skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I find Mac OS a frustrating experience personally, but assume it's mostly a result of not being used to it.

I used it at my previous job, 2014-18 -- got the choice between a Mac and IIRC a ThinkPad when I started, and never having used a Mac before I wanted to finally try it -- and got a MacBook Pro, can't recall the vintage. Broke the screen a couple years later, got a 2016. But, anyway: Took a while to get used to the OS, and certainly didn't feel all that "super-intuitive" as the hype has had it for all these years.

So, observation #1: If I could get used to it (and I got quite comfortable after a while), I can't see why people can't go the other way just as easily.

Can't recall the OS version at the beginning (one of the last of the big cats, or some US body of water?), but later it upgraded via various Californian (or Oregon, Washington?) rivers or lakes to Maverick and finally, I think (for the last few months), to El Capitan. Can't recall if it set in right away, but after a couple of years at the latest I noticed the same thing as many here have mentioned, namely

Observation #2: With every new version, the OS gets a little more limited and locked down.
The thing about that is smart contracts are intended to not operate this way. The aim of a smart contract is that whatever happens is the ultimate rule - the contract enforces itself.

Such an intention doesn't cause laws and courts to stop existing or make things so courts won't interpret certain actions as theft. But it complicates things.
The ERCOT projections I've seen are short-term [0], which means that after the most dismal days, the slightly less dismal 15-30% days "exceeded expectations". The fact-checkers reported this supposedly great performance without mentioning a single one of these details. I don't think these short-term projections are very useful for our analysis. It's as if your team finished the season 6-6, and all anyone mentions is how they won six games in a row so they're actually the best team in the league.

If you want to know "normal" output, you'll find that wind is very inconsistent. (I probably did find the mean at some point, but I don't have it at hand, and honestly don't feel that it matters). Wind is not "supposed" to carry the winter load, but ERCOT's record day for wind generation was set in February. Investors don't want to build power plants that could serve the expected winter load but will bleed money when wind has a good winter. Texas has built nothing but wind and solar for years because that's where all the profit is. ("Nothing but wind and solar for years" is according to D'Andrea's leaked phone call that got him fired, but I don't doubt his account of his own crony capitalism).

Wind is not "supposed" to be at fault for outages because it's expected to drop to as little as 1% output for short periods, but the reality is that we have built a power grid that does rely on wind. Our population is increasing dramatically, but we are not building any more reliable capacity because it's unprofitable compared to its subsidized competitors.

I'm happy that Texas is a world leader in wind generation, but we need a reality check. We have to build reliable capacity too. Winterization will help, but it's not going to do a thing to fix our problems during the spring and summer. We actually need more than that, because we occasionally have winter demand that matches peak summer demand. If we keep building so much wind, that will never happen unless wind happens to have a record winter in just the right year.

[0] http://www.ercot.com/gridinfo/generation/windandsolar
> Surely there is one person in the world: that would be the anecdote to the data. We can't disregard something if there is one conflicting data point, unless we're talking about maths or proofs.

The claim here was "no single counter-datapoint can possibly exist", so in this case, one counter-datapoint is indeed sufficient to prove the claim false.
QR3: Queues, stacks, deques, and priority queues with Redis in Python
Another cool one is https://somniumspace.com/
Weird that you’re talking in English without injecting a bunch of literal “noun” “adjective” “adverb” in your sentences. I mean why not really commit to it, ya know? Are programming languages for the human or the computer anyways? Typescript is definitely popular right now. So is McDonalds.

Of course for many advanced things you are forced to use types. Like shader languages. But thats not because the advancement there is in the domain of programming languages.

And your boos mean nothing. I’ve seen what makes you cheer.
Ah, this helps a lot with understanding the design goals. Thank you. The synchronization consequences are a bit disappointing, but hard to solve around I suppose.
This led me to the following tangent: framing 12 Angry Men as an MITH is an interesting thought experiment.
I take a much dimmer view of this. Xi knows that climate change is coming and its going to be really bad. One of the issues coming from climate change is food shortage.

Food shortage is going to cause riots in US, Canada, and EU for sure. Just based on the vaccine protests/riots, imagine what will happen when rationing is introduced.

He's going to crack down hard and control the population, so when the inevitable comes there is acceptence.
In terms of avoiding CSAM detection they give you no more control than Apple. If you use Google’s Photo Library, your photos have already been scanned.
> Honest question though - but what _should_ Apple do here? I'm moving away from Apple due to this decision so i'm no fan of it.. but i also don't think it's on some corporation to spend their money to defend my freedom.

Honest question, were are you going that has less privacy issues than this?
Well, almost. Both of them have their "fuck the user" quirks. Oneplus spent a goodly amount of time exfiltrating private data to their own servers until they got caught and Google has a bad habit of disabling features like HDMI-out to force you to buy their other products like Chromecast.
If you're not the author, you should not post it as "Show HN".

Show HN is for sharing your personal work and has special rules.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
You could make the same argument for software. Where do you draw the line "starting from scratch" in software? Does incorporating third party libraries make it not from scratch? What about the standard library of your language of choice? What about using the abstraction of a high level language in general vs a low level language, or straight machine code? For that matter, is it from scratch if you didn't design the logic gates on the chip itself? Or perhaps even come up with the concept of logic gates from electrical and material science principals.. etc..

I'd say that if you are gluing together a bunch of known-good components into a specific configuration that isn't a full copy of something else, you're building from scratch.
That's an option for the tech literate.

I want an option that is "grandma" compatible. In other words, it isn't really viable if you can't just buy it off the shelf, or have to dig into settings to opt out. Right now if I go to Best Buy (or insert your favorite retailer here), I can't buy hardware off the shelf that won't send my data to a remote server by default.
It will be interesting to see what a mass exodus of investment money leaving China does to their economy and geopolitics.

Edit: If
I'm not aware of impostor syndrome being considered anywhere on the same level as actually diagnosed depression/ADHD by physicians, nor of it being considered for addition into the DSM, slow and bureaucratic as it may be.

The variety I'm referring to is the one that comes from people like the one I originally responded to, who, by all accounts, is a successful functioning member of society. So, yeah, I think it's fair to say "claiming impostor syndrome is just describing a normal feeling" in contexts where the person is clearly not overwhelmed to the point of dysfunction.

Even if there is such a thing as actually crippling impostor syndrome, that's not what I see being brought up in these kinds of discussions.
> We now live in a world, where our personal computers come with "AI" that detects illegal use of those computers and automatically turns us in to the authorities.

No, we don't. Your refusal to understand how any of this actually works, your desperation to conflate this process with the worst hypotheticals, does more damage than Apple ever could.
Google has been doing this for ages in their cloud. As have all the other major clouds.

Apple's the first to do this on your own device. Sure, only content that would have been uploaded to iCloud. For now. But this is the start of that particular slippery slope.
> Unfortunately Apple is not always super-great about keeping their C library up to date

Funny that the volunteer open source maintainer is held to a higher standard than the trillion dollar company :-)

Something seems backwards about that…
I've been hearing from pundits that the collapse of China is around the corner for the past 25 years, and I have yet to see why I won't be hearing about it for the next 25.
I've been on the Internet since it was still called "Arpanet".

There is NO GOOD SOCIAL MEDIA - its nature is primarily negative and bad for society. The reason is that it's inherently addictive by design and it operates faster than the biological time constants of rationality. It can never be made "safe". It will always have negative outcomes.
I think the Mafia is playing the role of the government in that case - deciding what the rules are, extracting fees, exacting revenge etc.
What if they can't afford a flight?
But Apple doesn't report to authorities based only on a hash match.
Probably worth more, but I would argue that its more of a case of how much is a mobile web user worth over a user who gets driven away.
There's something weird about this line of thinking. You know it's the very people who invented those boogeymen that you're afraid of becoming associated with, who are also the ones that want to do this to you? It seems like you already bought into their propaganda for justifying surveillance but you don't like the result.
Can anyone recommend a good framework or analysis of the barriers to open-source, general-purpose computing on mobile devices? I have read with interest the various open-source mobile operating systems posted to HN, but don't feel like I have a good sense of the landscape. Switching to open source feels urgent (mobile has become so important and so privacy-invasive), but it also feels like this is a steep uphill battle; that mobile has been culturally positioned as not-for-open-source.

I'd love to see this problem analyzed in terms of layers. My sense is that one barrier is walled-garden apps. I'm happy to give these up. But I also have the sense that there are hard barriers involving firmware (especially cellular modems?), identity (SIM cards are designed to contain secrets you can't access), and connectivity (you can't decouple a phone number from its client as easily as you can with an IP address).
So by your logic, everything that doesn't literally exist (laws, businesses, emotions, software, governments, money, etc.) are all things that can't be measured or improved?
As long as they are working properly. The problem is that the valves can fail (or not be properly designed in the first place), and then they become dangerous.

https://www.ktvu.com/news/recent-snorkel-deaths-prompts-inve...
Apple can’t fight this battle. No one can. The best you can do is make sure you are well versed in the current revision of wrongthink. Make sure you stay up to date. Adhere to the correct beliefs, actions, and words. Start now!
I do know that he presented nonsense, because the data is on Github. You can just look at it.
This is just lovely. But I am also tickled by the nominative determinism of the dots on the fish being generated using Poisson Disk sampling.

https://github.com/LingDong-/fishdraw/blob/main/fishdraw.js#...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersampling#Poisson_disk
For the Phone, no idea. For my laptop i'm switching to the Framework Laptop and Linux (for work). For my phone, god only knows.

I _want_ to support some Linux-only phone, completely off of Google/etc. However, i suspect that will be too poor of a UX, lacking basic functionality that i deem essential. I may still buy them to support them, but i think i'm going to have to buy a Android-based phone and then heavily de-google it. I don't like this option because it still supports the Google ecosystem, but it may be a necessary evil while the Linux-phone market hopefully grows, and while i continue to buy the Linux-phone market to "do my part".
Or even trying to determine which value represents year, month, or day. Internet date format is the only way to go, IMO.
What would be the problem with the old school back up with 3 encrypted USB drives or small SSDs?

One at home, one at office and one on key chain.

Cheap, secure, highly available and offline.
Glad they finally did it!

“ Wigner participated in a meeting with Leo Szilard and Albert Einstein that resulted in the Einstein-Szilard letter, which prompted President Franklin D. Roosevelt to initiate the Manhattan Project to develop atomic bombs.

Wigner was afraid that the German nuclear weapon project would develop an atomic bomb first. ”
It's value to the company signing your paychecks.
That's actually not that absurd. It provides a familiar way to deal with data in scenarios where using IndexedDB alone would be difficult at the very least.
> to mandate..

The very important part people! It is the "to", it means that it ain't mandated it yet (story is "developing")..So it might, but hey it might, so hasten up and get your shots!

Oh, the fearmongering! Fuck right off already!
This analogy works on a few levels, but not in others. One key differences between the USSR and China is that the USSR did not have a close economic relationship with the U.S., nor an economy near parity to the U.S.'s. There might be a decline of Chinese power, but it will not take a similar path, imo.
Does anyone know, if there is research into hygenic aspects of Tesla valves compared to traditional ones? Like biofilm formation experiments?

I was yesterday wondering, if it would make sense to include these into household water piping to ensure mono directional flow, preventing contamination from dirty ends. Doesn't my faucet current create suction on the washing machine's connection? Then again a Tesla valve may be a bio-safespace itself, as there are probably pro-life areas around the turbulences, different water exchange rates and maybe even different gas (oxygen) concentrations.

Also why isn't the cold water line used to dehumidify the shower?

I assume my "smart" ideas about water infrastructure would mostly get me killed by legionella at some point. Excessive regulation on touching the water probably isn't just for killing the fun and creating jobs...

(I recently learned all water pipes are covered in biofilm after 2-3 years, even tho there is hardly any bacteria cell in my country's water. So, there seems to be a disgusting and probably fragile ecosystem to consider...)
Matthew Green and Alex Stamos on Apple's client-side scanning
The GTD method got me past this problem. Don't get overly complicated with it -- just do the basics, and add/subtract as you see fit. Changed my life.
Would have liked some picture examples... This is like somebody typing out what a color looks like.
The exec's should quit (if they care about privacy).
Any major stablecoin is good for buying cryptos within the crypto ecosystem which have no fiat markets. Tether happens to be the one with the most liquidity and broad acceptance. As others mentioned, they are a stable value interface into the crypto native ecosystem. Nobody in our conversation is advocating for fiat in cryptocurrency representation, I’m telling you the answer, our feelings about Tether doesnt change the accuracy of the answer.

Liquidity providers are the ones okay holding large amounts of tether. Just look at the liquidity pools, they all earn commissions from other people routing trades through those pools onchain, and many of them yield farm too. The risk is tolerable for them, Tether has had much greater crisis of confidence in the past and didn't implode, trading at worse 15% away from $1 for prolongued periods of time so if those werent going to make holders lose all their money than (compared to the 99% drops in most crypto assets) then people have more confidence amongst the universe of pricing confidence. That's where we are.

Like I said, and what you walked directly into anyway: Bitfinex and Tether’s poor management and governance and opaqueness are issues, randomly picking any Tether headline as validation of those issues are a distraction, as it clouds everyone’s ability to focus on real issues with Tether.
1. Why would there be a mass exodus, any shareholder board will fire a C-suite that gives up selling to the world's fastest growing market / building in the world's most capable manufacturing market. Expecting one is just wishful thinking. Boards and executives tend to care about the bottom line, and very rarely about political grandstanding.

2. Even if there were a mass exodus (Which won't happen, because #1), the factories, the expertise, the knowledge base and the human capital those investments paid for aren't going to disappear. All that will happen is that they will become China-owned, as opposed to partially China-owned.
That is not true, one can easily regularise the derivative, which is delta distribution, in some appropriate way, the easiest one being a 'triangle' centered at zero. That way one can actually easily train networks of McCulloch-Pitts neurons.
I think there are a lot of great arguments to be made against this system, and the road that it is going down.

But I think your arguments would be improved by actually reading and understanding the current system Apple is proposing. Which, for example, does not include automatic reporting to authorities based only on a hash detection.

At the end of the day this is mostly an issue of political and legal requirements. Apple is doing what they think they need to do to cover their bases as they wrestle with governments over things like E2E encryption policies.
I was just talking to someone yesterday about how strange it is that Giphy is on Snapchat, even though Facebook now owns it. I thought $400 million was a lot for a GIF platform, but in a world with $28 billion deals like Slack, it doesn't seem too far fetched. The more I think about it, the more it makes sense. It's not just a money making play, but a power play.
> Hope you know that there have been proven massive election frauds in other countries, which would require conspiracies of the kind you think don't exist.

Pulling off the fraud is the simple part, keeping it covered up for this long is the difficult to believe part. In order to do so, significant portions of the legal system, many officials related to elections, and politicians from both sides of the isle having diametrically opposed interest in the results would have to conspire to do so and I just don't buy that.

> I just don't understand you trust. People cheat at anything competitive. If play any competitive organized sport, you'll quickly realize that playing the ref is part of the game. The pressure to win must be so much more than when there are billions on the line.

Of course, that's why elections have the protections in place that they do. They certainly aren't perfect but it isn't like it's all based on the honor system.

> Florida a huge state was able to deliver results on time. Yet the biggest democratic counties, in the key states took days. And had massive reversals in overnight counts. And only they show this rate of reversal.

Sigh, there are a ton of reasons this could happen. The most obvious is that those states weren't allowed to count mail-in ballots early and had a lot of mail in ballots due to the pandemic convincing states to make them more accessible than ever.

This is not what proof looks like, it's what the "pyramids were built by aliens" nonsense looks like. Ask a lot of questions, provide no answers, only implications.
On use case I'v seen is live concerts that record the show and sell the show you just saw to you on a USB stick at the merch table on your way out the door.
Website Carbon Calculator: A tool to calculate the carbon emission of a website
lol

I use YouTube-dl on Reddit, so the headline becomes the file name. Lots of emojis in Reddit titles. On the “nature is fucking lit” subreddit, it seems to be a rule to start your title with a fire emoji.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/
Reading that reminded me of the ending, with the slow pan on a now sleeping Ripley.

And the music (Sinfonia No 2 The Romantic) takes one last moment to jump scare you with the horn (2:31 in this video).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfyg_sE85kQ
Apple's disregard for security and privacy is mind-boggling
Are Some People Born Lucky? A UT Psychologist Argues Inequality’s Genetic Roots
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-27/china-s-c...
It's so pretty, but it's still terrible.

Check the Survival section.

"No reverse engineering" for 5 years after the 1 year contract terminates (everything under the Confidential Information section).

Not signing that. Will have to consider uninstalling email apps from my phone, so I don't accidentally agree to one of these when I'm behind on sleep. (https://www.sleepfoundation.org/sleep-deprivation/lack-of-sl...)
The "About" page the OP worked so hard on actually impressed me:

https://help.kinopio.club/about

Well reasoned out with a good demo showing the capabilities right off the bad. Great copy.

I actually tried it out and as a diagram editor and thought graph, it feels refreshingly good, imho.

https://kinopio.club/
Then maybe there is hope for European startups after all and it’s not so all gloom and doom?
not everything in nature is linear. that 20% can be enough to push something into an exponential portion of the curve. Markedly if their proposal is true then there is far more underbrush and detritus than there was when there wasn't thousands of firefighters rushing out to stop the fires. Some people like to attribute everything to global warming because they're freaked out, but this article is describing why that -might- not be the case and this is a hybrid problem of global warming and over protection of the forests.
Purism, the makers of the Librem 5 phone, have addressed these issues many times in their news/posts: https://puri.sm/news/
Exactly the problem we want to solve!
Exactly.

As I alluded to in my other reply in this thread [which got downvoted into oblivion] the problem with these SJWs is that their world view is so parochial and [in terms of time] narrow, that they think these terms are offensive because "slavery"... "racism"... even when the terms and their connotations often pre-date their worldview or even their country.

A previous classic example was the same kind of people getting their knickers in a twist over the use of the adjective "black" to describe something bad because... yep, you got it... "slavery"... "racism"...

Anyone with the slightest bit of historical and cultural awareness would realise that the use of "black" as an adjective with negative connotations dates back centuries, if not millennia and blindingly obviously originates from early religious connotations of light being good and darkness being filled with danger and evil. But, of course, to the SJWs, any use of "black' in a negative sense has got to be a veiled reference to American slavery by those evil racists and their non-inclusive language.

It was a black day for the world, when this political correct bullshit became the only acceptable form of expression.
That's like saying if a website allowed SQL injection because they made a mistake in their code, you're complying with their contract by waltzing on over to the browser and dropping all their tables. Just because something is allowed via code doesn't make that the intent. Use common sense.