skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reuters reported it and mostly nobody cares. I have linked this link on HN dozens of times.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...

iCloud Backup (non e2e) backs up the endpoint keys for iMessage. Apple knows this is bad and they were going to do e2e backups (like Google does for Android) and Apple Legal killed the project on FBI request.
1 in 10 Americans is going hungry...^1 It's not always about how many blueberries we are all eating as a group - justice demands we consider who is getting to eat at all. It would be great if we could close some of that food security gap with the savings "we" are experiencing on cheaper hammers and batteries.

I really enjoy charts and analysis like this, and sometimes a controversial headline is what is needed to start a discussion - so thanks for sharing. I think this analysis begs for follow-up charts showing how these items and spending vary by race, class, location, etc. When we say "we" are mostly living better, who exactly is in that group? Seems like that's an important consideration in asking whether "we" are achieving our goals as a society.

1. https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/fo...
That's certainly true, too. Sometimes employers use these actions to "virtue signal" the kinds of employees they don't want to apply, whereas they may run afoul of federal law were they to outright ban them.
Sorry, that’s wrong. The word “system” is obviously broad, but the term “system of emissions reduction” is used within the statute to refer to emissions control technology.

Apart from being clear from the individual statutory provisions, that’s the premise of the statute as a whole. The whole idea was that the EPA could limit emissions to the point that existing point sources could go out and buy equipment to meet the emissions criteria. The statute thus talks about BACT versus RACT and LEAR and whatnot. (I took a bunch of classes in environmental law in law school.)

If you read “system” to be a nonce word that can refer to any possible measure, then the statute makes no sense. The EPA could just pick an arbitrary emissions limit, and demand industry-level restructuring to hit that limit. That’s exactly what Congress was trying to avoid by imposing that requirement.
As a strong Free Software supporter on HN that uses Github I'll take a shot.

I use Github to publicly host my projects. I use github as I want them as public as possible and that is where all the people are.. I.E. it has the lowest friction for others. The tradeoff is a bit of extra work on yourself to make sure you keep the 'git' part of your repo the central thing. Use the hosting as extras appropriately, but don't rely on them. All relevant context, reasoning, etc. needs to be in the git commit messages. The git repo should stand alone and tell the complete story.

IMO following this simple rule you can keep your project git repo whereever is easiest for the users without lockin. Github's added features over basic git hosting are decent but none of them are irreplaceable if you keep your repo up properly.
are you actually comparing the utility of beef and almonds?

In good faith?
> AA has a market cap of $8B and they spent $12B on stock buybacks from '14 - '20.

In 2014 their market cap was $35B [0]. Pandemic aside, it looks like they are steadily winding down their business. That makes sense if the company doesn't see any opportunities for growth--shareholders can migrate to investments with upside. Despite market cap shrinking by 2/3 they kept earnings per share relatively flat.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AAL/american-airli...
Why do you think it all comes down to that?

Clearly there's much more to it. For example, cryptocurrencies with those two properties you mentioned are a dime a dozen. I could make one right now by git cloning bitcoin, changing some properties, then running it. And in practice there are thousands with high volume exchange-value. Digital currencies, when combined with ubiquitous exchanges, have such substitutability that I'm not sure there's much of a "network effect" or "lock in", when it's so easy to swap and pay with any of them. "value decided by the market" might be flimsy in this case.
Let’s test that… say Bezos really wanted the bridge gone. If Bezos were to pay $100B, half to the government and half to your favorite charity, would you say that’s a good deal?

10B? 1B?

Money doesn’t buy everything, but being too principled about that can harm causes you care about.
It makes perfect sense when we’re talking about a public company. It would be a completely different conversation if they were private.
I have a lot of friends in the crypto space, and only one of them has lost any to theft. In that case, it was a SIM-swap for funds he had stored on a centralized exchange, rather than an attack on his own wallet.

Meanwhile, my own credit card numbers were stolen twice.
>Why the EU thinks, presumes or pretends I have a smartphone?

They don't. As the site says any traditional form of ID still works. This isn't mandatory.
I believe you. I just recently tried to browse Reddit. The bloat is unbelievable.
In order to make the case that votes are being "stolen", you first need to make the case that popular vote is better or more just. This is a contentious point, and I think it does a lot of disservice to any real discussion to assume it.

If people want to talk in an echo chamber (or to themselves) , than by all means, they should make every assumption they want.

If you want to talk about the issue, then address the root: Should states have power beyond their proportional population in congress and presidential elections?

This is a much more interesting discussion.

For congress I say no, but I would support states allocating their electoral college to match how their state votes, like Maine or Nebraska, opposed to winner take all.
> ...the brevity of the Agile Manifesto is the root cause of cargo cult agile.

I don't disagree with you, which is why I say that the manifesto is really just actually asking you to exercise your best judgement, given the set of values it proposes. The pragmatic attempts to provide a methodology only give you a list of "thou shalts" that remove the need for people to exercise best judgement in the first place (which is somewhat defeating).

There is some software engineering literature that attempts to provide a theoretical foundation, as I mentioned, but while interesting, I haven't found them terribly useful: people just want a list of commandments to follow.

Is that the manifesto's fault?

Personally, I think the manifesto is probably best used like a diagnostic check-list to understand how screwed up your current work context actually is.
Animals exhale many volatile organic compounds when they exhale, including methanol and acetone. Does that mean those compounds are by definition not pollution?
I think a lot of devs don't want to sell.

Even if they say so - building something is fun - I get my ideas into code I decide.

When customers start paying it stops being fun and people start having demands/deadlines/requests/issues.

Once you start rolling with project that is used by others it opens can of worms that is support.

I have wet dreams about building "Super Trubo Combo Tool - that solves everything ^TM", next moment I recall all the support calls and emails my boss is getting I don't want any of that.

It is the same with people who want to "learn programming", they could get a nice job and nice salary for that so they always say to me they would like to learn, but when they just think about sitting in front of computer for 12 hours reading documentation - well they just bail out instantly or after first 10 mins when something is not working as they wanted.
Kafir or kaffir is not kefir. Done. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Thought experiment: do you wish you were born 40 years earlier?

I suspect most of us do not wish this, and I think the primary reason is because our lives are much better now than 40 years ago.

Healthcare and housing is more expensive, yes. But healthcare is also much better. (Things that were once death sentences no longer are.) Our houses are more expensive, but also larger even though our families are smaller.

The technology we have access to is amazing. Traveling the world is more affordable and not just something the richest person you know has done.

Not to mention human rights have expanded for lots of protected classes.

Overall I think the doom and gloom of some younger folks about how terrible it is today and how great things were for previous generations is just wildly misplaced. There are lots of reasons to be thankful we're living in the present and not the past.
Preview of Thunderbird Redesign
Mozilla give that figure because of telemetry, but I imagine it’s higher since many privacy folk disable telemetry
Really enjoyed watching https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2400291/ about the race.

There's also a lot of beautiful ultra running content on YouTube, for instance https://youtu.be/NDZdsqbcGTU (also about the Barkley marathons). I have no ambition to run any ultra distances but watching some of these videos is inspiring for some reason.
No doubt. https://gizmodo.com/crime-prediction-software-promised-to-be...
Seems like a missed opportunity to make Bezos foot the bill for a Rotterdam bridge restoration and ongoing maintenance.

Dude has unlimited money, demand enough money to fix up your bridge better-than-before and buy everyone a pint.
You could also try Wolfram Cloud. Only significant issues a free account has is the inability to upload (so cannot use found notebooks unless you retype everything yourself) and files expiring (becoming unavailable unless you pay) after 60 days. But give Mathics a chance first.
The standing desk is a part of it, but a majority of standing desks are not used for the intended purpose- to switch form sitting to standing more frequently. The problem is a combination of the time and distraction, and also just forgetting to do so. The problem we feel is to solve is how to enable more movement, without interrupting work, in way that is easy to adopt.
"We’re eating more fresh fruit"

Who the fck is "we"? By we he means the wealthy, because go to any lower income area and it is a food desert.

Economists are pros at making numbers tell any story they like. What he is hiding is that those statistics are all skewed by inequality.

Put 3 people with $100,000 each in a room with a millionaire and the average person is worth $325,000.

Take half of the money away from the 3 people and turn the millionaire into a two millionaire and the average person in that room is worth $537,500!

Look how much better we are doing!!!!!!!

And all this "better"? You think it does not come with a cost, one that we are just beginning to have to pay for?
Orélie-Antoine de Tounens
According to the article, Rotterdamers don't want a new bridge. This bridge has historical and sentimental value to them.
Pascal made that statement after having a spiritual experience.
I would say that for a lot of daemons OpenBSD ends up with more interesting and cleaner versions than some of the ancient BSD ilk or with some of the complexity of the GNU replacements. It's often a lot easier to port part of/some of an OpenBSD daemon with just a little bit of hacking around instead of figuring out a bigger autotools chain.
"We're legally obliged not to talk about that topic" seems pretty safe, especially if you use it consistently. The more it gets used, the less people can infer anything useful from it, so it's also a valuable norm to encourage.
Could it be that it just hadn't seen enough (Haskell) training data. The amount of code in it is tiny compared to Python, JavaScript and Java.

So even the AI struggles to learn it. :p
Just an aside on the topic of German research.

In Germany a lot of research is not done at the universities but at various institutes such as Max-Planck, Fraunhofer, Helmholtz, Leibniz and a lot more.

General overview, research institutes being one item: https://www.research-in-germany.org/en/research-landscape.ht...

Ca. 400 universities - but ca. 1,000 publicly funded research institutions (https://www.research-in-germany.org/en/research-landscape/re...).

So, the ranking of the universities overall may not be completely comparable.
> In the end, this is likely cheaper than building desalination infrastructure to make up for the wasted water so you save money.

Fresh water is scarce and the demand for fresh water continues to grow annually (growing population, growing economy, etc). Fresh water is an appreciating asset, with fixed (or reducing) supply. Increasing the supply of fresh water is beneficial for many, many reasons globally, and increasing investment into desalination will keep reducing the cost (helping developing countries also build desalination).

Getting society to "use less fresh water" is non-competitive, and at best a medium term "stop gap". The economy is competitive, it doesn't "allow for" non-competitive players. You can try to change the inertia of the economy, but you would likely fail.

Building infrastructure to increase the amount of fresh water we have on earth (without unaccounted for externalities - e.g. it should be carbon-neutral/negative) is economically competitive and as such 1. durable; 2. improves lives; 3. changes the mental-model from "wasted water" to "wasted energy" (which is a simpler problem to solve).

> I disagree that we should build desalination, even if we can "afford" it.

Spreading this message of disagreement with increasing durable, cost-effective, and carbon-neutral infrastructure because it is not cost-optimal does a disservice to the global population and the long term sustainability of the global ecosystem. Way better off with the message "I agree with building more desalination. We should also get ... to do ...".
I’ve Made Desktop Pets for macOS
Reward Effort, Not Outcomes
If you read the comments then there was plan to post more but I presume that the war happened and the poster has now something else to do.
It was recently renovated.
>"Raspberry Pi Pico W is priced at $6, and brings 802.11n wireless networking to the Pico platform, while retaining complete pin compatibility with its older sibling."

A super-cheap WiFi Router -- could be made out of this...
> I'm saying it would be better to buy higher quality ships at a lower price from places like Japan or South Korea (who are very good at shipbuilding)

What the last ~3 years have taught us is that a country should not have critical dependencies on another country. The keywords for the first part of the 21st century will be Deglobalization and aging societies, better buckle up.
Kinda like a swiss bank account?
Keeping your team on the same page when they work from anywhere
I was the sole remote member of my team years ago when remote was "a very special arrangement." These days my team is 100% remote.

I remember how painful it was for me to stay up at 1:30AM for a meeting, so I don't ask it from other people. I also won't produce extra hours at the end of the day to watch recordings, so I don't tell others to "just watch the recording" either.

As company founder and manager of a great team of responsible people, I need my team looped in with information they need to do their jobs, whether or not they make it to a call. Conversely, I also expect them to keep on top of their action items, whether or not they make it to a call.

Enter Neo, our trusty AI teammate, whom we count on to keep ourselves in the loop, whatever time zone or schedule we have that week. He documents action items automatically, breaks out conversations into discussion threads, tells me which threads contain topics that concern me.

Most importantly, in my eyes, he gives me an easy way to follow up on specific discussion threads, post-meeting. Put another way, he helps us stay on the same page, bridging sync with async comms.

Sharing him with the wider world, but first with the HN community.

https://neo.vidd.ai/hn
It's a chair. Get up. Move around.
Because the lips, tongue, and face make up a filter circuit which makes sound intelligible. Throat mics sound like garbage.
Nerf’s Gjallarhorn rocket launcher from Destiny is truly gigantic
You originally said that Hollywood movies had become "heavily politicized". I think what you really mean to say is that they've started promoting certain ideas that you don't like. Or are you going to tell me that Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind didn't engage with any controversial political ideas?
Why would you assume that the fact that someone is a programmer indicates to you anything at all about literally any other aspect of their life or views?

It seems to me that you just built up your own little fantasy world, and are shocked that reality doesn't align with it.
I'd say a glider is more like having the words pre-printed on the paper. Most of the elements of writing are there, but in the wrong way.
> This is basically just saying that CEOs are allowed to lie because they're also lying to themselves at the same time, but honestly I think that goes back to the incompetence thing.

To be fair, there are times when they layoffs are imminent but the CEO keeps optimism up and sometimes the customer/funding does show up and the money doesn't run out. You typically don't hear about these ones (or only years later).
I would not be surprised if the current right leaning super majority guts Obama care too (if a case comes along.) Thomas has already indicated he supports rolling back gay marriage etc.
> This is one hundred percent okay with me and many other open source contributors. It's a no-strings-attached donation to mankind, and if someone else finds value in it, you don't complain, you cheer.

That's fine if your project says that. But there are a very many of projects which specifically say otherwise.
Somehow I always assumed RISC-V already had MSI for its PCI-Express use cases, which is essential to me.
Tell HN: I bet Atlassian and JetBrains merge some day
According to the article, the bridge is retired and is simply preserved as a monument.
Which parts of Nevada are below sea level? Lowest point IIRC is around 400ft.
> Private money would build these plants if allowed.

By replacing one environmental problem with another:

> The commission's staff experts said the facility would destroy marine life in about 100 billion gallons of seawater per year, and the company's ability to mitigate that damage with wildlife habitat restoration fell far short of state requirements.
Bit of a sleight of hand there: you were arguing first that this court case was about whether CO2 was a pollutant or not, and I simply pointed out that there was nobody arguing it wasn't and all agreed that the EPA had the authority to designate it as such, as opposed to your "pollution is whatever pdonis feels in his gut is pollution" standard.

So, sure, I'm criticizing the Court's decision, because it's an incoherent and ideologically motivated decision. Doing so helps remove the mystique of the SCOTUS justices as some kind of apolitical actors in the sytem.
I've been watching quite a lot recently and it strikes me that choosing when to change the tyres and how well you subsequently pull it off is a large proportion of actually winning.
No it isn’t. The Clean Air Act is all about requiring polluters to use control technology, and requiring new sources to use better and more expensive control technology than existing sources. That’s the program Congress designed.

Restructuring the energy industry to address climate is a different solution to a different problem, related only by the commonality of emissions into air. It’s like using drug laws to regulate processed foods because both involve harm caused by ingesting things.
Do We Need a Recession?
The Mushy Middle
CFTC Charges South African Bitcoin Pool Operator with $1.7B Fraud
The Serverless Server
Being reliant on public benefits to support and birth your family is pretty much the definition of not being able to afford it.
I can really identify with the dissonance you identify.

Until you've had your bike stolen (or known people who have), you just can't imagine it happening with clarity.

Therefore I don't really think it's cognitive dissonance as much as lack of imagination.

Dissonance would be if there were break-in attempts that he ignored. Or if he got threats and did nothing.

He didn't actually have concrete reason to believe that he was a target.
That's an advantage of crypto over cash. In the US, and probably similar trends in many places, only about 20% of transactions are in cash.

Merely being better than cash isn't much of a selling feature, especially when it's worse than cash in some ways as well: keep your crypto in an exchange and it might get hacked. Keep it offline in a local wallet(s) and it stops being useful as a medium of exchange in most places you'd use cash.

I'm not saying these problems are insurmountable, but if they are then there's still a very long road ahead to get there.
Why Wisp? (2014)
Jokowi says Putin agrees to sea route for Ukraine wheat exports
Very cool idea! Some created a prototype with Terragrunt (https://github.com/infracost/infracost/issues/463#issuecomme...). With Infracost parsing HCL directly, we might be able to introduce annotations for estimates -> alerts
It's a high level domain specific language, just precise enough to explain what's happening and why it's happening on high level. A bit like the way doctors speak to each other in formal settings, if you wish.

The good wishes and sincere dialogs are better held on personal level, i.e. the managers can have it with their subordinates in private.
I have no idea what you're talking about. I saw this text:

> We’re running a cohort class of App School to teach you how to terraform Mars.

and thought they were literally talking about terraforming Mars. I was (apparently) mistaken, but I don't see how you can accuse me of reading the text in bad faith if I took it at its literal word. There are people who seriously talk about terraforming Mars, and so it is not at all unreasonable to think that some Urbit users are among them.
> But down payment requirements have gotten looser too! According to the National Association of Realtors, the average homebuyer in 1989 put 20 percent down. In 2021, it was 13 percent.

I think this is important and two-sided stat. There's a mixture of programs that make obtaining large mortgages actually very easy. FHA loans and state down payment assistance programs have certainly helped many 'afford' housing. However, I think many who lived through the 2008 crash are skeptical of purchasing homes with less than 20% down. Essentially you have to be informed enough to seek out these programs but not informed enough as to be petrified knowing these programs are keeping home prices high.

In any case these graphs don't show generational differences and several obscure them. The graphs show homes have gotten larger, apartments have gotten smaller, yet rents overall have increased which is related to why younger generations are paying much more per sqft.
> tied to super market checkout systems

Norway is one step closer to that:

https://www.lifeinnorway.net/norway-to-track-all-supermarket...
Googling research papers on the subject of European irrigation, I'm mostly finding water usages quoted as mm/yr. Cultivated land area seems to be discussed, explicitly but often implicitly, in hectares. But I'm having trouble finding statements or graphs that show mm/yr/ha or mm/ha.

Unless I'm missing something (and I very well may be), I'll take acre-feet over mm/yr. acre-feet seems a more useful standard compound unit for discussing large scale (agricultural, industrial, etc) water usage, even if the underlying units are more archaic. If you're going to drop or leave implicit one of the three dimensions, time seems like the much better choice than area.

But maybe I'm biased by familiarity (and utter lack of expertise), or maybe I'm just wrong about the standard terminology. I need to get back to hacking, otherwise I'd keep digging....
If your goal is to conserve energy per job, do not let your CPUs boost up