skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Continuing the theme of the article the current banking crisis has exposed two conflicting functions of money i.e., store of value and a vehicle of investment both of which are facilitated by banks.

Keeping money safe, whether physically or digitally, comes at a cost. Banks absorb this cost because they make money through credit creation, maturity transformation, and interchange fees. They even pass on some of that profit to depositors. However, each of these banking activities create risk, which is passed onto the deposit holders and is offset, to an extent, by deposit insurance. In low to zero-interest-rate scenarios, banks act as pure custodians as their revenues decline, which is why we saw EU banks charging negative interest rates, i.e., a fee, to maintain customer deposits.

There's a delicate balance and an inherent conflict between keeping money safe and earning yields, the two functions performed by a commercial bank. Customers don't perceive this conflict unless a bank breaks down as SVB did.

I think this crisis is the strongest yet reason to push for CBDCs as only a central bank can fully guarantee a deposit. In terms of systems design, this is a clear delineation of responsibilities.

CBDC: If you want safe custody of your money.

Bank: If you want to lend your money in return for a yield. And as with any lending, you take the risk of a borrower defaulting.
I think it's not a strict subset, there are URIs that aren't URLs (like ISBN numbers), but there are also URLs that aren't exactly URIs, like http://example-blog.com/latest

But in practice, sure, the 2 are pretty much used interchangeably

edit: Perhaps I'm wrong, all resources I can find classify all URLs as a type of URI.
Obviously this only is relevant for people who think companies care a bit about trying not to flaunt the law, I thought that was a given.

There are also proper consent blockers [0], but they are not as big because everyone tells people to use that please track me shit.

[0]: https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic
With respect, this is the kind of answer I said I was seeing everywhere. Can you expand on this a little bit?
Logging and the Homelab
Just setup a honey pot and use headers from there ;)
Creating money out of nothing is a mechanism to get large projects off the ground. Without it, it would be difficult to fun infrastructure, R&D, etc. like most mechanisms, it can be used in good and bad ways.
“the hat” is an aperiodic monotile
When I switched off fingerprinting in this browser, the font size here on Hacker News changed. I suppose it just uses the user agent to set a certain font size, or does Hacker News track based on fingerprinting?
Did you check amiunique.org as well with these?
> Since there is no /s at the end I will assume it was not a joke

Definitely a sane policy on the internet.
A third of a century, two kids, and several turns in the road.
It'd be valuable to determine the additional lives lost due to increased energy costs from these higher construction standards, and the lives saved from these standards.

My wholly intuition-based guess would be that the net effect of these higher construction/safety standards is massively more lives lost.

But if that is the case, it's worth remembering that the lives lost from higher construction standards are a result of second order effects and populist government-interventionist political ideologies are generally quite poor at factoring in second order effects, as we saw with COVID lockdown policies, which resulted in far more lives lost from the second order effects of the lockdowns than lives saved from the lockdowns mitigating the spread of COVID.
To prevent spam. If someone is spamming your site how do you tell if a request is coming from a legitimate user or if it is coming from the spammer. Fingerprints are how you can tell the two apart.
mobile devices present a problem when using fingerprinting for 3FA, and require frequent human intervention. This is a good thing.

Fingerprinting is inherently opaque. That's why it's such a good third level security measure. It's a lot harder to spoof and, if someone tries, a lot easier to isolate the attempt.
This is the exact point in the market I try to look out for when I'm buying any kind of product - not just studio gear. I've heard someone referring to some kinds of products as the 'AK-47 option' - as in reliable, ubiquitous, mendable, versatile and (relatively) inexpensive. I think the other classic examples were telecasters, SM57s and the Toyota Hilux if memory serves.

Anyway, really cool to see a write up like this on an iconic but often unsung-hero of a piece of gear.
It is sad that Brave + uBlock Origin + DDG Privacy Essentials does not seem to be able to fight this.
This is a monumentally bad idea.

If there is infinity backstop, I will simply create a bank and lend millions to my friends and promptly go bust. They get paid out by the government and I walk away. They do the same for me. We laugh at the poor taxpayer who foots the bill.
"Try to start a commercial bank without any capital, it will be a fun exercise."

It's precisely the same. You issue shares to subscribers and mark them as nil paid.

That is capital - because you have a call on their resources - much as the names of Lloyds of London capitalise the insurance market.

Reserves are irrelevant to banking. Here in the UK we didn't even have reserves until 2005 yet we'd been operating a central banking system for 300 years at that point.

This obsession with central bank reserves is a peculiarly American concept.

Loans create deposits, and the central bank simply accommodates the simulation of money moving around the payment system.

There is no control function from central bank reserves. It's a complete myth. If the central bank tries, monetarist style, then the payment system breaks, fires break out and they have to back off. Hence the Bank Term Funding Program.

There comes a point when the belief in bags of coins and fixed amounts of money has to die.
Another method for web fingerprinting is called GPU-Fingerprinting [0], codenamed 'DrawnApart', it relies on WebGL to count the number and speed of the execution units in the GPU, measure the time needed to complete vertex renders, handle stall functions, and more stuff..

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0. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/researchers-u...
There's no moat around profile pictures, not even good execution.

Gotta keep building, Danny. Go! Go! Go!
> I agree with you: learning a new language, sometimes in the heat of the moment without even knowing the language existed before, is a thing skilled software developers are able to do remarkably quickly

Maybe it is true, for some people and for some languages.

However, learning the syntax of a new language means nothing if you don't already learn libraries, tools, frameworks, tools, patterns, idioms. And that still takes time.

Memory isn't unlimited and while you learn new concepts, try to make room for new concepts, you start to forget some of the old concepts, especially if you start using them less frequently or seldom use them.
Just got off a long flight - I'd say about 80% used the in-flight system, 20% had their own devices.
Maybe it also depends on the skin of the attackers. But even without it, I'm still baffled (as many other commenters here) by the holy statute of the police in the States. They're no lambs in other places either, for sure, and they will also fight tooth and nail against any accusations of wrongdoing, but there's still a huge difference...
Thank you for the information. I'm sure there are a lot of people who'd be interested in the full 1 hour talk, if you ever find time to film it.
Technically one can create this and launch a new profile everytime. It can still detect the device (there are some failures - if I change the screen resolution/dpi). May be after 3 or 4 times, the server may also detect that a certain ip address is trying the same thing.

TEMP_DIR=$(mktemp -d /tmp/chromium.XXXXXXX) ; /usr/bin/chromium-browser --user-data-dir=$TEMP_DIR

At the end as other say they use hardware information + IP + other stuff. It is a lost battle.
I once had to generate about 170K+ pdf files from latex. Took a while (~5 hours) on a desktop, so had to get a server to do it and ran pdflatex with gnu parallel. The layout was a pain, since some strings in the databases were quite long.

Then I realized that I could just have generated HTML and printed it via some headless chrome script. The rendering was more consistent, and the printing was much faster (IIRC it took about 1/3 the time.)
I had never done any kind of drugs in my life or psychedelics, but took Ayahuasca once with friends who were in the personal wellness space circa 2010.

My experience:

- tastes like mud

- it’s recommended to vomit after taking it, but I felt too self-conscious because we were all together in the same room

- the first part of the trip was wonderful as I spent 2hours in bliss seeing colored lights, I still remember this feeling fondly

- the next 2 hours were bad as I saw myself as a kid alone crying in recess, but it did help me see past trauma I hadn’t resolved yet

- for the following month, I felt 10x more present in my body and alive.

- I got more confrontational which almost got me into fights, but also got me laid

- after 1 month my state went back to normal, this made me sad since I loved my other, 10x more confident self

- it seems the reason it lasted so long is because I couldn’t vomit in the first place, so the “medecine” stayed with me longer

Overall awesome experience and would love to do it again.
The more you customize the more unique your session becomes.
Once again for clarity: you just don't know they are police.
A few quick thoughts:

1. Make sure that your focus is aligned with the expectations of the management. You are probably right that the team needs more members and that you should hire some, but it is quite possible that the management expects other short-term results (either in preference ot at least in addition to growing the team).

2. When hiring, there are two equally important areas you need to figure out about each candidate: a) their experience and skills in relation to the requirements of the role, and b) how well would they fit within the existing team. In your case b) might easier since there is only two of you, but make sure that you keep that in mind when interviewing.

3. When assessing the technical ability -- the a) in the above point -- keep in mind that your interviewers are at least at the same general skill level as the candidate; and ideally higher. It is very difficult for a junior to interview a mid-level candidate, and basically impossible for a senior one; the same patterns repeat on all higher levels. This also applies if an interview is of a similar level, but in a wrong area - a senior Java developer will not be able to interview a senior Python one, and vice versa.
Misinformation is false information. Spam can be facts.
Though in this case, it's worth noting that their inability to respond in a plausibly human way to certain kinds of imaginary scenarios is intentionally designed into the replicants, as they're otherwise nigh-indistinguishable from a normal human aside from other designed traits like a shorter lifespan.
I upvoted this because it's the only smart comment to my post here. This is the ultimate concern.

That said, fingerprinting is only useful as a third security measure because most people don't understand its mechanics. The mechanics of avoiding being tracked are pretty basic. If our country required browsers or computers to transmit their fingerprint, people would find ways around it and it would stop being useful as a security metric.

Put another way, the moment this becomes a feature of an oppressive regime, it's one of the easiest things to work around. The obscurity is what makes it remain somewhat useful.
How would anyone discover this?
Is this _only_ figerprinting then? If the profiles are different, do they manage to extract some UID from the profile (which I would assume is a bug in the browser), or do they store data client-side using persistent storage APIs?
You will, won't you? It's just...the same thing whether you read it left to right or right to left.
I guess they can't unless somebody had a great idea in the speficiation osome web API...
I love this. I've definitely seen one of those TV chefs go to SE Asia somewhere and be served a broth that claimed to be >150 years old - probably Anthony Bourdain.

Tough one to get past the hygiene inspector I guess though.
There is no safe investment of any kind. Even bonds or cash have risks.

This stuff is immensely complicated once you peer behind the curtains.
What the world needs:

<body onload="javascript.disable()">
Even treated sewage typically means 'we bubbled air through it for a few hours, and then called it treated'. Such treatment is, IMO, far short of what we should be doing considering all the nasty things people pour down the drain, legally or otherwise.
(1) There is nothing wrong with sending a password via email. Even if you send a reset link instead an email provider could steal that too.

(2) The server gets sent your password every time you log in. You shouldn't rely on a server operator not knowing your password.

(3) You can tune how sensative the system is in response to changes in the fingerprint. Even if their in a failure to match that just means authentication will be extra strict.
Not gibberish but definitely I had quite a few back and forth where he would apologize for getting stuff incorrect, try to correct itself and sometimes be wrong again (in that case you can get into a loop where he alternates between two wrong answers). It was not gibberish just code that did not work (either at all or as intended) for various reasons. So I would call it buggy, not gibberish.

Worth noting it was ChatGPT 3.5 so maybe this is less of an issue now.
Whew!

You said it. I hadn’t thought about who I was or anything beyond my techy life in Berkeley. I figured that I was an apolitical Berkeley longhair, attending Dead concerts and biking along verdant streets.

It took a directed attack against my systems, my colleagues, and my community, to wake me up.
The CSS for HN is very terse, and aside from a mobile-specific set of rules it doesn't really do any variation.

Is it possible you had set the zoom level previously, which the browser remembers between sessions, and turning off the tracking reset the zoom to 100%? Do you have any extensions like Greasemonkey or Stylus for per-site customisation?
Patent of Capsule Neural Networks: MachineLearning
I would love the community feedback on this project. I dont even expect a lot visibility, but would be great to hear opinions of people outside of my direct circle.

Thank you in advance
Then you say "but let's do buzzfizz instead" and let the memorizers start crying?
Can we fingerprint fingerprinting code and block it? At first glance it seems like code accessing all kinds of unrelated high entropy APIs should be something detectable. But then static analysis might be too hard in face of obfuscation so it would have to be done using dynamic analysis which kind of means you let the fingerprinting happen but are now at least aware of it. So how do you prevent the fingerprint from being used? In principle one could maybe mark values from entropy sources as tainted [1] an taint all the variables potentially influenced by those values and prevent them from leaving the browser. Not sure if this would be practical and I am even more skeptical that this could be easily added to existing browsers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taint_checking
I suspect you wouldn't be as quick cycling up that hill at the start of that film.
Well I heard this argument on ThisWeekInTech recently, someone made a good point: we will learn that LLMs, just like search engines are NOT a repository of truth.

Do you expect Google to return only "truthful" and "factual" results? I hope not! Do you want a live in a one sided world where you can only hear things that have been vetted for approval by some government/org?

We are pretty used today that Google returns a bunch of stuff, and we pick the things we find useful and we have to chose ourself what is reliable sources and so on.

I think part of the distrust here may come from the fact that they design this as a human-like chat interface and make it seem like ChatGPT is a person. And that sets the wrong expectations. So I'd agree with your sentiment in that the providers of these LLMs need to stop trying to make them look like reasonable people.

Unfortunately right now it's really exciting tech and the media especially is guilty of passing it off for what it isn't and trying to get all the clicks with their doomsday articles about AI taking over all our jobs, or AI teachings us "false" things and whatnot when LLMs are really just an sort of multiplication matrix that can find data points in a huge data set and interpolate in between in a useful way.
> And there’s a tinge of the classic, “the established discipline is living in the past but us engineers can do it better…”

It's a classic for a reason :)
NeRFs are a form of inverse renderer; this paper uses Score Jacobian Chaining[0] instead. Model reconstruction from NeRFs is also an active area of research. Check out the "Model Reconstruction" section of Awesome NeRF[1].

From the SJC paper:

> We introduce a method that converts a pretrained 2D diffusion generative model on images into a 3D generative model of radiance fields, without requiring access to any 3D data. The key insight is to interpret diffusion models as function f with parameters θ, i.e., x = f (θ). Applying the chain rule through the Jacobian ∂x/∂θ converts a gradient on image x into a gradient on the parameter θ.

> Our method uses differentiable rendering to aggregate 2D image gradients over multiple viewpoints into a 3D asset gradient, and lifts a generative model from 2D to 3D. We parameterize a 3D asset θ as a radiance field stored on voxels and choose f to be the volume rendering function.

Interpretation: they take multiple input views, then optimize parameters (a voxel grid in this case) to a differentiable renderer (the volume rendering function for voxels) such that they can reproduce the input views.

[0]: https://pals.ttic.edu/p/score-jacobian-chaining
[1]: https://github.com/awesome-NeRF/awesome-NeRF
This is a great framework, and similar to what I follow.

One thing I would add: If hiring falls within your scope, it is one of the most important things you can do. I see too many new leads/managers try to "outsource" it to HR, etc. But while it can be super time consuming, finding the right people for your team has an outsized impact on your team's future success, so make it a priority!
I believe whats happening at a certain level all brains encode an abstract conscious reality-stream in a similar way, and as such distortions to the brain manifest in similar ways for everyone. The fact that DMT entities are so common tells us that the perception of other consciousness's is a primitive attribute in however our world-state is managed by the brain. Flip a few random bits in an image, you get pixels. Flip a few random bits in the brain, you get conversations with entities. The error mode tells you about the data format.

So here's my conjecture. The brain attributes a "spirit" to every object the same as it attributes color and size and shape. Linguistically we use it all the time to reason about cause and effect. "The piston wants the wheel to turn, but it is too tired". Some cultures literally believe in these spirits.
As a friend who produced award-winning albums used to say, "I hope my kid gets into drugs — music studios are too dangerous!"
The problem is that it's pretty difficult to identify which of those a junior is while with a senior candidate you can easily talk about their work experience.
Ask HN: Should LLM think before answering?
ChatGPT can often correct it's answer, if a mistake is pointed out. That means it has the correct data, it just doesn't know how to retrieve it.

So, what if it would try to automatically challenge statements it has made, before giving a final answer. Do you think, it would be possible to improve LLM's accuracy with this kind of auto validation feedback loop?

Like we need to think before speaking, to consider what we are about to say.
That's very naive, and you need to educate yourself about what capitalism actually is because it certainly isn't what you are saying.

You've misused that term.
What’s important is that you’ve clearly established that you’re a superior free-thinker.
so in order to stay anonymous, one can clear these parameters, alternatively one can generate different parameters for every HTTP call.
Then they would immediately start a run toward Treasuries.
Yup. curl for when I want to see it, wget for when I want to save it. No shame.
Weird article, especially from Forbz. He seems to forget that all the deposits are still drawable at each stage...so the 1000 turns into ~10k in deposits :s.
What fascinates me about this thought is that being a genetic winner in modern society could just mean you were qualified enough to donate to a sperm bank.

No more successful relationships or sinister ways of ensuring genetic survival are required.
Marsilio Ficino ⸻ Plato's Translator into Latin
But how could it distinguish different profile directories, if they use the same settings. I would assume profile id, directories, or others should not be exposed through the browser. I am not used to chromium-browser (is this chrome? forgive my incompetence), but I wonder what kind of profile-specific static identifiers despite cookies could leak out the browser?

Maybe these?
https://browserleaks.com/webrtc
But at least FF in private mode should randomize these IDs on restart.
In my case, via going to meetups related to the field I'm in. There'll be one recruiter who everyone wants to talk to. Talk to them, and make it known that you're looking for work.
The term "tech debt" means deliberate choices to compromise the system in a controlled way, to achieve a purpose. E.g. speed to market.

That's true, which is why things can become debt if you fail to maintain them, upgrade them, change them when the customer's requirements change etc. By choosing not to maintain code and do other things instead you're allowing parts of the system to decay. That is a source of tech debt (arguably the most common IMO).
> Does it really matter if the spam quality gets better?

It matters a lot. Spam is easy to recognize and e.g. my current email client filters out dozens to hundreds of spam mails per day without any false positives. If you cannot distinguish spam from normal posts, this could even cause democracy to break. Unfortunately, there are strong anti-democratic forces in the world who want this to happen. In my humble opinion, this is the biggest threat to humanity right now because (unlike other threats) it's not hypothetical, it's going to happen.
This, I've been using it daily for small tasks instead of google and it's faster and better.
"Write a mongo query in node that gets x,y,z and then returns only the q,w,e fields sorts by y"
is one I just wrote. Since I don't write mongo queries often I forget the syntax
There are a lot of people that worry about retirement, maybe not so much in tech where there is a lot of wealth. Even in the US, worries about retirement is a hot topic among older folks.
As a former freelance book compositor, I can say there are typically many more details that go into laying out a book. To take this layout up a notch,
I would want to create a baseline grid (set the line heights and paragraph margins to align text of different sizes). I would also want to control widows and orphans, which is built into CSS.
Academic labour as well: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.07304
It is used for cooking in Canada even today. Here’s a UK weather report from 1987 that uses both Celsius and Fahrenheit: https://youtu.be/NnxjZ-aFkjs. Celsius is the default but there are living people in the UK who recall using the Fahrenheit scale. This is much less common outside the commonwealth.