skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait... you have nobody in charge of security in your company?
The Google Pixel phones are the easiest to run alternative Android roms on because Google provides the sources and allow you to unlock the bootloader.

They also pay Qualcomm more so you can re-lock the bootloader.

The Pinephone is great but it's most appropriate for developers interested in linux phones at this time.
So, just a tip for anyone who is really hit by this...

Czech railway workers used to strike against Nazis by rigorously and pedantically following all the valid regulations. Even Nazis could not really do anything against that; the Reich was very process-oriented, after all.

Do the same to your employer. Follow every idiotic rule to a letter. After all, it is your duty and their rules.
> The 15% paycut for moving to Tahoe is most likely cherrypicked as crossing the state border into Nevada, which is in a lower band than California

The majority of Tahoe is in California.
I think a flawed process where the monkey image ended up in the database is more likely than a random unintentional hash collision.
Honda Odyssey minivans that are about 11-15 years old, give or take. An arbitrary range, but that's where I roam.

I buy them up to 225,000 miles on the odometer, depending on the condition. Less is generally better. Prices start to jump a lot below 200,000 miles.

Also, my post makes it sound like I drive them to dead and then get another. Not so. I generally sell them and go back to being a muggle with a real life for a bit, then buy another. I've never actually killed a Honda. Haven't tried either. Got one to 357,000 and was still going strong. Zombie cars. Made to last. The older they get, the more character they have. Almost as loved as the Volkswagen van and far more dependable.
I feel that in the US any cashier that could do mental math would soon move on to a better paying job.
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This looks nice. I have previously used Traccar GPS tracking system. Will definitely give this a try at some point.

Currently I am using gammu-smsd with a simple forwarding script (through Pushover) to deliver messages for my 2nd number.

For hardware I'm using older 3g/4g network USB stick plugged in my home server.
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Please also compare the relative numbers of people with rearmed military vehicles and people with karate-chop capable arms. The important comparison is the conditional probability, not the total numbers.
> This is more advanced than just a flash sms. It is probably implemented as a SIM Toolkit App on the SIM card.

Yes. As I have understood it, it’s a Java applet that runs on the SIM card itself.

And it probably being more than just flash sms is also evident from the fact that not all telcos are supported for use with BankID, even among Norwegian telcos.

You can test it here https://www.bankid.no/privat/los-mitt-bankid-problem/test-di... but it probably only accepts Norwegian numbers. Found via https://www.bankid.no/privat/bankid-pa-mobil/ which says that the link I said to test it at says that you can use that test to determine if your phone and subscription supports BankID.

It’s also worth noting that many telcos will charge you every time you use BankID. This annoyed me a lot so I switched to a different telco that’s cheaper and doesn’t charge for BankID.
You can't go faster than light. Space in universe is expanding faster than light.
Thanks for the response, I was super confused by this part!
Yeh I must have ignored the "perceptual" part when I read it over
https://www.statista.com/statistics/804560/gdp-of-the-dach-c...
Monkey brain mapped in 3D at micron resolution
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My wife went through the French "classe préparatoire" system and describes a similar degree of raw effort that was put into her studies (and in particular, mathematics). She talks about spending 10-12 hours a day either in class or studying at home, and I have to admit the amount of knowledge in that woman's head is absolutely astounding. Her education is elite in the same way that a sports team or military unit can be elite.

There are obviously issues with pushing young adults this hard, but my overall feeling is that American schools need more of this.
I haven't read Art of Electronics.

Prerequisites are basic electronics skills, such as knowing how basic components (R, C etc) work, proficiency in PCB CAD software. I think you'll get more out of it if you already have a WIP (or prior) product designed, since the advice will make more sense with context.

From the intro:
> This book assumes at least a basic understanding of electrical engineering. It’s oriented towards product design and implementation, but is equally applicable to hobbyist projects, art installations, and other amateur electrical engineering projects. If you’re designing your first PCB, reading this book may help you avoid
mistakes you didn’t know you were making. If you’re designing your 1000th PCB, this book will act more as a checklist to help illuminate any area you forgot to think about.
There is another novella in the universe called
Thousandth Night! I thought it was excellent.
Ah that is lame that you had to go through that. I remember in my calc class the teacher said we would spend no time learning for the government standardized test. If you can't already pass it you have no business being in the class.
I think there is more going on here.

I think what we're seeing is Apple betting on using cryptography as part of the product design phase. Apple devices already do weird things like wake up to announce their physical location so that users can find their devices. The thought of a powered down or suspended laptop waking up to announce its location isn't something I particularly want, but Apple users seem to like it.

Anyone who has spent any time on spaces that are strongly encrypted and focused on privacy know how quickly they become havens for the sort of material that Apple doesn't want associated with its brand. How many "Apple protects child predator" news stories do you think Apple can withstand while still remaining a luxury brand?

Apples goal here is to have the reputation for end-to-end encryption and privacy while simultaneously not being seen as a phone for child predators. They don't have a lot of options if they want to thread that needle.

I've thought about this space quite a bit, and all options suck. Client side scanning is really the only choice with reasonable tradeoffs. The other option is scanning encrypted photos on cloud using secure enclaves to do the scanning. My guess is that when the tech makes that possible Apple will move in that direction.

I agree that this isn't the best for privacy nuts like me. But the iPhone isn't a blackphone, it's a luxury handbag. The phone isn't for privacy nerds, the privacy is there to make other mobile OS's look cheap and tacky.
You really need sources to decide that reducing commuting is a good idea for the environment?
You have to invite a notoriously capricious and hair trigger federal agency into your life, sure less so than an automatic weapon but you still need to put yourself on their radar to some extent. After you've done that the first time $200 a pop isn't that big a deal but a lot of people are unwilling to take the initial plunge of putting their name on that list.
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Or, just have the compressor ready at the dock, and wait with the unloading until the hydrogen has been compressed.

But yeah, simply running a compressor powered by hydrogen should suffice. I assume the airships would require some surplus hydrogen anyway, in case there's a mid-flight leak or something.
(Acknowledgement that there are always life situations which demand abandoning convenience)

The solution to this regional pay for remotes nonsense is not to interview with companies which practice it. Same as with the hybrid remote weirdness that's the new hotness.
Sweden reporting in: I always use it when boiling a broth from the carcass after slaughtering a rooster. It gives an amazing taste and smell.
I’ve come to the conclusion that it might be better to just record every aspect of my life as a CYA measure. In my state it would be legal.

Not sure I could do it with a GoPro. Something small and hidden with a 128gb SD card would be best.
Yes but that isn't typically how the value-cost balance between employee and employer works, unless there is regulation in play. Working from home is a benefit which many people would be willing to trade X% salary for. This is just market forces at work. I've been curious how the market for remote work would play out - I'm especially interested in knowing what X ends up being.
<script setup> looks awesome, makes components using the composition API look way more approachable IMO. I did a side project in svelte and really enjoyed the component layout, and have missed that when working in other frameworks.
That's a very absolutist statement, personally I'm more productive at home where I don't have the interruptions of an open office and there's no feeling of having people watching over my shoulder.
In the UK, by law (Education Act), parents are responsible for educating their children - this has slipped considerably, I wish it were still a central ideal : under such a regime schools should be a service that parents can use to educate their children. I'd like to, for example, use school for some things, other groups for others, and home schooling for other things (essentially Flexischooling). This is in theory an option in the UK, but it's left to individual headteachers to dictate their ideals to parents (regardless of the Edu.Act) so you have to be lucky to get a headteacher who supports your chosen pedagogy.
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Fires like the ones in Athens are happening more often globally and they are a legitimate issue. Washington and California in the last year, Portugal 2 years ago.

I agree with your general idea, but society is a mechanism and many people in lower positions of power simply follow the incentives regardless of intention or impact around them.

We need people in higher positions of power, who have influence over those incentives and that believe in those climate issues, to change those incentives so that lower level power positions adopt the needed measures.

Sadly, I suspect previous generations will need to retire and new ones with direct awareness of those issues to take their place. And that will sadly take its sweet time...
> but has lowered the level of kids actually going to university (especially at engineering schools and elite institutions)

Come on, of course it hasn't. Entry requierements haven't changed.

The highschools providing the largest contingents of students to these elite institutions respect neither the national curriculum nor the ban of sorting students by ability without any consequences. Unsurprisingly the two most famous of these highschools are also exempt from the French purely geographical students draft and the places most politician children attend. As usual in France, the rule for all is not the rule for the elite.

In effect, the dumbing down of the national curriculum has just made a system which was already one of the most unequal in Europe even more unequal. But everything is fine. The French system only uses entrance exams and entrance exams are always fair, aren't they?
wait till the even wider proliferation of offshoring of remote technical roles. The wealth will be even more concentrated, except only the executives, while the workers will have even less
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The question is what affect it would have. If it’s minuscule compared to a single bulk cargo freighter it may just be window dressing and greenwashing.

If it would reduce 20% of all energy usage worldwide it would hugely significant.
The manual review process only involves a severely transformed (low resolution, greyscale) version of the image which is attached to the safety token. The ability to decrypt any original files only occurs if the human review process confirms the presence of CSAM.
Interestingly, in Spain this would be illegal.

After a law introduced last year, long-term remote working (>30% of hours outside the office for 3+ months) now requires the worker and company to agree written terms (who'll pay for costs, how much remote is allowed, what worker monitoring will be used, if any, on what schedule does the worker have to be available, etc).

As part of that, there's legal protections against discrimination in salary, promotions, working hours etc. You cannot employ a remote worker and an in-office worker in Spain and pay the remote worker less money just because they're remote.

More details: https://parakar.eu/sp/remote-working-in-spain-covered-by-law...
0 divided by a small number is going to be smaller than a small but nonzero number divided by about seven billion.

If you want to be obtuse you should argue the "tanks in the service of foreign warlords seeking to overthrow their local governments are privately owned" angle.
How's that? If you live in NYC, you get paid more. People who live in NYC have the amongst the lowest carbon footprint in the nation. If you live in a dense urban area, you generally will have a lower carbon footprint.
If you remove location-dependent pricing, which location do you align the new single price on? Mountain View? London? Hyderabad?
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(Replying to gp) It’s not even true that iOS and Android don’t let you add your own private CA certs. Are there any OS’s anywhere that prohibit this?

You can install your company’s internal CA certs as part of any MDM package.

And products like HashiCorp’s Vault let you manage the whole CA and signing certs etc
There is still one constant: how the state system cares for victims of child abuse is still the same as in WW2.

https://www.kansascity.com/news/special-reports/article23820...

You would think money would go into the "backend": caring for kids where the state is responsible for everything BEFORE more money goes into the frontend: finding more kids to throw into the hellhole that is child services.

Without the "backend" being in order and working well, raising well-educated, stable kids, the frontend is completely immoral. "Saving" kids from abuse, only to throw them into a slightly different kind of abuse ... if any person did that (e.g. a guy marrying a woman (or I guess vice-versa) with that resulting in that person abusing their new spouse's kids) would be considered a despicable crime. Somehow child services, who do the exact same thing (and they use violence to do it) is not a despicable crime.

Somehow just because the state does it, makes such things all a-okay.

But frankly this is merely the hole in the justification, all this should merely tell you one thing: any government that doesn't work hard to fix the child services backend does not have children's interests at heart when making these sorts of laws (and mostly they're making budget cuts in the backend, of course). Because fundamentally these laws throw children into the child services system. THAT is the real effect these efforts have on the actual children behind this. THAT is what is meant by "saving kids".

And if that system is full of abuse, how is that any better than what paedophiles do? It's not.

Which means the state is not attempting to help abused or disadvantaged children. In fact, they're doing the opposite.
I liked magnetissimo (from the same author) much more, but its kind of sleeping:

https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo
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Can I ask for your (biased) take on something?

My team (5 devs, 10 people total on the product) currently doesn't use any incident response-specific tooling. We have a Confluence SOP for incident response, a page template for RCAs, an #incident-response slack channel, and Zoom but no specific tooling. Just yesterday someone recommended Kintaba/incident.io/OpsGenie/etc, but I don't know if that's overkill for our team.

At what point do you think a tool like yours is necessary or worthwhile, as opposed to using generic tools?
The irony - my guess is many countries will require this or block e2ee. The idea that govt or public is against this seems unlikely
Yes they do. The reason apple has done this is because they lagged behind other providers considerably in detecting this sort of content. Facebook for example are reporting millions per year compared to a few hundred for Apple.

Instead of scanning you whole library they came up with a way to do it on device, which is the main difference between other services. If you don't enable iCloud photo storage the system can't work at all.

Very interesting stuff in their technical explanation: https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni...
I recently wanted to build a serverless application, but as far as I can tell, no serverless platform takes code in C or C++, so I was stuck working in a language I didn't know well.

There may be an opportunity for someone to build a serverless platform that uses verified functions in C/C++/Rust, so you can get both performance and convenience.
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Coal plants are still running for economic/labor (and political/identity) reasons, not because they are needed.
Hail to Graphene being the official No Agenda Phone

https://noagendaphone.com
Off topic

I think its surprising that society does not want to talk about CP and just content locking up whoever they find and throwing away the key. Pretty shambolic response for something so common - no offense but we spend way too much time and resources undoubtedly useless social issues instead if hard questions like CP and what causes it. Even the academic literature is sparse but I would argue we need more people finding answers and we might learn something about the human condition - rather than putting so much money and intellectual capital on crap like cyber bullying or transgender pronouns or mental health. Not that those aren't important but they are low hanging fruit. We need to get our priorities straight. Tackle the hard questions instead of this absurd head in the sand approach to uncomfortable topics. FFS.

Rant over
Incidentally, since a lot of people hitting this page might not know him, and since he doesn't exactly blazon information about himself around the site, this is the blog of Ricardo Signes, whom I know as a major contributor to Perl (https://github.com/rjbs).
Laws can never be neutral. They always direct behaviors and relationships towards specific directions.
No, but the person who sent that message could get in trouble.

In the case you linked to the person was reported for sending email to a friend with attached CSAM, not for receiving it.[1]

Apple's system scans images client-side if they're due to be uploaded to iCloud. That process can happen without user consent or action. For example, WhatsApp and other messaging apps save images to photos, which are auto-synced to iCloud. (If you use WhatsApp and iCloud you'll find your Photos section full of memes from WhatsApp group chats when you log in at icloud.com, for example. This was a surprise to me at first.)

So the risk of malice seems higher with Apple's system than with the long-running PhotoDNA implementations backing Gmail/Google Drive/OneDrive etc.

Gaining access to someone's email and sending attached CSAM is likely to cause them more issues than receiving it. But that's harder because you need their login info and not just their email address/phone number, which is all that an attacker potentially requires to trigger action from Apple's automated scans.

[1]: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/07/31/google-tips-off-...

> The investigation was apparently sparked by a tip-off sent by Google to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, after explicit images of a child were detected in an email he was sending.
Companies at Google's scale have a lot more ability to move headcount across geographies so they can work around lease constraints to maximize benefits.
> no way would any company sublease a partial floor

Why not? Turn it into a co-working space. Lease it to a start-up and put up a divider.
If you replace “cost of living” with “living wage” the mainstream opinion very much wants your salary to be the company’s business. Why this isn’t owned by some level (state, local) of government I have no idea.
why even less? remote work has been a great boost for lots of workers. I see the effect of it here in Europe, in the past year average hire salaries have gone up by at least 10% due to the competition with fully remote orgs
Unless it isn't, as is the case with every offer I've signed since 2009 when I went full time remote.
While it's always a good thought exercise to ask oneself "what else might (partially) produce this result", that does not mean one is equipped to answer it accurately.

Additionally, if your goal is to "expose" people instead of working with them to figure out what is happening, then all you will ever find are exposures. That doesn't mean that's all there is to find.
Timeshares are more like Time Pirates
I wonder at what point it becomes cheaper to simply establish an office in a different jurisdiction for the purpose of hiring remote workers...
https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni...
I agree that one should look into what is being proposed and its implementation, but in both these instances backdoors are being introduced. Once backdoors are in place any government can petition access, malicious actors have attack vectors, and all of this for one proposed quasi-legitimate use-case.
What's with the link?
Yeah been waiting for that to happen for the past 20 years...
I just finished How to do Nothing by Jenny Odell, and this was one of the big take-aways I got from the book. She's not advocating total digital detox - she's actually fairly critical of the idea. Her argument that it isn't how much you use devices, it's simply how you use devices.

That said she also pushes back against the idea of using things like notifications and gamification to try and mold our behavior. I'm kind of inclined to agree; my instinct is to say that this is a spot where the ends don't justify the means; encouraging addictive behavior patterns is still encouraging addictive behavior patterns.
Tricks? It's not tricks it's word problems, which is just as important as any other problem. You need to relate math to the real world and having a equation doesn't help, having stuff like Susan is taking a train at 2:32 for 50 kms going 60km/h what time did she get off helps people understand how to turn a real world problem into a math equation to solve it.
And it makes it plain to see that we need collective action. All the people who say "I bring a ton of value to a company and therefore can negotiate to capture that value" are fooling themselves, because no company willingly pays people based on the value they provide.
"Google is probably 170. That's $11900 annually that they save by not having an employee take up office space."

They are locked into leases and/or have purchased the buildings outright. So the cost is sunk. This is why google is upset and will take salary away from remote workers.
this is an ad hominem argument
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Thinking of spacetime as some sort of expanding fabric permeating every-day objects is not a good analogy in my opinion.

First, like any other gravitational effect, locally, spatial expansion would manifest as pseudo-forces that can be counter-acted by all the other forces that are far more relevant at human scale.

Second, the local effect of spatial expansion should be an indirect one: Friedmann cosmology - which is how we describe an isotropic, expanding universe - is a large-scale approximation. More realistic would be 'swiss-cheese' models, where spacetime in our neighbourhood can look vastly different from the Friedmann one, except that the spacetime patches need to properly fit together to yield the correct large-scale behaviour.