skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s 5% per year because you are charged interest on some schedule based on how much you have paid off. 5% is a rate, 93% is a total amount and it only applies if you pay the whole mortgage off at exactly the prescribed rate. Many banks’ mortgage calculators will show you the total amount paid anyway so it’s not like they’re hiding it.

Your point seems to be basically that because you can’t do the maths, the mortgage is misleading. That is maybe a fair argument in some cases with financial products. Investment banks are notorious for obscuring the true cost of deals with complicated maths. However this doesn’t seem like a case of that. If the interest rate is 5% APR and you are free to pay it off as fast or as slowly as you like within some bounds, for example, it is absolutely essential that you understand what a 5% rate means to know how the mortgage works.

edit: not to mention that 5% is already a contrived figure not representative of how the interest is actually applied, designed to make it easier for you to understand what you’re charged. Your interest is probably calculated monthly or daily, not yearly. They could present you a nice hypothetical yearly figure, or a nice just-as-hypothetical 93% three-year figure. What’s the difference? Neither of them are real. Your interest is charged monthly, so they’re equally fake and misleading.
I've never seen an ad on Twitch with uBlock origin installed. If this technology can't bypass ad blockers, why is there a difference?
Depending on implementation it could make correlated tracking across sites more difficult. With an external element, your same browser could be sending the same cookie to the ad service from many different sites. With first party ads, each request will be site-specific.
Yep, and airlines are a terrible analogy.
European death knot is much easier to learn than zeppelin bend.
Taking care of a server that receives browsing data from lots of users in lots of countries must be a nightmare.
It is difficult to express precisely how distressing the attitudes in this comment are. You propose we abandon all pretense of enforcing the law as a neutral arbiter, in favor a world where the executive branch uses selective enforcement as a crude political cudgel against parties who they disfavor (or should disfavor).

Taking this approach is a great way to corrode society, to make sure that politics and enforcement of the law are power games centered about punishing the regime's political enemies, without any regard to justice whatsoever. It is the dark ooze of pure corruption, and you are advocating for it.

If you want an honest ban of Saudi investment money, here is what you do: you bring it to Congress, and get them to pass a law that makes the investment illegal. Then, until the moment that the last of their money is returned to them, you give them fair and equal treatment under the law and the same access to justice you would give your best friends. The alternative is monstrous.
I remember the first software I tried that automatically removed ads while recording a video stream. It was back in the previous century and then required an SGI workstation, but I suppose the same sort of ad-detection tech could be included into youtube-dl in about 5 minutes....
Thunder at Twilight: Vienna, 1913-1914 by Frederic Morton

https://www.amazon.com/Thunder-at-Twilight-Vienna-1913-1914/...

>In an astonishing work of literary energy and historical insight, the author of The Rothschilds brings us the backstage dynamics that preceded the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, the deed that precipitated WW I. Morton captures both the elegant decadence of Emperor Franz Joseph's Vienna, and the potent spirits of those revolutionary thinkers who, all in Vienna at some time during the two years before the war, would blow away the past and create modernity. There were Stalin, Trotsky and Lenin; Freud and Jung; the glowering Hitler; Kafka, Wittgenstein and Karl Kraus; and a small band of Serb nationalists, one of whom fired the shot that catapulted Franz Joseph, Kaiser Wilhelm and Tsar Nicholas into a war they didn't want but couldn't prevent, and that reduced them to puppets.
This does sound like “the user decide” indeed. The issue is: allowing that will likely be popular among people who should know better (like me) and it puts uBO into a position to be able to do some shady things that are hard to prove.

They’ve been in that situation before, with the original uBlock, and they’ve learned not to trust their own team.
To be fair, studies like history and archaeology are anything but hard sciences. One of the history courses I took during my degree was dedicated entirely to looking at historical texts and trying to see the biases of the historian who wrote them. There's always reason to look for bias in primary sources and secondary sources and then try and learn from them. Re-framing what we know in different lights definitely has value.

All that being said, it does feel like a weird jab to throw in the male bit at the beginning. But that's who was studying this at one time, and realizing that and being open to re-framing doesn't hurt.
If you create an account you get 5 free articles a month so that should suit you fine.
Aren't most of the US already wild ? 50% of the population is on the coasts. Besides the east, as soon as you go inland it's quite literally a desert.
The amount of grey comments in this post (most of which are in support of Assange) is pretty impressive. Good job Crazyhorses!
> Are general social networks actually useful though

I'm not a big Facebook user, but my parents have been caught up in the bush fires currently raging in Australia and got cut off from power and internet (no power for satellite internet, and the mobile mast ran out of backup power), and finding a local Facebook group created to discuss the fires was fantastically helpful, I got in touch with their rural route mailman and people in the local village and found a bunch of good local news sources.

In comparison there was nearly nothing on Twitter (one Sydney reporter who was tweeting from her dispatch for two or three days). Main-stream news sites were utterly useless with no detail in their reports. Without Facebook I would have had drastically less information and more worry.
IDK, I have my mouse set up so that the full movement range is something like an inch or less; wrist is stationary on table, palm is stationary and doesn't touch mouse, and all movement is done with fingers only. It's kind of the same as working on a touchpad, where also wrist is stationary and everything is done with fingers.
Oh I definitely agree that owning a car is horrible in SF! Parking is super difficult and when you do find a spot, it's so tight that you need to be an expert to even get in/out. I don't think there's a good option for getting around in SF. I end up doing a mix of walking, taxis (also bad), Uber/Lyft (ok) and occasionally rent a car if I'm going to be making trips to the valley (very bad).

I'm just comparing the walkability to other major cities. I find SF to be pretty unwalkable all things considered. Especially compared to European cities or NY.
I like that. I've heard people say to always keep dating your partner, but how you said that makes me see that with a different angle.
As someone who is writing a tool that procedurally generates random textile and clothing styles for fantasy cultures, this article is extremely useful to me.
I know a few female archaeologists. They've uniformly experienced sexism, ridicule, scorn, and harassment for being women. The hard sciences are steeped in identity politics, and have been as long as there have been hard sciences. God forbid somebody actually talk about the assumptions and biases that result.
That’s clearly a completely separate issue to how mortgage rates are presented
No. I mean like what the parent said where paying for premium access removes all ads. If all ads aren't removed, that's a different scenario.
Five strategies to remove single points of DNS failure
> I'm guessing the Prolog compiler is super complex compared to, say, a C compiler to be able to give developers that much power.

Nah. Both Prolog and C do a very similar step: they walk through call-sites and function signatures in your code and check them for compatibility with each-other in a way that can constrain both the call and the function, or they fail to make a match and they rewind and try again with other constraints. The only difference is that C is only doing this unification for the types of the parameters, whereas Prolog is doing it for the parameter values.

Any programming language that has static types but also has an “auto” variable type, where the type is deduced from the use-def and def-use chains that statement live in, is doing absolutely everything Prolog does, and just not exposing the power of it to you. (Hindley-Milner is an even more advanced constraint-solver than Prolog is.)

(Though, to be clear, if you can program in the type system, as you can in C++, then you do get an exposure to that power, and can write many backtracking algorithms with it.)
The first thing is, how do you distinguish between the ad and a non-ad? If my friend mentions a famous brand in a chat with me, should there be some entity to remove the name of that brand from the chat, so that I don't see it?

There are many videos on Youtube recommending stuff. You never know if the author has been paid. Even if you try to detect popular ad networks and services, the ad techniques will also evolve.

If ads were the only source of my income, and my content was unique, I would show the user a "quiz" every 5 minutes, asking him to answer, what is shown in the ads at the moment :D and deny the access, if the answer is wrong.
Dreaming Up a World – How Luxury Brands Create Desire
Where is the source for the traffic loss claim? Their profile on Alexa looks healthy and their rank has improved over time
A keypadless keyboard coupled with a dedicated numberpad works great.
Indeed, the Stalinist system ate its own enablers. Not just Beria, but his predecessors Yezhov and Yagoda were monsters in their own right.
He locked all above issues.
The guardian is hardly helping.
same, years ago bought an unknown brand DVD player at a supermarket (it was the only one they carried).
It came with the code region hack instructions printed.
Ask HN: Have you tried learning Functional Programming?
What have been your biggest issues / challenges with the existing learning material?
I see. To keep tracking under control I have my browser delete all cookies on exit except a couple of whitelisted sites I wish to remain logged into. I use the firefox CookieBro plugin for this. I also run the firefox "I don't care about cookies" plugin to stop those nuisance banners you get when you visit a site for the first time. Lastly, I use ublock origin to clean things up.
this does not look trustworthy
Couldn't you blacklist all subdomains of the 1st party and whitelist the few that are actually real?

Or, assuming they have a small list of subdomains that redirect to ad servers, you could generate a list with a script that checks all their subdomains and creates a block list based on that. For example, the site discussed in the OP has all their subdomains listed here: https://crt.sh/?q=%25.liberation.fr

Edit: looking at the OP case, it seems like they only have one ad domain. I'm not sure I see this as a serious issue until multiple sites start rolling out thousands of subdomains, some pointing to back to the real server, others pointing to the ad server. Maybe that will happen but it's a pretty big barrier to entry, and just short of proxying everything through the 1st party.
And why would you use chrome instead of chromium?
Stick to Firefox and Chromium.
It isn't entirely impossible. Erlang's processes (actors, not actual OS processes; they are like mini-green threads / fibers) very often just throw away all their data after they are done with their work, and that data is often entirely stored entirely in the stack, without any GC needed -- even if the language is GC-ed. Also, all GC is per actor so there's no stop-the-world GC pauses.

But the scenario you outline, yep, it does seem impossible with a borrow checker.

And don't get me wrong. I am gradually learning Rust and I love it. But I can see myself being a little grumpy with the procedural style and often quirky syntax. Oh well, can't have it all, right?
You will never be a better programmer from faster typing.

But for my it's about reducing frustration with one of my main daily tools. Like having to look down (mostly due to my hand "getting lost", not actually looking up keys) distracts me from reading and thinking about the code on screen.
It's almost as hard to describe as ASMR.
ACRN Tinnitus Protocol for Tinnitus Relief
I’d say it’s not a drain, but even as a long-time ad-blocker, I still am conditioned to ignore things screaming for attention. It’s been very often that I’m looking for something (eg. a link) but I don’t see it because it’s more visible than the rest of the page and my brain is conditioned to filter that out.
Well for one it is observed that open bisexuality or pansexuality seems to be far more common among the subculture than the general population. Occasionally it is joked that bisexuality is the norm. Homophobia generally includes any same sex attraction.
Wasn't familiar with the concept of learned helplessness and found this interesting study looking it up [0]

> The mechanism of learned helplessness is now very well-charted biologically, and the original theory got it backward. Passivity in response to shock is not learned. It is the default, unlearned response to prolonged aversive events and it is mediated by the serotonergic activity of the dorsal raphe nucleus, which in turn inhibits escape.

Learning how to help yourself isn't as easy as it seems especially when you barely or don't have the means to do so.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27337390
Are there any downsides to trying this ? Can your Tinnitus be worse ?
I don't see the problem.

If the publisher develops an analytics, user profile or whatever solution themselves, then it's 1st party - OK.

But outsource the development or hosting to someone, and suddenly it's a problem? How is this different to using AWS?

Now if the data from their different clients is merged to build a unified view of what you do on the web, that's different, but the place to prevent that is in the browser using cookie partitioning, not by caring about the tracker developer/hosting provider.
You should explain what you mean by decentralized.

A CDN? Serverless on something like Cloudflare's workers?
> BitLocker, the encryption software built into Microsoft Win- dows will rely exclusively on hardware full-disk encryption if the SSD advertises support for it. Thus, for these drives, data protected by BitLocker is also compromised.

I thought BitLocker stopped trusting SEDs after the last time around when drives were discovered to be trivially broken? [1]

But apparently this change only just happened a couple months ago. [2]

[1] - https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/flaws-in-self-encry...

[2] - https://www.pcworld.com/article/3441864/bitlocker-windows-bu...
What I'm a little afraid of is the congress will just carve out a warranty exception for the military as a bandaid to fix this specific issue without addressing right to repair on the whole. I could easily see them passing a law that basically says 'warranties shall not be considered void due to repairs made as part of a military mission' or something similar (wrapped in way more legalese) and leaving it at that or giving the full right to repair, ie: suppliers must provide CAD, board schematics, and make available replacement parts, but only for the military.
The behemoths don't (and can't) care about markets with a value below a certain threshold.
I had a preonic and felt this way too. Columnar staggered seems to be the most friendly layout, and a split board so that you hands aren't shoved together.

My setup is a split 40% keyboard with a columnar staggered layout (corne), I've got layers for a numpad and mouse emulation keys, and my window manager is i3 and firefox has the tridactyl extension. I very very rarely have to touch a mouse, for the odd times I use it the mouse emulation in QMK is usually enough. I find this is the most comfortable typing experience for me.

But yeah, basically don't discount the benefits of 40% boards because you tried an ortholinear board, I found them uncomfortable too.
Adrenaline is a heck of a thing. I know someone who similarly said they were fine and wanted to go home after being hit by a car. They had fractured vertebrae and their spinal cord would have likely suffered permanent damage if it wasn’t immobilized as soon as it was.
> recent grads that stay for longer than three years since we invest in their career growth and provide much more mentorship.

definitely not why recent grads stay. wet behind the ears folks don’t know any better so don’t know how good they have it. they stay for either the reason they are there in the first place: quality of life; or out out of inertia; or from lack of thinking big. NOT because they realize they’ve got it good.
And also very difficult to comprehend. Concretics of politics had been much different back then.
Maybe, but this applies equally well to programming languages!
For the same reason people do research, that also "pays" a pittance compared to what those people could make in the market.
And actually, it at least pays better than the academy. Most of the time you will move to some smaller, cheaper town. Sometimes even living inside a base.
You can actually buy a house and have a family with defense wages. Try doing the same doing research on the academy.
> It continues to surprise me that the official documentation seems to prefer using global configuration in /etc/ansible

Personally I want an env(1) of something like ANSIBLE_HOME where, if defined, it completely ignores [/usr/local]/etc/ansible/.
Have you ever tried using a macbook? That was the conversion point for me.
> Nothing he did was hidden though.

I think that it's entirely possible one can do things which may turn out to be criminal in the eyes of the regulator even while the board may approve. Or be dazzled by the person who held most of the cards, perhaps.
> What was the creative outlet of regular people before the meme culture? It feels so massive and unhinged that it almost makes me think that we didn't have anything equivalent before.

I was just thinking about this yesterday.

In the 80s and 90s it was popular to parrot moments from movies. Quoting them, mimicking them, or simply pointing at someone and drawing a parallel. In the early/mid 90s my friends and I used to make our own WAV files and we would even photoshop pictures every now and then.

Political memes are kind of like modern-day political cartoons in that they distill key points down into a very relatable and shareable form.

Human nature is human nature - I think it's always been around just using different tools and distribution methods. Kind of cool actually!
Show HN: A complete re-thinking of the desktop productivity app
We created Slash (https://getslash.co/hn) after realizing that todo list apps are hopelessly broken. They're great at making lists, but offer you no help in crossing them off. In fact, they often create even more stress when you're staring at a list 100 items longs.

Slash is a task "do-er" that helps you CRUSH your list by focusing on one task at a time.

Quickly enter your tasks, hit 'Start', and the window shrinks down to a small always-on-top window that shows your current task and how long you've been working on it. When you're done, hover over the task name and click 'Done'. Then you get a random ""You're awesome"" GIF, and the option to start the next task, or take a break. The idea is that you create your list once in the morning, and then never have to choose what to do next.

It also bakes in a ton of other productivity tools like:

- Pomodoros (20-30 minute work periods with 5 minute breaks)
- Eisenhower Matrix (Tagging tasks as urgent/important for automatic prioritisation)
- Timed Tasks (Type in 'Do _______ for 20 minutes' and the task will start with a 20 minute countdown)
- Time Tracking (Check out the analytics dashboard to see what you spent the most time on, your most productive days + hours, etc)
- Integrations with Trello, Asana, Todoist, etc. -- Coming soon! (Import your tasks from a list app, and get them done in Slash)

Our mission is to help people get more done, and actually move closer to their dreams. We'd love your feedback to help us better the app and enable a world of smaller todo lists :)

P.S. If you like the app, we'd love an upvote on Product Hunt! https://www.producthunt.com/posts/slash-904b91c8-4031-4e3b-b262-59f4bae85d22
This is true. Those "Download Now" ads on download pages are case in point.
How to store your data without CO2 emission
If me as a human can identify ads easily, Machine Learning and Computer Vision could be used instead of black-listing domains like in this case.
I don't think uBlock can or does block it, here's the issue that tracks the research into it: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/5184 as well as an attempt to block them here: https://github.com/instance01/Twitch-HLS-AdBlock

You may be ad-free for another reason such as a grandfathered twitch prime that will expire when it next renews, twitch turbo, or a subscription to a channel that opts-in to the ad-free sub benefit. You might also just be in a region or demographic where ads aren't being bought, so you wouldn't get any then.
That's amazing, considering your whole business model can be replaced by just a wordpress plugin
I'd do it (and indeed have done it, but don't use the account), if I didn't have to be tracked in order to read....
Show HN: Standard Graphics – command-line tool for universal 2D graphics
ResourceDescriptor: A Generic API for Defining Kubernetes Resource Graph
You're looking for https://opentracing.io/

We don't just use it for traces across services but also as a means of profiling in production. Going from "latency is too high" to "this exact database query is taking too long" in a few clicks is amazing. I wouldn't want to work on a new project without it.
The common motivation for ad-blocking is to prevent third-party tracking (the discussion here is about first parties proxying that tracking), JS attack surface, cryptominers, auto-playing videos, etc. - not to prevent advertising per se. Back when Google sold text-only ads, people were quite happy with them for doing it.
It looks to me like the answer to "why" is something like: intoxicated by the possibilities of new technology, but not weighed down by too much knowledge or experience, they just tried everything they could think of.

As an example, "monocopters" seem like the same sort of thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocopter
There was a similar attitude in the UK. There were even (legitimate) retailers set up to sell region 1 DVDs into the UK via the Channel Islands to reduce tax.

But was it truly "piracy"? You still had to buy the DVDs even if they were from the "wrong" region. It was a bit of a nonsense scheme by the industry and was more about them not violating rights (to distribute movies in certain territories) rather than the end user.
The way I look at it is compounding just changes the effective interest rate.

Continuous compounding is e^rt. Just subtract straight interest from this and you discover the maximum return of compounding over just collecting interest. Most compounding periods are much less than continuous.

I think this would take less than an hour. ;-)
AlphaStar vs. Serral
I’d even go a step further and learn Dvorak. It’s surprising how much more relaxed your typing becomes vs. Qwerty.