skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main reason is cost. LIDAR has issues and limitations, but so does every imaging system. A LIDAR/camera system is far superior than a camera only system, and LIDAR does far more thing better than cameras, than cameras do better than LIDAR (judging distance, reduced computing effort, detecting reflective surfaces and surfaces with 2D images on them).[0] But LIDAR was running $70k per vehicle, which is just not feasible. But thanks to technological development and economies of scale, the price of LIDAR (and the size) has drop precipitously, and now can run below $1,000. [1][2]

Now in the long run, for true driverless cars, LIDAR will be rendered obsolete by sufficiently accurate AI interpretations of camera feeds. But in the medium term, I think they are key to filling in huge weaknesses camera only systems have, and freeing up computing power currently being used by trying to judge “depth perception” using cameras, to be freed up to better deal with other things cameras are actually good at like color/text recognition for reading traffic signs, facial recognition for determining if a pedestrian sees you, differentiating between hard and soft objects, etc.

[0] https://www.automotiveworld.com/articles/lidars-for-self-dri...
[1] https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Automobiles/Cheaper-lidar-s...
[2] https://news.itu.int/the-price-of-lidar-is-falling/
It is limited to photos destined for iCloud. A lot of rage appears to be around 'what if', but what if exists every day right now. I'll re-evaluate when Apple does one of those what ifs. They said they won't, and architected the system in such a way that it's hard do those what ifs, so we'll see.

The reality is, people have to trust their OS vendor.
> It would really murder the soul of change for change's sake Linux UI people if users were allowed to stay on Windows XP UI forever, but with modern features and bugfixes.

If you're used to the other side of the fence, CDE [0][1] is 28 years old and perfectly usable on modern systems, not as a theme or recreation, but simply as the same software that once dominated the Unix desktop scene. Sometimes I enjoy running it when I get fed up with the "modern" world and just want to work on a system that's nigh-indistinguishable from decades ago.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Desktop_Environment

[1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/cdesktopenv/
Can confirm that 120-150 is mid-range base for a senior dev or devops roles in London; not just for fintechs in the City but from post A-round startups in Shoreditch and established companies around town. I have seen some outside IR35 contracting roles start to exceed £1000 per day in the job description (so you know a canny operator can be getting more for that contract.). 8-12 months ago everyone was holding their breath and not hiring while they waited to make sure they survived the Covid lockdowns, but now that things seem to have recovered it has become a sellers market as everyone tries to catch up on a backlog from not hiring over the previous six months.
It seems to me that you went in with the wrong expectations. I don’t know the full details of your group and their tools and skills. I am not sure if you just want to work with the newest shiniest toys or if they really are bad. As I have progressed in my career I realized that latest isn’t always greatest and for me the most productive thing wins. If you think they really are lagging behind then the best thing you can do is take initiative. Start brown bag lunches and learning sessions. Suggest new methodology and try to get team buy in. I find that it is very gratifying to give back and improve things. Not to mention it could help you advance your career.
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It’s difficult to move away from Apple if you want to keep all your projects/hobbies inside one computer. I can (barely) make Windows do all the things I need, but that’s not an improvement in any way. (Fwiw, aside from software dev I’m also a heavy user of audio software and AU/vst plugins. Thousands I spent on software doesn’t translate to Linux).

And as I was typing this, my iPhone popped up a warning that the websites mandated by my kid’s school have all been compromised and offered assistance to update the passwords on there. Good job, Apple (and we’ll see how image scanning saga unfolds… I might just switch to OneDrive for photos, but it’s a question if it’s any better in that regard)
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Not to mention "so what if the iq is actually low?". These folks have passed the same bar the OP has. Now they have to work together with existing team and achieve what progress can be achieved.

Anecdotally, a lot of engineers (and especially managers) have this mentality where they don't treat the job as something that puts food on table and helps the company move their products forward in what ever pace the overall organisation is happy with. They want to get the high of entire life's achievement there which results in dissatisfaction/burnout.
I never used any Apple products or services to begin with, so I won't be changing anything. I've always disliked Apple and their locked-down, consumer-hostile, "walled garden" approach, so this is a big nothing-burger for me.
1. I just setup dual booting on my 16" Macbook Pro!

Didn't think it was possible because of T2 but then found the "T2 Linux Community" here: https://t2linux.org/

They have a step by step guide for Ubuntu and a helpful Discord group to walk me through.

I dug into Purism Librem and System76 Laptops. Dual booting Ubuntu buys me some time.

2. I also disabled iCloud and started NextCloud on a third party host. It's pretty clunky, still getting that setup. In the open source world it seems like there's less opportunities to pay for quality. Take my money!!
The ten to fourteen days is debatable and depends on how fat adapted you are. People who frequently cycle keto/low carb/fasting become fat adapted faster than those using SAD.
Won't be flying on United any time soon I guess
It's like QWERTY vs Dvorak. The best one is the one you're used to. I personally find Windows and iOS frustrating, but I know it's because I'm used to Linux and Android.
> You have an unrealistically negative view of the legal system.

Your links would be more convincing if some of these were successful, completely cases.

The question is not, can you sue Google/Alphabet without a team of lawyers, but can you _successfully_ sue them.
David from Flow Club here— I'll be hosting a few Hacker News-only sessions today and tomorrow. I remember attending a HN meetup in Palo Alto back when I was an undergrad back in 2009 and it was super cool to hear what people were working on—not just the high-level pitch, but literally what they were debugging that day. That's been my favorite part of Flow Club as well.

I've been a big fan of pomodoro and time-blocking, but for a long time was convinced that it didn't work well for coding until I experimented a bit. Wrote up some of my thoughts here: https://www.flow.club/blog/makers-schedule-2021 Would love to hear if any of y'all try to time block for writing code and will be around to answer any questions!
Get sick. Get put on a crap ton of medications. You found out that most have all sorts of crazy effects on the body. Ones not listed as side effects, or very rare, or even common but doctor has never heard of.
Or your fun ones where 2 conflict in crazy ways.

Poor fish downstream don’t stand a chance.
Examiners are overworked and under-resourced, and the current system gives too much latitude to filers, especially if you have resources to do many filings with many rounds of back and forth with the examiners.

I believe they cause more harm than good and we should just get rid of software patents. At most, they should be replaced with IP protection that's similar to software innovation timescales (ie, 1-2 years, not 20 years).
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>CSVs also are great because you can parse them one row at a time. This makes for a very scale-able and memory-efficient way of processing very large files containing millions of rows.

Even RFC4180-compliant CSVs can be incredibly memory-inefficient to parse. If you encounter a quoted field, you must continue to the next unescaped quote to discover how large the field is, since all newlines you encounter are part of the field contents. Field sizes (and therefore row sizes) are unbounded, and much harder to determine than simply looking for newlines - if you were to naively treat CSV as a "memory-efficient" format to parse, you would create a parser that would be easy to blow up with a trivial large file.
A lot.

This milestone of ignition is an important one - the energy released by the initial fusion was of sufficient quantity and sufficiently contained that it could in turn cause more fusion, which in turn could cause more fusion. It is analogous to holding a lighter to a piece of wood and getting the wood to continue burning after you take the lighter away. Hence the term ignition.

That said, while our fuel was alight for a little bit, it still extinguished itself pretty quickly. The energy released by the burning fuel was more than what the fuel recieved, but it was still only a fraction of the power output by the lasers (the lighter), which in turn is only a tiny fraction of the power it takes to make those lasers fire.

This reactor can do one of these shots every couple of months. A reactor of this type producing useful amounts of power would need to produce about 41,000 times as much energy per shot, and fire shots at about a 14,000 times higher rate to generate 300 MW of continuous thermal power, which could be converted to about 100 MW of electrical power.

To go further and make it practical, you need to do all that while also decreasing the price tag by about 90% and solving various technical hurdles such as fuel production and reactor maintenance.

On a scale from 1 to 10 where 1 is "might be physically possible" and 10 is "we are ready to build a bunch of these", the technology is approximately a 3.
I believe something like: an adversary creates an innocuous photo where:

* The photo itself is benign.

* The photo’s NeuralHash matches known CSAM.

* The photo’s image derivative is not benign. It looks visually like CSAM.

* The photo’s image derivative matches known CSAM per a private perceptual hash.

The above, combined, could have a victim reported to NCMEC without being aware they were targeted. Since Apple operates on image derivatives, they could be fooled unlike other cloud providers. That is the claim.

At that point, the victim could point law enforcement to the original CloudKit asset (safety vouchers include a reference to the associate asset) and clear their name. However, involving law enforcement can always be traumatic.
https://acelerate.io/ - building an OS for restaurants, founded by former DoorDash employee. Lots of scaling, data modeling, and reverse engineering challenges right now.

We just raised $14.4mm led by Sequoia: https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/14/acelerate-raises-14-44m-se...

Our jobs board: https://boards.greenhouse.io/acelerate
Yes, it's encrypted, but part of this anti-CSAM strategy is a threshold encryption scheme that allows Apple to decrypt photos if a certain number of them have suspicious hashes.
Whatsapp has a feature where all images are automatically saved to device as they are received. If automatic iCloud upload is on, then all the conditions are there for a person to innocently click on a spammy Whatsapp message, see a bunch of nonsense grayscale images, and continue on with their day--not realizing they are now being monitored for CSAM.
I wasn't saying it's right or wrong, in fact, I think outright banning new gas stations may make life difficult for the working poor, who do not buy new vehicles, and are less likely to be able to switch to an electric, but that's not really what I'm talking about here.

I'm just saying that the trend has to already exist for a municipality to change something.
Between the Afghan People and Taliban, there is a hindrance called the Afghan Govt, which is run as a criminal enterprise, looting the American booty. That's why it is a massive failure.

Because of the bad governance by the Karzai govt, and by the subsequent govt, Taliban doesn't have much opposition.
The time to find out if a piece of plastic can handle a 100 lb bag of water slamming into it is not when that piece of plastic is keeping 100 people alive.
Why the APQC (American Productivity and Quality Center) Chose Drupal – Part 1
This hasn’t been the only person restrained due to unruliness, however it’s been the only one where we know the person was trying to kick out a window —there have been others attempting to open exits.

Also I don’t know this 13-yo. Some can be small some can be large.
#1 You want to define a type with specific properties.

#2 You don't want to write a validator.

#3 Presumably you want to instantiate values of that type with user given input.

I don't think the three requirements make sense at all.

If you're willing to drop #3 you can always use some sort of enum-ish thing.
I think it's less about privacy and more about what the invading actor will/can actually do. People are less concerned about the Chinese government's reach vs. the NSA or other three letter agencies in the US. I suppose if you are important enough to the Chinese government whatever they have on you could be used as blackmail, but most 'regular' people don't fall into that category.
By "random Chinese phone", are we talking about PINE, or the various OEMs that make android phones?
Good to hear. Maybe follow up questions: Was it hard decision? How did you approach it? Does it affect 'dynamics' of the relationship as soon as you bring the subject into discussion?
Lineage requires the Play Store to have paid apps or things I now pretty-much need for everyday life, at which point you've lost and it doesn't really matter whether it's Lineage or stock Android.

Linux is incredible... and still unusable for many everyday apps and workflows, and simply not an option for many people including myself. I've tried Linux distributions since 2011, they aren't there yet.
Those doors have also safety systems. Formerly, the circuitry to open the door was closed only, when the cabin was in floor level. Opening and closing required constant push of the push button.

(Have some history in elevation control, because we made some standards in the industry.)
Sure, assuming anyone has a desire to pump money into a large comparative study like this.

It's an extremely reasonable hypothesis but you also have other factors to deal with (size of city resulting in more wear and tear on infrastructure, other environmental factors that could cause deterioration of pipes, water hard/softness, quality of wastewater processing facilities). Age would likely be a major factor but not the only factor.
A 13yo kid?

Because that's who was trying to kick out a window.

That incident was a case of a kid throwing a tantrum. A choke hold is not the proper response to that. IMO, duck taping the little shit to the seat is a very appropriate response if the child is truly uncontrollable.
They're not very accessible, they're in Afghanistan.

They face the same problem the US occupation did in reverse: the country is inherently inaccessible. There are a few scattered bits of railway. There are a few long mountainous roads out. It is landlocked. It is uneconomic to ship raw minerals other than by rail or sea, since they have low value density. Step 1 would be "build a thousand miles of railway", especially if they're thinking of shipping to China.

(This is why the a mainexport was opium: very high value density makes it worth shipping over the passes. Same goes for gold mentioned in a sibling comment)
There is a risk of killing someone regardless of how long you hold a choke hold. Obviously if you could restrain them it wouldn’t be necessary.

Im also not sure what to make of your comments regarding windows and doors on airplanes. It seems the doors would be impossible to open at high enough altitude, but I’m not so sure about windows:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2243764/Man-arreste...

I wonder if in this example it was just the interior layer of plastic/glass?
LineageOS and GrapheneOS are as close as you can get to freedom and privacy on your phone while keeping lots of features. Open hardware + software phones are in the budding stage so people investing in them and using them right now are trail-blazers - not everybody wants to be one.

Therefore Android phones with custom ROMs are the way forward for privacy conscious people. It's easy to mock if you aren't serious about getting away from walled gardens.
disingenuous means "saying something you don't mean, insincere".

It's a polite word for lying, most of the time.
I was under the impression flight crews had a set or two of handcuffs onboard. The memo seems to indicate something for this purpose is.

> Instead, he is asking crews to use the items aboard flights designed to keep flyers at their seats – and prevent them from becoming a hazard to the flight or other passengers.

I'd also note the Frontier incident that made the news was passengers duct taping the miscreant, not the crew. If I were a flight attendant in this situation, I might pull the "oh, whoops, dropped a roll of duct tape... would one of you grab that for me?" tactic.
If you have a passenger so out of control it tries to break a window, who knows what other actions they will take when their attempt to kill other passengers proves fruitless? Duct tape the hell out of those loons, let the psychiatrist deal with them on landing. Add them to the do-not-fly list while you're at it.
I understand why you are worried that a more powerful law could be passed by Congress in the future.

I thought this particular conversation was about what Apple can be forced to do by a warrant issued under current law.
Can someone explain this to me --

The whole premise is that Google and Facebook and everyone else are just doing this on the unencrypted photos you upload, in their cloud, with their own (presumably, but correct me if I'm wrong) undocumented algorithms and datasets.

Now here comes Apple, documenting almost everything except the dataset itself, and everyone is freaking out because it's happening on your own device. But then it's encrypting the whole thing and uploading it to Apple where they presumably do no additional scanning.

What is the actual difference if it's being looked for on-device vs. by the provider? Supposedly in preparation for a bigger push of encryption of the photos themselves, if they are not already encrypted in the cloud.

Am I missing something more than "but it's happening on-device!"?
I don't doubt that it just works nearly as well as an iPhone, but I want someone else to be responsible if things do go wrong.

For similar reasons, I don't self-host important services like email despite having my own domain. If shit goes wrong, I want the company I'm paying to have their people take care of it. I don't want to have to rush to fix it myself.
As much as people say that there is no organic way to find films at this point in time. There is nothing like Early Access for films or TV. You need the backing of a large organisation to make a film - they’re just too expensive. So interestingly games have both a lower start cost, a better alt-funding infrastructure and more opportunities for competition through an open storefront like Steam.

There is nothing similar in Film today - people don’t open the Vimeo paid section daily looking for new stuff to watch, neither does Vimeo allow for “fund this project” drives. I have hopes crypto DAOs will emerge to solve this issue.
Also see these 2 previous discussions from the past week:

Phone-alternatives: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28164208
Laptop-alternatives: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28216287
There is a skin and a skull in front of it. Of course you can fry someone with microwaves, magnetrons are all sort of dangerous at high enough power (lasers are too) but what they are not is selective and a cause of weird brain effects

And also, the only thing you need to detect it is a very simple antenna, you can't hide radiation
My American in laws did expat life in UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, others in the region. They, and many other western expats, employed Filipino house keepers. They have to assume a lot of responsibility for their actions while in the country as well. The expats are there under-highly conditional work visas and employeeing low-wage expats to come into the country was like another level of liability they took on personally and could blow up their work visa status if something really went wrong. It was normal for the expats to take their worker's passport and the Filipino's were basically trapped, and they wouldn't always have a car or any mode of transportation. I recall their biggest fear was if she got pregnant while in their "care" it was almost like the child was their responsibility or if she had some relationship with a married guy it would be a big issue (paraphrased hearsay...). It sounded horrible, but in reality it mostly worked since the western expats were not exploitative but the opportunity is more than present. My understanding is the natives imported labor in a highly exploitive way (low wage labor camps, etc).
It never will be there. A focused group of devs who care about details will always beat design by committee. Always.
Desktop/Laptop: Already using Archlinux for many years

Phone: Pixel 4a (only regular sized smartphone available not from Apple)

Carplay? Never used.

Apply Pay? Never used.

Maps: Garmin, which works autonomous minus the GPS. Or OSMAND or OrganicMaps.

The problem with Pixel is, it is from Google therefore you don't have GNU/Linux but Google/Android. Which comes with a lot drawbacks, for example you need to switch on Miracast support in the bootloader.
> Apple's using my electricity and my silicon to call the cops on me.

Okay.

> We have no idea what hashes they're checking images against; we can't see the raw data, and we can't see the hashes, and we can't see what they're sending to their servers.

Apple is getting the entire image regardless, this happens as part of the iCloud upload process.

> There is no technical reason why this needs to exist. If they want to scan iCloud photos for something, they can do that on their servers. iCloud is not end-to-end encrypted. Law enforcement can do whatever they want with the data you send there. Since they chose the client-side route, they have to be up to something, and it all smells very fishy.

It's a hell of a lot cheaper to distribute the load onto the device than to do it on GCP. However, this whole line of thinking is ridiculous, iOS is your operating system, it can send what it likes where it likes without you knowing about it. Why does this particular thing cause concern?

> Tomorrow, it will be for any discontent against whatever government wants to oppress its people this week -- and as time goes forward, that is not just third-world countries where you don't live, it could be your own.

> Do you really want to explain to the police at your door at 3:30 in the morning why you read a website called Hacker News? This is the first step towards that reality.

https://www.txstate.edu/philosophy/resources/fallacy-definit...

> Imagine I wrote a program that contained the phone numbers of people I don't like. The database is encrypted, and the only way to see if you're on that list is to install the app on your phone. The app does two things -- nothing if you're not on my list, or it sends me your location (at your expense!) if you are. Would you install that app? Absolutely not, that would be crazy. But that is basically what is bundled into iOS now.

Again, your overlooking the fact that this app is already coming from Apple the company that made iOS. They already control your phone, why would they need some additional app?