skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We don’t have any such measures at all for the digital “evidence.”

This is false. The chain of custody and integrity of digital evidence is pretty much a solved problem. Digital forensics is a fairly mature field.

This is not to say there aren't issues with some of the tools, such as Cellebrite's clown show.
Making the visualization a web-app is the fastest approach we could think of for prototyping. What other options are there for an interactive visualization? Quite curious..
This kind of logic is so annoying. If it's so easy / good for profit / advantageous / smart business, then why doesn't Apple do it?

The whole "they only do X for profit" is such a lazy argument, because it can be used to argue any side of the argument if you try hard enough.
Very good question. The answer of course is bound to be very nuanced. A good starting point for study might be Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse.

My own viewpoint is that, our mastery of technology has enabled us to overcome "natural" limitations in a given geographical area, human potentialities and thus our relationship with the "planet". Darwin's "survival of the fittest" is no longer simple but has become multidimensional. Modern urban centers are an interplay of complex systems sustained by marvels of technology each of which is quite "fragile" to external shocks. Thus when something like Covid happens you can imagine the devastation due to ripple effect and aftershocks.
I wonder if pilots encounter this with VATSIM (searching for real charts or ATC resources and first encountering web pages for the simulation versions).
no. I feel like I should justify that with some arguments, but they're all there in the article that you didn't read.

that's your cue to tell me that you actually did read it and that I'm only commenting to get attention.
Plain English is a wonderful thing. I wish it were used more often.

Non-plain English is usually a flag that the person you’re dealing with is not smart.

The usage of plain English words is something we do strive to see more often. We do hope that it can be utilised more often going forward. Unfortunately at this time we advise that the occurrence of non-plain English may indicate a violation of our MTC (minimal thought capacity) guidelines.
> That's still pretty extreme imo when you control the only store and you directly compete with them/undercut them.

Regulators don’t (yet I suppose) care about this because of opportunity cost. If I’m making $3/user/mo off your $10 subscription and I decide to enter the market and compete with you at then every user I steal and every user if not for me would have gone with you costs me $3/mo plus cost of providing them service. So if I’m able to still undercut you then either I’m ridiculously more efficient than you or you have fat margins.

Neither of these are true so something else is going on here. Either I’m bleeding money and this is some strategic play in which case it might be unfair for different reasons, or the market is segmented and we actually have two different customer bases with insignificant cross pollination.
Not sure how big the target market will be for this. Wonder if they've done research to see what %, or how many users have more than 10 tabs open at once? I don't see any performance issues at all even on machines from 2012 unless there's more than 10 tabs open, sometimes even more tabs can perform just fine.
I second this. I try to replicate the UI/UX of the applications that I like (as a user of such apps). Obviously, it doesn't mean copying mindlessly, but using similar patterns/flows where it makes sense in my applications. Even though it's not a resource like a book, in a way, I'm learning from good real-world examples.
That 404’s. Here is the correct link: https://www.mightyapp.com/mightyapp.com/security
Adding another area of a court proceeding that relies on "experts" is already a problem. Even when the deep fakes become good enough that they can't reliably detect them, they will continue to claim they can.

And if they wrongly testify that a genuine video is fake, it's much harder to claim that they submitted false evidence.
How is it possible to separate DALYs lost from high BMI from DALYs lost from low vegetables and/or low physical activity? The author never fully explains the methodology behind the graph.
I genuinely thought this was parody until I came to the comments.
Thank you for this extensive resource on air quality. Yes, it needs to get more attention as it is one of the main drivers of mortality of environmental risks.

One thing one has to bear in mind is that often when you optmize your home for low PM (e.g. with air purifiers and fixing of air leackage) your CO2 will get very high causing headaches and reduce cognitive performance.

So it always makes sense for indoor air quality monitoring to measure PM and CO2 in parallel.

We have open source, open hardware build instructions for a very reliable Air quality sensor that can be used to measure PM2.5 and also CO2 [1]. It is very accurate for the fraction of the costs of commercial sensors. You can build it for less than USD 20 (or with CO2 for less than USD 50) and send the data to our cloud server or any other backend.

I am more than happy to send you some free PCBs (you just paypal me the cost of the postage) and you can build your own sensor and log the data. Contact me if you are interested.

[1] https://www.airgradient.com/diy/
That's not why my family bought iPhones; they shouldn't be stuck with anticompetitive app store practices because they have iPhones.

Eg. My mother can't use any apps because she doesn't trust apple with her credit card number, and since you can't use the app store for free apps without a credit card, she uses no apps on her phone
I also worked on adtech.

We viewed them as a cost of doing business. Some small accounts got nuked. :shrug: If we had to have humans investigate everything, and produce reports / interpretations that nuked customers found satisfactory, we wouldn't have been willing to service accounts under probably $40k/year.

And keep in mind the ecosystem is filthy with fraud, particularly on the low end. There very much are groups of organized thieves actively exploiting adtech.

And as @PeterisP says... look, we're not a court. We're a private business that is refusing to do further business with someone. Our right to do this was very clearly explained before the beginning of any relationship, and agreed to by that someone. If that someone doesn't like it, their recourse is to not do business with us.
I did read the article. It nitpicks on Reuters article but the point still stands. Apple has the keys to iCloud backups.

There's no axe to grind because the lack of end-to-end encryption is a fact. Your own link states that. Nitpicking Reuters won't change that. I don't understand this mentality of religiously defending something that's clearly wrong. It will only make the platform you use worse.

By the way you should read HN guidelines. Don't comment whether someone read an article.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- yes since it's just a demo landing page
- the demo is actually a fully working product, you can use the admin credentials to log in (also there in the login form):
Email: rocket@admin.com
Pass: admin123
Dridex Reloaded: Analysis of a New Dridex Campaign
“Not using an architect” can have benefits. Among them not having to deal with an architect. However, improved aesthetics is often not among them. Same for functionality.

The advantage of an architect is that you won’t get what you think you want.
It's the work of moments to put it in a contract that data sourced from you cannot be sold or provided to a third party without the law requiring it.

They choose not to do this.

Apple have invested heavily in their /marketing/

If you believe they won't flip on you the nanosecond it suits them I've got a bridge over here that might interest you...

Besides even if you believe the current people controlling Apple, all of them, you can't possibly know who will control it next year let alone in 5 or 10 years. This "I want to believe" garbage is just ridiculous. Seriously. You expect anything you like and Apple won't care a damn if your expectations are trashed for their profit or something else.

If they won't put it in a contract it only because they reserve the right to to flip you off. Hard and rough. No other reason.
You might also like this one about a dive in Norway: The cave divers who went back for their friends[0]

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36097300
The logic is that you checkout the old file from the repository into your worktree, overwriting it.

If there's something inconsistent about this, it's that it works for individual files, but (fortunately) not for clobbering your entire worktree by checking out a branch.
Honestly, we'll probably see a PoC against Autopsy any day...

Budget Android phone containing basic payload against an open source ecosystem and boom... you got a research paper, baby!
This what redis’s creator antirez suggests: “ the way I want to scale Redis is by improving the support for multiple Redis instances to be executed in the same host, especially via Redis Cluster” http://antirez.com/news/126

It’s basically back to the multi-threading vs multiprocessing debate that also exists in Python. With multiprocessing, you have more overhead but the client itself is simpler.

It’s kind of a weird in between where you need more scalability then a single redis but no so much that you want to go to a cluster.
He is certainly the most well known and responsible for much of the more interesting and widely discussed lore. Especially regarding religion and metaphysics.

But he is not the only one. For example, the original writer, who has produced some of my favorite in-game books, is Ted Peterson[0]. There is a great interview with him on YouTube[1].

[0] https://en.m.uesp.net/wiki/General:Ted_Peterson

[1] https://youtu.be/AegrlefXuwE
> Experts can still detect if something is a deep fake

For how long?
By extracting the firmware^1 one can see that GL.inet provides a cloud storage service. This is opt-in. It is not enabled by default. The cloud storage has a telemetry address listed in /etc/config/glbigdata (and a ping address to Google at 8.8.8.8). Perhaps one could use the service and change "telemetry.goodcloud.xyz" to the loopback or delete it. I have no inclination to test this as I do not use cloud storage.

1. https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/download.gl-inet.com/firm...

With default configs IME one will see some constant traffic to 8.8.8.8. This is from OpenWRT mwan3's default configs. These defaults are left unchanged by GL.inet and probably other routers running OpenWRT. I have never seen anyone complain about this traffic. I doubt this is what is being referred to as "telemetry" in the above comment. Nevertheless, it is constant pinging to Google, OpenDNS or some other third party. In typical Linux fashion, mwan3, a daemon not every user is going to need, is enabled by default anyway.

https://github.com/gl-inet/gli-pub/raw/master/mwan3/files/et...
I went to doctors way more in 2020 than I ever did before. For me, the reason why going to the
doctor's office sucks is because it was hard to tell when doctors were actually trying to take
care of me vs. trying to get me to buy more of their services.

An opthamologist tried to get me to buy PRK when I didn't need it. (I was trying to treat an
allergic reaction to contacts. Switching to dailies fixed it...a year and thousands of dollars
later.)

Several dermatologists have tried to sell me their lotions and ointments.

The last dentist I went to tried to upsell clear braces on me despite clearly not wanting them.

The services being expensive does suck, but the upselling sucks more.
Well its a common refrain when discussing startups and high growth business. I'm basically quoting the (ultimately correct) argument about AWS and Amazon as a whole from a decade ago. People were concerned about Amazon not being profitable (or being just barely profitable) for a long time. And then eventually they decided to be profitable.
I agree. Not convinced I see a sustainable market here.
> How is that legal?

You are forgetting the number of democratic countries which forced their COVID app from Appstore/Playstore on their citizens. They came short of calling it mandatory download but mandated the app as entry pass for several services.

You don't use a monopoly powered smartphone? You cannot afford a phone at all? Tough luck buddy(/s).

Only reason these COVID pass apps didn't stick around in the democratic countries is because the apps didn't do what's it's supposed to do; Ironically because the app couldn't be made mandatory download thereby not achieving the critical mass.
I think the idea is to align the financial incentives of the employee with the financial incentives of the company. Some companies (usually pre-revenue ones) might also do it to reduce cash expenses, but that seems unlikely to be Google's motivation in this case for the reason you pointed out.
After refreshing Amazon's Ryzen page for a month to get a 5950x, I finally bit the bullet and paid 200$ extra to buy it from a scalper. Even though I paid more than the list price I think the value of this CPU is insane compared to the competition. IMO AMD massively under-priced their product.
Maybe if all those tabs have videos playing?
And given the amount of energy I spend keeping the primary one alive and happy, the last thing in the universe I want is to double that pain
This isn't true and looks to be a statistical issue. And the myth that you'll become an abuser is terrible one that haunts many abused individuals to this day.

To expand on this the two reasons for this myth are abusers tend to lie about their childhoods to gain sympathy. And basically there are a bunch of confounds that both increase the likelihood you will be abused and that you will be an abuser but there's no real causation.
Open source has nothing to do with it when it is difficult / impossible / highly unlikely that anyone actually has a free device. What kind of developer would make something for an alternative app store which would be installable on 0.001% of devices?

If anything they took more from the community in terms of the Linux kernel etc then they have given back with useful technology when it comes to phones.
So Google can manage hundreds of feature/experiment flags on accounts to control which shade of blue you see in an A/B test, but silo-ing which products an account has access to just isn't possible?
What countries were that?
I cannot imagine the police taking an interest in a case like that, let alone a DA prosecuting it, absent other factors making it politically important.
Im in the process of purging data off s3. I suspect it will be about two weeks of work and I calculate it will save me roughly 250k over the "lifetime" of my product.

What I think too few people understand about s3 is that costs on S3 compound. Every month you not only pay for data you stored in the current month but you also pay for the data stored in every month previously.
What is your PayPal?
We did write something very similar: “Mighty does three things to protect your data: your data lives on our secure servers that are audited by 3rd party security firms, it has tight control in terms of who can access it, access is heavily audited and logged, and your most sensitive data is also encrypted.”

Can we do better? Sure and we will. I am really committed to that as a security conscious person.
I'm curious whether the issue the author identifies (real or not) with ultrasonic humidifiers applies also to humidifiers that simply blow air through a wet membrane..
This is an incredibly detailed way to describe a strawman for the purposes of feeling correct on hacker news.
This seems pretty poorly researched, or at least poorly presented.

The numbers the author uses to quantify "life cost", as far as I can tell, come entirely from one graph in the section "A heuristic to quantify harms". The author examined the life-years lost from exposure to ambient particles in multiple countries around the world, concluding that

>being exposed to 2500 PM2.5 for one year costs 1 DALY

But that line comes from a chart with a range of about 10-100 describing constant exposure to ambient particles. Even if we assume the author's line is correct, identifies a real effect, and correctly ascribes causality, it is not reasonable to draw the conclusions they do.

The author speculates burning a cone of incense, which will produce a concentration of about 4000 for a few hours. This is forty times the largest value on the graph and is some 100,000 times shorter in duration. It is ludicrous to try to extrapolate without a great deal more evidence.

And, obviously, the types of particles found in the air outside are not the same as the ones found inside.

It's a shame that there is some good information on this page ruined by this one bit of shoddy statistics.
Micro Four-Thirds (2020)
Epik and Namecheap are pretty good imo. Definitely don't use GoDaddy.

EDIT: One can find several instances where users search domain names on GoDaddy and they are available at regular price but when they try to place the order, the domain is no longer available and must be bought at a premium price.
Twitter's special move was a character limit. There are people who just want the browser and will ironically pay a premium to have that one thing done very well.
Could air quality degradation leading to this be caused by a lifetime of smoking cigarettes indoors?
Note how the other replies to this comment besides mine refer not to the dystopian future predicted by the GP, but to the present.
Plantuml won't even run with uBlock on. Well it will run, but no diagram. Not that interested in trying to divine just which little thing it wants on to work given there are so many alternatives.
"Governments are incapable of doing sensible things involving ever changing technology."

- I moved to Australia about 4 years ago. I'm pretty convinced that the Australian Gov is much ahead in regards to tech adoption compared to most places in EU and US. In my 4+ years in Oz, I had to visit an offline institution exactly 3 times (you can do almost everything online). Everything's been flawless, super easy and very well integrated - from procuring various docs to submitting a tax return.

- Yes, we can always find something that could be improved; however, if you compare how things are run in Oz to most other countries, you will find out it's much ahead.
I'd extend this even further: never use a single account for more than one purpose. Create a separate account at the same company for the other purpose. Some examples:

- Every product/project you manage should be on a separate account on Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc.

- Nothing tied to your consumer accounts should be used for anything business related.

- Your Amazon shopping account and your AWS account should definitely not be the same account.

- Don't use services where you're required to mix accounts like this.

Some examples:

- If the issue in this thread is actually an automatic ban, account siloing very likely would have avoided the issue. ([edit] likely, it would not have been possible to silo accounts in this case, as a child comment points out)

- Facebook apparently lacks the willingness to block an account from Marketplace, but they will block an account from all Facebook properties.

- Paypal has banned businesses because the account was created years ago by someone who at the time the account was created was 17.

The point of this isn't that it's impossible to connect the dots that you are the same person. The point is to make it difficult for an automated system to deal too much damage to you, and make it difficult for someone looking at a single account's history from accumulating too many "strikes" against that account.
the problem is you are presenting a false dichotomy:

> if they bowed to pressure so people can execute whatever software on my device

Who is proposing that? Nobody.
I found meds to have enhancing effects on my code. Everything I have earned is because of it.

My best guess is you are still in the phase of titration and finding the correct type of medication that works for you.

Having an empathetic doctor who is willing to work with you can make that road smoother. She printed out papers from pubmed to help me better understand what I'll be taking and what to expect. It felt very nice to actually be taken seriously.

I do notice that the other experiences may not truly reflect the efficacy of medication. The actual symptoms are still not well defined, not all doctors are equal, being misdiagnosed, etc.

Hard truth? It's still guess and check. There are so many comorbid conditons associated with ADHD - most of the time it is just the symptom of an underlying cause. ADHD meds only work on people with ADHD :)
As a reference, I've got more than 100 open tabs on this Firefox Android (it counts them up to 99 then it displays ∞) and probably another one hundred on my desktop (Ubuntu /Gnome), split on five windows on five different desktops. I can't assess the speed of Safari because it doesn't run on my hardware. It could be faster but those Firefoxes don't feel slow and don't slow down when the number of tabs increases. I don't have a really large number of open tabs though.
That would sure beat talking to a brick wall and get stonewalled without any recourses.
The article does not contain the quotations you listed.
When I was in grad school, the university's Student Union provided an extended health insurance plan. To get a reimbursement, you had two options for submitting a claim: (1) Paper forms submitted via the student union or (2) the insurance company's app which was only for Apple devices. The app's only functionality was to facilitate taking a photo (of a receipt) and uploading that photo, along with the user's details. While I've heard that they now have a Google Play app, I still have zero understanding of why they don't simply have a website where one can upload a photo and associated details.
Google needs a general support line that doesn’t involve a Medium post making the HN front page
By non-consenting do you mean says no or didn't say yes?
Destructuring in JavaScript. Everything you need to know
This is a good list. One other important thing to do if you can help it is to never live near a road. Any road, even infrequently driven on ones. If there's only one car per day on a road, but you live ten feet from it, and occasionally the wind blows the exhaust in your direction, you're breathing that in. Walls don't help. Live at least one mile in a straight line from highways.
I'd say - use any platform for what it's good at. Extract value from platform.
Benefit from it, monetise it, let it help you to gather users or following.

But NEVER rely on any propriately platform for your business. You're NOT in control.

Make sure you have a contingency plan. Have backup (whatever it is for your business).

Make sure you have direct, alternative contacts with your users if platform goes nuts.
Not going to name countries and trigger a slugfest. But will include the List of countries with official contact tracing apps[1] and you can search for which services those apps were mandated. EFF commentary on these apps[2].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_apps#List_of_countrie...

[2]https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/09/covid-19-tracking-tech...