skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They do far more than simply install backdoors for residential proxy networks. They also capture and resell your entire http(s) request history via their mitm. That's every single HTTP request every single app on your phone makes. It's a gold mine of information. They also sell profiles of exactly which apps you have installed on your phone, how often you're using each, and geolocation data if they get that permission.

Avast recently shutdown their subsidiary Jumpshot [1] who was doing similar. They were intercepting desktop traffic through their anti-virus software and browser plugins, and then selling your complete browsing history on a per-user (don't worry it was "anonymized" /s) to anyone willing to pay. Mostly to corporations, marketing platforms, and hedge funds.

Sensor Tower is doing the precisely the same thing for the same audience.

[1] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxejbb/avast-antivirus-is...
Not going to go back into it but also read more or less recently is your digestive system has 'taste buds' but they are connected to the enteric nervous system. So that's another potential signaling pathway.
Italy's situation and a warning to other countries by an Italian doctor
Depends on the person. Some are born for their role. Some grow with experience. Some nothing helps.

Someone new might be easier to work with in someways compared to a manager who believes in their process over reality.
Sure, but Rover is presumably benefiting from a much better economy of scale and bargaining position (since it's buying for however many thousands or millions of users it has), whereas you are unlikely to be able to do the same as an individual.
Because ‘marketing words’ don’t sell
Already mined by all stores.
I am going to argue that this is a good thing. If they legally had to refund in this case it would create an incentive to not cancel.
This is basically a MITM proxy, which I'd say is really essential for true adblocking and content filtering, especially on the locked-down mobile platforms and with the rise of HTTPS. The question is then who runs the proxy and whether you trust them.

I've been doing the same with Proxomitron for years, although in that case I run the proxy, I certainly trust myself, and --- I'm not sure about whether these apps even have such a feature --- I can modify how/what it filters/blocks at any time.
It's true for both!
That's really cool! I've always wanted to map my yard and house like that, but I imagine it would be quite expensive. I'm on a hill and it would make it so easy to play around with landscaping ideas without having to measure a ton.

Also, it's crazy how easy it is to recognize homes from SF!
It is a lubricant, just a bad one. It is good for things that primarily need corrosion protection and cleaning and don't really need lubrication, but could benefit from it. Something like a pair of pliers. Or the outer skin of a missile. But yes, it's not good for parts where the primary goal is lubrication.
You could lessen the sugar even further by combining this with stevia to cover the bitterness that can happen with Stevia.
More choices for the win
We have to consider the question: “why not both?” Consider that Amazon, in addition to serving a high scale, high availability e-commerce website, also offers white label services for fulfillment, payment, and serving high scale, high availability websites. In other words Amazon provides, as a service, virtually every piece of infrastructure needed to deliver Amazon’s core business. So I wouldn’t infer that this is an either/or. At the very least I’d expect Whole Foods to adopt this service, for instance.
They did extensive testing and were finding cases other countries weren't. They changed this a bit over a week ago [0] to be more in line with other countries, so the numbers wouldn't increase quite as quickly.

> Italian health officials are making another change in their testing protocols that may slow the growth of new case numbers. The country expects to limit coronavirus testing to at-risk people showing symptoms of COVID-19, said Giuseppe Ippolito, scientific director at Italy’s National Institute for Infectious Diseases.

> Previously, Italy was testing anyone who visited certain towns in northern Italy or came into contact with someone infected with the virus but not necessarily showing symptoms.

> Ippolito said the shift corresponds with updated recommendations from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control,.

[0] https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/italy-virus-count-me...
I think this is far too optimistic.

1. We don't know the actual reality of what's happening on the ground in China. Hubei and Italy have approximately the same population, yet Italy is suffering more proportionally. I think the obvious explanation is drastic underreporting of cases and fatalities in China. When all is said and done I think China probably has underreported by at least a magnitude if not double that.

2. Most Western countries won't impose the type of strategies that China undertook; they simply can't. When things get too bad to impose draconian quarantines, it'll be too late. Even Italy's efforts in quarantining the nation are not enough.

3. Most of the world doesn't have good healthcare. I'm talking about Africa, Southwest Asia, South America. There simply aren't enough ICU beds and ventilators to go around. Even in the US, I've read reports of only 100K ventilators nationwide. If the pandemic keeps growing exponentially with a doubling period of 4 days, the US alone will have 1M cases by mid-April.

4. Simple math. World population outside of China is 6.5B. If 10% are infected (very conservative imho) we're looking at 650M cases world wide. If the CFR drops to 1%, then we're in the neighborhood of 6.5m fatalities. And the survivors? Roughly 81% of those infected survive with no serious side effects. The remainder have serious health issues even after the disease runs its course. That's 117M casualties. This is world altering.

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus
I'm not sure what is misleading about it. She has actually resigned from the University or Melbourne: https://twitter.com/VTeagueAus/status/1233241830994481152
Businesses can often broker discounted group policies which are a fraction of the cost of what an individual policy costs(e.g. health insurance).
I can't read the article because it's behind a paywall, but searching his name leads to articles that indicate he leaked data from a CIA Confluence instance. After Snowden, this is just laughable.
Thermodynamics. You need a temperature gradient to extract useful work.
> heirs stealing via birthchance tax

what does this even mean? You can't steal what is given to you.
...of the workplace
I kinda like the idea of preventing "bad actors" from accessing FOSS software, however I have some objections:

- these kind of terms are probably hard to support in court. a good actor today might become a bad actor tomorrow (Amazon wasn't always regarded as a bad actor -- think of Google and it's "don't be evil" policy)

- The definition of bad actor might change from person to person. Amazon is cited for collaborating with ICE, but a ton of other companies are doing shady business too. To go to an extreme and consider pervasive data collection as surveillance and thus as an attack to the fundamental right of privacy would mean considering bad actors the vast majority of modern companies. Which is not bad, but cuts them off FOSS software. This is bad (for the software).

- the inclusion of specific companies (and to some extent, some values instead of some other) seems arbitrary.

Also, last but not the least:

I've been exploring ideas around ways in which
licensing could be used for dealing with unethical
behavior in FOSS
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Amazon - for collaboration with ICE
BP - assisting in climate destruction

Collaborating with ICE and climate destruction are unethical in general, not just for software.

I agree on the unethicalness of Amazon/BP (and many other) but I don't like software licenses as a way to push some kind of political agenda (no matter what side the agenda comes from).

Push it too much and we'll see licenses in which the Persona Non Grata is someone endorsing LGBT rights or free healthcare.

After all, everyone can come up with a license, right?
I don't have any Philips Hue to compare and I also haven't tried their color bulbs. If you're still curious, I'd recommend getting a bulb that comes with a dimmer switch and try it out. It can then always be paired with the gateway if you want to go further.

I like that I can use the IKEA mobile app AND Home Assistant AND their control devices (dimmer switch, motion sensor, etc). The IKEA app allows for quick changes on the fly while Home Assistant handles automated tasks throughout the day while the control devices provide control over the bulbs when the software is too far from reach or potentially out of service. I also like the shape of the IKEA bulbs as they're more traditional and fit some old lamp shades. Cheers!
Bell Labs was responsible for much of the underlying technology, and these applications had been foreseen. But they were undoubtedly deluded about their ability to deliver those applications.
The average person doesn't know the difference between a regular forward slash and a back slash. Why should they?
Several grumpy opinions about remote work at Tailscale
I've been using bleach in water.

> "Sodium hypochlorite required a minimal concentration of at least 0.21% to be effective."[1]

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019567012...
Is that the Three Mile Island incident you're talking about? I'm genuinely curious, though thought that was a full scale reactor
Wrong layers of the network. IPSec is comparable to TCP/UDP, not wireguard/zerotier. It’s L4 and NAT can’t have enough intelligence to setup IPSec meshes without explicit configuration.

Finally, how can ZeroTier’s support be so incompetent to not recognize connectivity issues between endpoints? That’s one of the few things that goes wrong with tunnel meshes.
While this is usually a decent approximation, it's important to note this is not an optimal solution. For example:

Your bag can hold 10 kg. Item a weighs 10kg and is worth $10. Item b weighs 5kg and is worth $6.

Item b is more value dense, but picking up item a is optimal.
If by "users" you include developers who spend most of their time with the system, the two thousand 1-star reviews ¹ will beg to differ.

¹ https://wordpress.org/plugins/gutenberg/#reviews
That is only because the sandwich shop has more important things to deal with, like the safety of their employees and customers. If you call up your credit card company and complain that you ordered a product that was never provided, you will absolutely get a refund.
I'm not sure why anyone would buy oil and gas given the way the world is changing but that's just me.
> it almost feels like Trump has some secret weapons ready to save the day. You would think that, since most of the leaders are in a high risk demographic and spend large chunk of their time shaking hands with strangers, they would be more vigilant

He's behaving entirely consistently with how he always has: deny everything, project perfection.

There's no signal here of a secret weapon, it's a complete shit show.
Love the team behind it and their outlook on engineering and design. Look forward to using 9.3 and view getStaticProps as a major step forward.
Basically, the whole area had turned into Wuhan.

Sad but people are their own now. Hopeless.
Twitter has a history of great flexibility for famous accounts. E.g., in 2017, Twitter introduced the "newsworthiness" exception for tweets pretty much guaranteeing that anything he says is allowed under the rules. Many people feel that Trump gets much greater latitude compared with what some 20-follower anime-avatar account would get.

I certainly believe that's the case. In some ways, Trump saved Twitter. Their numbers improved greatly when he came along. Even ignoring the fact that banning Trump could be incredibly bad for Twitter in PR and regulatory aspects, kicking him off would cause a significant hit to key metrics.
Italy Coronavirus Daily Cases Map
Most insurance companies have force Force majeure/act of god clauses that would exclude them from this as well. Also it is highly likely that they are going to leave this with a loss. The convention space that they rented will not be able to be refunded as well, as well as advertising expenses etc.
Thanks for the details. This looks like a nice subject for a blog post with the technical details and some photos if you ever have time to write it. I think it will get some traction here, but I can't guaranty it. Anyway, I can guaranty at least one upvote.
And yet Germany (median age 48, nearly the oldest in the world, slightly older than Italy and similar to Japan) has seen only two deaths so far out of ~1,100 cases. I've yet to see a definitive explanation for the extreme difference between what we're seeing in Italy vs South Korea vs Germany when it comes to mortality rates. Italy has a developed-world, universal healthcare system. Perhaps the cases in Germany are not far enough in yet to produce a higher rate of death (seems unlikely, in many cases elsewhere older patients are dying rapidly). The only explanation that seems plausible that I've seen, is that their healthcare system (locally) was quickly overwhelmed and they're leaving the worst cases to die, unable to tend to them.
The pipeline for a given piece of research to get into production tends to be several months. Therefore, a small firm with only a few researchers might update between once and a few times a month, and a larger company it might be several times a week. It's rare to update the model more than once a day, since it'll normally be updated outside trading hours.
The Knapsack Problem is what originally led me down the path of Linear Programming, which is mind-blowingly cool. So cool, in fact, that in the 1960s, LP was used (along with other techniques) to solve a 49-city Travelling Salesman Problem. They didn't even have to check all possible solutions(!?) by using the principles of linear programming duality to prove that their solution was the most optimal.
This is a good point, and I think it is reasonable to start with the immunity assumption, since it is generally the case for respiratory viruses.

Still, I wonder what the math looks like. It has indeed been shown that flu outbreaks in ideal conditions are more intense, but conversely, the flu seasons are shorter [0]. If medical attention makes a significant difference in patient outcome, then the longer virus season is presumably preferable. However, the significance of medical attention needs to somehow be weighed against the total number of people who end up being infected and the costs of shutting down pieces of the global economy for longer periods of time (not to mention limiting individual rights.)

Consider that less vulnerable people may be more likely to become infected in their daily lives since they are more active and likely come into contact with more people. In this case, a faster outbreak with many mild cases may actually result in faster herd immunity, and therefore fewer total infections in vulnerable populations. Perhaps a partial quarantine of at-risk populations is the best solution.

[0] https://www.citylab.com/environment/2018/10/big-cities-have-...
Thanks for sharing. May I ask, how can an applicant demonstrate “certain amount of discovery, research and ongoing reading“?

In this specific case, the student have a few GitHub repos of courses taken before enrolling in Lambda. One repo is in a different programming language. Would that help?
But they were in a country where the relationship has been bad since the beginning
On the other hand, if they did pull off a seamless integration of the tech into WF, it would be a massive selling point. Amazon Go demonstrates that the tech can work in a store designed around it, WF would show that it can be integrated into an existing business. But they have no reason to rush and use themselves as the guinea pig if they can offload that risk onto literally anyone else. Moving WF over will be the signal that they consider the tech mature enough for large-scale businesses to consider.
Agree it seems like a better way to inform decisions and manage risk. Is it backed by any sort of real understanding of litigation, settlement, statutory experience? I often hear reputational risk cited by security teams at public companies... it usually follows some sort of indecision or appeal to a higher level of management or beuqacratic tool.
Which is probably okay, in the same sense that companies and temporary workers (or workers otherwise sourced through a staffing agency) will "cut out the middleman" (in this case, the staffing agency) and transition to permanent direct-hire employment after a certain period (assuming said temporary worker has demonstrated oneself to be valuable enough to be worth keeping on).

In the case of creative work, it's arguably less hassle to let Fiverr handle things than to sign into a bunch of one-off contracts, and reserve "cut[ting] out the middleman" for cases where someone has consistently delivered work to your standards (or, on the other side, has consistently paid well) and there's a desire to make for a more long-term arrangement than one-off jobs.
Anecdotally, I've noticed that if I avoid all sweets (and especially soda) I tend to have less of a sweet tooth. If I give myself leeway, and start taking donuts and candy that show up at work, I feel like my resistance to sweets drops precipitously and I'm much more likely to "just take one more."
Agreed healthcare is changing. I will say, however, that the ICHRA was one of the few healthcare related initiatives with pretty strong bipartisan support. The SBA (Small Business Administration) lobbied for it.

To your point on employees quitting - one of the benefits of Savvy is that if you change jobs, your insurance can stay with you as it is no longer tied to your employer.
And for the idea of doing RF magic for RFID: you to some extent want to do that, ant then you will find out that random Chinese sector antenna solves the same problem (obviously with the fact that it is simply not practical/possible to track everything with RFID tag that goes through the warehouse gate)
I find it hard to believe anyone that knows anything about labor history in the US could assume that company/union relations can be assumed to go well.
No disrespect intended but you've probably had a misguided idea of what America is and is not and this reality is violating that for you. America is a marketing machine, remember that. For myself an American who lives abroad and interfaces with the US federal government regularly, incompetence is deep and pathological within large US organisations especially government.
Not sure I understand the second quibble. 2π radians per second = 1 hertz seem simple enough?
Since when the volume of tweets is an indicator of their veracity?
I suspect there are a number of reasons. They need to be understood in the context of the criminal justice system's goals. It is not principally concerned with "doing justice" in any holistic political-philosophical sense. That is evident from its favoring of certain aspects of justice like punishment, retribution, and deterrence over things like procedural fairness and proportionality. That is to say its primary aim is punishing wrongdoers and making examples of them. Accordingly, any means or outcome which satisfies these goals is assumed to be "just". Any alternative-- even one in the cannon of "justice"-- is understood to be a failing or at best reckless.

One reason this happens is that police and prosecutors alike put a lot of work into investigating crimes, and they do not like working in vain. They are especially bothered by the prospect of not apprehending anyone, and much more so by the prospect of being unable to convict someone they believe is guilty. It would be fair to say that they have at least some bias toward convicting someone-- anyone. It's also the case that they are sometimes wrong but very much don't want to believe they are. People easily find ways of justifying things they want to believe.

Another reason is that trial lawyers tend to develop a preoccupation with winning. Consider that, for a prosecutor, the only way to win is to get a conviction. This can lead them down the path to all sorts of hell and is probably the biggest contributor to grand juries being shams and evidence being withheld.

It is true that there are career benefits to winning a lot of cases, but for your average ADA that's typically just the privilege of being given more serious cases to prosecute. Plenty of ADA's lose a lot of trials with few ill consequences. Where this is more of a problem is with elected prosecutors, the actual District Attorneys. They are the ones who benefit most from high profile investigations, indictments, and convictions. It's very much in their political self-interest to get convictions.

Lastly, the courts (judges) generally let prosecutors get away with all sorts of shenanigans for a variety of reasons. It may be that they themselves are "tough on crime", or prefer to give prosecutors the benefit of the doubt, or simply that they're lazy. Any trial lawyer will tell you it happens with shocking regularity that judges allow evidence into trial that they really shouldn't under the guise of the questionable rationale that they should just "let the jury decide." Let us not forget that one of Alexander Hamilton's main arguments in favor of the jury system was as a safeguard against corrupt judges.

In short, little stops them from doing these things other than their own consciences, a handful of weakly observed procedural safeguards, and some extremely vigilant defense attorneys who fight back hard.
The Apple TV v1 was released/shipped before the iPhone was. It was based on OS X 10.4.7 with a modified version of FrontRow (remember that old app?) as the primary UI. You can read a bunch more about it here[0]. There was nothing remotely iOS in it until Apple TV v2 which didn’t come out for like 7 years after.

Yes, iOS and MacOS are very similar now, but they weren’t that similar in 2007. Yes, both were Darwin based, but from there up they originally were pretty distinct.

[0] https://www.macworld.com/article/1057029/atv_hacks.html
When I was in college Amazon was perpetually convinced I would want multiple different textbooks for the same subject.
Yes. DTC takes in money, digital advertising prices rise, DTC go out of business, digital advertising prices fall.

Obviously, there are other factors but these DTC brands provide a very blunt perspective on whether digital advertising is effective (most of these companies don't manufacture, they are just advertisers).
Oh it most certainly is a moral one, which is why I'm asking that you commit to save my life when it needs saving. Unless you somehow imagine that letting me die is morally desirable? At which point, it'll take a lot more to convince me.

If my life needs dollars to save, so does yours. And if you will take your pound of flesh, so will I. But I'm making an offer in good faith in your hour of need. I will not take a pound of flesh. I will take no thing. And in exchange, all I ask is that you do the same for me. Your reluctance to accept this tells me all I need to know about your so-called morality.
If this is the regulation I think we're talking about (would help to specify) it is precisely about idle power draw.
But there's this certain behavior people develop when they get older, where they worry less about what other people think and worry more about what really makes them happy.

So you end up with Doc Brown types obsessing about their science project and less about grooming their eyebrows and ear hair.

This also explains older men riding ridiculous recumbent bikes in strange bike outfits.

and then these wonderful quirky inventors get interviewed...
It should be entirely possible to run the MITM proxy completely on-device, in which case you don't need to trust anything.