skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Is there a browser I can pay for?
Can anyone recommend a browser I can pay for to prevent malicious tracking of my browsing habits? I'm curious if businesses like this exist and whether or not they can be successful.
Why is this downvoted so heavily? It's a legitimate opinion. I don't agree with it and you may not either, but it highlights the fact that for at least a portion of the user base the default browser may be an acceptable option.
Same here. AMP and the current move to get rid of URLs were the last straw.
Since this was 5 yrs ago, now there are regular phones that are similar if not a little more polished concepts.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Uniwa-AEKU-C6-Mobile-Phone-G...

I think this makes a lot of sense for some uses, kids, when you want to be tech-less.
interestingly, the plural is apparently octopodes or octopuses [1]

[1] http://grammarist.com/usage/octopi-octopuses/
I completely agree, but when you don’t include the majority of Social Security then the magnitude of spending on the ‘safety net’ is vastly smaller.

America for example lowers the tax rate for low income people, just not as low as dividends are taxed.
I wrote an initial answer to this which was basically "get a pair!" and then decided to start again.

As a child, I had a lone female budgie. She was completely tame - almost "post-tame" to the point that she knew you weren't a threat so was quite OK with biting you to make a point if you tried to get her to do something like the perpetual ladder game. I'd get back from school and she'd sit on my shoulder all evening chuntering into my ear.

When I started my degree she - age 10 - had to move on, so I gave her to a friend to look after. The friend had, until recently, had a pair of budgies, but sadly was left with just the male. Upon introduction the two lone budgies bonded immediately in a completely heartwarming display. She lived for 2 more years happily with her new mate, and I always felt guilt for keeping her on her own all that time.

Fast forward to now and I have two budgies together, and they're really happy. They're all over each other all day. They have arguments, and they work through them, and they end up smooching and grooming and feeding each other again. They're so loving they're gross.

But do I think my first budgie was unhappy? No, I don't. She was fine, she just identified with people for most of her life.

Then, do I think these budgies as a couple are happier than she was? Yes, I think they probably are.

Ultimately it's up to you and how you want to care for the bird. If you want a super tame bird and you think you can provide enough time for them that they won't be lonely, you can make the decision to get a single budgie. If you want them to be able to have fun on their own when you're not there, get a pair - because then they don't need you.

Both of my current budgies are finger tame, but for them interacting with humans is mostly an annoyance. They will get curious and start chatting with you if you come to the cage, and they will get on your hand - but if they hear the other budgie that takes priority. One thing I haven't tried is getting two young birds and taming them independently before introducing them to each other...

Cage size I think within reason the bigger the better. Tall thin cages work well if your space is restricted, since vertical space is usually more readily available.
Have you ever abstained for a while from alcohol? I used to drink like a degenerate in college (easily 10+ drinks on a night out).

I cut out drinking altogether for about a year right after college. Since then, I drink maybe 6 times a year. If I drink anything more than two drinks I feel pretty horrible and can feel it the next day.

The places I've been to in the Bay Area has never served anything like <0.5% beer. I'd much rather drink something like ginger beer or kombucha anyway, which is what I do given the occasion.
https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct.html

Don't be evil is in the last line of Google's Code of Conduct.
YouTube has an another app called “YouTube Music” designed specifically for playing music. It mostly just gives you the option to play only the audio of a given video (saving on bandwidth, etc). Only works if you have YouTube premium/red or whatever it’s called.

Might be called something different in other regions (I’m in the US).
What are some of the things it does to be annoying or demanding, similar to a child?
It would be interesting to see if code generated by this tool is faster than the original python.
There are two reasons people change their stories. One is that they once believed something, but later discovered they were in error and now say something else they believe to be true. The other is that they don't care about what's actually true, and are just saying whatever they think will engage or impress their listeners. Frankfurt's "On Bullshit" is a readable survey of this topic.

The second kind is far more common. But the first kind is really important. When someone updates their views we should pay attention. Perhaps a member of the rationalist community could prove this using Bayes theorem.
Bing is nowhere near Google yet, but I've been using it due to Google rate limiting my VPN. It does seem to pick up answers to programming questions quite well on the usual sites like SO, every now and then I'll have to switch because Bing seems to not index as many pages, and it seems to index at less frequent intervals to Google. Another thing is Google just seems to understand what you want even if you typed it poorly, Bing is bad at this so you end up typing more complete queries.
Tesla is hand-delivering the Model 3 to speed up sales
>If you think the coverage of him is bad now

He could solve that problem by simply ceasing to say and do dumb things. I'm not convinced the media is out to get him, he just shoots himself in the foot about 20 times / day. I wish the news were focused more on policy than politics (though not sure that would help him), but people like drama and news orgs like money.
You're repeating a lot of misinformation. Here's a better reference:

https://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-under-fire-inside-the-9-da...
We have a re-homed king parrot, and it's very hard to decide what's best for her long-term welfare. Getting a second bird to give her proper companionship seems like the best option but then you have to decide whether to make it the same breed (temperament/compatibility match but would become very insular and likely outright hostile to us as keepers), opposite sex (then you end up with a breeding pair which has it's own problems but does make them happiest if they successfully bond... big if and risky).

I'm already planning a gigantic indoor aviary build to give her more freedom during the day when we're both working, but companionship is it's own huge problem for such intelligent (and more importantly I think, emotional) creatures.

If only we could converse with them.
I’m wondering where the source of truth for the sync setting is stored. If I enable sync on one chrome browser — then in another chrome browser on another device log into gmail (triggering chrome login) — will browser history sync be enabled on that second device?
Hate isn't some limited quantity, such that hating the chronically homeless precludes you from hating rich and wealthy sexual abusers or people who will recklessly create financial bubbles in search of wealth (although I'd argue that today's most notable example of unregulated financial systems would be cryptocurrencies, although the cryptocurrency bubble isn't as big as the financial bubble of '08 - yet).
but how long before the temporarily homeless becomes the chronically homeless?

How hard does a person has to be kicked and how much mishap has to happen before they fall into despair, and become one of those who has to live under the bridge (as they lose their car due to uncontrollable circumstances)?

The existence of a large homeless population is a symptom of a society that does not care - reflected by the lack of taxation on the populous.

If you examine a scandinavian country (such as sweden), why do they have way less homeless per-capita than the US?
I'll add my very recent negative experience with Google. I have a couple of apps on the Google Play that use Firebase analytics and crash reporting. This weekend both apps were removed by Google without any warnings. The issue was that apps were in "Violation of Usage of Android Advertising ID" because by default Firebase collects Advertising ID. I don't really need Advertising ID in my app or my analytics and there is a way to opt out [1], but I think the way Google handled this is just wrong. Collecting information that most people probably don't care about and then removing apps without notice for basically their own default configuration.

[1] https://firebase.google.com/support/guides/disable-analytics
It will never be made illegal because the threat of ostracization for any dissent or minor opposition to the status quo is an enormously powerful political tool. You don't even have to put much effort into it, just arrest someone for "resisting arrest" and every reputable company and landlord will do the work for you.
What about SWARE Iron? https://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php

It is supposed to be the version of Chromium without the Google crap, right? I use it at times to test it out as I test out different websites on different browsers.

They have it for different platforms:
https://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_download.php
You want to learn a lot, and it will take you many, many years. The first step is to choose 1 thing to learn, like you did with HTML/CSS. Now choose another thing to learn, maybe how a Raspberry Pi works (search online for “How does a Raspberry Pi work”). I work for a company called ITPro.TV, https://www.itpro.tv, which has a lot of the information that you want, and is really high quality video content, if you learn better from video than reading. Good luck!!
I'm not sure an apology for murdering my family would be heard without a lot of anger and resentment. Other concepts such as revenge, retribution and other sentiments would likely also come to into play regardless of sincerity.

You make a good point about the snarky critique though. Having looked through a few of the dead comments on this post, a lot of people are very rigid about sensitivity training. There are a lot of parallels with SJW causes in how this is being approached.

(I am not equating those parallels with the validity of sensitivity training, only the rabid nature of the defence against criticism thereof I have seen).
When I last had to do it, adding a managed G Suite account to Chrome warns the user that it will allow the browser to be controlled by the organization. It would make sense that this same warning would show up in this scenario.
So if you pay for a G-suite account it's safe to say google does not mine your data?
This comment thread just reinforces your argument (my belief as well) that people will go out of their way to try and normalize drinking, just like smoking used to be in the 60s.

I get constant questions as well unless I'm babying a random non-alcoholic beverage. I've found that the best non-follow up to "why don't you drink?" is "I used to drink a lot but my doctor told me to try and abstain for my health."
C, Java, and Python.
And various projects in each to get exposed to why each are used.

> Is it bad if a fresh undergraduate doesn't know C/C++ or Java? Are they here to stay for decades to come?

It will be hard to truly know any of them deeply with just some study.
If you haven't heard already, employers hire fresh undergrads based on their potential and a project or 2 they've done. You're going to be able to pick up and work in whichever language they use (and projects you switch to) on the job.
FYI YouTube will disable their API access as soon as the right team notices this.

Go on, ask me how I know.
This is interesting. I am the owner of a startup focused on techno and relaying the music history to new listeners can be really hard.
Is Amazon the new Samsung? Make as many products and product variants as possible, throw them against the wall and see what sticks? It's not like its shareholders mind having little to no profits. Selling things for cheap or below cost helps it "innovate rapidly" (aka trial and error)?

P.S.: Samsung does make some good quality hardware in a few areas. I don't know if the same can be said of Amazon.
It is. I use Vivaldi, most patch notes include a version bump of Chromium.
i too would love to see ms take 'phone' seriously, and do a surface phone line similar to iphone. own the hardware stack top to bottom. we need a third major force to offset apple/google, and MS is one of the few that could fill that gap.

they did finally start to take ownership of experience with the surface stuff, and I'm tempted to move back to that world in 2019 with a surface book of some stripe.
My two cents: It's a generation of programmers raised on the Web who think web technology is good because that's what they know. They believe in "open standards" and "design by committee" and nonsense like "semantic HTML" being "best practice".

To everyone outside of that bubble, the following is obvious: Web technology sucks. HTML sucks. CSS sucks. Javascript sucks. They're inadequate solutions, which is why people keep reinventing the way to do web frontend every two years.

> It may be hard to answer as we are all biased in favor of HTML.

Not me.
I've seen a bear still running in small circles in a 3.500m² compound in a zoo after being relocated there from another zoo (where they might have shot it). The reason for the circling (not enough space) was explained to us by the staff of the zoo. They said it'd wear off after a couple of months.
Bear "Max" was 7 years old at the time (in 2000 or 2001). The 20 year old mother "Alma" was not running in circles. After the mother died in 2007, it seems the bear was held alone for 10 years. Max is still alive and with a partner now (Animal Park Olderdissen, Bielefeld, Germany).
Oh, really? Genetic evolution link between two branches of an acyclic graph! Peer-reviewed, of course.
Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?
With the recent thread on privacy in Chrome, I'm thinking of switching off Gmail. What email service is best for privacy? Or if you self-host, what email client do you like best?
Aida[1] is a good place to start. Put in on repeat for a week to familiarize yourself with the music. Then read more about it and watch a video version with subtitles. SF Opera did an amazing performance a few years ago.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL2ODmcB5hE

Edit: more Jon Vickers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ekicq-OC6N0
Or maybe it's more like this: HYPER-REALITY

https://vimeo.com/166807261
> he just shoots himself in the foot about 20 times / day

as much as I dislike trump, i do think some of the negative media coverage of him is over the top, and does its part in destroying credibility of real issues. my own gut would be on those '20 times/day' things, probably 5-10 of them are overblown or taken out of context (the 'fist bump' on 9/11 was overblown, imo, when you look at the complete footage and context).
Kin did have an unusual shape, at a time that such a shape worked (?) as a fashion move.

Not saying Kin was the worst, but it certainly warrants an honorable mention.
How much do you think it costs to employ 30-40 of the following people for 5 or 10 years?

“reporters and junior reporters, data journalists, researchers, copy editors, line editors, and an assistant managing editor. Graphics editors and designers, a social media editor, a reach/engagement editor, a partnerships lead, developers, and an analytics lead. A Chief Revenue Officer, a Chief of Finance and Administration, and a person to lead business development.”

https://themarkup.org/jobs.html
Self-modifying code to optimize a hot loop is only a useful thing to do on a machine without a split I/D level-1 cache. All modern high-performance CPUs will suffer an instruction cache flush on each iteration of the hot loop, which will kill your performance. Also, though, even on CPUs with no instruction cache, it's probably a very minor improvement at best. Suppose you write the variable in one place and read it in 4 places. If no register is allocated to the variable, on a load-store machine such as a RISC, the usual approach involves one store and four loads. But if you use self-modifying code instead, you have four stores (and no loads), but those stores are modifying only part of an instruction word — so, on most hardware, they actually require a preceding load, even if the architecture tries to hide that from you.

I'm convinced there are cases where this kind of optimization actually speeds up your code, but they are pretty unusual.
I was trying to comment on the irony in adapting to our evolution instead of the other way around. I wasn't trying to advocate any solution. Clearly it didn't come out right based on the replies I got.
Unfortunately Google and Firefox are a bit joined at the hip, but it's better than outright being the same thing.
And during that time there's no revenue? I'm not sure why I'm being downvoted: as a publisher of multiple online and offline projects it seems an extravagant amount for a publication that has a very narrow scope.
Finally had a chance to look up Siemens Xelibri.

Oh my.

When your phone reminds one of contraceptive packaging, you're doing it wrong.
I've seen this myself in Belgrade zoo, Serbia. Wolves running around in cages not much bigger than my budgie cage. It's not OK. However this shouldn't be used as a straw man to argue against what I said regarding budgies considering the huge phylogenetic distance between birds and mammals.
I keep trying to use Safari as my main browser. I want to use it so bad.

I keep switching away from it due to lack of favicons and lack of extensions. I don't personally mind paying for a dev license to release an extension, but it definitely takes a toll on the extensions that get released.
i am currently hiring developers and none of those languages are even remotely required. FWIW.
My preference for a well supported Chromium-based browser that's not Chrome would be to use one of the "Blink" based browsers:

https://vivaldi.com

https://brave.com

https://www.opera.com

Opera was purchased by a Chinese consortium, I'm not a fan of Brave's hijacking of ad spaces so my preference is currently vivaldi - which was founded by co-founder and former CEO of Opera and has been adding new innovative features at a good pace.

Edit: been having fun trying out the latest vivaldi, loving a lot of their features like you can add website filters like greyscale, invert colors and sepia, monospace font + disable loading images or only load from cache, etc.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dn03GeXWkAEXRP3.jpg

Feels like they're focused on adding cool features users want, instead of Chrome's catering to mainstream-only users and features that benefit Google.
> I would be quite surprised if the youtube algorithm is looking at video editing style.

I didn't mean to imply it does -- at least, not directly. But those factors affect how users interact with the videos, which YouTube measures as engagement. And a typical sermon is likely to look especially bad on certain engagement metrics; in particular, their length means that users are less likely to watch them to completion, and even less likely to watch multiple videos in a single session.
These examples are all really... white dad culture. I can’t imagine an expansion of the Rhapsody or Bat into a movie-length entertainment that wouldn’t feel incredibly awkward.

On the other hand I could imagine cutting down Janelle Monae’s “Archandroid” cycle to a couple of hours of gloriously and uniquely American sci-fi flavored sung narrative. It’d need some reworking to come to a satisfying conclusion but there’s already several hours of songs and a lot of story to pare it down from.

On the gripping hand, I wonder how a Classic Opera would fare if you translated the lyrics and restaged it with a Touring Broadway Musical budget? It sounds like half of the problems of the opera companies discussed in this article come from having a stage that makes all but the most grandiose productions feel lost, and ticket prices that rule out all but a tiny percentage of humanity. That’s just not sustainable.
Check protonmail.com and tutanota.de as alternatives
If I had to make a sweeping generalization, it is because Scandinavian winters are so much harsher. Freezing to death in Stockholm is more of a danger than in San Francisco.
There's a more detailed discussion in his book, https://nostarch.com/hardwarehacker
Processing -- https://processing.org -- is one of the easiest and most popular languages for doing 2D graphics (and some 3D stuff as well). It's Java based, though there are ports to JavaScript such as p5.js that make it mostly seamless to export your code to the web.

The language and IDE are designed for beginners but it is not limited by it, and in fact many professional designers use it still. The documentation is great, with simple live examples of virtually every function. Here's save() for writing out an image file: https://www.processing.org/reference/save_.html

More recently, they've opened it up to make it easy to get third-party libraries for making web requests, running physics simulations, or augmenting the IDE itself.
The "Clearly you don't understand how compilers work" portion of this comment is unnecessary.
Just an observation, but I hear and read “democratize X” and “Uber for X” quite frequently these days. Your platform uses both
Yes, I think IRBs today do more harm than good. Is that yet another opinion I'm not allowed to express in polite company?
When Gmail came out, I said to people "as long as it stays on gmail.com then they can't use email scraping with your search history. No privacy issues." (or minmal ones)

Within a few months of Gmail going public it changed from gmail.com to gmail.google.com or google.com/gmail or some such thing, and I knew instantly they had bamboozled everyone.

That was years ago, the rest has been the expected trend.
Safari shows favicons in tab titles in macOS v10.14 Mojave.
You can also get people’s attention through humor.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-oB6DN5dYWo
I agree, the sane assumption should be that self-driving cars would be made widely available if and when they are better than humans at driving.

However, I've noticed that many work from the premise that self-driving cars are already safer than human drivers. That, or they'll work from the premise that self-driving cars will definitely be safer than human drivers within a reasonable timespan.

Worse, some assume that self-driving cars will dramatically, or nearly eliminate automobile accidents/deaths, where any brief skim over workplace casualties involving autonomous machinery would put that fantasy to rest.

For a group of tech workers that often overlap with self-described skeptics, it's an interesting blindspot to have.
Thanks, but I was disappointed by this response. Are you able to specify _any_ "specific indication of autism" which is _not_ also observed in people with other conditions? That seems an impossibly strict condition to meet, let alone in the context of spitballing, non-clinically, about ways in which some aspects of traits often associated with autism might in fact be beneficial.

Along with hyperfocus, a tendency toward honesty is another such trait. "But people without autism are sometimes honest, too" would be a comparable response.
Google et al can't focus on his policies because they benefit from them. Or their owners at any rate.

The rich will not save us from themselves. But they will put a nice rainbow flag up with the wages they stole from us.
The "We're going to keep it in the lab until it's perfect" approach is because (unlike spaceX) if they fuck up people will die.