skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Virgil initializers are run at compile time and can literally run any code in the program to build up any data structures you want. The result of initialization is the transitive closure of objects reachable from the globals. The compiler goes further and optimizes your code against the initialized heap, devirtualizing, inlining, and constant-folding, throwing away dead code, dead fields, and dead objects. That's great for microcontrollers because you can just allocate your entire heap at compile time and then bake it into your image.

I wrote a paper about it in 2006: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/13r0q4fc

I still work (primarily, in fact) on Virgil. It's great not having any distinction between compile-time initialization and runtime.
There is a big stick coming from the EU (and someone said the same is coming from the UK).

My guess is that Apple designed this privacy protecting system so that they could deliver the solution on their own terms - and perhaps leading the way on how this could be done before they are hit with a cookie-banner-popup-level solution from bureaucrats.

Regardless on your opinion on whether they should scan or not, both the EU and the UK now have a reference design that protects the privacy of people, and still manages to either identify the people that own that material, or make it more inconvenient to own that material.

As we like to say "Deplatforming works", and in this case, a good useful tool for people that own those pictures is no longer available, and they have to resort to jumping through hoops and relying on more inconvient solutions. The later might not solve the root problem, but introduces friction that gets in their way.
There is an important distinction for many workers between the hard labor ina restaurant and the hard labor done for Uber for X.

There is a chance with diligent effort that you can become manager for the restaurant or even start your own. The restaurant is even notionally liable for unemployment and minimum wage laws. Uber for X means permanent hard labor at low wages with no possibility for advancement or improved conditions.
I'm currently using an S3, have for nearly a decade. It has never dropped 15% with no use in 2 hours.
On paper all the members of congress has a team of aids that reads the bills and alerts them of parts they might find questionable or gives summaries. Whether that really even happens to thousand page bills stuffed with all kinds of random subjects is up in the air
But who should she be replaced by? It's not like Mozilla just cherry-picked her over a sea of other amazing, willing-to-be-underpaid candidates who were all clamouring for the job. Being a CEO during tough times sucks.

I think Eich was actually lucky, in a twisted way. It's not like he managed to turn their fortunes around while he was their CTO for so long. He wasn't some powerless underdog who would have gained special superpowers as their CEO.

Even if he had avoided controversy to become their CEO, he would almost certainly have just been the one we're scapegoating now instead of Baker. She was our angle when Mozilla was founded and when Microsoft needed an antitrust spanking, and now she's uor devil.
From what I've read, YC also has a preference for companies with multiple founders. So being a solo probably didn't help.
>The government actually loves monopolies because it makes monitoring citizens easier.

Care to cite a source for that claim?
Does anyone know what the penalty will be for refusing to get vaccinated - eg honorable or dishonorable discharge? I don't see anything mentioned about it in the OP or linked sources.

EDIT: I found the answer - "Personnel unable or unwilling to do that will be required to wear a mask, physically distance, comply with a regular testing requirement and be subject to official travel restrictions" [1]

[1] Statement by Jamal Brown, Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary, on COVID-19 Vaccinations
https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/27...
"Floating in oxidizer" doesn't matter - airships are under such low pressure that leaks are too slow to maintain a flame front. I researched this quite a bit for the Army back in the day, even worked with a vendor who fired 50 caliber tracer rounds through an airship to try to get it to catch on fire, and it did not.
This is funny because Seiko has notoriously terrible quality control, from misaligned bezels and/or chapter rings to dodgy bracelets across their entire lineup, even the more expensive ones.

About Orient: they are pretty much poised to take the spot that Seiko has occupied for entry level mechanical watches, as Seiko themselves move further up market. I love the design of their Bambino and some of the OrientStar offerings but they have a few quirks I'm not fond of.

I definitely recommend also trying a hand-wound watch because the slimness is wonderful and the winding has a charm to itself as well. I have RSI issues so the lightness and slimness is certainly a big plus, combined with the fact that most vintage or vintage-inspired manual wind watches have small dials and cases too.
Logic is essential, (advanced) math is not. Technically logic is a branch of math but do people learn logic from the math that is taught in schools? I dont think so.
Coupling, Cohesion, and Encapsulation. That's the way I learned it. The Dryness or single responsibility principle I think boils down to encapsulation.
This was one of my favorites:

https://twitter.com/trainoferror/status/1412944106372935688?...
I agree. I think this particular framing gets things slightly wrong. You want parallelism, but you still need central organization (so that you can have clear delegation) and delegation of work to various researchers. For a complex incident, I've seen 5+ subteams researching various threads of the incident. But, importantly, before any of those subteams take any action, they report to the IC so that two groups don't accidentally take actions that might be good in isolation but are harmful when combined.
Predictive policing models require a human in the loop as well. However people tend to trust these algorithms far beyond their reliability without knowing how they work. As I understand it, human reviewers for this program do not see the photo itself, but instead see the hash and make a determination from that.

A positive result may be enough to see all of your devices in evidence bags for the next 6 months and serve as probable cause for warrants. In addition, how hard is it to subpoena Apple for a report on how many times a whistleblower's device has been flagged then use it as probable cause. Or, cherry pick which reports Apple makes to target undesirables.
The article makes a great point that local utilities generally enjoy a captured market and new transmission decreases their market power, so utilities are not as pro-new transmission as one might think.

Also I did not know that FERC alone currently can approve natural gas pipelines through multiple states, but electric transmission requires approval from every state the line passes through.

Hopefully Congress corrects this.
Not the ones in NeXT hardware, unfortunately. The '040 only came in PGA and QFP. And although you can still find LC, EC, and Z variants without much difficulty, finding the version that includes both an MMU and an FPU requires meeting strange men in empty parking garages.
Those politicians aren't "the government", though. bobthechef's claim, as stated, is accurate. Your counterclaim, while also accurate, does not refute bob's point.
>We don't need any forensics tools. We can simply use adb pull to fetch the files because they are never deleted. But once you logout from the app and after Snapchat deletes the Snaps, you will need the right forensics tools to recover the files.

This feels like a bug, no? I don't see any logical reason for Snapchat to keep the files around that long.
(Old) Stupid Shit No One Needs
Amazon sellers are begging people to delete negative reviews
They can be physically forced, but the more likely scenario is punishment under the UCMJ for failure to obey a lawful order.
The on device software is not an algorithm, it compares hashes of an image vs a known list of hashes.
Try adding ‘tattoo’
... but the link between user and photo obviously exists somewhere in Apple's system.
No, but it’s time to drop the frameworks. Their only purpose was to make grid designs work, and CSS has caught up a while ago.

> Designers will often prescribe that an element should span (for example) four out of 12 columns on a desktop screen, without the knowledge that their idea of “columns” on the web bears no relation to how the layout may actually be built.

I won’t doubt the author’s lived experience. But in mine, designers aren’t as clueless as they are presented in this quote and in many discussions here.
That capability obviously already exists independent from this CSAM-scanning system.
By space I mean terrestrial space, not outer space.
I've played on custom taller maps and they become more useful when exploring expansive cave systems. You walked all the way down for the resources but have too much to carry. So minecarts become useful for the very tall stairs you have to climb up and down a lot.

I think they'll become way more useful with the 64 more blocks' height underground.
I have a similar story about buying a parking space in a garage near my place when I lived downtown because my then girlfriend was always bothered by trying to find parking. It worked pretty well, now she's my wife.

Best $40 / month I ever spent.
I dont really think of my higher up colleagues as smart or dumb, i think that some of them have relevant experience and some dont really, and different managers have different personalities which is what impacts trying to work together to solve a problem.

For example, some managers like to give you their proposed plan without wanting any input, these people require pushing back in some situations, you could call it poor emotional intelligence, other managers are much more open to suggestions considering me and the underlings will be doing the work, even though managers inital plan is often correct as previous experience justifies their proposed solution.

But yea i dont really doubt the intelligence of people really unless they continue to repeat mistakes and fail to remedy those mistakes.
What about doing the 2-stage system similar to Virgin Galactic? Use the "balloon" to lift the system to upper altitudes, and then fire off the rocket to do orbital insertion type stuff.
Ah, is it in the UK? I missed that detail if so. I can see a bit more point to that for sure.

As others have pointed out though, they do this kind of thing for UK elections and things too. And simpler green screening just to replace a London outlook with a different one.

I don't know, even so I think I just don't need to see Tokyo in the background, real or not? Just build a nice looking studio (with some real 'nice joinery', heh) and focus on the content? Even if it doesn't have windows, I doubt I'm going to be claustrophobic watching it, and obviously homogeneous green isn't any better in that regard for them or interviewees than some nice wallpaper or wood panelling or whatever.
and tax evasion (by not reporting certain sales of houses for crypto, for instance)

Not sure I buy this excuse. When land transfers ownership, it still needs legal frameworks grounded in established legal/political systems to protect it. Any property worth keeping has paperwork attached to it to protect the owner. Otherwise you could just squat in an empty house and say you're the owner. Tokenized assets is slowly becoming a thing, but there are many tests and precedents to set before a token can truly represent some asset on its own.
Some source of good code:
* https://github.com/keras-team/keras/
* https://www.quora.com/Where-can-one-find-examples-of-good-qu...
Run it through a condenser, feed it into a holding tank and dispose of the water at each filling station?
> Buying an iPhone (and increasingly Mac) is like going to Disneyland: You pay a lot of money to be allowed in so you can pay them even more money.

Bought the latest SE over a year ago at considerably less than my last comparable Android device. Have spent under $100 in the App Store since.

Phone does everything that I want it to do including some fairly complex multi-app automations 15 minutes before I leave, when I get an SMS, etc...
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I agree it’s probably not very much battery at all. But it’s not going to be none either, so the principle remains: it’s my phone using my electricity to check up on me without my consent. I really don’t like that.
The standards themselves are freely available (and extremely difficult to understand) --- just search for 3GPP --- but I think the main problem is spectrum licensing and transmitter approval.
If that were the case, wouldn't this CSAM scanning system be insufficient to meet those EARN-IT requirements?

You have other Apple services and third-party apps that host material on Apple's servers.

For example, if a user turns on iCloud backups, then every third-party app's Documents directory is backed up to iCloud. Would it be a violation to not CSAM scan that content? What if the contents are encrypted? Would they be required to be decrypted so that they are CSAM-scanned?

iCloud drive is another Apple service that backs up to Apple's servers. Wouldn't its absence from the list be a violation? What if a user hosts encrypted files on iCloud drive? Would the user be required to decrypt them so that Apple can scan them?

It seems that the real intention is to eliminate end-to-end encryption.
>Basically balloon launches would only benefit small sub-orbital sounding type rockets.

So you're saying Jeff Bezos should look into this for Blue Origin since you essentially described his capabilities? ;-)
>they somehow converged

Or it could be that some see any attempt to create a more equitable capitalism as full on Marxism.

>road to hell is paved with good intentions.

OTOH, it's far more frequently paved with bad intentions and apathy.
I have just scraped the comment section of the recent "Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch" announcement:

- Aditya and Karan (Warrant)

- Anta and Karthik (Inai)

- Nishant and Pranav (Nino Foods)

- Jan and Anahi (Perfekto)

- Bruno and Guilherme (Jestor)

- Antonio, Felipe, Joaquin and Francois (Chipax)

- Ali and Omair (Abhi)

As with every place "you need to fit in": Do you fit in here?

I have the feeling that YC have "their favs": Kind of: Young, global and more and more very "boring"/normal business. They rather replace existing businesses with something better, than to innovate/disrupt. It works for them now, since they are such a household brand.
Genetic ancestry is not just a fantastical vanity construct. Genetic ancestry from different populations is real, and while it doesn't correspond exactly to our social "race" categories, it often does. We need to be careful about how we define these ancestral groupings and limit potential negative social impacts from acknowledging their differences, but we can't deny their existence.
To be fair automatic watches drift substantially over time.
Baritone, a Pathfinding Bot for Minecraft
He says as much in his post :

> An established bias against solo founders

And it is an age discriminator.

It gets a lot harder to get a team together after a certain age. Peers already have obligations.
I think there have been a few exceptions where US authorities have authorized "technical action" against botnets and such.
If you are the only one with a working watch, is your time definitionally correct, off by a bit, or completely incorrect?
This isn't quite true.

Staying at home doesn't protect you unless you live in total isolation, and most people don't. 'Family' is in fact a primary vector of spread.

Wearing N100's is also not remotely feasible all of the time, nor will it entirely protect you.

The vaccine gives you almost 100% prevention against death and is by far the best protective measure and it largely frees you from worry, concerns over unwittingly infecting others, and reduces the need to do things like 'total isolation' and 'wear n100 all of the time'.

"If people were grounded in any type of reality" ... there's no reason for anyone to have a realistic understanding of what living in a 'chemical warzone' would be.

Get a vaccine, keep some degree of social distancing, be prepared to wear an n95 sometimes, don't go inside to events with large numbers of people ... if everyone does 'mostly' that we'll be 'mostly fine' over the coming months and can 'mostly' get on with our lives.
Do you agree with these two statements?

1. For every image that's scanned, whether matching or non-matching, some data will be sent to the server.

2. Your phone never learns and has no way to tell which images match and which ones don't.
Yes, and the price these companies can charge is determined by the market. If what they are doing no longer serves a large market, their business will shrink. And if there actions expose a new opportunity for someone else, that company will form and business will grow.
> RMS is a hypocrite though

For whatever failing RMS has, hypocrite is obviously not one. There are few people on the world who are so consistent in their message and actions as RMS.
A white noise machine -- our bedroom overlooks a busy street, so there's constantly random noises in the middle of the night. Big improvement in sleep quality!

We got a Dohm Classic, but you can just get an app for your phone if you like.
Airships are better than trains at crossing the sea
Say I search for a chicken piccata recipe. Which pays Google more:

- a static blog from 2003 without ads but an excellent recipe

- a YouTube video or promoted article with ads enabled who paid Google to feature them on this query and who will allow other advertisers to market to me on their site

You might say “well they already paid Google so Google is making money either way,” but people will only continue putting money into Google ads if there is a good return for them, ie more views or more money. So Google has material interest in returning results to advertisers, more so than they do on pointing me to a better chicken piccata recipe.
Problem is not with the belt, problem is with water storage (aka snow caps) in Himalayas. If they are gone, then desertification and mass starvation is pretty much assured
GitHub: https://github.com/cabaletta/baritone
I was surprised by how many right angles, rectangles, and perpendicular lines I saw for a site focused on not using a grid.
Economists have been saying this for years. Really it's the only way to let market forces decide.
Make it a publicly listed company that collects the tax, and distribute dividends equally to all citizens. Such things should be possible with digital currencies.
I’m assuming there’s a few bad apples who ruin common areas. Most people I see wipe down exercise machines after use, turn off the grills, put away their trash etc. But then there’s a minority of people who are just total slops.
Raise $100M, buy an used B767 or similar plane, strip out the seats, fill it with sulfur dioxide tanks, operate it out of an airstrip in the tropics to increase reflectivity of the atmosphere.
I think that might be the point op was making. “Done with YC” == “Done thinking YC is the only way.” I’m not sure though.
This title is a good way of phrasing a piece of common sense people have been trying to get rid of.

Also similar: "Mechanism not policy"

> It is almost impossible to envision all of the different ways in which a system might be used by different types of users over the life of the product. This means that any hard-coded policies are likely to be inadequate or inappropriate for some (or perhaps even most) potential users.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_mechanism_and_po...
There is a big benefit... Rocket nozzles that are most efficient in a vacuum don't work at sea level (oscillations cause the whole thing to shake apart). Therefore launching from high up means you can skip the less efficient rockets and just have a single type of more efficient rocket engine.
That sounds like an issue of collectively managing shared resources that would exist even if the occupants owned the units, no?
So, it's not really "you will own nothing and be happy about it", but rather "you will own 0.1% of 1000 houses rather than 100% of 1 house, and be happy about it."

If only that were actually literally true. If I could buy shares in a housing cooperative that allowed me the right to live in any house owned by the cooperative, and when I owned shares equivalent to the market value of a house I could trade those in for full ownership of one house, that would actually be pretty interesting.
Have you seen any official comment about how downvotes should be used? The guidelines don't even mention downvoting.
Sun screen using balloons:

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

Altering albedo alone still leaves us with ocean acidification problem, but I'm not up-to-date with the risks of that (other than coral reef dying out, which is absolutely tragic).
I the early 2000's to mid 2010's I worked at an Architecture Firm (Buildings not Software) and at the time and likely now all plotters (large printers) depend on a software called Ghostscript. It's AGPL which prevents it from being bundled with any other software unless you negotiate a very expensive contract with their sales people.

If a company risks installing it or supporting it company wide then your risk lawsuit and having your business shutdown. The work-around is that for every user's computer IT must manually install the driver (a windows DLL file).

To me if I see AGPL it makes me think that it's likely a predatory business with good lawyers; and for this reason I would stay away from it even on personal projects unless there is no alternative.
Are you sure? I have a Mac too, and earlier this year all of my non Apple-approved software stopped working because some random Apple server went down.
I give a c-like for loop (or while loop) a 40% odds of making it into the language. That number being pulled out of my nether regions.
Create an image normally and do 2x/4x image super-resolution.

Hey, if you're already working with AI-generated art, using another AI isn't unreasonable.
On solving crosswords in four minutes and deadlifting 325lbs
road transport is responsible for 12% of CO2 emissions.

so electric domestic cars are not going to do a lot...
Perhaps that is because there is an indisputable truth to what he/she is saying, and that there is more subjectivity to the vaccine debate than meets the eye.
> a single delivery driver can take an optimized route...

This is an oft-repeated claim that never seems to actually exist in real life. One of the original pitches of Uber et al was that it would make the whole system so efficient that drivers would get paid more overall thanks to [insert hand-waving here] technology.

It's been many years since that promise was made and nothing like it has materialized.

For one thing the ability to "batch" things like this is really minimal. You can't put 10 food orders into a single car, because the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th persons will be receiving cold food. Even if you could batch two orders together, that relies on a level of scale that simply isn't reliably replicable (two orders within a narrow time window of each other, to very nearby restaurants, to destination generally near each other). I've personally seen it happen twice.

And then we've also discovered that the delivery gig economy adds a massive new inefficiency that fully offsets the few batching inefficiencies that can be exploited (and then some): idling cars for fast response. It turns out if you want a delivery driver to be around quickly on-demand, you need a lot of cars idling/driving aimlessly, which overall produces even more waste than the status quo.