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This might not be news for you, but you're in a really desireable location. The land you're on is probably really expensive right now.
"A clean environment is a pleasure to the senses."

I remember seeing this on a plaque on a porch on Main Street. It had an attribution, which I have forgotten, but could never track down who said it.

In any case, that simple concept permeates the parks and created a benchmark that no other theme park has matched (to my knowledge).
Maybe ask a bunch of women developers what they think? Europeans too. If you don't get it maybe it's BS, or maybe you don't know enough.

As a really smart, sometimes empathetic young person I used to think that I could understand most issues by observation, without having to live through them. One of the bitter lessons of getting older is that this is just incredibly irritatingly wrong. The phrase "lived experience" makes me barf a bit in my mouth due to weaponization, so maybe I'll say "walk a mile in someone else's shoes".

EDIT> Try to imagine what it's like to be creeped on almost all the time, everywhere you go. Want to forget for a bit and concentrate on some coding? Nope, the dude you work with is going to giggle about anal something when he's not trying to catch some side-boob or blather nonsense to you because he's crushing hard on his brilliant female coworker.

EDIT 2> I'm okay with kink, but I don't want to be distracted in a professional context saying ridiculous things like "butt blug". It's just juvenile and dumb. I really wouldn't take a pro-sex, anti-prude stand on such nonsense.
I had not noticed that Lineage dropped PrivacyGuard. Damn, there really is no choice these days.

Lineage is also so frigging annoying how they just drop old phones. They won't even provide the last good build or previous builds. Really bad thinking over there in general I guess.

:(
> We have a duty to other people and other people getting sick through the inaction of an individual's refusal to get vaccinated is an easily foreseeable outcome.

No that's pure fantasy, most people in most situations do not have such a duty. If you're an adult, you yourself are responsible for your health, not people out there who you encounter in your life. They have to obey the laws, but they don't have to respect your medical wishes to protect some group.

And even those that do have duty of care, like doctors and nurses to their patients, have other options to fulfill it: by having antibodies; by having cell immunity; by maintaining profylactic medications such as zinc, vitamin D, ivermectine; by getting tested often; by limiting their exposure to the patient. Vaccination isn't the only way to fulfill that duty of care.
You're a pretty depressing example of a human if you're not rooting for innovative companies that are creating the future. Maybe get beyond your own ego and root for others sometime.
> capital expense and engineering are minimal

San Francisco voters passed Proposition K, mandating a BRT line on the heavily-used Geary corridor in 2003. Yes, 2003!

It's 2021 and the furthest they've gotten is upgrading some signals and painting some side lanes. They haven't even begun construction of the dedicated inner lanes, which won't even run the full length of the corridor, anyhow. In fact, last I heard there are plans to scale things back even further.

Our inability to build transit isn't an engineering problem. It's not even really a capital expense problem, though don't underestimate the expense of building out dedicated lanes at-grade. It's a political and governance problem.

Last time I looked at the project details, IIRC about half of the $60 million budget was simply going toward repaving Geary Blvd, a benefit inuring almost entirely to cars. (They've postponed repavement so it could be rolled into, and hidden, by the BRT project budget.) If the BRT-specific changes were left out, the project would have been approved, finalized, contracted out, built, and finished a decade ago. The only reason it's taken so long is because of all the infighting that occurs for any infrastructure project beyond building roads.
The camera roll's defaults display images chronologically based on the image's timestamp. I've got thousands of photos on my phone going back years.

If you hack my phone and plant some photos with a sufficiently old timestamp I'd never notice them. I can't imagine my situation is all that uncommon either.
Maybe there’s some plausible deniability if a warrant uncovered nothing - but I think they would always be able get a warrant and try to find the device and more evidence based on the upload.

From what I’ve read the on-phone scanning only alerts after multiple photos and is designed to have a 1 in a trillion false positive rate. If the iCloud scan is similar they would have a strong case for getting a warrant based on uploads.
I don't think you know what "arranged marriage" really means.

Previously it used to be that your parents would choose your partner for you and you didn't have a choice (well this was true everywhere in the world). This still happens in rural and lesser urbanized areas, but things are changing pretty fast. In urban areas, arranged marriage is basically Tinder with parents - but the goal is to optimize for long-term happiness. Also it's not like the partners never meet each other before marrying - it's usually at least a few meets to decide if they are compatible. If not, you just move on to the next family in the list. The idea is that compatibility is more important. If you're compatible, "love" will happen eventually.

It's true that a few meets are not usually enough to judge compatibility, which is why arranged marriages are on their way out and will eventually die out.
No. You can design a system where the FPR is essentially zero. Even if shitty md5 is used.
I drove 2000 km in a single day, on a number of occasions, when I was younger. I don't see how anyone could do it in less than 3 days with this many charge stops.

I had no idea the range of electric cars was so short. I expected that they'd do better at cruising speed on the highways, because the mpg in my car goes up as I get up to 70 MPH. Apparently a Tesla Model 3 is only good for 289 miles at that speed before giving up the ghost.

13*40 --> 520 miles is what I'd expect to get out of our car.
Suburban character isn’t the result of consumer choice. In most suburbs, alternative kinds of development are literally illegal to build. Cities regulate the number of units, the heights of buildings, how far they must be setback from the street, how many parking spaces they require, and so on and so on.

Landowners lobby for and enact these regulations precisely because they know that if people were allowed to vote with their wallets they’d choose to live in denser developments.

You can’t make cheeseburgers illegal and then argue that nobody orders cheeseburgers in restaurants because they’re unpopular.
This is just a slippery slope argument.

The implementation specifically for detecting CSAM can be okay while using that for other purposes can not be okay.

The goal is to stop child sexual abuse, FB reports millions of cases a year with a similar hash matching model for messenger.

> ""People just don't understand!!" has never been a convincing argument."

That's not my argument - I just think most of the HN comments on this issue both miss the relevant details, and are wrong.
>So are you proposing to build so many new apartments in SF or LA that rent drops by over 1,000 a month?

That would be great and I think it would be good for the cities overall, but that isn't really the problem that is causing homelessness.

Housing is not a single market. People on the street generally aren't choosing between a 800 sqft 1 bedroom and a tent. However when we build housing we often focus on the top of the market with luxury condos that come with dishwashers, central air, washer/dryers, and parking spaces. Building those doesn't help homeless people. We need new construction across the entire spectrum of housing including single room occupancy that often serves as a last option before someone is forced onto the street. Living in a 100 sqft home with a communal bathroom isn't great, but it sure beats living on the street.

And I comfortable knowing that increasing the supply of that SRO housing isn't going to make my rent any cheaper.
I think a good simile would be that using Emacs is a bit like owning an old car. It breaks down more often, and when it does, your Google search results for results lead you to crusty websites that are skinny on solutions that would be applicable for you.

So you end up lying to the floor with parts strewn around you more often than you'd like to. And what you really want to do is go places in your car (ha...ha....ha) than be a mechanic.

I've programmed Go using Emacs for 4-5 years (and I've used Emacs for 30+ years). To be frank: my old Alfa Romeo from the 1980s breaks down far less often than the Go tooling in Emacs. Or the Java tooling before it for that matter.

It's not that I no longer like Emacs. It is just that I like programming more than I like doing redneck-repairs of Emacs.
Based on what? Unless you point out a flaw in the math, it’s zero.
> Note: CO₂ emissions are measured on a production basis, meaning they do
not correct for emissions embedded in traded goods.

So, we're leaving all the carbon involved in the production inspired by our consumptive habits on China. This is utter nonsense.
> I’m not sure why a freak accident should be used as an example of anything.

Maybe follow the news a little more. Several MSM outlets over the last month have done in-depth stories about the fundamental problems with the condo model of ownership and maintainance. It has nothing inherently to do with construction methods; the evidence is that what happened in FL is a risk in an awful lot of condos all over the US.
Title seems to imply the hyenas care about the continued possession of thousand year old bones, which I think is not quite true?
Lol I am feeling more homeless today than usual
If my math is correct, driving 1,725km in a Prius (assume 6L/100KM - which is fairly conservative) would cost about $135 CDN in fuel - (approx. $1.30 per litre).

Not much more than $120 spent on charging. For a car that is much less expensive than the Jaguar.

Environmental considerations aside, this is a tough sell for most consumers.
Well you're talking about a few billion people here, and a large chunk of the worlds population.

And, since you can't warm "by breeze", you now have the worlds population squished into two very small bands around the earth.

Here's a neat "population vs latitude" graph: https://engaging-data.com/population-latitude-longitude/
Your final sentence detracts from the otherwise reasonable point you are making.
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I wonder if anyone knows how this works in countries with widespread apartment ownership. Same model, but done right? Different model?
Both ICE and EV vehicles require a lot of GHG emissions to produce[1][2] - in the case of an ICE car, that works out to about as much as driving it for its working life. For the EV it's more - but then driving it is associated with much less in the way of emissions, that's sort of the point. Either way, getting rid of a working ICE vehicle that's got life left in it is going to mean all the emissions that stem from its manufacture were for naught (though I'd hope it get sold to someone else who will continue to use it, not scrapped).

1: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/20...

2: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/may/11/viral-imag...
As an emacs user, I would say that emacs really didn't have competition until VSCode and modern programming languages.

For example, everybody was kind of 80-90% on syntax highlighting. Some editors and IDEs were a little better at one language than others, but most weren't that great and had all manner of weird edge cases. And, if you wrote a new language, good luck because you had to write a syntax highlighter for it in both emacs and vim to get traction.

And then VSCode came along with the Language Server Protocol. Suddenly, you only needed to write a well-constrained plugin to get your syntax highlighting to about 80%. That was okay.

But the modern languages learned from the failures of C and C++ and designed themselves to be parsed quickly and accurately. So, now your LSP syntax highlighting could go to roughly 99% accuracy on VSCode. And the highlighters were incremental. Suddenly there was a genuine advantage to using something other than emacs.

And this is before we get to things like a debugger that works, etc. I've used all the IDE's, but VSCode is the first one to pry emacs from under my fingers.

And for people who like to complain about VSCode and Electron bloat (a valid complaint), I'd like to point you to some of the old nicknames from the emacs vs vi religious wars (Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping springs to mind ...) Bloat simply isn't an argument for most people.
I think it's largely because we're still at the point in American politics where the folks against densification are still strongly tied to a certain pastoral vision of America: large lot sizes, single family homes, easy parking, and heavily manicured neighborhoods. It's more than just density, it's a legally codified way of life. Folks understand that the moment restrictions are eased that this pastoral view of urban development will necessarily change. It takes a lot of restrictions to have a built environment like America's and the only way to maintain that built environment is to resist any change to the restrictions.

But I agree. A vision of sustainable development would be a dense urban core with decreasing density away from the core, instead of endless SFH large-lot sprawl. Families or other individuals that want/need more space can live on the outskirts and take a train in to the urban core for work. Younger people or those who don't need the space can stay in the core, and folks in between can live anywhere in the spectrum of density.
> Even the current version of Emacs doesn't do fuzzy completion for M-x commands, just start-of-token completion; out of the box the completion is a little basic. I know there are packages which make this a lot better, but you have to know about the packages. :)

This is not quite true.

The minibuffer, which is what vanilla Emacs uses for M-x command completion, has a set of completion styles, ordered by preference. You can find the full set of completion categories supported by Emacs in the variable completion-styles-alist. Among those is one called flex, which allows for full fuzzy matching between provided tokens.

This is not a default minibuffer completion style, but it provided without additional packages. One would add it by adding it to the list of completion styles used by the minibuffer as specified by the variable completion-styles. I recommend trying it out.
This ^

Think “Facebook” not “WhatsApp”
That sounds strange, it sounds like an area that should’ve been served by foot and public transit traffic.
Sure, "a bit", but I don't think a phone that is entirely broken except for a few open source apps that don't do useful day-to-day things (like order me a Lyft, let me do my banking, pay for stuff at a cash register, navigation, etc.) is all that useful.

My ideal would be to have a base OS and core standard library that I can trust, and then I get to choose what apps I run on top of that. Sometimes I will choose to install an app that doesn't have a great privacy track record, but I will rely on apps like TrackerControl, Blokada, and Bouncer to mitigate my exposure somewhat. It won't be perfect, but we don't live in a perfect world where there are feature-identical, privacy-respecting clones of the mainstream apps. Until that time, I can decide what are acceptable risks to my privacy.

Unfortunately, I don't have that choice right now: either I live with the privacy minefield that is Android (as I do, and try to mitigate privacy leaks as well as possible), or the nanny state that is iOS (which I -- for now -- consider the greater evil).
I think it's pretty normal in most developed countries to have operations happening 24/7, in some there's rules requring extra pay for saturdays and sundays, and a lot have weekly per-worker limits on the number of hours worked and/or numbers of hours where extra pay is required, but it's certainly not impossible.
Does this imply that apple was not checking the photos stored in their servers for CP? Then icloud must have been the best way to share it
Thanks, yes, it turns out I'm familiar with basic definitions. But not-for-profit culture is much more mission-oriented than for-profit culture, at least in the US. I've worked and consulted for both for-profit and not-for-profit entities, and know which I would rather trust.
I don't think this issue is widespread enough and harmful enough to society to risk the privacy of all Apple users. Full stop.

I haven't been particularly impressed with Apple's security record[1] lately, and I don't trust them to not mess this up.

1 - https://bhavukjain.com/blog/2020/05/30/zeroday-signin-with-a...
I’d love to see mega blocks:

Specifically, make a mega mall underground (with parking under that), with a single 10 story building above for office space (open offices already don’t really have windows). You can build the building to have gaps where the roads should be, but more like tunnels. Then another 10-15 huge 50-80 story towers above the office space. Between the towers on the “roof” of the office space, a giant park with bike lanes and scooters.

It’s a mall (with everything you need), an office, parking spots, a park and “a neighborhood”.

I also think North America needs more apartments that are 3000-4000 sqft (4 bedroom 6 bathroom multi-story condos).
> They’re illegal because people vote for representatives who makes them illegal

Yes, but that's not because nobody wants to live in them. It's because a loud subsection of the people that already own single-family homes there don't want them built.

You seem to recognize this. That's different from saying "Americans don't want to live in this sort of housing".
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Make an actual argument. HN is getting a bit pathetic. Address the issues / topics raised.

What content does your comment add? Nothing.

I am pointing out that there already are efforts around total encrypted privacy. Tor network is doing it. So are others. As they are taken over by bad actors - the rest of the world starts cutting them off and blocking them.

When folks talk about this hurting apples brand - you could not be more wrong. Seriously, address the points I'm making.

Apple is currently providing relatively strong E2E encryption (a leader actually in that). They are now going to match that with screening on probably the #1 issue that is out there around encrypted networks, the issue that often forces folks to backdoor things.

They also are going to be offering what seem like thoughtful features for users. Parents in particular with kids accounts have concerns (reasonable) about tech - and they will help to address that.

For all the "brand damage" HN goes on about here, in the larger world this may be popular and or very accepted.

And yes, if android becomes known as the home of the pedo's - that's not going to be an apple brand problem, but an android one. Surprisingly often we've seen others COPY apple, usually after loudly pointing out that they won't.
Was this it?
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/the-chicken-theory-....
> The limited walkable cities that have been built since 1950 (like Seaside, FL)

I think you should check the population of Seaside (or Celebration). Oh that's right, it's never had a census scan. Suffice it to say that calling either of them "cities" is quite a stretch.
Pre-commit-Golang v1.0.0-beta.1 – Now with support for running custom go tools
Release Announcement:

* https://github.com/TekWizely/pre-commit-golang/releases/tag/v1.0.0-beta.1

While this project includes builtin hooks for many popular go tools, it's not possible to include builtin hooks for every tool that users might want to use.

To help accommodate those users, this release introduces the ability to invoke custom go tools.

Check out the release notes for a quick example and the project's README for complete documentation.
> and probably become a serious privacy and security liability

Given the quality of IoT devices, they pretty much become a serious privacy and security liability the moment they are first turned on.

Agree on everything else though. There's a fundamental mismatch between parts of a house where the expected lifetime is measured in human generations vs. tech gadgets where the lifetime is months to a couple years before becoming throwaway.
You rule yourselves?! Where do you live? Are they accepting immigrants!?
I don't think anyone is especially happy about the LineageOS shortcomings you point out, but that's why people are working on supporting the mainstream Linux stack on existing hardware.

The LineageOS folks have a very difficult job to do, they must keep up with developments in AOSP while supporting dozens of existing hardware models, each with its own "exciting" quirks. Is it really any wonder that some hardware gets dropped from official support? Usually that just means bugs have turned up which would make LineageOS not fully usable on the hardware, and they don't have the volunteer manpower to address them.

Complaining about SafetyNet and microG is even less understandable, as these will always amount to unsupported hacks and we don't really need them for a usable device. Just get your apps from F-Droid, and you won't have to care about either.
They don't have wifi, unless you mean the z-wave protocol, which is a separate wireless protocol.

You can add a zwave controller that translates ip commands from a home server to zwave commands, but it can be wired or wifi (or usb).

You can also directly program zwave "scenes", which work directly between the z wave devices without needing a controller. Like a direct remote control.
>Imagine if every homeless person in SF got over their drug habit or was cured of their mental illness or physical disability or what ever other issue they had that drove them to being homeless.

Wow, privilege makes you blind, indeed.
I think HN takes the incorrectly perceived moral high ground and ignore the fact that there is a real duty to act here.

There are people who profit from CSAM and in turn this creates a market for abuse. Unless we create structures which disincentivizes these behaviors — right now there are none - they will continue to grow. What Apple is building will basically make any criminal who sells to someone sloppy enough to store in iCloud risk being traced as the origin of the CSAM. Back to the darkest web they go.

Anti CSAM is inevitable. You will find similar systems for all major providers eventually.
I want to believe this, to a large extent. But it doesn't square with my experiences in small towns.

I fully grant that I'm rather removed from my experiences in said small towns. And I should fully lay the cards on the table that I haven't driven a car for my own commute or basic transportation in almost a decade. I far far prefer biking/walking to work. Even still, we drive the kids to school where we are now. (We walked them back in Seattle.)
I would imagine most people do with the abysmal 5GB of storage they offer for free and how backups take up all of it.
To help people understand something they've never experienced, stay within their own frame of reference. That's all they've got to work with, because they don't know what they haven't experienced.

To explain poverty to a middle class Californian, frame it in culture terms that are familiar, but which still reach the same class of emotional experience you want them to understand.

e.g.

Have you ever gone shopping at The Gap for jeans with a bunch of pals, and they take forever to decide which 12 pairs of jeans they're going to get, but you only take like 20 minutes because you can only afford 4 pairs? You know how that feels?

They'll catch on.
Where’s your source for this?