skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google implemented end-to-end encrypted backups for Android devices, which prevents the government from getting anything useful when they pull the device’s backed up data from Google.

Apple does not implement end-to-end encryption for their backups, which is why I’m “dinging” them. The iCloud device backups that happen each night on the device are backed up with Apple keys, which means that Apple can decrypt your entire message history for the device, without the device. iCloud Backup is on by default for every iPhone and iPad, which it is not inaccurate to describe as an effective cryptographic backdoor in iMessage’s end-to-end encryption, because it escrows the iMessage keys (as well as the complete message history) to Apple with Apple keys, each and every day. They don’t need any “keys to the device”.

This is well documented in Apple’s KB article about iCloud encryption: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

Apple’s on-device hardware encryption has nothing to do with this problem. This is a software design issue that Apple chose. Google chose a better, safer way to do it.

The fact that it’s a problem with the US government is a red herring. There are still good and bad choices in cryptographic system design.

Please do read the linked URL. Apple was on track to fix this glaring issue, and then, according to Reuters, Apple Legal shut down the project. Whether it was done specifically on FBI request, or proactively by Apple to butter up the FBI, is irrelevant: the FBI has no legal basis to command Apple to drop this project, so the decision not to safeguard user data from government snoops rests solely with Apple.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...

Additionally, the phone that Apple famously refused to unlock is irrelevant: Apple had already provided all of the related account’s iCloud data (presumably including a full device backup) to the FBI. It’s not in Apple or the FBI’s interest to draw attention to this detail.

I wonder if perhaps the news story about how “Apple vs FBI for user privacy” was an FBI reciprocation to aid Apple’s privacy brand narrative in exchange for Apple not encrypting backups (so Apple can always provide all of the device data to the FBI without the phone).
I have a different take on this. It is open source in spirit. It has all the same freedoms of an OSI open source license with one restriction that matters to maybe half a dozen companies like AWS. Open source is the closest established concept to compare this to. So to say it's open source in spirit, or similar to open source seems to be a legitimate communication device.

That's like trying to describe a nectarine without talking about peaches or plums. You could do it, but you could communicate more effectively if you could make comparisons to the most similar well known concept.

They are somewhat careful to make the distinction and refer to it as source available, open source in spirit, etc. I think that's fine and legitimate communication.

Source available is a less controversial term, but it's also less descriptive. It can be a wide variety of software licenses. Whereas open source is much closer to this license. I don't see the problem here, how would you communicate it if you worked in their marketing department, if you're being honest?
Personally I’d rather maintain my self respect and integrity.

Sucking up to a manager is exactly the kind of toxic bureaucracy that destroys companies and ultimately societies.

Do good work. Do the best work you can. If you want to be Machiavelli, go into politics.
There are still physical goods being exchanged. Someone is selling the product and someone is receiving it. They can still track people via that.
You haven't done enough work to tie the second 2 links to the 2020 pandemic. You are just asserting that they apply. You are the one dismissing government epidemiologists, you owe the math, not me.

For the first link, only 40% of the patients had (in the sense of the Chest CT study) recovered after 2 months. But that's a single measure, it would be good to have additional assessments of the health of those folks, rather than just the single factor.
What breeds are your "very smart" and "less intelligent" dog?

(Asking because people tend to equate predatory behaviour to intelligence, which is both not accurate and rather alarming)
It's offered as a web app on Safari.

> Amazon is getting around those restrictions by running Luna as a "progressive web application" that runs on iOS only in the Safari browser, without an App Store listing at all.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/09/amazon-announces-stre...
this isn't new. colleges have used online proctoring for years
Corvids are an issue for agriculture, because they eat seed and small plants. The Swiss agriculture bureau has a file for them, explaining how to handle them, and it basically boils down to "you can use a number of different measures, but corvids are smart, they learn and don't forget, so there is nothing that actually works". - https://m4.ti.ch/fileadmin/DT/temi/caccia/documenti/Scheda_C...
Is it really true that "... over 70% of people who are trying to learn to code today use videos."?

Is this as the primary method of learning, or are videos just a component of the modern-day learning experience?
I don't understand "may providing relational" - can you fix or explain?
The people of Iran and Chile were collateral damage of the US. Our government did not care one way or another about them.

The people of the US are the primary target of Russia. Their government is actively trying to do us harm.

It is indifference versus malice. This isn't a defense of US foreign policy. We have a history of doing awful things. It is simply recognizing differences between the two countries approaches and noting that the fears that initially sparked this tangent match up nearly perfectly with Russia's goals and actions.
The calendar picture is interesting. One of the problems I have with standups or any meeting first thing in the day is how it affects my mental state. That period directly after I start work is precious. It's when all the things I've had in my mind overnight are ready to be realised, and I'm calm and my mind is receptive to sitting down to a focused session.

Splurging a meeting into that period can completely destroy that precious time. I can have a whole morning of work just disappear because I can't focus properly after an interruption like that.

Another way of looking at it is that people understimate the cost overhead of having a meeting. For me, you can pad the time around it with about an hour before and after and assume my productivity will be severely impacted. In that context, a 15 minute standup is about the stupidest thing you can do for my productivity. If you're going to have a meeting, make it real and decent and worth the overhead of holding it.
PNW
Yes that was a sad story. Delphi CE is meant for people like you. That use Delphi as a hobby.
I love tinkering, too. I found the solution!

https://youtu.be/oiY_iKSpWLM

I actually have 3, two iPhones and one Android, and 3 iPads.

Once I gave up on private cross-device sync on iOS without iCloud (a bummer, to be sure), I started using the iPads as single-purpose devices instead of wanting every file on every screen all of the time. One is just for hacking (editors/ssh/browser), one is loaded with books and maps, one is for a special project.

The phones are split between primary/production, emergency backup (n+1), and hacking/testing/fun. I’ll probably end up with a fourth phone at some point (hacking * two platforms).
So that’s the thing: a standup isn’t for discussing what you’re doing, it’s to ensure that things are on track (which the default assumption is they are) and a forum for surfacing blockers/impediments to sort out offline.

Assuming you have a Kanban board for your work, and assuming the work is actually accurate on the board in terms of status (which most teams are terrible at without practice) AND assuming you properly have “waiting for testing” “testing” “waiting for review” “reviewing” columns (those waiting for columns are critical to seeing the true state of work), then you simply just “walk the wall” from right to left. As you scan through each column, team members call out if shit is a mess, otherwise you just get a thumbs up and move to the next thing.

Then, just use some analytics to highlight tickets stuck in a status too long, and bubble those up in the standup. “You keep saying this is on track, but it’s been here for a week, what’s the deal?”.

STANDUPS ARE NOT STATUS UPDATES. They’re for resolving blockers in person without letting shit linger too long.

As long as your board is accurate and respected as the source of truth, it is the status update mechanism. It’s no longer a human job.

(And yes, this is actually possibly, my agility team does this with 15+ scrumban teams right now)
I want pictures if that fraction of the population population riots.
I'd like to know the same thing. I'm currently using PulseEffects [0] for my parametric eq needs, but as I use a dedicated PC to play music, it's a bit of a pain to have to connect via vnc to control it.

[0] https://github.com/wwmm/pulseeffects
I'm not personally into cli stuff, but most of the code in the equalizer/ directory could be used without much change. If anyone started that project and needed assistance I would for sure help out.
Adhesive bandage.
Moreover, writes are hard, reads are easy, and everywhere that a write needs to happen when a user does a search can fail gracefully. If this search doesn’t end up in your search history, or doesn’t show an ad, or doesn’t contribute to your future personalization then oh well, you’ll never notice.
I was just looking for a replacement for the app I used on Mac: Boom.

I will give this a try tomorrow!
The example that came to my mind was startups and how they tell investors what they want to hear (Nikola, Theranos, etc.)
> Regardless, “customers buy your product in a marketplace” absolutely does not indicate or have really any connection with “providing something that matters to someone.”

Your basic contention is that nobody ever buys any product because it's something they want need or like. Indeed you're saying that a product mattering to someone has no connection whatsoever to them buying it.

There's a difference between "social manipulation exists", which I never disputed and "social manipulation, and social manipulation alone is the only reason anyone has ever purchased anything", which is the natural consequence of the contention that a product mattering to someone is wholly independent of them purchasing it.
Wait until people have to upgrade "low-code" apps in 10 years time... will be the same problem.
What is meant by dental care?
Dental care refers to oral health care, considering dental health issues and oral hygiene as a whole. Dental health can be taken care of through brushing your teeth, flossing them everyday, eating food which is good for health and avoiding harmful foods as well. Dental checkups can help to deal with dental health care pretty well. https://stoneybrook.dental/white-composite-fillings/
Americans and Brits have always been obsessed with trying to protect their children, from experience. Mainland Europe is slowly joining the bandwagon too, what with all the "Let's think about the children" talk, which never was much of an issue 10-20 years back. The wealthier folks of East Asia and Latin America behave similarly to Americans, while the not so wealthy take a totally hands-off approach, perhaps being able to do so because kids are already brought up to be wary of ads and scammy marketing. The situation is reversed in the Middle East, where wealthy parents take a hands-off approach to raising children, relying on one or more nannies, while less affluent parents aggressively monitor content (largely to prevent kids from vulgar content or hidden monetary charges).

Disclaimer: these are all just my honest observations, not assertions.
I actually just uninstalled the android version of Firefox after using it for many years.

I had downloaded a podcast in advance for a road trip. I went to open it via the Firefox notification and it said "you have no app that can open mp3s" which is wrong. After that I went to Files to launch it manually, but it wasn't there (it must have saved it in a non-standard location). Finally I went into Firefox and couldn't find the downloads page, only to find out they removed that feature.

I was frustrated and shocked by Mozilla's incompetence. I had 3 different methods of accessing that file and they screwed up all of them. Even if these issues are fixed I probably won't return, I need to be convinced Mozilla has fixed its management issues.
Could Einstein Get Published Today?
Or even established companies talking about their "efforts" to go green, be more eco-friendly, reduce animal cruelty, etc, when the only effort they're really making is marketing themselves as such.
So my background is I did music production in high school. I actually based the design for PrettyEQ off of the Logic Pro X equalizer and Fruity Parametric EQ 2, and those will happily let you clip. So I like the idea of leaving that to the user's discretion (move the filters slowly, especially in the lows and highs, and know your speakers well). These days, especially in EDM / Hip Hop, slight clipping in bass in somewhat stylistic. So I don't know. Maybe could be an option in the GUI that could be switched on? Would need to think about it more.
I can vouch for designing data intensive applications. Having read it before, I highly recommend it for all experience levels.
While I don't entirely disagree with some of the ideas presented here (Primarily what IAP are meant for in an app) I think this whole thing reads rather poorly.

It boggles the mind that the author writes that they trust both Google and Apple to keep the platform safe but then goes on to decry shitty F2P applications designed to exploit you. Google has a pretty high-profile incidence of failing to catch malicious apps and Apple is not immune.

That said, the article reads somewhat as old man yells at cloud. There is certainly a ton of low-hanging fruit in the app store designed to extract maximum value of out of whales. There are also parental controls on an iPad. Moreso, I don't think it's healthy to allow your one-year old to plop down in front of an iPad and expect Daddy Apple to know what's best for them.

Apple is not your child's parent, you are. There is definitely an amount of social pressure on children of a certain age to have access and familiarity with certain things (Fortnite, currently) that allow them social cache, but your one-year old is not privy to this and you made the choice to give them an iPad.

My personal criticisms of the Apple App review process are much more pointedly centered around the unevenness in enforcement. Certain big players are afforded leeway that smaller players are not and it's gross. I appreciate the fact that a human is looped into the app review process unlike the Play store which is full of dramatically more garbage, but Apple should enforce their standards more evenly.
A lot of strategy games are very CPU hungry but not picky about GPU.
There was never any incentives aligned to make the Semantic Web work. For it to work, page authors had to go through the trouble of making their own content compatible, but it didn't really buy them anything in return and for big content producers it removed their main revenue source -- ads. As a result, the places that had lots of information never bothered, and small users never bothered, and the SW petered out.

In some ways it's similar to what we see in certain news sites. They only link to other pages on their own site even though it would be trivial to link out to the original information pages. Sites will even host public documents in in-line PDF readers in order to not link back to completely publicly available government sites -- scientific and engineering advancements are often vaguely and imprecisely talked about with no link to the original paper or announcement from the source. By living on ad revenue, these sites want to roach motel you into their hypertext jail and the result is information gets twisted and misreported where it propagates and is repeated in other places. News sites will even reference each other without linking back to the other site's original content.

Ads killed the Semantic Web.
looking at it without being told I would never guess that is what it means. I would have a hard time guessing what that ment even in context.
when soemthing this broadly painful happens at a company of Google's scale --typically you have something like a hundred people internally that all got paged.
Yes, and as a result, the US government contracted a company to develop a machine to be able to create 1.5 million masks per day. Instead of having a stockpile, which itself is not a guarantee of having enough masks, this seems to be the logical path forward. Meaning that those warnings in 2013 and 2014 were heeded and acted on by creating this contract in 2015 (and apparently they contracted two separate companies).

Perhaps you misinterpreted the term respirator to not mean mask?
Good question. Ordinarily I would say that the fact that you're even asking is totally ridiculous, but the narrative has actually been spread that herd immunity is a myth for COVID-19 - which is false - so I absolutely understand your question. Unfortunately there are literally factions out there trying to convince people that this thing is impossible to build immunity to, which again is false. Have some studies:

["Neutralizing and binding antibody kinetics of COVID-19 patients during hospital and convalescent phases"](https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.18.20156810v...) - Published July 18 2020

- Based on these half-life data, we estimate that the median times for IgM, IgA and IgG to become seronegative are 4.59 (IQR 4.12-5.03), 7.78 (IQR 6.71-9.16) and 42.72 (IQR 33.75-47.96) months post disease onset.

- This study suggests that SARS-CoV-2 infection induces robust neutralizing and binding antibody responses in patients and that humoral immunity against SARS-CoV-2 acquired by infection may persist for a relatively long time.

["SARS-CoV-2 infection induces robust, neutralizing antibody responses that are stable for at least three months"](https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.14.20151126v...) - July 17, 2020

- Here we report that the vast majority of infected individuals with mild-to-moderate COVID-19 experience robust IgG antibody responses against the viral spike protein, based on a dataset of 19,860 individuals screened at Mount Sinai Health System in New York City.

- We also show that titers are stable for at least a period approximating three months, and that anti-spike binding titers significantly correlate with neutralization of authentic SARS-CoV-2. Our data suggests that more than 90% of seroconverters make detectible neutralizing antibody responses and that these titers are stable for at least the near-term future.

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BTW, there's something called immunological memory, your memory B/T cells persist for decades. So even if you, say, were only fully immune to reinfection for 1 week, you could still get to herd immunity by building up enough immunological memory since the presence of memory B/T cells will reduce transmission. Anyway, fortunately COVID-19 produces immunity of several months at least.
Doubt it, you're probably just unlucky and have a cursed instance that is misconfigured in a very subtle way. Anecdote: I had an AWS instance that was stuck 'terminating' for 10 days in 2017 and finally got killed - maybe the hypervisor finally timed out or a SRE saw the anomaly.
All the links I posted are relevant to your last sentence which said:

> Pretty peaceful overall for people who have a reputation for being barbarians.
> As if the language somehow defines the identity of the developers, and apps magically become much better as virtue of the language used, rather than the system frameworks.

Language matters just as much as the frameworks.
We use https://taiko.dev/ to do E2E testing, and it's basically that. It's very far from perfect but dramatically cuts down needing to use selectors or IDs
Think you might be mistakenly mixed up device to cloud speed vs device to device speed.

I think it states 500mb cap for device to device comms. That's a decent pipe for comms.
Yep. In the US you generally have no standing to resist a warrant for your data that you handed over to a third party.

Don't use cloud based cameras.

Products like ring could easily be designed so that your data would be protected-- e.g. encrypt on the device, all storage is encrypted.. you give a password to any client to view it that amazon never sees. Yet even though its straightforward to do so this is not available in any commercial product that I'm aware of. I don't think that's an accident: These products exists to spread monitoring, -- mostly for marketing purposes, the fact that they can be abused by authorities for dragnet surveillance without (adequate) due process is just a "bonus".
As we are discovering there is a similar tail risk to allowing people lie. Facebook goes a step further and targets the people especially susceptible to specific less of the same type of lie. TBH my problem with Facebook is that it is a bullshit funnel into an echo chamber. If they removed those algos and showed people a varying mix of opinions and positions the problem would largely go away.
Waste as in poop. They sample human waste and can determine how much rna coming from the virus is in the water. This can reveal trends in relative quantities of the virus between different waste management districts.
Plus it doesn't make sense. If they know his number to call him, why can't they just confirm the address from him and deliver it?
I believe I already know everything I need to know here. I am concerned not about myself but those susceptible to being persuaded by statements a la “my friend made 6 figures” with no further substantiation, especially in these troubled times.
One thing I don't see being taken into account in articles like this one is that the vaccines will not be 100% effective. The US FDA has set the bar at 50% effective. So even people who get the vaccine can still become infected. Maybe with less severe disease and less ability to spread it further, but we don't know that yet. On a whole population level a vaccine will be a major help in reducing the effects of the virus, but on an individual level it's not going to mean things go back to normal because many people will not be fully protected. So besides "Access to the safety thus promised will be unequal", the access to safety itself is questionable. If I understand that "50% effective" correctly, getting a vaccine does not mean you are safe and free to walk through the world.
>Are any of those statements outlandish?

websites that host the leaked celebrity nudes are torn down constantly. I can't imagine that you can upload that chunk of data or that app onto any platform without repercussions. On top of that, my tin-foil hat take is that internet access will eventually be completely de-anonymized. Social security or gov. ID to sign on.

It becomes much harder then to spread TB of personal information. Especially since even in 2035 I can't imagine there being very many hundred(S) of terabyte datasets being passed around social circles.
"Our business is not a coherent single entity and we don't have the best operational policies that try to remedy that so I won't make any promises about quality while still sounding like we're worth $1b"
Example sample tasks when hiring for non-tech roles (sales/marketing
How to Talk to More Users?
Any advice on setting up actual call to talk to more users? we emailed every single users to book a meeting with us just so we can talk to them, but only were able to get few text exchange. Our target audience is teenager(14-18) so maybe they're bit more shy and that plays into factor? IF you have any advice on how we can book a meeting to talk to users, that will be super helpful