skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To answer your question about the market, there are ~30k companies that are vulnerable to data requests in the US alone. At $100k price point, that is roughly a $3B market
Anyone else notice that GitHub recently removed the sample code for cloning with SSH?
True, there are studies showing increased exposue to cortisol causing weight gain.
Why do they need backdoors to spy on Pakistan, when they have the "front door?"

Pakistan's biggest cellphone provider is China Mobile
We do this on all our Rust code as well (1.1 million LOC at this point).

While we can benefit from #[no_std] crates on crates.io, unfortunately we can't use any crates that require standard because the standard library does not propagate errors properly, so we maintain our own implementation of most of the standard library for Linux only, that propagates all errors using Result..

It's a huge pain point, but at least Rust allows us to do it.
I'd see it as the opposite. Most of the American companies I apply with do some kind of community, note taking tool, communication tool, help people save money on vacations. None of these are world-changing applications.

Whereas in developing countries, you're helping people with prepaid solar power. You're helping them save time and costs transferring cash (many still don't have credit cards). Some people have only one form of entertainment, and I've worked on that once. There's just a lot of problems that have skipped the PC era and gone straight into the smartphone-browser era.

Though like the people who build highways, it's common to get treated as just another form of disposable labor.
Would you care to give a few examples? Where something was forbidden _without any law_ and then later allowed _with a law_?
It is very disingenuous to ignore WHY Trump was banned from Twitter and YouTube. He violated their policies over and over and used them to incite a riot at the US capitol. He should have been banned a very long time ago.
I’ve been running arch for 11 years, I’ve only had breaking changes a small handful of times, all of which were covered in an alert (email) of what to run to carry on. The only one that wasn’t was an upstream issue on chrome that was a secondary browser for me anyway.

Ubuntu wouldn’t be a faster release, as it’s not rolling release. However Fedora would be in a similar step as arch.
You don't pay an extra $10,000 for autopilot, that's the amount for Full Self Driving
This is approximately correct and should not be downvoted because it was written by an asshole‡.

The disproportionate energy expenditure in children is almost certainly explained by cell division and growth.

They are literally fashioning body mass from consumed food.

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‡ We would do well not to ignore assholes if they are stating something of consequence.
I can see that interpretation for sure. My impression is that folks like Savile will always be protected from CSAM by the same powers that be calling for CSAM. I'm not certain if that viewpoint is realism or cynicism, or if there is a difference.
I don't really know .. these are just guesses:

- I think it will not support any platform that is less than 64 bits.

- I think the preferred way will be to explicitly host the dependency in your repository. What ever the language does to help with dependency management will probably be geared towards that direction. Code bases are expected to be self contained. Once you checkout the code from your version control system, you should not need to download an additional thing from the internet to build.

That said, there is a video where Jon talked at length about his plans for dependency management, but it was more of an information discussion than a concrete plan. It is from 3 years ago (2018.01)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TwEaRZ4H3w
> And even for Tesla's connector, the highest I've ever seen (which isn't even offered anymore) was 72A.

The wall-connector in my garage has a 90A sticker put on it by the state-licensed electrician who installed it - and I can drag the rate-limit slider in my car's UI up to (and beyond) 90A. I'd take a picture and post it to show you, but HN is famously text-only.
Analyzing, validating and monitoring your data in Google big query
Trump absolutely should have been banned from Twitter far sooner than he was. Thousands of people have been banned for far lesser things.
>"I don't know why he thinks "old man" as slang for father is British. It was in common use in the US in the 90s."

And "old lady" was the "old man's" wife, but you don't call your mom my "old lady".
I question this as well. A citation would certainly be helpful.
I'm pretty happy with my Fairphone. I was unfortunate in dropping it once which made the screen unusable, but since you can change the screen yourself it was pretty easy to do. And Fairphone was gracious enough to send me a new screen since it was within one year of me buying the phone.

I'm not a heavy user of the phone day to day so battery lasts easily more than one day.

It's not as snappy as an iPhone. But repairablility makes up for it.
The masses have not. I visit my parents out in their conservative suburb fairly frequently and life cannot be more different than what's represented on Hacker News.

Or at my parish, which is becoming more and more like family.. people are fed up.
Ivermectin? Actual studies now prove it effective. YouTube banned people for talking about it and people died because of it. How’s that?

There are too many one sentence questions on these issues of censorship. I would say they provide no value to the conversation.
> Arch is great and probably very rarely breaks but if it does, there is very few ways to recover the situation other than instructing users to reinstall the OS.

Is there any citation to support this? I’ve run arch for 11 years, never once on that same computer did I have to reinstall the OS. On the rest that have been running it for 2y and 5y they’ve never had that issue, nor instruction.
Now that I've been using Zig's error handling language primitives for some time, I've come to realize what the paradigm really is: a way to encode a "forwards" and a "backwards" at the same time, for the same block of code.

The usual way control flow progresses is forwards, but when an error occurs, it goes backwards, over the defers and errdefers.

C++ exception handling and other languages with destructors force you to do this declaratively, but then don't give enough control over exactly the situations they matter in: setup and teardown.

Meanwhile with explicit control, you just encode exactly what happens in the "backwards" control flow. No surprises, no trying to figure out what happens based on declarative rules. Once I figured this out, I was able to use it to simplify the logic of some things in the self-hosted compiler that are extremely error prone in the C++ implementation:

* Lazy source locations: passing in "none" for a source location, and then handling the "error.SourceLocationNeeded" and then doing the expensive calculations to find the source locations before retrying the operation.

* Generic instantiations: returning "error.GenericPoison" for when a type parameter cannot be determined without information from the callsite. In this case, the analysis is cleanly aborted and function marked as generic.

I'm pleased with how this turned out, and I've started to think of other languages in terms of how they map to this "forwards" and "backwards" control flow concept.
Probably because Trump suggested something similar...
Enregistering of variables is also lost, because to restore them during unwinding they have to be retrieved from the stack.
Humans are also really dumb and gullible and YouTube lets people monetize lies, which is a problem.
Fedora on an old gaming machine in the lounge and a wireless kb/mouse.

I've messed around with Plex but honestly find using a computer easier. Watch a lot of YouTube too but almost prefer the tv app for that.

Gigabit internet helps, everything is watchable almost instantly.
Forcing the programmer to manually write stack unwinding code is not a solution.

That's like saying "garbage collecton is slow and complex, just use malloc() and free() instead".
This initial idea was to ship air mattresses to hosts, that's where the air bit came from.
Same experience and same conclusion except I did the move back to ubuntu a year ago. I guess there's 3 type of user, the one who care about latest and greatest, the ones who don't and the one who aren't sure yet. I went for the third one to the second one
> it’s attaching a cryptographic voucher to every photo uploaded to iCloud that, if some number of photos represent hash matches

OK, but what if Apple silently pushes out an update (or has existing code that gets activated) that "accidentally" sets that number to zero? Or otherwise targets a cryptographic weakness that they know about because they engineered it? That wouldn't require "significant modification".

Funamentally, it's closed software and hardware. You can't and shouldn't trust it. Even if they did do some "significant modification" how are you going to notice/prove it?
… ok? How is this relevant?
YouTube has every right to delete data stored on its systems that it is storing for FREE.
Thanks for posting that information.

Another thing to keep in mind with infants/very young children is that if they get diarrhea, they can lose 30% of their weight (mostly water) in 2-3 days and die without hospitalization. So that means waiting a reasonable time for improvement at home can actually kill them. (I don't know how that kind of illness affects their future development.)
layperson = me.

I like to read Wikipedia and popularized stuff. The problem is I come away unsatisfied, because even the best writing directed at people who aren't good at math, is more about giving the feeling of understanding than actual understanding.

My point about bosons and fermions, is I read the summary on Wikipedia, but they are just labels to me. I don't have the intuition or math except that it says the one kind of thing can "overlap" in ways the other can't.

Richard Feynman's "QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter" has been much praised though. What did I get out of it? I guess that quantum mechanics has something to do with multiplying complex numbers.

I'm not sure exactly what I'm missing, but I get the impression that if I could understand Hamiltonians, Lagrangians, or variational calculus, then I would have some insight into modern physics.

Some of it sounds tantalizingly straightforward, but at the same time beyond my mental capacity - imagine a space, a field, etc. - but it's infinite-dimensional or something. Or it's a space of functions.

Still, on Wikipedia you can keep clicking on things - what's a "fiber bundle", etc.
I actually really enjoy the loop of “we can trust them to police us, they are trustworthy” to “oh no, they abused that power; why did they do that” that society goes through.

All this HN rebellion is a storm in a teacup. Some innocent dude will get in trouble and everyone will talk about how “tech companies need to be regulated” and then they’ll go back to “we should trust the government to police us” after a few weeks of burning through their outrage.
Always exceptions. Always surprised. Always trusting.
This is bad news for me since my partner earns twice what I do (and her hourly rate is triple mine!)
My biggest fear is that Apple released the CSAM device scanners as part of a deal with the US government to derail this bill. Protecting user privacy doesn't earn them any money. Monetising users' personal data and controlling the distribution of apps on their devices earns them billions of dollars.
You would have a point if you were paying YouTube to store the videos and had a legally binding contract stating that YouTube could not delete any data as long as you were paying.
Explainable AI – Heatmaps to Diagnose ML Image Classifiers
Apparently some font renderers are bugging out on this new font making some letters render in a way that looks misaligned, which is very taxing on the eyes.
It's hard to be an impostor.

I always doubted myself in this role.

But over time and with a lot of practice, I got better at both.
Actually, I'm quite good at it.

It helps to internalize that they're both just social games.

;-)
Dude, YouTube has no obligation to store anything. They could delete every single video on the site tomorrow.
That’s fine when you are working within one language, but many of these people work on packaging across language boundaries (executables and libraries)
> Scan enough things, and soon everyone will be victims of false positives.

If there is a human in the loop checking for false positives, then I don't see how it could get to this point. It surely wouldn't take hundreds of millions of false positives -- each with a non-trivial cost for manual review -- before pulling the plug.
Do you know much about the MMR vaccine autism scandal? I make no assumption that you do, just curious.

This was a case where the (obviously from the start) bad science was propagated, primarily through mainstream media, leading to basically the entire anti-vaccine movement we see today.

The question I think this raises is: can we trust typical journalists to do their due diligence when they make claims about very serious public health issues? In the context of the Wakefield MMR scandal, I think we were shown that the answer is no. Following that, the question is what to do about it.
> but they needed to do something to address the CSAM issue lest governments come down on them hard.

If Apple does not have decryption keys for iCloud content, they can't decrypt it, only the user can. For Apple, it's not technically feasible, and the law supports that.

Apple has now demonstrated that it is technically feasible to overcome this challenge by doing things "pre-encryption" on the user's device.

From a user's point-of-view, Apple's privacy is worth nothing. It makes no sense for them to encrypt anything, if they leak all data before encryption. Children today, terrorism tomorrow. All your messages, photos, and audio, can be leaked.

There are thousands of people at Apple involved in the release of any single feature, from devs and testers, to managers all the way up to VPs.

The fact that this feature made it to production proofs that Apple is an organization that I can't trust with my privacy.

Their privacy team must be pulling their hairs out. They better start looking for a new job.
Are we even living in the same world? I see it every day.
Both are fairly rare, but the latest data I've seen shows both 1) weaker and faster decaying immune response in previously infected people vs immune response from vaccine, and 2) previously infected people getting infected at abt 2X the rate of fully vaccinated people. (Sorry, no ref links on hand at the moment)
I got my A+ in ~2000 as part of a job I worked for (doing technical support). At the time, A+ never expired and was considered good for life. It never helped me get a job and no one ever asked me about having it. I did end up going the software route instead of hardware, so that probably played a big part.

As someone already said, it's baseline "I am knowledgeable about IT." If you're just starting out, I would consider getting it. Otherwise, not worth it IMO.
I think this depends on the context, and sometimes the emotional content of a message is is an essential, or even the central part of it.

When trying to help someone feeling discouraged/defeated to feel better emotion can make a huge difference.
Them using an arch base doesn’t mean they’ll be running arch as if it was the same end user of a manual arch installation. I’d bet steam is using arch as the base and acting as canonical or whoever vetting (and automating) the upstream changes.
Summary in a tweet: "Arch updates faster than Debian."
“Standard C++” just specifies `throw` and `catch` (plus what happens when you traverse a block, nothrow declaration etc)

Every implementation has to do something to actually be standard C, and this is an example. It’s rather similar on other hardware, but as far as the standard goes that is irrelevant.
You need to have well sterilized water for that just not to lead to a sinus infection which will leave you more susceptible. Tapwater isn't good enough, and is going to be rather harsh out of most taps in the US. Clean water in general isn't a solved problem.

If you decide to do this with tap water, leave it out for a day or so to let the chlorine evaporate and then boil it for at least 5 minutes. Netti pots are also basically waterboarding fyi. Have fun!
Hi Moldbug.
The government isn't censoring anyone. These people can just post their video on a different site or their own site. YouTube is free. You get what you pay for. If you don't like it use a different site or just pony up some of your own money and host it yourself.
Yes in 2014 they made the move. The first iPad is from 2010. So we have 4 years worth of old arm compiled apps. I don‘t understand the intel part though.
They had a policy not to interfere with speech of heads of state (and other lesser officials) regardless of what they said (see Iranian pols and ISIS sympathizers prior to them taking steps to address the latter). They also allowed others on their platform to say more incendiary things without censoring them.

But all this was perfect for them. They were in need of a reason to shape their content more and control discourse. So congrats on that. We now have a system which controls policies and yet suffers bullying every day --but never mind that, at least we got the bad liars we don't like off the platform.
There is an unaccountable value to human freedom and liberty. Those without agency don't care about the comforts of reliable food and paved roads. The human soul seeks more than external peace and quiet.
> It's no secret that Apple has lobbyists which by turns have a "pulse" on the trajectory of Bills in the House and Senate.

Great, let the bills pass and then they get to publicly blame congress for being "forced to legally comply" instead of jumping the gun and doing an about face on 80% of your reputation built over the last 20+ years.

There is 0 reason to do this before being legally forced to. It's not a gamble with a possible upside somewhere. It's directly shooting yourself in the foot.
I expect that Steam Decks will have forced updates, users are accustomed to this kind of thing (Nintendo Switch nags you to update every time it comes out of sleep).
Design team needs to earn their keep.
The impact of smart phones on the "digital natives" who lack basic comprehension skills will likely persist well into their lifetimes. The impact on governance will be profound and deep. And detrimental to our society.
> This would push the commits from the correct GitHub account but the commits would still have the e-mail from git's config and GitHub would link the account in the committer e-mail.

That seems like a situation where you'd `git config user.email` within your work repo(s) so that it's set locally, not globally. I also think GitHub primarily supports and envisions people using one GH account for work and personal projects.
> EV charging station cost.

A commercial-grade Level 1 charger (US domestic 110V 15 amp), if they even exist anymore, is probably on the order of $1000 or less - if it breaks buy a no-name replacement from Alibaba until it catches fire.

A professionally-installed Level 2 charger without any payment system infrastructure - so one that's basically free-to-use and taps directly off your AC service-panel at 240V 50-90A will cost about $750-2000 including installation by an electrician - most states offer generous tax-deductions for this btw.

A Level 2 charger that's part of some charger network, like Chargepoint... I've no idea. The hardware looks nice (i.e. expensive) but I'm unsure who pays the cost of the hardware and installation (is it the landowner or is there a cost-sharing deal with the network operator?)

Level 3 chargers... we're talking a minimum 5-figure amount for even a single-stall set-up: as you need a huge (literally: easily 3x3x6 foot) DC transformer appliance for each pair of charging stalls (hidden behind a fence around the corner), connections to seriously high-power mains electricity (imagine a 16-stall Supercharger: that's 8 DC transformers doing ~120kW each: that's 2MW!) in addition to the aesthetically designed car-connector party. According to this article from 2013 (so it's already 8 years out-of-date) Tesla pays $100-200k towards a station, I'm unsure what the cost-split is, but I'd be surprised if the total cost overall was under $250k imo - I also wouldn't be surprised (still) if simply land-use-rights was the majority share: https://techcrunch.com/2013/07/26/inside-teslas-supercharger...
> Multiple safety vouchers are required for your account to be flagged

I don't see how that makes any difference. What if someone plants bad data on your device? That would of course be a concern for cloud-scanning too.

I don't care how secure Apple says their devices are. There are companies that can crack them, and you can bet some unscrupulous people will use that against their opponents. Politicians and other influential people should be as concerned about this as everyone else. Didn't Saudis crack Bezos' phone to reveal his affair? With this tech they could make up worse stories. I believe our justice department could tell the difference between a hack and someone who actually harbors bad data most of the time, but I don't like relying on that.
yes because the loss of the extended family and the multi-generational home in my opinion is one of the largest drivers of disintegration of our social fabric, not just for the old but also the young, and also a driver of inequality. The nuclear family benefits people who can outsource what were traditional tasks of the family or community to the market, while the poor have no such options. There's also a racial component with marginalized peoples often suffering strongest from the fragility that is the result of the loss of larger family structures.
I know that is not how it works currently, I was merely suggesting how something could change.
There's legitimate reasons. Some iPhone applications simply don't work properly or at all on Big Sur.
>It doesn't seem like much of a slippery slope if it goes down then comes back up again.

once a precedent is set, a transient acceptance of the action is established as a prior act.

you don't re-cork that genie, that's the whole idea of the slippery slope argument.

forever-more when YouTube considers an action towards something it can always now be said .. "Well in the case of X we did Y."

The 'slippery slope' isn't referring to the actions committed themselves, it's referring to a pattern of acceptance and renormalization that occurs after which biases the decision-making group into further actions of a similar vein.
They have brand deals too.
Arch Linux is great! As a rolling release it needs "Patch Tuesday" type of updates. Falling behind just few weeks leads to a broken system. Over time too many .pacold, .pacsave and .pacnew files are polluting the filesystem, requiring manual intervention.
I got my first tech support role while studying for my A+. Nice to see someone asking about it on HN, brings back fun memories of cable management and actually building servers.
> That's all the incentive you need, and it's the same incentive we have for people driving today.

Arguably, the incentives today aren't strong enough given the level of pedestrian fatalities
Well, I disagree with that, and if I can get enough people to agree with me, we can pass laws to make it unprofitable for people to buy out housing and have it sit empty.

Also known as passing laws to impose a penalty on unwanted behavior. Just as GP mentioned - vacancy tax.

That's how the country works. It all depends on who has more people in agreement, and can make more of a rallying cry (and has moneyed interests on their side).

(I'm also in favor of land value tax as opposed to property tax to encourage productive use of land. And severely relaxing zoning restrictions)