skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're thankfully in a world these days where all the relevant implementations are sane and reliable for most real usage, but a couple decades back that was very much the practical reality. Intel's x87 instruction set was infamous for this. Transcendentals like fsin would sometimes have fewer than a dozen bits correct and worse, the documentation on it was straight up wrong until Bruce Dawson on the chrome team filed a bug report.
I recently launched a site that sports a lot of images. Well it's an image site. You go there to view images on specific topics. The google search console always complains that there is very few text on the page and it only indexed 1/6th of the image pages (it doesn't even fetch the images itself... who knows whether it's a good or bad sign ;|). Go figure, this is an image site.

Should I start to write text next to each image, like:

"Mech approaches another dark, very evil looking mech on a bright day and swings its laser sword to decapitate the evil one."

Gimme a break. For 5K+ images... :D. The topic, title and description is not enough, it needs more text to believe that this is what the images are about. No, your images will not be indexed, will not be included in the image search results, because you are not part of the exclusive club. No monopoly here.

Bing webmaster tools tells me that there are no highly ranked sites that link to my content, and there should be :D. I just started the site, how would there be
any linkage to it?! Are they insinuating that I should create fake sites to promote my content or maybe pay for seo? No monopoly here either.

Yandex... I can't really figure out whether their indexing works or not, it sometimes complains, then doesn't do anything for weeks. Then it comes up with another made up problem that is nonexistent. It acts like a drunkard.

I haven't tried Baidu, because they need some local phone number and they clearly can't send activation SMS to Europe.

Next I'll try with a news site and write a blog post about my experiences. Truly interesting times.
Did you hear that, bruh, you should be totes cool with not being able to afford what your parents could because if they were where you are they wouldn't be able to afford shit either. You just need to understand economics is all. That makes it all ok.
On the north side of my home there's a Japanese Glory Vine. Planted about 6 feet from the wall, growing on an angle to the roof line. Being deciduous it provides summer shade, brilliant autumn/fall colour/color and winter sun. It never gives mature fruit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitis_coignetiae#
It's an endless cycle of Mozilla buying some shitty company then forcing their shitty "technology" into Firefox. We must be on episode three or what of this nonsense now. "Leader"ship is rotten.
Around here (central NC) the joke is mattress stores. Although I understand they pop up everywhere there are suburban style strip malls.
"The approach allows measurement without disclosing who, specifically, did what with the ad."

If this is "privacy", then it appears so-called "(ad) tech" companies are attempting to redefine the term.

Question for readers: Is knowing the identity of a person a prerequisite for that person to lose (some) privacy.

Consider the dictionary definition:

Webster's: "The state of being in retirement from the company or observation of others; seclusion."

Wordnet, from the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton: "the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others [syn: {privacy}, {privateness}, {seclusion}]"

Example:

A person in a building in a large city on a busy pedestrian street draws the curtains or blinds in a window facing the street to prevent passers by from seeing in. The passers by do not know the identity of the person(s) inside.

The scare quotes around "privacy-preserving" are justified. The act of allowing measurement destroys some privacy. It is less private to let people on the street see into the building.

Allowing measurement destroys privacy. How can marketers make it easier to swallow. Using a term like "privacy-preserving" is obviously deceptive, it is sleight of hand to conceal the frog boiling. This is not Mary Poppins. You are not being given a spoon full of sugar to help the medicine go down in a delightful way. It's poison in small doses. Eventually, the frog will die.

The "frog" is the concept of your privacy. The notion of "privacy" for so-called "tech" companies is not being targeted. Even when courts ask them to share what they are doing, they evade such discovery claiming it would put them at a competitive disadvantage: they might ultimately lose money. Whereas if opening yourself up to 24/7 observation causes you to lose some advantage and ultimately to lose money, then your loss is their gain.

There are certain risky activities in life that some folks choose not to engage in. These activities can be made "safer" and even "safe enough" that many will choose to do them despite the risk. But it does not remove all the risk. There are endless examples. Skydiving, bungy jumping and so on all the way down to relatively mundane stuff. But in almost every case, there is an incentive to participate. There is a "reward" for taking the risk.

The incentives for Mozilla, "ad tech" and all those who support this nonsense "business model" based on surveillance is easily discernable. Finding an incentive for anyone using a web browser to want to participate in this "measurement" requires mental gymnastics.

And so it must be opt-out. No one would knowingly subject themselves to such needless observation.
A couple dozen billion for a 10% chance of becoming NVIDIA competitive is worth it, looking at the stock prices.
He still has not conceded or acknowledged defeat to this day. He went way beyond constitutionally protected steps, including in Georgia trying to pressure the Republican in charge to flip the election for him

Gore conceded, the supreme court stepped in to stop the recount. The full recount would have most likely given florida to Gore since palm beach county was the one still not fully counted and heavily democratic. But Gore conceded to avoid a constitutional crisis. Instead we got Bush who dragged us into the completely unjustified Iraq war.

Both the exact opposite of what you are stating.
Interesting analogy. The last few programs from the windows world I tried to run were flawless under wine and abjectly failed under windows 11.
Rigid PP cases for SD/MicroSD are readily available for pennies each.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006330399282.html
I agree, in my opinion in order of likelihood:

1. Face-id / touch-id was still available to be used

2. Old phone without modern security measures (can brute force offline)

3. Someone else knew the pin/passphrase

...

∞. They bypassed a modern/certified secure enclave
Works like described in the rocm documentation (at least the scaleinfo worked for me, haven't tested further)

https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/install-on-linux/en/lates...
Pretty much any modern NVIDIA GPU supports CUDA. You don't have to buy a datacenter-class unit to get your feet wet with CUDA programming. ROCm will count as "something" when the same is true for AMD GPUs.
Just use 1mm foam sheet and tape. Seems like that would be economical and provide better protection.
Unless you need to load anything else other than what's in that sector, because you can't fit enough I/O drivers into one sector to load the rest of the OS.

Unless you're targeting S/360, but even there XA and newer made it a bit more complex.
The double representation of pi just so happens to be accurate to precisely 15 digits even though the general amount of precision is slightly higher.
Rise in popularity is an understatement. People who ordered the X100vi on launch day 6 months ago are still months away from actually getting them. The demand is just insane, they can’t make them fast enough, even after moving production to China (which is kind of unfortunate).
But *what's in it for the user?*

- "in the absence of alternatives, there are enormous economic incentives for advertisers to try to bypass these countermeasures, leading to a perpetual arms race that we may not win"

It's in the user's interest to attempt to appease the spammers? It's in the user's interest to voluntarily hand over some personal, private information about themselves, to commercial stalkers, in hopes that–what–satiates the data harvesters?

Is this Mozilla's position?
I don't think any of the camera manufacturers have good UX people. They sell engineering, not usability. Even Sony, who makes a bunch of laptops and phones and such, sucks at this compared to the West. Maybe it's just not a strong part of Japanese corporate culture?
That NASA article kind of misses the point. NASA uses 15 digits for pi because that's the default and it is enough accuracy for them. The interesting question is why is that the default. That goes back to the Intel 8087 chip, the floating-point coprocessor for the IBM PC. A double-precision real in the 8087 provided ~15 digits of accuracy, because that's the way Berkeley floating-point expert William Kahan designed its number representation. This representation was standardized and became the IEEE 754 floating point standard that almost everyone uses now.

By the way, the first Ariane 5 launch blew up because of floating point error, specifically an overflow when converting a 64-bit float to an int. So be careful with floats!
I’ve started seeing adverts in theguardian.com again today, on iOS, where there weren’t any before. I use Firefox Focus and noticed that my is at version 128, released a week ago. Is this purely a coincidence or am I seeing this because of a change in policy at Mozilla?
I got the impression you have to give them your email address to be put on their newsletter mailing list in order to find out.
I'm not the person you replied to, and I can't speak for them. But I can say that for myself, and a not small number of other people, it's an ideological issue. I simply do not use software that isn't F/OSS - to the greatest extent that that is possible. For me, I might use a VERY small amount of non F/OSS stuff, but it's very hard to get me to adopt something new if it isn't.

Now should you make business decisions based on that? Probably not. But while I don't claim to be a representative sample, I am pretty sure the number of people who share my beliefs in this regard is substantially "non zero". shrug
Cloud: IBM mainframes and Service Bureaus.
What is a 'black swan' event and why are they key to the climate crisis? (2021)
You can't reference Claude Shannon and information theory and then say a system to serve ads that preserves privacy can't exist. It's especially ironic because they use a technique called Differential Privacy to prevent any actual bits of information from being leaked to advertisers: https://andrewmoore.ca/blog/post/mozilla-ppa/#user-content-f... / https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.16719
Liberals disagree about how the second amendment should be interpreted, and even do so amongst themselves. Even Republicans used to be for reasonable gun control measures not so long ago.
The impression I got from the article is that it's a bit thick and they thought it was flimsy based on the reviews (not saying they're right, but that was what they thought).
Given that all their marketing material is extremely old IPhones, I would bet money this is a bunch of marketing jargon to trick police departments into giving them money.
the xz backdoor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor
Political parties buying your browsing/buying habits to hit you up with political ads. Police buying your location data to see whether your were near a crime. Insurance companies will soon be buying data about your exercise routines so they can adjust your rates accordingly.

And then there are the really creepy services. There was a service not long ago in Russia that would allow you to upload a picture of any woman you saw on the street. They would identify the face (via VK) and provide you with their contact and job information. Totally creepy. Totally abusive. But easily done with basic tech.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FindFace
I loved having the computer flat under the monitor. I could access the drives, and power / reset buttons easily. However, I didn't like having to move the monitor to get inside my case. Once I got a tower, then I ended up using a stereo receiver under the monitor, which gave me easy access to volume and audio controls. I also remember having those big power "strips" under the monitor with the flickering orange toggle switches so you could control power to everything. Those were also glorious. Something nice about having all these controls right in front of you...

Now, having anything under the monitor drives me crazy, probably because it sits so much further back now that it's not a big honkin' CRT. The CRT was so big that it benefited you to have something underneath of it. Now I have all this empty desk space, which is really nice too.
> at the cost of tremendous amounts of electricity

And the climate. And water. So much water. (Some good reads on that: https://grist.org/technology/the-overlooked-climate-conseque..., https://grist.org/technology/surging-demand-data-guzzling-wa..., and https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2023/04/15/the-secret-wate....)

>some sick public libraries

They won't. One major thing AI does is get you from a question to an answer, like a search engine. But here's the thing: Libraries also do that, and they're good at it (the large ones at least). They do so for free, legally, without using anyone's stuff without consent, without selling your data, and without nearly as big climate concerns. They're a threat to AI (or would be if they weren't already crippled by search engines), and AI doesn't want to keep them around.
Spammers are really good at using other people's computers and accounts.
The plan is to first figure out how to legally market, distribute, and sell this physical thing. It's more difficult than I imagined as you can read in my blog. Feedback from Hacker News has been invaluable to me during this process. I will replace the placeholder website as soon as I can start accepting payment.
Porkbun here, and some AWS (which is a reseller of someone else iirc). Also we have a bunch of older domains at OpenSRS but tend not to use them for new work.
> It's to provide a drop-in replacement to previous, memory-unsafe string copy routines

Nitpick: it’s not quite a drop-in. Prototypes of these functions are

char * strncpy(char *dst, const char *src, size_t num);
size_t strlcpy(char *dst, const char *src, size_t num);

strncpy(dst, src, num) always returns dst (https://cplusplus.com/reference/cstring/strncpy/), which is quite useless, as the caller knew that already.

strlcpy(dst, src, num) returns the total length of the string it tried to create (https://www.unix.com/man-page/posix/3/strlcpy/). Callers can use that to detect that the string didn’t fit the buffer and reallocate a buffer that’s long enough.
3 cheers for serenity browser.
AMD has hipify for this, which converts cuda code to hip.

https://github.com/ROCm/HIPIFY
A cure is something that completely obliviates the problem on a particular patient. It doesn't have to work on every patient.

And, of course, medical treatments can be very valuable even if they fall short of a "cure".
> The point of strlcpy(3) is not to be the world's best and most efficient string copier. It's to provide a drop-in replacement to previous, memory-unsafe string copy routines

It's not a drop-in replacement, though. Not even if you ignore the different return type.

strncpy guarantees that the buffer will be completely overwritten (filling with null chars at the end), while strlcpy will happily leave remnants of whatever was there before.

Just dropping in strlcpy wherever strncpy appears can lead to data leaks or inconsistent hashes, for example, depending on how the buffer's contents are used.
I'd simply argue what we do is precisley that, so either we are intelligent, or we are not, however we might define that intelligence.
Read HN and click the past link?
Nice~ Glad to see this published / confirmed by others. Next I hope to see some of this symmetry used to improve MoE / dynamic compute / adaptive style models!

Context: I found the same structure: early - middle - end layers serving different purposes, including the permutability of the middle layers, a year or so ago, but never got to testing more models rigerously or publishing it.

We talked about it a bit in a hackernews thread a few months ago. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39504780#39505523)

> One interesting finding though (now that I'm rambling and just typing a lot) is that in a static model, you can "shuffle" the layers (eg. swap layer 4's weights with layer 7's weights) and the resulting tokens roughly seem similar (likely caused by the ResNet style backbone). Only the first ~3 layers and last ~3 layers seem "important to not permute". It kinda makes me interpret models as using the first few layers to get into some "universal" embedding space, operating in that space "without ordering in layer-order", and then "projecting back" to token space at the end. (rather than staying in token space the whole way through).
Facebook Is the 'Zombie Internet'
What are you basing this off of? My state is one of the largest producers of hemp and has extremely strict regulations.

You need to a have a license to grow, license to transport, license to sell, etc.. Seeds must be registered with the state and there will be periodic compliance inspections with steep punishment if violated.

https://www.tn.gov/agriculture/farms/hemp-industry/hemp/lice...

Not to mention the difference between marijuana and THCA hemp is a legal distinction and not inherently scientific.
> Zeiss ZX1

For a cool $10k? Not going to be popular in any case, as are the RED cameras. These are all pro-level cameras.

> Nikon Coolpix S800c

A useless toy, that happened to have a just barely better image quality than built-in phone cameras at that time.

If you try to find mirrorless cameras with Android, with a reasonable price ($1k-$3k), then there's only NX. Nobody else even tried that seriously.

NX was great, I had it for a while (it was stolen). It suffered from Gen1 diseases, that could have been fixed. But _nothing_ comes close in usability ever since. I have Sony Alpha, and it's UI/UX is just shit. I don't use it at all anymore, I don't want to spend time categorizing and manually geotagging its photos.
The best part of caving as a sport and science is that you can find and explore virgin systems here on Earth still.
At least have some selling point? I see that it is supposed to be distraction and bloat free, but what would the selling point be over say something like Linux?
What?? If this partner hasn't been able to get a smartphone and stay up on tech/hn during a 'jailbird weekend' maybe they are not so 'successful' or resourceful after all.

However, the last 9 months have been awash with cryptobros turning AItards, wholesale plagiarism posing as promises of performance, and stagnation for C suite squatters laying off the very people who built the systems of production... so maybe missing it is a blessing.

FWIW, i wish i could skip the last year of tech news.
I'm pretty sure there's no real study that says any such thing, although I would not be surprised if you could find some garbage pseudoscience saying otherwise.
I still don't think people are appreciating the issue.

Let's say the business trespasses you. Now that's on your record. You take them to small claims court and win - but now need to spend more money and more time to collect any money from this business.

Let's say you finally collect, but incurred additional costs and lost much time during that process. How do you recoup those costs? Back to small claims court... it's circular, and the business can just drag their feet along the way.
Can anyone tell me why this is any better than just logging in? This seems like its solving a problem that doesnt exist.
Damn I wish Japan was still making cool tech, I loved their Aesthetic
> There are a few sites still using <frame> and <frameset>, but both are marked as invalid.

Those are invalid now?

Well more useless knowledge accumulating in my brain I guess.
> Pi, if an infinite stream of digits and with the prime characteristic it is normal/random, will, at some point include itself, by chance.

What you are essentially saying is that pi = 3.14....pi...........

If that was the case, wouldn't it mean that the digits of pi are not countably infinite but instead is a continuum. So you wouldn't be able to put the digits of pi in one to one correspondence with natural numbers. But obviously we can so shouldn't our default be to assume our premise was wrong?

> It is a completely irrational concept, thinking rationally.

It is definitely interesting to think about.
But you're still not saying what it is you're selling.
I'm really trying to keep this about the engineering features of a system rather than moral judgments. Open source systems are simply more flexible and adaptable than proprietary systems, which have their own benefits. In today's world, the engineering value of open source systems is becoming so important that people are looking for other ways to provide for the developers creating these systems. It can be surprising when a project creator builds something in an area that is usually all open source, but they choose a proprietary path. Just look at the problems created by NVIDIA for their use of proprietary software in CUDA and their GPUs. This software is an attempt to fix issues created by proprietary software with another piece of proprietary software, which is if nothing else an interesting decision.
It was not rational, in hindsight.
One thing to note about the opportunity cost is it's not just your current position.

If you're gunning for a promotion it's not a great move to go on leave for 3+ months because of a kid. Say what you want, but uh people really do put off having kids until they're at a title they like.
The dirty secret in the tech industry is that most people at AMD or Intel or IBM and historically Nvidia/Oracle (this changed post 2022), were the 2nd-3rd tier tech companies. Staffed heavily by the rejects of the FAANG, they were still happy to have their 100-200K in their MCOL areas, but no free food and a much more boring work culture. Intel's "great place to work" corporate propaganda was known as "great place to leetcode" while I worked there, as Intel was always seen as a stepping stone before you "made it" in a FAANG.

Culturally, none of these companies were happy to pay anyone except the tip, top "distinguished" engineers more than 300K. AMD seems to be stuck in this mentality, just as IBM is.
Well, they’ve been trying to fight the advertisers for, oh, 2 decades now; and the advertisers have basically won every fight repeatedly. This is combined with Firefox market share declining to the point that if they do not at least somewhat placate the advertisers, the advertisers could simply block Firefox en-masse and survive. Time for a new strategy.
I'm a major quibbler, so minor pedantry is appreciated!
Not GP, but a guaranteed source availability means users can fix issues themselves in the future if the original provider goes belly-up.
Why is Golang awesome? Because in 2024 there is now a decent mock clock library for testing? I thought that one of go's selling points was the stdlib and tooling being great out of the box?
It seems like a lot of folks are pretty upset about this.

I go to great lengths to avoid advertising. I've even routed mail to my post office's general delivery rather than give away my address.

But I am also practical. The CEO makes a fair point that ads aren't going away. This wouldn't work as an opt-in.

The big miss here was messaging. The CEO has got to know most FF users use FF to for privacy. If they wanna make it an opt out, fine. But then people have to know there is something to out of. Then again, maybe this was in the release notes and on the blog.