United857

3,493 karma · joined May 6, 2011

It's how data roaming works in general -- it's tunneled through to the SIM's home provider. Conversely, a Chinese SIM roaming overseas is still subject to the Great Firewall.

United857··on Occasionally USPS sends me pictures of other people's mail

I have an extremely common first and last name and my email address is first.last@gmail.

I get my fair share of misaddressed mail but it doesn’t help that I share the same name as the CEO of a major hotel chain’s timeshare business so I’ve getting tons of complaints about that :/

United857··on Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA

Edit: they finally did allow JIT for browsers.

The article doesn’t mention Apple’s persistent refusal of JIT support for 3rd party JavaScript engines, which is a main barrier to implementing a performant 3rd party browser.

United857··on Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme

I’m no fan of the current administration but this is one person’s account so inherently 1 sided. I just flew in from Europe and most people were not searched. US border control don’t have time to systemically search the phones of all travelers. I’m guessing some other red flag triggered the questioning and phone search and denial (eg no return ticket or accommodation booked).

United857··on Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears

https://archive.ph/iYdBT

United857··on Visiting Us

I was excited to see the domain but it turns out this is Epic the healthcare software company not the game developer.

United857··on US Export Control Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion

It seems some EU countries are unrestricted but others are. How is this compatible with the EU single market/customs union?

United857··on Legalizing sports gambling was a mistake

Sports gambling should be regulated like we do day trading (basically another form of gambling) — require a some minimum threshold of money in the account to deter those without disposable income from gambling away their savings (for day trading it’s $25k).

United857··on [dead]

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40819479

United857··on Lufthansa brings the inflight experience to life with mixed reality

This is a better link that actually talks about the face that business class passengers will get headsets to use for the flight. https://www.meta.com/blog/quest/travel-mode-lufthansa-airpla...

United857··on Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest

The Chinese equivalent is DouYin, douyin.com

United857··on Ask HN: What are your oldest "online" accounts still in use?

Amazon — my first purchase was in 1997 for a test prep book.

United857··on Playing audio files in a Pi Pico without a DAC

I'm dating myself here but I remember similar techniques back in the original IBM PC days to play sampled audio through the built-in PC speaker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealSound

United857··on FAQ on Leaving Google

Google Chrome seems like a success as well.

United857··on Is my plane a 737 MAX?

For the most reliable info, you can look up your flight number in Flightaware or Flightradar 24 -- those use actual flight plan data, so will take into account any last minute aircraft changes.

United857··on Off-duty pilot allegedly tried to shut off engines on Alaska Airlines flight

Unlike Germanwings, this incident thankfully didn’t involve a single pilot behind a cockpit door. Most airlines banned such a scenario after Germanwings. Here, the flight deck was occupied fully and the two on-duty pilots were able to overpower the assailant successfully.

United857··on What every developer should know about GPU computing

The Patterson Hennessy computer architecture textbook is the classic and still the best IMO.

United857··on NYT/Bellingcat investigators find Pentagon leaker through Instagram photo

But previously with the Snowden and Manning leaks, journalists still published the leaked docs (with selective redactions for truly sensitive content). In this case, I've not seen any actual docs linked or published, even though they claim "they're on Twitter"

United857··on A SVB short seller explains red flags he saw months ago

https://archive.ph/pwQXA

United857··on I created an eBay account and bought an item, today I got indefinitely suspended

Perhaps his name matched someone on a US government sanctions list? eBay is a US company after all.

United857··on Google and Mozilla are working on iOS browsers that aren't based on WebKit

Don't even need to jailbreak, nowadays you can build/sideload using a free iOS developer account, especially if the projects in question are open source.

United857··on Smart ovens shouting out to servers in Russia and China

Perhaps they just want to make it useful in the Chinese market where Google is blocked by the great firewall without having to have a separate firmware build just for that.

United857··on Ask HN: Best Layman's Book on Electricity

I like All About Circuits: https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/textbook/

United857··on Apple Security Research Device (2022)

To answer the question of how does one legitimately get their hands on one: https://security.apple.com/research-device/

United857··on Stripe issues

https://web.archive.org/web/20230114202232/https://news.ycom...

Internet archive has a snapshot of it

United857··on Reverse Engineering Star Wars: Yoda Stories (2014)

Those four letter chunk IDs seem suspiciously like IFF (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_File_Format) in which case there's a bunch of generic parsing/extraction code out there which will avoid a lot of reinventing the wheel here.

United857··on Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

This seems to be lost in the storm: “we allow paid advertisement/promotion for any of the prohibited social media platforms.”

Just another money grab — doesn’t make it much nicer but not an outright ban.

United857··on Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

FB and IG banned but Snap, TikTok, LinkedIn or YouTube are fine?

United857··on Tell HN: Doing a chargeback against Google will get your account banned

Hopefully governments are looking into these customer service (or lack there of) for big tech. Google services are almost as important as banking or telcos for many people so there should be also some oversight here.

(Disclaimer: I’m a employee of one of Googles peer companies, but still only speaking for myself)

United857··on Ask HN: Have you ever used an image consultant?

I’m going to be blunt here. Looking at OP’s submission history on this site, there is a a lot of baggage, insecurity and unrealistic expectations to sort out first.

Start with: where is your sense of identity and self worth derived from? What is your moral compass and principles that guide your life?

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