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The issues from the Great Green Wall [1] are worth looking at

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Green_Wall_(China)

The Apache TVM machine learning compiler has a WASM and WebGPU backend, and can import from most DNN frameworks. Here's a project running Stable Diffusion with webgpu and TVM [1].

Questions exist around post-and-pre-processing code in folks' Python stacks, with e.g. NumPy and opencv. There's some NumPy to JS transpilers out there, but those aren't feature complete or fully integrated.

[1] https://github.com/mlc-ai/web-stable-diffusion

+1 for ninja. I first encountered is using Apache TVM, which uses CMake. I was first of all using the default make backend, and it was taking a while. Then the docs said to try adding the `-GNinja` flag to Cmake to build with ninja. I was blown away by how much faster the compilation was, and now try to use it whenever possible.

This is used heavily by hardware tokens like Yubikeys, and especially for cryptocurrency people with so called "hardware wallets" like Trezor and Ledger (which can generate many subkeys on the devices).

Companies like Google now have employees issues with Yubikeys [1].

[1] https://www.yubico.com/resources/reference-customers/google/

This community ran GitHub guide is a bit more up to date, and has troubleshooting in the Issues: <https://github.com/drduh/YubiKey-Guide>

WoN is a good read, though I hope you like reading a lot about how the price of Scottish wool changed year-on-year

Signal keeps all downloaded media locally until you delete it.

They don't have the resources to store files on the cloud, even encrypted, and don't appear to have taken WhatsApp's approach of backing up unencrypted media and messages on user's third-party cloud services like Google Drive and iCloud.

You can mitigate this by having disappearing chats (current longest self-destruct time is 4 weeks), or by going to Settings->Data and Storage->Review Storage and deleting the largest files.

This isn't a great UX design, as users are not informed there is a problem, or how to solve it.

I would be keen to try, but afaik there's no way to do it on Linux which is my main dev/deploy environment.

It feels like Linux debugging is stuck in a viscous cycle, since few people are putting the capital into a decent debugger UI, and thus few people are using debugging UIs (and thus using printf debugging, or gdb CLI). Folk might not realise how much better it could be.

I started software dev in the mid-2010s, and had never heard of Borland, until I heard a former colleague mention it having great built-in debugging tools and that they missed it.

Same colleague had some vocal criticism of `gdb` as a debugging tool, and the state of Linux-based debugging tools as a whole, with claims that "Borland's were much better, and Visual Studio (not VS Code) being one of the few development environments with a quality debugger".

I'm not sure how fair that assessment is, I've found `gdb` to be a helpful tool, though I've never used Visual Studio.

I recall seeing a Show HN post a while back about a research focussed web browser that helps as a thinking tool:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28446147

BTC mining is just one of those operations that is resistant to a carbon tax since the price of BTC and therefore the mining rewards can just rise to compensate.

I don't follow your logic, could you elaborate? One could say that about other things subject to carbon tax. Like all goods and services, the price is set by how much people are will to pay for it.

"the price people are willing to pay for short-haul flights could just increase, and therefore the airline profits are unaffected." "the price people are willing to pay for aluminium could just increase, and therefore the smelters are unaffected."

They don't really make sense. Carbon taxing would change miner behaviour, because greener energy would be more attractive (by virtue of being cheaper, especially with carbon taxing and reduced fossil fuel subsidies).

This headline is misleading, the jury ruled that Wright owes W&K and Kleiman's estate $100 million in intellectual property rights.

The trial was never meant to ascertain if Wright is who he claims to be, since both parties asserted for the purposes of the trial that this was true.

Thus, no cryptographic signatures were required to prove identity.

Perhaps you have not been keeping up with recent events such as the Texas Heartbeat Act 2021 [1], which makes most cases of abortion illegal in Texas.

There are further policies planned in a similar vein.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Heartbeat_Act

most "artificial origin" hypotheses centre around a lab-leak.

The number of scenarios where the new variant is engineered are vastly reduced, since it's less likely that this variant is a lab leak.

Other scenarios can still be within the realm of plausibility, but there are fewer of them.

It's good to see they also support Google Sheets [1], which is essential imo if you're in an budding SME team with mixed specialities.

Ofc, it's not good to scale, but that doesn't matter --- it does the job well at small scales.

[1] https://superset.apache.org/docs/databases/google-sheets

Apache TVM [1], which is a tensor compiler stack focussed on deep neural networks.

It is mostly written in C++ and Python, integrates external libraries like LLVM, OpenCL, CUDA, etc.

[1] https://tvm.apache.org/

I'm sure trillion dollar companies can pay for the best knowledge on union busting.

Indeed, Amazon have used the Pinkerton detective agency [1] against their employees to root out union activity. For those unfamiliar, the Pinkertons have existed in the US since the 1850s, with a history fraught with violence and questionable ethics, famously the Homestead strike of 1892 [2].

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-pinkerton-spies-worke...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_strike

there is a blocklist for LG Smart-TV features available [1], intended for use with the PiHole software [2], which is a popular and easy-to-use network level firewall.

[1] https://gist.github.com/wassname/78eeaaad299dc4cddd04e372f20...

[2] https://pi-hole.net/

that appears to only be connected to requests under those specific acts.

Otherwise, given their involvement in the PRISM program [1] I don't see how we can take that canary seriously.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)

Most of these systems are designed around pseudonymity, not anonymity. Only things like Zcash, and Monero set out with that explicit goal.

I suppose much like with BitTorrent, the criminal needs will be both good and bad; allows routing around unjust laws (of which there are many), as well as routing around just laws (of which there are many).

This is a really fun format.

It seems that this is their first month in posting --- I spent a minute looking for older scan, before checking the wayback machine.

If anyone is looking to procrastinate, Onur Multu's keynote at HiPEAC 2021 Secure Hardware, Architectures, and Operating Systems [1] is very good.

[1] https://youtu.be/sgd7PHQQ1AI

iirc many NFT systems use IPFS [1], where content addresses and content hashes are the same. Of course, it still requires someone to actually store the underlying file.

A good lesson in buyer beware - many NFTs are being made (and sold) by people who don't know what they're doing.

Another quote from Moxie RE IPFS [2]: > another strange phenomenon is that NFTs which host metadata on IPFS often don't use ipfs:// urls, but rather an explicit https IPFS gateway, which isn't fundamentally that different from some random webserver in terms of what clients are capable of enforcing.

[1] https://ipfs.io/

[2] https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1448162369553637376?s=20

Namecoin [1] was an early fork of bitcoin, that did blockchain based DNS, with the ideas being actively discussed by Satoshi Nakamoto [2].

That deals with DNS (though how much has it been used?), but what about the layers of the stack?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecoin

[2] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1790.222

Apple's headquarters are built on top of contaminated ground, leading to concerns over employee health [1][2].

[1] https://disasterarea.home.blog/2019/07/12/apple-headquarters...

[2] https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1436934781955190788

also, human failure modes are better understood, and can be better anticipated by e.g. you can still have a somewhat predictive mental model of how a swerving drunk drive might behave.

We don't have a good frame of reference for how machines might behave with their failures, which means that accidents could be worse than they would be otherwise.

Internet archive link for people who can't access the site: https://web.archive.org/web/20211001190851/https://techcrunc...

this is possible (use daily, verified again right now).

There's a drop-down menu underneath the last-message received timestamp in the list of chats.

Worth highlighting the Open Book Project [1], an open source e-reader hardware design and software stack.

The design is open, and you can make your own with commodity parts. People are starting to sell PCBs, and complete devices.

It has its own open software stack, and I hope will have a variety of vendors in the coming years.

Ofc the e-ink patent issues remain, but this goes some of the way to solve things at the e-reader level.

[1] https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book

You can see a great map of how terrible Germany's grid is compared to say France with this map [1].

Compared to France, which is so green due to high levels of nuclear, Germany has banned the building, and is compelling the decommissioning of all nuclear plants, with the last ones expected to be shut down in the next couple of years [2].

[1] https://www.electricitymap.org/?lang=en [2] https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/history-behind-ge...