skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Australian here. What Assistance and Access bill did is different, and clever in some ways. TL;DR: it doesn't attack encryption directly - it doesn't give the government power to direct anyone to hand over keys, for instance. In fact the bill specifically prohibits the government in asking anyone to introduce a "systemic weakness". A systemic weakness is something that would allow the government to spy on everyone - which is what India seemingly wants to do.

But as I said it's clever. It can specifically prohibit introducing new "systemic weaknesses" because they already have one that's more than good enough for their purposes. That would be silent security updates. They have given themselves the power to compel tech company (Apply/Google/Microsoft) to install a silent security update on a specific device. The "silent security update" would of course be a bug (spy intercept) of some sort. It doesn't bypass encryption because it doesn't need to - a human can only consume unencrypted data, so that's what the spy bug intercepts.

They've ensured that it will never be systemic to their own satisfaction by putting several hurdles in place, like independent judicial review of the bug and which devices will be targeted. The fundamental principle is the only acceptable reason for targeting someone is criminal activity. If those hurdles are respected (and it seems likely they would mostly be followed) it means the Chinese like surveillance society India seems to be trying to create would be very difficult in Australia, even with this law. Which I guess would make it a reasonable compromise between government privacy invasion and law and order concerns.

The flaw is it's impossible to know if they are being respected. All companies and people forced to inject these spy ware updates are automatically subject to a gag order. All that review I mentioned happens in secret, and they have specifically exempted themselves from publishing any meaningful information on who, what, why and how devices are targeted.

To finish the picture - if the Australian government was concerned about criminal behaviour happening over Signal, it's highly unlikely they would be approaching Signal as India has apparently done. (I can't for the life of me think of a reason why Signal would give a shit about what the India government thinks or wants. Ditto the Australian government.) Instead they would direct Google to inject keyboard and screen monitors into Android. Google makes a lot of money in Australia, so it's likely they would comply. Like I said - it's clever.

But not impossibly so. It only works if they can target a particular device. For a commercial products this is invariably easy - Apple, Google, Microsoft all want you to sign in with an identity so they can milk some profit out of it either by charging you or at least displaying advertising. But open source projects, like Fedora or Debian, go out of their way to not identity the users, and worse Debian creates audit trails like reproducible builds. So their users are largely immune to Australia's Assistance and Access Bill (2019). But they aren't immune to India's rubber hose approach.
I mean, I think they may agree that we are the most powerful species on Earth (debatable, if you account for the impacts of bacteria, viruses, trees, etc.), but that's distinct from agreeing that our lives are the most valuable.

I think most humans would begrudgingly agree that white men, americans, europeans, etc. are the most powerful group on Earth. I don't think they'd agree that their lives are the most valuable.
Japan is the only notable exception I can think of.
emojis are metaphors not replicas
Try to eat fewer meals with meat first. Find recipes, try them a few days of the week. That already helps.
Bizarre responses in this thread to the plainly anti-competitive behavior of Apple.

There have to be dozens of posts here along the lines of "I don't like xyz about spotify[...]". Whether anyone of us likes Spotify has zero relevance when it comes to the fact if they should be subject to extractive rents, literally none.

The EU or any other regulator finally needs to draw a line in the sand and make clear that manufacturing hardware doesn't entitle you to dictate people how they conduct financial transactions. How Spotify, its users and producers interact with each other is their business, and the idea that Apple has any right to insert themselves into the business transactions of third parties is absurd.

Imagine every time you made any payment on a Windows machine, you had to pay Microsoft a 10% tax. Every game, every piece of audio, every paypal transcaction, for no reason at all merely because you happen to be on a windows computer you pay them a fee. We'd be rioting in the streets probably. We brought the hammer down on Microsoft for shipping a browser by default, how is Apple getting away with literally acting like a landlord on its devices?
I switched from an OG Pixel XL to an iPhone when I found out about Google's Project Nightingale[1], though I was already looking for a new phone because I got a notification saying that November would be the last security update my phone would get, on a three year old phone.

[1]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-s-secret-project-nightin...
you might not need a good user experience
Am I missing something or do all the blogs above mention mirrorless as the replacement for DSLR, not smartphones?
Thanks, I will definitively use that kill one.
Why would you suggest that?

This is a site of primarily rich tech guys who aren’t really affected by climate change and who get off on feeling superior to people who aren’t rich tech guys.
Can you elaborate? It's a big leap to go from vaguely describing something you read he said to then describing this hypothetical as a metaphorical F22.
Shout out to Neo4j.
FTA quoting an expert in licensing: "It’s important not to orphan a community codebase,” said open source software licensing specialist Heather Meeker, General Partner at OSS Capital. “It can be hard to define what that means, but it’s disruptive to withdraw code from a public repository and then change the license. The challenge is to ensure a commitment to the community as ownership interests change over time. You need protective provisions, so companies don’t abandon their open source roots.”
You can. Contact Hasselblad Aerial Division.
In a global civilization composed of countless groups of humans, is it ethically defensible to consider the perspective of just one?
Paid a hell of a premium for the pleasure
Hi HN,

This is a great initiative in supporting open source. I’m the founder of https://thanks.dev mentioned in the article and I’ve been speaking to a lot of community members over the last year.

There’s a lot of great work being done in the background that we don’t hear about and there’s an opportunity to do a lot more. I’ve learnt an immense amount since I’ve been working on this project and the diversity in thought & perspective I’ve encountered has been amazing!

Happy to chat if anyone is interested.

Big kudos to Chad & Sentry!

Ali,
Ourworldindata.org is an incredible resource.
it's also a blue bubble/green bubble thing. lightning is more exclusive and therefore better
I had spent few weekends in my attempt to automate the process of generating 3D model from pictures. The underlying issue and concern folks have with matterport is their lock in. You are free to upload images to it but not allowed to self host or use their resource to generate the 3D dollhouse.

The regular way requires to feed the photo into multiple layer of software. Example, generate a point cloud, create a mesh from it, clean up the mesh and port it a Fanwood to be consumed (unity. Unreal, etc) this is all manual.

I am genuinely curious how the folks at matterport are able to do it with next to no human input after feeding it 2d pictures.
> It mandates a USB C connector. They weren’t smart enough to mandate that “all USB C cables sold in the EU must actually meet the standard”.

Then I don't know why you're spending so many posts purely about cables in complaint of this law. Cables have gone from unregulated to unregulated.

If your underlying argument is "this is in the right direction but they should have gone further", you are not coming across that way with all your other posts.

> Then you also have the opposite problem. If the USB cable supports higher wattage power delivery, some low wattage USB C devices like headphones won’t charge.

Do you mean like the thing with raspberry pis? That wasn't about wattage, their miswiring meant that any cable with a tag would fail.

Otherwise I don't see how that kind of failure is possible.
Seems to generate more discussion than lighting oneself on fire - with less damage (loss of life) - as mentioned by another commenter upthread.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/25/politics/supreme-court-cl...
Zuckerberg: They “trust me”
Zuckerberg: Dumb fucks.
Interest rate above 3% going to be an issue for cloud based computing.
This area was born at 0% interest.
Majority of Cortex-A cores are in complex SoCs, where you have to do all of the above and more if you want to boot something like Linux.
That's true, but if you ask the question "Is Next and JS the best way to do this?" the answer is almost certainly "No". The reason why it's seems like so many devs are doing it this way is because so few devs are being honest and truly critical of their toolset.

JS (well, TS) is fine but it's not good. I'm a frontend dev, and I use JS, React and Next daily for making a rich clientside-driven app that uses a sprinkling of serverside rendering to gather up some data every page needs at the start, and it's nice to work with. It's easy and our velocity is great because of it. If we ever go fully serverside with no code shared on the frontend I'll be arguing that JS is the wrong language for the job because we can be faster, and safer, in something like golang.

We shouldn't be afraid of abandoning JS if we don't need JS.
He can go around now saying that he forced Elon to buy the company by not backing down, for a price premium during a recession, no less. He has his generous severance package and will walk into his next job very comfortably, I'm not sure why you think there is a downside here.
maybe i'm getting old, but I don't see VR ever being more than a niche play thing. Humans will continue to want real world interactions, not just put on a headset and live in vr. Facebook, et al, worked because they were highly accessible. Having to put on a headset? No thanks.
Militant-ism isn't going to win people over.

The great lie of capitalism is pushing a theory of personal responsibility rather than legislating these problems away.

There are so many elements of my life that cause harm to other beings that addressing the harm could be a full time job.

Killing rodents, mosquitos, and ants is something most people will do without a second thought. I've sprayed a wasp nest with wasp killer and one writhed on the ground for 5 minutes and I felt awful about it, but there is practically a whole aisle of it at the local hardware store.

How many insects do you think have been harmed by industrial pesticides used in growing grains? What type of animal harm do you think pet ownership brings? How many wild birds do you think are killed in how many different ways? How many animals do you think are hit with cars? What do you think the effect the shipping industry has on sea life? What about trash? What about the smog? What about the chemicals dumped into the environment that are used to produce the hardware we are communicating with?

How much animal testing has been done by scientists on all types of animals to have what we have today?

My desire to pay as little as possible for coffee means the barista can't afford a home and likely will have their body harmed by the stress of not having enough money to operate in today's society. We send manufacturing off to poor countries were pollutants more directly harm their citizens than ours.

The wikipedia article states that poultry sex can be determined before hatching and that European countries have legislated that culling must stop, so it sounds like we are able to make progress. "Beyond" shows there is at least research going into lab grown/cruelty free meats.

Do I have a moral obligation to go live next to a pond feeding on what I can forage while living in a dwelling I built with my own hands or is it satisfying enough that I vote progressive and hope to make progress over time by regulating the more atrocious of our actions.

FWIW, I have tried vegetarianism and I did not enjoy it at all. I found it greatly limited my food choices. It felt ascetic and I felt miserable. So while it is easy for you, I did not find it easy.
Is the europlug actually mandated or just common? I've seen a few different, sometimes incompatible, sockets in different mainland europe countries.

If I was in NA, I would want to use british plugs on my 240V stuff if it was legal though. And not just because I hate the soles of my feet.
Don’t know how I missed that, thank you
It should be noted that the energy stored in the pressure of gas is zero. All the energy of an ideal gas is the kinetic energy (and rotational/vibrational energy) of its molecules, which is thermal energy. Internal energy of an ideal gas is independent of pressure.

What compressed gas storage does is (aside from combustion energy of a fuel gas) to provide not a store of energy, but a store of reduced entropy, enabling otherwise unusable amounts of heat to be converted to work.
How is a change in stock price of a company like Facebook of any intellectual interest?
It’s literally an indicator of a surplus. If you were ever poor you’d notice they label it “surplus cheese” when you’re given it.
The odds are that Twitter will probably be dead in a year. He'll bring on a few yes-men executives that'll applaud him when he guts development and then when everything grinds to a halt they'll catch the blame. Especially since he'll probably force something like integrated NFTs on a whim.

Unlike Facebook and how it's captured an older audience that's relative inelastic to moving to other platforms, I don't see people sticking around on Twitter nor do I see employees staying around either.
I wonder what the selection criteria was. For example mexico is also not on the list
i think there won't be any speed changes for numpy operation and other few operation which were already implemented in C function.
Parent poster
It is a great replacement for the gym (at least for me), but I otherwise I agree.
That's the thing I don't get. A billion dollars could make 1000 oil exec's lives hell. The CIA did far worse with far fewer resources.
Well they left USA on the list.
It’s not the whole drain pipe. It’s maybe 18”. Encourage you to google it.
Yes, but those lawsuits are rare and require them to show malfeasance of some kind. They can't sue him for being stupid.
Because between non-meat eaters and meat eaters there's a statistically significant reduction, while between vegans and fish-eaters there isn't?
In my part of Europe the price of half a litre of petrol is around the same as a kWh of electricity at home. If you use public chargers (there are no Tesla Superchargers here), then yes, it will be more expensive than the equivalent ICE car.

But if you can afford to drop €55k on a new car, you probably aren't doing it to save money.
The Soup Throwers
It looks like the oldest phone with current support is from 2019. The 2017 iPhone is still getting OS updates. And up until September this year, the iPhone from 2015 was still on the current OS. Does any Android phone even get half long of a software update cycle?
I don't think they make best in class devices, Apple has become in may respects a fast follower, but they do a great job of locking people into their ecosystem. It just turns out that their ecosystem doesn't suck, but it's still kind of a white collar app prison.

If I had to ferment a revolution into a democracy, Android would be much closer to the ideal I would want in that future.
The problem with electrolysis was not its efficiency, the problem was capital cost of the electrolysers (so they could be paired effectively with intermittently overproducing renewables.) Efficiency was more of the concern when it was imagined expensive nuclear power would be driving electrolysers 24/7.
Which really frightens me.

There are already versions of OpenEmbedded leenucks that can't be built (whole system distributions, not the kernel.) To repair that you have to do A LOT of work rebuilding recipies, guessing which patches were included in various source bases.

And now we're going to have to maintain version closures for multiple editions of rust (unless there's a fiat indicating leenucks use is fixed at a particular edition.)

I like Rust. But the last time I used it extensively was around 0.8 and I just don't have the energy to keep learning new editions every couple years. And after surviving the Python 2.3 -> 2.5 -> 2.7 transitions, changing your syntax every couple years just sort of makes me want to curl up in a little ball and cry myself to sleep.

Seriously. I would rather keep coding in C. I hate C. Okay, maybe I just have a mild dislike for C. But I have non-trivial C programs I wrote in 1982 that still compile and run. I have one or two Rust programs from 5 years ago that don't compile and a whole bunch of Rust code from 10 years ago that flat-out doesn't compile.

I dunno. Backwards compatibility is a thing for me.
I don't know where this came from, but it isn't now and never was.
Until now!
I read it more as CTO was protecting the engineers.
Thanks. Didn't know the word builtin had a specific meaning in bash, which, seems obvious now in hindsight. Should be fixed soon.
Tell that to Fauci.
Recent Sony cameras[0] include an Android subsystem used to run apps from the proprietary Sony PlayMemories Camera App Store (PMCA).

Sony utilizes both Linux and the AV real time operating system (µITRON RTOS) on its arm cores.

Some of the nikon coolpix I believe were full android devices but are just a glorified phone / p&s not a dslr.

Nikon also uses µITRON RTOS on its proprietary expeed ASIC cores.

Canon has a proprietary inhouse OS named DRYOS for its DIGIC ASICs.

[0]: https://openmemories.readthedocs.io/devices.html
Let's describe the problem this is setting out to solve better--end users who have gotten something for free are upset that they no longer will continue getting updated somethings for free.

Something for free? That had never been the point of FOSS. The developers are not obliged to provide free update to users.

The old open source versions are still out there. If they want to use it, they can fork off.

Of course, if the users have the relevant expertise/money. In reality, there's always limitations.
> Device attack via
physical access: $5,000: Limited extraction of sensitive data from the locked device after first unlock. As an example, you demonstrated the ability to extract some contact information from a user’s locked device after the first unlock.

Uhhh I must be missing something here… I can trivially share a contact via email after my iPhone is unlocked?
>>The great lie of capitalism is pushing a theory of personal responsibility rather than legislating these problems away

>>There are so many elements of my life that cause harm to other beings that addressing the harm could be a full time job.

The principles of a free society with private-property/contract rights do NOT exclude the right of the collective to prohibit actions that generate negative externalities, including pollution of the commons and depletion of scarce natural resources.

Like most anti-capitalist arguments, yours is based on ridiculous caricatures of what you're railing against.
How sad, all those people are going to lose their jobs. What a waste.
How much money are they throwing into this? I doubt it is a huge investment that they can't recover from, more like Kinect or Hololens for MS. At worst, they'll stay at the top of the VR market.
Your numbers are wrong.

iPhone business is bigger than services by quite a large number
https://www.macstories.net/news/apple-reports-expectations-b...

47% vs 21%
The only sensible return for work in a sustainable civilization is the development of human talent, that's the only return that makes any sense: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=money+does+not+exist+in+the+future...
The world produces and uses 700 cubic kilometers (at STP) of hydrogen annually. Hydrogen has been used on a mass scale industrially since the 1800s. The US has over 1000 miles of hydrogen pipelines.

There are obviously off the shelf components for dealing with hydrogen. This is not some hand wringing unsolved problem.
> Your active celebration of cruelty and unsustainable living disgusts me.

Cool.

> Shame on you

Don’t feel shame, sorry bro.

> Maybe try having some empathy for a change

Random.
What did I just read?

Insane, crazed, deluded, suicidal terrorists have nothing in common with climate change emergency messengers unless you wish to shoot them both.

You need to reevaluate your values and priorities if you think people who take great, deliberate personal risks to ensure our long-term survival have anything to do with those who are willing to end our lives and our freedoms for the "glory" of a sky god.
Nearlyfreespeech.net: Our Beliefs (2002)
No one wants to hire remote employees. They're harder to manage, harder to build trust with. The entire discipline of managing people has been built around the panopticon for over a century. They've gotten better at that style of management for over 100 years. They don't have nearly so much momentum or nearly so many examples of success with running a remote company, they're still too new.

The pandemic was an interesting study in how to deal with different difficult circumstances, but there's simply too much momentum in the discipline of managing people The old way. The pandemic was a flash in the pan, and while it did prove to everyone that remote does work, I guess those with money still prefer to give other people money when they can see them working.
Few lines of esoteric, inaccessible CSS compared to something a child could do in flash.
That is generally how web platform optimization goes, yes. Browser vendors optimize the stuff that gets used most, which means new APIs tend not to get used much unless they fill a gaping hole.
Prohibition is the very issue. Instead, market whatever vegan you got as better for environment (if that is your goal).

As for prohibiting baby food, I would kindly tell them to go fuck themselves. Nobody is going to prohibit a parent from feeding their baby with food already prepared and bought. Its exactly this type of rhetoric which makes moderates skip on vegan community (and I eat vegan dishes on a daily basis!)

I don't want whoever to believe, I want a neat combination of healthy, tasty, and good for environment/animal, but in a spectrum. Not extremes, not any toxic belief systems.

(As for McDs and BK there are better veggie and vegan options available but I prefer BK vegan way over McDs vegan, hands down. That we have these options is a sign of time. When I was full-time vegan it was a nightmare to go out eating. Now we have New York Pizza delivering delicious vegan shoarma pizzas.)
Republican leaders live in fear of Trump tweets, now they have to fall in line (which includes supporting Trump's lies about "stolen election") or be taken down by a Trump tweet. Not great for democracy.
I remember those threads, the confidence with which people were claiming 'Musk is just lying and will never ever go for it". Just tells you most people are susceptible to emotions even if they are otherwise rational. In this case, visceral contempt for Musk being against censorship.
yup. but after 2 decades and even makes HN devs go wow! and still locks the browser after scrolling 2 pages (chrome).. its very difficult to understand the point that op makes unless you were an experienced developer on flash. I get the same feeling when i see nocode/lowcode tools..[1]

1. https://youtu.be/SY3Y8gb3jYA?t=1380
Thanks for your reply, this was really helpful I will give it a shot.
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