skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean obviously, that's why people buy them. Everybody thinks they're an incredibly safe driver and most of them privately think the safety aspect is the smallest reason they buy these systems. They get bought because people want to text and watch Netflix on the way to work.

So I believe there's a tradeoff here. People drive to work all the time staring at their phones and only glancing up at the road every few seconds. They always have the option of turning the assist systems off and going back to distracted driving the old fashioned way. Obviously companies have no financial incentive to do this, but I posit that not making it impossible to use assist systems while completely distracted is actually a net benefit for road safety.

I'd rather have Honda Sense driving a car down the interstate by itself than some dude who's only looking up when the road curves.
The US never committed to total war in Vietnam, likely because of consequences from the USSR and China.

Just because harsh agents were used doesn't mean the US couldn't have been harsher. They certainly could have been.

> It's also hard to justify "total war" when your sovereignty/existence is not at stake and you're effectively an interloper in other people's conflicts.

Yes, that's my point - so instead you end up in 20 year zombie wars that bleed over time and accomplish little.
They make so much money off of Reddit, and reddit captures none of that value. It doesn't seem right.
Similar thinking could apply to this problem. For example, “frunks” still look like they could contain an IC engine from the outside, but we could design electric sedans that look more like pickup trucks by re-arranging that space to give up the traditional car look. Same for high capacity seating.
The nuclear family is an artifice probably promoted by suburban land developers and durable goods manufacturers during the 40s and 50s or something.

Humans naturally live in extended families three or more generations deep.
This is what Apple's policy USED to sound like.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZmeZyDGkQ0

"...You can't have a backdoor that's only for the good guys. That any back door is something that bad guys can exploit."

"No one should have to choose between privacy and security. We should be smart enough to do both."

"You're assuming they're all good guys. You're saying they're good, and it's okay for them to look. But that's not the reality of today."

"If someone can get into data, it's subject to great abuse".

"If there was a way to expose only bad people.. that would be a great thing. But this is not the world. .... It's in everyone's best interest that everybody is blacked out."

"You're making the assumption that the only way to security is to have a back door.....to be able to view this data. And I wouldn't be so quick to make that judgement."

No matter the mental gymnastics now, it's still a pretty drastic departure from what it used to be.
One particular advantage of Dropbox is that it's vendor-neutral and on pretty much every platform I can think of. This is good for people like me who insist on having one foot in every ecosystem. Good luck finding, say, an iCloud or OneDrive client for Linux.

Now if only the iPad client could actually background upload files when you save files using the system file picker...
I think its fine for a web app to be multiple MB. Websites like HN/wikipedia/blogs have no need for an SQL database but if you are loading something like a full IM client, it makes sense to download a few MB to make it stable over all browsers.
A Lawyer’s Deathbed Confession
South Korea has a growing number of cases.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/south-kore...

Mask mandates can be marginally useful in slowing down the spread on a temporary, limited basis. But they're obviously unsustainable. The virus is here to stay and asymptomatic people aren't going to wear masks forever. Much of the spread takes place inside private homes where no one wears masks.
Gotta make way for the homo-superior.
Previous related discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28119317
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>maybe that means something different in America? It's just an arrest

From what I see on Wikipedia, there is restricted access to someone's criminal record in the UK, but on the other hand, you can't get a complete version of your own record, and arrests may be obtainable by prospective employers in some circumstances.

"Arrests that do not lead to an official finding of guilt, i.e. a conviction or the acceptance of a caution, are not considered part of a person's criminal record and are not typically disclosed as part of the process. However, an enhanced disclosure may include such additional information, which is supplied at the chief police officer's discretion. Enhanced disclosures are typically used to screen applicants for positions such as police officer, social worker, and teacher, which involve contact with vulnerable groups and children.

Individuals and the self-employed cannot apply for a DBS check of their own criminal record, as they cannot ask an exempted question (a valid request for a person to reveal their full criminal history, including spent convictions) of themselves. Only organisations registered with the DBS can ask an exempted question and submit applications for criminal records checks. There are two types of registered organisation: a registered body, which is the employer; and an umbrella body, a registered body that processes criminal record checks for non-registered organisations who can ask the exempted question."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_record
Maintainer here. Please direct all feedback regarding the name to my personal email: tcook@apple.com
Was recently thinking that Apple may pull a Coke, and bring back the 3.5mm for a number of reasons.

Except that they are making money on overpriced headsets and acquisitions like Beatz.

I guess they have always compromised on privacy to make more $$, whether it is the crummy protections for browsing on iOS, selling out to Google, or the nearly required bluetooth. Now, I am sure there are a lot more things to add to this list..

Two Final thoughts:

From a business perspective this is a serious impairment on Goodwill.

Loss of Privacy is going to negatively impact Apple services.
On top of that, the conquered nations were not failed states. The US had a vested interest in protecting western Europe from the soviets, and given the historical and philosophical similarities and background of western Europe to the US, this was rather doable.

Even the US policy towards Japan was rather shrewd.

It's unlikely to see Afghanistan become anymore than what it is regardless of foreign intervention. They don't have the same recent history. It's similar to a Somalia than a Vietnam.
I'm seeing an interesting trend where developers are putting out content related to interview preparation.

Wonder if this could be an issue for the companies (especially if the interview preparation directly talks about how to ace the interview process at a certain company)?
mc32 claimed damage was done, and I'm asking for clarification as to what specifically that damage was.
Java JITs are considerably more advanced than this. It's expensive to put in all the additional control flow edges to model exceptions, but once done, control and data flow analyses just work, as well as loop optimizations, code motion, inlining, register allocation--all of it "just works" (TM). Then you have to spit out a metric crapton of metadata to allow searching for the correct handler at runtime, but that's the slow path.

All of that is to say that Java try blocks do not have any direct dynamic cost when exceptions are not thrown.

Even throwing exceptions and catching them locally in Java can be fast. If everything gets inlined into one compilation unit and the exception object is escape analyzed, HotSpot will absolutely just emit a jump.

Not that I disagree with your overall point--Virgil just doesn't have exceptions--but from your description here it just sounds like your compiler is far behind the state of the art in terms of optimizing exception-heavy code.
A Nix binary cache specification
Those don't implement the same SQL as SQLite does, or as each other... What would the standard actually say?
> And yet we're are now at a point where Chrome rams its own APIs through standards bodies, and there are no (and often won't be) any independent competing implementations.

Very few people are using Chrome-only APIs which are not in the standards yet. So it's not really a concern.

But otherwise, Chrome really has pushed the web forward more than any other browser. If it hadn't, native (and walled garden style) app stores would have totally taken over.

The web is in business (and thriving) as an application platform because it's being pushed forward relentlessly. The Storage Foundation API discussed in TFA is a good example.
They had a ton of COVID cases (1M, in a population of 10M!) and have vaccinated heavily. They're also doing a lot of the social distancing things that they initially avoided.

Vaccination does reduce the chance of spreading the virus. Having 10% of the country get the natural variant and 45% fully immune, plus still doing the social distancing stuff, and requiring negative COVID tests for those entering the country, seems like a pretty good way of keeping delta under control.
I thought we were still talking about the beginning
of the pandemic? South Korea did fend off the virus through contact tracing, mask mandates and lockdowns early on. Unfortunately most other countries did too little too late which was my original point.

The result being that by now we have a full blown ever-pandemic at hand - which includes South Korea by definition.
Don’t forget the coconut water and sales President’s Club trip.
A Woman Runs One of Biggest Anti-Vax Websites from Her House
I use an outdoor propane stove with massive BTUs from Camp Chef for my wok. You need big heat for a wok. Makes all the difference, you just have to get used to cooking really fast under really high heat.

https://www.campchef.com/cooking-systems/14-cooking-systems/...

This stove is only about half as powerful as one in a Chinese restaurant. Those things are rocket engines.
Preface: DC fast-charging is "Level 3". A 240V ("clothes dryer connector" in the US) or hardwired wall-connector is "Level 2" and in the US is typically 15-50A - if you have a modern home with plenty of free 'leccy panel spots then you can do 90A. A slow 110V or low-amperage 240V (for outside North America) is considered "Level 1". The supply of DC fast chargers is not open to the public at all: only Tesla and a tiny number of third-parties maintain Level 3 infrastructure, and they all require outhouse-sized transformer units for each car space, separate from the car-connector part.

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Level 3 / DC fast-charging is not intended for long-term and repetitive use: it's only intended for road-trips and that's it - that's because DC fast-charging is bad for your battery.

I primarily charge at home using my 90A wall-connector - but I still rate-limit the charging to ~60A to help conserve the health of my battery-pack. Not that it matters much: since Covid and WFH my driving has dropped drastically, from ~30,000mi/yr to less than 5,000mi in 2020, and less than 1,000mi so far in 2021. (I got my Model X in 2018 and it's still got under 20,000 miles on it, lol).

But you raise an excellent point about apartment complexes and parking-lots not being able to feed dozens or more charging spaces. Yes, it's a problem, and no, I don't see a viable long-term solution.

Other than apartments, cities like London, etc, have built car charger ports into streetlamps so people with street-parking can charge their car at Level 2 speeds using that pre-existing infrastructure - I'm unsure to what extent it's a public-private-partnership vs. public, but the opportunity to profit from car-charging infrastructure means pushing the cost-per-mile up above the cost of gasoline/petrol - which undermines the economic-and-environmental benefits of BEVs (especially when you consider the dreaded fuel-tax on petrol will eventually be extended to electricity if governments don't introduce usage-based road taxes). It'll be mess, methinks.

Also, everything is terrible.
I think this is really great. Do you have a public transparency report feature on the roadmap?
On LinkedIn, there's a recruiter I was acquainted with before he went to Amazon, and I notice (on my news feed or whatever it's called) he's always looking for people for cleared positions these days. Not sure why.
I’ll believe the whole “we need to protect the women” story when we stop pumping shit into countries like Saudi Arabia.
It's too late to prevent large-scale spread of the virus. That already happened and it's now endemic worldwide. We don't have a time machine.

You obviously can't expect most people to continue tolerating masking, social distancing, and lockdowns indefinitely with no clear, achievable exit criteria. That would be absurd and people in free societies won't comply regardless of the potential consequences. You can complain that they're being irresponsible and putting others at risk but that won't change the reality.

At some point we'll have to accept the risk and move forward with normal life. Fortunately the vaccines are very effective at preventing deaths.
Xi Jinping’s assault on tech will change China’s trajectory
sure we did. that ~90% number came before the south African variant, and many others. that's arguably why the j&j had a much lower rate than Pfizer, as it was tested amongst test pools with different variants circulating.
Great answer! I'm still left wondering exactly what it is about the behaviour of an electron in the lowest orbit that is stopping it from getting closer to the nucleus. Maybe even thinking of it as 'stopping' at all is my problem. Guess the standing-wave analogy below is actually pretty good for understanding that aspect and also accepting that it's a probability field, which does have nonzero values 'inside' the lowest orbital, so it can be 'found' (measured to be) closer in, just much less often.

I'd guess having an intuition about why only the first orbital is spherical is probably part of understanding this all properly too, will keep-on reading!
I hate the politics too, but IME ignoring them hasn't made them go away.
The Taliban is an organized militia. They would've rolled over the pockets of resistance just like they are now.
Facebook pushes its office reopening to 2022
If there's anyone who can think of a better way, it's Herb. I'd take anything he has to say about C++ very very seriously.
20 years and trillions of dollars later, and they did a hell of a job.
Atari BASIC used 48-bit BCD floats and the routines were not well optimized, making it one of the slowest at the time(later retrohobbyists have made various patches as well as faster BASIC implementations). It was also Microsoft-incompatible which made it an odd duck among the microcomputer BASICs.
the distances are much longer, though I'd really like to see more of our long-haul freight being hauled by rail rather than truck.

It's not uncommon for a factory in Oregon to ship something by truck on Friday and have it arrive in South Carolina on Monday. This is done by having a two-person team transport the trailer across the country.

It would literally take weeks to accomplish the same thing by rail. There is not a single national railroad. Also I don't think the rail system could handle a large increase in traffic. For example, in the past some US railroads tore up existing parallel tracks. This saved them a lot of money on property tax, but required using a single track in both directions. That type of setup doesn't work well when freight volume increases.
So what's your takeaway, then? Should we have hoarded vaccine that people are refusing to take? Maybe someone could have made a quick call to Mumbai to see who had the right kind of freezers, I don't know.

The fact that the U.S. has hospitals full of unvaccinated covid patients, when you can walk into any Walgreens and get a vaccine in 15 minutes makes me insane.
I don't see how history can judge him harshly. Of course there is no way of knowing.

But this is what everyone wants. No one wants to fight this war anymore, it's unwinnable, and staying any longer will just delay the inevitable. I think history will look harshly upon the instigators of this war than the ones who decided enough was enough.
In general, any time you save a photo on iOS, it goes into the camera roll, which is automatically backed up into iCloud.
This title, reminds me of the backstory of ALL the productivity "gurus." They say they read everything and tried everything so you can take it from them. The only thing is...what they got good at was getting you to pay them to teach you about productivity!

Ironically, I got this by reading everything about productivity. Not a joke...back in the 80's, I read every book on the subject because I really wanted to know. And have been a bit of a productivity addict ever since. But now, getting the long view, I wish I had just learned more about who I really am, what matters to me, and just used the energy to live my own life.

Recently, a guy passed away in our little town. I thought to myself that he was a rare thing, just himself, not to shaped by some idea of what he should be. Taking to him was like sitting near a stream, or a warm campfire. Somehow so nourishing. Would like to see more of that in the world.
The fact you perceive any particular message posted to any particular for profit social media site as being a “public square” is more the result of successful marketing and ignorance than reality.
It may not be a huge success story, but it hasn't been a failed state either.
Nvidia's GTC 2021 keynote was CGI and nobody noticed
What follows is conjecture:

>... to address the CSAM issue lest governments come down on them hard.

And I think that is the springboard of why this is happening.

It's no secret that Apple has lobbyists which by turns have a "pulse" on the trajectory of Bills in the House and Senate.

What immediately came to mind to me was H.R.485 of 2021's House Session:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/485/...

My (layperson) estimation is that Apple knows the rewording of it is liable pass both House/Senate in some way either in the 2022 or 2023 sessions and are attempting to get ahead of the issue. (most likely as a "rider" bill at this point)

That's my thought process on what may have precipitated Apple's move toward "CSAM"; and I welcome it in some ways (unequivocally, children should not be subjected to sexual abuse) and am wary of it in others (ML is in its infancy in too many respects, and if a false-positive arises who's to say what's liable to happen on the Law Enforcement level).

There are infinitely many concerns to be discussed on both sides of this argument, and I want both to succeed in their way. CSAM, however, feels like an attempt to throw a blanket over Apple's domains-of-future-interests while playing an Altruism Card.

One thing is certain, though: they've opened the floodgates to these discussions on an international level...
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Strange that they make it difficult to pay them
In the beginning, there were websites
> 1) We need to keep using all strategies - including masking, social distancing, and targeted lockdowns - to reduce large scale spread of the virus. If we don't, we're going to be playing "new variant whack-a-mole" until the end of time.

How long do you think we need to keep using all strategies for? We've been doing that for almost a year and a half now, with no end in sight, despite having a vaccine available to everyone so quickly.
For now, in v1.
If you don't fill out the census your congressional representatives will be reallocated to other areas.
Yes thank you very much that is a very good summary. Sorry for being unclear.
I really couldn't give less of a fuck if my smattering of half-finished learning projects were lacking """best practices""" in security. So sick of this stupid nerd bullshit sometimes.
Inflation numbers are politically controlled. Simply look at how much buying power you have today vs. a few years ago and you will get a much more accurate picture of what the reality is.
Apple implemented a backdoor that scans your photos on your device, then alerts Apple and the authorities if there is a match against an un-auditable list of reference photos.

Currently it's been activated for CSAM only and only scans photos backed up to iCloud.

That's the framing I prefer and which much better explains the issue with it.
It's "slot machine" psychology, sometimes it doesn't work so you have to pull it again. Being unpredictable makes the dopamine rush stronger when it works and gives you what you want. search for "slot machine social media" and you'll find a good deal of coverage.

This usually applies to what posts are in an algorithmic feed, but I guess not having the feed show up at all is a fresh innovation. Twitter and Reddit both do a lot of just giving up and saying "woops, couldn't load that link you just clicked" as if that was a real problem. Really? what, the database wasn't there when you looked? Try again yourself, why make me click refresh?

Another anecdata - search on facebook doesn't work for finding stuff in someone's timeline, so I've spent many minutes scrolling down someone's page trying to find a post. It's frustrating but I don't quit, and I'm sure metrics and impressions look great (no click through tho)
Fascinating! I would love to gain more of an intuitive grasp on how subatomic particles all work and fit together, i'm not a physicist though. Could you suggest any good introductory reading?
> if the sanctuary believes that, why are they letting anyone through at all?

Good question, especially considering that they did go on to say that if covid was found in this bat population, the cave would be closed off for human entry permanently. I didn't probe further but I suspect that policy might be based on what you said about evidence of human -> bat transmission.

Still, I do feel that closing it off seems like the prudent thing to do. It seems kinda myopic to have a policy to only close after the fact while knowing full well that Covid is zoonotic and mutations can in theory occur in a bat population on North American soil. At that point, last year's exercise of pointing fingers at Wuhan effectively becomes a historic unfunny joke because it's not like the US tests their wild bats every day and what can possibly go wrong w/ reactive policies... </shrug>

My overall point though is that even if we have perfect root cause analysis, people will still choose to ignore anything from informed recommendations to even appeals to emotion. As they say, it only takes one bad apple.
Yeah, my city had/has it and is not on list.
And, it’s absurdly defeat-able. Which means there’ll be an escalation. Whether in v2 or beyond, this will get worse / more intrusive.