skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, this is very problematic for a privacy concerned company. Under no circumstances do I want Apple to scan my private files/photos, aspecially so if it means that an alarm can allow someone to determine if it is a positive or a false positive.

Also, this functionality isn't something they should be able to implement without telling their end users.

It is also problematic because it will just make the cyber criminals more technical aware of what counter measures they must take to protect their illegal data.

The consequence is very bad for the regular consumer: the cyber criminal will be able to hide, and the government has the possibility to scan your files. End consumer lose, again.
Loading doesn't mean it loads the necessary JavaScript, I'm pretty sure I need to accept script from Google or I also get stuck in an endless failure loop.
I recall reading about narcos doing ballistic delivery over the border.
One can argue that when something works most of the times until it breaks in some edge cases (twice a year) it's actually more dangerous since you're unlikely to encounter those issues until it hits all of your customers at once.
And here I thought drones might be loud.
Vanilla GNOME3 looks and feels a lot like it was designed for tablets as the primary target, keyboard users as the secondary and mouse users only as the third.

Ubuntu Unity did not - it was great for classic desktop usage with Mac-like (most importantly, not a mediocre attempt to mimic but even better than the original in some aspects) UX + advanced supports for keyboard lovers + keeping the mobile in mind.

IMHO late years Unity was the best Linux UI yet. If only they would add Pop_OS!-like tiling + some more little Mac goodies only experienced Mac users know it would be perfect. And I absolutely can not say the same about GNOME3 although I actually want a GNOME3 tablet.
The USA controls the supply chain for obtaining energy from oil and most oil used in the USA comes from the USA. This is not the case with solar in my understanding. Not sure about wind.
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While it's not meant for delivery, Airobotics has/had a very slick battery swapping mechanism for their multi-rotors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3QWtXjWJTA
Those industries buy themselves a clean environment-friendly image

A recent example I found is Formula1 planning to be "carbon-free" by 2030 https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51226066, but carbon-offsetting is something very discussable, and they wouldn't account for their fans carbon cost which represent 8 times theirs (a solution could be no spectators, and at this point they could avoid travelling around the planet which would save from almost all their pollution)

To be fair, I'm not especially against those producers, I think the ones that need to act responsibly are consumers and their elected governments. Consumption decrease → demand decrease → production will adjust accordingly
It sounds like the people that are being made redundant were mainly tasked with labeling data (which also matches them being temps instead of full time employees, and them training replacements in Costa Rica), so I don't think they're software engineers that can easily switch to other teams.
China-led study finds way to reverse a loss of eyesight
This would mean we're responsible for emissions in China - I'd imagine that's not a popular opinion
i am sure “they” are reading this, others downvote me but, maybe ask our opinion before signup, like a quick 3 question survey. that would be less extreme than sounding creepy
>Which'd be fine if we had one global government with world wide jurisdiction.

I wholeheartedly disagree. A world wide goverment would be catastrophic for whistleblowing. Atleast as a whistleblower you can live somewhat safely in a country opposing your own. With a one world government you would have nowhere to run.

And I wouldn't expect them to protect citizen's interests any better than current governments do. Contrary, I think this lack of balance in the world would embolden them further.
No screenshots for a GUI-centric OS? Seriously?
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From what I understand it's still dual channel for the first 8Gb, no? Not ideal but if I ever feel the need I could get another 32Gb stick and make it dual channel.
But..but..CDC will protect me from any evils of pharma companies, right?....Right?
A pilotless rocket is a drone.
In a recent interview [1] Elon stated that empty booster "has the density of an empty beer can" which is a great mental aid. So it will certianly float.

But part of it will be underwater, initially the very expensive flamey part (engines). They will not "be the same" after the experience.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t705r8ICkRw
It's because that is exactly what I did. And the text in my Start menu has AA? I'd be really surprised if any text doesn't have AA.
And insurance :).

Having 10-30kg high-speed flying machines, built by the lowest bidder and operated by companies that like to move fast and break things, being hurled around above densely populated areas full of squishy people and car traffic... how long do you think it will take before a first fatality? Do you want to live in constant fear of getting hit in the head by a low-flying brick?

No, a thick regulatory straitjacket is the only thing that can enable drone delivery in cities. But then, there's little point to even do that, until the noise issues are resolved.

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On a related (and likely just as improbable) note, perhaps cities should start treating delivery as another municipal utility. Right now, most houses and apartments in a typical city are fitted with pipes that bring in water, gas and fresh air, and take away sewage and stale air. I can envision another utility - a "package pipe" - a conceptual blend between old-school pneumatic tubes and parcel sorters. Imagine each apartment having an outlet sized for a standardized container[0], through which packages could be sent and received. I bet it could cover upwards of 90% of delivery needs of any town - most things people send would fit, larger orders could be split into multiple containers, and bulkier things would be delivered by trucks on-demand.

An installation like this would deliver all the benefits and solve all the problems of in-city drone delivery, cheaper, safer, better, and without any of the noise issues.

The obvious drawback would be the costs of building it up and maintaining it. Someone would need to do a calculation, but I suspect it could be paid for the same way other utilities are (small fixed payment for access + pay per use + whatever other bullshit business shenanigans electricity providers usually engage in). Looking at the cities I've been in, most existing buildings could be retrofitted with it as an external attachment (imagine an external lift going to every apartment). The big problem I envision is routing the inter-building segments of the pipeline - it would likely have to be above ground due to size, and thus expose it to the usual problem of landowners trying to extract as much money as they can from the public to let the project go through their plot.

But hey, one can dream :).

(My bigger dream is that one day, we'll all have something resembling a Star Trek matter replicator, perhaps in a form of sophisticated 3D printer fed from a municipal "matter stream" supply.)

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[0] - Say, UPS 10kg - "16.5in x 13.25in x 10.75in (42cm x 34cm x 27cm); weight limit 22lbs/10kg", or UPS 25kg - "19.75in x 17.75in x 13.25in (50cm x 45cm x 34cm); weight limit 55lbs/25kg". Via https://www.ups.com/us/en/shipping/create/package-type-help.....
Going from "there are...many services" to "sharing accounts is robbing companies" is what I am having a problem with. That per-seat pricing "because companies can afford it" is robbing customers instead!

Hey, you are selling on the internet, do not make up "costs" just to increase your revenue. I am fine with restricting simultaneous usage where there is an actual cost to it (eg. streaming) as long as that's clearly indicated (and as people have multiple devices these days, it should never be limited to one-at-a-time).
OK now we need chiesel for Factorio for the next step
Are you comparing vaccines and masks to genocide?
Your point was good. But perhaps your unfortunate example is in turn a good example that if you can't find a good name for something perhaps there is a different way to look at things that produces a less contrived (but still explicit and honest) naming scheme.

Looking forward to read about your explorations on that front.
Speaking of Backtrace, they recently got acquired by Sauce Labs: https://saucelabs.com/news/sauce-labs-extends-continuous-tes...
Of course, the fourth position is so dumb (that it is possible that someone can have low trust in authorities/scientists) that they don't know what to say..
The "food pyramid" people were emphatically not even slightly interested in "science's guidelines". They were marketers making propaganda to force on helpless kids.
I don't care about a better deal, I care about being personally responsible for the outcome of my life. I put way more value in being responsible for my own outcome, even if it'd be worse, than to have someone else do it for me or to feel like I'm part of a package deal with others. You don't have to feel the same way, but the same I way I support other's rights to unionise I think you should allow for people that have a different value system than yours.
Sorry but their choices do affect others, from the nurses who have to treat them to the hospitals turning away patients if they are overwhelmed or delaying surgeries.
> Why not build on Darwin which basically forms macOS's core?

Possibly because of greater hardware compatibility.
now im afraid, i have two young children < 5 years old.
i have occasionally took pictures of them naked with some bumps on the skin or mosquito bite and sent them to my wife over whatsapp to look at and decide do we need to send them to doctor, do i have to fear now that i will be marked as distributing CP.
Not to diminish the effort, but I think replicating the look and design (as in how things work) of MacOS (or Windows 10) is a pitfall that very few alternative OS developers manage to avoid.

It's just a bad idea. They'll never get even close, and those screenshots on Imgur prove it.

What I'd prefer is if these definitely brilliant developers would "own" the Unix history more, and build upon Motif. Put the effort do create a mimicry of MacOS into modernising Motif. Hopefully not just make the chrome translucent, but really think about how Motif would look if invented in 2021.
Yes. Even if we pump up all remaining oil and turn it into plastic, the CO2 impact will be negligible, because the carbon will remain captured in the (non-degrading) plastics.
BBC is basically a UK foreign policy tool, not some saviour of democracy...
The point beginning this thread was that some set of extraordinary precedent was being set today. ok123456 provided compelling evidence that this is not the case.

You are now failing to accept the point made, and changing the argument.
Bluetooth headphones sound issues on MacBook? Try these fixes (2020)
Did I say anything contrary to what you just stated at any point? I literally said simplicity is an illusion, just a name for tamed complexity.
This reminded me of my experience handling the frontend side of Varnish using a RISC-V emulator. The most important thing is that the emulator is quick to bring up and quick to tear down. Almost zero syscall (10ns) and vmcall (4ns) overhead. So, if nobody is doing any heavy computation, the most important things are getting the base overheads down. For example, the RISC-V emulator could handle the full frontend pipeline side in less than 1 microsecond. That's going to be hard to beat. I wonder if the same could apply to a standard website for a simpler kind of WebAssembly emulator instead of JavaScript? And by that, I mean replacing JavaScript with WebAssembly completely, and just make all the tooling necessary to make it nice and easy.
I would second this - I have no fancy papers or citations etc but eventually risk parity will blow up the world.

There are broadly 2 regimes that dictate volatility and correlation, normal and shit-hitting-the-fan. Risk parity models skew heavily towards the everyday, when prices tick up / down by small amounts, and diversification exists.

On adverse market wide event, there is (generally) no diversification, and leveraged portfolios in particular can face significant losses.

There is no silver bullet, but portfolio wide value at risk, i.e. what the outcome on the day/week/month on any given day in the last 5 years (or more) had I held these exact same positions is as good a measure as any. The distribution of outcomes being something worth understanding and tuning risk to.
It's about 1/10th in scale to that...
Agree on the sources but not on the position. Perhaps we should limit the immigration stats to the last 50 years or something, but no amount of hair splitting will reverse the overall point - which is that far more Danes immigrate to the US than vice versa, despite the fact that there are far more Americans than Danes.

Btw, nothing against the Danes. There's no country in this world where the same is not true. You hear about the Swiss tax laws, or the German unions, or the Italian lifestyle, or the Swedish health care. And yet, all those people are playing the Green Card lottery (just like I did and everyone else I grew up with).
i was thinking about writing a novel now that im retired. i became uninterested in fiction completely about ten years ago. i just cant bring myself to care about something that didnt happen. it inevitably ends up being about people having sex or some kind of love triangle. no matter what novel, no matter how austere or dignified, if it was published in the past ten years then it uses some kind of visceral limbic-system mind bait. its some semi-interesting sci-fi with a whole lot of click bait slathered on top. even red mars, one of the only fictional books i like, has this problem.

but fiction can be worth it when its laying out ideas that are so new and so fresh that it is intrinsically valuable. but these grand visions dont involve people or relationships at their core, so making a book out of it can be difficult.

i think the next great sci-fi novel will be about mars. i feel like there are a lot of aspects of mars colonization that have not been picked up by the hive-mind yet. practical aspects of living there and moving things there. and generally applying the rules of today to that world. the arbitrage is in the fact that people usually paint the future with a utopian, optimistic brush but the same rules of economics and politics will apply on mars just as much as they do here. maybe that sounds like red mars but it would be different.
The main way you reduce traffic fatalities, is by desgining streets and roads in a way that increases safety for all users.

One of the most effective ways is to get as many people to use something other than cars for transportation. You do that by making cycling, walking and public transport faster and saver.
Yes. In most problems I face I find gradient boosting is at least as good if not better then any neural network and much easier to implement and explain.
Yeah I recently switched from macOS to a Gnome-using variant of Linux (Pop!_OS 21.04, which overall I really like and recommend if you are of the "I want to do my specific work and not tinker with my OS much" mindset like I am) and this design choice blew my mind.

I'm OK with a global menu bar, or app-window menu bar, but hiding everything behind a stupid hamburger thing on a desktop computer?

Weird choice IMO. I'm just living with it, though, since I don't really want to fuck around with my system itself.
More than any other tech company, negative things about Apple will get you quickly down voted into oblivion. Hard to know if its just rabid fanboys, or PR firms. Unfortunately, HN isn't interested in naming and shaming companies caught astroturfing and they don't like us to speculate. Its too bad because I would consider that information a huge kindness to humanity.
Ask HN: How does career planning work for international contractors?
Hi HackerNews.

I’m a 23 year old software engineer from South America. Early in 2020, when I had 4 years of professional experience with software engineering, I landed my first job at an international company, which was also my first time getting paid in USD. Due to the exchange rate, this bought me an unusually comfortable life (for my standards at least).

Fast forward to mid 2021, I am now working at a different international company which pays me significantly higher than the previous (60k/yr). I got this job through the referral of a friend after 2 months of interviewing for other places and not getting an offer.

This is the first time in my career where I got a job directly through networking, and I can’t stop thinking about whether this is justified or simply a fluke and in 2 years I’ll be back to working a dead end job at a software house in the middle of nowhere. This insecurity is making it really hard for me to make any long-term plans (like buying a house, which is something I believe would be beneficial at the moment).

Since my situation is a bit specific from my perspective, I couldn’t find any advice or information about personal finance / career planning that applies me.

I’m hoping to find people who have dealt with similar situations before for advice or resources that I can use to make better informed decisions.

Thanks in advance.
I wonder if the reason is that it looks really unpolished (there are some screenshots on Imgur). Those sidebars would get your team fired at Apple.

If this isn't the final look then I apologise.
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> It's just a bad idea. They'll never get even close, and those screenshots on Imgur prove it.

It's a great idea. Because developing your own look and feel for the entire OS is an enormous task. This way you at least have a foundation to build upon.
Based on the READMEs, functionality is quite identical on Firefox's build-in containers.

Only difference which comes with these extensions is, that they work automatically for selected domains, instead of you manually opening the site in container. Also, you need to be careful to not open other pages on container tab, which is possible. Maybe I was thinking this to be too obvious for most users, while it is not.

But yeah, there are plenty of domains if someone is really using all of them. However, it is pretty hard to miss Google login window for example.

Of course, one could speculate that one login into your Google account from your browser is enough to fingerprint you everywhere, even with all anti-fingerprint things, but that is another story.
>EU legislation is underway to ensure that it stays this way.

which one?
Bobiverse was good from a ‘new concepts’ point of view, at least the first book. Really fun read.
Full disclosure: I used to work at EA and while I was there I contributed a tiny amount of code to EASTL.

EASTL provided a bunch of value that the standard STL would not. The biggest benefit was a unified implementation across all platforms. Standard library STLs all had their own idiosyncrasies and code that worked on one platform might not compile, or worse, have a bug on another.

At the time, EASTL was equal or higher quality than standard implementations. Performance was better, code quality was better, and it broke from the standard in some key ways that were important for performance, and it had some key upgrades that allowed usage patterns and data structures that the standard STL simply didn't allow:

Vectors supported "trivial relocation" before the existence of move constructors. While move constructors have ameliorated the problem, I argue that feature is still missing from c++. Please support P1144! http://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2020/p1144r5....

Intrusive containers (in particular, intrusive linked lists in eastl::intrusive_list) embed the container overhead into objects themselves. This allows non-movable objects to be stored in these lists without requiring an extra pointer dereference on access. It also lets you convert an object reference into an iterator over the list that contains it. There are tons of uses for this. It also allows polymorphic lists (e.g. intrusive_list<BaseClass> that actually holds instances of various subclasses, again without an extra pointer dereference)

If you want more information, EASTL's lead programmer Paul Pedriana (rip) goes into detail in http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n227...
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> Unless, of course, you think that the vaccine is more dangerous than coronavirus.

Do you have the answer to the following questions?

Why did the mRNA technology remain unapproved for a long time since its inception?

What exactly was relaxed in the approval process that lead to its EUA?

Since the vaccine has been used population wide, will the missed studies or what ever due process eventually be done? Or will they be skipped, citing the real world usage (which was not controlled or followed up in a systematic manner)?
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To be fair, Macs are one of the best choices out there, so I'm not complaining. The only thing that sucks on Macs nowadays for devs is how poor Docker is performing, even with all the workarounds like Docker-sync etc.
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From what I’ve read, main parachutes are packed so that they open slowly, and BASE jumpers can design for a rough ride that starts below 200 feet.

Maybe a drone could constantly drag an open chute because it’s not trying to get anywhere near terminal velocity?
Really excellent comment. I liked the line about your different values from GP. I cannot prove this, but I feel as if it is becoming more “normalized” to not be able to reconcile this fact.

What are the odds that anyone is right about everything? We ought to be confident in our reasoned decisions, yes, but then not be surprised that someone else’s reasoned decisions disagree with our own.
> The population of the US (328 million) is roughly 55 times that of Denmark (5.8 million).

Your logic is reversed. Assuming that the US and Denmark have equally favorable living conditions, and the US population is 55 times larger, there would be a 55 times higher chance of a US citizen deciding to jump the fence than the other way around. The fact that this is not happening, shows that the US is perceived as a more desirable place to live.
Here's what's science: have a hypothesis that makes predictions that confirm or falsify it, then carry out experiments to do so.

Here's what's not science: someone's subjective emotional opinion about what "has place" in science and what doesn't.

Also, Roger Penrose who recently WON A NOBEL PRIZE makes some very strong connections between QM and consciousness. Which you're clearly ignorant of.

So not only you're wrong about what science is, you're even factually wrong about what leading and awarded scientists believe and propose.

People like you, who decide what has "place" in science and what doesn't have called Einstein's Relativity "fake Jew science" back in the day, simply because (racism aside) they didn't like the complex implications of his theory.

Think hard if you actually care what science is, or you're looking to lazily identify easy enemies to call quacks based on keywords like "consciousness", despite you're clearly uninformed on the subject. An intellectually honest person in your place would take a step back and maybe even apologize.
Energy could be disregarded as (with renewable sourcing) it would be essentially free in the amounts needed for drones.

Drones would offer increased speed of delivery within boundaries, plus scaling without the tricky problem (for Amazon it seems!) of directly employing more humans. (Obvs humans needed behind the scenes.)