skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think link forgot to mention a step 4.

Step 4: Spend weeks getting used to new shortcuts, finding equivalent extensions/plugins and getting used to their dev tools.
FWIW it Is supported under Linux I believe, but unfortunately the documentation is lacking. If I recall correctly, you have to drop JSON files in the right places.
Is this a coordinated ad campaign for Firefox?

I find it odd how there will be Google Hate, and unanimous Firefox support.

I guess I'm looking to hear from users who actually removed Google from their life and are happy. Chrome is only 1 of the Google products I've used.
Go is free software too
My guess (not having tried any of these three!) is that the best chance of achieving some kind of income would be the SaaS product, assuming you really can find a niche issue and provide (and market) a solution to it.

For an ebook on a technical topic: it may be pretty difficult to write something so compelling that enough people will be willing to pay money for it. You'll be competing against what people can find free with Google, on stackexchange, etc.

And mobile or web games: there are so many of them out there, do you really think you can stand out from the crowd? I bet the proportion that actually make a worthwhile amount of money is pretty small.
This has been warned about for a while now and it's not actually terribly difficult for sites to implement. Why don't they? Simple - click fraud. The ad networks don't trust the sites to accurately report click numbers, so they insist on running their own code. For this reason, the number of truly first-party ads will be limited for a long while.
There's a difference between posting a link to original content on a non-paywalled site and posting a link to a site that circumvents a paywall, which AFAICT is just blatant copyright infringement.
Can this now be combined with pruning the trained network to even further the size reduction by 5x? [1]

1. https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.06440 -
Pruning Convolutional Neural Networks for Resource Efficient Inference
I'm not really sure what you are trying to argue here. Your bullet points are equally applicable to "alternative" media outlets and "mainstream" media do often link out to government reports, sources, etc in their articles.
For a good look at what modern poverty in America looks like, see Stephanie Land's amazing book Maid. The overall picture is of someone doing extremely demeaning, physically demanding manual labour, and spending months at a time barely able to afford food for herself and her daughter, in that precarious position where even a trivial unexpected expense could easily send her back to homelessness.
I would vote for the Saas product but I am bias because that is what I have chosen for myself. Find a community first and then create something for them. If they need an ebook, write an ebook; if they need a game, make a game.
Another great book that fills a similar purpose is Volume 1 of the Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth. It presents a great introduction to (basic) math as computer scientists use it.
It's honestly hilarious and sad to see so many commenters here defending and excusing Google because the services they provide are "free." Somehow Hacker News thinks this argument isn't applicable to Facebook. The truth of the matter is that both companies are committing huge privacy violations, but Google has managed to convince Hacker News and the US media (NYT in particular) that they aren't evil still. Good riddance to all of these companies.
I don't use Gmail to register with any other websites. I have a separate email for that.
A whole lot more than you can do if you are stuck in an urban area or worse, a suburban hellscape. At least if you like doing things outside, or want to do more worthwhile things than mindless consumer hedonism.

Go fishing, go hunting, go hiking, do some trailriding on an ATV or a snowmobile or a horse. Plant a garden or an orchard and tend to that. Have a barbecue with the neighbors. Get involved with the community. Work up your firewood. You can read books, or watch TV or engage with the internet just as easily as anywhere else, and you can get anything in the world delivered to you with two-day delivery from Amazon. You can look up at night and see the stars, rather than just washed out orange halogen haze.
Believing RT to say anything truthful about anything Ukrainian would be rather naive.
To be fair, that seems to be precisely what this post proposes. If you are unhappy with Google, you can switch "easily."

That said, I would at least agree that this post is has a lack of any real substance and is low effort. Generally speaking, most people are familiar with Firefox, which holds even more accurate here on _Hacker News_. I would speculate many are also familiar with the initial "import" process offered by Firefox and competing browsers alike. So I am unsure of the goal of this post. I wouldn't go so far as to call it outright _spam_, but I do not think it warrants frontpage presence either.
Google Purchase History Tracking
I had neither Java not JavaScript background, but I found Clojure easier. Nevertheless, I did most of my learning in ClojureScript due to the visual feedback being the right learning tool for me.
These aren't related whatsoever, but the timing of this submission is.

I personally don't think it belongs on the front page just because of news regarding a competitor, the only discussion this link sparks is the same discussion that's already been had twice this week (20044430, 20050173).
This is probably a response to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20044430
> Yet living standards aren't improving an inch.

That isn't true. Living standards have improved for some large demographics and not for others. You're entirely discounting the massive improvement the eg poor in the US have seen in the last 40 to 50 years. It was horrific to be in the bottom 1/4 in the US just as recently as 1980 and prior, far worse than it is now.

Just look at welfare state related spending as a share of GDP in the US in 1960 or 1970, versus today (hint: it barely existed at all in the 1960s). Over 40 years, spending on low-income programs increased by 10 fold. Look at homelessness just as recently as the 1980s vs today, it has been cut in half. Look at the poverty rate in the 1960s vs today (23% down to ~12.x% today, near a record low). Look at violent crime and murder in the 1970s and 1980s vs today, both rates have plunged (the poor are far more likely to be victims of both).

There was no widespread free healthcare for the bottom 25% in 1970, for another example. That socialized healthcare costs the US an enormous amount of money to fund. That's a dramatic quality of life improvement for poor people who a generation prior would have had no consistent access to healthcare.
Can someone remind me what will happen to all the chromium derivatives that support ad block? Will Google restrict their functionality? If Firefox and Safari are the last browsers to support ad block, then they totally stand a chance.
The Last Bees
>And the BAT sits in an address until that creator does verify.

To my point - you're not tipping the content creator at all until they claim (edit: although as you say, tipping to verified does tip them). Also, these tips that are done with BAT that came with the promotion of Brave is sent back to Brave if they remained unclaimed for a set amount of time. Seeing as Brave has complete control of the tips they can change the rules and take the BAT back at any time.

>the whole point is to increase the value of the network.

This is kind of a pain point, isn't it? Many content creators have established ways to donate (Patreon, Twitch built in methods, Paypal, etc). Why should they opt-in to an altcoin created by Brave? There's no incentive for content creators to "increase the value of the network."
In my brief experience (so take my opinion with a grain of salt), it's the Clojure ecosystem around Clojure that is the problem, not the Java one it interops with. There is hardly any unification for anything except that it looks like Ring is the main HTTP lib (just for http; beyond that, how many routing libraries are there now?), and edit: there is a lot of library churn that goes with that, which to me totally conflicts with the language's reputation for being evolutionary and stable. Most libraries I have seen are written and maintained by a single author. 50% or so of the libraries I have seen are just plain dead questionably dead, including stuff written by Cognitect. It's not a healthy situation. It's a shame, because the language itself is awesome.
You named 2, also a selection of retail stores, besides Walmart, is also nice.
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How to Earn Money as a Writer on Medium: Four Strategies That Actually Work
How on earth can a person who is learning Python became the technical advisor for a startup? Genuinely interested.
Here's a good explanation... https://boingboing.net/2019/05/29/hoarding-software-freedom....
I try to mostly use firefox, but there are some legit sites that do not work in firefox, youtube is probably the biggest offender with the seek very often not working properly.

I can't help but wonder if it is because firefox is actually behind or if google is sabotaging them.
ETFs allow for liquidation any time during trading hours. Mutual funds typically only allow withdrawal once a day using closing marks. ETFs are also structured more efficiently for taxation purposes than mutual funds.
Or Brave
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Sure, all else being equal this may be true. But as with most things, it depends on quality & implementation of the idea. If the OP has a solid game idea that they're even a little passionate about, that may count for a lot more than grasping for a niche SaaS product that might have an audience. Although if the SaaS projecy were itself to go viral, there's probably a much larger upside than viral indie game.
So I've rehashed this argument a lot recently: Google has to snoop on your emails. Every email provider does. Spam classification, automatic labelling/filtering, things like the "we think this is phishing" banners, etc. all require some form of analysis. You could (and seem to be) calling some of that "snooping", but some of it is acceptable. So the question is where is the line drawn?

> I think its a bit of a stretch calling this feature useful but I suppose you can re-define anything to be useful.

It's used to alert you on upcoming packages you may receive or bills you need to pay (if you have an android phone/google assistant). I think that's useful.

> The labels, are almost noise because its data that is an abstraction away from telling advertisers what will get you to open your wallet - which is the end goal.

Statements like this amaze me! You really think that manually curated labels would be less useful than automated inference about an email? Supervised learning is basically always easier than unsupervised, and email labels are, quite literally, labels for the data. It's a model-maker's dream!

> I don't think you can, and I could not follow the argument you made.

That's because you personally find labels useful and non-invasive, but feel that this other feature is not useful and is invasive. That's the only difference. If you felt you got value from the purchase history tools, which again, some people do, or if you didn't have an unfounded belief that everyone was lying to you and this data was being used in ways it isn't, you wouldn't find what is essentially automatic labelling of some emails invasive.

The argument is that labels are useful to some people. Google could misuse the data derived from labels. Similarly, purchase history info is useful to some people. Purchase history data could be misused by Google. If you trust Google to not misused labels, then why don't you trust them to not misuse purchase history? If you do trust them in both cases, this doesn't matter, and if you don't trust them at all, why are you using an email client that you think is completely lying about how they're using your data?
Short, flippant but hopefully concise answer:

1. Safari is only available for macOS and iOS. There's no widely available, up to date browser based on non-Blink WebKit, and it's unlikely there will be, as it's rather tied to Apple OS APIs.

2. Aside from Firefox, all browsers that are available for all major operating systems are based on Chromium/Blink, and consequently will inherit Google's architectural decisions, and on a sociopolitical level, enhance Google's domination of the Web.
Does anyone have a good impression about how Firefox's energy consumption compares to Safari's?
I promise to pay the bearer the sum of 1 ton of C02 on demand?
Lua 5.4.0 (alpha-rc1) now available
Does it have extension support yet?
That's true, but I personally don't have the time to create, or even work on, a Chromium fork. Is there one with any momentum?

My preference would be to use https://github.com/atlas-engineer/next, because I'm a huge Common Lisp fan, but without uMatrix and uBlock Origin (or something equivalent) it's not a viable alternative yet.

I've been trying to switch to Firefox lately. I still prefer Chromium's UI, but I won't tolerate Google's new anti-adblock stance.
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Brave's co-founder is the guy invented JS. I use Firefox often only use Brave to test whether my website will run on Chrome.
You see plenty people defending Facebook too. Trying to assign a single opinion to a large group of people doesn't work.
I use Adblock Plus (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/), and I also have AdBlock installed (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-for-f...), just in case the first one doesn't work. They are two of the most popular adblock plugins on Firefox.

Or you could just use uBlock Origin on Firefox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin)!
OK. I hope you learn to take it all a little less seriously in the future. Good luck.
“Do you need a loan to exercise your options in order to get paid?”
Gee I wonder what was going on in 2009 that would cause depressed real estate valuations.
Ask HN: How to Maintain Motivation?
I am working on a side project in my free time after work that I hope to turn into a business. I have noticed that my motivation to work on this project is cyclical with bouts and weeks of energy and steadily making progress, but also (as I am experiencing right now) a big lack in the willingness to "do stuff" during the troughs.

I have a list of things I know I need to do before launch, so it's not like I'm lacking inspiration, but when I go home I sorta just fallback on doing nothing and wasting time.

Are there any particular strategies to combat this lethargicness?
Adblocker plugins already do content-level filtering because of this, not just for ads but various tracking and other annoyances.

I do that for the sites that have the banner that hides if you scroll down, but pops out the moment you scroll one pixel back, or sites that put up "please don't leave me" modals the moment your cursor strays out of the window.
> "why did bitcoin mining require more and more energy"?

It's actually pretty simple: people figured out how to run a get-rich-quick scheme directly on electricity. Demand for Bitcoin is just this: demand for easy money. If cryptocurrencies weren't invented, I doubt there would be anything else to use up that energy.
I have set up a Siri Shortcut on my phone so that I can disable the blocking for 5 minutes very easily. Highly recommended if you have family members that occasionally need something unblocked.
Guns
Archery
Model rocketry
Ham radio
Fireworks
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That requires a decent amount of content though doesn't it? Given an existing body of content, blog posts, etc., then it might be "passive", but creating that initial bolus may not be.
One example I've run into...

When you google search for something (like say a product or service that you want to purchase), you'll see a couple ads at the top of the results.

Pi-hole usually prevents most ads from even displaying, but those always show up. If the ad was useful and you want to click through, it will generally block the request. I think the click through sends you to doubleclick or something.

I've never disabled pi-hole in that situation, but there have been times when it was an annoyance because the ad was actually relevant.
Almost no income is "passive". Like a farming plot, it has a certain momentum, but over time it shrinks and becomes less productive if you don't continue tending it.

Maybe you can build things that you yourself want to use but struggle to find. At the very least they'll help you, but there's a good chance you'll build an audience and maybe a base of customers if you build in public.
Nah thats why china is having so much trouble consolidating companies. They have the BAT companies but not much else. If not for their protectist policy I doubt they'd have those.
It just basically meant it uses more hardware resources than Go or JSP. Which is a problem in places like China, when the Scale is 10x of anywhere else, Salary is 5x lower, and Computer Resources are 2x - 3x more expensive.
> The idea that there isn't supposed to be any evidence because faith is the whole point is such an obvious con.

Monkey1: "I think we are being observed by humans"

Monkey2: "Do you have any evidence?"

Monkey1: "No, they are concealing the fact that they are observing us"

Monkey2: "What an obvious con!"

Reality: Humans were indeed observing the monkeys but were actively concealing their presence so the monkeys don't act differently, thus preserving their natural agency.

Reality: God is observing humans but actively conceals his presence so the humans don't act differently, thus preserving their natural agency.

> "You have to believe me but I can't prove it to you because proof would defeat the purpose"

I never said that. You can either have anecdotal evidence in this life or irrefutable proof in the next. Said evidence will never come from another human; it will always come from God. If you seek proof, seek God and he will answer you in a way you recognize.

I agree with you that religions fall on a spectrum from evil to obvious con to beneficial to essential. There is only one true church of God, which means on average (given thousands of religions), a random church has a good chance of being on the lower end of the spectrum.

But that's why you need to seek God in private, without the influence of other people and let him first convince you of his existence, and then guide you to his church. If you do so earnestly and come to the conclusion God doesn't exist; well, you've done all a reasonable person can be expected to do.
Renewable costs hit new lows, now cheapest new power option for most of world
content is blocked in non-browser locations, such as ad-laden mobile apps and smart TVs
An ebook will likely be much closer to passive income than a SaaS product. Neither are passive though - if you want to have a consistent stream of income you will have to continue doing work. And you will certainly have to do a fair amount of work to get it off the ground (this includes marketing and/or sales, not just making).

For SaaS, having a product that you can put on third-party marketplace, e.g. Shopify apps, GitHub apps, etc. might be your best shot at reducing ongoing work since the marketplace itself will do some of the marketing for you. You still have to do lots of work though.

Mobile or web based game will likely take a lot of work and return very little.

Aggregating useful content and selling access to it is one relatively quick way to go. E.g. there are bunch of people who have just aggregated contact info of press or VCs and then sold access to it. This will take a fair bit of work to aggregate all the info but it's still relatively quick (certainly compared to SaaS) and probably won't require much ongoing customer support given how simple the end product would be.

Ultimately if you are determined to find something which is "passive" you are more likely then not going to fail. By all means think about how you can compress the time and effort required and reduce the amount of ongoing labour by you, but starting from "I want passive income" isn't going to work.
Same, the only thing stopping me from switching is the hassle of porting a custom chrome extension to firefox.
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One of the points brought up about the changes being made to content blocking in Chrome is that it was an engine change. So no, switching to Edge or Opera or whatever might not do anything to help. I'm guessing Brave is the one Blink-powered browser that is likely to become an exception.
Actually, the internet has become too commercialized. But the problem is the top 1% driving all the revenue. And they are using this revenue to shape the web which is profitable to them.
New York tenants fight as landlords embrace facial recognition cameras
I liked the map[1] of all the places my phone has been. I mean, my damn telco and various three-letter agencies already have this info for wherever I have my smartphone -- so its nice that at least I have it too. I can reminisce about the frijte stand in Amsterdam.

[1]: https://www.google.com/maps/timeline?authuser=0&pb
Not sure exactly what you mean by this
LGPL has the same problem! Users must be able to relink an application with their own version of the LGPL library. This is impossible for almost all iOS scenarios and only very slightly easier on Android.

This is often overlooked. If you want to keep LGPL you can investigate "linking exception", it's used by some GNU libraries if I recall correctly.

This has been discussed for a decade:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/459833/which-open-source...

https://roadfiresoftware.com/2013/08/the-problem-with-using-...
Online conferencing software saves passwords in plain text
Blog post links to https://www.irena.org/publications/2019/May/Renewable-power-... (IREA: Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2018)

Salient points:

* Onshore wind and solar PV power are now, frequently, less expensive than any fossil-fuel option, without financial assistance.

* New solar and wind installations will increasingly undercut even the operating-only costs of exisitng coal-fired plants.

* Low and falling technology costs make renewables the competitive backbone of energy decarbonisation – a crucial climate goal.

* Cost forecasts for solar PV and onshore wind continue to be revised as new data emerges, with renewables consistently beating earlier expectations.
fzf is such a great addition to the command-line
This isn't an ad by Firefox, it is a reminder by fellow programmer to support FOSS in response to https://9to5google.com/2019/05/29/chrome-ad-blocking-enterpr... .
I don't see that. I see that I opened the Instagram app, but my in-app activity is in no way displayed.

What steps did you take to see what profiles you opened?
I tried switching to Firefox so many times but have to go back to Chrome for performance reasons.

There is still an open problem on Retina Macbooks with scaled resolution where the performance drops like 10x over non-scaled versions.
It's a response to Chrome's decision to neuter ad blocking in the base product.

Maybe we can get the black bar up too ;)
Actually, the upload API doesn't seem to be protected -- I just uploaded a package to test.pypi.org with twine using nothing but my old pypirc despite having enabled 2FA. So I suppose this is of limited value, at least at the moment.

Relevant warehouse issue: https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/994.
> Cloudflare is using the 'alt-svc' header [...] The CIA is not, I'd have loved it.

It should be noted that alt-svc is an HTTP header returned which means you have first made an HTTP request before the onion request which affects anonymity. It's not a big deal over Tor because that HTTP call is on an exit node, but still should be noted.
What quirks? Sounds like you just need more monitors...