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> I wish the order of presentation were different, because it starts with incorrect and misleading claims and then only later fixes its trajectory. I wouldn't hold my breath, every…

The source is 4chan, and most certainly an exercise in creative s#!$posting.

Per the paper, it looks to be this one: https://phaser.io/

Barely two months from their announcing a hiring spree... https://www.reuters.com/business/logistics-startup-flexport-...

This seems like a pretty surprising process failure for a mature company like Grubhub, for such a marketing campaign to be greenlit without any guardrails. Wouldn't this be the kin…

It looks like it could be a binary intended to be snuck in with third party package dependencies and such that you might unintentionally execute within your lambda runtime. It's on…

A more poignant elegy to the modern landscape of compliance theater I have never seen: > Security Standards. Okta's ISMP includes adherance to and regular testing of the key contro…

Likely some stressed out buyers paid for overpriced homes given the sharply rising prices across the market (although completely by their choice), and the sellers probably loved it…

> A more innocent, but also unproven, theory is that those who got sick suffered from a mass condition brought on by some stressful underlying situation. A Stand Alone Complex?

One could argue that we are doing the followup even to this day (with the China CLEP programme, India’s Chandrayaan, USA’s ongoing Artemis campaign and others). The deed was done, …

India's first forays into semiconductor fabrication in the 80s and 90s were likewise enthusiastically supported by the government (land, incentives, tax breaks and so on), but were…

"Art is what you can get away with." - Andy Warhol

Is this referring to Alexa, or some other product? Have there been any major notable reports about spying happening with Echos? With regards to data collection for ads, personalize…

Not to mention: > Already have an account? No you don't. > Try to log in below if you think you do anyway.

This is a good principle in terms of reducing the overall blast radius of exploits. But to do this the implementations should genuinely be independent. In practice we may find a mo…

The pricing appears to be static per model with a ceiling on the monthly request count, not charged per request. Edit: Actually, I didn't spot the free tier of 1000 requests. I won…

There was a good thread on this topic a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23216852 That and Matt Levine's take on it ( https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-…

Yeah, given that the article started off establishing how an Estimator was basically an interface with simple rules about supporting "fit" and "predict" and how it could contain an…

I'm frankly astonished that the species lasted for two and a half million years all while being highly endangered the whole time. Like, nevermind a comet, a poorly timed burp from …

What does a yearly installment plan even mean in the context of a cloud subscription-based service, as opposed to one for which one has already received goods? And first of all, as…

And for the rest of us there's always ConcurrentSkipListMaps.

Don't think OP is claiming that was the reason for the ban, they may be alluding to this separate incident: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23628394 Edit: Agreed, no convictio…

Sure, as long as we're not insinuating that's an inherently undesirable thing. We're quite literally on a thread involving a product that collected tonnes of sensitive user data wi…

Cue dang's caution about Wolfram Derangement Syndrome https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

That'd be fantastic in a week or a month. ICUs in Washington and New York are running low on supply as we speak, any help now could buy a medical professional in these areas precio…