skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another one that the GP poster may find interesting. This is from Stefan Savage at UCSD, and published in ACM CCS in 2018.

https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~savage/papers/lawful.pdf

Lawful Device Access without Mass Surveillance Risk:A Technical Design Discussion

> This paper proposes a systems-oriented design for supporting court-ordered data access to “locked” devices with system-encrypted storage, while explicitly resisting large-scale surveillance use. We describe a design that focuses entirely on passcode self-escrow(i.e., storing a copy of the user passcode into a write-only component on the device) and thus does not require any changes to underlying cryptographic algorithms. Further, by predicating any lawful access on extended-duration physical seizure, we foreclose mass-surveillance use cases while still supporting reasonable investigatory interests. Moreover, by couching per-device authorization protocols with the device manufacturer, this design avoids creating new trusted authorities or organizations while providing particularity (i.e., no “master keys” exist). Finally, by providing a concrete description of one such approach, we hope to encourage further technical consideration of the possibilities and limitations of trade-offs in this design space.
The audience of people caring about Exchange will not overlap with this, but in other mail server news, it didn't get much attention here that opensmtpd had another remote root hole announced yesterday, following the one from January.

So in some sense I'm glad it's not just them, Microsoft gets to have a turn too.
Yes, it's going to be an interesting up hill legal battle that will either need a lot of expensive court cases or some really smart people in legislatures, and in this climate it feels like we can count on the former a lot more than the latter.

Many terms of service agreements terminate with the "owner" and are very explicit that accounts are "nontransferable", and both are problems that are going to be big fights.
Economist also makes it very hard to unsubscribe.
There are emergency stock piles, but not enough for everyone and clearly we haven't reached the point where we would need to use them yet.
If you think climate change is a big problem I don't see why you wouldn't support both research and policy change. Getting a solution to energy storage would be a huge boost for renewables, for instance.
These are good everyday recommendations, along with the vampire cough/sneeze technique, which I really wish would become more widespread.
Watching old movies from 60s/70s sometimes have scenes where the characters are worried about calls being recorded or otherwise having no privacy.

The typical response is “What is this, Russia?” or something similar.

Privacy is really important. I will always error on the side of privacy even if that means not everyone bad is caught.
1. MongoDB is no longer Open Source.

2. MongoDB's design has historically been terrible; and, from my current experience with clients, is still a source of 'WTF's.
Why not base physics on the idea that "particles" are just spherical standing waves with a high energy density in the center? The math is simple enough for electrons at least and explains enough of the standard-model paradoxes that it is compelling.

People seem to have their fingers in their ears about all the known paradoxes highlighted in quantum mechanics. Makes sense to me that there is not a duality, it's just waves.
Clearview AI says hacker accessed entire database
> They provided the DOJ backdoor access.

If you're thinking of PRISM, no, at least not in the voluntary, intentional sense of the word "provided". Many of the major tech companies had non-public backbone fiber, and links across that fiber were unencrypted. The NSA tapped this dark fiber to read unencrypted traffic. This famously hit Google, which subsequently moved to encrypt all internal traffic, even traffic that would never leave its networks.
They kept sending me "do you know [person I probably don't know]" as notifications on my phone! This was the last straw that made me delete the app and my account entirely a few years ago.

One of the big annoyances in life is being notified or bugged about something I don't need to be notified about. This keeps getting worse with modern tech all the time which has slowly led me to stop using anything I don't have full control over.
No, it's been a feature pretty much forever. The thing is, you basically get '3 strikes'. It starts with a simple visual warning, then progresses to an angrier visual warning, then starts beeping, then louder beeper, then it disables and starts slowing the car down (and puts hazards on, etc).

You've got quite a bit of time before it actually does this. As long as you jiggle the steering wheel every ~20 seconds or so, it shouldn't actually stop the car or disable autopilot.
Not everything. There is an entire market for products that don’t need this label :)
https://ready.gov/pandemic
I haven't heard of CouchDB in quite some time, great to see it still improving.

I used it years ago when I was experimenting with Ionic[0]. What appealed to me was that I could use CouchDB (cloud) and PouchDB[1] (device) to and have a replicated copy of the data locally. The application was used in areas where network connection was very limited. Using this strategy I was able to ensure the mobile devices data was as recent as the last time it had a network connection.

[0] - https://ionicframework.com/

[1] - https://pouchdb.com/
“Stop reading books you don’t like.”

This can be quite liberating. On the one hand it’s tempting to work through a book you don’t like but in the end this is often very exhausting.

I also used to look down on a lot of books but now I have no problem reading Stephen King. He is a damn good writer and fun to read.
They serve this UA on purpose to some sites to prevent being detected as the "old" Edge (which was not Chromium-based).
I didn't intend to conclude anything. I was just asking if he remembers exactly what the professor asked, and saying that the exact phrasing of the question changes my interpretation of the results. I do not expect him to remember, nor do I think there is anything wrong with his comment, but I wanted to ask.
While I agree with the general gist of what you're getting at, I think you're stating it much too strongly. In a sufficiently volatile and capital-starved environment, I think a straight majority of current businesses would be unviable. Stability, safety, and sustainability I think is not given nearly as much emphasis as it should but I wouldn't want to eg. condemn the entire restaurant industry (volatile economy => not a lot of disposable income => nobody can afford restaurants => restaurants go out of business).
Mainly driven by FDA feedback I guess. Have been hearing FDA is spooked by GANs in general, which is a good thing.
Also, don’t eat ass
Encryption keeps the government out of things it shouldn't be snooping on, and also keeps other governments out of those things. If key escrow is mandated, it would be cracked to high heavens by parties unfriendly to the US within a year or two,tops, mark my words. Then what?
The unreasonable ineffectiveness of considering things harmful
Moved back to Firefox after the Quantum release in Jan 2018. There were a few hiccups, and I still have to use Chrome or Safari or Edge for some of my local DRM-infested video streaming sites, but by about Q3 2018 I've never had any reason to use another browser.

Containers is a game-changer, paired with Sync I've been able to easily segregate work, personal, and client environments with ease. I work for many large organisations under NDA at any one time - and being able to colour-code and name my tabs has been invaluable to me. Also the Dev Tools, are great for debugging or sniffing traffic. I'm not a web developer but often need to debug client implementations that consume API's and it's just as good as Chrome. (Imagine that, FireBug used to be the standard, then Chrome came along and became "just as good", now Firefox has natively caught up.)

Finally - speed. Quantum finally killed Chrome's performance for me, and they've finally caught up on power-consumption on MacOS which as someone who regularly has to take multi-hour flights without charge ports available is a god-send.

The DRM issues piss me off, but it's the modern version of browser-restrictive Flash or Silverlight apps. I'll wait for someone else to get fucked off enough to create a bypass for Firefox, or maybe I'll get to a stage where I develop something to do so.

Chrome is dead, long live Firefox.
Done! Thank you for the tip :D
I really don't get the goal of reading X books a year. The impact of reading comes from DOING THE THINGS that the books recommend to do. Often I'll speak to folks who call themselves "prolific readers", and it'll be obvious that they've retained a bit here or there-- but few are actually practicing those things!

Warren Buffet is cited as an example in this article. Sure he reads a lot, but most it consists of SEC filings and balance sheets. If you examine his quotes, you'll find he cites ONE book (the Intelligent Investor) over and over again. He read that one book, and LIVED it for decades. In my opinion, that's a much better goal than reading a book a week.
I'm in my thirties and had unresolved medical issues for a decade.
And in that time experienced much of our health system including visiting psychologists and taking antidepressants.
And nothing really helped.
The only thing that happened is that I learned to live with it.

The only constant in all is an allergy and a cyst causing constant swelling and inflammation.
The technical appearance of this, and lab results, never looks very bad, and doctors are quick to discard the cyst as a source of my problems.

I'm at the end of my wits, and my mind and body are deteriorating further and I find it hard to muster up the energy to try and resolve this with ever more visits to doctors.
My physicians are not concerned enough to try and resolve this quickly, because I still appear fine. I can function normally for a while. But working 9-5 and having a life is honestly above my limit.
I don't dare press the issue too much because doctors are quick to jump to psychological-issues-are-the-source (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_symptom_disorder) .
Physician visits and different things are spaced so widely that a lot of times passes, and I'm still supposed to wait longer and go step-by-step.

After all this time, and a lot chasing ideas and trying out smaller remedies, I arrived at the conclusion/idea that it was the cyst and the inflammation and possibly recurrent colonisation with bacertia from it all along. The cyst that I was told was not an issue.

It's a miracle that I founded and still have a family.
I appreciate all the good things I received and achieved, but honest to god large parts of the way were miserable, and I'm afraid to find out that it's not going to get better.

P.S.: Sorry for venting
.ORG Still Wouldn’t Be Safe
Current version of Windows already have Chromium in the form of new Edge and Microsoft seems to start pushing progressive web applications. At least they made good integration with system for them.

So, perhaps, soon we will have PWAs instead of bunch of electron apps each carrying its own Chromium.
But we don't know if these are false positives. The connection between all those examples doesn't have to be the suggested link. E.g. the patients could be suggested because they have a common friend.
I did that, I only found the Ghibli Museum and Tokyo National Museum, the former announced last week. Hello kitty land also seems to be closed.
Wow, I'm not sure if it was intentional but the alt text can be interpenetrated to be the same as GP's idea
I'm also a long-time supporter of these. A bonus of #2 is that it puts everyone on equal ground, no arguments about leaving the seat up or down.
Investing in Ribbon Health
Yeah heart damage. No thanks.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22414628
From a cost perspective, our hardware designs are more expensive because they are highly integrated (6 to 8 layer PCBs, blind and buried vias, dense component packing, etc) and carry certifications from the FCC and CE, among others. This saves you an expensive certification process when you scale your product, enabling you to get to market faster.

Our core products are our cellular modules, as the certification burden on them far outweighs the process for WiFi modules (PTCRB, carrier certs). While we definitely have customers that use our WiFi products in a production capacity, generally our customers use our WiFi portfolio to prototype in their offices and then migrate to a cellular module for their end product. Saves cost and complexity when you just want to get something working, and our DeviceOS allows you to use the same or similar publish APIs regardless of the underlying connectivity technology.

When you purchase one of our modules, you are buying into a proven and tested platform that is guaranteed to work with our cloud. You just need to make your hardware and set up your backend. We handle the rest. Additionally, we don't make a lot of margin on our hardware - it's not the business we are in.

In terms of processing power, we target applications that don't need to crunch numbers. A great way to describe our platform is a "pipe" that takes your data from some sensor out in a field and drops it in your cloud backend/database. Our best applications are ones in which someone needs to answer "where is my device?" or "how is my device functioning?". In these verticals, it's all about data transmission rather than processing. Often these devices are battery powered and geographically hard to access. They spend a lot of time asleep, and when awake want to consume as little energy as possible.

The IoT landscape is vast, and we have narrowed in on a set of solutions that work well with specific verticals. Our product isn't a fit for every situation, as you have pointed out. For the ones it does fit for, we can provide significant value as a platform.
And isn't that a valid point to make?
Chloroquine is extremely common and can be bought in big bottles at your local grocery store.
Firefox's containers make it easier to work around stuff like this.
The first and last must just be geolocation based, right? Like, these two people are in a room together every X day for Y hours... they probably know each other.

The sperm donor guy, though... facial recognition? No idea.
As an engineer, it's not as easy to get through technical books in such short amounts of time.
While amusing as hell, the answer to the question posed by that XKCD is 'yes'. It's trivial to give away arbitrage opportunities, so the average expected loss – especially net of transaction fees – can be substantial.
Flask Dashboard Black – Free Admin Panel Coded in Flask (MIT License)
You don't even need XOR, just modular addition (XOR is basically addition modulo 2). The Wikipedia article has an example doing it by hand with letters (using addition modulo 26).
Interesting. I certainly understand the why behind this, but I do not understand the how. How much Apple has to say over a prop in the movie if they do not provide it as a part of marketing campaign?

It is a genuine question. I really don't know.
Why can't the government serve warrants to give up their private keys?

I don't really see the State's argument against encryption except in the case that they want to break encrypted information without due process.
This is so their "customer retention" department can run some scripts on you to try to get you to stay. They will make you wait so I suggest doing the chat and just keep typing "No thanks, I want to cancel."
https://old.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/b8z1li/how_to_get_p...

This userscript fixes that. Same protection is used in several other mainstream media websites. I have found one website which is broken by this userscript though, so I don't recommend using it with wildcard for all websites instead of the few which use this protection.
I love B2SMB, which is why my company specializes in it. Lots of growth potential.
That you are being incredibly hyperbolic and alarmist when you are equivocating what are minor tweaks to what is, and what will remain a mixed public/private market economy... to full-blown-complete nationalization.
At that time land was given away via grants in Texas to anyone who would live there by the hundreds of acres. Comparing that situation to land (housing) prices in a major city today is nonsensical.
If the two people involved in the two people involved in the trade are exactly x better off and the, lets say, two people not involved in the trade are exactly x worse off, that transaction is still zero-sum.

Zero-sum games are not limited to two player games.
A few of these are, unfortunately, not Open Source, on account of being licensed under the SSPL or Commons Clause. In the latter's case, in particular, the very prescient complaint against the original "marketing" holds true: that people mistake it for Apache 2.
This quote from Zuckerberg is something else:

> “We don’t view your experience with the product as a single-player game,” he says. Yes, in the short run, some users might benefit more than others from PYMK friending. But, he contends, all users will benefit if everyone they know winds up on Facebook. We should think of PYMK as kind of a “community tax policy,” he says. Or a redistribution of wealth. “If you’re ramped up and having a good life, then you’re going to pay a little bit more in order to make sure that everyone else in the community can get ramped up. I actually think that that approach to building a community is part of why [we have] succeeded and is modeled in a lot of aspects of our society.”

This attitude of "we know what's good for you" is apparent in more and more modern tech products. I find it pretty gross, especially when applied personal data. It's also a convenient after-the-fact moral justification for decisions that improve the bottom line of the company at the expense of its users.
I'd imagine they can. I read just yesterday there were something like 8 Chinese companies now making knockoff remdesivir, patents be damned.
> can we make enough of this stuff in the space of time to really make a difference?

Many drugs are made in China too - terrible irony
i don't think there will be significant abuse, actually. every game on GOG is all over bitorrent already, since there's no DRM. anyone unwilling to pay is more likely to pirate than to go through the effort of gaming the returns.
It could be useful if the folk prioritizing things are dealing with non-specific complaints about the software being unreliable or not working correctly.
More likely adress book / phone contacts import.
I am not sure you need inflammation as an explanation. People in the ICU are there because they are extremely sick. Often they have problems with blood pressure and oxygenation. This probably leads to neuron death. In addition, because they are getting checked on continuously they likely have poor sleep and loss of day-night cycles. I am not sure how you can differentiate between very sick people are in the ICU, and very sick people often have a lot of inflammation.
It has not affected my company directly yet, but people are quite uneasy.
> Web 1.0 (or was that already 2.0-beta-2?)

flickr is one of the things that were used as an example of what "Web 2.0" is supposed to be when the term became popular, so that was well into the "Web 2.0" era.
"Offer" is perhaps an overly positive term. The DOJ has issued a number of speeches, letters, etc. insisting that tech companies must build a backdoor to let the government decrypt messages as required.
This is bad advice:

- Even if you are in the US, there is still some liability risk of EU recipients. Not super clear, but better safe than sorry.

- Double Opt-in can improve email deliverability. Clutter folders are starting to detect and filter out emails with low engagements. An opt in email forces an engagement, and weeds out bad recipients.

- It's a better all-around experience.
I agree. It kind of feels like the media is pushing a "techlash" narrative where there is none.
Should have followed up with: Do you think having a lock on your front door is bad?
Reminder to myself: donate to them when I get home.
There was a cartoon show in the 90's where the characters learned rudimentary BASIC programming, and it blew my mind that you could make a computer do what you wanted by typing a few commands. Later on, it was wanting to make video games that completely hooked me on.
The article doesn't say HDF5 isn't chunked, but that's the impression a reader might get if they don't already know better. It's certainly not the author's fault -- just an easy mistake for a reader to make with the flow of the article.

It's more that I keep hearing that statement ("Zarr is chunked and HDF5 isn't") in the wild a lot.

As for threading, yeah, HDF5 can be a bit cumbersome there.

I'm not sure I'd agree on compression, though. HDF5 supports fully arbitrary compression, after all, it's just the client reading the data also needs to have the compression filter you're using installed. Zarr is often used with BLOSC, and that was originally developed specifically for HDF5, FWIW.
They are probably bound by the local market to adhere to certain standards on these things or parents will get up in arms about it. Just a guess. But to your point, I also wondered if they'd see more success raising the rates and offering a credit or small refund if the child is picked up before a certain time. People may be more motivated by getting a bonus thing vs. paying an extra thing. Maybe not though.
+1. This is something tech bros don't seem to get, while politicians get very well: the majority is driven by emotions and has small cognitive ability, but they vote and thus arguments to win their vote must be trivial emotionally charged ideas. A politician says "encryption is a tool of criminals!" and those who start arguing in the rational plane have already lost; instead, the answer should be "lack of encryption enables Chinese style totalitarian communism!" - no need to explain the details, just push their "scary communism" button and let the public contemplate on the "crime vs communism" topic.
TV-B-gone before its time.

That’s great. I hope I’d have done exactly the same.
From what I read this is not that rare. These cops get sent to a school and the only thing they know is to treat children like everybody else. So if they don’t comply force will be applied.
CouchDB is awesome and feels way ahead of its time. Its design docs are extremely powerful, to the point that you can build entire web apps with CouchDB alone (not that that's recommended anymore). Plus with PouchDB you can create offline-first apps that sync with a remote CouchDB instance.
It plateaued in China following an incredibly massive quarantine effort. The infection is hitting countries with not nearly the social control measures that China has.
That’s covering a subset of US energy usage as they ignore things like passive solar heating and crops etc. It’s useful when comparing specific kinds of resources, but it’s important to consider the context and assumptions used.

In terms of electricity generation solar+wind is about 10% of total generation which is a massive increase from 2010.
The discussion is about testing now, today. It's not about testing in 10 years time.

> can only help, never hurt

This is simply untrue. Assuming for a moment that people can avoid overreacting you're still ignoring the stress caused by getting a partial dx.

And if you're not going to do anything with the information it's pointless doing it: you've exposed people to risk (hospitals are low risk, not no risk, environments) for no purpose.

I've linked to doctors and statisticians and healthcare researchers all saying the same thing. Here's a UK Cancer charity which repeats the point: https://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2018/03/06/overdiag...

What you chose to do with your body is, of course, totally up to you. But you should stop spreading the FUD that imaging is harmless or that more information is always better.
How is that evidence of the claim?