skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with everything you said, but device use ≠ mindless clicking, at least not necessarily. I actually think this highlights one of the main problems with this issue, which is that devices may encourage certain usage patterns and behavior that are harmful, but they may also promote some usage patterns that are healthful. We could probably learn a lot by examining in more detail how people are using devices and how those usage patterns correlate to outcomes.
Apparently, there was some stolen artwork but it someone else's:

>Authorities discovered the illegal military arsenal during a 2015 raid of the collector’s storage facility in northern Germany in an investigation into black market Nazi-era art that turned up two bronze horse statues which once stood in front of Adolf Hitler’s chancellery. Those items were in another man’s possession.

The more interesting thing to me is that it took the government 6 years to figure out that his collection was a problem. And this is the German government which is supposed to be efficient.

Not that I think that an 84 or even 78 year old man is going to be committing an acts of terror.
I never had to play office politics, because the opportunities for doing so while doing remote work is close to none.

I guess I have the habit of keeping my work documented which helps when I'm asked for proof of anything. But at the same time people can see how much work I do at any time too.
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Judging from your stance, I believe your grew up in a fairly free country (I'm guessing the U.S.A ?), and that you never encountered an oppressive regime where everything you say, do, and all your communications are monitored.

Let me start by using an analogy: In physics, and science in general, if you want to understand a system, you have to explore its limits. How does it operate when we vary the cursor of the variables (e.g. temperature, etc.).

Thankfully, for the {communications, cryptography, warrantless access} system, we've already seen some pretty advanced extremes on the two ends.

I grew up in a country where 20 years ago, ALL communications by post were examined thoroughly, and ANYTHING remotely against the regime had you summoned and probably imprisoned. As you can imagine, this is easily weaponisable by the regime.

I've seen and read about the extremes of how "think about the terrorists/pedos" can vary quickly drift a whole fucking country into a situation similar to Minority Report (2002).

We ALREADY have the means to police our communities and societies. There's a reasons why the folks agreed to seperations of power. That reason is documented in history. Assuming you're american, I'll just hint to your constitution and its 4th amendment. The executive powers DO NOT have business deciding whether to search your home (nor your data by extension), if the judiciary does NOT give them the authority to do so.

You cannot tell me that an independant judge will not issue a warrant given solid proof that someone has pedophilic tendencies.

But telling me that we should search everyone who refuses to be searched because they're the most probable ones to be pedophiles is EXACTLY the most Nazi way of doing things.

All in all, your point of view is not very reasonable. We already have means in place to prosecute and hold pedophiles accountable. But unwarranted search and seizure is not the way to go about it.

EDIT: Sorry read before you added the second paragparh, was not aware it was sarcasm ...
Just to be clear as this post managed to reach a scary -1 in less than 3 minutes.

That post was pure sarcasm. Nobody young or old should own live ammo that has been rusted away for about a century, especially if they desperately want to get rid of it. The governement should start funding the relevant orgs again so they can collect and safely disarm these things.
Keep moaning. 250K results right now.

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=posh%20powershell
I thought google wasn't scanning your emails anymore.
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so after 354 days would the crew believe they had exceeded the speed of light?
Actually I do personally offset my personal carbon footprint by taxing myself, via Klima: https://klima.com/

However that's not an efficient way for 8 billion people to get out of this problem.
Dude stole that tank from the govt.
I'm not a tons of tabs open person. I am a multiple browser person. Right now I am writing this in firefox on my main window with this tab and the tab for my custom homepage.
I just opened Edge for work-related stuff.
On my secondary monitor I have chrome with my more entertainment-based stuff: twitch (currently multitwitch with two streams), a tab for the video stream of the radio show I listen to in the morning, twitter, and facebook
This sit on top of the perceptual hash collision.

First you generate an innocuous image that has a bad hash collision. (This is easy because perceptual hash are not cryptographically secure). Then in a second step you hide some offensive content in it via steganography without changing the hash. Then you send the image to the target.

He stores it in his cloud, it gets flagged because of the hash collision, so it get a manual review. The manual review take the image through some forensic software, which will catch the steganography (because the attacker will have chosen a weak scheme) which will reveal the hidden offensive content and then report you.
He was prompted to sell the tank to a museum, or collector - what distinguishes him from a "collector"?
But quite sufficient for anything not military currently being used, e.g. by police.
You are rather desperately trying here to downplay a massive security fuckup by Apple as if its perfectly fine. One of the main selling points of Apple, heck for many the most important one, was just blown to pieces couple of days ago. Its NOT Okay for Apple to send your images further.

The only argument left missing here is 'you have nothing to hide anyway, right?'.

I would be able to accept an inferior OS incapable of true multitasking and with very limited options to set. Closed system with no sideloading. I would even accept a lousy zoom on flagships cameras compared to, well, any competition. Proprietary connection port. Mediocre battery life. Overpriced accessories. But start removing security, and that's one step too far.
This is really great

I have been looking for something like this, I built something similar but it used android debug bridge and a webserver on the laptop the device is tethered to. But I always wanted it as an android app.

Anyone know any similar projects?
> which excludes Google APIs completely

lineageos and calyxos should as well, unless you opt-in. I guess they would still use the google captive portal detection? Is that what you're referring to?

> and is additionally hardened down to its memory allocation implementation

That's really interesting. Do you use GrapheneOS? Is it easy to lock the bootloader on Pixel devices?
For a full overview of John Rawls theory including the veil of ignorance and the original position, I recommend consulting the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy[0].
This resource was invaluable to me during my philosophy and politics studies.

[0], https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/original-position/
Photons don't have mass, but they do have momentum, which is the reason that solar sails work.
My personal anecdote as someone who did "ok" in highschool (when I didn't care, 5 A-C GCSEs, an F in IT!) and scored in the 95th %ile at uni studying CS (when I did) relates to that too, but I'm not sure how accurate this is for most people.

I hope it is, I guess time will tell
Radiation pressure. Remember, solar sails are a thing. At some point, you're blazing through spacetime so fast all that energy you're trying to share the same physical location with is impacting and ablating your hull material.

Relative velocity is a hell of a drug.
How about time spent on devices + on social media or reading a lot of trigger inducing news
It is kinda ironic that the former Soviet Bloc, whose central ideology was built around equality, had a very streamed education system concentrated on recognizing talented individuals early, while the Anglosphere, usually renowned for its ceaseless competition, emphasizes equality at the cost of excellence now.
Yeah but then you'll run out of electricity real quick... This isn't a sustainable nor effective solution at all
> If laws are made behind the veil

IF

The laws we live with are never made behind the veil.

Relatedly, I have done some classroom experiments where the laws were indeed made behind the veil. Students overwhelmingly chose minimum guaranteed income from experiment to equalizing everyone's incomes (which is what is required by maximizing the preferences of the worst off) from the experiment before the task and their specific earning potentials were revealed.
Isn't "How about you just eat less?" just a particular case of exercising self control?

> changing habits is hard, and as a society we haven't found a good way to systematically address the problem

Don't think there is one. Just case by case solutions. But they all boil down to finding the motivation to control a harmful behaviour.

Come to think of it, the person in TFA managed to exercise enough self control to turn off their notifications :)
It's necessary to add that it's searching all bookmarks by title, URL and tags.

Another convinien search shortcut is ^ (for history) and % (for open tabs).
Why would you use any of these ?
Came here to ask this :)

He sounds to have had quite the collection. If he actually had it in a shooting condition complete with a big case of live shells I can imagine it but the article doesn't really specify.
I admire one who can stick to character like a true fascist in the face of an internet of doubt.

May I request a write up on the benefits of a national psychosis?
Is this actually real?
It feels too much like something that could come from the onion.

> that authorized officers may enter your home at any time and quietly conduct their business without disturbing your day.

That feels too much like satire to be reality now. If yes, then damn, it seems like we are speeding down a very dark path.
Harder than Europe though. Basically the same amount of effort as getting a machine gun. Full fingerprints, $200 tax, submit to ATF, wait months, then take possession.

And each state can have additional laws that differ from federal laws. CA bans ownership entirely I believe.
I'm pretty sure you are right about this.
The martian was a fun read and undoubtedly a classic. I personally dont mind a well thought out antogonist who is very human.
Hmm, I see, thank you. So it's space itself that expands, not just the objects in it that accelerate apart from one another. But then doesn't that mean that some of that space is expanding inside the objects? Do we know what happens there? How do objects just get more space inside them?
Seems like a reasonable assumption to me. A trade agreement doesn't compel a country to accept literally anything that a trading partner wants to export. For instance Mexico couldn't force the US to import cocaine since obviously that's illegal. Mexico is just saying GM corn is banned internally and externally.
Then in this case you could still use an Apple device, considering that if you don't use iCloud Photos, there's no scanning on your device anyway.
I think that radical stances and refusing a dialogue, albeit critical, it's something that in this case won't really go anywhere.
If you haven't seen it already, Alex Stamos (former head of Security for FB) has a really incredible Twitter thread on this:

https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1424054568275439617
Some context:

> This is a community managed page, created by Uros Gazvoda to help spread uBlock Origin

First I've seen of this landing page, and it's a well deserved page too since I love uBo. The more we can promote this tool the better.
> And it’s not police officers, but a proprietary machine learning algorithm that no one understands.

That's a pretty good point. We have no idea that the algorithm on the device is even doing what is claimed, and reverse engineering it is ridiculously difficult.
I see ;)

Sarcasm does not travel well over TCP/IP.
I was assuming for the sake of argument. I am not saying that a "major fuckup" of Apple's human review process would be acceptable.
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Explorers do not become explorers from a wish for "easily living a very fulfilling life". There was nothing guaranteed about the quality of life offered by the great women and men who traveled the seas in ages past, and indeed many of them perished.
The biggest pain point of Yarn 2 for me has been configuring CI servers. With `node_modules` there is one folder you need to copy between build server to CI server, but Yarn uses some virtual directory system to link the packages, and I have never been able to make it work. I ended up using `nodeLinker: node-modules`, which keeps node_modules folder, and that completely negates the benefit of using Yarn 2 in the first place.
I think the goal is to protect Apple.
> What's happened in Canada, is that curriculum is designed to teach to the weakest student in a subject.

No, the curriculum is not watered down to meet the needs of the weakest students. Canada tends to align its curriculum to that of other western nations. On the other hand, when you're talking about math there is a bit of an issue where the background of teachers is mixed at the elementary level and students are not guaranteed to have a true specialist teacher until grade 10. That isn't to say that specialist teachers are the best teachers, but it is a bit disconcerting when a teachers college offers classes for math-phobic elementary teacher candidates (particularly since those grade levels seem to be where many children develop their attitudes towards math). It is also worth noting that the quality of teachers varies based upon region and schools, largely because teachers have a lot of choice as to where they teach.
Of course it is a ridiculous argument. Same as GP. How would you live and be able to work for your company if it didn't pay you at all?

The fact is that the employer/employee relation is a business one, in which each party looks for his own interest first and foremost. The interest of the other party is only instrumental.

There are power asymmetries, and we can agree that the average guy gets, on average, shafted, while someone born "on the right side of the table" is always dealt the good cards[0].

But I don't think the nature of the employer/employee relation is the problem. The problem is the vast inequality of opportunity at birth.

[0] Though I shall note that in a sense pretty much everyone on this website is born on the right side of the table, and doesn't seem to feel too guilty about that.
I remember reading about a design that basically works like this. It’s sucks up all the atoms in front of the ship and uses them for acceleration. I think there is also a book about this where such a ship has a problem which doesn’t allow it to slow down. So they just keep accelerating. Wish I could remember the name.
"Privacy is a fundamental human right. At Apple, it’s also one of our core values. Your devices are important to so many parts of your life. What you share from those experiences, and who you share it with, should be up to you. We design Apple products to protect your privacy and give you control over your information. It’s not always easy. But that’s the kind of innovation we believe in." [0]

So hypocritical.

[0] https://www.apple.com/privacy/
> the kind of people who do it are no hazard to public health.

Well they do, you know, keep weapons of war in their homes.

Unless they have 24/7 armed guards and their home is defensible from armed invasion that alone is a pretty sizable risk to public health.

Then of course there is the added factor of what sort of person thinks this is a good idea. If someone is going to have an armed tank, it would be preferable if they also didn't have questionable judgment.
According to their FAQ, they are only scanning photos in iCloud and not doing on-device scanning.

https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Expanded_Protections_...
It is called "secondary succession" (primary being colonisation from scratch on bare rock)
On a similar theme, there’s Marvin Heemeyer[1], who armor plated a bulldozer (aka killdozer) and destroyed several buildings with it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer
This raises an interesting question to me. When you look at high-performance Python libraries, they achieve the performance by just offloading the critical paths to compiled C modules. I remember reading some comparison of aiohttp to other Python frameworks a while back where the author expected aiohttp to be faster since it doesn't need to block on the network, but it wasn't, largely because of how slow it is to parse http requests in Python. If the bottleneck in serving a ton of requests per second is that Python is bad at serializing and deserializing http headers, why has no one just written a package that offloads that part of the library to a compiled C module? There is seemingly nothing preventing maintaining the convenience of Python for implementing your high-level business logic, but moving the bottlenecks to C. That has been exactly what programmers in scientific computing fields have been doing for 30 years and why projects like NumPy exist in the first place. So why do Python web programmers not just do the same thing? Heck, aiohttp already does this for the event loop, which just uses libuv the same as Node does. Both teams recognize that is a critical path component and it would be really slow to implement it in either Python or Javascript.
Huh, no you're exactly right. (It's javascript, btw)
Metaverse needs more choice beyond Unreal Engine
> Not that I think that an 84 or even 78 year old man is going to be committing an acts of terror.

No but it could be stolen by others to commit such crimes or other ones like a bank robbery.
Fair enough, but Android includes Play Services in all notable cases. Yes a handful of people run it without, which does solve that issue, at the cost of convenience and usability.

That's why I specified "decent smartphone". I wouldn't consider the UX of Android without Play Services to be "decent".
> My understanding is that acquiring a silencer in Europe isn’t much harder than acquiring a firearm (obviously country dependent).

True. You don't need any special permits for suppressors at all here in Finland as long as you got a valid permit for the gun it will be installed on. So basically the seller just checks that you actually legally own the gun you say you are going to install it on (nobody actually checks what you install it on)
Does it really matter if one stole it or bought it?
No. It's actually a metaphor for Apple's new phone search policy.

But knowing that would require reading the article, something many people on HN never do.
You forgot the most important point: it also sounded like Pikachu!
“The software comes for free, but my time is not”
Posting an AMP link by Spiegel as "German source"? The original source is a dpa article by Carsten Rehder btw.
> I think it's one of those cases where the authorities have to make a statement rather than a matter of believing he'd do sometthing stupid with it.

What's the statement here? The statement I see is that intent does not matter, which kind of flies in the face of most of the history of European criminal law.

The law was written to prosecute people who are up to no good. Why the relevant parties here did not realize that some elderly collector is in fact not up to no good and prosecute and sentence accordingly I can only speculate.

>WW2-era or not, a Panther is a lethal piece of hardware, and apparently he's been seen driving it around at some point. And if one person does it then someone else can too. And the next one might not be a harmless old man content with merely collecting military hardware.

If you want to drive around and destroy things there are more cost effective options, there have been recent examples of such shenanigans in Europe. Some elderly collector is not really a threat to public health and more than a small fleet of construction equipment or heavy trucks is.

>I suspect selling the collection could easily pay the fines, so it's not like he's being punished that hard.

I think it's just as likely that the fine was sized so that between being forced to liquidate everything and paying the fines he will die penniless.
Something slightly different but very related happened to a senior police officer in the UK. She got sent a WhatsApp message by her sister containing a horrific CP act. It was captioned with a message asking people to circulate it to identify the adult in it, and probably those who sent it around (including the sister) were acting in good faith, but actually it was still illegal to send or even possess it. No doubt the originator of the caption was a deliberate troll.

She was found guilty of "possessing an indecent image of a child". [1] She tried to argue that she hadn't noticed the message, but it's not surprising that wasn't believed given that she had immediately replied to her sister saying "please call". She was sentenced to 200 hours community service, and originally sacked from her job but recently reinstated after appealing. [2]

It seems that she wasn't immediately in trouble when she received the message ... so long as she had immediately reported her own sister for distributing it, even though it's clear that she hadn't deliberately done anything wrong. (In fact the sister had contacted her to ask what she should do about it. Probably her answer was "don't have already sent it me!")

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-50476166

[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-57501764
As long as the government only takes up to all your assets (but not more), then “it’s not like he’s being punished that hard”?

I’m not in favor of private collectors of fully operational tanks, but the last sentence doesn’t hold any water for me.
Sorry to everybody who was offended. I appended the line about the sarcasmometer, but the damage was done by then.
Ask HN: Tax residency being a problem for remote roles?
I have just been denied an FTE remote role due to my tax residency not being in the DACH region (I am still located in the EU country using Euro though).

Did anyone else experience the same problem? How do companies and individuals go about this issue for FTE remote roles?
Oh, well still, you’ve got your crow with you today. I can see it.
Google and the rest do the same thing, but on their own servers.

You want Google, for example, to hold false positive data on their servers forever where it can be subpoenaed and misused?

>Innocent man, 23, sues Arizona police for $1.5million after being arrested for murder and jailed for six days when Google's GPS tracker wrongly placed him at the scene of the 2018 crime

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7897319/Police-arre...
There's plenty of evidence that US society in 2021 is causing girls and women to use head meds at an alarming rate. The last figure I saw is 25% of all women.

If you watch social media videos of their behavior, you'll be shocked at their extreme need for attention and validation - it's like an endless "Girls Gone Wild" loop.
This was my exact experience of the problem. I cut back dramatically on device usage and news, to the point where I suddenly felt very disoriented and disconnected socially. It was a big improvement in many ways, but that was a real problem and I'm still adjusting to find the right level.
Could you or someone else say what are the better options in terms of hardware for this setup? Pinephone?
Given that choice, I wouldn't go for a fair but physically unlivable world.