skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Deliveroo has evidently been sending them all my orders. Or at least, there are as many 'interactions' as I have made orders. I don't log in via my Facebook so that is an unwelcome surprise.
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There's no evidence of neanderthals using bows, though. Hard to imaging some people using bow drill but not using bow for hunt.
Or we haven't find it yet, of course.
Kryptos Sculpture: A New Clue in a Decades Old Mystery
True, but from looking at some videos of generic apartment buildings in China the overall building quality seems to be quite poor already.
Coincidentally, the inspiration for the question was my having spent all day testing a new build of the PDF editor product I work on at my day job. Is this something that regular iPads don't have?
Big Name actors will be changing less for Voice work than a Major film tho
Can you point to more information regarding the first bit?
CoreOps Issue 2
They are still there, but they've changed the UI and removed the lesson permalinks, so it's now harder to both find and use these explanations.

Click on a lesson's circle and there is now a lightbulb icon which opens the detailed lesson.
Also some genes are known to actually "jump" between species.

We may end up "limiting" other animals too.

As if Frankenfood and pesticides weren't hazardous enough.
Honest. I like it.
Do u maybe know when wireguard would be better than ZeroTier?, been using it for months for p2p(Hamachi like), and for access to the internet like a VPN service. Seems to be most versatile since it works everywhere even behind the deepest nat jungle, and with blazing fast speeds (compared to openvpn haven't tried wireguard yet)
Two thumbs up, my friend. Best of luck with it.
Here's an example for one of my idle domains.

https://www.heystartup.com/#/
Alibaba Cloud offers free AI computing power for pneumonia vaccine development
> Spoofing Caller ID to someone else's number shouldn't be possible.

Right, this is why we have certificates for websites. I want to know it's my bank I'm logging in to. I'd also like to know it really is my bank that's calling...
Those are good, but they don't work for what the GP is talking about. I'm seeing games/apps associated with my FB account even though I never logged in to FB with them or gave them any info. I literally just opened the app and that activity was associated with my FB account.

I have no idea how they're doing this, since they didn't even request storage access (or I didn't give it). Can any Android developer here chime in on how an app can figure out my Facebook ID even though I don't even have Facebook installed on my phone and didn't give any sort of credential or access to the app?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22177621

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22176877

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22176830

Of course I found them at the bottom where they belong, so I think knzhou is misreading the prevailing sentiment.
> To process a request, however, Clearview is requesting more personal information: “Please submit name, a headshot and a photo of a government-issued ID to facilitate the processing of your request.“

ROFL - they will use your request to add and extract value out of your information. It also clearly, and uniquely identifies individuals who can be considered "trouble makers".
Man I feel hopeless.

I have not connected my Facebook account for over 90% of these sites/apps but they still sent my data to Facebook.
Corruption is a disease that has spread world wide and is causing a lot of destruction to every individual now. The reports are alarming and its causing deaths too. But there are some ways by which we can all fight corruption https://www.taxolawgy.com/corruption-in-india/ together.
That's just FUD.
What possible use would there be for a list of Facebook profiles and their IP addresses?
You can just go on Facebook and get as many profiles as you'd like directly. The IP only gives you an ISP that the user used once at some point in time which means a very crude approximation for location (at the city/country level) which you could probably beat by looking at the profile itself.
I don't know why there was ever an expectation that teens would know more. People that are interested in a topic know more, its not a factor of age. The same could be said of cars, boats, household appliances, anything!
If you are interested you will learn and if your not you won't. Exposure and use on a daily basis does not imply that you will know whats going on under the hood, a literal old car metaphor for understanding whats going on out of sight. The majority of people drive or are driven in cars and only have a cursory knowledge of how they work and the thing is they don't need to and that's how it should be. We don't expect people to understand in detail how their cars/trains/elevators/coffee machine/hair dryer work, why should a computer be different?
In the Caribbean, because of scamming and fraud, opening an account at any financial institution or like place requires several documents and oft making a visit to an authority figure (Justice of the Peace) to verify address and for character reference. On average you will need your TRN (Tax Registration Number (SSN basically), some form of photo identification, address verification, references, proof of income) and the list can go on depending on what you're trying to accomplish.

We're basically trying to make an opt in service that can make procuring these relatively painless by grouping all relevant parties and then keeping these on record. A glorified KYC of sorts and then looking to use these as means of authenticating (I should be able to use my profile to sign up anywhere or transfer to my data (or parts thereof) to another party. Lots more to flush out but we have a good grasp of where we're going and what we want to achieve. Our government has tried to do this in the past but failed at getting it past the courts due to privacy concerns and are set to try again. I skimped on some details but the idea should be clear.

As well as new data protection laws introduced/proposed with more amendments to come, it's a simple but interesting problem at this point in time in navigating everything including how we do our own verification, security and eventual licensing to achieve the desired outcome.
Intriguing. I just recently realized that Neanderthals actually were wiped off due to climate change.

Now I know exactly why. Without the ability to make fire they were pretty helpless during cold periods.
Astronomer Royal: Scientists are more like you
Agreed, even with all of the above I had about 15 or so sites in that Facebook list. I suspect it's because I was logged in to Facebook on my phone's browser for a while. Not sure why I even did that...
I use uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger on my desktop and phone, as well as Blokada, and yet Facebook still had a bunch of app activity even though I never ever sign in to stuff using FB (or even gave the apps my email or any other piece of personal data).

I literally just opened the app, granted no permissions, used it a bit, and Facebook associated it with my account. What the fuck.
Swift vs. Objective-C
Yeah. You need actual survival training to be able to make fire. Good reminder.

I wanted to learn it myself. Without matches I'm lost in the woods.
but unfortunately that data is already out there. If clearview could collect/scrape, so can anyone else. If Clearview could hire people to create AI's to identify people/match people, so could anyone else.

And this kind of database, i imagine, would already exists for the NSA or whatever intelligence agency for China/russia.
Same here. At least you can just turn it off on this page, and hopefully that will do something.
What are the best ways to protect against this kind of tracking? I would argue it's probably better to keep a Facebook account so you can see what they're tracking and work to prevent it.

In my browser I'm running uBlock Origin, HTTPS Everywhere, and Privacy Badger. I'm guessing those will help quite a lot. However on an iPhone what can I do (as that's where a lot of this data seems to be coming from)?
Does anyone know anything about Wireguard-p2p?
It's a tool for automatic management of endpoints and NAT-traversal for wireguard. It was announced on FOSDEM 2018[0]. Main repo[1] is stale, unfortunately.

Some tool that would augment WG with more features a-la Tinc would be awesome.

[0] https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/bulletinboard...
[1] https://github.com/manuels/wireguard-p2p
I don't think they will tell you the whole truth.

It's just like with Google history you can "delete".

They have the data stored for the authorities anyway.

They are required to do it by law (Patriot Act etc.)
For Revolut, I have many many entries like:

ID 894103617218109
Event CUSTOM
Received on 13 November 2019 at 09:51

The only event is "CUSTOM".
a cease and desist is worth about as much as the paper it's printed on.
NIR spectrometer for assessing ripeness of wine grapes. It is palm sized device that you take to the vineyard and by scanning many bunches you get numbers you need: brix, pH, acids.

There are many research papers talking about it for many years, but till recently there was not cheap enough hardware available so it just get stuck in university laboratories.

It is still tough project to pull out as it combine hardware, cloud software, machine learning and there is quite some laboratory work required as well. Doing all of this as a single person and bootstraping is extra challenge but I guess I don't know better.

I've got into it 5 years ago, when I decided to quit technology, bought small farm and build winery. At first I wanted to analyze the wine itself, basically to make traditional method obsolete, but performance of this kind of instruments are not good enough for liquid that complex. It turned out grape analysis is much easier target to tackle.
Have you tried getting money transfered internationally? At my level of understanding I can find many legit reasons for this course of action.
Let's not forget AfterStep's daddy, bowman.
On a OSS sideproject, I'm working on a DI container for TypeScript that can autowire interfaces, Array of types and generics.

Since the type information is erased at compile time, it uses the compiler API to extract the data needed and generates TS code for the interface and constructor mappings.

The library is on GH, but not really much to show. I've posted on /r/node and it got some positive reactions, but it didn't got that much attention.
Wow. Regular flu kills around 300-650k people per year worldwide, but in general it only has a 0.1% mortality rate; and guess what, it also only basically kills the elderly.

Now you have a virus with a mortality rate of 2-3%, so it'll kill a lot more people once it begins to spread. The sick people from the coronavirus also needs a lot more medical work and efforts to separate them from the rest of the populace.
In Defense of the Separation of Concerns
I saw HSBC
I don't see how it differs from first thermonuclear bomb test or the large hadron collider. They were peeking into the unknown. After making their best judgement, of course.

The years to come will be the years of climate change. The best we can do is lower its severity a bit. Ecosystems will be straining to adapt. We can no longer hope that not doing anything to ecosystems will keep status quo. Proactive measures will be necessary. And we will be still in the dark about consequences of those measures, if we don't start doing experiments now.

Majority of people don't have sufficient knowledge to assess risks and benefits of genetically-modified-organisms-in-the-wild scenario, so it should be "Demand to tighten regulations", not "Oppose such practices".
If they were not planning to see a profit, then a non profit would be appropriate.
Vulcanisation was patented in 1844.

If the technique wasn't known until the 1920s, the issue of the patent exhibits extreme prescience on the part of both Charles Goodyear (1800-1860) and the US Patent and Trademark Office.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Goodyear

Synthetic rubber wasn't invented until WWII, when natural latex supplies were rendered unavailable due to WWII.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_rubber
There is nothing on this page I was not aware of and intentionally linked (e.g. Strava).

So does this mean I am successfully stopping them from tracking websites I visit via tracking pixels / IP mapping / whatever other nefarious shit they do, or are they just not showing this information here?
> Based on reports and news, Amazon has been perhaps the best out of the big companies when dealing with privacy

They pitch their Ring doorbells as a surveillance network to police departments, provide law enforcement with an easy to use interface and map of their camera network, and allow police to go after people who choose not to share their recordings without a warrant.

With a warrant or subpeona, all police have to do is serve it to Amazon, and the company can hand over your recordings without ever letting you know.
This is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. Thank you so much for introducing me to this. The only downside is the fact that my Kindle does not support this app but oh well.

I wish Amazon allowed syncing of highlights / bookmarks for uploaded books.
Building a library to deduplicate data at scale in Apache Spark, where there is no unique record identifier (i.e. fuzzy/probabilistic matching).

https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/sparklink

It's currently in alpha testing, but the goal is for it to:

- Work at much greater scale than current open source implementations (the ambition is to work at 100 million records plus)

- Get results much faster than current open source implementations - ideally runtimes of less than an hour.

- Have a highly transparent methodology, so the match scores can be easily explained both graphically and in words (it isn't a 'black box')

- Have accuracy similar to the best products on the marketplace.
Another reason why something like Sci-Hub is a public good despite its negative press.
Yes, that's right. I had an XIO FC board in my O2000 that died, and I had spare Adaptec FC PCI cards for PCs. I had previously noticed that the SGI PCI FC cards for O2s or O200s were actually the same as the Adaptec, physically, but with an SGI ROM.

So after my XIO FC board died, I added an Adaptec board to my O2K to get my RAID array back online (the whole company was out of work because of that failure).

However though the card appeared in "hinv", it didn't work... After I asked for help on the newsgroups (the system was out of maintenance...) Alexis sent me a private email with the necessary invocation of the kernel rebuild command, and it worked like a charm from there.
Could you use an external capture device like an elgato which is about $100
And use it with obs to transmit your screen?
Sorry speaking from ignorance about true nature of issue just a guess.
Anyone aware of a VPN provider that offers WireGuard and supports more than 5 simultaneous connections? I've been using Mullvad but the 5 connections limit is starting to feel really restrictive.
AMD's 4Q/FY19: Revenue Up 50% from 4Q18, Debt Halved
This may also induce a kind of dormant state in bacteria as many chemical stresses do. So whether a new chemical treatment is more effective needs to be tested in light of this knowledge.
While peracetic acid has known disinfectant properties, it's only been used for washing hands as far as I know, not for ingestion. It's also a very strong irritant even at low concentration, plus it usually contains a mixture of acetic acid, hydrogen peroxide and sulfuric acid in various proportions. I am not sure how this would be controlled and there's been no study on ingestion of this combination of substances in humans.
I have a ScanSnap scanner too (mine's an S1500 - I have had it for c10 years or so and it still works perfectly) and it's great to be able to search what used to be paper documents quickly and easily. It saves a lot of physical space as well, most documents I scan then shred immediately once I've verified the scan is good and backed up.

There are some reasonably good OCR tools on Linux now as well - I've been pretty happy with Tesseract[0]. It was an absolute pain to script everything to "just work" when I press the button on my scanner though.

Recoll[1] works very well for indexing documents for me including my OCRd scans. When that's not enough, I revert to pdfgrep.

0. https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
1. https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/
Nasal spray medicine for treatment-resistant depression not recommended by NICE
The brains cells that guide animals
Optimum and Fios are two isps in the US.

> Try running a UDP-only DNS server from home on some random port.

No reason to run DNS.

However, I run openvpn udp between three houses (fios, Comcast, cablevision) for nearly 15 years. It’s pretty common, works fine.

Again in the US... cable, fiber and dsl internet service comes with a public mostly unfiltered IPv4 address, the address is dynamic but in practice it is extremely stable.

End of story.

No idea why you’re acting like such an imbecilic tool in this thread. The whole time I have mentioned that this is the case for major US “landline” ISPs. Yes there are plenty of counterexamples, not sure what point you’re trying to prove.
I just have a secret 100% off voucher code for testing. It's not perfect and I'd would prefer a real test environment, but it does the job fine.
Does it increase perseverance or merely select for it? This study does not distinguish the two and to me the latter is more likely.
That's quite easy actually: with reproducible builds, hashes and signatures. None of this is possible or easy to do in the hardware world.
Is is too late to change my email address on Facebook?

I'm assuming Facebook keeps a history of my email addresses that it can still associate it to my account.

Another option is to change all my email address at these sites.
Keep in mind that Facebook probably has a few unique identifiers from you apart from browser cookies:

- Email address

- Cell phone number (even if you only used it for 2FA)

- Credit card number (if you ever made a donation via Facebook or bought digital currency in a Facebook game)

- Advertising ID of your mobile device (can be reset in Android as well as iOS)

In order to avoid tracking, you have to make sure that none of these are known to Facebook and to other companies.
I think they cross-reference Android Advertising ID in their SDK. Have you ever logged to Facebook from your phone?

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/app-ads/targeting/mobil...
Can’t they create a virtual webcam device somehow
As a side note, if you ever do a Vipassana 10-day retreat (dhamma.org) try taking a cold shower during the course. It's a nice challenge, and an application of the "non-reaction" practice. (Personally I found myself far, far more tolerant of the cold water, to the extent I was kind of amazed that my previous self was so averse to it).
Realise that you don't really need those android apps, or the google or facebook account. The utility and entertainment you get is half of surveillance capitalism ecosystem, and the other half is that they compile all this information about you.

I know it sounds preachy and it's not a conclusion most people will like. But, like fasting, going without something you like but don't really need does help you focus on what you really do need.
Perhaps what we have here is a concrete example of the principle put forward by Mark Twain - “Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.”
Grubhub adds restaurants without permission
It's cold

It's impractical (no go zones, quarantined cities) or risky to go out

Can't watch porn or play really fun games because of state censorship

The role of private sector in healthcare is limited

So yeah - millions are having fun watching poor workers building stuff under duress.

Which reminds me - millions watched Obamacare Web site going live when that disaster was unfolding
Sounds like the activities view could be some good evidence to give to a data protection commissioner.
Where in the Caribbean are you?

Wouldn’t that just make a juicer target since a hacker would have one place to go?

I notice a lot of people help each other against the perceived government inflexibility so they’ll lend ID cards etc. won’t this just increase the amount of identifiers leaked when they do so?
I've linked the summary document. If you want the technical details they are here: https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/gid-ta10371/documents/129

We hear a lot about novel treatments for depression such as ketamine or psychedelics, so some people may be surprised by the NICE decision to not recommend esketamine.

I'm pretty confident that esketamine will be approved by NICE in the future, once the costs have dropped and when we have better quality research showing the effectiveness.

Depression is an umbrella term that covers a wide range of different illness.

Some people with depression are going to have spontaneous remission -- they'll get better even if we don't provide any treatment. Some people have reactive depression and they'll get better if we change the situation they're in.

We know that short form talking therapy like cognitive behaviour therapy is effective for about 50% to 60% of the people who try it. We know that medication has similar effectiveness. We know that some people get most benefit from a combination of meds and therapy.

But there are people who have chronic, severe, treatment resistant depression.

For some people with long-lasting, treatment-resistant, severe depression where they are at risk of death by suicide we've used electro-convulsive therapy. Some people think ECT was the best thing that happened, but others tell us that it caused them harm.

For this small group of people ketamine is probably going to be useful.

So, why did NICE chose not to approve eskatamine nasal spray?

It wasn't being looked at for just this narrow group of people, but for a more general group. The definition of "treatment resistant" being used in the trials was "hasn't responded to two or more anti-depressant medications". The trials had an unusually large response from the placebo group -- people with supposedly treatment resistant depression were getting better after a placebo treatment. The trials also haven't compared eskatamine nasal spray with talking therapies -- this is a large gap in the research.

It costs £10,000 per course of treatment. That's a lot more than antidepressants or talking therapies and so it would need to show clear unambiguous benefits over those, which at the moment it cannot do.

And there's uncertainty about side-effects and what happens when people stop treatment.
If you look at the questionnaire[1] they ask for new changes, it's clear they still want a justification, and a design, for new proposals. And that proposals which "state a problem rather than a solution" will be rejected.

It's just that they've been convinced that generics are justified. And they have concrete proposed solutions under evaluation.

[1] https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/go2-language-...
I have, either in the browser or in Swipe (a third-party app). I've never logged in to or installed the Facebook app or Messenger.
Netflix original series no longer get time to breathe
Damn good reason to teach him some philosophy then,