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Why should only the wealthy not only get to have remote cabins, but also the full might of the government to prevent natural forest fires from damaging their property?

Raising taxes to fix things is always the most regressive solution- the wealthy, and only the wealthy, will be able to afford it.

Instead, treat it like a rural flood plain, acknowledge that the land is simply worth less because it is prone to natural damage, and leave it at that. Fire coming? Issue an evacuation order and let nature take its course.
I find a spot in a national forest and make it my home for a week or seven. If it has decent cellular reception, I can stay there indefinitely, until I run out of supplies, usually water.

No one messes with you in the forest. We woodsies know every Honda minivan also has 12-gauge shotgun inside, for squirrels, tasty, tasty squirrels, and errant humans crazy enough to walk up to your van at night.

:)

Just stay out of the city and you'll be fine. Every square inch of the city is owned by someone, so you're never comfortable. Not so the forest. All Americans own the national forest. We can all use it responsibly and for free.

<smokey_the_bear>

No campfires, please. No fires period. We're running out of trees to burn in the west.

</smokey_the_bear>)
Which is at least transparent and importantly: it leaves the user with a choice of not using Google services, e.g. Gmail, Drive and Backup to name a few.

And scanning for CSAM is certainly commendable, but the whole issue with Apple's implementation is that you lose your privacy on your own device.

That is a step too far.
I've used Arch and Ubuntu both for years, so here's my take. Basically, anything you get working in Arch stays working. On Ubuntu, every single major upgrade has been broken so badly that I eventually gave up and reinstalled from scratch. Annoyingly, some super sensible defaults just never make it back up to the original maintainers (or are rejected, I dunno), so the polished Ubuntu experience is because a lot of engineers at Canonical put a lot of time into enabling things which should absolutely be enabled by default in any modern distro. This includes big things like encrypted storage being a single click option in the installer (compared to several hours of research and false starts with GRUB on Arch Linux) and small things like having a reasonably big set of fonts installed by default. Maybe I just haven't discovered the right metapackages yet :)

All that said, I can thoroughly recommend NixOS (my setup[1]) as an alternative, and I personally predict SteamOS will show up there eventually. Initial setup is a fair bit easier, and being able to seamlessly boot into any of the previous configurations is a big deal. The main issues so far have been with dev env setups (Nix isn't terrible, but it's another language to add on top of my existing setups) and running out of disk space because each upgrade takes multiple GB. Don't install unless you have ~100GB to spare for the root partition and a decently fast Internet connection.

[1] https://gitlab.com/victor-engmark/root/
I've found the extended features of paid Lose It, mainly protein tracking, to be worthwhile but I wish it wasn't a yearly subscription.
This is just my impression, so do tell me if I'm incorrect, but I always got the impression that those North American countries like Mexico and USA rely a bit too much on corn, to the detriment of a more diverse set of crops. Renewable fuel? Corn. Cattle food? Corn. Staple carb? Corn. Sweetener? Corn.

Aren't they putting too many eggs in the same basket?
with more and more enterprises adopting k8s, this space is going to be very interesting
> how long will it take the predators to learn not to use apple devices as cameras?

Which is why you make it mandatory on all devices sold, not just apple.
The article says:

> And as companies sought to hire, they had to compete for workers, many of whom appeared uninterested in taking the work that was available, largely retail, leisure and hospitality jobs.

You can't really do these types of jobs remotely.
I also got that vibe. The video is not great production values, and it's unclear to me how much they really took it serious and thought "fuck yeah! this is awesome!" and how much they thought they're doing it ironically or satirically while still projecting "tough" (which is a trope in amateur 'tough guy' antics, sorta like humble bragging).

But in general I think that incorrect conflation of 'real manly men' and guns is wrong, because, first you got the stereotype of 'real manly men' you shouldn't pigeonhole people like that, and second, if anything guns are much more feminine because of how relatively asymmetrically they can empower women. So paradoxically, a really feminine man can benefit more from a bun (edit: heh, 'bun', ie, man bun?--typo, meant gun, but leaving it ;p ;)) than a 'manly man', which makes it quite weird the association we have in the discourse.

Also, we might be able to establish guns' femininity from a purely cis-hetero point of view: the gun is a phallic metaphor, priapic and ejaculatory, so it's "natural" that all these women want to run around clutching them, as that's what they do in heterosexual life anyway, but it's funny that all these cis-hetero men want to do so, unless we either consider it is an "acceptable" expression of "latent homosexual desires" (maybe we're pushing it too far, here), or if we view the gun as only superficially masculine, but somehow deeply feminine, which would explain man's loving care, attention and desire to run around clutching them under their arms. How might a gun be deeply feminine? In the same way that you can see all weapons as deeply feminine from the point of view of feminine being openness, vulnerability (in the true strength sense), permeability and being receptive. A gun, or any weapon, acts as a propagator of these "permeability values" by perforating its targets making them more perforated, permeable, and vulnerable and open, if not in the "psychological" sense, then definitely in the gross anatomy sense. So a weapon is nothing more than a physical manifestation of the enforcement of feminine values, an instrument to aggressively spread feminine values around the world: turning otherwise obdurate and resistant flesh into flesh which is permeable, vulnerable, perforated and open. Pretty fucking weird when you think of it like that, but I think there's something to it, especially if you want to take other critical and sociological theory ideas seriously, then there's something to this, too.
An awesome explanation.

I guess then, for machine learning to succeed in natural language interpretation, we ought to have another layer of abstraction that learns meanings from contexts and the general situation.

Extending on your idea, I think, not only the verbal context, but physical location / time of day / historical context / current events / social group etc all add their own flavor to the variety of meanings on single word can have.

For example, if I am walking in a park and there is a strong gust of wind, I might say "whoa, that's a strong one". The listener, if physically present along with the speaker, will immediately get it.

Adding language context is one challenge. Adding the context of environment is a completely different challange.
I bought a NeXTStation through the University program back in '92. That was the low end model, 8MB RAM, 120MB disk. The disk was too small for the development tools, but it was quickly swapped out for a 400MB and I bumped it up to 20MB. 25Mhz '040, SCSI, 10BaseT (!!), plus the crazy framebuffer based printer that used a video interface. (I have one of those too.)

It's at my friend house now, he just managed to revive it after assorted false starts over the past few months. I have yet to actually see it running myself.

In hindsight, one of the things that made the NeXT, or more specifically, NeXTSTEP amazing, was what it could do given the hardware of the day.

The stand out was Display PostScript. What an absolute marvel of the time. That it could actually perform. Here was a system with a full boat windowing and GUI system, built on the full PS rendering model (INCLUDING the alpha channel), in real time, with a few MB of memory and a 25MHz '040. When you dragged a window. You dragged the window. The entire thing, not just a frame. That was a big deal.

I remember the heresy of people posting "rich" news poss to USENET using the whatever the news application was called in the day. This was before there was a MIME standard, just making stuff up everyday.

I think it would be a marvel to have the original source code ported, straight up, "bugs and all" to modern hardware.

Specifically thinking having NS ported to an off the shelf Raspberry Pi. I don't know if we have anything like that today. Creeping features have exploded...everything on a modern *NIX system. I don't think you can run XClock in 8MB of RAM today.

If NS was usable (I won't say it was fast, my memory doesn't go back that far, and after seeing several vintage machines, none of them were "fast", we just didn't know any better), just imagine how usable it would be on something even as small as a modern Raspberry Pi.

But it was a great machine. It handled my USENET and email feed over my 2400 baud Hayes Smartmodem with aplomb.
Derivatives industry means one thing though, and doesn’t mean the mathematics industry. It’s not ambiguous either
I’m getting increasingly tired of people taking these sorts of “Al Gore private jet” pot shots as though there aren’t tons of people advocating and actually practicing veganism, low/no trash lifestyles, etc.

If you don’t think those lifestyle changes will have an effect, then say so. If you think they’re effective but you don’t want to live that way (that’s me) then be honest about it. But simply saying “the climate activists aren’t making any lifestyle changes, so we don’t have to listen to them!” is incorrect, and even worse, boring. We’ve been hearing that same South Park song for over a decade, it’s getting old.

We need to actually engage on this topic and find solutions that will do as much good as possible, mitigate as much harm as possible, and be practical for as many people as possible. It’s going to be a messy combination of practices, policies and technology that get us there. One might go so far as to call it a “Landscape”.
I bet your mental model didn't have all the stuffies, though.
What's advantage of VueJS over Svelte ?
"Defund the Police" is a terrible slogan but your take on it is inaccurate.

It's not about removing law enforcement, it's about repatriating the excessive funds that have gone towards aggressive militarization of the police....and putting it towards other social care workers who are trained and better suited to serving the most vulnerable.

It's not about abolishment, it's about reform and restructuring to better support society
It's too comfortable while laying down, I usually fell into sleep when I was laying down on my bed to take a rest. I guess this could also happen with such setup.

I think it's better to find a comfortable chair instead, unless you don't have choice but laying down. It's important to keep the laying down pose dedicated to sleeping/resting, do some exercise at other time and this could boost your productivity.
I'm surprised nobody has created a sort of s3 service that only serves files once. It would be useful to enable services like this or other things like leaving a trail of files that reference future urls.
Y'all need to read Kenneth Oppel's Matt Cruse series (Airborn, Skybreaker and Starclimber, but mainly Airborn)
>cheaper than cane sugar

Which is because the US restricts cheap sugar imports from Mexico, to make US sugar cane farming profitable.

My first thought when I saw the headline was that Mexico corn restrictions were retaliation for US sugar restrictions.
I just started cobbling together a demo jquery app mess into a vue3 app yesterday, and lemme tell ya, the docs are great, and I even got from 0 to VueX in few hours today.

I'm impressed. Great work Vue team. I'm normally hesitant to adopt a new version of a library when learning and expected to get bitten by a few more things but so far seems mature, stable, and well done.

Edit: That said, I'm still personally not in love with the .vue file structure of mixing languages, but I get it.
> I hate to say this... but, why are you commenting if you don't know the legal details of NAFTA?

They've given a good hypothesis. Are you expecting commenters to only contribute to topics they can claim to be specialized experts in?
At least in the US this was intentional. 115 B over the last 25 years.

https://farm.ewg.org/progdetail.php?fips=00000&progcode=corn

biofuel from corn was explicitly subsidized and protected as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_subsidy#United_St...
https://github.com/yyx990803/vue-svelte-size-analysis
Plants can get tumors as a result of mutations.

However, they don't develop metastatic cancer because plant cells are not mobile as they are in animals. A malignant mutation won't spread. And they don't have central organs like hearts, lungs, etc. that can fail and kill the organism.

So, if your plant has cancer, you can just cut it off.
It prefetches every image and post as you scroll. Even some of the unofficial apps will do this too but may give you an option to turn it off. A large portion of the cached data is videos depending on the subreddits you subscribe to. Wipe the cache and scroll through reddit without clicking anything, the cache will be massive. Make a new account and only sub to text subreddits and you'll see the cache massively decline.
Totally agree. I have a 300W equivalent attached to a $10 IoT plug that turns on when my alarm goes off in the morning.
Since this is my first app, there will be many things that should be improved. So, it is highly appreciated if you can give any feedback to improve the app.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28110307

> The Hermes JavaScript engine statically compiles JS to bytecode. https://github.com/facebook/hermes
> without having to invest in catering to the four total users who will want to build a system image

They have to release that code anyway. All they have to “invest” in is not implementing measures to prevent people using it.
This really is something Tim needs to address before he again stands on stage and give lip service to Privacy with a capital P.

We also need hardball journalists to start asking Tim these tough questions instead of fawning over AirPods

And we need employees to start demanding this internally
I stand corrected. But you don’t have to be an ass about it.
Absolutely, the project did name it POSH, but using caps to distinguish a name is not recommended as it still causes confusion.

Must admit i haven't looked more into the tool due to this. So that's something to be aware of when naming a project/tool.
Solar sails give you essentially free power to fly around the solar system. So it is just a matter of time. With millions of years (and sun burning out is not exactly a fast process), this is quite doable.
What's the Unitful x AbstractArray x Zygote problem? I believe AbstractArray works fine with each of the other two. Does Zygote fail on Unitful code?
Wow, I never knew this was a thing.
Not sure, what's the point of sharing a two years old news.
Awesome! Excited for the web component stuff.
Marketing. Apple does not care about your privacy but your perception. The EFF cares about your privacy.
>Australia

Don't forget raiding journalists homes and public broadcasters (using illegal warrants!) for reporting on proposed secret spying and hacking laws.

Nice "democracy".
Android will routinely clear out cache as it ages or when other apps need more space. The developers don't need to worry about cache usage if the OS is handling it all for them. The problem is that all the apps get a quota so you can quickly run out of space on the device unless you either have a lot of internal storage or can move the gluttonous apps to an SD card. I keep social media apps on internal storage since I usually want things to load quickly but keep apps that cache movies or music on the SD card since that's fast enough.
The cabin could be made to detach if necessary, with parachutes along with individual parachutes for passengers as a fallback.
Has does Kintaba compare to competitors like OpsGenie?
I think I’ll finally buy a cellphone. One of the 12 minis that one of y’all sell because you’re abandoning Apple. I wish you the very best luck in pretending that you’re not being spied upon through other means.
> This isn’t a redox reaction though. Those are tin ions in equilibrium with each other.. so no combustion.

I agree I wouldn't call this example combustion (which is typically required to be highly exothermic and therefore not easily reversible), but I believe it is a redox reaction. It's the transfer of electrons from one ion to another, which meets the definition I was taught.

Wikipedia seems to agree, both with my definition of redox reaction [1], and that this is one [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redox

[2] (See Introduction and History): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disproportionation
I'm from India, we could have easily replaced those coal power plants by nuclear.
Sadly too many protests from environmentalists.
That's where I am confused.

As described, k-Collector seems to be solving a subset of the problem space that delic.io.us did. kConnect presents feeds of different blogs grouped by tag, while delic.io.us did the same, but for all websites, not just blog posts. What am I missing?

It sounds like a really interesting experiment, is why I'm so interested. Are you sure it can't be revived?
FlyTrap malware hijacks thousands of Facebook accounts
Larger community and higher adoption rate among companies. If you run into a weird issue you’re more likely to find someone who’s had the same issue and solved it. There are plenty of established best practices and patterns to follow. Good learning materials and documentation. More supporting packages and libraries - usually people build for both React and Vue, it’s rarer to see Svelte.
Hackers reportedly threaten to leak data from Gigabyte ransomware attack
In the past, Google felt more like a sophisticated professional tool. If you made the effort to click through the results beyond the first page, refine the search query increasingly and, on occasion, enclose individual terms in quotes, you sooner or later landed a hit.

Nowadays, the query you enter into the search field is answered by an AI algorithm that works more along the lines of "I know best what you're looking for". For users who are not very knowledgeable about search engines and tend to search rather superficially, this apparently works quite well. For professionals who want to dig out the really interesting hits in the deeper part of the web, an AI-powered search engine of this sort is quite frustrating.
people don't make a hypothesis in a vacuum though, they should always coming from a starting point of observations. I think the real problem is motivation to critically think about a hypothesis and follow through with investigating it. People are too lazy to find out random truths
From Guidelines,

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity

Because someone found it interesting and curious with the state of things.
Same disclaimer applies but my impression is that available corn enabled nations to form, than pre-existed nations developed corn dependency.
I had to stop and think, because through pure dumb luck I happen to know both the creator of that classic video and the creator of Jepsen, and upon reading your comment I briefly convinced myself they were one and the same.

Sorry Garrett, sorry Kyle, I blame the long pandemic.
The government won't have to demand the expansion. Apple may very well decide to expand it themselves, to scanning for pirated movies and music. They make money from that, unlike from scanning for CSAM. Of course it will also expand to political "disinformation" and anything else.
Its been a staple food for thousands of years. At least in Mexico the whole cuisine revolves around it. Same as Asia and rice. All the other uses such as fuel and sweetner is because its subsidized, doubt it would be used so much if it wasn't.
Don't use the cloud if you care about privacy, or encrypt the data yourself before uploading. Has always been the case.
> The same set of hashes is stored in the operating system of every iPhone and iPad user, so targeted attacks against only specific individuals are not possible under our design.

I can't figure out how they are able to guarantee this. It seems like they could take any image (e.g. one making fun of a government official) generate its NeuralHash and reverse engineer what the output of the on-device encryption would produce if that had been in the database at the time of publication. This would let them target a particular individual.
I think "rigid airship" is an often used term as well
Apple Apologetics
'zero cost' is what makes some things possible. If your perspective is one where CPU and memory is effectively infinite then yes, who cares about zero cost. The last C++ project I worked on I had like 32k of storage and some kilobyte sized amount of RAM. If C++'s abstractions weren't zero cost it would have been impossible to use in this environment. Java, C#, Go -- none of these are even close to possible.

Why wouldn't I just use C? Because of improved programmer productivity and readability of the code.

The reason C++ exists as a language today (and why Rust is it's direct competitor) is because of zero-cost abstractions. Because in many situations programmer productivity and compiler complexity is second to performance.
We might be seeing less of that subgenre these days because the general public is starting to realize that genetic engineering is sort of like AI/ML.

It takes a lot of effort and expense to achieve mildly promising results, and any given project is much more likely to break out in tumors or be outcompeted by existing strains than it is to evolve into something unexpectedly fit. Yes, poorly-engineered plants can grow tumors...or at least odd growths that sap their energy and nutrients.
Some have speculated that with the introduction of the PSI/CSAM system Apple will enable E2EE backups. Given the lack of an explicit statement on Apple's part and their history regarding E2EE backups (this article, and other statements). It seems really unlikely to me that Apple will enable E2EE backups.

Under E2EE, assuming the device key is randomly generated, if you have one device (as many users do) and you lose that device you would lose all your data. The alternative is the key is derived from your iCloud password, in which case, if you forget your password, you lose all your data.

Right now, you can browse your photos online. There's been no statement that this is going away. Implementing this functionality with E2EE backups seem highly problematic.

These are huge changes to iCloud functionality that Apple would surely announce...

There are many open questions. And given that there’s no clear statement from Apple, I’m inclined to believe that they retain the ability to decrypt all data.
I am in the internet-starved backwater that is a major Australian city, and despite living 3km from the city centre, I use 4G for all my home internet.

My carrier allows me to share 500GB between my family mobile SIMs and my home data SIM.

I am led to believe I have some dodgy copper wiring in my complex between the kerb and the property, but it is financially not worth repairing because 4G is everything I need. And the cost is comparable.

I feel like it's a wonder of the modern world that doesn't get enough praise.
PowerShell has way too many abbreviations. It's file extension is ps1. It can also be abbreviated to pwsh. Enough is enough.