skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was actually for this reason alone that a top secret team of scientists came up with wingdings.
https://www.krackattacks.com/

Probably referring to the internet drama related to silent patching and disclosure embargo. There are some details here, and others on various mailing lists, including an airing of differences if you want to look for that sort of thing after making a bowl of popcorn.
> Governments should make it illegal to pay ransom.

That won't really change anything, other than add 'break a law' to 'lose tons of $$' and 'lose data/time' to the list of bad things a company will deal with to recover from a ransomware attack.
>There is no such harm

There is harm to developers or companies where Apple is holding access to a large market.
Trump has political reasons for wanting to be seen having taken the vaccine. If his doctors felt it wasn't the best treatment but wasn't particularly harmful, would they deny him the vaccine? Right or wrong, doctors write scripts all the time that are a limited to no value because the patient wants it and if there is little to no harm from it.
Corruption, or reasonable policy?
Both of those things are wasteful and harmful government excesses. Handouts just take the cake between the two
Yeah, you do. Apps routinely disappear from the AppStore, e.g. after some M&A and such. They just vanish from your purchase history without a trace. No way to get a copy if you don't have one already.
There's a nuance here the article mentions in passing but missed the significance of (IMHO):

The ARV (assessed rental value) system that produces low effective tax rates for ultra-luxury condos is state legislation that predominantly impacts NYC. This is what makes reform so difficult. Most of NYS are SFH owners who simply don't pay their share of the property tax burden so resist any attempt to reform the system.

Here's what NYC needs:

1. Ultra-luxury condos need to pay a higher effective property tax rate than where normal people live;

2. SFHs and condos owned by corporations or those not tax resident in NYC need to pay a higher rate. NYC shouldn't be simply for billionaires parking money in a city they visit for 2 days a year;

3. No tax abatements (421a) for ultra-luxury properties. Why are we subsidizing this at all?

4. SFHs and condos of similar property value should pay a similar rate of tax.

Currently developers build ultra-luxury property because it's way more profitable than building affordable property. This needs to change.
stop paying and the software stops working

This is the major problem. I do know indies who have used workarounds just so they aren't held hostage. I wouldn't use subscriptions for my own personal creative work. So, yes, the customer base is indeed changing- to those who mainly work for others.
Defense costs are always higher. A bullet runs about 25 cents, but bullet-proof jackets are hundreds of dollars. Still often worth it.
Yes, and it's appropriate to address Trump with the same honorific. But referring to him in present tense as "the president" is quite different than addressing him as "Mr. President", and it's the former that raises an eyebrow

Curiously, your link suggests that Trump liked people calling him Mr. Trump even while he was president, where that was seen as passive aggressive when done to Bush II.
It seems creepy to me, especially given how many legitimate reasons there are now to distrust Big Tech. It seems like an abusive husband can plant a tag on his wife (or her car, or purse, ...) and track her quite effectively. Also, even without that, doesn't it just give Apple even more insight as to how you live your life?

This seems like one of those 'features' where 20% of the benefit is for the end-user, but the gold mine 80% is in the long-tail that goes to the company.
That's a misunderstanding. We're just trying to have an internet forum that doesn't suck in predictable ways. People come to HN for relief from that, in the hope of finding something that's a little more interesting. If they come here and see people yelling the same angry, recycled points over and over again, that's obviously not interesting. It isn't because of emotion per se, and the idea that the people operating this site have any sort of anti-emotional ideology is far off base! I don't identify with that any more than I imagine you do.
As others have said, there are widely available GPS trackers with cellular connections. There are, of course, also all the ways people did such things pre-GPS. i.e. just finding out where a person lives which is mostly pretty easy.
I did some searching and didn't find anything about use of the OpenPGP standard in ransomware. It appears that ransomware creators don't care about interoperability, which makes sense for their biz.

A doubt that anyone has ever been motivated to try to break an encryption method just because it was used in some particular ransomware. The methods used are generally not breakable, the mistakes come from stuff like leaving keys laying around in memory or even on the disk.
This seems incredibly dumb. Why not just create a tax category for condos and set a fair percentage for that, based on sale price?

The whole matter of finding an analogous rental unit and extrapolating effective tax value is absurd. It seems like the kind of kludge you'd invent to live with an incomplete process. The solution is not to complain about the results but to fix the process.

Also absurd is blaming the problem on how old the relevant laws are. Are these laws written in stone? "Law makers didn't anticipate this" is an excuse for a problem that is months old, not decades. Disgraceful.

I wonder if the situation is still as described here or if anything has changed in the intervening years.
Well that’s about 50% of the US market that you’re describing and honestly the US market is the number 1 priority for companies, followed by China. Other countries are faaaar behind in third+ place.
The API Churn/Security Tradeoff (2016)
How do you propose they extend this to other platforms?
Once we provide sufficient funding to coroners and the rules around how the human tissue procurement industry operate are fixed, I might be on board with it if it were accompanied by a big enough public awareness campaign.
Apple's "differential privacy" seems to be FLOC by another name.
Funny thing is, it still works on my iPhone, but stopped working on my iPad. Strange stuff.

Either way, it was a great app and I very much disagree with their reasons for discontinuing it.
I took the speaker out of the one I keep in my street parked motorcycle. I don't need to speaker functionality for that. It's only for theft.

Took all of 3 minutes. Super convenient.
I think there is just more demand for SWEs. Nearly every company will have software engineers, but not every company has data scientists and even the ones that do will almost certainly have more engineers than data scientists.

After all, you can't use data science to optimise your product or service if you don't have sufficient engineers to build it and maintain it in the first place.
Check out our foiling ferry P-30 that already is paid for by the city of Stockholm and will be launched Q4 2022:

https://candelaspeedboat.com/public-transport/
To get started, they say “Request a Trial”. You know it’s going to be pricy. And difficult to resell once you’re done.
best way? maybe not.

very easy and cheap; yes
Consent isn't universal or eternal. Without commenting on the relationship the commenter has with their family, in general, whenever you give someone something that leaks information, it's worth letting them know and allowing them to make a choice.
Oh, right as a contractor it's no doubt still stressful. I'm talking from the point of view of an owner's engineer - utility companies tend to be pretty relaxed for internal employees.
This would not be ideal because it would go against the very concept of the United States. It’s a union of states, full stop.
Its a network effect. Its basically the dominant players become more dominant. It makes apples phone's more useful, and Apple is unlikely to let any competitors use they're phone for a similar service, especially not by default.

If you have an iOS device, you're tracking all these airtags around you physically for Apple. Apple's not paying you for that service. It probably uses a little battery life, but all these individual device make the network great. But if you bought an airtag that's a great thing.
Objective-C supports dynamic dispatch i.e. call methods using a string at runtime.

So it's impossible to have static analysis work in all cases.
> it is not unless your security model is one where codesigning exists to prevent the addition of new native code

It is if your security model includes things like parental controls and payment processing.
Which is it that they’re actually doing? Do you have evidence to show that?
>the best candidates for Coinbase are those who are looking for a highly competitive package and are ready to let their contributions speak for themselves.

I like their concept, but contributions don't speak for themselves.
No negotiations and “equality” but:

We will continue to apply multipliers to our equity and cash rewards for high performers identified through our rigorous performance management process. This way, our high performers receive compensation commensurate with their impact

—-

Can someone explain the difference between how other companies compensate different levels of skillset.
Germany requires FFP2 masks OR op masks. Public transportation requires FFP2, vouchers for FFP2 masks have been issued (huge cash grab for pharmacies, but thats a different story). They are ubiquitous. I just went shopping and all customers wore a ffp2 mask. The cashier was behind totally useless (see: aerosols) plastic shielding and didn't wear any mask thou.
One benefit of shoot-move-shoot is that when combining/compositing the images together in post, you can remove and adjust for temporary artifacts like satellites or terrestrial lighting that would otherwise ruin a long exposure. You can also compensate for motion platform inaccuracies by shifting the location of each layer to keep the object you're trying to image at the same location in the frame. Minutes-long exposures mean you're just ORing all the photons together, and you get what you get.
This kind of gets at the problem: "the 1998 ad doesn't have 32" TVs and the modern website doesn't have 27" TVs in stock". We're not talking about everyone being able to afford a better TV than before; instead, the TV size at each price and quality tier has gone up over time and people get that size whether they want it or not. A 21" TV used to be a good size for a main set, by around a decade ago you could get a 32" set of reasonable quality for a reasonable price but the 21" ones were bargin-basement with poor picture and sound quality, fast forward to today and 32" are all budget options degraded to the same poor quality (and the same resolution) as 21" ones a decade earlier, with anything smaller a niche product offering poor value. Last I heard 52" was the current tier with good-quality TVs and 42" had already started the quality slide compared to what used to be available in that size.

Also, there's a really obvious reason to think that 1998's 50" TV was not worth $1500 in raw, unadjusted dollars to the vast majority of people: almost no-one bought it at that price. In theory this principle applies to every item that used to be available with both cheaper and more expensive options but now only has the option which is more expensive: that improvement is worth less to people than the price difference when they both used to be available, or there wouldn't have been a market for the cheaper option back then.
Serious curiosity, what's the use case for a week's worth of backup power?

If the grid is up and running, depending on where you live, if the sun isn't out, it seems like a two days backup would be enough to keep you off the grid most of the time.

Assuming there is a blackout, what's the likelihood it will last one week? And would you still need to maintain your normal electricity consumption during a week long blackout in your area? Wouldn't you be able to scale back?

I've never looked into this, but I'm curious what are the scenarios people are planning/preparing for when looking at solar and battery backups?
Yes great overview and that allele frequency graph is the best! I didnt know how to articulate it and assumed someone would just deflect toward east asian.
When the first Raspberry Pi came out, I remember digging up benchmarks and - if I remember correctly - the $35 Pi was at least 4x faster than the SparcStation 20's we all fought to get neural net training time on in our grad school lab.
Wow, you can actually use iSH to install PHP, run `php -S localhost:8080` and view index.php or whatever in Safari. I had no idea this was possible on iOS. Thanks!
I struggle with understanding just what a physical thing is? If a particle is an excitation of a quantum field, then what is a quantum field? Is it anything more than just information?
But I like film grain. :) Barring exaggerated sharpening, it's closer to how it looks in a cinema film projection.
Origins of Covid-19: Who Opened Pandora’s Box at Wuhan – People or Nature?
The long article looks into potential sources of COVID-19. Was it created by nature, or something that has run out from a laboratory?

The article goes deep into the studies performed by Wuhan laboratory... which spend years creating coronavirus hybrids. Then it also looks into connections of researchers who claim that the lab is not at fault [hint: the biggest defenders seem to be connected with the lab].

The author tries to also dive a bit how the hybrid viruses work.
I don't see how there could be much overlap in the Venn diagram of "people that are determined to stalk you" and "people that can't afford a $30 GPS tracker but can afford a $30 AirTag (even though they apparently own an iPhone)".
The scrolling animation thing is kind of distracting to me. Also it gets stuck when I'm scrolling down, with the graphic not changing for a while, and then suddenly skips forwards through the animation a whole bunch.

Essentially analogous to an animated intro page that doesn't play quite properly, stuttering and skipping.

Genuinely harder to use than a simpler page. Have to scroll down rather slowly to be confident that I'm not missing any of what it says.

It isn't really clear to me what this is for either. There's no link to documentation for what it can do. It says you can search your tabs. Firefox ~~and chrome~~ [edit : apparently chrome doesn't have this?? In which case yeah I see the point of this extension now.] already have that. Just type "%" followed by your search term in the url box.

Something it mentions which seems like it might be useful to me is the ability to close tabs, but it isn't clear quite what it means by that. If it means "you can say to close all tabs that match a particular search string", or something like that, that would be useful.

But, the example it shows for commands has like, commands for the back button and forwards button. There are already keyboard shortcuts for those. This makes it seem like it is saying it lets you type in a command to close the current tab, which is useless because there is already a keyboard shortcut for that.

Is this supposed to be an extension which is a platform for other extensions? It is unclear. Maybe the github page has more information?
There's a lot of vaporware out there, but this foiling ferry has been paid for by the City of Stockholm and will launch next year:

https://candelaspeedboat.com/public-transport/
> Good data scientist described here seems to have unrealistic expectations at super human level of know-it-all/do-it-all.

Hmm. Know-it-all/do-it-all is a useful standard to strive for, though, even when, in practice, one will often fall short in one area or another.

One of my personal frustrations is that I have invested heavily in trying to be well-rounded and it doesn't quite pay dividends because of how often I find myself confronted with prejudice of the form "because he's good at X, that probably means he's bad at everything else". For example, if the first impression I leave on someone is that I'm good at math, they'll often jump to the conclusion "because he's good at math, that probably means he's bad at databases". If the first impression I leave is that I know a lot about finance & economics, they'll assume "because he knows a lot about finance & economics, that probably means he can't do projects in a technical domain" and so forth.
For the sake of Henry's privacy this should not have been posted.
The ones who should be very worried and willing to pay for this "protection" are exactly the huge companies that have a lot in stake. It is completely absurd that they still want to reach for the taxpayer to pay for protecting their monopolies.
These 5 Principles Will Accelerate Innovation
OMG I never thought about it this way. That's a very interesting and quite accurate description, thank you!
Arguing that is something an army doesn't do. It murders when asked to murder.
I'd love to see how you casually disguise any of those sewn into a dog collar! Pics, please!
As I've told someone today, we're shooting lightning through sand and somehow it all works.

There are network effects of network effects at work inside computer systems. We can harden a path. Two paths, sure. Three, why not. 4 billion? No way to be sure.

It's also a matter of it being an aggressor's game. The defense has to be perfect every single time. The offense just has to win once. And they get infinite tries. And they suffer no penalty for failure.
It's not the same, but it's enough to protect what they really care about money-wise.
> There’s a clear answer to Babel’s funding woes: sell the new version of Babel, Babel 8. At least until Babel 9 comes out. Then sell Babel 9.

https://writing.kemitchell.com/2021/05/11/Sell-Babel-8.html
I don’t think showing file extensions is a secret setting. But I’ll definitely check out the app.
I am very sad for my cracked monitor!
The rule of thumb is about 80% for me - an $80K employment salary is worth about $100K contracting.
But that only applies to targets who are "in the game." If you are a government entity or listed company or act as their agents, then you know that security is an issue and are paid well enough to make a decent effort. Whether you do or not is a different issue.

Grandma doesn't have security audits, wouldn't know how to do one, and couldn't afford it if she did. She is the victim here. She might call the police but they will file a report and forget it. The only chance of getting caught is some larger agency like the FBI picking it up and going after you. This is highly unlikely.

The only thing stopping Grandma from getting ransomed is making it difficult to pay. If your ransom depends on walking Grandma through the 15 step process of paying you, then it's unlikely to happen or be profitable.
Failure Theory
Wow, so you can actually find the settings through two routes, I didn't know that but it makes it even easier!

The only jump that is not immediately obvious is that the Find My settings are under your Apple ID settings. Everything else is blindingly obvious and is not confusing at all. You being confused does not mean the average person will also be confused. You could just be a confused person.

From there though, it is a root level option when setting up your phone and enabling "Find My iPhone".

I'm actually disappointed that the disabling of the network is even an option.

Bit of a tragedy of the commons situation if we have too many selfish people like you who want the benefits of being able to find their own phone when it's lost but not participate in helping find other people's.
It only makes no sense if you have a black/white view of the world.

Some apps will run on device and need the full performance e.g. video editing. Other apps will be a thin client.
Steve Jobs on Ideas versus Execution
A fossil's a fossil.
Back in the day you could disconnect some modems by sending certain strings over any higher level protocol, e.g. ICMP or IRC.
well so far nothing has been implemented so maybe they'll predict the past once we have sufficiently advanced into the future.

Then again I searched for 'blockchain' and couldn't find it in the proposal so for sure they'll get turned down.
It’s always been my working assumption that WiFi security should be presumed to be broken until it is proven to be broken.
People keep mistaking cdc, who, and other bureaucracies actions for something other than overcompensating for earlier incompetence and inaction. Bureaucracy is not driven by performance, it is driven by maintaining whatever current acceptable status quo is.
Well, I can't speak for why it might be tracable, but can conversely testify that it has dedicated mechanisms for obfuscating and confusing transaction details such as who sent money, who received it, and how much was transferred- mechanisms which are used by default for every transaction, not just for "private" transactions, creating a cloudy swarm of activity in which you can only really tell that "transactions are happening" without access to (or the intense brute-force effort of obtaining) one of the several private keys involved in any given action.

Some ground-laying patents have been filed by CipherTrace, but I think it speaks for itself that the IRS's $625,000.00 bounty on tracing Monero still stands.
No, not "as if" that, they both could accomplish this goal, and I'm talking specifically about this situation.
It says:

"Find My Network: Participating in the Find My network lets you locate this iPhone even if its offline"

So in fact there is no option (there at least) to opt out of finding other people's AirTags unless you also want to opt out of finding your own iPhone, at least as stated.
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Has Singapore actually deployed anything? All I've ever seen over the past 20 years is an endless series of rumors and announcements concerning collaboration.

I know Singapore has extensive relations with Israel regarding more mundane activities--training, arms, etc. And they both have good reasons to nurture rumors that their collaboration is more sophisticated than it really is. Israel because the mythos helps them sell more traditional weapons systems; Singapore because to the extent they can appear as militarily superior as Israel in the Middle East, Singapore's
neighbors are less likely to attempt a serious arms race.

I think for similar reasons Singapore likes to train extensively with the U.S. and Australia, where they station several of their own air wings. Both those nations have top-notch professional armies, and Singapore rightly has a good reputation AFAIU, but I suspect the image is at least as important.
I really loved reading through this one. Such a great idea for a story.
Isn't this the same construct as Searle's Chinese Room ?
"The OpenSSL Software Foundation has just two supporters under its corporate sponsorship program, each committing around $5,000 each. It also picks up some donations via GitHub Sponsors."

From https://writing.kemitchell.com/2021/05/11/Sell-Babel-8.html
Several of the implementation flaws allow an attacker to essentially inject plaintext frames in a Wi-Fi network. All that's needed is being within range of the network (with an extender you can still be far away). I agree that the design flaws aren't that serious! But that's also explicitly mentioned on the website so...

Edit: injection can be used to punch a hole in the router's NAT so someone can directly try to attack your devices. As always there world isn't burning down. But I think it's interesting research :)
The tax and income disparity between states is kind of the point. It's a real live AB testing of the tax code.

You just don't like it because it's clear that low tax is a better and more democratically supported policy.
Not sure why he's downvoted. It can be. I did it myself in 3 minutes using only a knife.
Globalization is a good thing. It is directly responsible for the almost complete elimination of global poverty.
Unelected?