skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I noticed with LinkedIn they send 1 tracking request with a hash of your ipv4, then the request 302’s to a 2nd API that sends the ipv4 hash together with the ipv6 hash (along with your email if the advertiser provides it in the tracking code). My ISP is also dynamic assignment but it never changes, so basically it’s static.

It’s definitely not a good stable identifier. But when you combine enough signals like that (plus screen size, geo ip, ISP provider, etc..) you can get pretty close to being just as accurate (or even more accurate) compared to 3rd party cookies.

Even if your IP changes once a day, that might be enough to keep your profile connected if you use LinkedIn, Facebook, Giphy, etc on a daily basis. Another benefit of this over 3rd party cookies is easier cross-device tracking.

The whole phasing out of 3rd party cookies might be a net negative for privacy because it forces advertisers to send even more data to ad networks in the never ending pursuit of view/click to conversion attribution.

Without 3rd party cookies, the best way to track conversions is to give Google/Linkedin/etc your name/email/phone/mailing address so they can try to map your clicks to the conversion indirectly without cookies.

No 3rd party cookies = huge catalyst for data broker industry.
Bluetooth "Just Works" security breach
That is a really good post from 15? years ago, and still very relevant to this day.
From the article it sounds like it all went down differently, but I had originally thought, as someone who's served on standards committees, that Easter as a mobile feast would be an excellent compromise position if there were multiple fixed candidates, for one could then guarantee celebration would coincide with each faction's proposal infinitely often (with only a finite number of non coincidences in between).

(For all f, always eventually Easter sub f?)
If it is something that increases property value for the "NIMBY" then it seems unreasonable to me yes, but many examples in the OP at least seem to decrease that value.
Content creators can publish to multiple sites.

Like submitting a new website to multiple places.
Paying people so they can continue to keep doing what they're doing without having to watch ads is, though.
I came to Hacker News to get away from this kind of reddit nonsense.
"It's also a challenge to start a new art project in this era of unethical AI art, pay to win social media, algorithms with cryptic rules that serve the interests of their platforms, search engines that only return commercial partnerships and AI pollution. But now I'm confident that I will find a way and bring interesting answers to the table." - the original post

"Safari can't open the page 'shortbread.ai' because Safari can't establish a secure connection to 'shortbread.ai'" - my browser
> Your comment implies there is a wide pool of peoplecwho want to do that, along with mythical "someone".

I don’t know where you got that? I didn’t say there are a lot of people who can or would step up. It’s the opposite: competent, motivated people are rare… and why would they step in to maintain someone else’s project?

I was implicitly hinting at this by saying you need a Steve Jobs. We all know how rare such people are.
i can appreciate how hard you worked on this, it is an achievement in aggrandizing to provide this feedback.

i hope your friends and family truly appreciate the perfection of your worldview, and can move fully to your simple answers
Someone who needs a job to put food on the table is going to take 4-5 years off to do a PhD?

That doesn’t make sense. PhD salaries in most places can barely support one person , if that.
Thank you very much, I have something to watch today!
Classic phpBB style forums had smaller populations, there might not have been a follow feature, but the relationships formed naturally. HN doesn’t really feel like one.

I don’t really know how I’d classify the differences specifically…
I'm not sure if they were unaware of it or just failed to mention it by this name, but "max-plus algebra" is a common term in the literature of systems here.
> luckily it predates AI by several years

Is this referring to predating the recent LLM hype? Why would that be relevant? It certainly doesn't predate AI in the looser sense.
I can't express how much I appreciate this - thank you!
If it's obfuscated or deceptive, as it was, it's really not plain sight.
What is the alternative? lemmy and mastodon are protocols, what specific site with high engagement and good (not over zealous) moderation is worth checking out?

HN is nice to lurk but you really gotta be a conformist. It all just feels like tribal bubbles. It really is making me appreciate free speech, I prefer the days when horrible people were allowed platform/reach. The state of society right now (not just on the internet) is not compatible with liberty and free thinker idealisms.
70M of customers' data found on dark web in latest AT&T data breach
AFAIK HN doesn't have similar VPN access limits in place. Nor is HN restricting third party API access [1] or selling user content [2] for model training purposes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Reddit_API_controversy

[2] https://www.reuters.com/technology/reddit-ai-content-licensi...
You could try the PullPush archive, it may have the original comments prior to to deletion.

Main site:

https://pullpush.io

Frontends:

https://undelete.pullpush.io

https://search.pullpush.io

https://ihsoyct.github.io
I think I’m one of those few (lucky?) people who disdains stagnation. If I start to feel comfortable in my job, I start to get this resonant itchiness to move on from it. I find a new job and suddenly it dawns on me how much new shit I have to learn and do. I learn and do and the cycle repeats!
It's not a perfect "block every VPN ip setup".

See this for the screen you get when it's blocking:

https://imgur.com/a/3cDv851

Perhaps when they detect abuse (screen scraping folks trying to avoid the API costs) from these shared IPs?
Mine's fine.
Right, but isn't the feature you want in a disposable environment is that it builds? Determinism guarantees that, but isolation doesn't.
This happened for me when I wasn’t logged it, this is a likely factor. Were you logged in when testing this?
So, if say, I'm using MX Linux (semi-rolling release) based on debain stable, using sysVinit instead of systemd, I should be ok related to this issue?
No, that was your uncharitable reading of what I wrote.

This isn't a programming language. Everything we write is context sensitive. It's always going to be the reader's responsibility to provide a sensible context. As a reader, you will always be able to frame my writing negatively.
> The way that researcher is gingerly holding the material with forceps without touching it does not inspire confidence.

They probably don't want to immediately clog it with their oily fat human sausages.
The difference is that people upload 500 hours of video[1] to Youtube every minute. I honestly can't even fathom how much data that is.

1: https://www.statista.com/statistics/259477/hours-of-video-up...
I don't know if you're literally using this or you are unaware but coincidentally using similar methods, but this site is highly recommended [0].

[0] https://drawabox.com/
$50/year isn't really expensive though. Even leaving aside the ROI, cards like American Express start at like $500/year and go up from there.
I suggest relaxing, lest your comment become funny, because it describes itself better than the mind it is trying to read.

Want an "asshole" version? i.e. the honest version? (note, I'm not the guy you're diagnosing and mind-reading, just want to highlight how absurd your conception of OP is)

That was one of the strangest deprecation announcements I've ever seen, foaming at the mouth, blaming massive external factors (companies...pursuing money? is an odd thing to be surprised by), way overly dramatic lies about ex. Google "content-blocking extensions with MV3 under false security claims and planning to lock down the OS and browser with DRM."

I have no love for Google, but as soon as someone starts saying "MV3 [makes] false security claims", I remember MV3 is just Safari's more private content blocking from years ago.

When I see "planning to lock down the OS and browser with DRM.", I'm like "wait...he can't be describing...", click through, and see he's describing the one-off public announcement of beginning a prototype of a browser API that a user is human (transparent!), that was cancelled, publicly, extremely shortly after, because of reactions like this. (thankfully!)

Much like the constructive version of this comment, I bet they'd be able to keep going if they didn't see their project in such epic terms, given they framed giving up in terms of companies continuing to pursue money and Google.
Oh, it's a generalization, all right. But every harbor is a bay; not every bay is a harbor.
What hashes do you use in docker or vagrant?
> What does happen is they sell your data to companies

I don't know, more personalized ads?!

> foreign governments

> Take tiktok for example

TikTok's is a foreign government operation.

> steer discussion and politics or sow discourse

I am still waiting for proof they can actually do that. I remember all the scandal around Cambridge Analytica but then nobody said anything anymore when it turned out they weren't able to do what they boasted they could.

Yes, we should be afraid of governments getting our data and using it against us. But they have many other ways of getting the data and they don't exactly obey laws - they are above the law by definition. So I don't see how laws against private companies can help here.
Show HN: Find and manage Hacker News fractional jobs
Hi HN, I love all sorts of flexible jobs, whether it's freelancing, part-time, fractional, or whatever we call it. I have strong reasoning behind it, but that's another story for another time.

One of the best places to find these types of works is HackerNews. But it's hard to keep track of the applications or skip the ones you don't like and return the next day to continue. There are some nice works done to solve this but a) they focus on full-time jobs, and b) they don't allow you to sync your data on multiple devices. Essentially, there's no lightweight CRM-like solution for freelancers/consultants to manage their job applications unless it's offered by the job listing websites.

I managed to find a great part-time job in HN by following this strategy:

Fetched the past 3 months of whoishiring submissions, loaded them into a database, and divided them into two priorities:

1. Freelance jobs, posted under "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" with "SEEKING FREELANCER" title.

2. Part-time or contract jobs, posted under "Ask HN: Who is hiring?" with specific keywords (part-time, consultant, contractor, etc.) and without "no contract(s)".

I reviewed the first priority, either applied or skipped, and marked their status accordingly, then moved on to the second priority.

Now, I turned this into a small web app, built using Django, HTMX, and Postgres all running on a single DigitalOcean VM.

You don't need to sign up, just click on "Login as Guest" to start using the app. Or watch the video on the about[1] page.

This is my first Show HN post, would love to hear your feedback. Thanks!

[1] https://fraction.works/about
Kind of a waste of your own effort going through your post history when everything is crawled already
Since it started "paywalling" content read to be logged I stopped using it. Miss Swartz era. Wishing to find a good replacement.
Can you include text instructions of how to play the game instead of only having an interactive tutorial? I find the slow scroll speed and interactive nature doesn't work as well for me as being able to scan a document.

If I forget a specific point it's frustrating to have to go through the whole tutorial again.
I'm in EU and if I open gemini.google.com, it works! Either all of us EU users are experiencing collective hallucinations, or you don't understand your own linked sources. Feeding the trolls is technically against the site guidelines so I should stop, but I am curious what your motivations are for blatantly lying about easily verifiable facts, on a public forum.
Claude-3 emulates Pokémon Red
Just a background for people who don't know about Delhi CM:

- He came to power by using India Against Corruption movement which was led by Anna Hazare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Hazare

- Once capturing power, he kicked out founding member like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumar_Vishwas and his close associates like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogendra_Yadav and many others & became de-facto leader of this party. (Now his wife seems to chief of this party)

- In this specific case, Indian Investigators summoned him 9 times and he refused their request for meeting and finally he was arrested after court refused to stay any arrest by Investigators

IMHO, he should have corporated with Investigator, rather than trying to keep them at bay.

PS: I used to be huge supporter of him during those time (2011-2014) and even donated small money (my only donation to any political party till now) while he formed the party (which I regret now).

PS2: Interestingly, his mentor Anna Hazare (who stayed away from his political party and doesnt have political ambitions) said "His arrest is a result of his own actions" https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/result-of-his-own-act...
It is not my part of their business to propose solutions to their self-inflicted problems of monetization.

I don't need to be paid for my content. I post on HN and reddit and several other forums as a way to help others solve problems when they own or use something that I am familiar with.

Like I said above, I understand that some of my content provides value when I post. I also understand that joining and posting to forums and sites is a personal choice that is totally optional. No one asked me to post. No one forced me to post. It is always my decision.

That is how it should be.

I also understand that the part of my content that has value is always content that I could choose to post to a personal blog or other personal website with all the tools to help me monetize traffic. I have made the choice in my own life to avoid that path since the chances of it gaining enough traction to be useful to others is less with a blog or youtube channel and I don't need that level of friction in my life.

EDIT: As for the part about why I comment and potentially "add value" - sites like HN and reddit and the other topic-specific forums that I post on add value to my life by providing information that I need so I post comments in an attempt to add some value on their end when I see the need. Value to you or any other user is always subjective.
> It genuinely looks like we’re seeing a demonstration of supply chain psyops in retrospect.

Worthwhile noting: It happened in the open, archived for the world to see at any time! The attacker needed to be extra careful not to raise suspicion, both acutely and for accumulated evidence in history. Of course, easy to say "Hindsight is 20/20", but we can probably agree in actual hindsight, we easily see a lot of suspicious acts around the issue. An individual incident may be chance, but as a whole things become clear more easily.

So, I think there is a teachable moment here: When something seems just a tiny bit fishy, do a background check, investigate. You may not catch all something, but you probably won't miss everything.

Now, looking at the level of sophistication and risk sneaking people and code into open infrastructure, imagine chances of getting caught infiltrating a large company writing closed source binary blobs for drivers, firmware, ...
It's already bigger than hn.
You might enjoy Morin's problem books [0].

[0] https://davidmorin.physics.fas.harvard.edu/books/classical-m...
Note: dude knows perfectly well that we are not only very far away from AGI, but that we also haven’t even begun solving some of the major problems with the current approaches. For a more sober take on AGI, read Yann LeCun’s paper on the topic. It’s over a year old, so ancient by the standards of this field, but still accurate https://openreview.net/pdf?id=BZ5a1r-kVsf
You had to provide your legal name and address to the shop when buying a video recorder, hifi system, or any type of television (including B&W). Basically, it was illegal to buy such devices without providing your name and place of residence.
Meta is, in my opinion, one of the most harmful of all tech companies, and much of the negativity that is directed to tech in general is really just the effect of social media.

That said, pretty much everything the DMA is about is simply picking winners and destroying value. Facebook is already under threat from competing networks, and society is already growing tired of social media dynamics. Apple’s model is under threat from AI, and Meta is determined to compete with them for in AR/XR.

The EC has said they don’t want to be seen as “Idiot Bureaucrats”, but what they are up to in terms of an unelected state body becoming a hands on manager of Tech makes the CCP look laissez-faire.

The DMA makes Brexit suddenly look like a good idea.
Great Product
I'm not aware of limits, but auto renew is set on all my domains, for the same checking account.

There are probably many flaws with my statement about generational static websites, but from a "cloud storage" perspective like TFA, I'm saying it's cheap as free.
The actual constraint here is that every additional button costs 0.1 cents extra in production. Whatever great UI scheme you come up with, if there’s a ridiculously contrived way to do it with one button less, that’s what will be chosen.
> A quick look at Throne shows no link to sex workers (their entire Twitter following is Twitch streamers)

It doesn't take much clicking through of the linktree/beacons/etc. links in their profiles to find that many of them are sex workers; “Twitch streamers” and “sex workers” are not exactly disjoint sets.

But, yes, it looks like wishlistpage directly links on Twitter to accounts that are more in-your-face about being s/w accounts.

And lazy targeting of services used largely by sex workers might be a viable explanation of the treatment seen.
I totally agree. Seems dumb and probably is dumb. That's okay. Totally my choice.
Previous discussion: [0](56 points, 3 days ago, 32 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39851872
By expensive I think the article means the losses it will generate, rather than the end cost to consumers.
IEEE no longer accepts Lena image containing submissions from 4/1 onward
Guardian article on the subject is linked. Official IEEE webpage source is here:

https://journals.ieeeauthorcenter.ieee.org/create-your-ieee-...
> admit to having a TV and then sign a 'confession' form

"Having a TV" is fine without a license. It's watching live broadcast television, or using iPlayer, that isn't allowed.
Two points for never calling it "Daylight Savings Time."

It's actually incredible how common this error is in everyday speech. I blame The Bloodhound Gang, personally. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xat1GVnl8-k
This is fantastic, really cool looking library.

Has anyone built something like this, or possible a normal rectangular tree map, where the actual nodes in each subsection include images? I’d love to build an interactive thing like this but have it include graphical nodes with some data attributes (let’s say name, price, etc) once zoomed in.
Welcome to Developer Week 2024
Reminds me when someone declared that phpBB won.
Download ollama and use one of the dolphin models. You can literally do it in two commands:

curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh
ollama run dolphin-phi

That puts you into a chat with an uncensored LLM. "Phi" is the smallest model though.
But thats not what the reddit owners care about. They are happy people like you leave, you are hard to monetize and block ads. The people who look at the front page today and say this is great? They don't block ads. They don't use old reddit. They don't realize when they are engaging with a shill post. Reddit wants proportionally more of them and less of you, and they are winning.
Small nitpick Tiktok is a private company that serves a foreign government operation.

Why would they resort to breaking the law when they are getting the data legally? Doesn’t make sense
I don't think that's what OP is asking. I think OP is asking if wireguard functions could be hooked in the same way as sshd functions are in this exploit.
720 euros/year for platinum but you get lot of benefit if you flying quite often. Lot of benefits around restaurants, insurance etc.
The traditional solution is to get your time by radio from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCF77 or your regional equivalent. It might take up to 24 hours to update but it will always be correct and requires no manual interaction whatsoever.
This person is experiencing the same kind of existential conundrum and arriving at the same conclusions as I am at this not so easy point in life, and although I can't really offer them more wisdom or insight as they themselves are offering in this post, I wish them all the best in unlocking their brain and finding better ways to feel satisfied and a better sense of meaning.
I think a good interview test would be “design the buttons for a microwave” and see if they think about the fact that it displays time and needs to be changed every six months. These are the types of things a software engineer would be figuring out and it helps when the designs account for edge cases without them having to drive for this type of solution
http://www.bbctvlicence.com/ - the website of a guy who posts all the threatening letters he receives.
Anecdotally I am seeing communities I am part of gone from Reddit and other public social media in favor of private or semiprivate ones like Discord, or avoiding digital entirely in favor of physical spaces.

What I see on social media is more just the leftovers. There's little authentic interaction and engagement there.
All the Math you Missed. Introducing a lovely book – A Review [video]
the irony of pontificating on UI with a bunch of random mouse pointers jiggling all over the article I'm trying to read...
Given the level of sophistication and automation in commercial planes, the technological advances makes it the default state to be safer and safer every year. It is like Newton's apple falling and reporting "the apple altitude decreased again" - it is obvious it should.

At the same time, the incidents last year are not excusable. This is all the noise about, the quality control problems are inexcusable and having a safe year does not do anything to save face.
I think you still have to, don't you?
The vast majority of Amex's cards are free. You need to get to the top two or three cards to be spending that much.
Reading the article, I think the headline means expensive for Robinhood, not the consumer.
Elon Musk is trying for that disruption with Twitter, but I'd argue that it hasn't been a wild success like he would have hoped it to.