skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not good!

I thought Apple were way out in front when it came to tracking and whatnot...

My wife uses a MAC at home and was complaining about how slow our internet was (70Mb down... not slow) a while back.

She mainly looks at news sites and when I saw what she was looking at I knew the problem wasn't the internet connection.

The entire page, apart from a tiny bit in the middle, was cluttered with moving shit!

I installed uBlock Origin and... the result was fantastic: pages loaded in a fraction of the time.

When she realised that the articles were a tiny proportion of the downloaded crap she realised she'd been missing out for so long.

Once, when the MAC went back for repair, it was replaced with a new one and OMG the horror when she fired up Safari and it had no blocker... UBlock Origin to the rescue.

I agree with one of the other comments on here: The web is utterly unusable without it.
"Kubernetes, The Great Abomination in the Network, The Soul-Eating Son of Borg, was first described as a demanding and destructive cosmic entity in the forbidden book of Google, guarded in the temple of Mountain View by the practitioners of the heinous cult of Silicon Valley"
Or I guess the mail server could just always precache all images at the time of receipt. Then nothing new happens when the mail is read. I think somebody here is describing GMail's approach that way.
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> Unlike Apple where you're stuck with an expensive metal wedge, a keyboard you may not (or may!) like, that at least for me gets miserably slow after 3 years

That's strange. My iMac has been on its original installation of MacOS since 2012 and feels just as performant as on day 1 despite all other computers being faster.
> the current free internet cannot be sustained as it is today

Which would be a good thing.
I use 1Blocker, I don't see any ads, and I appreciate the improvement in battery life compared to Chrome. Maybe uBO is better by some metric, but for me 1Blocker is certainly good enough.
He worked for facebook, must ve been a bad person
You can't tell if an image is a 1x1 pixel until you load it from the server. At that point, the pixel has already done its job.

Most email clients these days don't block images by default unless it ends up in the spam mailbox.

They never embed images directly into emails either.
Seems like a banal humble brag about her kid. The author makes it pretty clear she is really into social media and projecting an image of her best self. She goes to quite an effort to make it clear her son is rejecting shallow values. Likely embellished.

I didn’t want a phone as a kid. That doesn’t mean I didn’t spend tons of time on the computer instead.

A kid not liking pop music or social media is probably extremely common. Heck a lot of 11 year olds aren’t emotionally developed in such a way that they really care about any music at all.
There's nothing problematic about accepting the null hypothesis, it's just that instead of controlling for Type I error, you need to control for Type II error, i.e. ensure sufficient power.
I struggle with this typically, but now have a loved one with a very serious medical condition that I need to help out regularly and everything has basically gone to hell at work. I've lost all semblance of strategic thinking and what I used to encourage as open feedback from my team now rings like overly entitled whining. It's a mess.
French Court Says Valve Must Allow Steam Users to Resell Games
Another possible outcome is that sites that rely on ads and tracking disappear and then the internet carries on... kind of like it used to be.

The internet will be fine without ads and tracking.

Sites are free to block me if they want... plenty of other sites I can go to.
> Nach VW hat Daimler jetzt angekündigt, vorerst aus der Entwicklung von Verbrennungsmotoren auszusteigen.

"Daimler has now announced that for now they're pulling out of the development of ICEs."

> dass der Hauptfokus inzwischen auf der Elektrifizierung, elektrischen Antrieben und der Batterieentwicklung liegt

"the main focus is now on electrification, electrical power and battery development"

> Dabei geht es auch um die Verschiebung von Kapazitäten von der Verbrennungsmotoren- und Getriebe-Entwicklung in die neuen Entwicklungsbereiche

"It's also about moving capacity of ICE/transmission development into new research/development areas"

> Schäfer macht darauf aufmerksam, dass es momentan keine Pläne für eine Neuentwicklung gäbe.

"Schaefer calls to attention that there are currently no plans for new development [of ICEs]"

Seems to me like you're misrepresenting the situation. They're shifting most of their R&D, and the amount of total funding they have into R&D is not insignificant, into electrics. Maybe they'll need to work on ICE's in the future, but I just don't see that happening once this shift is completed.
is there a better technique? please share.

Get hired by someone who has the authority to instruct building services to cooperate.

If the person hiring you doesn't have the authority to do that, they certainly don't have the authority to get your guys out of jail.
How does that work anyway? If you decline to allow the site to store a cookie on your machine, how does the site know that you already rejected the popup to avoid showing it to you on your next action?
Everything is mobile first these days

We had to write a line of business app used by office staff opening mail to feed high speed scanners to support mobile first with a responsive design.
Average of what?
The point that's missing from this discussion is that beavers have been building dams for an eternity because it's part of their natural behaviour. The ecosystem has had ample time to adapt to it. An ecosystem is a delicate balance between systems that results from these systems co-evolving in the same environment for millions of years. The systems (plants animals seasonal change, climate) are all highly fine tuned to each other. Yes, this balance is sometimes abruptly disturbed under "natural" circumstances, but this is rare. What humans are doing in the last couple hundreds of years involves much more sudden changes to which eco systems have no time to adapt. It's the suddenness of the changes what's unnatural about it. Whether you call it natural or not is besides the point though. The point is that human dam building is a phenomenon very different from beaver dam building because, besides scale and impact, it did not gradually co-evolve with an eco system, but is an abrupt and disruptive change.
> The Chinese government loves offering students here in Australia free brainwashing trips

I'm curious about this. Can you elaborate a little? How does this work?
Do you need to know that they were 34 unique visitors or would properly anonymised data be enough?

I suspect it would be. The GDPR doesn't say you can't have analytics, but it quite rightly tries to prevent the kind of tracking you're talking about without explicit consent from the user being tracked.
Well i have no complains about Safari but their Extension system is really costing them users. At this point I uBlock Origin is by far the most reliable AdBlocker you can find and my having the developers explaining that in the future maybe only Firefox will support it it's kinda of sad.

Of course we know that Google has to make money from Ads so its understandable but what about Apple ? They are putting heavy focus in privacy, would it be good if they open their browser to make sure their users will not move to Chrome/Firefox or other browser ?
I'm okay with ads in newspapers because they are static and I can gloss over them. Ads on websites on the other hand often make the site much much slower to load and are animated. Few months ago I browsed the web without an adblocker. I visited a website that had a large ad on the right side that switched between high-contrast colors at irregular intervals so that it annoyed me even at peripheral vision. The goal is probably to draw attention to the ad which in fact worked. But I couldn't focus on the text. This made me enable the ad blocker again. If ads are static webp images or non-animated svg and without third-party tracking, I have no problem. But for me as a visitor, the current state is horrible.
My remarks were made in context where it is being claimed that “a new mystery ingredient” is cause for concern. I stated what ingredients are used as a point about how unlikely it would be for something out-of-the-blue to permeate the market.
In principle, using resolution-independent units like points should be fine; it's using px instead of pt that leads to problems.

(And the site is using px; it shouldn't.)
I think those will only work well in a very urban environment. The amazon warehouse is about 23 miles from my house. 50-60km range or even 100km will not work from home deliveries. 100km seems a little short even for USPS.
> - Windows really need a package manager. And not, Chocolatey is not enough.

A package manager isn't really necessary on Windows, since Windows doesn't have a web of interdependent packages to manage.
Wait for a small number of companies practicing the “by using this service you agree to” thing to be fined a large part of their turnover. After that companies will adapt.

Now we are in a sort of transition phase where laws are written but companies interpret them themselves (badly) and there are few guiding cases.

I look forward to the next phase when the notices will be gone or say “did you know you can enable tracking so we show more relevant ads that we get more money for showing?”. I’ll say no regardless of how much I enjoy that content.
Minimum unit pricing may have helped reduce alcohol-related deaths in Glasgow
Afghanistan didn't do that, taliban did.
The article title, "Dear Email Industry, We’ve Got a GDPR Problem", implies that.

Either you do think email marketing comprises the entire industry, or the article title (and HN submission) are (or give the impression of) clickbait.

At least it doesn't seem you are doing any direct tracking on the post though ...

(I used to work for an ISP with a pretty large email service, so it touches nerves that were exposed when our enemies, those companies who try and find ways to irritate our customers, think they are the only important parts of the actual email industry)
Doesn't gzip already do a good enough job at minimizing the number of bytes used by repeated strings such as variable names? I don't think the ultimate byte count is much smaller (post-gzip) if you change all the variable names to minimal length random strings.
This seems silly. The state clearly authorized the operation. The contractor acted in good faith. Yes some mistakes may have been made on both sides but it serves no one to prosecute these guys and label them burglars.
Oh, right ... America bashing is popular therefore it is righteous.

It’s so fashionable to hate America, that must make it true.

Why do you work for an American company then?

Hypocrisy. Absolute disgusting hypocrisy every time.

The role of America’s military in maintain a relatively peaceful world is unpopular, but has prevented a Third World War thus far.

Every decade there is less war and violent death than the one before, because of the use of United States military power. It’s true, and it’s so effective some people naively think it can be somehow done away with.

These people don’t live in the real world.
It's also possible that if you have a lot of models that all score very close to each other that they just ALL work.
Ok do we really need to post every single NYT article on HN? Right now, there are 3 or more nytimes.com articles under news.
Your point is not valid because the headline is not "someone committed suicide", the headline names Facebook. The connotation is not that there are general mental health lessons, but rather implies there is something facebook specific. GP is pointing out that is likely false based on the stats quoted. This is not a treatise about depression, its clickbait against a popular-to-hate corporation.
yes your correct
My mother switched from playing freecell to completing chess puzzles online. I'm really curious how this has impacted her ability to play chess
Perhaps it was someone well known? Why else would they be getting out ahead of the story?

The first thing that crossed my mind tho was that a Trump-hater was so despondent that Zuck met Trump. The next thing was foul play, a whistleblower.
Stuart Levy, microbiologist who sounded antibiotic resistance alarm, dies at 80
I can absolutely relate, but sadly have no advice, only sympathy to offer.
Using anonymity as an argument for the ad-based model is fairly ironic given that a vast majority of the tracking taking place today is specifically to spam with with "targeted" ads.

Beyond that I have no issue with websites having to move away from ads and towards a paid model instead. I actually welcome it. I want to be the client, not the product. I want more websites to offer me the possibility to pay for an ad-less experience.
Just for context: do you have any alternatives?
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Make Your Linux VPS Hacker Proof by Using These 7 Effective Ways – Hostnoc
Haha... So the host is designed for the guest? No, even worse: the host is designed for the container!
As my instructor in the TA here in the UK said, when a recruit asked if the 5.56 was weaker than the 7.62:

"Maybe so son, but if you catch one in the arse it won't half make you're eyes water".
If I'm misreading your comment and it's not actually a sarcastic summary of the article, I'm sorry.

To me, this article doesn't sound like a rant by someone who profoundly hates process. Ignoring all their complaints about Jira & Confluence's notoriously clunky UIs, the person isn't complaining about process itself. They're complaining that the process the tools encourage is substantially worse than the process they had with other less-rigid tools.
Are you implying that rent control will eliminate competing landlords and therefore increase the profit of your existing investments?
> GDPR wants 0 tracking. That's wrong too, the internet can't work that way, even governments can't work that way.

How did it work like that all the time? It can work perfectly without all the tracking. Tracking is just so omni-present that some people can not imagine a world without it.

> EU wants advertising to go back to the popup / animated gifs & flash / interstitial era to maximize clickthroughs in the off-chance one of them is actually interested in your ads. That's regression

Actually that would be a great regression! I'd soooo love to have static images delivered to me again, instead of some JS bullshit which is tracking me all over the web.

Let's just kill all the ad networks over night. It will be a great time and we have a second chance to make the internet a great place.
That fact that you distinguish between morally worse and "practically worse" make me thing you are already under the influence of the propaganda.

But it does not mean you are right: Afganistan cannot attack the US over 30 dead civillians, the US can attack Iran for some Saudi property destruction by Yemenis who are being raped by Saudi using US weaponery on them.
Did you take a look at your Spam folder? On my primary address (one I used for almost two decades), 90% of my spam is unsolicited marketing communication. Quickly skimming it, roughly half of that 90% is from parties I may have interacted with in the past, the other half is from apparently legit companies that I haven't interacted with, that pulled my address from somewhere (possibly because I used it to register my business).

Outside of spam, I spent some time and unsubscribed from most of the pseudo-solicited communications I got (i.e. the kind of pre-GDPR bullshit where I register for some service and this automatically counts as consent to receive marketing communication). About solicited marketing messages I don't whine much (except that they exist), that's on me.

(I actually used this occasion to softly threaten one of the marketers from the top of my box with legal action, because they are clearly breaking Polish law - they tried the "this message is only request for consent to sent the actual message" trick, but executed it badly.)
Do you think it might have something to do with one attack reducing the nut harvesting capacity of that town by 50%, versus the other reducing the oil output of Saudi Arabia by 50%?

Or maybe because one was a tactical op gone horribly wrong based on bad intel from the ground, and the other was a well planned and highly coordinated strategic op designed to destabilize international markets?
Unfortunately, neither do many Americans who have been affected by terrorism as well (majority most likely). I'm not saying that's how I feel, but I don't think it's going out on a limb to say that it's probably true.
Why don't we use weights to store energy?
Eagle Eye indeed. Sorry for spoilers, the AI revelation was in the middle of the movie.

I found the movie fun, I think I watched it three times over the last couple years.
At least Thunderbird and Outlook on Mac block images by default and you can whitelist people from your address book.
They had me after 90s web design
Setting aside the fact that counting tragedies is kinda in bad taste, I think it's relevant to point at a past exemple:

"French" company Orange, who has around 100K employees, got into national trouble for a "wave" of suicide that counted in the thenths. [1]

The company's french boss got terrible press by calling the series of event a "mode des suicide" (roughly translatable as "suicide fad" or "suicide fashion").

The events highlighted "structural" managerial problems at the company.

FB has around ~20k employees, so that might affect the "newsworthyness ratio".

It is obviously too early to know if the situation at Facebook is comparable to Orange.

I would not be surprised at all, if the narative of "Facebook badly treats is employed" gets popular. FB already has a rather bad rep.

Facebook top management had better handle this thoughfully - if only, by pure human decency.

[1]: https://theguardian.com/business/2014/mar/19/orange-france-i...
Alexander and his successors tried to hold Afghanistan but they failed after three centuries.

The Mongols tried and failed.

The Arabs tried and failed.

The Mughals tried and failed.

The British tried and failed.

The Soviets tried and failed.

NATO tried and......

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasions_of_Afghanistan
If there is a statistic you want to correct please suggest one. That said, the blatant misrepresentation of the US system as one where everyone is going bankrupt despite having health insurance makes me pretty grumpy too.
Yeah. If it didn't have a half life of a billion years it wouldn't still be around for us to mine, and all things being equal radioactivity is inversely proportional to half life.
The partner list is not there for informing users, it is there for accountability in case the decide to silently add new partners.
> but the problem is if everyone starts blocking ads then the current free internet cannot be sustained as it is today

No, it's a myth, the web doesn't work like that. There are many millions of websites, but only some thousands can actually make enough on ads to sustain themselves. And most of them can survive if everyone starts blocking ads. It's online advertising companies and adtech industry that are going to fold if everyone starts blocking ads, not anyone else.
This is going to be state specific. Generally courthouses are built by county boards, paid for with county bonds, and under the control and management of the local county sherriff. Counties are creatures of the state, but that doesnt mean any random state employee with a similar sounding adjective in their title have any authority over a county institution; it will all depend on the authority granted by legislation and constitutions.
I’ve been using the MacOS Beta for a while and lack of uBlock Origin has made browsing terrible again. Ads everywhere now and I had forgotten how bad it was.

Firefox has gotten pretty good now, the only problem is no integration with Keychain which is a serious downside. On iOS I use Safari but with BlockBear and Firefox Focus as content blockers. So my experience there is pretty good. iCloud Keychain makes my password situation a lot better going between iOS and MacOS... I’m not sure I can achieve the same using Firefox right now.
Maybe it's not assuming anything about your preferences. Maybe it's catering to one of my preferred aesthetics, which happens to be 'feeble' feminity (as you put it).

Yes, it's a stereotype, but not an arbitrary one - and no less absurd than a bearded man blowing a kiss.

Or maybe it's just a silly logo that's not worth deconstructing.
Can we stop the blaming here? Every suicide is one suicide too much. I know what this does to relatives and friends; my father committed suicide when I was 12. I'm 33 now and it still affects my life.

If you know someone who appears to be depressive or even suicidal, try to be kind and supportive. It helps a lot.
this is the point where this page went from "Ok, this guy is comfortable taking risks" to "Ok, I'm out" for me.
Apple is trying to thread the needle. They want to allow content blocking, but they do not want to allow content blocking plugins to see and potentially report on what sites you visit.

Personally, I’m totally cool with the trade-off of having less capable ad blocking functionality, if I can be sure my web plugins aren’t a security or privacy risk.
So you're only allowed to sell stuff nationwide if you're big enough? Oh wait, there's EBay... I am sure solutions for this will spring up if need be. There's money involved, after all.

Edit to add: These solutions will not be as convenient as the current state of affairs, I contest that.
Their normal paragraph is 24px. Which is huge compared to the average content you find on web. The title is 48px. I find it more legible than the average web content, yet it's a little jarring. Some 22px/40px worked very well for me. Still a good example of minimal design.
> At least this person didn't hurt anyone else

Except

- the ones passing by while or shortly after it happened

- the people looking out of the window and seeing them fall

- paramedics and other rescue staff having to look at them from close up

- the people who have to clean up afterwards

- the ones who have to pass by that spot in future

- ....

And then: Not to forget colleagues, friends and family who lost somebody. Probably now with a feeling of "why didn't I help?"

Sad when people see no other way out than suicide.
You can not compare the global average because different countries have very different methods to define and count death by suicide.

For example, we're all calling this particular death a suicide but there's a chance that the San Mateo coroner / medical examiner rules this as something else.
wow, thanks! I'll try playing around with these images. The cc variant looks perfect for what I need.
The people doing jobs more distant from “tech” don't technically work for Facebook or in their offices. At least moderators don't.
I also said ‘affordable’.
It does, that's why I said "half of" not "everything". The Western culture is built as much on Roman and Greek legacy as it is on Christianity in Europe. So e.g. while a lot of classical literature is Greek/Roman, classical art and music is mostly from Christianity (and usually religious or semi-religious in nature).
Yeah, nobody is using the web on their mobile devices where these blockers have never been available.
I made a habit of daily contributing to OpenStreetMap [1]. If you're based outside Europe you'll have plenty things to map (like shops, other POIs, buildings, cycling infrastructure and so on...).
There's a webpage which shows, among other stats, a GitHub-like activity tiles graph. [2]

[1] http://osm.org
[2] http://hdyc.neis-one.org