skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> maybe the simple answer is that refusing cookies doesn't actually do anything?

I agree with all the other comments that are saying this is probably fingerprinting, but you can check whether refusing cookies is doing anything. Two ways:

1. On a page where you refused all cookies but are seeing targeted ads, open developer tools and go into the "Application" tab. Open up Storage > Cookies. Do you see anything listed? You should see nothing there. You also shouldn't see anything in the rest of storage, since "cookie" consent is really "client-local storage consent".

2. You can check whether cookies were sent on particular network requests, like the ones to the ad companies. Open a new tab, open devtools, open networking. Then paste the URL in the url bar. Find an ad request in the networking tab: do you see a "Cookies:" header? If so, it sent a cookie for you.
To be fair they're not hiding it. There's a link to imaginAIry in the footer, even on the pricing page.
>You certainly could stop and talk to them, but anyone willing to do that wouldn't be the kind of person who didn't know how to start a friendly interaction.

You are making a big leap here. There are lots of folks who are capable of having a conversation but dont feel comfortable engaging first with people they dont know.
In my experience both Meta and Google's products work great from an engineering perspective. Low downtime, reasonably performant (with an adblock), etc.

It's just that they are designed to maximize ad revenue rather than to provide a good service for the user.
I moved to central Europe a few years ago. I don't know a single person who uses a dryer over here, even though some washing machines include that feature. We all have those folding drying racks. Saves power and wear on clothing. I can't believe I used a dryer all those years in the USA.

Also, it seems beyond dumb that TX is not a solar powerhouse. Is there a valid argument against solar in TX?
Firstly, when buying something consider what it sells for used. The Delta in price is the real cost, and that makes many things much more attractive to purchase. Being able to think this way is part of the luxury of having money.

Spend good money on anthing that separates you from the ground: beds, tires, shoes, etc.

Spend money on things that encourage good habits. Buy new kitchen appliances for eating in (or do a full reno); workout equipment, gym membership, or sports fees.

Spend money on your outdoor spaces. Whether that be money on a backyard with pool, or hiking/camping gear; make it easy to want to be outside.

Those are my recommendations, other than self improvement of course.
Then why is Red Hat doing this?
The very beginning kind of explains everything in my presumptive reading, his father was abusive and Pitts dove into books and via this obsession gave himself a college prep education by the age of fifteen and ran away from his family forever at age 15. Academic achievement wise, it's what many parents wants for their child, but the possible concentration on the one thing and the relationship history left him under leveled to deal with the rest of living.
I was an employee and a shareholder, but my customer experience is part of why I'm no longer either, and why I won't be again in the future.
This is a critical thing that so many miss. If somebody has a website that doesn't use any cookies, but does send a POST request to www.bigcompanyanalytics.com/send-user-info with a body containing user-identifying information, then that is still illegal if the user has not consented to analytics (if they are in an area that requires opt-in for analytics).

Cookies aren't really mentioned in GDPR or other privacy laws, folks just latched onto cookies as one area that can track users. But really, all personal data is subject to most of the privacy laws, including outbound requests as well as stored data.

IANAL. But for context from lawyers, see: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/direct-marketing-and-el...
I highly doubt that's a huge part. My country has no Apple Stores and Apple is still very popular here.
Patrick Bet David talked about it and credited the book with his motive that led to his $200m payday.
"and then now commit economic violence (destitution, starvation, etc)."

This is a new one. Thanks for sharing...
Mechanism Connects Cancer and Diabetes
I stopped using it because it was not usable because of the ads.
The password, at account creation. Here is your password: ……

I have seen it being used for cert keys.
less users overall

less tweets per user (down by 25%)

less time spent on the platform

less overall visits

> side from some advertisers leavin

that's some understatement!

Ad Sales: down by 59%
Same. I played sports in high school and college but without that built in forced friend group I would have had a lot of trouble making friends. Something like this would have almost certainly broken me out of my introverted shell.
Not really in this category, but Steinway is still kicking
But indeed that isn't what three is, three is the concept that comes from saying "these are three apples" and then "these are three pears" and then "these are three cars" and then saying "three" is the conceptual thing that's in common here.

And here, validating a string of ones is simply not what anyone would mean if you said "check whether this number is a prime number" without any qualification, so I agree that whilst still cute, the title is a bit click-baity and not at all what I expected it to be about either.

EDIT: it seems though that the original post, shared via archive.org elsewhere in the thread does do this for what one would normally assume -- and does so by using `(1 x shift) !~` -- so if anyone else was confused, read the original post.
To be fair..lets be honest with ourselves:
Google bought Waze for exactly one brutally obvious reason: To prevent competition for Google Maps.

Google has sat on it since, eventually they will port features to Maps and kill it when it is convenient. As for installing...uh..Google Maps? It's Google's Android, Google could do whatever they want. That was the whole point of the 'Free' OS Phone post yesterday.
They never sent an email, or at least I never received one for any of my 6 domains
California has already done this, so feel free to report any businesses that aren't allowing US-based customers to cancel immediately.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.x....
>>strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom

And that goal cannot be achieved as long as there is 1) rule of law and 2) broadly independent branches of govt and societal institutions. A wannabe autocrat cannot successfully infringe on personal freedoms if (s)he cannot get the legislature, judiciary, press, etc. to go along with it.

And I totally get adventurism, having been an internal-level alpine ski racer, rock climbing instructor, champion sportscar racer, etc.

The key here is how much these "adventurers" are putting the rest of society at risk. Because, right this minute, you (if you are a US or Canadian resident) and I are paying $$millions for the rescue/recovery of the asshat CEO and his four sucker customers.

I think a better regulatory solution may be to require putting up a bond covering the cost of rescue and/or cleanup if something goes awry, or sign-off that there would be no rescue attempt whatsoever (and a bond to cover cleanup of a historic site). But it is not authoritarian to say that "No, we won't allow such adventures without meeting sound safety and systems standards."

These clowns didn't even want to pay to qualify the window in the sub past 1/3 of the planned operating depth, they had not even an emergency signal buoy, or some way of making/emitting a unique sound so they could be quickly located (Canadian sonobuoys detected some clanging sounds yesterday, but they are still not found).

If society really wants any dolt to fabricate any contraption and expect the rest of society to pay to rescue them, that is a societal decision. But it is also totally ok to say NO to that, or put on some basic requirements.

These are neither slippery slopes nor authoritarianism, and it is wrong to cry "authoritarianism" at any rule you might not like; it can be legitimately discussed without catastrophizing.
So you own part of the company but don't want to be as productive as possible. You would rather handicap your business by stifling communication. You are the shareholder buddy. Can you tell me the company name so I can divest in it?
I mean if the website in questions generates a password and shows it (and then lets it go of course). This is used to show cert private keys for example. I can see it work with passwords.

I don’t care about passwords. I just want a “key” and I’ll store it.
Security nihilism isn't the answer. Just because 100% security is a real hard target we shouldn't just all throw our arms in the air, do nothing, and be all snarky about it.
Anyone here know where we can find more resources on RLHF?

There’s been a lot written about transformer models etc., but I wasn’t able to find much about RLHF.
If Waze had taken the FB deal tho, it would have been a stock deal, and it would have been worth 2-3x more than the Google cash deal.
It's up for me right now.

Regarding the "isitdownrightnow" link, I notice they incorrectly report the time via the following comment:

Times displayed are PT, Pacific Time (UTC/GMT 0)

They appear to be displaying UTC, not PDT.
I'd be careful about buying mattresses from Amazon as quite a few have been found to have fiberglass.
Waze was bought to keep it away from Google Maps. Google actually doesn't want it to succeed.
I imagine the number varies a lot depending on your source. Mine is Credit Suisse via the World Bank - https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/3...
In addition to the non-cookie fingerprinting mentioned by others that can happen, there is a loophole in the GDPR cookie control legislation that allows "legitimate interest" cookies to continue to be placed and tracked when you click Reject All.

You have to edit your cookie preferences for the site (assuming they provide the option) and deselect Legitimate Interest cookies proactively in order to block them.

This recent write-up on Reddit alerted me to this information:

https://www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/14ddk4u/ysk_...
For me, the intimidating bit and source of "math anxiety" is that there's only one right answer. You either get it or you don't. At the time, I had a fear of failure and this caused a lot of stress, especially at the chalkboard in front of the class.

I preferred humanities, where there was wiggle room and you could bullshit your way around the gray areas. That all ended when I became a dev, where failure is nearly constant so there's no time for feeling bad about it.
https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/issues/7009

[Proposal]: Interceptors #7009

> An interceptor is a method which can declaratively substitute a call to itself instead of a call to an interceptable method at compile time. This substitution occurs by having the interceptor declare the source locations of the calls that it intercepts. This provides a limited facility to change the semantics of existing code by adding new code to a compilation (e.g. in a source generator).

Sound like Spring AOP stuff without reading more
What a cool language!
The complaint says they internally called the cancellation process "the Iliad Flow". See page 43 for a full description: https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/amazon-rosca-pu...
I just started seeing items with same day shipping where I live. We’ve received a few items now within just a few hours of ordering it.

Most of the common items we order are 1-2 day shipping. Less popular items can be several days or more.
Don't try and explicitly rule out humanity. That's sort of impossible because some humans are smart and can strategically lie to emulate a machine's expected behavior. If you ask a suspected AI those woke diversity questions to try and prove its an AI, smart humans will fool it by answering in the way they'd expect a corporate AI to be programmed in.

Instead, give it a task machines excel at, namely doing math fast, that nobody but some weird "Rain Man" savant can even come close to doing.

Give it a list of numbers to perform some easily understandable mathematical operation on. A human would have a hard time providing the answer of say 100 square roots and multiplying each of those values by the digits of PI sequentially in under 10 seconds or some such contrived example, but that seems pretty doable for a machine. Even a world-class expert programmer answering this question would have a hard time writing a custom script to solve this in some extremely short amount of time.

The hard part might be distinguishing between unintelligent bots/scripts and actual AI, so you might need to combine a few tests to both prove some form of intelligence, as well as prove that it's an AI rather than a script.

You might also want to continuously test the AI by possibly doing something like providing a short lived JWT token and repeatedly challenging it over time to stay onboard. A smart human might be able to arrange to fool even a very hard test once, but can't sit around the clock continuously solving repeated challenges to stay on your service over time. Some smart human might manage to fool you once, but will not be able to solve repeated tests over time without slipping up at some point.
The workers didn't create the wealth. The owners did.

The workers sold their time and labor, and we're compensated according to what they negotiated.

Why should they be entitled to anything more?
I moved all of my domains to Cloudflare Domains last night. It was pretty easy, and I believe I fit everything in the free tier. One less thing to be reliant on Google for, I guess.
Car companies left cities not Detroit, the cost of labor was high but also thw cost of the space
Dark patterns like this should be regulated. I'm tired of having to click through obfuscated menus to cancel subscriptions, notifications, and tracking.
Well, if the States allow such practices it's super sad. Nobody gets fired when joining a union in Germany.
Yeah, I had the same thought. I really hope they had more of a safety plan than that.
How these emails will survive disposable emails validation?
Currently i can't use these disposable emails in any major websites.
The only thing that changed was which religion it is a serious crime to blaspheme
80+ sounds too high. 80 is good. Stopping distance is not linear with speed, damage in a crash is not linear with speed (hello deer), gas usage is not linear with speed. No one who drives over 80 has grounds to complain about gas price, especially in large suvs or pickups.
Wow, I can't believe it has been 10 years, and all the Waze data is still not integrated into google maps.
TX is a solar powerhouse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_Texas?wprov=sfl...
I've experienced dive shops, which were rather flexible with their approach to paperwork and certification (learn diving! no swimming required! is a giveaway).

But since this trategy apparently happened in LA that's just unfathomable.
Well, they're lost at sea until found if I'm not mistaken.
We have totally debased selling out. Back in my day Enron energy traders got a $50k bonus for turning off the power to "Grandma Millie" and making their bosses millions. Now a Gen Z kid would do it for only $1k!

To be fair in the old days they were considered human scum, but the bar for that has really fallen in the last couple of decades.
I was hoping from the title he wanted to take back StackOverflow.
Just for context on the publication here - "Persuasion" seems to be a Substack blog run by Yascha Mounk, a US political commentator who's mostly known for campaigning against "multinationalism" in Germany.

The points made in the article aren't a reflection of broad public sentiment within Ireland - in particular the following statement:

> Despite outcry from civil-liberties activists, the bill sailed through the lower house of Irish Parliament

Civil-liberties activists within Ireland are overwhelmingly in favour of the bill. The word "outcry" links to an article reporting that Donald Trump Jr is against the bill, and that the Irish Council for Civil Liberties supports it.

In short: this is blogspam wildly misrepresenting its own references.
The stores are a pretty critical component in their sales, marketing, and support cycles, and generally considered a big part of their current success.
Evidence is a consensus.
There's not a scale at which acyclic preferences is a good approximation of what actually happens, so that's not really a good comparison. But even given that, structural engineers use nonlinear models that are more complicated than Newtonian physics, whereas economists say "math is too difficult so we'll use a simplifying but false set of assumptions"
There's also the question: If I buy support from Rocky Linux and they provide a fix for something, then they'd need to upstream it, or how much can they allow Rocky to drift from RHEL, and for how long?

What if they surplant RedHat, can they afford to undermine RedHat long term, or is there a point where they fork?

Rocky Linux, and CentOS before it, is a strange product for people who want the benefits of RHEL, but don't want to pay for RedHat work. If you don't want support, then I think is fine, that the cost RedHat pays to be an open source company, but when you then turn to another company who rebadge RHEL and charge for support, it gets a little weird.
I think beyond a certain point additional orders of magnitude doesn't actually matter.
My prediction is that self publishing will flounder and traditional gatekeepers (publishers, book reviewers, etc) will reassert themselves.
I've still yet to see a groundbreaking use case for any of these LLMs. Have you seen any?
Ask HN: Is anyone using Quarkus for monoithic, full-stack web apps?
For context, I am talking about Red Hat's Quarkus framework - the one that Red Hat famously markets as the future of cloud-native Java microservices. My experience suggests that Quarkus is just as capable for building good old monolithic web apps, the way Spring Boot famously does. Perhaps, even better, thanks to the thousands of tiny performance optimizations.

Last year, I took Quarkus for a spin, and built https://feedle.world/ pretty much in one go. The experience was great, and I didn't feel like I was missing much from Spring Boot. Qute is a fantastic templating language tailor-made for Quarkus, and combined with some HTMX and Alpine.js, it's a combo made in heaven.

I was wondering if anyone is using Quarkus to build (predominantly, non-microservice) web apps. Feel free to showcase them here and share your experience.
I was only looking at one brand, Zinus. I could order from them directly at a slight premium. However now I will look at more reviews. Thanks.
I know, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_tax

Protestants and members of other religions don't really have to pay unless they're a member of a church in German, but since the Catholic Church is centralized, everyone who was baptized has to pay. Yeah it sucks.
I mean, this is a valid point though? I would not take any stock in a code review or due diligence performed by a 20 year old.
Former NASA/JPL employee. I can say with gusto that Linux was never really supported by overhead. Projects pay directly for cloud services, servers, computer time, equipment for field testing, etc. Those are where rocky Linux would be used. At least in my experience, the usual burden funds are used for vanilla windows desktops or laptops for employees, which works fine for 90% of the org. The rest write proposals to get non standard equipment in one form or another. This drastically reduces overhead costs and allows results driven grants to buy only necessary equipment. Same as any other gov funded research-related capital purchase. At least in theory.
That’s weird. I cancelled prime a couple years ago and only sign up for it when they offer a free trial.

Without prime I still order from them more than I feel good about, but only ever opt for the free, slow, shipping.

I’m at something like 30% deliver relay in 2 days, 40% deliver in less than 5 days, and 30% take the full five days.

combining your experience with my own, really sounds like they’re losing it.
I’m pretty skeptical of this of this fingerprint test. I’m on a 5G connection, in a major city with a completely default current gen iPhone, and it seems to think I’m 100% unique. Which I don’t believe for a second.
It's possible to print large negatives from digital files. The results are stunning if you manage to get the curve right.

I've done a few times, lots of trial and error and I never could get a curve that worked perfectly on multiple setups or even on multiple shots with the same setup. A bit of tweaking is required for every shot, in my experience.

It's just that the whole thing is slow, expensive and error prone in every step of the way. It's a labor of love and it shows.
> You cannot simply ask an AI to generate a story that carries any sort of meaning.

First, AI stories don't have to be one prompt wonders where it does everything. It can be an iterative, or curated, process guided by a person. Second, AI is perfectly capable of putting together words that carry meaning. What magic sauce do your collection of words have that an AI wouldn't? They can quite possibly be the same exact words.
FTC press release direct link: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/06/...
Send him a link to a butthole picture
Are you joking about object permanence or is that a real thing? Can you provide more details if you’re comfortable?
Address validation is one of the major textbook cases of developers going out of their way to make their software worse.

And from the company owner's point of view: Imagine spending extra money on development that stops users from completing a purchase.

These cases are the perfect answer to "Why do we need senior developers on our team who have good judgment?" This is why--to prevent software like this from even being written in the first place.
This doesn't seem likely in the near term. An iPhone 13 Pro has 6gb of memory, which might be enough for a single 1.3b parameter model if you purged everything else out of RAM. Combining 8 (or even 4) of them on a single phone won't happen anytime soon at the rate phones improve.

Plus, none of the smaller models are really appreciably close to GPT-4 on most metrics. It's not clear to me you could get there at all with 1.3b models. Maybe somebody gets there someday with 65b models, but then you're far out of the reach of phones.
Congress takes aim at 'swipe fees' for processing credit card purchases
It is paid on the salary. You have to declare yourself that you're part of a religion, though.
Yeah, there's a different controller inside the charge port. From what I've seen, it isn't a difficult upgrade and the part is unrestricted.

I've been estimating the % of affected cars as ~20% at this point and the % that is capable is steadily increasing.

Still an annoyance if you have one of the vehicles without support, but they are no worse off than before. The supercharger network has roughly doubled since then too.
Individual taxes make up around 41% of government revenues. The tax on labor is far higher than the tax on capital. As such the very wealthy pay a way lower percent of their overall “income” in taxes than the rest of us. I know of know concept of fairness where this is considered just. Even Reagan thought the tax on capital ought to be higher than the tax on labor.
Price's law, for one. Experience with the general effectiveness of large companies, especially their support teams, for another.