skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Internet access over satellite has been around since forever. It's a big thing in Cuba for example. Evidently, possession of the necessary equipment is illegal, and smuggling it in is extremely expensive.
There is also this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onyx_(interception_system)

> The goal of the system is to monitor both civil and military communications, such as telephone, fax or Internet traffic, carried by satellite.
How about I pay for the right to add a `high-priority-MYNAME` tag to an issue, and the maintainers promise to take that into consideration but with no guarantee to make it a priority.
> I presume you're meaning the HAN that the meter uses to update the in home display. As far as I'm aware this is securely encrypted. Whether it'll stand the test of time who knows (let's face it WEP and friends certainly didn't), but the same logic could be applied to the WiFi network your router is creating.

Yup, I do mean the HAN - and the way CAD including IHD connect to it. It may be based on ZigBee, but it modifies the protocol to add its own authorisation and encryption prototypes. They may have sound basis as of today but given the precedent (GSM/UMTS encryption, WEP, WPA, but also Infineon cryptographic corprocessor failures), the custom modifications to ZigBee and a couple of other deviations from usual practices I would consider it almost a certainty that within the lifetime of the device the protocol will be broken or bypassed. The question is how and when, not if.

Let me put it this way: I would be pleasantly surprised if it is otherwise, as that would be the exception, not the rule.

> Difference being that the data going over the HAN is likely to be a constant stream of values meaning it doesn't leak much information unless you can decrypt it. Someone able to passively observe that local network can almost certainly observe your WiFi transmissions, which will be much more variable - little to no activity when you aren't home, and lots of activity when you're streaming a movie.

Most of the equipment I have is wired (optical or copper), including supposedly mobile devices ([0]) and the ones that aren't are not a good indicator of presence (roughly constant data stream). It's a different story if one was to bring an IMSI catcher, of course - but there is only so much you can do and still participate in the modern world.

As a side note: I admit I may be biased as the meter location would preclude any IHD from being in range of HAN (5 reinforced concrete slabs away for electric, worse for gas), has problems with GSM connectivity for the same reasons and has dubious physical security against anyone who posseses a high tech tool known as "screwdriver" or "knife". The fallback procedure that UK suppliers have for this situation is "read the meter like a dumb meter" [sic!] until the supposed "alternative HAN solution" is in place. I know it puts me in the 3.5% minority of households, but still it rankles.

[0] This is normally where I go on a rant about flagship Pixel USB-C powered phones being unable to charge and use network adapter at the same time due to incomplete implementation on the phone side - one or the other. Older micro-usb models could do both as long USB-OTG was supported. iOS devices have no such issue, but they have other ones.
"wheres the inflation?" "why cant I afford a house I dont get it"
I think your point is valid, and relevant. Well stated.

Having said that, I think if FB were to stop doing that, some other social network would, and would replace FB the way they replaced MySpace. So again, I think the current "we want one social network for everyone" situation, inevitably produces this kind of behavior.

But, I agree with your point, and it is a good one.
Well during covid my phone doesn't leave home 99% of the time, so that wouldn't tell them anything.
Here is my biggest problem with supporting open source: discoverability.

At the end of last year, I was doing all my last minute charitable giving, and after my PSF donation, I wanted to donate to open source projects. I opened up Github's sponsor page, and stopped there. There were thousands of projects, but I have no idea which ones are important to me, other than a few big ones.

It would be great if a tool existed that would look at everything I've installed via Brew(or your package manager of choice) and all the imports in my own Github projects, and follow all the dependency paths to the bottom, and then give me a report of how often a dependency shows up in that graph.

For example, I know ffmpeg is at the bottom of a few of my stacks. But what else? There might be a library that I rely on 12 different ways, but it's so fundamental and deep in the stack that I have no idea.

It would be even better if this magical tool could then directly link me to the support page (or figure out if one even exists).

My other problem with all of these open source sponsorships is that it seems for some reason none of them support one time donations. They all want me to sign up for a monthly gift (and I don't even get to chose the amount). I understand that that helps their cash flow, but that's now how I donate. I look at my income at the end of the year, set a target percentage, and then make all my donations at the end of December until I run out of budget (except for various fundraisers during the year).

And I know I'm not the only one who donates that way. December is always the biggest month of gifts for charity. They really should have an option for people like me.
Likely that Ted Turner was offering to have CNN serve as a propaganda machine for the Clinton Administration or the Democratic Party at large, due to their common political sympathies.
TFA: 'Mounting evidence' = baseless speculation, all the while deflecting attention from the accidental lab release trail. Could well be driven by euro fur producers for all we know (yes, this is speculation, too).
It's still available as libraries, just not with the default install
There is a performance penalty when accessing APIs over WinMD and that is acceptable when you're only using them sparingly.
I'd be curious how using Win32 APIs over WinMD performs instead of using PInvoke or FFI.

Edit: Here is the actual project if anyone is interested in following along. https://github.com/microsoft/win32metadata/
> Nobody was pulling a lever and blanket shutting down WhatsApp

You don't need to if you can intervene at the specific application and user level. Which is what happened with Twitter and Facebook, Youtube and Parler.

> there was no abuse of political power at play; you simply had independent entities

Which happen to be companies from the same nation, after the political entity their actions are directed against has lost the elections and is well on its way out and its opponents are coming in. Russia doesn't have the luxury of having its own Facebook and Youtube.

> The revocation of service by various American web services was not time sensitive, calculated to disrupt an ongoing protest;

Yet it was motivated with the danger of further incitements- which means that the heat had not died down at all- the actions were explicitly aimed at preventing more protest.
Is there a use for this that isn’t to enable criminals?
Fairly certain they have to in the EU. Given that you always have a right to have your data deleted I assume they'll just delete the account after a ban.
Guidelines page is up now :)
Kill switches seem a bit silly against the US government. If you're doing something that drastic, it's probably better to take pains to organize without any electronics on you at all.
This misconception needs to die. The government doesn't borrow money. The government doesn't need your money.

The government prints money. They could stop accepting taxes tomorrow and still be able to keep spending. They print the money.

Treasuries exist as an accounting fantasy for people to believe the government needs to borrow, they don't. Any treasuries outstanding today basically just represent dollars to be printed in the future.

What matters is amount of dollars in circulation and velocity of money. Inflation.
CPI is a convenient basket for the fed to sell bonds ideally at a positive yield. Thats why things are left out.
It's not as simple as that. It depends on the domain, the lawyership and implications of the ruling.
Commodities prices might not be increasing right now, but that's not the point. The point is, Jeff Bezos's wealth is approaching $200B, Elon Musk is not far behind. Quantitive Easing and similar policies seem to be designed to increase wealth inequality - one more decade of such policy, one more big crisis, and all wealth will be concentrated in the hands of 0.01% richest men. Meanwhile middle class businesses are being drawn to banktruptcy by COVID-related lockdowns. We are slipping back in feudalism - soon most people will be at mercy of government, and small elite of billionaires.
Pay attention to real problems, even small problems, that businesses have.

A real problem is something that costs them money or prevents them from earning money.
Win32 is the consistent branding Microsoft has used to describe its C/C++ API for the last 20 years. It's many things though, GDI, User32, NT, DirectX, etc.
Great extension, and as an app developer and very small influencer (several thousand followers), I still get spam and personalized phishing...

90% are just bots and automated attacks
I was banned permanently from facebook in 2017.

my crime I downloaded a twitter embedded video and uploaded it to my facebook account , it was for copyright violation.

losing account was bad but worse was losing 10+ years of posts and thousands of photos which I had uploaded of my kids. I never took backups .

I appealed multiple times also tries asking help from facebook employees, nothing materialised. I never got my backup .

I now have multiple hard disks for my backups
Wages are stagnant which means they dont need to raise the price of goods on the other side, theres your uptick in inflation.
It's also why "just run WSL" or "just run Linux in a VM on OSX" is unsatisfying. The performance characteristics are quite different, which makes a big difference if you're trying to reproduce a race condition.
Browser extensions are the most vulnerable every day apps people use.

They're given so much power so quickly. Users agree to 'view and modify website data' not realizing that the app can now run arbitrary code on their gmail/banking/whatever accounts to report all information including passwords. For all the concern over application security, little is talked about here.

Browser extensions are also super important. They stand as the only tool for users to take back control over their experience from companies that are in the interest of manipulating them for profit whenever they can. They are uniquely our agents here.

Still, each extension is a potential huge vulnerability. It's tough to find a balance here.
Scraping instagram, YT, and especially my Youtube account for information
Nobody knows, but we’re about to find out..
That might very well be true, I'm just trying to iron-man their argument. Do you have some sources about that and why that is?
Who was the man in the photo on Steve Jobs' desk?
It depends on your lifestyle. I always keep a Swiss Army knife in my bag (not in my pocket, it's too heavy). There are weeks I have no need of it, and then it comes a day I'm grateful to myself I have it. Most of the time I need to open something quickly, from a small package to a bottle of wine.
While I think Mark Zuckerberg is unlikely to face jail time, there are some points to your post I agree with. Especially the analogy with railroads.

The other point I would add, is that it's not just Congress. I have heard government leaders in Mexico, Poland, Hungary, and Turkey all voicing similar concerns, and in some cases actually passing legislation already. I think more will come.
I thought Artemis was decent.

It ain't The Martian, but if you like the hard sci-fi of The Martian, Artemis is more of that (except with a touristy moon base).
This was essentially my first job. As a 17-year-old I was hired for the summer by a large office to see how many working PCs I could get out of a large walk-in closet full of broken ones. Great work for a 17-year-old computer nerd: figure out what was wrong with each one (typically RAM or hard drive), decide which ones to keep as hosts and which ones to strip for donor parts, then mix and match and set them all up. Didn’t get paid much but I enjoyed it and learned a lot, and it was a great deal for the office, who ended up with about 20 extra working computers.
For the average Joe, inflation is usually the price of milk, bread and eggs going up. America being an agricultural colossus with plenty of farm subsidies mean the price of essentials will not rise. Hence the unique manifestation of inflation in asset prices will not bring masses on the streets unlike most other countries. Coupled this with the fact that other countries are also printing money and are in worse shape ensures there isn't much to worry about yet..
Does that generalize to databases? My understanding is that file systems are a restricted case of databases that don’t necessarily support all operations (eg transactions are smaller, can’t do arbitrary queries within a transaction, etc etc).
> Spend a week working on this issue for free? No problem! I love to contribute to software I use.

> Spend a week working on this issue for $50? No way! I'd never work for so little.

I can certainly see it having this affect. And hopefully there will be ways to mitigate it. But I don't see any harm in trying to bring some additional funding into OSS development.

Also I feel like it would be nice supplemental income for sole maintainers, who would likely be tackling these issues anyway.
Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump's Epic Bromance
Visual Basic == VB.NET with Windows Forms

It isn't flashy, but it is still there. Did a project on it in 2016. Not that long ago.
Some of these banks have nukes.

Oh and they can form a 100 million man army.
> Theres no free lunch, you don't get to just print unlimited money and have no consequences.

Japan enters the chat

* M1: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MYAGM1JPM189N

* Debt: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DEBTTLJPA188A

* Interest rate: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/INTDSRJPM193N

* CPI: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FPCPITOTLZGJPN

The technical explanation why, when rates are zero, increasing the money supply doesn't do anything to inflation:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquidity_trap
There are many conservative and international reporting outlets, so where’s the Hunter Biden story already? Is Tucker Carlson secretly owned by the Bidens? What happened to his secret laptop files?

It looks like Glenn Greenwald’s business partners choose not to bet recklessly with the credibility of the publication, and in retrospect they may have choose wisely. The story was entirely under the control of Tucker Carlson and friends, and so would have been The Intercept’s brand credibility. The Intercept is far more vulnerable to missteps than Fox.

First Tucker Carlson kind of lost the files, and now he won’t show anyone the secret computer files because he thinks Hunter Biden is down on his luck, and Mr Carlson just feels so sad about it.
Yeah but the funny thing is that these surveillance networks never actually seem to be used to solve normal crimes. Is it laziness on the part of the police? Are they trying to reserve these systems for more serious crimes so we forget they exist? Is it just a matter of time before police culture catches up and we see license plate readers, cell phone records, CCTV networks, etc used to track down petty thieves and robbers?

Last year the police were begging for help to solve some of the gun store robberies that happened during the BLM unrest. Why did they need the public's help? They could have checked cell phone records, stitched together traffic camera video, and likely tracked down the suspects within weeks.

I think the most likely scenario is that we gave all these tools to create a surveillance state, but the bureaucracy is too lazy to use them.
Apparently you confused me with another commenter.

I don't think humans are irrational, and wholeheartedly agree that we are able to think logically. However, skipping all the stuff which wasn't intended for me I'd like to jump to the last sentence of your commentary to note that it hangs on a hypothesis that our actions are result of just thought processes completely detached from say metabolism, and pre-programmed reactions. I don't think its true. There's a lot of empirical evidence to claim that various things like sleep deprivation, peer pressure, level of glucose, hormons, age do affect human decision-making even if thought-information[1] remains the same. Humans btw show great ability to re-rationalize made decisions afterwards, essentially fooling themselves to believe they came to them purely by thinking.

Math is unlikely to be affected by this, but politics, relationships, and a lot of other decisions - easy.

[1] Technically, hormons, and instincts are information inputs as well, but they are usually processed outside of concious thinking.

EDIT: added the last para.
I call bullshit. I’ve regularly sent nude photos and full on videos using Facebook messenger. I’m also a member of many group chats and private Facebook groups where this kind of content is shared.
It also depends on which cantons in Switzerland. You're hardly going to see flag bearers in Zurich canton for example.

There are parts of Switzerland that are extremely conservative - think deep American south but more. Women's right issues are far backwards than the deepest of US south. Women in gained the right to vote in federal elections in 1971 in Switzerland.

Switzerland is also small, the size of SF Bay Area (~ 7 million people). Most people don't realize how small Switzerland is - not in land area, but in many other aspects.

There is also some friction with Germany when it comes to culture and customs. The Swiss pride themselves to speak Swiss-German. Never suggest buying a German watch or you're going to get nasty reactions :-)

Last but not the least, Switzerland has declined to be part of the EU and majority of the people are against joining it. There are a lot of parallels than differences between Brexit philosophy and Swiss sovereignty.
In the programming language Eiffel this is called the uniform access principle.
But the open source community would because such a license would not qualify as open source. See the recent debacle sign the Elastic licensing change.
Not a big deal. Good engineering demands logged pings. Not doing that would be bad engineering.

Could it be abused? Sure. But that's why we need to continue to engineer a better democracy as well.

We can do both.
The world is not black and white. You absolutely can pick both.
TIL. what are the ones on the sides called?
Great question -- I suppose it should link directly to the openstack sub-projects that are analogous to the AWS offering.

So, open-nebula for EC2, right?
Vim as IDE: Config Part 1 [video]
The servant in the Indian family (2009)
LEO using cellphone triangulation is not new.

I worked as a network tech for one of the big providers. I was pulling tower location data for LEO regularly at request of corporate legal only. Though sometimes LEO would try to end run around and go to stores who would contact me.

I socially engineered them to believe I could not access that info without a code generated by corp legal.

Not true, of course. But hell if I was going to risk being mired in a legal fiasco for a possibly immoral investigator.

Tracking of our cellphones has been a thing since well before smartphones. Smartphones just enable it to be real time, and more granular than a tower triangulation.
Please see the article "Inflation Truthers"

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2021/01/inflation-truthers/

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25644580

Inflation is low.
Family with Covid couldn't smell house fire
How do he know these emails are from scammers? Some of these seem like legimate offers at the first glance. Please don't downvote if this is a stupid question for you. I'd really like to know how to recognize a scam email in these situations as a browser extension dev.
The last published DPC audit found that it does [1]. There's not much reason to subject themselves to huge fines and lie about it, a very small fraction of facebook users delete anything.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20171218060100/https://www.datap...
I had searched for the previous thread and was unable to locate, thank you!
It's an error of omission in that Win32 also refers to the 64-bit versions. The Windows API includes but is not limited to Win32.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/
https://chapwoodindex.com/

There are resources outside the CPI or individual verticals, to measure inflation.
My approach has always been to create a separate dll (written in C++) that wraps all the complicated stuff and has only a few calling points exposed which were P/Invoked from the C# side.
Haven’t had to do much of this but that definitely saved me from doing a lot of clunky stuff in the C# app
Wonder if these “partners” can be efficiently milked of their programmes - setup millions of browser instances in cloud...
Maintenance of it has been moved to the Eclipse foundation and it was renamed to Jakarta EE.
Part of the reason he was able to attract guests was because he didn't ask tough or technical questions. That's not a criticism, I think there's more than enough room for both the Larry Kings and Isaac Chotners of the world, and they're both important in their own ways.
If FB charged money, it would totally change their business model, and I believe that could solve some of the issues. However, I have to wonder if people would actually be willing to pay money for FB? It's easier to quit something when you just have to stop paying them. They might get a lot smaller if they charged money.
You're right and wrong. You're talking more specifically about asset price inflation.

Read this:
https://www.valuewalk.com/2014/11/central-banks-asset-vs-pri...

Btw it's an incredibly good topic and if anyone wants to talk more about it I would love to start a clubhouse room.
indiehackers and reddit are also great communities

Best of luck and share some tips with us
I don’t see how you can have it both ways. Any privacy protections for the average law-abiding citizen is going to help out the criminals too.
>> Leaving a phone at home that is not answering calls or creating traffic during the time of interest is also a lead (if you already have a suspect).

Interesting. My phone uses WiFi for everything by default. I wonder if they'd be able to tell (probably via Google?) If I were to leave it home for a day. On the weekend of course, since daily commute will hit the towers except for an atypical occurrence.

With such capability I feel like it's obvious they don't want to stop certain things.
"XBox games utilize P2P communications, which means that players are actually providing much of the heavy infrastructure ("game servers") whereas Microsoft is responsible only for match-making/routing."

Just talking about authentication / autorization do you know how much it takes in term of infra at the scale of Xbox?

At a high level overview what they provide:

- authz / authn / entitlment

- rewards

- social ( voip, group, friends, chat, profil )

- achievments

- store / marketplace

- matchmaking

- leaderboard

- object storage for entities, cloud save game

Just open: https://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-live-status

As for gameserver the definition is very broad depending on what you do on those gameservers, some of them are heavy other are light depending of what's happening server side ( physics, ai, gameplay replication etc ... )
Good thing I rarely answer calls and my phone creates traffic on its own. Hell, I wouldnt be surprised if I could just spoof my phone's traffic with simple scripts.
Game pass is like Netflix for games. Netflix doesn't just steam their own productions.