skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dread Pirate Roberts did have a kill switch. The FBI agents distracted him by having two pretend to be a couple fighting. He turned his head to watch. Then the other FBI agent beside him swiped his laptop. Theoretically he could have hit the kill switch before turning to gawk at a lovers quarrel, but I mean, not many have the opsec or personal discipline to do that.
Pre-1.0 discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26233244 (122 comments)
Thanks, that is the reference I was thinking of.
No it isn't. Google is playing. Just like Microsoft in the early 2000's with prototypes that others look at, copy, and release.
Flagged because this article describes something that is totally unrealted to artificial intelligence.
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The vaccine does not prevent spread of Covid. Period. The smallest amount of research proves this to be the case.
Because I was taught at a young age to assume everyone is fallible and question assumptions, and it seemed an awful lot like a rounding error to me at the time.

As people have mentioned, there is apparently now more substantial support for it, but back then it was posited based on equations only, and seemed a lot more like trying to explain away a theory not fully matching reality
You ain't gonna need it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it
Except that sex abuse in Catholic Church was (and to some extent still is) an organised endeavour. It wasn't something that some priests did, it was something that the entire Church cooperated on, up to (and including) Vatican. Do you remember how pedophile archbishop Wesołowski avoided all responsibility thanks to Vatican diplomatic immunity?
The Alexas were for my elderly mother in law. If she fell or was having some sort of problem, she could call us with just her voice.

Also she and my partner both like the convenience, so who am I to say that they shouldn’t have such a device? The device does have hardware switches for the camera (it was off) and the microphone but you can’t switch off the microphone without effectively disabling the device.

When I she bought these devices they didn’t have this feature. None of us knew that the feature was deployed and enabled by default. To your point, it is a huge issue that we have no control over these devices anymore since the software can be changed at any time and can lie to you (lies of omission usually).

The Alexa goes above and beyond imo because when this person gained access to my mother in law’s other accounts, it took about 30 minutes to permanently lock him out, despite him bypassing text based tfa by having compromised her phone. Alexa wouldn’t even tell me this problem existed, and I can’t document what happened unlike with literally every other service.
AND YET LS STILL IS NOT RELIABLY PARSEABLE

And yet there aren't --json (and/or --yaml) universal output option flags to structure your data in a reliably parseable format.

Shouldn't every option for a major UNIX command (insert your definition for major) have an extensive list of useful examples/use cases? Man still fails me here. As does the AWS CLI too as a side complaint. If your option is important and useful, then it demands a good example.
Because they were smart enough to go where the money is?/s
Why do people think the WHO is the world police, able to hold negligent countries to account? It isn't, and it can't.

It's an international health agency that is entirely dependent on and beholden to UN member states, as it was designed from the start to be an avenue for voluntary co-operation and the setting of norms. It has no enforcement authority and no legal right to intervene in or investigate countries. It has no independent control over either its leadership or its budget, both of which are determined to an extremely granular level by UN member states.

The US cutting the WHO's funding was petulant and performative, because it just hurt people on the receiving end of valuable WHO assistance programmes and reduced the US's influence in global health debates. As a tactic, that sort of thing only works if you can induce the organisation you're withholding funds from to reform itself, but all of these controversial aspects of the WHO are external to it and come from its nature as an agency run by the world's countries in all their dysfunction.

So no, it's not the WHO's job to 'prove' that China isn't telling the truth, nor does it have any such powers. That sort of evidence would need to be obtained by other countries and used to build cases that allow them to use other mechanisms for a punitive response.

As a contrast, look at the IAEA, which is given broad investigative power through the UN Security Council.

The upside though is that the co-operative nature of the WHO means that overall when it does provide information, norms, or similar, they're usually reliable and have broad support. We'd be worse off without it. But we really need to improve civic education and people's understanding of what role international institutions can and can't play.
Who cares. Pfizer is getting 75 years (at least) to cover up the fact that their "vaccines" aren't vaccines and they cause many harmful side affects like myocarditis.
On this note, has google ever had a breach? I actually can't think of one off the top of my head, which is impressive for a company like google with so much data and such a large footprint

Either their security or PR is great (or both?)
Multiplication is commutative
You could tether the kill cord to your belt loop.
> S3 should be Amazon FTP

I... don't think you know what S3 is. Or maybe what FTP is.

(Also S3, EC2, RDS, etc. were named long before GCP had competing services)
Dell's easy-to-repair Luna Concept laptop aims to reduce waste, carbon emissions
https://www.pine64.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/MNT-Reform...

Here's an adapter to use a SOQuartz in the MNT Reform laptop, mentioned in today's Pine64 blog post.
I think SVP / GM approval is only needed for yellow / red status. From my time in AWS Support, the Support Oncall and Call Leader / GM delegate worked to approve green-i posts.
> While I appreciate this approach and think it's a great idea over using something like Electron, this almost comes off as some kind of obvious discovery they've made. Nothing about this is new or even interesting, as this has basically been the status quo in games for ages now.

That it's been the status quo in games is not really relevant.

What is probably more so is this is not the first project to go in that direction (e.g. alacritty is a GPU-accelerated terminal), and while the isolation from the platform and handling of everything tends to be a bonus point for a game which is rather isolated from the system it can be more problematic for other programs, especially heavily text-based ones (like... an editor).
It appears Framework is having some effects.
> Big sprawling systems with lots of options and special cases excel at providing #1.

This is the sales pitch, but in reality you spend so much time configuring and debugging that you rarely actually save any time.
Log shipping is usually based on tailing a file on disk in a separate process. Eg FileBeat, Fluentd, Promtail, logrotate.

Separation of concerns. Keeps infrastructure details out of your app and is more likely to at least leave a trace on disk in case the central logging goes south, when you need it the most.

On demand changing of log levels is still something worth keeping in application, depending on your verbosity volumes.
> if you're working on sensitive stuff and you want to pretend you're writing some innocent poetry

For plausible deniability, you need a second account on the machine that has all your poetry in. Then, when the thugs (or border guards) tell you to log into your laptop, you use the other username and password and say "Feel free to read all this poetry. I'm particularly proud of the one called 'My government isn't corrupt at all'."

Also, in this scenario, you should probably store your raw information (with the names of innocents redacted) in a public cloud somewhere outside your jurisdiction, encrypted, and have a time-based dead man's switch (hosted somewhere else) which sends an email to your colleagues containing the URL and decryption key.
So do detective work, track down the pedo’s, kick down their doors, shoot/imprison them, and free the children.

Don’t take away the privacy and liberty of hundreds of millions of innocent citizens.

What happened to all the people who visited Epstein’s pedophile island? Any consequences? Nothing so far! But the rest of the population better watch out, Big Brother is going through their photo libraries. It’s all a massive government overreach.
There's been a lot of this, though.

HN used to be firmly anti-FBI/CIA and pro-Assange. Something flipped that around such that the FBI and CIA are Real American Heroes and Assange is some sort of Russian asset. The NSA is still a bit of a bogeyman here, but even that may not hold.

HN is also filled with people who were OccupyWallStreet or AntiWar types who now bloviate endlessly on portfolio management and advocate for the invasion of Iran/Syria/Russia/China/etc.

And don't even get me started on the cypherpunks, the phrack guys, etc. There might be one or two of them left who aren't actively wiping their asses with the CAM or Hacker Manifesto daily.

I suspect that evolving from eating Ramen and reading zines in a communal hackerspace to being paid $400k/yr to analyze the click habits of a billion people changes a person.

The anti-war/free love/hippie/flower power boomers did precisely the same thing, of course. Money and status will always kill lofty ideals. Always.
Are these uncomfortable?

I don't think they're cynical (as stated); I think most of them are common sense and I had assumed consensus understanding. But I don't spend much time with young whippersnappers.

It's true that experience, and what appears to the irrationally exuberant to be cynicism, are regularly coextensive...
When I see a comment like this, my first thought is, “do you need any help?”
Feed it into GPT-3

Though I don't think it has that much attention?
You would be surprised at the skills at the highest level of academia.
As the source of the report and the communication between them and Bloomberg remains undisclosed, we can only speculate.

Perhaps there was a Chinese whispers (no pun intended) style miscommunication and while the original source meant "software component", it became "hardware component" somewhere along. Or the attack was actually developed as proof-of-concept but never applied in the wild. The attack is feasible as other security researchers have shown:

https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9597-modchips_of_the_state
Kennedy was assassinated. Therefore technically there WAS a conspiracy to kill him. In most of these situations and especially for a high profile killing like this, there is a “team”.
So it’s not fantasy to think there is a conspiracy.
What do we want?

WORMHOLES!

When do we want them?

NOWYESTERDAYC'THULUTOMORROWUNDEFINED!
"Medical misinformation" seems to be the trendy pearl clutching excuse of the day.
> You described conservatism as moving on and breaking things, that seems to be turned on its head. I would think it is more about gradual changes instead.

No you've got that backwards. I wrote "conservatism thinks it's easier to break things than to improve them". If you think a change is more likely to break things than to have a positive impact, you don't do the change. Hence, conservatism.

As for the rest, I'm not especially keen on debating or even discussing open relationships. I'll humor you for a sec, but won't reply further:

Of course everyone says it requires maturity, because it does. It's so obvious, I agree it's not a very interesting point to make, but I think the point is to acknowledge that open relationships often fail, and are not for everyone.

> That is interesting because I perceive this as fishing for confirmation for personal choices.

Man I was making an example in answer to a question lmao.

> But where do you think you need maturity? I assume it means to accept compromises? Where is that needed in such a relationship?

Jealousy is a naturally-occuring feeling. And it's quite natural to have some insecurities too. The maturity part is the ability to acknowledge them (first and foremost, to yourself), and to be open and talk about them, in a very open way, i.e. not loaded with assumptions and what the other person thinks/wants/feels.
Disclaimer: I know nothing about web development.

My understanding is that Log4Shell vulnerabilities come from parsing `${jndi:ldap:path}` files coming from HTTP requests, which raises the question of why wasn't that input sanitised in the first place.

Aren't `[${}]` in `$GET` and other HTTP headers normally replaced with sanitised strings to prevent these kinds of vulnerabilities?
Hum... Does the author realizes that multiplication makes no difference between its parameters?
Software popularity is almost always a historical accident rather than a reflection of users' preferences.
Go easy on me, I'm new here. I plan to comment a lot more as time goes by. My comment is purely anecdotal. I'm not saying `everyone now has malware`, just stating that classes of attacks can be killed by doing basic security like principle of least privilege & sandboxing (Android and Apple probably already do it, but then how are these attacks possible?)
Does anyone know if the law enforcement file signature databases use SHA or MD5?

My guess is that they are all MD5 signatures.

So - my question is - can I get a file onto someone's device that will match a CSA image, but is actually not at all CSA? (i.e. basically a more serious "SWAT" attack because it ends with the person potentially spending years in jail and their life ruined)
From a distance, it is very hard to diagnose, but try to sleep more, do more sports, take a holiday (at least 2 weeks).
Al of those can help re-wire and put things into perspective.
> Battery life doesn't matter, just plug your damn laptop, it's throttling itself if it's not plugged in anyways.

Counterpoint: battery life and, for the first time in my life, being able to treat my laptop as actually portable and not have to carry a power brick and mouse (because other touchpads were so terrible) everywhere is the main thing that sold me on Macs, initially, after ~15 years of my computing life being totally Mac-free.

It sold me fast. Turned me from "pft, Macs, OK, whatever, they're nothing special" to "huh, maybe there's something to this" to "I'm never buying anything but a Mac again until competitors can match [list of features I now wouldn't want to give up]" in like a month.

Sadly, no other vendors seem close to closing that gap. Macs remain a category of their own. Not a great situation.
Never assume 4D chess when simple incompetence can do the job, because 4D chess is rare, and tends to fail when it confronts the unexpected. If you were trying to sink the project this way, how would it work out if some other, unrelated scandal had popped up and distracted the general public?
Focus on your users. If they want to do silly things like gifs or reactions give it to them.
Do you deny that fact? Show me your sources bro.
See this is always how online discussions go.

* "CSAM is -- nothing more -- than a way for governments to establish a totalitarian rule!"

* "Oh come on, that's really uncharitable to the people implementing CSAM detection, at least present the argument for the other side in the way they view the issue."

[loud screeching of goalposts...]

* "Of course we acknowledge the problem of sexual abuse imagery, it's just that we don't like the CSAM detection as a solution... [aaand have no ideas for an effective privacy preserving alternative, and want nothing done in the interim while we search for the unicorn]."

There becomes a point where if you don't want to implement the best idea we've got to address the problem, and don't have any other ideas, then it gets harder to believe you really care about the problem.
They regulate effective radiated power (except for the AM broadcast band), which is a function of both conducted power output and antenna design. Any part 15 stuff like WiFi that has replaceable antennas will typically be certified for use with specific antennas. (there are plenty other rules too)

So this hack is not FCC certified (since it isn't what was tested for the zero W 2 certification) and may or may not be compliant.
I am working on a website where I would like to implement live chat for users(ala fb messenger). What are some good tips on designing it from structural and technological side of things?

PS: for now, there won't be multi-user chats(slack/discord), only one-to-one.

(for some reason the info got stripped so I have to comment).
My doctor told me I was too old for it. I went to CVS instead and got it for free, zero questions asked.
I browse the news headlines in English, Hebrew, Russian, Greek, and Arabic. I'm trying to add Spanish to the list. Though to be honest I don't usually read the whole articles and could only really do so comfortably in 40% of those languages.

Subjectively, the Rohingya genocide is not major world news.
It's all configurable on a per URL level on Android, it's just hidden deep into settings - it's not so much that it wasn't honored, it's likely someone some time set Samsung Internet top open SMS links - you can go in the app settings/permissions/app defaults to try and reset it or set it to another app.
> Google was once an innovator (search, Gmail, Docs)

Docs was from an acquisition.
Many years ago I helped translate some of the FreeBSD and Linux documentation.

Even then, the Handbook was a marvel compared to most of the cobbled together HOWTOs, I always felt it was a very underrated gem in the echosystem.
>> 8099

Not sure where you get that number. Also, the numbers for VAERS entry are very probably not even in the ballpark of all injuries because doctors don't often advertise VAERS or even enter patient data there. Why would they, it's basically extra work they don't get paid for.

https://vaersanalysis.info/2021/12/11/vaers-summary-for-covi...

>> ...killed 821,33 Americans...

I had a family friend that shot himself in a hunting accident. Drove himself to the hospital bleeding, didn't make it 24 hours. Tested positive for Covid. Labeled covid death.

I get that it can be a serious disease for some, but it's rare unless you're already in poor health. The response to Covid and vaccine insanity has been ultra overblown.
No I've just had these conversations before, and trying to say god exists because science cannot yet detect it is not a new or engaging argument, no matter how much you dress it up with purple prose.

The person I was responding to was not being an honest interlocutor and I don't feel like engaging that person. And now I'm "mean" or "close minded" because I called them out on their dishonestly.

Weird how the atheists are expected to extend infinite grace and participate in the same circular arguments over and over again, but it doesn't matter how dishonest a theist can be.
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Yes, I do, keeping with the spirit of re-building the metaphorical "baths" of modern civilization.

But even if I didn't mean that, there still is nobody who could do it.
I do not think about each word before saying it.

When I think, it’s a mixture of 1) hearing my voice and 2) thinking in purely abstract concepts and relationships without putting English to it.

When I want to think in English, I can hear it plain as day, as if I’m saying the words aloud, with their exact cadence and accent. I can also “speak” with someone else’s voice and hear them say anything as clearly as if they were speaking in front of me.

Thinking in English can help me find the holes and gaps in my abstract thoughts, because I’m forced to formalize each logical leap and conclusion.
Arguably the term "ahead of time" also suffers from the same problem. Among compiler people, "ahead of time" vs "just in time" sometimes has to do with whether the compiler uses run-time information when compiling. But the names don't reflect that, they talk about when the compilation happens.
Apple appeared to be doing it on their own, not complying with any legal requirement.
Micro page is the same thing as linking page?
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And NSO is the value option. Now imagine what nation states with an actual budget have at their disposal.
It couldn't even scale up to 200 messages, because it was all so incredibly unoptimized. It's like one guy worked on it, then it was immediately abandoned.
You're confusing attacks. What you describe is very useful when there is not threat to your being. You just want the data gone.

However, if you are under physical threat then this is still useful because 1) you can protect witnesses and others and 2) you can make forwarding this information to remote sources part of the self-destruct.

That is, "Sorry, I no longer have the data - the laptop self-destructed. The data and my name and location have been posted to reddit publicly or sent to a list of contacts in six countries"

The point is, they want 1) you to stop and 2) to recover the data. You can bargain for your life by setting up the actions taken should this be activated.
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This sounds a lot like burn out or depression to me (I’m not an expert on that field!). Get yourself checked. It happens to the best, especially now during pandemia.

Read about „imposter syndrome“ and „decision fatigue“.
ATX-80 – ZX-80 computer clone with ATmega8 processor
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Sorry, this is my first submission on HN. Someone or something may have changed the URL. I originally posted this URL: https://www.me.com

I receive this error:
Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead
Error code: SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER
The fact that a routine software update can fail and brick the device is a defect. This problem has been solved over a decade ago with BIOS updates even on entry-level boards by having 2 BIOSes on the board where the second one can be used to recover from if the first one is bricked, so there's really no excuse for this to be an issue nowadays.
TIL there are 38K funds. That's 10-30 times more than I expected.
So who is next, its been a while ;)
I think the important thing that it would be impossible to disprove a conspiracy, even if there wasn’t one, so that idea will always be alive.

But I’ve never heard a reasonable argument in favor of the magic bullet theory. This could only be resolved by non-circumstantial evidence which may or may not exist. Every release of evidence is important however, even if proof of a conspiracy is never found.
I have been using mold every day for almost a year, and it has dramatically improved my quality of life by decreasing link times on the Rust project I work on from approximately 10 seconds to less than one second. This makes a big difference in keeping focus during the edit-compile-run loop. Thank you!
This. There is absolutely no requirement for Apple to tell you they are checking the signatures of all your files.
Actually some well-known logging solutions work exactly like this. There's a local agent running, listens to file changes and forwards them. Next more complex solution would be syslog with TLS, even supports log routing and is packaged with practically every Linux distribution.

After all I think Java isn't that bad but all this legacy stuff needs to be dropped.