skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
May be instead of arguing Apple is normalising Surveillance, they are normalising Data collection where only Apple can connect Data and everyone else who want Data will have to ask and pay Apple. Likely in the future for Ads on Apple user and Apple taking a 30% cut. This is not some sort of joke I wouldn't be surprised if there are internal plan somewhere. Which would also turn Apple into possibly the largest Ads platform.

I was actually expecting Apple to be doing something like this in 2018 timeframe the moment they dip their toe into App Store Ads. But then the whole privacy thing blow up.

Probably worth linking to Benedict Evans blog post again.

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2021/5/13/apples-ads...

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2021/8/27/understand...
Quality shitpost.

We’ve really come full circle when a blockchain relies on DRM to work.
> Ironically this is exactly the sort of attitude that the parent is complaining about.

And this attitude would exist regardless of whether PE is involved. When you get the $1B+ market cap size, these entities are not benevolent entities - they are profit seeking machines.
The cost of equipment is negligible compared to the personell cost so unless your machines work by themselves that's not very relevant. That's why professionals and the people having to pay and maintain them care so much about quality and ease.
> But genuine question, is Rust ever going to catch on in the mainstream? It seems to have a bunch of nice to have features and great optimization. But the pick up, from what I've seen, has been less than stellar.

I'm not sure where you've gotten that impression. Rust is mainstream at this point. All the big companies (e.g. FAAMG) are using Rust. Lots of large products are: Firefox of course, but also, parts of AWS, npm, VS Code, Android. And even key infrastructure products like Linux are looking at integrating it.
I think we also have to talk about whether these efficiency numbers include actual grid efficiency or just the generation portion.
I don't even think it needs to be modernized as it has become quite easy to use, even the standard configuration provides some protection*. It needs to be popularized. But for that you must offer a good explanation to common people why their data is worth so much in aggregation and that they might not want to share too much. Far more difficult problem than making it more accessible on the technical side.

* and some disadvantagse to privacy if the number of users is low.
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You don't, you self-host your own server.

My problem with the self-hosted model is that I don't trust myself to get it right and/or keep it updated. My problem with the 3rd-party model is that I don't trust them, either. So, lacking trust in either myself or the third-party, I'm just one of those people you can get only via secure e-mail, clear-text SMS, or whatever well-supported encrypted service happens to be the one with a plurality of users in my friend/family group. Clear-text sucks, but it can be used to negotiate a secure channel.

Unfortunately, the levels of spam in my traditional telephony services have dramatically increased in recent years, and as a tradeoff, I've just gotten harder and harder to get in touch with directly as I increasingly default to ignoring more and more methods of communication. I don't even think I'm someone with anything to hide or anything to fear my communications being in the public, there's just too much information to manage.
Apple could provide all that and still have an open platform.
An automatic celestial navigation system for navigating both night and day by observation of K-band or H-band infrared light from multiple stars.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US7349803B2/en

In this celestial map, the bodies of the solar system are placed so exactly that those versed in astronomy could calculate the precession (progressively earlier occurrence) of the Pole Star for approximately the next 14,000 years. Conversely, future generations could look upon this monument and determine, if no other means were available, the exact date on which Hoover Dam was dedicated.

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I think Google beat Apple to that by at least a decade. If you're not using an Apple product or service, Apple likely knows very little about you. Google, OTOH, knows a lot about you, whether you use a Google service or products.
Mea culpa. I was definitely unclear. I'd like something more than the usual hour long test drive from the showroom. The questions I have regarding Tesla and EV require testing on longer trips, using the charging network, etc. Being able to rent a car for a few days for a longer trip will tell me all I need to know.
There's an explicit opt-in request presented to the user to allow App Store collect data for targeted ads.

Facebook business was damaged when Apple introduced explicit opt-in request for third-party advertisement data collection.
Does the stalebot check for recent reactions (thumbs up, etc) or just comments? I think it’s the latter, meaning it is closing issues others may have and know that “me too” replies are frowned upon.
I’m very uninformed when it comes to the inner finance workings of these deals, so please pardon my ignorance on this, but simmering caught my eye here as a potential risk: the idea of combining all these funds and investment “sub-companies” together.

Assuming I read this right (which I concede may be an erroneous assumption), wouldn’t that essentially tear down any built in fire walls between failing investments and succeeding ones? Sure it’s all the same additive value more or less, but at least with an LLC owned by the main investment firm you can close it down if it’s independent investments don’t pan out and it winds up insolvent. And doing that wouldn’t cause any significant problems for your other subsidiaries since they’re separate legal entities, in spite of having the same owners.

I’m probably not understanding this right, so please help me see why, even though this sounds like “putting all your eggs in one basket” The risk described above either doesn’t matter it is worth it for the rewards (which would be…what exactly?).
One other interesting thing to note is that the whole Facebook whisteblower campaign is being funded by Pierre Omidyar https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/20/22737042/facebook-whistl...
Any business can do this regardless of whether PE is involved. What's your point?
I'm off grid and have all of those things. I don't worry about battery level because I have an appropriately sized system.
How many other services make it relatively painless to download all your data in one place? Or at all, for that matter? For me, the existence of Google Takeout is definitely a selling point when comparing their services to the competition. There is room for improvement, and perhaps some conflicting interests are at work behind the scenes, but I wouldn't say they go out of their way to make the process inconvenient.
People normalized surveillance by willingly accepting it, or laughing it away because it didn't bother them at the time. As noted already, Wired tracks its users, and participates in tracking networks. "Oh, but that's a whole different thing, that's... normal."
Recently I've had a hard time finding available cars. Many times in my life, I've had to wait while they turned around a car that had just been returned.
Automatic Transfer switches are very common in Server Rooms and datacenters where there is a Generator in use. I'm not sure why they are not more common in Solar. I have a parent with a full house generator that also has a Automatic Transfer Switch, its essentially right above the breaker box. the breaker box either gets power from the generator, OR from the power company, never both. When power comes back on, the ATS senses it, and sends a signal to the generator after 30 seconds or so that it is switching over, and to shut down.
Thanks for the suggestion! We did consider the idea of making it automatically cut the energy source. However at the moment, the install steps are: receive it in the post, pull out the battery tab, and stick it on your stove splashback with a strong sticky pad. Almost anybody can do it themselves. As soon as you need to cut the electricity/gas it requires a qualified engineer to go in and install it, making the install cost an order of magnitude larger. So this wouldn't be a part of the core product.

As an optional paired peripheral, it's a good idea, and perhaps we will look into it further if the main product has some success. If individuals consider it a valuable addition then they could pay to have it installed. A secondary drawback would be reduced battery life on the device, as it would be continuously paired over Bluetooth whenever the stove is in use - usually it is just passively advertising in case you are trying to connect through the phone app.

In terms of saving lives, the automatic cut-off would make a relatively small difference - fire department stats (on smoke alarms) show that having a loud beeping alarm is extremely effective at attracting attention and is enough for the user to go and turn it off manually, or to get out of harm's way if things have turned bad. Where the automatic cut-off would help is in reducing the chance of the house being damaged by smoke or fire when the user is out of range.
I wrote a bridge between signald and prosody (without spectrum) so I can use xmpp clients with signal. Async python, only non-standard library dependency is slixmpp. It's working well.
I think what they want is more freedom for their own opinions, and more surveillance on people they disagree with.
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I guess you are just an apologist for the sociopaths that have taken control of everything.
I have no experience, because TIL this even exists. Thank you so much—it could be a life changer for me! Will be watching this area closely.
> Is it okay to help a friend dispose of a corpse at 2 a.m. in the morning?

> It's wrong

https://delphi.allenai.org/?a1=Is+it+okay+to+help+a+friend+d...

Huh... I don't think Delphi here groks the idea of friendship. As the old saying goes "someone isn't really your friend unless they're willing to help you dispose of a corpse at 2 a.m."

> Is it okay to run a corpse through a wood chipper?

> It's disgusting

https://delphi.allenai.org/?a1=Is+it+okay+to+run+a+corpse+th...

Finally found something that can't even be offset by the "creates jobs" AND "uses green energy" clauses.

> Is it okay to run a corpse through a wood chipper, if it helps me get away clean and uses green energy and creates jobs?

> It's wrong

https://delphi.allenai.org/?a1=Is+it+okay+to+run+a+corpse+th...

On the other hand, taking away the "helps me get away clean" part..

> Is it okay to run a corpse through a wood chipper if it creates jobs?

> It's okay

https://delphi.allenai.org/?a1=Is+it+okay+to+run+a+corpse+th...
You mainly see "excessive redundancy" in larger cargo, passenger, and military aircraft. Small general aviation airplanes don't have as many redundant systems as you'd think. There is neither the space or weight budget. For safety, they mainly rely on well engineered systems, frequent inspections, required maintenance and updates, and failsafe design, such as the ability to pilot the plane as a glider if the engine cuts out.
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There seems to be an ongoing effort/mistake that is conflating state and federal politics in Australia.

All these draconian laws and crackdown on protestors is happening in one state, Victoria, and is the work of the state government. This article is about that particular state, and that particular government only.

This is an extreme left wing state government doing all this. Meanwhile the federal government, which has not been on board with any of these measures, is right wing. I suspect this may be a large part of the reason the difference isn't clarified within media organizations that tend to have an obvious bias.
"we would heavily crack down on user"

Learn some history. We tried this. It failed spectacularly, as if in slow motion, for decade after decade.
I'd much prefer a slightly dry but genuine personality, than a hyperactive and fake "youtuber personality". The content speaks for itself. He generally takes safety pretty seriously, too.
> or cause a split into 3-4 parts

The first novel is already split into 3 well-defined acts.

I think it would've made sense to make 3 films. It would have given them some breathing room to build up the world and the establish the characters in the first film, and it would have ended with a tremendous climax.
Maybe CRDTs are useful for implementing chat systems since the operational semantics for it are simple enough to make a CRDT system for it?

The blog post I've read in the first link seems to say that CRDTs gets very complex when applying it to a domain where there are all kinds of different rich operations. I guess CRDTs aren't fundamentally the right solution for the collaborative document editing problem then?
I think many people are trying to make Rust real deal and some of them make really good job. There was a guy who develops Linux ABI compatible kernel in rust, Tor is being rewritten in to Rust and some of the projects are just amazing.

I believe it will catch on as soon as people realize it's a C performance with modern syntax and memory safety mitigating most of the security flaws and bugs introduced by mismanaged memory.

I fell in love as soon as I saw descriptive scalar types like "i32".
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>Now that I'm in San Francisco, I can't tell you the libration I feel every single day by being able to do and say whatever I want.

Something doesn't add up in this sentence.

>are not appreciative of the freedom of speech this country has, and continue to squander it.

On one hand. You should be and somewhat happy for them. Because obviously they have never been through life without it. And it is a horror. A seed of fear forever planted inside you brain.

On the other hand.... you sighed. There is no way for them to understand without going through it. Human are damned to continue to repeat the same mistake over and over again. There are just something you cant learn from textbook.
What an odd point of view. It doesn't sound like you as a user respect a maintainers free labor at all.

This attitude is really the crux of it. Someone is working on a project, and has to argue - endlessly - with users who demand "respect" but don't contribute.

Quick tip to users:

The maintainers and bug tracker is generally not a support / training channel.

The quickest way to get respect is to help out.
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You have to zoom out and see if there's a systematic trend, it means the system isn't working.

Just like a huge student debt load is the responsibility of one person, but a national student debt load of $1.7t is a systemic failure.

If one outcome is occurring across a large data set, it means the cause can be both systemic and individualistic.
> Maybe windows has caught up with this now, last time I used windows I had to install "drivers", which seemed to be advertising programs which took up most of my CPU, to use basic peripherals.

This comment kind of decreases the your argument. If you are using Linux you know what a device driver is. This naïve take on drivers just doesn't fly. I couldn't ware less about windows, but the last time I used it (I think Windows 7) I didn't have to install any additional driver.

And on Linux you also have to install "drivers" either closed source (nvidia) or open source (nouveau) to make use of 3d acceleration. So, if you don't know what these "drivers" are, I suggest you read on them and how to install them in your preferred Linux distro, as it can strongly improve your Linux experience if you happen to have a discrete graphics chip in your computer.
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I feel compelled to add the following:

The Gendarmerie Captain on scene then rushes to the man's mother, takes her in his arms and says "He's okay, he's okay. It was us. He's alive."
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If you click on "New issue", it's explained there. We also have an issue template with more info.
It seems like this stuff would work better if they combined things like 3d modeling. (maybe built on Nurbs or CSG or something) with the deep learning and also just tried to do less in one step or even with one model. Or maybe it's a more flexible neural model at the core but it's still compositional and more precisely trained on constituent parts. Train the system to nail down core concepts first and then build off of that.

Not saying it's easy to do that. But take as an example a robot operating indoors. You may want it to do many domestic tasks and so have a degree of generalization, but it doesn't need to be able to model landscape scenery or birds. And the environment has quite a lot of regular shapes in it since it's man made. With so many regular shapes, flat walls, rectangles and straight edges, the vision system should first be able to nail the representation of that. Once you have a solid understanding of indoor 3d reconstruction, the structures used there can be leveraged for things like imagining described scenarios.
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>I often wonder this about old tech. What attracts some people to keep using it? Is it the comfort or familiarity or is it minimalism?

I suspect that asking the same question about musical instruments would lend a lot of immediate understanding about what might be going on.
I mean, if "Make the richest man on earth richer, so a few more news stories will be written about him, because that might lead people to look into EVs" is how you want to spend your hard-earned dollars, I'm not going to stop you. I'd suggest there are far more efficient ways to bring about social change, both in terms of fewer negative side effects and more bang for your buck.
I was a bit overwhelmed by your Wall of Text (tm) at first, but I decided to check your comment history and figured, yeah okay let me dig in, and I think you made some interesting points. Here are my thoughts...

> Note the Machiavellian manner in which it is framed i.e. this is a 'Facebook' problem, when in reality, it's not Zuck out there making the rules so much as it's people on FB having a voice.

I agree that Facebook has become somewhat of a proxy topic for the Internet. It's also probably accurate that some people in power are concerned about an open press -- not FB's power specifically -- and are using the FB situation to attack the core ideas of the Internet. Somewhere deep inside of this situation however is a much more complex conversation about how the Internet should work, because if Facebook is really the best model for information flow online then we really do have a problem. As you say, there should be actually a concern that idiots in their basement making things up have more influence than researchers.

This is where I get a little uncomfortable with the framing that this situation is only "Facebook versus Traditional Media & the Powerful," because it deframes the conversation that Facebook is a monopoly over the commons which shouldn't exist. Facebook is a very opinionated system, from its focus on connecting everybody as maximally as possible to its algorithm design to its UI design to its privacy invasions. I hope - perhaps naively - that general dissatisfaction with them can lead to new openings in the market as people look for alternatives, and that it happens before any kind of regulatory intervention starts.

> Francis was a Political Agent, from day 1.

Anybody who understands media knows that Francis' leaks were heavily coordinated, for all the reasons you say. That required backing of some kind; more than she probably could provide herself (though she did apparently have some crypto money?).

I don't know what else to do with that information, and I don't really want to get distracted with that part of the debate. The things we talk about end up becoming the thing that matters. This is why I also started my original post with the point about Facebook probably dropping these stories. This gets us into the media war that's being waged between both sides rather than the relevant issues: is FB good for the world as it is right now, and if not then what would make it better?

> Moreover, it's a bit hypocritical to be talking about breaking up FB when there are likely more traditional issues of monopoly at Google and Amazon.

Those conversations are happening too. FB is just the one getting dogged the hardest right now, and (as I said) probably because they're the least popular of those companies.
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I don't really care how "dirty" all of the people are, I'm going to listen to what experienced people of all opinions and motivations have to say about the issues and each other, and make up my own mind. Dismissing the underlying censorship issues ignores the consequences for billions; what happens at Facebook sets the standards for the rest of the internet and beyond.
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It's not perfect, but the GitHub CLI might help you with this. You can list issues filted by tags and potentially use your own tagging conventions to construct useful views.
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I definitely agree with this one. It's probably possible but it's arrogance in display.
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> The question is to what extent should grid connections to new rural homes be subsidised by taxpayers, which is of course a political decision

100% agree. Not only that, but rural development is inherently connected to these other subsidies. Rural populations tend to have worse education, worse health outcomes, and more expensive roads/mile/capita. Not to mention the negative political externalities rural populations produce (maybe a modern US-only phenomenon).
>and only on any attempts of publishing to the iCloud.

The feature I'm referring to happens regardless of publishing to the cloud. It scans text messages real-time and uses AI rather than a hash of known/existing images. The other feature everyone is talking about uses CSAM hashes and scans only when publishing to the cloud, but of course that feature can be easily changed with a bit switch.
That also doesn't work with any modern design: you don't leave a 3-D structure behind on the reader, and usually they're coated in a way which means that you don't even leave much of a print.

As another way to look at it, people have been spending considerable time attacking these sensors since they were first released. If it was that easy, you wouldn't see the academic attackers going to such lengths.
An another OSS author, I am glad that you think that way (and I agree with you) but unfortunately not all users think that way. I have literally heard stories from users who think that my project is unstable because it had a sizable open issues count (~200). They didn't even look at the fact that 1/3rd are feature requests.