skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can Mozilla also respond with their position on their own IPA proposal[1] for tracking users across the Internet?

If you are shown a product ad whilst browsing searchengine.example and then later look up the product at reviews.example, then end up making a purchase at shop.example, your Mozilla browser will send all of these events to one or more aggregation services that allows shop.example to understand (at least in aggregate, assuming you trust the cartels running the aggregation services) that you were exposed to their product at searchengine.example and further exposed to their product at reviews.example.

Where previously an ad tech company was ultimately able to track users based on source IP address (even if cookies had been disabled by a user), IPA now allows these companies to track users across multiple IP addresses, and regardless of the user's cookie settings, via a unique tracking identifier. It is also proposed that the operating system provides the unique tracking identifier which can then be used by all applications or browsers on a device, allowing different devices behind a single IP address to be distinguished.

[1] https://github.com/patcg-individual-drafts/ipa/
I am aware of epoll_wait and friends (select/poll) accepting timeouts, and how that plugs into a general event loop like in libuv.

However if memory serves, these calls are reasonably expensive (on the order of microseconds, and _worse_ if readiness requires putting the current thread to sleep and then waking it up again). However https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog/2018/08/scheduling-in-go-part... says goroutines are closer to 200ns.

However the same source above does a decent job of explaining how epoll is being called "out of band". I am guessing when they talk about context switching costs, they are doing some sort of amortization of these system call costs. Since the actual OS threads try to remain CPU-affine (thread-per-core, LMAX disruptor etc. etc.), a lot of the OS scheduling costs can be skipped.

Thank you for the pointer to the source code. It gives me a starting point.
What kind of knowledge are all you getting from Tiktok? Technical knowledge? Philosophical? I thought the app was for lip syncing + lazy cheerleading and the occasional Chinese data mining. But I am perfectly happy hopping on the bandwagon if it has substance!
I wonder if something like it will come back if ad blocking at the browser level is pessimized by Google and others.

Do you really think they'll allow MITM proxies if they're already going after browser extensions and worse (see the "Web Integrity" stuff that's currently a hot topic)?
Asking anything C or C++ on SO has become an invitation to a ritual hazing. If, after dealing with everyone's ego, you can successfully demonstrate that you already know enough and you're not asking to pass a CS test, the Wise Ones may - may - deign to bestow you with an answer. Which usually won't relate to your specific issue.

Also, in C++, you can set your clock to someone commenting that you should just use smart pointers. It doesn't matter if the question is entirely unrelated.

As someone who spent a decade helping people answering code questions on Flashkit and later SO, I find the SO community and moderation now to be so off-putting that I avoid asking anything there if I can. I still give answers sometimes, but I'm much less likely to be on the site at all.
Do these allow the IDE to navigate code, ie will an npm install hide away the node_modules inside the container and the IDE doesn't know about it?
It's funny how many stories from earlier times boil down to "it wasn't meant to be malicious, just funny, but people didn't realize that it would multiply that much or use so many resources". See also: the morris worm (I mean, that arguably was designed as malware, but supposedly wasn't supposed to be nearly as bad as it was)
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Firefox has a great feature for taking screenshots and snippets of a webpage. In the settings go to More Tools > Customize Toolbar and drag the Screenshot tool to your toolbar. It's a built-in feature that I use daily.
CF is still the biggest free speech champion compared to other cloud providers. They still provide some contents that some people and content holder want to taken down.
Is this really the best she could come up with, in the era of ChatGPT ?
and (most importantly i think) a T!
But of course search engines are fine
No, the purpose of academia is to enable an educated society.

If we let things fall into a reinforcement loop the result is a bimodally educated society: from there does the intelligentsia then go and rule over the rubble?
Using AirPods as a hearing aid
Given TFA, it looks like you can ask Mozilla for a position by opening a GitHub issue at https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions
Forgive the potentially blunt comment, but is a $525 Linux tablet at all newsworthy? Couldn’t people run Linux from detachable notebooks like the Surface et al for some time now? How is this machine any different?
Next step Google starts scanning your face and eyeballs but doesn't bother paying for it.
The list you linked includes things like: web access for bluetooth, MIDI, and USB devices. These are very fringe use cases that quite frankly shouldn't be accessible from a random website.

The rest of these sound like extra bits of fingerprintable entropy here and there. Like, in no way will a website knowing how much RAM I have will improve my experience, but it'll help add a few bits of data to my web advertising fingerprints. Magnetometers and battery status would absolutely be fingerprintable; individual device characteristics would be unavoidably measurable.

The page you linked to actually lists all this out, and that should be enough to convince you that these standards shouldn't be implemented.
Fear mongering is what he created. As if ChatGPT successors will just become sentient & become doomsday paperclip maximizers
Really, really grim to frame carve-outs for state police as a win for the movement, but I guess that's where we are.
> I mostly stopped reading books since I bought a smartphone

Before smartphones I read voraciously and then around 2010 I kinda stopped. Not technical books (which I still read when the need arises) but novels.

At the start of the pandemic I got a Kindle and since then I've gotten back into the habit of reading fiction. I read at least 1 hour every day.
I haven't actually confirmed this but given that it's GCed, I would imagine it also doesn't use lifetimes so it's probably considerably quicker to write than normal Rust code. Rust without lifetimes sounds wonderful, actually.
Most cleaning jobs use wet towels and I think a wet washcloth would be the best solution here too. This eventually brought me to wet wipes.
it is more fun to have distinctive garments made

On a trip to Korea, one of the team had an entire suite of outfits made inspired by the movie "Electric Cowboy". Outstanding quality. These apparently made him wildly popular is several SFO clubs, esp in the Castro.
But websockets are quite expensive and requires huge server resources, aren’t they? Notably, lemmy instances can barely handle 1000s of people even when it is written in Rust because they (dumbly) decided to use websockets, when a forum absolutely doesn’t need it, and is more than fine with only approximately real-time data.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t claim anything general with this, of course WebSockets have their uses and I’m sure Electric Clojure uses them more responsibly, it really is more of a question on what do you think of it. Elixir also has WebSocket solutions, so it seems to be a more common solution nowadays.
> For instance, right now you can have 5 tunnels registered for your account. If you'd like to create a new tunnel and already have 5 others registered, the CLI will pick a random unused tunnel and delete it. Please note this limit is subject to change.

I have a feeling that this limit used to be 10 tunnels/user, did they decrease it?
I'm definitely one of those vim holdouts, even though vscode vim support is pretty good. If vscode ever supports ctrl-z to jump into a full terminal and fg to jump back into editor mode, then I'll definitely convert.
Emacs doesn’t have to be the most popular editor in order to find contributors. It is under active development and I don’t see signs that it would be left behind anytime soon.
Or Signal could be the most well orchestrated honey pot. The server code is already partially closed source. What I don't understand is how a small organization like that cannot be convinced or compelled by a very powerful government intelligence agency. I will stick with decentralized protocols I can host myself.
The eyeball scan prevents people from signing up multiple times.

You also have to protect against insider fraud by the employees at the signup locations. So having them click "Yes, a person showed up" isn't enough.
Unless I put a site stack overflow, I only get spam result.
Cutting back on the tiaras before the mocha lattes, huh? Starbucks really has their customer retention on lock ;P
Both of your points are basically true, but I think a better way to model the problem is as a set of similar-length vectors being linearly combined by a probability vector.

Mathematically, we can write v_out = V * w,

where v_out is the vector of output from the attention unit, w is the probability vector from the softmax, and V is the set of input vectors, where each column is an input vector.

For a moment, pretend that the columns of V are orthonormal to each other. This might not be true, but it's an interesting case.

When the model wants the output to be small, it can set w = 1/n, meaning all coordinates of vector w are 1/n. (n = the number of columns in V)

In that case, the length ||v_out|| will be 1/sqrt(n) exactly, which is small compared to the input lengths of 1 (since we're pretending they were orthonormal).

Now if we stop pretending they are orthonormal, the worst case is that they're all the same vector, in which case the weights w can't change anything. But that's a mighty weird case, and in high dimensions, if you have any randomness at all to a set of vectors, they tend to point in wildly different directions with dot products close to zero, in which case the same intuition for the orthonormal case applies, and we'd expect a uniform distribution coming out of the softmax to give us a vector that's much smaller than any of the input vectors.
And even with the 200%... count me skeptical that these modelers are able to control for the other specific factors of performance. When I did certain extra curriculars, there were certain achievements that were particularly noteworthy. The admissions counselors understood this, but did the modelers in 'all kinds of outlets' catch that?
I think moderation culture changed for a reason. About 8-10 years ago quality of answers started to decline because HR started to source SO for candidates. This created incentive for posting thousands of answers moments after the question is posted that were simply not right. More often than not those wrong answers were upvoted anyway. And HR won't check the quality of answers, they are concerned only with your total score.

Once I was researching something and found wrong answer on SO from some junior dev from India. The answer was wrong and it was evident that the author of the answer didn't even fully read the question. Out of curiosity I checked the author's profile and found out that it was a deliberate strategy: e.g. when there's a question about working with files, he'd post an answer with a link to the language page on "open".

I politely asked the author in the comments to stop posting wrong or useless answers. Instead, he wrote very aggressive response, opened my profile and downvoted as many of my answers as he could.

And there were many similar cases, probably still are.
Wow, that must have been frustrating. I just looked at the code and it's just so clearly wrong.
You are correct! We may be dismayed by how fast we approached new information (and thereby the speed of action), however, productivity has been steadily rising. On top of that, we are able to act and learn more variety than ever before. There are clear downsides and upsides to the speed. Overall, faster has shown to be better.
Or it's that she's taking Mozilla down paths that lead to Chrome dominance in the future, while getting paid a hefty sum that would be better spent funding Firefox development.
Oh, my first internet access was through one of those in 1991 at college! Found a cool exploit that let me anonymously broadcast messages to anyone. Sure freaked out a lot of people. Was fun cause you'd get to see the effects of your action in real time because it was a bunch of people in the same room on shared terminals.
Sometimes it's just an attempt to do the due diligence of citing the primary reference rather than the reference that cited the reference that cited the primary reference. I experienced this recently with a very widely cited basic fact in a very hard to come by technical report from the early 80s. I'd have bet dollars to cents it did in fact contain the statement everyone claimed it did.. however, just in case I made an inter-library loan request to actually read those couple sentences.
I think the "single letter" part is important here. AFAIK trademarks can't be too simple and generic. Sort of like how Intel couldn't trademark 286/386/486, so instead of 586 we got Pentium.
Not Colombia - very much the wrong part of the world.

Kampuchea and|or Cambodia works.
Just to check: Can Google unilaterally do this? Obviously they could keep the actual browser updating, and they could keep much of the OS updated, but do they own the whole stack, including firmware, enough that they can maintain the whole thing? (I think the situation is actually pretty good on x86 at least, but worth checking.)
Here RNA editing refers to more discrete changes at specific sequences like A-to-I (Adenosine-to-inosine) substitution. Splicing, capping, tailing, are common but would not be considered editing.
I always thought the Tesla naming scheme was inspired by Model T
I find this a very frustrating topic. I've studied psychology so I always feel compelled to look at the data first, but here I'm going to focus more on personal experience.

For me, the short answer is: it depends. Somtimes, I do have a short attention span--I'll start watching a video but then also look at the comments and suggested videos at the same time.

But if I find a truly interestng article or video, I will give it complete attention, even if it's a longform article or a half-hour documentary. I listen to hour-long lectures and podcasts.

What I don't like about this entire phenomenon is that people saw attention spans were declining and then decided to create stuff that doesn't require much attention.

I think instead of creating more short content, we should have made it scarce. People will consume what is available. There is much more short-form content available today than it was 5 years ago, because social media turned it into an advantage.

We should have continued creating long-form content. People would have paid attention to it if that was the only thing available.

I'd also partly blame the idea that you must be reading a lot, watching a lot, keep up with everything, and in general get more things done. So people turn to summaries and bullets, just to avoid being "left behind."
I jumped to a similar conclusion. Not my best post.
You mean their version of what Atom did before and that only VS Code is allowed to use the VS Code marketplace.
And of course things like this
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31760684

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
I meant "here" as in the topic at hand, not "here" as in HN.
Resources are finite so long as you stop developing new ones. Resources exist on the planet that are either too expensive in the current market to extract, or do too much damage to the local enviroment to get approvals. They are accessible when times get tougher.

The electrification of the planet is massively reducing the costs to support life. We buy and sell flipped bits to each other and renew our car batteries from home solar. You could live like a monk, automated hydroponics, electric everything and probably not notice the majority of service collapsing except sewage and water.

Water is a weird one because it's often not 'destroyed', just pumped around the ecosystem by natural forces or power plants and dirtied in the process. Developing cheaper water cycling methods could push costs even lower.

The mathematics of finite resources depends heavily on who is doing the mathematics. The pre-wheatbelt guys couldnt guess what was going to happen next.

AI is just a better tool. It has changed the relationship to work, like a car means we no longer ride horses. But we still use cars to do the same thing horses did. The categories have not changed as much as everyone is afraid of. Get out of trivial work, aka working in grammar, rhetoric and logic, and you'll probably feel a lot safer.
I don’t want to be constantly low-key insulted because I already don’t know the best approach and the answer to my own question, thank you.
Effectively ensured Mozilla is entirely dependant on Google as a single revenue steam. No other initiatives to earn anything.
The trademark is probably "Nissan Z", not "Z".
Telling people they're doing the wrong thing is extremely common. People actually wanting the wrong thing is common, but not _extremely_ common, and the mismatch is one of the more rage inducing things on the internet.
At best, he earned an inflation adjusted 400k total from it, per the article. At worse, he broke even or got scammed.

That’s a year of tech-bro salary.

Why aren’t you a multi-billionaire yet? Surely you can turn 400k into at least one billion dollars, since you obviously look down on musk so much.

Or is even 400k more than your earning potential?
> The average person is very likely to have malware on their computer, but not on their phone.

Is that sarcasm? Their computer is likely more secure than the jungle of manufacturer modified roms where who knows what's inside.
This is the same mistake that golang did.
If a group of economists can’t coordinate their behavior to prevent tragedy of the commons then they should rethink their career and life choices.
Right, and the two X logos (the one from Meta and the one from Twitter) are visually very different I’d say. But of course, I’m not a lawyer.
Yeah, I feel the same way about the $14 a month.

Perhaps a "one shot access pass" or something that lets you in for a few months while you do financial planning may be useful.

It might also be a good opportunity to check back in with people later (say in 12 months time) and get them to sign up again, if you can provide them with valuable insights and help them stick to their plan
No one has taken the 5 second rule to the limit. What are the behaviors of bacteria at infinity? Once the party is over all the bacteria go home disappointed they never got to give someone an upset stomach. For science, I think it's important we test this behavior. We may be able to loosen the bound some. The 6.31e10 second rule could be very useful to physicists.
>Maybe older parts of the city are different?

Maybe, but it would be the spread out grid that reflects what people do with fewer constraints, wouldn't it? The downtown center didn't have anything of interest to me that I can recall. Lot of construction going on.

I think I spent most of my time there in the ~20 x 10 mile rectangle west of downtown. Like Westheimer and the Katy freeway sound familiar.

I didn't have a car, at least the first time I went there. I don't follow you about it being too far to walk or bike or how it didn't intermingle housing with businesses enough. I found a place to stay, and I walked to work, and everywhere else, except if I took the bus.

If living by freeway overpasses, and pawn shops, and check cashing storefronts is not your idea of utopia, fine. But then was the ability to walk places ever the issue?

I can't identify any differences between your description of Japan and anywhere I've been in the US. I haven't ever been to CA though.
And just like Google and Chrome this will end up bad.
Safari uses webkit as the engine, which is FOSS. I mean, yes, I'd also like them to open source the whole thing and make it portable, but the engine is the hard part.
A position request was raised in February for both Mozilla[1] and WebKit[2] and neither have been responded to.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/753

[2] https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/142
I would say just write a tutorial page (or pages) or a record a video to show usage. Those tours really are useless.
Though physical connectors in electronics are a boring subject, I do think its one of the "important" subjects that's commonly overlooked in electronics tutorials or books.

The fact is that there are many companies with many combinations of connectors and wires. Much as how a mechanical engineer has to inevitably learn the difference from a Philips head screw vs a Torx screw, electrical engineers will need to learn the difference between D-Sub, 0.1" pin headers, and other such connectors, as well as the pros/cons of each.
> train two identical models on a large dataset

Yes but how much would this cost?

Would it be possible to build a small dataset that produces known outlier values, and test on that?
That's one of my favorites too.
I don't buy this theory — Elon holds the X branding dearly to an absurd degree and wouldn't burn it as an exit plan — but the question that I have is: how is Elon going to transfer x.com to X Corp? He reportedly owns it personally after buying it back from PayPal, so is he going to donate the domain to the newly-formed company or is he going to sell it to X Corp for a fee?
There’s also “Brand X”, which is always worse than whatever is being advertised.
He's been more of a quantum fanboy of late. He does still talk about obvious fraud, but he's largely uncritical of the bigger players' offerings. Likewise, he's on openAI's payroll; no hard-hitting critique to be found. His Busy Beaver content is top-notch, though.

But when he shares his opinions on cancel culture, gender, etc.? He's just another blogger.
Pretty much just account linking to get the balances for all my investment accounts and for mortgage (honestly don't care much about checking/savings/credit) and to keep them automatically updated. Don't really care about anything around transactions or finer grained budgeting. like, i imagine there's people that really want that, but it feels like a different (huge) project. I guess I find I get some small value from mint tracking that stuff, I wouldn't be against that being supported (but i wouldn't want it to detract from the main point).

i don't think i would use pdf imports. i'm sure some would be fine with that, but it's not worth my time.

I probably wouldn't really trust you with my credentials to any of those accounts, like i begrudgingly would for intuit/mint, and i don't know the state of integration apis these days but maybe that, unfortunately, would mean that you'd need to integrate with someone else that I do trust with that (if all the things i cared about allowed me to give you read-only access without sharing passwords, that's fine).

getting rsu vesting schedule automatically would be a nice bonus, but at least schwab's handling of this seems pretty much like a second class citizen so wouldn't be surprised if it's rather impossible.
Often the better answer is to just explain what's being asked by strongly encouraging them in the Z direction. Sometimes people just want to understand what's happening behind the scenes rather than just looking to solve for Y.
> The choices were EME, Flash, or no premium VOD on the web.

Actually, it was Silverlight, not Flash. But still a plugin nonetheless.