skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep seeing this comment on Hacker News and it makes me wonder. Do you only speak to engineers in your life? I'm on the side of people who think this is a violent threat against the openness of the web, but let's be real. Most of the people you'll run into on the street will have no better sense of this than they did the paradigm shift to HTTPS. In fact it will likely be even more transparent than that, which is part of what makes it so insidious. If you're waiting for a public to mobilise against a self-evident threat, this will fly into being without protest. Most people will need to be made to understand its danger, because they absolutely will not flee by themselves.
The positioners and tools are much cheaper if you buy direct from a DMC distributor. I bought the afm 8 and af8 from patlon in Canada and I got charged the MSRP on the DMC website. AF8 and the universal positioners was like 400usd when I got it and it covers like 90% of use cases. It can't do db pins though. If you buy the 38999 connectors from PEI genesis it also costs a lot less than what you would expect.
It terrifies me that I'm actually unsure whether this comment is sarcastic.
There's a difference between a struggling worker earning a low salary, with low prospects of finding a better position being asked to do unethical things on behalf of their employer, and a Google engineer earning multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.

I have refused to implement unethical code when I earned US$8.8k/year and supported my mother (living in Brazil, beginning of my career), I believe a Google engineer has much more leeway and money sloshing around to decide it's not right to do something unethical, and be vocal about it. There's much more of a choice than I had at that time and if I managed to choose to not be an asshole doing unethical bullshit, and didn't starve my family in the process, they are pretty damn able to do it as well. Might need another job but c'mon, you have Google in your CV, jobs will come, stop being a greedy pig.
Big Tech is obscuring the ‘greatest heist’ in human history
> Websites funded by ads require proof that their users are human and not bots.

Half the web is bots. And it's essential. Scrapers and bots give machine access to the internet.
If this gets up, you may not have a choice.
I'm currently working on a strategy based on taking advantage of the other guys doing dumb stuff along those lines.
"Beam of light shooting the heavens" value of "interesting", yes. Though I suppose it would look like a small tactical nuke in effect.
Fiber is so incredibly important and often overlooked since it doesn’t have an effect like nutrition, cardiovascular, blood/sugar, etc. It’s so important to moving waste through the body healthily. It keeps it moving and you want waste to move consistently.

People who find themselves consulates, irregular, or have to strain when they go should consider more fiber.
Hahaha classic Apple benchmarking
Hugging Face, GitHub and more unite to defend open source in EU AI legislation
It’s not authenticating humans, though— just sanctioned software and hardware.

There’s no reason you couldn’t hook a bot up, via video feed and inputs, to an “attestable” device and have it use the Internet that way. This just raises the bar on bot sophistication.

In another thread somebody talked about pointing a camera at a phone and using a robot “finger” to interact with it. If anything WEI would make that easier because you’re not getting CAPTCHAs anymore! You’re a “human”, after all.
People need to be more aware about this.
I also use Firefox on the desktop. On Android I use Mull, which is based upon Firefox and it's actually pretty good!
As we're sharing prank stories...

I think one of my most simple - yet evil - prank was to LD_PRELOAD a modified `malloc()` on a colleague's computer. Except where the common practice was usually to have it blow up the memory or not return enough, I had mine to work mostly correctly: in most cases it would allocate as requested, and in occasional cases it would allocate slightly less than requested, and in rare cases it would blow up the memory.

You could think I shouldn't be proud of that one, considering some classmates probably went crazy wondering why their systems behaved erratically, and that it probably didn't help with some of their assignments. Generally our pranks were rather tame at school, and if I recall I had reserved that particular one to only 2 guys that were extremely d-ckish. Can't even recall their names now.

Other pranks were your usual stuff: switch keyboard mapping to Dvorak, swap LTR to RTL, randomly modified clocktime by a few minutes (also rather mean when you need to handover assignments, I suppose...), bind some keys to the most annoying shortcuts possible, unsecured xdisplay accesses, open cdroom on ssh-accessible machines... Basic stuff.

I also grabbed all the login/passwords for an entire promotion once. To my defence, I didn't exactly use the accounts for anything else but to change the default passwords (so, technically and legally, I did access the accounts, I suppose). I was just making a point to IT that assigning default passwords with guessable sequences (if I recall, major + year of promotion) was a bad idea and that for some students it could take weeks before they'd change it and leave some accounts open for abuse (e.g. for students who dropped, were sick on the first days, or would simply not use the labs that much). They weren't pleased by the surge of people contacting them to ask why their passwords didn't work.

When scientific distributed computing came rather prominent, I also clustered an entire classroom (didn't want to hit the whole school network, only rooms that were underutilized). That got noticed by an admin though, but he didn't know what it was and I just said this was one of my projets for graphics computing (which was indeed a real project for which distributed comp was authorized).

I miss these lab setups.
In the data center, I think AMD is a lot more viable than most people think. MosaicML recently did a test and were able to swap MI250s with A100s basically seamlessly, within a single training run even, and ran into no issues: https://www.mosaicml.com/blog/amd-mi250

If you have an officially supported card https://rocm.docs.amd.com/en/latest/release/gpu_os_support.h... and are using PyTorch, then you're pretty much good to go. Also, HIPify works pretty well these days.

I think where most people have been getting into trouble is with trying to run with unsupported cards (eg, *ALL* of AMD's consumer cards), or wanting to run on Windows. This is obviously a huge fail on AMD's part since anyone who's tried to do anything with any of those consumer cards will just assume the data center cards are the same, but they're quite different. It doesn't help that I've never seen any CDNA2 card on sale/available in retail. How does AMD ever expect to get any adoption when no developers have hardware they can write code to? It's completely mental.
Mozilla is two parts, the Mozilla Foundation and a subsidiary which is Mozilla Corporation. Neither of those are "funded" by Google.

I'm guessing you're referring to the search partnership between the two? That doesn't mean that Google owns Mozilla, unless you're really unclear about what "partnership" or "deal" means. Mozilla have multiple deals with search engines, not just Google.
>You can still have browser extensions

Not if there's only one browser that you're allowed to use, and it's owned by the world's largest advertising company.
>"user entered shit data and now they are getting shit data out, help" [...]
> If they could find a way to discharge patient from their unit with lowest number of clicks/keypresses they would do that, even if it meant marking the patient as deceased (not much of a hyperbole, by the way).

That's a classic, not only in hospital IT. Apparently you expect the user to serve the process and not the other way around. That's not how it works. If the goal of the user (or the organisation) is to do as much of X as possible (maybe even incentivized) the process better facilitates that or it will be abused and/or circumvented.
Unesco calls for global ban on smartphones in schools
> I hate to say it, but if you used Chrome to read this, then you're part of the problem.

Victim blaming BS.

Let's see who else is the problem. How about all those engineers who decided not to contribute to Firefox? Or all those website developers who didn't test their site in Firefox? Or hell, why not all those Mozilla engineers who didn't fix Firefox hard enough?

Let's put the blame where it actually is. Google is to blame. Not the users of their free products they advertise all over the place and have an unlimited marketing budget for.
Yes, Mozilla would exist if their deal with Google would end.
Great work. Thanks for publishing it open source.

I am currently working on a Figma plugin and the deployment process is really tedious and requires lots of manual work... I'll integrate your CLI in my project!
If anyone's not sure what values to input, it looks like the values provided (67mg and 130mg) are for roughly one 40-50ml serving of espresso followed by 2x that (a double espresso).

I usually have one espresso (or lungo) after breakfast and another after lunch. So this means that this extra shot at ~13:00 means I have over 2.4x the caffeine in my system at 22:00 than if I'd only had the morning coffee (3.6mg vs 8.83mg). Not sure whether I expected any different since twice the coffee works out to roughly twice the caffeine (since I go to bed a little later) :-)
I don't know where you got that idea from (accepting money to make the Google search engine the default?), but Firefox is made by the Mozilla Corporation which is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation.
Yeah they've screwed up on multiple levels here.
Waste for the seller and potentialy consumer no?
I'd argue the plastic wrap is more of a long term issue than the cucumber.
Anyone with
experience running 2 linked consumer GPU's want to chime in how good this works in practice?
The shareholders of Mozilla own Mozilla. And that's not Google. If Google stopped the search deal then Bing would take over in a second.
I use Edge. I think Edge is a realistically viable competitor, especially with Bing chat sidebar. It's also faster than Safari on MacOS
Our close primate relatives seem to eat a lot of fruit. It’s a traditional part of the diet of any human society where it’s available. The idea that fructose is a toxin dangerous at any dosage doesn’t seem remotely plausible.
It's true that Mozilla gets the vast majority of their income from Google and has, IMO absolutely squandered most of it.

If Mozilla had put most of its income into an endowment fund instead of hiring tons of staff for a miriad of now-mostly-canceled projects, they'd be in a much better position today. (Hindsight is 20-20 and all that.)

But I think it's an overstatement to say that Google owns Firefox. I donate monthly, and I think a smaller form of Mozilla could survive completely without Google.
> That doesn't mean that recycling has "backfired".

I believe it strongly has. Compare the amount of non-recyclable single use plastic consumption these days vs the 1980s and you’ll be shocked. Consumers got a strong messaging that they can consume this guilt-free and so all society shifted this direction.
Main benefit is that it sells more, whatever has the most sugar added might come out on top in a/b testing.
Is that like a reverse canary?
I'm glad someone else is on the same page. When I get the "Is this Roger?" or whatever texts, it's always "Yes. I got the merchandise you requested. We'll handle the trade off behind the loading dock at midnight. Make sure to come alone."
The phrase "breed like rabbits" comes to mind
Make browsing the internet possible only on CPUs allowed by Apple, Microsoft, Google. So no RISC-V just yet, and even when RISC-V will be supported by them: No competition allowed in CPU.

Make browsing the internet possible only on SoCs allowed by Apple, Microsoft, Google. No competition allowed in SoC. [0]

Make browsing the internet possible only on form factors approved by Apple, Microsoft, Google. So no calculator with a web browser [1]. No competition allowed in form factor.

Make browsing the internet possible only on UX approved by Apple, Microsoft, Google. So backtracking 10 years ago, when Android made documents-oriented web browser (= each tab appears just like a standalone app in recent apps), that would have been abuse of that position. No competition allowed in UX. [2]

PS: I come from Android OS world, all those examples already apply to Google/Android.

[0] Well this one will depend on whether their Web Environment Integrity implementation will enforce full secure boot approved by them. Considering how it went for Android, I'd say it will, but can't say for sure.

[1] Yes you can find calculators running Android (but can't run Google/Android so no Chrome). Amongst a lot of other weird Android devices. You can find walking robots, toothbrushes, urinals running Android.

[2] You'll probably find a better example. Arguably it's the same as "competition allowed in browsers", but that was an OS-wide change, but saying it's "OS" IMO largely reduces it.
I run the original llama 7b model just fine on 8GB of Ram. It is best to give advice from experience not only what you read from others.
Please, look into your use cases and keep asking "why", why do I need Kafka? Kafka is a beast of a tool. Example, I have seen people using Kafka after an MQTT broker, because... Kafka has an MQTT connector. Well, MQTT is a pub/sub architecture, so you are putting a pub/sub (Kafka) after another pub/sub MQTT, you need to be aware of that and need to think it thru if it makes sense for your use cases.
Do you know what puzzles me most? How can software engineers work on something like this? Don't those paid engineers or involved ones have the balls or dignity to walk away? I'm just wondering how they would feel about this (if they feel anything at all). I mean, if I'd be in such a position and asked to push something like this I'd have walked away on the spot, no matter what you offer me. No one at Google is standing up against this? I really hope that if this ever sees the light of the day, somehow in the end this backfires badly on them.
I switched over to a fully open source environment, at least for mobile/desktop OS, browser, almost all software as well as cloud file storage etc. But with a notable exception where I still use Google Search.
Perhaps with the rise of LLMs, one day I will run my own LLM to complete the move to being no longer reliant on monopolists.
Even if you don't care about all that, Firefox is the faster browser.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36770883
Our economic system also fails during abundance. When there is scarcity everyone knows what to do.
The larger ones here have bars on campus.

University students are adults though, so that's not that surprising? (Well, Americans are a bit of an outlier with their 21 drinking age)
Normies used to use IE. Then their techier friends asked them if they have used FF or Chrome and they moved on. Don’t underestimate the impact of local experts on the choices of people who don’t care/have time to explore.
Is that the ColdFusion he's talking about? https://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion-family.html

Seems to be alive.
My thinking used to be this way but then I experienced some things in life that made me consider the non-zero possibility that something could happen to me that would require me to tap into retirement savings. If my retirement strategy involves waiting out large drawdowns, then there's a chance I would need to tap into my retirement accounts at the bottom of a large drawdown. I like the comfort of not having to endure large drawdowns for that reason.
Who is leaping?

Only the truly insane would be lashing out at Alpine just because of its use of musl.
> things are probably going to start getting bad within 1-2 hundred years

That's a very strange take when we're seeing serious consequences of climate change now.
List of Desktop Web Browsers (over 200):

https://github.com/nerdyslacker/desktop-web-browsers

List of Headless Web Browsers:

https://github.com/dhamaniasad/HeadlessBrowsers

List of Open Source Web Browsers/Browser Engines:

https://github.com/ZeroX-DG/awesome-browser
> I really think medical science gets many things wrong and knows only a small piece of puzzle on how the human body works, and people with long covid are stuck in that knowledge gap.

The vast majority of medical researchers agree with you.

> started taking about 50 different supplements with any "word-of-mouth" evidence from Reddit forums

Just taking every chemical under the sun because some random jane said 'hey it worked for me' is not better, obviously.

Anti-quackery activists and doctors in general are telling you that taking a boatload of supplements based on ads and shills is unlikely to help (you got real, real lucky here), and is quite likely to cause serious damage, and also takes you mostly out of the medical sphere of influence entirely - whatever weird results come up when medical professionals run some tests are now tainted by all the stuff you are taking.

An entirely separate problem is that a combination of an ever expanding menu of medical interventions that we (humanity) knows about and an aging population means that healthcare as a principle is effectively unaffordable without massive tax increases which the population votes against. Hence, the healthcare that can be provided is gruff and fast, and cannot cater to complicated cases like yours. Which has to be very frustrating for you.
I'm not joking when I say it's very hard to tell whether you're sarcastically making fun of the facetious arguments they could hypothetically put forth or if you're serious.
What event are you referring to? Android? Chrome? Search?
Instead of ads in an open internet content eco system google wants in the content to exist in their controlled ad eco system.

If they pull this inversion off it’ll move us significantly towards death of the free open internet as we know it.
>Might need another job but c'mon, you have Google in your CV, jobs will come, stop being a greedy pig.

Anyone sick at home? Anyone with a visa? Any debt? Student loans? Kids?

You wouldn't just need any other job, you'd need another comparable job.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_handcuffs
> The debate is why hardcore 256+ bit crypto is needed at all by the operating system primitives on a simple device living in my home

A device with a microphone and network connection? You don't think people would be excited to hack that?
Standing up for your principles is never easy when it counts the most. Usually it's going to cost something. Sometimes that's a fat salary and a cushy job.
Textmetrics is one of those underrated SEO tools that takes no time to run your content through, but the results of using Textmetrics are abnormal.

Textmetrics analyses your content just like the Hemingway Editor and tells you if some paragraphs are too long, are too difficult to read, or are missing some elements.

It’s such an exciting SEO tool.
Those short forms are for degrees, not time.
They do not do the same thing.

A good treemap actually hides the tree structure. (From the link, the GrandPerspective one is good the Baobab one is useless due to the borders/padding). In a tree map you can see siblings, cousins, 2'nd degree cousins of similar importance (size) next to each other and you can see smaller items because size is represented as the surface of a rectangle.

On a flame graph, you can visualise the entire tree in all of it depth but since size is now just length instead of surface it is harder to compare tiny slivers. A flame graph can however be ordered by other criteria than size.

Sunbursts are circular distorted flame graphs and are of dubious utility.
> Lifestyle creep?

"Im used to spending too much money so in order to not getting a minimal pay cut im gonna work on unethical proyects." Isthe kind of insane thinking only people at HN seem to say without flinching.

Like at that point do not work at google, write ransomware for a company in Russia, they will pay even more money. Make bio weapons for a dictator in a civil war afflicted country of the third world. If Life style creep and your new Tesla to drive your kids to the private school is the only thing keeping you in check, you might as well trade stocks against life expectancy based on obesity reports and climate change effects on coastal areas.
I'm honestly (as in putting in multiple hours) trying to switch to Firefox every 4 to 5 months. I tried at least 4 times. I do the dance of migrating bookmarks, passwords, layout preferences, add-ons, workflows, setting up sync, installing on all Android and desktop devices ... and then i run into issues, try to fix some of them, research, then give up and go back to chrome and don't think about it anymore until another article like this pops up on HN.

This time I won't be shamed into doing it again. I don't have the time or motivation.

edit: forgot to mention explicitly, it's not Firefox, it's me. I'm not strong enough.
Google is checking through Opinion Rewards whether users can watch a certain advertisement video. On Android I'm using the Adguard DNS and their ad video wouldn't load twice. This occurred last week and fits this article to a tee.

I'm sure I'll get a new advertisement video soon which will load despite my Adguard DNS. That's how Google can confirm whether their ad-blocking-blocking works.

Opinion Rewards is great not just for being able to get apps for 'free', but also to be one of the first to see what Google is researching.
He probably meant "usable OS fit for mass market adoption". Of course one person can develop a bare bones OS, but this will be missing so many things compared to established systems, while providing too few advantages, that any wide adoption is impossible. Even Microsoft, with well over a thousand (IIRC) Windows developers, had to scale back their Longhorn plans substantially.
Destination insights with Google
When I was there it also was the time when they started to crack down on the alcohol use during working hours, but beer was still allowed and sold during the break.

Many didn't cope well with this and in the building I was working they had thrown out the contents of the first aid boxes to hide the beer bottles there.
On a very niche set of tests, sure.
They get paid lots of money.