skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same here, every Philips device bought after the mid 90's was junk. At some point they even couldn't make vacuum cleaners that worked or fridges that didn't fail completely within the warranty. Which is also why plenty of the bigbox outlets stopped offering their stuff, the quality was just incredibly bad.

And given how much goodwill that brand had it is very impressive how fast it was run into the ground. I still see their TVs for sale here, and medical devices and some stuff for infants.
Thank you for explaining much better than myself friend :)

As a practitioner of a Buddhist practice (see my username), meditation is about developing and mastering concentration the mind. The Buddha taught Meditation with out precepts (or living a moral life properly aligned with the universe) was in vain. This is this the reason the Buddha stressed precepts on how one should live as ultimately a mind focused on the material world and self interest will never have the stillness of one living a life of virtue for others which is why many people find meditation so awesome until they try to still there minds and blame the practice for this inability like in this article.

The problem I see is the framing of meditation into the portrait of modern society.
> At some point you have to trust your OS vendor.

Yes, and we were trusting Apple. And now this trust is going away.
Apple is manually reviewing every case to ensure it’s CSAM. You do have to trust them on that.

But if your problem is with NCMEC, you’ve got a problem with Facebook and Google who are already doing this too. And you can’t go to jail for possessing adult pornography. So even if you assume adult porn images are in the database, and Apple’s reviewers decide to forward them to NCMEC, you would still not be able to be prosecuted, at least in the US. Ditto for pictures of Winnie the Pooh. But for the rest of what you describe, simulated child pornography is already legally dicey as far as I know, so you can’t really blame Apple or NCMEC for that.
I'll just note that while many call the NY Times and the 'media' biased toward liberals or progressives, you are saying they ignore essential topics.

I wish all the critics would compare notes.
Well, I'd put some limits on this. If a coworker cobbled together something that still let them program by punch card then I'd 1) probably be frustrated with their level of output and 2) impressed at the setup. 3) asking for their extra set of eyes on my own code because if they had the patience for punch cards they would probably be better than me at catching errors.
> These suggest to me that the hash comparison is going to happen inside the Secure Enclave - give it the encrypted database and the NeuralHash of an image, it gives you back a Security Voucher to upload.

My understanding is that the hash comparison, or at any rate the counting of matches, is done in the cloud then. The way the crypto is set up is that the server has no access to the security envelope and its contents (and, after E2EE in the future, to any images) unless the number of matches exceeds the threshold.
I don't understand your argument. You say people care about this because it "runs a check of your property, on your property". Would iCloud servers running this check after the photos are uploaded to iCloud be any better?
You’re not seeing the backlash yet because normies don’t pay attention to Apple outside of the September iPhone event (when coverage breaks into the mainstream for a few days).

Look at Google trends data for the search term “Apple.” It spikes every September by like 70% for a week.

I can guarantee you, every average joe learning about the new iPhone from mainstream media, is going to hear a sound byte about this fiasco as well.

I’ll be surprised if this program isn’t dead within 2 months.
The video has a conversation (around 54:00) about the Apple approval implications around something like a REPL. There are other apps with REPLs or coding features. Pythonista is mentioned. Figured I'd drop a link to the actual policy:

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#sof...

"""
2.5.2 Apps should be self-contained in their bundles, and may not read or write data outside the designated container area, nor may they download, install, or execute code which introduces or changes features or functionality of the app, including other apps. Educational apps designed to teach, develop, or allow students to test executable code may, in limited circumstances, download code provided that such code is not used for other purposes. Such apps must make the source code provided by the app completely viewable and editable by the user.

"""
>> Did they expect a literal path showing exactly where the mammoth walked down to millimeter precision 24/7 for the whole life of said mammoth?

I know, it's not like it had an iPhone.
This misses the essence of bike shedding to me. It can be a sub category of procrastination but it isn't procrastination itself.

My take is that bike shedding is focusing on and possibly inventing a task because you enjoy that task, at the expense of something else more pressing.

I find that the anecdote is useful occasional to bring it up when it is happening without seeming like a jerk
Unless they followed you
That's true, but "in a way" does a lot of work there. "In a way" the Web already depends on the C++ standard library, but we aren't exposing that as a JS API.
That's probably the #1 reason to learn the bare basics of vim even if nano was a daily driver.
>attempt to, or assist, authorize or encourage others to circumvent, disable or defeat any of the security features or components that protect, obfuscate or otherwise restrict access to any Content or Google Play.

Am I reading this correctly in that, this seems to me like just telling people about something like Aurora is against the terms of services and can get you banned whether you use it or not?

As in, even the gp comment technically breaks that rule just by posting that Aurora FAQ?

That's fairly intense if so.
That program, at least when it was introduced, required participants not to report security vulnerabilities publicly until Apple allowed them to do so, with no limits on how long that can be (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23920454 for a discussion from that time).

That makes this program particularly useless for the purpose of auditing whether Apple is adhering to its promises.
It's amazing how many ex BeOS developers (original BeInc employees) worked on Danger Hiptop, Android and iOS. It essence, the BeOS core team built the modern mobile ecosystem today. Yet BeInc went bankrupt and BeOS is no more (well, there is Haiku running with the torch).
A combo of group experience and manually reading them.

Most scripts were never re-used, so it was not a problem all that often.
> that’s what they’re saying now

source?

Regardless, being exposed after vaccination is better than before vaccination.
They were also self-contained. What you wrote on a forum about skyscrapers didn't have an impact on how you were perceived on a forum about bocce ball. Sites like Reddit that aggregate all of these interests into one place, with one reputation score across all interests, end up leaking the outrage from the most contentious areas into everything else. It used to be that niche hobbies were safe from this but more and more of them are getting overflow from the geysers of outrage coming from the more mainstream areas. If you're the moderator of one of these niche subreddits, trying to keep this out will often lead to raids and complaints to higher management who can replace you at will. This puts more power into the hands of the outrage manufacturers to leak over into everything and everywhere they want.
Your understanding is incorrect. Apple can, and is in fact required to, verify that they have actual CSAM before forwarding it to the Cyber Tip line. At that point, they must delete the information within 60 days.
> For some, like in many types of Christian meditation, the purpose can be to deepen one's relationship with God. Quieting the mind or stillness might be part of a way to get there, but not the ultimate aim.

A true Buddhist would argue that divinity is within a truly quiet mind.

See my username for one such practice
Why it’s time to move on from Covid – spiked
> This is simply an escape hatch

It is an escape hatch, but is it simply an escape hatch? Is a whale simply a mammal?

> if it can't be explained, it's because it's magic.

More or less, as I understand it.

> do what you're told even if it makes no logical sense because there is no logic to be found. There is no room for debate here, you can't use reason, there is nothing further to discuss.

These are your words, not his.

> Even more so the blame goes to God not his creations since he created everything including free will and the choices.

Could be.

> Blaming your creations playing in the sandbox you created with the sand you created is a nonsensical blame game with yourself.

Is God himself doing this, or are you imagining God is doing this? You don't seem to even believe in Him.
I breathe deeply and quickly through my nose with my whole torso (rather than just my belly, a mistake I carried along since teen years) to warm myself. I don’t have near the purported abilities some do, but what I can do so far I find useful. It can also help me go to sleep, as maintaining such breathing takes all my mental bandwidth, at the expense of rumination.

I recommend reading Breath, by James Nestor.

I also recommend only taking cold showers, because they feel great afterwards and because they save water and heat energy. “Breathing up” beforehand helps me bite the bullet if I’m feeling reticent.
Nice a password manager taking 1GB of RAM and 20% of CPU.
Sure, but at a park?
Google's system doesn't do on-device scanning, and I gave an example above of something like this happening. Security is a constant race between good and bad actors. If you weaken your system you're scoring for the other team.
My unpopular but realistic opinion as a successful financially app dev is - just post a Google compliant link to a payment system. Take the 15% hit. The payment link is likely to be more direct and user friendly, so you will likely end up earning more even after the 15% cut. Having a link to a website and then having users have to scroll to the bottom in order to donate means you are likely to be earning near $0 from it anyway.
It’s almost certain the “leak” was from someone they had pre-briefed prior to a launch. You don’t put together 80+ pages of technical documentation with multiple expert testimony in 16 hours.
The problem is that Apple regrets the negative PR but doesn't actually regret the scanning at all.

And that's the crux of the problem.
I think it's pretty cut and dry, the question is pertaining to actual events not the rate of report for each event. Think of it this way: if Sweden counted population differently than other countries and came up with a population of 2 billion it'd still false that Sweden is the most populous country in the world, they would simply be the country which _reports_ the highest population in the world. While interesting in itself it wouldn't make the statement "Sweden is the most populous country in the world" any less false.

The report rates are probably worth mentioning in the explanation of why it's false but it doesn't change the falseyness of the claim. Unless the question is specifically geared towards the rate of report of course but few go looking for that, most want to know the actual rates.
The thing that is missing from this article and the comments is that vi(m) is available on every unix machine made in the last 30 years. Knowing it well gives an admin a dependable tool that is ubiquitous. And once you know vim, why would you choose anything else?
I think the mods should consider shadow banning you. Your comments make little sense.
That said, i immensely enjoy how small the install size for nano

I used to install lynx web browser for the same reason, especially because at the time it was the age of countless popups and swf everywhere. I should check to see how it is these days, but I stopped using it when webdev made many pages unusable in it.
One line in this article completely sums up the Covid experience:

"This goal was probably never very realistic."
There's always bribery involved. You're just not aware of it.
Is that really the only effect you can think of? The flip-side of lower salary is more people can do it, including hobbyists, non-profits and others creating useful things in the world that benefit everyone. It's not a zero sum game.

Playing this kind of knowledge gatekeeping can work for a time, but it's a double-edge sword. Yeah you might profit for a while, but eventually someone will come and yank the rug out from under you because you have no competitive or innovative muscle left.

The way I look at it is this: if someone can automate something they should. As a programmer I've never had a shortage of higher order problems to solve. The skills that make you a good programmer allow you to move up the foodchain as lower-level problems are solved. You should embrace this rather than fight against it.

Early in my career I was making websites for $2-5k a pop, now most of that can be done with Shopify or Squarespace for $5/month. Can you imagine if I was still clinging on to that business model today? I'm sure it would be a pretty anxious existence wondering when the clients will dry up, and frankly I'm pretty happy not worrying about SFTPing someones files somewhere and hoping they don't call me when they misplace their password.

So am I scared about no-code tools? Hell no, I welcome these developments. If more smart entrepreneurs can get started building cool things and get traction, it's only a matter of time before they outgrow those tools, and come to me asking how we can take it to the next level. Same goes for big data, ML, etc. All of these are tools, we are nowhere near general AI that will obsolete a smart human technical mind.
Snopes is bias and cannot be trusted when it comes to anything political at all. Fact checkers always have a bias
As a dev, I also want to avoid supporting practices that I believe are harmful to my customers.
Lockdown was based on faith, not evidence
Apple regrets but will still do it anyway. Sounds like PR regrets.
Nearly million people in England became addicted to alcohol during the pandemic
This sounds noble in theory, but did it work in this case?

Of course we might not know of cases that got resolved by internal pressure, because they got resolved, however we do know this was not one of them.
Wouldn't this make double spend attacks very practical? I mean, if I spend $X, someone is incentivized to steal if the fee I pay is less than $X. I realize this gets better as more blocks are added to the end of the chain. But it seems like this system would never work for relatively large payments. It may work fine for small value payments. It's illustrative to think about the amount of bitcoin transferred in a block vs. the amount of fees paid. The former enormously dominates the latter.

I say this not to criticize, but to continue the discussion. Your idea is interesting.
It’s been a while it hasn’t been discussed, but isn’t there laws to give gov special agencies the power to force private entities to cooperate, with potentially a ban on officially recognizing the request ever happened in the first place ?

And if memory serves well it doesn’t need to be Apple as a whole cooperating, a single employee with oversee power could be enough.
Huh? I never said he was an opthalmologist..
Amazon moves its $1bn Lord of the Rings production from New Zealand as borders
yeah, i got that, but installing an app isn't meditating, even if it's a meditation app. a measurment of app installs doesn't give you information on people's meditation practice.
I think the point is people do understand - and are still upset.
Vote with your money. If you own AAPL stock, sell it. And loudly refuse to buy Apple devices. That is the only language organizations like this will understand.
It’s funny that the top comment points out the obvious-- people want SQL in the browser-- and a NoSQL author immediately has to jump in to claim that SQL in the browser was wrong all along.

I think the NoSQL and MongoDB folks are worried for their careers.
Since hearing about this whole affair, one potential scenario popped up in my mind...

Currently, bad actors are randomly sharing illegal content in an unsolicited way to people who did not ask for it (1).

Let's imagine this happens to you. Suddenly, you have illegal content on your device you didn't ask for.

Maybe you are busy when the message with the content is received and you don't even know about it, or you think it's random spam from someone you don't know and just ignore it.

Then, the content scanner picks it up and notifys authorities.

What will happen in this scenario?

(1) https://www.news4jax.com/news/2018/02/05/beware-child-porn-m...
My first programming class at a school was Visual Basic (Maybe 5 or 6.0?) and it was definitely very drag and drop GUI based.

Drag buttons and text fields onto a panel, click them and edit their Metadata in the sidebar, doubleclick them and Visual Studio would open a file with an auto generated OnClick() handler with an empty body and a bunch of comments surrounding it saying something along the lines of "do not edit anything before/after this line."

You'd run it by clicking the big green arrow button and I got an A in that class without ever knowing how to actually build and share an executable. I made a blackjack game and tried sharing it with some friends but it only ever ran on my machine (because only I had Visual Studio installed).

A better teacher would have helped too, haha. Nothing against him, from what I understand he was the business class teacher and taught 1 period of intro to programming because the school couldn't find a replacement for the previous years' teacher.
Which will probably change based on jurisdiction. Especially since the next item on their roadmap would probably be "framework for dynamic loading of restricted contend db based on geolocation" once enough governments start tightening the screws.
Just wait until the September event. Apple’s media attention quadruples during that time.

“Apple creates authoritarian government wet dream” will be the main narrative coming out of the iPhone event. Not the new phone. And investors will not be happy.
Well, there first has to be a process to get your money clean enough to buy real estate. You can't buy a house with bitcoins or a suitcase full of cash without raising a lot of suspicions.
If the consequences had any semblance of consistency or proportionality, then that may be the case.

Instead, you have some people's lives ruined for a dumb joke on Twitter, and others getting away scot free with actual sexual assault because the substantive and evidence-supported accusations were covered up before they could go viral.

As it stands, I think cancel culture more closely resembles the 2 minutes' hate from 1984 than actual justice.
On the 12th of August the IBM PC had its 40th birthday
$60 billion for two years worth of shots? Sounds like a steal. Covid has cost the global economy Trillions and Trillions of dollars already, and all the downstream costs will probably add up to $100 trillion real dollars when factoring in inflation, money printing, national debt, state/provincial debts/local debts/consumer debt increases.
Is it just me or are Reuters headlines more clickbaity from a decade ago
In German, they're indeed and usually just called "bugs", too, which of course is an anglicisation. Truly natively, they're called a "Fehler", which can translate to either "error" or "mistake".
Issues.

1. When I google for "nano ctags", I get one hit: someone's 2011-dated blog about their custom "nanotag.sh" which searches through the tags file and then runs the editor to bring up the right line of the right file, which is kind of like walking a quarter mile to get water from a well instead of having running water.

Maybe Ariadne uses nothing but cscope for naviating through code bases? Cscope is a bit crippling; you use it as a kind of dashboard for searches to which you have to return to start another search. If you find occurrences of an identifier, you have to return to cscope to navigate through that list.

2. I don't see any documented support for running a compile job out of Nano such that it gathers the errors and lets you move around in them for fixing.

3. No mention of "lisp" in the manual. How is the Lisp auto-indent and such?

Ariadne talks about getting the editor to "look" like Vim, but I don't see the point. What does that mean? Vim looks more or less like ... a section of your file. That's what you see. Plus some syntax coloring; is that the point? Looks are only skin-deep; the semantics is invisible from just looking at the editor screen.

She presents a falsely incomplete set alternatives ("false trichotomy"): it's either Vim, Emacs or Nano. It has to be Nano because Vim is modal and Emacs Lisp is yucky (complete with a meme about Emacs being an OS with a lousy editor) (so why would the author care that there appears to be no Lisp editing support in Nano, right?)

But, say, about good old Joe? Joe has ctags support and stepping through compiler errors and such. It's substantially more suitable for programming than Nano.

By my estimation, Joe could be the editor the author actually wants.

Another unexplored possibility is Jed.
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I'm thankful for "Like" and "Share" being positive words. It would be much worse if they were "Dislike" and "Shame".

The reinforcement strategy behind AI recommendations (on Facebook, YouTube, Spotify) is to continue showing more similar content. This leads to extremism.

To encourage diversity, we the programmers need to intentionally change the algorithm to present opposing views. Mix some 80s disco in with that punk rock. Remind people that there is another perspective.

We can also encourage "thank you"s - actively creating backlinks so that people know where the thought came from originally, and can learn more.

Hacker News has a great system of self-moderation where downvotes are allowed but only after the user has received 1000 upvotes to establish their credibility. First contribute well, then earn the right to criticise. I hope we can find ways to translate this model into other domains, even real life.
There's no leak of content. None of your content ever gets sent to Apple...ever.
Do you understand how the internet works? Apple has to pay for the bandwidth they're using...
Photos are currently encrypted e2e already so Apple does not have the access server side to create the hash unlike their competition who chews their customers data for machine learning. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
What distinction are you making with what I stated? What disagreement is there?

Apple only scans photos being uploaded to iCloud photos. Google scans. Facebook scans. Microsoft scans. Even tiny image hosting sites scan.

Apple decided to implement this functionality on device, but they could as easily (with much less fanfare and dissent) have placed it on the ingress to iCloud.
> ... there ARE going to be false positives that apple records some database. Millions of iphone users are going to have a non-zero "possible childporn" score.

I don't think this is right. The apple pdf on the features says

> With the initial match threshold chosen as described above, iCloud Photos servers learn nothing about any of the user's photos unless that user's iCloud Photos account exceeded the match threshold.

This implies to me that they are using some sort of encryption to prevent iCloud from learning even how many matches there are until the threshold is met.
Even the Apple fanatics on MacRumors as pissed. These are the people who’d steadfastly defend apple against anything.
I like to think of them as a signal to STFU, but as you said this would most likely be targeted at people you disagree with.
Presumably Amazon is tired of dealing with porch pirates. It's hard to blame them.