skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it seems about the only use case for passwords was cloning a private repository in an environment where you don't want keep your keys. that said, any environment where you don't want to keep your keys isn't necessarily a place you want to be typing in your account password anyhow.

human typable one time passwords for this purpose could be cool. although it's a pretty rare use case.
It's a big world; you can find some people who believe just about anything.
Agreed in general but imagine a VR video game that looks so good even 20-percent think it's a movie. That's awesome.
I'm not sure that's true. No one is paying the moderators currently. It's not like hosting costs of a forum are that high. Not that difficult to migrate all your users to a competing service if the community is un happy with the monetization scheme.
And I think the former happens exceedingly rarely. :-) Most cases where it does happen are probably due to M and X just being other aspects or consequences of A.
if you have any product shipping with storage you need a way of flashing it. There are different ways of going about it:

manufacturers offer pre programming, its an added cost and might have MOQ requirements

your factory offers to build an automated programming jig, again makes sense at a certain volume level

you and a bunch of friends and family sit around and program the stuff manually for couple of days straight

This device will make third option a breeze.
Actually, we don’t know yet whether you can access your photos from the web anymore after this update, because E2EE ”like” implementation.

Protocol is rather device specific (while allowing multi-device), so it might not be enough to access or hack iCloud account to access the photos. So, things get complicated.
>"Lingdong Huang is awesome!"

I looked at his github and yes is is awesome. Thanks for pointing this. Will read a bit more of his stuff.
Agreed. I think HTML is great and JSX is an abomination. I also don't need literally 69 ways to do CSS in my React components. So, I prefer Vue SFC.
Cycle Time Breakdown: Tactics for Reducing Coding Time
In the two states where I do business it's fairly easy to discover information about the ownership of an LLC or other corporate entity. As a real estate agent I do it all the time using publicly available sources.
For context, I'm a software developer who works with a lot of battery researchers.

My understanding from them is that while Li-ion batteries cannot create weeks long capacity, rust batteries may be able to in the future.

Check out Form Energy[0] for an early version of this, they're claiming ~100 hours of storage right now and if they're right about the science and can manage the engineering it could grow past a month. These batteries are challenging to run, a bit like a mini-chemical plant, but they do actually seem plausible.

(No personal association with the company, some of my coworkers know the founders though)

[0] https://formenergy.com/
I Hate Remote Online Meetings
“The tunnels, of course, were lighted. Everything is light, artificial light; darkness is the exception. So when I saw a black gap in the tiles, I knew that it was an exception, and
rejoiced.

-Malcolm X, probably. (Please don't mistake my jauntiness for thoughtlessness.)
It would have to be a number of pictures that are flagged, and after that threshold is exceeded, they (more precisely, their "visual derivative") are reviewed by a human. So, no mugshot and no arrest record, even if you choose to accept any number of pictures sent from random strangers via airdrop.
Not in Windows unless you have WOL installed.
"Diversity" is an idealistic mirage like Communism. It sounds great until you throw away common-sense like merit.
Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks: sources
I stopped going to /r/AskHistorians because often the only allowed answers were badly sourced.

This is especially prevalent on events that are still relatively recent (last 40-50 years).

Second, it really is /r/AskHistorians ONLY, you are not allowed to mention any personal anecdata (ie participating in the fall of Berlin Wall etc.)

Even worse you are not allowed to attempt to provide official primary sources.

There was a question on WW2 Soviet tank production and German preparedness. I was not allowed to link in secondary comment Hitler-Mannerheim talks where they talked about this very issue!

Mod reasoning: not enough context...
That’s not adequate at all! The lines at gas stations would be massive. Charging via electric at home or in a parking spot seems a lot more convenient, even if it takes a few hours.
Not dissimilar to the last broadcasted speech of the queen of England
I'm wondering if, with the recent influx of GPT-3 account approvals and now the rise in competition for API based ML, there will be a slow trend away from learning ML as people start productionising with GPT-3 calls. There are negatives and positives towards this (ie - black box nature of the API / inconsistency in results as it trains making it non testable etc).

As someone with a masters in machine learning I look forward to watching this all unfold, very interested in where this part of the engineering industry is headed.
> If New York City gets flooded by another hurricane or few, will angry culture-war America rush to spend enough $billions to build a huge sea wall system? Or will the rich start leaving NYC for higher ground, similar to how so many of them left during NYC's worst COVID spells?

NYC is the media, financial and cultural capital of the US, and the diplomatic capital of the world. The US cannot allow flooding to ruin it; that would cause immense damage to both the US national economy and national prestige. The US is legally obligated to protect the UN Headquarters from flooding; if it fails to do so, the UN may respond by moving their headquarters somewhere else, which would be a huge loss of national prestige and diplomatic influence. So if the city or state governments don't do something about it, federal intervention would be very likely.

> Large sea wall and flood-control systems can take decades to agree upon, design, and actually construct.

In a national emergency things can happen very fast. Special funding becomes available, ordinary regulations can be suspended, special legislation can be passed. COVID is a good example of this. Normally it takes years to get new vaccines approved by the FDA. But the FDA suspended its normal approval process. Similarly, if coastal flooding starts to get a lot worse, don't be surprised if Congress establishes a special multi-trillion dollar "Coastal Defense Fund", suspends all environmental and planning regulations, and the President sends in the Army Corps of Engineers to build it. Major metropolises such as NYC will be a priority.

> At the other end of the spectrum - ask a European politician how great it is, when things are just fine in your relatively rich country...but an endless tide of desperate refugees from broken countries are washing up on your shores.

Australia basically eliminated the problem of people arriving on boats by taking an extremely hard line against them. The Royal Australian Navy would intercept them at sea and take them to camps in a third country (such as Papua New Guinea or Nauru). PNG and Nauru were happy to host these camps because the Australian government paid them untold millions for the privilege. Many people argue that the Australian government's actions are immoral and even illegal (under human rights laws and the Refugee Convention). But the Australian government has gotten away with it, and the majority of Australian voters rewarded them. Could European countries take a similar approach? I think they could, and maybe in the future some of them will. Europe accepts millions of refugees out of a moral belief that it is the right thing to do, not out of a practical impossibility of refusing them. The anti-refugee measures of Viktor Orban's right-wing government in Hungary are an example of the practical possibility of refusal. Far-right political parties are growing in Europe, and stand a real chance of winning elections, and many of them admire Australia's approach and hope to emulate aspects of it.
Yeah - the sense I got was he just liked the cleaner cut policy of a hard stop at the phone itself (and he was cool with the tradeoff of unencrypted content on the server).

It does have some advantages - it's easier to argue (see: the disaster that is most of the commentary on this issue).

It also could in theory be easier to argue in court. In the San Bernardino case - it's easier for Apple to decline to assist if assisting requires them to build functionality rather than just grant access.

If the hash detection functionality already exists and a government demands Apple use it for something other than CSAM it may be harder for them to refuse since they can no longer make the argument that they can't currently do it (and can't be compelled to build it).

That said - I think this is mostly just policy all the way down.
I think this is reddit's biggest issue. Astroturfing is more effective than advertising and it's cheaper too.
They can also be revoked more easily.
It says in the YouTube video, and shows in the clips that the keynote revealed the rendering immediately as part of the show?

I didn't see the full thing, but the posture and lighting in the clips in the making-of don't look like they'd have convinced anyone? (See YouTube video avnigo links).

Is this just marketing saying water isn't wet or am I missing something?
There’s a lot more exposure on Apple than these no name companies. Idk who manufactures Xiaomi
the next recession / depression is going to ve led by the collapse of the "tech" sector.
You're ignoring a parallel development - the electrification of transport, industry and home heating/cooking. These sources constitute the majority of the rest of the co2 emitted.

In combination with decarbonizing electricity production, this provides a multiplier effect.
Perhaps I was reading too far into OP's anecdote then, but it seemed there was a delay between bag pulls, and that only after the third bag the dog responded. I also was under the impression that this was occuring out of direct line of sight (as the dog was coming down the stairs following the third bag) and so suggested the dog was interpreting the pulls incrementally rather than picking up on the handful of three bags through direct observation.
Wow, downvoters, excuse me for having a little fun!

But since you want to be serious, let's bikeshed this: What word would you rather we use, in place of "smart contract," to refer to the small programs that run on the blockchain?
> Kick out Poland and Belarus

You really shouldn't show off your ignorance like that.
Toyota Lets Farmers Pay for New Trucks with Corn or Soybeans in Brazil
I feel like what a lot of people miss is that with an EV if you have a garage or dedicated parking spot you’re leaving home with a “full tank” every single day. You only need to use a public charger if you’re on a road trip.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_medallion

> Several major cities in the US use these in their taxi licensing systems, including New York City, Boston, Cambridge, Chicago, Philadelphia, and San Francisco.

I think you might have misinterpreted the sentence here: these are cited as examples, not at the only cities in the US to have such a system in place.
The problem with the "private company" line that, yes, they're a private company, but censorship is definitely still bad!

Free speech is a fundamentally protected right in the US. From the Founder's perspective, the greatest threat to that right was clearly and obviously government, because what other entity could possibly have that much reach into one's life? Up until the internet age, no one could imagine a private company or a private individual having the capacity to infringe upon free speech at scale.

So, we have a Constitutional right to free speech, protected against infringement by the government, which is great, but there is another threat to the free flow of information and ideas, and that is private corporations who can now infringe upon this right at scale. And we don't have the tools or framework to defend it, because private companies can do what they want? Thats not good enough for me. The situation is dire when private companies appoint themselves to be the arbiters of truth, because even with the best intentions, there are bound to be mistakes, as we've already seen. And they don't all have the best intentions.
But your property rights are not absolute. We don't allow people to dump toxic waste or burn tyres on their land, even if the land, the tyres and the toxic waste is entirely theirs. YOUR prerogative ends somewhere. I know indidualism is a tantalising idea but we live in a society with rules.

People collectively can decide(and frequently do decide) that the values important to a town, a city or an entire state are more important than your right to buy and leave property empty. There are many places which either forbid owning property entirely if you are a foreign national and don't actually live there, or impose a heavy tax on such purchases. Vacancy tax is a thing too.

Basically if a city(and by that I mean people of the city and its representatives) don't want houses to be sitting around empty, there are laws that can be introduced to force people to either move in, rent or sell the place, or they can keep the place standing empty at a heavy financial penalty if they wish. Like I said earlier - your prerogative ends somewhere.
Not even rockets. Lose too much from the low density leading to a larger structure and isolation required to handle it as a liquid, and not freeze the oxygen. Meaning worse performance than the pure numbers would imply. Not to mention cost of handling it.

Case in point, SpaceX going larger rocket with less efficient kerosene first and now methane to increase efficiency and reduce soot, while still keeping everything simpler than hydrogen.
And as a guest, they do jack shit when things go wrong. The best you can hope after spending hours on the phone explaining your case over and over with each new person you’re getting is that they’ll refund your money with a “good luck finding another place to sleep for tonight, you’re on your own”

Airbnb ruined so many of our vacations in the last few years that we’ve sworn to never ever use them again. It’s not worth the trouble.

And the prices are completely ridiculous now, on par or more expensive than a bona fide hotel.
Well they have the money part of that equation solved, at least for a while. How quickly can one blow through $410 million? 18 months?
Seems a bit of an oversight to ignore the reasoning for 53% of the requests, or perhaps the classification of them was inconvenient for the purpose of their argument.
I wonder if their problem is that the majority of their traffic is unregistered users looking at NSFW subreddits. So they may not actually have that many users they could monetize in the first place.
Actually, relational databases are the relative newcomers. The limitations of things like CODASYL were well known to 1960s programmers and Codd's relational model sought to address them.

Why the non-relational databases keep getting reinvented has been a bit of a mystery when there is already a rich history of development to look to. I get the feeling a lot of the industry isn't much into history, especially of pre-micro computer systems.

Network databases, key-value stores, graph databases, commercial offerings like Pick... you'd think the NoSQL people would have looked into it all before proclaiming their new found solutions, but apparently not.
I have some questions as to whether things are going well at Xsolla. They handle payments for Roblox, and I constantly have problems giving them money. I have three kids playing Roblox who each spend money there at least a couple of times per month.
It's kind of an indictment of the industry that a 30 year old, 8-bit image format somehow won out as the medium of choice for displaying looping animated scenes. What cascade of negligent decisions had to happen that all the other viable options (APNG, WEBP, looping MP4) were overlooked at companies like Google, Facebook, and Apple? How many fucking gigawatts have been wasted blasting that shitty bloated image format across the internet?
I remember people were saying same thing about Linux on Desktop, yet we have viable alternatives to proprietary OSes.

Yes, someone will have to struggle to get us there, but will have alternative if we don’t give up.
How is that different from how things work now?
Pins are probably more secure than most metal keys (most locks are pickable < a minute)
We can usefully be both a macro/operator and function under the same symbol:

This is the TXR Lisp interactive listener of TXR 268.
Quit with :quit or Ctrl-D on an empty line. Ctrl-X ? for cheatsheet.
1> (special-operator-p 'and)
t
2> (fboundp 'and)
t
3> (fun and)
#<intrinsic fun: 0 param + variadic>
4> (and 23 nil (prinl 42))
nil
5> (call 'and 23 nil (prinl 42))
42
nil
6> [and 23 nil (prinl 42)]
42
nil
7> [mapcar if '(nil t t nil) '(1 2 3 4) '(a b c d)]
(a 2 3 d)
8> (if t (prinl 'true) (prinl 'false))
true
true
9> [if t (prinl 'true) (prinl 'false)]
true
false
true

If we use the functional brackets, all arguments are evaluated the same way, and the leftmost value is treated as a callable object applied to the remaining values.

A symbol in the leftmost position of [...] is never treated as a macro (other than symbol macro) or special operator, even if it has a such a binding.
> There's nothing inherently wrong with burning hydrocarbons

...if and when you burn them with pure oxygen like done in rockets. Mostly they're burnt using using atmospheric oxygen though, leading to the production of nitrogen oxides (NOx) which come with their own problems [1]. It is possible to reduce the emission of these gases [2] at the cost of increased complexity and cost.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOx#Health_and_environment_eff...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOx#Regulation_and_emission_co...
That was a good book. I looked at it recently and it’s now in the 3rd edition! Congrats.

Any other suggestions for good Packt books?

I agree, Packt’s quality is much lower than other publishers. As a rule of thumb I stay away but occasionally there’s a gem.

I’ve been looking at “Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading”. It feels like a dump of wikipedia and a bunch of jupyter notebooks with sloppy code. I cannot decide if it’s worth the pain if slogging through that mess.

https://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Algorithmic-Trading-...
We still use Picasa wherever possible.
Probability of a false positive for a given image = p

Probability of N false positives (assuming independence) = p^N

Threshold N is chosen by Apple such that p^N < 10^-12, or N log p < -12 log 10, or N > -12 log(10)/log(p) [since log(p) < 0, since p < 1].

ETA: Suppose, just for the sake of the argument, that p = 10^-3 (one false positive in 1000, so really quite bad).

Then log(p) = -3 log(10), so N > -12 log(10)/(-3 log(10)) = 12/3 = 4.

Similarly, if p is one in a million (10^6), then N would be required to be > 12/6 = 2.

In practice, I'd expect N to be larger than 4, in other words, Apple being very conservative here.

ETA: The above doesn't take into account how many images M you have. The analysis gets more complicated, but N needs to be way larger than 4. I'll think about it some more.
Apple is attaching a ticket to images as the user uploads to iCloud. If enough of these tickets think CSAM and allow an unlock key to be built, they will unlock and get checked. It's still the user who has turned on iCloud and uploaded the images.
That is really interesting.

Is it 8% of all users, or 8% of PC users ?
> I assure you, Apple has "plan B," and it been trying executing on it relentlessly for the last 2 years — just without any success.

Can you share any details about that?

> If what my buddies tell me of Apple's internal assesment of countries is correct, no other countries are even close to a 2nd place alternative on that, except for Taiwan, which is their "plan C" — a sure to work, but expensive option if everything else fails.

That's actually kind of what I meant by "there's no plan B." They may be able to formulate other plans (B, C, D, etc.) and even spend a little money on them, but Western business-thinking won't let them actually deviate from plan A.

One of China's advantages is that the West puts business in the driver's seat in a lot of situations, but business is short-sighted, selfish, and geopolitically naive, so it is exploitable and controllable with the right methods.
Europe's privacy protections only seem to apply to what companies can do. Their governments seem to be perfectly happy with your privacy being invaded as long as they're the ones doing it.
Apple said they're only enabling it in the US for now.
> The air humidity indoors will be to high to survive!, people will die!

Seems an easily solvable problem

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

You are welcome. Sleep well tonight
Why did this get flagged honestly while I do not agree and while I was expecting a different thing given the title, it makes a bunch of good points and I say this as a Hispanic guy in an industry that does not look like him usually. Are long gone the days of actually hacking nuanced discussions of complex topics in hackernews?
Is it actually true that online ads work better (more conversions?) on that demographic? How do you separate the confounding factor of the effect of age and income on preferences?
Not or, and.

The only way hydrogen even makes sense is if you build so much nuclear power that your baseline generation is peak electricity usage, and you use the extra generating capacity during low demand times to split water.
Just because drawing a line in the sand is tricky, doesn't mean we should offload our responsibility to do so in a reasonable way. I'm not advocating for no line - I'm advocating that the entity making the decision is not the private company.
Interesting, this is the first I'm hearing about that. Typically users will state whether or not they're lawyers, and if so the degree to which they're familiar with the OP's jurisdiction, and threads will often be locked and/or littered with removed comments for the reason "bad advice". Often, the only advice users will receive is to go see a lawyer.

Based on all that, it seemed pretty solid to me. I'm not saying you're wrong, but if I had to guess it's probably more a case of being hit-or-miss than entirely bad. Even a minority of bad advice would stand out to a lawyer in the same way that >=1% of wrong information in a tech publication would stand out to most of us here, particularly if the victims of said bad advice were in serious situations.

(IANAL or an active user of /r/legaladvice. I just pop in every so often when an interesting thread hits my front page, so whatever I'm exposed to is presumably better quality and more actively moderated than what's average for the sub.)
No, the Earth reflects more waste energy back into space in a few minutes than we use all day. Nearly unlimited renewable energy is available with today's technology but there are political and economic problems to solve first before that can become a reality.
This is amazing. Thanks for sharing the link to karlicoss' site.
It's what the inhabitants calls it.

Calcutta, Pondicherry and Pekin were "best attempts" by Europeans to transcribe the sounds from the locals that were relayed to them by illiterate sailors.