skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's okay!!

"What are my children or any potential grandchildren […] going to do with the 400 pictures of my pet that are on my phone?" Nothing, they don't need it. You sit your grandkid on your lap and look in their eyes and tell them stories about the family dog. They'll be happy to listen, they don't gain much by seeing your 400 photos.

I guess it's a natural human impulse to try to leave a mark for the future. But the future will be okay, they don't need our crap data dumps. There's way more useless fluff being generated than what needs to be preserved. People survived when there was no photography.

Yes, preserve your wedding photos, a few important life events here and there, that can be fun to look at for your kids. The full camera roll on your phone? Who cares? Let's not burden the coming generations with all this stuff. The future is theirs, not ours.

For the few things that you want to preserve, make high quality physical prints. Their huge benefit is that they don't break silently. It's utterly obvious when looking at the physical object that it still "holds your data", as opposed to an HDD, DVD or tape which you need to put in a machine to check if it's still readable, which you won't reliably do. Analog printouts are a very robust preservation format. They can burn, but DVDs and HDDs aren't fireproof either (backup printouts are a solution too). Yes, prints may degrade in color, but it's a transparent process.

But overall, forests need to clean themselves by fires, there needs to be a clean slate. I don't want to know who my great-great-grandparents were. I don't want their family photos. Maybe they were bad people, criminals etc. Maybe there was domestic abuse, trauma, tragedy etc. I don't need to know. I want to live my life with the people that are alive in the now. I don't want my ancestors to haunt me from the grave. And I don't want to haunt my descendants.
It's ironic (or maybe appropriate) that this, talking about how better ideas don't rise to the top, is the top comment. The most abhorrent idea of all to me is that there are stupid, weak people that are worse than "us" that we need to shield from bad ideas because they are not smart enough (like we are) to handle them. Lots of support for this view in downstream comments (we're just intelligent apes etc).

The strawman of the existence of factually incorrect content is irrelevant in my view. Everyone loves to jump on conspiracy theories or whatever other stuff is out there as proof that people (other people) are too dumb to be exposed to the world. First, I think the relevance and the number of serious adherents in the extreme version of these conspiracies etc are dramatically overstated because they reinforce a narrative. Second, I think most of it is an effect, not a cause, of people being told what to do and what to think. People uncomfortable with narratives that end in them giving something up will take shelter in alternative explanations. The problem is not the nutty theories being available, it's in the way that one group forces itself on another in the first place.

All this to say, we can be adults and let everyone get the same information and make their own choice, or we can go the other way where someone who thinks they know more than us (and you hope it's you but it doesn't have to be) gets to decide. Frankly, the latter idea is ridiculous to me.
So they've gone from not existing, to existing but expensive, to cheap and unpopular.
That's great news but how do users go about 'installing it' right now?

I think the comments in 9to5mac are just as bewildered as I and many users are. By the time a guide is written, they would have moved on to getting an M1X or M2 Macbook, still waiting.

It's only got kernel support, but is actually still not 'user ready'. Could take months for that to happen.
I’m worried the upcoming upgraded MBP will only have this option. Although I read they released an update that should minimize this issue. Have you tried that?
No, it's because vehicles before then were not required to meet minimum sound requirements by law. Check the spec sheets of HEV/PHEV/EV vehicles made before then -- they don't have acoustic alerting systems. Now they all do (in the jurisdictions that require it).
> at the time, which isn't good.

At what time?
Safari, Firefox, Edge, and Samsung Internet are all quite popular.
> or is it going to be free, spreading at the level of the individual?

And what are the consequences of that?

When people talk about the marketplace of ideas they tend to think of good, beneficial, ideas winning out over foolishness, conspiracy and just plain inaccuracy.

This has been shown up as naive lately. And if we really are talking about the "marketplace of ideas" being raw, Darwinian, strongest wins, then are we prepared to deal with the fallout of the fact that loud, motivated, well funded bullshit merchants will continue to have a huge grip over the public dialogue?
A function is an abstraction. A JSON object is too. Are we in preschool here, not allowed to create new abstractions because they're "unproven and unreviewed" by a FAANG?

This all seems so narrow and parochial, like people who have never left their own village. There's a wide world of useful technologies and design techniques out there (including React) and the simplest possible design that solves your problems is usually best.
Asahi Linux hardly runs on M1. They're definitely spearheading research into the hardware and have done a ton. But the project is well into it's infancy.

And it's doubtful Microsoft would ever go through the same effort to port Windows on ARM to the M1, instead probably relying on Apple's virtualization framework to allow it to run.
A lot of solarpunk art and such is about the exact opposite: reducing dependence on cars and fossil fuels and building local, sustainable communities. You're not ever going to see a strip mall or a bedroom neighborhood in a solarpunk utopia, and often times beyond public infrastructure there's not a big emphasis on high-tech living like there is in, ex: cyberpunk
Hloy siht.
But I have to configure how it finds SQLite. Sure, SQLite specifically is fairly easy – I only need to enable the "bundled" crate feature and make sure my Clang version matches the Rust version so LTO works – but it's a little arcane to use Cargo with any non-Rust package in the dependency chain. Cargo Just Works™. Cargo with C FFI doesn't.
They’re completely different. On the Internet, no one can grab you by the cuff and arrest you on the spot. On the Internet, you can disappear into a fake profile, a pseudonymous account, and create continue to create chaos. On the Internet, Sybil attacks are a real problem in a way that is completely foreign to speaking on your soapbox in the park.

Speech on the Internet is more like a hit-and-run.

It’s dangerous foolishness to pretend otherwise.

But we agree that this speech should be handled by the government and the courts, and removed from the sham jurisdiction of big tech “terms of use”.
I would like to see more nuclear, solar, and wind, and less coal and natural gas.

I would like to see less industrial scale, mechanized farming and more bio-intensive, more permaculture, more sustainable ag. More kelp farming too.

I would like to see less money in politics and political discourse. Scientific discourse too.
The reasons for ImportC are:

1. It's no longer necessary to translate .h files to D to interface with C. While doing the translations isn't hard, it is tedious, and if there are a lot of .h files it becomes a barrier.

2. .h files get updated over time, and correspondingly updating the D files is error prone. It's much more effective to just compile the new .h files.

3. It is not necessary to even create a .h file - just compile the .c file with ImportC and D will access it just like any other module. D will even inline the C functions in it.

4. Use it as a standalone, small and fast, C compiler.
> It is hard to imagine how things could be different, yet the incentives for these businesses to exist were artificially erected. It is not fundamentally necessary to have any intermediate company profiting whenever a person reads news from their friends, rents an apartment from a stranger, or orders a ride from a driver.

This has a core flaw. While the service itself may be reasonably priced without the middling service, the information search costs are dramatically reduced.

Couchsurf was a similar service in the mid-2000s for staying at strangers locations. But they were niche (couches) and didn't do much user protection. Along comes AirBnB with a model of services travelers want out of the middling service. Thus is thrives.

This is wholly unconnected to IPv4+NAT
If you'd never run before, you'd feel like crap after running 2 miles. Nonetheless, your body is designed to run; if you have a typical human body, take it slow and keep training, it won't be long before 5 miles is totally do-able. (Obvs individuals will have specific limitations.)

It's the same with fasting: If your body isn't used to fasting, you feel like crap; nonetheless, your body was designed to fast. Take it slow and keep practicing, and the rust will work off all those unused chemical pathways handed down by your ancestors. (Again, if you have diabetes or hypoglycemia or something like that, maybe fasting isn't for you.)
You wrote that we lack the computational ability to show that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, which causes climate drift with lower temperatures in the higher atmosphere, and higher temperatures in the lower atmosphere? Are you serious? This was demonstrated by Fourier more than 250 years ago! He did not lack computational ability at all, was able to produce good estimates. May I suggest you study a bit more?
Richard Branson didn't ride this to Space
"This is good for bitcoin" - Bitcoin people
And I'd assume they're called "X ring" binders, as opposed to just binders, because "binder" is a fairly generic term.

As for the number of rings: first mover advantage and network effects.

Paper is produced with three rings. Teachers buy three ring hole punches. Soon binder manufacturers target the most common standard. All other standards die off.

I have seen and used four ring binders in America. But three ring was the phrase that jumped out in my head.
I thought you were mistaking referring to rule 37 instead of rule 34 until I saw the reference.
YOLOv3 is a pretty delightful read
https://pjreddie.com/media/files/papers/YOLOv3.pdf
Quiet computers, not new, quiet high performance laptops however...
A cynical explanation is that they talk less because on some level they know that talking tends to reveal needs that require money to meet.
Facebook has opinions about the type of content they'd prefer not to facilitate on the Facebook platform, that doesn't make them "arbiters of morality", it just makes them curators of their product identity.
You don't. Asahi is far away from usable. They've got initial kernel support in, which allows it to boot. However no drivers have been written yet, there's nothing ready in the userspace and it definitely doesn't have an installer.

* Not decrying Asahi, they've done a lot of work and continue to do so. But it's best not to misrepresent the project's status.
Yep - I discovered most of this a while back when I needed to do a bunch of exploring of ~200m rows of data (like 50GB). I chucked it into SQLite and was done with everything in a day, it was absolutely wonderful. This post is a pretty good summary of what to change and why.

Prepared statements should be considered the norm for SQLite - they have pretty major performance benefits, and any decent ORM or query engine can probably do it for you implicitly or with a single flag, so it's practically free for many applications. I'm always surprised how often I see applications or benchmarks or "how to be fast with SQLite" not using them, so I'm definitely glad to see them covered here :)
You'd be surprised. Macs for us are only half a percent of our userbase (yet still many hundreds), and are mainly used by app developers and graphical design roles.

Especially the app dev guys tend to have fairly nonstandard usecases. However most of it happens in labs firewalled off the company network.

Anyway, I'm glad I'm not the one having to figure out how to work around these things with very limited documentation from Apple, like I have before ;)
>leaves people who only read the titles with the feeling that Telegram encryption is vulnerable to attacks.

I agree with you these attacks are not so severe the completely broke Telegram. But it is living proof Telegram authors don't have the know-how on how to implement secure protocols. If you heard some bridge builder had replaced every third bolt with fifty zip-ties, you wouldn't be defending the bridge, you'd want to know who the f is overseeing that project, and ensure the entire design was being reconsidered, and that qualified engineers were working on the fixes.

This set of vulnerabilities isn't an indication that Telegram's encryption is bound to have a breaking vulnerability. It's saying they don't have the qualifications to protect the data we know sits in their server effectively plaintext. And I'm saying effectively, because sure, it's encrypted, but the database key sits in the RAM, 4cm away from the CPU, and is one privilege escalation vulnerability away from compromise.

You using the term "Telegram hater" does disservice to everyone, because your lumping together people with no tech background parroting headlines, and legitimate concerns from people who've actually spent time looking into this on a technical level.
The criticism section of the second article puts strong doubts about the impact hypothesis.

Surely there were sudden drop in average temperatures in the Northern hemisphere, but we do not know what triggered it.
This is not clear at all. Rockets and artillery shells follow high trajectory, extremely predictable ballistic paths. If your radar is good enough to accurately spot the rocket or shell against the entirely blank backdrop of sky, you can shoot it down. Drones, on the other hand, can fly low to the ground and move in unpredictable ways if needed so that 1) radar can't find them easily, and 2) even if it does, your counter weaponry will probably have trouble doing much.

A lot of anti-drone weapons today are based on the idea of disrupting drone-to-controller comms to force them to return or land, but if you setup your drone on a one-way trip with zero need to communicate to a controller, your countering options get limited pretty quickly.
>But how the hell is it acceptable to use sth like "IED/UXO" on an article about ethics?

how the hell do you expect to understand an article on autonomous drones ethics without knowing that IED/UXO means? It makes obvious that you lack basic knowledge of modern factual landscape in the domain, and how do you expect to understand ethics of the domain without basic factual knowledge of the domain?
Are there U.S. laws NSO Group has violated? If not, how would laws define the prohibited activity?

We’re at the point of, at the very least, barring NSO Group, its employees and its investors from travelling to the U.S., using our financial system or keeping assets here. (Which would indirectly bar our police departments and agencies from contracting with them.)

Financing terrorism is a crime. Aiding and abetting journalistic suppression should be in a similar, albeit lower severity, category.
I've long thought an auditory cue would be helpful when my computer is chewing on something. Maybe it could hum tunelessly, or breath harder when it was working hard. Or get excited and sigh when it finished. Something human.
In the first experiment, researchers sought to observe how parents would interact with their children (in this case, 3-year-olds) after the parents were asked to describe times in which they had recently experienced scarcity. A control group of parents were instead asked to describe other recent activities.

How many studies like this need to not replicate before we stop treating them seriously?
Certainly, I was just curious if they were hearing coil whine.
At correct time:

https://youtu.be/H6EbDCxotdg?t=488
Induction really excels at some things. My 1500 W induction cooktop will boil a pot of water far faster than a 12,000 BTU/hr gas hob.

I agree, it feels somehow very modern. Until I burn something because I entered the wrong number on the touchscreen. Or maybe that's modern too?
Speaking of, I wish hn would hide upvote counts. If I wrote something provocative and stinging here against social media, it would be karma city, and it feels good to see your number go up. Thats not a temptation I like
Well, that Mac & Cheese is free cuz you're giving them your phone number so they can call you and sell you a gym membership.
If you liked it, watch the Russian Solaris. It's interesting to compare and contrast with 2001.
lol, not very comprehensive is it - after all the scary hard figures provided in the executive summary... screencaps. It reminds me of the good old Internet blood sport days when unemployed Germans would creep on youtubers for months, collecting screenshots and monitoring chatrooms, all to go into a deplatforming/job-termination/life-ruination proposal.
Also in Bulgaria
>forgot that WhatsApp uploaded backups unencrypted to Google and/or iCloud.

This might finally get fixed:

https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/16/22580800/icloud-google-dr...

Great news because it disproves Durov's BS that claims you can't have backups without giving the vendor the access.
Ask HN: Non-profit app ideas to help the world?
We're always seeking for app ideas to make profits, but do you have ideas for any app that does not exist yet and could help people at a big scale?
If they have "absolutely no qualifications to implement cryptography" then they are doing an insanely amazing job since such few vulnerabilities were found. All that other crap of russia, censorship, reddit threads, russia, cult, russia, is beside the point here. It makes no difference on the quality of the cryptography. If they suck at cryptography then post code that show why at least (and a fix).
Whereas OPT not being lottery-based is 100%, no? And more importantly, you can pretty much go work wherever you want with it, every tech firm is ok with it, but relatively few bother with H1B today for overseas candidates.
Why there's so much parsing related exploits?
Stopped people getting doxxed, hunted down a lynched in countries where you're executed for being a homosexual, while still being able to communicate safely online with other people in the same situation?

How exactly does anonymity not solve that problem?
On a rather unrelated note, those binders are called "fardes à anneaux" in my dialect of French. Translating directly to "ring binders". Languages are fun
Yes, by making a comparison between the Utopian Federation and other "lesser" cultures like those of the Klingons and Romulans, and then in later series like DS9, implying that the Federation itself wasn't as utopian as it seemed.
Display on microled Ipad pro is Apple's first more or less own display. The panel itself is LG's I believe.
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> The tricky part is that our existence seems to fly in the face of such events so far.

We've only been here for a few minutes. We aren't really making any efforts to save the planet or colonize space. It's totally possible that we will wipe ourselves out before our TV and radio signals ever make it far enough to be detected by aliens, even if there are a ton of them out there.
> Does anyone know why no one has sued them or arrested them or something?

Facebook is suing NSO Group and winning, at least on procedural grounds [1].

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-nso-cyber-idUSKB...
I started at the Library of Congress 20 years ago this month working on their digitization effort. It was HUGE even then - an estimated 50TB/day needed to be digitized - and that did not address the 200+ years of backlog or the advent of blogging (rare at the time), streaming media, and everything else online.

Our mission was to ensure that the assets we were working with were usable by someone ~100 years from now.

We would take something like an LP (Ray Charles was one of my favorites) and play it and record it in a lossless wav at a high bitrate. Then we'd take the physical record, the entire sleeve, and anything else included and scan that at 300dpi in tiff. Of course, we'd document every piece of equipment we used (down to the serial number) with every setting and who did the work. If we later realized a given piece of equipment was misconfigured, we could detect what had been created with it and adjust or re-create as necessary. I wrote some of the standards (XML schemas) for metadata collection which were still in use as late as 2015. (They may still be, I haven't checked.)

Whew.

Then we'd take a version of the audio and images to create mp3s and jpgs for listening+viewing in the reading rooms. The original physical media would go into nitrogen filled vaults in Culpepper, Virginia to prevent oxidization and further deterioration.*

We had similar processes for other media like books, wire spool recordings (popular in WW2), wax cylinder recordings, and pictures around the Civil War. Many of them were exceptionally fragile and required special equipment. My least favorite but most fascinating were Thomas Edison's first motion pictures.

Pop quiz: What does cotton and silver nitrate degrade into? ;)

But in all of those cases, we could go back to the original media which - hopefully - hadn't deteriorated beyond recovery. In a digital-first or digital-only environment, we're counting on fragile components storing rotting file formats on deprecated operating systems in physical locations that may suffer disasters.

* At the time, the RIAA was complaining endlessly and we may have made jokes about RIAA execs and those vaults but I can neither confirm nor deny any such proposals.
> FLASH memory works by essentially placing some electrons on an insulated island of material through quantum tunnelling and then "trapping" them there. However, there is some probability that they can tunnel off, and thus the stored charge does leak out over time. How long it takes for enough charge to leak off that a "read" can't tell the difference (signal to noise wise) depend on the manufacturer and specifications but 10 years is definitely in the danger zone. There's also a stress degradation issue but that probably doesn't apply here.

Thanks for the link!
Rx never got the attention it deserved IMO. It was the right thing but never really had the ergonomics.

It’s entirely possible I wasn’t able to appreciate it at the time, too.
And FBA consensus "coins" don't need countermeasures because they dont need any kind of proof of waste lottery to make progress.
This person has been for many months now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=124wdTckHNY

We hope to be using TigerBeetle which is written in zig in production in 2022: https://github.com/coilhq/tigerbeetle
You sound exactly like the people who moved up to Lake Arrowhead and ruined it, I ended up leaving when I got told by a flatlander to leave “their” mountain, where they’d lived for a lot shorter time than I had. I realized then it was losing its appeal and wouldn’t be a place I’d continue to enjoy with those sorts increasingly moving up there. For a resort area the people who work the service jobs are essential. Those businesses are the backbone of the community most of the time. Without them it would lose the traits that make it desirable to live.
Turn it the other way around.

The role of modern combat engineers is to get MBTs (and infantry) through obstacles.

A ditch isn't very effective if the far side is dynamited into a slope.
It's like when person drive tesla, it drives fast, but no ugly vibration and noise that most of the people used to associate with performance car. But some people crave for these sounds. I saw some modes doing that lol :) Kind of cargo cult. They pray for uncomfortable attributes but not actual speed.
> Pop quiz: What does cotton and silver nitrate degrade into? ;)

Bright light if you look at it wrong?
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