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by jsnell 2y ago
If these APIs risk creating privacy problems, why did Apple add them to the platform in the first place? Why is Apple letting their first party apps access these dangerous APIs? If privacy and security really were the number one priority, t
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by jsnell 2y ago
False negatives are a thing. If they've got a 99.9% success rate at blocking password attacks, it means there's 7 qps of successes. That's 500k hijacked accounts per day, 200M per year. That is a very large number. And not a
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by jsnell 2y ago
> One might argue that "y'all" borders on a second person plural inclusive of the speaker So a first person plural?
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by jsnell 2y ago
Obviously via public key cryptography. It seems that you lack a sufficient understanding on this subject to back up the repeated snarky comments.
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by jsnell 2y ago
Blogspam for https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/12/12/con... The title is inaccurate. Microsoft doesn't actually "confirm password deletion for 1B users". They co
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by jsnell 2y ago
Would building that North-South transfer capacity even help? It seems like the basic mental model here is that it would equalize prices between Northern Sweden and Germany, not between Northern and Southern Sweden. And Germany is quite a bi
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by jsnell 2y ago
> The outbreak is centred in a remote rural area of Kwango province, where poor road conditions and heavy rains mean it takes nearly 48 hours to reach from Kinshasa. > While more than half of the cases involve children under 5, a 50-y
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by jsnell 2y ago
(Note that the Rust implementation is by Facebook, not by Google.) If you're looking to embed a scripting language in a Go program, having a embedded language implementation written in Java isn't very useful. And vice versa.
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by jsnell 2y ago
This is neither a new idea or a good one. Cloudflare did a PR launch of pretty much the same thing a few years back, and that you haven't actually seen it in the wild probably tells you all you need to know about how useful it is. Weba
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by jsnell 2y ago
Ok, so let's check that quora link. The answer is by some random web designer. Their source is this: https://web.archive.org/web/20120116201141/http://code.googl... And what does that page say? Righ
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by jsnell 2y ago
You've accidentally left off some pretty important context from that quote: > Chrome Mobile teams in Seattle and Kirkland, spanning four sub-teams in Chrome, with an emphasis on ... It's not the number of engineers working on C
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by jsnell 2y ago
> Google Chrome has/had ~23 paid developers, If you believe this, you maybe shouldn't be making claims about the economics of browser development. That's off by ludicrous amounts.
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by jsnell 2y ago
> There’s certainly reason to believe it to be true of course, but uber and Lyft are already capturing upwards of 50% of the fares for each ride, That's not true. If you check Uber's Q3 financials, gross bookings for "Mobi
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by jsnell 2y ago
> Iaonnidis's estimates of IFR in the 0.1% to 0.2% range were much closer to the mark. The problem is, that was not his estimate for the IFR. It was his estimate for the CFR. He was predicting 10k dead in the US, which was off by tw
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by jsnell 2y ago
It's a good thing that he didn't say that, then. The tweet just says that the reproduction attempt didn't didn't actually follow the original methodology. There is no claim that the authors of the replication attempt wer
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by jsnell 2y ago
I don't think this actually is a parody like the author claims. It's more of a pastiche, but a pretty bad one since the core conceit of Story of Mel was that it was real, while this is just made up nonsense.
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by jsnell 2y ago
It's the language barrier. The German word Tarif doesn't mean the same as the English word tariff.
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by jsnell 2y ago
I took the question to be on the logistics of executing this kind of operation with digital ledgers, not on when/whether those operations make sense. Confiscating foreign assets would do little[0] to reduce inflation. But it's the
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by jsnell 2y ago
The tricky part isn't money on a digital ledger. That's easy enough to handle with e.g. a one-off deposit tax (IIRC used as recently as the Euro crisis). There's no operational problem here, it just needs to be legislated to
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by jsnell 2y ago
Again, that seems to be in no way demonstrating the pattern that was claimed to be happening often. AFAIK Google did not take ownership of gcc, nor did they try to fork it without contributing to the original. They used GCC for a good coupl
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by jsnell 2y ago
The GP's complaint was that Google "took over projects" or "forked them without trying to contribute to the original". In the case of KHTML, they never used it in the first place, so it seems like a particularly ina
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by jsnell 2y ago
Which cases did you have in mind? Seems like it should be easy to find half a dozen examples since you claim it happens often.
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by jsnell 2y ago
Extensively discussed over the last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42177767 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42201261 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42190456 https:&#
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by jsnell 2y ago
There's no content here, it's just blogspam for https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-considers-tak...
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by jsnell 2y ago
Show HN for this from 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22396824
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by jsnell 2y ago
Scummy, but it also seems pretty stupid. You need extremely specific search terms to find any pages about this app rather than about real grep. Like, if you're making a search app and the first page of web search results for "<
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by jsnell 2y ago
> What makes Google feel it's worthwhile to have 40ish(?) people working on an open source project that they don't actually use much themselves? Honest questions -- I don't know the answer, but I'd like to. It's
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by jsnell 2y ago
> Alternatively, a narrow reading of the proposed order is that this only applies to Google. That doesn't seem like a narrow reading, but the only possible one. How could the order be applying to deals strictly between companies nei
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by jsnell 2y ago
I don't think there's much value in covering user growth numbers of a site several times a week.
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by jsnell 2y ago
That is a different case, this is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Google_LLC_(2...

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