skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The fact that all websites are included by default, and it's up to the individual website to opt out of inclusion, makes me squirm.

That's not the case, contrary to what Hacker News wants you to think with this massive opt-out campaign. FLoC cohort computation is only planned to include websites that themselves request cohort information. Unless your page calls document.interestCohort, it is not included in cohort computation [1]. The opt-out header does nothing unless you use FLoC.

There is an exception to this made for the pilot phase (aka. right now), where in order to bootstrap the system Google is extending cohort computation to include "all websites that show ads" [2]. My guess is that this is necessary so that early testers get useful data. This is not something that seems to be planned past the pilot. The standard also restricts this to only "while 3rd party cookies are still a thing".

Disclaimer: I work for Google, but not on advertising or Chrome. This is all from public information I researched in my own time.

[1] https://wicg.github.io/floc/#compute-eligibility §7.1.1 "By default, a page is eligible for the interest cohort computation if the interestCohort() API is used in the page."

[2] https://wicg.github.io/floc/#adoption-phase §7.1.4 "at the adoption phase, the page can be eligible to be included in the interest cohort computation if there are ads resources in the page, OR if the API is used."
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Make your own game, then. This is a company deciding what they value and what they do not tolerate. You are free to make your own 'free-speech' version of this game. If you believe there is a market for it, why not?
“Signup” “new” public SSH-keys on GitHub so that the user has to create new ones
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Yup, that was sloppy phrasing on my part - udpated the image caption. Thanks.
> You are basically suggesting that no one has an interest in disproving something on the internet

No. I'm saying it's an internet standard commercial practice to not provide links sending people to your competitors, no matter what space you are in.
That's literally how speculative bubbles work.
I'm not sure why this keeps appearing on HN, but I hope it's some kind of postmodern critique of everything that's wrong with our field.

This is taking Basilisk II (which is already a native app that runs on all major platforms!) and recompiling it into javascript, so that it can be run less efficiently and more bloatedly in Electron. Can we please stop doing this to ourselves?
I am not sure why people are shocked that this kind of thing would happen in democratic societies. People seem to have a rose colored view of democracy, and believe it is synonymous with freedom... it is not

Democracies can be just as tyrannical as any other forms of government, doubly true when the people in that democracy have replaced the desire for freedom, with the desire for safety which most societies in the world today have less desire to be free, and more of a desire to be safe; falsely believing they can actually trade freedom for safety.
I'm also interested in understanding this.

My company is a non-profit and doesn't serve ads on our website. Should we ensure this header exists for our site?
Interesting. How much ram do you have ?
Using a 4k external monitor ?

Just wondering, don't those cores still have HyperThreading or such, resulting in actually more cores than just 2 physical ones ?
> that people are heavily underpaid.

If they were, they'd be looking for a job elsewhere.

This is how market economies work.

This whole "deserve" and "justice as applied to salary" business you seem to insist on reeks of collectivism.
What happens is eventually the law of trade-offs comes in to play, and so much money is being moved around crypto that other aspects of the economy are being ignored. Whether the demand for these other aspects will be strong enough to shift everything back to normal, I don't know.
Are you thinking of strong island?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_Island_(film)
I don't think anyone disagrees that pariah states and criminals use the internet, but I don't see that touted as a good thing particularly often either... presumably because there are actual use cases for using the internet outside of these 2, and hence the use by pariah states and criminals is seen as an acceptable drawback of the technology.
Except when it becomes a "thing", in the workplace, in executive circles, down the business chain: people are talking about this; the board has heard about Zhu and LSD from people outside the company; an employee caught him "doing it" and mentioned it to HR who brought it to the board's attention. Someone said he sounded "funny" in the last board meeting. Etc. When it's a "thing", and this "thing" is, after all, illegal, it cannot be ignored because ignoring it becomes an active decision to condone or even collude.
1) Fixed. Thanks for pointing this out.

2) The image comparison thing is a wordpress feature. Not sure if there's anything I can do to fix this.
Ah the 50 states and the government you mean? ;-)
EasyList is extremely broad, changes frequently, and e.g. has included communities having banners for community events as ads, and Google appears to give zero promises on the stability of this.

So relying on this requires continuous monitoring that Chrome doesn't randomly decide to tag something on some page as an ad, which is doing even more work just to cater to Google whims. Just blocking it is the sane choice here.

since you say it is about "chicken-and-egg problem" during the trial: is there a clear commitment somewhere that Google plans to not include pages that do not use the FLoC API in the future?
Too eek out a living is to be a character actor specializing in expressions of surprise.

To eke out a living is to supplement with great effort for only incremental gains.

To kee out a living is to release an Indian Tamil-language techno-thriller.
The old girl was put down too young...
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Parallel construction substantially negates the perceived penalty for such evidence though, so it’s still frequently sought, even when the police know it can’t be used directly.
Tangent: I’m not versed in Android (iPhone for me), but what’s stopping you from installing a newer version of Android (like LineageOS) yourself through rooting?
if a bank fire you, there a lots of other banks that provide the exact same service.

If google fire you, you can close your company and fire all your employees.
I had some laughs when I skipped through his text.

He claims that his theory

> 1. Is based on serious scientific and philosophical hypothesies.

The reference is his own paper where he writes

> I show that existing MMORPGs (online simulations we have already created) actually reproduce every general feature of quantum mechanics within their simulated-world reference-frames. Second, I show that existing MMORPGs also replicate (and so explain) many philosophical problems we face in the philosophy of mind, time, personal identity, and free will – all while conforming to the Libertarian Compatibilist model of reality

I guess he does "science" between raids in WoW.
Yes, but aren't they different?

If we have GA, we're getting some information and Google is getting some information, but are they sharing this information about users directly with advertisers?

The premise of FLoC is that they are explicitly tagging you in a group specifically for advertisers.
Yes, the title should be "Microsoft blocks FLoC..."
For what it's worth, I've updated the post and put a disclaimer up front:

> Disclaimer: The post is more about understanding LUTs and HaldCLUTs and writing methods from scratch to apply these LUTs to an image rather than coming up with CLUTs themselves from scratch.
Where exactly do you see the difference to human editors?

This kind of thing happens everywhere, everyday in TV stations, editorial offices, at publishing companies, radio stations - all kind of media really.

Depending on the political or moral views of the parent organisation or investors, this content censoring/massaging is everyday business and shouldn't shock or surprise you in the slightest.
It’s funny how simulationism is a subset of creationism. After all, if our existence is running in a computer system, some party or parties must have created that system.
What you propose is a recipe for cookie-cutter buildings. But we already have those with no software and no effort needed.
Ed Balls going to sell this tweet as a 10 year anniversary NFT edition in 3, 2, 1.

Downvoters: Congratulations. It. is. just. a. joke. Come on.
I have had good success with this: https://github.com/myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox
It's usually the misdemeanor / felony boundary.
YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and Google Maps all have good enough experiences using a mobile web browser. You don't need their app to access their content.
Redouane Faid was sentenced to 18 years in prison in 2010 after a failed attempt to rob an armored car moving cash around. As the operation failed, the team behind it fired shots and killed a 26 years old policewomen.

This was all after he first quit the gangster life and appeared in documentaries about his life.

I don't understand this guy being glamorized in GQ.
A huge portion of beef calories come from mechanically harvested feed (pasture crops and soy and corn).

The emissions related to those calories would go away.
It can be difficult to avoid the culture/practices though. Every dependency you use, is code that you are ultimately responsible for. At a minimum you will need to learn how to use them; and you may need to debug and fix them. This is why it applies to other JVM languages too.
I don’t have any solid numbers on 5800u, so I didn’t want to make any claims.

4800u isn’t that different as far as power goes (mostly different in performance). A mini-PC with it uses almost 70 watts under load.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16236/asrock-4x4-box4800u-ren...
It's an attempt at a replacement for third party cookies. Your browser look at your history and computes a "cohort" and if other people's browsers do the same things, people with similar history will have the same "cohort".

The upshot of this is advertisers only see the cohort_id, and not the history (which stays local on your browser). I think Google thinks it needs to give the advertisers something if third party cookies are going away, and this is attempting to preserve privacy.

Of course, just not sending third party cookies and not sending FLoC is the "ideal" solution if you don't have advertisers paying you, and some people were excited that third party cookies are going away, and hoped that nothing would replace them.

(Disclaimer, work on Gmail, this is my own opinion, I only really know what I read on HN)
What you could do, theoretically, is optically isolate the drive from the bridge, and have an optical splitter on the reader-to-drive direction who's signal is recorded by both parties.

They'd get a live notification of tampering, and could have independent signal blocksers that could physically block the command from actually arriving at the drive (assuming they use a few hundred meters of coiled fiber as a delay line).

The receiver on the drive side could even be a single phtotodiode, which could be made to allow easy verification with, say, an electron microscope if you're really paranoid. There are probably ways to use field-suitable technology if you only need to ensure the photodiode has the same structure as what you expect.

Cryptography won't help you with trusting hardware. Delays and intervention-ability would help, though.
It can only use bitcoin "that has been mined by officially sanctioned miners to pay for imports"
Seems pretty easy to sanction Iran, just ban the use of those same coins. I am assuming "sanctioned" means mined by Iranians.
This also gets in the way of the fungibility argument that is supposed to be in Bitcoins advantage.
It’s a caching issue that manifests itself as a performance difference, which is all GP claimed.
I've had a subscription for decades - I can't see a shift toward what I genuinely expected when Murdoch bought it. Yes, they focus more on US issues than in the past, but I have to assume that is where their market is. But environmental issues and nature conservation are still very prominent in the publication.
You mock my FLoC, I’ll clean your clock!

With apologies to Bill Watterson
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I certainly do see your point here. But the reality is that Google doesn't have users' best interest at heart, and is not going to be the one to responsibly inform user so they can make an informed decision on their own.
I could see a contempt of court “charge” against the company until they comply. But being a company, they can’t be jailed, so it’d just be a daily fine.
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You mean the early adopters who aren't currently left holding the bag - and for the later adopters to make an awful lot of money, they need the rest of society to buy into he MLM-Ponzi structure - so then they're the latest holding the bag, and where the largest unnecessary and unreasonable wealth transfer in history occurred - shifting double digit percentage of buying power of all society redistributed weighted towards the earlier adopters; that buying power then as an agreed promise to allow earlier adopters to extract more from all of society than the later/final adopters for doing basically nothing except pumping the MLM-Ponzi scheme with shallow hype-propaganda.
I use -i instead of -v -o /dev/null; is there any reason to prefer the latter? Is Curl smart enough to skip fetching the response body with the latter?
So it says "Abed's honey"?
There must be a language with fewer user than rust that is more "faster growing"
Afaik, Signal uses AWS. Is a raid/confiscation of AWS servers even possible?
> minions of the climate cabal denegrating apostate scientists

Can you elaborate on what you mean here?
This is called speculative investing(gambling) and happens in frothy markets. Such speculation occurs in bubbles, and they pop eventually. Its like a game of musical chairs: someone will be left out and hurt by it.
Idk how but it’s happened before - https://old.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/8kvias/tifu_by_gettin...
Unfortunately,

- Unscrupulous players gather inorganic points/votes/followers/whatever to get ahead in a ranking system;

- Ranking system starts to detect inorganic stats and punish perpetrators;

- Unscrupulous players target inorganic stats at competitors instead;

is an all too common progression in any ranking system that can be gamed with input from third parties.
Note that apparently there's a late-ish ‘restoration’ that seems to correct some of Max Brod's editing decisions so that the plot is more straightforward, if that can be said of the novel. Literally the chapters' proper order is unknown.

I listened to the audiobook of that (read by Geoffrey Howard), and while the reading itself is fine, you'll want to avoid the editors' preface because it gives out some plot points and the ending. (PSA: if you make audiobooks, don't put editors' or critics' opinions anywhere before the end, even in ‘footnotes’. Only clarifying notes for unfamiliar terms.)
But note that now Apple has fake mac addresses (for wifi though) for this reason.
> How is this possible? Surely reads from RAM are faster than disk?

even I am so surprised. I will try to run the benchmarks myself and see.

but... can anyone really explain how can a disk based solution be faster than RAM
Wide brim hat and long sleeves.
Speculative bubbles dont last for over a decade and deflate and then reinflate over and over - thats called a cyclical trend. If you dont think cryptocurrency is a thing that will be here to stay then you can have a word with almost every single asset manager, brokerage, and payment medium thats adopting it. The idea that its a bubble thats going away is frankly absurd at this point.

loceng (im out of replies so typing response here): You mean like stocks? Every asset in existence has turnover with new buyers that take out the old. Early adopters get rewarded for taking the risk, this is nothing new.
>"thoughtcrime prevention"

You do know the idea of thoughtcrime was something enforced by the state and not by a company that's free to control what their product generates, right?

>"corporate self harm for the sake of wokeness"

"Oh no, we lost the business of people who like sexual depictions of minors, what a fucking shame"
Given it's p2p it's weird they don't mention blockchains. They clearly describe the physics of global warming (Ba dum tss!).
If the author truly believes that this "explains" QM and special relativity, I'd like to see the him demonstrate that his model gives rise to Lorentz invariance, and the Schrödinger equation. Did the author think to speak to a single physicist or mathematician when coming up with this hypothesis?

Also:

> Explaining the mind-body problem: It's a curious fact that it seems to many of us that no matter how complete a physical explanation might be, such an explanation could never possibly account for consciousness (i.e. the "soul"). The P2P hypothesis predicts and explains this problem. Observers trapped in a P2P simulation would be convinced--just as many of us are--that there is something about their subjective point-of-view that cannot be captured in the physics of their world. And they would be right. The hardware upon which the simulation is running--the processing apparatus (viz. DVD laser apparatus/processor)--would comprise their subjective point-of-view, and be inaccessible to them within the simulation. More generally, the P2P model holds a reality like ours is comprised by two fundamentally different types of things: (A) "hardware" (i.e. consciousness/measurement appartus), and (B) "software" (i.e. physical information) interacting.

Surely that's just shifting the mind-body problem into the universe simulating us. Does the author propose that the mind body problem doesn't apply to conscious observers in the universe above us? Or that conscious observers can't exist there? Or does the problem get punted down yet another layer to the universe simulating the universe simulating us, so that it's turtle minds all the way down?

> such an explanation could never possibly account for consciousness (i.e. the "soul").

Citation needed.
Just like a Nokia. Do any manufacturers even make their own OS anymore?
Is AI dungeon used to train newer models/update the current model? If not then there's no risk of another Tay.

If they use a frozen model then one person using it to generate some NSFW content shouldn't make the output more NSFW-laden for anyone else.

So I don't see how they're "damned if they don't".
It's kinda sad that you can't just run a web server and host your own homepage anymore. You need to mess with your webserver config to make it spam the client with a dozen HTTP headers to disable FLoC, enable HSTS, set this weird same site origin policy thing, disallow iframe embedding...
Luckily enough someone had the idea to make it so HTTP headers will be compressed too, so we can add some more before the request header completely fills up the initial RWIN of the server.
That's interesting. Hydro is crap at startup too (they need black start units, at least the big ones do) [What I wrote here about black start was pretty much wrong, not sure what I was thinking] so maybe that's not too big of a problem, but that sound thing seems bad, even if the units are out on the water. Those things are loud, I had no idea!

"The noise emission from the wind turbine was measured, at wind speed 8 m/s, 10 m above ground, to 96.2 dBA"

https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/9/1/19/htm

[Edited to add: What I wrote about hydro black start units was really wrong, I wasn't thinking when I wrote that, it needs far more detailed explanation like the comment below.]
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That's up to the people that live in Phoenix. If they want Intel to deplete their aquifer, that's their choice.
What's the source of the noise? The turbine itself? the air flow around the blades?
Same on my macbook pro (Safari, latest macOS).
Amazon and Walmart? If you’re trying to make a mass market product you may have to bend to their will. The reason laundry detergent went from being mostly water to “super concentrated” is actually Walmart. They said jump and manufacturers said how high?

https://corporate.walmart.com/newsroom/2008/05/29/wal-mart-c...
There is a technical argument for it. Iran has been savagely bullied by the States for many years and the rest of the world is largely playing along because ... well better Iran than them. So in that sense, Iran is a pariah.

But it is grossly unfair, anyone who enthusiastically supports as-implemented US Middle Eastern policy is worse than irredeemable. If Bitcoin pushes back against that policy then I'll shelve what doubts I have about crypto because it would be helping in one of the world's real problems.
Being held to account for your false accusations is not "tone policing", so please stop gaslighting.

I didn't write that women are "more emotional". I wrote they are generally "more emotionally vulnerable".

It's irresponsible to make extremely harsh accusations against someone when the analysis that the accusation is based on is sloppy and low-effort.

And as an aside, claiming that women are generally more emotional wouldn't be misogynistic, any more than noting that men are generally more aggressive is misandrist. There is nothing sexist about claiming general psychological differences between the sexes.

Your accusations are extreme mischaracterizations, and the basis of your dismissal of my argument is based on a weak/entirely-ideological heuristic.
It’s funny how quick countries are labeled pariah states. Seems like they are always countries which the US and/or Israel disagree with. In the end it’s all propaganda, so I wonder why would individuals on the internet partake?
Why raid when they can just ssh in?
Is it weird for me to wish that this kind of creative thinking would be put to better uses? :)
>Putting the elevator in front does not necessarily lead to instability if you get the geometry right, as Burt Rutan, among many others, has demonstrated [1]. As with the conventional rear stabilizer/elevator combination, part of it must either be fixed or function as if it is fixed by augmentation with centering devices such as springs or balance tabs, and the forward surface must have an angle of incidence greater than the rear one (longitudinal dihedral.)

You're not wrong but nobody knew this in 190x nor could it have been reliably predicted because most of our knowledge about how low pressure gasses flow over surfaces in unconstrained environments (i.e. the atmosphere) comes from aviation which didn't yet exist in 190x.
This was my thought. Traditional clothing for people who live and work outdoors in sunny climates generally does not feature a lot of exposed skin. I'm pretty sure that the "shorts and a t-shirt" summer wear is a fairly modern phenomenon.
The deli had been running this playbook (low volumes giving an inflated cap). But since it got famous? Volumes are actually decent, and the price is still ridiculous. People are apparently deliberately buying into a market failure/scam/whatever-it-is.
Yeah, I hear you, but there's a built-in contradiction in there: if you want to trade with other countries, this whole "state-controlled" business doesn't work too well.

The US are only in this controlling situation because of a historical accident (WWII).

If they hope to establish non US-controlled ways of exchanging value, I suspect they'll have to relinquish some amount of control, unless - of course - China becomes much more preponderant both economically and militarily.