skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this regard, Apple reminds me of a cult leader brainwashing their followers into believing the cult's way is the best way. Makes me a little sick actually.

Are you sure you aren’t the one being brainwashed?

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.

And since Apple makes virtually all of their revenue from selling devices and services, who's more credible on the issue of privacy?

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.

"But shouldn't this be up to the user?" some will say ask. Yes, but to a point. There are already so many ways on the web to shoot yourself in the foot. Apple is making it clear that if you want a platform where there are no safeguards, then this isn't the platform for you.

There are certainly a tiny, vocal minority of iOS users who complain a lot about wanting the ability to shoot themselves in the foot if they so choose. But Apple knows those aren't their core users and their revenue show that.

They need to stop doing this, or they will hurt themselves in the long run.

People have been saying this for many years and now they're valued at over $1.5 trillion during an economic collapse and global pandemic. Please tell me when the lack of web APIs that would make it easier for their users to be tracked on the web is going to have any material effect on them.
> 2FA is meant to prevent your account from being stolen even if you log in on a compromised system.

No. No 2FA system is designed to protect you from using a compromised system, as there's no such system possible. No 2FA or any system can protect your account and data from a compromised system. It can make it slightly more difficult, but can not prevent the account take-over.

Even with u2f, if the browser lies to u2f device or to you, all bets are off.

If you value your account, you should not sign into a system you don't have trust.
I use Dropbox as a consumer only. I pay for the Dropbox Plus plan, and that does everything I want - albeit at a higher price than I'd like, but it always seems like their marketing is so heavily geared towards business use.

Every time I go on the site I seem to get some hint that I should consider upgrading my entire team to some enterprise plan.

I miss when it was just "buy a load of space online".
But are you going to run those tests on PCB traces on your own hardware? If not, then you have to trust that your hardware is identical to whatever hardware was torn-down and tested. I suppose this is good enough unless your threat model includes someone swapping your computer enroute to you with a modified one.
While you're here, add a "used none" filter (alongside existing "used once") in tag editor please?
This is why Adverse Possession has been a principle of law for thousands of years.

Without such a concept, there can be no private ownership of land. Because someone can always come out of the woodwork with an old document that says the land your family has owned for tens or hundreds of years is actually their land.

http://dirt.umkc.edu/archives/dirt2003/mar2003/adverse%20pos...
Given your username, perhaps you can help me. My girls are enrolled in French Immersion, and need support for French (conversational and written). Any good resources?
Ah yes, and of course whether or not something is a threat depends on intent. And who could be a better judge of intent than ... throwaway894345. Who I'm sure has an incredibly nuanced way of determining intent that doesn't boil down to "SJWs have bad intent".
Haha, yeah it was a bit vague.

I have fantasies about building small drone submarines and releasing them in the ocean. Those I don't know how they'd sustain themselves. A little ground rover that has panels on it sounds more realistic. And yeah the life span I don't know how long they would last for.

But on a farm or homestead I would like to have little solar-powered wheel-driven drones pretty much that run around and do their own thing.

It would be neat though, have a sat module on the drone submarine, and then the sub surfaces at night. I think at my local lake is more realistic. Of course in reality these things would operate in supervision/not break laws. But I saw an intriguing video [1] before and I don't know... it's personification I guess.

[1] https://youtu.be/0iDBF23gI6I?t=52
https://www.justinguitar.com/

Tons of free content on his site. Justin is a great teacher.
Find me a technical saas product of tyat scale that doesn’t have support forums that are on fire? Checkout gdrive or iclouds.
Finale Inventory is a multichannel inventory management solution that has a Shopify integration. The Platinum plan is $649/month, it includes API access and unlimited integrations.

Disclosure: I'm a software engineer at the company, not a business owner that uses the software.
I wouldn’t expect a modern pager to operate on the same technology as older pager. Pagers are a thing and they have there uses. I’ve heard of a physical pager being used to symbolize who is “on call”, and a team of engineers will pass the pager between themselves. I’ve seen restaurants pass out pagers to people waiting for tables. I’ve heard talk about some medical/emergency personal still using pagers.

I imagine pagers are probably used in highly secure communications (military, statecraft), because the thing being paged doesn’t have to give away it’s location, or even the fact that it received the message.
> Those people are not speaking - they are doxxing and actively harrassing employers in order to get the wrongthinkers fired.

So they are both speaking true facts about people and speaking their desired outcome to people positioned to realize them. How is that not speaking?
> I thought they actually started offering them as of recently?

Indeed they do. Support will try to give you credit instead so you need to be insistent on getting your actual money back.
Guild Wars 1 had micro-transactions for additional (DRM-ed!) music to unlock if you got bored with the base game songs as some of us did. It was an odd experiment (that I recall I paid for) that got shut down, taking the DRMed music with it as the DRM servers also shutdown, to some frustration at least from me as I had assumed it to be a more traditional soundtrack purchase.

I recall there being other micro-transactions for cosmetics in Guild Wars 1 as well, across its early lifespan, but of course, it certainly was not quite to the degree of Guild Wars 2's "Gem Shop".

(ETA: You don't have to take my word for it. It was called "DirectSong": https://guildwars.fandom.com/wiki/DirectSong)
> the value of the PC is not in it’s CPU alone, it’s in the interaction of all the components, the screen, the ram, the disk, the keyboard, the GPU

That's fine. We can (and do) do those too. Pretending otherwise is weird. Authors of these kinds of articles always seem to start from positions that woefully misunderstand or misrepresent present scientific theory and capability. Like there's this weird information barrier where historians and philosophers of science regularly skip the part that involves understanding what's going on even though they're still supposed to talk about it.

> you also need to simulate the environment it’s in

You literally don't for the same reason that we don't have to simulate our own environment. The simulated me can just be in the same environment that I am. The environment isn't going anywhere.
'Welcome to Chechnya' Brings Deepfake Technology to Documentaries
From your implication that this is all an overreaction, it seems like you believe there's no reason to be concerned that Alexander might be forced out of his profession, even if the NYT did run the piece with his full name as they'd proposed (but haven't yet).

Is this because you think it's unlikely that would happen even if the piece did run? If so, then I gave the reasons in my previous post why I disagree--so we have a simple disagreement about a prediction for the future, and we could each give our reasons why we expected our respective outcomes. Why didn't you engage with any of those arguments?

Or is it just because you're indifferent to whether he loses his career, or indeed might be glad to see it happen? That seems most consistent to me with your statements so far--but would you feel the same if the person staring down the Twitter mob were your ideological ally? You yourself? If we normalize this behavior, then what makes you think that it won't be someone you care about next?
I'm guilty of this :/
Show HN: Fireline is a website for distributed manufacturing
https://fireline.io

If you have something you can make, you can post it. If it requires some sort of raw materials (e.g. you can paint miniatures, provided someone sends you miniatures) you can check the "Requires Upstream" checkbox during product creation and describe what you need.

The end goal is complex manufacturing from isolated creators, although I'm not there yet. This is a rough demo, and your feedback would be really valuable.

Thanks!
Researchers develop software to find drug-resistant bacteria
Ten-Code
People also do it so they don't accidentally open something that's got the camera enabled. If you're a school teacher answering questions for students in the evening you don't want to click the wrong thing and turn on video, or close the lid with something running then open it later, having forgotten, and now you're broadcasting. Stuff like that. Whether teh haxx0rs can get at the camera is irrelevant for that reason of using covers.

Personally I wish all my devices had hardware toggles for camera and mic, both. Phone included, since it's only a "phone" a small fraction of the time these days, the rest of the time it's a small Web-stuff device.
Obviously good to have competition for Chrombebooks.

Now imagine how good it would be if there were competition on the desktop market.
> No fuss. No conflicts, it just works.

I felt the same until they stopped supporting most Linux filesystems bizarrely - forcing me to reimage multiple machines. Despite years of perfect behaviour on non-ext4. I also think the price is very high for what I get. Only reason I haven’t swapped to something else is my life is locked into it from the early days. I’d love to drop it at this point. I don’t even need that much space - just something cross platform.
The local TV news uses TikTok and mentions it regularly. Not exactly a teen-age audience.
I think the problem is when the speaker gets to be the sole determinant of sufficient empathy and listening. It leaves no room for disagreement.

>If you truly empathize with me and understood my position, surely you would agree with me. If you disagree, then you have not listened with sufficient empathy.
Never understood Dropbox, because as a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.

...

Not mine, but a HN classic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
Build Maintainable APIs with Go
I couldn't imagine a less off-topic and unwelcome comment if I tried.
Yes luminus is great, and they have a book that walks you through the stack / decisions which is also great.
New class of gene editors plugs in long stretches of DNA, which Crispr can't do
I love SQS but it isn't quite comparable to Kafka because it is poll-based. It's a solid queue but not suitable for streaming.
Several cities consider every drop in California and several surrounding states to be rightfully theirs.
How is it different from the Arab conquest of the middle east and north Africa? or the Mongolian conquest of everything around them or the Han Chinese takeover of everywhere that is now current China? Or Turkish tribes conquest of today Turkey? And why do you think the tribes in America want to rebel? Life in America as it is are good for them like any other citizen in America.
They should pack up because Amazon made a super hero show and got 89% on rotten tomatoes.

Wait till you see what Disney is offering... you are going to cancel Prime.
"People who will use this access in an abusive fashion do not exist in significant numbers" is a valid rebuttal. "We can just add gender-neutral bathrooms" is either saying that the trans-rights folks "win" (situation #1) or that JK Rowling's side "wins" (situation #2), which is IMO not a valid rebuttal. (since it's either saying that changing labels will make things magically work, or conceding the point and saying that women and trans women should not share bathrooms)

I don't have a horse in this race, but I dislike "that's a dogwhistle" getting used more and more to end arguments.
Agda doesn't have HM-style type inference. Furthermore many times the type is the main content of the program, not so much the value.
You are obviously not british.
Amazing how this post and privacy in general attracts schizos like light in the night attracting moths.
Hey! I'm obviously biased but I thought you might be interested in what we're building over at fulfil.io.

For one, we have a 100% open API that's included in our subscription.

if you're interested you can message me directly at luke.chesney@fulfil.io, would love to show you the product
I often see AGI being discounted based on machines lacking expressiveness. Of course, text isn't as complex as human expression (I assume?), but isn't that how we're communicating right now? I think it's expected to assume each other have General Intelligence. If so, wouldn't it be unfair to hold machines to a higher standard?
And no microphone cover, and no cover for either on their phones
> Why are camera covers not just part of the design?

I feel more and more companies should do this! My ThinkPad T480 has one built-in and I really like the peace of mind.
A lot of comments arguing about the specifics of land ownership in this thread. I think the point of the website is that it's not our land unless you're indigenous.
It's mind boggling that someone who doesn't understand a term and asks for clarification of it be down-voted like this.
So they don’t want to do it because it hasn’t been proven to work. And at the same time it can’t be proven to work if it isn’t allowed to be done.

How do we get out of this conundrum?
Ask HN: What makes our fingerprints unique?
For particularly security-conscious users Google offers this: https://landing.google.com/advancedprotection/
I like "Unconventional Success" by David Swensen, who was Yale's endowment manager for a while (and his apprentices now run several Ivy endowments). Very Bogle-esque
https://www.internalpointers.com/category/finance is a good resource to grok the basics and if you are feeling lucky after you can bash out some C++ as well from the main url.
Context Reduces Racial Bias in Hate Speech Detection Algorithms
If you like the way NLP progresses with all the recent large models, the next natural step is to apply the same idea to video - predict the next frame. Obviously, it's not the same, as we don't have a "vocabulary" of frames, so some novel approach is needed. I haven't actually looked into video prediction/generation literature, so I don't know what's happening in that field.
Please come back in about 8 to 10 hours when the sun comes up to see what I did with the icon (currently a battery).
Research reflects how AI sees through the looking glass – Cornell Chronicle
Sulforaphane? Queue up Dr. Rhonda Patrick!

https://www.foundmyfitness.com/episodes/sulforaphane
“Regardless of what your beliefs are, harassing your coworkers about them ”

You did mention harassment though?
Sweden's daily tally of new Covid-19 cases falls to lowest since May – Reuters
Yeah I think I remember being able to hide Yahoo Anwers in some native way. Would love to get rid of Pinterest from image searches.
The logical fallacies with many modern examples of "cancelling" have already been pointed out far and wide. Not every bit of writing needs to be a statistical analysis (and considering the value of quantitative data is overrated, I'm inclined to agree that a well-written passioned analysis is just as welcome).

Also, lol at the very same circular reasoning the above mentioned whereby agreeing with his ideas is wrong because the people his ideas attract are already wrong.
I don't want a warning light. I don't want audited code. I don't want encryption. I don't want security updates.

I want the fucking camera to not take pictures without my turning it on.
I specifically said only gender-neutral restrooms, not additionally ;)
The site doesn't load at all without JS.

Maybe something simple in a <noscript> tag would help accessibility for those of us who don't enable JS on every site by default?
You've never heard of religious conversions? Or people losing their faith?

I think it is easier to change our beliefs about some things than others, but that has more to with how that belief relates to our other beliefs. If a particular belief is not just something we believe to be true, but is also a framework we use to make sense of the world, then new information is rarely sufficient to contradict it. With any worldview/religion/ideology, you're going to run into facts that are difficult to explain in light of it.
This is true, I should have mentioned it, although my point still applies to HM style type inference as well.
Qt's browser engine is the Chromium Embedded Framework, Electron is the Chromium Embedded Framework.

Sure, the backend is different, but in a thread about UI issues, it's the same.
No, if you have 2FA peopel can steal you data on a compromised system but not your whole account.

With googles 2FA implementation they can steal your whole account.

If the compromised system has no way to get your second factor it can't disable/change the second factor methods and can't independently log in.

EDIT:

Sure there are probably many other ways to then trick the user into giving 2FA permission to e.g. change 2FA auth. But this is harder and not always viable in all situations.
In the Netherlands we don’t really close curtains at night. I also have no camera cover.
> to prevent the single-frame-grab attack.

prevent? by the time the LED turns on, the attack has already happened.
If anyone hasn't tried Clojurescript's browser REPL, it's super easy to use now when using Shadow-CLJS for your project.

When you boot shadow up it'll create an nrepl server for you, you can just connect to it and invoke `(shadow/nrepl-select :app)` and it'll latch on to the running application `localhost:3000`. And it works really well, very awesome.
The police don't address gang violence, they react to it after it happens. Gang violence has been declining in the US despite no change in policing.
Zukerberg did that to troll all the privacy paranoics
I just recently was shopping for a solution for myself and considered google drive, Dropbox and Apple iCloud .

What motivated me shopping around was me running out of space on Dropbox which I have been (a free ) user for 8 years.

I really wanted to go with Dropbox but their pricing were the worse, I also got super confused about their site which didn’t try to sell to people but instead to enterprise only.

As a person that needs around 300gb and want it integrated with my MacBook/iPhone I ended up paying for iCloud .
An opaque piece of tape used to disable a camera is one of few components a user can completely understand. Apple is probably correct to tell users to rely on Apple's security features, but those features are way more complicated than a piece of tape.
I’m not an electrical engineer so forgive me if this is a dumb question. Is it possible to wire it in such a way where the power actually travels through the LED, so if the LED ever stopped functioning or lost connection the webcam would literally receive no power?
New way to use conference rooms with zoom, teams, meet, etc.
Well, of course. The line is the body. The human body is a line of ergodic behavior stemming back to the origin of not merely the species, but of life itself: a chemical that said "I am that I am" and became life by continuing form or not continuing form. You and I will do the same. The form is ultimately shaped by the environment. What made the environment? Now enter Human. What of this form made it so unique? The recognition of ergodic behavior itself! Now the beast could see the result of its behavior and so birthed prophesy, nightmares, & dreams. So that it might continue. Or not. I think ultimately, we're coming at the problem of AI from the wrong end, if we're attempting to mimic biological intelligence. I think the direction AI is taking has tremendous applications that will reshape humankind, but I do not think it will be comparable; it will be something new: the son of Man, not alive, not dead, all-seeing, judging and impartial to emotion. Either that, or we will place upon it's throne a sword and all shall perish.
Not until Apple makes a lid so thin it rivals a shaving razor
Yes, Apple silicon Macs will have Thunderbolt ports
> Learning something is more worthwhile if you are able to trust that it won't change underneath you.

I think there is something even deeper than this. The usability of UI is directly proportional to quality of users' mental model of what the application's doing.

Minimalism can be helpful for removing the "magic." I like the way Google Docs has evolved their UI. They started matching the feature set of desktop applications. Slowly, they have removed and simplified features, leading to a beautifully minimal yet powerful interface for typesetting and writing documents.
These days Android MDM has changed a lot.

In the 'old' days, there was an app called device admin which would control the phone. This app would be supplied by the MDM vendor. This could leverage APIs from various vendors. Samsung had Knox but almost every phone vendor had their own plugin.

This was a huge PITA because each MDM feature only worked on manufacturers A and B and very often was limited to OS versions Y and Z. It meant we had to validate each phone and OS version and have a long list of what phones people could and couldn't use. It was a nightmare as an admin. Users hated it because they often only found out after they'd bought the phone. Samsung was indeed one of the best here, I have to agree.

Since then Google has thrown this overboard and started afresh with Android Enterprise. Controlled only by Google, and offering new ways of management like the work profile which is basically a kind of "phone inside a phone". Have your work profile managed by work and the rest of your phone to yourself.

For company-owned phones they also still have more comprehensive management options like COBO and COPE. But as long as the phone supports Android Enterprise, it supports everything.

Sadly some vendors in particular Samsung are fighting this approach because they feel they have invested too much in the old method. For example Samsung won't support Google Zero Touch auto-enrolment, having instead their own alternative Knox Mobile Enrolment. This is again making things more difficult for admins. But because Samsung is such a big party, and KME is free, we have gone for it anyway (Also Google Zero Touch is not available very widely yet, each reseller has to support it)

As an Admin I'm glad to see the end of the old management model. It's deprecated as of Android 11 (and already severely limited in 10) but we've already dropped it altogether.

And no, for managing Apple phones you don't need a Mac. You just need this for manual installation of management profiles, if you use an MDM you don't need it.

However if you want to manually supervise phones (instead of using Apple DEP / or Automated Device Enrolment as they call it now), you do need one. But this is really rare now.