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I found this convincing - proposal to fill in the south bay and build houses there near San Jose.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vKErZy7TFhjxtyBuG/make-more-...

We've filled in a bunch of the bay already (Redwood Shores, Foster City) without problems, but stopped in the 70s. Cities like Boston which developed earlier had massive percentages of their bays taken over (>50%) without problems; but we've basically frozen this type of reclamation.

The land along the bay shore is generally underused; there's at least 50sqm of salt ponds which produce very little value and aren't part of any historical ecosystem either.
I don't know - I think these are the good questions and the things I would want to know in more detail. I think this kind of thing is where the risk lies.

I think this is why getting the details right matter because if people are arguing about unrelated nonsense it's harder to focus on the actual risks represented by the questions you're asking.
>Edit to add: before someone mentions "mental illness" and "drugs" and other contributors to homelessness, yes those are real factors

While that is definitely true, I'd add that less than ten percent[0] of homeless people have drug dependency/mental health issues, as was discussed recently[1] on HN.

Which bolsters your point that it's affordable housing that's at issue. I live in NYC and that's one of our biggest issues too, but for different reasons

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27953080

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27948732
I like APL's symbols, since the code becomes easier to read. But I also like the tacit stuff from J. What should I do? :)
No. Of course you need a magnet if you don't want to build a more complicated self-excitation design (building that would be quite the feat given the circumstances) or want to use a smaller dynamo to bootstrap an electromagnetic dynamo or even alternator.

But it's better to start with a magnet and stick to easy-to-debug stuff that can be eyeballed start to finish.
I was wondering why I had the faint taste of garlic bread in my mouth when I was there...
I doubt it, because the nameplate capacity of San Francisco after its 1970s downzoning was very close to its actual size now. Same for Los Angeles, which was down-zoned from 10 million to 4 million in the 1970s.

https://www.lewis.ucla.edu/programs/housing/housing-supply/z...
I don't know anything about how Disney does it aside from what I just read in the article, but mosquito fish I think are used in many places to get rid of mosquitoes. Guppies too, sometimes. I'm not sure if either is invasive in Florida.

Mosquito dunks are another approach. Basically, they're floating donut-shaped things that release a bacteria that's specifically harmful to mosquito larvae. That worked really well for me last fall; I had made myself a koi pond, but there weren't any koi for sale at the time and the mosquitoes were only too happy to fill the ecological void.
The point of this wording is that "homeless" is not an identity, not a classification that permanently groups people into one category or another. Rather, it's a condition that people can experience, whether chronic or transient.
There's a great illustration by Karl Jilg that has stuck with me along the same lines... calling them buffers is very generous!

https://www.businessinsider.com/car-illustration-karl-jilg-2...
> His behavioral problems made him switch schools every now and then, and that left him, socially, as a bit of an outsider among children his age. He even admits that he never learned how to get along properly with other people. Computers, though, were a completely different story.

This is almost a trope, socially awkward person becomes good at computers. When I was at Uni studying computer science, a good percentage of the students matched that profile.

I wonder if this is less common today though, given that a career in a computer-related field is considered a "good career" and many more people try it. Do the "popular" kids like computers? (I'm 40-something and I wonder if that's the case with today's teenagers or 20-something generation).
> Solve it the old way.

In fairness, in the "old way" it was impossible for two random people to communicate in real-time between continents without the ability of authorities to observe/break it.

Privacy and security is quite important, but let's not lose track of the fact that there are many tools authorities have lost in the past few decades. In WWII major powers weren't able to have the same security of military communications as an idiot can today. And that's relative to codebreaking technology.

If I had a good solution, I'd tell you.
It's amazing that someone could consider Stallman one of their heroes and not be aware that calling him the "father of open source" would piss him off.

edit also this is from 2016, which is why recent events were not even hinted at.
I think you’re being a bit pedantic, in context GP was clearly referring to the climate, not making blanket statements about all chaotic systems.

In either case, a 1% change in energy input is always going to be a big deal with regards to an energy dependent chaotic system.
Someone once told me that no one has ever died at DisneyLand... they are given cpr, resuscitation, and other lifesaving operations until they are in a ambulance, and its not until they are off Disney "land" they are pronounced dead.
what happens when a government legally forces them to look for politically dissident content? they have already lost this fight, it is an inevitability
Homelessness is not just about a lack of housing right?

There are more than 13 million vacant homes in the US: https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/files/currenthvspress.pdf

Seems like it’s a matter of public policy that we can’t find a place for half a million people to live.
I'm going to have to disagree.

I grew up in Florida and only left in the past few years so I would go to the parks on a regular basis (once or twice a year). Disney World really doesn't have mosquitoes or at least any noticeable quantities. I legitimately can't remember ever noticing a mosquito bite while at Disney or Universal. I've gotten them at Busch Gardens but only in the animal habitat sections of the park.
Please come work at Google! This place has the best overall code quality I have ever seen. That's not to say it's always great or bug-free, but it is almost always well maintained. There is very little dead code. Giving and receiving high-quality code reviews is the norm.
> By contrast I would drive my Tesla without hesitation to anywhere in the continental US.

You gotta get off the interstate and away from major cities more! Plenty of places worth visiting that are far away from a supercharger.
In the US, most suburban areas have plenty of low traffic streets, and many have additional recreational paths for pedestrians.

When I lived in a quite rural area, it was no problem jogging on the low traffic roads, and if I wanted long runs, I could have gone ~3 miles on those roads to a converted railroad that ran for miles in either direction.
They do provide source for all devices, which you can just compile yourself. PrivacyGuard was dropped in order to provide compatibility with a loosely-equivalent solution that's included in AOSP, hence in most custom ROMs. Unfortunately, this also means that the supported feature set has regressed, and getting back to parity will take some effort.
Israel Brings Back Covid-19 Restrictions Despite Vaccine Success
The wonderful thing about Emacs is if you learn it well it is a tool that can stay with you and has stayed with you for decades.

I only have a couple of years invested and that was years ago.

Since then, I have had to use a lot of different editors and IDEs. Due to job changes, different programming languages, platforms, and market forces.

Each one has cost me some time, sometimes considerable time
to learn well enough to be productive in it.
But they are all ephemeral.

X number of years down the line it disappears for one reason or another and the entire investment is lost.

Had I stuck to Emacs (which would be impossible for some of my jobs) I could have gotten much better at using it and that investment would still be worth something today.
you have to realize though that the panopticon is limited only by the ability of "authority" to sift through it for whatever it is it is looking for.

as this article points out, the positive matches will still need an observe to confirm what it is and is not.

lastly, the very reason you have this device exposes you to the reality of either accepting a government that regulates these corporate overreaches or accepting private ownership thats profit motive is deeply personal.

you basically have to reverse society or learn to be a hermit, or more realistically, buy into a improved democratic construct that opts into transparent regulation.

but it sounds more like you want to live in a split brained world where your paranoia and antigovernment stance invites dark corporste policies to sell you out anyway
>Hash matches are to be human reviewed.

Until it proves too expensive, then a different AI system will do it instead. I have zero faith that it'll be a fully competent, well trained, well rested, well paid person will actually be doing these reviews in the long run.
I feel like you didn't really address anything past the second sentence of the comment you were responding to.

> Economics works itself out if you let it.

Sure. But exclusive single-family zoning, for example, isn't exactly "letting it".
Not according to the National Coalition for the Homeless:

> The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (2003) estimates, 38% of homeless people were dependent on alcohol and 26% abused other drugs.

https://nationalhomeless.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Subs...
I’m just curious if you can plausibly make the correlation between more encryption and more terrorism and sex trafficking.
With respect to privacy, history shows that Apple keeps adding more and more user control of privacy. Per app location, access to other data, location permission in the browser, tracking, forcing app disclosure of data collection, etc. Can you point me to a privacy related preference they have removed and not replaced with something else? I can't think of one.
I think it has gotten more sophisticated to detect cropped images and small changes now: https://inhope.org/EN/articles/what-is-image-hashing

The example is somewhat contrived.

If a 'friend' takes your phone and has access to it and then uses it to take images of CSAM similar enough to the original image that it triggers the hash match and does this enough times to go over Apple's threshold to flag the account after these images are uploaded to icloud without the original phone owner noticing then yes it might cause a match.

At that point the match is probably a good thing (and not really a false positive anyway) - since it may lead back to the friend (that has the illegal material).
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I'm not at all offended by BET or BlackOak.

But, be honest: would you be offended by a "The White Network - A Network for White People", with a mission/focus on white, traditional European culture? Would you similarly interpret this statement to "not mean 'Not for any other people'"?

For many, the divisiveness isn't from the existence of such channels and networks -- it's from the double standard.
This is an excellent observation, and very very true.

But I would pair it with a potential solution that hasn't been truly tried: universal basic income paid for by taxing away the profits of rentiers, a full land value tax, that makes the exchange value of land zero:

http://progressandpoverty.org/

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 closest enactment of this that I know of is in a conservative government, Singapore. Nearly all land is public, and only leased. Only structures can be owned on public land. It's not perfect, and the waiting lists for housing for citizens are still too long, and non-citizens are thrown into a private market, but the outcomes are still amazing compared to a similar place such as Hong Kong.
Apple is about to start scanning iPhone users' devices for banned content
online forum slang for "The Fvcking Article", also RTFA = "Read The Fvcking Article"
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I agree with this. Also, have you seen the kcp project? Seems like a promising experiment.

https://github.com/kcp-dev/kcp
It still increases write rate a lot over more sequential values / reduced cache hit ratio.

With sequential-ish values indexed by something like b-trees the same index pages get modified over and over again because new table rows will be in a narrow part of the index. As databases / operating systems typically buffer writes for a while, this reduced the number of writes hitting storage substantially.

Conversely, with random values, every leaf page will be modified with the same probability. That's not problem with a small index, because you'll soon dirty every page anyway. But as soon as the index gets larger you'll see many more writes hitting storage.
No, that's absolutely got nothing to do with sparing the feelings of a stigmatized group or anyone else. It's entirely about helping people better understand that "the homeless" are not some separate, distinct group of people. They come from the general population.

Anyone can end up homeless. The more we make it hard on individuals to leave that situation and rejoin society, the more we cut our own throats.
Zero might be ambitious, but Tokyo has a metro population of 14 million and only about 2500 homeless. Compare the Bay Area city of Berkeley that has 120 thousand people and 1100 of them homeless. That's a lot of room to improve.
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If images have cardinality N and hashes M and N > M, then yes, by pigeonhole principle you will have collisions regardless of hash function, f: N -> M.

N is usually much bigger than M, since you have the combinatorial pixel explosion. Say images are 8 bit RGB 256x256, then you have 2^(8x256x256x3) bit combinations. If you have a 256-bit hash, then that’s only 2^256. So there is a factor of 2^(8x256x3) difference between N and M if I did my math right, which is a factor I cannot even calculate without numeric overflow.
and if you think all choices are obviously bad (because there's no discernable 'better'), then i don't want you running a public health office.

(disclaimer: i've run experiments with patients, i'm well aware of how messy the world is)
That's true, the first time I learned the difference between Open Source and Free Software, it was by reading something that Stallman wrote many years ago on the FSF website. He's always been very big on making that distinction.
One of the prerequisites to "discuss the tradeoffs" of this ordeal is the trust that the people behind it, and those in the position to push things further are actually interested in keeping the scope limited.

There are diminishing returns to using the same old excuse again and again. I'd say most people are just tired of the whole "Just think of the children!" into "Ah we got this system in place why not use it against <a little less evil but still illegal thing> too" followed by "It's the law in China/Turkey/Russia/wherever, <Company> can't just ignore it (and thus not help putting reporters, critics and other people into prison)" combo.

What you are saying is basically another rendition of "look the problem of child abuse exists and this could help so it is worth discussing", which is also a variant of the same.

> iCloud image checking compares to known CSAM image hashes - this means effectively zero false positive rate.

Actually we recently had news where an Apple tried to help cover up their errors [1], the system was supposed to be safe™, doesn't mean the people having control over it can't make mistakes, or worse.

What details are being missed here, exactly? Ultimately it is trivial to expand the hashes to compare to, isn't it? What does it matter that they use CSAM for now? It doesn't remove the involvement of humans in controlling the system, so false positive rate will never be "effectively zero", and it can easily be expanded.

We are left with the same two arguments as always:

- Think about the children

- Just trust the company, they use technology™, no you aren't allowed to check. Yeah they can easily abuse it, but we don't know for sure!

I wouldn't say HN is ignoring details, many people are just tired of the same old loop, there is no reason to put trust into these endeavors and it is reasonable to doubt even the motives.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27878333
Actually our tendency is to re-use the old solution on the new code if it provides the same functionality. We still have people trying to use LDAP because nobody wants to take the time to learn something new. A migration guide makes it much more likely that they'll make an attempt to use the new thing.

Our desire to upgrade pretty much only comes from Architects telling us "thou shalt follow my shiny new standard" (and by the way, they read your docs; if you suggest SAML be dropped, they'll update their standards!). In that case we have to find time to upgrade, and of course we never just document how to do it once for our whole org, so all these engineers will be wasting time re-learning how to do the same upgrade. I'll bet you we'd save hundreds to thousands of hours per year by having really good migration docs. Even if your migration guide doesn't cover everything, they still take a significant chunk out of the time we need to figure it all out, and it lowers the mental barrier to the change.
I can attest to the pains of working with a complex onboarding flow... At my job, we have about 30 different paths the user could take depending on their usecase. And it's not modeled as 1 30-prong fork that everyone routes through, it's forks that lead back to other steps, skip steps, get data from elsewhere, etc.
The difficulty is that it's typically the product and marketing teams who need to understand the flows the most, in order to understand the conversion metrics and how to optimize, yet they have almost no visibility into the actual state logic that dictates the flow in code. Giving them more control over control flow is a huge win
When an American says "black", they often mean "African American". The reasons why one would use one word over the other is usually more about social conventions between synonyms and less about trying to describe different ideas.

It's really self-centered when we use "black" to mean "African American". It's strange when it goes the other way. You'll hear some Americans call Idris Elba an African-American.
No it can't. Someone has to implement that choice. It would be visible to the technical staff.
Did you really just proposed to use deep fakes to do black face?! Wtf?!
Dyalog supports tacit programming, much like J https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Tacit_programming
I don't think this is necessarily a new story, all told. I think I remember it back in the 90s.

That said, does seem to be getting more pronounced. Really, just seems that there aren't any new cities. All of the places folks wanted to live, are the same places folks want to live today. :(
I can't find a widely accepted statistic but these numbers should illustrate the point:

- A 2016 study by the Center for Court Innovation found that between 8,900 and 10,500 children, ages 13 to 17, are commercially exploited each year in the United States. (Center for Court Innovation, 2016) https://www.courtinnovation.org/sites/default/files/document...

- The annual number of persons prosecuted for commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) cases filed in U.S. district court nearly doubled between 2004 and 2013, increasing from 1,405 to 2,776 cases. https://www.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh241/files/archives/p...

This is a niche crime from everything I've seen.

Apple, if it were truly interested in the net good of children, could have picked something that impacts more of them (nutrition? early childhood education?), didn't introduce new vulnerability / abuse surface area, and was less politicized.
In addition to the links she gave, you can look back at her HN comments. Lots of good stuff here.
The inability to build housing is emotionally coupled to lack of political will to raise taxes, empower workers…

The owners want to keep power.

We’re basically servicing last generations success in that we’re obliged to let them fund our way of life.

I don’t owe some chud who got rich in the 90s deference due to 30+ year old success.

It’s the same with house building; we have to prop up these imagined values of people who “won” before we were born.

Tax the rich or eventually the poor will outnumber them and eat them.
>That and new SROs have been banned; they might be profitable but they are illegal to build in most jurisdictions.

I am more familiar with the LA market than SF, but they are legal in LA and a few are in the process of being built[1]. The developer for those is a non-profit though which leads back into your first point. We build at the top of the market because that is the most profitable. I believe there needs to be government incentives or regulation to spur construction across the full spectrum of housing

[1] -http://www.srohousing.org/index.html
But this trigger requires many of these false flags to exceed the threshold (most likely why it exists). I imagine the "one in a trillion" numbers they claim for false flagging rate are probably cemented in reality, and make it trivial for human review.
> Yeah it's cold there, but the factory is hot and you'll be working 16 hour days there.. No you will be able to afford an efficiency with heat and have a few bucks left for a movie maybe once a month.. Well you'll be working 6 days a week anyway, you will have fun at work with your coworkers. Oh, one thing though.. It's REALLY important you show up to work sober okay so.. Is this an everyday thing or..

I'm shocked the Midwest doesn't have recruiters on site at the homeless encampments every day. Shocked I tell you.
Conveniently, iOS 15 also syncs images from your messages and many other places into your photos. Whether this will put that file in your iCloud Photo library, I do not know.

https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/see-photos-shared-with-you-...

On top of that, at this stage you are right. How long before they move it to every file in your device's storage "because of the children!"
As someone who has interviewed and hired a lot of recent CS grads I can confirm they are way less weird than the fine people I met at the beginning of my career.
It's proprietary wireless, usually people just say zwave.

My point was that it's not like most iot devices that try to find an open internet connection to phone home. They're 100% as isolated as you want them to be.
Anyone have a link to a non paywalled version?
Sounds like a prototypical Matt Levine “everything is securities fraud” case. It’s hard to get mad about any pain Activision Blizzard has to endure over this, but nonetheless weird to frame the shareholders as the victims.
Homelessness as a symptom in every major city doesn’t mean it can’t be solved or improved. Do you believe that the current situation in major cities should be left as is?
No, the vaccinated. To prevent actual spread.
GP seems to be describing a flavor of Android that does not have microG or Google Play Services.

CalyxOS has microG, and I have no problems getting timely notifications on Signal or Slack, nor do I have any issues using Lyft, Google Maps, Google Photos, or any of my banking apps on CalyxOS (or LineageOS for microG). The only exception on your list is Google Pay, which I don't use because it is extremely privacy-invasive (gives Google all of your transaction data). In my opinion, CalyxOS is a very practical OS that balances convenience with privacy.