skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 15.4% "Jake Archibald"

> 13.8% "Avatar"

I declare those 29.2% unequivocally wrong.

“Jake Archibald” is the worst option, completely useless as alt text, because the name “Jake Archibald” follows immediately afterwards. This is one of my pet peeves, avatars that have alt text of the name that immediately follows in normal text, especially in HTML emails where images are much more likely to not be rendered, and so you end up seeing things like “Jake ArchibaldJake Archibald” or “{Jak / e / Arc / …} Jake Archibald” (spreading the alt text across many lines, either then truncated or overlapping with something else).

“Avatar” is almost as bad, because it doesn’t help screen readers in any way—the image is behaving more decoratively than functionally.

In fact, I think the HTML email stuff I mentioned suggests a good way of assessing alt text: turn off image loading so that you actually do see the alt text, and decide then whether it was a good idea or not. In this case, “Jake Archibald” is definitely right out, and “Avatar” isn’t useful.

So yeah, the two options that remain are empty alt text, and something custom. In web systems in general where the name appears beside the avatar, I’d say empty alt text is absolutely the right choice: the avatars are then purely decorative and not useful to non-visual users. (If the avatar doesn’t have a name shown alongside it, you should almost certainly use the name as both the title and alt attributes.) In specific cases like this, “Jake, cheekily peering from behind a plant” is good, where “Jake Archibald hiding behind a plant” didn’t feel right. Mind you, this is where my remarks about seeing the alt text fall down a little, because although I might want to hear it, I actually wouldn’t want to see this particular alt text, so at least in an HTML email I’d probably try to visually hide the alt text, e.g. `<img style="color:transparent">` should work in most clients, though I don’t know if it’d do for the MSO renderer that Outlook/Windows Mail use.)
I'm glad you're here. If there's any chance that connecting would be helpful, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and I'll send you my personal email.
If you read the whole article, he did (starting about halfway down).
QuantumScape starts testing ten-layered solid-state cells – electrive.com
I understand how alarming it is when people post on such an extremely painful topic, but probably this is a place to recall the site guideline that says "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith." I can think of other things bserge might have meant.

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

p.s. @dang is a no-op, so if you want to alert me/us to something, please email hn@ycombinator.com. I just happened to run across your comment.
It was Helvetica Neue, not regular Helvetica, in MacOS 10.10 Yosemite. In theory that variant had adjustments to make it more suitable for on screen use and I don’t recall it being particularly bad.
One thing I don’t understand about this debate is that one of the bigger concerns folks who are against the measure have is that Apple might one day add non-CSAM photos to the set of photos they scan for.

As far as I understand it, the CSAM hash database is part of the OS, which Apple can update in any way they like, including to read your messages or surreptitiously compromise the encryption of your photos (and they can force your device to install this code via a security update). We trust them not to do these things (they already have a track record of resisting the creation of backdoors), so I’m not sure why they we don’t trust them to also use this capability only for CSAM.

Sure, it would be technically easier for them to add the hash of the tank man photo (an example of something an oppressive government might be interested in) to their database after something like this is implemented, but it’s also not very hard for them to add scanning-for-the-tank-man-photo to their OS as it currently exists. Indeed, if the database of hashes lives on your device it makes it easier for researchers to verify that politically sensitive content is not present in that database.
Is it common to hire so many people for essentially internal tooling? I’m trying to understand how one could justify hiring eg a technical writer dedicated for this team.
Can you describe your ideal error handling mechanisms? Or at least other mechanisms that feel more correct?
Java has a far, far more restricted view of exceptions than C++ and D have,[1] and hence more opportunities for optimization. I did implement exceptions in the Javascript compiler I implemented 20 years ago, and they're a cakewalk compared to C++. I also implemented a native Java compiler, including EH.

As for clang, see what Chandler said. But maybe things have changed in the last couple years.

[1] for example, Java doesn't have objects on the stack that need their destructors run. That's a massive simplification.
> Vote with your wallet, they say, but when hostile technology is far cheaper than friendly technology, and the vast majority of the population couldn’t care less, how could we possibly make a dent?

I don't see the goal as making a dent. That's too large.

I have two goals:

* Ensure I have access to free platforms. I use a Librem laptop and a Pinephone. I also use closed platforms as part of living in society.

* Ensure the free flame is kept alight. I do that by using the free platforms, buying the products, and improving them with bug reports and patches.

The vast majority, for better or worse, do not share those goals.

As an advantage to free platforms, those that do care have the capability to improve it. We don't need many.

Free platforms/tooling won't be as shiny. So be it.
> if you have a modern home with plenty of free 'leccy panel spots then you can do 90A.

How so? J1772 itself maxes out at 80A, and I don't even know of any production EVs that support that: most max out at 48A or lower. And even for Tesla's connector, the highest I've ever seen (which isn't even offered anymore) was 72A.
Interesting. Is the idea just that they're optimizing for cost, rather than optimizing for watt-hours per kilogram? I.e. if it doesn't matter how much it weighs, you can use a simple, cheap sort of battery that wouldn't be practical in a phone or a car?
Interesting idea, though I think it would compete with sites like Goodreads and Amazon's mountain of reviews.

I'm reading Why Nations Fail right now and checked for any reviews. The search populates titles well enough though I don't think I could tell from the search screen whether or not something had any reviews. Checking another recent read (Cult of the Dead Cow) I tapped the 'yes' button for just the summary by accident and noticed that there wasn't any form of undo. Refreshing the page also gave the scores as 66%-33% with 1 vote. I guess the initial value is set to one vote each to have it read as 50:50.

If you wanted to take this further being able to see a summary of the book on the vote screen would be very helpful. If the database grew out having a ranked list of worthwhile reads would also be nice on the front page. As it stands it's a fun idea, I'd send it along to groups like reddit.com/r/books and see if anyone's interested in it.
Ok but now you’ve said that the precedent established by Google and others already moved the legislation to require terrible invasions of privacy far along. You started by saying Apple’s technology (and, in particular, its framing of the technology) has brought new legal risk. What I’m instead hearing is the risk would be present in a counter factual world where nothing was announced last week.

At this point of the discussion, people usually pivot to scope creep: the on-device scanning could scan all your device data, instead of just the data you put on the cloud. This claim assumes that legislators are too dumb to connect the fact that if their phone can search for dogs with “on-device processing,” then it could also search for contraband. I doubt it. And even if they are, the national security apparatus will surely discover this argument for them, aided by the Andurils and NSOs of the world.

As I have repeatedly said: the reaction to this announcement sounds more like a collective reckoning of where we are as humans and not any particular new risk introduced by Apple. In the Apple vs. FBI letter, Tim urged us to have a discussion about encryption, when we want it, why we want it, and to what extent we should protect it. Instead, we elected Trump.
As in every other country the case count is way lower than the actual number of infections. Most infected people never get tested or officially counted. They estimate that about 33% of Swedes had been infected by May 2021 and presumably the number is higher now.

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210714/e2809cHerd-immuni...

As a comparison point the CDC estimates that about 36% of Americans have been infected.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
The way to win that situation is to not play.

Pull all apple products from the shelves for a month and launch a billion dollar ad campaign about what the hell our government is up too.

At least try to stick to one governments. Tech companies are entering tricky waters by trying to follow laws of many nations (which conflict) simply because their customers are there
In this case the environment is shared and so there is a single user account - this is for example a computer in a laboratory, connected to instruments.

Multiple user accounts would defeat the purpose of it being a shared computer. It's a shared computer because everyone is using it for the same thing.
At this point are the symptoms among vaccinated people any worse than other common colds?
Easy.

When I was young, I was not effectively spied on. My activity and digital trail were ephemeral, and hard to pin down. i wasn't the subkect of constant analysis and scrutiny. I had the privilege of being invited into the engine of an idling train to share an Engineer's drinks along with my parents and no one batted an eye.

There were pedophiles then too. guess what? We didn't sacrifice everyone's right to privacy. We didn't lock more and more rights out of the reach of minors. You didn't need a damn college degree and an insane amount of idealistic commitment to opt out of the surveillance machine. I could fill most prescriptions, even out of State.

We didn't fear the monster. They were hunted with everything we could justify mustering, but you weren't treated as one by default.

I imagine that maybe, somehow, tomorrow's youth may get to experience that. Not live in fear, but in appreciation of the fact that we too, looked into things absolutely worth being afraid of, but resisted the temptation to surrender yet more liberties for the promise of a safety that will never manifest. Just change its stripes.

Those are the best nights.
> What do you release from - just whatever personal repo has all the features you need?

Yep - when we need to release we just kind of merge everything into a release, compile the firmware, validate it in house and then send it to our contract manufacturer in China. "Who" does that depends on whoever is free or most closely tied to that update.
The NSFW part of reddit is becoming like backpage. people arent just selling videos and pics, but encounters too.
Would not ubuntu or fedora be better if you wanted faster release? In my experience when I used to run arch (~4 years ago) I had breaking changes every couple of months where with Fedora I never had one except when I was the culprit by adding a graphics card with proprietary drivers.
FP Scanner-No-Ads, All for Free,Document Scanning&OCR
-Precise trimming, No watermark
-Text recognition, Accurate and Efficient
-Unlimited export, Easy manage
Not true for very young children though, we can only protect them by proxy (us/others wearing masks plus social distancing).
How private is my VPN?
I think it's like the intro help desk cert.

Then you can graduate up to network+ and other certs as you grow into roles.
There are people who get upset that Chancellor Merkel is leading Germany because they sincerely believe she is the granddaughter of Hitler, when there is a coincidental resemblance at best.

Those people who get upset with the synonym for “stingy person” because it sounds like the slur are the equivalent but for linguistics.

I didn’t even write it (to accommodate them) yet they still find my racy joke controversial.
Tropical Islands is Europe's largest tropical holiday world
You’re onto something there. Folks 50 years ago on average lost a bit of weight into their 40s and 50s. Now they gain weight.

There’s something different about our environment.
Metabolic rates (caloric intake and use) may be the same, but the bodily priorities for where those calories go may differ. That would be my guess anyway.
It's incredible to me that what's unfolding in the crypto and decentralization worlds is met with such harsh criticism on HN.
I literally do not take that risk in 2021. I do, currently, make the reasoned assurance that the computational overhead of pushing changes down to my phone, and the general international security community, are keeping me approximately abreast of whether my private device is actively spying on me (short answer: it definitely is, longer answer: but to what specific intent?)

Apple's new policy is: "of course your phone is scanning and flagging your private files to our server - that's normal behavior! Don't worry about it".
That might be the effect of long term imbalance of hormones.

Weight gain is long term, and a bad diet and/or feeding period take a long time to do their damage. Think one pound a year.

Anyway, I disclaim any particular medical or nutritional expertise.
I mean on ubuntu it's literally just apt update && apt upgrade. Snaps serve a purpose, but they aren't something you use for every program.
Giant, double-handled roll of stretch wrap.

Me and one of these come moving time is a sight to behold.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/IPG-20-In-X-1000-Ft-Stretch-Wrap-...
Idk, most phones you just save an image and a cloud service auto syncs.
> an engineer’s job (especially senior level engineers) aren’t strictly technical.

Text is able to convey information that is not entirely technical as well... This seems to be something people miss.

Have you ever read a novel?
Can't tailor ads? Loose concept of user identity? I would think having a list of every subreddit a user subscribes to would give you a good indication of what interests they have! But from reading this thread it sounds like Reddit makes it difficult to choose which subreddits you want to advertise to.
Aren't a number of things E2EE with Apple?
Debian testing is a thing and has to be more stable than Arch which was absolutely not the last time that I used it.
Children are not at risk like adults are.

I say get back to normal and let the unvaccinated adults suffer the consequences of their own actions.
"We've been doing that for almost a year and a half" - have we? A lot of jurisdictions have done lockdown light, if anything. A few fitful weeks of half-measures, then declare that "lockdowns don't work" seems like the most common measure.

Right now we're suffering from the fact that the measures in Australia had stupid holes in them - we could be delta-free if the geniuses behind our quarantine policy hadn't had unmasked, unvaccinated limo drivers driving around air crew from other countries.
Oh man, I’ve used Pop exclusively for 2 years now. I run it on a Thinkpad X1 Extreme, and I love it. I switched from using Macs (for the better part of 20 years) after the whole 2018 keyboard debacle. I can’t imagine going back. Only downside is the terrible battery life on the X1 Extreme.
A lot of game companies use the Intel compiler (anecdotally).
I don’t see why I, the end user, should be forced to make that differentiation since Terraform is effectively useless without the providers from the big three. Statements like “you’re blaming the wrong people” is in the same spirit as what ZeroVer is lampooning.

Like yes, our internal provider was a pain point and we own that but the rest of the drama around providers was just weird. The work to move over 200 repositories through the hoops to keep them updated, especially mature services that may not have been deployed for several months, was difficult to automate and very brittle even when it was.

It broke down at scale and really no one should have been using it that wide spread before it was 1.0.

Hashicorp’s whole treatment of terraform 0.x was horrendous and constantly broke everything, all while they said it was production ready. You can blame whoever you want but the total lack of stability and easy upgrade paths and constant manual fiddling and reviewing output from ‘upgrade0.11’ type commands was ridiculous and a massive time sink for our org.
Facebook acquired Giphy after it acquired Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus. My understanding is that the CMA and other regulatory bodies, have seen their remit and purview increased since those initial acquisitions after the negative societal consequences sunk-in - which is why now we're hearing about them take-issue with Giphy.

We don't want another AOL|TimeWarner - we also don't want another _Dark Sky_...
We do already offer company specific transparency reports, so they can analyze the threats on their platform and the agencies investigating them! We have also been thinking more generically about offering a public transparency report that doesn't give away any customer specific details.

Love to know your thoughts!
> Level 2 is not intended to be autopilot.

Then Tesla should change the name and offer refunds to anyone who bought Full Self Driving.
I got my A, Net, and Security + right after high school and i REALLY helped me to earn a living. Lots of technicians work, cabling, labor setting up servers etc It was a spring board that helped me get into a financial position to go to university where I studied IT. If I hadn’t gone the college route I wanted to do CCNA, and CISP. Certs are absolutely worth it and a pathway forward into a career
eh? The AUR is just as vulnerable as PPAs which are also hosted in a centralized place on ubuntu servers. The two serve the exact same purpose.
> not “just business” when a government intervenes in a free market outcome

Like telling Apple it’s not allowed to vertically integrate its mobile appliance or guarantee a curated walled garden as part of its market offering.
FBI Motto: Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity
> Naw. The new Reddit design is much nicer than the old. There, I said it. It is much easier to use. It took them a while to iron out the bugs but it is way better.

I'm curious what you like better in the new design? I personally find the floating bar at the top annoying. Not to mention the fact you have to click another button to actually see all the comments. Not to mention my biggest annoyance, clicking on the empty space on the sides when viewing a post will navigate to the subreddit?? Why?
That's highly disturbing. What new revenue streams could they have that doesn't completely screw their users?
Stay tuned! On the next episode:

"Apple bravely scans your text messages. Users greeted by 'Messages noticed this website contains misleading content, are you sure you want to share it?' in iOS 16." -MacRumors (2022)
I often wonder where I would be in life now if I hadn't "overthought" so many decisions in my 42 years of life. I feel like I often got stuck at different points, and am even feeling that way now, because of "overthinking." That being said, I have a lot to be grateful for and have been able to "summit so many mountains" that were unattainable by my immigrant (and sacrificial) parents and their families. Perhaps I often get "paralysis by analysis" because as pointed out in the post, I tend to overanalyze each potential outcome of a business idea instead of just testing things out and moving forward. Thankfully, I did take some steps to co-found two previous companies, one of which got off the ground so I don't always stay "stuck." Currently, I'm thinking about how to channel society's consumption habits for good.
Trucking refers to the big 18 wheelers and such, not the little four wheeler trucks and vans.

This reminds me of some truck weigh station on some Interstate back east. (It's been years so I don't remember exact details).

WEIGH STATION AHEAD
ALL TRUCKS MUST STOP
NO PICKUP TRUCKS
The CMA is entirely independent of the United States' executive branch.

Heck, it's entirely independent of the United States to boot.
Nearly 2 in 3 Americans Are Dealing with Dangerous Heat Waves
What other "large cloud providers"? Ones that are similar to Apple? Or general cloud companies?

And is "pressure from the FBI" really the only reason why Apple might hold backup keys? Please sketch out your "lost device, need to restore from backup" user journey. For a real person, who has only an iPhone.
I do think every single "real" man has a better prism of assessment that they filter by than this. and women too. implying that the narrow, easier to gauge, objectified dimensions are a critical priority is a neg to an opposing gender, when levelled by a delicate gender that thinks highly of itself, of it's competency, capabilities, & greatness, even when often lacking qualificands to prove so.
Yes, if what the parties are looking at to sign is the printed web page. But we're commenting on an article about signing contracts via email. If they each print the web page separately, they may print out different versions of it. A more effective measure would be to send the contract in the email in some kind of self-contained format such as PDF or plain text.
You've done nothing to address OP's concerns. The linked twitter thread assumes each actor (NCMEC, FBI, Apple) act in a certain way. There's no "provable" guarantee against an actor acting in bad faith or in a manner inconsistent with certain interpretations of the law (which we've seen routinely with the NSA).

The FBI/NSA can absolutely inject something into the hash list. You're assuming that NCMEC needs to be involved. Or that it would be broadly known to Apple. The reality is that the hash list needs to be updated on a different cadence than iOS itself. So it's likely downloaded rather than baked into the OS build permanently. That means that you can't necessarily rely on an iOS build being signed to know if you have a different hash list from everyone else. Ultimately, a small team at Apple cooperating with a secret court order could release a different hashlist to a select set of devices. There's nothing really stopping that.

Even if Apple didn't comply, we've seen recently how sophisticated cybersecurity companies armed with zero days can manipulate devices easily. If the mechanism for hash lists scanning the device is already built in all it takes is an exploit changing the hashlist and where it reports to which might be much simpler than gaining full access to the device.
Wait until you hear about judges who are actively on the take to send people to jail - like the judge who was taking money from for-profit juvenile detention centers to send kids to their facilities on ridiculous charges.

Yeah - this is an architecture designed to be abused.