skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many phones (certainly iPhone 12 behaves this way) will show 4G LTE link as being "5G" when they are connected to eNodeB that is capable of 5G in NSA mode regardles of whether the link actually uses any 5G NR bearer channels or whether it is actually physically possible (interference, path loss, gNodeB antenna configuration...) to use NR channels.

Thus you can pretty well observe a lot of what really is 4G as 5G.
Awesome! What do you do? I’m trying to find some programming/data science groups/meetups but it’s being hard so far. Social stuff is great tho! I already found an Ultimate team.
At face value this seems like a silly suggestion. But actually, I could totally see TikTok doing this.
You can ask him directly on twitter.
Not to mention that most backpackers probably visit both cities, and Hanoi is arguably the more touristy of the two...
My 2c:
1) If you have a good job (like, more senior positions in software engineering, that pay 2x to 10x what other people make) you should be prepared for them to vanish at some time. But risk is compensated by reward.

2) I still despise large public layoffs, because they take bargaining power from me. Put me on a 6-month PIP, then I know I should leave, I’ll find another job.

3) People that suffer are those in tech sector (risk) but non-tech jobs that don’t always command a good wage. So, they take the risk without the reward.

4) Normalization of layoffs is terrible for lower-paying, non-specialized jobs where finding another is hard and you cannot create a buffer for yourself. That should always be exceptional.
> The most dangerous thing for the frontpage is stuff that's too easy to upvote. If someone proves a new theorem, it takes some work by the reader to decide whether or not to upvote it. An amusing cartoon takes less. A rant with a rallying cry as the title takes zero, because people vote it up without even reading it.

Paul Graham, What I've Learned from Hacker News[1]

[1]: http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html
Our taxes fund them, so in a sense, yes.

We could fund civilian organizations to perform many of the functions of police, and do so without weapons and oppressive technology. Then reduce our police forces.
That's not the kind of countries we live in anymore. Most people think that thanks to laws like this, they will be able to keep their opponents out of power forever.
Luckily, this mess is due to be repealed, it was one of the lesser-known Trussonomic decisions made in the last few weeks.

Assuming, of course, that Truss does not repeal the repeal. It's not like she is known for doing screeching U-turns...
Melrōse – a language and runtime to program music
If you were able to do that, someone (probably multiple people) weren't doing their jobs. That should have been architecturally impossible.

At a certain level, you can't fix stupid (note: the person in my anecdote wasn't the stupid person). Example: once upon a time I worked for a very large public utility and got to be friends with a cool guy who seemed to live in the underground server rooms below Utility HQ. He would offer us (infosec group) 'free' hardware from time to time, which was cool (bear in mind CAPEX is a very good thing in the regulated utility industry, so there were all kinds of things kicking around taking up space).

At one point I was wandering around the halls underground, he spotted me, and said "Hey Mark, can you use this?" while pointing to a check printing machine loaded with valid corporate check paper. My jaw dropped. The first thing I did was look around for 'tells' of a corporate security sting. Dollar signs rolled in front of my eyes.

I asked said subterranean server room dweller if he had any idea what he had, and what he could do with it (I have no doubt one could easily make off with zillions of dollars and have it written off as billing errors). He smiled and said "no," to which I replied that was a good thing for our shareholders, and that he should probably properly dispose of that thing toot sweet. All the processes in the world and yet there was a literal money-printing machine hanging out with no oversight at all, prey to anyone with an RS-232 connection.
I think it actually makes sense, but perhaps more so for “traditional” tourism. I lived in Amsterdam for 20 or so years. I found winter to be positively miserable: cold, rainy and dark. But it is the best time of year to see tourist highlights like the Anne Frank House, Rijksmuseum etc. Not as much waiting and crowding. The old town in general felt less like an open air museum. Not sure if this still holds true, it’s been over a decade since I moved away.
>They certainly would if a company led by this man lost the records of 150M people that did not consent to their data being collected.

I haven't heard anyone saying that about Metas CISO, or Twitters CISO, or Ubers CISO.

For example, the data leaked from Uber in the recent breach is way more impactful than anything which ever leaked from Equifax.

But hey, maybe that's just because nobody noticed that Latha Maripuri is also a woman.

>She was incompetent and should be in jail.

How would you know it wasn't her superiors constantly blocking her from doing her job properly?
Skills: Go, Dicker, C++

Qualities: punctual, effective communicator, attention to detail
I'm willing to wager Louisville Metro has a policy for an officer surrendering their service weapon upon retirement or discharge.

I wonder if they take locking account access as seriously.
would it be really surprising if that was the case though?
Mt Fuji is best seen in winter, when the air is clear and it can be seen from far away. If you actually want to climb it, you're limited to a brief season of a couple of months in midsummer.
>I own a number of power tools, I've never seen one come without a necessary component for basic operation.

it's very common for power tools to be sold "body only", i.e. without a battery or charger
The thing is even locals will have a greater time during the nicer times. Using Montreal, where I was living until a few years ago, is a much nicer place to wander around when there's no snow. It's a colourful city, lively and full of small and big activity to do, so you can get by with the sort of tourism you described in high season (summer), but also end of spring and early fall.

In the winter, it's a cold, wet and relatively low interaction time of the year. I assume some place have a high, low and dead season for tourism, and I personally aim for low, but to each their own. Quebec in general is a great place for winter vacation, just have to go outside Montreal island.
USB-C is just now starting to be popular in Brasil. Most notebooks here use proprietary chargers.

USB-C notebooks are still very expensive here. I just brought a new Dell Inspiron. IT have greate specs but still uses the old dell charger.
They never remember events like these, because it doesn't serve their purposes or narrative
Oh, don't worry. People still say that.

(Mostly because this sort of story is quite rare. It should happen zero times, but plenty of people are very happy with the status-quo tradeoff. I mean, we're talking about folks that the public trusts to carry lethal weapons openly, in spite of the damage they do with them; access to espionage tools are way down the security-and-safety-concern ladder from the Glock Gen 5s on the officers' hips).
Why my first iOS app’s name is so weird and other things
I think this is the perfect place to host development of `sl`
Believe Me, it Will Work: the rhetoric of software correctness
> A proper winter coat, gloves, boots, etc. will need way more space than exists in that tiny backpack.

Depending on where you live it might be winter already there too so not necessarily a problem as you already wear the shit and remove what you don't need during the flight. Otherwise you just have to wear them when you enter the plane and put them back in the ikea bag that was in the coat's pocket the rest of the time.
Personally the ex-officer is what I believe to be the most interesting part.

On the face of it, the guy is just a random psychopath hacking women Snapchat accounts and using their explicit pictures to blackmail them.

It’s disgusting but it wouldn’t be extraordinary if he didn’t also manage to become part of the police. You have to wonder how someone with this particular psychological profile actually got hired.
You probably don’t need secrets manager. Just use SSM Parameter Store secret string type. It’s free.
Given that Erdogan's opponents are moderately conservative and liberals, they'll probably not do much to suppress him and his voters if they ever win an election again.
iPhone now supports Dvorak keyboard layout
Please get rid of that subscription popup.

OR make it only show on consecutive visits (not the first one), and make the "let me read this first" option a bit more obvious. I've been looking aimlessly for an obvious X or No and missed the option the first time around.
But, like, if we weren't such a puritanical society that stigmatized sex, we wouldn't have to care about our naked photos being leaked.
It is literally true that she had no relevant formal training.

It is also true AFAIK that when she got her first role as an executive in charge of security, she had no formal training or IC experience in security. All of her "security" experience was in executive roles. Which is insane. That never happens with other types of technical leadership roles (legal, law, finance, accounting, engineering, etc.).
The officers "resigned" so presumably they can be hired again one town over.
Is it even possible to ban AirTags? How exactly would that work? Even if you made the cargo hold a literal faraday cage, presumably as soon as you move the luggage the mesh network will be active again and immediately reconcile the location, which is what the user would want anyway.
Apple charge cables used the industry-standard USB-A for many years until they switched recently to the industry-standard USB-C. They have never required a proprietary charger block, not in the 15 years iPhone has existed.

They have always required a proprietary cable, which has always been supplied with the phone.
[x] Catchy name

[ ] Catchy logo

Poor effort, only 50% of the way there. (No marks awarded for a working exploit, marketing doesn't care about that)

Edit: Marks should also be deducted for a lack of scary text claiming that everyone should panic.
It is an extremely aggresive move on US part; in particular the part about criminalizing "US persons" that currently work in China.

It is too early to tell how it will play out.

Here is another perspective:

https://asiatimes.com/2022/10/china-chip-ban-a-us-exercise-i...

China chip ban a US exercise in extreme self-harm

CapEx and R&D implode in hard-pressed Western semicon industry while China pours massive funds into chip independence
A slight clarification: It's rare that it is caught and prosecuted. It's common enough within authority spies and enforcers that they have a word for it, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOVEINT
feacesbook
Sure, you don't need workplace diversity to be insanely profitable. Do you think that's why folks are looking to add diversity to the workplace?
My best friend was a child prodigy at math and his parents started him on "The Number Devil" which I believe is number theory
"awkwardly"? "baffling face plant"?

Come on Ars...
It’s not just tech, that’s just the most obvious to us here. Anything that’s good quality that needs to be imported is usually almost twice the price there. I saw this especially with climbing equipment
Is a man guilty of a crime if he knowingly lets another man climb a cell tower without a safety harness?

Yes, manslaughter.

The question is if Apple knew this was a problem and the degree to which they knew and made excuses or marketing for it.
Site Reliability Engineer Opportunity

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What will you be Doing:
The Senior Site Reliabilty Engineer (SRE) empower our users with a rich feature set, high availability, and stellar performance level, and seamless onboarding to increase their efficiency in procure to pay. As we build our SRE team, this position will design, code, repair, enhance, integrate, upgrade, convert, provide level-3 support, and administer application software, and middleware in order to proactively monitor and support our microservices and infrastructure! Work is performed within enterprise guidelines and standards regarding the secure software development life cycle, version control, source code control, documentation, testing, code verification, continuous integration, continuous deployment, automation, compliance policies and team collaboration. Specifically, we are searching for someone who brings fresh ideas, demonstrates a unique and informed viewpoint, and enjoys collaborating with a cross-functional team to develop real-world solutions and positive user experiences at every interaction.

This level of SRE engineer will work on every story in the sprint. They take direction from lead / architect but will oversee work and provide mentorship to lower level SRE engineers. This level will take a high level (and often vague) stories and break it down into small well-defined stories/tasks and manage them to fruition. They have full latitude for independent judgment when applying skills and problem solving capabilities, with input and minimal oversight required by lead, architect or supervisor. They update their job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques, and computing equipment; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; participating in professional organizations.

This position collaborates with the software engineering teams, Security, business stakeholders, collaborative groups and other cross-functional teams to define, provide for, and test deliverables.
Dehumidifiers come in a variety of capacities. Extraction of 4-8L per day with a 400W power consumption is typical, more if humidity is high. Larger communal units would be more efficient. If you have abundant power literally coming from the sky, why not use some of it to make clean water?

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=dehumidifiers+for+home
Did you read the article? Sounds to me like that "meta-data" is all accessible and the tool speeds up the process of collecting that data. I recall tools being posted to Hacker News that help a person find all social media accounts linked to a name. Doesn't sound too different.

> Accurint, a product of data brokerage firm LexisNexis Risk Solutions, is advertised to law enforcement agencies as a tool that can quicken investigations and “discover non-obvious connections between people that might not otherwise be known.” Combining databases of public and non-public information, Accurint can provide detailed information about a person, including their phone numbers, relatives and associates, employers and social media profiles associated with their email account.
Portland actually has such an organization: https://www.portland.gov/streetresponse
Yup! I'd heard of Quickwit and sonic, but Quickwit seems to have pivoted to being a log-search focused engine. It's built on Tantivy[0] IIRC so I could have used something like Toshi[1].

Sonic[2] I know much less about but it also seems good. Honestly anything except ES is what I like to hear about (though OpenSearch is interesting).

Another thing I think the world really needs is a CLI +/- API tool (ideally rust lib + CLI + API) that unifies interacting with these things. I got REALLY close to writing it while working on this article, but I was already running late and I have a penchant for yak shaving.

This won't be the last thing I write about search engines -- there's been a LOT of movement in the space that has nothing to do with the elastic/opensearch debacle and I don't see enough tires getting kicked.

[0]: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy

[1]: https://github.com/toshi-search/Toshi

[2]: https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic
> The web browser isn't Netflix trying to serve hundreds of gigabits per second of encrypted video streams from a single server.

Ironically, server workloads are the ones that are increasingly moving to networking stacks that run in user space, using frameworks like DPDK, with performance as a motivator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Plane_Development_Kit

Of course, there are some caveats - from my understanding, typical DPDK use cases would turn over the entire NIC to a single application, meaning you aren't contending with sharing the network between multiple, potentially adversarial user mode processes. This is fine for a server, but not really appropriate for a PC or smartphone.
If I inject a new feature into production and it destabilizes existing functionality, it’s the new features fault (and it gets rolled back). It doesn’t matter if I really think it’s the fault of the other component, or I would have designed it differently (especially now that I know the consequences!). Maybe we end up “fixing” the existing functionality and then proceeding with the new feature — but not until stable state is re-established.

This is like standard practice for shit that is of trivial importance to humanity in a newish engineering field. So I don’t for the life of me understand the logic of being more flippant when it comes to human lives in a more established engineering field.
This is seriously concerning and requires a response from Microsoft. People use O365 for healthcare/HIPAA data and Microsoft signs a BAA for this use
The unfortunate thing about backdoors is its hard to really know how many times it happened. Kind of like the unreported crime thing, but far more believable that a good portion is never detected, particularly for read-only access.

I kinda doubt this guy would have got caught if he wasn't blackmailing the women.
How does that matter? It's not whether someone get stigmatized or not, it's whether they want to share explicit pictures or not. Even in a world without stigma, people could reasonably want pictures of them to stay private, and the choice should be theirs.
Has 5g brought anything positive to this world? So much hype but all it seems to have done is make flying more unsafe, create more ugly towers in cities and discharge my phone faster. Seems like boondoggle territory to me.
PSP7 was such a great app.
They were. With the following caveats: non, or limited, interchangeability of parts, horrendous precision of showing the correct time. All of which can be traced back to low precision manifacturing.
Check out the change log of OpenBlas: http://www.openblas.net/Changelog.txt

Some people seem to think these programs are ancient and unchanging. They're updated regularly. Otherwise they'd quickly be superseded by better implementations.
I've been traveling out of carryon luggage for almost 15 years, and I really disagree with a lot of the stuff in this post. I find many of the people who say "I'm traveling like a local not a tourist" to be at least slightly self-deceiving. You're a goddamned tourist, whether you go to restaurants with good reviews or not. The packing tips here are utter nonsense, as well as the suggestion that you get better exchange rates with cash than with credit cards.
Beyond the contractor solution you could go for a Place of Employment (POE) solution like remote.com or Deel. The POE would employ you and ensure the tax and employment liabilities are taken care of.
We should always have the ability to consent to naked photos of ourselves being available. I'm about as sex positive as it gets - it's not about puritanism, it's about consent.
One real danger is that there are a lot of data points that correlate with race and gender. Machine learning can become real good at inferring race and gender from what would appear to people to be unrelated variables but that, in fact have a small correlation. In the end, it is easy to use “AI” to whitewash your biases without explicitly targeting protected characteristics.
That's a substack thing that I'm completely unaware of and I think powerless to do anything about.
ah, i reread my post and it lacks a lot of context and i apologize for that.

yes he and I are the only nerds in the company.

i believe the feature update gets doled out through a third party, and i am in the position to ensure that our workstations receive the feature update and troubleshoot should any issues arise. problem is, i cannot even access the program in question and am responsible to ensure a smooth transition. i just don't know where to even begin.

sorry if i had confused anybody, i myself didn't/don't understand the actions i may have to take in the case of a catastrophe.
Agreed, it's okay for an MVP but not okay for a real app.
I do the tourist attractions but try to find local mom and pop restaurants over the recommended tourist places.
Since you mention neutron stars, these are must-reads:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_Egg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starquake_(novel)

Someday I should read Baxter's Xeelee sequence, mentioned under "See also":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeelee_Sequence
The headline is bad but the story is somehow worse, he then used them to extort them.

FFS.

> Prosecutors recommended that Wilson receive “a sentence at the lowest end of the applicable sentencing guidelines” as a result of his guilty plea to both the “Slushygate” charge and the cyberstalking charge.

Because of course they did.
Yes; so I think that's where scope or intent of statement may come in. I think:

* We were able to craft, manually, things much more precisely for much longer than some of us thought

* We were able to design/engineer/mass-manufacture precise things for far shorter than many of us thought
Thank you for your detailed answer and the links!
There was similar discussion about "provide un-encrypted access to your pages for accessibility" few months ago here at HN under "Consider disabling HTTPS auto redirects" post [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31895148
Yes, the way Netflix and Co. are using Userspace drivers is by passing entire devices to a single application.

There's no general purpose IPC happening there.
As I understand this article, the theory is that the Earth's biosphere spreads the sun's heat around thermodynamically better than a lifeless crust would, therefore life is more or less inevitable.

What data/calculations etc exist to back this up?
you can implement CTR pretty easily if you already have ECB

no excuse really
Probably not, if you shoot a man, there's a perpetrator and an end. If you brainwash a man, forever his actions will no longer be fully his own. Plus most people view violence as something undesirable (see Vietnam war protests), but advertising still has many hawks who will never stop singing it's praises while all public spaces are consumed by corporate branding until we have no where uninfected
>It is literally true that she had no relevant formal training.

Yes, but that's also true of almost all BigCo CISOs.

>It is also true AFAIK that when she got her first role as an executive in charge of security

By "AFAIK" you mean that this is just what you assume without checking, right?