skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally I don't feel like the "hiding from the listener" use case discussed in the other response is very critical. What I think _pmf_ is getting at is an "only authorized devices may install my software, or view the RPMs".

You could accomplish this having a keypair on your field/embedded devices, and then having the RPM distribution system pull each devices public key from the keyserver, build the RPM with encryption specifically for this device, and then push it out. Or maybe you choose to have a generic keypair for a class of devices.

This could be used in cases where you have internal secrets in the RPMs you are building, or in the case of things like proprietary software and software licensing. I don't see how this applies to open source OS updates which is what I think the other sub-thread seems to be fixated on for some reason.

Whether this belongs in the RPM system itself or in a wrapper format, I'm not so sure of.
We had many discussions around this. The Firefox for Android code base was not in a great condition to maintain backwards compatibility as well as accept a new rendering engine and all of the new Android Components we wanted to introduce to unify of our code bases for different Android-based products.

TL;DR: There was too much cruft built up.

Work should move faster now. We substantially grew our Android team in the last year.
"Cart abandonment"

Why is this a bot-specific thing? I abandon shopping carts as a human all the time, including especially:

* If you require a registration and login to checkout

* If your UI is too hard or clunky to use

* If shipping fees are higher than what I think is fair

* If there are additional non-upfront fees
I believe some states do exactly what you say.
> happiness is probably the wrong word...maybe contentedness is better, tho maybe not

Eudaimonia is the word you're looking for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudaimonia

There are a lot of arguments against it. I think there are good points in these counter arguments, but come down on the side of Eudaimonia, personally.

Counter arguments:

https://bigthink.com/the-moral-sciences-club/eudaimonism-is-...

https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/646/is-virtue...

https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9789004395794/BP000003.xm...
Gerrymandering backfires when voters change parties easily and frequently. Loosely held party loyalties keep politicians on their feet and forces them to focus on actual voter's issues.

When voters dogmatically lock-in to a party affiliation for decades/generations it leaves politicians with zero incentive to listen to them and shifts their focus to drawing safe-districts.

The best way for voters to be heard is to radically reject all party-lock-in-narratives and fire anyone who is in a safe seat - irrespective of everything else.
> I don't get it! My hands are probably bigger than 95% of all humans, and I don't think a phone needs to be much bigger than the SE.

My reaction to this quote is to think of everyone without perfect eyesight, e.g. most people as they reach a certain age.

My parents love their plus-sized iPhones. Reading glasses + ticking some boxes in iPhones accessibility panel (like ++fontSize) let them participate in the digital world again.
Firefox was kinda slow sometimes with too much JS on the page on my old phone but still overall usable, and that was a J3 (replaced just last week), so I'd say that's pretty good. Great and lag-free on my s10+ so far. Not convinced optimization should be a priority over features and addons.
reCAPTCHA apparently doesn't stop bots well at all.

When I published a brand new site, I got thousands of bot sign-ups in the first couple weeks. reCAPTCHA apparently had no effect on stopping them. The bots signed-up with real user emails, causing my site to send unsolicited email to them, which affected my domain's email reputation significantly.

I rolled my own invisible CAPTCHA and immediately stopped ALL the bot traffic.
Tell me how am I supposed to test add-ons on this Firefox as a developer before the release then.

Edit : And again, most of my work if not all related to Firefox, I do on the Nightly build. I expect things to break, but this preview ( of which there have been builds for a while already ) is a non-starter.
Funny thing, out of the blue I decided to take practice tests for a ham license last night. Took the practice test about 12 times and got passing score 7 times. Opened HN today and this is one of the top articles... Interesting coincidence.
It's definitely like that on the internet; a lot of people on both sides of the US political spectrum seem to think there are two problems:

1 - Their chosen political party is not pushing far left/right enough

2 - The opposing party is obviously criminally bent on destroying the country.

Actually maybe three problems; the third being that "centrists" (anyone who isn't radicalized one way or the other) haven't come out against the party that's obviously criminally bent on destroying the country.

I guess that might bleed into real-world politics, but it's unfortunate. I think I remember when it was more "their political ideas are stupid and don't work" and less "they're 100% acting in bad faith and literally trying to destroy the nation".

All I can say is prepare for some hard times, followed by the US not having the geopolitical 1st place. Maybe it's too stark a warning but unless we start to see each other as something other than demons hell-bent on destroying all good in the world, I don't see how anything productive is going to happen.

A note of hope though - the AOC/Cruz collaboration sounds nice.
It's a preview release. Addons are coming as well as ad blocking.

It's not the same thing, but the built-in tracking protection incidentally blocks a portion of ads.
Packing for a vacation or camping trip is a very good candidate. If you live in a winter climate you can create a good winterizing checklist. Weekly home upkeep is another.
I am more interested to see which side makes those statements.
What's the modern successor to hos?
CUDA already has this built in (for many years) using UVM. That won't take away the bottleneck of the transfer, but it does make it transparent to the user by handling all the paging/copies.
I think it's worth pointing out that the comment you replied to didn't mention money, advertising, or CTR. People are concerned about data collection for more reasons than that. You've seen these attempts and entire careers about it without "juicing" CTR, so perhaps that isn't the true intent.
It’s not fully decoupled but that’s definitely the direction Apple is headed in.
I know I don't have a 'right' to consume any media. But I (along with many others) want to and will do so whether legal or not. Take that as you will.
I'm curious why you think SCOTUS would find the Compact unconstitutional? If anything, with the current makeup of the court, I believe they'd be more likely to rule that the individual states are free to choose their electors as they see fit.
It certainly still does, but a lot of people don't know or have forgotten over the years.
Do you think Obi-Wan Kenobi was being sexist or inappropriate when he told Luke Skywalker in "Return of the Jedi" that Luke's father was seduced by the dark side?

"Seduce" has several meanings in English. One is to entice someone into sexual activity. Another is to attract to a belief or course of action that is foolhardy or inadvisable. Generally you can tell from context which meaning is intended.
There is no turning off or moderating those comments. It's an external function of an addon that has nothing to do with my hypothetical blog in which lacks a native comment section.

To see those comments, I would have to willingly decide that I wanted to see them and go to download the addon.This is the same for anyone else. If there are people who do this and think they can make any kind of association or blame on me for having pedos commenting on my blog's url, well, they are wrong, since I had nothing to do with that comment section and have no control over it. What do they want me to do? It's some other guy's addon and other people talking amongst themselves a great distance away.
Yes, I agree. People rarely intuitively understand obligation. We leave a lot of how social dynamics functions to the schoolyard and the act of socializing, which leaves many people undereducated on how to socialize. For some people this means being an awkward nerd. For others it means being an emotional leech.
It is perfectly reasonable to use the term "seduce" when one definition is "entice (someone) to do or believe something inadvisable or foolhardy".

Just because popular language may only use one meaning of seduce does not mean that a writer with a strong vocabulary may not use it with a valid but less common meaning.
Wait until they make google-webassembly-blobs mandatory, it will get even worse.
I am curious, especially being a logo/branding expert, if Dan ever got push back on 3 b's in the name?
Sorry! I tried so bad to find it but couldn't :-(
Someday ..
Compile it from source rather than installing from the Google store if you are averse to auto updating application.
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Technology... Most of the dealers in the UK don’t even bother with anything more than texting in order to get t delivered to the doorstep.

You would think technology would have been as much responsible for easier enforcement of the law.
This comment has been detached, originally it was a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20295333.
Oh man. Where did the time go? I still have the opening music stuck in my head. I recall making a map on paper with my cousins of all levels so we could memorize them to finish the game. Hours of playing late way past bed time. Such a beautiful game with a romantic love story.. Man, where did the time go?
> Only thing I miss is the ability to open tabs in background.

Long press the link.
Unless it's a clutch.
I agree with you that it's usable, but on my machine (an i5 iMac/16 gb/Debian) it's slightly slower than Chromium. Not enough that I won't use it, but noticeablely slower.

I also agree with the upstream comments about UI clunkiness. There are a lot of things that irritate me about Firefox that Chromium just handles better.

Mostly little things like the "Recently Closed Tabs" menu is buried 6 levels deep in the "Library" menu. And the completion list that pops up when typing in the address bar always seems to miss pages I've visited but includes things that seem unrelated to what I'm typing in.
Uber Eats is a car service, not a food service, isn't it?

Do Yellow Pages and Google also check the hygiene rating of restaurants that they list?
Are there potentially more effective ways to combat this? I'd rather combat malicious behavior than stereotype bots as malicious.

That's almost like saying laws don't work against [members of certain race] or [members of certain religion]. Rather we just need some combination of better education and better enforcement strategy instead of stereotyping.
> Even if you experiment on a subset of humans and get knowledge about this subset, a different subset of humans could react completely different.

They could, but that does not mean they do. There are quite obviously rules and patterns to much of human functioning. Denying so seems like human hubris.

Even if each human displays unique behaviour for a particular trait, knowing that it is so for that particular trait is useful and therefore still amenable to scientific exploration. Even if humans reacted randomly in some situation, the random behaviour would be subject to a probability distribution and knowing it would be useful.

It's hard for me to see where exactly the leap to "it's impossible to study human behaviour scientifically" is necessary, particularly when we have so much evidence to the contrary.
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If you allow a page to specify a font, the page can tell whether you displayed that font or the fallback by looking at things like the size of a div containing a particular character.

Preventing font fingerprinting means limiting font use to default system fonts and web fonts only. If a page can use user installed fonts, they can tell whether or not those fonts were installed.

Safari’s fingerprint protection does this already, I don’t know if other browsers do.
Anectotally, I keep no browser history and do not feel my experience with captchas is different than a user who does.
Holy shit the responses to that tweet are basically all culled
The sham related to polygraphs is trying to divine some correlation between a person's instantaneous emotional state and the veracity of their communications. The biometrics polygraphs measure are very real.
"Meanwhile, in fairness, the Mac is actually a pretty great development platform.

"

Especially with the Macbook Pro they seem a little confused whether it should be a good dev machine or a super thin high end laptop.
I think they meant "you can't block reCAPTCHA and still access services behind it" - technically you could add a rule to uBlock Origin etc. to block it, but then you'd be unable to use those site/services.
This needs to be stated more loudly and often. Reasonable people can disagree, and civility demands providing disputants with the benefit of the doubt, which is institutionalized in the courts. But when enough evidence of bad faith accumulates, a reluctance to acknowledge it is moral cowardice at best, cynical symbiosis at worst.
I know if I was running a mechanical turk or bot farm, I'd be using a Chrome user agent via puppeteer. I'm not sure WTF they are doing other than being malicious against non-chrome.
yeah. i was dubious and then i saw the name and felt reassured. Already bought the onetime IaP
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I got 0.9 in my Android phone running chrome. When I opened it in incognito mode, my score was reduced to 0.7
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Ok, we changed to that from https://www.facebook.com/jmechner/posts/10156025344966326. Thanks!
Fair enough, and I agree with your sentiment. I think I can point to some rural states economic downturns, criminal problems and terrible literacy rates and draw similar conclusions.

I think the best move here is to agree that either side (rural vs urban, left vs right, whatever vs it's opposite) could cherry pick items to point to and say "these bad things prove my point".
*wouldn't go as far, sorry
My understanding is that the president's tweets have also been found to be essentially public property, meaning twitter cannot take them down anyway
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There's a "join" tool in the GNU coreutils. "man join"
Fair enough. It doesn't seem odd to me (one is seduced by dangerous but superficially appealing ideas, and this has little to do with one's sex), and more importantly, look at the whole sentence:

> "It was the time of Edmund C. Berkeley’s “Giant Brains or Machines that Think”, it was the time of rampant anthropomorphism that would lead to the false hope of solving the programming problem by the verbosity of COBOL and would seduce Grace M. Hopper to write a paper titled “The Education of a Computer”. Regrettably and amazingly, the habit lingers on: it is quite easy to infuriate computing scientists by pointing out that anthropomorphizing inanimate objects is in science a symptom of professional immaturity."

Like another comment here points out, this use of "seduce" is akin to "being seduced by the Dark Side of the Force". Anakin Skywalker was a man!

Also, this was Dijkstra's (slightly vitriolic) way of speaking. If you've read other [0] stuff [1] by him [2], you'll instantly recognize his style. And he isn't singling Grace out either; in any case, he seems to refer to her as another computer scientist, sharing the "professional immaturity" with Edmund Berkeley, a man.

[0] "Go To Statement Considered Harmful" http://www.u.arizona.edu/~rubinson/copyright_violations/Go_T...

[1] "On the cruelty of really teaching computing science" https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD103...

[2] "The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."

"FORTRAN, 'the infantile disorder', by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use."

"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra
You can be an expert tourist.
I have literally heard wealthy people complain at length about the difficulty of finding a reliable gardening service for their mansion. Should I listen to their concerns without judging? Or is it reasonable to dismiss their misery? (This is a rhetorical question.)
I work on bot detection, so I should be careful not to leak all of our approaches, email me at amir@imachines.com and we can have a more in depth offline conversation.

Since our captcha provides an opportunity for website monetization, we expect different uses aside from just bot detection, for example as a replacement for the "disable ad-blocker" popup or replacing paywalls with micropayments. This means there will be a broader set of users who are not strictly focused on attacking our dataset and polluting it with bad results. This allows us to have a confidence model initially based purely on the site.

Having a state-of-the-art AI is table stakes for a captcha product. We already run our datasets through visual recognition systems and run our captcha with an AI model-in-the-loop. In beta now, we offer websites under attack offline bot data in the background, currently as a batch report, and soon as a webhook. This approach has a game theoretic advantage of not leaking results to attackers, and allows us to run non-causal analysis of different attacks over a wide period of time. By combining this approach with a variety of rotating challenges we can identify patterns of behavior consistent with bots as they continue their attack strategy against only the mix of challenges they have seen.

There are also services where you can pay for people to solve captchas for you and this is a different sort of attack from bots, since they are in fact humans signing up for hundreds of accounts. If your goal was to prevent fraudulent signups, or to host a give-away for example, then we can have days of time to perform an extensive analysis offline, and perform an epidemic analysis of the traffic.
Right? I'm getting downvoted but I can't stand it when people born in the west think their morals matter in the name of surviving and first generation success. Yeah downvote me, most people would STILL work for facebook me included. That's a damn good pay cheque.
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Hmm I'll take a look at that. Yes code is here: https://github.com/bkase/CUDA-grep
But getting any of that data off disk will typically be the bottleneck.

(Also, you'd want BLAST for DNA instead of grep, but perhaps this was an intentional simplification)
Really interesting that certain types of cloud formation (including those created by aircraft) can actually increase mean surface temperature. I had always assumed that the reflection of sunlight outweighed the insulating effect. Does anyone have a link to some kind of model that explains the factors in this?
Yeah, Computation Science is a good term too.
I never understood the blind obedience towards Google vs. pretty much every other tech company. Is it historical?
Oh I do as well. But I was curious if Google Maps would take me on a “shortcut” over the mountains and I couldn’t seem to make it even if I stacked the deck. Agree you need a map and current knowledge about anything off-road (and the right vehicle).
Driving, for me, is a massive exercise in being mindful. My goal, however, is not to mind the suffering of others but instead, to take those inputs, not associate with them, and let them go.

For instance, some driver doesn't want to get in the queue at the back, so they drive up and cut over in front of me or a car or two up. There are a lot of thoughts on that that could go through your mind. These range from "no fair" to "jerk" to other things.

But, I've come to realize the best way to deal with that is to detach. You can either not let the person in and then go down that range of thoughts/emotions (primarily negative) or just let them in and not dwell on it. Observe it (assuming it's not jeopardizing anyone's safety) and let it go.

This is a very simple exercise, but it has the potential to be carried on to larger experiences in life. I'm not here to judge if you don't think it is, I just know what makes sense to me. And this is not something I have come up with on my own. This and similar techniques have been highlighted in quite a few books I've read, people I've listened to at various events.

This for me is a much deeper discussion and I think completely personal to the experiencer. I tend to fall on the side of being mindful of yourself and the struggles/suffering of existence are of your own doing and choices (obviously, this is a simplistic statement, but to me true on a high level).

I've been listening/watching quite a bit of Naval Ravikant podcasts/videos. I think he has a lot of good wisdom to digest and he definitely covers this subject. I highly recommend anything of his you come across. https://nav.al
Thank you! For those that don't know, 15 years ago GNU awk was sometimes oddly REALLY slow. Mike's awk was not. Plus when things were overall slower back then, it mattered more.

But there were bugs in mawk and it seemed basically unmaintained. So you'd run into something and have to use gawk or perl instead.

That's no longer the case, the xterm guy adopted it, ten years ago, and now I know!
Well, you can already parse JSON SAX-style. Or with newline delimiters.
> Tech monoliths like facebook, google, and twitter are starting to show very obvious political biases.

How is this policy political bias? If one political group makes more calls to violence or for discrimination than another perhaps the problem is with the group, not Twitter.
>If you are going to market your browser as privacy focused, it has to block ads by default

A privacy-focused browser should care about the privacy part of the online advertisement, which is tracking. Completely preventing the site from showing any ads is a different feature.
Have been using this app for 10 years, and it's precious open source stuff. It would be rather silly and unfair to let this go.
All matter is information, all information is functional, and perception is therefore the lazy evaluation of the universe.
This is preposterous. This kind of tone-policing doesn't belong here. A charitable read of what he said doesn't "tick off a checklist of a troll". The time to back down was a few posts ago.
Not sure about Linus... I know Wolfram does/did ....
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Because breaking the rules ruins it for everyone. With very little equipment and effort, you can completely shut down portions of the ham band worldwide. A handful of people decide to do this, and the ability is gone for everyone.

What little space we do have allocated to us is constantly under attack, because there's always money to be made from selling RF spectrum. If VHF/UHF becomes just a place for computers sending cryptocurrency to each other, eventually the FCC is going to step in and decide "hey, we could be selling this!" Then it's gone forever, and the age of radio experimentation is over.

If you want to go interfere with licensed transmissions to protest the FCC, go for it! I hope you enjoy the inside of federal courtrooms, though.
Smolin dropped out of highschool, played in a rock band, thought himself mathematics and suddenly he is in Harvard... good jump Smolin. Flawless victory!