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Did you intentionally leave out the first sentence of 7.1.1?

> By default, a page is eligible for the interest cohort computation if the interestCohort() API is used in the page.

I'm certainly not defending FLoC, I've been using Firefox for 20 years. But creative editing isn't called for.
> Weapons stopped Hitler. Weapons stopped USSR. Weapons stop US. Weapons stop todays Russia.

That's just a rephrasing of the same old "good guy with a gun" meme.
And it is brought up because OPs text displays a weird lack of self reflection to a degree where it jumps into the face of many people.

The title of the post pins down the problem (OP describes themselves as "unhireable"), but in the post it is everybodies fault but their own and they fail to disclose why they think from the perspecitve of a company they are unhireable. I don't see any issue with making mistakes. But not learning from them to protect a mythical image you painted of yourself and your abilities is not only a problem but also a wasted chance that will come back to haunt you till you address it.

If I would be in the position of having spoofed a phone number to call a superior and loose a job, I would be ashamed or at least re-examine the state of mind and perspective that lead me to the dubious conclusion that this would be a good idea. The fact that OP seems to file that under "daring, but could have worked" rather than "this was totally inappropriate, how could I have ever thought this would be??" is what promts those mental health related comments.

What OP needs to get hireable is a reality check that leads to a lasting change of mind. This can be incredibly hard and painful, but if OP is clever they will know that this needs to be addressed and go through with it. The worst thing OP can do now, is gloss over that particular aspect of this thread and not address the discrepancy between their self image and what their words, decisions and actions communicate. The worst thing so to speak is to continue lying to themselves.

Know thyself and all that.
> Two men squat in a small tent on the Antarctic plateau, hungrily watching their Primus stove. With no hope of rescue, they’re trying to cross more than two hundred miles of treacherous terrain to base camp before they starve to death.

It sounds like the type of expedition that can turn an earnest Shackleton into a sarcastic Shackleton.
Django documentation has been following a similar model since the early days. Mostly, I believe, thanks to dedicated work of Jacob Kaplan-Moss, who also wrote a really good series of articles on the topic[0] (you’ll probably notice some parallels there).

[0] https://jacobian.org/2009/nov/10/what-to-write/
Not sure if terrorist and organized crime are influenced by the "Network effect"...and it's because of them right?
Thank you for this. You get into the intermediate steps, which just about every other tutorial I've seen on this glosses over.
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And interestingly you have to turn this off separately on every single device. It's not an Apple account thing as you might expect. I had it turned off on my iPhone but Apple was still tracking me on my Mac until I noticed just now. Sneaky.
Please don't spread baseless propaganda. We have far too many examples of security agencies not following the "rules" they impose on themselves except when it's convenient. It's in nobody's best interest to believe someone that keeps lying to you.
The main problem with this is that you need to handle TCP connections, in which the queries do not have to match up to packet boundaries, and the client can multiplex internal and external queries on the same connection.

The interface for DNS from an arbitrary container is the DNS protocol, and since you can’t control the software that is making the queries on the client side of the protocol, you have to do the special logic on the server side.
source, if any?
I'm just gonna pretend the misspelling was intentional :)
I think most miners (i.e Chinese ones) are using hydro which is already more sustainable and flexible than nuclear or coal.
*If Google does not detect ads. Which can mean anything depending on how they stretch the definition. And Google has a bad history with this kind of thing, see unwarranted and unexplained account bans as well as automated "malicious website" flagging that's notoriously hard to get rid of because Google won't even tell the website owner what part of the site was detected as malicious.
Chrome is the internet for a lot of folk these days, the same way "the blue e with the swirl" (Internet Explorer) was the internet in the late 90s/early 00s
Say you are running a page selling car parts, but aren't paying Google to run ads. Not opting out means that your customers now get targeted ads from your competition.

Unless your are paying Google large amounts of money to mainly show your ads not opting out seems like the wrong choice.
First of all, no, the perigee need not be "below the original orbit", where did you get that? The correct thing to say is that the new orbit's perigee cannot be any lower than the location of the collision.

But more generally, how does this justify your claim that "Fragments that are ejected from the collision cannot have more than energy than they had originally"? Or were you conceding that point and making a different point?

See also my more-detailed cousin of this comment.
Or just need to blow off steam: accept defeat AND also rant :-))
Want other scientists to cite you? Drop the jargon
From how I understand it, site data like the URL or even the content of the website is fed into an ML model which outputs a cohort value. That cohort value might be changed by every single individual website you visit, or by content on that website. So it's possible that some sensitive data you'd rather keep private lands in the hands of Google. It's probably made even worse as websites can change their content and thus influence the ML model, tickling out data that would otherwise not have been available.

> The browser uses machine learning algorithms to develop a cohort based on the sites that an individual visits. The algorithms might be based on the URLs of the visited sites, on the content of those pages, or other factors.

https://github.com/WICG/floc
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Thanks for the reply. I still don't understand why that is a thing, though.

As a consumer, I want the least amount of friction to buy stuff... As a gamer, I care---if I spent time and money in 'unlocking achievements'---that that history and identity is portable (also friends, guilds, etc.).

Also, this might be a pet peeve of mine, but because I know other languages, I prefer to hear and listen to the original voice actors in both movies and games.

Back then, I also owned an Xbox (US-bought), and I had also played the first couple of Halo games in English... so I wasn't really interested in the translated versions[0].

So, now that I have moved to a third country, I haven't considered buying any gaming consoles, as I feel that they were trying to pigeonhole the things I was able to buy with my account (that can't be migrated to different countries).

[0] https://youtu.be/Zt8JABbwoHQ?list=PLav7HQ457Pc9rIIjMe0fUzJ7G...
The entire point of FLoC is to track you across all domains and collect all of your browser history to put you into a group. If it was only for one domain every user would be in the same group.
"I can feel someone's desperation and it feels a lot different to me than when someone is being socially awkward or a creep."

Well, isn't it possible for a person to be desperate and still creep out others? Or even more, as desperation leads to more extreme behavior.
The answer is nothing, but then again there's very little stopping your neighbour physically from murdering you in your sleep too. Perhaps this is not something to worry about, or perhaps it is! The way to figure out whether or not that is the case is to reason a little deeper than "well it's possible", which is true for far too many things to be useful.
> Chromium is open source

> Nearly every browser is based on open source code

"We lost the war, haven't we?"

What's stopping you, or anyone else, from forking code and making it privacy focused?

Microsoft got complacent and IE lost to Mozilla.

Mozilla got bloated, lazy and they lost their focus after several missteps, several of which alienated the fuck out of the FOSS community. (Forcing several distros to fork and rebrand to something like Iceweasel? Seriously? Way to dilute your own branding.)

Chrome took over because it simply was the better browser. It brought a lot of new things to the table that made Firefox look stale in relatively short amount of time. Is it still the better browser? I don't think that's quite as clear cut these days... but unfortunately, browsers like "Brave" aren't doing anyone any favors with their misleading presentation, sketchy tactics and meme like spamming from users who don't look beyond bitelines. So when it comes down to it, every Chromium fork that currently exists still has a business, with business motives, behind it.

The source is there. Does somebody want to make an effort to fork it and let it be the true privacy focused browser or are we just going to complain about losing a war that nobody's really fighting?
Feather-net for the win, no need for mail company. Just buy some pigeons...and train them:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/networks/pigeo...
I can't imagine why. Maybe be because Melinda Gates said it herself that they advised Oxford to find strong commercial partner for their vaccine instead not patenting it?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/washington-post-live/2021/02/...
> We already have have SQLite in the browser via wasm that we could use for this

There is a W3C specification to bring SQL to the browser but it's no longer maintained. Chrome used to support this.

https://dev.w3.org/html5/webdatabase/
I use SQLite for many of my applications, but definitely not for all of them.

SQLite is probably not the right tool if you have concurrent access to the database, nor if you want to enforce database consistency through triggers.

It is the perfect application if you need a database that you can easily move around, access from a single application and your use case is simply to load and dump data with no further transformation. Anything more than that requires an RDBMS.
Jewelry is a surprisingly big chunk of global gold demand. Yes it is ultimately meaningless other than to impress other humans, however this meaningless activity is part of human nature. We derive joy from it.

Meanwhile Bitcoin is just a means to an end, getting rich quick. The fun doesn't happen because we have Bitcoin, but rather because we get rid of them for an unreasonable price.
I cannot for the love of life even figure out how to make a simple group chat with a couple of people without creating a calendar entry, even less with external users.
I find that there is so much that we are missing from the articles posted, ie.
- An analysis of how happiness increased or decreased since 1980, are people nowadays happier than they were before?
- Do people "feel" like they have more opportunities now than they had before? ie. Do they know they could be doing more and better but just don't and continue procrastinating?
This is missing from the calculations, the mental, psychological, internal battle of humans.
With that attitude we can just go back to the caves. Big-anything is what makes our society and level of population work, without Big-Ag we couldn't feed everyone. Without Big-Trans we couldn't distribute the food. Without Big-Trade, you would have to inefficiently buy from 20 small shops selling one item each. Without Big-Industry, your kitchen implements would be a pot and a kettle above the fireplace.

Rapeseed oil maybe isn't a perfect solution. But whining about everything that makes headway just because it isn't perfect yet also holds us back.
Citizenship may take longer but you can for sure buy investor visas
> What’s stopping google from doing what they did with Android: remove more and more and more of the parts included with open source Android and move them into closed source Android to the point where vanilla open source Android has much lower utility?

This is somewhat explored territory. KHTML, Webkit, Blink etc. have resulted in a lot of the "important bits" being in WebkitCore.
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There's not really a lot of detail to target advice to. You don't even share what roles you're applying for at the companies you list.

From the sounds of things you don't sound unhireable as you've had several jobs. You just quit them for perhaps bad reasons? Even in a situation where I have a good social safety net I wouldn't quit a job I needed unless I had something else lined up.

> I need a job with decent health/dental insurance. Medicaid is useless. I might be homeless soon.

Pragmatically you need to deal with these material needs first. It's going to be exponentially harder to reach for the jobs you think you deserve if you aren't able to take care of your physical needs properly. I really sympathize here though, the healthcare system is the US is a joke.

Practically I think you need to make a couple of plans:

1) Short-term: How to stabilize your own life so you meet your living needs. You as you say you need a steady job and some level of health coverage. Go through the usual things of making sure your applications match the roles and so on.

2) Long-term: You sound like you want an entry level software engineering or cyber-security role in a high status company. You need to put down a realistic assessment of where you are and a realistic plan of how to get there. This probably requires swallowing a bit of pride and admitting to your current faults.

Ideally for both bits try and find someone you trust and will listen to who you can give you advice based on an unvarnished account of where you are at now. Reading between the lines it sounds like you need a bit of a reality check but that's obviously hard to do without knowing more about you.
Feels like allowing me to gain points would make me check my post/comment habitually, just to see if someone else gave me points. Hah thinking about it in my own context, seeing points gained is addictive because it's like getting encouragement from others.
Maybe I missed a sarcasm tag, but I found your statement to be puzzling, for a lack of less kind words.

What I'm saying, and others are saying, is that even for someone looking for exactly this, it would be easier for that person to know they found exactly this, with a more clear message about what this is.

And what you seem to be saying, unless I misunderstood, is that this is a good thing? Surely the non-prospects as you put it, would also more easily find themselves being non-prospects if they knew what this was?

Just in case this is perceived as stemming from annoyance, I can assure you that I'm not at all invested. However, I do find your take, puzzling. I hope this isn't a trend in IT-solution marketing I'm not aware of.
Since the cohorts are so small (a few thousand), it's extremely likely that the FLOC id and the ip address is all you need to track someone, even behind NAT.
>I, uh, never said that. I don't see Bitcoin as a currency at all.

I stand corrected.

>No thank you. Gold-mining is way more ecologically disastrous. If Bitcoin replaces gold, the environment will be better off for it -- at least you can mine Bitcoin with nothing more than solar panels and wind farms.

Well there's just one problem. You need gold as a component in the creation of systems that mine bitcoin. Oops! So we are kinda stuck with gold mining, which we need to do, just so bitcoin can be mined, which we don't have to do. With that in mind, why not just skip to just straight up owning gold?

>One way or another, the world is going to need to move all its energy production to 100% renewables, or humanity is going to be in for a world of hurt. But, this is true with or without cryptocurrencies.

On this point, I hope you are right. We do need to get off of coal and gas as soon as we can.
> I appreciate Laravel and Symfony, but PHP in 2021 has traded the feeling of being a cargo cult version of Perl for the feeling of being a cargo cult version of Java.

As a Symfony dev I agree. And the process to convert PHP into a Java-esqe Kotlin-esque language is continuing. Why not use a different language if you like it rather than change PHP?

> If I do write a new project in PHP, it's probably not going to be with any existing framework, because even the lightest one feels like endless mazes of "get a Request object from a RequestFactory by instantiating a dependency injection container and passing it to a RequestFactoryFactory".

I'll be interested to hear what you come up with. Two anecdotes:

1. I had to touch some PHP code I wrote many years ago based on the ColdFusion "Fusebox" architecture. It's missing some nice abstractions but unlike Symfony et al there was so little code I could understand what every line did within minutes. Parts of Symfony's internals are still magic to me (complicated by compiler passes).

2. I was asked to look at replacing a decade-old internal PHP app, the kind people look down on built using jQuery UI AJAX-powered datagrids and raw PHP. There were multiple problems like SQL injection but the app responded incredibly fast. I had to warn them that the replacement would feel slower unless they drastically increased the hosting, because a modern, engineered framework would've only finished booting up by the time this one was returning data.
Pretty much anything general purpose that I might want to use Java for, I can use C# instead, and I like it better.

Cross platform support used to be the trump for Java, but DotNetCore/5 works on Linux and has nearly everything ported over now.
Indeed: it's incredibly obnoxious and will serve only to irritate most website visitors. It won't turn people against Chrome: it'll turn them against website owners. Seems more focussed on getting a reaction than getting an outcome. Very counterproductive.
Justin Rosenstein, inventor of the "like" button: https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/28/17172404/justin-rosenstei...

Aza Raskin, creator of "infinite scroll": https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/i-m-so-sorry-says-invento...
I don't think this is an issue. What is an issue however is the lack of self reflection OP has about their weaknesses and the issues that arise from their mental condition. To change something OP has to face the affect their character/behaviour has on their environment, job chances ans interpersonal relationships within these jobs. The lack of even the slightest hint of thinking about that is what is critical, not mental health issues per se.
For me, Java can be very useful for amateur game programming, especially using IntelliJ. You have libraries like LWJGL, that are very powerful, and much others like ODE4J
Yes, people need to get out of the HN filter bubble and realize that this is a problem no-one in the real world actually cares about. The storm will continue in the teapot but no sites with any substantial traffic will do anything about it.
No because third party cookies (which are needed for cross site tracking) are often (and should be) blocked.

The floc is based on your browsing history. It is sort of a hash of the sites you visited and can be requested via a Js call by any (!) site you visit.

The floc is shared by a group of users not sure how that works but it is stated that those are a few 1000 large.

Combine that with other tracking stuff like fingerprinting and ip and you can easily identify a user (especially if you are google and your adds hang around everywhere in the net).
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Interviewing with a poor financial situation in the background can be indeed suboptimal, but I think for a different reason. You don't have leverage in negotiation and you are most probably desperate, which is hard to hide. Overall this comes trough as lack of confidence and undermines the interview.

To turn this into an advice for people interviewing without a safety net: get a safety net. It can be a job that is easy to get, a rent that is easy to pay, just make sure that you can live by that situation indefinitely. You need to leap from there. You need to be able to turn down job offers to be able to negotiate.
Have a read over https://spreadprivacy.com/block-floc-with-duckduckgo/

Probably start with "What are some of those privacy concerns with FLoC?"
Unless they're willfully doing something illegal, when you ask for your data under GDPR you should be able to see if they kept the original images or EXIF metadata, or if they discarded it.

Of course I'm totally ready to accept that most of those companies just lie and hide some of the data they gather on their users.
Its pretty much a misinformation campaign just like the drugs and weapon dealers.
Wouldn't be surprised if they will use the terrorist and human rights angle next.
You mean simply having Rosetta installed on your machine noticeably slows down everything else, even if you're not using an app under Rosetta? This sounds like a bug.
if that isn't some microoptimization. how much space can a compass app waste compared to your average bloated app?
I think education does not work because lately, websites have proliferated to simplify processes: from entering university to ready-made essays. My son recently used https://wervirginia.com/ for scholarship essay writing and he succeeded, although I was against it.
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Anything wrong with that?

Think: if you try to remove all guns overnight the ones you get is the ones from the good guys. If you make guns illegal only criminals will have guns.

Also: the biggest crimes against humanity have typically been made by the local rulers: Hitler can be discussed, Stalin, Pol Pot and a number of others cannot.
That's quite a stretch of a response.

Wiping out humans and curtailing bitcoin are not at all equitable. One is unconscionable. The other is the right thing to do, in my opinion.
>What’s stopping google from doing what they did with Android: remove more and more and more of the parts included with open source Android and move them into closed source Android to the point where vanilla open source Android has much lower utility?

Microsoft has more than enough resources and engineers to continue to support or even fork Blink even if Google went full closed source (just like Google did back in the day with webkit).

I wouldn't trust Microsoft to be better than Google on privacy TBH. In fact I feel that given the opportunity Microsoft has prooven time and time again they would be worse, but they aren't as successfull with Bing so they don't have the opportunity.
I'd compare it to hanging around the school bully for protection, because the truly homicidal students won't stop at stuffing you in a locker like he does.

Could America be better? Of course. Are they better than the alternatives, like spending dramatically more on defense or hoping China plays nice? Mostly to absolutely, depending on who's discussing it.
That's because it's not type-erasure; it's essentially access through a base class pointer with some sugar on top so that it doesn't look like `x->foo()`.