skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One if their main duties is to go after counterfeiting of the currency. In fact it's what they were founded to do

https://www.secretservice.gov/about/history

We are one of America’s oldest federal law enforcement agencies, originally created in 1865 to stamp out rampant counterfeiting in order to stabilize America's young financial system. By the end of the Civil War, nearly one-third of all currency in circulation was counterfeit. As a result, the country’s financial stability was in jeopardy. To address this concern, the Secret Service was established in 1865 as a bureau in the Treasury Department to suppress widespread counterfeiting.
Zuck is worth $120B+.

Whatever is going on, it's not about him saving tax on $0.012B
Until you're required to accept the permission to keep your job. Tracking users to this level, even if you're paying them for work, is bad and will be abused. Is it handy? Sure. But maybe we all need to consider if we actually need to know the status of other people so much.
> AWS isn't perfect but at least you have half a chance of working out what is costing you money through the billing console.

The first few times I used AWS for tutorials, something similar happened to me. I thought I shut everything down, but kept getting billed and wasn't able to find it without contacting them. It was just a few dollars, but I've been wary about any services where you can't cap the billing.

Cloud platforms generally don't let users cap the billing, because those overages are good income for them. I prefer using services like DigitalOcean or Linode where you can be sure that your new site crashes for 15 minutes instead of bankrupting you.
Yeah, Google will surely not make use of users' devices to mine cryptos when users are not around!
It detects whether the user is using the computer, not just the tab. If they were using another program for a prolonged period it would still report them as active.
It’s from Google.

The return address is:

Google Alerts - googlealerts-noreply (at) google.com
Have you read the book “Give and Take”?
Epics anti cheat doesn't even work. flocks of kids get actual aim bots that epic can't deal with. CSGO anti cheat is yet to be matched in quality because it relies on players and statistics. It turns out that you can't control client software and hardware. Good competitive cheaters use hardware aim assist. Any software you make will be modified. The only way to stop cheaters is math, and people.
As a person who has been censored by Facebook for wrongthink, watching them stare down the barrel of Apple "being a private company, and doing what they want" is like watching a kid step on a lego brick that he refused to clean up.
T1 here. I use OpenAPS with a G6 for closed looping (it's substantially better than Medtronic's looping algorithm), combined with a keto diet. The keto diet makes things a lot easier; there's no carb entry to do, so no opportunities for mistakes. I would indeed recommend it. Just make sure to count calories (at least initially) and keep them high enough; most people on keto diets are using them for weight loss, and that style of keto diet isn't sustainable.
> The ruling clearly stated that Apple has to allow other payment providers inside the apps, but obviously anything sold on the App Store can still attract the 30% payment fee.

Incorrect.

The ruling said that Apple cannot have anti-steering provisions that prevent developers from advertising alternative payments on content outside the app (web pages, emails).

- Apple is still allowed to forbid in-app purchasing through alternative systems

- Apple still has the option to require commission on purchases made externally in the future. Currently they do not, but they were previously able to draw a clear line using anti-steering provisions.

Apple has used other techniques like minimal usability to pressure apps to support in-app payments - e.g. Hey.com was rejected because their app was unusable on download because they did not support in-app subscriptions and anti-steering meant they did not refer people to instructions on how to sign up. Presumably anti-steering solves this - right up until Apple changes their rules to say that the external payment needs to result in a commission payment.
If Apple were fine with it, they would have complied when it was just a guideline and not a law, like the other vendors did.
As someone who's been involved in build engineering for quite a while, I'm not sure how Python is suddenly going to solve some real life build problems?

Both Meson and Bazel use Python, a heavy weight language as a configuration tool rather than actual build language. From that perspective you might think it is a replacement to CMake. But it then it quickly introduces its own quirks.

In the end, there's no single best solution to building. You do you. And some sad soul contributing to buildroot2 or OpenWRT will wrap your whatever build with a bunch of Makefiles and shell scripts.
Yep agree. It’s the same when people claim that country A is “better” than country B. Your answer very much depends on what you value as “better”.
The "without their permission" part can't be reiterated enough here.

Apple didn't hurt Facebook. Apple simply gave its own users more control over what was happening, and people acted in their own best interests, as they have every right to do.

If revealing the truth to people and giving them a choice worked out very badly for Facebook, I'd say that speaks vastly more about Facebook than it does about Apple.
I'm sorry, but you are either misinformed or we're talking about different things. The HRSI tiles on the shuttle were not ablative, were absolutely reused multiple times, and there's no indication that they couldn't withstand high temperatures for long durations. They were largely inspected and replaced due to impact damage from micrometeorites and ice, not due to thermal ablation.

The biggest issues with the shuttle's thermal management approach are that it used an aluminum airframe and the tiles alone wouldn't be suitable for the leading edges of an atmospheric air breathing plane due to the higher dynamic pressures and probably higher heat involved. At mach 4 temps they would be fine. At mach 6+ you'd need something better on the leading edges combined with a temperature-resistant airframe. There's a good paper on the topic here [1].

[1] https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20080017096/downloads/20...
I always wonder if going all-in on cloud services actually saves most people time, after hearing about all the weird corner cases that need debugging. Because leased dedicated hardware really doesn’t take much time to manage, it’s entirely fungible and easy to switch off of if you’re not happy with support, it can support an enormous amount of traffic, and it does it for relatively low cost (especially if you need eg high bandwidth).
QuickJS is also fantastic, but not anywhere near Elk in terms of size. Elk is ~59k (1300 lines) of C code, and has some limitations (like no for loops, for example) that I assume were traded off so it could run on things like the 2K RAM / 30K flash Atmel shown in the article.

QuickJS is small compared to say, V8, but quite a lot larger than Elk. Just the main C source file for QuickJS is ~1.7MB, and there's several other source files.

Just saying they seem to be in different niches.
Have had AWS tell us to chargeback a payment that we couldn't cancel.
Without ads, the web will become unhealthy (Mozilla and Google say ads are needed for a "healthy" web). It might die out. Someone please tell the NSA and CIA. Save the web! "Ads are the only way to have that web everyone loves. There are no other options. We tried all them, they dont work. Well, we didnt but who cares. Trust us." - Tech bro (Disclaimer: "I do not speak for my employer. I depend on my employer who depends on ads for money, but that doesnt matter. No one cares anyway. I dont even know the reason why disclaimers exist, I just copy other tech bros.")
In 2017 I had a coworker that told me he used a pea size amount of horse dewormer for his dog. Said his vet turned him onto it. Just don't use it with collies and other similar breeds.
Google Managed Deployments to GKE
Also, if you read the Science article, the defensive moat comes down to a new way to align carbon nanotubes in the material they use to filter the ethanol from water. I'm bullish.
Facebook is evil.

But Apple using that as an excuse to punish a competitor should equally terrify us all.

Apple has made it clear that they prioritize “privacy” as long as it aligns with their profit making interests with actions not least including the attempt to scan on device content recently and their move to have different standards of compliance with the regime in China.

They are consolidating significant technical power over people’s lives and it’s amazing how little concern there has been to them rolling out their own private network between devices without consent or opt out.
You don't need game state. Good cheaters don't need to look behind walls, and it's obvious when they do so. You can theoretically build your own bot simply from visual recognition that plays pretty well.
Best news in weeks.
Looks interesting but don't we already use k3s?
But I don't think about the Oracle Cloud...
>The real issue is government having a monopoly on tax revenue and not pushing a penny far enough.
I definitely agree with this but is it even possible to incentivize that? Sometimes I wish we could put an honest "I" in IRS and sic 'em on the government.
I use two small keyboards that I velcro strap to my arms just past my hands so that I can move around freely while typing
Sure, but most likely you guys will deal with droughts.
Jasper Mall
Full disclosure is always responsible, even if the vendor is not notified in advance.
Explain I'm naive: why would Apple's bug bounty program be so poorly run? Is it simply a sign of organizational failure?
(e.g. perhaps the managers running the program have been promoted to a position that they simply don't belong in, and higher up execs don't care? Or are they prioritizing profit over success?)

I would think that, given the profitability and positioning of Apple in the marketplace, that they would be heavily incentivized to provide large bounties for finding such destructive vulnerabilities. And I imagine that there are plenty of security people working there who genuinely care about fixing fix these issues right away.
I always assume that if Google can read it, it will record it.
Shazam... https://imgur.com/gallery/Q0W10PG
This book might be of interest:

Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution: The Complete Guide to Achieving Normal Blood Sugars

It’s comprehensive and goes into the why and how, which is not to say it’s easy to do.
usage, not vendor
Does anyone know what the average (years) are for someone in the tech industry, say a developer?

My thought would be somewhere around 3 years on average.
Never need to apologize for quoting Douglas Adams to me my friend!
The article is only for demonstrating how standard library works (it was the first Google result for me). The point is we shouldn't need to convert a string to an array of characters to manipulate it.
Disclosure that I'm the Co-Founder and CEO of Vantage - and used to work at both AWS and DigitalOcean....but this is a large reason we offer a fairly generous free tier on https://vantage.sh/ to help folks figure out where their costs are coming from to take action.

It can be really frustrating and annoying when you can't hunt down where costs come from.
This has been my experience. I've dealt with all of the big three cloud providers, and as a big customer. Azure is incompetence, AWS is largely capable and professional (so long as you're big enough to register on their radar), and GCP is just dripping arrogance. GCP is a better platform than Azure, but I would never choose it because dealing with Google reps is a never ending stream of condescension.
There aren't worth anything to Zerodium afaik
Looks like the form for submission is closed now?
I also remember Steve Jobs say on stage that Apple tracks user behavior on their devices to inform their business strategy. “We know , we see the data” or something along those lines.

All of Apples moves into services and many other interesting business decisions may theoretically be attributed to their surveillance of potential competitors on their devices.

I would be curious to see the scale of their internal “tracking”
Slashdot had turned to garbage before the first XKCD was ever published.

"Obligatory XKCD" comments read like low-effort karma grabs to me and presumably others. "You, sir, owe me a new keyboard!" "Here, take my updoot!!!".
TIL. ThatIf you're referring to the DCS sculpted keycaps which come with the EZ[2], they're still not quite the same. Keyboard.io Models 01 and 100 use different shapes for (nearly?) every key. At the edges of the keyboard, it's particularly noticeable: the outer edges are ramped inwards.

The downside of individually sculpted caps is, of course, compatibility with other keycap sets.
I’d say my limited experience (in prod, with only like 50K a month bills) AWS and Azure are functionally identical.

Anything I need to do, that I haven’t done before (or recently) requires roughly the same spin up time to get familiar with how each provider functions anyway.
Good. The website imore reported earlier this year that 96% of people in the US had opted out of tracking.

It’s almost as if no one wants this “feature” Facebook has been “providing” and given information about it and a choice have roundly rejected it.

I can’t wait to see what some of Apple’s other initiatives like the anti-tracking features in Mail on iOS 15 and the upcoming iCloud Private Relay do to the industry.

Hell, US intelligence agencies block ads at the network level because the ad industry is so infested with tracking/malware/spyware/exploits/etc. That’s a hell of an indictment.

Of course any time someone looks into it they find that that click-rate fraud is at outrageous levels. So maybe no one needs Apple. The fraud bots will keep the ecosystem running. /s

https://www.imore.com/96-iphone-users-have-opted-out-app-tra...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/93ypke/the-nsa-and-cia-use-a...
Those who think it's not OK, often to want to deregulate. With no one to bribe, that brand of corruption goes away.

But they/we tend to be dismissed as crazy extremists by polite society.
> I hope there is another way of doing this that doesn't incur a doubling of our Azure monthly spending

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides NAT gateways for free. You pay (low) transit costs, but unlike AWS+Azure (idk about Google) the NAT gateway itself costs nothing, so you don't pay twice for NAT traffic.

All the traffic at these cloud operations gets handled by cloud scale SDN systems. I suspect the actual cost of the few tens of bytes necessary to track a NAT connection is lost in the noise of such platforms. So to my mind the high cost of some of these cloud operator's NAT gateways seems abusive.

Fortunately there is indeed competition that accommodates my view.
1blocker is good as well on apple devices.
AWS has been billing me a few cents per month for over a decade now. Eventually, the credit card I was using expired, and so every month for the past 7 years, they've sent me an email:

> Dear Amazon Web Services Customer,

> Your AWS Account is about to be suspended. There is still an outstanding payment problem with your account, as our previous communications did not lead to successful payment of your past due AWS charges.

> We were unable to charge your credit card for the amount of $0.26 for your use of AWS services during the month of Aug-2021. We will attempt to collect this amount again. Unless we are successful in collecting the balance of $0.26 in full by 09/30/2021, your Amazon Web Services account may be suspended or terminated.

The balance never increases, even though it always says the charges are from the previous month. It's as though they forget the balance each month because it's not worth collecting, then my account runs up another small charge, which they promptly forget.

And of course they have yet to terminate the account. I would gladly close it myself, but I'm locked out, and it's not really worth my time to figure it out how to get back in (plus they keep telling me they're going to terminate it, which is exactly what I want them to do!).
Oh, I knew the modem issue but not that they were reusing binaries. Thanks.
Is this something we could use to create whole new legal systems and then convert them into natural language?
It is pretty annoying when people pause like that. I don't see why they can't buffer their writes until they get a complete thought (Saying "hey", then typing the next message is the worst).

It isn't fully asynchronous if notifications are enabled. With notifications, you are more like a single cpu server that has to handle hardware interrupts for disk/network io. It stops you from working and forces context switching, only people aren't as good at context switching.
Suspicious as in they might have left Microsoft knowing about these issues, or that they're a plant by Microsoft?

It's quite likely they had insider knowledge and therefore had a better idea of where to look. But I'm not sure that makes it "suspicious", as opposed to... well, what else would you expect in those circumstances? Or are you saying that the unfair advantage of insider knowledge is what makes it suspicious?
> The market doesn't set the Fed Funds Rate

It sets the Treasury yield, though, and it usually follows the direction of Fed Funds rate changes, because higher general interest rates means loaning money to the government at low rates makes less sense unless you really don't trust the private market to pay off.

> But the Fed is in total control

No, the Fed does not set Treasury yields.

> Why, if the Fed was seeing a recession coming, would they raise rates?

Yield inversion don't tend to follow Fed rate increases, but drops in the Treasury yields which the Fed does not set. Because, again, it has nothing to do with Fed policy, it is a product of breakdown in confidence in the private market which leads to a sharp increase in the risk premium charged to private market investments by investors.
I wonder if the culture of leaking and dissent within Apple is enabling information to leak which assists the 0day authors?
Zero ads here in iOS with FF.
I am seemingly hard on my shoes, as most cheap pairs I've bought last 3-6 months before the soles start to separate or fall apart. But my Converses have generally lasted around a year looking nice enough that I'd still wear them for more dressed up non-formal occasions, and another year as a slighty scuffy looking walking around shoe.
Anyone knows how to disable it?
Here is an algorithm that usually works for me:
1. An idea pops into your mind and you truly believe it.
2. You use the full force of your intellect to prove it wrong. You seek out evidence to prove the idea wrong. You throw everything you have at the idea. You ask people with different opinions to prove it wrong and listen carefully to the arguments/evidence given.
3. You keep the ideas that so far have withstood the attack. But whenever new counter evidence appears, you repeat step 2 again.
I dislike both companies but definitely Facebook more. So it’s good to watch one eat the other.
I would love if wasm got some more TLC from the go team. Output sizes are massive compared to rust or C. I think it’s just a matter of adding some tree shaking … but probably easier said than done.

I’ve been falling more and more in love with wasm … so many possibilities :)
Thanks - yeah I looked it up last night and realized I should probably replace the battery. I'll do that once I get the correct size Torq!

I think the keyboard emulation was related to a specific kernel version (I haven't tried in a couple years). I downgraded and it worked on an earlier one. I'll try on my current kernel soon.

My toddler's first computer was a scientific calculator, then she upgraded to the Alphasmart (mine's actually a Neo2). She gets very very minimal phone time (always with us: check the weather once a day; look at a pic/vid that relatives sent). But one interesting thing is that the "suggested words" in iMessage on an iphone are a neat little tool for helping her learn to read. They only suggest so many words, and at 3.5 YO she's able to read many of them. So I let her send texts to the grandparents by selecting words and we practice reading them as she goes.
Conversations are fine as long as messages contain complete thoughts that merit a response. Saying hey in one message, then typing and then sending the message does no one any good, all it does is interrupt the receiver and force a context switch before you can run any instructions/respond.
If your annual revenue is above $100M, you should be held accountable to a strict version of GPDR enforced by an ombudsman, that requires you to patch all data leaking vulnerabilities within 90 days, or pay out everyone who bought your product.

I just updated to iOS 15 and it now tells you which sites you have been compromised on, or had your passwords/info compromised on. To be clear, I use a password manager with a unique password on every site, so it is difficult for something like this to have a significant impact. Nethertheless, I was compromised on hundreds of sites and products, and those were just the accounts that iOS Safari knew about. None of them bothered to reach out and tell me. Even my coffee machine was compromised. Ridiculous.
I don’t think Apple is trying to hurt a competitor. This is all very consistent with the stance they’ve been taking for a very long time.

I think hurting Facebook is just a huge bit of serendipity.
I tried to read this with an open mind but there’s some pretty big flaws in the analysis. To note some that stood out:

The author looks at the percentage change in daily cases in the US vs latitude and finds a mildly strong correlation (R^2 = 0.25). Critically though this ignores that US southern states already have high daily case levels, so any increase is going to look smaller as a percentage.

You can see this flaw clearly in the State Trends table the author presents. Most of the states seeing large percentage increases have daily case levels per 100,000 people that are well _below_ the US average. The only two states in that table above the US average are Idaho and West Virginia, and low-and-behold they have very low vaccination rates.

The author’s analysis of % change in daily cases vs vaccination rates suffers from the same flaw, and has an even weaker correlation (R^2 = 0.021 for hospitalisation % change and 0.084 for case numbers % change). Of course you’re going to see these trends when southern states with low vaccination rates are already in large outbreaks. The fact that correlation is so weak despite this flaw to me seems like evidence that vaccination does in fact work.

To me the common sense approach here would be took at daily cases/hospitalisations/deaths vs vaccination status within the same geographic area to control for covariates such as potential seasonality and other measures to control spread.

Now to be fair to the author he does in fact attempt to do this in a separate post, and does indeed in his own analysis find that vaccines are effective at preventing death/hospitalisation. Contrary to other analyses though he find that vaccines correlate with higher infection rates. I’d argue though this result is because the authors analysis is again flawed. In particular he uses population level case numbers without any attempt to control for the prior probability of taking a test, or the error rates on the tests.

Overall I’m much more inclined to trust peer reviewed studies that find that vaccines are partially effective in preventing transmission. I also think the large outbreaks in SEA and the southern US suggest that seasonality doesn’t effect delta transmission as much.