skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a private nonprofit that appears to be wholly funded by the government. It's reasonable to expect that if they don't "play nice" with the DOJ, their funding could be affected. Incentives are important.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Center_for_Missing_...
> Copy-left inhibits commercial exploitation

It doesn't.
This: https://tool.graphics/shapes
is also very cool. Thanks!
That YouTube example hits home. I uploaded my daughter's videos on there when she was little to share with family. Then my account got flagged for a copyright notice and the channel got suspended. Been trying to get YouTube/Google to re-instate the channel - it's been six years, no luck. I keep trying. I hate it.
> more privacy-oriented than scanning all iCloud Photos

But they ll be scanning all icloud photos
It seems to be a bit of cargo cult, to be honest. They seem to take inspiration from ER teams or the military.

I think that this kind of drill helps a lot for cases where you can take a pre-planned route, like deploying that backup server or rerouting traffic. But the obvious question then is: Why not automate that as well?

When it comes to diagnosis or, worse, triage, in my experience you want independent free agents looking at the system all at once. You don't want a warroom-like atmosphere with a single screen but rather n+1 hackers focusing on what their first intuition tells them is the root cause. In a second step you want these hackers to convene and discuss their root cause hypotheses. If necessary, you want them to run experiemnts to confirm these hypotheses. And then you decide the appropriate reaction.
Planting a tree won't do much on its own. It must survive and grow. The thing is, a lot of places where trees thrive are already covered with forest. With 7 billion people, you cannot sacrifice much of the arable land either.

Israelis have been reforesting their country for about 100 years and they have the best results on Earth (at least percentage-wise), but even they face bad odds in really dry places like the Negev desert.

https://aardvarkisrael.com/the-reforestation-of-israel/
I might need to do this when I start my vanlife. What service are you using?
There was at least one operating system programmed in Fortran:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRIMOS
With constexpr and not consteval you can really do crazy stuff at compile time. It's super neat and it has eradicated macros everywhere in my code, except in those places where I need conditional compilation.
Oh please, I was driving the whole time. It was fun if anything.
Not every meal is a burrito.

all joking aside i sent myself a « pneumatique » a year or so before the system was shut down. I had to go to the post office to send it and I picked it up from the other one (rode the Métro to get it). Otherwise a courier would have transported it, I suppose (I don’t remember). In any case it was pretty inefficient by then and the ramification due to subsequent construction makes it impractical.
Honestly every car app I've used is just terrible. VLC locks out half your artists (it does unlock when you're stopped). Maps blocks limits the keyboard and forces you to use voice.

I'm frequently disconnecting my phone, doing what I want, and then reconnecting it. This defeats the entire purpose of car play other than that my GPS is displayed in a place that is visible to me. I'm sure the play engineers have thought long and hard about how to prevent certain behaviors. But I am not confident they watched people use them in the real world. People are very good at finding ways around limitations. It's impossible to think your way through this without actually observing people. I'm not so sure it is Skinner and lab rats but "we're smart and thought about everything." I'm sure you're smart, but no one can think of everything. Thinking that makes you not smart.

Worse, there's no passenger mode for these apps and most of them don't lift restrictions when you're stopped. The lack of these features adds to people not stopping and just doing more dangerous things.
Only on earth. Helium is the 2nd most abundant element in the universe.
That would also let us do the rocket launch from the middle of the ocean rather than near inhabited areas.
Here's how it works, in short:

1. Images which are going to be uploaded to iCloud are matched against known hashes. A match has to be very close in order to actually be flagged as a match. The results are uploaded to iCloud Photos along with your image.
2. If your account hits a sufficient threshold of matches (i.e. you have to have multiple/many images matched) then Apple is alerted and they are able to decrypt low-resolution versions of the relevant stored images.
3. Apple's team performs a manual review of the images to ensure that they are in fact inappropriate images and not false positives.
4. If any of the matched images are actually illegal, then Apple reports you to the authorities.

In other words, there are several safeguards in this process:

1. Only if you're uploading files are the files matched.
2. Only if the matches are very close are they considered matches.
3. Only if you have multiple very close matches is Apple able to decrypt the low-res versions of the images themselves.
4. Only if a human reviewer discovers any of the decrypted low-res images to be illegal content is any of your information shared with anyone else.

In my opinion, this is a vastly better system than literally any other cloud provider at the moment; it allows Apple to find and report even more CSAM with effectively no risk of reporting false-positives to law enforcement, while also preserving your privacy through encryption in transit and at rest.
PO box?
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Not sure if I fully agree with "Your content should be your content regardless of where it lives." - the cloud operators own the hardware that hosts this content, they could want to impose limitations on it, irrespective of whether they have any legal obligations to do so. An analogy to me would be: "Yes, you can park your RV on my lot, just don't cook meth in it.".

You can still manage your own data so that it is opaque to the cloud providers - encrypt it and don't share the key with them. They'll have no insight into the blobs of data that you're uploading to them.
You make a grave accusation without even backing it up.

Are you sure you fully understand the definition of hypocrisy?
>Noninvasive scans

Scans on a local device feel quite invasive to me. Phones have become an extension of our person, let's not kid ourselves.
> The fact you had to call out my grammar shows how weak your argument is

What on earth are you talking about? I don't call out people's grammar.
Playing reruns of that 90's show Dinosaurs.
We don't punish white collar crime for the same reasons. If you made it illegal to get outside money for politicians, and made the punishment significant, the rats would scurry and "normal" people could get involved in the process. The way it works now we just get rich people looking after rich people problems because theres no way to overcome all the money flowing around with any regular success.

We can try to change government, but do a quick thought experiment: how many resources does it take to manage shared infrastructure and services for 20 people? 200? 2000? 20,000? 200,000? 2,000,000?

Go on up to 350mil.

It's not easy, and you can't just "tear it down". You can envision some ways to streamline some things, but the problem is just mind boggling gigantic.
Myself and I'm sure many other's can't wait to try it once you have the self hosted version!
Do you really go hiking with a ‘very loud’ Wonderboom speaker?
I can't find it now, but there was previous discussion on HN, about the amount of atmospheric drag a balloon-launched rocket would save as not being worthwhile. Most of the orbital velocity is spent going horizontally, the vertical part is <20% of even the most aggressive orbital trajectory, and the drag is virtually nil past 150K feet. And the delta-v needed to reach orbit is some very high percent of the total fuel and thrust.

Basically balloon launches would only benefit small sub-orbital sounding type rockets.
Trivia: that was back when Exxon manufactured the Z80 (and word processors too!)
New York just decommissioned the Indian point nuclear plant [1] due to some shady politics. The largest planned solar installation in the US was defeated by environmental groups because it would be an eyesore [2].

At some point we’re going to have to grapple with the fact many “concerned” groups don’t actually care about climate change. Instead they use it as a stalking horse for other political projects.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=47776

[2] https://apnews.com/article/technology-government-and-politic...
The people I see the most who want to break the grid are the people it's supposed to be helping: designers, not developers.

I've spent years wearing both shoes. As a designer, sometimes designs felt like they were too boring when everything fit cleanly in the grid. So I would break it to please my CDs who wanted to win awards and woo a client.

When I moved into front end development... holy fuck did I ever hate it when designers would send designs with super custom sections that broke the grid. Great, more CSS that we're probably not going to re-use anywhere else.
On the other hand, things are not the same everywhere if you cannot order the dish at all because the machine is broken as often as not.
Out of all the things I expected to see today, a very detailed description of the conditions required to set an NeXT cube on fire was pretty near the bottom of the list.
Parent isn't talking about gravity, he's talking about alleviating the rocket equation by not having to lift your fuel with fuel.
“Application” was very common when I was running msdos 2.
For voice recordings - Izotope RX8 elements. Found it for $9 right now. Aggravating mouth noises be gone.

Magnetic charging cables. Some can't take advantage of the higher speed charging (only connecting V+ and ground), but it's unreasonably nice to have cables throughout the house that can support all of your devices.

A comfortable mouse with enough buttons. A comfortable keyboard that just works, even if you don't have the driver software.
Wow. I'm not sure if he has been selectively quoted or not but he certainly did say those exact words so (smh).

Weeds grow fastest in the shade of others. Ignoring the three major shipping choke-points (and not even mentioning the upper Arctic slowly becoming open to maritime traffic) is.. Welp.

I sincerely hope he was misquoted or 'mis-spoke' when he used the word 'exclusively'.

Personal opinion obviously
> Apparently I've done the opposite, because that's more than I drive in a week now. ;)

Ha! Pandemics, eh? :)

> But not to be trite, yes I would have

This feels to me like over-egging the pudding - but getting into this discussion is really more of a question of philosophy than climate science, so it's a bit of a distraction.

It seems that, beyond the semantics of what constitutes "individual action", we seem to agree with what's needed:

> advocating for individual action has always meant making changes in the aggregate behaviour of individuals.

> Make it so that the opportunities to commute start to disappear.
Yeah well that’s because poor people (in America) are hella carbon inefficient for economic value creation. They’ll drive like 100 miles each way to work a $16/hr job as a McDonalds worker.

That shit is not sustainable.
Not only that but they appear to be okay with the fact that a single ISP has knocked them offline. If I was a customer of theirs and found out, I would probably change providers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_%28codename%29?wprov=s...
While I agree Nuclear is the most probable solution it's not easy to build and fuel is very sparse. France who is leading the way is 100% depend on other countries, I'm not sure it will play well in the coming years

> 85% of uranium is produced in six countries: Kazakhstan, Canada, Australia, Namibia, Niger, and Russia.

And the second issue is to focus on electricity production, while there is a ton a other things creating pollution. You won't save the planet if you still have thousands of ships on the sea and planes in the air; meat and clothes production too...

There are a dozen of topics to be addressed, with multiple solutions and I would say none of them are being really tackled. (except energy in the less efficient way = no green worldwide grid)
I respect and appreciate what GoG is doing with their DRM-free software.

In case you also struggle with moving on from spending what feels like too much time in videogame space:
This post caught my attention to the point where I browsed GoG a bit before coming back to my chosen reality where I choose more often what I do with my time. Currently I choose to play a couple hours with friends once or twice a week, and I’m looking for alternatives (but if gaming is the best way for us to keep in touch, that’s okay; sometimes the safer spaces games offer is a fitting venue).
Community science[0] is something I can do alone or with my threenager and it needn’t take much mental effort, just time, and that escape was in hindsight a major reason I played videogames; I didn’t have to sit with and observe my emotions.

Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan (WOOP)

Habit-forming takes time, and positive feedback for even remembering that you forgot to practice is helpful (Tiny Habits)

[0] https://www.zooniverse.org/
Except Li-ion batteries, which burn with their own oxidizer.
TL;DR: You understood the trade-off, and chose to become a product for the convenience. The majority of us here have done the same, because becoming a product is part of the modern life. Nowadays choosing digital purity is like becoming a digital Amish.
> I personally think that if there really was a significant risk for kids, it would have been clearly communicated by now.

I sure don't have a high degree of trust in our officials to communicate clearly. Not after the last 19 months.
The people who have top YouTube channels also have exceptional intelligence. Maybe less so in logical intelligence or rote memorization, but more so in other intelligences.

> A better example would be Brian May (of Queen). No correlation between academic credentials and artistic career

I am not sure why that example is better -- Muller's academic credentials are very well related to his career. As were Wilson's.
I've used Google drives 'Save as pdf' feature where you can take a photo with your phone and it will be turned into a pdf. Prob lower resolution that yours but it's been working for me for a while.

But other wise...follow the same process.

Almost 99% paper free, no filing cabinets, no losing papers.

Awesome stuff.
The files that iCloud Photos stores are encrypted to your account and Apple can't access them. Apple scans the images on your phone so that this can continue to be the case, but they're doing a perceptual match - i.e. determining if this image looks like a modified version of the original image (e.g. if it's just been resized or re-encoded or something).

This way Apple can scan for CSAM without having to actually violate privacy by scanning a user's images themselves.
Cursynth is a polyphonic music synthesizer that runs inside your terminal
Under what legal basis are certain corporations immune to government demands while others are not?

Google does reporting on how many National Security Letters requesting information about it's users that it responds to annually.

Why doesn't it just ignore them?
I've had maybe three or four high-friction upgrades on Ubuntu over the past 15 years, where it wouldn't boot properly until I fixed the problem. So yeah it's /better/, but it's far from flawless.

Note I don't stick to LTS releases. If I only upgraded to the X.1 LTS releases I expect it would have been smoother.
I agree, it is talking about a specific type of grid, where each column gets to have a fixed fraction of the parent container:

1fr 1fr 1fr 1fr ... 12times or so

Many CSS frameworks will provide a default grid system like this, and many designers will think in terms of such a grid.

But the author suggests that this is too rigid. And in fact a frontend developer will then have to interpret the rigid grid to be more adaptable and have either multiple flex grids for different breakpoints or use CSS grid to express more flexible flows.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockoon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_Pegasus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaled_Composites_Stratolaunch
Agreed entirely. Mine is a Yeti Rambler with the "chug cap". Absolutely amazing and indispensable.
> It's never been easier for someone who needs to work two jobs... to work two jobs

People fought for 40 hour work week. If everyone works more hours it will kill productivity and also just suck.

I am with you that this stuff is an effect not cause of declining worker power, but the fear this will further erode old victories is genuine and shouldn't be dismissed.

Ultimately, yesterday's worker power is not a substitute for a lack today, but (hopefully) once that is somehow fixed, it is really important to turn these norms stuff back.
> Tech is not a religion for me; it's just a tool.

Ok, it is a "tool", but it's like an axe controlled by another person, not you. Maybe you trust that person with such a tool; I don't.
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We haven't really considered the path of selling ads or marketing data. Our current thoughts around business model are closer to Wealthfront (which charges 0.25% of assets under management) or Acorns (which charges up to $5/month for advanced services).
It's more accurate to think of it as a feature of the iCloud Photos client software (which is built into the OS). If you don't use iCloud Photos, you don't use the client software, so nothing changes.
NixOS would be a great OS for the Steam deck. Arch certainly has a lot of advantages and was my go-to for the last 10 years before rencetly switching to NixOS.

I actually used Arch as the base OS for a few linux computer labs (~100 machines) and it was both a joy and a headache. I really enjoyed being able to package proprietary software like Matlab & Mathematica. It was also nice that students had access to the latest software.

However, the stability of the boot process and upgrades was not fun. Identical machines running what should have been the same configuration would drift over time. I used Ansible to template a lot of the configuration but it would basically be a full time job to keep track of everything. Random machines would end up with a broken Pacman keyring causing updates to fail, etc. Somehow partial upgrades were occuring which would break the boot process.

While 90% of software was easy to package, the other 10% were research projects that would make a lot of assumptions regarding what system C++ libraries were available.

So far with NixOS, it is very stable. Unless you are activelly messing with the bootloader settings, it's almost impossible to break since you can select a previous configuration at boot time. While packageing software is not as easy as Arch, having a per-application dependency tree is extreamly helpful.

That said NixOS is currently going through a lot of changes and missing a few things:
1. No easy secure boot configuration.
2. Networking configuration is sort of in a flux between network-manager & systemd-networkd.
3. Packages are typically fairly up-to-date but the consistency is pretty variable.

TLDR; I am curious how Valve is handeling OS upgrades on the Steam Deck. My experience in using pacman -Syu in a unattended* manner was anything but smooth. I would not be suprised if system partitions are RO and/or updated via a disk image.
as an aside: a "fossil" resource implies the feedstock is decayed organic matter. Trapped helium is finite, but it's much more like a metal or ore than oil, LNG, or coal, which all were formed from living things under time and pressure.
My understanding is they only scan for content if it's being uploaded to iCloud. Scanning on the phone, yes, but only if the image is to be sent over the network.
And Disney is one of the most well-known global brands - at least when people think about entertainment and vacationing.
> That's purely an implementation detail, and subject to change at any time.

That’s an evergreen complaint. If they want to introduce a general purpose scanning mechanism they can do so at any time. This is not that.

> That's why people are upset.

I don’t think so. I think they are upset because they don’t like the fact that Apple has any power over them and this remind them of that even though it is not in fact an abuse.

I actually agree with this, but I don’t think that claiming Apple’s implementation to be something it is not is helpful.

The key escrow solution is strictly worse in any future. If key escrow becomes established as a norm between cloud providers and law enforcement, then no free alternative will ever be possible.
> I learned that helium is a non-renewable fossil resource

It is renewed, by radioactive decay within the Earth, but very, very slowly.
I wonder if the author’s primary gripe is with

1. VCs funding a so-called “servant economy” or…
2. The fact that there are these businesses that perpetuate some form of servanthood (to use the author’s parlance)

If the gig marketplaces were bootstrapped, is there still an inherent problem?
Helium is sort of renewable in that it's continuously produced by radioactive decay underground. That will continue effectively forever. But we're using the easily accessible helium far faster than it's being produced. Much of the helium we capture as part of natural gas extraction is totally wasted, just vented into the atmosphere.
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Sorry, bad phrasing. Clarified.
> nstead I'd be much more impressed to have a "see ya in the afternoon, get some sleep" culture

I've led teams for over a decade that have oncall duties. One principle we have lived by is that if you are paged outside of hours, you take off the time you need to not hold a grudge against the team/company. Some people don't need it, some people take a day off, some people sleep in, some people cash in on their next vacation. To each their own according to their needs. Seems to work well.

We also swap out oncall in real time if, say, someone gets paged a couple nights in a row.
I am surprised you got any information out of gp. I have no idea what that comment is supposed to be saying.
I think "stupidity" as a specific set of traits that people can express either occasionally or continuously.

I don't think stupidity is the same as lack of intelligence or wisdom. Highly intelligent people can behave stupidly, too.

I spent a lot of time thinking about this. I arrived that stupidity is lack of intelligence/wisdom AND/OR inability to make use of intelligence/wisdom.

For example, one way you can be intelligent and yet stupid is if you lack self-reflection and/or are dishonest with yourself. This impairs ability to acquire wisdom -- honest observations about truth of yourself and the world around you, may make you repeat same mistakes without realizing what is causing them, etc.

Being unable to learn from your mistakes (maybe because you are not honest enough to recognize them as mistakes or recognize true causes) basically prevents you from advancing as human being. If your level of advancement is below your age you might be labeled as "stupid".
Small modular nuclear reactors could be an answer to your primary concern:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_modular_reactor
https://www.nuscalepower.com/
That goofball who is currently in prison awaiting trial and will end up in federal prison for a long time to come? We must have different definitions of serious.