skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got banned from using Zipcar last year.

I lived in a condo building with an under ground parking lot in SF. A few times I rented a Zipcar and left it parked in the parking lot at my condo building.

About 50% of the time, the car would not unlock. In all cases, I successfully contacted Zipcar who informed me the only thing they could do is tow the car (usually 24+ hours later).

The parking lot had no cell service.

Other times I extended the car’s reservation on the iPhone app, but because there was no cell service, the internal Zipcar rfid didn’t get the updated reservation time; and the car locked me out after the original expiration time.

Zipcar probably realized they were losing money due to these issues, and banned me from using Zipcar forever.

Also: Never leave your Zipcar parked very long without cell service... the cellular unit will drain the car’s battery very quickly when it’s constantly searching for a signal...
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Microsoft-backed facial recognition firm rethinks its role in Hong Kong
To be honest if anyone is getting jail time I think the current and past CEOs of Equifax should be at the head of the line - probably hang them instead of jail them. The surviving CEOs of Walmart a close second since they have killed entire towns for decades. Ocwen a third since fines don’t bother Ocwen. Next up all the big bank CEOs probably need ten days of “scared straight”. Then get to Zuck, except send him to Arizona and make him build the wall everyday - call it security training.
I think the hope is that the money could not be used to help Epstein rebuild his reputation and prestige via association with respected scientists, and also that they might have avoided any taint to their research from Epstein's interest in junk science like eugenics.
I did a little bit of research on browser fingerprinting years ago and even tried to write my own library to do it and ever since, I've always questioned how useful it actually is.

Using the list of measurement points on https://amiunique.org as guide most of the things that are constant about my computer like platform, browser, or requested language are not really unique to me and are shared by a large percentage of the other users who have come to the site.

On the other hand, most of the data points that are unique to my machine change semi-frequently. User agent and version change on browser updates, timezone changes when I travel, screen size and resolution change when I plug into my external monitor, new fonts will slowly be installed over time, and even things like how the canvases are rendered can change slightly depending on how much strain my GPU is under at the time I get fingerprinted.

Just plugging in to my external monitor was enough to get amiunique to treat me as a different user. (if you want to try, be sure to clear your local storage and cookies in between visits as the site saves a uuid there and will serve you your previous results if it finds it).

I'm sure there's some magic formula that gives different weights to different data points that can give a decent guess at who you are, but I doubt it can say with 100% accuracy that you are who it thinks you are.

It seems to me all it would take to defeat fingerprinting is a browser extension that modifies the browser apis to randomly slightly alter the requested data (add a random font to the list, add some nonsense to the user agent, etc). Sure, the fingerprint would still be unique, but it would be unique on every visit which would defeat the ability to track a user across visits.

*I'm not an expert on this subject at all, so if I got something wrong, please correct me
It is open source, but it is not free and open source [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software

EDIT: nevermind, I guess it's just source-available software.
Yup, we did all pair programming, all the time. Even mostly did test driven development. It was pretty awesome.

The room was set up like a computer lab, with a few rows of computers. Each was an iMac with an equal sized Apple Cinema Display that was mirrored, along with 2 keyboards and 2 mice.

The machines were reimaged occasionally to make sure everything was always the same and up to date. You never had to worry about setting up an environment or anything.

We all had personal laptops, but almost never used them.
Gotta keep a cool head, T.
I'm no Luddite by any means, but on this topic I side with those who consider physical cash transaction a civil rights issue.

I suppose people in some EU countries, for example, which have mostly (?) transitioned to a cashless society don't mind what a massive invasion of privacy it is.

On the other hand, I do understand the advantages, the convenience, and perhaps the inevitability of going cashless. Already most of our financial transactions are being tracked and circulated ("peddled") in countless ways, as are our online activity, phone conversations, real-time location.. At this rate, future humans will look back at our concept of "privacy" and not comprehend what it means.
Or you could have only the automatic emergency braking in a vehicle, and not autosteer.

Stop acting like it's all or nothing. The technology behind autopilot is being touted as driverless/self-driving, but it can do passive accident avoidance. That should be the benchmark to compare too.

In this particular case, humans get distracted and get in an accident. Autopilot is dumb as shit and gets in an accident. But a human with an emergency braking system is smart and doesn't get in an accident on the account of driver distraction.
Good point. I should have noted that I've only done that with a 60s VW Bug. Just to see, I have turned off and restarted my ~10 year old Civic, going down a hill. But not with the battery disconnected. Maybe I'll try it. Not now, though.

Edit: And upon reflection, maybe not. Because I'd have to pay someone to reset the computer.

Edit: But wait a minute. If the vehicle is moving downhill, and you engage the clutch in first gear, the engine will be turning. And even if it's not firing, the alternator will also be turning. So you should have enough power for the computer, ignition and fuel pump. Or am I missing something?
Man, whats the point of paying penalty after causing damage?

They already brainwashed us ,but, put bandaid for cancer?

How does it make it right ?
Or the ugly middle: where colleges built dorms in the old style/dimensions, but you were still forced to have self-closing 50lb fire doors because of fire code regulations.
"Look, man, do you know how hard it would be to raise money of any significance if I just followed a blanket 'no taking money from pedophile sex traffickers' rule?"
As a software engineer, I feel all money should be digital and the IRS should be replaced with an algorithm. Fairer and more efficient for all. As a human living in a fallible state, I don't ever want the government to have that kind of power and visibility into my private life.
> these all form in my mind's eye

I'm pretty certain I know what you're talking about - your description is so accurate :)

If you still do this, can you verify that you indeed see that clearly? We assume that it's impossible to transfer any thought from the 4d mode into out common 3d mode, simply because our memory in the 3d mode isn't fit for that. Just like a flat pixelated screen can't adequately capture a 3d object. However it's possible to transfer simple forms, like a simple flat drawing or a number. You can imagine some complex 4d form, imagine a section and count something or just remember the shape. Then in the usual 3d mode you can still compute that shape using some equations, although it would take some time, and compare the result with what you've seen.
Hope it actually happens. I'm jaded by announcements from the legacy car makers.
You're not wrong. Negroponte is just trying to salvage what little remains of his legacy. He doesn't want to be excluded from the lucrative talk circuit that he's now on.
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Yes. And they say that we can listen at a rate of up to 120% more, which means 46.8 bits/second of syllables.

So then, does it mean we "understand" 46.8 bits of information, or that we are using those bit to address some other, maybe bigger/more complex or detailed, memory space?
oooh, as a software engineer, too low... too low...

In our defense we do not have hundreds of millions of years of test driven development. :P
People could opt out of that though.
My understanding is that many states passed laws in the late 1800’s making drugs like heroin illegal without a prescription.

In addition, the Harrison Narcotic Act of 1914 put many restrictions around them.

The Nixon Controlled Substances Act just put a federal guide posts around what was already a mish-mash of laws.
At one point as a kid we were getting a single FAT combo. Maybe that was a regional thing.
Awesome - thx!
I attempted a 24 hour fast a day ago based on this comment, and you’re right. It was very difficult to make it to the 24 hour mark without a substantial loss of energy (total fast, no food or water). I understand why it would be unreasonable to ask someone with cancer undergoing chemotherapy to attempt such a fast.
10Mbps DSL means you're two miles from a central office. For $20,000 per mile (maybe less?), you can get fiber run to your house. A friend actually did this.
this is a fool's errand. You ain't gonna fix anything with startups in this field, you fix it with policy and frankly a collective, long, stern look in the mirror and almost inevitably war and a lot of dead people.
The 5X started out at $400. The iPhone 7 is not only still more expensive, but it started out far above the 5X's retail price.
Depends on how low the frequency is :)

But indeed I'm not an expert by any means on magma properties, perhaps someone else can chime in. If magma is conductive then even less radiation goes through.

Keep in mind at extremely low frequencies the whole Earth is in mid-field or near-field of emissions, so it doesn't behave attenuated like light rays.
Privacy: crypto to the rescue.
> technology looking for a use case

Did someone say blockchain?
That can often be a big issue once you take VC money, suddenly successful isn’t enough anymore, you need to reach insanely successful levels.
There is a very good presentation on the Case for Electronic Cash by Jerry Brito of the Coin Center non-profit. I highly recommend people watch it to understand why cash is important to preserve an open, liberal society.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmXDJpYF46E&fbclid=IwAR3tBKD...
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I don't see how anyone can imply that X and a TUI are even in the same ballpark of ease of use over SSH.
UBI shifts money from concentrations of income to concentrations of people, where those differ. That seems like it makes the circulation better, not worse. A similar view is why I very much support UBI.
Oh yeah, this was a long time ago, and I have since adopted the same mentality :)

I think at the time the only way to be a Facebook Developer was to verify your identity via SMS (or something like that) and you couldn't just create a fake/pseudonymous account for development purposes. I assume that is still the case, but I have no clue.
I can't wait to see how they decide to version the different USB 4 generations.
Have a little sympathy for Negroponte. He's probably seen a lot of underage girls on sites like PornHub so it's not really that "big of a deal" for him anymore. If a few underage girls get screwed (quite literally) in order for other (more worthy girls) to attend the Media Lab "tuition free" ... well the ends justifies the means. BTW, the quality of the research at Media Lab is so low (they basically "fluff up" other people's ideas and hard work) that they shouldn't be charging tuition anyway. I was always told during my years at MIT that the Media Lab was for misfits who couldn't hack it in the standard core curriculum. Apparently as we've all now learned, it's also for perverts too.
Right? especially given their tendency to also be implemented in the most braindead ways imaginable :-/
That’s a very simplistic yet accurate statement.

We should be asking ourselves, are people better off after these laws are passed? Clearly not with marijuana.
How exactly the crypto could rescue?
Applied!

We don't deal with climate change, but we have a product to enable non-profits and political campaigns to run GIANT volunteer networks. I'm not sure if that fits their criteria, but if they want to create a mass movement that movement needs tools, right?
It’s not just anonymity. To get a credit/debit card you need to agree to some TOS, probably binding arbitration, and are at the mercy of the bank deciding whether or not they want to cancel your account.

That would be my problem with cashless, the idea that people could be cut off entirely from the system and have no way to transact. Until the government / central bank will issue everyone a irrevocable bank account with the right to transact for free indefinitely getting rid of cash has bigger issues than just privacy implications.
What are some of the cool developments in the food robotics space?
Chrome extension – find email addresses in seconds
My brother used to have RC airplanes. Gas is messy, and starting even a single prop was a massive pain. Motors are also less laggy, and probably easier to precisely control than engine throttles.

Now, that's for small scale drones flying 15 minutes. For, say, commercial airplanes that can fly 18 hours, energy density becomes a major factor.
People are missing the point. Google is trying to manage GDPR and their previous business model which is selling all that user data. They are not going succeed and GDPR is going to prevail.
Massimo still maintans it at https://github.com/web2py/pydal and he's working on py4web at https://github.com/web2py/py4web.

DAL was the first Python db abstraction I used, and I liked it well enough, but I've since used both Django and SQLAlchemy, and they both seem less opaque to me, maybe because not obscured by some of the weird things about web2py itself.

I love the auto-generated backwards references you get in Django and SA when you use foreign key and many to many fields. They make life so much easier. I don't recall how that was achieved in DAL, I just remember it being... complicated.
Eugenics is not junk science! It can be used to prevent future predators like Epstein from being conceived.
Society can opt out of this scheme whenever it wants.

IMO that’s about what it’s going to take. We’ve seen what giving the political elites the benefit of the doubt accomplished: buried grift after grift and burn baby burn.

Same old dog n pony show until the public (ideally peacefully) organizes to rattle elite sense of stability enough to change laws as a concession for the incoming generation.

But they have all our data and already modeled how far away we are from that point ;)
It's hardly $30k to buy a gas drone. You can buy a Cox .049 engine for $50 or so.

You're looking at a fixed wing aircraft though with one of those. What's made the quadcopter drone possible is the high torque and instantaneous throttle response of small electric motors, combined with fast control electronics. The conventional way to fly a small helicopter is just like a full sized helicopter, with a main rotor and a mechanical swash plate.

With the right control electronics, these can easily be made into drones, but people tend to not like them as much anymore because they're mechanically complex and finicky. The electric motors are simple, and when one goes bad you just drop in a new one.
Submarines can certainly swim, but no one is proposing we allow them to decide where they swim to.
You put a lot of trust in the people developing that algorithm. Do you get to vote for an algorithm replacement every four years?
Many people think psychedelics and meditation (commonly associated with eastern religions like Buddhism) are very similar.
There was a period of a few years where I drove a track-prepped race car on the street daily, with out of state plates for emissions reasons, and it resulted in a lot of police encounters.
BTW, MIT has its goons on this site using their karma to down vote anything that makes the university look unfavorable.
There is a lot more data than simply that figure on Wikipedia. For example, you may download all of the raw gravitational wave strain data and re-analyze it yourself if you felt so inclined. The LIGO community has done an amazing job with the "open science center" that releases both the timeseries data and tools useful in processing it.

https://www.gw-openscience.org/about/

There are eleven peer-reviewed published papers on this event, in addition to a complete public release of the time series data.

https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/detection-companion-papers
I don't think it's just a privacy issue. We've seen companies like Facebook, Twitter, Chase, and even Mastercard cut off groups they consider undesirable.

For social media, it's irritating but the ability to stop you from collecting or spending "your" money is terrifying because it could be applied by policy or accident and the result is the same. No one should have that power.
"something something blockchain!"
So you’re saying their brain works in COBOL ? Don’t fix what’s not broken and all that
Too high a UBI might lead to inflation. In that case, if we've indexed UBI to observed or predicted inflation we could indeed wind up with a positive feedback loop and hyperinflation.

So don't do that. Index to targeted inflation. If it's too high and we see more inflation than targeted, the UBI will fall in real terms. If inflation falls short of target, the real UBI will increase. Negative feedback loop - probably stability or oscillation.
This reminds me of the article someone else posted today about six sigma, where commenters rightly pointed out that the methodology works until companies try to use it to replace actual thinking managers.

The hedge is simply to pay attention and make your own decisions. Index funds are great in general, but not when markets get out of whack (bubbles, etc).
Theoretically Monero would be a possible solution, but only if your sole requirement is anonymity. Heavy emphasis on only if though, since payment systems are much, much more than that requirement (i.e. dispute handling, chargebacks, insurance, fraud identification, etc.).

I don't think there are any crypto implementations today that could compete with existing mainstream systems, which in itself is a statement that opens a can of worms on HN, but maybe someday.
Which is why it is weird he compares them to CDOs.

Indexes typically don't have a fixed set of underlying securities. CDOs do. Your index fund typically won't tank because one of it's holdings become unprofitable, the fund will adjust reducing shares of said fund and thus reducing risk.

That doesn't happen with a CDO. If you're AAA mortgage holder starts having financial troubles, you can't readjust the CDO to reduce exposure.

Take an S&P 500 index as an example. If company 500 starts having a crappy quarter and falls out, what happens to your index? You dump the old 500 for the new one.

This isn't too say they aren't without risk. Just that it is a completely different financial vehicle than a CDO. So different that trying to make comparisons isn't really prudent.
> It is harmful in most cases.

Are you able to substantiate this with evidence of some kind?
Like solo founder meetups?
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If your post about why you didn't get called back and most of it is filled with social activities, local food , travel plans and the amazing people she lived with, perhaps an active social life is what she thought the job was.

Would you hire her?
What about a library? Its way cheaper
I remember when it came out there was something clear in the announcement that it was fake. It pattern matched the normal fake science cycle somehow.

I could dig it up, but HN cares about things it likes to be true. Not things that are true.

In this article not sure about the stupid release quickly then have to retract, since obviously it's needed for confirmations.

But LIGO is clearly missing support. But more importantly no one is explaining why it's missing support. It's a big flag. We know its a true event. We know how to test for it. It's not hard to fake (aka not carefully analysing messy data, cold reading essentially)
Sure, but the paid advertisements of the combination book were yellow and the opt-out listings were white; were they not?
Interesting. So it caches the authorized zipcards offline for this case, right? Why did it fail to unlock 50% of the time? If it failed, could you just retry, or did it fail 100% of the time in specific bad locations?
So racist...

I’ve lived in regions where the white and red sections were part of the yellow pages, a separate book, and yellow with black edge markings.

I don’t think phone book experiences are particularly uniform, based on my own having had a lot of variation.
Facebook does indeed do that. One of the big reason of paying 22B for whatsapp is so that they could retrieve the entire friend graph of WhatsApp and use that to drive Facebook + Instagram MAUs.

The bigger the network, the more value a user gets, and the deeper the lock in.

It has been shown over and over again that both Facebook and Google will go to extreme lengths to know about their users’ lives and target them with precision ads. They are advertising companies foremost.
Negroponte's quote, in light of the allegations and former conviction of Epstein, is callous and unconscionable. Furthermore, it paints MIT in a poor light, which as a former employee he should not have lightly done.
Every bank is a private company and can choose there customers. So if no bank want you (what reason ever) you just fall out of the system complete.
My team and I worked with Eagle and his team from RealityCap back in 2015 on the monocular-SLAM iOS implementation of this for our AR application. Great people and we were glad to see when they were picked up by the RealSense team.

Glad to see they were able to push some of the code open source.
Adoption. If we can buy groceries, get served at a restaurant or by street vendor, pay for utilities/fuel, and receive medical attention while only using Monero, zcash, or cash shuffling financial privacy could be in reach.
Back then they were home phones, they belonged to a household more than an individual. You had to be home to receive calls. Telemarketers arrived fairly late in it's existence. Robocallers were rare. You couldn't be spammed with text messages.

White pages worked because there were less bad actors.
The solution to that particular problem would be to make it a legal right to have a bank account. It doesn't have to have all the extras, just an account that stores your money, and a card you can use for accessing your money.
> The question is whether someone has a legal right to conduct a monetary transaction anonymously.

Well, a big argument for cash is that it allows you to do illegal transactions as well, and that this is extremely important, because who decides what is illegal and not? Making all illegal transactions impossible is a great way to stop civil disobedience, to stop dissenting movements, to stop anything the current regime simply doesn't like.

But those are the things driving our society forward.
Same in Colombia
I wish Telegram had a nicer, better updated CLI app.
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How does this relate to campaign finance and funding of political speech?