skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This would not have protected your father from any of that. If hostile code can inject an extension into your Firefox profile, it can also install a keylogger or read your unencrypted Firefox password store. There is almost no protection against your credentials being exfiltrated. Neither would it protect you against unwanted notifications. It will however greatly reduce the functionality of Firefox.

This is security theater.

> Browser extensions are a powerful, beautiful, dangerous bit of tech. Is it asking too much to put some guard rails in place that really aren’t too much trouble to follow?

There are many layers of guard rails already. The problem is that now they want to also inspect every extension that I use, even if it is for completely private use and will never be available to the public. And Mozilla does not exactly have a good track record with trust.
So much for education for democratic citizenship.

Someday I will help lead a school whose software is written by students and whose policies are debated by student government, faculty senate, and the PTA.
Did you try cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 VPN app? It uses wireguard. I have it enabled all the time and I did not notice significant battery life reduction.
People who fight for universal healthcare, for example.

Last time I checked, they didn't say "universal healthcare if you are exceptionally poor, colored, non-American, and/or female."
A really sad state of affairs when we are monitoring all our children's communications. Its the same as those parents installing spyware on their kids' devices: an attempt to alleviate the symptoms, rather than the causes: loneliness, lack of attention, lack of parenting skills, poverty, lack of funds for good teachers, ...
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Or maybe you encrypt at another layer and just want strongswan for the interconnection without too much overhead.

Or maybe you do not care about the encryption, but care about the virtual and private part of VPN

There are many usecase. There is no one size fit all.
Thanks for clearing this up.
Site-Deaths
Mental models of the creators
You don't even need git aliases for this, I personally use bash aliases for 90% of git use cases. Thus I type gc instead of "git commit", gd instead of "git diff", ga instead of "git add", etc.
Can you define "uninhibited"?
Agree but as some folks have pointed out Airbnb has more locations and can take you off the beaten track. Which is nice if you have children a dog and want some place quiet. There are always alternatives. Your point resonates with me because in London i have never found a Airbnb that comes close to hotel convenience. I enjoy the proximity of hotels in central London. So yes with Expedia I’m getting 10% off on a short stay and all things considered it’s pretty much less hassle and cheaper plus the standard of many hotels in London is good.
Haven't been in school for a while but this was my first thought. Kids social lives exist far from the realm of the Official School Account™️
The Dystopia of Reputation Economies
I'll have to check out RTEMS. Knew about Ling / Erlang-on-Xen, but figure that's a bit different from proper bare-metal deployment (though I guess so RTEMS would be), given that it expects Xen running underneath.
I'd certainly hesitate applying an average across a broad demographic to presumably well-paid and well-educated professionals in a technical field. As others have noted, if someone has a resume of 2 year stints for no particular reason, I assume that pattern will continue. If they bring something special, that may be fine. But I'll factor the likelihood they'll be gone in 24 months into my decision making.
Google.com is banned, not Google Co. per se.

And they are still opening new offices here, one in Foshan a year ago
That _is_ the nim name. It's just case-and-underscore insensitive so you definitely can if your editor is Nim aware (at the very least emacs, vim and vscode have been aware for a long time; nimgrep is a command line tool similar to grep that is aware of nim's sensitivity rules.

You don't have to agree, you don't have to like it, you don't have to use Nim, and you don't have to think it's a good idea. But any reasonable sampling of real world use shows that it's not a bad technical decision. I don't think it shows it's a great technical decision either; It just shows that it's acceptable and comparable in mental and operational burden to any other decision.

It seems whether it is a little better or a little worse, it will take years of experiment to get any kind of statistical significance.
Unbelievable horrors so many of our fellow humans are trapped in.
You could probably compile the release version and change anything you want to, but that won't get you automatic updates.

As a fully open source product, with a demand and will large enough, someone could make a fork, even a minimal one, where they take upstream and keep this feature enabled. I personally don't think sufficient demand and will exists for that to happen.

I suppose they could make an about:config option out of allowing it, but really, so few users will probably find it so much of a problem that even a bug report/feature request for that probably wouldn't get traction.

They can't please everyone. Overall, it seems like a reasonable move to me.
Googled it. Thanks for that. I was unaware.

For anyone else: https://thediplomat.com/2016/09/bhutans-dark-secret-the-lhot...
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The truth hurts apparently.
One aspect I'm curious about is that since these fungi will get ~100% of their energy from sugar water, how do they end up comparing energy & water usage wise compared to regular meet.

Instead of growing alfalfa, you are growing sugar cane/beats. Instead of feeding/growing cows, you are feeding fungi.

Certainly, I'm willing to bet that this uses less water and energy, but is it 1 order of magnitude less or 10? The other meat alternatives (Impossible ,etc) have similar issues.

I live relatively near this, so hopefully I'll get a chance to try and cook this meat alternative in the next year. I love cooking meat in many of the traditional manners and niche like suos vide so I'm really interested in seeing how it differs and how versatile it is.

One thing I've disliked about the current plant based ones, is that they have limited availability in stores and are usually preformed and/or seasoned and super expensive (seems they should be cheaper than meat* if they are less resource intensive to produce).

*Given meat has many forms of subsidies (insurance, cheap water, etc.), direct price comparison is difficult.
I actually think gutting one of the cases to use as a couch would be super awesome. It could definitely be the centerpiece of a living, room, den, or home office.
No mention of RPM? I have a site with a variety of topics and political pages have worse RPM than almost all other topics.
At least half of these "nutcase" claims are plainly true. Thanks for the heads up, I'll be looking into this guy.
I think this is the (American) white privilege bubble at work, in a different way than usual. Drug use is pervasive in American society, everyone knows this and it's an obvious thing for Facebook to police. Same with violence, racist abuse, and pornographic images. Buying and selling domestic workers, on the other hand, is so far removed from our experience that it's not something that I would have even thought to work on. I know human trafficking happens, in the abstract sense that I read about it in The Economist or The Atlantic magazines, but the idea that people would take advantage of social media platforms to do it still blows my mind.
Except that statement is just wrong and misleading. Your personal identifying information is all the metadata that can be aggregated and intersected to directly identify you, your name just is a number in the database but it's directly identifying and tracking _you_. Google doesn't care about selling your name or email, that's not valuable to them or advertisers.

And "unless you ask us to" is the default behavior of almost all google products. You have to ask them not to, sometimes under penalty of law (GDPR), before they actually change their behavior.
"People only become billionaires because successive governments have organised our economic system, from taxes to property law to rights at work, to benefit the rich – often at the expense of the poor"

I don't see how so many people have this argument and think the answer is more government interventions in the economy. If you really think rich people are only rich because of the economy the government created, shouldn't the rational conclusion be that the government shouldn't be involved in the economy, free markets.
Ended-up at -2. How did you fare?

I moved off the Navajo reservation in 80s. My cousin (he just got electricity to his house this year; he's had solar for 20 years) still lives there. I can give tours, if you have interest. I'm there 2 weeks in Oct or Nov. Great trout fishing on the San Juan River at that time.
How is not raising taxes on 1% dissuading 99% from not doing their best?
Well said. As the article states, it is indeed a solution in wait of a problem. Also don't discount the possibility that the school may have a need to be seen doing something (meaningful or not).

1984 it is indeed.
2FA is the main thing for me. I protect basically all my important logins with 2FA, so losing my phone can mean getting locked out of most of my important accounts. This mostly scares me when traveling—I agree it's pretty nice to not carry a phone some of the time.
FWIIW I scored 100% on the quiz also: I studied art history.

>WRT Abstract Expressionism being promoted by the CIA, I fail to find why that means the art is neither good nor valuable.

I like socialist realism, so I don't really care if it's government funded; or even genocidal government funded as long as it's good art. Abstract expressionism was and always will be a meme tier regime loyalty test; literally emperor clothes. Show the socialist realism "tin tits" over Kiev's skyline to a caveman and he'll understand it. It takes a KWA-Soviet bureaucrat type, initiated into inhuman ugliness, to "understand" Pollock.
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>Children growing up in this sort of environment will come to expect it from their government.

Public school systems and employees are the government.
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QR codes strangely don’t have error correction, you just have to guess which bits are uncertain and try combinations until it matches the checksum. There is no formula you run which results in the original data.
Your wearable knows where you are. It knows when you sleep, when you fuck, when you run. You tell the software associated with your wearable what you eat, how much, and when.
Vim is great but ancient. It was designed on/for systems that just don't exist any more. E.g. looking at the popular keyboard of the time hints at why "escape" was such a critical key : https://i.imgur.com/Hn174TJ.jpg

In order to get the most from Vim, you have to take a huge step back and look at your screen configuration and usage patterns.

* The escape key is too difficult to reach on modern keyboards, use ctrl-c

* Code file sizes are becoming really large. Use search rather than directional navigation/paging to save some time

* The search key is too difficult to hit, remap to space

* Most people are on a wide screen. So, try to make vertical splits as easy as possible to do.

* Folder based search is now very fast and efficient. Use a modified search command (<leader>space) and map it to Rg/Ack

There's some good work recently done for vim with language servers. I'm counting on redoing the key mapping once more. IMHO the poor defaults of vim isn't a bug of vim, it's a feature.
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I see spaced repetition commonly used to learn a new language.

I'd like to know what other real world use (besides learning new words) did you use spaced repetition for ?

EDIT: I would appreciate if you could pick a specific example go into some detail and describe the experience
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That's true, I forget about that bc I use it so sparingly

"1 GB network egress from North America to all region destinations per month (excluding China and Australia)"
It should be absolytely enough. I'm using 256 MB extremely weak VPS (1 euro/month) for OpenVPN for few clients. It handles up to 100 Mb/s just fine.
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I remember when the war in Yugoslavia went on. This was clearly a European thing but in the end it was the Americans that did the dirty work while the Europeans did a lot of talking but no action.
Are you trying to get shadowbanned by the ycombinator Ministry of Truth?
This did bother me when I was still an OpenVPN server to connect my iPhone while away from my home WiFi. It really did measurably affect battery life. I’ve switched to wireguard since, using on-demand activation so it enables the VPN whenever I leave my home WiFi, and I can only say it has almost no impact on battery life whatsoever. According to the iOS battery stats wireguard accounts for about 3% of total battery usage on working days (vpn active most of the day), which is worth it as far as I’m concerned.
Around like 28-30 maybe. I had a sort of early-mid life crisis and dealt with really bad depression, ended up changing a lot in my life because of that as far as my attention to mental health. I changed jobs until I found one I felt was the best fit, started writing a bunch and self publishing books, lot's of introspection. It also took quitting drinking for the most part, as my wife and I were big partiers. I'd say I feel more mature every day now, but it's a slow process.

Most , I think if it's not forced on you at an earlier age, it's a decision, not something that passively happens to most folks. Until I deliberately decided to become and adult, it felt as though I always dreaded it. I'm privileged, though, and hadn't gone through any long term situation that required me to grow up before I was ready.

As a final note, I'd say a lot of it was working with older folks I looked up to and respected that were mature. Surrounding yourself with those who behave the way you want to is a good way to learn. Behavior is an interest, just like other hobbies.
> Sunday is a random associate product manager who somehow managed to ride the wave of Chrome to somehow becoming CEO.

Chrome has monopolized not just the Internet[1], but is in the process of monopolising desktop dev thanks to the success of Electron. Of course those are good credentials to end up in charge of Google.

[1] As far as most people are concerned, their browser is the Internet.
Not quite yet. But also like another user said, DuckDNS

"Note: Starting January 1st, 2020, GCP will charge for VM instance external IP addresses. However, under the Free Tier, in-use external IP addresses will be free until you have used a number of hours equal to the total hours in the current month. Free Tier for in-use external IP addresses apply to all instance types (not just f1.micro instances)."
It’s unlimited on any practical timescale an individual should reasonably care about.
More Alexa recordings being shared with police
https://sci-hub.se/10.1002/jcpy.1140
This, I want the basics, not another phone on my wrist. The charge 3 lasts me 10 days and charges in about 15 minutes. I don't want another device to charge daily.
That's new, been using it for a year now, and the certificate was fine up until recently.
G/O Media has several brands that already do woke journalism. How many do they need for this? How many concentrate on sports exclusively? To use a sports metaphore, it's about zone coverage.

As I said on prior posts... Deadspin should stick to sports for the same reason Pizza Hut doesn't sell Tacos. Coverage across brand identities. Even if Tacos may make more money than Pizza in aggregate, they aren't there to sell Tacos.

In the end, it doesn't matter if Deadspin may individually make a little more money. How much less are they making by effectively turning away potential fans of sports by bringing in stories on identity politics? The population is roughly 1/3 left, 1/3 centrist and 1/3 right. As it stands they are alienating 1/3 to 2/3 of their potential audience.
QR codes use Reed-Solomon codes for error correction, with various levels of error tolerance. This is very commonly used to place logos on top of the code and it still scanning correctly.
Smaller than it would be if it were written in Smalltalk instead of C. (I'm kidding, I like Smalltalk, but the comparison to an OS doesn't do much when we're discussing the size of very small bits of code).
It would be great if a hacker could get this system to create a bunch of false positives to the extent that the schools could no longer justify the $60k price tag on this. Also, isn't that enough money to hire an additional school psychologist? This is not a problem software can fix.