skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If Apple opened them up to everyone, you would see half a dozen “clone your access card” app a day later.

Android devices use the same chips, and any access card that can be trivially cloned by any device, consumer or otherwise, doesn't deserve to be called that.

> It would be great if all this stuff was open but the reality of the situation is that RFID and NFC standards are trash

You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. What's broken isn't the entire ISO 14443 stack, but rather some legacy implementations. This is like saying "TLS is trash", because some old versions supported RC4 and DES 56 bit at some point.

> Just look at the uproar the Flipper Zero created in Canada

People create uproars about things they don't understand every day.
There's no 'likely' about it - the Mac absolutely used white as its background color for document windows and finder folders. It was striking and different when you first encountered one of the early compact Macs to see how white the screen was when you opened MacWrite.

As for the claim that Macs had no 'mainstream use' for 20 years until the Intel switch... your personal Mac-free life is a sad story, but not remotely universal, and while it's certainly true that Macs always had minority market share, it's insane to suggest they weren't influential.
I'd love to hear what you're doing with the CZ-101. CZ-5000 owner here.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42700755
US health insurance industry explicitly delivered harm through "AI", though.

The ethical route of making the AI having options of "accept" and "refer to human" an insurance claim probably provided less ROI :V
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The ZX Spectrum was black text on a light grey background.
It was about saving memory by tokenizing keywords: '?' is how PRINT actually was stored in program memory, it just rendered as 'PRINT'. Most other tokens were typically the first two characters, the first lowercase, the second uppercase: I remember LOAD was 'lO' and DATA was 'dA', though on the C64's default character glyphs they usually looked like L<box char HN won't render> and D<spade suit char>.

All this being on a C64 of course, but I suspect most versions of Bill Gates's BASIC did something similar.
Whether pointers exist is irrelevant. What matters is if they're exposed to the programmer. And even then it mostly only matters if they're mutable or if you have to free them manually.

Sure, IORef is a thing, but it's hardly comparable to the prevalence of pointers in C. I use pointers constantly. I don't think I've ever used an IORef.
I was wrong about this. Case is a macro (a special-cased macro even, defined at https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/4def31f8abea5fba4...), not a function. It works with pipes because in the AST it's a call, unlike in Haskell where case is its own thing.
> your own government at least has the incentive to make the country better (or at least appear so) to seek reelection. A foreign adversarial government has the incentive to limit the growth and power of the other country, in so far as it affects their own country.

"Adversary" is assuming your conclusion. My own government has plenty of incentives to attack my business (I've got plenty of competitors who would support them in doing so), far more so than the government of China.
I don't know if it was edited or I missed it in the first post but you're right.

I'd still be surprised if an Amazon domain resolved to a residential IP
Can confirm. I am a grown man and my professional work with ROS has made me cry.
Wow, it's cool seeing you here! I used to lurk a lot on the honyakkers group and your posts were always very educational and entertaining. Cheers!
My cousin (an American living and working in France) married a guy originally from Morocco. After eventually realizing that they might want to move to the US, they couldn't, because he couldn't get a visa.

It would have taken quite a bit of time- my cousin would have had to move back to the US first, established residence, and gotten a job and some other requirements. Only then could they have qualified to apply, and the wait time for the application to be approved would be in the 9-14 months range.

Once they applied, he could have moved here with her, but not gotten a job, I think, until the application for the visa was approved.

Ultimately, they opted to go a different route.
Yes, I have a side project making ~$40k/year doing this in a niche market.

I am fortunate in that I have some volunteers helping me with support so all up I spend about 5-10 hours per week doing support and development work.

In terms of business model, I have been quite generous and provide a perpetual support model for free and paid customers and do not charge for upgrades (currently). As my time has become more limited, I am looking at changing this.

Benefits of this model is that my product is the gold standard in the area and relatively sticky.
I guess they meant out of 100, with 100 being the brightest for their screen.
Another bonus to World War II intelligence efforts was the relatively high number of German-speaking American Jews, some refugees from Nazi Germany, who had both the linguistic ability and motive to help. Second and third generation Japanese Americans, eager to prove their patriotism, also helped, as did the famous Navajo (and at least one other less famous tribe, I believe it was the Comanche) Code Talkers.

The bureaucratic nature of the military did lead to misclassifications, though. For instance, my great-grandfather, a German-Jewish refugee whose first language was German, was originally assigned to fight in Japan; he wound up interrogating German captives, presumably more helpfully.
You may wish to read FIRE and other organizations amicus brief where they lay out exactly why they think the ban is a free speech issue, legally speaking: https://www.thefire.org/sites/default/files/2024/12/Amici-Ti...
As a hobbyist that keeps trying to break into lisp, I think the absence of an obviously good formatter for lisps has made things much harder.

This looks like how I've naively tried to format things, and having started with python kind of makes sense.

But trying to read / edit code with 5 parentheses bunched together, I have the hardest time telling if they are matched or where. Thank goodness for vim / helix auto-matching.
TikTok and the Scope of the Communications Act of 1934 Are Different
The Communications Act of 1934 primarily targets traditional media (e.g., television, radio), while TikTok is an algorithm-driven social media platform where content is user-generated. Its operational model is fundamentally different from traditional media. Directly equating the two is unreasonable and does not align with the realities of the modern digital economy.

Foreign Ownership Does Not Equate to a National Security Threat
There is no publicly available evidence proving that TikTok has provided U.S. user data to a foreign government. TikTok has already implemented localization measures for data storage and operations (e.g., the "Texas Project"). In contrast, many U.S. tech companies (e.g., Facebook, Google) have faced scrutiny over data privacy issues but have not been restricted due to foreign ownership. Restricting TikTok solely based on "foreign ownership" lacks factual support.

Economic Impact: TikTok Is a Lifeline for Millions
TikTok provides a critical source of income for over 5 million small businesses and 1.5 million creators in the U.S. According to 2023 data, TikTok contributed $24.2 billion to the U.S. economy and supported at least 300,000 jobs. Restricting TikTok would directly threaten the livelihoods of these individuals, causing significant harm to social stability and economic vitality.

A More Reasonable Solution Is Strengthening Regulation, Not an Outright Ban
Rather than imposing a blanket restriction on TikTok, it would be more effective to strengthen data privacy protections through legislation, ensuring that all social media platforms (whether foreign or domestic) adhere to the same security standards. For example, TikTok could be required to further localize data storage and undergo independent audits. This approach would safeguard national security while avoiding unnecessary harm to users and creators.
Oh I agree. Citizen United was wrongly decided, and the only people who agree with it are those who benefit from the corruption it has enabled. It's far from settled law, though obviously it's not changing in the next 4 years.

As for social media - it's an advertising platform. The algorithm is deciding what you see based on what sells ads. Who is exercising free speech there? Tiktok and Meta are exercising corporate speech in the name of profit making. They have no right to host such a platform, and the government certainly has the right to regulate it if they do have one.

The government can't compel Meta, Tiktok or individual users to say X, Y, or Z, they can declare the ads-based algorithmic-content business model illegal or subject it to strict regulation - especially when its in the furtherance of free speech, like preventing Facebook from deplatforming people for having the wrong opinions that advertisers don't like.
Can you point to a lawmaker who has flipped?
Some things already exist on other sites, and are worth pointing people to.

Also, Twitter isn't a great format for longer posts. And trying to prevent people from leaving your site is itself a user-hostile dark pattern.

Btw, what ads? Is that some nonsense that silly people without ublock origin have to deal with?
Americans can be just as passionate too.
> you'd call the Sega Hotline on a premium phone number

I remember the ads for that but I've never met a single person who did that. (Or whose parents would be okay with it.) Cheat codes were either shared by word of mouth among friends or in magazines. Or you bought a game genie, but that was more for messing around with a game's mechanics than actual, blatant cheating.
This mostly seems like a cope that f-droid takes action on behalf of users and makes sure that apps are a open source as they claim.

Good. I don't trust application developers. I trust f-droid to do due diligence and ensure that the app is safe, not the app developer. Screw the "android security model", it's designed for containerizing closed-source software.

P.S. Edit:

Interestingly, the article contains a "Meta" section that claims that their criticisms are completely technical (I would disagree, they're largely subjective organizational criticisms based on "best practices"). The "Meta" section also claims that the project isn't associated with grapheneOS, which I didn't make much of until I read the page of the alternative app store they recommend (https://accrescent.app/) which seems to shout out grapheneOS users in particular.

Also, this section is really weird and sounds a lot like grapheneOS developers, who seem to be easily sidetracked by supposed "harassment campaigns":

"In spite of this, the release of this article has unfortunately triggered a mostly negative response from the F-Droid team and some of their community, who seem to take a dismissive stance toward this article rather than bringing relevant counterpoints. Some of these individuals go as far as engaging in harassment campaigns against projects and security researchers that do not share their views; hopefully they realize that such unethical behavior undermines their own project and reputation. Creating a rift between developers and security researchers is not in anyone’s best interest."

Also also, I think that this article focuses too much on technical gimmicks to the detriment of the openness of the system as a whole, which I think is a common theme around grapheneOS. For example, grapheneOS's decision to only use the google pixel platform due to the specific trusted computing features of those phones, to the detriment of the portability and usability of the OS. So I suspect there may be some weird association with grapheneOS here.

I don't know what to think of this, it's very weird. I used to use grapheneOS but stopped mostly due to the erratic public behavior of grapheneOS developers. I don't think that it is malicious, but it indicative of a personality disorder which isn't conducive to leadership.
The CCP has extensive experience at this type of messaging and have gotten very good at it. It's so prevalent that they even have a name in China for people hired to post on social medial networks and steer the conversation one way or another ("wumao").
> there are simply no such successful Empires anywhere in the world anymore

There is the US not-an-Empire [0] though, that'll probably count when the history books reflect on the present era. WWI/II can very easily be interpreted as a transition of power away from incompetent British leadership (indeed, European monarchies - the change pre- post- WWI is striking) towards more capable US-based leadership.

It isn't clear UK public ever really grappled how insufficient their leadership theory is. Their acceptance of poor performers over the last 20+ years has been striking although it is mirrored by low standards in the US.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_military_inst...
> Regardless, it looks like exhibit #187 of FOSS failing for anyone outside of hobbyists and FAANGs.

Forks that survive after splitting off are cases of FOSS succeeding, not failing. Failing would mean closing down, in this case it's replicating with changes, we (the public) are getting even more options.

The idea behind choosing a license like MIT is that people can create forks from your work, requiring not much more than attribution. If what the license calls out as valid is considered a failure in your eyes, don't choose a license like MIT.
Yes, but let's be clear: You have Apple to thank for it.

Android has supported HCE-based card emulation and provided access to any app developer out there for a decade now. No special entitlement, certification, or licensing fee required.
As I expected China wins no matter what
I'll do my best to tone things down. However I struggle a bit with your observation. The posted article is about one of the wealthiest men in the world likely engaging in the largest copyright violation in history for his own financial benefit. Such antisocial behavior is almost certainly linked to male genetics. Something this same man just recently publicly stated he believes the world needs more, not less, of his anti-social aggressive tendencies.

I would argue that you don't like what I have to say and are simply trying to squash my opinions. If you feel the post itself doesn't belong here, then I agree - and to that extent, I also agree to do my best to refrain from commenting upon submissions that themselves do not belong here.

But, and here is my biggest objection: I have strong opinions regarding the dangers male genetics pose to world order and the future of humanity. And males unedcuated about the subject react in the manner they know best: aggressive anger; a reaction I am not inclined to back away from (having my own aggressive male genetics).
I guess I'm not the intended audience, but the last thing I want in my homelab is a CA. One more thing I'd set up, forget how it works, then spend an entire weekend trying to fix when it breaks a year from now.
As most of my website are static content (blog with html/css), plus the implementation of cache and having a nginx (instead of Apache) help to serves most of the content from cache instead of access to the hard disk. Use of hard disk is trying to avoid the wear-off of SD card, I did in such as way where the boot is still done by the SD card, only the storage are in hard disk.
They're a rich company, they are immune from consequences
When twitter first came out I did not understand what it was good for or why anyone would be interested in it. Still don’t really. I’ve never had an account and have only looked at tweets when someone sends me a url
controlling the algorithm that promotes or demotes content on a social network is the issue, and 1A does _not_ cover that

and the reason it doesn't is because unlike traditional media -- which by the way is regulated in the US (FCC) -- X, FB and the rest go to great lengths to say that they are _not_ publishers and are _not_ responsible for the content. therefore it's not a 1A issue
This is right up my alley right now! I bought a busted CZ-1 as my first synth and I’m trying to get it working. I look forward to reading your blog!
Does it mean that in African countries?
Which stack did you end up using?
Ros2's colcon will build the packages in your workspace individually, in topological order of the dependency DAG. This is a completely insane way to structure a c++ build because it destroys the innate parallelism of the compilation process.

The build system for ros1, catkin, didn't have this problem because it turned all your packages into a single cmake build. Just one of the many ways that ros2 was a regression from ros1.
Why wouldnt you want a house that lasts? It will retain value better, require less maintanance, and yeah, maybe you want to pass it on to future generations. Makes sense to me
You treat it like the metaphorical toxic waste it is: avoid it at all costs. You don't need ROS to get a dependency manager, a build system, a middleware, and/or a process manager.
I think people are ready (if not yearning) for a much larger, personal web, built with a different set of incentives. The problem appears to be that the technical class currently lacks the imagination (or more specifically, a kind of epistemological hunger, a craving to deepen the mystery of their craft) to synthesize the new reality of the web with the freedom of the old. I see what the designers are working on, and there's clearly a very large gap of communication between what people want to see in the Web, and what the people in charge of the Web can be bothered to make.

I've been working to build a company on my own hoping to fill that gap - I tell the career SWEs in my social circle "I want to give people the true freedom of creating whatever you want on the web," and I just get blank looks, ha :p
I'd say ruin - in great part from the costs of two World Wars - came before the end of the Empire. Wikipedia notes of WWII - "Britain was left essentially bankrupt, with insolvency only averted in 1946 after the negotiation of a US$3.75 billion loan from the United States". Vs. the Partition and dissolution of the British Raj were in 1947.
It's not obvious that the US is necessarily a better place to 'do hardware' than the UK for them anyway.

Plus if you're a UK-based person with a STEM background, the fintech industry will pay you a lot of money if you're willing to do their dirty work.
Most stored-value transit systems require to be able to read some form of ID from the card for key diversification (otherwise you'd have to use the same key for all cards in the system, which is obviously pretty insecure).

That can be the ISO 14443 level UID (which is what TFA is talking about) or some application-level ID, potentially only accessible once the reader has authenticated itself using a system-wide "ID privacy" key, but unfortunately I'm not aware of any system that does that.

In other words, most, if not all, other cards usable in Express Transit mode are just as identifiable. For example, when you enable your credit/debit card for Express Transit in NYC, London or other open-loop systems, anyone (and I really mean anyone, not just any transit system reader, as readers are unauthenticated in the payment scheme protocols based on EMV!) can just read your card number (fortunately Apple Pay masks that and it's not directly usable for payments, but it's definitely a static identifier).

That said, you do have to be very close to somebody's device or wallet to be able to read the card.
No, it's like saying it's not a big deal to close one particular church building with eminent domain to build a railway station there.
If blaming behavior, worth noting food color dye consumption exacerbates behavioral issues like ADHD symptoms:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32006369/

https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9573786/

https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4321798/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3441937/
Show HN: I Compiled the Do's and Don'ts for Flirting with Every MBTI Type
i am dealing with ros these days for calibrating my custom hardware. it really is gROSs.

Thankfully, I have fully isolated ROS parts into their own dockerfiles.
I just updated "GrandPrix Race Manager" for $25 from the vendor. It's an annual cost for my local derby thing. No idea how many copies they sell, but it's on version 24, so they must be doing OK-ish. Stand-alone Python application.
huh, i've been living under a misapprehension for a very long time. Now that you mention it i do remember run length and Huffman. I wonder if i am confusing it with a different file format that is basically just the RGB values with the WxH metadata?
Those models are absolutely garbage. Terrible code understanding. Ridiculous hallucinations.
Theoretically that's true but in practice there is ample precedent for Presidents refusing to enforce specific laws. In one instance (DACA) the Supreme Court ordered a President to continue a previous President's official policy of not enforcing certain laws against certain people!
In AI Arms Race America Needs Private Companies, Warns National Security Advisor
How is going into business for oneself supposed to shorten your workday and decrease the number of fires you're putting out?
That's obviously your choice, but if that frustrates you, make sure to ask Apple why they're making anything else so complicated.
Did the US president just told a private company to go ahead and break the law?
That's a different codec for a different application. "Unlike J2K-1, the HT coder is not fully embedded and hence quality scalability is largely sacrificed." [1] The outer file format with the metadata has some commonality, but that's about it.

[1] https://ds.jpeg.org/whitepapers/jpeg-htj2k-whitepaper.pdf
Simply put, if the model isn’t producing an actual copy, they aren’t violating copyright (in the US) under any current definition.

As much as people bandy the term around, copyright has never applied to input, and the output of a tool is the responsibility of the end user.

If I use a copy machine to reproduce your copyrighted work, I am responsible for that infringement not Xerox.

If I coax your copyrighted work out of my phones keyboard suggestion engine letter by letter, and publish it, it’s still me infringing on your copyright, not Apple.

If I make a copy of your clip art in Illustratator, is Adobe responsible? Etc.

Even if (as I’ve seen argued ad nauseaum) a model was trained on copyrighted works on a piracy website, the copyright holder’s tort would be with the source of the infringing distribution, not the people who read the material.

Not to mention, I can walk into any public library and learn something from any book there, would I then owe the authors of the books I learned from a fee to apply that knowledge?
A quick google suggests that in 2008, Google's search market share in China was ~45%. That's pretty significant.
I now use Obtanium[1] for my open source android apps, it grabs apks straight from the source (github, gitlab etc.). Once you get each app set up its a breeze and you don't have to deal with fdroids strangeness.

[1] https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium
The fact that license plates can quite easily be forged by anyone willing to put some effort into it doesn't make them not uniquely capable of tracking where you go in your car.