skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you had enough credit to make a phone call, but didn’t want to waste your credits on a text, calling and hanging up is the rational thing to do as it costs nothing (provided you hang up before the other party answers). The price of a text for a teenager was significant back then. The other party might be a parent who could use a landline to call you back for cheaper, or a friend who called back using their parent’s landline.

Of course this tactic wouldn’t work in places where the receiver of phone call has to pay a portion of the price.
I may agree on "in to"/"into", but NOT on "(somewhat cheesy) model of the USS Enterprise".

From Wikipedia[0]:

> Enterprise or USS Enterprise (often referred to as the "Starship Enterprise") is the name of several fictional spacecraft, some of which are the main craft and setting for various television series and films in the Star Trek science fiction franchise.

BTW, Original title should not be corrected as article author set it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Enterprise
I've been tracking the "millionaires' club" --- countries with at least 1 million confirmed cases.

Mexico had been lining up to be the next member, in about 8 days, first noted 2 weeks ago. Italy is now rocketing past Mexico, and will pass 1m cases in 3 days. That caught me by surprise.

https://rys.io/covid/#linear;italy,mexico

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/italy/

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/mexico/

France's new daily cases have been more than India.
Seriously this. There have been lots and lots of studies on the impact of internet ads on voting, most of it appears to be super negligible.

TV ads? That's a whole different ball game that has clear signal in the polling.
Land doesn't vote - has there ever been a serious attempt to allow political representation by chosen group, no matter where you are? I guess the difficulty would be enforcement of laws - "I'm not bound by those rules, I'm bound by these rules"

I can almost imagine it working with a computer system, but then I think about the problems and weaknesses with the World Wide Web, and I get a little sad.
One fact not mentioned yet here in the comments is that a very similar approach already exists in the United States: If you don't pay off your phone your IMEI is blacklisted and (as far as I know) those blacklists are shared between the major providers in the United States. Therefore the device lock discussed here won't make a large difference in the United States.

The primary use-cases are probably:

* If used in the United States prevent fraud where someone uses a stolen identity to obtain a phone and then sells it in another market (that doesn't use IMEI blacklists) once it arrives.

* If used in other countries that don't have IMEI blacklists to provide a similar functionality as those blacklists. One benefit of that is that it could reduce the credit requirements and make it easier for people with no or a poor credit to obtain a phone.
If it's financed it.. isn't really your device until it's paid off. By your logic repo men should be illegal.
They should really raise the price if they want to suck in the gullible. Many more people will bite if the price is only 20-40% off the going rate.
> or even carefully crafted data packets

Unless you’ve made custom PHY hardware for those data packets to be pushed onto the line through, your data packets are going to be line-coded to ensure that the signal is self-clocking. Which basically precludes boosted harmonics.
Let's suppose we rush through a vaccine that turns out to cause fatal complications in 0.01% of the population, and we give it 90% of the population. Congratulations: you just killed more people to date then coronavirus has.

Might wanna check that math, dude.

Even with your preposterously deadly made-up vaccine, you’re only hitting about one month’s worth of COVID deaths.
FYI, the number must contain the international country code
Not applicable specifically to Quine Relay, but the author gave a few interesting talks in English over the years at RubyConf where he discusses some of the obfuscated code techniques he uses:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K7EmeptEHo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgF75PjxHHA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky1GNpT1dEw
Why do people still joke as if the Russian hacks and russian social media war was fake. The republican led gop senate investigation concluded russian hackers were behind the dnc/podesta hacks and were working to boost trump on social media in ways never seen before in the states.

Edit: Adding relevant excerpts from the 5th, I think final, senate GOP led report's executive summary. This is the Republican led report. This was not led be democrats.

Hack and Leak

>"The Committee found that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian effort to hack computer networks and accounts affiliated with the Democratic Party and leak information damaging to Hillary Clinton and her campaign for president. Moscow's intent was to harm the Clinton Campaign, tarnish an expected Clinton presidential administration, help the Trump Campaign after Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee, and undermine the U.S. democratic process. "

Social Media executive summary ("Influence for hire" section)

>"The Committee found that highly evolved tools used to shape popular sentiment were utilized in support of the Trump Campaign during the 2016 election season, and Russia has
made use of such tools in its influence operations, but a link between Russian efforts and the Campaign's use of these tools was not established. These commercially available services many of which are based overseas-rely on an array of personal information to build targeted messaging profiles. Russia applied these sam·technologies and methodologies to its influence· campaign during the 2016 election and, in doing so, conducted foreign influence operationsagainst the United States with a speed, precision, and scale not previously seen."

And from the intro of the actual section on Influence for hire.:

>"All three companies either aspired to apply micro-targeted social media messaging
techniques comparable to those employed by Russian information operatives with the Internet
Research Agency, or actively engaged in the application of these techniques. "
The difference is the court. At least where I live, a court is necessary before anybody has the right to repossess any property.
Except, not everyone is going to do that. And you don't get to choose what computer a client has when you're shipping software that needs to work out of the box and can take advantage of the said computer.

The analogy is that everyone should get NVIDIA Ampere units (non consumer) units worth $30k because it's fast and you'd rather be spending less time in a lab with millions of dollars in funding. insert don't be poor T Shirt reference

PlaidML is not ROCm. Nobody needs ROCm, what people need is just linear algebra well implemented with OpenCL primitives. That's what PlaidML is. And it works quite well, even on those integrated Intel GPUs on most laptops.

Have you also looked at DirectML and WSL2? They seem to be running tensorflow quite well too. Those things may be the key to bringing these in adoption outside the well paid class of data scientists you came up with.
I love how a (metaphorically) air-gapped system can be attacked (literally) through the air. Maybe the truly critical things should also be vacuum-gapped (and put into Faraday cages while we're at it)?..

But the system still has some connection to the outside world, right? That means we could run some heavy GPU load and measure the variation in its power consumption, which apparently has been tried before: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2018/04/13/data-exfiltration...

Along these lines, the excess heat has to go somewhere, so maybe one could measure the variation in the work of the coolant system. I couldn't find any research about it right away (BitWhisper is similar, but a bit different), but I trust someone has already tried that.
Open source alternative suggestions?
if its not paid how is it your device? If the agreement does not surrender complete control and with regard to the subject mentioned they are not, it is not yet your device.

now if you complete the agreement then if becomes your device. however contracts which usually allow for remote control specify it very clearly.
Why Ownership Is Important for Great Product Managers
I have been planning to write one based around 2D canvas that uses pixel scanning and alignment properties to compute the metrics information that has been missing from the native APIs. Would allow a basic glyph atlas and layout, but I do wish had access to a glyph shaper directly....
That is a completely bogus statistic. Not only does the "San Francisco Metro Area" include Oakland it also excludes Palo Alto.

I lived in SF and worked in tech and I know perfectly well what @maxpert speaks of. Some of the best years of my life, But the only way I could afford to live there was to live in a 1 bedroom apartment with two roommates.
So instead of borrowing $1000 for a remote-disableable phone, you borrow $1500 for a phone that comes with less efficient on-site repo service. Is that better?
> There were plenty of attempts to make end users program things. LISP machines and ...

I would say Lisp-machines were designed for professional programmers not end-users. First of all they were so expensive that only Bill Gates could afford them :-)
Every bank has it's UPI app. And there are hundreds of banks in India.
I'm still hoping we can some day come up with some HTTP header that signals *I know what I'm doing, if you send me cookies I'll keep or discard them as I see fit".
that can't be true because nothing would stop them from taking a screencap and then photoshopping it over a different picture
So you think that anonymous feedback instead of direct feedback would improve that working relationship?
Use render cache.
I just now believe people like you will support without question any comment he makes. It's just the type of cult-like brainwashing that I'd expect. Who cares if he openly praises police brutality? He "publicly signals" something else!

Listen to yourself talk. He a 100% said Nazis are fine people, you were debunked. As Trump would say "You know it, I know it, everybody knows it!"
They can assess fees that are likely more than what you paid.
People’s feelings during Coronavirus pandemic
Exactly. This year, a bunch of iOS apps switched from one-and-done to subscription plans. If you want to re-monetize your app, the other option is selling it, I guess.
That question can't be answered because there's a binary blob on every modern smartphone that runs on the LTE modem hardware and has access to the device's memory and CPU.

Sooooo... Maybe?
Do you have any evidence for that?

The thread is about behavior caused by a presumably erroneous ".nomedia" file residing in certain users' screenshot folders.

The FLAG_SECURE feature doesn't appear to have anything to do with that. Two entirely separate things, unless you can show otherwise.
I think your math is off, if you gave a vaccine to 90+ percentage of people, say 300M, and killed 0.01% you’d be killing 30k people. This looks pretty attractive when your death toll is looking to rise to over 500k people. Eg if nothing changes until after January, 70 days , infection rate doubling every ~3 weeks, by then 300-400knew infections per day, lagging death rate of 5-6k per day, ~100k will die just in the 14 days of hard lock down assuming that happens day 1 of new president. Really hoping none of this happens and is just bad extrapolation but vaccine likely to save a lot of lives even with a 0.01% death rate.
Yeah, this is what I was thinking. I'm not so sure this phone is intended to scam gullible people, just to give people a plausible status symbol.
Hey thanks for the nice reply. I know you can't generalize like that. There are probably a lot friendly Haskellers around ;)

I was just angry when I wrote my last comment, because I had to read this:

>> as a special case of most people are idiots

which is so low in multiple ways. It's also just wrong, because by definition most people have average intelligence. Even if you think this is true, a smart person would not use it as an argument^^

It's on my todo-list to dive a bit into haskell, when I find time.
Oh, it's something I update very often and want to send emails/ask for feedback when I do. There's an article version of the top 15 acquisition channels available here though: https://entrepreneurshandbook.co/top-15-acquisition-channels...
Why not bill them by the day or week?
No, the phone is mine, it is a collateral for the loan. If I'm not paying, the court must acknowledge the fact before the lender has the right to private enforcement.
All them classified as Starship Enterprise[0]:

> Three decades later, the McQuarrie design for the Enterprise was adopted as the basis for the design of the USS Discovery in Star Trek: Discovery, a 2017 series that takes place ten years earlier than the original Star Trek.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Enterprise#Redesign_f...
DNS Resolving Bug in iOS 14
Do you see a difference between citizens pooling small donations to run ads vs a foreign state running a misinformation campaign to affect an election?
Charity is not a substitute for social justice.

My understanding of other people's experiences is not based on imagination. I've been there. I've seen it. Have you?
I stand corrected. What's the point of doing that?
Probably only in Antarctica. But that is not because the lines are straight.
I remember reading on XDA devs that Google's excuse was that this would not be implemented in the USA.

''Oh great, so Google only supports predatory practices in countries poorer than the US. Well then, dust off the Nobel Prize.''
Who the hell gets a loan to pay for a phone?
interesting. I was not aware of this. Thanks
Interview with Paul Biggar (video interview on moving Dark from OCaml to F#)
As long as this statement is true. They also dont's say who these big integrators are and the situation may be widely different between integrators and fields.
What bothers me is the constant hypocrisy of HN.

Encryption is good, private companies should be allowed to use encryption however they want, but them using encryption for DRM or SecureBoot is bad.

The market is right, except when it chooses DRM products or big slim smartphones with unchangeable battery and no headphone jack. Then it's bad.

What's the consumer damage done by Netflix having DRM? Where are the damaged consumers hiding?

BTW, circumventing encryption used in Signal is also illegal.
It's both. And even if the user knows what it is, the purpose is still to scam other gullible people (who may deserve it).
> The problem with these questions is not that they are necessarily hard to answer (often they are) but that people don't even know, that they need to be asked in the beginning.

Right. And what makes it even more problematic is that answers to these questions affect what answers are possible to other questions. So it is not the sum of the difficulties of the answer to each question but their product, the combinations of different possible answers.
Like "disable right click" on websites I really struggle to see how this is useful to Tesco in any way. It's trivial to bypass.

What's their threat model here?
They actually don't. You get that result only if you exclude non white people.

Overall, if you define working class or poor economically, they are more likely to vote for those things.
That works as well, the point is never to give a fixed price.
One benefit of blocking sideloading is that it prevents people who have brief access to your phone (border agents, police, etc.) from installing spyware apps on the phone. On iOS those people can extract your data as local backup, but they won't be able to install any unapproved apps that run in the background and that monitor you. On Android it's trivial to install spyware apps via sideloading and regular users most likely aren't able to detect or uninstall them.
There's Meld Merge but IMO Beyond Compare is better but it's also proprietary. Kdiff3 is also an option but the UI isn't great.
I mean sure, but technically you already have that choice. It's entirely up to you whether to keep, discard or modify cookies. Your user agent is doing a bad job of managing this for you.
> "Taking screenshots isn't allowed by the app or your organization."

To me that implies Android supports individual apps locking down your device so that you can't use certain features (like screenshots) while the app is open.
Try blogspot free hosting and then by a domain. Also then monetize it and donate the money
I think the issue is introducing a signal (particularly morse code) on a noise source that is typically steady state. I can pick it up pretty easily with just a bare UHF connector, no antenna.

Low risk overall but it's a good reminder.
> 4 years of Trump is what got Biden elected

Trump got 63 million votes in 2016. He got 7 million more in 2020. In the end, what decided the election is 3 votes every 100. The result is clear-cut: one wins, the other loses. But in reality what decided the election is a really tiny difference. Small enough for ads (from all sides) to have an effect on it, and really too small to say that anything has actually changed in the country.
Yes, Starling.
Ask HN: How to spend extra $10k on Google Cloud?
My startup received $10k Google Cloud credits that we have not been able to spend and they expire at the end of January 2021. What are the best options to spend those credits?

Here are some options I have thought about.

1. Sell the credits?

- May need to look into legalities.

- Where to sell such credits?

2. Donate the credits?

- Need to look into legalities.

- Where to donate the credits?

- Is there any tax advantage to this?

3. Lend the compute power?

- Is there a marketplace for this?
I used to use Alfred for these kind of workflows, for years. For opening apps, URLs, for triggering Python or bash scripts, and for searching files of course. It’s a wonderful app.

Until I started using Emacs seriously. Now I use Emacs for opening URLs, for triggering Google searches (and saving my searches via org-capture), for saving URLs via org-protocol and org-capture, for taking notes, for journaling, for task management (previously OmniFocus, then Things3), and for all kinds of workflows. It is the ideal application framework, with one of the most versatile programming languages I can think of (Lisp); it made me stop using Python for my day-to-day scripting (love Python!).

Emacs (and Lisp) is a tool for the next decades of my life.
Yes, not that long ago being a Disney Imagineer was like landing a job at FAANG for your resume. A decade of hollowing out their engineering department ended that but it's still a very respectable research house for robotics, logistics, UI/UX, and a few other topics.
Huhh? I mean, I wouldn't trust any porn site with app permissions, but how does that logic even make sense? The inevitable conclusion would be that Chrome should be banned as well, since I'm sure there's some sketchy corner of the internet with that crap available.
A future where google and banks deplatform you from real life. What time line is this. I was watching the creepy hunger games Biden acceptance speech yesterday, to loud cheers, in front of a parking lot of every third car being the same. And I was thinking, this is as fake as the distribution of digits in Biden's vote count.
Creating a Blog and Newsletter in under 2 min.[video]
Hello,

Lately, I've been in some conversations with people who want to start their online presence. It almost always fires up with starting a blog, a newsletter, a podcast, or a YouTube channel. Even though it now takes less and less time to jump-start your presence, people are almost always falling into the 'planning mode' of things, covering their initial fear with the perfectionists' blanket.

Also, I am not sure if this belongs in this particular section. Please let me know your thoughts.

Thank you!
Signal does not pretend that it will stop the other side from screenshotting your messages.
I certainly hope you'll forget about me. It's unhealthy to nurse grudges against random, online commenters.

Otherwise, all that building resentment will feed back into your insecurities, which will distort your sensitivity to criticism and magnify your next explosion.
But how could they’ve monetized? Would you still use it with ads inserted?
Clickbait title much. TL;DR?
Connected data: Using BigQuery to analyse user behaviour in response to webhooks
Next step, pacemakers.
I think ideally people should not borrow with the phone as collateral at all, since it is a necessity for modern life, rather only use their future income as security. Making repo more inefficient will disincentivize it. Are there any current phone-loans doing repo?
Money helps, but you can honestly deal with alot of bullshit when your own employeer has excellent management.
The thread describes a bug indeed, but the feature really exists.

Quoting the Android SDK reference : "FLAG_SECURE [...] Treat the content of the window as secure, preventing it from appearing in screenshots" [1]
Try to screenshot while in Chrome's incognito, you'll see it in action.

[1] https://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/WindowM...
I've been using ffmpeg's xgrid filter (similar to hstack and vstack, but allows for arbitrary grids) to produce virtual choir videos for my church choir during covid. Here's an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oeg9w8X6hrA.

A lot of people are producing virtual choir videos right now, but I suspect few use a process similar to mine. I use Audacity to edit the audio separately, then crop the input videos using a face-aware cropping script (which uses https://github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition), then generate a video grid using ffmpeg + xgrid.
Looks nice.
If you will update this collection and clean up all outdated info of course.
Author of the post here, in case anyone has any questions!
Here's my compromise position.

Because of what Trump has done regarding Yemen he is a war criminal who deserves to be in prison for the rest of his life.

Also, he never once said Nazis are fine people.
Google is probably able to do that and also your phone’s manufacturer. Your SIM provier and some three-letter-agencies may also be able to do that, by exploiting weaknesses in the firmware.
ADHD is spectacularly badly named. You can have it and be the opposite of hyperactive! You can be too attentive! It’s being able to control your attention that’s the problem.
Is California a foreign state to Kentucky? What about citizens loyal to a foreign state or its ideals?
Of course they seek to satirize the new thing that makes them irrelevant. I spend most of my time learning from the new media, not the old.
Madvillainy is life tho.
Well, I never head of that plan before, but if it is a peace plan, it is one that gives thought to the ethnicity of occupation troops.
When you have occupation troops, you not always have peace, last time I checked.
Because I'm borrowing from the lender to buy from the seller. The fact that they are the same entity is not significant.
Show HN: Executable Semantics of Tcpdump
Make it open source.
In this particular case, the payment provider (Safaricom) is also the one imposing the device lock. They could permit their own payment while blocking other payments, giving themselves defacto priority.
In my experience, how good of a time you’ll have developing in Nix is incredibly tied to what you program in. Last time I tried Ruby was a real nightmare, and I never did manage to get Ruby on Rails to work correctly.
It's not really Neapolitan, it's Italian plain and simple.
Austria is basically the German-speaking part of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. It was even briefly called the "Republic of German-Austria" after the empire's dissolution in 1918: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_German-Austria