skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can run an Android device without ever signing into anything Google. F-droid and Aurora store, APK direct downloads. It is possible. I tried GrapheneOS, but am concerned about long-term development, hardware compromises. Their Element/Matrix threads can get very toxic.
> UUIDv4 (or even worse, the other versions) are regularly used for "security", as you said, when they shouldn't. That won't change with these proposed versions.

UUIDv4 can be entirely suitable for security purposes, so long as the implementation is defined to use a secure RNG, which most sane implementations would be (since that's the dead simplest way to ensure the guarantees of UUIDv4).

Most people use them for security purposes because libraries for UUID tend to make it easy - you get 122bits of randomness (more than enough for many use cases), a nice way to convert to strings in multiple formats, parsers, etc.
> Vetting sources is only basic due diligence.

Right, which is my point.
That’s a really useful explanation.

Thanks!
Also known as the Friedman doctrine. Look how far it got us.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_doctrine

The focus on short-term shareholder value is contraproductive. It's bad for the company, it's bad for society.
Would you? How often do you come into contact with the OS when developing for a phone, let alone use a phone?

Phones are products for people who use them. What sells phones is not what OS is underneath layers and layers of code, but user experience. If we are to even hope for alternatives, this is where the focus needs to be.

If the OS underneath mattered the Nokia Communicator would have been a runaway success. It wasn’t. It was a useless brick of a computer that almost couldn’t do anything compared to even the first generations of smart phones from Apple and Google.
I used to teach a Japanese martial art which involves a lot of sitting in seiza [1] and tatehiza. Basically kneeling and advanced kneeling. It was mind boggling how many adults were unable to do it. And I don't mean kneeling for half an hour. I mean just kneeling, period. So many people can't do it. Weak legs and inflexible ankles seemed to be the main culprits. They improved with practice, so it's not like there's some deeply fundamental anatomical flaw at work. Many people just spend way too much time sitting in chairs, to the detriment of everything else.

Someone once told me: "the most ergonomic position, is the next position".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seiza
Because it is in a remote location where that much energy isn’t neeedwd for daily use
Not scientific but observationally their target market does seem relatively high use on social media - so probably an opportunity if they picked up traction - low budget could also be authentic and black ownership for example is differentiating.

That said the attacks on the existing options read a bit weak - will be fun to see what they come up with!
v4 doesn't use a MAC address, you're thinking of V1 and V2.
IMO this still just comes down to density. Getting to a park just across a 3 lane divided highway isn’t a problem especially via skyway or underground tunnel. Walking 5 miles to that same park isn’t.

Narrow streets can significantly boost city density which then gets people out of their cars. One way streets make crossing traffic easier. But, if there’s nowhere to walk to then it’s all kind of pointless.
Switch to not using Captchas I'd say. Technology can already beat them a solid percentage of the time, so they're becoming just an obsolete tool for blocking obsolete attacks. With ten years left on the patents, amusingly.
This does not add anything valuable to this discussion ( and contains swearwords ).
“By ULA’s definition of success that mission was perfect”
You're welcome!

Meanwhile, I just looked at your profile, and "simulation software for electric utilities" is something I have a very specific interest in. If you feel like telling me more, get in touch.
The perfect is not the enemy of the good. "The west" is definitely not a paragon of virtue, all its flaws notwithstanding, is order of magnitude (or two) better than a CCP style government. I would much rather live in "the west", where i am, than in China.
Amazon is making a switch to low-carbon products and services because it makes sense economically. However the problem is that these solutions are often only low-carbon on paper. Reforestation and carbon capture are not feasible solutions either.

This is disappointing because in a few years companies will be sustainable on paper. This will make a coordinated effort to fight climate change even harder to achieve.

You can see Amazon not walking the talk on their political lobbying.
Internet and TV providers get away with jacking up your bill
Just finished reading Eliot Higgins’ Becoming Bellingcat last night. He stresses how important it is to archive sources because, as we know, stuff online is here today gone tomorrow. Sometimes literally apparently.

International repercussions over stuff like this take years to run their course.
> And some will start asking how important smartphones really are.

I'm having to buy a smartphone to be able to wash my clothes.
Mark Zuckerberg famously asked Xi Jinping to name his daughter. Cultural taboos aside, Facebook would love LOVE LOVE to operate in China.
The thing about these models is that they are not necessary if you want to understand the magnitude of change.

For example, we can estimate correctly (within the same order of magnitude) the emissions of CO2 equivalent gases a year that we do as humanity.

Then we can estimate correctly (within the same order of magnitude) the CO2 equivalent gases stored in permafrost or ice. [0]

Now we can ask a question. What if the ice melts? How many years of 2020 human activity is stored there. It ends up being more than 100 years of 2020 emissions.

It does not really take that much modelling to realize that a temperature increase that melts the permafrost can result in completely unpredictable outcomes, that are very probably not positive.

That is of course, if one believes in human caused climate change. The amount of CO2 equivalent gases that is emitted by everything else (not humans) is magnitudes more, but obviously it was not a problem for the Earth to handle before. Now, the n-th order effects will increase the rate of warming and will cause new invisible effects.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_methane_emissions
> where the information was not open source, relying on some leaked database of russian passports instead

If the information Was reasonably obtainable by anyone, I would flag this as grey literature. That is OSINT.
I have never met anyone who lives in the suburbs because "the city wasn't walkable."

It is always because they want a larger house, more land, and no shared walls.
Just seeing the both sides appeal and beg politicians for favors makes me sick. Does ANYONE involved have any clue about what cryptocurrencies are about? Bunch of socialists.
Thank you for your addition it makes my points more clear perhaps
13 Misconceptions About Global Warming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWXoRSIxyIU

The Last Time CO2 Was This High, Humans Didn’t Exist
https://www.climatecentral.org/news/the-last-time-co2-was-th...

CO2 – Why 450 ppm is Dangerous and 350 ppm is Safe
https://sustainabilityadvantage.com/2014/01/07/co2-why-450-p...

And of course this one:
https://skepticalscience.com/co2-higher-in-past.htm
You have to understand that any platform that deletes or undermine your words does not deserve your patronage. Get off Twitter and all abhorent anti-social media. Go outside, see nature.
> The common, instinctive reaction in tech circles & HN seems to be some version of "consumer action," vote-with-your-dollar stuff. This isn't going to work. It almost never does. At most, it'll be affect a minor tweak or delay.

If "vote with your wallet" doesn't work and only causes, say, 1 million people (out of the billion+ customers) to switch off of iOS, doesn't that mean that the rest of the billion+ people really don't care enough? Maybe a few million more accept the tradeoff of getting iOS for 'scanning my photos for csam and having the ability to move off of iOS later if they expand usage or this system otherwise has issues'.

Maybe, just maybe, even if a million people complain about this and apple loses an extreme amount of iPhone sales upwards of 20 million, they can still sell 220 million[0] iPhones to people who don't care. We are certainly the vocal minority here - whether or not that warrants government intervention or otherwise harms our society doesn't really matter when Apple still makes tens of billions in profit a quarter.

0: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/04/07/2021-iphone-sales-forec...
Do you struggle to build stable, long-term relationships with other people?
Basic string manipulation, JSON encoding, file reading/writing, some type of hashing/checksum, and an HTTP client/server. Those things I’ve really appreciated about Go lately as I get it to control robots (controlling them over a REST api on local network writing commands to a serial port).
For those on Windows, TaskView (built in) [1] and PowerToys Fancy Zones (Microsoft download) [2]

provide excellent free virtual desktop management for those without the finance/space/desire for the big monitors discussed in the article and comments.

[1] https://www.windowscentral.com/how-use-task-view-windows-10

[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/fancyzone...
You know what, I owe you an apology for this:

"[1] I'll admit it's a bit weird to see a professor that I'm assuming given the forum, is in a tech field "read between the lines" instead of engaging the facts."

I'll keep it up in my comment because I despise it when ppl scrub clean what they wrote.

Either way, sorry for making it personal.
So, can I be sued for third party's iframe contents? For what some ad platform is doing for example. This is absurd.
If you had the weights of the hashing neural network (NeuralHash) could it be reversible so that a hash could derive a similar photo to the original?
This reminds me of https://github.com/sixpack/sixpack which I've been eyeballing for years.
Those two are connected. Without strict typing the compiler doesn't know really whether the error is in the definition of min() or in its use, so the compiler mangles the two together and lets the programmer figure it out.

> In case of C++ templates, is it possible to output one error like: eg "class UserData needs to implement operator< to be used in min() function" instead of 200 lines errors?

This is already handled by concepts, but concepts solve only half the problem. E.g. in my snippet, in the comment you replied to, if any of the structs didn't have the kId constant, the errors would be about that. Concepts correctly detect when someone passes to them things that don't implement required functionality (as long as this functionality is specified in the concept). The other half of the problem, which they do not solve, is checking the correctness of the definition of the template against the concept. E.g. in my snippet I could use the "value" field, even though the concept that I used didn't declare it anywhere. At that point, if I passed a struct, which doesn't have that field, the compiler wouldn't be able to tell where the error is: in the template, or in its use --- so it would emit one error for each template instantiation, just as it did for "kIs" (because it can't know that it's just one typo in one place).
Can you please stop attacking another Android distro under the umbrella of a project (the Calyx Institute) that has done a lot of good for others? It makes you look like an a**hole.

There's plenty of room in this space for multiple visions of what a more-secure, more-private Android OS looks like. There's gradations of privacy and security and some users might prefer your gradient, whereas others might prefer CalyxOS'.

You might try getting your act together and reach across the aisle so the world can benefit rather than this frankly stupid and childish infighting.

And to pre-empt your honestly terrible, "but they started it", I don't see anyone from Calyx giving the mouth you're giving them, repeatedly, in this thread about their product. So please just stop.
Please realize that any forum that deletes or undermines the words of its users is not worth your time nor patronage. Twitter is the antithesis of free speech. Stop using it. Period.
Yet, if you stab someone, they feel pain.

I agree that everyone must take personal responsibility for their relationship to their sensations and urges. I'd say further that we are all better of when we are in the driver's seat rather than reactively driven by stimulus.

Still... there is room for nuance and interactivity in our emotive sensational experiences, isn't there?
Don't need government fascism when you have corporate fascists doing the dirty work for them under the guise of liberty.
Free Course: Introduction to Computer Science (CS 101)
From the article first paragraph "with temperatures set to punch through the critical 1.5 degrees Celsius *threshold* by the early 2030s, a decade earlier than anticipated just three years ago."
>You see a doctor because something hurts, they look at the something -- often in isolation -- and if they can't figure it out, you're pretty much on your own.

A quick Old Man(tm) rant.

Concerning healthcare, you have to be your own project manager. They're a lot better at curing things they can see (ie. surgery), GPs have crude tools for analysis and mostly serve as gatekeepers to specialists and pharmacists. Also, GPs work mostly from flow charts and you are just one of 1000 patients they see that year. Communications between hospital departments, independent contractors like specialists or ER personnel, GPs, etc. are poor. Continuously audit procedures and drug regimes. Sci-Hub is your friend but don't overestimate the value of studies.
A New Attack Surface on MS Exchange – ProxyLogon
> relocked my bootloader last time and can't upgrade without wiping the phone

That doesn't sound right.
My 5 Month Self Improvement Action Plan: August-Ajulu's Thoughts
Sure, it's not exactly rocket science. I'm using Google Cloud's Text-To-Speech - https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech. You should be able to find the pricing details there. I'm guessing other cloud providers' TTS would be comparable as well? I haven't checked.
That mintpress site is shady af, from zero transparency into funding sources to the impossible-to-deny red flag of attributing stories to writers who immediately deny all involvement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MintPress_News

And trying to triangulate the truth somewhere between them and Bellingcat works about as well as a Tesla trying to triangulate between the highway exit and continuing in its lane. As but one example: either Assad dropped chemical weapons on his citizens, or the rebels did. The former is supported by famous fans of US imperialism like the UN, Doctors’ without Borders, Amnesty, the EU. and the reality that Assad was generally known to posses those weapons and delivery capabilities. Taking the other side are Putin, Assad, and, probably, Glen Greenwald.
Strange. Is that a desirable feature for WhatsApp users? I must be overlooking a use case that makes that a sensible default.
Am I the only one who thinks the term “crypto community” is ambiguous in the article title. I thought I was going to be reading an article about how a particular bill has digital privacy implications due to misunderstood regulation of cryptography.
You’re saying this individual is more trustworthy than Mozilla, because of employee churn? There’s a bus factor of 1 vs N in this example.

I trust indie devs for lots of software, tools, and apps; but absolutely not an extension that reads my privileged communications.
I published with Apress a few years back. I think the solution is probably that you need to choose a publisher that is already more aligned with the tooling that you want to use.

You have to remember that (by the numbers) the author is a small part of the production process. The reviewers, copy editors, and editors all need to use tooling that they're comfortable with. You're going to have to offer them a powerful incentive to be the special case.

If you want to make your CV (resumé) look spiffy then working with an established publishers is a good idea. Otherwise I think self-publishing is a much better idea; you can proceed at your own pace, you'll reap any financial advantage yourself, and you can use whatever tooling you like. Just be aware that it likely still won't be very remunerative. Oh, and get a good copy editor - after a while it's hard to see mistakes in text you've read many times.

Edit: Also, I thought their Word template was reasonably good, but I would have loved a plaintext format and source control to make it easier to review and compare changes. So I totally get where you're coming from.

Edit 2: And to answer the original poster's question - I think if I was going to self-publish then I would go with a Markdown/Pandoc/LaTeX solution like the one in this Stack Overflow thread: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/246871
It's still essentially a death sentence if you are innocent.
Is this close enough: https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=201908301... ?
I refill once in 2 weeks. That would be about 28 plugs/unplugs of charging cable if I want to keep EV topped all the time. I bet 28 plugs/unplugs take about as long as a refill stop.
> In reality, four weeks from now, do you think anybody will still be talking about it?

Nope, and it won’t have the slightest impact on Apple’s revenue or earnings either.
The target of NCMEC's database is stopping the distribution, and hopefully encouragement of CSAM. Besides how the distribution can negatively impact the mental state of victims, distribution and more eyes on it might cause more people already on barely-legal parts of the internet (ie. qanon message boards) to learn about ways to obtain CSAM and become part of the market of buyers for such material. If you stop that, then the population of people looking for CSAM shrinks and makes it less economical for criminal enterprises to target children specifically for the production of the illegal material.
> It's like voting--if you know game theory, you know that voting is a waste of your time.

Please explain! I don't know game theory that well.
That’s how our system works today. We can tell ourselves all kinds of stories to pretend it doesn’t but we’re only fooling ourselves. Look at how eager we are to do business with the CCP or how we turn a blind eye to companies ravaging the worlds last remaining rainforests. I was reading a letter from when the Berlin Wall came down and the writer was going on about western values. I remember the things we said we were horrified about the Communists doing with their extensive citizen spy networks etc. Today without true competition for our economic model we have created a monster that puts the Stasi to shame. Money, power and greed all the way down.
That comment is literally the only remotely relevant one in the entire discussion. You can debate this stuff ad nauseam, but unless you stop it at the source nothing changes.
That's a poor argument, and possibly some kind of fallacy.

'No one has done it before, so they probably won't do it in the future now that it we made it easier.'
> the "value" field is forced to be a character field

It doesn't have to be. We use this (under SQL Server) for our simple "custom attributes" mechanism (some irrelevant details omitted):

CREATE TABLE private_data.ATTRIBUTE_VERSION (

OBJECT_ID bigint,
ATTRIBUTE_NAME nvarchar(255),
ATTRIBUTE_GEN bigint,
IS_TRASH bit NOT NULL,

VALUE_BOOL bit,
VALUE_INT bigint,
VALUE_DECIMAL decimal(38, 9),
VALUE_DATETIME datetime2,
VALUE_STRING nvarchar(255),

ATTRIBUTE_TYPE AS private_attributes.ATTRIBUTE_VALUE_TO_TYPE(
VALUE_BOOL,
VALUE_INT,
VALUE_DECIMAL,
VALUE_DATETIME,
VALUE_STRING
),

CONSTRAINT ATTRIBUTE_VERSION_PK PRIMARY KEY (OBJECT_ID, ATTRIBUTE_NAME, ATTRIBUTE_GEN),

CONSTRAINT ATTRIBUTE_VERSION_FK1 FOREIGN KEY (OBJECT_ID, ATTRIBUTE_NAME) REFERENCES private_data.ATTRIBUTE,
CONSTRAINT ATTRIBUTE_VERSION_FK2 FOREIGN KEY (ATTRIBUTE_GEN) REFERENCES private_data.GENERATION,

CONSTRAINT ATTRIBUTE_VERSION_C1 CHECK ( -- At most one of the various value types can be non-NULL.
private_attributes.ATTRIBUTE_VALUE_CHECK(
VALUE_BOOL,
VALUE_INT,
VALUE_DECIMAL,
VALUE_DATETIME,
VALUE_STRING
) = 1
)

);

Since SQL Server encodes NULLs in a bitmap, having a bunch of NULLs for every non-NULL takes almost no extra space at all. But even on a "wasteful" database such as Oracle, this shouldn't add more than an extra byte per NULL.

> The system does have type checking enforced by the application, but multiple applications access the data.

Traditionally, this is solved by funneling all applications through a public API of stored procedures and views/functions which enforce the desired business logic, but I understand this approach has fallen out of favor in recent years (decades?).
Countless examples of automatic updates borking installs on the github issue tracker.
I think it actually requires both diplomacy and cultural awareness.

If you want to study the ‘damage’ that a country is doing, it seems like it would serve you well to avoid ruffling too many feathers so that you can do your work in peace and without being accused of bias.
> I hope they are able to change the patent system.

Let me calculate the likelihood of that.
Computing......0%

IP is obviously one of those Great Games sweeping the planet. Will countries who essentially ignore patents be allowed to continue to do so? Do you get trade wars as a front? Real wars?
See this other HN thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28091750 - they make it a 'perceptual hash' instead of a bytestream hash since they know a lot can and will be done to try to evade PhotoDNA and NeuralHash.
Here’s something to consider: Right now AMZN is worth something because it is believed that it can be sold to the next person for more than was paid to the previous holder. What about the last person that will ever hold that share? How will they profit from owning it?
Considering that the UBS put their chief economist on a leave of absence (initially they communicated that he had been let go of completly), for calling pigs in china "chinese pigs", I think ever mentioning that topic alone would already be to much.
> YouTube can be replaced by NewPipe

I'm using SmartTubeNext. It's great. Haven't tried NewPipe, anyone have a comparison?
Removed support for macOS in open source project
> Am I allowed to post cartoons about them?

Are there a lot of those floating around?
The Divergent Association Task
> accused on the basis of no evidence, by people who didn't know the alleged victim

This simply isn't true. There was testimony by the victim.

But regardless, Stallman didn't even dispute the allegations. He accepted the claims as true and expressed that he saw nothing morally wrong about them
The bill is also about "digital assets" and previously even in-game currency has been ruled as such (for example World of Warcraft gold, Second Life currency to buy land, etc...).

It also may apply to other non-crypto digital money, although that might be the point of the bill, since it would allow the US more easily to chase anyone evading its sanctions (for example: China is creating digital currency, Iran has some ideas too, they could use this to ignore SWIFT and thus ignore sanctions, this bill would allow US to sanction that thing too)
> You want freedom of speech, fine, but you have to fight to get it and keep it alive.

This needs to be said more often… rights cannot be reduced to a “declaration” or a “bill”. They are social constructs that wither away and die without constant social reinforcement, both formal and informal.
There are plenty of examples where it is fallacious though, often absurdly so. The important distinction is: does A abstractly "lead to" B, or does A directly enable B, but for some will to use it that way.

For one example, it was always absurd to suggest that gay marriage would lead to legalized pedophilia, bestiality, or marriage to objects.