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I once reported multiple listings of problematic N-95 masks (some weren't N95, and one listing was using a certification that had been revoked). Last time I checked the listings were all still up with the fraudulent descriptions
Sweeter indeed, amount of sugar im food is absolutely insane these days. I am from Russia, and food in Uk is like 3 times sweeter, there is added sugar on freaking Roasted Vegetables! Its bonkers!
Maybe authorities not caring should be the headline.
Small anecdote. At some point I was hiring designers and had a few candidates listing MindGeek on their resumes. I didn't think too much of it.. until I saw the portfolio! It was kind of an awkward moment looking at a designer's portfolio of porn landing pages with all my colleagues/employees around, and trying to keep a straight face while evaluating the design of huge boobs taking 90% of the page. Turns out MingGeek is a big employer of junior designers. They pay well and are extremely professional.
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The article is fundamentally wrong, the only way whealth would not trickle down is if the rich will bury their money or destroy it. Think about it:

> When the rich buys a Yat, cars, houses, vacation, -> give money to those who produces those goods/services.

> When the rich saves money, typically it does through financial instruments, which we use it to fund our projects, home, buys etc.

> A great portion of the whalth is working capital which are used for all the employes that work with them, producing earning for everyone.

> Many billionaires have stock valued in billions but those stocks if they are sold by them, will get them lower the value.

The concept of ownership does not mean that other can not use it. The real question is what % of the whealth is EXCLUSIVELY used by the rich
Seems like “intelligence gathering” could include all kinds of bribery and manipulation.

I.e. a massive set of new assets
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I really don't see why people find it worth it to spend $550/year to get the Reserve. Sure, you get a lot of benefits, but I don't really see how they add up to $550 more in benefits over cards with $0 fee. If I want to buy $550 of airline points, I can do that without this card.
I chose amex cash magnet out of a sea of otherwise equivalent 1.5% cashback cards for pretty much the same reason. kinda makes me wonder why most credit cards have such boring and even ugly designs. a conservative design can still be appealing, and it's not like graphic designers are prohibitively expensive to employ.
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That's true only if the service Robinhood is providing is giving customers good deals. It seems quite plausible that instead it is actually providing entertainment in the form of "free" trading. If this is the case, the lack of explicit commission is a key feature.
Why? The full installer is available, and Hackintosh users can use Software Update too.
> For example suppose your mail server falls over,

If token based authentication is affected by this your mail server is doing things very very wrong.

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I'm well aware about all the problems involved when it comes to mail/smtp auth by now.

Still username+password auth done by any client for anything but the initial sign-up is a latent security vulnerability even if it's currently tricky to fix.

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> There absolutely will be a user with an Amiga 1200 using email on a big email service. Do you cut their service off?

Yes, if I would be a mail company I most likely would not have any reason to support them tbh.

Probably a better example would be outdated outlook versions ;=)
I think you're downplaying the risks of non-free (or at least non-transparent) software in an enterprise setting, and overplaying the "value" of the vendor being able to provide meaningful assistance.

Speaking from experience: even if a software product is not freely licensed, there is immense value in source code being available and - better yet - modifiable (whether directly or through plugins) when trying to troubleshoot issues with that software or integrate it with other software or adapt it for your business' needs. Further, if your company's finance department is worth its salt, any such customizations and integrations are assets with real value, so even if your company's engineers are "wasting time" tinkering, the company can - and should - still capture this value on the books.

And further speaking from experience: with relatively few exceptions, I've found enterprise software vendors to be pretty much useless in terms of support, and to be more often than not an obstacle to business operations than a value to it when things go wrong. All for a pricetag that doesn't even come close to justifying their meager SLAs (that they'll inevitably weasel their way out of anyway).

The decision to use transparent software is more often than not a decision in the best interests of a company. Transparency is a dependency of trust; without that transparency, you have no real way of knowing whether you can trust your business on it.
The helicopter flight was a test of our gondola's ability to control the heading of the rocket. Our actual launches are not on a helicopter but rather on a high altitude balloon, which allows us to go up and launch from the stratosphere.
You're very close to the truth in a way I (a Turkish speaker) did not even notice until now about my own handwriting. Turns out, I'm using << >> when I quote on pen and paper, and I use "" digitally. I had always thought that it was a weird stylistic choice on the part of the teacher that taught me writing in primary school, or that I had somehow 'corrupted' "" into super-elongated << and >> to be able to more clearly denote the beginning of a quote from its end marker.

Only now I'm realising I've in fact been taught to use guillemets and it took me only two and a half decades!

In hindsight, my primary school teacher was already about to retire when I was learning to write, so it's likely that she had been brought up in a much earlier school of style than one that is being taught now. Considering that Turkish has been shedding its Francophone writing style [0][1] for a while now, I consider it an echo of a bygone era. That said, Turkish still considers French its 'official' interface to Indo-European words, and there exists a structure that can convert any French word into a valid Turkish one. A simple example: London in Turkish is Londra — it sounds exactly the same as Londres spoken by a French speaker. A more recent example is Pope Francis, whose Turkish name is Papa Fransua, which sounds exactly the same as Papa François as it would be in French. Basically, the 'method' involves saying what you want in French and encoding it with Turkish ortography, and then it's a valid Turkish word. [2]

[0] Another one of these Francophone stylings is the tradition to capitalise the surnames, like Amelie POULAIN, or Bora ALTUNİZADE, which has been considered outdated for a decade or two.

[1] Writing style is moving towards Britain, but not words — 11% of modern Turkish vocabulary is still directly from French, second only to ancient Turkish from 11th century.

[2] Famously, Turkish alphabet contains the letter J solely to be able to encode French words with the correct sound — the J sound does not otherwise appear in any Turkish word, only in words derived from French. Outside of French words, Turkish retains the original Latin J sound that is also used in German, which is a Y sound, so it gets encoded as Y in ortography, removing the need for letter J. For example, Joseph in Turkish becomes Yusuf, Johannes becomes Yuhanna.
Every few months I get a new tool blacklisted and purged from my work machine. So far I've lost netcat, telnet, nmap, process hacker, several packers, cheatengine, and a few other re tools. And probably more that I haven't noticed yet. My favorite category is "program manipulator/riskware"
I had never considered that a paying SaaS could be open source and that raises some questions to me, like: 1. Why would people pay instead of just downloading your code and running it for free? 2. Couldn't anyone grab your code, tweak the UI to make it look different and then sell it as their own SaaS which would be your competitor taking some market share away from you with your own code?
I even had a guided tour in Vietnam including a cybercafé stop to leave a review! (I didn't mind, the tour was very good)
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I suspect they've got bigger problems right now.

(If they don't they're kidding themselves)
That isn't a threat, that is announcing her terms. You can think they are in their own right to taker her up on it, but its not a threat.

Also, as far as I know for a "einseitige Freistellung" (one sided decision to no longer want her to work there) Google would have to show that she destroyed the relationship of trust with Google, by e.g. criminal acts or maybe using her position as a manager to undermine the companies overall direction, e.g. by her going to the public mailing list afterwards.

Announcing that she wants to leave if this can't be resolved would NOT qualify as this.
It seems that Russia's cyber prime directive is to ceaselessly attempt to penetrate USG contractor's systems, which, to a layperson seems like an obvious cybersecurity flaw.
How are these systems secured in other Western countries? How do France and the UK, for example, secure their critical infrastructure networks? The U.S. strategy of just contracting out all these essential service is revealing its pressure points. Seems that the USG insists on just cutting checks to these companies like SolarWinds, which are more interested in gaining clients, generating revenue, and marketing than effectively engineering durable solutions. Another factor is probably NIST's questionable practices about password hygiene (requiring them to be changed every 30-60 days).
Exactly. It would have only been justified if the manufacturer and seller were the same entity. He should have given a honest review based on the product itself and then it would have been appropriate to point out that some of the reviews might be paid. Or better yet: report the seller to Amazon. But the way he wrote the review makes it sound like he rated the item with 1 star solely based on the malpractice of a seller. Companies like Logitech are usually not involved in shady business like that (they hire professional reviewers through third parties, not entice regular customers with 10 bucks, jk :D).
Alexis Ohanian has lived in Florida since 2017 and it might be because his wife Serena Williams had lived in Florida when she was a child.
This seems like a prank by some angry, overworked developer....
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Is there a video of this in action?
FDA Panel Endorses Moderna's Coronavirus Vaccine
Absolutely is too strong a term. They definitely have overlap.
Light reading (as was requested by the parent poster) often gets dismissed by people with in-depth expertise - especially if it’s also somewhat entertaining.

I get both sides of the argument by the way, and adjust my expectations of lighter reading accordingly.
More information is in Opinion 04/2012 on Cookie Consent Exemption of the Article 29 Working Party of the European Commission about Cookie Consent, which elaborates about the topic:

https://ec.europa.eu/justice/article-29/documentation/opinio...

(The §29 WP is now replaced by the European Data Protection Board, but that seems not to have issued any more current Guidelines or Opinions on that matter. Maybe they are waiting for a forthcoming ePrivacy Regulation. Also: IANAL.)
I know HN will see this as Apple further locking down the platform, but it's also plausible that they just want to reduce the number of ways the OS can be installed and upgraded.

Software updates delivered through the automatic updater are listed in an XML catalog file that anyone can parse to get the URL where the actual update package is hosted. The packages usually use the platform standard .pkg installer format.

(Note that the update check does not send information about your system to Apple.)

Apple still provides the `softwareupdate` command line tool to list, download, and apply updates and even whole OS installers of the last 4 years of releases. The OS installers contain tools that can produce bootable install media if you want to archive them.

Apple has also provided tools to mirror software updates on your own infrastructure---see the "Content Caching" option in the Sharing prefpane, for example. Not sure what the state of this is today.

I think the linked article makes good arguments for why it may be premature to discontinue the standalone updates. And I am critical of how difficult it is to obtain OS installers for older hardware and VMs. But it's not the end of macOS as a developer platform.
Thank you! :) Canada is a great place to build a space launch company
And who is going to check and enforce that?
No. Bitcoin reaching ATH was on the front page with over 400 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25443489
With $300 in travel refund it’s more like $250.

It is worth $250 over other cards? It definitely was for me pre-2019. The points add up fast if you travel for work.

It’s no longer a “great” card. But there isn’t a good competitor.
I had an Elementary school teacher that gave us a similar exercise to the rock thing. She said something like "imagine I'm an alien, and tell me how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich". I got so caught up in sharing my special technique I had at the time (extra glob of PB in the middle after covering both sides) that I just got a bit deflated when she stopped me to ask what I meant by what seemed like a basic step. (It was something like "okay, I have the bread", and I hadn't asked her to pick up the knife before applying the peanut butter)

Oddly I don't remember the point of the exercise at all, or if we did anything building on it. We certainly didn't do any programming.
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Nanopore isn’t great for looking at generic mutation rates (many will be single nucleotide polymorphisms) due to the high error rate. It’s much better at looking for splicing patterns and epigenetic modifications. Splicing patterns could conceivably change due to mutation, but that’d be a pretty dramatic mutation.
From an ISP perspective with a lot of singlehomed business and residential users, the vast majority of traffic by volume in Gbps is not immediately obvious as porno. It's normal looking traffic coming from the major CDNs, youtube, netflix, amazon, hulu, etc. And then from the big cloud providers (amazon aws, google/gcp, azure, etc)

For a small ISP that's purely buying transit, once they establish a presence at a major IX point and can peer with some huge content sources, it'll drop their transit bill in half almost immediately.

Then you do have porno content coming from huge hosting companies/entities such as Choopa.

https://www.peeringdb.com/net/813

It's actually pretty rare to peer directly with a porn host, if I had to guess at it, I'd say most of the traffic is coming in via transits such as hurricane, cogent, telia, ntt, etc.

one note, ISP traffic isn't measured in disk space measurements like terabytes or petabytes, it's measured in present tense Mbps or Gbps.
Or to avoid extra vulnerabilities like the past 3rd party Xcode downloads, or the current SolarWinds debacle.
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committ...

freebsd switched to subversion in 2008.

I would guess that git was just too new in 2008.
Better still, innocently take a photo of the package, leave a five star review with the photo including the gift card pledge saying you really enjoyed the product's innovative approach to marketing and claim your $20 gift card
https://www.amazon.com/Real-Time-Rendering-Fourth-Tomas-Aken...

try this if you have time
That's interesting.

The median home price in the US (it varies dramatically by region, I need to simplify first) is $295,000. Divided by 4 is about $74,000.

The median household income (using household since you're using house prices) is $69,000.

The actual numbers would need to change for this to work, maybe it needs to be 1/10th the median home price as the threshold, for example.

But it's interesting to think through the impact this type of approach would have on home prices. I'm confident the tax rates and taxable thresholds could be worked out to generate the revenue needed, but to what extent would people be incentivized to move to areas with lower home prices?

Taking an extreme example, the median home price in Santa Clara County is $1,395,000. If we use the 10% threshold, families would not pay taxes if their household income were below $139,500. The median household income is $124,000.

Income and housing prices are not linearly corelated, so it would need some type of non-linear scaling. But at the heart of it, housing is generally the greatest family expense and perhaps it makes sense to use that in the approach to taxing income. Come to think of it, perhaps that's in effect what the mortgage interest deduction does.
Are you using it on OS X? Runs fine on Windows for me and haven't heard any complaints from any of my coworkers. Everyone says it's better than WebEx.
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I have a fructose intolerance - it is wild how hard it is to avoid fructose, and similarly how easy it is to be "healthy" and maintain my weight with literally zero energy other than avoiding fructose.
The dollar amount that any Robinhood customer lost pales in comparison to the money they can lose when buying stocks in general ie gambling no way around it.

The entire industry as some may know is built on 'do your homework' and 'hold long term' is basically a big shared delusion gamble.

The majority of people will make money if the market goes up and lose money if the market goes down.
Is Samba not FOSS?

Also the PC can probably run entirely free software while the Pi will require non-free binary blobs due to its proprietary Broadcom hardware design, so I would say the PC is preferable from a freedom perspective.
> Mercurial is so much simpler and easier to understand than Git

I think it must just be a mindset thing. The way git works makes perfect sense to me and I don't know why you would do it any other way.

But git was already gaining significant traction when I started using version control.

I can see how having built your mental models around previous version control systems and then trying to superimpose that on git would cause dissonance.

But my entire concept of version control is based on how git does it, so it seems perfectly natural.
As an interviewer I wouldn’t look on that badly either. The job market nosedived. Simple as that so it’s not inconceivable that many talented people have been out of work for a long time.
> The question is whether some foods are inherently addictive, at least for some people who are more predisposed to food addiction.

In some sense, yes, because to get to extremely high weights, you need to consume extremely high amounts of food. Your stomach will grow, but I would imagine a person would struggle to eat enough carrots to weigh 500 pounds. Quick napkin math says some obese people eat 6700 calories a day. 50 calories is ~12 baby carrots. That's ~1608 baby carrots per day. If my math is right, that's about 67 one pound bags of baby carrots per day.

Carrots are probably an extreme example, but I think the point stands that to get that overweight on healthy food, both the volume of the food and the time required to eat it become astonishing. I don't even know if we can metabolize carrots fast enough to eat that many in a day without rupturing some part of your stomach.

> "Normal" cooked meals that were the staple of nutrition before the advent of fast food are almost absent from their diets.

I think this is a big part of it. Calorie dense food has always been around. The problem was that it was often difficult and/or expensive to make. How long would it take you to replicate a Big Mac combo meal, and how much would it cost? It takes a while, especially given grocery shopping, and it's probably not much cheaper. Likewise, I can go to the grocery store and buy a whole cheesecake for like $10.

Honestly, I think the best way to tackle it is not to outright ban the foods, but just add an excise tax. If we added a 10% tax to soft drinks, fries and pizza, it probably wouldn't make a huge difference to the average citizen's spending. It would be a 10% increase in your food budget if that's all you eat though. If you want to go crazy, add a program that lets you earn that back by doing healthy things, like riding a bike. We should probably do that anyways. If we want to reduce the amount of driving people do, paying them walk/bike places instead of driving isn't a bad system either.
Meanwhile more and more websites are adding “legitimate interest” controls to ads and analytics, as a way to keep them activated. It’s so absurd from a user perspective, they even have separate controls for normal and legitimate interest ads.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the sales teams at Google, criteo etc told them to do so off the record.

Every time I see the banner I think is it really necessary to visit the website? So I’m also quite happy about this move by GitHub.
I am annoyed at doing auth over and over, when it's other people's software. The promise of the container revolution was that cross-cutting concerns would be handled by the infrastructure / orchestrator, and applications wouldn't have to care about details like authentication, monitoring, logging, etc. None of that really materialized, though. The actual running/scheduling of workloads is currently in a great state, but the cross-cutting concerns are pretty awful. Or actually, they're good, but very much "bring your own". I use managed Kubernetes, but it doesn't give me managed monitoring, managed logging, managed authentication, etc. (Cloud providers sell that, but you have to do all the integration work. Some random Go binary you download won't accept Identity Aware Proxy JWTs and send your metrics to Stackdriver. You have to make that all work yourself.)

I've run into the situation at least twice where some app has bought into that mindset and made auth an external factor (don't send HTTP requests unless the user is authorized), and found that there was pretty much nothing good to provide that feature. So... I wrote my own thing both times, and am loving it. (You could use it too! But I wouldn't necessarily recommend it: https://github.com/jrockway/jsso2) I never have to think about auth again.

Having also done the infrastructure and library work to get Prometheus/Grafana/Jaeger/Loki doing what I want (https://github.com/jrockway/opinionated-server), I am almost happy with the remaining cross-cutting concerns. I am ever closer to my "1 hour app", where I can just type in some code and have a fully-working production-quality app available to users. I'm not there, but I'm getting closer by the year.

(Sometimes I wonder if we were wrong to totally get rid of the "just rsync some PHP files to a server" model. There were good things and bad things going on there; we should bring the good things back.)
Well first, it's effectively $250 a year because of the $300 travel credit. Second, there's other benefits like dashpass and lyft pink. Third, Chase has the best travel transfer partners for me and where I want to go. I flew first to tokyo last year by transferring to Virgin Atlantic, and using that to buy a ticket on ANA. Round trip was 120k points. Super easy to justify $250 a year based on that.
I canceled a Chase United Club card a while back as it made no sense to renew for benefits I wouldn't use for many months. They offered me $200.
This is so heartbreaking, my heart stopped when reading this email. I was a HUGE fan of SQL Saturdays and I became a great pro with Power BI/SQL thanks to SQL Saturday and the outstanding network PASS provided...
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