skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a way, yes, Telegram is even less secure than WhatsApp for this.

The way I've been presenting it to people is that Telegram can look at more data than WhatsApp can. But WhatsApp will use the data they have more than Telegram will. That's the tradeoff.

And yes, obviously Signal is more secure than both of them but I've been steering non-techies to Telegram because of usability, backups, cross-device history etc. As usual, everything is a tradeoff, but if people were happily using WhatsApp up until now, and also use Gmail, Telegram is not worse than those.
This paper has some red flags and it would be great if someone
who has experience with this domain provides more light.

1) The original paper is at
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/20/7594

2) The paper was written based on the findings of the software
https://wittyfit.com/
The sample is not random in any sense as it looks like its based on 187 people who are using this software. Correlation != Causation.
> If you want an office license, it's 70$/year, and as a bonus you have a dropbox equivalent for free for 1TB.

My point was that if you already have an Office license, it's 70$/year for something you already have + 1 TB (on what, until recently, used to be a pretty shoddy Dropbox clone, rather than a Dropbox equivalent -- but maybe it's improved in the meantime). In that case, there's no bonus.
That is a secret ballot, not an anonymous ballot. The principle of one person, one vote is maintained by ensuring that each person — not anonymous — can cast one and only one vote, a secret vote, and that persons not eligible to vote — again, not anonymous — can cast none.
Some companies' business is that one off customer. Think of weddings and graduations. Entire businesses are formed around those too.
How and When to Use React UseCallback
This. It drives me crazy that companies want to lock down the firmware, but then won't take responsibility for keeping their locked down firmware from being taken over by bots. If they hate maintaining the software so much let the community take over.

If I were a AP manufacturer I would have like 1 software guy total, and his job would be to make sure the drivers for the hardware is always up to date on the open source software that my product ships, and to contribute bug fixes and feature improvements to that software.

Well, I like to think that anyway. I have some suspicions that chipset manufacturers like to keep their documentation behind NDA that precludes anybody who signs it from contributing to open source software.
Wow, terrifying stuff and curious to see how it plays out. Haven’t read the above article yet but I think we’re in for quite a number of changes over the next 50 years in healthcare.
I mean sure, from the standpoint of he can still speak. But like I have mentioned elsewhere- I would like to see someone successfully get elected without a social media presence. Especially with COVID the town square is digital- I dont know that I can mentally treat twitter and others like little upstarts with no power. Remember when accounts were hacked and asked for payment in bitcoin?

What would happen if those accounts were hacked and someone talked about launching nukes?

You have to start asking if what happens on those platforms -REALLY- has no effect on the physical world. I would argue that their moderation actions can non-person a politician and ruin their career with little or no public input.

I dont know what the solution is- but I dont feel confident in a democracy where six media companies and about four tech companies control all that I can see, hear and read. That does not make me feel confident in the fourth estate.
> It doesn't have the same ecosystem. Which is half the point of the rpi to start with.

Now that's a valid argument. And I would argue it's way more than half.

If you want a one-off mumblesomething and can stay at the Linux OS level (ie. Web application, USB peripherals or maybe the most basic of GPIOs), the RPi ecosystem is going to let you get there much faster even though it will crash and burn occasionally. If that's "good enough" ... Douzou! ... Ganbatte! ... get moving and get going.

I have the same comment about Arduino. It ain't real reliable (but, to be fair, it's quite a bit more reliable than the RPis), but the ecosystem is awesome.

However, when you start asking something like "Gee, how do I send a single address byte over the I2C subsystem?" or "That signal needs a response in 50 nanoseconds, can I make that work?" you will thank the TI folks for producing that 5000 page (not joking or exaggerating) Technical Reference Manual.

One other thing that people who live in the RPi system always overlook in the Beagle ecosystem are the PRU cores. You can do HARD real-time work on those and still live in the Linux world. That's something that the RPi series just simply cannot do no matter how much you hack at them. And it often means the difference between a design which needs an FPGA and one that doesn't.

However, yes, you are going to live in that Technical Reference Manual for the Beagle series. If you're not comfortable doing that, then the Beagle stuff probably isn't for you.

There are really good reasons to use and love RPi's--ease of use is huge. But the whole "It's cheaper" thing just chaps my hide.
Obviously, you are :) considering you take a look at the source code.

I have another algorithm for connecting DOM nodes: https://github.com/jalal246/dflex/tree/master/packages/dom-g...
Because the term was popularized by Jim Cramer on Mad Money referring to the growth of Facebook, Apple, Netflix & Google back in 2013.

$MSFT hadn't really taken off like the others until later that year.
Yes, I can only see them on my own comments. I actually find that a useful signal as otherwise I'd be making a lot more junk comments :)
What is the limit of “remoteness” that innovation can tolerate?
With more companies shifting to a remote workforce in 2021 and some indefinitely, is there a limit to a remote workforce and fostering innovation within a company.

Are there examples of remote workforces driving innovation?
How are companies adjusting innovation within the pandemic?
What have been the wins and losses?
What are the best practices?
Usually when you are a high level employee they want you to sign an anti-disparagement clause. For example the COO here. Even if Dropbox did nothing wrong, it could really hurt their business if she went around giving talks about how awful Dropbox is, or talking about internal politics to the press.

There is a good chance someone would even pay her for that information, so she has leverage by saying "you're going to cut off my future income, how much is that worth to you?".

Or a situation where there was some questionable behavior and there could be a lawsuit about wrongful termination. Usually the severance comes with a waiver where you waive your right to sue the company. So it's a negotiation of how much that waiver is worth to both you and the company. The higher up you are, the more likely there is room for negotiation there on the value of a possible lawsuit.
Zero proof, but his account is full of COVID denial and “stolen elections”. Maybe they consider the risk too high?
I have had the opposite experience. Carefully filing a bug report, carefully getting data for it, only to get shouted at by the maintainers.

Be nice, yes. Both ways.
>I have the theory that boys get into programming as a form of escapism

Absolutely my case, except that I'm a big boy approaching 40. I don't work as a programmer, but the job exposes extensive SQL and Python to me (SQL for querying db and Python for automating and sticking together things).

From my experience, programming is so far the only activity that can satisfy my need for creating things and escaping from this world. I mean I can't really cut off all my ties to this world but it's nice to have a small world of my own to enjoy myself, from time to time.
Which data? We can be somewhat sure that they don't have access to the content of Signal or Telegram secret chats as long as we have verified the identity of our contacts.

After that, what data do you care about? Neither Signal or Telegram is intended to provide complete anonymity. That is a much harder problem. For Mozilla that would involve Tor. I don't think that Mozilla really has "servers" in the sense you mean.
There's a lot of value in knowing about a pregnancy -- in the months leading up to a baby, you're spending a ton of money getting ready for the baby or on constantly buying new clothes for mom as the pregnancy moves along. Once the baby comes, you have a good chance for capturing a repeat customer on a bunch of baby-related items (diapers, wipes, etc).
Your comment about the Quakers sent me googling:

https://chasingflukes.com/reading_guide-overview/glossary-co...

The Whaling-Quaker style of cursing is now very popular on the "Talk like a Pirate Day", especially here in Oregon
Yeah as someone who has deployed SD-based and eMMC-based systems in industrial spaces, SD cards are hot garbage compared to eMMC and I would strongly recommend not using them in anything that needs to be reliable.
Many cheap and easy to interface I2C and SPI chips for that, which is the way the industry is going generally. Or throw in a tiny Arduino with stock Firmata firmware, and use that as an I/O extender.
I kind of feel obligated to pipe in as a physician:

There are signs of people not being a high suicide risk, despite depression and overt claims of suicidality. This post is the absolute opposite of that - if you were with me in the clinic right now, I'd consider you an incredibly high risk of an actual suicide attempt. Please, please, please, please reach out to a professional and friends for help. Please.
Shopify just made a $2B windfall on Affirm IPO 6 months after partnership
Apple has poorly documented APIs and locked down platforms and app stores.

Windows has decades of cruft and the OS itself is basically adware at this point with "recommendations" and shit showing up constantly, un-removable foistware, dark patterns to herd you into MS cloud, and loads of gratuitous telemetry. Windows drivers, driver signing, and installers are all horrors that can reduce one to a gibbering lunatic like the poor souls in Lovecraft's fiction. Networking is horrific too, and NTFS is slow.

Linux has fragmentation, fragmentation, fragmentation. There are at least three package formats, two or three inits (though I think we're converging on systemd in spite of its many warts), and loads of gratuitous distributions and sub-distributions and spins of distributions that have no reason to exist except for some minor holy war over some minutia or license holy wars. Oh and the most popular package formats, dpkg and RPM, are arcane nightmares from the pit of hell.

Every time I get mad at Apple I try working with another platform and realize Apple is not that bad. They all suck.
This is true - the author asserts that there are more ultra healthy people now than at some point in the past with less abundance, but this isn't obviously true.

This isn't about steroid use, there is some aesthetic popularity to body fat levels that are probably not actually healthy, as well as some pretty dubious dietary practice that also overlaps in practice with the same population.

On the other hand the regular exercise part is clearly positive.
This is just a link to a tweet with zero substantiation. How is this even on HN, much less the front page?
That’s great to hear, but in what sense would that be “investing in black and brown people” then?
Nice work! I have no idea if this could fit into your roadmap (and this is probably the kind of feature request you should absolutely say no to) but my partner and I made a thing called TagTime that does time-tracking via random sampling (pinging you at random times) and I'm offering the domain tagtime.com to whoever subsumes the janky Perl-scripts-plus-Vim version we use and makes a proper TagTime-in-the-cloud. There's a pretty decent community of users to tap into but, again, it would probably entail a substantial pivot.
Fabless Intel, Automotive Crunch, and Capital Spending Plans
News galore and most is positive - is it priced in? Also, ideas at the bottom
That's out of my definition of workoholics though. So I could be biased as I'm using my own definition. IMO if you really enjoy your wor then you are not a workoholic.
To add to this, C# added async/await in 2012. Depending on what frameworks you use it may be hard to avoid interacting with it (for example, many APIs in UWP are async without a sync version). I feel like other language features added since then you can get away without knowing while writing code, but of course you may encounter them when reading other’s code.
I thought the windows kernel was locked down to signed code only by Microsoft's patchguard?

Wouldn't any opportunity to run your own code in the kernel be worthy of a bug bounty?

Are the protections nowhere near as strong as intended?
The speed of light is a constant but we are still very behind in terms of understanding the universe and physics, we still do not have a unified theory which bridges general relativity to quantum mechanics. We know next to nothing about dark matter(haven't found any yet), also in terms of energy production we have not achieved - room temperature superconducting and fusion reactors. We can barely get rockets outside of earths orbits, let alone to our closest celestial neighbor the moon. That being said, I think given our current technological shortcomings we are in no position to rule out 100% possibility of life from another world being here.
Deleted his tweet but Alex Stamos offered help for a 10% cut

https://web.archive.org/web/20210112200826/https://twitter.c...

https://web.archive.org/web/20210112142941/https://twitter.c...

>Um, for $220M in locked-up Bitcoin, you don't make 10 password guesses but take it to professionals to buy 20 IronKeys and spend six months finding a side-channel or uncapping. I'll make it happen for 10%. Call me.

>We're not talking about some NSA-built crypto processor installed on an SSBN, but an old $50 piece of consumer kit. There is no way it's hardened against the last ten years of USENIX papers that have never been used in practice.

Co-founder and former IronKey CEO also chimed in

https://twitter.com/davejevans/status/1349075762322702336

https://twitter.com/davejevans/status/1349083685165834240

>I was co-founder and CEO of IronKey. We had numerous conversations with the NSA during the development of the products. If the person is using the first generation of IronKey before we sold the company to Imation, it will be very challenging.

>A good first step is to try to image the NAND flash. Then it will not be destroyed. You can certainly try to brute force the AES encrypted contents. It's CBC mode AES by the way. Keys generated by FIPS compliant RNG. See you in 1,000 years.
The difference is that the cited shell script downloads software that the copyright holder himself makes freely available.

It is like downloading binary freeware.

The ToS are a separate issue, but I doubt they'd hold in Europe for example.
One reason is that there's friction with purchasing. If a company already buys Active Directory and O365, it's much easier to get OneDrive added on than it is to set up a new vendor like Dropbox.
Nice, but requires 10 K temperature - not very practical.

Once this can be done at the temperature of liquid nitrogen, that will be a true revolution. The difference in cost of producing liquid nitrogen and liquid helium is enormous.

Alternatively, such servers could be theoretically stored in the permanently shaded craters of the lunar South Pole, but at the cost of massive ping.
This hit me really hard, because it's true. This is literally me last 7 years.
If Google wanted to read your messages and were willing to use malware to do it, there’s little to stop them on Android. Even if Signal checked the apk regularly, there’s no guarantee that the apk served to them is the same one served to everyone else. They could also push an update to the OS that recognizes the Signal apk and applies a patch after downloading but before installing.

That said, Signal does apparently support reproducible builds so that people can check that the apk matches what’s on GitHub (though this is more of a way to detect malfeasance on Signal’s part rather than Google’s)

https://signal.org/blog/reproducible-android/
It's an interesting analogy: Our approach to an abundance of food vs. our approach to an abundance of information.

Those who benefit from the food abundance seem to explore the variety of what's available. They have a wider range of food experiences and therefore a broader spectrum of choices.

For food, it's

The strip mall choices vs. 'farm to table'.

What's the spectrum for information?

Vox Clickbait vs. ?

Growing up in the Midwest, every pear I ate was as hard as an apple. Typically picked before they were ripe and mom didn't ripen them. As an adult in California, the first fresh picked, fully ripened pear I ate was incredible. Juice dripped down my arm, potent pear flavor, sweet like ice cream. How does one have a similar epiphany with information?
Gotcha. Would love to see GitLab supported so I can submit the project I'm working on!
This is a stressful time for a lot of people. I appreciate the note and wish you a good day!
https://www.google.com/search?q=samsung+vietnam+factory+cond... doesn't look good
Actually, the EU is being used as a scapegoat here (as usual). SMS is perfectly allowed by the directive. As would be even a old Google Authenticator-style OTP code which does not need any propietary software to work.

Banks are forcing you to run proprietary software on proprietary operating systems with draconian "security measures" that would make the latest DRM-enforcing-rootkit look like a children toy. They check whether your device is rooted, whether it has any non-Google-approved programs installed, whether Google Play notifications work, etc. And if you fail any of these checks, good luck using your credit card!

Open-source operating systems are basically dead in the water at this point, since failing to run these proprietary programs is not going to be a minor "I can't play this game" level- nuisance, but rather a life critical issue. And so far more and more banks keep enforcing these measures.

And for some reason there is no big outcry about this.

Even Korea's "all banks require ActiveX" situation was very mild compared to where we're going...
>Intelligence agencies have internal decoding competitions and trainings.

They've done similar as recruitment initiatives as well, I remember one on Twitter.
Thank you for taking the time to write this!

When using CUPS in my previous posts as an example of "Standard OpenSource component that could be a drop-in replacement in a vast majority of deployments/installations", I was hoping, that somebody knowledgeable would reply with some details about the (speciality-use) features/use-cases of the Windows Print-System.

You mentioned a few points, that I'll try to itemize, and respond to:

* Specialty hardware setup, and UI's for that:
In these times(for non-ancient devices/deployments), is that not easily solved by the [WEB-]UI of the printer?

* Speciality hardware runtime control for printjobs (staples, binds, folds, glue, mailing, ...):
I thought, all of these are commonly abstracted into "verbs" in the PCL/PJL, and just need to be "included" in the PrintJob.

* Decent integration into enterprise setups.
In what ways do you find CUPS lacking here? I find CUPS+AD-Auth_to_Samba4AD works great, and all the RSAT tools are functional from a domain member workstation

* Driver support:
Is that really still a problem these days?

* Availability of paid support for Windows Printsystem for X amount of money in 2031:
If commercial interest is there, I have no doubt, that MS will offer something like for WinXP and Win7 years after the normal EOL of Srv201{6,9}. I just thought, It was already visible now, that the "commercial interest" for this was going to be small, but then again I might be underestimating the (future) size of the "Seriously large-scale paper printing" market.

> "When was the last you heard somebody say: "I would buy Windows server, if it had CUPS printing support in it"? "

Admittedly, never, but I can probably count in years the paid time, that I have worked helping clients with their Windows Print problems, many times calming them down to get the screaming and crying under control. So maybe a replaced print-system (In WinServer) could (by some) be seen as net positive, while the average Windows Home user wont notice/care. ;)
This would be amazing. I have wanted this for years.

* You are renting an apartment from a huge company. The company changes a policy. There is no way for you to unionize with your neighbors to fight that.

Ditto for trying to fight any big corp like Comcast, ATT, etc.

Our powers are diluted whereas the big forms have warchests that a single individual can never match.

A govt was supposed to do this but it is not working.

Doesn't mean that we wait for the govt. The time is now and we must act otherwise these but companies will keep running and ruining the planet.
> I'm currently looking to put the same thing in place for a read-it-later usecase: we havevthe tools for fetching content and formatting it, and for pushing it in an IMAP account.

If you set up a Mail server that uses sieve, I wrote a tool just for this. I use it all the time for read later, all you need to do is send an email to yourself with the URL in the body and my sieve script downloads the page, formats it, and files it into a specific mailbox.

https://github.com/buzzert/readlater-prettify
Apple to open developer school in Detroit, the first program of its kind in US
" ...you would have an exponential increase of injustices where a legal act in one city-state could be illegal in another."

Yes, this is a problem which has already caused issues, and mostly been resolved under the current scheme. Most states have some laws that preempt local jurisdictions from enacting anything beyond what the state has already enacted on the issue in question.
So they can say:

Connect the modem we gave you with our settings, and if it works using that it’s not our problem.

It’s not that hard.
I can tell you don't have any horny teenagers in your household :)
I am running pfSense on a Supermicro X9SCL 1U pulling <40W, with an old SSD as the bootdisk. gig nics & everything else.

Sure you can half the power draw again with an embedded device, but diminishing marginal gain.
Advice from 2021 YC Top Companies
I think you need to stop drinking the google kool-aid.

A customers union? Are you fucking kidding me? How much anti-consumer shit does a company have to do before you’ll realise they’re not in business to serve your needs, they’re in business to serve you ads.
We have been assessing migrating from our own Hugo based site to webflow, so that our designers and business folks can more easily make edits and spin up landing pages, etc.

The main hangups right now are lack of transparent pricing around overages (it's "call for pricing") and we currently use AVIF and AV1 and those do not appear to be supported by webflow. I also think paid support tiers would be extremely helpful, like AWS. I'm actually happy to pay for good support straight from the company.

If anyone from webflow is listening, these are my main current requests.
>Not that that's necessarily a bad thing, if we're getting more than proportionally more utility out of the processors

The trend seems to be that we get only a little bit of extra utility out of a lot of extra hardware performance.

When the developer upgrades their PC it's easier for them to not notice performance issues. This creates the situation where every few years you need to buy a new PC to do the things you always did.
Pentagon’s $2B Cybersecurity Project Slowed by Flaws
> I do miss searchable public forums specializing in topics.

Yeah, me too. Subreddits cover some of the use cases for me, but threads are more different to search compared to the forums.