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by zxt_tzx 3y ago
Instead of getting into a shouting match over whether piracy is or isn’t stealing, here’s an interesting story. Bill Gates made an interesting comment regarding software piracy in the 1990s. At that time, software piracy was rampant in Chin
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by zxt_tzx 3y ago
”It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” Upton Sinclair
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by zxt_tzx 3y ago
> While this obviously contributed to rising prices, the report finds that company profits increased at a much faster rate than costs did, in a process often dubbed “greedflation.” I think there is this expectation that companies "s
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by zxt_tzx 3y ago
I would frame it slightly differently: people (and by extension, these companies) have always been greedy, so what is the new variable that actually enabled them to convert this greed into higher prices?
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by zxt_tzx 3y ago
Are you referring to the step where Beeper's servers make a persistent connection with Apple's APN service to listen to new messages ? So your point is Apple can presumably distinguish between an actual iOS connection and Beeper&#
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by zxt_tzx 3y ago
I am not much of a pen-and-paper kinda person, but I recently came across CPG Grey's Sidekick Notepad that made me think twice. I like how it's designed to be integrated into a digital workflow and the "signaling" aspect
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by zxt_tzx 3y ago
> just the IPs Beeper Mini was using to connect to the APN service. Hmm, wouldn't blocking IPs be overly broad and risked affecting regular users? Considering that IPs are scarce and constantly recycled by ISPs etc. Blocking device
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by zxt_tzx 3y ago
> We've really done one over on ourselves by adopting the mental model that only a vertically integrated corp can deliver privacy and security to users. This rigid tendency towards homogeneity is bound to suffer a tragic systemic fa
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by zxt_tzx 3y ago
> Sponsored by the autonomous car industry? Fair, the litmus test would be whether Swiss Re charges less for (re)insuring autonomous vehicles vs regular drivers. > But anyway, I have a feeling that in the long run they probably will b
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by zxt_tzx 3y ago
The study controls mileage (driving exposure) and zip-code (geographic region) but it does not specifically mention controlling for variables like efficiency or road use. So you're right, the vehicles could be moving more slowly or cau
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by zxt_tzx 3y ago
> The results of the research are exciting both for the insurance industry and the safety community alike: in over 3.8 million miles driven without a human being behind the steering wheel in rider-only mode, the Waymo Driver (Waymo’s ful
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First-of-its-kind study finds autonomous vehicles are safer than human drivers(swissre.com)
2 points by zxt_tzx 3y ago|6 comments
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by zxt_tzx 3y ago
> Having said that, this WILL become a maintenance trainwreck when scaled up, telling from my devops experience. All the libraries/apis/infrastructure (especially in nodejs land) tend to have breaking updates all the time, so b
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by zxt_tzx 3y ago
I wish I had read this when I rolled by first API key management system. Some other useful points to note: - in general, you’d probably want to version your API keys (something that wasn’t done in the example) - I tend to think base58 is le
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by zxt_tzx 3y ago
Link to original article: https://web.archive.org/web/20231116164611/https://www.reute... Very well-researched, seems like they are behind a surprisingly wide range of hacks (government officials, busine
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Streisand effect: Reuters takes down exposé on Indian mercenary hackers(404media.co)
6 points by zxt_tzx 3y ago|3 comments
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by zxt_tzx 3y ago
Haha it's almost like the Stroop effect, where you print the word "red" in blue ink instead of red ink. I think you're solving a real pain point but to be honest I watched the video a few times and have trouble understan
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by zxt_tzx 3y ago
To spell out what I think you're saying, the way to be ethical and have ownership is to pay for the content and then download a version of it so that you both supported the creator and have a copy of what you paid for.
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by zxt_tzx 3y ago
I think it's interesting to contrast this with music. Music is dominated by a few big labels, which makes it very easy for each provider (Spotify, Apple Music etc.) to provide a complete catalogue and thus convenience. (Though this doe
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by zxt_tzx 3y ago
This advice sounds rad! Do you know of any open-source codebase that does this? > Use dynamodb for storage. So far I've done the opposite, i.e. use a relational database at the beginning, and, if the access pattern is clear and ther
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by zxt_tzx 3y ago
I think the casing is not enforced by HN but rather up to the poster? > (Aside: I wish someone would rethink Serverless, heh.) Not sure if you've checked out https://sst.dev/ but I think they've done precisely
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by zxt_tzx 3y ago
I know this doesn't really solve the underlying problem, but I find that if I use Cloudflare's WARP ( https://1.1.1.1/ ), Cloudflare is able to recognize the traffic is coming from itself and I can get past these ca
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by zxt_tzx 3y ago
There’s probably an anti-competition angle here: with end-to-end encryption, you need a trusted central authority to distribute the public keys, which would make interoperability across different messaging services more difficult (impossibl
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Why Big Tech structurally incentivizes overhiring and layoffs(twitter.com)
1 points by zxt_tzx 3y ago|0 comments
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by zxt_tzx 3y ago
That makes a lot of sense. All the best, am sure you’ll go on to do great stuff!
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by zxt_tzx 3y ago
> The CEO categorized it as a “security vulnerability” during our discussion on GitHub. Have you tried making a HN post or otherwise bring attention to this? My impression is he got a bunch of undeserved clout, especially in light of how
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by zxt_tzx 3y ago
Thank you for the detailed reply! > I tried putting a few job ads on MyCareersFuture for an average salary for Singapore, and only got a handful of responses, most of whom were entirely unqualified. Our circumstances changed, so I didn’t
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by zxt_tzx 3y ago
I use PlanetScale as well and have had a great experience so far! But honestly I have doubts whether it's the right technical choice to use a startup/scaleup for arguably the most mission critical part of my application. Side note
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by zxt_tzx 3y ago
but but but BTC just hit $44k?!? /s
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by zxt_tzx 3y ago
Tweet from founder saying affected users are upgraded to the paid plan in perpetuity: https://x.com/glcst/status/1732084865497976908 Personally, I am quite impressed by the new serverless database offerings (Plane

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