skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What Mozilla and Apple announced was meant to be a standard that worked across all browsers (if accepted).

It is in Google's best interest that whatever system they use works regardless of browser.

Largely I agree but Google's relationship with Mozilla and Apple is a little more complicated than "arch-rivals".
Id say the title is incorrect, as its still selling ads based on your browsing - its just they arent directly capturing the addresses - instead using some ML for cohort analysis via their "Privacy Sandbox".

It seems to me that this is actually giving them more reach, as now it wont just be websites using google analytics, etc - but EVERY website you visit, unless the site owner specifically opts out - a google-made blackbox that sees EVERY site you visit and labels you accordingly

Few questions for the knowledgeable:

- Is it be possible to disable?
- Will they be releasing the datasets for how these ML models are constructed?
- Do sites in "incogito mode" contribute to analysis?
Multiplication of the Surreals is a recursive operation using sums (addition and subtraction on the left and right sets). Since the Reals are a strict subfield of the Surreals one can define multiplication of the reals using only the same recursive formula and restricting both operands to be Reals.
I think they developed their own react library for this.

https://reactflow.dev/
The Emulation Dream
Never:) Still fun to consider
> However, in the minds of Disney executives, people in their social circle might judge them if they keep Carino [sic] around.

This is too reductive an understanding. A far bigger issue is that many many actors, technicians, directors, and so on probably don’t want to work with someone like Carano - particularly nonwhite and non-cis people, but also outspoken progressives like Mark Hamill. She isn’t merely very conservative, but a racist nutjob. She’s bad for business even if she doesn’t immediately impact viewership.

This is by the way an issue of “cancel culture” that is too often ignored: it’s not just a moral judgment about an individual, it’s a judgment that they can’t be trusted to treat nonwhites/LGBT/etc with decency. Or, in the case of Dr. Seuss, it’s a judgment by the estate that Seuss’s legacy is tarnished by the outdated racist imagery he used and that some works shouldn’t be continually reprinted.
So they're not putting people into ovens yet, but besides that... China has concentration camps, is committing genocide, harvesting organs from ethnic minorities and dissidents, has an elected dictator, performs ethically questionable scientific research, encourages its citizens to rat on each other, uses an oppressive surveillance system, has the desire to rapidly expand its territory, and has basically no concept of human rights. If they're not one-to-one comparable to Nazi Germany, they're pretty much as bad, if not worse in some areas(though I'm sure the Nazis would have been as bad if they had today's surveillance tech).
There's also simply the effect of not staying in a downstream you created.

A drone/helicopter accelerates air downward, and it's easier to accelerate still air than air that's already moving downward.
One of the criticisms in that paper was that training AI used a lot of electricity. That's technically true, but what's the proposal there? The power efficiency of hardware is already being increased.
For those who missed it, Cliqz did a very in-depth series of blog posts on their tech [0]. Basically, it was "word2vec: The Search Engine".

It was actually very impressive in terms of semantic understanding, but the index was pretty awful. I either got exactly what I was looking for, or no hits at all. I can imagine that they'd get massive value by focusing on more information-rich natural language sources and de-prioritising images or structured/knowledge queries for the time being. Some good partnerships to provide instant answers a-la Duckduckgo's goodies would be excellent.

I also can't express how much better the Brave brand will be for them - even 'Tailcat' is a much better name. Cliqz sounds too much like an off-brand, gutter ad seller to ever have credibility, and I say that as someone who was fairly impressed with their tech.

I am worried that they're currently pitching this as a general purpose search engine at the moment when it will be a while before it can even pretend to compete with Google. I would advise for them to find a niche where they can whip Google into next week, and then expand on scope from there.

[0] https://www.0x65.dev/
So, eat red meat for the iron, but not so much it makes you fat (and sick).
Did people really believe that dietary fat was stored by the body without any kind of biological processing?

If you examine it from a thermodynamic perspective (I know that is simplistic for human biology), weight for weight fat has double the energy density of sugar, 38 MJ/kg vs 17 MJ/kg according to [0]. For reference, gasoline and diesel fuel are around 45 - 48 MJ/kg.

Also, according to [1], dietary fats are broken down to generate acetyl-CoA which is the precursor for lipogenesis (fat storage), therefore eating fat does not necessarily make you fat but consuming a lot of it and not metabolising it to do work will make it easier for you body to store fat.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipid#Energy_storage

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipid#Degradation
The headline doesn't really match the detail of the article, which notes that the work was subjected both to the obscenity laws of the time and what has been contemporarily rebranded as 'cancel culture':

> It had been initially rejected by all the big publishing houses in the United States, so Nabokov resorted to the pornographic French publisher Olympia Press, only to have it banned in France and also in Argentina, New Zealand, South Africa and Australia. In England, all copies were seized by customs from 1955 until 1959, when it was finally published to huge consternation and controversy.
It is highly unlikely that the cameras being used to produce Ancient Aliens are CCDs unless they are also using ancient camera tech. Most likely, the camera's image sensors are CMOS. 3 chip CCDs reached their pinnacle as 90s/early 00s tech. CCDs can only sense one color, so they put three of them behind an RGB splitter.
I’m comparing the same AirPods between iPhone and my Thinkpad and I can’t get the same range. Unfortunately the only other Bluetooth device I have is my aftermarket ECU in my Miata and there is no iPhone app to connect to that one.
Here is a paper on the fallacy of selfish mining: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3004026
I think the hard steps are sharp divisions that had a long time in the status quo, then a sudden random development. Single-cell to multi-cellular. Development of nerve tissue that can collect information, make decisions, and influence the organism. Centralization of a bundle of nerves into a decision making center. Then you get to higher order steps that probably aren't as complicated, such as communications and organization, then all the steps that humans went through that took a while, without having major biological changes that enabled them.
No you're just being semantic about it.

Your suppressing my thoughts by pushing them down the page where nobody can see and providing a big wall of text denial that amounts to "I think I'm right."
Yes.. something that Safari and Firefox are years ahead. My point is: From Title `Charting a course towards a more privacy-first web` expectation is for a real shift in Google policies and actions.
People should buy things they want to own. When you rent things, there is explicitly no guarantee you'll have access to it later. Books, music, videos - the only way you can guarantee you'll have access to it is by owning it.

That said, we are not even remotely in farenheit 451 territory. And the author of this article doesn't spend much effort even trying to claim or defend that position.
Barcelona has just introduced rent controls. It's a supply and demand problem so politicians play with the pricing instead. It isn't going to create any more housing, it will however create winners and losers from the policy.
In the context of public inquiries into industrial accidents, I'm sorry but no - it absolutely is not "all talk". We are worlds apart from China in this respect. It's not cheerleading, it's just true.
They are actively working on this.

I worked on Google Fonts, and you’d be incredibly surprised how few people run the entire service. If I recall correctly, ether ratio is something like one Google Fonts team member is responsible for the equivalent opt hundreds of millions of requests a day.

The main focus they had in the variable fonts roll out was making the internet faster. The process of choosing when to/not serve variable fonts behind the scenes was oriented around the font-weight axis, so they could reduce the number of requests, and hence speed up everything from Google searches to YouTube and every other website using Google Fonts.

Sadly the UX around displaying axes isn’t straight forward. Since the Google Fonts wants to setup a conservative interface, that doesn’t result in users requesting an entire variable axes with every request, especially when it’s not being used - there needed to be more work than just showing the font’s design space on a specimen page.

There is an incredible amount of behind the scenes effort from an incredibly talented team.

Huge props to each of them.
Yeah, about as "perfectly natural" as the stock market soaring while the economy is in crisis (i.e. logical, but completely perverted).
I don't have figures for you, but some food for thought - a) 'wind-carved' rocks are not really carved by the wind itself but by particles carried on the wind, and Mars is regularly subject to large dust storms (see https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/the-fact-and-fiction-of... - sorry it's a NASA link, hopefully everyone can see through the grifting, or whatever), b) the vast timescales involved - who knows how many hundreds of thousands of years that rock has been sitting there, slowly weathering away?
They should also offer a paid search engine with more advanced features and better results. I would pay for that if the cost were reasonable.
But they did at one point in the late 90’s. I wouldn’t say that was the only reason why they nearly went bankrupt, but it certainly didn’t help.
But incrementing the major version wouldn't have helped those who weren't pinning to an earlier version, something I suspect applies to many of those unskilled users.
Why are fewer young adults having casual sex?
Ask HN: Has anyone made experience with the ParlAI Framework?
I am currently using an Intend-based Chatbot for my work (a museum) and we are looking to get a better approach to it. A colleague suggested trying ParlAI and use ML to build knowledge about our topics. In addition, you can have pretrained models that let the bot be able to have small talk next to the pure informational talk.

So my question is: Has anyone made any experience with the ParlAI Framework? How intuitive is it to work with?
Yeah, you unexpectedly demonstrated how effective the ban was. After being blacklisted from thousands of radio stations (including ClearChannel, one of the biggest), their album sales plummeted. Except in Canada.

Also, their next studio album came 14 years (!!!) after Taking The Long Way.
H2 is the apparent next step. I assume Toyota decided to mostly skip Li and focus on being H2's first mover.

The kicker is timing: Is Toyota financially strong enough to persist until the H2 market is big enough to sustain them?

Separately, Tesla has eschewed solid state Li batteries. That's kinda weird, right? Solid state appears to be a much better option.

I think both Tesla and Toyota have determined, separately, that H2 will become viable before solid-state is mature enough to replace Li-ion.

Again, timing. How long? 10 years? 20 years?
You had it coming.
Hey Mike!

Mike is working on it as well:

https://braid.news/
The article doesn't mention this but that test is not very well regarded currently. It's basically a test of food security and trust in adults rather than any particular behavioral benchmark.
Oh no, no, no. It's "more privacy first." And that may not be "privacy first" at all.
On Politifact, at least, Biden does score the proverbial Pinocchio: https://www.politifact.com/personalities/joe-biden/

I used Politifact because their UI makes it easy to aggregate by person.
It's still bad. If you are in the X cohort and buy Y, the seller will know that you are in the X cohort if the seller targeted X, even if Y has nothing to do with X. This is the fundamental breach of privacy that Google can't get around.
It is, and I should have said that. I pushed past the issues in the larger community when I started because I had a good local community (grad school, prof was pushing it). About the same time the general community behavior was improving, and now it's a very welcoming language community. You still occasionally get curmudgeons but they aren't the loudest voices.
You are honestly right, but no one will admit it. Apple is imo the worst of the big tech, willingly working with CCP but you won’t hear a bad word about them here, as long as the new Mac has a working keyboard which Apple themselves broke several iterations before...
Comparing a country to a state makes it look even smaller to me lol
Are you serious? First Vikings landed there 50 years ago. Kids of 70th and 80th did seeing first images, there were many colorful books about solar system. It's pitty how badly slow is space exploration of last decades. No wonder everyone and its dog are now so excited about this mission.
Hi, how do you compare your solution with UIPath? Thanks!
Yep. Hitler himself talked about this:

> “And so, I established in 1919 a programme and tendency that was a conscious slap in the face of the democratic-pacifist world. [We knew] it might take five or ten or twenty years, yet gradually an authoritarian state arose within the democratic state, and a nucleus of fanatical devotion and ruthless determination formed in a wretched world that lacked basic convictions.

> Only one danger could have jeopardised this development — if our adversaries had understood its principle, established a clear understanding of our ideas, and not offered any resistance. Or, alternatively, if they had from the first day annihilated with the utmost brutality the nucleus of our new movement.

> Neither was done. The times were such that our adversaries were no longer capable of accomplishing our annihilation, nor did they have the nerve. Arguably, they furthermore lacked the understanding to assume a wholly appropriate attitude. Instead, they began to tyrannise our young movement by bourgeois means, and, by doing so, they assisted the process of natural selection in a very fortunate manner. From there on, it was only a question of time until the leadership of the nation would fall to our hardened human material.
Very cool!! Thanks for sharing :)
Does Axiom support the ability to use network request data as a condition? I often test analytics integrations, and it's pretty repetitive to look at the query parameters or browser extensions for each one. It'd be helpful to automate tests based on whether a pageview generates a request to domain.com with param x=0, etc.
That’s exactly what it was. Two other vendors were going to launch as well.
Out of curiosity, which commercial CL implementation would that be? LispWorks? Allegro?
This seems like a pretty poor take by pg. It ignores the years of friction over targeted ads that have been leading up to this change. Apple and Mozilla have also shifted strategies in this area.

It seems the right time for Google to pivot, if not a little too late.
That's a great resource (that links to even more great resources) - thanks for posting it.

I disagree that professional ethicists aren't needed in an organisation like Google though. Just as security should be lived and breathed by every developer, you still need some experts to consult when things get gnarly, light the way when you need many years of study to understand the concepts, and spot things that laypeople would miss.

The large language models Timnit was studying are a great example of this; people like her were (and are) needed to help the engineers understand the breadth and scope of the issues. Everyone in the org having their hearts in the right place doesn't replace expertise.
> If you search for a Linux problem, you'll get 50 different people telling you 25 different ways of fixing it, most of which work.

Not in my experience. They may have worked for some version of some distro, but it is almost always not the one I'm trying to fix the problem on.

> If you search for a Microsoft problem, you'll get 50 pages of corporate bullshit that pretend everything's OK. You have to ignore those and dig further to find some unofficial blogger or random dev post that actually tells you something useful.

Unfortunately that is also pretty accurate, and it has been getting worse since Windows 10, resembling more and more the problem with searching for solutions to Linux issues. Does this fix still work for 1901 or did it only work for 1607?
"Director of Product Management, Ads Privacy and Trust"

That's quite the oxymoron of a title.

Regarding the article, it seems like Google is just doing the bare minimum to keep up with the rest of the industry when it comes to privacy. Every step they make comes shortly after others in the market have already taken a similar step[0]. Google is on top and they want to keep it that way. And they know they can so long as they keep pace just enough so as not to anger their users enough for them to switch away from the Google platforms they're comfortable with.

[0] https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/02/23/latest-firefox-rele...

> Today, we’re making explicit that once third-party cookies are phased out, we will not build alternate identifiers to track individuals as they browse across the web, nor will we use them in our products.

Google is in a position where they don't need to track individuals across the web. Most people have become dependent on Google's products and services. Even third-party websites are often dependent on Google services which feed them data in one form or another (Google Analytics, Google Sign-In, ReCaptcha, Google Cloud, etc). If anything, this move is beneficial to Google because they only have to make a small sacrifice to handicap their competition.
Except that professional music recording is a domain in which low latency always trumps power consumption. So if a system based on such a tradeoff fails even once due to complexity of buffer rewinding or whatever, the professional musician loses.

Hell, Jack could be re-implemented as power-hungry, ridiculous blockchain tech and if it resulted in round-trip latency / 2 professional musicians would still use it.

Edit: added "complexity of" for clarification
And why do we need "superstar firms" if they require inhumane working conditions?
Exactly. I came here to say this, but you've said it quite eloquently.

I'll just add that some inequality is also a good thing. If you don't have differential outcomes then you don't have a meritocracy where "better" is rewarded. You have a system where everyone is equally poor like the USSR and there is no incentive to improve.
> Maybe exterminating fruit-eating bats wouldn't be as bad

Maybe not as bad but still bad because they are pollinators and spread seeds. The article says:

> Bats provide many beneficial ecosystem services. Some bats play important roles such as plant pollination and seed dispersal. Bats can pollinate more than 500 species of plants including avocados, bananas, dates and mangoes.

> In Southeast Asia, durian, a highly valued crop, can be effectively pollinated only by the Dawn Bat. In this sense, bats are important economically for people. Some bats can also play critical roles in spreading seeds and regrowing forests.
It goes both ways. A reasonable union wouldn’t have a chance in the US because employers would run roughshod over them. I think German unions work pretty well because there are laws that give them a guaranteed position so they don’t always have to fight for survival. In the US they constantly have to fight which attracts people with extreme behavior. Being reasonable and moderate doesn’t get rewarded. You could say the same about US politics in general .
That's not long ago, and it's after the practice was banned. You think the banking industry has had an ethical epiphany and sudden love for regulations in the last decade?
I'm glad it's only about 1000x faster, if it were millions or billions of times faster it could be disruptive in a world destabilizing way.
Well, given the fact that we still know relatively little about most of the observable universe (dark matter & energy), I don't think you can completely rule out the several unlikely hypotheses. For example, that earlier civilizations instead of electricity used a completely different form of energy - and that basically directed their development into a completely different direction, not leaving many material artefacts. I don't believe this actually happened, but a part of me knows that I can't be 100% sure it didn't.
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Honestly, is that bad?

I have no objection to targeted ads.

I have a multitude of objections to systematic privacy invasion for profit.

If they can somehow target ads while preserving my privacy, I'm all for it.
There is a burger place doing beyond meat burgers round the corner from my flat - Neat Burger, started by Lewis Hamilton. Not bad really - probably comparable to a basic McDonalds burger though a fair bit pricer. - article on the restaurant: https://vegnews.com/2020/12/lewis-hamilton-s-vegan-restauran...
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I am sceptical due to this:

and most of the positive associations observed for meat consumption and health risks were substantially attenuated after adjustment for body mass index (BMI).

I didnt read all the details, but that seems like a sneaky way to invalidate the benefits of eating meat. If sounds like the benefits correlate with low BMI, so they want to dismiss them. But what if eating meat helps one to maintain a low BMI? Suddenly the picture is cloudy.

As for heart disease, there is always the iodine rabbit experiment from the 1930s.
sigh tell me about it
Your problem just reinforces the notion that multiplication is repeated addition. "So we need 2 for him and 2 for her and 2 for him and 2 for him and 2 for her. 2+2+2+2+2 = 5 x 2 = 10"
When they identify a valuable domain, they make money off it by giving it the 'Premium' tag, and collecting a substantial one time fee up front.

If this 'practice' of stealing domains were real, wouldn't it be somewhat easy to prove by tracing the puclic DNS records? Also, I have to imagine it is probably illegal from the position of the registrar. I wonder if anyone has ever tried to take this to court?

Yes there are lots of anecdotes about this going back a long time. I just don't buy them. I think in these cases folks forget to apply critical thinking, and succumb to logical fallacies or pure paranoia.
Maybe I've been working with Python for too long but I don't see the value in Python's pattern matching. if/elif/else are all four letters just like case and I remember reading that Guido didn't want a match and case construct.

Maybe I am just grumpy but I feel like Python the simple language that drew in a lot of developer is going the C++ way of adding features for the sake of adding features.