skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, I know that personally I would like a camera that offered me both paradigms depending on the scenario. Not having used or looked into it much at all, something like the Hasselblad X1D seems to tread that line between dial control and a touchscreen interface in a way that is much closer to what I'm thinking.

What I would really like to see from a camera is the ability to take a photo, say when travelling, and having it automatically end up on your phone with computational imaging already applied. Then with a tap, be able to pull the RAW for more in depth processing if required. I know that I do most of my processing in DxO Photolab precisely because it takes a guess at the editing for a photo before I even touch it, and therefore I spend less time post processing.
You can add the "human readable tag" as 'VISIBLE' underneath any QR code you create in Bartender. (the only caveat is if the item the QR points to is a really long string it becomes unwieldy.. hang on lemme give you some examples -- I.. make a QR that points here.

https://i.imgur.com/uv09CuL.png

and without the tag

https://i.imgur.com/tOwHANb.png

Takes two seconds
That’s already too complicated. My phone uploads photos to the cloud (which my computer is hooked up to) automatically. Needing to attach a piece of hardware to my camera to achieve the same thing is arcane and absurd.
Interesting, but it suits the marginal user. Ideally, I'd want to analyze my typing patterns to tailor to that (that is, a Bayesian solution where I can supply my data)
Looks like an inverted Dvorak
Can you please explain a bit more what the border looked like? I was under the impression that there was no border within the Schengen area.
Wow that is a really intriguing thought, pretty awesome idea to use those to extend agency with old folks in robot suits. Powerful, and funny too for sure.
My 5 year old DSLR has GPS tagging for every photo. I mostly keep it off because it kills the battery. I suspect most serious photographers don't care about geotagging.
> People don’t claim companies can’t censor things.

I did a quick search because I recalled seeing that in the past. It's certainly not the prevailing consensus, but people do make that claim.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18676417
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19929107
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9967543
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2500298
That's entirely true. There was a tax regulation that said that any camera that could record over 30 minutes was a "video" camera and was taxed higher.

For an example of idiocy that's not government-enforced, see the arbitrary 30 second limit exposures on a lot of cameras. If you want to take a 5 minute long exposure, most companies will make you go buy a shutter release cable, which is just the most idiotic thing I've ever seen.

I'd love to see basic camera control from a decent iPhone app over Bluetooth LE, but nope... gotta buy a cable like it's the 1980s.

Check out the Nikon app: https://apps.apple.com/au/app/wireless-mobile-utility/id5541...

WiFi only, so it'll eat your battery, and the review score is 2.2 out of 5!

The overheating thing is also just an excuse. Video encoding is not that power hungry, as long as they're using modern chips with an efficient process such as 7nm or 10nm. Most cameras are made with a legacy stepping size on the order of 22nm or larger to save money. That's why they can't fit in a bunch of formats, can't do 10-bit, and can't do 60 fps. Because they're saving $15 of parts on a $4,000 camera.
Stock grants only pay off big (beyond the grant itself) if the stock rises a lot. Once that rise is locked in, it isn’t exciting anymore (and indeed, can go negative).
Personal attacks will get you banned here, regardless of how wrong someone else is, or you feel they are, about cats. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't post like this to HN in the future,
For occasional numeric entry I find the number row is vastly superior to the numpad as I don't need to move my hand.
This makes absolutely no difference. Rules for self-employment are much stricter: https://www.kmu.admin.ch/kmu/en/home/concrete-know-how/setti...

Even if you hire a cleaner for a few hours a week, it’s still considered employment: https://lenews.ch/2016/08/17/7-step-guide-to-hiring-a-cleane...
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I know that feeling. So many times I come across a great scene, snap a photo with my phone, and instantly regret not bringing my DSLR with me.
Accessing chats from a new device has no technical relation (or constraint) to the lack of end to end encryption. Wire encrypts all chats end to end, and still provides syncing conversations to multiple devices on multiple operating systems. It does limit the sync to the last 30 days, but that’s mostly because of cost reasons rather than technical reasons.

Edit/correction: Neither Wire nor Signal sync conversations that have happened before the setup of a new device to the new device.
Pretty unacceptable - in context this is 10-12 average swimming pools or ~8,800 bbls which I suppose is much less dramatic than 1.4m l.
White House Freezes Aid to Lebanon, Against Wishes of Congress, Pentagon, etc.
Is there a reason why a DSLR was chosen over something like a machine vision camera even 10 years ago? Talking about grids and scaling makes it seem like something that would be right in that product space.
Ugh, this I'll agree with.

The street I grew up on is now packed with cars. Used to be we could run around with abandon, now days for some reason the off street parking and parking garages are both full, and with the same # of houses, people are now parking on the street, and cars are more frequent.

Rather strange to be honest. :/

In areas with built up density it makes sense of course, more people and all that.
What I meant to say is that Apple cherry-picks one photograph in perfect conditions, people think "wow, what a great camera, must buy!" and then totally miss the opportunity to photograph in non-perfect situations without realizing what they're missing.

If I were Sony or Nikon or Canon, I would buy the subway ad next to Apple's and show a stunning night shot as their example. In comparison, the iPhone camera might not look like such a must have. (Especially in a world where "dark mode" and the color blue are so popular, I think it could work.)
Glaringly, Signal still doesn’t have a way to backup and restore chats on iOS.
This script[0] gets that part right by having a `lastip` file containing the latest assigned IP, so the script counts up for new clients. You can add a line for qrencode to the end to get the QR[1].

0: https://gist.github.com/Belphemur/b014a11f9ae6c20203276f214e...

1: https://gist.github.com/judge2020/e9631be086ea105005614c70a8...
I am using the Dreem 2 (dreem.com, use my referral code for a discount: UEXBFMANU). I do not have a certified reference device but those aspects of the recordings that I can assess (start and end of sleep, awakenings, onset of sleep, position) match my experience and are more accurate than the other devices I am using (Withings Sleep, Garmin Fenix 3).
There are several in depth reviews on the web comparing the device output with state of the art polysomnogram recordings.
We've banned this account, obviously.

Could you please stop creating accounts to break HN's guidelines with? It's in your interests to do so, because we're trying to have a community that stays interesting for everybody. Going down in flames gets boring pretty quickly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's been over a decade and I didn't drive while we were there but I remember it looking a lot like a tollbooth in the US, but one with military/police looking people that would randomly, or not so randomly, select people to pull off to the side so that they could search your vehicle. At least one time when we crossed into France to go grocery shopping we were searched and had to show our passports and they looked through our groceries and asked to see the receipt.
I continue harping on this point often. The usability, reliability and feature set of Signal are far behind Telegram or WhatsApp. If you want a platform that sometimes works, may be slow in delivering messages, may send false “device changed” notifications, and doesn’t allow a way to backup and restore chats (on iOS), then Signal is the one. If you don’t like any of these deficiencies, then Signal is the last thing to suggest. There’s no point using a so called “secure messenger” if it’s going to numb users to accept device change notifications without out of the band verification because the app and platform are buggy to generate those when nothing has changed. Yes, this is anecdotal, but I don’t trust that Signal promotes security or secure messaging practices.

Instead, use Matrix (with end to end encryption enabled) or Wire.
What if the data is human readable but the error correction is only machine readable?

There still might be room for scams if the error correction is too clever, maybe it could only be a checksum?
So what newsletters out there are actually making money (besides Substack ones)?
Kids like a challenge, they are constantly testing their boundaries. It's part of learning risk and what they are capable of. That's very true modern playground hiding risk, in my childhood playground you saw the climbing wall as the biggest challenge you tried it once you were ready and had done a few trials runs on smaller ones.
He didn't steal two shirts and a belt; stole two shirts and and a belt and he brandished a firearm and committed a home invasion into a property with a small child present.

> Nobody would agree to have their house destroyed

Somebody who wanted to replace their dilapidated shack with a a new house would. The owner couldn't have gotten several hundred thousand dollars of insurances support for his rebuild if he did the knockdown himself.
This is pretty awesome! I just read a related thread on HN a few hours ago on this very issue, so big kudos for the time of execution.
State actors.
Dead on
I have always hated Times New Roman. I am alone in the world.
"They don’t claim end to end encryption by default though."

They don't have to. The amount of my peers (i.e. who also major in CS) who think Telegram is more secure than e.g. WhatsApp, is staggering. People don't really think about the protocol, they only think what they hear on the news, or what their buddies think who have heard it in the news.

And what they hear is "Telegram, the new encrypted messaging app, blah bah..." and then they hear debate "Apple.. Encryption.. LEA can't read messages". So the incorrectly count 1+1=3 and think Telegram is safe against LEA.

When you're online and you try to point out Telegram uses home-brew protocol, EXACTLY the same security architecture as Facebook (TLS), and that both are created by Mark Zuckerbergs of separate nations, you'll very quickly drown in fanboys / sock puppets that come with following arguments

"WELL TELEGRAM'S ENCRYPTION HAS NOT BEEN BROKEN IN THE WILD NOW HAS IT???" (no need when you can hack the server and read practically everything)

or

"NOT TRUE TELEGRAM HAS SECRET CHATS" (which only works between mobile clients, and one-on-one chats, just like Facebook Messenger's opt-in end-to-end encryption. Like this one guy on the internet I talked to so eloquently put it: "I don't use secret chats because when I open my laptop, I want to type with my keyboard and not take out my phone every time I want to reply")

or

"PAVEL DUROV ABANDONED MOTHER RUSSIA TO BRING YOU THIS SECURITY" (which tells you absolutely nothing about the protocol and is no proof of any motivation towards any direction. When you're as rich as Durov you can choose any other country in the world and I suspect Dubai isn't treating him too badly).

or

"DUROV REFUSED BACKDOOR SO THERE IS NO WAY TO GET USER DATA" (which is simply not true, it's not like government agents can't hack servers, if Durov could deliver such systems, he'd be making five figure hourly wage hardening Fortune500 companies' systems)
Here's a transcript[0]:

>Edward Snowden: (02:26:27)
They’re two globally unique identifiers that only exist anywhere in the world in one place. This makes your phone different than all the other phones. The IMEI is burned into the handset of your phone. No matter what SIM card you change to, it’s always going to be the same and it’s always going to be telling the phone network. It’s this physical handset.

[0]: https://www.rev.com/blog/joe-rogan-edward-snowden-podcast-in...
Who will pay for ‘Airbnb Mansion Party’ deaths, injuries?
1. Yes, other than other things that are self-encrypted eg. HTTPS. You would need to host the VPN somewhere else (eg. Cloud hosting, but that brings issues with many sites having blacklisted your IP range) if you still don't trust your ISP. I imagine this VPN solution is primarily for keeping your home connection's IP address while on a mobile network, or where you're on public wifi and really don't trust the network operator.

2. Yes, but be wary about actually doing this; I can't find any cases but YouTube TV (or the Google session security system itself) might get suspicious about constantly jumping between the east and west coast.
Is Chocolate Vegan?
Jeff Walker has been making money off email since 1996 and showing others how. His stuff is basically the foundation of all the spammy content we see today.

Search for “The Launch Book” and you’ll find how to use email to sell.
I don't know, if I'm househunting the neighborhood where houses get invaded by shoplifters and then blown up is devalued in my eyes.
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As much as I despise Facebook and its properties, the “how do we know” question can only be answered based on the trust that there would be at least one person in the company/team who would be a whistleblower if the end to end encryption is removed (with their knowledge and not through some state sponsored hacking).

With that background, a motivated employee cannot read WhatsApp messages that they have not sent or received themselves because WhatsApp uses the Signal protocol implementation. Coming to your first question, WhatsApp does share metadata with Facebook. So the fact that content isn’t shared is a moot point because a lot can be inferred from metadata alone to target people for any purpose.

So WhatsApp is not really a secure messenger if Facebook is part of your threat model and is considered an adversary or an adversary who can be easily coerced or compromised.
But the software and connection process are terrible, and have been for years.
Same link a day ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21398697
For the first time ever, a US cheese is named best in the world
Dealing with the endpoint security is a really tough problem but I have a pet-project that pushes the price per endpoint just below $500 https://github.com/maqp/tfc
I'm no expert on the EU or Schengen Area, but the Wikipedia page says that "Switzerland was allowed to participate in the same manner in 2008" so it's certainly possible that the situation is completely different now.
I've been seeing this "you can't find a job after 35/40/45" meme on HN pop up frequently. This literally can't be true: our economy would have collapsed by now if a large fraction of our population were forced into retirement at 40. If everyone became unemployable at 40, 1/3 of the population would be supporting the other 2/3. Yet instead we see low unemployment.

I don't doubt that age discrimination in tech is real, but I'm pretty sure comments like this are way overstating it.
Google's acquisition of Fitbit looks like two turkeys trying to make an eagle
Cows aren't paid for their labor producing meat.
Farmers don't pay carbon taxes methane taxes for cow externalities.
The Sony smartphone I used to have put its low-light noise reduction behind DRM keys and if you unlocked the bootloader it irreversibly turned the camera into a piece of shit. It’ll be a cold day in hell before I buy another smartphone from them, especially for anything camera related.

Plus the built-in camera app was awful to use, but 3rd party camera apps had awful image quality. I don’t know if that was Sony’s fault or related to general Android fragmentation. Either way, I got the impression they weren’t trying very hard.
Kudos for your work!
> doesn't cannabis also have medical use?

There isn't much evidence for medical use of cannabis and what there is is super weak. That's not to say it won't be proven effective in time, just that the research isn't definitive.

> and further have a lower potential for abuse, at least along the addictiveness axis?

I am not super well versed on cannabis abuse/addictiveness research but anecdotally, sure; as far as I know, it's relatively nonaddictive and harm of regular high-dose use is pretty mild.
> It says that they're dumb and meaningless and very real to the poor ignorant souls who think they're real.

Taking joy in something doesn't make you ignorant or dumb. Whether you choose to be a smug asshole about it is orthogonal to the object of interest.

> But modern art snobs are somewhat unique in claiming to be better than the rest of us. [...] I listen to a modern art snob talk about Jackson Pollock or whatever and I just hear, "I'm so much more intellectual, cultured, and sophisticated than you!"

Are you getting this from beat's comment above? Because I definitely don't see it. I've never seen it IRL, either. It sounds like you're taking your dislike of modern art, and maybe a couple of encounters with unpleasant fans, and projecting it onto the entire field.
Ostensibly, it's foremost an anxiolytic.
I was done with my standalone digital camera when I watched a friend take a snap with his phone and instantly text it.

My process was take a bunch of pix, wait till I got back to my hotel room, plug the camera's memory card into my laptop, transfer the pictures, open up email, attach pictures, email them.
Is this the beginning of the end of the climate change debate? Will these melting permafrosts release an uncontrollable amount of methane into the atmosphere, further raising the average temperatures across the globe?

Only time will tell...
If you skip the abstruse stuff, it's just goose.
The problems is, companies like VeriSign offer LEA services

Quoting https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1591033

“Verisign also operates a ‘Lawful Intercept’
service called NetDiscovery. This service is
provided to ‘... [assist] government agen-
cies with lawful interception and subpoena
requests for subscriber records.’

If you now try to search for NetDiscovery or LEA services for CAs, you won't find any, but I guarantee you they haven't disappeared anywhere.
Literally came here about to post an excerpt from the first chapter. Anyway, yeah like how do you wind up this cartoonishly orwellian?

Sidewalk’s stated goal with data collection in this project is (roughly) to learn, run experiments, and figure out how to really run a city.

But couldn’t they have done without some of the extreme bits here in the tiniest acknowledgement that maybe there’s a reason people like some amount of privacy and that maybe a sudden conversion to all-private-everything isn’t as good an experiment as they think?
Competent people want to work with (and for!) other competent people. When they do, and the job is decent otherwise, then they can stay a long while.
You have to wonder about the slimy people who advocated for and approved this crap in the school systems. Only in America
The rising threat of digital nationalism
Top 10 Trending Android and iOS Libraries in October
SSL was THE thing in 1995. End-to-end encrypted email has existed since 1991 (PGP), and for instant messaging you've been able to use OTR since 2004.

End-to-end encryption is what is needed, SSL is the bare minimum for everything. It's the seatbelt + airbag. You can't have a car without those anymore. E2EE is the ACC+AEB+ABS. You should not have a car without those anymore.
Telegram does have some unique privacy-related features though that other platforms don't support. Examples are: ability to register without a mobile phone/app, open source library (tdlib), ability to edit messages, ability to delete messages for both sides (including images that are cached on the receiver's side), ability to clear chats for both parties, auto deleting messages.
Drones ground water-dropping helicopters at critical moment in Maria fire battle
Indian Nuclear Plants Hacked
Hell, Apple was busted a few years ago calling a DSLR image an iPhone picture, when someone looked at the EXIF data.
We gutted most of their plan:

> restricting development to the 12-acre Quayside plot, acknowledging that an outside developer will have to be chosen to build the infrastructure, abandoning a transit line as a precondition and handing over governance of all data collection to Waterfront Toronto.

From https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2019/10/31/how-waterfront-t...
Let's say I buy a /24 IP address block and port it to AWS. My friend Bob and I are both on AWS. Would it be possible to share some of my IP addresses with Bob in a secure way?

I know that VPC peering[0] is possible across separate AWS accounts, what I don't know is that:

1. Whether or not my /24 block is "compatible" with VPC peering or not

2. How to prove to Bob that I'm not potentially MitMing him (assign my /24 block to VPC1, peer with Bob using VPC2, and MitM between VPC1 and VPC2 since they're both under my control). Would creating an IAM user with read-only VPC permissions work for this?

AWS is just an example. I would be happy to do this at any major provider (AWS and GCP are the two I know that allows bring-your-own-ip).

[0] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/peering/what-is-vpc-p...
It is of every civilsation, not just Western civilisation.
Patience is important soft-skill
How serious is this hack?
Tackle iOS 13 Location Permissions
*steal
Ok Piet is pretty sweet...
Well, the fact that they are not human readable and that some badly designed software takes dangerous actions with them without confirming with the user makes them unsafe.

They are readable when decoded; a lot of them just contain URL's.

There is a bit of an analogy here to shortened URL's.
Just wanted to point out that point 1 is very rarely valid; while you do get a tax break from donating to charity, what you save in taxes is not offset by the cost of the donation. The only case I can really think of where that is the case is if you have some property appraised at a value significantly higher than what you can actually sell it for on the market.
I don't see how it can be made less dangerous. The QR code is read and decoded to a URL. The QR code is now gone, and it is the URL that is dangrous. The URL is dangerous no matter how you got it.

On mobile devices, you can't hover the mouse pointer over a link to see where you're going. That's subtantially more dangerous than a URL reader which shows you the URL.