skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use a bank of 3 32 inch monitors but I don’t turn my head. I just slide and pivot my chair around to face the thing I want to work on. This work well for me because I’m often involved in multiple long running tasks and having all relevant documents be open in one corner of one monitor with other projects in other places allows me to context switch when necessary with relatively ease.
I'm not thinking about anything specific, I'm simply disputing your general claim that moving away from C would not help, when it has clearly helped in every single other domain of software development. I see no real reason why file systems should be any different, but clearly you do, so I was asking you why you think file systems would be different.

And for specific examples of options with better safety records, then sure Rust would be one possibility, as would Ada, or Frama-C if you need to stick with C.
In similar cases (me not wanting to recurring payment to happen) I just create a new virtual credit card in Revolut and dispose it right after purchase.

Passing a physical credit card info to services is like giving them universal key to my house. After some years I don't know who does have a key to my house, and I'm just living with fear that someday I find an empty house.
To each their own but a single 27″ 4K monitor is my preference.

I would love to have something taller than 16:9 though, but I’m afraid that’s economically unfeasible to manufacture. 5:4 would be awesome (^_^)
True, the amount of shallow superhero movies is baffling the last few years
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“Female portraits” is some chefs kiss whitewashing. More like “women under the male gaze”.
Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28060240.
If it gets people to switch from reCAPTCHA I am all for it. I have a lot of privacy extensions installed, piHole, etc and reCAPTCHA is a nightmare for me. I often get multiple reCAPTCHAs and my favorite is what I call the "infinite reCAPTCHA" where it keeps on loading in more and more tiles for me to select at a painfully slow rate.

In addition it has been showing up tons of places it absolutely should not be. For example during the pandemic I had to apply for food stamps and unemployment. Both the LA County DPSS website and the EDD website have implemented reCAPTCHA. This is a privacy nightmare. It should be no business of google who is on public benefits, but the state of California and LA county are basically selling this information to google.
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You probably don't realise it, because you're coming from a perspective that has been heavily influenced in a particular way, but some of these questions are kind of insulting and don't really assume good faith (or even basic decency) on my part.

> "does the CP protection end justify any means?"

Like, is this legitimately a question you think I might answer "yes" to?

This is the equivalent of "do you support the rape of children?".

I'll gladly comment on more specific points if you are genuinely struggling to understand how Apple could honestly implement this system in good faith.
When the sun is out. And when you’re blanketing literally 6 SQUARE MILES of beautiful Oregon ground[1] at a time with PV panels, it starts to look a lot less cheap.

[1] https://www.oregon.gov/energy/facilities-safety/facilities/P...
> Can’t the police do good old fashioned police work

There is no "old fashioned" work. The police is a relatively new concept. And these issues (Child Porn) are really 21 century issues.

> Why does EVERYONE need to be surveilled for the 0.01% (or less?) who don’t behave properly.

Because you think they are surveilling people to catch the bad people. You have too much faith in the system.
I have a 30” HP 2K screen which is my main screen and a Dell 24” on the right. 90% of my time I use the main screen and have the secondary for debuggers and Slack. I think I could theoretically swap both with a 37” curved screen. Nevertheless, it felt a bit cumbersome when I tried a single 32” curved 4K screen. Any feedback on such changes?
Yeah I find that a couple of the 433Mhz remote-controlled sockets suit me very well.

I can lay in bed and turn on/off a fan, a pair of lamps, and the coffee-machine (which I pre-fill manually the night before).

More complex things would be nice, but I just don't trust most of them.

The only other thing I do is record the temperature in my living-room, balcony, and sauna. The sauna monitoring is useful because I can make it ping my phone when it reaches 80/90 degrees and is "ready".

(That just uses an off-the-shelf battery-powered temperature/humidity sensor. Every 30-60 seconds it broadcasts the current readings and I have an SDR-receiver plugged into my desktop. That logs the values to influxdb, and visualizes with grafana. Nothing amazing, but fun and a little useful.)
I'm happy with a high-refresh (>= 120) 1440p 27", both for gaming and coding
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Which is dumb way to determine text length unless your audience is exclusively mobile.

Which is my point. That text is seriously badly presented.
But it is the switching from infix operators to prefix operator that is making the second example less readable (and the implicit precedence of the operators). Writing it as

(a times (b plus c)) equals ((a times b) plus (a times c))

would be a fair comparison, which is much more readble than

=(*(a, +(b, c)), +(*(a, b), *(a, c)))
Can we finally get WebAuthn everywhere and not have to remember any passwords at all? It's 2021, our civilization is almost at an end and we haven't even managed to solve passwords.
Got a 49 inch Samsung G9 monitor - very nice if you’re not stuck to it. In my case I use it in a simrig- nearly perfect. Haven’t tried it a lot for other stuff though.
On a day to day basis I’ve elected for a Dell 40 inch, which is perfect - no more multiple monitor, no need to move my head much and lot of working space. My neck thanks me!
Strange to live in a world that failed to incentivise it's own survival.

You would think that trillion dollar companies like Amazon would care about not being able to operate at all in a few decades.

I get it from behavioral science why it all works like this, but one still wonders if it's the same for every other civilizations out there, if there are any.
I think deep fake means using face of some existing person, while the faces generated using this method does not exist.
Bomb sniffing dogs are your “magical package opening robots”
I think we become victim to selection bias in reporting. There’s not much reporting when it’s just a beautiful day. Or even better than average over a longer than average time. That leads one to conclude it’s all going to hell, when in fact the real problem is we have increasingly real time knowledge of all the disasters everywhere across the globe.
Just to clarify, this "on device content control" defies all the benefits of the E2E encryption because it is "at the end". It will enable Apple to implement E2E and give the authorities a channel to program the devices to report users in possession of content deemed unacceptable by the authorities.
So just like everyone else?

We hold people to certain standards and can do the same for companies.
Isn't it bit ironical or naive to trust their current software as it is (which is almost full blackbox), and then speculate what they could do without saying, when they add something?

As far as I understand, you can disable this feature, because it is tied to iCloud sync.
Based on their spec [1], this feature avoids to do the same as Google and others doing (scan everything on cloud), instead they scan on device, which limits exposed data what Apple sees. So this is improvement compared to other available solutions.

[1] https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Expanded_Protections_...
> Notice that the github links are to line numbers. Line numbers are ephemeral, I don't know a way around that.

If you go to your link, under the button with 3 dots there's a "copy permalink option" that creates a link to the specific commit you're looking at, ensuring the line number doesn't get out of date. Example:

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/9003e2ae7e11faed433638e9cb...
I only started using emacs relatively recently, maybe since 2016 or so, but I use it every day. I've worked in a couple of different places in that time, first using Debian and now I've got a company macbook. By using emacs I didn't need to change my workflow at all between the two operating systems. What's more, even though I dislike macOS, I am able to enjoy using my work PC without grumbling about the OS like some of my colleagues do.

As other comments have pointed out, there are some limitations to the amount of productivity that you can squeeze out of emacs vs. modern dedicated software. I can appreciate this point as a senior developer often scrambling to work to deadlines. That said, those potential gains in productivity need to be weighed against the potential loss in passion for my job that might occur if I dropped emacs.
As I like to say it, in Lisp terms open source and free software are EQUAL but not EQ. That is, they are defined to mean the same thing but have different underlying reasoning.

Open source really is just free software with sexier marketing. ESR and RMS were close friends, once, before RMS went full CWC. Based on ESR's blog posts I would guess his perspective to be that yes, proprietary software is inherently evil, but you can't say that if you want to win hearts and minds in the real world. You have to talk up the practical, bottom line advantages: how is releasing the source code under a liberal license going to contribute value to our company and to society at large? And how can you make money while doing this? That will get the ear of mainstream society, especially decision makers in government and business. Not Stallman's wear sackcloth, eat bugs, and cry into the wilderness approach.

The Eric Conspiracy's plan worked a little too well, and thanks to sexy marketing corporations have embraced open source and now have a vast library of code with which to do nefarious things unheard of in the era when Microsoft was the evil empire.
Right. We could choose not to buy from them, helping them stay in poverty. That's always an option.
Unattended autoupdate is indeed insecure, as the Solarwinds hack nicely illustrated.

When the vendor can execute arbitrary code on your machine without intervention, that's effectively a backdoor of any/all kinds.
I'm not sure of the point you're getting at. You can do this with effectively anything. Replace "gay marriage" with "child sexual exploitation" in "I support gay marriage". Does that mean we shouldn't support anything?
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I've lived in numerous parts of the US, hiked and camped, and traveled across Europe. I don't think insects have ever come up as a conversation of topic.

I'm not really offended at all because, again, I don't find this whole type of argument to be compelling or valid. You're also entirely off base in your implication that I don't go outside (this last year is obviously exceptional).

It's interesting that this seems to come up for you quite a lot, but I don't find it compelling in terms of evidence, which is what I stated earlier. Again, I'm entirely willing to believe (and would even naively assume) that pesticides and human behavior have negatively impacted insect populations, even greatly so. But "open your eyes" and "do you go outside?" are not helping anyone.
Are you from a country where the government has never abused its power?
Actually you'll find the economies of scale probably help keep the costs down.

Square miles of land are pretty common. Blanketing them with something useful is a good thing.
> Well, if they spend all day playing video games who exactly is or is not the nerdy one here.....?

Not the video game players.
>In a competitive market, prices follow costs.

So, you think the gas stations are charging you the cost of gas? Fast food joints charge you according to the cost of a hamburger or a soda?

>In a competitive market, what doesn't exist doesn't exist because it's not economically viable. It's not economically viable because the market doesn't want it. If you think otherwise, then maybe you should start up a business that does this - since according to you, you'll make a killing.

This is sophistry. "The market" isn't one particular thing that exists or can exist without constraints. I suggested one more, different, better, out of thousands. That could change what is economically viable. That's the point.

Nothing is privileged about the exact situation that exists today, that will change tomorrow anyway. Except if you insist on an absurd Panglossianism.
WhatsApp saves all received images to your library? That seems hard to believe. I can't imagine that anyone would appreciate having their personal photo collection cluttered with other peoples photos and all of the meme images that people share.
It seems the training data was almost certainly built from adult actress portraits of which you can easily scrape endless amounts from, like any porn site.
The Apple Psi System [pdf]
Why would Amazon care more than others (which, in average, is not caring enough)? If anything, with the wealth/asset they have, they would likely do better than most of other company/people/entity when things went south.

Don't get me wrong, I wish they would, I just don't find it's hard to understand why they don't.
>This is really interesting, probably controversial, but worth a lot of contemplation and I wonder how this could apply to software.

I was wondering that too. Is it the same as deleting unit tests?
Fair enough, the change from infix to prefix was misleading. But do you (or anyone) find

(a times (b plus c)) equals ((a times b) plus (a times c))

easier to read than

a*(b+c) = a*b + a*c

?
Climate modeling isn't pop sci, it's physics. Predicting the correct outcome of complex systems is hard or impossible and depends on a lot of assumptions and interactions that you have to properly account for, this stuff gets more refined over time. The general direction of the predictions hasn't changed though so ignoring that would still be unwise.
Troll accounts are annoying.
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Tramp works through multiple SSH hops just fine:

https://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/#Ad_002dhoc-multi_002dhop...
They literally wrote "people like me", not "I personally built all those games".
The Branch Davidians said the world is ending in 1993. That doesn't render our understanding of climate change 'scary nonsense'.
Not the OP, but by good old fashioned police work, I assume non-dragnet methods, where everybody's device isn't scanned in an automated way. So instead of sifting through a massive collection of automatically collected data, taken from a vast majority of innocent people, you'd deal with explicit reports of CSAE. You'd then be able to get a warrant to obtain ISP (and other) records, cross-reference and proceed from there. If there's reasonable suspicion, you'd get the suspect's address and go talk to them in person.

Before we started trying to push government-sanctioned and unwanted spyware engines on private devices, I imagine the process looked something like that. Is this incorrect?
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O Delta, Delta, Wherefore Art Thou Delta?
That's just the init.el file. I had several custom Emacs packages loaded from it ;).
My understanding is that these numbers (try to) account for actual real world usage rates. Actual emissions will of course depend on a whole lot of things, including the things you mentioned, prevailing winds, etc. Same for estimating grid emissions for charging the car of course - the exact mix of sources is always in flux.
I have a similar layout with 3 30’’ 16:10 monitors (2560x1600 older Dells). I haven’t had any neck-related issues with this setup.
The equivalent in Visul Basic would be:

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>This is unfortunate a very politically fragile solution. The first thing that property rentiers do is eliminate their taxes, such as with Prop 13 in California. But, with enough economic education, maybe it will work...

The fundamental problem is that home owners and landlords both pay the tax. If everyone rents then tenants will obviously vote for higher property taxes to squeeze landlords. If everyone owns their house they obviously want to pay zero taxes on the land. When you have a mix of both then home owners will vote for the interests of landlords who get to squeeze money out of tenants without paying taxes.

I've seen this pattern literally applied to almost every tax situation. Huge oil corporations should stop polluting? It's obviously a case of CO2 taxes but then the small man doesn't want to pay his tiny portion of the tax. They will always pick out the exception on either end. I.e. a poor polluter paying excessive CO2 taxes because he uses some absurdly inefficient way of heating vs a model rich person that managed to get to 0 emissions because he put hundreds of thousands into reducing his CO2 footprint. The vast majority of people do not fit either stereotype.
human nature vibes. people seem to wanna fabricate reasons to go war with each other. when we could just be enjoying the peace. ape brain shit, man. ape brain fucking shit.
This is different now. They scanned only suspected ones. Now they are expanding it to every user. To avoid same privacy issues as Google is doing (scan everything on cloud), they scan everything on device, and only leaking suspected information to upstream and preventing the upload to stop sharing.

IF we can trust that they really scan locally only those files which would end up into the cloud, then this is improvement. But trust is all we have, because the system is already full blackbox.

https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Expanded_Protections_...
I've been through a ton of monitors, in neverending pursuit of ergonomic perfection. Currently typing this on a 38in 3840x1600 ultrawide.

Recently I've 'got over myself' and come to the conclusion that the single 27in 4k matte panel I have at the office is the least fatiguing & most productive and enjoyable setup.

As a side note, I also really enjoy coding on an OLED screen in complete darkness (with a 100% black background).
Well, police still investigate with evidence, but the potential scope of "evidence" is pretty much the whole physical universe. File hashes and TCP packet captures are evidence, DNA fragments are evidence, weather patterns are evidence, in the same way that people's memories are evidence.

Through the decades, the respect shown to eyewitness testimony has generally declined, and crimes with no eyewitness evidence are still expected to be solved.

For offences with a huge online aspect there is no prospect of "getting out there" until you work out where "there" is, because it could be anywhere in the world.
On the server side. That is the difference. I know that if I put something on Google Drive it is in clear in the Google servers.

What I don't want is Google performing a scan of the internal memory of my Android device!

Server side they can do whatever they want, and I choose what data they can access, but on my device not.
The shallowness isn't because of some imaginary man-children.

It's a well-researched and planned strategy to ensure largest possible geographic spread, avoiding anything that would be too problematic for the box office. After all, the studios aren't planning just on local release for financials and considering international as bonus.

Capitalism, ho!...
I don’t see how the US is becoming “less stable” in any meaningful sense. Can you elaborate?
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That is a very important point. I was ambivalent about Apple's ecosystem and thought about about making a buy in due to their excellent UI integration. I believe I will wait and have a good look at alternatives again.
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Stephenson’s Seveneves brought Gerard K. O’Neill’s High Frontier orbital habitats alive. There was a report Ron Howard was going to make a big-budget movie out of it.

For advanced science and math integral to the story, I don’t know of anyone who does it deeper or better than Greg Egan.
It's really weird that's really hard to find VA in India for less than 1000usd/month. I provide training etc and I still can't find any reliable employee that shows up every day.
Try using a mid-1960's i/o device: a cardpunch, a tape punch, a mechanical tty at what, 110 baud? (or less)
What a bizarre take. I've experienced Americans doing the following for me as a stranger:

- Waving hello as I walk past
- Holding open doors as I approach, despite being able-bodied
- Creating an opening for me in busy traffic when they don't have to
- Picking stuff up for me that I've accidentally dropped

The list goes on.

The reason why Americans drive is that they have a large population living across a sprawling landmass. Trains used to be the norm as American cities were being developed in the 1800s through the early 1900s. But because the scale of cities grew, they became less efficient than cars for most people to get around
The issue OP is making is that climate scientists have forecasted "tipping points"[0] for years on end now, and none of them have come true. It ruins the credibility of these "point of no return" articles.

[0] https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-of-failed-eco-poca...
I don't agree with Apple's move here either just explaining that they are not doing anything illegal no matter how much we may not like it. Of course we can choose not to buy their products but do you think the average person considers it before they make a decision on their next phone?
I've heard Dan Dennett draw similar comparisons, talking about bottom-up versus top-bottom design.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZefk4gzQt4
Exactly.

That you would just batch up any amount of cultish astrological nonsense and equate it with science because they both make predictions is ridiculous.

By this logic you might as well insist the Earth is flat because Columbus didn’t end up in India.
> To be fair, "Open Source" basically coined to mean "free software, but not as Stallman means it ...

... i.e. let's not really care about the 'freedom' bit."

There, FTFY.
In the current US legal zeitgeist CP is illegal because it's morally wrong. Yeah, also to protect the children, but an image can be deemed by a judge to be CP even if no real children are involved. Under the current doctrine it's something like "I'll know it when I see it", so such app would most likely be generating illegal images.
Agreed about 32, perfect size for me. But for one, you normally don't read things spanning the whole screen, the typical setup for reading is two windows side by side. And i also like to saccade / turn my head from time to time. Second, curvy screens, i just cant get used to them. Thrid, wobbling, i havent't seen monitors with two legs to avoid the wobble.
Couldn't say it any better.
From 2015, inspired by Buckminster Fuller: DIY Octahedral standup (or squatting) desk: https://www.oopsmark.ca/blogs/oopsmark/26045188-diy-squattin...

I've toggled between squatting and cross-legged (half-lotus) sitting for about 4-5 years when I work from home. I think it helps really well to reduce tension or pain in the lower back. Squatting is not all that comfortable for typing, though.
Currently using a 27" 4K monitor and I've never been happier! I have my laptop as a second screen though for a chat window, music, and other things like that while I'll have a browser, IDE, and terminal open on their own virtual desktops on the big screen. Full screen side by side apps are pretty great in this setup too, especially when dealing with things like LaTeX.
I think you could (can? can't verify now) set fade:none to at least make it less immeasurably annoying to look at. It's one of my first examples when I talk about hostile software, it cannot have been developed the way it is without some degree of ill intentions, due to its extensive usage online also.