skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> US consumption CO2 numbers account for US purchase of solar panels.

That's what I said, but they don't account for the manufacture of raw materials produced and sold in China to aid in the manufacture of these panels, nor of the associated infrastructure causes. They therefore underestimate the export co2.

> Is of what was in terms of energy. Will it be that way in the future? Only if we let corruption and entrenched fossil fuel interests prevent cheaper options from being deployed.

Energy is effectively the same as economic activity. You are correct that if we could magically replace all of the fossil fuel usage with renewables we would be at zero emissions. But again, all sources of energy production have been rising.

> Dollars are not CO2 emissions. CO2 is emissions. Our economic systems are constructed by law and convention, and technology is completely changeable.

Again you are correct that dollars are not CO2 emissions, but dollars are a good proxy for energy (read Smil's Energy and Civilization if you need a reference for that), and currently the vast majority of our energy needs are met with CO2 emitting fuel sources.

> The only solution is compete transition of the economy in all sectors. Massive change. I say get on board or get out of the way.

Do you really not see the contradiction regarding the problem at hand and your solution? A complete transition of the economy is a incredibly destructive, insanely energy intensive process. Unless energy was already mostly renewable such a solution will only lead to the problem being worse.

I guess I'll get out of the way since this conversation has only further convinced me of how bleak our situation is.
Too is the key word.
having to buy a pixel phone for this is too expensive for the 2,5 world countries folks anyway. Unfortunately, it won't become popular if brands like xiaomi don't work with this kind of software, and I know there are many reasons why it will never happen.
They’re both tradeoffs. In my FDIC checking account, I know for certain I will lose the rate of inflation every year on my carried balance (~4 percent historically) but I won’t lose due to the bank’s investment (if I’m under the FDIC balance limit).

In the other account, based on the same history, I’ll stay well ahead of inflation most years, but lose far more in some.
What advantage does this have over a Nix/Guix expression tree, which carries hashes for everything downloaded from the network already?
I personally wish cars could be factory-optioned with 5points as I don’t find them uncomfortable, prefer to be held into the seat as it feels more secure for fun recreational driving, and the extra safety is nice.

I’d have one in my sports car but unfortunately the factory hasn’t made it easy to fit. Doing it properly requires new racing seats and a full custom roll cage. It’s easily >$10k worth of work.
More to the point, if the island is remote, and relatively self-sustaining, it seems like an alternative to New Zealand for those looking for a bolthole in the event of ecological or societal collapse. Jobs and income might not be the focus for people looking for this.
Both condemn certain tech.

You are vastly mischaracterizing the few sentences I wrote.

In the case of RMS it is non-free software tech. In the case of the Amish it is many kinds of tech and depends (as the child comment mentions) on the community. One community I lived among they weren’t allowed to own phones, but they would borrow them all the time.

To call everybody to stop using non-free software phones while depending on thise same people to own them and let you borrow them in order to live is hypocritical. Sorry if that bothers you.
If only we had a way to monitor the weather patterns in the entire globe and maybe even predict them...
Take your argument one step further - the government knows this and starts issuing warrants for exactly these situations. Now, Apple is in a position where they have to violate their user’s privacy and share content in order to comply with the search warrants. The new system allows them to comply with warrants without ever knowing or needing to know what the contents of users’ phones are and only in cases where it’s known that illegal content exists. Apple can’t divulge any other content from the users’ devices because it doesn’t have it or know what it is in the first place.
For argument (1), they are only looking matches from existing database of hashes what NCMEC is providing. They are not developing general AI to identify new pictures, they only try to stop redistribution of known files. Because of that, their claim for 1/1 trillion false postives might be actually close to be correct since it is easily validated on development phase. Also, there is human verification before law-enforces are included.

For argument (2), this might be valid, but yet again, all we can do is to trust Apple, as we do all the time by using their closed source system. Model can be changed, but it is still better option than store everything unencrypted? In case you mean forging hashes to decrypt content.

For the sake of surveillance, it is not strong argument because again, system is closed and we know only what they say. Creating such model is trivial, and is not stopping government for demanding if Apple would want to allow that. System would be identical for antivirus engines which have existed since 1980s.

This is such a PR failure for Apple, because all their incoming features are improving privacy on CSAM area, everything negative comes from speculation which was equally already possible.
Ask HN: How to find a woman technical co-founder?
My partner is brilliant woman who’s taken an MVP pretty far. She’s looking for a woman co-founder because it’s a platform primarily targeted a women and wants the synergy/empathy that comes with that. She tried co-founder matching but to little success, does anyone have any ideas???
One big mistake that I would frequently run into as a novice is not using source control, or at least saving versions of my work. I would start making a complicated change, end up breaking some fundamental part of the program, and wouldn't have any way of going back to a version that worked since I would always just save in the same file. Things like version control might seem like a chore to someone who has not had their time adequately burned by their own mistakes.
This is not the first time they have run into this - due the to AppStore being a walled garden they are the sole gate keeper who decides what goes in and what not. Makes sure the users are safe and everything. Perfect, right ?

Well, until protesters want to use an app in the store to coordinate their protests yet the government wants you to reject it, so the protesters can't use it:

https://www.applefritter.com/content/teargas-walled-garden-i...

With users not being able to install the app themselves Apple is the single point of failure with no plausible deniability like Android (any any sane OS in general) has. And they did reject the app.

And just a few months before this happened I attended a talk about free software from FSF and they mentioned just the same thing about iOS and the gate keeper being the single point of failure a repressive regime can apply pressure on. Turned on to not be far fetched at all...
House purchases etc are usually wire out - I think clear disclosures there might work on limits.

Or do a wire option with strong 2FA with callback - no SMS for authentication with a 90 day account age requirement and 15 day fund hold or similar on new funds prior to wire.

We normally have a fair bit I can't be bothered to shuffle to and from Vanguard and they've limited some of their cash management offerings. I do like having prompt access to funds so the wire option is appealing (even for a $25 - $50 fee) for me or make sure you are well integrated into same day ACH and have clear posted cutoffs (+ expedite fee if needed) for folks who need to move larger amounts.

Don't underestimate chance to move very large balances if you can solve brokerage + efficient access to cash.

Finally, if you are willing to do portfolio / margin lending (maybe very low leverage) you can often address most cap gains issues by smoothing spending.

Obviously this is opt in.

So if I write the $20K check to some contractor, you check for tax loss harvesting opportunities, if you find some great, sell and fund. If you find none then you carry that $20K on the margin account until my next deposits come in at end of month.
No it isn't, the two can't be disconnected.
Surgeons and other professionals wear masks that are at least as restrictive as a disposable procedural mask for hours per day for decades.
Because it’s there
It won't be for everyone, but I think that for some it's their idea of sanctuary.
I haven't looked at it before.

Apparently if I enable analytics I will get a report saying how many cycles my batter has lasted. Unless I use my phone for several hours of playing spotify and youtube I don't notice the battery dying during the day.
The canary died for Apple when they made it clear to all that they had developed a way to selectively bypass all device firewalls.
Do you mean that it was sabotaged?
I haven't been regularly using Debian in about 15 years now, so I don't know how things are nowadays. But back in the day when I was running Debian unstable on my desktop, temporary breakages in dependencies or in individual packages weren't that uncommon. I think sometimes some functionality was broken for a while when there was some kind of a transition going on.

Those were entirely understandable given sid's nature, and it was much more reliable and functional than one would have expected from an "unstable" active development OS distro. It wasn't unstable in the sense of crashing or being generally buggy, and it was generally quite possible to use it as an everyday desktop.

It did, at least back then, require more active administration and a corresponding mindset than a fire-and-forget stable release would, though.

Sid might of course work as a basis for a distro for someone like Valve, but I think they'd need to do something similar to what Ubuntu does with freezes and weeding out issues before releases, or at the least have some kind of a delay before updates were pushed to non-testing devices if they based directly on the unstable release.
This is a simple bottle universe.

What hope do we have to make sense of our own universe if we can't solve this simple case.

In the video, Derek shows that you can see the problem as a turing machine. But if you view it as operation on strings in basis 6, you observe that the carry doesn't propagate which means that you can compute using a 1d cellular automaton (with local rules).

https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/CollatzProblemAsACellular...

This way of viewing the Collatz conjecture as a cellular automaton mean that the Collatz conjecture is like a simpler version of Conway's game of life. You can then use some memoization tricks like hashlife to compute it more efficiently.

In the game of life, some interesting patterns emerge, whereas in Collatz it is conjectured that they all end in the same pattern of desolation.

Are the Collatz cells doomed ? Is the Collatz automaton turing-complete ? Can life emerge in the Collatz universe ? Would this change anything for these small little cells ?
well for node not js. deno does not require a package manager nor does the browser. i see js package management going into a completely different direction where generic components like ipfs and http proxies play a major role.
I am trying to read your statement without concluding that you think that ignorance is a justification for a reputation.
My first thought about it was that it's awesome. The sad thing is that my second thought about it was that if somehow physics became political, this guy would be banned from Youtube for "physical misinformation" - after disagreeing with a renown expert in the field - and maybe we would never found out about it.

But, apparently, there's a way for people to disagree about science - without any of the sides being evil or stupid - and there's a way to find out who's right. Maybe we could learn something bigger from this?
Just speculating but it might have something to do with nutrient absorption. Much in the same way we lost the ability to synthesise vitamin C and now take it in from our diet, these plants may gain a nutrient from their prey that they no longer need to produce themselves.
You’re harvesting the energy from the difference in velocity of the ground and the wind. Sure it is easy to think about that being possible when you’re attached to the ground but it’s perfectly possible when you’re moving too. Regardless of how fast you are moving or in which direction there is always that difference been air and ground.

To go faster than the wind you just have to be a bit clever in how you capture that available energy.
That's just like going to Disneyland, but packing your own luch and not going on any of the rides. :)
Why are you assuming the end is compromised? What makes you say it is in the first place?
What's the point of an imprecise measure of time as a backup in case of EMP attack?
NPM and Yarn are both widely used for front-end JavaScript code, usually with Webpack or some other horror.

Deno is an interesting model, but maybe not widely applicable?
So they'd just compare two small very blurry thumbnails? Not sure that makes it any better.
This is it. The people I talked with explained this to me exactly like this - they have nothing to hide from the authorities. Nor do they care that "someone in China" has access to things like the floor plan of their home. Baffling to me, but this is how they think, and if we plan to express our point, OP's aggressive line of "ok then let me rifle through your private stuff" won't work.
I actually think it's more exciting this way. Think about it if it wasn't just eating bugs. Which is more exciting: "We've discovered a new species of plant, and it's a man-eater" or "this well-known plant has secretly been eating people all along"?
Is there some high-level mathematical way to interpret these normal forms?

I am not familiar with relational databases and just googled database normalization to get a kind of crude idea of what you are saying, but all the examples I find don't seem to give some high-level mathematical interpretation of database normalization. And it seems like there should be one (I could be way off here) based on how you are talking about forms here.
The first paper you cited does not consider vaccinated individuals, so it doesn't support your original comment that people who were vaccinated "were 6.72 times more likely to get infected".

The second reference does not provide a citation for the "39% efficiency against infection" claim. But some digging turned up the Israeli Ministry of Health press release from May [1], which states:

- "From the epidemiological analysis by public health services in the Ministry of Health, it is evident that since June 6th there was marked decline in the effectiveness of the vaccine in preventing infection (64%) and symptomatic illness (64%)."

In summary [1] also does not support the "6.72 times more likely to get infected" claim. And since the data backing [1] does not appear to be publicly available nor subject to any peer-review process or other academic scrutiny, it should be taken with a big grain of salt.

[1] https://www.gov.il/en/departments/news/05072021-03
since it's on a rotating body it wouldn't always be pointing the direction we wanted it to

Could you put it on one of the poles?
This is classic what-aboutism, yes they are both equally bad scenarios. Apple is just one-step closer with capability already deployed.
Amazfit Bip also does not leak your data when used with Gadgetbridge.
Wow, cool. I'm guessing the proportion on FB is higher here in Europe, and thought it would be even higher in the US.
But nobody apologies for them or went to prison. There is little to believe the don’t continue.
Yeah, I remember Last.fm being pretty good at that. Also, Pandora seemed like magic back when it first came out.
Well, that's true, but I don't think we can pretend that computers are anywhere near as good at humans at extracting the intended meaning from human utterances.
And one of the Veritasium videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCsgoLc_fzI
This is a good one. It's snappy and makes the point clearly - that the private information is by default need to know, not public.
The goalposts have shifted since we’re currently in the second-worst wave since November 2020 https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2021/08/august-9th-covid-...
That's a different problem, isn't it? That's more about transcription -- getting the speech into words -- than about what he's talking about, making sense of the words once you have them.
Your first sentence is wrong for many scenarios and is meaningless without a time interval. Over a period of 10 years the risk historically is absolutely higher from inflation than a total market mutual fund.

If people were good at sweeping excess balances into their investments I think this idea would be less appealing. But for a variety of reasons, many perfectly rational, people like having a nice cushion in there. It feels safe. Long term, it isn’t. These guys should lean into that in their marketing.
Do you have a brand you recommend?
Not a geneticist or a botanist here, but I would assume that because it is carnivorous, it gains a particular set of nutrients from the fruit flies and thus does not need to absorb these compounds through the root system. The gene or set of genes responsible for processing nutrients through the root would thus not be needed and would eventually be deactivated or disappear entirely over the evolution of the species.
The biggest disappointment with my OnePlus Buds was the inability to listen to music while laying on my side.
That, together with how buggy bluetooth is everywhere besides Apple products, makes me really hate the technology of wireless headphones/earphones.
I hear ya. I've reported to people who just didn't get it, and assumed it was an excuse to be lazy. I've also reported to people who totally understood disability and the acquired neurodiversity that often accompanies it.

I suppose you can't active seek the latter, without having a framework and criteria for doing so -- which cements my personal thoughts on the need for radical transparency. The format of that I'm still struggling with :)
Even the side scrolling games of the early 90s required ingenious hacks to make them work on the hardware of the time.

Game consoles at the time had hardware accelerated sprite scrolling; personal computers did not and had to redraw sprites manually to scroll but the games used some very interesting hacks to avoid having to redraw most of the screen and create the illusion of fluid movement by only redrawing parts of it.

Some of the absolute hacks to make games run on the Gameboy were even more impressive.
pnpm’s strategy of having a single global node_modules folder of cached deps it links to is still my favorite. Installs are way faster than both npm and Yarn, and it even works offline if you’ve ever installed the packages before. It’s supported workspaces long before npm, and works as a drop in replacement. I don’t like working without it these days.

I just want Vercel to support it so I can use it to speed up build times with relying solely on build cache.
Ping me on twitter or email? Both should be in the colab notebook.
did anybody ask the plant if it was okay with its genes being sequenced?!

isn't this, like, what we all have feared regarding genomic data falling into the government's hands?

people paid by the government stole this poor innocent plant's genomes and then ran it through their fancy machines that claimed dubious statistical similarity with the genes of murderers, then...

people paid by the government then showed up, radioinfused some fruitflies, stuck them on this poor innocent plant, denied it food and water, waited for the flies to die and decompose, dug up traces in the plant and then declared it a MURDERER for fame and fortune.

this is way scarier than apple checking hashes of images to see if they're evidence of exploitation of children in their icloud photo uploader... wake up sheeple!!!

VEGETABLE RIGHTS AND PEACE
I never said privacy was the problem, so your argument is irrelevant. What I said is that privacy (true privacy) introduces problems that we may want to solve for. You can simultaneously be an advocate for user privacy while agreeing that CSAM is bad and should be minimized. The question is how do you maintain privacy while still being able to act (especially if mandated by a government) on known illegal actions. In the past, that wasn’t possible. Apple is suggesting that this is possible but with the giant caveat that you have to be willing to put trust in the way the system is developed.
Seconding the white noise machine. It helps me falling asleep and staying asleep.
I fell sort of sideways, after tearing apart a bunch of old pocket watches and working my way in various directions, I've ended up in love with 18th and early 19th century tall case clocks. I've got about eight of them now, and spend much of my weekends at a little local clock museum sucking all the knowledge I can out of the curator there.
A lot of math is taught in a sloppy way, which thwarts the pattern recognition progress in brains trying to learn it.

Programming is significantly easier than math (for something equivalently complex) because of things like syntax checking and compiler/interpreter errors. This speeds up the pattern recognition process in the human brain.

People who are identified as being skilled at math or programming at a relatively early age are usually those who understood it in spite of the teacher/curriculum, so the ability comes as a surprise.

But many such people do not go on to distinguish themselves in either field in any way. There are always things that come easily to one person vs another, but in math and programming, the early birds are typically the only ones whose interest in the subject isn't destroyed by the teaching methods (because the learning happened in spite of them).
I think people underestimate the black mark of even being investigated, much less charged by the police. Even if they find you didn't do something wrong, even if they drop charges, even if you are found innocent after a trial, the mere record that you were ever suspected of something can follow you the rest of your life.

The standard is supposed to be that criminals are those "convicted" of crimes, but in reality the nature of risk mitigation for most people and organizations means that they will avoid anyone with any type of history with the criminal justice system. No one will care that there was an overzealous prosecutor, corrupt cops, etc. The burden falls on you to prove you're innocent and even with convincing evidence it may not be enough.
There is public reference on Apple site[1].

Citing final phrase on the paper to TLDR their system:

> Apple is able to learn the relevant image information only once the account has more than a threshold number of CSAM matches, and even then, only for the matching
images.

This applies only for images, so you can still reset your password. Technically, there are two layers of encryption on images. Regular server-side encryption and this "E2EE like" encryption, which allows access for CSAM matches in specific threshold.

[1]: https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni...
Now that Apple has demonstrated ability/capacity to scan for unencrypted content, law enforcement & government agencies with court-backing will compel them to provide any content moving forward.

However, the majority of Apple users are uncaring and/or unaware of these recent changes and it will not affect their sales beyond the tiny tech minority.