skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is true. The research is good. But the headline, the article itself, and especially this comment by the author

> Our apologies for not making this clear. The photovoltaic effect was increased by 1000 times compared to previous output achieved from cells made of ferroelectric crystals, not from prevailing solar cells made of silicon or other conventional materials.

misleadingly make it seem like they made 1000x progress from the current best.
Yep. I live in the first world and have forst world problems as - I assume - does the person you originally replied to and - I guess - you too.

Point is you cannot condemn the person you replied without knowing them.

I can make a huge difference with small changes without making neither nyself nor my kids into laughing stock.

If my lifestyle results in 50%, 25% or even just 10% lower CO2 releases that is huge compared to what is possible for others.

Thinking about the fact that maybe I still release much more CO2 than the average Nigerian isn't productive and doesn't do anything good.

I'll keep doing the things I can:

- keep my hobbies smart (I repair stuff, create software and grow fruit and vegetables at home and together with friends on a patch on a nearby farm)

- cook food from scratch

- teach my kids not to waste

- teach my kids the joy of simple things like hiking and tenting

- when time permits: shooting at the local shooting range

- when it existed: volunteer at the local refugee center

- and other inexpensive, interesting activities that aren't crazy wasteful.
How much is this promise worth?

In flip-flop, Apple bans app used by Hong Kong protestors - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/apple-approves-t...

Apple deliberately places itself in a position that make their users powerless against them, then cries when governments predictably force them to abuse that position.
"Can the CSAM detection system in iCloud Photos be used to detect things other than CSAM?

Our process is designed to prevent that from happening. CSAM detection for iCloud Photos is built so that the system only works with CSAM image hashes provided by NCMEC and other child safety organizations."

What a load of nonsense. "We're not technically capable of tweaking this system in any way". Why would they say this instead of "We pledge not to do that", or at least "We have no intention to do that"?
McDonald’s deserves to go bankrupt, and will probably do so at some point if they run their business this way.
That's exactly the point of a border adjustment. China out-competes with clean manufacturing because it is more willing to pollute. Western countries should tax goods that are manufactured in polluting countries so they don't enjoy a competitive advantage over clean alternatives. This is probably "necessary but insufficient" sort of thing, but it solves the problem you're highlighting.
> Carbon taxes disproportionately hurt low income people.

If the carbon tax collected was re-distributed uniformly as a tax credit (each person gets the same tax credit), would it still hurt low income people?

I Googled this and it seems like it should help people with low incomes, but maybe there's something wrong with the underlying reasoning.

https://aneconomicsense.org/2020/08/06/a-carbon-tax-with-red...
> Why would a shitty app promote more sales?

Because part of it being shitty is obnoxiously advertising you financial products, making it hard to perform the tasks you want with your money without being upsold something, and making it near-impossible to use your account without going through the app/webapp (or a visit to the bank, or the ATM - which is also pushing ads).
> Yet. Once it's on the device, it's a MUCH smaller step to use it in other ways

We crossed this bridge a long time ago. Apple already has on device Neural Nets processing everyone one of your on device photos. That’s what powers spotlight search and “photo memories”.

Simple fact of the matter is that this isn’t the top of some slippery slope, it’s half way down one. A slope we started down when we figured out how to put powerful Neural Nets on mobile devices in people’s pockets.

> Until it's not. Once again, once it's in place, it's a lot easier for malevolent actors (governments) to force it to be used other ways.

Which is why Apples current solution makes it cryptography impossible to decrypt photos until a large enough number of suspect photos have been uploaded.
Are you claiming that China will force Apple to scan the phones of US citizens now?
A fine might actually be lower cost than losing freedom to binary blobs, so there's that.
Gravity does not actually provide a force in the sense that a sailboat would require. (It acts on all parts of the vessel equally.)

There is some work on the idea of using both a photon sail and a magnetic sail on a single vessel. In many interesting locations, these would push in different directions, allowing you to sail.
Would requiring OCSP stapling fix 1 without the privacy concerns?
I find this a good way, where they expose their resources via tools that makes improving OpenStreetMap data with data they have access to easier. This isn't exposing their maps directly, so it does not come with their assumptions.
There's something hilarious in adding a sun so you can improve the efficiency of your solar panels, so that you can switch to renewable energy and offset warming caused by your current single sun (and polution).
It's more that some people are willing to tolerate risk that others aren't. The virus is really dangerous if you're old, fat, and almost dead anyway.
Coming soon. Illegal meme hash scanning
> No one is willing to change their own behavior, they want other people to change.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

A tax is a practical way to address this. Internalizing the externalities is the way the wiki puts it.
> As you know if you read enough about banking, and as the intro points out, banks already invest your balance in risky stuff.

Not really. They invest primarily in mortgages which they package up and sell to Fannie Mae.

More importantly checking and saving deposits are insured by the FDIC so the risk of loss for the end consumer is zero below $250K (per account!).

Investment accounts would have SPIC insurance against insolvency but the actual risk of market loss is borne entirely by the end consumer. If you’re riding your mortgage payment on whether you don’t lose in any given month, things could get ugly. Ditto for the tax consequences of churning to cover bills.
I believe the want this update exactly to enable E2E encryption.

In this way the can get rid of the keys on their servers and still find pedo pictures.
Bingo. Carbon taxes in Canada really function as yet another power grab, with the federal government promising to rebate the taxes back to Canadians.

In effect it's a case of "Just trust us with the money... we promise we'll give it back", which will obviously change as soon as more money is needed to fuel their insatiable appetite for spending. It's not even a question of "if", it's "when".

In practice, this means much higher home heating costs in areas where there aren't practical alternatives, higher transportation costs, higher costs for food production, and pretty much price inflation on any consumer goods that are transported by road, rail, or air... which is all of them.

It makes Canadian industry less competitive than ever at a time when GDP per capita is lagging badly behind the US.
> The value of the Apache and BSD-family of licenses for me is that we have source code that we can improve together

Which "we"?!? The thing that differentiates the Apache and BSD-family licenses from the GPL that you can improve the source code for yourself, and not share your improvements. There is no "together".

It's like the old quip about keeping an open mind: "But not so open that your brains fall out". Sure, they're "even more open" than the GPL -- too "open" to preserve everyone's freedom, which is what the whole idea was about. Your definition of "value" serves fundamentally anti-freedom values.
I've answered both your original questions multiple times:

> What is a "living salary"?

> If I'm a single mom with 3 kids, is the "living salary" the same as a single 20 year old who lives at home?

Your diversion with focusing on a new totally unfruitful topic is not my problem.
> It's very clear that US consumption and economic activity is directly tied to GHG emissions globally.

This is true today, but it will not be true in the future.

In the past and today, it was the contention both of fossil fuel interests and of degrowthers that emissions and economic activity are inseparable.

However, we are showing that that's not true. If you look back since 2008, sure, the big economic contractions showed big drops in emissions. But also, with economic expansion, we are lowering emissions, just at a lower rate.

And in fact, the true decoupling of GHG and GDP will involve a spectacular amount of economic activity. A huge number of jobs for everything from the obvious like deploying wind turbines and batteries and solar panels and expanding grid distribution and transmission, to less obvious stuff like insulating homes and installing heat pumps in place of natural gas.

There is another path, with massive economic growth, that results in complete decoupling of GHG and GDP. This is the easiest path in terms of lifestyle changes, but the most difficult path in terms of upsetting entrenched powerful interests.
Depends on the package you buy. I have a "lifetime subscription", so theoretically I'll never need to pay for an update.

...but then newer devices only work with newer versions of the service, for which you haven't got a lifetime subscription. Eventually, your old TomTom stops working and your subscription is now worthless so you have to buy a new one.
I agree that it does feel a bit paradoxical, but reversing a product for repair purposes verses reversing it for duplication are treated fundamentally differently by reasonable people. One is "right to repair" the other is "counterfeiting" or violating patents. To your statement,
"We have a right to repair, but you don't" -- this clearly is not what is intended by Taylor, to repair these Kytch diagnostic tools. If that were the case, I think that would carry.
That is true. However, Xiaomi is one of the only major sellers that allows you to unlock your bootloader, and they even allow you to re-lock your bootloader after.

So if you want a Xiaomi and care about security, simply remove the bootloader lock and install LineageOS. Some models are officially supported by LineageOS.
I have great hope for Zig. I agree with Andrew Kelley on most of the design decisions I've paid attention to.

>for loop can only be used to iterate over elements of an array, if you want to just execute a block N times, you need while…

The Zig docs suggest something like this:

var i: usize = 0;
while (i < 10) {
i += 1;
}

Is there a plan to provide a mechanism to stop "i" from remaining in scope after the end of the loop? I couldn't find anything relevant with a quick web search.

I use integer iterating for-loops a lot in C. I just checked a 5000 line project of mine that deals with bitmaps. There are 100 occurrences of something like:

for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {

I think these would all become while-loops in Zig. Exposing 100 variables to a larger scope than they need to be sounds like a source of bugs to me.
That Caliber 0100 really is amazing. Looks great too. I like HAQ, but there's something about Seiko designs that just doesn't do it for me.

All that said, I still think you get more for your $7,500 from a luxury mechanical watch. The accuracy of a watch matters so little to me at this point, that's it's almost gone negative; I kind of enjoy setting the time every once in a while. :D
Pardon me, but your post is just about virtue signalling or you're missing the point entirely.

If you increase the taxes for something, you will drop the demand and, therefore, consumption. It doesn't matter whether OP will change his/her behaviour, it matter that we, as a planet of people taking X flights per year, will reduce our flights by Y% due to tax.

I don't want to change my behaviour because that doesn't fix anything. I want to be forced to changed my behaviour, along with everyone else on the planet, through taxation for which I am happy to vote for and support with all my being.
The propeller is being used a forward motion compensator.

At a standstill, the wind just acts on the entire vehicle including the stationary propeller, and sets the whole thing in motion.

Without the propeller, going directly downwind would be limited by the speed of the wind acting directly on the vehicle which otherwise lacks any relevant moving parts for the wind to act on.

By adding the propeller, driven by the forward motion via the wheels, a part of the vehicle now moves backwards (imagine the cross-section of a propeller blade as it spins, its intersection with the wind travels backwards into the wind) to compensate for the forward movement, giving the wind something to act on even when the vehicle travels faster than the wind.
The claim is that the company makes more money from service than from the sale of the device. By having a device that makes servicing cheaper, they lose money, so they want to look at this device, update the machines to prevent this device from working, and prevent their right of repair.
For those who are tired of this culture, you might want to take a look at working on projects targeting poorer countries. There, backward compatibility with older technologies is what is prized, and newer technologies hinder adoption rates.
> code = data

I've heard before that it's only "code is data" and not "data is code" since the data you manipulate will not always be code. Is this correct?
They are direct and indirect, since both also have legislatures in addition to their referendum / initiative laws.
This invasive capability on the device level is a massive intrusion on everyone's privacy and there will be no limits for governments to expand it's reach once implemented. The scope will always broaden.

From the article:

Apple’s choices in this case, though, go in the opposite direction: instead of adding CSAM-scanning to iCloud Photos in the cloud that they own-and-operate, Apple is compromising the phone that you and I own-and-operate, without any of us having a say in the matter. Yes, you can turn off iCloud Photos to disable Apple’s scanning, but that is a policy decision; the capability to reach into a user’s phone now exists, and there is nothing an iPhone user can do to get rid of it.

A far better solution to the “Flickr problem” I started with is to recognize that the proper point of comparison is not the iPhone and Facebook, but rather Facebook and iCloud. One’s device ought be one’s property, with all of the expectations of ownership and privacy that entails; cloud services, meanwhile, are the property of their owners as well, with all of the expectations of societal responsibility and law-abiding which that entails. It’s truly disappointing that Apple got so hung up on its particular vision of privacy that it ended up betraying the fulcrum of user control: being able to trust that your device is truly yours.
It’s not practical if there isn’t the political will to implement it.
Do vulnerable people have any responsibility to avoid situations that they feel are dangerous?
> And its these chips that have the precision that bugs you so.

I never said it bugs me. I own a Citizen solar powered watch. I also own a mechanical watch and a smart watch. I would probably by a GPS synced watch.

I stand by my comment that everything is emotional.
What Xiaomi does is you have to login with a Mi account and use it for a week, and then a bootloader unlock can be issued.
I'm not going to push too hard on this, but I do want to quickly point out:

> Well they didn't /ban/ it for a start [...] and they didn't explicitly weaken it

Does not match up with:

> urges the industry to ensure lawful access for law enforcement and other competent authorities to digital evidence, including when encrypted

If you're pushing a company to ensure access to encrypted content based on a warrant, you are banning/weakening E2E encryption. It doesn't matter what they say their intention is/was, or whether they call that an outright ban, I don't view that as a credible defense.

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My feeling is that we have a lot of evidence from the past and present, particularly in the EU, about how filtering/reporting laws evolve over time (EU's CSAM filters within the ISP industry are a particularly relevant example here, you can find statements online where the EU leaders argue that expanding the system to copyright is a good idea specifically because the system already exists and would inexpensive to expand). I also look at US programs like the TSA and ICE and I do think their scope, authority, and restrictions have expanded quite a bit over the years. I don't agree that those programs came out of nowhere or that they're currently static.

If you don't see future abuse of this system as credible, or if you don't see a danger of this turning into a general reporting requirement for encrypted content, or if you don't think that it's credible that Apple would be willing to adapt this system for other governments -- if you see that stuff as fearmongering, then fine I guess. We're looking at the same data and the same history of government abuses and we're coming to different conclusions, so our disagreement/worldview differences are probably more fundamental than just the data.

To complain about some of the more extreme claims happening online (and under this article) is valid, but I feel you're extrapolating a bit here and taking some uncharitable readings of what people are saying (you criticize the article for "implying" things about the FBI, and the article doesn't even contain the words FBI). Regardless, the basic concerns (the "chilling effect of surveillance, the chance of slippery slope progression, the nature of proprietary systems, the chance of mistakes and bugs in code or human interception, the blurred line between 'things you own' and 'things you own which are closely tied to the manufacturer's storage and messaging systems'") are enough of a problem on their own. We really don't need to debate whether or not Apple will be willing to expand this system for additional filtering in China.

We can get mad about people who believe that Apple is about to start blackmailing politicians, but the existence of those arguments shouldn't be taken as evidence that the system doesn't still have serious issues.
Could you share where you get these predictions? In "Before the flood" a now dead astronaut explains, in front of a huge display showing currents, to L. di Caprio that Europe will likely go through another ice age when the Gulf stream deviates...
Yes, significantly, and almost entirely a result of individuals no longer using their cars.

Note these studies took place at various different times during the lockdown, and focus on different scopes of data:

https://pcc.uw.edu/blog/research/how-did-covid-19-affect-our...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-0797-x

https://earth.stanford.edu/news/covid-lockdown-causes-record...
> Critically, the item's in-flow position doesn't change.

This is the main problem with animations in CSS: they work as long as you don't have to reflow the document, and `transform: translate` is very good for that.

But try to slide a new item into a list (or animate as it's being removed), and you're in for a nasty surprise especially if you don't know the height of the element beforehand.
> You don't need an AK-47 to defend your home from burglars.

Could you elaborate on this? Why not a rifle?
Yes, I was paraphrasing, but the fact remains.

> But today

We're not talking about today, we're not just talking about the last ~50+ years. And moreover, even today they are pretty happy infringing on many other rights of their citizens.
I think you're getting at it, but at the limit, you throw out the air, which Derek did in the follow up. Once you have two surfaces moving relative to each other, energy can be extracted. Doesn't matter how fast you're going relative to the two surfaces.
As a consumer with insured deposits I want my bank to make the highest risk/reward bets they can get away with by law. Let them make their money that way so they don’t need to go after me for nickle and dime fees.

My deposits are always under the FDIC limit per account so outside the inconvenience, there’s no true risk of loss.
I mean technically that already happens in the UK - you can have sex legally at 16, but you can't take any pictures of you doing so until you are 18.
So 2 consenting 17 year old teenagers cannot send indecent images of themselves to each other.

I seem to remember a case from a few years back, about a girl who got herself on the register for sending her boyfriend a picture of her naked or something.

Although it seems that the Protection of Children Act [1] I think (I'm not sure, it's hard to actually read with all the brackets ...) let's you do it if you are married (which you can also do at 16)

Any sane person would know that teenagers do what teenagers do ... having someone potentially going through those photos is such a strange and wrong approach

[1] https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/37
Gaming at Warp Speed: Improving Aiming with Late Warp
Even if the bakery employee yelled "What?" at me, I would not hear snark in that. I would probably hear rude, but not snark. I would also be a little less surprised if it was a very busy place and the employee was visibly harried by the commotion. Or if I was just in any store in NYC.

There's a difference between terse and to the point vs being rude. It's not the terse response's fault the recipient cannot tell the difference.

Also, are we using snark as a synonym for rude nowadays? I'm going to need to update my definitions as I was always understanding snark to be sarcasm. I just want to be using the same words as everyone else on the internet so I don't offend. (that was snark).

Edit: actually, if I went to a store and someone asked "how can I help you today dear gentleperson?", I would immediately assume they themselves were being snarky. That's like saying "bless your heart". It's just dripping with snark.
I just typed in "Neil Cicierega Aerolong" into the YouTube web search bar and what you were looking for is the first thing that comes up, just the isolated video with that track.

Interestingly, on music.youtube.com, only the fan extended version and an unofficial video come up, not the plain track that shows up on normal full YouTube.

Which of those does the Google Home Mini search?
You can't rely on big media to report on important things, and even when they report on it, often they push some one-sided narrative.

One other example recently are the anti-covidism protests - they never talk to the protestors, instead they just show the reporter in safe space with cops and let him narrate how these protesters are just a bunch of extremists and conspiracy wackos.

You need to listen also to smaller, less captured sources f news, and preferably several of them.
Xiaomi has very premium phones, yes, but they still sell flagship killers and from all we know they will continue to do so for a while, unlike OnePlus, which only makes flagship and low specs, no flagship killers.
The disguise website has some more examples: https://www.disguise.one/en/

This seems to be good for the smaller shows and the best for interview type setting. I'm curious how it handles 2-3 hosts.

That 'ghost screen' that the BBC people were showing seems like a dimmed out screen which they have to interact with.

This has to make interviews more artificial feeling and requires experience to get used to talking into walls without fully seeing the other's expressions.

I could see the screen approach delivering a better production. But as others have mentioned it seems less flexible for a large scale production.
Google earth does have a time slider. My area has some 90+ year old aerial imagery. :)