skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is incredibly expensive to live in downtown LA or Santa Monica. Especially if you actually want to own something.
I want Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and Facebook to make clear statements as to whether or not their systems have been compromised by Australia's security laws.

Is my phone now compromised?

Is the Amazon AWS Sydney data centre now backdoored?

Without clarity, it appears the big tech companies plan to comply with the legislation, which means they might be backdoored.
Ouch, I understand why they want to not have a blocking webRequest API but I consider uBlock Origin to be a must-have extension. Hopefully this is relaxed somehow.

I personally still use Firefox at home despite recent issues, but I honestly would prefer having both as an option, plus I always recommend uBlock Origin to everyone.

(Disclaimer: I work at Google but not on Chrome, opinions are mine and not my employer's.)
Doubtful they will make such a popular extension impossible permanently. Doing so risks alienating influential users.
Maybe certain races have stronger workers if you have perfect micro (e.g. probes w/ shields)
"it was both a blogging platform and an aggregated feed of your LJ friends' blog posts, and you all had a more or less equal ability to comment and respond to each other. Crucially, LJ had enough marketshare to make it feasible that you might have a reasonable number of friends that used it too -- but it wasn't designed to make it trivial for your coworkers or neighbors to find you on there."

Probably not today, but at one point Tumblr also provided a similar user experience.
What problems do you have with Firefox?
My experience with AMD open drivers has been great. I had an HD 6850 before, new system with an RX 580, both have worked great. Had a few issues with the 6850 earlier on, but nothing too bad like you've described.
I don’t trust the Mozilla Corporation. Putting ads on my home page a few weeks ago was the last straw. But if Google does this, that’ll be almost worse. https://venturebeat.com/2018/12/31/mozilla-ad-on-firefoxs-ne...

It’s funny when you think of it, now both browsers want to shove ads down my throat. I hate the modern internet.
> With such a limited [...], I am skeptical "user agent" will still be a proper category to classify Chromium.

epic burn
I'd love to try AMD video cards again, but what's recently held me back is that I sometimes play around with stuff like Tensorflow and other ML libraries.

They all seem to be geared toward CUDA, which of course is an NVidia only thing.

I've never really looked deeply into it, but are there performant options, close to CUDA, that would allow me or others to use such ML libraries on AMD GPUs?
Using Zip archives on Unix doesn't feel right, but it can solve a bunch of these problems straight away, while remaining highly portable.
"Not a screw in sight" refers to the fact that Dyson products are mostly plastic glued together so as to be completely non-reparable. As pointed out elsewhere in this thread, there is simply _no_ comparison to German products.
Sure, but... was the offense worthy of the outrage? Is every microtransgression worthy of outrage? And, is a company the right stage for fighting this? For publicly fighting this? I would say "no" to every one of these questions, except the third.

"Snowflake" is a loaded term, sure, but the super-easily-offended behavior does rather fit the common understanding of the term...
Flyway doesn't require Java. The CLI ships with a private JRE as well as drivers for most databases out of the box. Simply untar and run.
Yeah, fully agreed on that. Go just doesn't have as productive a framework like Rails. That's why I only use it for very small websites or even smaller API gateways. Or CLIs. Or network daemons.

I am not disputing your choices. Just wanted to give you the quick and intuitive (and likely misinformed) immediate reaction that I had from the article.

Keep making GitLab awesome. <3
iOS might not support Firefox addons, but you can use a system wide ad block app with Firefox.
... and yet another downside to Microsoft moving to Chromium.
The executable in /Applications is 32-bit, but it's just a launcher for the real Steam app in ~/Library/Application Support/Steam/Steam.AppBundle which is 64-bit.
> I was in the 99% territory before being in the 1%, then. And your comment could have convinced me not to change and give up.

> Seriously?
Who are you to say that of others?!

> [...]

> I'm really tired and comments like yours are really adding insult to the injury.

> I really want to scream a big F*CK you to your face...

No zealot like a convert.
Well, it was nice mooching off the work they put into Chrome while it lasted.
How many people can A) afford to live in Venice Beach and B) manage to get a job within walking distance?
The people are ready, the conservatives don't recognize the problem.
Can someone explain what "zero shot" means? The link doesn't explain, and some basic googling doesn't either.
Wine 4.0 released
> But your friends aren't going to read it.

Even back in the day my friends weren't reading my LJ. I wound up discovering the only people reading mine were a few internet friends, ex-girl friends, and a professor I was working for (which taught me the lesson of never writing something on the internet that I didn't want out as public information).
The cell phone market has matured, the rate of innovation has slowed and the need to update your phone at every release has subsided. Apple has recognised this, they have better long term support for their phones then any other manufacturer that I can think of. As an example I have given my son an old iPhone 5S that my wife got in 2014, it had been sat in a draw for a couple of years but a good charge and an update has made it like new, it is running the latest iOS like a champ. Apple is taking a hit on sales because it is making an effort to support it's products long term. Now for me as the consumer I'm prepared to pay a premium for my phone because I know it will last 3+ years.
Wouldn't a meteorite impact be even more visible in the dark part of a new moon? Why did researchers go out of their way to observe one during a lunar eclipse?

(In elementary school during NASA's Mercury program, a joke made the rounds that a certain Eastern Bloc country's space program would land on the Sun by "flying at night".)
Always thought it strange that it didn't include a montage of West Side Story and countless other gangs who know nothing about the previous ones... ;-)
Google has shown some Chutzpah to sell their own ad blocker when they are the #1 advertising vendor.

If feel they have enough impunity to get away with that, then it is no surprise that they will try to put other ad blockers out of business too.

Other ad networks might be big enough to bring an antitrust lawsuit against Google (although they probably won't last long enough) but Ad Blocking is such a niche market that they couldn't possibly sue.
So we have a browser with nearly 70% market share, made by an advertising company that's arguably the most powerful business on the internet, interfering with ad blocking. And of course there is no regulatory body that is able or willing to step in.

Great.
Australians are quite accustomed to bypassing geoblocks and import restrictions, in any case.

But that's not really the problem here -- it's more that Australian products and employees may be tainted by unknown government interference.
This is absolutely spot on. Although Tumblr was always slightly off-kilter, it was significantly more mainstream during its hockey-stick growth period of 2010-2012. Many people just used it for posting photos, or used reblogs for visual scrapbooking. Numerous book deals were spawned through successful Tumblr blogs. Tons of large corporations had a social branding presence on Tumblr. And some people just used it as a CMS / free site builder, including (of all people) Mark Zuckerberg's father for his dental office.

Eventually the more mainstream userbase left for other platforms (primarily Instagram and Pinterest) which were better-suited for the specific use-case that these users wanted... especially on mobile, which Tumblr was slow to adapt to.

The remaining userbase was/is a lot more fanbase-focused and niche, and that can certainly be off-putting to more mainstream-leaning users.

This had a profound effect inside the company. Over the course of a few years, it went from a company where almost every employee was an obsessive daily user/poster, to one where many of the more backend-leaning engineers didn't use the product at all.

(Disclosure: I was an early Tumblr employee, but above opinions are my own.)
No this is about killing content blocking, while not saying so explicitly...

> the 30,000 limit is not sufficient to enforce the famous EasyList alone).
The nice thing about the mobile version is that you can add uBlock there too. I switched to Firefox a couple years ago and haven't looked back. Also have been DuckDuckGo for about a year and last year I switched my email over to Fastmail. Funny because I used to be the biggest Google Fanboy a few years back.
I recently learned about [SQLite archives](https://www.sqlite.org/sqlar.html) which feel like an interesting option to consider, especially with your comment around sometimes wanting a "binary key-value format" in mind.

Because it's "just sqlite" it's possible to use the archive functionality in archive-like ways, while also using the file as a sqlite db (because that's all it is).

It's not a perfect tool for all scenarios (and I'm thinking it wouldn't be good for backups), but I feel there are definitely some very useful scenarios for it.
With the news that Edge would switch to chromium, Firefox is really the only thing preventing a complete web browser monoculture. Support Firefox if you can!
I can't wait for the day Firefox stops killing my MacBook.
I sometimes use Chrome these days, it’s time for goodbye for good to Chrome now.
well, their plan seems to have worked out perfectly.

they got you for 15yrs on half the pay!

sadly the world is run by bean counters :(
Discovering and Classifying In-App Message Intent at Airbnb
I think the chess equivalent would be choosing to play with only your King and your pawns under the logic that your opponent won't have practiced playing against only pawns and won't be expecting you to do it. If you're up against a novice they might panic or fail to react and you win! Otherwise, not.
Not sure if they're purposefully blocking uBO. Those who are effected will either move to Firefox (and encourage their friends to), or just use another content-blocking technique (eg, DNS).

For the few extra ad clicks they'll gain, it's just not worth the upset.
This article has made the rounds so many times that surely Ontology must be underrated for now.
I really just don't understand the obsession with Chrome, especially in hacker communities. Sorry Google, I feel "icky & gross" when I use you.
You can sill use the "good parts" but you will probably be accused for being unfashionable.
Skydio – The drone that flies itself
> In Starcraft 2, it would be fantastic to individually control all 16 marines in your 2 medivac stim timing, pulling them back when they become the targets nearly instantaneously, perfectly shuffling them into/out of the medivacs, while focus-firing the defenses.

Single unit pullbacks, medivac shuffling, and focus firing, all together, are commonly seen in pro-level matches. The guys are superhumanly insane. The current pro players can sustain 500 APM during battles. The only reason they don't do this even more is that they are usually fighting on two or three fronts at the same time, while managing base and unit production to the second.

The real limit of the players is the single viewport and the single instruction input pipeline. Managing dozens of units with those heavy restrictions is pure madness. That's the main difference between RTSs and MOBAs. MOBAs are defined by strategy and tactics, teams win and lose because of those two factors (at pro levels). A game like Starcraft II adds another factor: players can simply break down when they're not able to keep up with the game. Even at pro level, players can be overwhelmed by the amount of information they have to process in tenths of a second, over and over again, for 15-25 minutes, or they can get into a spot where there's too much to do and not enough time to do it.

AI has two advantages. It has better information channels, in the form of perfect vision, while humans have a single pair of eyes that have to scan through the screen. It also doesn't get tired over the course of the game.
I don't disagree, exactly - I'm strongly opposed to most rent-control measures other than scrapping protectionist zoning rules.

But I do think can versus will is a thorny question. Restaurant and delivery dining are highly elastic in general, and big cities aren't necessarily an exception. People who can stably afford to live in downtown SF, NYC, LA, Boston, etc. are still frequently paying >33% of income in rent, and ~50% isn't shocking for younger people. As a result, you've got a major demographic that's relatively high-income but still tight on cash and consequently price sensitive. (More speculatively, I think there's also a grain of truth to the "avocado toast" thing; young urbanites seem likely to cut back on purchase frequency before they cut back on quality.) So it's not necessarily the case that restaurants can make things work by raising prices; there's no rule saying that a given type of restaurant has to be viable at any price point.

I realize that we can label all of this as free markets doing their thing; maybe mid-tier restaurants with lots of staff are just an inefficient use of valuable urban space. But real estate is infamously messy, and there are some interesting questions about whether city rents would be more functional if not for the conversion of usable space into artificial demand (e.g. mandatory parking with housing) and disused investment space. And even if that's not the case, it's still news if we've built a market where "going out for dinner" is no longer a standard transaction.
Engineering is about compromises. You can't have a laptop toat is both very powerful and very thin and caters to all audiences.

If this were possible, Apple with their resources would have already created this super-laptop and there would be only one product in their lineup.
Same here. Definitely not malware, on an enterprise-managed system. :) DNS hijack perhaps?
That makes even less sense. How does the candidate "ding" you? That's just a rude, incompetent interviewee. "How dare you ask me about this thing I claimed to know!"
Same. I've already been on the fence but this would be the last straw.
What happens when there are upstream changes to the objects? Does everything downstream just need to change, and hence, the upstream objects returned by programs need to be changed with care? Or is it using something like protobuf, where fields are only additive, but never deleted, for backwards compatibility?

Or are the resulting chain of pipes so short lived, it doesn't matter?
This will affect even Brave browser right? Really any browser that uses chromium?
it's like they are trying to get you to switch to firefox.
You can read the spec here

"In Manifest V3, we want activeTab-style host permissions to be the default, with a number of extra options. Instead of being granted access to all URLs on installation, extensions will be unable to request <all_urls>, and instead the user can choose to invoke the extension on certain websites, like they would with activeTab. Additional settings will be available to the user post-installation, to allow them to tweak behavior if they so desire."
--- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nPu6Wy4LWR66EFLeYInl3Nzz...

yup it looks bad.
I switched back to Thunderbird and have been content ever since. IMAP works fine.
One of the obnoxious consequences of the firmware not being open source is that, even though both RADV and AMDVLK support GPUs as far back as the 7xxx series, the AMDGPU driver required to use them can't be enabled by default. The released firmware for the UVD video decode unit doesn't support the framebuffer addresses used by AMDGPU, meaning that it can't support hardware video decode until they release an up-to-date firmware: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/amd-gfx/2017-November...

So far users have been waiting for over a year and heard only silence. I suspect, given their attitude to older hardware, the required firmware will never be released.
People who have grown to know and love ad blocking will move en masse to Firefox. That would be a good thing.

The attempt to force users into a system they don't want when there are other options available results in a loss of users.
All the bad reviews are from former employees and all the good ones are from current employees, yeah I'm gonna call bullshit plus even doubt a bit your neutrality about the matter.
i did sorry.
I don't understand the technical details of this - could someone explain it to an idiot?

- Is the change specifically to block ad blockers, or uBlock specifically? Or is it just a new extension API?

- Could ad blockers adapt to the new version to work again?

I am reminded of the new version of (Mac) Safari, which features a new extensions API. It took a while for them to appear but there are now good ad blocking extensions again, like AdGuard for Safari.
The alternative, that may very well come to pass, is that the internet will cluster into different subnetworks for different ideologies. I could very well see that happen with the EU.

The golden times for the internet are over anyway. It went from an optimistic dream of free expression of information to a platform for delivering ads.
I missed only the .org instead of .edu (was thinking the establishment have the two domain name)

As for the TripIt we may don’t have the same definition of fishing

As the mail was a ligitime mail from google to request access to my account from an app (and that’s what’s about the quizz) as for if did I used that app or now that’s another story
Given China has seen lowest growth in almost 30 years and the US where some positive numbers are hiding some negative stories, it would seem that there is a wider context to take into consideration. The article seems loaded with the premise of the Euro is bad but taking the wider global context, this premise seems flimsy. Dont get me wrong, the Euro has proven to be a great way of legally devaluing german currency and the opposite to southern med countries but my issue is the finger being pointed at something when there is almost certainly a bigger picture to be considered.
The comments in the linked thread don't really go into why this change was made, but I think Google deserves the benefit of the doubt that the proposal was made in an effort to improve other aspects of the browser (speed or maintainability, for example)
Please don't editorialize :|

Suggested title: Chromium Extension Manifest v3 change would break uMatrix/uBlock

Mods?
In an indoor field it's totally possible. Standard golf is affected by weather, though.
Thank you! That was really helpful. Sometimes you just get so familiar with something that you lose focus on what it's like to view it for the first time, I'll pass along your feedback
Meanwhile the same guy wanted Australia to become an "innovation nation" [1]. You can not innovate technology without mathematics and when you can not export due to fear of it being compromised.

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-17/innovation-nation-tak...
90% “no idea”, 10% “oh there was this one guy that quit for {completely different reason}”
Numerically, that's incorrect. Tumblr includes posts-per-day stats on their /about page, and banning adult content was a drop of about 20-25% of posting volume. While that's a big drop for something that was an overnight change, it's still dwarfed by the drop comparing current stats vs heyday stats of years back.

At peak, going by public posts/day stats, Tumblr was about 5x larger than at present. It was more of a slow bleed than a sudden drop-off though.
Well, ignoring spam clicks, APM is a measure of the number of decisions that a player makes throughout the course of the game. You'd expect a player making more decisions to come out ahead in a game as fast paced and action oriented as Starcraft.
The surprise for a human player won't gain the deepmind AI much advantage. A human can recognize the concept "I am being worker rushed" and immediately counter it, necessarily having more workers at their starting site than the attacking player who sent only their starting workers.

As the grandparent stated, a worker rush only works against the built in starcraft computer player, because the computer AI is too dumb to recognize "I am being worker rushed" and may not commit all of its workers to defending.
Would you say it's fair to oppose "political work environment" with "meritocracy?"
The "system wide adblock" on iOS has the same restrictions as this new Chrome extension system. It does not support the extension API that uBlock Origin uses.

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ge...
I will reserve my opinion until this one made it into the final or the dev showed no sign of willing to change.
I started using uMatrix full-time about a year ago. At first, I was shocked by how much traffic it would block - sometimes dozens of tracking domains. I didn't understand the sheer scale of the tracking industry.

Losing the full efficacy of uBlock and uMatrix is a deal-breaker - not just for Chrome, but many other Google services. That such a proposal is even being considered is stunning and causes me to reconsider Google's reputation.
Has anyone considered they are trying to do something good here? Publishers are dying left and right...ads support a lot of good businesses!
Not OC, but I honestly have consistent window rendering issues with Firefox on Windows 10's Tablet Mode.
> I don’t trust the Mozilla Corporation. Putting ads on my home page a few weeks ago was the last straw.

I have my Firefox homepage set to a blank page and see nothing of the sort.

Because of your comment, I temporarily set my homepage back to "Firefox Home," but didn't see any ads. Just a a few recommended news articles.
I think for most people, their image of Google was formed when gmail was released. Most mail providers offered mailboxes 10MB in size and Google upends all of that offering "free" mailboxes 1000MB. Respect for their command of technology formed with every product.

Then people started to realize Google only introduces products that collect data in a new way from its other products. If it can't survive that test then it doesn't exist. Ugh.
I don't think I can go back to the internet without uBO+uMatrix.

On a related note, why doesn't Chrome for Android have extensions? I get the sense it's because it was more strategic to ban extensions entirely than to allow ad blocking on mobile.
I haven't used the recent version. Try it out. Tell us how well it works or doesnt. Preferably on hardware you know is supported.
I'm very happy about this change. Hopefully Firefox would gain a plethora of new users.
You can deactivate the featured by pockets and the highlights sections.
=> about:preferences#home
I'd like to use Chrome or be on the ecosystem for the developer tools and website compatibility but not have to...well...suffer through this. Maybe Brave or another maintained fork of Chromium fits the bill.
Is that for security?