and presented it as truth. To change my mind based on that would be a mistake.
It's not that simple, how can you with a straight face think it's that simple when hundreds of people are in the water?
Okay, so let's set consolidation aside, since I agree that's a real problem in some sectors.

took advantage of...the political narrative...to raise prices for more profit

I genuinely don't understand why so many people think this matters. What do you think would have happened if companies had decided to raise prices without having an "excuse" like this?

Prices aren't kept under control by consumer outrage; we all may be mad about food prices, but we all still have to eat anyway. Yes companies are bragging about being able to raise prices, but it's not "because they can", it's because there's a supply/demand mismatch.

The cause of that mismatch is complicated and varies by market sector, but this isn't some case of like, they couldn't raise prices in the past because people would get too mad at them, but now they've finally figured out how to fool everyone into not getting mad. It's clearly a much more nuanced situation we're in, no?
There should be another term in addition to cargo cult thinking - something like {college,education,expert} cult. This is only an issue when it becomes an article of belief that "what we are told is true". In other words when you decide that your own experience, senses and thoughts are not valid.

As humans we cannot re-invent the wheel everyday. So we rely on google maps, even when that map tells us drive 200 miles north to Gray, Maine, do u-turn, come back and then drive to Montreal. We need to be able to trust information.

I am somewhat convinced that we do not change our minds because of two problems. The first is cascading loss of trust. If I can't trust google maps in that case, can I ever trust it? Or any other map software? Or any software? Or the internet? This is too hard.

The other problem is who to trust. If you don't trust that the US government is representing your interest and is a democracy, then who do you trust? Well we have the answer.

Our ability to change our mind is our ability to adapt. I have recently been pondering whether html-css is a completely outdated way to build a web UI. What about threejs, react-three, etc. I can think about it without problem in the abstract. But what happens to all the work I have done and am doing if I change my mind? And perhaps most influential is "What will people think of me?"

A person's ability to trust their own thinking as opposed to the current cult thinking is, to me, the best indicator of their intellectual value - completely orthogonal to their degree/education.

Edit: Oh and I can almost hear people thinking I am wrong. That is not the issue. The question is what if I am right? There is a YC video some place where a YC person talks about Silicon Valley as a place where when people hear an idea they don't go to "wrong/right" they go to what if it is true? Or partly true, or ...
this is why i firmly believe paulg's twitter account is actually operated by openai

there is an azure instance somewhere with the label DO_NOT_TERMINATE that has a cloud_init script which does a pip install paulg && paulg -d
Yikes, we'll have to remove that. It's a really old course on privacy-preserving machine learning from 4 years ago and has nothing to do with this product despite the generic name.

Please see https://api.capeprivacy.com/v1/docs#/ for more info.
Wherever you go (I second the Khan Academy recommendation), you'll need to become familiar with at least basic linear algebra (vector spaces, linear independence, spanning, bases, matrices and their operations) and multi-variable calculus (partial derivatives, the chain rule [and other basic derivative rules], the gradient vector, and gradient ascent/descent for finding the local maximum/minimum of a function) before you can really understand machine learning and backprop.
>Instead of “ingest all the metrics/logs” we have guides showing, for example, how to set up the most minimal possible Prometheus / Alertmanager, with the smallest footprint of CPU/memory/disk requirements. [2]

I'll bite... why _not_ "ingest all the metrics/logs"? I see 2 possible reasons: 1) don't have enough resources (CPU/memory/disk) to consume "all the logs"; 2) you won't be able to find what you need.

I think both are a failure of the tools in the space.
Here's the thing... I have limited time for gaming and when I want to play I just want to sit down and play. My days of sodding about with (the equivalent of) autoexec.bat, config.sys, QEMM configurations, drivers and IRQ allocations are way way behind me for one when one of these combos of drivers and scripts doesn't work, or my game isn't supported, and I just want to spend a hour or two gaming to chill out.
I'd love to hear a semi-rational explanation as to why crypto which is outlawed in China is such a significant interest/concern to Chinese state owned banks operating in Hong Kong.

This reminds me of China providing support and haven to manufacturers of fentanyl --- which is banned in China. The most logical motive that I can see is harm to western interests.
I'm in that group. I like the "openness" of Android more. But the iphone 7 gifted from my mother is still supported while the samsung i bought in 2019 is not anymore.

I don't really care particularly about the icloud/imessage ecosystem but all close people around me have iphones (the network effect was not the primary reason for the switch).
Exactly this. Doubly true when they vilified any dissenters at the start.
AMD Introduces World’s Largest FPGA-Based Adaptive SoC for Emulation
No, but I get 20 different ads that are covering 70% of a screen and they're not blocked. Instant close.
Sort of, but that's a massive oversimplification. The bomba machines needed shorts "cribs" of expected plain text to search against, like "heil hitler" as you mentioned, and I think usually they went after the standard start of the day weather report. But the bomba only can reduce the search space, it doesn't produce the answer, and analysts still need to manually break it.

So yes but it was hard so they also took advantage of operator error where ever possible.

This stack exchange explain it well: https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/30332/why-does-th...
> If the headline read consumers now willing to pay twice the price it wouldn't have the same clickbait value

that's not how it works though. Inflation affects a lot of goods where you have no choice, you just need it (e.g. food, utilities, housing, transportation).
> the cost of fraud is far too low

If we want to live in a society that's not supported by tech that's weaponized against its users, we need to find better ways to fight back than smugly switching to Linux.

Walking away while they prey on our friends is insufficient. Whatever it is, it has to be costly. Bonus points if it's legal.
I mean, probably nobody looks at whether a stick to measure the oil level is integrated in the oil cap either, but it's still there fortunately (or do you need an app for that too these days?)
Ughhh, so frustrating that people are misinterpreting this stuff to try and basically say "see, it is all in your head!".

But yeah, i had covid after being vaccinated and it really affected my ability to control my anger. It was very strange because I've always been known as a pretty chill person, and before covid i had never been angry enough to feel like controlling it was hard.
It also got triggered on roller coasters: https://www.macrumors.com/2022/10/09/iphone-14-crash-detecti...
>Some users like iPhones since they are reliable and consistent, exactly like a phone should be.

That is just the bare minimum. Its 2023, every phone is like this.

Anyway, any teenager can tell you what its like to have the wrong kind of bubbles. They are extremely susceptible to in-group bias. Heck I wore Abercrombie and American Eagle, it wasn't because the clothes fit.

I even had a single buddy, age 30, recently get peer pressured into getting an iphone because his sister said "I don't date green bubbles". He took it to heart.

At some point, its denialism to think in-group bias doesnt exist. Not that someone exploited can easily admit to it, its far too difficult to imagine your brain being incorrect about something. Much easier to say things like "they are reliable and consistent" than to accept that marketers have exploited us.
4 years after Jony Ive left Apple, here's what’s changed (and what hasn’t)
I've done that. I stand by my previous take that Comfortably Numb is a considerably better single than The Wall is an album.
I remember in the early days of ebay before they had the official rating system it became accepted that you had to leave a review containing A+++++++++++ if the shipper did an acceptable job because a grade of merely A+ meant that you got the thing you bought but something wasn't great about the experience and anything worse than that meant the seller was a scammer.