skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unlikely. There were massacres during the Taliban rule outside of war, but it was at much lower scale than in the current war, and US only helps taliban grow by its intervention, it seems, if you look at the numbers of fighters.

It's not like killing a person with certain beliefs stops the beliefs from spreading.
I work in the "email industry" and what my company does has nothing to do with marketing.
> But so much of that tracking isn't really necessary.

The problem with Google Analytics and tracking is it's hard to tell what the motive is for putting it onto your site from the visitor's POV.

Not everyone who uses GA is using it for evil purposes.

They use it because GA makes it easy to gain useful business metrics, such as 100 people visited this page, 30 people filled out the account form, 5 people completed the checkout. Now you have a way to measure how good or bad your checkout flow is working and implementing this took almost no work at all. Rigging up your own DB model and tracking this stuff locally is a huge burden (especially if you account for bot traffic).

GA is also really useful to track referring URLs (with UTMs) because if you use these links from Youtube videos or blog posts, suddenly you can see exactly which posts are doing well. And "doing well" isn't just being more profitable if you're selling something. It helps you know what to write about or make videos on because this is what people want.

At the very least it's also good for just answering "am I growing?" where you look at unique visitors on a monthly basis and hope to see your chart moving up per month.

I just see it as a pragmatic tool to help you measure things. It's unfortunate it can also be used in other more malicious ways.
I started downloading the update while read another thread. I immediately cut off the WiFi and stopped the download. I also downloaded Firefox to check it out and it seems pretty good.
gmail's cache hides a users location but you can still tell when they've opened an email, and you can still get a ton of information if they click a tracked link within the email as well.
It reminds me of the 1950s science kit which advised kids to "follow in the footsteps of Madam Curie"
It seems, nothing! I was just wrong about GKE being expensive, not sure why I thought that (though it seems that until late 2017 they did have costs per cluster).
I am not circling around the point, you seem to have an incomplete understanding of both GDPR and COPPA that are leading you to make unwarranted assumptions such as:

> How do you know if you are doing business in the EU without verifying the citizenship of the people who buy from you?

The GDPR lays out guidelines for what qualifies as doing business in the EU and it has nothing to do with verfying the nationiality of your customers (or doing geoip blocking). It has to do with the sorts of things I already explicitly mentioned such as advertising that specifically targets EU residents, localization into EU languages, shipping to EU addresses, etc.

> The first option has sovereignty problems -- it doesn't work in a multi-nation, multi-state world.

Why not? We have plenty of other types of regulation that differ between countries. Companies that wish to do business in multiple countries have to comply with all the laws for those countries. If you want to make a single car model that you can sell in two different countries, it has to meet both countries safety standards. If a company has no legal presence in a country, there is not much those countries can do to enforce the laws. (This last point is the actual weakness of these privacy laws and will have to be addressed by international treaties. This is an issue with enforcing rules in general (i.e. copyright) and doesn't just apply to privacy laws.)

> because consumers will lie, which gives companies plausible deniability over violations.

How so? At worst all this might mean is that consumers who choose to lie won't be protected. Plenty of other people would be.

A combination of #1 and #3 should work just fine.
Count me as another one who really doesn't understand how others can stand the unfiltered "Modern Web", although I use a combination of JS whitelisting, HOSTS file, and a filtering proxy, so I might be on the extreme end.

I've had to help others, whose computers did not have such blocking software (and they might not want to), and had to physically put my hand over parts of pages "cluttered with moving shit" in order that it would not distract me and allow focusing on the content itself. These people are also the ones who tend to miss details in instructions and seem to blindly ignore things like (actually important) notifications and warning messages, which leads me to wonder if their natural state of mind while reading pages is so distracted that they have trouble focusing.
Flagged, because I think it's irresponsible to include the method in the headline.
So essentially what you're saying is that it's ok to kill million's of people in Iraq and Afghanistan as long as it fit's into a ratio that they're killing enough enemies to make civilians inconsequential? What utter bullshit you spout and a sad world you live occupy in your own head.
It's interesting that Google and Apple seem to be converging on this issue (ad-blocking extensions) even though they're probably coming from two different directions.

Google probably wants to discourage ad-blocking because it's a threat to their business model. Apple just dislikes not having full control on what the users run (and sometimes for good reasons, they probably want to avoid malware extensions). Still, in the end they both end up with subpar ad blocking facilities as a result.

Firefox really needs to become a worthy competitor once again. And no I don't consider forks of Chromium to be reasonable alternatives in the long term, at least until those teams prove that they can maintain a deep fork of the browser on their own which will be necessary if they need to maintain functionality that Google removes from upstream.
I'm just beginning my journey into the vanilla Kubernetes world.

As I build my knowledge I am also building Ansible playbooks and task files. After each iteration I shutdown my cluster. Do an automated rebuild and test. Delete the original cluster and start my next iteration.

I have an admin box with everything I need to persist between builds (Ansible, keys, configuration files, etc) and can deploy whatever size and quantity of workers (VM) needed.

It has been a good process so far. I haven't yet put things in an unrecoverable state, but if that happens I can rebuild the cluster to my most recent save and try again.

I don't see it taking a lot of resources to have a proving ground. I would definitely not feel comfortable going to production without the ability to reproduce the production clusters' exact state.

I anticipate exactly what you describe as a roll back mechanism. At all times I want to be able to automate the deployment of clusters to an exact known state.

I think building a cluster, walking away from it for a year, and then coming back to it for a break fix/update/new deployment is a huge gamble.
Yeah? And why is that? Is it that certain countries' farm workers' lives are worth more than certain others? It sounds to me that the propaganda got you too.
School debt amounts to very little. Most Americans have no student loans. For the people who do, the median debt is $25,000, which is less than the average American new car loan. Even for recent graduates, 1/3 have no student loans and the average loan is $30,000. And the government limits repayment to 10% of disposable income.
The balance for me is Privacy Badger. As well as first party ads, I whitelist DoubleClick and Facebook (but don't allow them to set tracking cookies). I don't mind ads and want a sustainable internet, but on my terms. Performance seems to be much better now.
Funny!

As long as we never have a downvote or dislike button everything will get better.

lol
I do this on ~30 servers with GuixSD, so there is a single file to configure all of them. To update the application I wrote a Guix pkg for it that pulls from our repository (simple to set up with Guix) everything is controlled in emacs by me to change/start/stop all the servers. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17084561 is similar to what I'm doing. Caveat: you have to go on google scholar to read guix and nix papers to understand the system architecture, then their documentation also downtimes aren't an issue for us since these are internal servers, and this is done during non critical time but it's usually just restarting the new app so a few seconds. Other caveats, security fixes we just edit in changes not run guix pull but I also have that automated now after mailing list help. You may have totally different req otherwise look into nix/guix, Guix the pkg manager runs on any distro.
I don’t see any ads with Firefox focus/1 blocker as my content blocker.
> GDPR wants 0 tracking

That's wrong.

You're allowed to track users. You just need a legal basis to do so.
I can get a radio and an alarm clock for something like $10 to $15 total on a local flea market. It's probably not even the cheapest option. Not sure if I could find an MP3 player for $5-10 on that market, but I can find one for below $5 with free shipping on Aliexpress.
I use mobile firefox exclusively because I can run an ad blocker.

Otherwise I'd be stuck in apps that have at least some vested interest in keeping ads reasonable.
Then email servers would have to download billions of images of which 99% the corresponding email won't even be opened
These are called "ligatures".

My long-time favorite font, Iosevka, does 'em too: https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka#ligations

Another coding font thread from 2017 with some other examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15255523
>What matters are the per capita numbers. $1000 per head, lasts an entire hour.

Australian GDP per capita is $53k. So a national battery deployment to supply overnight power is roughly 1/5 the GDP of Australia. But we need more than overnight storage, since we need to account for daily and seasonal variability. Estimates range at around 8-16 weeks of storage. This isn't even remotely in the realm of reality. For comparison, at the peak of World War 2, American defense spending was roughly 1/3 of GDP.

Come on man. This is all unicorns and rainbows.
>Not sure about the legal framework in the US but over here across the pond, it's enough if you remove the data when restoring the backups

Implementation-wise, is the best approach to do this to store some token for "user XX requested YY data be deleted" and check those tokens whenever you restore a backup?

I feel like that'd run befoul of a true solution because, in the event of a leak, it could be used to tie the information in the backup to the user who requested their data be deleted. Or am I misunderstanding such that that'd actually be acceptable under GDPR?

Is there a better way to do it?
Hey, WIP looks cool but the price is a bit steep for something I might not use after the novelty effect wears off in a week (which is the typical problem with todos/productivity apps). I understand it acts as a barrier to the worst timewasters polluting the chat, but maybe there should be some sort of ramp...? Just my £0.02.
Check out PragmataPro. Has everything a man needs.
Based on the language ("the user") and the focus on the GUI, I think this OS is designed more for single-user workstations, rather than multi-user servers. This philosophy of "root by default" is also implemented by Puppy Linux, which was created by the same person.
GPDR missed a massive opportunity to standardize encrypted email. Instead we're now stuck with crappy 3rd party "secure mail" systems.

I have a startup in Denmark, and the incubator we're part of applied for an EU funding scheme. The bureaucracy for these programs is out of control, and there are claims out there that 90% of state innovation funding is blown on administration.

Long story short, I had to fill out some timesheets, and because of GDPR print out the sheets filling in everything except the personally identifying information, and then fill the rest of them out with a PEN.
Not good for a toxic heavy metal.
It was asked in the Github comments on this issue, but I want to clarify for myself: is the main difference between "content blockers" and "ad blocker" that works like uBlock Origin the way that they handle blocking content? What are the downsides to the content blocking plugin model?
I've been using uBlock Origin on Firefox on my Android phone for years.
I think you might have a bit of a bias in this instance though, given your confessed work history.

This is something I wish ISP's took more care of, they could easily protect users by blocking image loading by default and warning users when links in emails are tracked, for example.
Facebook’s endgame: Getting inside your wallet
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Non-transactional nature of ACH are a feature, not a bug. The legit exchanges account for it using in house compliance departments, risk management groups and people intimately familiar with the cash management side of the finance industry.
Wtf is chef...
Extremism Researchers Confront The Unseen Toll Of Their Work
I have used Better (https://better.fyi) on the Mac since the content blocker system was introduced and have never had a problem.
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What is the contract about? Can't seem to find any details regarding this.
Would be really so unthinkable a high army charge going to the area to make in place a public televised apology to those people, asking how can help alleviate this disaster, and returning the families a little dignity at least?

And please journalists, stop referring to the people as "tribal this" or "tribal that". To always focus on that point is unnecessary and disrespective. A father is a father in any part of the world.
Average suicides per thousand workers of a company, maybe.

The US has an average suicide rate of 13 per 100,000 per year, Facebook has 40,000 employees and right now a single suicide. They'd need at least 4 more to meet the average this year.
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I hate this word and I avoid using it whenever possible, but there's work happening on "postvention" - an intervention after a death by suicide to reduce the risk of death and harm in survivors.

Having a loved one who dies by suicide will increase your own risk of death by suicide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postvention
> I apologize for the disruption to your workflow. I will be happy to restore the old repository and gem versions if Chef cancels their contract with the agency.

Great, take something out on me because of your personal politics!

I, for one, look forward to a future of navigating politicized open-source constraints of each creator.

And of course, the creator of Chef-Sugar works for Google.

Edit: Here's a mirror: https://gitlab.openminds.be/mirror/chef-sugar/-/branches

Edit: Appears Chef itself has taken over: https://github.com/chef/chef-sugar
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>and the battery facilities last 30 years

Try 10 to 15 years. And we've never even attempted to hold energy for days or weeks at a time in these large scale deployments.
> If we redefine what 'subsidy' means then the range of appropriate actions changes and we have to talk about what the new actions are. It would be far easier to use the right word, so word and action line up without the need for analogies.

I can't figure out what you are trying to say. Can you give a concrete example? What is the confusion that is added by the term 'implicit subsidies'?
As it mentioned, it will not work in future release of safari and chrome. So only choice will be Firefox on Mac?
Ask HN: Alternatives to uBlock Origin for Safari 13?
I've just updated to Safari 13 and received a dreaded message that uBlock Origin no longer works with Safari. Are there any suitable, Hacker News approved alternatives that live up to the standard that UBO is?
The score as measured at autopsy is in the medical examiner's pdf which is on his wiki page. I have really limited internet access right now otherwise I would get you a link!

I dont want to get the units or numbers wrong, but I remember it being something like 55 mmol when a normal score is 1mmol. It's been almost a year since I read the report in full. The examiner said that his creatinine score is higher than lethal injection recipients, hence the speculation about foul play.

Very interesting story you relayed~~ the kidneys are an incredibly sensitive organ compared to the stomach or lungs, it seems!
They store that information on a cookie! Some websites try to break their own permission manager on purpose (or at least I can only imagine it's on purpose) by burying the cookie that stores the permission manager's settings within the list of cookies you have to accept or reject, so if you "reject all" you will be asked again and again. Non malicious implementations either include the permission manager among the essential cookies or list it at the very top so you can choose to keep it.

If the permissions were managed by the browser then cookies could be managed directly on the client side without server side interference, and preferences could be communicated to the website via headers (like DNT but GDPR requires a lot more granularity, and is also legally enforceable in the EU).
Angst and the Empty Set (2014)
She Won Athletes' Hearts. and Robbed Them Blind
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So, digital unregulated and decentralized payment solutions, like Bitcoin, are the solution? What about those people who can't make their own financial plans, because they are just too stupid for that? They need government to help them. And those people are in majority.
In my limited understanding content blockers seem more sane as they doesn’t give the extension cart blanche to read your pages and write to the DOM. Instead it passes links to content the browser wants to load into the content blocker as a filter function.

The seems very sensible given extension owners could start injecting malicious content on the page. Nothing prevents them from selling out — it’s happened before.

I use uBlock origin and love it in Chrome but I can also see where Apple is coming from here. This will probably protect the greatest number of their users.
Which companies are using Elixir, and why?
> Because college is where women are driven out of computer science, by behavior from professors and peers.

A lot of people take that for granted based on anecdotes, but actual data is elusive.

Some things we should expect to see if this theory is correct:

* CS student gender ratios close to 50:50 at admission

* A relatively large change in CS student gender ratios between admission and graduation, compared to other majors

* A relatively high rate of "misbehavior" (e.g. sexual harassment) in CS programs and/or the tech industry, compared to other fields

From what I can tell, though, we don't observe any of those.

> If you want to talk about fields where men are driven out (and they do exist: primary school teaching and nursing come to mind)

The same questions could be raised about those: why are we so sure they're being "driven out" at the college level?

Here's a paper investigating the causes of gender imbalance among primary school teachers: https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_file?accession=ysu1515846...

The men interviewed for the paper disagreed that discrimination, social barriers, stereotypes, or other forms of injustice play a role. ("I don’t feel that there is any injustice… men who want to teach, are able to. It’s not like we’re being held down.")

It also points out that a greater number of men than women choose to go into primary education during college, which is the opposite of what we'd expect if they were being driven out by professors and peers.
Why can't they do any of those other things? Instead they pick my pocket using inflation. Fuckers.

My MM Fund was paying 2.4% for most of this year. Two rate cuts later it is 2.0% and falling. Is .4% really that big of a deal? Do they need ALL of my money? Look at the value of the dollar from 1913 (when the Fed came into being) to today and you see that it is worth a mere $.05 of what it was back then. We are being fucked over.

Also, I would like to buy another house and sell the one I own and generally do things that would increase money velocity, but I can't do any of that because I'm too fearful that I'm going to lose my job and that my savings will again be cut in half in some asinine banking fiasco like we had in 2008. It is sick what we do in this country and it makes me physically ill to even play a part in it. So when I say I pray for a "revolution" each day, I mean it. It doesn't have to be the violent kind, it just has to be the "come to Jesus" kind for the jack offs doing this fuckery.
Turns out we've already partially migrated to using webpack.

More background: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/146/migrat...
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> Sorry, but this is completely factually incorrect. France pays 1100 Euro per year per capita for healthcare.

Please try to understand the specific statistic I am citing. I’m talking about non-premium out of pocket costs: https://www.oecd.org/health/health-systems/OECD-Focus-on-Out... (chart on page 1).

The reason I quote that figure is because there is a myth that even though Americans mostly have private health insurance paid by their employer, they somehow still spend all this money on deductibles and co-pays.

The other figure I’m citing (the 5%) are not what Americans pay in total, but what Americans have to pay out of their salaries. The reason I cite that is most Americans have employed-paid insurance, which is not counted in their income. So if you just take income and subtract the total cost of healthcare per person, you get an incorrect number, because people don’t pay most of that cost out of their income. You have to look at what people pay out of pocket on premiums and copays.
Ask HN: Hesitant to use Google for signup, am I being paranoid?
I recently wanted to sign up for a proxy service (luminati), and they offer an easy one-click signup with a Google account. But I found myself suddenly worrying about something that never even occurred to me before - Google banning my account. There has been quite a few horror stories about accounts being banned for seemingly trivial reasons, and without any recourse. And proxy services has a bad reputation I think.
It feels crazy to me that I even have to think about this, maybe I'm being overly paranoid?
I mean for example this:

https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=googl...

Google only packages chrome as .deb and .rpm, but you can still get it on other distros anyways.
I’ve had several groupings of unsolicited marketing emails over the years where I’ve clicked Unsubscribe and ended up on what’s very clearly a Totally Not That Email List, Honest...but it’s advertising the same things, in the same way, just from a slightly different email and possibly different company name. They have all been American in origin.
Related: Pakistan body count[0]. "Whether it is a suicide bombing or an attack by a flying drone, for me it's the same: a Pakistani got killed."

I posted this site a few years ago, but it didn't get attention, but I'm glad to see the community is finally outraged over drone strikes.

[0]: http://pakistanbodycount.org/
I don't know the answers to your questions, but they are good questions. Not inconsistent with the image of a feedback process I presented. As a supporting evidence, I can say that every single case of terrorism or genocide I recall from both news and history lessons always has the perpetrators retaliating for some perceived or real injustice that happened to them, or their forefathers, in the past. Circle of violence isn't a new concept.