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by bostik 5y ago
There is apparently an entire branch of research called Reviewer Reliability. Someone on HN pointed that out to me a couple of years back, when we were discussing the problem with fake/bought/manipulated/blackhat product revi
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by bostik 5y ago
Judging by the comments, or at least by those who comment (semi-)actively, a surprisingly sizeable fraction of HN actives do fit into that bucket. And for a properly demoralising angle, that level of wealth is still a far cry from being f
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by bostik 5y ago
> Locking up all the thieves is super duper hard, because they are located in places like Russia and China that wont cooperate with law enforcement. Oh, they do. With their local ones. Those thieves can operate with impunity as long as
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by bostik 5y ago
Smarkets | Full Time | ONSITE, part WFH [REMOTE during the plague] (London, UK; also Downtown LA, California) We're a modern betting exchange, going technology first to enable proper price competition in a field of fat commissions. Joi
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by bostik 5y ago
I would say that depends on how intensely you are being watched. Traffic analysis and timestamp correlation are a powerful tool. Small traffic bursts going out, slightly larger ones coming in: surfing, reading the front page. (Or new post p
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> Now this should probably be taught in schools. It should. Under the name "media literacy".
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by bostik 5y ago
Oh good, so now I can silence a critical voice by unleashing a horde of bots and I don't even need to drown their voice?
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by bostik 5y ago
That's actually a much more interesting question, and I admit, not something I had even considered. What kind of outlier situations and stress scenarios should you be required to weather to be allowed to be a brokerage? We as a socie
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by bostik 5y ago
If "operate as a real brokerage" means that you must have $5B+ of cash tied up at the clearing house, that's a pretty stiff barrier for entry. To be fair, I don't like RH. They are irresponsible, greedy and reckless. The
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by bostik 5y ago
And if you get nonsensical keygen errors even after enabling the PIN, check that you enabled it for the right embedded application: https://bostik.iki.fi/aivoituksia/projects/yubikey-ssh.html
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by bostik 5y ago
Decisions get agreed upon in meetings. The actual decisions have been made in the days, weeks, sometimes months leading up to the meeting. And the amount of human input going into them can vary from very little to gargantuan. I believe ther
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by bostik 5y ago
When you become critical national infrastructure, the calculus changes. For any company in that position, their NUMBER ONE priority is to keep operating and providing their deemed essential service. Colonial obviously have done well in cert
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by bostik 5y ago
The truly cynical take is that they managed to take down Colonial's billing . In response, Colonial shut down the pipeline - because obviously delivering oil without getting paid is out of the question. Yes, it's guesswork and pr
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by bostik 5y ago
Not good enough. They still make money off of the ads the affected agencies have to push out to inform users about the fraud problem. Few things are more profitable than selling both the poison and the cure.
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by bostik 5y ago
Thank you for that. I was only vaguely aware of (1) and in retrospect have had an intuition about (2). I am delighted to be one of today's lucky 10000: https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by bostik 5y ago
I had an even darker interpretation. Because there is a non-zero probability that some civilizations are, or will become, hostile predators, the most effective survival strategy is to: 1) avoid detection at all costs, and 2) exterminate a
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by bostik 5y ago
Hah. I've had that experience but with sound. Long time ago, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth and AMD K8 was the pinnacle of technology, I invested in a basic home theater setup. A decent AV receiver, a subwoofer, two studio-quality mon
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by bostik 5y ago
As you should. They are amputationware. [Snark warning!] "We were compromised. Rotate your passwords, chop off your finger and change your face." [End snark] Biometric measurements are fuzzy, by their nature. This in turn means th
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by bostik 5y ago
Funny that you should mention that. It looks like there is an emerging interest to go after the money outlets: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/04/task-force-seeks-to-disr...
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by bostik 5y ago
> most ransomware attacks are pretty unsophisticated As weird as it sounds, this is both correct and incorrect at the same time. It is correct, because ransomware is not particularly sophisticated by today's standards. Couple of d
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by bostik 5y ago
I'm going to lift one part of your quoted material, because this should get more eyeballs: > We have not found a single instance of a child infecting parents. That is a really strong claim. It also goes against common logic. Child
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by bostik 6y ago
I suspect it's not just the cloud cover. Looking at the map, it's quite depressing to note just how high up north even London really is. Berlin, Warsaw and Amsterdam are all similarly positioned. If we pan west along the 50° north
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by bostik 6y ago
The plural of anecdote is not data, but I can provide some figures. There is currently a push in London to get households install solar panels, and I expressed interest in getting a set installed to our house. Sadly, the finances don't
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by bostik 6y ago
> truth value can be derived from the timestamp Python used to disagree with you: https://lwn.net/Articles/590299/ (and the bug report with discussion spanning a couple of years: https://bugs.pytho
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by bostik 6y ago
I came up with one of EFF Finland's t-shirt slogans: Orwell was an optimist . Of course, I was soon outdone. It didn't take long for the adapted version to surface: Orwell was an amateur . Which, I have to admit, is an apt descr
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by bostik 6y ago
There is JS/TS in the codebase, but a surprisingly large fraction of the UI manipulation logic doesn't bear resemblance to either. I base my opinion on my own interpretation: for me modern React looks a lot like the offspring of Q
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by bostik 6y ago
While I want to disagree with you on the general principle (and gen220's sibling comment points out several really nice longer-term examples), I will certainly admit that you have a point. Cloud providers eating the margins, investing
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Your choice of counterexamples highlights an important aspect. Three of the four are in fact outliers: Kubernetes and Android are both financially backed by Google. Android as a strategic advantage across a global market, Kubernetes as a pl
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by bostik 6y ago
I can give one example where the ML/AI toolkit is useful, even if only the largest providers in the world may need to work with real Big Data[tm] volumes. Fraud detection. And you don't need to be a particularly big operator to
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by bostik 6y ago
You would be surprised what bored and borderline sociopath teenagers will do for shits and giggles. In this case, quite literally.

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