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What are you even on about? Nobody is saying mastery should happen on day one. We're saying getting started could be easier and that mastery isn't required for a lot of stuff. So much gets done by generalists or hackers...

I don't understand how that's offensive or so counter-intuitive.

The piano is a perfect example of something accessible: you push a key, you get a note. You push a different one, you get a different one. That doesn't prevent there from being a lot of complexity and practice needed for mastering it.

Your plumbing example from elsewhere in the discussion is also a perfect example:

> It would take a bit of time to learn the basics to fix your sink (python script), but to become someone who can design the pipage in a building ("business software")? That just takes time and experience.

Python exists. It makes "fixing the sink" task easier than C. C makes it easier than assembly. Why on earth would suggesting that we could peel off even more of the rough edges for beginners be insane? That's literally an example of how we've done it in the past. Obviously Python exists. Obviously it doesn't need pointer knowledge to use. Just like we were saying.

EDIT: Maybe the distillation of where I think you're not following the original article and argument here is that "the things that make programming hard to get started with" are not the same as "the things that make programming hard to master."
> The only way to prevent all this is for the system not to exist.

I'll go one step further. Apple should have implemented a system that makes these kind of backdoors impossible. I don't know how or if such a system is possible, but given Apple's track record, they are in a position to attempt it.
It’s pretty lonely over here in technical discussion land. Have we considered Reuters’s intern’s take on this?
> It’s a fairly lengthy operation to succinctly cite

But also see other user’s post below.

In short, Afghanistan and Al Qaeda were on the map for a very long time, but no one listened.

By the time 9/11 occurred, AQ was a global, well coordinated organization with a single underfunded agency (CIA) tracking it. The agency was largely forbidden from accessing the only spot Al Qaeda really aggregated: Afghanistan. If you can orient to a pre-Internet time, it makes sense how much (realized) risk this black box caused - embassy and US navy ship bombings, and 9/11. The United Front is another term for the Northern Alliance, a ~tribal group in northern AFG. It was the CIA’s main access and information flow into AFG until 9/12. The state dept and official policy largely forbade interacting with them though. The leader of the UF who the CIA linked with starting back in the late 90s, guy named Massood, was assassinated by the Taliban/AQ on like 9/10 iirc (so days before 9/11).

This all goes to say that the invasion of AFG was tremendously important, but staying there once AQ was gone maybe was not. There are fairly tragic records of July and early Sept 2001 briefings from the CIA to the President on the imminent threat actual.

One way to start reading about this history: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cofer_Black
The tic tac toe is easily defeated
> it’s allegedly contraband, but if I were a judge I don’t think I’d take an algorithm’s word for it.

The prosecution can hire more expert witnesses with excessive credentials than you can, and they will explain how there's a one in one trillion possibility that the system is wrong, and that the defendant is assuredly a monster.

Juries eat that up when it comes to bogus DNA, bite mark, fingerprint, or other forensic evidence claims. Most people think computers can't be wrong or biased, and people's perceptions of what can be deemed reasonable doubts or not seem to shift when computers are involved, or when smart, credentialed people tell them their reasonable doubts aren't reasonable at all because of that one in a trillion chance of the computers being wrong.
>out of some abstract fear of "terrorism".

To be fair, it wasn't abstract, though one could argue that particular attack was a one-off that could never be successfully repeated. But there were other concerns of dirty bombs, anthrax, etc. at the time.

That said, it's truly a shame that the US abandoned Afghanistan to invade Iraq. Afghanistan seemed to have potential for nation-building had we not diverted and diluted our efforts with Iraq.
Congratulations.

How did that work out for you?
> Climate change will quickly wipe out most life on earth.

I think the resource shortages, water wars and refugee crises that precede the actual climate-driven apocalypse will get us there a lot faster than we imagine.
They wouldn’t have let me into the building. Yes, I assume they wouldn’t have retracted my acceptance and we would have made some arrangement, but I have better things to deal with in my life. I’m on a (Jailbroken) iPhone, so the app should at least be sandboxed—I’m not entirely sure what I would have done on Android.
"The Germans are doing the same. They are leaving people that have helped them behind. Really shameful."

Germany grants 2,400 visas to Afghan employees, relatives

https://apnews.com/article/europe-germany-f6bacc58477cd0eb92...
I assume a revitalization of this https://shop.pocketchip.co/

Next Thing doesn’t appear involved but they basically closed shop quietly and had a lot of trouble the entire time they existed. If you want images for the original they are only available from third parties :(
Companies transferring encrypted data are not responsible for its contents. Full stop.

Apple shouldn't do anything, because their duty is to report the CSAM that is visible to them and no private data should be visible to them.

Facebook has those images in the clear. They aren't doing "a thousand times better", they have an infinite amount more unencrypted images.

This is a reductive apples to oranges comparison that misleads anyone who reads it.

Would you similarly argue that the postal service needs to open every letter and inspect it to ensure there aren't photos of child porn contained within? Should uber drivers be required to search every passenger and their bags for child porn?

NO! Because that's private, and we respect privacy in this country.
And if the idea is to extend C in some direction, that is what the language I’m working on does: C3 (http://www.c3-lang.org)
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> cancel culture

IMHO “cancel culture” is just “consequence culture.”
The Taliban are not the people of Afghanistan. Less than 20% of the population supports them.

The rest of the population just isn't strong enough and coordinated enough to beat a highly motivated and organized minority.

While I didn't support continuation of the war because I don't see how it benefits the USA, it wasn't an unjust war. Quite the opposite. We were allies of the democratically elected Afghan government, fighting against the tyranny of a small group of religious fanatics.
This is precisely why I opted to exclude voting and "likes" from Sqwok (https://sqwok.im).

From the outset I wanted to build a discussion site that was entirely focused on live conversation, without the gimmicks that have become so ubiquitous across the social media landscape and beyond.

In the real world we signal our approval of a conversation by either engaging or walking away. Other people sense our liking of it by seeing our engagement, not a cheap binary sticker we throw up.
> The big question for me is how and why Tim Cook and Apple's board signed off on a plan

"Do us a favor or the AG launches an investigation into your business practices."
True. Just give the planet 1M years to recover.
Can we have some Pīnyīn, please?
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Gatekeeping

> When someone uses a hobby or interest as a means of elevating themselves above others to give oneself a sense of being superior transforming their passion or knowledge about a particular subject into an ugly tool of self-inflation.

The shoe fits.

First editor I used was vi/vim.

For years it was the only editor I could use. (My CS education and school server use predates Pine/Pico/Nano and later on, it was a long time before nano was an option on more restrictive/specialized machines)

I still prefer nano.

In the end, I don't give a fuck what you use as long as you can get the job done.

Passing judgement on what people prefer to use is the de-facto definition of 'gatekeeping.'
"Just avoid holding it in [one of the most widely accepted and ergonomic grips people use for their phones]".
Snopes is run by the Poster's Poster.

Of course they aggressively missed your point and accused you of being the idiot.
Not sure, but I've logged into many terminals before and not one of them didn't have vi installed. Have found plenty without nano or vim though.
> This is what I'm asking about, transmission. The data on this is woefully limited however.

The most effective way to not transmit is to not get infected in the first place. The vaccines drastically reduce chance of infection.

> For example, this is what you're study says:

>> The mRNA vaccines are highly effective at preventing symptomatic and severe COVID-19 associated with B.1.617.2 infection

The very next sentence states,

> Vaccination is associated with faster decline in viral RNA load and a robust serological response.

This means that infections in vaccinated people are typically much shorter-lived than infections in unvaccinated people. The time during which you have high viral load is drastically reduced.

> it's possible that vaccinated individuals were simply practicing better viral hygiene

Reducing infections of family members by 40-50% is a massive effect, especially when you consider that the vast majority of people in this study had only even received their first dose. There's an obvious explanation that fits with everything else we know about vaccination (e.g., that vaccinated people who get infected are far less symptomatic and that the time during which they have high viral load is much shorter).

Most vaccines do not confer sterilizing immunity. Nevertheless, many of them still produce herd immunity. Immunity is not an all-or-nothing thing. You're far less likely to get infected if you're vaccinated, and if you do get infected, you're far less likely to transmit the virus. Even if you don't care about dramatically reducing your own risk of getting seriously ill or dying, the vaccine significantly reduces your chance of ever transmitting the virus to others.
I too was bullied from nano onto vi/vim. I still dont think I 'get it' but the brainwashing is complete, I cant even type the word nano into a terminal.

I too applaud the author for their bravery in coming out as a proud nano user, not that there is anything wrong with it.
My impression is that letting people upload CSAM to a cloud service has no positive benefit because of the supposed link between CSAM consumption and CSA, and it carries a very high risk of criminal liability, so there's no incentive for companies to completely ignore the files that users upload. Otherwise, people will eventually notice and the service will be denounced as "pedophile-friendly," and then the law will take notice and force them to give up the data.

This type of scenario is what happened with the messaging service Kik, which was reportedly used to distribute CSAM in private chats. Law enforcement agencies said the company wasn't providing timely responses and that children were being actively abused as a result. This is about as damaging of an accusation you can leverage against a company.

Laws against CSAM worldwide are not going away for good reasons, so there is always going to be a justifiable argument that storing certain classes of data is illegal. Hence, anyone wanting to run a cloud service that stores user data will have to obey by those laws, regardless of how proactive they are in scanning for the material. Absolute privacy in the cloud is impossible to achieve with those rules in place.
At volume to supply literally everyone? Welcome to public health problems, where actions you recommend will be taken by nontrivial portions of the population.
I’m in Oregon. After that lingering week of 110+ temperatures in June the temperature gauge at my house said it got to 119 one afternoon), these three days of about 100 degree temperatures seems downright cool in comparison.
Generating the yaml-equivalent config files using Jsonnet can help with this, I rarely see it mentioned online though.
If you're claiming that criticism you're facing is just due to "confusion", it is helpful to state what the confusion is and what the actual facts are, and those facts better differ from the common understanding of the issue.

Otherwise, like in this case, it just becomes an article basically stating "company trying to gaslight people after they got caught doing something bad".
Show HN: Script to compare Postgres data between two points in time
https://github.com/denvaar/pgdiff

I cobbled together various programs into a bash script to compare how data changes between two points in time. My idea was basically to have a `git diff` but for data inside postgres.

I wanted a util like this to help get to know a new code base: Interact with an app and watch how the data changes.

You run the script with a given key (anything) before interacting with an app, then run it again with the same key to see the data diff.

I'm not much of a bash scripter, as you can probably see from the script, but it was a fun and useful tool to make. Might make some more improvements in the future (eg. BYO diff command, etc.) but we'll see.
> Hypothetical; Suppose that this scanning program only ever did what Apple said it was going to do, look for known CSAM. Would this still be upsetting? I am trying to parse if the blow back to this announcement is rooted in the tech communities' ideal of near perfect privacy, or if instead it's a reaction to what this tech could potentially be used for.

No, because there will always be false positives, which means someone is going to be manually reviewing your photos.
Wouldn't users have the ability to not update or switch providers if Apple expands the scope of its search beyond CSAM?

I guess I don't see the huge difference between the surveillance code existing on the phone but not used for objectionable purposes versus the line of code sitting in a different branch in git and not deployed on actual phones (yet).

I'm completely against this move by the way -- I'm not trying to defend it. But I want to be able to argue effectively against it.
> they now have the capability

What do you mean by capability here?
i recently learned their word for a video going viral which is the verb バズる ("bazuru" aka buzz)
My explanation was incomplete, to make for a good and clear example.

If I hadn't seen airplanes and flown in them, I'd still be open to believing they exist. My belief would depend on what other evidence there is (broadly speaking), as in my example of the moon landings.

It's easier to make a strong judgment about the existence of airplanes, than about the moon landings. I'd argue that most things in life are more like airplanes in that regard.
Yeah, that's true. And they have a large population to dilute the mean. I'm surprised we're so close to them in terms of total Co2 output too, I thought they dwarfed us given how much production takes place there coupled with a more lax attitude.
(for anyone else wondering 110F is 43C)
https://i.imgur.com/LV6umMH.png
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They aren’t scanning images stored on the device. Only images stored in iCloud, right?

In this case I think “our platform” and “our systems” are accurate descriptions
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漏洞=lou4 dong4
What? I can do all this without Apple. I mean I might have to browse photos.google.com instead of opening up my photos folder on my desktop but that's not meaningfully different. I have all these things between an Android phone and a linux computer. It may be in different locations than what Apple has them, but everything does sync if I want them to. I can even sync all these things without Google if I want to and have them go into the corresponding folders on my desktop. How is this an order of magnitude? The same services exist.
The odds of humans actually going extinct due to climate change seem pretty long. A massive reduction, sure, but all of them?
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Its not snobbery if it is better
East coast here, if you elect to participate in the program they can toggle your usage to 75% or 50% with advance notice.
I honestly think Apple could save some face if they simply came out and said, "Various U.S. government agencies are compelling us to do this behind the scenes, and we feel we have no real choice."
Before you got very far into this it would be really hard to stay curled up in a ball.
The US didn't directly overthrow the government of South Vietnam, but the US did tell the South Vietnamese army that they would lose funding and support if they didn't overthrow Diem in 1963. Given that the army of South Vietnam was basically an appendage of the American military at that point it was a threat the South Vietnamese generals couldn't afford to ignore.
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There is a qualitative difference between tweaking an existing code base (expanding the scope of this detector) and coercing a company to dedicate teams of tens to hundreds of engineers over years to create a brand new code base from scratch (writing this detector in the first place.)
I use capslock.

There are a number of popular choices that come preconfigured, see file /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst line 851

https://github.com/freedesktop/xkeyboard-config/blob/master/...
Please don't post unsubstantive comments yourself. If other threads/comments aren't good, options include posting something better, or not posting. Degrading things even further is not a good choice (edit: particularly when the thread is new—threads are extremely sensitive to initial conditions, and a flamebait/unsubstantive comment early on can have a strongly degrading effect).

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Multiple nations being Five Eyes nations? Is that supposed to make us trust them more??
Yikes. Missed this story.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ne...
A better metaphor for the behavior of politicians is: saying "Yep that's a blazing fire right there, let's do something...in twenty years".
It has been a very long time since Chinese was anything other than a complicated syllabary. Amusingly, most literate Chinese do not recognize it, because of complicated rules for which of several characters for each of the ~1200 syllables may be used to spell each word; and the huge overload of homonyms sometimes depend on such a rule to help disambiguate.

Most also imagine that non-Mandarin Chinese languages are just dialects of Mandarin with "pronunciation differences", not full-fledged languages. They read texts written by, e.g, Shanghai speakers, and do not realize that the text written has been translated to Mandarin. Most people speaking another such Chinese language are not literate in that language, and rely on written Mandarin, translating as they go. This happens even on nominally "local-dialect" forums.

Of course all this has deep political implications, so is not safe to discuss there.
I know we're all susceptible to this sort of effect, myself included. But I can't help but wonder what we would be like, just as a society, if every death from HIV and TB and influenza and standard vaccine complications, got the headlines it has with COVID-19 over the last 18 months.

Thousands a year in America alone. Every single day. Someone dies of one of those. We would live in a perpetual barrage of death and disfigurement by communicable disease and vaccine. How rational would the typical person be about their risks of dying from TB or the DTAP vaccine if subjected to that?

The doctor raises a great point about stewing in stress and madness of our own devising. Most signs indicate our kids will mostly be fine and that the possible mitigations for the small threat (e.g. no more schools) will probably outweigh the harms of COVID-19 in that population. Which leads us back to, well, there's actually nothing to be done about it, really. No one to blame, nothing beyond the basic precautions, and no guarantees. People don't like that sense of powerlessness, I suppose. Just an agitated nervous need to do something, even if it doesn't make sense.
There's occasionally rolling blackouts. Those are mandatory load shedding.
Exactly what I did, simple web interface I run inside rambox along with all chats and email clients and whatnot, paste a url and it scrapes it and generates the audio to be played in browser(rambox in this case). OK, I do keep a copy of the audio and the text and some other metadata but that's completely optional.

As far as tts, while the cloud speech is unmatched, it's still proprietary and not free. However there are plenty of really good open source solutions which work extremely well(sample from the one I'm using: https://storage.googleapis.com/adocs_g/example.wav). I use it all the time and in terms of resource usage it's completely unnoticeable. But again, I'm the sole user and on pretty powerful hardware so...
Start with x and settled on x/2
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Oh man, this comment thread is about as divorced from this context as you’re likely to see on HN. Thanks for sharing.
People are intellectually challenged - Apple
This seems a bit disingenuous considering that progress and advancement in certain fields might not show a direct benefit until years down the line.

It's a building block that might pave the way for something else.
I've been wondering about this for a while. As a pilot myself, I often wish for higher fidelity information about the winds aloft. But once I'm flying, I have essentially perfect information about the relative wind everywhere I go.

It's the aggregation that seems to be missing - current governmental winds aloft products update only a few times a day and frequently don't seem to be very accurate.

It would be very cool if we could build something approaching a real-time, general purpose tool with this approach. I imagine the data density is one of the bigger challenges.
> geoengineering

And therein lies the rub. A big chunk of the population thinks climate change is a lie, or there isn't anything reasonable we can do about it, or it's too expensive to try and do something about it. And the opposing side will only accept massive reductions in quality-of-life to fix climate change and absolutely won't support geoengineering.

Maybe the pragmatic middle is bigger than I think, and has the power to push the various wingnuts out into irrelevancy so we can get on with trying to innovate our way out of this mess like we always do.
I get the sentiment that having features like "go to definition/implementation" can encourage poor code structure, but that is still ultimately a self-discipline issue more than a UI issue. There are tools for enforcing good code structure that work with many of these fancy IDEs (Visual Studio included).

Just hitting F12 over an identifier to go to it's declaration will always be faster than manually navigating to it, no matter how fast you are with Vim, and I find these features particularly indispensable when learning someone else's codebase.