skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're not really comparable.

Ka-Block actually advertises itself as being less effective than uBO. It's selling point is that it's a simpler extension that blocks fewer ads and trackers, under the assumption that this is good enough and on it'll on average be faster because of the reduced overhead.

> Some ads will get through this filter, and that's ok. We already have extensions that block every ad that's ever appeared on the web with a completionist zeal that must be admired.[0]

If you're blocking ads just to make pages load faster, Ka-Block is probably fine. If your primary goal is to protect your privacy, you shouldn't be using Ka-Block.

[0]: https://github.com/dgraham/Ka-Block
Yes, a gag order can be reasonable. Wiretaps with warrants usually have them. IMO, there should be no gag order, and the subject of the subpoena should be required to be notified and allowed to challenge the subpoena if it is issued without a judge.

Gag orders should be allowed, but only if signed off on by a judge, and only for a reasonable amount of time to complete an investigation. If the government gets your information, and decides not to bring charges, you should have the right to know about that at some point.
I think this could get interesting.

Would valve be legally required to offer their services (game download + cloud saves) to a second hand buyer? Surely the person selling the game would need to provide the second hand buyer the copy of the game along with the key?

Valve merely provides a service which says "this key now belongs to this account" but that second hand buyer has no right to download from valve?
The fairest thing possible is for him to speak his defense in court, to a fair and impartial jury. And for the jury to decide.

You shouldn't be "pardoned" of a crime that you haven't been put on trial for yet.

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BTW: What do you feel about some other presidential pardons? Do you think it was fair for Joe Arpaio to be pardoned even after the courts found him guilty of a crime? There's nothing "fair" about pardons. A pardon is a way for the President to value-signal that certain crimes were worth it. In the case of Joe Arpaio, Trump reinforces his values.

Court is about being fair: Jury decides based on the evidence. And the court stays in session until the Jury is unanimous.

Given how the current President has used the pardoning system, I'm not exactly confident in it anymore.
I like the way you're thinking there. But sadly I suspect not.
Well I'm golly sure glad you were around to alert people of this! Renters being priced out just need to buy the multi-million dollar properties they could barely afford to rent in the first place! Who would have thought of this one weird trick if not for you?
Although I'm not sure if what they're saying is true, it's entirely possible to be an aspect of patriarchal culture and affect both men and women. For instance, feminists argue that "toxic masculinity" is harmful to both women and men. Nevertheless, in my experience most people are averse to saying women have masculine traits; if a male is a strong leader, typically he's described as commanding, dominating, effective, strong-headed, whereas women in that position may be described as "bossy".

As such, if it is an aspect of patriarchal culture, it is more accurate to say that it is a patriarchal attitude that both men and women adopt, rather than it being something essentially "manly".
I think part of the problem is that Twitter is rooted in American assumptions about propaganda that don't apply globally.

America isn't propaganda-free, of course, but there's enough competing/conflicting propaganda that things kind-of balance out. (Or at least historically they did; increased silo-ing is reducing exposure to conflicting opinions even here).

Opening the platform to countries like Saudi Arabia and China brings fully-functional propaganda operations into the global mix, for which there is no existing competition. Nobody really knows what to do about it.
they arguably are effectively a monopoly now. Them doing things like this isn't remotely new. They just got caught tracking everyone's smart TV usage. Nothing will happen to them until:

1) the Government decides to intervene.

2) Users give up and start using different services.

I'm pushing for #2, but then I switched off like a decade ago, when I saw the writing on the wall.
Presuming other people’s motivations from their behavior is a bit of a fool’s errand.

It’s very easy to be wrong, and it’s the worst kind of wrong because you feel so justified. You have reasons.
I think this is true for 99% of conferences if we include non-technical conferences, making almost all of them a waste of time outside outside of the networking/hiring stuff.

However I will make a plug that the AI community has very informative conferences with proceedings and poster sessions at NeurIPS, AAAI, CVPR etc... all presenting new SOTA to the community.

I'd say it's similar with Chaos Congress and DEFCON, though perhaps to a slightly lesser extent.
How can I, as a citizen, decide to use eg solar power? If my power provider burns coal, how can I affect that?
I wonder when tech shops are going to start getting performance coach therapists like hedge funds.
That was a great listen. Thanks for the recommendation.
That's the moral hazard, yes.
Their newly announced corporate credit card has good benefits (US only): https://stripe.com/en-ca/corporate-card

At least you get some cash back from expenses.
I didn't have high hopes for this article based on the headline, but there's some really good material here.

I love this line in particular: "We love our phones, but we do not trust them. And love without trust is the definition of an abusive relationship."

TBH, this is how I feel about any computing device that comes with a pre-installed OS. I don't actually feel safe using a computer until I've wiped it clean and installed OpenBSD, even though I know that there's still the BIOS/UEFI and the Intel management engine to worry about.

Why are we doing this to ourselves? Why are we doing this to people who don't know what we know about how tech works?
very few people are pretending the world is ending in 12 years. However, many people are talking about the fact that the world as we know it (fish stocks, stability of weather patterns for growing crops, intensity of storms, lack of snowmelt to irrigate crops in summer, and many many more) will change significantly. That includes you.

If you live in the US, you are suffering the political side effects of climate change indirectly as thousands of central American coffee farmers leave their lands and look to the north for opportunity. If you live in Europe, you are suffering the political side effects of increasing instability and resource scarcity in north and east africa, the levant and other locales.

Picture that but with millions more people; your rich country will have to divert more and more resources to either building walls or integrating the poor, all while food prices increase, natural resources are depleted, etc.

If you think living in the Bay Area, London, NY, or anywhere like that is going to insulate you from the consequences, you are really sadly mistaken.

I live in a wealthy city in Australia; we face flooding which is driving up property and insurance costs, fire which is wiping out farming land and causing air quality issues, while depleting fish stocks increase the cost of other food sources. Storm intensity is also on the rise which is causing more flooding and damaging arable land.

We can handle it, but it's more and more a cost and deadweight effect on our lives.

I urge you to isolate "what you want to happen" from "what will actually happen given the science being presented".
Theoretically not necessarily the referenced GIL, though. There are conceptually alternative models; see Microsoft doc[0] on apartment threading model, or Tcl[1].

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/com/processes...

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45799121/runtimeerror-ca...
My favorite romhack is https://alttpr.com/en (A Link to the Past Randomizer). It basically takes your rom and swaps the location of all items in chests, pendants / crystals, and can even swap enemies, keys in dungeons (for cross dungeon shenanigans) and entrances.

So I much prefer the romhack to the original now, given my familiarity. Now if only I could play it on the switch...

Edit: a recent playthrough had me without the bow for much of the game. A different one had me start without my sword and I got through a dungeon before finding it. Fun times.
I'm a conference organizer, and I'm not sure what I just read. I feel there must be some angry emails or negative interactions that led to this blog post.

I'd encourage the author to consider if there is anything they can do to attract different kinds of people to their CFP or perhaps manage expectations better?

One thing we did with our most recent CFP [1] was to reply individually [2] to each person who submitted with constructive feedback on their submission. I think transparency and respect goes a long way.

[1] https://2019.cascadiajs.com/cfp

[2] https://twitter.com/crtr0/status/1156602180763152385
Saskatoon (worse) and Regina (not as bad). For a long read about Saskatoon, see https://jbuc61.wordpress.com/

We recently moved from Saskatoon to Regina, and our family sold the Saskatoon house. We priced it slightly below market and it sold in 3 days, but there were many similar houses that had been on the market for months. The buyer tried to flip it (it needed love for sure); I'd guess $15-20k worth of supplies plus his own labour. It sat on the market for a long time, and ultimately sold for only $40k more than he paid us for it.
No, just call them directories, thinking of them as logical buckets to place things in them, which can be used to store data or direct you down further to find and location any information placed within the hierarchy structure.

Please note, if it is not broke don’t fix it. As well as new does not mean improved.

Also the file system found within computer operating systems were modeled after ways to categorize and store information that is both easy to use, and understand. Humans have been using systems like this for so long the inventors of that system are all but forgotten, as the concept can be seen through out history from how libraries have organized their collections of knowledge building, floor, isle, case, shelf, book, page, paragraph, sentence; all of which are conceptual examples of a directory. As well as other forms of systems in the same vain, country, state, city, district/neighborhood, street, block, house, room, file cabinet, drawer, folder, document.

Then as other suggestions in comments relational databases having database, table, row, column.

Each of those are also the concept of a directory.

Which can be defined as the ability to hold something, including more directories.

And a storage system can be described as a system of associated directories with a means of linking, nesting, indexing to provide means of navigation for location of things held within the system.

So, if there is a better way, humans have not yet grasped upon or discovered yet.

If you have ideas, go for it, but make sure your not reinventing the age old design with different nomenclature. You may also like looking into graph theory and object oriented design as areas of topics to learn about/discover.
I see this in YouTube comments a lot on Hong Kong-related videos. Also they flag videos. A Cantonese language YouTuber I follow posted one video with her opinions and got flagged and hit with a strike on her account.
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I thought the author was sincere after the first read. I read it after reading your comment and respectfully disagree about the author's ego. I have never been a conference speaker so perhaps I am not the best judge.
This is why I really like Andrew Yang for 2020. He wants to give everyone in the US $1000/month so people don't constantly have "the economic boot on their neck". You can't worry about climate change when you are worried about paying bills and feeding your kids.
> people really do prefer having jobs and homes over climate targets to fix a problem that isn't readily apparent

That's a false equivalency. Jobs and homes exist in other places than Alberta and in other industries than oil extraction. Sure it will be painful to change for these Albertans but to argue that they have no choice but to vote for increasing oil production is just plain wrong.
I'd love to read it when you've finished it!

Approaching it from changing mental models, perspectives and learning new skills is how we view mental health issues management/prevention. If you're interested in this angle, you should try out one of our sessions at Mindset. It'd be really great to hear what you think of them.
I feel like everyone overlooks the Chevy Bolt (probably because of all the Tesla hype). At the dealer (w/ bargaining and/or discounts), you can get one for 30k USD.

This is before the US federal tax credit, so you'll get some money back.
You mean the Great Weeaboo Culling of 2019?

edit: apparently, about 75 people have shown up, a couple of people have been arrested for trespassing and public urination, and your memeable moment is the guy who Naruto-ran behind a reporter[0].

[0]https://twitter.com/i/status/1175082270807314432
In addition to doing all those things on a personal level, each of them has a societal-level adjustment to pair with it:

* Stop supporting meat -- transfer those subsidies to carbon-friendlier foods and farming

* Make public transit free and much more widespread, fund it with taxes on pollution externalities from private transport

Transfer subsidies on fossil fuel power (and tax them) to wind and solar projects, too.

Doing this at a societal level would create a new set of winners and losers in the profit-making sense, of course; those would-be losers are the ones fighting these sorts of changes.
Safari allows 50k per list, Chrome is planning to move from 30k per extension (!= list) to 150k global max per your links. That's quite a difference. On iOS, some blocks use multiple lists -- AdGuard has six and 1Blocker X has seven, for example.

An ad blocker that would be limited to 30k rules, as originally suggested by the Chromium folks, would be severely neutered. And even with the 150k max, I currently have ~240k rules in uBlock Origin. That's way above Chrome's planned max. But easy enough to implement with Safari's model, even if it requires using at least five lists.
So they finally banned Trump's account?
I really dislike the term chosen for this feature. “Blame”, assumes the code is broken or written improperly in some way. Most of the time I use it I’m just trying to find out who wrote it so I can find the original commit to understand it in more context.

Should have named it “git who”
That I agree with: they should have shared their methodology for saving energy.
Yeah, I agree for sure. I get tons of updates for spotify, discord, and other applications that don't need to do complex binary distribution
I'm not sure where you read that, but I can confirm from first-hand experience that it isn't true. My Epic Game Store copies of Journey and Control are both completely DRM-Free.

I actually don't have the Epic Game Store installed on my main Windows partition at all, its isolated in its own VM. As long as the games I buy are DRM Free, I can download them in the VM, back them up, and move them to my real OS, and they run fine.
> Also when you use other companies' trademarks, you should have a notice of who the trademark owner is

Do you have a cite for this? Thanks.
I didn't realize that! Though in researching it, I found that the law allowing resell is somewhat linked to the original install media, i.e., you couldn't sell the license key and a backup copy. I don't see any EU cases that square this with digital distribution, but maybe this current ruling will provide guidance on that issue.
UK checking in here. Cheapest Model 3 in the UK is £38,500 which is about 44,000 euros or $48,000
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For the laymen, note that Ovid lived about 500 years after Pythagoras, so you can still be skeptical about this attribution.
What do you mean by technical?
I'm amazed at how certain people seem on either side of this debate. This seems to me like an incredibly difficult problem, and I can't see a solution that doesn't involve significant trade offs.

On one hand, silencing people for "inciting unrest" does sound like something a dystopian judge would say before passing sentence. On the other, there is a philosophical argument—and economic incentive—for Twitter to protect its users from harassment and targeted manipulation, especially when it is state-sponsored.

Where the line gets drawn for these definitions seems to be the hardest part.
I came back to this comment to admit that I just got a new phone on launch day.
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I wonder if that's the reason they launched Braintree with a more sane API.

Nevermind, Braintree was acquired by Paypal in 2013.
I am a fan of rescuetime.com

I set up separate accounts on my machine for personal, work, sideprojects and log in to those accounts when I am working or when I want to veg out and play minecraft. Couple this with an invasive tracker like rescuetime and I can have HN and reddit blocked on my work-related user accounts.
People can already buy on discount and resell later if they use Humble Bundle or stores that gives Steam keys. We have been able to do that for years.
None of these are personal data if not liked to the email address, which they do not have to.

If linked to email address and considered personal data then the argument is what is covered by consent to receive email marketing? IMHO tracking whether the email was opened is covered (in the same way as agreeing to receive phone marketing should imply they can track whether you answered the phone...). They will also obviously keep track of what emails they sent you and when.
Sure, it’s in terms of the existing situation. Why can’t there be an ISIS cell in the US right now, or at least why can’t the Chinese think there is one?
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>If we had to push plows with human labor; gather and reap the harvest by had, I guarantee you we'd be fit af.

We'd also be worn out by middle age. Look at various manual labor trades for example. You wind up with a couple muscle groups in great shape and a couple others that are just destroyed.
Go ask Reddit. They seem to be tracking this, or making fun of it. Maybe both. I don't know anymore.
So missing 84% of booked flights is not like a big deal on scale the size of American. Notably because the seat just will just open up for someone else to sit in. Either the plane leaves full of passengers or it doesn't. It was also pretty common practice to overbook flights starting in the 2000's.

As to the confusion of self with your airline status, I would say it's pretty bad if you were able to fly anywhere for free especially for 20 years, and then lost that ability. However, it just means you would pay for flights, which seems like something fairly easy to get over, especially if you're wealthy.
If you want to support a platform based on a DRM-free point of view, you should only buy from GOG. The only ethical platform.
If your office consists of just one big room where everything must happen, then pullups/pushups are probably the least of your distractions.
You are correct, however until Apple relaxes the rule that “[a]pps that browse the web must use the iOS WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript”, they should be held to a higher standard.
I'm partial to Parallel Worlds myself; so much of it is new, that it just feels like a brand new Zelda game, not just a modification.
What does "the west works" mean? Does China not work?

I also don't know what you mean by "social coercion" - plenty insocial behaviour is given punishment, from littering to noise - is that also coercion?
Google is adding essentially the same thing with Manifestv3 and has been raked over the coals for it.
It shouldn't be that someone's income determines whether or not they can get help. We've learnt that a lot more people want help than those who get help due to two main reasons:
- too expensive
- perceived stigma associated with getting help

This is starting to change and I hope it continues
Definitely true a lot of the time. You have to find the root cause. And the job itself might be it.

However, you can make a bit of a fine distinction: is your job making you unhappy, or are you unhappy in your job?

If you're doing boring work with no appreciation and low pay, or if everyone else at work is unhappy too, then it's probably the job. At the other extreme, If the things you're unhappy about with your job are the same things you've been unhappy about with every other job you've ever had, then maybe you need to use the therapy to figure out why you are the common thread.

(Actually, those two aren't mutually exclusive. Maybe the job itself is bad for you, but you have a pattern of picking jobs that are bad for you.)
Every company has things they structurally cannot do well. Google scales? They can’t do customer service. Facebook has all the network effects? They can’t iterate rapidly. Tesla has the best electric cars? They can’t sell nostalgia.

That’s why people tell you to “be yourself”. It’s a rough proxy for “don’t be other people” which is a rough proxy for “don’t be something someone else is already succeeding at.”

But also, if you are really enamored of Google, maybe that means you should work towards getting hired there!
Considering how much a used golf with a lowered odometer costs in the balkans (imported from germany), that's quite a weird theory.
That girl's face looks ok...OMG What's that monster next to her!?
Greed is not surprising, but understandable you might have thought this crowd was a bit better than the average.
A single individual or organized group possessing thousands of accounts used to astroturf a platform is abusive of the platform, regardless of what the message is - banning that sort of activity doesn't seem dystopian.
Mature forests are at best net carbon neutral, and at worst net carbon emitters. Comparing our current emissions with amount sequestered per hectare of forest immediately gives that we don’t have nearly enough suitable unused land to plant new forests to make up for our current emissions. The only viable way to use forests to sequester carbon is to cut down immense numbers of trees and bury them underground. I don’t see anyone going to seriously propose this.
Lololol rip
Didn't do so well how? It's very popular, used by many people who don't realize how terrible it is!
BS Zelda
Or “git credit”
That’s not a bot. A Bernie supporter who goes all in or a Trump supporter who goes all in, or someone who genuinely believes CCP propaganda they are not bots even if their tweets read like they are bot-ish.
And that's the issue isn't it? It's not readily apparent and the instant it is, we're essentially beyond hope of a fix.

I remember an argument I got into a while back, essentially it went

"They've been saying we'll be out of oil in 10 years for 30 years."

"They'll eventually be right, unless you think we have infinite oil."

"We can worry about it when it happens then."

Being proactive is hard, but surely it'd still be less effort than being reactive here?
great to see female scientists highlighted
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The two complaints are valid.

The point I was making is that chrome.webRequest is still around (as I understand it - if I'm wrong, please correct, because that's my whole point!), it's just for observation only now. Plugins can still request that permission... which means plugins can capture just as much data as before this change.

That doesn't seem like a good trade off, given the two complaints you listed.