skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
um, no. Scotland is a separate country, only merged into the UK by a coincidence of royal lineage.

And you could try persuading a Welshman that Wales has been part of England for almost a thousand years now, so can they please give up any pretence at being a separate country? but you won't get far.

But England dreamed of Empire and submerged itself into Britain completely. In the wake of Scottish and Welsh nationalism and independence votes, England is emerging again. And if England isn't going to be part of its own Empire, then its not going to be part of anyone else's either.

Brexit is all about English nationalism (not British nationalism, because that's dying - except in Northern Ireland).
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Well the current ToS say:

> YouTube reserves the right to discontinue any aspect of the Service at any time.

So this, the notification, and the ability to appeal seem like significant improvements.
What does termination of your account mean? Are we talking losing your email/gmail account?
As much as I dislike this, they are a business. Running servers and streams is not free.

The great conondrum of software...
Poor people are sometimes forgetful as well. I forgot to return library books many times as an ADHD kid but the small fine was irrelevant to my blue-collar, "you need to go to university someday" parents.

Please have some empathy for poor children and children with unengaged parents and stop supporting punishing them for their failings by removing access to one of the things that might get them out of their position.
Your proposal seems reasonable and a fair way to prevent a few bad actor patrons from stealing the whole library and then claiming no repercussions.
It is possible to get that feature back with two advanced tweaks (which I had to use):

1) Increase the number of results in about:config:
Set browser.urlbar.maxRichResults to your desired value (like 60).

2) Make the results scrollable with a userchrome.css tweak:
Using this example or your own: https://github.com/MrOtherGuy/firefox-csshacks/blob/master/c...
Perhaps something along the lines of this?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/multi-account...

Full disclosure: I love this extension.
Not sure about Gen 3 TR on air I think they say an AIO is recommended
A lot of ads and sites use complex JS as well, so an extension can lean on the browser's rendering engine to JIT block that stuff..

A proxy that wants to do this before the browser will need to do a lot more work I think?
There's already a lot of work in "modular housing" and various sorts of "pre-fabricated" construction. It has something of a bad reputation, dating from the very early days. The UK had something of a plague of concrete panel houses that turned out to be defective: https://www.peterbarry.co.uk/blog/houses-of-non-traditional-...
It is true and I wonder if the tech people aren't becoming the privileged class who knows ways of not feeding the big corporations.

For example, it takes a lot of effort and energy for me to explain to non-technical people that comparing Apple and Google in terms of their mobile devices is non-sense. Just look at their regular financial reports, I usually say, and understand that one is an online advertisement business, while the other is a purely software + device business. One wants you to use their devices at all costs, while the other wants you to buy them. Those are very different core business models, different mentality and approaches. Etc etc. And so the choice between them comes down not even to taste or quality or price; it comes down to which business model you sell your soul to.

And then there's ad blockers and understanding how modern internet works etc. It worries me that the disconnect between those who understand the inner workings of tech and those who don't becomes bigger and bigger by the day. As the tech business itself becomes more and more sophisticated (and monopolist/authoritarian).
> 7 hours ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21502162

> 14 hours ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21500325
Seems to indicate the native Indians would have had suffered much less? Maybe it would be less developed, but I am getting the impression the US history would have less suffering?
They still need to keep Firefox alive, because it allows them to control market concentration and avoid the antitrust issues that MS had to fight.
And the limit is easily circumvented by having multiple extensions. I've seen Safari extensions that split themselves up to one extension per block list.
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> This is only natural conclusion after u are a de-facto browser monopoly.

... and (probably?) the world's largest ad broker.
And other projects will apear, all the people that visit sites like this one here, will switch, and slowly transition their families. Majority will conitniue "suffering" since they already don't have adblocks installed.
Wow, the amount of negativity here is awful. I looks like most commenters have not even read the article...

First of all, the HN title is not the title of the article. HN mods, please change it to reflect the actual title of the article.

Second, to me this does not seem as some attempt by Google to actively block Adblocker extensions. They are proposing a change to the API (Manifest) to no longer allow manipulation of content, which I think is a good thing from a security standpoint. They also propose reducing the number of content stripping rules to 30k. Now, I'm not familiar with add-on development, but this sounds like a constraint that was implemented for performance reasons. This constraint will break add-blockers in their current form, but there is no reason for me to believe that this will make content filtering impossible.

It is also clearly stated that the V3 manifest is in early testing phase. Nothing here is set in stone.
I don't have an example off the top of my head, but I'm pretty sure I've heard rhymes in Japanese (mostly rap) songs. They are rare, though. But they also can span more than one syllable.
The recession in the early 90s in Finland was partially the result of the collapse of the USSR (Finland had exclusive access to this market, despite being a Western democracy, since WW2) but also due to a banking sector that was liberalized too quickly in the 1980s without proper legal oversight and was giving out loans and mortgages like free cocaine to a citizenry who had no real experience of managing serious debt.

People took out huge loans using their homes as collateral - either to support unviable businesses or buy that new summer cottage or boat - and were dangerously overexposed, a bit like the subprime crisis in the US in 2008. The banks of course went into panic mode and clawed back what they could. I personally know quite a few people who lost their homes in this recession, and the country took years to recover.

I'm not an economist and so this is just a second-hand account of this period but it seems similar to what happened in Iceland in the early 2000s - too little oversight from government and too much greed and naivite from the people.
It's worth doing both.
That's from June this year. If it was important for them, it would be done already.
> All too often with language pairs as distant as English and Japanese, you just end up writing your own joke.

There's a few specific cases of this that I quite like — the English translations of Asterix did a tremendous job of renaming all the characters in a way that's consistent with the spirit of the (idiomatically french) original jokes.

A personal favourite of mine, though, is a particular dialogue from Austin Powers[1] where the Portuguese subtitles found a joke that was just not there in the original. "It's a bit nutty" doesn't have a good idiomatic translation, so they instead translated it as "Tem muita borra" — Literally, "there's a lot of grounds in this", but "borra" can be read as either "grounds" or "poop".

1. https://www.moviequotedb.com/movies/austin-powers-the-spy-wh...
You won't be laughing for long, I believe.

See this FAQ:

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/09/03/mozillas-manifest...

Note how they say: "We have no immediate plans to remove blocking webRequest and are working with add-on developers to gain a better understanding of how they use the APIs in question to help determine how to best support them."

"No immediate plans" is weasel-speak, as is "[we] are working with add-on developers".

If Mozilla was dead sure that they weren't going ahead with it, they would say so, unequivocally. And I remind you that Mozilla "worked with add-on developers" when they unilaterally decided to drop XUL and go ahead with web extensions, while failing to include support for APIs that developers said they needed to support functionality that their add-ons provided.

IMHO, adoption of manifest v3 is not a matter of "if" but rather "when".
I won't use this feature personally much beyond playing around a bit with it, and in any case it has not arrived in my country yet.

However I can see it will be beneficial to people with disabilities and the like. It's not all about laziness.

It is also a (small) step towards the fully self driving features they aim for.
It's intended to exclude low cost housing, with the intent of excluding the poor, especially racial minorities. "Shoddiness" is just an excuse. See also: zoning.
I would peg this language as intended to make it clear that they can shut down e.g. Alex Jones for no other reason than that he's Alex Jones and some other people don't like him.
I thought basically most channels are duds?
You can use Brave as your Chromium-based browser. It blocks ads natively, and I've not yet run into a site that required Chrome that didn't work on Brave.
For me the most useful skill has been to recognise when I'm doing something that's O(n^2) or worse, especially if it involves doing anything besides just math (e.g. database queries, file reads, web requests, etc) If something is O(n^2) or worse it's a good sign I should probably google around for a better algorithm.

Thankfully python has a rich set of built in datastructures, using a dict (or a hash map in other languages) turns a lot of O(n) problems into O(1) problems. The bisect module turns O(n) problems into O(n log n) problems. I'm always keeping my eye out for more of these big-o-reducers.

That said, in production software it hardly ever matters these days as long as you're not doing anything exceedingly daft. Fast enough is fast enough.
A couple years ago my mac started to not go to sleep... I checked and it was Chrome saying “webrtc has active peer connections”. No, you can’t disable webrtc in chrome.

So I’ve been a bit ahead of the crowd and gave up on Chrome long ago.

This ad block scandal made me give up on Safari too though. Firefox seems to be the only reasonable option left.
(You need a standard disclaimer for your employer in this particular thread.)

I disagree that Google is a web company proper. It might have been years ago, but nowadays Google is capable of bending the very rules of the web and internet at their liking. As a result it can now essentially define what the web (okay, the modernish web) is, and that makes your points moot. Also Google's open-source projects are irrelevant to this discussion, much like that using React doesn't void your rights to criticize Facebook.
This might be actually a good thing. Say that you are a user, which uploads a LOT of large videos that almost nobody is watching, apart from your small cabal, and you restrict ads on them (AFAIK was possible in past, not sure if it is now). In such case, you get quite good service for free, and you cost YouTube quite a lot of money for storage.

I see that YouTube have following options:
1.) Show more ads elsewhere (so other people will pay the price).
2.) Terminate your account.
3.) Charge you money.

From those, actually 2/3 seems like the best (and being able to do #2 will give them leverage for you to pay #3).
That's fair, I was quite surprised that he gave both his cards away like that.
In that case, maybe, don't advertise it as free.
If the Markiplier situation is any indication, then your entire google account, gmail and all.

https://twitter.com/TeamYouTube/status/1193216884197314560
Does it matter though ? You don't need an account to watch video afaik.
[edit] Incident logged on GAE https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/appengine/19013

Our Google App Engine Flex app is not working (. We are just getting 502 error. Locally Everything is working fine.
But the service is not working. However the instance of the service stays in restarting mode and shows message "This VM is being restarted".

As per this status the issues was supposed to be resolved on 1st Nov:
https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/appengine/19012
I'm sorry but you missed one.

You lose. Please try harder.
Also making fittings to fit curved or non standard spaces is much more expensive
That was never verified.
I had already switched my mobile browser to Firefox explicitly so I could use ublock. And now it's time to move to Firefox in the desktop. I appreciate Google helping with the decision.
Let's see what happen on the darknet to truly appreciate the absence of regulation :

Free markets and month of barely enough practicable bandwith to buy your pot on a darkmarket because hackers ddos as hell these market in order to blackmail their owner to pay them a huge ransom to stop their attack, and what should have been an easy transaction taking barely more time than to buy shampoo on amazon take more than 4 hours.

And don't get get me started with vaping canabis oil cut with tocopherol which cause an epidemic lipidic pneumonia or pedophile rings operating video sharing websites.
Kind of ironic to have an article on surveillance capitalism and end on

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Time to Market is not a good metric
Brave blocks ads natively, even on mobile. It's a pretty nifty browser for when you want chromium. Firefox mobile is slower in comparison, but their extension support is killer tbh.
Top posting is fine for really shallow conversations.

As soon as you attempt to have more complex conversations, say about subtle technical issues, it falls flat on its face and inline quoting becomes far preferable.

In a way, this is a culture issue similar to the whole maker schedule vs. manager schedule discussion. A lot of management types engage primarily in shallow conversations[0], and so they may think relying on Outlook is fine, while being totally unaware of the damage it does to the engineering part of the organization (and possibly to themselves).

[0] In part this is inherent to a manager's role. For example, in many cases a manager's email may simply be the message "yes, dear direct report, you have formal permission to proceed with your plan". There's just inherently less deep thinking in a management role, when compared to engineering roles. Of course, deep thinking should occur in management as well in plenty of places, and the best managers do recognize that. But unless they come from an engineering culture, they're probably not even aware what they're missing with top posting.
Yep, the hysteria has no substance. I'm using Safari both on mobile and on desktop and use adblocker even though the evil Apple should have had them killed.

If Anything, I am nervious of installing any ad-on that can access the web pages I visit and send god knows what who knows were. It's almost as an accident waiting to happen. The web is only secure when your browser is secure.

I like the natively handled content blocking approach much better.
> ...advertising is necessary for funding the open Web and keep it open for people who either can't afford tons of subscriptions or hate them for privacy reasons

That's a minor issue. The bigger issue is the fact that, if adblockers become truly popular, websites will go back to serving opaque binary blobs instead of HTML+CSS+JS.

Remember Flash and 'Flash pages' back in the day? That, except worse.
Mediation is for two sides having a reasonable difference of opinion.

In Google's corporate opinion, Google's ads must not be blocked. In everyone else's opinion, all ads must be blockable at a user's option.

That's not a difference that can be mediated.
I didn't use an adblocker until every single site began competing on how much of my screen can be a billboard telling me that I won't last two minutes playing their game. If the new changes make it past testing and there's no strict anti-ad abuse policy put in place, I'm jumping ship.
Yeah. I also switched to Firefox as a longtime Safari user after this.
> "was abated pretty effectively"

Ah yes, all of Europe occupied by fascists and a war with 60 million dead, nothing to worry about.

Do you also consider the black plague "a minor public health issue, promptly addressed?"
I didn’t mention this in my original post and I kinda wish I did now, seeing the replies.

I am American. I grew up in Texas and generally feel at home with other Americans (to a degree, politics is weird).

At times in my life I’ve thought about moving back to the US and I still thought that it was easier to pay the quality of life costs of being a foreigner in other countries (being half illiterate and having a hard time with banking and real estate) rather than deal with the quality of life gap in the US.

My life would not be bad in America, but I feel like it would be less comfortable. In the future the feeling of belongingness might outweigh this, but right now that’s not the case, and it makes me sad
The context was:

> fine the telecoms for allowing the illegal calls

You can certainly fine companies for making illegal calls. But you can't easily fine telcos for allowing them. That requires you to know the call is going to be illegal.
No. Not now. But that could change.
I would expect accents from New England to be closest to the original British accent, with more western accents being more strongly influenced by the many other cultures that came to the US.
My experience (Germany) is different: You can't get a good bread in super markets here. Heck you can't even get a good bread at specialized bakeries (with some very rare exceptions). I bake my own bread as a result.
>It's a funny thing to me that no one ever points this out in advance. Where were the articles about Boeing's move from an engineering culture to a financial one?

I had a google out of curiosity.

There was this from 2003: https://slate.com/business/2003/12/how-boeing-blew-it.html

>...The trouble is that his successor, Harry Stonecipher, is very much of the short-term-profits school... ...As one aircraft worker told a Seattle newspaper reporter after hearing the news of Stonecipher’s accession: “We are doomed.”

Although I don't know if that was really in advance - they had problems then too.
I don't(after they retracted the custom domain thing). Now, I host on Ghost :)
Yeah, it’s generally just regarded as mean.

On the contrary, I’ve found it’s something that most other Asian countries get really well, so the difficulty seems to mostly be limited to Japan.
> Coffee Clamp and Spoon, from USD 2.99 for USD 2.99

Great discount there (bug).
Both of them have already said they will not implement these changes in their Chromium branches.

Unfortunately for Google, Chrome is open source, and Google will no longer be the dominant Chromium branch if they keep making mistakes like this.
The biggest advertising company in history tries to kill blocking advertisements in their browser? How am I not surprised.

I bet this move is also to kill the workings of extensions like DecentralEyes and others that try to protect users from being tracked. The whole changing of the API into a "sure we'll block that URL for ya, sometimes maybe" model reeks of increasing user tracking. They'll work out the kinks to let AdBlockers function again. But they'll have their tracking back.
First we started telling everyone about Firefox
Then we told them about Chrome
Now we tell them about Firefox again

Google has officially reached 90s MS levels
Thank you for giving an insight from the other side.
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Live stream from Roque de los Muchachos observatory in La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kr-8ESM-8M
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It is not about Chrome vs Firefox. It is about how much information they can get about you.

The idea behind the "I am not a robot" captcha is that if you act like a human, then you don't need to be shown pictures for further confirmation. The more you allow tracking, the more info they have to figure it out.

A big one is being logged in to your Google account. Having access to all your history really helps. And because Chrome heavily encourage you to setup a Google account, Chrome users are more likely to be logged in than Firefox (or other) users.

Spoofing your user-agent is likely to be worse. If you have a Chrome user-agent but your browser don't act like Chrome, that's a big red flag. Bots often spoof their user agents.
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One of the reasons the British decided to cut their losses in America was that they had more important opportunities in India, where they were consolidating power after their victory over the French at Plassey.
What's the stack behind this?
I did it like this

Install FF

Set it as default

Change path on desktop shortcut for "Internet" to FF

And ofc do not forget to say that is new IE version
I only give negative feedback
Except an ant looks like 3 spheres
Because of tradition and nostalgia. Also i find the experience slightly better. But you are right: we don't need libraries anymore. We might need bookstores for nostalgic rich people who can still afford the space for a personal library.
Lobbying is a problem on its own, and should be dealt with anyway, and independently of other changes to the system.

There is no way to preserve democracy when there is a legal path for bribing those in charge of power.
As someone who's used digital advertising in the past I wouldn't really care about forcing my content upon all customers. It's a self selected opt-out for someone who won't ever click anyway.

The real problem is news websites don't show restraint and shovel (so, many) ads to customers, making impressions go up and clicks go down. IMO ads won't go away and adblockers won't kill them completely as too many market forces (privacy, performance, revenue) is making the industry adapt.

Disclaimer: Personal opinion, Googler, not in ads or Chrome.
Mods, can we have this title changed to match the article? It’s not accurate, as Manifest v3 does not “kill” adblockers. (Whether it cripples them or not is still subjective and does not belong in the title.)
I'm more or less bilingual (Portuguese/English), and it annoys me to no end how often I have the exact word I want, but it's in the "wrong" language. Often, the alternatives in the "right" language just lack the appropriate connotation/subtext.
From the Dutch perspective, it doesn't exactly feel like we invaded and conquered England. It was more like our Stadhouder emigrating to another country.

The big victory over England that we remember was the victory at Chatham[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_the_Medway
Doesn’t this just mean that if YouTube becomes commercial non-viable they’re not obligated to continue providing a service?
Starting a Development Team in Portugal?
The joke is that, if you don't need to check if the input is negative because it is not a natural number, you can also choose a definition of the natural number without zero to avoid special casing it at all.
I use that app to pay my bill and enabled roaming charges when I travel. It has two very clear use cases.
How sure are we that Brave will not break also with these new changes? And also, how sure are we that Chromium isn't secretly tracking users already? I don't have time to read the source, and don't trust that many people that say it's all a-okay.