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Of course, along with the very-fucking-annoying Youtube Face [0]. It's so ordinary to mess with human psychology, anything to increase click through rates!

[0] https://boingboing.net/2018/04/11/youtube-face-the-same-thum...
I'm amazed at how many people apparently can't see the obvious humor in your response. They must be the same people who think the onion is a real new source.
One of the things pointed out that they identified when certain plans (eg. missile defense system) was not useful, and also that the sound heard during the 'sonic attack' were crickets.
Yep. I refuse to have my DNA sequenced by any of these direct to consumer businesses that think they're going to be the next platforms and start making money on the back end.
If multi-threaded code is too easy for you, try multi-threaded code which is executed in a different order than written!

Depending on access mode, the compiler, or the hardware, can still change the order of operations. It adds whole another level of WTF:

https://llvm.org/docs/Atomics.html#atomic-orderings

> It is also possible to move stores from before an Acquire load or read-modify-write operation to after it, and move non-Acquire loads from before an Acquire operation to after it.
Why are so many people in that forum contradicting themselves? Like they say something criticizing the prior person's opinion on gender and then say something completely intolerant. Is this a running gag? I never seen people misunderstand a topic so... halfway? Its usually more like "okay I'm learning" or "I completely reject this line of reasoning", but these comments are like something else
The biggest problem is cost. We shouldn’t devote a cent more funding to colleges without requiring massive spending and tuition cuts.

Even public colleges resemble country clubs. That’s great, but we shouldn’t tax non-college grads so kids can have a good time.

If college cost the same as it did 30 years ago (adjusted for inflation), there really wouldn’t be an issue.

Additional funding will just lead to more admins, useless programs, and larger tenure salaries.
Funny, that missed me. I FAFSA'd out of support due to my parents income and didn't get a dime from my parents. I suppose they supported me with the clothes on my back, but that is about it. I'm pretty sure I sit with a majority of my generation, and I find the only people placating this abusive pillaging to be those who simply do not perceive it is happening. In practice sufficient wealth to contribute doesn't mean the motivation nor incentive. I truly hope this corrects itself in time, but it is far far too late for me. If I achieve moderate financial success I'd most likely philanthropize in the form of a scholarship dedicated to exactly this gap, and/or lobby for change.
It is the entities spending millions of dollars to find exploits but then not disclosing them that we should be concerned about. This makes Apple stronger not weaker.
https://web.archive.org/web/20041205145144/http://ftp.arl.ar...
It's odd to me that folks are calling this a scam. I'd describe it more as unintended consequences of a poorly thought out governance system. These "scammers" are using the letter of the law just the same way that accountants figure out how to use every possible loophole to minimize tax burden. Every role-playing gamer in the world is already familiar with the concept.

The solution is to fix the system, ideally by fixing the incentives. If we craft a system that lets someone legally fill out a form and get cash, don't be offended when people use it. Solutions that expect parents to put the "greater good" ahead of the interests of their children are doomed to failure.
duly noted.
Doesn't the article say that 5/6 were fixed? And that the 6th isn't disclosed yet, as the 90 day period isn't up yet? Seems like Apple is keeping up reasonably well, wrt disclosure windows.
Are you arguing that slavery did not contribute significantly to the wealth of the North, first by using slaves directly, then by integrating advantageously with the South’s economy and the slave trade?
Feature phones, smart-tv/watches etc. do not auto update. Old versions of android, iOS, Windows. Non-mainstream OS's running non-mainstream browsers. 1% of the market is still a lot of users.
I remember watching a show about that guy. Really incredible amount of effort skill to pull that off. If I remember correctly he bought himself a $250K EDM (electric discharge machine) to create basically perfect copies of the tokens.

But as you said, he used them and the machine malfunctioned (not his fault). When he walked away from a pile of money, they immediately knew he was the culprit.
Do I need 3 different services for a full stack JavaScript App?
Do I need three different services for Storing Images, Managing Database and Hosting for a full stack JS App?

Hi friends, I'm a junior level developer with some experience under my belt.

I'm building a Urban Dictionary clone using MERN Stack. So there will be user generated content in form of text and images.

So please let me know if i am doing this right. I am planning to host the app on Heroku, use MongoDB Cloud for the database and user Cloudinary/S3 Bucket for images.

1. So above are 3 different services. Is this the only way to go about the app?

2. Now these 3 services can cost me about $30 for a beginner tier from all 3 services. $30 per month is slightly more than I can afford in terms of third world country like mine. Is there alternative?

3. Is there some sort of unified service for this ( kind of like cpanel with LAMP server of old days where files, database hosted at same place)?

I will appreciate your comments. Thanks !
That's addressed in the book: the cigarette economy is aping an existing cash+capitalistic economy, and thus doesn't provide a template for the evolution of a monetary economy from scratch.
Sorry. I should have read before using that phrase.
We've got some stuff on our blog. See here and the links at the bottom: https://medium.com/darklang/the-design-of-dark-59f5d38e52d2
> My passion at the moment is real-time ray-tracing, with 3-D atmosphere, to create a physics-based "virtual reality" simulator.

Wow. Imagine if he were here to experience RTX cards in consumer machines.
Or y'know, someone who doesn't see a reason to purchase a new Apple device every N years of forced obsolescence.
I feel like I've become a crusader against microservices for the same reason.

They're so easy to set up and they immediately solve problems. But they also create many more, which aren't immediately obvious. And very few people are willing to say, "I was totally wrong to move to them, and let's spend some more precious time rolling them back."
I guess the issue is that very little discovered internally will ever be publicly disclosed. It feels like a tactic to make themselves look more secure than others when that is not likely the case.

That being said, I think the same behavior is to be expected from any company large enough to need a dedicated security research team.
> Not to take anything away from the parent's thoughtful comment. That important property is, in fact, the definition of lock-free.

According to Wikipedia, it's the definition of non-blocking, not the definition of lock-free... which I guess is a correction for both the parent comment and yours. [1]

As far as I recall ever seeing, people always talk about it in terms of guaranteed systemwide progress, which I don't find as enlightening as what happens when you pause a thread.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-blocking_algorithm
If you're on desktop, isn't it trivial enough to remove/reset cookies from the nytimes.com domain?
For a while I thought you would need too much energy, then I realized I don't know well enough the physics of how a laser works.

[Warning, very stupid idea ahead]:
Since I don't know well enough the topic, why wouldn't be possible to use a satellite to collect solar energy (because outside the atmosphere you can collect ~40% more (edited) the solar energy due to lack of atmospheric filtering effect),and then transmit that energy back to earth via some sort of wireless energy distribution mechanism (laser?). I guess a YoYo satellite with real tens of KM of wire to earth has a lot of reasons for not be feasible.
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Apple has deprecated OpenGL on all its devices: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12894/apple-deprecates-opengl...
Indeed, many bigger VFX companies are on Linux. However, smaller shops are mainly powered by Windows (or at least that's the case here in Finland). Building your production pipeline on Linux is something that not everyone is capable of doing and in many cases not even worth the r&d costs.
Question related to this topic, about video encoding: We are spending quite a bit of money on Amazon ElasticTranscoder for video encoding.
Wondering if anyone had experience or advices to selfhost that kind of service? Any project I should consider for a proof of concept?
One of the authors of Simula[1] here (mentioned in this article).

xrdesktop looks very impressive. We've been working on our compositor (in particular: XWayland support) for quite a while. Getting a prototype up and running was relatively easy. But it has been incredibly difficult to get everything actually stable/usable.

Congrats to your team.

[1] https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula
But isn't that done all the time? My neighbor blasting their music at 3AM isn't physically hurting anything, but it sure is irritating. And it's also illegal for that reason. Seems fine to me.
so this attack is different because the culprit got caught? or am I missing something

why isn't this just the usual "we got breached" "Collection #3 available on Empire.onion" "sign up for another $125"
What other terms would you use? "Falsifiable" is more accurate that "untestable"?
Doesn't anyone think that MacOS is pretty much abandonware at this point? I don't want to stir anything up but I don't believe Apple is putting too much effort into the OS at this time. When I boot my MacBook into MacOS (once a year, if that) I feel like I'm 10 years back in time (yes, I have the absolute latest version).

I think they're focusing most of their resources on ARM.

Or, I'm probably just crazy.
Not likely. FAFSA is almost 100% determined by your parents income from the previous year tax reports. It doesn't typically cover everything, even if you get the biggest possible grant. I got a decent FAFSA package, went to a very-affordable in-state college, but I still have loans that probably would have been avoidable if my parents had invested in a 529.
They are spending millions to do free security research for their competitors.
Would it have to be private security? They could have called the police.
Good luck trying to enforce your rights in a casino.
I reject that low cost will create shortages in education, why? The more people we educate, the more are available to educate others. People, ingenuity, and education are a renewable resource.
We're manually doing SSL at the moment, and our customer controlled the DNS. Should be fixed now.
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There's some irony that his actions to avoid drawing attention ended up drawing attention because they're weren't at all consistent with the expected behaviors.

He could've played a table game like Blackjack, but he would've been subjected the scrutiny of a human dealer.

He could've used smaller denominations, but the reward may not have been worth the effort.
18 year olds don’t have much income or assets, outside of special cases. If you want to give financial aid to “poor students” there really isn’t any other way to do it.
This tweet alone seems to indicate she definitely did it...

https://twitter.com/0xA3A97B6C/status/1151901325598187521
It would have been cool to include that image, rather than:

> The trust commissioned the archaeological illustrator Maggie Foottit to produce an impression of how the complete fish bottle may have looked.
It's definitely a myth, or at least a minor contribution.

BetaMax housings were very small, so they didn't have enough capacity for feature films unless they were run at 1/2 or 1/3 speed, which reduced quality. The thing is, VHS could also be run slower to improve run times, but instead of maxing out at 90m, they could run for almost 250m for tapes about at the same price.

Tapes with longer run times eventually came to market, but well after VHS had established itself.
Natural. Each year a forest may produce hundreds of millions of seeds but only a few thousand saplings survive.
> because that poster tried to steal their thunder by making the post before the actual release was announced.
Yes, as long as the only way of keeping your salary competitive is changing jobs every couple of years, employees will change jobs every couple of years.

Also offer better work environments: office spaces where you can concentrate on your work and not be constantly interrupted, reasonable work hours (e.g., don't expect employees to answer e-mails after hours unless they're on call), no micromanagement, no toleration of harassing/bullying behavior, no forced participation in "fun" activities, etc.
There's basically zero chance that glass bottle belonged to anyone that wasn't super wealthy. Also, "middle level" "decision makers" were essentially all assigned to a specific legion, or e.g. veterans with land grants taking an administrative office. Id est mostly static individuals. Almost all travel within the Roman Empire was either military or trade. Or super wealthy people (and/or their entourage).
This is you, projecting, based on how you would operate.
Unless you have actual evidence, don't put that on them.
> My computer science degree had CS classes all the way from freshman year, and I think the pre-requisite graph required at least 3 years, so the standard ‘2 years of core classes for an associates and then 2 years of degree-specific courses’ wouldn’t have worked well for people like me

Community colleges often have CS programs, they don't just offer GE.

They may not have equivalents for all of the courses in a particular universities lower-division major curriculum in a particular major, which can be an issue.
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Right, but they're hardly a single point of failure with regard to internal oversight of missile defense systems; that alone is a multiple $Bn per year endeavor with several competing bureaucracies analyzing weak points and areas to improve.

The cricket thing is just a hypothesis; the article itself says that, "No definitive cause of the illnesses has been determined".

I don't have a dog in this fight, I'm just kind of skeptical.
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>Look out for the situation where you or someone must "hold their tongue." If you must hold your tongue, you are being suppressed by people with unchecked power approaching the epistemic breakdown. If you feel others should "hold their tongue," especially if you despise them, then you are in danger of approaching the epistemic breakdown.

Holding one's tongue is a social tool that makes meaningful collaboration between dissimilar parties possible. Having the space to speak freely is undeniably a liberty worth defending. But it's important to remain conscious of the difference between being silenced by force and being gracious by custom.

It can be difficult to distinguish between the two when the stakes are high or tempers run hot, but that's when it matters most. The freedom to speak openly is a means to an end, not an end unto itself.
Brave on android FWIW seems to help fingerprinting efforts by including the model of phone in the user agent.
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Power? I don't see much power being granted here.

And if you rule out "all companies like Google", you've basically ruled out everyone with enough capital to donate to research, depending on your definition of "like Google".

And really, it absolutely is a donation. The ROI on Project Zero is likely 50x or more less than if that money went to the marketing team.
Funny related story! At Reddit we built a tool to create thumbnails for webpages. The algo was basically find the biggest “squareish” image and then remove a row or column of pixels. The row/col was chosen based on which one left the image with the most entropy. We kept doing this until the image was a square.

That algo basically cuts off women’s heads and leaves just their cleavage.

Obviously we had to adjust it to try and avoid that, but even today you’ll see thumbnails on Reddit that are just cleavage.
That's seller problems. As a buyer I never had any problems with Paypal and I don't store money there, so I don't see much risk for myself.
The government. I pay more in taxes not because I use more roads, need more protection from our military, or send more kids to the local school. I pay more because the government knows I can afford it. That is how the system was designed and it is completely appropriate in my opinion. College is just a continuation of that since it is in part funded by the government. Except in recent decades we have shifted the burden from the overall taxpayer to the students themselves (and their parents). However the basic idea that the people who have more money should pay more for the service has stuck around. I can't say I disagree with that approach even if it does incentivize weird loopholes like the one discussed in the article.
No, but what does that matter? It mainly comes down to cost. If you give me 2 diamonds that are absolutely equivalent in terms of size, clarity, etc. and tell me that one costs $6000 and the other $600 then I can tell you which one is natural and which one is synthetic. I want the $600 synthetic one.
If companies were hint hard on their pockets due to iMessage like bugs, they certainly would take care to hire and put into place the respective measures to prevent them from happening.

One of such measures, like in other professions, is ensuring a proper education and respective certification.
What if your replace it with, say, Stripe?
IDK what speed you should expect, but Amazon's ground station solution should at least increase availability: https://aws.amazon.com/ground-station/
In the real world, it doesn't work that way.

In the real world you ask your doctor if it's okay and he says "sure" because he's read a few things about it and it's what you seem to want. But he doesn't really know, because no one is capable of understanding the human body in its full complexity.

So you just end up taking Monorepo and hoping it doesn't make you severely depressed or give you seizures that send you to the emergency room.
Oof. I wasn't expecting a Stanford flex here.

I wish I was the smart kid. It's not like I even got a full ride!
“We didn’t hear any complaint, and that is also a big red flag,” Borst said. “If they were needy, they would have come in to talk with us.”

Or, being needy, have been crapped on by institutions multiple times and have a fatalistic view. Well, it was fun while it lasted, or guess I need to get a job and spend time working to complete my education. It is amazing how many problems could be resolved by a talk with a school administrator that doesn't because students just accept what they are told.
> something you only need to do once.

Maybe for the actual sequencing, but unless consumers get access to the raw data, then the analysis tools are not great. See: https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/dna-ancestry-kits-twins-m...
Why build it if the cost is 10K+ to deploy?

"Why build a computer if it costs $10K+ for a special room?"- 1960's naysayers.
I don't want private companies to be beholden to the same standard of free speech as the government!

Barns & Noble should be able to decide what types of books to put on their selves. Hacker News's moderators should be able to make decisions about what types of content lead to intellectual curiosity. And while I strongly believe all software platforms should allow sideloading, I also think Apple's curated, "safe" App Store is a great (optional) service for consumers who want it.
As with so many internet comment sections, sometimes, rather than trying to understand, it's best for your own mental health if you close the window, throw your computer in the trash, and go for a walk.
> If we assume that Ms. Thompson is generally terrible at opsec, then presumably she is also terrible at offensive security,

One can possess great technical skills and still be a braggart. Nothing about a lack of OPSEC implies she cannot exploit a vulnerable system.
here you have more resources:

http://news.trust.org/item/20180918134734-kqc8m

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2017/11/industry-gian...

There is much more if you want to research further. I'm astonished you didn't know that.

To realize this led me to buy used computers and phones instead of new ones among other stuff I try to improve in my personal/professional radius.
I do not think it is self evident. In the article (and bill), queuing is considered autoplay if you do not explicitly select playlist of things to play. The definition in the bill is:

AUTOPLAY — The use of a process that automatically plays music or videos (other than advertisements) without an express, separate prompt by the user (such as pushing a button or clicking an icon), unless

(A) before any content is loaded to the user’s display, that user or a different use compiled a playlist of multiple music videos or audio files that the user designated should be played without interruption, and the immediate user selected one of the videos or files in that precompiled playlist; or

(B) the predominant purpose of the social media platform is to allow users to stream music, but only if the only files the platform automatically plays are audio files or advertisements
Why should an engineering degree be any sort of requirement? The best programmers I can think of (Knuth, Ritchie, and Stallman) don't have them and I've met plenty of competent developers who didn't either.
Memory management for a one-and-done image conversion isn't much of an issue. The program will pretty much allocate, run a few very fast GCs since almost all memory usage is in a handful of big arrays (some people seem to have this idea that all GCs are multi-millisecond ordeals, which isn't the case), and then at program termination just throw everything away. A program like this could get away with an allocator implementation that allocated normally but whose "free" is a no-op [1].

What would slow something like this down is not using the relevant assembly code to accelerate working with these images. A very quick glance at the convolution package, chosen on the grounds that if anything is ASM it probably is, shows that this really is "pure Go", in the sense that it doesn't use Go's ASM support. The compiler will not optimize that to speak of, certainly there's no autovectorization, so it's going to be significantly slower than an optimized program that does make correct use of vectorized operations.

Though, in theory, this can be cleaned up over time. Go does have the support built-in for fixing that in a reasonably nice way, as long as you don't mind that it has its own assembler dialect.

[1]: Not 100% related, but close enough, the part towards the end: http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/increasing-compiler-speed-by-over...
I was confused by this line in the affidavit (page 9):

> An April 19, 2019, post in the Github account of "paige•••••thompson" includes a "Server List" of IP addresses associated with the account.

What Github "post" could this be referring to? A README.md/issue/comment in which she for some reason posted the IP addresses she uses with that account?

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/press-release/file/1188626...
I wasn't aware technology had progressed so far that retail consumers have access to this kind of software for live video. I would be very interested in what kinds of software these people are using.