skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would imagine that the acts of rape and kidnapping fall into the category of 'life in immediate danger'.
I’ve read that financial companies use it for fraud detection. If a known fingerprinted client tries a bunch of different logins, they can flag that.

That said, I’m not convinced full on fingerprinting is necessary here. I suspect you could do the same thing using IP addresses and it would work at least 80% as well.
Reading my employer handbook we get 3 days for bereavement for a child. It is the most wtf thing I’ve ever read.
What? Where did I say that I hate anybody or their beliefs? I obviously believe anybody should be able to believe whatever they want. Literally all I said was that I was surprised that society is moving away from organized religion while simultaneously adopting other non-scientific alternative religious interests. That's literally all I said.

This somehow equates to me being intolerant, hateful, eradicating beliefs, and potentially genocidal.
That's why people like you have a moral obligation to not try to weasel your way out of jury duty. Have you ever served on a jury? It can actually be a good experience. What matters the most is not the jury really, is that your defense lawyer is competent.
If your perspective is only that of a developer, which is fine, this is a developers' website, then in fact it doesn't matter at all, because the whole space has this experience, so no one actor is at a disadvantage anymore unless you like self-host on your home PC.

For users on the other hand...
Agreed. I had hoped this would talk about techniques that Shazam and similar apps use.
I didn't claim it remained a Nazi state, but that the transition was superficial.

My point is, that - unfortunately - there isn't such a unbridgeable chasm between a Capitalist democracy and a Fascist autocracy as people would like to imagine. Ruling elites can turn the dial this way or that way without that much change, even on the level of top personnel and organizational structures.

If faced with significant social upheaval, or other structural threats, many democracies would very likely turn more authoritarian, more nationalist, more racist, more corporatist - would become Fascistic. In fact, they do.
Nothing wrong with wanting the newest latest and greatest but your "old" setup is good!

https://www.techspot.com/review/1863-two-years-later-ryzen-1...
NYT is no doubt to the far of you, but that doesn't make it far left. As someone on the real far left what they think of the NYT and you'll get an education.
May be so. Even for playing silence, the DAC/amp audibly wakes up in certain power-saving devices, sometimes with a "click" as you describe.
If it's cheaper and more resilient, why is it only focused on civil and military structures? What's the trade off?
I'm happy to live in a rural place with virtually no crime, and a high enough trust between citizens that guns are really no big deal.
Exhibit B is Jeffrey Epstein and his friends, real life incarnations of the child exploiting boogeymen that we supposedly must sacrifice our rights to catch. Except they were committing these crimes in the open, no encryption needed, and were let off the hook at every level of law enforcement, up to and including the FBI, DOJ, and court system. His friends continue to be let off the hook.
I wonder how that got spun out commercial - is it still part of Atlassian?
And yet Churchill saw how Turing's work on Enigma was promising and gave him a lot of support.

There are many other examples.

Politicians are perfectly capable of understanding the social impact of technology... when they need to.
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> The Government Protects Our Food and Cars.

I wish they would stop protecting cars and start protecting people. 40,000 die every single year due to cars, and over 4 million injured or disabled.
Getting these techniques out in the open is the only way we’re going to be able to devise means to counter them.
If the enemy is the developer then you've already lost. Its not like cache sharing is how a developer chooses to unmask your anonymity when browsing between sites; they have cookies to do that in much better ways.

A long time ago PHK wrote some very salient comments about HTTP 2.0 efforts https://varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/phk/http20.html https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2716278 etc. He puts forward the case for a browser-picked client-session-id instead of a server-supplied cookie.
For Intel platforms, drivers for Windows 98 were provided up to the Northwood Pentium 4 era (8xx chipsets). Windows XP support lasted a bit longer but it was rather patchy by the Core 2 era and seems to have totally dried up by 2010. Nevertheless Intel has recently purged a lot of older drivers and documentations from their website so it's hard to be sure.

ATI dropped XP support in 2013, nVidia have actually managed to ship Windows XP drivers until 2016.
> or you build DB views to fix that.

That's what VIEWs are for! Well, one use-case of VIEWs, anyways.

There's nothing wrong with the schema as the API since you can use VIEWs to maintain backwards compatibility as you evolve your product.

Put another way: you will have an API, you will need to maintain backwards compatibility. Not exposing a SQL schema as an API does not absolve you or make it easier to be backwards-compatible.

You might argue that you could have server-side JSON schema mapping code to help with schema transitions, and, indeed, that would be true, but whatever you write that code in, it's code, and using SQL or something else is just as well.
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Eh, specialization is good, if you can afford it. There's real value in having dedicated QA people, security people, DBAs, Ops folk, and yes, UX people. What I can't help but notice is that we're trying to make everybody wear all the hats at once, in many cases these days. There's also value in being a jack-of-all-trades, or a T-shaped person, but you just can't be expert at everything, and some aspects are going to fall through the cracks.
Thanks so much for the link! I'm having a little trouble finding the source on those pages. Is there a link to it that's still active?
1853 Norwalk Railroad Accident – The First American Railroad Bridge Disaster
Why would I want to work the weekend?
Many people die in car accidents and die from food poisoning.
How many people die each year from unprotected data?

Disclaimer: cannot read the article
There are hundreds of strains and Gardasil protects against 3 (last time I checked). Namely the ones associated with cervical cancer.

Correction: Gardasil 9 covers 9. Prior version withdrawn.
Did it just work or did you have to supply something beyond the original JC track?
My girlfriend was speaking to her father (mid-60s?) who was complaining about what a pain in the ass it was to get his new iPhone configured. He had called Apple support who would come the next day, but now he had to go to Wal-Mart to pickup the giftcards to pay for the service.

Wait. What?

So I guess he had Googled for iPhone support and got some bogus phone number. Aside from the potential monetary loss, the scary part was that had they come to the house, he likely would have let them in.

The world and the way in which we do business changes quickly, and red-flags for some aren't red-flags for others. But I'm really curious what search term lead to the fraudulent phone number in the first place -- how are these platforms so gameable?
I was at the Windows 95 Launch Event (hosted by Jay Leno!) and we saw Apple driving "billboard" trucks around with this message. I was sad/pathetic. Windows 95 had real virtual memory, processes with protected memory space, and file names up to 260 charaters (vs Mac's 32 character limit back then.)

If Steve Jobs didn't come back and throw away MacOS to make a new one based on NeXT, they would have been quite dead today.
No just startups, there are established companies who take enough of their revenue from involvement in EU sponsored projects that it effectively become the sole purpose of their business. I've been involved in a few of these projects (for a fairly legitimate firm) but you encounter the same companies over and over again.

One of the goals of these projects is often to do an initial development phase and then bring in a new tranche of companies to trial/expand what you have developed. There are groups of companies that have developed a symbiotic relationship where one of them gets into a particular project and then pulls in their fellows in the subsequent round. It is also common to see them tendering to diverse projects in the hope that one of them gets accepted and they all then pile into it.

The formal review meetings that I have attended have been extremely uncomfortable because I know that the people are on stage flat out lying about what they have achieved. Generally all they have done is some token development so provide a few screenshots for a presentation and then talk about how it has revolutionised their business whilst pocketing the vast majority of the cash.
If automation were increasing producitivity, you could invest capital in it and get giant returns, making capital more rare and valuable, as it would be tied up in productive ventures. It isn't. Even freaking google is basically punting on a basket of dumb ideas, absolutely none of which has worked out, and none of which are likely to pan out, and (rationally) sitting on a huge barrel of cash from their looting of the US media system. Therefore, negative interest rates. Negative interest rates = negative productivity increases. So it is, so it has always been.

That's what finance is! You loan money to people to do useful things with. If there's nothing useful to do, the money isn't worth as much. Most of it, these days, goes to dumb shit like real estate bubbles.

All you need do is look at times when human power over nature was obviously increasing; capital was dear and interest rates where high because you could invest in the Bessemer Process or the Concorde or the Haber process or, like, the invention of computers and telecommunications. These days, we have ... apps for your phone. Of course we have negative interest rates; there is literally nothing to invest in.
Not everyone is or wants to be an artist. As my sibling comment states, the market takes care of this just fine. There won't be a sudden transfer to people not caring about money or social status. Plenty of people will still go for jobs where the income is better. The kinds of people who do trades are the kind of people who want to build a holiday house on the side, far away from the city. Art isn't the pinnacle of life for everyone.
Is it true regulation slows progress?

History shows regulation speeds technical progress.

- Manhattan Project
- Apollo program
- Public university research
- ARPANET
- Aircraft
- Spacecraft
...
I've had this on my radar for a while, and I'm now on a project where it could have a role. Does anyone have any recommendations or strategies to follow?
You linked to a two-page PDF promoting some "big data" thing.
Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store
We use Elastic Beanstalk so we just deploy whatever application version we'd like. Honestly not the biggest fan of that strategy because there is at least a 5 minute period of time while the new instances are provisioned and healthchecked that you just need to wait for.

When compared to our Fastly deploys which are global in seconds, it leaves me wanting a faster solution.
I guess the hope at this point is that our children won't be.

I miss the vibe of the late 90s and early 00s. I remember feeling like sure the world is fucked both socially and environmentally but that things would improve. The bad old lot would be kicked out, the internet would spread freedom and understanding, science would advance and we would all prosper. Hell I remember being a kid back then and being frustrated by all the environmental themes in media back then because of course we should all care about that sort of thing, it was obvious. Same as I remember getting sick of all the "don't be racist/homophobic" very special episodes for the same reason - obviously they were preaching to the choir right?

Well now environmentalism seems to have fallen off and the planet is fucked.

People are saying white men are to blame for everything or instead saying it is the fault of women and immigrants.

The internet is instead a collection of platforms that are safe space echo chambers and is full of toxic culture wars.

Science marches on and it brings us drone strikes, China's social credit system, a surveillance state, and the expectation we are always available to answer work emails.

I want to get off this ride.
Diagnosis of HPV-positive oropharyngeal head and neck squamous cell carcinoma is increasing in males. It is mostly in the 4th through 6th decades when these malignant neoplasms are discovered. It hit home recently when my best friend, a physician, was diagnosed with it and underwent surgery followed by debilitating radiation therapy. We both agree that our children and grandchildren, both male and female, should have the vaccine. We suspect that the recommended age for getting the vaccine will continue to expand.
No they don't...? Most rapes are discovered or reported by the victim after the fact.
And a bunch of other countries with routine vaccination programs. These programmes make extra sense in a country with universal healthcare because the country is paying for cancer treatment if its people get cancer, so preventing cancer actually saves the whole country money.
in my experience, the jury part of the criminal justice system works pretty well. I live in a city with a small population and lots of crime, so I serve on juries for quite a few felony cases.

to some extent, my fellow jurors have been more or less what you might expect. most of them cared a lot more about going home than the outcome of the actual case and didn't appear to have highly developed critical reasoning skills. at the same time, they were a lot more skeptical than you give them credit for.

in most of the cases I've been a juror for, it looked like the accused probably did commit the crime. but prosecutors are pretty good at making it look that way. in the end, one or two jurors who actually cared found a couple holes in the prosecution's case and persuaded everyone to return not guilty and go home. I have yet to be part of a jury that returned a guilty verdict.

once the judge makes up their mind, that's it; that's your outcome. but it only takes one juror to throw a serious wrench in the gears, and this usually seems to favor the defense.
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HTTPS does not hinder that type of tracking.. in fact, using SNI (which is unencrypted) would be more accurate than trying to do it with DNS... since it's sent with every request.
Unfortunately not that I know of. :( I think I still have my hard drive somewhere back from 2009, I might be able to get some data off from it. It is an old Maxtor, 30 GB I think. The pins are broken so I will definitely have to fix that, but I will have to find it first.

I believe I can get in touch with someone who was really enthusiastic about the project! He was like 14 years old at the time, really really zealous so I would like to think that he made backups. I got the links above from him a couple of weeks (or months?) ago when we were going down the nostalgia lane. :) For what it is worth, I met him on IRC (freenode), in #ada.
Controlling the popular platforms, that the vast majority of people use, while ignoring or attempting to restrict over time the little-used alternatives?
> "Is anyone providing curated go bags?"

Far more than anyone could ever hope to differentiate themselves from: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=emergency+preparedness+kit Granted, most of them are of dubious quality but anyone without the interest or foresight to hand-build their own is only going to care about price anyway.
I have been on juries twice and I think there is a lot of room for improvement. In one case there was an expert witness that made claims about light during dusk which i was pretty sure was questionable based on my photography experience. But there is no way to challenge such statements if the defense lawyer doesn’t do it and even then it probably costs a lot of money to find an opposing expert witness. Most defendants won’t have that money.

As a juror you are supposed to judge only by what has been presented in court. But this leaves a lot of room for bullshit experts.

I think there need to be some nationwide standards about accuracy of different methods like alcohol tests, speed traps and especially forensics where I have read that a lot of completely false methods are being used to convict people. The judge should have the ability to call out such things based on established scientific evidence and inform the jury.
Every company I've been with seems to re-invent the terms or swich their definitions slightly.

For me, currently, "canary" means a set of basic automated integration tests that are continually running in production with alarms that feed into a master aggregate "switch". Wether the dedicated canary accounts end up hitting a one-box prod host or real prod host in the end isn't a factor.

The important thing is we incrementally expose our latest code commit to prod hosts via one-boxing to reduce the customer exposure if an acute problem somehow gets past the previous code deploy stages/tests.
When you said “This is complete nonsense”, I presume you intended to convey “My goodness!! That means even rape and kidnaping may not be investigated!!”
go modules have too many weird rules

just import file paths like everyone else -- it's simpler and not obviously worse
That was a great video, thanks. He apparently also did a Win XP video, where he put together his dream PC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XTnL4Mang0
Totally agree with everything say. Also want to add that most websites are not designed with accessibility in mind. The default font tends to be small and websites block reader view for ad revenues. The same experience is carried over to poorly built mobile apps - I can name and shame the Wells Fargo app. It just spins for 10 seconds after logging in for no good reason.

If anything we should have more review process around these and make accessibility and latencies hard requirements and not optional.
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Almost always the wrong thing to do, one of the ways to make spaghetti code.
In practice, aren't FAANG giving same protections to Americans? I know they didn't have to, but I thought they would since it would be easier to maintain in long run
This will only be true in societies where the government interests of developing things like surveillance technology do not outweigh the interest of fulfilling their basic responsibilities.

Look at how financially powerful a city like Hong King is compared to the issues they’ve struggled with over the last several years.

If we can’t agree on some basic human rights questions, there’s just no way that technology will proliferate in a way that universally benefits everyone.
It's shipping as I type this and should have it this week. I'll update this thread since I've been using a Macbook Pro trackpad for 10+ years now and give you a first impression.
If someone disagrees with me, it would be great if you told me why my experience and opinion is wrong... I mean, really, I can't learn from a downvote!
Wouldn't you be canarying your switch over a period of longer than 24 hours anyway?

I can still imagine a benefit to short TTLs in the sense that you can maybe roll out your canary in a more controlled way. But that's a lot more complicated than the issue of quick switching.
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https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/416712/

Not Nielsen related per se, but this technique has been circulating for at least a few years. That's a 2015 article.
the thing is, it's pretty difficult to guarantee the data is indeed anonymous. In this specific case, as they are not willing to explain what data is actually processed and say it's somewhere in the Tos, privacy policy[1] etc... we'll take that as the gospel.

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The Usage Data that we collect may include information such as your device data, including your mobile devices, sensor data, device signals, device parameters, device identifiers that may uniquely identify your devices, including your mobile device, web request, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, referring/exit pages and URLs, platform type, the date and time of your request, and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your devices or browser.[1]

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This data is certainly not anonymous by GDPR standards. Identifiers that uniquely identify a device will in some cases(ex, single-user devices) also be unique identifiers to a single person. That is enough for the data to be considered Personal Data in the context of GDPR.

‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person[2]

[1] - https://www.ui.com/legal/privacypolicy/

[2] - https://gdpr-info.eu/art-4-gdpr/
> Also, AudioContext is expected to be active only when created within a user action like a button click.

I really hate the user-action restriction as a security measure, because it's ridiculously easy to bypass[0], particularly on Chrome. It's privacy theater -- annoying for legitimate developers, but easy for malicious actors to get around.

Putting this stuff behind a permission or sandboxing it somehow would be better for both end-users and developers. As it stands, we just get fewer webaudio applications online from legitimate developers, and they all move to native platforms where it's even easier to fingerprint users. And the malicious sites that don't move to native just fingerprint anyway because we're using bad, opaque metrics for consent.

[0]: https://danshumway.com/blog/chrome-autoplay/demo/
The issue is simply, how do we incentivize people to have more kids? Some countries have figured out...you can use this thing called "government" to create the incentives to solve the problem. Mandatory leave for both new mothers and fathers, massive tax benefits, subsidized childcare, etc.

Countries who have done this, while still being market-based economies (capitalist), have been successful in increasing their birth rate to sustainable levels! Maybe we should try it?
I bet they will not actually be GDPR compliant. They will likely get away with it because enforcement is lacking, but anonymization is hard to get right and I would be surprised if they did get it right.
Elon Musk comes to mind.
> So her blood alcohol could have been higher or lower when she was arrested depending on the timing of her last drink.

I don't follow - it's not like she drank more on the way between the bar and the police station, is it?
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I use this for DynamoDB and SQS mocking -- it's so convenient. Dockerized, too, so you're one `docker-compose.yml` from using it in CI.

The development is not all in-house (and I count this as a definite strength of the project). It brings together a number of other AWS mocking libraries.