skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From TFA, here's the damning telegram bit:

For Telegram, the researchers found that its contact discovery service exposes sensitive information even about owners of phone numbers who are not registered with the service.

For Signal, TFA makes it clear that correlation defeats Signal's privacy measures:

Interestingly, 40% of Signal users, which can be assumed to be more privacy concerned in general, are also using WhatsApp, and every other of those Signal users has a public profile picture on WhatsApp. Tracking such data over time enables attackers to build accurate behavior models. When the data is matched across social networks and public data sources, third parties can also build detailed profiles, for example to scam users.

...

More privacy-concerned messengers like Signal transfer only short cryptographic hash values of phone numbers or rely on trusted hardware.

However, the research team shows that with new and optimized attack strategies, the low entropy of phone numbers enables attackers to deduce corresponding phone numbers from cryptographic hashes within milliseconds.

It is hard to say how Signal can improve upon these attacks other than to not use phone numbers at all.
Reminds me of an exchange from Breaking Bad.

> Who wants to go next? No judgements, guys. Just say anything and everything that's on your mind.

> I just keep asking myself, "Why did this happen?" If there's a God and all, why does He allow all those innocent people to die for no reason?

> Keep it secular, honey.
It's not that different than regular glasses. Anything that involves lens will require you to look at the middle and rotate your head.
So true, most western media are tainted with bias towards propoganda of western governments. Aljazeera is the first station I've seen that has really shed a light on what happens in the middle East
I'll be really impressed when one of these that actually retains some of the original facial features instead of just replacing them entirely. Cool side project though.
If the money printer only gives money to asset holders, the inflation will only happen in the asset economy, as opposed to the Main street economy.

This is what we saw with QE in 2008, and what we're seeing now. Asset prices are skyrocketing, while the price of bread is staying more or less stable.
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The problem as I understand it is that Xcode for GM was just (?) released and then you have the approval process. So they run a real risk of not having an app iOS 14 compatible at launch. It doesn’t matter if they’ve had the whole beta to test their app on and get ready if Xcode for GM was just released.
Will Dropbox client for Linux get some attention? It would be great if .dropbox directories adhered to XDG directory specs.
What did clipping mean in that context?
All Highly Intelligent People Share This Trait, According to Steve Jobs
The "User Agent" is the browser itself the header just how a "User Agent" identifies itself to the server. That language really only shows up in the RFCs though.
You inform those who are open to being better informed.
create a new facebook account just for this and dont use it ever ?
The amount of databases I'd like to play with and explore greatly outweighs the amount of time or reasons I have to explore databases.
That definitely sounds like malware of some sort. Might be worth turning off all your browser extensions as a starting point?
I think Signal's necessity of tying the user to the phone number is where it could be improved. Signal could take a lesson from Wireapp which allows setting up a pseudonym so when connecting to another user I do not automatically have to share my phone number with them. ... e.g. if I want to make my phone number not be a problem, then I need a burner (or get burned). which is another step for the user. Depends on the threat-model if this is an issue I suppose.

Telegram so far never had an independent audit of its crypto or maybe I'm wrong?
Neutron stars don't entirely consist of neutron soup. It's more of a mix which gets gradually more neutron rich towards the core.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_star#Structure
Merry and Pippin spend the entirety of Two Towers trying to convince the Ents that they are not, in fact, Orcs (while the Shire burns).

We’ve spent decades just trying to get people to agree on facts, basic facts supported by the majority of scientific consensus.

So, forgive me my frustration, but at a certain point we have to agree the sky is blue [1] and move on to the “what are we going to do about it” part.

1: Well, normally it’s blue at least.
This is the exact sort of thing that allows people to think that things like Telegram are acceptable equivalents to Signal instead of disastrously poor imitators. It's a shame the discourse around secure messengers has become so polluted.
have you tried it? I have a Quest and I don't really understand your complaint, as soon as you wear the headset you just forget about the real world.
There is zero reason a carefully engineered application utilizing SQLite cannot completely saturate the IO capabilities of the host it resides on.

Going even further, there are no competing technologies (i.e. hosted SQL solutions) which, when running in single node/instance mode, are competitive with the performance of well-tuned SQLite.

PRAGMA journal_mode=WAL makes all the difference in the universe.
I think I would probably go with Occam's Razor here.

Stories about Johnny Depp's case get orders of magnitude more clicks than stories about Julian Assange.
World’s most frequent flyer hits another major milestone
Really though? Facebook makes money by displaying targeted ads to users. What data from the Quest is being used to target ads? I’m not familiar with anything related to this in Facebook’s product for ad buyers, and can’t think of anything particularly useful that they could be doing.

You could think of Oculus as an effort to increase the amount of user attention inventory Facebook has in supply to rent out to advertisers. Also, they are positioning themselves as an intermediary for transactions in the future VR economy by being platform owner (a la Apple owning the App Store). My guess is the long-term plan is to make money here by displaying ads in VR and by getting a cut of goods and services sold though VR (see: Ready Player One).
My regular glasses don’t block out an additional 30% or more of my vision. I can see fine peripherally, it’s just a bit blurry.
Call it Dropbox Trial edition then, not Basic.
Can someone explain what the actual problem is?

I’ve been using the betas and all of my existing apps work fine.

I’m developing for ios14, and don’t see any particular reason for my app to be out today.

What actual adverse effects are there to this?

Is there a class of app that runs on ios13 but is broken on ios14?
Signal has been discussing related issue on discovery [1,2] for a while. However this research shows this issue in a new light, and I'd be happy to see a better resolution.

[1] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/6750

[2] https://community.signalusers.org/t/why-are-users-who-have-m...

Additionally for Signal users: It is possible to turn the notification feature off, but if you newly join Signal, every Signal user in your address book will be notified unless they have switched it off.
Personally I find the /etc/init.d scripts to be crufty & in the way, & would rather not have them in my system.

But I acknowledge there being other folks who for whatever reason prefer SysV style. And the maintainer's silent treatment is pretty harsh.

I would like to give these other users a path forward, but at the same time, I don't want this file in /etc/init.d/ . It's in the way of a better functioning systemd system, I believe; not an area i'm well versed in but I think the init-script helpers expect only an /etc/init.d/ or /etc/systemd/system file, not both, and the /etc/init.d/ script is much less powerful & usable.
The anti-mask folks have chosen self-actualization over survival. Like the stages of grief, the hierarchy is not necessarily chronological.
didn't they say it would come to the store?
Why does one day matter? Even if it was a month it's unlikely every single app developer could get a fix in time.
The objective function used in these lossy neural compression schemes usually takes the form of a rate-distortion Lagrangian - the rate term captures the expected length of the message needed to transmit the compressed information and the distortion term measures the reconstruction error. So it wouldn't be able to cheat like in your example, because this would incur a high value of the loss through the rate term.
Do you have evidence/references of this?

After all, FSF GNAT was already compatible with Ada 2012 at that time. And a company that makes large investments in software using Ada undoubtedly needs support and will not shy away from the comparatively low additional costs for licenses and maintenance contracts in its own interest. But it is important that the technology is absolutely free for small companies and people who are simply interested in the technology.
Past major iOS releases have usually given about a week between the release of the final build to developers (with app submissions opening at the same time) and the release to the general public. This gives developers time to validate their code against the final build of iOS and submit updates if needed, allowing plenty of time for App Review to do their thing. This is also the first point where Apple will accept app updates which take advantage of new features in the new iOS release, so giving devs some notice to finalize those updates is nice as well.

Yes, developers should have already been working with the iOS betas and already have some confidence that things will work against the final release-- but there is no substitute for actually testing against the final release build. In this case, iOS 14 Beta 8 appears to be mostly identical to the GM Seed build (what released to devs yesterday, and what will release to the public today), but that, historically, has not always been the case-- in some cases, bugs get fixed in between the last beta build and the GM seed; in others, new bugs get introduced.
The Rift is a VR head mounted display for a beefy PC. The Quest is an entire computer system powered by battery and tiny in surface area. They're different products for different markets. Anything in a mobile form factor as your VR computer will necessarily be limited for either shorter time periods or significantly less graphical fidelity.
University Hospital New Jersey hit by ransomware, 48,000 files leaked
Not GP, but iCloud Drive works great. $2.99/mo for 200GB.
I would purchase this in a second if it was from any other company.

I refuse to financially support a company that is doing so much to hurt democracy worldwide.
This doesn't clear anything up though. Who gets to define the boundary/scope of the market being measured? It's pretty easy to manipulate this to make it seem like a company has a "dominant" share even if that's not the case from the consumers point of view.

Take the anti-trust case against Microsoft, for example, the market was defined as that for computer operating systems for stand-alone personal computers using microchips of the kind manufactured by Intel. This left out not only operating systems running on Apple computers but also other operating systems such as those produced by Sun Microsystems for multiple computers or the Linux system for stand-alone computers. In its narrowly defined market, Microsoft clearly had a “dominant” share.

Also lots of people use Amazon to search for products so it's not clear to me how there is a market failure here.
Meaning that, for example, the neutrons could dissolve into just a sea of quarks, and then it's a charged fluid? OK, I could see that.
When I first installed it however many yearss ago that was, I nearly stopped because the first thing it did was ask for access to my contacts. I can't see that request for contacts access changing, so you have to be not remembering it. Then again, I'm on iPhone, so I can't speak to what Android does/doesn't do.
How does this implementation perform compared to classic approaches such as OpenALPR [1] ?

At the very least running local inference becomes much more expensive, and possibly provides worse results.

[1] - https://github.com/openalpr/openalpr
Since 1978 at least [0], not sure how much data you'll get further back.

[0]: https://www.supermoney.com/inflation-adjusted-home-prices/
If you make a Facebook account and tie it to VR goggles, you’re not “not using it ever” but polar opposite of it...
If you're going to analyze things that way, you should have rented and bought some Facebook, Apple, Google, and Amazon stock.
Dark hair was common among Vikings, genetic study confirms
What’s the downside of the update not being in the store today vs next week?
> In my experience they show as [deleted] but I guess this is only for posts that have replies.

Kind of. Technically, posts that have replies can't be deleted, so what sometimes happens is the poster edits their post and replaces all the text with "[deleted]".
Facebook Announce Project Aria: AR Glasses
> Nothing in this amendment shall be construed to abridge freedom of the press.

Cool, so instead of PACs we'd just candidate-backing "news" coalitions?
Sure it was. Back then screens had 16+ times less pixels (multiply it by 2-8 for text mode), Linux (the kernel) source code was still relatively small, and the games played had 10 2D levels of a few million pixels each.
Been there. But it's still a really good headset. I have one, you'll love it.
The Air Force just built and tested a new jet aircraft in one year
Epic doesn’t care about anything except for their own profits.
Go scream at your boss. Dropbox has jumped the shark. Why am I getting red warning signs on my dropbox tray to advertise new features? I'm paying a shitton of money and using less than 1%. Take the money and just be silent. Dropbox is a tiny tool. I don't want to hear about it ever. _ever_
I feel cremation would be hazardous to environment.

Is there any resource on biohazards of burying? I will look into this sometime.
I'm one of those WA + Signal users. There's only a few barriers (besides momentum) now that prevent me from turning friends to Signal (some of them are dumb, few are big). But by far the number one feature is groups. We're at a time where people are concerned about privacy, this should be utilized.

Other than that, Signal needs to become feature rich. There are many features people want that are just pushed aside. Unfortunately Signal is making the shift from only crypto/privacygeeks to mainstream. In crossing that crevasse Signal needs to consider a different set of opinions that previously it could safely ignore. I would leave Signal if it left the "privacy above all else" mentality, but the forums suggest a high group think about what is "a good feature" and what is "a dumb feature" (and how people are going to use it). If it is a highly requested feature, just add it to the list of things to add. You can't ignore it anymore.

(And can we just add a link to the third party sticker website? People seem to care about that and sticker discovery is needlessly difficult. I get asked this frequently and am constantly sending the sticker link. I'm sorry, but the default ones suck and I cannot understand any good reason it works this way)
Personally, price doesn't matter, I would not use a FB device.
A CSS framework built using CSS variables
Mandating to link Facebook account with this VR set screams red flags to me.
> Right, but what matters is the housing price where people are.

We're not talking about houses in the middle of nowhere. These are major urban population centers.

The Houston metro area has 7 million people. The Phoenix metro area has 4.9 million people. Tampa metro has 3.1 million people. Houston and Phoenix are both larger than the Bay Area metro is currently. Tampa's just shy of the size of Seattle.

Nor is it the case that these are depressed areas with hollowed out job markets and no opportunity. They all have substantially lower unemployment rates than the national average. Well below the Bay Area in fact. All three of these metros have large-scale employers with plenty of high-skilled jobs. All three have economic growth rates and business formation rates far above the national average.
And none of those companies thought the web app was good enough to eschew native apps on Android. Why is that?
I'm not sure how one would survive on 60k for even 10 years. This isn't an "investable" amount and it's not enough for food, yet along housing expenses.
If you track shipments, how do you handle iPhones generally staying in use longer than Android phones?

(Disclosure: I work for Google)
Note that the Quest is basically a rift with link
this will grow and capture the market. so it's an unuseful growth. you will actually have less options in the future if you buy it
Yes, the Quest 1 was such a game-changer for me that I would sell my soul to get the next generation. Really hoping other companies will step up their game though.
Quest can't do VR titles. It will always be a niche mobile game market that can't give VR justice. If they would integrate h264 hardware decode and allowed the PC oculus software to stream to it, then we'd be in business.

Wireless VR is a big problem right now, it's expensive, doesn't work well, and for it's price you might as well get better hardware.

Oculus should ship quest with a cheap little 5Ghz USB broadcaster that you can put into your gaming PC and the oculus software can then stream through. Everyone wants to be able to have no cords and tuck their PC into a corner, not drag it with them.
> It is hard to say how Signal can improve upon these attacks other than to not use phone numbers at all.

I think it would be wonderful if you could use signal without a phone number.

I wonder if there is a technical reason they don’t implement this, as it sure seems like it would only have benefits for users privacy and security.
If we're seriously arguing in HN over whether something as fundamental as this is going on , imagine the confusion among potential users of Signal.
What's the privacy concern here ? Facebook knows what I do in VR ? I don't necessarily want that but TBH I don't really care about it either - I don't plan on using it for anything compromising anyway and I'm bombarded by advertisement spam everywhere to the point of immunity.
Something like:

if(IP==attackerIP) {
for 10000 times
write random byte
sleep 10 seconds
}
Oculus Link[1] lets you render everything on the PC. The cable also provides power so you don't have to worry about battery life. The only disadvantage is the extra weight of the battery in the headset.

https://www.oculus.com/blog/play-rift-content-on-quest-with-...
How does that make sense? In a dumb sense, if a factory worker drops dead, a job just opened up.
I can't borrow money with 5% down to buy stocks. (OK you can but you'll get closed out with normal volatility)
Yes there is! My go-to's at the moment are libro.fm and downpour.com.

Google Play also offers downloads but it tends to be more expensive, assuming you're making use of Libro and Downpour's credit system.
Absolutely yes, which is why I have one. I genuinely don't see the issue.
My point is simple: rooting for the extinction of humanity is bad.

I'm not commenting on the veracity of claims about the extinction of humanity, although I do think that present trends do not always explain or predict future ones.
I mean. I guess a furnace does use energy, but humans have all sorts of disease you don't want getting into your groundwater.
The US Constitution and the Berne Convention are both readily available to read.

In the Constitution, copyright gets its own section.
Well, obviously with moderate success ;-)
I like making my side projects cross-platform when possible. But I'm done trying to get code signing to work, I won't pay Apple $100 to distribute free software, and I have no interest in using XCode, so I feel basically restricted to Linux and Windows only at this point.
Brilliant share. Thank you.
I'm just waiting for tech that uses eye-tracking to put a tiny hi-DPI display that "moves around" so it stays right in line with your foveal vision, while having a static, head-wrapping low-DPI display behind it, to cover your peripheral vision.

I can't imagine there's any tech that'd let an actual LCD move around at the speed your eyes do. But maybe the foveal display could be from ultra-low-power short-throw laser DLP, bounced right into your eyeballs? It could even use the glass surface of the peripheral LCD display as a DSLR-alike mirror, so that it can reach your pupil from a straight-on angle.

What I'm describing does seem to exist (a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_retinal_display) — but it doesn't seem that anybody has tried combining them with traditional LCD tech yet.

I feel like such a hybrid device would have a number of obvious operational advantages, e.g. much lower bandwidth/render-power requirements (each frame, your GPU would only have to render a high-resolution image of a little square, along with a very low-res image of the rest of the scene.)
Can anyone comment how well the latest VR headsets work for people who wear spectacles?
What is it with HN and trying to read between the lines so hard? There's literally an Oculus Store app store for quest games. Probably they are just making money on game sales, like every other game console has for 35 years.
I've been disappointed with CPU/battery usage recently. When adding a lot of photos, I have to plug in my laptop--otherwise the battery dies.

When uploading a 100MB file on a gen8 Thinkpad:

- Dropbox uses 6 minutes of CPU time, basically maxing out a core for the entire upload

- offsite scp uses <1 second of CPU, so scp is >100x more efficient than Dropbox

- In wall clock time, Dropbox is 4x slower.

I imagine their sync problem is very very hard, but but pushing bits up for a large file should be much more efficient.
Confirming that you are not a Viking but that you go Viking. Fairly obvious when you consider this is an "ing" adjective
Seconded. Bias, when predictable and understood is not even a bad thing.
We don't know the parent posters exact relationship status. It could have been an online catfish and the person on the other end sent photos of a minor they found online.
This is a great example in how not to write an announcement to your customers. Start with positive language, deliver a huge blow, make no apology.
If the argument is that Apple is holding back PWAs, then there should be a lot of corresponding web only apps on Android that are forced to be native on iOS. The developers would have a web app anyway for the desktop so you should see a lot of apps that are PWA apps with iOS apps.
I feel like I should spend that time testing and making my app ready for release rather than ranting and typing the article.
Which user asked for a password manager!? When will these companies do real market research
There should be an optimization pass for this, certainly, but the placement new syntax guarantees it.
What’s the supposed downside to running an app designed for iOS 13 on an iOS 14 iPhone?

File this one under “things that won’t matter and will be entirely forgotten in two weeks.”
You could advertise similar games based on what they're already playing.
Mint or Manjaro