skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
120v over night will add about 45 miles of range to your typical tesla. Most people drive less than 20 miles a day, so you always start out with a full tank. When I go skiing, I drive 120 miles, so I come back with a lot of range depleted, but it charges up the next few days. On the rare occasions over the past 8 years when I needed to go a long distance, I just use the super charger in my town, although once I went to a pay place that has 220v and 40 amps (so instead of ~3.5 miles of range per house, I added 20 miles of range per hour). What doesn't work with 120v regular power outlet charging? If you drive 250 miles and spend 5 minutes and then need to drive 200 more miles. That is pretty rare.
Is there a definitive Emacs key-binding plug-in for VSCode? I've tried several in the past and none seemed quite right.

IntelliJ, on the other hand, has great support for emacs key-bindings.
Driving to a gas station and waiting to fill up is a time wasted, compared to charging at home or at work, which takes 30 seconds extra time. So if you want fair comparison, you should add up time you spend waiting at the gas pump and the detour time for a gas car. Seriously, one of the reason I like electric car is the convenience - less time wasted for gas station trips, and less time wasted with maintenance.
Thank you. I find this only slightly less disturbing than China’s behavior. Stopping a visitor at the border for social posts of acquaintances is almost as bad as writing nasty emails threatening to do so.

(Edit: Ismail was ultimately granted entry [1] but still shameful incident and disturbing that it could happen at all.)

[1]: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/9/3/harvard-student-...
> Producing the GDP/capita of today with the same CO2/capita as 1918 is incredible.

Is it as incredible as producing the same GDP/capita as 1960? Why or why not?
They could by implementing the photo hashing on uploaded photos. There probably is a debate to be had on the merits of your phone being used for purposes like this but I think the implementation details pale in comparison to the problems with the mass surveillance tool being created here.

It’s clear that the correct solution is to blindly encrypt photos on the user’s phone before uploading them to iCloud. Full stop.
dude. i bought moto g30 yesterday with "near stock android" and this is the best android experience i have ever had. i can disable EVERY frigging thing including multiple facebook apps, installer, service and some other facebook crap.
i had an old Mi pad 1 and i broke its bootloader from some crappy image.

i had made a point to not buy realme or xiaomi or oneplus or oppo or samsung because of their "custom ui" are ladden with crap.

i do not own a google account so i use aurora store and f-droid store to get mah apps. i use pi-hole at my home and i generally see around 80% blocked requests.

edit: i disabled google assistant so the dedicated assitant button doesnt work. i dont know if it can be reused somehow?
Oil changes are pretty much the least costly part of my car's maintenance. Brakes, suspension and tyres cost far more and I can't imagine that heavy EVs are any better on any of those.
It doesn't matter if the cryptographic algorithm is one in a trillion. If there's a concurrency bug in the application which applies the algorithm the wrong account could be flagged against a legitimate image in the database. If the human involved overly trusts the system they may not validate against the actual file in the users account, or may assume the user deleted it somehow and figure its "safter" to let law enforcement figure it out.

Bugs in the application of the code, combined with human complacency and mistakes can certainly lead to errors, even if the cryptographic algorithm itself was perfect.

We really need to bring back comp.risks
The Digital Finance Africa 2021 virtual summit
Siberia has awful soil that doesn't have nearly the nutrients necessary to support large scale agriculture even if the temperature shifts. You could fix that, but it would take the same amount of time as trying to fix climate change (at least on a big enough scale).
I head over to my friend Midev's house with precursor chemicals for VX. You complain that having the precursors to VX lying around is not a good idea. I point out that creating VX is purely hypothetical. Sure, if that happened, it'd be terrible. But, that's not happening.

Apple is deploying a technology with few legitimate uses that makes terrible things not only possible but easy all without the voluntary consent of the device's owner.
Yes: https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/2016...

But also she’s a director at NCMEC. What else is she supposed to say? “Cool I guess, thanks Apple.”
If I want to take notes on code in various arbitrary languages I would use emacs because I can evaluate them all in the same note file.

I think there are other editors or systems that give one a multi-language notebook. But having already learned emacs, org, and org's code blocks, the marginal cost of using something else is much higher.

For me, sunk cost isn't the issue. It's the marginal cost of doing the next thing. And that's why I chose to sink so much effort (cost) into learning emacs - I knew it would pay off for the rest of my life.
I am in CS. If a student of mine posted "ISIS shit", I'd want nothing to do with that person for personal reasons, irrespective of professional consequences.
That still doesn't change how discovery or the courts work.
> There's a free tier, so I'd imagine almost all iPhones are using some tier of it.

i was quite surprised to see this was the default or at least was setup unknowingly to me.
If all was well in the land of milk and honey, yes.

However, if unlike me, and like most professionals, you didn't spent an unhealthy amount of time researching the details, you wouldn't know they didn't :

https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4956

"And even before the FDA advisory committee meeting on Moderna’s vaccine on 17 December, the company notified volunteers that they could learn their status if they chose to receive the vaccine. Pfizer also sent a letter to its trial participants one week after its vaccine was authorised on 10 December."

Or you could go the Israeli way, and do the Pharma's job for them, keeping a 290K people with matched control group since December 2020 :

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/23/delta-variant-pfizer-covid-v...

That's what you get when go "warp speed" and doubt anything was done correctly under Trump, to suddenly forget and somehow believe everything was done AOK beforehand now that Biden is in...
I once worked with a pretty amazing older Common Lisp programmer who used some IDE (Xanalys?) He selected forms by dragging with the mouse. Watching that felt uncomfortable, almost like physical pain.

I tried to get him into paredit, but he smiled a little and said his brain isn't so fast that it could keep up with frantic fingers like mine.

Indeed, he worked out things in his head before splashing into the buffers and mostly got things right by doing just a few things, slowly. Of course CL is one of the better languages for that.

I think programmers overestimate the importance of editors or typing. Comfort is more important than speed or efficiency, but of course you feel discomfort if you lose the speed you are accustomed to! If you feel comfortable in whatever editor you use, congrats, your quest is complete.
> It's not breaking E2E encryption.

It's not breaking it, but it is rendering it moot. Why even bother with E2E encryption if you can't trust your endpoint? Would upgrading your exterior door's security protect you from theft if it's your roommate who's stealing from you?

> No one is locking people up for political photos.

Authoritarian dictatorships like China are, and they'd love to use this tool to help them with that.
Nice, looks great! Could you give any thoughts on which of those resources in [2] were particularly useful for you? I have a similar backend background and interest in learning about UI design!

BTW a small issue but opening and closing your FAQ modal seems to be pushing URL history - which means you have to hit back repeatedly to exit the page if you interact with it. It doesn’t look like having the modal open and then going back closes it, so I think you could just drop the URL push without losing functionality.
Machine ID? Who uses identifiable machines instead of virtual ones any more? They poof in and out of existence almost as often as vacuum polarization. Heh.
Ask HN: Did a bunch of your accounts get hacked at the same time?
Even regardless of whether it's all photos or all matched photos, the issue is that Apple is actively and publicly building adversarial black boxes that run on your device, on a OS level (on iOS AND macs!), with the sole and explicit goal of snitching on you to the government for possessing information that is deemed wrong.

The actual specifics of what material is currently deemed wrong is irrelevant, because it will be expanded.

This. Is. Not Okay.

This is something you'd expect China to mandate, not a Western company like Apple to advertise as a feature.
Yeah in my country a new electric car is about 2x years salary. We’d love to switch but that’s a lot of money.
Regarding: "What neural networks do is subdivide the input space and assign a label to it."

I've made such plots when the input is 2d, breaking the input space into discrete chunks/pixels, having the net classify, and then coloring that pixel according to the classification, and what usually happens is something like what an SVM would produce: large contiguous regions of the same class.

But when the input space is high dimension, and the net is super deep, who is to say what this classification looks like... My guess is it looks less like oil and water carefully poured in a bottle, and more like oil and water shaken vigorously in a bottle.

Do you have any citations about how NNs subdivide the input space, or how regular it is?

The way I have thought of it so far is that we humans subdivide the input space, then stick those blocks into a NN that could have huge Lipschitz bound, and observe the output of a highly irregular function.

When you say "What neural networks do is subdivide the input space and assign a label to it." It sounds more like subdividing the input space helps solve the NNs problem (minimizing the loss). But, it seems to me that that is not so related to minimizing the loss. (Partly because the NN never sees most of the input space during training, and neither is it relevant to what humans want: generalization)
Arguing about what's possible today while wilfully ignoring what's possible tomorrow. It almost feels like you are a GPT3 bot.

I wish we had a bot detector in place.
Until this I was typically defaulting to Apple products for privacy reasons.
This seems like a major issue to me. This is an ideal spy tool, disguised as an privacy-preserving feature.

Any government of a country with a large enough market for Apple, can force Apple to include hashes hashes into localized versions of OS.
Ask HN: Will Open-Source Survive?
I raise this question to understand if open source is viable going forward.

1. Increasing Complexity: Open source software is now beyond core libraries and into full solutions/products. The complexity and nature of the software inherently needs monetary support at a n enterprise scale. It is like running an art gallery or museum with no entry ticket.

2. Not Software Business: Running an open source company is not different from running a charity, you have to be very skilled in fund raising as there is no product sales. Selling services around open source don't have many successful examples

3. Customer expectations: the fact that the value is being delivered for free is invisible to customers. Their expectations of quality, speed, feature, user experience will always be exactly the same as for big $ commercial software. Also OSS might even be subject to a greater sense of entitlement by its users.

4. Not a viable marketing route: the main rise for OSS popularity was driven by strategic use of open source by some companies to gain fast adoption and visibility. This strategy is not much valid anymore as OSS is now way beyond MVP or fremium level of complexity and Customer expectation.

5. SaaS world: As we move towards a SaaS world, it also means the market is moving towards closed package software days. The customer is happy and the marketing engine will drive that ever more. So OSS will be exploited by SaaS (most if not all enterprise software is moving towards SaaS) players. They have zero incentive to give back.

6. No one pays: As mentioned before it needs dedicated fund raising efforts akin to a charity. No one pays if you throw a donate button and expect people to be honorable. Enterprises that pay for OSS are as rare as enterprises which contribute to societal well being. It is in fact the natural tendency of any commercial enterprise to not spend where it is not legally necessary.

So what do you think, will OSS survive given this ecosystem? If yes, in what form will it emerge? What will be the driving motivation behind it?
What people would accept or not it's speculation.

People in the west were not supposed to accept a lockdown, yet they did. They were not supposed to accept election fraud, corruption, high crime rate, yet they regularly do as well.

Acceptance is really not the hard part in this problem.

Being organized in such a way that the global long term interest of the majority is only a concern when it can be positively correlated to the short term interest of a minority, is.
> The fundamentally different value mentioned is Communism.

Right, because American universities are so hostile to communism.
Supporting free Hong Kong and Taiwan isn’t really comparable to supporting ISIS. The “he is an anti Chinese racist” rhetoric seems stretched by the fact that he spent so much time there, his romantic partner is Chinese, he seems to have a friends network there.
Wondering If this implementation is related to the chat control effort in the EU:

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/message-screening/?la...

Just installing graheneos on a pixel, writing this from my Librem 14 (got it after the M1, the phoning home of apple apps, the new lockdown of kernel extensions).

Goodbye Apple.
It is very help full for new startup idea to speed up their development. Nice!! Congrats.
From the document

>> The neural network is taught to generate descriptors that are close to one another for the original/perturbed pair. Similarly, the network is also taught to generate descriptors that are farther away from one another for an original/distractor pair. A distractor is any image that is not considered identical to the original. Descriptors are considered to be close to one another if the cosine of the angle between descriptors is close to 1.

Can someone explain what this means? Am I to understand that the algorithm plots image descriptors or hashes of them along a 2-dimensional circle, and somehow iterates until the way it places them on that circle results in similar images being closer to each other?
A reduced feature/keyword set does not a simple language make. C is smaller, but definitely not simpler. Also definition of simplicity is context dependent, I would say in many scenarios C++ turns out to be the simpler choice.
I use the build-in google chrome 'remember my password' vault feature thing for most sites.

I started getting "hey was this you? if not, you are hacked. nothing you can do." and "hey, we're just kind of casually asking you to change your password, not because we think you got hacked or anything, but because you know, 2021."

linkedin was the most recent offender.
reddit.
at least one other - like instagram or something.

i rarely/never used 2 'accounts/usersname' i had on reddit.
linkedin i use a lot.
instagram, basically never.

i'm trying to find the current link, other than comical lack of security of all these sites.

it's almost like why bother having a login page at all?

i did have to turn on my corporate email 2FA recently, company rules. i couldn't complain because....security is a joke everywhere it seems.
Minorities in Toronto definitely risk being jailed and mistreated without consequence.

Killed or raped, probably not.
Bitcoin > Police State Paper
So the best way to fight totalitarian regimes is to remain silent? That will work for sure, as it always did
I don’t understand. If the government can just claim you had CP without proof, then they can just… do that? They don’t need Apples system.

Especially since anything flagged by this system is manually reviewed by Apple. So, there would exist counter-evidence for the govt claim.

Don’t misunderstand, I see how this system is ripe for abuse. I was just commenting on the specific claim that there will be automated SWAT call outs (presumably in the US).
So they can claim only Pedos use android
The hardest thing to do is explain that experience to people. Also having grown up in the burbs, it wasn't until adulthood in SF and Europe that I realized how materially different 'walking' can be.

It's shocking, because it's something so fundamental, right in front of our eyes, that's just hard to fathom.

So 1) we have to think about how we communicate this and 2) we may want to thin of ways to even adapt the Burbs to something more ammenable.

On the later, it seems crazy, but people do like convenience, and expansion of commuter lines may bode very well. People will use transit if it's faster and more convenient.

If Dallas were connected to Planto etc. through something fairly quick, clean and safe it would transform the city. Not holding my breath.
I investigated EBS snapshot as an option, but there were two problems. 1) cost as i mentioned initially - for just AOSP source tree alone you are looking at > 250GB and at a cost of $0.05 per GB you are already at > $10/month and 2) EBS snapshots lazy load from S3 which gives TERRIBLE performance which means you end up with far far slower builds. AWS released a feature "EBS Fast Snapshot Restore" to workaround this issue, but it's extremely expensive.
It's like you think everyone operates under US law, or don't give a shit about anyone who doesn't.
@navd @buf Was Stripe Radar enabled? If I understand right the source of the problem is that a scammer is using a stolen card to make purchase on your platforms?
Site/link is dead.
Nope. Nada. None. Zilch.

But enjoy singing some bad national anthem and crying while waving a flag or maybe killing someone who disrespects your flag, or whatever it is the patriotic kids do today.

We really have no country or stable home right now. Once we get to Spain we will love being there, but we will still hold no sense of patriotism.

I'm not willing to fight, murder, or die for a nation. Some people are wired that way, violent ideation of being a hero, dying for god and country or whatever, but it ain't me.
Anyone can already do that by sending a iOS user an incriminating message via airdrop or sharing an album. Unless this search is limited to only photos saved to the personal Photos Album, all apps on the iOS device become an evidence plant attack vector including the built in mail app, third party apps that can accept image messages or have planted illegal images, and even iMessage.
I'd suggest not to be a contrarian, despite it is quite a captivating meme.

You do have goals; try to follow them swimming with the (general) people, and with their social/economic systems, rather than against.
I guess it's back to SMS then
I think that if someone is well-off and yet they see a lot of people around them that aren't, it's pretty natural to feel uncomfortable about that. Like "why do I live in a house and not in a tent?" Luck plays a role, but that's not a satisfying answer. One way people deal with it is to construct a narrative to explain their success -- maybe they're smarter, or worked harder, or avoided the personal vices they see among the poor.

Those narratives aren't necessarily entirely wrong, and I don't see those people as particularly evil, they just might have a few blind spots. For instance, they might not realize that even though they worked hard for their success, they also had a lot of second chances when they failed and they might not have had some of the roadblocks to success that others had, such as serious health problems, or a bad family situation, or prejudice, or violence, or lack of education, or lack of leisure time.

I've never been to Delhi, so this is just based on my own observation of people in the United States. I assume this is probably one of those aspects of human nature that are more-or-less the same everywhere.
She just gave you an icy look of doom.
Apple PR at work, watch out for these media contacts trying to cover for Apple, previously daringapplebar and now this.
In 18 months of use, I’ve done all except three charges on my regular old 120v outlet in the garage. I just plug in at night when I go under 60% charge, usually every few days.

I ordered the adapter, outlet, and new wire to move an unused electric dryer service to the garage as soon as I got the car, but haven’t bothered to install them. It just isn’t necessary. (And I dislike taking the face cover off the main breaker box, nothing rational, I just don’t like being that close to the live circuits. If I need to charge a lot overnight, it’s a 30 minute job to install the service.)

For the upfront cost… I had been waiting for the little Jeep pickup truck, but when it came out and I got done adding the basic functional packages it was well up in the Tesla price range. (I’m keeping an elderly F250 out of the crushers for my occasional pickup truck needs, but I could just as easily rent one from the big box hardware store when I need it for less than I pay in insurance on the F250.)
Except you just turned a 2 day drive into 3 days. 24 hour drive from DFW->LA. That takes 1 overnight stay now in sane driving conditions for a solo driver. You now just kicked it into a 2nd overnight.

>running in to pee while the pump is running
anyone doing this deserves to be ripped off for leaving an authorized pump to do whatever someone wants to do while you're not there. no different than leaving the keys in the ignition and the car running while you "run" in for a sec. you're also being rude to the next person in line.

anyways, back to my original point is that an EV is great for in town day-to-day use or maybe shorter hops. cross country trips would make me consider renting ICE powered just do i don't loose more days than i already am for driving vs flying.
You’ve reminded me of that xray spex song, “I live off you”.
You can disable it by turning off iCloud Photos.

For now at least, who knows about the future since it's on-device and doesn't actually require you to upload anything.
How would it scale with the number of cores? 3950x should make relatively short work of it, or wouldn't it?
Reads more like a public relations piece in disguise of an "internal memo". Maybe it was designed to be "leaked", and so quickly?
There is no viable option if you want a quality smartphone.

Androids spy on you already.

Apple will be spying on you.

The dark side of economies of scale.
Arguing that someones point is false, simply because it contains a fallacy, is also a fallacy: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Fallacy_fallacy
The difference is that previously you had to be targeted and intercepted. Thinking that someone is listening was something that paranoid people would do.

Now your device is actually watching you and reporting you. Today only for child porn but there’s no technical reason of it not being extended to anything.
Last time I checked it still was required.
Newpipe is a better option.
> Stopping a visitor at the border for social posts of acquaintances is almost as bad as writing nasty emails threatening to do so.

Why is it not the same or worse? Now I suffer consequences for the totally legal actions of somone I know?
I've been using awesome wm with a slightly customized settings. This plus vimium gets me to >99% keyboard only. When I have to use a Mac, my slow down is so noticeable.