skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Terry Gross is an institution now, there are both lovers and haters. I've listened to her programme off and on for decades.

The plusses as I see them are:

- Fantastic range of material. She covers arts & culture, news and politics, world events, and science. I strongly suspect the show's staff has a lot to do with this.

- The intereviewer (not always Gross --- Dave Davies stands in fairly frequently and occasionally others) mostly get out of the way of the guest, though Gross herself is known for her five-minute-wind-up question. OK, it's not five minutes, but there's usually a question or two in the show that has a very long preamble.

- The interviews are edited. Not heavily, but just enough to fit format, for continuity, and relevance. This virtually always helps, and most especially avoids all of the live-on-air annoyances of technical glitches and rushing the guest at the end of the time window.

I see these as strong positives.

Gross's voice and intonation may strike people differently. I appreciate the non-shrill, calm manner (most commercial broadcast feels like people screaming or shouting, by contrast). It's instantly soothing. Her politics are clearly left/liberal, though she does try to get out of her comfort zone occasionally, and when she does so the results are far more equitable than what I see with leading interviewers from the right. Most notably Bill O'Reilly, though also Kiss lead man Gene Simmons, off the top of my head. (I heard both when originally aired.)

The format is not especially combative, though Gross will dig gently on occasion. (Contrast, say, Bob Garfield's hard press on occasion, notably an oil-industry apologist and Internet revenge-porn hoster. Even there, Garfield isn't aggressive, but he's very clearly assertive and making his views clear.)

The high consistency of interviews regardless of host is what makes me feel that there's probably a lot of teamwork involved. Gross is pretty good in arts and culture issues, but weaker on technology and science. Despite that, the science and technology interviews still tend to be pretty good, especially in a general-audience venue.

What becomes clear is that Gross has her own favourites and crushes. Some are somewhat surprising (Johnny Cash), others more predictable though understandable and reciprocated --- Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart especially, occasionally other public media names such as This American Life's Ira Glass. Again I find this endearing.
I’ve been there multiple times. I’ve never been given repellent. I’ve also never seen a mosquito there. This is the first time that has struck me as odd.
You can buy Z-wave devices that don't use batteries.
Apropos is definitely a great feature!
I have a theory that people who hate rms skew authoritarian and collectivist. I'm not sure why.

I do know that authoritarian collectivist societies tend to organize themselves around cults of personality, and tend to have cultures where public figures are either heroes or villainous enemies.

It's like they don't have a concept of "this person did important world changing work that should be celebrated, but also has a lot of problems and flaws".
There’s this documentary I really enjoyed watching called “Long Way Up” where Ewan McGregor (plus another actor I was not familiar with) rode from Tierra del Fuego to Los Angeles on electric motorcycles.

They talk a lot about the pros/cons of going electric, and there are issues with like cold temperatures affecting battery performance at the start.

But I also found that I just really enjoyed the show even excluding that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Way_Up
Americans choose suburbs in droves because the schools are more well funded. Most agree that this tradeoff gets the a far worse commute than if they lived in the city. I have many coworkers who commute 2 hours a day for their glorious backyards? No, there are other economic factors driving the decision, but the joy of having a lawn to maintain and living on a highway 4 hours a day are not among them.
Your iphone is already capable to identify nude minors in near real time. Is it really that far-fetched that SWAT team gets triggered into action when iphone detects minor abuse?
Fuck you, geek
Check out Inovelli[0]. They are the darling child of the Home Automation subreddit. I have a few of the last generation switches and they do perform well and have a great feature set for the price.

0: https://inovelli.com/
I’m not sure any informed person disagrees. People are concerned about the comfortable temperature range for people and large scale agriculture.

We’ll probably adapt, but it might be really bumpy for a decade or so in the 2050s.
My bad, Twitter's UI strikes again... but it honestly makes no difference to my point. It was an aside, neither tweet makes sense once you get past the way they're presented.

The original tweet is making a point that is so plain nonsensical that the moment you actually evaluate what it says rather than getting caught up in the clever presentation you question why anyone would spare a thought on it.

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I mean seriously, "major versions track how many times you've gotten the API wrong". Would you give anyone at all the time of day for such a bad take?!

If I have to imagine someone who'd say this (and I honestly can't otherwise, it's such a cartoonishly bad/wrong thing to say) , it'd be a salesperson forced to play PM. Maybe right before promising a client a new version that supports a new use-case? Like a clever way to make the dev team feel bad for not foreseeing an undiscussed future need.

The fact to the most reasonable hypothetical situation where someone would share an opinion this bad has so many layers of weirdness... it's saying something about the opinion. Giving a new meaning to "you can't make this stuff up"
I wonder if the smell of urine is a thing around superchargers.
This is one of those things that exceeds my brain’s ability to grasp. It’s just too big.
The gp mentioned government id apps specifically. Those along with banking apps are the ones I've heard having the most trouble without actual google play.
This is a helpful tip, but I feel like it kinda reinforces the broader point about emacs's lack of discoverability. I've been using it for years and wasn't aware of this feature until today.
Guess its hard to believe that their is a world outside of the United States. Already do whatever it takes to pin some BS on someone that opposes them and has them executed. This would be no different.
For the record, I'm not defending car-dependent living. I wish there were more walkable options in the US for people to live in (myself included).

But there's an awful lot of copium in these kinds of threads that shallowly blame the lack of choice as to why American life is so car-dependent. Housing markets are extremely good at responding to consumer demand.

Here's a good quantitative data point of people expressing their preferences [1]:

> In 1973, the median new single-family house was just 1,525 square feet, according to the US Census Bureau. By 2010, it had grown to 2,169 square feet. And, by 2018, it had bloated to 2,435 square feet. Who in 1973 would have believed that a newly built typical American home would be 60% bigger than theirs in 45 years?

> There's another even more startling factor to take into account. Statista.com claims the average household in 1973 comprised 3.01 people, meaning the home offered 507 square feet per person. But by 2018, that household had shrunk to 2.53 people. And each had 962 square feet to stretch out.

Houses have gotten 60% larger while households have gotten 15% smaller in the last 50 years. That didn't happen in spite of consumer demand.

[1]: https://www.hsh.com/homeowner/average-american-home.html
Are you sure the hash function literally called "NeuralMatch" running on the device with 2+ gen of AI capable chips won't have "collisions"?
I wonder how it applies to non-American companies listed on Nasdaq. I'm not sure who would count as a racial minority for Infosys.
Figmage: I don't mess with images (2020)
Yeah, it normally requires an anonymous phone call from a VoIP number.
I was unhappy to find this comment so far down and even unhappier to see it downvoted. I'm not a fan of the decrease in privacy Apple is creating with this move but I think this forum has gotten its feelings for Apple caught up with its response to a completely valid criticism of an anti-Apple article.

To explain things even further, let's say that the perceptual algorithm makes a false positive 1% of the time. That is, 1 in every 100 completely normal pictures are incorrectly matched with some picture in the child pornography database. There's no reason to think (at least none springs to mind, happy to hear suggestions) that a false positive in one image will make it any more likely to see a false positive in another image. Thus, if you have a phone with 1000 pictures on it, and it takes 40 trigger a match, there's less than a 1 in a trillion probability that this would happen if the pictures are all normal.
Where is that? You may have a different idea of walkable than the other poster. As soon as you have tons of parking spaces, mandatory setbacks, etc. you’ve taken much of the room away from pedestrians forcing them to walk much longer distances (often in bad weather) to get to where they want to go. That’s why the two are at such odds.
Show HN: Run simultaneous simulation experiments in the browser
What has changed is the inclusion of spyware technology on the device that can be weaponised to basically report on anything.

Today it's only geared toward iCloud and CSAM. How many lines of codes do you think it will take before it scans all your local pictures?

How hard do you think it will be for an authoritarian regime like China, that Apple bends over backwards to please, to start including other hashes that are not CSAM?

iCloud is opt-out. They can scan server-side like everyone does. Your device is your device, and it now contains, deeply embedded into it, the ability to perform actions that are not under your control and can silently report you directly to the authorities.

If you don't see a deep change there, I don't know what to say.

I live in a country that is getting more authoritarian by the day, where people are sent to prison (some for life) for criticizing the government, sometime just for chanting or printing a slogan.

This is the kind of crap that makes me extremely angry at Apple. Under the guise of something no-one can genuinely be against (think of the children!), they have now included a pretty generic snitch into your phone and made everyone accept it.
"Comments are good, but there is also a danger of over-commenting."

IMHO The only way to tell if you are able to comment well is to do this: Work on some project - then in 2 years come back to that project and add a feature to it. You will learn real quick how good your comments are. Spoiler alert: You wont care about "how" - you will want to know "why".
Dr William Gorgas did that for the Panama Canal Zone in 1904. Now that was a big job. 500 square miles of jungle.[1]

[1] https://www.insectweek.co.uk/news/mosquitoes-and-panama-cana...
> This year, I decided to look into Zig. Both Zig and Rust are more or less in the same space, replacing C.

Maybe we should think about this in terms of space occupied by the languages and not the language themselves. One of the features of C is that pretty much anything can interface with it. Another is that you can write very fast code with it. Another is that pretty much any platform has a C compiler. Another is that it's small and fits in your head. Depending on what you're trying to do, you might use one "C replacement" or another.

Another way of looking at it would be to see the shortcomings of C you're trying to overcome. I think this way of thinking would be more productive than just thinking about "replacing C", "replacing C++" or things like that.
I think the top comment on the article nails it perfectly. There is a bit of a bait-and-switch happening when we talk about homelessness.

The first thing one has to do is define homeless, which actually has many definitions. By number, most homeless are socially normal people staying with relatives and friends.

But that isn't what people imagine when we discuss homelessness.
Supply and demand drives prices up, but it doesn't tell us how large the demand is, only that there is enough to drive up prices. it only takes a small number of unmet demand go drive prices up.
You want to live in St Louis then. Not the suburbs but the city of St. Louis. It matches your requirements to a T. Outside St. Louis city county however is the complete opposite.
Sure, I am quite willing to hang you with your own words.

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“As far as I can see:
1. This is a serious attempt to build a privacy preserving solution to child pornography.”

“ > The more sophisticated child molesters out there will find out about what Apple is doing and quickly avoid it. <- this is you quoting me

I think this is exactly what Apple wants to he the result of their their iMessage scanning.
They are not in this to make arrests. They just want parents to feel safe letting children use their products. Driving predators to use different tools is fine with them.”

So according to your very own words, this ISN’T a serious attempt to build a privacy supporting solution to child pornography. First, it isn’t a solution because as you stated, it won’t actually catch anyone. Second, it isn’t serious because it was never intended to catch anyone.

“2. The complaints are all slippery slope arguments that governments will force Apple to abuse the mechanism. These are clearly real concerns and even Tim Cook admits that if you build a back door, bad people will use it.”

So according to your words these are not slippery slope arguments (the invalid argument sense) since, as you state, if you build a back door, bad people will use it. Don’t subtly use negative connotations to try to advance your argument.

Next you disingenuously frame the problem as a conflict between privacy and child pornography. That is an unsupported dichotomy.

“ However:
Child pornography and the related abuse is widely thought of as a massive problem, that is facilitated by encrypted communication and digital photography. People do care about this issue.
‘Think of the children’ is a great pretext for increasing surveillance, because it isn’t an irrational fear.”

Lastly you call for better solutions for a “solution” that actually isn’t a solution.

“So: where are the proposals for a better solution?”

“ Apple’s solution is the best on offer. ”

Another unsupported dichotomy and a false assignment of responsibility.

If this solution is bad, then toss it out. You don’t need another proposal in its place. You don’t need to deploy this backdoor
in the meantime.

It is NOT our responsibility to do the FBI’s job. It is THEIR responsibility to come up with better proposals.

If you do actually want a solution, my recommendation is to concentrate on real harm like child molestation and child trafficking. Trace how children have been trafficked historically. See how you can shut that down.

I feel dirty analyzing all the dirty tricks that you employed. Are you a politician or do you work for one? Work on policy?
This is the insight that I need. I'm all about EVs, but my fam and I will go on at least 1 500 road trip each year, and we don't stop for sleep (unless we have to).
How is this system, where Apple sees far less photos, worse?

You can't audit anything Apple does on their servers.
At some point last year I realized we just aren't going to deal with climate change. Human society isn't capable of the scale of changes required. My children are going to inherit a world quite unlike the one I was born in.
I’ve done 1300km in two days in an EV comfortably along the east coast of Australia. ~4h driving, 1hr charge and lunch, ~4h driving, charge overnight at the hotel, ~4h driving, 1hr charge and lunch, ~4h driving and arrive at destination. Same in reverse. Cost was only charging at home to 100% before departing (under $10) at both ends. The supercharging was free. The autopilot makes a huge difference to driver fatigue, and keeps paying attention when you’re distracted by kids in the back (saving me from at least one accident). It really has made it more of a difficult choice between flying and driving across the major cities on the east coast of Australia. Going further west is possible, but will just take a bit more planning.
Now that a fully built system for breaking end-to-end encryption is shipped directly in the OS, we're one configuration change away from massive scope creep.

First terrorist content, then "misinformation", then political speech. Apple will be unable to resist government demands to use this preexisting backdoor with a different set of perceptual hashes.
Pretty far-fetched, to swat you need a crisis situation, hostage/bomb/shooting
To my knowledge, GrapheneOS has become the leader of the mobile security space while CalyxOS remains more-or-less on par with iOS. This all depends on your security model, though. There are tradeoffs everywhere.
This comment is a good comment. Thanks.
There's actually another approach - no E2EE. Period.

Do folks really think AWS keys in china are not under control of govt?

Do folks really think MMS and other messaging in things like tiktok between chinese users is not accessible by govt?

Zoom?

Normal phone calls?

Folks understand that apple data centers will be run by state-owned Guizhou-Cloud Big Data Industry (GCBD). That Apple has had to agree to keep the encryption keys locally to those data centers under control of GCBD employees? Why would apple have to change how it does encryption for chinese users and make sure keys are locally available.
Yes, we should listen to someone who picks their feet and eats it.
I did not miss it. But it was responsive to nothing that I said.

As you should be aware, forestry approaches to fuel load include controlled burns, brush clearing, and selective logging. Both brush clearing and selective logging could have been done all along without destroying the homes of people who live in wilderness areas.

With proper preparation and regulations, controlled burns can be safely done in lightly populated areas. As an example I point to Australia. Sadly this approach cannot be taken in California, both due to the fact that our houses are not built to appropriate standards, and the fact that fuel loads are dangerously high. However the fact that this is not, today, a feasible approach doesn't alter the fact that it could have been viable with different past policies. Which also means that different future policies could also make it feasible at some point in the future.

Your comment is at best a retractive justification for the past forestry policy which left us with our current long-term problems. But in no way does it suggest that past policy did not create the basis for our current problems.
Love it. Enormous benefits.
> But there's an awful lot of copium in these kinds of threads that shallowly blame the lack of choice as to why American life is so car-dependent. Housing markets are extremely good at responding to consumer demand.

With-in the limits allowed by zoning policy. I'm not entirely laissez-faire but I think a lot of NIMBYism and just plain old inertial has been baked into by-laws and such.

Certain mandates can do good (tighter building envelopes, better insulation), while other mandates can do bad (minimum lot sizes).
Huh. I hadn't thought of that. I've scarcely worked anywhere with more than a smattering of younger people.

You know, I wonder if a change in the type of people attracted to the profession might explain ageism more than any other factor.
I feel like the criticism for Apple here is a bit misplaced. Sure, they would be misleading consumers by touting end-end encryption when scanning has now moved to the user's device, but isn't the whole point of this to be compliant with the real villain here, the USDOJ?
I used Emacs for software development and git interfacing.

I tried organizing my knowledge with org-roam. I tried maintaining org todo lists. I tried having an active org-agenda. I tried...

But what I do more than eight hours a day, every week day, is read, write and debug code. Emacs was once the best, it is now not so great.

I've been using Emacs for over two decades, now. It's painful that it fell behind so quickly.
I am a bit surprised to hear this, as I've always had section 8 applicants offer less than market rate. Owners only accept it because tenants often stay longer, and the rent is guaranteed (you're paid by the government directly, and the tenant reimburses the government their portion).
But still Disney property. Not sure where the "World" officially starts...
I wouldn’t cite SM as the model of municipal parking. Especially in conjunction with how poorly these support the expo light rail line - it’s not really feasible to drive in and get on the train to go to work for a day.
Another way to think about it: The night scenes in old movies could embrace the stylization and limitations that the combination of relatively insensitive film and studio lighting afforded. See for example, the night scenes in The Night of the Hunter, for example the riverboat scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFzTBPy7nl8. (The youtube video is stunningly low-bandwidth, another level of remove, but, yet again, the movie still holds up.)
There are some standards already and a lot of the big companies use them already. Amazon's Alexa uses Zigbee to communicate with 3rd party devices and can act as a defacto hub. Zigbee is an open protocol with no licensing fees (or at least cheaper than Z-wave, it's slight more reliable, but more expensive, cousin protocol).

Many devices are now opting for control over HTTP which is fairly reliable, even if your outside internet connection goes down. It's also easy to setup and discover. There is a larger security concern for these types of devices, but common sense will go a long way towards keeping you protected until more rigorous standards can be agreed upon.

Home automation does not, and in my opinion, should not require and outgoing internet connection. My network is accessible from outside because I want it to be and I've accepted the potential risks (though tunneling into my own network is always an option should I want to go that route).
Absolutely not, it’s minor. For me it’s not really a financial decision, it’s about driving a very nice and practical ev with much lower lifetime emissions than a gas car. Also most of my driving is local.
>The thing is it just doesn’t seem like the average person is willing to give up single family houses to gain walkability.

As other comments have mentioned, you can have both. In addition to that, the reason that people choose single family-houses is not necessarily entirely by preference: almost all of the land zoned for housing in the U.S is zoned for single family-homes. Add onto that some arcane rules about minimum parking amounts, minimum setbacks from the street, and the fully absurd standard to which suburban streets are created (too wide, essentially mini-highways), and you get the mess that exists right now.

By addressing these problems, you'll go a long way to improve walkability.
NCMEC is clearly lying (for one thing, CSAM users will stop using iPhone/iCloud for CSAM), but the theory is that someone who collects images is likely to (a) have some new not yet indexed images in the collection, which can be investigated, (b) might he abusing children.

IMO posession of CSAM should be legal but heavily regulated, so that users who don't want to hurt children (probably will most of them) cooperate with authorities to investigate producer (child abusers), get connected to mental health care, and not be driven into a criminal underworld full of blackmail.
>How is this system, where Apple sees far less photos, worse?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_collision

option three : don't allow Apple to judge user data at all.