skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're fixing bytes then you load bytes and fix them.

You won't, though, fix bytes by loading characters and then trying … to fix the bytes … the characters encode to. Just doesn't make sense.

We were able to get away with stuff for a long time because bytes were characters and characters were bytes and we could think sloppily and not break anything. But with Unicode they really are different things, and we need to be tidier in our thinking.
PBS and CSPAN don't really do clickbait, well I assume they don't nobody really watches either of them all that much.
the old silicon valley adage :

'move fast and break people's trust in your brand's product longevity, thus alienating anyone from actually using it.'

I might have got that saying wrong..
China: "Nothing happened in Beijing 30 years ago"
Also China: <Arrests people just in case>
I have only Bitwarden and Rikaikun loaded.

My tabs might be using a lot of memory though (React + Redux gets reloaded an awful lot).

Regardless, I’d expect my browser to be smart enough to know that allocating even more memory when the system is out and it already uses 12GB is probably not desireable.
I actually used Youtube Live (as a viewer) a bit and found the experience inferior to Twitch.tv . You could see the effort of Google devs to clone the best features from twitch, but they just did a ~bad~ job. From the graphics/material design, chat, etc., none of it would have even breathed life if it didn't have Youtube/Google's userbase pushed into it.

Google product owners need to ask themselves, would this business be viable without the artificial stimulus of existing Google users? GCP - yes. Youtube - yes. Youtube gaming - no.
tl;dr: They were unwitting accomplices. The propaganda from well known Iranian government outlets was being shared frequently enough, with very little other content, that they were unwittingly part of the machine itself.
I use Adguard DNS. It can help because it work at DNS Level to block Advertiser Domain.

https://adguard.com/en/adguard-dns/overview.html
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“A lot of the scripts that are run to enable tracking delay webpage load times while all these tracking scripts fire and run in the background,” said Peter Dolanjski, Firefox Product Lead.

Over at Google they are trying to sell fingerprinting as a feature.
> Google is planning to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users only

> the software giant is not backing down: It says the only people that can use ad blockers following the change will be Google’s enterprise users.

> Google sent me a statement by email, which reads: "Chrome supports the use and development of ad blockers. We’re actively working with the developer community to get feedback and iterate on the design of a privacy-preserving content filtering system that limits the amount of sensitive browser data shared with third parties."

These can't all be true. Which is it?

The last one sounds weasel-wordy to me: it might be saying that they want to allow people to block targeted ads and see random ones instead, which is obviously not ad-blocking and would make "Chrome supports the use and development of ad blockers" a bald-faced lie.
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We are looking for people who know bosnian accounting system to develop further a powerful accounting platform. It is already designed it remains adding features also fixing bugs. The ones who join us will have a percent of the profit. Such a percent will be split equally among the members of the team.
Hi, you might like the "useless use of cat" article if you haven't seen it already. It's a shell classic if you ask me.
There are none, which is why there is the gap. There is one under development in CA at the mountain pass move, one announced in west Virginia, and one announced in Nevada.

Due to the way rare earths are refined, the facilities are relatively cheap and fast to build. .. but they're expensive to operate in the West.
I really enjoy the Containers. The only problem is that you can only have a single container tied to an individual site. I'd rather like it to be tied to a subpath or url "root" so I could use it with GitHub.
Quarterly audits are very much out of the norm among SAAS startups. Checklists that don't reflect reality don't help anybody --- but then, I guess I don't think this checklist does, either.
Thanks, I’ll try. How would those things ever end up using gigabytes of RAM though?
2B is probably the total number of Chrome users. I'd be curious how many Ublock Origin users there are though. The # of installs counter on the Chrome extension store maxes out at "10,000,000+".
Although "database" occurs five times in TFA, there's no discussion of methods. So here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6322486/
> On Tor big contributors are hash of webGL fingerprint, screen size.

Doesn't tor randomise the window size on startup? Though I guess it chooses some sensible size for your screen which is then leaking info about your screen size (in a pretty indirect way).
If you don't need many apps and are okay with a web browser that hasn't received updates since 2015 or so, then sure. BB10 can run Android apps with its embedded Android runtime, but it's limited to 4.2 Jellybean (from 2012), so a frustrating experience. The BlackBerry App store is still running, but it's pretty much dead, with zero new development. All apps are free now.

It would make for a great email + basic usage phone, but not for media consumption. And the camera's not great.

I used a BlackBerry Classic that also ran BB10 until December 2017, and I still pick it up from time to time and wish I could still use it. The Classic is unique in that it has three independent input methods, all of which work super well:

1. Touch screen: the BB10 OS is actually designed for touch, with fluid and intuitive gestures. Swipe up to go home, swipe up and to the right to go to the notifications hub (reverse the gesture to just peek), swipe left to pull off a screen layer to go back, swipe down from the top to view the settings pane (standard place for settings in every app).

2. Optical trackpad and hard nav buttons, just like on old BlackBerries. You can fully control the phone without touching the screen (great for when you're wearing thick gloves during winter). Works super well for a mouse pointer in the browser. The trackpad even works reasonably well in Android apps, which weren't designed for it (presumably, it piggy-backed on the accessibility focus stuff).

3. Hardware keyboard: typing experience is great—not necessarily faster, but super precise, and no pop-up keyboard getting in the way. Every app is designed with keyboard shortcuts in mind, and the OS makes discovery super easy, so stuff like [C]omposing an email, scrolling to the [T]op of the page, or scrolling to the [N]ext page in a PDF are single click operations. Modern BlackBerries also have great keyboards, but since they run Android, they have none of the shortcuts (except app shortcuts).
What are the risks of getting it wrong? You can't wave your hands, close your eyes, and say "look how great it will be" without considering the catastrophic consequences.

We don't come close to having an understanding of genetics, and without that understanding, we risk unleashing horrible new genetic defects and illnesses for literally generations.
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Does InfoWars count as "alternative media"? I mean, it's clearly not "mainstream", but the format - the medium - is no different to a mainstream news show. I wouldn't've thought it fell into either of the two categories we're discussing.
All the more reason to use Host block lists such as https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
So your argument is that only Apple can make an app store?

I feel like Google might disagree.
Then it is only fair that the US closes market access to Chinese companies, would you agree?
This is actually a shutdown that makes sense to me: why would it need a separate app/website? I don't think it was actually really useful for most people:

* As a standalone gaming streaming service, I don't think it ever had the potential to dethrone Twitch, for various reasons already said by other commenter

* On the other hand, if you are a heavy YouTube user, it doesn't add anything: almost all features are available in the main YouTube app.

Basically, it always seemed redundant to me.
Fast Reciprocal Collision Avoidance Under Measurement Uncertainty
The market is what products people actually move to and from in response to Apple pricw changes; if there's a segment of buyers and price range in which Apple has pricing power—price changes do not cause such movement—Apple is an antitrust monopoly. Popular descriptive “markets” like “smartphones” often include many isolated submarkets and are not single markets in which competition exists.

A major purpose of brnad marketing is to create such pocket markets.
If difficulty drops to the point where it's profitable again, they turn the rig on.

If, as a result, difficulty rises to the point of unprofitability again, they turn them off again.

This is basically equilibrium. It's not theoretical, it's what actually happened lately. Difficulty dropped along with price, now it's rising again along with price - but it's still below historical highs.
Can't speak for GP, but it really will vary on workload. How much data is in each DB, how much workload is write vs read. In a mostly read scenario (say a blog), I'd be surprised if you couldn't handle 100k simultaneous users on a fast drive, more with a good caching strategy.

For modest read/write, should be able to get 1000-10k users without much issue.

A little advice would be to ensure logging is to a separate db/drive from the main data if you are logging changes, etc.

The only down side is distribution with High Availability, but so many scenarios don't actually demand the extra overhead for true HA.
Alternately you can switch the default search engine to DuckDuckGo, which lets you use DDG's "bang" search shortcuts (see https://duckduckgo.com/bang) from the Awesomebar. So you just type a search query and then append "!g" to run that search query through Google, "!w" to search for it on Wikipedia, "!yt" to search for it on HN, etc.
it still works (more or less) if you use an old APK
Arguments & discussions about google tracking you and how some products are crippled if you disable it (looking at you Maps!!) aside, they at least recently introduced a way for you to delete all the information here:

https://myactivity.google.com/delete-activity

Not many people know about this so spread the word!
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A great first step in encouraging technological openness would be dropping the Chinese Firewall[1,2]. Chinese companies have had a playing field slanted toward them for a while now. We should work toward open innovations in both the U.S. and China.

Don't get me wrong; I disagree with the recent U.S. approach and agree that it's not an exaggeration to call this an attack on Huawei, but we'll have far worse things to worry about than Google removing ad-blocking if we let the Chinese state dictate our online lives.

I don't think protectionism is the answer, but I don't think the Huawei CEO is being completely genuine in his presentation here. It was definitely interesting to hear his perspective though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Websites_blocked_in_mainland_C...
> Markets can be narrowly defined in anti-trust law

I doubt one has ever been defined as narrowly as a single product. The differences between an iPhone and an Android phone are functionally so minimal as to be irrelevant.
Just because someone talks about "free market" and "competition" doesn't even mean they're a libraterian.

The problem in question is actually something that competition (capitalism) would very effectively solve. The reason it's not being solved is a failure of the government to break up clear anti-competitive behavior which I think GP was getting at.

Google has exploited their dominance in the OS market to in order to completely control the phone app market. Nobody except for invidual governments should have control over any market because it gives companies the power to favor their product over others.

Google controls the app market: they will eventually favor their apps

X controls the tellcom market: they favor their media at the expense of others

Just because a company isn't being anti-competitive YET doesn't mean they won't in the future.
The interesting thing about ditching all of your ad blocking users is that you’ve ditched the segment that shows the slightest interest in improving their ux.

Hyperbole to assume all will leave of course, but I wonder what this will do to user expectations
I just started using https://www.nextdns.io/ that offers so much customization and a whitelist
Its was a virtual field trip I believe
>Apple says nobody can run apps on their phone without handing them a 30% cut.

False. You can pay for an app/service via the internet (side-pay). The app can be free on the app store. This is what Netflix does. Is it a bit of a hassle? Sure. This is the only part that has an optics problem even though it probably meets any legal thresholds. I do think Apple will get some pressure to make this process easier and that change will happen. Once that is done, there will be even less of an argument here.

From the consumer perspective, if one doesn't like the app store, buy a different brand of phone. There is no monopoly here from a legal or functional perspective.

Has Apple's so called monopoly reduced consumer app selection or pricing? Absolutely not. High quality software has never been more affordable and never has the selection been so incredible. It will be rather easy for Apple to argue that the app store is a net positive for consumers.

For the vast number of non HN users, the app store is a huge win. The whole morass of app selection, installation, update, and developer trust has been solved by the app store. If you are looking for harm to anyone other than the minuscule number of users that care about side loading, it just isn't there. Has everyone forgotten what software purchase, installation, and maintenance looked like a decade ago? What a mess. Fleecing is not the right word for something that has made consumers lives simpler in so many ways.

Some readers of HN might not like Apple's approach, but that doesn't make it illegal. There is just not a way to show substantial (any) harm to consumers. As I said, I think they will probably improve the side-pay options to improve their PR optics and that will be end of it.
I wonder if Amazon or the T-Mobile/Sprint side leaked this? Perhaps T-Mobile/Sprint weren't eager enough to sell, so Amazon wants the regulator to know an offer was made.
Ah, this lovely new trend among academic types of describing an individual as a "body". For a group of people said to be so interested in the human condition, it's a strikingly dehumanizing term.
They bought a company that already was a significant player building ARM CPUs, that’s how. There aren’t many (any?) significant baseband companies that are as easily acquirable for Apple to buy.
Thats why we are using τ not π.
Seeing the number of downvotes I triggered, it would seem that the concept of all news being subjective it still not accepted, even on HN...
Somewhat agreed... If I hadn't started with the O'Reily book[1], would probably order. If the eBook were half the price, would get it anyway.

Edit: looks like it's a few bucks less on Amazon

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Rust-Fast-Systems-Develop...
[2] https://www.amazon.com/Rust-Programming-Language-Steve-Klabn...
I think people are confusing mild inconvenience with monopolistic oppression.
Should media coverage accurately reflect what we die from? I don't think so. Cause of death is not the only reason to be interested in terrorism, homicide, and suicide. These charts are eye-candy, and while I respect the work that went into producing them, I believe they are simply trying to spin a story instead of addressing the title's topic.
https://www.aclu.org/other/aclu-history-taking-stand-free-sp...
Value doesn't follow difficulty. That's the "labor theory of value" fallacy.

On the average, higher difficulty doesn't lower new Bitcoin supply, because difficulty adjusts to maintain steady supply.

Difficulty is affected by price of Bitcoin and cost of production. Difficulty can still rise if Bitcoin price development is steady or negative, due to newer mining hardware that is more efficient, or due to new sources of energy that are cheaper.
I'm just happy that there is still some semblance of competition in search land. Having Bing, DDG and Google all playing in the space guarantees that at least Google is forced to innovate to maintain their near-monopoly.
I bet they'll backdown!

There's no way they'll loose control over their users.

This will be changed and they'll find another way to force ads on their users without loosing them.

Wait and see!
Thank you. I didn't know FF had profiles to begin with.
Who is surprised by this?

While education is highly inelastic, we've basically moved the cost to the point where you would have to be a madperson not to think twice.

In the next 10 years, when people are more normalized to the pricing, you'll be seeing these clickbait articles about how no one is going to school anymore, and the middle class is shrinking, and everyone in gen +1 is so lazy unlike their parents who earned their jobs.
Multiple teams I've been on at multiple companies have done this process, but with donuts and other foods. A little bit of public shame goes a long way.
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>If you weren't seeking help why are you here telling us?

I feel that's a very presumptuous and patronising thing to say. People leave suicide notes not because they want help, but because they want people to understand what they're going through. We yearn for this sort of intellectual connection even after the wish to stay alive has disappeared.
Would I be daft to suggest that what you're engaging in is post-purchase rationalization?

Dozens of buttons still have an inherent advantage: as tactile buttons they can be activated without using your eyes.

I agree that most German luxury cars get completely over-ambitious, but that's not to say that nobody's succeeded at making something that's less distracting than Tesla's touch screen.

Out of the cars I've driven with modern infotainment systems, Mazda might have the most intuitive one out there. The touch screen is completely disabled while driving, with a simple four direction, press down, rotating knob to control everything along with a back button and logically placed shortcut keys.

That layout also includes a physical volume knob and physical climate controls in the standard, logical dual dial layout.

Most importantly, the gear selector is a completely normal front-to-back push the button lever with physical tactile feedback, none of this rocker/button pushing nonsense.

Picture here:

https://www.mazdausa.com/siteassets/vehicles/2019/mazda3-sed...
Do you have any evidence that any AdNauseam user has ever been arrested for ad fraud?
Yeah, it's about time for Google to kill another product.
Trust me - I'm considerably more knowledgable on this topic than yourself. Agro industry propaganda always looks the same.
> The fonts look nice

I noticed this too in FF on Linux, I inspect elemented and for some reason a huge number of websites were using Nimbus Sans as the font... Later when I eventually used someone's Windows install I realized that Nimbus was only being used on my computer... Wtf?

It's a font developed long ago by some famous font foundry, and a subset covering common characters was made free and included in Linux printer drivers. It is visually very similar to Helvetica/San Francisco. I installed GNU FreeFont (probably available in your distro's repos) which looks the exact same but covers many more characters than Nimbus. In Firefox I went to the font config settings, set FreeSans/FreeSerif as the default fonts, and unchecked the option to allow websites to specify custom fonts. Just don't disable the checkbox to download web fonts, or icon fonts with various icons/glyphs will show as boxes.

It's truly beautiful - every once in a while I see some text and just stop reading and stare at it for a few seconds. On the rare occasion when I go to a website about fonts I use another browser to be able to see their CSS-specified fonts.
I’ve worked in the private sector though, things weren’t better there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_politic
The notion of individualization is a recent one, from what I know.
Another perk for Prime members.
Google isn't banning any ad blockers directly. They're just deprecating an API which many major ad blockers use, and the replacement API is different enough that those ad blockers can't be ported to it. They claim that the deprecation is about security and performance.

In particular, I don't think it's true that Google said "only people that can use ad blockers following the change will be Google’s enterprise users".
All the big sites face government pressure to censor. In addition anyone inside these companies that would support free speech has to walk on eggshells not to be fired for creating an unsafe environment - again the government's hand this time indirect.

Imagine the conversation: this is fake news, we should remove it. No it isn't fake. You're making me feel unsafe, ill have the government put you in a cage.
Okay, so they are crippling the webRequest API. I'm sure we can still block ads by injecting some masterfully crafted jQuery cocktails. Ad blocking will still be possible.

(Edit: Whoever just downvoted me -- you work on the Chrome team, I guess?)
yeah that's actually the point of the outrage. Using block lists is nice, but modern adlockers can do much, much more. If you just use lists, chances are the Ad industry - with the help of Google, will find a way to circumvent it. They probably already have, see anti-adblock-blockers.

Nowadays, you can invent clever ways to get around all this.
With the new Chrome - you probably can't.

In the future, it'll probably be such that every website asks you to disable adblocking or you are blocked from the site.
Only debug builds use the Dart VM -- release builds are native code. If you want to execute C++ you can do so via native channels.
But to create 10 times as much value, you don't have to necessarily press buttons 10 times faster or 10 times harder.

It's possible that by pressing the same number of buttons per year (i.e. the same number of programmer hours worked), the current generation of software in the world could be upgraded to a new, more valuable generation of software.

There's a question of whether new software (presumably with extra features) necessarily uses more energy (per user, per year), but it seems possible that one year's more-valuable-software could be more energy-efficient than the previous year's less-valuable-software.
Where did you get the idea that the news is only supposed to talk about the government?

Even if that's true, how can the masses be expected to make informed political decisions on things like healthcare funding vs. war on terror funding if they're constantly being terrorized by the news about a negligible threat while ignoring much greater immediate threats?
It is worth noting that revamping the browser extension permissions model is something that should definitely be done. Browser extensions up until this point have been a massive security hole: they basically get read/write permissions on every web page you visit.

Of course, content blocking could've been part of that new security model.

As Google tightens its grip, I wouldn't be surprised if someone starts a genuine fork of Chromium. Not just Chromium plus some extra stuff like Brave and Vivaldi, but a real, doesn't-rely-on-upstream-changes-fork. Microsoft seems like the most likely candidate for doing so.