United857

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by United857 1y ago
These are not hackers but Meta employees/contractors who make money on the side by using their access to internal support tooling/channels. It's a fireable offense (it's only intended for actual friends/family) but
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by United857 1y ago
I’m old enough to remember arXiv being hosted by Los Alamos National Laboratory under the domain xxx.lanl.gov. It’s understandable why they changed their name.
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by United857 1y ago
That's rather surprising about the accessing user data bit. When I was at Meta, the quickest way to get fired as an engineer was to access user data/accounts without permission or business reason. Everything was logged/audi
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by United857 1y ago
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.
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Why there are so many more South Asian CEOs than East Asian CEOs in the US(davelu.com)
34 points by United857 1y ago|60 comments
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by United857 1y ago
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
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by United857 1y ago
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.
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by United857 1y ago
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 travel
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Air India 787 crashes on takeoff(timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
11 points by United857 1y ago|0 comments
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by United857 1y ago
https://archive.ph/iYdBT
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by United857 1y ago
I was excited to see the domain but it turns out this is Epic the healthcare software company not the game developer.
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by United857 2y ago
It seems some EU countries are unrestricted but others are. How is this compatible with the EU single market/customs union?
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Why China is losing interest in English(economist.com)
15 points by United857 2y ago|0 comments
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by United857 2y ago
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 tr
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by United857 2y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40819479
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by United857 2y ago
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...
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by United857 2y ago
The Chinese equivalent is DouYin, douyin.com
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by United857 3y ago
Amazon — my first purchase was in 1997 for a test prep book.
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by United857 3y ago
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
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by United857 3y ago
Google Chrome seems like a success as well.
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by United857 3y ago
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.
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by United857 3y ago
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 ove
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by United857 3y ago
The Patterson Hennessy computer architecture textbook is the classic and still the best IMO.
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TSA to expand facial recognition to 400 US airports(fastcompany.com)
31 points by United857 3y ago|5 comments
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A gentle introduction to why AI *might* end the human race(medium.com)
3 points by United857 3y ago|0 comments
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by United857 3y ago
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
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by United857 4y ago
https://archive.ph/pwQXA
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by United857 4y ago
Perhaps his name matched someone on a US government sanctions list? eBay is a US company after all.
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by United857 4y ago
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.
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by United857 4y ago
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.

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