skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why do they need your approval?

They clearly don't. I'm just pointing out that "X for Black People" seems to perpetuate and deepen racial tension and division, rather than helping alleviate them. It's moving the needle in the wrong direction, much like a nuclear arms race would.

> The racists and systematic racism are the overwhelming cause

This is not at all clear, and is hideously complicated (see below). To what degree are cultural practices prevalent in (some) black neighborhoods responsible for outcomes?

[1] https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/fryer/files/empirical_anal...

[2] https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/cv19.pdf

[3] https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/116/32/15877.full.pdf

> Again, it's not; you call it double-speak.

Yes but as I said, its existence shouldn't take frank discussion of the table.

> How do you know if that individual 'maintains and perpetuates' the culture

I'm no cultural anthropologist, but if an individual engages in a cultural practice that they learned from the cultural group they are a member of, then they can be seen to be perpetuating that practice.

> And if they do, what about you and I therefore maintaining and perpetuating widespread racism, which is common among white people

It's quite simple: I don't engage in the practice of racial discrimination or bigotry, in spite of the fact that it was a common practice among my family and community. I have therefore identified a cultural practice which I consider wrong (or just plain dumb), and consciously chosen not to engage in the practice and not perpetuate it. I am thus an active participant in the evolution and stewardship of my culture. I expect the same from everyone else.

> Why is it so important to you to criticize other people's business? How about we focus on our own conduct and its consequences?

These are not mutually exclusive. I'm not aware of any issues with my conduct. However given this topic's overall popularity, polarization and the aforementioned problematically overloaded terminology, I find it extremely beneficial that these conversations be had in whatever forums can support them. To me, this is what depolarization looks like.
Apple will try again with something that's wrapped up to be more palatable to consumers. A change of heart in the next 90 days does not mean that Apple is a good actor.
Interestingly, my family, coming from a recently-developed country, does compare them to slums.
"Cargo cult" is misused here. It's a status display area, which is quite different from a cargo cult.
I remember an episode of Archer where Mallory says 'I swear, if you throw that computer on the floor one more time, you'll wake up in a mental ward with total amnesia under someone else's name!' I said out loud 'God Damn', it was terrifying. To think this is worse and actually happened.
> are cold facts always the best way to communicate a situation and convey a message? Of course not.

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I don't disagree with this. But as I said they've alienated a very, very large pool of potential customers. Good luck to them, but they could have gone bigger.

EDIT: short of a Tyler Perry or Oprah Winfrey jumping on board (someone that has significant momentum), the only other way this survives is with an acquisition. Netflix would be primed to pick this up as the start of a black-interest channel within Netflix itself. If this is a real market Netflix will either buy them or start their own.

And just a note here - I care nothing about the racial aspects of it but do like it when companies and people win and thrive. I want to see that here too but I think they're lopping off too many potential customers.
Yes, it’s absolutely the same. We host a ton of fascinating discussions all the time from orbital megastructures to cities on Venus and few people join us. Which is okay, we aren’t doing it for the numbers
Did you actually read that comment about Toronto? He immediately prefaces it by saying it isn't in the same realm, but can relate because he's poor in his area as well.

I don't think that YOU realize that it is okay to relate to common feelings without being the most of that thing. The guy from Toronto doesn't have to be the most poor person in the most poor area in order to understand their feelings and talk about his.

You're gatekeeping being poor. What a weird thing to be elitist about.
The Quest for Glory series was my favorite as a kid. I'm not sure how many times I beat QFG1. I never did beat 2. But I clearly remember staying home sick one day from school and beating 3 in one sitting. Too bad that was probably the worst of the bunch.

Another favorite of mine was Conquests of Longbow. I think that one was a little more obscure?
A. While it is hard to say something about A having thousands of developers (just having more eyes on everything they're doing), it's not infallible, nor does it strictly mean they want to 'avoid their brand being dirtied'

B. CalyxOS is a project of the non-profit Calyx Institute, founded by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Merrill
>> It would be trivial to extend this system to look for specific phrases or names in all local communication content.

How? They're comparing image hashes.
And 2026 to 2029.

> besides this year’s price increase, Verisign has been permitted to increase .com prices up to 7% in 2022 and 2023 as well as between 2026 to 2029.
What's wrong with TablePlus?
Would this be useful for A/B testing mobile app features as well?
also knx devices are high quality and rated for not home applications with far more people who use them. (factories, office buildings etc).
That is the irony. Only pixel hardware provides one step OEM unlocking in US. All other devices are carrier locked and have restrictive unlocking process.

Samsung/Motorola/ etc. should release OEM unlocked devices not just carrier unlocked that can be purchased directly from their online stores.

This will make adoption easy for these open Android projects.
Nobody thinks it's good for poisoned food to be sold.

The libertarian argument that you're almost certainly mischaracterizing there is about the pandora's box that is opened by allowing the government to decide what is or is not "poison" (which is of course an absurdly emotionally charged word picked by their opponents). Consider that some governments want to restrict sugary food on health grounds. Sugar isn't a poison but once you accept the principle that governments can ban companies from selling "poisoned" food, the definition of poison immediately comes under attack and sooner or later means almost nothing like what you'd expect.
This is Mozilla Foundation, not Mozilla Corp.
Hope that iPhone photo scanning is going well :'D
Another wave of shrieking propagandists and the abuse of statistics with the intent to terrify people into thoughtless compliance.
Miele canister, hands down. It's the best vacuum I've ever used in my life, nothing else even comes close.

The high cost was hard to get over, but I waited for a sale and now I only wish I had done it sooner.
I saw your blogpost [1] mentioning how the iPhone 12 is likely your last. Have you given any thought since then to what your next smartphone would be? Or if you still use smartphone at all?

[1]https://sneak.berlin/20210202/macos-11.2-network-privacy/
Section 7, "Distributed UUID Generation", mentions that you MAY hold some of the most significant random bits constant per-machine to act as a machine identifier.
@dang I'd urge you not to ban/shadow-ban my account considering I openly represent a political minority here at HN during a very turbulent time politically in the world where people are often afraid to speak up. Banning people like me would just increase the echo-chamber that already exists at HN. If my opinions were as strong in the other political direction, I'd probably be getting praised left and right.

While I agree some of my comments as of late would be considered "breaking guidelines", most of my comments are conversation provoking, and often include sources.

And FYI in this particular situation, it's pretty frustrating to see people not only make numerical claims without providing sources, but then confidently respond to being called out with an anecdotal "well my 1 doctor friend told me...." response. Only for them to be provided further false-confidence by you swooping in with the ban-hammer based on some arbitrary "site guideline".
The only criticism I would have of this article is that it misses the underlying issue. There was never a reason for high status individuals to be on clubhouse, the reason they were there has nothing to do with the pandemic - it was because of the pump and dump style of Andreesen Horrowitz and the silicon valley obsession with being an early adopter.

A16Z seemingly thought simply by telling everyone how excited they were about Clubhouse they could turn Clubhouse into being something to be excited about. The problem being that the reality undermined them though - just as they were telling people to be excited about the innovative conversations on Clubhouse, the number one story was some CEO getting arsey about a journalist reporting the news- a fundamentally petty and narcissistic look for an App that needed to be seen as cool and new. So Elon and co did their "Oh look at us we're early adopters dance" but never invested in the platform - because there was never a reason to, and that failure to give a value proposition to the people they wanted to harvest value from was their core issue.
Interesting that you bring up alchemy, which is now entirely possible. Lots of metals can be turned into gold (or other things) through radioactive bombardment. Problem is, it costs more than the gold is worth to do so.
There's a really good Rich Hickey talk about versioning. Agree or not, it's a great prompt for considering what you want from versioning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLBGkS5ICk
Their security could be perfect, and I still wouldn't use it because there is nothing on there that I really care about hearing. Meanwhile, their imperfect security would not stop me from using them if there was good content on there. So I do think, at least for a not insubstantial slice of their possible userbase, content is probably a bigger problem than their security and privacy.
Is that actually illogical or is it just Bayesian reasoning? Normally Bayesian reasoning is seen as a logical way to handle probability.
Gemstone! That game changed everything for me
> So in the real world we know that the majority of child abuse comes from people that children already know.

Historically this has been regarded as true, but according to the FBI, online predation is a growing problem.

https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/child-predators

> Your mistake here is assuming that anything that technologists can build will ever change those people's minds or make them ease up on calls to ban encryption. It won't.

What makes you think I think that? You have misrepresented me here (effectively straw-manning), but I will assume an honest mistake.

You are right that there are people who will always seek to ban or undermine encryption no matter what, and who use ‘think of the children’ as an excuse regardless of the actual threat. ‘Those people’ as you put it, by definition will never have their minds changed by technologists. Indeed there is no point in technologists trying to do that.

However I don’t think that group includes Apple, nor does it include most of Apples customers. Apple’s customers do include many people who are worried about sexual predators reaching their children via their phones though. These people are not ideologues or anti-encryption fanatics.

Arguing that concerns about children are overblown or being exploited for nefarious means may be ‘true’, but it does nothing to provide an alternative that Apple could use, not does it do anything to assuage the legitimate fears of Apple’s customers.

Perhaps you believe that there is no way to build a more privacy preserving solution than the one Apple has.

I would simply point out in that case, that the strategy of arguing against ‘think of the children’, has already lost, and commiserate with you.

I’m not convinced that there is no better solution. Betting against technologists to solve problems usually seems like a bad bet, but even if you don’t think it’s likely, it seems irrational not to hedge, because the outcome of solving the problem would have such a high upside.

It’s worth pointing out that Public Key cryptography is a solution to a problem that at one time seemed insoluble to many.
I don’t see this as even remotely “evening out” the parent comment.

If a site mandates strong passwords, it is more likely to follow other best practices like throttling login attempts and locking accounts after too many failed attempts (either per account or per IP).

If attackers target the site, they should only have a limited number of attempts before they start getting thwarted.

It would take a lot of attempts (exact numbers will vary) just to determine if a given user’s credentials are strong or not, so the adversary has already wasted significant effort on the accounts they will eventually “move on” from. If the site has throttling and/ or account lockout, the adversary should not be able to determine who has weak versus strong passwords.
I have since switched to Elixir/Ecto, and it just "does the right thing" in all of the above databases. Also, I think SQLite is capabale of supporting uuid with one of the plugins that you can add into the amalgamation with a compile switch, in either case ideally the framework would support it transparently.
I agree with randomhodler84. Get rid of your phone.

However, there might be singular reasons to have one. For example, Stripe will only allow you to be a client if you have a mobile phone, and I have run into this with other companies as well.

If you absolutely need one, there is a very inexpensive way of doing this. Don't buy an expensive phone for "privacy" (who knows if they are actually hackproof?)

For these unique cases, you get an inexpensive Android phone that you can remove the battery from, and you store the phone in a Faraday bag: (https://www.amazon.com/s?k=faraday+bags). Faraday bags completely block any connection with any electromagnetic signals: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage). Test the Faraday bag and see if it works by trying to call your mobile device while it is in the bag from another phone. And see if you can call another phone from your device while it is in the Faraday bag (call and then quickly put the bag into the back, or just dial the number and put it in the bag and hit where the send button should be).

You only take out the mobile phone in rare instances where you need to absolutely have it, when required to get financial or banking services or whatever you need in those very rare instances.

But other than that, you take out the battery, put it in the Faraday bag, and put it somewhere out of reach, just leave it in one spot, and when you have to use it, use it in the same spot, so that the big companies only see you in one place.

By the way, I see the tracking of your every movement as WAY more egregious, because that does it every second of your life. And then selling your every movement too others. Searching your phone is nasty too. But for me, emails are way rarer than tracking my every move, every second of the day. So I don't have a mobile phone. I just use my VOIP, and if someone wants to reach me, they leave a SMS or voice mail, just like in the olden days. I am not on instant beck and call to no man or woman. You don't like it, you say? Fine, adios. Not my problem.

You have a company and won't hire someone without a mobile phone? Just fine with me, guess I'm not working for you, then. I don't care if you give me a free phone - rejected.
Honest question, are people outside the domain squatter economy (squatters and their customers) actually paying for .com domains?

I’ve never been able to secure a .com for a project, they are all squatted and being sold at a massive (like 1000x+) markup.
In which case, this new change wouldn't affect you anyway, because it only applies to photos uploaded to iCloud.
That's fascinating, thanks! I knew navigation and control systems would be complex, but when I tried writing my own transfer functions, I got a taste for just how complex it really is. I admire what the USAF was able to do in the pre-integrated circuit era!

I guess I'm not surprised GNSS is so tricky for the final approach. Wide open spaces work great with averaging GPS, but as soon as some bogus data comes in shit goes sideways fast. I just assumed the experts figured that out, but it sounds like not the case if vision-based is the solution at that point.

Cool!
The UX discussion is not directly related to the technical discussion. Apple has its own history and more than one mode is supported. Feels to me somewhat of a legacy problem.

That said, their stability and flexibility is unmatched. Windows got a lot better recently, and they have a harder surface to deal with (orders of magnitude more hardware to support). But from an outsiders perspective Apple's feel like the best balance right now.
Yep.

The purpose of this post is more about the potential of no-code. Just trying to illustrate that it's possible to build a web app like Reddit using no-code.

The goal really isn't to build a new Reddit.
If that's $100 per half day, integrated over a month that comes out to monthly expenditures of $6000/mo, which is solidly middle class. Not working class, but certainly within reach of a low/mid level Facebook employee.
I think the huge amount of domain camping implies that .com could stand to be a whole lot more expensive to hold and do nothing with. If you're using it for something important, $20/yr probably isn't going to break the bank. If anything, I think it should be much more.
I happen to live within a few blocks of two elementary schools (one public, one private) in urban Seattle. Tons and tons of kids walk to and from school in groups without parents. Every day at 2:30 or whatever the streets around my house are filled with kids laughing and playing and doing kid stuff. Not a parent in sight.

Sometimes a narrative is just that.
is Display Postscript bad ?
The practical upshot is:

1) Many Python applications are not pinning dependencies, and even if you are personally, if jinja is a transitive dependency you might pull in a breaking change. You can't if the new package has a different name.

2) You can more easily simultaneously use both to gradually transition your code to use the new API. I don't believe Python package managers have any built-in way to use an "all" conflict manager like Apache Ivy, so you need a different name to enable this.
I remember there was a brand of toilet paper that was literally "54 meters".
I don't see how what you just wrote supports your assertion that "temperature and moisture needs to be dealt with via separate mechanical systems" or answers my question, "Are there dehumidifiers on the market that aren't [essentially just] air conditioners?" but you don't have to explain if you don't want to.
Prepend each line with two spaces to format it like code.
Other threads today:

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

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

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28082887
Here in Dhaka, we pay around 45usd/month for 1.5hr of work per day.
We had one of those bee hotels up. It turned out to be a buffet for the parasitoid wasps. There seems to a reason that mason bees, etc. are called 'solitary'.

We've currently got Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemum muticum) and Joe Pye weed (Eutrochium dubium 'Little Joe') blooming. They are covered in honeybees and all kinds of others I've never seen before.
The Emacs Lock-In Effect or the Emacs Sunk Cost Fallacy
I considered this one but IMO not having dual-channel memory on such a super strong CPU is crippling it. :(

Plus yeah, 16GB is too small.

If it wasn't for that, it is IMO the perfect programmer laptop.
I'm not sure you're right, what they're saying is the low status individuals are cargo culting high status individuals.
> Can anyone propose anything better

Widespread education about how child abuse usually works in the real world outside of movies, public examination of what tools we have available and whether they're being used effectively, very public stats about how prevalent the problem is and what direction it's moving in.

Better media that more accurately reflects how these problems play out for real people and that doesn't use them as a cheap gimmick to pray on people's fears to raise narrative stakes.

Better education about the benefits of encryption and the risks of abuse, better education about how back doors play out in the real world and how they are abused both by governments and by individual abusers. Better education about the fail-rate of these systems.

> Child pornography and the related abuse is widely thought of as a massive problem, that is facilitated by encrypted communication and digital photography.

Most people don't have a basis for this instinct, they believe it because they were taught it, because it's what the movies tell them, because it fits their cultural perception of technology, because it's what the CIA and FBI tell them. Unless they're basing their fear on something other than emotion and instinct, there is no technical or political solution that will reduce their fear. It's all useless. Only education and cultural shifts will make them less afraid.

If you survey the US, over 50% of adults will tell you that crime today is at the same level or worse than it was in 1950s, an absurd position that has no basis in reality. So what, should we form a police state? At some point, caring about the real problems we have in the real world means learning to tell people that being scared of technology is not a good enough justification on its own to ban it.

Nothing else will work. People's irrational fears by and large will not be alleviated by any technical solutions. They won't even be alleviated by what Apple is doing, parents who have an irrational fear of privacy are not going to have that fear lessened because Apple introduced this scanning feature. They will still be afraid.
Unfortunately we still haven't been able to fully replace it, so we remove as many crusty layers as possible.
Even better: this is where your donation money goes.
The microG creator goes into more detail about signature spoofing at https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/issues/1467#issuecomment-8...

The concerns usually raised against that are due to the "default" patch included in their repository, which has a specific purpose.

We don't use that, https://calyxos.org/about/tech/microg/ are the precautions we take to try and prevent abuse.

I made it a privileged permission because that's a standard Android thing to gate things (such as reading of IMEI) - My thought process being that if you somehow managed to get around privileged permissions, we have much bigger problems than signature spoofing.
Deep faking art is extremely unlikely to work. There is a world of difference between "I can make this look like an original work" and "I can make this good art"
And, to be clear, those benefits are the placement of new records in a DB.

If a UUID is completely random it means it can be inserted anywhere which can require the DB to reshuffle records and pages in order to make room for the new record.

Having a sequential element to the UUID makes it a lot easier to have an index where each record is inserted at the end. Which, like you said, makes page usage more efficient and decreases the amount of work a DB has to do on insertion.

All this is a compounded problem if you have a DB with frequent writes, a lot of indexes, or both.
We only have delta because people did not either take precautions (masks, distancing), get vaccinated, or both.
Exactly. Just like nobody cares about 1C. It's amazing that one specific party is ramming in amendments against green energy right now.
I just think it speaks to a bigger issue, which is one that is cultural - if they can't get the fundamentals right, what else are they screwing up? This isn't the 90s - in this day and age this stuff matters.