skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a straw-man argument. Emerging economies get money and jobs out of the globalization arrangement. That's more than enough to sell emerging economies on the idea. Globalization needed to be sold to western economies. Why, after all, should the western economies sacrifice money and jobs? Western economies, they were told, would benefit due to more efficient economic operations, or so the neo-liberal economic orthodoxy went.

Now globalization is unpopular in the west because the west realized neo-liberalism is bullshit, for lack of a better term.
> They don't want your data.

What's the truth though? Are they able to coordinate with law enforcement if needed or not? I find it hard to believe there's no government agency paying attention to iMessage of criminals. Am I mistaken?
Not really, but the HN moderator might find the comment "boring". Usually it is loosely based on the guidelines, but sometimes it is just subjective. Much like the headscarf issues in the middle east.
You are making a value judgment, though, even in your followup. You’ve implied that employment of one of those people is prima facie surreptitious, despite a carefully-drawn picture of how nearly all of the cases you’re gesturing toward are benign and not worth your ongoing concern. Foreign governments doing exactly what you’re alleging, on the other hand…

To be honest, that opinion makes you unelectable because you’ve alienated a huge group of people (way, way bigger than you think, and across the political spectrum), partially by imagining the beltway and back rooms of FAANGs as a le Carré novel. Reality is boring. Do horror shows happen? Duh. But take PRISM, for example. PRISM is an efficient, automated legal warrant process to streamline subpoena and provenance of user data for national security purposes, nothing more, but everybody screamed oh my holy hell! because the Snowden slides didn’t contextualize that and could be taken to imply something far worse. It’s toil reduction. Ask anybody in compliance at major companies. Subpoenas are a huge bitch at scale and nearly all major companies have a PRISM equivalent facing the other direction precisely for the reason PRISM exists. It’s not cigar smoke and port mirroring but for some people that’s more fun to imagine, I guess.

Seriously, reality in all of it is far less interesting than you think, and that’s one example of many. And often the fetishization of the secrecy and imaginative scenarios takes away from the real issue, which is market forces incentivizing the erosion of privacy and civil liberties. So ironically, by worrying you’re weakening the worry.

I know this because I do.
That is because Zeihan sells geopolitics porn for Americans.
no duh. now lets get back to the real world where all the "abstractions" are poor abstractions AND inefficient.
Twitter to hike Blue pricing to $11 for iPhone app users
Latency / "ttfx" for all sorts of things has also dropped dramatically over the past ~year, and will get another big boost with the native code caching PR
The legend I heard was that only his head was frozen. I believe Alcor does provide head freezing services and at cheaper cost than whole-body.
Overall, I agree with the sentiment of this post. However, I think "[zero] components in an iPhone that are manufactured outside of Asia" is a strong claim. I tried to Google about it. A bunch of hand wavy stuff with few hard facts. I cannot believe there zero parts in iPhone manufactured in Germany, Austria, Switzerland or US. Mittlestand in DACH has _so_ many small companies producing ultra-specialised goods that might appear in an iPhone. And surely the machines that make the parts are largely from Germany, Austria, Switzerland or US (and Japan/Korea, but they are in Asia).

Side story: I remember attending a museum about the history of spinning cotton in Hongkong. The whole exhibit was full of manufacturing equipment made in Germany, Switzerland, and Japan. I had a laugh to myself about that... as the museum was touting the ingenuity and business prowess of the local cotton spinning industry. In my eyes, they were doing little more than running machines with very cheap labour and zero import tariffs. As soon as China opened even a little bit, that whole business ran over the border.

Edit: Replace "bold" with "strong". It sounded condescending when I re-read my post. That is not my intent.
I tried this using Stable Diffusion v2.1 at dreamstudio.ai. I'm not getting good results yet.

It seems like an odd place to build a dock, if you can avoid it. Is there a real-world place like that?
> If the photos are hosted on Google's servers, they have every right to scan whatever they want.

I don't get why that should be the case. When you rent an apartment the owner is generally no longer able to just walk in and do whatever he likes, including installing cameras in the shower. So I would expect that when Google tries to sign you up for its online storage (repeatedly) you should get the same protections, especially with smart phones being such an important part of modern life.
What you propose- either accepting or being quiet- is the least hackerly perspective I have ever heard. This is the most contrary to open society & open debate bit I've heard on HN in a long while and it deserves no respect & deserves clamboring as a threat to civil society. Booo!! Hackers debate & discuss, have opinions. We can appreciate cultures & diversity without agreeing to authoritarian enforced mandates, and we dont have to be quiet when we find behaviors & authority to be disgraceful & out of line.

Narrowing down to the topic level, from your gross discharacterization, he hijab specifically is controversial & I think many opinions are due. Even within Iran there is a huge & wide part of the society going on strike & which has been loudly protesting this & other legal impositions as gross & unbefitting. To say that this is the culture denies the population & oppressed any voice. That seems vulgar & inappropriate.

The legal imposition of the hijab is not an old culture. It legally began in April 1983. But it was broadly unenforced for a while until the creation of the morality police, for which this was a primary enforcement concern. This was not a longstanding bit of culture, to force everyone to behave this way.
I had the exact same experience. I foolishly paid for a pro account without even trying out the free version, because I was so excited by it. Only to learn that it took so much trial and error --- sorry, "prompt engineering" --- to get anything remotely usable.

This is the same with all kinds of generative models. Humans are a critical part of the system. If this is "artificial intelligence" it only appears intelligent because there is a human gatekeeper.
Twitter - that's become the perfect venue for this kind of thing, but not in the way Berger imagines.

> he considers a public-interest lecture and a publicity tour equivalent to a preprint on something like SSRN

There's all the difference in the world: A preprint has empirical data (not to mention an hypothesis, methods, analysis, conclusion).

> it seems to have been effective in getting people to talk about it

That has nothing to do with science. No scientific advance is connected to the public talking about it.
That is why such generalizations is really bad for understanding. There are so many schools and “college” that are private. In fact nearly all are private except a few official one. And because of that there are many different schools of thought throughout. That exam system whilst extract a lot of student into it, it is much later first. And when it is bad it did kill a lot of innovation but it is not the examination. In fact it reflect something else.
But they don’t have to compel code, they just have to create a law that says “you must regularly review images for CSAM”.
There have been no experiments to show why this is any better than IPv6 given that you still need to modify routers and end user devices to route traffic, nor does it address the fact that IPv6 has additional features such as flows and prioritization to handle the modern Internet's traffic requirements.

The scheme you propose had already been proposed by Elad Cohen, but with "evil" intentions as they're linked to a IPv4 misappropriation scheme[1].

[1] https://mybroadband.co.za/news/security/367188-the-great-afr...
I'm afraid so. But if anyone else wants their comment edited after the edit window has expired, they can always ask us to do it for them (hn@ycombinator.com is the best way).

As a compulsive self-editor, I'd rather not have any timeout on edits for anybody, but unfortunately that would leave threads open to really bad forms of abuse.
Do you know how expensive events actually are? An average wedding can easily run into tens of thousands of USD?
> I wouldn’t be surprised if NMEC had a hand in starting Pizzagate tbqh. I have no proof and I don’t think that they did. But if it broke the news tomorrow I would be like, “Nah that’s totally believable.”

If I’m not mistaken it was this kind of speculation that actually precipitated a bunch of people thinking a random pizza joint was involved in sex trafficking and ultimately led to someone opening fire with actual guns.

Maybe we could do with less unfounded speculation.
The classic example is "the confused deputy" in which any programs run on behalf of the user can damage unintended targets.
Alameda Research's venture capital portfolio
This is how I interpret it: more countries will

- invest in domestic technologies development + reinvest the proceeds into whatever it takes to keep the profit pump pumping (e.g. engineering education/training/"re-skilling" programs)

- de-incentivize equivalent foreign technologies as insurance against getting squeezed by international geopolitics (see e.g. Russia getting blackballed by global financial system essentially overnight, US restricting Nvidia from selling top GPUs to China, COVID->global shipping supply chain meltdown etc.)

- occasionally dip into low-cost free trade as a short-term growth strategy (as ruling political parties play musical chairs and swap leadership/opposition roles)

- exert dominance in intellectual property disputes as ruthlessly as possible (my fave example: fallout of the huawei/qualcomm 5G dispute - every country's communications authority has to ratify a device according to the 5G standard -> whoever owns the patent to the algorithm for the standard collects money for each device -> nasty wide-ranging political dispute that appears to have nothing to do w/ the original patent issue)
I wore all black as a high school student. It fit with my subculture intersts and I just dug the dark aesthetic. I knew other people found it to be unsettling but figured they should probably be more open minded and judge people for what they do and say rather than how they look... I was right, too. Cops disagreed. The nice part is how pleased people were to find out how pleasant I was to talk to.
Wind, solar and grid scale batteries fall somewhere between pipedreams and nightmares.

The resources needed to build much less maintain these at scale is a disaster, one that's largely inflicted on 'not us' but that requires massive economic transfers through globalization. You're not building these at this scale without globalization.
Isn't charge a conserved quantity? Tidal forces may be the least of your problems. The mass of millions of disrupted stars rotating at near the speed of light on powerful charged magnetic fields around the event horizon are apt to be a much bigger problem.
> he's kind of right. A preprint is just a badly formatted blog post published in a pdf. Until its finished and published

No, it has empirical data, most importantly, and also methods, analysis, conclusions, citations. It's nothing like a blog post, or another way of looking it it - it is an extraordinary blog post.
Poor support for IPv6 is not new, however a cheap way to workaround is to grab a VPN service and use it for your IPv4 needs.
No, got all that.

I was surprised he (they) still held out the possibility
This isn't a spinlock. This is a futex.
“3 quarks in a proton” is an oversimplification; the reality involves “zillions” of particles, as per https://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/largehadron...

Maybe we need to use 1024-bit types?
Sounds like God uses one-letter variable names...
I think you need to replace “profit” with benefit since even subsistence farmers used inefficient farming techniques.

Bizarre to blame profit when it’s bigger than that.
You can't have that with futexes. That would require a system call for every lock and unlock, not just for contended ones.

It's a trade-off.
Years ago when I was around 14, I stumbled upon Chris's Katahdin project and thought it was such a cool idea I had to try it out. I spent quite a bit of time trying to get set up with it, and not knowing much about C# couldn't really figure it out myself. I ended up reaching out to Chris before giving up on it, not expecting much. To my surprise, Chris spent several hours helping me out and answering my (probably very dumb) questions. I was shocked at how helpful and welcoming he was. Despite the relatively brief encounter I can easily say Chris was one of the kindest programmers I've had the pleasure of interacting with.

It's hard for me to express how much this title hit me when I read it. Like many in this thread, Chris had an enormous impact on my path as a programmer and I'm quite sad that I never got the chance to properly thank him. RIP, Chris
As others have noted, water erosion is a major factor, but there are others.

The Dust Bowl in the US occurred after a drought coincided with recently-arrived dryland farming (unirrigated land) and overtilling. The topsoil from the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles was deposited across the U.S. at points east, as far as New York City.

Tilling itself can expose and degrade carbon in the topsoil, which is why various no-till farming methods are increasingly employed.

Wikipedia has a good overview:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_erosion#Physical_processe...>
That breaks backwards compatibility since a rule line can start with spaces:

nonws:
<tab>echo nonws
ws:
<tab>echo ws
> They produce mountains of unactionable reports, false positives, and their (or was it Microsoft’s) weird hashing thing was visually identifiable as CSAM itself and reversible.

Are there examples or reports of this? I hadn’t heard this before. (It’s not hard to believe though, eg TSA airport security)
> *"in the absence of a law that compels us to write software, which is unconstitutional btw"

I'm not sure that's true. Consider telcos, for example. They're required to write software to make it easy for law enforcement to tap into phone calls, given an appropriate warrant. Telcos aren't just allowed to throw up their hands and say, "sorry, we don't have the capability to let you do that".

And regardless, the law need not compel them specifically to write software, it need only make them liable for any illegal material stored in iCloud, with or without their knowledge. So if someone is caught with CSAM on their iPhone, for example, and it's discovered that person had iCloud backups enabled (or whatever it is), then the government would have pretty clear pretense for a warrant to search that user's iCloud files.

Granted, Apple could then implement end-to-end encryption so even they would not be able to access the files, but that might not even be a good enough defense, if it can be proved that the phone itself had uploaded CSAM to iCloud.
RNAi

Deep-sea mining

The decision economy

Any technology that substitues niche, but critical, fossil fuel derivatives
iOS is closed source. Literally every part is unverifiable and "forced". I have no way of proving that my iphone isn't and hasn't always been scanning my photos. But I don't have the time or energy to care about that, I've decided that using an Apple product is safer than an Android I didn't audit (which is essentially impossible). By scanning on device it enables the possibility of end to end encryption which reduces the risk of a hack or bug exposing my photos.
Now we're going in full circle, so I'll just point you to the parent thread:

> One must understand that E2EE is used when you don't trust your service provider to handle your data. In other words, the adversary in your threat model is the service provider - and in this case, Apple. And what good is that encryption, if Apple obviously can do almost anything with your device?
No, but try that line if you’re gifted a stolen car
100% of the FaceID component in iPhone comes from Texas. According to Apple.

Edit: Oh and I think the accelerometer comes from Germany, but I would need to look it up, it might be a German company.
Depends I guess! I took the intro course in Oxford and enjoyed it, it definitely influenced how I view charity.
Exactly. With the actual observation of Apple pursuing ads after supposedly shutting out Meta, I'm holding my confetti on this for a while.
Thank you for creating this thread I've been thinking about this all day and I have no one to talk to about it
You're comparing a one-time cost (or more accurately an asset purchase with recurring maintenance and tax costs) to yearly costs. Apples and oranges.
A few years ago a new apartment building in my city had a rather unique design, the fundamentals of it are very simple:

- a high angle silver metal roof with a very small overhang

- white rough plastered walls

- black accents

Another building in the complex had the same but with black walls.

This shape building had been popular for a few years for 1-2 floor single family houses, but not for apartment buildings. The local architectural design agency gave it their "Building of the Year" award.

Now basically every new apartment either has this colour scheme or this shape, it's like somebody used Stable Diffusion just trained on pictures of the first building to make new designs :D

https://www.eika.lt/basanaviciaus-9a/

https://www.newmoon.lt/#Galerija-1

https://renesanso.lt/gallery/

https://citify.eu/lt/paupys-7-etapas/
Isn’t he more of a poster child for “academics create academics”? His dad was a professor, his stepdad was a professor and he went straight through college and grad school to become a professor. What kind of elitism are you arguing that he faced?
It sounds like you initially found the terms acceptable but now less so. From a contracting perspective, I'd decide what terms would make you happy then present them to the founders.

The founders might not realize that you feel this way (or they might just poorly express themselves virtually). You might let them know you want to be a team member, then show some examples why you don't feel that way now. This might help explain it.

Funding could give the founders more flexibility to pay you. I'd also keep in mind from their perspective it will be more difficult to make you an employee than someone in the US. Maybe you could help by presenting how you believe the process would work?

FWIW things could be worse. In the first startup I co-founded, I received both a lower hourly rate and less equity than you (though without my knowledge).
> seriously, anyone at this point advocating for any other phone/os/service out there besides apple is really going out of their way to swim up river.

If there's anything I learned about any offers made from big tech, I would never trust any of them until proven for long-term usage for half a decade at bare minimum.

3-2-1 strategy is still a proven method for decades and will still be over any cloud services out there, including iCloud's.
How do you make counterfeit batteries? Are they made of wood or something?
Out of curiosity, I looked up the breakdown of 2021 US new energy capacity added:

- 41% wind

- 36% solar

- 19% gas

- 4% other

I was actually kind of pleasantly surprised. 28 GW capacity added, 8.5 GW capacity retired.

Total capacity 1115.68 GW generated summer 2020

Total breakdown 2021 is more like this:

- 36% Petroleum

- 32% Natural gas

- 11% Coal

- 8% Nuclear

- 12% Renewable energy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_States

https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights...
> as some analysts pointed out, hash matches can be spurious, that is, completely different photos can have the same hash by coincidence

I think you might have misinterpreted whatever those analysts wrote. The chances of thirty images all coincidentally matching both perceptual hashes is essentially nil.
I had a classmate in secondary school with whom we seem to have shared a very similar brain wiring to the point where we wrote identical tests in physics. I believe for maybe two years. As soon as he got his result, I knew mine & vica versa. Was a strange experience, we did develop a special bond.

We were never accused of cheating, it was a tiny group though (20).

Edit: By identical, I do mean _literally_ the same mistakes, same points. Not 99% similar. 100%.
Instead of speculating based on ignorance - which traps us in a loop of our own ignorance, and of each other's ignorance - let's break out of that loop and check with someone who has seen the evidence and knows it well:

* Fire use: ~1.42 million years ago is estimate, but uncertain

* Homo sapiens: Estimates range from 160,000 - 315,000 years ago.

* Controlled fire use: ~9,000 years ago; also uncertain

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Homo-sapiens

https://www.britannica.com/science/fire-combustion

Tip: If Britannica gives you a paywall, find the article via a search engine. Or maybe pay them - it's nice to have experts at your fingertips. The Homo Sapiens article is by the Curator of the Department of Anthropology at American Museum of Natural History.
Sleep as in configure a timer and then wait for an interrupt?
The government need not care how Apple complies with the law, which could merely state that cloud storage providers are liable for illegal material stored there by their customers, regardless of the cloud provider's knowledge. This would be catastrophic to cloud storage in general, of course, but given that strict liability is a thing, I don't see how such a law could be ruled unconstitutional.
So, Ford for years wanted to have alliteration in product names- Falcon, Fairlane, Five Hundred, Flex, Fusion-not always, but often.

In the '60s, there was a meeting in Dearborn-trying to name what would become the Mustang. Somebody in Marketing suggested "Ford Fenix"; "Phoenix" like the mythical bird, but spelled with an F, for the alliteration. Henry Ford II looked like he was considering it. Lee Iaccoca and his pal Ben Bidwell (later CEO & CFO at Chrysler in the '80s)but who worked for Ford at the time, suddenly cracked up laughing.

Henry asked them what was so funny, and Bidwell repeated what he had just told Lee-"We could call it the Ford Phuck; the ads won't work on radio or TV, but they'd be fine in print!". Everyone had a good laugh, Henry Ford scowled, but nobody objected to calling the car Mustang after that.
Yeah. This reminds me of how Airbnb has now rolled up "show total" pricing (inclusive of cleaning fees, tax, etc right before Biden mandated such practice into law.