skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both the iPhone 12 Pro and S21 Ultra have 5G radios (though their usage here is probably 80% on wifi, 20% on non-UWB 5G most days).

My point is comparing their battery lives when they have the SIM in them. So, not which one lasted the longest yesterday, one with the SIM and one without, but rather comparing across time, how did the S21 (my current phone) fair today, versus how did the iPhone generally fair a few weeks ago when the SIM was in it. Not exactly scientific; just what I've observed and felt.

And the unscientific conclusion I've drawn is that the idle time is pretty similar between the iPhone 12 Pro and S21 Ultra, but the "active" radios-on SIM-in screen-being-used-all-day time definitely favors the S21 Ultra.

> I am only saying that back in 2017 -- when I finally lost patience with Android -- things were looking pretty bad for it and for me that was the tipping point that made go for iPhones.

You're 100% right; Android's track record has been pretty darn bad when it comes to standby time. But, I think its actually gotten a lot better. There are some reports that Samsung's Android flavors, specifically, are very aggressive when it comes to background app killing; that may be it (and, frankly, I don't notice any negative side-effects from it. if its happening, its transparent). Or maybe it was something more general in a later version of Android. Or maybe just huge batteries. But; something has changed.
Gordon Moore wasn't abusive at all.
Indigenous cultural burning is now gaining a resurgence in Australia and Canada. It is about time.
Does an AV report its findings to local govs?
Bitcoin is down 3% and dropping since it was rejected. Could get worse over time
They also gave us Auto-Tune![1]

[1] https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2012/03/09/autotune-2/
"Nobody would be looking at a flower stalk as the primary mode of carnivory"

This is probably exactly what the plant is betting on. It's a nice perceptive check on our own individual intelligence as humans.
Innovation, science, technology, art (music, film, game, etc.), athletics (Olympics, etc.), space exploration, economy (by multiple metrics), energy production, military power, property value, ...

I might agree with parts of your list, but I think that people are way too down on the US and its accomplishments. I wouldn't want to live elsewhere.
Faszinating! :)

Having looked into carnivorous plants for a while, I am so glad they never grew significantly bigger...
It's a common trend among such creators. It's like Marvel. Stan Lee (and these days, Disney/Marvel) would like to have you believe that everything sprang from the mind of Lee, purposely ignoring people like Steve Ditko and Jack Kirby. And speaking of Disney, Walt Disney himself downplayed the importance of people like Ub Iwerks, who were instrumental to the creation of Mickey Mouse.
Of course it sounds dull for you, it's not relating to you. This post, of course is. You are afraid of getting old / being old, so these kind of posts makes you emotional. Makes you click that upvote button. Even though it has absolutely no evidence. Aren't we all so easily manipulated by our emotions?
The very successful reuse of a few fixed designs on many sites in France seems to quite heavily counter this statement.
Jack Welch would fire the "bottom 10%" of employees each year, as if that was a quality assurance process. It reminded me of Robert De Niro as Al Capone in the Untouchables giving his motivational speech clutching a baseball bat.
Also include Airbus. Indeed an impressive bunch!
> deploy 2x in renewables and a bunch of energy storage plus some gas plants and long distance transmission

Is it actually sufficient? Feel free to link even technical sources (as long as it is not paywalled without way of checking quality).

My impression is that right now "bunch of energy storage" is 100% unfeasible to provide power from renewables without blackouts. And existing ones work thanks to nearby countries with scalable non-renewable on demand power, with rare exception of countries with low population density and great opportunity for hydropower that is available on demand.
One thing is clear - it is impossible to stop fire in these areas. So either it happens on a small scale in a semi-controlled fashion, eliminating fuel when it won’t destroy everything and the like, or it happens catastrophically and in a uncontrolled fashion when some random event happens - often destroying everything in it’s path, and sometimes being so intense it sterilizes the soil and destroys everything.

So the point you’re making is kind of besides the point I think?

There is no apparent option where we don’t have fire. Lightning, utility failure, random people smoking, a trailer with a flat tired (that happened), prescribed burns - it’s inevitable it happens at some point.
Speculation as in "whats technically possible".
When you think of climate change, think of all the habitats that are being altered and how that might lead to extinction of plants with unique and unknown characteristics.
Yes, it was. That's one of the absurd parts - it does show everywhere no matter how old remnants you look at, but the argument was that all those got recently contaminated.
Although water vapor is technically a "greenhouse gas", it is not responsible for forcing any global warming. That's because at the temperatures we're interested in water is a liquid, not a gas, and what small amount of water remains gaseous is entirely determined by the air's temperature. So water vapor can't force any warming, it can only amplify other forcings.
The move to SFBA is a real issue, and an obstacle for anyone with family commitments. I'm not sure what they can realistically do about it, since part of the premise of the program is that you're benefiting from being physically proximate to them.

The rest of this, I think you're wrong about.

I'm at a YC company right now (Fly.io) --- technically, I'm a YC founder at Fly.io --- and I've spent the last several years working directly with YC companies, and I haven't perceived any distinctive "80 hour work week, subsist on ramen" lifestyle out of those companies. I know why people believe this about YC companies, and I think it's a convenient fiction YC itself sort of deliberately doesn't knock back, but I don't think there's much truth to it.

I used to think 7% was ludicrous for what YC was bringing to the table, but YC brings a lot more to the table now than it did when I thought that. There are cynical ways to look at the YC benefit and there are generous ways to look at it, but either way: if you're going to go on to raise more money, you're getting something significantly more than $125k for the share you give up.

I'd be more concerned about the "$125k for a founding team is ludicrous" thing but for the fact that for me, and for most of the people I talk to about this stuff, the alternative to YC is bootstrapping and consulting. If you're looking at the money YC gives you for the session as the entire financial permission structure for your company, you weren't going to succeed no matter who invested in your company.
There’s a problem that’s simple to state: find positive integers A, B, and C such that:

A/(B+C) + B/(A+C) + C/(A+B) = 4

It seems simple, like you could try a few examples and figure it out. And there is a solution. But for the smallest solution, A, B, and C each have 80 digits. Way too big to brute force.
Population is still growing in most countries.

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by...

You have to scan down the list to #11 to find a country where the population is shrinking. And no, this cannot be due everywhere to immigration.
And depending on that review you could find yourself on the other end of some "questioning" from law enforcement.

Yes, you might laugh and say that won't happen, but on-device scanning is the first step.

In less trustworthy countries it's not that farfetched to imagine what this can be used for.

So Apple must back down now or face the consequences in the form of loss of reputation and eventually loss of sales.
Technically speaking, yes, anything with firmware can be corrupted. But I refuse to meekly accept that level of tech nihilism because smartphones are an invaluable tool in this modern era. I'm not going to stop having one, although the vendor may change, because the important things in my life are better stored as digital. Photos and videos of friends and family who have since passed. Physical photos will be lost in a fire but with cloud backups, they can be reprinted. Analog works, until, realistically, it's impractical. The cloud isn't lost yet. Don't give up. Please help us fight for it.

Donate to the EFF.
I see what you mean in terms of movement, but lying down is also not a natural position for a human body except for the duration of sleep. I mean, you might be able to avoid bed sores, but you're not using your core muscles in the way that the body is evolved for and your joints aren't being used in a way that will keep them in tune. It's a bit like astronauts losing a lot of general body tone and having to go through quite a bit of conditioning when they return to earth.
In 2020, nuclear energy accounted for 70.6 percent of France's total energy production what is stunning, if you take into account its one of the G7 countries:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/270367/share-of-nuclear-...
I believe the difference is that on device they can do it prior to encrypting the image. On the cloud it is encrypted.
I'm wondering if this could be combined with the nose spray from https://sanotize.com/enovid/
Not sure how olive trees work, but perhaps it can regrow from the root system?
That looks way better than the while or for loop you usually see. Maybe this could be done in Zig as a comptime function?
How hardy are olive trees? I wonder if it'll grow back from the stump
That's not what number theory is about. You might as well ask the same question of any art.
OK, it's just that you mentioned "software engineer" in the list and they rarely speak to the "customer".
Is a picture of a naked kid going to trigger this algorithm?

In a few places taking pictures of your child naked while swimming is considered child pornography. Other places having children run around naked on the beach is the norm. (I have a few pictures of me, at 3y/o, naked on the beach)

In the world of remote medicine, can a parent take pictures of their naked child to send to a doctor?

How are they going to fit their cultural specifics to the world?

Knowing how Facebook dealt with it - they are going to apply the strictest rules, so no naked child photos are allowed on your iPhone anymore. For no reason.
The fly paper angle is interesting, larger stems could probably be done with traditional breeding methods. Hard predict how well it would work though.
Enough Is Enough: An Open Letter from Survivors to Time’s Up
This shows how powerful modern CSS is.

I too was surprised to discover that the order of transform params matters. Until I swapped them I was getting a completely different and unwanted animation effect.

Golden rule of web dev: If you can do it in CSS, do it in CSS.
What is your rationale behind this (if I understood it correctly) being a Service rather than a way of doing things ?

It's becoming increasingly difficult for me to run my own code, that I am perfectly happy to sign myself, on my own devices. That might seem like a fringe case. But it shows a deeper problem:

I do not trust you. I don't even know you in the first place.

Yet you (well, as part of a goup) are asking me to give you more power over my devices.

What is this push towards centralizing trust ?

Example: Firefox extensions need to be signed now. I can't send my friends the extensions I wrote myself. There is just no way. I can't go over to their house, sit next to them, and install my self signed-root certificate, and have their version of firefox trust it.

It must be signed by Mozilla: An organization that most people will never ever in their lives's interact with. That makes no sense.

And not even to speak of trying to install private Root CAs into iPhones or Android devices.

How does your solution empower users to own their own devices, and not have them owned by someone they are separated from by several degrees and whom they have never met ?
> Nuclear is able to compete on merit

If that were the case, then this would not be required: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10821
Testing code requires executing it. This is true for compile-time code or run-time code.
If people believed that global warning is an extinction threat for humanity / code red / critically important...

Then waiving almost all regulations on nuclear power and accepting some meltdowns would be reasonable.

And also waiving nearly all regulations on solar power, wind power, massive construction of hydropower etc.
I do see this as a precursor to mandating vaccinations of the able public, and as much as setting that particular precident scares me it seems necessary at this point.

Social distancing directives have proven to be effective when enforced, but time and time again we are seeing outbreaks when and where those restrictions are ignored. For all of the fears about possible side effects of the vaccine, we seem to be getting away from the original issue:

For every day that we delay, more people will die.
But climate change is a hoax, right? It was pure coincidence that the tree never caught fire in 2500 years
California is not the problem here. A policy of controlled burns is not tenable anywhere in the United States right now, because we've spent so long fighting wildfires in order to protect the logging industry. The problem is that we've had almost eighty years of Smokey Bear telling people that wildfires are always bad.

It took the catastrophic Yellowstone fires of 1988 to even make the current Yellowstone policy possible. That policy is to allow a naturally caused fire to continue until it threatens humans or buildings, but to stamp out human caused fires with extreme prejudice. This obviously makes no sense -- the forest does not care a bit whether the fire was started by a lightning strike or by a campfire -- but it's the only thing that is politically tenable.

Yellowstone is mostly in Wyoming. It's not a California problem; the problem is a national population that's been misled about what constitutes good forest management. We need controlled burns, building bans in large areas of forest, and judicious use of eminent domain to purchase properties in forest areas so that they can be permitted to burn.
With all the news about doom and disaster, it’s really nice to find an article about fun monsters
One might employ a solar sail/parachute. When you get near Mercury, you’d have more than 4 times the force on the sail too.
CSAM is still problematic, though. The consensus is that creates a market that incentivizes the abuse of children, because you cannot produce CSAM without CSA. It seems to be the one of the few classes of data that is an exception to the standard of privacy that is applied to almost all other data, to the point that Apple took action against it. Dozens of other countries besides the US also agree, and outlaw that class of data as well. Finding actual CSAM (and not just any kind of pornography involving minors, hence the shift in terminology) is supposedly directly tied to finding child abusers, thus preventing future child abuse from taking place.

There appear to be few to no studies that give statistical evidence for the market hypothesis or that the spread of CSAM causes CSA. But even if they existed, I still think the argument would ultimately become "letting one more child abuser get away because we preserved our privacy instead." How can such an argument be challenged, given that the prevention of CSA is a legitimate problem on a global scale? Even so much as mentioning an argument that takes into consideration the nature of CSA appears to be taboo - and for good reason, as it carries a risk of being labeled many kinds of terrible things oneself. That seems to be why a lot of threads here are reducing the issue to "think of the children" or lambasting the potential slippery slope of authoritarian surveillance, instead of discussing why CSAM is outlawed to begin with, and thus the reasons why Apple came to this decision in the first place.

Another thing that nobody seems to talk about is that Apple doesn't want to be held liable for CSAM stored on their servers, either. Within that context, this change is Apple's way of addressing that issue, which also happens to erode individual privacy. Apple's values appear to dictate that the tradeoff is worth it in the end. About the only people that have pushed back on this change come from technology or privacy-conscious circles. Nobody else seems to care. That is the status quo, and I'm not sure how it's going to change with general public sentiment the way it is surrounding CSA.
A better search would be:

"purscript" "concatenate strings". In this case, 37 results came from Google search.
Talking about old:

There is another tree in Crete that is 4k old.... (yes, 4,000 years old). It even pre-dates the Greeks, as they arrived in the area only around 1400-1450bc.
It was planted by the Minoan people... and it is still there today making olives.
No need, the atmosphere is a sufficient condenser. Unless you heat the atmosphere with a lot more energy than the little bit you get from combusting the hydrogen in question... but then you'll have bigger problems as your oceans begin to evaporate.
Taxing big polluters is taxing consumers. Granted, the indirection should make such a measure more politically feasible.
" "Return On Investment" measures $$$"

What else should measure???
So... They will have humans looking at pictures to determine if it's child pornography?
Well... That's a dream job for a pedo
It's getting upvotes because indignation + sensationalism always gets the most upvotes (this is the weakness of the upvoting system [1]), plus the meta aspect is a force multiplier. Also age discrimination is a perennially hot topic here.

It's also getting a lot of flags, which is why the post is not on HN's front page. Just in case anyone is wondering, there's no moderation penalty on it. The tug of war between upvotes and flags is the cycle of life on HN [2]. It's quite normal for a sensational post to get a rapid sugar rush of upvotes, followed by other users flagging it once they see (and don't want to see) it on the front page.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
IMO they had enough evidence to provide an implication, and so that's what we have. The implication. The ammunition comes from the fact that YC asks for your age very early in the process. Either that piece of information is relevant and worth asking... or it's not. That YC asks implies they want the info.

But personally I don't think that's enough ammo to start a large forum discussion.
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Those are interesting points / possible approaches, however is there any indication that this particular project enables any of that?

This seems focused on signing binaries / build artifacts.

IMHO it seems like if you have the threat model of "crowbared maintainer forced to insert backdoor" you probably don't trust sources let alone binaries and need to vet your dependency sources and then compile your own binaries from them.

Many open source dependencies will not have a jurisdictionally diverse review team, or any review team at all (single maintainer).
Could we place some requirements on the logging companies to leave the ground in a certain state? Or would hauling off the undesirable material make logging unprofitable?
Would it be correct to say that "Sigstore" is only for containers and not all software?

I'm genuinely confused. Does this also apply to "user-facing" software such as CLI tools or GUIs?
Apple keeps shutting down employee-run surveys on pay equity
Until one of the OF patrons mistakes her for a minor, reports the images, and their hashes somehow end up in NCMEC’s database.
Reading Coders at Work surprised me because this question was explicitly asked and each person interviewed basically said math is not very important, that the ability to write prose is more important.
The video stated that on average the number is multiplied by 3/4 on each step.

Solve

initial_value * (3/4)^x = 1 for x

to get the number of steps.

That'll give a logarithm. So yes it's O(logn) on average
I had started doing this inadvertently with book reviews, but I think you’re right that this practice can apply to most products.
> Kendra Albert, an instructor at Harvard’s Cyberlaw Clinic, has a thread on the potential dangers to queer children and Apple’s initial lack of clarity around age ranges for the parental notifications feature.

>> The idea that parents are safe people for teens to have conversations about sex or sexting with is admirable, but in many cases, not true. (And as far as I can tell, this stuff doesn't just apply to kids under the age for 13.)
— Kendra Albert (@KendraSerra) August 5, 2021

>> EFF reports that the iMessage nudity notifications will not go to parents if the kid is between 13-17 but that is not anywhere in the Apple documentation that I can find. https://t.co/Ma1BdyqZfW
— Kendra Albert (@KendraSerra) August 6, 2021

I'm against Apple forcing a backdoor onto every device, but this argument falls totally flat to me. Yes there are shitty parents out there, but despite that, parents still need the ability to parent. If Apple's "think of the children" arguments for their backdoor are wrong, then this "think of the children" argument against it is wrong too. There's nothing wrong with notifying parents that their pre-teen is doing someone they shouldn't be doing with their phone.

IMHO, I'd support the existence of such feature, but only as long as it's a user-installable option, not installed on every phone as part of the OS.
> it's a tough one

For sure.

> Statistics

Bingo!

YC certainly keeps stats on their acceptance info. They don't accept 99% of those that apply. What % of those that get accepted are over 35, compared to those that apply? What % aren't white men? Multiple founders?

> I for sure don't think the main post is evidence of anything, so I struggle to see how it's getting so popular.

Because OP has a reason to believe they were discriminated against. They ask the question to A.) See if others come forward, B.) Hope/expect YC to produce the statistics we just talked about, either proving or disproving a pattern of discriminatory behavior. And if YC knows they don't discriminate based on age, there should be absolutely no issue with them producing their data supporting that claim, right?
Why does one climb a mountain?
That's 1 thing (the meat industry) whose carbon emissions are both direct (not supply-chain based) and wouldn't be captured by a petroleum+coal producers tax. Not thousands.

Meat production is about 15% of our global carbon emissions, so certainly it can't be ignored - but when the other 85% is coming from activity fueled by petroleum+coal, it doesn't make a lot of sense to throw up your hands to reject a carbon tax because there's "thousands" of emissions source (which ones?) which collectively amount to less than a percentage point of our carbon footprint.

We mustn't let the best be the enemy of the very, very good. A straight-forward carbon tax on fossil fuels is both enforceable, linear, and not that complicated. Can we ignore ranching and meat production? Of course not. So let's tax both.
I’ve been utterly obsessed with the VQGAN notebooks since they came out and had a ton of fun.

It’s amazing how much difference choosing the right prompts can make - trending on artstation, by James Gurney (even James Gurney himself got in on it), unreal engine, volumetric lighting etc.

No hyperbole in that this is one of the biggest things to happen in digital art, probably since Photoshop.

Check out some of my creations: https://twitter.com/unltd_dream_co/