skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What privacy-related information was sold to booking.com again, regardless of how the transaction played out?

I get the feeling that people are asking Mozilla to simply not deal with corporations at all, regardless of privacy, which is simply impossible if it wants to survive - almost all major actors are corporations, so the alternative is Mozilla turning into a shut-in.

If you want influence, you're going to need to deal. And sure, there are deals conceivable that represent giving up on principles for short term gain. But just because it's possible to conceive of a deal that's "selling out", doesn't mean every deal represents selling out.

I mean in this very same comment thread another poster is complaining how principled Mozilla is @ the w3c.

Suffocating Mozilla (regardless of whether you use/admire/detest/ignore Firefox) under impossible expectations is likely a permanent loss for users. There are precious few organizations like it with any influence that are advocating for the individual in web tech, so once Mozilla dies (which seems likely, at this point), whatever tech firm special-interests can get away with is going to happen. And as modern politics should make clear: there's not a lot of reasonableness left with which to restrain actors like that once things turn political.
The issue with this logic is it takes something from a risk bucket that already exists. Sun exposure occurs and has been occurring for some time. The issue with +1 nuclear plants is that every plant built adds a bucket of new risk. This bucket includes a potential black swan event of the greatest risk.

Compare it to a "sure thing" on wallstreet. Let's say you hold stock and sell an option contract at a price point you believe will never get hit. Yet if that price point gets hit your entire life savings gets wiped out. This "will never happen" mindset forgets that we as humans don't know what we don't know. We are simple. Nuclear is complex.

IMO nuclear could become safer with more investment into it. But why invest in a technology that is less safe than alternatives like solar.

The fear that people have of nuclear is a variable to calculate. The first commenter pointed out his girlfriend is afraid of nuclear power. Fear, stress and anxiety is an emotion that causes physical consequences. If the public is afraid of it and says Not in My Back Yard - it doesn't matter how safe your paper calculations are. Yes - Chernobyl spoiled it for everyone. The rude party guest that got the cops called and forced the party to break up early. It stinks. Thanks Chernobyl for ending the nuclear revolution in its infancy. But it is a reality.

Someone will counter-argue that fossil fuels destroyed the ozone layer and increased cancer. This is half-true. Byproducts of fossil fuels. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) damaged the Ozone layer, which increased cancer in subtropic geographies. Companies manufactured CFCs for refrigeration. Not for power plants or core energy. Thus, this line of analysis is a distraction from the core debate.

People (especially software engineers) who have low Vitamin D get sick more often. Leading to increased risk of death. A growing belief is that this occurs due to lack of sun exposure. Blue LED light does not count. The sun is there for a reason. Hormesis and evolution required the sun. The last 30 years of consensus that wearing sunscreen all the time is a good thing. Is a viewpoint I wager will change in the next 10 years. With consensus swinging back to a pro sun exposure mindset.
Science publisher IEEE bans Huawei from peer-reviewing papers
Some other leading indicators of "formal" recessions [%]:

* as others mention, yield curve inversion. e.g: https://financial-charts.effingapp.com/yield-curve

* unemployment rate climbing after hitting a local minima. e.g. https://financial-charts.effingapp.com/usa-unemployment

Some other indicators that expected long-term stock market returns may be low:

* valuation ratios -- in terms of P/B, P/E, CA(P/E), etc, are high [+], compared to historical norms. e.g. https://www.starcapital.de/en/research/stock-market-expectat...

* supply & demand factors, in terms of how much the average investor has allocated to the stock market [@]. e.g. https://financial-charts.effingapp.com/

[%] periods when recessions occur tend to be formally defined after the fact, by economists looking backwards at historical data. this may not be particularly helpful for anyone trying to time the market before a crash. "Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future." -- Bohr.

[+] some people may push back on this, saying "stocks are priced high relative to what alternatives?" -- if all alternative asset classes are also "overpriced", then maybe that just means there's far too much cash floating about, and not many good investment opportunities remaining. but if all asset prices are "overpriced", then nothing is, cash is just devalued...

[@] n.b. the blog post that this indicator is based on is intended as somewhat of a joke, as an example of how it is possible to construct rather arbitrary and misleading indicators that look good --- but it's an interesting read: http://www.philosophicaleconomics.com/2013/12/the-single-gre...
The feature set of the browsing engine isn’t though. It’s on a roughly 6 monthly schedule where changes for the technology previews are released to the wider public.

The last big release was 12.1 last March, far removed from the next WWDC in June (for a release in September).
> There are separate plural/singular forms of words.

Or that there are just two plural/singular forms (1 and many) for translating strings, or that which form to pick is clear.

While English has one form for 1, and one form for 0/many:

- French pluralises 0 the same way as 1,

- Czech has a form for exactly 2-4 items,

- Irish has forms for exactly 3-6 and 7-10 items,

- Polish has a form for all numbers that end in 2-4,

- Russian has a form for all numbers that end in 1,

- Arabic has forms for exactly 0 and 2 items, ending in 03-10, and many more.

A strings table will need at least 10+ variants if you want to translate strings referring to number of items.
So there's a bubble because some f*boy didn't get to buy himself a jet? Bad way to start an article.
I would not put our hopes too high.
Remember that the smart contract is committed to the blockchain and can never be changed.

Just like when you push your code to a git repo. It's guaranteed immutable, tamper proof. Data side is handled by appending to the blockchain as well. But this doesn't mean it's bug-free.

You have essentially a tamper proof Database with Stored Procedures that doesn't need DBAs. I imagine it as a giant growing BitTorrent file that is maintained (and rewarded) by many computers worldwide. Any tampering to this file, it's immediately detected via hashing (just like in BitTorrent).

The only way to break this is by branching out like you do in git. But in Blockchain, you will have to convince those computers to maintain your fork. And on this note, a Blockchain is technically not controlled by 1 entity, it is the choice of every individual blockchain maintainers (aka miners).
General population will follow the tech crowd.

The main reason Chrome is so popular is because tech people have been saying "just use chrome" for forever.

Firefox is taking back that role. It'll take time, but with google becoming such a PII hoarder, it's a change that will likely continue.
How is under-target inflation for a decade artificially low rates?
I wouldn't say "better"; That's pretty damn hard to substantiate! What's the other option? Well 1 is that the game wouldn't exist. I guarantee that Popcap [1] wouldn't be too happy, and there are plenty of people that get enjoyment from their games (arguably sometimes to an unhealthy degree). If micropayments weren't a thing, then many of their games would likely not exist.

[1] https://www.ea.com/studios/popcap/games
> how digitally-aware the standard will is at this point

Wipe my hard drive and delete my browser history if i die is a pretty common cultural joke so i'm guessing if you're under 40 you'll have a clause for it
Wow, even '30 coffee meetings' sounds exhausting.

And that's only the 'accepts'.

You have to put work into getting them, some will say no, you'll have to brush up on their firm, i.e. mini due diligence, and then manage all of that.

That's utterly a full time job for one person.

This seems so daunting to would-be CEO's, in such a critical phase of their company, they're almost going to be 'not present'.

I guess there's no way to serialize the Round A as there is with seed, i.e. 'demo day'.
Something is wrong with your configuration. For me, both the release version and the tech preview share settings just fine.

Making changes to the one will cause them to be applied in the other.
Take a look at Maintner, a tool made by the Go team to load and store GitHub metadata, particularly issues, comments, reviews, and events: https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/build/maintner. It handles backoff, holds all data in memory, and supports backing up data to GCS.

My team is successfully using it to track ~200k issues/PRs across ~300 repos. We wrapped our deployment in a minimal API to give our infra blazing fast access to that data without needing to worry about GitHub auth or rate limits (since Maintner handles that).

And, we use the proxy described in the article.
From the perspective of general population - which is where you need adoption to be even a mote of dust next to Chrome - no, there isn't.
Overall it’s still looking pretty good: https://www.leggmason.com/en-us/advisor-resources/main/us-ec...
Kola nuts, which contain caffeine, were in the original formulation. It's a stimulant - that's partly what some people are drinking Coca Cola and similar drinks for in the first place. It wasn't added later to increase sales.
Yes, cheat tome.
You sound like Carl Sagan. Stop this nihilism
I'm talking about permission-based stuff.
The same subset that is used by Discord, and Slack. So mostly blockquotes, code, lists, bold, strikethroughs, and italics come to mind.
Oh, I'm sorry
>Disable JS

Things that should be plaintext won't load without JS these times...
Yes, I remember when news of his proof broke, being disappointed at how voluminous and obscure (to someone like me) it was.
I'd been hoping for something I might be able to get my head around.
(Hard as it was, I don't think Wiles spent 385 years coming up with it btw!)
"This site is currently unavailable to visitors from the European Economic Area while we work to ensure your data is protected in accordance with applicable EU laws."
Russian version?
These are just features and settings, there's no requirement to use them.

The main point isn't listed on the page.

The Enterprise installer installs Chrome to the operating system.

Regular chrome installs in your user profile.
What Is Quantum Physics?
I don’t have a citation handy, but solutions such as “encrypt hthhe data and instead of deleting the data trash the key” have at least been discussed for environments where actually deleting data is hard (event-based storage, cold long-term backups) etc.

From a technological perspective that data would be as good as deleted, even if strictly speaking it still exists.
On my low-end mac (Macbook) Chrome is still noticeable faster than Firefox. I ran Firefox the last year, but then I tried the new Opera and it was so much faster. Trying out others I realized it's the blink engine. So now I am using Vivaldi...

This is much less apparent on faster machines or on Linux/Windows though, but for me it is more efficient to use the same browser on all my machines.
And hasn't it been the case for lawyers for decades?
1) If your motivation is heavy mathematical programming then I hear you, but beware that you are the minority of the language's userbase, (more generally, most application-level programming languages' userbase), it's not something most people care about.

If you want to write clever DSLs and/or name methods in ways that save keystrokes like in scala, NO, please.

2) There are libraries such as runtypes and io-ts that integrate well with the static type system
Show HN: I made a site that compares flights and offsets emissions automatically
Well, look at where the money has gone. It's now in the stock market and in real estate. Inflation is there, it just didn't trickle down into the CPI basket (yet).
Hey, here's this arb app. Please execute it and get back to me.
You jest but many SV startups are working on this "problem" already. An eternity with the likes of Bezos and Zuckerberg awaits...
>Religions are in decline among the younger generations.

And ideology is rising, see
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> Will "deleted" information be reincarnated?

A few months back someone working for Google was posting about how their whole job is ensuring deleted data actually gets removed from their systems. It isn't instant but from what they said it seems to work itself through their systems in a relatively timely fashion.
Link's unfortunately broken :(
For me, it was Chrome's peerless DevTools (although Firefox has been catching up recently) and the fact that entering full screen on Firefox freezes up the entire UI for me (it's probably some bad interaction with BSPWM).
If think in some games where cosmetics are the only commodity it works well. In-game customization frankly was not a priority for game-devs, as it did not turn a profit. That is until games like League of Legends et al made customization micro-transactions their entire business model. It's meant newly fantastic support for the art departments! It's also lead to a number of games that are constantly updated over many years instead of just made for release, so one can play their favourite games without them become stale. Yes, this has existed in the form of a subscription service before, but cosmetic micro-transactions have effectively socialised some games, where the whales pay for game development and less wealthy individuals still get to enjoy the game without paying anything! Path of Exile probably wouldn't exist without micro transactions, at least to the popularity it has become, and I've never had to pay a penny to play that game.

So there are a few cases. That's not to say that most mobile game micro-transaction models aren't absolute hot, filthy, dirty, disgusting, stinking garbage.
The import tariffs on foreign goods will definitely help US business. Less competition the better after all. I remember reading US steel companies raising prices when Euro and Canadian steel was slapped with punitive taxes.
These are two separate things - advertising and tracking. Advertising has been around for millennia. I'm sure an orange seller on the streets of ancient Bagdad used some form of advertising to sell his oranges. But when we discuss tracking we're actually taking about data collection and what the data is used for. This is a privacy issue. The problem is that we have no idea what the data collectors
are doing with our data or even who they are. Advertising is intentionally and overtly manipulative - we know it happens and we're kind of ok with that. On the other hand, tracking and data collection (also called surveillance capitalism) is covertly manipulative - we have no way of knowing who, what or why. The problem is that tracking often piggybacks off advertising. Ultimately, I reckon this will be bad for advertising. Sure, the data is useful to advertisers but only up to a point. It's ironic that surveillance capitalists sell their technology to advertisers through advertising. Advertisers are being manipulated into buying technology that helps them become better manipulators.
This is the final straw for me, I just installed firefox and changed it to my default browser.
It's not "market timing" to acknowledge that the longer we go without a crash the more likely that crash is to occur given the length of our current cycle (all other economic or fashion indicators aside). You shouldn't base your economic outlook based on "articles like this", but you should certainly consider the history of our boom/bust economy and how late we are in the cycle.
The real issue is that you pay them to deliver bad software.

I know it sounds like a weird thing to say. But had you as a customer demanded and were willing to pay for something different, you would get that.

Think about how the public sector buys a software development project; what the sort of process the supplier has to go through, how they qualify, how they bid, how the requirements are formed, how the software is tested, delivered and so on.

Had the public sector prioritised the internal quality; it could have done so. But it chooses not to.

In a public sector IT project the actual softare development is only small fraction of the cost. Other parts. Sales, legal, management, testing, documentation ... have much bigger impact on the suppliers ability to make money. Thus those are the parts you get and that is what drives the cost.
That's not an official USPS site
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I'll bring out the "computer has viruses" argument. As in:

"Remember how you asked me to clean your computer from these toolbars and make it faster? This problem may happen again if you browse the web without uBlock Origin installed. Chrome doesn't support it now, so you have to use Firefox. Ignore websites pleading you to switch back to Chrome. Some of them will try to sneak in this toolbar garbage to you. Actually, stop visiting such websites because they're staffed with assholes who want to abuse you. But if you must, do it in Firefox. Yes, preferably in Private Browsing."

As others said, regular people follow the tech crowd. My family uses Chrome because that's what I've been telling them to install and/or installing for them for the past few years. But the very first thing I also install for them is uBO, and if that stops working, Chrome goes out of the window.
There are 16 official languages in India. The vast majority of cab drivers you encounter will only know one of them. In the South English is more likely to be spoken, in the North, it is far less likely.
The house was next door to the Pub - it wasn't about noise inside the pub.
I can't use gmail to communicate with my weed dealer any more? Damn.
Just a tip: old.reddit.com loads much faster than the reddit redesign.

You can use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re... to always use that version automatically.
Look carefully at the response they sent you. Their perception is you're asking for a license for an open source product, i.e. a license that would remain valid even as random people contribute code or fork the product. That clearly cannot work, conceptually.

If you had a private, proprietary fork of your browser that was being distributed and nobody else could modify it or contribute code that would undo the DRM, and you were willing to sign giant contracts spelling out in exacting detail what features you could and could not add around video (e.g. no download feature), and the Widevine people thought you'd actually have the financial resources to defend your private fork against hooking, memory overwrite and other attacks (you don't think proprietary Chrome is just Chromium+library, right?) in a long term manner, then they might have been willing to work with you. But then you'd be a company, not an individual open source developer.

Rights enforcement and open source are not compatible.
And certainly not user-centric design ...
This is a misfeature that Google started using some years ago.

There is a tab-style link directly below the search box called "Tools" in the search results page. Once clicked it displays a few settings and one of them can be set to "Verbatim".

Choose that and your search terms will actually be what is searched for, as opposed to some arbitrary subset of it. I wish this was better documented.
British imperialism managed this over a century ago, although the globalised culture wasn't present throughout the colonised societies, only in the upper level. Telegrams could pass the most important news all the way to Capetown, before the radio took over.

This also came with the imposition of Victorian morals everywhere (bans on homosexuality, mandatory opium).
Did that years ago when I switched back when Quantum came back; Firefox still has the good old venerable "import passwords from another browser" functionality. You just need to have your passwords sync'd to a local install of Chrome and Firefox can read them all and sync them with FF Sync (which does not force you to use Mozilla servers, btw; you may host your own server for max privacy).
I'm not sure how a professor at a pretty good school like NYU has a blunt tone like this.

Beside personally criticizing people by their personal choice, which I found baseless, there is zero information here. There are people with that life style like that all the time, just because they happen to be tech CEO doesn't mean it's a sign to a macro thing like bubble.

One thing I've been regreting the most after 10 year living in the valley is that I shouldn't have listened to the 'tech bubble' propaganda back in 2016, nor delayed buying my first house, which should have saved me ton of cash.
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I really think that it is cool that there is a browser that is looking towards maintenance of what we had (XPCOM, NPAPI for old plugins) versus creating something new.

Very little of that out there nowadays.

It seems like a very conservative project.

It is good that we have this choice.
It does depend on exactly why you want profiles -- for my use cases, Multi-Account Containers (and Temporary Containers) do a much better job of helping me achieve what I want to do than either browser's implementation of profiles.
Lift the bales with you legs, not your back.
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If you read the article, they say it's anything marijuana related that has a shopping cart.

The apps are legal as long as google isn't the one processing money from drug related transactions.

Which, while disappointing, does make sense.
Now I understand why people hate HN besides other stuff: but this Elon worshipping
Nothing prevents you from attempting your own client side security.

This is in no way related to the issue at hand.
Remember to turn off third-party cookies and javascript for all news sites - why they need either of those is beyond me.
Just want to emphasise this point:

> I recently had a look at another system of someone who uses ABP I noticed that the blocking really is only visual, theres still a profile that is being sold to data brokers

It's quite shocking, anti-intuitive, and really shows what the web advertising business is really all about.
I don't get it. Is Chrome not open-source? Can't we create a fork that keeps that API?
How Much Your Personal Information Is Selling for on the Dark Web
I would be curious (maybe @akharris can clarify) whether "average" in this case is the mean, mode or median...

I'd guess median because if the mean it appears that (cf parent) each company got exactly 1 term sheet, which does seem genuinely surprising if more or less the entirety of both cohorts succeeded in raising a round on some terms.
Five years? Citation needed? Also, do "people" other than nerds really complain about this?
Changing the way both sides used to, the benefit of changing from package to image release, little downsides, etc.