skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The US government is NOT forcing Apple to scan customer data

Unfortunately we do not know that for certain. Companies were compelled to sign up to PRISM against their will. Yahoo in particular tried to resist and were threatened with financial destruction [1]. The Feds can essentially levy any sum of daily fines on a company like Yahoo or Apple any time they see fit, with a rubber stamp from the FISA court; they effectively demonstrated that with their confrontation with Yahoo. And it clearly terrified Yahoo.

We have no idea if what's being put into place by Apple is the start of a new program by the powers that be and Apple has little choice but to comply realistically, or be hammered financially (or worse, the Feds might just get dirty and target executives personally). If they were working on PRISM 3.0 and attempting to implement it, we would never know it at this juncture.

It's worth being suspicious of what's going on given the one certainty is we know very clearly what the authorities want, what they'd like to see happen, and that they never stop trying to prod things in that direction. They're always up to something shady, always looking for ways to advance the surveillance state. The Biden Admin years will see that effort turbo charged once again, as with the Bush & Obama years. Whatever they're up to right now (again, they're always working on new programs like PRISM, always), you can be sure it's big, likely illegal and a gross violation of human rights.

https://www.wired.com/2014/09/feds-yahoo-fine-prism/
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> FIRE is exactly that. It is living like a poor person on a well off person income and banking the difference to retire early.

Here's the thing though, it's easy to live a fun fulfilling life while 'living like a poor person'. You just need to figure out what you enjoy and how you maximise that enjoyment while minimising spending.

Your commuting example is an example of saving the wrong way, commuting time has been shown to have a massive impact on happiness. A better property example would be looking at extra features you don't need. My flat's a one bed, with most of it being one big room about 390 square feet in size. I could easily afford a bigger one with a lot more features but I've got what I need, so why waste the money?

Let's break down all the things that could be better.

- It has very limited storage (I could convert a bit of loft space if I really needed to)

The limited storage makes me consider whether I really need things when I buy them, reducing impulse spending and encouraging me to keep a semi-minimalist home, which I think is nicer.

- It only has one bedroom

I have a big comfy couch so friends can crash easily enough but I'm never folks first choice which is actually convenient. The lack of an office has sucked during covid but even if I had one I wouldn't want to WFH so hopefully it won't be an issue going forward.

- No Garden

I live in one of the greenest prettiest cities in the world and there dozens of parks and walks close by. If I want to sit in the sun it's a very short walk and it encourages me to get out and about.

- No Bathtub

I rarely took baths when I had one so not having one isn't a big deal. Actually now when I go on holiday and get one I'm really excited and enjoy them a lot more as a treat so overall I'm actually happier than when I had one.

- Expensive to heat

In non-covid times I spend most winter evenings out and about and a flat with cheaper heating generally costs a chunk more, so the extra expense is still less.

For some people those might be deal breakers and that's fair enough. Everyone is different. The point is to figure out what makes you happy and get it as cheap as possible not to be as cheap as possible regardless of happiness.
A 3rd option is society (or parts of society) can go through rough patches where 30 years before year X was better than year X + 30. Trajectories for different populations within the society can differ themselves and so individuals will have varying answers.
>What happens to stuff that doesn't get patented? It's public.

Or it's kept as a trade secret.
NASA Says an Asteroid Will Have a Close Brush with Earth but Not Until the 2100s
Smoking in bars, restaurants, nightclubs, and other places where you wouldn't even think about it now. Coming home after a night out stinking like stale cigarette smoke was the norm, even if you didn't smoke (which you may as well have).
Well: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57897401 Twitter suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene over 'misleading' Covid posts

It wasn't about masks but what I have watched a video of telling worse things to a crowd.
Once again, the notion that everything on the device is scanned under Apple's system was never true.

Only photos you attempt to upload to Apple's iCloud are scanned. If you turn off iCloud photos, NOTHING is scanned.

>Q: So if iCloud Photos is disabled, the system does not work, which is the public language in the FAQ. I just wanted to ask specifically, when you disable iCloud Photos, does this system continue to create hashes of your photos on device, or is it completely inactive at that point?

A: If users are not using iCloud Photos, NeuralHash will not run

https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/10/interview-apples-head-of-p...
Just to add to this - he went to Facebook and wrote a post about this that can be translated as:
"Fucking work hard or get the fuck out"
But that's the same with 0.1 and 0.2. You will still have users in 0.1 who will expect support and refuse to update.
So ease of access is really the number one driver. Perhaps I'm just old, but I remember when security was never supposed to be easy. When easy, it is taken for granted, and therein lies the failure of security. So essentially this cloud model gives everyone the illusion of security. Probably nothing new, since its all theater at a certain point.

This is not to takeaway from all the technical details of 1Ps approach to this, but (once again) in light of what we have seen from the "Trillion $ darling of privacy", enabling scanning of personal content one has to wonder how long before the same is applied by 1P. Remember your vault can store just about anything. I am sure it is only a matter of time before the case is made that we must think of the children.

Irony of all this, I'm someone who is paid to migrate customer security to the cloud. Runs counter to my thoughts on the matter, but not those making the financial decisions on all sides. I certainly don't fault 1P for making the prudent financial decision that 95% of their customers have made. As part of the 5% I shall wring as much out of 1P7 as possible and eventually move elsewhere.
The problem is that when one fixes a problem by "s---ting all over people's code" like GP said, chances are they're introducing more bugs or restoring old ones.

That's why git-fu, comments and a collective memory is important. Not only we need to know what was done, but also why, when and in which conditions it was done.
How about Tutanota?
You're clearly not familiar with hiring in tech. It's 2% because the available pool is tiny. It's not for lack of trying to hire non-white, non-asians in tech. Tech minorities are in fact prioritized in hiring AND there are countless programs to increase the pool. Aimed at girls and tech minorities, not white and asian boys.
Mandatory speed limiters on UK cars from 2022
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Add a 1. in front. It earned it.
I don't know much about Tcl, but I thought everything was a string, not a float? It appears to work with integers just fine:

$ echo 'puts [expr 2 ** 128 + 1]' | tclsh
340282366920938463463374607431768211457

$ python3 -c 'print(2 ** 128 + 1)'
340282366920938463463374607431768211457

$ node -p 'Math.pow(2, 128) + 1'
3.402823669209385e+38
Raph Levien work on General purpose GPU, Steven De Keninck and lots of others on Geometric Algebra, new WebGPU spec finally standardising the mess that is GPU programming, work done with implicit function and SDF from the demo scene, just lots of stuff. Maybe take a look at SigGraph talks and symposium on geometry processing.
Lucas had been thinking about it for a while. His initial premise was some kind of Archeologist James Bond type action/adventure film that pays homage to the Saturday matinee cliffhanger serials Lucas enjoyed as a youngster.
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In such cases I try to split those additional fixes and apply them before your main bug fix that requires them. But yeah, sometimes that isn't possible.
Worth noting that this page is satire and poking fun at many of the issues that you note here.
Ask HN: Does software development cause greater decision fatigue than other jobs
Seems to include EU too, though I've copied the headline verbatim.

> All new vehicles sold in Europe – including the UK – will be fitted with a mandatory speed limiter from 2022 to keep cars within the UK speed limits and boost road safety.

> The European Commission has reached a provisional agreement that all new vehicles sold in Europe will be fitted with a speed limiter as a legal requirement from 6 July 2022. The 2019/2044 regulation also mandates all new cars that have already launched be fitted with an Intelligent Speed Assist (ISA) by 7 July 2024.

This seems to be the source for the article
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2019/2144
Also, after you're hired, a group of Apple employees can sign a petition saying something you wrote 10 years ago--from which they saw an excerpt--bothers them....and Apple will fire you.
Yes actually, you're right. Arguments for semver aren't really applicable to user-facing stuff as upgrades there are tested by release teams and generally in most cases you want users to upgrade always.

The utopian ideal for apps in cases where someone might choose to use an older version (presuming LTS) would be somehow naming the release based on features, but that's not practical so date-based versioning is a really good proxy here.

Calver's uselessness only really applies to software dependencies.
Substantial cost decreases as east Asian manufacturing matured. I'm not sure if that counts as an innovation.
This is what user stylesheets were intended to solve. Too bad the majority browsers have gone down the path of attempting to remove all customisation.
If the project actually does last that long, I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to just extended the version by 2 digits to include the full year.
Alternatively, it's a bit of Future Shock

I grew up in the 90s, & maybe I'd do better as a 20 year old in 1991 rather than 2031 (too young to say 20 in 2021; I've succeeded already close enough to there), but I'd rather grow up in the 2000s than grow up in the 80s

There's a kind of arbitrage, where if I could take my technical abilities from 2010 back to 1990, I'd probably do pretty well. I'm not so sure about taking those abilities to 2030. So you need to frame your question more clearly: at what age does the time travel occur? For simplicity I assume the only age you've given: 20. If it's about when we're born, then that's a completely different human being
> Apple's new system is scanning personal property that doesn't belong to them and isn't yet in their cloud.

Apple's new system only scans photos you attempt to upload to their cloud.

Nothing else is scanned.

Scanning the files on server, the way Google and Microsoft do it, means that false positive data is lying around where it can be subpoenaed and used to incriminate innocent people.

>Innocent man, 23, sues Arizona police for $1.5million after being arrested for murder and jailed for six days when Google's GPS tracker wrongly placed him at the scene of the 2018 crime

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7897319/Police-arre...
Yes, I think it is reasonable. You do too, it's just that you think it's ok in some circumstances and not others.
Do we really need this baby sitting? Are we seriously complaining of working from home, not having to commute, and cooking our own food is a problem? In the age of groceries delivery from a click on my phone.

I just can't believe it. World is going to hell and were like crying babies that can't prepare a meal by themselves.
It's a little hard over the translation gap to understand why the account was locked... Am I understanding correctly that Twitter interpreted sharing detailed information about a murder victim as doxxing?

https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/personal-info...
Something like this is exactly why my former company suddenly changed the q&a to have to go through a middle person before it could be asked to the group.

Due to some of the states we operate in is legally required that our CEOs ratio of pay to the average employees disclosed.

This company was a software company it's not like we had any warehouse workers or anything and the CEO was droning on about equity and his compensation was 111 times more than the average software engineer.

I decided to quit after that and go to a startup.

There's nothing more hollow than a corporate sponsored "revolution".
1. I'd agree it's not "right away", so I think my use of "immediately" as too strong a word. But it sounds like we both agree that the experience of what happens when we are in the process of understand a proposition is different from the "experience" (if you can call it that) of flagging the highest probability.

2. I also agree with you that the perception of relations of things is primary in the way we know things, and it is pretty amazing how word vectors seem to capture some of these relationships in an analogous way (king - man + woman = queen). But I also think we see the properties of things before we see their relations to each other - otherwise, how could you know there is a relationship, not knowing that there are at least two things or properties to relate? But I'm going too far afield now!
I love the style of the video combined with the narrative. Bennu is small and the narrator talks mainly about the mythological background of the names the scientist chose. This makes sense, but also indicates some lack of noteworthy things to mention about Bennu directly. Maybe it is due to the much bigger size of our moon, that the according video from NASA contains much more "actual" information about the object: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16822289
Oh cool, thanks I’ll take a look
Texas is the biggest wind power generator in the country. North central Texas up near the panhandle has basically a constant 15-20 mph wind year-round. The entire landscape north of Lubbock is dotted with wind turbines.
And if their ToS are themselves political?
Yeah sure...

"Can you make it look more futuristic? We're building a mining spaceship colony and it must attract the investors"
I think people ctrl+F for something and then post a comment "I can't believe no one mentioned X...".

People don't usually reach the bottom of the first page when they go through comments, because the first page is quite big, so they never have to see the pagination (though they do need to know it's not the complete view).
I agree. I have both Moderna doses and finished 13 weeks ago. I just came out of isolation after contracting Delta 12 days ago. It felt like a head cold and was done in 3 days.

But the local health board said that my vaxxed family members were free to leave the house and go in public right away as long as they didn't have symptoms.

But you're also possibly contagious for 24-48 hours before symptoms. The logic here is really confusing.
Red Arrows smoke trails are going green
There are a few blog posts floating around that explain how to extract your iCloud CalDAV access credentials in order to add iCloud calendars to Thunderbird. Last I checked there is no nice GUI for setting that up, if that is what you're after.
Hmm, nope, I feel exactly the same on this topic that I did before. If India or Indians don't like the impact Twitter has on their internal politics they are free to ban or stop using Twitter as they see fit.
Or distribute small amounts to thousands of wallets randomly. That would cause quite a bit of chaos.
It's bizzare to me that it hasn't in other places. When you issue a mandate, it's automatically politicized. In a parallel universe this could have gone so much differently if, trump say, said "I'm not going to force you to wear masks, but please wear them".
> In the past, people have dismissed such concerns

The problem is GCC made these concerns completely irrelevant. You wanted refactoring support for C or C++? Either build it on clang or get screamed at by RMS for leaking GCC internals when text base search and replace was enough for him in the early 80s.

The simple fact is that there is no GNU based alternative to clang/llvm.
Dropbox had Carousel, a mobile first photos product that was decently well regarded. They killed it, presumably for cost/benefit reasons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbox_Carousel
Different people can interpret words differently. Replacing 'master' is a very low cost change which, IMO, can improve understanding of what is described. (Like main or root branch or vault password.)

So why cling to a word that has so much cultural baggage when it doesn't even work that well in Thunderbird?
Just go to the supermarket and cook real food like 99% of the population that's not dying from hunger does.
HN doesn't have any iOS app nor any other app for that matter. So I'm guessing the author must confuse HN with something else.
I have a domain that I bought many years ago. I've had people call me on the phone to question me about it, and some people have even come to my house to see if I'm a real person because of it. It's a fun one.

Type "illuminati" backwards, and add a ".com" :)
Yes. Very good optimisation (to be expected), but without the insane exploitation of UB that the GCC/Clang crowd seem to think is necessary for optimisation. Instruction scheduling and selection probably makes the biggest difference.
OK, but it's not about legibility here.

It's about creating a feeling. Fonts like other graphic elements CAN communicate feeling in addition to whatever they spell out.

The case of Moon and Alien, it communicates a non-empathic "Company" that has a lot to hide. A company that is literally cryptic to it's own employees, of course they're going to have unreadable user-hostile fonts.

A real-life analogy might be something like UI's from Oracle EBS (enterprise business suite): Horrific, outdated, grey-blah swing interfaces from the 90's that have tentacles in every aspect of employee work-life from vacation-requests to procurement, to bonuses and customer relationships.
Just a curiosity, did you read it? Not comments on it, but the original document.
You can’t delete your comments after 2 hours.
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I, for one could not find the standalone.
Now I feel like I've been had, and have a bad taste in my mouth. I'm moving to something else. Currently trying out Secrets for MacOS, it will be hard to work with my one PC as it's not crossplatform, but I think I can deal with that.
Clothing has become almost “too cheap to meter” and we have things pretty good now when it comes to food yet people seem to be poorly dressed and obese. Many other technological and social improvements also feel hollow to me for that reason: they're not making our lives meaningfully better.
Then Twitter's ToS was designed in a manner that promotes one political party above the other. It's not complicated.
My entry level software job was $35k in 2015 in London! Outside the US, jobs across the board paid a lot more before 2008.
> a large number of HN community members are - somewhat ironically - very closed minded

The other side of that coin – excessive open-mindedness – however, leads to being susceptible to cults, snake oil salesmen, and hyped up technologies. Crypto currencies, in particular, frequently tick all three boxes. Skepticism is generally a good thing, and so far crypto currency proponents have failed to refute the arguments of sceptics.
True. I considered clarifying, but didn't to be concise. I think publication as a reasoning for granting patents is superseded. It's mostly relevant to the history of patents, not the present.

You can't be secretive about a UI, or the chemical composition of a drug.
ReactOS makes sense to still be at version 0. Even with all the work put into it, it's still not usable as a daily driver.
Very excited for webgpu
11 comments on HN so far, discussing politics and complaints about Twitter, and so far not one has responded to the content of the article, in which Twitter claims to have locked every account that posted a picture of a rape victim's family, violating its policy on doxxing.
Assembler CSS is built on top of Constructable Stylesheets because we believe there is value in this technology. If you haven't heard about constructable stylesheets, here is a link https://dev.to/westbrook/why-would-anyone-use-constructible-... to a short article. If interested, you can find many more with a simple search on Google. When people read about constructable stylesheets, they are like, "Wait, whaaaaat? Constructable Stylesheets is about using JavaScript to generate CSS?". Yeah, dude, welcome to the 21st century! Try not to make a heart attack over this.
My versioning scheme is based on UNIX timestamps of releases, all concatenated together. Something like this:

{major release timestamp}.{minor release timestamp}.{last patch timestamp}, which winds up like: 1542051468.1576431468.1613410668

Very clear and easy for users to understand.
What has Facebook got to do with time-series forecasting?? Prophet?? Real time series work means rolling your own tools and understanding exactly how they function ;-). In C preferably, while flogging yourself at the same time. Just kidding.. Sort of.
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And since humans are inherently political, we should just delete the entirety of humanity.
oh boy after VR and AR hype failed now we have to read this BS
NextCloud that runs in my own personal server.
Been running it for a few months and I have 0 issues with it.

It may not have the same integration options but it's better than the alternatives.
Then most people are wrong. We already have a word for the content changes: a patch. A commit is a patch applied on a previous state. (Or for git, a snapshot with zero or more previous states if you want to be pedantic.)
WFH will happen because firms practicing will be saving significantly on expensive office space that can be used to hire developers, especially in COL areas, and with remote not being the norm they are able to attract talent they would not have otherwise. It will take time but I will be surprised if full time onsite is still the overwhelming norm it was in 10 years
Last time? About two months ago. Sidenote, I am not Dutch. Are you implying that Dutch people don't buy any services from Google?
Comments like this make me understand why the world is going to hell. Mankind is doomed.
230 is US law, we're talking about India. They could lose 230 protections and nothing would be different, in and of itself.
Does WHOIS protection protect you from that? I'd be freaked out if someone showed up at my house to see if I was Illuminati or not.
Second life solved all those things 15 years ago
It is unreasonable if Twitter doesn't make a statement as to why. If an intelligence agency of a foreign government had done this it would be an act of war. I don't see why Twitter should be seen as any less nefarious merely because it's a company with a ToS when they don't actually explain WHY certain decisions are made and cowardly point to a ToS as though that is an omnibus explanation for all of their actions.
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Non-differentiability, obviously
Well, you've just got it all figured out, don't you?

Thankfully, we didn't have this type of rampant censorship before the discovery of germ theory, or we'd all still be bloodletting.