skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It currently uses .1% of global energy

ie. about between 300 and a million times more energy than VISA/Mastercard when adjusted to the number of transactions. [0]

> It makes use of stranded energy

Miners who mine 24/7, by definition, do not consume stranded energy. There are no numbers whatsoever that can affirm which part of the miners use stranded energy. On the other hand, when one coal mine got flooded in China last year, 33% of the mining power came to a halt. [1]

> off peak energy stabilizing grid production

So much stabilizing it has caused blackouts in several countries [2]. Texas has resorted to pay miners so they don't cause blackouts [3]

> incentivizes green energy build outs

No, it incentivizes cheap electricity sources. Moreover in the topic of climate change the greenest energy is the one you don't consume.

> with the landfill methane caputure business will soon be the only digital asset that is carbon negative

What? Landfill methane business is basically saying "instead of just burning methane, let's burn it and use the heat to power up some BTC mining". At best, that makes the operation carbon neutral.

If you are trolling, I must say, congrats, you triggered me.

[0] https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption
[1] https://fortune.com/2021/04/20/bitcoin-mining-coal-china-env...
[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-25/kazakhsta..., https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59879760, https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/26/iran-bans-bitcoin-mining-as-...
[3] https://fortune.com/2022/07/12/texas-bitcoin-miners-paid-shu...
I'd argue that is exactly what they are doing. Their promotional material and many users are already using iPads as desktops... and they seem to be catering to them.
Assuming these incidents were caused by some sort of device, that device could have been placed there a long time ago. Oligarch-superyachts are/were (before the war) probably not that suspicious cruising there, and I would not be shocked if some of them have mini-submarines.
I think too many people lean on 'strengths' instead of realizing that you could be putting effort to improve your 'opportunities'. Growth is about making yourself better at things you aren't naturally good at, not staying in your safe zone doing the same exact things just because it's easier for you that way.

This is how I hire, I look for people willing to adapt and learn, because our field changes constantly you have to be able and willing to adapt to it. That may not be comfortable.
> I find that the best use of a tablet is reading and watching videos.

I think HN forgets the 'pros' using the iPad Pros are video, photography, visual-arts and music professionals.

I'm as disappointed as the next dev on HN that iPadOS still doesn't allow me to run a full version of Xcode. But then I remember there are perfectly good laptops for that, and I'm not the target audience for these devices
It is possible that we will have a viable universal sarbecovirus vaccine by then.
Still digging my Galaxy S21 being a desktop experience over an HDMI cable.

But I'm probably switching to a Samsung phone that folds.
They had to because it's impossible to water proof the iPad with a headphone jack, or because there's not enough space inside the device, I forgot what was the official reason they used for the iPhone. The unofficial reason is that no headphone port means more AirPod sales.
No. The problem is deeper than that. Adding more housing and more services will help but don't kid yourself into thinking that these things are free or that they will magically make the problems disappear. People will still be on drugs. People will still have mental health problems. People will still commit crimes. The amount of work required is bigger than any writing implement can accomplish.
This is the essay he is responding to, for some reason he links to the tweet plugging it instead:

https://doctorow.medium.com/como-is-infosec-307f87004563
I enjoy this sort of "one example, multiple different lenses" style of discussion. It reminds me of this book... Exercises in Programming Style by Cristina Videira Lopes.
USB-C on this is not the big news. The USB-C on Apple TV remote controller is the sign you're looking for. Apple is end of life-ing Lightning connector after all
You can identify visual design changes just by looking at them... that's kind of the point
Clickbaity title, since they don't have the answer and the paper says as much. They do have some guesses, anyone interested just skip the article and go to the conclusions section.

Guess 1 is female student behavior adaptation to what teachers want aside from academic performance:

> School and classroom environments might indeed be adapted to traditionally female behaviours (Lavy 2008). Female students might thus adopt such actual behaviours during class, including precision, order, modesty, and quietness, which go beyond the individuals’ academic performance, but which teachers may highly reward in terms of grades. ... Conversely, teachers may be likely to associate such behaviours only with female students, because girls are traditionally thought of as possessing these traits.

Guess 2 is gender bias over-compensation:

> Another theoretical explanation calls into play teacher overcompensation towards females. Girls are indeed often discussed in discrimination contexts, especially in speeches about gender differences in cognitive ability in dealing with the ‘hard subjects’. A possible explanation for the reason teachers are more generous in grading female students could be that teachers wish to avoid possible discrimination against girls as an ability-stigmatized group. Therefore, teachers may over-assess girls in the same way they sometimes over-assess non-native students, to avoid negative stereotyping (Alesina 2018). From another perspective, it is also possible that the over-assessment of female students’ competences in Mathematics partly represents a sort of ‘push’ to encourage the weaker students (Terrier 2015). As a consequence, this may translate into a positive discrimination which favours girls.

Guess 3 is simply noisy data (teachers using grades to manipulate students into performing better, according to whatever teachers think motivates boys vs. girls):

> A final interpretation of our results could stem from a limitation of our data. Indeed, our measure of student grading is derived from the midterm report card, rather than the final report card of the academic year. Teachers may consciously adopt specific grading practices at the midterm to trigger students’ effort differently according to their gender, to in turn obtain the best possible performance by the end of the academic year. Specifically, teachers could perceive that male students’ effort is more easily triggered by lower grades, which could encourage them to study harder to achieve a better grade, while female students’ effort to achieve higher grades may be more easily triggered via encouragement.
It's still pathetic they won't let you run OS X on it.
It must be so satisfying to wake up on the morning of a product announcement after a long development cycle, pour a nice hot cup of coffee, and then type `news.ycombinator.com` into the browser's address bar
1 + 1 = 3 (Because some aliens understand what state changes occur in the future and the equation is specific to the singularity of something not the progressive time.)
I'm not talking about 3k users, he said 99% of use cases
Yes you can, if it was designed as such from the beginning. I literally live in one now. They go back and forth between residential and office occupancy with each lease, with no changes to the building or spaces themselves. It just has to be done right. My apartment is exactly identical to how it was when the previous tenant used it as an office.
Off topic: is it secure to replace password with 2FA altogether? If not, what about some kind of 2FA variant?
> progressively violating more and more of Taiwan's sovereign airspace

Just in terms of international law, the Chinese flights near Taiwan are provocative but don’t violate any laws. The U.S. and Russia still do this sort of thing all the time. An ADIZ is not sovereign airspace.
i think big cities will always attract people. companies will do more to bring people back over time. the bay area will not be a leader in this space.

i don’t think anyone doubts that when the commute is reasonable and office perks good it’s better to be in an office. mostly for social reasons. sf had some of the longer commutes in the country

some other better connected metro area will grow bigger and more successful and then things will have a forcing function to make it less painful to go into the office
It's already easy to start with decent automatic speech recognition to create a text note in the first place.

e.g. Siri, Cortana, android Google keyboard microphone.
Was he actively engaged with them? I mean anyone in cybersecurity is likely to have spoken and worked with people in other countries on a professional level, including Russia and China? This seems lite on details.
Indeed, beware of round numbers, they tend to indicate very low sample size and very large error range.
The extra 2 inches of screen can be a reason to get a Pro, but I agree it's unclear why they both to put in so much horsepower.
At this point all my headphones are bluetooth anyways. One less port water and stuff can get into (although I agree they probably should have kept it here).
You are projecting a bit there
At this point I’m over wired headphones. I carry a couple of pairs in my backpack for use on airplane seat back entertainment systems, but otherwise I prefer Bluetooth earbuds.
Why is JS mutually exclusive to the old web?
Another good signal could be transmission at the frequently of free hydrogen times pi, or times e, or both.

The problem here is not even in the need to spend colossal amounts of energy to signal one's presence. The question is whether such advertising is a good idea if the civilization strives to survive; very likely it is not.
How? Literally millions of people get past the ads every day. Maybe even hundreds of millions.
Same shit happening at UK based finance firms. More than half of the employees are visa slaves.
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

Its runtimes are all like 5X C's. Not sure I would say "screams", it looks like it keeps up with Java though.
> bring joy while browsing the web

Why am I seeing people using the word "joy" everywhere lately? And why is theming a web browser bringing it to anyone?
Yeah nomad is okay but not as functional as k8s (yet)
The "liquid" in liquid retina refers to the corners of the display being rounded to match the bezels. Retina is a now longstanding Apple term for high enough resolution to not see pixels at normal viewing distances. Hope that clarifies things, they should keep a glossary page up for things like this, hah.
But you already advertise (via the DHT, which offers no secrecy) the torrent file... and that contains all the data needed to get all the files within the torrent.

So this data is already being published, just in a less queryable form.
I was as curious as you, and found this:

>While the fact that the census 1939 inquired Jewish ancestry is a well known fact in historiography its significance for the identification of individual Jews in the context of the Shoah has been disputed. The thesis argues that a population register introduced in 1939 - the People's Card Index (Volkskartei) - was essential in the identification of German Jews. Consulting new sources it shows that the collation of the census data on ancestry with the Volkskartei was ordered in March 1941 to facilitate the identification and localisation of German Jews in the context of the deportations.

https://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/95623/
So we can continue having bananas to eat. All bananas we eat are clones of a limited variety of banana species. A disease that affects one Cavendish banana tree will eventually wipe out all Cavendish bananas because they have identical genes.

Cloned plants are great for production for awhile but genetic diversity wins over time.
Wow, I had no idea. Thanks so much!

Although now that I'm researching it, it's even more convoluted. I'd installed the Symantec VIP Access authenticator app, for example, specifically because PayPal had said they required it (or the wording had led me to believe that -- they certainly didn't mention alternatives).

But now apparently it's the opposite -- as of this past June, PayPal has removed support for Symantec, and requires instead Google/Microsoft/Authy/etc.:

https://www.paypal.com/us/smarthelp/article/what-other-2-ste...

What in the actual hell. I swear to god there's no winning here. :S
Yea, it works well and is plenty fast on a LAN (remote may be laggy). Some things you can't test using emulators, namely App Store stuff I believe, and you need to screw with the resolution/scaling so you can read the text.

I threw a GitHub runner on mine so I can do iOS builds from it.
I was told to expect wireless charging for these. I was excited about this, because my mother has an irrational "thing" about wires, and an uncharged iPad is a useless iPad.
I agree. Consider the octopus - each of it's limbs contains it's own cortex and so it has in essence 8 separable brains. Or ants and bees which contain a hive intelligence. An ant has almost no neurons, but the collective number of neurons of an ant hive approaches that of a human brain. These are only creatures that are on our earth that have radically alternative ways of experiencing intelligence. Why would we expect aliens to have an intelligence that's at all comparable to humanity when even somewhat intelligent animals on our planet don't exhibit the same characteristics?
So? Basically Bezos is able to make money while treating his employees better than competition and paying them more than competition... and I should be mad because he could pay them more if he wanted?
AMD is Taiwan; they design chips but those are manufactured by TSMC.
Intel is Israel.
I was on the fence when the iPad Pro M1 was released, it seemed to finally tick off as a laptop replacement for some of my hobbies (photography and music) but unfortunately it is not a desktop OS, not supporting desktop workflows and apps that I'm used to.

If it was a screen-only version of my MBA M1 I could definitely ditch the MBA and use an iPad exclusively, even if it required attaching a keyboard sometimes. The lacking software still makes it much more of a luxury to me than something to actually replace my use cases for a portable computer... I could afford one but see absolutely no usage given that my MBA is already extremely portable and works like I expect.
I doubt that. Many very serious artists use Procreate on an iPad as their primary medium, and I honestly can't think of a better tool without jumping about a thousand dollars in price, loath as I am to say it.
Well, no, that is not right. Passkeys most definitely not available to someone who steals your phone.
This distinction between informational asymmetry and security through obscurity seems artificial. Doesn't security through obscurity rely on informational asymmetry by definition? What is the distinction here? It would be more honest to say that security through obscurity sometimes works, and sometimes doesn't have an alternative. And bot prevention is such a case. I'm not aware of any open source bot prevention system that works against determined attackers.

Any real world security system relies to some extent on security through obscurity. No museum is going to publish their security system.

It's only in the digital world that certain things, such as encryption, can be secure even under conditions where an adversary understands the entire system, so that security through obscurity in that context is frowned upon because it shouldn't be necessary.

But this is a special case. Security is mostly a red queens race, and "obscurity" or "informational asymmetry" is an advantage the defenders have.
I am under the impression that this is kind of true, though, in that you might think of Giphy as a massive pile of user content under dubious or illegitimate licensing, but it actually (ridiculously) is a repository of exclusively-licensed content that is contributed by such groups as motion picture companies (and which is then also what kind of led to the downfall of the concept, as the existence of Giphy and its narrow catalog of official gifs OK'd by marketing and legal departments started to feel stale).
Braindead from an American perspective, it is also likely those policies have averted upwards of 4 million deaths.
Researchers find 633% increase in cyber-attacks aimed at open source
Ask HN: Why is Hacker News not interested in defense technology?
National defense is becoming increasingly important, yet Hacker News shows very little interest in defense technology. As a Navy veteran who lives in Silicon Valley, I'm curious for reasons. Thanks.

State Department Urges Silicon Valley to Aid National Security Effort: https://archive.ph/SXpc5

Datapoint 1: Posts about Palmer Luckey and his defense company go nowhere. Before Anduril, Luckey was the man most responsible for getting VR off the ground at Oculus.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=palmer%20luckey&sort=byDate&type=story

Datapoint 2: Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract

https://gizmodo.com/google-employees-resign-in-protest-against-pentagon-con-1825729300
Bullshit, talking to someone over the phone internationally used to cost tens of dollars per conversation. Now I can do a VIDEO call with my friends and family across 5 different countries for free, or a few dollars per month.
Pretty much everyone here knocking the iPad Pros for being consumption-only passive entertainment devices.

But I guess the artists, musicians, video-editors and photographers using them professionally would disagree, if they ever came here.
> Is tech still counter culture now that it pervades every place in society?

Tech is not counter culture (and has in my personal observation never really been). Hacker culture, on the other hand, was counterculture from beginning on and still mostly is.
The American public school system is a veritable penal colony proxy. My experience with math was much the same.

As someone on the tail end of the Bell curve and for whom such a monolithic system was a poor fit, I wasted over a dozen years of my life there, in unfortunately what were my most formative years.

Luckily my siblings are correcting that with their children.
I know it's very niche and doesn't apply to everybody but I know of a bunch of comic book/comic strip artists that are doing more and more work on the iPad pro and less on their Wacom devices.
because i expect miners to not operate at a loss. they can address this by either turning off their miners (which is most likely to occur when coinbase dominates the block payment amount), or by charging more to process transactions.

so far, by-and-large, the proportion of block profit coming from transaction fees has increased, as expected: https://buybitcoinworldwide.com/stats/fees-percent-of-reward...
ProCreate and illustrator aren’t comparable. The former is raster while the latter is a vector app.

I think you meant to or should compare it to Photoshop
The Pencil is one of the more irritating product choices Apple has made. Plugging the first gen directly into a Lightning port end-first was a stupid idea from the get go. Version 2 got that right. But why did they need to make them incompatible otherwise? Other than to make a few extra bucks, of course. Forcing people to upgrade for no particular reason, and on top of that continuing to sell both versions for different devices. It's ridiculous.
"If you don't send your kids to school, they won't fit in with society."

"Correct."
I don't know for the axiom of choice but I would be surprised if 1+1=2 is not universal, whatever way is used to express it
> We might find, for example, that it's impossible to create something we'd consider intelligent that doesn't use Occam's razor. We might one day even be able to prove that.

I have no idea how one would go about proving this but personally I would start with something like the "Principle of Least Action" applied to thought.
> You don't know how they will react, whether you'll be forced off interesting projects, put at the top of the layoff list, or similar.

Yep, this has happened to me. So if I'm unhappy, I usually just start sending my resume out. I never ask for anything (big) from my boss unless I have an offer in-hand.
Sometimes when working on software the goal is not to get a competitive advantage, but to promote some ideas. Copyleft license is a tool that aims to help with granting, that the work derivatives are available to the public to read and modify (i.e to prevent closing the source code of the program that is commercially sold).

The concrete difference you ask about is that the work derived from copyleft code retains the license and the source code can't be closed. If you scrap the license, then the code created by someone who had clear goal in mind when writing it for not making improvements over it closed source, ends up with possibility of being closed source.
Yeah, in either case healthy boundaries are important.
Not to mention video calls (Google Meet, Zoom, Teams) kill the battery on an iPad. Google Meet in particular seems to be about 1% of battery a minute.
Netflix adds profile data transfer feature ahead of crackdown on account sharing
This was a student receiving a monthly stipend from the government for their living expenses, which is normal in many European countries.

Wikipedia defines welfare as "a type of government support intended to ensure that members of a society can meet basic human needs such as food and shelter." That seems like a good definition to me, and this case definitely fits.

Edit: In fact, there is a conservative anti-welfare narrative that this post plays right into. If the author was waiting until midnight for the deposit to post so they could buy drugs, alcohol, or some other 'vice', this would certainly be picked up by a conservative politician or media outlet and used to argue against welfare.
One factor I see with my own kids is that the girls are more likely to study for class exams, whereas boys will just "wing it" and only put the effort in for standardised national exams.
Why Xi Jinping and not, say, MbS?
That was my impression too, signing a 3 year deal in 2020 for ~$400 to $450 million/year.

> More than 90 per cent of Mozilla's funding comes from web search providers that pay for the right to be the default search engine in Firefox in their regions. According to the organization's latest financial figures [PDF], $430m of its 2018 total revenue of $451m came from those internet giants – primarily Google, we understand. These deals were due to be renewed or renegotiated by November this year.

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/14/mozilla_google_search...

I believe it's listed under royalties and also receivables in the annual report, though that does not specify Google specifically, but you can look at the numbers and figure they are a large portion if the news was accurate.

[2] https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2020/mozilla-fdn-202...
> is this model still worse than the Air somehow even though its design has been updated?

Yes, in a myriad of ways! This iPad doesn’t have a laminated touchscreen, and it still uses the Gen. 1 Apple Pencil weirdly so no magnets and you need a type c to lightning adapter to charge it up.
I would assume this would cannibalise mac sales, very doubtful we will ever see compilers on ipad os
My chrome browser.
Practically every website is vulnerable to an attacker scraping it. If you give people information it's hard to stop them from saving that information.
> The original title is misleading, as the paper doesn't answer "why".

Story of the internet, right there.
OK: PRC blockades Taiwan leads to american navy blockading PRC

Nobody wants that.