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I did a 1,857mile (2,989km) road trip including some of the more remote parts of Scotland in an electric car last year. Interestingly most of the ChargePlace Scotland chargers were in public car parks, which have public toilets. The Highland Council even has a map of public toilets. All very civilised.

When it comes to Tesla superchargers in the UK, most are in service stations, which tend to be open all the time, and indeed were some of the few facilities to remain open in the strictest periods of lockdown given that good transportation was classed as essential service. There are a few superchargers by hotels and restaurants, but in my experience they're always fine with you using their facilities (the main issue seems to be a few who charge excessive parking fines if you don't register with them while charging).
Or you know, people can just have fun and chill out. Not everyone's life goal is to change the world.
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A lot of unwanted kids out there that end up in broken homes or on the street. There are also a lot of kids born in abusive families.

Good ideas to stop the circulating would be to increase birth control education and access, increase foster care funding and access, implement common sense policies for adoption, and increase funding for Child Protective Services.
Overleaf allows you to work with several authors at the same time on the document. I was skeptical (after all, git allows that too). But after using that feature, well, it is just the killer thing. Now Overleaf doesn't add much on top on my own Latex installation. But the collaborative thing is just spot on (much like Google docs which I have discovered not a long time ago; same analysis : not that good presentation tool, but working together is just incredibly useful).
They have an international pavilion section that does a great job at setting the scene for various parts of the world. At least visually.
Amazing, thanks so much for sharing!

P.S. The section on reproduction is hilarious.
yes. i live in a small 8 million strong "valley" where the government is hellbent on destroying people. https://kashmirobserver.net/2021/07/10/11-govt-employees-inc...

they sacked these government employees because they allegedly were engaged in "anti-national activities", no courts, no trial, no hearing. just sentencing that since you are allgedly found to be engaged in such activities, your employment is terminated and there is no recourse.
https://www.organiser.org/Encyc/2021/8/3/Govt-s-policy-of-No...

here they have decided to not give passports to protesters or give then government jobs because "anti national activities" again the same trope. this might be a small issue but here is a jounalist https://thewire.in/rights/kashmiri-journalist-masrat-zahra-p...
whose father was beaten to a pulp because she being a decorated journalist had criticized the government, they slapped terrorism charges on her and german government gave her asylum so they did the next best thing, hurt her parents because why not.
now if she didnt have her passport because she was already a known suspect of "anti national activities", asylum might be a little difficult so they want that.

i know 100% indian government and for that matter pakistan government as well will use this technology for "national interests" in finding out protesters and dissidents and they either do not even go for trials or if they do, the same are sham ones so doesn't matter if they make a show of a trial because the guilty are condemned already.
> nobody even thought of enforcing it

That's definitely not true. It was enforced in most places until a few decades ago, and despite the law having been repelled, some variant of it is still enforced in many jobs. In big IT consulting firms just as in the sales/services industry, a woman is expected to wear makeup and a female suit (tailleur).

> the freedom of women in a cité is the same as in the proverbial Versailles

Context for outsider readers: in the french context, a "cité" has come to mean overpopulated suburban area where the government parks all the undesirables: immigrants, muslims... There are some white people in the cités but usually they're not french (or their parents were not when they moved in). Especially since Sarkozy, there's been a growing tendency in mainstream media and far-right propaganda to designate these neighborhoods as lawless places out of which nothing good can come, and where women are supposedly more oppressed than in the rest of our deeply sexist french society.

I cannot say anyone's freedom is "the same" as someone else, because we have different cultural backgrounds and aspirations. What i can say is that patriarchy is very much alive all across France. So i'm not saying there's no codes in regards to how a woman "should" behave in a popular district.

However, contrary to popular (racist) expectations, there may be more leeway for a lower-class non-white woman in france in 2021 than for a daughter of a white bourgeois family from Versailles. Indeed, despite a potential pressure from tradition, a proletarian woman will usually (there are exceptions) be encouraged to study and find a better job than her parents. I've rarely hung out with bourgeois people, but from what i could see they had less to gain, and were more preoccupied with founding a family than anything else. Take it with a grain of salt because that's anecdotal data.

Also, you may be surprised how women dress in popular districts. It's not all niqabs, you know. Of course every district has a different culture and tolerance in this regard, but i can tell you some women dress just as "sexy" as in big cities like Marseille or Toulouse. Of course, strong independent women from popular districts is never what the media will portray, unless it's intended as a full-blown contrast to their surroundings.
> That strikes me as close-to-impossible for industrialized nations to achieve. A round-trip flight from NYC to SF emits 1.5 metric tons per passenger.

High speed rail may help here. It won’t be faster than planes anytime soon, but if you factor the TSA lines and delays in lounges, it may be a lot more comfortable for shorter routes like NYC to Chicago.
Maybe enhanced if they were coupled with mosquito repelling incense.
all the time. it triggers resignations, policy changes, impedes further power grabs.

if you're a small player in an evil empire it's the one thing you can really do that makes a difference.

just quitting is what theyd want you to do. That never makes a difference.
Funny how stating "Washington D.C is the capital of USA" can also invite down-votes from some people.
Developing in React is using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. It's a declarative approach so the programmer states describes the end result and the React library does the work (code) to update to he DOM. This works really well and is not as hard as the comments make it out to be here. You could write all th JS out to achieve the same thing but it would be silly.

It forces the developer to break things into components which is essential for any maintainable UI.

Since React is the the most popular JS library it is easier to hire for.

SPAs that are done well are a better user experience because the page 'loads' once and then feels faster. That is what users expect.

If a company has multiple sites, it makes sense to be consistent with tech across those sites.

It's ready for future requirements. If you didn't use React and you kept getting requirements for the next few years you would be more likely to end up with a ball of mud if you were doing plain HTML and JavaScript.

One part that I agree seems complicated is the build and dev environment.
Well then you're a very lucky person to be able to enjoy today's movies so much. Can I ask how old you are?
It's really hard to not want to throw some Schadenfreude on those who pay mini-bar prices for technology.
Sadly I doubt this will be a last straw for most, given their investment in time standing in lines.
Where are the car trains when you need them!
Maybe. Until a lot of money is involved. Let's say I use a number spiral in my logo, and become the next facebook, google, etc? Would they still be chill?

I guess my question is whether there actually is a copyright here, or is it just maths?
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This is spin by Apple, driven by ignorance or deliberately misleading statements. NCMEC's database contains images that are not CSAM, not illegal and are not even borderline (grey area).

The fact there is a match in NCMEC's database does not mean the content is CSAM. It does not even mean it's illegal. In fact, it doesn't even mean there's a single person in the picture frame.

And no, this is not theoretical. NCMEC's database is this much of a mess today.

In fact, given there's a threshold at all I'm pushed into believing that Apple know the database is faulty.
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I do regularly squat at my chair, however i always thought it's bad for the back. I miss doing it at office, it's not socially accepted.

It feels more comfortable than just sitting normally. I am quite a tall person (192cm) so hypothetized that's the reason I prefer it

Not sure if health benefit is real
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I think the authors mean the Indian squat with knees up rather than the Slavic one with knees forward - the latter is worse for blood circulation.
Actually it's a good advice from Tantan. Chinese dating culture is very different. I'm not sure "sexy" is going to be received well, especially if she uses a translator (which is common).
Not saying its good but these are the facts. Companies try to maximise profit within the boundaries of the law.
I would like to notify the interested about this interview from Jeremy Paxman to Eliot Higgins of Bellingcat, dated 3 Mar 2021

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Yep, everyone I've forwarded it to so far has asked why it doesn't show anything.
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Force?
Apple can continue to mistreat their customers, and they'll beg for more.
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Yes being flat does help for sure. In much of Europe I think they solve this problem with trains or sometimes buses to get to the parks or outlying areas. For example, much of Italy is hill towns and no one wants to walk up huge hills to get to each town but you can typically get there with transit.

The United States admittedly is quite large and spread out but if we started to connect more things with transit then I think it would stop feeling so much this way. Like why couldn’t there be a connection from San Francisco to Tahoe that doesn’t involve driving? It’s a very very popular weekend trip and a train would be great for moving skis and other equipment.

If you live near Seattle, you’re lucky to have some of the better planning in the United States and some of the more open-minded people with regards to transit, camping, etc. In a place like Florida, for example, it is fairly common to meet people who’ve never been camping unless maybe you count a music festival. The priority is often air conditioning, a nice hotel room towering over the beach, etc. which is not what the Dutch seek out for the most part
Can’t speak for everybody of course, but I am currently planning the migration away from the Apple ecosystem and I’m heavily invested (watch, phone, MacBook, Mac Pro, Apple TV).

I’ve also been recommending to friends and family to move to droids with microG.

The largest concern I have for them is that they’re stuck between the devil and the deep blue sea.

Most people aren’t going to run a droid without google, or Linux on the desktop.
https://archive.is/glZCA
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Apple seems to use the fact that they vet all apps themselves as an argument in their case, so to me it does make sense.
> that's about 90 cents of carbon tax alone per gallon of fuel.

Right now european gas prices range from 1.2 to 1.6 euros per liter depending on the country (eastern europe tends to be cheaper and western more expensive). And that's for 95, 98 tends to be a few cents higher.

That's 5.3 to 7.1 USD/gal. 90c/gal would be a significant but at the end relatively minor increase: it's less than the increase in gas prices since the start of 2021.
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If they can do a manual review at all, then there isn’t end to end encryption anymore, so I’m missing what the point of client side scanning is.
The post you're replying to says "A condition a big portion of the population has, but never notices", so the relevant people won't know they have it or know any such limitations.
This letter doesn't really read correctly. If you're going to write an open letter, this might be better worded.

>Apple's proposed technology works by continuously monitoring photos saved or shared on the user's iPhone, iPad, or Mac.

It does a check if it's being uploaded to iCloud Photos. It is not (currently, at least) continuously monitoring photos saved or shared; shared is Messages specific for child accounts.

>Because both checks are performed on the user's device, they have the potential to bypass any end-to-end encryption that would otherwise safeguard the user's privacy.

There is currently no E2E encryption for iCloud, so short of HTTPS... what is this supposed to mean? There is literally no privacy at all if you upload to iCloud currently.

If anything, it feels like Apple's client side system enables something closer to E2EE while maintaining the ability to detect child porn on their platform.
The visceral hate here is towards Apple because they are the current subject. Substitute any FAANG, or really, any company behaving similarly, and my reaction would be similar.

Was it ever a conversation in the first place? I'm pretty sure that unless there's enough blow-back financially, Apple is going to do whatever it wants. This was never a conversation, it was a dictum from Apple that we're all reacting to. They're going to do whatever they thing will bring them the most profit. I am just following suit. I don't need others to understand my position, I don't need them to change their minds. I need them to acquiesce and do as necessary. This is what Apple dictates; so shall I.
Doesn't this cause knee problems if done for extended time?
One person quitting doesn't make a difference. Most people quitting sure does.
What are you on about? The CCP has nothing to do with this.
Free software is not strictly about maximising user (singular) freedom -- it's about maximising freedom for the transitive closure of users. Not just me, but my users, and my users users, and so on.

For me considered as the end user, free software constrains my freedoms. Free software goes beyond individual users, for the bettering of mankind
Exactly, and then it gets easier with people that don't really matter
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Adjustable tables would solve that problem. I have one and it’s brilliant, days when I’m feeling lazy I can sit at it but days when I need better focus I can press a button and it turns a motor on to raise the desk.

It doesn’t go low enough to squat though. I doubt many would.
Are hyenas still adding bones to the pile to this day?
IIRC, one key selling point of K was that it’s runtime fits inside an x86’s L3 cache.
Then go have fun where it doesn't hurt the rest of us.
Wow.

Also, many people trust Apple to do ‘the right thing’. But if Apple are trusting NCMEC and their local equivalents to provide valid CSAM hashes, Apple will never know if their technology is being abused, so they can conveniently point the finger elsewhere if it is.

I can’t imagine this point has escaped their awareness.
Honestly, if I were a professor and my PhD student was overly critical of the US online, I too would distance myself. Visa applications are hard enough as they are.
…Maybe we should? All it would take is someone publishing the hash database and then another group working to generate hamming-similar images. Shouldn’t be that hard if it’s as broken as people claim. What’s that saying, “can’t outlaw something that is commonly acceptable behavior”? Point being attacking the system would either prove or compel the false positive rate to be “acceptable”, or result in it being dismantled. Still ideologically opposed but this may be a practical “solution”.
It probably stems from the well-known history of the start of the company. Who knows who started Dell, McDs, any number of SSD manufacturers, Lenovo, BlackBerry, etc.? I guess we all know about Microsoft and Bill Gates, but their story trajectory went the other way (more corporate). So, I imagine people say that because something Steve Jobs or Ives said or was recorded as saying resonated with them, and thus they share that deep belief.
I love how Forth taught me to build the language up instead if the program down.
We hire, and train, terrible cops in America.

They are basically Reveune Collectors.

I would like to see all cops under federal jurisdiction. Let the FBI train them.

I know in my county of Marin we have way to many just looking for any slight moving violation.

I have felt for awhile that we also need complete bans in certain kinds of tech.

With the exception of always on cop cameras.
Coming in the not-so-far-future.
Except that "How Disney World deals with mosquitos" IS an answer to the "Why" in the headline. "Why Disney World Doesn't Want Mosquitos" is a separate question that has a self-evident answer to anyone who has ever been around a mosquito.
Apple already has that data via iCloud Photos, on by default on every iPhone. It's not e2e and Apple can already read all of it.

They turn over this data for over 30,000 users each year to the USG without a warrant, per their own transparency report.
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SaaS founders know that much of their success is down to their subscription-based business model. They realize that the more they interact with their brand, the more likely their customers are to buy their product and stay long term. Companies use various tactics to keep customers interested in their product, such as offering a certain percentage as an annual subscription and getting them to maintain enough data to make migrating to a competitor's brand a little annoying.
The thing you’re missing is that I spent much less than $100 a month in transit costs when I lived in SF. When you have a car there, you will spend probably $500-$1000 on the car, the insurance, the gas, parking meters, etc. Then you will likely need to pay for a parking spot. In the Mission the going rate before COVID was about $400+ a month. My friends who had cars and didn’t have dedicated parking would also get $75 parking or street cleaning tickets fairly often.

So I literally could take a $5 ride each way every time I didn’t feel like walking and I had a huge cost savings, much less hassle with parking and street cleaning at 6 AM, less environmental impact, no problems drinking and driving, etc. After a while, most people without dedicated parking end up leaving their car in the same spot as long as possible and mostly use it for weekend trips outside the city.
> Was it ever a conversation in the first place? [..] I don't need others to understand my position

What do you think the point of Hacker News is?
Considered, sure. But easily rejected. Let’s be grownups here.
Houston leads the USA and, and I would assume the world in parking, with an estimated 30 parking spaces per resident.

Office parking lots in Houston during work hours are, on average, 30% empty.
TFA tried very hard to bury and brush off this detail but had to include

> It depicted a comic character that had been altered and had stereotyped Chinese features, with yellow skin tone and slit eyes. This drawing circulated on social media in the spring of 2020, and was deemed racist by some users.

The student reluctantly admitted

> In retrospect, I realize I didn't question the rendering of the Chinese person enough

Given TFA’s clear sympathy for the student and intentional omission of what the cartoon actually is, one simply has to assume it’s at least as racist as TFA claims (oh who am I kidding, it’s more racist). It’s clearly not a case of “the notion of cartoon which has ‘Chinese character’ as inherently racist.” Asking “have you read the article” is frowned upon on HN but this is a case where the question justified. It’s either that or you’re arguing in bad faith.
In my humble opinion it all boils down to cost, and I don't mean monetary cost. I mean real cost. The cost of attention from a computational perspective.

What you described traces its roots in sensationalism, which is useful to catch people's attention (or so the piece becomes memorable for them).

As a soceity, we are always seeking to lower the cost of obtaining stimuli and qualia[1]. Combining this with the fact that people's lives become ever more complex, the cost of attention increases. Among the masses, short-attention span is now the norm.

Therefore it is important to practise mindfulness. And this is why I believe psychedelics and meditation are fundemental for us to transition into a more sensible soceity.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28020031
«even easier to create the adversarials», agree. But if they find one of this pictures they can retrain in a way that find all of them on all phones. So it will never be safe to have CP on the phone/iCloud.

And easier to keep Apple accountable on not matching anything else than the purpose.
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Yes, indeed, let's! Grownups recognize that strip searches are unwarranted in this and most other cases, be they physical OR digital...

And certainly you've heard of software bugs. You do not think that a small one like "accidentally" "forgetting" to check that a photo had been synced cannot happen, and an "accidental" scan of ALL photos couldn't possibly happen in any situation no matter what bug/corruption/etc? Surely you'll share with the class where YOU hire infallible programmers.

An accidental strip search is a strip search nonetheless.

Luckily, this can all be solved by NOT writing such code. Ever.
It cost me a simple written exam (free) and a driving test (free) and then about $25USD for the actual license when I was 16. How much does it cost in the UK? If the barrier to drive is low, you end up with people driving around that got a 70% on the written test (lowest passing score) and a 70% on the driving test driving around doing stupid things. It drives up insurance considerably.
If UN or another international body like Interpol suddenly grew the courage to do it planetwide, I'd be the first to volunteer.
Well of course this is what I prefer. But the other poster was saying they didn’t see why cities can’t be designed for cars AND for pedestrians. My point is that the policies put in place in almost all American cities for cars (mandatory parking requirements in new buildings, lots of street parking or parking lots, mandatory setbacks from the street for buildings, highway entrances, etc.) work directly against making a city dense enough to be able to easily walk to enough things that you don’t end up resorting to cars.
Could go either way. Where I live we also had issues with the grid getting close to capacity due to air conditioning.

That said, someone mentioned to me once that it's about 7 years from the time a power company to notify the government of intention to build a power plant to completion. At least for natural gas plants. So it's plausible for the necessary capacity to be built over the next 15 years.
Not only overly critical, the tweets had racist content and memes as well.