skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there has been some misunderstanding.

The first question here is: can your carrier activate an eSIM while you do not have an active cellular connection to the carrier (i.e while overseas)?

If I were to install the Mint app and sign in while in the UK, will they activate the SIM card while I am outside of the US? In the experience of my brother-in-law that accidentally deleted their eSIM profile, the answer was no -- they had to wait until they were back in the US weeks later (and didn't have access to their iMessage, various SMS-based MFA or anything else as a consequence).

If the answer here is no, then you are completely out of luck in OP's example while overseas.
It's getting more passable. As someone who listens to a lot of TTS at high speed for years, eventually I adapted my brain do it and now it feels similar to phsyical reading with subvocalization where I can adjust the voices of characters. It's occasionally even preferrable, i.e. too much over produced podcasts these days where I just TTS the transcript.
If no one use smart phone then you can probably bring down more than couple of coal fired plants. Isn't it great?
There are so many nuances and edge cases not mentioned in the article. The author needs to do several projects in real life before making global pronouncements like this.
An issue that is not solved by either UUIDv4 or the proposed solution (random base58 strings) is indexing performance.

Both of those solutions typically make it hard for a DB if you write new entries, assuming you have an index on the ID.

In addition it might be more calming to actually be sure that a particular ID is not in use without doing a round-trip.

Is it practical to pre-allocate empty entries and reserve a set of them?
There was a recent HN thread [0] where the top comment mentioned chip packaging. This is another news article related to the same topic.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37432948
Agreed. Decorative URL slugs have been successfully used by everything from blogs to Amazon itself for over a decade. If anything, that should be the focus here. Short URLs aren't much of a help, especially when short is relative on something like a mobile device.
> Does it make the URL in the URL bar longer? Yeah, but does that matter?

No, it doesn't.

If you're using a central system to generate id's (UUID's or other), then you are indeed missing a lot of the benefits of UUID's and might as well use some other ID scheme.

The benefits of UUID are many systems can generate them, and your database can eventually accept them, all with a very high guarantee of uniqueness/no-collisions. Not to mention the other nice bits like non-sequential and non-enumerability.

Most modern databases have UUID/Binary types/functions to allow for more efficient storage/handling anyway.
Non-technical people will not be fine-tuning models. A service targeted at the masses is unlikely to fine-tune a per-user model. It wouldn't scale without being astronomically expensive.
If folks want to get into paper magic, the commander pre-constructed decks are a solid place to start. Some are almost competitive and require just a few tweaks to get into much better shape. They do a good job of packaging the thematic elements as well.
Cool add on! Thanks for this. It's a use case I've often thought about, for the purposes you mention. I wish there was a built in permission to disable AJAX after page load. Bad for ads, I guess.

2. Exploit idea (not trying for the bounty, just thinking aloud). I wonder if a website could play background music (or a video) with stenographically encoded data, then another tab could listen to it with microphone permissions on and decode it that way. I'm thinking like a fake video conferencing site, or malicious telephony how-to doc that deals with API calls and such and links to a fake password hasher that then plays the audio for the first tab to hear. Convoluted, I know, just an idea.
Purely anecdotal, but Minecraft alone takes more of my kids' friends' gaming time than all Switch games combined. "Local multiplayer on the same device" - well, that isn't how the kids play. They all bring their ipads.

I think it's confusing to look at yearly sales because so many of the children already have ipads. You don't need a very new ipad to run Minecraft.
v4 is. v1 relied on the MAC address and the time.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040211-00/?p=40...
If there are duplicate waypoint IDs, they are not close together. They can be easily eliminated by selecting the one that is one hop away from the prior waypoint. Just traversing the graph of waypoints in order would filter out any unreachable duplicates.
I read the article, scratched my head, pondered, came here to see if anyone else was confused, and I'm glad I did.
And their junction box is CAD$32+tax. No thanks.
What the hell is this thing even saying

Does the author think that redefining a bunch of words makes them “deep” or something? Either make an attempt to be understandable or don’t publish. And shame on wired for dropping the bar so low, you wouldn’t see this type of laughable shit out of a more respectable outlet like new yorker
A more obscure one is about handling the exception when __str__ or __repr__ raises.
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It somewhat matters aesthetically, but mostly people are going to ignore long random strings.

UUIDs are at least visually kind of white noise, companies have no problem+with+links?that=look&like=this, so why do they care about UUIDs?
Best part is watching the video and seeing the guy dance at the end over doing it in a single take.
Maybe it’s one if the author’s arguments, but that doesn’t mean the author is right.
Read this as I was about to use uuid for id :/
The education isn't the point of college though. Employers are more interested in the credentialism than the education for the vast majority of jobs. Even in software engineering which works hard to avoid credentialism via leetcode and the like it's quite important. It's difficult to even get an interview at many(most?) firms without the degree.
I don't buy that "constant surveillance" from big tech is a harm, I think it's dramatized language for something quite banal. Which is why I want to see actual harms before being against it! There are many benefits to society from effective advertising.
The modern CEO job is completely broken
And that model knows about things like "favorite songs"... how exactly? And about 1 million other things required to build the notes in the original comment?

Or is it models all the way down?
I recently found ULID.

I like its simplicity. It is sequential. It has a very low probability of collision. And it is of a more reasonable length.

Because it encodes the time, theoretically you could use it to grab the CreatedDate of a record without a need for another field.

https://github.com/ulid/spec
You don't need to tell me I don't need UUID

...because I am going to keep using uuid
> The algorithm was buggy because the input data is a nightmare.

No, the algorithm was "buggy" because it didn't account for the entry to and exit points from the UK to have the same designation because they're supposed to be geographically distant (they were 4000Nm apart!) and the UK ain't that big.
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I quit playing video games years ago when I realized that they were more like an unpaid part-time job than something that I actually enjoyed. Spending hours to solve the puzzle or complete the mission or get to the next level, with nothing to show for it at the end.
Power corrupts. People in high positions (like Fauci) have a lot of power. The corruption needn't be monetary - it can also manifest as a belief that everyone should bow to you, and do whatever you say.

Abuses like this are partially responsible for driving the opponents to extremes. Part of the blame for the general distrust of vaccinations can be laid at the government's feet. The mRNA technology has amazing potential, sure, but it really did have unexpected side-effects. Those of us who had heart problems as a result will certainly view future government decrees with skepticism.
Very impressive! Famous previous work captured moving objects and did gesture recognition through the walls https://people.csail.mit.edu/fadel/wivi/project.html but this new research can capture still objects.

UCSB paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=101... ("Analysis of Keller Cones for RF Imaging")
… I remember working in a project that was trying to accomplish this with LSTM/GRU long before there were transformers. I dug up 80,000 abstracts of case reports from pubmed which were similar to clinical notes in some ways although very different in other ways (more literate, less weird abbreviations, more unusual conditions) We also had just three people working on it.
Fill up the sink high enough to submerge cooking pots, that's most if not all the way there.

Edit: I just measured my kitchen sink and pot for this, 17x19 and 4 inches high = 5.6 gallons. If I go all the way to the sink's overflow at 6.5 inches high, that's 9 gallons.
When you write "corporate interest", I interpret that as well as "business interest" or "market interest", is that correct?

I think the great difficulty is that you'd be hard to find the specialists to write the regulation or approve regulation, that haven't come from the business world and aren't going to the business world. The in-depth knowledge needed to make fair and effective regulations can usually only come from real-life experience from the business side of things. Unless you can find exceptionally interested and honest people - who manage to have interest in an industry without wanting to go into it themselves.

Therefore, I think the more simple regulations are, the better. So that honest and intelligent lawmakers without complete industry saturation can make decisions.
https://archive.ph/eYTsq
This is not (completely) new. 2019 paper entitled "Passive Radar based on 802.11ac Signals for Indoor Object Detection":

* https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8904842

There is an IEEE Working Group to create an extension for 'active radar':

> IEEE 802.11bf will enable stations to inform other stations of their WLAN sensing capabilities and request and set up transmissions that allow for WLAN sensing measurements to be performed, among other features. WLAN sensing makes use of received WLAN signals to detect features of an intended target in a given environment. The technology can measure range, velocity, and angular information; detect motion, presence, or proximity; detect objects, people, and animals; and be used in rooms, houses, cars, and enterprise environments. The targeted frequency bands are between 1 GHz and 7.125 GHz (MAC/PHY service interface) and above 45 GHz (MAC/PHY).

* https://standards.ieee.org/beyond-standards/ieee-802-11bf-ai...

Presentation on the extension and Wi-Fi sensing:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3GmgO9biH87&t=5m10s
Related ruff rule: https://beta.ruff.rs/docs/rules/logging-f-string/
None of that is even what I'm talking about. The people watching it, in real time, commenting on it, didn't even speculate that it could be an attack. Even after the second plane. That's complacency.
In this case, I would not. But in the real world, trains hit none of these criteria. Sure, they're slower, but the ideal case scenario is one where they can replace short- and medium-haul flights, where the difference in speed can be made up for the extra hours spent at an airport. Nor are they more expensive - trains are cheaper to run per person and can carry a ton of people at once.

And while this depends on the train service, the comfort is generally much better - there's more legroom and the seats are more comfortable, and if they serve food on board, it's superior to in-flight food. And that's not even mentioning other benefits like no limits on luggage weight or not having to throw out all drinks before boarding.
I think out of all companies, Apple has generally been the best (though not perfect) at maintaining focus even when a product is "good enough".

I felt the same about the early MacBook Airs too, and my iPads. Reaching a local optimum is not necessarily a bad thing.

My brother still uses my 2012 original retina MBP, and it works fine. For most people, upgrading every 4 or 5 years is more than enough for any Mac.
Those 99% of engineers should have warned him about it and didn't. You also can't expect Elon to know that coming in.

If you're doing your job properly you don't build things this way.

What it does show is how much dead weight there was at Twitter and how little was lost by letting it go.

Even that scale of the servers and monthly infrastructure cost is _absurd_ for the product Twitter is serving.
They must have made like 90% of the models they sent out to retailers 256gb/8gb. This is frankly ridiculous as it's not a model I can recommend even on sale. I know they have their reasons, icloud, etc. but what a bad situation it creates for the consumer.
I meant legally hard to define.

Some data is important to collect - I expect my bank to keep a record of my financial transactions! I just don't want them to sell them on, or use them for services I didn't sign up for.

And an 'opt-out' system isn't sufficient - it needs to be an opt-in system. An opt in system that isn't by a forced game of yes/no bingo - it has to be one where the customer has to take the initiative.

You don't get bombarded with extra stuff being put into your basket at the supermarket checkout and then asked a series of 20 questions about whether you want to take the extra things. You shouldn't with digital services either.

Now the hard part is that legal definition between what's the data reasonably required for the service and what's taking the piss.

I'm arguing one way to define that is whether the data use involves joining dots between transactions in a way that's not required for the immediate transaction or service.
There is the rub. Readable for what purpose? Aesthetics? And why? It is meaningless in their example.

And what do they mean with communication? Reading it aloud? If the URL is too long to stick in a tweet or message, there are plenty of URL shorteners out there.
Feature phones are still a thing, they can't use e-sims.
Is this input validation an exceptional error or code flow?

Ada has 'Valid and so you can also do e.g.

If Guess'Valid then
...

In order to check that the data is valid for the types range whilst avoiding the exception that would occur if otherwise read whilst containing invalid data.

Gnat also has the non standard 'Valid_Scalars for records.

Which will check every scalar type in a record. This record may have been filled by unchecked_conversion which ironically does check the size at compile time. It is all very neat along with record overlays. I can't stress enough how far ahead of the competition Ada is for handling hardware registers whether memory mapped or received.

Where is the link for pattern matching as I am unsure of the necessity of it in Ada? I prefer Adas features to Darts new pattern matching atleast for json validation. I do not otherwise have extensive experience of Darts pattern matching though or any of Rusts.
> If a social media company editorializes the content it distributes, it's liable for each and any consequence of distributing it. Simple as that.

My apologies if I am misinterpreting your statement here, but this feels like a misunderstanding of section 230.

https://www.techdirt.com/2020/06/23/hello-youve-been-referre...
> Apple is already deploying smaller LLMs to macOS

hm?
That was indeed a really good read.
That’s an excellent point; that can end up being a bottleneck across many systems.
You don't "need" them, but they're almost universally understood and supported which makes them super convenient and a good starting point for many use cases. The point in which the "wasteful" nature of a UUUID really bites you is so far down the road that it is almost not even worth thinking about until you get there. Chances are you won't be dealing in petabytes at all and the 64 bit savings you are fretting over doesn't really matter.
This is the scary thing about people. We're a pretty horrible species. This is how they justify genocides.
I have updated mine from F-Droid and they have removed features that I use. I do not trust the updates and won't update to the newer versions.
Sure — it's just a weird question to pose when the author specifically provides their opinion on it. It'd be different to say "I don't think it matters".
Sequential isn't always simple. If your system is distributed in the slightest way (even just multiple threads), it's a bit of a luxury to find sequential guarantees.
Memory in apple silicon chips is in the unified chip. It's not just adding another stick of ram.

But yes, how Apple prices upgrades is a little irritating in light of other options.
Specifically, Section 230 makes clear that IF you make a good faith effort to remove illegal content from your platform, you will not be held liable for illegal content you miss.

That's it. Nothing about "publisher vs platform" or whatever. The entire point of the law, as designed, and intentionally, was to prevent every single website owner from being in violation of child porn laws. It is an EXTRA freedom, given to website operators.
The credential is that they were able to pass their classes, hopefully with good grades. Many employers want to know that you are the type of person who succeeds, not that you know some specific thing. University has basically taken the place of apprenticeships because employers don't want to train incompetent people, so they make you show competence with a degree.
Reminds me of my first start up. Every time we ran out of money or good plans, we had to rearrange the office. Movement is activity is purpose is not dead&gone I guess.
But a social platform can very much violate someone's first amendment rights. Which is what all of this hubbub is about. So we're saying that because we've said specifically gov't can't, we then now have to go back and make a law that says "neither than corporations, other citizens, and any other party" kind of legally worded something?
Not kept up with the times?

Since Android 5, with ART introduction, that Android uses a mix of AOT/JIT code.

Java was invented for low end IoT, there isn't anything more low powered than anything in the last 20 years of mobile computing.

Apple and Google should be cherished by not keeping the old C and C++ song of POSIX tunes going.

As Rob Pike puts it, it is like only listening to David Cassidy records.
I mean, it was a chaotic emergency situation and public health officials were under intense pressure to make lots of different people happy at the same time, while also getting masive social media criticism and armchair quarterbacking of their opinions. It does not surprise me if we spent some amount of our time acting like chickens with our heads cut off.
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Yeah, especially iPads for kids - if one day the newest version of Minecraft required a new iPad, I'd be buying three new iPads. But it doesn't, it works fine, and for the kids I'm even less likely to buy a new device just because it's faster and has more space and a better camera etc etc.
I have a sneaking sense that "I wasn't told" is Muskese for "I told people to shut up and didn't listen to them."
the 14" pro is so much better. The on board speakers are so much better and the ports on both sides is obviously so much more convenient. The con is the weight but it's a fair tradeoff if you spend most of your time working at a desk and not just surfing on the sofa.

the big problem with the 8/256 is not that it's useless, it's that it's the primary model retailers like costco, bestbuy, etc purchse. So you end up with these great sales on useless computers. I'm sure some clueless people buy them and suffer from that but I can't recommend them to anybody. The price ends up being double the 8/256 price once the sales occur. 8/256 for $800 or 900 vs 16/512/or 1TB for 1600+ infuriating.
My phone broke down a few weeks ago, along with the eSIM inside it. The eSIM was very important to me because I used it for everything. If it had been a physical SIM card, I could have simply bought a new phone and moved the SIM card to it. This was a painful lesson, and I have decided not to use eSIM again.
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Yeah I'm not a fan of the non-random UUID specs causing confusion. Seems like they mostly get used accidentally by someone who actually needed uuid4. "uuid5 is newer and better, right?"
>What happens if your phone broke while in the US? Is your carrier from your home country able to assign you an eSIM while overseas?

There's a good chance your physical SIM won't work with a phone bought in the US anyways.
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Note that the analogous thing to HTTPS for SMTP would be SSMTP (SMTP over TLS, enforced by DANE). Not DKIM.
But wait, everyone keeps telling me that Apple cripples their products after a couple years forcing you to buy their latest version.
Man, I'd settle for wifi that just lets me internet through walls reliably.
A UUID is 128 bits, or 16 bytes. This code suggests IDs which are 11 bytes. That's not really comparable.

A UUID can also be encoded in any form, it doesn't need to be represented as the dashed string notation which is common, you can just as easily use the base58 alphabet suggested in the post.

But the code in the post doesn't encode to base58 correctly. You need to map 58 bits of the input, sequentially, to one character in the alphabet as output. You can't just mod each byte of the input by the alphabet length and use the corresponding alphabet element.
I don't know about macOS but they are supposedly including a local, transformer-based language model for autocorrect in iOS 17
I usually go for Nano Id for new projects https://github.com/ai/nanoid
The big change I'd like to see in the MacBook Air line is the return of the 11" option; I realize that's too small for a lot of people but for me it was the perfect carry-everywhere form factor for a laptop. (Of course, I also found the iPhone mini line perfect-sized and that got dropped, so I'm probably an outlier)
If your users needs to communicate an ID orally to you, you already failed in numerous ways.
Must be oral communication, otherwise copy and paste the link.

And I bet that for most users 3c6n63N is as confusing as a73ba12d-1d8b-2516-3aee-4b15e563a835
I don't think its a question of time spent. it is certainly a matter of experience
First: no it was not clear that's what you were referring to.

Second: given how much we've changed our environment, our food, the substances we take for mental health, any take regarding our "nature" must account for the impact of this environment

Third: ditto nurture, as we now insist on educating ourselves to adulthood, and — in opposition to our earliest comprehensible written records — many of us are now in societies that reject things like slavery and husbands having arbitrary power over their wives (and increasingly, though to a lesser degree, religion); we have, essentially, domesticated ourselves.
>This is quite literally thought police.

It is not. "We make no attempt to moderate content that is not illegal" is 100% compliant report. The law is about providing information to consumers about the systems they participate in. It's literally a transparency law.