skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, hey, I knew someone who helped with research on this while I was at UCSB over a decade ago.

From the way they described the goals of their research, it wasn't so much using WiFi as radar with specially flashed router drivers doing emitting and receiving, that's just a research convenience.

The whole point is to passively detect objects using already existing WiFi signals. It's easy enough to figure out where the router is, and if the router is regularly noisy enough, the idea is they would have enough data to work with.

The research results from a decade ago was able to pinpoint and uniquely identify humans and weapons. Not hard to guess how that could be useful to the DoD.
Most would be shocked at how much salt they consume.

That healthy prepackaged salad option at the grocery store? Often has more salt than a burger!
When I visit a bodega, the bodega owner looks me in the eye, and I can look them back in the eye. They can develop a relation with me, and I can with them. If instead I enter a bodega where all the walls are one-way mirrors, where I can only interact with the hidden bodega owner by putting my money in a slot then waiting to receive goods through another slot, and an unspecified number of bodega employees are watching, analyzing, tracking, drawing, and recording my every move while they themselves are hidden behind the mirrors, I'm not that fine about this. See also probably "power imbalance" or something like this.
Check out Lazarus and FreePascal
The tricky thing here is whether Twitter is required to have explicit and clear moderation policies that actually determine the decisions they are likely to take or whether their (constitutionally protected!) right to moderation includes the right to moderate absolutely arbitrarily, and if compelled to publish their policies, then just truthfully state that each decision might be solely determined by the mood of whoever decides that day?
First of all, their infrastructure is globally distributed. This was one data center of many.

Second of all, this isn't just '140 character tweets'. It's images, video, data being sent at staggering speeds because people tweet and they tweet frequently. And people want instant response, they want to see tweets instantly and respond to them instantly.

I highly doubt you do actually run infrastructure given that you're both misrepresenting what's actually going on here and taking the word of a person who in the article alone shows the various different ways of how he distorts reality. This isn't to say Twitter's infrastructure was great, because all services have heavy amounts of tech debt and cruft associated with years of fixes and updates. But rather that data being sent at high speeds with high reliability and at high frequency leads to high costs.
Square blames September outage on DNS screw-up
Freedom of movement is a civil liberty, but maybe not where you live.
Nice article, can be applied to the scientific enterprise.

A scientist should have a strong enough about a paradigm so they can work with it, but loosely held enough to see the cracks in the theory and find the right problem that will change the field.
Yeah, Germans are actually kind of obsessed with Hitler, it's a bit freaky to hear them talk about it.

The weirdest one for me: every year the research group I'm part of has a group retreat, and our German boss (unknowingly) makes us do a pose that Hitler used a lot in our group photo...they still love everything that Hitler was, apart from the anti-semitic and racist part
Shouldn't people have the choice you use what ever language they like and already know?
>If anything, this post suggests Nvidia has a long supremacy ahead.

I don't know what you mean by long supremacy, later you mention decades, but Nvidia's huge market share will last for 5 years, 7 years max.

As soon as the computation has to not be absolutely accurate, but it has to approximate a very good solution of a large volume of data in a second, then biology is already great at that. Silicon chips are orders of magnitude worse, in energy consumption as well as the speed of the approximation, let alone the fact they overheat.

In my view, silicon is on it's way out, for use cases like that.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zinnialee/2023/06/21/cortical-l...
The Samsung Galaxy Ring Could Land in January, Alongside the Galaxy S24
Funny thing is that this thought (the one you quote) is evil all by itself. No external help needed.
Nobody claimed the protestors aren't breaking traffic laws. Protestors typically break laws, often peacefully[1], to make their point.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro_sit-ins
Digital media goods are more akin to buying tickets, rather than actual albums. We always had subscriptions for stuff like TV, so I don't know what the erosion is here. Even today, you have options for entertainment that don't involve a subscription.

Anyway, as far as s/w is concerned the problem is not subscriptions, I believe its the symptom. The root cause is the lack of a sustainable model to fund mainstream/retail software development. You can find small/medium businesses that don't sell subscriptions, but for e.g. there is no counter to companies like Adobe. Devs want to work for "successful" software companies with high-pay, perks and benefits, and all "successful" software companies sell subscriptions.
The rules about not paying employees for absences are a bit more difficult in Germany. Voluntary unannounced absence or unpaid vacation would be the simple cases, but involuntary absences don’t entitle the employer immediately to withhold payment, at least not for most employees on a fixed term contract. Things get more involved for workers that get paid by the piece. Freelancers would probably be the most hard hit here.

This would pretty clearly be an involuntary absence - these folks are not even accused of committing a crime.
Few people choose this because of the "trail penalty".

If you're found guilty in a trial, you get a 2-4 times longer sentence than the plea deal would have given.

So the theoretical right to a trial remains, but exercising that right is heavily penalized. To me that means the right is for practical purposes no longer exists.
The original media release[^1] is much clearer, with a 3 points abstract followed by a detailed summary. I don't know if this derived article was written by a human or by an AI, but I think it's junk like this that contributes to makes the web a mess of noise and echo.

[^1]: https://newsroom.heart.org/news/high-blood-pressure-while-ly...
> built in permission to disable AJAX after page load

Interesting, but consider this is a cat-and-mouse game. If you are the only one using this trick it may work for you, but I assume would be easy to overcome. (e.g. keep the page loading forever or until ads are loaded. Have the ads be J-free after page load, ...)

> website could play background music ... another tab could listen

You would need mic access from the other tab, but yes. If you send it over high enough frequency you wouldn't even hear it. You would just have a visual feedback that the tab is playing music.

On a side-note, I recall there was some kind of hardware device pairing (maybe Chromecast?) that used data over voice to establish that you are physically near the other device.
2.8 - 3.5% net margin? https://www.forrester.com/blogs/us-retail-industry-sales-and...

I don't know what app stores net margins are. Probably higher than 20%? https://9to5mac.com/2021/05/01/apple-runs-app-store-with-78-...
The author's spitballs are more on target than most of what Meta has done since its grand renaming.
this so much. Why is this behavior so rewarded?
I definitely don't understand the point you're arguing at all.

At first you say:

> I'm a little confused at what makes you think that the internet is not included in the set of things considered to be real.

Which suggests to me that you believe (and are trying to convince me) that The Internet is more real (not hyperreal) than I think it is.

But then you say:

> No, again, there is no territory, it is gone, we are living entirely in the hyperreal.

Which would seem to agree with the original point I was making, The Internet is hyperreal.

It seems the only difference between us is that I value a map that more closely resembles the territory, and your opinion is that it doesn't matter, they're all of equal importance??

sigh
The browser will provide this data equally to any site asking for it, i.e. all the ad networks that the site is using. Not just to Google.

So how exactly is this cementing anything? It seems like it's doing the opposite. It's giving everyone the same data to work with, rather than giving an advantage to the companies with a higher reach 3rd party cookie.
What's particularly amazing is that it's the free market at work -- the privately run railways have an incentive to develop the land near stations to get more people to ride the train.

Draconian zoning laws and car-dependence have really screwed over the US when it comes to housing policy.
It’s the DEA, so this is more like a priest getting fired from a church for not following the dogmas.
charge with what energy?

they shut down their nuke plants and the nordstream pipelines were destroyed by Biden (an act of war btw, but somehow Russia's their enemy and we're their ally)
> None of My Students Remember 9/11 (2021)

And that's a good thing. Just look at the comments, propaganda works as intended. /s
You might be a bit early in the timeline. You'll have to wait/fast-forward a bit.
I'm not saying Russia was a bit player, just that it's wrong to credit the landing to Russia.
There is a nifty SvelteKit plugin called Svelte Inspector[1] that lets you select an element in the browser and open the source file in you IDE. It doesn't always get the line number perfectly, but it's pretty good.

I think it is based on https://github.com/webfansplz/vite-plugin-vue-inspector

And this seems to be a similar tool for React: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/react-inspector/gk...

There is also React Dev Tools: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/react-developer-to...

If none of those suit your needs, I think most of them are open-source. So modify as needed~

[1]: https://joyofcode.xyz/svelte-inspector
https://regex-generate.github.io/regenerate/ (I'm one of the authors) enumerates all the matching (and non-matching) strings, which incidentally answers the question, but doesn't terminate in the infinite case.
How does apple have insight into what users are doing on desktop?
> It makes me wonder if there wasn't someone who was fixing these as they came up in the 4 hour window, and he just happened to be off that day.

This is very possible. I know of a guy who does (or at least a few years ago did) 24x7 365 on-call for a piece of mission (although not safety) critical aviation software.

Most of his calls were fixing AWBs quickly because otherwise planes would need to take off empty or lose their take-off slot.

Although there had been some “bus factor” planning and mitigation around this guy’s role, it involved engaging vendors etc. and would have likely resulted in a lot of disruption in the short term.
i don't think this makes sense

ev charging takes longer, the design of a gas station doesn't fit the time you'd need for EVs. and most gas stations are probably too small too incorporate enough charge ports to make their inner traffic easy imo
In Germany there are basically only two kinds McDonald's:

- Those in the city centers which mostly offer no parking space at all.

- Those which are so far outside the urban area that parking is no problem anyway.
My point is that the historical path was not imposed on them. People of south America are not blind children incapable of making decisions for themselves. Allende was a bad politician who ran his country into the ground and discovered the consequences of that
I offer this feedback in a constructive vein, as the mistakes you have made are pretty common. Bottom line: This kind of launch/landing page is a real turn off for me, your prospective customer.

- There's no screenshots.

- No demo videos - if this AI is really helpful, you should be able to prove it beyond doubt in a one minute video.

- There's no indication of which platforms are supported.

- What do you think my favourite applications are - i.e. what specifically do you integrate with?

- There's no indication of planned pricing or, if it's free forever, then say so.

- No word on privacy or security - and I'm giving you access to my calendar.

I think you've lost a fair number of potential signups by missing out on the above...
That usually means the representation is getting close to the truth. Good interfaces have intrinsic value, which many result-focused people do not appreciate.
"it’s likely that the Samsung Galaxy Ring will include a heart rate monitor, an electrocardiogram (ECG), and sleep-tracking capabilities."

I was hoping that it could also be used as an input device of some sort.
Not really hard to come up with situations where this actually kills people. Someone in an ambulance getting delayed in getting to the hospital, just for a start.
Freedom of movement is a fundamental right in Germany. Your freedom to move the car everywhere, and without qualification is of course limited for the safety of everyone. But driving places is part of your personal freedom, which has to be weighed against somebody else's freedom to protest.
For all the dissing on the Germans, let me point out that many countries use preventative detention in one form or another. This includes the USA. According to a book from Cambridge Press: "The federal government has the power to detain Americans and foreigners alike as suspected terrorists and the state and federal governments regularly use preventive detention against criminals."

If you have reliable evidence that someone intends to commit a crime, should you not act to prevent it?

In the case of climate protests: people blocking streets have caused a lot of disruption. They have provably prevented ambulances from reaching victims. More generally, they have impinged thousands of other people's lives in a variety of ways, sometimes seriously.

The protesters also haven't yet grasped the fact that their actions are counterproductive. Since these protests have become more frequent, support for the related causes has dropped significantly. The protester are idiots. All the more so when some of them are spotted in airports, hypocritically taking international flights to go on vacation.

Honestly, we've all had quite enough of them. If the police have evidence that they were planning further disruptions, support for preventative detention to avoid said disruptions is likely to be rather high...
if your definition excludes people from blocking necessary resources for modern life you are a terrorist
That's what I've found as well. Only bothered to update my 10yo computer during 2020 work from home because I wanted to play around with some new stuff, had a bit of disposable income since I wasn't going anywhere, and it had been long enough that the performance jump would be nice in games/playing with graphics rendering stuff.

But I easily could've kept using it for another several years for all but the most demanding software and it was an i7-3770k/16gb/GTX980/various SSDs/HDDs.

Still, I understand that the form factor meant that portability wasn't an issue. The difference between a 10yo laptop and a modern one would've been much, much more noticeable.
Lol, my first programming gig as a teenager was performing a VB6 -> VB.NET "upgrade" of a 200K sloc legacy desktop application, which obviously ended up being a total rewrite. Everything in my career since then has seemed easy in comparison.
Is that really any different from any other type error you might miss? Just run your tests with logging in info mode.
Okay, but if Nvidia is an "AI" company, then Cisco (352 bn) , Lucent (252 bn), Intel (271 bn), and Microsoft (583bn) and maybe even Nokia (197bn) were arguably 1999 "web" companies. An investment in hardware companies making telecommunications equipment was also considered an investment in the internet, as I remember it. But maybe your dataset includes that as well.
This is a profound misunderstanding of civil liberties. Being inconvenienced by another person doesn't violate anything.

If the government were to install roadblocks and check your identity card before letting you leave your town, that would violate your freedom of movement. If a local private militia did the same thing, it would be as well. But being slightly delayed by a bunch of environmentalists blocking a specific form of transit doesn't meaningfully violate anything.

The counterstatement here would be "the state has the right to forcefully remove anybody who slightly inconveniences me"; it should be obvious why this would be a gross violation of civil liberties.
This might be foolish but for me it was this simple: I trusted Chris DiBona on Chrome.
Url changed from https://www.thedrive.com/news/germany-will-force-80-percent-..., which points to this.

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Not really bait just a fair deal. A free browser faster than the rest in exchange for some data on your browsing behavior that you can opt out of is a very good deal. Perhaps a competitor could arise but if they offered a comparable browser it wouldn't make business sense for it to be free unless they also were selling your browsing data. The man hours to create and keep chrome ahead of the game is significant on top of the need to offer very large bounties for sandbox escapes to minimize security risk to users.
I assume you're also charging on an hourly basis for on-call events. You can make it less extortionate if the $1000/month is a retainer, so it covers the first X hours of on-call work in a month, as needed. Your hourly rate for on-call work should also be higher than your hourly rate for scheduled work.
Fuel taxes don't address the same issue. Availability of chargers is a blocker for EV adoption. The measure directly helps with that problem, while fuel taxes is a more indirect push. In other words, even if you are heavily pushed by fuel taxes, if you have a blocking barrier with charging infrastructure, buying an EV won't be feasible to begin with.
Unique ID generation.
Baudrillard describes a way of thinking of the world, one that is inherent to human thinking. You can't escape the fact that your mental model of the world is the only way you know the world; That's axiomatic, just a repetition of Plato's Cave.

He extrapolates that into a theory about the way society interacts with itself; Most individual agents doesn't interact directly with most things. They have a mental model based on the ones they've touched, and assume that when someone else talks about a teapot that that teapot matches their mental model. When you talk about a teapot, my mind imagines it as my ideal teapot, until you add descriptors and detail. Still, however, it is "my ideal teapot" + "Descriptors" and in no way the teapot in your mind. On aggregate, that works - Our interactions with teapots are mostly the same, and it doesn't much matter whether I'm imagining a blue teapot and you a pink. They get filled with water and put on the stove to boil.

As Software people, we're especially susceptible to reducing objects and experiences to the sum of their functions. We even have a word for it - Duck Typing. A teapot is a teapot because it boils water and pours it into cups; We can say that any old pot is a teapot if we add a funnel adapter, a kettle is a teapot, a tin can is a teapot, etc.

In reality, you don't use a tin can as a teapot, because it's not convenient. You need gloves to handle it, or you'll get burned. It doesn't hold much more than one cup. It's not really washable and reusable. In Analog but not Analogy, a tin can is not a teapot.

Modern philosophy is entirely based on equivocation. A tin can is a teapot, therefore all teapots are hard to handle for heating water, so why bother heating water, anyway? It's stupid and soliphistic. This article, like so many like it, is trash and the author should be laughed out of the room. Instead, there's a giant cancerous mass of this bile replacing literature and journalism.
It's kinda funny to me when I see the police drag protesters away from these industrial sights that they occupy. Because if we are to believe climate research then some of these industries are literally damaging the living space for all humans. In some cases the police should be hauling the exeutives away, not the protestors.

But the regular police can't be expected to do such deep investigations based on scientific data, so instead they end up protecting the interests of large corporations by hauling regular concerned citizens away. It's quite a bizarre state of events.
> if you realize that meritocracies will never go away

I understand the DEI stuff as partially trying to get more diverse input, but also as a way to help make up for disadvantages that minorities have had historically. Of course a white person from a wealthy background has more chances to get in the "merit" club.
Of which quite a few already offer chargers. Software is easy to deploy at scale. Hardware isn't, and infrastructure even less so. Sometimes HNs bias for software really shows...
Sometimes corporations budge due to outcry (or regulations [1]).

GitHub's "designers" and PMs knew exactly what they were doing and they knew exactly what would happen. They still went ahead with it. No idea why you feel the need to defend them.

[1] The algorithmic feed runs afoul of upcoming EU regulations regarding this crap
*god-save-the-queen-hr-<colour>
I’m not following what that has to do with a speedy trial.
Well, the actual solution is that your log should not contain any formatted statements at all. Formatting should be done offline as a post-processing step when viewing/ingesting the log, not when producing the log.

While it might not be too visible in Python, formatting is a very significant cost. I work with systems that can output tens to hundreds of millions of log lines per second per core with the limiting factor being memory bandwidth. It would be pretty challenging in many systems to get even a tenth that rate. I can literally add 10,000 logs per second per core at a 0.1% system overhead. Pre-formatting your logs is convenient when just starting out, but you should really switch to a more efficient logging system pretty quickly.
New Haven pizza is excellent, but Frank Pepe and Sally's are overrated in my humble opinion. Additionally consider checking out Zanelli's, which is across the street from Sally's and one of the best and most unique places in New Haven.

Having lived in several of the US cities with a famous pizza culture, and visited most of the rest, I will say that New Haven definitely has the highest median and mode quality of pizza places in the US. There was a place called Brick Oven Pizza there that famously had "Rated 11th best pizza place in New Haven" on their box for a few years, which is a much stronger claim than most cities.
I'm not stupid. I never said they weren't globally-distributed. I said to have that much stuff in any one building was moronic.

Pre-Musk, Twitter's quarterly infrastructure bill dwarfed both Cloudflare and Akamai's combined. All without even having paying custoemrs.

That's utterly ridiculous.

I'm not trusting Elon Musk to believe this either, it's all available to look up on EDGAR.
that's a nice idea

the same way you can silence the sound output of a tab you should have as simple and reliable a tool to stop communication to either the network, os or both.

i'd love a tool to see which tabs are talking with each other also