skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The passage that stands out most to me is this:

[W]hatever I've learned for technologies like Emacs, LaTeX, GNU/Linux, and so forth in the nineties, is still valid and useful to me nowadays. This can not be stressed enough: instead of un-learning and re-learning, I was able to improve and learn new things. This scales much better than any proprietary or temporary knowledge.

Even though I don't use emacs,[1] the point here is one that I've long realised and was instrumental when I was looking at potential directions to go with technology in the early 1990s.

I'd had experience across a number of computer systems, small and large, and all but Unix were proprietary. I'd already seen hard-won knowledge expired, often in a few years, as platforms or tools were eclipsed. And Unix was more fun...

Learning vi on the uni shared-access Unix server in the 1980s was a few weeks of pain and confusion. It's paid off handsomly over the subsequent 35+ years, as did basic fluency in the shell and its tools. Over time I've added to my toolset. Very occasionally old tools are replaced entirely, though quite often replacements themselves seek to retain interface (commands, keystrokes) compatibility.

I've also spent time (and occasionally money) learning proprietary systems ... virtually all of which are not entirely dead to me. Some still exist in small niches, others have all but disappeared.

In Future Shock, Alvin Toffler argues that in the future (that is, now), success will be determined not by those who can learn, but by those who can successfully unlearn old patterns. The older I get, the less likely this seems to be true. Unlearning is vastly more difficult than learning. Far better to get on a technological track in which basic principles, tools, and interfaces are adopted and retained as long as practicably possible, in a modular fashion. This avoids requiring wholesale skills obsolescence, provides for maximal skills retention and accretion, and where unlearning is absolutely required, tends to localise it to specific areas.

Voit's essay touches on several useful concepts directly or by reference (learning, unlearning, knowledge capital). I'd like to add another: the Lindy Effect. That's the tendency of things which have existed for a long time to continue existing. In technology it seems to be largely true. In particular, long-lived free and open tools seem to be good bets for continued relevance.

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Notes:

1. I did pick it up at one point and used it with some facility for a number of months. This was at a time that having ones own Unix or Linux server was still quite a novelty, and my manager at the next gig was an idiot who didn't believe in installing any software which wasn't shipped by the vendor. Life lesson: don't work for idiots, or let them dictate your opportunities.
Mainly because of the reasons I just gave.

Also because even though stopped clocks are right twice a day, you shouldn’t use them for timekeeping — Fiction can be satire, or have a social message, or be hard science to give a narrative explanation to confusing-but-real physics, but it can also be Harry Potter, The Hobbit… or the wildly implausible specific events and timescales in The Day After Tomorrow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After_Tomorrow#Politic...
Is there is any evidence that any PhD student has ever found it hard to get a US visa because of criticizing the US or US policy?
That seems like another good example of Wikipedia being unreliable and corrupt on politicized topics, not so much a substantive counter for this article.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jul/16/wikipedia-c...
isn't there any way to download the whole thing as PDF rather than just each section?
I meant annual income in my context ofc.
> As it stands, in Los Angeles, median one-bedroom seems to be about $2,362/month, and a minimum wage job there, before taxes only pays $2,462 per month.

Never been to Los Angeles so correct me if I'm wrong but is Los Angeles a small town or is a massive, sought-after city with a ~4 million population and ~18 million greater-area population?
Four of the top ten posts as of writing is about this issue. I'm glad people are finding something they are interested in to talk about, but at this point this issue is hardly intellectually interesting.

It's like people are being forced to buy an iPhone or something.
American police has never been de-funded, and if you really think "good old fashioned" police work ever actually worked for most people, you are misinformed.

Without even discussing policing across racial and poverty lines, one only needs to look at police failing to catch serial killers, rapists, and even just house burglars.

The situation was much worst 10, 20, 30+ years ago. Nowadays police have some of their work done for them by technology and they are at least able to catch a few more criminals. Technology has also helped prevent false arrests in some cases. Apple's content scanning is problematic, for sure, but technology in general has been great for community safety.
> it will trip the breaker in the basement

Will it? It’d depend on the breaker and load rating of the wire run to the garage.

I can draw 6kw from one 240v, breaker, so about 25 amps, for a few minutes before it trips from thermal overload.

I load tested a new outlet that was wired on the same circuit, with five devices plugged in, kettle, pressure cooker, slow cooker, fan heater, and hair drier for good measure.

The breaker should trip before the wire is damaged, it did.
I've been reading hacker news for around two years and it's one of the recurrent topics I think. It comes in waves so we may be in a peak of some sorts, but I think it'll always come and go.
I switched from Emacs to VSCode to doom emacs and will not be going back anytime soon. For people who mainly want to focus on development, I would say it is fine to break the conventional vim/emacs wisdom that you should start from scratch.
What I am missing from all this story, is what triggered Apple to put in place, or even think about, this system.

It is clearly a no-trivial project, no other company is doing it, and it will be one of the rare case of a company doing something not for shareholders value but for "goodwill".

I am really not understanding the reasoning behind this choice.
Wait a second. Is the argument here that comparing Xi Jinping to Winnie the Pooh is "racist"? As opposed to just, say, offensive to a very powerful fat man? Wow, OK. I think we have a new standard for the use of racism accusations to censor people.
This link explains it well I think http://nsl.com/papers/denial.html
The problem with 1. is that a tiny amount of people understand or care about the issue. It won't make a difference to Apple bottom line. Then when other companies start doing it, you eventually become tech excluded.

This needs to be dealt with at legislative level.
As a lot of that cc text is automatically generated it seems like you’d just be creating a clone of other software, which might be an intellectual property issue.
>It's a shame that the discourse around this drug has been horribly mangled by conspiracy theorists..

Do you think companies that are developing vaccines and other costly treatments for Covid does not have an incentive to discredit Ivermectin?

If you say, yes they have an incentive, but there is no evidence that they are doing so, then it becomes quite subjective. If you think it is not possible for the researchers and media to work towards a narrative, then of course that is an outrageous possibility, but if you think that is possible, then not so much so..
Yep, folks often fail to distinguish between old and OLD.

One might think Eclipse IDE is old. But Fortran predates the three-point seatbelts. The Vietnam War. Berlin Crisis. The Space Race.
A client, at least, will be needed in the standard library for their upcoming package manager.
I think the problem with your response is that you aren't proposing anything better. It just sounds like you're saying "give in, it doesn't make a difference anyway".

That capitulating, "crabs in a barrel" attitude is why things are the way they are. The majority just sits around waiting for something to happen and for some miracle to happen; for a leader to show up, galvanize the masses to change their ways and save the day. At the same time you don't believe that will ever happen, so you stay complacent, non-active and immobile (physically and mentally).

Stop preaching futility and do something positive. Try and be the positive change you want to see. Just because you've given up doesn't mean you have to try and convince somebody else to give up. You're part of the problem.
Isn't the difference that with google drive, they scan the files you upload to their servers? And, this latest apple debacle is on scanning files locally on the device itself?
> It feels to me much more aimed at being able to fire people when controversy arrises than something used to actively screen new hires.

If you mean my speculation about political posts, then you're probably right. But if you mean the diversity pledge screening, then you couldn't be more wrong. From another article on the same subject:

> eight different departments affiliated with the life sciences used a diversity rubric to weed out applicants for positions. This was the first step: In one example, of a pool of 894 candidates was narrowed down to 214 based solely on how convincing their plans to spread diversity were.

https://reason.com/2020/02/03/university-of-california-diver...
"... the most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize something that should not exist."

Wise words.

" if a product is reaching the end of a production line with a high acceptance rate, there is no need for in-process testing."

This is really interesting, probably controversial, but worth a lot of contemplation and I wonder how this could apply to software.
Recall that apple devices include an ML accelerator, at some point or another, the next step down this slope will be adding this to the display pipeline.

PhotoDNA and similar are done in on-premises machines, nothing on your own private phone.
The confusion seems to arise from Americans calling the democrats "the left". It's like fighting over which brand of chips is the best, Lays or Pringles.

A tip: These are not chips.
Hong Kong has that in some places. It makes it hard to navigate on foot, as pedestrian routes are no longer obvious lines but require entering building perpendicular to your direction, for example.

However, the idea is nearly perfect. All it really needs is to put the cars in tunnels. Underground there's plenty of room for driving, parking, etc.
Maybe that's when they tried it. Does it matter?
This is a compilation of what others have posted:

- Germany

https://www.golem.de/news/hamburg-polizei-nutzt-corona-konta...

https://www.ccc.de/de/updates/2021/luca-app-ccc-fordert-bund...

- Australia

Australia, WA, check-in data: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-15/safewa-app-sparks-urg...

Australia, WA, border pass data: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-17/g2g-app-data-accessed...

Australia, VIC, check-in data: https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/police-sought-ac...

Australia, QLD, check-in data: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-29/queensland-coronaviru...

- Singapore

https://fortune.com/2021/02/01/singapore-covid-data-tracetog...

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/politics/police-can-a...

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/proposed-restrictions...

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/politics/bill-limitin...
The entire reason to encrypt data before transferring is to preserve privacy of the individual, which is completely irrelevant when you have a system in place to scan everything before it ever gets uploaded.

It's like living in the glass apartments of Yevgeny Zamyatin's We but still thinking we're preserving privacy because we put our items into an opaque box.
Because that's the only way an individual's value system wouldn't come into play. If it's anything less than completely fixed and anything more than no erosion of privacy, then it just depends on how important privacy is to the person. I personally think privacy is super important, and it would take massive changes in how society and our government work before I was willing to give it up for just about anything.
I am not going to enter a discussion on who rolled whatever first, whose userbase has the most up to date OS, or the like. iOS is not going to win any privacy argument here anyway for the simple reason that at least I can de-googlefy Android.

The point is that they make extremely similar promises that you can't verify.

> You need to trust someone on a claim vs someone not making the claim at all... those are not the same thing.

What is the difference between someone saying that your data is not visible to them (oh but you can't verify it!) versus someone saying that they will not touch or store your data after processing it on their privacy policy?

When they control the entire platform, the fact that they claim to be doing something technical to prevent them from accessing the data is absolutely pointless. Even if it were true, they could be able to change it in an instant after a silent update (by themselves, by the government, or even by a third party attack!), and no one would be the wiser.

> Apple hasn't shown a reason to lie, and here's no equivalent financial incentive to Google unless you think Apple

Not sure I understand.

In any case, most companies have already lied multiple times, and _all_ companies share at least one big reason to lie: Come tomorrow, some three letter agency could send them the letter and outright force them to capture your data, and since the only thing that prevents them from capturing your data is empty promises, they could do it in an instant. And would do it. And in fact do it regularly (TFA could in fact be an example of Apple trying to get rid of that).

Btw,

> I have literally never seen Google claim Google Photos is using on device classification,

I have never put a SIM nor network credentials on my only Google Android device that has practically never abandoned my residence and yet it is tagging photos of objects. That's my source. I have not put a SIM either on my iOS devices and they do not tag pictures :)
This one hopefully has a bit of an original twist by being focused on maintainability and understanding some of why Bash is different from most programming languages, and by being aimed at software developers mainly working in other languages.

I'd like to write a follow-up article about the process of getting there if there's any interest. AMA.
This presentation is only a few days old.
If that would always work, a manual review would not be necessary. Just send the flagged photo and its owner straight to the police.
It's not a typo. Monadic × will return 1 if the right argument is positive, ¯1 (minus one) if it is negative, and zero if it is zero.
9 advertising placements in a single article.

Even with adblock, reading flow of the text is utterly disrupted.
Sure. It's a bad faith argument though. Nowhere in the world, with or without guns, has absolutely safe streets. So where on the sliding scale of safe it becomes worth it is subjective.
It really depends on your use and expectations, if you expanded the question I could answer better. Maybe you expect things like scene manager, asset loader, animation rigging, pathfinding and network syncing to be built in, but LOVE2D/LOVR philosophy is to expose a sane and well thought out low level API and let the community provide the rest, in a bazaar sort of way. To put together something with complexity, you need to look around for various libs, and then design a way to put them together.

Beside this trade off, the one "downside" is that this is largely a single person's effort with small community around it. LOVR is quite ambitious with supported platforms, and some platforms will exhibit bugs. Anyone working on a serious project will have to get their hands dirty with the framework code, which is thankfully rather easy on eyes.

I think others already mentioned that LOVR is closer to raylib than to Godot. Once I experienced the flow of quickly iterating and hot-loading Lua code, I couldn't go back to Godot's flow adding entities in an editor, clicking around their properties, making OOP scripts and compiling to target platform to test.

LOVR's sweet spot for me is making weird one-afternoon VR projects, for example conjuring thousand or so shapes and moving them around in interesting ways. I like having the option to evolve any those projects into something full fledged and more serious, even if it would require a substantial effort. That's just me thought, some other people in community are building a full business/social platform [1] and a full indie game [2] using the LOVR framework.

[1] https://alloverse.com/
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLBAjKQNmFI&
The fact that Apple ordered upwards of 90M new iPhones tells me they took all the backlash from techies into consideration and still found it beneficial.

Something tells me that this could be used as marketing, e.g. "protect your children from abuse", "be aware of when pictures of them are taken", and "protect your children from pornography".
I have been using LineageOS on Xperia XZ2 Compact for about a year with a smaller bundle of official Google Play Services.

Almost everything works fine! Some apps didn't like it or detected root but Magisk + MagiskHide helped to hide root for those specific apps. Even Google Pay works with basic SafeNet attestation - that required "MagiskHide Props Config" Magisk extension and selecting a proper fingerprint.

The only problem encountered was that I couldn't connect PS4 controller and use it as an input device. Probably a driver issue related to bluetooth but other bluetooth devices I use work normally.

Optional F-Droid privileged extension makes F-Droid able to install F-droid app updates automatically like Play Store does.

Overall a very positive experience.
First of all, i feel that saying “people don’t understand” is insulting.

Second, the fact that everyone is now a suspect by default (instead of targeting specific individuals), is a very concerning development.

Just imagine Tim Cook retiring and being replaced by someone like Donald Trump. All the tools are now in place to start misuse.

On the other hand, it seems they did built a great tool, preserving privacy while still scanning Photos locally.
I just feel it’s wrong to use this on all (innocent) people.
Arcflash Labs Introduces the GR-1 Anvil Handheld Gauss Rifle
Key word here is "probably'. I made multiple 16 hour almost non stop trips through Europe, and it's fine for me. LA to San Jose and back in one day, with useful activity in SJ (working in the data center servicing our colo hardware) is almost a monthly routine now, without the need to book a hotel overnight
> but they are real, and they add up

But that was the point - the requirement to change your oil that often is not real, and so it does not add up.
Corrupt governments and police forces are not unique to the US (although it seems like the police in the US has become corrupt through and through).
Atlantic Ocean currents weaken, signalling big weather changes - study

HN Discussions:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28082887

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28078575

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28085342

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28091087
Casus Belli
28,000-Year-Old Cave Lion Cub Found Perfectly Preserved in Siberian Permafrost
South Korea – Don’t They Eat Dog There?
A simple question with a complex answer
The existence of Spyware Engine is a problem, not technical details of how current version suppose to work. Suppose to work because we have not idea what it will do. Did you see the source code?

We are not that naive to believe for a second that this Spyware Engine will do what is claimed.

This is simply viewed as calculated attempt to legalize Spyware Engine on a personal device covered by some bs story intended to get emotional response from the audience to fog the real issue. It is always done this way so no surprises here.
All limitations of free speech on the web in Russia were done under umbrella of protecting children and immediately used against political opponents to this very day.

This is discussion about values [1] not technical details! Simply because Spyware may be already installed. It should not become any legal though or morally accepted anyhow.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28084578
> As far as I know, there is no other editor with this capability.

Well, to some degree Vim can do this too. It doesn't let you "eval" a function you just typed into a buffer, but it can eval a vimscript file that you just edited. Including the vimrc, but just like Emacs' init.el reloading it doesn't actually reset the state. But where Vim can't just eval a whole function you can write very complex keybindings on the fly in a much simpler syntax, which made up for it in a few situations for me.

And it's very similar in how the configuration and plugins work - it's all just a scripting language spread across files, and instead of having separately developed plugins you just write a function and run it, more or less.

Emacs is more flexible still, but with its own quirks.
Using child abuse as the example crime for this crime prevention technology makes it feel like they want to silence any criticisms of their phone monitor technology
> Your city may be similar to mine, insofar as the "residents" of the downtown area are mainly the people who work there and have already paid for parking.

If massive parking requirements is the #1 urban planning disaster of the last century, the #2 surely has to be zoning regulations that prevented mixed use areas where people can live/work/play in close proximity. And this was only to… force people to buy cars to get from place to place! Look at any city area that was developed prior to the advent of cars and they are unanimously multi-use dense areas. Cars ruined everything.
What is the current flagship phone that could run e.g. Ubuntu Touch? I am looking for a new phone that will not be worse than my current driver from 2018.
Imagine you’re a journalist uncovering corruption perpetrated by the police force or a politician. Can you see how they would be incentivised to arrest you on false charges to halt the investigation and protect themselves?
>To save itself, WHO will have to forgo the easy path of private funding and appeasing the rich. It will have to return to democracy, to advocacy for the mass populations it was designed to serve

I don't think private funding is the problem, the problem is centralisation of power. So to save itself WHO should denounce its power to issue medical guidelines for the world.
Let‘s play a simple game.

Go to https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni...

and then replace

- "National Center for Missing and Exploited Children“ with „the new Trump administration“

- „child pornography“ with „LGBT content“

Doesn't look fun anymore, does it?

(use „the new Clinton administration“ and „images of guns“ if you are conservative)
Today I learned: might have played with lead a bit too much as a kid. I loved the feel of the wine sleeves -_-

But than again fishermen would use their teeth to clamp weights on the fishing line.
There are three problems with that perspective.

One, software sucks and is full of security holes, so whether or not Apple intends to leak any other data is irrelevant, because other data will leak regardless.

Two, you're assuming this is the only thing they are going to intentionally do with your data. That will change. In an infinite future, things change. Every decision is eventually overturned, and it's luck of the draw which direction that change is in.

Three, the U.S. defence apparatus has proven time and again that they will violate the law and use whatever means necessary to spy on who they want, and this is another kitchen window for them to climb through.
The solution is better rapid mass transit between and within cities!