skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's weird, regular SMSs do come through, as far as I know. It's hard to tell as I don't get many SMSs, mostly iMessage and Whatsapp. I'm on AT&T, and something about automated messages from those 5-6 digit numbers never show up when you want them to.
Thing is, internet adtech involves a rock paper scissors evolution.

It's not just a advertisement and a viewer, it's also the bots.

Adtech is where it's at now just cause it wants you to see it but because a industry of faking viewership built up around it.

No other advertisement has really had to deal with how ads are bought on per viewer basis.

All the targeting tech is equally a response to "personalization" as it is to "fraudulent botters"

You can then understand that if ads reverted to the old static billboard or tv commercial state, there's probably be little incentive to harass the user.
For me, the constant stream of other health data shattered my willful ignorance.

For as much as I would worry, the data kept insisting I was stubbornly healthy and that when I did feel poorly, it was almost always attributable to something specific I’d done recently. It made it very hard to maintain the anxieties I’d spent decades culturing, so I eventually just gave in and accepted that I was pretty darn fine and had some specific bad habits that had been surreptitiously fueling the anxieties.

So while more data might make things worse for you, that experience is not universal.
Can't you open an account with Revolut?
I'd like a daily average, which is pretty much what my doctor asks me for and I only have a couple of data points every day (at most).
Presumably the worry is that the big ad companies would get approximately every website in the world to use this technique, which is already the only reason web advertising is such a big problem.
> $15k is almost surely less than even a year's wages. How pathetic.

That's not the worst of it.

It took seven years of effort to be awarded a $15k payout.

Cutting the lawyers out altogether, even the full $50k is still less than a single year's salary for the median household. It doesn't fix anything.
Now that we're talking about kidney donation -- you might also consider becoming a blood donor! It's easy, and you get free tracking of cholesterol, blood pressure, and a battery of other blood tests when you do so.

If you're in the US and have been told in the past that you're not qualified, you might want to look and see if that's still the case. The US relaxed a bunch of restrictions during the COVID-induced blood donation shortages of the last few years, and is in the process of removing some more.

https://www.hhs.gov/givingequalsliving/giveblood/can-i-give
And here I am trying to give Capital One some good faith. I've called them three times since I've been here and they insist that MasterCard forces them to do this.

Just reaffirms my suspicions that I need to shop around. I'm traveling and putting enough money on this card to start looking at ones that actually charge a fee and have decent "rewbates", I mean "rewards".

Less sarcastically, thanks for the heads up. I'd be greatful for any other hints of people that might not hate their credit card provider they want I do.
Iirc browsers now warn if tls 1.1 or lower - this warning is a similar page to when there is an invalid cert, but you cannot click through - you need to explicitly disable a config flag to ignore.

So what’s the real world impact of a server running sslv2?
I think the Iranian protests in 2009 against election results kicked that off. Twitter at the time was the only way to relay information to the wider world as the government had disabled phone service. Before that Twitter was relatively obscure. Global media coverage happened almost exclusively through people's tweets and photos.

https://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/14/iran.protests.twi...
The soap would only really get into your gut, not inside the rest of the body. And taste bad.
Would say that rather than one company being the only one who can do it, there is only one company that can't do it, and it's Intel.
It's there - Ladybird (https://ladybird.dev)
This really is beyond fucked up. It's the kind of thing that creates legitimate 'enemies of the state'.
same here, some companies are hiring a compiler team for AI in fact.

I was told Rice and UIUC provide the best compiler program, though not necessarily AI related, should be similar though.
The atmosphere does a very good job of mixing CO2, so that a ton of emitted CO2 does the same harm to everyone no matter who emitted it.

It follows then that unless you can make a good case that some people have some sort of natural or divine right to emit more CO2 (and thus cause more harm) than do others the correct way to allocate whatever total worldwide CO2 budget we have is to give each person an equal share.

It follows then that each country's fair share of the worlds total CO2 budget is proportional to the population of the country. China has 4.2x the population of the US, but is only emitting 2.2x as much.

Both are over their far share of the world's current emissions, but the US is more over. China's emitting 85% more than their fair share. The US is emitting 207% more than their fair share.
I’m long gone from Twitter (post-Elon, pre-X), so it makes me happy to see features like this roll out that will hopefully lead to its inevitable downfall.

I loved Twitter pre-Elon, but understood the criticism people had. I wonder if there’s anyone (besides bots) who can say it’s better now than it was? Would be interested to hear from them :)
I think the X button is there for other reasons, I'm not sure if it has explicitly anything to do with X?
It's because of the unified memory architecture. It's harder/different to do this on x86, because you have to have a large memory GPU and target that.
Not a very helpful sentence in the context.

Yes, academia (at least STEM) is such that you need to be good at selling something. The difference is that the goal of a startup is to make money, whereas that's not the goal of research.

We could apply the mentality everywhere. Do you want to tell teachers they need to be as good at selling their skills as they are at teaching?

Researchers are there to research. If a theoretical physicist publishes a lot of papers in high quality journals without bringing in money (because they don't need the money to do the research), they'll be denied tenure. Even when doing experimental work: If I bring enough to buy my equipment, and pay for the staff (e.g. students) and publish good papers, I'll be denied tenure if my colleague who is doing very different research is bringing in a lot more money, because he has decided to target that metric.

Researchers need money to do their research. They shouldn't be asked to bring in a lot more than they need.
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Trust me, I'm taking notes! I've tried researching this, but "credit card company that sends TOTP over email" is not really Google-able. Revolut is on my list now, though. Thanks!
Why is it legal for patents to be like that? Wasn't the premise of them supposed to be "we'll fully disclose the details of this thing in exchange for a temporary monopoly on making it"?
None. But it makes a good headline: “COBOL STILL IN USE AFTER 60 YEARS!”
Awesome thank you. Added D2 lang to my blog post on this topic: https://open.substack.com/pub/rakkhi/p/cyber-security-design...
It's an extra layer, but is that really another 'factor'? MFA would prevent someone with a compromised key from logging in. Password protected keys do not.
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Do drones make it significantly easier to attack without being caught than, say, timed explosives or even firearms?
Tailscale is wireguard, just with outsourced admin.

I'm getting paid to develop and operate network infrastructure, I don't want to have a second job doing it without compensation.
I'm sure it varies a lot during the day. Have you had your coffee and how much? Have you taken your BP medication yet? Have you exercised? Did you just have a really annoying phone call?

Some of those real-time results might be interesting. Maybe you could cut back on the coffee a little. But there's also a natural variance because life over the course of a day or weeks that many of us would just as soon ignore and instead prefer to monitor accurately over comparatively long time intervals (week+) with at least an attempt to measure under comparable conditions. (And even then I find a fair bit of variance.)

That's a general issue I have with "quantified self" info. It's either something I know. (I didn't sleep well last night for whatever reason or I was at a desk or in a plane seat all day.) Or it's something I mostly can't or won't do much about.
Is this risk analysis real? I don't believe in companies that think this is a risk at all if their box is implemented properly. If it's even possible to compromise then you have bigger problems (like your intranet not being properly secured, or the MitM setup not being sandboxed properly, or .....)
The Technical Debt of LLMs
On the other hand, this is exactly the kind of application I think AI/LLM/GPT-whatever could prove extremely useful in.

A model could be retrained and finetuned and corrected and double-checked on a limited corpus, until it would be able to discuss and explain something very very well in a particular subject.

Such things could be used in education, I imagine. Like an extra, never tiring teacher.
50+ includes half of GenX, many of which are more sophisticated technologically than their successors.

60+, yeah.
The word 'voluntary' sort of negates the rest of the comment. You can't compare voluntary solitary confinement with involuntary solitary confinement.
Twixter? Xitter? Xwixter?

Wtf do we call the bad blue site!?!?
because they do it better...?
If Schwab would fix their account security to allow plain TOTP instead of the scam that is Symantec VIP, I would have nothing but good... well, there was the two times, yes, two times in a month that I had to spend hours on the phone telling them to stop letting people randomly transfer securities into my account without my consent. They assured me that (1) it would be illegal for me to refuse the request to take back the money and (2) that I could not block future transfers-in from happening and they could not implement a system requiring my authorization before such transfers. The clawback letter from the originating bank even pointed out that they hadn't noticed until I raised flags.

I loathe American financial companies, mostly because they all seem rankly incompetent.
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> due to the usual reasons FOSS continues to only appeal to small niches.

I’ve noticed this too. What are the usual reasons?
Might be useful for VR
> is mildly disrespectful

From their perspective (at least in this case), it's just business. Using one currency to buy gift cards in India's currency is a huge red flag in and of itself. Scammers exist everywhere, surely, but I don't know of many other countries where it's common news to see an entire office building full of scammers working telephones and computers with remote desktop sessions open on "client" computers to extort money from unsuspecting people (often using gift cards on services like Google Pay or Amazon as the vehicle.)

It's truly terrible that we live in a world where access to those services is almost a necessity for modern living, and that those services are more or less available depending on your region. It's also truly terrible that those office buildings exist. I assume the OP is on the right side of all of this, and is truly a victim of it, but it's hard for me to distinguish if I have more empathy for the innocent casualties of the war on scammers in India, or the innocent casualties of scammers in the rest of the world. Because without a basically divine way of determining guilt automatically, at least one of those groups is going to continue being slammed in the victim seat.

I'd hope that if victims of these anti-fraud algorithms in India were so prevalent, that the Indian government would do more to prevent these bad faith businesses from sprouting up in the first place. It would seem to me like that would benefit literally the entire world. Easier said than done, I'm sure. Probably even talking about an entire government reform for that effort.
That sounds so frustrating! But I admire and maybe even envy your ability to do it. And with a smile, no less.
For very slow motion stuff right now, yea. Not chasing people down though. At least not yet...
That's a win for 'fusion of unrelated subjects' I think.
The cat is already out of the bag.

There's no meaningful way to limit access to any of this when it's purely software based and the hardware required to run it are commodities.

It's nothing like chemical weapons were the reagents can be controlled as they're hard to come by or synthesise in a amateur lab.
Well the idea is stupid and makes no sense but

> How is this any easier or more effective than just having a website that hosts its own advertising assets

advertisers REALLY don't want you to do that because it's far too easy to cheat.
I just put some leds powered by usb behind it, then plugged them into the usb ports on my monitor. instantly turns on when I turn on the monitor.
Ethics issues...
Sony released the PCG-C2GPS laptop in Nov 1999 which had a reflective LCD almost exactly like this. The use-case was that you’d primarily use it in your car (during the day) for navigation and want the better battery life by not having a backlight. The back of the LCD hinges off like this but also stores a front light you can attach for low-light situations.

https://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/article/991104/sony.htm

The photos of the screen in use look bad! B/W only for reflective in my experience (i.e. Pebble watch.)
> I guess it's a CRI of 100 in day light?

CRI tests illumination sources, not displays. I suppose you could crank the display to max white and hold it up to the test pigments; that'd tell you something about the display's filters, but I'm not sure how useful it would be.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_rendering_index
> Public transit is no good.

It's easy and convenient:

• https://youtu.be/SDXB0CY2tSQ?t=43

• https://youtu.be/muPcHs-E4qc?t=65

> I don’t want to walk to a station and then share the space with other people. I don’t want to lug grocery bags around.

Alright, use a bicycle then. I hear ebikes are pretty good these days. Or use a micro car if you must: https://youtu.be/B9ly7JjqEb0?t=101.

> I want to make pit stops.

A bicycle is better than a car for this.

> I want to go off road.

Bicycle again, but if you really wanna use a car the few times a year you may wanna go off road, go ahead.

> Want to live in the suburbs or semi rural areas so I can have a lot of land.

By all means, go ahead. Just as long as you pay in full for all the negative externalities you inflict on everyone else by doing so.
You should consider fleek.xyz private gateway instead, you wouldn’t be violating tos, fleek use filecoin, and the sdk is more reliable. But it’s in alpha so you’ll need to request access on their discord. I’m a customer myself.
YouTube has been a thorn in the side of Google for a long time. Think about it, what has YouTube brought to Alphabet other than brand recognition? YouTube has already peaked.

It's not profitable. It's a source of a lot of drama, and ill-will toward the company, it doesn't generate much ad revenue, it's no longer a "feat of engineering" that so many people talked about in the mid-2000s - and it seems like the general populace whom generate a lot of revenue by being targeted on the platform (eg US, North America, Western Europe, Australia) are beginning to shift from adblockers is the exception, to adblockers is the default.

I've worked at F500's where uBlock Origin is part of the Chrome Enterprise profile. Why? It brings security, and performance, to the majority of users. Yes there's occasional issues, but it's worth it.

I suspect we'll see YouTube clients built into AdBlocking software (eg I'm pretty sure SponsorBlock has already begun this). AdBlock and uBlock Origin likely won't implement this, at least initially - but I can definitely see this taking off. At that point, what can Google do?

They'll enforce their walled garden and kill off all Google-ToS breaching extensions.
No, I think the situation is more nuanced than this. Why do the people at the school have providers who only accept gmail? Because some extremely technical people who understand exactly what they’re doing have led the web further and further into platform lock-in, and others go along with it.
Which is pretty easy to do, at least at home. I got a newer relatively auto BP measurement device that's not even network-enabled. And it still takes just about a minute for the days I use it. Yes, it's something you need to remember but there are a bunch of little daily things you remember--often because you want to.
ALS (guessing) = ambient light sensor

I don't even remember what DDC/CI stands for but I know what it is.
It's a protocol/system for adjusting your monitor's settings via software instead of using the on screen display (OSD) and the little buttons on the edge of your screen.
Lol, 'forward thinking' by moving one of the most expensive cloud costs internal in an app that clearly doesn't need that storage near their other cloud assets and operates at a scale few other services do? Woooow, he's sooooo smart. Nobody else has thought of this
I'm honestly interested in what defines them as "right wing". All I'm seeing is media describe them as "anti-woke" and "anti-cancel culture".
Security people always use this crazy risk matrix where if it’s easy to reproduce and affects a lot of people, it becomes high severity even if there is essentially no real world risk. I guess it makes them look better when they can show all the “high” severity issues they found.
> OpenBSD maybe gets there eventually.

Nah they won't. The devs have an irrational resistance to the very idea.

I disagree with your analogies. OpenBSD has a focus on auditing to remove all bugs, which is great, but they provide very little to help prevent what can be done if a bug is exploited, and they've certainly had no shortage of serious bugs.

> What use is MAC/RBAC if someone can gain kernel access with a 0 day exploit?

Kernel exploits are pretty rare. Most exploits are in userland.
Transparent to some portion of the electromagnetic spectrum ... We might not be able to see through it though.
I would argue you’re almost right, the two considerations are intent (if you say something is true and it is not true, that is a vulnerability) and real world use (if the site accepts usernames and passwords, and is unencrypted, and there is some impact to a breach or credential theft, there is a vulnerability).
Intel doesn't (want to) think (what a financial disaster for Intel it will be when it happens) that Arm CPUs will make a dent in the laptop market.

FTFY
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> Or let's me use a Security Key.

In my region of the world there's currently one bank that lets you register such a device.

And that apparently is some sort of ground breaking innovation.
> v8 isolates

Javascript engines aside, that sounds like a great sci-fi movie macguffin material.
You clearly have a limited knowledge of his experience, largely from his latter years. He was actually a pretty centrist element in Labour, until his experience as Postmaster General, Minister of Technology (delivering the Concorde), and other cabinet positions, made it clear to him how fundamentally undemocratic the British system was (and is). He then moved leftwards, and on many causes history proved him right - Iraq and Afghanistan to name a few, but also the need for abolition of the Lords, which continues to be plain to anyone who wants to see.
Eich went in his own direction with Brave; it's highly unlikely he's interested in coming back as he's got his own thing going, and it's not like he's somehow so uniquely gifted or talented that he's the only person that can lead Mozilla.
Compromised, meaning someone has the key in an unprotected format, or they somehow got your password. Say someone manages to MITM you somehow and get your password to the file, or they manage to crack it, or phish it out of you. Then they can just take the key and use it freely to log into your things. With MFA, there's no way that any key can be used to log in as long as the other factor exists. If you have to push OK on your cell phone to log in for example, the key is useless without physical access to your phone.

I'm not saying the password protection does nothing, it makes the key harder to crack but it's not another factor. It's simply an extension of the existing key. In other words, it's just a longer password.
I wouldn't, because sending all of your browsing history to any third party is going to result in them mining and selling it, or exposing it to state actors or someone else for direct surveillance/malware injection.

Eventually, AI will be something we can run locally on a typical desktop, or even a cell phone, and at that point we could locally host that kind of ad blocking, but trusting all of your traffic to some random company that promises to delete ads but not abuse their position seems naive given our situation today. It preserves the worst dangers of ads while adding even less control and transparency for the user.
TIL, looks neat!
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No problem! I wanted to share sooner, but I didn't want to stress you out with an influx of traffic right before your SPLASH talk :)

No ideas for now! Looking forward to seeing a video of that aroost demo you showed me at Strange Loop (this is Taylor btw hehe)

Keep up the incredible work!
But crypto serve no purpose that isn't best served by an existing solution. Feel free to keep writing novels about scams.
You talk about creating communities out of preferences, which makes them communities of interest, not traditional communities of kinship and enforced proximity.

The Tyranny of Structurelessness is directly relevant to communities of interest. Hippy communes. Co-housing projects. Cults both secular and religious. Idealistic people who don't understand what is actually necessary. We've been here before, many times. Read up on the 1960s and 70s. We don't live very differently now to then, and self-driving cars won't change that for at least a hundred years.
> Similarly, humans achieve about the same results when they have the same training. Small variations. What matters is not the brain but the education they get.

That's misleading. Small average variation overall, but some outliers are dramatically better and dramatically worse. Some brains produce fields medals, some can barely count change. Unfortunate but true.
Isn't "small government" the definition of political conservatism?

I think if people like big government, and they use this big government to crush housing projects for NIMBY goals, they are most certainly progressive.
Good news: Time Machine still works great! I'm using it with the cheapest QNAP NAS you can buy.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102423
This page states that it is spherical. https://www.freefallaerospace.com/nasa-balloon/
> they store the networks you connect to on a chip

That is the first I've ever heard of such a thing, and it sounds implausible.
That seems suspect. Although it's theoretically possible to detect what your dns provider is and block it, I highly doubt GS cares enough about it to implement it.
You believe pharma is an "unregulated free market"?

It might be useful to compare pharma with the restaurant industry. Which industry is more regulated? Which industry has more competition?
It should limp along, but failing altogether would be bad.

You could think of Twitter as a honeypot keeping the Eternal September and the spam and the bots etc. out of the newer sites that are building their own respective identities and enjoying the higher quality of community that you get with a controlled size.