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> [1] There are of course some people who are genuine frauds. How can you distinguish between x calling y a fraud because x is a hater, and because y is a fraud? Look at neutral opinion. Actual frauds are usually pretty conspicuous. Thoughtful people are rarely taken in by them. So if there are some thoughtful people who like y, you can usually assume y is not a fraud.

I don't think that "some thoughtful people who like y" is good enough. There have been big "frauds" in the tech space (and so many in the finance space) were it took years for public opinion to catch up with their actions (Theranos, WeWorks, Epstien and MIT labs) despite some people (Matt levine, John Carreyrou) knowing they weren't above board these people and companies were defended (or not even questioned) by media coverage and big name personalities.

Wait until these companies partner with Comcast to get default access to the ever present Xfinity public hotspot.

Sure you might deny it privileged to your network but for a profit share I might let it access mine.

a 1024-bit RSA number is ~5000 times harder (each additional 5.5 digits doubles the difficulty[1])

[1] https://www.mersenneforum.org/showpost.php?p=531861&postcoun...

I agree, this was 3x faster than expected.

Note: Factoring RSA-240 only took 900 core-years the additional 3100 core-years were on the discrete log.

RSA 240 is 8 digits longer, it takes ~2x as much work for each 5.5 additional digits so this should have taken 2.7x as much compute.

I loved this article.

One other aspect I think it omitted, likely to balance brevity with scope, is about standard deviations.

When you only have the most rich and privileged doing a sport (e.g. travelling to summit mountains) the "best" will be selected from a relatively small pool of candidates. As an activity gains popularity, and as more people have the means to pursue it, the pool of people for "best" grows and it's no surprise that the max of the distribution increases.

There world's population has grown 2x since 1957 when El Capitan was first submitted. The number of people doing fitness in their free time, I'd suspect is up 10x or 100x. This is double true for activities like Chess or Olympic sports where nation states have started searching for talent in wider and wider ways.

I think it's 12TB

Google says

"HP LTO-8 Ultrium, 30 TB, RW Data Cartridge Tape. Exhaustively tested, HPE LTO Ultrium cartridges meet all your demands for maximum reliability when restoring data, offering high storage density, ease of management and scalable storage and backup performance."

TapeandMedia.com says

"1 - HPE LTO Ultrium 8 Tape with a capacity of 12 TB and up to 30 TB compressed capacity."

EVs have much lower lifetime emissions than ICE.

I'd encourage you to read some of the great comments discussing this below https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21019030

Lots of seemingly unfiltered advice. Glad it was written up, not sure what larger lessons I should take away.

This is a great change particularly with respect to guests being in other houses (visiting friends, Airbnb, ...)

> "Perhaps that means they're supremely confident they completely understand all facets of the issue and have an airtight solution, and were just flexing by wasting the first 30 days of their embargo."

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=18...

David Wu wrote KatoGo which is doing new and exciting stuff in Go Ai. He's writing a ton of code and performing even more experiments.

> Fig. 6. In the privacy settings the user can decide who can look their profile up using the provided email address and phone number. The most restrictive option available is “Friends”. We find that even when the user sets the PII visibility to “Only me” and searchability to “Friends”, the advertisers can still use that bit of information for targeting.

> 4.3.5 PII obtained without user’s knowledge ... Facebook could learn users’ PII from their friends would be by scanning friends’ contact databases, linking contacts to existing Facebook accounts, and then augmenting the Facebook accounts with any additional PII found in the contacts database ... We found that the previously-unused phone number became targetable in 36 days, 13 showing that it had indeed been linked to the corresponding author’s account without their knowledge. Making this situation worse, the matched phone number was not listed on the account’s profile, nor in the “Download Your Information” archive obtained from Facebook [5]; thus the target user in this scenario was provided no information about or control over how this phone number was used to target them with ads.

They tested a single image of each type. :/

The article mentions how this sub can operate up to 6,000M underwater and throws out this juicy bit > The craft reportedly was used to target undersea communications and other cables.

I doubt it's more than speculation but...

I believe it's in the order of $5M + 2 weeks to fix cables breaks near the shore and >$10M + 8 weeks to fix them in the middle of the ocean which sounded like a lucrative opportunity for blackmail

Seems to be well targeted at producers / distributes rather just consumers. Stop this at this source

> The operation targeted suspects who: (1) produce, distribute, receive and possess child pornography; (2) engage in online enticement of children for sexual purposes; (3) engage in the sex trafficking of children; and (4) travel across state lines or to foreign countries and sexually abuse children.

"The Soviets killed some 180,000 whales illegally, driving several species to the brink of extinction"

For those of us that skip straight to the comments

Isn't that the point of the article? to heavily user-police your site?

free karma answer: "Hacker news"

slide 2: CVE-2018-0733 was in the wild for 2 years slide 5: CVE-2017-3738 was in the wild for 4 years

> Moody’s downgraded Equifax from a “stable” to a “negative” outlook

> Lawsuits and investigations have cost $690 million in the first quarter of 2019 alone

> And the lawsuits will keep coming: In January, an Atlanta judge denied Equifax’s attempts to dismiss class-actions filed against the company.

Looks like there are real consequences to losing data on half of all Americans

Isn't this what screen call is for Pixel?

9. Github style issues feels much more modern, as a semi-regular wiki editor talk pages are one of my least favorite (and hardest to audit) parts of Wikipedia

In the last couple of hours the author rolled back some of their comments.

They way I'm reading this, they were seeing DNS requests to beian.gov.cn which was worrisome. Now they say those are the result of manually visiting baidu.com which makes more sense.

See https://github.com/pe3zx/huawei-block-list/blob/master/analy...

Excellent photos and mobile experience without any ads. Thank you BBC

Did anyone else notice the sql injection in their first block of code?

when X > $1M (maybe even large) it really doesn't

Seems like a lot of hand wringing over nothing, security is done with huge factors of safety (moving to 256 bit keys when no one had ever broken a 128 or even 96 bit key). It's hard to imagine that 1,2, or even a quarter of the bits couldn't be zero-ed.

> it’s easy to think that a difference of 1 single bit would be largely inconsequential when considering numbers this big. In fact, he said, the difference between 263 and 264 is more than 9 quintillion.

This is very hard to implement; How do you amortize startup costs (building the roads, buying new paving trucks) vs maintenance costs (raw cement, human, cost @ year 1, cost @ year 10, cost to replace the system after X years).

Do you penalize users/tax payers who have a lower use and less scaled systems? (e.g. should it cost more to mail my grandmother a letter because her post office is less at scale than mine?)

Do you increase the costs if some of your users leave (and risk even more attrition)?

This has been investigated in depth with schools and local businesses. Gov gives them a sweetheart deal with the hope that they contribute back and as the deal get's less good (and Gov starts ramping taxes to deal with paying infrastructure costs) businesses leave. For me the natural conclusion is the government has to provide some balancing (rain day funds, progressive taxes, ...)

Can someone summarize the difference between these leaks and the ones in December?[1] I'm not seeing one at first pass

https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-documents-six4three...

Average age of angry bird user was 5 the article says