skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This situation is unique. McDonald's forces it's restaurants and even it's franchisees to use one of 2 ice cream vending machine manufacturers they have contracts with, Taylor and Carpigiani, an overseas company based in Italy. Taylor purposely designs these machines to prevent restaurants from being able to service them by having an undocumented menu in the software that shows the actual error codes forcing the restaurants to pay a Taylor authorized technician to 'fix' the machine. Most of the time it's an issue the restaurant could have handled if they could access this hidden service menu on the machine even though the restaurants own these machines. McDonald's ice cream products are some of their best selling products so franchisees have no choice but to pay these exorbitant service fess or lose more revenue to lost sales. Taylor reports 25% of it's revenue comes from maintenance and repair. Essentially McDonald's and Taylor are holding restaurants hostage and trapping them in this cycle of constant service calls knowing franchisees have no choice but to pay the service fees. Check out Wired's original article for the backstory behind Kytch and Taylor:

https://www.wired.com/story/they-hacked-mcdonalds-ice-cream-...
It's an infrastructure bill but it's got waaaaay more than infrastructure in it.

I wonder if congress even has time (or if they even want to lmao) to read the thing in its entirety.
I don't understand your question. Google, Apple, Facebook et al comply with their legal obligations.

Apple does not have a legal obligation to install spyware on your phone (at least not in the US, not yet).
Is RainBird not larger than Uber?
You have evidence of infection from several tests, they could still be false positives.

Even ignoring that I t’s really difficult to have a policy around this because of how limited and error prone testing was early on. Many people where told they had covid based on symptoms or a single low accuracy test. Things have improved, but when you start talking millions of people being tested it’s really just a question of the rate of false positives not their existence.
Of all the syntaxes I've seen to do this, I like Kotlin's best:

repeat(10) {
println("Counter is $it")
}

Kotlin optimizes nicely for the most default case while giving you flexibility if you need it (different parameter name, step, etc...).
Yeah wrote all those out off the top of my head, a draft phase woulda been useful indeed, these corrections are all true
Good article, highlighting one of the most critical points: All this software, even without the controversial additions, is not trustworthy! The Pegasus software has clearly shown that iPhones have severe security flaws, and therefore their contents cannot be trusted. Potentially a malicious third party could store content on your own phone, remotely, without you knowing and noticing.

Quoting from the article:

"Meanwhile, there are vulnerabilities in iMessage’s architecture, protective features don’t seem to work as expected, and Apple is not being forthcoming on the impact to users and how those users can stay safe—other than rebooting their phones weekly."

On top of this already brittle and demonstrably insecure implementation, Apple will now add an opaque system that is subject to stochastic false positives.
I keep seeing Apple take a beating. But I can’t help but think this is politically motivated. I’ve seen private-government collusion first hand; create paranoia, goto government with a solution, get some custom legislation or exec order; profit.

Politicians began hating on tech corp and promising changes. We’ve seen attacks on section 230 in the press and bills popping up.

This is not going away. My guess is it’s a hedge against government who decided to pass some messages along.

“Why won’t Apple help us fight this?” being suggested by political grifters in both parties. Cable news will hassle them.

They’ll do this to avoid that.
Canadian national identity is partially defined by the victory at Vimy Ridge which happened before Cambrai. Obviously, my history textbooks are heavily biased, were the lessons learned at Vimy Ridge applied to Cambrai?
I never managed to get properly comfortable in hammocks, always felt like my feet were up too high and the edges were too restricting.
People expect to check source code before running it. They do not expect to have to check it before compiling it.

Why are they compiling untrusted code? To see if it's syntactically correct?
If the code you're compiling is using a build system, you're already compromised.

Compilation of untrusted code should always be sandboxed, regardless of compile-time programming capabilities.
While I wasn't obese, I was overweight until the end of high school. For some reason I thought weight = 10*age and it took me a while to realize that this would be unsustainable past 20. Now I'd say I'm more fit than average (try to work out ≥4 times/week, have ran several half marathons and a marathon, decently adept at skateboarding) and people can't believe that photos of me as a child are the same person.

I'd say this is more of a boiling frog situation where I don't perceive a demarcation between life before and after getting fit.
I've heard it said that Kafka never wanted his works published and, during his lifetime, they weren't. But I agree with the general sentiment. Gene Simmons had pretty good advice about it: "Even Clark Kent had a day job".
I use it a lot to figure out why things fail. For example, what if you get an -EPERM from mount()? Was it denied by seccomp, an LSM, because you don't own the user namespace that owns your mount namespace?

strace will tell you it failed, but bpftrace can help understand why.

Note that I said "help": bpftrace can tell you "this function failed with EPERM", but e.g. ovl_fill_super() can fill with EPERM for lots of different reasons. So it's a bit like printf debugging. And you're SOL if the error is generated within that function or from an inlined function :(
> Welles distinguishes stupidity from ignorance; where stupidity means one must know they are acting in their own worst interest in that it must be a choice, not a forced act or accident.

The problem with this definition is taking a very narrow meaning of "knowing" which most of the time means "propositional knowing".

A basketball player knows propositionally that they need to put the ball through the hoop, but they will miss in a likelihood in proportion to their lack of procedural knowledge. This doesn't they are being stupid, they actually didn't fully know how.

To apply it recursively; we might know the definition of stupid but that helps so little to save us out of doing stupid things throughout our lives.
What an interesting article!
This is fun to think about. You only need that horizontal velocity to stay in orbit, right? But what about getting to the moon? Turns out it only goes about 1km/s. Still bloody fast, but it's a bit less scary. Daydreams of capturing that energy on descent to power a moonbase... but then the moon is quite a long way away, and you need to escape over 99% of the earth's gravity, opposed to the 10% needed to reach space. Phooey, lunch is never free.
There aren't any because hydrogen cooled turbomachinery is complex and high-touch. There are systems that circulate the gas out of the generator and into separators that remove the inevitable air contaminants and dryers to remove the water. They aren't really seal-and-forget systems like a helium-filled hard disk drive might be.
Why would you choose apple over anyone else at that point?
Length contraction should also increase the apparent density for a ship travelling at relativistic speeds.
> This volume of hydrogen is a cube with 30m sides. For one container

This is actually smaller than i was imagining.
> they're only media outlets insofar as it helps support their primary business model.

Sure, but isn't that the objectionable part? The core conceit of capitalism is free competition and that multiple participants on a level playing field optimizes outcomes (in the form of greater overall wealth, better products, etc.).

Investors are needed for liquidity, but if some investors gain enough market power that they can change the outcome of businesses that seems deeply suboptimal and runs counter to the core conceit of capitalism.

On the extreme end this would include flooding the field with so much money as to effectively wipe out competitors - including ones with superior technology/product. On the milder end it would include crowding out the marketability of less well-backed competitors by using media clout. Both seem like things very large VC firms do on the regular (though to be fair, not at all unique to a16z).
I think gregblock could be to your liking. Altough it is greg lite. Same with omnifactory, sadly.

Still quite enjoyable packs.
What matters is fantasy when it isn't politically feasible. The only consensus for an emissions regulatory framework is going to be based on per capita. Growing populous countries with the most say will never agree to anything else which is counter to their interests, i.e. China could propose a framework based on de-growth since the PRC population is set to decline to less than 1B by the end of the century, but western countries that rely on growth via immigration would never be up for it even if ultimately de-growth is the more pragmatic solution. Reality is also going to be that emission standards will be based on historic per capita emissions since developing countries will need to catch up on new infra emissions which western nations hide in historic emission data. Reality is global warming is less politically existential than poverty and development for domestic politics for many countries, as long as it kills others more than yourself, even if it ultimately kills everyone. This highlights the even more unpalatable reality that there are climate change winners and losers.

Climate change discussions remind me of covid19 policy wank and panic control but stretched out over decades. Many of us were fairly confident covid19 was going to be a pandemic we’ll have to live with, that’s just reality when most of the world do not have capability to respond properly. There’s a lot of interventions and technologies leading countries can export to mitigate, but ultimately everyone has to come to an understanding that we can’t stop climate change due to political realities.
Large-scale hydrogen production is commonly based on fossil fuels right now, and that's what many fossil fuel companies push when they talk hydrogen. End-to-end efficiency is also not that great. That doesn't necessarily disqualify hydrogen, but it's not as obvious as often presented.
Scanning in this context implies understanding what is in the image. Hashing doesn't. A hash of a tree only tells apple "This is not a CSAM image", it doesn't say "there is a tree in this image."
》who identifies as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or queer

So many people will now start coming out of closet...
Anti-Racist Graphics Research (Siggraph 2021)
Every street address is public. All houses order food. Nothing private is disclosed.
I think the claim is accurate only because I've set the bar quite low (10x being an order of magnitude).

But I'll do a similar analysis: how much does a constantly-used desktop PC emit? I'm seeing estimates of ~200 kg emissions/year from a desktop PC for ~8hr/day usage, which is ~0.4% of the average American's emissions (50,000 kg/year). Now you must consider some other things:

1) of those relatively small emissions, how much is due to energy that is used for baseline PC functions (OS, monitor, etc).

2) does idle time from a browser doing slightly less work translate to noticeably less power draw? I can see a difference from 100% to 80% CPU utilization, but what about 40% to 20%? is the relationship between cpu utilization and power draw linear?

3) I'd bet the largest offenders of sites in terms of power usage are complex webapps that have no meaningful room for performance improvements possible by a frontend developer: games, photo editors, video players. Compare to those, better CSS selectors seems small potatoes.

To be clear, my claim is that overall the savings here are negligible and efforts are far best spent elsewhere (extreme example: instead of a programmer trying to optimize even a heavily-trafficked site, they would have a larger impact if they spent their time ensuring their home, or the home of their friends and family, is not wasting energy).
Hybrid work: How 'proximity bias' can lead to favouritism
There is also some evidence of Tony Bath's and Hyboria influence moving strict Wargames rules towards a more role played experience.
Are you saying that "the vast majority of warming" is caused by "spending billions to misinform people, the corruption, the carteling, ghe cover-ups, the greenwashing and everything else"? While I would agree what they did is truly horrible, I'm also skeptical of the implied narrative that "if only we didn't have oil companies doing misinformation campaigns, climate change would be solved".

I'm also not sure how does "the carteling" refers to, and how that contributes to global warming.
FWIW, the article contemplates cargo airships with a million m^3, which would carry around 40 containers. That would be a cube with 100m sides, and you'd need 500 of those to replace one big container ship.

Seems not a realistic option to replace container ships, but might be realistic for specific use cases.
The DoomEd source code seems to be available at https://github.com/DrinkyBird/DoomEd and it's Objective C code, so I would expect this to compile on NeXTstep/PA-RISC (but I haven't tried).

If you don't have a compiler set up on the PA-RISC machine, you should be able to cross-compile or generate a fat binary from ProjectBuilder on NeXTstep/intel.
I think this is a very well written article with great examples.

However, I would give the same criticism as I would to the SRP (Single Responsibility Principle): What exactly is a "reason to change"?

In my experience, it is rarely as clear as in the examples that were given. This vagueness of the SRP has always bothered me. In my opinion, this problem invalidates (or at least weakens) the entire SOLID concept and many of the Gang of Four patterns with it.
Not defending the new tech by any means, but you'd have to have enough matches to exceed some hidden threshold, which would first trigger a manual review by Apple. It seems very unlikely to have your own family photo result trigger anything.
Nce theory.
And yet smartphones have delivered far more real world computing to users than the "real computing" ever did.
For some definition of “working on”. The RFC was accepted several years ago, but nobody has stepped forward to actually implement it.
Disabling iCloud doesn't enable e2e as the other end of your conversation still has iCloud on by default and is escrowing your chat plaintext to Apple.

Apple has access to all of the plaintext iMessages for almost all devices/conversations and can turn them over to the USG at will.
I get that, but we should also have parental leave that is at least a year. Full time students should be studdying hard and have no time to work.

Of course, that is not how it works in the US in the short term, and the gig economy is good in this regard comparison to the terrible last-minute scheduling on-prem unskilled labor has turned too.

Just saying we gotta keep our eyes on the prize long term. Even if you, dear reader, are a well-paid programmer or whatever, remember the powers that be only automate things with the proles don't show up to work, so your interests are aligned.
From Wikipedia[1]:

> Argument from fallacy is the formal fallacy of analyzing an argument and inferring that, since it contains a fallacy, its conclusion must be false.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy
Lol! That is one heck of a value proposition:

We can't really help you if we end up losing all of your money... but our page looks way better than the alternative!
On the other hand, the levee broke during Katrina in a first world country. Infrastructure needs to be improved and maintained continually and that's a huge problem and cost sink even in first world countries. Have you seen the price to build a mile of subway in NYC? The engineering marvel that will be required to save Manhattan will inevitably be the most costly thing ever built in the US.
Does anybody know of the best practice for creating large images (ex 3840x2160) on a single GPU (ex a 2080/3080)? I played with stitching some years ago when all of this stuff was still in its infancy, but wasn't super thrilled with the results as I ended up with seams, now I'm wondering if a common practice has emerged as the techniques have evolved.
Apple's approach opens the door to get full end-to-end encryption for other assets that are currently stored on iCloud, that currently are not.

It is not a guarantee, but it leaves that door open, which currently would face very strong headwinds to get rolled out.
This was truly horrifying, thank you: https://www.reddit.com/r/deepdream/comments/olhjbe/demonic_c...
A space elavator would also lend alot of centrifugal force past the atmosphere due to the tethered rotation that you wouldn't get with a balloon, if it's high enough it will be able to escape just by virtue of that when released
Yeah I have heard the same. And it makes sense with communities burning. They will always be the hardest places to coordinate controlled burns because of the concentration of interests.

It would be interesting to correlate forestry management practices and population density.
This is such a stupid argument. Apple is not comparable to Facebook because Apple is NOT PUBLISHING YOUR MEDIA.

Anyone too dumb to make that distinction should not be weighing in on the matter.
Airships just don't work in strong winds, no need for a storm. And a plane can quickly move out of a hazardous location. An airship cannot move quickly.
Yes

》Water vapor is known to be Earth’s most abundant greenhouse gas

https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/vapor_warming.htm...
It's weird that people seem to trust Congress with this. This is the same Congress that is considering banning end-to-end encryption, remember?
Uh, you parsed it right. He named it, but the microgenre known as "Dying Earth" would most recognizably start some decades before with The Time Machine and the somewhat lesser-known The House on the Borderland.

It wasn't a new idea but he more or less summed it up in a succinct manner with an obvious name, then placed multiple stories within a timeline with some overlapping features, a bit like Varley's "Eight Worlds." After Vance made it, I think it entered into the sci-fi consciousness, such as it is, a bit more than some of the earlier works out there which fit, but somehow managed to slide by everyone.
That depends on what you're trying to evaluate. If you want a language that can do CLI tools, you should absolutely include the startup time. If you're doing a long lived service, you should benchmark a warmed-up JVM. Different environment require different performance characteristics.
Show HN: Descriptiv – why are stocks moving?
Anyone who's seen a Wall Street trading floor has seen the sea of monitors flashing red and green ticks. If your screen is red... you know its a bad day and if its green it's a good day. Beyond that its a ton of flashy noise.

Descriptiv is trying to prioritize the real-time market for you. At this given moment in time what is the most important story going on that affects your portfolio.

Often... you'll see that the catalyst for a stocks movement is coming from a "neighbor" and not the company itself. IE... FB stock could tank because Dorsey is testifying in front of congress.

What you'll see in the two columns here are the "spotlight" piece of the puzzle. The three color bars are attributing the current price movement to movements in the broader market... the peers/neighbors... or Other (which usually means the movement is coming from yourself).

As an example... Casino stocks (LVS, MGM, etc) were all down this morning... we identified a B of A downgrade for Wynn as the catalyst.

Caveats!

We took out real-time (prices will update periodically) and news because of cost/permissions. Internally there is a third column which after spotlighting the catalyst tries to surface a news story that fits.

POC but this is first time sharing this with anyone outside our small group :). Would love to hear what you think!
Their actions speak louder than their words.
Many cities had bulk mail pneumatic systems from the late 1800s into the post-WWI era, but Paris had a specific class of mail which was like a cross between a courier and a telegram served by the pneumatic system (which was big for handwritten love letters[0])

Pneumatic tubes interestingly started out as a bandwidth problem for telegraph operators. You couldn't cram enough operators and telegraph infrastructure into the stock exchange of London or Paris so the telegraph companies would have a dedicated pneumatic tube for sending paper dispatches from the stock exchange a few blocks to the telegraph headquarters, where hundreds of operators would then relay the information over wire.

IMO, pneumatic technology peaked in 1920s Berlin where at the Resi night club you could give someone presents and recreational drugs delivered via pneumatic tube directly to their table.[1]

I collected a bunch of ephemera about pneumatic tube and cash railway systems a while back. Highlights include a viscious scalping, notable passengers (cats, mice, spiders, kids, and the 3rd Duke of Buckingham), and many videos and pictures of surviving systems in operation. Here are my notes.[2]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/1925/11/21/archives/grandson-of-bret...

[1] https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pneumatic-tube-table-p...

[2] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FHI8AMI74jPrVXBHLjBCwz2x...
You should put your contact info in your profile or as a comment in this thread. Others, like myself, would like to contact you.
Melanesians actually sort of farmed wild plants contemporary to the invention of agriculture elsewhere
They’ve been advocating heavy metals for a while. IT’s a really bizarre infatuation, but far enough from reality that it’s unlikely to make any difference and harm anyone.

It’s interesting in that I can’t think of any political or cultural conflict it ties into? They just enjoy their daily cadmium, it appears.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't YC started explicitly to select drastically younger founders at a time when the prevailing narrative was that startup founders should be generally around 30 for optimum likelihood of success?

Given that history, how should we interpret this critique? Has YC failed to evolve alongside the shift in its perception in the startup world?
Not just about safety but also intensity. Super-hot fires sterilize the soil, and total-destruction fires destabilize hillsides & dramatically change microclimate (no shade -> hot & dry). Both can delay recolonization decades or centuries.
Never mind how crazy is your idea, there is always somebody that it's already trying it:

https://www.zero2infinity.space/bloostar/

Of course, you still have to accelerate to orbit, but you don't have to deal with the atmosphere.
Ironically this comment would be equally helpful to pro- and anti-vaccine people.
What can the HN community do to fight the climate crisis?
Apple designed a new system, which is different than PhotoDNA - they call it neural hash, and the specifics are not disclosed.
Thermodynamics is why electric was buried by gasoline in the 19th century. That reason hasn't changed! Only people who have zero STEM knowledge seemed to think otherwise.
I suspect airships are much more vulnerable to bad weather than most other forms of transport.
And don't forget TSR's first product the ECW wargames rules I have a copy siting next to me