skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple refused an FBI order to decrypt a phone; however they allow the FBI to access iCloud data all the time. And iMessage is not end-to-end encrypted in iCloud at the explicit request of the FBI. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...
> according to this article, 22% of el salvadorians knew about this app and didn't download it

Is it really surprising that Bitcoin isn't widely adopted in El Salvador in just 1 year?

Bitcoin has been in existence for just 13 years. Even very smart, technically minded people in economically prosperous nations who heard about Bitcoin over a decade ago barely understand the full implications of cryptocurrencies yet, to say nothing of poorer and often uneducated people in a country with some corruption and untrustworthy institutions.

Nobody can perfectly predict the future, but the story might be radically different down the road.
Why would requiring packaging for takeout food reduce trash at the beaches? I would expect it to have the exact opposite effect.
While all this is true, his point still stands. The US still has the ability to seize your country's money at will.
I think it's worth noting that the people did not sign off, only the keys did.

The system does not require people to sign off, but for the keys to sign off.

I don't think it's worth calling this a hack, the keys are what owned the moneies, and it's the keys that decided what to do with it. People have access to keys, they don't own them
I recommend a first step of identifying the "pure calculation" sections of the function, and separate those out into other functions. If there's any slight adjustments you can make to make a section more pure, then do so.

It should help a little bit to simplify the function, as a first step.
That's crazy! Straight out of the Wire.
> Compatibility is unmatched.

I've had no issues with my Hue bulbs after 5+ years, but if I was getting bulbs now I'd probably opt for something with Thread[0] support like Nanoleaf Essentials line (no affiliation).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_(network_protocol)
Just going off my memory of it. I could be wrong, it was a while ago.
> There needs to be a secondary police force with a different chain of command and funding to act as a redundant mechanism.

A.k.a. "militia"
In addition, bitcoin limits government power. Most autocracies fund their operations with inflation. Even in liberal democracies, deficit spending funded with inflation is not really what people have voted for. People are fine with taxes to the extent they have voted for them, but that should be enough. Inflation is a way to covertly siphon wealth from citizens on top of tax revenues.
Yep a raspberry pi can give you A solution.

It is not difficult to find a solution to routing problems, the difficult part is to get probably near optimal solution (<1% optimality gap).
That is a novel and quite broad interpretation of E2EE. In typical E2EE only endpoints of a (logical) communication channel can decrypt messages on that channel. But E2EE does not say anything about what an endpoint can do with those messages once they decrypted them -- they could print them at the public library and leave them there, they can forward them to the FBI, they can post them on reddit, etc.

If you do not trust your communication partner to safeguard your messages, E2EE will not help you at all.
There is one thing common among Indian left-wingers and right-wingers.
Both of them thinks the other wing is a frog-in-the-well.
> And if so, why? Won't the updated vaccines also be safe (though perhaps not as effective as desired)?

Mostly because they need to be effective before they're mass-produced and recommended to the public. Giving people an ineffective treatment is wasteful and unethical.
This page needs one sentence at the top that explains what Defensive CSS is. “Future proof interfaces” is far too vague (or maybe I’m not smart!)

I went to the “Introduction To” article but it began reading like a cooking recipe story.

The page is otherwise very elegant.
The wrong (but popular) answer is to say that this is a move to break El Salvador's reliance on the USD--the USD still remains legal tender in El Salvador, and from what I can tell, there is absolutely no movement whatsoever towards things like pricing in Bitcoin in lieu of USD or other steps that would insulate El Salvador from US monetary policy.

The charitable answer I would give is that Bukele hoped to attract cryptocurrency investors with the move, perhaps to supplement existing institutional investors who haven't been happy with some of Bukele's policies.

The uncharitable answer I would give is that Bukele is trying to innovate and translate core cryptocurrency strategies of extracting money from people's pockets into extracting money from El Salvador's citizens' pockets.
I was hitting memory limits and the disk was starting to fill up. I could have worked around the issues but the M1 marketing got me excited and they fixed the blatant faults introduced in the previous generation. If I were to do it again, I'd hold off another two generations, maybe get M3 or M4. The 2015 is that good.

I swapped the battery on my 2015 for like $150 at local computer repair shop. I was starting to hit memory limits but could have held off by using bare-metal dev box for heavy loads.
In the Philippines (tested in Manila) high rises this seemed to be a common feature: Double clicking a selected floor would deselect.
I can't deny how cute this is but I just made a 4 node kubernetes cluster in a drawer with 2x Asus PN51, 1x Asus PN50, and an Intel Nuc i3 for MUCH LESS money than 6000 dollars. Jesus...
It absolutely does have to do with USD. Other than actual physical dollar bills, which do not scale and are not practical to use for long-distance international transactions, the only form that real redeemable USD can exist in is deposits with the Fed which can be seized by the US. This is a fundamental property of using the US dollar as your country's currency.
Excellent article, many thanks.
I have one of these for work (employer-provided) and it is the worst machine I have ever used. The touchbar is useless. It's heavy and bulky as hell. Just watching a Youtube video or opening a page with some gifs causes the fan to spin up and sound like a jet engine. The dual fan situation was supposed to improve cooling, but it only made it LOUDER.

Incredibly embarrassing to be in a quiet meeting room and accidentally open a slide deck with a gif for 2 minutes and have the machine ramp up its fans to maximum speed. Why?? Meanwhile on my M1 Air I can have the same content open + some Twitch stream + 3D map view open with no fan, no sound at all, and it runs great.
I agree with the rest of your comment, but this

> Even for a company the size of Apple, putting up $10 million to fund organizations that investigate, expose, and prevent highly targeted cyberattacks isn't pocket change.

is kind of funny, as it’s about 1/20000 of their total cash reserves. With 20000 in my savings account, it’d be equivalent to giving 1 dollar to charity. In other words, pocket change :)
Some just needs to fork gnome and make windows98 style UI.

This is actually OT because this is about GTK, which is a fine toolkit even if it's not C++. It has binding for most languages.
Ask if this really leverages synergies as effectively as a blockchain operated lateralization paradigm.

And if not, why, and how could we therefore proactively think outside the box and hit the ground running in a mutiscalable fashion?
What a odd one to single out and complain about it.
I would suggest that if you're doing anything illegal in the country you're staying in, turn off icloud sync at the least, and best policy is don't use an iphone but use an android with an open source operating system like graphene OS
I just read the article and it basically talks about how hungry people let themselves be exploited. How is that a benefit?

Forcing companies to compete for scarce labor is a better outcome than having unemployment which props up unproductive companies that engage in low value activities because unemployment is even less productive than wasting people's time on inefficient production.
If Trump had convinced enough people that he should have remained president after 2020, I'd suspect you would by now have the sort of government that may well need overthrowing by force. Unfortunately the ones with all the guns would probably disagree.
Seriously though if that's your best argument for insisting everyone should have unfettered access to firearms then it's no wonder we in the rest of the world shake our collective heads in dismay.
Tech has made cars “a candy store of distraction”
There is the Abel prize, which so far has been awarded only to pretty old people. But it has only been around since 2003, so it does not quite have the weight of history behind it.
> the top reason was a preference for using cash

With electronic transaction - and especially bitcoin - the government knows what goes in and out since every transaction is traceable. And with that info, they will be able to properly tax you ! The goal of El Salvador here is to fight rampant tax evasion by providing a fully traceable payment system. Unsurprisingly, people are resisting that by using the best way they know how: untraceable cash transaction and bartering.
I got some emails from them asking for some dates, I gave them 5 different timeslots, 5 times and they failed to answer within all the time-frame I gave to the. no-go for me after this.
El Salvador's current bitcoin wallets are unknown.
In a similar boat...I'm flying to Italy in 3 weeks.

I like to think that international flights are last on the chopping block, but I haven't done anything to verify if that's true at all.
It makes it a bit harder to travel with two laptops, which is one of the nice advantages of working from home.. but I'm otherwise in support of this.

This might just result in employees finding ways to remote access their work computer from their personal computer from wherever they are, but at least that's an additional wall for would-be attackers to hurdle.
Curious what your thoughts are on market penetration with regard to anti-nuclear thought. I'm for it btw. What is soon?
Have you ever seen the inside of a book where there's a warning label that says you shouldn't have bought the book if it didn't have a cover?

That's for the same reason. The way books are sold works like this:

1. The publisher prints a whole pile of them.

2. Booksellers order a bunch. Because both publisher and bookseller want to maximize sales and avoid turning away a customer because they don't have enough copies of the book, the bookseller orders more than they expect to sell.

3. Once the sales have tapered off, the bookseller is stuck with unsold merchandise. They could send them back to the publisher, but the last thing in the world the publisher wants is more copies of a product they themselves can mass manufacture. So, instead, the bookseller just destroys them and tells the publisher how many weren't sold so they can be refunded.

4. Of course, a nefarious bookshop could simply claim that the books were unsold and then get to sell books that they didn't pay for and pocket the profit. To prevent that, the publisher requires them to cut the covers off and ship those back. Shipping just the covers is much cheaper than shipping the entire book and serves to ensure that every book was indeed not sold. Then the bookseller trashes the rest of the book.

5. Of course, this scheme only works if the bookseller can't sell a coverless book. So the publisher prints the warning inside the book to remind customers not to buy them like that.
Bitcoin is already thermodynamically secured by proof-of-work, as miners burn electricity for the right to add new blocks of transactions to the blockchain. The ESG crowd can criticize energy use, but human civilization flourished with abundant energy (and that energy allows building of wealth to be able to afford a clean environment for all creatures); energy use secures bitcoin.
> Unity still has an unparalleled ecosystem

You have never used Unreal Engine and it’s asset store etc.?
"For Messages in iCloud, if you have iCloud Backup turned on, your backup includes a copy of the key protecting your messages"

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

Yes, that really does mean that Apple can decrypt your messages. In fact, Apple does it this way at the explicit request of the FBI, as reported by Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...

And look at all the other potentially sensitive data that is not end-to-end encrypted in the backups. Photos, notes, reminders, calendars, the list goes on.
I’d take such train rides even if just for relaxing. There’s something therapeutic in staring in the distance through the windows of a train or sleeping with the repetitive sound made by its wheels. Assuming they would provide private sleeping cabins.
...if you keep it in US banks (because you can't trust your own corrupt local financial system).
My point is lockdown mode won't be good enough. Which is why there is still a big bounty for it. And those wouldn't be excellent precautions if you weren't doing anything dangerous, because they would be a huge burden over just operating normally above board.

How exactly does this method stop working in cities? You could have provided some content instead of a weirdly vitriolic dismissal.
Bukele is promoting BTC as a sort of crony capitalism/kleptocrat play. This is not a high minded “advancing society” play.
I struggle with it in the sense that it maddens me. I do typically understand what is said as from 20 years of experience I developed an internal corporate nonsense translator in my head.

Paragraphs after paragraphs of fluffy academic corporate language about some omnichannel strategy could just be: we now also sell in stores. Everybody gets that, which is the damn point of language.

I blame the schooling system. It's typical business school language, but you'll see the same effect in the academic world and even in politics. Somehow none are able to speak plain English.

Abstract language is not just annoying and inaccessible, it's also highly convenient to mask bad news.
Most do provide measurement translations into inches and cms. But oddly a 30” is 32” and 34” actually measures 36” for waist sizes even in “true to fit”. Vanity!
The real feature they want is the ability to receive remittances without the high fees caused by retail labor. This requires some kind of app whether it's online banking or crypto.
And humans are wired to think they are better than most others: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20954785/
his got me thinking about the earth's heat flux to the surface. It comes from primordial heat and radioisotope decay of thorium and uranium. Wild that geothermal energy is really just nuclear decay energy, just like the mars RTGs. But disappointing that it ain't all that much at just 47 TW, compared to the sun's 200,000 TW on the Earth's surface. And of those 47 TW, only 14 TW are on land. Not even close to enough to power mankind and our 20-40TW of primary energy today, and hopefully much much more in the future. Cool stuff, but we gotta think bigger.
Keep it. I want one port to rule them all.
The Knights Templar were a religious organisation, but also a quasi-banking institution in Europe; they took and protected deposits of gold, and issued 'cheques' allowing, for example, travellers to deposit gold in London and spend the money in Southern Europe. They were dissolved because they were beginning to rival the Papacy and nations in power due to their immense wealth.

Also, few know this, but many African slaves who were victims of the slave trade became slaves due to debt-slavery (though this didn't involve formal banks). I've seen estimates of up to 25% of slaves back then having been debt-slaves.
> It’s funny how Apple came back from the worst the Mac has ever been to the best in a span of few years.

The terrible state of the Mac over the last nine years hardly compares to the dismal state that Apple was in during the 90s. The product line was a mess and they had multiple machines that had common failures (PowerBook 5300c[0] comes to mind as my first laptop). It was so bad that PowerComputing was making better Macs (clones) than Apple.

They've made two incredible comebacks.

[0] > Two early production PowerBook 5300s caught fire, one at an Apple employee's house and another at the factory; it turned out that the Sony-manufactured lithium ion batteries had overheated while recharging. Apple recalled the 5300s sold (around a hundred machines) and replaced the batteries on these and all subsequent 5300s with nickel metal hydride batteries that provided only about 70% the endurance. At the time, the media viewed the problems with the PowerBook 5300 series as yet another example of Apple's decline.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_5300#Batteries
What would be "bad faith" would be to portray a wide swath of firearms law which you so gleefully describe as "enshrined" prior to 2008 (and especially prior to ~1930) as anything more than a racist and systemic effort to disproportionately strip minorities (especially blacks) of their second amendment rights. As a pragmatic reality the white INDIVIDUAL could buy and bear even machine guns up until the 1920s with basically no scrutiny, despite your "enshrined" reality that might suggest otherwise.

Of course, perhaps on this occasion the "bad faith" claim is merely a face-saving attempt or a mental shut-down after various mental gymnastics come against the hard reality of the fact patterns present.
There is a whole class of attacks related to “deep linking” and custom URL schemes that the operating system can pass to any application that registers itself to match it. At that point the sanitization is up to the application.

I recently stumbled upon a nice write-up [0] that described this class of attack and surveyed which software was vulnerable to it. Many crypto clients were included.

[0] https://positive.security/blog/url-open-rce
Going Freemium with CollAnon v2.0.4
I just realized that I don't have all the time in the world to test through the audience this newish private discussiosn concept behind this project/platform/PWA, so I decided to continue its support and development not for profit and see where it'll lead, with a new experiment/concept of confrontational contextual discussion coming soon called "collAnon You&Me"
It's been suggested: https://github.com/twinbasic/twinbasic/issues/570
Not the type of namespace being referred to. In this case, it's referring to the requirement to refer to all types of a certain category with a keyword, as in `struct Foo`. In Rust, you can refer to a struct named Foo as just `Foo`.
XFCE is GTK based, and so is MATE, which is actually a fork of Gnome.
It's been a while. The last thing that was an absolute mess was screen sharing via Google Hangouts/Meet. You could share individual windows just fine, but I had two external displays attached to my notebook and wanted to share a single screen. It wouldn't work. You could only share both screens at once, so it was impossible for others to read anything.

I think external displays in general had problems, but I don't remember many details. I had problems with my docking station under Wayland, scaling options that didn't work. And there was an issue when trying to re-order attached screens with the corresponding Gnome tool.

I think this was on Ubuntu in 2018 or 2019, when they started giving you Wayland by default. But they soon learned that it just wasn't ready yet.

Granted, some of those problems might have been caused by Gnome tools or Ubuntu or maybe even hardware drivers. But all of them were gone immediately once I switched back to X.
Given it's crypto, there might be game in a game. You never know.
No, that's actually super cool! When I think of an npm project, I think of an evergrowing dependency tree covering trivial stuff such as leftpad.
GP is partially right:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...

According to Reuters sources, Apple abandoned plans to offer iCloud backup encryption, out of fear of government retaliation or even spawning new anti-encryption legislation.

On the other hand, GP is responding to:

> Nobody who is at risk for this is doing iCloud backups. That's something you can already turn off.

And indeed, if you turn off iCloud backups, there is no "backdoor" into iMessage. You can also set up your phone to do encrypted backups locally to your laptop, if you want that instead.
That’s a long way from actually replacing brushing and flossing.

For one thing, streptococcus sobrinus is more closely associated with cavity formation than streptococcus mutans. But more importantly these biofilms are a significant evolutionary advantage so this replacement is an unstable situation. Some positive benefits are likely, just don’t assume it can work alone.
Seems like they fell out of favor years ago. Their DAS products were popular back in the day but as NAS became more popular in the SMB space they failed to compete with Synology/QNAP/etc on pricing or features. They also had a pretty bad reputation for poor reliability, which was especially problematic when combined with their proprietary RAID solution.
Forks promise an infinite, ever-growing supply of deflationary digital scarcity.
Hobbies for the Hell of It
If I remember right it was to do away with things you eat immediately and then just throw away the wrapper (for my family we could no longer get focaccia in a little paper bag that we would eat while we walked, I guess a box was too wasteful/expensive?), while still allowing things you took back home/to hotel. So pizza slices on a sheet of wax paper bad, chinese food to go good.
> There needs to be a secondary police force with a different chain of command and funding to act as a redundant mechanism.

You mean the sheriff?
Thanks! Happy to answer questions.

First, about the attribution: there's a small "Attribution" section in the About page, but it's all data I sourced directly from US gov sites. I actively wanted to avoid an attribution on the actual map page.

It is a bespoke rendering implementation, there are a few details in my original comment[1], but I'll add here that it does use three.js. I haven't used any three.js competitors but I love the level of abstraction it provides: high-level enough to get things done quickly and low-level enough that you can get right into the shaders if you need to.

Camera positioning turned out to be a little easier than I had feared. Up front, I'll say that I didn't do anything for avoiding the track being obscured by terrain. There are times, especially when descending a steep face, where the track does gets obscured.

The camera path itself is generated quite simply: I take a GPS sample every half mile (or as near as possible) and then create a 3D Catmull-Rom curve[2] from those points; that becomes the position track of the camera. Camera orientation is set to look at the current point. There are some offset tweaks here and there so that the camera leads the track (camera turns before the track does).

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32001821
[2] - https://threejs.org/docs/index.html?q=cat#api/en/extras/curv...
I'd put an addendum to the first one

You can't own keys, so you can't own coins. You instead have access to coins when you have access to keys.
Gnome will continue supporting X apps via xWayland. GTK3 and GTK4 apps will always work on both. Anyone building a new app should not be writing for X at this point (its deprecated) so there is no need for X support in a future toolkit.
Not many companies are going to hire and sponsor a visa for a COBOL developer with zero previous work experience.

Instead, you have js work experience.
Apple released a 12" MacBook in early 2015 which was the first to have the butterfly keyboards.

A guy I worked with bought one and complained about it relentlessly.