skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you sick and tired, go talk to a doctor and take a rest.

You either can protect yourself or not. Legal ability of citizens to protect themselves against worthless idiots is important part of keeping our streets and cities clean.

I wish same right will be given to business owners.

Then all these self-righteous corrupted criminal movements of "almost peaceful protesters" will cease to exist.
+1 just because fingerprinting with WebGL has practical applications and legitimate use cases, this does not mean it's not fingerprinting
Just to add some context for why the dealer probably acted that way.

Stamp collectors for exploration are quite a bit different from the kinds of collectors that tend to go to stamp dealers (I am one of those collectors).

You end up focussing on extremely narrow areas of the hobby to the point where you are hunting down which library has a painting a stamp is copied from or trying to track down an envelope sent by a particular person from a particular city.

You can have 10 different variations of a stamp that look all the same except under a magnifying glass.

There are collectors who have hundreds of thousands of dollars in their collections and all of the same single stamp. Just 1000 different copies of it.

The premier component of my collection is an exhibit on the 1982 Canadian Philatelic Youth Issue, a single stamp series (about stamps).

So for a lot of collectors (including the ones willing to spend thousands a year) it’s less an accumulation hobby and more a specific research project.

Not excusing the behaviour of the dealers, but meeting someone who collected so widely could be unusual for them.
SPACs should be banned. They’re a vehicle for perpetuation of the market as a gambling platform, while undermining the transparency requirements of the market.
> if your father doesn't have a precious gem mine in Africa

“This is a pretty awful lie,” Elon tweeted. “I left South Africa by myself when I was 17 with just a backpack & suitcase of books. Worked on my Mom’s cousin’s farm in Saskatchewan & a lumber mill in Vancouver. Went to Queens Univ with scholarship & debt, then same to UPenn/Wharton & Stanford.”

In a follow-up tweet, Elon said his father “didn’t own an emerald mine & I worked my way through college, ending up ~$100k in student debt.”

His mother Maye responded on Twitter in December 2019 in defense of Elon.

“To add to the truth, we went to Boston Chicken in Philadelphia for Thanksgiving because we couldn’t afford a turkey. And we spent three weeks making our rent-controlled apartment livable in Toronto,” Maye tweeted.

https://moguldom.com/278102/fact-check-did-elon-musk-inherit...
Echoing a lot of the sentiment here, I wish math would simply use english (or natural language). It clearly seems too much to ask for a programming language, especially when it comes to pure math.

At an undergrad math course, we were allowed to state our proofs in english without any notation. This was the only course that did this. I found it easier to write and reason about my proofs, it was incredibly easy to read my peers', and the professor had no issues with my work while he did have some trouble with some of the notation.

When I first started, the question I had was if there existed an encyclopedia or an OED for mathematical notation. I was told there wasn't. I then enquired how I would go about deciphering something I didn't understand, and was told that I should ask my professors and peers. I brought one of the papers I had found online to him, and he asked me to write to the author because he couldn't understand it either.

Meanwhile I can download any old piece of code, and given enough time with the compiler and myself, I can understand what it means to express. I shudder to think 9f the sheer body of work that relies on a vague understanding of the notations in the underlying proofs.

For a science that believes in precision of logic, I ask: how is this still a thing?
Huawei was able to eavesdrop on all calls from mobile KPN customers (translated)
I'm curious if something like [1] would work for those SoCs, eg ask if it supports "video/mp4-liar-liar-pants-on-fire-from-twitchtv"

[1]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/?p=40663
I definitely agree with you.
This is fantastic, I actually independently gave my CS101 (for engineers) students some of the same questions last semester (temperature, definite integrals, game of life). Can't wait to try some of these out!
I like using the non-resident loophole angle. It could be possible.

The rich use more of the system than the average person. The area of law, finace, education and property. They receive money/credit for investment in local communities.
indeed he was a real prodigy Sharepoint administrator. I don't want to diminish the value of what he leaked but it's easy to claim he was aware of all the potential butthurt before others pointed it out as things unfolded.

It is much more realistic that what happened was a true "Burn after reading moment" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pabA320p9B0
If you're in CA and happen to have a car, just plan a road trip to one of the "red" counties in the middle of the state. Sad stereotype but true. We're in the Bay area and got ours at a nearly empty "mass-vaccination" facility in the central valley.
I made a script to convert all DOIs in a bibtex file to short DOIs. It's at https://github.com/domoritz/shorty. And yes, it uses regexes.
Which they did. The problem of hardening your build infrastructure against someone who has admin access for months is... non-trivial.

This boils down to the question of should average companies be including the Russian intelligence services in their threat model? To paraphrase James Mickens great USENIX paper, if your threat model includes the SVR, you're going to be SVR'd upon.
Thanks for the information, I will considering getting myself a SSL certificate. I did not knew this to be a problem until now.
you probably can't become destitute and homeless if you're the son of a US president, but you can certainly squander your well above average chance of also becoming president.
I believe the feature table lists Xfce for the light version and Gnome for the other. https://zorinos.com/ultimate/
Sorry I can't resist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
Freedom of not using another binary blob.

If you don't care about that, that's ok you are in majority, but not target audience of this product.

If I still cared about laptops/notebooks I would be interested in this precisely because of it.

And sure intel (and AMD) need to have binary blobs for their cpus. Which obviously is not good.
But if nobody even tries and works toward this goal, nothing will ever get done.

I doubt we will ever see x86 fully open computer.
But now that Apple have led the way with M1, in 3-6 years when the rest of the industry catches up, there is at least chance of librem and others building a decent binary blob free laptop.

But you need to start somewhere.
It's difficult to comment without seeing your workbook. But broadly if you're developing any kind of useful analytical model you will find the performance fall off a cliff very quickly if using 1 million rows. e.g. waiting around 25 minutes to save the file (or being corrupted), the software being suddenly very slow and weird. And this includes tricks like turning off automatic calculations, hard copy pasting in the results of calculations (rather than keeping all cells as formulas), only running calculations on specific cells etc.

There are things you can do to try and manage big data in excel. But it becomes a chore and ultimately a big bloated monster.

And why bother with the pain when you can use Python (e.g
pandas) or R or SAS.

Power excel / an SQL backend (with VBA) is also a common solution. Or was. I mostly work in Python/R these days.
That "someone with a copy of the blockchain" is not going to be credible enough to rehydrate Bitcoin. Mining is not just for transactions, but for maintaining the ongoing legitimacy of the blockchain, which is where the real value of Bitcoin lies.
Apple (rightly) refused to assist the FBI and that's better than many. But the NSA is known to have total access to everything on your iPhone if they want it [1]. Any European politician wonder about eavesdropping has at least as much to worry about from the US (both government and commercial) than China.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_ANT_catalog (see DROPOUTJEEP)
Since there is no way to 100% fingerprint a device, therefore there is no way to uniquely identify anyone with 100% confidence using pure fingerprinting techniques.

My view is that fingerprinting is a set of tools which can be used for "good or evil" if that makes sense. If you are gathering meta-data to determine the capabilities of the device, then this is part of the wider framework of data points which can, in principle, be used for fingerprinting a user. This data can be imported into a completely different system by a sophisticated adversary, so it needs to be treated as a security vector, imho
This blog is fun to poke around. There is a bug with time tho, it says 0:25 pm for me instead of 12:25pm
Try adding a recursive formula or two in there and see what happens
It is a scaling issue.

image-rendering: crisp-edges;
Fingerprinting works because devices are surprisingly easy to identify just by enumerating their capabilities. If you are collecting this data, you are likely fingerprinting (read: uniquely identifying) machines even if you aren't trying to.

The same is true of humans, by the way. Even something as innocuous as surname, gender, and county of residence could be enough.
You are probably being downvoted because you seem to be saying you are looking forward to SpaceX's IPO, while trips to Mars are just the mechanism.

Sort of like the virgin galactic subreddit where everyone only talks about the stock. Spaceflight? Boring. A stock IPO? Can't wait! It's pretty depressing.
Have we humans been able to make artificial physical self-replicating machines? Is it feasible to make such machines?
I think a lot of collectors collect specifically for the same reason people grind in RPGs: to get the mental and emotional satisfaction from the "complete set" (of stamps, or rare armor, or whatever).

Collecting without such a goal would, to people like that (who I assume comprise the large majority of collectors) would seem like a colossal waste of time. Why grind out the dungeon to get the greaves and the chest plate and then not spend a few more hours to get the helm?!!

Most human behavior is not very rational, and I say that referring to both parties in this story.
Anyone know how the software update was actually compromised in the first place?
Seems like a "before" and "after" fields would serve users better, but I do understand the use case.
Chamath is one of the most self-serving-pretending-to-be-altruistic salesmen to ever set foot in SV. If you were still a “follower” after doing even the slightest bit of due diligence into the man, you deserve to lose money.
How hard is to create a database software like PostgreSQL?
I think this can be solved via UX. When the browser wants WebGL, notification privs, etc:

1. Pend the request
2. Notify the user "This site wants access to the WebGL graphics API to display complex graphics. This is disabled by default to prevent browser fingerprinting. If the site fails to work properly, click the lock icon and allow it."
3. Deny access until the user explicitly enables it on a temporary or permanent basis
I agree with your points. I still think the idea and implementation is right ( it is informative and if you live in US, you can figure it out ). It is kinda funny, because I was trying to explain a friend in US political formations in the old country the other day and even though we have 2 major parties there too, in US they would both be realistically considered left-wing.
The hard part is that WebGL is a pretty narrow to concept to communicate this way for most users. It's hardly a Camera or Microphone.

Most not technical users have no basis for action here.
When is the last time a recruiter checked out your profile on Facebook?
The only way I can interpret this is that you believe the cost-benefit is not there without a substantial altruistic motive. Do you think that, and if so, why?
WebKit and Mozilla simply refuse to implement many of the APIs because they cant' figure out how to prevent them from being abused.

See e.g.https://webkit.org/tracking-prevention/#anti-fingerprinting (Mozilla's positions are more spread out over various issues, see e.g. https://webapicontroversy.com )
Well, it's a mock-up, isn't it?

(If not, then ouch...)
Ah, personal ML Projects about financial markets... I was thinking art. I've got plenty of those to throw at you. Otherwise, sorry, can't help.

Though, I do appreciate the "this is what I've found so far".

Best of luck.
The problem with popups like that is too many, or ones where the user doesn't understand why it's blocked leads to fatigue where they just start approving everything
Tool use, essentially. Of course that could be spoofed, but I think that's the origin of the claim.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-cyber-solarwinds/s...
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The HBO series has been fantastic so far.
I do not agree with the tablet thing. Too many things can go wrong, and tablets are touch only, no tactile feedback.

But your last idea was actually an excellent suggestion :) An ideal hacker project!
You're correct, sorry my bad.
I was looking at these charts but indeed they show market cap not capital influx:

https://coinmarketcap.com/charts/
What? You're just coding for fun? Where's your helm charts? If you're going to be serious about this, you'll need to learn three languages. HTML isn't a language. Make sure it works across platforms, too. Also, you have make it multicloud.
FYI - browsers with https-only mode enabled are broken, which makes it hard to access HTTP only sites.
That's the kind of article that makes me:

1) Set up my own pile of anecdotes (and the importance of luck, grit, natural ability, etc. in people I know)

2) Attempt to build a model.

3) Think about Stanislav Andreski's book 'Social Sciences as Sorcery'.

4) Go back to my coffee and think about something useful.
Yeah the other two replies explain why we used code stubs that would at least run but not pass.

Don't think it's an idiom (at least not one that I've seen).

It's definitely not the nicest code, especially for simpler problems that are really one-liners but we figured lots of people would just click "submit" on just the code stubs.
There is a huge difference between the Haussmann's renovation of Paris and the ideas of Le Corbusier.

The goal of Haussmann was not to abolish everything that had been discovered and learnt by architects and city planners during the centuries before him, but instead to modernize and get rid of the obviously impractical designs.

Pretty much like refactoring an old and messy code-base.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann%27s_renovation_of_Pa...
A long, strange trip: Automation leader UiPath’s unusual $PATH to its IPO
> FWIW while I'm playing hardball here I really appreciate your answer and expertise.

You’re actually just outright accusing them of lying.
Ask HN: Advice for someone starting out (in tech)?
Ask HN: Advice for someone starting out (in tech)?

I'm a student (aged between 16-18) in the UK at a secondary/high school, considering whether to get a job or do a degree. Given that I can write programs reasonably fine (I wouldn't claim to have mastered the craft by any means, but I can write non-trivial stuff – e.g. compiler bits, web servers, web applications, etc).

What I can't seem to do reasonably fine is to work out whether I should do a degree, and what my employment prospects are. I've previously managed to get on a 12-week internship sponsored by some "big tech" companies, if that counts for anything.

I therefore guess this isn't just one question but several (I would love answers to any of them :D).

- Are FLOSS contributions and (relatively large) code samples sufficient to get a job or is past experience essential? Obviously this question is really hard to answer in the abstract, but any thoughts people have on this would be really appreciated (anecdotes,, advice, etc would be really useful).
- If experience is essential, any suggestions for how to get experience as someone who doesn't have one would be great!
- If I do go down the degree route, how essential is the university's reputation (e.g. are league table positions important)?
- I like working on relatively complex stuff (compilers, distributed systems) – is it viable to self-teach these things (and at some point get a job doing that) or is university essential for that?

Any other advice would also be much appreciated :D
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WebGL is a very useful feature, but the top sites by traffic are not exactly where I'd look for good examples of WebGL use. It is a bit more of a niche feature, but for some use cases you can't really replace it at all.
Even simpler would be something like what Apple did with the clipboard in iOS, where it displays a message whenever it’s used.
This man deserves so much respect. He even open-sourced the software he created to generate his videos, allowing more people to create similar helpful content.

I'm sure a lot more kids would be interested in math if they were able to visualize the beauty of it in a more vivid manner than just chalkboard drawings.
If you reasonably believe it is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to yourself or another.

Killing some random grandma for showing you middle finger does not really qualify.

However killing threatening idiot armed with something and facing you is totally different. To note - if idiot hits you and then runs away - sending bullet to catch him is not a good idea and not going to work (unfortunately).

On a final note - in a state with good CCW laws people typically are more polite and well behaving.
Flipping a bird to random asshole might backfire and it won't matter to you whether he knows the laws or not.
Yes it matters and no, they are not meant to disappear arbitrarily.
You arent reading the article. From the first paragraph: "Over 127 million adults—38.5 percent of the US population—have received at least one shot. Over 80 million adults—24 percent of the US population—are now fully vaccinated."
Twitter was originally good. It was and is a technology for following people you are interested in.

The corruption started because of the need to make money and how they chose to do it, namely advertising.

Advertising is brainwashing based on limbic hacking. The best limbic hacking is outrage.

Everything that you didn’t consciously choose to be in your feed is brainwashing. This includes promoted ads and trending. These approaches have gone through many optimization cycles and are much optimized.

Control over this brainwashing power is corrupting and @jack now wields it for his politics as well. Perhaps he couldn’t help himself.

The same techniques used in advertising are now used to inject political stances into your mind and heart. Also, @jack has used the power to not only to amplify opinions he favors but to silence those that he disfavors.
It is a common cold virus by now (look up “Evolutionary Dynamics of Viral Attenuation”), and I have been saying that for more than a year.
> SPACs should be banned

That's just treating the symptoms, though?
I don't work at Twitch anymore so I can't answer your question without guessing and I rather not.

There is always a likelihood that data gets used for reasons beyond the original purpose. In the best of world the hardware that runs on consumers devices would do the right thing which would allow the web to be a perfect sandbox. I think we're slowly getting there, in terms of video it's slowly getting to a point where H.264 support is "universally true" rather than a minefield although VP9 and AV1 is a bit of being back to square one.

I think the spirit of my original comment was not to say "I promise that X company isn't doing Y" more to explain why this code existed in the first place. A search engine doesn't need to know what WebGL capabilities a device has as it doesn't deal with rendering whereas a site that has to work with hardware decoders most likely does need to know.
Sorry, for some reason I can't edit my own comment, so adding a new one. The $1Tn figure is Market Cap; I was looking at these charts but indeed they show market cap not capital influx:

https://coinmarketcap.com/charts/
Problem is that you can’t just look at one out of 10s-100s of combination of things you need to get to success.
Signal does have a native Mac app. I use it every day.
I always thought it was ridiculous that my old company marketed the product as being capable of “infinite scale”. Words like unlimited and infinite have no meaning anymore.
Agreed, but it would be nice to have an "advanced (paranoid) mode". E.g., I run little snitch and while it is super noisy, I don't mind the overhead, but I wouldn't force it on everyone.
FYI - "https-only" mode does not work the way you think it does ;) The site is hard to access on such browsers only because it actually does serve something over HTTPS - however, it's just an error page there.
People don't like it because medical terminology tends to morph in the public dictionary as a caricature of the original meaning. A psychopath doesn't mean an evil person with delusions who committed significant crimes.

We have some evidence psychopaths handle large scale organizations better, because empathy has evolved for close relationships with small number of people. Doesn't mean they're cruel, rather they think differently about it.

Also psychopathy is both dynamic (can change during the course of a lifetime) and a spectrum (non-binary). In general if we'll be open and non-discriminating towards our racial and so on features, we need to also allow for various thinking models, and address problems only directly when they occur.
Yes, I am talking about the same ideas, the different flavors of 20th century totalitarism, in my opinion Le Corbusier was operating in the same vein.

Also he had well documented sympathies for the Nazi regime.
Just got my 2nd Moderna appointment. I kept trying for weeks because the local health department mismanaged appointments (lost thousands too) and made it a free-for-all like a Black Friday. I think it was deplorable that they just didn't take requests from everyone who wanted it, prioritized them, and ran appointments as a lottery as inventory appeared.

For people who don't want it long-term, emulate K-12 schools and vaccines policies: make the anti-vaxxers experience (or should) consequences as punishment for being irrational wingnuts.
The cost in this case is yet another step (or giant leap, depending on what you think of the past year) towards tyranny, to say nothing of the millions who will suffer and die from the actions that have already been taken.

The benefit has not been worth the cost, and I will never go along with it. I will literally die on that hill if necessary.

At this point I will not spend any more time trying to convince you. The only other thing to answer now is, are you ready to fight a war over this?
iMessage is not end to end encrypted either.
bicycles. all they would of needed was bicycles.
Author doesn't actually know what this information is being used for. Sure there can be a discussion about whether this information should be recorded at all (say, to determine if your site doesn't work on certain hardware), but claiming it _is_ fingerprinting is baseless.
Do you see those question marks? Those denote questions. Questions are not accusations.
I had to look that up - I think the psycolical term differs quite a lot from the dictionary definition - but I certainly see some similarity between "grit" and something like:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/conscientiousness