skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone's discussing technical measures to lock their phone or prevent these measures from working under particular circumstances, but nobody is commenting on the dystopian nightmare we find ourselves in.

Phones contain so much private information that it's incredible that they are not given special treatment in law.

Data on a phone never killed anyone.

Cops are conducting warrantless searches of people's phones with impunity and it has become normalized. The potential for misuse or damage from leaks of that data is huge.

And even worse, no political party is even talking about changing that anachronistic, disgusting status quo. It's just more and more draconian laws to hack and spy on innocent citizens, "for our safety", and even worse, mass spying that is actually illegal goes unpunished.

Even worse, the whistleblowers who brought these illegalities to light are being disappeared in various ways.

I don't know what we can do about it but it is just so disappointing and sad. Where are the good guys to protect us?
> My money is on "hardcoded admin backdoor

Mine are on UPnP and shitty firmware web server
> stopped being a brand altogether in 2018.

Unless WD changed their mind again, HGST HDD is still available as of 2021 because customer has been demanding the exact same HDD with exact same model number from the exact same plant. Basically they want to know it is the same old HGST and not WD. And some ( if not most ) of them are large, enterprise customers. So they brought it back in ~2019 (without an announcement).
I would be amazed if less than 5 million people in India used iMessage.
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anbox is fine but the friction is just too great. last i tried was like year or two ago. it just ran stock apps. thats it.

my question was, why cant we use manjaro or ubuntu, double click on an apk and run it like an appimage? i am asking from the POV of an end user. I dont understand bytecode or ndk. if windows 11 can freely run an android app like it was a .exe, why cant my linux machine do that? anbox aside.
this is interesting. Usually EoL devices is not really updated all the time.
You could give Devs two options

A) Give me X% of revenue, and I will give you free hosting of your app, and some form of promotion.

B) No commission, but you host your own binaries. To be a valid installable app, you need to give me a hash of the binary valid to install, that I have approved before. Each audit of binaries cost X. No promotion for free in the app store.
To all non Windows users

http://nvidia-research-mingyuliu.com/gaugan/
I don't know. Maybe server-side analysis? Just don't ship borderline malware kernel modules and there will be no problems.
From the CVE, the Overall CVSS Score was only 9.8

That means they were still 0.2 away from the worst possible vulnerability score.

So, on the one hand, Could be worse! On the other hand, there could be a software dev sitting out there thinking "I screwed up big time & didn't even get a perfect score on it. Oh well, better luck next time."
If you pull the thread all the way back - if it’s morally right to pay reparations, it would also be morally correct in the same vein, to give the land back. That is correct. If they wanted the land back, and I had to move, I wouldn't be opposed to that, and I'd imagine my opinion is more common than one might expect.

That said, I'm not sure how useful the point is. I've very rarely heard a native person say they would like that. I have heard that proposed, usually drunken and angry over beer. When I was a kid my dad had the Chief of Couchiching First Nation over for dinner. In my 17 year old wisdom, I eagerly explained how sad it is that natives don't want to go live in Toronto. He said, natives would love to be in Toronto, if Toronto was a little more like a reserve. I think they have unfortunately long accepted they've been colonized, the treaties were not honored, and their culture was destroyed. Meaningful reparation at this point is unlikely to be about land or money, it's about Canada accepting it cannot be Canada without real change to re-incorporate the culturual growth that was strangled.
From what I understand Snapchat has more daily active users than Twitter and also a user base growing much faster.
I’ve been looking at ways to minimize my own tax exposure.

College savings accounts are similar to 401ks, but they usually have a limit on the amount you can save.

Makes sense here.
Ask HN: Self hosted captable management, alternative to Carta and Pulley?
Finally getting around to learning full stack JS. Been doing Angular/React on the frontend for a while, but never did much beyond that.
Carbon Impact of Video Streaming
That’s the only interpretation that at least makes some kind of sense.

Not that I agree with it. Signal and iMessage have way more in common than they do differently, but at least it’s a coherent sentence.
As they should. A drive failing after 12 years is a successful outcome that only 50% of drives reach.
What a fantastic website. Reminds me of Encarta 97
From the description of the PoC at https://www.wizcase.com/blog/hack-2018/

curl -kX GET -d ‘bim=param`whoami`’ https:///panel/rest/configuration

How does one get to resolve /panel/rest/configuration?
Verify that your previous backup drive is readable before writing to the next backup drive.

But hey, if you just got a ransomware note, and think "I'm good, I have my backups!", wouldn't you want to flip the read-only switch before plugging in those backup drives? I would. In fact, I'd flip that switch always before trying to read from a backup drive.
100%. It’s why their margins are way leaner.
For me, using Facebook cookies in the same browser as work stuff blows my mind. I specifically write in the onboarding of my employees “Create a separate Chrome or FF profile to use your Facebook and other personal browsing”, and only half respect this rule, interns being specifically bad (experience workers do want work/home isolation). They receive quite a scolding when I catch them, but the damage is done: All websites have immediately registered who they are associated with, who their colleagues are, etc.

Stringent security rules and obnoxious firewalls exist because people don’t respect cool rules.
That's the market share, not the number of tablets
One of the reasons this is abusive: it allows Mr. Thiel greater liquidity than other investors.

Most other investors have to pay taxes when they reallocate equity. Not Mr. Thiel.
In the same vein, why bother with 'for' and 'while' loops. You could just use a label and a goto statement.
Pushing the "limits of tolerable behavior" are why the books were band as well.
Yeah I think this is indeed skewed. Per capita bike theft is gonna be higher if those "capita" own more bikes!
Ahem?
Love the idea of pre-fab, but this thing is just charmless.

Fake-wood plastic floors

Fake-wood MDF cabinetry, with superfluous detailing

Plastic benchtops

Horrible overhead lighting layout.

The 'LCD television-as-wall-divider' is the cherry on top of this nightmare.

The problem isn't simply that they've chosen cheap, poor-substitute materials, the whole thing has been thrown together with no sense of design or cohesion.

Good design costs almost nothing - Contrast it with this Australian modular / pre-fab: https://www.dwell.com/article/wattle-bank-tiny-shipping-cont...

It also uses inexpensive materials (Untreated plywood for the interiors, shipping containers for the structure), but it's thoughtfully designed and quite beautiful.
> Ultimately the best way to have fair games is to promote finding players through avenues other than official matchmaking: friends or even just random people on something like discord.

Completely agree with you. The current online gaming model where people play with untrustworthy strangers is stupid and broken. We should be playing with friends. Instead we get invasive rootkits installed in our computers and they don't even fully prevent cheating.
Completely in character. That's why he holed up in his boat and fought. Only realistic chance of being compensated is pitching a big enough fit that public opinion is on your side. If he had killed some of the officers it may have been a bigger deal and gone better for him, sadly.
Why are people giving their IPs and other identifying info to a stranger (by loading a website), then giving them their passwords?

What reason do I have for generating a hash of my password in this context?
My point was, it's both.

There are a handful of countries who did not benefit from shady dealings and still made it through and the one you pointed out was built by a enlightened and relatively benevolent genius. Hard to scale that.
They would. But if there was a software vulnerability that would wipe out the hard drives of computers still realistically in use, much past that 3 year agreement expiry? i'd expect them to be on that.
> "you've engaged in this discussion, ergo that invalidates your engagement in this discussion"

I can’t figure out which part of my comment could be misinterpreted as having said this - please point it out to me so I can clarify my intent.

> “there is zero sincerity in your … comment”

I was very sincere in both of my points, those being, in summary, that your comments in the thread I replied into seem both insensitive and unevidenced.

> “ it's important to view all players as intelligent, rational, negotiating, and ultimately selfish human beings. It's important not to treat aboriginals as childlike, brainless caricatures like mrow84 does (e.g. the "noble savage").”

My only mention of people’s actions other than your own was to say that those searching for their relatives’ remains should probably not be characterised as engaging in a culture of horseshit. You can think what you like, but equating that with “treat(ing) aboriginals as childlike, brainless caricatures” seems like a bit of a stretch. If you think about it you might realise that there is quite a bit of ground between the two.

I feel compelled to note that your response contains no justification for your previous comments’ assertions. I am inclined to think that my original assessment was spot on.
Fast and Furious Is the Greatest Blockbuster Franchise. This Is How It Happened
Not that I doubt it, but a Wikipedia page isn't great evidence ... might you have a better source?
After using exclusively WD for some decades I've seen the WD Red fiasco[1] and decided to not use WD any more.

[1]: https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/04/14/wd-red-nas-drives-shin...
See, I would care less about all this phoning home if I got the option to opt out like that.
5G Cyber Security Hack 2021
When a car manufacturer sells a car, in many parts of the world they're supposed to still offer parts for it for 7 years after they stop selling it, by law.
Most people will never hear about it.
The software focused teams all use Linux workstations afaik, look at their job boards and blind. Their embedded systems (robotics / av) are all Linux as well.
Please no.

CI systems like GitHub actions and CircleCI use to have unlimited CI minutes until people started abusing them for things they weren't intended for (i.e. crypto mining).

I would hate if I had to pay for DNS services (or be forced into using an ISP one which does things like blacklist certain domains) just because people on the internet wanted to be 'cool' and show off how smort they are.

This is why we can't have nice things.
Such simple protection works even for developers if they use smartphone because navigating DevTools on smartphone is complex task.
I have been seriously considering doing a tiny acquisition myself as a gambit to get back into tech after a very long period away.

Frankly, it's been hard to find something that seemed serious or at least real and somehow worthy of existing in the world (I get that this is my own internal value judgement). I left with the impression that this sort of thing is like the tech version of /r/CrackheadCraigslist.

Also, it didn't help that at least one of these sorts of sites demands users link to their LinkdIn account to even see the projects that are for sale. I think LinkdIn is creepy enough on its own and that really put me off.
Where are these 100 anchor-outs? I can't find even a tiny fraction of that number plausibly anchored on google sat view.

I tried to find some pictures of these boats or more information. Found something here: https://pacificsun.com/tensions-rising-on-richardson-bay-as-...

More pictures (google image search for "sausalito anchor outs"):

https://www.google.com/search?q=sausalito%20anchor%20outs%20...*

The other perspective, from Latitude 38 (the local "zine" for sailors on the bay):

https://www.latitude38.com/lectronic/another-close-call-on-r...
That still cannot even uninstall anything, right? That was promised as some time "in the future".
I ended up selling my Nvidia card for an AMD one. I was having so many problems with Linux like you're describing, and now they're all gone :)
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Nitpick: Deutch had two Macintosh Desktop computers at home (one in Maryland and one in Belmont). He did also have a laptop (marked UNCLASSIFIED) that was found to have classified data on it, but it's not clear that this was used by his family.

In addition, he had PCMCIA cards (this was before thumb drives) that contained classified data and were used in the unclassified desktops and/or laptops.
The entire deep learning / AI industry relies on running GPU compute on Linux, mostly CUDA on Nvidia GPUs.
I think OS 11 got rid of booting from external drives, but I'm not sure. I know that CCC can't make bootable backups for 11.
I believe your saying creation of tissues devoid of consciousness. Is that what you meant?
Incidentally, it looks like Semantic Web is not dead but actually accelerating growth -thanks to current SEO practices abd Google showing semantic data within search results [1]

As for complicated , yeah, but business web platforms like Wix support those as part of SEO capabilities [2]. So you would you need the smb web dev platforms to support NUM to make it a reality?

1. http://webdatacommons.org/structureddata/#toc3

2. https://support.wix.com/en/article/adding-structured-data-to...
I have one, and looked into what I might put on it instead of the unsupported software some years ago.

I had noticed shortly after purchase that it was basically a Debian install, on MIPS if I recall correctly. While WD had essentially washed their hands of the device ages previous, it wasn't going to have a current Linux to put on either. Maybe one of the BSDs could be an option.

Instead of worrying too much about it, I have the remote access feature turned off, and have other backup options in case this goes belly up. I will be looking closely at what vulns come to light as being exploited though.
Ooh, you need to see Barliman.

https://youtu.be/er_lLvkklsk
This thread contains many excellent points, and it's true that LSH is no longer SOTA for ANN problems. Generally, LSH indices are much faster to construct but slower to query than other ANN methods (graph-based, cluster-based, etc). In many applications, construction time matters less than query time, so LSH is unattractive there.

However, I'd like to add that LSH has recently been applied to other types of problems with very good results.

For example, LSH-based methods are at the core of the best sampling methods for kernel density estimation (KDE) and other problems [1,2]. This has recently led to fast approximations for the top eigenvalues of kernel matrices [3], SGD sampling [4], and probably more. LSH can also be used to construct sketches for kernel sums [5], which have applications to bioinformatics and can lead to fast neural network inference [6]. So, LSH is alive and well - just not necessarily for ANN.

(Full disclaimer: I am an author of [5] and [6])

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.10530
[2]: http://proceedings.mlr.press/v97/siminelakis19a
[3]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.08341
[4]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.14162
[5]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02283
[6]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.11426
I got sick of any Debian based OS. On AMD hardware I get nothing but problems on Pop_OS!, Mint, Ubuntu.

Screen tearing, screen flicking, random reboots or screen freezing etc.

Been on Manjaro as the recommendation of someone on HN and it's been absolutely rock-solid. No more random reboots, no screen tearing out of the box, no flicking. Works and works well, but still have the occasional issue.

There was an update the other day where I had to find out which package wasn't being used and remove it so I could do an upgrade. If you update NPM outside of pacman it gets messy when theres an upgrade in pacman.

But after ~10 years of on/off use of Linux, then Jan 2020 putting myself on it full time, I'm a bit over it, Windows just works, since Windows 10 I've never had any issues at all. I miss just getting work done and gaming.

Edit: Oh the thing I hate most about Linux is multi-monitor setup.

I had 2x 1440p monitors, 1 was 144hz and the other was 60hz. If either 1 was connected, boot time was like 20s, very quick, if both were connected, it was 2-3 minutes to boot. Took me ages to figure out having 2 different monitors caused Ubuntu boot times to suffer. If I took the wifes 144hz monitor which was same as mine, boot time < 20s, but mix-match, 2-3 minutes.
We are outraged by the conduct of people in prior generations. What evil are we perpetuating now that our descendants will be outraged by? That is what we should be focused on.

It's much easier to look at evil from a safe distance; we can feel righteous. When the evil is in the mirror, there's no feeling righteous; it's much more complicated; but we can do much more good by actually stopping it now and rather than feeling bad about it later.

(I completely support also researching and addressing what happened at the residential schools. I'm saying that's the easy part.)
Upgrade to the New Windows 11 OS
They implemented Bob Ross.
What a worthless piece of shit this ape species is, especially the smart ones who think they know more than they do. Good riddance. Seattle / Bellevue was full of pompous self important dicks.
iOS is only something like 5 years support ( Which is great ). My Book Live goes as far back as 2011.

I am pretty sure no security update are being provided to iPhone 4s.
This is exactly the point of the blog. If you are using JWT + Workarounds to make it secure, then you'll loose all the benefits. This is why virtually no one in fin-tech use JWT.
Title is slightly misleading. "Developing Games for Linux" is less vague.

Cynically: is this simply a PR stunt by Godot team?
Perhaps other operating systems aren't advanced or powerful enough? Mac doesn't support NVIDIA.
Syncthing now supports untrusted encrypted nodes, and it's fairly reliable.
Either it's advertised through mdns or you add "panel" to your hosts file with the right ip
> What evil

Climate change.
I don't see why this application would be abusive. Chrome does much worse things trying to detect if you are behind a captive portal.

Edit: oh i see, they arent using generic dns but cloudflare's specific DoH gateway. Guess that could maybe be problematic if everyone did that, although if any company would tolerate that it would be cloudflare.
I have Teams on my company issued phone. Can they really monitor and remote erase my device?

edit. It seems like they can remote wipe IF they are using Office 365 with an MDM (like Intune): https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/admin/basic-m...

However I just have Outlook and Teams installed. No MDM like discussed here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Office365/comments/l5n70u/if_i_inst...

Here's a screenshot showing that Outlook is not authorized to remote admin my device. So I should be fine: https://i.imgur.com/K5T4DBK.png
“Project Astoria“: Build Great Windows Apps with Your Android Code (2015)
Given the second attempt being delivered with Windows 11, I felt it was worth remembering the project whose failure gave birth to WSL.

https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2015/2-702
Sail not a _serial_ murderer though. You'd need a few more people for that.
The former.

Can't help but note the power of twisting the language. It's bullshit that he should compete as a woman but of course now I'm the asshole.
This is like the promised neverland
The Perfectionist's Guide to Burnout
I went through this process. Got a little nas device that had linux support. Unfortunately the performance was not good enough for SSHFS and it didn't have enough performance to run any kind of web ui like nextcloud. Eventually got a full power server which could run nextcloud but the hassle of keeping it running, managing backups, and just the cost of the power usage to keep it running made it much more cost and time effective to just use google drive and have all of these problems solved for me.

Google may not be the most trustworthy but I at least trust my data is backed up and safe from hackers.
Meanwhile, I'm co-administering a little Facebook page for a political project and would really like to see it recommended to people. The whole point of being on Facebook is to get more exposition.

I wish people would stop seeing politics as inherently filthy, as opposed to other "hobbies" or volunteerships which are clean. Not all politics are about self-interest; I would argue most activists have the greater good in mind (even though they might disagree vehemently on what that is).
I don’t think the commenter was criticizing Linux. Seemed more a comment on the manufacturers who lazily slap these products together with minimal effort. Taking a free OS, sprinkling a thin layer of their software on top, and then abandoning their responsibility to maintain the full software stack being a common example of that minimal effort.

So, yes, essentially you end up with a bunch of devices running vendor-specific unmaintained Linux distros on the wide open Internet. The “unmaintained” part of that sentence is the problem, not the “Linux” part.
You know the RCMP are the local police in rather a lot of Canada, including being the provincial police in 7 provinces, and the municipal police in a great many municipalities.
Our favorite boardgames that model the natural world (2020)
solution looking for a problem?

though if anyone does know of problems this solves I'd love to hear about them, this is an incredibly cool solution.
Suppose there were a vulnerability in Mac OS X Tiger that wiped the hard drive of any G4 Powerbook connected to the internet. Would you expect Apple to be on that?
Lewis Carroll’s Illustrations for “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground” (1864)
Yeah, but it certainly feels in the right ballpark from my personal experience. I’ve normally got 20 or so drives in use at any time (perhaps fewer spinning rust drives not that ssds are more common), and I have a drive go bad occasionally - not every year or two, but certainly every 5 years. So I reckon they’re at least order of magnitude right.
It's not perfectly legal, but reasonably more legal than the alternative (a key bought from a reseller). Those stickers are meant to be affixed to a machine sold by a reseller, and is only meant to be used for that machine. If the machine is destroyed and the sticker/key is kept, then it can be used, and it does register Windows Professional/Home installation rather than an Enterprise/Education installation, but is in violation of the TOS that it's provided under.

That being said it is difficult to shed a tear for Microsoft of all companies over this practice.
I don’t think it’s meant to be used as a legitimate password generator. It’s meant to showcase the knobs you can tweak on the algorithm. It’s a marketing tool.