skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
<rolls eyes>

The edge between manufacturers in any given measurable attribute of vehicle performance is far, far smaller than a bunch of screeching fanboys on the internet would have you believe. If it weren't you'd see far less diversity of vehicles on the road.

The humvee is also used by militaries all around the world. It's not known for particularly great reliability. Militaries have a much difference set of objectives when it comes to labor vs supply chain complexity vs cost than civilian entities and individuals do.

Poor countries in Africa and the middle east use Toyotas a lot for the same reason they still use 7.62 intermediate cartridges a lot. It's what they have, it's what their supply chains are tuned for. It does the job they need, not necessarily with maximal efficiency but well enough they can't justify the cost of switching.

Meanwhile in the civilian market Toyotas cost more, don't do good incentives/rebates and financing is more limited. This drives people on a budget to other brands. This means Toyotas wind up in the hands of people who treat them proportionally nicer. A Tacoma rolls off the lot and into an upscale garage. A Colorado rolls off the dealer lot and into a commercial fleet where it will be driven by a bunch of people who aren't paid enough to care. A Camry will have one ass in one seat for the first 100k and it will go from home to work and home to work. An Altima will spend its first 100k dragging a family of four all of the places they need to go. A Sienna's first owner will go to home Depot, buy 3000lb of pavers and rent the truck to drive it home. A Town and Country's first owner will put that in the van without thinking twice.

See what I'm getting at here? Being expensive up front means that only people who can afford to be nice to things get their hands on them, at least initially, that means the vehicles rack up more miles and years before they see hard use. Any vehicle not fundamentally flawed to begin with can look reliable in the hands of these people. I can present other examples of this if Toyota is too emotional of a topic for people to discuss.

Also it should go without saying that we're talking in broad generalizations here.

I do agree with you that the scale difference between Tesla and Toyota is massive and comparison between them is silly.
As if those things wouldn't innovate in the market? Or because 1 thing came from the government, then all things the government touches are gold?
And state, but if this article isn't counting these it is a wildly inaccurate bit of "journalism"
It works for me on desktop, but not mobile.
I suppose it depends on what standards each of these Linux phone implementations have followed. Android also runs Linux, but they modified it to give the wireless providers and Google full control, hence people wanting to root their phones. Just running Linux is not enough to give me confidence that the phone is truly isolated from network management. So I suppose it comes down to what kernel modules, libraries and trust these phones are giving to the provider and what standards they are following. A good start would be independent kernel hackers digging into the hardware and OS to see what they can make the phone do and what they see the phone doing under normal operations when attaching to the network and how the phone responds to OTA update attempts and what the firmware on the phone is doing. If I control the firmware and you control the OS, I control what your OS can read and write to. So I suppose my unanswered questions are:

- Who writes and maintains the firmware the OS is running on.

- Who writes and maintains the modem firmware and who can update it.

- Who can update that firmware for the board the OS is running on. This could be a different answer than who initially creates it for the retail distribution of the phone.

- What level of trust has been inserted into the OS by kernel modules and who maintains those kernel modules.

- What control is given to the end user to see what those modules are doing and limit what they can do.

I suspect more questions could arise as kernel hackers audited the phone. The dilemma I see is that such kernel hackers won't be interested until those phones are wildly popular. The only other way to get their interest is with money.
It's a pure plugin model, none built in. On the home page we considered data source ~= API ~= table, sorry if that was not clear.

I expanded more on this at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28229700.

Having said that, we find plugins are quick and fun to write so we'd love contributions or suggestions for any that would bring you value!
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-apple-privacy/exclusive-p...
So, what parts of my phone are actually being scanned by this system? It seems like it's rummaging through any images that are touch iCloud, which would include:

- iMessage
- WhatsApp
- Camera
- Matrix (?)
- Any other application that you give 'photo' permission to?
> I want true end to end enc.

People who say things like this rarely also want the hassle that comes with it. Key exchanges, re-keying: all a big PITA. But iMessage (and WhatsApp) do key exchanges facilitated by a trusted broker. If you didn't trust the broker, you would have to do more work when making an initial exchange with a peer and more work if they lost their phone/keys.

iMessage has always been a compromise with subtle rough edges. But we trusted Apple because they talked about privacy and made it clear that their business model meant that we should trust them more than competitors. But now, precisely because of how good and effective they secured their devices -- they fear regulation and thought that they could further compromise things and people would go along with it.
Yes, it can deliver a nuclear warhead anywhere in the world without detection. Basically a death-ray.
If the politician is holding the camera and editing the footage, it's a valid question.

Anyway you wouldn't need to fake a whole data set; you just need to employ a little bias in what data you choose to collect, how you collect it, how you process it and how you present it. Those things happen all the time. Or on an only slightly more extreme level, you could also selectively censor it using automation. People are used to thinking data is truth, but even the best data is always filtered through a human source.
> As opposed to the juvenile delinquents, impoverished kids who don’t have access to tools for basic hygiene like running water or electricity (that was me at various points during my school years), and various other issues taking up “more than their fair share”?

No, in addition to.

> What you’ve identified isn’t the autistic kids’ fault, it’s the miserly taxpayers’, incompetent admins’, and corrupt/spiteful politicians’, who don’t adequately fund or organize our public school systems.

It is though. Their unique blend of disability makes them inherrently unsuitable to any task that involves a group of other children. That's not to say we should blame them for it, but this is not something you can reasonably fix by throwing money at education.

I'd like to emphasize though that I meant the schooling issue as one of the many examples you could pick where autistic people are both at a disadvantage and are a detriment to the group. Please don't get stuck on this one example.
Sure, and back then people didn't fathom flying, tanks, or space exploration either.

Good thing we learned better :)
N1570 "An iteration statement whose controlling expression is not a constant expression, that performs no input/output operations, does not access volatile objects, and performs no synchronization or atomic operations in its body, controlling expression, or (in the case of a for statement) its expression-3, may be assumed by the implementation to terminate."

Doesn't seem like UB but optimizing effectless loops out is permitted.
You just need to account for jurisdictional apportionment. Only the fed can print money. How does that get allocated? Sales tax and property taxes, which presumably would continue to exist in under this scheme, would do some I suppose. Would there still be jurisdictional income taxes?
I see a business opportunity here. Although I might undercut you and write a version that only requires 2 steps :)
>False positives will be very rare.

Really? Based on what? Multiple stories of hash collisions (false positives) are *already* popping up.

If only all the people who think this isn't a big deal were the first to get hit by false positives. Now that would be poetic justice :p
Hey HN,

We’re Boris & Jacob and we’re building Visionrare, a fantasy startup investment game.

We’re both very interested in startups, and together with friends we used to play this game where we keep track in Excel which startups we believe in to see who is best in picking winners. This was great fun, but not very practical.

With Visionrare, we want to bring this game to the next level. Players can gather VisionShares - fantasy shares that are not related to real shares in any way - of the startups they believe in. Each startup on Visionrare has only a limited amount of shares available, and will be auctioned (except for during the beta). Like with fantasy football, we keep track of how the startups perform in the real world, and we rely on third party data providers like Tracxn for this. Every month, the top portfolios will earn rewards.

This way, we hope to bring the excitement of startup investing to people like you and me in the form of a fantasy game.

The beta that we’re launching consist of a marketplace of VisionShares from a selection of recent YC companies. Per company there are 5 shares available. In the coming weeks, we’ll be launching the secondary market, so you can trade with other players, and start the first tournament.

Super keen to hear your thoughts and feedback!
The feds could be funded by inflation as you describe, in fact they already are to a large extent. State and local govs that do not print money should be funded by land value tax, as it is the least bad option.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
Thanks Aditya :)
For this particular problem I wonder if wikidata would be better instead of scraping the HTML.
Strategic Delay in Newsletter Notification at Launch
For what it's worth, the US income tax system as we know it was created in 1913.

The US managed to fund a military, roads, bridges, schools, hospitals, and other good stuff before that year, right?
Apple Card Ranked Top for Customer Satisfaction by J.D. Power
That's the real question. They had to know it would be a contentious issue; what's the real long term goal here?
This is a cool and fun tool. Animating, drawing, and exporting are simple, straightforward, and satisfying.

I did notice that if there are empty frames trailing at the end, the animation will shrink away into the top corner. This doesn't seem to follow into GIF rendering, though. But it is an amusing effect*

* https://ibb.co/BGqgHPF
new submission with a different name?
The minimum cost of entry is in the hundreds of millions to billions, it's not especially environmentally friendly, and you're competing against what would normally be fully-paid-off old production lines from the incumbents.

There's a thriving small business design industry, but the manufacturing is a classical capital-intensive manufacturing business that also requires very specialist staff.
Then why isn't it working right now?
What is the "Bryan Cantrill at Joyent" you're referring to?
You’ve likely never heard of the only woman drafted into the NBA
https://www.almaobservatory.org/en/press-releases/astronomer...
One of the things I like about Actions is how much it's focused on automation rather than CI. The pain points I've had with Circle/GitLab/Travis have often boiled down to the fact that they are often very specifically about _testing software_, not _automating processes_, and not even _deploying software_.

On that last one, there's a potential bug in the deployment pipeline here – deploys could run simultaneously or some bad luck on runner speed could even see an older version of the code go out after a newer version. Combined with the automated database migrations this could be quite a big problem!

Actions thankfully solved this recently with the `concurrency` key that lets you form a serial queue by a given key such as the branch name.
Why does the value of a currency derive largely from the existence of income taxes?
All those things were seeded in different eras. The world is different today. Look at something like the Internet. Completely unregulated, and in the span of a decade has torn societies apart and undone many cultural norms because of rampant tech conglomerates doing whatever they want. And there's virtually no will at all to do anything about it. The best the US can do is inept boomer Congressmen yelling at Zuckerberg why FaceBook doesn't work on their phones.
>In reality

Why do people keep insisting on the Dyson concept as though it was real, even though it's just the fanciest thing we can imagine with our current understanding of physics?

The same way in the 19th century nuclear power couldn't be envisioned, there's definitiely a bunch of technology we don't know about now that an alien civilization could be using; we could even be observing this right now and we would be none the wiser. Talking about Dyson shperes, or swarms, or rings, and then concluding that there's now alien civilzations because we can't see them is just anthropocentrism, failing to consider other possiblities
There is a lot of scalping going on. I keep an eye on certain parts and as soon the stock comes up, it disappears within minutes. Then you can buy all those chips on AliBaba at 10 times the price.
I think government should look into that as this is a huge problem for many businesses.
They probably did, the only cards they produce under the Nvidia brand are the Founders Edition cards and those are sold for MSRP. Everything else is made by their partners and those cards increased in price.
There is no side effect. The loop only interacts with variable 'x', which is discarded after the function ends. Since it is not observed, there is no side effect.

That leaves only the loop itself, which can run infinitely long (which would be UB, and the compiler is free to assume that won't happen), or it won't, in which case it will always return true. Thus, like them or not, the rules of C++ allow this particular outcome.

I can't say I like this kind of optimisation. Sure, you can construct neat circus tricks with it like this, but other than that it seems pretty pointless for real-world software, and something that could easily turn a simple mistake into a debugging disaster.
An extraordinarily expensive way to fight ISIS
If you’re made out of paper tissue
As far as I know, it’s only iCloud Photos.
Thank you for your valuable feedback.

It is difficult to incorporate a company in India, especially if you need it to make a subsidiary of an Indian company.

We are planning to add bank accounts in the near future. Our existing customers use virtual bank accounts accounts to transfer salaries and vendor payments.
https://karboncard.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/...

In terms of our approach to customers, we are customer centric, and we try our best to get fast refunds and resolve transaction issues ASAP. We have used our test cards to do transactions on customer's behalf.

When you need a card for an Indian company, do let us know at support@karboncard.com. We will get you the card on the same day, and you would love the experience.
Thanks for sharing your experience! We designed Sequin with women in mind but it's open to anyone to sign up.
They almost certainly care more about privacy. Enough more? No. But when horror stories start filtering out they'll care more, even if it is too late.
You're simply wrong. The US's economy was doing _great_ under the previous administration, and even top Democrats agreed that it was right to put strong pressure on China re: trade.

https://thehill.com/policy/international/392636-schumer-on-c...
No it doesn't. You're thinking about the iCloud Photo Library reporting. The Messages feature literally never sends any of your content to anyone, no matter how much CSAM you're sent.
I'm not sure why this should be a corollary now. DNS exfiltration has always been possible, just like the article you linked to says. (I also like to point people to https://twitter.com/rsobers/status/1293539543115862016 in this context because it puts the idea so succinctly.)
You mean another start-up by another professor in another university on another battery chemistry :). we get that a lot. You are spot on. Almost 96% of 2M e-rickshaws in India still run on lead acid battery (because of lower upfront cost). The only way to switch them to better tech (lithium-ion) is by making it more affordable for them.
Very cool and impressive!
Great step-up from the other robot in this report, "Sophia", IMO. While "Sophia" is, at least for me, always deep in the uncanny valley, the new robot is way less creepy. At least until it speaks or abruptly moves its head or wants to emulate emotions. :-D

But I guess the first healthcare robots will look more like Softbanks Pepper[1] or the fictional Baymax, just from a sanitization standpoint. It's easy to remove and desinfect plastic panels or foil, harder to desinfect latex with hair and delicate components behind it. Also less moving parts than a robot with an animatronic face. :-)

[1] https://www.softbankrobotics.com/emea/en/pepper
And even saying "federal income taxes" is misleading because FICA are federal income taxes paid by everyone who earns wages.
Do you know a way to intentionally create a stable country? Can you share this secret knowledge with us, please?
While I do agree with your first point, I think it's a bit .. obvious. Of course you need to create value in order to be great (or get rich).

Regarding the article, it doesn't match my experience. All the prolific creators I know (about) are prolific consumers as well. Writers are known to read a lot. The girl the author saw sketching on the bus probably loves looking at and reading about art and does it often as well as actually creating art.

The other issue is the amount of creative effort you can spend. For example, software engineering is a very creative job and often at the end of the day I just have no energy left to create more.
you are in denial if you are doubting effectiveness of Codex. Keep in mind that this was just beta.

If you saw how GPT-2 improved to GPT-3 in a year, it's easy to see where this is gonna go over next few iterations.

It's a 2007 Iphone level catalyst that's going to dramatically shift the landscape
Here's an alternative view: we may never reach herd immunity with Covid-19 and it may be something we just always have to deal with in large part because a significant percentage of the population won't get vaccinated because of side effects that, if they exist at all, are less than 1 in 1,000,000 likely to cause problems.

A large number of people have shown they're quite willing to let millions of people die rather than do something that's less risky than taking a bath.
Same Day Capital for Your Cleaning Business – Same Day Business Advance
In this case, they wouldn't be "between" the ends, no? They'd be _at_ the ends, just as sending a message on Signal doesn't prevent someone from stealing your phone and reading your messages.

I'm not in agreement with this being ok, but if it truly is on device, it still technically can be E2EE
But agricultural studies are working as intended?

The U.S. government has decided that it's in our national security interest to remain a net exporter of crops.

If World War III broke out and all the borders shut down, America would still be able to feed herself. The U.K. wouldn't. There would be mass starvation in much of the first world, and people would say "the government should've done something."

All the diabetes is a pretty rough unintended consequence, I'll give you that, but shifting some chip fabs to our shores as a matter of national security doesn't sound like too bad of an idea.
> Then what's the solution?

Time and capital investment. It's like this generation of people have never heard of production and supply disruptions, and were oblivious to such things being possible. Frankly, this doesn't matter very much, it's not a critical situation.

The auto market malfunctioning short-term due to a pandemic doesn't present a strong argument for government intervention. Tesla can't make batteries fast enough, there isn't enough supply, its restraining their auto production, the government must step in and fix the problem! It's nonsense. The government should not step in every time there is a short-term problem in a market.

Toyota won't sell as many vehicles. So what.

I know, I know, but what if people have to make due with a three year old vehicle. What if they have to suffer and endure those vehicles being made to last for five or six years. Ten years! The horror.

Toyota won't die. Time will pass, during which necessary investments and adjustments will be made. Supply will be increased. The problem will be fixed. It's as simple as some time and capital investment. The companies that maneuver the best will come out ahead, gaining an advantage on their competitors. And the world keeps on spinning.

Toyota has generated something like $90-$100 billion in operating income the past five years. They have the resources - and then some - to fix the problem. If they choose not to or can't that's their own incompetence, their competitors will eat their lunch. Never feel bad for a corporation earning $20 billion a year. If they can't get their production corrected, someone else will figure it out and reap the benefits.

It does not matter as much as is being portrayed. This is not an important problem and does not warrant the government burning its time and resources to step in and fix (assuming they can help at all). Governments have a lot of other far more important things to be focused on.
Twitter won't allow me to read the thread, I have to create an account. A blog post would be better.
Didn't Mac OS X do this years ago?

Edit: Since 2007: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2007102708084461...
The leak of the email describing people with concerns as "screeching" didnt help.
Thank you very much. We love you guys.
Not sure why you are getting voted down - you are 100% correct.

Especially in this post 9/11 world - look at what was supposed to be "temporary" to deal with the "terrorists". Ha! You have to be an utter simpleton if you don't think use of this mechanism will expand. It's not even a leap of logic - it's been going on for 20 years all around us!
NY Times had an article covering it yesterday - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/18/technology/apple-child-ab...

The article seems to cover both sides of the argument fairly and nails the concerns over Apple's on-device scanning:

> If governments had previously asked Apple to analyze people’s photos, the company could have responded that it couldn’t. Now that it has built a system that can, Apple must argue that it won’t.
it was on CNN's homepage yesterday...

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/17/tech/apple-child-safety-tools...
Yes, this would be better. You would just have to be careful about how you distribute the app.
Taxes create civilization and they power most of the things we love about society... roads, infrastructure, retirement, keeping the environment protected, keeping food safe, keeping restaurants from giving us all rat poop, etc etc... the list is very long. I never understood people who don't like taxes. I totally get not liking how much they are or where the spending is going, but they literally are civilization.

To your 2nd point, money is psychological, that model might happen one day but right now that is not something lenders can get behind. Although you could argue MMT and the current system is headed that way. Taxes are also psychological to help you feel like you are part of the system, and not outside of it.