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I don't know about network info, but web bluetooth isn't really a practical fingerprinting channel. You can't get any info from it without some very loud prompts.

I've seen this mentioned in a few places, and I think it'd be fair to class as FUD.

For starters, Web Bluetooth as implemented doesn't include a scanning API (a low-energy-only scanning API has been discussed, but isn't implemented in any form anywhere).

To connect or learn about any device, the page must specify the exact device id it wants to talk to, or a filter to match a range of devices, e.g. a manufacturer id or a type of bluetooth service, and then the browser will scan & shows the user a list of devices that match. The user can then individually pick one device, and provide permission for the page to connect to it. The web page only hears about (and can only communicate with) the specifically permitted device that you pick.

The page can only request a device in response to a user action - it can't show a prompt unrequested. The permission prompt is then shown to the user every time and waits for them to reject it, even if no devices match, so the page can't use instant failure to detect device availability. There's also a specified 'privacy mode', in which the browser randomizes all device ids (not sure if this is implemented anywhere yet though).

To usefully fingerprint a user, you'd have to scan for nearby phones, the browser would ask "can this page connect to one of these devices?", and the user would have to pick their phone and agree. Imo, it's probably as effective for fingerprinting as a prompt that asks for your phone number to 'win prizes' (non-zero, as some users will enter that, but quite acceptable from a platform perspective).
It's hard to see how the algo could do anything but disappoint. If you don't have the exam information, what information have you got left? Just results from previous years, and a guess as to where you might be in the class, from a teacher who doesn't want to disappoint anyone.

But people have since forever seen exams as a way to stand out from the crowd, individually. If you went to a bad school, exams were a chance to show some extra effort. If you were a slacker, you'd be found out.

Without the specific exam results, all you've got is the reputation of the school, and chances are variation within a school is greater than between.
"I'm not sure it makes sense professionally, though, as most codebase won't survive a decade"

That is highly context sensitive. For example CAD packages are generally decades old.

They can't be rewritten from scratch. There is too much code. Too much of it is domain specific. The features can't change or else customer projects worth billions might suddenly go tits up when they migrate to a newer version (customers don't migrate to newer version very often though).

So, if there is some domain specific use case, worth millions to the software vendor and potentially billions to clients then stability is far more critical than keeping the codebase "modern".
I am trying to build a deep learning workstation. How likely do you think Nvidia will roll out RTX 3090 Ti or RTX 3080 Ti?
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Two reasons: The results indicate that the algorithm was flawed: "Ofqual figures show 39.1% of 700,000 teacher assessments were lowered by at least one grade"

Secondly, many students and teachers complained. This second reason is the thing that "the world can learn" that the article focuses on.
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> IMO it's much better just to swallow the grade inflation for a year

You're not alone, this is the thinking they're using. [0]

> the negative effect from it are pretty minimal

That doesn't sound right. Top-flight students will be disadvantaged.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53810655
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> My argument has been that Oracle can't do this the entire time

No it wasn't. You kept bringing Sun Microsystems into the discussion and they're not relevant regardless of whether we're discussing ZFS or OpenZFS because Oracle own Suns IP. Moreover, and I can't stress this enough, nobody ever suggested OpenZFS would be "got rid of" except for yourself! You created that straw man argument.

> that's why its unfair to say there is Oracle code in OpenZFS. It makes it sound like Oracle has some power over OpenZFS, which is just not the case.

It's not unfair to say that because that is the literal truth. And I was very clear about not only the distinction between ZFS and OpenZFS but also the limited scope in which Oracle could control OpenZFS (if the OpenZFS guys want to re-license they'd still need Oracle's approval for any Sun IP (which Oracle now own) that remains within OpenZFS code).

Claiming that Oracle code doesn't exist within OpenZFS or that Oracle doesn't still have a say with regards to OpenZFS's licence would be as ignorant as saying Oracle could "get rid of OpenZFS".

I suggest re-reading my initial comment that sparked this discussion. I thought it was pretty clear about the distinction between ZFS and OpenZFS and about how much/little control Oracle have over the licenses of each.

All that aside, one comment you made elsewhere did interest me: whether Oracle could sue Canonical due to copyright grounds with Oracle code in Linux. I don't know GPL well enough to know if this is possible but it's a truly terrifying thought given the amount of contributors to Linux and the prevalence of Linux in propitiatory systems like phones, routers and other places that might contain closed SoC modules.
Initial draft and prototype here: https://random-character-generator.com/whatisthis

It's a pretty long rant, but the idea is that all stories follow certain patterns. This is (will be) a tool, where you can input your story and it will massage them into those patterns, fill in holes, and so on.

Most of the work has been prototyping different ideas. So I'd like someone to help in identifying patterns and prototyping those, writing drafts, quality control and checking for conflicts, or telling me my ideas are dumb.
As Portuguese living in Germany, with experience in other European countries as well, that tiered school system always pisses me off.

In those countries I have goten to meet clever individuals with university degree, that in Germany with their high school background would never had gotten the opportunity to attend university.
-pedantic only enables warnings, it cannot change the meaning of code; not even on newer compilers.
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How posts on HN reach #1 is a topic all by itself. To assume it's impossible to game the ranking is foolish. If I were going to try to fool people with an AI generated story, I might also take special steps to help push that post as high up as possible.

Regarding the "content" of the post in question, as TheVerge article notes, "there’s a lot of not-great writing on these here internets, so I guess it’s possible that this could pass as “content marketing” or some other content".

Indeed; so much of the internet is full of meaningless fluff and re-speak (for SEO gaming, referral link promotion, etc.), that whether the fluff is generated by AI or a human is kind of irrelevant.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23894742 And the call that it was gpt 3 with the complaint about this being rude
There is an interesting chicken-and-egg problem in our line of business, in that we have to convince you that we're not just normal-software-company levels of trustworthy and competent, but trustworthy and competent enough for you to put us solidly in the middle of your revenue. Additionally, due to the way our business works, we might have to do that before you even have revenue.

So we invest quite a bit in "the little things." I don't think we'd call them gimmicks. Error messages, for example, certainly aren't gimmicks; they're a classic product feature for an API, but they're afterthoughts in most places and we sweat them enough such that one of every X,000 developers debugging their integration will praise the error message (specifically) to their colleagues or friends. We aspire to that level of care up and down the stack. This includes our web presences; they're shipping software products of our company, after all.

The same sort of chicken-and-egg problem applies to hiring, by the by. The best reason to work somewhere is the colleagues. How do you let people experience the colleagues before the colleagues have convinced them to work for you? Our answer: you create replete evidence that the kind of people you'd end up working with would spend weeks getting a globe animation right and that the people who manage/promote/etc them would say "Absolutely yes, the home page redesign doesn't ship until we have a globe animation we can be proud of."
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I use it as far as I can but it's stopped working in palemoon. The queries it produces aren't very intelligent when you see them and it wouldn't take much NSA/MI5 work to trim much of them out.

I think TMN could be a fair bit smarter.
Many of these are quite cool, but give me the security heebie-jeebies.

For that reason, I don’t see them being implemented broadly, especially in iOS.
I guess the reprocessing cycle is also pretty delicate. A quick check on Wikipedia report:

1. Fuel has to cool in a pond for years (first opportunity for disaster.)
2. Fuel has to be dissolved (second opportunity for disaster.)

Also, Reagan lifted Carter’s ban, but Corporate didn’t lift a finger because no subsidy was given (as usual...)
Reading your exchange I get the impression that a production camera would be suitable for photogrammetry?

Many older (and now inexpensive) Blackmagic models have a global shutter, and shoot RAW at 25 fps / 4k or higher.

Would you reccomend a wide angle lens for this purpose? Intuition tells me a telephoto would capture more detail, though with the caveat of requiring more movement over the surface area to be captured.
Funny how someone pointed out that it lacked content and seemed like something written by GPT-3 and got shit for it
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Yes and no. So I still have a giant desktop, it’s unlikely that I’ll give that up any time soon. The advantage of being able to code from a portable device is additive, not subtractive.

The setzer22 post is a contemplation of future subtraction, but today my opportunities to code have increased, not reduced.
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And I already feared it would be social commentary again...

My ISP does only supply IP6 and uses a service for bridging to IP4. It can be finicky in some places still. Sometimes there just aren't any free addresses available.

While the overall connectivity is pretty good, there are some edge cases where it can cause minor problems. If the IP4 bridges are completely down, the net can get quite barren still. It often stops right after Google. At least for European and American sites.

But overall I haven't seen disadvantages.
In reality, I think this fiasco has more to do with politics than algorithms. One of the big problems is that the alternatives had downsides which were largely glossed over for political reasons - for example the university growth cap isn't just an arbitrary creation, it exists to stop more prestigious universities siphoning off a disproportionate share of students and leaving less prestigious ones in deep trouble and this seems likely to happen now.

Another big problem is that private schools seem to have made more realistic predictions of their students' results than state schools, as demonstrated by the fact that just taking many of their predictions as-is only caused slightly more grade inflation than in the state school results where 40% were downgraded - and this was portrayed in the press as proof that it was an attack on state schools because their results were disproportionately affected by the algorithmic downgrading.

A third problem is that what it was OK to be concerned about varied depending on which political side it benefitted. For example, there was a completely false and made up claim on social media and in publications that should know better that the Education Secretary had said taking the results would cause students to be promoted into jobs that they weren't competent to do: https://fullfact.org/education/gavin-williamson-fake-quote/ I can't imagine that it would've gone down any better if he claimed students would get onto courses they weren't good enough for, yet a week later after GCSEs went the other way and used predicted results that exact claim was uncritically regurgitated by the media.
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I suspect a large part of what gets people to the front page are the first 10-20 votes and a large portion of those probably come from people who only read the title (because the first 10 come fairly quickly).

But I also realise I don't have the data to back it up. Does anyone know of a dataset that has upvote times in it?
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Of course there's plenty of reason to be skeptical, but given that the CCP have taken down ByteDance's apps in the past leads to me to believe that they're less willing to cooperate, whereas companies like Tencent seem fully aligned with the CCP.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-bytedance/china-ord...
Completely agree with you. Just pointing out that the idea that I guess many technically minded people come across actually exists, although in a completely different environment.

In contrast to oceans there's 600 km by air from St. Petersburg to Stockholm which leaves minutes to respond.
Which can be explained by teachers assessments being too optimistic. Now we have reverted to that you can see the results, grade inflation.

Of course students complained, I would if I didn't get the grades I was hoping for. That doesn't mean the government has to cave in and pretend everybody is a winner.
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Interesting gamification of music. Inherently inaccessible though, as will be most (pseudo-)AR that is coming up.

I prefer playing with the real thing, there is really nothing more fun then a hands-on synth:
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> IMO it's much better just to swallow the grade inflation for a year.

When hiring, I'll be crossing off any qualifications earned in 2020. As well as the results being 'fake', the actual learning was in most cases not being done because the students knew they could chill at home and not learn. Sure, some students were studying, but as an employer I don't want to take that risk.

Would you want your doctor to be the one who messed around on TikTok for the whole year of his final exams?
I'm fine if you down vote me but what exactly is wrong with my suggestion that preventing users running malware is exactly what the sysadmin's job is, and sysadmins have exactly the tools, authority and need to do it. Where did I get it wrong?
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Well that's what exams are for but they went out the window as soon as the virus arrived. Whatever system the govenment put in place would be worse but it didn't need to be this bad.
But is the ratio 1 to 1? Or are there way more medical billers than physicians?

Anyway, it's an unnecessary cost.
However these are the essence of contacted work. A job is put up and you choose to take it. There is nothing being forced upon anyone. I know people who drive for Uber, no one is forcing them too. They have their stories of taxi drivers who tripled or quadrupled their income by switching.

Using California's onerous law that has caused so much trouble in this area, did you know that taxi services are not affected unless the city or county regulation body says so? isn't that interesting? they typically are in rental agreements with cars and medallions. However the government has a vested interest in medallions and these companies donate to local politicians all the time. Their workers are getting the shaft but it does not make news because it does not involve an internet company with billions.

The situations I do not like were stories surrounding instacart shoppers being able to cancel tips after delivery, now that is fraud and the company should be liable. I believe uber eats did something similar. T
This virus situation has (or will) produce a lost year of productivity. But people don't want to admit that and are still trying to operate under old constraints or processes. It will break somewhere. They want to keep schools running, and years / classes of students progressing through. But they also want to have some semblance of standards, without being able to teach properly or assess progress properly. All these factors cannot be simultaneously satisfied.

As others have said, you might just have to drop standards and have a lottery, or open enrollment. Putting in these ridiculously bad algorithms is worse than falling back on random chance.

High school/university is where it becomes easiest to hide behind bad logic and less obvious consequences. I hope we're not going to do the same for doctors, pilots, etc. and just let them pass the test because classes were canceled.
The only true fair solution would be to put everyone back at least a year and wait until the exams can actually be done. In the mean time they could've invested the energy in getting an online exam system working and improve/innovate online learning mechanisms so that if we go back into lockdown again they are ready for it.
Crazy random thought here. It could be that a tiny tiny percentage of the people leaving are a little bit influenced by their cities being burned down by mostly peaceful protesters.
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> In my opinion it was deeply unethical to start Patreon as a startup instead of a non-profit. How can you justify it?

Non-profits seem rather complicated / constrained, at least in the US (but probably elsewhere as well) e.g. you could ask the same about Mozilla.

Also, why is it unethical? Middlemen are a universal fixture of US society. And patreon does provide value in convenience and reliability over the previous standard of… idk, beg for donations via PayPal or something?
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For some usecases you can even use docker for lightweight chroots for ARM, MIPS, POWER8 etc. At least for me it covers a lot of grounds (eg. developing for my RPi on my x86 laptop, recompiling a kernel for my ARM-based HTPC etc.)

See https://benou.fr/www/ben/using-docker-as-chroot-on-steroids....

I just checked for Debian 10 for mips64le, ppc64le and arm64v8 targets.
Such a great interview, thanks for sharing
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To be fair they double as ground-based needle disposal areas.