skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But you want to make sure this is useful enough for the ad companies so this actually becomes a solution.

I guess the question though is: is Facebook going to stop delivering ads if the solution isn't good enough? Why is it important that Facebook like the system?

Facebook was very upset about Apple's privacy changes, it didn't get rid of ads on iOS. It's been very upset about a lot of things. What throws me in these conversations is that I'm not sure why the solution has to be one that Facebook is happy with. What Facebook would be happy with is as much data as they're allowed to have. And also, Facebook doesn't really have veto powers over what anyone else does, so it's not like we need to find a middle ground with the company.

Part of the problem of building a solution that's good enough that advertisers won't want more is that it's difficult to believe that solution exists. Facebook is pretty clear that the constraints on what they'll collect is defined in their internal/public privacy policies, and within that constraint they will collect as much data as the platform offers.

I'm not aware of any instances of a platform offering an ad attribution system that was privacy preserving, and having Facebook (or other companies) decide not to do any fingerprinting or insert any tracking links into pages, or use any cookies on that platform. I also find it really hard to believe that if Mozilla cracks down on fingerprinting and doesn't provide an alternative that Facebook is happy with, that Facebook will stop selling ads.
Building something meaningful doesn't absolve the sins of its construction.

The Romans were very good at conquering people and levying brutal taxes, but that doesn't add value and we shouldn't pretend that it does. They were also good at civil engineering, keeping the peace, and other economic activities which do add value and we should give them credit for it. I'd love to see a historical economic discussion that tries to tease apart these factors and weigh them against each other.
Google Project Zero hails dramatic acceleration in security bug remediation
Likely. The dude who developed ripgrep spent like 2 man-years on it full-time, apparently. Interesting (long, detailed) blog post about it: https://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/
There is no mutation. That's just the upload into a biocybernetical cloud substrate. Prepare to be disassembled for scanning!
Help distribute OpenStreetMap data: https://planet.openstreetmap.org/
Full time staff of between 5 and 20. No idea how writer pay works but I know my writer friends are happy with it. They are both organized as 501c3s with fundraising explicitly tied into the model
Some people like things that look and feel good.

Personally I don't care about that, but I think it's fine that other people do.
Agreed on both fronts! I think there could be any number of different back-ends for Phoenix apps not just Elixir (Phoenix) and Typescript (LiveViewJS). One insight I had as I was building this is that Phoenix apps are actually based on a wire protocol and if that protocol was well-documented, you could see lots of different implementations across any number of languages. Would love to chat with Phoenix folks about that if interested...
The non-syscall parts of futex can be inlined, for great benefit.

gettimeofday calls code in the vDSO to avoid codifying in the kernel ABI the much more complex, architecture-dependent, data format.
how about hex?
0xAA + 0x23 ?
or, if it has "seen" low-level driver code, 0xAA & 0x23 ?
Wow very cool. Probably an allusion to VisiCalc in the name?
This feels like a very bad development.

Out of curiosity.... what would the best alternative to Firefox be, in regards to privacy? (macOS/Ubuntu/Windows)
So I understand they're doing this because it's their revenue source and they feel they have to play ball, but this pretty much means they're done.

After having lost many battles and flags the one thing they have is that they're not helping them spy on you, it's barely enough to keep them relevant, and they want to dump that too.

That's what happens when the people in charge of taking the decisions are not representative of the core users of the product, and thus don't understand what makes the product good or bad for their users. You will not find 1% of current Firefox users by choice who would say they think this is a good decision.
How long before we have people shooting cosmic rays at air-gapped systems in windowless rooms and measuring bit flips?
Thanks for the kind words. I would need to look over their tool in detail (it looks great btw) to really think through the details of how an integration might work.

One of the things I want to add to the application soon is some sort of "Post" function. Wherein you write something that synthesizes data from multiple sources and you can add in your highlights as quotes.

So really just a dedicated writing feature. This is another thing that's proven to increase comprehension and retention, synthesizing some learning into a blogpost or something like that.

So with integrations, that's the kind of thing that is perfect for integration. Because although I want to add it myself, there's no way that I would make something as dedicated and enjoyable as a tool that's only concentrating on the writing and notetaking experience.

As is allowing people to read elsewhere and import their highlights.

As is allowing people to review in some other place.

So I guess my perspective is that I want to offer a total experience, that's completely non binding and allows you to get the data out at any point to move it to your app of choice.

sorry, I rambled. Not sure that made a whole lot of sense :D
Nobody knows what 0.3 g does to the body because we've spent 20 years on the ISS doing zero-g "science" even after the most important question was answered:

Q: What does zero-g do to the human body?

A: It's really really unhealthy.
> I don't understand how I'm supposed to take Mozilla partnering with Facebook, I don't understand why I'm supposed to believe that Facebook would ever have beneficial insight to add to a privacy standard or that it would ever do anything other than try to weaken the standard.

You should take it the exact same way as when:

- Mozilla put proprietary, closed-source DRM (widevine) into their product

- Mozilla put nonconsensual (opt-out) telemetry (aka spyware) into their product

- Mozilla put Google backend services into their product

- Mozilla put advertising/paid placement into their product

The "Mozilla is about privacy and open standards" meme is a false one and has been for a long time. Actions speak a lot louder than words.
Rutgers Researchers Discover Security Vulnerabilities in VR Headsets
Two clarifying points:

1. This is a technical proposal. It has not been incorporated into Firefox; I don't think there are even patches for it at this point.

2. Safari actually already implements a different technology designed to achieve somewhat similar objectives. https://webkit.org/blog/11529/introducing-private-click-meas...
I've got about 10 years of experience, I didn't discover my knack for programming until my late 20s, unfortunately.
> Clearly lots of people value the arts enough to want the government to be funding it.

More accurately, they want someone else to fund it. They don't find it worthwhile to spend their own money on it.
I'm sure there's more but the first few that come to mind are Greg Egan's homepage[1], Xenology[2], and on a completely different topic "Gramadach na Gaeilge"[3] (Irish Grammar).

[1]: https://gregegan.net

[2]: https://xenology.info

[3]: http://nualeargais.ie/gnag/gram.htm
Could've been handled better. Mozilla is Google's bitch.
Think you're looking for a game like Spore or the older SimLife, both by Maxis.
Exactly, implementation coupling vs interface coupling.
>Facebook would ever have beneficial insight to add to a privacy standard

I'm not saying "this is it", but here's a (IMO) reasonable line of thought why they would genuinely be working in that direction. Basically, short term pain for long term security. There is a clear preference by consumers for preserving privacy; the percentage of iOS users not allowing targeting since IDFA is proof. There is also political motivation for regulators to crack down on the wild west of online privacy in the US (FB scapegoating) and abroad (GDPR and co). If there is to be a hard turn by regulators and hardware/OS providers for privacy protection and FB does not prepare for it by preparing Audience Network to operate without granular personal data, their whole business model would be at risk and their terminal value threatened. Being prepared for a world placing privacy first protects their financial interests, likely even putting them ahead of competitors that are going in unprepared.

If voting power at FB was majority owned by Wall Street shareholders, you could argue it's unlikely they would hurt operating income for years rather than milk it even if it's protective long term. But that's not the case, Mark does have a super majority and can afford governing for the long term even if it makes analysts critical.
Interesting, hadn't thought of that. But wouldn't you assume the same of an architect at a small startup?
Call me cynical but I'm guessing that Meta just made a large donation to Mozilla and in turn they're using Mozilla to whitewash this proposal. They're just buying Mozilla's reputation (what's left of it) for their purposes.

FTA:
>We’ve been looking to apply privacy preserving advertising technology to the attribution problem, so that advertisers can get answers to important questions without harming privacy.

Mozilla's is basically looking for a unicorn.

If they really cared about user privacy, they would have shipped an ad blocking and anti-tracking tech in their browser by default. However, if you look at where their revenue is coming from, you quickly realize why that will never happen.
It's vacuous concept.

Also you're leveraging anonymous function syntax which is, interesting, to say the least. In Java 8- you'd have to write boilerplate class named after a pattern. Lastly creating something from outside information was done since forever, it's trivial when you don't invent ceremony around it. Hence my conclusion, it's a waste of time and effort.
Oh FFS, @Elon! Come ON! States have LAWS on the books that you either slow down to 45 or move over a lane. You and your robocars don't get a pass!
That doesn't answer my question. I'm asking: how is it possible to make it so that if someone clicks some random link, their money will be immediately transferred to your account, without needing any confirmation? And if it's possible, why do scammers bother tricking people into voluntarily sending them money when they could just do this?
Saying "X is indisputably the accepted and intended meaning of the phrase wherever English is spoken" is not in conformance with those principles at all.
https://archive.is/s9KN3
Sure, but I think stopping all the way back at "they killed a pig because they were hungry" in Lord of the Flies is... well, going to limit one's literacy level.

There's flights of fancy, and then there's not being able to understand literature.
Cloudflare Pages is hardcoded to GitHub (rather than just Git).
> On the other hand, good (or even just competent) authors usually put things in the book for a reason, usually for a narrative, character development, or thematic/message reason.

This is high school level analysis. These are straightforward reasons.

> Everything in a book was put there on purpose

This I think is just not true. This is true in simple literature, in adventure books and in streamline writing production.
Why? Money.

Mozilla gets hundreds of millions of $ from Google every year?

Any wonder why Mozilla was the last one to jump on the privacy bandwagon? And now they are holding hands with another big privacy invader.
Is this it?

https://twitter.com/PepinSS/status/1492223142705643536

https://twitter.com/FrancescComito/status/149218499703329587...

https://twitter.com/ShabanianAram/status/1492200609734602752
Fuuuuuck.

Jesus Fucking Christ, Mozilla.

You are just really set on annihilating what's left of your userbase, aren't you? Was it a rider in the contact for using Google as a default search engine? It's just gotta be, because it's hard to think of any other reason for something this anti-user being peddled with such a straight face. Working with THE worst perpetrator that is known for its complete and utter disregard for people's privacy on some PRIVACY PRESERVING bullshit feature.

WHAT THE PROVERBIAL FUCK. I am speechless.

(A die-hard Firefox user since the Navigator days).
I do not doubt that the audience is shrinking. In fact, I feel it. All the same, I am of the opinion that people that already participate in the lifestyle of literature, that is the reading and writing of literature in earnest, could benefit from an ecosystem that extends their practice beyond the solitary. If it yet cannot assuage the symptoms, then perhaps this system can diagnose the disease. This, in turn, might positively influence the writing that gets done. At the end of the day, it is unlikely that any given writer of literature will find mainstream or financial success, but at the core of many writers is the innate drive to assess the world and put down in words something that is meaningful.

The pandemic was an illuminating study of the failure of literature in the 21st century. It seems like it should have produced a great work and a great moment, but it did not. Many writers need to go through the humbling process of discovering that the world writ large, despite the writer’s estimation of their own intellect, remains too confusing for them to say anything of value. This tension is also, I think, what accounts for our more absurd, even hallucinatory, ideas about what literature, and by extension man, was, is, and can be. I went through that process and had to come to terms with the tension between my appreciation for the aesthetic wonder of literature and my often unaesthetic and distracted upbringing. I then thought extensively about my environment and how little of my linguistic life was a matter of course. I did not pen letters, nor discuss literature extensively with peers. My peers did not read or respond to my writing. I ultimately came to understand what the problem set is. My solutions are yet unlikely to solve the big question of whether or not literature can survive in the 21st century, but they ease my load. The road ahead is a long one, and appropriately Quixotic, but I undertake it with the notion that it will ease the tension of others as well, even if they only end up being accomplished writers in search of accomplished readers.
I mean this as a compliment when I say I hope this never gets released.
Rubbish. Mozilla would have zero issues getting 10 million users who would pay $100/year for it. Of course it would mean that it will have to become a product company rather than another bored housewives club masquerading as a software company with some software engineers working for it.
There is still money to squeeze for C-Suites.
Love it. Yeah I find myself mentoring junior engineers, writing code myself, reading documentation on tech I've never worked with before, designing email templates, writing marketing copy, crafting business plans, calculating sweat equity, etc etc. So at the end of the day...tf do titles mean
There's a long history of rich people funding the arts, voluntarily. The great art coming from medieval Italy, for example.
Apple have reluctantly been in the surveilance industry for years, due the governments far-reaching and uncontestable court orders. Now it seems they've willingly jumped in with both feet.
The security (specifically sandboxing) hardening of ungoogled-chromium is also substantially beyond firefox's.

Ungoogled Chromium is my daily driver.
Is answering subpoenas in the US strictly necessary for the provision of a service? I believe that's the wrinkle with Privacy Shield.
You can see active star formation zones with the naked eye from Earth's surface. Star formation is happening literally all around us.

Star formation zones are very far from the most deadly places in the galaxy, or even in our neighborhood.
Ah FFS.
Good point. See: ARM China
They did actually, work their way up from where they started. And eventually got to immigrate to America, where opportunities are much better and their kids could thrive. It’s the stereotypical thing where immigrants to this country are much more hardworking and appreciative of the opportunities they have here compared to their home country, versus the native population who doesn’t appreciate just how good they have it in America. I wouldn’t be surprised if my kids turn out that way — it’s just how it is.
I remember when I was in high school, I had some friends who studied karate, and they were like, "I finally made it to black belt." Meaning, they were a master now. They were 16 years old, and had maybe 3 years experience. In Taiwan, in the 1890s... uh, they would not be regarded as black belt.

Even then it was clear that there was a lot of "belt inflation" happening. The karate schools like the children to feel like they are making progress, so every 6 months the children got a new belt, until finally they were black belts.

It seems like the same thing has been happening with engineering titles.
Decomposing things into eigenvectors turns what used to be a complicated problem of coupled variables (the matrix), into a list of simple single-variable problems. It turns a matrix equation into a list of scalar equations. I hope this helps :)
It's not as simple as that. The extra electricity load would require extra infrastructure on that end, you are very casually implying how a major chunk of German households should just completely retool themselves, as if that's something trivial to do.

Who is gonna pay for that? When are you gonna do that? During the 10+ years of building reactors? What if your new reactors don't finish on time?

That does not mean heating pumps are not a thing in Germany, they have been steadily gaining share particularly with newly constructed buildings [0] that have to abide by even harsher energy regulations.

But what you are suggesting would involve replacing tens of millions of "old stock" households, all to justify nuclear fission power generation while not fixing any issues as to why Germany is actually phasing nuclear fission out.

You still offer no solution to the waste, just like you don't seem to give a single thought about financing such a change or who would be willing to invest in new German nuclear reactors.

Because German nuclear companies most certainly won't, they are just as happy with this phase out as everybody else, particularly as it gave them several huge government pay outs, not just for the disposal of the waste [1], but also for the phase out [2], can't even tax the fuel rods to pay for their disposal [3].

Which makes German nuclear fission energy very likely some of the most profitable on the planet because, unlike EDF, these companies are not majority state owned.

[0] https://www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/2021/10...

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/german-government-does-nuclear-waste-d...

[2] https://www.dw.com/en/vattenfall-wins-case-against-german-nu...

[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-40186278
Eigenvectors are quite useful in compression.
Mostly because I’m an idiot too, and not equipped with the supreme self confidence or work ethic it takes for an idiot to get rich.
What have you done Mozilla...
We should get them ankle bracelets while we are at it.
Would it be easier building a huge habitable space station near Mars than on the surface of Mars itself.

Reason why near Mars if because we want redundancy for life. So at a safe distance from Earth.
I feel like it's only democratic in so far as dollars get a vote.
Derp ... I didn't look at the date at all. Thanks!
This is a good analysis. I’m often looking for something like this to help back my own intuition. Everyone sees the problem of media bias but it’s hard to define in more tangible terms. I appreciate the side by side of WSJ and NYT articles on the Canadian Truck Drivers - shows how subtle differences in reporting the same event skew left or right.

One way I’ve seen it couched is that the liberals have always owned the cultural high ground by having a preponderance of left-leaning, highly educated individuals in the ranks of the news media and in Hollywood - and that Fox News, Limbaugh, Bongino are an aggressive response to that.

When I talk to my own family members who skew right they talk pretty negatively about the media in general and particularly the NYT or WaPo - but they know and trust me. So I try to explain that many of the folks who work at these places are very similar to me (education, background, thinking) - and that they shouldn’t wholesale discount whatever they publish.
So then, I need to pre-auth my typing styles depending on how I expect to type?

It isn't much of a stretch for me to think of 4 scenarios:
1. Laptop keyboard, 2 hands
2. Laptop, 1 hand
3. External keyboard (let's pretend I'm using only one out of my collection)
4. External with one hand
I am trying my best to not knee-jerk here, even though it's hard to see Mozilla working with Facebook of all companies.

In the end it seems to come down to one question everyone has to answer for themselves: Do you agree that advertising on the Internet should exist?

If the answer is no, that's it. This is a bad thing. Mozilla should instead built in an ad blocker today rather than tomorrow. This probably also means people have to be willing to accept that they have to pay for more things. Someone has to foot the bill after all.

If the answer is yes, it gets more complicated. Facebook is - in my mind - a bad actor. There's no way around it. But Facebook is also one of the biggest platforms for advertising in the world. So, if a proposal isn't somehow either accepted by Facebook or forced on them it is already dead. I don't think Mozilla has the market power for the second variant, so only the first one is possible for them. We then want to make ads as good citizens of the internet as possible: No tracking of users, no executing scripts (which then cryptomine ..) and so on. None of that crap. So, a protocol which is a) accepted by Facebook and b) leads to these outcomes could be a good idea. In theory. In practice people with appropriate knowledge will have to check the protocol, suggest ways to make it better etc.
> Mozilla would have zero issues getting 10 million users who would pay $100/year for it.

why would anyone pay for a browser when all the rest of them are free?
> I remember a time when the web was just fine without incessant advertising.

That is from the time when not everyone was in the web. Now as basically everyone is here, it is the best place to affect on the minds of people.
> though I'm more of a vim person

You can set vi keybindings.
Just like Uber is using meat drivers as a temp solution until AI gets solved, Google must've had the same attitude towards support.
https://archive.is/cUcn1
Nice to see this published by ONS. It will be completely ignored by the Government and spun like its fake news.
I really hate everything that tries to bring your focus back to you as it should be. I think it's all bull*hit. The one true thing is that focus is on the psychological side and we just have to deal with discomform, that's how you win, not by buying some magic paper.
Neither I nor any of the ~20 COVID recoverees I have met and talked with in real life had any long term symptoms. These are all youngish, vaccinated, healthy people. Long COVID seems to primarily exist among a vocal internet minority, as far as I can tell. YMMV.
I think Forbes makes money, so the 200m didn't go anywhere.
The occasional meetings in the kitchen area, or going for lunch and getting to know the company gossip that wouldn't be discussed via other channels.

Other than that not much, as I have been mostly remote for several years now.