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Chase account hacked, fraud department is closed on Sunday
My Chase bank account just got hacked and I'm very confused about the series of events.

I'd like to preface this that as someone working in tech, I'm not an average internet user and don't think I clicked anything shady recently.

All times are EST.

1:30PM Got email on my phone about a new Zelle recipient added to my Chase account.

1.33PM Deleted the unauthorized recipient, changed passwords on Chase and emails. At this point the hacker already submitted a transfer of $2000 - the maximum allowed.

1.34PM Called Chase to report the fraud. Rep told me they need to transfer me to the "fraud department" and told me to hold.

1.40PM Still on hold. Hung up and called again, another rep picked up. They told me the "fraud department" is closed Sunday so only thing I can do is to call again tomorrow Monday. Also they told me the transaction was automatically flagged so it didn't go through.

I have so many questions:

1) Why is Chase fraud department closed on Sunday? I guess there's a reason the hacker strikes on this specific day.

2) I always get a bunch of notifications (push, email, sms) whenever I sign in from a new device. Assuming the hacker logs in from their device, I didn't get any notification at all. How is this possible?

3) Looking at "Device access history" on Chase security page, I don't see any unrecognized device.
But it shows a login at 1.29PM from my home computer. But at that time my computer is off. This is the biggest mystery and kind of relates to question 2) above: was the attack carried out on my own home computer (so it's not a new log in so I didn't get notifications), but it was off - how is this possible?

To be sure, I checked the computer event log, and Chrome history, none shows any activity at 1.29PM. So I'm not even sure the activity at 1.29PM that Chase report is accurate, but it does match up with the unauthorized access at 1.30PM.

I'll call them again tomorrow but at this time, I'm very very confused.
I think this is the episode you are talking about [1]
Runar and Paul a huge inspiration! I'm not totally sold on this idea as practical, but I think it will get there and while they have a lofty goal, I certainly wouldn't bet against the pair of them.

[1]: https://corecursive.com/027-abstraction-and-learning-with-ru...
As a datapoint of one, I've been using Void Linux for near a decade.

I haven't once been in a situation where I thought systemd would help. Granted, I don't run many custom services, but for what it does, runit does a great job. Something a bit more user friendly like s6 would be nice, but otherwise it stays out of my way and I don't think about it.

NixOS/Guix would be worthwhile switching to, but Void is comfortably simple.
You’re not wrong at all, and animals are an important part of the ecosystem. It’s kind of implied that the reason vegetables are less nutritious now is because we don’t use manure for fertilizer as often.
Non-engineer here. What's wrong with taller landing gear to provide more clearance?
Isn't that a bit like survivor bias though? People who are on meatrx (not familiar with the site at all) are already predisposed to thinking that this is the best thing to do, so all the positive things that occur they are attributing to their meat diet. What about the people that didn't get pregnant or who didn't regain their hair? I assume they are not posting about this outcome.

I think some sort of peer reviewed study would be a better source of truth than anecdotal evidence on a site that (I am assuming) promotes meat eating.

I am an omnivore, so I am not disagreeing because I am against meat.
He is probably not talking about Macbooks
Ben Eater Network Tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaGXPObx2Gs&list=PLowKtXNTBy...

tcp/ip rfc
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1180

daryl's ip primer
https://www.ipprimer.com/#/
By taper off, I mean “grows at a slower rate than previously” not “stops growing”. Mathematically, past a certain (<= 10 years, typically) point in the career, I’m saying I believe that the second derivative is likely negative.

It’s likely that an individual programmer’s competence follows some kind of asymptotic curve towards their peak performance rather than a linear (or higher order) function.
You are confusing static and dynamic and weak and strong typing.
The guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ask to use the original title unless it's linkbait or wrong.
If you can continue working you should be expected to do so? That sounds dystopian honestly.... that's not the future we should be striving to build.
Play with the fonts here: http://erikdemaine.org/fonts/ — for each one, there's a webpage which lets you enter your own text, and also has some information about that typeface and related mathematics. These fonts are of course more about the latter (can we create letter shapes subject to these constraints) than anything you'd set a page of text in, but that doesn't make them any less fun.
> I was talking about rsyslog there, not systemd.

It's not at all clear what you're talking about, honestly. First you talk about distributions, then a vague "we", then some weird "scrap and replace" nonsense. No idea who you mean with a sentence such as "we scrap and replace rsyslog". It really makes no sense, if there's a developer that works on rsyslog the work will continue. Distributions might change a default, but it didn't seem to be about distributions.

To make things a bit clearer I talked about all the benefits of having systemd across distributions, plus how the work is shared. This because you seemed to not understand the benefits that systemd has for distributions, in response to the "since distros don't optimally configure a program out of the box". Again, with systemd work it often allowed things to be done upstream. Configuring things in a distribution is a waste of time, previously distributions often wrote their own init scripts.

One person specifically mentions that it's nice when stuff is good by default. Complaining that it's some fault of the distribution completely misses the point: systemd allows stuff to be shared across distributions! No need to complain that either the default wasn't ok, the init script had a bug, etc. It's shared by default. Similarly, once a mistake is found, the bugfix can be made in one place.

That's the nice bit. Your weird comment isn't clear at all, plus completely misses what's nice about systemd for distributions.
> Lmao are you serious? Source is 15 years of buying drugs...

So the source is you then? If so, that is an anecdote and that isn't a reputable source, try again.

> The illegal drug dealers only took cash, and now that buying drugs is legal, the legal dealers only take cash too. They have an ATM in their shop, but that's because they only take cash.

So you are saying that cryptocurrencies was never an option for these people at all? If it was legal bank transfer or credit cards would be just fine.

Would be nice if you provide sources for your claims to these.

> Guess who stayed open the entire time? The drug dealers. They were excluded from lockdowns due to ostensibly being essential businesses who sold "medicine". And guess what, the entire time they have only accepted cash.

Again, do you have any reputable sources for these claims?

Burden is on you to provide proof.
I really don't understand what people think when they choose to ignore retirement contributions. What do they think is going to happen when they get old? Seriously, what to they expect to happen? A Government man showing up at their doorstep with a fat suitcase filled with dollars?

Also, IRA, SHMAYARAY. Max out your Roth every year, and then do whatever. I don't see how the taxes for the rest of us are going to go down with the aging population.
Perhaps are you looking for Sum Types?[0] They let you group several types into a unifying type, e.g. a Shape is a Circle, Square, or Triangle, then you can use pattern matching to have different behavior for each. This example is in F# [1] but it's almost exactly the same as it would be in Haskell.

[0]https://www.schoolofhaskell.com/user/Gabriel439/sum-types
[1]http://deliberate-software.com/christmas-f-number-polymorphi...
It's stupid and gross that the possibility of accident in dangerous but necessary research turns into violence, but I strongly blame the exact same media that writes (IMO trashy) pieces like this for being fecklessly incapable of talking honestly and consistently about government corruption and for intentionally blurring lines between state and skin.

How hard would it be to write "Local, regional, and national governments in China have been suspiciously obstructionist from the start, but your Chinese neighbors are just humans like you, no more responsible for the CCP's shitty actions than you are responsible for your president's shitty actions. Don't be a fucking racist."

This, like every other handwaving dismissive editorial piece, completely ignores apparent repeated government coverup attempts, from the early arrest and censoring of Drs Li Wenliang and Ai Fen to altering hospital diagnoses, deleting data, and refusing to give WHO investigators access to more than summaries, as if stonewalling and suppression isn't itself a kind of evidence.

If a cop turns off all the cameras before a suspect dies, we don't suddenly say "See, there's just no evidence!" We say, "That act alone creates strong suspicion of guilt. Nothing is proven, but we will be grossly negligent if we don't dig deeper."

The circumstances around evidence or lack thereof matter, and if they don't alter your perception of probability to the point where you at least mention it, then you don't understand how probability works when it intersects human behavior and don't get to say what's more or less likely.
Completely dumb and enabling of high finance scams. Instant settlement means nobody can play games. It fixes this. Embrace this.
The Castro brothers and their lackeys have used the embargo to explain away every disastrous strategic plan they’ve concocted over the last 60+ years: Es el bloqueo. El bloqueo.

Furthermore, take a look at the many countries which have trade with Cuba [0]. Their problem is mostly self-created through their monetary policy and the severe restrictions entrepreneurial Cubans face. The Castrista government must have its hands on every little thing that generates money. The slightest deviation from the party line results in significant punishment including prison.

[0] https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/isdb_results/factsheets/country...
I feel like educators watched Ferris Bueller’s day off, and decided they would crush that spirit with totalitarian tactics. What’s the point of this level of control?
Can I suggest that smaller homes (700-1200 SF) are the “low hanging fruit” to reduce single family home construction costs?

Perhaps incentivize by basing property taxes on home size?
I’m saying they’ll do it even if they’re just normally (or even partially) stocked with material. They know their customers are cross-shopping them with other stores, they need to be competitive, and they don’t want to lose the rest of the order lines nor train customers that they’re not competitively priced.
People across the world favor paid parental leave, study finds
That makes sense as a build system (and is more or less how Nix works). The question would be why you'd subject your source code to this.
This is awfully technical, but in practical terms: Magnesium citrate is yummy. So should we all be taking it or is it useless as a substitute for the kind in vegetables?
They actually had a table on the efficacy for severe cases in the supplemental material of the original Pfizer study (table S5 in [1]), but all it shows is that the study doesn’t really give any information on this. The 95% confidence interval given for severe cases after the first vaccine is 20.1–99.7%.

From what I understand, it’s really a trade-off between waiting for proper data about the efficacy you’re most interested in, or starting to vaccinate people as soon as you have efficacy data for an endpoint that’s still meaningful but easier to reach. Having much fewer symptomatic cases is already a pretty good result, and I think it was expected that the protection would also extend to severe cases.

[1]: https://www.nejm.org/doi/suppl/10.1056/NEJMoa2034577/suppl_f...
That doesn't matter. You consume their content, and buy their goods. In fact, those two things have increased massively over the past year.
Seeds are a great source of magnesium. Pumpkin seeds in particular have a lot of it and are inexpensive and tasty.
I'll add another trivia: they also throw you in jail if you speak badly of the current regime, which btw doesn't allow free elections.
> holding fiat for long times seems foolish.

Yeah, sure, but everyone except cranks who works in fiat openly acknowledges that. Fiat (well, major fiat currencies like the dollar) are good for low-volatility liquidity. For long-term accumulation of value, you invest in productive assets, which are both riskier over the long term and higher volatility over the short term, but have higher average long-term yields. And, ideally, you diversify investments in ways that maximize independence of at least long-term variation, to mitigate risk and get closer to consistent long-term average results.

Crypto“currency” that isn’t fiat-pegged tends to be worse than major fiat at the things people who prefer fiat think fiat is for, while (in the best cases) being a very high-volatility speculative asset with very good average performance over its history to date (which isn’t very long term). It’s thus not a great replacement for fiat, but potentially a bice addition to the stable of available investments.
That wood from Stimson is the worst ever. I don't think you can buy worse. I've used all sorts in my life and HD consistently has lumber that cannot even be used to start fires until you dry it.

Plywood is fine, but if you need anything you build to last, buy pressure treated at HD, or buy plain lumber somewhere else.

(I bought some 2x4s for a non-permanent project during the pandemic. It was so soft and wet that when I fired a railgun into one of the pieces, the nail went all the way through. That should not happen)
It's possible to state factual things in a way that invites heat instead of light.

> I fail to see the "invitation" to flame honestly.

Many people will end up interpreting "A great showing for a small, socialist island nation under decades of embargo by hostile anti-communist forces." as "A great showing for a nation being oppressed and bullied for decades by the big bad US and its bully friends". And, well, the knee jerk reaction is to defend yourself if you think someone is accusing your country of bullying another country for no reason.
The reason why the Latin prefix for "twice" is "bi-", while the Latin word for two is "duo", is exactly the same sound change (dw -> b) that turned archaic Latin "duenos" into "bonus" in Classical Latin.
I'll believe it when it's peer reviewed research. The main argument is that it uses renewables. But that same energy could be used elsewhere and offset other polluting energy sources. Unless of course there is just a huge general over provision of renewables. But I don't believe that's the case.
Doctor Paul Saladino has been very public about his test results, including CAC score of zero, and I consider that a source. Same with doctor Shawn Baker.

And I made reference to Meatrx which is indeed a source. It contains hundreds of video testimonies that will provide any discerning viewer with enough evidence to motivate a proper interventional study. This topic is blacklisted in academia and there aren’t any good studies on it.

And if you investigate the mechanistic underpinnings of all of this yourself, crack open a biochemistry book, you will see very clearly that something is going on. We need proper interventional studies.
Integral Calculus Marathon
A livestream of complete Calculus 2 or integral calculus course. Enjoy!
Just today I was listening to a German podcast on this topic ("Warum Bauholz zurzeit knapp und teuer ist") [1]. Main explanation of it having become so expensive in Germany as well is the high demand in the US, China and in Germany itself. Russia has set an export ban on wood, so China is buying more from Germany.

Germany currently has a surplus of wood, yet the prices aren't low. Sawmills are the main benefactors of the current situation, they're processing wood like never before, also because last year a lot of trees were affected by beetles, fungi, storms and the like. So this lower quality wood (which is perfectly fine to use) has been mainly exported. 40% of the processed wood is exported.

Sawmills are buying the trees for cheap due to the surplus that the forest owners (around 96% of the owners own less than 20 ha) are saying that they're now considering to stop selling wood and wait for the fall or next year if they can handle it.

Then again, if they stop selling the wood, the state- or community-owned forest owners (around half of the German forests are privately owned, the other half by the state or communities) might not be able to to pay for the machinery and workers which usually work the entire year around. Also private owners have got together and share machinery and personell which needs to get payed during the entire year. So to some degree they are forced to continue cutting down trees to sell them.

[1] https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/probleme-der-baubranche-warum...
I can't comment on parent due to flag, I'm studying this for my wife and the relationship to autoimmune issues.

It's not just ruminant, but ruminant meat eating appropriate food. Grass fed beef versus grain fed is fascinating. Furthermore, how we raise ruminants is important for the ecosystem. When I tried carnivore diet, I can attest that the benefits are real but so is the hungering addiction from processed foods. I'm currently detaching myself from sugar which is... hard.

I can't wait for properly controlled studies on this subject. There is great anecdotal evidence https://benjamindavidsteele.wordpress.com/2020/01/10/multipl... which warrants proper studies.
For real. Microsoft's attempts to compete with the Apple ecosystem kind of feel like DC trying to catch up with Marvel -- super rushed, half-baked, zero vision.

It's especially strange since .NET is a great cross-platform framework.
To;Dr: good lord it's hard to avoid complexity when you're not using Docker to run your app.
This article IMHO draws a pretty dystopian view of a future of everything-as-a-service, i.e. being at the mercy of enormous corporations even for the most simple task every time you use the service. This isn't a world I want to live in. Personal computing implies being in control of your data and code (even though you only purchased a copy of the software you need instead of compiling or writing it yourself). I think that Apple is doing fairly well in this respect so far, except for the side loading issues with iOS.

I agree with the author that Apple currently may not have a visionary person at the top of the company. This was a problem during the difficult times in the 90s and it seems to be similar after Steve Jobs' death.

But the way things are going right now, Apple could survive on the products of one of their product lines alone (e.g. Arm-based SoCs)...
It can't scale up if it still needs to be produced in the same quantities. It takes a lot of farmland, about 80% in fact, to produce feed for livestock (especially for cattle) even with calorie-dense feed like cereals. You'd have to cut down a lot of forest to make pastures.
WhatsApp was doing well charging $1 off 100 mil users.

Regrettably selling off paid even better.
The market does provide it, it’s called a deferred annuity. If you find the pricing disappointing, well then you see the issue with pensions.
Can it be solved by simply adding more magnesium to the fertilizer?
> how effective is this data in terms of actually improving their profitability?

I work closely with telemetry data coming back from Windows devices. There's surely a line from collecting this telemetry to an answer to your question, but I've never heard anyone in our group talk about the profitability of this data. In fact, it costs a lot of money to process and store such huge data, which is absolutely a concern -- so there's strong belief (which I share) that this cost of business is worth it because it lets us make what I hope are good decisions about where we should focus our efforts.

The telemetry that comes back encompasses many dimensions of the user experience, and it helps us do things like figure out when an insider feature is ready to GA; what drivers or devices do poorly and how we can improve the experience; how accurately we can predict battery life; etc.

> they can optimize their dark UI patterns to be better at tricking people into setting Edge as their default browser?

I don't think whoever is in charge of 'tricking' people into using Edge actually have the kind of telemetry that most people think about with respect to Windows data collection. A lot of people think there's some sinister plot here -- apparently as evidenced by your phrasing. But if you look at the UI for default programs, it's really just a slightly annoying "are you sure?"-kind of message. (I don't use Edge by default, but I just reset my prefs to Edge then back, and I wasn't harassed again, so this isn't a persistent nagging.)
Daniel, the truth of the matter is that "you want all the Jews in Israel to die" type of post can, and is being thrown everywhere completely regardless of the merit of original conversation.

And yes, it's a perfect tactic to sink any topic on a site with any kind of automoderation.

You cannot properly discuss anything moderately controversial if any topic can get framed, and sunk as "flamebait" because moderately controversial topics are "flamebait".

People have heated discussions about matters of ideology, that's the very obvious truth of life.

The more important is the matter, the more, longer, louder, and more emotionally people will argue.
Anecdotal, but I personally would get ocular migraines pretty frequently for years. They started when I was a teenager, but I was always told by doctors that it was nothing to worry about.

A few years ago I read about magnesium deficiency and migraines, figured it was worth a shot to try supplementing it, and now I rarely get those ocular migraines. The only time I get them now is when I run out of magnesium supplements, forget to buy more, and end up going a few weeks without them.

I really can’t say that it’s the magnesium, but as long as I’m not getting the ocular migraines anymore I’ll continue to supplement it. A bit of a warning though, it can act as a laxative for some people and cause digestive issues. Liquid based forms are gentler. Mineral water tends to have high magnesium content as well (e.g. Gerolsteiner brand).
SemVer remains a pragmatic approach that works in vast amount of cases. It’s unclear what alternative we have here which works in more cases.
> It's sort of a commentary on how tough it must be to be a creative when I can buy remnant books from A list authors sometimes; I've seen Jonathan Franzen, John Scalzi, Bill Mckibben, And Rod Dreher books end up in the dollar bin.

Talented authors who drove retail bookstores to stock their inventory. But when some of it didn't sell, the dollar stores snapped it up for nearly nothing. IMO that's not a slight to the authors. It's to their credit that the bookstores saw their promise based on existing sales at the time.