skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll sure illegal activities would stop completely, and I'm sure the legitimate caseload the FBI handles would be resolved miraculously.

/s
I almost spit coffee all over my keyboard. "straight to ... amazon if I want to get a direct answer.". Hilarious.
Which right wing groups? The most recent example I can think of is the Whitmer case in which we found out it was feds inciting the calls to violence.
> identify the salient behavior that is hardware-specific and needs to remain invariant under refactoring, and write unit tests for just that?

I don't think you really can. There will be things that can be different between runs (e.g., a DMA transfer) and not necessarily mean bugs. I don't think there are many fully stateless drivers where that kind of effort would both cover a significant part of hardware behavior and yield good enough code coverage.
> this should result in the defendant being automatically found not guilty

These knee-jerk reactions sound good in passing, and sometimes pass into law. In reality, you created a get out of jail card for the powerful. Plenty of people in law enforcement would wipe a drive if their family and debts were taken care of, even in face of prison.
Its more like "Side A has illegally destroyed evidence that would have helped Side B's case, therefore we can't be certain Side B has actually done the things Side A has accused them of."
Sounds like something that a russian/chinesse bot-troll would say.
Kathleen Booth
According to a reddit post, she has passed away.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/ws3kk1/kat...
I'd say the exact opposite: Russian invasion proved that even a small country can successfully defend, and the consequences for the attacker might be lethal. And it would be even worse for a country that depends on export to the West, like China.
Tangent, and this may be one of those cases where I learned about this on HN and am now passing it back to HN so pardon if I'm just late to the party, but if you're a regular Shazam user on iPhone you don't need to open the app anymore. You can just add a widget to control center. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210331
None of Clinton's phones were under subpoena as evidence in a case. In fact, destroying a device that may have held state secrets is good opsec.

Edit: zdragnar is correct that the phones should probably have fallen under Federal Records Act handling.
It's amazing that such an obvious statement as the above is being down-voted.

Yes, right now it's trendy to be pro-FBI since they are going after Trump, and Trump bad. However, the FBI routinely violates civil rights and like any police organization attracts bad actors and will abuse it's power to the extent it is not prevented from doing so.
Well there's nothing you can do about that except educate people. Wouldn't you say people are nicer than they were 100 years ago? 500 years ago?
This is amazing work from the Netflix team. I'm looking forward to 1.6 Tb/s in 4 years.

It is interesting that this work is happening on FreeBSD, and potentially with diverging implementations than Linux. Linux programs seem to be moving towards userspace getting more power, with things like io_uring and increasing use of frameworks like DPDK/SPDK. This work is all about getting userspace out of the way, with things like async sendfile and kernel TLS. That's pretty neat!
This should also mention as a generality that managers should get training and support from the organization.

This, in my experience, almost never happens. Companies just assume you know how to be a good manager. They shouldn't make that assumption even for experienced hires, especially if they're looking to establish a specific culture.
They used to have a paper on their website describing their algorithm in simplified form but I can't find it any more. Wikipedia has some details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_fingerprint

I believe it's very sensitive to changes in timing, so it doesn't work on live performances etc.

(based on reading I did 13 years ago before an interview at Shazam, which to this day still remains my worst interview performance)
Sounds like somebody was looking for a scapegoat.
The politics of platform power in surveillance capitalism in China and the US
Making Normal Conversations Better
Some of these are the type of questions you should ask after given an offer and before accepting. Unfortunately the standard interview process does not allow much time for interviewees to ask in depth questions and expect in depth responses.
S3... Harder to use... Gotta pay egress....

It seems worse all round.
You’re looking at it in reverse. People, not organizations, commit crimes. If you just look at the organization you absolve the people of the crimes.
If you want stuff but the only way to get it is by hurting others it increases the probability, you'll hurt others. right?
There will always be a need for some organization with the FBI's responsibilities, in some form or fashion.

We must assume that people are fallible, corruption is possible, and that we therefore need a means of redress when such corruption occurs.
I think this assertion from them is misleading (in the same way that it is when Facebook et al make it). If Apple is allowing micro targeting then they are implicitly sharing data. E.g. let's say they let me buy targeted ads for "dog lovers aged 34-39", and then you show up on my website as a lead via that campaign, then Apple has just implicitly sold me demographic/interest information about you, even if it wasn't done as explicitly as if they sent it over in a spreadsheet. I fundamentally think that microtargeting and privacy are incompatible.

(I'm open to bring shown, however, that Apple's new ad marketplace explicitly eschews microtargeting, but I haven't seen that so far)
Sad they stopped selling the lack that had a bottom shelf and was on castors. I had a 45 drives server in it for years before moving.
None of them, since they basically all copied Netflix! The grid view limits users to slowly looking over limited categories of content. Any list based tree structure would be better in my opinion.
Probably not, but "something" needs to be done obviously. Maybe they can be reformed in place, but sometimes burn it down and start over is the right answer.
proxy: Runtime Polymorphism Made Easier Than Ever
i don't think they'll be doing any browser related tasks on JWST
Here is a study suggesting the opposite to your claim:

Light alcohol drinking and cancer: a meta-analysis

Abstract

Background: There is convincing evidence that alcohol consumption increases the risk of cancer of the colorectum, breast, larynx, liver, esophagus, oral cavity and pharynx. Most of the data derive from studies that focused on the effect of moderate/high alcohol intakes, while little is known about light alcohol drinking (up to 1 drink/day).

Patients and methods: We evaluated the association between light drinking and cancer of the colorectum, breast, larynx, liver, esophagus, oral cavity and pharynx, through a meta-analytic approach. We searched epidemiological studies using PubMed, ISI Web of Science and EMBASE, published before December 2010.

Results: We included 222 articles comprising ∼92 000 light drinkers and 60 000 non-drinkers with cancer. Light drinking was associated with the risk of oropharyngeal cancer [relative risk, RR = 1.17; 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.06-1.29], esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) (RR = 1.30; 95% CI 1.09-1.56) and female breast cancer (RR = 1.05; 95% CI 1.02-1.08). We estimated that ∼5000 deaths from oropharyngeal cancer, 24 000 from esophageal SCC and 5000 from breast cancer were attributable to light drinking in 2004 worldwide. No association was found for colorectum, liver and larynx tumors.

Conclusions: Light drinking increases the risk of cancer of oral cavity and pharynx, esophagus and female breast.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22910838/
microprocessor unit
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MCU microcontroller
Here is Apple's privacy policy on ads:

https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/apple-advertisin...

> We create segments, which are groups of people who share similar characteristics, and use these groups for delivering targeted ads.

> We may use information such as the following to assign you to segments:

> ... The music, movies, books, TV shows, and apps you download ...

> ... The topics and categories of the stories you read and the publications you follow, subscribe to, or enable notifications from ...

> ... Your name, address, age, gender, ...

> ... your App Store searches and browsing activity ...

> ... information stored on your device, such as the apps you frequently open ...

There's a lot more, that's just a sample of the data they use. The only thing they promise explicitly either not to have or not to use is:

> No Apple Pay transactions or Health app data is accessible to Apple’s advertising platform, or is used for advertising purposes. Apple does not know or make available to advertisers information about your sexual orientation, religious beliefs, or political affiliations.
https://archive.ph/PiJwA
The server hosting the video file itself is returning a 500 response at the moment.
If you trust encryption, sure[0]. But state actors have basically unlimited resources. I don’t think any individual can stand up against that forever.

[0] https://www.wired.com/2013/09/nsa-backdoored-and-stole-keys/
The Dark History of Zip Files
Except it was quite predictive because ta-da! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32522197

> Something like this should result in the defendant being automatically found not guilty, and the agent sent to jail for the maximum sentence the defendant was facing. This is a complete and unacceptable breach of the public trust, and of civil liberties.
This is a very good question, but you should also dig a few why's into it: "What type of people are successful here? What type of people are not?"

I also like to ask: "what's the best thing about working here? followed up with what's the worst thing about working here" You typically get some insight based on how open they are to the last question.
Yes, very good point. I added a little edit to clarify that.
I've heard Sape Mullender from bell labs (and plan 9) say it during classes he tought.
> script that does some lookups for you

Might want to check out https://plagiashield.com/

I use it occasionally but don't have an active subscription. But it's decent at finding stolen content (except for false positives on privacy policy & TOS)
If they were disbanded what would fill the void and how would we prevent the replacement from being corrupted assuming they were not corrupted already?
The low noise that EVs make, which is usually less than a combustion engine car, is not an assault. You are just angry because it's something new and new things make you uncomfortable because you have to adjust to them.
Yep, location is very useful, and it does actually support that by default already :)

Any data request a device sends appears on your networks "request" handler, and will also include location. See https://docs.blecon.net/cloud-reference/device-request-handl...

There is also a "spotted" handler you can implement if you want which is called with a device's location when it is spotted, even if it is not sending any data. See https://docs.blecon.net/cloud-reference/spotted-event-handle...

A device can transmit whenever an enabled phone is nearby. A phone is enabled by installing an basically headless app. There is no pairing/config etc, and the data is encrypted between device and server, so it can be any nearby enabled phone the device uses.
Data breaches in the age of surveillance capitalism: The role of disclosures
I built one with two tables. The legs are now empty so in order to drill things to the legs you need to insert a piece of wood that fits inside the legs and cut to the height accordingly.
I've been using my M-Audio Keystation Mini 32 for a few years now, and it hasn't dissapointed. The keys are small & don't feel amazing to play, but it packs two and a half octaves in a package just over the width of my laptop. You don't need more if you're programming MIDI melodies.
That is exactly what they are saying, they want the police to illegally go after the people they disagree with politically, but not the people they agree with, without regard for due process, civil rights, or whether a crime has been committed.
This is not even just for open-source applications. It's happened often over my time at my current job that a client will report a bug and then we'll be unable to reproduce it. At which point, we don't waste time trying every possible thing, we ask for the exact steps they took when it happened. If we still can't reproduce it, we schedule a screen-share meeting with the client so they can directly reproduce it on camera for us, and we can walk them through gathering info for us (exact steps, network traffic, console errors, etc.).

If it can't be reproduced, it can't be debugged or fixed.
How is that different than a CPU?
Thanks, I'll take a look. The extra keys down to F are tempting.
The even more broken assumption is that the only success factor is to get the single best result. That's not how real life works either: even if the best one got away, there will still be many other options close to it in quality, you'll be perfectly satisfied with any candidate in the top-five percentile or similar.
The attacker can replay the key material multiple times or use RSA modes where the server does a lot of work.
GraphQL Security Testing Without a Schema
Is there a document describing the language subset they picked?
That's what puzzles me about Uber. I believe that behind the scenes it does pretty complex things as explained many times on HN, but it's the worst app I've ever used. UI and UX wise it's so bad that if you told me it was a bootcamp graduation project I'd have no problem believing you.
They don't and won't sell individual loans. They package them up so they can throw in all the junk loans.
Pumping high-strength lye heated to 40-120C into the environment (soil and water supply) in large enough quantities to neutralize PFOA over large areas is right up there with alt.pave.the.earth in terms of practicality and environmentalism.

some serious HackerNews brain right there, just needs an app and I can get my bingo.

There aren't many chemicals that won't be destroyed in those conditions, the lye will just rip hydrogen off most molecules, but, it'll also do it to, you know, pretty much everything else too. You ever see a chemical burn before? Literally this, but imagine a solution of the lye that's hot to make it even more reactive...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvtUrjfnSnA
Misleading title; it's talking about the vulnerability that the most recent patch fixes, not a new issue in the patch itself
High praise coming from Bertrand Russell! I feel like this is probably not where his biggest contribution was though, it's essentially just a version of "this sentence is false".
There is no safe level of alcohol, the dose dependent risk is clear in studies sibling to this comment and as flagged by WHO, but I drink it anyway well informed of the very real risk to my health.

Here's a top google result. https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20220125/no-amount-...

And a second https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180824103018.h...
Africa has probably 60% of the world's arable land and is extremely fertile. The cause of food shortages in Africa is never, even in the worst droughts, that there is not enough land.

Food crises in Africa are always, with I think, no exceptions, caused by 1. political turmoil that makes it impossible or difficult to use the land well, or 2. wars or 3. genocidal policies by one or more population or tribe toward another.
I mean, wether this is a bullshit won't affect "Small business were crushed by Apple" is a fact? It's a statement based on data. How you or apple justifying their behaviour is another story.
Isn't that just a recipe for a defendant to get someone to dork something up and go free?

Let's say someone kills a relative of mine, the FBI dorks something up ... they should go free by default even if otherwise can be proven guilty?

I don't think that makes sense / that's not justice.
If they can't service their debt then they can't afford to buy the rest of it outright, even at a discount.
There are some factual error.
"services" is more than ADs.
Apple One is one of them.
For what I do in my day-to-day, security vulnerabilities are reported by `npm` automatically when updating packages and there are several pieces of nice tooling around identifying the versions that exhibit the vulnerability and getting around them.

I think the `npm` community is going in the right direction and learning from mistakes of the past on this topic.
> 2: Everybody may be right

that's the one I was expecting to be there. Computer Science may be a science, but software engineering (to say nothing of "programming") is a series of scar tissue in bits, intermixed with so many different expectations

I expect that if a webpage encounters an error, it tells me that it did; most managers expect that error handling is for paranoid people and slows down ship velocity. Thus, all software is terrible, just to different audiences
Everyone basically is, they just disguise it a bit.
I’m surprised that people still call Apples stance a “story”

All they are saying is that tracking is ok as long as you just ask the end user first.

Here’s Steve Jobs in 2010

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ij-jlF98SzA

Are they perfect? No. But at least they haven’t changed their stance in 12 years unlike Google et al.
And yet, AT&T has sent me Cease and Desist letters multiple times for torrenting a few shows, insisting I pay $40/month for their cable package, most of which I won't watch anyway. I guess they've never heard of perverse incentives, because after the second letter, I just started spending $7/month for a P2P-enabled VPN instead :D
Where on that page does it say anything about drawing on the screen or remote control? To me, those are the two major features Zoom provides that differentiate it from e.g. Google Meet or Jitsi.
> if nvidia don't want to give them those blobs, then they can't use the features the blobs enable

Nvidia is giving these blobs to Windows users who download their drivers, so why can't they write a script/etc that extracts blobs from a Windows driver binary and let the user download that binary manually?
> This would be true if these systems weren't constantly changing, both because the language keeps evolving and the runtime techniques keep evolving.

Seconded as a former SpiderMonkey engineer. As a safety guy, trusting an optimizing JIT is the stuff of my (professional) nightmares and the fact that the language keeps evolving, has semantics that very few people on Earth actually understand fully and that (very smart) developers keep cramming new optimizations within them.

Oh, and add to that the fact that they're pretty much all written in C++, which is already the stuff of nightmares for safety professionals, and that they rely on garbage-collectors that need to walk both JavaScript and C++ heaps.

I would trust a small, certified, non-optimizing implementation of a JS runtime much more than any of the juggernauts out there.
Even the special report on 1.5 degrees is super scary. I stopped taking the plane and became vegetarian just after reading it in 2019.
What I did was get wood sticks cut to the exact size that fits inside the legs, then you can drill stuff safely to it.
> to make sure the plan of replacing third-party cookies won't punch other companies at their faces.

Companies using third-party cookies deserve much more than a punch. They deserve corporate euthanasia.
Thanks for the level head and second-order thinking. Still outrageous - but beware the knee-jerk reaction as you said.
It's not 1920 anymore. The bulk of the FBI's case load could be handled by a much smaller agency who's only job is to facilitate and coordinate state law enforcement.

All the "states misbehaving" issues that some people think they need the FBI for are traditionally handled by the US Marshall service.
To start with, maybe not have J Edgar Hoover set it up?

Strong public accountability and transparency. Actual "rule of law" without social or political bias as the first tenant.

The FBI really does have a very sordid history. Perhaps they can be reformed though, not sure.
Authorization (RBAC) is the forgotten child of security
Ask HN: How would you improve customer support at a big tech company?
Some of the big tech companies are better than others when it comes to getting support for their products or services. In your opinion, what really works well and what absolutely does not? What would you like to see that you just don't see or don't see enough?
The FBI was investigating a Republican for context.

The FBI has always selectively targeted politicians going back to J Edgar Hoover, and the entire organization has political corruption in its founding and DNA.
Sorry, you made such a sweeping and incorrect generalization that I didn't think a detailed response was warranted. But, since you asked...

"really good at concentrating" by itself is not autism. And as a trait, it is far from universal among people who have ASD. And for those with ASD who can concentrate, that is sometimes to the point of being a disability (hyper-focus to the point of ignoring all else, including personal care). And there's really no such thing as "a little autism" - it's a spectrum defined by having some combination of a larger set of deficits.

If I come across a little snippy, it's because I raised a child on the spectrum. He's now a successful, independent adult, but it wasn't an easy process for him or the rest of the family.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/two-countries-dismantled-their-...

It would be logistically and all around easier to replace the corrupt FBI and it's culture than these two attempts by entire nations at replacing their corrupt police forces.

It is needed. Not because of anything that's happened the last couple years, but because the FBI has been run and staffed by criminals for decades.
> No his paycheck also comes from the mobsters

This the root of your misunderstanding: his paycheck is not in any way coming directly – note how your very next sentence directly contradicts this assertion – and criminals paying some taxes like everyone else doesn’t mean that the purpose of the tax is criminal, and nobody working on the project thinks their goal is to facilitate crime.

Tornado Cash’s design does not comply with legal requirements in many countries. Until that changes, it’s going to be seen as a tool for breaking laws because that’s what it does by default.
Could it be that people who don't drink alcohol also largely don't smoke? Was that controlled for in this study?
Ancient Diolkos Stone Road Allowed Ships to Go from Ionian to Aegean
All tracking is opt in.
Hm. Somewhere around here I have a Midi Fighter-Twister that I would now like to put into service as a rotary encoder unit for general inputs.

https://store.djtechtools.com/collections/midi-fighters-midi...
I've got a AKAI MPK Mini, version 2 I think - had it for a while. (Looks like they sell a version 3 now.) 25 little keys. Not expensive, doesn't weigh much, size of keys fine for experimentation, seems to be a standard MIDI-over-USB sort of device so it works with everything, and it has some dials and pads as well as just the piano keys. A couple of arpeggio-type options too.

I really didn't get on with the velocity sensitivity, which to my mind requires far too heavy a press to get max volume, both on the keys and the pads.
If they're secured loans they don't sell for pennies on the dollar.

Even the worst of the liar loans didn't sell that low (the whole problem is nobody knew how to price them, but they were sure they were worth something).