skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
audiocontext fingerprinting is less identifying than you think. It pretty much boils down to "what's your browser complied with and what FPU implementation you're running"

https://github.com/WebAudio/web-audio-api/issues/1500#issuec...

https://github.com/w3cping/tracking-issues/issues/53#issueco...
The official code is a README.md file ?? https://github.com/charigyang/motiongrouping
can you explain why my question was downvoted

thanks for link couldn't find it on their webpage
HN strips out prefix ‘How’s by default. I guess that was applied here as well...
Ah, that's totally reasonable. Thanks for clarifying.
The numbers are in the video itself. Neither Dr Mason nor you get to chose what numbers to use.
Interesting observations. Why does Brew seem more secure on first impression?
I've helped a number of people get appointments in MA and had zero issues securing probably a half-dozen appts for people in the last 10 days. If the trackers are showing say >3-5 appts then there are usually some actually available (the macovidvaccine site is scraping/updating quite frequently).

Also, because of the way the MA state reservation system works -- they give you 25 minutes to fill out the appointment details once you "claim" a slot, often times you'll find a decent number of timed-out appointments showing up after the fact. Not to mention there are plenty cancellations (as presumably people are booking for family or maybe just vaccine shopping).
Yes, a simple static website served with nginx on a $5 rig can handle absolutely absurd amounts of traffic. I've done it.

Stick a free cloudflare plan in front of it with caching enabled, and you'll be amazed.
No idea if it is related, but a SAML implementation security issue was disclosed the same (or very close) day that the SolarWinds attack became public knowledge. Maybe that gave them access to the admin account?
There was a case where a backdoor was discovered on cisco devices.

It was a "bug", something a dev forgot. Sorry for that.

I am french and have zero trust in Chinese or US equipment but since we do not have our own (at least style that makes sense) I use theirs and hope for the best.
“They” is BLM. These people held BLM signs. And I never heard or saw any BLM leader come out and condemn these terrorists. You know it’s really interesting that you post these mental gymnastics to shift the blame away from the criminals, trying to tell me, the victim, that I’m in the wrong.

Please go troll somewhere else.
> Nobody loves a pedant.

I’ve taken it a step further and play along with spiritual and astrology talk from women.

About 2/3rds of guys and 1/3rd of other women act very confused that I’m not immediately denigrating the person talking about signs and dietary restrictions. Turns out all you have to do is not do that, and a lot of things open up with very visually attractive people. Yeah, I’ll talk about higher vibrations with the fun lean vegan woman.

They're used to people pedantically challenging their belief system, but many can amplify their interest in you if you simply don't do that.
Thanks everyone. Great tips. I’ll have a look at the Oaklahoma :). Here’s to good BBQ
At this point in time it'd be far easier to maintain the short list of things Microsoft didn't blundle yet, instead of reporting what user-hostile garbage they made this time. It's like the broken window theory, but in reverse: You're actually surprised when you see a working Window.
Network monitoring software is a key part of the backroom operations we never see. [...] By its very nature, it touches everything — which is why hacking it was genius.

This is frustrating to read, since plenty of people did in fact warn that these kinds of systems were easy targets.
> Sure, I just think it's overly narrow to call that meaning a "Catholic/Christian sense".

Tolkien did; I think it is an error to ignore the fact that it very much is.

> When I left the church, in fact, The Lord of the Rings remained a source of great meaning for me specifically because it enshrined that meaning in a non-religious context.

That it is accessible to people outside of the inspiring religious framework, and has specific features which encourage that is also important to note, but doesn't in any way negate the specific religious grounding.
>1. This is a single study published in 2015, what does the wider literature say? Any dieticians or clinicians recommending anything from this?

Dieticians and clinicians seem to say all kinds of contradicting things all the time, for half a century...
Mori Mail, digital death reminders
Those are retro futures.
This site loads and looks wonderfully on my mobile device. Kinda incredible how natural the interface feels.
Author of the article here, I think "I Implemented" is the least wrong way to phrase it. I didn't reimplement it because it didn't exist before I implemented it.
How to build an app, get acquired by GitHub, buy it back and then sell it again
> But I am able to run WAY more applications in 8GB than the 16GB intel Mac I had previously.

Then your limitation clearly wasn’t RAM.
What research do I need to do? We paid to fix one of the vehicles out of pocket but had to file an insurance claim on the other, and our premiums went up because every window was smashed, including one of the mirrors.

This is a bad faith response, and I’m going to assume you’re a troll and not engage any further. Good luck!
I've liked Cracking the PM Interview by Gayle Laakman. It's an interview book, yes, but it gives a good overview of the role and different frameworks to think about it. Also, Youtube videos by Product School.
Weird. Macports is the one I was always having to edit packages for to un-break them, with a totally normal installation. Seemed like their packages were poorly-maintained. Must have gotten better I guess.
Interessant-Interesting
I've had a similar realization rather recently when cleaning out my parent's house after both their deaths. My father got me into stamp and coin collecting as a young child and it was an opportunity to bond and have something in common. For many years now, I haven't given the hobby much thought. Seeing the remnants on the old stamp collection brought back some memories. As I looked up values and got a better idea of what the collection might be worth, I could see clearly that even sheets of uncanceled stamps, which I used to prize, were near worthless. Some of that difference in perceived value is explained by the perceptions of a child versus that of an adult. But these stamps just hadn't appreciated much in value over many years, certainly not the degree anyone could call them a good investment.

But what was most striking to me, which I hadn't really thought about when I was young collecting these for entertainment, was just how particular and stultifying the grading systems for any collectible can be. I think the system, and how it interacts with money, is the culprit. There is this undercurrent of curation and preservation that goes along with collecting which leads to perfectly preserved toys in boxes. I appreciate things in themselves, and not just for their use. But I dislike the idea that a blemish, like a torn perforation on a sheet of stamps, can devastate the value of an object. For the objects I have several of, their use contributes to my enjoyment. If other people want to maintain museums, that's up to them.
unless you plan to run `rustc` as a kernelspace application, anything in tier 2 (`core`, `alloc`, maybe `std` all compile and likely pass tests) is sufficient
Won't a custom script make you special and thus very easy to precisely fingerprint?

I can imagine that having several typical configs and switching between them at random would help blend in.
You are right! I had read it as 65MB/s, not 65Mbits/s. Thank you.
>it has failed at its mission as a peer-reviewed journal

Peer-reviewed just means:

(a) a bunch of guys had a cursory look at the research, which they might or might not be able to follow (even basic math), and left some hasty criticism on low hanging fruits (or the personal pet peeves they always mention) to pretend they thoroughly read it, and accepted it

(b) Some scholar friends accepted this as a favor to other academic friends, who will backrub them when they submit their own research, and help each other pad their paper counts

And meta-analysis means:

(c) Let's take 80 crap papers, study them as if they're relevant, and get some statistical takeways...
smart to check the source; thanks for pointing that out.
I dunno, being an extremely attractive woman in a male-dominated field seems like it would be a huge hassle.
>You don't get this kind of attack because you had an exposed FTP server

This kind of attack needs an entry point, and an exposed FTP server provides the potential for one. Whether it actually was the entry point is a separate matter, willfully ignoring one unlocked door means there's likely to be others.
Ummm...I dont think so

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=tru...
> simply npm your webpack via grunt with vue babel or bower to react asdfjkl;lkdhgxdlciuhw

Nice summary. While I understand that yarn was a good thing to integrate frontend dependencies management just like we do it for the backend, Webpack is still a mystery to me. Just trying to add a simple JS library to make it work is a headache sometimes (DataTable with Rails for example).
No, it's never been done.* While factories are built all the time, they have never been built entirely from their own products and without human labor as an essential ingredient (a "closed" manufacturing process).

There's an economic reason for this: the constraints that make a factory "self-replicating" mostly make things more difficult/expensive; they're only beneficial when operating in a human-hostile area disconnected from existing supply chains, so it's always been better to use open-loop factories + human labor to make products quicker, cheaper, and of higher quality than a self-replicator would. Space industrialization is where self-replicators will be exceptionally useful.

These are the key functions of a truly closed-loop self-replicating factory:

1. collect energy

2. use energy to collect matter.

3. use energy and matter to create parts.

4. use energy to assemble parts.

For example, consider a water-powered saw mill, made of wood with some metal "vitamins":

1. Wooden water wheels collect energy from flowing rivers.

2. Humans use wood/metal saws to cut trees, and wooden rollers/sleds and transport them to the mill.

3. The mill's saws, drills, and lathes turn the tree trunks into useful wooden parts.

4. Humans move wood parts from station to station in the mill and can assemble another mill from the boards, dowels, and a few metal saw blade/drill bit "vitamins."

Could you replace the humans with logging robots, and use robot arms to move things inside the mill? Sure, but humans are so much better suited for these tasks, and now your humble saw mill has to be able to create, power, and control these robots in order to be closed-loop.

*Yes clever HN, you can get all pedantic about biological self-replicators, self-assemblers, and nano-bots, but you're just muddying the waters. We haven't ever managed a von Neumann-style "clanking automaton" self-replicator.

P.S. don't worry about rampancy—there are physical limits that make sci-fi's Grey Goo floods impossible.
You say you like to work on "complex things." At 16-18, there's no way you
could know what that is. College is certainly less important
now than it was pre-internet, but it's still the easiest way to validate
yourself to the highest paying employers (any outfit that would hire an 18yo
is automatically suspect).
> r.w.-memory becomes r.o. can actually make hardware change from not-free into free.

It's about equal rights. For instance, if the manufacturer can provide security updates, but you can't, they can notify the NSA about security holes first before providing the update. Whereas if it is r.w. for all, anyone can provide security updates.
But that isn't the reason for most of the Facebook hate, is it? I thought it was more "I just want my cousin's baby pictures, and you're spamming my feed with outrage porn." The people who actually want to use Facebook for news at all know the dumpster-fire they're going to get.
For some reason, I had to close the website quickly after browsing for a little while. For a moment it felt like I'm looking and going through someone personal desktop (which has been left unlocked) without their consent while at the same time I was really well-aware that it's just a personal website for public. Weird feeling :)

Edit: On second thought, it looks like it did one thing really well is refreshing my own personal memory of Windows 9x (personally, I've good memory of Windows 98, before I switched to Linux based desktop -- Ubuntu specifically).
I think one driver of this cycle is:

1) need for capability that old method doesn't meet, so new tool is made

2) dev working on both simpler and more complex sites, wants everything to use the same tools

3) even sites with simple needs now get done using tools powerful enough to satisfy needs of complex sites

4) experienced dev doesn't see a problem, because they are conversant with those more complex tools, and also don't often get assigned to do simple websites anyway, but anyone doing the (considerably more numerous) simpler websites now is getting their groceries by flying a SpaceX rocket from home to the grocery store.

5) now that websites can do more, and very occasionally do, someone thinks of something else they want a website to do, and the cycle repeats
Such a sad story
General intelligence - if you are too intelligent you might become arrogant and have difficulties putting yourself in other people's shoes.

Attractiveness - you might focus so much in your appearance that other parts of your life get left behind. Think on the Hollywood stars that end up with a crappy life somehow. I've also seen women that are too attractive being chased by aggressive men, which becomes very inconvenient for them.

Good judgement and rapport building are qualities that usually require avoiding the extremes, so I don't think it applies here.
>that's like saying "I'm a self-taught programmer, but I never use functions."

Once you've mastered if/else and goto, what else do ya need?
They developed software and hardware to disable it. https://puri.sm/learn/intel-me/
SPACs have a price floor of $10 pre-merger. This is the NAV — Net Asset Value.

This doesn't necessarily mean SPACs cannot go below $10 before a merger. It just means that you as a shareholder have the ability to ask for your money back at $10/share regardless of the stock's current price.

Surely you can see why this can make SPACs an attractive place to "park" one's money. The potential upside is pretty large, whereas risks are relatively low as long as you don't continue holding post-merger (where the price can indeed go down to $0 and you are no longer protected by the NAV floor).
Good point.

I couldn't get out of all these either but I keep them strictly separated in Firefox tab containers. I think it works because Facebook always suggests friends to me whom I don't know at all, and its ads have no relevance to me (only to the 1 or 2 topics I use FB for).
Also, a quick shoutout for Chocolatey which I use for making embedded packages for managing servers. https://chocolatey.org/

Scoop seems awesome too, just doesn’t fit my particular needs
Dude, just use Linux.
Hmm, would disabling hardware acceleration in Firefox provide any privacy benefit, then?
For an example, he claims he was "early on Amazon"...in 2014, or nearly 20 years after the IPO, and Tesla...in 2015 (IPO'd in 2010), and Bitcoin...in 2012 (or more than 2 years after the infamous pizza purchase that drew the first wave of media attention).

His primary skill appears to be promoting himself as a first mover when he's always a johnny-come-lately.

And on the particular topic of the article: Bloomberg notes that "His three open SPACs are all in the bottom 20th percentile for returns since the market top" compared to other SPACs, and over the course of the past 2 months alone, have all lost at least 20% of their value.
Please don’t compare a parent exercising their core parental rights (by questioning their immature and impressionable child’s beliefs, and by seeking to stop life altering procedures being applied forcefully to their child) to a “phobia”. Children are easily influenced by social trends, and are too young to consent to anything, and parents still ultimately control what is right and not right for their children. You either support their rights or you are against parental rights broadly and think children are the property of the state.

But leaving that aside it is completely unethical, immoral, and authoritarian to prevent the father from calling his daughter as exactly that, or from bringing public attention to this absurd court ruling due to the court’s gag order. It’s the opposite of how any free society should operate, and the prevention of that speech is very similar to court-forced deindexing. Both are suppression of information.
There are defences for this: If one controls/monitors for every app in system for network access, as soon as any unusually network access are triggered, it is investigated and block.

In my home windows setup, only windows defender, firefox and chrome are allowed out going internet access in regular base. Everything else are blocked.

Windows update are only allowed when I in the mood for it (~once a year). Anyone can do this easily by control srvhost.exe 's internet access with windows firewall app.
Yeah, like the "60s version of the future", but not always.

You can feel nostalgia for novel, just invented, futures too (in the sense of feeling a loss for not being able to go there).
The first thing I looked for was whether they mention the horrible kerning at Mehringdamm. Was not disappointed.
> the US military

You already messed up a few times. The Military has a strict chain of command and legal liabilities, such an action would be an intelligence operation. Oh, and the US doesn't have a domestic spy agency, so that make it even more difficult of a theory.

> Snowden warned him

> the US military can and will assassinate US citizens engaging in constitutionally protected activity in the middle of Manhattan with no consequences whatsoever.

Yeah not only do I see no precedent, it seems like you are basing everything on something one person "said" to another.
>I can imagine that having several typical configs and switching between them at random would help blend in.

You have to be careful with that too. An anti-anti-fingerprinting implementation can record the values and compare them across visits to see whether they stay the same. If they change every few months that's reasonable (eg. changing hardware), but if they change every day or every week there's most certainly spoofing involved.
The way you said it, I imagine that you'd be willing to let a 'less errors' (instead of 'few errors') slip without trying to educate whoever made the error about this, if you were reviewing something (for example).
In my area it seems everybody wants some kind of web app or VPN. In the good old days things like file sharing and inventory management could be done on the LAN but with COVID everybody is scattered all over the place. My clients have this expectation that they'll be able to use any random smartphone to scan a QR-code in the Phillipines and have that magically publish inventory updates to accountants Texas. Everybody wants to bring their own phone or computer. Everyone wants all their data to be accessible through the web. It's chaos I tell you, and a security nightmare to boot.

Personally I think of the web as a highway: great place for a billboard, not such a great place to be storing or mutating sensitive information.
>I welcome any and all advice that any of y'all could offer. Even if it's brutally candid.

You might need a job... but based on what I'm able to intuit from reading your message (and your other posts -- because I like to try to read everything from a poster to better understand them and their position before responding), if you need a job...

Then you need a MENTOR -- at least 10 times more than you need that job!

And maybe that need is more like 100 or 1,000 times greater...

In other words, your first priority in life, your absolute first priority, at this point in time, should be:

To get a good Mentor!!!

You can certainly apply to jobs too -- but your first priority should be:

To get a good Mentor!!!

Here, Tai Lopez makes the point much better than I do, in the following video:

Do You Need A Mentor? (Or Books)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viMfGNJmimU

Now, Tai is not the only source of information on this subject...

Here, try this YouTube query for a list of videos:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=power+of+mentor...

After watching some of those, the next logical question is, "How to find a Mentor?"

Well, let's again go to YouTube for some ideas!

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=how+to+find+a+m...

If I were you -- I'd spend the next 24 hours of your life listening to these videos and internalizing their ideas, and then (after the ideas have been internalized and the value of a good mentor is understood!) -- I'd spend the next couple of weeks actively searching for a good mentor, and subsequently trying to persuade them to accept you as someone to be mentored (note that this part of things may be challenging -- you may need to endure more than a few rejections... but "seek and ye shall find" as a certain old text that I forgot the name of -- so eloquently stated! <g>)

Also, working with a great Mentor -- is infinitely better than having Health Insurance... <g> (At least in my opinion!)

...But maybe if you play your cards right -- maybe you could get both! It would not be unheard of to find a Mentor who could offer you a job with Health Insurance, although, they would be a little bit harder to find than Mentors that don't...

I mean, Mr. Miyagi in "The Karate Kid" -- didn't offer Health Insurance to Daniel!

Yoda in "Star Wars" -- didn't offer Health Insurance to Luke Skywalker!

(But, who knows, maybe you can beat the averages, and find a Mentor who does in fact, offer Health Insurance... if Health Insurance is really that important!)

Anyway, wishing you well, and hoping for the best for you!

-Peter
I would argue that a self-replicating machine could be a slight modification of this idea. Print some blocks and put them in a container and shake them. Then come up with some structure, made up of these blocks, that will cause a copy of itself to emerge when shaking, that would have never or extremely rarely occurred if the parent structure had not been present.
> Has this been thought about?

I'm not aware of artificial examples but this is essentially how biology works at the protein level - so it does work at least at the molecular scale.

In principle it should also work at larger scales although it would probably be much slower, molecules jiggle very quickly.

Programmable magnets (aka "polymagnets") may be applicable to doing it at a larger scale.
What regulations? Give a few examples.