skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I think that sort of stuff is exactly the future of computing. Just because GPT-{N+1} isn't an AGI doesn't mean that GPT-{N+1} won't cause an exciting step-change in what's possible with computing.

> Someone should set up some experiments to actually do that, and find out what happens. I bet that even though it would be a disaster, we would learn a ton.

Ha! Agreed! Unfortunately I do too much soft external-facing stuff these days to do this myself :(. Someone who interacts mostly internally with engineers/techy types who might appreciate the experiment should totally do this.
In the context of web analytics, first-party vs third-party usually refers to how the user is identified, not to where the analytics status is hosted. Google Analytics uses first-party data for its tracking. Third-party tracking builds a universal profile of the user across the internet, first-party tracking builds user profiles that are silo'd to the website.

Google Analytics stores a first-party cookie with a unique ID for each user. This is used to de-duplicate traffic from the same user to the same domain. This cookie not shared across websites. If you go to example.com and website.com, those are two different first-party cookies without views into each other.

Optionally, Google Analytics can be configured correlated this with a third-party cookie from google.com for advertising purposes. This allows the website owner for example.com to connect a user converting on example.com to that same user having seen or clicked an ad on google.com. It also allows the website owner to target ads on google.com towards users based on their activity on example.com

Previous iterations of Safari's ITP have outright blocked the third-party cookie, and have limited first-party cookies based on whether they're HTTP cookies or JavaScript cookies.
Yes - I find myself navigating Channel pages often, in hopes that the content creator took the time to create an applicable playlist

But then if I quit a video _that I played from a playlist_ and check my history _the playlist itself is listed, and not the actual video_

It is, indeed, a mess
PHP has object since v3 ('97).
I believe there’s a way to turn off Apple Music integration in your settings so you just get the old music app.
Make Mobile Websites Not Apps
I think this is just because the right is on the cultural defensive right now. Most people are really bad people; they don't process liberal principles intended to protect the powerless (on any dimension) as anything but a hollow tool, to be used when they're being protected and ignored (to the extent possible) when they want to crush their enemies.

That is to say, those who are culturally out of power _need_ to act relatively civilized, because civilization is the only thing that protects them, while those that dominate norm-shaping are free to act as the monsters they truly are. It's no coincidence that so much of the left has started pretending that caring about free speech is only ever a tactical decision to protect unforgivable rightwing views: if you're the kind of morally hollow creature that can't conceive of holding a principle, you also can't conceive of anyone else holding one. (Not incidentally, this is why Scott is so often tarred as alt-right or alt-right-adjacent, despite being pretty firmly on the left).

In the GWB years of an ascendant cultural right, Scott would have likely faced the same threats from the right as he does from the left, over different issues.
Anyone committing a serious enough crime to "justify" breaking encryption would be very motivated to not get caught.
I wrote a detailed, solid, accurate 1 star review of a child's digital camera which clearly didn't contravene their guidelines. Didn't meet their guidelines, wouldn't publish it.

Amazon used to be great. Nowadays it's full of fake reviews and dodgy secondhand stuff being sold as new.
This isn't biometric authentication: it's WebAuthn, which is a public-key based system implemented by all major browsers (https://webauthn.io/). This particular implementation uses biometrics to unlock it but other implementations use a contact sensor (Yubikeys) or PIN, and the target website doesn't need to know anything about which particular mechanism was used to unlock the keystore.
I mean, every OS release has left out older hardware.

https://www.technologytips.com/windows-system-requirements/

The software/application story is certainly better on desktops, I'll grant you that.
According to the author, "hyper efficient" is throwing 40+% of the food in the trash, while slowly increasing prices YoY.

Yeah right
I am thinking of a similar route, as a data scientist i am eager to know what graduate level courses would you recommend ? Especially for agriculture in cold climate (Canada )
What’s left? Target and Best Buy?
Yeah, and my personal data never left Equifax's servers either.

You can't change your biometrics when they are inevitably hacked. If you even find out.
> People don't have as innate a desire for intellectual rigor in deconstructing untruths as you or I would like.

This is an elitist point of view, and I don't think you are as good at deconstructing untruths as you'd like to believe.

> If anything, many people want to be lied to if the lie dovetails with their feelings and agendas.

> I don't know - it's hard to judge another person's deep desires.

So you think you can mindread people and you know what "many people" want?

You just admitted it's hard to judge another persons desires.

This all misses the main point. This mob agenda targets Republicans and hoists Democrats and their tech CEO/shareholder puppets to the position of Ministry of Truth.

It's incredibly obvious that the other platforms fell into line and Facebook is receiving the mob's attention until they submit as well. This isn't about the wellbeing of people or you knowing best, it's about power-grabbing, corruption, and censorship.

I'm glad Zuck is taking this stance and I'm glad he has a majority.
I use my own cloud, based upon Nextcloud. To use that cloud, I don't need to pay anyone, and a giant company doesn't peruse my files at a whim.
'My Little Pony' Fans Confront Their Nazi Problem
Throw lots of dirt at a wall and see what sticks.
Why not just use bitmap fonts?
Mkws(1): Generate a static website with minimum lines of code
> I have a simpler explanation for that. Someone bought the tooling (injection moulds?), in an auction maybe

But the company never sold them, so even they from the beginning reasonably believed they had in fact manufactured the slide. Had they sold the molds (which I don’t think a company would do bearing their mark without selling the actual mark as well) it would have actually helped their defense and helped them consider/discover they were not the manufacturer of this particular slide.
Safari to support password-less logins via Face ID and Touch ID later this year
Playing that game isn't a good faith negotiation.

What you described is how almost all negotiation is done, in good faith or otherwise.

But it's only a negotiation if both parties can propose changes and, if they don't like the deal, walk away.
This is talking about the prevalence of obesity in existing T1D's, not as a precursor or cause of T1D.
Could just be a resume building puff piece to help him rise in the party machinery.
You know if we are already going through the effort of transporting & stacking dirt vertically for these things we might as well go all the way and integrate them into the pylons of offshore wind turbines, which'll guarantee them a viable support structure, an infinite amount of available seawater & more than enough power to desalinate it locally. Heck, the harvest logistics means it'll give fishing boats something to do off-season too.
The people who want to dismiss covid as 'just a flu' are not the kind of people who willingly research and consider details before making up their minds. I have never seen an argument by these people that takes into account the long term effects of a covid survivor. Frankly, at this point, these people are just idiots. There is so much evidence, one has to be willfully ignorant and in bad faith to make such arguments.
The new Pasteboard APIs and notifications should go someway towards stopping that from happening.
I had a 6 instead of 6S and started getting stutter and slight lags in the UI after the latest ios update around 2018. It was getting annoyingly slow at that point but i was happy with a 7 Plus until i got a good deal for a X recently.
This is why we shouldn’t push a climate change narrative. There’s too much of a gray area. Just say what we’ve observed- there is a great extinction event occurring today, excess carbon is a big part of the problem.
You say "investing for their children". Somebody else might say "perpetuating the aristocracy". Same thing. Why do those children deserve any more investment than any other children? How does that contribute to a fair society, or even to a prosperous one?
Yep, I lost about 40 pounds in the two months leading up to my T1D diagnosis.
Oh the almighty Secure Enclave, bow down to the Enclave...

Do you even know what the heck an enclave is and how does it work? It's nuts that when a figure of authority uses a fancy shiny new word to describe some magic black box and the masses follow with no questions asked.
Just run a 20 year old binary and worked fine; I'ld lie if I said it didn't impressed me
Dangerous Heat Waves Demand Immediate Climate Action
Hot off the press: SF Symbols 2
xargs/etc are like arcane legos, where there's more than one brick vendor in the mix with different vendor's versions of the brick supporting different features, or the same feature but implemented in different ways. And even if you're only dealing with one brick vendor, there's still little uniformity in the interfaces of different bricks. GNU vs BSD xargs, -0 vs -print0, etc.

True lego have the property that if two parts snap together, it's a valid configuration. That's definitely not the case for unix utilities. You have to read a manual for each sort of brick.
> First, it was discovered in late December, probably jumping to humans in November

The most recent phylogenetic analysis on 7000+ viral sequences from isolates points at the end of October as a possible date.
It's been tried before. It was cracked so badly they never tried it again.
Oh but I was still paying for my netflix subscription at the time. So technically I was just stealing the subtitles license. When I did cut my Netflix subscription, I also stopped watching shows even on torrent, haven't watched a show since 2016 when I had my kids. Youtube, twitter, facebook and now tiktok offer free alternatives and are more entertaining in my opinion. Not to mention the heavy political agenda Netflix has been pushing on their shows lately, already get enough of that on social media, no need to also get it on my show when just looking for entertainment.
This is an implementation of the Web Authentication API, and is exposed as a platform authenticator. There is no vendor lock-in.
I just finished reading and all I can say is kudos to NPD ( polite, professional and effective ). It still speaks volumes about the arrogance od the executives since it is clear that they thought it could have easily become ' we dont know; we cant track em'.
They don't want retirees to move in (people who do have money just not as much as them) so instead they get a bunch of expensive homes that no-one buying.

Now they have a bunch of empty homes, exactly what can expect will attract the homeless to squat in for the time being.
Lufthansa Says A380s Won’t Return for at Least Two Years
Yeaaaaaah, I don’t buy that as the thing that holds most manufacturers back. It’s absolutely gotta be upgrade incentive.
lol

If our societies are so shitty, why not let young Chinese students see for themselves?

Then they know what they have in China.
gopher://gopherddit.com
> I do not see why you introduce the race issue here.

The gist of the article is that the person was selected for this treatment because he wasn't white

The gist of the post was that's fine, because all terrorists are brown

The accuracy is that if you wanted to select people based likely to commit a terrorist attack in the US on appearance, you're looking for

1) Male

2) White

3) American

Clearly I don't think that means all White Male Americans are terrorists, but that highlights the absurdity of the anti-muslim movements that balooned 20 years ago and are still prevalent in western discourse.
Maybe apple might stop approving junk apps that do not implement clips, like they ban apps that have "sign in with XYZ" but not "sign in with apple"

(this post represents my opinion only, and does not speak for my employer, my cat, or the flying spaghetti monster)
Is there something wrong with someone making a choice that pays off repeatedly (even up to near permanently) instead of only temporarily? Assuming no, then there is nothing wrong with passive investment.

Now power via money in politics is another issue completely, but money isn't the issue, corruption is. I would wholeheartedly agree we need to fix corruption in the government. I just disagree that the fix to corruption is to make everyone marginally poorer via taxation. (at least some margin is lost to bureaucracy)
Oh, no, sorry, I don't.

My point wasn't that current program synthesis is particularly great, although I do think modern program synthesis tools can probably beat gpt-3 on lots of problems (and allow that the other direction is probably true too...)

My point was that I'm skeptical that GPT-3 would do particularly well on those benchmarks without lots of additional effort. And then, since you can build pretty much anything anyway with enough blood and sweat, the actual question is: would the same amount of effort poured into an alternative approach generate the same/better results but in a way that's far easier to interpret/extend?

It could work. But the yt video alone is more "huh, interesting" than "wow, impressive". If that makes sense.
Sometimes I wonder if politicians are trying to get us to not vote for them.

Like, what problem is this solving? Are there tons of criminals that are running wild, and if only we had their secret correspondence we could catch them?

And is social media not already some huge gift to law enforcement? Forget about tapping an encrypted line, just follow them on twitter.
This is so absolutely true. What happened here shows that the people involved have no idea as to what enterprise companies require. It's sort of like hiring an intern who made a change that they thought was a-ok but that also took the entire network offline.
Checked expiration dates, they were comparable to store-bought. I store my cereal in pretty abhorrent conditions sometimes (like leaving it in the back of my car during Texas summer for a few days) and never noticed degradation leading to flavor/texure like this, but storage issues are still a possible cause. Maybe I'll do a real experiment sometime involving storing grocery cereal outdoors in the Houston summer and see what happens.

I completely agree with all your sentiments and part of why it took me so long to come to my conclusion.
Corporations are creations of governments - they literally can't exist as a separate entity without somebody strong enough blessing it (and then protecting their rights as a separate entity, by force if needed).

Thus, if you distrust governments, you should automatically distrust any and all corporations. In fact, that is one way to deal with monopolies - instead of forcibly breaking them apart, let the government simply stop recognizing and enforcing abstract property rights on capital past a certain limit. That would be a solution that strictly reduces the size and power of the government, but I suspect you'd like it even less than anti-trust.
I think the fundamental problem I find when architecting a new website is that not enough thought has been put into making HTML and CSS sites scale with complexity.

It feels like we put all of our eggs in the JS basket - we know how to factor out well-scoped components, encapsulate styles at the component level, and build reactive, state-driven interfaces, all from JS.

There are certainly patterns that allow for componentization, encapsulation, and state management in pure HTML and CSS. None of them that I have used (pure WebComponents, SSR templating a la Pug or Rails/Laravel/etc, the "good ol' days" of "simple" single-file HTML/CSS) have felt like they scale beyond a basic document with link-based navigation.

As soon as you introduce forms, real-time updating, or layered interface state (modals, drop-downs, etc) you start spiraling into progressively more and more kludgy orchestration scripts until you end up wishing you'd just built the damn thing in React to start with.

If there was a well-defined set of HTML and CSS patterns that you could start your website with and _always_ feel like you could add additional functionality without compromising the existing structure, I'd migrate to that in a second.

As it is, the best way I can see for accomplishing a web project where I don't feel boxed in as soon as the requirements change is to just eat the few days of setup complexity up front and use a well-supported JS-based component framework.

There are all sorts of terrible downsides to that approach, as have been extolled ad nauseum here and elsewhere, but I legitimately don't see another way to do it. It's easy to say "for a simple static site, just use plain HTML/CSS!", which is fine if there's a clear scope that won't expand.

The second you introduce uncertainty and possible future complexity, I don't see a better alternative to a current JS-favored stack.

That's hugely compounded by all of the zillion QOL things that you need to worry about as you account for complexity - time to first paint, responsiveness across screen sizes, proper eventing, cross browser support, memory leaks, jank-free animation, page weight, internationalization, etc etc etc. One layer of the stack has an answer to most of these concerns, but it's very difficult to orchestrate all of them without ending up with a lot of JS that needs to be managed.
While this paper[1] doesn't attempt to provide exact dates, the phylogenetic data suggest that there were multiple seeding "events" in each country before outbreaks were actually noticeable.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7199730/
(These articles might be politically motivated.)
This is the correct comment, they purposefully block Cloudflare traffic due to them not forwarding user data.

They stated they need it to stay in line with the law but they can do that with things like the user's IP. To go that far to insist on getting a specific type of user data is sketchy.
Oh the almighty Secure Enclave, bow down to the Enclave...

I see so many comments mentioning Secure Enclave to any security objection as if it's a panacea. Do you even know what the heck an enclave is and how does it work? It's nuts that when a figure of authority uses a fancy shiny new word to describe some magic black box and the masses follow with no questions asked.
Modern security involves generating a key for every session and this could be dicey with a master key.
Seen that one too. The fact you can't do quick batch operations across many documents makes me crazy.

Google Docs has so much potential. Google should just spin it off into a separate company and let it find its own way. Making it conform to Google notions of search has crippled the design.
I mean, honestly... you're using Windows. This kind of behavior shouldn't even come as a surprise, but should be expected.
The longer you stay on it, the longer you're tacitly supporting those kind of decisions.

If I went to a restaurant and they kept bringing me something I didn't order, I wouldn't go there anymore.
So I just ran a test, with a secret domain name I haven't told anyone:

$ (for x in `seq 1 500`; do echo -n "$x "; host -v MYSECRETDOMAIN. 8.8.8.8 2>&1 |grep SOA; done) > data
$ awk '($3 == 899) { print }' data | wc -l
34

That suggests there are about 34 machines near London. Neat!

I repeated the test with:

$ (for x in `seq 1 500`; do echo -n "$x "; host -v MYSECRETDOMAIN. 8.8.4.4 2>&1 |grep SOA; done) > data2
$ awk '($3 == 899) { print }' data2 | wc -l
3

which suggests the IP addresses share infrastructure (at least near London!)

You can try this sort of thing with other providers to try and map out their internal infrastructure. (1.1.1.1/cloudflare has around 22 machines near me; quad9 has 16; opendns also has 16; verisign has 31; etc).

One thing I tried was making an ad that recorded the cookie id in the impression tracker so I could record the connecting IP addresses in our DNS server. I could then target users who have a particular network provider (or use a particular DNS provider) which could be useful if I want a large number of users who (effectively) ignore DNS caches.
Attestation. If a website requests it, the device will provide cryptographic proof that you used a specific vendor’s device to store the resident credential. The proof is a certificate signed with a vendor’s secret attestation key.
My daughter spent her freshman year in the International dorm and noticed that most foreign students tend to keep to their own nationality.

Maybe there was no other Chinese students to hang with?

(She's currently on the student committee whose purpose is to get intl' students to interact outside their cliques. But I wonder how many there will actually be this Fall term.)
Bloomberg and Steyer have pretty much disproved the notion that you can easily buy your way into politics.

Most people don't even know who Steyer is. How many Steyers are out there? When a rich person tries to become notable and fails you just don't hear about them. When a rich person does something big you assume it's because of their wealth being their most apparent unique characteristic.

President Trump is one of the few who made it. And he actually didn't spend that much money on the campaign at all. Switched to regular fundraising pretty fast. Sure, there's no question that his wealth is a big part of who he is. If anything he leveraged people's obsession with wealth rather than his wealth itself.

You're still going to deal with nation state and corporate lobbying without private wealth. Successful private lobbying efforts get all attention because of how uncommon it is.

How long have Koch brother[s] been at it? They pretty much were life long political activists. And most of that is out of personal conviction. Doesn't seem to me like they have attained any concerning levels of power at all given their dedication.
Didn’t think of that. Well said.
CEO of the company that built Dolt here. I just did some preliminary research and it seems that we have a similar mission. We both want to version control data.

The thing Dolt does that splitgraph does not do is support branches, diffs, merges and conflicts on data and schema. Dolt has its own storage engine to do this efficiently whereas Splitgraph relies on Postgres.

Having native Postgres with a versioning layer on top has other advantages so we're excited to see how Splitgraph's approach works in practice. Excited to play with it. We love to see more tools in this underserved space.
>sure you're not just getting old? My experience is that once I got over 10+ years in experience in development people generally didn't want to hire me full-time, only consulting.

I don't know. I don't know how to break into consulting but I want to do it.

I've been through three IPOs in the last 11 years, and we didn't really hire consultants (except people out in the field to collect data sometimes, but that was contract employees), so I'm a bit out of the loop. I did everything wearing multiple hats, even going so far as to productionizing models I've made onto embedded, so there has been little reason to hire outside help.