skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On Android there's two kinds of security updates, vendor and platform. LineageOS will provide the monthly platform updates same as on a Pixel, but vendor updates will be the same as a the stock ROM. The basic UI only shows the oldest of the two. In any case it's going to be better than anything except a Pixel.
Lol.. if Facebook has them, that's because they're a sharing platform.

Meanwhile Apple's invited itself to look inside your storage device. Is this feature coming to MacOS, btw?

I thought Apple fanaticism was a 90s-00s thing.
Kusenko, who conceded the bet to Veritasium's Muller, only conceded that if you accelerate an object to wind speed and then the wind suddenly dies, your (low-drag) vehicle will continue downrange at a speed greater than the (now zero) speed of the wind on momentum alone.

That technicality, however, is a complete misunderstanding of how the vehicle works. The designer of the vehicle, Cavallaro, apparently only built the vehicle to prove the soundness of the physics to doubters, according to the narrative given by the Veritasium video. That designer offered a second $10,000 bet to Kusenko presumably simply excluding the technicality that Kusenko 'lost' to.

It would be a simple bet: that the vehicle can accelerate to and sustain a speed faster than any momentary peak wind speed during the race. Since the vehicle can reach 2.8x the wind speed, all it would take is the vehicle doing so while no gusts exceeded, say, 2.5 the average wind speed during the run.

The actual explanation, which apparently still escapes Kusenko:

If the wind speed is 10 knots from west to east, then this vehicle can accelerate to 10 knots going east by drag (east) alone. At that speed the apparent flow of air (from the reference frame of the vehicle) is zero, and so the drag (east) force on the vehicle is also now zero. At that point, you can rob energy from the wheels (manifesting as increased rolling resistance or west drag) to drive the propeller. This increased rolling resistance doesn't slow the craft, as long as the total rolling resistance is less than the drag force of the wind pushing us forward.

We use this energy to rotate a propeller to push air to the west. From the stationary/ground reference frame, the propeller will have the effect of slowing the airflow behind the vehicle from 10 knots relative to ground to 0 knots relative to ground. This energy -- robbed from the air -- pushes the vehicle forward (east) by Newton's third law.

The counterintuition is that the energy that pushes the vehicle forward is robbed from the wheels, i.e. from the vehicle itself. It's correct to understand that the acceleration from such a scheme would be (at best) a net zero.

The vehicle was already travelling at 10 knots, so the additional energy now being extracted from the wind makes the vehicle travel faster than 10 knots. Assuming the mass of the displaced air roughly equals the mass of the vehicle, this would get the vehicle to a total speed of 20 knots. As far as I understand it, you can then get the sqrt(2)~=1.4 multiplier from the pitch of the blades - the propeller blades do not face 'straight downwind' (perpendicular to the wind) but are angled. I think that this 1.4 * 2 * windspeed is what gives the 2.8 figure mentioned in the article.
About 8% of men, and 3% of women, are psychopaths
I mean if Wikileaks doesn't release it, they can just release it themselves
Not quite. + isn’t the last thing done (which it would be in Polish notation). Instead it’s done during the / operation.

Polish notation would be lisp (or the notion most people have for lisp, special forms and macros break it up a bit).
This seems to be explained on white paper of PSI system[1].
A lot of math is included, but on the page 30 there is a mention that different devices can be used. I am not the one who can explain that well.

[1]: https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Apple_PSI_System_Secu...
I just ordered the Brother - DS-740D duplex scanner. Hoping to do the same as OP and scan/organize my life.
A Little Transparency Please
This of course doesn't include the cost of intercepting at all relevant points, or the ability to ingest it in real time, or the ability to do any reads on the data (which Glacier doesn't provide real-time).

It is probably still a drop in the federal bucket.
There are many useful and interesting comments in the discussion about this on r/rust.

https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/p0ul6b/when_zero_cost...
> One’s device ought be one’s property, with all of the expectations of ownership and privacy that entails

Preach.

Though with Apple phones this has never been the case, unfortunately. Having your photos scanned on upload is just the little cherry on top of the sundae of user disenfranchisement that is iOS.
A model of language could help with transcription, but having a perfect transcription doesn't mean you can make heads or tails of what you've got.
Jeff Hawkins: The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence [video]
Again, I'm saying that I think DP isn't a good idea because DP is about how to solve problems using OOP and not why OOP is a good idea in the first place.
> The emphasis many countries take is to focus on car owners and drivers by taxing private commuters to death, with dubious environmental gains outside of increasing state income.

There was a study that came out a while ago that showed the majority of pollution in Los Angeles came from commercial trucks, likely involved in shipping and delivery. I think I also read that those trucks and the type involved in construction have extremely loose pollution controls and requirements. Many of them might be exempt or grandfathered in to current regulations.
The most amusing part about TNT is that it's called TNT, it's crafted with gunpowder, and it looks like dynamite, which in real life are three different explosives.
Abraham was asked to sacrifice his son, Isaac, I think. (Ibrahim and Ismail in Islam?)
If anyone is going the purist route, it means no Dropbox, Facebook, OneDrive, etc. since they’ve been scanning for CSAM content way before Apple.
That's nice in Europe, great that it has that system. But that doesn't work in North America (east to west navigation across continent impossible by barge), Asia, Africa or South America.
What are the tradeoffs between records and structs?
$20 million in data centre costs and $2.4 billion a year in consultancy fees.
I too like node_modules. What's nice is you can use Yarn 3 and keep node_modules by setting the https://yarnpkg.com/configuration/yarnrc#nodeLinker config option.
Two different legal doctrines.

https://olemiss.edu/depts/ncjrl/pdf/PrivateSearchDoctrine.pd...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine
You're talking past sudosysgen. sudosysgen is arguing the methodology for ascribing emissions to trade is flawed and only takes into account first order power and cement production instead of both additional emission sources as well as second order consequences (e.g. what infrastructure exists because of the need for trade).

I personally could buy the 14% deficit number for China based on gut feel alone but I also think the trend line looks weird and indicates maybe something off with the accounting. For example I would expect the deficit now to much smaller than it was 20 years ago whereas it in fact appears to be considerably larger. Indeed if the graph is to be believed it appears this deficit has been growing this decade compared to past decades (although perhaps the last few years may indicate a reversal?) which is not what I would expect.
MP3 doesn't adequately capture just how low bandwidth phone codecs are.
> Wouldn't this kind of breach be best used silently.

If the parties involved had similar powers possibly yes, but their government is already a lot more powerful compared to the people, so they need to act quick in order to disrupt the status quo, possibly also gaining some time.

It is also safe to assume that if the hackers have access to the conversations of all people, then also the government does, so it's entirely possible that the police already have their targets set and could soon escalate this to arresting everyone not explicitly pro-government, hence the need to disseminate the information to create some panic in the high ranks while buying some time.
Show HN: Veryfi Go SDK for extracting receipts in real-time
I recently wrote a Go SDK for Veryfi API which is capable of extracting receipts and invoices data in real-time. Would love to get some feedback for it:

--> Go SDK: https://github.com/veryfi/veryfi-go

--> Veryfi API: https://veryfi.com/receipt-ocr-api/
This is kind of a combo... a wallet case for my iPhone plus coded door locks on my house. Now when I go out, I don't have any reason to carry anything beyond my phone and I never have to worry about keys. If I forget something at home, I can send the neighbor a temporary code to get into the house.
Natural language evolves with what's happening in the world. Natural language also refers to what's happening in the works. For ML to keep up with that it would have to understand what's going on in the world, no?

Imagine you see a discussion about a border issue between two countries. You see a sentence that says: "What if country X does what Lukashenka did?"

If you've paid attention to the news about the border issue between Belarus and Lithuania you'd understand that the sentence is referring to flying in Iraqi migrants to Belarus to then send them to Lithuania to try to cross the border. Effectively to "flood the border".

It gets worse too depending on the perspective. For those that support Lukashenka the meaning might be different, because they don't accept that the above is what really happened.

For an ML model to understand all of this, it would have to have an understanding of what's going on in the real world. And it would have to be able to glean this understanding from few examples. I'm not sure how feasible this is.
a lot of this recent media coverage seems like a ploy to negotiate cheaper windows licenses out of microsoft.
This is, in part, the "particularity" issue in fourth amendment law.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/amendment-4/p...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writ_of_assistance
That sounds like a strawman. You're ignoring maintenance and adding features to old codebases. It's usually the majority of the work done. Sure, you don't need to recode BLAS as it's doing its job. But not everything is BLAS.
Are there not situations where a learned model could be insufficient due to lack of real-time learning?

It is my understanding that a lot of current applications take a ton of training time / computing power and it's not so trivial to do in the moment. I guess this is less of a theoretical problem and more of a practical problem though.
Selective release would be the worry IMO.
Much like the physical world reached MAD, the digital world is well on its path too. Except this MAD is of a softer kind, where the destruction can be perpetuated over and over. I cannot decide whether this brings more power into the fold of citizens or governments however.

It is undoubtedly possible to secure systems to the degree hacks are impossible, but it requires effectively banishing any degree of convenience which computers bring. True security requires years long development and testing efforts, and no lock is secure to someone smarter or more determined than the people who made it. This allows governments to effectively deploy surveillance on their entire populations, and allows populations to hack their governments if they wish so and are willing be to bear the risks. The same system that holds power over people also has a gun pointed at the same people holding power.

Good job to the Belarusian hackers, they have done what was needed of them to preserve their freedom. If recent history has taught us anything, it's that there's no way to win in a direct stick contest with a greater enemy. The only way is to use subterfuge to hit the enemy where it hurts until they are no longer willing to fight. Threatening the people who are continuing the cycles of suppression and their families is the only way forward, a government whose supporters are afraid for their lives cannot last long. Furthermore, this is proof that such a thing can and will continue to happen.

This era may seems dystopian, but it seems information is a double-edged sword, there is no way to grasp it without hurting oneself too.
https://twitter.com/martinfowler/status/1423700358233305096?...
This made sense for me right before I gave up on good OOP.
What does "growth based" economics even mean? I think it's an incoherent concept, and have never gotten the same answer from two different people on the matter. Growth of GDP? Growth of energy use? Growth of carbon emissions? Growth of population? These different types of "growth" get substituted in, silently, to move an argument forward, but if one looks at details and tries to be specific, everything falls apart.
One important thing to remember about esolangs like this is that theory != implementation. Just because Brainfuck "theoretically" exists as a language doesn't automatically solve issues like memory management or extensibility. Sure, maybe it is more ergonomic to write some functions in K. But, as with most code-golfing languages, the goal isn't to build a better language, it's to build a faster one.

Maybe K can run those programs faster than Lisp/C/$FAV_LANG, but it's ultimately up to a much smarter programmer to implement that bit.
This would be true if the entire field of NLP ML was simply a process where training data is used to fine tune a model into providing better scores at specific tasks. It's easy to see why you would be fooled into thinking that this is the case: the most impressive applications that have been developed so far are simply this.

But I would argue that NLP is more than this. As we discover new architectures and techniques that score higher on accuracy, the mechanisms through which we achieve higher scores are clues to the underlying abstractions that make up our thoughts. For example, the success of Transformers (basically a vector search engine) is strong evidence that concepts can be represented as vectors, and even more, we can even measure the "closeness" of two concepts using a dot product between their respective corresponding vectors. In this sense, the big Transformer architectures like GPT-3 are compressing natural language sentences into alternative, mathematical representations through its encoding step, but also decompressing back into natural language sentences in the decoding step.

Natural Language Processing at this point is actually a big misnomer - it's more than talking robots; it's about translating human reality into mathematical representations. We are still far from true understanding, but so what? Infants crawl before they walk. NLPs' representations of reality are crude and our tools for manipulating those representations are even cruder. But every advance we make is a step towards understanding knowledge itself.
I use it to search for DODI releases and x265 releases, it's faster than looking through websites. Once I finish Radarr/Sonnar support, I'll point my instances at Torrentinim.
You’re essentially arguing about Abstraction which has its pros and cons. Leaning on one of those sides while ignoring the other is a trap for inexperienced players.
A co2 tank and 5gal keg to make seltzer. My wife drink 5gal a week and it’s easier, cheaper, and as far as I can figure better for environment. Seltzer on tap!
The so-called "invisible hand" has already gotten the US on the right trajectory, with the government nudging it along. That's all we can hope for, along with 330 million people making better decisions.
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> This could also lead to large spam campaigns of CP being sent to random people, either to just fuck with them, or to undermine the system/overwhelm investigators with a bunch of false positives.

If you're a nation-state that wants to sow discord and distrust in another nation's society, what better way than to frame random, respected or important people?

The attacker wouldn't need to worry about being arrested, due to being in a foreign country and most likely associated with foreign intelligence agencies. Those same agencies would have the evidence they could plant on people's devices or cloud storage, and the resources not to get caught.

They wouldn't even have to burn zero days or accounts/numbers to send messages, just look for database dumps of services that the target country uses, and then log in and upload the evidence.

It could be cheap, easy and scalable.
No, the economic system doesn't inherently rely upon fossil fuels. It relies upon cheap and abundant energy. If we snapped our fingers and had free clean energy on tap, that would sign the death warrant of climate change, although there may be lots of collateral damage if we don't also try to rewind the clock too.
> Fire is part of the natural world. Trying to eradicate all forest fires tends to harm ecosystems. Some trees can't reproduce without fires opening their pine cones.

> I'm really happy to see this research. I am aware that climate change is real, but "the news" tends to focus on bad things.

It's not either/or. Death is also part of the natural world, yet the news tends to focus on avoidable things that cause death. People who want to reduce the negative effects of climate change shouldn't be accused of "trying to eradicate all forest fires" any more than doctors should be accused of "trying to eradicate all death."
I’d like to hear the idea. What’s the overview?
>Yes. We managed before mass production and we will manage again.

Sure we did. We managed 10,000 years ago as well. But I would bet that going back to live like people did 200 years ago would cause more harm to humanity than unabated climate change in the next 100 years.
As far as I understand, the scanning is not limited to iCloud.
This is such a great quote. There is a similar line in the book "Creation: Life and How to Make It." The author says that causality is a web, not a chain.
I would not wonder if Belarus police got it setup akin with Russians who had "admin@kremlin.ru"
Typo in the headline. It should be "accuses"
Hunting Predators – By Antonio García Martínez – The Pull Request
It’s fundamentally misanthropic, and the kind viewpoint a rich first world we can hold from the safety of their expensive urban home (while outsourcing out the farming to others).

(I didn’t downvote it though - and I’m actually supportive of substantially expanding nature preserve land area in Earth, but only after we become a multi-planet species)
App "Scanner Pro" - feels like a professional scanner, always available on the go and auto-uploads to GDrive. Use it extensively.

Google Voice (until it stopped working well) - I could not have lived overseas for 3yrs w/o Google Voice. An absolute lifesaver while I was making 12-15 transnational trips a year doing both business and grad school at the same time. Google Fi would have been great, but the overall system degraded by then. Concept is amazing and i'd pay big $ for this, I imagine most high end consultants would also.

Apple Music - Seriously, I feel like a thief -- all this music for $10/mo? This should cost $100/mo. I'm on it at least 10-12 hours a day, sometimes even sleep to it. The catalog is extensive. I cross-cut across artists, decades, genres, sub-genres, associated acts, everything.

The Kindle - because I ran out of space for books and never had the book I wanted to read when I was traveling.

Electric Kettle - I make tea 3x as much now because boiling water is so fast and easy.
No hacking code to pieces makes it more complex. The trade off here is that the code becomes more modular.

Whether you want your code to be more modular is an opinionated decision but most people don't realize the benefits of high modularity. Almost all major design mistakes that necessitate code rewrites come from lack of modularity.
I think the biggest way we could screw this up is if our governments pick winner technology stacks now, and don't keep the doors open (and ideally fund) paths to breakthrough tech. The panic over climate change (which, arguably, has merit) may lead us to making this kind of error, since we feel we have to put all our chips in now on 2020s era solutions. Unfortunately, I'm not convinced that our existing tech stacks just need to be scaled up to solve the problem. We need to keep turning the crank of innovation.
> the methodology for ascribing emissions to trade is flawed and only takes into account first order power and cement production instead of both additional emission sources

That is only true for the first chart, not the chart we’re referencing in this conversation.
Not a tiny purchase, but I use this 250W corn bulb lamp all the time for lighting up my office room in the winter months: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07W5DGBJZ/. Amazing amount of light (35k lumens) and does not overheat.
First, even if fossil fuel companies predicted a rise in temperature due to their activities, they're as helpless to predict cause and effect in a complex system as everyone else. They're probably guilty of dishonesty, but it's wrong to act as if they had special insight and ability to predict the future because of what they sell.

Second, most of the alleged warming almost certainly just comes from data tampering by NOAA. NOAA "models" an increasing number of its stations (lately around 40%). On those stations, it fabricates data according to a model, and applies a varying fudge factor that cools the past and warms the present in a way that assumes the CO2 hypothesis.

The first few minutes of this video provide an explanation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzGPq9LSjEw
Is it possible to make a road ready hovercraft that uses lifting gas like hydrogen? Getting tired of particulate matter from tires, brakes, road wear, etc.
SIP for Nokia S40 Phones
They can still release what is not released if they want.
I do a fair bit of camping. One solo trip, I opted to leave behind all the normal gadgets and discovered I had no chronological tooling with. Skies were overcast -- and I suspect I ate breakfast early, lunch by 8, and supper by noon. Was surprisingly disquieting to have a few days in a row without knowing where the sun was in the sky.
Mark Cuban says shutting off crypto growth engine like banning ecommerce in 1995
Well, they think they’re going to get it from “enhanced compliance”.
Amortized :-)
The video is very interesting, I would highly recommend you still watch it.

Derek has has actually made a video before about the YouTube algorithm and has polled the community several times about clickbait-ey titles. He doesn’t like them, but they’re unfortunately necessary.
Yes. Bury it, put it into use for hundreds of years. Anything that stores the carbon in the long-term. It's inevitable that we have to do this one way or another.
From what I’ve heard the addresses for these services are being tagged as “not a residence” in some database. Then some services aren’t accepting them as a valid address.

Similar to how phone numbers can be tagged VoIP and won’t be accepted for 2-factor authentication.
Covid is not a highly virulent pathogen. Virulence means severity, like things with 80% CFR rates becoming things with 100% CFR rates.
Refactoring to use them is not really hard, as they are easily interchangeable with regular classes. They are pretty much syntax sugar for this class pattern here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/63615514
A collection of lessons for early stages of building a marketplace
The delay you mention is only the case if you do not presume humans can intervene with counterforces. Yes, we are not Gods, but I think any analysis which does not incorporate the various tech curves that are going vertical right now are falling into the "future is like the past" fallacy. I think that if we got the first set of miracles you hypothesize, we wouldn't just sit on our hands as the 40 year delay unfolds. We'll keep working the problem, and leverage would increase over time to close the gap.