skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of the gulf nation states make use of ZTE, Huawei and other Chinese phone system 'core' equipment for SS7, SMS, and for their mobile carriers' LTE networks. The "lawful intercept" abilities built into these systems, being designed for sale both domestically in China and to authoritarian governments around the world, are quite thorough.

Not that the intercept abilities in Alcatel/Lucent/Nokia/Ericsson equipment is much less robust, it's just not as commonly used in these environments.

Here's a really old but reasonably well documented instance of the same type of event:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/security/the-athens-affair

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_wiretapping_case_2004%E2...

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/06/greek_wiretap...

In the case originally referenced, I would be totally unsurprised that some other nation-state has inserted an advanced persistent threat into the SMS core infrastructure of Qatar's telecoms. One of the reasons why proper end to end crypto (Signal, etc) is so important. At least if you can be reasonably assured of the security and OS of the endpoint devices, you don't have to trust the network in between them.
Sites bemoan ad blockers but then take no responsibility for the ads that are shown. That needs to change - it’s not like print advertising.
How can an add increase accessibility by listening to the keyboard?
> will have no redeeming qualities other than to extract as much profit as possible out of anyone's health issues.

We're already at this point, but I don't see why you think that will be the death of the private healthcare system, see:

>politicians taking bribes to support it
> Even if you only get charged and convicted of the drug possession the case with the trunk full of guns will in all likelihood experience harsher sentencing.

That's not how the Rule of Law works.
Exactly. Most employers hear that you're on the registry and stop their inquiries at that point. The registry tars everyone on it with the same brush.

I'm not saying you would fail to make the distinction. But many people do, and many essentially innocent people suffer, and IMHO society as a whole, suffer as a result.
In this case I presume you'd not be paying for US insurance, as you'd expect to be backpacking for many months more.
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If you're interested in Go based NLP, take a look at https://github.com/ozlo/gown . It's a Go implementation of WordNet. We used it at Ozlo, because the entire NLP stack was written in Go. Unfortunately, this was the only part we open sourced.
Why aren't the code snippets in a monospace font? Is there readability ux that thinks this is a good idea?
It's strange that sentencing can be increased for crimes you haven't been convicted for.

He wasn't even tried for those charges, which should give us pause.

I'm surprised a judge is even allowed to site "unambiguous evidence" for charges that weren't even brought before the court.
Difficult to patent. Likely substantial costs to build and maintain a very large phage library. Often each particular patient needs individualized treatment which is a laborious process. I'm sure there are regulatory hurdles in the USA too.
I am lauching my business, I need more money NOW. Healthcare abroads cover everything (eyes, teeth...) and is much cheaper than a deductible even when paying everything cash. And no weird haggling with the insurance or provider to see what is covered, what is not, what is the copay, etc.

This may not cover edge cases, but for most of my personal financial decisions, I follow the example set by governments around the world: I spend in the present without caring too much about future, betting on growth of my resources.

In other words, if I do have a brain hemorrhage, the last of my worries will be bankrupcy.

Why should I bother? If I fail my business, I will be bankrupt anyway.
My experience: I’ve posted SF only jobs before and often the only response I get is from candidates outside the US. Since I’m just an IC trying to hire for my team, I can’t comment on anyone’s eligibility for visas etc and end up having to refer them to the recruiting staff- which is a confusing maze of pipes and tubes.
Not optane dimm though?
> The leaders of mature democracies seem much higher quality than those of other forms of governments, especially over time.

The quality of leaders you must have for a mature (and thus taken for granted) democracy to survive as a democracy increases with maturity, so this is arguably simple survivorship bias: democracies that get poor leaders when the people have lost the immediate visceral understanding of the fragility and specialness of democratic institutions tend very strongly to stop being democracies.

> Also, institutions have a large effect. Their power isn't absolute, but the institutions in the US government are well-established and support the rule of law.

Do they? There are certainly many executive branch institutions that support the rule of the way things have traditionally been done in those institutions (which, particularly within the national security apparatus, may not reflect the law even when it also does not reflect the whim of the current chief executive. And even where they might (as I think a good argument can be made for the professional core, and even much of the subcabinet political leadership, of the DoJ and FBI) support the rule of law, they are extremely subject to disruption by the President via directed personnel change.

It's certainly not clear that legislative branch institutions support the rule of law at the present time; arguably, the legislative majority (at least in the House) has been openly aligned with the President against those institutions interested in the rule of law.

The judiciary is what's left, but this President has been making appointments there at a much higher rate than most recent ones (there's been attention to his second Supreme Court pick recently, but the pace of lower court appointments has been quite high.)
> Ross is condemned to die in prison, not for dealing drugs himself but for a website where others did.

Maybe they could have asked that question instead of trying to spin this bullshit.
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The point stands, but that's not really a keylogger. It's a library to manage keyboard inputs. Of course, it could also send all key info somewhere externally too.
The jury found that the state made a convincing argument that he ran an illegal website. The jury was not tasked -- and did not find -- with whether he was guilty of murder for hire. Should the state be able to imprison people for crimes no jury has found them guilty of? I argue no: It is unjust and illegal to sentence someone for allegations without having a jury confirm those crimes.

If the evidence against Ulbricht for murder for hire was good, they would have presented it at trial. The fact is that the prosecutors didn't for some reason and he shouldn't be imprisoned for a crime he hasn't been convicted of.
Also, don’t be surprised if the team was given a project which was really hard to deliver with the team’s capabilities, and the CEO or his team leader, should have recognised that in the first place, and they (CEO etc) will be hard to convince that they are part of the issue.

Also your list of things look like something that would take a rather long time to implement (many months), especially if you have a late project to deliver on at the same time.
It's not just the extra 250$/month it's also going from 29 city / 37 highway to 17 city / 24 highway plus higher taxes, insurance, and maintenance costs.

Compound this with a family having 2 cars and a couple could be looking at ~2,000$ / month less in retirement. Which for many people would be the difference between comfortable and not.
What thought comes to your mind when you hear news about the Musk Meltdowns?
Hard to get regulatory approval and concerns that phages can't be patented so pharmaceutical can't guarantee a monopoly. Plus, the existing way works, so not much incentive to replace it with something speculative. Sort of like why you don't rewrite an existing codebase in C in some other language.
It exists: https://social.coop/about

I don't know how well it works.
>Everybody has gotten so conditioned to the idea that "health insurance" pays for everything health related, that we all seem to take this for granted. But it doesn't have to be so.

Try this experiment. Walk into your doctor's office and ask what a procedure would cost. Ask the doctor, the receptionist, the billing clerk - ask everyone. No one will be able to give you an answer. That's why they are conflated. Fix that (very ripe for disruption) problem and you'll fix health care.

PS: I agree with you, it should generally be affordable without insurance.
>wasn’t the conviction also related to hiring a hitman to kill someone?

No and that's the legal issue. He's being imprisoned for a crime he crime he hasn't been convicted of.
But in what universe would an individual ad need that? This seems like precisely the sort of thing that a third party ad would be prevented from doing.
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> You absolutely can't purchase travel insurance for $100 and use it to fly abroad to get non-emergency surgery.

I've certainly never thought that was the case, and I don't think my comment implied that (I've edited it for clarity anyway).

What I meant was, I've always assumed that if I had an accident abroad, it would cover me for any surgery I needed in the immediate aftermath, until I was well enough to either resume my trip, or fly home somewhat comfortably.

I still don't think that's an unreasonable assumption, but I've learned something today!
For everyone mentioning Ross hiring hit men to kill people. He was never charged with that. Prosecutors commonly fabricate a story to paint a picture of a defendant for the jury. We will never know for sure if Ross actually did this but he's innocent until proven guilty.
> didn't want to bother to prove unnecessary additional offenses

Oh, come now. What prosecutor is going to drop murder charges in favor of money laundering and computer hacking charges when they have unambiguous evidence?
It appears to be getting the keypress.js library from ssl.cdn.turner.com. Not clear if the data is being exfiltrated, though, just by looking at that tweet.
Guys, for those who want to bring up the unproven, uncharged murder stuff, please read https://freeross.org/making-a-murderer/
Ross's been smeared in the media enough, let's just help the guy.
Hey everyone! I made the sauce and put it online on Github. I am a fan of fermented food and love cooking. Nice to see all the comments!
He got a medical opinion that he was not fit for travel before his operation. This wasn't a case of not reading the small print, it was a case of the insurer valuing their own medical opinion over that of their customer's doctor.
> Democracy won't protect your country,

It may, but democracy goes beyond mere voting.
yeah to me it sounds like german breakfast, although there’s large overlaps between those 3 countries
I'd have to grab the first edition copy from the library but I think not, he does use Lagrange multipliers though.
Great suggestion. No quick fix in there but does help set the context...
I’ve noticed CNN has had a crap ton of redirect ads recently...
Publishing shouldn't be about displaying nicely in screen though but rather about sharing the information.

As a bioinformatician, big tables inside pdfs are essentially useless. What's the point of a few hundred rows worth of a table if you can't manipulate it with whatever tool you prefer?

Moreover, I'm writing my thesis and dealing with many pdfs from the 90s in most of which I can't just highlight and copy text so I need to type it out like a savage. Is it guaranteed that today's pdfs will be easy to handle for future people?

In my opinion publishing should be done in plain text and .tsv files and the onus of displaying it on screen should fall on the editor (isn't that their job anyway ??)
I'm skeptical that this is a) from a banner ad and not from operation of the site b) a full blown keylogger and not a library included that is used for something like a photo gallery (that may have ads in it)
>>“£5,000,000 in medical cover”

With travel insurance generally, I think there's a distinction between emergency medical care you need RIGHT NOW and medical care that you need at some point.

If I get hit by a train and need to be pieced back together, am in the ICU, etc. I'd expect travel insurance to pay for that, up to the total coverage. If I get diagnosed with a slow moving cancer that needs treatment (but not today), I wouldn't expect travel insurance to cover it. I'd expect this to be laid out in the longer agreements I'm sure he had to sign to get this insurance. That's the difference between travel insurance and health insurance. I (Canadian) can get travel insurance for a trip to the US for damn cheap; that doesn't mean I can go live in the US and use that insurance for my day-to-day stuff.

Whether this particular incident is closer to the train or the cancer might be an open question. I think the key point, and maybe where he loses the argument, is that he already flew to Singapore. He took a ~3 hour flight in a worse state then when the insurance company advised him to fly home. Don't think he's going to win this one.
> Plus, the existing way works, so not much incentive to replace it with something speculative.

Except the existing way is quickly no longer working, hence antibiotic resistance. Also, it's not speculative, phage therapy works.
https://www.macfound.org/fellows/807/

You should have her contact him. He has done some work involving pressed bricks with post-consumer waste, and in fact has taught a class at MIT where part of the coursework includes making bricks using recycled materials mixed with earth and cement.
I've never expected travel insurance to cover me for long term care, I just assumed it would cover me for any surgery I needed immediately following an accident, plus a bit of recovery time.
Short answer: no.

Long answer: nooooooooo.

End of story. Goodbye.
He tried to have 5 people professionally executed. He broke the law and facilitated others breaking the law because he felt laws took away his personal liberties. He is incompatible with this society and he's dangerous..
Thanks for that.
For those who want to read more, go to https://freeross.org/making-a-murderer/ (link to Ross's charges and Ross's indictment and more)
Ross's charges at trial were all NON-VIOLENT.
Is he going to pass that control to his children? I think that would be the definition of monarchy, not the term length.
Here's a good article about phage therapy. Scaling is difficult because the treatment must be customized for each patient.

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/05/the-best-vir...
In the future, we all will.

It will happen in a small steps. Implanted chip to simply pass the security checks, or to just pay for things by holding up your hand etc. Things that make your life super convenient.

It's always the same methods, step by step to get people used to it.
> Why does threadripper need to be competitive in the server space?

It doesn't, and AMD doesn't market Threadripper for server use. It only came up in this discussion because of a misunderstanding of Threadripper's capabilities.
As a kid, DVDs and players that would deny the owner the ability to skip or fastforward though trailers/intros/transitions were my first memorable experience with deliberately user-hostile hardware and software design.

It had a profound effect on me, and I still despise that ethos every time I see it.
Difficult to implement, difficult to identify patients.

Phages are specific to particular bacteria, more specific than an antibiotic. This means you need to develop many more varieties of phage to cover the same ground.

These phages are perishable, and alive. That means you have to put much more effort into developing, and maintaining stocks.

Lastly, you need to have specific diagnoses of patients. You need to know which phage to give, based on the bacteria infecting the patient. This means more patient tests, and more time between arrival and treatment.

This all adds up the costs. Phage therapy is better suited to targeted diseases like MRSA than a replacement of chemotherapy.
> This problem is equivalent to the P versus NP problem because if (unexpectedly) P = NP, then all of PH collapses to P (that is, P = PH).

It should be noted that the polynomial hierarchy could conceivably collapse at a higher level even if P!=NP. I wouldn't bet on it though.
Your story sounds too familiar. I worked at a snake oil startup for almost 2 years, essentially a "Theranos" for food (google "vegan mayo scandal" to get the incredible whole story).

The CEO dramatically changed the focus and pitch of the company on a dime multiple times just to impress potential investors. The pitch at many points included "AI" (scientists using R to run regression models). Later it evolved into claiming we'd be in the "cellular agriculture" space before anyone else. At best, he was exaggerating and extrapolating minor discoveries. At worst, it was full blown fabrication, total vaporware. And to make things even more frustrating, he was brazenly uninterested in the science (and the input from the actual experts in the room). Everything was about a compelling sales pitch and continuing to buy the company time and funding.

I watched multiple waves of incredibly talented scientific and technical staff be sold by the vision then run for the hills after a year or two of working there. My advice is - if your ethics are being compromised, get the hell out of there.
Ah, I see you have completely missed the point here. William Proxmire was famous for handing out "golden fleece" awards to acadmics who, in his judgement, were wasting government money by doing useless research. That acknowledgement isn't real. It's a signal that the paper was meant to be a joke.
I can understand, maybe he thought getting reimbursement for anything is already beyond impossible in the first place so he thought maybe by reducing the claim he will somewhat slightly increase the probability getting reimbursed. Beside the 5,300 procedure maybe still somewhat manageable, the $15,000 on the other hand is more important.
Bet that government was the UK, as part of the Five Eyes program, which has significant surveillance hardware in the middle east.

Almost certainly the USA used that equipment and grabbed those transcripts to give to close ally Saudi Arabia, who used them to turn states against Qatar.

The first world war was caused by the killing of a duke, the third world war will be caused by a clumsily worded text message from a president to his wife, misinterpreted by another powerful nation state.
If you shave your neck I have some European friends I can introduce you to.
He's being willfully ignorant there. That quote comes from the section saying when an airline requires medical clearance. Two pages later there are several pages of specific medical conditions and guidance on if they should fly. One of them is "Full plaster cast" and it says that you can fly 2 days after getting one.
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This is getting upvoted without getting the context.
Let me put it this way, I chose a 401K instead of a better traditional retirement plan for the simple reason that it allowed me to change employers more easily if I needed to. So they have absolutely no chance of convincing me to put something inside my body, which is difficult to remove, tied to a single employer. People no longer work at one company their whole lives.

Not to mention the potential health implications and removal are largely unknowns at this point. I find it interesting that the proponents often don't state outright if they themselves got chipped, only that the little people below them were goaded into it.
"It would be great to know why the Linux drivers aren’t as good as the Mac touchpad drivers."

Apple has people who's full time job is doing that. Linux doesn't. The maintainer of one of the drivers basically comes out and says, "You'd need someone working full time on this."
Most people who work for medium or large sized companies in the US are working for companies that are self-insured, meaning your company is taking on all the risk, so if anything your own employer is incentivized to do this and not the insurance company itself.

When I first heard of the Amazon/JP Morgan/BH heathcare initiative my thought on what that company would actually do is surveillance on their collective millions of employees to better predict if they are prone to disease and use predictive analytics to lower their own claims cost.
It actually is how the law works, though, since (for better or worse) there is judicial discretion in sentencing.
They are on my screen.
They are in monospace?
I feel like 6502 assembly is probably better for beginners, but that might be because that's what I'm trying to teach myself...
>Another possible explanation was that they felt they had enough to nail him sufficiently on the other charges, and didn't want to bother to prove unnecessary additional offenses.

Your argument is equivalent to: "As long as a conviction feels good, it doesn't much matter if the due process of law is followed" . It's the equivalent of arguing for a system that is ok with police breaking into a house without a warrant as long as they find something illegal.
As well as in the book "Arthur and George" by Julian Barnes. Highly recommended.
Get out! If you don't feel comfortable with CEO, then it will be very hard to feel good about your work.

A while ago, I worked for a consulting company that specialized in e-commerce with fulfillment. Soon I realized that their clients are mostly MultiLayer Marketing companies. MLM is legal but very unethical industry. Our clients referred to their customers as idiots or bored housewives. Some of my coworkers tried to quite their concise by convincing themselves and me that these people are lazy who are trying to get rich quick. So they deserve to lose their money. They would say it is a cheaper than business school.

I tried to tell myself that I am just a worker, just following orders. It was a good job with a lot of benefits but it was very soul crushing. Leaving that job was the best ever thing. My mental health improved the minute I handed my two weeks notice.
> It'd also be neat exploring the side effects and seeing if that's a worthy trade, but it sounds like it probably is.

If the parent means, 'it sounds like herpes treatment will probably reduce my risk of Alzheimers', it is almost certainly wrong. That is a dangerous conclusion of amateur medical research.

The existence of a couple studies or analyses correlates very poorly with an effective treatment. Look at all the problems of the drug industry and scientists, with all their knowledge and resources, when trying to convert far more proven research into effective treatments. Even when there are effective treatments, they often need to be carefully implemented in terms of drug design, delivery, dosage, etc.

> Biohacking is fun.

That's a sci-fi fantasy. If someone reading this thinks it's "fun", they have no idea what they are talking about and should stop immediately.
>ssl.cdn.turner.com

Obviously bullshit. That's CNNs CDN, not a "banner ad". This guy did not put in the least bit of effort to verify his claims.

The script is included in https://edition.cnn.com/.a/2.103.4/js/cnn-header-second.min....
Change or not, I think the trend is not to trust ads anymore. I question whether or not it’s feasible in the long term to sustain a model based on tracking people, selling their data, and calling that “advertising.”

Oh and if you want to see what CNN is crapping out without the cruft, lite.cnn.io works well.