skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"1) Google doesn't release devices without unlockable bootloaders. They have always been transparent in allowing people to unlock their Nexus and Pixels. Nexus was for developers, Pixels are geared towards the end user. Nothing changed with regards to the bootloaders."

This is not accurate. Pixels that come from Verizon have bootloaders that cannot be fully unlocked.
Inflation is neither good nor bad. It is merely a measure.

People mistake cause and effect in economics all the time. Inflation can be a good proxy for money velocity. But it can also just be a proxy for growth of money supply. In the former, it’s often a sign of economic activity/growth. In the latter, it’s often a sign of stagflation.

The US seems closer to stagflation at the moment. The Fed have an opportunity to nip this in the bud and deflate their balance sheet, but they won’t.
You will be continuing to hear about wind and solar for the next 20 years for good reason: they're finally taking off.

Wind production in the US has grown from about 2 million megawatt-hours / month in 2005 to 33 million megawatt-hours / month today.

Solar production in the US has grown from 1.5 million megawatt-hours / month in 2014 to 17 million megawatt-hours today.

Building new wind and solar is now cost-competitive with continuing to run existing coal power plants.

With a friendly federal government (if our government actually does anything), I expect wind and solar to grow immensely in the next 10 years. Wind especially looks strong right now.

https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/browser/

The EIA expects 10% growth in wind and solar this summer compared to a year ago.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=47936
More than achievable. Abusers often control their victims' accounts.
There is no reference to fuzzy anything in any of the write ups. I don’t know how you can proclaim that this is a fuzzy hash. Where is your source?
I'm really worried about everyone. Somehow I've missed this until now and I've felt sick all day since hearing about it.
I suspect Apple is subject to government and gag orders and Microsoft has already been doing this with OneDrive but no one has heard about it yet.
It explicitly says the phone downloads the set of hashes and does the computation on the client side.

That said I agree that this is going to be hideously abused by every government.
It really isn’t.
Why should I have to? Why does it have to pop up in the exact damn place the user is most likely to tap?
They call it NeuralHash, there is a lengthy technical spec and security analysis in their announcement
or you could just use stevia
I am seeing similar bad performance on Chrome on my fully loaded enterprise laptop.

I think it's that background pattern and Firefox might be lying to you, or at least in Chrome the pattern is what eats up all the rendering time.
I concur, the available evidence indicates that naturally acquired immunity works at least as well as vaccination [1][2].

There are biological reasons & theories why naturally acquired immunity may be more robust to variants (immune system learns to target a variety of markers/proteins of the virus, compared to the highly targeted immune response to the spike protein based mRNA vaccines). However to my knowledge there is no conclusive evidence of this yet in the literature on SARS-CoV-2.

[1] SARS-CoV-2 infection induces long-lived bone marrow plasma cells in humans
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03647-4.pdf

[2] Necessity of COVID-19 vaccination in previously infected individuals
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.01.21258176v...
Milk of magnesia? Almond milk? Coconut milk? They don’t have nipples, Greg, but I can get milk from them.
I use highly interactive websites, like bitcoin exchanges.

They work terribly in Firefox. I don't know if it's because Firefox is slow, or if because devs don't test in Firefox. Either way, even if Firefox is my main browser, I learned that I need to use these sites only in Chrome.

YouTube and most other video sites also are very slow in Firefox and many times the other sites don't work at all, video doesn't start, ...
> I predict that Apple will at one point start selling software as a subscription

That’s not a difficult prediction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Arcade:

“Apple Arcade is a video game subscription service offered by Apple Inc. It is available through a dedicated tab of the App Store on devices running iOS 13, tvOS 13, iPadOS 13, and macOS Catalina or later. The service launched on September 19, 2019 after being announced in March 2019”

They also have “hardware as a service”. https://www.apple.com/shop/iphone/iphone-upgrade-program:

“The easiest way to upgrade to the latest iPhone.
Get a new iPhone every year
AppleCare+ coverage included
Works with your carrier
Starting from $35.33/month”
I also recommend Aurora Store as a complete replacement for the Play store. The one thing is that I've never tried using apps that I paid for on it but it works very well for any free apps. There is an option to use a Google account with Aurora but I've only ever used the anonymous account.

The only slight dowbside is that I haven't figured out how to auto update appd, so your apps will get out of date without you being notified and you have to manually do it. This problem might literally be solved by a simple setting thay I haven't bothered to look for, IDK.

On the plus side it includes all the official play store apps, along side some that aren't allowed by play store.

For examples, Newpipe, the superior replacement YouTube app that isn't allowed on play store due to it subverting advertisements and allowing a few features that are useful for downloading certain things.
Also the Amiga was slow due to the simplistic way metadata / icons were handled. There was a separate "file.info" file, containing the icon and some other metadata, for each actual file on disk.
Thanks for clarifying, but they have no case here - even the judge agrees.

Would be interesting to know what they've actually trademarked? That no other brand can use a shade of blue on their packaging when selling oat drinks?

I can understand if Glebe Farms called their product Oaty, but they called it PureOaty - doesn't even start with the same letter and their packaging looks different, not as polished as Oatly's packaging.

Edit: In the BBC article they claimed the 'y' is the offender. But oaty is an adjective, hence the name PureOaty to create a product name.
How do they define a lisp that clojure doesn't qualify?
The problem is if you don't protest nothing may be done. Biden saying he wants Cuomo to step down is irrelevant since Biden has no power to force it. We need either Cuomo himself to step down or the legislature to impeach him. This may not be done unless there are protests. Look at Ralph Northam. He just weathered through people calling for his resignation and nothing was done about it. That is why you need protests.
> If it has a good enough UI, people will pay, just like anything else. Not everybody wants to build their own scripts around the data, even if its free.

Then a big corp comes up with their own offering and steamrolls you with their lower prices, integration with their existing products, and better engineering/sales staff. See for instance, mongodb and elasticsearch.
A new algorithm to compute minimal surfaces [pdf]
Not fully. It requests a desktop layout but sites still know you're on a mobile browser, hence sites that explicitly block mobile browsers will show the same "this page only viewable on desktop" message. Actual user agent switcher extensions don't have that problem.
Well, the Oatly Barista Edition matches cow's milk for nutritional content surprisingly closely - fat, carbohydrate, vitamins, minerals and so on. We give it to our toddler, who's allergic to cow's milk protein.
> if, say a 16-yo sends a nude selfie to their s.o., they've just committed a felony ... The laws may not be just or correct, but they are the current state of the world.

Hence, strong E2E encryption designed to prevent unjust government oppression, without backdoors.

Parents should talk to their teenagers about sex regardless of if they get a notification on their phone telling them they missed the boat.
A tax/fee that treats a Hummer the same as a Toyota Corolla, is going to be regressive. Moreover, if CO2 reduction is among the goals of such a policy, then the costs of manufacturing the Hummer (plus running the grid for it) is going to feel less of a 'pinch' from the taxman than smaller cars.

At some point, as unpopular as this is, an increase on the per gallon gasoline tax is going to have to happen, if you want to pay for the growing infrastructure costs of mobility.
Proper security is ensured by a validation process from a third party audit. That is expensive. For strictly internal scrutiny security is primarily the result of a proper risk analysis. Normally that means keep guessing until the software works enough and then refactor as necessary in response to some security apparatus far away from you. Same with accessibility, performance testing, and just about everything else beyond merely pushing content to screen.
No you didn't address my first concern. Which is, it's very easy for a company to write a blog post full of promises saying anything they want (e.g "1 in a trillion chance of false positives"), but it's all just words without some objective source giving oversight into the process.

Take for example point 2. According to what they've written here, yes that's how it works. But the point is, you have no flipping clue what's actually true, just what they typed. There could be debug modes, the false-positive numbers could be entirely incorrect, they never said what the "threshhold number" is, so that could be 1. They could have even meant everything that they said, but there could be a bug in the code.

Suppose there is a bug they discover, and the false-positives are exponentially higher than they quoted. Do you think they would publicly admit that? Also how big are these thumbnails and under what circumstances do they have access to them?
Tell me more about the milking robots fellow traveler, I need some entertainment after 6 hours of meetings today.
The fires, here in Australia and the US.
The initial rollout is limited to the US, with no concrete plans reported yet on expansion.

“The scheme will initially roll out only in the US. […] Apple’s neuralMatch algorithm will continuously scan photos that are stored on a US user’s iPhone and have also been uploaded to its iCloud back-up system.”

Researchers interviewed for the article would agree with your analysis. “Security researchers [note: appears to be the named security professors quoted later in the article], while supportive of efforts to combat child abuse, are concerned that Apple risks enabling governments around the world to seek access to their citizens’ personal data, potentially far beyond its original intent.”

Article link for ease of access: https://www.ft.com/content/14440f81-d405-452f-97e2-a81458f54...
There have been child abuse victims who have openly condemned this sort of intrusion on privacy, although they obviously don't speak for them all.
It is my understanding that Apple implemented a program that generates a hash of a file and compares it to a blacklist, and notifies Apple in the event of a match. It's not clear, but it appears this is only run when uploading to iCloud.

The blacklist itself is not maintained by Apple, but by the US government or a third party like NCMEC, which means Apple can't be sure content that isn't child abuse imagery hasn't made it onto the list. Perceptual hashes probably can't be abused to target non-image/video content because they're an inherently image-oriented technology.

Apple could, however cause such a program to match on different criteria with a simple update, and such a change would likely be difficult to detect. Most of us assume Apple wouldn't voluntarily do such a thing, but it's very probable that they would do it involuntarily. The US government has already attempted to compel Apple to create a tool to compromise the security of an iPhone, and might have eventually succeeded in court if they hadn't gained access by other means. That fight took place in public, but the next one might well take place in secret.
I believe the same thing, as well. You know what people talk about on Twitter these days? RSS. RSs readers, which ones they recommend etc. I have a daily alert that comes to me about this, and I've also done Twitter searches on this topic.
They’d have many other countries keeping them company, too.

One big mess: how many places would care about false positives if that gave them a pretext to arrest people? I do not want to see what would happen if this infrastructure had been available to the Bush administration after 9/11 and all of the usual ML failure modes played out in an environment where everyone was primed to assume the worst.
How does them adding a scanning feature mean you don't own your device any more?

Do you not own your device because apple puts iOS on your iphone before you buy it?
The last I heard, the Houthis let the Americans go.

Navy SEALs from the Navy SMU parachuted into Africa in the dead of night to save a missionary kidnapped from a known conflict zone, killing 6 of 7 combatants (one wonders if they let the last guy go to spread Fear amongst his fellows). Perhaps some of you had different experiences (and/or perhaps the State Department really, really wanted you to leave), but that doesn't erase the rescue of Americans such as this man:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Nigeria_hostage_rescue

We sent the best of the best in to save him. Not the JV team, the varsity. Before you whine, ask yourselves if perhaps there was some motive to telling you that nobody would help you if you didn't leave. Maybe they were trying to manage their risk.
Talk about gate keeping…

You don’t get to decree what genuine interest in computing looks like for all of humanity.
Servo is not and never will be a competitive browser engine.

Gecko is that engine competing with the titans.
It's definitely not slow on macOS but for some reason the UI font just looks wrong to me on macOS and I can't quite put my finger on it.

The font doesn't look system (maybe it is), and every element is a tad too small. Spacing between letters is also more cramped that on every other macOS app.

I know doing cross OS development is hard but to me this is what's stopping me to move full time from Safari to Firefox on mac, the UI font just looks wrong (despite all the things I don't like in Safari like not having uBlock Origin and having to rely on a subpar extension with an app, or the terrible new Monterey UI).
> Previous generations left behind rock and stone buildings, some sludge at worst.

I don't see why we should ignore the deforestation or hunting to extinction that previous generations imposed on the planet.
Show HN: Fabform.io an Alternative to Google Forms
https://fabform.io a google forms alternative
Yeah, I agree. I also didn't know about this, the popup didn't convey the idea of "dismissible"... I learned about this reading a rant on Reddit about the UI.
Interestingly, you can accommodate negative leap seconds with smears as well. FTA:

>> A negative leap second, if one were ever to occur, would be smeared by speeding up clocks over the 86,399 SI seconds from noon to noon.
Perhaps that was their way of trying to get you to leave so they didn't have to send anyone after you.
Biased as I am, I'd agree. It's unlikely for a dutch person to mislead you or be dishonest. There's no agenda. It's safe, reliable and comforting.

And should such a direct remark upset you, the other party expects directness in return, and can handle it.

As for academics and such, we reject elitism. Sure enough we accept differences in success and wealth, but we won't let it get to your head:

https://images0.persgroep.net/rcs/rl7MK73sKTwSudzEJaBS-jjwW7...

That's our PM cycling to work. You can talk to him should you come across him. There's no secret service, as in our society, he's "just another guy".

This is expressed in another local slogan: "stick your head above the corn field and we chop it off".

It's not a reference to communism, it means don't get cocky when successful, don't believe you're better than anybody else at a human level, and don't take yourself so serious.

Admittedly, times are changing and inequality is on the rise.

I'll end with saying that the "bluntness" some complain about is still a suppressed version of our actual directness. I'll illustrate by means of a recent conversation with a friend:

Me: what do you think of my new clothes?
Friend: Did you dig this up from the graveyard?

I love my country :)
Same on first ARM chips http://www.csbio.unc.edu/mcmillan/Comp411F18/Lecture07.pdf
>The conspiracy theorist will believe that institutions can be understood completely as the result of conscious design; and as collectives, he usually ascribes to them a kind of group-personality, treating them as conspiring agents, just as if they were individual men. As opposed to this view, the social theorist should recognize that the persistence of institutions and collectives creates a problem to be solved in terms of an analysis of individual social actions and their unintended (and often unwanted) social consequences, as well as their intended ones.

and in between is the systems theorist who observes the emergent behavior (which is nor "conspiring" (despite sometimes displaying intelligence-like elements), nor generally directly reducible to the "individual actions") of the systems.
Pro-fossil fuel Facebook ads viewed 431M times – in one year
Indeed! If somebody was able to print a trillion dollars and stash it away in their bank account, I don't see why any observable inflation would occur.
I switched back to Firefox from Chrome a few years ago after their Quantum efforts landed. Both to get out of the Google trap, and because it was clearly the fastest browser for common use, except on certain Javascript heavy pages.

But over the last year or so, performance has continually degraded to the point were I'm upset and resort to Chrome more often (Ungoogled Chromium [1], to be precise).

I guess Specter mitigations and site process isolation might be related, but this does not make me happy...

(this is on Linux/Wayland)

[1] https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
I'm impressed, it actually has smooth scrolling unlike OsmAnd which is very slow loading tiles in.

Critical points I'd make about Organic Maps, I'd want a lower inertia setting so it scrolls faster, and a different color palette.. they are using muddy tones of green and brown.
Okay, but how many are using it because of the type model versus those who are using it for any other reason and just putting up with it? You can't claim every use of the software is because of every feature or quirk.
> There's just more Chinese abroad with perspective of both systems, and frankly the western narrative is frequently blatantly misinformed that most don't see defending the homeland as promoting illiberalism. Most are shocked at how quickly liberal minds can be brainwashed despite free media.

Yes, this is legitimately shocking. For anyone who has any experience/ knowledge of China, the image of the country that is relentlessly pushed in many mainstream outlets is totally unrecognizable. The reason they can get away with it is that most people in the West know next to nothing about China. It's not that China is some paradise - it's just that it's extremely different from how it's portrayed.
Google forms alternative https://fabform.io
no. you register and you can either use saml or openid connect. btw. when you register your app you select if it is only for your tenant or for multiple tenants (or for microsoft accounts). your app never gets in the "public app store" unless you manually submit to. btw. this information is all public on their great docs.
milk of magnesia!
Well, it's a lot like everything. No one wants abusers, murderers, and others out and about. But then, we can't search everyone's homes all of the time for dead bodies, or other crimes.

We would all be better off without these things happening, and anyone would want less of it to happen.
So what do citizens do short of a revolution (no sensible person ever wants that)?

I wonder if returning soldiers from D-Day and Iwo Jima would have allowed themselves to be crushed in similar circumstances. I doubt it very much.

(Seems to me both the zeitgeist and ethics have changed greatly in the past 75 years. The question is why.)

BTW, I note this story is now here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28079154
The hole in the stern of the ship is taking on 30L of water per second. The hole in the bow of the ship is taking on 20L of water per second.

Let's just focus on plugging the latter shall we, while we all go down together.
I doubt it's much worse than trusting your life to proprietary code written behind closed doors. Something bad usually happens every now and again.

Of course, those insulin pumps are running insecure firmware allowing for adjustments to be made remotely by an sbc (Raspberry Pi) where the OpenAPS software lives and takes measurements from a GCM. Without the insecure remote interface on those insulin pumps, OpenAPS might not exist.

I'm not sure it's moral to attack such a project built and maintained by diabetics who simply want to provide for themselves a better quality of life.
Well there's proof of stake. However, whether alternatives exist or not has no bearing on the efficiency of a system.
Except the Marines and/or SEALs do come to save people. Perhaps there are political complications you aren't mentioning. Perhaps you got into trouble in a nation with a halfway-functioning government (so diplomacy trumps men with rifles).

It is provably true the US does send armed forces in to save citizens, and it is obviously true that many other countries simply lack the ability to do so. That isn't a license to be stupid, but it is a differentiator between countries with true power projection capabilities and those who don't have the same.
I would recommend checking out the emacs native-comp feature. It may not entirely solve the lag, but in my experience it helps a lot.
When i saw this was from the post, i was saddened by how many comments there where as so many seem to take it seriously.
See these peer-reviewed papers for some insight into the second and third order evolutionary dynamics that we face with the current spike protein focused mRNA vaccines for SARS-CoV-2 [1][2].

These are serious long-term concerns, which may not manifest overnight, but they are certainly on the radar of many experts in the field.

[1] Risk of rapid evolutionary escape from biomedical interventions targeting SARS-CoV-2 spike protein
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33909660/

[2] SARS-CoV-2 immune evasion by the B.1.427/B.1.429 variant of concern
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2021/06/30/scie...

[3] Imperfect Vaccination Can Enhance the Transmission of Highly Virulent Pathogens
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371%2Fj...
I've tried out the browser, and used it for a few hours.
I like it. I like the security/privacy settings. Being able to have site specific configuration, so I can enable javascript on a site I use regularly and trust is great.
Being able to have the navigation on the top or bottom is also a nice feature.
The inteface is fast, and tabs work well.
I do have a couple suggestions.

-- Add the ability to enable a force zoom. Some websites will prevent zooming, but still have small text or images, and being able to zoom in is super handy.

-- Add the ability to specify custom DNS servers. I use OpenNIC, and have to run a localproxy on my phone to be able to use it.

--This one is very minor. Add a back button(maybe optionally?)I realize the Android back button works, but I think I prefer a softwar button. While I open a lot of links in a new tab, it is nice to be able to quickly go back without needing to tap twice.

Great work! I'll keep it on my phone, and probably use it more. Probably won't be my daily driver, unless the force zoom is available. But I do like it.