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Energy will not be free for quite a while, if ever.

And while energy for a single flight of a single drone is minimal, having tens of thousand of delivery drones, operating 24/7 (or 16 hrs a day) is another matter.

Even if cost of production of energy is 0 (and it's not. even for renewable, solar panels need cleaning and occasional replacement, wind turbines need regular maintenance, etc.), there is a large cost of maintaining electric grid.

In some places on earth, local solar installations, might be enough, but for most of the planet, we will still need normal grid, and probably even expand them, if we plan to migrate everything to green electricity.

I don't know how much electricity you pay where you live, but for me, only around 50% of the bill is actual usage.

And since other forms of energy(like gasoline and natural gas) provide significant tax income, this will eventually mean governments will raise electric taxes to compensate, when and if electricity replaces them.

So I would not be surprised if cost of electricity stayed the same.
Oh I dunno, I let it take over my life for a couple months, took it as far as I'd care to, and then moved on.

I actually prefer Dyson Sphere Program over factorio at this point.

They're addictive, but for good reason and in ways you don't realize until you experience it.
I expected more intelligent discussion of this from HN. I’m quite disappointed. Every comment dismisses what he is saying and I guess that is what we should expect from a culture that doesn’t realize how bizarrely different and unsustainable their era is.
Either a PinePhone or a Librem 5. There's not much more choice than that atm.
And C only has one Datatype. It’s up to you how to treat it.
But it said they use a "perceptual hash" - so it's not just looking for 1:1, byte-for-byte copies of specific photos, it's doing some kind of fuzzy matching.

This has me pretty worried - once someone has been tarred with this particular brush, it sticks.
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You mean Tacocopter was a joke?!?!

https://tacocopter.com/
How practical was the idea? Anybody thinks this is the future?
I don’t see why a circumventable default block of random executables is bad. People (even technically adept ones, who are a small minority) are very easy to fool. Depending on how easy it is to allow execution of such a program (which is a UX problem) it can indeed be what prevents a botnet on a significant number of computers.
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Here’s the thing. It is not our problem that google doesn't want to make alerts less confusing.

They are planning to drop support for alert, confirm and prompt. Not in iframes, but everywhere. How are they a security problem?
Where do you get this from? Nothing on google says that

https://www.goodcarbadcar.net/2021-us-vehicle-sales-figures-...
No need for GPS or cameras.

Cats are stone cold hunter killers. Almost brainless too. They kill anything that moves and is edible.

We all know cats that sometimes just kill for the sake of killing (practice??) and don’t even eat the prey.

It’s like the cats brain is just made for hunting and killing and very little else. Just watch how stupid cats are in cat videos — except when they are hunting.

I have a cat at one of my homes and one day I went up on the roof for some maintenance stuff. The roof was littered with the partially eaten bodies of almost every kind of animal that was edible and smaller than the cat.

Then when you come home she curls up in your lap and purr for your next cat video. Yes, even your docile house cat - put her outside and bam! Death and destruction. Thank god they don’t hunt us.

Don’t get me wrong - I love cats.
> “The best living metaphor for it all is that you had some bloke on the other side of the planet telling you what to do and then just leaving,” the source claims.

This is commonly known as seagull management: fly in, squawk a lot, shit over everything, and then fly off.
The two sides proposed by your argument are only logically valid opposites if you can logically/mathematically guarantee that this technology will only ever be used for detecting photos depicting blatant and obvious sex abuse. Since you cannot, the entire argument is void. I'm not siding with abusers, I simply want arbitrary spies staying the hell away from my computers.
Tacos are more drone-friendly than burritos.

https://tacocopter.com/
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Which is great, but what we need is campaign wise transparency. Facebook is actually ahead of its competition in that you can see things like advertising spending, as an example I can see how much each Danish political party spend on Facebook campaigns. Of course I could already do this by looking in their budgets, but it’s still more than other social media platforms.

What we need, however, is it to be able to pull data from each campaign, see what democracies they target and how many times they appear on peoples wall. It doesn’t have to go into “moksly saw this 15 times” more in the range of “in the group of x, y individuals were shown this add z times at these hours” and so on.

This would make it more akin to the advertisement data we have on almost all other mediums. I personally think we should require something similar from Google, but they manage to sneak below political and public notice enough for that to have widespread support.
This way you will produce students that act even more capriciously and arbitrarily toward others.
I noticed the same thing these last few days ... I thought about the same answer as well and it's pathetic to monetize things by taking down quality first ... they're gonna bleed users.
Some 'predators' are dumb. They'll keep using iPhones, get caught, and have their mugshots posted in the press. Great PR for the policy makers who decided this. Such stories will be shoved in the faces of the privacy advocates who were against it, to the detriment of their credibility.
If you work with embedded hardware, this isn't exactly strange or weird.

Even before the Raspberry Pi compute module was a thing, there were already many vendors around (e.g. Kontron, Phytec, Toradex, ...) who sell SO-DIMM form factor modules with the entire system on it and a breakout board to plug it in to. AFAIK the usual deal is that you get the design files for the breakout board, customize it for your application and simply plug in the vendor sourced module (semi-relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1053/; given that the RPI compute module is a thing for some years now I considered this something that "people know by now").

To be honest, I've never seen one with an x86 SoC on it tough, instead of something ARM based. I would consider that strange or weird, but having bought a BifferBoard[1] way back when, I don't find it that surprising that x86 hardware of that size exists.

[1] https://sites.google.com/site/bifferboard/
You ever had the flu? Because this is what covid19 is mutating into, and predictably so. More contagious, less lethal. And vaccination will pressure the virus to mutate further (this too has been predicted, eg by the Imperial College). Should we react to every new variant with a lockdown? For how long, the next 10 years? Whats the endgame here?

And calling it a "vaccination" is being generous, considering that after 6 months efficacy is down significantly, like 20% of original levels. Its more like a therapeutic. This too is similar to a flu vaccination. How many shots per year do you want to take? For how many years? Don't forget that every time you increase the risk of an auto-immune reaction. Also keep in mind that vaccination doesn't even seem to protect other people by decreased virus shedding.

You are comparing an experimental "vaccine", not approved by the FDA, with no long-term studies, where the companies that make them have immunity from unforeseen consequences, that rapidly declines in usefulness over mere months and which is "preventing" a disease that leaves the vast majority of people unaffected anyway to eg Polio, that can leave people paralyzed for life and where we have an effective vaccine that reliably works for decades and for which we have long-term experience.

How are you people thinking you're making a clever & well-informed point. Your reasoning amounts to "infection bad, why you want infection".
This is about CSRF. Ever heard the phrase blinded by hate or blind hatred?
A car travels at grade, crossing numerous pedestrian paths. You need to cross streets that cars use. You do not need to cross flight paths that drones use. A drone can fail and land at grade, yes, but that's a major failure, whereas it only takes one misstep to walk into oncoming traffic.
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Report on the operation and effectiveness of the Aussie COVIDSafe tracing app [pdf]
Yup, there is now a single API call for planting an evidence onto dissident's phone and sending a SWAT team to retrieve him.

Authoritarian regimes love this.
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California had only 95,000 people when it became a state. At the time of statehood,South Dakota had 350,000 people while North Dakota had 190,000 people. There were political and economic differences (and a rivalry) between the two, due to among other things the structure of the rail networks, from the beginning: https://time.com/4377423/dakota-north-south-history-two. Both were growing very rapidly, and the southern part of the Dakota territory had held a separate constitutional convention. Harrison reportedly shuffled the bills of statehood before signing so nobody knew which became a state first—a sign of the rivalry.

Idaho had 90,000 people, and Montana had 142,000 (and was expected to vote Democrat). Montana, Washington, Wyoming, and Idaho had been separate territories for 35-50 years. This was more than many of the more eastern states had at the time of statehood. (E.g. Tennessee became a state at 75,000 people.)

We think of these states as fungible “flyover country” today, but when they were created they had very distinct identities. (Wyoming for example was a highly progressive state that allowed women to vote 50 years before the 19th amendment.) The economies were tied closely to the land (mineral deposits here or there) and the shape of the country’s rail networks. The perfectly square boundaries are somewhat artificial, but the states themselves represented quite distinct population centers and were quite populous for the time.
Re: poorer - my partner needed the car on the day I had scheduled a jab, so I had to walk/train. The appointment, as a whole, cost an entire morning. I can work around that, but the practical issues are obvious.

A friend's anecdotal evidence was that skepticism was U-shaped as a function of age - there were older black people much more likely to have close experience of mistreatment. For reference I'm not in the US and some still bring up tuskegee, but also more typical things that do apply locally - "oh some skinheads beat you up? What a shame. Might be nasty if you made an issue of it" type stuff. Younger generations have had less mistreatment - not none, but less - and, like everyone else, are divided between pragmatic decision makers and conspiracy theorists.

Of course, if you're from certain regions of Pakistan, there is much more recent evidence of vaccines specifically being misused, and was also discussed recently on HN (as a point of pedantry, the people in question did get real vaccines. Still pretty awful). I don't believe this has had as much impact as certain sections of the media with a fetish for diaspora narratives and a poor grasp of geography would like.
Is this some sort of cleverly detailed parody of techbro "market disruption" startup types? The amount of cliched jargon between really ambiguous hype text is almost eye watering.

"Chaos pilots"? I mean seriously?
How about an Apple Air Tag on a collar?
I have 2 cats in the past, but I still think letting them out is the best way to have them!
Why do you think that? There are plenty of whitepapers on fooling NNs by changing random pixels by a bit, so that the picture is not meaningfully changed for a person, but the computer will label it very differently. Do note that these are not cryptographic hashes because they have to recognize the picture even when compressed differently, cropped a bit, etc.
It hurts how much that resonates with me, especially the constant editing. I'll probably be editing this post for two hours and attempt to tomorrow but then realize that it's too late.
The union was good for them as long as union was supporting the slavery. They were perfectly ok with forcing free states to return escaped slaves. They were perfectly ok with the system in which north blacks could be kidnaped to slavery and had little legal recours.

The union stopped being good enough for them, when it stopped being perfect.
Apologies. The pricing is indeed $90/year or $10/month and the marketing site is wrong. However, I’m the coming weeks I’m releasing a new site/branding and more functionality which will fix this. Thanks for pointing it out!
You could you exclusively free software instead. It respects your freedoms.
A country can collect a list of people sharing any content they put on a hash list.

Like gay porn, 'save Khashoggi' meme, or a photo from documentary about missing Uighurs.

It's hard to imagine how this could be misused, right?
> Why would you expect that a brand-new, mostly-unregulated technology would be safer than one that is over a century old with a lot of safety regulation in place?

Because they have a very different risk profile. Regulations are trading heavy risks with cars. Drones are smaller and don't share space with humans on the ground during normal operations. That means they "only" have to coordinate with other air traffic while not falling out of the air at too high a rate.
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There still exist banks that provide you with an RSA token. If a bank does not give you the option, how can one (sorry) "of the right segment" have business with it? You look at the service provider, you see all kinds of bad signals, you hire it anyway: this is a big part of what is destroying us!

Restraining myself to write something very strong about phone security and general user expectancy and duly expectancy (low) - let us stress again the legal side: how do you prove to a bank that, in case of theft from the account, your device was safe? People who see their money stolen then have controversies with the bank about responsibility.

BTW: PSD2 has been, in many parts, a huge nightmare. Furthermore, healthy parts of it for some reason have not been implemented.
this is true, but it stinks, so you know its doing it.

If there was no added smell, I could easily leak 66 grams into the house without knowing.
Tesla Owner Billed over $14,000 for Accidental Full Self-Driving Purchase
> They are planning to drop support for alert, confirm and prompt. Not in iframes, but everywhere.

Can you cite this? Or is this just wild speculation?
Decoherence theory explains that if you have an entangled system that is not sufficiently isolated it will pull in the environment (including the researchers) quickly into the superposition. This explains why a human won't see a "blur" or whatever if you look at Schrödingers Cat. But this seems apparent from the start unless you subscribe to the Copenhagen interpretation literally (something I'm pretty sure not even most of the earliest QM researchers did).

Since decoherence is just a linear (normal) process in the linear QM realm, you still need to postulate the Born rule and subscribe to one of the interpretations thereof, even if you're an Everettian, to make predictions. I think this is the main open ended question in QM..

But sure, there are many fringe theories going around and doing tests to falsify them would be good, it just seems steep to do it at $1B and the experiment only pushes the limit quantitatively, not qualitatively (as the same experiments are done on Earth regularly with lighter objects).
Is that kind of extension to trademark even legal anywhere?

That's so aweful how pissing territory behaviors are driving mindset of people involved in intellectual works.
>Who in good conscience would ask a tech worker to give away their labour for free, in the name of everyone else’s freedom?

Here's the hope: the tech workers doing it for 'free' because they're scratching their own itch. So it would not be an act of onerous charity. The techies make some free open source decentralised clone of Reddit, say, then some folks among knitting communities, origami enthusiasts, parents groups, etc. copy it for free and pay to run it on their own hardware.
A significant fraction of public sector workers are in the top 10% by compensation, and with job security that has a market value hard to quantify. I would qualify that as elite. They are also not a tiny percentage of the population. They have the soft power that comes with being part of a bloc constituting millions of people.
> drop support for standards

alert was never a W3C standard. It was a non-standard browser feature that happened to be widely implemented in the early days of the web. It was never part of any planned/agreed addition of well-thought-out features to the web.

The only time it has been "standardized" is when the WHATWG recently decided it would be a good idea to describe the behaviour of all the legacy non-standard browser APIs that have been lying around in browser implementations since the early days of Javascript's existence. The WHATWG have strictly described this behaviour for alert within the "User Prompts" section of the HTML specification: a new section to describe an ancient function.
Booking Holdings Reports Financial Results for 2nd Quarter 2021 [pdf]
Out of the top 100 banks, 55 have invested in crypto/blockchain companies
I'd love to throw an investment into something like this with GUI, marketing and supply chain resources to build a solid computer under $300 for a developing world.

Go up against Fuchia and Google hardware in less time and with more clarity.
> If you know the exceptions to the untrustable devices, kindly share brand/model/OS/tweak.

https://puri.sm/products/librem-5
A $167M loss vs a $122M profit last year.
In a paranoid totalitarian ethno-state I don't think there's any real correction for minorities, only oppression. And the facilities are used accordingly.
Blocking aggressive Chinese crawlers/scrapers/bots
> If regulation was focused on function it would be less expensive and yield better results for society.

... and that would actually require that those in charge of regulations would be technical enough to understand the complexities involved. If you're that good with technical matters and can confidently reason about the wider second- and third-order effects, you are likely to have a bright - and better compensated - future in the industry at large.

If you are a regulator, you have to confront two facts. 1) that the most competent will either never be available or will leave at the first opportunity; and 2) that box-ticking is much easier to measure.

In the end, you have to ask yourself who are you left with?
Sales on China and wealthy arabic totalitarian regimes. Customer asks, customer gets.
Private companies deliver network services "better, faster, and cheaper" by cherry-picking the economically-viable aspects of service, and leaving the noneconomic segments to either the public sector or to be unserved at all.

Universal service --- whether telegraph, rail, telephone, air, postal service, or data networking --- doesn't have that option. It serves both the dense, high-margin zones and the low-density, low-value outlying regions, because it has the interest of the common weal as a whole, not merely profit.

Worse, the private sector then attempts to change legislation and regulation to impose greater burdens on the public-sector services they compete with (as with USPS pension liability funding obligations).

Government-run postal services are tremendously efficient, effective, fast, and reliable ... at least until they became actively sabotaged from within.
JavaScript game competition for 1 Ethereum
It being part of every browser makes it a defacto standard.
Wouldn't that be a real crapshoot anyway, if you're thinking in the timeframes relevant for financial independence? Surely you're not expecting your crypto portfolio to predictably appreciate by 6-8% per year over a 10 year timeframe with large variance.

The potential for going much higher and going down by 90% is in a different league.
In Korea McDonalds has a long history of delivery. A typical franchise will have 10 red and yellow electric scooters parked outside. Typical delivery time is 15 min or less.
I get 2 hours of my life back every day by not commuting, plus the saving on lunches and fuel.

And seeing my young children develop, being there for all the moments I used to just see in photos with my other kids.

Energy in the evenings because I didn’t kill time in traffic.

Never going back.
While we are at it. I also don't care if your bosses mother died or not. Since she is your bosses mother, she likely had an age where death is lurking around the corner anyway.
Out of interest, why can't file system implementations be portable? A shared core that exists as a library that can be tested in userland, and which can then be used by a lightweight shim that implements the kernel-facing interfaces. But I haven't seen any file systems implemented this way.
Imagine all the XSS examples it would break!
https://datafuse.rs/overview/architecture/
Funny how he complains about missing the German language setting and proposing a new system where my language (Dutch) is completely missing... I will stick to Gnome...
The problem is that people take on debt. With debt you also get the financial shackles to get something out of your degree. You can argue that the liberal art degrees provide useful education but I don't think they are worth the price they charge.

The idea that you intentionally pay huge sums for something whose value shouldn't depend on how much it costs is ridiculous and only acceptable if paying those huge sums will also help you pay them back.
> allowing equal free speech is definitely not an effective & consistent way of reaching the proper & correct consensus.

I disagree profoundly with this assessment. I believe that a well researched and articulated position doesn't need to fear objection at all, it will grow with it in any case.

There are interests at play here that will deny established knowledge for self-serving purposes. These conflicts of interest need transparency. That is as true for companies as it is for any committee.
We know perceptual hashing and cryptography have incompatible requirements. Think of an image, the same image with 1 pixel changed, and a very different image. A perceptual hash should say 1 and 2 were related and not 3. Cryptographers call that failing a chosen plaintext attack.
Ask HN: Is there any software that can be considered finished?
Hello all,

We recently had a discussion at work about how software decays. That is, if one does not actively work on a piece of software it will eventually fall into ruin. This can happen e.g. because expertise is slowly rotated out of the business, dependencies break or the software can't be run on newer operating systems.

This begged the question: Is there any software that is essentially done? Where the last commit to the code base was done eons ago and where we expect this software to work for the foreseeable future.

The closest thing I can think of is projects that are feature complete. But they still need active patching.

Cheers
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