skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the main reasons why the project was abandoned was the immense difficulty of controlling it, especially in huge seas.

I wonder if a similar vehicle would have advantages over conventional ferries and freighters today, given the advancements in electronics and assisted steering.
It all comes down to distribution.

We need actual software like https://Matrix.org or https://qbix.com/platform to be good enough that people will install it. Like the Web Browser did killed AOL and MSN. Otherwise we will live with Facebook Google etc. and this is moot. But that is just the beginning.

Secondly, we need open source hardware. We are nowhere close to competing with Apple and Android. But as we have seen over the last 20 years - there is a war on general purpose computing and the closed systems have started to win. Just today I read that Android doesn’t let you take a screenshot of your own phone.

Third of all - the open distribution mechanisms you rely on today to not block you (eg web browsers) can be closed or ship updates with backdoors tomorrow to most users. Apple and Google together control most of the market. It isn’t hard to pressure them to do this.

Apple blocked blockchain dapps being distributed on iOS, unless they are made by an Apple developer whose app they can revoke. Amazon can yank your movies and books out of your hands.

Anything you think is secure (eg secure enclave) may not be. Trusted Computing Environments are made by two companies essentially.

In fact, I am surprised that more “stuxnet” attacks arent done in nuclear reactors across various countries. As self driving cars get hooked up to the net or delivery drones become ubiquitous we may see massive vulnerabilities that can be exploited all at once. Not just by state actors but anyone. Really scary stuff.

Sadly the same entities locking down the computing devices also start requiring uplinks to their servers and can push any updates. Regular people are at the mercy of corporations and the state.

Unless open source companies step up and build a decentralized hardware distribution infrastructure, with multiple actors (like VOIP relaced centralized telephone switchboard operators) all these arguments are moot. There is a handful of tech companies whose arms need to be twisted and that’s all.

PART II:

To be honest ... I no longer think that end-to-end encryption is the right solution to human rights problems. If citizens are reduced to sneaking around and denying their activities to survive, their governmental system is way past due for fixing. This is like the “good slave owners” delaying the abolition of slavery. You’re solving the wrong problem.

I believe that crypto is needed to secure decentralized byzantine fault tolerant systems like Ethereum etc. to be TRUSTED, not to hide information. Signatures, not encryption, if you will. If anything, it is the government who doesn’t want encryption to be broken (eg of copyrighted DVD content etc.) and there is an inherent contradiction since anyone who consumes unencrypted content can reshare it.

What we really need is to decentralize the personal data in many places, and use zero-knowledge proofs for attestation, but that is different than encrypting and hiding information.
I'm certainly open to changing the URL from what is probably an obscurantist press release to a more accurate and neutral source. But it would need to be in English. Sorry—I realize that's frustrating to anyone who reads both languages, but most HN readers can't.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
While the $200k number gets tossed around a lot, the proposed rule is actually:

"H1B applicants will need to be earning a salary equivalent to the 45th percentile of their profession's salary if they're an entry-level worker, rising to 95th percentile for higher-skilled workers. In the past, the boundaries were set at the 17th and 67th percentiles respectively."
It's a cat-and-mouse game and unfortunately over the past handful of years it's been a losing battle for root hiding. It's why I gave up bothering with root despite having done it for nearly a decade.
You are wrong. We live in such a dangerous world that the biggest reason for cause of death in many developed countries is suicide, obesity, diseases, etc.
Well, 7220 is better multi-core performance than https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/intel-core-i7-9700k

But https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/intel-core-i9-9900k... scored 9340.

So, this seems nice, but not world-breaking.
Clicky, I bet...
Relevant (though I don't know if this vulnerability exists for the non-strict UAC modes): https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20160816-00/?p=94...
Does this apply to governmental leaders as well? seems like a lot of these get ticked off for certain country leaders...
Yeah, sorry, I didn't mean to imply that it was always useless in the modern world -- as you say it's often effective. After all, we're still social primates operating in small groups! I think what I was trying to say was rather that to analyse this behaviour purely as "what is the rational reason for this action" gets you less far than looking at it as an emotionally-driven tendency that's driven by the part of our brain that is not the rational-conscious-thought part. Sometimes it's the rational thing to do, sometimes it's something we can construct a rationale for after the fact (our brains are very good at that), and sometimes it's genuinely a bad choice that a perfect rational robot would not make. But whichever of those any particular 'status-seeking' act falls into, I don't think many people are making the choice as a conscious purely reasoned cost-benefit tradeoff.
The Magic of the Bell Curve
IMHO it's not a problem as you should treat Windows as a single-user OS anyway, and UAC is just a nuisance that gets in the way.
Other countries get plenty of fish unlabeled as being from China or completely mislabeled.

Farmed fish also generally relies on being fed cheaper seafood, and it’s hard to beat Chinese prices.

It’s best to just stop eating fish for a while. If the industry shrinks even a bit, things can start to recover.
No it simply means two leagues, just like before. Politicians have tools that are not accessible to the citizen. Nothing new in a way :)
So, basically they want a backdoor but want strong encryption as well. In this case you can't have your cake and eat it.

And really how are they going to make this happen? I'm sure Whatsapp, Telegram etc will cave in. But there will always remain open-source solutions. Encryption is not a secret.
We already have a right for privacy in the EU. That's why the EU court has declared mass logging of meta data by ISPs and mobileproviders illegal.
Scale and viability. Your fire department can't break force entry without notifying others in the area or do it to every building in the city.

Now digitally, that's not true. You can keep collecting data without anyone knowing at an unprecedented scale.
There is no wisdom in comparing WebM to flash. They couldn't be further appart in various aspects. For one, WebM is hardware accelerated whilst flash wasn't.

There's also no wisdom in Safari preventing users from viewing a widespread royalty free media format. It simply causes frustration which is evidenced by the many frustrated customers in results for "safari stream not working "webm"" search.
how would you design away filter bubbles though? people actively seek out agreement and avoid argument even when there are no filters and barely any moderation like still begets like, see the split between /pol/ and /leftypol/.
I crossed that bridge when I came to it - trip trap! trip trap! trip trap! - and lo! I heard a voice: "Who is it what cross my bridge? I am very hungry, and I will eat you up!!" Shuddering in fear, I told the hungry troll "I am but a tiny me. You should eat my brother who comes along soon!" The greedy troll, let me go, and I watched from the bushes as the troll gobbled up my brother. I was sad, but then remembered that I am still alive, not eaten
vague: of uncertain, indefinite, or unclear character or meaning.

The fact that these stories about multiple parties interpreting the same exact guideline different, and in some cases even Apple interpreting it differently I think justifies the usage of "vague".
> Apple clearly does not want you to have a general-purpose computer

Can you explain the existence of the MacBook, iMac, Mac Mini, and Mac Pro?
More specifically, this quote from the article:

As Larry Osterman noted, UAC is not a security feature.
If S.H.I.E.L.D. waltzes into Wakanda and steals a ton of vibranium from their mines, is that not an act of theft/violence? Or is plundering another nation's resources not considered violence?
Like the ship of Theseus: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
a link with more info: http://tubetime.us/index.php/2019/01/19/announcing-the-snark...
(especially check out the sidebar, which has links to posts about soundblaster operation)
Nope, I’m not at all sure :) just throwing my hat in.
>The guy who does that stuff is going to keep using encryption.

Then we can charge him regardless of the contents of his messages.
“The struggle politicians are in isn't to eavesdrop on everyone.”

Counterpoint: yes it is.
That still leaves too much room for interpretation (namely, quibbling over the definitions of "encrypt" or "end-to-end").

People have a right to encrypt their communication, end-to-end with their intended participants, such that no one other than their intended participants can decrypt any aspect of their communication.
Should be deterred by the navies of all countries where rule of law is respected, hopefully starting with or at least including the host country.
WhatsApp is hardly safe from prying eyes anyway.

Sure, there's always-on E2E encryption that is really well designed. However, WhatsApp constantly prompts every user to back up to the cloud, which is much less well secured.

Thus, it's pretty trivial for the authorities to get to it there, I'm sure they can get into iCloud and Google Drive if they want to. It only takes one person in the conversation to have this option switched on. I think this is why WhatsApp doesn't get so much flak from the authorities for having good E2E encryption.
Oh yeah, the yellow vests that lost their fingers and eyes find the police very humane indeed! /s
Along the Seine, booksellers try to hold off an unhappy ending from lockdown
Some schools use their fans, and they don't have the "ass" part, all you have to do is request without the label (although last I checked the logo is visible, but small, at least it's less explicit)
Increment.me: easily get anonymous feedback on anything
I know it's all opinion but I find I quite like using html mail and not having to worry about configuring a bunch of stuff on Gmail to get done what I want to do. As far as search it has always been sufficient and the speed is okay for what I do, I rarely get more than 10-20 emails a day.
I think it's quite healthy to agree to disagree with certain people. We all need to learn to coexist. If both parties can agree to disagree, then a compromise is found which actually makes both parties happy. In a sense, this is an agreement in and of itself. You could even posit this is one of the fundamental ideas behind multi-culturalism. Now I'd say this is different from hiding your values. If you're afraid to speak to your friend, because you think they will turn on you if they knew you didn't align with their views, that is not a friend and you should probably get rid of this person from your life as they are a liability. But not trying to force others to think like you is definitely a good quality, forcing anything on anyone in my value judgement is mostly bad.

Now, I'll say generally though, it is hard to be friends with someone who's values goes against your own. For example, if I'm pro-life and you are not. Or if you favour white people over black and I am black. Or if you are anti-gay and I am gay. There is no easy resolution here, compromise isn't a real option. If people only hold these diverging values as opinion, but don't take actions on them, it could still work, but as soon as someone takes actions on them, it'll create a conflict that the person with the opposite value set cannot easily ignore, especially if they are the target of the act.

That's why in some way, any country needs to align on value set or risk falling appart. Thus discussing why we each hold our values, and trying to unify people's value over time through education, conversation, discussion, is a healthy activity in my opinion.

Sometimes people hold values because of other values. Like I might value peace and law abiding attitudes, and therefore hate black people, because I am afraid they promote crime. Untangling these and making people realize that they might have the wrong data leading them to the wrong inferences can help.

And so, this is why I personally value "liberal values" above all else. And I believe these are the axioms of any peaceful, prosperous and free society. Because the liberal values are a set of values that win over all others, which are designed for peaceful coexistence of people, even those of diverging values, beliefs and opinions. But while you can diverge in all other aspects, you can't diverge on the value of liberal values, that is, if you don't value peaceful and harmonious win/win coexistence with others above all else, well you cannot achieve it.
> then you have to hope that a jury doesn't see your long pointless messages as strong evidence of using encryption

Don't legal people routinely just take few word sentences and rewrite them into long paragraphs of aforementioned hereinafter notwithstanding including but not limited to senseless nonsense?
If you make it cost $30,000 worth of computer time to decrypt, the vast majority of people would have privacy, yet the government could afford to tap important targets (and it would also block government fishing expeditions - they would be too expensive).
Nope. Windows 10 1909 18363.1082 just opens up the Optional Features section of Settings when running the exploit.
The last three phone batteries I replaced were glued in (well, adhesive tape) and they were a massive pain the butt to remove. Honestly, I'm not even sure why they need such sticky adhesive since the case holds the battery in place. I assume it has to do with manufacturing, but really, a lot less (or less sticky) adhesive would be great for people that just want to swap out a battery.
A separation between root/Administrator and your normal user account is useful. On Windows, you often can't help but run semi-trusted proprietary software, so multi-user security technology (especially when combined with some type of mandatory access control) is very useful. I think that macOS Catalina does a better job of this: untrusted software running as your user account cannot read every file in your home directory by default.
Android hardware running GNU/Linux distros (such as Sailfish OS) on top of Android blobs via libhybris could be a stopgap solution as well. But indeed, phones running normal Linux distros need to be the norm in this case.
New amd64 micro-architecture levels
It's a complete cliché even Mike Judge would pass if the script wasn't something in the line of Idiocracy.
My short term plan is to get an Android device, root it and install something else.

Long term plan is to keep an eye on Librem and get one when it actually ships possibly after an iteration or two. Or not, I might get one sooner if I think I have some time to try to build something for it.
Not just one of them the same one that is referenced in the Wikipedia entry. The wikipedia article says it was towed and Popular Mechanics said it broke free of its oppressors and headed for a nearby beach :-)
Is there a good reason not to ban pinned certificates?
Feel this is the biggest obstacle to check that apps are not sending personal information.
"Problem-Solving Through Problems" by Loren C Larsen (1983) was my favorite at high school.

The sections headings of Chapter 1 on Heuristics give a flavor of its approach: Search for a pattern; Draw a figure; Formulate an equivalent problem; Modify the problem; Choose effective notation; Exploit symmetry; Divide into cases; Work backward; Argue by contradiction; Pursue parity; Consider extreme cases; Generalize.

Links:

* Official Springer book web site: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9780387961712

* Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Problem-Solving-Through-Problems-Prob...

* Poor quality scanned PDF: https://math.la.asu.edu/~ifulman/spring13/mat194/problem-sol...
One could maybe play silly rhetorical games like "It wasn't the gun that killed him, it was the bullet", but to say "It wasn't the gun that killed him, it was the house that the killer lived in while she thought about committing the crime" is beyond ridiculous.

I feel quite comfortable classifying encrypted messaging apps in the same category as houses and chain mail, even if the US government has historically disagreed.
was al gore utterly shameful when he contested florida?
the prevailing attitude among liberals ever since is that he never should've conceded, that the bushes and the courts stole the election.
Tell that to my neighbors, whose guests love to sit out in the parking lot of my apartment building and honk to get their attention. :/
>Just today I read that Android doesn’t let you take a screenshot of your own phone.

Not many seemed to care to click the link in that thread. If one did one would know that it was to a bug report and a fix was even posted in the same link. Screenshots work just fine.
We already have those, see Matrix statement in this thread for instance.
Selling+domain
Intersting position for the ctrl and caps lock keys. Is that the original position of these keys or was this keyboard customized?
Why would Biden be in favor of exploiting foreign labor by allowing them to be payed less than they are worth?

Biden might expand the number of H-1B visas awarded sure and that is a separate issue that we could talk about, but it seems clear that Democrats are not supportive of worker exploitation.

Just a heads up the H-1B and other visas are not "illegal" immigration.
> Then again, maybe I'm just having a "get off my lawn" moment, and Apple is on the right path.

No, you are not wrong, and they are not on the right path, except maybe for themselves.

They have no right at all to tell people what they can and cannot do on devices that we paid for, and it's damned time that antitrust regulations somewhere forced them to allow sideloading and alternative app stores.
I'd still like a good explanation why I can't do what I want with my phone.

You don't want do to that? Good, don't. Make it so that I can, if I have to tick a box somewhere hidden in Apple's labyrinthine and undiscoverable Settings app.

Of course, we already know the answer why I can't do what I want with my phone, because it isn't my phone, is it, Apple continues to think of it as theirs and they simply grudgingly rent it to you for awhile all the while treating you the user as the enemy.
knowledge work isn't gonna stop midwesterners and coal miners from od'ing on heroin.
You're conflating the language issue with the alleged "obscurantist" issue. In your opinion, since you brought it up, what facts are the original link lying about or hiding?
Why doesn’t your comment contradict itself? You say you don’t want to see posts or talk about it on here, but you obviously decided to go through the comments.
The original article links to a different PDF, namely https://files.orf.at/vietnam2/files/fm4/202045/783284_fh_st1..., which also contains a number of additions and deletions.
I wonder if Robert Jordan was inspired by this when he wrote The Great Hunt (spoiler follows, I guess!) The protagonist experiences a hallucinatory battle with his arch nemesis, then learns that it was somehow projected in the sky:

"In the sky?" Rand said in wonder.

"Both of you," Moiraine said. "Your battle took place across the sky, in full
view of every soul in Falme. Perhaps in other towns on Toman Head, too, if half what
I hear is to be believed."

This then ruins his plans of keeping a low profile. Those books had some fun ideas.
> Since there is no single way of achieving the set goals...

should read

> There is no way of achieving the set goals

It's been said many times, but you can't have your own math. Broken encryption is broken for everyone, not just the good guys.
I don't think that would help. Most rights are not absolute and can be restricted by other laws. For instance:

* Freedom of movement is clearly restricted for people on a jail sentence.

* We have secrecy of communication but also lawful interception.
I'm not denying its effectiveness, just remarking on its technical merit as a topic of discussion. Once the system is already compromised it becomes less about the payload and more about the attack vector involved. If the payload in question was using novel techniques then it would be a different story but the analysis shows the program to be relatively rudimentary.
are these Red China fishing boats also run by their military? A small country's navy should be able to deter civilian fishing boats
Stuff like this is exactly why I'm planning to move out of the EU soon. After article 13 and nonsense like this it's clear that the EU does not serve the interests of its member states' citizens.
We are not at (2) yet. The EU is at least privacy-conscious - its parliament especially so. As an example, see the attention given to privacy here:

https://www.politico.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/SKM_C4582...

In my view there is a good chance that (2) will not be EU law for the foreseeable future, although this does require some opposition work. I guess one can see it as education of the politicians (the commissioners in this case).
So, when a Canadian adopts U.S. citizenship, they don't automatically cease to be Canadian unless they choose to renounce their citizenship. Dual citizenship is recognized.

According to Wikipedia, Alex moved to the U.S. in 1973 at the age of 33, became a U.S. citizen in 1998 at the age of 58. Trebek is very much regarded as a Canadian, even in Canada. (RIP)

One of the favorite pastimes Canadians have is that of pointing out Canadians whom people think are Americans. Peter Jennings (also RIP) and Alex Trebek are usually the first two that come to mind. Then there's Ryan Reynolds, Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, Joni Mitchell, etc. Recently I learned that HN's dang and sctb are Canadians too [1]...

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...
The original article is at https://autotranslucence.wordpress.com/2018/03/30/becoming-a...
Because these days a battleship is mostly a very expensive missile practice target.
Generally Zig is a bit lower-level and simpler. One big difference is that Nim compiles to C whereas Zig compiles to LLVM IR. Zig is also heavily imperative / procedural, whereas Nim supports more object-programming paradigms, algebraic data types, more sophisticated exception handling, and so on.

They are both low-level compared to Python but fill different niches.
Ekranoplans were high-maintenance, sucked corrosive saltwater into the engines, had huge turning radiuses and couldn't operate in rough waters. Mustard did a great video on why they failed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVdH_dYlVB8
It’s just a matter of time before they come after code push. We’re all going to regret being serfs cowed by the Apple hegemony.
The President leads the Executive Office of the President. The Federal agencies (the Treasury Department, Department of Defense, ...) are themselves led by Cabinet Secretaries nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. The Prime Minister appoints Ministers not subject to confirmation by anyone else.

You are about to see how important this confirmation veto is.
I am going to try this. Naming is hard.