skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
* The limiting factor of this attack is that a marketplace must first be approved by Apple before it can undertake this sort of tracking. *

Seems like a Catch-22 that Apple is required to support these other marketplaces out of their control but simultaneously expected to prevent them from behaving badly.
That report does not show it to be false. Imagine if someone was selling a widget for $10 and their cost of materials is $8. Then, let's say their cost of materials increases to $10 and they raise their price to $13. Their gross profit margin has gone from 20% to 23% even as two thirds - the majority - of the price increase was driven by higher material costs.
For anybody who didn't click through yet, this is by Louis Rossmann. And it's well worth the time investment to watch, IMO.

All I can say, is:

"Give 'em hell, Louis!"
Though obviously, something like

scp evil_passwd_file terminal.shop:/etc/passwd

or

scp evil_authorized_keys terminal.shop:.ssh/authorized_keys

is really the kind of thing you don't want. But if you can't copy foo.txt into your home directory, you probably can't copy attacker versions of more sensitive files into sensitive locations.
PopOS. I don't use it anymore but it's basically Ubuntu but more stable/QA'd and without all the annoying decisions.
Do you really need sci fi in either direction to come up with those ideas? I don't read or consume sci fi, but considering the tech available, these just seem like natural things you would try to do.
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> A person unwilling to move with the current change of society.

Well if society goes towards fascism like the Netherlands, then yes I'm very proud of not moving along with that.

The best remaining option is to live side by side with those people and interact with them as least as possible, and hinder them as much as possible in their attempts at legislating, like using the first chamber to block things. Mind you, this is already the status quo in the US where the democrats and republicans use whatever means at their disposal to undermine the other.

We didn't really have this phenomenon in the Netherlands because we don't have this "the winner takes all" kind of political system but parties need to collaborate. But the rise of the extreme-right makes it impossible to cooperate any longer.
> This settlement deal only covers the talcum powder claims involving ovarian cancer. J&J has already settled 95% of the talcum power claims involving mesothelioma.

Reminds me of Bayer/Roundup lawsuits. Wonder if there will be a separate round of lawsuits and settlements for talc & testicular cancer now.
My Seiko SNK807, Seiko SKX009, and Tissot Visodate all have an English/Spanish date wheel. I believe JDM Seiko watches have a Japanese/English date wheel.

My other three watches (Hamilton, Tudor, Rolex) are simple three-handers with no other complications.
Not really. We had millions (and now trillions) of copies of brain feeding each other.
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Nice write up. Mirrors some of my own experiences over the last year. Additional small note. You can run certbot from inside a container [0] if you want to, but as noted might require some additional effort (play books to move certs around and restart services mostly).

Have fun on the self hosted journey :D

[0] https://eff-certbot.readthedocs.io/en/stable/install.html#al...
We can have a different web
When LGBT denizens of states, universities, countries, and websites are threatened, dehumanized and scapegoated, HN is quick to defend the freedom of speech. We, too, were killed in the same camps during the Holocaust. What makes you so special, that a feeling of an "element of antisemitism" justifies police brutality in response to peaceful assembly, when threats to my livelihood are so trivially brushed away? Your ask that people not be permitted to even "hold antisemitic views" is odious in the extreme; I would never ask for such policing of wrongthink on the LGBT Question, even as it is debated in courts and legislatures across the country.

Now do Islamophobia. Without insinuating that defending the freedom of religion is equivalent to support for Hamas, please.
I saw this on BBC earlier and I was thinking.. their kid tells them something like that.. and they don't grab a chair and sit in the room with her for a couple of hours when it is sleepytime???? (ps: watch Bluey - Sleepytime - irrelevant but great)

They didn't lay a couple of blankets on the floor and and sleep next to her bed ONE night just to show her that everything will be alright and there is no reason to be worried?
She was complaining to them (up to) 8 months?
UUUfffff
You can only process and engineer food to be so cheap until its no longer food. I think most people accept that a lot of this "food" is crap but it beats hunger, esp when you're poor.
Don't count the Swiss out. Everyone likes building castles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_castles_and_fortresses...
Just had an atrocious vision where you get in your self driving car, select destination, sit back in your seat... and the car starts showing you full windscreen ads (you don't need to look out after all).
You don't have to solve it, you just have to try...
If you are offering consumer products, then you generally want to offer 3 tiers. It is conventionally known as good-better-best [1]. But you also have to be careful attaching your brand to all three because people don't want to pay best prices for good level product. If you visit the carrier websites they are targeting the better and best level. You'll note they don't list the acquired mvnos in their plans on their sites.

Those mvnos all competed on price and lowest product level. While it may not seem like it, it is expensive and time consuming to build a brand. Many fail. And many upper brands fail really badly when they try to build a low end brand.

The carriers are acquiring an established low brand:

* that has figured out how to do it and survived

* along with a bunch of customers

* that use your unused network capacity

* have retail locations and staffing (except Mint)

* have figured out how to distribute their product (eg other and own retail locations)

* have figured out how to acquire and retain customers

* have figured out how to provide customer service

They get to acquire all that without affecting their main brand. The people involved aren't idiots, and it turns out it does have great value. Billions in some cases!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good%E2%80%93better%E2%80%93be...
Apple doesn't do anything until their "vigorous defense" fails.
> It’s not worth it. A lot of things don’t work and it’s not as hackable.

Can you give some examples? I've been using Universal Blue's silverblue-nvidia extremely happily for a couple months now, and haven't had any issues with it. It's been a great and extremely smooth experience
I don't understand Fermi Paradox. Why couldn't the chance of life be extremely miniscule, e.g. given all billions of stars and planets, why couldn't there have been even 10% or 0.0001% odds of it happening at all one any given stars or planets? E.g. maybe even it happening on one was such a lucky occurrence?

Maybe given even 1,000,000 of observable universes the odds were just 1 out of 1,000,000.

How can people confidently claim that there must be some other civilizations, we wouldn't know the odds in the first place unless we know the exact mechanisms involved.

To me it seems like the probability could have been anything. It could have required any amount of certain chemical reactions to happen in certain order where the probability can vary wildly depending on the amount and likelihood of those reactions. E.g. it could be 0.01 to the power of 1,000,000 or as well as to the power of 10e64 and so on.
This is an important area of investigation, and you should be proud to take on the challenge. I would encourage you to look at the competitive landscape to get a sense of what the current state of the art is (there's definitely room for improvement), and how you might want to approach the problem differently from them.
I do agree that “exploitation” is a bit of an extreme take, but it isn’t an innocent business either. Hosting and profiting from a platform/marketplace for social content creation has, and will, trend toward preferences for viral, controversy-generating, and addictive content. Profit-sharing incentives to creators are meager but drive incredible lock-in behavior.

Children are wielding powerful content creation tools on TikTok and YouTube as well. And for every feel-good story about self-made young creators, there are thousands more telling of addiction, depression and anxiety for those caught in these spiraling for-profit walled gardens.

I’m all for teaching kids to be coders and makers, but I’m not sure Roblox is the poster child for it.
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If I was the web service getting hit I'd be glad that somebody is even interested enough that I'm having this problem. I also have the wisdom to know complaining is unlikely to solve my issue.

I get paid to basically solve this sort of scaling problems so I'm not a great barometer but it isn't that hard to handle a traffic spike like this.
Visible, which is a Verizon entity. Its primary advantages are that it is cheap, unlimited, and the pricing is free from fine print and gotchas -- the price is simply the price.

I'm on a (hypothetically) perpetual promo that costs me $35 per month for their better tier, which for me mostly differs from lesser/cheaper tier in that the first 50GB of data I use in a month has a higher priority than the cheaper ($25) tier.

Performance is fine for my usual needs, and native Verizon coverage is excellent in my neck of the woods.

(Why so cheap? No stores. No bricks, no mortar. No support outside of chat. No roaming. No 3G, even in places that might still only have 3G coverage. LTE and 5G only.)
Yes, that is the problem.

That is why so much software sucks.

Because the people who make it don’t use it, and hardly care to thoroughly test if it works.

We’re lucky to catch things with extensive dogfooding.

(Also, no blame here. I could imagine working for Canonical and not even running Ubuntu.)
Using discoverable and non-discoverable keys via FIDO security keys will require PIN + physical confirmation, or just physical confirmation, by default if anyone tries to use your agent's keys.
Back to my original comment, I don't think it is feasible to prove causation.

Intuitively, I don't think there are new people who start liking Harvard because of this fiasco. Most people already like Harvard. However, people who stop liking Harvard are probably plenties due to different views.

> that it's a commonplace point of view

You can look at comments on Hacker news, Reddit, and twitter.

Emphasis on "many". I didn't claim "majority". I know what you were trying to get at, so it seems like a good thing to clarify.
There are actual owners of the property. It's held by each other the other owners of the lots. They could go to their neighbors and buy them off to sign releases of that covenant, just that's hard to get each of them to agree to do.
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I am always amazed how the red hat crowd managed to change the narrative around Ubuntu always starting their own thing instead of using something established.

Reality is that both snap (2014) and upstart (2006) came before flatpak (2015) and systemd (2010).

Now there might be valid reason why the later options are superior, however accusing Ubuntu to just do something different out of "fancy" seems quite unfair. They did develop a solution for things theat where widely regarded as problems (as evidenced by others later doing the same thing), where they failed (and there are multiple reasons IMO) is getting their solutions adopted by the wider community.
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This is cool; I wish they had decaf single origin!
I think aiming for visual appeal is a dead end or at least a false dawn.

Instead aiming for that Frankenstein moment of excitement ‘holy shit this thing is kinda alive!’ Is where you want to get to.

I introduced a friend’s kid to basic the other day. She’s about 9 and was already getting the idea of an input, making some decisions and writing an output. Even with that just being text she was excited, and was already having her own ideas what to do next.
honestly, as a parent, you should be having these conversations with your kids. it is a very sad reality that your kids have a greater than zero chance of being involved in a school shooting.

seriously, this place sometimes thinking everything in the world is the happy path. you have to be prepared for and have an ability to handle exceptions. we can't catch/throw our way through life. teaching kids to learn when someone is trying to manipulate them is not a bad thing. this place seems to think things are someone else's problems, but at some point, you have to realize there is no EU style legislation that will protect you from everything.
It might be helpful when accessing news websites outdoor (since my internet provider rate limits hard). It’s basically a proxy, right?

I’m not even going to try though because there’s a signup wall.
A significant chunk of the adult male population of Nazi Germany was involved with the genocide. Hitler made sure there was blood on as many German hands as possible. In retrospect the Allies were extremely lenient[0] on Germany and Japan and they probably could have punished them way, way worse.

As for Allied war crimes, many of those were only criminalized after-the-fact. For example, the justification for nuking Nagasaki was "well, there's a factory nearby, so that's a valid military target".

[0] For example, "fiduciary duty to shareholders" was a valid excuse that saved several businessmen at Nuremburg, despite them running forced labor camps that were deadlier than Auschwicz.
As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, Haiku solves the detail issue by allowing shapes/paths etc to be marked to only render in certain resolution ranges.
I use it when I want to draw a graphical data structure that will visually auto-update as I change it. That answer sounds kind of pat, since you basically need to gather enough experience to know when that is useful. I tend to think it's useful in far many more cases than people usually appreciate.

I often screenshare. You can also share the *.xlogic files, even via git, although the company has made it harder to download a free version of the app that can read them read-only. Last I checked it seemed they require a credit card even if you don't buy.

The natural representation of a recipe is a DAG! ;-)
Noted, thanks for the feedback!
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I don't know how to use those things, and I'll never learn. McD's are a public restroom to me.
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> their output is far more sophisticated than just picking the most likely next word

Picking the most likely next word is an extremely sophisticated algorithm, if you could do that you would almost sound human. Like an LLM!

However, focusing on just picking the most likely next words do cause some issues, such as you being biased towards words that were posted instead of those that were too boring to post, so there are still things that such an algorithm can't understand like the probabilities since those are so unevenly posted.
I briefly scanned through the links but they conflate "damaged", "crater near hospital close enough for fragments to hit hospital" and other unknowns.

the WHO link which we can maybe take as authoritative does not refer to any bombed hospital. We all know there was a huge battle in Al Shifa where the IDF killed an arrested hundreds of Hamas operatives (and has published videos from their interrogations and videos from the battles going on inside the hospital).

"A field hospital in the embattled Gaza Strip run by neighboring Jordan reportedly can no longer provide health care due to Israeli attacks and the disruption of access roads.

The hospital in Gaza is out of service due to damage inflicted by Israeli attacks, as well as Israeli bombing of surrounding areas and the disruption of access roads, as reported on Jordan's official television channel on Saturday."

from one of the articles does not mention the actual hospital was bombed. it says "damage due to attacks" (unclear) and "bombing of the surrounding areas" (which is not bombing a hospital).
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You are not wrong.

But beware the predatory lawyers who will come after you for ostensible violations of California’s Invasion of Privacy Act, California Penal Code section 630, et seq. (“CIPA”).

One company I work with received multiple arbitration demands (claimed "privacy" damages in excess of $25000 each, helpfully offered to settle for $5000 each!). And this company didn't even set any cookies or run any 3P tracking on their site!

Their (famous-you-know-them, expensive, California-based) lawyers said "yes, we are seeing this more and more. We can fight and win for $200K, or you can pay the $50K of claims outstanding and add a banner to your site".

Their CEO chose the less-expensive option. :-/
Yeah I think the word probabilistic has been broadly misconstrued, because we usually see it in contexts where probabilities are used as shortcuts to avoid comprehensive analysis. But a probability can also be the output of a detailed analysis with rich semantic representation of causes.
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i (nearly) wrote only scala for 10 years. if i was starting a project today i would not use scala. its still a great language.
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"From your first link, Table 1, I see that the United States EPA regulates chlorine to 0.2-4 mg/L. The upper bound is lower than the rest of countries with regulations. Some countries - including the European Union, United Kingdom, and Ireland - appear to have no regulations at all."

The European Union is not a country and it is not surprising that it has no guideline, because the member states have. That the United Kingdom and Ireland are similar to the US is not surprising. I could not find a source for the value of 5 mg/l for Germany, most sources say 0,3 mg/l but the actual text of the current law doesn't corroborate that. What it does is strictly regulate the reaction products of chlorine, which makes sense from a health standpoint.

"Residual levels show 3 mg/L of chlorine in the United States which is higher than most other countries (Singapore, and to a lesser extent, Canada, excluded.)"

I am not a native English speaker, so forgive me if I read this wrong, but the paper says of all the considered countries the US has higher residual chlorine levels than all the other countries (Singapore, and to a lesser extent, Canada, included)

In other words US is highest, followed by Singapore and then Canada.

"As another commenter pointed out, the chlorine exists to ensure the water is safe to drink."

As the paper shows most developed countries have safe drinking water without chlorine. So the question is not why I am against it but why the US needs it in the first place .
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