skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great article. I don't think, though, that author adequately estimates counter-monopolistic actions. Those actions, I think, will happen if SpaceX even approaches the position which this article describes.
Why Socialism? Essay by Einstein
Smartphones are worse than nuclear weapons
Random question for HN: How to articles like this get upvoted so much? Virtually all the top comments talk about how this is an amateurish, Monday-morning quarterbacking effort. Is it just spam upvoters?
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IMHO it would be cheap for companies to simply buy infant life insurance for all employees

Individuals can buy this sort of life insurance for themselves without the help of their employers. Given that it is, as you say, "cheap" there isn't an economic burden either.

Why would we want employers intruding into yet another aspect of individual's lives? We're all well aware of the problems that come from having employers responsible for health insurance.
The sensor-shake works better after you leave the camera in a low humidity ambient for a while.
It was Murray Rothbard that popularised the use of the term libertarian on the right. Rand very explicitly rejected the label when faced with it. You're right that she is an important figure for right-libertarians, but she was highly critical of them. The use of the term on the right somewhat predates Rothbard - e.g. Mencken used it, but never pushed the term publicly.

Rothbard, while highly critical of the left, did very explicitly seek some sort of rapprochement with left-libertarians. E.g. see "Left and Right: A Journal of Liberterian Thought" [1]. Here's a retrospective at the Mises institute[2] (with the caveat that it's the Mises Institute..).

While I sympathise with some of your criticism of right-libertarianism; I find their fetishistic approach to property rights highly flawed, for example, at the same time there are a lot of right-libertarians who are much more moderate and accept and understand the need for trade-offs rather than the kind of absolutist approach to property rights that e.g. Rand pushes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_and_Right:_A_Journal_of_L...

[2] https://mises.org/library/rothbards-left-and-right-forty-yea...
PostgREST performs authorization at transaction level, not at connection or session level, so a connection can be used by thousands of active users simultaneously.
Easier way to match voices?
Because that would grant the government the power that enables it to become a worse perpetrator even than the big tech?
Looks like big pharma wants to cash in from the other half of the population now.
I don't know how well this would stand up in court, but the obvious difference here seems to be using "an exploit to read your local files" vs an intentionally designed API.
Is there sufficient information in this to identify individual machines? E.g., consider a family acquiring notebooks of the same type for each family member and operating them over the same LAN (outward IP address). There may be differences depending on components picked from a supply pool, but in general, there isn't much variety in a specific make and model running on the same OS revision (and the same generation of drivers, according to automatic updates).

Further, is there sufficient isolation in the audio stack so that fingerprints are independent of the software currently running on the machine? (Another comment regarding DACs and insufficient isolation from the north bridge and induced harmonics indicates otherwise.)

I guess, while this may provide some indications, on its own, it provides insufficient information for identification of a specific hardware device. (Edit: Which is, of course, bad enough.)
While not this exact claim, years ago I wrote an app for a TV show to detect ultrasonic tones embedded in episodes of the show. While not solely for tracking (it was to sync a clock to the episode you're watching), there were special tones to trigger ads.

I could easily see this being expanded upon and included in a tracking SDK.
I don't really agree with any of your points. Wealth is a measure of your total assets at any given point in time. If you can liquidate it for cash, it's part of your wealth. Additionally, non-cash assets can be and are used as collateral all the time, so your statement about what the government can and can't do doesn't make much sense.

Also, taxing the flow of money is not enough. Earning more in investments than you spend is pretty much the entirety of getting wealthy in the first place. If you only tax money flows, you're doing very little to combat inequality at a fundamental level, and at the same time leaving open giant loopholes to avoid paying taxes for things like MfA.
Because it is extraordinary difficult to have a useful programming language that can not be used for tracking.

A social solution and technical solutions are needed. Firefox has put in a huge effort to prevent tracking but many useful features can also be used for tracking so a browser will not be able to determine useful and non useful code.
Where does that leave our democracy?
> I discovered that the average person on a jury has a great deal of trouble with evidence. It was really quite troubling.

Trial by jury--it's far from perfect but I believe the best solution mankind has devised thus far
Don't do this with a public API with third-party clients!!

This way you are directly tying the REST API to your database schema. The whole point of having a public API (you know, Application Programming Interface) is that you can serve your data in a controlled way, maybe totally different from your schema. In the moment you change a little bit on your schema, congratulations, you broke all clients.
While you have a point it's unfair to use the word post soviet countries, since the ones who always looked for the west, such as Poland and Estonia, things definetly don't work like that. Plus loads of others that you can't lump in with Russia Ukraine and Central Asia.
I agree. For quite some time, I've told people that I no longer pay attention to the social left, when it is the economic side of left politics that makes the greatest difference, even to social issues. If you ensure that people who are otherwise marginalised have money, they will have enough influence through their buying power to effectively punish the classes who want them to remain marginalised.
The SubZero starter kit is great, and made this whole architecture seem practical to me. Thanks for your hard work here! (I'm currently using PostGraphile, but the starter kit is still an important tool for me.)
I think the problem is that healthcare related stuff shouldn’t even be on management’s plate. Managers and executives are usually not qualified to decide what is good healthcare, but are forced to make decisions anyhow. Healthcare should be managed at the societal level.
It's not doubling on the ORM part, it's not a orm replacement, it's a replacement for the entire api layer (that uses orm internally).

I agree with the other point, this is meant to be used when your client can not ahve direct access to the db (browsers, 3rd parties). If you can connect to the db and use SQL, do that.
The conclusion of this study is not clear at all to me. From reading their executive summary, the CEBR researchers seem to take the global value added (GVA) of any physics-based industry, and consider it as a something like a contribution of physics to the society.
That sounds like a gross overestimation to me.

As an example, they consider "Extraction of crude petroleum" as a physics-based industry. Naively I would consider that industry at least 33% physics, 33% chemistry, and 33% engineering. Aren't they largely overestimating their conclusion by neglecting chemistry and egineering?

Disclaimer: I am a former physicist. I really think that science funding is vital to Europe, that this kind of studies should help supporting the field...
I would just like to better understand how the EPS and CEBR got to such a clickbait title. I have the impression that this kind of article could actually undermine the credibility of all the contributions that Physics research is actually bringing to society at large.
FWIW I'm also running Mojave on a 2017 15" MBP and I can't remember the last time it's crashed. It's probably been months since I even restarted it.
They are inhuman, because you want to impose your will and your morality onto others. You are free to help as many people you want with your own wealth.
I know that HN’s libertarian views often conflict with the top down EU bureaucracy. But when I heard about GDPR here in europe I thought to myself - that looks very close to what all those people have been wishing for - and its actually here now.

It remains to be seen if it holds up in practice what it offers in spirit. But the idea that companies are forced to think about my personal data as if it was payment credentials, with similar rigor, and penalties, just sounds so awesome to me as a customer.

In the EU personal data _is_ protected as if its cars, food, trains or planes. And honestly its great :)
It does work somewhat under light pressure. Under high deadline pressure it obviously can't, but I'd argue that if a company is slave-driving programmers, code is going to be garbage and development will start slowing down due to accumulated technical debt.

> if your code is part of some bigger system you may not have the chance to reimplement things from scratch not because you don't have time, but because you could impact someone else using your library/module/API.

In this case, if your code is used by someone else, you can't do that. The trick is not releasing your code "out there" until after you've done several rewriting passes on it. In the cases I've done that in professional context, I worked on a feature branch. I would occasionally rebase it on top of master, to stay current with rest of the product, but nobody ever looked at my feature branch until I've done a few rounds on the code, declared it's ready for integration, and issued a merge request.
GDPR is literally the government protecting people's privacy and data. That's what this article is advocating for.
We all lie. We are all hypocritical.

There seems to be a threshold upon which someone is deemed a lier, hypocrite or simple minded.

That we all do something doesn't mean that we all do it to the same degree.

For some reason when talking about intelligence, people are uncomfortable with some being better endowed than others. I've noted that the people who are most uncomfortable with this reality are many times hyper aware of the difference in physical endowment between different individuals.
GitLab's CFO was kind enough to leave public evidence of his incompetence:

"I don’t understand. This should not be an opt in or an opt out. It is a condition of using our product. There is an acceptance of terms and the use of this data should be included in that." [1]

In the previous thread people were referring to the HiPPO problem (Highest Paid Person's Opinion). I'm willing to bet that it's the same story at Ubiquity. But despite occasional backpedaling, there are rarely any real consequences for the irredeemably stupid managers who push for crap like this. Unfortunately, that's probably the only way to make it stop.

In my opinion, if the outcry is bad enough for a company to backpedal on a decision like this, then it's already bad enough that they should fire the manager responsible for making the decision in the first place. These aren't line employees. The company doesn't pay them more than everybody else for fun -- they're paid to understand the business well enough to know better. People in these positions tend to be natural risk takers. If there are never real consequences, they're going to continue to bet anything they can get their hands on for a shot at personal gain, and the company and their customers are going to foot the bill.

[1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/merge_requests/14182#no...
> As for the suitability/usefulness of a 3A USB hub, if you try and pull 3A through a USB connector, it will get quite warm, especially if you have a micro USB connector on the other end.

Makes one wonder about bypassing the connector entirely and just hard-wiring (short) cables to the board.
There’s an obvious solution: don’t allow websites to record or play audio, and don’t expose any of this until permission is granted.

As a major side benefit, websites will stop randomly playing audio without permission.
> they provide schema versioning with a rollback possibility, something that AFAIK the databases don't usually offer

But stand-alone migration tools like Sqitch do.[0]

[0] https://github.com/sqitchers/sqitch
Indeed; once again, Musk is making it hard in the shorter-term for himself/Tesla by going a route based on a totally different vision (i.e. eschewing LIDAR) to the rest of the industry.

Time will tell whether he'll win out in the long term; will this be another landing and reusing rockets moment, or will his approach to self-driving cars be a relative failure?
I don’t care what anyone says; in NYC school lunches are basically inedible. Having been exposed to the public school system here for over six years, I can say with confidence that no one who has any choice will allow their kids to eat the garbage that schools put out during lunch. My kid tells me that she’d rather go hungry than eat lunch at school. I’ll be packing lunch for another six years as needed, and that’s okay by me. I just wish we weren’t wasting all this money to haul garbage to schools on a daily basis.
It makes a good drinking game.
Its a religion complete with large structures to worship. In stead of observing links in a chain we pretend it is only finance that makes things happen.

The idea seems that if one has coupons there will always be a sucker to do the work for you, in exchange for the coupons. There will eventually be a final sucker holding onto the coupons: No fiat-currency ever survived.
The first nuclear-powered airliner (2016)
And? Many jobs have disappeared. Many jobs have been simplified with software to require far fewer people, and far less mental effort.
It is worth saying that half of GitLab's "crime" was the telemetry, the other half was the completely unprofessional way they rolled it out. They essentially disabled people's paid for hosted GitLab accounts, until they agreed to the collection. See [0] from GitLab:

> Starting with GitLab 12.4, existing customers who use our proprietary products (that is, GitLab.com and the Enterprise Edition of our self-managed offerings) may notice additional Javascript snippets that will interact with GitLab and/or third-party SaaS telemetry service (such as Pendo). [...] as we roll out this update you will be prompted to accept our new Terms of Service. Until the new Terms are accepted access to the web interface and API will be blocked. So, for users who have integrations with our API this will cause a brief pause in service via our API until the terms have been accepted by signing in to the web interface.

At least Ubiquiti had the basic courtesy of not breaking people's paid service/devices to roll out their questionable telemetry. Even if it should be opt in, not opt out.

[0] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/issues/34833
I'm not really following your question. The idea of a wealth tax is pretty straightforward. You take stock of a person's assets, take a percentage of that figure (say 1%) and send them a bill for that dollar amount. How they choose to pay that bill is entirely up to them - they can borrow against their assets, liquidate some of them, or use cash on hand. I don't really see how control of resources factors into the equation.
Yup. This remark made me search for the publication date. Yes, Dropbox did one thing and did it well... 5 years ago. Today, not so much.
Leonardo Di Caprio: 'Greta Thunberg a Leader of Our Time'
any 2019 updates on this or other NPA?
nothing can stop it. lots of belgian sites are scraped everyday across the world.
This is very nice! For many CRUD apps you could skip the back-end side entirely!
Term limits don't seem to stop old timers from getting elected though, they just mean a variety of old timers get elected.

(Not that there aren't other good reasons to prefer a variety of politicians getting elected over a single one)
Seems like you mixed up a bunch of stuff, like cost cutting vs. federal government overreach. Lunches are bad today at schools because no one wants to spend any money on anything in the public sector.
If it was orange, it would look like a generalized Firefox logo.
I doubt the initramfs is (completely) at fault, mine is rather small (and I haven't done anything to try to minimize its size):

$ lsinitcpio -a /boot/initramfs-linux.img
==> Image: initramfs-linux.img
==> Created with mkinitcpio 26
==> Kernel: 5.3.7-arch1-2-ARCH
==> Size: 9.87 MiB
==> Compressed with: gzip
-> Uncompressed size: 25.97 MiB (.379 ratio)
-> Estimated decompression time: 0.184s
...
> and that's one reason it's reported on so heavily when people are shot by cops.

Is it though? I would say that the reason is that it is reported because the police are not expected to shoot you. As for legally being allowed to shoot you, there have been a lot of cases in the recent decades proving that point. For example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Ridge and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Wichita_swatting
No, it's just the people who vote and the people who comment are very different.
> not to protect our Food

What system would you prefer to protect your food?
The title of this post is misleading. Perhaps better would be Sites are using Audio Stack fingerprinting to track users.
> Of course, a service can switch to a new cloud provider, a new server, a new network, requiring clients to use up-to-date DNS records. And having reasonably low TTLs helps make the transition friction-free. However, no one moving to a new infrastructure is going to expect clients to use the new DNS records within 1 minute, 5 minutes or 15 minutes. Setting a minimum TTL of 40 minutes instead of 5 minutes is not going to prevent users from accessing the service.

Note that you can still get the benefit of a low TTL during a planned switch to a new cloud provider, server, or network even if you run with a high TTL normally. You just have to lower it as you approach the switch.

For example, let's say you normally run with a TTL of 24 hours. 25 hours before you are going to throw the switch on the provider change, change the TTL to 1 hour. 61 minutes before the switch, change TTL to 1 minute.
Website seems hugged to death by Hackernews, here's a mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20191103204659/https://iq.openge...
This is why I support UBI over a Federal Jobs Guarantee. UBI doesnt tell individuals how to spend their money or time.
> it lacks basic math functions like mat4/vec4 operations

Really? A game engine without linear math built in is like a web framework without JSON support.
UN expert on torture: Julian Assange’s life may be at risk
Yes. I have low TTL on some domains because I chose it for a cautious update and never bothered/remembered to come back and increase it.

I bet this is one of the main reasons for low TTLs.
Can you get the vaccine as an adult? For some reason I always thought if you didn't get it young it was too late to get it.
You could chooch along quite nicely in Kolibri OS all the way down to 8MB of RAM it seems and have a relatively okay experience in it [1]. Seems as though something like Puppy Linux will get you going on 64MB of RAM or lower [2].

If you really want to take Linux to the extreme, probably the place to start would be the efforts made to use it on embedded devices [3].

[1] https://kolibrios.org/en/

[2] http://wikka.puppylinux.com/MinimumSystemRequirements

[3] https://elinux.org/Main_Page
Wait — they used the HYDRA logo?!?
You aren't idiots if you're using it where there are no better alternatives - it's preferable to use load balancers etc where available, but there are places where it's very much "DNS or nothing".
Oh, wow! I had seen this video back then, but had no idea it was from the same person! Thanks for pointing it out :)
TikTok video app reportedly under review as national security threat
No, there isn’t. The specification as implemented requires no invalidation mechanism, which means no such mechanism across all caches exists, nor will it ever. The long tail kills you in such a failure scenario, and remember, people who make kitchen appliances write DNS resolvers.
The JCAT Signature LAN – A $1k Ethernet Cable
I mean gold will likely get expensive with the amount of outstanding debt worldwide, explicit and off-the-books like underfunded pension liabilites and health care costs. I.e. it's the value of all major currencies that will go down.

Japan cannot ever have anything even close to 2% interest rates because at 2% the central government will pay 100% of the tax take just to service interest payments. This, of course, cannot continue forever without pushing down the value of money, one way or another.
Anything less than violent enthusiasm about Google leveraging their Chrome monopoly tends to go down badly here.
(global warming) World map with water rising simulation
How would I use a load balancer to fail traffic between, say, London and Amsterdam with no fiber in place between them? Where would the load balancer physically exist in that scenario and how would it fail to the other when power is lost in one location? Would I make a third PoP to isolate it? What would then be my redundancy story for that PoP? How would I relocate traffic to my backup load balancer PoP number four?

Within a single network, sure, load balance all you want. That’s not the scenario low TTLs go after.
That wouldn't solve anything.

The moment that gets widespread, what would happen is that the primary site would just start proxying for the ad networks.
Sometimes it is tough to use theory directly, even when it is a sound theory. This can be disappointing for theorists and very frustrating for practitioners.
>”The need to grind out a day at the office or the shipyard or in the truck hauling cargo saps a person's freewill.”

I’m not sure of that.

Couple of things. I’ve worked with working class people. They may complain about the job or the boss, but if they didn’t do one of those jobs, they’d feel less empowered.

I’ve heard people essentially say I don’t want to be on welfare but I can’t get a job. So they'd prefer a job to being on the dole.

Two, people with lots of time and nothing to do tend to just while away time, either in the form of any kind of entertainment or some times in counter productive activities. Doing “make-work” actually gives people some purpose.

I’m saying UBI will bring other unintended problems. I think UBI could be like people who have dogs and give them all they need [like UBI] but don’t take them out for walks. Work, any kind of work is like taking the dog out for a walk.
Thanks. Lately Vice has been writing more and more outrage-bait titles/leads and burying the true story way below the fold. I guess it gets them the most shares.
Ask HN: Anyone hacked the Mirror.co smart mirror?
I've got a Mirror.co smart mirror at home. It's a nice mirror, but I don't use the software very much. I was wondering if anyone looked into ways to hack it, run custom videos, anything at all. I haven't found a single example online yet, which is surprising. I expected to see a Doom port.
Based on what I see on social media nowadays, mentions of “overpopulation” in the Indian context are invariably in the context of some genocidal fantasy/hate.
The FDA was formed just years after the Jim the horse incident[0]. The issues from poor data practices has existed for a decade or more. It has more to do with the poor functioning of the political system these days.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_%28horse%29
Lol. That is from Reno 911, unfortunately it left out the last part which is awesome: https://youtu.be/D6VQDNIZH7U

All these people arguing over "recite the alphabet backwards" but AFAIK no actual, non-comedy-show police department uses that as a sobriety test.