skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Then maybe the public SaaS services should be of a better quality so that Mozilla employees want to use them.

Maybe a company that has been throwing money into dozens of random privacy initiatives outside of the browser market (some good and some bad) would be a good fit for solving that problem? Dogfooding software is a really good strategy for UX design after all.

> There is a PDF export for google docs which is available to all users. File > Download > PDF.

That's exactly what I mean. Someone wrote this blog post, could they have hit the PDF export button and then linked to that PDF hosted on Mozilla's servers? That would have prevented the vandalism problem they ran into.

The issue I have isn't that I can't export to PDF from Google Docs. The issue that I have is that I have to visit Google Docs and load a ton of proprietary Javascript just so I can hit a PDF export button. Google Docs has an API, Mozilla could have a script that's just auto-exporting a PDF and hosting it on a public endpoint on a regular interval.
> Why is Apple building a similar way for 3rd parties to reliably track users if this is overall harmful for users?

The rest of your comment suggested they want to track users.
Either way it works. It's just a feature. What the big issue was was that some browsers would enable it by default and some wouldn't, and then you'd have differences across versions, etc. So it became a more powerful feature.
That's only one aspect of yield farming, there are many other ways to yield farm that don't involve borrowing against volatile assets. Automated market makers are another popular way to farm that have a different kind of risk (impermanent loss), though there are other kinds of AMMs which have less impermanent loss as well.

Even with borrowing, you can enter a money market with just stablecoins and get returns in the range of 10-30% APY. The risks there are smart contract risk (obviously significant) as well as peg loss.
Thanks for the response. Thinking this through a bit more from a use case perspective:

1. If I was stalked by someone using your product, would I contact your customer support?

2. If I was doing the stalking, would I contact your customer support?

Pretty sure the answer would be no in both cases. In 1), I wouldn't necessarily even know it is your product. In 2), what am I going to say to customer support? "I'm trying to stalk my husband and your product isn't working well."?

Subpoenas might reveal a percentage of stalking activities, but if the OPs post is true, then I don't even think police would be involved here.
> there is also mention of Holmes occasionally finding solace from boredom in morphine

It's the same story, The Sign Of Four. When Watson sees Holmes taking out the hypodermic, which he has seen him do every day for quite some time but that day feels compelled to say something about it, he asks, "Which is it today, morphine or cocaine?" In A Study in Scarlet, Watson does make a list of things he's observed about Holmes, but drug use of any kind is not among them.

AFAIK that's the only mention of morphine in any of the stories, although Holmes is mentioned as taking cocaine in several others (and in some that are after the Return Watson says he has been able to wean Holmes of the drug but can tell that Holmes still thinks about it sometimes). Opium does figure in one story, The Man With The Twisted Lip (in the Adventures), but it's being taken by a friend of Watson's--although when Watson finds Holmes in disguise in the opium den he goes to to rescue his friend, he understandably wonders whether Holmes has been trying a new drug until Holmes explains that he's there working on a case.
This. I didn't quite understand the multiparty computation thing, so I came here for someone to explain it without bias (since of course the authors would claim it's the best thing since sliced bread or, more recently, https).

Well, I found bias and no explanations. I'm getting to various comments without any replies so I think I'm almost at the bottom, from here it's only downvoted comments to go...
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At my current startup, I recommended everyone to hold the title of Research Engineer. I was to be recruited as a Software architect / Principal tech lead, but I chose to keep this title too & suggested the same to my peer & immediate junior. Something good that I learned from Facebook Engineering flat organization structure.

Keeping the hierarchy flatter helped more honest communication. There were lesser inhibitions to talk & express opinion. In any disagreement, experience seniority played the subtle hand to navigate discussion.

Compensation matters, title shouldn't.
> A fine example of why pervasive tracking is terrible for relationships.

Seems like an example of a relationship that’s lacking a good connection and understanding, if someone thinks the other is going to swing by to get a divorce. Tracking didn’t cause that, and lack of tracking wouldn’t fix it.
The real telling facet here is the implied, but deeply parochial conviction, that left-wing means Democrat and right-wing means Republican.

They’re actually both right-wing by global standards, and the distinction looks from the outside like a pissing contest into only one side of the pool. Furthermore the binary status quo appears as manufactured tribalism to keep the American masses busy with minute shades of policy difference.

The continuing appearance of articles like this on “Hacker News” indicates not just the large US readership, nor even the confluence of media and technology (something politicians have understood for millenia), but also that even a group skewing thoughtful and analytical can be hijacked by memetic engineering.
> The truth is that most people aren’t immune to being on either end of a situation like this

Hard disagree here - most people are not going to go all obsessive on their spouses, kids, etc.
> That is nowhere near peaceful or non-violent.

you have a very different definition of non-violent than the majority of the planet.
That seems reasonable, but isn't this data set a sampling, since it appears to only capture the page viewing habits of people who have opted to install various browser extensions? If so, wouldn't that imply that the non-sampled numbers would be larger, and perhaps by a fair bit, assuming that the percentage of users who install these browser telemetry tools is small? I agree that if the numbers did not represent a sampling, but were in fact reflected a complete data set, then yes, they perhaps are a drop in the bucket.
Blegh... it's disappointing to see this on the linked blogpost, but it's a lot more disappointing to see it for wikis directly relevant to a Github repo.

Again, I know that Github is also SaaS, but there's a difference. That kind of stuff should be handled differently.
Hi! 1. Yes - we are more affordable, offer placenta banking (which few other banks offer), and we process stem cells manually (by hand) as opposed to automatically, which recovers up to 25% more stem cells than other automated approaches
2. It depends on the agreement you signed - some agreements have disclosures about inflation impacting pricing, so perhaps. We structured our pricing around expedited shipping to our lab with biological goods & cryopreservation
> That is entirely the point. The number line is awkward for multiplication.

Strong disagree. The number line is one of the best tools for understanding multiplication of numbers (not just whole numbers, but any decimal). The problem is that it is no longer taught. Example: American rulers have both metric (cm) and Imperial (inch) units. You can use it to visually multiply and divide by 2.54.

To generalize multiplying positive numbers x and y, (1) Mark x on a number line, (2) create another number line with the number 1 placed where x would be on the original line, (3) find y on the new number line, and (4) the corresponding point on the original line is the product x*y. The point: Multiplication is scaling (stretching, shrinking, whatever you want to call it). The Common Core tries to address this.
Sure, the analogy is imperfect, but the point is if you just spend a sizable chunk of your physec budget to guard against a virtually-unused attack vector, you now have that much less to spend to guard against much more common threats like a break-in.
I'm so sorry about your daughter. Did she ever find a cord blood donor?
10 Minutes ago i played Gabriel Knight 3 it's a fantastic game...no i don't care what others say ;)
The U.S. has been involved in de-escalation and diplomacy over the current Russian military build-up for months. Troop deployments to eastern NATO member states are happening as a last resort in an attempt to deter further Russian aggression, given that the invasion of Ukraine appears imminent.
> in terms of actual reports of stalking via our devices it is essentially zero

I'm confused, now you're admitting that stalking is an active part of the product and this has gone on for years.
This specific entity has suffered billions in losses due to IP theft in the past.

When your unit of accounting is such that six figures is a rounding error, they can afford it. And for good reason.

I wouldn't expect you to have knowledge of their operations. The only reason I do is because I was close with the head of security. But I will make sure to pass along your expert advice next time I'm there.
The Rabbit Hole Beneath the Crypto Couple Is Endless
"Even more Voter Fraud was just discovered in Wisconsin. It shows the Election was Rigged and Stolen. A hearing this week revealed at least 50,000 illegal phantom votes were cast in the 2020 Presidential Election, which is more than twice the “victory” margin. Incredible problems were also uncovered within Wisconsin’s voter rolls, including an apartment building with 102 percent turnout rate (not possible), 113 ballots cast from an address where no one lives, 3,713 “voters” registered to U.S. Post Offices, and 625,000 dead people on Wisconsin’s voter rolls. In addition, 46,000 votes were cast on Nov. 3rd based on voter information that was never verified by the state. This is on top of massive ballot harvesting, rigged “indefinitely confined” votes, the Wisconsin Election Commission instructing election officials to break the law, Zuckerberg drop boxes, etc. So who in Wisconsin is leading the charge to decertify this fraudulent Election? It’s time for RINOs to step forward and save our Country!"
> Mars (and Antarctica for the most part) do lack anything biological in origin, no oil or wood or crops as feedstock for chemical reactions but there are always alternatives.

Ignoring energy sources (solvable using by a fission reactor), the entire Earth has a similar feedstock problem as Antarctica. There's plenty of hydrogen and oxygen there. CO2 can be mined from the atmosphere by plants. Nitrogen is the remaining building block of life. At this point, most of the nitrogen in human tissue was extracted from the atmosphere using the Haber-Bosch method (which, roughly speaking, converts atmospheric Nitrogen and energy to fertilizer).

I agree that Antarctica would be an easier (and safer) place to build the first self-sustained "moon base"
I tend to avoid self-promotion, but this was just too on the nose to ignore: what you've described is almost quite literally the functionality of https://teuxdeux.com.

We like to say that our biggest competition is pencil & paper.
I sort of agree with you, and had the same experiences, but I think the difference is of scale and expectations.

You can bullshit your way through a 1st, 2nd, maybe even 3rd year humanities essay with layman theories, and get a C+ or even a B-.

But they're humoring you - you won't get into grad school with those marks. And you won't be able to actually work in the field without ideas backed by the same academic rigor we expect from the scientists - understanding deeply the work of all your predecessors and contemporaries, and adding your own interpretations not gleamed off twitter.

Whereas if you try to join a math or sciences class you with the same attitude, you will just fail. You can barely pass, eek out a computer science degree, or even just drop out without one, then teach yourself all the practical skills, and build a career. I don't know how long that'll last, but it's definitely the case right now.
I suppose if nobody but you ever handles your phone, that might not be an issue. I rarely drop my phones but in a household with kids, that's no guarantee. I put cases on every phone I have.
This will be unimaginable in Europe (for good or worse)!
Rapid Prototyping Physical Interfaces with Web Serial and Cheap MCUs
I fail to see the point of this. I can paint exactly one square and then wait for 5 minutes while nothing^H^Hbarely anything is happening? I can't doodle anything meaningful without filling at least 5x5 area, and I need to spent at least two hours for that.

I think this could be more attractive if done as a turn-based play. Fill a square within, say, 10 sec and then wait until everyone currently online finishes their turn. And so on.
Google's FLoC was proposed openly as this one is. Everyone and their grandma was up in arms about it. Why give Mozilla a free pass? What is so special about this proposal?
Thanks for the feedback! A Google account makes the sign in flow a little bit simpler, and lets us to find a reasonable avatar to attach to each user. But Twitter or email auth are things we're interested in supporting (just want to balance those against it being easy to create sockpuppet accounts)
To test kernels with QEMU, saved you a click.
Can't believe I didn't know about this before. Just shared this with our entire dev team and they like it!
Lots of systems rely on air gaps heavily, and then aren't too worried what the software on the machines is up to. For example, if you are running a nuclear power plant and need a printer, you probably aren't going to be hiring a team of printer firmware developers. You're just going to buy an off-the-shelf non-wifi printer, and use it offline.
We do not need to work with Facebook and companies like them. We do not need to compromise with them. We need to starve them. Complex cryptography to try to make less bad ads feels like a nicotine patch when what we need is pictures of lung cancer on the cigarette boxes and laws that forbid addicting children. We need education so people enable ad blocking until online advertising ceases to be as viable of a business model.

Surveillance capitalism corps must be forced to adapt and start charging people for the value they provide in a clear and honest way instead of trying to sell human psyche hacking as a service like a globally adopted casino of profit optimized manipulation. One we all let our kids participate in.

People pay money for coffee. They can pay a tiny bit for bandwidth for use of Social Media like any other SaaS. Maybe if it costs a tiny bit people will ration their use of it a bit more and use their extra time to go learn something useful.
FLoC was a proposal for targeted advertising ("how do you figure out who to show your ads to?"), and FLoC 2.0 is the Topics API proposal: https://github.com/jkarlin/topics

Mozilla's proposal here is for conversion tracking ("how do you figure out whether your ads are working?"). It is an alternative to proposals by Apple (https://webkit.org/blog/11529/introducing-private-click-meas...) and Google (https://github.com/WICG/conversion-measurement-api)

(Disclosure: I work on ads at Google, speaking only for myself)
Thank you!
We're different in a few ways: 1. More affordable pricing. 2. We manually process stem cells vs. automatically processing them (can yield up to 25% more stem cells this way) 3. We offer placenta banking 4. We have a brand and community behind us! I've built out a following on TikTok of about 80k thus far (has grown by about 25k since the batch began, so growing quickly), and I think many resonate with our brand and especially my personal story, which I talk about often

So glad you did it for your second! Siblings can be a 75% match, so that's awesome. Love the term YOLO-type analysis haha
What "partner" in this case means is "Mozilla engineers collaborated with Meta engineers on developing this proposal".

We also routinely partner with Google engineers on technical proposals, see, for instance: QUIC Version Negotiation. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-quic-versio...
> and that they shouldn’t wholesale discount whatever they publish.

This was my previous position, but in recent years, I wouldn't recommend this anymore. I believe that in the past at some point, there was a time when these mainstream media were more right than wrong, and more useful than useless if not harmful.

If you are an academic or someone who has time or interest to discern what mainstream media says is right or wrong, by all means, use them. But for average people, these mainstream media being sources of information doesn't pass usefulness or correctness than any other sources of information.
That link doesn't work well, just says it's not compatible with my device. There's a link that goes to some seo spam. Name not very googlable. Do u have a link to some screenshots/play video?
point sources are more intense than diffuse sources.
I was trying to learn some math in my 50's. I hired a NYU math PHD to come to my office once a week for $100/hour (an NYU course was $6000/semester). I think it worked out well for both of us.
Advertisers, like all entities, are as free to do what they like as we allow them to be. They don't have to be a part of the conversation, we don't have to care about advertisers.
I don't disagree. No way I would move up to a bigger house at today's prices. BUT...I've been saying that for a while now, so I guess I look like the idiot. No one really knows. Relevant John Keynes quote related to short sellers: "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent." Even if it something is a bubble, it's impossible to say when it will burst/how it will burst. Saying, "this asset will see a significant drop at some time in the future" is always both true and totally unhelpful in any practical sense.
Defence and infrastructure stuff, near Paris France. There's also people at BNP or SocGen. Shoot a mail or dm at AdaCore or on Ada mailing lists, they sometimes help relay job offers...
How is that a real data point? Like you said, it just raises questions, it doesn't actually tell you anything. Literally all you're doing is casting vague aspersions.
Show HN: Using a prediction market to play Wordle
Thanks for reading & responding!

I don't really see any reasons to doubt that literature will survive the 21st century. Its place is always going to be there, right? But the publishing industry and academia? I think that is a different issue altogether and they are certainly having their day(s) of reckoning. I think we feel its impact even more strongly because other economic & technological forces have intersected to completely destroy adjacent industries like, well, bookstores :P

For many of us growing up, books (esp. fiction) were the best possible form of escape/recreation. Now we're seeing a generation growing up with high powered tablets & phones that must seem magical. To socialize with friends they can talk while playing video games, send videos, or take pictures. The written word doesn't seem very incentivized for them... & I just don't see any of this changing. Luckily for us, though, you can spend a few lifetimes digging through all the literature produced up to this point, and I don't see that going anywhere.

Interesting in regards to writing as a solitary vs social act. Have you ever read Paul Auster's The Invention of Solitude? For me, similar to computers/the Internet, one of the beauties of literature is how it is both a solitary & deeply connected 'thing.' How do you feel about some of the common criticisms of MFA programs[0]? Obviously a throwback beatnik/bohemian cafe/store has a very different barrier of entry than these graduate programs, but sorta relevant when we're talking about writing as a solitary act vs social.

[0]: https://erikhoel.substack.com/p/how-the-mfa-swallowed-litera...

Edit: I wanted to say that if you haven't been, Quimby's Bookstore in Wicker Park is a really cool spot! Been over five years since I was living there but the nerd in me thought their selection of zines was amazing.
Sounds like the early days of Australia. Maybe build a new Botany Bay? (Only half joking.)
There is also the special case of my wife who has my position on Google maps, and an automation where she gets it when sending me a special SMS.

Yet she always calls to ask where I am (in your first scenario: because dinner or that she will kill the children if I am not back quickly).
Is there any research paper to back up this claim?

It could simply be that sensationalist headlines get people’s attention. As one data point I certainly don’t want biased information I’d prefer facts, including those that contradict my current worldview, so that I may be better informed.

I see your point, and I do sometimes see people unwilling to be challenged in life, I just don’t think you can draw a conclusion that people want biased information from the media.
Robots.txt files are directions to site-crawling robots, not to humans. It's certainly not an ad.
It is not undesirable in the least, it was a response to "native" which for rust usually means "compiled to x86/arm/risc-v/etc
Oh definitely. I'm not saying it doesn't happen.
> Can the US please stop starting another war?

The US isn't starting a war.

> No matter if Putin is a psychopath, this is not the way to deal with it.

Yes, securing our allies against the madman is the way to deal with it, and contain any escalation of the ongoing (and it is ongoing, with Russia already having and invaded large portions of Ukraine) war b/w Russia and Ukraine.
Do you have a Quest 2 specifically? The field changed with that device. It's seen over 12 million sales so far in about a year and a half.

It basically solves a lot of issues with other headsets around usability and made it cheap.
The first time you implement, the default is to over abstract. The second time even more. By the third, you have a good enough idea of what you need to then build something robust. Each phase is faster.

Second iteration is almost always copy and paste of first with small tweaks. I’d rather that than some kind of conditional.

The best UI almost never fits the most convenient technical solution so we optimize for UI and then technical.
> you probably aren't going to be hiring a team of printer firmware developers. You're just going to buy an off-the-shelf non-wifi printer, and use it offline.

In such a scenario, you're also probably never, ever going to be manually updating the printer's firmware.
Reveal please
Congrats!! We pride ourselves on our customer service, so if you have any questions, definitely feel free to reach out to us.

In the US, only about 2% of parents bank cord blood due to a huge awareness issue (that 2% is concentrated in wealthy, urban areas - think Greenwich, Beverly Hills, Upper East Side). In Singapore, however, rates can be as high as 30%, and in certain areas of China it's at around 10%. The greatest barrier in the US is for sure awareness and secondarily pricing, so we're working on trying to lower costs. When you first read this post, what was your first reaction? What are you most curious about?
Particularly their DM chats: bossmang might be in the channels and (might need to) have different opinions from the actual devs.
> What good is it to a person if he can escape a scary regime but can’t take his lives savings with him?

>>> This was sufficient for people escaping scary regimes for centuries

Clearly saving your life is sufficient reason to escape. Not optimal, but certainly enough reason.

Are you claiming you would rather you and your family die than lose your money?
So glad you did!