skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The interview starts with a gross misrepresentation of the actual criticisms by the Apple CEO.

No there was no mixing up of two proposed technologies, that was not the issue at all. Noone with legitimate criticism was confused by that.

Basically what he communicated in the first sentences was 'we do not listen to what the critics say, we do not care how legitimate the criticism is, we will try to make it go away with manipulative rethoric and follow our plan'.
> those in the American right also make claims that Fox News is too liberal.

So if 1 person says Fox news is too left, then it's impossible to say "NPR is universally denounced by the American right as leftist/Democratic Party propaganda"

That's a bit overreaching argument that doesn't follow.
If the intention is to implement a carbon tax, I see no way of doing so without some relatively accurate measure of carbon output. Without that you are taxing not carbon but instead something else.
Not really. It was going to happen with or without Apple. The first touchscreen smartphone was in 1992. Microsoft had touchscreen Windows devices from the late 90's through the 00's. Symbian and BlackBerry were things. And the LG Prada which was released before iPhone.

iPhone just did what Apple's good at, taking existing technology and packaging it nicely, but it would have happened with or without them.
Give me half a billion and I'll certainly try
Salem gundu and banganapalli FTW !
The US did not spend $1 trillion per year. We spent $1 trillion over 20 years. The cost per year since 2012 was about $50B.
1:43: So to be clear, we are not looking for child pornography on iPhones, that's the first root of the misunderstanding

4:10: On your phone when photos are uploaded to the iCloud photo library - part of that upload pipeline- there is a.. what's called a neural hash... performed on the image and that neural hash is intersected with a database that's on your device...

I'm sorry but computing hashes on a device and comparing them against a set of hashes on a device is literally scanning for photos on the device. Pinky swear promises to "only do this on photos that you are uploading to iCloud" doesn't magically turn this into an iCloud feature.

This is on-device scanning for a set of hashes derived from a database of Photos that nobody can legally audit. The next instance of the FBI wanting to frame the next Martin Luther King Jr doesn't even have to go through the hassle of obtaining CP and inserting it into their target device. They can download completely innocent family photos from FB and upload them to the NMEC database and wait for the new hashes to be downloaded to their target's phone.

To make things worse, this is all just one little "oopsie, I wrote a bug" away from scanning every photo on device including on devices that have iCloud photos turned off and are in Airplane mode.
This unfortunately doesn't work as an argument, because times change.
Final Soviet Withdrawal from Afganistan (1988)
I don't disagree, but if you are fully invested in some cloud vendor, there are maybe easier and cheaper options than basically rolling your own mapreduce.

In AWS for instance, you are one API call away from running a Spark job in Glue or EMR, that effectively does all that for you. Plus you get logging, monitoring, concurrency limiting, retries.

Or, even easier, you could just dump the big json docs in S3 and use Athena to directly query them with SQL.
> The best solution is that people choose to eat less sugar

People choose to eat high-sugar foods because they're cheap. A tax will help make them less-cheap.
This might be another interesting dataset to add:

https://ilga.org/downloads/ILGA_State_Sponsored_Homophobia_2...
That would just punish people who can afford luxury goods - not billionaires. People who are wage slaves like the rest of us can afford luxury goods. Besides - what is a "luxury" good to you?
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Easiest reaction maybe. I'd need to see some evidence to be convinced it is a solution. It seems to me more like a feel good measure that just further burdens people who are making poor choices already. Sure, there's some sort of libertarianish, survival of the fittest argument to be made for that, but if you're actually interested in positive results I think you're going to need something more nuanced.

My personal opinion, based on nothing more than my experiences, and probably not worth much:

How did we reduce smoking, another addictive, pleasurable activity with negative health consequences? We taxed it, sure, but we also had aggressive public health campaigns, provided medical assistance, and developed harm-reducing substitutes. Most importantly, we changed the culture, marketing and image of smoking. We didn't simply tax cigarettes and get smoking rates to appreciably fall.

Food is even more difficult. Everyone needs to eat. No one needs to smoke. People with unhealthy attitudes towards food can't just give up eating. We have a culture that celebrates overconsumption. We have holidays seemingly dedicated to it. Advertising and the media are constantly promoting unhealthy eating.. Unhealthy eating is an easily accessible pleasure to many in the lower economic classes thanks to subsidies combined with the inherently low cost of production. With such a low starting price, you'd have to have crushing taxes to cause a meaningful shift in habits. Such taxes would be unfair to the people who can safely consume those products. Does it help if we tax, say, sweetened, carbonated beverages while excluding fruit juices or sugary fruits? Honey has even more fructose than "high fructose" corn syrup. Should we tax that too?
I also did it right after high school, it's good knowledge to have if nothing else.
This may be pedantic but there are success stories for installed govts. Although Japan is the only one I can think of off the top of my head.
> Hardware wise, the iPhone or a similar device was pretty much inevitable. The same components were available to everyone.

I agree (more or less) with the fact that someone would have come out with something similar. I strongly disagree that it would have changed the world.

Apple had the "courage" to go all-in on the form factor with the retail footprint to sell it, and of course the built-in fan base and long history of innovation to make it interesting even in its fairly primitive form.

Any other manufacturer would have either been too small to be so influential, or would have hedged their bets with a dozen alternatives, and their "iPhone" would have just been another dusty device in the corner of an AT&T store that no one knew how to use.
> The rise of zero calorie drinks is a decent first step, some people say these can make you fat as well, but that is entirely physically impossible, they contain zero energy and they do not cause blood sugar level volatility , else diabetics drinking them could drop dead within minutes.

I'd tread lightly here. Some initial research is showing that artificial sweeteners can stress your gut bacteria, which is a not well understood area of human metabolism.
The problem with this argument is that reality isn’t black and white; and when we legislate what essentially then boils down to morality it tends to turn into a cluster fuck.

If you look at essentially all billionaires they don’t fit on either edge of your spectrum, and where they actually fall in the middle isn’t an easy question to answer either.
Could have not started the illegal war in the first place...

Could have invaded the actually bloody country responsible for 9/11 instead of a central Asian backwater.

Could have reigned in your massive military industrial complex which essentially demands wars for profits....

What am i kidding... 'MERICA!
Hi folks, I'm Justin, the lead dev on Pushpin and the founder of the company behind it (Fanout).

Previously on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9005724

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5516568

Pushpin helps developers build APIs that push data. It’s a generalized version of what many companies end up developing when they need to build a push API. Companies like Twitter, Dropbox, Uber, and others all build custom proxies/gateways (“stream server things” as I like to call them) for pushing data. Doing this is a lot of work, and none of these projects are reusable. Pushpin can be used to power any push API, for any project, at any organization.

I came up with the idea for Pushpin after working as CTO at a previous startup, where - you guessed it - we built a stream server thing.

Recently, we've made significant progress on performance. We've benchmarked over 1 million connections on a single server: https://github.com/fanout/pushpin-c1m
That's not hyperbole.
July 2021 was the warmest July on record for the globe
Islam empowers woman, unlike Christianity which oppresses woman.

Get your facts straight:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/the-islam-t...
There is some evidence that adult onset type 1 diabetes can be triggered in susceptible individuals by certain viral infections.

https://www.healthline.com/diabetesmine/type_i_diabetes
> The body has ok ish prevention systems when it comes to food via ghrelin feedback loop and stomach size, but the body cannot cope with too much fast absorbed fluid calories.

Perhaps you mean leptin? Ghrelin is for hunger while leptin is for satiety, so the latter is really more the limiting factory.
There is no meaningful dissent under this system. Resistance fighters are also not going to happen in the near future, because these need broad population support, at least regionally. I would argue that the Taliban grabbing control of the country is the people of Afghanistan fighting their own wars, as revolting as it is.

I wonder though if what has been posted in another thread here had happened: if we either hadn't have gone in at all, or retreated immediately after. Maybe the passage of time would have softened up the Taliban government structure by now and there would be meaningful change brewing from within. In that sense, fighting their own wars could have helped the country. I've seen good cases being made for the theory that the people of Afghanistan would almost certainly be better off by now. As it stands today, they are reset to the very beginning of any possible road to democracy and human rights. Then again, there is no guarantee they'll ever choose that. I sort of see the point of those who argue that "we" need to be fine with that, too.

However, this piece of news is more immediate and the suggestion made here relates to immediate relief for people in trouble. And in such cases, I can't ethically be in favor of letting anyone fight their own wars.
You might be interested to do a deep dive on the on again off again relationship between Uighur militias and the Taliban. The WSJ and antiwar.com both have some coverage. Really complicated but fascinating stuff.

Apparently the Bush era neo-cons we funneling money to Uighur militias with plans to activate them against the CCP at a later date. However they later joined up with the Taliban against NATO, and briefly with DAESH in Syria. While at the same time elements of the Taliban were fighting alongside US forces in Syria agains DAESH, Asad, and those same Uighurs.

The US war machine will truly do business with ANYBODY.

[EDIT] I'd be interested to hear why anyone takes exception to this. The remarks about US support of Uighur militants should be noted as a pre 9/11 policy. Post 9/11 the Bush administration designated them terrorists to gain Chinese support against the Taliban. And the funneling money claim is I think indirectly supported, but I'm open to counter claims.

[EDIT 2] It's a bit odd that people keep downvoting this but have nothing to say about it. It's unambiguously true that we (meaning our government in the US) fund militias for proxy wars then often fight against them and realign with them across time and geography. We aren't very discerning and we're more focused on the broader geopolitics of the proxy wars. It's dumb and bad.
BUT, you say, look at his gut. A fat slob, obviously. Can’t be healthy. Healthy is slim. I am 5’8” and weigh 225. At 5’8”, “normal” is considered to be – incredibly enough – 125-163 pounds. Overweight is 164-196, and I am “obese” at 225. In reality, my bodyfat percentage is about 24%, and a 60-year-old guy who deadlifts 500 is an anomaly in terms of muscle mass anyway. So I’m not worried about my body composition. [1]

Mark Rippetoe argues you should build strength to be healthy, not obsess about bodyfat% for health. If you want to look good, then by all means you should try to reduce your body fat. If you want to feel good, focus on strength.

[1] https://startingstrength.com/article/your-gut-your-health-an...
We can’t even show our faces in airports anymore. The TSA is not going away and neither is the disease testing industrial complex. The same type of people who are absolutely certain about the necessity of our current disease containment measures were the types who were ok with the TSA.
I have purchased maybe one or two packs in my lifetime but somehow I have half the worlds supply of tennis balls in my back yard.
Forgive my ignorance, but this is the first I heard of this. Do you have any sources that back up this assertion?
PreTeXt: Write Once, Read Anywhere
Oh, Luke Harding.

His journalistic ethics are very much open to question. This is the guy that published a book containing the secret password to Assange's encrypted document dump. While he was supposedly cooperating with Assange on behalf of the Guardian.
Japan does have a thing going for fruit[0]... they even have a luxury fruit store[1].

[0] https://www.dw.com/en/japan-fascination-with-fruits/a-576983...
[1] https://www.buzzfeed.com/kevintang/inside-japans-most-insane...
Now, for the next step in achieving meritocracy, one must mention the inherent toxicity of "whiteness."

https://www.google.com/search?q=whiteness+toxic
Which bit comes across as hyperbole?
Markus Kuhn’s International Standard Paper Sizes¹ is a great document on ISO-216 paper sizes, if you want a little more depth than HelloNurse’s succinct description. It also covers US-style sizes toward the bottom.

Kuhn also has an excellent ISO-8601 document², which makes you wish he would dive through more of the common standards that ISO stand guard over.

¹ https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html

² https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html - Sadly only covers timestamps, not durations/intervals/etc
The same, the British also ventured into Afghanistan a century before and also gave up.
Snopes will probably rate the Buzzfeed claims as "False but Factual"
The US already did this exact thing in the 1980s, and they even made a popular movie about it (Charlie Wilson’s War) that came out in 2007 and spelled out consequences of not investing for the long, long term at the end of the movie.

Politically, invading Afghanistan to get Osama was impossible to avoid since something had to be done. But after Osama was killed, I do not understand what possible motivation the US had for staying there other than enriching players in the military industrial complex.
Folks ask because everybody really really really wishes there was a GUI tool that made accessibility concerns easy. And so when they ask, they are asking: Is this finally "The One"??

And why do folks care about accessibility so much? Because it instantly makes everybody's life easier, and prevents you from needing to reinvent the wheel for a whole host of features.

I don't have any disabilities, but I love it when accessibility is done right anyway. Examples:

- I browse the web at 175%

- I prefer keyboard navigation whenever possible

- I like knowing what something is about to do before it does it, even if I'm not hovering my mouse (see "keyboard navigation", or "touch screen input")

- My connection is often unreliable, and I like knowing what images are supposed to be and, for that matter, being able to simply read text content (which some websites manage to break)

- tools with good accessibility, whether on the web or native, are almost always easier for me to write automations for, because they "follow the rules" and thus have reliable hooks for automation

Those are just a few of the reasons as a person who doesn't need accessibility tools, that I am always eager to know how well a GUI tool handles accessibility questions.
The vast majority of the cash flowing into rural areas is actually remittances from sons and daughters that went to work in the special economic zones, or the main urban centres to mainly work for private enterprises.

Anyway the hundreds of millions of people I'm taking about are the urban middle class. Their wealth almost entirely flows from the capitalist sector, in fact the majority of the wealth in the state sector comes from the capitalist sector one way or another. Source, my wife is Chinese and we have extensive family connections over there.

China is a single party state with a command economy, but is in no way shape or form Communist or even Marxist. It's social security system is barely existant; it's public health care is radically fee based to a degree that even makes the US system look socialist; many tens of millions of urban residents get zero public support or even schooling for their children because their families come from the countryside.
Well, OM3/4 on MPO is a common thing, as is OS2 on dual-LC.
Interestingly, the whole thing now seems to have turned into the opposite. sugar = bad, fat = good. But that is not true. Sugar is actually only problematic because it's a bit addictive and it's easy to eat a lot of it. The real problem is taking in too many calories (in whatever form) and/or burning too few.
Triskaidekaphobia
Isn't that part of the Catholic doctorine as well?
Fourth paragraph (first section):

> The Census Bureau also released data visualizations, America Counts stories, and videos to help illustrate and explain these data. These resources are available on the 2020 Census results page. Advanced users can access these data on the FTP site.

There are five links in that paragraph. The first link points to over 100 other articles with graphic illustrations

https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations.html
Not sure how some random person on twitter saying "if you think the embargo is bad you don't understand Cuban reality" as a side note is supposed to nullify years of history? The embargo is absolutely part of the context, you can't just wave away an economic boot on Cuba's neck?
The core of their argument for the first is in the following section, and it rings pretty true for the mixed label:

However, prosecutors dropped those charges in 1990 as part of a plea deal involving other suspects in the bombings. As a result, Rosenberg was never tried or convicted on any charges relating to the 1983-1985 bombing campaign. The claim, made in @asdomke’s tweet, that Rosenberg was “convicted of” several 1983 bombings, was therefore false. The claim in the headline of an article on Wayne Dupree’s website that Rosenberg “carried out” the bombings stands in contrast to the fact that she was never tried or convicted in relation to those incidents.

During her 16-year incarceration, Rosenberg renounced the use of political violence, though her political beliefs appear not to have changed significantly. In a radio interview shortly after her release in January 2001, she said she “rejects” the “potential for violence in my past actions,” saying her view of violence as a strategic tool had undergone an “enormous change,” but that she retained “a political view that is certainly progressive and radical in a certain sense.”
Last year Congress mulled over a bill (EARN IT Act) that would explicitly require online services to proactively search for CSAM, by allowing services to be sued by governments for failing to do so. It would also allow services to be sued for failing to provide law-enforcement back doors to encrypted data. There's also SESTA/FOSTA, already in law, that rescinded CDA 230 protection for cases involving sex trafficking.

Quite honestly, my opinion is that any service not scanning for CSAM is living on borrowed time.
Much of online content, including social media and games, are designed to be exactly that. Here's a great description from and early Facebook executive Tim Kendall, who compares it to tobacco company's work to promote addiction:

https://energycommerce.house.gov/sites/democrats.energycomme...

Social media preys on the most primal parts of your brain. The algorithm maximizes your attention by hitting you repeatedly with content that triggers your strongest emotions - it aims to provoke, shock, and enrage.
Yes, that's the Taliban. From https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/10/28/bacha-bazi-an-afghan-tr...:

"The Taliban had a deep aversion towards bacha bazi, outlawing the practice when they instituted strict nationwide sharia law. According to some accounts, including the hallmark Times of London article “Kandahar Comes out of the Closet” in 2002, one of the original provocations for the Taliban’s rise to power in the early 1990s was their outrage over pedophilia. Once they came to power, bacha bazi became taboo, and the men who still engaged in the practice did so in secret."
Federighi is claiming we are confused and he's apologizing for confusing us. We are not confused. We understand the technologies and we object to them because they are dangerous and unnecessary. Do monitoring on the cloud platform, not on people's devices.

See Green and Stamos who explain in plain English.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/11/opinion/apple-iphones-pri...
You are correct. Inside the function you reassign listA but that doesn't change anything outside the function; you now have two different lists. See https://stackoverflow.com/q/986006/5987.
Anecdote, but hfcs requires approximately 3 times the insulin, if anyone has a different experience, please tell
...Where the paperclip is defined as 'what people value'.
>Many Americans believe they are happy and yet are spiritually devoid. They know deep down that the reward they're getting for their effort is break-even most of the time. The more aware can see this reflected as stagnant wages.

Exactly. There's also the chorus of people who sing lies about how things are better than ever and we should be so lucky to live in the USA. It all rings hollow against the lived experience of so many people. Capitalism profits from people being tired and afraid, which is why capital fights against any improvement to the lives of individuals (universal healthcare, higher wages, education, etc).
Disproves the idea that in a libertarian fantasy there could be private third parties opted into that monitor corporations
Then titans fight, it is those who live under their feet who suffer most.
Here's the podcast and a transcription:

"The Untold Story of SQLite"

https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/
I don't think attribution is as necessary as you make it sound like at least when it comes to AP/Reuters stories used by news orgs that are in partnership with them.
I sort of love this train of thought because it's simultaneously not impossible and hilariously hands-up shruggy about the problem of why we can't find planet 9.

"What if the reason the only evidence of planet 9 we have is gravity is that gravity is the most observable aspect of planet 9" would be expert-level trolling if it weren't actual science. :)
The concern being raised is about some unnamed authoritarian government without US legal norms, though.
you should read again - systems for redistribution of wealth can be good if they are not broken. Income taxes e.g. are imo a great way to do this, if they cannot be avoided. However, to tax an increase in share price without any transaction is often counterproductive.
Sure. But here is the thing: what consequences to billionaires face if they use their wealth in stupid and unproductive ways? At least for the government we have some recourse (elections, protests, public hearings).