skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note: I'm not saying nano is perfect but these are some nice features.

The key bindings are at the bottom of the screen.

Example: https://imgur.com/tFVNFc4

^ is CNTRL.

> why not go with a editor that was designed with that in mind (i.e. key combos organized into a hierarchy rather than a huge flat mess)?

Nano has a tree-like structure. There are a a few root commands for common things but a menu like "replace" has these options shown: https://imgur.com/5IKRyeC

In this screen you can see "M" which means the ALT key. These names (^, M) are not ideal but they have their roots in the originally common teletype names (control, meta). It's not the best but it's easy once you remember those two things since you need to remember nothing else.

An important note about these menus: they remember your previous insert. If you click the up arrow key you can go back in time to previous searches just like your terminal. It's how I could say that 4 searches ago I looked for `affinity_test`.

Also, nano supports all of the standard navigation you will be used to. Things like:

- Page Up/down: Go up/down an entire page of text.
- Arrows: Navigate text one character/line at a time.
- Scroll Wheel: Move cursor up/down for each input.
- ctl + left/right arrow: Move one "word".
- Home / End keys: beginning and end of line.

So, the things you already know from all other programs directly apply. The things that aren't the same that you will use are at the bottom of the screen or behind a "CNTRL+G" menu that is at the bottom of the screen. All for giving up ~3 vertical lines of text. I just checked and at my default font size I can fit 57 lines on my monitor so I'm giving up 5% of my screen so anyone, regardless of skill level, can sit down at my computer and know how to operate the text editor.
They're willing to kill the platform over this? What's going over there on the west coast?
And, just introducing this idea can make the concept real, even if Apple cancels this plan tomorrow. Country X could introduce a law saying “all companies that sell phones here must scan and report for these hashes” and based on recent trends, the companies will just roll over and say Uncle.
What % of African Americans have already been exposed to COVID and thus have natural immunity?

Why not just allow antibody tests to be regarded the same as vaccines? Carving out this kind of exclusion would solve the problem, and allow vaccines to be redistributed.

The CDC estimates that 33% of the American population has been exposed to COVID, and for the African American population its probably about 50% when extrapolating from case counts [2]

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/king-county...
Don’t use iCloud photos
I particularly like the humor that seems to be universally woven into older NSA documents. I can see why people would want to work there, if you have no moral issues with the nature of the job, it must be (have been?) an interesting, challenging job in a pretty good environment.
As important was Apple's brand power. Everyone already had an iPod in their pocket and loved it. That gave them legitimacy to set terms with carriers.
"The false-positive was a fully clothed man holding a monkey -- I think it's a rhesus macaque."
I have a bunch of time on my hands right now. This is a good way to pass the time when for reasons beyond my control I can’t be working on projects.
These stories have been top of HN for more than a week, indicating fascination. Yet non-technical mainstream articles make the bulk of it, and Apple's just released detailed (and convincing) threat report PDF is getting buried. An unfortunate recipe that'll solidify misunderstandings and keep the conversation much more emotional than it should be.

Security Threat Model Review of the Apple Child Safety Features [pdf] (apple.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28173134
This perfectly illustrates the problem: the content being scanned for can change arbitrarily and on a whim. Gun, meet foot.
The Taliban are the people of Afghanistan (obviously not all of them, but a substantial portion). We could have avoided this had we learned a lesson by watching the Soviet Union go through this same exercise a few decades ago. When you invade and occupy a hostile nation, you can either stay forever at tremendous cost in blood and treasure or eventually leave and watch the native inhabitants regain control.
At a prior company we added them to a folder of misc scripts along with notes on what they were for.

Not the greatest solution but it did ensure they never got lost.
When Blue Origin sued SpaceX over a patent on the concept of landing a rocket stage on a ship, SpaceX showed a Soviet movie with a scene where (fictionally) just that happens.
Growing poppies, helping with the heroin trade and killing civilians is not "nation building".

The real solution would had been "do not invade"
I'm glad for nano users because the popularity of their editor probably won't ever mean stuff that won't work with mine.
That can’t be true because the old pen/trap orders required installation of a device to record the calls.
Sadly this will likely be little to no impact on Apple long term either. I too agree this is coming from the government. They have found their loophole of using "private industry" to do all the dirty stuff they cannot directly do.
If you don't want to compete on React jobs:
Optimize for companies that do leetcode interviews, because it's 45 minutes versus sometimes 3-5 hours just for a first stage. Don't do long take homes, unless you really want the job. Take homes are always eeking one more hour out of you, especially when you get to the 'nice to haves' sections...

If you do want to compete on React:
Find a way to set yourself apart. Maybe start a blog on React basics and start posting it here on HN? Then drop that in your job application process somehow when you have enough articles/projects.
A few people have mentioned marketing to companies who want the service, and I'll say, that's more inline with what I'm looking for.

We come from a research organization (CSIRO) and are in the sleeptech space. We thought we were pretty well connected into research, but we're still spending quite a bit of time tracking down the right people and getting intros. Getting a project going is another step beyond that.

This is in the situation where we know what research we want conducted. Do you see this fitting into your business model in the future? How would you see IP being managed in that environment?
Reasons to Encourage Free Play in Youth Sports
Free play may not be as popular as it used to be, but there are plenty of reasons it should still be encouraged in today's youth sports culture.
From the faq.

Does micro support Vi keybindings?

Currently micro does not have any sort of Vim emulation. However, this is the next major feature that is planned, so stay tuned.
1. The Western nations didn't do much in terms of actual nation building and giving the country perspective beyond daily drone strikes, poverty and opium harvesting. Yes, there were a couple of schools built, but that doesn't give a country any perspective.

2. The Taliban come in and promise a return back to old times, and no drone strikes any more, which means they at least don't get resistance any more.

3. The government is corrupt as hell, the army soldiers don't see anything worth fighting for, and they don't have working heavy arms (planes, tanks). That drastically reduces how much resources the Taliban need to take over.
> Having said that, technology companies, big and small, are bound in the US to do this. By law.

Other companies scan their servers instead. And what law banned E2E encryption?
I knew a Marine would show up.
> Upcoming contenders like Purism [1] and the Pine Phone [2] will start gaining a great deal more traction from this.

I’ll bet you $500 to the charity of your choice that this won’t come to be. Set the terms on how you want to measure the outcome.
We could probably increase the vaccination rate if we snooped on peoples' phones to find out if they are participating in vaccine-hesitant behavior, and then rate-limited traffic to websites and apps that peddle this dangerous misinformation.

How many people have to lose their lives in the service of some pedantic idea of "privacy"? It's a computer looking at it, it's not even a human person.

I think tech companies need a hippocratic oath similar to "first do no harm". Apple should not be engaging in misinformation trafficking, and should at the very least be working to minimize harm by preventing people form falling victim to dangerous, unsubstantiated, and un-fact-checked information. This is especially important when our elected officials use the considerable power that has been gifted to them by the people to put peoples' lives in danger by spreading dangerous misinformation.

What role did apple's inaction on this have in the pandemic? In the January 6th insurrectionist's attempt to overturn a validated, secure, and duly certified democratic election? What role did Apple's inaction play in the attempted kidnapping of the governor of Michigan?

By refusing to help, they are partially responsible for these things. It's time for us to demand that they do their fair share of helping. Inaction is itself an action.

--

This is sarcasm, of course. For how long?
Afghanistan didn't attack us either. Neither did the Taliban.
It was not that long ago that Apple wrote this letter https://www.apple.com/customer-letter/.

> Building a version of iOS that bypasses security in this way would undeniably create a backdoor. And while the government may argue that its use would be limited to this case, there is no way to guarantee such control.
> It was a pretty key base for so many operations in the Middle East

To what end? The security threat has been mitigated. The energy dynamic has changed with Aramco’s listing, fracking and bona fide renewable energy.

We are, first and foremost, a naval power. Afghanistan is a shitty buffer state. Our ports and coastal bases more than suffice for the foreseeable future in that region.
Okay, sure, cult leaders and juice box company executives don’t want critical thinking in the populace. I guess those aren’t who I think of when I think of the powerful.
Is this actually true? If I was arrested for an image on my phone, would no one in the judge/jury team be allowed to see the image that was flagged? I understand it’s allegedly contraband, but if I were a judge I don’t think I’d take an algorithm’s word for it.
Images of bonsai trees?
You may be interested in this:

Security Threat Model Review of the Apple Child Safety Features [pdf] (apple.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28173134
when do you ever not have one? work isn’t like camping or something. you always have your computer
You are completely correct and I find this turn of events hilarious. They are onto the bargaining stage of grief.
I am a NoNewNormal user if youre really interested in what moves us, read The great reset covid 19 by klaus schwab. Their slogan is build back better used by several politicians. They also use a slogan youll own nothing and be happy. We are being pushed by some agenda this aint a real pandemic come on the symptoms are the same as the flue for real

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Reset

Its all backed to the World Economic Forum lead by klaus schwab. Every world leader hangs with him. His mother seemed to be a rothschild.
Most non-copyleft (permissive free software and proprietary software) tries to stay as far away as possible from the GPLv3 license. Because of this, macOS ships gnu nano 2.0.6 whereas the latest is 5.8. FreeBSD doesn't even have nano installed by default.
> There was also a big mall a bit south (I forgot the name) , very much different from the ones we had at home (staring with the fact that you drove around the mall, and not walked inside.

I'm not sure what you mean. While Woodfield has a rather large parking lot, it was definitely the case that the vast majority of people parked and went inside. You couldn't get to the Apple Store, for example, without going inside. You could get to the anchor stores on the ends from the outside, but you'd often shop there, then go into the mall to get other things. (Or at least my spouse and I did that frequently.)
My local power utility has ramped up its (thus far) voluntary load shedding campaign this year with rebates for usage reductions during high-demand periods (including today!), and is also pushing "smart" thermostats pretty hard, also in exchange for a minor rebate. They're "smart" in that they allow the utility to remotely shut down your AC for a 75% or 50% duty cycle, which you are not allowed to override.

Don't count on AC saving all that many lives as the decade wears on.
Not proof a funder per se, but there was this:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/us/politics/russia-afghan...
Apple these days is the type of company to make a mistake, think they are never wrong, blame anyone but themselves and then change a little bit, only for it to go over like a dead balloon. It reminds me of the Apple Silicon dev kit. No refunds, ok refunds but you have to spend them in a certain time, ok fine you can use them for a longer period and for anything.

They are probably completely flabbergasted that people are upset about this so they make this change after a week, completely missing the point.
Again, both are corrupt.

But I was referring to the one that incited a riot that rushed the Capitol.

However, neither will change until forced. The best way to accomplish that that I can see is for someone either independent or in a splinter group in one of the main parties to run on ranked choice. Until then, the best we can do is vote for whoever is best (or less bad :/ ) for each job, regardless of their party.

As entertaining as it is, mudslinging between parties doesn't accomplish much. There's so much garbage both have done, we'd just all get covered with plenty of mud left to spare.
The reason Apple actually cares about the feature though is probably to maintain sales in China (which will require this kind of surveillance soon).
>A lot of the contention wasn't about the specifics of their plan, but rather how subtle changes could vastly expand the scope of their plan.

The how helps show us how changing this system is not a subtle change. It isn't like they can flip a switch and suddenly they are identifying new suspected CSAM on people's phones. That would require a new system since the current one is only hash matching.

>However, in making the announcement, they boldly stepped past their existing hard line in privacy (local device content is private and not surveilled by apple), so it seems naive to expect that this announcement reflects the eventual scope of this self-incrimination engine for the next decade of apple updates.

This is an arbitrary line that is being drawn. These are photos that are marked for sending to iCloud. Whether the scanning happens on the phone before they are sent or in the cloud after they sent is largely immaterial when it comes to the impact of the code. People are acting as if the line Apple drew was motivated by technology. That was never the deciding factor. Technology is the easy part here. That line was only a policy line and that policy has not changed. Only photos that are sent to iCloud are scanned. If you fear Apple changing that policy going forward, you should have always feared Apple changing that policy.
Air conditioning is a lot easier than moving to New Zealand.

The whole NZ citizenship for the rich is a mix of preppers nonsense and elite club FOMO. If it gets bad enough that NZ is the easiest answer, then NZ won’t be the answer.

Remember these are the same people doing young blood transfusions to stave off death. Hey, maybe history will prove me wrong, but it’s not impossible they’re flawed humans with fears and insecurities like everyone else.
Introduction to Cross-Site Scripting(XSS)
Dilmun[0] a ancient city contemporary to Akkadian culture in todays Bahrain was the place where that Utnapishtim was set to live forever and other similarities in mythology with Garden of Edan, although it was a great culture by itself.

Cedar Forest [1] in Lebanon was a sacred place in the ancient world and had big appearance in Gilgamesh story. the forest was famous for its premium tress to build temples in some of the cultures around and the most famous one was the legendry the temple of Solomon.
also Ugarit was a city where many interesting texts were found with huge similarity for later bible story

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilmun
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_Forest
Hypothetical; Suppose that this scanning program only ever did what Apple said it was going to do, look for known CSAM. Would this still be upsetting? I am trying to parse if the blow back to this announcement is rooted in the tech communities' ideal of near perfect privacy, or if instead it's a reaction to what this tech could potentially be used for.

I don't find the following argument compelling; Because this tech will be used to scan known CSAM, it will necessarily one day be used to scan for non CSAM. If Apple can implant this tech on your IPhone now, it always could have, and therefore the threat of the government coercing Apple to scan all images for whatever pernicious reasons they can think of has always existed.

CSAM is a massive problem. The solution to how we deal with it will be nuanced and plagued with tradeoffs, but I refuse to be an extremist for either side. I do want something done about CSAM, which is why I am happy that Facebook reports over 10 million instances of it per year from messenger. I also want devices to be mostly private (to assume that a device manufactured by a large corporation would ever be perfectly private in the internet age is delusional). But anyone who acknowledges that CSAM is a problem must also acknowledge that some sacrifice of privacy would be necessary to mitigate it. Or, perhaps one day we can rely on homomorphic encryption to deal with this.
California launches largest free school lunch program in US
We don't want it pushed back, we want it dead in the water.
To be fair my memory has always been terrible. I loathed times tables at school. I still don't really know them. I just feel like if I need to know I'll use a calculator and if there isn't one available I'll have other problems like clean water and food! Having a general sense of 'size of' numbers was enough and I'm pretty good at maths.

I get that it impedes memorization but how does that scale to using new libraries which may lack documentation? I'm jealous of your memorization of those string methods, every time I switch to JavaScript I feel lost because I don't recall substr Vs subString Vs substring etc!
Maybe they're telling you to run.
> This problem is the capability, not what it's used for. Any such capability will be abused by new use cases be it terrorism, drug trafficking, human trafficking or whatever. Plus there will inevitably be unauthorized access.

Apple even says it themselves[1]:

> This program is ambitious, and protecting children is an important responsibility. These efforts will evolve and expand over time.

[1] https://www.apple.com/child-safety/
Never dabbling in the demoscene as a 90s teenage hacker is one of my few computing regrets.
The future of software, the end of apps (2013)
Yep, did you see the white Trump truck...

https://twitter.com/StephLSchmid/status/1417153947031199749

It's like they're trying to be a parody of themselves!
It's really a travesty that we don't have a fast track for the family and friends of anyone who's directly helped us in a foreign nation. More people would be willing to work with us if it was the ticket to a life in the US. It's not like 100k people here or there really matters much in a nation of 300mil.
In BASIC `undocumented feature'!
May want to look into it with support or something, this isn’t normal behavior. It should retain your defaults (it does on the Windows machines and Windows VMs I’ve made or worked on. My work laptop being the only one that doesn’t and that’s a corporate thing).
Well, except for Zig has the dubious distinction of actually having more UB than C.
Exactly as I said, studies have been done. So where is that bubbling into discourse?

Saying wildfires and floods, in a hand-wavey sense, makes you sound quite uninformed and doesn't inspire much call to action. You have to connect the direct costs and benefits to the individual if you ever want to persuade somebody. So can you explain to the voter in Michigan why raising gas by 50 cents is worth policy X? Just as an example.

The truth is that if you work out the math, it's unlikely to be very persuasive at all, because most negative ramifications of climate change will only be felt far in the future while costs to mitigate are immediate.

But the whole discussion around policy is meaningless.

The obvious solution to global warming is to make alternative energy more cost effective than fossil fuels. Then people will switch to it without any compulsion simply due to the economics being more favorable. For example, the majority of people will likely switch to electric cars once they're cheaper than gas cars (accounting for both up front and lifetime costs). We don't need legislation forcing people to buy electric, they will do it on their own within the next 10-15 years.

Similar with solar. At least as of a few years ago, solar on houses was a lousy investment from a cost perspective. As solar becomes more efficient, it starts to be more sensible, and in fact, even obvious to do.

By some measures the equilibrium point between fossils and renewable will happen relatively soon... Though there are some domains like aviation where it will take longer.

Policy should be aimed towards pushing renewables to be more cost competitive than fossils. And I don't mean through fiat or subsidy, but through improve d efficiency.

e.g. Better developed grid makes solar on housing more cost effective by allowing consumer to sell excess back to grid
UBL planned to draw the US into a multi-decade war of attrition because he knew that was the only way to beat a power that strong.

For all the people we "helped", a thousand more grew up to the sound of US drones shelling their extended family members.

The "War on Terror" dwarves Vietnam as the US's greatest military failure, and is singularly responsible for it's crippling presence on the world stage today.
> solidify misunderstandings

The key issue here is the very concept of "Apple turns your iPhone into a snitch", and I haven't seen any misunderstanding around that.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28174533
> that has stubbornly been able to avoid being conquered by the major empires in world history.

Was reading Moby Dick the other day and came across this excerpt...

'Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States.

WHALING VOYAGE BY ONE ISHMAEL.

BLOODY BATTLE IN AFGHANISTAN.'

The more things change...

> But here we are, 2+ Trillion burned and nothing to show for it.

Other than another grateful nation basking in the glow of the democracy we've bestowed upon them. Mission accomplished.
Even if we put aside collisions, new system features ‘Synthetic Match Vouchers’, which is seemingly adding noise into actual CP counter.

I yet to understand what happens to people who only have those synthetic positives? Regardless of what counter threshold is, can’t those people be hoovered up by a subpoena of counter >0 ?
I have a 4" iPhone SE. Love it, but Apple has continued to push me away these last four years. I no longer use any other Apple products except for this 4-year-old phone. What alternatives are there for small phone fans? Sony used to make an Xperia Compact that was nice, but I think they discontinued it.