skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Now, what additional personal data are collected by tracking pixels?

In theory, an IP can be captured, which is considered PII, but most mailbox providers use proxies so this isn't reliable.
Sands of Time: provides time travel for different processes
Windows 10 got a LOT better usability wise, and I still think about moving from macOS and Ubuntu to it from time to time, but it is a privacy nightmare, so my Hackintosh will continue to do just fine.
I saw the definitions page but my point is about the tally number which seems to be conflating everything together[1] (adding dead terrorists into the tally), which I think is disingenuous.

Compared to, for example, https://www.iraqbodycount.org, which only counts civilian deaths (which I assume based on the name is the inspiration for this page).

[1]: http://pakistanbodycount.org/drone_attack.php
I went through the process of tearing away from Chrome. I only aspect that was holding me back was my stored passwords in Chrome and shared seamlessly with Android password manager.

Exported the passwords and imported it into Enpass. That was the first step in liberation.

I then decided to keep my personal and work related browsing separate especially since both require a google account (Gsuite at work). I wanted an ability to open the browser of my choice based on the URL I click and work anywhere on MacOS.

I implemented a simple URL handler that I register as default browser and that opens the clicked URL in appropriate browser:

https://github.com/hackworks/chromer

It is not a very polished implementation but has been working reliably so far.

With that, I am now able to switch between any browser without any lock in.
That's such a bs article: The World Bank’s “preferred” indicator of material well-being is "consumption" of goods and services. This is due to “practical reasons of reliability and because consumption is thought to better capture long-run welfare levels than current income.”

So all it says it that the poor from US consume more than middle class in Europe. Of course, being to the US and seeing how they replace things disregarding the environment I'm not surprised by that conclusion.

I'm earning six figures in London and I'm consuming a lot less than the poorest in US and try to reduce it as a maximum so my carbon footprint is small.

When I went to France I saw so many people bringing their own containers to the supermarket which was great because it reduces consumption.
Could you point me towards some resources to get started with this stack? I'm in the process of going full functional.
There are more and more methods of getting funding for contributing to open source, for example https://opencollective.com/
Millennial is anyone 35 or younger.
>By the time a soldier is killing the enemy they are also going to be receiving fire.

I think this is what concerns people so much about the drone strikes. Clearly drone strikes are one sided fire fights. And even by the government's own statistics their signal to noise kill ratio is abysmal. This is categorically different than a soldier on the ground returning fire even if we might disagree with the soldier having been sent there in the first place.
The latest military 5.56 rounds are actually steel, and designed for penetration, not fragmentation.
The US army is now using M855A1(Steel core, and steel penetrating tip), which replaces the M855(jacketed steel core) What you are thinking of is the 1899 Hague Convention, not the Geneva convention. Also, the USA was not a signing country.
https://www.army.mil/article/41283/army_begins_shipping_impr...
Dev environment for WordPress is really hard to achieve. Or more precisely, testing changes on one deployment and then pushing them to another instance without wiping all the other state.
Content Detection Software Installed on Most Smart TVs
Why failing early is a success (and how we experienced it first hand)
No because Safari is my “web browser”. It’s the one I use for HN/Reddit etc. Anything I’d consider “private” like email or banking or even GitHub is done with FireFox or Chrome.

Also I didn’t see anything flagrantly bad at first glance.

Edit: Looking closer you may be referring to the old extension and not the new “content blocker” version, which is sandboxed by Safari and didn’t need to ask for any permissions.
I've been following the below steps for about an year now:

1. Go through my agenda for the next day every evening and commit to no more than 3 categories of tasks multiple, unplanned context switches don't work for me)

2. Try to religiously track my time. Easy to do for planned items but still struggling with tracking unproductive time. But within a couple of weeks, you start to see patterns even with such vague notes as (1230-1430: YouTube, etc)

3. Review your weekly / fortnightly patterns every Saturday. Takes no more than 30 mins a week to reflect on the well gone by and come up with one change to try the next week.

Orgmode has been a huge help with tracking the time and it ties in my workflow. And of course, the overall process itself keeps evolving, as it should.
A more apt question: why does the parent think the reporters claim to have better intel than the military?

It is baffling how poorly many people here read.
I wonder how long it'll be before we see AI photos being used in fake social media accounts.

The use of these specific ones would be easily detected, since the dataset is available to everyone and companies can cross-reference. However, if the program becomes commercially available, unique fakes can easily be created.
What people used in the past before Ansible was a thing.
But for me that beats the purpose. You still end up with the complexity. Only now you have to add and manage it yourself in some other way, probably being worse off then when you would have started with all that complexity but integrated in one standardised package (distro).

Imho, the issue is not that the solutions are complex but the problems we (assume we) need to solve are. Just making simple solutions that ignore the bigger problems underneath do not really help in the end.
From West Africa to Barbados: Rare Pipe from a Plantation Slave Cemetery (2007) [pdf]
Just a note... Trainspotting was set mostly in Edinburgh, not Glasgow. Glasgow is worse off - it's a larger city that historically had a larger reliance on industry.

Rough stats... Glawgow's life expectancy is one of the lowest in the UK and lower than Edinburgh by 2+ years for both men and women. Its employment rate is nearly 10% lower than Edinburgh.

For Americans: comparing Glasgow to Edinburgh is a bit like Baltimore vs Washington DC. Not a perfect comparison, but close enough to get the general idea.
I'm talking about aggregate figures for last year. Even looking at the figures on the website you linked, which provides production figures just over the last hour, it shows 21% solar, 20% nuclear and 7% wind.

The current plan is to maintain about 30% of the grid as gas, to provide backup, and then to deal with the carbon emissions using carbon capture and storage. The target is for a net zero electricity grid by 2030.
We’re both on the same side and I don’t want to seem like arguing within the team. But those two sentences seem to be contradictory?
>And before somebody tries to tell me that the far-left is as bad, I really don't think it is, or at least not nearly at the same scale.

It isn't politically correct on HN to imply that there is any difference between the extremism of left-wing versus right-wing politics, unless it's to argue that the left is even worse.
If Chrome/ium forks decide to maintain the needed APIs they will still support it. There's also Brave. In the meantime I'm with the new Edge (forked from Chromium) in hopes MS won't be stupid.
I once presented with softwaredoug before a room of 400 people on a project that we didn't quite get finished! Yes... massive amounts of stress as we approached the deadline and realized that we were not going to hit it. Nevertheless, b/c of the stress we pushed harder than we normally would have, we learned a lot more than we otherwise would have, and _despite_ not finishing, the talk was one of the better received of my career. (We turned it into a lessons learned talk. We had plenty of great questions.)

How did we deal with the stress? I think we just sat with it. It was always there. Over time you recognize it for what it is, an illusion. That doesn't make it feel much better, but it gives you a bit more control and equanimity. And being able to push through hard situations despite the illusory feelings of dread opens the doors for doing some really interesting things.
When will this ML-fueled fantasy end? You can’t use machine learning for most of these tasks. Not now, maybe not ever. And the fact is: real people are being paid shit wages to watch ISIS beheading videos right now. Today. As we sit and sip our coffee. So what can we do /right now/ to help solve this problem?
I read it as " U.K. offshore wind prank may generate power cheaper than by burning coal" which is a much more fun story.
What do you mean it's not known to be possible in this case?
Maybe it's because the rest of the world can though. If you look at the debt to GDP ratio of Germany, Russia, China, it is much lower than the United States. Recently it was reported by AB Bernstein that the Debt-To-GDP ratio in the United States -- the real Debt-To-GDP Ratio -- is 1,832%!!
https://interactiveswingtrading.com/2019/09/09/ab-bernstein-...
So anything they fight for must be bad no matter what it is? Even if they’re hunting down ISIS and al Qaeda members just like we are?
I think there's a reasonable chance Snowden would have been pardoned. Also consider Daniel Ellsberg who leaked the Pentagon Papers. Ellsberg made himself available for prosecution, saying:

> I felt that as an American citizen, as a responsible citizen, I could no longer cooperate in concealing this information from the American public. I did this clearly at my own jeopardy and I am prepared to answer to all the consequences of this decision

That's powerful stuff. Ellsberg was indicted but the judge declared a mistrial (due to prosecutorial misconduct). I think it's quite possible something similar would have happened with Snowden.

> Also consider that he's been able to advocate for privacy for years now, something he couldn't (easily) do from a cell.

I don't think Snowden has been an especially effective advocate for privacy among Americans, who remain skeptical of him. He's far more popular among Europeans. Anyway, my argument is that he would have been more effective had he not fled.

Snowden today also faces the paradox of public virtuousness, wherin goodness exposed in public is necessarily corrupted because it become self-serving. Allowing himself to be jailed would have mitigated that.
The Return of Nature
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Bash is a typical Unix tool, and Unix follows the KISS principle. Hence, also Bash scripts should be KISS.

If you need >100 lines of code your code is too complex in the script world, and you should split it into several scripts where each does one thing, and that one thing well. Usually, bash scripts are applied with pipes. A sequence like cat x | tr a b | sort >output is much more likely and easy to handle then a single script which does all these things.

KISS with Bash is a very different approach compared to other scripting languages like Python and Perl. There you can write long code easily and conveniently. However, things can get tough when larger scripts need to be maintained.

I consider the examples in the "Bash Bible" a collection of useful black boxes. It's fine if they just work. Regarding the "unreadable" trim_string for instance, if you have problems to understand that code, and you have to change something then you can simply write your own new trim_string script, even in Python or Perl if you like. Pipes work also well with them.

Update: Another advantage of bash and pipes over Python/Perl is that the Unix system can assign each script in a pipe to a separate thread. That means, simple bash scripts with pipes can work _much_ faster than single scripts in Python or Perl.
Signal is e2ee so Google Cloud Messaging should only get the alert itself, then the encrypted message is downloaded from the server and decoded on device.
There’s a couple threads here, so I’ll attempt to delineate my responses:

Regarding the football comparison: there isn’t generally speaking a right to play football, and I’d prefer if sports bodies were committed to ensuring the health of players of their sport, but no, I don’t think that sports bodies should be relied upon to enforce some arbitrary standard for safety in their sport, with the threat of banning football. The football example is interesting because smashing somebody in the head as part of a football game isn’t “really assault”. If you and I agree to play football, and during the course of the game we collide and I get injured, you didn’t assault me. The problem with sports bodies is that they have several incentives that don’t align with overall player long-term health, and the players typically (especially historically) don’t have a strong enough negotiating position to push for systematic change. So to your question: no, I don’t think we should expect sports industries to carry the weight of making their sports “safe”, I think society should agree on laws that restrict sports bodies behavior so that they’re forced to operate in ways that are safe. We don’t ask construction sites to please make worker conditions safe, we set up OSHA and equivalent orgs, with regulations to mandate safety.

Regarding the job that football associations have, that’s more important than long-term health, “profit” is the answer. The football organization isn’t a benevolent charity, they exist so as to ensure their own continued existence. They also don’t represent the players, nor the fans.

Switching gears to the NRA: the NRA has a similar job. They exist in order to perpetuate their lobbying influence and perpetuate their funding. They are not an accurate picture of the average American gun owner. They push for or against policies on the basis of continuing that power, more so than any intrinsic goal of “avoiding legal restrictions on their members”, except insofar as their members are “NRA large-scale donors”, which effectively amounts to “gun manufacturers”.

Regarding it being “their problem to solve”, you still haven’t addressed my critique of that premise. Gun ownership in America is a right, written into the foundation of US government. There’s a whole body of debate as to whether or not it should be a right, whether it should be written differently, etc, but at present, gun ownership in the US is written into the constitution at a similar level to freedom of speech or protest. We don’t tell free speech advocates to find ways to limit hate speech or we ban all free speech, why would we approach this any differently?
That's fair. I'm guessing those groups can all manage to communicate with you without spying on you.
That still would require massive human resources to categorize the training data, and then more human resources to continually quirk the algorithm on identifying traumatic media. I don't personally see a way to avoid using humans here, so it's important that we identify and deal with the damage done to people in an empathetic and humane manner.
>Why is this something we should encourage/subsidize?

Because you don't want the social fabric of a city rooted up because no one can live there. Where are your teachers going to live? Or the person flipping your burger?
The Power of Critique
I've met the founders of one of the startups mentioned in the article.

They're not from SV (or from the U.S.), and they'd hardly count as "tech workers".

They're self-taught programmers who built their app in an effort to address their own anxiety, as well as a digestive illness that afflicts at least one of them, and for which university research has found hypnotherapy can be somewhat helpful (I have my own experience with these kinds of illnesses and therapies, which is why I took an interest).

You can sneer all you like, but these guys are nothing like the "SV tech bro" stereotype you're invoking, and they're earnestly working on a profoundly important problem: huge and growing numbers of people in the world experiencing mental health challenges and many (or likely, most) of them don't have the proximity or financial means to access in-person professional therapy or mindfulness coaching.
“May have”
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For some titles there is no option to get a "resale allowed version". E.g. I bought a retail version of Borderlands 2 several years ago on DVD (long time post release, was like 20 Euro in a local games store). Well, turned out that DVD basically was a Steam Installer plus key (of course, that's a decision made by the publisher).

Also, "so I can get the game cheaper" - do you? When I buy a newly released game on Steam it's usually in the 50 to 60 Euro range. Most games I buy are a lot cheaper, but they're usually a few years old by the time I pull the trigger.

Still, I also have mixed feelings. If games get a resale value, it will be more difficult to earn money making games. Especially those with great, but short content.
install macOS on thinkpad ;)
My understanding is that it is "good accuracy" for purposes such as curiousity about what a Denisovan might have looked like. There was discussion of trying to use it for police purposes (if you have DNA of the perpetrator can you create a sketch of their appearance), and the general consensus was that it was not accurate enough for high-stakes purposes like that. But presumably, someday it may be.
Compared to China, there really isn't. Literally everything in the stores in Chinese markets is counterfeit. I've been there. Fake gucci, fake airpods, fake drones, fake action figures, etc. I doubt you'll find any of this as wide spread, even in major cities, in the US.

And most of counterfeit items online are obviously from China or from Chinese sites. They aren't from the US.

And considering nearly all US clothing comes from China and is not considered fake and is largely the same with electronics and even toys, it isn't so much a quality issue when you get things from China. It more has to do with what company you get it from.
am I the only person who has trouble imagining what a font will look like from just a row of alphanumeric characters? I'm always wishing for a screenshot of it used in complex editor situations when these posts pop up.
I went in to my router to block my Samsung TV last night and thought it was cute that instead of using the device name I set it was using "localhost". I guess these companies will go to any extreme to steal your info.
Is my observation correct that this is most apparent when the face is not perfectly perpendicular to the display? I feel like even some tiny fraction of a degree, and I sense something is not quite right, while the images that seem most believable are perfectly perpendicular to the display.

Is it also difficult to get the face to align with the teeth? Nearly all of their pearly whites feel eerily disconnected to me.
> I think that -- had he faced the music -- he'd be out of jail by now and considered a hero by most Americans.

This is an insanely naive viewpoint, considering that the POTUS declared Manning guilty prior to her trial, and then she was tortured so extensively during the process that she tried to commit suicide.

Tortured to death is not quite the same as being released early and treated as a hero.
I integrated a storefront with Authorize.net about 6 years ago. The API was dead simple: a URL endpoint with lots of query string parameters. It ended up being ungodly long, but it was much easier than PayPal.
> I don’t think that the US gov would set a precedent that you could publicly release many of their top secret programs and only go away for less than 6 years.

Pvt. Manning was pardoned, so is it unreasonable to think that then-President Obama could have pardoned him?
Why Paid Online Content, Not Free, Is Key to Business Growth
I'm using AdGuard but I'm not sure its as good as UBO.
It was not his choice to be in Russia in the first place.
The US government revoked his passport (which should not be possible in the first place). Given that happened, you probably should think about your analysis of the situation :)
Why are they anxious? that's the question ... “There’s a lot of anxiety. How could you not have that? Tech companies are fueling some of the most egregious human-rights abuses.”
Because each commit is in a cryptographically secure chain, when you sign a Git tag it vouches for the referenced commit and all the commits preceding it. This can be done at important moments such as each release.
Shocked that a normal and healthy practice that should be done more by more and different kinds of people is big news to the NYT, because tech.

Watching the NYT (and others) from within tech over the past few years has done more to destroy any trust in mass media than anything else in my lifetime.
It's been shut down already.
I have both a 2018 15" MBP and an X1C6 running Arch.

The X1C6 is a fine Linux laptop but it's significantly slower than the 15" MBP. The keyboard is better though.

I still prefer the MBP, and if/when Apple fixes the keyboards on them it will be even more tilted in favor of the MBP.
That and when running a business you get to keep profits but someone else pays for your losses.
Facebook ads arent placed as ironically to make them so funny. He segues from "facebook is a nightmare" to "and if its your dreamjob this company can get you the skills." All without insulting the company hes advertising, and somewhat implying that it would be better to use skills learned there to get a job anywhere but facebook. That kind of added humor through juxtaposition is not popular.

Its like that Kris Lindahl radio ad that starts "are you sick of Kris Lindhal ads? You could change the station, but wed be playing it there too!!"
Automakers make their cars and trucks comply with CAlifornia emissions standards because they sell most of their cars in California. California sets the market.
Google themselves simply offer a link to this wikipedia page[0]. Perhaps you could find something there?

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_computer-assiste...
Ambulance and fire engine sirens; police not so much. But that really has no bearing on how loud they are.