skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> taking space that we now use for growing animal feed

There was a recent Youtube video that explained how this isn't quite accurate:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGG-A80Tl5g

I'll save you the time (though you should watch it).

1. Much of the animal feed comes from agricultural byproducts. As an example, we eat corn on the cob, but much of the corn stalk is inedible to humans, but can be made into products for animals.

2. Much of the land used for animals is not suitable for growing crops. Some is, but it's not a 1:1 swapability factor.
Equating drivers licenses to vaccine passports is a false equivalency.
No, he's not. Read the documentation. The hash database your photos are compared to will live on your device, and scanning happens entirely on-device.

"Apple further transforms this database into an unreadable set of hashes, which is securely stored on users’ devices."
Sorry, I edited that part out one minute after commenting. I realized it was a weakness in the argument.

Thank you for pointing that out though. I had no idea.
this isn't super cheap, but relative to the competing products, it is very cheap - A 43" 4K monitor from TCL is ~$300 (they used to be like $220, but I think a new model has supports 120Hz instead of just 60Hz).

It's the equivalent of having 4, 23" 1080p monitors, all smooshed together with no bezel. You can see sooo much. It's not as high of a dpi, but I switched to it from a 39" ultra curved widescreen that was over $1000 and I can see even more.

Another tiny set of purchases that makes life easier - buy different colored and patterned cables instead of just black. I can actually find what I need so much quicker instead of trying to trace a single black cable through the rat's nest.
The development of modern computing, for instance, did not actually require that much GHG emissions.
The abominable Quag Keep (love Norton but whew) and its worse followup count, as would Dragonlance.
China also grew its GDP/capita ~100 times, and lifted ~800 million people out of poverty in that time period.

The reality is that an urban person in China produces ~as many emissions as an urban person anywhere in the developed world, and has a ~similar material quality of life, in terms of goods consumed. They get paid less than their Western counterpart, but not by that much. These days, the median salary in Shanghai is ~$45,000. The median salary in Paris is ~$65,000.

This isn't the 90s, the wage gap is not that large anymore.
In this case the incentives align. Much easier dealing with one or two parties than many.
What do immigration quotas have to do with anything? I think you’re just using this climate thing as an excuse for nativism.
U.S. Senate bill seeks to require anti-drunk driving vehicle tech

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-bill-seeks-requir...
I suspect we'll see CSS Grid adoption pick up over the next 2-3 years as IE11 (which only has partial grid support) hits EOL and gets phased out.
Water, not carbon, determines climate change
How are they treated like shit?
The CSAM scanning is not opt-in.

Sure, you could stop using iCloud. That’s opt-out.
That company, Taylor, is a particularly egregious purveyor that serves as a perfect example of the exact business model right-to-repair advocates are trying to abolish: sell businesses a persnickety machine that’s likely to break down, prevent them from understanding exactly where the malfunction is occurring, and then help yourself to a healthy cut of the distributors’ profit from the resultant repairs.

What is stopping people from manufacturing a better ice cream machine? Absolutely nothing. I don't understand this ""right""-to-repair movement.
Private property is the opposite of communism.
It moves iCloud to end-to-end encryption by compromising the ends. Not really a reasonable outcome.
> an environment in which you want to live.

The environment you are proposing is unlivable. When you are living on less than $2 a day, things costing more is a matter of life and death.

Your fellow humans need more sources of reliable energy, not less.
Gotchya,

Although a 4G module like a ublox is pretty easy to throw on a PCB, most of those things are just a couple chips inside so it just seems like there's not a lot of repairs other than just swap out the module. I've seem those modules in the $20 range, seems like a lot of work to get around the licensing fees on a $20 module?
You can do interactions with hover, [hidden] check boxes, focus and even anchors.
I feel that way about Linux generally. I didn't realize how much stuff I wasn't doing just because it rarely worked and often broke things (drag and drop as a general interaction, for instance), how much time I was spending keeping things sorta working, and how many little broken things I was just not even noticing because I was so used to them, until I finally (mostly) abandoned it as a desktop OS after ~10 years as a desktop Linux user.
> One thing about Arch, its possible to dig yourself a real bad hole if you don't keep updating regularly and I get that's sort of the point, but it can cause a lot of issues if for example, you go on vacation for a few weeks.

Any changes that could be problematic are announced on the site and the arch-announce mailing list. It's really not a matter of weeks. I've gone many months without updating, without any problems.
a weighted blanket. now i sleep like a baby :)
You can irreversibly transform the image data of photos added to the Photos app as well.
They also could embed the whole database into iOS and activate certain hashes only for certain iCloud accounts. No one would know because the database is encrypted multiple times.
That's actually called living in a civilization.
This is a great example of people being in a tech bubble. In a short while nobody except techies and molesters will remember that this is happening. Some significant number of KP men will be caught, but not the clever ones. Most iPhone users will put it out of their minds and continue using iCloud.

The bigger authoritarian countries (China, India) will demand, and receive, the ability to match against illegal images and memes, like Tank Man, Winnie the Pooh, illicit tweet screencaps, etc. No one with power in the West will really care.

The slippery slope is actually iMessage scanning, not iCloud Photos. Real time, ML based, it is fully capable of scanning for keywords, the same way as NSA analysts used X-KEYSCORE (in the ancient historical period, before they switched to ML). (Fortunately, NSA (or others) probably won't let it's ML classifiers be distributed, because they could be reverse engineered to see how much NSA knows.)
Is this the same Valve that still ships Steam on Linux with almost 10 year old libraries, which it never bothered to update? Debian is bleeding edge compared to that.
Sure. If the law tell them to locate all gays so that they can be jailed in the emirates, would you agree with that ?

I could do worse, but Godwin called.
depends on the whisky. I understand some do well being diluted and others are fine at cask strength.
> taking it for what it was – a modern “C+” alternative

Andrew Kelley, Zig's designer, presents Zig as an alternative to C because it can replace C where it is used, but even though C served as a conceptual starting point in the language's design process, comparing the language itself to C (or "C+"), as opposed to C++, doesn't quite capture the language's design and feel.

Superficially, what makes Zig feel "slim" compared to C++ is that 1. it disallows any kind of name overloading (and, so, in particular operator overloading) -- any (namespaced) name in a Zig program can refer to only one definition -- and 2. it is a very simple language that can be fully picked up in a day or two by anyone with experience in any low-level language (C, C++, Rust, or Ada). But Zig is both safer and more expressive than C++; any "rich" C++ construct that makes clever use of, say, templates, can be expressed in Zig and more easily, thanks to Zig's comptime and introspection, and much more. It is no coincidence that programs are short in comparison to other low-level languages. It's not that the language is terse, but that its simple constructs are powerful, similar to how Lisps can be simple yet expressive, although Zig's comptime + introspection replaces Lisp's macros as the "power feature" (and comptime + introspection is easier to read and write than macros). So while the language shares some basic primitives with all low-level languages, like precise control over data representation, it doesn't feel like any other language.

I see Zig as an entirely new, and quite revolutionary approach to low-level programming, that doesn't follow any design tradition in that space, neither C's sparseness nor C++/Ada/Rust's linguistic richness. It is something new altogether.

Different languages appeal to different people based on their aesthetic preferences and priorities (e.g. C++ and Rust prioritise the code appearing as if written in a high-level language when read on the page, while Zig prioritises explicitness and compilation times), and surely some developers would prefer C++ or Rust to Zig, just as surely as others would prefer Zig, but to understand what Zig is, it has to be experienced, because it really is hard to compare to anything else. Thankfully, being so simple and easy to learn, experiencing it requires very little investment. You may find it a promising prospect for any low-level programming task, regardless of whether it would have otherwise suited C or C++. It can replace C++ just as much as C, and even C++ developers would find it compares very favourably when it comes to expressive power.
That’s why I password protect any one-time URLs that I ever use, regardless of the provider.

They can’t cause the URL to auto-expire if they don’t have the password.

This password on the one-time URL is something that I share via less secure methods and is easily guessable. It’s only purpose is to prevent the one-time URL from being auto-expired by malware checkers or preview creators.
> The only number that matters to the environment is the total.

The only number that matters to humans is the quota per capita. It's how we set policy.

What is the per-capita carbon budget that you'd like to assign to the US, the EU, and to China? If those numbers are different, why? If they are the same, which region exceeds them, and by how much?
> The only number that matters to the environment is the total.

Why count only cities, then?
I had a similar experience, used Arch for awhile got tired of random things breaking, then I overcorrected and switched to Debian, thinking that infrequent changes would mean less breakage. That came with its own problems with things not working, especially if you let Debian fall out of date and it becomes un-upgradable. I also landed on Ubuntu LTS for my Linux needs, reasonably up-to-date, longer support cycles (a decade for security) than Debian versions, allowing me to be lazier than I could otherwise get away with managing other Linux distros.

However, the Steam Deck only has three main hardware configurations and Valve presumably has a team dedicated to making sure it runs correctly. So Arch may be a really good value proposition for them.
So if you could delete the Photos app, you’d believe there is no longer any fundamental privacy risk?
How do you guard against someone in their home, taking a picture of your personal information when you call the call center?
I do find it odd that, given the reported reduction in carbon emissions from covid, that governments are not outright mandating work from home for compatible jobs as an easy win to this problem.
Courier companies DPD/FedEx/UPS request one. Sometimes it speeds up the process is a location is difficult to find.

With DPD it's certainly down to the individual driver because they're calling on their own phone ( many just wont because of thst).
As the recent NSO/Pegasus scandal has proved, there is no need to add backdoors into our cellphones.

If someone is suspected of a crime a warrant can be issued by a judge and the suspects phone compromised under lawful control of law enforcement.

What Apple is wanting to do is pre-crime where everyone is considered suspect until proven otherwise.
If you're not into fiddling but you still want a nice rolling release, you can try an Arch based distro.

I use Manjaro and it's been nothing but smooth sailing for a few years now. I have it on 4 machines - a home desktop, a work desktop, a laptop and an old Mac Pro from 2012.
Are they ready to pull out of China if the CCP comes calling?
> I am sure it generates a lot of CO2 for all that effortless eyecandy.

Why?

Genuine question. A couple years ago I tried assessing the claim that websites (frontend, specifically) can meaningfully be tuned to reduce emissions [1]. Apparently it takes less than a dollar/year (2018) to charge a smartphone (0 to 100% daily) [2]. Given that fact, and assuming that energy usage from a mobile browser is in the same order of magnitude as a desktop browser + price is a decent stand-in for amount of emissions, it seems to me that any savings aimed at reducing emissions via "better" websites is negligible, even at web scale. I have a simple (maybe too simple?) spreadsheet to back this up [3].

[1] https://github.com/thegreenwebfoundation/lighthouse-plugin-g...

[2] https://www.zdnet.com/article/heres-how-much-it-costs-to-cha...

[3] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18cNY8Xpabau3bMY5iEsB...
Bring back hydrogen lifting gas
The Challenge of Finding Security Advice for Smart Home Devices
Well, the idea is they have to share it. If you scan their Gmail, scan their iCloud, get Sony/Canon/Nikon to scan when copying off the camera, get Windows and Mac OS to scan images on copy, you can constrain them.

It will be interesting what the effect on sexting will be once we know that some Apple employee can look at you naked because the tool mismatched.
Google is checking, apparently, Gmail for cp. Apple is doing it, soon, on your phone. Checking your mail for analog cp requires a warrant and can only be done by police. See the difference?
If 70% of the emissions from Chinese manufacturers are attributable to the manufacture of products that are exported to consumers in America and Europe, who would you say is responsible for greenhouse gases - the Chinese manufacturers, or the American and European consumers?

If your new tariffs caused Chinese manufactured goods to become less competitive, and resulted in the reversal of offshoring and the rebirth of American and European manufacturing, what would your tariffs have achieved?
That’s a bummer. Have you tried pop!_os? Really stable and usable in my experience on any recent gen Lenovo CX1.
This is a perfect example of the hypocrisy involved with such 'for the children' schemes. Elites are allowed to have massive birthday parties whereas plebs are not allowed to gather, elites are allowed to rape children while plebs are not.
I switched to WM for a year or so at work and became very comfortable with its way of doing things. It reminds me of the parts I liked of early Mac OS X. The main thing I wished for was a miller columns file manager like in NeXTStep or OS X. I briefly contemplated trying to write my own, but my Objective-C knowledge is minimal and very rusty.

Unfortunately I changed positions and needed a DE that other people could use without getting confused, so I switched to Mate and made it act like Windows 10.
What a great question!

* A very long USB-C cable from an Apple store. I get jealous looks when I break it out to charge my phone.

* Scented candles from Aldi. It's such a quality of life boost to have the place smelling nice. They last ages and cost nothing.

* A creme brulee hand blowtorch. Surprisingly useful! Excellent for lighting aforementioned candles instantly, without burning your knuckles.

* A real P3 respirator with replaceable filters. I've seen the rate that people go through disposable masks. Replacing the filters every few months is vastly cheaper than that! And bonus, it's at least an order of magnitude more effective.
While logical to assume, that's not a given. I think some of us want to believe that the keys to those said images are uploaded encrypted to the cloud. And the ability to sync between devices just means adding more keys to your account. So unless you know something we don't, it's not 100% that they sit unencrypted on Apple's servers, or that they have the keys to decrypt them.

It is sound judgement tho, to assume that they do.
Do they do device local scanning for this purpose? Apple’s original announcement said that it was to give law enforcement answers about photos synced to iCloud.

If so, then I’ll immediately change my mind and join the protest. Device local scanning is equivalent to someone checking your personal possessions at your home.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_analysis#/media/Fil...
There was an effort to convince people not to vaccinate, but I think the bigger cause of anti-vaccination sentiment was contrarianism against and distrust of the effort to convince people to vaccinate. Years of government and media lies ranging from the Iraq War to distorted and propagandistic reporting of things that Trump had said resulted in millions of people justifiably feeling that the mainstream media, the government establishment, and the supposed "experts" that the media and government often trot out are all to be distrusted. It is a boy who cried wolf scenario.
A good creeper farm can provide thousands of powder very quickly. You just need to "code" it the right way to break the mob cap.

Iron is probably the easiest mineral to get. Even a small iron farm on the starting chunks, will get you hundreds of bars per hour, as it never stops working there, even if you're away. Carts are great to distribute materials around or to collect them, not to just carry them around.
Obamacare architect floated for top FDA job
wow this was such a nice reflexion on values, about romantic stuff, really it was a great reading, thanks a lot
And: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28113852
TomTom relies on maps for many of their products. OSM provides maps. Doesn't exactly sound like rocket science to me.
Really? Now they are technically capable to do so. Before that, they were not. Or they were and just didn't tell anyone. Still kow idea how that mechanism might help?
It’s a delayed concern for us in the West. First the bait and switch will happen in all parts of the third world, autocratic, and dictatorial governments. After all, our list of hashes will be different from what their agencies will provide. Across the globe Apple will assist in this.

Then one day we get another Trumpian President who adds more categories of hashes in a place like America.

What Apple is not willing to do is have that philosophical and ethical discussion with its customers. It has simply made the decision.
a phone case wallet, I love having one less thing in my pockets

back in the day it used to be

1) phone

2) small digital camera

3) keys

4) wallet

Now it's just phone & keys. Lovely!
Ergo, the same security capabilities of an OS process regarding the host OS.

I am fully aware of WebAssembly capabilities, its advocates should be as well, instead of shouting security left and right.
This phrasing is very misleading.

Sid/Unstable and Testing track upstream releases.

If an upstream developer releases a new version to fix a vulnerability, Sid gets the upstream fix just like other rolling distro.

If a version in Testing has a vulnerability and Testing entered a pre-release freeze the fix gets backported.

If a version in Stable has a vulnerability the fix gets backported.

This is designed to provide the "best of both worlds".
I'm sure I'm not alone in downvoting due to the tone you took in GP comment and not for asking a perfectly reasonable question. Just FYI
> If people could understand what computing was about, the iPhone would not be a bad thing. But because people don’t understand what computing is about, they think they have it in the iPhone, and that illusion is as bad as the illusion that Guitar Hero is the same as a real guitar.

-- Alan Kay, https://www.fastcompany.com/40435064/what-alan-kay-thinks-ab...
Maybe a dumb observation, but pressure pads wrt beds are great for sleep monitoring. As babies stereotypically spend a lot of time in cribs, wouldn’t something similar have potential for noticing unusual behavior?
China has 1.4 billion people. You would expect them to have about ~20% share of emissions in a perfectly fair world, instead they have 28%. Since 1751, they have emitted 12.5% of all emissions while having an even larger share of the global population.

The US has 315 million people. You would expect them to have 4.5% share of emissions in a fair world. Instead, they have 15%. Since 1751, they have emitted 25% of all emissions.

The numbers seem pretty clear to me.
I too fell off my mechanical watch obsession when I added a smartwatch to my life. My current Fitbit keeps better time, is as waterproof as my dive watches, and give me so much more.

It makes me sad sometimes, as the mechanical marvel of watches is beautiful, but in the end, I had a Seiko SKX-007 that needed some maintenance, and I was quoted $600. It was a $200 watch and they were going to swab the movement. That watch has emotional value, but I can't keep it running at 3x the replacement cost.

Maybe someday I'll find a way to wear another mechanical, and get all the health tracking I appreciate otherwise. Or maybe, technology finally replaced history for me. The funny thing is, I almost never would have considered a quartz watch lol.