<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: kr0bat</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kr0bat</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:34:25 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=kr0bat" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kr0bat in "Military sexual assaults far exceed DoD estimates, new report finds"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So that's 74,000 assaults against a population of 1,328,000[1]. So about 5.57% of the armed forces were assaulted sexually in one year.<p>But the United States as a whole had a reported ≈325k[2] sexual assaults in 2021. That's 0.09% of the population.<p>Are you really over 60 times more likely to be sexually assaulted in the military than in the general public? And are over a fifth of sexual assaults in America happening between military personnel? Somebody please tell me what I'm missing because I must be making a serious logical mistake.<p>[1] <a href="https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN11994" rel="nofollow">https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN11994</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/642458/rape-and-sexual-assault-victims-in-the-us-by-gender/" rel="nofollow">https://www.statista.com/statistics/642458/rape-and-sexual-a...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2024 18:33:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41269048</link><dc:creator>kr0bat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41269048</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41269048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kr0bat in "23-Floor Manhattan Office Building Just Sold at a 97.5% Discount"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The 10 foot ceilings are too low for the modern renter's sensibilities, apparently.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Aug 2024 23:06:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41206102</link><dc:creator>kr0bat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41206102</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41206102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kr0bat in "Partisan bot-like accounts continue to amplify divisive content on X"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The picture painted was accurate and relevant<p>> Self-described ‘news’ accounts rapidly spread falsehoods around the perpetrator. One viral narrative falsely named him as “Ali al-Shakati”, a Muslim migrant new to the UK. This was later debunked by the police. Nonetheless, false claims surrounding the attack quickly garnered millions of views online, galvanised by anti-Muslim and anti-migrant activists and promoted by platforms’ recommender systems.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2024 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41175320</link><dc:creator>kr0bat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41175320</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41175320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Python Practical Package Packing 2024]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://matt.sh/python-project-structure-2024">https://matt.sh/python-project-structure-2024</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40987746">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40987746</a></p>
<p>Points: 35</p>
<p># Comments: 35</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2024 16:43:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://matt.sh/python-project-structure-2024</link><dc:creator>kr0bat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40987746</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40987746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kr0bat in "The curious case of the missing period"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yep, I didn't add enough newlines. Fixed</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2024 20:31:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40433497</link><dc:creator>kr0bat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40433497</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40433497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kr0bat in "The curious case of the missing period"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As mentioned, the SMTP protocol only allows for 1000 bytes of data per line. The author also mentions that they are sending html emails, which ignore line breaks.<p>So a message intended to be sent by an SMTP client:<p>DATA<p>Hello customer,<br>[978 characters] 27.00<p>Was erroneously formated into:<p>DATA<p>Hello customer,<br>[978 characters] 27<p>.00<p>.<p>The period after 27 will be removed. And this is how the html will be rendered.<p>Hello customer,<p>[Lots of text] 2700</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2024 19:42:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40432908</link><dc:creator>kr0bat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40432908</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40432908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kr0bat in "How I got scammed out of $50k"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I consider myself technically inclined, yet up until today I didn't realize numbers COULD be spoofed<p>One day a few months ago I woke up to a missed call from a verified number. I had been in a car crash the night before, and I was worried I missed a call from the driver's insurance company.<p>I called them back, and I was told that I was talking to a civil engineering firm; the receptionist was polite, but she sounded even more confused than I was. I had googled the number while I was on the phone, and yup, it belonged to a civie firm.<p>At the time I just assumed some engineer fat fingered my number by mistake, but I guess I missed a call from "Amazon" or "your insurance company" or some other nonsense. Funnily enough an insurance scam might have gotten me in the state I was in.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2024 16:03:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39384347</link><dc:creator>kr0bat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39384347</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39384347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kr0bat in "How I got scammed out of $50k"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Some people lack an ear for accents, especially if they're subtle. Personally, my ear is so bad that I get Brazilian accents mixed with Eastern European accents; and west African accents mixed with Carribean accents.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2024 15:27:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39383808</link><dc:creator>kr0bat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39383808</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39383808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kr0bat in "Silicon Valley Has a Harvard Problem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I stopped reading when he criticized Google's "Don't be evil" motto as a corporate say-nothing. Yes it's a truism, but I'd argue that it was chosen because software engineers value simplicity and conciseness.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2024 02:08:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39353458</link><dc:creator>kr0bat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39353458</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39353458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kr0bat in "Harvard Teaching Hospital Seeks Retraction of 6 Papers by Top Researchers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hold on, I've heard of the replication crisis - though I don't know the scale - but are you saying that over 50% of "hard science" is bunk? I find that hard to swallow.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2024 19:00:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39093758</link><dc:creator>kr0bat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39093758</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39093758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Convicted murderer, filesystem creator writes of regrets to Linux list]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/convicted-murderer-filesystem-creator-writes-of-regrets-to-linux-list/">https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/convicted-murderer-filesystem-creator-writes-of-regrets-to-linux-list/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39061421">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39061421</a></p>
<p>Points: 21</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2024 21:26:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/convicted-murderer-filesystem-creator-writes-of-regrets-to-linux-list/</link><dc:creator>kr0bat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39061421</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39061421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kr0bat in "Why can't today's young adults leave the nest? Blame high housing costs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The paper was very careful to describe the mass increase of Cuban immigrants as "immigration shock", not just immigration. I don't think the conclusions of this paper can say any one thing about the effects of our (I'm assuming you're American as well) standard levels of immigration. Also..<p><pre><code>  These results suggest that immigration shocks do have implications for the fertility decisions and outcomes of natives, though these tend only to be temporary and short-lived. There therefore appear to be little long-term or sustained consequences for the fertility of natives from governments pursuing labour augmenting strategies through more open immigration policies.
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From the conclusion. I only really skimmed the abstract and the conclusion, please tell me if I'm missing something.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2024 21:16:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38974207</link><dc:creator>kr0bat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38974207</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38974207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kr0bat in "TikTok is making users give their iPhone passwords for unclear reasons"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's still no way for TikTok, or any app, to determine your password hash, so even if they test for validity (by conforming to OS pin restrictions), how would they test for veracity (being given the user's ACTUAL) passcode.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2023 22:10:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38799355</link><dc:creator>kr0bat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38799355</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38799355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kr0bat in "TikTok is making users give their iPhone passwords for unclear reasons"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wish the article put more emphasis onto the facg that TikTok was requesting the password through a system prompt. They don't have anyone's passwords, just a conformation from the device that the correct password was inputted. This is such a nothingburger.<p>All that aside...is this an nypost article referencing a Dextero article referencing an (unsourced) reddit comment?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2023 21:54:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38799183</link><dc:creator>kr0bat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38799183</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38799183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kr0bat in "Web Development History – Internet history for the technically curious"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'd love to read the writeup if you find it.<p>You might be thinking of Microsoft's Raymond Chen? I'd be surprised if he's written about the web in depth</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2023 23:20:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38788080</link><dc:creator>kr0bat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38788080</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38788080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kr0bat in "Ask HN: What's your "it's not stupid if it works" story?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How you could have enough control over the machine to reroute the error log to (what I assume was) a Pastebin api, while also lacking access to any of the files on the machine? In my mind you'd be required to ssh into the machine to upload, and if you're ssh'd in, why not just cat the log?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 Dec 2023 04:19:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38741596</link><dc:creator>kr0bat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38741596</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38741596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kr0bat in "Google OAuth is broken (sort of)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It sounds like the issue is that these service providers are obeying Google's aliasing rules, but also ignoring the fact that you shouldn't be using email as a primary identifier [1]? It's funny, if they had adhered to the spec more they'd be fine; but if they adheredess and treated alias' as distinct emails, these platforms would at least be more secure.<p>[1] <a href="https://developers.google.com/identity/openid-connect/openid-connect" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://developers.google.com/identity/openid-connect/openid...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2023 16:10:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38722324</link><dc:creator>kr0bat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38722324</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38722324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kr0bat in "U.S. students' math scores plunge in global education assessment"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Really, this sounds believable. How often does the average programmer use anything beyond arithmetic? I'm only a few years out of school, but I'm re-learning calculus since I haven't touched it once since college.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2023 15:54:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38532493</link><dc:creator>kr0bat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38532493</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38532493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kr0bat in "Mathematics, reading skills in unprecedented decline in teenagers – OECD survey"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thank for for linking. This confirms that yes...<p><pre><code>    The OECD said the decline was not inevitable, pointing to Singapore, where students scored the highest in maths, reading and science, with results that suggested they were on average three to five years ahead of their OECD peers.

    After Singapore, Macau, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea also outperformed in maths and science, where Estonia and Canada also scored well.</code></pre>
Reuters DID conflate "doing better" with "not doing worse". I believe OECD pointed to Singapore because their scores were high AND INCREASING.<p>A quick scan of I.5.1 shows Macau, Canada, Hong Kong, and Estonia with worse scores compared to 2018. Singapore and Japan's scores went up. A less lazy reader can use the OECD database to find numbers for the other listed countries.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2023 13:13:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38530276</link><dc:creator>kr0bat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38530276</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38530276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kr0bat in "Android 14 – Detect when users take device screenshots"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Title editorialized ever so slightly for clarity.<p>For those wondering how applications detected screenshots in the past.<p><pre><code>    Previously, apps were able to detect when a screenshot had been taken by listening for file changes while they were in the foreground, but this was less than ideal.
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<a href="https://www.androidpolice.com/android-14-screenshot-detected-toast/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.androidpolice.com/android-14-screenshot-detected...</a></p>
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