skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>We present a website fingerprinting attack through the wireless charging side-channel for both iOS and Android devices.

Nothing to see here folks. Just mundane fingerprinting. Nothing is actuallt stored on your phone
When I use PowerShell, I try to use 'pure' PowerShell, so I don't invoke any unwrapped DOS/cmd or Unix (Cygwin, gow, whatever) commands. (This is actually pretty easy to do, in that everything I've ever thought of doing can be done in pure PowerShell.)

The resulting experience is really nice, since everything returned to me is a nice PowerShell object. The cost, of course, is having to learn how to do everything anew.
'But vaccination is a community thing...'

A vaccine goes into an individual body, so it is a personal thing subject to medical privacy.
I find Amazon’s functionality of “you bought this item on March Xx, 20YY” to be similar. Sometimes I’m buying more dishwasher tablets (and the notice serves only to tell me that I’m buying the same thing), but it’s definitely caused me to not re-buy a book I already owned a few times and that left me with a very positive impression of Amazon.
ok but I wrote some of it and it was explicitly intended to be satire for the purpose of ridiculing people dumb enough to believe it
Did they have some sort of agreement not to complete with commercial cashless payment systems? It always puzzled me why you couldn't use your oyster card to pay for a sandwich or even a platform vending machine? Everyone had the card yet they only worked for transport tickets?
No. People have tried lysine, but it is ineffective. If anything, argenine would worsen herpes.

But, on the subject, do be sure to get your shingles vaccination!
Sure: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/data-a-new-direc...
The job already has changed, we have been using AI to write code for decades already. Most people no longer write a lot of code based on their own understanding, rather they google for code libraries or snippets, include them and then fiddle with it until they do what the coder wants it to. I don't see how this situation is any different from that.
That was never the true goal. The goal was to prevent spam, brute force attacks and similar. This approach can work by making spam cost more. The user is not as affected by the cost (they probably have a mostly unused computer sitting there anyways) but it may be enough to stop attackers. (At least some that buy their own hardware.)
"If you want to know what the weather is at a given location, find a nearby airport, get their ATIS (or AWOS or ASOS) phone number and you can call and get a real-time report that is extremely accurate."

To get the phone number:

curl -Ls https://www.airnav.com/airports/get?s="$1"|sed -n '/<TR>.*WX/{s/.*=right>//;s/&nbsp;.*top>//;s/<.*//p;}'"

For example, Orcas Island

curl -Ls https://www.airnav.com/airports/get?s=orcas|sed -n '/<TR>.*WX/{s/.*=right>//;s/&nbsp;.*top>//;s/<.*//p;}'

or, without the redirect

curl -s https://www.airnav.com/airports/KORS|sed -n '/<TR.*WX/{s/.*=right>//;s/&nbsp;.*top>//;s/<.*//p;}'
They should amp it up into an automated gullibility meter for news outlets and journalists.
TPTK got about as much attention as the bounty sub. And loveforlandlords way outstripped both
As weird as the Saturn hexagon is, I think the oddly symmetrical polar storms of Jupiter have it beat in terms of "gawp factor".

Also the ridge on Iapetus is worth an honorable mention if we're talking about things that don't look like they belong in nature.

What a strange place this solar system is.
Only dangerous if you grind/crush the very obvious pink ceramic and inhale the dust.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berylliosis

Modern magnetrons tend to use alumina-based ceramics instead.
I guess that's because they cancel the payment, not the subscription.

If you cancel Netflix that way, Netflix isn't told. They will just realise the payment failed and block your account until you upgrade your payment details.

Apple system cancel the subscription, just like if you go on Netflix account and cancel. The blocking of the payment just happen as a consequence of the subscription to the service being cancelled.

Of course maybe time changed. Like shop returns 20 years ago, it was badly seen to pick load of stuff and bring most of the stuff back. Nowadays shops expect it and during Sales period they will ask you to do it that way rather than jam the few fitting rooms.
Or base the challenge difficulty based on other parameters. For example if your IP has had a lot of failed login attempts recently the difficulty can be increased.
Yes, we had lots of issues with nginx serving stale configuration, sometimes even after a reload. I learned to distrust nginx's reload and use two or three nginx servers so I could restart one after updating configs.
There is a bot that does micropayments on Telegram via LN.

Excellent for preventing spam: https://twitter.com/lntxbot
N95 maskers are not likely to catch it at all.
Is there any data or studies to back that up though?

My guess is, like most of the norms and practices of corporate America, the answer is "We do things that way because other companies do things that way."

Kind of like the hilarious herd-like back-and-forth of these corporate back to office policies.

CEO: "Apple's going back to the office in September? Ok we should too! Send out the press release Karen!"

Karen: "Sir, Apple just pushed back to January."

CEO: "Then we should too! Send out a new press release, STAT!"
I understand it was intended as satire. What I don’t understand is why anyone would be surprised that you fooled people. People are notoriously easy to fool! Smart people, dumb people, brilliant scientists. Happens all the time. I would go so far as to say that being fooled, and being a gigantic dumbass, is the state of nature of human beings.

It didn’t end up in any news source I would classify as having a good reputation.
The terms of service is a contract. Suing someone who breaks a contract is what civil courts handle all day long.

In this case, Twitch claims to have damages from the breaches.

> As a direct and proximate result of Defendants’ material breaches of the Terms and Developer Terms, Twitch has been and will continue to be harmed, thereby entitling it to injunctive relief, compensatory damages, attorneys’ fees, costs, and/or other equitable relief against Defendants. Twitch is entitled to special damages in the amount of lost profits and other reasonably foreseeable harms proximately caused by Defendants’ breach.
exactly. just ask for sats via LN.
9/11 truthers planted the seeds for QAnon
> It is impossible to predict how long a given Proof of Work will take to calculate.

This seems like a very significant limitation. Is there a way around this?

My first though is that if instead of one problem 100x as hard you solved 100 easier problems. That at least would give you a somewhat accurate loading bar, but I'm not sure if that would actually reduce your variance.
There's some complexity arising from zones, and travelcards being based on zonal travel. So it's more complex than just capping it, or comparing it to the price of a travelcard, because you have to consider different combinations of travelcard (period and zone) and which journeys to ignore, leaving at PAYG rate.

I don't know what alpha-beta pruning is, and I'm not necessarily asserting it's massively complex, and I don't know anything about/haven't worked in the area beyond as a user - just pointing out it's not as simple as it might at first seem.
The weather, their radio and antenna setup, and their health issues.
You're talking about oranges. This case is about In-App Purchases -- for things that are used digitally, in the app itself. The Amazon app is selling physical goods, delivered outside the app. This is already permitted by Apple; the Amazon app already does this; in fact if you have an app that sells stuff outside the app you are not allowed to use Apple's IAP system for those sales.
random.org definitely uses that process.

See: https://www.random.org/statistics/source-purity/
There are no shortage of slave owners today. Just not so much in western countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Maps_Global_Slavery_Index...
How about 3,5 (72%) less time having face-to-face interactions with each other in the open-plan office:

https://www.managers.org.uk/knowledge-and-insights/article/t...

Would it kill you to just do a search?

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=research+productivity+open+pl...
Rebel army was starving. The war might have been prolonged, but the gross outcome was pre-ordained.
I don't think it is? They're capped, but afaik it doesn't work out if you'd have been better off with some specific combination of prepaid travelcards and charge you that instead (which could be less than the caps in total)?
Definitely an interesting article. Have a clap or two. (I have no idea what that's worth on Medium anymore.)

I haven't encountered this specific group before, but I've definitely run into the "we want to believe the worst of our enemies" mindset, when I got into an argument with an earnest, well-meaning Bernie Sanders supporter who came across an obviously tongue-in-cheek Joe Biden pinup coloring book during the 2020 primaries (I mean, how can you read "Joe Biden pinup coloring book" and immediately go "oh, this is a joke") and was angrily denouncing it on Twitter as "this is what Biden supporters really believe." I pointed out that there is, in fact, a 2016 Bernie Sanders pinup coloring book, and was met with, more or less, "Yes, but that's obviously a joke." Yes. Yes, it is. Sigh.
It's well known that elderly people have reduced ability to absorb protein through the gut. I'm just speculating here but could that be one of several reasons why elderly patients are at higher risk of COVID-19? Perhaps some of them are simply deficient in essential amino acids.
LoveForLandlords, BanVideoGames, etcgot a lot of attention on reddit, but not really... worldwide.
The reason that people don't do the "obvious" thing is rarely that they're ignorant or stupid. Best not to assume that you know all the relevant context.
You think that you’ll get a 30% discount by subscribing via an external website? More likely they’ll give you a small discount to entice you and pocket the difference.
It is not defined benefit pensions or labor laws. It is cheaper to scale up and down expenses instead of firing people due to unemployment insurance premiums increasing when you lay people off due to lack of work who are then eligible for unemployment benefits. Also, benefits can get expensive if you also have to offer them to lower paid employees if they normally would not be able to get them at a different employer, due to non discrimination testing.
My grandfather was a meteorologist (taught me forecast based observation and weather station data), and I am also a first officer half of the year (as well have education in modelling for navigation). This year was rough with modelling. I use Windy to validate my forecast and navigation decisions at sea. As we sail, anemometer readings are crosscheck with the forecast from windy and mine, and windy didn't go well. Sometimes paper and pencil do a great job. I started using Windy (windyty.com) in 2016, and until 2020 forecast was quite good, my takeaway is that maybe Climate Change could make the job of weather forecasting much harder.
> Aren't unvaccinated individuals the ones who made this decision? You may disagree with the conclusion of their dubious risk analyses, but if you choose not to get vaccinated then all bets are off.

This is the crux of it. They've made the decision, but when they fill up ICU beds and prevent sick or injured people from getting the quality of care that hospitals can provide, then their decision affects others (and this is not a hypothetical, it is happening daily).

If unvaccinated people agree to sit home and not go into a hospital when they can't breathe, that would demonstrate that they're living with the consequences of their decision.
>The goal was to prevent spam

It does not. Its broken the day someone who can code wants to beak it.

>The user is not as affected by the cost...

Its exactly the opposite it affects the user not an attacker who can generate millions of PoW units on toaster for a few bucks. Or even use another systems idle time. No human needed == its super cheap.
Unlike real CAPTCHAs where you need to pay real people to solve them.
That is the opposite of 'it just works'
> So are advertisements posted on the street outside your house.

Those take up physical space and a region of my visual field, which are both finite resources in ways that the web is clearly not.
Regular old hybrids also don't grow true from harvested seed. That's pretty much the whole point of heirloom plants. For example, it's not as if Big Apple intentionally sells apples with worthless seeds, that's just how fruit trees work.

It would be pretty cool though if some scientists actually did engineer plants with desirable properties that grow true from seed, but with the perverse incentives currently in place I'm not holding my breath on that one.
sigh All of this is irrelevant to the central point. The article fabricated facts. If you're a scientist, your conclusion can be 100% and you're still a fraud if you've baked data to get to that conclusion.

As a footnote, we do have data. My best estimate was that the vaccine reduced the transmission of delta by about 50%. That's based on data in the community I live (and this is context-dependent -- for example, vaccines do a lot more for casual interactions than for close/long ones).

I saw that same estimate replicated by two data scientists I trust, using different data from different places, and different methodologies, so it's somewhat robust. On the other hand, all three were susceptible to Simpson's Paradox and demographic bias, so there is one possible source of correlated error (specifically, more at-risk populations have higher vaccination rates). However, even if we assume a best-case there, though, transmission is reduced by <90%.
That's correct. And yet ... back then, Google couldn't read your messages; Facebook couldn't read your backup; And hackers or law enforcement would need to both get a copy of the blob from Google and the key from Facebook - not insurmountable, but requiring a lot more work and more likely to raise suspicion.

Whereas ... after that change, Google can read your messages, hackers/law-enforcement only need to talk to Google, and yet -- you yourself can't get that backup without impersonating the WhatsApp app to Google Drive; The local backup is still encrypted with a key that only Facebook knows (and would give you, but only if you impersonate the WhatsApp app when talking to Facebook).

I've looked for the logic and failed. Only reasons I can find is that FB wants to let Google index your messages behind your back (unlikely) or some plausibly deniable legal backdoor.
If you could choose between 30% of a billion dollars, or 15% of twenty billion, which would you pick?

There are externalities to each choice, of course, but the correct answer is, actually, the obvious one. Apple is not in the right on this one, from any perspective. If they care about their users and developers: they'd drop the commission. If they cared about their revenue and investors: they'd drop the commission.

Fortnite's protest should have been the wake-up call for the people dead asleep at the wheel of their App Store division. Epic very likely would have stayed on the App Store indefinitely at 15%; the issue has metastasized, and now Tim Sweeny has taken the stance of "alternate payment frameworks or nothing", but I'd bet every dollar I've got that if Fortnite's IAPs were at 15% before they left, they'd still be on the App Store. Everything is about money at the end of the day; Apple doubled-down, so now Epic had to double-down.

Imagine a commission so reasonable that Netflix could sell its subscriptions there; that Amazon could sell books; that Fortnite could (maybe) return, and the next triple-A gaming hit that hadn't even considered mobile because of the commissions. That's the money Apple is leaving on the table. These companies WANT their products to be easy to buy; nothing makes that easier than App Store IAPs. There's a number that could work for everyone, but Apple comes to every negotiating table with their fingers plugged in their ears yelling "nah nah nah I can't hear you 30%"

Apple's App Store policies throughout the 2010s will go down in history as the biggest blunder big tech has ever made. I am absolutely certain of this. They're throwing away an empire that could last a hundred years, because they think they're invincible. Tim Cook literally said, under oath, "we don't know how profitable the App Store is". They've publicized proudly about how they employ five hundred whole people to do hundreds of thousands of App Reviews. This is not malice or greed; its complete and total incompetence. Why are investors not OUTRAGED at Apple's leadership?!
Containers run under the same kernel, so sharing memory works the same as it does for processes generally.
This is a REALLY deep question. Are you looking to build your own? Are you trying trying make sure a specific use case is secure/reliable/good?

You can, actually, build your own SQL processor on top of your own data (or arbitrary data store) - and the last company I worked for was starting to do this (but they were special!).
Iapetus Ridge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equatorial_ridge_on_Iapetus

Polar Storms of Jupiter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Jupiter#Circumpo...
No. You do not even have proper authorization to ask. "Before the law sits a gatekeeper."

https://www.kafka-online.info/before-the-law.html
Eh, landlords didn’t explode like this one, but over the years its memes and jokes have been shared quite a lot on twatter, probably more than either of the others total did. This was definitely more potent tho
At a minimum, you can think about whether the text should fit on a single line (edited with a text box) or can it be multiple lines (a text area).

That doesn’t help you decide how long a single line can be, though. Also, does the single-line text field prohibit newlines and how do you do that properly?
Incredibly unlikely. The backup is AFAIK an SQLite file that contains the text messages (and indexes, etc). The bigger files - images, videos and voice messages - are not included in that backup, and are backed up independently to Google Photos (and always have been).
> There is nothing you can find in a vitamin shop, taken in any amount, that will end up demonstrating sufficient benefit to the treatment of COVID that it is worth using.

That's nonsense. I'd rather take a multi-vitamin or D to be in a healthy state if I do get corona later.

I can pretty much guarantee that anybody in lockdown has vitamin C deficiency, which is very serious - people used to die regularly on long ship voyages. If you have bleeding gums, that's a symptom that you need vitamin C.
I’d considered the situations in the article, but I do wonder - if you replace 10% of someone with identical particles then they are the same. 20%, 30%, etc then yes the same. But. 80%? Sure. Replace limbs and body and I can see that. But what about splitting the brain (as in article) where you don’t even need 50% for continuity.

But we effectively always get back the the ship of Theseus, and circling back to Trek,

Does Data have a soul? I don't know that he has. I don't know that I have. But I have got to give him the freedom to explore that question himself.
the reverse would also be pretty useful. heck if they would pull off office for linux even when they would charge windows pro and a 365 license it would probably be welcomed.
Wait till people realize that businesses legally underpay tens of millions of workers.
Read this as WebOS for a moment and got excited then realized it was PalmOS
> I seriously do not understand where the logic is here. I can understand restricting travel in, but why restrict travel out? In my mind there is no reason why someone LEAVING your country might be a health concern.

I think I get it: Nations can restrict the liberties of their citizens, and monitor compliance with these restrictions -- impose pandemic-related social distancing or mask usage, sanction you for murder or theft or indecent exposure, etc etc -- on their own soil. Abroad, they cannot -- at least nowhere near as easily -- monitor you. So while they can restrict your liberties in the country, one liberty most nations find it very hard to deny their citizens is entry into the country. After all, WTF is the worth, the meaning, of being "a citizen" of a country if it won't even let you in? (cf Wolf Biermann.)

Put those two together, and the logic becomes obvious: If you let people out, you gotta let them back in. But you can't know where they've been and what they've done and with whom, so you have no idea whether they're infected or not. So you'll have to i) take their word for it; ii) investigate, at great effort, cost, and risk of inaccuracy; iii) put them all in quarantine, with the inevitable screeching about liberties infringed upon... Or just not let them out in the first place, avoiding the problem of having to let them back in altogether.

I'd even say their reasoning (as I interpret it) is legally, on the balance, somewhat sound: Once one of your citizens shows up at the border, at least metaphorically still outside it (although in Australia's case in practice of course on their soil already), they're only asking one thing: To be let in. And precisely because that's just one simple ask, and such a basic civic right, it's damn hard to deny them that. Within the country, though, within its jurisdiction, the state already is generally accepted to be within its rights to (sometimes drastically) limit the liberties of the citizenry. Like, hey, during this pandemic many countries have at times forbidden their citizens to leave their homes. So what's all that much worse about temporarily forbidding them to leave the country?
For a second I thought it was a reference to the hacker magazine and not the phone dial... then I realized it's the same reference. Facepalm.
This feels like the math equivalent of learning to program by reading an assembly spec document, to be sure.
Wait…what? You think forcing a person to accept a substance into their body under force isn’t inconsistent with libertarian values? As a classical liberal, I can’t think of something more offensive to my values and I am a fully vaccinated person and wished everyone else was too. This is absolutely f’ing horrifying and will ultimately be used against everyone at some point in the future.

The body is the absolute individual. Having maximum control over the individual is probably the most basal libertarian value there is. This is not some external restraint to prevent the commission of a crime. It’s not even punishment for a commission of a crime. It’s the mandated forcing of a substance internally into an individual’s body against their will with a sketchy societal benefit behind its justification. Sketchy because now with Delta there is apparently no scientific basis to believe that the vaccines eliminate the risk of spread of the virus but at this point it only seems to prevent serious illness.

BTW, watch as the GOP uses this mandate to justify the individual state prohibition of abortion. They will be able to too, because this is going to pretty much kill the DNC’s ability to win anything for at least 8-10 years.
> grep/pipes/sed/awk are byzantine

Ok wait

Awk and sed are entire programming languages, so like, ok... fair. It hardly seems fair to call grep byzantine to me, since although it is based around a DSL, it's an extremely common one that you'll find in every programming language, including Python. But fine, regexps aren't for everyone.

But pipes?? What's the problem with pipes? Don't you ever compose functions in your code or call map() over your data structures? How are pipes any trickier than the kinds of control flow you might use in Python?