skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One way to think of passive income is investing your time up front to develop a product for which you do not receive all of your compensation right away.

At my day job, I put in 40 hours of work and then get paid in full for those 40 hours shortly afterward.

In contrast, as an author of science-themed gift books, I invest a lot of time up front to research and write the books and a moderate amount of time to market them. And then the books have the potential to bring in recurring income over some indeterminate time horizon.

In one sense, getting royalty checks every six months for a book I wrote years ago feels passive.

On the other hand, if you have the choice between getting paid in full right away or getting paid over the course of many years, wouldn't you rather get paid quicker?

Ask lottery winners. Most choose the immediate lump-sum payment, even if the 30-year annuity is considerably larger.

So if you're looking for passive-income opportunities, please remember to take into account opportunity cost. Could you be doing something that gets you paid in full right away?
So American firms are guilty of foreign interference in elections now, are they? Oh the irony.
It's not exactly passive, but real-estate is where you want to go for a reliable, substantial, secondary income stream. Obviously, if you are in an insane market, it's difficult to get your foot in the door, but there are some options. One can typically get an FHA loan for multi-family properties of four units or less, if you are going to be occupying one of the units, which allows you to get in the substantially lower down-payment. Renting the other units will cover the bulk of the mortgage, and you also have a roof over your own head, and you should have enough slack to make extra payments. PMI is kind of a pain, but unless things do go over a cliff, within a couple of years you can build enough equity, and valuations will go up enough that you can refinance out of FHA.
How would devices use the obscure DoH IPs, there would have to be a method to update/lookup said IPs. That same method could be used to keep an up to date block list.

Alternatively, the traffic could be subject to heuristics to identify DoH connections.
Right, because anything with video surveillance has the immediate full attention of a human.
> My email (gmail) is bound with so many services (both online and offline) and it is part of my online identity. It would be so much effort to change the email now.

This is the same effort I've undertaken in moving to FastMail (or any other similar service). It's not as bad as you think, just change your e-mail every time you log in to a new service. You don't have to do everything as once, but instead when you actual access the service.

I'm now to the point where I don't receive any important e-mail in Gmail anymore, and most (at least all important) of my online identities are now pointed at my personal email address.
You can install Chrome extensions as-is and 99% of the time they just work. There was a helper addon for fetching from the chrome store: https://github.com/Noitidart/Chrome-Store-Foxified — temporarily needs an older firefox copy to work. But you can always repack manually.
Let's not forget that Unemployment numbers can be deceiving. Even the U6 number of 7.6% unemployment in the US is lower than certain sectors. I know this is anecodatal, but amongst my non-engineer, MBA friends (producers, managers, PMs, etc), their collective unemployment rate seems to be 30%+ and that's here in the bay area. So, it can be quite different based on which job sector your in and which location.
Pro-tip: pi-hole will eat SD cards in a rpi if you enable logging. Use industrial flash (e.g., seissbit) to avoid a headache every six months.
A Victory for Fathers in JPMorgan Parental Leave Case
Handling callbacks without piles of Rc<RefCell<>> to access widget data, or having vectors simulating graphs, the most used data structure for UI widgets, having to deal with use-after-free indexes.
And please, for the love of all that is pure, DO NOT try to build a game hoping to make money. ~ former game dev
Michael Wolff’s Internet Book Empire
Somehow you seem to think this proves OP's point that regulation is to blame.
AP News.
The "magic" is Source Maps. Firefox supports Source Maps just fine, it's just pickier about their formats. It was supposed to be a standard and all the browsers supported it (Edge and Firefox have had support for as long as Chrome has). Chrome allowed some Source Map formats that didn't exactly follow the standards/specs, and a bunch of tools started using Chrome-only Source Maps by default accidentally because so many devs were using Chrome. If you use webpack or similar tools check the various format options for Source Maps until you find one that works in non-Chrome browsers.
From what I understand, the helium shortage is mostly due to current price. Price will go up, more plants will go up, and there is plenty in natural gas deposits. The feds have just been dumping at artificially low prices. Prices are already increasing, and NASCO just put up a new plant a few months ago.
Hypothetical: An anonymous source releases CCTV footage that appears to show a public figure urinating on a homeless person. Do you really believe that we'll all ignore that footage because the signature doesn't belong to a major news organisation?
You're talking about source mapping I believe. I've only used it in Chrome but I've heard only Chrome has it as good as it has it. Honestly, it's a lifesaver if you're doing frontend stuff (and you're not one of those people who poo-poo's debuggers).
I want to use Firefox on my Mac but it just feels so out of place. Are you using any extensions to get a more true macOS feel? While Chrome isn't perfect it doesn't feel anywhere near as "multi-platform" as Firefox does.
I'd love to switch but the technique of having one browser import another's bookmarks, settings, and autofill just isn't good enough anymore. I have no fewer than 28 extensions installed on my Chrome installation and while not all of them are enabled all the time I do use them regularly. For me, the "cost" of switching to Firefox is, for each of these extensions, finding and vetting a firefox-compatible replacement.
Manganese, not cobalt. Glomar Challenger cover story.

Uni prof of mine was on the ship. Had no idea of the true mission until he read about it in the papers.
I don't understand how it's better than multiple profiles. I use multiple accounts for the same services (Asana, AWS, email, etc.) how can I manage that with containers?
Warren Buffett just invested in doing this for rare earth and Lithium
An example, a third party lib I used crashed because after an update Chrome changed an optional function parameter into a required one, I am referring to this function https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/req...

So in my case I go to work and get reports that X is no longer working, lucky for me in JS is easy to patch third party code and fix this issue but I could not find a ticket that explains why Chrome did this.
I get what you're saying. I also have a wife and 6 kids to feed, and it's not easy to be low income. But I've never found my involvement or awareness of politics to in any way help me with that goal, however I have found studying and applying philosophical principles to my life to improve our quality of life significantly, despite being near the poverty line (honestly not sure which side of it we're on).
It's only described as a positive and admirable trait when you agree with their politics.
I just don't see a realistic attack vector with cross-origin drag-n-drop.
I should have left Chrome when they started that force sign in to Chrome shit. This latest stuff is the final impetus I need to switch.
Sorry I was unclear, uMatrix still exists, and I used to use it on Firefox, but now I get a message:

uMatrix could not be verified for use in Firefox and has been disabled.
Chrome didn't remove ad-block entirely, they deprecated an API that allows direct control; extensions now have to load filters into the browser itself, which will do the blocking.

Safari actually did the same recently[1], so it's not an alternative if you dislike this move by Chrome. The only difference seems to be the limit of rules (30k for Chrome vs 50k for Safari, whereas some lists used by uBO have over 75k).

[1] https://adguard.com/en/blog/legacy-safari-extensions.html
Moneyball IMDB: "Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to assemble a baseball team on a lean budget by employing computer-generated analysis to acquire new players."

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1210166/
i guess he's talking about food desserts. there's many parts of the US that don't have food available, only food-like substances: packaged stuff, etc.
It's left as an exercise for the reader to decide
Can't remember if everything was turned off at the beginning but i only have youtube activity enabled since i want to revisit it sometimes.
OK, I'm yelling freedom. I'm also a straight white man, which is a demographic I've seen be demonised pretty regularly on all major social networks and many major newspapers. Plenty of example of such hatred on Twitter; just ask Sarah Jeong.

A part of me feels it'd be nice if people who broadcast their love of cruelty to white men got banned from Twitter and refused employment at the New York Times. But sadly, I know a Twitter ban wouldn't stop Jeong being a misandrist. She picked up those ideas from various places and being booted onto some fringe website wouldn't change her views.
People toss around "remote work" like it's nothing at all. Like it's easier than face to face work.

It's not easier. It's not easy.

Social interaction via remote is hard. Very hard. I can't emphasize the difference in the level of skill, and change in personal style demanded to make it work.

True. There are some negatives that go away. Physical harassment all but disappears. But not the psychological barbs. Those still cut.

Is there an "efficiency" bonus? Yes. No commute. Lower carbon footprint. Less space wasted on offices, supplies, personnel specific to offices. Sure.

All at the cost of sanity. There are so many more interpersonal blind spots. The more remote you are, the more expendable you feel. Suddenly, it's all the more volatile that your paycheck and lifeline seems, because even without sentimentality, face to face, you sense a firmer bond. Even if you don't like your colleagues, there used to be a gut sense of mood and morale.

Now? Total mystery. Less predictability than a five day weather forecast.

Most people aren't solvent enough, financially, to feel okay about braving the high seas like that.

Sorry. Remote work isn't the panacea some claim it to be.

I think there's a lot of big talk coming from people who have never done it, and wouldn't even think to try it themselves. And if they did it experimentally, they'd likely forget to model authentic risks will real and punishing consequences for failure to perform. Try it that way, and you'll sing a different tune.

It's not at all fun.
Rich and generous parents...
Right, it's been built on real-estate ponzi schemes for at least the last decade.
I run pihole on Raspberry Pi with recommended block lists and it’s been an absolute pleasure. Raspberry Pi runs with a static IP I changed DNS settings the devices I want to go through pihole.
And, of course, many jobs moved or were established in the suburbs/exurbs where potential employees mostly lived. It's easy to forget that a city like Boston was still losing population in the 90s and had basically no tech jobs in the city proper.
Firefox's sync is better, because it's not tied to the Apple ecosystem :P
> So I can be doing stuff for my son's soccer club's email without it affecting my own gmail.

In Chrome you could click on the profile icon in the top right and add a profile "Son's soccer club", and I believe that would also prevent it affecting your Gmail, etc.

> I think of containers as a user tool. It seems like profiles are more of a developer tool.

In Firefox, yes it seems like it. But not in Chrome. The point I'm trying to make (if by any chance there are Firefox people listening!) is that Firefox would benefit from making their hidden profile feature easily available to users, as Chrome does. But then they'd have the confusion of containers vs profiles, so it seems that they should just make containers behave like Chrome's profiles. But Firefox has Profiles! So why did they introduce Containers? IOW it honestly seems like they've made a mess there and the Firefox would be improved by fixing that mess.
The bottom 90% should contribute 90% of the value to the world, instead they're only contributing 30%; while the 10% most successful contributors generate 70% of the value.

That means 90% of people are not contributing as much as they could to society.
I've been back to FF since Quantum release and like the new experience so far. Occasionally, I have to use Chrome since some of the internal websites at work don't work with Firefox. I always get those errors related to cross-site scripting issue like this:

"Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://internal-xxxxxxx. (Reason: CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ missing)."

Does anybody know what kind of knob I have to turn on/off in FF to make this disappear?
Thanks, my experience is with DDWRT & Tomato; though the developers had done a great job at bringing features found in expensive routers to cheap ones the bug fixes (especially security vulnerabilities) elude older models.

Where as 100$ routers with factory firmware nowadays get security updates quite regularly.
As stated above, "In Chrome, you're eventually looking at triangles or lines with no way to differentiate them."
Why the Future of Caltrain Is Being Built in Salt Lake City
See:

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/338#iss...

> eyeo GmbH (owner of Adblock Plus) is a business partner of Google (through its "Acceptable Ads" business plan), and its business share some the same key characteristics as the Google's ones above:

> It gets revenues from the displaying of ads with those with which it has a contract (Google, Taboola, etc.)

> It expressly names uBlock Origin as a risk factor to its business
They censor speech in order to conform to US law, which means they don't support free speech. They cannot as a platform both support free speech and practice censorship.
>I switched a couple of months ago because Chrome is just a bloated piece of garbage

I switched to Chrome a few years ago (and even to a Chromebox as my daily driver, on my second now because I wanted Android app support) because Firefox was a bloated piece of garbage, if I left 5-10 tabs open for a few weeks in Windows they'd be using several gigabytes of memory from a leak, memory use growing hourly.

Edit: I don't know why I'm being downvoted, this is even on Mozilla's own site showing it hasn't been fixed:

"Firefox's memory usage may increase if it's left open for long periods of time. A workaround for this is to periodically restart Firefox"

With an alternate solution being:

"Add RAM to your computer" ... "RAM is cheap"

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-much-m...

I have not had this issue at all with Chrome in Windows 7, Windows 10 or ChromeOS.
The nodules exist.

Recovery is not economically viable. Unless you can also harvest Red Subs.
The most popular Chrome forks are Edge (new), Opera and Brave... My hope is that they will keep the interfaces Google is phasing out.
I am happy to help, let me know if you need anything. I am trying to bring more features to the Open Source version. It should be integrated with jTools soon.
https://bossanova.uk/jexcel
EV drivers charging dangerously due to lack of public infrastructure
No thanks. Keep Embrace, Extend, Extinguish away from my user agent.
It only takes one pirate to upload a DRM free rip to a streaming site. DRM doesn't affect pirates at all, only paying customers actually use DRM. Therefore DRM is primarily targeted at paying customers, software vendors and hardware manufacturers. If control over those three groups is your goal then using DRM will work as intended 100% of the time instead of 0% against pirates.
The biggest new feature appears to be local variable attributes. You can now annotate variables with `const` or `toclose`. The former prevents reassignment, and the latter runs a metamethod upon the local going out of scope. There's other new stuff in there like a generational GC, a runtime warning system, and the ability to store Lua values with a userdata, but I think these were in prior 5.4 work versions.

Here's a more detailed list, for the curious:

- Changes since Lua 5.3: https://www.lua.org/work/doc/#changes

- Incompatibilities with the Previous Version: https://www.lua.org/work/doc/manual.html#8
There are favicons. And Firefox does nothing to alleviate the problem, since it too only shows favicons. It just makes switching tabs more painful.
Firefox mobile + ublock origin is dreamy :)
Same, but I was hesitant to switch. All I heard were comments like yours about containers and such. Finally after hearing about it so much, combined with all the talk about Quantum making things faster I gave FF a go. Haven't looked back.

I still use Chrome for some tasks such as watching/listening to Youtube. (edit: not bc of performance, but bc I hate OSXs Cmd-Tab ordering)
> it was the economist that suggested an annual tax based on property value

Is this what you're referring to https://www.economist.com/leaders/2018/08/09/overhaul-tax-fo... ?

Very interesting idea, especially if implemented as a progressive tax. I wonder how that would work for corporations (e.g. landlord who owns the hundreds of apartments managed through a real estate corporation). Also why only property? Why should other assets like stock holdings be excluded?
From a developer perspective, I'd say bit modern as well. For example, FF extension APIs use Promises, which are relatively pleasant to deal with than callbacks that Chrome uses.
Has anyone actually Wireshark'ed a machine with just Chrome running?

I ask because I keep reading about how Google is bad because of their business, but I haven't seen an actual pcap, or any reporting for that matter, on what Google actually sends back home.

If you have, or know of a place that has done that, I'd be interested to read about it.

Until then, Chrome, and Firefox are just more tools in my arsenal; and people trying to get me to ditch one, just because they dont like it, is just outright dumb.
Though not currently playing it my #1 goes out to chess, it's the one game that doesn't make me feel guilty the more time I put into it.
Apparently there's a way around the macOS limit:

https://backstage.1blocker.com/say-hello-to-1blocker-x-8b55e...
If little new housing is built, density remains the same, and transportation is not upgraded, then this applies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_rent

When it comes to what's squeezing the middle class and imposing a glass ceiling, housing prices are the #1 problem. Student loans and healthcare costs might tie for #2. I think we're getting to the point that we need a "war on housing prices" in the developed world. That's going to mean going to war politically against NIMBYs, property speculators, and others who profit from restricting supply.

Here's a few of the major things we need:

* Huge (to the level of punitive) taxes on excessive property speculation especially when the speculators are from elsewhere. I was chatting with a friend about it a while back and coined the term "financial pollution" for when foreign capital does socially destructive things to communities like hyper-inflate house prices. In California a start would be to abolish proposition 13 for properties that are not owner-occupied. Housing can't simultaneously be affordable and a good investment. It exists to be lived in, not to act as a financial instrument.

* Apply full KYC/AML and other anti-dirty-money regulations to all real estate transactions to chase the money launderers and flight capital away from real estate. This one is rarely brought up but it would go a long way toward limiting runaway property speculation in certain "hot" markets. A lot of this money buying houses sight-unseen is dirty money.

* Restrict the power of NIMBYs to limit density by enacting laws at the city, county, or state level. Go as high as necessary.

* Greatly expand transit to enable cities to physically expand. This includes light rail, commuter rail, highways, EV infrastructure, etc.

A lot of this boils down to fighting NIMBYs since existing property owners have a financial vested interest in opposing all of the above.
Firefox has the Tree Style Tabs add-on, makes having many open tabs much more manageable.
Fastmail is unfortunately very bad too now due to recent Australian legislation.
90% of high earners will have kids. A great school district becomes a top 3 criteria, typically this is only found in affluent clusters in each state.
> The internet allows the "unwashed masses" to voice their opinions and viewpoints too. And of course those higher up will always have a distaste for those opinions.

I think the real enabler isn't the internet, but the ubiquity of recording devices. Now that a significant slice of the population is carrying around near-professional-quality cameras at all times, we no longer "need" to trust established media sources. For many newsworthy events, someone will have uploaded phone footage to YouTube, or an indie publication will have covered it with a camera they dropped a grand on, and video proof is better than any journalistic credentials.

Of course, that last part is rapidly ceasing to be true as we get better at doctoring video, heralding the end of this brief era of democratized journalism. Over the coming decades we as a society are going to have to re-learn what it means to have trustworthy media sources.
Thanks for being a voice of reason.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Passive%20Income%20points%3E30...
Most of these are riders on the appropriations bills because the congressperson in question knows there's no other way to get their pet ideology past the house. For example if this ban were just a bill it probably wouldn't make it past the committee. But by attaching it as a rider to the appropriations bill they make sure that anyone voting against the rider looks like they're voting against funding the federal government.
uMatrix and uBlock Origin are complementary. Specifically uBlock Origin has cosmetic filters which uMatrix doesn't have. Using both is quite handy in my experience.

Anything "Adblock" should be avoided. Borderline malware imo, and there is no reason to use them when you've got uBO/uMatrix.
There's nothing inherently wrong with it, but it doesn't work well once you get beyond a certain number of tabs (the number will vary depending on your screen size, etc., blah). At some point, all the tabs are scrunched down to being indistinguishable blobs. Firefox, at least, doesn't have that issue, thanks to the scrolling tab bar. And the drop-down that shows all your tabs is, to me, a sufficient answer to the "my tabs are hidden from me" concern.

I understand that some people will feel differently of course. And it's less of an issue in the first place if you don't keep ludicrous numbers of tabs open.
Open Letter to GCHQ [pdf]
If you don't care about persistent logs, you can mount the /var/log directory on tmpfs. For example, add to your /etc/fstab:

tmpfs /var/log tmpfs nosuid,nodev 0 0