skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Thus, anyone who has access to your iCloud account, whether it be a hacker, an Apple employee, or a government agency, has also access to that data.

Lost a lot of credibility here by including Apple employees, as that’s not a thing.

Honestly this just reads as a bunch if FUD for what appears to be no reason. There’s no new info, no new perspective, no attempt at fair explanation of why those things might actually be desirable for the customer…

Just a bunch of bad faith interpretations of how an iPhone works to try and scare or confuse the reader, and no discernible reason for why.
Why such a page exists? Why people take the time to praise a corporation? Who pays for it?
The photo in this tweet sums it up nicely https://twitter.com/nixcraft/status/1204166408730361856
Figma: https://www.figma.com/blog/livegraph-real-time-data-fetching...
Etsy, via sharding & a custom ORM — the 'Flickr architecture'.

In 2021: "We saw 1.8M queries per second on our massively sharded MySQL databases."
https://twitter.com/codeascraft/status/1466174452459196420

Here's a post from a decade ago:
https://www.etsy.com/codeascraft/two-sides-for-salvation
mypyc is cool and all, but I can't help thinking about how Node just JITs everything automatically without the need for any special steps like this.
Look a few other threads you will see. The ones about Wayland, gtk or KDE are notorious. But yeah it is nowhere near 4chan levels.
Instead of "patient and therapist" a better example might be "livestreamer and griefer"

A traditional form of griefing is "get your victim's IP address from a direct-connecting service like Skype and DDOS them while they're doing something latency-sensitive"
Scraping Cloudflare websites without buying any tool
> Colon-separated attributes

I admit that this section threw me a little bit for a loop. I mean, I can't assume the author doesn't know this, but this article and the repo give no indication that these are being used properly as rebindable prefixes mapping to namespace declarations. They're not just names-with-colons-in.

In fact, CSS already has syntax for namespaces[0]:

@namespace prefix url(XML-namespace-URL);
/* or */
@namespace prefix "XML-namespace-URL";

/* which is then referenced as */
prefix|element { }

…so I imagine it would have been a smaller innovation to continue to use the pipe as the delimiter.

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/2000/svg);
@namespace xlink url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink);

use {
xlink|href: #circle;
}

(But rebindable prefixes have turned out to be bad on the open web[1], so maybe not.)

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@namespace

[1]: https://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Change_Proposal_for_ISSUE-120#W...
> Well, why hasn't that happened yet then?

It hasn’t happened because revolving doors, fascism, etc. The state, tasked with doing these things, is not doing them.

> I do think we should point the finger at companies like Amazon and Microsoft before Cloudflare though.

Luckily, I have more than one finger to point. There is certainly enough blame to go around. But if you try to argue against criticizing Cloudflare because others also deserve blame, then you’ve lost me.
> the HR person scanning through 30+ CVs doesn’t have the time or interest in reading through 3 pages of your work history to see if you tick the boxes they’re trying to match.

I thought they had software for that now.
That's a good point. You do need something to do the negotiation. However this is not an intensive task and there are a handful of approaches that can avoid needing a dedicated third-party.

1. IPFS PubSub can be used for sharing this info (although you do still need to bootstrap the IPFS DHT).

2. You can share blobs over text chat. (Including services like Jami which are distributed)
We actually did do this 40 years ago. Reagan covertly blew up a Soviet gas pipeline supplying Europe in 1982, which was publicized in 2004 when the former Secretary of the Air Force boasted about it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2004/02/27/r... ("Reagan Approved Plan to Sabotage Soviets" (2004))

- "At the time, the United States was attempting to block Western Europe from importing Soviet natural gas. There were also signs that the Soviets were trying to steal a wide variety of Western technology. Then, a KGB insider revealed the specific shopping list and the CIA slipped the flawed software to the Soviets in a way they would not detect it."

- "In order to disrupt the Soviet gas supply, its hard currency earnings from the West, and the internal Russian economy, the pipeline software that was to run the pumps, turbines, and valves was programmed to go haywire, after a decent interval, to reset pump speeds and valve settings to produce pressures far beyond those acceptable to pipeline joints and welds," Reed writes."

Possibly the first software supply-chain attack in history? Before the term even existed.
> Does anyone here have a basis that could explain this bold statement ?

It's just wrong. On iPhones, Airplane Mode turns off all radios except Bluetooth.
> Another innovation announced yesterday for the iPhone 14 event was Satellite communication. Apple is now able to locate an iPhone anywhere in the world (where it would require connectivity to the mobile network, Wifi, or another device before.

Thats just plain wrong. Poorly researched article.
I believe adsense witholds a sizeable portion of that ad revenue. Plus there is literally no transparency in adsense about which advertiser paid which channel. We are just supposed to take google's word for it
> Apple seems to prioritize privacy more than the competition, while for Google collecting, and combing through to monetize, your personal data is a big part of their business model.

My TV also doesn't have data as its main business model, however ... it still collects data on me.
You're not supposed to be running on the Youtube hamster wheel forever.

Build your subscriber base, then try to pitch the idea to a network capable of paying to commission an actual show.
> That implies winners.

It seems to me that competition does not imply winners. At least not permanent winners. The difference between capitalism and a traditional competition being that a traditional competition has an end point (at which point a winner can be declared), whereas capitalism has no ending point and thus can only have a winner for a time.

Imagine a sporting competition that started with 20 teams in a league and every year the bottom team was eliminated until after 19 years there was only 1 team left. We would not want to leave the competition in that state, we would want to introduce more teams to sustain a level of competition. And if the introduced teams consistently had no chance of winning due to the dominance of the top team, then we'd likely change the rules to level the playing field.
Competition can also result in multiple "winners" - especially when there is a product that could go two ways, so you have two companies that focus on the different ways.

Or when there's no real difference in product so there can't really be a winner (sugar water/Pepsi/Coke).
Ask HN: What's the best chatbot you've ever experienced?
I've never really had a good chatbot experience, but I'm wondering if other people have, and what that looked like.
"nobody"
This is all reasoning we heard in the past to defend Google.

With Google, it was all true and still is...
A recovery process that costs $10 and actually works is great value. Assuming the recovery is for credentials that the user lost (and not Google deciding to lock them out for no reason), it seems totally fair - after all, you don't expect a locksmith to replace your locks for free either.
that's not an assessment about how much creators should be paid though
Why forget the obvious, Ukraine?

They already showed they are capable of doing terrorist actions on Russian territory while keeping silent about it. Baltic pipeline would be a children play for them, since an army can't protect it.

Their enemy will not be able to sell gas to Europe without going through what is left of Ukraine. Since Poland stopped Jamal, they can basically dictate transit price and let Russia finance their army.
Why are landlords exploitative?

Nobody is being forced against their will to rent a property they don’t want.

Tenants already get plenty of protections that are only due to be strengthened.

Should choice really be limited to owning an expensive asset or accepting whatever the government is capable of providing (council houses aren’t looked upon fondly). What you refer to as exploitation I’d see as freedom of choice.
Europe didn't need the gas [1] [2]. Russia has nothing to lose by sabotaging it. Don't forget that Russia had already slowed/slopped NS1 by this point.

[1] https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/15747542772681031... "Those shipments are enough to cover a complete halt in Russian pipeline flows from Oct. 1."

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-27/europe-is... (paywalled version of the original quote)
> has any real world privacy problem ever occurred because of this

Yes. People who don't quite understand how Siri works will divulge a lot of personal information. There's many stories from workers at these third parties about how much intimate detail they've heard when listening to these clips.

Now, that said, Google and Amazon do this too. It's truly a strike against all providers.
Thanks for the kind words. It's not just about being a "good person", though I do try to be sympathetic towards my fellow travelers in life. It's more about being effective. Yelling at someone is just generally not a good way to motivate people, especially if they don't actually have the power to change the situation.
I don't mean to be difficult, but I don't get it. If I have less money because of a recession the time and expense of commuting could be put to better use: shopping cooking cleaning and taking care of family my self. If I now live in a home and can no longer afford it it makes more sense move to a location with the same or lower cost of living compared to moveing close to a city with a higher cost of living plus the time and expense of a commute. If I didn't have some other pressing need having less money would not motivate me to run to an office.
Biden literally said that the US would make sure Nord Stream was taken out, that 'they would find a way to make sure it was done for good'.

Why is it so difficult for you to confront this fact? I guess because if it is true, the USA has committed yet another unilateral act of aggression in its own interests, disregarding the human rights of millions of Europeans...
There are so many other really good use cases for AI, but human interaction just isn't one of them. And that's okay!

Some AI ideas I think make a lot of sense in a video game off the top of my head:

- Posters on walls

- NPC to NPC conversations (overheard in a bar, etc.)

- Flora/fauna generation

- Loudspeaker announcements

Anything part of story or lore, I'd rather have a team of good storytellers give me what they got.
It is baffling that Bradbury was able to write The Murderer in 1953.

The transistor was invented in 1947 and the first fully transistorized radio wasn't available until a year after Bradbury published this, but he got all the way through predicting ringtones, smartwatches, housing automation, GPS digital dispatch/gig economy jobs, and smarmy digital assistants in the span of a single story.

I am not aware of a more prescient bit of science fiction. Bradbury knew how people worked and what we'd try to make.

If you haven't read The Murderer, please do so.
I operate around $300k monthly mysql infra. We service most schools in the US with a netflix type service. We have burst traffic (at noon EST we x50 traffic). Here is what we learned:

1) RDS/Cloudsql is awesome but too expensive, we can't afford it. The things it provides are not that special with VMs anyway (images, backups, replication).

2) The industry moved to vitess db, but converting to this is too daunting, we are focused on automation and cost reduction instead.

3) Use index based sharding (no math shards % total, no consistent hashing, no drama). When you get a new user, setup where they should be on each shard and keep that on a single table [user_id,video_cluster_id,session_cluster_id,..]. This way moves are easy. Then video_cluster_id is a load balanced host infront of a fleet of replicas.

4) The hardest thing you will run into is write saturation. You can't write fast enough to a disk. Advanced topologies and 3) helps here. Example: [MasterA] <- [Slaves,0..n] <- [MasterB] <- slaveb,0..k]. This way you can push more writes to MasterB, and add replication filters so that slaveb doesn't need to perform all the writes MasterA needs.

5) SSDs. Don't bother with anything else.

6) We would pay a million dollars for this tool: https://docs.percona.com/percona-toolkit/pt-online-schema-ch...

7) GTID took away the hard parts of mysql replication.

8) Hardcore mysql experience is disappearing. With RDS/Cloudsql/Postgres less and less developers are going able to patch a production problem.
> The only one I agree on is the image scanning for CSAM. The idea of a device I own acting as a state informer using AI to detect what it thinks is a crime is not my idea of a step forward.

The likely reasoning behind this, although unspoken, was to (at some point in the future) enable E2EE for iCloud Photos. Currently, Apple doesn't do nearly any CSAM scanning on iCloud Photos[0], so the FBI et al. are pushing for them to change that - instead of licensing PhotoDNA, they tried to create something that would keep image data out of their hands while not further enabling CSAM distributors.

0: "According to NMEC, Apple submitted 205 reports in 2019 (a third my my reporting volume). Apple increased a little, to 265 in 2020, but then dropped in 2021 to only 160 reports. That's nearly a 22% decrease over two years!" https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/955-NC...
It has been suggest that they are wildly optimistic with that time line, but Musk insists that those people only think that because they are stupid and dont understand all the things he knows.

All the same, if we have them by 2015, might be a few years late, but well worth it. The future looks bright.
He gained fame mostly for his ripoffs, regardless of his skills.
I like how "First, it generates a lot of false positives" is linked to an article about Google, not Apple, scanning cloud photos, not on-device, and it was only a false positive in the intent of the photos - the actual photos (of a child's penis) are exactly what should be flagged, no?

(Human review with explanation and consultation with the doctor / police should have led to "ok, false positive this time".)
> Apple ad exec wants to more than double ad revenue with new ads across iOS

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/report-apple-is-expl...
The cost of TVs is now heavily subsidized by the data-mining, though, whereas I don't see much evidence that's the case for Apple products, whatever their other problems (if such evidence does exist, I'd be interested to see it).
The US has refi fees too. Whether it is worth it depends on how much longer you will stay in the house. It can be worth it if it it reduces your payment to something manageable with the option of only increasing the length of the mortgage by a little bit, i.e. borrowing the money for longer. You pay more in interest over the lifetime of the loan unless you can refi again at a lower rate.

I suspect if you calculate the expected average interest rate over the length of your ownership and the fixes (2-3, 5, 10) you'll get a similar number even with higher volatility in the specific rates. But you'd have to run the numbers/math.

This of course does nothing for the many 12-24 months of higher payments even if it evens out over time.
> Hard to imagine what would be their point in doing that.

Precisely because it is hard to imagine? It looks like a clandestine operation by one NATO country to limit the options of another or perhaps even the German government doing it to limit the options of its own people.

Like you I have no idea, but this is one of those areas where Occam's razor doesn't do as well as it usually does.
Honestly would an apple employee be able to access my icloud account? I understand that the icloud data is encrypted in the cloud and the decryption key is part of signing onto icloud via 2 factor to authorize the device.

Would an apple employee be able to view icloud without the 2nd factor to pull down the decryption key?
Why can't it be both at the same time? Vonnegut was both a great thinker and a great writer (the former is typically a precondition for the latter).
So where else would asianometry content fit?
Also GrapheneOS [1] but hardware options are limited. LineageOS [2] and its fork /e/ [3] appear to have some more hardware support.

How many years will a phone running these be usable on average?

[1] - https://grapheneos.org/faq#device-support

[2] - https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/

[3] - https://e.foundation/
"I can't be sure, but there is a possibility that my story "Harrison Bergeron" is about the envy and self-pity I felt in an over-achievers' high school in Indianapolis quite a while ago now. Some people never tame those emotions. John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald and Mark David Chapman come to mind. "Handicapper Generals," if you like."

- Vonnegut
I wonder if there's a way to integrate this with https://snowflake.torproject.org/, such that blocking Tor would require also blocking all of Cloudflare?
It's always fun seeing USians trying to shoehorn every variation of human behavior into the one-dimensional classification.

(Seeing other Westerners confusedly borrow the same dichotomy is also entertaining, as it often fits poorly to them and they surely should know better.)
There is nobody to fix it, Nord Stream is bankrupt and there is no political incentive to fix it on either side.
Suborbital Extension Engine, and what's next for us
Not exactly, CM was designed for image setters and very high resolution printing. Early laser printers had resolutions in the neighborhood of 200–300dpi and there are frequent issues with generating bitmaps from Metafont at low resolutions (<300dpi). Some printers had asymmetric resolutions usually with a higher horizontal resolution than vertical resolution since it as easier to do precise positioning horizontally than vertically. In addition, there were two approaches to putting toner on the page: Writes-black (which was used by HP and Apple laserprinters), used the laser to apply a charge where the black should be. When the toner then affixed to the page at the charged locations, there was a little bit of “bleed.”¹ Writes-white (which was used by Xerox and some others), first charged the whole page then used the laser to remove the charge where there should not be toner. The bleed impact was reversed and the result was an anemic appearance to the CM fonts on the page. A hack was created in which an extra pixel was added to the edges of the shapes to increase their size, although this was prone to creating errors in the MF run at resolutions <600dpi.

⸻

1. Not really in the same sense as ink bleed, in which the ink spreads from where it is applied, but more just that the pixels created by the charge were slightly larger than the specified resolution.
WiFi still remains on, no?
Oh boy. The ol "wasn't ready for HN" problemo. Good luck with that one! Cool product of course. ;)
You don't have to believe me, you can try my fork pre-built here

https://github.com/raed667/uBlock-minus-mv3-cs-poc/releases/...
Russia doesn't really stand to gain here. Ukraine and the United States stand to gain the most by removing the option for Europe to capitulate to Russia this winter.

Ukraine isn't on the Baltic Sea, but do they need to be? Honestly, I don't know the resources that would be required to accomplish this. Would some special forces with diving equipment and a fishing boat be enough?
> But why do they have to know your phone number and location? How can I avoid that?

By not using a phone, because your carrier knows this information too and also sells this data (Apple does not).
That's not Node - that's V8. And it's possible to do the same thing for Python - there's nothing magic about JavaScript compared to Python - it's just a lot of engineering work to do it, which is beyond what this project's scope is. PyPy does it, but not inside standard Python.
It's not so much that patients recommend particular medications to their physicians, but rather that patients aren't even aware that a medication is available to treat their condition. So the ads build awareness and prompt patients to schedule appointments to ask about treating that condition, and then the physician might prescribe that medication if the patient meets the criteria. The hit rate on this is high enough to make prescription drug advertising highly profitable for drug companies. Whether it produces a net improvement in public health is another question.
I would highly recommend that you check out the documentary ”Pianomania” if you haven’t seen it already. It follows a Steinway piano tuner as he tunes instruments for a few famous pianists doing exactly the kind of thing you mentioned.
Nordstream 2 was fully functional.
Hi, so most of us are based in Zurich, but the project originally started while I was writing my master's thesis at UC Berkeley.

Concreteley we are:

Philipp (that's me, technical, https://www.linkedin.com/in/pmhadjimina/ )

David (technical, https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-niederberger-aba7a7177/)

Sam (biz-wiz, https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-bissegger/)

and Gurnek (biz-wiz, https://www.linkedin.com/in/gurneksingh/)

Send me a DM on linkedin or at philipp@quazel.com

Background wise David and I met in while doing CS in undergrad at ETH Zurich, I know Sam since highschool and met Gurnek at UC Berkeley. I have been working on Quazel fulltime for 1 week, before then I still had to finish my thesis (which was a pain in a*), but have been working on it for a few months before then just part time.
This is awesome! Had been meaning to open-source parts of my startup [1] that is built almost entirely on Workers right now. Glad we can do that now without making massive changes to the code-base.

Amazed by what OP and the Workers team have done over the years. Took a while for us to get used to the Workers paradigm. But once we did, feature velocity has been great.

Last wish list item: a Postgres service on Workers (D2?) becoming available in the not too distant future

[1] https://datanarratives.com/
We're talking about a guy who reduced all story telling to a set of 8 graphs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP3c1h8v2ZQ
Having empty pipes at the bottom of the sea would basically crush them, unless filled with either water or some high-pressure gas. It would be impossible to get rid of water later, and any other gas except an actual gas would be too complicated, so why not fill it with the thing which it is designed to transport anyway?
I believe this is the source reddit comment, though it was riffed all over twitch and Twitter afterwards: https://www.reddit.com/r/chessmemes/comments/x8217h/the_real...

Here's a link to the original comment, since removed:
https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/x77n0h/comment/inazu...
These settings tend to magically change in your disadvantage after you update some software or click yes somewhere when you weren't paying attention.
> "...surely russia wouldn’t sabotage their own pipelines (they can just shut them) and I understand they are not in use right now."

The EU, through von der Leyen, has more or less made it clear that no more gas will ever be bought from Russia, not even if the war would suddenly end today with Russia retreating entirely from Ukraine's territory. The pipelines have been forfeited.

People with geopolitical expertise have offered the theory that it may be a "red flag" operation by Russia, granting them some sort of excuse to mobilize in international waters in the Baltic.