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In academic writing, the general rule is that whenever you introduce an acronym, you must first use the full version.

For example: You must always be mindful of privacy laws when handling personal health information (PHI). Remember, that you may only access PHI when necessary to do your job, and never to fulfill personal curiosity about a patient.

Unfortunately, this doesn't work for a chat room because it's not meant to be read from beginning to end. My personal rule is to never use acronyms, unless I can follow the above rule.

I've worked in many different industries, and learning acronyms has been a consistent and pointless barrier to achieving productivity. I don't want to put that onto anyone else. Even worse, you run the risk of your reader ignoring the lesson entirely, simply because they don't know what the acronym means.

In and of itself, "PHI" does not seem any more important than any other acronym. On the other hand, "personal health information," has an obvious connotation of importance.
this is a MASSIVE selling point, BUT, when your users contact support trying to gain access to their account and can't describe what their email address might be... trust me, there is pain in your future.
Amazon Alexa wiring for the home. The use of alarms, timers, ambient music, and room-to-room conversation with the family has all been more transformative than I could have expected.
The vast majority of the Western canon isn't even written in English.
As a product owner, because what if that service provider decides to (mis-?)interpret something you did as against their TOS and revoke your access to their sdk, thereby making it more difficult for many of your users to log in?

And as a user, what if Facebook/Google/Twitter/Apple decides you've violated their ToS, blocks you from your account, and now you can no longer log into any of the sites you've linked with one of those providers?

I know this is a bit extreme, and for many people, the risk is totally worth the reward, but I think that is one of the chief concerns many people have with trusting a third party for all their sign-ins. It's a single point of failure.
They could test other WebKit browsers though.
Biometric data is never leaked because it never leaves the secure enclave in the device.
There are also ways around this. You can join softwood with screws made out of hardwood. There's a German company making those. Some companies join boards with aluminum nails. You can make massive wood from cheap material without glue.
There's a company that makes boards with a wavy surface. Multiple boards lock together easily. They made a prototype bridge with very little fastening.
> Twitter's was expanded.

I'm not sure that's actually true. Twitter did not stop the spreading of the information it suppressed (the author of this article knew perfectly well what that information was, after all). It just made people route around Twitter to get the information. The more people realize that they need to route around Twitter to get the information they want (just as they now route around traditional journalists to get the information they want), the more Twitter's authority is reduced just as the authority of traditional journalists was reduced.

I think the author of the article has not sufficiently considered this aspect.
I don't know if Skype got better but back when the universal switch to discord began, skype was very bad. It also crashed, it also had bugs, and its VOIP quality was poor (better than Adobe Connect or the stuff you'd see shipping with a AAA game, but still poor.)
Why would anyone use this except apple? It's bad for users, bad for websites, but good for apple.
You're missing the point of biometrics. Something you are is a form of authentication that only you can use. Your face, fingerprints, blood, retinas are all public but try as you might you can't make another living human with the same features.

If your view of fingerprint auth is "a picture of your face is the password" then of course it sounds stupid. It's actually "a face with the correct features attached to an alive human" which is much harder to fake.

The whole point of biometric auth and all the advancements in the industry are about correctly identifying alive humans and the strength of any system that uses biometrics is directly related to that. You can say current systems aren't good enough at this yet for your personal thread models but it's real security, and beats the hell out of a 4/5 digit lock screen passcode.
> but it got no traction, so I'm really surprised to find it on the front page today

There's a lot of randomness in what happens to get noticed or get traction on HN. We have various tricks to try to mitigate that. One is that we allow a small number of reposts if an article hasn't had significant attention yet (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html).
If you have office 365 its worth looking at because its included with the subscription. They are going through some internal changes on the planner product, as they are sort of merging it with their "TODO." app with it also.
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The risks of forced unlocking with FaceID have been discussed, including in court: https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/01/14/face-id-touch-id-...

The main alternative to biometric ID is a PIN. Those are seldomly changed, and are relatively easily shoulder-surfed. I've seen children who can't even read yet learn their parent's iPad PINs. If you're afraid of the police, surveillance needs to be your threat model.

There's some ways to prevent being forced to use face unlock if you see it coming, by squeezing your phone: https://www.macworld.com/article/3236793/how-to-quickly-and-...
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> There's no "calling" or any sort of "person A would like to talk to person B, person C may or may not be welcome" sort of thing.

There is, actually -- you can call a user who you're friends with, or create a call for a group DM. It's just separate from group voice chat.
It looks like it's a feature of the next release? Maybe the developer versions already have it?
As in Fritz Leiber's 1962 story "The 64-square Madhouse".

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So. Much. This.

For non technical users, the friction involved in setting up new accounts is a bit too much.

Anecdotally: my tech-handicapped friends all used hangouts. I suggested discord, but everyone wanted to continue using something they were familiar with. Once they did get Discord and discovered how easy it was to start conversations.... nobody went back to hangouts.
The fingerprint sensor found on most phones doesn't always require intent, either.
Agreed, software agents acting in our best interests is the way forward. BYOI bring your own interface.
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presumably because they think faceid has a picture of peoples faces.
Sorry, I didn't pay enough attention when reading! That is actually pretty nice and one could use this to implement a reader-view browser extension. I like that it uses seccomp for the HTML handling as well.
> What happens when biometric data is leaked?

Like when someone takes your picture? Nothing.
I have lived almost exclusively on potatoes at several points in my life, and there's just no way. I've watched a bulky manual laborer live almost exclusively on potatoes as well, and still not near 10 lbs a day.
My email is in my profile if you want to reach out.
>The C64's superior graphics and sound ability hurt it in the minds of many consumers. It was cheaper than an Apple II, but as far as parents were concerned that was still a lot of money to pay for a "game machine." Whereas the even more expensive Apple II, with a better selection of educational and "serious" software, was seen more as an investment in a child's future.

Then why did the C64 sell 22 million units and the Apple 2 only sold 5-6 million if consumers had a bad impression of it.

> Obviously a C128 or Amiga would have been better for gaming and writing fun stuff.

And pretty much everything else. Seriously, in college, everyone in engineering used TeX. I used TeX on my Amiga. It produced superior output for math and engineering papers compared to the best you could achieve on a Mac with WYSIWYG.
Are you saying everything everyone says is above critique, or that derision specifically is not welcome?
>"Python was a niche language"? What niche were you in in 2002?

Don't know about the parent, but I did use Python from 2000 to mid-2000s doing web programming - mostly Zope. So there's that...
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I use mine to host some non-revenue-generating websites (they are super cheap for that purpose), and also for some ARM image builds that I integrate into my Docker/Kubernetes pipeline.

I haven't yet moved to ARM CPUs on AWS for some of my projects, but may be able to more quickly if I can have a local cluster like this for testing that isn't as slow as the CM3+-based one the Turing Pi V1 supported.
fwiw: I don't think there's necessarily a "crap" company coming out of this. That's what I was referring to when I said people will take a close look at the new leadership. Sometimes, a split makes sense. But, based on past experience, the balance of probability points to not getting a good leadership team, and things flow from there.

I'm sorry you're caught in this :(
We let GM's set their own prices. So we expect a lot of prices to fluctuate as demand continues to drive them up, or lower as more GMs join the platform.
Russia interferes on Trump's behalf. Trump campaign wins, promotes policies that are beneficial to Russia (slow walking support for Ukraine, attacking NATO, generally gutting the State Department, and a plethora of other moves that cripple US soft power, edit: Oh, and how could I forget sanctions relief and readmission to G8?), and Putin approves a real estate project that benefits Trump financially. It's telling that Trump is the first president in history not to divest himself of his global financial stakes, which represent a massive conflict of interest.

Pretty basic garden variety bribery.
As a user I would prefer no account in most cases. As a distant second, I would prefer the convenience, security, and privacy of Sign in with Apple over Google, Facebook, or the headache of managing yet another web account.

As a developer, I use my preferences as a user to steer my choices, but recognize that the world doesn't revolve around Apple so would allow other options.

> Having saw Epic's developer account t...

Since I have zero need to deliberately violate Apple's App Story policy, I don't worry about this overmuch.
I'm pretty sure I/O over PCIe is a substantial bottleneck in many applications (which is part of the reason for the 300GB/s POWER9 / OpenCAPI / NVLink / GPUs). Its a shame that NVLink is isolated to pretty much the DGX-line of computers and POWER9 (The "big" ones too, I don't think Talos II supports NVLink). But I guess an interconnect that fast will require dedicated, non-standard hardware.

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AMD's GPU Infinity Fabric seems to be a different infinity fabric from their CPU. CPU Infinity Fabric is ~50GB/s, but the GPU Infinity Fabric is GPU-to-GPU links of ~90GB/s.

Realistically, PCIe 4.0 and 5.0 will be the path forward for standard PCs. There will always be incredible application-specific solutions (such as NVLink / NVSwitch on the DGX), but the general computer user will wait for the open standards to support such speeds before adopting them.

At the moment, GPU-to-GPU communications probably will scale better than CPU-to-GPU comms. CPUs just aren't built for the bandwidth (outside of POWER9 / POWER10).
> You're affectively giving away a major control of your users to a third party.

You may also get users that you wouldn't have otherwise. It's a trade-off. Lowering friction tends to increase conversions.
Do these vendors really push the optimization envelope?

It's too bad there isn't something like a game console (for profit) wrapped around this thing, that would really kickstart hardcore optimization.

Much like the game consoles of old (ps-one, nes, snes, genesis), the devs would squeeze every last bit of performance out of those platforms, but there wasn't a non-gaming computing userbase to take advantage of those optimizations.

I had heard the cell in the PS2 was used in some supercomputers, but that might have been the Cell whitepaper presenting unrealistic flops and someone on the Folding.Home taking the hype at face value.
I thought about this, and this seems an odd claim to me: Twitter has, and has had for some time, the capability to tag tweets with "this is possibly a bot" or "this is possibly misinformation". As much as I disagree with them even doing that (and reasonable people can disagree with me, it is not a fervently held belief), it seemed odd to me that they chose the nuclear option rather than simply tweet tagging.
I thought computers playing by themselves are equal to or better than computer+human pairs now (i.e. centaur chess is dead and humans provide no help but are only a hinderance). Is that true (this is just a half-remembered hunch)?

Also even if that's not true, computer-assisted human chess for all but the highest levels of play would still be just "human accepts computer move."
It's weird to see you using this example, given that Apple specifically went out of their way to continue operating Sign in with Apple for all of Epic's users. Can you talk more about why you would stay away from it when developing for Apple platforms?
I didn't know you could disable face ID by squeezing your phone. Thanks for the info, and for the court case as well.

I think a strong password on my phone is important, rather than a simple PIN, given it's my second factor for nearly everything.
I toyed around with this on https://passwordless.dev/usernameless on iOS 14 and now I have two test users to choose from on the 'Do you want to sign in www.passwordless.dev" using a saved account?' prompt. I have yet to find a way to remove those test accounts again.
I don’t know what I’m talking about, but isn’t the Secure Enclave already a solution to this? Fido cards just sound like an external solution that all iPhones and new MacBooks already have integrated (T2)
Is police really a good example? It's highly distributed on city/town level.
I generally agree, as all of the legitimate uses I could think of would be more easily accomplished without the use of mixers (or even cryptocurrency), but their may be use cases I hadn't thought of.
I wasn't aware of some of these. Thanks for sharing.
I second the standalone freezer. I got once back in March. It is so much easier to store food now. The cost to run it is insanely small.
Couldn't you just stick to Discord on mobile and only open it when a notif comes? That way you don't see any changes in the icon, like on desktop. Plus, the notification settings in general are pretty flexible, one of the few things I genuinely like about Discord.
As much as they have made a really good app, it's chat. The moment discord starts becoming expensive , people will switch to mattermost or zulip or ircV3 by that time (ps or matrix). The privacy issues are real and the moat to exit is shallow. We already switched our community to mattermost because , discord doesnt seem sustainable for long term, and we also have control that can't be taken away. It would be really nice if these teams focused on creating an interoperable standard for chat instead of trying to lock in users. Basic protocols like chat should be decentralized, and will probably end up being so.
> I'm OK with Nvidia fading on Linux into irrelevance with their blob - good riddance.

The vast majority of Linux use is on servers. When servers need GPUs it's usually for machine learning or other computation. Nvidia currently holds almost all of that market.

All dropping Nvidia support would accomplish is forcing everyone in that market to switch to Windows. Cloud revenue would drop significantly for Linux companies like RedHat, which would in turn mean they have less spare money to work on desktop distros. So as much as I despise Nvidia, until AMD/RTG get their shit together AND (yes, we need both) Intel's dGPUs come out (and don't suck), we desperately need Nvidia support.
A court of law.
To be fair, I think there are some smart app developers clueing on this. I've sank pretty significant hours into some mobile games without ever creating a proper account. I only created an account once I cared enough to not lose the data. This is super smooth mobile UX especially for consumer facing apps, primarily those which have no immediate need at all to be cross platform.
Past threads on Schrödinger's "What Is Life", for the curious:

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15270606

2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18906495
Can this really be anything but lobbyists trying to harm the competition? Nobody is confusing a veggie burger for a hamburger. Its laughable. And without that hypothetical confusion, nothing is left but 'harm the vegetarian producers and consumers'. For the benefit of the meat lobby of course.
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Provided there's still someone still working there that's capable of implementing it.
Removing is covered in the article:

> Credentials can only be cleared for all via Safari > History > Clear History… on Mac Safari or Settings > Safari > Clear History and Website Data on iOS & iPadOS.
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Just because something's closed source doesn't mean we can't learn about it. The field of reverse engineering has been around for a long time, and the iPhone and Mac are two of the most studied devices around.

Ultimately you do have to trust your platform if you're going to use a platform authenticator to some degree.

But the alternative in the FIDO2/webauthn space is something like a Yubikey which has no biometrics; it just takes a simple tap. And can be easily removed from your computer. So in that comparison, the fingerprint is purely additive security. Even if it's adding nothing to a serious adversary, it's still dramatically reducing risk to a less-skilled local attacker.
I may use this when I find a cheap surgeon in case the "mathematical representation of my face" is leaked.
The interesting thing is the increase in cheating. Is it just because of Covid, or is it perhaps because cheating has become more accepted in general, with "alternate facts" being touted as "facts"?
That's true, and arguably bad, because the result is that accountability and reform occur on the local level, where there are inevitably fewer resources for oversight.
Hmm.

Like some sort of giant company, that's a de-facto monopoly with a core product that prints cash and requires very little R&D innovation...

If only we had those today.
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That's sophistry. The fact is, the laptop is 'secured' by biometrics, which can be spoofed. Having a key-to-the-key is not safe if the biometrics are not safe.
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I mean you're referencing an article from 2014 about a relatively unsophisticated biometric auth system. It's like saying "TSA locks are stupidly easy to pick."

There are extremely high-security biometric auth systems that you would have a much harder time fooling. The high-res retina scanners that take a 3d map of your eye and detect blood flow would be a much better assessment of what's possible.
This sounds terrible. I’ve locked myself out of a machine once because I remembered the password wrong. That was annoying.
I might have done it without noticing when trying to log into the wrong machine accidentally more than one.
Locking myself out of all machines would be way worse.
> The newspapers who got moderated by Twitter and are now crying foul are the same ones who are the reason Twitter started with their heavy-handed proactive approach to moderation in the first place.

Yeah, I was interested in their analysis of how the social media platforms got blamed for 2016 even though the big news outlets were at least as culpable, if not more so.

I never thought it was fair to lay the blame at social media's feet. Certainly not without blame, but they sit rather at the end of the rope, not the beginning and at least for me this blog post's examination of agency vs. responsibility was alot more satisfying than "free speech they can do what they want checkmate."
Big tech: fake news is a societal problem and government should fix it, we have no resources for it

Government: put a backdoor then

Big tech: no! (Except in our biggest market - china)

I’m only half joking
Can this Attestation be safely issued from macOS running on Apple Silicon, conditional on whether the user has disabled various hardware/software security features on the Mac?
It's often through a single mistake made once that allows you to link some pseudonymous profile to a real person. For example, I recall reading about a particular case where some command&control server was identified and being monitored, and once one of the operators accidentally logged in to his personal profile on a social media site over the 'secure VPN' connection.

Also, there have been cases where authorities have been 'subcontracting' certain services or tools from local cyber criminals working on online financial fraud - where those criminals were later arrested abroad, and have agreed to testify against their former partners/employers.
Not anymore unfortunately, at least not reliably. I picked it because of this ease of use, but I was forced to enter and verify an e-mail before it let me use it. And they reject mailinator.
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> About 1: I believe that this hurts more than it helps. Expecting nVidia to move their OS-agnostic codebase into the Linux kernel sounds like a massive effort with no real benefit for them. That seems unlikely to happen.

Nouveau is already upstream. Nvidia should just stop messing it up and allow it to access GPU registers for proper reclocking. So there is no valid argument about difficulty at all. It's purely political and anti-competitive on Nvidia's part.
That's trivially refutable. Fingerprints are left everywhere, and can be lifted and reproduced with common household substances (tape, glue etc). A face can be photographed, printed and presented trivially.

And so far, biometrics falls far short of a 4/5 digit lock passcode. The entropy in most fingerprint sensors is a few bits. They are famously defeatable.

Nothing will change the fact that you cannot keep your face and fingerprints secret, cannot/won't change them, and they are always, always traceable to you. Using them to secure a 'better' key is not security at all.
> only a few generations ago farmers made a living on 100-200 acres.

You still quite easily can if you own the land outright, even in the grain business. The problem is that you need multi-millions to buy 100-200 acres, which nobody wanting to start farming has, save situations of inheritance. That means, for most, the vast majority of the potential profit turns into servicing debt or paying rent to the actual landowner. When you are only receiving a small portion of the pie that the land is actually generating, that's when you need thousands of acres to accumulate enough.

To put it another way: The going rate for rent for farmland around here is around $300/acre. $300 * 200 acres = $60,000. If you own the land and don't have to pay rent, that alone is a decent living; more than most people make. And that is ignoring the profit that someone renting would expect to make off the land.