skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A post-it note is about 0.07 mm thick, so according to the article it’s within the allowed limit of 0.1 mm.
I wanted to encourage people to join and start contributing to the repository. Started a discussion on this question here: https://github.com/learn-awesome/learn/issues/79#issuecommen...

Feel free to suggest more ideas to make it a vibrant learning community.
Surprised nobody talked about Fb's Lasso which intends to "copy" TikTok and recently got killed.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/01/lasso-facebook-tiktok-shut...
Yeah, I'm working on a couple of things right now where people are commenting on a larger document, individuals and subgroups are going off to work on things and come back to present, get feedback, rinse and repeat. It's incremental iteration and convergence.
A lot of companies with MDM have it just because they need to check a box saying they have it, and so that they can remote wipe and make sure users put a PIN on their device at least. Extra capabilities like authorized software lists, URL filtering, etc add admin overhead and are just not worth it for the company to get into.
Didn't they pretended nothing going on for a long time? Like the doctors were warning about issue and were persecuted while authorities basically pretended nothing is going on?
> The camera is engineered so that it can’t activate without the camera indicator light also turning on. This is how you can tell if your camera is on.

I'd assume this is done in firmware for the camera module?
Everything can be solved with a multi billion euro EU-funded project!
> do not accept that there is a difference between computation and thought without some meaningful definition of thought.

If I know everything about the nature of X, yet I know very little about the nature of Y, it would be illogical to say "I will assume Y is like X until proven otherwise."
I work for a company with a premium service, and we have a number of employees who have worked on other premium services. It’s definitely true in the aggregate.

* Worth noting, since you mention tech savvy individuals, that these are not tech savvy services (although buying a premium service from an app on your phone probably immediately skews you somewhat tech savvy).
That’s classified.
You must have missed their "zero trust" initiative.

"""BeyondCorp began as an internal Google initiative to enable every employee to work from untrusted networks without the use of a VPN."""

https://cloud.google.com/beyondcorp
I was very skeptical of the camera covers, but then through conversations with some of my co-workers, I realized that they weren't being used because people were worried about spies secretly turning on the camera. It was 90% of the time just peace of mind that their camera was actually off, instead of having to find the sometimes hard to see options in video chat programs etc.
Though fixed many years ago, there may be a lack of trust due to previous ability for malware to take snap shots without turning on the camera LED.

https://www.theregister.com/2013/12/19/apple_isight_webcam_l...
> China is not the superpower anyone wants leading the world given their track record.

Anyone? Really? I think a good number of people on this planet is fed up with the US leading the world with its own track record. Not saying I agree with them but saying no one would be happy to see China surpass the US is wrong in my opinion.
I think it's reasonable to infer that "hearing" in this context doesn't literally mean only the act of perceiving sound. It's clearly referring to listening in good faith.
Don't make all MacBook's with a camera that a lot of your customers want to cover up all the time.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23789963.
Your floating-point calculator won't give you infinite trailing nines, but it may very well give you something like 3.99999976158 (approximately the largest float below exactly 4) or 3.99999999999999955591 (approximately the largest double below 4).
> the ability to buy an external display

As in an OEM one? They do pseudo-OEM ones (the LG Ultrasparc ones), but yeah, no Apple-branded one except the XDR.
It starts with a buffer overflow. This then will allow you to execute your own code.
> "Designed to protect your privacy, Mac notebooks have a camera indicator light to let you know when the camera is on. ... Published Date: July 02, 2020"

Perhaps Apple missed these?

2013: iSeeYou: Disabling the MacBook Webcam Indicator LED https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/36569

2016: Your Mac’s Camera Can Be Hacked https://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/your-macs-camera-ca...

2016: Former NSA employee: This hack gains access to your Mac's webcam https://www.cnet.com/news/mac-webcam-hack-ex-nsa-employee/
For the rest of us that don't follow social media systems closely (just looked up, I'm trusting my search results):

TikTok allows 15 second videos (only 2.5x the length of Vine videos) but also has a way to string multiple videos together for 60 seconds of play time (10x longer than Vine had).

So this is actually a pretty fair comparison (old Twitter @ 140 vs new Twitter @ 280) if you ignore stringing them together.
I don't think you understood. I _would_ switch jobs. That's what I meant by they have to.
Disclaimer: I work for Uber and I'm brazilian. Opinions are my own, etc.

What the GP is criticizing is that they see this as a power move to increase government income through taxes. The underbrush is that this money is then stolen by corrupt government officials (it's common perception in brazil that that's just the way the brazilian government works).

In this light, Uber is just the sucker-du-jour who gets to be "screwed over" in the latest corruption ploy.

Uber's perspective in this type of matter is that there are a large number of drivers who don't do ridesharing full time or even on a consistent part time basis (for example, one's free to do it once or twice ever). An apt comparison might be someone who sells stuff on craigslist - yes you can do it full time, but people often do it for just extra cash, without considering it a "job" per se. So you can see why Uber might not like to restrict driving opportunities only to those who are willing to commit to a full-time employment arrangement.

With all this said, I'm all for having drivers who are effectively working full time hours to be able to earn a reasonable income. I'm not too familiar w/ the state of lobbying in Brazil, but my understanding is that Uber is going to be lobbying in the US for a third employment category and one of the talking points of that proposal is to work towards income improvements for drivers. The position that drivers are not employees goes both ways: if they are considered Uber's clients, it behooves that Uber should do its darn best to provide the platform with the best payouts in the industry, lest drivers would flock to a better paying competitor.
The alternative, the led, is not that good. Even if it's 100% hardware controlled, just a brief flash is enough to take a picture of you.
Because social protections haven't eroded enough to get to the point where lives are actually ruined. Why wait to speak out against cancel culture until it's actually ruining lives?
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It’s hardware controlled. https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/14705/hard-wired-l...

Bypass attacks have been demonstrated on old hardware. Nothing most people would own today.
Actually their pretty common. They are complex and generally fairly old interpreters that generally have system level access. Android have had a ton of them, but they are pretty universally common.
So they brought you into the interview just to have an argument with you over your blog post? Did you get the job? xD
Fud, these don’t work anymore.
This is one of the more frequent responses. It's in the "if nothing matters, then it doesn't matter what you do" group. Typically travel is suggested.

That would be interesting: a taxonomy of common responses to ongoing despair.
I've never understood physical covers, then again I am never in a compromising position in front of my laptop.

Any malware that can take pictures can record keystrokes. I want no cover so I can see the activity light because knowing the webcam is on is more important than it being on.

The (pennsylvania?) school district webcam spying scandal got kicked off because a boy noticed his webcam light coming on. If it had been covered would he have noticed?

No, the school district wouldn't have had pictures of him, but they still would have screengrabs, audio, and keystrokes and he likely never would have noticed.

Take all of the pictures of my double chin that you want.

I want to know that my webcam is coming on without my authorization so I can root out the spyware that is keylogging.

Passwords > Pics

If you're the type whose life will be ruined by pictures taken by your webcam, by all means cover it up. I'm too old and hairy to be blackmailed with nudie pics.

Having my passwords leak would seriously cramp my style, though.

And no, nobody is going to waste a zero-day that can reprogram a webcam controller to disable the light (if possible and often it is not) on a nudie-pics malware. They are going to use it to make actual money.
I still prefer a hardware solution or even a toggle, 1\2 the reason I like the cover is less for privacy and more to prevent joining meetings with the camera on when I'm not ready

removes the need to always be thinking about some random indicator being on or off
What the hell?! Do you have a link or source on that? That sounds horrible :(
> The camera is engineered so that it can’t activate without the camera indicator light also turning on. This is how you can tell if your camera is on.

Is this verifiably true? I trust Apple on security matters more than the average laptop maker, but the fact that so many of these indicator lights are software-controlled erodes my trust in basically all of them.
If you're going to cover it, use a sticker, like the EFF stickers here[0]. They're reusable, so you can move it to the side for meetings. I used a hard plastic MongoDB-branded sliding camera cover on a couple laptops[1], and its presence appears to have contributed to backlight bleed like this[2].

[0]: https://supporters.eff.org/shop/laptop-camera-cover-set-ii

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/C-Slide-Sliding-Computers-Chromebooks...

[2]: https://i.imgur.com/P264KiI.jpg
Ask HN: How and when did you decide and start your startup?
I've been thinking quite some time now about making the move of quitting my fulltime job as a software engineer, and pursue my dream of founding a startup.

I'm 23 y/o and don't have much to lose really (except rent), and yet I'm still STRUGGLING to just make that move and start.

I'd love to hear your stories about when and how did you decide to do it? How did you start? How was it going to sleep knowing that you probably not going to have an income in the next upcoming weeks/months?
That's exactly it for me -

I'm in a lot of remote meetings, and wouldn't want to be accidentality presenting without expecting to.
I'm guessing the light is part of the camera's power circuit. I don't think this would work for photos, though.
> Nothing about my argument relies on racial language or philosophy.

It does because you're relying on racial identity to determine who pays and who receives rather than who stole and who was stolen from. The matter of who did what to whom is "settled" in the sense that all parties are dead.

> I don't hope for cosmic justice, I think justice is up to us humans.

What is your solution to the "stolen land" problem?
I wouldn't say it was explicitly designed for that endgoal, but I can concur that is where most low to mid academic achieving "kids" end up.

Edit: reference: I'm a 10x / unicorn at factory work environments, operating machines, metal fabrication, etc.
One should be able to leverage some amount of value of those assets for loans. When you have assets you have options. And I'm sure they have lots of followers that will give money until it hurts to keep their Church from failing - a business can't ask its employees to fund things for a while in the same way a church can ask its followers. The church has options that others do not have and lobbying should not come first.
Always remember the true meaning of sovereignty. If the universe was really a MMO server and the PVP flag was switched off and magically nobody could kill or steal, detonating a bomb only endangered the bombmaker if it was in a blast radius, and even drunk drivers could only harm themselves it would be a catastrophy for sovereignty.
That's what I use as well, and I'm still using the same one that I started with. It's lasted over a year.

I appreciate this line:

> The camera is engineered so that it can’t activate without the camera indicator light also turning on. This is how you can tell if your camera is on.

But I still want a physical assurance that the camera can't see anything. I don't want to have to count on myself noticing the light.

Some Lenovo ThinkPads have built-in shutters, and I wish Apple would do the same for MacBooks. In my ideal laptop, it would also physically disable the microphone.
This seems like a scam to me. The reason VCs don't fund "normal" crops like wheat etc. is that commodities don't generate the high profits that make "unicorns" possible. There have been fewer people employed in agriculture in USA every year for the last 150 years. The only long-term successful firms are selling "picks and shovels", and even they have to resort to evil to generate reliable profits (Monsanto, etc.) All of the crops under discussion in TFA are also commodities. Where is the profit going to arise? These venture funds will not return investors' money.
Sweden places the tax burden on the individual not the corporations. Their Corp tax rat is 21%. The same rate that the Republicans pushed for in the tax change. The difference is the average citizen is taxed at 48% vs the US average of 21.
Wait: that's not the same as having a camera cover.

A camera cover guarantees that the camera can only work when the camera is uncovered.

A camera light alerts you once the camera is already on.
alt tiktok is mostly some counter culture users between the ages of 16 and 30. dyed hair, 90s influences, and lqbtq+ supportive. It's a whole aesthetic and rallies against "straight tiktok". You dont want to get stuck on a straight tiktok algorthmic FYP (for you page) feed. Other popular mini tiktok areas include frogtiktok and the holy grail, prison tiktok.

deep tiktok is weird video effect stuff, deep fried meme kinda stuff... I dont want it.
TBH the thing I’ve noticed is just how fast people stopped turning cameras on during Webex.

Before the nearly everyone at my company what was WFH or was joining from their laptop rather than a video conferencing room had their camera on.

Within like a week of the lockdown people stopped and I can imagine why you stopped dressing, stopped shaving heck I can hear bedsheets on some of the calls I attend.

Pretty much now the cameras are useless.
Apparently modern GPUs have sorting-networks implemented in hardware (giving you effectively constant-time sorting for fixed-size input) - which may be preferable for use if you’re processing hostile input which may be contrived to hit QuickSort’s worst-case and the cost of hitting the PCI Express bus is less than the cost of randomizing the input to mitigate QuickSort attacks.

But yes - I agree it’s weird that many standard-libraries (looking at you, .NET!) have only a single `Sort` method oh their vector-types with the details of the implementation buried in the documentation instead of shipping with a first-class sorting-algorithms library.
Something new will come that will work.
The fact that they worked at all is an indication that something similar may work in the future. It's not like apple has never had a regression in software.
This is not helpful advice for those who wish to prevent their camera from turning on in the first place.
PHP is fine. As with other languages you need to know the pitfalls. It's actually enjoyable to use.
Whether or not they can support patching changes into a live system. You can get really good debuggers but lacking that capability you won't approach what Smalltalk and Common Lisp offer. And if it's non-standard (say you do implement it for C with a specific compiler and debugger, but no one else does it or all do it a different way) then you won't win any mindshare outside of that target platform.
Are they using work profiles on Android phones of employees that need mobile email access? It is a very good solution that lets the employer administer only a separate identity and gives them no access to personal stuff. The only global thing that the employer can do is enforce a certain level of security (for example requiring a PIN on the lock screen and data encryption).
Not to presume what the OP was meaning, but I'm guessing they were pointing to these cases as a "it has been vulnerable before, it may be vulnerable again. But a cover is not exploitable in this way" rather than "these exploits work".
This is an example why I don’t use Twitter regularly.

Someone mentions the copy/paste sec vuln in TikTok and “Onur Olmez” writes:

> LinkedIn app apparently also has this issue [...] Uncalled for to ban apps for this one reason.

I mean, wtf? Everybody on Twitter has an opinion about everything, even things they know nothing about.
With regard to privacy, the microphone is 100x more sensitive than the camera most of the time, and it’s much harder to secure.
I wonder how this compares to https://cloud.google.com/ai-platform/
and how is the cost compared to AWS?
Eh... Look I get that everyone wants to publish exciting results, but to call this unequivocally "better" than quick sort is a big stretch. The profiling results are unconvincing at best. A small, < 10% improvement, could easily (and much more likely) be explained by any number of possible differences in optimization between the quicksort implementation they're using and the neural network library.

Table 3 is very suspicious too. If they're doing what they claim, then why is Binary Search all of a sudden significantly better than the learned agent for some problem sizes? It really feels like they're running up against some kind of inherent optimization boundary inside their neural network library...
The products you mention are all hugely successful, often against the backdrop of existing OSS with similar features (IRC, for example).

Maybe there's some abstract notion of "good UI" that is distinct from "people like to use it". Or maybe people are stupid.

But on a purely empirical basis there is absolutely no evidence for the supremacy of the old UI paradigms you champion.
Which ones do?

Which bugs, loopholes, backdoors, etc allow the camera to get through my cover (I upgraded to sliding plastic from electrical tape at the start of lockdown and there was a need for an actual camera)
Could someone create a respiratory virus that spreads throughout the earth's population gene editing everyone into perfection?
The EFF sells some removable stickers that cover your laptop camera while still being able to close the lid fully.

https://supporters.eff.org/shop/laptop-camera-cover-set-ii

Been using them for years, and they work great!
I'm glad my computer comes with a built-in cover. No need to jerry-rig anything on. It reminds me of this old Apple ad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZByDkSuY5c
Parents aren't technically competent enough to do this kind of thing properly. Governments, on the other hand… aren't technically competent enough either.
Turning a £400 BBC Micro (1981) into a $40k disc writer (1987)
America is going to have by far the worst handling of the pandemic compared to similar western democracies. We had a real world test as a society and we failed. That isn't just the news fudging things to grab viewers.
>Byte

Which is different from ByteDance, which is the company that owns TikTok, for those confused like me.
Don’t beat around the bush. Are you implying life is supernaturally sustained? That would be quite the claim.

If not, then the history of science strongly suggests we can eventually learn the mechanisms of life and intelligence and then find a way to imperfectly yet sufficiently reimplement them.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020
I imagine a lot of big law offices still have computers with WordPerfect on them so they can read old files if necessary.
I would disagree that the 3rd-party SDKs don't make revenue for Facebook. They likely provide additional targeting and behavioral data that feeds into their giant ad machine and lookalike audiences.
For me it's not about blackmail, it's about making sure the camera isn't accidentality enabled unexpectedly during a meeting.

The worst that would happen is I'd look kinda unprofessional slurping up some noodles, but having the camera covered allows me to be confident I'm not presenting unless I intend to.
As a developer, I don't see why I need to be constantly alerted to emails. I check about once or twice per day for items that need to put on calendar but every/anything urgent is for the pager.
Do you expect him to post links to zero day exploits? If it's actively targeted and done so consistently and sequentially, it is reasonable to expect that it _could_ be happening now.
Do camera modules need power? Could the LED be wired in series to the camera module voltage in wire?
Show HN: Customize GitHub PR files changed order
You hit the nail on the head: everyone is too busy grouping these separate nations together.

Like there will be a reader here trying to form an opinion and say "wow that opinion from an American Indian/Indigenous/Native American person will now form my opinion since it weighs so much more" as opposed to "one part Ojibwe person has one paradox regarding the Ojibwe nation's relationship with the Lakota nation,
and I wonder what the actual consensus on that specific issue is with the representatives of those nations and the US Federal Government".

There are hundreds of separate nations within the US that are barely on any map. And these all need to be reconciled individually.
> Hate speech is protected by the 1st Amendment. Nobody's being criminally prosecuted for being anti-trans.

Check your privilege! You'll be very much criminally prosecuted for hate speech in most (I believe all, but don't know the specifics of each) European countries. The definition of hate speech is similar (and it's a global debate, so they converge), only we do not have a concept of free speech that is similar.

> Facebook is doing exactly what you want below

Absolutely. I gave it as an example that looking to weaponize rules can backfire, as the weapon can be turned against you as well. The more aggressive the weaponization of rules becomes ("I am offended" as a general trigger for suspension would be the equivalent of "free nukes for everyone"), the larger the chance that unintended side-effects materialize ("I wanted to be safe from their attacks, but this also outlaws my attacks").

I'm do agree with you that breaking up the monopolists is the much better way to go. But that seems very unlikely, the utility route is the one that I consider much more probable.
There is no jumping the gun! Go for it.
It certainly is, I have the option to

1) Block the camera and hope the microphone is on mute
2) Hope the camera isn't on and home the microphone isn't on
3) Not have the mac at all

Clearly 1 is better than 2.
More thrill to get the content, more dopamine hit once you get to the goal, the more likely it is to be more addictive. If it's not forbidden, it's not nearly as exciting.
And they also came out to make changes to that system.
Yes, 32-bit Windows 10 exists... (and is in fact the only choice for those who want to run 16-bit Windows apps)
Or maybe they left so that HK users must switch to the app for the Chinese-market, the one that definitely shares stuff with the CCP?...