skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"This isn't one of those areas" wasn't referring to Google yet again abandoning a shiny object, it was referring to me getting annoyed about them doing it.

Look, we all know, Google abandoning shit is a meme at this point. But there are literally no downsides to the consumer of going with the better product of Google Fiber even if they do abandon it. It's like you and other people want to be mad at Google just because at this point.
Publicly available PII isn’t very sensitive, I think.

So I feel like it’s important to distinguish between sensitive PII (my social or bank number) and non-sensitive PII (my name and phone number scraped from my public web site).

The former is really bad, both to train on and to divulge. The latter is not bad at all and not even remarkable, unless tied to something else making it sensitive (eg, hiv status from a medical record).
Usenix Security '23 – Ransomware over Modern Web Browsers [video]
I'm curious - why is this a matter for the supreme court and not the legislative branch who usually make the rules on taxation?
They aren’t wrong.
Seventy-one upvotes in the first 18 minutes for a story about a browser with < 10% usage. My fellow Mozillians (I worked there for four years) are wildly overrepresented among HN voters, which suggests that HN voters have a large contingent of tech veterans as opposed to startup coders. Meanwhile the other 30 stories most recently submitted, several of them excellent and on important topics, are getting 0, 1, or 2 upvotes.

Maybe it's time to let go of the '00s.
Here a comprehensive write-up in Polish in a somewhat sensationalized - but rightly so - tone: https://zaufanatrzeciastrona.pl/post/o-trzech-takich-co-zhak...
I feel like it's not that high for a CEO salary at a mature compnay. Staff-level engineers are routinely paid upwards of 1M these days (yay inflation). 6M for a CEO doesn't sound unreasonable.

If these numbers sound high ... $1M today was $500K in 1996.
They know their average user in 2023 is not the type to be cognizant that they're even using a "web browser" when opening an app like Chrome. I think it's really up to geeks like we to install Firefox on our moms' computers and inform them on why they should try it. That's how I got my mom to try Firefox with ad blocking around 15 years ago; otherwise she either wouldn't have known about it or she might have thought ad blocking was something nefarious. We just can't act as if we build it then they will come.
>Broadly, the notional value of storage technology like Optane is that it offers a drop-in improvement in storage performance without requiring any software modification, albeit at a significant cost premium.

I don't think so at all. The value of Optane was that it was dramatically different, offering byte-addressable storage with latency of hundreds of nanoseconds. Getting the most out of this requires radically redesigning how modern systems store data, including ditching the idea of block storage.

Optane was the fastest traditional SSD on the market by a pretty wide margin, but that's not all it could have been.

>They use the storage so well that the gains by putting something in the middle will be marginal or non-existent, and certainly not worth the extra cost.

I don't agree with this either. How do you propose to get latency down to match Optane using ordinary SSDs? It doesn't matter how much hardware you throw at the problem; parallelism cannot reduce latency. You need another storage system to hit those targets. Maybe that can be a more traditional DRAM cache with battery backup, but that's only adequate in bursty workloads.

Putting "something in the middle" isn't worth it if the rest of the architecture stays the same. But it could bring about tremendous speedups if the new capabilities were used.
I think Firefox no longer has memory leaks.
I just which they'd follow Brave's BAT idea, or something along those lines.

Brave's BAT, while feeling kludgeful, is the only innovative idea in terms of funding sites nowadays.

Micropayments => dead
Coil => dead (sorry, on a open stewardship)
Flattr => unknown, guessing dead

So I want to block ads but I ain't depriving the websites of a way of earning money. If they want they can get my money -- but usually only that which was earned by wasting time to look at an ad.
The art and science of building these models is not disputed, but I think that the scientific value of prompts is tightly linked to reproducibility.

If you’ve developed a new prompt for a model whose weights you can directly access, then this prompt could have scientific value because its utility will not diminish over time or be erased with a new model update. I’m even generally of the view that a closed API endpoint whose expiration date is years into the future could have some value (but much less so). But simply finding a prompt for something like ChatGPT is not useful for science because we don’t even have certainty about which model it’s executing against.

Note that some of the best uses of these models and prompting have nothing to do with academics; this is a comment focused on the idea about writing academic papers about prompts.
damn I wish I'd get x7 increase in salary in 7 years. This guy must know where some bodies are buried.
Ebitengine in 2023 (a retrospective of a 2D game engine for Go in the year 2023)
You have no guarantee on the type of regime under which you will live in a few years nor on the rules it will enforce. Actually, democracies are perfect regimes for rapid rule change without requiring a regime change.
Ask HN: Is Reddit Working Fine?
It's not about finding a 100% solution. It's about deterring as many people as you can.
There are already businesses that practice eugenics based on illegal data like this or illegal maps
But their chart shows Firefox reaching above 3% usage in the past 12 months. It’s pretty consistent in the past few years being above that government support cut off. And that’s really just support. If people follow web standards Firefox will continue work.

I mean it has been a steady decline but parent comment was suggesting that Firefox is probably near the floor of their market share.
37C3 halfnarp – Submit talk preferences to aid scheduling
High altitude 'prehab' may reduce surgical complications in older patients
Unfortunately yes - this view isn't so out there that it's not inconceivable that someone would genuinely express it.
Is there something you can link to? I’d like to learn more.
Wow. Circa 1999 my software engineering class, the college class that has the distinction of being the only class I've ever taken that I'm pretty sure I now disagree with literally everything that was taught in it, had us using that software suite to try to do that.

I recall it made a very uncompelling case, on the grounds that it was putatively the future of software engineering, and you could hardly right-click on anything without the stupid thing hard crashing. Pro-tip: If your software is the future of software engineering, an engineering student using your software to do exactly what it was designed to do should not be able to crash it in under two minutes. And then keep crashing it.

But even when it was working, it was literally virtually impossible to so much as contort a student assignment into that model. I can't imagine working somewhere that insisted on building production software that way, and I'm shocked they're still finding enough chumps to stay in business with that complete and utter trip pipe dream.

(In a nutshell, the primary problem with such systems is that they do not account for the fact that every entity in a diagram is a cost. Every entity in a diagram needs to carry a value in excess of that cost, preferably comfortably so. Any methodology that insists on a totalizing view of the world in which everything must be in a diagram will produce diagrams so cognitively expensive that they are just a blurred mass of diagram entities no easier to understand than the underlying code. The people pushing these systems build nice little demo diagrams with 10-15 entities in them that are easy to understand, and then incorrectly attribute the ease of understanding to the fact that it is a diagram, rather than the fact the diagram only contains a handful of entities! Then they build systems based on the utterly incorrect belief that all diagrams are simple. The results are entirely predictable when you see it from this point of view. The part that's mindblowing is just how hard some people need to be beaten over their skull with the fact that diagrams aren't necessarily simple once they've ingested this idea, no matter how many hundreds of insanely complicated diagrams they stare at over the years....)
Routinely??? I don't know of one staff level that gets paid that much
> Genuine question. What is justifying Mozilla Corporation CEO Mitchell Baker's salary?

Nothing, of course. Absolutely nothing.
I agree with another commenter about reaching out to people directly. This is why I built TJ Alerts[0]. You can create an alert for a specific technology and will get notified every time a new job pops up.

Better yet, there is a search panel that would allow you to filter out all the jobs that have contact info, so that you can reach out directly.

Give it a try, would love to know what you think.

[0]: https://gettjalerts.com/
ShowEQ still works, there is also MySEQ which is Windows based but just reads memory instead. They are fine to use as the current owners of EQ don't really seem to care. Neither app has ever been able to show what loot a mob has except for visible pieces. Some of the data has changed over the years, for example exact mob HP used to be sent, now they just send percentages.
well... WOTC is a small indie game company
next time they try to root out whatever 'vermin' defined; it will be a quick natural language prompt trained on ingested data from the last 2 decades to get that list of names and addresses / networks. AI is going to make targeting groups with differing ideologies dead simple. It will be used.
Looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NPR_personnel I see two people with hyphenated names who are white, two who aren’t, and far, far more who don’t have hyphenated names. I have no idea what this absurdity was intended to prove but it’s clearly untrue even before you compare it to other news organizations to see whether NPR is unusual.

I would also suggest that by the time you are focusing on whether reporters are white rather than their work, you’ve already lost whatever you’re arguing.
Right, but I do integrations for a few more years and I can now look for either web development or integration jobs. I now have at least 2 career paths. Though, I've spent so many years doing database work (both DDL and DML work) that I could do that as a career path too. Frankly, none of these things are where I started out as a junior developer.
> 2) Every 2-bit criminal knows A Guy who can re-use any part of a stolen iPhone without issues

A junkie sells it to someone who buys these. That person sells it on and so on. So eventually you end up with a company that buys a broken iphones in bulk to recycle the parts to resell. So not every 2-bit criminals knows a guy who can re-use the parts, they know a guy who'll buy the phone and they don't care after that. People who are stealing phones are stealing them for a reason, they can sell them for drug money.

But also, it's only newer phones that have this issue (I suspect jailbreaking will allow them so that is probably also getting done) so older iPhones are still up for grabs. But as you can see here https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fa... they do seem to still work but give off a message
... As long as there aren't many subscribers in the area.

Satellite is OK if there isn't anything else. On average, it doesn't beat 4G/5G.
Sadomasochism is alive an well.
I am seeing this error "Our CDN was unable to reach our servers"
I’m pretty sure the billions of marketing budget (for a while there was a Chrome billboard on every other bus stop in my city), aggressively installing it as part of Windows freeware etc. has at least as much to do with its popularity.

Maybe Chrome got the first 10% of its user base on its merits (that’s how I installed it at least); the next 30% definitely include a lot of people that don’t know what a browser is and got it via some other deal.
If this is the case, it seems that they need to recode the Enhanced Tracking Protection for GA to ensure that they get flagged as FFox.

Might also be useful to have a plug-in to make a daily 'ping'/check-in from FFox to any govt sites used by their users. E.g., I use USPS and SBA/SBIR sites, but only occasionally or monthly, but if most FFox users who did so got logged more like daily instead of ~fortnightly or ~monthly, it'd improve the numbers. (Obviously, also must be done carefully so as to not get wholesale discounted).

The cascade effect of the US Govt abandoning support would be catastrophic, likely terminal, which would be bad for everyone.
I remember how shocked I was when I first learned how insecure caller-ID is. I was setting up a VOIP PBX for the small business I was taking over from my father after he passed away unexpectedly. I hadn't been able to get into his (telco-hosted) voicemail, until I happened to call the number from the new VOIP line. Since I had the caller-ID set to the same number, the voicemail system not only bypassed the greeting, but it automatically logged me in (it was set to bypass the PIN when calling from the same line).

I tell people that caller-ID should be trusted as much as the return address on an envelope. Perhaps I can soon update my guidance now that STIR/SHAKEN is (apparently) near full rollout.
Link to public data around firefox usage.

https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity
Service-as-Software-Substitution. It should be taught in school, but Microsoft and Apple keeps pushing their narrative to the kids. And the narrative is pretty opposite to values of freedom, privacy and reverse engineering.
Slow to update packages, sorry for the confusion

Nothing wrong with the performance!
gross

I don't mean that in the 'before costs/taxes' sense.
i think a podcast is more fundamentally about delivering audio content automatically than it is about user control. the term didn't originate until that function started happening. if it was an issue to be exclusive to one program then we absolutely would have a different term by now but society has been content to continue calling exclusive shows podcasts. shows that moved to Spotify are otherwise unchanged - so its not about control, its about how its distributed
No. Just saying that there comes a time where a company may be refusing to fix bugs because they aren't earning enough money associated with that software.

So, open-source may win there. It's worth thinking about it.
The internet enables new ways to attack democracy, need to fix those bugs.

Should you publish the manifesto of a terrorist?
Should you allow people to create millions of accounts?
Who should you amplify with your algorithm?
> As ridiculous as it may seem, they're doing the right thing.

Making it against the rules to be able to prove their illegal behavior is not the right thing to do.
Sad when I had the 5s issue on FF I switched to Freetube.

No surprise Google is doing those tactics if people react like you :( ...
BinaryNinja does this. They have several layers of intermediate representations[1], which they build their compiler on top of. Ghidra does something similar with their PCode. They disassemble to PCode and then decompile the PCode[2].

[1] https://docs.binary.ninja/dev/bnil-overview.html
[2] https://riverloopsecurity.com/blog/2019/05/pcode/ (an example)
Which villages does your family descend from specifically? Although it wouldn’t be surprising if a person of Rusyn descent has never heard of this, since one of the most frequent remarks in histories of the Rusyn people is that the identity has sometimes flourished more in the diaspora than in situ.

My experience is from mid 2019 in communities around Medzilaborce where I was collecting microtoponymic data. I was obviously inclined to think of this minority East Slavic material as Rusyn, but my informants insisted that it was “Ukrainian”. Considering that these communities have produced figures who went on to be famous in wider “Ukrainian” movements, it is no surprise that the two ethnonyms have competed in that region.

EDIT: So I went searching to read more about this using "Čertižné" (one of the supposedly “Ukrainian” villages) as a search term. In this essay[0] where a writer of Čertižné descent is mostly busy criticizing Timothy Snyder, he briefly sketches the phenomenon I witnessed:

"The end of WW2 saw the annexation of Subcarpathian Rus’, renamed Transcarpathia, into the USSR. To legitimize seizure of this territory, Stalin brought the debate over the ethnic identity to a close and deemed all Rusyns Ukrainian. Rusyn became a bourgeoise term placed outside of law and all those who identified as such were now forcefully Ukrainianized. Some Rusyns in Czechoslovakia, given the choice of complete assimilation or at least a partial preservation of their culture, accepted the Ukrainian label. For example, the current director of the Rusyn Museum in Prešov, Ľuba Kráľová, identified as a Ukrainian during the communist regime even though she doesn’t speak Ukrainian. Other Rusyns felt closer to the Slovak ethnic identity than to the Ukrainian one."

[0] https://rusynsociety.com/2023/04/03/where-timothy-snyder-fal...
Help me understand this, I'm not sure aws, gcp or azure offer analytics around models degrading over time though? How can I track the drop in accuracy levels or problems of overfitting in prod?
Good to know! I'm not a regular listener, but I really enjoyed the "The Untold Story of SQLite" episode. https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/
Yes, but consider that people of higher SES do not want to mix with people of middle and low SES.

And part of that is because they are not fun to be around! People of low SES tend to be meaner, more anti-social in their behaviors like littering, not maintaining their environment, more likely to commit crime, less family formation, etc.

Access to well behaved people is not a human right.
If a new prompt enables a new task or enhances performance on a task then it absolutely should be published.

Back in the day would compiler optimizations be not worthy of publishing?
I don't like the anti-queer nature of the "family" filters either, but it's something that users are actively opting into. I would rather people deal with "family friendly" by configuring their family's DNS than by trying to change the public internet.
USDS aren’t idiots, and if they haven’t realised this yet then maybe this post will focus attention. They want to support every citizen it’s reasonable to support (or at least I did when I was working for GOV.UK) and dropping support from a lack of knowledge shouldn’t be on the agenda.
What a ridiculous analogy. What’s the iceberg here? Google Chrome? The originally underdog competitor they’ve known and battled for well over a decade?
Here's what Godwin has to say about it: https://twitter.com/sfmnemonic/status/896884949634232320

Godwin's Law was about heated Usenet discussions that have nothing to do with politics where people would eventually end up calling each other nazis. That's a totally different situation than Elon Musk inviting actual nazis and white supremacists to Twitter, paying them for their contributions, boosting and retweeting then, and kicking out critics.
The problem is that if you want to keep the server state around, there's already a cheap and easy solution: write a persistent server.
No they don’t. Wikipedia pages, according to their own rules, contain secondary sources.
One reason why questions like this are important is because it gives the audience around the asker an opportunity to learn something new. Isn't it important to be able to express curiosity, especially for the benefit of others?
> Genuine question. What is justifying Mozilla Corporation CEO Mitchell Baker's salary?

This question is why I don't expect Mozilla to last at its current course. I like their work, but the endless increases in CEO salary while their most important money maker is fledgling is not justifiable.
> Outstanding climate - ... clear skies and sunny every day

> Summer is 30-35c and humid often with storms.

So it's outstanding except all the times when it's not.
You’re begging the question. What is healthy food? In my view plant-based foods are not healthy. Red meat is healthy.
I switched over after the Manifest v3 debacle, and after a couple of months, I wonder if the implications of using a browser with a lower market share are overblown.

I haven't encountered any site that misbehaves, and the only missing feature so far is within the Google Drive web app because it uses a Chrome-only extension [1].

Maybe the ongoing standardization of the web shows its effects here, and using a standard-conform niche browser is not that bad anymore.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/application-launch...
I don't know, but really want to. I need this in my life.
> the upper class and the upper middle class tend to live in or near cities. As far as the poor and working class, the majority live outside cities in agricultural societies

I'm not sure that tracks. Farmers are the epitome of the upper to upper-middle class, deriving their living wholly or mostly from land and capital ownership.

Perhaps you meant upper to upper-middle income rather than class?
I have a question that I was hoping the video would answer, but I didn't see. The Fediverse is always described with that interconnected diagram where everything talks to each other over ActivityPub. But I never see that in practice.

For example: If I have a mastodon.social account, how does that work with pixelfed.social or tube.jenna.net? Do I use my mastodon.social account to sign up to those other services? Or to follow users on those other services? How do the clients handle the fact that they are different services?
>Firefox's market share has been on the decline since 2010.

Its decline is also visible in Mozilla's own data [1], 252M users in January 2019 down to 188M in November 2023.

MAU has remained at around 188M since October, I would like to believe this is because of MV3 and the YouTube drama, but that would be naive.

Going forward I think there should be a position on the foundation [2] and corporation board [3] held by a community representative. At least then the community would have some say in the direction Mozilla is taking.

[1]: https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity

[2]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Board

[3]: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/moco/
Huh?

I'm upgrading k8s for years now, had very rarely issues.

Independent of it if you really have big workloads it's the right thing anyway to have a good team behind it.

Nonetheless if you use gke for example I and no complicated plugins, it's basically automatic.
Don't make me regret removing the sentence that explicitly pointed out that the sample code in an appendix is not the point of the linked page.
I've honestly wondered for a while how many devices (from phones to cars) have features like this that haven't been documented yet.

Also how many engineers have worked on features like this without whistle-blowing over behavior like this.
Always glad to see Sharopolis get mentioned, his videos about old game tricks are interesting and tend to be more accurate IMO than a lot of others. He breaks it down and actually investigates in emulators rather than just regurgitating Wikipedia.
I was on the board of a similar municipal effort in the mid-west. Comcast sent in 3rd party consultants to scare residents and mis-represent every aspect of the effort. Thankfully the public vote for the infrastructure passed anyway.
My bias may be showing, being a ctf-scene enthusiast. Most of these (tools on dogbolt) look like foss utilities you can run yourself. The rest, I'd imagine you are welcome to pay for licenses. Binary Ninja in particular, while maybe not cheap for everybody, isn't sky-high.