skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple was only going to scan images that were going to be uploaded to iCloud. It would be the same amount of coverage as what google does, and if you believe apples claims “more private” because it happens locally and would later let them roll out encrypted images on iCloud while still scanning for CSAM to satisfy the government.

Of course you would have to trust that the policy of only iCloud images would stay in place after they implemented a tool to scan everything on your phone, which seems like a terrible bet.
For now at least, those plants are not operated or maintained by robots. You need employees and people to be there even if they are not generating any power, and they need to be "warm" if they are to get online quick.

The case examples in that link assume constant running. One could simply take the Fixed O&M times the effect and assume that (in combination with investment costs) to be the subsidies required to keep the plant in stand-by, through a constant operated plant is not the same as one that is standing by for most the time. None of the examples you linked has that kind of operation.
> I listened to the users ...

No way! No one ever listens to the users.

There's some obvious random word shuffling happening and that gave it away.
Punjab in Pakistan depends on the Indus River system and that gets a good chunk of its water from glacial melt in the Himalayas in Kashmir.

From the time of partition and standstill agreement the water disputes from Kashmir is deeply entwined in the conflict.

Hydrological importance of Himalayas for all three countries and others in the region cannot be overstated .
Perhaps more realistic is to approximately Kelly-bet your way through life.
> This certainly applies to random manufacturers, but not necessarily Apple. Do they pay royalties to ARM at all?

I don't know if there are any public details about license and royalty structure for Apple, but this is ARM Ltd's core business and it's how they make their money. So, probably.

> And of course, they could create any ISA extension, if they wanted.

I'm not sure about that. I think licensees are bound by certain requirements to implement the architecture faithfully. Now Apple obviously has a huge sway and could lobby ARM to make changes it wants. But it does not necessarily have final control of that either.

> But currently they seem to be heading more into the direction of creating additional compute units (like the neural processors) rather than adding new instructions to the CPUs.
Is this a joke? I mean what's the use of this laptop for a developer if it has a typical consumer keyboard not designed for typing code?

Also having been a user of couple of generations of XPS, I wouldn't wish this laptop upon an enemy. These laptops were the most unreliable I have a ever had.
I also never heard fans so loud in any other laptop like in my XPS 15. They were louder than a hairdryer. Imagine this during a meeting.
Plus typical issues like coil whine or if you power it off, pray that it will turn on...
When my XPS 15 died, while not being a fan of Apple I bought M1 MBPRO.

Now I am not sure why other manufacturers like Dell even bother making their laptops.
Do yourself a favour and don't bother with Dell. You can run Linux on Mac just fine (through virtualisation).
Not only that, also those halve size arrow keys. How do they expect people to navigate their code? With hjkl? But then why not physical escape key?
Hi there!

We dont have any benchmarks for Crawlee just yet, but we are working on those as we speak. We care deeply about bot detection, one of the features of Crawlee is generated fingerprints based on real browser data we gather - you can read more about it in the https://github.com/apify/fingerprint-suite repository, which is used under the hood in Crawlee. For scraping via HTTP requests (e.g. cheerio/jsdom), we develop library called got-scraping (https://github.com/apify/got-scraping), that tries to mimic real browsers while doing fast HTTP requests.

Crawlee is and always will be open source. It originated from the Apify SDK (http://sdk.apify.com), which is a library to support development of so called Actors on the Apify Platform (http://apify.com) - so you can see it as a way for us to improve the experience of our customers. But you can use it anywhere you want, we provide ready to use Dockerfiles for each template.
I think the point being made is about banned by your region's major payment processing corporations, not specifically Visa or Mastercard.

Any statement about a "majority of the world" would need to apply to India, China, and the African continent to be true. In China being banned from Alipay or similar would presumably have the same or even worse effect. India's attempt to go cashless some years back disproportionately affected those without plastic or digital payment cards, further emphasizing the point.

I don't know too much about payment systems in Africa but my understanding is that mobile payment services have been heavily adopted and if a major payment corporation in the region banned an individual it would have a drastic negative effect on their livelihood. If corporate-issued payment devices are easy to do without in Europe it would seem to be the exception, not the rule.
> Definetly not in Europe.

Denmark and probably other Scandinavian countries almost never deal with cash any more. Everything is by card (Visa) or MobilePay (an app connected to your card)

If the card would stop working you would have a hard time.
Well it's a good time to buy some land and bury your gold then, isn't it.

Those idiots will take themselves down sooner or later.

Yeah, this is horrific, but it's what people are willingly subjecting themselves to.

If you don't rely on these systems you aren't subject to them.
He could probably still get his data as a data dump if he was European, just not his accounts reinstated. As Mark is apparently an American citizen though, the GDPR does not apply.
They need to remove inventory of their stupidity so they need to promote this hard and get on the next batch with real ESC keys.
Why can't modern developer applications use less resources? (Partially rhetorical, partially genuinely curious about what's the problem here.)
Literal survivorship bias, for both parties involved in the story.
Erasing a hard disc (i.e. spinning rust, not solid state ones) before retiring it is a proper use case. Linux/Unix example:

dd if=/dev/urandom bs=8mb of=/dev/sda

Note: this is a trivial example, which could be optimized in various ways, e.g. by generating one 8mb file of randomness and reusing that, especially if your urandom is slow.
Thinking before writing is hard: "Can we create biodegradable material for our everyday products ?"

Yes we can. Ask people who wants to buy a biodegradable washing machine.
https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1554395184473190400

> "Okay, it's been over a year, and it's time to end the nonsense speculation."

> "I have heard from several Apple employees that:"

> "1. The boot method we use is for 3rd-party OSes, and Apple only use it to test that it works, because"

> "2. It is policy that it works."

> "Hacker News peanut gallery, you can drop the BS now. It's not an "assumption" that this stuff exists for 3rd-party OSes. It couldn't "be something internal Apple uses that could go away any minute". That is not how it works, it never was, and now I'm telling you it's official."

> "And this isn't even news because @XenoKovah (who invented and designed this entire Boot Policy 3rd party OS mechanism) already tweeted about this whole thing a long time ago, but apparently it needs to be restated."
small business, sure. big business, no chance.
I do sometimes think about what a "good" socialist dictator would be like - and I'm aware there's been quite a few. But things like 'forced' socialism like capping health care prices or nationalizing health care, making rich people pay more taxes to lift up the poor (economic leveling), making politicians live as the poorest people they rule over for a few months.

Or things like limiting free speech; I like to think the world would be a better place if nazis, the KKK and the Confederation, their offshoots, teachings and their symbolisms were banned altogether. No tolerance for intolerance, and stuff.

I mean yeah, this line of thinking is dangerous, and the political left-right spectrum is more like a horseshoe, and I'm no political philosophist or anything. But as we are now, the right-wing is leaning heavily towards totalitarianism, to the point of wanting to abolish 'bad' law enforcement (like the FBI and IRS) in favor of their own cronies (the SS?), and disregarding the constitution and other laws while it suits them.
For this week's episode of 20MinJS, I interviewed Corbin Crutchley, who's writing a book to teach you Angular, React and Vue at the same time.

Granted, conceptually those frameworks share a lot of definitions, but implementation wise, they're quite different.

Would you try to learn them all together?
I don't see a problem with judgement either but yours was very non-impersonal (ad hominem) and on top of that, absolutist in nature and sweeping in scope severely lacking in nuance and subtlety.
Yes you are absolutely right. Even after a worldwide pandemic life expectancy and living standards are better everywhere.
When I think about taking alternative cost into account you loose more than "just money", you loose all the opportunities that could show up after a week or month later, or until you build savings back.

You always have yourself but consider also how much impact in psyche it might have, will you really have "yourself" after blowing all the savings? It could trigger regret (especially if some opportunity shows up after savings are gone) and could spiral down into depression. It is easy to say "I am strong, I would handle it" before something bad happens.
The alternative was mass unemployment, it would have taken two decades to re-prime the pump. So the alternative to such a large shock was either ~5 years of inflation / stagflation largely caused by supply side issues (can't get a driving test, can't get employees, can't get something shipped from China, etc), or a two decade (a la 30s / 40s) rebuilding the economy from scratch.

And (as a side issue) you shouldn't be surprised that large scale uncontained shocks lead to war. Look at the drought in Syria from 2006 to 2010. Look at the largely global economic shock in the 30s. If you want to see what a systemic supply shock can do to economies at scale have a look at the complete collapse in the lead up to 1177 BC.

So a large systemic shock like COVID will need to be "paid for", and the choices are "a very big bill" or "a catastrophic bug bill". I suspect that you feel that life was fine pre COVID and you were happy with your lot. And now you're not, you wish it was back the way it was (e.g. you can book a test). So since we had interventions (most "imposed" on us), post hoc ergo propter hoc the interventions are bad.

So my suggestion is to do a root cause analysis and realise that humans (both individually and collectively) are bad at dealing with black swans, even when we know it will come (sooner or later). And secondly, even if you don't like this human short coming and you wish that someone would just "get a grip" of the situation so you don't have to deal with something you don't like, it might help to have a bit more empathy towards people trying to help.
Electrification reduces the amount of mining and extraction and transport so if that's your focus you should be excited for this.

The key difference being that once you extract it, you can first re-use it for decades, then recycle it. Whereas with fossil fuels you need to continually dig up more to replace the ones you burned and vented into the atmosphere then ship it to where it is used.

https://www.transportenvironment.org/discover/electric-car-b...
> Happens to me a lot on Youtube too - you watch just one thing - and now your recommendations are full of things like that one thing.

Spotify's recommendation system is much better than youtube's (at least for me). I frequently "joke" that it is one of the few applications of ML that actively make my life as a consumer better.

Having been following Spotify's "Discover Weekly" for several years now, I'm actually really impressed how it manages to blend my long-term taste with recent moods. If I've been listening to one type of music for 1 or 2 weeks, there will be a noticeable uptick of it in the recommendations, while still mixing in less recent tastes.
Companies like Google rely heavily on AI and automation and keep humans out of the loop to the extent possible. Once the models detect these sort of photos, they won't be stopping. If they don't add a permanent exception then the AI would flag it on the next pass and repeat the process. Google certainly won't be retraining the models to learn to exclude "but not photos for doctors". Having humans going through and flagging accounts (or photos) for exceptions will ruin the economies of scale.

This can't keep going on like this. To somebody like Google, an account might just be a profit source, but to the affected people it can be their lives or livelihood.

The issue of right of redress really needs to be forced, legislatively.
While this is a very popular cynical view, it simply doesn't explain much. Corporations would like many many things that are not happening, because certain groups of people want otherwise. (Eg. cheap immigrant labor, less restriction on building, lowering of tariffs, repeal of the Jones Act.)

Though you could say that protectionism benefits a lot of companies, but a decrease in it would benefit more (and bigger ones).
You should know that I have two XPS13 in my possession, both with Ubuntu pre-installed, so I know the economics of it.

I was questioning your logic.

Are you concerned with it's purchase price or it's resale value? You can't have both, can you?

I don't understand why you use dual boot, if you only care for Linux? Or maybe you don't? Then why complain?

The capacitive top row renders it a clear "management" option anyway, I don't understand the appeal of it for development.

I think you don't have your priorities sorted out.
Unsurprisingly, it is easy to lose your spouse, children, etc. if you're at the point where you've already lost all your money. Because very likely, you've also lost their money in the process. I've seen people lose their family and friends, too.

People take out mortgages, credit card loans, loan money from friends, family, colleagues. Are intentionally opaque about their financial situation.

Then if things go bust, and people want their money back, they're stuck alone with the mess.

At its core, it's due to breach of trust.
macOS is very aggressive on memory compression and swap. When I still used a Mac for work, it said 11GB for sure as app memory, with a 40+ GB swap file alongside it.
But eventually every one of use will lose it all; we are all mortals.
So shouldn't we try to maximize happiness while we are alive? Risking it all could make sense if it leads to lots of happiness if it works out.
It reminds me of the saying, 'better to live one year as a lion than ten years as a sheep'
It's true though. Relational algebra is a very nice abstraction but SQL as a language is subpar to say the least. SQL is really unergonomic, it's difficult to reuse SQL code which is why there are no SQL libraries worth talking about and it's the reason why people go out of their way to create tools to replace SQL like ORMs or LINQ.

SQL is basically a DSL for data processing just like XSLT for example.
Would you call XSLT "designed for large scale programming"?

The "they will not be very productive with it" comment is a bit of a stretch - it can be very productive in the domain it is designed for - but you can often replace SQL at its job (like for example use Dataframe API in Spark instead of SQL API) while there are many tasks that SQL is a very poor fit for.
How fascinating. I guess this opens the old question "What is music?"

This is all definitely generated algorithmically using a really common chord progression in western music. (Think Pachebel's canon).

So a person (or group of people?) is creating generatively created music that is designed to be as pleasing to the ear of a human so that Spotify ranks it higher in automatically generated playlists which means more plays, which means more money.

It's crappy and spammy but also really kinda clever.
>it’s not practical to not trust anyone and maintain a functional life.

I'd say it's very practical to not exchange medical information over an insecure channel. I don't email naked pictures of myself or even worse share pictures of a child's genitals in some google drive folder anyone can copy or share. my life is perfectly functional. Anyone who deals with email should treat any email they write like they're public, because there's always one dude who copies some entire chain into a reply or forwards something to a hundred random people that weren't supposed to get it.

When you mail something like this you don't even know if the doctor or the secretary opens them. If they're immediately backed up to some remote server now some tech worker has access to naked pictures of your kid. You can't request to delete that information, there's no ownership. That's a completely insane way to treat your most sensitive data.

For tele-medicine there's strict regulations on the safety of apps and how patient data are treated. Consult doctors through one of those. I'm not even sure if it's technically legal for a doctor to interact with patient data as described in the article.
Did you look at historical data on who gave who electricity in former years?

Climate change is changing the playing field fast and unexpectedly, but let’s not forget that e.g. solar panels don’t work better in huge heat either - it affects everything. And even so, nuclear plants will go back to producing a shitton of energy once the weather cools a bit.
> I don't want laptops that look like glass.

As a MacBook user, neither do I.

It looks like Dell took all the mistakes Apple made in recent years and turned them up to 11 in a single package.

That keyboard will be a nightmare to touchtype on. The arrow keys will require looking down to use every single time. The trackpad without clear borders will be a usability nightmare. Or perhaps they mean it spans the entire width of the laptop, which is probably much worse. Capacitive things have no place in a developer's computer.
I'm reminded of what happened to solar hot water. It's now generally cheaper to use PV to drive a heat pump water heater. I suspect the same is true here -- use PV to drive an ordinary refrigeration cycle. And PV, unlike the concentrating collectors shown here, also works with sunlight scattered off clouds and clear air.
At this point it seems that anything but client-side encrypted backups is a liability. Although I guess there is a sizeable group of knuckleheads who would like to ban the notion of client-side encrypted backups just as much as they want to ban end-to-end encrypted messaging — as soon as they learn such a thing exists.
yes, apologies, I skipped ahead.

Parsing: "There’s not very many instances where someone needs to parse sql"
The only use cases would be building your own database/query optimizer and having SQL be the API.

There are plenty of other tools already to help programming languages interface w/SQL, give compile time checks, test, generate SQL, etc.

Build the parser for fun, sure, but don't then offer consulting services on an article that didn't really specify a business problem or outcome and just talked about tech stuff.
it's good quality (relative to other sites) but there is a lot of arrogance to weed through.
So sad, what used to be a groundbreaking laptop (an ultraportable that you'd actually buy with official Linux support!) is now copying the worst from Apple, while degrading in almost all aspects from the predecessors. No headphone jack, no USB-A? 13" 4K screen which sucks the not-so-small battery as fast as the first version did ~10 years ago? Touchbar? Glass screen? A charger that can't actually charge the device while you are compiling your code? And this is a "developer" machine? I'm so disappointed.
I have an XPS 15, the power management is so bad that I had to tell it to hibernate rather than sleep when I close the lid. Otherwise it was using 3x more CPU 'sleeping' with the lid closed than under normal use. I tried to figure out what was going on with performance recorder/analyser but eventually I gave up.
What kind of business would benefit from you betting your children on it? Sure you can easily burn all of those by working too much, but that is a trade and not a bet.
What kind of person stores 50k USD in a device and forgets and loses the paper where he’d written the PIN?!

Besides that, this attack demonstrates that there are ways, accessible to a technician with some preparation, to extract secret keys from hardware tokens such as Crypto wallets and Yubikeys.

Perhaps you could hack a hardware key with one or few thousands dollars, sending it to a special underground lab? Does anyone have any information about this market and costs?
"I can’t help but laugh at how incomplete this game was and that I prioritized adding DRM over polishing gameplay."

There are a lot of companies who do this.
You can see that the main SW is crashing but the copy or cheat protection works as intended.
Oh, does that mean the /v0/updates endpoint will disappear in the new API? I found it to be quite valuable.
No, VISA has recently managed to kill Maestro and is taking over. Even the Swiss post bank is now issuing visa debit cards instead of the previous Postfinace cards which only worked in a limited number of ATMs.
There isn't one. Every news source reflects the biases of its owners. It's just that some do it more subtly than others.

My strategy is to pretty much avoid reading or listening to news altogether. And, if some big global event does happen, I'll read about it on Reuters, Russia Today, Al Jazeera and China Daily, assume they're all lying to me and try and form my own opinion based on the facts they all agree on --which, in a lot of cases, is not much more than the date and who was there.
Can I use this to log into LinkedIn, run a query on posts and then send me an email of the results? (In theory of course as I am sure this will violate some policy)
But corporations do have ideological underpinnings, and not just the generic ones that underpin capitalism. Look at the below mission statements:

To organise the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful - Google

To enhance the lives of our people, members, customers, and the communities in which we trade - Co-op group

Give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together - Facebook

To support national and international security policies that protect those who are defenseless and provide a free voice for all with a dedication to providing ethical, efficient, and effective turnkey solutions that positively impact the lives of those still caught in desperate times - Blackwater

I would argue all of the (along with the generic maximizing shareholders value obviously.) are concrete expressions of specific underlying ideologies. Roughly speaking these are that information should be universally accessible, corporations should benefit not just their shareholders, the world would be better if we were all one big family (very dubious!), and being a mercenary is fine as long as you're an "ethical" mercenary, whatever that means.

That we often don't see these as ideologically motivated statements is just because they are all, to a greater or lesser extent, in line with the dominant ideologies of our time, capitalism and liberal democracy.