skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "without selling out their user's privacy"

This is the key. I think sending any unsolicited traffic to 3rd party websites counts as violating my privacy. Pocket goes far beyond that.

Pocket Recommendations are personalized based on your browsing behavior in Firefox. It doesn't matter that Mozilla and Pocket don't see your browsing history directly. While the choice of which links to push at you are made client side if Pocket knows which pages are suggested to you (either as they are pushed to your browser or after you've clicked them) then they can take away from that information about why you were targeted for those sites.

Sure enough, Pocket collects stats on which links show up in your browser and whether or not you click on them.

"Sponsored stories" often link to DoubleClick or Bitly who redirect you to the suggested site so those companies are also collecting your data because of Pocket. Handing data to DoubleClick is not protecting user's privacy.

Even if you opt out of data collection in Firefox's preferences Pocket and Mozilla will continue to serve you personalized sites and will continue to collect data on you and your browsing history.

I don't mind that pocket exists, but it shouldn't be enabled by default, and it shouldn't take going into about:config to disable.

Firefox should be applauded for taking steps to try to make money off their user's personal information without selling it outright, but at the end of the day they are still trying to make money off their user's personal information.

They do have to compete with Google, but they can best do that by providing a better experience for users and by protecting their privacy.

I've been a long time user of firefox because it's still the best browser when it comes to privacy and control, but it takes an increasing number of default setting changes and about:config edits to get it to stop leaking my data to 3rd parties. It's already to the point where I can't just recommend it to others without explaining there are a ton of settings they should immediately disable or change to protect themselves.
Exactly. The example I like to give is: imagine if the government held a referendum asking "do you want to pay less taxes, yes or no?". Yes wins(who wouldn't want to pay less taxes, right?), And then 3 years later the government says "ok, we'll slash taxes by 90% but we'll close the NHS and all public schools. You can go to the public sector for either, so it's all good. And remember, you voted yes, so holding another referendum to see if that's definitely what you want would be undemocratic now!".
Just because the content is interesting and/or useful doesn't make it not an ad.
…seen is some folks use RJ-45 jacks with holes in the end of the connector…

What‽ Well that's going to make my once-in-a-while cable terminating experience better. I like the idea of knowing each wire made it to the contact, and being able to audit them on the outgoing side before trimming.

A quick googling says the wording to search for is "RJ45 Passthrough Connectors", then be careful because the #1 Amazon hits are not actually CAT6 connectors despite their titles, and some of the other top ones are of, let's say variable quality.
It's completely on-device [0]. The prediction models have been shrunk [1] so no connections are made (Google has enabled lots of shrunken on-device models with TF Lite [2]) . I'm not sure why this page doesn't call that out considering how privacy-focused the other features are.

0. https://www.androidauthority.com/smart-reply-android-q-98364...

1. https://www.tensorflow.org/lite/models/smart_reply/overview

2. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.00630.pdf, https://www.tensorflow.org/lite/guide
When was the last time you rode? How far? What kind of bike?

The type of bike and the brand of bike don't really matter -- you need a bike you will ride. Does it fit? Do you enjoy riding.

I moved a couple of years ago; but, prior to that, I commuted year-round by bike. (10 miles one way) I rode a hard tail mountain bike -- that was the bike I felt the most comfortable riding in traffic, construction zones, etc. (I had several other bikes, including a recumbent.) Most of the other bike commuters I knew rode road bikes, except for a couple who rode recumbents. It really comes down to what you feel comfortable riding; so, you enjoy riding it, twice a day, every day, in sunshine and in rain.

Consider picking up a used bike first. jppope's Craigslist suggestion is good. Also check your local bike shop, since some have used bikes. Even Goodwill might be an option. See if you really like commuting by bike. If you do, get a nicer back and you have a backup.

Get a reflective vest and wear it. A taillight is better than a rear reflector. Get a good, strong headlight, especially if you are riding at dawn, dusk, or night. You'll use it in the rain, too. Do not get a flashing headlight.

Keep at it and don't get discouraged. It's a great way to commute.
> Extensions would still be able to use webRequest but only to observe requests, not to modify or block them.

What's the point of an ad blocker if it doesn't block ads?
As a food consumer, there's no amount of "relationship" you can build with me. Your food is good or it isn't. If the food is good and priced well, I'll reward you with continued business.

I think this is more a problem of the business owner believing that remaining in business is a right, not a privilege.
I dont understand why people use AWS Lambda. Here in France, people use PHP with docker and it works just fine. Another scam from amazon?
Obviously they could challenge such calls if they are sure they didn’t get it wrong and then it is a matter for the courts.
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Wow! That's great. Cold starts are no longer a show stopper! Rust powered APIs running on AWS .. It sounds really exciting
that isn't fair or accurate about teachers. It's just inflammatory. Teachers want to educate and work within the structures that districts allow. They don't pick laptops, the school district mandate textbooks. You've got an unrealistic idea of education.
How is this better than VGA again?
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The problem is the masses of people who insist on believing unbelievable things. We don't have centralized media any more that can act as filters for wingnut ideas.

Pizza-gate is bonkers, but that doesn't mean there isn't a healthy segment of the population that believes it as a way to channel their collective hatred for someone. Which is itself just a way to solidify their group identity, much the same as the resurgence of flat-earthers who feed off of their own ignorance while proclaiming their supposed objectivity.
Since you mentioned nuclear magnetic resonance, the first commercial superconducting magnets were actually German and manufactured by Bruker.
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I love the optimism in this article "its backward compatible, things will just work." But I also wonder when we will stop "improving" things :-)
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You are right, I was wrong.
Security is and always has been a sliding scale, despite always referred colloquially as being either present or absent. "Keeping your password secure" in English really means, "improving the security of your password".
> find out later that we can only get financing at 20%

Is that because someone decided you had to accept any deal the car salesman made?

Perhaps you should have had the option of walking away.
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Can endorse.

Amusing in a grim way - he had a trading firm, two offices.

His own in Orange County California.

East Coast office went rogue, was raided by Feds. Thorpe shut down his side right afterward.

He published some of his trading methods in "Beat The Market", about trading warrants, which were more or less options issued by the companies themselves, instead of written by third parties.

Well worth reading.
And I forgot to mention the mini and micro versions of USB ports, which add to the overall confusion.
You generalize in a useless and offensive way. One could also say programmers have mostly only had one job, programmer, and they don't understand how society works and the needs of different jobs. Your solution for that could be better professional development too. Maybe all those tech bros need to get into the real world, see the problems that say teachers face so they can figure out what to focus on.
Not a UK resident, US based but watching from afar.

My understanding is the vote was

It was specifically non-binding
Was not a super majority
There was no definition of what was being proposed (Brexit means brexit...)

In my US voting, at state level and federal, I vote for specific actions and languages. Be it a person to a position, or specific language to be changed/added/removed in a law. There was no voter pamphlet with this, no definition, etc etc etc.

Not sure I see that as a democratic process, more a survey.
Well, while this approach would make it much clearer it is unfortunately also very unfeasible to do. Neither a photo api would give those details nor would it be possible to aggregate all those information by hand for each film. Thanks for your input!
Both sides are now at a point where they feel like the other is trying to stage a coup.

The remainers believe it is a coup that the PM has suspended parliament seemingly in an effort to bring the country closer to a no-deal Brexit.

The leavers believe it is a coup that there is a bill with a very real chance of passing that would make leaving without a deal illegal, therefore leading closer to not leaving the EU at all.
Well that's 2x vortex recommends. Bit more than I'd usually spend on a keyboard though...

Size aside do the tenkeyless have any other advantage?
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That just makes my house a more attractive location for solar energy generation.
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Goddamnit. I just released a on-device speech-to-text app lol.
But it can't be as simple as that. If a prime minister asked the Queen to suspend parliament for a year, she wouldn't approve it.

I think how it works is the Queen will always deny having had any discretion. If she ever has to reject the 'advice' of her Prime Minister she will say she has been advised that the advice was unconstitutional and therefore she had no option but to reject it.
Very true. I live in a similarly large city and every time I try to "outsmart" Google Maps it ends up going terribly for me. I've just accepted that Google always knows best -- if it's recommending some dark-red highway it really is the best way to go.
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One thing I don't understand out of this entire process is, since it is very clear the British parliament will not allow the government to go with a no-deal, how much leverage will the Government even have in any negotiation? Since the EU knows that the UK has to have a deal, can't they get away with offering not the best deal possible, since there is no EU wide similar law binding the EU to stay away from no deal.

Obviously, no deal is bad for the UK and the EU too, but how can the UK Government negotiate with their hands tied?
As someone else already pointed out - a "no deal" in reality means "no deal until any deal is reached". UK cannot be on WTO terms with the EU forever, but by going on them in the first place the economy is taking a hit until something else is negotiated. And that negotiation will be exactly the same as now - backstop, immigrants, EU regulations - none of those issues disappear with a no deal. They just get delayed a little bit. It feels like a no deal is hitting your own face out of spite for the other side.
What will the point of a 2nd referendum be?

Is it going to be another yes/no vote? If so, why not have a third, fourth, and fifth referendum, until you get the result you want?

Is it going to be a 'Deal/No deal/No', pick one vote? Why are you subdividing the "Yes" option, then? Why not subdivide the "No" option, too?

Is it going to be a two question vote, with 'Yes/No', and 'If Yes wins, Deal' and 'If Yes wins, no Deal'? I'm going to go out on a limb here, and say that you are not going to like the outcome of that one, either.
Ah true. Yes there was no disclosure before.
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>Peterson had considered the possibility of psychosomatic illness but felt it improbable, because many of the patients were otherwise well-adjusted, with no history of mental instability or trauma. “I’d seen almost all these people for three years when they were well,” he told me. Any psychological theory just “wasn’t right.”

in other words, he has no psychological theory. in reality conversion symptoms do not depend on "mental instability" or "trauma" in the popular sense. but of course why would you expect an m.d. to be trained in psychoanalysis?

anyone claiming that this is a settled problem and that CFS is an "organic illness" (because the CDC says so) should study the rise and fall of stomach ulcers.
Do not the small developers benefit from open source? Startups that are not making money, even? Personal projects, etc.

The difference between the food bank and this is that food cannot be consumed by everybody, all at once. It's near impossible to make "free" software that cannot be used by companies that are profitable. Who would police "profitability" when there's no money involved? The best you can hope for is to prevent a profitable company from using your code. Chances are, if the code is useful enough, someone else will write something similar without the same restriction.

My take: If you're writing FOSS, you know what you're getting into. If you need the money to do it, you should plan for that.
Non sequitur that has nothing to do with what's being discussed. Notably, a new referundum is about letting those who voted for the winner getting a greater say.
I think the point was the news article itself is only 5KB. The rest is website fluff.
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Conversely, the EU wishes to continue selling its goods to the UK - dairy, cars, prosecco, and everything else. This is a bilateral trade agreement. They want a deal. But if the UK can't walk away, the EU give us the worst deal possible as it is in the EU's interest to do so.
getting to 5-6% returns isn't super difficult for a pension, getting that extra 1-2% is bloody hard and requires some risk given that you can't just put cash in treasuries and get a 8% payout like you could in the 70s and 80s.

You really can't have the whole market go into passive investments - it'll just cause a large amount of volatility given that market movements will be based on a shrinking number of fund managers.
Do you have proof that all the top contributors work at google?
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You can swipe at an angle (around 45° up or down) to open the menu, and straight out to go back. Not very intuitive/discoverable, but works pretty well once you get used to it
I guess you mean i7-9700k instead of i7-9700.
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I only see one opening for anything 'security' related, and it's for "Python Security Engineer" (though the job description looks very very broad and not limited to 'python security'. Are there any other roles or areas of information security your company would be hiring for?
A lot of "conspiracies" are just emergent behavior.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence
How can they weaken their negotiating position? The UK is already at zero.

If the people really want a no-deal Brexit (which is what they are going to get at the end of October), then they can vote for it.
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"The government will implement what you decide."

Well there's your problem! That's a vague reference. To a lawyer, it might obviously refer to the voter's decision with respect to the immediately preceding question. To the average UK voter, it might also refer to her decision that she wants blue skies, decent food, and a personal unicorn pony for everyone. It's hard to vote against unicorn ponies.

[EDIT:] Apparently parent just pointlessly made up something, to which I credulously responded. Sorry for the distraction.
These "societal benefits", while surely exist (e.g. improved access for poor or elderly, reduced congestion), are far from clear. I don't think anyone has ever considered any estimate of these when deciding whether to run public transit or not. We run public transit because we feel like it, not because of some cost-benefit analysis.
Tiresas' prophecies come true because of a poetic or literary recursion built into the Oedipus cycle or the Oresteia or whatever. (I'm AFK, where K means "my library.") So when the guy to whom Tiresias prophecies that said guy will commit patricide in fact kills his father, he does so because he tried to not kill his father, and in attempting to escape his destiny, inflicted it upon himself. Stallman's apocalyptic ravings have had their basic gist "come to pass," in this interpretation, because of the actions of the developer community or tech community or whatever, in the struggle to develop software, which software has spiraled beyond all reasonable control, even as the guy killed his father by trying not to do so. Thus this wise guy is hella Greek. And this parent poster is also a wise guy. And this patricide is about to become all-too-ironic, because throwing out one-liners of the parent's (post's) sort is a bleak literacy, which I have now killed. And literacy rises like a phoenix in my child post, and the guy who kills his father is blinded as punishment, and becomes a wandering seer himself. So there.

TLDR is that prophecies are self-fulfilling. Tiresias is the OG self-fulfilling prophet.
They are suggesting that an election, which currently seems likely to happen soon, will be a "proxy referendum". I. e.: that will be the decisive factor for peoples votes.

Presumably, the conversion would be "brexit party" = hard, (no deal) brexit; tory = "I have no fucking idea, but I don't like immigrants, either". LibDems = "no brexit". Labor = "soft brexit".
Standards bodies need to sue to protect their standard. If a device does not adhere to the full standard, they should not be able to call it USB or use any of logos or imagery.
In my experience (I have a pretty TERRIBLE memory - people routinely reference events I participated in but have no recollection of, and when I consider if a particular believable event happened, I can imagine it and have no real way to distinguish the imagination from actual memory), the real problem comes with interacting with those that demonstrate full and utter confidence.

I doubt myself, but I still see the need to make decisions. Most people, faced with my caveats, allow that they can be wrong as well, and we decide things. But the problem cases are without any doubt - my caveats only prove their correctness. If presented with convincing evidence of their fault, they move on to the next thing and never learn that 100% confidence is overconfidence.

I don't know that my lack of trust in my memories makes me more vulnerable to such people or if they only react to facing others as immovable as themselves, with everyone else being indistinguishable speed bumps.