skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uganda has a very capable domestic intelligence network and I would be surprised if all they were doing to these "diplomats" (spies for the US) is hacking into their phones. This has made the news, but it is the one of the least egregious things Museveni and his son - esp the son - have done in the past two or so years as they faced the strongest challenge to his rule ever yet. I am very sure that locals, particularly the opposition, had it much worse than American spies, although that most likely won't make the news.
I never understood why it would be considered a fallacy.
I can’t decide if I’m happy or sad that this wasn’t about ham radio.
Latest versions of Android OS have all the features you've mentioned.
The product manager in me squealed at this part:

"Predicting and correcting is a more efficient way to run a system than constantly reacting in an uncertain world."
I doubt it's as simple as adding processing power. That only helps in a linear fashion and it sounds like it was a bigger problem. Probably was IO bound.

Also removing bottlenecks is not related to surge capacity but rather code level optimizations that they didn't realize were needed until this happened so it's easy to say that after the fact...
Getting Started with Embedded C
Formatted version (HN supports code sections by indenting 4 spaces):

10 PRINT "WHAT IS YOUR NAME";
20 INPUT NAME$
30 IF NAME$ = "BILL" THEN
40 PRINT NAME$+" SOUNDS LIKE A NAME FOR A DORK!"
50 ELSE
60 PRINT NAME$+" SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT NAME!"
70 END IF
I'm going to assume you're a business person.

Commerce is vulgar, but as long as you're making (b|m)illions off me could you let me do my thing? Stop taking things that work for tech folk, misapplying them to business concerns without any intellectual honestly and deciding they don't work for anyone. Metrics work. The problem you people have with them is that they are a branch of statistics and if there's one thing business folks love to do it's lie with statistics. It's all fun and games until you start lying to yourself and start seeing the negative consequences.

How do you propose I escape the KPI game? It's how I'm evaluated by people who pay me. It's become how you gain influence in an organization. I can't escape to another place, because they all operate this way now. More and more I'm seeing "tech" leaders, big and small, that are much better at playing the game than holding any kind of technical excellence.

I'm not looking for some idealized world. At this point, I'm looking to have some fun while I get taken advantage of.
Websockets are old and boring. They have been around for nearly a decade.
The reality of food scientists designing these things to feel good and to habituate in a world of constant stress with few affordable and time-permitting outlets is a pretty obvious problem with this sort of claim. So is the fact that these bastards push to kids, and a reasonable person might find it a little odd that, at best and most generously, you want to punish people for the outcomes of inadequate parenting.

But it's much easier to blame fat people than the pushers, and it feels so much more satisfying to break out the hauteur about them as opposed to the businesses that tech people with tech salaries might someday seek to emulate, so--I guess I get it.
In 2011, I blogged this: https://web.archive.org/web/20130501172236/http://www.fernan...

I found the "leak" with a right click in my own data (images), then I changed the params in the URL without being logged in and it worked. Fingerprints, Scanned ID cards, Photos, and Signature, of millions of Argentine citizens. When I changed the ID in the URL, I used the ID (found in public sources) from a guy named like me. When I saw his face, ID card, fingerprint, and signature my jaw dropped. Years later AFIP took over the control on .ar TLDs (NIC.ar) and for strange reasons I could not renew my domain. :) Ten years ago. Its all leaked. Or at least we should asume so.
He fraudulently opened a Coinbase business account for SA Reinsurance, a Sony Life subsidiary. The SA Reinsurance documents he submitted were legitimate, but he was not authorized to open such an account.
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>I have no idea how this passed Coinbase's KYC limits, there must be much more to the story here.

He fraudulently opened a Coinbase business account for SA Reinsurance, a Sony Life subsidiary. The SA Reinsurance documents he submitted were legitimate, but he was not authorized to open such an account.
It counters the isolated demand for rigor and calls for consistency in application of moral principles.
So you've never read the WikiLeaks?
Nice write up !

>how persistence can separate people into can/can't

Yep. This is the main catalyst for "success". Reminds me of the following quote by Calvin Coolidge;

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and Determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan Press On! has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”

>the kind of motivation for continuing something after the newness has worn off is maybe a different source

Quite right! I believe this source is mainly the "wish to improve (on some self determined scale) and progress day by day". Popular culture knows it as "Kaizen" or "Continuous Improvement" (all cultures have their own term for this).
I mean I love the sci-finess of the concept also I doubt it'll ever "fly".

But I will bet money that we'll see self driving electric Ubers on the road before we see those air-taxis.

And it's going to be incredibly hard to compete with those. Especially as city will be becoming less crowded as more and more people realize they don't need a car anymore.

I live in Bangkok where Taxis are extremely cheap compared to owning a car. I would never bother getting my own car, it's just so convenient to let someone else drive in the city.
FWIW [from having skimmed] This should be of interest to people interested in UX where there are safety ramifications.

Thus, the original article title might be a bit misleading. It is not necessarily about businesses running based upon illusions.
to pick a nit, it's just as effective if taken within 5 days
OK. Let's make one onesie, call it an NFT and you have to post a picture wearing it, before you pass it on to somebody else.
It’s like society decided to make hysteria and fear a virtue.
Same way they all plan to, ads and selling data.
Some background information about the author:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Gebser
Initially thought the same thing but the domain was a giveaway that the topic of ham radio was going to be highly unlikely.
The choice isn't between scans and no scan. It's between voluntary scans (which can be white box and controlled) and involuntary scans (which are black box and totally uncontrolled).
China's COVID numbers are transparently fabricated. They make no sense given the size and diversity of the provinces they control, and are far to low for even a good response considering the population involved.

Especially since they didn't know that they were being hit by a pandemic in the early stages of the virus in Wuhan, and would have had a delayed response even compared to the countries that handled this well.

China's statistics are a case of some combination of lying and ignorance, not of success. They aren't telling us what is happening on the ground in China.
Paywall: https://archive.md/rUkNg
But if you extend increases in supply chain and public transit efficiency, is it possible smaller cities would develop cultures that reflect the neighborhoods of a place like NYC?
A huge chunk of the American intelligence leaked by WikiLeaks was collected by "diplomats".
Such pedantry. The Treasury is still accountable for federally backed loans. And you still can't discharge them like you can other loans. Private loans were included in this later, for market purposes as I understand.

The government does not need a court judgement against a debtor before garnishing wages, withholding returns, etc. This is why the majority of these actions are for child support and student debt, not for consumer debt.

The rules for student debt repayment started with the premise that a different process was in use for money owed to (or backed by) the federal government
Ok. But social media use itself has to be placed in context of the larger attention economy.

For example, is it worse than watching TV/cable/netflix/gaming/multiplayer gaming/crafting hobbies/reading books etc etc?

To answer my own question, I think Social Media is worse than the other options mentioned above and so I have long drifted off FB. And most of my friends on FB are continuing longstanding relationships.

But I don't know the studies on that and I am willing to accept that different people do things differently.

For example, on this site, I like the intelligent responses, thought provoking discussions, sometimes amazing recommendations on any number of topics. But I don't feel I need to be friends with any particular individual to benefit from that nor contribute to it.
KYC blacklists are generally publicly available. Can you provide documentation about your claims?

The only cases where I've seen service providers ordered to not tip off the user were actually associated with order of continuation of the service, to ... not tip off the user.
If I conveyed the impression that I thought the effective R0 could remain above 1 indefinitely, that is my error. But why assume no reinfection, that's not what we're seeing so far with SARS-CoV-2.
> This is only due to the failure (and unwillingness) of Mozilla to build a truly modular, expandable browser.

Not on Android: https://geckoview.dev
Same. I read it and have no idea what he’s talking about.

I can to the comments hoping someone has context.

Otherwise it’s just a rant, and not a very lucid one at that.
Glad to live in a free country where we don't praise dictatorships and authoritarianism. The world should just boycott fucking China.
To the extent that they reduce the cost per item to the floor and encourage people to swap tops to "todays" stripe, yes. The counter argument would be that they do more demand response and so produce less surplus where Tj Maxx and the like have to pre order to estimated demand.

So one (Shein) might be less bad per unit style but encourages more rapid churn. The other traditional model claims fast, but is slower, but has higher upfront build and ship consequences.
I wrote a small script to convert CSVs to JSON strictly to use jq on the output. Querying things like your GCP bill with jq is quite enjoyable.

gojq is also nice. I work with a lot of structured logs and wrapped jq with a little bit of format-understanding and output sugar to make looking at and analyzing such logs an enjoyable experience: https://github.com/jrockway/json-logs
Researchers are random people. There is no need to gate keep. Anyone can publish research papers. You don't have to be a "researcher" to do research.
I still don't know what Mixergy is.
It’s not everyone, but some tail of the distribution ends up doing incredible things in personal shop spaces. Look at Ben on the AppliedScience YouTube channel as a prime example.
Everyone does what they have to do to survive. I've delivered newspapers, delivered pizza, worked retail, stocked in a warehouse, etc. I find recyclable collecting more respectful than much higher paying jobs that take advantage and prey on the suffering of others for your benefit.
LG’s 16:18 ultra-tall monitor means less scrolling
I know this sounds crazy, but even 10 years ago humans happily existed in a world where we didn’t have ubiquitous cloud providers that ruled our lives.

Why does it matter? I took plenty of pictures. I still have all of them. In fact there are some physical logistics, but they will probably still be around in 30-40 years. Who knows about my Dropbox account. Every so often I do ship an encrypted hard drive down to my parents house. It is a backup of everything.

What is it about modern phones we actually can’t live without? Or modern cloud? The answer is not much. They are recent inventions. Not required for a convenient or fulfilled life. I do use an Apple phone, I’m typing this on one. But I’m ready for when or whenever I feel like ditching them. I recommend everyone with the means be likewise prepared.

Also backblaze is a nice place to warehouse data for now. They will get bought. Another independent broker will come along. Anyhow. Don’t be a slave.
Favorite line:

“When it comes to being the best, humans are definitely the winners.”
Silver lining: The more audacious the CCP gets, the faster their rule will collapse.
I don't understand this argument, in fact I'd argue the opposite. Non-Apple devices are way cheaper, both for the device itself and considering the fact that one isn't paying a premium for each peripheral (headphones, freakin charger etc). And if you're referring to the interconnectedness of devices this is attainable with alternatives (even FOSS like KDE connect) albeit with some setup time.
I remember when I first heard about websockets, I was wondering what exactly it was useful for that SSE didn't already do. Almost all of the demos at the time were easier (IMO) to do with SSE. The two standards also both came from WHATWG at about the same time.

[edit]

I looked it up and SSE was a much earlier standard, but implementation of WS and SSE were relatively contemporary with the exception of Opera (had SSE in 2006) and IE (Never got SSE support).
I have a helipad on the building next to mine. Being that it can get fairly windy and rainy in the tropics, those guys have balls of steel anyway.

But those approaches do take more than 60s for sure.
This isn't America. Here is season 6 ep01 of an ENTIRE reality show series in England collecting money from people not paying debts [many of them payday loans]. In England they just walk into your home and start taking things. In Dubai they put debtors in prison. Isreal is covered in payday loans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6yBiasqMnM

https://www.detainedindubai.org/post/the-truth-about-leaving...

https://www.jpost.com/special-content/the-fall-of-payday-loa...
This particular tournament was being played for bitcoin valued at almost 50k. It would be nice for everyone to have a fair shot at it without the system getting in the way.
What exactly do you need them for? Start planning your post Google life now. I had a digital life pre FAANG and I will have one post them too. It’s easier than ever to be independent of them for everything but transiting which is very ephemeral and solvable.
I’m starting to believe the government has a quantum computer that has the ability to process very large numbers ex 1 followed by 75 zeros. Cause they’re magically obtaining private keys. And we all know. They spend trillions to stay ahead with defense.. criminals tend to love crypto, so the government has to be a step ahead.
> and a lot of the older reactors are, well, old.

People say this as if reactors get build once and then stay the same way. These reactors get upgraded all the time. Here's an example: Isar 1 was one of the oldest reactors in Germany. When a German reactor gets new fuel rods it has to be certified again according to current regulations. Isar 1 needed new fuel rods in 2011, so it got upgraded and certified again. After that new fuel rods were introduced into the reactor. A few month later as consequence of the Fukushima disaster it got "shut down"[1], because it was now "not safe". Which is obviously bullshit, cause the rules on reactor safety for German nuclear reactor didn't change due to Fukushima, opinions did and politicians needed to show that they do something.

[1] It didn't really get shut down in 2011. It got removed from the power grid. So, Isar 1 continued to produce power, which was then promptly discharged into the environment as heat. Only after the fuel rods were burned down it really got shut down.
They should be forced to show exactly why a user is banned. This bullshit about "we don't want to let bad actors game the system" is getting old.
I have used MacBook Air and macOS (OS X back then) for more than a decade and I never had this issue; I haven't used iPhone at all. True, the Apple-only ecosystem might be slightly easier to use, but not too much compared to the mixed Apple-Android-whatever ecosystem.
Street Fighter is one of the the only game that I ever bought... Kali was another one (game related app).
You can't use "someone being caught" as evidence of "how easy it is not to get caught" - because you would also treat NOT getting caught to prove the same thing. This would mean that no matter what evidence you observe you would reach the same conclusion... which means the article made no difference to you.

To go into more detail, claims like "he was only barely caught" shadow the possibilities of him being caught later, which never had a chance to be realized. i.e. it may appear that he was caught randomly but we owe it to truth to at least dig into what would have happened if that had failed - and that likely requires a domain expert to know the actual security measures in place.
> From what I read of the statute, it appears to be exactly what that section of the law is for.

Sometimes what is legally permitted and what is socially acceptable are different. Pretending to be a member of a small time social network and sending a formally-worded letter to the operator, on a topic you have no personal privacy interest in, is on the legal but not socially acceptable side of the line. It's a jerk move, as you yourself mentioned in a later comment.
I don't really see a problem with that code - there is no confusion, `Ptr(None)` is clearly not `None`. Whereas

var i *int = nil
var x interface{} = i
if x != nil {

I assigned `nil` to `x` and yet `x` is not nil. Implicit conversions aren't unusual in programming but in Go they stand out a bit. The closest analog I could find was abusing implicit conversion operator in C#. But even that's pretty explicit and you can tell something odd is happening.

Thing1 i = null;
Thing2 x = i;
if (x != null)
{
System.Console.WriteLine("x is not null");
}

class Thing1
{
public static implicit operator Thing2(Thing1 c) => new();
}
class Thing2 {}
What is the difference other than a psychological one? Especially when you use car as an example. A car will probably depreciate just like a TV. It comes down to whether the terms are good. I have purchased TVs and computers on for 0 or very low APR because I had better things to do with the cash. I have no problem paying $4000 2 or 3 years in the future for a TV I have had the whole time - it beat the alternative.
What if they just said their YT video played great?
> They'd still have a better lifestyle if they used the same amount of energy and used it more efficiently.

Only if you're assuming some kind of linear relationship between energy consumption and happiness, which seems extremely dubious.
Why?

Did they want to protect themselves before alerting anyone?

Did they want to use this to infiltrate others?
I have no proof here, but don't underestimate the power of a rock near one’s delicate areas. It's easier to get a key by just asking politely.
Wishful thinking. Nothing guarantees that.
> This means no one can even tell you were bankrupt after 7-10 years, which is pretty incredible feature for borrowers.

This is absolutely not true. The record of your bankruptcy lives in the public records of the bankruptcy court forever.
We did skip a COVID variant Greek letter to appease the dictator though
so inetd for websockets?
Not a vaccine. They changed that definition so that vaccines no longer prevent infection.
Stealing is kind of morally wrong as well. And if this guy was innocent, it would have been hard for them to get the private key out of him, since he wouldn't have known it.
But even without this guarantee, this doesn't change the fact that the loan cannot be discharged during bankruptcy (at least not easily). This make such loans much more draconic than business loans.
A person drained money from my account with a forged check. I obtained an image of the check. The payor name did not match mine. The address was in another state. The check paper was very different from mine. The signature was not my name. The handwriting was not mine.

The only thing that was mine on the check was the account number.

Yet the check sailed through and was honored and my account debited.

The bank insisted this was all my fault. The bank insisted they couldn't do anything about it. The bank insisted I call this number, which simply gave me more runaround. So I decided to camp out in the branch manager's office, until they gave up and refunded me the lost money.

The cake topper on all this is they then tried to sell me expensive check "security" paper.

What a sick joke.
Do you have an example of how to make this work with an interface?
Go godot! Be the best!
Have seen the reverse: coders as seen through the eyes of an RNA scientist. It was not very flattering but unquestionably accurate.
When writing a DMG emulator I thought about how these tiny sprites are often similar. A sprite will be a series of bytes with an address to the beginning.

It got me thinking about a kind of compression algorithm could find byte overlaps and re-pack the sprites, and then adjust the addresses.

This got me thinking: are there any compression algorithms that do not require decompression? You pack them once and then just point at slices.

Then this got me thinking: is that just what unzipping is doing, just eagerly?
Fixed gear means non-retractable, not necessarily unsprung.
"every other major us company" how do you figure? Are most major us companies selling exploits at all, let alone to rogue states?
Better Blocker was a privacy plugin for apple browsers.

https://better.fyi/

It is no longer a thing as of Dec 15, 2021
Optimistic, sure. But historical examples abound.
VR has a very long way to go...
I'm interested to see when the patent lawsuits fly.
I mean. I don't disagree with your points. But I still highly suspect that time would prove the apple ecosystem fairly well established.
This happened not long ago, in the "legacy" financial system:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Bank_robbery

"Thirty-five fraudulent instructions were issued by security hackers via the SWIFT network to illegally transfer close to US$1 billion from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York account belonging to Bangladesh Bank, the central bank of Bangladesh. Five of the thirty-five fraudulent instructions were successful in transferring US$101 million, with US$20 million traced to Sri Lanka and US$81 million to the Philippines. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York blocked the remaining thirty transactions, amounting to US$850 million, due to suspicions raised by a misspelled instruction.[2] All the money transferred to Sri Lanka has since been recovered. However, as of 2018 only around US$18 million of the US$81 million transferred to the Philippines has been recovered.[3] Most of the money transferred to the Philippines went to four personal accounts, held by single individuals, and not to companies or corporations"
This seems like the perfect setup for a Coen brothers film
I wish but I think they are well enough entrenched so that only a major economic collapse could threaten their rule.
This is about the on device child p*rn scanner apple released to iOS devices a few months ago. This was seen as a breech of trust given Apple’s stance on privacy. The two main concerns (as I remember) were false positives, and how easily it could be adapted to spy on citizens of more repressive countries like china.