As George Carlin said: Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

While knowing that can help you have compassion for them, it doesn't make listening to them any less exhausting.

I've wanted a music player like the early versions of iTunes for a while, and this looks like it might fit the bill.

Those who've only known Music.app and later iTunes versions might be surprised to learn that there was a time when iTunes actually had a clean, intuitive UI: https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/itunes-app

Beautiful. I remember running iTunes 5 on my Powerbook G4, incredible how things have changed.

That's not quite correct, but you're not a million miles off: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24833832-cellebrite-...

To calibrate your sense of time, the iPhone 15 had been released in September 2023 and that doc is dated April 2024, so ~6 months.

And just for completeness, here was the Android doc that leaked at the same time: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24833831-cellebrite-...

For iOS there's a slightly newer one released in July 2024 which indicated iPhone 15 support too: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/14344-cellebrite-premium-ju...

Honestly seems like if you just stay on the latest-and-greatest you'll stay ahead of Cellebrite long enough.

I'll be amused when Apple finally drops a portless iPhone as the next step ahead.

(Apple already has their Qi2/Magsafe setup, and they already have been using 60GHz wireless USB for quite some time now internally with the Apple Watch for diagnostics and service management since Series 7.)

> Honestly seems like if you just stay on the latest-and-greatest you'll stay ahead of Cellebrite long enough.

I don't know, even the latest and greatest is eventually cracked, or they can just hold your device in evidence until the capability is there a few weeks (or months) later.

Furthermore by using an official OS from a vendor like Apple (or Google, Samsung) there's always the possibility that they could target your device with a specially crafted update, especially if you're in really big trouble.

One did "fall off a truck" and into Moxie Marlinspike's hands back in 2021: https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/

A bunch of their software was also leaked in a hack back in 2023: https://ddosecrets.com/article/cellebrite-and-msab

Well that was more entertaining than I was expecting...

And Tesla, in general, is of particular interest to the HN community for a variety of reasons. So Tesla news of all sorts gets posted here.

Their numbers strike me as very optimistic:

    *Table 1. Cost comparison of a single 40 MW cluster operated for 10 years in space vs on land.*

    | Cost Item                     | Terrestrial                     | Space
    |:------------------------------|:--------------------------------|:----------------
    | Energy (10 years)             | $140m @ $0.04 per kWh           | $2m cost of solar array
    | Launch                        | None                            | $5m (single launch of compute module, solar & radiators)
    | Cooling (chiller energy cost) | $7m @ 5% of overall power usage | More efficient cooling architecture taking advantage of higher ΔT in space
    | Water usage                   | 1.7m tons @ 0.5L/kWh            | Not required
    | Enclosure (Sat. Bus/Building) | Approximately equivalent cost   | Approximately equivalent cost
    | Backup power supply           | $20m                            | Not required
    | All other DC hardware         | Approximately equivalent cost   | Approximately equivalent cost
    | Radiation shielding           | Not required                    | $1.2m @ 1 kg of shielding per kW of compute and $30/kg launch cost
    | Cost Balance                  | $167m                           | $8.2m

Source: Page 4 of their whitepaper https://starcloudinc.github.io/wp.pdf

> $5m (single launch of compute module, solar & radiators)

This seems absurdly low to me.

It is, unless you take Musk's hype about Starship as fact. With rockets that are actually potentially available the best price is $1500/kg to LEO, so either they're presuming the whole setup weighs in at 3-4 tons (which is less than the shielding alone) or that they can get it launched for a few orders of magnitude less than what's on the market now (and they do say they assume $30/kg).

There's the rub: AI coding is like super tab complete. It's a useful tool. Full stop.

Before he deleted his Twitter account, he claimed AI was already being better than humans and that singularity was only a few years away.

He's confidently wrong a lot. (Even if I happen to agree with his new, more sober take on AI coding here.)

There are too many suspects. This administration campaigned on climate denial and anti-science rhetoric, so it could be anyone.

What the Sea People were to the Bronze Age, these people are to the Information Age. At least in the West.