skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of this is just trying to decide what is best for other people, though; whenever we've managed to make it easy for people to quickly jailbreak their devices, we got a very large number of users installing complex system modifications so they can get something as inane as wallpaper or themed icons. People who don't know how to jailbreak their devices themselves see their friends phones and ask them for help or even bring their phone to phone repair shops to get them jailbroken and customized (in the same manner that you don't have to be a mechanic to modify your car: you simply need to have the money to pay a body shop for whatever you want; I gave a TEDx talk on this topic a while back called "Even Software Should Have Screws" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReKCp9K_Jqw). Honestly, I am not sure if I've ever heard an "end user" ask to be prevented from doing something they actually wanted to do... the only people who seem to have that particular kink are developers attempting to justify the bondage and control ecosystem they are a part of maintaining; everyone else either finds out after it is too late, had to accept it for some other reasonable (but entirely unrelated) tradeoff such as "I wanted a phone with a good camera and both of the top options from Apple/Samsung were locked down", or are "stuck" due to ecosystem lock-in and networking effects (it doesn't just cost you a new phone to escape the jail you are in: you will have to re-purchase all of the software you already own and even lose access entirely to some unique services... and again, all of this is entirely unrelated to the actual issue in question).
I’ve been using it for a little bit during the beta, by adding to my email signature. Although there can sometimes be a hurdle to get people to provide feedback (good or constructive), I have had some come in. I’m guessing that different groups are already tuned in to giving / receiving individualized feedback, and also imagine that the population will only go up over time.
Then he pretty much got canceled a short while back due to his creepy penchant for young boys.
It's a soft deterrent based on effort (to create individual topics) currently - and will be made tougher when the private beta ends because there's likely a pricing/cost impact tied to topics. Have yet to see anyone attempt this, and it is against the general ethos - so it's a situation that would get more actively discouraged if it actually started to happen. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on it.
Interesting, but also kind of propagandistic and it definitely doesn't take anywhere near that much time and money. In reality you need two generations of fruit: a first generation where you plant 1,000+ trees with good ancestry, and then a second generation where you make sure your selections do well when grafted, stay true to form, and thrive under a variety of different conditions and microclimates. This really takes at most a few hundred thousand dollars and maybe 15 years, the only reason this specific variety cost so much to create is that they were trying to do the biggest rollout of all time for a huge commercial crop.

And don't get me wrong, Cosmic Crisp is fine. But I don't think they're any better than Snap Dragon, which probably cost well under a million dollars to create. All in all, if you have a house with some land then you can basically do this in your back yard for almost no money if you're so inclined.
Observations from listening and producing 350 startup podcasts
After listening to over 100 Nathan Latka Podcasts, observing 200 Indiehacker podcasts and watching 50 Microconf talks AND recording 80 episodes myself. Here's what I've observed.
None. As Australians, we already see that government at both State and Federal levels will not be removing all restrictions and in all likelihood, we will see new restriction occurring as an ongoing feature of life here. Though they are a large annoyance, face masks do have one redeeming feature, they will slow down any facial recognition systems that were planned.

Mind you, in speaking to my GP, he did say that the incidence of flu had been reduced from about 80% of his patients to less than 20% of his patients with the implementation of face masks and that those 20% were required to have Covid-19 testing before seeing the GP. Many had recovered by the time they did get to see their GP.
The microcontroller gathered data and pushed it out the I2C interface once every second.
That would be unfair on you
Mine was: step 1: which number is never shown after others? it must be first. now which number is never shown except after that one? etc. so it took about 30 seconds in my head.
The trouble is I spent fifteen minutes before this in an absolute rage at how OP, and then with commenters here backing him up, seemed to be answering something different to what the question asked because I can't read "determine the shortest possible secret passcode of unknown length" anything other than a weird way of asking "what is the minimum length". My mind just locked in to my wrong understanding.
I think my problem solving was better than the people spinning up elaborate code, but it seems at the cost of lateral thinking needed for "problem understanding".

please note that several of the commenters today are accounts created just to praise OP
This feels like watch manufacturers going quartz in the 70's. Electric sports cars will lose all differentiation. True luxury will remain gas powered.
HRVs have been designed to exchange heat, and ERVs to exchange heat and moisture, but have either specifically been designed not to exchange virus particles? One wouldn't want to make any assumptions...
The US is not following or promoting any of them.

At the individual level the whole idea of wearing masks is politicized.

At the business level, businesses (and their employees) who should be reducing capacity based on regulations, for example, are not doing so because there is no government support.

At the public health level maany states are still engaged in keeping the numbers down as opposed to finding everyone.
This is bad news. I think a lot of businesses are suspicious of LE and itching for valid reasons to keep the status quo of paying for certs, and well... here's one. I've been pushing internally for my business to use LE certs, but maybe I'll stop, since we still have users on Android 5.1.1-7.0.

I wonder if this is something Google could fix in Chrome without needing an OS update. They are apparently a major LE sponsor.
It is trivial to create an app using encryption to send messages between two users. On Android you can sideload so no need for app store.

You can also solve this with a webpage, this way it can be used on all devices.

The point is that creating a secure channel few users use is pretty trivial unless you outlaw crypto libraries. These laws can only take down apps/websites in mainstream use.
Can you recommend any good books or resources that give explanations at a similar level to this, ideally with a hint of data science and ML thrown in?
"China exact same things were happening here in the West"

No, there's really no comparison.

A justice system, with reasonable information to infer a crime, seeking a warrant, using rules and regulations that have integrity, oversight, sanctioned by a Judge, following specific rules of access with certain, proportional criteria - is nothing like 'China'.

In fact, we are already subject to that, everywhere in Europe, just not your messaging apps.

It is not totalitarian whatsoever - there is just the risk of totalitarianism creeping in. A risk, which quite frankly is overstated. There is almost zero material harm that comes to innocent individuals as a result of these policies in states with lawful civic infrastructure. There can be, but it's rare and again, the 'problem' is more expansive and that an authoritarian takes power and uses the system for unlawful purposes.

China does not have an independent legal system, or much concern for human rights. The CCP uses these things to censor every day speech on a variety of topics - even for the most innocuous things like comparing Xi to 'Winnie the Pooh' let alone for discussing things like Tibet, Hong Kong, or Taiwan privately.

The CPP uses these controls as an 'total and complete information and thought control system' that interjects into every aspect of life. If you talk bad about Xi on your 'chat'- that will literally go on your file. It could affect your credit, promotional opportunities, how the justice system treats you etc..

They have successfully suppressed and controlled dialogue on a variety of issues - this system is frankly the CCP's most powerful means of control, far more so than anything physical like the 'police' or the 'army'.

Western governments want to use it to go after people making bombs, sex traffickers, and tax evaders. There is no chance that the German government is going to send police to your house because you said 'Angela Merkel is a clown and needs to go!' to your buddy on WeChat. There is a chance some future government could to it, for the wrong reasons, and that's cause for come concern, but it's not pragmaticaly the issue.
You know I'm not sure I'd pick the Model F as the keyboard I'd want on my desk, simply because of the non-standard layout.
The adjective form of Democrat is Democratic. Perhaps as a German the author is unaware that usages like "all the democrat votes are ignored" are repeating the Republicans' deliberately insulting word choice.

Edit: thanks to currymj below for the link to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_Party_(epithet)
If I were in that situation I would look to develop a career around the craft of programming rather than money.

So I’d look to work somewhere they are engineering driven and here is opportunity to work on really technically interesting work.

By having your own money salary is a non issue. If the interesting job is 20k Euros in Berlin or even equity only then you could do it.

Another thing I’d consider is to do a PhD.
That's good. I'm thinking more about 1-on-1 support rep or sales rep interactions though. If the rep only has a handful of those per day, I think they would be able to tell.

I think a simple "hold feedback from me until increment.me has collected x responses" would address that. So for example, I'd get a dump of 5 responses at a time instead of getting them as soon as they are written if I choose x=5.

It sounds like this works for getting anonymous feedback from groups of people though, which sounds like a decent addressable market.

I have no reason to collect feedback at the moment, but I could see myself paying $4/month for this if I ran a small business.
At least with heat recovery ventilators, the air streams do not mix at all. Unless the virus finds a way to penetrate the metal fins of the heat exchanger, it should be completely fine.
same with the Withings scale that suddenly disabled the Pulse Wave Velocity measurement (which was the only reason to buy the thing)
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How good is your context of Libya and how it effected Syria?
There is a project to get new ones made. I've met the dude behind it at a few keyboard meetups around NYC. I guess they are finally shipping! An absolutely herculean effort on his part.

https://www.modelfkeyboards.com
I understand that concept somewhat, however, I think that most of the people in western cultures are moving past this. The materialistic part. Most would not care about clothes or the phone you own. What matters is personality and what you believe in. For example, you have an old phone because you're conscious of the environment. Or, you buy second-hand clothes because the shop donates money to some good cause.

The issue of using fake merch to show-off your status is that others will eventually catch up. Once every second person will have a fake expensive-looking phone, for example, it will lose its meaning. The rich and successful will find other ways to differentiate themselves. And I don't believe that owning a fake phone is going to make you successful. Being successful is a mindset.
Nigeria's twin town ponders cause of multiple births
> Charitable organizations, churches, help from family

Those "solutions" are as old as the problem.

They didn't work.

> I can't think of anything we can possibly do except point guns at not-poor people, take their money, and give it to poor people.

The gun pointing happens as a last resort, not first.

What you are telling me is that we should just wait around for the greediest people in the world to charitably give enough back.

That's just not going to happen. We all know it.

So what you are telling me is that we should just continue the status quo, because doing something about it is technically immoral.

Meanwhile, the wealthiest 50 Americans collect as much wealth as the poorest 165 million.

Tens of millions of Americans are in poverty[1]. Is that not immoral?

Approximately 14.3 million households had difficulty providing enough food for all their members due to a lack of resources[1]. Is that not immoral?

You are so obsessed with the threat to inconvenience people who have more wealth than you will ever see that you are willing to keep millions in poverty. Get off your high horse. Children are starving.

[1] https://www.povertyusa.org/facts
Not in the given example, but one can make a case that console makers behave the same way Apple does regarding their closed platforms.
I would think rather the difference is that it allows the Play Store itself not to contain any apps that market themselves as being about porn. Sure, you can use them for that purpose, but someone searching the Play Store will not be able to get to a store page that is pornographic or explicitly intended for pornography.
An app can receive a notification when a screenshot has been taken, so it could theoretically edit the last image saved to Photos.

https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/93362

However, I'm not really sure that would work, since I don't think that would be able to bypass iOS prompting you to give that app access to your photo library.

There's a third-party "ScreenShieldKit" which claims to be able to do this:

https://screenshieldkit.com

So, apparently it's technically possible to block this, but AFAIK, Apple doesn't provide an equivalent to Android's FLAG_SECURE ("treat the content of the window as secure, preventing it from appearing in screenshots or from being viewed on non-secure displays").

DRM-protected video can't be recorded (or screenshotted) in iOS, but as another comment noted, that seems to be a video-specific thing.
I think what you are alluding to is the key, life has gotten so good that people get into extreme loss aversion. In my opinion the key to a decent life is to take calculated risks and if that goes wrong, then oh well that was unlucky.

There are a lot of risky things we do all day anyway, like driving any car or walking close to road. Those things are still incredibly safe.
2020 may not be safer than 2015, but 2010-2020 is safer than 2000-2010. You might be able to find a recent 10 year period that beats the exact past 10 years by a slim margin.

On any scale between a human lifespan and the whole of human history, now is a pretty safe time to be alive.
Well, not directly, for most people that would be via Apple/Google stores.

And of course these stores could have secret functionality for shipping targeted updates.

But if it exists, this means that 1) none of the developers working on the store backend decided to leak info about it and 2) none of the targets have had an expert look at their device to find an unusual update that wasn't seen by anyone else.

Over time, the probability of either of those things happening would be going up…
This 2012 article seems to be a good overview:

https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a15117726/faking-it-en...

At that time, Porsche, VW, BMW, Ford, and Lexus had various types of system to enhance engine noise.

It seems Porsche and Ford channeled the real sound through mechanically. VW started off doing that but then switched to an electronic system called Soundaktor. Lexus hired Yamaha to do an electronic system. BMW did it electronically.

Things may have changed since then. The article makes it sound like Lexus did it before BMW. And probably VW too, although that's less clear.
That was his point, right? A yo-train is just an array of increasing timestamps tied to the sender and the recipient:

{
to: 12,
from: 15,
messages: [
1604885969953,
1604885969964,
1604885969973,
...
]
}

The message is "factored out" and contains no information since it's the same every time.
An interesting quirk of history is that regardless of tax rates the elite tend to put a fairly consistent percentage of wealth back into social causes over time. Leaving giant tips was how the industrialists competed.
Side note: case numbers are dropping fast right now in the Netherlands. [1]

[1] https://stichting-nice.nl
https://medicine.yale.edu/news/yale-medicine-magazine/whats-... : White yams, a staple of the diet of the Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria, may play a role in the society’s high incidence of fraternal twinning, according to a student’s research. “You see families consuming yams three or four times a day,” said Obinwanne Ugwonali, M.D. ’99, whose thesis on the link between yams and fertility was one of five to garner awards this year on Student Research Day. “I think this project will lead us to understanding more about the mechanisms of the human reproductive system, specifically the reason why we are typically monotocous rather than polytocous like other animals,” he said.

Ugwonali’s adviser, Frederick Naftolin, M.D., professor and chair of obstetrics and gynecology, said the research is the cornerstone of a group of related studies of yam intake and genetic predisposition to multiple births now under way at Yale and Harvard and in Nigeria. In addition to the biological and anthropological aspects, the study has medical applications, Naftolin said. “We don’t know why normally monotocous women become polytocous, but multiple pregnancy is the most common cause of prematurity, which is the major cause of perinatal morbidity and mortality,” he said.[..]
Gnarly!! And ty for the source elsethread. Fascinating stuff. Sounds like a no-good empire! Not a fan.
Of course it would: It's coherent light!

[But seriously, the green light of a standard green laser pointer is generated from the non-linear interaction of pairs of 1064nm photons.]
At least no one brought up Russians this time.
So sad knowing the patient will always revert back to his original state.
State and Data Flow in SwiftUI
apples for market have other criteria like storability and colour etc.

now that we have robots for harvesting in apple orchards, standardisation and timing and everything is going to be dependent on specific trait breeding.
This even has a SF book written about it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradyzja

A writer from Earth visits a space station in another solar system called "Paradise". The space station is ruled by a tatalitary regime on the grounds of safety of the inhabitants as the plannet they originally went to settle truned out to be uninhabitable.

As a results the space station inhabitants live in cramped conditions in rooms with glass walls with no privacy and a computer system analyses their every word for signs of dissent. If some digression is detected, the system automatically lowers social score of the ofeending person.

Lower score means less priviledges and a shitty job and the lowest score means forced labor in dangerous mines on the planet surface "for the good of all". Sometimes people survive that and come back though.

So what have ortinary citizens devised to combat this opressive nightmare ? Steganographic peoetry! It even has its own page on the Wikipedia:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koalang

Due to the shear amount of material the spzing is done bz computers, so people speak a combonation of metaphors and poetry in a way that can convey meaning to the other party but not to the machine listening in. Its not that easy though, as the spy system is self learning, so one has to continually adjust and not repeate the same methapors ot the computer might get the meaning.

Still the question is - why are they doing this ? Its almost as if the opressive regime ruling the station was not telling the truth and was working hard to cover something very fundametal up about the Paradise station...

We had this book on our highschool reading list and it left quite an impression.
Not to mention TSX instructions have been broken in one way or another since their introduction, and now have been removed entirely in new intel silicon.
> use banking apps

Coming from a country where at some point the only way to have internet banking was to install an impossible-to-uninstall rootkit in my own machine that fucked up accessibility, messed up Steam and made it impossible for me from using competitors (because other banks needed incompatible rootkits), iOS being the way it is makes a lot of sense.

I once had to spend a whole weekend untangling the mess made by one of these rootkits in my father's computer. I remember it screwed with his ability to use third-party USB digital signing dongles, which he needed for his company to operate. The bank's rootkit basically prevented him from conducting business, and since he needed both bank and emitting digital receipts, the only solution was creating another partition.

I'm not even expecting security at this point, I just want to use the damn thing without some asshole bank developer ruining it forever (or until I reformat the machine).
Plausible deniability though – who said you can't have a hobby of intentionally making up nonsense texts, sending them to friends to laugh at?

(Of course the public existence of software that does this could definitely make that excuse less convincing.)
Everything is going to the shitter. Are any real cars going to be available beyond 2030?
> Nobody — neither a thief, nor a legitimate owner, nor the manufacturer can open them. The only option to reclaim the contents is to very slowly and with a great effort to cut them using serious industrial machines.

The analogy fails if there's no way of "cutting open" a gadget/cellphone/PC to regain control of it. The bank is perfectly capable of recovering the contents of the safe, even after a destructive failsafe, they just pay someone and wait a day.
Western Europe is still incredibly safe, and in my quick overview safer than eastern Europe:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...

My home country is Norway, it looks safer than all of Eastern Europe, sometimes by an order of magnitude.
What's a computer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI-iJcC9JUc&t=55
> though I will be overjoyed once GNU/Linux on phones reaches enough maturity to replace Android

You do realize that Android does run the Linux kernel, and generally has GNU coreutils available, right?
Once a boot is sufficient, there is no need to complicate too much.
The emails under discussion were on Hilary Clinton's personal email server, and had been deleted. So the two questions you should ask are:

1) How would a hack, initiated after Trump's statement, find those emails - even in principle?

2) Even if we posit that such a hack was requested, how does that transmute into a request to "hack the Democrats"?