skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OwnTracks. Open source, self-hosted option that uses standard protocols. iOS and an Android apps available.

This is turining out to be quite extensive. It also have options for sharing with family (and friends). And triggering custom action when arriving/leaving a location.

OwnTracks: https://owntracks.org/

Docs: https://owntracks.org/booklet/
It's big enough to create whole markets for commercial software, as my examples of Plex and UNRAID show.
> which is why free speech exists.

Where?
I saw the same thing, so I checked the Micheal Jordan Wikipedia page and it actually does not contain the text "Chapel Hill".
You're responding to an argument the parent didn't make. They weren't saying IQ is bad, they're saying it's not sufficient to rule. Charisma, sociopathy, parents' socioeconomic status, and physical attractiveness all seem to correlate with political power much more strongly than IQ does.
Now's the perfect time, it will even import all your stuff (see the link in OP).

Make the switch.
> Yeah, Google knows everything about me. C'est la vie. At least it's useful.

And that's fine. If you find being tracked to be useful and good, then I have no problem with you being able to do that.

But those of us who don't want it should be able to avoid it as well.

> What exactly is the threat model that everyone is operating under which prompts all the comments here?

I'm not sure what you mean by threat model here. But, at its core, the issue for me is that companies like Google collect data about me without my consent. That's just straight-up immoral and unethical.

Would I consent to having some data collected about me in exchange for some service? Sure, depending on the data and service. But it has to be my choice -- in other words, it has to be opt-in and I have to be correctly and completely informed of what's going to happen with my data.
> Frankly, if you look you can find people equally odious on Twitter as well.

You can, but it's a tiny minority of people on Twitter. When I load this page on Gab, literally every single recommended account is like this. A random sample of Twitter users will be basically the same as a random sample of Internet users and brands; a random sample of Gab users seems to be entirely alt-right, white supremacists and Nazis.

Of course people who tend to get deplatformed will tend to congregate on a platform where they don't. But Gab actively courts this userbase. See for example https://twitter.com/ClenchedFisk/status/1027690034718224384
dillon @ 4degre.es or send me a message on fb dillondoyle or ig dillonjdoyle sometimes email doesn't get filtered so i see it from cold contacts.
That's a whole 'nother discussion; the point is simply that an ad hominem vs. the economist on this matter seem incongruous - and, more importantly, a distraction in poor form.

But I won't dispute that the idea seems applicable more broadly, especially since it's so much simpler and less fraud-sensitive than capital gains taxes. And while it's politically tricky, if implemented with a slow ramp up (i.e., don't do what Thatcher did) it probably won't hurt critical constituencies too bad. You could think of something like an X% tax of value above threshhold Y, and start with X low and Y high, and creep from there; e.g. X 1% and Y 500k pounds, conveniently hurting the rich not too much, and the bottom 50% of households even in london not at all. Even just the message that there's political will to do something about this would likely deflate the bubble a little.
I run a Mastodon instance. This morning I blocked Purism's server for openly declaring that they plan to be free-speech absolutists who will not bother with any kind of moderation at all, which my years on the net has made me feel is akin to founding a city and declaring you will not have a sewer. This afternoon I preemptively blocked a couple guesses at what Gab's instance will be named. If and when I hear that Gab's instance is actually running and is using a name that doesn't match my guesses, I'll block that one too.

It's really not a big thing to me. I've been blocking Pleromas run by people with anime girl avatars who like to post swastikas for the entire time I've been running an instance. This is just a bigger one.

Your theory about how this will sort out in terms of federation topology matches mine.
>I'm referring to native malware abusing admin privileges to install extensions without the user's consent, not users deliberately installing malware extensions themselves.

Ah, so a vector that required code signing doesn't protect against.
It's not "people from here look up this person a lot", it's "who is the most-looked-up person that's linked to here <somehow>", where <somehow> is whatever dataset they're using to connect people to places (it's not birthplace; it might be lived-here-at-some-point? or "has the place mentioned in their Wikipedia page", or some composite). The location of the searcher is irrelevant.
The Myth of Work-Life Balance
So what's a good alternative for burning fat that you already have?
I am in a caloric deficit and do long exercises to burn fat but I'm not sure if it actually works - my weight is down a bit but it usually is in the spring anyway
Hi I work on a security team that hunts for malware. Malicious extensions are a huge threat - totally happens for Chrome in particular, and I've even seen malware package old versions of browsers to get around the modern defenses.
I'd like to add that Firefox on mobile supports plug-ins, and Chrome on mobile does not. This means that you can run an adblocker, or other UI tweaks of your liking, on mobile, where ads hurt (both the UI and UX) the most.
Wasn't there news a few years back that Android Phones uploaded location history happening while "offline" when they finally connected to WiFi; that ended up blamed as "a bug"? OTOH law enforcement has a direct access to baseband modem anyway, so they can triangulate switched off phones with batteries inside, and if those phones have large enough capacitors, even with removed batteries. Having some competent aggregator like Google might be helpful though.
I built something similar for the Amazon SES (Simple Email Service) for my cron jobs and other private applications to use.

https://github.com/ricardbejarano/postino
(Relevant username :) )

Fair enough, I'll consider that next time such a situation comes up.
It's usually going to be around any studio produced content Broadcast or Movie. YouTube TV uses it for live broadcasts. The Studios require DRM as part of their content licensing. PlayReady is the other primary DRM competitor.
Honestly, I try to read both sides and triangulate. Wall Street Journal is good, though editorials are right-leaning. I like reason too; libertarian bias. Daily Wire isn't bad. Tim Pool has a podcast that includes decent commentary. I balance with Jacobin and Mother Jones, though I disagree with almost every thing they say. CNBC has good business content. Reuters isn't bad for breaking news. Over all, I'd say CNBC and WSJ are best for current events.

If you've got any recommendations for good outlets, I'd appreciate it. Always looking for more.
Brave vs. Other Web Browsers
Would airplane mode or poor signal change that? I think GPS is still on during airplane mode.

I'm assuming it saves periodically and uploads when it acquires a connection.
Nobody's using DNSSEC, especially in Asia.
> I think that makes clear that while Uber did introduce some efficiencies, they still were not competing on an even playing field given their massive funding

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 narratives Uber has successfully manufactured are the key to how $80 billion was created out of thin air and key to the subversion of the market discipline that would normally limit these resource misallocations and welfare losses.

Apparently Uber's $80Bn valuation was "created out of thin air" and not, you know, building and engineering an internet based ride-sharing application.

> Uber is the breakthrough case where the propaganda-type narratives that dominate partisan political coverage successfully developed a multi-billion dollar private company from scratch.

This is just a small excerpt of a whole section that essentially tries to claim that Uber and Lyft's sole reason for their valuations were the narrative and hype they built up around their brands.

Personally, I think this author thinks that Uber and Lyft are going to be the next Theranos - the way he tries to attribute the former two's valuations with a narrative and propaganda rather than their product seems very similar to how Theranos was covered after its collapse. But unlike Theranous, Uber and Lyft actually have a product. One that may not turn out as well as its later investors as hoped, perhaps. But it's not going to crashing down to the bottom like a company that actually fakes having a product..
I would argue experiences of alternative browsers on iOS is somewhat artificially hindered...

Not that I'm saying Safari is bad browser, but on iOS you can't really set other browser as your default browser, browsers can't use their own engines, etc. etc.
Neither — please see my other replies in this thread.

I think it's interesting that people seem to find it so hard to believe that Google's software might be buggy.
Ouch! Please don't come back to HN comments to add rage; that's going the wrong way down a one-way street. Would you mind reviewing the site guidelines and sticking to them when posting here? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In case it helps, only about 10% of HN users are in the Bay Area. A bit less actually.
I do. I've learned over the years that any MS update could nuke my computer. And what I'm saying is on subject, you have no proof that Mozilla nuked the configuration. It could have been caused by circumstances outside their control. I've been using FF for years and years and never lost anything, presumably including after this so-called failed update.
That's clever, I'd like that. Can you have another key to recall the global history, e.g. all the combined histories like you would normally see?
Probably yes - GPSBabel is your friend for all kinds of location data conversions: https://www.gpsbabel.org/
I have seen people use this to spy on their spouse/partner (usually ex-partner, after that). Seeing their google searches, locations and email is a ton of data.

Obviously, never do this. It's illegal and a huge violation of privacy. To anyone tempted to do this, just assume it's time to breakup now, and deal with your issues as adults.
>Because Pizzagate, along with other fake news, misinformation and slander campaigns, appear to have contributed in a nontrivial way to Trump's election, and all of them are by definition complete and utter bullshit.

While keeping this discussion respectful, I would like to propose another hypothesis: that the rise of fake news may correspond severe distaste towards the direction that the country is heading.

There are many people who disliked Obama's policies. There are many people who liked Obama but disliked the country's direction at the end of his second term. There are many people who disliked Trump's political opponent. And finally, there are many of the people who fall into these aforementioned camps who felt a level of entitlement among elitists whom casually dismissed their concerns.

Imagine hearing that your daughter lost the track and field state championships to someone who used to be a boy. Or seeing violent criminals get away from cops because the cops were too afraid to do their job. Or having your gun taken away from you in a high-crime neighborhood with a police response time of an hour.

Imagine people in those positions, who feel that bureaucrats in Washington D.C. are making what feel to be obvious stupid decisions. Can you imagine why they would be more likely to believe that those bureaucrats are involved in a child sex trafficking ring?
Then you're just using Chrome...

Isn't Electron basically just a Chrome tab as an app (to over simplify it?

I presume it would afford Google the same level of tracking that Chrome does.
The person for my hometown on that website seems to only have been born there but moved away before elementary school, so I'm not sure how that's really all that interesting.
It's interesting you're lumping those two groups together. Generally, it's well-understood in in democratic circles that the so-called "Bernie Bros" are far more preoccupied with issues of economic than social justice, and less concerned with race. They face a good bit of criticism from not just the left, but also the "woke" pro-capitalist centrists on the matter.
> This is what everyone has been trying to build for years.

No, not everyone by a longshot.
That's forest vs. trees though.

If you read some left-leaning publications you'll be told that warming is caused by humans releasing greenhouse gasses at a massive scale. If you read some right-leaning publications they'll tell you that it's all caused by the sun.

If you read some right-leaning publications you'll be told that the problematic expansion in consumer debt has been caused by low interest rates, explicit government subsidies for borrowing, and tax, social assistance and liability disincentives for working people to earn additional income or save rather than spending. If you read some left-leaning publications they'll tell you that it's all caused by racism and sexism.

In each case one side is telling stories for political advantage and you don't get the truth by averaging the propaganda with the facts. But if you stop listening to one side because it was wrong on one issue, you stop listening to that side when it's right on a different one.
Please don't post snarky one-liners to HN, least of all on divisive topics, where the guidelines ask you to be more thoughtful and substantive, not less.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> In Chrome, you're eventually looking at triangles or lines with no way to differentiate them.

Chrome finally fixed that a couple months ago. The favicon-hiding behavior was awful though.
Yeah, not disagreeing with there being a problem. Just saying that it's a little more complicated than "stagnant wages + rising prices = boom". Because it's nontrivial: what's the best fix? Does it render the jobs boom irrelevant?
This comment really concerns me. JoshTriplett points out why you are most likely being voted down. But your edit is just so over the top and malicious compared to the very benign response to you. There is no place on HN for this kind of attack, and I hope the moderators remove your post as soon as possible.
That's a very different situation from what's going on in the bay area. Out here we're building tons of new office space, a handful of luxury apartment complexes (that often replace older complexes that had more units than the new one), and virtually nothing else. This is a direct result of residents (AKA NIMBYs) voting for city councils that refuse to allow denser housing.
Weren't they killed the moment Spark appeared, having heavily invested in accelerating Hadoop? I am surprised that Cloudera is still around...
add translation to firefox and then I'll switch
I use a lot of different platforms, and Safari only runs on a couple of them. Firefox lets me sync bookmarks, settings and extensions across all of them.
"50% of Trump supporters are a basket of deplorables"

- hate speech?
Yeah, on principle I should read genuinely conservative outlet like Fox but I can't really stomache it. I've found that Quillete [1] does at least a good job of challenging me on my predominantly liberal beliefs, and does so in a way that's palatable. It's a pretty niche site, only 1-3 new articles a day, so not really news per-se.

1. https://quillette.com/
> So what does it say that unmoderated platforms always seem to become sinkholes of bigotry?

They don't become that. Or rather this is orthogonal to moderation.
Ask HN: Am I a bad person for not using Make?
I maintain a small handful of embedded C projects. Originally, I copied a Makefile from somewhere and did the standard thing with it. For basic dependency tracking, it's pretty straightforward of course. But every time I needed to do something "different" I had to go chase down how to do that (autogenerating a versions.c file for example).

I don't remember at what point I snapped, but on one of these sojourns, I thought to myself: "The basic problem I'm solving here is driving gcc compile/link phases. I know how that works well. I want to do as little as possible. I know Python really pretty well, and I can generally get it to do anything I want. Why not just write a python script to do this? I'm tired of trying to figure out how to make do one more thing with .phony or whatever. I've got enough languages/systems/frameworks in my head already."

So that's what I did. Took an hour or two to write it. It's ~200 lines long. It does fast threaded dependent builds. In addition to compiling, it does various other side related tasks. Peers have taken it and tweaked it multiple times to do interesting things. I just got tired of those Makefiles that evolve and over time, there's only one guy that understands it anymore. It's served us well for years.

Am I the only developer to ever take this road less traveled?
Are these apps available on the Apple App Store?
Salmon hatchery to raise first genetically modified animal for consumption in US
> there are plenty of free-speech oriented or even right wing mastodon instances, the signal to noise ratio on these is pretty good and there is actually content worth engaging with.

any recommendations?
> don't most people have an abundance of tracking and user metrics across their own product.

No product I've ever worked on does this.

But you're right, this is common -- and is why I have to block all outgoing internet traffic by default now. Applications can no longer be trusted to be well-behaved on this score.
As a resident of East Lansing I’ve often wondered what was the deal with Larry Page never having anything to do with the town. I figured it’s a tradition if you “make it big” to throw money around in your hometown even if it’s purely for egocentric reasons. Is there bad blood somehow?
Also the textbook Concrete Mathematics (also by Knuth etc.) which is an expanded and slower paced introduction to the math in Vol 1 of The Art of Computer Programming.
Yeah, I'd say for some reasons _some_ people here seem to
ignore something not passing pattern:

ansible|docker|terraform

sigh ...
Things like this absolutely isn't intuitive to people. Partly because the industry have done a "good" job downplaying it to make a lot of money. Many industries, like banking, does similar things. It is just a bit sad that tech has become one of them.
https://github.com/deepfakes/faceswap
This was discussed a couple months ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19653647

My comment on it (expanded a little):

Even without Google or Apple, the police have the cell service providers. In the case of the Austin bomber from a year ago[0], police got cell tower records from the multiple bombings and figured out who was at all the locations. Cell phones are little trackers unless you turn them off or don't carry one.

The police don't need Google or Apple here, the carriers are already tracking who connects to what towers (and I believe they are required to do this by law)

[0] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna85...
Your location history can be kept entirely on your device, or uploaded encrypted. There's no benefit to you for allowing Google to see it.
This is something I've never gotten. I don't really mind targeted ads, they generally are more interesting to me than non targeted ads (which is a super low bar) and are worth more money, which is how all of these services are able to be "free" (and personally I would rather they are free with targeted ads in a lot of cases than having to pay, streaming services being the main exception. I know much of HN would disagree, though).

Edit: this is off topic but I also always share my location with my wife which people have mixed reactions about, which surprises me because it's been great so far. Maybe I just view this stuff differently.
Slightly better still not there. If I have 15 search providers I have to press TAB 15 times to get to the last one, that is tiresome. I can search amazon/ebay/npm/rubygems/mdn/etc without looking at the screen or keyboard with chrome. I have probably >10 search engines I use daily.
Signatures absolutely do protect the user in this scenario. With mandatory signatures you can't get (obvious) malware into the browser without having it first approved by Mozilla (who should reject it upon review).
The one hope we have is if enough savvy users not only switch but convince all their network of friends and family to switch as well. DO IT!
Please don't cross the line into personal attack on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is awesome. I recently wanted to make a political cartoon, and even tried adapting some images from other political cartoons. But I am a terrible artist, so I just gave up. Would love if they had characters for some of the 2020 presidential candidates so that we could all create/share political cartoons/commentary!
This is not correct reasoning about genetics. I've seen a lot of comments with this same incorrect claim on HN recently. In a complex trait like IQ, there is no reason to believe that stacking all of the alleles that each are individually associated with small gains in IQ will result in a large cumulative effect on IQ, let alone an additive effect. It could easily result in decreased IQ-- there are plenty of examples of negative epistatic interactions between loci. Even if you had all the individuals in the world in your GWAS, you couldn't estimate all of the possible pairwise interactions between loci, let alone fit the higher-order terms. The only way to really measure the effect of a combination of alleles is to find a subpopulation with that combination. That hasn't stopped people from trying to fit polygenic models for IQ based on all of these tiny effects, and unsurprisingly the best model only explains 10% of the heritability of the trait. I don't think that model has been carefully validated in a new cohort either, so I wouldn't be surprised if the true predictive power was lower.
That's what WebKit's devtools look like, across all branded browsers. Blink stayed with the old layout and iterated on it.

I don't really care which one I use, but change for changes' sake is frustrating. I'm used to Blink/old Webkit and I don't see any reason to learn a new layout.
Build muscle and make sure you have enough protein intake to burn the fat while you do it:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/26817506/

You should also note that type of calories is more important than overall calorie count. Make sure that lean meats and vegetables are a large portion of your diet. Minimize processed food intake. Use carbs as side dishes, not main courses.
I recently had someone ask me about a problem in machine learning. The algorithm for it turned out to be something I had read about 30 years earlier, where it was being used to accelerate the simulation of the motion of stars in galaxies. I had never expected to use that algorithm, but its existence, if not details, was there in my long term memory, waiting to surface.

So, I suggest you just read everything you can, getting the gist of things so if you encounter something similar you know where to look.

I also suggest looking for little tricks you can apply again and again. For example, some of the data structures in that course use a trick where you break the structure into a top part, using one algorithm, and a bunch of leaf parts, each of size maybe O(log n), that are handled using another algorithm. Often this combination does better than either algorithm by itself.