skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you get the biggest advantage from BitLocker when you use TPM (PCR 7+11) with a PIN. That should mitigate the exploit because the FVEK should never be read without the PIN, and if BitLocker does it right (which I think it does) too many wrong PIN's results in the TPM going into dictionary attack lockout mode.

Now I've been trying for months to do the same for Linux. There's systemd-cryptsetup/cryptenroll, but it's only for LUKS and I'm trying to encrypt a few sensitive directories on a super slow internal eMMC with fscrypt (keys for secure boot and /home). The TPM is _EXTREMELY_ hard to code for when things go beyond the basics:

1. Bind to PCR 7

2. Bind to changing PCR 11 (changes whenever the kernel, init, cmdline etc. is updated)

3. Use a PIN - but not the AuthValue, because I want to use the same authorization policy for resetting the DA lockout counter on login, and also have a long password/AuthValue for resetting the counter manually.

4. Make it all work with PCR 11 signatures and public keys provided by systemd-stub.

Maybe this isn't the right place to ask, but there's almost nothing but basic TPM guides out there, so if you're an expert I could really use your help. It's just for a personal project, but I'll write about it once I'm done - if I ever figure it out!
The scanning and matching is performed on your own device, against a copy of the databases which is encrypted to protect apple and their data providers against accountability for its content. The result of that match is itself encrypted, owing to the fact that the database is encrypted. On upload the query is decrypted and if there are above a threshold matches the decryption keys to all your content are revealed to apple.

Your phone is your most trusted agent-- it's a mandatory part of your life that mediates your interactions with friends, family, lovers, the government, your doctors, your lawyers, and your priest. You share with it secrets you would tell no other person. It's always with you, tracking your location and recording your activities. And in many cases its use is practically mandated. I think it's inappropriate for such a device to serve any interest except your own.

While it is true that the original proposal operated only on images that you would upload to icloud many people assumed the functionality would be applied more widely over time. This article seems to have proved that point: Apple is now applying essentially the same scanning technology (this time they claim the databases is of "landmarks") to otherwise entirely local photos.
You're missing the point, I think. The question the previous person was asking what would send all the criminality to that province?
> they should just let it die.

Yes. Would Hollywood please kill off Bond, Star Trek, and Dune? They're all 1960s products that are way past their sell-by date.
Since forever? Part of the assets/debt ratio.
Funny, but pre-existing conditions are covered by default under the ACA.
It is very hard to cut spending. This is why when you get a raise they say to not raise your living costs. I am sure this has been studied but going from even temporary luxury back to normal spending is tough.
How does $2k spread across a couple of checks make people feel they were "COVID rich" is something I just can't wrap my head around. Even for someone with a low income this would amount to at most a paycheck or two extra
I mentioned to another comment, you're correct about the figure amount but the concerning part is:

> Credit card lenders wrote off $46bn in seriously delinquent loan balances in the first nine months of 2024, up 50 per cent from the same period in the year prior and the highest level in 14 years
This. Anyone I know that has a sub 3% is planning on staying put until their end. The rest of us are never going to see sub 3% in our lifetimes again. 6% is here to stay. Maybe in the distant future we hit 5.5% but unlikely.

I went through a divorce and my ex got the house. I thought I would travel for a few years before buying another one and I missed out on the 3% rates.
This sounds like BitLocker wasn't enabled on the drive. All of the laptops I've deployed with BitLocker are very good at detecting tampering and will immediately go into lockdown mode. A Linux USB most likely requires Secure Boot to be turned off to boot, if so, the TPM tamper will trigger and BitLocker will require the recovery key at next boot.
Is that seriously why Mat just disappears?? Good grief.
Oh, I definitely did invest some of it (if you can call playing with cash in a brokerage account investing), and seeing some of the returns I got made me feel even richer.

I should stress that I am not a totally rational or irrational actor, I'm pretty much average intelligence, and this is one person's anecdote.
SteerMouse really is an amazing focused piece of software. I’ve had it for a decade now and it’s up there with Alfred as a must have. It used to have issues with BTT and Karabiner but it’s been very smooth since it switched to a full app recently.
In the OP's defense, I see this usage increasingly, as in designating any combatant ship as a "battleship" (even being used for sailing ships). It's not correct, but then neither is "alright" in place of "all right": the language changes whether we want it to or not.
> "recently"

Over a century ago is not recently, even relatively.
This is true, but I believe exceedingly uncommon. There's a requirement for a creative element, and if there's only one way to adapt the music to a modern piano it shouldn't fulfill that requirement and be eligible for copyright at all. I would be unsurprised if copyrights like that existed, though.

If it were at all common, copyright would cease to function. E.g. someone could, in theory, write Romeo and Juliet word-for-word from their own imagination and then apply for a copyright. How on earth would enforcement work? There's no distinction between the copyright-free Shakespeare version and the newly copyrighted version, so do performers get to choose which version they're acting under?
My crude understanding is the definition of life has gotten quite fuzzy in current biological theory.

Notably, I think the "viruses first" theory for the origin life has gained force. This says that first came protein/DNA soup, then came viruses and only then came cellular organisms.

And if you want something that doesn't "piggyback", you'd have to wait for photosynthesizing plants and that's several steps further in evolution (in my layman's understanding of current theory).
You don't see the homeless people who keep themselves and their belongings out of your sight.
Using the Internet Without Leaving a Trace: A How-To Guide
I had two floppies: MSDos & QModem. With those two I could use BBS's to get everything else.
Praising one doesn't mean condemning another.
Native Floridian here. In fact, I lived in this particular city for a few years.

In my opinion, the biggest challenge our waterways are facing is nitrogen and phosphate runoff from residential lawn fertilizer. As we bulldoze natural environments to build subdivisions, we're adding acres of pristine healthy looking lawns. I live in a coastal region. Depending on the type of grass, it's not possible to maintain a healthy lawn without adding some kind of fertilizer. This is because the soil is sandy and alkaline. Lawns generally want slightly acidic soil.

We want to be able to point the finger at large entities like municipal sewage treatment plants and large farms. That is easier than changing our own habits and expectations around what our yards should look like.
> This was also changed recently in 2010 by adding WAL mode.

2010 is closer to sqlite's creation than today, not very recent
Stimulus checks might affect some income levels more than others.

And some people more than others.
> why?

There are ok-ish third reasons (consistency, etc.) to keep muni governments out of environmental regulation, but this provision is undoubtably meant to frustrate exactly the kind of group it did. The provision was added in 2020, presumably in response to the 2019 Lake Erie Bill of Rights[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_personhood#Unite...
that's exactly why I stopped using C/C++. building is many times a nightmare, and the language teams seems to have no interest in improving the situation
“Don’t have temporary people make permanent decisions.”

I like that. Probably all that's needed to explain the stalemate.
I want to see a site or ATS that makes it non-free to send an application and non-free to ghost an applicant.

Employers can earn revenue from automated applications that aren't qualified. Applicants can earn income from fake jobs until the fake jobs can't afford to post anymore.
Bitlocker is unlocked before you reach the login screen.

If I understand correctly, you need to start the PC, reboot just before the login screen appears, and boot to an USB application, which will copy the memory content.
I believe moving the goalposts from "water pollution" to "no pollution on land" isn't helping anything on the discussion, just makes it murkier.

The right to no water pollution comes from a moving resource, water passes by a property and goes to another, land doesn't move and hence could have less strict rules.
Going Boysober
> Credit card delinquency rates, which are seen as a precursor to write-offs, peaked in July, according to data from Moody’s, but have only fallen slightly and remain nearly a percentage point higher than they were on average in the year before the pandemic.

This is a prime example of a style of reporting that really grinds my gears.

The citation is clearly to another internet source, so a link should be provided. If it truly cannot be linked because it is private, more context is still needed to understand what this data means.

I actually can’t find the source myself, but I can find “Delinquency Rate on Credit Card Loans, All Commercial Banks” from the Federal Reserve. [1]

The percents from that source somewhat match those referenced in the FT quote. “Peaked in July”

- 2024Q1 3.15%

- 2024Q2 3.24%

- 2024Q3 3.23%

Using 2019 as “the year before the pandemic”, the average was 2.5825. Is +0.6475 “nearly a percentage point”? I guess it technically would round up.

Seemingly important context that the quote doesn’t give is that 3.23% is lower than any time 1991Q3 to 2011Q4. But, maybe the trend matters more for this metric.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DRCCLACBS
QModem got passed around to the CS freshman by an older student when I started college in ‘89. It was my gateway to the local BBS scene where I made a lot of friendships, both online and at monthly “swap, meet the sysops” meetings we had at a local sub shop.
Opposite experience here. We spent a ton LESS during COVID. No stimulus for us, but lots of cancelled travel. Did some light home reno, but nowhere near enough to offset reduced spending on travel, dining out, and other entertainment.
I have never seen a more obviously telegraphed plan.
Santa gave me a concurrency problem for Christmas [video]
Ask HN: Questions to ask the interviewer that put them on the defensive?
Let's say you're being interviewed for a job position.

What are some questions you can ask the interviewer that put them on the defensive?*

I'm talking psychological games here. Something that could lower their status in the interaction.

I'm not interested in "credential shaming" (e.g. the interviewee is from 'Harvard/Stanford' and is shaming the interviewer's less-regarded university). That doesn't require any skill and is common (especially if the interviewee went to 'Harvard Extension School/Stanford Continuing Studies' and thinks the interviewer doesn't know what those are). I'm talking flipping that scenario around.

[*] Similar to how Elon asks his employees "what did you get done last week?"

[Background: I just saw an interaction on Twitter where someone at an A+ world-renowned co. announced they were looking to hire. A bunch of replies acted all "subservient" and all, and didn't get any interaction. But one reply challenged the hirer's assumptions, and got the most interaction. And it got me thinking there's a there there.]
Jack Elam and the Fly in 'Once Upon a Time in the West'
It's a classic undergraduate student mistake when learning computational complexity: "this problem is really hard, but I can represent it as SAT - well, it is NP-hard!". Whereas what you need is to represent SAT as an instance of your problem! Otherwise computing XOR of two bits would be NP-hard, as I can write a SAT formula to express it.
Using verbatim search generally improves the results.
Why are more people not using self encrypting drives?
I don't think invidual developers are to blame necessarily, but Android developers at large have been ignoring privacy-friendly storage APIs for a literal decade at this point.

While I have my problems with the current state of things in Android, I think the new mechanism is better as a whole than the old mechanism where every flashlight app could upload your nudes to the cloud without you knowing. Had the Android developer landscape jumped ship to these APIs earlier, I'm sure the kinks would've been worked out years ago.

The unfortunate lesson Google seems to have learned is that giving developers the option to use safer, privacy-friendly APIs that put the user in control doesn't work, and forcefully disabling old APIs and forcing developers to update their apps to comply does. Hardly a surprise, to be honest, given Android's ecosystem is still full of shovelware and third-party "ad libraries" filled with adware and stalkerware (often making use of an app's legitimate permissions for nefarious means). I'd like Google to crack down on these, at least on their store, but then I'm sure we'd see weeks of HN threads about how Google broke the latest and greatest app by altering the API.
Every game has rules. As kids we learn not to peep when playing hide and seek...

But this is D&D in the end it's all up to the DM.
That only going to a less integrated union. That doesn’t solve the issue of inner members wanting to go faster towards union and being hampered by countries which shouldn’t even be members like Hungary.
It wasn't just the stimulus checks, it was also the increase in income from job hopping, seeing my 401k and brokerage accounts explode, etc. I'm not saying it was rational or that stimulus checks weren't a good idea, I'm just reflecting on my own personal psychology. Not surprised it doesn't match everyone's!
I don't disagree but people talking about current rates as if they're terrible distort reality. It really wasn't that long ago (aughts) that rates in the 5/6% range were viewed as historically good. And I'm old enough to remember when rates in the teens were normal.
"""- fear of homelessness has way too many times in my life gotten my ass out of bed in the morning for a soul-crushing minimum wage gig. Being poor or sick or mentally ill should not be criminalized, unfortunately, that ship has long sailed."""

It doesn't help with all the layoffs that subsequently caused people not to be able afford previous living conditions- which means having to have had to relocate far- far away from family.

A lot of former IT colleagues of mine have degraded their way of living to sleeping on friends couches or leaving the industry altogether for manageable pay.

Personally, I've always had the paranoia of getting axed for being sick 'at a bad time' for one of my previous employers. My current company seems to be mostly sympathetic, which has left me in a awkwardly distrustful/appreciative state. But with things winding down right now- I'm not sure where my future lies come the turn of the year.
Would it be possible for someone within a compatible jurisdiction to mirror SQLite3 and provide it under some license such that it could be used by anyone?
Trump actually forced hospitals to release their prices during his first admin. There are a few problems. First, quite a few hospitals refused and just took the fine instead. More importantly though, theres no standardization of codes. Your procedure might sound routine but there are usually quite a few different things being billed and there usually isnt a one to on relations hip between codes at different providers. Even if there was standardization a lot of the time unforeseen stuff comes up so you cant just get an out the door price before the procedure.
https://unlace.app/?url=https://x.com/ianwcrosby/status/1872...

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https://unlace.app/thread/ianwcrosby/status/1872724231999381...

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Why one yes, the other no?
One time payment... per major version, and it may be required to pay again if you update your OS. Not as good sounding as 'one-time payment'...
I find the over-the-top righteous indignation on this topic a bit humorous.

I just want to treat the homeless fairly, like the rest of us. We're all equals as human beings, no? How are they paying back in to local government? Heck, they've all but taken over public libraries in the biggest cities in the US, but they get to pay absolutely nothing for them? You don't think it's a bit dehumanizing or at least infantilizing to treat the homeless like they don't owe anything for the resources they use? We're primarily talking about grown adults.

I'll add, I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek in my initial comment, knowing that there is no way these cities are making money off of programs like these. The actual effort of gathering up homeless peoples' belongings and storing them must cost a lot. And there's no reason to think they're selling the items to try and make up the money.
If it doesn't matter to your argument, why did you bring it up in the first place?

Why would you claim there was no functional alternative, then say it doesn't matter when shown one?

The idea that principles for wisely and sustainably managing a commons would have no connection to regulating against water pollution is bizarre to me. I wouldn't know where to start if you don't see how those overlap.

> What could that even mean?

Read some Ostrom and find out, maybe?
The car must not become an octopus? The Kraken won
Hyperspeedcube: 3D and 4D Rubik's Cube simulator in Rust
> Not every group is right for every person.

In the context of an X-card discussion, that's hilarious.

"Touch the X-card, but only if the group agrees on why the X-card was touched. Otherwise, find new group"

turns out the real x-card was the group itself :)
The result?

Note on file: likes to play mind games, will likely cause drama, not worth the trouble.
Bond is literally dead, at least in the films. In the last one, he got blown up.

It's definitely time to let it go. Nobody is clamouring for "Bulldog Drummond" or "Biggles" any more and Bond lived longer than either of those.

(although I still have the Corgi Aston Martin on my desk as a plaything)
Tens of billions? Sama has been talking about how their ask can be for over a trillion dollars invested. What "we"? That trillion is going to come out of our pockets one way or another, either as costs passed down, as government handouts from our tax dollars, as redirected investments that dry up opportunities for SWEs elsewhere, etc.
> I also wonder why use NTSC for outputting video. VGA is easy enough to bitbang and pretty ubiquitous. HDMI is probably more available at this point, but has unfriendly licensing issues. DisplayPort seems better in all aspects, but it’s the least user friendly and requires a monitor rather than a small TV.

Period authenticity, color palette, and pin count, among other reasons:

The idea was to make something that really felt like an old 8-bit you could build, and composite video output was a big part of that.

The NTSC colors were also a lot closer to the "feel" I wanted the computer to have, and unlike VGA output on the Propeller, you don't have to increase the number of pins to increase the number of output colors; the color information is conveyed by the phase of the NTSC signal. On the Propeller you can get a rather large NTSC (or PAL) palette with a 3-pin DAC, but with VGA, you'd want a six-pin DAC plus H and V signals for VGA (and likely not find color matches as close to the C64 palette anyway).

You also need to take into account the timing limitations for "racing the beam" and generating the video on the fly as the Propeller firmware is doing internally; TV scan rates are comparatively slow and give you more time to assemble a line of pixels.

Lastly, as far as HDMI or DisplayPort, that was well out of scope for what I was trying to do, and likely out of range of what the Propeller could bit-bang even with its shift register hardware. I know people have done something similar with DVI output from the Pi Pico, but I'm still not sure that even the Pico could do as much as the Propeller is doing here overall, and probably not as cleanly.

One of the things about engineering, or really anything, is that's more often than not a matter of finding the least bad option given competing constraints; in this case what I thought was the best technical fit was also the one that fit the 1980s aesthetic.
> more destructive to Russia than tactical nukes will be to Ukraine, and not threatening proliferation.

as I said second tactical nuke will be on NATO military base/infra in EU.

> And Russia will be nuking shit left and right each time in response? What do you think this will achieve?

this will achieve EU NATO countries to stop engage in proxy/direct wars with Russia, because damage will be very asymmetrical.

> China will invade them at that point :)

China won't invade Russia, because Asian part of Russia is not that attractive, and because Russia has many strategic nukes to defer China.
Perjury charges. They're almost never pursued because of the difficulty of proving what someone knew or didn't know, but DMCA'ing yourself is perjury per se because you cannot infringe your own copyright. The RIAA/MPAA would absolutely lobby to make pursuing those perjury charges a priority.
There was a time when home rule meant something in Florida. Around that time the Sunshine Laws were also meaningful. Those time are gone.
They can charge the company continuously growing amounts in the EU and even ban a complete IP block if they don't fix their behavior.
Gatekeeper: The first open-source DDoS protection system
John helped get me and my college roommate started with Linux system administration and web development three decades ago. We both grew up in in the town in Iowa where John lived, and my roommate had met him around the time we went to college in the mid nineties. We were both nerdy engineering majors who had gotten exposed to Unix through our college dial-up shell accounts, and we had managed to scavenge together enough computer parts — an old 386 motherboard, a discarded hard drive that just needed a molex connector soldered back onto it, a spare floppy drive — to assemble a computer just barely capable of running Linux.

I remember lugging it all over to John’s basement where he helped us install Slackware Linux from a giant stack of 5 1/4 floppies he had.

Later, when John was running up a dial-up ISP in town, he let us park that server at his ISP, so we had a full Linux server of our own connected to a T1 with its own public IP address, and where we had root access and could experiment with running our own web and email servers and other such things. Back then in dial-up days, having a Linux server of our own on the Internet seemed unbelievable, and I will always be deeply appreciative to John for that opportunity.
For tests, first use a real database. If you can't because the database just doesn't want to (ahem mongo ahem) then use a fake. If you can't use a fake, stop lying and use a fake.

Mocks for databases are extremely brittle and complicated.
I have no idea about the current rules, but haven't they always been separate species? Can an elf and a dwarf make a fertile child?
Jimmy Carter's pioneering support for Hamas:

https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2024/12/29/jimmy-carters-p...
This guy liked playing mindgames: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeqPrUmVz-o&ab_channel=Jonat...
Grading My 2024 Predictions