skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These incident role names are fairly common in product companies these days. I guess you are correct that they do suggest a certain culture around incidents, but in my experience is definitely a good thing. It's a "don't blame people, let's focus on the root cause, get things back up, and figure out how to prevent this next time" sort of thing. People try to meet SLAs and they treat each other like humans. We focus on improving process/frameworks over blaming individual people. And yup, think this comes along with, "incident yesterday was intense, I'm gonna catch up on sleep".
This is not only possible, it's already a thing with unmodified hardware. The 900 MHz band is a ham radio band in the US, but it's used for GSM in Europe. That means that you can quite legitimately set up a GSM base station in the US if you have a ham license, as long as you abide by ham radio regulations (which might require some hacks), e.g. you can't turn on encryption and you need to broadcast your callsign periodically. Then most multiband phones will connect to it thinking it's a European GSM network. I can't find it right now, but I watched a talk where someone described doing just that.

900MHz is also used for LTE in Europe, so I'm pretty sure you could do the same thing with 4G/LTE.
Matches aren’t automatically reported to authorities. They first go to Apple, and a match on an absurdly non-CSAM picture will be noticed. If it passes through, it will be reported as a tip to the NCMEC, which will also evaluate the pictures; and only then can it be forwarded to the government.
The sticking point is that the matching happens on-device, not on their servers. Sure, it only happens for photos that will be synced, but it’s still your device doing the matching and snitching.

There’s also the fact that the “only scans local photos marked for upload to iCloud” is a technically thin barrier. A switch that could very easily and quietly be flipped in the future.
What devices are you talking about?

specifically this box "And you couldn't know when a human was reviewing 'suspicious behavior' telemetry, which included images, video and audio of you and your family."

and this box: "And you couldn't uninstall them"
Ah, but not so fast. It actually depends on your frame of reference.

Suppose the vehicle is facing the +x direction. Suppose the wind is travelling at +10m/s relative to the ground. Suppose the (experimentally determined) maximum velocity of the vehicle under these conditions is +12m/s. Now consider an inertial reference frame which, compared to the ground's reference frame, is moving at +11m/s. (I.e., pick the frame in which the ground moves at -11m/s.) Now let the vehicle run. There will come an instant when the vehicle is stationary in this reference frame (when the vehicle has accelerated to +11m/s relative to the ground, not yet having reached its maximum velocity).

Consider the instantaneous change in kinetic energy at this instant. The air about to be pushed by the propeller has velocity -1m/s and will accelerate in the -x direction. The vehicle has velocity 0m/s and will accelerate in the +x direction. In both cases, the kinetic energy is actually increasing! So in this frame, where does the increasing kinetic energy of the air-vehicle system come from?!

The answer is the ground. It has velocity -11m/s. When it pushes against the contact point of the wheels, it is therefore pushing the contact point in the -x direction. But this means the contact point is pushing against the ground in the +x direction. And therefore the ground is undergoing a minuscule +x acceleration. That acceleration is therefore decreasing the kinetic energy of the ground — by a lot, because of the mass factor.

And this is why we say the energy is derived from the difference in velocity between the ground and the wind — because depending on your inertial reference frame, the kinetic energy might be coming from one or the other. In the frame of reference of the vehicle, it starts out coming from both, but when the (relative) direction of the wind shifts (so that relative to the ground the vehicle is travelling faster than the wind), the kinetic energy starts coming from the ground only, and the vehicle is forced to transmit some of it to the air to keep moving. But this might actually be the nicest explanation of how the vehicle outpaces the wind: in the faster-than-the-wind regime, the vehicle is transmitting energy from the ground into the air — which is exactly what you would expect to happen, given the mechanical linkage between the wheels and the propeller! — but some of this energy bleeds off into increasing the velocity of the vehicle itself, because it's on wheels and that's what happens when wheeled vehicles push against something behind them, no matter what the ground happens to be doing (such as moving backwards like a treadmill, in this frame of reference).

Disclaimer: I did not do well in college-level Mechanics. But I think I have convinced myself of the above explanation, just barely.
I may never understand why some places are all about assigning titles and roles in this kind of thing. You need one, maybe two, plus a whole whack of technical skills from everyone else.

Also, conference calls are death.
"why all this study of the Heideggers, the Lacans, the Derridas"

I can't speak for anyone else, but my interest in Heidegger dovetails with my interest in Asian and Indian religion and philosophy, and with my interest in the illusory nature of the world and what lies behind the world of appearances.

I'm not interested in Lacan or Derrida, so will leave them for others.

"What does it really contribute to humanity?"

Is having one's eye's opened or seeking ways to open one's eyes useful?

Does something have to "contribute to humanity" in order to be of value?

What did the Mona Lisa or other great works of art contribute to humanity? Should Beethoven never have written a note of music because none of it is useful? Or does Beethoven's music's use in parades finally justify its creation?

Can philosophy, like art and music, somehow connect us or open us up to the core of humanity or the world? Is that useful? Does it have to be?
Did you read article #2?

The group that stopped the solar installation was something called "Save Our Mesa":

> But a group of residents organized as “Save Our Mesa” argued such a large installation would be an eyesore and could curtail the area’s popular recreational activities — biking, ATVs and skydiving — and deter tourists from visiting sculptor Michael Heizer’s land installation, “Double Negative.”

The group itself is not in any way an environmental group, they claim to be locals who want to save their tourism industry.

Their own website: http://www.saveourmesa.org

> The majority of our community’s revenue comes from tourism. We lost a lot of tourism and businesses when the shrinking lake levels of Lake Mead occurred closing a nearby beach. We have struggled but built back our economy through OHV tourism. When people come and camp/hotel for a week, they buy our gas, our groceries, eat in our restaurants, use our mechanics and parts stores. This allows these businesses to thrive thus keeping us self sufficient. Feedback from many of our Snowbirds was that they would look for new places to go, that’s lost revenue. People would not come to recreate, that’s lost revenue.
Computational study identifies key areas of SARS-CoV-2 genome prone to mutation
Linux has many more stakeholders than you. It’s a failure for you, but extremely important to many others (including me). I’d go further and allege you are in the minority among users of Linux, because think about what a user of Linux is. Linus made the absolutely correct call and Linux would be on the decline if he hadn’t; the money in Linux is in embedding (and SaaS), not people dabbling with free software who by definition don’t pay for it, and until the FSF and its adherents conquer the concept of “an economy” they’re still fighting an uphill, losing battle against the same economic forces they despite.

More than half of YC’s hardware startups, not to mention Android and probably Teslas in their current form, probably would have never happened were they not able to embed Linux in a controlled manner without having to invest in catering to the four total users who will want to build a system image and reflash the firmware on their whatever. (Android has some means to do so and an audience much more interested in doing so but the point stands.)

I’m also interested in the legal framework around a software license that’s able to dictate the architecture and design of components around the software, and I suspect it will not survive if challenged, particularly in Europe.

The greatest failure of free software, to me, is thinking in absolutes and not studying how the world actually uses computers as time goes on. The concepts, ideas, and demands are stuck in 1991 and are basically “man shakes fist at capitalism,” while writing capitalist exceptions into the very Tivoization clause in question under pressure.
Why should the only jobs be careers? I don't think most people delivering takeout want the pressure of trying to get promotions and advancement. They like the flexibility. Lots of retired people I know drive Uber/Lyft to get themselves out of the house. They've already had a career. They don't want another one.
Pragmatic process!

It adds to the list of required vaccines for service members, in case people have forgotten that there are plenty of other vaccines people receive for generally non-fatal ailments (many of which they already received themselves!). Also they want to wait for FDA approval, assuming it happens in September, but allow themselves the discretion to require it before then.
It is a risk. It doesn't sound FDIC insured AND you can face market loss.
How is it safe when the fda has not approved these vaccines nor has there been any studies on the permanent adverse effects some have experienced as a result of taking this vaccine?
All countries suffer because we all share the same atomsphere
Most modern rockets are liquid and mix the fuel and oxidizer only at the point of combustion, burning H2/O2, Kerosene/O2 or more recently CH4/O2.

Mono-propellant, and solid (not hybrid) rocket fuel fits the description though
This image seems to tell the story best:

https://www.frontiersin.org/files/Articles/696381/frsc-03-69...

The per capita numbers in China are already big, but the biggest difference seems to be that there are a lot of people in those Chinese cities.

Sidenote, looks like the study authors think Quebec City is in a developing country? Ouch.
Yes, but...

The majority of energy expended in getting to orbit is spent in getting to orbital velocity (going sideways), rather than getting to orbital altitude (going up). Balloons only help in going up, and only to where the density of the atmosphere is so low that the balloon is no longer lifting, they are still far short of the altitude necessary for orbit. Balloons top out at around 20-30 miles while LEO is ~100 miles.

So launching using a balloon only really gives you a very small fuel savings
Blue light blocking glasses. I work on computers a lot and usually ended up feeling fatigue by the middle of the day. When wearing blue light blocking glasses, I don't feel tired anymore :).

I've had them for about a year and a half now.
But they only burn easily at the interface. The trick would be to control fire there - keep them from mixing, keep the flame, if one were to start, from enlarging the hole.
How does it compare to smarthone camera + one of hundreds of scan+ocr apps like Adobe Scan? For me the smartphone solution is supereasy, basically it takes n seconds to scan a n-page booklet for example.
I was playing around with this with some friends and I have to say that anything involving animals of any kind in the generation leads to really weird results. I haven't tried other AI art programs, so I don't know of this is sort of expected, but definitely interesting.
Wait. What? Was that a thing? I've only ever seen them in supermarkets to send cash upstairs. Was this in Paris?
That's the issue though. The hard part about achieving orbit isn't the height, it's the speed. In both a ground launch and a balloon launch you are starting at 0.

This article does a better job explaining it than just about anything else on the web:
https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/

So complex schemes to lift the rocket to the edge of space don't end up buying you very much.
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Looks like an alternative would be to make the suburbs mixed use. Are these new companies taking advantage of this ancient zoning?
Local scanning/indexing is fine. It’s reporting the results of the scan to Apple that people have a problem with.
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The burning plume escapes upward. It's probably safer than aviation fuel.
>Maybe with the steam deck it will become so battle tested it will turn into the most stable distro ever.

Being a rolling release goes directly against that. It might be the most stable rolling release together with openSUSE Tumbleweed. When you combine it with a modern filesystem and features like snapshots it really feels solid.

In the context of the Steam Deck they can just test and hold/fix bugs so that's a very different scenario.

There are just too many changes everywhere and different hardware, software combinations, to expect a bug free experience. Not even Apple with a different release model can manage that and they control everything and have most of the hardware combinations to test. Many DEs and bigger applications need a few point releases to be better but maybe you're talking only about the base distro if it's even possible to make that distinction.
Maybe at the Cube's (albeit still very expensive) price-point. But by 1990 SGI had VGX(T) graphics on the market, which could do 24bit color at 1280x1024. It could also clock to early HGTV signals for overlays.
They could conceivably be very cheap if the gas pockets were mass produced. Everything else on board for propulsion and housing the pilot would be on the scale of a small prop aircraft. As long as the cargo can be easily managed, perhaps in a shipping container, then these would be easy to deploy en masse. They can land in any suitable field that has a crew on hand to guide them in with ropes. You might not even need pilots since these would be perfect targets for automation.

As for speed, you can optimize the shape of the aircraft and the position of the propeller for this. I've seen a number of videos that show surprisingly good performance for pointier fuselage with a pusher prop on the tail.
Nerve damage? From vaccines?
Well your sentiment drives me crazy, especially for techies. It is up to us whether a non-feudal digital society will exist or not. It's true that FOSS will never be as good as the monopolists' who are able to pour billions of dollars into polish while tightening their grip over our lives. But if we are unwilling to make sacrifices in this fight then the battle is already lost.
Diversity means black people for Hollywood (gosh, there were so many differently tainted black people in "The Tomorrow War", but no Indian or Chinese). Black people are highly over represented in TV compared to the 13% of the population they are in the US. Black people have hit the jackpot when it comes to "diversity quotas", as opposed to Indian or Chinese.

The problem is, that as long as you do not live "in your country" you will always feel "off" when turning on the TV and watching any other culture you can't connect with, not matter the percentage.
Except she is the one who has been overseeing this slide into irrelevancy for many years now....for whatever reason the Board, instead of replacing her, rewards her.
Please keep name-calling and personal attacks out of your comments here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Good! Because I trust those even less. If possible, once banned, no one to answer on any of the communication channels, Google style.
The reason they don't explain how it works is that the CSAM hash matching is an algorithm from NCMEC, which was apparently originally designed by Microsoft.

If you want to learn about the algorithm/hashes, you have to, among other things, sign an NDA about it, so it's likely that Apple, legally, cannot go into detail about how it actually works.

Microsoft has a page on it here if you're interested: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/photodna

For obvious reasons, they don't go into a whole lot of detail.

I've learned a lot about how the process works from this blog post: https://hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/929-One-Ba...

He gets a few facts about Apple's approach wrong, but it's an incredibly interesting read.
How do you know how much you should eat?
Building a data processing system that mitigates the WFH risks might be more expensive than exploiting workers but it is absolutely doable.

The tasks performed in these contexts are mostly just different types of data transformations. Allowing operators to execute a transformation without exposing the actual state of the data itself should be possible with a well designed system but the details would very much depend on the specific context. Splitting data processing steps between operators would also minimize risk (even if it is a little more cumbersome). Automating sensitive processes like authentication and payment processes may also be an option in some cases.

Hacking employment contracts may be a cheaper solution for the companies involved but the cost to human dignity and liberty is far too high and it is being borne by the people least able to do anything about it. This simply isn't the type of business practice that we should tolerate anywhere in our supply chains even if it could mean slightly more customer "friction".
"Cause" doesn't necessarily mean originate. They could have meant it in the same way that one could say "leaving food out will cause you to get ants."
> there will be no limits for governments to expand it's reach once implemented. The scope will always broaden

Speculating it is slippery slope arg.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope
sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAHJCPoWCC8
Yes, it's a map-reduce algorithm. Muliple people check multiple areas of the system in parallel and then both evidence & rule-outs start to emerge.
They voluntarily install those cameras in their homes and it isn't for the express purpose of government surveillance.
> eliminating FDIC insurance altogether, I'd be super onboard.

Why
Yay H1B and cheap labor!
I use internal landing pages too... But here is an idea to try sub-domains and get an external link. As I know, external links building move valuable for SEO, even from sub-domains.

My question was more about brand building if the "Planning Wedding" can be the brand itself. Or become in the future...
I don’t think this makes sense because American productivity depends so much on pollution outsourced to countries like India. For example, if US cars are assembled “greenly” from components that are manufactured dirtily, then it hardly seems meaningful to brag that America’s productivity is “greener”. And do bear in mind that I’m not one of the folks who are determined to make the US out to be the bad guy in every thread.
There are some really interesting chemical methods of creating hydrogen gas using like, aluminum and sodium ( or potassium? ) in water that might be able to allow for on demand gas generation with otherwise solid/condensed fuel sources;

it's "simple" enough of a concept that creators[1] are doing it to power their own systems, though I imagine scaling it up carries its own set of difficulties ( e.g., using aluminum nanoparticles for greater surface area to more rapidly generate gas, but keeping it cool enough to avoid problematic side effects, or like, you know, exploding in general )

Edit: it looks like MIT is actually actively working[2] on this type of clean hydrogen production from the viewpoint of creating a scalable system!

1: https://youtu.be/LKfbZvpoQ0g?t=5m23s

2: https://energy.mit.edu/news/using-aluminum-and-water-to-make...
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They seemed very keen to communicate high risk things, though.
6 months is a LOT. Leads to garbage results.
> I've read a lot of stuff by RMS and am certainly aware of his concerns.

> RMS pontificating [...]

Uh, no. RMS was right all along and you're still not getting it.

You bought devices you can't upgrade, you can't run software on, that oppress indie devs, that tax 30% of the market, that sell out freedom fighters in oppressive regimes, and that now spy on you. And now you realize the problem.

The only way out of this madness is to get the sensible representatives in Congress to move forward with an antitrust case. Breaking up the power monopoly will perhaps get us back to a place where we have rights. The way it is now, Apple is a central point of failure.

Again, everything RMS spoke was truth, and it's here again rearing its ugly head.
> Private Equity buying up housing

Honest question from outside of the western world: is it really private, as in, the end beneficiaries are "evil rich" people with net worth over $10m? Or are those investment funds that hold the pension plans and life savings of the western middle class?
Huge discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28113852
Screw this "infrastructure" bill. Literally everything in it is fixing stuff that isn't broken.

And where are the details of this "compromise"?
> while I still have some lasting nerve damage

Is nerve damage a common side-effect from military vaccinations?
What did you get nerve damage from? I assume it wasn't from the vaccines, but someone might infer this and point out a reason why we should avoid them.
Yes, the US should have a carbon tax as well or other countries are justified in a border adjustment.
Every side effect this vaccine has caused is also caused in far greater numbers by Covid itself. No vaccine has ever had a new side effect after 9 weeks of administration in the history of medicine. And the mandate for the military is timed to be after full FDA approval which is a formality at this point.
We can't have a productive conversation if you're not going to bother to read and understand the source.

> Whilst China is a large CO2 emissions exporter, it is no longer a large emitter because it produces goods for the rest of the world. This was the case in the past, but today, even adjusted for trade, China now has a per capita footprint higher than the global average (which is 4.8 tonnes per capita in 2017).
> Not trusting Apple doesn't magically bring a trustworthy iPhone competitor into existence.

I'm afraid that'll never happen, at least, until most people don't care about their privacy and are willing to accept one-sided tradeoffs with phone vendors. BUT, there are alternatives like LineageOS that do a pretty good job. They only need more acceptance by public to be able to compete at the level of a trillion-dollar company like AAPL.
If this was really "code red for humanity", the global elite jetsetters, China, & military should set the example & drastically reduce their emissions to be in line with the average population. Otherwise, it's another case of "rules for thee but not for me".
Then they fight you.
I've been told by 3 different people at different times that I'm both the smartest and the dumbest person they've ever met.
Probably from the various bioweapon-related vaccines like the Anthrax vaccine among others.
He borrows people’s mobile phones and uses them.

Like the Amish.

Both condemn certain tech, but then use it. Both are not being honest, but hypocrites.