skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is also that different network stack implementations have different MTU values and different TCP headers.

There's a lot of tools available that can fingerprint different applications pretty well these days. For example, Firefox and TOR Browser can be fingerprinted because of their custom network library that's OS independent.

It gets worse if you use a DSL2 connection with scaling because that will uniquely make your packets fingerprintable because they have a specific MTU size that's dependent of the length of the cable from modem to the next main hub. Same for cable internet, because the frequencies and spectrums that are used are also unique.

(I'm clarifying this, because an FBI van not having access to your Wi-Fi still has access to the cable on the street when there's a warrant for surveillance / wire tapping issued)

[1] https://github.com/NikolaiT/zardaxt (detects entropies of TCP headers and matches them with applications)

[2] https://github.com/Nisitay/pyp0f (detects the OS)

[3] https://github.com/ValdikSS/p0f-mtu (detects the VPN provider)
Love it! Getting an error on playback now, though -- just says "4". Odd! Console reads that "A resource is blocked by OpaqueResponseBlocking". I'm on Firefox.
Europe still hasn’t solved the need-another-app-for-every-charger problem.

Probably more effective than standardization is Europe’s love of pigovian taxes on gasoline.
I lived through a change from "authoritarianism" to "some kind of democracy". Many of the people in the country that took advantage of the population before (by being authoritarian) were the ones that sold the enterprises and resources and then used the money to build new enterprises.

Did that change much for me as an individual on the spot? Not much - they were people taking advantage before an after and most people were poor.

Did it change the possibilities on long term? It did. 20 years later there are more developments and opportunities than before under the "authoritarian" regime. Is it equally spread and for everybody? No. But neighbor countries that did not go through the change have it worse...

I am sure not all countries have this trajectory, but some do, YMMV
I bought a note 8 6 years ago and honestly, I don't see why I would ever need anything better than that. We've reached peak phone a long time ago.
how would you represent an arbitrary JSON array in python then? A potentially heterogeneous list seems the obvious solution.
Ah the typical “here’s a cool thing OP build but I’m using something better-reply”
Great tool! It uncovered a surprising amount of unnecessary exports in our codebase. Really streamlines things.

One interesting observation: when using it with our Next.js project, it flags all page TypeScript files as unused. This inadvertently highlights a potential drawback of file-system based routing - it can lead to less explicit code relationships.
I missed this somehow on the HN front page yesterday, but this morning (US Eastern) it went from front page to buried before California wakes up.

> 136. LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool (twitter.com/racheltobac) 387 points by lopkeny12ko 17 hours ago | unvote | flag | hide | 221 comments
I think most moves to EMRs were insufficiently disruptive, e.g., electronic orders recapitulate the old paper orders without using the opportunity to reduce ambiguity and insert constraints to prevent common errors.
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I mean at all, but I don't have any reasons worth mentioning here, that I'm willing to defend on a public site.
> Reading the rest of the thread, you HN'ers are very blessed to be ignorant that such a program exists.

By this logic pretty much every single person in existence is "blessed to be ignorant" of the thousands (more?) of potential ailments they aren't facing right now. Seems like a silly POV.
The Fucking Article, from RTFA - Read the Fucking Article - and RTFM - Read the Fucking Manual/Manpage
Is it sad that when someone else gives me a video with an si parameter or similar, I keep it on when passing it forward, in my eyes, this feeds garbage to their backend.
This is quite insufficient as it only covers the supply side. For all of the same reasons we clearly need to regulate the conditions under which it is safe and legal to laugh, or fail to laugh, at a joke of a given classification.
It’s not even firing, it’s “not continuing employment after the trial period formally agreed to in the contract and national law” in my country. There’s nothing dishonest or fucked up about it. There is also no legal hurdle.

Meanwhile your candidates go to multiple companies, spend “just” 4 hours at each uncompensated, without any guarantee to get hired. You should be aware that there are a lot of HR departments doing window shopping as well as issuing fake job openings due to legal reasons when they already have an internal candidate due to nepotism.
I think the news about that particular counter example is too recent to be easily understood.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/09/remotely-expl...

Still, I think your point is excellent. The sort of group interested in tracking someone(s) over Tor certainly might have the capability to do so despite the difficulty.
> Russians didn’t start a war.

That's industrial-grade gaslighting. A regime doesn't simply start an invasion. It's not even the first one in recent years, too. Russia's regime decided to invade Ukraine in 2014, and make it a full blown military invasion in 2022. You can't weasel-word your way around that.
Indeed. The article doesn’t even define the SRE acronym. :(
Yeah, this right here would kill it for me:

> Strings: Codon currently uses ASCII strings unlike Python's unicode strings.

That rules out almost anything web-ish for me.

The use case I could imagine is places where you have a bunch of python programmers who don't really want to learn another language but you have modest amounts of very speed-sensitive work.

E.g., you're a financial trading company who has hired a lot of PhDs with data science experience. In that context, I could imagine saying, "Ok, quants, all of your production code has to work in Codon". It's not like they're programming masters anyhow, and having it be pretty Python-ish will be good enough for them.
Lots of very successful software never had those things.
Nevermind losing; the goal is to deter the war from breaking out in the first place by maintaining a position of strength.
Then I'd say that there is very little hope. The discomfort can be extreme when one gives up carbs to a point where one could could be bed ridden for a few days. The addictive characteristics of carbs resemble narcotic drugs.
That site is not as informative as I would have liked. Pray tell, why?
missiles are expensive, drones are cheap. America's ability to manufacture a ton of tanks and planes won WW2. With opponents like China in play, volume and economic stability matter than concentrated firepower and technological superiority.
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Of course they're capable of doing it. Scarlet Johanson is also capable of dating me. They just don't want to.
> Do environmentalists fall into the Nirvana Fallacy when they demand an end to wind farms because they kill some birds?

This might be anecdotal, but the biggest might be Greenpeace and blocking nuclear power in the 80s and 90s (and beyond). The amount of carbon that could've been saved is enormous, but it wasn't perfect.
This isn't some new, or innovative technology. Transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDSC) has been studied for a long time and there even is an active community of enthusiastic DIY experimentalists. tDSC is certainly interesting, but it is also inherently limited, evident by lack of praxis/application. If tDSC is proven effective for treating ADHD symptoms you can relatively easily have the same thing (probably better) as an opensource project, 3D printing and FOSS. Not going this route is kinda sus to me. Pretty sure this was a business looking for an idea, not the other way around. Probably targeted at TikTok diagnoses not eligible for controlled meds and clout-chasing "biohackers", who will gladly preach the good news through affiliate links.

I doubt tDSC will ever beat stimulant medication, which is a cheap, safe and very effective treatment option, for almost a century. Some studies even show MRI evidence for long-term normalization of (young) ADHD brains with stimulant medication. Retarded formulations have a very low abuse potential. The biggest problem with these meds is legislation and stigma. And lately supply chain issues...

Oh, and the advertised thing is most definitely not a "brain-imaging device" lol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_direct-current_st...

https://old.reddit.com/r/tDCS/
The narrative Teixeira paints is certainly damning, but with stuff like this it's usually worth waiting a bit to hear the full story before bringing out the pitchforks.

I'd wait for some more details before jumping to any conclusions.
Jassy dreams of having the same control and spying over corporate employees as he does over the warehouse workers.

I mean this company has devolved into one that spies on its workforce so much that it can, and will penalize drivers who sing along to the radio.
In fact most EU languages are not representable in ASCII.
> Later on there were some incredibly good studio specific optimization tools that handled transformations automatically

Do you know of any of those tools that are available? ProGuard Obfuscator is the only tool I know of to optimize your jar.
In the same way that Gap should stop making small and medium sized t-shirts because L sells better ... ?
What we can learn from the ancient art of wayfinding (2023)
Or people are increasingly illiterate / disengaged. Video is a medium that requires minimum effort to consume.
total expenses are 340M, 200M for software dev, 27M for other program services (everyone else working on software but who's not a developer?), 30M for marketing, 81M for "general and administrative"

They have 370M in bank if I read correctly. And further 680M worth of various financial instruments like securities etc.
You presume.

But you are wrong.

Decades of experience does not equal an old COBOL programmer. Personally I'm pretty up to date, with latest backend and some frontend frameworks and languages, rails, next, rust, clojure, etc, and even quite a bit of self-studied Torch, LLM tuning, plenty of mentoring, team-leadership and so on, and extensive system-design in enterprise, investment banks, etc.

I do have the disadvantage of living in a 'developing nation' while being a westerner (therefore expecting more than a rice-bowl salary).

But you can think it through step by step.

No-one is hiring, therefore no-one is getting hired, regardless of skills or experience. Meanwhile, it takes time to clear the decks and for sentiment to improve.

So you are right about the vagaries and dis-function of "the market".
A lot of us consider it good and just that the the Allies won WWII, despise the Nazis, and yet consider the civilian bombing to have been morally wrong.

But this is off topic. Criticism notwithstanding, Israel's attack is very cleverly designed to minimize civilian casualties. This is the opposite of carpet-bombing Beirut.
So how that works?

The same sanctions:

- CloudFlare - block IPs ( why? what part of sanctions says that )

- Apple / Google - do nothing

I genuinely want to know.
RR product page for their Small Modular Reactors:

https://www.rolls-royce.com/innovation/small-modular-reactor...
https://archive.md/pSNyY
There are this services in which you can earn money watching ads with certain intervals. One could just use that to be shown on a paused video with mute instead of letting it google do it for you.
I don’t think that quote is true in all situations. I have worked with a couple developers long enough their code reads to me as easy as my own.
> “One of the key factors for the lower-than-expected demand for the iPhone 16 Pro series is that the major selling point, Apple Intelligence, is not available at launch alongside the iPhone 16 release,” Kuo said.

Well, I might be the minority here, but I don't want a phone that promises to integrate AI and would be very careful that it can be completely removed before I get it. What I'm seeing from people around me, there's quite a few that don't want any AI integration in their devices.

I'm fine interacting with an LLM via browser or command line, a channel where it cannot know anything other than what I give it, but I'm not trusting a product that can be stealthily enshittified without me knowing it.
As boomers, gen X and millennials took over Facebook, gen Z took over LinkedIn:

“Networking as a concept was highly intimidating to me, until I reframed it in my mind as ‘making friends’ instead of the traditional meaning which made me feel like I was using people as stepping stones.”

https://www.nysscpa.org/article-content/gen-z--now-networks-...
China is for sure interested in spying on people in the US. I'm not sure if TOR users are of special interest though.
What is your actual point here?
Sometimes reading things like this from the Enlightenment period, I wonder how humans can move backwards so much. Within last 100 years we developed atom bomb, went to moon and yet we can still have the current anti-science religious radicals in the US. They can be driving a car full of technical marvels, and have an iPhone, but still believe in creationism and that the earth is 6000 years old.

Then, see article like this, and realize, people were having some pretty advanced ideas in the 1800's.
Do you have any indications your phone is infected or just general suspicion?

Not sure what the mobile malware game is like these days, and, depending on the depth of infection, factory reset may not help.

Easiest would be to sniff the network traffic, but that's only easily possible on WiFi connections with suitable appliances. Dunno how to do it on mobile networks, but there it would likely "only" serve as low-traffic proxy, I guess.
Now that's some gaslighting here.

These products give false hope and are triggering for people susceptible for it which leads to abuse.
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Fastned chargers do plug-and-charge using CCS. Works pretty well in my experience, I believe it's an open standard.
The last time we had a multipolar world with multiple competing rivals, millions of people were slaughtered in a world war. Have fun with that if you want but I prefer the way things have been for the past 79 years.
New tool idea: a si parameter tracking "mixer"?

Crowdsource making tracking useless?
Ask HN: HN for Other Verticals?
I really enjoy HN for deep, well written articles about a wide array of tech topics, with occasional non-tech topics. While HN has its flaws, it's continued to be a positive source of information in my life.

Other verticals that HN occasionally covered are: business, health, literature, history, science, politics, religion, philosophy, etc.

Are there any other similar sites focused on these verticals?
Dutch watchdog wants more powers after EU drops Microsoft Inflection probe
It is indeed satirical but you can agree with the SEO spam you sent before, just don't expect people to agree with you and whine about it if they don't, in fact I really doubt it's the minority viewpoint given you got downvoted and plenty of people upvoted mine, reality speaks for itself.
Brilliant execution, congrats!

I saw the note on your about page that says "crowdwave was written in a weekend" and I was blown away by the polish for such a short project... and then only afterwards read the post text here that actually it took months and was a rabbit hole. It shows though, well done!
Drift towards danger and the normalization of deviance (2017)
That rarely works with monopolies.

Ask Microsoft, who tried developing Windows Mobile after the market was taken over by iOS and Android. Or who still tries competing with Chrome without much success, despite it being pushed on Windows as the default, with annoying settings and ads included. Nevermind that they gave up developing their own engine because they couldn't keep up.
I mean, yes.

But also:

Polyester is just so cheap that any feasible oil tax wouldn't amount.

For the past several years a large fraction of people have literally been inhaling every lungful of air through a frangible polyester microfiber that they wear around their mouth & nose. We tear these fabrics to shreds and then manually extract the lint from the dryer with our bare hands so it won't start a fire. Putting the finest dispersal mechanism we have, micro-spun fibers, directly into our lungs, and not even thinking about the consequences, seems like maybe it's an orthogonal bad choice we are making which could have orthogonal solutions.
My plan is to only upgrade when a 13 mini alternative comes out - and only after it’s been out for 2 years so that I can buy it used for an acceptable price.

I understand there’s not as much demand for smaller smartphones, but then again, I would go on a limb and say there’s more demand than the demand Apple get’s to upgrade a device every year.

If they went on a 3 years alternating basis mini>standard>pro that would probably appeal to a very big lot of people.
I have a child that's very disabled in a different way. Take what victories you can and try to practice detachment, because you're not in control and deluding yourself into thinking you are is a road to a whole lot of pain.
The case went to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court backed the judge's decision. Also, Brazil's Congress can remove the judge from the bench, and they have not.

Given that state of affairs, how do you claim the judge is breaking the law?
> and hiring the unqualified personal friends that he does in practice for all kinds of production roles

How do you know they are unqualified?
"He worried about his mortgage payments. He finally landed a job in the spring, but it required him to take a 5% pay cut."

Not exactly Grapes of Wrath type material there.
Oh man I played a lot of J2ME games in the past.

Fishlabs games, Attack Chopper, various Gameloft games...
Thanks but still paywalled for me.
For starters a nice CEO pay package so that they do not have to live in squalor of course!
Rejoice! Now that AI is a thing, it's a matter of short years before AIs begin making ads just for you. Obviously not ideal, except that then it will just be a matter of decades until most ads are targeted to AIs and the humans that remain go to hide in Zion. Maybe we will be free of ads there.
They just didn't sell very well at all. I've seen estimates that the little phones represented just 5-6% of total iPhone sales while they were around. They're darling little devices, but they were simply not very popular.

Now, sure: You or I would probably love to have a product that "failed" by selling only as much as 5% of iPhone sales. We'd either be rolling in dough, or working our nuts off trying to figure out how to keep up production and sustain this beast, or both. "Only" five million units sold (or whatever), at ~$700 each? Fuck yeah!

But we're not Apple. Apple is already rolling in dough. They want product lines which work on a much bigger scale than that or it simply isn't worth their time -- those engineering and marketing expenses are more-profitably spent elsewhere, where they get 20x the return.
Related:

Normalization of Deviance – https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4nzfts9AYXy6htcQo/normalizat...
Ironically the strict spacing makes this much better legible than the original, at least for me.
Agree that interstellar travel is impossible with current tech.

But based on what I know, I don't see any reason to believe a manned mission to Mars is impossible with current technology.

Do you have specific reasons we can't, or examples of technological gaps?
You should check out /e/OS https://e.foundation/e-os/

It's a de-googled LineageOS fork with a focus on usability.
No, they were proprietary, and their exact details remain trade secrets.

The best I knew of performed several tricks that the public research community assumes to be impossible. The big problem we had was making it totally deterministic as part of ensuring we had reproducible builds.

Of the public obfuscators in that era the most useful came from a company called dasho.
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Heh never had any issues with bank apps, but did with NFC payments, one grocery store app, and most transit apps.
OsmAnd is slow and janky. Someone suggested Organic Maps here, way better.
Do you need latency measured in nanoseconds or multiplexing hundreds of sensors? Otherwise it makes a lot more sense to use a Cortex-M or Cortex-A.
These things don't come out on the first date, they can develop over the years at which point you become stuck with that person (could be children, pets, property and other stuff).
Many people are simply trapped - they cannot leave because they won't have money to get some place to live, they got cut out of their friends / family and are controlled by fear ("If you leave me I am going to kill myself and leave a note that you did it, you'll go to jail" or "Without me you are nothing, you are worthless, you won't find anyone and you'll die alone" etc).
> Abstaining isn't a light pattern.

"Abstaining from selling hard drugs to minors isn't a light pattern. Show me how we can sell hard drugs to minors even with all the regulations in place"

Though I hate analogies, but this is what this sounds like to me.

> I'm asking what a light pattern would be for collecting as much data as possible which is an explicitly legal activity as long as the regulations are followed.

You either follow GDPR or do not engage in this activity. What is so hard to understand?

Instead the industry came up with the obnoxious cookie banners tricking users into providing any and all data and selling that data to thousands of "partners".