skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is met with disbelief because of one simple fact: There is nothing that limits Apple from scanning other files, other than “we pinkie swear we won’t.”

Corporations have a terrible record about breaking non-revenue-impacting pinkie swears. Breaking this one - especially when “what about the children” is involved - would have no meaningful impact on their revenue or share price, it could even go up.
Yeah, the airport provides the Internet uplink and contractually it can be as locked-down and broken as they like. Boingo just manages the WiFi infrastructure and payment/login. Usually they're extremely lazy and just use a DNS service with business-style blocking rules and unblock popular stuff one at a time when people notice and complain.
Treeverse raises $23M to bring Git-like version control to data lakes
> About this time, someone usually mocks "it's always about the kids, think about the kids." To those critics: They have not seen the scope of this problem or the long term impact.

The exploitation of children is a real and heartbreaking ongoing tragedy that forever harms millions of those we most owe protection.

It's because this is so tragic that we in the world of privacy have grown skeptical. The Four Horsemen, invoked consistently around the world to mount assaults against privacy, are child abuse, terrorism, drugs, and money laundering.

Once privacy is defeated, none of those real, compelling, pressing problems get better (well, except money laundering). Lives are not improved. People are not rescued. Well-meaning advocates just move on to the next thing the foes of privacy point them at. Surely it will work this time!

Your heart is in the right place. You have devoted no small part of your time and energy to a deep and genuine blooming of compassion and empathy. It's just perhaps worth considering that others of us might have good reason to be skeptical.
your logic has no affect on me! This was obviously the work of time traveling rockabillies!
This is a good point, and China has basically already risen to European levels of energy use and emissions. For the services available to the typical Chinese person, I wouldn't expect this to rise a ton more, unless China adopts US-style car-dependent land use for the majority of its population. Look at the difference in consumption between car-dependent city planning and the urban cores where cars are not a necessity:

https://coolclimate.berkeley.edu/maps

That's a bigger difference than the US-China difference.

But even if China does decide to go that route, they have two other advantages over the US: 1) the housing growth will come from new builds that are far better insulated, and use heat pumps rather than fossil fuel heat, and 2) they will be able to grow the car fleet with EVs, rather than having a huge existing fleet of ICE.
For a little more context, see https://www.howtogeek.com/710509/apples-imessage-is-secure.....

For those unfamiliar, as I was, it appears iCloud backup is enabled by default. I think the above statement about iMessage not being e2e in practice is very fair.
The Weaponization of Copyright by Police Officers, the Need to Automate Fair Use
The thing is tools like this will only make it harder to fix the problem.
A place I worked blocked Github for "hacking tools." Each new software developer hire had to request access and get it approved by their manager, a process that took a few hours.
But they could, as iCloud Photos is not e2e (Apple can read all of it) and they turn over the user data on over 30,000 users per year to the USG without even a warrant.

This is just farce.
> This is just streaming spam and any site that accepts user-generated content is susceptible to it.

Not if the site polices user-generated content.
How is elevated CO2 perceived? Does it have a smell?
I’ve been doing a lot of research in the space and the most damning part of it all is that our civilization’s carbon capture capacity is not there yet. We don’t have the technology to do that — yet. That’s why one of the most impactful things we can do is support the technology companies in developing this technology.
If it becomes mandatory for email providers to screen emails, will services such as Protonmail become illegal in the EU? Since they don't have access to their users' email content because of encryption.
Tesla Is Officially Delaying Cybertruck Production to 2022
There never was a lotus improv for non NeXT hardware. Lotus killed NeXT improv basically lay immediately after it came out.

What happened was lighthouse design came in and built an exact clone of improv called quantrix. The manuals were interchangeable - I’m actually learning them now.

I bought a boxed copy of improv and quantrix manuals.
It is /excellent/ we really have a lot of excellent ideas in our computing past.

If you want a copy of the lighthouse apps (they gave away licenses when sun bought them in 1996 or so.
) check out next computers.org
They have a file section.
But is the total size of all filenames combined much less than the stack size? The argument list is stored on the stack of the new process, and it still has to leave enough space there for the program to use. See bprm_stack_limits in fs/exec.c for details.
Chinese rise in emissions is because of Western manufacturing.

Russian rise in emissions is because of Western European need for heating.

If we stop outsourcing manufacturing to China and stop buying gas from Russia their emissions will also fall.

But India and Africa are significantly poorer than China and Russia.

India and Africa should be allowed to emit CO2 for the next two decades or they will remain poor forever.
What you are in effect saying is, since your (our) positions have not the majority in parliament, we need to resort to violence?

Can we try other established democratic ways, like voting, petitioning, demonstrating, etc. before that?
> The AFOLU sector is responsible for just under a quarter

1/4 of world-wide emissions. In developed nations it isn't nearly that large of a fraction. The US agriculture industry is responsible for a little less than 1/10 of our emissions.

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/inventory-us-greenhouse-gas...
Most next generation reactors already are high temperature.

All the major companies at the forefront of reactor commercialization have high temperature reactors.

The optimal today for a reactor is having one reactor with output X and then add 3X worth of turbines and a way to store hot solar salt. This way you can produce huge amount of energy at the times when prices are high.

Of course it also means the nuclear part of the project would only be a small part of the overall cost.
As the Olympics concludes, BBC tours its Unreal Engine-powered studio
As the developer of an E2EE chat system, how could this affect me? Would I be forced to do something? I fall under a non-EU jurisdiction, and my servers are also outside of the EU. Would this apply to me or my users in the least? Thanks
I'd say that containers are actually something that makes Unix shell a lot more valuable and predictable, and one reason that I'm working on https://www.oilshell.org/ .

A container is basically a "virtualenv" for shell, and it's honestly better than that because:

- it's more general (it isolates every language, not just Python), and

- not even bigger (e.g. an Alpine Linux container is not that much bigger than the Python install in every virtualenv!)

Traditionally you do indeed have the problem that copying a shell script from one machine to another basically guarantees you nothing about how it will work. These days we deploy containers, which solve the problem, and that's why shell is used so much in the cloud (e.g. anything with Github Actions has a boatload of shell)

Even more on that: https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/07/cloud-review.html
There is not much to rejoice if all that growth will go in the hands of the few friends of the government, leaving a richer 0.01%, a broken middle class and unstable societies.
There is absolutely no such thing as "permanent record holder" in track and field. The structure of records in track and field is a very specific thing, and the current world record holder, which record is set in accordance with the current matrix of regulation and ratification procedures, is canonically considered the superlative all-time performance. Uwe's throw, while astonishing, is a now a sidenote and asterisk.
COVID-19 was a program of systemic action. The US had lockdowns, mask mandates and even soft vaccine mandates. None of this was enough to crush the virus. Why? Because systems are made of individuals who will decide whether or not they want to collaborate on solving a problem.
Lotus Improv was available for Windows (3.x) as well if that’s your main interest. Might be easier to get running, if you can find it.
Individual actions help, they aren't sufficient alone but if every citizen went vegan and didn't vacation, it would probably buy us a couple more years to transition our energy system. Every little bit helps, but I do agree industry is the low hanging and greater emitting fruit that must change first. For instance air conditioning, there are very potent greenhouse gasses in ACs, companies would do well to phase those out fully and quickly and dispose of them properly. A little government incentive there would be a massive win, much easier than telling humans not to travel.
A similar question was in the comments of the article and reply from the Author:

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Ralph A Hutton
August 6, 2021 at 1:40 am

1000 times? That means a normal size panel ,area about one square meter, that produces 200 watts , would be capable of an output of 200 kW. I look forward to that. I believe, and this needs confirming, the maximum available power from one square meter is about one kW. What have I misunderstood?
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Ryan Kennedy
August 6, 2021 at 1:46 am

Our apologies for not making this clear. The photovoltaic effect was increased by 1000 times compared to previous output achieved from cells made of ferroelectric crystals, not from prevailing solar cells made of silicon or other conventional materials.**
you have artificially tried to divide people into one of two extreme camps! cryptocurrency is either totally useless or the savior of the world!

Most of us do not believe either of those things. At the moment I apllaud any legislation that outs the brakes on current crypto currencies. The damage they have been doing to the world so people can gamble/speculate has been immense, its a tragedy. Money transferring to the lucky all while burning through energy.
Infectious disease in HawaiʻI dolphin could spark mass marine mammal deaths
Are they paying for your expenses?
I think it can be chalked up to "naive outsider musings" coupled with the "national geographic touch."
This just allows them to sell your name+email+phone+address to Google et al.

State mandated doxxing.

This is why I have a burner phone number, throwaway domain/email, and special alias for food delivery that needs my home address.
> Privacy is something that people usually only care about on a theoretical level. Practically speaking, they're often happy to not care so much at all if they get something more tangible in return.

Because not everyone is a Programmer. Most people I know have never even heard about Snowden.
The true long term success rate of AA is about 1 in 20, which is absolutely terrible!
https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/browser/?tbl=T02.01#/?f...

Industrial is the largest energy consumer by sector, but doesn't pale in comparison to transportation, commercial and residential. If anything C19 has brought residential up to industrial levels.
discussed previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28074809
I guess this is sarcastic?
Really curious: how and by which layer (ISP? email/chat providers?) does this get implemented practically, on the software level?
Not exclusively. It is also a very Socratic perspective (which happens to be a contemporary to Buddha).

Buddhist interpretation of ignorance overlaps more with Socratic interpretation than our current use of the word. It is not a mere lack of knowledge in “propositions”. It is an existential state. If you think about it framing problems are also ignorance problems; ignoring relevant information/perspectives/action in our problem formulations.
Yes thank you. I was alarmed in light of the Apple stuff that this is yet another attack on security.
comment from a previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28075226

>the following categories do not count as brokers:

>(A) validating distributed ledger transactions

>(B) selling hardware or software for which the sole function is to permit a person to control private keys which are used for accessing digital assets on a distributed ledger, or

>(C) developing digital assets or their cor- responding protocols for use by other persons, provided that such other persons are not cus- tomers of the person developing such assets or protocols.
I am not demanding you to "self sacrifice" in the sense I don't think you should stay in the dark to use less electricity but more on turn off the lights you don't need.

Similar, don't buy shit you don't need, do a bit of effort to research if maybe you can "sacrifice" a bit of money to buy a greener product or that will be shipped from a closer location etc. The industry is burning fuel to give you the shit you want, for you whims , you can't just blame them.
Musk's main climate sin is sabotaging real mass transit with ridiculous low-throughout pipe-dreams: his cars in small tunnels.

This is as much a sin against functional cities as it is against the climate.

Rocket launches really aren't bad at all in comparison. He could take one every single day without the same level of damage as stopping a single new transit line.
Whenever a politician invokes "think of the children", ask them about their funding of Child Protection Services.

Any political action that's said to be under the umbrella of "think of the children" that doesn't provide additional funding to existing Child Protection Services is for reasons other than child protection. Additionally, it's actively working against helping children because the funds for "this new thing", if the goal really was for actually protecting vulnerable children, would be better spent on improving the coverage that existing Child Protection Services provide.

A close friend of mine is in a position that requires "mandatory reporting" training, and they say it's relatively pointless because Child Services only has the resources to investigate cases in which the child's life is in immediate danger. This may be somewhere along the scale of hyperbole, but I doubt it's too far from reality.

Of course, removing children from danger is often removing them from their parents / legal guardians, which comes with its own set of risks.

Either way, funding boots-on-the-ground work with leads from local social workers, early childhood educators, teachers has to be the best way to actually protect at-risk children.
Most major democratic governments don't have direct democracy.
> Why haven't I made my whitepaper about PhotoDNA public? In my view, who would it help? It would help bad guys avoid detection and it will help malcontents manufacture false-positives. The paper won't help NCMEC, ICACs, or related law enforcement. It won't help victims.

It would help those victims who are falsely accused of having child porn on the phone because of a bug.

It would also help those people who is going to be detained because PhotoDNA will be used by dictatorial states to find incriminating material on their phone just as they used Pegasus to spy on journalists, political opponents, etc.
But their neighors do not know it, and if amazon or the government knows it(pr their browser histpry, emails, ...) it has the same effect to them, that god knows it all. Can't do anything about it. Too distant to care. Thats my conclusion of privacy discussions with "normal" people.
If I understand correctly, fossil fuels are ancient swampy bogs. Trying to imagine a situation where hundreds of vertical feet of carbon rich soils can accumulate, I think of a river delta slowly extending to sea, or an ancient lake eutrophying.

Perhaps a geologist will come along who can explain better.
I have no love for apple and their crap. I'm just tired of the endless stream of this bullshit fake outrage by the worst perpetrators.
https://archive.ph/BIJzX
Then what is spinning the wheels?
> unprecedented growth

.. at unprecedented cost
Scientists unveil brain wiring diagram with 200K cells, half-billion connections
They were paid (even pennies) for the guns that were steamrolled/smelted over there?!
> About this time, someone usually mocks "it's always about the kids, think about the kids." To those critics: They have not seen the scope of this problem or the long term impact.

I'd say it's the other way around. If freedom dies this time, it might die for good, followed by an "eternity" of totalitarianism. All violence that occured in human history so far combined is nothing compared to what is at stake.

> Free thought requires free media. Free media requires free technology. We require ethical treatment when we go to read, to write, to listen and to watch. Those are the hallmarks of our politics. We need to keep those politics until we die. Because if we don’t, something else will die. Something so precious that many, many of our fathers and mothers gave their life for it. Something so precious, that we understood it to define what it meant to be human; it will die.

-- Eben Moglen
I think locking the bootloader can prevent rogue shops installing malware (I heard this was an issue in china). But if that is the reason, manufacturer could give devs and consumers method to unlock.

I did wonder then if locking bootloader could be at request of govt (cue Huawei paranoia).

Perhaps it is a feature not used often enough to justify costs of warranty service/complaints to manufacturer (kids bricking their phone).
Relevant Senate links appear to be:

• https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_...

• https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Wyden%20Lummis%...
that's the author, not the reference
In this particular case it seems reasonably fair, because this is recreating what NeXT had become by the end. While they did continue shipping units for a couple years after the pivot, NeXT's focus on building hardware didn't even last half the period between the company's founding and its acquisition by Apple.

Years ago I acquired and refurbished a NeXT cube. They were certainly a distinctive-looking computer for the day, but I don't know that there was anything particularly special bout the hardware that was worth recreating. The software was the interesting bit.
How much of a rebate on your taxes would you be happy selling it for?

What about a discount on your purchases, which was funded by the government, who would then buy the data?
Thank you, I started using this yesterday and it works great! Perfectly fits my requirements.
It is funny, how one gets downvoted for asking someone to elaborate their point on HN.
All of our economics relies on having new people. Pensioners, ie people who cannot produce anymore, are effectively upkept by the younger generations, in exchange for their savings.

We don’t know how to run economies without young people. Look at the demographic issues in Japan, and lesser extent now in China.
Couriers do say that, it seems, but have you ever experienced them using it? I never get anything at all, unless I look up the tracking online. Doesn't matter if the package is on time or if it disappeared somewhere in Alaska or if it got delivered 2 streets over, total radio silence.
Imagine they'd used '>' instead. I don't think that I would appreciate a hard reset of that particular block device.
You’re one google search away from liberation: “Wisdom cognitive science”
For sure, but I would posit most startups and smaller stage companies can get by with it. It really comes down to indexing data properly and designing for your search patterns. If your search patterns are vast or change constantly, ES might be better, but if you just need basic text search over X attributes, Postgres will be sufficient.
After not living in the US for a few years, your view of the US is quite disillusioned. They don’t want you to come back and live there. The need to keep everyone thinking the US is the best. /s
Everything Is K-Shaped Right Now
> but..... the seller reappearance with a different name. They had the same product range and descriptions.

I wonder how they are able to do this so fast?
"A popular YouTuber filmed himself driving a wind-powered vehicle downwind faster than the wind itself. [...] Muller, the creator of the Veritasium YouTube channel, likes to break down funky science concepts for his 9.5 million subscribers."

The "popular YouTuber" is Derek Muller, who studied Engineering Physics and has a PhD in Physics Education Research... It's so frustrating to see how the writer tried so hard to make as much as clickbait-y title as possible...
I was reading the first line about the startup and thinking "Oh cool, that's the passion option, now let's read about the money".

Given the success rate of startups, your choice is more like "passion vs passion" or "work vs education". You might be overestimating the potential equity, or the probability of getting any large payout from the startup.
There are actually industries which China dominates where the cost of energy is the main driving factor, like aluminium production. The thing is that as far as anyone can tell it makes zero economic sense for that to be made in China in such a polluting way - the only way that they could undercut countries with cheap green electricity to the extent they do is through massive Chinese government subsidies.
I think that the fatal error is not going and vote for the European Parliament elections [0]. You don't get to complain when you decide not to participate in the democratic process.

Even if this was passed by the Council of the EU [1] it would be passed by ministers representing over 55% of the states - and over 65% of the EU population - and could be blocked by 4 countries. Now - we can discuss if a government is a democratic institution, but I guess it's a bit of a stretch to argue otherwise.

In other words: democracy requires information and education, either at the EU or at state level. That's not the issue here.

Your country is not a passive agent in this: your country has a say and you need only four countries to stop this. If you believe that somehow you can influence your government when it's emanating laws locally, but not when - the same government - is voting in the Council, you are just doing some magical thinking.

The EU has one main problem: it's local politicians stoking the fire of "It's the EU doing this, not us" - while at the same time passing legislation in the EU.

<Tyranny of the majority arguments go here>

[0] https://europarl.europa.eu/election-results-2019/en/turnout/
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_the_European_Union
Sometimes there are more important things than maintaining individual privacy and this is clearly one of them.

Finding and protecting even a few children from becoming victims of pornography is clearly something that is well worth my not having 100% privacy.

Even knowing that there might be false alarms.

Despite what the strident discourse has been, individual privacy is not some sancrosanct idea that cannot ever be tread upon. There are some things that are far far more important than that.
This was posted a little while ago, and might interest you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28051005

https://blues.io/products/