skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's questions about how to deal with US border security, given how they have special laws that apply to them allowing them to hold you into custody until you give up e.g. encryption keys to your hard drive. They don't advise on how to break the law, they advise to not bring personal data across the border and use a VPN to retrieve it from wherever you're coming from.
In the the end, it is just a problem of privacy VS features.

And to be honest, unfortunately, I think most of the average users just want features.
I'm slightly annoyed.

I just made the commitment to move back to Linux from Windows 10 last week.

I was hoping to at least stick with chromium, now I'm reconsidering that.

Now that I think about it, should I really be trusting Android? Is iOS any better? Apple does appear to show some commitment to privacy, but their anti repair stance is crazy. Will I have to switch to custom Android ROM with all the Google services neutered?
>> I guess, thinking through it, you're taking issue with someone else setting a maintainer's priorities.

You understood that very well. If you want a project to fulfill your desires, either you do the work and preferably submit it upstream, or you sponsor the change. Filing an issue for the purpose of changing the language/concepts used in a project, to me reeks of very toxic entitlement.

As you said yourself, "the language we use shapes the way we think about basically everything and thus how we behave" (otherwise known as 'Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis'). Thus demands for change of language are in fact demands for control/power over others, the clarity of their thoughts, their actions, ultimately their realities, do you agree with that ???

I have no issue, if you propose better terms, which more accurately describe the concepts which we refer to, when we use terms as "master/slave" relationship, but so far you have not done so. If you do and promote the new terms, then may be gradually people will use them instead.
Do you think all engineers at DeepMind had to re-interview at Google when DeepMind was taken over?
Somehow this reminds me of the time when Google started to unify their login experience (one login for all Google services).

That was the time I started actively avoiding Google services, and I still do. This incident is a good reminder of why I do so.
And even then, the token would lock itself down after too many incorrect PIN attemtpts.
Same in the US, they have laws that allow them to detain you if you don't let them search your digital devices.
Leader GPU too, they are Dutch
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While still using Windows...
Maybe, but what if this crosses over into mainstream news? Is Google prepared for that battle?
Chrome highlights page keyword search result locations on the scroll bar, making the process of going through them very convenient. Firefox doesn't, and I couldn't find an extension that replicates the feature without extra manual effort.

Also, I find Firefox UI sluggish to use, relative to Chrome UI.
Visual Paradigm has tool for almost all the things you need in process IMO.
https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/blob/master/src/stati...
Yes, those "incredible journey" communiqués pretty much form the definition of "adding insult to injury".
Disabling updates is really bad idea. Maybe it is still possible to switch back to old functionality using chrome://flags ?
Testing proton mail. If mail delivery is solid then that will do, otherwise outlook.com will be good enough. I'm ungoogling my life and strangely enough, MS is the less bad option right now.
Was using private browsing to log in to work gmail last night and found it really creepy how it remained logged in across private tabs.

Thought the whole point of a private tab was to completely isolate a browsing session, now you can never be certain your Google credentials are not being shared in these private sessions or even contaminate my non-private sessions.

Going to have to use another browser for my work sessions from now on.
This is absolutely the right answer as to how AWS got so big in the first place. Capex and IT are huge pain points. Starting something up on the free tier isn't. Once something's running and providing value, spending money on it becomes a "necessity" and the obstructionism goes away.
Losing a few techies who care about things like this when Google has literally billions of users? This is exactly what governments are meant for.
Can't say I took much away from that article.

Next time my RabbitMQ broker goes nuts and refuses to die (thank you Erlang), I'm still going to go ahead and reboot the whole machine.
My friend lost his YubiKey and found it embedded in his gravel driveway six months later. Still worked like nothing had happened.
You should use a password manager, there's been a few cases already where malware shows how trivial it is to steal and decrypt into plain-text passwords stored by the browser.
There's already laws popping up left and right that you get x years in jail (or are just detained indefinitely) if you don't unlock your digital devices or hard drives. The logic being if you have nothing to hide, etc. It's a direct violation of the self-incriminating constitution thing, but there's lots of attempts to talk around that one.
Wow, that is pretty shitty. Given the number of times over the years that I've had to wipe all Google cookies and site data to fix issues with offline mode in Google Docs, this does not bode well for being able to use Chrome successfully to access even Google's own services in future.
I'm sure Microsoft had the same reasoning about IE.
You can't be serious.

The challenge of filing presidential candidate paperwork in the US versus the challenges of having a contrarian political opinion in China are nowhere near each other in level of hardship.
Nope, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art
When Gavin Newsom is elected Governor there will absolutely be a rise in the State rates for the top brackets. Jerry Brown pushed back and vetoed much of this stuff but he could only get away with that because he has no desire for another elected office. Newsom wants to be President and he knows that to get there he will need the help of the incoming left-wave in Sacramento...and the left-wave is completely focused on building their agenda on a tax-the-rich strategy that has been broadly supported in Propositions over the last few years.

tl;dr: Californians should get ready for more State taxes. A lot more.
This is when Google starts to underestimate users and treat them as dumb zombies.

It is their new game theory play:

1/ Start making people think you are super ethical (don't be evil)

2/ Gain traction

3/ Change rules and take advantage of inertia. People are lazy to change browsers.
1) There is no way to conclude there is no link from one guy. There are so many possible ways it could be linked. So anyone concluding no link cannot be trusted either due to maliciousness or ignorance.

2) He was apparently stable for 15 years until they started this vagal nerve stimulation, then was dead within months.

3) They don't mention anywhere how they ruled out any of these possible links.

4) They say he died of lung infection and vagus nerve activity is reported to affect lung infection rates: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4127262/

5) Respiratory tract problems are a known side effect of this vagal nerve stimulation technique: https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/vagus-nerve-stim...

Even only #1 is enough for me to not trust them. Note that my conclusion is not about any "link", my conclusion is that these are people who draw unwarranted conclusions for whatever reason.

>"Pizzagate guy also saw a link after a cursory interwebs investigation. He was a smart one..."

There seems to be a problem in this thread of people (not just you) confusing lack of evidence with disproving a link, or even proving a link. I am saying there is just "lack of evidence" as to what happened. Maybe it was fully or partially due to the procedure, maybe not.

> "Mind giving that quote?"

It was in the same article under discussion:

'Of the decision not to report the death, Sirigu told the Guardian: “The patient’s death was not linked to our protocol. He entered in our study in January 2016 and his participation ended [at the] beginning of September 2016. We respected the family decision to not communicate about the event. What was important for us was to keep the event in the privacy of this wonderful family.”'
Your url does not work for me (404), this one does: https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/am-i-logged-in-or-not-gdpr-ca...
outlook.com is great
How long until version has the feature that when you install it loads a kernal driver such that when you close it, it runs in the background copying keystrokes and screen shots and uploading them? I'd love to hear how they'd sell that, maybe offering to pay for your internet connection?
I suspect that they use metrics for making decisions and the total number of users is growing. Those who understand and care for privacy are only a small portion of the user base and don't play a role in metrics. And if they play a role in metrics, they are probably accounted as leeches because they use google products but don't pay back because they block ads. Therefore a totally useless user base... maybe.
Even if any of us was lucky enough to be hired, we'd still have to follow what the leads say and not rip out every bit of intrusion and data gathering in chrome (harder than I can imagine) less we get reassigned or sacked. I bet there are plenty of devs there who already have their reservations but for obvious reasons not publicly vocal about it or had their views dismissed for again obvious reasons.
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That didn't happen to me.
Yes, nice find. There are many ways the vagal stimulation could have been linked to the death, you have to work hard to ignore them.
It is still anti competitive, a browser that has special rules/code for the browser maker websites. Next they could give their own websites permissions that other websites don't have by default and that you could not remove(or need to find a convoluted way to remove), ex they could give google webpages permissions to access your webcam and microphone by default.

This illegal things needs to be stopped it is not enough that only the people that understand it stop using Chrome.
It's important to say that mental illness probably doesn't increase risk of violence by much.

eg, this study:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/183929

> In patients with schizophrenia, 1054 (13.2%) had at least 1 violent offense compared with 4276 (5.3%) of general population controls (adjusted odds ratio [OR], 2.0; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.8-2.2). The risk was mostly confined to patients with substance abuse comorbidity (of whom 27.6% committed an offense), yielding an increased risk of violent crime among such patients (adjusted OR, 4.4; 95% CI, 3.9-5.0), whereas the risk increase was small in schizophrenia patients without substance abuse comorbidity (8.5% of whom had at least 1 violent offense; adjusted OR, 1.2; 95% CI, 1.1-1.4; P<.001 for interaction). The risk increase among those with substance abuse comorbidity was significantly less pronounced when unaffected siblings were used as controls (28.3% of those with schizophrenia had a violent offense compared with 17.9% of their unaffected siblings; adjusted OR, 1.8; 95% CI, 1.4-2.4; P<.001 for interaction), suggesting significant familial (genetic or early environmental) confounding of the association between schizophrenia and violence.
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You'll find it a lot in older literature, Dickens etc.
It's hard to think when someone Hadamards your brain
A person can be a shitty person, or a shitty person because of mental illness.

Occam's razor prefers the first, right? You're introducing an additional explanation.
> laggy firefox ui on mac

Really? I've been using it for years and I haven't felt a problem. But this could be a bug, and it'd be a good idea to report it.
I updated Chromium to version 69 on a personal debian 9.5, but it didn't touch any of my settings nor removed any installed extensions.

I don't (and never did) log into Chromium with my Google account however, so no syncing is happening.
The rotation of galaxies defies any solely gravity based model, irrespective of whether or not we use General Relativity, Newtonian principles or other gravity models. The addition of entities to some of these models to bring about compliance of those models with observation has not yet led to any experimental verification of such entities.

There are models of gravitation that are based on classical electromagnetics, wherein, gravity is a residual by-product of the electromagnetic interaction between the components of atoms. The models appear to be of the correct order of magnitude for the size of the forces.

However, like a lot of models that have been developed in the last 100 years, there does not appear to be any traction to investigate these models as they are not the commonly ascribed-to models. So we are unable to see if these models produce better predictions for the experiments that are being done around the world.
If you have your own domain I recently found Migadu from HN like a day or two ago in another discussion. (and I love them already)
You will see that there will be exactly zero backlash outside of hacker news.

They do not need their first adopters anymore.
Can't speak for ux-app but most people on HN are on macs, also a lot of people on linux.
Correct. I had to laugh at the idea of someone at that income level paying 9% marginal.

US taxes work out a good deal less than Australian if you are paying Australia federal income tax but filing in the USA at a federal level (joys of dual citizenship!), but Australians often don't add up fed+state+local. So there's a lot of mythology in Australia about the low-tax USA as we don't pay state income tax here.
Nope, they are just finding the theshold at which 5% of people gets annoyed to the extent that they will switch browsers.
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You should be good if you're using Android without Google services, I think.
proton is good
> Taxes: ... (50% total)

> run the math - $230k comp - $83k taxes

Please fix this inconsistency.
I think Incognito tabs have always been this way in Chrome for as long as I remember (all currently open ones share a session). If you close all of them, the next one you open will be a clean slate.
Code Must Be Clean. And Clear
This can happen if somehow sync got enabled when you signed in.

Sync kicked in, noticed a mismatch between your current setup and the one you had set up many years ago while testing the “sign into chrome” process and set your setting to the one in the cloud.

It’s caught me out a couple of times too.
Hardware is the easy part. Setting up and running the software stacks. Uptimes, etc are tricky.
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For non vital filesystems, I use "-o intr,soft,timeo=5" at NFS mount time. This causes syscalls to return EINTR and timeout without hard locking. It can sometimes confuse userspace, but at least you don't get a stuck process.
Yesterday I started moving to FastMail, today switched to Firefox, what tomorrow will bring?

Btw, can someone recommend a good alternative to Google Maps API?
> it remained logged in across private tabs.

If you mean "Incognito mode", then that's always happened. You need to close all tabs.

Exactly the same for FireFox's private browsing.
I agree and disagree. They didn’t get to where they are now by playing games and leaving major design decisions to seemingly the intern marketing dept. I think it’s safe to assume that information/sentiment moves much more quickly in these modern times. I second the recent HN comment that mentioned why Google chose this particular hill to die on.
You've missed the entire point. This isn't about revealing that he died now. Its about them confidently proclaiming the death was unrelated to the procedure. There is no way this is justified if he died of "lung infection".

Even if it was that the family was horrified by the partial consciousness and asked for euthanasia, it is still linked to the procedure.
I am sure certain apps need that integration but what is the percentage of apps that matter in your opinion?
90% of people won't care / aren't able to understand the issue.

That's were google is heading its efforts :)
It's a hardware token that supports a local PIN as a second factor.
That’s pretty much the reason Google has a browser in the first place. Most normal users don’t really grok the difference between ”browser” and ”Google” anyway.
Stoped trusting google years ago, I switched from chrome to firefox and from google to duckduckgo.
That's not the behavior we are arguing about here though.
I'd love to tell people the only way to replace gmail is to get either your own mail server or at least your own domain, but this is an unreasonable goal.

However.... re-decentralization resonates quite well these days when it comes to the web. I wonder what it would take to be re-applies to email.
Even for someone who likes Google, this is insane.
There are really very few things Chrome is better at than Firefox these days.
I just switched to Edge and it looks great. One of the reasons I had used Chrome and had recommended all my customers to use Chrome was the ability to print to PDF, which Firefox did not have (not sure if it does now). Edge does and will be recommending all my clients to try out Egde.
Obviously for the app developpers that write rocket flight computers. They also don't use free, their garbage collection is implemented in a physical mechanism.
>Most normal users don’t really grok the difference between ”browser” and ”Google” anyway.

I doubt that. With the marketshare on Windows it is very likely, that people deliberateley install Chrome. So they know what a browser is, now that they have at least 2 installed.
5500 split two ways is not 2250.
They're tampering with the expected operation of the browser so that even after the user explicitly told them not to it still sends personally identifiable tracking information to their servers.

I'm glad the GDPR is in effect, so instead of "this should be illegal" we can say "of course this is blatantly illegal".

I hope they get a fine for this, with multipliers for how deliberate it is, and for keeping on defending the behaviour even after being called out.
Is Google indictable (sueable) for that massive abuse under EU law?
Container Security Verification Standard
> more secure than Firefox

How so?
> Our plan is to rent as cheaply as we reasonable can, even if we can afford more (that is what we are doing right now).

Everybodies plan is to do that.
Maybe tierra.net was one of those customers
The software update experience sucks
It won't be open source and a lot of people will just avoid using shareware dependencies and especially contributing to them.
I switched to FF ~1 year ago because I found the performance to be better. But Google's trend is making me consider switching back to an iPhone...
They don't care directly - they care because it's still the same old world where techies install and configure the browser for them on their computers.

Handhelds are different, but computers are just like back in the ol' days. This is how IE lost.
The "direction" of the wave affects polarization, which is critical for LCDs working. But that's not relevant to the double slit experiment, because the slits and spacing are larger than the waves. The double slit experiment relies on diffraction, the tendency of the waves to bend round corners.
I said nearly the exact same thing upthread. I don't get the difference.
Why do you say this? Google has more users.
I'd also like to think optimistically of society. And so if something is wrong there it's natural to want to assume an extrinsic cause. And certainly you can always find something. I certainly agree with your comments about food, yet at the same time I'm not sure we can assume that society itself is not the problem. For instance if people simply stopped drinking soda that alone would send obesity rates down significantly. And soda is far more expensive than tap water and a filter, or tossing tea leaves or bags in a $10 coffee machine. Yet people choose to pay more for a liquid that's detrimental to their health. And it's not a secret that soda is bad for you.

So should we tax soda to death or even consider banning it? That's where I would not agree. I value freedom over anything else in a society. Since if you have freedom, you can make the decisions that you see personally most likely to produce positive results for you. And as the recent GDPR vs EU Copyright Act emphasized, in a strikingly brief period of time, the same powers that can be used to do things we perceive to be beneficial for society can, and will, then be used to turn against society to the benefit of entrenched interests.

I also think it's important to consider what 'same reward for same effort' would imply. Should I choose to write books, ought I expect the same reward as Stephen King choosing to write his next book? If I choose to get into basketball should I expect the same reward as an individual who's hyper athletic and 6'11"? Of course not. Equality of reward is an idea that sounds like something you ought desire but underneath the surface it is a dystopia that requires complete and indistinguishable sameness in absolutely every way. As without this sameness, the same effort will invariably yield different results. The game of life is all about finding what your maximizing function is there and pushing it.
I’m not sure how this is different from the concept of induced demand? BTW, the ”See also” section is awesome. A serious time sink.
> The big difference is that your Chrome account is your Google account, unlike any of the other sites you mention.

Then Chrome should be just a Google Services Client app. It shouldn't pretend to be a browser. It shouldn't allow one to log into "any of the other sites", in the first place.
Idelift doesn't seem to be open source.
> Why "of course"?

Cause AWS is _really_ expensive...
Is there any open-source, federated alternative to Instagram? Could Mastodon be used the same way?
Still see it used sometimes in current UK English, most often by solicitors or in other formal language.

Definitely becoming less common and fading out, like Esq and Esquire slowly died out of standard usage on bank statements and other official letters, over the last 20 years.
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yes, you can. google cookies are being rewritten until you logout. once out, you can remove the cookies. once you re-login, the cookies come back.
basically they've added a step: logout before cookie removal.
Right.

But there's a certain amount of irony that people are ditching Chrome, while still using an OS which literally does spy on you.
> As I said, both of these actions are both easily traceable and reversible. Some inconvenience to me certainly but I am covered, and the the thief is most probably in jail.

That's only true, if the bank itself was aware of its security issues, which N26 was not. From the bank's point of view, you had just started using its mobile app on a new device after successfully proving your identity without any suspicious activity in the logs.
For example for a long time Firefox didn't have process separation, sandboxing, etc. Basic features. I don't know how it is now
Do you have any data to back this claim up? I would be surprised if the majority of visitors to HN were using mac.
This can be turns off with disabling options in the settings app and with a handful of group policy change or reg tweaks depending on if your running Home or not.

I will say I’m not a fan of the defaults and I would like the controls to be in a more visable place but the controls are there.