skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I were to list a dozen behaviours, such as "gives to charity", "moves all income to offshore accounts to save taxes", etc, you would probably be able to sort them into "cooperative" and "selfish".

So those are well-defined categories. That one might just be a detour to the other doesn't seem to be relevant.

And, of course, the problem is that, far too often, fans of economic theory make the opposite mistake, and consider cooperative behaviour as a failure of rationality, when in reality they are just not thinking it through to the end.
And the matching photo is uploaded upon match. So regardless the photo is uploaded. What's the point again of taking this further step?
v7 sounds compelling for keying entities in our product. We use v4 right now.

What I am trying to determine is if 62 bits of entropy combined with a timestamp gives me better or worse collision resistance as with 122 bits in a purely-random format. Most of our keys only live within the scope of a single computer, but ~5% of them might be generated/shared between other systems.

Being able to order our keys by time would be really nice, and I like that they would compress/index better.

Maybe I could do a hybrid between V4 and V7 keys depending on if the type would be shared with external parties. There are many types that only ever scope to a single box.

I probably couldn't play with the idea of adding a "machine id" because the space of all possible machines is difficult to anticipate/control right now.

I think I just talked myself into sticking with v4.
I’m pretty sure you mean ‘stable’ not predictable here re:MACs?

The issue with using Mac addresses is it essentially leaked tracking information on the machine being used to generate the uuid - you could associate every ID it ever generated back to that same machine, correlate it to things like open WiFi AP logs, whatever. Which is pretty scary sometimes.

Many OS’s now randomly generate a new MAC on every disconnect/connect for this reason, to at least give some privacy.
IMO the free software group at least is auditable.

I wish Replicant was able to catch up. Having blobs at the baseband is awful, but having the baseband accessing all RAM is just game over for privacy. There isn't what to trust in that setting.
" From what I recall, renters are surveyed for their actual rents, and homeowners are asked to estimate what their house might rent for, and those numbers are taken in to account in CPI."

Hence my original point that housing costs are included through a heuristic. The point being that a survey asking "how much do you think you could rent your house for" is really un-scientific. If I'm not participating in the market, there is no market, and the price is a guess.

Is that guess good within an order of magnitude? Sure. Is it good within 5%? No.
I just splurged and bought a very used Prius for $3,400, when my $400 car was stolen. I can't afford an EV. Many oriole can't. That dictate just ensures fewer people will be able to afford a car. Which might work with decent public transport.
seems there's a lot of disagreement about economics.

what can economists predict?
My point is that the conversation about such tools is derailed by HN programmers who automatically jump to the conclusion that these products are the wet dreams of non-technical CEOs, who will force their org to go no-code exclusively.

If no-code tools are used in production, that implies that it will have to pass QA and code review, just like anything else.
The “Impedance Mismatch Test” for your data layer
"His companies have made it possible to travel around Earth without consuming fossil fuels, going into space, or harnessing solar power."

Really? You can drive a Tesla around the world? Or did Elon build a plane that I missed? Starship point to point will never happen, at least not in the next 50 years. Starship to Mars, maybe. He also didn't invent the solar panel, he did bail out a failed business by using Tesla to aquire it which is currently dealing with the court and upset investors.
Were the homeless asked if they consented to medical assessments. Why do police not conduct random pedestrian "stop and temperature take"?

Who was asking for this screening?
Its worse:

Apple: hey govt, here's some probable cause.

Govt: warrant, search, arrest

User: prosecuted
I put in the work to store ULIDs in SQL Server's interesting UUIDv1-based sort order for uniqueidentifier columns. It seems to be providing the clustered index benefits I was hoping for so far (far less clustered index churn behavior than v4 Random UUIDs).

An interesting digression to bring up with respect to this RFC because it is interesting to note that none of the proposed v6, v7, v8 UUIDs match the SQL Server sort order behavior and would still have a lot of clustered index churn unless new sort behaviors were allowed to be opted in. That might be something that this RFC would help to address by also making sort orders a bit more standard, though it does not directly make recommendations on that front.

For what it is worth, it is the SQL Server sort order that is weird: it sorts the last group of the UUID string form first, which in v1 UUIDs corresponded to the MAC Address. Clustering by machine probably made sense by whoever decided on that sort order, at the time, but even with v1 UUIDs they probably would have got better results sorting by timestamp than by machine.

(The ULID timestamp fits exactly into that "MAC address" group and it's just a matter of swapping the front 6 bytes to the back of the UUID when storing to uniqueidentifier.)

Fun reference on UUID sort orders: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190426-00/?p=10...
I have a few apps on F-Droid and I also maintain a list of recommended apps from F-Droid here: https://divestos.org/index.php?page=recommended_apps
Assuming the user trusts Apple, that may be palatable to some. But the crux is, the images they're matching against are in a database maintained by an unaccountable nonprofit (NCMEC).

Apple did this so their staff wouldn't have to see the offending images, until/unless it was actually confirmed.

However, the matching is all algorithmic and who knows what's in the CSAM database. It could be images of police brutality so law enforcement can ferret out protesters, for all we know. Want to round up all communists? This is an easy way to do so.
I believe it is happening, which is why I do not upload any unencrypted content to those services.
> when phones aren't a primary tool of trafficing illegal content?

Are they not? This is just an assumption you have made. It doesn’t matter what I think about it

I asked:

> Do you believe that sexual predators sharing images with children on iPhones is a problem?

You haven’t answered.

>>It seems like you are simply stating that the other side’s priorities are wrong.

> This is a juvenile attempt at a nobility argument.

No it isn’t. It is an honest attempt to characterize your approach. It seems clear that you think the other sides priorities are wrong.

That’s fine. I have to assume everyone thinks that. The point is that it doesn’t matter that you think they are wrong. You have already lost. The things you don’t want are already happening.

My argument is that since that debate is lost, any attempt to restore privacy must accept that other people’s priorities are different. Simply trying to get the other side to change priorities when you are already losing doesn’t seem like a good approach.
Depends on if you have someone to do it with and the scenery. I just drove from CA to NV, little bit of ID, and OR in a day and it was a great drive (just shy of 800mi). Lots of interesting scenery and places I've never seen. Broke it up into 2 days on the way back and slept at a nice campground.
Technically true, though I don't know why you think that capability is limited to Apple products...

https://transparencyreport.google.com/youtube-policy/feature...
Tesla warranty for 100-150k (depending on model). There is so much misinformation about Tesla it is unreal (and not really worth arguing about, just crazy stuff like: Teslas will appreciate in value).
Reminds me of the talk Rich Hickey gave about Clojure Spec and why semver fails.

https://youtu.be/oyLBGkS5ICk
This is why I see projects like postmarketOS, Mobian and Debian Mobile as having a lot more potential. Let's be clear about this, these projects are not practically usable right now in a "daily driver" sense, even compared to a simple AOSP-based custom ROM. But they have the right goal in place - sharing a single, unified code base across our mainstream and mobile OS's.
In many more densly-settled rural areas like mine, outside Redmond WA, not even DSL is an option because Frontier refuses to add more DSL hookup hardware. T-mobile doesn't offer 5-g Internet in my area either. So I'm forced to use ordinary (Verizon) 4G hotspots for Internet.
You probably need to log in. The landing screen is only a preview of what's in the app. You can interact with the app when you log in, and you can even log in as a test user.

Click login, go to the bottom of the login page, and click 'log in as test user'
Nit rebuttal: I was referring to the F-Droid repository which I thought was clear from context. These elements are scanned for and apps called out (tagged) should they contain something not-free, even connecting to network services like Reddit or Twitter. The are referred to as Anti-Features: https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Anti-Features/
I strongly encourage people to use ComVer instead: https://gitlab.com/staltz/comver

It's <BREAKING CHANGES>.<100% BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE CHANGES>

That's it. Fully SemVer compatible, if you want (just add .0 at the end)
Tea and Consent (2015)
All the non-Apple software that people needed to spend months fixing. There's a variety of posts on HN about being "M1 ready".
It's fascinating how much wider the class gap is there, but so many of the same dynamics sound familiar. Parts of it read as very familiar to me. In Toronto, as a guy from a small town and a working class background. It is also very different for me, of course. Ultimately very few Canadians are "poor", in a sense. I could walk into one of our hospitals on one of those dates and be seen for free. Social assistance paid more when I was homeless than that woman earns; though $100 does go much further in Delhi.

But I do remember that disjunction; it's normal, expected, to spend what amounts to a week or a month of my income on a night out. Being gay, the pressure to hide, to go for a date some place far away from home, somewhere you can hopefully blend in, or somewhere private, and where you won't attraction the attention of jeers, usually just jeers but sometimes you worry you'll have to run. Even the bit about McDonald's being too expensive. It is. It's a luxury, though most of us, myself included, tend not to think of it as such. Until you have $80 in your account and a whole week ahead and he wants to get a burger for dinner. $25 is a lot of money suddenly. It's an interesting experience when your friends decide to go out for dinner and your concern with where to go is which location has a menu option with a decent ratio for calories per $ and if the water is free.

I too found poetry to be worth far more than it cost. Trees can be a gift. As can parks. And settings. Many intangible things can be gifts. And it is an art to be learned and practiced, just like the art of selecting and giving physical gifts. And of physical gifts, I discovered long ago that it truly is the thought that counts. Oh, yes, someone will love something that is of monetary value or expensive. But I have received many gifts worth some real money, but the ones where the gift was the thought are the ones I tend to still have. A card when I wasn't expecting one. I still have the thoroughly wrecked chew-toy for my dog gotten by one particular friend who is now gone.

Maybe as a result of our smaller class gap, there is one thing that doesn't ring so true to me. "The girls also don’t have that many expectations." Not here. The boys had big expectations. It's easier to jump over the class gap if you're young and attractive, at least for a while, and pursue the material in exchange for the material, so to speak. I did it too; who doesn't want to go away for the weekend; go out for drinks and not count out the coins?
So you'd approve of this dog coming through your neighborhood and assessing you anb your children's temperature without your agreement or consent then, too, presumably?
Long press the app in your launcher, App Info, Mobile data & Wi-Fi, Allow network access
The chaotic algorithm is meant to be the hash, not the art-ification. So of course if you take two very similar hashes they will appear very similar.
One thing that Apple does better than Microsoft is not caring about apps using private APIs. You can use them, but you're on your own, and expect your app to break on the next major release.
You can start writing release notes any time you like.

The idea of semver was that you use the version number to encode compatibility information, and stop using it as a vague indication of the maturity of the project or the size of the changes in a particular release.
I will keep this comment in mind as I drive to Boca Chica in my Model S to see Starship launch for the first time, just as I took my kids to see Falcon Heavy (and have my kids on video watching both boosters land side by side at the Cape).

Complaints about his moral character aside (which are numerous!), Tesla vehicles and the Supercharger network [1] gave governments enough confidence to begin combustion vehicle bans [2] (forcing legacy automakers to electrify), Tesla stationary storage bolsters renewables deployments and thermal generation retirement (through cannibalizing the last holdout of thermal revenue, ancillary services [3]), and SpaceX has dramatically reduced the cost to lift to orbit [4]. I'll hold off on cheerleading for StarLink (disclosure: customer) until the constellation is fully operational.

You don't change the world being a chill dude. [5]

[1] https://supercharge.info/map

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_fossil_fuel_vehic...

[3] https://www.energy-storage.news/news/undeniable-success-sout...

[4] https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/06/air-force-budget-rev...

[5] https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/9/22426973/elon-musk-snl-mon... (The Tesla and SpaceX CEO joked that people sometimes don’t know what to expect from him. “I reinvented electric cars and I’m sending people to Mars on a rocket ship,” Musk said. “Did you think I was going to be a chill, normal dude?”)
If everything is E2EE, I don’t see how they can have any scanning obligations.

Google drive does not scan for child porn if the user uploads a user encrypted file. They literally can’t.

Personally, I don’t think E2EE photos is coming.
I've really enjoyed the odd essay/opinion piece and Teaching Company lecture series by McWhorter. I've heard people rave about the podcast, so I gave it a go.

I felt badly for the fellow, however, after listening to about half an episode of the podcast. It seemed worse than AM talk radio in terms of commercials, which left me with the impression that the guy really needed the money.

That was some time ago, though. I just scanned a recent episode and it looks like there are only four commercial breaks in 40 minutes which is not quite as excessive as I recollected. If that's not something that bothers you, give it a listen.
I leased a Bolt for about the same for 3 years, paid it up front for $6K (for the high mileage options; was closer to $5K for 12K mi/year). Bolts have routinely been available for this price, or outright sale for $23-25K after discounts & such. They're momentarily more expensive now because the refresh was just released, and the car market is currently insane.
"If inflation really happened between 2010 and 2020 where is the punch? "

Housing

Health care

College

Decreased quality of goods (aka, fake stuff on Amazon)
Isn’t that exactly what this is? The choice to use iCloud photos?
Was it ‘crazy’ to re-create a flu virus that killed 50M people? (2014)
> homeless people aren’t some strange foreign species that is uniquely dangerous to talk to.

You forgot the part where those homeless people are infected with covid. Anyone infected with it is dangerous, regardless of whether they are homeless or not.
For one? It allows you to figure out which machine is generating UUIDs, how fast, and all UUIDs it has ever generated. Which 1) is info leakage that is useful to many people in many ways, 2) can be a security risk as it tells you who to attack. 3) at a minimum is a privacy risk.
Discussion in 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7884602
I just don't buy this take. There's so much code; how can you be certain it will face sufficient scrutiny just by virtue of being available?
When we started back in 1.13 we wrote a function that took a set of structs as an arg and ran a kubectl subprocess to deploy it. We still had all of the niceness of native data structures. Later we transitioned to more native API calls.
There is content, and a few people have added some since. It just loaded slow earlier because of the surge in traffic that I was ill prepared for. I've upgraded the site and it should work better now.
I thought the reason the Tesla Model S sits 7 is because Elon had 5 kids at the time of the design.

Maybe your kids are all too big for those rear-facing seats?
Maybe not technically semver but it seems close enough for the joke to hold.

https://www.chromium.org/developers/version-numbers
A big part of SAML development was the attempt to satisfy every single requirement put forth by every stakeholder. The outcome of this was that they couldn't come up with a single schema that covered everything (schema and taxonomies that attempt to cover too much have their issues). They couldn't even agree on what to call a user ID. Instead they ended up with a schema to describe schemas, making SAML able to flex to handle nearly any use case, but resulting in a terrible mess and wrecking any sane interoperability.

What we have now are groups like OASIS, the Shibboleth Consortium, eduGAIN, and InCommon, each defining the schema their members agree to support, and an explosion of competing standards.

By the way, even Microsoft can't interoperate with themselves. Traditional ADFS SAML can handle arbitrary multi-value attributes that Azure ADFS rejects.
wasnt darwin based on freebsd anyway? and didnt apple hoover up all the dev teams from Freebsd to join and built it?
Attempting to derive moral prescriptions from an interpretation of evolutionary behavior is bizarre, and I doubt the author would be willing to be internally consistent in such a practice. For example, the universal subjection of species to parasitism and predation have driven many advantageous genetic modifications, but I hardly think the author would make a public claim in support of enshrining parasitism and predation as moral principles.

I find that advocates for these kinds of socially-based moral systems have never offered a way by which they, personally, will suffer for my benefit. Rather, it's always posed as a justification for why I, personally, or some illusory other, will be made to suffer for the author's benefit. It's tiresome.
You must be trolling...Provoking...Joking...Or you are Tim Cook :-) Are the personal ethics and values disconnected from daily business, to be changed based on the place of business or Apple must do it because they are just complying with local laws in China ?

Because IBM was also in 1939...Just the local laws.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
> If it took some vehicles 45 minutes to pump 20 gallons of diesel, I guarantee stations would start charging per minute.

I wouldn't be so sure, not in the US anyways. It sounds like a captive audience, and convenience store+gas station combos are already known to generate more profit from the overpriced crap inside than the gas since gas prices are so cut-throat competitive. There's already a few gas stations around me that I explicitly avoid because their pumps are notoriously slow to pump. If gambling were legal here, they'd have video slots in the convenience store.
> You seem to be talking about the ultra rich, like the top 1%.

I am, because they own the legislators.
Great Title. Saved me a click. Thanks.

But seriously, if I was asked a multiple choice question of where Starlink would fall, this probably would have been my guess.

As others point out, it's really the cost/benefit trade-off that will matter.
So you are essentially saying "I give up"?

Tech really drilled in learned helplessness on the masses.
At least in the US, a significant majority of people live in single family homes. So home infrastructure is an issue, but at the current rates of adoption we have a ways to go before it becomes a hard limit.

And who knows, at the rates range and charging speeds have increased over the past few years, we might be pretty close to apartment dwellers being able to buy one and use it exactly like their ICEV -- charge it up once a week.
> You need to take a ferry to reach Finland regardless of which route you pick.

Well technically not on the Sweden route but it would be crazy to drive the extra to go all the way north to Tornio and then drive back south to Helsinki instead of just taking the ferry from Stockholm (this adds around 1300km to the trip)
> It's pretty easy to accuse the latter statement of being racist isn't it? Not so much the former though huh? Why do you think that is?

I'm not sure that it's easy; it depends on the context. As we know well, many racists use conceivably non-racist criticism to find ways to denigrate African-Americans, so it's important to be careful and sensitive to that.

But the big difference is the vulnerability of the groups. If I post on HN 'software developers are morons' or 'SV billionaires are morons', it really doesn't matter. Devs and billionaires aren't in danger of losing their jobs, being subject to hatred, etc. But if I post that '(vulnerable minority) are morons', that's a very different matter - they are in danger.
Disagree.

The reputation of Nick Calyx (worth a look his Wikipedia page), or GrapheneOS team, etc, is so much easier lost than that of, say, Google's Android team.....or iOS security team.

Having said that: Calyx shouldn't be considered much more secure than Android Open Source Project (AOSP). That's where GrapheneOS shines.

Calyx should, however, be considered more private than AOSP, less dodgy & exploitable than Samsung etc Android "enhancements", aka UI/UX bloatware.
They say sonos does a good job on privacy. Did I miss something? Did they finally drop their approach of GPS-locating each speaker, phoning home what you listen to every couple of minutes and bricking the speakers to avoid re-sales?
Note that this totally-random key behavior is actually highly desirable when using dynamic programming techniques such as with the Splay Tree. It makes it statistically impossible for the tree to fall into a degenerate state.
> Talking about dates before this epoch makes little sense (any date before the Gregorian epoch will not resemble the same stellar / planet constellation as date after the Gregorian epoch).

That is not the only sense in which we care about dates. For example, we might want to talk about which of two events came first, and by how much. Historians have lots of uses for dates before the introduction of the Gregorian calendar.
Robot dogs can carry viruses, but it is much easier to "sanitize" them, as opposed to humans. And robot dogs cannot get infected themselves either, unlike social workers who would be normally performing that duty instead of robot dogs.

Gloves and N95 are cool, but they still carry a significant risk of infection if the person with gloves and N95 is surrounded by infected people in a confined environment on a regular basis. Look at all those cases of infected doctors in hospitals working with covid patients.
There is an interpreter VM in progress, check asterite progress in the asterite:repl branch . Very cool addition. It was announce in the virtual conference last month. Check that video, too.