skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
De jure, I think they're pretty free to do with them what they want. De facto they leave the batteries pretty fully charged most of the time.

AIUI, they'd have to have a disconnect somewhere upstream of us to let us back feed the grid during an outage, otherwise they couldn't safely work on the lines. And they'd need a way to enable and disable back feeding remotely[0] to allow them to work on anything between that hypothetical disconnect and us.

At the moment, none of that exists, so only we benefit from the powerwalls. It's also 34kwh in the pair of batteries. That wouldn't add up to too many household-days if you started adding households. You'd have to do some fancy switching to not overwhelm the relatively few powerwalls in an outage.

For context, based on our usage, we're at about three days of backup just for us [1]. It doesn't take much imagination to come up with a scenario where that happens where we are. We are the very last pole.

[0] Which in turn requires connectivity. The cell network here is sparse, to put it mildly. We just got fiber, but that's hanging on the same poles as the power. The fail-safe mode for no grid and no connectivity is to not backfeed, but at that point, you're back where you are today.

[1] It's the fridge, mostly.
>Why? Do you have any reason for this, or is it just a gut feeling?

MWI says these universes are actual, concrete physical state, for which the universe must somehow differentiate by discernible information. But you don't get this multiplicity of state/information for free. This is a theory cost that is as profligate as one can imagine. It is magical thinking to imagine that the universe gets this for free.
Thanks a lot for the missing context! Explaining OTP is not an easy task!!!
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> I'm sure SpaceX already knows the rockets won't make it back intact, but they still launch anyway (despite the losses).

I'm certain they don't have this attitude with manned trips.
I have 627 items in my 1P vault. That won't work.
In practice: a hard deadline/budget + customers who already paid can lead to a disaster.

Not saying this is wise, but at least he went with the customers, so he was all-in with them.

Stockton Rush himself during his public interventions made it clear such explorations were scary and dangerous:

"it made a lot of noise, which is a very sphincter-tightening experience".
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You shouldn't measure by the release date of the hardware, but by the last sale date of the hardware. In Apple's list of supported Macs, the "iMac Pro (2017)" is the oldest year. But that computer was sold until 2021! Makes Apple look more generous putting 2017 in that list instead of 2021!
Feel Apple should have just focused on their models for this one and not complicate the conversation with OpenAI. They could have left that to another announcement later.

Quick straw poll survey around the office, many think their data will be sent off to OpenAI by default for these new features which is not the case.
I do, because i don't have any windows or android machines
This is how bank accounts in the rest of the world have worked forever.
Thank you for the correction. For those wanting to know more, the technology was called QuickTransit.

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

Rosetta 2 may have been developed in-house, though. That bit isn’t yet clear.
I've seen the author on just about every possible comment thread about Recall saying to check it out, incessantly and shamelessly. Good way to sour some people (like me) sight-unseen. I know HN is more tolerant of self promo than many platforms but I find it exceptionally off putting in this example.
At the time I felt like Apple was getting rid of the 3.5mm jack as a potential bottleneck for future iPhone designs (as one of the limiting aspects of form factor), but there still doesn't seem to be anything design-wise to justify it, even several years later. It is very clear now that it was merely to encourage Air Pod adoption.
It’s a very difficult problem to know what your children are capable of. Both extremes are likely to build resentment. Believing that your children are always capable of more, and not celebrating success can lead to a black hole of success chasing. Underestimating your children and overvaluing minor successes can lead to insecurity and lack of work ethic. Being a parent is hard.
The servers provide a hash of their environment to clients, who can compare it to the published list of audited environments.

So the question is: could the hash be falsified? That’s why they’re publishing the source code to firmware and bootloader, so researchers can audit the secure boot foundations.

I am sure there is some way that a completely malevolent Apple could design a weakness into this system so they could spend a fortune on the trappings while still being able to access user information they could never use without exposing the lie and being crushed under class actions and regulatory assault.

But I reject the idea that that remote possibility means the whole system offers no benefit users should consider in purchasing decisions.
This doesn't make sense to me. Sometimes I need to sit down with a problem for a few days before I can even get to writing code. There is nothing to ship because I'm still wrapping my head around the business logic.

On other days I get nothing done because the most productive thing I can do is rest, or tend to personal matters. That doesn't mesh well with hustle culture, but it contributes to my personal happiness and long term productivity.
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I am all about the hands used in this video! The bandage after getting hit by lightning is very immersive.

I bet this video will have a Streisand-like effect [1] on the indicated capture scenarios.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
Also are you me? Except I had a 486sx and I tried in vain to persuade my parents to buy a maths co-processor for it. It would have probably saved them money in the long run from electricity bills.

Some of my first programming was writing QBasic programs to generate povray scene files.
Besides the hot mess that is Google's branding and app strategy for their (not only) payment-related products that I'm sure others will comment on:

I wonder what the business model was going to be here? Facilitating P2P payments in the US is anything but free, especially when done over card rails as Google Pay did, as far as I remember.

Were they sponsored by one or both of the networks initially (I vaguely remember hearing something about Mastercard Send, but that could have been Meta), and were they hoping they'd grow enough to keep those terms?

Were they hoping to find a business model along the way, maybe in combination with the abandoned banking project?
Really? I feel like 90% of my programming career has been churning out dead simple code. Just business logic
> The company has argued that without a sizeable pay package, Musk could lose focus on the carmaker

No. All that will happen is Musk will take the pay package and continue to not focus on Tesla.
If you hit a problem like this I'd like to hear about it. If you're willing I an take a HAR file and pass it on to the Turnstile team and they can see why.
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"NPC" and "bot" used to have different meanings. It'd be interesting if the terms converged.

I believe that "bot" gained popularity around 2012, specifically in reference to influence campaigns on Twitter. If you accused someone of being a Russian bot, you were saying that they a) were a shill, and b) possibly not even human, in the literal sense.
No Newton?
Chile (South america) is not in the same continent as Mexico (North america).

The way it is phrased is prone to confusion but article says:
"This date marks a milestone in the history of computing in Latin America, as the IBM-650 was the first electronic computer to operate on this continent, south of the Rio Grande."

"This continent" meaning North America, not Latin America (which is not a continent).
Fair, but we could conceivably have an ecosystem of providers, like ProtonMail or whoever the user feels comfortable with. If it's just Apple we're headed for honeypot
Apple has been laying the foundation for “agentic” use of apps for a long time. All of the functions that apps make available to Shortcuts today will be usable by Apple Intelligence. I wonder if they already had that use case in mind when they came out with Shortcuts?
If you've got $4B to set on fire, you can have $2B of "revenue" selling dollar bills for 50 cents. That doesn't mean that throwing another $20B on the fire is going to suddenly turn profitable.

The better question is: did the people that paid OpenAI $2B get value from that expense?
If you’re presenting a conspiracy theory, you have to at least poke holes in the claims you consider false.

Under the system described in the linked paper, your scenario is not possible. In fact, the whole thing looks to be designed to prevent exactly that scenario.

Where do you see the weakness? How could a secret order result in undetectable data capture?
I love POV-Ray. I learned about it in college when I was trying to find things to do on my gaming desktop that weren’t gaming. It’s so much fun to mess with and make different things with. There’s some super impressive examples and stitching the images together is a lot like magic.

It’s honestly really satisfying to use.

I imagine a lot of people can use it. I made dice with it already.

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I’ve worked with a few people from NCC Group, Matasano, security staff at Airbnb and OpenAI, all carry and recommend iPhones for security footing. Depending on threat model, “lockdown mode” on iOS has a lot of what is useful in Grapheme like turning off built in connectivity services & disabling JIT and other code paths in the webview.
Will this integration have the same limits as Zelle? I tried to send my mother some money but Zelle said I was only allowed to send $1,000 and that I "may" be able to send more in the future after more payments to that contact. A wire has no such limitation and can be practically "instant" with same-day settlement if you send it early enough.
BetterTouchTool is not free but has the customization you seek. I’ve used it for about a decade now
Beautiful paper, relatively well written and accessible, too.

I think everyone _knew_ in some sense that the structure of categorial information about vectors must be hierarchical and have this general kind of structure, but they managed to formalize that intuition into just a few theorems that seem sort of inevitable only in retrospect.
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I don't think you can legally sell a new small vehicle in the US, so the root cause is legislation that prevents this. I believe that if you could legally produce kei sized vehicles in the US, there would be a massive market for it, especially in urban environments. And I'm sure US manufacturers would be happy to sell them to all comers.

Edit:
Basically any car from Suzuki would be a hit in the US: https://www.suzukiauto.co.za/new-cars
> Niches and gradual evolution don't fly anymore.

How so? In the current VR resurgence of more than a decade now we've seen the field go through gradual evolution. The technology has been very niche, and still is today.

What headset manufacturers are betting on is that one day they'll come up with a winning formula that makes _everyone_ want their device. Similarly to what happened for smartphones with the iPhone. I think we're still a few years away from that tipping point, but I don't doubt we'll get there eventually.
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> This is such an amazingly delicious piece of schadenfreude.

It doesn't work out that way for me due to the deaths of passengers that had no responsibility for anything here, and whose only mistake was trusting Rush too much.
That's not even getting to the fact that Apple is also running a display ads business: https://searchads.apple.com/
Add name-finding to the list of problems you help/guide other startup with.
Simplicity in terms of weighing theory cost isn't about rules, but about explanatory posits. MWI posits exponential growth in discernible state about which sufficient information must be carried by whatever grounds the wavefunction. But you don't get this multiplicity of state/information for free. This is a theory cost that is as profligate as one can imagine. It is magical thinking to imagine that the universe gets this for free.
Yeah, you could explain this paper to Aristotle and he would not be that surprised by it.
My bank however is opting out of paying with their app at terminals in favor of Google wallet...
People always ignore the simpler explanation: it’s more time and work to make something a second time on a platform you don’t know and control.
> But the login for the Gmail address is a passkey that's on the Apple account...

A passkey is just a replacement for a password. Google (and other apps/websites) have account recovery processes for users who get locked out of their accounts. The way you get back into your Google account doesn’t change much just because you’re signing in with a passkey vs. a password.

Account recovery is a problem that service providers have to solve (and do solve) regardless of whether a user authenticates to their account with a password or a passkey.

> So what's the point of passkeys if you can get access to them without passkeys?

Some huge benefits are:

1. They are highly phishing resistant. Unlike passwords and popular forms of 2FA (TOTP and SMS), users can’t be tricked into sending their credential to a fake/malicious server. A passkey is bound to the server domain at the time the credential is created, and your OS/browser will simply not send it to the wrong place.

2. There is no credential for attackers to steal from servers in the case of server breach. This is because only a public key is stored on the server, instead of password hashes (or worse, plaintext, if the app/website developers don’t know what they’re doing).

3. Passkeys are guaranteed to be unique and secure. The same cannot be said for passwords. Even a password manager cannot guarantee that every single credential stored in the password manager is both unique and secure. And password complexity requirements often make it a painful game of trial and error to create a secure password, even when using a password manager.

4. Because of annoying password complexity requirements, the process of creating a new password can be annoying and take up to a minute or two of fiddling around, even when using a password manager. With a passkey, the process takes as long as Face ID or Touch ID (or equivalent on other platforms) every time. Every single credential creation and authentication is a fantastic user experience (both fast and easy).

I suggest watching Apple’s WWDC videos. There you will find a very very in-depth answer to this question.

All of the points I’ve made above (and more) are covered in the linked videos.

Move beyond passwords:
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10106/

Meet passkeys: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2022/10092/

Deploy passkeys at work: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10263/

If you won’t watch any of the above then you should at least read the FAQ on passkeys on the FIDO website here, which should answer many of your questions:

https://fidoalliance.org/faqs/#PasskeysFAQs

> How can something be protected when the thing that controls access to it has been compromised?

This is answered in the article I already linked above. Here is the link again.

About the security of passkeys: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102195

Specifically, carefully read the following sections titled “Synchronization security” and “Recovery security”. The short answer is that gaining access to the user’s iCloud Keychain contents requires more than just having access to the Apple Account.
It was so good that to this day there is an economic rift between former west and east Germany.
Same. The only issues I ever have are with non-Apple hardware, like Sony headphones, Acer monitor, etc.

Do I wish they worked better? Of course. Have I experienced those same problems with Android / PC? No, but different problems existed.
Because people drive through my town like maniacs, speeding and running traffic lights. There aren't routes for pedestrians and cyclists to get around town without having to cross major streets at unprotected intersections. A lot could be done to improve the bikability and walkability, but the county and state own our major roads, and are historically more concerned with car throughput than pedestrian safety. This may be starting to shift, but that's the status quo.
Here's the Mastodon thread: https://ioc.exchange/@matthew_d_green/112597849837858606
Yes, tictacs may as well be from the ocean....
Very unlikely. You'd probably be walking all over some other cell that's reusing that frequency in the new location, causing detectable issues.
I don't know that I would use those words.

I think the words "snowflake" come to mind. 2.5 years in and the kid has a rider for how you should treat him at work.

Meanwhile I know good engineers looking for a job who dont come with a list of demands.
Max value transfer for the system is currently $500k, although most institutions are starting at $100k. To move value is $0.045, to request payment is $0.01 (charged to the institution plugged into the rails, not necessarily the financial services customer).

https://www.frbservices.org/news/press-releases/012722-fedno...
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It’s not for eeeeeeeeeeeevryone. But, it’s really damned good. And, micro display tech is making huge leaps again this year in both resolution and brightness. Whatever the 2025 equivalent of the Bigscreen Beyond is, it’s gonna rock.
STAR is the standard thing people are expected to use for job interviews these days.
My brother convinced me to try a 1Password family account, since it would be cheaper. Ever since, the Chrome plugin takes forever to login. Sometimes up to 5-6 seconds. And it really annoys me that they have so many resources and money, and it's still this expensive for a very very basic application, and slow to boot.

I tried out passwords, and combined with Safari, it's an absolute godsend compared to 1Password.
That does mean that I switched from Brave to Safari, and thus have YouTube ads, and so I'm now paying for YouTube haha
No, they haven't. "Instant Payments"/"Instant Credit Transfers" are specifically transfers completed in seconds. Banks usually charge more for this service than for regular transfers, which complete on the next business day.

IIRC, in Europe, instant transfers were introduced around 2018.
From a business perspective it's not _stupid_. It sucks for us customers, but it's "smart" from a business point of view.

Until they get serious competition, I doubt they'll change their practices.

And while I hate the overpriced memory upgrades, I still prefer paying extra, rather than Apple switching to a Ad-based business model like Google (and potentially OpenAI in the future)
More power to him! I find it hard to get large blocks of quiet time now having three kids, but that's life :-) My dad was a lot like him, though, was coding or hacking around on ham radios most of the day well into his 60s.
The other thing that changed is a couple billion more families are trying to get into the same American schools, and many of them have substantial money and resources plus determination to do it.

That’s just wildly different than what it was like when I was applying in the 1990s. It’s substantive.
No, the alternative liberal internationalist view is that the preservation of imperial-like spheres of influence and ironclad regional hegemonies is unfair, u democratic, and at odds with the rules-based trade-oriented order we’d like to see the world continue to adopt.

No country was forced to join NATO. In fact, it took years and years of lobbying from Eastern European countries before the first new members were allowed to join in 1999. Even then, plenty of care was taken to signal to Russia that it was strictly seen as a defensive measure, from allowing the Russian government in as an observer at all levels, to limiting the military capacity of the Baltics and putting a very low cap on the number and type of NATO assets that could be deployed in countries bordering Russia.

The intellectual mistake that Chomsky and many who share his ideas make is to believe that just because Russia might reasonably feel aggrieved at no longer being able to politically and economically dominate the countries around it through the use of military force as it could as the USSR, that it somehow has a right to have that situation reversed and is therefore justified at launching an unprovoked attack on a neighbouring democratic country to gain back that power. There should be no such right in the modern era, and believing in it is a betrayal of traditional left-wing ideals.

Ironically, returning to a might-makes-right global order as envisioned by Russia would mean the United States could behave far worse in future, pulling off the same kinds of annexations and similar as it did as a young power, and when it was far less powerful than it is now.
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I don't think you can legally sell a new small vehicle in the US

This is blatantly false. See: the Mitsubishi Mirage as just one example.
> things to do on my gaming desktop that weren’t gaming

This is such a funny statement. What a strange perspective.