skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm assuming, and haven't read anything to the contrary, that these are just dynamically linked code libraries what have been a pretty big part of how OSs work for decades.

Yes, we're talking about the same thing.

> Therefore, I can only conclude that the identifying information is which precises system libraries are installed on any given machine.

Specifically, it provides very detailed information about your hardware revision, OS version, security patch level, which is generally something that forms part of most fingerprinting suites. Now, I'm not saying that we can solve this problem easily–but I do think it's important to recognize the privacy implications that uploading them can entail.
>Companies like Google have waged war on virtual cards

First, this seems a bit histrionic. That's a wide claim to make with a sample size of one.

Second, the entire idea that the author was banned for using a virtual card comes from a friend who spoke to another friend who allegedly works as an "account manager" (presumably at Google?), who themselves admit they can't even see into the process.
i always wondered why it wasn't possible to use a js app in "record" mode and then export any witnessed type & profiling information from the JIT and deliver it alongside the source (like a sourcemap).
Side note: this reminds me of a passage in The Machine Stops, by E M Forster (1909).

> “In the air-ship —” He broke off, and she fancied that he looked sad. She could not be sure, for the Machine did not transmit nuances of expression. It only gave a general idea of people — an idea that was good enough for all practical purposes, Vashti thought. The imponderable bloom, declared by a discredited philosophy to be the actual essence of intercourse, was rightly ignored by the Machine, just as the imponderable bloom of the grape was ignored by the manufacturers of artificial fruit. Something “good enough” had long since been accepted by our race.
No. They might never show up, and you can't even sue them for negligence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia

Every adult should have the means to protect who they care about.
I avoid things like spot on, great comment etc., but yeah, this comment is exactly right.
"Slack" has multiple meanings including nautical-- adding or cutting slack into a line, which gives it capability to do more...
> plugin which allows to set different identities for different folders

which plugin are you using?
Bring btrfs to windows pls!
Summary: punitive enforcement measures have a backlash.
the book was fascinating to say the least
Beyond the fact that I don't understand why a virtual card should be a problem, I think that this era of "we can deny you a service and tell you nothing" should stop. It's one of the biggest issues of the modern internet.

I understand that laws are different around the world. In Italy, whatever is defined as a "public exercise" - anything offering its services to the anybody, be it a shop, a store, a cafè, a restaurant, MUST offer those services to anybody who a) can pay and b) satisfies any global and well-expressed condition (e.g. more than 18 years old, properly dressed, etc). You cannot just deny service to a random customer without a VERY GOOD reason. If you want to serve members only, you can build your private club. Then you're able to do almost whatever you like, but you cannot advertise or promote your activities to non-members.

I suppose US law is different, although I think to remember that there're some rules against discrimination. Either the service is available to anyone, or to noone. If some infringement happens, it must be explicit and there must be the chance to appeal to a judge. Otherwise, how can this be non-discriminatory?
A hash table can also approximate any function, so the "universal function approximation" thing is a bit oversold. It isn't really what matters. What matters is how well methods generalize beyond the training data, and how much data they need to do this well.
I don't use Slack, but from what I gather it's general slowness and the way it aids constant distraction means it is a pretty good productivity killer, so calling it 'Slack' is actually Truth in Television.
Television and video games are high up on my list of time-wasters. Mediocre girlfriends, PHP, music career, freelancing for crappy clients, electronics repair - the list goes on and on.

Remember that you are not a robot, not everything in your life needs to 100% optimized. It's all a learning experience no matter how much time you fritter away.
No. I haven't looked through many js packages.

I could make it without any effort via:

> https://github.com/feross/funding/blob/master/messages.json

Currently it's "manually curated" which is a fancy way of saying, it's my own custom ad-tag that doesn't call an adserver. Replacing one field with a function that is immediately called and getting your value out, is how most people would integrate an ad-tag.

Using DFP or whatever, you can plug in an adtag call and parse values and you're in business. Ad platforms don't usually support plaintext tags, but I have seen them still supported by some of the older "native ad" platforms who started as platforms that served HTML strings (Taboola, etc).

The takeaway is that NPM nipped it in the bud because it's trivial to abuse.
Your own examples are just arguments in favor of government spending.

Take for example your claim “the US government spends more on healthcare per capita hhan any other country, yet our heathcare is worse than most countries”

The data is clear - single payer systems achieve lower prices thanks to having MONOPSONY POWER over the market. Providers compete, regular consumers don’t, for basic services. Instead resources are prioritized by urgent need. Almost All the systems ahead of US in quality and outcomes in the Commonwealth Fund list are single payer systems. If the US government had a single payer system, it would do well. All around the world we have seen that governments can cover EVERYONE and do it CHEAPER if they have a single payer system, thanks to their massive MONOPSONY power.

As for education: I am not talking about government run schools, but if we had vouchers (a single payer system) then private schools would compete for those dollars and once again it would pop up in areas where they are needed (eg next to a failing school).

I am not in favor of FREE COLLEGE being funded by government but I am massively in favor of FREE EDUCATION which can mean MOOCs, coding schools, apprenticeships acting workshops and much much more. The idea that an inherently wasteful “four year cruise” should be subsidized by money meant for EDUCATION, or that we need to lock up great teachers in lecture halls to only reach 300 people while another 30 are reached by crappy teachers is ridiculous. I am not saying government should dictate what FORM the education would take, just provide people with vouchers or UBI to make their own decisions.

But my original point was that the FEDERAL government being the only one who can issue currency is actually pretty limiting. Look at how well the PIIGS countries did in the south of europe after joining the Euro and giving up the power of running their own monetary policy. When Greece had the Drachma they did way better.

Similarly Detroit wouldn’t have gone bankrupt if it could issue its own currency like Bristol and Brighton in England.

There are tons of examples. Venezuela is a great example of government mismanaging the currency and people needing an alternative. And in fact, during the Weimar republic’s hyperinflation, there were pockets of private currencies the did very well and HELPED PEOPLE until they were OUTLAWED by the stupid principle of enforcing sanctions by the French after the treaty of Versailles. Who knows that alone could have averted WW2 and the Nazis rise to power in an impoverished Germany.

And then of course in peacetime this is THE DEFAULT. In the free banking era before the greenback, most everyday money was banknotes circulating issued by various individual banks not the “official sanctioned by the Federal Government banks”

And now we have cryptocurrencies AND social networks payment systems increasingly competing with banks. Also, I don’t just talk, I put my $ where my mouth is and build what I believe:

https://intercoin.org
Voice Applications for Alexa and Google Assistant
Yeah, I think my wording in the original post is to blame here.

What I was trying to get across was that Feross has previously been vocal about his belief that his software was both FOSS and monetarily free. Now, he seems to be exploring the possibility that his code can still be FOSS, and monetarily free in concept, but perhaps walks the path Facebook, Google, et. al have that has lead to the much maligned cliche' "if you're not paying, you're the product." How far down that path does one have to go to lose the spirit of FOSS, if at all?

Interesting to think about.
I had assumed this referred to "A New Stoicism", which was published in 1998, but looking around amazon there seems to be this self help culture that's cropped up around the term.
There's already a JIT for JS coded in Rust:

https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/2017/10/20/holyjit-a-new...

The overall goal is to have Firefox recoded in Rust, why would a JavaScript interpreter be left out?

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Oxidation

That's the whole point of Oxidation.
Does CRISPR still leave cells with a mess of disconnected strands after the fact? Read about this being an issue a couple years ago, but haven't seen any follow-up since then.
Yes. He's certainly not going to approach this like an engineer going bug hunting.

The goal will be to establish that the problem was cultural and political. An avoidable cascade of engineering failures and regulatory misrepresentations was the result, not the cause.
It is less about their enjoyment of the coverage post-factum (which they are, obviously, aware they won't be able to witness themselves), and more about "they will be talking about and covering my deeds even after I am gone, so i will go out with a splash." It is just a perverted version of "leaving a legacy" behind and being immortalized in the public eye.

If you take that away, there is not much "glory" or "legacy" left behind, which certainly would discourage a giant chunk of shooters.

Note: I watched the first season of that show, thought it was terrible, and was told that the second season was even worse. The writers should have presented the topic in a better and more mature way, but they ended up doing a poor job of it. While I believe that the show should not be banned and creators should not be held responsible for it (for many reasons, with the main two being the overreach of censorship and freedom of speech; it is a work of fiction, after all), I do believe that the coverage of shootings and similar events by the mainstream media should be somewhat regulated/normalized. Whether it happens through a carrot (news self-regulating themselves) or stick (gov-t imposed regulations) is up to them, but I would much rather prefer them take the carrot.
Yeah, we do - in our Docker repo. But I don't want my Dockerfiles polluted with checksums of modules I download. This allows me to build images safely and then it's all vendored in our private Docker repo. This just makes our lives easier and more intelligent.
There is little strain on the "language leaders" (that would be barking up the wrong tree, anyway) as the features you named with one exception are already done and have been available for years.

• "is item 'in' set" operator: https://metacpan.org/pod/Syntax::Feature::In

• sets: https://metacpan.org/pod/Set::Object

• clean function parameters declaration system: https://metacpan.org/pod/Kavorka::Manual::Signatures

• constants that are not functions/objects: https://metacpan.org/pod/Const::Fast

• enums that are not functions/objects: ?

• structs that are not functions/objects: pack/unpack, for explanation see https://metacpan.org/pod/Convert::Binary::C
And now it starts all over again with official classic servers
Microsoft Releases React Native Adaptive Cards, Crafted by Imaginea
Trying to figure out the "perfect" tech stack, game engine, etc. to use instead of just going with one for my personal project.
> that strikes me as nonsense

It is nonsense. It takes multiple failures to bring down an airliner, and the NTSB accident reports recommend fixing all of them. It's why airliners are so safe today.

The 737MAX issue is no different.
If it’s a state actor, as has been alluded to, they’re not compromising the ISP, they are the ISP.

But yeah, absolutely, great point - shitty ads are doable AND geo-targetable!
Actors aren't fungible units - if you change an actor, especially to another gender, you're changing the character's body language and facial expressions at a minimum.
WoW Classic just came out. I’m obsessed.
> If customers have the chance to tip, we can assume that they will reward good service more handsomely than mediocre service.

No, they don't.

People almost always tip the same percentage.

> But experienced waiting staff will be skilful at spotting who is likely to appreciate superior service (and indeed what superior service means for individual patrons).

Which in the US often experienced wait staff may avoid serving black people, or give worse service, because of the expectation that black people tend to give lower tips.

These are standard points in the "tip or no tip" debate, which also covers the interactions between the tipped and non-tipped staff, and tip sharing.

As such, the views given here don't really seem to address the larger debate, but only interpret an economist's view of how tipping should work from a theoretical standpoint.
I second this, recognising my Google account as a giant SPOF made me invest heavily into redundancy. I've gotten closer and closer to the point where I can realistically consider Google services as ephemeral.
I've read that in multiple docs back then but since you observed this it could've been false. The rationale I had for it was that there are many sites with completely independent subdomains or technical resources like asset being served by subdomains. Buying established Domains and scraping old content does not rely on Subdomains. Affiliate, ads or your own product can be placed on the TLD. I dont doubt you tough and I think I will try it sometimes. Old school fun
The question (as I read it) is "does human life have more value than the freedoms afforded to us by constitutional decree?" I'm personally struggling to find an answer either way, but I'd at least disagree that we can't weigh the text of a constitution against modern research.

That said, there's certainly another conversation over whether we should consider how valuable human life is compared to the conveniences modern tools like firearms and private vehicles give us. Or I guess we've already collectively decided that the answer is no.
As a totally uninformed guess -- no?

Part of wayland's security design decisions is that one program cannot receive events from another program.

An app like xeyes would need cooperation from the compositor otherwise.
source avail != anyone can make copies of the binary
And why do you think this isn't intentional? Spending money on people solving company's screwups costs a lot of money. For the company the size of Google or Facebook one client (or hundred) like this are peanuts, drop in the bucket. The cost of losing them is minimal over the costs of paying a support person to deal with problems.

Big client won't get banned - and if they do, they have also a non-public phone number to an account manager to make things right again too.

Sadly this is a common trend - e.g. with ISPs it is almost impossible to find a contact to an actual person, only some online chats or automated hotline that will waste your time with canned responses not solving your problem.
The expression sample seems a bit dystopic. The "normal" face has a huge smile, whereas the "sad" looks more neutral. May be a cultural thing, but it's not very common to see people with the "normal" looking expression outside genuinely happy situations or where one fakes such situation for sustinence or monetary gain.
As explained above, this particular exploit only remains in memory until you reboot the device. Unless you visit the site again after the reboot, no trace of it would be left on your phone.

If it was indeed this exploit, they had your data at that point already though. No action will undo that, but changing secrets might help.
The talk hasn't been posted to youtube yet, but slides alone show some of the risks of eBPF. The speaker's previous talk at 35C3 went into how the verifier is arbitrary and not really designed to prevent attackers anyway.

https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2027/DEF%20CON%2027%20pre...
That gets more cumbersome if the table has indexes (you will have to create them on the new table), and even more cumbersome if foreign keys point to it (you will have to drop them before step 3 and recreate them after step 4)

“Copy all data” also can be difficult if the table has data that the database created that must stay the same because you use it elsewhere. That shouldn’t be a problem with SQLite, as it doesn’t allow rowid as foreign key, but if you use it as a foreign key outside the database, or use the hash of a full row to detect changes, it may still bite you.

It also may mean being offline for a significant amount of time, but that also often is (effectively) the case for databases that support deleting columns
Not sure if the title is really truthful, it sounds like the first day they went that was the reason (lack of Aadhaar ID) but they had it the subsequent days. The articles hints at that doctors don't like to administer the drug unless they have a 4-5 cases because the vials go bad but that seems like speculation on why it wasn't given not a confirmed reason.
Reddit :)
Why does Google hate virtual cards though? It's an anti-fraud mechanism. Google's declaring that using an anti-fraud mechanism is in fact an indication of fraud?
Yikes. Does Facebook even try to not be creepy?!?
> Since this decision is final, the account will not be reinstated.

> I offered [to] set my primary payment method back to the previous card.

This is, to me, the most infuriating part: account is blackholed at the first misstep, that you cannot even guess, with no possible redemption, and with damages far beyond the initial misstep scope: if you use the same account, payment issue on google ads, your photos are inaccessible. How does that even make sense?
Furries, unite.
I bet if this happened in the US, the doctors would have prescribed something else to counteract the hypertrichosis.
You cut yourself from a lot of opportunities that way.
with awareness, time cannot be wasted. Everything happened just the way it needed to. Everything happening now happens just the way it should.
"Stoicism" got a bad rep 1700 years ago when I was defamed by Roman christians. I think it still suffers from this.
>Though we intend to adapt our ideas to these frameworks, we view them as separate, orthogonal issues.

The authors should read about dynamical systems. I don't understand why the physics/controls folks, DSP folks, and ML folks don't read each other's papers. They're using the same math and using the same concepts. The latter two groups seem to be working together more often however.
Ok, so let's say you've solved this problem tomorrow. You've just made it impossible for an application to know which OS version, security patch level, and hardware revision it is running on, meaning it can't do anything like dynamically adjust itself depending on features (or bugs) it will know are available or not. It also can't submit any of this in crash reports, so fixing bugs that occur in rare combinations of hardware and software is now much more problematic.

All to prevent... what? If you log into Facebook, which is presumably why you have the application, then it already knows who you are. Not to mention the hundreds of other ways to fingerprint you.
Those are different Canadians, though.

Young people are screwed by having to go into debt to buy overpriced homes from retirees who are selling (or people selling their starter home, to trade up.)

Retirees who aren't selling are using the equity in their overpriced homes to live lavishly. Their debt isn't a social problem, because they never intend to pay it down while they remain in their home. Instead, they will die or downsize, their home will be sold, and the HELOC will be paid off.

The former group is getting screwed, and is going heavily into debt because of land speculation. The latter group is living it up, and reaping the windfall. Unlike young people, they always have the option to sell, and move to a low-cost of living area that has no jobs.
This article was light on details. I'm also not familiar with how compounding pharmacies work in Spain. But do prescription drugs come with a label describing properties such as shape, color and imprints? If they do, did the lab manage to mess that part up too?
Bank of America allows me to do this for my credit card with them.
A couple weeks ago, a friend going through tough times asked if I’ve ever been really down in life, and how I dealt with it. I responded that in a pragmatic sense what has helped me most is staying in the present instead of worrying about the past or future too much. (Oddly I once found solace in that exchange from Kung Fu panda where his guru says, “Quit, don’t quit? Noodles, don’t noodles? You are too concerned about what was and what will be.”)

I think Stoicism has an overlap with Buddhism and Existentialism in encouraging this type of grounding oneself in the present. Hence its perseverance and revival.

In fact I was going to an appointment yesterday and thinking that I should not worry in the car about what the person I’m meeting is going to ask me. I’ll deal with it when I get there. There’s a Marcus Aurelius quote among those lines: "Let not future things disturb thee, for thou wilt come to them... having with thee the same reason which now thou usest."
> Biggest part of military training is brainwashing you to always following orders.

The US military has both Republicans and Democrats in it (though probably a larger percentage of the former). If there is any sort of internal conflict, it would likely split along those party lines. Also, the US military does not advocate blindly following orders. The person receiving the orders should only obey lawful orders and should resist and disobey unlawful orders ("I order you to go shoot all those unarmed civilians over there!")
> That seems like a semantic distinction only.

The semantics matter because of subjective interpretation. "I think" and "should" and "the majority of subgroup x" are not usually correlated to be the same thing, even though they seem like "semantics". The first is clear (why do you think that?, is rarely asked), the second undefined (should doesn't have a qualification) and the third subject to investigation (based on what evidence?).

I have found that morality is less often an influential factor (spaces vs tabs, fight) than the words like "should" and "ought" are used. YMMV
Spybot Anti-Beacon: Disable Tracking/Telemetry in Windows