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you most certainly lose your professorship in the US for tweeting mild stuff:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/01/11/us/B...

also, renowned foreign professors in the US are sometimes bullied and treated as badly as they are in China:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020...

Chinese government is of course far more authoritarian but it is wise to point out that things have been worsening in US academia over the last couple of years.
There is no protection; PDF is simply a complex format derived from Postscript, which has much more in common with programming languages than with any mere description of where pixels should go on a page. This means that in principle you can write a PDF which no conversion tool or editor can allow you to edit (see also the halting problem). The most common example of this is probably the Postscript file that computes pi as it prints. The file doesn’t store the digits that it will print out, it computes them on the fly. Some of the more obvious forms of that complexity were removed from Postscript when the PDF format was designed, but then other forms of complexity were added back in (such as Javascript support!).

In practice, however, PDFs are usually created by readily available software which produces very regular PDFs that you can write converters for.
I like Emacs because it's a live programming environment focused on the editing of text.

As far as I know, there is no other editor with this capability. Sure, they all let you write "plug-ins" but none of them let you do your work by writing code interactively, alongside normal editing commands and GUI operations. As a programmer, this is how I want to do everything with my computer.

I don't have many customizations (I have something to move lines with the alt-key like Eclipse, and I swap parens and square bracket keys so it's faster to write Lisp) and I don't even know many keyboard shortcuts, but I write bits of Elisp all the time to perform large scale text manipulations, generate Java and html boilerplate at work etc. Having everything happen inside my editor, being able to use an editable buffer as an ad-hoc input source to a program just makes everything more fluid and interactive than doing the same thing with scripting languages on the command line.

It kind of baffles me that the Emacs people don't push this angle very much. There's hardly anything about it on the website. You'd think Emacs was just another editor with hundreds of keyboard shortcuts and a strange gui.
> Biking and public transit moves most commuters off of the streets

Help me understand this. Where do cyclists and ground-level public transportation go if they're not on the streets?

> Then I quarantined in Tokyo for 2 weeks and everything was a convenient 5-minute walk away.

Wait a minute, quarantined and walked around?
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I think the question is “why are there only big, expensive action movies?” Or maybe it is “why aren’t you doing more goodwill hunting films?”

But I too disagree with those premises.

Matt daemon is saying there isn’t room for the ~25 million dollar movie, because cinema ticket sale now has to carry the entire revenue stream.

But I’ve seen mostly smaller movies in cinema for the past two years.

Hell, parasite, which won best picture was a $15 million production, so obviously there is room for “small” movies
At a high level:

1. Zoning prevents density, which precludes having enough foot traffic for neighborhood stores to exist (if zoning actually allow them).

2. Parking minimums force things farther apart because so much of each lot is asphalt.

3. Street design that prioritizes car speed over pedestrian safety.

In the end, it's not safe, pleasant, or practical to walk in suburbs built from the 70s on. These things are a patchwork of local and state law so specifics vary by area.
Too many choices, maybe? So they all get spread out too thin.

Back when VHS and DVD's were the thing, you'd pretty much get a very finite amount of choices, and usually went with one of those. Of course, you had the huge rental stores with thousands of flicks, but in most places, the selection was just a small fraction of that.

20 years ago, we'd go to the rental store/kiosk/whatever, set on seeing a movie. So we picked one, of the maybe 30 titles. Could be good, could be bad, who knows.

Today, I spend probably 20 minutes browsing 5 different streaming services before I find anything. And I've probably browed through hundreds of titles in that amount of time.

I'm not sure how much the studios get for letting streaming services show their movies either, compared to the rental stores back in the day, or flat out selling DVDs to consumers.
> What right do you have to enforce your own morals upon an entire other nation?

Aren't they suggesting that the individuals involved decide what kind of language is appropriate for their conversation? I can't imagine how you'd call that "enforc[ing] your own morals" upon anyone, let alone an entire nation!
When the infrastructure is multi-fuel, the car being multi-fuel is a great value.

Many years ago, I was driving across Europe with my old petrol car that was converted to use LPG. I like LPG because it's cheaper, the engine makes less noise and it is more environmentally friendly(but it's bad for the car AFAIK, the car was a clunker anyway).

What I found out was that in Europe, even within the EU, LPG stations don't have the same popularity everywhere and even if you find one it may have different port, thus you may need an adapter to fit yours.

When driving In Austria, I run out of LPG multiple times because the LPG stations were more like novelty, away from the main roads with no guarantees on the working hours.

Electric chargers still feel like that. There are many of them but not everywhere and the quality and availability on the spot is non-standart.

Petrol stations are actually quite good experiences most of the time. The refuelling experience is very robust and most of the time they will provide you with a WC, a place to rest, a place to wait, a place to eat, a place to shop.

Petrol stations at remote places tend to be relaxing, revitalising experiences even when the facilities are not top-notch. Well, at least in Europe.

I would love electric infrastructure to catch up and preserve that culture.
Yeah, but they are already doing this for pointless things. They already use facial recognition on all the photos on your phone. That’s what I don’t understand. The only new thing is what they are looking for and their willingness to alert the authorities. The slippery slope argument that this will eventually be used by China to arrest journalists is scare tactics. We have zero evidence that Apple would allow such a thing to happen. And the only thing stopping them is Apple’s word. The fact that they are announcing this should actually give confidence that they aren’t doing it in the shadows for China. They didn’t have to say anything about this. The fact that they should give you confidence that they are respecting your rights, not evidence that they aren’t.
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It had winnie the poo memes afaik. It would be like posting the drawn image of obama as a monkey (which caused a stir a while ago) while criticizing his policies in the US.
I don’t have inside knowledge, but my impression is that streaming is moving spending from cable and satellite (basically zero-sum) while DVD sales have basically disappeared, without any new revenue stream taking over.
Sometimes the train trip is absolute hell e.g. you need to switch a lot with significant delay inbetween, and the trip ends up significantly longer by car.

You can use the train trip to read (or sleep if you can do that, I can't) but you also can't really put your music or podcasts and you have to deal with other people. The train changes can also be very stressful.

Then there's traveling at your destination, if you need a car at your arrival the advantage of the train plummet, whether you need to rent one (which is expensive) or borrow one (which imposes on your hosts).

FWIW that's exactly why despite being in europe after years of taking the train when I go back to see my family I ended up now renting a car instead (I usually live car-free):

* both my own home and my family are a bit out-of-the-way, there's public transport (though not ideal) around my own home but none at the destination so I'd need to impose e.g. be fetched at the train station, with regular issues of delays and friends

* by train the entire trip takes about 8 hours, with 6 transport changes (some rather annoying / stressful), by car I can take a more direct route so it only takes 0530, and I can stop when I want (I usually end up stopping twice and taking between 0600 and 06:30)

* by train there is no real independence unless I rent a car anyway, I just end up bothering to go see the rest of the family, meanwhile renting a car lets me more actively help

* even if I don't rent a car at the destination, the financial gain of the train is basically nil, the train is rather expensive unless I take a slow train and basically need two days to make the trip

* and finally carrying shit in the train is a pain in the ass, both ways, I can easily load presents or stuff in a rental car, and bring comfort food or whatever back, there is no space premium of any sort
Extreem changes in a system deeply adapted to a current situation is always a problem, that's why you hear mostly about the down and not the up.

Slow or local changes are ok because life adapts nicely.

Brutal or global changes will also see adaptation, but will cause much pain and damages.

Moving a cristal glass on a few yards or meters at the average speed of 4 miles or km an hour may be fine for the glass or not, depending if your speed is mostly constant, or not.

If you move the glass excrucingly slowly first, of throw it brutally at the last inch/cm, it will be bad for the glass. You won't hear about the good stories about this, because there are not aligned with the nature if the situation.
In Britain this is called Park & Ride (or P+R for short):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_and_ride
First time I've heard of Kind. I run k3s and minikube. How is Kind different?
The people who show up to city council meetings and pay attention to local politics are a tiny minority. It is not a stretch to believe that they do not represent what most people want.
In your examples for the Olympics, the name is the very last column. So I would need to scan through Rank, Gold Medals, Silver Medals, Bronze Medals, and Total Medals to find the name that the Rank belongs with. Compare this to Rank and Silver Medals which have nothing to do with each other. You can be rank 1 with 0 silver medals. If sorting by Total Medals you could have 0 gold medals and be in rank 1. So the rank belongs with the name. The most basic question everyone answers with the table is “which country is in first?”. Some people may wonder “how many silver medals did the first place country get?” and obviously the point of a table is to allow them to find this information too, but it’s of much lower interest to most readers. For example, you’d never find a table that just showed Rank and Silver Medals (or even Rank and Gold Medals) but it’s common to see a table that only shows Rank and Country or in the case of golf Rank and Player Name. Who won the Masters? It wasn’t the score that won, it was the player
... or you incentivize the wait by decreasing cost.

Sometimes I feel like these discussions about EVs are strangely divorced from most people's lives. We will likely make our next purchase an EV purchase, and I think the cost of waiting on long trips probably has to be considered against other annoyances of ICEs, but the economics of this are a major reason more people don't switch to EVs. Even the cheapest ones still cant compete against the ICE market as a whole, especially when you consider the used vehicles that will be in circulation for some time.

Adding costs will just make it more difficult for people to afford anything.

If people want EVs to take off, they need to incentivize purchasing them, not tax the ubiquitous alternative. If the carbon costs are real, manifest it in decreased costs for the alternative. Otherwise it's all theory.
How does CalyxOX compare to /e/ https://e.foundation/ ?

I've been really happy with /e/ in daily usage but I'm curious to see what other projects are out there.
These women get beaten by their families for having a mobile phone, or outright killed for choosing the wrong partner.

I think perhaps you got the wrong thing from this article.
Relevant: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/oct/02/walkways-in-t...
They first create this PR how they care about privacy.

Then when the message settles in, they do exactly opposite.

Someone at Apple read 48 Laws of Power too many times.
> I am currently planning the migration away from the Apple ecosystem

Me too. I told my wife today that I'll be looking at a feature phone as I'm not sure I can be bothered with jumping through all the hoops required to de-Google an Android phone. I remember a time before mobile phones, I was just fine without one - smartphones aren't that good, just convenient.
Good, post! One caveat though: Regarded as a programming language, PDF is much less powerful than PostScript, because in contrast to PostScript, PDF is not Turing-complete: PDF lacks looping constructs, conditionals etc. that are necessary to implement general programs. Even a comparatively simple calculation such as dynamically approximating π which you mention cannot be expressed in PDF.

Quoting from the PDF language reference:

"Unlike PostScript, however, PDF is not a full-scale programming language; it trades reduced flexibility for improved efficiency and predictability."

The PDF language reference is available from: https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/pdf/pdfs/pd...

Every file that conforms to this specification is a PDF file. One can easily construct or adapt such a file and let it display any content one wants.

PostScript is technically and aesthetically superior in almost every way to PDF: It is human readable, it can express arbitrary computations, it allows incremental dynamic updates and can therefore be used to visualize simple animations via instructions read from a stream, its fonts can be described with the same language constructs as entire documents etc.

One of the reasons one may prefer to use PDF instead of PostScript is the support for transparency that PDF provides.
This is a topic for a completely different discussion. In short, 9/11 happened much earlier than 9/11, in the sense that there were decades of anger and resentment on the part of - generally speaking - Middle-East Muslim community at the actions of Israel and the USA. When 9/11 happened some people were actually happy. I know this because I spoke to them personally. It's hard do believe but it shows how large the divide had become: you needed this kind of horror to make it a mainstream topic.

So what the American president is doing? Instead of finally starting to work hard on American-ME relations, he decided to invade another country. A country that had been unsuccessfully invaded in the past and has the worst natural conditions for invasion, with Taliban with bazookas hiding in caves and ordinary people living in villages, and the two freely mixing. What could possibly go wrong?

I'm not saying that peace in the ME is easy, it even became a kind of meme that it's impossible, but there is no hope if Israel doesn't consider some concessions. And year after year, decade after decade it becomes worse. Any American interventions, any casualty makes it much worse. But it seems we're to stupid to work on the causes and can only deal with the results. It just makes me sad as ordinary people can't do anything about it.
All the evidence required is that it is there.

Does not matter if someone else put it there without your knowledge. Or maybe it matters, but then it's on you (for all intents and purposes) to prove that it was without your knowledges.
For what it's worth, police funding in US rivals and exceeds military funding of other countries.
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If you don’t want to go all out you can always just skip iCloud. You can quite easily synchronise your photos, Callander and so on with other platforms.

I’m currently on an office365 business plan though not for privacy reasons, but since it came with a terra byte of OneDrive storage I put my pictures there and not into iCloud as I didn’t see a reason to play two cloud platforms a monthly storage fee. Works just fine, and it also worked just fine when I was using g-suite and not office365 ans I imagine it’ll work just fine if you set up your own storage as well.
I'm seeing lots of news and pushback about the iCloud scanning stuff, but not a lot of news about the iMessage scanning and sharing stuff.

I'm not a parent, thankfully; but if I were, I'm not sure I'd be entirely comfortable with the idea of other parents seeing my child naked. Even if I don't sign my child's account up for this scanning thing, the recipient could well be, and they won't be warned about that before sending it.

This is an abusive parent's wet dream waiting to happen, and it disgusts me. Minors should be free to explore their sexuality with their peers. It's how we grow as people.

EDIT: Upon further thought; how is this NOT illegal? How else can this be framed than "Apple knowingly and willingly assists in the dissemination of child pornography into the hands of adults"?
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Because not doing so is a logical fallacy?

People can make, and have made totally bad choices about any area and perfectly good choices in another area.

For example you made a very bad argument logic-wise here. But still you may have something worth to say on some other matter...
Probably this also saved the student some fees as well.
Yes, there seems to be a lot of conflation between the two separate systems (in the media, and in comments on here).

As you say, it’s important to be precise, otherwise people won’t take your arguments seriously. To summarise:

One system involves hash checking. This is performed when photos are being uploaded to iCloud. The hashes are calculated on-device. Private set intersection is used to determine whether the photos being uploaded match anything in the CSAM hash list. Photos that match will be reviewed manually - if I recall correctly, this only occurs after a certain threshold has been reached. This system will only match known CSAM (or whatever else is in the hash list).

The second, independent, system, is a machine learning model which runs on-device to detect sexually explicit photos being received on Messages.app. This system is designed to be run on children’s phones. The system will hide these explicit images by default, and can be configured to alert parents - that feature is designed for under-13s. This system doesn’t use the CSAM hash list.
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Perhaps they argue for this case over in https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/16/magazine/russ.... I haven't read the article, I just keep the bookmark around.
Vetting sources is only basic due diligence. Auditing source code, infrastructure, and data storage is crucial regardless of how “prolific” the author is.
>Back when VHS and DVD's were the thing, you'd pretty much get a very finite amount of choices, and usually went with one of those. Of course, you had the huge rental stores with thousands of flicks, but in most places, the selection was just a small fraction of that.

Streaming has even less choices. The Netflix catalog for example is laughable, and they push even more for their own stuff.
Most people believe they are good and conforming. They don't believe anything would happen to them because of what Apple does and they don't want to be seen as those defending abusers right to privacy.
A dodgy phone call from an unknown number abroad by a stupid teenager is enough to get a SWAT team to murder innocent civilians, what makes you think they'll be smarter when the "call" comes from a robot?

I mean, seriously, you're assuming as beyond obvious something that's demonstrably wrong RIGHT NOW.
You surely meant five figures and not ~500,000?
Indigenous peoples have been living in all corners of the globe for thousands of years. The range of our habitat has stayed roughly the same since antiquity, but the population that any given land can support has been vastly boosted by technology.
>I think the film industry has evolved incredibly because of technology, and I'm happy because of that.

Well, evolved incredibly because of the technology mostly amounts two "3 out of 4 movies are superheroes in spandex for adult-children" who can't handle more depth even in their 30s and 40s...
The student partner was living in Wuhan. The partner beg them to stop, and they didn’t. Its partner is lucky not to be sent to a “re-education” camp.

We all agree that the fact that this can happen is wrong, but what the student did is not just wishful thinking, they put their loved ones at risk. That’s very disrespectful of other people lives.

A PhD proofs that one is capable of conducting independent research on some topic. This story proofs that they are definitely not capable of conducting and directing independent research on China, so it makes no sense for this student to be on a PhD program anyways. They should have known better, since they were “China experts”, but they didn’t.