barryaustin's comments

Yes, that's why I said "needs trials and replication". That small clinical study is useless for insurance companies and standard medical practice today. But it is very useful to point the way toward promising areas of further research, and for any pioneering risk-takers who might be willing to try.

That is, after all, how we learned that stomach ulcers are not psychosomatic (caused by "stress"), but rather by the bacterium H. Pylori. A doctor infected himself, got ulcers, and cured himself with antibiotics!

For anyone generally curious about the ME/CFS patient experience and state of medicine, there are a couple good articles in The Atlantic[0][1].

For those interested in latest research, Dr. Bhupesh Prusty presented[2] a very plausible hypothesis with detailed evidence[3] of virus-triggered autoimmunity causing mitochondrial dysfunction in endothelial cells (vascular system).

And there's a promising treatment for Long COVID with a study[4] claiming improvement in many symptoms, and describing the targeted mechanism of disease pathology (also vascular system). Needs trials and replication, or until then doctors willing to risk off-label treatment.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20230728074923/https://www.theat...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20230731145624/https://www.theat...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBmtnMenHgw

[3] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.23.23291827v...

[4] https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-2697680/v1

Excellent article - still I can't resist a rather large quibble.

The commonly stated assertion that spectrum is a limited resource is not quite accurate.

Spectrum is technically defined as a range of frequencies. That's all. In business parlance spectrum is also attached to large areas of land - this spatial dimension is more important than most people realize.

Radio signals themselves exist in space and time, not just in a range of frequencies. More radio signals - and data bandwidth - can be packed into a given space by shrinking the volume a given signal "occupies".

We can do this by reducing signal power and increasing cell density, in addition to other techniques described in the article. More cells, smaller cells. This is a big part of how 5G expands cell network capacity. But the telecoms have downplayed the effect of this relative to the the claim that spectrum is limited.

The mobile carriers have financial incentives to do this. These incentives are lower costs and monopoly control. Fewer bigger cells at higher power are cheaper than many smaller cells at lower power. The monopoly part is exclusive use of spectrum on a given piece of land.

The problem is, the legal attachment of spectrum works with very large areas of land (where km^2 is a smallish unit) and large periods of time (years), relative to radio signals. Both attachments are grossly inefficient.

By shrinking cell size (power) and increasing cell density, several orders of magnitude more network bandwidth is possible, plenty even to share (modulo cost of physical infrastructure).

Spectrum scarcity is a myth. The current legal regime enriches monopolists and is otherwise a tremendous waste of potential. We pay higher prices for unnecessarily limited bandwidth.

There's no straightforward fix because this behavior is something that emerges from mass psychology, like war. In a sense this is war, with new platforms to amplify and direct weaponized ideas.

If war is politics by other means (Clausewitz), we can turn that around and say that politics is war by other means. See: the Russian concept of hybrid warfare.

What ends war is when enough people in a society are convinced it's not worth it. And that happens when enough people are exposed to the horrors of war, when they see what it does to their own lives and to the lives of people they care about.

Now we're in a period when most people haven't been exposed to that level, so this is unfortunately an upswing.

The way through is for some number of us to keep our humanity toward others (in the positive sense), to act accordingly, to carry that through until conflict blows over, and to rebuild society afterwards.

Disclosure: I'm an engineer with the Advanced Protection Program.

Thanks for your work securing campaigns! I forwarded your post to my team because a major goal of ours is to be useful for this purpose.

Advanced Protection has improved a lot since early days. For example it works with Apple's native Mail, Contacts and Calendar apps on iOS.

Advanced Protection doesn't require any specific model of security key. The blue YubiKeys work just fine and even Touch ID is supported (as a U2F key).

Multiple backup keys are supported. And the same key can be used on multiple accounts.

Breaking or losing a key doesn't cause an immediate lockout. A key is required at first sign in on a new device or browser session but not thereafter. I don't even carry a key most of the time.

I'm sure there's more we could do to build great account security for campaigns. Please keep the feedback coming!

It's a common part of human nature. Assigning bad moral character on the basis of group identity, rather than on individual actions, is the essence of tribalism and bigotry.

Sure, the DoD has an outsized impact on people's lives and a highly controversial history including both major evil and major good.

It seems to me a positive thing that someone of good character and strong capabilities would go to make things better, vs allowing bad actors to accumulate and do what bad actors do.

Hyper-aggressive lawyering by a powerful entity can be an early indicator of how they treat people and use power.

The important thing is to actually read and understand the agreements that employers expect you to sign.

Some examples of what would catch my attention:

* Restricting what activities you can't do on your own time, even when there's no harm to the company.

* Playing games with definitions (especially key terms like "Invention") and loose language (like "related").

* Requiring unnecessarily high burden of proof, for example advance description of all IP that you have created and want to exclude from assigning to the employer.

If you see something you don't like, negotiate changes. If the employer won't work with you to make an acceptable agreement, then don't sign.

Edited for clarity

Since the target audience is mostly non-hackers, I'd make these points instead:

- For people not using a library or framework, use one!

- For people who build libraries and frameworks, consider bcrypt!

- For people who aren't cryptography deities, don't roll your own. Even Bruce Schneier needs heavy peer review.

And a nit - SHA-1 is showing its age and is being phased out; SHA-2 is much stronger and is widely available.

LivingSocial didn't skip server-side validation - they delayed it. Now they can identify cheaters who were suckered by false reports of a loophole. Doesn't look so dumb to me.

This is a protocol flaw. The design assumes that proximity (signal) implies authorization, but the researcher proved this isn't always the case. The protocol should at least provide assurance that authorization really comes from the person who has the key fob. Old style physical keys do that, and so do key fobs with buttons.

I avoid this by keeping my core apps in Chrome/Chromium and by browsing everything else with Firefox+NoScript+ABP.

"The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer." - Thomas J. Watson

"A problem well-defined is half solved." - John Dewey

It's a basic function of leadership to communicate a sense of purpose and to convince a team to buy in. It amazes me how often supposed leaders neglect this.

Strong idea and well executed so far. I know the pain point well.

Not so sure you're appealing to the right target market. It's hard to see this within the HN echo chamber but your site still comes across as very techie. It's clear how your service will help people like us, smartphone-wielding techies, but we don't run restaurants.

You should be targeting restaurant owners, executive chefs and general managers. These people are super busy and extremely tech-averse. They will shut off their brains instead of trying to understand anything even slightly technical about phones, Flash, web, etc. So get rid of that stuff. Instead show how they can get more customers by presenting their food and experience to people who are out in their neighborhood and hungry right now. And show how they can do this with near-zero hassle.

Messages like these might work: You're losing customers! X% of people are already out and about when they decide to eat. Y% of restaurant websites are broken on phones (use this instead of "Top 4 problems..."). Fancy phone = the income and connections to be prime customers.

Get rid of everything that doesn't clearly and directly support your main value proposition within the domain of your target market. For example the "Did you know?" section has only one relevant point ("14% of smartphone users look for restaurants...") and it hurts you because the number is small.

Test everything, including our comments. Good luck!

Knowledge is useful only as an input to action. Otherwise it's a dead end or it might have non-useful value such as entertainment.