skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's doesn't "send the data" so much as "a general purpose UI platform cannot work unless a program knows the configuration of the UI". The idea that your complex computing environment could have an arbitrary complex conversation with an app, and not expose its identity, while perhaps desirable, it impractical.

You can browser behind a generic user-agent firewall, but you'll get a severely degraded experience that treats an Apple watch the same as a desktop workstation.
There's a difference in our indifference, you know.

"People don't really compare that hard" has been demonstrated to be false - if people didn't care that much, Bing & co would've seen much greater success in the past few years. It's not like this hasn't been tried before.

Google is so damn good at search that being "good enough" isn't good enough for the average user. You have to be as good as Google. This is why Apple and Mozilla work with Google to offer them as a default - they're not dumb, they know people expect it.
I suspect similar organic frauds are going on all over. I know someone who was fired for not going along with faking the statistics that a food service vendor was using for marketing. There need to be more regulations to verify something labeled as organic actually is.
I am unique through the useragent. Apparently Brave and Chrome both put the device model of your phone into the useragent string. It also contains your OS version and Chromium version. I guess those three points alone are able to very significantly narrow you down.
What does it mean when i load the test, and it says i'm unique, and then i go back five minutes later without changing anything and it says i'm still unique?

are they tracking that i've run the test before, verifying that i'm me, and telling me i'm still unique, or is my fingerprint differing between two subsequent tests?

also, i'm suspicious about some of these values - only 0.13% of people have a querty keyboard layout? Only 7% of tests have no gyroscope? That doesn't sound right.
True.

But I only care about filling captchas on say banking websites, which is approximately happens once a month.

The rest, I just close the tab: the content never worth it.

The most obnoxious ads don't care about captchas, they just blast you with ads from your previous search keywords/browsing history.

p.s. Would the amount of captchas reduce if we take not the top most non-unique fingerprint, but say "slightly below average"? It will be still severely non-unique for ads purposes.
Thanks for digging that up. :)
International first/business. Most domestic airlines (US or European) don’t have the room for a 16”, sadly.
You definitely could do a similar column-level functional approach that way, but I think the simple syntax of the stack-oriented approach makes it easier to read and catch errors. The code would be a lot longer that way.
Most of these fields you don't want to disable or spoof because either it breaks your web experience (imagine images randomly not loading because you spoofed your headers and the server thinks your browser supports .whatever or because you emptied the list and the server doesn't know what to send) or because it makes you unique (having your build id be "" is certainly more unique than whatever others actually use).

The tests you can spoof like the canvas fingerprinting where it doesn't break the canvas and the results are already so spread out being unique isn't an identifier itself are already built into a lot of browsers. The site doesn't really acknowledge this though, it just says "you're unique" without checking if it's a different unique value each time in which case it doesn't identify you at all.
I have an Acer Spin 1 that is a slightly larger form factor (11", .65? thick) and quite snappy and delightfully portable. The laptop form factor (convertible to tablet) and keyboard are great.

Only downside is the 1366x768 screen, which I find just tolerable for the 11" display.
Right. There are two distinguishable risks from cellular or WiFi modems. One is geolocation by towers or access points. And the other is isolation of the open system from cellular or WiFi modems.

You can't use cellular or WiFi without being geolocated. But as long as the modems are securely isolated from the open system, geolocation information can't pollute your communications. There's obviously the same geolocation issue with broadband.

Also, that isolation prevents compromised modems from compromising the open system, and the accessing data, compromising end-to-end encryption, and so on.

Both are aspects of modems being "treated as compromised/hostile".
Is there something actionable I can take based on the results of this page? E.g. is there some Firefox add-on that obfuscates attributes used for fingerprinting?
I completely agree with Marcus' assessment of GPT-2 and its ilk. They are simply regurgitating words with zero understanding of any words/meaning.

It seems that OpenAi and others are peddling this AI when its simply a glorified Eliza on steroids.
So...the Wuhan scientists are modifying viruses in their BSL-4 lab (which is no joke when it comes to safety standards) and then just letting these things escape? Sorry, that’s very far fetched. Why can’t people accept that a virus like this could evolve naturally?
Isn't the fact that you regularly have to turn off the flags on these articles a sign that these articles get unnecessarily flagged? And even when you do unflag articles, sometimes it is just too late to rescue. For example, this article was flagged. You unflagged it, but by now it is page 8 instead of number 1 on the front page like it was when I saw it.

EDIT: This comment received two downvotes within 3 minutes of me posting. It is a comment buried half way down the comment section on a post that is 8 pages deep on HN. That type of immediate reaction seems strange and as a user it would be helpful to know whether something I said is unfit for this community or if there is some other reason for that reaction. Requiring users explain themselves for this behavior provides some immediate value for me on this comment.
This is Google's strategy to defeat privacy in a nutshell
Oh, indeed. I think Wiki's search is based on just the titles and probably their redirection aliases, not the article bodies.
> Only the BBC pretends to strive for that nowadays.

This remark is hugely ironic if you followed the recent UK election, but they at least have an outside perspective in the US.
It says they set a cookie for 4 months.
Thanks, this solves a very important problem in the k8s ecosystem.

For me personally, I've spent the weekends of the last two months learning ldap basics only to find out that k8s+ldap is another mess on its own.
We're so quick to climb onto the corporate hierarchy even as we scorn the 'suits' and their corner offices

Every dev has low level access at some point be it writing or approving production code where do you think the concept of Easter eggs comes from which these clearly fit the description

It seems however we've gone so far up the ass of the corporate machine that we have become synonymous with it

I read a funny excerpt the other day in a book -- when Rome was full of slaves everyone started adopting a slave mindset because it was everywhere pretty soon you can't distinguish slave from master and so it is here when we as devs put ourselves into comfortable stereotypes but what do I know I'm just a low level dev
The best non-US service I've found is Everypocket[1]. It almost seems like a glorified Excel, but it's just so simple. Unfortunately, it looks like the dev has abandoned the project. He doesn't respond on his own subreddit[2] anymore.

I prefer the so-called zero-based budgeting. I dislike YNAB though.

[1]: https://www.everypocket.com/

[2]: https://old.reddit.com/r/everypocket/
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It matters because face masks are not enough to prevent transmission, which matters relative to the common cold only because this virus kills. The common cold does not.
What I don't understand that the user agent for the latest version of Firefox (on Windows 10) has a similarity rating of just 0,31%.
> Wuhan lab had anything to do with this outbreak

The Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory is the only lab in China designated for studying dangerous pathogens like SARS and Ebola. What are the chances of coincidence that Wuhan is also the center of this current outbreak?

Maybe one of the lab animals somehow leaked and ended up in the food market.
With all that lithium, at least the workers won't be depressed about getting irradiated.
I get just 0,31% similarity rating with the latest Firefox.
> Your smartphone, if it's anything like mine, would be better if it had a longer running time between charges

Little of your phone battery goes to the CPU. It's almost all screen and radios.
Tapping into the Power of Humble Narcissism
Right, but however you expose that information, aren't you just providing nucleation sites for meta-debates? This is a site that practically begs users to generate opinions about everything; you can't even pick the background color for your blog post without potentially sparking a 10-comment subthread about it. Off-topic meta arguments are arguably the biggest problem comment threads on HN have.
"I'm curious. Can you give one or two examples of the 'simple truths' that we can't agree on anymore?"

"Should Trump be impeached for leveraging military aid to require an investigation into local companies in a nation that was ostensibly interfering in American politics, when the target of said investigation is a political opponent, thereby creating an obvious conflict of interest"

"Should Hillary Clinton be charged for communicating sensitive information using persona devices, or deleting information requested by the FBI during the subsequent investigation"

These are really hard issues actually.

If you stand outside your hatred or love for these people, and stand outside of your own political preferences, they become considerably more nuanced and difficult than we'd care to admit.

They are not black and white enough to have easy answers, and so, we get narratives, misinformation, and polarisation.
Trading Standards in the UK are able to detect organic products, and will periodically take samples from farms and manufacturers for lab testing. There have been samples taken from stores, and prosecutions -- not enough, but the ability is there.

That's over and above the Soil Association regulations and inspections. SA is the organic standards body in the UK.

So it sounds like the US problem is lack of oversight. Of course thanks to the deliberate under funding of the state, particularly of local councils, by recent Tory governments the UK is rapidly catching up to that lack of oversight -- Trading Standards are severely underfunded currently as councils are forced to fund more urgent needs first.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/organic-produce-tests-and-inspec...
I totally get it. It's bizarre to me the way debates about any significant LDS figure or historical moment quickly becomes flooded with anti-LDS sentiment from various sources, especially r/exmo types.

And then I'm just in the corner as an atheist who has an anthropological fascination with LDS history and culture.
TOR browser on highest security level, javascript disabled and windowed returns: Almost! (You can most certainly be tracked.)
I can’t speak for the Graviton2 CPUs, but AMD Epyc CPUs have RAM encryption with per-VM keys for increased isolation: https://developer.amd.com/sev/
a small price to pay for anonymity
Many interesting discussions here touch on tangential subjects. I for one found the information relevant.
What to know about GPS receiver elevation
You edited a user's comment to fix a minor typo? Is that something you do often?
I've heard of a similar phenomenon where hackers probing a system can fingerprint different software stacks based on what they get as responses to different "undefined behavior" inputs. Anything that communicates with the outside world is intrinsically giving up some information about itself.
Its more likely to be accidentally released like by a worker with stuff on them as has happened previous times with SARs etc in similar viral lab in China ( and happened in other cases and countries including the UK) than intentionally released.

But it's also a hundred times more likely that the source is nature. However we should not discount the possiblity that viruses get out by accident as it's not uncommon even with top bio safety labs.
Sites like this and the EFF’s panopticlick err on the side of saying you can be tracked when that might not be true.

For example: I visited this same site a while ago with the same device, and both times it has said I was unique. A new version of iOS came out, so my user agent changed. Unless sites are also storing unique data on your machine (through cookies or localstorage), browser fingerprinting is a crapshoot. This goes double for mobile devices.
A better solution would be to scramble parts of this fingerprint for each domain.
> My knowledge of optics is not sufficient to fully explain why it's easier to filter by wavelength instead of direction.

Reciprocity. For most optical devices, if x% of light coming in port A comes out port B, then x% of light coming in port B comes out port A. Non-reciprocal materials exist, but they’re unusual and may be rather inefficient and complicated to work with. Wavelength splitters are reciprocal and are relatively easy to construct. In fact they’re cheap enough that people use them for art. (The usual splitter is a piece of dichroic glass.)

The Wikipedia article is so-so:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocity_(electromagnetis...
I know this is opensource, but...
What if I want to contribute financially to the project ???

I didn't found any 'donate' or 'buy' button.

Hardware costs money, there will be hosting bills to pay, and developers sometimes want to eat.
>Absolutely not. You do not get privacy without HTTPS.

My sites do because I put all of them up as tor hidden services too.

>Browser defaults regarding JavaScript, certainly have nothing to do with it.

They do. Because everything 'insecure' you just described comes from users running code that might be injected. There's no danger from some entity tricking some person into viewing a simple html page.
Right, regardless of chip configuration, modern phones use IOMMU for isolation. Arguably the main advantage of the PinePhone and Librem 5 is the kill switches.
Spoiler, it's not. Gas companies have been bleeding money.
Would I be right in saying that if you use iOS safari (which a decent number of mobile users use) you are not very unique at all and any tracking based on browser fingerprinting is pretty useless? (Or is it the combination of a non unique browser fingerprint with a slightly more targeted origin IP address from the ISP) that makes it almost worth/possible trying to identify a person without cookies?
From that wiki page you linked to:
"The difference compared to zram is that zswap works in conjunction with a swap device while zram is a swap device in RAM that does not require a backing swap device."
> Literally billions of dollars have been invested in building systems like GPT-2, and megawatts of energy (perhaps more) have gone into testing them

Huh, seems like the bot that produced the article lacks some understanding about the real world. Maybe it just needs more training until it learns to associate megawatts with power instead of energy.

Meanwhile GPT2 completes this sentence to

> Literally billions of dollars have been invested in building systems like GPT-2, and megawatts of power generation to support this project.

On a more serious note GPT2 doesn't learn, it can't iteratively explore the world, doesn't experience time or associate those words with other stimuli or anything like that. Given these and more limitations it's fairly impressive what it does. It's like a child reading advanced physics books without the necessary prior knowledge. Being able to form a coherent-seeming sentence of jargon is all you can expect from it. Of course the path to AGI is long.
It's even worse than what sokoloff said above.

I once talked to a guy who got a Part 135 certificate at a Class Bravo airport.

Him: "Yeah, I got the first 135 cert in 30 years at this airport."

Me: "How'd you do that?"

Him: "Oh, I work for the federal govt."

All you need to know is that the FAA considers all operators to be the "same level of safety", whether 91, 135 or 121. Since 121 means scheduled airline, you can do the math on how much that would cost and how much paperwork is involved.
Both the PinePhone and Librem 5 have physical kill switches for the modems.
>ANGLE (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Direct3D11 vs_5_0 ps_5_0)

Wow I didn't know it reveals the GPU
Arduino-copilot makes it easy to use Haskell to program an Arduino
The reason why it is easier to filter by wavelength is that almost any optical path reflects significant amount of light back, primarily from various discontinuities along the fiber (connectors, splices, and also the actual receiver on the other end) but also from imperfections in the fiber itself. On copper interconnects there are similar issues, but for reasonably controlled cabling (eg. 1000-base-T) they can be minimized enough, that what remains is either insignificant or can be compensated for by DSP magic.
There’s a lot going on here, like assuming a $500/mo car payment (I feel like I have a good car and the payment is less than half) is necessary for it to impact ones budget. Car ownership is unfortunately necessary in most of the US, even nice areas, and the same cannot be said about many other places. There’s a lot more costs to it than the monthly payment. Insurance is mandatory so that’s one. Gas, maintenance like oil, tires, etc. also add up.

This is also devolving into whataboutism. It’s not like other places don’t have issues with income, in fact I bet it is worse in some places. But then you’re really comparing apples and oranges. My whole point is that life in America decades ago and life in America now are significantly different and its wholly unreasonable to compare incomes and make conclusions with a mere adjustment for inflation. If that’s true, then comparing the U.S. to other countries is even less reasonable.

I’m not going to dig into your assertions, it doesn’t sound like you have first hand experience with lower class American living and I’m not sure trying to explain the trouble in Hacker News comments will really work well. Needless to say it’s complicated.

I’ll dig into just one. “Car insurance is not that expensive.” Well that certainly depends.

I grew up in Michigan which admittedly is an absolute worst case for car insurance. My insurance costed about $100 a month, but only because I got it through my parents: had I tried to go it alone, I’d be above $200 a month.

This is all with a $1000 deductible. Well I had accidents and guess what, even though they weren’t my fault I had to pay basically the entire cost because the repairs came to around $1000.

There’s also different kinds of insurance. If you don’t have a new car, you may opt for cheaper insurance like PLPD, which basically covers nothing, but if you count your spare monthly income in the hundreds and have no substantial savings is probably not your worst choice.

Re: health care, If I am the first person that has to argue about health care costs to you I’d be shocked. I did have coverage through my employer and still have paid thousands in dental and hundreds in minor visits to the doctor. Health care in the US is incredibly complicated and knowing exactly what you’re going to pay in a given circumstance is probably not possible.
‘Collapsologie’: Constructing an Idea of How Things Fall Apart
Thanks for the reply ... it serves to reinforce that I've not been entirely stupid so far, because I've tried that, and it achieves half of what I want. The problem is that I want links in the nodes - that's why I'm asking for HTML specifically.

I know I'm at risk here of asking for Y when actually I want to achieve Z and the best way is to use X, but seriously, if the nodes are HTML then I can do things in them already, but if they are SVG then I need to re-learn all the capabilities in a new language, and not leverage what I already know.

I want to have boxes with arrows between them. I want them laid out semi-automatically in a hierarchical fashion. The boxes should contain HTML, so I can put text and links in them.

However ...

It's looking like I need to generate SVG. I can generate plain SVG using DOT/GraphViz, but then I can't put links in the nodes. So I need to parse and post-process the SVG to insert the links, and it all just seems too hard.

I'm not saying it should be easy, but it should be easier than this. Someone must have done something similar, there must be a library. The art must have progressed beyond he graphical equivalent of machine code, but it seems not even to have got as far as assembly language.

I can't believe people assemble these sorts of displays by hand ...

Am I asking the wrong question?
Im unsure why all that data is needed when i simply visit a website to read stuff or watch stuff on youtube.
Is it really necessary?
A breakthrough in molding materials at the nanoscale
https://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology-news2/newsid=54422.php
If I google for python concurrency the second link is to the docs:
https://docs.python.org/3/library/concurrency.html

I don’t see where in the docs it says, it’s 2020 so do this from now on. Maybe that’s the problem?
And as long as the user isn't executing all code the web sends them willy nilly it's fine. My sites never require users to have javascript on.
You can create an executable from the menu in DrRacket https://docs.racket-lang.org/drracket/create-exe.html I think that not all the options are available, but it is easier.
TBH, casinos are not brick and mortar shops.
When you go into an establishment that attracts troublemakers(casinos, night clubs, etc.) you expect the security-privacy balance to tip towards the former as that's the easiest way to keep out scammers and troublemakers.
Failure to recognize J. M. Keynes's work guarantees further crises
Having constant power density with continuous performance improvements broke down.

But we're not yet at the point where power density increases as fast as transistor density.
Open Wi-Fi Security
For the same reason I can’t create a stream of 140 character messages or write Stairway to Heaven again. Because someone already did the novel thing and captured the initial audience attracted by that novelty.
I’m guessing here, but I think the number seems high because shale wells have short lifespans. The declines are much higher than conventional wells, and so there are a great many of them to maintain production as the wells decline. There are large a number of DUCs, or drilled but uncompleted wells. They maintain these so that when one well runs dry, another can be brought online to maintain production targets. Also it’s more economic to drill as many wells as you can as quickly as possible even if it exceeds targets because there are economies of scale when it comes to moving and leasing rigs that drill the wells.
Real Median Personal (not household!) income is also up significantly:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N