skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This “Internet of Things” has promised people convenience, yet we know that convenience has already come at the cost of personal privacy.

I really wonder if the privacy implications of the "internet of things" are so dangerous that the internet of things should never be realized to its full potential. There is the always present temptation for governments to co-opt it as a surveillance apparatus. It really is the perfect tool for Big Brother style rule.

The cost may be too high.

Edit: grammar
Is it released yet - the installation section looks pretty empty right now.
Cool.

Hey, before I get socially engineered into attacking some forum, would you mind providing proof that the HN post is coming from the same person who owns the forum?

An announcement on the forum which requested spam would do nicely.
See also that weird font still used on many US paper checks (E-13B). Half the movies in the 1970s used that as the default computer/future font.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_ink_character_recogni...
There's a lot of stuff that you simply can't prevent from emitting CO2, for example various chemical processes, and other applications like air travel where fossil fuels are simply too much better than alternatives. True zero emissions is not a realistic goal. But net zero emissions is much more reasonable - you can still use carbon where you need it, you just need to make up for it.
Not sure I understand the "what if" part of that title?
English is not a programming language. And anyway English does have a load of extra stuff to indicate the "types" of things. For example proper nouns are capitalised, plurals get different quantifiers, adverbs get a "ly" suffix.

I think Latin is even more of a "typed" language.

But anyway that is really irrelevant because it's not programming.

> But thats not because the advancement there is in the domain of programming languages.

Well, no because static typing is ancient.
Basically, nobody wants to deal with backcompat. Having worked somewhere where we supported stuff more than a decade old, it's not entirely surprising. It's really hard to know what crazy stuff customers are doing with your stuff, and fun new things often die off during the pitch.
Interestingly that means Twitter text is no longer fully portable. If you copy some text from Twitter, you specifically need Chirp to render it properly or else characters like their special logo character will be broken for all other fonts 

Because they're using the "Private Use Area" of the font improperly...

Maybe I'm paranoid but I'm feeling like this is an intentional decision in order to push other fonts/foundries to start adding the Twitter logo as a standard Unicode character. Basically bypassing the need for consensus by just forcing the matter and cementing their logo in typography standards.
If you post flamewar comments again we will ban you. We've had to warn you before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Dupe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28130002
USDC does not have actual cash to back it to 100%.
6. No charges were filed

>> "He was taken into custody and later released under investigation. Following a review of all available evidence, it was determined no offences had been committed and no further action was taken."
> He was taken into custody and later released under investigation. Following a review of all available evidence, it was determined no offences had been committed and no further action was taken.

Sounds like the first one
Selective enforcement is a feature, not a bug, of authoritarian systems
Ah yeah I meant “fares” as in number of riders. Rates were sky high but total trips were down so much the drivers weren’t making reliable money even at those rates. A lot of people sold their cars because they couldn’t afford the payment without Uber or did some training to get a better career. Nobody wants to drive a car for a living the rest of their life.
Not sure I understand the point of the article.
>Food shortage is going to cause riots in US, Canada, and EU for sure

The US (along with France) can easily supply all the food they need to its citizens. Along with the alliances with Mexico and Canada, the US is not going to have food shortages, much less riots.

China, on the other hand, is definitely screwed on this front. All of its neighbors are either outright enemies or begrudging allies. As the global order continues to collapse, China will see constraints on its shipping routes that will lead to shortages of key goods.

The food shortages won't hit as bad, though, since the population is declining. Just not fast enough, unfortunately.
America Has Been Struggling with the Metric System for More Than 200 Years
There are weird tics different non-native English speakers have. For instance, every Greek I've ever met thinks the word "bored" means to be tired, not to be wanting something to interest you. They all got the same mistranslation and someone spoofing such a thing would be a very convincing non-native speaker.
So, the same as literally every other font that uses PUA (which is the majority of icon fonts).
I overthink things and end up in analysis paralysis, not for any of the reasons listed, but because I don't want to have to untangle an incorrect mess later on.
How is the United States different than Rome or The British Empire?
In the old model of metal age, metals are developed by a society that is hierarchical or militaristic (as development of metal is a very complex process with specialized knowledge and tooling). This old model cannot be applied to an archaeological site in Thailand (Ban Chiang / Ban Non Wat / etc.) due to evidences demonstrating absence of control over metal production in the region.

The research paper suggested that the region developed its metal age by trading rather than by any ruling entity, by applying Ricardo's Law to the distribution of metal artifact in the region.
Do you have a bullet list of things people could dedicate 10 years to for inspiration?
What We Think We Know About Metabolism May Be Wrong
"I hate slippery slope arguments, but...."

Slippery slope is vastly oversold as a logical fallacy. It is only a fallacy in the absence of evidence that there is a slope. If there's a multi-decade trend of which this is only a single step, and there's no visible mechanism for making it stop here and go no farther, then the logical fallacy is in believing with no reason that the trend line will stop here.

It is not a fallacy to speak as if this is only the beginning of a huge push into intrusive monitoring. It is a fallacy to pretend otherwise.

Slippery slope is also a fallacy if you take one instance of a trend and then logically project it to an absurd extreme, but this is not what we're doing here. We're simply looking at the next obvious, logical, well-evidenced step, with plenty of people who obviously want this even if they are a bit too discreet to come right out and say it in public.

But it's not a hard leap to see that our rulers today would like to be in full control of everything bit of data we receive and every bit of data we produce and the only things stopping them are technical possibilities and whether or not we'd put up with it. I see nothing else stopping them; not scruples, not morality, no existential awareness of the sheer staggering amount of responsibility they would be pushing on to themselves, no concerns about how it may hurt anyone, nothing.
The developer time it takes to do bug fixes and minor features is not free, so it seems appropriate to charge a fee for it.

I know that it's very common for subscription models to coincide with forced upgrades (as this one does), but that seems like a choice on the part of the company as opposed to something inherent to the revenue model. I'd be quite happy to pay a developer to continue to maintain an older version of their software.

Like you pointed out, I think a fee structure where you pay for major updates and otherwise pay a maintenance / hosting subscription fee makes the most sense.

I think that you see open source projects that struggle along all of the time because their developers cannot afford to work on them enough. Not every project, but enough of them. I try to support projects like that too.
So the gov't it got exactly what it wanted and instead of getting Congress to actually pass a law, they just effected a much simpler solution by force.

Winning!
Furthermore, no charges were filed:

>> "He was taken into custody and later released under investigation. Following a review of all available evidence, it was determined no offences had been committed and no further action was taken."
Seems it requires signing-up ... gonna pass on this one
Also noteworthy is the Kelmscott Chaucer, an edition of the works of Chaucer by Morris and pre-Raphaelite Edward Burne-Jones which is an extremely beautiful work of art:

https://otis.libguides.com/books_and_graphic_design/chaucer
I suggest two approaches:

(1) Skip HR. Leverage contacts and contacts-of-contacts to go directly to someone with authority to hire.

(2) Write a cover letter explaining that your current title is misleading about your responsibilities. In it, list lots of specifics.
DHH-Modern web apps without JavaScript bundling or transpiling
They also very publicly exposed the scam that is taxi medallions. I know i had never heard of them before uber exposed how stupid it was, and i know i'm not alone there.

Besides getting cheap taxis in college and as a young grad, its great to know its easier to call a taxi.
Compilers 3: Let’s Debug an Interpreter Together
Also completely ignoring that engagement and productivity drops may be quite real and expected given burnout from being full remote from people who do not do well in that environment for a variety of reasons (too isolated, distracting or unsafe home environment, covid-related depression, etc).

What has this company done to address that with this exercise? What precedent does that set? If you lose a family member and are disengaged as might be expected, will you be canned "because the AI said so" without your context being considered?
While I don't share your enthusiasm for Swing, I understand it in principle because I really love the NextStep UI with its 3D effects and yet I've met people who think it is ugly.
I wrote that article 7 years ago, and FWIW I would side more with Dale these days. It's probably a good thing we didn't just slap a half-baked API on top of SQLite and call it a web standard.

The biggest problem is that yeah, WebSQL tends to be faster than IndexedDB. Or at least it was back when I was working on PouchDB. Biggest issue IIRC was that joins were faster in SQLite than implementing the same thing in userland on top of IndexedDB. Browsers eventually shipped getAll/getAllKeys which also helped with cursor slowness.

I haven't looked much at the Storage Foundation API [1], but it seems like a more reasonable approach moving forward. Just give developers the low-level tools and let them build SQLite on top of it. Also the Chromium devs have been working on relaxed durability, which apparently improves IDB perf in some scenarios [2] (although still not as fast as Firefox it seems [3]).

[1]: https://github.com/WICG/storage-foundation-api-explainer

[2]: https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5730701489995776

[3]: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=102545...
It's my understanding that they weren't actually checking photos on their servers against the CSAM database, which is why Apple's reporting of CSAM on their network has historically been orders of magnitude less than other companies -- Facebook last year reported ~20M, other companies reported tens or hundreds of thousands, and Apple reported, IIRC, 265.

I'm aware the general sentiment here is "don't assume governments are putting pressure on Apple to step up their reporting, this is all on Apple bad bad bad bad bad," but sorry -- those numbers do indeed lead me to strongly suspect governments are putting pressure on Apple to step up their reporting. And I don't think Jason Snell (the author of the linked article, who probably knows more about Apple's world view and internal politics than almost anyone outside the executive team does) is wrong to theorize that Apple sees this CSAM-hash-detection system as a way to meet that pressure while protecting user privacy as much as possible, because they've convinced themselves that "protecting user privacy" means "do as much on device and as little in the cloud as possible".

To be clear, I don't think this is a good idea -- letting the camel's nose in the tent through a different opening is still letting the camel's nose in the tent. The irony, though, is that I think Apple's inventively bad solution comes from the most canonically Silicon Valley mindset ever: all problems are engineering problems.
Well money has to come from somewhere to pay for the event itself. Regardless, this is a poor contra-example of why remote activities are less effective than in-person.
> All-You-Can-Eat Broadband:
Faster

> ...

> Indefinite: not worrying about running out of AOL hours, liberated from the tyranny of time metering and (mostly) bandwidth metering

Except that some ISPs do have caps and going over results in throttling or extra charges. I thought those days were behind us, but no. It is better than it used to be, but it's still a thing.
My understanding:

SQLite: SQL -> SQLite C query engine -> POSIX Filesystem

Absurd-SQL: SQL -> (WASM) SQLite C query engine -> "filesystem" shim code -> IndexedDB
I believe the demonization of the term "conspiracy theory" is propaganda. Aren't we in a thread discussing a theory that organizations that are not apple will eventually conspire with apple to utilize this invasive new technology? I find it so confusing that the idea that different factions may be working together in non-public ways is such an impossibility to so many people.
Well, according to the Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect... more than you might expect.
My thermostat is located in a cooler part of my house compared to my bedroom -> my thermostat has to be set to 73 to cool my bedroom to a nice T.

If my AC is very large it wont run very long between cycles. When it does it will wring every bit of moisture out of that relatively small amount of air.

If the AC were smaller, the AC would run just about all day long, more of the air would then go get its moisture removed.

In other words:

1 unit of 4C air mixed with 9 units of 30C air -> 10 units 27.4C. Assuming I've removed all the water in the one unit of 4C air the water content has only gone down 10%

5 units of 24.8 C air mixed with 5 units of 30 C air -> 10 units of 27.4C. If I can get just 50% of the air out chilled 5 units of air, I've removed 25% of the water in the air.

These numbers are just thrown at you, so take them with a BIG grain of salt. You'd have to look at the water saturation tables to really do the math.
Quoting from the article:

"...Hutchinson said his identification by Leathermarket and subsequent arrest raised questions in his mind, saying police confirmed to him that the company had handed over an access log containing IP addresses: "Now, how that ended up with me being in the frame, I don't know. There's part of this that doesn't add up..."
..."
Simple solution, just disable use of custom fonts in browser preferences, to force use of configured system fonts.
Maybe it was just because I was listening to it at 1.5x speed, but it definitely felt like there were just too many ideas jammed together.

Especially the CarbonCoin idea. Possibly a good approach, but it made for some bad storytelling.
Ahh yes, the slippery slope fallacy fallacy: assuming that all slippery slope arguments are fallacious.

https://twitter.com/vitalikbuterin/status/987274961659232256...
There is no reason to take the guy into custard for downloading a file

He was definitely in a jam
No, they had an audit, "really truly". And a full audit.

But they could not release it. Because it was in Mandarin!

You can't make this shit up if you tried.

The interview with a Deltec VP after all that also revealed that Deltec is heavily intertwined. He said "we know they're fully backed because we can see the issuance of Tethers in the internal systems and the corresponding deposits".

Like, interesting, your bank has insights into your internal systems? Curious.
London Breed is a fat ugly cock-sucking nazi.

I hope she gets gunned down. Fucking fascist piece of shit.
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If this was the case I'd think Apple would have mentioned it by now to appease the situation.

But even if that was the case, the tool will now exists for any dictatorial government to spy on "troublemakers". The Chinese government, which has already gotten full compliance from Apple, would be foolish not to use it.
It's not like the US kept it a secret that they wanted to either gain enough of a military advantage over the USSR to remove them as a viable threat or force them to keep spending ever more amounts of resources on military boondoggles.
Both will happen. Basically, Apple is able to scan data on your phone, and Google is able to scan data on their servers.
I mean, I don't know - I don't work at the company. But it seems internally inconsistent to me to like the product, but have disdain for the professional judgement of the people who make it.

It seems like you'd be happier with a community product that has less support, but is available for free - and thankfully you have that option.
"Non-existent" is a bit hyperbolic. I have no idea how many casualties resulted from the Cold War, I'd guess a few thousand. Even if 20,000 died, which I doubt, that's pretty good going for a war that lasted 30 years.
Most HN users are going to say “yes” because we are generally much higher income earners. Have things gotten better for everyone? Definitely not. Looking at continued increase in “deaths of despair” it seems like some of the changes that have made some of us richer have also made a larger % of the population more miserable than ever.

We’ve also built a highly sophisticated surveillance state and generally reduced our basic freedoms and individual rights post-9/11, and despite bumps in the road for this program thanks to Snowden etc, nothing has fundamentally changed and things continue to get worse on this front.

To me, this list of improvements is really just a list of improvements absent broader context which paints a very different & disturbing picture.
Crypto inequality is FAR worse than the traditional finance system, both in power and capital. A very small number of people control the protocols, network nodes, and hold the tokens themselves.

The 100 richest ETH wallets own 25% of mined ETH. Many of those wallets are probably owned by the same person/organization. Switching to PoS will make inequality even worse.

Some critics are definitely jelly about not hitting the crypto-lottery...but crypto is not a solution for wealth inequality.
A roundtrip flight from LA to NY releases 1.1 CO2 tons. A sustainable carbon budget is somewhere between 1.5 and 2.5 CO2 tons / year / capita. [edit]Among many other creature comforts[/edit], mass aviation simply has to go. No more vacations in Thailand. No more Thanksgiving family visits. No more business trips. No more tech conventions. No more scientific conferences.

Harder, we must learn to let go across all sectors of the economy, for all countries, for all society strata.

Action follows desire. As a species, we must shift the conceptualization of the world from globalism to localism. Return to the world view of people living in 1900 or before.

The average individual view of the world must stop 100 miles from the place he/she was born. As a New Yorker, seeing an image filled with beaches and palm trees advertising Cabo vacations should raise the same level of revulsion as an image filled with vast open spaces and wild horses advertising for Marlboro cigarettes.

https://calculator.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx?tab=3
This is a hard to read post for me, maybe I'm not the target audience.

"any process observed or measured as the time until reaching a threshold is inversely proportional to the speed at which that threshold is approached."

The process is inversely proportional? The outcome of that process inversely proportional? I'm not sure what about that process is proportional. If I can guess what the author meant, I'd rewrite as

"any process measured with 'time to completion' has a duration inversely proportional to the speed that the process runs."
> The mental and ethical lines are clear when I hand content to a server, that's a contract I can understand and agree to.

This system will only work on photos you are going to upload to icloud photo library. If you dont enable this, no picture will be scanned.
In my view this is exactly the same as before where this scan was running on the server.
Cobalt Strike Vulnerability Affects Botnet Servers
Why do you hate slippery slope arguments? They tend to be right. It’s why we have the saying - the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Edit: rather than “tend to be right”, I should have said can be right given the right argument and evidence.
Sounds like a giant sucking sound of programming jobs departing to lower waged labors. Then higher waged laborers will need to lower their wages to compete.

Economists call that a comparative advantage and a net win.

If you’re claiming an equilibrium point will be reached, then I think the equilibrium point will be $40/hr for Senior, $30/hr for Mid, $20/hr for Junior.
One thing everybody can immediately do is to eat much less meat.

Cut it down to a really good and well produced $steakthing on sundays and skip the crappy everyday burger or switch that to veggieburgers.

Don't have to become vegan. Simply reduce volume.
> This is distinct from the Codespaces launch yesterday.

What's the difference between the two? Github.dev redirects me to Codespaces.
Who decides what the banned items are? Can we be sure these items won't suddenly change, when an authoritarian government gets voted in?
Everyone talks shit on the CCP but how different are they from the rabid insane fascist liberals from San Francisco?
I think you're severely underselling the Canadian market as someone else in Canada.

I really like the quality of life that Vancouver provides, the pay is also pretty good (has improved a lot in the last ~2y), I got multiple offers as of two months ago in the 200-280k CAD TC which really isn't bad for Vancouver. Those offers were by companies with offices in Vancouver.

Nature, health care, people are polite, not too much crazy politics, lot's of opportunities, good food.. I enjoy it very much and wouldn't trade this city to live in the USA.
I once nuked my OS partition flashing a USB drive using dd. Completely my mistake, but now I just stick to using etcher.

Takes three clicks, doesn't require me to remember how to use dd, and prevents any stupid mistakes.
I have grainislife.com which has nothing to do with wheat, barley, seeds of any kind, or agriculture of any sort. Nor does it have anything to do with the unit of mass.
CFR is actually between 6% and 10%
The article is a little unclear, but I don’t think that is true. It sounds like the subsidy is that they are allowed to do depreciation in a nonstandard way, so that it benefits them.