skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a bit twee to compare Emacs to a Lisp machine, as those machines could do lots of incredible things that are still difficult in Emacs.

But dammit, Emacs brings many Lisp Machine advantages to your editor, including live-coding your editor's configuration. If there's a task you need done, or a change you need to make to how the editor works, you can code it up in Emacs Lisp right in the running editor (or even record a macro as a starting point), test it, debug it, and save it off if you like the results. Without leaving your editing session.

The huge advantages this brings outweighs my complaints with Emacs Lisp the language (which are many).
When I started, the account setup process at Google was done with a room full of new hires on Linux machines, and assumed knowledge of vi.

I was like "WTF?" because I'm a Mac programmer and my plain text editor is BBEdit or an IDE. If I have to edit a file in Terminal I'll use nano.

The session leader thought I was weird, but I quit vi (eventually), used nano and it worked fine. I still don't know how to use vi or Emacs.
Because most people dont care. All of HN can stop buying Apple, itll make .000001% difference to their profit if even.
If you're interested in abandoned buildings and other artistic captures of the darker side of society, check out Artemy Lebedev - a Russian traveller who's been to pretty much everywhere in the world.

https://www.tema.ru/eng/travel/
The rich are very mobile: they can hop on a jet in their garage and be anywhere the same day. They aren't bound to their houses, like middle class.
Their use of the phrase "This claim is subject to code inspection by security researchers like all other iOS device-side security claims" stood out to me.

Could someone tell me how that inspection works? Are there researchers who are given the source code?

(I posted this on another thread [0] earlier, but it's more relevant here)
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28175619
> It isn't like they can flip a switch and suddenly they are identifying new suspected CSAM on people's phones.

This is a strawman. Identifying *novel* CSAM is a very hard problem to do accurately - the reason they can't flip the switch is because they don't have the technical capability. All of the other things people are concerned about are things that apple does have the capability to do.

EDIT to reply since at max thread depth: *novel* image detection was never on the table, I think you missed that word

> This is an arbitrary line that is being drawn.

It seems the vast majority of people in this thread disagree that this line is arbitrary.

EDIT: whether the threshold is "verging on impossible." depends entirely on the effective false positive rate. If apple's claimed 1 in 1 trillion rate is true, it's probably not a concern. However, I find it unlikely that perceptual hashes on portions of images won't have higher false positive rates when subject matter is similar (non-CSAM legal adult porn, or images of children in swimsuits, etc). If that rises to 1 in 1 million for these types of images, that's hundreds of thousands of people being falsely accused.
This is like renting a house and the owner saying "we installed a camera in your house, but we'll only look at the video, if someone screams 'help'"

Then someone says "what if they change it so it sends the video if someone says 'do you want some pot?'"

And your argument would be "wouldn't you just move if they did that?" - this argument is pointless, because it's not the "help" part that bothersome, it's the always recording camera in a black box, for which you never know what's recording and what's it sending to apple. Let's say hypothetically they do this, and modify the database to trigger on the "tank man" photo, and give that photo such weight, that it triggers manual review by the CCP observer (remember, apple data for chinese users is hosted in china) - you'll never know the image got flagged, you'll never even know that it was sent anywhere, but your social score will go down and you might "vanish" during the night. Imagine some new wikileaks happening... 15 journalists around the world get the data, NSA/CIA/FBI has hacked one of them and found some photos of USA doing something bad.... add those photos to the database, have apple scan all the phones, you find the other 14 journalists, and possible even the leaker who took the original photo. If this is expended to macbooks (which it probably will), even worse, because people keep more sensitive stuff on ther computers than their phones.

And all this for what? Child molesters and rapists (the worst of the pedos) create new photos and videos, that are in none of the databases, so you never catch them. Their direct sponsors (paying customers) get the photos first, and again, before they're in the database. So all you've caught is someone browsing 4chan.
I think the key difference is that the enemy in WW2 was centrally led conventional army while the Taliban wage Guerilla warfare, with entrenched structures and decades of experience.
Most forums did have reputation systems though, which I would argue were the primitive form of likes. But I agree, I do miss the old forum style of communities.
Sonos Scores Win in ITC Patent Infringement Case Against Google
No argument on the questionable nature of a wide variety of such actions. I would posit, though, that individual, targeted raids by special forces on specific terrorist leaders (baghdadi and bin laden) are much clearer than many other such operations and actions. if a key base located in that region helps those targeted and collateral damage minimizing missions, then perhaps that factors into the decision of staying there.
It had a milder version of the same problem, though. The more contentious threads or posts got more responses.
https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/12/3269/2020/

That is just based on the sub-title from OurWorldInData. If you dive into the source document linked above, you will find that the figure is indeed computed how one would first guess it is: add up all national emissions and divide by population.

"The estimates of global and national fossil CO2 emissions (EFOS) include the combustion of fossil fuels through a wide range of activities (e.g. transport, heating and cooling, industry, fossil industry own use, and natural gas flaring), the production of cement, and other process emissions (e.g. the production of chemicals and fertilizers) as well as CO2 uptake during the cement carbonation process."
Yeah but you are[1].

"In internet slang, a troll is a person who posts inflammatory, insincere, digressive, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community ... with the intent of provoking readers into displaying emotional responses, or manipulating others' perception. "

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll

HN isn't Reddit. Stop.
I'm very confused about your overall response.

You can very much respect the local culture while smashing out and cultural practices. For example, key to culture is language and so promoting local language is important. Likewise, the treatment of women in some middle East countries is oppressive and so promoting inclusion as an alternative (preferred) cultural norm is ideal. Same with child marriage.
Most likely global capitalism will thrive in the face of global warming. Creative destruction. All the infrastructure to be rebuilt, the huge projects, warlike government expenditures, replacing the worlds fleet of vehicles, expanding the grid multiple times.
It will be absolutely Faustian…
People were taking too much time between new cars
And success! Lost more points than I could've hoped for.
China already uses their police forces to mandate that certain citizens install specific apps on their phones. They also control the cloud service (a Chinese-only iCloud) that Apple uses in the China market.

China doesn’t need this feature.
Many of the activities I've done in the service of tantric meditation have required an intense catharsis before continuing to the calm. All of that is one meditation.
Then read some more on the subject and please don't continue to propagate myths like this.

https://www.bra.se/bra-in-english/home/news-from-bra/archive...
What are you talking about? For protection from COVID, not spread it to other people, herd immunity etc.
Carrying around an extra kg of weight takes roughly the same energy regardless of tissue type.
Try Alternator from ScyllaDB to break that lock :)
> I’m all for privacy but have no issues whatsoever with companies scanning

That's an oxymoron.
> Now you need to figure out how do scale up production? How do we control costs to keep it affordable to the average person? How do we get people aware of the product? Who do we target as early adopters? How do we incorporate feedback from real usage back into the engineering of the product? How do we design the product so it's intuitive and appealing to use? How can we convince investors to take the risk and give us the capital needed to get this process under way? How do we plan and budget for production to accommodate projected growth? Are there legal or regulatory considerations? How do we coordinate all the people that need to work together to make this happen?

These are all valid questions whose answers are necessary, but ultimately they are solved problems for which we often can just copy the solution from previous iterations. Somebody just needs to do it and I don’t see why these persons should get far far more than the lions share. Let them get remunerated and also substantially, but not the most.

The vast majority of entrepreneurs does not deserve renumerations of such high proportions, they just get them because they can. Past accumulation, capital structures, capital dependency, path dependencies - which ultimately are all just positions of power - allow the entrepreneur class to squeeze out such high returns.

But they’re not even the root of the problem, because they are squeezed out by the financial class who has the privilege of squeezing others out by virtue of having squeezed out others before.

We have these systems of hierarchical exploitation and accumulation for thousands of years, but saw only real improvement with technological innovation.
Errr, no they don't. Yes, they must be disable-able.
It does not require the phone maintain the same functionality, etc.
For example, Verizon makes visual voicemail only available on the verizon store.
You can disable it, you can remove it.

That won't get you the functionality!
Incredible! I feel like there’s so much room for improvement for mainstream input methods. Amazing this existed in 2007 — too bad I can’t use it on my iPhone.
That's what I keep hearing ;) But really it only seems that way if you get or have been very lucky.
Funny I was just thinking today that this would be good for a smart watch.
> Once the images and tokens are uploaded to iCloud photos, iCloud will alert if 30+ of those security tokens show a match, it will alert Apple's team, and they will get access to only those 30+ photos. They will manually review those photos, and if they then discover that you are indeed hoarding known child pornography then they report you to the authorities.

Apple: We have 29 matches on your device of "known CSAM"[0]. However, despite our confidence level being very high, we won't report it to the authorities because we value your privacy!

[0] for varying definitions of 'known CSAM'.
This is non-sensical. The price of a free lunch in school is such a tiny fraction of what any state pays for in its education budget. If you are against public education I'd find that consistent but it seems bizarre to draw the line here.

This seems like the type of thing that would have happened sooner if education policy ignored the desires of teachers unions/administers wanting higher salaries. One would have to think that for all the money spent on teachers/extracurriculars/busses/etc. we can get a pretty good bang for our buck in terms of test scores just by feeding children without administrative hassle.
Yes, i know this backstory which is why i mentioned radio buttons: they called like that because of some historical reference, not because they have anything to do with radios.

Similarly comboboxes are called like that because of historical reference (to the combobox control on Win32 that provided the functionality) even though they aren't really a combination of input box and list.

(though one could claim that they are still a combination of a button and a drop-down list, so the name still has some relevance to what is displayed, unlike radio buttons)
I’m not arguing it’s not a useful tool. I’m arguing it has an eventual cost that has to be paid.

If my wages suddenly get reduced by 20% so I start borrowing against the equity in my home that solves the immediate problem but also creates another problem.
They "realized the error" after the Babylon Bee put out a press release stating, "While we wish it wasn't necessary, we have retained a law firm to represent us in this matter".

Organizations have more credibility when they realize their errors before the lawyers get involved.
Thanks, here's how one system works, calculates dozens of floating point moments:

http://www.fmwconcepts.com/misc_tests/perceptual_hash_test_r...
https://www.cnet.com/news/samsung-says-2001-a-space-odyssey-...
4kya is 1500 years after the first Mesopotamian cities we know about arose.

Before the Persian Gulf filled in, ~8kya or another 2500 years back, there could have been cities there, now underwater, downstream from the known ruins. If made of un-fired mud brick, they would have since dissolved.
Oh! I always thought they were specific to SuperUser.com
> And all this for what? Child molesters and rapists (the worst of the pedos) create new photos and videos, that are in none of the databases, so you never catch them. Their direct sponsors (paying customers) get the photos first, and again, before they're in the database.

I hadn’t considered that. This would seem to create a market incentive to abuse more children and create a greater variety of new abusive content. Has that been considered at all?
I'm in California where we have tons of solar generation. For much of the state, solar generation slopes off sharply starting at 4PM and it's still hot. That's when we tend to have the grid emergencies now. Houses with average insulation and pre-heated framing/attics can rise in temperature pretty quickly even if you've aggressively precooled the indoors.
So I have a couple of years sticking with the current iOS version before I switch to another ecosystem I guess. It’s a shame, Apple did privacy mostly well and I love the ecosystem.
> It’s like taking decades and billions of dollars worth of hard won reputation for privacy and throwing it in the garbage at the worst possible moment.

How gullible Apple users are to think that their closed-source ecosystem was ever about privacy, but I still don't think they'll learn. It is a cult and will continue being a cult.
Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article and then rush into the HN comments to get angry about it. That leads to generic tangents, which are particularly predictable and tedious—and usually get nasty.

The idea here is to have curious conversation. For that, a better practice would be to bring in the most interesting thing from an article, or the thing that creates more interesting responses in you.

One way of looking at this is to take the following guideline to apply at the article level as well:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm very nostalgic for Blackberry again. I feel like on a platform where the whole point was to prevent anyone who wasn't the corporate IT department from being able to access it, this local code execution would have been a massive non starter.
For those not familiar with the JSP style alluded to in the comments, and its contrast to the "traditional style," here's an example of a function that splits a string into words. The "traditional" version was shown by a famous computer scientist in a conference talk a few years ago; I translated it to JS to provide some anonymity :-).

JSP's claim to greater clarity is based on the correspondence between the code blocks and the structure being processed: the body of the outer loop processes a group (of gap and word); the body of the inner loops process a gap and a word respectively. The traditional style, in contrast, is like a state machine, and can't be viewed structurally---you need to think about what's happening at each point. This makes it harder to modify the code (eg, by adding something that happens once per word, which is now in two places) and often leads to bugs.

This same structural clarity is why, in my view, code that uses list functionals like map/reduce is usually more comprehensible than traditional imperative code.

// JSP version of a split function
split_jsp = function (s) {
words = [];
i = 0;
while (i < s.length) {
while (is_white (s[i]))
i++;
word = "";
while (is_alpha (s[i]))
word += s[i++];
if (word.length > 0) words.push(word);
}
return words;
}

// "traditional" version of a split function
split_traditional = function (s) {
words = [];
word = "";
for (i = 0; i < s.length; i++) {
ch = s[i];
if (is_white (ch)) {
if (word != "") words.push (word)
word = "";
}
else
word += ch;
}
if (word != "")
words.push (word);
return words;
}

is_white = ch => (ch == ' ' || ch == '\t' || ch == '\n')
is_alpha = ch => ch != undefined && (/[a-zA-Z]/).test(ch)
"exact match" for one. And his weird dissembling about how scanning on the client side isn't scanning.
To add to this, the wet market theory is baloney. No bats were sold or traded there.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-91470-2
There's quite a strong criticism of how our principle of freedom of speech (as opposed to 'freedom of action') is built upon a Cartesian mind-body dualism written by Susan Brison (no book published, as far as I'm aware) building off the American legal and philosophical theory of Fred Schauer. I don't have links at hand at the moment, but it was an interesting read, as she argues that this 'Cartesian mistake' points out a glaring hole in the justification for a special constitutional amendment to freedom of speech.

Edit: I found a draft from 2018, but the author asks for it not to be cited. It was published earlier this year, as: "Free Speech Skepticism". Susan J. Brison. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, Volume 31, Number 2, June 2021
In my experience, the DEB distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, ...) usually have nano by default, whereas the RPM ones (RHEL, CentOS, Oracle Linux, ...) don't.

That said, i immensely enjoy how small the install size for nano is and how there's no actual work that you need to do to get started with it (unless you need/want customization, like the author of the original article).
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/blm-terrorist-rosenberg/

Rating: Mixture

What's True

Susan Rosenberg has served as vice chair of the board of directors for Thousand Currents, an organization that provides fundraising and fiscal sponsorship for the Black Lives Matter Global Movement. She was an active member of revolutionary left-wing movements whose illegal activities included bombing U.S. government buildings and committing armed robberies.

What's Undetermined

In the absence of a single, universally-agreed definition of "terrorism," it is a matter of subjective determination as to whether the actions for which Rosenberg was convicted and imprisoned — possession of weapons and hundreds of pounds of explosives — should be described as acts of "domestic terrorism."

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-forgot-defense-secre...

Rating: Mixture

What's True

A video shows Biden fumbling his words and apparently blanking on Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's name at one point in the speech, although he had mentioned Austin's name a few minutes earlier without issue.

What's Undetermined

It's unclear whether Biden literally "forgot" his defense secretary's name at that moment, or whether, for example, he got stuck doing an extended "folksy" ad lib after initially tripping over his words.
NASA's New Telescope Will Show Us the Infancy of the Universe
It’s not my field, but my understanding is that security researchers often disassemble and/or debug binaries without having access to the source code.

For example, as soon as an OS update is released, people will take it apart.

Having source might be nice but it’s not necessary.
I haven’t look for studies specifically, if you could link some that would be great.

I just hear anecdotal evidence like “hospitalizations have gone down”. Which may be 100% true, but is hardly evidence that the vaccines are effective. The placebo effect is well known. It’s not shocking that hospitalization has gone down when the media has been beating the fear drum on how terribly dangerous the virus is 24/7, causing people to panic (pre vaccine days) and go to the hospital out of caution. Along comes a vaccine that is touted as effective and the media pounds that drum 24/7 and hospitalization goes down. The vaccine could have been saline solution and you would have seen a drop in hospitalization.
I have no idea to what extent they actually get used for money laundering, but churches are still the only form of nonprofit in the US that automatically gets exempted from having to file a tax return. I'm sure the whole season five plot of The Wire where this was how drug lords were funneling money to the local politicians was not entirely fictional, given how everything else in the plot was based on the writers' real life experiences.

Of course, even on The Wire, this was small time compared to the money laundered through urban reclamation and seafront development projects.
I moved down to Texas from Quincy about a decade ago. I lived most of my life before that in Hannibal and Quincy. There's a lot of business missing up there. Gardner Denver I think moved their HQ several years ago but kept the plant. Moormans sold. Quincy Soybean still has some work there but sold and closed the HQ. Building Technolgoies closed in Hannibal in the 80s. They never rebuilt the grain elevator at Hannibal after the 1993 flood. Buckhorn Rubber closed about a year ago. They never rebuilt the trainyard at West Quincy after the '93 flood either. I'm not sure if Harris still builds broadcast equipment there or not. I think Knapheide and Hollister Whitney are still doing well.
Worry not, for secular meditation does not get that far. Otherwise we'd have seen a psychosis pandemic vis-à-vis Calm.com's 40 million app installs.
I think some people here have similar feelings, but as other replies point out, this particular hash is not cryptographic and we have to trust Apple’s word for it that false positives are extremely rare.

Also worth mentioning that the original corpus of data used to build the hashes isn’t inspectable, so we don’t know how much garbage exists on the input side.

A recent blog post suggests that the corpus of CSAM isn’t even very comprehensive, so the value of this system is questionable.
So let's say i have 1000 bitcoins... bought them for $0.01 a piece, and held them... now the price is around 40k.. so I have to sell half of them to keep only the $20M? Tomorrow the price will be $15k, so i'll be below again... what do I do now? The day after tomorrow they might be 100k.. sell more?

I create a bakery... it's successfull, it grows to 21M... now I have to sell a part of it... and it grows.. sell another part.. it grows.. sell another part.. what then? What if the second coowner bought a half of it, and the price has gone over 41M, do we now both have to sell a part of it? What if it loses value?

What if you own a farm somewhere, with many hectares of nice land, and someone decides to build a railway and a highway there, and that land becomes worth many millions overnight?

Hard limits on wealth are not practical. Taxing private persons for taking out and using that wealth is the solution.
It is exactly. And I have my opportunity to start migrating to Android before the big update.
Thanks, it sounds like you're definitely right.