skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, but help me understand... San Francisco and LA are incredibly expensive places to live. So are you proposing to build so many new apartments in SF or LA that rent drops by over 1,000 a month?

It definitely strikes me that there are a million places to live in this country that are dirt cheap, and there's a 0% chance SF becomes one of them. Maybe there's some data I'm missing about homeless people who can afford $2500 in rent but are on the street because they can't afford $3000, otherwise it just seems the two issues really aren't as connected as people tend to claim.

Part of me wonders if the "angry about rent prices for the homeless" people on HN happen to be angry about rent prices that THEY have to pay...
This is good news. If a huge manufacturing hub like China can go to a low carbon power grid that will significantly reduce emissions.
That isn’t CSAM.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/28/us/child-sex-...

Apple’s thing has some sort of threshold anyway so one image would not trigger it. I don’t buy your example - the CSAM images are not what you’re describing.
Indeed. It does not seem far-fetched at all that they have a mechanism that could exclude and any all of them.

I would also believe it that there are no African bullfrogs in the park.
We’re well beyond the point where this is a valid argument to make.
>Problem is that this scanning is necessarily fuzzy and there is going to be a false positive rate to it. And the way that you'll find out that you've tripped a false positive is that the SWAT team will knock your door down and kill your dog (at a minimum).

Not true. Hash matches are to be human reviewed. So no, people won't get "swatted" accidentally as you allege.

The other concerns people have been voicing are certainly valid though (IMHO).
But... talking about the rural areas is enough to destroy the "if you build walkable areas, folks will live there." Right?
The most absurd claims are for the Nintendo Switch. They blame it for having a third-party software which collect real vehicle driving data and send its data to the third-party's server.

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/nintend...

By the same logic, Firefox has a third-party software(Hacker News) which collect and send data to the third-party's server. Gosh I shall be scared.

Or they are so lacking the technical analysis. Lego apps for example:

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/lego-hi...

They conclude it's safe because they can use it offline... after they download and install the special smartphone apps to their smartphone. Seriously I see no smartphone that honor my privacy. By using the smartphone, it's already fail. Also, It seems they don't say that based on reverse engineering effort to make sure the app do nothing wrong. If I was a malicious app developer, I just store the data to the local storage and upload it the next convenient time the network access is available.
> I'd never met anyone taking about buying a house in the Spanish hills until becoming a techie.

I'm still not sure that's the differentiating factor here. OP made clear their moral objections, and sketched out part of a picture in which what makes this possible is not so much "typical tech money", but possibly "having owned a home in the US for long enough".

I have extremely non-tech but upper-middle class friends who in the past have discussed buying entire villages in Spain and Italy (they can be had for as little as $2-300k on the low end. These are not people who ever made "a lot of money", but they have owned homes for long enough that if they sold their house, they'd have capital to put into such a move.
You might be interested in some of my blogs:

https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/

https://sandiegohomelesssurvivalguide.blogspot.com/

http://whathelpsthehomeless.blogspot.com/
>And everyone should stop driving fossil vehicles starting now. [...] There’s no excuse not to.

Isn't there?

Right now for me to own a Ford Mach E, a Tesla Model 3 or a RAV4 Prime is $3400 to $3700 per year for comprehensive insurance, $1400 a year for liability only. My SUV right now costs $1100 a year to insure comprehensive, but even a 2021 Acura NSX or Jaguar F-Pace is only $1400 for the same level of insurance that I have right now.

I only spend about $1200 a year on gasoline for the SUV and another $200 for regular maintenance. So right out the gate, assuming electricity is free and tire rotations are free, I'm already looking at least $900/yr increase in operating expense.

And then there's the upfront; the above is on top of the $10,000 to $20,000 more I'd have to spend to buy an EV vs a comparably sized and equipped ICE. And an additional $1500 to $2000 to have my garage accommodate charging a car, assuming main panel doesn't need upgrading and only installing a 240V circuit.

Right now it's a detached garage with a single 120v to it, so it's retrenching and installation of new conduit and wire, installing a new sub panel in the garage, and rewiring everything. Not going to count the cost of a level 2 DC charger (Chevrolet and Kia are offering one as an incentive for purchase). Main uncertainty is whether or not the main panel would need to be upgraded.

If I didn't have a garage, I'd also have to be super concerned about charging stations though. You leave an extension cord more then once out overnight, it will get stolen; the copper in it is worth a dollar or two. I can't imagine how fast a $200 charging cable with $10 of scrap copper in it wouldn't get swiped. It's unfortunately common here, there's quite a few sections of street where the street lights have been knock out for months now due to copper thieves ripping it out of the conduit. A nearby truck depot gets the copper wire cut from the trucks battery systems sitting there overnight every few months.

So... yeah. There's my excuse. Money.
> "Despite the 'Puppy and Sunshine' bill actually providing everyone with puppies and sunshine, we can't support it because it also summons the literal anti-christ to destroy the Earth. The puppies and sunshine is simply a trick to summon the anti-christ."

Was this edgy strawman really useful?

> IMO doing so makes the bill far more transparent _to the public_.

How? The public that are engaged are still almost entirely getting their knowledge through the media, and they won't cover small bills due to lack of journalists, and more importantly, because readers aren't interested in them. I'm not sure who this mythical cohort who want to understand more about e.g. legislation that involves federal spending in Ohio, but can only do so by looking at every single small bill until they find "The Providing Ohio Reinvestment Kickback Bill" on page 23.

> I do not understand why such a thing could not happen without these nor with packages (as defined above).

Because there is only so much time available to get bills passed if nothing else, a bill focussing solely on niche and/or local issues are going to get bumped down the queue at every stage - in committee, getting scored for budgetary implications, getting floor time etc. - and there are two houses to make it worse.

> Do you not see that as a problem?

Well that depends on what it actually was of course.

The US system of government is at every level designed to prevent getting anything done, and so lots of things get lumped onto big bills that are likely to pass. I mean there's even a literal "omnibus bill" FFS. But the alternative is that "$1,000,000 for additional spaces at homeless shelters for transgender youth" isn't ever going to get to the floor, let alone pass in the House and get 60 votes in the Senate.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

Facebook has made promises, then broken those promises, time and again. They've lied to founders they've acquired, to users, and to governments and regulators.

If anyone trusts Facebook at this point knowing that, I'm not sure what could convince them otherwise.
The original purpose is literally to stop cars parking on streets.

Carsharing services are a game changer for urban people who use a car once a week or so (go to the shops, visit family, etc.) And should be substituted in any requirements at a 30:1-50:1 ratio or thereabouts. Developera still need car parking to attract many buyers however
Did anyone else notice this euphemism treadmill update?

"for people experiencing homelessness"

"the number of people experiencing homelessness"

"of those experiencing homelessness"

This softer language with more syllables is not for the benefit of the homeless, it's for everyone else so they don't feel as bad about it. Which makes it less likely anything will be done. George Carlin made this point brilliantly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuEQixrBKCc
I would really like people to start answering this: what exactly do you think has changed? e.g,

>That’s very different from authorities taking a sneak peek into my stuff.

To be very blunt:

- The opt out of this is to not use iCloud Photos.

- If you _currently_ use iCloud Photos, your photos are _already_ hash compared.

- Thus the existing opt out is to... not use iCloud Photos.

The exact same outcome can happen regardless of whether it's done on or off device. iCloud has _always_ been a known vector for authorities to peek.

>I’m big Apple fanboy, but I’m not going to carry a snitch in my pocket.

If you use iCloud, you arguably already do.
I'm not even convinced they have fewer than the rest of Florida.

Most metropolitans in Florida spray, and while you'll still get bites it's generally reasonable as long as you're not off in the woods.

I went to Disney last year and got attacked on the way out (the tram station outside of the park) as bad as I've ever been.
* and it can only spoof one signature, that of google play services
Poor people can still become rich but you can't undo 300 years of racism, and policies like redlining. Also there HAVE been provrams for the kind of thing you are asking for, the home loan program after world war 2 where only 2 black soldiers were given loans and the homestead act where spccifically white people were given free land. Then there was stuff like taking away Bruce's beach under imminant domain. These policies are aimed at fixing a wrong that caused such lopsided poverty in one race.
How on earth is sealed Coke going to expire??
Right. But whenever I hear that "walkable places are expensive", I hear folks talking about places like Seattle. Or downtown Atlanta.

What places are we talking about that are a) highly walkable, b) expensive, and c) not at capacity?

(This is a genuine question. I fully cede that I could just be completely miscalibrated for this.)
Just a thought on point number 2.

I fully agree with you that a good "product" and design is a reason for people to pick one content provider over another. It's almost exclusively about what content a provider has access to.

One particular example that I would call out is funimation. They offer a streaming service that has a very large library of english dubbed anime. Their platform sucks - missing features, constantly receive errors about needing a subscription (even when you're a pro member), sometimes specific episodes just won't player. Yet, they are still a huge player in the market because they offer content that people want.
I for one am amused by Tesla being not invited, re: a personal schadenfreude:

Tesla flooded the Telluride Film Festival with Teslas in 2016. Those of us who usually drove the film festival celebrities around, as chauffeurs, would make 1/3 of our seasonal income during that film festival alone. Not that year! Elon gave the festival celebrities free Teslas to tool around town in. He trucked in like 30 of them. A lot of us left town after that (I couldn't make rent), unable to make up the income lost to Elon‘s free Teslas.

Fucker.

You owe me a Tesla, Elon.
For UUIDv7 it isn't very clear on how the subsecond part is encoded. From the description of decoding it sounds like it would be multiplying the fraction of a second by 2^n. but that isn't very explicit. And if you want to avoid floating point arithmetic you'll need to include a 10^p in there where p is how many digits of precision you have in base 10 (such as 3 for milliseconds)
Our suburb has some medical and dental offices in the center of it. Yay, something I do a couple times a year is within walking distance. Talk about useless.

Groceries are about 2 miles away. Which would be bikable if the infrastructure was there. In my experience it would be easier to reach bikability than walkability. Most suburbs are already somewhat bikable aside from the infrastructure.
Apple Won't Have to Pay $309M After Judge Accuses Patent Troll of Abusing System
Is anyone working on an active adapter to make a Supercharger think the device on the other end is a Tesla vehicle, so it'll put out a charge?

I have no idea how Superchargers work, but I assume there's some sort of active electronic handshake going on over some control pins to authorize power delivery — perhaps even something cryptographic, e.g. the "pump" and the car both having Tesla-signed TLS certificates and peer-verifying one-another.

If so, spoofing a Tesla might involve cloning a cert from a real Tesla vehicles, possibly from the car's TPM. Full-on DRM-breaking stuff. Stuff I would expect from the kind of teams that present at DEF CON.
Genuinely baffled why anyone buys anything but a Tesla.

It's cheaper, autopilot is pretty great, has a vastly better charging network, charges vastly quicker...

I guess it means you can write blog posts about bad experiences with an electric car...
>margin of being housed or being homeless to stay housed. The lower the cost, the easier it is for family, SSDI, Section 8,

In most of the country, Section 8 housing sets an artificially high floor on the price of rentals. Military bases often have a similar impact. In both cases, landlords (rationally) price rentals the highest amount they know the government will pay.

As section 8 has become more prevalent in the last decade (being a requirement for most types of speculative construction financing due to Dodd Frank), it has become more and more influential in determining "market" rates of rental housing.

Which is also why you see apartment complexes competing via "features", and not price.

I don't know what the solution is, but it's classic unintended consequences that "affordable housing" requirements have led to higher prices.
I own a few domains. I have one that I use for staging work and temporary DNS for customers who can’t change their DNS or set up a site quickly. I can also put my own wireframes and proofs of concept there. It’s separate from the domain name I use for the articles I publish.

For staging I use Digital Ocean, but I can point DNS to any server just to give it a name.
I've watched non-programmer teams start fast with Blueprints in Unreal, but then hit a wall that they can't climb. Especially for mobile. So then the real programmers get handed this hacked-together prototype and have to figure out how to actually make it performant, close to the deadline. Is this still a thing?

* I haven't used Unreal Engine in 6 years.
The largest I'm aware of is the nvidia driver, version 471.
I wasn't at all surprised when damn near every community appealed the new RHNA rules (49 jurisdictions tried last I checked). I was surprised when only two were successful. We'll see what they actually end up doing, but it's a nice step in the right direction.
Just photograph a known bad picture.
What experience is that? Handing out food to homeless people a while back about 1 of the 20 was drunk and the rest sober and lucid. One had given up heroin.
> Solar prices have been decreasing at a staggering pace. 20 years ago, solar was certainly infeasible. That's not the case today and certainly won't be in 20 years.

Yes, that's exactly what I heard 20 years ago too. One day it could even be right. It's a flimsy argument to discount nuclear energy with though, a proven reliable cheap low-carbon energy source (when the regulatory environment has not been corrupted by the fossil fuel industry and"environmental" lobbyists) that has been ready for 50 years. See: France.
Thanks for the frank details about the downsides.

If I can't use my banking apps, Lyft, Google Pay, Photos, Maps, etc. with a particular mobile OS (with all features working), then it's unfortunately not for me.

It seems like most of the Android alternatives throw the baby out with the bathwater. I get that making a trusted OS based on Android is hard, especially with Google having moved so much core functionality into Play Services, but the value I get out of my phone is mostly from mainstream apps, using mainstream features (like push notifications and location services). If those don't work, to me it's not really a useful device.

I get that a lot of these apps aren't particularly privacy-oriented, but to me, my main concern is that there are a lot of Google-owned core components to the OS and userland that actively subvert my privacy. I'd really like to think there's some middle ground on Android where I can trust the OS and userspace core, and still run the apps I usually run.
Google is planning a new Silicon Valley campus with hardware hub
The trade-off here is to get pedophiles off of Apple services and on to something else, we give Apple an entry point into examining our private data. I understand it's hashes now, that does nothing to prevent this from expanding.

"People just don't understand!!" has never been a convincing argument.
"A bit higher than CNN" is the lowest bar that I've ever heard of. You'd have to be an ant to limbo under that.
> So are you proposing to build so many new apartments in SF or LA that rent drops by over 1,000 a month?

Don't want to speak for OP, but I definitely do.

Government would not have to build anying, only get out of the way of people who want to build on their own land.

The Bay Area could easily be a world class metro area with 20 million people, all sleeping indoors.
Montreal is similar. Parking downtown: horrible. Parking out in the 'burbs and then riding the metro into town? easy, and lovely. For a lot of things, anyway.
Picture of a picture?
May have happened?

Given what we've learned about the NSA over the years, the news that's leaked is consistently _worse_ than expected, not better. Pessimism is warranted.

This policy provides cover for the NSA's PRISM partner Apple to search and exfiltrate data on devices en masse. Apple and the NSA no longer have to do this in a targeted way to remain undetected. It's now done to everyone. Obviously this is a huge problem for privacy.

If Apple doesn't reverse course despite all this backlash, it's reasonable to assume the alternative for Apple must be worse. There must be an explanation for their behavior.

Apple's decision makes sense if the NSA were already doing this on devices with Apple's cooperation, and Apple feared the scope of the operation would be discovered. Then making it public "to catch child predators" seems like far less damage to their brand than appearing to buddy up with the feds.

I can't think of another reason which justifies Apple stomping on their own privacy narrative.
Plaintiff: “Judge, when the defendant used my public website, a contract with me was implicitly made”

Judge: “what defendant? There is no one here.”

Plaintiff: “Oh he was anonymous, so I am not sure who it was…”

Judge: “Hmm interesting, so you seem to think an implicit contract exists that you want to enforce with no documentation at all with a party you can’t name, because you are not sure who it is?”

Plaintiff: “Exactly.”

Judge: “Feel free to come back when you aren’t going to waste the court’s time”
VSCode allows you to write in Javascript what Emacs allows you to write in elisp. What's missing?
I think it might work if you display both the hash and the image, and ask the user to compare both.

If the hashes are very different, it doesn't matter that the images are similar (assuming the user indeed verifies both).

If the hashes are similar, another round of hashing before producing the image, might make the images very different.

But maybe I misunderstood?
After using CalyxOS for a while, I came up with a method to use stock android and preserve more of your privacy. https://hackernoon.com/have-your-privacy-cake-on-android-and...
> And a quick reminder than spacex and tesla wouldnt exist if it were up to you.

You're doing my work for me here, pal. Where do I sign up?
There are ~1.2 billion cars globally. Expected to grow to ~1.8b by 2050? About the time many carbon zero targets are supposed to be achieved.

And yet. Any proposal that a tiny fraction of all the cheddar supporting automobiles be repurposed for nefarious questionable uses, like maybe add a few bike lanes, triggers a violent reaction accompanied by charges of being an anti-car jihadist.
> Leftists often raise the true-but-misleading factoid that the number of people experiencing homelessness on any given day is generally much smaller than the number of homes that are unoccupied on any given day.

> But as we covered [...] it’s not the case that homelessness is high where vacancy rates are high.

I wonder if the author is willfully ignorant here. The point leftists are making is not that of correlation and causation, but that of the lack of political will. The point is that we could solve homelessness today if there was a political will. The point is usually along the lines of: “Homelessness is a really solvable problem, see if we used all the vacant housing we could house every single homeless person, sometimes many times over”. There is no correlation nor causation in this argument. And the point is so obvious I can’t imagine how the author got their reading into it, other then blanket dismissal of arguments from the political left.

> I know it’s a little bit counterintuitive to people, but in a broad sense, the biggest thing we could do to take a bite out of homelessness in the medium term is build more luxury condos.

> market-rate housing generates tax revenue by bringing in new affluent residents, and that revenue can be used to finance an affordable housing trust fund or new public housing or whatever else you want.

Here we go. The author seems to be proposing a trickle-down theory of housing. I’m not an economist but I’ve heard that trickle down theory is not the best economic theory we have. In fact I was under the impression that such theories were heavily biased by willful thinking, and have no basis in reality.

If this were to be true there would need to be a political will to actually spend the hopefully increased tax revenue on housing, however we have no reason to believe that would be the case. And that goes back to the author’s misinterpretation in the previous quotes. If there was a political will, governments would buy up the existing vacant housing and use them to house the homeless.
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Then that's a different photo and will have a different hash.
Though I don't disagree that much of it is just sadism, there is also some need for a paper trail. The "informant" denying they ever said anything causes more problems than them recanting what they said while tortured.
Yeesh, harsh downvotes. You'd think HN, of all places, would be more appreciative of Vulcanposting.
Well this is also combined with a shift away from rural areas in terms of job opportunities, as farming has either become hugely automated, or staffed by skilled labor that is severely underpaid.

Where there is economic opportunity, density and walk ability are forbidden by law, not by market preferences or by natural choices.
In college we were required to typeset assignments in LaTeX for all the math classes past multivariable calculus. I started out with Overleaf, but switched to local compilation about a year in. It's much nicer to be able to write in my usual text editor and compile documents instantly. On Arch, all I had to do was install texlive-most. It includes every package I have ever needed to use. To compile a document, I just run 'pdflatex *.tex'. Sometimes bibtex too. If you're having trouble with setup and configuration, I recommend texlive.