skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My guess about this whole debacle is that - with pressure from the government to scan their cloud storage - that this is the alternate scenario to avoid giving up (or being forced to) the "encryption" guarantees of their cloud.

This is exactly the case. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/12/senate-judiciary-commi...

> I'm not sure what technical process they have in place to "only decrypt with valid law enforcement requests" or allow account rescue, but it seems likely that not just any employee can view whatever they want, before or after this system.

They have master keys that can be used to decrypt almost everything you upload. They can be compelled to decrypt and turn over information on anyone. Another (unsourced) comment in this thread indicated they do so 30,000 times per year. The new encryption scheme will effectively stop this for photos, and no doubt other files in the future.

Apple's side will begin using shared key encryption, which will require ALL ~31 keys to decrypt the offending images.

The decryption keys are only generated on-device, and only from a hash that results from a CSAM match. The other photos, simply won't have the decryption keys generated, so they don't even exist.

As an interesting side note, this means that a person who surpasses the CSAM threshold will still only reveal the images that actually match the CSAM database. Every other image, including those that have CSAM unknown to authorities remain encrypted. This is hardly a big win for the big scary government. They now have far less ability to search for evidence of any other crimes. You could upload video of your bank robbery to iCloud, and as long as your personal device remains secure, nobody will know.
They are really on a roll there, how many user hostile moves is that in the last 30 days? I think I lost count at 4. And all in the name of 'helping our users to improve their experience'. Since when is removing features that users depend on a positive?

But with the competition as good as dead they can do whatever they want: the bulk of the audience is now captive and has lost either the willpower or the means to attempt to escape.

It's about time we reboot this web thing.
I think part of the pain is that the needles go into the muscles. Would be nice to avoid that.
SCOTUS interpreted[0] the right of free movement to make "owes less to people who move to Seattle without housing" illegal.

We can't fix chronic homelessness because the remedies are either illegal at a federal level (privileging locals, asylums) or against the sensibilities of voters in the regions where it is concentrated (prosecuting illegal drug use).

[0] I can't remember the ruling now, was a city in the NE IIRC
Not sure you understand the meaning of the word "host" in this context.
(It took 3 hours for that)
Among the protected classes is religion. That is not something that you are that is something that you choose. The point being that when we start excluding people from participating in the society based on things we do not like ,be they opinions that we can change or be they features about who we are, we place ourselves in a bad position as a society.
Same in German. I remember teachers lecturing us in school about this. "Stop" certainly has become an acceptable spelling in colloquial German for some people because of this, much to the despair of language purists. Even the Duden (German standard reference dictionary) seems to have adopted it even if with some caveats:

https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/stop
I always just used incognito windows for these kinds of issues.
The books are available pretty much anywhere. The original HHGTTG was actually written for BBC Radio. There's info at the BBC (but sadly none of the programmes are available atm; they will probably resurface at some point, though).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03v379k

I cannot recommend the radio series highly enough, and they should be available to buy (or find) somewhere. Mind you, the books are also terrific - there are minor alterations in plot details.

For me, though, the TV series and film were disappointing, but to each their own.

Edit to add:

The radio series are available at archive.org. There's an HHGTTG "omnibus page". The navigation is rather confusing, but in the listings panel, the first programme in the first series (Primary Phase) is number 10 [1], followed by listings 11 to 15 for the rest of the first series.

The second series (Secondary Phase) start after that, and so on for the subsequent series.

I've skipped through a few episodes to check and it all seems in order.

[1] https://archive.org/details/s01e00hhgttgdouglasadamsbbcboo/S...
Official French from Quebec has some pretty atrocious words that where forcibly "adapted". My favourite example is "mél" which is "mail" as-in email.

Before you ask, no, no one uses that.
with startups too
This is really very cut and dry: GoDaddy's terms of service prohibit use of their services for harvesting PII without express consent from the person whose PII is being collected. The anti-abortion activists' site openly invites the public to doxx 3rd parties, and hence violates the policy. The anti-abortion site is not functionally that dissimilar from something like a site that allows doxxing ex-romatic partners or the like, and both represent low-value forms of distasteful speech that frankly, no private service provider ought to be obliged to faciliate.

While GoDaddy could be politically or morally motivated here, this just seems like a fair application of the policy.
The instructions you linked state that to connect Airpods one needs to:

Set ControllerMode = bredr or ControllerMode = dual by editing /etc/bluetooth/main.conf file using sudo nano /etc/bluetooth/main.conf command (or another text editor of your choice)

sudo /etc/init.d/bluetooth restart

Try to pair again.
I can't speak for Chaillan, but as a military member who led an agile software development team similar to his during the same timeframe, I think he's referring to DoD's fondness for buzzwords.

Because "agile" is the new hotness, every DoD office and vendor tries to slap the language of agile onto a waterfall model. See this wonderful report from the Defense Innovation Board on "Detecting Agile BS": https://media.defense.gov/2018/Oct/09/2002049591/-1/-1/0/DIB...
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/time-say-goodbye-nicolas-m-ch...

This linkedin post seems way more... balanced... than TheRegister.com implied.
Yeah, templates for "traditional" structures sounds reasonable. Or along the same lines, it might be sufficient to have purely illustrative versions of those setups ("here's how some teams have used this"), to get the idea across, even if they can't be "loaded" as a template.
Aren't folks unhappy at their current roles likely to seek other roles internally before looking externally? It sounds like they are more likely to (a) already be unhappy (b) become extra unhappy when a transfer is denied and (c) that leads to them setting off into the sunset.

I suspect that these aren't the folks companies want to keep in the first place.

On average of course, there will be exceptions. Not trying to imply anything about you, OP.
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> So, take it from me, a historian of opioids: if you want to learn how one family and their company caused arguably the biggest ongoing public health crisis in the US, but you only have the time to read one book on the subject, it should be Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty.

To say that Perdue Pharma caused the crisis seems too strong. The crisis was caused by people making bad decisions against a background of economic and social disintegration.
> If you had flashed OK hand gesture... thought you were a member of a fringe group?

For what it's worth, this hand sign being a hate dogwhistle is pretty much entirely an invention of 4chan.
A Presidency in Peril?
Afghanistan is not an economic issue for the US, but Biden’s reduced political clout can be. Read here: https://lightconejournal.substack.com/p/the-longest-week
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GoDaddy [ EDIT: appears to be ] cutting them off for collecting information about other users or persons without the consent of those other users or persons. That would be a clear violation of their ToS.

The cutoff might happen to align with GoDaddy's political views - god, I hope so - but the explicit reason for it is not political.
> If the audience is the product, Google still has an interest in selling a quality product.

Not if they are the only ones left in the game.

Under Google’s tutelage, the scope and complexity of the web has grown to where it’s near impossible to create an alternative from scratch.
"You can host $Site" != "Somebody else must be willing to host $Site for you".

Same as "You can cook $Food" != "Somebody else must be willing to cook $Food for you".
I have some machines on Digital Ocean and asked if I can set a global spending limit for my account. The answer "No. Digital ocean does not provide it

This surprises me. I thought the only thing DO said no to - is anything at all that might protect us from malicious, DO hosted traffic.
Thanks I'll check those Galaxy Buds out.
No idea about the quality of this research, but if true 1350 +- 350ppmv carbon dioxide concentrations is, at minimum..., unpleasent air. I start opening windows at ~800. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1420326X1879399...
Because the DNA has to go into the nucleus maybe? That's even more easily misunderstood in an "oh no what if it messes with my genetic make-up" way than mRNA.
The full paragraph reads:

> The DoD is still using outdated water-agile-fall acquisition principles to procure services and talent instead of leveraging “Capacity of work” agile contracts to staff teams. Improving acquisition ensures teams have the ability to groom their backlog and move at the pace of relevance. Only Platform One, and teams like Kessel Run, are truly end-to-end agile, from what I have seen to-date.

I don't know what "water-agile-fall" is exactly, but he's probably talking about some terms in the Air Force. Maybe he means that the waterfall model still exists, and a bunch of people are trying (unsuccessfully) to convert to agile. But he's only seen Agile properly happen in a minority of projects.
Gonna be blunt here.

I don't value the opinions of those who believes that a de-wormer is useful medicine against a virus.

Not. A. One.

Know who would have the most to gain by a buying spree of ivermectin?

The manufacturer.

Merck stated that ivermectin is not effective against COVID way back in February.

C'est la vie.
It's worth pointing out that the EU referendum was, legally speaking, only advisory, and therefore it was up to the politicians to decide how to interpret the result and act on it (or not).

The fact that parliament became gridlocked for years afterwards as it failed to agree a sane way forward is not a great argument for avoiding referenda and relying on the wisdom of elected representatives.
Stop testing and there won't be new cases.
They violated GoDaddy's terms of service. You want a hosting provider with no ToS ?
Is to possible to measure or control for behavioral, vs direct transmission blocking, effects of masks? If they seem more effective for old people, could it be that they help remind people about the ongoing pandemic and infection risk, and signal that mask wearers prefer to keep distance to others.
No one is being excluded from society by virtue of their website not being hosted by Godaddy. Hosting services are a dime a dozen, and some of them exist specifically for "Conservative" content like this.
You are mistaken about what R0 means. It is a compound number that describes a virus and its ability to spread from person to person in a community, with all the measures (or lack thereof) including vaccinations in place.

The 6-7 range would be in a theoretical environment where nobody is vaccinated, there are absolutely no countermeasures and the number of opportunities to spread is equivalent to the pre-COVID days. Obviously, we do not live in that world.

In short, R0 is not a property of a particular virus strain but of the sum total of virus + all factors relating to population, behavior etc.

It is also best determined afterwards the way it is being treated right now as though it is some kind of input variable which can be controlled for is fundamentally wrong.
Piracy made Microsoft Windows the dominant force that it is today, and that happened to many more. Last century shareware authors recognized the force of freely sharing to build up momentum, and it's not a coincidence that the most pirated content is from companies that stubbornly try to exert even more control over their markets.
Biden’s Presidency in Peril
This thing again [0]. Looking at historic comments the sentiment is not very positive.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=reactivemanifesto.org
At least the lines aren't as horribly thick as Microsoft's current emoji set. Though I think they're gonna be redoing all their emojis with a 3D art style soon
OP never claimed to be special but simply above average, which I think is fair since most vegans transitioned to that stage by starting to think much more about what they consume than they ever did before.
The point is not about what the company is able to do legally. Because the legality of things is the lowest possible bar that we could set in our society. It's a really poor excuse to do something and say well it's not illegal.

My point is this excessive moral arbitration that causes the exclusion of people and entities from society is a very dangerous path to head down. We should want individuals to make moral and political decisions and participate in the processes that allow for change and remediation. By having companies both large and small become the moral arbiters and forcibly excluding people from the participation in society will only ever end badly.
My take is that C-level people are oriented around constraints and results around the organization as a whole (if the board, regulators, and those that they answer to let them be so.)

If you engage them at the level of "here is how a situation impacts the bottom line" you often get good results.

Middle managers see themselves hemmed in by politics so they are not easy to sway this way and there is no better way to turn them against you than to bypass them and talk to superiors on this level.

Attributing productivity is a fraught issue. Some people are good at tooting their own horn. On a good day I come across triumphantly, on a bad day I can come across as a loser.

A highly productive software dev can look like somebody who slows the team down; other people do the 20% of the work that looks like 80% of the value which is either not realized (80% wasn't good enough) or realized at great cost (senior person had do the other 80% of the work but it cost 160% because they had to reverse-engineer a half-baked scheme.)

People think they can measure the productivity of sales people, but I have developed products for sales managers and I am not so sure. There's that star salesman, for instance, who sleeps with the wives of your best customers and leaves a big mess for you to clean up.
As I mentioned in my previous comment, take a look at Lutris for all non-steam games.

https://lutris.net/
That sounds… perfectly logical?
There already exist multiple lifetimes of existing music. The world won't be worse off if that rate of growth slowed down significantly.
HN has two threads on this now. I just replied on the other but will copy here:

I can't speak for Chaillan, but as a military member who led an agile software development team similar to his during the same timeframe, I think he's referring to DoD's fondness for buzzwords.

Because "agile" is the new hotness, every DoD office and vendor tries to slap the language of agile onto a waterfall model. See this wonderful report from the Defense Innovation Board on "Detecting Agile BS": https://media.defense.gov/2018/Oct/09/2002049591/-1/-1/0/DIB...
You can thank the Sacklers and the judges that dispossessed them of all blame for the addictions they've peddled before you come for my people. You can thank the NIMBYs for refusing to build housing in their neighborhoods forcing people to concentrate here.

Fuck your negative peace.
I mean. It’s relevant. It’s not an inherent justification, but it’s still an important and valid part of the discussion. And being treated as such may sway people to reconsider those wishes. In much the same way some “pay what you want” releases led to many creators reconsidering their approach.
I presume he means they're claiming to be agile while really continuing to use a waterfall process for deploying software. They create specs, hire a vendor, do regular reviews before testing, approvals, deployment, provide specs for changes, pay for those changes, test, approvals, deploy, and then repeat.
American here: here's the deal: regulation slows things down and consumes resources both for the regulator and the regulatee. The deal is: either corp X is accountable, responsible for the control they exhibit or want, or in the vacuum for lack of, a regulator does it for you. Neither happens. Why?

Institutional weakness. The top dog of shirking responsibilities is the US Congress. Whether it's outsourcing wars to the executive branch, 1990s deregulation, or failure to make any serious updates/changes to any of the big issues ongoing since the 1980s:

- immigration

- current account deficit

- debt

- guns

- tax avoidance by corps (I've been in Apple's Cupertino headquarters. How in the hell is it based in Ireland for tax purposes?)

corporations run wild. How in heck did the Sackler's not follow FDA guidelines and release a drug without criminal/civil consequences?

Why is it that if you/I commit financial fraud we're nailed to the wall, but when Wells Fargo's employees do so there's no criminal consequences? Recall, they opened credit cards in customer's names due to internal compensation and incentives. Banks launder money and are not shutout of the US banking system? In other cases, banks report suspicious transfers and the Treasury doesn't follow-up. How are corps enabled to continue to hide behind off-shore shells? How can the Sackler's divest and separate dollars as law suites work up the court appeals process, and still keep it?

The issue is not that corps are evil, or that capitalism is bad. The issue is that since 1980 the pendulum has swung too far in corp's favor, while regulators have failed to respond in kind. We need to bring it back center.

Good god: if I was a share holder at JPMorgan and saw the money they spent on internal lawyers to defend themselves against the 2008 financial company I'd be pissed.

Meanwhile people running for the Senate or the House run the same lame game during elections:

- I am an outsider (b/c Washington's rep is crap)

- I will make changes once in

- But almost all House bills die in the Senate so net nothing happens.

So the whole of Congress is always lost in the fog of the perpetual future.
We, the nerds, only have to be wrong once in order to allow immense harm to occur. Apple voluntarily put itself in that position.

Conversely, the governments of the world get to keep trying, over and over.
Frustrated the shit out of me (on FF Android), until I was saved by remembering Reader Mode.
Just out of curiosity, what's the percentage of users outside of devs do you think care about this feature?
GoDaddy has stated that it is cutting them off for a ToS violation. GoDaddy has NOT stated that it is cutting them off for political reasons.
Exactly. I should have been more clear.
It is clearly not as simple as that.
The need to earn money also incentivizes people to work on products that are monetiziable. More specifically, it encourages people to move their project in a monetiziable direction which puts the priority on revenue generation over quality.
I think where people get caught up is that there’s a lot of confusion on definitions (partly since consciousness is almost certainly a spectrum). But a lot of people confuse human sapience with a requirement of consciousness which is not really the case. When looked at in that light, conscious fungus makes a lot more intuitive sense.

My favorite description of the difference was from the cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett. He gave the example of a dog sitting in the sun. When we see our dog sitting in the sunshine looking content, it is almost certainly enjoying the warmth, and we are probably correct in assuming the dog is feeling content in a way that we can relate to. The difference with a human, is that we can reflect on that state; we can contemplate the experience itself (sapience) rather than just sensing it (sentience).

So complex mycelial networks probably allow some level of sentience (experience states of sense, awareness of the environment), but we shouldn’t think of it as something that is contemplating it’s existence on a higher level. Would we define that as consciousness? Perhaps the difficulty of that assessment is just in applying a single word to represent reality.
We have a bug like that in our internal systems at work. If I can't delete an individual cookie, I'll switch to firefox for work stuff. (I currently use chrome for work stuff b/c we have some helpful extensions which are chrome only)
Opera uses Chromium nowadays.
We organize our software development process
Like another commenter said, it’s probably just semantics, but in software most don’t share a common educational background and language. The SDLC [1] is used where I work and coding / typing is called development. It’s where the actual code is written.

I think it’s always true that there is some time spent figuring out what problem is being solved, what needs to be built to solve the problem, building something, and making sure that it solves the original problem.

In mechanical or electronics it tends to be called manufacturing instead of development. In civil engineering or architecture it tends to be called construction instead of development. I think the difference in creating software is that one person can do all phases. They can even do the phases without formally documenting anything. The phases can be much shorter and iterated on much quicker in some software projects. I think when the software projects become larger and require more developers that they tend to have a more clear demarcation between phases and use more formality in documentation.

I think it would be more beneficial to the software industry if everyone was working with similar enough terminology that discussions don’t end up revolving around who is operating under what definition and which definition is best. But at the end of the day that’s just my opinion.
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Time to report Godaddy, its move is aiding all of the future cases reported.
How many users are there who want to delete some but not all cookies for a site, yet aren't able to use the F12 developer tools to do so?

I can see some users delete cookies to prevent tracking, but should those users really be deciding which cookies to keep and which to delete when nearly all cookies have very user unfriendly names and data contents?

Given that, I agree with the Chrome team here. There shouldn't be a general-public UI to manipulate individual cookies, since making a mistake is very likely and leaks the user's private info. Power users can use the F12 tools.
I wondered if Apple would ever say that you want more than one mouse button. They started having an option to use each side of the mouse as a separate button (even if it looked like a single one and defaulted that way), but I've never heard that two buttons are better than one from Apple. With Steve gone, who even cares now?