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Ask HN: How do GPS tracking devices send signal
I am looking for a GPS tracking device (a device that tracks the position of my car, kid or bike).

With the [help of HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41486352) I realized that all GPS tracking devices require a sim card or some form of monthly subscription. You need to pay to send the GPS data to the satellite.

However, a user recommended using an old phone, and I believe even without a sim card, a phone will send GPS data.

There is clearly a whole in my understanding somewhere. Can anyone enlighten me on 1) a GPS tracker that does not require monthly subscription, or 2) explain to me why phones can do it?
>Who do you think is paying for the roads, parks, schools around you? Is it Chase/Amazon/Apple/Google?

They're paying state, local, and federal taxes, are they not?
Most US jurisdictions have a 7%+ sales tax that is not included in the advertised price. And VAT in Eurozone is roughly 20%, included in the Eurozone price.
It's not controversial. It is wrong (or, at least, misleading), since:

• Allistic people have difficulty recognising the internal states of autistic people; and

• Autistic people have considerably less difficulty recognising the internal states of autistic people (even though there are fewer autistic people from which to learn that skill).

It's placing "blame" on autistic people for what's actually an emergent phenomenon of neurodiverse groups. See doi:10.1177/1362361320919286 "Autistic peer-to-peer information transfer is highly effective", and follow up on any sentences that strike your fancy until you have an opinion.
Russia to Spend $646M to Block VPNs
That's super interesting, will definitely try it, thank you!
Sloppy technical writing.

Or clickbait since the title sounds more interesting than “oh YAML is dumb”.
Philip K. Dick wrote a short story about this, called "Sales Pitch" (1954).

Relevant specially its ending.
The base PS5 equivalent GPU is 2070 Super that goes for around 200$
A charitable stance is that by patenting this, no one else can do it. Which would be great, if you didn’t want to do it either. Then Android Auto is locked out of that feature, for example.
The federal government should unleash DC housing
We've vilified teachers, defunded schools, overproduced STEM graduates [0] [1], and the pay is often lousy. Yes, even in the programming profession!

> Looking at the STEM labor market, Salzman and colleagues concluded that, for every two students graduating with a U.S. STEM degree, only one is employed in STEM and that 32 percent of computer science graduates not employed in information technology attributed their situation to a lack of available jobs. [1]

Likewise, complaining about the number of graduates is at least twenty years old at this point, [1] and over 50 if you count 'The Software Crisis'

> Numerous reports detail the growing concern of policymakers and industry leaders regarding a shortage in the STEM workforce believed necessary to sustain the U.S. innovation enterprise, global competitiveness, and national security.5 Most notable is the National Academies’ report Rising Above the Gathering Storm, which called for improvements in kindergarten through 12th-grade science and mathematics education and increasing the attractiveness of higher education, among other recommendations.

National Academies’ report Rising Above the Gathering Storm was published in 2005.

> These sentiments were echoed in a 2012 report by the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee which stated that the current STEM workforce was falling short of demand in both STEM and non-STEM occupations.7 According to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, the United States would need to increase its yearly production of undergraduate STEM degrees by 34 percent over current rates to match the demand forecast for STEM professionals.

That was 12 years ago.

Those who are complaining about STEM are the very cause of the lack.

[0]: (2013) https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-stem-crisis-is-a-myth

[1]: (2015) https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2015/article/stem-crisis-or-ste...

EDIT: My word this article even makes my case for me.

> Ten years after graduating, math majors out-earn graduates in other fields by about 17 percent, according to an analysis by the Burning Glass Institute using the education and job histories of more than 50 million workers. That premium would be even higher if it wasn’t for the fact that 16 percent of math majors become teachers.

So you're telling me one of (if not THE) hardest major only commands a 17% pay bump after 10 years? I think a lot of smart kids did the math and chose accordingly.

> The Bridge to Calculus program at Northeastern where Kevin Tran spent his summer is a response to that. The 113 participating students were paid $15 an hour, most of it from the city and its public schools, the program’s coordinator, Bindu Veetel, said; the university provided the classroom space and some of the teachers.

I can't make this up [2], but McDonalds pays better:

> Crew Team Member - job post

> McDonald’s

> 1330 Jackson Street, Oakland, CA 94612

> $20.50 - $22.50 an hour - Part-time, Full-time

[2]: https://www.indeed.com/q-mcdonalds-careers-l-oakland,-ca-job...
Never understood why people get upset at generic marketing lines in press release.
I used to have an Xbox Series X and a gaming Pc. I completely agree with this.

PC gaming usually means more freedom but also more responsibility:

- Windows wants to update random stuff all the time

- Other person can't hear me. 5 different software apps want to install their own audio mixer apps

- Game overlay bars - Steam, Epic Games, Windows, Nvidia, all have in-game overlay bars that have to be disabled

- Drivers, drivers, drivers

- Many others.

On the flip side, I wanted to game at 120 - 240 FPS and PC made this easier. For console games, you have to wait for the game developer to support 120 FPS mode and they never do more than 120 (because most people lack high refresh TV's / monitors anyway)
Linking to Wikipedia is ridiculous here, considering we are discussing the current scientific debate and consensus. You just worded your contribution more forcibly.
Interesting that Sony considers a Blu-Ray drive to no longer be a key feature of the flagship console model. They’re probably not wrong, given the long slow decline in importance of optical media. Feels like the beginning of the end when even Blu-Ray’s primary creator is walking away.
Are you sure that isn't part of the findings? That if you don't clear the context, that old conversations can induce hallucinations in later answers? This seems like part of the finding, not a waste.

And it is similar to humans, when humans switch subjects, they don't start with a blank slate with each question.
In situ assembly of an injectable cardiac stimulator
I don't think so. PS4 Pro launch price was $400 in 2016. It would be at $525 this year. But then, the PS5 Pro is dropping the blu-ray disc reader, so add in $80 more.
$780 != $525
The money's in the training, not the inference.

If you look at Apple and Google, they already have their own hardware for inference in their smartphones. They don't need NVidia for that.
Hume and Ivey – Frames of Reference (1960) [video]
Extra fun: there's now JSONC which does support trailing commas and comments, and projects will use it with a .json extension still because Microsoft would hate for anything to ever be clear and make sense.
known flawed drafts are useful even if known flawed :) we just need some way to quantify the error rate and gradually bring them down
Great, so now we're going to see a glut of diamonds on Etsy now.
Artificially made diamond is said to be more authentic/pure than real diamonds due to machines like this, time to stop digging the ground.
isn't Meta like some kind of real-life "borg" setup, where you can participate only to the extent that you are documented and tracked while doing so? Isn't it obvious that American capital sees no internal constraint on their use of people's whole social identity and lives as products for their machines? Why would anyone depend on their Meta core without knowing this?
And another js framework.
it took me a moment to remember where I knew that name from. I only knew of him from his science fiction, co-authoring the Rama sequels with Arthur C Clarke
""Are we really still having this conversation in 2024 ?! :-(
""

</Sarcasm> Are we in 2024 and people are still just saying "duh its statistics, nothing to see here".
191, 193, 197, 199 are also twin twin prime pairs

These primes have to be 11,13,17,19 + 30k, due to division by 3.

5 is half of 10, so we easily rule out exactly the number 10x+5.

49 = 7²,

77 is a multiple of 7, of course.

98 = 2 • 7²

In order to avoid a multiple of 11 interfering, we need the gap preceding 11•10

99 is (10+1)(10-1) = 10²-1 and 100 is 10²

, so that clears out space for primes after 100.

Also, You might enjoy "Paterson Primes" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jhObLT1Lrfo
I mean if the car is for free…
I've never owned a games console so I don't know, but I thought they could be used to play DVD films. It makes perfect sense as part of their function. ISTM anyway.
No, because on page 397 of the EULA that pops up on the in-dash LED screen after the 3rd OTA software update specifically stated you authorized this.
There's an open source version of this as well:
https://github.com/Codium-ai/pr-agent
There are several types of hallucinations, and the most important one for RAG is grounded factuality.

We built a model to detect this, and it does pretty well! Given a context and a claim, it tells how well the context supports the claim. You can check out a demo at https://playground.bespokelabs.ai
What prevents me from patenting every draconian idea I can possibly think of in order to block corporations from doing it?
It would still be a bit to pricy for me, but I can see the logic. Either get the old model, at a reduced price, or get the new slimmer version at the old price. I think many would take the new model in that case, while some of those who have been waiting for the price to drop would pick up the old model at the reduced price.
That's a good thing. Individual bargaining over compensation is only good for those individuals who happen to be good at bargaining, not for the employer nor the other employees. Most of us never have to dicker about money in the course of our work, so it's not actually a skill worth paying extra for; an employer who nevertheless pays a premium for good bargainers it doesn't need will conversely tend to undercompensate everyone else, which is bad for cohesion and retention.
Show HN: Anthropic React Native Client
I recently published a new package on npm that brings the Anthropic APIs to React Native without polyfills.

The library supports chat streaming and normal chat completions. The goal of the library is to follow the Node SDK wherever possible while taking advantage of React Native SSE for streaming where the Anthropic Node SDK does not work. Lmk what you think or if this will be useful to you!
Which, mythological provenance aside, was a very accurate statement at the time.

In 1943 there were probably only a few governments capable of paying the extreme cost, and having a valid use case, for a "computer" in 1943.

If you asked him what he thought the market was for a device that cost a month's wages, and could connect to anywhere on earth, do infinite math, remember anything perfectly, and entertain the whole household was, he probably would have had a different answer.
PayPal and Shopify Expand Payments Processing Pact
Interesting, I'll check that, thanks for letting me know!
At this point, I'd take anything that would displace the react hegemony.
`fsync()` is not necessarily enough if your on-disk format is complex because you still need to write recovery code. Of course, SQLite3's on-disk format is very complex, and so it requires correspondingly more complex power failure recovery code. But SQLite3 has an excellent test suite, and in particular they have an excellent power failure recovery test suite.

Using SQLite3 to avoid power failure issues is pretty good advice. I don't see why GP is getting downvoted.
It's an expense they rather not have and not enough people complain about the quality. It's also an after thought, not a part of the original production. If you think those are bad, take a look at the real time ones that are transcribed during live events. They are almost impossible to follow. I can hear but I like to keep them on because I sometime mishear but I feel for those that can't hear. It's a mess.
That's good to know, thank you, helps me debugging
Many people willingly install Alexa or similar devices in their homes, and have always-listening assistants running on their phones. For these people, I don't think they will suddenly be concerned about privacy in their cars.
> Whataboutism isn't a useful or helpful way to discuss an industry with unbelievable human suffering.

I think you're misunderstanding my point. My point was not that there's not human suffering in the diamond industry, nor that it isn't bad. My point is that you, a person that cannot afford expensive natural diamonds (speaking statistically here, I don't know you personally), probably should not cast moral judgments on others that can and do purchase expensive natural diamonds. This is due to the fact that you, a person that can afford a cell phone, chooses to purchase a cell phone, despite that industry experiencing similar levels of human suffering. Therefore, I am forced to believe that in the counterfactual world where you can afford expensive diamonds, you would buy them.
The problem is, Apple's fsync doesn't even introduce any useful semantics. All it says is "write this eventually".

What a lot of people really need is just a "provide ordering, don't leave me with inconsistent data" operation. If you lose power "after" a write but before the fsync, for any non-networked application that's no different than losing power before the write, as long as the filesystem doesn't introduce chaos.
https://archive.ph/9Gea4
Show HN: Cast AI introduces new automated KSPM solution
Today we unveiled a major new pillar in our Kubernetes Automation Platform: our automated Kubernetes Security Posture Management solution.
Current security tools send a flurry of alerts that security teams must assess and manually address, which is time-consuming and gives risks time to escalate. What sets our lightweight, out-of-the-box KSPM solution apart is that it automatically remediates threats in real-time, moving companies from passive monitoring to active defense.
Partitions should not impact the use of an INT PK, except that you’ll need to include the partition key in the PK, e.g. (id, created_at) if partitioning by datetime. The displayed ordering without an explicit ORDER BY may not make sense, but to be fair, there are never any guarantees about implicit order.

Replication should be fine, unless you mean active-active in which case I suggest a. not doing that b. using interleaved chunks, or a coordinator node that hands them out.

Business data exposure can be avoided (if it’s actually a problem, and not just a theoretical one) in a variety of ways; two of the most common are:

* Don’t use the id in the slug.

* Have a iid column that’s random and exposed, while keeping the integer as the PK.

If you need unique IDs across tables, then I question your use of an RDBMS, because you aren’t really making use of the relational aspect.
I find it puzzling that no-one else has commented on the obvious conflict between the following quote and your call for corporate tax-breaks.

> If there was one group to look to for the future of human development, it would western Europe. These countries mostly have a terrific quality of life, the highest trust societies in the world, and, until recently, the moral high ground generally.
Ask HN: Any resources for learning Python and NLP in short time?
There is very very little actual innovation in the cars - previous generation can still work 10-15 years with good maintenance.

Not long term solution, I know, and ie eco regulations will push them away eventually, but this is now a wild period when we are literally fucked by car manufacturers, and there is not yet clear legal framework on how to deal with it. There will be brutal fines, at least in EU, but thats at least 5 years down the line.

TBH for an European it may be actually beneficial to have Chinese car - I couldn't care less if chinese have tons of my driving data, I don't think they will sell it so easily elsewhere (but who knows).

Suffice to say I am keeping my pretty dumb BMW F11 family wagon (2014) for a long time unless it breaks apart.
The prices and features of the latest Xbox and PS5 are making the Nintendo Switch 2 look like an amazing bargain.
PC games are also for most part digital-only nowadays.
That would be a charitable stance, but since Ford -- like all other automakers -- is all in on collecting as much data on people as possible, I don't think that is a realistic expectation of their intent.
High Frequency Trading is good
The idea that my personal data could be used to manipulate my thoughts and actions is deeply unsettling. It makes me question the very nature of free will in a world where every click, like, and share is analyzed and used to predict my next move. I long for a future where privacy is respected and where I can navigate the digital world without feeling like a target for relentless advertising campaigns.
My experience has been a bit different. Mostly line of business or elearning apps the former rarely having a dedicated designer, so I've usually been the most experienced on that side. At this point, I'd prefer to just rely on a component library like mui and only minimally alter the CSS/JSS for a given component.

I understand that's really heavy handed for most websites, and even some web-apps.
You don't need a study to find this out, you just need basic competence and knowledge of how LLM's work.

A study to discover that previous content still in context window influences future answers, including causing hallucinations, would be like a study publishing that they discovered that pressing the Command+C, Command+V button combination produces copies of content from the computer's clipboard.
Sony & MS aided in the decline of discs by making a disc drive an expensive add on and having every game need an online connection or day one update to fix bugs.

I'm sure they had a marketing plan of making $90 bucks off a $10 buck disc drive and then go "oh wow, look, only 30% of people spent an extra $100 bucks!"
Hello! I’m here to answer any questions. I’d love to hear your feedback, comments, and anything!
I think Google Glass and Facebook’s camera sunglasses didn’t work out over privacy concerns. Or maybe they didn’t work out because they were useless, IDK. In general, I think it is hard to think, especially off the cuff, of examples of products that didn’t work out.
Ford already have a patent for the self-repossessing car, if I recall correctly. It doesn't mean that they'll use it.
It's funny how we keep moving the goal post in terms of environmentally friendly energy production as technology leaps forward, with a ever increasing energy demand. We humans tend to chase dragons of futility.
People incapable of doing (or even understanding) something, interfering with other people who can do it, with no consequences if they are found to be wrong (or biased) in their basis for objecting to the activity.

Fundamentally, this is loathing and envy encoded into law.
Sometimes they make mistakes haha
The pricing is totally wrong on this no matter the specs.

£700 in the U.K. is crazy
That its a slow news day
What's the major differences between them? I can't really tell from the marketing material for both, they seem very much in the same class of watch.
Computations will usually not be done if the result is less valuable than the cost. This is true of everything, not just compute.
Do you think we might see the same sort of bifurcation in the car market that we’ve seen in many other markets, as peoples’ wealth has gone more bimodal? Really cheaply made/total junk with relatively little variation, and premium priced, small volume goods marketed to the upper middle and above.
Can you tell more
I've never been worried about LLMs. I've always been worried about how people will use LLMs and how they will interpret the output of LLMs. Especially people who don't understand what LLMs are doing.
This was my thinking as well. Prod environments can be extremely complicated and issues often come down to specific configuration or data issues in production. So I had a lot of trouble understanding how the premise is connected to the product here.
They've been paired for a long time as you point out; however, that's missing part of the story.

In the past, they were at least paired from the factory. If you pulled your Xbox 360 out of the box, and never connected it to the internet, it would still work.

The PS5 refresh's disc drive is not paired, even from the factory. Without an initial internet connection, it will not work, even out of the box. Also, unlike the Xbox 360, it un-pairs every time you sign out of your personal account.
“Starship and Super Heavy vehicles for Flight 5 have been ready to launch since the first week of August. The flight test will include our most ambitious objective yet: attempt to return the Super Heavy booster to the launch site and catch it in mid-air.

…

We recently received a launch license date estimate of late November from the FAA, the government agency responsible for licensing Starship flight tests. This is a more than two-month delay to the previously communicated date of mid-September. This delay was not based on a new safety concern, but instead driven by superfluous environmental analysis.”
added sarcasm note. it was referring to the parent.
The "Not a Simple Operation" section really stands out for its GPT writing style ("While [pro], it's important to note [con]", "In short...").
Show HN: CheckCron, get notified when your crons fail
Asking "why do large language models hallucinate?" is a good question to ask and answer, just like "why do birds sing?" or "why is the sky blue?" are. The problematic part is when you're somehow surprised that the sky is blue, birds sing and LLMs do nothing but hallucinate.
> Why is there no European Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Google, Apple, Samsung, Amazon, Tencent, Sony etc? All the stuff is foreign, which means that we're constantly following foreign rules based on their culture. And slowly they have more become our rules and culture, because there were no real European alternatives.

Philips (mostly Signify and co, but the brand is still Philips), Airbus (top 1 airplane manufacturer), VW Group, Stellantis, reMarkable, a ton of neobanks/fintechs the US could only dream of (Revolut, Monzo, N26, Bunq, Adyen to name but a few), Doctolib, Backmarket, Spotify (top music streaming platform in the world), Dassault Systemes (top industrial CAD), Amadeus (top 2 airline booking software), Booking.com, Ericsson (top 2 5G equipment provider), SAP (top 2 ERP provider), STMicro, NXP, Infineon (top semiconductor manufacturers for everything not on the cutting edge of personal/server computing), Zeiss (top 1 optics manufacturer), etc etc etc etc

It's not that there are none, it's that the new ones (some of which are extremely good) haven't grown to super high valuations yet.
I don't even like the word "hallucination", because it's an anthropomorphism, further suggesting/misleading into an impression that LLMs have anything to do with how a human would reason.

Fancy autocomplete. Useful, yes. Powerful, definitely. But it's just another tool, limited in applications the same way a hammer is - this is the part that many humans seem to struggle accepting.