skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article links to Mozilla’s press release / blog entry about the acquisition of Anonym [0]. It’s pretty dystopian reading. The last three paragraphs and the summary of Anonym are more worrying than anything else I’ve read on this so far:

> This acquisition marks a significant step in addressing the urgent need for privacy-preserving advertising solutions. By combining Mozilla’s scale and trusted reputation with Anonym’s cutting-edge technology, we can enhance user privacy and advertising effectiveness, leveling the playing field for all stakeholders.

I can only interpret this as the urgent need is money, and wants to sell its "scale and trusted reputation". Mozilla has been down this road before. It was not good for them.

> Anonym was founded with two core beliefs: First, that people have a fundamental right to privacy in online interactions and second, that digital advertising is critical for the sustainability of free content, services and experiences. Mozilla and Anonym share the belief that advanced technologies can enable relevant and measurable advertising while still preserving user privacy.

This is some pretty weak wording for a press release. The economics of the situation are that advertising will always trump privacy. Researchers have successfully de-anonymized anonymised data sets, including medical records. Why would these data be any different?

> As we integrate Anonym into the Mozilla family, we are excited about the possibilities this partnership brings. While Anonym will continue to serve its customer base, together, we are poised to lead the industry toward a future where privacy and effective advertising go hand in hand, supporting a free and open internet.

Anonym’s customers are advertisers, right? The same people who for decades poured money into eroding that free and open internet that we had…

> About Anonym: Anonym was founded in 2022 by former Meta executives Brad Smallwood and Graham Mudd. The company was backed by Griffin Gaming Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, Heracles Capital as well as a number of strategic individual investors.

Well, it seems Anonym, Smallwood and Mudd had a nice piece about them written in the Wall Street Journal [1]. From the second paragraph:

> Graham Mudd and Brad Smallwood each spent more than a decade building Meta’s advertising system, which allowed the company to offer granular data about how ad campaigns worked with individual users, often by tracking their web and mobile activity.

[0] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-anonym-raising-t...

[1] https://archive.is/17c0f#selection-5751.0-5751.246
Thanks for sharing this - very interesting.

It looks like it’s a register of payments from Pharma either for legitimate services rendered (e.g. consultancy, with travel costs) or hospitality (e.g. food and drink).

Does it also capture other payments - like the ‘kickbacks’ discussed above? (It’s difficult to check this without exhaustively searching for random names!)
> Am i being overly paranoid ?

This is a good quality when drilling holes in the walls. Fortunately, technology to the rescue! Plenty of metal/stud/voltage detectors on your favorite hardware or online store.
I can access the about:config page on mobile, but I can't seem to find a relevant option. Maybe it's already disabled for the Fennec app from F-Droid?
People dont understand the filesystem because it doesnt translate to pretty much immediate monetary gain, not because of complexity
I would love for the people to stop being ignorant and finally realise that "The UE" is not a country... it's a union of 27 diverse countries/economies/cultures... Each one having own interests so managing (and sometimes pushing) to integrate that is just plain difficult... And if you apply to much force the counterforces emerge…
Oh sweet summer child. You will probably never experience running into the 10 million cell limit on a google sheet with more than a hundred sheets and waiting a quarter of an hour for your spreadsheet to update.
More intuitively: that TdS has the same "units" as -PdV suggests that temperature [difference] is a "pressure" (thermodynamic potential) that drives entropy increase.
Rough estimates I've seen say the starter motor is about that, though. (Not that I can tell real pages from GenAI ad content farms, I'm not a petrolhead).

I'd agree "it's all semantics", but yours are confusing me :P

(And for energy content, like for like is comparing the size of the fuel tank with the capacity of the battery, but cars aren't 90% fuel by weight).
on firefox mobile:

open chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml, set general.aboutConfig.enable to true

open about:config, set dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled to false
In the realm of coders, a peculiar breed exists: the left-handed developer. These code warriors navigate a world seemingly designed for their right-handed brethren. From keyboard shortcuts to mouse placement, the question arises: are left-handed coders destined for a life of ergonomic struggle, or do they hold a secret advantage?
You’re the one making a nonchalant claim “nah op is right” unbacked by evidence, not me
I'd love to see USB C instead of micro USB on these.
Well said. +1

I've supported Firefox as my daily-driver on desktop and laptop since 2016. I feel that a browser should be 100% open-source and used to feel FF also had it's USERS interest at heart. FF was what I relied on to continue to fight for internet privacy in your browser and the growing ad garbage on the web. FF + uBlock was great and made the web a joy for me. I would donate to FF if I could.

I've basically had enough of this. Commercialization has now infiltrated all browsers. There are none left (except for a few FF forks run by who knows). I put up with the many blunders FF has done over the past years like; "Mr Robot" incident, Tracking my default browser in Windows with a Scheduled Task that always comes back after updates, Studies are on-by-default, increasing tracking features added in that were Opt-Out and now THIS latest "anonymous" collection of my browsing habits sold to advertisers. This is appalling.

I'm tired of having to go through all the release notes and settings again to see what I have to disable this time on my own devices plus my clients FF installs and family I've recommended FF to. I can do that with Edge or Chrome.

I'm out FF. I uninstalled FF 128 from my PC fully today (and any others I help support) and will try out Vivaldi for a bit (they seem still pretty grounded DESPITE it not being 100% open-source). and if that doesn't meet my needs I will just use Edge. I'd try Brave but again that is an advertising company at this point that also pitches crypto.

It is a sad day for me. I really am holding out hope for Ladybird next at this point because I don't think FF ever goes back now to it's stand and to what it represented.
The Three Loops of Human Consciousness
I completely understand your struggle and wonder why this fact isn't more widely discussed. The vast majority of water on our planet (and in the solar system) was formed through either stellar formation or supernova events. During these events, an outward wind of particles collides with nearby material, forming new molecules such as water. Any other process of water formation is negligible in comparison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water (see Distribution in Nature)
https://web.archive.org/web/20000116054013/http://www.news.h...

Thank you for the books recommendations, I’ll check them out.
> Europe (and especially my home Germany)

Europe/EU is not Germany… and Germany is infamous for it's dumb redtape and being stuck in "their ways" (if it works then it works then there is no need to change that" seems to be a proverb there, inni't?)

Besides - in majority of the countries you have to navigate the laws… either yourself or you get an expert/lawyer that does that for you o_O
Thank you. Apple was a big inspiration! Rens (info in footer) helped me out with the animations.
That's why we have TPM chips now.

If you could brute-force memory, you don't need (C), because it would be easier to automate than doing on-device.
My dad’s relative (uncle I think?) ran the team that fabricated the detonators for the bombs. They weren’t told what the purpose was when they built them. They found out what the purpose was when they were used.
Wonder if that is the last industrial processing still done in central London? If you don't count university labs.
Project Loom – Structured Concurrency
as someone relatively junior and switching roles, it has been tough to find one after finishing school. wish my journey would been a success story for using hn for job search, but got no luck here. it might be the same for most non-NA talent.

tried finding vacancies on several job boards, and directly on companies' career sites. while (public) employment agencies are promoting using llm for writing cover letters and cv, i have been personalizing them the old-fashioned way. several a/b tests later, i got nothing but automated rejection letters.

the only way i found success was from my personal connections. i suppose referrals do work out for people, but even that is not a silver bullet. maybe it is a skill issue to not find success the normal way, but in retrospect i found not much to do different the next time i need to find a job.
Thank you for your feedback.

TargetJ uses a unified mechanism for both development and animation by creating targets. Each target essentially has two variables: target and actual. When actual does not equal target, TargetJ will update actual until it matches target through iterations controlled by steps and stepIntervals.

For example, to animate an object along its x-axis:

App(new TModel({
x: [300, 20, 50], // Moves x to 300px in 20 steps with 50ms pauses in between
html: 'Hello world'
}));
You can find more examples at: https://targetj.io/examples.

For Performance:
- TargetJ optimizes rendering by minimizing DOM manipulations.
- TargetJ divides objects automatically into a tree structure, tracking only the branches visible to the user. See examples of infinite scrolling at https://targetj.io/examples/g-Infinite-scrolling.html and infinite zooming at https://targetj.io/examples/h-Infinite-zooming.html.

I am making the site https://targetj.io more mobile-friendly, which will take a few days. In the meantime, it's best to check it on a computer.
Exploring local solutions like GPT4All and AnythingLLM sounds promising. I'll also look into RecurseChat on macOS. Thanks again for the suggestions and for sharing the insights! Another tool that might be worth considering is Dify.

https://docs.dify.ai/guides/knowledge-base/create-knowledge-...
Exactly - and when you remove the assumptions, what's left?

Pi is assumed to be infinite, random, and normal. The point here is not these assumptions may be wrong. Underneath them may sit a greater point; that irrationality is defined in a contradictory way - which may be correct, or not, or, both.

Given proof Pi is infinite lay on irrationality, it is rather an important issue. Pi may not be infinite, and a great place to observe that may be Planck.
I like the hybrids/detachable form factor, as a mean to merge tablets and laptops in a single device, but the whole software/hardware stack was not yet ready then, especially for those attempting to use Linux.

List of problems:

1. x86(-64) power saving (sleep) capabilities are poor; tablets are expected to consume very little battery (ie. last weeks in standby mode), while x86 eats batteries for lunch (in S-whatever); this doesn't even take into account Windows arbitrarily deciding to wake up the machine while in a bag/backpack

2. Surface Pro's and Surface Book's (the latter was state of the art in terms of tablet hardware by the time of SB1 and SB2) had OK hardware support from Linux, but it took a long while, and it wasn't very stable (eg. wifi)

3. Hardware touch support itself is not enough; software needs to be good, and there was (likely, is) no document reader with good UX and annotation capabilities on Linux

The solution for my use case was to dual boot, but points 1 and 2 were still a serious issue overall.

Nowadays:

1. there are ARM tablets, with performant power saving (sleep) mode

2. WSL sidesteps Linux hardware compatibility issues (assuming one tolerates running Windows as underlying O/S), and avoids dual boot

3. WSL also allows using better document readers/annotators

I fear WSL, but as a matter of fact, it's changing the landscape for Linux users.

In theory, Ipad Pro's would be the best of both worlds, but they have a toy O/S by design. /shrug
Just like warpstream or confluent freight cluster, but AutoMQ is source available, you may find the key s3 wal implementation here: https://github.com/AutoMQ/automq/blob/main/s3stream/src/main...
Buy an microSD card from Amazon, use the packaging the microSD card originally came in [1] - it is a solved problem.

Plenty of scope to add your own branding

[1] https://postimg.cc/Lq8K1MYt
Wild hogs seem to handle it pretty well
The real challenge is probably getting your hands on a 4090 for a price you can pay before you are worth your weight in gold. Because an arm and a limb in gold is quite a lot.
All of the phenomena described above would happen with minimal necessary regulations as well (preventing imports for fear of quality and safety reasons, which must be regulated in pharma). In general, the problem with US capitalism is insufficient regulation to force a free market between corporations, allowing massive consolidation and discouraging competition on price. Any free market principles will never work if you have less than a few tens or even hundreds of companies competing, for a market as huge as pharma.
It has the same “units” (if you mean “energy”) as mc2 as well and that doesn’t suggest anything to me… Your intuition is much better than mine - or it’s informed by what you know about temperature.
Forth: The Hacker's Language
I recognized your username.
For my advanced spell-checking use-case[^1], local LLMs are, sadly, not state-of-the-art. But their $0 price-point is excellent to analyze lots of sentences and catch the most obvious issues. With some clever hacking, the most difficult cases can be handled by GPT4o and Claude. I'm glad there is a wide variety of options.

[^1] Hey! If you know of spell-checking-tuned LLM models, I'm all ears (eyes).
With the polygraph used as a universal filtering device for hundreds of thousands of employees in powerful agencies, we end up with a mix of either super honest ones who reveal everything to the polygrapher (i.e. interrogator), or psychopaths who lie through their teeth without showing any physiological signs and passing with flying color.

Next time when you deal with these agencies, as a fun mental exercise, try to figure out which one of the two types you've got in front of you. When it comes to climbing to the top through the ranks, which ones will get there more effectively?
On mobile you probably want to try Fennec and/or Mull, both Firefox forks, compatible with FF addons and available on F-Droid.
But even then, it's a bit hypocritical writing an article slamming firefox for this at least allegedly privacy-sensitive adtracking. While requiring readers to consent to tracking from your however many ad partners :P
I did business in Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, Estonia and Sweden. It was a total shitshow, and I moved it all to UK, which is much better (especially the gov.uk site is a godsend).
"All programming is about breaking complicated tasks down into reasonable-sized chunks."

I think Forth forces you to do this.
I think this line is very important:

> First, 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 very likely that this arms race will lead to DRM in web publications and video feeds (which Google is already experimenting with).
Some might be interested in the discussion about that too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40971247
Really loved the Amiga, and used it way past its supposed expiration date. I really think if it wasn't for commodores mismanagement, this computer would have a lot more potential than Macs or PCs nowadays.
Yeah apparently you can use that to set: general.aboutConfig.enable to true

And then you can go to the normal about:config and set dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled to false

Only then is PPA actually off (apparently, I did not manage to test this yet but someone did confirm the default setting is true). Not cool. Especially because Mozilla provides instructions for the desktop version on their site but doesn't even mention the mobile version at all.
I'm not sure why you have resigned?

If you don't care about running it locally, just spend it online. Everything is good.

But you can run it locally already. Is it cheap? No. Are we still in the beginning? yes. We are still in a phase were this is a pure luxury and just getting into it by buying a 4090, is still relativly cheap in my opinion.

Why running it locally you ask? I personally think running anythingllm and similiar frameworks on your own local data is interesting.

But im pretty sure in a few years you will be able to buy cheaper ml chips for running models locally fast and cheap.

Btw. aat least i don't know a online service which is uncensored, has a lot of loras as choice and is cost effective. For just playing around with LLMs for sure there are plenty of services.
Hello hackers, my name is Hussein Kizz, you can just call me Kizz, and so I have been working on this framework for 10 months now since last year, I had a lot to learn and still have, but I just wanted a client-side only framework that's truly simple without any build step, something close to vanilla but more powerful and can do SPAs and all stuff needed in modern applications without the mental overhead, so my result is z, help me tell the good, the bad and the ugly of it, am so humbled to listen to feedback and get contributions.
No content besides a few paragraphs of intro. Actual content has 404 not found errors.
Good instinct. This way we may, one day, get a tricorder to do these things from a distance, instead of ten different tools requiring extensive setup or very manual, meticulous process to use.

That said, if you want the job actually done any time soon, stud finder sounds like a better choice for now.
What do people study to figure out CUDA? I’m studying to get me GED and hope to go to school one day
What do you make of the placebo effect?

The polygraph obviously has no basis for working, but while a sugar pill doesn't make a tumor disappear, it can be very good at pain management.

I still wouldn't use it in the context of the justice system, though.
Sorry! I meant they have the same form as used in the energy differential (1-form), but I had thought "units" would make more sense. In fact, this comparison was how I came to the intuition, although, as you coyly suggested, I did do a check with my earlier intuitions..

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/415943/why-does-...
Not to defend C strings too hard, but it does make some sort of sense, IMO. You have to manage all your buffers manually in C, whether they contain a string or not. If you store a string of length 5 in a 10-byte buffer, you still need to manage the 10-byte buffer. Raw pointers kept things very flexible and lightweight when C was created.

Nowadays, things like C++ string_view's and Rust str slices handle this for you automatically, but those came around much later and require more sophistication at compile time.
Image device -> run image in emulator -> try 5 passcodes -> get blocked -> reload image -> try 5 passcodes -> get blocked -> ... -> try 5 passcodes -> unlock phone.
Lai commemorates end of Martial Law 37 years ago
Mendelian Genetics, Living Stones, and Plant Breeding [video]
> what does weaponizing mean here?

It means manipulating into buying staff you don't need, i.e., targeted ads.
Most innocent people doubt their innocence when strongly accused even when they know they are right. Just a tiny bit, but in the right setting and with enough wearing you down, you can make innocent people believe they did it. I've seen it happen right in front of me.
OpenCL was released in 2009. AMD has had plenty of time to push and drive that standard. But OpenCL had a worse experience than CUDA, and AMD wasn't up to the task in terms of hardware, so it made no real sense to go for OpenCL.
The menu on the left on desktop is working. It seems only the links on the first page are broken.
Investors Keep Faith in America's 'Apartment King,' Even in Tough Times
Separately, the military honor guards performed their first guard mounting at Democracy Boulevard in Taipei yesterday, after ceasing their 44-year sentry duty at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall at 5pm on Sunday. The Ministry of Culture said the sentries were removed to fulfill transitional justice.

Wow, that’s a big change. I remember seeing that many years ago. the little sentries in I think their silver helmets with their bayonets marching up and down and performing a changeover ritual at certain times.

very interesting. They removed it. It’s kind of sad. Everything changes :,)
The links in the running text are broken. The links in the hamburger menu work fine.
Yes, but you don't need merge to scale up things like game projects. You can just carefully partition the work between people. Perforce supports file locking for this reason. And, a lot of merge conflicts in software are thanks to the use of symbolic naming.
You are vastly overestimating the startup cost. For me this week it was literally these commands:

pacman -S ollama

ollama serve

ollama run llama3

My basic laptop with about 16 GB of RAM can run the model just fine. It's not fast, but it's reasonably usable for messing around with the tech. That's the "startup" cost. Everything else is a matter of pushing scale and performance, and yes that can be expensive, but a novice who doesn't know what they need yet doesn't have to spend tons of money to find out. Almost any PC with a reasonable amount of RAM gets the job done.
I have had systems completely die from hitting swap a few years ago. This is not a 2000s problem.
Does that mean that suggestions like that should maybe be sent by email, with multiple important people CCd?
How do you Image an iphone device?
So where can I donate to Ladybird browser development?

Before anyone tries to respond with it. It is https://donorbox.org/ladybird
No, SegWit decoupled (segregated) the witness data from the signature data.

Also the signature data has a lower “weight” now.

It also happens to have been a soft fork for Bitcoin where the block size was increased to roughly 4 MB.
I agree that thermodynamic relations - and Legendre transformations - are fascinating. I don’t think I ever fully understood them though - at least not to the point where they became “intuitive” :-)
The effect of daily usage of Mouthwash on the oropharyngeal microbiome
> But now, no matter what I search, it's mostly corporate/traditional media in the list.

I wish - but now, no matter what I search, it's all idiot influencers youtube shock face thumbnails and contant that can only be targetted at retards.

Not being logged in, deleting cookies and rotating IP addresses may be wonderful for privacy, but the reccomendation engine shows you what the masses are watching and it is incredibly sad.