skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How can I best secure an Android phone?
I'm a long-time iPhone user who has just ordered a Pixel 4a. I've always appreciated that iPhones are "secure by default" (more or less) and I want to replicate that, if possible, on Android. Are there any defaults that I must change, or any dumb settings that put one at risk? I'm having trouble finding up-to-date Android security recommendations from competent sources, that are not just security theater...

Thanks!
VeraCrypt is what most moved to iirc.

I still actually wonder what actually happened to TrueCrypt. Did a dev get threatened with a NSA or FBI NSL? Did they get asked to implant a bug so they shut it down instead? So many questions.
https://youtu.be/8ZNjUiP0p6I

Video by Brendan O'Connell showing how Intel is infiltrated and compromised. He would be considered fringe, but there's plenty of info to be gleamed. Don't shoot the messenger
1) It is legal. The whole point of Quebec wanting to change the constitution is to make it illegal. If it were already illegal, there would be no point in making it illegal again.

2) It is up to the citizens of Canada to vote for laws that serves them better, and they have voted for federal politicians who created, expanded and maintained laws such as Canada Health Act (CHA). The democratic voice in federal election is no less democratic than the provincial election.

2) I don't think any provinces would have created reciprocal systems. Case in point:

CHA mandates reciprocity for the services provided under CHA. That is to say, if you are an Ontario resident and you get into an accident in BC and have to go to the hospital, you would not have to pay for the stay. Most provinces offer extra services that are not mandated by CHA. For example, prescription drug coverage and ambulance services. Since these services are not under CHA, there is no obligation for their reciprocity. Lo and behold, none of the provinces reciprocate these services. It is strongly recommended to purchase travel insurance for out of province travels for this very reason—a call in another province may cost you 1000's or 10's of thousands of dollars. Considering that the provinces are doing the very bare minimum they are legally obligated to do by the federal government in terms of reciprocity, I do not believe we would have gotten any reciprocity at all without the federal mandate. Also, Alberta would most probably have US-style healthcare system with US-level prices.
Simple Search is a browser extension that gives you Google circa 2010
I like the idea but why can I only draw horizontally?
AMD looks ahead to Zen 4 and RDNA 3
In my head it's always been "dang" as in rhymes with "clang". dan+g is just the etymology.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22767296
A script to use a smartphone (or any audio stream) as microphone on Linux
There are a lot of people, some that I know in person, who live in a fantasy of surviving on their own. I've tried, through casual conversation, to get them to understand that you want to build a community around you for mutual benefit. From what I've seen it comes down to a few different things.

1. Some people have trust issues, possibly to a clinical level. They don't trust their neighbors to not be zombies etc knocking at the door to take their stuff. Ironically, when you spread awareness of preparatory issues through community building, you reduce the chance of that happening.

2. Some people are overly focused on one or two particular scenarios and 'optimize' their and preparations on those scenarios. E.g. A real-life neighbor has CBRN gear, firearms, and food but doesn't have a chainsaw or basic hand tools.

Like most stereotypes, the lone preppper has some truth associated with it. It really comes down to definitions. I'm not prepared for TEOTWAWKI by any means, but if I lose my job, or we get hit with a hurricane, or my car dies, or my house burns down, I've got reasonable contingency plans for those. Am I a prepper?
I was going to say it's probably CA state route 95, but I looked it up and found there actually isn't a CA state route 95.

US 101 & CA 92 and US 101 & CA 85 are plausible intersections if OP wrote a typo.
There is another article on the front page of HN right now about Google Photos' unlimited storage being shut down.
To be clear the 'high quality' is still unlimited. Only the 'original quality' will be quotaed.
Systems Design Interview: An Insiders Guide Book Review
I'm not seeing this on ios or android
You should read the link I posted (I wrote it).

Ableton's scheduling could be quibbled with, but it's better than the kernel can do.

Ps. I'm the original author of Ardour, a cross-platform DAW. We use a different model than Ableton for scheduling, but not that different. We run N threads (based on a user preference for how many cores to use) and they pull signal paths from a pool, process them, and go back for more. The result is "1 thread per signal path".
I was amazed how SODIS could help you in actual disaster-like situation and how effective it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_water_disinfection

Assuming you have access to transparent PET bottles and sunlight water filtration is basically solved.
Absolutely! In this sense you are absolutely right, but a reader who knows how to construct such tuples (i.e. fill in the blanks in the article) also in all likelihood knows the content of the article. And I bet readers who don't know that already, will not realize that those are the sets the author means.

After stumbling across the author's twitter where he already complains that people are "being mean on HN", and seeing his responses there, I have some serious doubts about whether he is fit to be teaching people mathematics. I honestly applaud him for writing the article, and don't hold the math mistake against him at all. But the incredible defensiveness when confronted with a small mistake is absurd.
But surveillance can hurt productivity, too. YouTube, for example, is really good at predicting which videos I will find interesting, and I end up wasting a lot of time. When I started using Invidious, which doesn’t track your watch history, I wasted far less time.
If it's really life saving, break the lock and/or door.

You're right - locks are generally meant to keep out less committed thieves, but lock-picking is hard for the average person. It takes a lot of practice, good light, and a steady hand.

Picking a lock in an emergency situation seems impractical when you can just wrench the mechanism open.
It's not about "catering to"; it's about not omitting.

And for someone who has listened to, donated to, and loved NPR as a source of neutral (if a bit left-leaning) news and commentary for decades, it's a very disheartening development. All of our reasonably neutral information sources are going away, and we're left to sift through what's left for ourselves.
How many deaths has this genocide produced?

All the information on this comes from just a few American sources
CATIA only supports specific workstation configurations. It can be run on unsupported workstations just fine, but you may hit a brick wall with Dassault Systèmes support, which is like half of what your paying for with the maintenance fees.
As long as they support LLVM it shouldn't it be mostly painless?
Utah has some good resources and is actively pushing preparedness to its citizens.

http://bereadyutah.gov

https://twitter.com/BeReadyUtah

I wonder how much the focus preparedness in that state is due to the Mormon majority and their emphasis of the topic.

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topi...
What do you mean by McKinseying? Sorry English is not my first language. Nothing showed up on Google either.
> Obviously, there are plenty of theists, Christian or otherwise, who don't believe this to be a fatal argument

Well, of course there are. We humans are flawed and will ignore what we don't like if that helps us believe we're right. This isn't a proof of truth, but of bias.

A religion course spending a long time trying to answer naturally a supernatural question is another proof of the great effort put into rationalizing fantastical beings. I doubt the question was answered satisfyingly, but even if it was, the next question is answering how Jehovah negotiates with the gods of other religions so humans keep their free will.

Edit: downvote instead of reply, that's precisely was I'm talking about.
I use a number of dependencies.

Most, I wrote, myself, maintain on GitHub, and include as Swift Package Manager dependencies. I write in a modular, layered fashion, and try to fork off as many components as possible into standalone projects.

I'm very, very careful about including third-party dependencies. I think that these are the only ones that I use, throughout my projects:

SOAPEngine (Paid)
ffmpeg
VLCLib
SwiftKeychain

The first, I downloaded and installed directly into my repo (no live link), the two video libs, I use Carthage to include from their home repos, and the last, SPM (also from the home repo). No real registries. I am not a fan of CocoaPods. I use Homebrew for some dev utils on my computer, but the above list is what ships.

I may have one more, somewhere, but I can't remember, and I'm too lazy to look. We can rest assured that it was not lightly added.
The Pfizer-Biontech Vaccine May Be a Lot More Effective Than You Think
Definitely not with ads, sorry if it came across like that. I meant that Google Photos (as a product) already got me to stay logged in to my Google account. So it can be a driver for Google account usage. The sharing features may be useful to get other people to sign up for Google (and Google storage for other things).

I used to run a free site that had a lot of users, and I mostly kept it up and running because I placed ads for my other (paid) SaaS services on it, and it converted like crazy. So my ideal scenario for Google would be to have a few of those launching pad products, where they show we can trust them on their word (and with our data), and that makes me want to invest more in the wider brand (buy a Pixel phone, get Google Home devices, Chromecast, etc.)
There is work on making proofs portable from one system to another. One effort is Dedukti, which is based on the idea that "lambda pi modulo" is a universal logic for theorem provers. A less ambitious effort is OpenTheory, which from what I can tell is mostly about being able to interoperate between different HOL flavors.

And one of the efforts I personally find most interesting is Metamath Zero, which attempts to be an interchange format among other things, with connections to HOL and Lean. See section 5 of: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.10703

I think there are many provers which theoretically could be used for this effort, and am not convinced Lean is the absolute best, but I applaud the community for actually going ahead and doing it, instead of farting around with tools and hoping the library will magically happen (a valid critique of HoTT in my opinion).
Anyone who starts a counter with 'Let me guess, you're a...' has already lost the argument and is lashing out, grey them out.
Meanwhile, we've had residential 10Gbps fiber available since 2015 here in Chattanooga, TN - $299/month (no additional fees or taxes) with no contract.
to put this in context, there are alternate code alignments to the genetic "blob".

gene products undergo post transcriptional modification, and post translation al modifications, here among other things the garbage code of alternate reading frames are nullified so the present reading frame product is functional.

this is a mechanism of variability, it may just be due to random chance thermokinetic effect or biochemical environment that causes the machinery to "skip a tooth on a cog"

this _can_ produce the appearance of a new viral character, due to altered symptomology or reproductive dynamics

the crux is that one particular code sequence can have different outcomes by chance alone, and produce effects not previously observed.

and now i will throw this on the table:

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-find-mysterious-gene...
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So why is the title 'Snood Bloober' when the project is 'Snark Barker' ?
Good point about China, when you look at the Rules for Rulers, Xi is masterfully keeping all the key holders to the kingdom satisfied, and there is very little possible to undermine that.
BMW unveils iNEXT electric SUV, becomes ‘BMW iX’ with over 300 miles of range
Sure, but I don’t have time to read the EULAs that come with the stuff I buy as it stands, and that’s arguably easier to read and shorter than it would be to read all of the source for a service that I want to use. Not only that, but to be fully confident, you would need to review the source code after every single update.

As an example, OpenSSL is open source and widely used, yet even they missed heartbleed.
That’s not really what I’d call a “WWDC talk”, but sure, it mentions that Apple won’t provide Boot Camp, and that they are running their OS demos using virtualization. I didn’t see a claim that they won’t let you reduce the boot security.
I have what I feel is an irrational desire to build an RPi k8s cluster. I feel like I would be better served by a small x86 box, but something about having a real cluster really appeals to me.
Show HN: A curated list of resources to help you beat procrastination
If SARS had turn pamdemic... damn. I don't think I realized how bad that would have been. Still can't.
I've used
http://www.gedanken.org.uk/software/wwwoffle/
a long time ago (when on modem).

What I'd like is to cache the history for each page too (important for news pages).
I am actually very much in favor of paying for what I use.

Truth is that upfront payment for storage and convenience is a much more sustainable model than subsidizing this through spyware and other services. Also given the amount of storage needed his seems pretty inevitable.
One of the most famous Onryos: Sugawara no Michizane.

From the Wikipedia article:

> Within the abdication of Emperor Uda, Michizane's position became increasingly vulnerable. In 901, through the political maneuverings of his rival, Fujiwara no Tokihira, Michizane was demoted from his aristocratic rank of junior second to a minor official post at Dazaifu, in Kyūshū's Chikuzen Province, and died in exile. After Michizane's death, plague and drought spread and sons of Emperor Daigo died in succession. The Imperial Palace's Great Audience Hall (shishinden) was struck repeatedly by lightning, and the city experienced weeks of rainstorms and floods. Attributing this to the angry spirit of the exiled Sugawara, the imperial court built a Shinto shrine called Kitano Tenman-gū in Kyoto, and dedicated it to him. They posthumously restored his title and office, and struck from the record any mention of his exile. Even this was not enough, and 70 years later Sugawara was deified as Tenjin-sama, a god of sky and storms. Eventually Tenjin evolved into a benign kami of scholarship. Today many Shinto shrines in Japan are dedicated to him. He became the most notable example of an interesting spiritual transformation: a vengeful Japanese spirit, onryō, is a violent ghost, usually a former aristocrat who was wrongfully killed, and consequently seeking revenge. When well supplicated, however, onryō spirits may willingly convert to goryō, benevolent spirits who can be powerful allies.

That's a lot of coincidence.
Like I said in an earlier comment, comparisons between polls and a model aren't completely fair. Part of the model's calculation is that 8.8 points or whatever requires an enormous polling error to swing for trump. I do agree that other polls should get criticism/improve their methodologies to avoid the ~5 point margin in FL, or the 7.7 margin you listed. And, I even think that they may not get as much criticism as their errors warrant because many of these states were off by 6+ points but still went for Biden. Still, Trafalgar has a unique methodology that should be understood better before they are extolled as the "best pollster". And, Trafalgar is not immune to similar polling errors, just in the other direction, and with a wrong result. The delta may be more important from a statistical methodology standpoint, but these polls are measuring winner take all states, and "The Trafalgar Group’s Robert Cahaly is an outlier among pollsters in that he thinks President Trump will carry Michigan, Pennsylvania, or both, and hence be reelected with roughly 280 electoral votes" is a pretty poor prediction based on their data. Does this mean that their data is necessarily poor? No, but it isn't a good sign.
The first two problems would be easily prevented by keeping your firearms in a safe. If you're worried about arguments with your spouse becoming fatal, please talk to a counselor ASAP.

As for negligent discharges, which are probably the most legitimate concern, you should always follow the four rules of gun safety:

1. Treat all guns as if they are always loaded.

2. Never let the muzzle point at anything that you are not willing to destroy.

3. Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on target and you have made the decision to shoot.

4. Be sure of your target and what is behind it.

In my experience, these are hammered into civilian students who take firearm training classes, but soldiers in the military often haven't heard of the four rules and generally are far more casual with their guns than civilians.
You can say this about anything of public concern. We have had TVs in nearly every home for multiple generations. Expecting TV to be anything but a funhouse mirror is similar to expecting people to stop stealing.

The nutters are real - I have one in my family. At some level, this is just arguing about fringe enthusiasts lacking professional PR agents.
why would anyone want this? you lose literally every benefit of Google Photos.
I used to work on Google Fiber. It still makes me sad that it essentially has been abandoned (to the point that it almost certainly won't expand beyond the current cities).

Eric Schmidt liked to say that more revenue is the solution to all problems at a company (give or take). I think Fiber is proof that that isn't strictly true.

High capex projects like this demand fiscal discipline. They demand the ability to plan, cost and estimate how long things will take. Fiscal discipline just isn't in Google's DNA. This is unsurprising given how insanely profitable AdWords is.

I also describe something like running an ISP as a hyperlocal national business. Think of these issues:

- Can you string up lines on poles?

- If so, who owns the poles?

- How do you get permissions to string things up?

- How can competitors delay and hinder that process (believe me, they do)?

- Do you dig trenches?

- What's the soil composition? I can tell you that digging trenches doesn't work well when there's a ton of small limestone rocks in the soil.

- Do you employ some form of micro/nano-trenching?

- Etc

And all of these issues vary from region to region, city to city and even within a city. The entrenched players have become very good at navigating this process, impeding competitors and capturing regulators and legislators through exclusive agreements, lobbying, protective legislation and so forth.

How Congress, the DOJ and the FTC continues to completely ignore what a shit show broadband is in the US is beyond me.
Why did they feel good?

I was in the middle of a lengthy move in March/April. Ended up at my new destination at the height of the panic buying/supply chain disruptions with nothing in my pantry and a single roll of paper towel. Literally as unprepared as possible.

Needless to say, I managed to stay alive... I completely stocked a new pantry with no problems, except flour and yeast, which was easy enough to find after a week or two of calling around. I did use paper towel as toilet paper for a whole week. Completely. Disastrous, let me tell you :) I did have masks that I use for wood working, so that was nice, but cutting up a shirt wouldn't have been the end of the world. And I did buy the very last thing of hand sanitizer at the store, so that was lucky, but in a pinch my 2 bottles of cheap tequila would've done the trick.

Tbh if I had spent years prepping for a pandemic I'd be pretty disappointed with how this one went down... afaict zero prepping was necessary.
you guys watch TV?
If only the author knew of all the free furniture being given away in the bay area. Back in 2017 I furnished my whole apartment with only free furniture in just a few weeks. Facebook groups like "Buy Nothing SF" are littered with free beds, chairs, couches.
Similar for me, Google never ended up coming through, but just having 'started talks' with the local authorities caused CenturyLink and Comcast to both roll out gigabit connections magically.
It works well with youtube. Why not do the same for software? Advertisement is obviously not an option but one could easily ask companies to pay a few k$ a year for professional access. Then just take 30% or so as the platform and redistribute the rest among the uploaders.
I remember that button, too, but I think it had more to do with connection charges than caching.

In Netscape days, many people would have to pay by the minute to be connected to the internet. In those days, web pages generally contained far more information than they do now, and were less interactive. So you'd connect, load the content you wanted to see, disconnect, and then just sit there and read it for free, instead of bleeding cash.
It's not a great solution because it confuses the people who notice. The problem is that it's even more confusing if we re-up posts that say "3 days ago" or whatever onto the front page. Then the threads fill up with "why is this 3 days ago post on the front page"?

Another option would be to clone the old submission into a new one, but then we get more dupes. And I don't know of any viable fourth option.
How many preppers have you seen, as opposed to videos about preppers?
First Hyperloop passenger ride takes place on BIG-designed Pegasus pod
Chronic Condition will give you a mental illness was original point.

The fear of such a condition or death can also create tremendous amount of anxiety.
Because it would be foolish to rule out ideas unnecessarily? Let's keep our options open.
This article ignores the fact that for many languages, the package repository is maintained as free software by volunteers (sometimes with funding from a foundation). This includes Perl, Python, Ruby, Rust, and many others.

NPM is the odd one out, really. I don't think letting one company control a language ecosystem's single package registry is a great idea, for all the reasons that the author notes!
You should see if you can pay for an unlimited data option. Comcast had a $50/month add-on that would remove all data caps, and saved me a TON of money.
that is literally a login screen (automatically redirected to https://trendlab.io/auth/login/?next=/discovery/)
"Despite family therapy, friction continued once he identified as a lesbian."

That poor guy is stuck in quite the quagmire.
Interesting, would be nice for rustc to have a special flag that enable "maximum performance" at any compile time/ram price
That is a bald faced lie. The information comes from Uyghurs who managed to escape. The true scale of the genocide will likely not be known until/unless the CCP is dismantled and its members put on trial.
pg used to do one, but I forget the URL. We should probably start again.