skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's clear you're not familiar with Kurzweil's work in AI (or his background in general).

Because it's impossible that I could be familiar with his work and still think that he's full of it? (At least on AI and the Singularity.) That sounds like you've had a bit too much Kurzweil Koolaid...
None of that is true. The battery cells are the rectangular black pouches. They can be glued in, placed in with a ribbon cable, put inside a plastic outer casing, or any other variation; but the batteries themselves are exactly the same form and function.

Given the hard metal body construction with screw fasteners, there's no reason for gluing the battery packs themselves.
This is not how macOS's code signing system works; e.g. it does not use .cire files.

I tried installing two of those applications and I can't reproduce the error myself, but I can see the "Error loading the application. Contact your administrator." message within the strings of /Applications/SecurID.app/Contents/MacOS/SecurID, along with references to ".cire" and some strings from the .cire file ("certificate", "hash"). edit: I also see references to SecTrustCreateWithCertificates, SecTrustEvaluate, and other related functions from Security.framework which are designed to validate certificates (but wouldn't be called directly by applications as part of standard macOS code signing).

Conclusion: They probably rolled their own custom code signing system, albeit one that uses the system trust store to verify certificates.
"You may be able to buy a pre-owned, printed copy of the book from amazon.com."

$639.96
This isn't burnout, you can still think. (edit: see followup comments!) This is the equally valid problem of frustration, alienation, existential meaninglessness. You could end up snapping, but it wouldn't be 'burning out', it'd be freaking out.

Which is just as bad: take care of yourself. It sounds like you're hitting bottom in some kind of distress. Burnout isn't the only bad thing that can happen to a person. It sounds like you need more meaning from what is a very sick situation.
It’s my understanding that the keys used in that “end-to-end” encryption are also under the control of the operator [1], so from a privacy perspective it is the same as handing over that data in plaintext.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/technology/apple-china-ce...
Have you considered reading the article? It makes the difference clear as day.
How the collapse of the USSR transformed Russia into a global energy powerhouse
Yes I have no issue with that
that's exactly correct. We have to accept discomfort NOW (to our convenience, wallets) so that everyone can benefit later.

We cannot give up.
They will need to triple or quadruple the capacity of the water, electrical and sewer grids that were sized for the current density.
And convince people to part with their cars because street parking will become impossible.
Similarly, I think it's very likely that the only life to ever touch Voyager 1 and 2 will be future humans going to have a play with them
Be seeing you.[1]

[1] https://archive.org/details/ThePrisoner01Arrival
Joe Rogan doesn't care about influence.
Uber is far from perfect, but when they first started it was a very welcomed approach in contrast to the taxi cartels with their rude drivers who would readily decline your trips if it wasn't at their convenience.

sadly uber has declined quite a bit since- but it was a good kick in the butt to the taxi industries to step up their game.
As an American I couldn’t care less that Chinese people’s data is handed over to Chinese people’s government, especially considering the alternative would be that Chinese people’s data is handed over to a US entity and by association the US government.

Contrary to popular belief, iCloud data, while encrypted, can be decrypted by Apple and is subject to US law enforcement requests. *

Considering this fact, it is pretty one-sighted to see this as some sort of unconceivable act. However if you look at it from the other side would we want all American user data (assuming Russia had a company that had such pervasive penetration into American lives as Apple does globally) to be sitting on Russian servers subject to arbitrary Russian laws?

So if you only consider American interests, it’s unconceivable for us to give up such power and control over other sovereign nations, but perhaps other countries don’t care about American interests like we do.

All Apple did in China was comply with local laws to stay in business there. What Apple is doing in the US is not mandated by law (as far as I know).

From the American side Apple has marketed itself as privacy focused, even fighting the FBI publicly at the risk of negative publicity. This about face is unexpected but also betrays those of us who invested in the Apple product line under the expectation they continue this standard of privacy and security that was marketed. Chinese people probably never expected this level of privacy to begin with, but we did and we can.

* iCloud messages backups can be decrypted
ding ding we have a correct answer
Are there any self-hosted equivalents to icloud photos? (e.g. automated backup/sync. Does the camera app have a way to save to other places, etc?)
> You are, of course, wrong.

I'm rolling
If it makes you feel any better it cost $100 in 2021 dollars new ($50 in 1990)...
Yeah, if it didn’t happen to you doesn’t mean it didn’t happen to any of the hundreds of millions Android phones from a plethora of manufactures around the world. You can’t generalize from your anecdote.
Because that door hasn’t been opened yet. “Scan every photo on users devices” or “scan for non-CSAM” are much easier requests once they’ve already started scanning on-device.

It’s just how life and politics work.
You can use Nomad List[0] to get an idea of possible options. Eastern Europe, South America, South East Asia are all viable options with vibrant communities with people like you.

[0]https://nomadlist.com/
Unfortunately I suspect this is tech that scales with efficiency in a crazy way like inverse power plants. You'd likely get much greater returns and efficiencies from a few large facilities.

Don't get me wrong if they build a sink which can be deployed at a household level which is 80% efficient and a huge city one is only 90% efficient it might be worth going this route. But I suspect the numbers would be closer to 50% and 99% based on current technologies (granted I don't work in the sector I just read publications)
"just making sure the files you upload to them aren't illegal"

the problem lies in this sentence. 1) this happens on device before they're uploaded, which is a monumental shift for a company that claims to be pro-privacy 2) they're now saying they're willing to surveil photos for governments, the reason is sorta irrelevant. they're opening pandora's box - are they going to start scanning files on behalf of the RIAA or other copyright stuff now?
> the fact that, in just a few weeks, Apple plans to erase the boundary dividing which devices work for you, and which devices work for them.

A very overdramatic sentence.
It is a bit scary to realise that only now people think that this border is being crossed. It has happened a very long time ago already.
The first years of Android, owners were the product, not the phone. Privacy features in the past years might have improved this a little.

Google’s massive success on many services is based on the fact how phones and their software were collecting data for them. User interfaces are just illusions for non-tech persons. They might give you a sense of control.

Now that Apple does not trust us with CSAM material, the end is near. There are arguments for both sides, and many are taking sides to just get attention.

However, you can only solve this problem with politics.
What’s the chemistry here? Is the sorbent reusable?
It’s the next step after Ashly-Madison
Mathematics is a language unto itself, and some concepts are more difficult to map to natural language than others. Even if you had a much broader English vocabulary, with unique words assigned to every currently known mathematical abstraction, the intuitive sense in which we speak and read and understand will clash with the behavior and features of mathematical symbols.

Natural language maps onto an embodied experience designed by evolution. Math transcends what our brains are built to expect and predict. Infinities, exponentials, quantum entanglement, and an infinite array of other very real things simply exist outside what we are capable of understanding intuitively, without some special conjunction of neural wiring, training, or happenstance.

The nature of infinities might seem like navel gazing, but it helps us understand the features of different types of numbers, and those are the building blocks of proofs. Knowing to which infinity class a number belongs might help inform the optimization of real world engineering of chips or data storage, or drug design algorithms, and so on. It could eventually be part of figuring out practical quantum computers, solving p vs np, or maybe just a piece of a better factorization algorithm that improves cryptography.
I lived in Toledo (Ohio) for four years and never got that connection. Neat factoid.
It’s an incorrect reading of the article. The HSMs in the data center are operated by the Chinese company so any CloudKit data escrowed by Apple could be accessed, but end to end encryption keys are synced through iCloud Keychain which uses a different protocol with device secrets.
It isn't a philosophical debate. It's about invading and controlling someone else's property. I can't shack up in your home and eat your food just because I feel like it. We're all doomed because digital natives have no concept of boundaries between something they own and something someone is renting or letting you use for free in exchange for data mining.
Could this work on Venus?
> is there any practical constraints or applications around it?

To speak to this question: Suppose you were going to build a calculator program on your computer. You might start with integers and have addition multiplication and subtraction. All perfectly fine. Even if the numbers are very big you can still represent them by using multiple memory slots.

The you add division, and since you don’t want rounding errors in your calculator, you add rational numbers. Can rational numbers still be represented by a computer? Yes, because they are a countable infinity, you can represent them just as easily as you can represent integers.

You would like your calculator to be as complete as possible so you keep adding functions like roots, exp, log, sin, et cetera. But no matter how many functions you add, you’ll never be able to represent every real number. This is useful to know so that nobody ever tries to build a computer that does this.
Checking stress levels sounds very sensible. It might be kind of obvious, but burnout is blind denial of the obvious until you catastrophically break, so anything that'll help you get a clue is good.

I've had EMTs and a close friend order me to stop drinking Red Bulls on top of coffee, because the docs thought I was going to die on the spot. I refused to go to the hospital, I had work to do. I agreed to throw away all the Red Bulls, and did, and never went back to them. It took that: I knew I was wrecking myself, but of course it didn't matter.

I'm sure if they'd checked my cortisol levels it would've been 90% cortisol instead of blood. If something like that is leverage enough to get you to stop, check the cortisol levels! :)
It's a terrible idea, but I don't think it's warped or depressed. It's just me veroy idealistic.
That's referring to iMessage. Predators grooming children is not something the on-device photo library scanning is going to fix.

They could let users report such messages to Apple, but that requires having a team of humans to review iMessage reports.
> If it works and it's economical there's no reason to think that you couldn't build 30,000 of them.

That would just leave us where we're at right now, right? Even with emissions not increasing (unlikely...), we'd still need 60k just to decrease CO2 levels at the same rate... meaning it'd take several decades to bring them to acceptable levels. We'd probably need a few times that many facilities to be able to do this at the pace we need...
Normalizing allows enforcing referential integrity and reduces/eliminates update anomalies. Those seem like theoretical concerns until your data gets corrupted.
I agree the question of whether Apple was compelled by whatever government (or if they did this voluntarily) has implications on the ethics of these decisions. They may genuinely have no choice.

But I don’t see how it affects the question of whether Apple’s privacy assertions are trustworthy.
Perhaps Costa Rica if your ok with a standard of living the same as the locals? Most call centers there pay around $1000 a month for those with good English skills and an education, and their healthcare (universal healthcare) and education systems seem efficient and well ran.
Tic-toc
> Can the school counter sue Save Berkeley’s Neighborhood the using the CEQA since new residents have an impact on the environment, noise, housing and displacement?

Sure, if (1) Save Berkeley’s Neighborhood was responsible for some action requiring an EIR, and UC can make a colorable argument both that (2) SBN violated the requirements of CEQA with regard to the EIR, and that (3) this caused legally cognizable injury to UC such that the University has standing.

Of course, none of those are true.
Dam, I like to think of Star Trek as future historical records...

Sometimes blue sky thinking helps us as we reach out into the cold lonely cosmos :)
This definition seems very idiosyncratic to me, and wrong in more than a few ways.

Science is usually defined as a process of systematic exploration, rather than a set of results. One goal of that process is to make predictions, but it’s not the only one. Even if it were, I don’t see how you can aggregate the quality of predictions within and across fields.

Physics is a perfect example. It’s true that some phenomena have been measured with exquisite precision and can be used to make extremely accurate predictions (relativity, say). Other phenomena turn out to be immeasurable: chaotic systems are, by definition, virtually impossible to predict even though they are generated by simple rules. I find those rules more interesting than yet-another decimal place on the fine structure constant. Plus, it seems incoherent to argue that particle physics is more scientific than biology which is more scientific than atmospheric physics but…

Finally, even if science were defined by predictive accuracy and there were a sensible way of comparing them across fields…the alpha levels/confidence intervals from individual experiments certainly aren’t the right way to do it! They’re a mishmash of the intrinsic variability of the thing under study, then resources devoted to studying it, and the assumptions baked into your design. In 2011, OPERA reported a six-sigma detection of faster than light neutrinos. This was, of course, not really true: a loose cable that was not included in their model was responsible instead.
This is a claim which should require extraordinary evidence, since Apple has very publicly resisted pressure to build technology at the government’s behest in the past.
I also wonder if OF customers prefer paying girls who have less fans. This allows the person paying to have more personal interaction and to have more influence/control over the girl for less money. So market forces therefore would drive a long tail
are we close enough for the government to scan anything passing its road?
I agree we are all doomed, but I don’t agree it has that much with digital native or not to do. My boomer grandparents, my gen x parents and my millennial self, we are all affected by this. And gen z (the first generation of digital natives), and whatever comes after gen z, is not to blame for that. Reducing it to a generational thing is silly.
Yes. WD did a rebranding exercise to try and get rid of HGST and UltraStar, not only did the retail channel and wholesale channel backfire, a certain large enterprise customer insist on the same HGST and UltraStar HDD, same model number, basically same everything. While HD could certainly ignore retail and wholesale, they cant ignore enterprise. So you still see UltraStar, and in many cases Wholesale are still calling them HGST.
The U.S. Embassy Urges Americans Outside the Kabul Airport to Leave Immediately
UC has facilities out of state, e.g., the UC Washington Center in D.C.
I thought it was the LibreM. shrug
At one point this will be proven and we'll go back to regular digital cameras or even polaroids.
Because most of Chinese keep silent with their government?
That's rational, but the point he's making is that this system obliterates the only defense we have had or could have against such activity: end-to-end encryption. This approach owns the endpoint.
I wonder why they didn't mention Carbfix [1], the Icelandic project that pulls CO2 from the air and flushes it underground. That's been going on for a few years now.

edit: According to Carbfix's "Current Projects" [2] section, it looks like they actually collaborated with Climeworks on this Project Orca.

[1] https://www.carbfix.com/

[2] https://www.carbfix.com/currentoperations
Property rights can exist in a world without formal government. Primates have innate understanding of fairness. The idea of ownership of something predates the system of judge and jury, modern government, and even the presence of humans [1]. If someone takes your personal property, you have the right to take it back. It needn't be recognized by some formal entity.

People can already "do the opposite." Hooded men in the middle of the night could try to take your possessions. The odds the police will show up in time is slim; at least in the US especially in rural areas your only chance is to take retaining your possessions in your own hands. Removing governmental restraint just prevents you from being convicted in court if you act directly instead of using the gun of a policeman. This is why in places like Texas is it legal to shoot someone for trespassing on your land and taking your property; some would argue that should extend to your virtual property such as bitcoin.

[1] See citations regarding primate behavior ("property in primates") in https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/214043811.pdf
Given that the CO2 could easily be used to help pump more oil from underground I've never suspected actual storage is a problem.
(Oil that isn't burnt or thrown away is still _crazy_ useful imo)

I just doubt the seriousness of industry to invest in this in a significant and meaningful way...
That's how these Cartrivision systems worked. Rented tapes could not be rewound in the players, just stopped. Only special machines could rewind them. The cassettes designed for home recording could be rewound in the players though. I'm not aware of any other video cassette tape system that had this.
> Contrary to popular belief, iCloud data, while encrypted, can be decrypted by Apple and is subject to US law enforcement requests.

The most seem to forget, that with this newcoming feature this is not possible anymore. Apple can’t decrypt your images anymore by request. (Read Apple’s PSI system)

There is also strong evidence that same is coming for backups. On iOS 15 beta, there is backup recovery option by authentication key.
I was surprised to not see an RSS link there, but apparently a feed does exist:

https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/feed
Apple is renting the phone to you for $1000 down and $0 a month (unless you actually are financing). Therefore, they are the landlord and, given notice, can change the property as they feel fit.
>> They may genuinely have no choice.

There is a choice. Don't comply and have the CCP make you stop selling there.

Apple has no principles that can't be tossed aside in exchange for a large market - in other words a lot of money. This should not be unexpected.
I'll bet there's a hell of a lot of cortisol and stress reactions. I wonder if there's organic damage. The analogy that comes to mind is rhabdo (for crossfit folks).
It’s now common knowledge (as mentioned in the article) that Apple refrained from adding a feature at the government’s behest in the past. It’s a fine line between not adding a feature they don’t like and adding a feature they do.
Funny, I was able to wring some sense out of it on second hearing just because I was primed to expect that there was something there. But it turned out not to be quite the right answer. Now that I have heard the big reveal, I can actually hear it both ways, my original, (slightly) mistaken interpretation, and the actual answer.

But it occurs to me that this is exactly how humans learn language. We start by hearing an idealized version, carefully enunciated by parents and primary school teachers, and then we generalize that to more sloppy, noisy renderings in real-life situations, movies, podcasts...

So this experience is reproducible in the large: listen to a foreign language. It's noise. Then learn that language and it stops being noise and takes on meaning. Like the small example, ee efshar lachzor yoter lahatchalah. (That's a latinized transliteration of a Hebrew phrase. Figuring out what it means is left as an exercise :-)
Like I said, Apple controls the hardware, software, and services. They are already control your property.
I don't doubt that a case that involved scanning for CSAM on their own property wasn't found to be a violation of someone's 4th amendment rights. One of the cases cited is United States v. Ackerman that did involve a case regarding NCMEC opening other email attachments containing CSAM other than the one that AOL scanned which was a violation of his 4th amendment rights.

The reason this is murky territory is because it's on-device, and we have precedence of there being an expectation of privacy on our cell phones via Carpenter v. United States which found that in a very narrow circumstance third party doctrine did not apply. However, other cases have not been tested and there are many factors regarding Apple's implementation that may or may not protect it in an actual case. We don't really have a clear picture of how and when third party doctrine applies with the case of our cell phones, which have been determined to be nearly indispensable in modern society.

But there's a difference between the legality of something and morality to it and while the former is up in the air, the latter really isn't in this case, at least for a lot of people that are arguing for or against this system. In my opinion, it does not matter that Apple's implementation only ever activates if you there is intent to upload to their servers. The fact that it is performed on device is in itself the most problematic aspect. There are no acceptable justifications to be had here. If Apple wants to scan their own servers that is their prerogative. The same cannot be said about my phone.
There is a fairly large difference, first being it would be a massive damage to Apple's brand if they started scanning people's phones without permission.

But now that they've built the system to scan things on-device, they can be compelled by a government to scan for other things, and Apple can shrug their hands and say they had no choice.
It was a really beautiful read and some real teary moments.

Thank you for sharing man.
Why would it not be an option?

I am not an SRE but I do know that we are actually able to just throw away our k8s cluster and it will be recreated from scratch.

In fact our dev environments work the same and I literally did this a couple if days ago because I had a similar problem to what you are describing. Throwing it away and letting it reinitialize from scratch fixed it.

You don't _want_ to do that in prod for sure. But it's a great thing to have in your back pocket, if it's tested well (disclaimer: I have no idea if and when they last tried this for prod ;))
I think a lot of people would actually embrace getting rid of their cars if they weren't necessary