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Apple has a right to protect themselves from being an accomplice to distribution of child porn.

Maybe you freedom fighters should have heeded the warnings over the decades of creeping corporate control and stopped buying their products?

Oooh but that dopamine high from new stuff is so addictive!

Now you’re finding yourself in an overturned boat, adrift at sea, no life jacket, and you’re ready to take on monopoly?

The anti-politics bloc incensed their political hands off approach enabled others to wield politics against them.

Good luck.
“ Columbia were typically borrowing $181,000 apiece before entering a job market that pays less than $30,000”

The sickening part is hearing people not only defend this, but to attack and defame the good people who are speaking truth to power on this. It’s David and Goliath and the usual suspects, wealthy elite, attack David for trying to warn youngsters who will destroy their lives by taking on a debt burden that guarantees a lifetime of wage slavery. No honorable person can defend this.
> about being too absolutist on goals they are passionate about.

Not at all what I mean when I say I am vehemently against absolutisms on security. Any claim to superiority on security and subsequent trashing of others is rotten because it's not kind, not compassionate, not conducive to cooperation, the single greatest tool we have as humankind. We don't need more division in this space and we don't need people with a headful of their egos being affirmed for bad human behavior.

There are better ways of being critical of others without being an a**hole in public. That's the thrust of my argument. We'd all do well to hold these people to a better standard of behavior.
Poll: What age did you stop coding?
At what age did you move away from coding into other roles such as product manager, engineer manager, etc
Cosigned on Greg Egan! Not everything I've tried of his clicks for me, but IMO Peutation City and Diaspora are masterpieces.
Ali G always had the best answer to this question: "Why doesn't you give it to charity?"
It will be gone before you realize we should have preserved it.
Unfortunately it hurts users more than Apple and I t won’t discourage users from buying Apple hardware.
This was easy to predict.

Anyone who's been in the industry knows that there is not only not enough demand, but it is also seasonal. Other than the heaviest users, people don't consume 365 days out of the year, they go through phases.

If you grow weed year round in high tech facilities that maximize production, you're going to just have massive piles of it that you cannot unload.

Making it legal didn't really create that much more demand because it was already easy enough to get in most places where there were enough consumers.

I drove through Oregon not too long ago. There is literally miles of weed shops right next door to each other. There are more weed shops than gas stations... and the gas stations usually have one right next door anyway. I have no idea how they all stay in business, but it couldn't be good.

Now this is the comparison to tulip mania that kind of works.
>If you're for this increased regulation fine, just understand it will push innovation and capital elsewhere in the world.

What does this even mean? What innovation did Bitcoin bring to the world other than an easy way to bypass government control? That cat and mouse game has existed as long as governments existed. This only helps if you are fleeing from a worse government to a better government. Completely avoiding governments is impossible. Even on El Salvador Bitcoin acceptance depends on the government.

Pushing capital doesn't even make any sense. What are you going to do with all your "Bitcoin" capital if nobody is trading their USD for BTC? Is the economy of El Salvador really powerful enough to counteract the loss of USA as your trading partner? USD and BTC are just numbers on a balance sheet. You still need to convince people in the real world to give up their real wealth in exchange for it. For the USD it's pretty obvious. People pay their taxes and debts in USD. If the number of people doing that is shrinking then the amount of real wealth you can extract will shrink. That also applies to BTC. It's not like moving BTC from USA to El Salvador will also move factories (you know, the capital in capitalism) there.
I wouldn't want to be his sponsor either. It just shows either a complete misunderstanding of the power dynamics of an outsider doing research in China, or poor judgement.
So should he just shut up, then? It's scary if most people feel that way.

There was also no risk to his GF. At worst, the relationship ends - it's not like the CCP is going to go after her (she did ask him to stop).
You could probably use a low Japanese table for this pretty well.

I think a combination of positions is probably best to get variety in muscles you're using. Reminds me of a theory I heard that hard-backed chairs are actually better because they make you fidget and readjust your body, versus using the soft chair as an external spine
>> Will anyone who saves those memes (or repost them to reddit/facebook) be flagged?

Shouldn't they be?
> The writer accuses Gerber of a «racist attack on the Chinese people.»

Interesting, how Chinese people reacts to Winnie Pooh cartoons? Also as "racist attack" or "Nazism threat"?
I find it wild how often people choose online degrees and how that limits one of the most important features of education: exposure to other people and networking.
I don't think the comment you replied to was saying it's only bad because Canadian. They were stating every time they hear about food being destroyed it pisses them off. Doesn't matter if it is US, Canada or a dictator doing it in front of the people that were hoping to receive it. It's a shit move.

However, let's not forget the logistics of getting the food to locations it was never thought about getting to when it was "made". Farms pretty much know where their food is going to be sold when it comes time for harvest. Food like milk definitely has an expiration factor as well. So if American farmers can't sell their milk normally and have never tried to arrange for it to be sold elsewhere, getting it to elsewhere before expiration isn't as easy as one might think.
>tightening tax compliance within the historically under-regulated arena of digital currency

"historically under-regulated" is the most biased way I could imagine to present this information
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28073586

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28096840
I was about to post this. I am surprised most publications give FB/WhatsApp the moral highground, given what this tweet suggests. Is there an angle I am missing?
It's worse: the author took common diagonal sizes and then assumed those were _widths_. 34" and 49" are diagonal measurements for monitors.
Thx. I have heard the, it is easy to bypass signup-walls, pay-walls, etc. argument. I personally think that argument is foobar. But why can HN not have a filter option to simply not show such walled links? Surely, I'm not the only one peeved by these.
I do have a complaint about relatively new TLDs. Did you know .forum domains are $500 to $2000 per year?

We live in a world where everybody is complaining about censorship and nazis, but one of the best new TLDs for an independent forum is prices out 99% of the market!

Of course, there are plenty of TLDs in the $5-$20 range, which are great, but this will cause cheap TLDs to become crowded and .forum will be a ghost town.

Forums generally don't make money. Any forum making money, probably isn't making enough to budget $500 extra in another domain. Any company that would say "wow, $2000/year is acceptable" would already have something like {forum,community}.acme.com.
If HN won't stand up for racist or sexist tweets, who will?
> There are more weed shops than gas stations... and the gas stations usually have one right next door anyway.

In Washington state [or just Seattle? I'm not sure], there are laws restricting how many square feet the signage for a weed store is allowed to have. In response to this, weed stores devised a trick where they buy up neighboring businesses and run them under the same brand name as the weed store, with very large signs. So next to "Bubba's weed store" with small signs, you have "Bubba's Car Wash" with very large signs. Anybody looking for Bubba's weed will see the huge sign for Bubba's car wash, and know they found the right spot.
None of the amendments sufficiently clarify the role of mining pools. I.e. the pool does validation, but it also divides up the mined yield. If you regulate pools, this will significantly reduce and centralize the entities with control over distributed ledgers.
> those who access medical cannabis legally pay on average 34 percent more for their medicine than if they bought from the unregulated market.

I mean, that’s true with most things isn’t it? If you buy meat from the dodgy guy in a pub then it’s cheaper. Bloke selling televisions from a van? Cheaper. Cigarettes from a corner store that have been imported from a low tax country? Cheaper. Getting the electric/gas done in your house from someone who is unlicensed? Cheaper.

Not sure why we would expect this to be different.
Came here to mention this, it's a fun podcast to binge in a day/night.
It should be obvious that the recent deluge of (online) Master's programs from Harvard and other well known universities is a scam.

I think most people here are technical and would pursue a degree in a technical field so here's my personal criteria of what does and does not constitute an actual worthwhile Master's degree in science / engineering: it requires heavy calculus and other advanced math.

Programs that don't do that are generally decorated with "management" titles and/or implications, for example "Master's in Engineering Management" or "Master's in Cyber Security."

An online IT degree is how I got my foot in the door. Then I saved up money and went to engineering school. Which do you guess made the biggest difference to my world outlook and career?

Buyer beware.
It's interesting how these articles never post that cartoon, huh?
Yeah, this is my reading of the situation too. From a technical point of view, what Apple is doing seems like a reasonable approach to me; what I absolutely do not trust is any claim that it will never ever be expanded to include, say, governments requiring similar tech be applied to all messages before they are encrypted in order to look for dissidents… and then generally at opposition parties. (And of course there are enough competent technologists available for making custom encrypted chat apps that the hostile governments could only achieve their goals by putting the AI in the frame buffer, which opens the door to subliminal attacks against political enemies — targeting the AI with single frames such that the device user doesn’t even notice anything).

But I know I have paradoxical values here:

On the one hand, I regard abusive porn as evil. I want it stopped.

On the other, I have witnessed formerly-legal acts become illegal, and grew up in a place where there are sexual acts you can legally perform yet not legally possess images of. I think the governments (and people in general) follow a sense of disgust-minimisation, even when this is at the expense of harm-minimisation.

And any AI which can genuinely detect a category of image can also be used to generate novel examples that are also in that category without directly harming a real human.

I don’t have a strong grasp on what I expect the future to look like. My idea of what “the singularity” is, is that rather than a single point in the future where all tech gets invented at once, it’s an event horizon beyond which we can no longer make reasonably accurate predictions. I think this horizon is currently 2025-2035, and that tech is changing the landscape of what morality looks like so fast that I can’t see past that.
Very cool!

Thanks for stopping in here!
The question was about many thousands. Not 1.

Is NCMEC's mission protecting children or self promotion? Facts are best for the 1st.
Kneeling hurts my knees. Not like hurts after a few minutes of staying in the position, but like intense pain as soon as I put weight on the knees.
Given a human body B, how many permutations of a position P can you move the body into, given the time constraint of a day D?

I had back pain from "programmer's hunch." I resisted doing yoga because I thought I was too cool to do "hippie stuff," but I started doing yoga and my back pain went away. Is my spirit cleansed from opening my spinal chakra? No. My yoga routine includes many body positions I never enter during a typical day, most importantly lordosis.[0] The first time I did the lordosis pose my back crackled and popped. The second time not so much. These days I gracefully enter the pose with ease, and my back pain has magically disappeared.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lordosis
US and Japan both have a number of mid-tier cities in the 4000-6000 per km2 range (look at the "list of [US|Japan] cities" pages on Wiki and sort by descending pop density). Japan has a number of efficient cities far from the Tokyo/Osaka megalopoli that don't benefit from their network effects. Consider Fukuoka, Sapporo, or Kagoshima (all fairly remote/isolated cities) compared to Miami, FL and Santa Ana, CA (for high-density US cities outside of the Northeast Corridor). Hiroshima and Sapporo have surprisingly-low pop densities closer to Nashville and Kansas City. We Americans should be able to draw some applicable conclusions even when we look outside of Tokyo. The initial reaction is usually "the density disparity makes it cost-ineffective when applied to the US". If we zoned and developed along Japanese patterns, wouldn't our city densities increase, due to the higher quality of life delivered by the efficiency improvements? People would actually want to live in places where they had flexible transit options and safe walkable neighborhoods with integrated commercial and entertainment activities.
But, many (predominantly on the Left) are now seeing liberal free speech as outmoded. Though he's not a serious person, former Prince Harry (who, with his wife, use their celebrity to champion Progressive causes) recently called the 1st Amendment "bonkers"[1]. Even The Atlantic publishes its doubts about it.[2]

My stepfather grew up Jewish in Germany in the early 20th century. He was 13 years old when Hitler became Chancellor. His family got out, and he made his way to the US. He told me very sternly "don't ever think that it can't happen here". Those words stuck with me, and seem now more relevant than ever.

[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/prince-harry-calls-firs...

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/02/free-sp...
> Any examples that doesn't directly attack fossil fuel competitors?

No offence, but that is moving the goalposts a bit; information critical of the US is still critical of the US.
> So Charlie Hebdo (who are disgusting, btw) should have been fined in Switzerland.

Charlie Hebdo is indeed disgusting. They're nihilists from a cultural milieu that know no moral limits. There is a difference, as you say, between rational criticism of Islam and its mockery and charity is a pretty good way to distinguish between good and bad behavior (i.e., even assuming Islam is terribly flawed, it is uncharitable to mock it in this way given what it is, but charitable to criticize it).

> Btw, I'm pretty sure a Zurich museum would have no trouble displaying artwork depicting Mary as a whore.

You mean like what the Talmud says about Mary, the same Talmud that depicts Jesus boiling in excrement?

The same nihilistic cultural milieu hates Christianity most of all. You think the mockery of Islam was bad? Look at how they depict Christ in those comics. It's far worse as a matter of the kinds of things they depict as well as the subject of the depiction (Mohammad is just a prophet, Jesus is the incarnation of the Logos, of God Himself, thus we're talking about the difference between irreverent desecration and outright blasphemy and sacrilegious imagery). But hatred of Christianity has become normalized and made acceptable by this nihilistic cultural milieu and Christians have been intimidated into acceptance and spineless in their resistance which is why it persists with impunity. Muslims have been known to go in the opposite extreme.

> But criminalizing mockery and claiming to believe in freedom of speech? That's rich.

Freedom of speech was never unrestricted. It cannot be. The days of that libertarian anything-goes thinking is dead even among the same Mother Jones type lefists who wanted it back when they were still dope-smoking boomers. The question isn't whether you restrict speech, but how you restrict it and what you restrict and whether it is good. Without a specific case in mind, I would generally rather risk being a bit too permissive than being too restrictive, greater liberality in what is permitted and greater conservatism in how law is interpreted, but prudential judgement is key.
Was it {firstname}{lastname}.gtld or only one of those?
> NSA spying on European leaders

Of course they are. That's a big part of their job. Does that offend anyone? It's reciprocal: I assume if Biden calls Pelosi to talk about the weather almost every country is recording the call (assuming it's unencrypted).
Do people getting a Masters in Film genuinely think that they will get a six figure job after it? Or a Masters in Positive Psychology?

Sure they aren’t just willing to be in debt forever to pursue their dreams like a lot of starving artists?
This news is incremental, sure, but still news. If stuff like this had been happening 20 years ago, many countries would probably have a very different trading posture with China.

It's important to report on this kind of thing once in a while, even if no individual instance is shocking. It builds up into a major problem.
> Cigarettes from a corner store that have been imported from a low tax country?

Probably just smuggled across state lines. Bought in a state with low taxes, then sold in a state with high taxes. The store pockets the taxes instead of passing them along to the state, which it can do because the cigarettes being sold were smuggled so the high-tax state doesn't have any record of them existing.
"It is baffling how lawmakers who have so little understanding of the technology write these things into law."

It's actually easy to explain: lawmakers don't write laws; lobbyists write laws and lawmakers rubberstamp them. Lawmakers don't even read laws, eg, they routinely vote on legislation that is hundreds of pages long that was modified and printed the night before they voted on it.
The "randomly assigned" bit is the flaw: let the athlete pick one out of a pool of say, 10 horses; "simulate" stealing one off a string. Give them say 2 minutes to speak to the horses and make their choice.

An escaping prisoner might well decide no horse is better than being on foot. is that a choice here? why not?

The whole enterprise is irretrievably silly; "Horse Dressage" is dancing, it turns out, and they never spend any effort on the horse's costumes.
I opted to buy it. The price point is much lower than Adobe products as you don’t need a subscription. The learning curve is also much lower. You can pick up everything in 1-2 hrs
Why wouldn't the federal government just mandate a vaccine?

Putting it on employers is yet another sign of cowardice in our leadership.

Each business shouldn't have to sort this out... it's too complex of an issue.

If there's going to be a mandate, make a real mandate.

People misunderstood my point. I don't think this should be on employers. I think that's bad for a lot of reasons.

It should be on governments.

BUT... bigger picture, it's not like these vaccine cards are hard to fake. I was vaccinated in March, but I have no way of proving that. I didn't bother to save my vaccine card. It was just a generic piece of paper with the company's logo and two hastily written vaccine lot numbers though. Again... nobody checked my ID. No real way to prove you were vaccinate. It's a mess.

Should have tied stimulus grants to getting vaccinated. Should have set up a vaccine registration system. Nope... government fucked up, and is now passing the buck on to businesses.

Let's say the vaccine does give us all tails in 20 years... can I sue my employer? I sure can. The government isn't even giving businesses any protection.

Total joke. Worst possible way to do this on every front.
The case for the vaccine sells itself.

Why do professionals get in the business of exaggeration when it serves no useful purpose than to provide excuses and doubt to the hesitant.

Also. Often when officials state things with exaggerated and unwarranted certainty, take it with a grain of salt.

PS why isn’t Twitter marking such as misinformation? My guess, it fits their narrative, so it gets a pass.
Also, Person A's rent will increase every year no matter what happens
> This is why I think talking about what you're trying to achieve is more fruitful than just talking about the language you want to replace

This is definitely the right approach in my opinion. Even for your garbage collection example on the one hand, in some cases your program is dominated by tricky reclamation problems and the "correct" Rust program is basically 90% garbage collector, so that an existing GC language might produce faster programs; but on the far opposite scale maybe your program has tricky non-memory resource problems and GC doesn't help at all, so the GC language has worse performance and yet it makes your problem harder to solve than in Rust anyway.

One of the nice things about Rust and about C++ RAII here is that you don't care whether the resources are memory. Database handles? Aerial drones? A tape robot? These are all just resources you can wrap in an object to manage them, in both languages. "I only have 15MB of RAM" and "I only have 4 fire-fighting robots" are the same kind of problem from this perspective.

> If you want to make the point that Zig is "closer to C" compared to other language that wants to replace C, that's a fair claim to make.

This is really important. Zig is very much inspired by C. Rust has the syntax of a semi-colon language like C, but its inspirations come from all over the shop. I came to Rust having already programmed not only C and Java (and a little C++) but also Python and ML (and a little Prolog) and so this was less disconcerting. But I can see if you've literally never encountered a functional language some of Rust is weird because even though it is spelled like semi-colon languages you know it behaves very differently.

I like Rust, much more than I liked Go or Python when I picked those up. It feels less clunky. An elegant weapon, for a more civilised age.
You may enjoy Bob and Brad videos for great stretches. They are physical therapist.
The iron age required a lot of wood.
the only answer is nuclear, simply because of energy density required for space applications.

the creators of the original solid-core Krusty/Kilopower reactor are trying to commercialize the tech, I hope they have enough funding (@sama, I hope this is on your radar) https://www.spacenukes.com/

This is the first fundamentally new reactor actually built and tested by NASA in more than 50 years (vs. countless paper designs) https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/tdm/fission-surface-power...

EDIT: I highly recommend watching the presentation by David Poston "Space Nuclear Power for Mars" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luQfEYs2L0w
I second the earlier comment that the best posture is your next posture. The problem has always been shifts interrupt work so they just don't happen often enough. We are working on something along these lines to support more frequent useful movement without interrupting your work with a smart interactive chair. Have a handful of prototypes out and looking for early beta users in Bay Area, NYC and Boston. We can do a quick online demo and if of interest offer a week long test trial- https://movably.typeform.com/to/Nyo8603J