skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Australia we allow briefcases of cash for property purchases.

Lawyers, Accountants, Real Estate Agents are all exempt from having to report anything suspicious involving property.

Since year 2006 the govt keeps promising (but failing to actually implement) AML legislation therefore continue allowing these 3 gatekeeper professions to facilitate laundering of untold illegal $billions into property which helped us continue to break annual house price sales records for 20+ years and achieve eye watering house prices (currently over 10x the average annual gross wage to purchase an average house and yet prices still rising rapidly)

[2021]
https://mlexmarketinsight.com/news-hub/editors-picks/area-of...

[2020]
https://www.michaelwest.com.au/money-laundering-bill-finally...

[2016]
https://youtu.be/otWm4yh7Rh4

[2015]
http://www.fatf-gafi.org/media/fatf/documents/reports/mer4/M...

I'm not sure of current statistics, but IIRC around year 2015 foreign property purchases in the state of Victoria were approaching 20% of all sales.

Of course not all that was using laundered money, but it would have been nice to remove the market distortion of 22-year olds rocking up late to an auction in their Merc and bidding $100k or more over the current bid to easi!y win (waaay more than needed to actually win)
If you remove the wheels from a car don’t expect a smooth ride.
Ask HN: Now that AppleSpy&reg; is dead, what should we do about CSAM?
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Also left out in the content was how far Larry & Co were privy to iOS development and that they realized the existential threat if they don't get into the mobile market.

Anyways, Those who appreciate the openness of Android it seems like Brian Swetland[1] is the MVP in that regard.

>From Korea, the team flew to Taiwan, where they met with the CEO of HTC, Peter Chou. Nick remembered the meeting: “Peter mentioned something about exclusivity for our first device, which Brian overheard. By the time we got back to our hotel room, Swetland had threatened to resign because ‘I didn’t join Android to become another Danger.’ I was concerned because Brian was so critical to our success, but when I saw him the next day everything was fine.”

>(Swetland said, “I don’t recall the discussion, but certainly believe it could have happened.” His memory of Danger was fresh and strong at that time. The dynamic at Danger of being beholden to the carrier and manufacturer for product decisions was not something he wanted to repeat. He was strongly in favor of Android’s vision for an open and independent platform. He threatened to resign several times during his time on the Android team over decisions that would have resulted in a closed platform.)

[1] https://twitter.com/dnaltews
I asked a simple question and every single response has been emotionally driven and has provided no answers to my question other than

'don't judge my purchases.'

I was genuinely curious as to what people actually saw in the UI, given this is HN.

Instead, it's just Apple fan justification with nothing other than

'muh feelings.'

I'm sorry you can't handle,that people question something you like and you can't actually explain why without getting all upset.
Pro tip: run ssh <host> "tmux attach || tmux" to have SSH automatically attach to an existing tmux session, or start a new one if there is no session.
Inoreader may provide what you're looking for!
An environment that encourages rabbit-holing is going to be an environment less preferred by people who don't want to rabbit-hole.

You can say that about KDE. You can also say that about "running Linux on a computer with a discrete graphics card".

I do it. (I'm posting this from a Thinkpad with a Quadro, running Fedora, and I have to uninstall a kernel module when I go traveling in order to disable it so I get more than two hours of battery life.) I chose to. Maybe you did too. That doesn't mean you need to Leap To Its Defense every time somebody says it's not for them.
>If you can use a computer to do basic tasks, it's really not hard. If you can't navigate some menus that have confusing titles like, desktop settings and themes and display options and widgets and you can't click and drag things around, whatever OS you use will be a struggle.

I did the Unix porn thing for years, it got old. Not a single bit of that sounds appealing at this point in my life.
Is there an aur package for arch?
> Most people don't want to deal with this

There's nothing to "deal with". You can skip all of that and have a nice KDE/plasma desktop. On the other hand you have the builtin option to do things that require 3rd party apps on MacOS (caffeine, magnet, etc.)
Yes, that is as I recall too.

Really, I was speaking to what came with the machines.

Buy an Apple, and get schematics, ROM listing, etc, and there it all is in the open. And it was ready to use.

An Atari was a different experience. Was not ready to program, and technical details took a while to be published.

My first "PC" was an Apple 2. My first machine was an Atari. My first IBM type PC was much closer to the Apple than it was Atari.
Many firewalls that don't expect IPs in that block to be valid will just drop the packets as bogus.
It is not a good to compare the Roman Empire to something that ended in 1912, just 2 years before WW1. Hahahaha. Later empires and their languages: Austrian German vs German. Perhaps something more far ranging: Ukrainian vs Russian. Not Polish since it doesn’t share an alphabet. But maybe Polish in spoken form.
Shape-shifting fish that confounded scientists 100 years spotted off CA coast
The reality is that Apple’s Lightning cables don’t last forever anyway (some even say they have terrible durability) and hundreds are replaced every day somewhere in the world, on a cadence of every few years max. Introducing legislation means that the next time people upgrade they’ll buy a USB-C cable instead. The “extra” waste is not as big as you or Apple make it sound like.
You should ask yourself whether, after posting the same accusatory rant time after time after time to strangers on the internet, people are going to conclude that you are providing the rational side of the argument.
Indeed! I’m not claiming to change the world or anything, I just like writing about this stuff
I contributed to Linux 0.12 and used it ever since. Yet I mostly access Linux through Terminal on macOS. There are many reasons, and many of them subtle, the consistency and attention to UI detail, etc. I'm constant evaluating it, but I install Linux on _many_ devices, and every little thing that needs tweaking gets multiplied.

Ubuntu for me is getting very good, but inconsistencies like C-M-v in the terminal but C-v in the browser, font handling, etc etc (I could really go on forever) is irritating enough and I don't have time to be an idealist (I did when I was much younger).

The fundamental issue is "which Linux?". Apple sets a single standard and evolves actually fairly slowly over decades. There is a myriad of Linux desktop environments/distribution, but none have the man power and duration that Apple provides.

Buy hey, Linux desktop in 2021 is so much better than it was in 2001, so there's hope.
I have explained my view on it. Of course it's a minority view because few are willing to admit they willingly and knowingly benefit on the exploitation of those who have less than they do to begin with, but that's exactly what they do.

Trying to say it's either the industrial harvesting of the most skilled people from less advantaged countries, or it's "serfdom" is just outlandish. I don't even know where to start with that!
Can I ask why you changed the name of the blog?
Thank you for actually giving a good objective, non emotionally driven response. I appreciate it.

I really was curious to hear some perspective on this that wasn't just because I like it. Thank you.
There were actually two different Nokia chargers, with the newer one using a smaller barrel jack. So even when living in Finland, where everyone had a Nokia or two, you'd still have some confusion since someone had the older barrel jack and someone had the newer barrel jack.
You have to pay for two things: taxes and insurance. The taxes stay the same, but the difference in insurance is drastic.
Take React off your Resume entirely, that way you should be able to filter out the jobs you won't get anyway, and you should be able to say no to any online test that requires React.

I'd also look again at the type of companies you're applying to. Insurance companies, banks, pharma, government agencies - Enterprise software basically - these tend not to be using the most cutting edge front end frameworks.

Also, if you have even a small amount of experience in Enterprise type backend technologies you should be able to land a backend or full stack role at one of these types of companies. .Net, Java, etc.
They should stop selling Ring/Blink cameras then.
The information that little snitch is not free, is however, not in the title, it even implies it is. Probably why they asked the question.
> ’muh feelings.'

See I had already pegged you as a low level troll before you blatantly exposed yourself as such and already gave you more time than your baits are worth. :)
What I meant is that while I'm not the target user of it, the actual value of WinCompose to its user is not the method of composing, but the pre-compiled database of available composition.

Unless I misunderstood you, yes it can be done in AHK but you would have to rewrite all the composition you want in it by hand
There's still a pretty large tradeoff by not being protected with labor laws.
Oh boy. If anyone here is coming across Chris Domas (the author of this github) for the first time, you're in for a treat! Some of his talks on youtube are absolutely mind-blowing:

DEF CON 26 - Christopher Domas - GOD MODE UNLOCKED Hardware Backdoors in redacted x86:
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=jmTwlEh8L7g

DEF CON 26 - Christopher Domas - The Ring 0 Facade Awakening the Processors Inner Demons:
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=XH0F9r0siTI
Yela Secures over $2M to Connect Fans and Celebrities via Video Messages
I have not posted this rant before. You can search every comment i've made on HN I rarely comment on Apple products period because I don't own them.

I was genuinely curious. I've learned my lesson.

Never question Apple.
Or about child exploitation more generally.

I read a lot, and often read some long stories from the NYT or similar, and they'll do these great detailed stories on child abuse/etc., and my one memory of those types of articles seems to be that...

The various agencies/programs doing really good work just need more money.

Ideally a lot more money.

But I haven't paid attention in forever, so there are prob lots of good solutions that don't require us to be dominated even more by our corporate overlords.
Please read those: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We want to have an open, respectful site, where we can discuss differing opinoons respectfully.
Knowing Intel they bought it just so AMD or Apple couldn't have it
I know few universities that still use static ipv4 for computer pools. The admins claim easy for us to monitor for misuse.
Middle managers don't do any work themselves so I don't think so.
They do require your average Joe to report the source of the funds upon bank deposit, declare cash in excess of $10k at airports and bank transfers in excess of that are the object of increased scrutinity, all in the name of "preventing money laundering". Big time crooks are using shell companies, cryptocurrencies, AirBnb and other means to launder money.
Very cool and impressive.

Here is another person who had a fab at home at some point :
http://www.microfab.co.uk

They were building not microchips but STJ sensors.
> I would say that it is a back door, because it would work even if iCloud Photos were E2E encrypted.

Backdoor is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as "a feature or defect of a computer system that allows surreptitious unauthorized access to data."

The system in question requires you to upload the data to iCloud Photos for the tickets to be meaningful and actionable. Both your phone and iCloud services have EULA which call out and allow for such scanning to take place, and Apple has publicly described how the system works as far as its capabilities and limitations. In the sense that people see this as a change in policy (IIRC the actual license agreement language changed over a year ago) , Apple has also described how to no longer use the iCloud Photos service.

One less standard usage is not about unauthorized access but specifically to private surveillance (e.g. "Clipper chip") - but I would argue that the Clipper chip was a case where the surveillance features were specifically not being talked about, hence it still counting as "unauthorized access".

But with a definition that covers broad surveillance instead of unauthorized access, it would still be difficult to classify this as a back door. Such surveillance arguments would only pertain to the person's phone and not to information the user chose to release to external services like iCloud Photos.

To your original point, it would still work with iCloud Photos did not have the key escrow, albeit with less data being capable of being able to be turned over to law enforcement. However iCloud Photos being an external system would still mean this is an intentional and desired feature (presumably) by the actual system owners (Apple).
It's called low-code, the tools exist, can even build complex systems pretty well.

Outsystems and Mendix are some of the good ones.

But they cost money, they have a built-in lock-in, and programmers don't like them, because they simplify their jobs too much and are not good for the resume.
Wokeness is relevant because of the aversion to doing things that are seen as compromising with systemic racism . Wokeness is uniquely willing to compromise traditional professional ethics in service of perceived higher morality. In journalism it manifests as abandoning the appearance of impartiality. E.g. the “do we call Trump racist” debate at the NYT.

As an aside, in the legal profession, it’s probably the most monumental shift in legal ethics in centuries. E.g. proposed rule 8.5 which thankfully was voted down: https://reason.com/volokh/2020/01/06/a-new-aba-model-rule-8-.... I’ve heard internal gossip from the ACLU and similar organizations where younger lawyers are rebelling against representing longstanding clients for social justice reasons. It’s really quite remarkable.
From that report I just wanted to show that shortly before the 2020 election, the Gallup poll showed that confidence in the mass media has continued to decline among Republicans and independent voters, to 10% and 36%, respectively. Among Democratic voters, confidence rose to 73%.

Then you have other other polls from Gallup, like this one showing that six in 10 in US see partisan bias in news media. From the report:

> Americans Believe News Media Favors Democrats

Gallup asked those who perceive political bias in the news media to say which party the news media favors. Almost two-thirds (64%) of those who believe the media favors a political party say it is the Democratic Party. Only about a third as many (22%) believe the media favors Republicans.

> This is not new. Americans who perceive media bias have always said the direction of that bias leaned in favor of the Democrats, although the percentage holding that view has varied. The gap was smaller in 2003 and 1995, but was more similar to today's attitudes in 2000.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/207794/six-partisan-bias-news-m...
We don’t have to kill all the humans to prevent the extinction of life on the planet
> Open source and free software is free only if you do not value your time enough.

I value my time sufficiently, thank you very much.
Some people value their privacy more than a set of default settings, some don't see tweaking and tinkering as cost but as value by itself. Also you don't seem to get what Free Software is - it's not about getting free stuff.
What about the recently launched privacy focused photo app called Stingle - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/foss-mobile-app-stin...

If that isn’t an FBI sting I don’t know what is lol
Warning: this site use ~250MB of your data for all the photos. Mobile users, beware!
I think the "switch" mental model is misleading. IPv6 has already happened, and most users don't notice it since they aren't in the habit of looking at network interface diagnostics on their device. See eg sibling comment about instagram, netflix, facebook etc. v4 NAT will remain in use concurrently and services will remain available over v4 for consumer facing things for a long time.
That's why I stopped using Macs years ago. I kept fighting the xcode toolchain on basic things. Maybe it has improved? I don't know, but I am not ready to readjust things when 99% of the time, Debian (or Kubuntu) with KDE just works along with well-supported hardware (for laptops: ThinkPads). There are some minor issues I run into, but it is not convincing me to run out and get something else. Also, if I tinker, it's because I want to, not because I need to. I mostly use defaults myself (except maybe adding a couple of useful widgets.)

I thought at one point I still needed to use Macs (for web development work) but there is nothing special it offers at least for what I mostly do.
Yeah that's what I've had to do, it just seemed like an oversight tbh. Maybe the idea is to not keep the entire GUI state in a single object though, but it's the one time learning rust that I thought "hey that doesn't make sense". which really speaks to Rust's strengths, rather than its weaknesses. Can't wait for 2021
We do default IPv6 on. https://blog.cloudflare.com/always-on-ipv6/

And the chart in that blog shows the dent we made.
Respect some things, don't respect other things... is not doublethink.
Yeah...I ask a question looking for objective reasons why people like something and a bunch of Apple fans lose their shit on me...aight...

I got my answer...they don't wanna talk...they wanna yell about how you're wrong if you have an opinion that differs from theirs.
This is not only a fact in Germany. Belgium has comparable protections. I'd assume the EU has them.
After having tried to follow the discussions on swift forums on concurrency and actors, i still couldn't make my mind on whether their design was "fancy" smart (aka : something subtle and brilliant, that few developpers will get their grasp on and lead to inscrutable concurrency bugs), or "stupid" smart (aka : take a complex problem and make it look simple).

Actors in systems like erlang seem to make concurrency simple, and the model seems to be easy to grasp.

On the contrary, a few code samples i've seen on swift forums made my mind twist trying to understand how the code was going to be executed..
Yes, and it may be possible they will be sold[1]. From the article it looks like they're identifying unauthorized use of their space, while clearing the addresses from firewalls to become really routable.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/04/penta...
Just for the flavour of the experience I'm describing:

"REPL":

https://youtu.be/X-5gZwfFPVM

What it actually looked like:

https://youtu.be/z_jWcgwgmwg

(Not my videos, just pulled of the internet)
Oops. Fox News accidentally reported only the conservative point of view.

"The Australian public are rightly proud of their efforts to combat the Covid-19 pandemic. Almost all Australians – 95% – believe Australia has handled the pandemic well, according to new Lowy Institute polling released today.

"This is for good reason. Despite the slow vaccine rollout, Australia has consistently ranked as one of the best performers in the world." [May 2021]

https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/state-mind-how...
Sure.. but not illegally so. I mean a job advert for a programmer would discriminate against people who couldn't, or don't believe in the practices of the company.
Surely you know this is a super niche requirement?

You can use IP6 or a commercial rather than domestic ISP if you really need to do it.
beautiful, i always loved the feel of macOS, i heel at home, everything is easy to use, accessible and pleasant on the eyes
Last October, Amazon bought ~4 million addresses by bribing the corrupt technocrats of a radioamateur "non-profit" organization. Fuck Amazon, fuck those corrupt technocrats (like the ICANN/.org team who tried to sell the TLD). It's incredible what this kind of people can get away with.

Previous discussion on HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24753654
This week in KDE: bugfixes and UI improvements galore
Whilst I don't necessarily disagree with the sentiment, all the costs an ISP might incur will almost certainly be passed into the consumer. We're paying to be surveilled in many different ways.
> i mean, 75? i do that in a day. half a day.

This was truly a conservative estimate. I have no idea how many, but it's likely far higher. Doing 10x this in a week isn't really likely, at least not for the local area across any industry. It's probably worth trying to shoot for much higher.

> * it's finicky - you're hot one day, the next day you are trash * it's cruel * it's humilitating and degrading and etc. * it takes work to find work. * it takes a lot of work to find decent work. * it takes insane amts of work to find good work.

Ya, agreed.

> at least if you're in Cannuck-ville, you still have healthcare. lucky bastard.

Also agreed. I try not to take it for granted. Dental ain't a penny tho.

> In terms of taking tests, i would not do them. my general rule - with an occasional exception - is i make the company spend the same amount of time I'm spending. So I'll whiteboard with them. I'll do any kind of tech screen on the phone.

I feel the same way. Problem I'm seeing is that there just isn't that many places I've seen that aren't using the technique I described as either the very first step, or the last, and making their decision without any real interaction with anyone. It's soul-destroying.

> and when you talk to recruiters, ask them what you need to do to be more marketable.

I don't bother with recruiters that often, aside from a select few. I haven't seen much positive come from it. Feedback in general though is something I always ask for, and it can be a pain in the ass to get. Even at the end of an interview chain, I'll get a "thanks for participating" and nothing, so I have to battle with the hiring manager for even a grain of something specific.

Thanks for the extensive answer. It's nice to know that people will actually take the time to offer some advice. I'm in a bind, and it's really hard to stay motivated after such an extended period.
Its not dead yet is it?

Apple have changed the bit no one found particularly controversial (the source of the hashs). But have decided to keep the rest because why listen to customers when you can shout them down?
What apple is doing is fucked up. Full stop. Mental gymnastics are required to go beyond this premise.
This is fair. I wonder if that will require a new generation of corporation, though. And the current generation of corporate HQs don't look nearly defensible enough. Something more like the Tyrell Corporation Ziggurat will be needed.
On my phone it opens the page almost instantly and then lazy loads each image as it comes into view.
Promoting the continued dominance of a standard which causes artificial scarcity.