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> For the best security, [...] That would be really good security!

Actually, that would be very bad for security, because users would work around it. (Well, it might be really, really, good for security if it got people to stop using Google, but I doubt that's what you meant.) As the saying goes:

> Security at the expense of usability comes at the expense of security.
Yeah the thesis of the books (well until the Mule) is that no one person makes a big difference and it's all due to larger historical forces. Although it'd be hilarious if we follow a hero only for the show to conclude with "welp guess macro effects in galactic trade are really what caused the Empire to fall"
Thanks, I definitely will look into those!

I've been using Intune at home because I use it at work too and I already had a personal O365 setup. It was nice to have a fully owned instance when I was learning it, but I'm trying to scale back my costs now so something like this might just suffice.
I don't see a time scale on the map. If you go back 18,000 years or so, there were no humans in North America. After that, there was a series of migrations from Asia. Certainly, over time, distinct tribes formed, reformed, and disappeared, over varying areas, until we get the current map you see. It would be nice to see a time scale reflect this morphology.
I have a tough time believing Microsoft wasn't intending their special builds of Windows PHP for IIS.
I wrote the alternative: seeing wealth as being stewards of regenerative processes. I'll elaborate.

Plants are generally more cooperative than they are competitive, and groups of plants that cooperate will do better together than by themselves. Trees will establish a network of roots, and shunt nutrients to trees within the grove that are not doing so well. Just because some plant species will engage in chemical warfare with some species doesn't mean it won't cooperate with others, and there are many examples of such cooperation. This idea that nature is based on competitive pressure is not wholly true; there is a whole aspect of cooperative processes that occur in ecology.

Animals (an insects), if you actually observe them, can also be more cooperative than competitive. It depends on how you set it up.

Some examples: chickens are micrograzers, and sheep are grazers. They don't compete for the same niche. Due to the size of their mouth, sheep cannot eat plants past a certain height. Chickens will also eat bugs. That includes eating the bugs off of the sheep, if you let them.

Yeah, my chickens get into my tomatoes sometimes. They scratch at the green mulch I put down in the garden. They will fly over the small fence to get to it.

But a different perspective: I let them out into the main yard, and they like the forage there more than they like it in my garden. They help keep the cricket population down (which helps keep the black widow spider population down. The fertilize my backyard (which has poor soil fertility from the previous owner). Their scratching to get at things help aerates the soil, and bring in more fertility.

So I don't have to compete with my chickens. I can shape the circumstances such that their natural instincts further the overall health of the system.
Sorry, didn't notice this. Cheap consumer devices - see OpenWRT's site for compatible ones you can flash firmware onto, otherwise <$100 Edgerouter/Edgemax from UI is common.
I expect you are probably correct, but it doesn't really matter. If you don't want to be filmed, the correct engineering approach is not to have a camera pointed at you 24/7. It is a bit like the gun rule of not pointing a gun at things you don't want to shoot - sure, the trigger should be enough of a control, but accidents happen.

If you spend your entire life with a camera pointed at your face, your face (and activity) will be accidentality filmed by that camera sooner or later. Indicator or otherwise. The indicator light is a good idea but I'm still spiritually on the side of the tape people.
I'm not saying it's right, I'm just saying those are the conclusions many folks on this forum seem to have drawn.
Right, so as time progresses news comes out about said hardware being hacked. I think you've validated his point. 5 years from now we will see how today's cameras have been hacked.
There are plenty of laptops with a built-in hardware cover for the camera.
> The most common rationale behind this setup is to hide Tor usage from an ISP or circumvent censorship of the Tor network. This is unnecessary as you can hide Tor usage and circumvent censorship by using bridges. You can either use the bridges that are included in Tor Browser for this, or request other bridges from in any of the ways described here. A bonus of bridges is that they don’t leave a money trail, which VPNs often do. [...] Even if you were to end up on a watch list, it would be a uselessly large list as Tor has more then 2 million daily users. It strikes me as very naive to imagine that someone powerful enough to trace you over the Tor network will be stopped by a $5 a month VPN service.
People seem to be missing the point of this article. Pooled testing is accepted and routine. The point of the article is that by constructing pools and subpools in a particular way you can dramatically speed up the process by exercising in parallel / up front all the possible testing paths that would normally have to occur in series so that the individual(s) who are positive are identified in only one round of testing - giving a crucial advantage in a time sensitive situation such as contact tracing for infectious diseases.
It seems like you are trying to avoid the question. What gives indigenous peoples any moral high ground over later settlers? The indigenous* conquered land from each other and moved - an obvious fact which too often gets left out of the conversation. Then, the Europeans came along and possessed the lands for themselves. And you'll find the same story repeated on every corner of the earth. Continual occupation is just not a thing.

* As I've mentioned in another comment, true "indigenous" Alaskans are no more, having been replaced by an unrelated group of people in a later migration to the Americas.
Glad to be of service. Yeah, I just couldn't see what RNNs were doing through all of the neural net stuff. Much easier to think of it as just gradually transforming a vector. I also can't see linear algebra w/o visualizing different size boxes :)
I'd argue that deep learning is derived from formal principles of mathematical reasoning in a very concrete sense. Deep learning learns a predictive function of the features that minimizes the loss function (with some caveats). If the loss function and training data are well chosen, that minimizes the probability of being wrong.
> I'm not saying Google is incredible (my opinion is quite the contrary actually). However, I am saying Apple is holding the web back, in a fairly annoying way, for developers.

Right. Because Google, who dominates the entire web standards spectrum, is known for creating well thought-out, well-designed APIs that take into consideration concerns and criticism, and thinking long-term of the web as a whole.

Oh wait, they don't. Up to and including the point where both Mozilla and Safari are saying they won't implement certain functionality because of glaring holes in the design, and Chrome not only shipping the features, but making them GA.

Oh, and yes. Most of the "Safari is holding back web developers" talk is bullshit, of course. It actually should read "Chrome releases APIs at neck breaking speed with zero concerns for the future of the web." See web API counts in major browsers: https://web-confluence.appspot.com/#!/confluence
What if a bad actor activates the cam for less than 10ms at a time or less time that the LED takes to kick on
I'm not sure what you're trying to say? You can click on the author's name to see he's the senior games editor at Ars. The results on Duckduckgo are generic article spinner SEO spam bot sites that copy and repost articles. And I'm not sure what the "conflict of interest" would be? And who's the PR firm?
But this product is literally a savings account with a lottery attached to it. Why would you not use the terminology/methods used by the lottery industry when describing the lottery aspects of the account?
> Probably rich white dudes too.

Not necessarily. I've visited many different parts of the world and met many immigrants to this country. Race and affluence can compound these beliefs, but the drive to get ahead no matter the cost is very human and very universal. Being born in poverty is also not a guarantee that you will grow up to become an empathetic person either.
> Why should anyone trust Google, since they make virtually all of their revenue from ad tech, which means tracking users across the web, even when they don't want to be. Advertisers are Google's customers, not the users of their browsers or operating systems.

We don't need this whataboutism to evaluate Apple. You're making the argument for PureOS or Debian, not iOS.

> If we are to believe Apple cares about its users, then it makes perfect sense why they don't allow slower, less power efficient, less secure and less private web engines available on iOS.

No it doesn't. They could make a better browser and, if it was actually better in every way, nobody would have any reason to use anything else. The fact that people would given the choice implies that something about choosing differently makes them better off enough to switch from the default.

> Apple is making it clear that if you want a platform where there are no safeguards, then this isn't the platform for you.

Safeguards mean warning someone adequately when they're about to do something suspect. Outright prohibiting the user from making an informed choice isn't a safeguard, it's a cage.

> People have been saying this for many years and now they're valued at over $1.5 trillion

Exxon was at one point the most valuable company on the exchange as well. What does that tell you about the ethics of how they got there, or what their future prospects look like?
None of the proposed solutions do anything to actually stop the camera from taking a picture of you. Sure, you'll see the indicator light up for 3 seconds. But the attacker still got what they needed.

Camera covers have nothing to do with identifying compromise. They are strictly for preventing compromise. This is exactly opposite what a camera indicator light does, and thus the indicator should not be considered a "workaround" for not being able to install a camera cover.
Big Tech censors women who advocate for their right to exist
Use the book to prop up your monitor so that it’s at eye level. If it’s making you lose motivation then you’re not ready to read it. I only read a computer book once I have ported a few bits of code in a familiar language to this language and read a bunch of code that other people have written. If I am still interested in the language at that point then chances are I’ll be interested in all the dark corners a book will introduce me to. Then it doesn’t feel like a chore to read the computer book.

Reading a dense computer book as an introduction to a language is quite low effort which is why it’s popular imo. They are extremely detailed so you think that’s all you’ll need. It’s extremely low effort to buy the book and then it’s pretty low effort to casually leaf through it, thinking that you’re actually learning something when you probably aren’t.
Tacit knowledge is knowledge that results from adapting to experience, like learning to tie shoelaces with practice, rather than something like finding the derivative of sin(x) by the usual mathematical proof method (reasoning step by formal step).

Every deep learning system has tacit knowledge: it knows a chair when it sees one but can't explain how it knows. It just adapted its connections to training until it got it right most of the time.

So computers are provably capable of what, in humans, is defined as tacit knowledge and can be given sensors and actuators to learn from. A car can learn to parallel park with practice. It can't explain how it does it, but you can copy the trained system into a new car.

I don't see why you couldn't produce a combination of sensors and actuators that vastly exceeds what any human is capable of.

But AGI isn't that. It's a variety of information processing techniques (algorithms) deployed as a toolbox managed by meta-techniques (more algorithms) that know how to deploy the others in various combinations. We don't yet know much about the management algorithms, but I don't see any reason in principle why we couldn't eventually find some and invent others.
was it this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvHYr79RxrQ
Many blogs are probably powered by nuclear power :-)
So much so, in fact, that I have to think it was sarcasm.
Overall pretty shocking as they were pitching to be an ERP replacement for e-commerce. Anyone who was using Stitch Labs as an ERP-light is going to have a substantial amount of pain migrating in a hurry.

I've referred some of Stitch Labs biggest customers to their platform, so I feel particularly guilty about their being sunset in an acquihire like this.

If anyone needs advice about what to do, I'm well versed in the area of OMS & ERP migrations. Linkedin is in my profile
I'm a young millennial, and my perspective is that all of these nighttime shows are supposed to be funny, but none of them are really designed to be funny to my demographic. The Tonight Show (the Stephen Colbert one) seems directed at 55+ liberals, from what I can tell. Last Week Tonight is the only one of these shows I ever watch, and I don't tune in to see it, I just catch the specials they upload to YouTube.

But I suspect that "YouTube celebrities" are not something that platforms like Quibi can tap into. I'd say the whole phenomenon could easily be a symptom of which platforms kids (<18) have easy, free access to. Add in network effects - if a plurality of kids is watching and talking about some drama unfolding among elite YouTubers, it's very easy to turn that plurality into a majority.

Even though I fit the bill of watching YouTube rather than TV, I don't think Quibi would be successful by hiring "Dude Perfect" or whoever (just to pull the first name I recognized off the trending tab). Personally, I have about 50 subscriptions on YouTube, and the median channel has only ~330k subscribers. The biggest (Last Week Tonight) has less than 10 million. Taking me as an indicator of what millenials are doing would be the worst kind of anecdata, but I wouldn't be surprised to learn that a majority of people my age aren't following any of the so-called celebrities. What's a name that would pull me to a new platform? ... I can't come up with one, actually. And kids are on YouTube because it's free and easy to access - they're not potential Quibi subscribers either.

(Sorry for the long comment, yours was interesting and provoked some introspection.)
Not only that, but this feature is also present in X1, which is plenty thin.
Ask HN: Resources for international students to remain in US?
Does anyone know of any resources to help out international students being forced to leave the US? Like a list of schools offering in-person classes for example.
I think if Quibi really wanted to succeed they should have partnered with YouTubers and TikTokers instead of big celebrities. They could spend more on production instead of paying just for the celebrities to be there. And the marketing is free because every online content creator is going to promote their own show.
18,000+ bookmarks for me, although I started with del.icio.us back in 2006 and imported them when it went away. So yeah, I'm a fan.
> You can modify the Macbook of course, which is why the paranoid type will still use tape.

If the attacker has done this, they might as well just hide the camera somewhere else.
American Passports Are Worthless Now
Gold can be made from lead (and other inputs) using knowledge that is generally classified as nuclear physics. It’s not very practical or economical, so no one does it — but it can be done. It’s true that this isn’t “chemistry”. Not sure if you were making a deeper point.

Perhaps to truly understand life we need to look deeply at physics, geology, fluid dynamics, and many other specialized fields, in addition to chemistry. And maybe we will need some new discoveries in these areas than have not yet been made. Is that all?

I don’t think there is really much contention between that and the idea that life is “just chemistry”. I would bet most people saying that are totally fine with what I wrote above and are likely just trying to be concise with their words.

Unless you mean more than you are plainly saying, this seems like splitting hairs about the taxonomy of scientific understanding. Understanding is understanding, regardless of how you categorize it.
If they cared about protecting privacy, they could add a physical shutter. Nothing hard about it.
The camera quality is pretty obvious just by making Webex calls on a laptop. I don’t actually know if getting extra equipment is popular, just seen howto articles recently on dpreview.

Fujifilm and Canon have added webcam support to their DSLRs though, which is interesting.
The irony of this is too much. The guy who pioneered privacy invasion as a philosophy is guarding his own privacy. He should have a Facebook live stream following him 24/7
It's amazing, really.

Through making Half-life, they stumbled into getting 30% of the PC gaming market for all time. Through making professional half-life mods, they stumbled into the uncontrolled world of loot box windfalls (plus via Dota 2, a professionalized mod of blizzard's game).

Like google, they probably fancy themselves as a kind of skunkworks laboratory that has the luxury of time and resources, able to accomplish what others can't.

The two exceptions: While I've always been a skeptic of VR, their advancement of it is admirable. And while I've long hated the steam software (complaining about not being able to increase the chat font size for 10 years, without digging thru hardcoded css files), the recent influx of game stores that are equally crappy makes steam look ahead of their time. (How many years before Epic adds download throttling? Oh right, fortnite is printing money).
I think the underlying stupidity is that no matter how good or bad the indicator is, that’s is fundamentally different than blocking the camera altogether.

This is like telling you to not use a lock if you have an alarm.
> You just take the type from the right hand side and then put it on the left hand side?

That's what they mean by local variable inference
The title is wrong here, as the map includes Australia and some of South America.

I'm a little sad this doesn't include anything in Africa, Asia, or Europe. What about the Zulu Kingdom, conquered by the British? How about what Rome did to all of those Etruscans? What about the Uighurs and Tibetans?
I'm actually loving rider. switched from vs code to it and couldn't be happier.

I still use vscode as my default editor though (lightweight + good enough vim mode)
It isn’t in the top 50 in paid news apps (checked iPhone and iPad)
So, Apple has done a nice job of making the sure the LED comes on when the webcam is in use. Unfortunately, there are still very good use cases for webcam covers.

- The computer has malware which controls the webcam. Although it's nice that the light correctly alerts you the webcam is in use, the malware can still get some pictures off before you can act.

- You're not very good with computers, and so you don't know how to change Zoom settings, and you want a surefire way to ensure that you camera will not be active when you join a call.

- You're just fine with computers, but the app has changed its defaults for some reason, and/or;

- Your company mandates a new app which you're either not familiar with, or doesn't have appropriate settings.
Have any other browser vendors expressed any interest in this?

I see from the link that Chrome is already doing an "origin trial" even if the spec itself isn't complete. So, why would it be "released more broadly". Or is it the Constructible Stylesheets again? When both Safari and Mozilla said "no", but Chrome released them anyway?
If they are like me, they use chatOps as a way to consolidate and shortcut different commands and dashboards. But by no means are operations dependent on our chat. If chat goes down, then you will simply need to login to our ci/cd service to initiate deployments, rollbacks, etc.
> Mac notebooks have a camera indicator light to let you know when the camera is on.

That's great, but we'll need the electronic schematics and the OS source code to trust that.
You can open it in incognito mode to avoid the paywall.
It would be cool if all C/C++ based games were eventually ported to WebAssembly, and could be played through a cloud gaming service such as Stadia.
On Thinkpads, the cover has a prominent red dot painted on it, that ends up in the location where camera lens would normally be. And, of course, you can visibly see the edge of the cover move as you slide it. So I don't know how you'd fake that.
Or to put it simply "to detect the single frame grab attack". LED lights can't prevent anything.
Another way to blog anonymously (depending on how you connect to the service) is to use telegra.ph: telegram's minimal blogging tool that doesn't require an account.
I have somewhat a hypothesis that brainstorming had early successes due to the perceived democracy of it - i.e. everyone gets a chance to say how we do the thing - but started to become a poorly managed chore when the big extroverts and the office hierarchies got dragged into to meeting room, so everyone just sort of lets the loudest voice in the room dictate the project while the bosses pat themselves on the back for letting everyone have a say (if they can get a word in edgeways past loud Larry).
A few generations of biologists have tried to reason it out. I think it's safe to say that whatever is going on is either very complex or we just do not have the right tool to study it right now.

Something really new, like radios were to communication, or steel hulls to shipping, is needed in bio to get things moving apace. The tools we have are really great, but they are a bit slow it seems.

Also, the neocortex is somewhat stereotypical, but those long range projections that come in/out at every layer are the things that make the brain so hard to understand. Everything is flying everywhere all at once.
Hive is a Data Warehouse that runs on top of Hadoop.

Snowflake is a Data Warehouse/Lake, but it's also it's own custom SQL DB.

Cassandra is a NoSQL DB

RDS is running (some standard relational DB)

Apache Druid is a columnar analytics DB centered around realtime uses. It has it's own query language and delegates to Apache Calcite for specific DB/datasource drivers. Can integrate with Kafka/Hadoop.

Presto is (to my understanding) like a meta-DB that can query multiple databases. Similar to an integrated Apache Calcite or Google's ZetaSQL.

There are a LOT of overlapping concerns here, which is why the confusion.

Essentially they have 2-3 different products in several categories targeting generally the same usecase.
With PWAs, you have to write apps in HTML, CSS, and JS, which seems worse than natively compiled languages like Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, etc. This, I feel, is a fundamental problem.

Perhaps the solution instead is that we need a way to distribute natively compilable apps via other means, maybe through a website but also through other app stores not subject to the Google / Apple duopoly; so basically PWA level access and downloadability, but not made with web technologies.