skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an interesting tradeoff of freedoms when you consider how free a person is to leave a HOA. Purely legally speaking, they are free to leave at any time if the HOA starts to enforce unjust restrictions - but practically speaking, moving house is onerous and many are not in a position to do it. This is essentially a contract where you enter freely, but the other party has the ability to vary the terms unilaterally, and your only recourse is to exit.

A tech analogy comes to mind. We freely choose to host our workloads in a Server Owner's Association (sorry, cloud service provider), and we take on the risk that the provider may change the offering and impose restrictions that we don't like. They will tell us that we are free to leave at any time, but switching clouds can be non-trivial to say the least, leaving us feeling trapped and decidedly unfree.

The freedom to enter into private contracts is the freedom to bind oneself.
What does "mediocre" even mean? That's a relative and subjective statement. Why bring that in?

Are you mediocre in coding compared to 100% of the population in the World? Surely not, since most people do not know how to code. Are you mediocre compared to top 0.001% coders in the World. Unless you are not in the top there, and you are comparing yourself to them, then you are worse than mediocre.

Because you would only be mediocre compared to them if you are around the top 0.0005%.
Thanks for finding it. Just pasting the relevant subclause:

> D. Parking in rear and side setbacks. Operative boats and large pickup campers, motor homes, recreation vehicles, utility trailers, and vacation trailers shall be allowed to be parked or stored in a required rear or side setback in a residential district only if screened on the side and front by a six-foot-high fence. In these instances, the provision of adequate light and air to a neighbor’s window shall not be obstructed.
It makes more sense when you see it from Google’s perspective.

The danger is to their ad revenue, not the user.

Giving more of your PC to websites means you’ll likely use the web more and consume more ads.
Well, with 211 tabs open for a couple of weeks, I neither get CPU spikes, slow tabs, or a misbehaving chrome.

This is not on a cutting edge PC. It's a core i7-7700.

Firefox's soft spot is DNS response speed. If your DNS is slow, Firefox is slow. Otherwise it's indifferent from Google Chrome speed-wise.
Manifest V3 will affect on UX of many extensions.

For an instance, i've built a Linguist, is a full featured translation in browser that may translate even offline (with embedded Bergamot translator of Mozilla) https://github.com/translate-tools/linguist

One of important Linguist features is that user able to use custom translators, it means user may insert their javascript code that implements a translator class, and then use their custom translator. So it is possible to use ChatGPT as translation module in Linguist, or even local instance of LLAMA, any proprietary translation service API, etc.

But with manifest V3, google also ban RCE (remote code execution), so probably when i will implement a feature "custom translators store" where will be present a lot of custom translators from a github, and this feature will fetch their code when user press "install", a google will ban this version, and i will be forced to roll back this feature for chrome, and leave it as is in Firefox.

As result, a Chrome users will always have a "simplified" versions of features and we will have inversed case with Browser API features (when site tell you "go chrome to run my features"). An extensions will notify their users "go firefox to have all features like a custom translators store or ads blocker".

Is this a distributed and balkanized web3?
HOA bs is uninteresting old news, the painting is not.
A Short History of Byzantium by John Julius Norwich is a good overview of the empire if you'd like to learn more about it.
I don't even know why people think that slow animations/transitions are a good idea. I noticed that especially on newer KDE. The default configuration with enabled animations is SO slow, it's super annoying. If you turn them off it's okay-ish, but could still be a tiny bit snappier here and there
> Having "a content policy violation on less than one in every 7 million unique queries" seems pretty solid to me.

Not to me. AI will lead to more queries because I search differently with AI results than an index/page rank result.

Also, it’s not about the unique queries, but the number of users running them.

This seems like “data waving” where google is giving some not relevant number hoping to distract from the issue they can’t or don’t want to solve. If eating glue is just one of seven million unique queries but it’s searches by a million people, that’s more important than one of 7 thousand only searched by one person.

The measure should be impact of bad queries and bad info. Or amount of garbage responded.

Or even better, confusion created in people based on AI responses. They might be able to proxy this because they have chrome usage and android usage data and see what people do after these queries. Do they stop searching? Do they watch a movie? Do they jump off a building? Do they never search again (ie, die)?
How do you monitor all code duplications in the code base? Including ones that have been modified slightly ( such as optimizations, name changes, additional statements in between, etc)
they are doing it to exclude those that don't fit into their style of life. it's discrimination, plain and simple.

to compare with europe: as far as i know germany or austria don't have the equivalent of a HOA, but what is allowed and what isn't is defined by local law. the closest example i could find are rules a landlord is allowed to impose on their tenants. for example, if i rent a house with garden, then the landlord can demand that i take care of the garden, but they can not specify how often i am supposed to mow the lawn or how high i let it grow.

if not even a landlord can make such rules for their own property, then a HOA would have even less chance to make such rules for homeowners.

that said, local laws can be quite far reaching, especially when it comes to aspects that affect the character of a neighborhood which includes rules on the outside design of the house and the front yard. not something i am happy about myself. beyond that these rules are mostly about things directly affect and cause problems for the neighbors. otherwise a homeowner has the right to do whatever they want on their property.

as for the freedom to choose an HOA. no such freedom exists. because my choice of where i live is not defined by the HOA but by other considerations like location and cost and most importantly, availability. the argument that i could have moved somewhere else if i didn't like this HOA is not really reasonable given the housing shortage in most places.

the right to live somewhere trumps the freedom of association
> "Arguably, memory safety inside the UNIX process heap is the job of the compiler, ...."

In my mind there's nothing controversial about this statement at all.

If memory corruption inside the sandbox allows to manipulate anything outside the sandbox, then the sandbox is broken. It's as simple as that, and it doesn't matter whether it's the WASM heap or a process heap.
This makes perfect sense in theory and yet it's the opposite of my experience in practice. I don't know how, but SPA websites are pretty much always much more laggy than just plain HTML, even if there are a lot of page loads.
Lesser Known Rails Helpers to Write Cleaner View Code
Wonder if the author tried BitTorrent.

Despite its usage issues, its built with reliability in mind and its a great way to transfer large files.
Quite odd that a city called Seaside doesn't like boats to be kept in sight.
And that isn't just some remote possibility, it's a likely outcome, because it's already a crapshoot with hardware/service availability across Europe. It was the case that for many years - might still be? - you couldn't buy Pixel phones in the Netherlands, which is how I ended up with a secondhand Verizon unit with a locked bootloader. In Switzerland, Digitec/Galaxus grey-markets many products which are otherwise not offered there. Last I checked, you still can't buy a Steam Deck in Switzerland. And none of that is because of additional pressure from onerous laws.
> AI overviews are an extinction level event for low-quality information-regurgitators.

I think this is good. They don’t serve a positive role in the information food chain. Freeing up their space should be helpful for people using information.
I'm very worried over the fact that Google is more and more becoming the de facto gatekeeper to the internet. There's still Firefox and Safari, but Firefox feels like it's dying, while Safari's user numbers will take a hit after the EU's decision to loosen iOS browser restrictions.

The internet almost feels as important than the real, physical world. Imagine being bombarded with ads in real life. A lot of the tech-savy people use adblockers to make the internet experience tolerable, but once Google figures out how to stop all ad blocking and no other browser exists, it's game over. I hope that situation will spark a flame in the tech community to do something about the ad-driven internet as it exists today.
You do not have the freedom to choose an HOA, only the freedom to move somewhere else. Unless you define "freedom" as "not held captive", I don't think that really counts.

A fun John Oliver video on how corrupt HOA's are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrizmAo17Os
In 46 days, you could have found a less generic product name.
Love the VHS vibes.
I didn't argue that to shame on Apple.
I can understand why that is done ( especially with warranty extensions )

What I am arguing is that there may be a much cheaper ("easier" for the person who knows what to do) way to repair it if you don't care about the warranty but that path can currently be blocked by the manufacturer.

For example: We had a deadline for submitting our final game build last year and my laptop where I had everything setup died a day before the deadline. I went to a local electronics shop, bought a different laptop, removed the SSD from the broken one put it in the new one and was backup and running 30 minutes after returning home.

I would not have cared about warranty there, only about the speed of getting back up and running to meet the deadline.
Both can be true. But fakes screenshots isn’t relevant to the topic at hand.

So why mention it?
I'm surprised the comments here are so negative / cynical. Of course "quantization doesn't come for free": it's a trade off.

High precision models are very expensive to run: they require expensive hardware and lots of energy.

Isn't it possible, or even likely, that low-precision models would be good enough for many tasks?
I suspect that it's not the same Coolo you're thinking of.
If you include a hash/signatures of the js scripts in the store in the source of your app and only import maching sources does it still count as RCE?

In a sense one could claim that the hash is a "compressed" version of the code.

I am not saying that it is a good solution or anything, just wondering about how "Remote" is defined.
https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/cloud-native/gpu-operator...

> GPUDirect RDMA is a technology in NVIDIA GPUs that enables direct data exchange between GPUs and a third-party peer device using PCI Express. The third-party devices could be network interfaces such as NVIDIA ConnectX SmartNICs or BlueField DPUs, or video acquisition adapters.

> GPUDirect Storage (GDS) enables a direct data path between local or remote storage, like NFS server or NVMe/NVMe over Fabric (NVMe-oF), and GPU memory. GDS leverages direct memory access (DMA) transfers between GPU memory and storage, which avoids a bounce buffer through the CPU.
> Actually, I think 'half-assing' it is never good.

All of these conversations are so bizarre to me. I have to imagine these basic labels like "half-assing", "perfectionism", everyone has their own little definition of those things, the circumstances are different, and really all of those things are more like spectrums. And in different scenarios very different configuration of how much "half-assing" is being done will have very different yields. You can make those absolute statements, and sure they could be the optimal truth in certain scenario, but there's thousands of permutations of different scenarios.

From the article itself "self-identified overachievers" - to me that doesn't even mean perfectionism. It could be that someone is just doing a lot, but half assing all of it. They could also be identified as an overachiever. E.g. they are always working, and delivering half assed projects, which despite being half assed are successful because there are so many of them, and few of them succeed because they were delivered quickly.

In addition if you are constantly working and "overachieving" you might start to half ass for just that reason, that you are mentally done.

If there's one truth that is somewhat accurate is that in most projects the 80% / 20% rule does apply, that with 20% effort you can get the 80%, and rest of the 20% will become increasingly difficult towards the perfection, where perfection is actually impossible to reach.

Is spending 20% effort to get the 80% and leaving it there half assing? Or is it 80% assing? Or 20% assing?
I don't know what your guys problem is. uBlock Origin Lite works just as well as the normal version.
Unsure what's the point. Is it bashing JS? It's pretty much the same everywhere. For instance I'm learning elixir and you have

1. Enum & list comprehensions
2. `error`, `throw`, `exit` . Try/catch, try/rescue
3. `import`, `require`, `use`

I mean there are subtle differences, just like with JavaScript. so..?

If anything, Javascript doesn't have the luxury to do a breaking change.
You’re right, disallowing race-based discrimination is also a restriction of freedom. I’m not arguing that all freedoms are good.
It's not always the application itself per se. It's the various / numerour marketing, analytics or (sometimes) ad-serving scripts. These third party vendors aren't often performance minded. They could be. They should be.
There is simply no logical, moral, ethical or philosophical argument under which population should not revolt and destroy the evil of elites who demand this (as Ayn Rand explains):

Of all the statist violations of individual rights in a mixed economy, the military draft is the worst. It is an abrogation of rights. It negates man’s fundamental right—the right to life—and establishes the fundamental principle of statism: that a man’s life belongs to the state, and the state may claim it by compelling him to sacrifice it in battle. Once that principle is accepted, the rest is only a matter of time.

One of the notions used by all sides to justify the draft, is that “rights impose obligations.” Obligations, to whom?—and imposed, by whom? Ideologically, that notion is worse than the evil it attempts to justify: it implies that rights are a gift from the state, and that a man has to buy them by offering something (his life) in return. Logically, that notion is a contradiction: since the only proper function of a government is to protect man’s rights, it cannot claim title to his life in exchange for that protection.

A volunteer army is the only proper, moral—and practical—way to defend a free country.
And if there is no guarantee that the sandbox is on a safe state, whose execution doesn't translate into nasty side effects, like return true instead of false on a credential check, due to internal memory corruption, then it is equally broken.

It becomes the same approach as attacking OS processes via their public OS IPC end points.
My rules on code duplication:

- For code in different files you get 3

- For code in the same file you get half a dozen

- For code in the same function you get more like a dozen

- For code in a single repeated block you get as many as you want
+1. Not to be rude, yet if someone finds this surprising and of interest, perhaps they need new interests.

This might not be the one for them - right now or ever. I'm not judging. Just saying.

To show how serious I am, I'll do my own version of the paper while laying in bed relying solely on experience. I'm joking in case that wasn't obvious.

Off-the-bottom-shelf consumer equipment from over fifteen years ago would report on this traffic.

OpenVPN has been easy to both USE and fingerprint - these are directly related. It will continue to be. The balance OVPN struck makes it extremely commodity. This is all well/good.

As far as things can really have goals... it never aimed to be the fingerprint resistant answer. It's the commodity VPN supported by nearly everything.

To be frank: it achieved the goal of obfuscation; you see OpenVPN instead of the real traffic. The horror.

Everything everywhere is a trade. This trades fingerprint resistance for ubiquity.

I'm slowly starting to understand how things get criticized for being "academic".

They have a lot of people, words, and effort confirming things any living practitioner could tell you. That's why I may seem harsh.

I'm left to determine this is propaganda or marketing fodder. Any protocol or scheme is prone to fingerprinting. That's the game.

Fingerprinting is a question of attention/want, and they picked the most obvious one. Why? I'm asking and looking suspiciously at several unnecessary named authors.
The Censorship of Cosmology – Institute of Art and Ideas [video]
I think this looks bad, but it's got to do more than look bad. Is a rock concert a drop in the bucket compared to the savings they want, or are they genuinely comparable?
Code Review Anxiety Workbook
It is, but Thales is what this article attempts to prove (a).

By the point you've proven Thales with isosceles (b), proving that a parallelogram with equal diagonals is a rectangle thanks to Thales(b) in order to go forward along the Thales(a) proof is circular logic.
> Use LibreWolf instead.

What's the point when it's literally just a reskinned firefox? What's keeping Firefox alive is also keeping all of its derivatives alive.
I _have_ a trailer, but it's got too much bike holding stuff inside to hold a large bike.

(It's a tall box, sorta horse trailer shaped, with benches on each side. Luggage goes underneath, 4 bikes go on the left on the bench, 2 on the right (including the tandem), with front wheels in the nose. We travelled around Europe with all our stuff in it.)
Which tool do you use to manage the copies of code segments, including possible modifications?

I imagine it's difficult to keep all of them in your head
Easy Problems That LLMs Get Wrong
Shouldn't we call this "Right to have repaired" instead?
Dr. John Calhoun did many experiments with mammalian behavioral shifts with population growth. Some seem upset by his works findings, but it does seem to predict developmental stages of aggression, the "Beautiful Ones", and cognitive deterioration in social mammals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CXj0AGuh4c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOFveSUmh9U

I would recommend getting out for an early walk everyday (especially when you don't feel like it), as spending too much time around news/catastrophe nonsense is bad for your health.

Have a great day, and I just found a surprise ice-cream cookie bar in the freezer I forgot about... hope your day gets that awesome too. =3
I was a physics teacher in Australia and the UK from 2015 to 2021. I wrote a comment about teaching in a boys' school yesterday, but most of my career was spent in girls' schools, due partly to the Vogonic culture of the NSW Department of Education and Training.

There were many 'get girls into STEM' initiatives, and they all felt very tokenistic and superficial. They were science-themed, but none of them got at the guts of STEM.

In Australia, physics - in the schools that offer it - is taught by chemistry or biology teachers who've been given a physics textbook. In the private boys' schools, there's a cadre of actual physicists, but they're old men on the verge of retirement; students in government schools, systemic Catholic schools and private girls' schools get a very un-mathematical physics education, if their school offers a specialised physics course at all.

The end result of this is the propagation of a very misleading view of STEM to girls. All the high-paying STEM jobs are in those fields that have a rigorous mathematical formalism - physics, computer science, engineering - but our STEM outreach programs ended up pushing girls towards 'soft science' careers in biology. I understand that there are now so many bio lab workers in the UK that they're now on minimum wage.

If we really want to encourage women and girls to take up high-paying STEM careers, we need to be demonstrating and teaching the cognitive styles that underlie success in mathematics. At the moment, all we're doing is making maths pink[0].

[0] https://skepchick.org/2010/08/smbc-women-in-mathematics/
I’ve been planning a prodcast for a while now.
Meta have emailed saying they have a "legal basis called legitimate interests for using your information to develop and improve AI"

They provide a link to a form to object to this processing where you can provide answers to the following two questions:

Please tell us how this processing impacts you.
(Required)

Please provide any additional information that could help us review your objection. (Optional)

On what grounds can I object?
I'm guessing you are in software dev or something auxiliary to it? And probably you were passable in STEM topics at school?

Then maybe, just maybe, your whole career is just happy accident of right time (software eating world) and right predispositions (STEM).
I know mine is.

And if I would not have that I would be earning what 85% of my peers here in Poland do (barely enough to pay bills).

The only ones that are doing ok without this are the ones that invested everything in social skills (by happy accident of not having socially akward parents or by themselfs intuitively knowing that your group is everything).

So this is just implementation of my deepest believe that the best what we can do for our children is to make them as socially sklled as possibile. And limiting channels of communication does not look like a good way to this.

Of course Im not advocating unlimited access to everything for everyone - it depends on emotional development and predispositions.
Yeah I'm having trouble understanding how /u/db48x's logic doesn't apply equally well to all political systems. Maybe the next time someone complains to me about Biden's policies, I should just respond that they don't understand freedom.
That is very likely the one reason, which means that although Google needs Mozilla to stay afloat for their "See, your honor, we're not a monopoly!" ridiculous argument, they still have a huge leverage to literally force Mozilla to keep Firefox behind.

I wonder if everyone calling Firefox as "Google Firefox" could somehow compromise that narrative.