skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With Synology's DSM, at least, there's no "firmware" per se; it's just a regular Linux install that you have sudo(1) privileges on, so you can just SSH in and modify the OS as you please (e.g. removing/disabling the update service.)
all those phones need closed source binary blob drives to even power on.

that's why each project is focused on a single device at a time.

THis is all toxic to open source!

The only wining move is NOT to play. If you go out of your way to buy the phone that some unkwown party managed to hack the binary blob(s) out of the official image into the custom one, you are losing because the quality will be worse than the closed source offering, always. From actual security to usability. And it will be driving engagement away from actual solutions to the problem (such as pine phone etc, which are also lagging, but are not as this egregiously bad)
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if they have blackmail on nearly all of the prominent politicians, prosecutors, and judges in the system. And what's worse, I bet you if any serious candidate runs on intelligence agency reform, they might suddenly have some really juicy dirt about them leaked online. Especially candidates from the younger generation. You could probably crucify someone in the public square with all the weird stuff in our browser histories.
How about extending that list to software and add something like "Firefox mobile" to that list, that comes advertised as privacy focused, fighting all those evil ad tracking technologies - but comes bundled with their own ad-tracking enabled by default!? And telemetry. And "participating in studies".

So yes, if you are a little bit tech-savy, it is easy and the first thing to disable. But it is still a very "creepy" to me, that those things are enabled by default, which means it stays enabled for the majority of users.
Also a fan of Postico. For anyone curious, I emailed support asking if there would be access to multiple query tabs after purchase/activation, but got no response. I'm happy to report that it does work that way, and works well. I hope this is app is still being supported because it's overall it's quite well done.
I don't see why you switched to Android then in the first place, because only iCloud uploads will be scanned on iOS. Also I can't think of a single manufacturer with better privacy practices than Apple except for custom ROMs.
It is bleeding obvious but many people are jumping on board without question.

There are zero repercussions for the company if they make the wrong call here, so they are practically forced to do it.
The hash data is secret because if widely known then offenders would know which images were known to law enforcement, and therefore transform or delete only those.
Honest question: what do you need a local Kubernetes for? It’s an orchestrator, surely you don’t need that in local? Don’t you have a way to mock your services? Or simple compose files for local integration?

I have worked with Marathon and Kubernetes in the last few years and never had the need to deploy them locally, it seems strange to even need that
Not stable enough for production. Every time I've tried to use them (3-5 times since they got started) they've lost emails and calendar events in inexplicable ways, possibly by not taking a careful enough approach when dealing with unreliable connections or full storage. The suggested solution when reporting bugs has several times been to try the latest version with no justification other than "it might be fixed now, who knows" or reset completely and spend several hours reconfiguring and re-downloading everything.

The least terrible solution I've found so far is GNOME Evolution, which I don't think has lost anything outright yet, although the UX is meh (no option for separate event start/end time zones, slow search even when all emails are cached locally, randomly requires re-signing in to Google, defaults time zone to Antarctica/McMurdo when travelling(?!?), does not seem to give any indication whether spam filtering is working or not, groups all accounts under my Google account in the Edit → Accounts view, and many more I can't remember off the top of my head).

Sorry to be so negative, but so far every single email client (Evolution, K-9, Mutt, Outlook, Thunderbird) has been a chore, for different reasons. Gmail/Google Calendar is the only client(s) I rate, but I'm shutting down that account slowly for obvious reasons.
That doesn't make the epoch weird, just different. The Unix Epoch is itself weird. I personally like it mostly for being a neat little historical artifact, but it's not interesting in any sense. What epoch would your hypothetical programmers settle on if they all had their minds wiped of any existing epochs.

I bet you'd see a lot of Jan 1 1900, 2000, or year 1. Very few would pick 1970.

Other fun non-Jan 1 ideas might be December 26, 1791 (Charles Babbage's birthday) or February 5, 1944, (the date Colossus came online)
> you're thinking of another well-known APK download site starting with an A

Aptoide. I have seen pirated paid apps on Aptoide, but any app marked as "verified" is not pirated (as in, it's available free of charge elsewhere) and the app's signature on Aptoide matches the app's signature on Google Play. Everything in the main "apps" repository and some apps in other repos are verified.

Aptoide is useful for downloading older versions of Android apps, especially when APKMirror doesn't have an entry for the app.

Fun fact: Aptoide is open source and F-Droid is actually a fork of Aptoide.

- GitHub: https://github.com/Aptoide/aptoide-client-v8

- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptoide
Once you've hit the balance, you'll have saturation equal to 1 + 4/5 + 16/25 + 64/125 ...

It ends up summing to 5 (what a coincidence!). So 1 dose with a halflife of 5 years, applied yearly, hits equilibrium at 5x concentration.
> iMessage isn't spying on you.

How do you know? Apple makes a lot of claims about their security but these claims probably don't preclude Apple spying on you somehow. Especially if a warrant compels them.
Why would you compare derivatives and not absolute values when designating who is "actively working against the environment"? Objectively US is polluting way more per capita.
I agree that the caste issues are orthogonal to the others and that these three kinds of poverty come close to encompassing the problem being discussed.

And if this were to be the complete picture, why can't it express the sheer inhumanity of being of a low caste in India?

Take the case of a "drug-addicted homeless person working as a prostitute to feed their addiction" in Toronto - this person arrived here by their own choices (some amount of agency), but you can be born into that situation (with the awareness that your children will follow the same path) in India. [0]

You can't worry about societal respectability when you have no basic human dignity. Perhaps that is a fourth kind of poverty.

[0] https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2016/11/28/the-indian-cas...
> The governments that twisted Apple's arm to get this look-see into everyone's devices will roast them in the court of public opinion

Nothing about this technology gives governments a ‘look see’ into everyone’s devices.
I think only the welcome email is really valuable to have from all the things you listed. And if you can't handle few ifs within your sign in logic... good luck with your business logic.
Standard right wing talking point. Liberal authors criticizing the current regime, a Hindu nationalist party, are anti nationals. Here criticism of the BJP or social ills is equated to hatred of Hinduism. The authors might themselves be Hindus, but it doesn't matter.
This has been posted here many times over the last 14 years, not that I'm complaining. This one seems to have had the most discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7869771
Well, to be fair, a very big chunk of reddit is dealing with the scale of users. In and of itself, it's not a new software (forums have existed for ages)
Congress voting on which types of crypto to allow
The history of APL is helpful to consider. It, initially, was a notation for describing computer systems and programs, and its use as a programming language came later (though not greatly later).

If you want something APL-like but without the symbol heavy nature, the nearest is going to be languages like Haskell that similarly promote tacit programming but without quite as heavy a reliance on symbolic notations, or descendent languages of APL like q.
Not true. People have done the math and our emissions do not change that much if you do it by end product consumption vs production.

https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2
Fantastic, YOLO. The next generation can deal with it.
In California, it initially was because Reagan closed mental institutions. We had the housing (the mental institutions). Also, housing back then was affordable. You can’t chalk it down to housing till close to the 2000s.

Now you have this toxic brew of people with mental issues, drug addicts, people with family issues, and economic issues all feeding into each other.

Housing is then only a start. Also, any city that gives homeless more services than other areas just attracts more homeless.

It is monstrously expensive. Look at what SF is spending and watch what happens when the COVID-19 funds and state IPO windfall run dry.

Both the left and the right are at fault. Some of these people need to be institutionalized. Cities need to be cleaned up. Housing should be provided. Shipping homeless to other cities is not cool.

No city is probably willing to pay what it truly costs. It is probably roughly how much we pay for the criminal justice system.

https://nicic.gov/assign-library-item-package-accordion/stat...

$146K per person for the criminal justice system and then multiply it by 2 or 3 for social services, mental health services, drug treatment, etc…

Roughly 250 billion a year. You need to make the underlying institutions more efficient but institutional capture has already occurred. In other words, in a few years it is more likely to be 500 billion a year and the problem would be just as bad.

Of course if you wanted to turn around the criminal justice system as well, then you immediately jump into the trillions.
For those that grew up the 70's, the Land of Oz theme park still exists, but is only open once a year, coming up in mid-September:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSnco3K0K7o

https://www.landofoznc.com/
Were iCloud photos already scanned CSAM? In the on-device system, if you're not using iCloud are the photos scanned?

If that's true, as an iCloud user you are exactly as likely to be charged with a crime based on your photos as you were before, but you now get E2E encryption.

Obviously I'd prefer E2E without any scanning. If I wanted to upload a pirated mp3 to icloud, I wouldn't want the RIAA knocking on my door. However, given that scanning was already in place, is this a step forward?
They could also be distributed inside the app. Twitch (and FB/IG/Twitter) already do this with live content and it's been fairly successful.
I had given myself a project of writing my interview phone screen coding question in as many languages as I could, more as a lark, but also in 'prep' for a candidate being 'funny' when I say 'use whatever language you are comfortable in'.

I did APL, which was fun, and easy. However in researching the language I came across some IBM accounting source code written in APL. It really clued me into how the language got such a following in HR/Finance applications. You got an array of everyones hours per day. Weekly total hours, pay, tax, medicare, etc, were all broken out in little calculative statements based on the array of hours. So rather than long strings of APL characters, there was just massive amounts of english and these little digraphs or trigraphs of APL for the calculative values.
Microsoft hasn't been scanning files on local machines but Microsoft has been doing essentially the same thing Apple has been for years -- they pioneered it with PhotoDNA back in 2009. It's been in use with OneDrive since back when it was called SkyDrive (https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/unfortunate-truths-about-child...). Apple's implementation is scanning images 1) stored on iCloud or 2) in Messages if parents turn it on.

The first seems pretty arbitrary -- why is it worse to scan files you're sharing with the cloud locally than in the cloud (except potential performance/battery impact, but that seems moot).

If Apple brings this feature to the desktop, it seems likely they'd be using it the same way: files stored in their cloud.
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Buy the ones that taste better (to you).
This is a great point. You don't even need to unlock an iPhone to take a picture. So in theory anyone with access to your phone for a few seconds could incriminate you with little effort.
I had the same thought: Interesting topic, but I am very distracted by how much I love the format of the document.
Its acceptable to downvote to signal "disagree".
whatsapp and other apps place pictures from groups chats in folders deep in your IOS gallery.

Swatting will be a problem all over again.... wait, did it ever stop being a problem?
"I don’t think you’ll ever see a mandating of vaccine"

Anthony Fauci, 18-AUG-2020
I was too cheap to buy a flash system and made one with a tp-link smart plug and a solenoid. It can be activated by the mostly-ok tp-link app, but is also automated in Home Assistant. It turns on for 10 minutes in summer.

By wiring the solenoid correctly, it fails to an off state. It’s basic as all hell and works really well.
Most people want the TLAs to be going after child abusers and pedophiles. Good luck using this as your argument for dismantling them.
> possessing CP to automatically considering them a child molester, yet someone posessing an action movie is not considered a murderer

That's specious reasoning. Someone who posesses an action movie likes action movies, while someone who posesses child porn likes child porn. One is ok, the other is pretty vile and illegal for a reason.

I don't agree with Apple on this but let's be clear on what is and what isn't
> The rank goes with the label.

I don't understand what you mean. Why does the rank go with the label, but the score doesn't?

> It isn't helpful to know that someone shot a 68 and got first without knowing who it is.

But you do know - the name is right there next to the score.
I know we call the USA a democracy, but I’m becoming more of a stickler for calling it a Republic. Some of the states are a bit more Democratic than the Federal government.

I wonder whether people would take the decisions more seriously if they had to vote on them as they so in Switzerland.
It's evolved beyond that definition to encompass people imitating the actions of others with the belief that those actions will grant them something. In this case, it's low status people thinking that hosting rooms and talking inanely will increase their status when the reality is those activities are merely ways to show status, not gain it.

Similarly, "cargo-culting" can be applied to a piece of code or script everyone copies and reuses without actually knowing how it works and then being confused when they've effectively built a wooden airplane and no goods have arrived.

It's very common slang in tech circles.
I agree! I love their open API, too!

I'm in the process of creating a 501c, and as part of my mission to raise awareness, I'm going to purchase 5-10 PurpleAir II and have them across Lake Michigan's entire shoreline. Or, that's part of my plan.

Ideally I'd run a more extensive sensor that tracks more than just PM, but I have a feeling pollution varies a lot in a small distance, we get lake effect weather, but what about people 5-10 miles south of me, do they have it better/worse, etc. I'd love to know those questions, and PurpleAir makes it semi affordable
Right. Emissions now lower than when everyone was individually burning wood and coal 24 hours a day. Ok? Is that surprising or useful or actionable?
It's much less important in postgres as in some other databases, but it still hurts.

Mainly because indices have to be updated and searched all over the place with UUIDs. The locality of the data on disk itself is fine because its inserted sequential.
That's not what I am saying. The parent post makes it sound like, if a developer doesn't have a deadline he will just work on a single feature forever. I am saying that most developers intrinsically want to complete features to move on to new stuff. If they are in a good environment, arbitary deadlines are not required.

When I pick up a feature, I know roughly how long it will take and I will try to finish it within that time. I don't need an arbitary deadline from management.
Reflections on 40k hours of programming. Developers are a pain in the ass. But I still love making things work!
Do you have any insight on how other employees feel about this system? I'm sure it's all over the place but anything that stands out?
> We are very deliberate about setting deliverable dates in time after the required inputs by others are available, and when inevitably they are not, we have a spreadsheet sent to the customer every 2 weeks which shows what information we are missing and the delay that is causing to our progress.

This is a great approach if you can stay that organised. It reminds me of one of my fundamental rules of business - the two benchmarks you're compared to are the previous entry in the Gantt chart and your counterpart in the client organisation. If you can stay ahead of both of those, you're golden!
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice they’re not.

Sortable unique IDs have many performance benefits in real world systems.
They look at content that people actively and explicitly chose to share with wider audiences.
Apple have built their brand on more than privacy -> they are doing privacy / trust / security etc.

I think you may find that folks don't take as dim a view on preventing exploitation of children as HN crowd. Apple has arguably the #3 to #1 brand globally currently.

Let's give this some time to shake out and see how the android brands and others do (if they become the home of child exploitation and porn) brand wise.
I almost never maximize windows and if you're someone who uses their desktop spatially like me MacOS is the only OS that manages to offer a usable and jank free version of that.

Windows and Linux just can't come close. I get why Linux never will for good reasons but Windows has absolutely no excuse.
Thank you for your honesty. Not just admitting how hard it is for you to spell basic words, but also admitting you're gullible enough to believe this is the #1 reason we'll never get rid of racism: a streaming platform for black creators.

Few people could actually believe that, even fewer have the courage to say it.
I never contemplated that before, just watched the clip, and saw this comment. I haven't watched BET in a few decades, I'm curious now what the recent material is like. You know any representative shows on that network that would correspond to folks dissatisfaction with the goods?

> Deshawn Brown 1 year ago
If you think about.. Huey is actually right. Im black. And i think bet only breeds arrogance and ignorance.
I just mean, let's say I want to install some package, and there's like 200 dependancies and still more packages to update. How do I get that one package I really want installed?
I don’t expect to convince you the FBI is right. I am pointing out that other people will be convinced.
I edited the comment to fix it, thank you!
Automating the coffee machine is amazing - it was my first foray into Home Automation. It saves time, it works great and can also be done before you get home at the weekends.

The just-audible click at 6am followed by the sound of the boiler heating is very satisfying, even 5+ years after setting it up.
> The ideal tool is one that you can start using right away,

There's a strong correlation between things that are not so easy to get into but the gained efficiency later. Conversely, very often, something that is very intuitive off the bat starts feeling cluttered and not very efficient later.

Imagine if you go to a nuclear power plant control room (or the cabin of an industrial excavator) and tell them - "Jeez. So many knobs, buttons, and switches. Why can't someone design a single, incredibly intuitive interface with a huge touch-based display?" For them, those knobs, buttons, and switches are probably the most efficient way to operate their machinery, even though initially, it requires training, certification, etc.

You cannot prioritize both - for the novice and the professional at the same time. You either convince beginners to learn the tool or make a simplified version of the tool for beginners. But it will never be an ideal tool for a hardcore professional.
Good lord - these are the same folks who had to get rid of the whatsapp founder because he wouldn't go along with their ad targeting plans / their integration plans (all of which they had promised not to do).
On CalyxOS only microG can signature spoof, no other app can.
The ones who can't use a toilet are a handful, and will never get off the streets.

Most homeless I have known whom are homeless just want a piece of land, with a outhouse, and maybe some fire pits so they can cook.

They want a piece of land where cops don't ticket, or get harassed.

Homelessness is just going to get worse. It's time to open up available federal, state, and local land, to free camping.

I've given up on housing. It's too expensive, and comes with too many rules.

Most of these guys just want to pitch a tent, and live the rest of their short lives out with a bit of false dignity.

And the drug use?

I once heard a homeless guy say, if you had to crawl into Scothbroom, after a day of being harassed by cops, and looking for food; you might want a stiff drink too. Let's not forget about the amount of self-medicating going on either.

(I know it's easy to throw your hands up, and lump all of them together. They are all very different. There are some professional beggars out there too. I've noticed a lot of foreigners working sympathy beg. Foreigners with jobs. Every American homeless person I know would never think about begging if they had a roof over their heads.)
I feel like understanding the guarantees is really simple. A value can be unique while still being guessable, and that's the idea with this latest revision. If you want something to be unique and unguessable, that's another uuid (or just use random bits, there's no benefit to a uuid here, generally).
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I prefer over-commenting a lot, over under-commenting.

The only harm is, when you miss the important bits over too much blabla, or when you forget to update comments. There are not many worse things, than wrong documentation/comments.

"you want your comments to tell WHAT your code does, not HOW" but I agree very much to this.
Scratch that. I think i get it now. They now have that capability BUILT IN locally, which might mean it can possibly be used via remote command on-demand (on for example non icloud pictures). Which is kind of scary.