skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LG released a capacitive touchscreen phone before Apple by a month. The technology was out there and was always going to get used by someone.
This isn’t entirely a privacy issue. It’s mostly an issue of near future automated authoritarian censorship

Being able to help regimes censor, and punish people for, content in the future will help apple financially in the long run. Better market access to those countries if you assist them with their suppression
Everyone with common sense must assume that a lab which does experiments on Corona viruses is the most likely source and not the food market nearby.

It's really that simple...
Silent edits seem like a huge red flag that your platform isn't trustworthy.
I can't say I care very deeply about whether or not he's sympathetic and useless, or antagonistic and useless. The end result is the same.

Maybe the EU will one day get it's agenda together, and apply crippling tariffs to all goods and services imported from countries that don't have carbon taxes.
I'd rather hit it with a baseball bat, personally...
I’ve never had a mango from Pakistan, but I lived in Cambodia for two years and the mangoes there entirely eclipse the mangoes sold in the states. It’s just a different level.

I’m sure if someone is willing to go through that much effort to get some mangoes from Pakistan, they must be good. I’ll have to try some one day.
While Paw Paw tastes great, there’s something special about Hapus. The texture and the flavours are amazing and the sweetness is just perfect. They go very well with Jack Fruit and Pineapples as well!
Banning straws is virtue signaling. (Plastic straws have little impact on waste.)

Banning plastic bags has immediate results in containing visible litter.
So then you must agree that the fears of government overreach are unwarranted. Given that’s what most of the complaints here raw about, that’s a big deal.

> For example, if Apple one day decided to detect unauthorized copyrighted media, they could report it to the RIAA. The RIAA is independent of the government, thus the 4th amendment is not violated.

It’s true that Apple could decide to implement any search or scanning mechanism at any time, and report anything they like to anyone they want to. So what? This is true of anyone who writes software that handles user data.

What does that have to do with the CSAM mechanism? It seems like an unrelated fear.
There is an obvious internal conflict of interest in Google. Donation based app being banned are a result of that conflict of interest.

But this is just a tip of an iceberg.

While sometimes Google does something to patch the issue, it can not on itself fix it. Because it is caused by a core flaw of the company business model.

It supports two competing platforms where only one earns money and gives control. It renders Google to be incapable of supporting both app creators and open web properly.

I wrote about it lately:

https://tomaszs2.medium.com/ups-we-broke-the-web-again-sorry...
Atkinson Dithering (2020)
This is nonsense. Whether someone virtue signals or not, actions are what's important, not words.

The CO2 emissions output has been coming down since the high in 2006. With the old boss and the new boss.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/183943/us-carbon-dioxide...

If anything, fracking helped the environment, since it offset resources being mined by the traditional, more wasteful methods.
Ask HN: Which 20oz BPA-free 'plastic' bottle do you use for drinking your water?
Within Europe, spontaneously meeting someone on a casual stroll outside is more of a Southern European thing than a Northern European one. But Sweden (where I live now) has a strong "fika" culture instead, which is basically meeting up for coffee, taking it easy and catching up. So more or less the same thing, it's just a bit more planned and indoors.

I wouldn't be surprised if the difference has more to do with traditional weather conditions not being the kind where you go for a stroll outside
We're still talking about a little piece of cloth, right? It still amazes me that people are willing to have [presumably other] people die over such a small thing. There are veterans who went off to war and died for their country, but these days, people are not even willing to so much as wear a piece of cloth. All in service of this nebulous concept of "being normal".
The original commenter is not working at Google or part of that "club"; the comment states that they left that job.
Motorola probably started slowly downhill after Lear left and Wavering retired.
You should not be downvoted for stating your opinion, I think it adds to the conversation.

That being said, can you elaborate on how "anything green related" costs an arm and a leg? Do you have a few examples maybe?

If it refers to something like organic food, then, well, yeah... mass producing food without regard for anything but efficiency in creating said food will make it cheaper, not doing that means higher prices for still turning out a profit.

But I don't want to put words in your mouth, please say what you were thinking of.
If you thought they were overreacted about leg grabs, wait until they see this.
It’s still nonsense because the volume created by these things is minuscule. All it is is Greta feel-good bullshit. Household goods, transport packaging, industrial uses those account for the majority of plastics by mass. Yeah sure, 100 billion plastic straws sounds like a lot, but it’s nothing compared to the main culprits.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was formed in 1988. It was always called climate change.
And people on "the left and right" need to remember that plenty of people don't believe in "sides" and just want to live their lives without being bullied around by whoever happens be in power or whatever ideas are popular at the moment.

I don't want unity. People obsessed with politics think they just need consensus to solve any problem, despite the atrocious track record of political solutions. Just leave the rest of us alone.
> When I see someone on Facebook/Twitter link to a site like this to demonstrate that the person they’re arguing with is “doing a fallacy”, I just accuse them of Appeal To Authority

It's called the fallacy fallacy (https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/the-fallacy-fallacy)

But yeah, pointing to websites like these, especially with no other explanation is annoying and pointless (although I have been a bit guilty of that too). Projection through accusation.
Thank you so much! that's very interesting.
Now do the Libertyville office.
10 points in 4 years is pretty good! And this is from April; I wonder if it'd be different now after this brutal summer.

But yeah the real problem is the gains in concern came pretty much entirely from Democrats and Independents.
David Macauley's _Motel of the Mysteries_ is the model for all funny/profound archaeology of the present, I'd say.

https://wearethemutants.com/2017/12/06/david-macauleys-motel...
Right now, Apple says they chose to configure it such that the feature runs only on the files that are uploaded to iCloud using iCloud Photos, and end users have no way to confirm whether this claim is actually true.
50 million years ago, there were forests in the arctic and the earth was much hotter than it is right now. Climate change comes in both man-made and natural varieties, and it's important to acknowledge the difference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eocene
Right, the hubris rained there after Jobs. All they have to do is to explain and educate their customers that this is fine, because we are just stupid mass.
Nonetheless, thanks for posting that 7 year old article. I've followed Afghanistan news on and off and I was not aware of how widespread that practice is. It's almost certainly a factor in the Taliban's resurgence.
From the Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:

9. The ad verecundiam fallacy concerns appeals to authority or expertise. Fundamentally, the fallacy involves accepting as evidence for a proposition the pronouncement of someone who is taken to be an authority but is not really an authority. This can happen when non-experts parade as experts in fields in which they have no special competence—when, for example, celebrities endorse commercial products or social movements. Similarly, when there is controversy, and authorities are divided, it is an error to base one’s view on the authority of just some of them. (See also 2.4 below.)

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fallacies/
Then again https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solarpunk is thing.

Teslas and solar panels are cool now.

There is some hope.
I think skepticism should vary, and we should be quicker to verify than dismiss. This post made a specific, verifiable claim; I find that most misleading articles are vague and impossible to verify, or omit any context.
Is there a specific reason the app is not available via F-Droid? My guess is lack of time, but maybe it's something else?
"Confusion"? No, there's no confusion. I think we know exactly what Apple is doing, and we think it's bad. Nothing more complicated than that.
I hate to be the one to tell you, but just because you were 'directly involved' in something does not mean you know what was going on. Every day courts are filled with people who witness an event and present their own personal viewpoint upon the events; when the viewpoints differ it is not always because someone among them is being deceitful, sometimes two people can see the exact same set of events and walk away with completely different narratives.
OP was voted down by others but I respect their honesty about it. And the point about their perception of fear being used as a motivator and resulting skepticism. I think a lot of people feel this way.

I think people are "crisis hardened" at this point. So much news and opinion about most everything is framed as a "crisis" and people are just sort of tuned out to it and they're sick of being made anxious about everything. It feels a whole lot better to have someone else say "don't listen, they're just trying to scare you to get power" and people will tune into that eventually.

I think people see hypocrisy all over the place as well, especially in the climate issue and people hate being preached to. People hate hearing that they shouldn't have meat, they shouldn't have a car, they shouldn't fly, etc. They fear the currently proposed solutions like taxing these heavily or rationing it. Simply put, people at large will not get behind a massive project like this politically until it is sold as something that makes their lives better. That they don't have to give these things up but that we should work towards doing them better.

It's especially difficult with this issue too since it's been sold poorly (global warning, then why is it freezing today?!) and it's a very slow process when considering a human's life. Yes, the data we have and the models we have are compelling. However, denial is a powerful thing especially when people are told to listen to an authority that wants to take their pleasures away.

I just don't think going around calling other people idiots or asking why they didn't just listen to scientists (science and especially scientists are not infallible.) is very useful. To get a super majority behind this we need to sell it as a project to not take away anything but to find new ways of doing it without putting excessive CO2 into the atmosphere. That you can have a steak, and a car, and un your AC, and travel but that we also need to agree to finance projects in making these things sustainable. That engineering ourselves a better future is possible and that stopping doing things doesn't have to be the way.

I don't know, I just think psychology of how it is being sold is ineffective. Unlivable conditions, death, the Earth's destruction should motivate people but the threat just isn't imminent enough for people to sacrifice. I think it does the opposite and sends people looking for a safe place where it's going to be OK and anyone who tells you otherwise is just trying to pick your pocket. Our style of government is not great at unifying around big projects and unless the threat is clearly imminent and/or in progress. We need persuasion to win and positive visions for the future to get there.
Get a second job in a socially interactive environment. I worked at Lowe's. You have to talk to people to help them find stuff or suggest items for their project. Pay sucks, but crappy midlevel devs like me are used to that (hence my second job).
Tips for Consulting Leads
Hi,

We're starting a consulting company, just 2 of us. Both "hardcore" practicing devops/cloud architects. We write good code and know how to coach teams, so they practice devops themselves.

We want to work with new-ish startups setting them up straight on AWS and coaching dev teams how to utilize it.

Or medium size companies, that got themselves into a dev mess for one reason or another.

We think about short term, fixed duration projects.

Question: where to find leads?

Right now I'm chatting with people who post "devops" jobs in various slack #jobs channels. Almost everybody got a huge, huge pile of tech debt and not very pretty dev processes (which again, we have experience fixing or improving substantially).

But most of these folks trying to find full time devops :(

Where else can I look for leads?
And how can I persuade these folks talk to us first? Before they drop tens of thousands on ft hiring

Cheers!
I basically use my 'vitamin water zero sugar orange rise' whatever 20 oz plastic bottle container as a refillable water bottle.

I've currently got a rotation of two or three of them and I suspect I'm guzzling dozens of somethings of BPA and other fun fat- and cancer-causing chemicals on a minutely basis (it's def not the sugar and cake).

This is the perfect size water bottle for me.

This is my water bottle.

I do not want any other water bottle.

Yet I am tired of drinking fat and cancer.

Is there a relatively healthy bottle out there like it?
I think they might be referring to phytoplankton. Their shells are dependent on the ocean being amenable to their development, and it's becoming less so, already causing growing pockets of oxygen-poor ocean waters.[0][1] They happen to be responsible for about half our oxygen, or more.[2]

0: https://psmag.com/environment/global-warming-is-putting-phyt...

1: https://news.mit.edu/2015/ocean-acidification-phytoplankton-...

2: https://newportbay.org/ask-a-naturalist-do-phytoplankton-pro...
Wow! Yes, we're applying technology to help make it so everyone can be as effective as Niels!
Why are you assuming this is an AI-driven decision? It looks like human intervention to me.
> The scientists seemed to have a single political leaning, which made me more skeptical. I saw it as religious apologetics for green ideology.

Why didn't you consider that their "green ideology" comes from their scientific findings. Shouldn't all of our ideologies/beliefs be informed by our understanding of the world?!
I think awareness about the negative environmental effects of agriculture and specifically cattle and other animals used for meat is at least much more prevelant than it used to be.

The concrete thing probably still flies under the radar though.
>This sentiment right here is probably the single most depressing thing for me, as an American. I’m not even mad anymore.

Likewise is depressing that people are so afraid of a little risk these days.

>We had the opportunity to work together as a nation to overcome Covid. The virus doesn’t care about politics, culture, religion. But as we’ve seen, nothing can overcome American individualism.

Its not only about me. Plenty of people do not like mask.

>No one is trying to take away freedom with a mask. There are much more effective techniques for undermining personal freedoms.

Trying to force people to wear mask is by definition taking away freedom.

>To not wear masks, knowing the risks it imposes on the unvaccinated, is to not care. And that is the sad part, people not caring about the people around them.

Likewise, do you care about people who do not want to wear mask ?

>My children under 12 have not been vaccinated, and kids are not immune to covid. Masks are simple, effective tool in the fight against covid.

Your children is likely to be OK regardless of vaccination.

>I am relieved that our district is requiring masks. It’s the smart choice to keep our communities healthy and economically viable.

I'm relieved that our district is not requiring masks. It’s the smart choice to keep our communities healthy and economically viable.
>People who've been convicted of a crime or have an alcohol
or drug addiction aren't allowed to buy guns in Switzerland.

Just the crime thing (more if your a driver etc) is being tested when entering military service..and in your service time you don't own the rifle, after service you can obtain it but it's getting refitted to half-auto. And yes the culture to guns is different and that was exactly my point, it's not the availability of guns but the culture too it, is it a sports thing like a bow and not a status/might/cowboy/survival-symbol.

BTW: It pretty much impossible to have a gun for self defense, the training is pretty hard (like police/security..i mean you shoot in public space...that's a bit more responsibility then to load/unload correctly) and you need a real point, like being a prosecutor for organized crime and being already threatened...otherwise impossible. BUT i remember in the past >20 years, nearly every jeweler had a license.
Tell Google how you feel about that by searching "google app store alternatives", then installing Aurora Store.

https://auroraoss.com/

https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS

From the Aurora Store FAQ:

What is the difference between Aurora Store and Google's Play store?

Unlike Google's Play Store, Aurora Store doesn't track your downloads or the apps you use. We respect your privacy. Aurora Store is also unaffected by Google marking your device as uncertified or lacking of necessary Google apps. Play Protect is not present, as this is a Play Store only feature.

Do I need Google Play Services to use Aurora Store?

No. Aurora Store was built to access the Google Play store without any kind of Google services. It doesn't matter if you use it with or without Google Play Services/MicroG.

Is it safe to use Aurora store?

Aurora Store is fully open-source and verified by F-Droid. If you're asking about the safety of the apps in the store, those are the exact same ones the Play Store would load and display. A lot of dangerous stuff seems to sneak past Google though, so as a rule of thumb, don't download anything which you're unsure about.
Some interesting information about this from that news show Breaking Points: https://youtu.be/fgAl0uSB9cA
Some of the deniers I know personally told me their views shifted to 'there's nothing we can do now so the point is moot, enjoy it while you can, there's no point in doing anything environmentally friendly now'
> But with Apple's CSAM proposal is NOT possible to have an iPhone that Apple isn't continuously scanning

This is not accurate. Scanning doesn’t happen without iCloud photos enabled.
> and (effectively) killed AMP

err, what? I still regularly get AMP links from news.google.com
Nope, it's an external link and even it wasn't it would be a lame excuse.
What if a webpage links to google.com, does that count as providing access to violence and pornography?
No, here it means "came to a different purpose than I and everybody else using science did."
How to Simplify Your Filing System
> Does this mean the main (UI) thread is blocked during queries? Or are there more threads, like UI <- async messages -> SQLite main <- Atomics blocking -> SQLite FS backend?

The latter! Your app running queries must be on a worker, and then the IDB backend will spawn another worker. `Atomics.wait` is not even available on the main thread.

Ideally in the future, there will be a better storage API that we don't even need all the Atomics silly-ness (hopefully it provides Sync methods)

That's really cool re: Notion! That's exactly the kind of thing I want too: a way to just build apps the same way everywhere, on mobile/desktop/web.

You are right about various issues, and I personally don't have to worry much about it on my app because I have native mobile apps and I don't support the web version on mobile. I intentionally do that -- the mobile web is just too broken in too many ways. My impression is the IDB is more stable on desktop, but because mobile is more memory sensitive there are more issues there.

However, you should try it out! I definitely discovered a lot of weird things; I definitely was able to get Safari into a weird state the required a complete app restart. Here's the thing though: I found ways around them. If you do a lot of read requests in a certain way, Safari will lock up permanently. However, if you make sure to wait until the `readonly` transaction is finished before starting a new one, the problem goes away. I was able to reliably reproduce that problem and it went away with that fix.

I think absurd-sql is so promising because it normalizes the patterns of how IDB is accessed, and it already includes fixes for a bunch of edge cases. There are probably more, but try it out! If you run into an edge case, we can tweak the IDB backend until it works. We can paper over these issues in the underlying backend and you don't have to worry about it because you aren't directly managing IDB read/writes.
Querying big JSON files in S3 is basically the entire reason S3 Select exists.

Zero infrastructure needed in that case.
The developer is asking people to optionally pay for his app. From a tax perspective, the dev would owe taxes on this income, since he is not a not-for-profit legal entity.

Since these payments are considered taxable income, I am not sure why they would think they could avoid Google's rules just because they are a "small one-man shop".

The simple solution here is to add in-app purchases like every other "small one-man shop" and not ask for noncompetitive advantages and accept Google's 15% cut [0].

[0] - https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2021/03/boosting-d...
I think the "confusion" was 100% intentional. That the two features (iMessage scanning & on-device spying pre-upload to iCloud) were intentionally released at the same time to make the whole thing harder to criticize in a soundbite.

Confusion is the best-case scenario for Apple because people will tune it out. If they had released just the on-device spying, public outcry and backlash would have been laser targeted on a single issue.
You can see from the screenshots that Google sent with the rejection that they have it loaded in Chrome.

Most obvious indicator is the 40 other tabs they have open in their browser on the top right.
Thank you for recognizing the ad-hominem nature of your initial sentence and moving on to engaging on the argument. This is far more convincing and made your comment far more credible.
As a kid, I remember blackouts in New York City, and we had to sleep with wash clothes on our head, which was kind of impossible, and we would all make our way downstairs, and our parents would be hanging around outside cause it was cooler than in the house.

Sorry that you had family members that were affected by this.

But, no it doesn't seem scary. The fires are caused by poor forest management (talked about in another thread this week). But, I am in South Carolina, and this week it is in the 90's like just about every week in August ever down here. And actually, this summer, we have gotten a ton of rain, more so than I can remember. But, it's been hot like it always is in the summer in the south, I can't say I ever walked out my door this month and been scared about it.
It would be a funny hack to try to trick a printer with malformed content to over-print that section of paper a multitude of times.
This sounds like how your ex might regret beating you when the police show up.
Xi thanks you