skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love the pi-hole, but I can't seem to figure out how to get resolving of .local hostnames back when I use it. Like, I can no longer ping my media server at media.local, I have to use the exact IP address. Not a deal breaker, but annoying.
Yes, that use case sounds very much like what Profiles are for. You'll find that Profiles are an improvement over Containers for tasks like that (logging into the same URL as different identities) for all the reasons I list above.

> Way better than opening one is FF, one in Chrome, etc

Agreed!
I’m not American and don’t live in the States but as a guy who works remotely I can say that I highly value the coffee shops from the city I live in (an Eastern European capital) so much so that whenever I visit other European cities I always compare them to my city in this respect: I was happily surprised to find out that Madrid has coffee houses almost as good as ours, I was unpleasantly surprised when a friend of mine told me that Milano doesn’t have the same quality of coffee houses.

I also highly value being able to watch non-mainstream movies in a real cinema and I also very much like being able to physically touch and purchase books from a real bookstore. All of these things are impossible for me to do were I to move to a small town.
Ugh. This is going to head in a really bad direction.

We're getting pushed into a new territory, and the results could be disastrous. The world is putting us up against some ugly decisions and the collective choice isn't going to unanimous.

There's a lot of ethics getting tossed aside with the "someone else is going to do it" argument, and the bald truth that the world is unprepared and currently incapable of regulating anything at all.

You have elitists, you have military medicine, you have other countries (usually China, but others as well), you have the wealthy, you have private corporate labs, all splitting a dilemma. And then you have regular people, and the unwashed masses.

If this goes the wrong way, it threatens to prove itself as a problem thousands of times worse than anything the 20th century could have imagined.

A war may be fought over this. A big one. Who will be on the wrong side of history?
The cost of housing is not low. For one thing, a lot of people can't get a mortgage due to deposit amounts being higher (because of higher house prices) and so are paying over the odds in overheated rental markets. On the other hand, those that can get a mortgage might be paying lower interest but they are still paying larger amounts overall because of the higher house cost.
I think the problem is that they need to provide a way for you to sign your own binary such that it will work on the hardware?
Actually I think it's exact opposite - the midwest is great for k-12 education. Illinois is ranked #7 overall in k-12 education (washington sits at #19 for comparison). Most other midwest states are somewhere in the top 20 [1].

[1] https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education/p...
Not really, think of Chromium as a developer version of chrome. It may be open source but it still maintained by Google. Only alternative shift to Firefox.
There's no such thing. You either do work up-front and hope it sells, or you continually work on something to improve it and market it. Anyone telling you otherwise is selling you something, doesn't have any experience in what they're saying, or got extremely lucky (e.g. the bingo card guy)
> I think the problem also is that Google scans incoming emails sent by non-google users who haven't agreed to such scanning.

That is definitely not the problem. Email you send is owned by its recipient. Generally, the recipient can do what they want with it, including delegating to Google and allowing Google to scan it for purchase information.

> They didn't make it clear if they removed information mined from previous scanning of emails.

That information was ephemeral, IIRC. It was scanned when you loaded an email to allow advertisers to make bids for ads relevant to the given email. In any case, bits rot at Google like anywhere else. If a feature or system is no longer being maintained, it quickly stops working. There is approximately zero chance that they retained any data that they theoretically would have generated from emails scanned half a decade ago.
I think that's not a bad answer. Being frugal and stashing money away in the market is a pretty good path for some people. See: "Mr Money Mustache".

VTSAX covers the entire market and has really low costs.
What the heck bugs are you running into that surface as a result of chrome being chrome? I’m no google fan but I find chrome to be far and away the most stable and enjoyable browser to debug with.
You logged in to Google. That's opting in.
It's funny that everyone else seemed to have bought it at the time. My father worked for a company that repaired ships at sea at the time, and he apparently went out on a cruise where they harvested manganese nodules.

I don't know if it was the ship's owners figuring that if hughes wants it it must be valuable, or if it's the CIA spreading the wealth to make its cover story more plausible, but I do know he has that nodule somewhere.
Thank you, for both the reference material and for the "A Man on the Moon" recommendation.
Seek medication from a medical pro, Wellbutrin is helping me out, but I wanted Adderall. I actually told my prescriber pretty much what you say in your post. I'm trying to generate a business idea, probably web involved. What is your business idea your growing? patchkientz@gmail if you need to PM.
What if your neighbour follows you to work?

That seems like a difficult to keep secret
I just set this up yesterday, was quite easy.

https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/openvpn-as/
I don't know if this is what you're getting at (probably not), but I've often thought a lot of the "ills" we see with the current web ecosystem (particularly so-called "fake news", disinformation campaigns, propaganda, etc - the whole stinkin' mess) could be solved if it were required that everyone identifies themselves - almost like a driver's license to use the web.

Make people truly responsible for their words and actions online, and maybe politeness and civility might return. Let anonymous actors still communicate, but they would be known as such, and the browser or whatnot could identify that and mark them as such, so that others can know whether or not to put their trust in them.

But then - that also goes against my real belief that the internet should be free and anonymous; it also goes against reality, as we've seen real-life examples of people who are toxic, divisive, insincere, hateful, etc - being perfectly forthright with their identity online and people flocking toward them by the thousands. Conversely, there are also plenty of completely anonymous personas and characters out there that people also believe and hold their words to be true; in some cases more true than objective reality.

I don't know what the real solution to all of this is, at least in the short term. In the long term, better education for everyone would be the ideal solution, but with that also being vilified and worked against by individuals and groups who have an agenda to prevent such betterment, pushing that solution and having it work long term is increasingly becoming seemingly non-viable. Even in a perfect world, though, where such a thing weren't being molested, it might still take a generation or two before any results were potentially seen.

I think long before this is solved, the solution may present itself in the utmost form: A worldwide civil war, that'll make both WW1 and 2 look like skirmishes.
I'm not sure I'd ever recommend an ebook as a good passive income method. There are good reasons to write a book, including establishing credibility that leads to more revenue for consulting etc. But you're probably not going to make a lot of money from it.
For a supposedly tech related group, I'm more surprised that you guys are surprised on whats being tracked. Yes Google has the ability to track A LOT because of the severvices most people use, but don't most people have an abundance of tracking and user metrics across their own product. I know every company I've worked at does the same.
Make sure Pihole has your local DHCP/DNS server setup as the first resolver. So it will check your router for example before checking externally. Then again, you might be using Pihole as your DHCP server?

Explain your setup some more and I can add more details.
With the prevelence of ad blocking tech, the question becomes why haven't they already?

The answer being that content providers can't be trusted to self report metrics that determine how much advertises pay. At least not for pay per view/client/etc models.

The people that self select themselves from viewing advertisements might be doing advertisers a favor. They're perhaps less likely to make purchases based on impressions//click ads on purpose; per dollar, ad campaigns might be more effective without said people.
Yes, there are few things like that. I think this project is a good start but needs some features like local zone support (being the authoritative NS for you local domain).
I see this argument a lot of Hacker News and Reddit. While it's true that both websites are comprised of a large and diverse body of individuals who share differing opinions and various subjects, that doesn't mean you can't discern real trends and biases within them. I think it's quite clear from reading any of the past month's discussions on Facebook:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=facebook&sort=byPopularity&pre...
I think where this will shine, creative people who want to make movies but not enough money to cast more than maybe a handful of people.
I guess it depends what you want to work on and what your career goals are. I think my mechanic vs mechanical engineer example is actually a pretty good analogy of actual conditions. You have (many) people learning how to use tools and fix known problems (like mechanics, or e.g. CRUD developers) versus the others that actually need to solve problems with unknown solutions or optimize existing systems (the engineers). Maybe also with known solutions, but with a far deeper theoretical knowledge as a base for doing that.

Yes, the majority of work is on solved problems and we need far more mechanics than engineers. But it's not such a clear cut and a lot of actual software engineers work on solved problems most of their time and only spend a small amount of time on the engineering part (which is probably similar to other engineering disciplines). But when you spend the small amount of time on engineering work these basics are important and I realized multiple times that I could make better decisions because of it. And I'm kind of certain that's the case for most engineers with an academic background or self-taught basics though they might not even realize it.
I strongly recommend uBlock Origin in favor of AdBlock. AdBlock is a commercial endevour that makes deals with advertising companies to let their ads through.
I think they know, it's the power of such things they want to control for their own purposes (even if just to sell) that draws them to it.

I know some folks who work on "reputation" type services that try to evaluate people based on a litany of factors and data points and then try to sell that data to others as sort of alternative background checks.

They're so desperate for data points they'll just scrape basic google searches, any social media, etc. It's all opaque, I suspect very random, they know and do not care as they know the value of possibly being in a dominant position for such things.
I’ve been using Firefox (quantum) on my 2016 retina MBP for years and haven’t ever noticed any performance issues.
Switch to Safari instead if you're on Mac, if you care about privacy and security: https://webkit.org/blog/8943/privacy-preserving-ad-click-att...
Usefulness shouldn't justify evil. It may be more comfortable to shrug it off that way but it also helps to normalize it.

There are a couple of examples in history where similar attitude on a societal level ultimately led to the most terrible of outcomes.
There is no "best" method for passive income. And I don't think "passive" income really is that passive either.

But, my experience:
I made a really niche eBook, about Web scraping with Java: https://www.javawebscrapinghandbook.com

Writing the book was the easy part, I've been doing scraping for years. The most challenging part was ... marketing of course!

I wrote 6/7 blog posts about this subject. In each blog post, there is a paragraph that talks about the book. I shared those blog post to my mailing list and on Reddit/HN (I didn't get any upvotes on HN...).

Now I have ~10 000 visits a month on the blog, 80% comes from search engines. Out of these 10k visits, about 200 visit the book sales page, and I sell 10-15 copies a month for ~ $400-$500.

It is not that passive because I have to fight to stay on the first 3 links for terms like "java web scraping" so this mean regularly upgrading my content etc. If I don't do this, my rank will slowly decrease on SERP and the sales too.

I was 24 when I wrote the book, I'm not even a native English speaker, you can do it :)

If you go this way, test your idea by blogging around a subject, and you will quickly see if people are interested by this subject or not.

Good luck!
> Like the fact that I can have like 20 tabs open at the same time before they start hiding themselves from me.

I didn't like it either at first, but then I realized it was just because it was different than Chrome. In time, I liked how Firefox did it better. You're always guaranteed to see the favicon and 3 or 4 letters of the tab's title no matter how many tabs you have. In Chrome, you're eventually looking at triangles or lines with no way to differentiate them.
>Sure, all else being equal this may be true. But as with most things, it depends on quality & implementation of the idea.

And what makes you think that someone just learning Python and asking for ideas for passive gigs will hit either of those?
Similar to "Ask HN: How do you stay disciplined in the long run?" 173 comments from last month https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19777976
The 'Try it online' link on ClojureScript's Github page is broken, not sure if that service is still online.
https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript

The Tools page under ClojureScript site doesn't mention Sublime Text 3 or VS Code at all (in typing this I realize Emacs would probably be the most common editor while working with a lisp like Clojure...).
https://clojurescript.org/tools/repls

LightTable hasn't been updated in forever, but they're cognizant of that and are working on it.

Clojure on Windows is apparently still in alpha state. Out of curiosity, do you work on Mac or Linux?
https://github.com/clojure/tools.deps.alpha/wiki/clj-on-Wind...

The repl.it Clojure instance is very old, but that's not unique to Clojure.

Clojure looks to be a very good language, and I enjoyed playing with it a few years ago, and I understand it's improved a lot since then, especially in error handling, which is why I bounced off back then. I was just worried it was more like Objective-C (an apparently declining language with a clear successor) than Rust (a small but passionate community). Good to hear it's still going strong!
Then tell yourself now that you will search for stock quotes in the future. If you follow through in the future then that information should show up now. If you don't destroy causality and blow up the universe, you'll be rich.
You have to do an MBA first so you can match their business bs with tech bs...
Does it mean that passwords are stored in clear? If not, how other browsers manage to import this data?

Sorry if the question is silly
Wages are growing but housing is increasing but eventually, I think wages will outpace.
Understood, I think Google features those products in the shopping tab. But the results may vary depending upon the country you're in as I think they ran into some trouble for that in EU.
Keep in mind that SPY yield today is 1.9% — below CPI — so you are losing value even before paying tax on that income. If you are hoping for capital gains / equity risk premium to provide extra return, you owe yourself to read a bit about where we are in the economic cycle, current corporate debt levels compared to history, and to look at what happened in 2000, 2008, and last December and visualize going through that. To get passive income beyond the dividend yield you’ll need to be selling shares, not buying them. Consider the scenario, hopefully unlikely but historically demonstrated, that it goes down 50% at some point, or spends an entire decade with zero total return. US equities have been a powerhouse but it’s worth some careful research if you are looking for passive income.
Can't be bothered to hit Ctrl+K?
There are many thousands of indie developers and companies who have tried and failed. Even the world class gaming companies have had an extremely hard time producing games that make money, these days. Sure, there was a time when making money in games was easy: that was before 2011. If you have a time machine and can go back to that time, then you could make a lot of money. Barring that, I would say it's nearly impossible.

Stick to SaaS, go into a field that's completely unsexy and solve a problem. It's still insanely difficult, but your odds might be slightly better than winning the lottery.
California renters scored a rare victory with ‘rent-gouging cap’
>Fancy some roast leg of lamb for dinner?

After I've finished my cup of tea. It has a bit of an odd flavour though. Did you add almonds or something?

I'd say that while Pratchett's books are wider in intended audience than Dahl, there does seem to be care taken with pretty much all of them not to include anything that would cause an adult to tell a child not to read them. As a child, I never had any adults tell me that I should not be reading Pratchett at my age, which was a fairly common occurence with much of what I was reading.
I tried to switch just now, looks like uMatrix doesn't work in Firefox? That's a blocker for me... I've spent a lot of time creating a ruleset on uMatrix, not looking to try recreating that.
If you point the PiHole Upstream DNS to your router's DNS (Or whatever DNS server is hosting the .local domains) it should resolve .local hostnames again. I think by default it uses 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4

https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/change-upstream-dns-server-i...
Safari’s is superior, definitely. No problem with using Safari if that’s your priority.
> I think I pointed out a good corollary in another market: independent butchers and bakeries have largely been replaced in the U.S. by the meat and bakery departments of large super markets (and quality has probably stagnated or gone down as a result). Given that we don't seem to have any issues there, why do we have an issue with it here?

I don't think meat and bakery departments are features under a definition useful for this discussion. For me, a product is something you can pay for separately, a feature is part of a product.

That means meat and baked goods[1] are separate products. Supermarkets having meat and bakery departments is not much of an issue because it's perfectly reasonable to buy meat from a butcher and other groceries in a supermarket.[2] You cannot really mix Android and iOS apps.

Also: "and quality has probably stagnated or gone down as a result" does sound like an issue. However in this case, I guess it's either because supermarkets are cheaper or because buying everything in one place is more convenient. The latter is a natural advantage of supermarkets. Putting all stores in one place would be good for the customer by lowering the cost of shopping at multiple stores but it's physically impossible.[3]

Apple's advantage on its own platform, in contrast, is the result of anticompetitive behavior and could be avoided.

> The only thing music streaming services really bring to the table is playlist curation and discovery.

Size of the catalog? Different clients? Even if music streaming was purely a commodity, why can't a commodity be a product? Even electricity is.

[1] I guess you could technically consider meat and bakery departments services. But in that case, does such a thing as a good even exist?

[2] Geography aside. If the stores are too far apart, shopping at both is unreasonable. But I would be surprised if you didn't see any issues in such a case.

[3] A supermarket that somehow actively stops competitors from opening near it would be acting competitively. Concentrating all stores in one place does have pose the issue of increasing customers' distance to the nearest store. But that's easy to solve when we're violating the laws of physics anyway.
You should probably refrain from using blanket statements like "Hacker News thinks that or does this".

I've see comments on HN by users from incredibly diverse fields, expertise, ages, countries, etc.

If you think a specific comment in this thread reflects your blanket statement then address it directly, but overall it makes me dismiss anything you've written.

And it doesn't contribute much to the discussion
In fact they may never sell the rig, used mining rigs aren't worth much
I don't think Apple 'puts out things just coz.' They are very deliberate and thoughtful behind anything they say and release in public.
They now have a dropdown menu with all your tabs. Pretty nifty.
As a moderately successful saas founder, I'd advise you to take a series of increasingly better paid freelance gigs, then invest the surplus into dividend stocks.

A successful saas is a lot of work and not passive at all.

Good luck! It's lots of fun either way :)
For me, the best form of passive income is income you get from an activity you would do anyway (on your own terms) even if you didn’t have to work anymore. I know, this does not exactly satisfy the passive definition, but it is probably the most attainable form.
Yeah, nothing like 60 tabs you can't tell apart all squeezed into view.
You can change Chromium but you cannot change Chrome. The majority of Chrome is Chromium, but there are parts of Chrome that are not Chromium. Particularly the branding. Furthermore if you're actually forking Chromium like suggested and taking it in another direction to assuage any grievances you might have with Chrome, then you have certainly "left Chrome".

I was not recommending that anybody switch from Chrome to Chromium. Personally I do not find that Chromium fixes what I consider broken about Chrome, which is what I was alluding to when I said "whether or not switching to Chromium accomplishes what you want to accomplish by leaving Chrome is another matter." The negative reaction I received for that post makes me think people believe I was recommending Chromium. I do not; I recommend Firefox.
Random, only slightly-related question: has any one used suckless' surf? I've seen it recommended by the hyper-minimalist nuts, but am more looking into it so I can tweak it easily. I figure it would be a lot easier than trying to slog through webkit, gecko, servo, blink, etc. as it is so much simpler.
I totally get the concerns about RT, but even a liar can tell the truth sometimes. From the content of the article itself, it seems pretty realistic to my mind.
I was under the impression that the whole point of such a system was you could trust any video from any (non-cracked) camera.

If we're at the point of trusting videos only from select providers, well, that's not really much of an improvement over just finding the video on that provider's website over HTTPS.
I wouldn't call Firefox unsafe. But Safari's sync for bookmarks, passwords, tabs, handoff... is really the killer feature.

I use Firefox as my "virgin" broswser for testing or when I need to manually override proxy settings for my own MitM purposes. But that's about it.
I thought .local names used mDNS. Not sure why pi-hole would interfere with that.
xhtml seems to me quite a bit simpler to implement than HTML5.
Ugh. Safari is garbage. So many bugs. So many missing features. A release process straight out of the 1990s.

Firefox is the only serious alternative to Chrome.