skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The day the Web sold its soul. Such a disappointment when TBL came out in support of that. People who knew better tried to warn us, but they all got shouted down and told there "was no other choice" b/c content creators were going to try an lock down with extensions and it would somehow be worse.
K.

But would you please explain "what has been happening to GitHub for the last year or so"?
My difficulty is in the other direction. In FF I really rely on TreeStyleTab, and there's no decent alternative in Chrome.
my response is admittedly whataboutism, but it's worth comparing to say, the dollar. The cheeky answer to "what backs the dollar?" is "guns, missiles, and aircraft carriers" but in reality it's "growth". The cost of the extant financial system isn't, say, the sum of bank branch construction & bank employees' gas commuting to work, etc -- it's the sum of all economic activity driving growth, which as of now is still inextricable from dirty resource extraction, conversion, and movement.

Which isn't to say it's OK to throw bitcoin mining on top of that, or that bitcoin can fix it. Just that we're on an unsustainable trajectory with or without it, barring an energy revolution or a very painful collapse -- at which point I suppose we can just plug the miners into the local fusion plant (or trade in ammunition and the chit of the local warlord).
Yes. As pointed out in another thread, containers share history. But they don't share cookies or session status so you can have multiple gmail sessions going.

Having a container is nice compared to opening a private window because you don't have to do 2FA every time.
Probably none... That just isn't how it works. What do see the "bitcoin expert" doing in this case other than double checking the receiving address is correct?
I see these stats all the time. What's the carbon footprint for a similar sized bank or stock exchange? How many people are employed? How much carbon do they emit traveling to work? How much money does it cost to employ all those people?

It might be worth comparing a transaction cost of 220.7 kg of CO2 to the average American's carbon footprint per year -- which is 16400 kg CO2. That's basically what the average American emits in 5 days. That DOES seem like a lot. I really doubt transferring similar amounts of money is anywhere near that. But I don't know.
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>By default, Bash only records a session to the `.bash_history` file on disk when the session terminates. This means that if you crash or your session terminates improperly, you lose the history up to that point.

I kept loosing my history consistently on my new installation because of this. I usually put my laptop to sleep, and pretty much never intentionally terminate my x-session except on kernel updates. But because its a cheapo laptop with a crappy battery, I would occasionally run out of battery when asleep or it just wont wake up.
This actually happened to me. Maybe a year or so ago, I started to switch, but I wasn't having much luck with LastPass, especially on my Android phone. But then maybe 6 months ago I switched to BitWarden and found I was able to switch to Firefox on Windows and Android. There were still some early teething pains but by now it's almost always a good experience.
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> We're already at a point where the birth rate worldwide is just at replacement level

We're at around 2.5 according to:

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

And there are lots of countries in Africa that have high rates:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_d...
I would switch off of Chrome if Firefox has better developer tools. Unfortunately, as a developer, Chrome's developer experience is just significantly better.
>And genuinely, most people are choosing between privacy and convenience.

And with Firefox you don't need to choose.
Fasting is the best way to burn fat. Either intermittently or for extended periods of time. I've done 7 day water fasts with minimal muscle loss. Caloric deficits don't work longterm since you're decreasing your basal metabolic rate, so your body needs less calories to maintain your weight. Whereas when you fast, the opposite occurs. Your basal metabolic rate goes up. This makes sense from an evolutionary perspective, since if you're going long periods without food, you want to make sure you have sufficient energy to actually chase down some prey. This is why your noradrenaline and VO2 max increase during a fast.
What’s the proof they have of that? The article doesn’t seem to mention it.
> If it's only "free" by virtue of the bank absorbing the costs to suck up to big clients, that's not much of a boast either.

Frankly, I first thought you were sarcastic given the massive subsidies by miners in the BTC and given that in my neck of woods ( Europe) bank transfers of all sizes are for all practical purposes free.
IIRC, that's because Firefox on iOS is basically just a re-skinned Safari, because Apple won't let anyone use a web engine other than their own.
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> it was in fact a regular 101 ride home

Confused... you make it sound like faulty location history led you to erroneously report your Lyft driver. But that doesn't jive with the tone and thrust of your comment.
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Any Ethereum developers have a plan once ETH gets log jammed again?

Apps will be slow to respond and take minutes or hours between updates.

Is this accepted as you wait for a new solution to the byzantine generals problem?
Those new APIs are based on UWP, and being called WinUI, basically Microsoft has been decoupling UWP from the store.

They still are the same COM based APIs from UWP, just now fully rewritten in C++, because they also want the buy-in from C++ devs attached to MFC.

The article authors should spend some time watching BUILD 2019.

I am yet to find someone from anti-UWP crowd that actually grasps what UWP is all about.
I think you mean you're disappointed with Firefox on macOS?

If so, my experience has been the same, though I have been sticking with it for now.

I often find I have to close out Firefox and restore my session to stop it from churning so hard my fans spin. This is particularly true after it has been running for a while or after resuming from suspend.
>I strongly disagree with it.

Then how do you otherwise explain the article's claims that desire (as expressed by user actions) can and does change even over the short time of using a platform? Platforms which guide users through an experience (as UX designers aim to do) can then have some influence on the user.

>(aka giving people what they want)

How do you define this? The article says that the assumption that people approach dating or hookups with a rigid desire is wrong - so is "what they want" how they feel before they use the application? Why are changes in desire invalid? Are services based on discovery (shopping/advertising/social media/etc) immoral for not giving you exactly what you ask for?

>By staying as neutral as possible, you let the end user make the decision on their own.

But you're presupposing that neutrality is possible. That's exactly what the article argues against - a platform is an active influence on its users, even if that influence isn't deliberately designed.
My understanding is that Adblock's blocking is purely visual? So the ads themselves actually load and get their tracking data like normal, just silently now.
> but without a nutritionist guiding you it’s still hard to get down into ketosis.

I guess this is geared towards people who read a blog and decide they want to try it without educating themselves?
No, the truth is that people don't want to be spied on.
Ah fuck, what a good idea and fun project this must have been.

How do people come up with awesome ideas like this? Whenever I have time for a personal project it'll be like... "guess I'll uh.... make this LED on a raspberry pi blink... wheee"
That is strange; most places I checked were dominated by figures from popular culture. Huntsville, AL, for example...
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If the length of the token was important, and you wanted to issue the shortest possible (yet secure) token: what would you recommend? I looked at Fernet but the ciphered text is... massive.
I didn't see this mentioned, but for a bit more customization, check out Firefox Profilemaker, a tool to "help you to create a Firefox profile with the defaults you like": https://ffprofile.com
They aren't really dependent on Google with Blink, though. They have developer resources that can maintain a fork of it. If Google does something Microsoft doesn't like they can just remove it form their tree or implement an alternative of their own design.
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Because this comes up every so often, I'll post this link again: I wrote a little widget that stores your bash history in a sqlite db. I haven't touched it in a while because I now rely on fzf and this doesn't integrate with it, though maybe I could make it do...

https://github.com/thenewwazoo/bash-history-sqlite
I think everyone wanted/expected bitcoin to serve for the distributed/small case, but reality has made it the other way around so far.

The capacity to avoid sanctions and the enforcement of law are greatly valuable assets: anything that limits the power of the state is a step towards liberty. (Not towards crimeless-ness)
Bash's broken history is what finally got me to switch to Zsh. The history behavior you want is: 1. each line of history is appended incrementally, but 2. each shell session only has access to its own history unless you specifically reload the history into your session.

Every combination of history commands in bash didn't do the right thing[1], but Zsh's works as desired.

[1] eg. putting 'history -a' in PROMPT_COMMAND as the article recommends appends your session's entire history each time, IIRC.
Maybe, but it's still lame that Denver is represented by Peyton Manning. He was there a few years, but he isn't even the first person that the phrase "Denver quarterback" calls to mind.
Unless you are planning criminal activity in the future, this feature could act as an alibi to absolve you of being in the place where a crime was committed. And, false positives aside, I think it's great that law enforcement has the tools to keep society safe and civil. Law enforcement is not always == bad
No. I decided not to have kids after realizing it came with the "risk" of making me prioritize their life over the life of many more human beings.

I do not want to alter my utility function to favor people simply based on them having some of my genes, or having been educated by me (so I'm not a teacher either!)

However, there are many wonderful parents out there - I've read some poignant stories about parents who went on with organ donation after their kid had a accident which caused irreversible brain damage. I couldn't picture myself doing that - which is why I was afraid the "risk" would be very real for me.
It has URL overrides, but the input format is a mystery so I've only effectively used them to whitelist a full domain.
I really like my Chromebook, but also would really prefer Firefox.

Even with Crostini, there doesn't seem to be a good way to get an official FF build onto the chromebook. Or am I missing something?
16:8 intermittent fasting has worked quite well for me.
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Not if you can offload those costs to the taxpayer. How much state money ends up as profits for the banks?
Hubspot wants to grow up into Salesforce but is still about an order smaller.

I worked there briefly but have since moved on.
You can set custom keywords that are the same as on Chrome. You just won't need to press TAB. I don't use that feature, but it's described here:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Using_keyword_searches

I didn't think about adding sites like rubygems and mdn, but that's a good idea.

Edit: I just tried it and it works. Example: create a bookmark in Firefox and change the URL to the one below. Set the keyword to "r" in the bookmarks editor. Then you can type `r devise` in the address bar to search rubygems.

https://rubygems.org/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=%S
what backs bitcoin though?
It's not being pedantic to point out that OP's assertion was false. Especially given the context of the thread.

>The key observation (...)

That was not his/her key observation though. I'm happy to argue with this one (anti-monarchist and anti-clerical libeling and propaganda has been a well-established business for centuries), but I was hoping someone could provide concrete examples regarding the original point instead of alluding to ill-defined historical events in the hope that the hazy understanding and possible bias of the reader would fill up the void. Very fake news-esque way of making a point by today's standard ;)

>And on a side note, I don't see why false accusations of crime or violation of social norms don't count as fake news. Such accusations are probably some of the most common instances of fake news.

Sharing overlap while having disjoint components does not make two definitions equal. Especially for an anachronistic term that's awkwardly trying to be applied retroactively in the present discussion. There already exist well-defined terms for what you are referring to, why not call them that.
It describes a lot of places. If someone argues that tech people tend to prefer the greater metro areas (combined statistical areas) of large cities rather than truly rural areas (as defined by the census), I don't think there's much argument. Of course, by the numbers, so does a significant majority of the US population.

But that's a lot different from people arguing that tech people like big cities specifically, as that tends to suggest that they can walk to coffee shops, take public transit to work, etc. which does not describe the bulk of the space in greater metro areas.
Well, you did miss Jimmy Wales, who grew up in Huntsville, AL, and attended Randolph School there. How did you select your data?
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Sidechains like Loom network are making progress, but Ethereum 2.0 is a ways off.
My hunch is the number of crypto-related articles on HN is correlated with upward price movement
I imagine people outside the United States have lots of reasons to avoid the United States government currency (or their own corrupt countries).

Given the atrocities governments commit, I don't see anything morally wrong with using a currency run on Electricity.
>3/ Neither of these factors, if they fully explained the value increase, would support the claim that regulation is to blame.

The point is that the 50% increase is the baseline appreciation or in other words the increase due to everything but regulation. Things like natural inflation, construction costs, etc. A rate above that is likely due to supply being constrained by regulation (or at least that's what the GP argues).
The FAQ says "you were asked to provision an application (usually a mobile phone app) in order to generate authentication codes".

As far as I could tell, the only way to provision an application was through a mobile phone app.

I don't have a smart phone (haven't felt like I needed one).

The setup page says "Scan the QR code with your application of choice".

I don't have anything that can scan a QR code.

What are the non-mobile ways to use 2FA with PyPI?

The FAQ only links to apps for smart phones.
Ah - ok, that makes a lot more sense (and fits with what else I've seen on the topic).
You can use Widevine with Chromium if you install it as an extension.
Is there any way to recover a login and password if the user forgets it?
Is actually anybody using web notifications? Despite being prompted hundreds (thousands?) times - before I disabled it via about:config and dom.webnotifications.enabled - I never opted in for it.
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There's a lesson to be learned here and noboby lerns it every time this happens. They should have been using Discourse or something else rather than being at the mercy of facebook. France also has some draconian telecom laws. Like the requirement for obtaining a license to operate a public WiFi AP.
If I could just get it to start up as reliably as Chrome, I would. Instead, I have to hope I won't get the "black window" on startup, where I have to play a cat and mouse game of killing the process and restarting it until it works. I do use FF for some things, like HN, but unfortunately, I must use Chrome when I just need things to work right away on the first try.
>> I don't think so. The article wrote that Uber, "skipped the difficult process of finding legitimate efficiency advantages" It sure seems to me that the author is claiming that Uber did not find efficiency advantages, or at least not any "legitimate" ones. This isn't the only place where the author essentially claims that Uber and Lyft provide no value:

The efficiencies you state did not cause them to have lower prices though, the lower prices came the effect of the funding that turned into subsidies.
Yes, that's the underlying issue with simplistic rating systems like 5-stars -- different people value different things. Even if we all agreed on some standard like "average == 3 stars", everybody has different desires, so my 5-star ride may only be a 3-star for you, and vice-versa.
I looked up Vivaldi Speed Dial. It looks like the same sort of thing Firefox, Chrome, and Safari have where a new tab has a pinned list of favorite or most visited sites. What does Vivaldi do that I'm not seeing?
While I don't disagree with regulation of this tech, this is ridiculous take. Please stop acting like autopilot is more dangerous than all the other drivers on the road not paying attention.

If you really fear for her safety in a car, stop putting her in a car; or maybe put her in a Tesla because it's probably safer than the car you're driving.
I don't know why investors would be so fatalistic. I mean, if Uber really was destined to do well, it will eventually show up in the profits and earnings in the years and decades to come. The only reason to cash out quickly right now is if they think future earnings will be terrible and it was all just a get rich quick scheme hinged on finding a greater fool
See, what I want from my history is every command I have ever run, so that ctrl r can find anything I have done.
They explicitly say that in their "data and methods" blurb:

> Person/city associations were based on the thousands of “People from X city” pages on Wikipedia. The top person from each city was determined by using median pageviews (with a minimum of 1 year of traffic). We chose to include multiple occurrences for a single person because there is both no way to determine which is more accurate and people can “be from” multiple places.
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The headline here "Apple sells iTunes' purchase histories to highest bidders" makes it sound like it's a fact. According to the article, these are the allegations in a lawsuit.
I would very much agree with that description. :-)
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> There's no region blocking being forced on this poor site by anybody. The site is choosing this absurd behavior itself.

Well, it's "choosing this absurd behavior itself" insofar as risking tens of millions of dollars in fines for violating murky and ambiguous that can be interpreted differently in any of the 28 member states counts as "choosing the behavior itself". And companies blocked by the great firewall can simply choose to comply with whatever the CCP tells them to do, too. So in a sense they're choosing to be blocked as well.

> And that's fine and all. But unless HN aims to be local-interest only, pretty please don't bother me with junk like this. At least redirect me to some nice rick astley, so I can appreciate the sad joke.

The EU consists makes up 7% of the global population. The fact that EU residents can't access the content hardly makes it "local-interest".
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>Currently, only TOTP is supported as a 2FA method. Also, 2FA only affects login via the website which safeguards against malicious changes to project ownership, deletion of old releases, and account take overs. Package uploads will continue to work without 2FA codes being provided.

>But we're not done! We're currently working on WebAuthn-based multi-factor authentication, which will let you use, for instance, Yubikeys for your second factor. Then we'll add API keys for package upload, then an advanced audit trail of sensitive user actions. More details are in our progress reports.

They seem to be aware of this shortcoming, and are addressing it.
> The question to me is whether salesforce executives really think they can stop their customers from selling guns, or whether they are just virtue signalling.

It's neither. There are a number of unsavory industries that people choose not participate in. The fact that apple doesn't allow porn in the app store doesn't mean they think they're going to stop porn, nor is it virtue signaling. They just don't want to be a part of it.
You can use a laptop with a webcam and a mirror to use a web QR code scanner. Usually the TOTP code is displayed under the QR .-.
There's no trade-off. Everything that's provided here could be done trivially on your device. You tell Google your daily movements and get back nothing in return.
So what are they doing to GitHub that's evil, exactly?
If you want to get into travel and carbon emissions, it would be disingenuous to not include crypto's. I can't imagine a single bank's carbon emissions get close to the commute of even one crypto conference.

I'd further venture that the coordination cost of crypto (conferences and travel between individuals) far exceeds that of a single bank, and might rival that of the entire financial industry. This is probably a benefit of extreme centralization.
Bitcoin doesn't offer the protection and services provided by banks and stock exchanges, let alone the transaction volume.

Employment is a good point, as financial companies employ millions of people but then you would need to add in the additional metrics from companies and OPEX/electrical/hardware related to blockchain startups.

All of that is mostly irrelevant though, because the principle design of "Proof of Work" software is to maximize the inefficiency and operational waste of transactions as the network gains users and as time goes on, without any increase in network capacity. The other curious design choice is to decrease the economic output (production) as more work enters the network, which seems quite malicious, but few people have bothered to read and comprehend the design choices in "Satoshi's white paper".
Not with extensions, with plug-ins, and they were already doing it. Flash and Silverlight came with DRM for any publisher that wanted to use it. Many did.