skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Farming of big fish like bluefin tuna is difficult. They're still working on salmon, last I recall, as it turns out to be a lot more difficult than one would think.

Farming catfish is an example of successful aquaculture, and even it isn't as simple as one would think. There was a point in the 90s (IIRC) where tiny farm ponds (1-2 acres or less) in the US were producing some huge percentage of all farmed catfish, 60-70% or thereabouts. When ethanol subsidies really kicked off, all the corn went to make faux gasoline, which meant it wasn't as available for fish feed, and the price of the feed closed the farm ponds, which were filled in and planted. (Probably with corn.)

The Romans used to eat a lot of mullet, as this fish lived in their canals and waterways, and are easy to catch with nets. But the mullet is a terroir fish--it tastes like where it lives--and as the canals and waterways got gross, so did the fish. Mullet is thought of as poor people food now, there's a reason why on the Gulf Coast they're called "Biloxi bacon." But it would be a much simpler fish to farm, as long as you can keep the water clean.
Citation? FTC against Google doesn't produce much results on Google (kind of an irony :))

Have seen FTC going against Amazon because the FTC chair had published prior work against Amazon's practices. Not defending Amazon but FB/Google are a much bigger threat than Amazon.
Clearly the implication is that rushing to join a professional discussion just to yell about some or another controversial proposal you read about on HN is not going to work to sway the stakeholders. If you want influence, you need to cultivate it over time by building trust in the community you want to influence. That's hardly controversial.

In particular, taking a fairly dry proposal like WEI, which is intended as a anti-bot/anti-cheat framework for web content, and spinning it with a shitpost title like "Google vs. the Open Web" is really not going to ingratiate you with the people who think hard about very difficult problems every day.

Is it a good proposal? Honestly I don't know. But the problems it's trying to address are real, so I'm inclined to give the benefit of the doubt to the people trying to solve them in good faith over the shitposters.
Hall Of Light - The database of Amiga games
HBM is on both NVIDIA and AMD's datacenter cards, and on the consumer side, AMD's Vega GPUs.
Are there forks or earlier versions of Chromium browsers that can be maintained separately without folding in these changes?
Cannot a phone be used as a motivation then? E.g. take it away for bad grades.
As the middle man Google benefits from ad-fraud and has few incentives to really stop it. Ad-blocking is a real problem for them however, and they have huge incentives to prevent that. Ignore what they say - that's what WEI is actually about.
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I realise all the negative effects if this starts becoming a thing, but could someone explain how is it they propose to technically enforce this "signed browser binary" requirement? What's stopping me from writing my browser to submit false info? Any encryption keys or hashes present in the "certified" binaries can be extracted (the binary after all needs access to it to use it, right?).

The only way this has a slightest chance of working is in connection with trusted hardware. Microsoft has been trying hard to push tpm on everyone and failed. What makes them think they'll succeed?
How does WEI work with non-browsers, like curl or python requests? I was wondering if there is some motive here to monopolize web scraping (especially with respect to harvesting AI training data)?
The anthem, link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KNWdhVJq9k
What you think they push the flag without the intention to make it happen?
It's pretty easy to drink four gallons (+extras) on a hot day roofing.
But, conveniently, Russians cannot use paid VPNs anyway unless they accept Bitcoin.
If I understand correctly, you are not getting one piece of software. You get access to everything in their library, like a spotify subscription. You also choose which developer gets your $5 or whatever, so you retain the meritocratic infrastructure that a traditional marketplace provides.
I was going to write that plastics has to be bogger all in weight, but it is 100 kg per person and year in Europe and 200 kg in the US, which is kinda surprising.

There has to be due to industrial or commercial usage right? I mean, I would be surprised if I used more than even 10 kg of plastics per year. That is like 1000s of plastic bags, and I and most people use paper bags anyways.
That’s backing down from responsibility not from doing the wrong thing.

We can add www to the list.
Socialism aside, since that is a boogieman. As much as 'free-market' is boogieman.

There were problems in the free market in the 1900's with employees being slaves, corporations were hiring Pinkertons and killing people. It was actual war. So Unions were the outcome. Maybe Unions were not optimal, but they were not the cause of all this, they were the outcome. Nobody formed Unions to 'extract' rents, they were formed for preservation.

Now --> Things changed. Just like all organizations, maybe Unions then went sideways, became rent extractors. That was much later. Unions weren't formed to extract rent.
But this is a boogieman. Unions are at an all time low % of population. Membership has been decreasing for decades, they no longer have much political power, even Democrats barely pay attention to them. SO in some sense maybe 'free' market is already eroding them. They definitely are not big enough or widespread enough to be causing a general problem in the economy.

While at the same time, employee rights have been eroded, many people with full time jobs live in poverty and are on welfare, exactly because the 'free-market' has allowed corporations to pay below-living wage. If any thing, we need more Unions to correct the downward pressure of the free-market.

On Rents.
I find the real scary part of this article is discussion of Monopolies that extract rent, under pressure.

From the article.

""
Capitalist philosophers railed against rent. The "free market" of Adam Smith wasn't a market that was free from regulation – it was a market free from rents. The reason Smith railed against monopolists is because he (correctly) understood that once a monopoly emerged, it would become a chokepoint through which a rentier could cream off the profits he considered the capitalist's due:

https://locusmag.com/2021/03/cory-doctorow-free-markets/

Today, we live in a rentier's paradise. People don't aspire to create value – they aspire to capture it
""

Or if not monopolies, by entire industries that only offer bad choices.

Lets say you want to buy a car that doesn't track you, you go to the free market and through competition try and find an option that does not track you. But, every car company is going down the same path of tracking, now you the customer that wants to make a free choice in the free-market, can't. There are no options.
This is about WEI, Web environment integrity. The article below sums it up pretty good.

"The proposal suggests that websites should be able to request an attestation from the browser about its “integrity”. Such attestations are to be provided by external agents, which – presumably – examine the browser and its plugins, and issue an approval only if those checks pass.

The attestation is sent back to the website, which can now decide to deny service if the agent did not give approval." [1]

1. https://interpeer.io/blog/2023/07/google-vs-the-open-web

In other words, websites can now force you to comply with their shitty behaviour in order to allow you access, otherwise you get denided access.
For a personal machine, it's fine to leave it always on.

> All recoverable, but annoying.

For a machine that other people are supposed to rely upon, I'd rather exercise this recovery you are talking about regularly. So I know it works, when I need it.

For a production system, I rather live through it's first day of uptime 10,000 days in a row, than making new uptime records every day. In production, you don't want to do anything for the first time, if you can avoid it.
As someone who didn't have a phone until 12 or 13, please do, BUT make sure you do it right. I use my phone for maybe 5 minutes a day excluding essential stuff, have 0 social media, and have no interest in increasing either number.

If you just hold it over their head, they'll go find some other kid whose parents' entire parenting philosophy is "give iPad". You should make sure to explain to them why you're restricting the tech (and be open if you think the kids are mature enough to understand). "You could download bad things that spy on you or get exposed to bad content - it even happens to a lot of adults" is a much better explanation than "ooo spooky bad stuff on internet".

My final suggestion, and what I wish my parents had done, is allowed me to use the internet freely, with supervision (and an adblocker). Instead of letting them go on YouTube or Reddit to watch random streamers, let (and encourage) them to try learning Spanish, Python, electronic music, whatever. It would have been extremely fun for me as a kid to learn about "advanced" stuff like coding actual websites or messing with the terminal instead of playing with the sanitized block-code websites. They'll also pick up useful skills in the process, and be entertained in a productive way. Much better than restricting or allowing everything imo.

Also, the fact that you're considering this makes you a better parent than half the population nowadays. Keep your kids from consuming garbage and they will thank you later!
Not OP, but I think they want the software to be FLOSS, but if you want some feature/change you pay (the maintainers) to have it done.
4090 is now in high end PCs, with 24GB VRAM, that's what I'm going to buy.

Everyone talks about Nvidia GPUs and AMD MI250/MI300, where is Intel? Would love to have a 3rd player.
Reminds me of looking at old photos of people in bars or planes all smoking.
It's cheapest for consumers not to pay for trash pickup at all but instead to just dump their refuse in the nearest gully.
Multiple profiles is fully supported. It's just hidden behind a clunky UX.

Also check out firefox containers which is to profiles what docker is to virtual machines.
We must believe in ourselves. We are too quick to be cynical about the future of the web - too quick to forget our ingenuity in the face of adversity.
A new AI tool that detects lies on video calls
That looks an awful lot like a cartel.
>Tell me how a minority of informed and caring users can avoid on their own that a single large scale bad actor pours millions over millions of dollars to convince the uninformed masses about whatever they want.

Firefox.

No, not Firefox of today; I'm talking about Firefox 20 years ago that defeated IE6 by sheer force of nerds alone.

Of course, the landscape is vastly different now and Firefox today is about the most not-nerd thing next to Chrome. If there's a a browser here to save us anywhere, I'm not seeing it.
The problem with him arguing that it's just an early proposal is they are adding it to Chrome nightly builds
https://sci-hub.se/10.1002/cpt197824140

> Mean caffeine t1/2 in smokers (3.5 hr) was shorter than that in the nonsmokers (6.0 hr).

small study but that's pretty cool
Less you know someone, happier they seem.

I have made some deep friendships with people who are always joking, laughing, etc. but when they finally open up, you realize they are also unhappy about many things. Sometimes more than serious people.

The happiest person I know is probably one of my best friends. He complains more than other people. He knows what he likes and rarely accepts alternatives. He is one of those people who will send food back if it is not cooked right. He also knows when to verbalize his issues and when to stay quiet. If he is not comfortable at a party or something, he will just leave.

He recently got a new job, didn’t like the company immediately started looking for a new job. He also runs his own business and fire his customers if they cause issues. Having dual incomes gives him some financial stability that unfortunately many people don't have. Also he has never complained about something more than once. That is because he doesn’t stay in bad situations for long.

It sounds like he might be miserable person but it is opposite. He truly loves life, is happy most of the time. Strangers and friends love him. He got a big circle of friends. We say he is eccentric and kind of love his antics.

He is artist at heart and he pursue his art very seriously (though not successful yet). If job or business gets in the way of him working on his art, he will quickly fix that. Perhaps he is happy because he has a mission in life and not letting anything stop him from getting what he wants.
Agree that AI is at a different stage of development and has a different risk profile, but my idea would be to learn from those 100+ years of nuclear power management (successes and failures) and bootstrap a similar set of organisations for AI.

I don’t see anything in your reasons that would fundamentally preclude such a setup. I guess that’s really my question - is there a gotcha for AI development that requires a completely new regulatory solution?
What's wrong with Youtube? I haven't noticed anything.
Solar Panels Are Three Times More Carbon-Intensive Than IPCC Claims
It's small, but here's a real actionable item that you can do to help:

Put a gentle "Use Firefox" (or any other non-Chromium-based browser) message on your website. It doesn't have to be in-your-face, just something small.

I've taken my own advice and added it to my own website: https://geeklaunch.io/

(It only appears on Chromium-based browsers.)

We can slowly turn the tide, little by little.
it's used quite common in Nvidia, Intel and AMD designs, in fact all of them uses HBM, high speed, high cost, high power.
Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. - Mike Tyson
ENORMOUS fingerprinting potential and capability to disrupt the user's ability to block content. Or access it.
Making Pull Requests Less Painful with an AI-Agent
You're allowed to discriminate based on personality by law, but socially, if you do it with anyone you don't agree with completely:

1. You probably don't have many friends or

2. Your friends are not very diverse

Outside, in the real world, I can sit and have a very pleasant conversation on TV shows or Lisp interpreters with someone with terrible ideas or belief which are inconsequential to the matter at hand and are not part of the conversation. I can sit for a beer with childhood acquaintances that I know are racist, bigots or generally idiots, because we're talking about something else than the things I know we don't see eye to eye. And that's fine.

It is frightening that we're forgetting how real people outside the Internet are, behave and can get along in all their complexity.
I think this is a somewhat natural consequence of Google being a powerful corporation.

And, I don’t think we (somewhat loosely defined group of people who like free software and information and have a user-friendly computing environment) can and should work against this. Probably, we should give the corporate web some sandbox where they can play their games, while we develop alternatives.

For example, Gemini is becoming more popular. People are talking about search engines that exclude the corporate web and favor personal websites. IPFS or just switching to FF again.
> Income growth has stagnated because of growing centralization. All of this socialism you claim we need is contributing to that centralization.

That's an unsubstantiated claim. The material you referenced points to other sources as the culprit. But let's start from the beginning.

There has been wage stagnation and the workers share of the profit has been steadily shrinking ever since the 1970ies. The Bosworth piece you link to asserts that much.

To quote from the article:

> all of the evidence points to uncommonly small gains in workers’ real (adjusted for inflation) wages

All the while, non-worker compensation has been rising disproportionately at double digit levels, at times decoupled even from the growth of the associated companies[1]. So, there's money. It's just not going to the workers.

> All of this socialism you claim we need is contributing to that centralization.

I'm not sure I see an argument for that.

> especially as inflation and income growth would make those high brackets cover

That's fine. We don't have to go back to the rates of the 1950ies. But having a person earning hundreds of thousands of USD per year paying a lower effective rate than a janitor is just cynical exploitation.

> Also let's look at the 1950s: that era had huge unions, which led to the destruction of the largest US industries.

The US industry and manufacturing was doing fine - until the shareholders and the management decided it would be more profitable to offshore production.[2]

> So the wage growth in the 1950s wasn't sustainable.

Differences in compensation between management and workers have been continuously expanding ever since the '50ies. So there seems to money around to continue to grow some wages. Just not to grow those of the workers doing the actual work. Strange, right?

Meanwhile, Bosworth makes a compelling argument that offshoring and reduced competition is very much responsible for the drop in real wages. He writes:

> However, some analysts point to the development of a highly competitive global market for labor combined with a more general reduction in product-market competition through reliance of mergers, IT patents, and regulations that suggest a reduced labor share may be a longer-lasting phenomenon.

Percentage of workers represented in unions has not been as low as today in the last fifty years.[3]

So, there you have it; by not having bargaining power, workers are being exploited by companies that leverage their size, reach and influence of regulations, resulting in record profits for these companies[4].

So, maybe we actually need stronger unions. I think there's an argument to be made.

[1] https://www.shrm.org/ResourcesAndTools/hr-topics/compensatio...

[2] https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-9/forty-years-of-falling...

[3] https://www.statista.com/statistics/195351/number-of-employe...

[4] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/classroom/2022/04/why-corporati...
Well, true :)

What I should've written is that: yes, they are open source, but there's no way to influence the direction they are going. These projects are 100% Google-run, and very few (if any) decisions are public.

For most projects there's also a significant proprietary part in the actual final product
Agreed. This book is great. I stumbled across it while researching a steampunk RPG I was making years ago & instantly fell in love with it. Highly recommend it.
That's currently just an idea in the 'Open questions' section of the spec, but there is already pushback against it from others closely involved in the spec & discussion around this (https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...) and notably the attestation feature Google already shipped on Android for native apps in the same situation does _not_ do this.
but that's exactly what log does, it is a pipeline filter that logs the content to standard output but otherwise it is passthrough.
Just under half. 25 out of 55. Slaves weren't cheap to buy.
WEI turns non-compliant browsers into second-class citizens. You’re perfectly free to use whatever compliant browser engine and OS combo you like today – but in a world with WEI, you’ll have to use Approved Chrome on an Approved OS on Approved Hardware with Approved Signing Keys, or you won’t be able to sign into your bank.
Instead of simply flailing our collective arms around complaining about an evil corporation, has anyone written to the respective competition authorities (such as the FTC in the US or CCI in India) about the potential anticompetitive effects of this proposal?
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It should replace all instance of " X " with "Twitter" as well.
what exactly do you want to preserve from the web as we know it today?

let it burn

focus on building something new, new protocols, new networks, new browsers
Exactly. I use Firefox for everything. It renders all the pages fine and is speedy enough so that I never question its performance. But even if it had some issues, those were minor compared to the danger the web is in now.
In the 2000s it was funny how corporates just failed to understand how client server models worked. Nowadays it is just sad and a reason to move more and more towards crypto for the day to day banking stuff...
Do you mean to imply that education outcomes are unrelated to technology or that advancing technology may make them worse? Do you think there's a defensible abstraction of your claim?

We also did "just fine, if not better" in my role at the bank (vaguely) before digitization. I assure you, the efficiency upgrades of advancing technology pay for themselves many times over, even if there are hiccups and new learning to match.

Phones enable more education than ever before. The limiting factor is now motivation.
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I don’t think that’s what that disclaimer is. There’s a presumption that you’ve already processed via friends what you can, but a trained professional can contribute more directly and with expertise. Therapy isn’t a cop-out.
Emulator Debugging: Windows 3.0 and VGA
If it's in the ingredients list, it is added. There's also a macronutrients table in every packaged article.

There is exactly one common brand of mayo that has no added sugar. One.

And there's no way to buy sugar-free versions of many other kinds of food, from fried tomatoes sauce, sausages, etc. that were traditionally made without sugar for centuries.

It's a plague.
This is essentially a backdoor attempt to TiVoize[0] web browsers. The only difference is that, instead of directly using hardware to prevent you from running a modified browser, the intent is to use network effects to accomplish the same thing.

[0]- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization
it doesn't. Hosts will inevitably start blocking clients which don't exchange an attestation token
Bpfilter Is Forever
Edge is based on Chromium now, has been for years. Wouldn't be a leap to have TPM enforcement here too.
Mozilla should call for Google's removal from the W3C over this implementation of Web Environment Integrity. "But Chrome has 65% market share, what good is the W3C without them?” If Google can take unilateral action to fundamentally change the basic principles of the web, then the W3C is already useless. This will give Google a clear choice: if they want to maintain the idea that the W3C matters, they should withdraw this implementation.

It is unbelievable that over the course of 3 days, the potential future of the web has been put in such dire straits. There's already an existing, far less troubling (while still bad), proposal in the form of Private Access Tokens going through a standards committee that Google chose to ignore. They presented this proposal in the shadiest way possible through a personal GitHub account. They immediately shut down outside contribution and comments. And despite the blowback they are already shoving a full implementation into Chromium.

What we need is real action, and this is the role Mozilla has always presented itself as serving. A "true" disinterested defender of the ideals of the web. Now is the time to prove it. Simply opposing this proposal isn't enough. This is about as clear and basic an attack on what fundamentally differentiates the web from every walled garden as possible. If someone drafted a proposal to the W3C that stated that only existing browsers should be allowed to render web pages, the correct response would not be to "take the stance that you oppose that proposal," it would be to seriously question whether the submitting party should even participate in the group. Make no mistake, that is what is happening now.
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