skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "send by SMS" is a bit confusing

Can you say more about what's confusing about this for you?
I'll throw in the 'Ghosts' series by Nine Inch Nails. These land somewhere between Eno and Aphex Twin and were basically a precursor to Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross's soundtrack work (some of which may also be worth a listen).
> I don't understand the issue you have with the terminology. Benevolent doesn't mean morally good here

That's certainly not immediately clear. "Benevolent" is not a synonym of "positive", it's a synonym of "good". The former would apply in your definition but the latter very clearly doesn't.

----

Edit: I see from sibling commenters that this seems to be a compound term that makes up part of an established theoretical framework. That makes sense but I wouldn't assume everyone is automatically aware of that:

> Benevolent sexism represents evaluations of gender that may appear subjectively positive (subjective to the person who is evaluating), but are actually damaging to people and gender equality more broadly

It also doesn't redefine the word "benevolent" completely - in this context it just means "the misleading appearance of benevolence".
Only connection checks.
Does it include also a fly back ?
The term cobra effect was coined by economist Horst Siebert based on an anecdote of an occurrence in India during British rule. The British government, concerned about the number of venomous cobras in Delhi, offered a bounty for every dead cobra. Initially, this was a successful strategy; large numbers of snakes were killed for the reward. Eventually, however, enterprising people began to breed cobras for the income. When the government became aware of this, the reward program was scrapped. When cobra breeders set their now-worthless snakes free, the wild cobra population further increased.
Network security cameras connect to Wifi and/or Ethernet; they use TCP/IP. Connecting remotely can be done by opening up firewall or by camera connecting to cloud.

Mobile networks use IP, there is no translation needed. But mobile networks do not allow remote connections. Access would require cloud service, either from the provider or VPN.
> the question really comes down to what should we be spending money on to get "better storage"? What are the best solutions for long-term local storage?

The solution I'm proposing is basically 'the best place to spend your money on storage is to not spend it on storage yet'

If the goal is to reduce emissions asap, then focusing on the strategy that removes x% of 100% of the emissions rather than 100% of y% of the emissions makes sense unless there are enough resources/money that y% is more than x%. And storage is currently expensive enough that you need many times as much money for this to be true to 99.9% confidence.

Getting a wind + solar system that has at least y watts at least eg. 90% of the time is remarkably affordable already and still going down.

In excellent climates new solar costs less per MWh than fuel for a gas turbine (and is not far off fuel for a nuclear reactor). Wind is not much more. Distribution, dealing with less than ideal sites and oversupply increase the cost, but an ideal mix has very little storage (4-12 hours) which can be delivered by lithium batteries.

By relying on the existing fossil fuel/hydro/nuclear/whatever to pick up the last 10% for now, you can replace more coal/oil more quickly than other strategies. During this build all storage technologies where they make the most sense so that when that last 10% is needed, prices will have dropped. I'm fairly sure some mix of green hydrogen and green ammonia burning in those same turbines will be one of the winners (ammonia in particular has negligible marginal cost of capacity allowing for a strategic reserve, and will be needed to replace fossil fuel derived fertilizer anyway).

In the unlikely case that there's an overnight $2 trillion investment in new wind/solar/powerlines and production capacity to match in the US then choosing a dispatchable power source from some or all of: expensive green hydrogen, expensive abundant existing batteries, expensive pumped hydro, and expensive nuclear or immediately going all in on commercialising every vaguely promising electrolyser tech becomes the priority.
These companies take liability in software seriously, and if someone installs software that damages their employer business, or their employer customers, they better dust off their CV indeed, including the reason why they got fired.
I suspect you're using the rtsp protocol to get the A/V streams from the camera, in which case I would consider your software another front-end for an IP CCTV system-- is that right?

There are plenty of IP CCTV solutions that use any number of manufacturer's cameras because of standard protocols, and that sort software should be fine to publish. However, if you're spawning the streams because the camera mfg. has a closed protocol and you're exploiting some bug, then maybe give it some more thought.
The SMS symbol was a dull grey circle with a paper plane and an open lock, while the encrypted message was a big blue circle with a lock in the center. You had to choose purposefully with a long press on that button to use SMS if that is what you wanted, and the recipient was using signal.
Is it morally dubious to change citizenship to another country? That's literally choosing what laws you follow. What about religions? Their texts used to be laws, and we seem to believe in freedom to choose our beliefs.

I think every citizen has the responsibility to choose to not follow unjust laws.
> supports plain SMS/MMS to function as a unified messenger

So this is now a lie. This decision absolutely goes against how users actually use the software. Tone deaf and insulting. More cases of Signal saying "we know better than you. You're using it wrong. Do what we say.
Yeah I was hoping for something more like the Cruis’n USA racing games where the world is scrolling at you and your character stays stationary.
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33179880
"Attempts to limit competition are treated as inimical to liberty" is only half of it.

Before neoliberalism there were attempts to rein in the power of monopoly and promote competition. This blog

https://mattstoller.substack.com/

describes how that all fell apart in the neoliberal age. It is frequently "competition for thee but not for me". If there is any new idea in the 2020s it is reviving antitrust regulation.
Why the thread title got edited from the initial (and original) one? Thread didn't elicit the desired reaction so it got editorialized to proselytize more efficiently
The book was never actually 'banned'. What actually happened was that there was an argument over the promulgation of a recommended works list that emphasized specifically teaching "diverse" materials, and the Girls Who Code books were on that list. (They were also on other recommended lists about which there were no disputes, and so at no point was the book banned -- indeed, it was always recommended)

> What appears to have happened is that the Girls Who Code series appeared on a list of books and other materials drawn up by the Central York School District that teachers were allowed to use in the classroom. This list was called the Diversity Resource List as it focused on titles written by or about people of color; indeed, the Girls Who Code series features protagonists who are young girls of color.

> When there was some outcry over this list – ostensibly regarding the content of the materials – the district board told teachers to hold off using the catalog until it had been vetted. That was interpreted by freedom-of-expression and pro-diversity campaigners as a ban. Then in September last year, about a year after the list was withheld and amid criticism and community anger, the school district finally approved the list. Thus Girls Who Code is today allowed in classrooms.

> One point of contention is that Girls Who Code reportedly appeared on a list of approved teaching materials drawn up prior to the Diversity Resource List, and when the latter was frozen, the earlier list was allowed to stand. Thus Girls Who Code would have been allowed in classes. However, it was also on the withheld Diversity Resource List, as an example of diverse literature, so this may have been seen as a ban.
> Currently, research models suggest that using this technology, a satellite massing 100 kilograms (220 lb) could reach Mars in 3 days, a significantly shorter time than the current transit time [1].

Incredible. This is simply incredible. I hope humanity succeeds here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEEP-IN
What do you mean by switch your chats. You can’t have the chat in more than one client at a time?
It could be more relevant if he were actually president, I suppose. This is just speculation about something that would be nearly 3 years away at best.

I similary don't care about what the president in 2029 thinks.
> I support this decision, I don't use SMS

I lost you there
It’s also not convenient for me to go to work everyday. But yet I do because I have an insatiable addiction to food and shelter. It would be much more convenient if people gave me food and shelter for free. But for some reason they expect me to pay for it.
Well, there are mastodon servers which are like that. But in reality, being open and socially curated should be good enough. Making the site invite only doesn’t preclude its eventual decadence, nor endure that you get the best user base.
Ethically, you’ve uncovered a flaw that provides a modest benefit to you (direct access to your IP camera), but serious detriment to both the manufacturer and the other owners of the cameras. Leaving aside the company’s position, this flaw could result in malign actors invading the privacy of a large number of innocent parties. Given the probability that other actors have already, or will otherwise, uncover and exploit this flaw, I’d say you have an ethical duty to try and prevent those invasions of privacy from taking place. Ethical disclosure to the company, followed by public disclosure (of the flaw’s existence, not or not necessarily of the exploit code or details) if they affirmatively refuse to take action, would be the responsible course here.
Well, I would fear verizon or whatever much more than Zuckerberg, especially that sms is plain text (not iMessage though).

Nonetheless, it is a self-made problem in the US, which wouldn’t even make sense in the EU because we don’t have such a high percentage of apple devices.
That is the current state of the US law enforcement (2022).
What's interesting about extortion by law enforcement, is that they are not held accountable for describing things that are not true. It's not extortion, if a hypothetical situation is presented as an investigatory method and goes no further.
I don't send many SMSs, but I receive them: package delivery notifications, automatic appointment reminders, a message to say my car has been repaired, 2FA codes.

I found it useful to have all these messages in a single place, although this change probably won't inconvenience me too much. However, I don't see any benefit.
With a proof assistant written in Standard ML. :)

https://isabelle.in.tum.de/
What phone would you get?
Yeah I agree in general - torrents originally didnt even get big because people wanted things for free - it was just way easier. Click a few buttons, wait a few minutes, done.
You assume nobody else has discovered this yet…
A junior engineer reads an API to do what they need to do.

A senior reads an API to figure out what can be done.

That there one the major differences between he two.
I've cared about the missing headphone jack on a couple of occasions, when I wanted to stream some music off my partner's phone, but we had to listen to its tinny little speaker instead.

Of course Apple does not need to care what I think, as I am not likely to buy their products anyway.
She actually said “sod that” because she’s 103
We can absolutely create a companion on stable diffusion. The model itself isn’t the focus of this though. We just wanted to show it was easy to build a fully functioning application that deploys a model, by using our framework. We didn’t touch the training piece intentionally.
How dare they spend money to create content and expect people to pay for it!
Just in case stories like this dont negatively affect your view of law enforcement, think of it this way:

There is a fixed number of people who can have their rights violated before the population doesn’t have confidence in law enforcement.

And thats what we are seeing now.
You're missing the point, where benevolent doesn't equal good, but either way, yes, "good" or "evil" is relative.

Robin hood stealing from the rich to give to the poor - that's going to be seen one way or the other from the rich person being stolen from vs the poor person being given to.

To have a moral system where defining something as unassailably good is also prone to manipulation - once you decide something is truly good you're more than willing to go to any end to defend or enact that good, including committing atrocities.

Some actions are harder to see as being subjective, sure, but there's always going to be gradients and perspectives.
This is only my assumption but your profile is quite suspicious. Quite a new account. Asked for financial report (looks fine to me) but combined with this and a couple reddit posts. Hm..
Yeah, I think the premium services offer feeds directly from the local TV production. Sometimes they'll offer multiple feeds from the same game, one of which will be a national broadcast feed and another will be a local production with different commentators.
They do the same as Whatsapp. Ie. it is proper end to end encryption. Encryption keys can be verified manually. But there is no way to know the app doesn't secretly send the key to the server (although a disassembly of the app could catch them red handed if this were the case).

The big loophole is:

* The messages can be forced to be sent unencrypted if one or other end of the connection doesn't have data connectivity.

* The conversation backups are cleartext, so if either you or the other party has backups enabled, the e2e encryption is kinda pointless.
I call this the "reverse XY problem." It gets so bad sometimes that you could completely frame the problem around X, defensively excluding Y from the possibilities, and still get a bunch of responses about Y.
I don't know if more legs being better is weird or that it's just likely to be untrue past quadrupedal in this instance.

That being said, Octopi are known to bond with humans and I find them pretty neat.
I got the sarcasm, but it’s not clear what the target is, as no-one was proposing to do the thing that you’re sarcastically railing against.
> Firstly, multiple companies cannot simultaneously have monopoly power of the same resource.

Sure they can; it's called a cartel when that happens.

The major content publishers have acted in concert to kneecap Netflix; pulling licensed content, no longer licensing popular new content, etc.
But how much shorter? Light years are a long distance to cover with relay stations if their peer to peer range is not unlimited. And when "DVD sized" should include both sender and receiver, p2p range most certainly won't be "astronomical" (which it would quite literally have to be). The relay approach implies symmetry and usually what we do with probes is the opposite, compensate a smaller device on one end with a bigger device on the other end.
I’ll bet that user’s sending plaintext sms’s thinking they were secure end to end encrypted messages did much more harm.
I care, and I’m an adult. I don’t care a lot, certainly not so much that I’d exclude someone from a social group, but I do get slightly annoyed when I have to communicate with someone via SMS because it’s so much slower, less reliable, less featureful etc. than iMessage.
I don’t know. The green always looked like the Android logo green back in the day. Less about contrast.
Why did you specifically select
the portion of that list that doesn't include the US? It shows the US is far worse than any rich country, as I claimed.

Mexico, Rwanda, Sudan, and Mali rank 34-37

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/police-ki...

Edit: The closest rich countries are

- Malta, at ~2/3 the US

- Luxumberg, ~ 1/2

- Canada, ~1/3

Malta is notably an anomaly: I can't think of any other rich democracy where journalists reporting on on government links to organized crime get killed by car bombs.
> that's not your judgment to make

It certainly is.
Weird, I am in the southeast U.S. and telegram is eating signal's lunch in the social networks here.
SMS is just terrible though, and is just not worth using. It is plain text, limited in size and simply has less features.
You have a Roku and you do not use Roku search? lol. It will tell you exactly where the show is and then let you open the app in one click :-)
OP may or may not want to live in a society where people are not vulnerable to an invasion of privacy from outside parties, which would (or would not) make it in their best interest to ethically disclose this vulnerability.
It’s customer hostile for them to expect you to pay for stuff?
> Soon enough the list of groups you don't like is gonna get long.

That follows, because there is a lot of evil in this world. If I want to make a token gesture (which I realistically have somewhere between a limited and no ability to enforce against a bunch of armed hooligans like the police or military) against that evil, that's my prerogative.
> if you were to somehow uninstall [the Android SMS] app then the default app would appear since it's probably part of the core operating system

No. Why would it?

> I don't know what you mean by you cannot substitute Messages with another app.

On Android, if you don't like the SMS app you can replace it with another app that has all the same functionality (and more). Does Apple let you do that?

> What is an Apple-oriented chat group?

Please engage with the discussion. One that uses Apple's proprietary SMS extensions, obviously.
FIDO credentials have some baked in assumptions about the cryptographic properties they were generated with, that an RP can use to reason about credential strength, and are designed so that unwrapped private keys are not handled outside of an authenticator device. These assumptions make it undesirable for sync fabric vendors to interoperate.

You are correct that a Passkey ecosystem has an inherent risk of being locked out of cloud storage / sync, and that a third party escrow system is a mitigation against that. But it's not sufficient. You'd end up with keys that could, at best, only be imported into authenticators of the same ecosystem you were denied access from which, as Sync Fabrics are not interoperable. This is presumably not the outcome you're looking for.

I believe some sort of mechanism to assert credential strength at presentation time rather than generation time, and/or some sort of mechanism for TPMs/Secure Elements/Secure Enclaves to establish trust and import trusted credentials from a different authenticator vendor would be needed. This would allow vendors that don't control the hardware (i.e. are not Apple/Google/Microsoft) to build something like a "1Passkey" without having to implement their authenticators in software (i.e. a Virtual Authenticator), and you could keep your wrapped passkey store in escrow with any third party of your choosing.
The politics itself affects how I use Elm. If the creator who is the BDFL doesn't want to provide features that other frameworks do, and moreover shames people for suggesting them, that does not inspire much confidence in me that I should use it in production, so I don't. I thought something might have changed, but it appears it has not, so I will continue not using it.
Interesting property test proposed which would catch this: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests/9149/dif...
Yeah, a distributed system with proofs of it working under some specific assumptions. This is the future. It's a future hard and complicated because the tools and the expertise are not here yet, but definitely the future.
AI can be quite good at music,

but yes there is not yet at on-demand button rendering from a text prompt of bitstreams encoding composed performed and mastered music.
I started using Signal in 2013, I am afraid that I will be forced to stop using it in 2023. Please change your direction!!! No one wants to use yet another messaging app. Just adding my voice in case some at Signal is reading these.
It’s worth pointing out that text message bubbles were always green from the first iPhone as well. Coloring iMessages as blue was done so you knew whether you were getting billed for that text or not.
There are several VR 3D Super Mario Bros adaptations which are easily found on google. But of course they have to take liberties in the Z plane.
Apple is definitely going to swoop in with their own version of the VR/AR headset once the field is basically worked and just waiting for a correct implementation.

The question is really whether it is more like personal computers, where somebody outshines them, smartphones where there's enough room to share the market, or tablets where only Apple can seem to make it work really.
There is no routine bribe paying in Spain. What occurs is similar to what occurs in the US - bribes to get government contracts. Day to day bribes are unheard of and Spain is no more corrupt than the US in that sense (in fact, probably less so - I know of people having to pay small "fees" at a county sheriff's office to get some routine document processed).
Running fronted in browser is not possible at the moment.
As someone who has submitted vulnerability reports to these bullshit camera manufacturers, I can promise you this is effectively working as intended from their end. You'll submit, they'll say "patched", give you a binary where it is patched, then next week they'll "forget" to merge it back in. Name and shame; anyone telling you about responsible disclosure has no experience in this field with this particular industry.
Writing this post in Hacker News is the best way to get people to send you DM to get your exploit in exchange for $s

Good job!