skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When Apple says "We're designing this API in a way that allows you to block ads without having full visibility to monitor everything that any user does every web page they visit" it's totally believable because it's in line with the last 10+ years of their product direction.

Yeah, it makes ad blockers less powerful. It also makes them less of an enormous security risk in that all of your web traffic is redirected through them, and a compromised extension could do whatever it wanted with that.

People are more skeptical of Google's motives because nearly all of their money comes from selling ads and for all we know they're more concerned about their very very very large piles of cash than they are about browser extension security. That's not a motivation that Apple would have for their Content Blocker limitations.
I think this is a bad idea which will encourage more in game transactions to be profitable. Margins aren’t good enough for the majority of games. I hope this doesn’t expand out of France.
aggregate figures look like they are moving towards 100% renewable, but look when renewable is at is bottom 12% (bottom level for the last 24hrs). That is when the so called "backup" gas grid burn brightest.

30% of the power usage or 30% of the capacity? A nation that has three times the capacity compared to power usage could produce 100% of the energy on gas and still claim a 33% capacity being based on gas.

2030 sounds good, but the average expected life time of a natural gas power plant is 50 years. I would hazard a guess that the most common type of new power plants being built in the UK (in terms of costs) is natural gas power plants. Is the expectation here that all that investment currently being poured into natural gas will just have to give it up in 10 years?
I would say the western intelligence community actively created rumors of the Russia scare 2.0. This should have severe consequences on every level of relevant institutions.
FFAndroid (Fennec?) does strange things. A few examples:

1. You are on this web page in Fennec[1], and you want to do a web search. Click the address bar, type in your query, hit go. Sometimes, Fennec will start the progress bar and act like it is searching, but will draw another tab in the main viewport before resetting the progress bar and changing the url to the SERP you want. If you don't know its going to do that, it looks like Fennec completely ignored your search and loaded another tab.

2. Fennec will sometimes lose its cool and stop rendering pages. The UI layers will respond, you can open hamburger menus, tab listings and thumbnails, but no matter what tab you select, it no longer renders anything but a blank canvas in the viewport. You have to force close Fennec to restore normal behaviors.

3. Fennec will after a long time of being active lose its extensions like noscript et al, you have to force close and re-open to get them to show up in the hamburger menu again.

Stated as a die-hard Firefox for Android fan.

[1] %s/Fennec/<whateverItActuallyIs/g
Tough in this case equates to traumatized. If you traumatize a child with everyday violence, typically they become violent and inured to seeing violence. Plenty of militaristic societies in the past courted this deliberately, or quasi deliberately (the trauma was referred to as "toughening them up" etc).
I believe this is all my true nightmares, come to life, expressed in one place.
Malicious actors? Yes. Non-humans? No. If my bot is playing by the same rules a human would, what do you care as a website operator?
Do you trust their judgment on this? Will you always? Like other similar happenings, the side you agree with may not always be the side making the choices. No one can objectively make that call in 100% of circumstances, and the risk of deplatforming a valid counter voice should not be dismissed.
Inconvenient truths often get mislabeled as misinformation.
Some of these points are really good advice. Some seem less certainly so. I think if the list was reduced to a much smaller number than 30 (maybe 10) it would greatly improve it.

Some comments:

> 3. Use antivirus protection (McAfee, Kaspersky and Webroot are among the best while Avast and Bitdefender are two of the best choices for Mac).

> 8. If your anti-virus doesn’t have it, install a separate anti-spyware program on your computer.

Everyone's pretty much in agreement that the consensus has changed on this and that this is no longer good advice, right?

These seem like real red flags to me in a list like this.

> 9. If you’re running a blog or a website, install updates on the systems you use (such as wordpress plugins)

If you're trying to protect yourself from hackers, don't even think about running wordpress.

> make regular back-ups of important files and documents either on a USB stick or, even better, on a DVD.

... oddly arbitrary advice. Why better?

> This is just something I’ve been told of course; I can’t personally say that I can prove that is true or not.

Not selling yourself as an expert here, but I guess the honesty is appreciated.

> 19. Delete everything before you sell your hardware and devices

I guess it's better than not doing so, but this seems insufficient.

> 24. Check security camera logs to see what IPs have accessed your devices.

This one is scary. What percentage of the target audience for this list are running an always-on net-accessible security camera with IP logs?
No, as I said, human or larger.

I think there's a fair argument that bolt action single shot is adequate for hunting.
https://trackmylift.app

Front end: ReactJS, Firebase
Back end: PHP, SQL
Compare-Mt: A Tool for Holistic Comparison of Language Generation Systems
> 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.

If US would continue its violations of the law, those cases would possibly continue, and with public support, and in cases when "hero", "traitor", "whistleblower" is caught, US would be seen bad.

US intelligence services should stop violating the law.
I'd imagine Valve is going to have some sort of market fee to prevent shenanigans like this; they'll probably just slap this feature on their regular community market which already has a 5% transaction fee.

Edit: Or better yet just force sell price equal to at-time purchase price when it is bought off the steam store. The law just says they have to allow users to resell games, it doesn't say anything about allowing users to make a business off of it.
I wish more people here understood this.
I see what you're thinking; a tax rate increase to the current market rate, as if it weren't locked in by that one California law (IIRC Prop 30?).
It can be forked?
Chase! It must have been a while ago, because today Chase blocks your account at the mere whiff of anything non-standard going on. And I do mean "anything", being out of the country definitely qualifies. They also shoot first and ask questions later, so your wire transfers will get cancelled or your entire account blocked with incoming transfers bouncing (what is amazing is that the amount that bounces is less $50 that they take for the bouncing service, fun!).

My last wire transfer was "cancelled" by their anti-fraud people, and after calling them and identifying myself extensively, I was told that I am to show up at my local branch with two forms of ID. Yes, the same two forms of ID that they've already seen. Kind of difficult if you are out of the country.

American banks are something else entirely.
It's tough to tease out the causation in mental health epidemiology. Are there more PTSD cases because people are "less tough" as you say? Or are there more PTSD cases because it's more broadly understood by clinicians and patients? Or maybe there are events occurring which are likely to produce more PTSD?

I think it's safe to say there is a mixture of causes, and we should always shy away from a single causal explanation like "tougher before".
Is there any work out that is able to generate human bodies alongside the faces? The only thing I’ve seen close to this is the X-ray app. https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/27/18760896/deepfake-nude-ai...
DSP and vision does not "AI" make.
If they are bots which get paid or are under control of a government, sure, suspend.

If these are individuals voicing opinions and not inciting violence, I think they are wrong. People should be able to have disagreeable opinions, even illegal opinions (“pot should be legal”), “the minister in an asshole”. People should not be guilty of wrongthink.
AFAIK, Safari supports longer lists than Chrome to the point that you can produce an usable ad-blocker for Safari but not for Chrome because you will hit the limit too quickly.
Nope, the image loads when the email is opened by the unique recipient.
Yeah this is a good point, if you have a product with good support, that's one way you can out compete them.
Advice for Hard-Tech and Biotech Founders (Startup School)
https://simpleboard.tech
Landing page in HTML/JS/CSS - set it up very quickly, gonna convert to ReactJS for maintainability soon.

Actual product though i'm building in ReactJS / will have PHP / PostgreSQL backend.
Any update on this inclusion? Looks like two or three were added
This is wonderful,happy to see collective relations promoted as positive as opposed to individual success.
"lets be extreme about killing extremists before anyone dies." and then employees wonder why they have PTSD. lololol. :3
As someone from a Muslim country that’s battling extremists—your false equivalence is ignorant, and your ignorance is dangerous.
I deleted all my tweets. Killed the app. Killed the Reddit app. Killed Instagram. Killed Facebook. I need to reactivate FB and do a dump of my data, but I’m dreading that. I just want the photos.

I’m finding solace in boredom and using that as a catalyst for change. I’ve been reading more, already finished three books in the last few weeks. I’m on a mission to pour rocket fuel on my personal consulting business.

I’m also seeing a psych and a psychotherapist. It’s helping, albeit slowly.

Eliminate cognitive load. Eliminate distractions. Eliminate things from your life that don’t bring you joy and happiness. Do it. Rip it off like a bandaid. Every little minuscule things counts and adds up to the “death by a thousand cuts” anxiety ridden life we are all enduring.

Ignite a fire in the forest that is your life and let all the shit burn to the ground. The big strong redwoods will remain. Don’t be afraid to seek help from professionals.

We are only on this earth for one life. I only get to watch the Super Bowl maybe 30 more times. I only get to own so many more vehicles. I only get to spend time with my dogs for so long.

It’s not just tech workers. Everyone is struggling. Be good to yourself.
Not just the Mini-14 is unbanned -- virtually all assault rifles except the AR-15 (restricted) and the AK & FAL (banned) are considered "Unrestricted". This means you need the lowest level of gun permit.

In other words, I need a special restricted PAL permit in Canada to own an AR, but to own a Tavor, M-14 knockoff, Kel-Tec RDB, a Chinese Type 97 assault rifle, etc. needs the lowest level of permit. Bass-ackwards, but there it is.
No, it's not. Chrome says its for privacy but still allows plugins to snoop on all network traffic (just not midy the requests). So it doesn't improve privacy.

That's why everybody is hating on google - it's a reduction in functionality without an increase of privacy even though that's "why" they did it.
To be fair, multiple extensions is a huge hack and has complexities of its own.
It was very eye opening to me when I had a conversation with a family member who is retired CIA/NSA/Rand. Not a low level person. I was asking them about when President Clinton asked about the UFO's, and why the president was not told the answers he was seeking. Their reply: the presidency is not the highest security clearance and the president does not have a right to know everything. I wonder if that's what the founders had in mind when they formed our government. And what happens when those people disagree with whoever is in office? They control what the president knows, as they are the ones who brief him, and only what "they" think is appropriate. They decide.
So just some basics out of the way:

1. Yes, this is good. They should do this and 2. coal is an awful and inefficient power source with lots of carbon emission which is bad. 3. the way we harvest coal is deleterious to humans and bad for the environment even if we ignore carbon. It's an ancient technology we should leave in the dustbin of history next to lead piping.

The challenge of wind turbines is that they're actually fantastically plastic hungry things. While inexpensive in their current state, we need to heavily invest in more sustainable turbine blade options that don't contribute to our other problems (carbon emission in plastics manufacturing and huge unrecyclable and toxic wind turbine blades). [0]

Folks concerned about consistency and peak load shouldn't be. We're making huge strides in energy storage (with sodium ion batteries removing our reliance on lithium[1]) and Gallium Arsenide greatly reducing the cost and size of electrical components while increasing their heat tolerance [2]). Essentially what's left here is tooling and contracts and for dinosaur energy providers to be displaced by newer options.

[0]: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/06/wooden-wind-turbines...

[1]: https://phys.org/news/2019-02-sodium-lithium-boost-sodium-io...

[2]: https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/GaN-replace-silicon-ap...
Not the first time I've heard someone argue that state-sponsored agitprop is free speech, while suppressing it on a private platform is somehow dystopian.

Ignorance is strength?
> Taxing climate impacting practices doesn't need to have an overall negative impact on the economy of the average voter! This needs to be made super clear.

Everything I've seen about the magnitude of change needed suggests this isn't true. And if we keep telling this story of "green growth", "only big corporations will have to sacrifice", you're going to get a ton of backlash once it becomes clear that is very much not the case.
You've hit on a very confusing and debated topic :)

I tried to do some research into this awhile ago. What I found is that you (generally, kind of) are able to use copyrighted work to make another work as a "transformative work". For example: you can look at an image of a person and use that as _inspiration_ to draw the same person (as long as you aren't tracing). However! that's still kind of a gray area.

ALSO: how does that apply if you are using the exact pixels of 1,000,000 images to make new ones? I don't think anyone has a definitive answer yet.

My guess is that it will have to be decided in some high profile court case before we get real answers :)
I remember seeing a program that claimed this is because soldiers today are trained to kill against their natural instinct.

So traditionally only 20% of soldiers could actually kill, which would explain the low casualty rates in older battles pre-ww2.

Then after ww2 they figured out how to train soldiers to just react and kill, resulting in 6 in 10 soldiers killing.

And those who kill but wouldn't normally are much more susceptible to PTSD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killology

Wikipedia, so buyer beware. Seems like a controversial subject like that I can't help but think that a single edit like this changes the whole tone of the article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Killology&diff=78...
commuted, and not pardoned.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/17/528731790...
That's why I think "era" is a better view for this kind of categorization. It doesn't slap a label on the individuals and individuals can discuss living through that era without implying they did X.
That's about the fairest argument, and I say this as an unrepentant meat eater, hunter, and fisher.

It's not just that the animal is dead, it's that the animal spent its entire existence in terrible conditions.
Google isn't doing anything new + interesting at all.

I consider Google to be one of the giants that are entirely irrelevant in competitive terms. They almost comically stay in their lane: search, YouTube, search, Gmail, search, search, ads, search, Android, search, search, Google Cloud, search. Every ten years or so maybe they'll add something.

I consider Google to be a company that never has to be considered when I'm thinking about building something.

I have no plans to launch my own massive operating system (what small team is going to do that anyway). I have no interest in doing a common search engine. Competing in the streaming space with YouTube, Netflix, & Co. is a nightmare of licensing & rights problems (and it's very saturated). The last thing I'd ever want to do is run an email service (thankful for those that do it well). AWS, Azure, and 37 other cloud service providers already exist, no need to reinvent that wheel and compete with Google Cloud (they're not the most competitive there anyway).

Google search is 21 years old. Gmail is 15 years old. YouTube is 14-15 years old. Android is 11 years old. Google is gray.

So what else is there? That just leaves 99% of everything else that I never, ever have to worry about Google competing seriously in.
Isn't that exactly how China justifies all its online crackdowns?
I'm quite sure a monopoly is not that alien a concept
If we're talking about universal coverage in other countries and the potential for crippling healthcare debt in the US, then pointing to the ACA really doesn't help your argument here.

First: 400% of the poverty line is not very high, so premiums for people just over that line can still be very unaffordable.

Second and more importantly, ACA coverage is generally not very good, especially at the low silver tier covered in that %10 income cap. Pointing at the ACA ignores the fact than plenty of people with coverage still are faced with insurmountable debt, sometimes loss of home, and often bankruptcy. As long as hundreds of thousands of people each year have bankruptcies tied to medical issues, there's nothing about the US system you can point to, be it Medicaid, Medicare, ACA subsidies or anything else, that can surmount the argument that the US system fails people in this respect when compared to other countries with universal coverage.

I'm not saying those countries are always better in every respect, but one thing they have is that they don't cause their citizens to lose their entire way of life, their home, and ability to live above poverty levels when faced with treatable medical issues.
Opera was my other workaround.
iOS 13 for PWAs and web development
I think there is a perception that pure functions applied to input data produce derivatives. Humans assume that machines make derivatives, but humans are likely to apply their own experiences and interpretations. It is easier to convince people that a machine was not being “creative”.
I'm not saying anything against Snowden. He did what he had to do, and Russia wasn't his first choice. But it does, unfortunately, hurt his message.
Definition of dystopia
Ah that'd probably be why I was thinking it was any code, small difference that's easy to forget about.
I am considering migrating from Braintree to Stripe.

It does look better, but I find some of the praise a bit too rosy. For example, the whole invoicing setup makes US-specific assumptions which are largely invalid where I operate (EU, specifically Poland), and I wonder if their recurring billing can be used without invoices. Also, there is no SAF-T (JPK FA in Poland) reporting for invoices, which means I can't even legally use their invoicing. Their E-mail templates are not customizable, which in my case makes all of their E-mail functionality useless. Then the PSD2 SCA (3d-Secure) flows seem to be hastily added and there is no good overview in the documentation (Braintree suffers from the same problem).

It still looks like the best option I have, though.
Downvoted because these types of comments are unsubstantive.

You are basically just affirming Linus's Law: "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow". Just because the bug is shallow to you doesn't mean it is shallow to everyone.
bah
a demon of stupidity needs to exercised here.
I've heard estimates along the lines of two person years of work, and $500 000.
Because ads and trackers are as great a threat to privacy. All ads are malicious, while only some extensions that misuse powerful extensions are. I'm aware ads are not Apple's business model, yet I'm incredibly skeptical whenever an API that is open and powerful gets shrunk down to 'protect' users.
Something is really bizarre here on both sides.

Russia has a track record of intimidating or killing journalists and political activists and has an aggressive anti-spy program. It's really hard to believe the official narrative that a former NSA employee with technical skills and security clearance shows up in Russia and after he refused to cooperate they "didn't know what to do with him" so they left him alone. I find it hard to believe they don't have someone tracking him 24/7.

The US was fighting tooth and nail to get Snowden extradited in the early days of his escape. After that their strongest public statements have been encouraging him to "repatriate and defend himself in court" which they know he's not going to do.

The more likely scenario seems that the US and Russia are already getting what they want from Snowden or are perhaps simply negotiating the price of his return with the US acting like they don't care and Russia calling their bluff by letting him make public appearances.
You are the solution techies. GlobalClimateStrike
Today marks the start of the largest, global climate strike in history across the world. From a quick search, news.ycombinator.com is quite silent on the issue. There are a few posts but barely any discussion.

One of the most - if not the most - effective way to combat climate change is technological innovation. Here we have a community of some of the most technically-inclined people and there doesn't seem to be much discussion about the significant protests happening this week.

Silicon Valley (especially) has been given a lot of flack for not focusing enough on the Climate Change emergency. Much more discussion on iOS release this week.....

I'd love to hear stories about how you are helping in the battle against climate change not just in your personal life, but your professional life..

Because if we lose the battle for earth, nothing else matters. That's not hyperbole, that's just reality.
This isn't as much about what existing extensions do today but all about what potential extension could be doing tomorrow.

If an extension doesn't get full access to all the pages you are reading, it can't do bad things with that access when the extension's owner inevitably changes (see the fight between uBlock and uBlock Origin for example) and spyware features are added.
I posted a howto specifically for combining a self-hosted WireGuard VPN with NextDNS for adblocking while on the VPN itself, and you can find that here: https://blog.paramdeo.com/2019/07/03/setup-an-adblocking-vpn...

However, if you're just trying to setup NextDNS you can signup for free on their website and within the account dashboard you'll find instructions for configuring your desktop and mobile OS, DoH in Firefox, router, etc. (screenshots of what this dashboard looks like are in the blog post if you're curious).