skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have not changed the subject.

You started this thread by responding to somebody discussing the Chinese government's access to all iCloud data, but you changed the subject to talk about systems where the private key is on device, which does not apply to iCloud. You absolutely did change the subject.

> Those same standards apply in the US and China - unless you have evidence otherwise.

Those same standards don't actually protect your data from whoever controls the iCloud server or whoever controls the iMessage key server. In the US, that is Apple, so Apple has access to that data. In China, that is the Chinese government. Therefore, the Chinese government has access to all Chinese iCloud and iMessage data.

> I no more trust my privacy to the US government than a Chinese citizen should trust China.

Then you are unfamiliar with the laws of both countries.
Strictly speaking, low-latency trading rather than HFT. I don't bother trying to draw that distinction for the HN crowd.
if something can be returned as undefined instead of a function, then yes, you are forced to either write code to handle the undefined value, or modify your logic so the returned value can only be a function :)
This makes some strong assumptions about the validity of the google and Facebook data that underpins this theory. As the case for the prevalence of ad fraud and questionable practices by these platforms mounts, it’s hard to believe any data around CTR and purported conversion vs actual legit human traffic and cash in hand conversions.
Yeah, Microsoft has had NN-based speech generators that can mimick your own voice for about a year now. Thought this was going to be a competing service.
> ive never even heard that word before

I'm not sure an argument from ignorance is the best logical fallacy to defend Trump
That there exists a strictness of anti-trust law / prosection which is harmful does not opine on whether or not stricter anti-trust law would be harmful or beneficial.

So a bit of a red herring.
> which isn't unlikely considering you need it to send previously taken photos

To be clear for anyone else reading, photo library access is required to browse the photo library from within WhatsApp, it's not required to share arbitrary photos to WhatsApp from the photo app via the OS's built-in share feature.
Is there really a difference between key resellers and just cracking it? You don't have a license for it either way.
What metrics would you consider when it comes to aircraft safety?
Sergei Khrushchev: Why the Soviets Lost the Space Race
> I guess Khashoggi must have really annoyed MBS

Or MBS massively miscalculated. I can't imagine being Lord Emperor gives you many opportunities for people to tell you you're wrong about stuff
Are you suggesting that Google is evil?

Because you would be totally right. As a 8.5 year employee of Google I had to resign and blow the whistle.

I gathered all of the disclosure documents and stored them here:

--> https://www.zachvorhies.com <--

It's worse than you can possibly imagine. Everyone else seems to be waking up to this just recently (last 6 months).
The keys that encrypt the iCloud data are never on your device. They don't even need to sniff the keys. They control them.
you can add JSDoc annotations and use a modern IDE like vscode or webstorm, etc.
dredmorbius, do you own one? At what frequency do you normally change the water?
> Taking someone's money to fund research and then not giving them access to that research is theft.

That seems like hyperbole to me. I think it falls more into the category of "inequitable exchange" or "bad deal".
Racoon city
It's just that your cavalier attitude towards best practices and apparent pride in having a shoddy codebase perpetuates the stereotype that PHP developers are second rate.

And no, I'm not advocating for using the latest and greatest just for bragging rights. There is a middle ground.

> "Who cares? The business is killing it"

What happens when you want to sell the business, or the sole developer of this monstrous codebase becomes ill? Based on the picture you've painted of it, a good developer won't want to touch it with a ten foot pole.

Anyhow, I am very glad for your success. It does sound like an interesting story. Just don't be surprised to see a negative reaction from a community of professional developers when you brag about how poorly written (and vulnerable to attack) your "million" dollar application is.

I can only hope that you aren't operating anything that other businesses rely on, or worse — handles personal data.
> Germany was export-oriented before the Euro, during the transition and with the Euro. Germany was export-oriented before reunification, during reunification and after reunification.

Germany was export-oriented even before WW2. It's funny whenever you read about "How germany or japan became industrial powers after ww2". With many crediting the US or whatever aligns with their agenda. The truth is that both germany and japan were industrial powers before ww2 and they just reverted back to what they were after ww2.

> For example Germany is not a centralized economy (like the UK or France, which are grouped around London and Paris).

Germany is most definitely a centralized economy. Just because it doesn't have the dominant city center like London and Paris doesn't mean it isn't centralized. The reason why germany is a manufacturing power is because german federal government and the state decided to make germany export-oriented manufacturing power. While in the UK, they decided to become finance oriented and service oriented and shifted their manufacturing overseas. Which is smarter in the long run, only time will tell.
I may well be proven wrong by further revelations, but:

> Large amounts of data were exfiltrated from Bezos’s phone within hours

I could see a cross-platform WhatsApp message that leaked WhatsApp data?
Do people refer to maps as hashes?
Is there a specialised protocol for all types of data stored on iOS devices? Probably not. But plenty of other models of phone, tablet, camera and other data-processing devices manage to communicate just fine with Windows (or Linux or macOS) using generic protocols as USB mass storage devices, there is little excuse for iOS devices not to. In fact, you actually can download your photos and videos from an iPhone to a Windows PC by just plugging it in and doing the same as you would with your camera, but ironically this only works if you haven't installed iTunes.
I run a discord which is just a collection of people from my local city, with no real fixed subject or agenda. I trained the 345M GPT-2 against the "general" channel, and then set up a discord bot such that every message has a 2% chance that the past 5 messages will be read in as context, and a couple of sentences spat out in response.

It's sometimes very lucid, sometimes insane, but most of all it's very entertaining.

As a complete aside, I also tried 'transfer learning' against a huge amount of Marxist literature and then a small amount of erotic fiction, but that experiment hasn't quite worked out. Sexy Robot Marx will have to wait.
A high return rate doesn't mean it's counterfeit. If there's strong evidence of counterfeit Amazon will refund buyers proactively.
How to Share React Components Between Applications via NPM
Apple clearly lists which data is e2e encrypted and which isn’t. The keys that encrypt e2e data is not stored on Apple’s servers.
> Ok. But it is worse for me, and basically everyone else who uses Windows and says that Linux Desktop won't suit their needs.

I tried Linux a few times at home for 6m to a year, in this regard I missed nothing of Windows. However twice my instance was killed by Nvidia driver updates. People claim AMD has better drivers on Linux so I recently bought a Ryzen 7 3700x and 5700XT.

But after being burned and /never/ having anything similar happen on Windows, I can't bring myself to put Linux on my computer in fear of the same shit happening again...
The best example of this is Tommy Cooper, a British magician / comedian known for his slapstick style. He'd often stumble steps in his act, or mess up on purpose so you could never really tell what was planned or not.

When he had a heart attack on stage, people thought it was part of his act and the curtain closed to a standing ovation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8zi7vcnjVc
What the fuck are you doing typing on your phone whilst driving?!
It's 100% due to war time censorship. Unusually, it hit young able bodies people the hardest. ie, young men who were being conscripted into the war. There were huge problems with swaths of people in barracks all getting sick and messing with the deployment process. In every country involved in the war. And it absolutely couldn't be let known that anyone was having problems fielding new recruits. So the news was heavily censored.

Spain was neutral, and therefore didn't have tons of people packed into barracks waiting to be deployed. As a result, they suffered the least. Relatively few Spaniards got sick. However, since they weren't at war, there was no wartime censorship, and it was covered by the Spanish press. Therefore the pandemic came to be known as the Spanish flu.

Extra credits did a series on it, which is worth checking out IMHO. Six episodes, ten minutes each. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhyKYa0YJ_5BZ3gQleTk-...
I disagree, but I admit it is risky.
I think there might be misunderstanding about what exactly is "encrypted" and how. The comment 3 or 4 levels above says:

> The same "vulnerability" of being able to respond to legal requests for iCloud data that exists in China exists everywhere else in the world.

And an article on Apple's site [1] confirms that most data in the cloud are "encrypted", but without E2E encryption, possibly in a reversible way. That article also notes that while messages are E2E encrypted, a cloud backup might contain a key to decrypt them:

> Messages in iCloud also uses end-to-end encryption. If you have iCloud Backup turned on, your backup includes a copy of the key protecting your Messages. This ensures you can recover your Messages if you lose access to iCloud Keychain and your trusted devices.

So it is possible that the data on the phone are encrypted, the data in transit are encrypted, the data in the cloud are encrypted for every user in the world, but the cloud operator has the encryption keys for some of the encrypted data: Chinese operator for data of Chinese users and Apple for everyone else. This doesn't contradict neither with Apple's statement nor with the article nor with that comment above.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
How much does a mesoSPIM cost?
Depending on the configuration, a mesoSPIM Version 5 costs between 169600 to 239600 USD

Ouch.
Why those luxury cars fool people?
What a pitiful congeries of overweening, delusional, self-important absurdities. I often wonder if I can come to loathe the tech sector any more than I do, and it consistently meets my challenge.

A desire to acquire shitloads of overconsumption rights is broadly functional within the mythological system of capitalism, but it is not a grand mission, however blogged up.
We're generally happy to replace bland corporate press release titles, which always bury the lede, with something that gets to the point. But who knows what the point is? "Stack Overflow is forming a moderator council", maybe? Let's try that. It can't be worse than "Scripting the Future of Stack Overflow".

Suggestions for better titles are welcome. Try to use representative language from the article if you can find it.
There will still be 2-4+ ads above the fold of the real "good SEO" results anyway.
I know you've already got a storm of replies, but I'd like to illustrate part of what I love about closure (especially when combined with anonymous objects like in JavaScript): you can replace classes, private vs public, "this", and other features with a simpler, smaller number of features.

const Counter = () => {
let counts = new Map();

return {
reset: () => {
counts = new Map();
},

count: (key) => {
const count = counts.get(key) + 1;
counts.set(key, count);
return count;
}
}
}

const items = ['apple', 'apple', 'banana', 'canteloupe'];
const counter = Counter()

items.forEach(item => {
console.log(item + ": count is", counter.count(item));
})

counter.reset();
// do some more counting now

IMO, this is much simpler [and prettier ;)] than the alternative using classes: you only need to know closures and objects, and the rules apply the same as they do in all other contexts. Classes in most languages usually come with their own twists and surprises.
> I can’t imagine that corporations would allow Microsoft to market to their end-users. There must be some ultra-premium edition of Windows 10 that one can buy, where telemetry and ads are fully disabled?

Why would you think that? My enterprise loves MS. Literally everything is being moved to MS. Chat, documents, internal websites (sharepoint), all hosted by MS under their office 365 umbrella. It’s maddening.

I cannot imagine the security folks being bothered by some ads in windows or some extra telemetry. If MS can read that data they know everything already.
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I will be boycotting TurboTax this year. Their latest ad campaign[1] is particularly egregious. It claims that (with TurboTax's help) "people can be good at anything... even taxes". Given the amount of lobbying that Intuit does to make taxes more complicated, this message is disingenuous at best.

[1] https://www.campaignlive.com/article/turbotax-returns-new-ca...
Yup, and that is the reason I refused to look at it for so long. And then I went to work for a large corporate where Windows is mandated since forever and will be until eternity. And from my impression most businesses wont touch any other OS for use on desktops.

You can of course use Wine/Wineskin and there are guides on how to get this done for Dolphin apps, but I just wont bother for my clients. Not one has ever mentioned compatibility with anything other than Windows 10.
> When the Big Snow of 1978 hit, it came with plenty of warning. So I took two cases of my favorite beer and a full box of terminal paper home, and reminded the MIT operators to set the Multics machine for unattended reboot. The blizzard paralyzed the Boston area for a week, but I was able to work. The MIT Multics had only a few users logged in, and response was great.

This made me smile!
Is the "our" you're referring to Whatsapp? If not, then I'm not sure how much we can derive from your experience. There are places that take build and deployment security much more seriously than what you're describing.
A big reason is that parents read kids' text messages. If there is no text message sent, there is nothing for your parents to find.
CDC Confirms First U.S. Case of Coronavirus from China
Greenwald wanted evidence presented of the meddling, but that it was something the US and Russia both regularly do.

https://medium.com/@ggreenwald/statements-about-possibility-...
I'm confused as to why kids are allowed to have airpods in their ears in class at all?

It's really not difficult to figure out when a kid is trying to hide it. (source: I'm a teacher of adolescents)

I can only assume that this is either allowed (implicitly or explicitly) or this is in schools where teachers are so overloaded that any sort of message passing would probably go unpunished anyway.
> Well she did not kill herself despite being able to, now did she?

She asked not to be resuscitated. She wasn't. On a couple of occasions, now, you have conflated DNR (or POLST, more accurately, these days, Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatments) with the act of suicide.

> Who again did not take those 10 minutes to take his life.

Again.

> Or that could be a bias towards spending most time with the most extreme examples. A bit like how policemen tend to become more racist during the course of their career. A professional's opinion on a moral issue can be more informed but also often more biased.

Oof. Comparing a medical professionals experience with the negative side of end of life palliative care with an increasing racism is a pretty ugly and unjustified comparison, one that says that you believe that those physicians, paramedics, nurses have intensified flaws or failings by virtue of recognizing/ believing that not everyone needs to or should stay alive to the very last by means of medical care, regardless of their wishes or quality of life, that that is somehow akin to "racism" in terms of character traits. Wow.
Have you tried contacting legitimate manufacturer's? The way America works it's sort of incumbent on you, the consumer, to try suing Amazon on their fraudulent listings, but that takes a lot of money - but I bet actual mask manufacturers would be quite willing to defend their territory.

Especially with dust masks I feel like there might be departments in OSHA or the FDA that would help out here, but I don't know what they are or if they've been declawed.
That's why you have several stores close to each other which can all stay in business. You start at Aldi and get the basics, go to Rewe for fancier things, stop by dm or Rossmann for the most fantastic selection of toiletries and hit the bakery on the way back. Or if you live in the city it's easy to take turns every few days instead of doing it all at once.

addendum: I really like the efficiency of Aldi/Lidl with respect to filling shelves. Why does someone have to touch all the pasta packages and arrange them when it's almost the same work for the customers to grab them right out of the box?
Most certainly, like any complex app that needs to interact with potentially hostile services.
These are not analogous. You have a moral (and possibly a legal) obligation to grade a student fairly. Unless you are a school administrator, you can not unilaterally expel a student.

A business has no such constraints. If I go to a bar and start telling people that the owner is actually a racist, I’m going to get kicked out even if I want to buy more drinks. That’s not “might is right”; it’s the owner not wanting to do business with an asshole.
Was an IRIX admin in the Indigo/Octane era. Found this title deeply confusing.
It might be even worse elsewhere.
> What would be really cool is to build a USB board that plugs into one of the SB9210 boards and connects to gnuradio. You could do all kinds of neat radar experiments, presence detection, beam forming, you name it. Kind of like a 60 GHz RTL-SDR.

Maybe a dumb question, but how is it even possible to do SDR with 60GHz signal on a ~4GHz CPU via a 5Gbps USB3 connection?

EDIT: I guess via down-conversion? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_down_converter
Float Toy
Is passive investment really idle? If you give it to a bank, they turn it into loans. If you invest in stocks, you're driving up the value of the shares so the company can sell at a premium to innovate. If you invest in corporate bonds, you're giving cash to companies to innovate (or at least helping increase the value of loans, which decreases future interest rates, encouraging innovation).

The only way to make your money useless is to hold cash since it's designed to decrease in value over time. Pretty much everything else is promoting some kind of innovation/growth.
I've only looked at the tutorials, but it looks like you can push your .md file to a remote git repo to read/edit a shopping list or to collaborate with others on documents.
You started this thread by responding to somebody discussing the Chinese government's access to all iCloud data

If some of the data is e2e encrypted using private keys,China doesn’t have access to “all data”

Those same standards don't actually protect your data from whoever controls the iCloud server or whoever controls the iMessage key server.

If the private key is generated by the same entity or “key server” that generates the public key, and then transmitted to the client. That kind of defeats the entire purpose of public/private key encryption.

I’ve never seen an implementation of public/private key encryption where the client device doesn’t create the key pair and send only the public key to encrypt data.
Finding Your Potential [video]
> party that openly threaten violence and celebrates it and openly talks about abusing power if they win (as if that would be cool thing)

I read this entire sentence and still wasn't sure which side you were referring to because this applies equally to "the left" in my experience.
Do you have any source on that?

Specifically, it has the option to enable a "Diagnostic Data Viewer" that shows the data it sends (as JSON). I've just enabled that, so there is not much to see, but so far it has only transmitted version information of OS software components.

(Mini-) crash dumps can contain all kinds of information but that is kind of unavoidable. As a developer, I'm gratefull whenever I get a core/crash dump, but yes, it shouldn't be automatic.

Here's a full list of data it seems to send https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/windows-dia... (at full telemetry level)
And now it's easy to tell my TV to play a Youtube video via my phone instead of just using the remote, but a magnificent pain in the ass / impossible to share my screen to my TV or stream an actual video file directly. Pretty lame outcome.
It's not just about professional management. I suspect IEEE and ACM have much more complicated infrastructure to handle submission, peer review, production, etc., which arXiv doesn't have. I'm not justifying the costs -- I wouldn't be able to do that unless I see the breakdown of costs, e.g., how much it goes to the society, how much it goes to post-production, etc. I would also assume that ACM and IEEE journals also do a bit of copy editing that goes beyond mere spell checks before publishing the articles. Although copy editing and post-production is generally outsourced, it is still expensive. All this adds to the cost.
This model seems to ignore ideas that could be big if you could find a cheaper distribution strategy other than ads, ie social, virality, etc. It also ignores ideas that don't have demand yet.

By this analysis you guys would have likely killed AirBnb and Dropbox.
All my Windows VST/i and ASIO work perfectly fine with Wine and Reaper on linux. Have recorded multiple albums on with Reaper+VST+ASIO on Linux.
Isn't this a typical case of Parkinson's law?

See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law (didn't find a free version of the book unfortunately).

There is even a fitting example in the book where Parkinson describes how the administration of the British Navy became bigger and bigger although there were fewer and fewer ships to manage. In the present case, one would have to assume analogously that with the introduction of the Internet and the advancing automation, considerable costs were eliminated.

So the question is: have ACM and the other mentioned organizations already reached the tertiary and last stage of INJELITITIS?
Dopaminergic pathways
"Zeng, who is leading the Chinese government's efforts to respond to the outbreak, made clear that his recommendation was not a government-imposed quarantine."

Flights are still departing Wuhan:

http://www.whairport.com/jc/ch/dep/depGlList.jhtml
The light field conceptually belongs to geometric optics. It doesn't involve phase or the wave theory at all. It would be either an input to or output from a phased array.

Phased arrays admittedly use the wave theory in a way which is geometrically simple. Maybe "far field" is the way to describe it.
> But wait does it mean that if you haven't iCloud backup activated but use local backup you can actually sync message without storing private key

iMessage doesn’t use the backup for syncing. If you want to sync then both devices need to be logged into your account.

You can turn off iCloud backup for messages (with or without a local backup).
I read on the news first symptomes observed in USA,also here who[0] emergency prep. responses, given details about some cases
[0]https://www.who.int/csr/don/archive/year/2020/en/
But it doesn't have an interest in protecting your other rights? Interesting.