skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are supposed to be able to extract plaintext secrets with the Data Protection API if you are logged in as the user who the secret belongs to.

Yup. It's like saying you're able to read the private key out of ~/.ssh/id_rsa because you're logged in as the user, though with more steps because you need to deserialize the key from the internal representation. If you want this to not be possible even when logged in as the user, then use a hardware token like a smart card or smart-card-capable security key.

Could still be useful for post-exploitation as the OP mentions.
I think I’ve said this before on hn but Cybersyn seems conceptually like an ERP system to me. Or in general, ERP seems to be applied cybernetics. It’s less fanciful and theoretical than some people imply.
Because they are pocketing the difference by arbitraging between the government (who issue the treasuries) and the Fed (who is the ultimate buyer) since the Fed cannot buy treasuries directly from the government. It's just a complicated way for the government to print money and hand it out and in this case banks are able to act as the middleman and earn money on the spread.

It's a disgraceful system that is extremely morally questionable.
Yep. He just manually accessed stuff (de-obfuscated some layers) he had already access to. Try to do it with another user on the same system and then call it a day/vulnerability. If you, as a user, store some secrets, you have to eventually read them (i.e saved credentials)

This quote actually summarizes it:

> I wasn’t very familiar with DPAPI

Well, neither do I, but at least know the basics!https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_API
Could you substantiate that claim with specific ways it is biased or dishonest, rather than dismissing it without evidence?
>> a real 5250 terminal weighed close to 85 pounds

I came into networking around the time when those were being replaced by 5250 terminal emulation in Windows through an application. So much desk space was freed up, now that you only had to have one 'computer' each desk.

Some customers would run new CAT5, and the others would just slap ethernet adapters on their twinax. Still run into a huge bundle of that stuff in a ceiling from time to time.
Sounds like it's ripe for a discrimination lawsuit.
What Infrastructure Means at Whoop
Honestly I don't think this would be a really big problem.

But to be absolutely sure nothing bad can ever happen(TM):

Why not have purpose built catching planes match up with them, once they are low and slow enough? I imagine something Airbus A380 sized, or large Antonovs, C5 Galaxy, releasing a clamp or hook on a cable or boom, connecting to that glider in the air. And tow it to its designated splash down area.

Like in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-air_retrieval

There! Solved that for you :)
Singapore, with Singapore SIM cards.

I have nothing that links to Hong Kong or China, so it's probably implemented by identifying the different phone model number of the dual SIM iPhone.
If you're talking about the 'ENVi' thermostat [1], it was actually manufactured by ecobee from what I understand. I know Daikin has

Honestly, all of the controls for residential mini split systems are pretty awful. My Mitsubishi system has the MHK1 thermostat [2] which is Mitsubishi specific version of the traditional Honeywell thermostat. The newer MHK2 looks a bit more modern, but honestly isn't really any different in function.

1: http://www.daikinac.com/content/residential/residential-cont...
2: http://www.nonul.mylinkdrive.com/item/MHK1.html
I called AT&T to look into their service, and the rep said "all of our plans are unlimited data, it's just a question of how much you want to be able to hotspot". I can see why they're reframing things to call all their plans 'unlimited' in a 5G world, since most people will not sign up to pay more for 5G service. They will ask what the real-world difference will be, and then probably decline to pay even $10/mo more for it.

But if everything is 'unlimited' and they're differentiating based on amount of hotspot or throttling after a certain point, they're effectively charging you for high speed without making it seem like a surcharge.

After 20 seconds on the phone I knew it wasn't for me. I rarely leave the house during COVID, so I hardly use any data. I'm saving 50% going with a different company.
I'm a little sceptical of these authoritative-sounding "overviews" that are essentially plugs for the author's thesis - the paper providing the justification for the title quietly inserted in this case right at the end of the article.

Personally, I'd prefer third party summaries of the thesis when it has been established as an interesting contribution, and the original article to stick to what is actually accepted by the mainstream; or at the very least to be more up-front that this is actually based on a new paper by the author.

That's not to say this paper is wrong - I'm not remotely qualified to judge (and it happens regularly in articles plugged on HN); I just find the way these things are presented as a bit iffy.
I forget about it when I need it and it gets in my way when I don’t. It’s a good feature though I just haven’t worked into my flow.
I still dont get how they have HBO MAX and HBO Go. Why is there two and why do they get different stuff? That wolves show is only on Max. :eyeroll:
It's inflation through other means. You get asset price inflation instead of commodities / consumer goods inflation. It's a slow death rather than a quick one.
There's a link at the bottom of the page.
The LIDAR sensors used in vehicles are specialized for a different purpose and are expensive. Its not a very fair comparison to an iPhone LIDAR sensor
Open Letter to Apache OpenOffice from the Document Foundation
Efimero – Be Less Social
At Efimero, we believe it's essential that we begin to reduce our online social impact and footprint, and that's what Efimero aims to do, by bringing social back to the bare minimum by stripping 3 core components:

- Identity.
Everything you share doesn't need to wear your name (or your face!), get your thoughts out of your mind, without the anxiety that comes from sharing online today.

- Perpetuity.
Just as your content doesn't always need to represent you, it also doesn't have to last forever. Content on Efimero can only be viewed by people who were online when it was created. If you missed it, it's gone.

- Virality.
There's no algorithm, no recommendations, mixed with the lack of identity or perpetuity; there is absolutely no virality within Efimero. We've seen the impact social media can have on our world, from the mundane to the extremely important. This is why I believe a healthy online social environment should reduce its global and individual impact to a bare minimum, making it nothing more than a communication and entertainment tool.

To wrap it up, Efimero aims to create a social platform that promotes an honest, selfless, and open conversation, where nothing really lasts or matters.
> full benefit of unlimited storage

I would like to know how would the full benefit of unlimited storage look like. When my write rate is somewhat less than Google is adding new storage then I am definitely not taking the full benefit. So how large can be the cap between these?
Most of the time you hit soft caps at 40gb, with 4gbp you can hit your cap in 40 seconds !
For those that don't know, on unix ssh-agent is setgid which should prevent you from attaching to your own process and reading its memory, even as the same user.
I actually scratched my iPhone 8 a few weeks ago (using the light on my phone while working under my car...my fault). I've never scratched an iPhone (or used a screen protector) since the 4S.
"Safety concerns" don't matter much if you're on your deathbed. Us plebes can clearly see that the president, an obese man in his 70s, was treated and is doing great. He has offered to bring that same treatment to the rest of us. What is an ordinary person to think? Why should my parents, who are aged 72 and 85, think that this is anything but politics?

(I myself know that REGN-COV2 works. I have a degree in molecular biology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and I've taken several courses in immunology and virology. I worked in a lab for two years after undergrad, doing basic research toward an HIV vaccine. My only point with this is that I understand the basic science here.)
le bait et le switch
WTH is happening with Office 365?
Duh.

One hint is in the suffix -ology meaning "study of". With study comes frames, schools of thought, agendas, dogma.

My intro to technology as ideology was Neil Postman's Technopoly [1992]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technopoly Challenging ideas for a young technophile.

FWIW, when referring to specifics, I'd be more comfortable with "techniques" instead of "technology". So a book title could be "Weaponizing AI Techniques to Maximize Dopamine Addiction via Social Mediums" instead of "Recognize Kitten Pictures With Awesome AI Technology for the LOLs".

Of course Jaron Lannier is coauthor. Frequent go-to mildly provocative but still hip contrarian for Wired, the historically full throated Big Tech apologist, booster, and primary paid placement press release conduit.
That's a blog from some independent author, doesn't look like its an official Scientific American article: https://www.scientificamerican.com/author/joel-m-moskowitz/

As an aside, I hate that news media have turned into essentially Medium, where anyone can write anything under their name. Good way to throw away your hard-earned prestige, e.g. Forbes sites.
I only housesat for someone with one so my experience is limited. My take was audio quality is WAY better, so if your primary desire is for a speaker it blows the Google/Amazon ones out of the water. BUT Siri is less useful so if you want more voice-control/smart assistant stuff it feels much more limited.

It's actually really decent at the use cases it's explicitly designed for, but completely falls apart if you have any edge cases. Bear in mind though, these are what Apple thinks of as edge cases like "What if I prefer Spotify over Apple Music," not necessarily a reasonable person's idea of an edge case.

I, personally, didn't notice much of a difference between the HomePod and the Sonos 5 though I know people who say the HomePod is markedly better. The Sonos, however, has a line-in and works with an Alexa unit if you have it (though, strangely, it's not built in). If not for the privacy sensitivity with Alexa I'd probably go for the Sonos, but the privacy and integration with the rest of the Apple ecosystem kind of tips it back to Apple for me.
Cell carriers try to optimize for places with the highest population densities, so they focus on faster speeds in cities over slower speeds everywhere. It's a fine balance.
Inflation (in the consumer goods sense) only happens when the value of money goes down for the average person. The price of lettuce isn't going to rise because the fed isn't buying lettuce with faerie money, they're buying securities. And the stock market has gone up and to the right, despite all logical indicators on the ground indicating it should go solidly opposite. Securities are hugely inflated.
I mean, if you're going to cite something you might want to read it first:

“The exposures used in the studies cannot be compared directly to the exposure that humans experience when using a cell phone,”

...

"In our studies, rats and mice received radio frequency radiation across their whole bodies. By contrast, people are mostly exposed in specific local tissues close to where they hold the phone. In addition, the exposure levels and durations in our studies were greater than what people experience.”"

https://factor.niehs.nih.gov/2018/11/feature/1-feature-radia...
Amazingly, LiDAR that can roughly map a 10ft room and LiDAR that can accurately map 500ft of road may actually cost different amounts.
The article is somewhat misleading.

1. The are raising prices from $12 to $20, not exactly "killing". But Google and "killing" in the same sentence is more attractive, I get it.

2. > have shown that Google has never enforced that limit.

So they are enforcing a limit they didn't enforce before.
> iphone enables people to do more and more every day

Not entirely true , e.g. they can't play fortnite or other unreal-based games

Among Covid, uncertainty, and people moving, i m not sure it's the best time to present their most expensive phone, esp. now that comparable phones are half the price. 5G is exciting? hm most people use their phones in crappy wifi for years, plus it's not like apple built the 5G infrastrucutre. (plus there's noone to show off to at this time)
That doesn't seem like a question that can be answered mathematically, does it? That's like asking, why do electrons have a spin of 1/2? Why is the speed of light 299,792,458 m/s? These are just properties of the universe.
I disagree. The aircraft carrier sized trackpads of the recent MBPs continues to register errant clicks for me. They are just way too big.
Sonos spies on your usage instead of your audio, and is nowhere near the Homepod in terms of sound quality.
Raft? The two most prominent consensus algorithms that I usually come across in 'the wild', are Paxos and Raft. Am I missing something -- or is the article missing something?
100% W3C has ZERO effect on SEO you are wasting time and effort
To be clear (and this is mentioned but not highlighted in the article), the previous Business plans were never guaranteed unlimited storage for orgs with fewer than 5 users ($60/month), the 1TB limit those orgs were supposed to have was just never enforced.

I was one of those users, and the thought that the storage limit could start being enforced at any time was always in the back of my mind. Now I'm on the Enterprise plan and can worry a bit less.
lineup at 1:05:55
Not an accurate headline. Here's what actually has happened:

* The Fed has doubled (!) the number of assets on its balance sheet by creating new monetary instruments and using a big swath of them to purchase financial assets like treasuries and mortgage backed bonds, helping maintain price stability in those and other financial assets. In fact, the Fed has created more new monetary assets during the past five-plus months than in the entirety of 2008-2009, during the worst of the global financial crisis. Source: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL

* The US Treasury, which must borrow funds or collect taxes in order to spend any money, has increased its spending massively during the pandemic, after the passing of significant tax cuts, so it has been incurring federal deficits as a percent of GDP at the fastest rate since WWII. Source: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEGDQ188S

* Tax collections have started to drop, as many sectors of the economy (restaurants, retail stores, malls, office buildings, hotels, travel companies, etc.) are now no longer profitable and have fired or furloughed millions of people. Source: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/W006RC1Q027SBEA (data available only as of Q2)
Norway is a part of EFTA, EEA and the Schengen agreement, so they're bound pretty tightly with the EU.

I wouldn't, however, interpret any actions from Norway as having any form of EU support, unless it's explicitly mentioned.
And the accompanying HN tread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12641425
New money, enters the economy by two ways:
banks lean to households/business or government direct spending. New reserves in the system doesn't create money.

The quantity of reserves in the system limit the quantity of money that the private banks can lend to the real economy (actually, not really, but that's another discussion), but the existence of reserves doesn't make the bank to lean.
For the banks to lean, it's necessary that there is demand for credit first.

Because there is not demand for credit, never mind the number of reserves in the system. The central bank have not power to stimulate the economy in this situation, that's the reason central bankers are pushing the governments to spend directly.
Paul Graham has a nice little essay about his perspective on this: http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html .

It's pretty lengthy so I would suggest pondering over various sections and re-reading it after a while to let it all sink in, but a helpful primer nonetheless.
Perhaps Mozilla Should Unfck Itself Before “Unfcking the Internet”
Althought one might argue that spying is one thing while attacking/sabotaging is another thing.

I might tolerate you peeking through my window into my house from time to time to try and understand what i'm up to.

I wouldn't tolerate you burning my house down to prevent me from doing my stuff.
That was my exact thought too. I'm an owner of both an Echo, and a few Echo Dots. The Dots aren't great for music, but the Echo is actually really decent.

The name is a big mistake (they should call it just "HomePod", and the larger one "HomePod Max / Studio". Right now they are forcing people to compare it to the $30 smart assistants by the other two. It's not evident from the name that the HomePod "Mini" isn't competing with the Google Home Mini or Amazon Echo Dot.

Google / Amazon / Apple

Low end:
Home Mini / Echo Dot / None, but people will think HomePod Mini sits here

Mid:
Home / Echo / HomePod Mini

High:
Home Max / Echo Studio / HomePod
This is the combination trial with remedisivir, not the one with this drug alone, as far as I can read from the article.
> I loved KDE3, maybe it had some issues but it mostly Just Worked as a Windows XP-like desktop environment.

But Windows XP had way more polished look&feel (as did any other Windows version). KDE 3 looked ugly. KDE 4 looked OK but kind of wasteful in terms of screen area.

> KDE4 was unusably broken for years and years, it's basically why I stopped using a Linux desktop.

I just went to XFCE which has hardly changed at all since then. XFCE is always a perfect fallback DE for weird times. I also went XFCE (for about a year or 2 every time) when Unity was first introduced and when it got retired. I just disabled the standard XFCE panels and added a 3-rd party dock instead.
https://www.tubabel.com/ for Spanish and https://vukajlija.com/recnik/definicije/indeks for Serbo-Croatian. Not alternatives, more like equivalents
is it ok to ask where this is..?

in my town, mayor gets 3750/month an other council members get 2200/month. four year term. two term max. three meetings a month. review of materials and meetings with other leaders etc.

some of them wildly had a ball. organised trips to china and bangalore to see 'how they govern high density' while distributing permits for real estate development/expansion etc. currently, some of them have stalled because of visa fraud and SEC fraud of chinese investors who handed out investor visas to those who invested 500k or more.

most of the elected officials went on to serve in sacramento for bigger and better benefits/responsibilities because now they are super connected and networked. some went on to serve on non profit boards with really hefty compensation. i find the whole thing amusing at this point.
Agreed about the SSL/TLS, but the comment sounded more like not having a public git was the complaint.
I completely agree with you.

Honestly, I think one should be skeptical of anyone who’s (1) giving advice and (2) don’t have the experience (knowledge itself is not enough) to back it up.
I wish there could be a better partnership between Apple and Spotify. I consider Spotify to be best in field for my music needs and a tighter integration would be a win-win for me as a consumer.

Just the other day:

> "Hey Siri, favorite this song on Spotify."

> "Sorry, Spotify hasn't added support for that." (paraphrased)
>> The magnitude of that demand will never reach the same height.

Growth of cities and the increase of wealth of cities is 5,000 year trend, that includes in its history pandemics and plagues.
Well there is a 750GB per user per day limit for uploading, so maybe you have to be near that.
But how big is it???

I waited years to get the SE2 and it turned out to be the size of iPhone 8. The same iPhone 8 that introduced the double-tap to fix the “thumb reach problem” which Apple usd to proudly tout for the ORIGINAL iPhone 5 and SE.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6K3lTwGxMTk
The claims are even more dumb, that it enables automimous cars by connecting them - would you let a car drive you around if it required a mobile connection to work properly? Nope. Note that Elon Musk / Tesla nor any other self driving car uses anything of the sort. It all needs to be running on the car. And they're managing to do self driving already without any 5G. For uploads you can just wait til the car is home and use the wifi, or slowly (though not that slowly really) upload with 4G.
> Now, that is obviously not true for macroscopic objects like balls. Those are not in a superposition of colors until they are observed, but it is true for quantum objects like electrons.

But then what is it that can I do with two entangled electrons that I can't do with two literal billiard balls known to be different colors than one another?
It's an interesting project. Thank you for sharing. But I'm also confused as how the problem quoted below might be solved by an issue tracker:

"They have built powerful and private systems...amplifying our basest impulses and fears to drive clicks, contributing to a polarized climate where even basic facts cannot be agreed upon."
> none of the carriers or handset makers are telling me how much the data will cost

Data is included in my contract where I live - is that not the case where you live?

> If I'm just burning through my existing data limit faster, what's the point?

To get the same data... faster? Isn't that good? And is your data limited in some way? I never ever reach my limit no matter what I do.
>The Fed has doubled (!) the number of assets on its balance sheet by creating new monetary instruments and using some of them to purchase financial assets like treasuries and mortgage backed bonds. In fact, the Fed has created more new monetary assets during the past five months than in 2008-2009, during the worst of the global financial crisis.

This is printing money and it is not inaccurate to say that they have created U.S. Dollars out of thin air to finance their asset-purchases and "lending" (a debt that will never be paid off) to the U.S. government.
I was working in a tiny Java focused department of a larger company, and everybody in that department happened to have an interest in trying out Scala. We tried it out in an isolated project, and it worked very well, so we went ahead and used it in more projects.

There's always the issue of "where will we find people who know Scala?" of course. I can't tell if it matters; certainly, there are fewer people with that skill, but they are also competing for fewer jobs.

Later on we started a company together and went all in on Scala. It's served us very well over the quite a few years we'be been going now.
and both cases should be handled properly, as it is in Unicode standard.
A few years ago I bought a laundry washer and dryer set. They were nice, mid-range units and I was pretty happy with them. About a year after purchase, the plastic clips that held the handle on the dryer broke off. I called the phone number on my warranty papers and spoke to a human being in Tennessee. I told her what happened, and she asked me for the model number and my address. They shipped a replacement that arrived at my house two days later.

A mistake happened, the plastic was too weak (Or maybe I pulled too hard, I don't know!) but I was able to contact the company and get it fixed.

It doesn't matter what mistakes are made if there is a way to fix it. If these systems are automated, fine. But if a mistake is made, why isn't there a way to get it fixed? That's where humans come in.

btw, Alphabet's income is about 42 times that of the company that made my washer/dryer. How is it that they can afford phone reps when Alphabet can't?
Theres a great book about this called The Peoples Republic of Walmart
My narrative is that Apple is a market company that'll say anything to make a ridicious profit on their often times subpar technology.