skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tesla Solar Roof comes to mind.

https://www.tesla.com/solarroof

It’s unfortunately roughly double the cost of a regular roof (and 3x as much if your current roof is already due for replacement).
Yet it is axiomatic that there exist powerful groups of entrenched scientists that do oppose challenges to dogma without any semblance of due diligence. While many examples exist, two immediately come to mind- a researcher, Jim Allison, at my own institution who recently won a Nobel after decades of having the core tenets of his research marginalized.

"When I first came to Berkeley in the 1990s, for example, they were in the midst of trying to redefine modern biology, and certain very powerful people there did not even want there to be a department of immunology. They felt that immunology was not a real discipline because it didn’t deal with the static, fundamental processes of biology that apply to everything."

https://www.quantamagazine.org/nobel-laureate-james-p-alliso...

Those "very powerful people" were, in point of fact, scientists.

Barry Marshall faced years of ridicule for working to validate the hypothesis that many, if not most, cases of idiopathic gastric inflamation and lesions were a direct result of H. Pylori infection. Again, the hostililty from the entrenched scientific community was well-documented. He eventually won a Nobel as well.

Many factors other than "science" have played a role in the spirited defense of dogma by experts. Researchers are as susceptible to all types of bias, logical fallacies, desire for power and money, etc. as anyone else.

This clearly isn't always the case, but often enough that the moment someone says "...because I'm an expert therefore I say this is so." without supporting evidence that may be examined -and- debated, the veracity of their statement and motive in making it are suspect.
They know they can essentially wait out the public outcry, plus they can even buffer things a little bit by calling their critics "confused" and introduce measures that don't address anything but sound reasonable to lay persons in an effort to distort the conversation.

The platform is not in danger. But if it were, then yes, I think they'd still risk it. It's either that or getting shut out of markets gradually by law enforcement and governments.
From below:

> ”if not billions”

Narrator: “It’s not billions.”

On the other hand, that post provoked a thought:

Society has lost valuable herd immunity to bad thinking. Used to be kooks had to try hard to spread nonsense.

Redefine kook as edgy, influencer, or in-the-know contrarian, and the nonsense practically spreads itself.

And your remark raised a point too: it’s indeed about feeling special. Now that everything is noisy, that takes a special kind of noise.
Year of the Linux ~desktop~ telephone.
It's worth pointing out that many distros ship with a positively prehistoric version of nano (i.e. v2.9), whereas the latest version is actually lightyears better.

I agree with the author completely.

As for the "yes but vim keystrokes" apologists, honestly I have yet to find something truly important I can do with significantly less keystrokes in vim. (especially if you factor in programmability and macros).
Not confusing.

^_ is ctrl and underscore

underscore is shift and minus

So ^_ is ctrl and shift and minus.

On my computer, doing ctrl+shift+- brings up 'Enter line number, ...'.
I can't wait until /child-safety 404s or redirects to /safety and there's a wall of marketing blurb (possibly only in Chinese at first) that explains how 'national security' concerns are reported to the CCP.

This has totally pushed me over the edge, though I'll admit I was oblivious to begin with. My plan is to replace the MacBooks with a Thinkpad P15 gen 2 running Ubuntu and replace the iPhone with something running Ubuntu Touch (Volla Phone, Fairphone, OnePlus One). Screw not having control.
Don’t use Apple products. The scanning is on device.
Forget it Jake, it’s Chinatown.
They put out a new paper [0] describing the security thread model they were working with, and this paragraph on page 9 stood out to me:

The perceptual CSAM hash database is included, in an encrypted form, as part of the
signed operating system. It is never downloaded or updated separately over the Internet
or through any other mechanism. This claim is subject to code inspection by security
researchers like all other iOS device-side security claims.

Could someone tell me how that inspection works? Are there researchers who are given the source code?

[0]: https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Security_Threat_Model...
Exception to that being the non-Pashtun minorities, who actually will fight, in numbers big enough to matter. A plan might have been devised to carve off a new, defensible state, a la Kurdistan. But that would have required bureaucracies to admit partial defeat - an acknowledgment of reality unnatural to them. So instead we have total defeat: collapse, massacres, oppression.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-14/afghanistan-taliban-s...
It's funny you link to the Wikipedia page, and then make a comment like:

> It is way more harmful than natural sugar.

When the Wikipedia page doesn't agree with your assertion.
They put themselves into a position where backing out is also extremely costly.

a) it means they have to publicly admit that what they did was a bad idea, which will fuel another news cycle

b) backing out of it will get them criticized for "protecting pedophiles", maybe even the NCMEC (who privately praised them in the "screeching voices of the minority" memo) will now publicly criticize and shame them to get what it wants

c) now that they've put this idea on the table, there will be even more government pressure to mandate/implement it. Even if they back out of the implementation, just by bringing this proposal up, Apple may have just destroyed not just the privacy of their users, but of everyone.
I am too. I haven't pulled the trigger yet, but I'm thinking about one of Google's Pixels. The reason for that specific product line is because they are well supported by a wide range of de-Googled Android variants. I'm leaning towards CalyxOS, which seems to have the best mix of privacy, security, and ability to use apps from the Play Store. But GrapheneOS looks tempting too.

I already own a Pinephone but it's not at a point where I'd want to use it as a daily driver. But they're only $150-$200, so worth taking a chance if you don't want an Android alternative. You may end up liking it. I do know people who are using it daily. It's just not for me. Not yet.

If you want to look into the Android alternatives further, this HN discussion about CalyxOS went into some great detail about that OS, and about other alternatives too.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28090024
I think there's an out of tree kernel for the SE. You could give PostmarketOS a shot if you have a lot of patience.
I get that, I was just pondering the fraudulent possibilities of netting the discount while subverting any control the utility would take over your HVAC equipment.
Notion B2B Marketing Starter Dashboard
I recently had trouble getting my work orders in line and I was trying to implement a bunch of different systems that never seemed to live up to my vision of how I wanted to have my data structured. If you're in B@B marketing you understand that there are a lot of things that need to happen on any given day and cataloging and measuring those things all in one place is a dream come true.

This is the Notion start dashboard I build out for my team after watching a bunch of videos like:
Thomas Frank Explains video on building a task manager from scratch
https://youtu.be/32dLXdB4ozs
and
Kharma Medic's Notion Tour and Dashboard setup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vl2mP0Ita4&t=976s

Here is a link to the The B2B Marketing Notion Starter Dashboard:
https://deserted-harrier-7a9.notion.site/B2B-Marketing-Dashboard-d26d80391c224dc791b83599931385f4
My hypothesis about why rich people moving to NZ is that it's a mix of hype, NZ climate and the relative isolation. The latter is one of the most important. It's pretty hard to get to NZ. The distance itself will basically guarantee you won't get overrun by climate change refugees. Unlike the mainland US or Europe.
Aren't casual vim users really vi users? I use emacs primarily but years ago created an extremely minimal (~20 lines) .vimrc to be installed by default on every server I work on. Some color, maybe indentation, I don't even know because I usually just use Emacs/TRAMP these days, but I'm nearly 100% sure that every config there works in vi. I would consider myself a casual vim/vi user in that I don't know the differences.
Haha you're pretty much describing me. I think autocomplete overlaps with spellcheck in a text editor. You won't improve your spelling by relying heavily on a spell checker but it won't really affect your vocabulary either and enables everyone to write syntactically correct text.

Programming is more about telling the story or writing the speech than the spelling of the text. Treating code as manipulating plain text just freaks my brain out as the wrong abstraction level. But as I try and remind myself 'different people like different things and that's ok'.
In Danish I would use the word “fejl”, which translates to mistake/error/glitch.

In Faroese it is “lús” (lice) which refers to a “villa” (mistake) or “brek” (defect) in software, according to the dictionary. I would personally refer to a bug as “villa” or “feilur” which is the same as the Danish word “fejl”.

To debug is to “kemba” (comb), and debugger “kembari” (comber, if that is a word, someone who combs).
>There is no way Apple released their initial PR piece without thinking it through and deliberately fusing all those new features together as one big unassailable initiative.

Something I bet wouldn't have happened when Katie Cotton was in charge. But yeah. Tim Cook thought he need new PR direction. And that is what we got. The new Apple PR machine since 2014.
Oh yikes, I didn't realize they were handing out fake CP points to preserve privacy.

That's really really really user-hostile design.
Check this out[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)#/...
Same here, we built a scraper to (more or less) intelligently extract text from websites, I think adding TTS to it would be trivial. I'm guessing the hardware requirements are for the TTS engine? Could the Web Speech API be used to generate the audio locally to bring down costs? Even though you'd lose support for IE and FF.
Most defense contractor infosec departments will accept video evidence of HDD destruction so long as they do a walk through showing serial numbers so they know which drives are accounted for.

As a result there's tons of videos that the public will never see of the world's heaviest presses, shears and brakes being used to decimate lines of hard drives. When you run a shipyard it's cheaper to just bend hard drives than it is to ship them back to HQ and have infosec deal with them.

One of my jobs as an intern was to take a list of serial numbers and watch the video walk-through and confirm the list matched the drives.
So what would they do if you emptied your pockets out and demonstrated that you did not have a smartphone? You pulled out the candy bar or the flip phone?

Again, I'm at a point where I can be a thorny pain in the ass about stuff like this, but you carrying a smartphone, even though you (presumably?) know it's evil means that people can do things like this - expect you to download some large blob of unknown code that you're going to run.

As long as they don't encounter people who literally can't comply, it's fine. It works for them.

I mean, I would have refused to download an unknown app I'd never heard of, but... if I pull out a clearly-not-a-smartphone, what are they going to make me do? Go down the street to Best Buy, buy a phone, and come back?
It's not too late.

There have been recent (huge!) advances in renewable energy, chemistry, and climate modeling that open the door to solving this problem.

The path I see in front of us involves temporarily geoengineering our way to a +1C ceiling while massively scaling up carbon capture operations. At the same time, we transition as much industry to renewable energy as possible.

This can be done. It's entirely within our grasp.
Pensamentos Da Semana
They've been like that since the early days of the company, it's core to their culture, which was built by Steve Jobs. Apple has always had an elitist snobbery at their center, such that if you don't get a thing then you're wrong. That's what Think Different is all about, that's a hyper arrogant proclamation that could only be spewed out of an elitist never-wrong orifice, it's borderline assholic in nature. Part of the cult of Apple has always been that attitude, the Apple fans eat it up, they love the idea that buying Apple products made them feel different (or it used to, before Apple became mainstream), made them feel separate from the masses. Steve Jobs points that out in the D5 interview in 2007 with Gates, how Apple needs the inferior taste of the masses to prime their superiority off of (which is another way of saying: they're wrong, we're right).

Go back to their response over the iPhone 4 reception problems ("you're holding it wrong"), same asshole culture then as now, and that culture has been in place for decades:

https://www.engadget.com/2010-06-24-apple-responds-over-ipho...
Removing vi from your container image is rude, IMO.
"That being said, my thoughts go out to the Afghanis who helped us for decades as interpreters and other support roles. Both parties are failing those brave men and women in not expediting approval for them to come to the US, as their lives will assuredly be in danger if they stay in Afghanistan."

The Germans are doing the same. They are leaving people that have helped them behind. Really shameful.
dang, the article from yale.edu is just a few links down. possibily benefit from merge with that link? the yale.edu article has more to it and is the source institution
This is just being obtuse for the sake of it. Yes, technically nothing in the notion of a container necessitates that; containers are just a form of namespacing. Have a gold star for understanding that. But the fact is: the vast majority of containers in use are going to be based on some minimal OS image, which is what the commenter was referring to.
Money doesn't solve all your problems, but it sure does solve a lot of them.
This is by far the biggest misstep of Tim Cook’s tenure at Apple thus far.

If they don’t kill this program soon, it’s going to overshadow the entire upcoming iPhone event, and will follow Apple around like a dark cloud for years.

I can see the headlines now: “New iPhone launches amid massive new privacy concerns.”

Anytime someone praises Apple for privacy, anywhere on the internet, there will be a tidal wave of people bringing up this program in rebuttal. From people who would have previously defended Apple to the grave!

I cannot fathom how on earth anybody thought this was a good idea. It’s like taking decades and billions of dollars worth of hard won reputation for privacy and throwing it in the garbage at the worst possible moment.
I wish I could take full credit for this, but I'm paraphrasing Andrew Plotkin (developer for the Inform text-adventure programming language):

Steam machines failed because they tried to replace Windows with a worse user experience. In 2015, there were fewer native games and worse compatibility; nobody is going to just rise up and displace Microsoft from their entrenched throne as THE Desktop PC Gaming platform. Alternately, the Steam Deck is essentially inventing a whole new market; if players want a mobile, AAA game platform the only contender right now is a Nintendo Switch (which has an entirely different games library, with limited overlap mostly in "indie" game titles). So now instead of fighting Microsoft where they're strongest, they're fighting a console manufacturer in one place they can expect to be weaker.

Then once the Steam Deck is a widespread commercial success -- and from pre-orders, it looks like that's guaranteed -- Valve will have the foothold to push SteamOS as an equal games development space as Windows desktop. Coupled with the reports that Proton currently runs over 90% of the popular games which don't have a native client, this very well could introduce Linux (albeit indirectly) to the wider market in a way that could eventually challenge Microsoft's comfortable monopoly position.
Might be this: https://www.cracked.com/blog/4-anger-management-tips-interne...

> The difference, according to the people who study this sort of thing, is recognizing whether your reaction is designed to actually help you fix the thing you're mad about, or just satisfying the adrenaline and dopamine rush you get from lashing out (the latter, after all, is what makes anger so addictive).

Apparently it's from 2099, retro-loaded to present day.
Then why would God punish us for following his laws if they are just the laws of physics?

What about randomness and indeterminism? Is there a RNG driving our decisions at some level? If so where does the entropy come from?
There's a slack channel, I believe the link is somewhere on the golang website
> if you are using rebase as intended, that means you are keeping private branches. Or, to put it another way, you are doing siloed development.

My average PR represents maybe an afternoon of work before it's reviewed and merged and shipped. With such short-lived branches, siloing isn't a big deal.

I'd suggest that shipping multiple times a day renders rebase's harm pretty irrelevant.

But if we flip that around, are we shipping multiple times a day because we lack tooling and workflows for non-silo'd development? We ship PRs quickly because a long lived PR is hard to maintain and keep up to date. If that wasn't a problem, would we ship less often?
ctrl + underscore is go to line, column for me

Am I misunderstanding what you mean?
As I understand it, the international "gold standard" for money laundering is still real estate. The reporting requirements the US pushed onto international banking specifically except real property transactions. Thus, property is the place embezzled money is parked.

Vancouver, BC seems to be the favored place to park Chinese money. Of course New York remains popular. American "midwest" farmland is another big sink.

I would welcome any updates to this situation; my information might be old.
For people that have led Soldiers, “keeping Bagram” is not akin to keeping Germany or Japan bases. It would always have been a 18-24 month, family-less deployment. South Korea is already known to be a fairly hard deployment for this reason. Bagram would be similar, but worse.

These risk calculations of “not many personnel” have American boys and girls on the receiving end, who spend 18-20 months to do what, maintain presence?

Two notes then:
- already been tried as a course of action in the last several years. The problem then and in this future hypothetical is that the mission creeps. If you watched American KIA in AFG the last few, youd start to notice deaths that come from patrolling and convoys. There is no scenario where Americans stay on Bagram only and ever. Even If Kabul is in fact surrounded, you’d have risks just the same but with a fighting force at Bagram completely unable to respond because it’s undermanned and without a clear mission (enter in: Somali 1992).

- let’s say it’s an accepted risk though. how that model works in reality is long term, sustained presence. The desire impact of a long term Bagram is achieved by lengthy relationships with locals. The army model is 18 month rotations. This doesn’t build that relationship. There is a reason the last instances the US had really succeeded at war was “go to Berlin, come back when the Nazis are gone.” This stuff takes a very sustained presence to achieve, including leadership not leaving every 18 months. So which unit gets to live in AFG full time, in this long term Bagram scenario? Bc if it’s not done that way, you get the life disrupting/ending shadow war of 2016-2021.
Bagram isn't sustainable without a secure land supply route to bring in fuel, water, and other bulk items. The US military simply doesn't have the airlift capacity to sustain it while meeting their other global commitments. And without constant ground patrols through the surrounding area the base itself would be hit by daily rocket and mortar attacks.
more power to ya! that's what's wonderful about general-purpose computing - there are many choices and whatever works for you to get the job done is all that matters.
Well my terminology might be inaccurate. Most so called unlimited plans like the one I have from Red Pocket have some kind of residual stream you can use when your data has run out. According to my Ubuntu Mate task manager my download speed is no more than 16kB/s upload upto 9kB/s.
> Like, it possibly made some sense back when the stuff was actually broadcast via terrestrial TV to the given area

The majority of TV viewing is still via broadcast methods.
For example? I found it clarifying.
Oh, it's trivial to take any thermostat off the wall and bridge the same contacts its relay would. That's not what concerns me, so much as that I think I see the thin end of a wedge.
Occam's razor says they aren't playing 11th dimensional chess and that they just fucked up. It happens.
You think an MD5 collision is more likely than a wrongly classified image?

NCMEC generated the hashes Apple will use by running NCMEC's collection of forbidden media through Apple's algorithm. And perceptual hashes have more collisions than cryptographic hashes.

Several people said the database includes non CSAM seized in investigations.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28069844
I wonder what the other countries will be and whether they will be disclosed?

My bet is on Canada, UK, Australia, and New Zealand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
So if I SSH into a machine, no management for me. And it doesn't seem to be in APT at least in Debian unstable. And even if it is, it is still another tool, subject to breakage and with heavy dependencies. Also not very eager to install some .NET runtime just to have some hack to pop up a browser.

Sorry, but I still hate it. I want less software, not more.
The thing that strikes me as most suspicious is their insistence on keeping the client-side scanning feature while wrapping it in all sorts of supposed restrictions so it's essentially server-side scanning, just implemented on the client device for some reason.

If the problem is "We need to scan stuff on iCloud for CSAM" then "Let's build a client-side scanning agent and distribute it to hundreds of millions of devices and figure out a way to protect the hashes from the end user and then figure out a way to lock it down so it can't be used to scan other things even if we wanted to or somebody ordered us to" is a singularly (and suspiciously) inelegant solution to the problem.

Just scan the files on your own servers, like everybody else does. Anything else is rightly going to make people suspicious that you've got some ulterior motive.
It’s on Reuters and many other news outlets. The press are still doing their job for the moment at least.
That’s pretty naive. It seems incredulous that the US didn’t muck around with the ARVN military junta or various coups.

It was a CIA puppet state.
> I'm honestly surprised Apple even commented at all.

I think they commented because they expected a brief storm of outrage that quickly dies down, but instead it has become a growing wave that is spilling into mainstream media, with a mostly negative reaction, and threatening to completely destroy their "Privacy. That's iPhone" mantra that has been the core of their marketing campaign this year.
Of course they do. They want their country back. They want to pick up where they left off in 2001. And frankly I think they deserve their country back. But I doubt they'll harbor people who attack the first world again. That venture was nothing but a waste of 20yr and blood to them, same as it was to us.