skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why couldn't an encryption scheme be used that, for decryption, requires either a) the user's private key (a usual), or b) some sort of combination of private keys of all the relevant government entities required to authorize accessing the user's data?

It maybe be technically possible to make such a scheme, but due to the unitary executive, keys split among N government agencies have the same essential practical security as 1 key held by one counterparty, and one counterparty that has no particular interest in the security of your data. So this fails the “preserves security” aspect for the same reason that any system that enables government access must.
Agreed - lapse in thinking.
You wouldn't have run Windows 95 on your circa 1987 Tandy, there were massive changes in that time as well that impacted supported hardware when new OSes and software came out.

Mobile phones (smart phones in particular here) saw changes in 1-3 years that took 5-10 years on PCs. That has to be taken into consideration when trying to understand why a piece of hardware isn't supported by the latest OS or software.
> The actual use of force by this president in his shameful photo op incident in front of the church has clearly demonstrated without a shadow of doubt that his threat of disproportional violence against protesters - even for trivial purposes - is credible.

No matter how "credible", Brandenburg v Ohio's overruled Schenck v US and Whitney v California, the latter of which held that speech that merely advocated violence could be made illegal.

Hess v Indiana further clarified that speech that amounted to nothing more than advocacy of illegal action at some indefinite future time is protected by 1A.

And finally, just because violence is disproportional, doesn't automatically make it "illegal". The threat of the use of legal force against vandalism, while "disproportionate", is entirely a valid use of speech for a politician, advocating a legal use of the police force.

Your problem with this appears to be that police force is, today, legal. This is orthogonal to Trump's proclamations, and even more orthogonal to Facebook's platform.
Yea, I didn't remember anything about a DDoS being the reason Richards was fired, as opposed to just a PR person making a splash and bringing unwanted attention to her company. A non-central case of cancellation, and I have no real sympathy for Richards as a person, but it still sucks that it happened.
I agree, I was mostly trying to play devils advocate and try and figure out any potentially positive reason. As an extreme counterexample, I refuse to install GrubHub or Uber Eats or apps like that, instead just calling the restaurants directly to order food. It’s possible I might try out an app clip, and maybe the process would be smooth enough that I’d be willing to upgrade to the full app. But I know I’m definitely outside the norm and realistically this wouldn’t move the needle in a positive direction for businesses.

I’m mostly just concerned that this will likely detract even further from web-based alternatives. GrubHub might decide that since they have App Clips, they can pull a Yelp and disable their mobile website completely.
Hi Mark nice of you passing by.

> Either it's Facebook, which is relatively transparent

Nice joke to break the ice.

> and can be sued, regulated and criticized in the media

Well, the same applies to any other App, and yes this include tik-tok or Wechat. China jurisdiction is not supranational. The situation inside China is different.

> Or it's another social network that you have absolutely no recourse against.

If the network is operating legally in your country then you have resource. If you go out of your way and sign-up to the Somalian Buccaneers App and they rob you then you are fucked but it was basically your fault.

As I know people simplify to score fake debate points, I am not saying to install tik-tok or we-chat, I did it for a few days and both are terrible apps with very creepy features. But guess what so are Instagram and Facebook, so I dont use them either. Nobody needs them really.
Is Windows on ARM Ready?
There's also a big problem with accuracy in GMaps. From what I can tell they put some effort in within the US, but in the two countries I've lived in, GMaps is sufficiently inaccurate that I have to use other maps.

For example: About a third of the streets that show on GMaps for my previous town don't actually exist - they're paddocks. Every other map is correct: HERE, Apple Maps, OSM, TomTom, etc. As Google notoriously has no support, there's no way to get it fixed, so I simply had to instruct everyone coming to visit me that they needed to download and use a different map software in order to find me.
your description reminds me of Jane Jacobs in Death & Life of Great American Cities
I’ve heard people suggest that public workers should not be allowed to unionize. To me, it sounds like an extreme position, but stuff like this makes me consider it more seriously.

If the ability to cover up criminal acts is a consequence of police unions, there’s no doubt in my mind that they should be abolished.

Unions make a lot of sense, unless they can negotiate impunity on behalf of their members.

EDIT: Interesting article on this subject: https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-trou...

Quote from the article:

When it comes to advancing their interests, public-sector unions have significant advantages over traditional unions. For one thing, using the political process, they can exert far greater influence over their members' employers — that is, government — than private-sector unions can. Through their extensive political activity, these government-workers' unions help elect the very politicians who will act as "management" in their contract negotiations — in effect handpicking those who will sit across the bargaining table from them, in a way that workers in a private corporation (like, say, American Airlines or the Washington Post Company) cannot. Such power led Victor Gotbaum, the leader of District Council 37 of the AFSCME in New York City, to brag in 1975: "We have the ability, in a sense, to elect our own boss."
Do you have a good link to learn about grammars in perl?
It's not clear to me that this sentence has any meaning at all.

All artificial things exist because of who we are as a species
What would be interesting is a follow-up to see how he feels today after returning and living in China. I bet he find life to be a lot better, yet at the same time suddenly realizes in a conversation with his Chinese friends and family some of the wrong assumptions they also have about the West vs his own experiences.
I've seen that argument while reading up on the current state supreme court cases, but I disagree that it's more like searching your mind than searching ahouse is. To mirror your examples, a house may have handwritten notes, photos, and voicemail messages (well, if it still has a landline) all of which can potentially contain incriminating evidence. Yet we compel people to grant entry to an officer with a search warrant.

As to the protection afforded by a password, a house is protected with a lock and ordinarily someone cannot compel you to grant them access, which is what the warrant is for, stating that they have reason to believe there is evidence on the premises.

If we want to say, "But unlocking a door doesn't require speech while telling someone your password does" then fine, silently punch that password into the device.

Mainly I'm looking for problems with this in the vein of "If we install backdoors into our software, that compromises security for everyone and grants unprecedented surveillance power to the government". A hand-delivered court-issued warrant to the owner of an individual device seems like a promising compromise to let law enforcement get on with investigating specific crimes without broadly crippling everyone's security in the process.
From the server side, isn't this just a WebAuth integration?

How does the server know for sure if the client is on an iOS Safari browser on an iPhone with FaceID or a custom browser on any OS and any non-locked-down hardware being run with Selenium?
What's the tally on support? Otherwise it's difficult to know whether this bill is symbolic or serious.
“Stacking a bunch of plants on top of each other cannot change that the lower plants must receive less power, and therefore cannot grow as much“

That assumes all light comes from straight up. That isn’t even true if the sun is straight overhead, and definitely not true close to the poles.

I don’t know whether it’s profitable, but I would think the economics of vertical farming on Iceland (sun lower in the sky, greenhouse heating cheap, imports expensive) are different from those in Equatorial Guinea.
Law enforcement is very capable of getting into phones. They have always managed to do it in the end but want a backdoor from the manufacturer as it is expensive and inconvenient for them.
I don't like to be dismissive, but that video is pure fluff.

> whether it's Apple or Martin Luther King or the Wright Brothers, they all think, act, and communicate, in the exact same way. And it's the complete opposite to everyone else. All I did was codify it.

I very nearly stopped watching right there. Does this kind of nonsense really appeal to anyone? It strikes me as bordering on insulting.

Wikipedia describes this guy as an 'author and motivational speaker'. He makes a living claiming to have cracked the one weird secret to success, but is not a visionary, a pioneer, or a leader.

It's like someone selling you an investment strategy. If it really worked, they wouldn't be selling it, they'd be busy making millions.
On the subject of transferrable knowledge, Perl was the first language I learned, and I was always a little bit confused about why every language I learned since then didn't have pronouns, until finally magrittr came along in R and made perfect sense to me, since "." in magrittr/dplyr feels a lot like "$_" (or "@_") in Perl.
There are some differences between Safari and WKWebView. Some features are blocked.
> POTUS is a public official and in this incident was speaking in his role as a public official with the power to use force, and a concrete threat against a concrete target.

Yes, but that use of force is not lawless. Police use of force against vandalism is currently legal. Calling for that is also legal, because it fails the "lawless" portion of the "imminent lawless action" test.

Similarly, if POTUS calls for war against a specific nation (or group), it is within his rights to do that, no matter how violent or deadly war may be. War isn't a lawless action (for better or for worse). As such, the Commander in Chief declaring the intent to call on the legislature to approve a war is also protected, for the same reason.
There's fraud in clothing too.

They reuse product photos from higher quality products to sell you a lower quality product.
That’s the whole point of functional programming: composition of small things to make bigger things.
I didn't want to downplay the fact that it can be bad. What I meant to say is that this is a respiratory disease virus, and a lot of the stuff it is supposed to cause (according to the press) is actually due to that, not because it is novel.

Even the reported brain infections (neural invasion) aren't a unique feature of this virus, but are recorded as happening with other coronaviruses (the most common ones, not SARS or MERS).
> the problem is that we are raising our boys to want to be leaders and our girls to not.

What you think initially caused that behavior in the first place, some time long ago?
Talk about someone projecting their own experiences as universal truths for everyone, LOL

...and then trying to use Heidegger as an excuse for intellectual laziness is pretty silly too.
The more languages you know, the more you really understand the true meaning of words in your "own" language.
(Certainly with Latinic languages and English, for example.)

There's also a point to be crossed at which you can dream in another language and there's a bit of a desert to be crossed before that happens.

Overall, it was a challenging and somewhat thought-provoking read, but I feel that

1) the author approached the subject superficially and in a flippant manner

2) the author is young and has much to learn about LIFE on earth, whether it be China, or any of the other 180 something "countries" we have divided our planets human societies into.

That said: I've noted that large nationalistic nations (China, the USA, Brasil, Russia...) tend to know less about the outside world and navel-gaze more, whereas smaller nations with many different neighbors (most of the world) tend to be aware of the cultural framing on almost any issue, even if they defer to local customs or beliefs.
This is obviously a gross generalization, but a flavor one nevertheless is imparted with due to:

1) A tendency towards being linguistically bound in thought. (I will propose that the author here is dead wrong, Martin Heidegger notwithstanding, and that languages bound thought possibilities by their grammars and biases)

2) A tendency to not have experienced any foreign nationals in rural areas, or certainly none that are deemed to be equal human beings by a significant part of the local society.

3) A tendency to believe the local media and governmental narratives at the cost of being completely un-aware of other narratives, regardless of belief or resistance to such narratives.
Perl 6 had its first official release in December 2015. It has since been improved, mainly in performance and in async / event driven capabilities. It got renamed to Raku last year (https://raku.org using the #rakulang tag on social media). You can check out the Rakudo Weekly News if you want to stay up-to-date: https://rakudoweekly.blog
Not as securely or cheaply: using 1Password this way either requires less secure TOTP codes (which are easily phished) or a separate token.

Having this available to every Apple user on the web is huge, especially when you look at the network benefits of the Apple feature pushing all of the slackers (hi, every large financial company!) to implement secure MFA.
The video mentions the data never leaves the device and that the transaction is performed in the secure enclave of the phone.
I'm pretty sure that unless they ask to be on that mailing list, it wouldn't even be legal to simply add them to it. I suppose that is country dependent, though.

Story time: I asked a Logic Audio plugin developer a question about one of their plugins that I might have been interested in using. They put me on their mailing list without my requesting it, and over time I was getting tens of emails a month from them about that product and others that they had. I was ignoring all of them since they were literal spam about things I simply wasn't interested in.

They got bought out by another company that sold Music e-magazines as well as software, and suddenly I was inundated by spam from all their different areas.

It took me quite a while to get off their lists, and I assured them that because of what they had done, I would never buy anything from them, no matter how incredible or desirable - they'll always have competition, and I'll be going there instead. All because they mishandled my one question about one product of theirs that I didn't even own (and henceforth never will.)
The story is the same one that all anti-surveillance, anti-police militarization, pro-privacy, and anti-authoritarian people foretell. Good technology will be used enable, amplify, and justify civil rights abuses by authority figures from your local beat cop, to a faceless corporation, a milquetoast public servant, or the president of the United States.

Our institutions and systems (and maybe humans in general) are not robust enough to cleanly handle these powers, and we are making the same mistake over and over and over again.
It's just the wealthy who are bankrolling the capture and dismantling of government, yes. If you haven't noticed, wealthy people/corps have the most influence on policy. Deplatforming is something that happens in the realm of entertainment-politics, where the goal appears to be angering or appeasing mobs to keep people distracted from important policy issues and divided on the rest.
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Booking.com is also (notoriously) completely written in Perl.
I often compose music on the go in GarageBand on my iPhone.

I own several pairs of extremely high quality and highly accurate headphones, and; no - I don’t want to carry an adapter around for headphones that prevents charging while headphones are plugged in. That’s obviously logistically a no go for anyone performing live with an iPad. I’d never want to rely on battery power live.

Even if I hadn’t invested in my audio gear and headphones specifically so much, the latency on Bluetooth has made it a non option forever - unless I buy one of the select few W1 certified Beats units, which then is just an additional expense.

Apple does not currently offer, and it seems that they have no interest in offering, a phone that I will buy in the future. I couldn’t believe they pulled the headphone jack on the SE2, it seemed like the last ‘fuck you’ to the audio content creators they’ve claimed to support forever.

iOS 14 support on iPhone 6S means Apple keeps me as an iPhone user for maybe another year.

I will probably be downgrading to a dumbphone and an old, flash-drive modded iPod gen 3 or 4.
If App Clips launch instantly enough, this could be the beginning of a sort of "parallel Web" that delivers native applications instead of HTML. Which, of course, has both benefits and drawbacks. But it's an interesting idea.
> Allow to inline them and you will see monsters in the wild.

idk... you can write a huge ugly if-elif-else like this:

a if foo else b if bar else c if quux else d

but most people just don't.
I got a Yubikey earlier this year and was disappointed by Apple's implementation of WebAuthn it (doesn't work if there's a PIN on the device) but it looks like they're fixing that as well in iOS 14
I’m not sure commingling is as big a problem as you imply. Amazon’s inventory system is random so every item can essentially be tracked by location. Even with commingling, if there is a counterfeit all the inventory from the original sourcer can be tracked and pulled. It’s not like they are randomly tossing all of the same item into a random bin and doesn’t know whose is whose.

Also Amazon buys from many distributors just like every other retailer. Even their own inventory for the same item could come from many different suppliers. Many of those distributors/suppliers are now sellers themselves and all that’s changed is who sets the price and who decides when to send in more inventory (and who takes on the working capital risk.)

As for sellers coming back overnignt, one of the largest complaints on the seller forums is how onorous the KYC process is for new sellers. (Bank documents, passports, business license, etc).

Also you a manufacturer can become a brand owner which prevents commingling and other sellers from listing on their items. Notice that Ankara highest volume power banks pretty much only have offers from Anker and amazon warehouse / woot (an amazon subsidiary).
Not quite text only but I just launched a website with a collection of easily copy-and-paste-able lists in plain text.

https://copypastelist.com/
Nice to hear it can be done .... after 20 years in technology I am on the same path to get into the agriculture sector.
The tree thing in MacDonald seems pretty different. In MacDonald's story it looks like a normal person. In Tolkien, we have ents, which are treelike moving giants. The idea of sentient trees in general is very old and appears in a lot of folklore. The root of goblin is kobold and the name means hollow in a rock, and goblins are also a very old and widespread folklore trope. But, perhaps an entire underground kingdom is unique to MacDonald, so Tolkien took that idea.
Secure Collaborative XGBoost on Encrypted Data
> Fourth, life is dry and boring, you don’t have friends or family, and you can’t sit around every day talking about the meaning of life.

I feel OP is projecting himself too much here. It is completely up to how a person mingles with others, in my opinion. As long as the person is not too unapproachable or the groupism of natives is not strongly at play, I think one can make awesome friends and families abroad.
Most of the core apps I use every day (Outlook, Office, web browser, Teams, Skype, Netflix, Prime Video, etc) are available 5+ platforms

That's nice for you, but not everyone is so lucky. It's definitely becoming more viable to move off Windows, but there are still many useful applications that are native to Windows and not available on most or all other platforms. Pretending that simply migrating off Windows is a practical option for everyone isn't going to solve this kind of problem.

I write this as someone whose businesses really have so far refused to adopt Windows 10, other than for specific testing purposes. But again, we recognise that we were able to make choices that newer businesses who are buying their hardware and software today don't have any more. What we do would also be impractical for larger businesses where realistically you need a consistent desktop deployment across many users, whereas just about all of us here are technically literate and have a customised system anyway so we already use a diverse range of hardware and software.
I’ve had the 6S since shortly after launch and it still runs smooth. The only issue is the battery which I can probably get replaced if I wanted to ditch my portable battery. Prior to this, I had an iPhone 4 for many years. While it wasn’t apparent at the start, switching to the Apple ecosystem for my mobile devices has ultimately saved me a lot more money compared to my friends and family that use Android phones.
Maybe try looking at objective indicators of wealth distribution instead of peering into people's windows and noting what kind of TVs they own...
No need to be sorry. I'm equally to blame for my own lack of communication skills. ^_^
Hey man no way, you have been living my dream!

First I wanted to just grow berries, then I realized, pesticides and so on, so add another plant to fight that attacker instead of pesticide, then add another plant to protect that plant by being attractive for those other bugs which kill the bad bugs. Then I realized, this would eventually be a forrest with just more berries and edible fruits than normal. Thats where the problem appeared, reaping it would be hard to scale, indeed even planting such a forest would be hard to scale with current mechanical means.

I have a few designs for robot-like planting and pickery, yet all I currently have in realization is 2sqm dirt with potatos, carrots, strawberries and another pot of blueberries. :-/

Then another depressing realization, even if I made this on 100ha of land and produced a lot of nice fruits, berries, roots, the pay-off in money would probably not be worth it.
It’s So Hot in the Grand Canyon People’s Shoes Are Falling Apart
There are plenty of silly reasons to rewrite a piece of code, but language preference has to be one of the worst.

Now that I think about it, that's actually a decent hiring test:

Tell the candidate part of their job will be maintaining a small Perl codebase. If they can't deal with that without throwing a fit, I have no interest in working with them.

It's a sharp tool, if you're not careful someone might get hurt. But professionals deal with sharp tools all the time, especially when it's the best tool for the job.