skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it had to do with not wanting to own the user’s contact list. Using a phone number allowed them to rely on a contact list on the users phone, which is not tied to the signal account.

That doesn't make any sense. Signal did the total opposite. It started keeping sensitive user data in the cloud including your name, your photo, your phone number, and a list of your contacts. It stores that data on their servers permanently.
It's not just about "not caring", it's also about being able to get your message out. If this person hadn't hired a lawyer, sued the LAPD, and maybe even contacted the media on their own initiative about it, there most likely wouldn't have been a news article.
The time of Yakread is at hand
MacroDroid has been a lifesaver for simple things like that.
Is it me or the whole Android UI is becoming more boring and bland with each iteration?
Have to get a Pixel to really experience Google's design. Samsung loves to make things worse for no good reason.
Encouragement Is Important
careful, you're on HN - the narrative is that people who actually build things with their hands are lazy borderline criminals and out to steal as much as they can from the noble, erudite developers who could do just as good a job anyway, no, better! if they wanted to.
You suspect she's Mexican because she lives in LA and is traveling to Mexico?

...wow.
(I believe the adverbial form would be "exemplarily", and for daily, "dailily")
hm maybe I can just bring bunch of examples

and conclude that people just regulary kill other people just because they feel like it...
Sign up and just add another user to your account. Their limits are soft and they probably won’t bother you if all you have is an extra user. Tailscale is fair and flexible this way.
I never use this "only the photos you want to share" shit. In the event that I do it and then want to add more photos to the list, the process is arcane. So I just share all photos.

And Android Tablets? I thought they were dead. I used to have a Nexus 7 but now I'm all iPad.
Open Source API for Launched Spacecrafts and Rockets Data of ISRO
I was always opposed to this STUPID requirement that you NEED to tie Signal to your phone number. I never used it and AFAIK even for the Desktop client you need to have a phone number. Wire and other messengers that use the same or similar protocols do not have this issue.

I am not the only one hating this, from the very start this was a huge critique on Signal by many people, but they never changed. I did not even know they used a 3rd party service to "verify" phone numbers. This is a HUGE issue. People who truly want to stay PRIVATE, politically hunted people who are in life and death situations should never ever use Signal.
Well there is 'intrapreneur', a term I recently learned where you technically still are an entrepreneur, you just don't own the company, but can still make bank, depending on what company it is, and their pay.
The way that Cloudflare attack was working out sounds similar in nature to the way MailChimp was attacked a few months ago:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-breac...
It’s a bit redundant: every side is the same length on any cube.
They've arguably already hit it. Apple has been testing overengineered features that are suspiciously well suited for AR in broad daylight for a few years now. If they can't pull it off, I don't think anyone can.
Google Cloud IoT Core is being retired
I'm still surprised by the $10k payout given the disclosure timeline. For example they indicate that on 2022-05-04 there was a "conference call between Quarkslab engineers, Google Android Security Team members, and a Titan engineering team member." Since there were both Android security team members and a Titan engineer in the phone call there were clearly engineers in the loop who understood the technical details of the issue as well as the severity. The initial $10k payout was done on 2022-06-07, a month later.

One would imagine that this would have been escalated to some pretty senior security folks at Google before the payout was decided. That would mean that there would be some amount of discretion on Google's end as to the payout, since there would (presumably) be someone senior enough to look at this closely and authorize a higher amount even if there was some rubric that might seem to award a lower amount. Obviously this is ultimately what happened, as they eventually did increase the payout. It's a little strange to me though that this wasn't done sooner.
WSL2 is very limited; from not having a "proper init" to having NAT-ed network, it is fine for running simple docker containers, but proper linux it is not.

Comparing it to the real linux is like comparing powershell prompt to full windows.
The Scam Test

[X] Too good to be true

[X] Give us money today and we will send you a hamburger next Tuesday*

* https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=I%27ll%20gla...
Ah, thanks! (Not a native speaker.)
Digital Monastic
Americans are bankrupting themselves through a mixture of overeating, substance abuse, and sedentary lifestyles. As a society we are getting sicker every year. We should do more to reduce the prices of insulin and other biologics, but that won't solve the fundamental problem. Much of the insulin used today is by type-2 diabetics, and the vast majority of those cases are caused by lifestyle.
So ... it's all about you?

Honestly, this rant of yours isn't a good look.
I listened to music on YouTube a lot until a month or so ago when I cleaned up my music library and exported it for portable use. When I canceled my Amazon Prime Unlimited subscription and made my personal library portable I also lost interest in listening to music from YouTube.
I do the same but regularly get spam. I just got a spam email today for automobile insurance and the source was an automotive buying company I used about a month ago. The businesses don't appear to be related in any way.

The strangest one ever was an email address given to a boutique spa hotel in Oregon showing up on spam announcing a new production from a local California community musical theatre. I must have given the hotel my zipcode as well so the email was sold based upon my location.
I buy books because I'm imagining something like trinity learning to fly a helicopter in The Matrix...

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoAk7zBTrvo>
Cloudflare was attacked with the same attack but they were able to prevent any harm since they use hardware keys for 2-step instead of OTP.

This is a very simple phishing attack and I am surprised it has proven to be effective.
Slowly suffocate the golden goose! Ever popular indeed.
We need to find a way to move on, once something is perfected. Because if we don't we kinda ruin what we have already perfected. It's called planned obsolescence and below are some resources on the same. It is widely used across industries for over a century and kinda plays a huge role in climate change.

Veritasium https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5v8D-alAKE

DW (mostly about phone) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aYJPonRJd8
I think the localization preferences will be a big hit in European countries. Translations can be really hit or miss depending on how technical an app gets. For some apps, you might feel the developer did a good job with localization and want to view it in your native language, for other apps you'd rather use the English version because the translations are really bad.
It does sample uniformly to shrink the bad titles.

Sampling nonuniformly may introduce an unexpected bias, so there's a tradeoff there.
yeah I really can't fathom how the material design won out. it's so.... gimmicky. like when you click a button, and it radiates out a ripple across the button surface.
When you think about this more deeply, a well working status system is an existential threat to several layers of management.

If all you do is collect metrics and reports to aggregate them upwards, the value added is minimal.

Maybe there remains some value in exception management (risks, roadblocks)? Barely so in my experience. Because managers in tech have no clue what they're managing. So this is again just a report which next the team should resolve on their own.
No one (at least that I have found) has as mature/slick looking a controller as Unifi. And once I realized that I rarely changed settings for my core network, particularly on my AP's, I really started to broaden my search. A friend turned my onto the Grandstream APs (I thought they only did phones?!?) and I have to say so far I'm really impressed. They are a bit uglier than the Unifi UFOs and the update process for the firmware that shipped with them was an utter nightmare to figure out - but now that I'm past that I'm very pleased with them. They seem to be a lot faster and more stable than the Unifi equivalents.
I've set up a lot of UBNT kit, been heavily involved in the forums and their beta products - but the quality and timeliness of firmware updates has really fallen off the last five or so years. Unsurprisingly about the same time they shipped all the firmware coding overseas. One of the biggest reasons I was a huge proponent of them was the constant and tight interaction of the developers in their community forums. That also fell off a cliff around the same time. The market is ripe for someone else to step in.

Surprisingly Cisco, with their small business line, has one of the better looking contenders. No subscription - and I didn't need anything (not even an email) to download firmware updates or the controller (!!) Not your fathers Cisco! Their controller lags Unifi, but not by much. I scored a router and switch off of ebay just to dabble and it was pretty promising. I haven't looked at it for a while; I probably need to fire it back up and see if it's matured any. In the end for firewall I went back to OpnSense. Unifi switches are OK but their one year hardware warranty, frankly, sucks. If I were to by new switches I'd probably just go back to netgear. Their lifetime warranty is pretty hard to beat. I've had them replace 10 year old switches with nary a blink of the eye so it's not just lip service.
This is kind of ironic, as many artists who have a unique visual style insist their art is about the deeper meaning and not just the look. (I don't really agree that is that important to most observers)
GI can mean a few different things. Which one are you asking about?
No, there were no ads anywhere on the domain in question.

There was text on the page that matched the name of a large financial institution. My suspicion is that this caused the problem.
Flying cars. There's many YouTube videos of them, but they're not efficient, require designated flight paths, and they're noisy as hell.
That's the trick. AppImage has a pretty good list of other best practices too: https://docs.appimage.org/reference/best-practices.html (applies even if you don't use AppImages).
EPA Ag Adviser Tells Ethanol Industry Audience Biofuels Will Continue to Grow
Dangerous precedence, this will increase the portion of the population that chooses to skip the screening.
Things like this used to happen all the time

https://tucson.com/news/local/crime/6-anti-war-protesters-ar...
You especially see this in the occasional response articles where several invited authors offer rapid-fire responses to a featured article. When there are a limited number of reasonable positions to take, wackiness is bound to seep in.

Not that this is particularly wacky, but here’s an example: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2021-0...
> I do wish Signal would be more transparent though.

You mean like updating their privacy policy to explain that they are keeping sensitive user data in the cloud? They refuse. There are people in this very discussion who are (or were at least) unaware that Signal is collecting and permanently storing user data on their servers. Signal's communication on what they're collecting and how has been a total joke. I cannot consider them trustworthy and at this point I suspect that refusing to update their privacy policy is a giant dead canary intended to warn users away from their product.
Technology Connections is a really good channel about how the technology of everyday things work. Highly recommend.
Buy junk get junk. I have a 10 year old set of sony wired headphones. Reference tier sound still. For blutooth, how many of these devices allow the users to replace batteries to make it to 10 years and ongoing as I have done with my headphones? Bang and Oulfson afaik is it but you have to shell out half a grand for one of their headphone sets, plus the battery is proprietary so if the company gets some MBA holders at the helm they will change it slightly between generations and not sell older replacements, to force you to buy new and not leave money on the table.
Great write up! I don't have much practical experience with Paxos/Raft other than coursework. I'm curious, if I wanted to insert a row into a table, what is the overhead of all these extra nodes in the insert operation now compared to a single table?

I realize the answer depends on how big the cluster is, what state it is in at any given moment etc, but I'm happy to accept back of the envelope calculations/estimations!
Google Ups Its Linux Security Awards
What is this future UX you're imagining? How does the future solve the contacts book/short identifiers problem?
I guess nobody credible has verified Uganda's claim that they are sitting on cf. 320K tonnes of (currently underground unrefined) gold to be mined.[1]

All currently known above- and below- ground gold deposits, plus Uganda's claim, would require a cube that is cf. 35 meters wide on each side.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/uganda-gold-idUSKBN2NP17M
to be fair, the real problem was the crappy hardware you tried to run it on - not OpenWRT :p
> anonymized "user token" to add a buddy would be too "tech" for them? I refuse to believe a word of what you're saying.

How do you transmit said anonymous user token securely? Using the secure messaging app you're already using? Meeting up in real life? Posting it on keybase? Each of these has downsides that are all solved by a phone number.
It seems there is an email based login and sign up. Maybe their system is down?
I took the "numbered theses" format as being a deliberate reference to the Central European writing tradition to which you allude, e.g., Benjamin's theses on history, or Marx' theses on Feuerbach. Writing in the "merciless telegram style" implies that the reader is expected to fill in the gaps with their own store of knowledge and their own effort. Like modern mathematical writing, it's more about "high bandwidth" scholar-to-scholar dialogue than explication for a broad audience. Taken in this light, it's has the opposite intent of compressing down to "hot takes" (sparking internal dialogue with the reader vs. sparking lazy emotional acceptance of the argument).

Or maybe she's just a lazy writer who clicked "numbered paragraph," who knows.
Because the law makes it very difficult to provide such services in the spirit of preventing the exploitation of minors.

Make no mistake this is an indirectly legal hurdle.
To be fair there are tools that use operators (like Flux) to apply desired state onto Kubernetes clusters using Git, so the GitOps is still there. You can even combine flux with ClusterAPI to create clusters with CRDs through Git, which can be quite handy
Personally I think iOS design is garbage and patronizing to the user, and finds every possible way to hide what you actually want to do. It's absurd how hard it is to find out how to do something on an Apple built OS, especially as they used to be so easy to function and navigate in the early iOS days, to help everyone get onto smartphones.

Android doesn't baby me like that but has millions of other giant problems.
Who cares, it's easy? I did my part: I just stood up and went to the bathroom.
Around 1/1000 worth of all printed currency in the world.

Ppl complain about bitcoin, but fiat is the same.
Hmm, I don't quickly see an "awesome-oer" gh project list... I wonder...
> We need to ship binaries. How do you do that? Do you maintain a few separate versions for a few popular distributions? Do you target the Linux Standard Base?

When I worked on mod_pagespeed we went with the first approach, building an RPM and a DEB. As long as we built on the oldest still-supported CentOS and Ubuntu LTS, 32-bit and 64-bit, we found that our packages worked reliably on all RPM- and DEB-based distros. Building four packages was annoying, but we automated it.

(We also distributed source, so it may be that it didn't work for some people and they instead built from source. But people would usually ask questions on https://groups.google.com/g/mod-pagespeed-discuss before resorting to that I don't think I saw this issue.)
The media sharing tools (allowing all of your photos to be shared with an app) are the largest silent invasion of privacy on both Apple and Android phones, which is not much discussed.

Even on IOS, until recently, every app, as long as you allowed media viewing permissions, had access to EVERY PHOTO in your library.
Programming Feels
Those were tiny, isolated demonstrations by the usual hippies who show up to every protest. They only even make the local news on a slow day. No one cares.
If you are shorter than 3 feet you can just wrap the cable around the device or shove it in the pocket with the device. If you are longer than 3 feet on the torso you are quite a human specimen anyway and are probably buying a lot of custom things for living your life.
>rightfully tell the inspector to F-off if they get uppity.

Thats not at all how that works. The inspector is guided by the code but 'because I want you to' is a valid reason for them to specify rework. There are all kinds of vagueness in the NEC, for example, that allow latitude over whether work well-crafted or not.

If an inspector is just plain wrong about a particular detail you can certainly appeal to the state authority but it's almost never done because it's more expense and delay than just making the install a little better.
could that be selection bias? a lot less of niche people today on big apps, and more casual(superficial) mainstream "scene"? like in those time people were selfselecting on certain traits and really motivated on soulmate search?

(european POV, internet became mainstream in 2010s with social networks)
Realistically most of science does
It was looong time ago (2011). You could use app specific password to change master password and disable 2FA, with a script.

Funny thing. I had to discover this way myself when I lost my phone with Authenticator App. I took my mail client password and discovered that with some header magic I was able to hijack my own account. I couldn't believed it. So I created another account, protected with 2FA and did same thing. Got gaslighted by Google bug bounty team and decided it's not worth it.
I think it might be related to the loading of remote image / tracking pixel, but since I started using mutt, my spam has been reduced by about 30%. I don't think I have changed anything else.
I believe the source of that idea is this famous quote:

"Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents." -- Arthur Schopenhauer

https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/arthur_schopenhauer_12105...
I don't need fancy new features just for the sake of new features.

Android is quite good as it is. Compared to iOS that seem to be stuck some ten years ago.
I feel like I personally know different groups of people in my own life who would say either one is worse than the other.
How Discord supercharges network disks for extreme low latency
Yeah, or you could use an open platform and save yourself the trouble.
The 1Password integration doesn’t work for me. Not sure why :-(
It is not a "Windows Emulator", but it is certainly a "Windows Userspace Emulator"

Dolphin can run Wii binaries on top of Linux, by emulating a Wii.

Wine can run Windows binaries on top of Linux, by emulating Windows Userspace.

Why would one be an emulator, and the other is not?

Is there some distinction in what an emulator is that goes against common sense?

This reminds of the Transpiler/Compiler "debate." They're both still compilers. They're both emulators (VMs & Compatability Layers).

What the creators meant to say, IMO, is WINVM, "Wine is not a Virtual Machine".
I recently experienced this in a critical situation. Long story short, something went very wrong during a big live event and I needed some tool to fix it.

I downloaded the 2 year old Linux binary, but it didn't run. I tried running it from an old Ubuntu Docker container, but there were dependencies missing and repos were long gone. Luckily it was open source, but compiling was taking ages. So in a case of "no way this works, but it doesn't hurt to try" I downloaded the Windows executable and ran it under Wine. Worked like a charm and everything was fixed before GCC was done compiling (I have a slow laptop).
> The New Jersey lawsuit alleges that police obtained the blood sample of a newborn child (who is now elementary-school aged)

Why are these DNS sample stored for so long? The U.S. really needs some data protection and privacy laws.
You’re mixing up derivatives (rate of change) and approximation (order).
There was also that boat in 1912
Influencer Courses Are Garbage: The Dark Side of Content Creation
Then don't buy Samsung phones?
> I'm not sure if that's more or less than I'd expect.

Most people "owning" gold in the world hold paper gold that isn't backed by physical gold. And the paper gold volume traded on a daily basis is several orders of magnitude higher than the physical one.

So even if it's less physical gold than one would expect (I didn't check you maths btw), there's "more" to it than just the physical gold.
Honestly, I think you're just biased. We all are.

A few months ago I was reading some article which mentioned a common feature on iOS that I didn't even know existed and realized I had been away from the Apple ecosystem for too long. Given iOS's market share and influence, I decided I better catch up and bought an iPhone 13 for my next upgrade, complete with Apple Watch.

I hope this isn't too much of a cop-out, but there are pros and cons to each platform, but both are pretty amazing. We're at the point where we're really comparing subtleties, habits and personal preference. I miss some things on Android and wish Android had some things from iOS. You get a bunch of paper cuts on each platform. I won't list out my personal pet peeves, because they're just that.

After I've absorbed what there is to learn from Apple (I'll probably get an iPad to complete the set), I'll definitely be going back to my Samsung. I personally prefer Android.

I also own a Pixel Pro for testing, and that thing is a buggy disaster, but that's a different conversation.
Your tinfoil is leaking.
Any idea how this compares to other similar elements (e.g., silver, platinum, and so on)?

What is there more of, but higher demand, such that its value is generally higher than gold?
Optimizing for JavaScript Is Hard
I've otoh bought products specifically because they have non wireless fallbacks or are wired only (even better, no batteries).
Because right now, Signal can use your contact list on the device to get your signal contacts. If you replace a phone number with a username, there will be no way to match signal's user to your contact without:

- Having a server to hold your contacts

- Or having signal app to maintain contact list and sync it across devices
Good luck finding documentation about the protocols and APIs used by signal. While every random cryptocurrency has a cryptography whitepaper, it seems that Signal does not.
Leetcode hiring practices is what I'm thinking.
It's definitely less than the world's total GDP, considering that China and the USA are both at or above that. So, it would not be possible for every country to have a gold-backed currency without a major decline in wealth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...

(Disclaimer, I am in no way an economist :) )