skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article: "Valve’s defence hinged on the argument that Steam sells game licenses – subscriptions – to games, not the games themselves. The court, however, doesn’t see game purchases on Steam as subscriptions, since the owner has access to them indefinitely, and isn’t required to pay recurring payments in order to maintain access."

Guess what the loophole's gonna be?

Steam will cost you 1 euro a month to maintain access, BUT WAIT, we've got this awesome "temporary introductory" deal where for every Euro you spend on anything in our store, anything at all, you get one free month of subscription! Yes, buy one brand new AAA game and you get 5 or 6 years of free subscription! Wowzers! What a stonking great deal for the consumer! Such an incredible deal that has been so successful that we're running it indefinitely, despite the fact it's totally temporary.

But if you do somehow manage to run out of months, you will indeed lose access. That part has to be real. And there will be a real "just buy subscription access" option, though nobody will ever use it because why just give Valve 12 Euro when you can buy a game with it instead?

I'm fairly confident in common law traditions, that would be too blatant and they couldn't literally do that. They'd sidle up in that direction, though, as close as they thought they could get. I don't know about how France's Civil Law tradition would take that, but, still, same principle; head in that direction as close as you think you can get. "As close as you can get" may in fact be quite far, but I think this is still the general direction you're going to see.
I don't even bother to torrent anymore .... I just don't view it.

I love Star Trek, haven't seen any of the new series. I'm not singing up for a new streaming service for one thing, and there's so much media available I can always find something else... so I just don't watch.
This is not a small thing, it easily steers your life only to where it works. In other words your life becomes a slave of your limited logic, it makes you optimize your life for the logic to be a safe and working.
You're complaining that a general purpose computer can be used for... general purposes.

Computers should do what their users tell them to.

I wouldn't appreciate a smartknife with a blade that only extended when something I was authorized to cut was in range. "Unrecognized cultivar".

Tools do the work their possessors wish. Why would you let someone limit your tools? It's everywhere now. It's in the coffee pods.

Why does everyone else know better than the user what the user should be doing?
I've done quite a few different things, none of which worked for me 100%. Trello boards, Asana, GitHub Issues, etc...

I have recently found success in working backwards to determine why things aren't getting addressed. I'm using Clockify [https://clockify.me/] to track time spent on tasks. My flow is to stop the timer when I switch tasks, and start a new entry.

My job has a high amount of interruptions, which causes quite a bit of context switching. Not the most productive situation when working on long form tasks.

I've found that keeping an inventory of these interruptions helps me to determine what my stakeholders might need assistance with through utilities or fixes. It also keeps me semi-accountable in relation to how much of my day is being used appropriately.

But, I think the long and short of it is, keeping yourself accountable starts with being honest about where your time is being spent.
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That irritated me once or twice at first, after setting PiHole to implement DNS based ad blocking at the network level.

It hasn't bothered me long term though. If that happens and I care enough about what made me follow the link then a quick search has always brought up another route to that content or equivalent content.

Often I don't care even that much in which case I click the back button or close the tab and get on with something else. In fact this "problem" might be saving me wasted time that I can use/waste elsewhere. It might even be saving money by reducing impulse purchases, if the links are ones I've followed to see what the sales pitch is for a product/service that has been mentioned in an article!
It's incredibly ineffective, or people wouldn't be asking so many questions about it on this thread.

One shot is one centilitre.

One beer is 2-3 centilitres.

One glass of wine is 2-3 centilitres.

It's not maths at all, it's just communication. There's nothing "simpler" about "unit" than "centilitre", it's just less clear.
I am not emphasising the economic causes. I am saying precisely the opposite: this is a public health issue being solved by a civil servant like it is a problem in an economics textbook.

And yes, the issue is cultural. But that doesn't really matter either way (and if the issue is cultural then you can't solve it by increasing costs any way...you are just taxing people who have a problem).
What is BYD? Am I supposed to be impressed? I've literally never heard of them. They seem to make cars - that's not exactly 'green'.
Cooperating or not, by being in Russia, he's helping Russia, which is why Russia has agreed to put him up.

I think that -- had he faced the music -- he'd be out of jail by now and considered a hero by most Americans. I don't blame him for avoiding imprisonment (I doubt I'd have done differently) but I do think he made the wrong choice. There's a reason the stories of Socrates and Jesus have endured.

Please note: I'm not saying that he deserved punishment. I'm saying that submitting himself before unjust punishment would have been the correct choice with respect to achieving his stated goals.
If only you would respond to emails with feature requests and bug reports, and then do something about them.
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There is a lot of confusion around this issue. Some people are taking this to mean that Safari has completely banned ad blockers, which isn't the case. Instead they've switched to a model that matches what they've been doing on iOS which is content blocking[1]. Content blockers give Safari a list of triggers and actions to take when something matches a trigger.

For example; you can have a trigger which contains a regex that matches all images and stylesheets for a given domain. The action can be one of several options, one of which is to block that item.

One advantage this technique provides over ad blocking is that there's no data to be phoned back home. It is, in essence, a mask that is applied to a web page before rendering. Also, it's very lightweight. It's literally just a JSON document which means Safari can perform better.

Now, I'll admit it's not foolproof. Apple and the content blockers have some work to do on it. I'm noticing some issues with it myself after having upgraded to Safari 13. But from a privacy perspective, I personally much prefer this technique.

1: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/cre...
There are way more native speakers in Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, etc.
Firefox Preview is a lot better. But it doesn't support UBO yet, so I'm still on the old one.
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Or they will flock to Brave browser.

https://twitter.com/brave/status/1088914000379731970
After personal decarbonization (using an electric car powered by renewables, using a heat pump / radiant heating powered by renewables [1], not using airplanes, eating less meat, living close to where you work and play so you don't have to use much transportation), I think funding political candidates could be a good use of your budget. It certainly seems like national candidates have an outsized impact on how quickly we as a nation mobilize to decarbonize.

Funding local elections is also an interesting way to invest where marginal dollars have a bigger impact. An acquaintance of mine has an organization that identifies local elections around the US with large climate impacts (like fossil fuel pipelines) and funds candidates that will be able to stop them. He told me their success rate is 90%. You can contribute on their site: http://leadlocally.org/

Also, I know that Wren has options for sending money to carbon-offsetting projects that usually also reduce poverty: https://projectwren.com

[1] https://medium.com/otherlab-news/how-do-we-decarbonize-7fc2f...
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Ironmonger Row Baths was built as a bathhouse like that, but is now a swimming pool and gym - it still has a public laundry, though:

https://www.better.org.uk/leisure-centre/london/islington/ir...
We can't keep pretending this is still a Democracy when we have a completely unaccountable NSA/CIA/FBI that seems to repeatedly hide their mistakes and the dubious legality of their sources & methods behind the classification and national security walls.
I thought it was perfectly well understood. Hundreds to thousands of megatons of methane is trapped in permafrost. When the warmest point of the year melts the now ill-named permafrost, methane gets released.
I tried doing that once. My stress level went through the roof. Does the same thing happen to you? If so, how do you deal with it?
Easy enough to fix: use a unique address for a company, unsubscribe, then take the related company to court later. Works even better in a GDPR location.
> Sooo...Valve has a history of changing its policies to follow the law?

The article isn't well written, but I believe the point is about Valve making the change worldwide, even though their legal obligation is just to do it in France (or possibly the EU).
I don’t understand how you change between voltages with dc? Is it as efficient as AC using transformers?
I know it's probably satire, or outright bullshit, but I want to believe that there are kids this smart walking the Earth.
Methane is increasing now precipitously compared to the last couple of decades. We hit an inflection point apparently in the last couple of years.
As a heavy user of this tool, are there any "free" alternatives that are as good/versatile?

I already use lingohub.com and like it as an alternative, but it is costly since Machine translation is 129$/mo.
Your statement is orthogonal to the original point, which is whether we should trust him with his denial or not.
If you would take some time to study how mass shootings come to be and, well, let's say, unweil, you will see that it takes a) a long period to mentally prepare for, b) a comparable period to prepare materiel for and c) a willingness to execute that is rooted in the above.

This misconception that mass shootings are in a big part something impulsive is a symptom of.. well.. ignorance.

Can someone at last investigate the actual problem? You can't control thoughts by administrative or legislative action, how hard can this be to grasp??

edit: tpyeos
Just because you don't want to hear from anyone via email doesn't mean I don't.
it's possible, of course, but I rate this as a very unlikely scenario that Russian security services would have failed to induce him to cooperate at least to some extent or in some way during all this time.
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It would mean that a lower fraction of the heating effect we're observing is from CO2. However, if we've correctly estimated the impact of CO2, then that just means that there will be more absolute heating than we had otherwise predicted.
That's just wrong. It's impossible for uBlock Origin to turn itself into a content blocker while retaining its current functionality.

Content blockers in Safari are limited to 50k filters. uBlock Origin's default filters have more than that. Therefore, the choice is between a new, but much less useful extension, or no extension at all. uBlock Origin decided on the latter.
Have the floor? How does this change the behaviour of scammers in the slightest?
> "It's really expensive to put up these offshore turbines"

They are more expensive than on-shore wind turbines, but still significantly cheaper than other forms of generation (such as nuclear).

With geographic and technological diversity, "smart grid" demand management, inter-connectors, storage tech, and a modest investment in nuclear baseload, we can get pretty close to 100% low-carbon generation in the UK over the next few decades. Even as grid demand increases with the gradual electrification of heating and transport.
> If the extension can't inspect the traffic it can't meaningfully filter content.

I’m sorry, but does uBlock Origin detects & filter ads based on contents?

I thought they maintained a database of URLs that serve ads & page elements... and Safari content blockers also have the same capability to block content based on URLs (hence can block YouTube ads).

BTW, PiHole blocks ads based on hostname... and is more incapable than Safari content blockers.
There is always something unsettling about people who already have private armed security calling for guns to be removed.

Somehow there is always an exception for PMCs, private security teams, corporate security teams, and other rich people who actually never ever intend to give up their armed guards.

I'd love to know how many guns the Walton family security detail has in their inventory right now. I have a feeling they don't want to talk about that.
> anything else specifically designed to have the ability to reliably kill humans and bigger targets at long (rifle) range, up at the dangerous end of the spectrum.

So this would include all weapons intended for hunting anything bigger than a rabbit?

Fair enough, but this isn’t typically the argument - usually it’s presented as the AR-15 being a “weapon of war” and not needed for hunting, eliding the fact that many common hunting rifles are more powerful.
One of the thing I like from Julia compare to Python is that it have the concept of missing data representation. Python's data science library represent it via NaN or Null which is good enough for most cases but not all cases.

I often wish R's syntax was cleaner and faster, Julia is may accomplish this. I don't think Python is a great substitute for R in many areas where statistic is heavily used and influenced. I've used Python for Deep Learning and NLP. Time series and many other statistical base stuff I use R.
I agree that the situation is bad. Mind you, in my experience, Paris wasn't any better.

Here is some actually helpful advice, though:

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https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/73415/taming-the-...
Good point about SO's "Hot Network Questions". Those reduce my productivity almost as much as Hacker News :)
For me it's the opposite. Not being able to bypass that doubleclick block would mean that I lose the deal I'm trying to get and would lose money on something I'm actually planning to pay for.
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We're not talking about peeking at the underwear section any more. How about teenage boys looking at incredibly violent porn with the women presented as enjoying it.
Culture, and also despair. Perhaps similar to the US opiate crisis.

There are a lot of people in the UK who drink "too much", and a general distribution of people genetically predisposed to addiction. To drink yourself to death requires something more, usually falling off the edge of society. People who feel economically and socially unwanted, growing up in a "hard" culture.

Glasgow and Dundee in particular were cities of the Empire. When that came to an end in 1950 onwards there was a huge spike in unemployment, and a lot of the traditional heavy industries gradually left. This left a huge scar across both the physical infrastructure of Scotland (run down housing) and its culture. Trainspotting isn't exactly a documentary but it's a culturally appropriate portrait of how things were.

This is gradually changing as the country acquires 21st century industries (satellites, biosciences, video games, banking), but that on its own doesn't do a lot for the old drunks.
Articles that seem relevant to the topic:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L214

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_Treblinka
Obviously MIR inlining needs to happen first (and I think it does happen already?) But to me it's clearly the right solution going forward. LLVM's noalias semantics are much weaker than what we can have on MIR, with full knowledge of transitive immutability/mutability properties.
HN heavily skews MacOS though.
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Can't have been that "doomed" if a kid not wanting a phone is a savior.
plausible being the critical word.

Currently the type of power plant that receive the highest amount of investment and construction is natural gas power plants. In all parts of the world there are massive natural gas pipe lines being built, and the countries in those areas intend to use them and get a return on investments.

Batteries and dynamic power usage could in theory be tuned so we don't need natural gas to fill in the gap, but if we follow the money, follow the political decisions, following the current vectors of what people are actually doing and expect to get return on investments on, then no. Renewables will not be used for base load.

North america is currently investing $1 trillion on natural gas pipe lines (not countring natural gas power plants themselves). In texas, there are pipe lines being built today for an additional 12 million barrels of oil equivalent per day. In just over the small country of Sweden we have 2 massive natural gas pipe line projects, one from Norway and one from Russia, competing to provide an ever increasing demand for natural gas in EU. The russian one has an annual capacity of 55 billion cubic metres of gas.

The doubt about energy sources like wind power is not if its plausable to use renewable energy for 100% of the energy demand. The doubt and skepticism comes from the fact that no one is doing it (with minor exceptions). No one is going towards such goal or investing in it. The power grid being built today and in the current long term investment window is natural gas as base load and replacement for coal, wind and solar as cheaper energy production during good conditions.
I don’t think it quite works that way- infrared radiation emitted from the ground can exit directly into outer space.
"we realized that the demographics of people we attract to apply are not inline with the demographics of the people we hope to hire."

I already quoted....
I have chromium for that one site. Everything else is in ff. You can switch for a single site, it's not painful.
They are already familiar with how to run a comprehensive review of apps. They could just replicate that for extensions.
Americans don't behead innocent people in the streets and don't relentlessly kill people just because they don't share the same religious or political beliefs.

Your comparison is absurd, ignoring the politics of China launching a missile at American soil. The US War in Afghanistan is 17 years old. There were two suicide bombings just three days ago, each killing over 20 people.

Imagine a group of people who want to kill you because of where you were born. Who want to throw you off a building because you're homosexual.

When America kills terrorists, is it equally as bad as when terrorists bomb Americans or Europeans? Is killing in order to police the same as killing out of deep, radical beliefs (and hate)?
Well recently they were used in an underhanded means by the DOJ against a Seal team member they were prosecuting, they did it to his lawyers

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/13/navy-seals-l...
That doesn't surprise me at all. I actively try to avoid echo chambers so I go out of my way to find forums and communities of people with very different opinions. I'll go looking for antivax groups, religious forums, flat-earther blogs and try to see how they view the world.

Since I'm fairly left-leaning I also often end up reading far-right content. It's not like it's hard to find on the web these days. I often end up incredibly depressed after doing that though. Flat-earthers are wrong but they're often innocuous. Sure, there are conspiracy theories lurking everywhere but they're not really preaching hate or intolerance usually. You have a minority of extremists and then plenty of people who just don't know any better but don't seem to be bad people on their own.

The far right stuff is different. It's just dripping with hate and lack of empathy. It's almost always about putting other people down to feel better about themselves. Empathy is weakness, moderation is treachery, the opposition are "degenerates" and "Non Player Characters" who are depersonalized and considered sub-human. The most vile acts will be brushed away if it serves their objectives. It's not people who "don't know any better", it's people who want to feed on hate. It's frankly terrifying to me.

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. I've seen hate speech and calls for violence on communist forums for instance, and of course the atrocities committed by socialist and communist regimes are often downplayed, but it's not nearly at the same scale or with the same violence in my experience.
It could be caused by the absence of reproductive selection, arising due to medicine.
The Philosophy is "it's easier to do things that were already done before".

So the project is an arbitrary reduction of scope and then writing the implementation just for that scope.
FWIW, I've been on Catalina for a couple of months now, which means no uBlock, and the web has been pretty usable. Safari alone seems to be doing a pretty good job with isolating the worst ads.

That being said, this post reminded me to install a replacement, so I just installed Adguard. We'll see how it goes.