skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which browser is best for respecting user privacy?

"""

We study six browsers: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox,
Apple Safari, Brave Browser, Microsoft Edge and Yandex
Browser.

For Brave with its default settings we did not find
any use of identifiers allowing tracking of IP address over
time, and no sharing of the details of web pages visited
with backend servers.

Chrome, Firefox and Safari all share
details of web pages visited with backend servers. For all
three this happens via the search autocomplete feature, which
sends web addresses to backend servers in realtime as they are
typed. In addition, Firefox includes identifiers in its telemetry
transmissions that can potentially be used to link these over
time. Telemetry can be disabled, but again is silently enabled
by default. Firefox also maintains an open websocket for
push notifications that is linked to a unique identifier and so
potentially can also be used for tracking and which cannot
be easily disabled.

Safari defaults to a poor choice of start
page that leaks information to multiple third parties and allows
them to set cookies without any user consent. Safari otherwise
made no extraneous network connections and transmitted no
persistent identifiers, but allied iCloud processes did make
connections containing identifiers.

From a privacy perspective Microsoft Edge and Yandex are
qualitatively different from the other browsers studied. Both
send persistent identifiers than can be used to link requests
(and associated IP address/location) to back end servers. Edge
also sends the hardware UUID of the device to Microsoft
and Yandex similarly transmits a hashed hardware identifier to
back end servers. As far as we can tell this behaviour cannot
be disabled by users. In addition to the search autocomplete
functionality that shares details of web pages visited, both
transmit web page information to servers that appear unrelated
to search autocomplete.

"""

From:

https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf

(Paragraph breaks added for readability)
Azure is fine, but I don't see a lot of efficiencies between Azure, VSTS and O365. They're all pretty separate. AWS is still the best and it's perfectly fine to use one cloud provider and a different productivity suite.
Who cares, grow up.
I was wondering, as I use EyeSight on my Outback and it seems to detect plenty of stationary and odd shaped objects (like an old, empty flatbed semi with broken tail lights) which I didn't expect it to.
That startup equity is likely raffle ticket disguised as a lottery ticket
If you want "better climate and congestion outcomes", then it seems silly to focus specifically on taxi and taxi-like services.

You need the political will to tax the externalities you care about, e.g.

- if you use taxes to triple the price of gas, then there's more incentive to cycle instead of driving

- if you charge vehicles for using congested roads, and the charge is proportional to the vehicle's footprint, then buses become much more attractive than cars

Optionally, you can use the additional tax revenue to subsidise buses or whatever.
bank cards can be tapped on NFC terminals: ISO/IEC 14443

What is the security model delta here?
No, this is in regards to official business travel. Personal travel is entirely separate, and is right now at the stage of "if you visit <any of the hardest-hit countries>, work from home for two weeks before coming into the office."
I think Digital Asset rights fights are going to be big in the next couple of decades. Especially as account owners start to mature and realize their investments and start asking hard questions such as estate planning. (Can you pass on your digital assets/libraries to your children? The answers there [which currently are most "no"] are going to surprise an increasing number of people over the next few years.)
Absolutely, I don't think any sane Rust zealot would argue that Rust can compete with Go/Dart productivity. The argument can be made that Rust code has a lower maintenance cost over time, though, and that productivity may not drop as much as the system becomes more complex.

Even with this relative improvement, though, I question if it's enough to overcome the shorter compile and test loop the other languages have, or the mental overhead of managing lifetimes and ownership.
It's hard to tell from outside of any place. I felt once that I was a victim of attempted "constructive discharge", but I was not (and never have been) immediately marched out after giving my two week notice. Conversely, I had a boss that I never heard anything bad about or a scandal, who was escorted out with his stuff mailed to him after like a decade of service. Nobody admitted to knowing why, except for the usual generic reasons for a layoff.
I'm just talking about pharmacists and telephone operators. I dont mind pharmacists and I didnt mind telephone operators. My life isnt much better now that telephone operators are gone.
I'm sure you're right, but they already had a parallel service (App Engine flexible environment) that did what all the other providers did. I don't see why they had to destroy the standard environment.

It's not like they have a shortage of developers to work on it.
I'm no advocate of it; just explaining what's very likely their rationale, as opposed to them storing passwords in plaintext. Plaintext password storage still happens, but you wouldn't see that at a company like Paypal. (Plaintext credentials may be unintentionally present elsewhere, like debug logs, but a company like that isn't going to be so incompetent as to store them in plaintext in the database.)
I think you're correct about the meta of software engineering. People, Remote Work, Culture hacks are metagaming attributes of building a company or startup.

I was thinking more specifically about building web apps (or software systems). I think there's something there as well
I don't get it. They say they'll continue to support Savannah, so what is this for?
I'm not! Just ask my family.
My credit had been on a bad record for a long time. A number of accounts in collection status, 3 weeks ago, after seeing numerous posts about 760PLUS CREDIT SCORE online, I messaged him around 12am at night while I was at work, not expecting to get a feedback till next day, he replied minutes later, and we set up a time to talk over on phone. Not only did I have his email and work contact info, he also gave me his personal cell, so I could reach him any time if I had questions or concerns. After conversation with him, I felt confident in my decision. Just yesterday, I received news that all my collection accounts had been dropped! Dismissed, and removed from my credit report and my score raised to 795, he also went further to enlighten me on how to maintain a good financial record. Write him on: 760PLUSCREDITSCORE@GMAIL.COM or text +1(304) -774 -5902.
If you played against grandmasters your fundamentals were likely extremely good relative to most players
Is Sanders electable? New research from political science
There's nothing uwp-specific about that behaviour though. The classic calculator could be made resizable and gain a "stay in top" option.
Is Brave the only iOS browser with fingerprint protection? Does that really works?
> Yes there's value in just lying there with your eyes shut

I never read the book you mentioned, but I do this almost every morning, as a way of mental preparation for such a simple thing as getting up. It sounds so stupid saying it out loud but I completely live this.
This is why when in a big enterprise, you’ll find a bunch of these completely unrelated sections appended to the employee handbook.

So that when shit like this happens, you can legitimately say “We ask employees to not play games while driving.”

It’s utterly pointless, but makes the company and the regulator feel good?
I used Brave for a couple of months, but in the end I had to switch, because it is just not ready to be used in everyday situations.

I actually tried their crypto ads, out of curiosity. I had some BATs collected, then I reinstalled my machine, used their backup code to import the wallet again, but it showed zero value. I contacted them about this, never got an answer.

The sync was causing a crash for some people, so they turned it off for everybody. It was off for at least a week, and maybe even now. But even when it was turned on, it didn't sync properly between my iPhone and my laptop.

The browser frame is rendered weirdly both under xfce and kde. I had to resize the window and maximize again, to get the min/max/close buttons properly rendered, and make some random border disappear.

There were sites where I couldn't log in even after turning off the shield.

On my iPhone for some reason when I searched something in DDG, clicked on it, then went back, DDG was rendered, then tried to scroll, and the previous site started bleeding through from the bottom of the screen. The URL bar showed DDG, but nothing was clickable. Refreshing the page didn't work, so I had to force close the browser and open again to see my search query. Interestingly Google seemed to be working, although I only use it for like 1-2% of my search queries, so I cannot be sure.

In the dev tools the audits tab didn't work at all. Couldn't connect an Android device for remote debugging.

In the end all the little annoyances just made me uninstall it, because for me it is just too much to put up with all these. It definitely has some interesting ideas, but I cannot recommend it just yet.
Latency is literally a killer problem in remote operation. For example, the US Air Force operates Predator drones all around the world remotely from a base in Nevada. But for takeoff and landing (the most hazardous phases) they usually hand over control to another pilot located at that airfield.
> Do you really browse the web without an ad blocker? ...

Some of us aren't yet comfortable with blocking the easiest way for users to compensate creators, while still consuming said content.
Is not it just a token on decentralized Ethereum network? o-O
So in the investing game the actual game is buying and selling and the Meta game is to do good diligence. I would say for most things the meta game is obvious. For programming, meta game is learn the API and different patterns as the language evolve.
This is a really great article, and something I've been slowly realizing over the last few months.

I only wish he would explore the concept of playing your own meta in order to reach goals that are important to you (and maybe no-one else): hacking the system, so to speak. FIRE (financial independence/retire early) is an increasingly popular meta that does this.
> If the answer is the latter, then why aren’t we replicating that mechanism across other essential goods like food and clothing?

We do/have. Water, electricity, phone services (and other communication), roads, child care and and whatever else the romans have done for us have all had successful government implementations. Food and clothing typically haven't been included in this list because choice is more important for them and the market does a good job at providing them, but even there I think there's room for a government foodbank/clothes bank style option.
He was ready to retire anyway and I think he's getting out of dodge while the going is good. He successfully launched their streaming service, and if I were him, I'd also want to get as far away as possible from the hospitality industry given how the spread of covid-19 is going.
Another ~billionaire in the race...exactly what the democrats need at the moment.
Plenty - an older plane and a midair collision.
Bird strike. etc
It will be more interesting to see who is no. 1. (it may not be AWS)
Alternatively, if they started handing out lifetime bans to everyone fully or peripherally involved, you can expect the peripheral ones to come forward with all they know, hoping to avoid the ban.
Closed all the bathrooms too.
In this forum, only you know what you mean until you write words. When you write a word like "hardcoded", which means a specific thing, is it not reasonable to expect people to think that you meant "not really hardcoded".

As one of my favorite people told me once: words mean things. The words we use matter, as humans do not have telepathy.
Germany and especially Japan, during ww2, were ardent supporters of indian independence for obvious reasons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Legion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_National_Army

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azad_Hind

So Hitler doesn't have as negative a connotation in india and most of the non-western world just like Churchill doesn't have as negative a connotation in israel or the west as he does in india or the rest of the non-western world.

History is much more complex than we are told it is. It isn't black and white. That's why traveling is so important. You realize that everyone is living in their own little bubble.
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The board doesn't care about Star Wars or any movie title, the board job isn't to care about revenue that a film brings in that's the executive leadership job.
I read "ride of a lifetime" by Bob Iger last month. It was a pretty nice book, similar to ShoeDog by Phil Knight. I learnt a lot about leadership, about Bob himself and started to like him (even though I had no idea about him before the book).

A few things that stuck with me:
1. Have three priorities or less. Otherwise people can't relate. Jim Collins also said: "If you have more than three priorities, you don't have any".
2. He did everything to show that he cared about what his people were doing. He would take part in many aspects of the star wars movie (and be there). This sent a message, a good one.
3. Earning trust is important. He did Pixar acquisition well. That earned the trust of Marvel CEO.

I recommend checking that book out.
I was hoping to see a return to the 4:3 aspect ratio screens, actually.
Facebook acquires the VR game studio behind one of the Rift’s best titles
Her short story collections are quite accessible. If you want to dive into the Hainish cycle, _Four Ways to Forgiveness. Or for a mostly Hainish but more diverse set of stories, _The Wind's Twelve Quarters_.
> commerce & ads are the backbone of the internet

I'm sorry, what? Everyone uses Wikipedia, and probably so much, that they don't consciously realize it...
You’re in the Midwest. Big city or small city?

Terrorists tend to strike a major targets, so you’ll definitely find a difference in security measure between downtown Chicago and say Peoria.
You seem to misunderstand. The Modi government supports purging of Muslims.
And I'm not saying that they're not. But the reality is that that help isn't coming from the average person on the street. The institutions capable of actually providing help, already have access to this data.

What's relevant is the proposed tech empowers the average person the street to quickly access and synthesize already public information. It's essentially no different than a real-time background check.

And I would almost certainly think that you'd agree that in a situation where your personal safety is potentially at risk, that you'd prefer to have this information available to you. If you were hiring a baby-sitter for your kid, would you not conduct a background check. If the background check revealed that said babysitter was a schizophrenic meth addict, would you still hire that person?

Of course not. That person needs help, but you as a private individual going about your life is not the entity capable of providing it.
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> weird horizontally-expanding OG-Xbox blades user interface

God do I hate this. I've given up hope that I'll get used to it at this point. I have yet to even figure out how it's supposed to help me, let alone find a way that it actually does. It's so very weird to seemingly no purpose. And someone had to put in a ton of effort to make it that way!

... but then I kinda hate all of the big 3 cloud web UIs.
Amazing. Every word you just said was wrong.

1. More than 12 employees at the time of ICO.
2. Check the UGP status. Tis well distributed.
3. Check the payout to freecodecamp, over $2k.
metagame with opponents within similar elo is the most important
It seems like the Thinkpad malaise of the past 7-8 years (at least with the X series) continues.

I can't believe it, but Lenovo's best compact laptop is still the X220 or X230 (where the keyboard already started to deteriorate). Sure, the new ones are faster, but it doesn't make up for the deteriorated structural features, keyboard etc.
People's circadian rhythms change over the course of a lifetime very considerably. Trying to keep all age groups on the same schedule is actually a pretty bad idea. Check out the book Why We Sleep. I think especially how we treat adolescents, who are usually late shifted by 2 or 3 hours compared to adults, is going to look barbaric in another 30 years. People think that 9 AM is a "late start" for high school, but it should probably be more like 11 AM. Even the ratios of NREM versus REM sleep change a lot over different age groups.
True, although Mike Bloomberg wrote a column in March 2019 explicitly announcing he would not be running for president in 2020, so.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-05/our-hi...

(Although I can't really imagine Iger would be running for president this election cycle; I think we're well past too many filing deadlines to get on enough party ballots to have even a mathematical possibility of being nominated, and I doubt he's quixotic enough to run as an independent.)
"In a 2017 study for Rand Corp., researchers assessed 500 different what-if scenarios for the development of [self-driving] technology. In most, the cost of waiting for almost-perfect driverless cars, compared with accepting ones that are only slightly safer than humans, was measured in tens of thousands of lives. “People who are waiting for this to be nearly perfect should appreciate that that’s not without costs,” says Kalra, a robotics expert who’s testified before Congress on driverless-car policy."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-10-09/tesla-s-a...
Yeah, they were common, but started to disappear long before 9/11.

I know the Stockholm airport still has locker rentals.
Depends on how the content is generated and updated. Is it hosted already on a website? If so, the fast way would be to do either a mobile app that is essentially just a web view for your content or to use something like Cordova to pack up the website and deliver it as an app. I honestly do not advocate for either of these options but they are options.

Personally for any app I want to get out quickly on both platforms I have been using Flutter and find it is a good compromise, better than React Native (IMO) and quick to iterate and simple to still keep a native feel for each platform (and still have performance). Still the best way is to create a native app for each platform, but for what you are doing that seems like overkill at this point.

Really it all depends on how your content is updated and where it is at today that would drive how I'd likely approach it.
You're confusing delayed sleep phase disorder with non 24hr sleep wake disorder.
> Market prices are currently set based on 1-3x multipliers of Medicare reimbursement, so by definition the government already handles health care at lower costs.

I work in insurance, and I can tell you right now that $25 for a cleaning (per this article) is significantly lower than the amount for a cleaning (procedure code D1110) set by Medicare/Medicaid. You can look it up yourself by visiting the FAIR Health code lookup tool (https://www.fairhealthconsumer.org/dental/results), and setting the ZIP code to that of Carlton, GA (location of the Wal-Mart clinic), 30627. The average allowed amount is $64.

> Commodifying health care has proven to be disastrous in the US because it's, in practice, impossible to "shop around" — not even including cases where the "customer" is unconscious or in a life-threatening situation where "shopping" would be ridiculous, the profit models of health care centers are forcing many to close, leaving people with few choices in their immediate area, exacerbated by the "network" coverage model of insurance companies where you may not even be able to go to certain hospitals or doctor's offices.

Ignoring emergency health services (which is the minority of health spending), I'm not sure that we have enough information to irrefutably prove that preventable and planned care cannot be successfully commodified. A common theory around why we haven't been able to commodify healthcare in the US is due to a lack of price transparency, and the fact that employer sponsored health insurance removes the price sensitivity from buyers[1][2].

> Interestingly, though, improvements in supply chain management are making it possible to centrally-plan commodities like clothing. Multinational companies like Wal-Mart and Amazon are doing this already, in fact.

They aren't centrally planned, though — they are subject to market competition (see: DHL, UPS, FedEx, FlexPort, Maersk, etc). Their ability to be major "central planners" by controlling large parts of the supply chain is predicated on their ability to fend off market competition, and the moment they fail to do that, this manifests as a market opportunity for new competitors to take their place, wherever in the supply chain the large corporations fall short.

[1] https://www.econtalk.org/keith-smith-on-free-market-health-c...

[2] https://kfor.com/news/okc-hospital-posting-surgery-prices-on...
For what it is worth, from https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/:

> There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.

Personally, I’ve always thought that Python missed its Zen, both here and on “explicit is better than implicit.”
Speaking of culture and context: it's crazy that these ideas are relatively new when they seem so obvious to me, having grown up with the idea that culture is anything but innate.
Using the fact that someone once entered a UK address as a proxy for living in the UK is inviting legal disaster in my opinion.
I think the position is different. Symptoms can have many causes. You can undo symptoms due to some causes by doing some things. That means you can cure the condition that's expressed via a symptom by doing the thing. However, that doesn't mean you can cure the symptom by doing the thing.

A personal example is shortness of breath. My friend and I both had that when we were kids. However, I had it because I got bronchitis for a bit. He had it because he was asthmatic. Imagine if I said "Oh, I don't understand what the problem is. All I did was rest and it went away". Well, that won't help my asthmatic friend, will it?
Coding Problem: Find an element that appears more than half in array
I'm with you here. I really really want to use brave as my daily driver, but the biggest dealbreaker is buggy bookmark sync.

I'm willing to forgive them making such a drastic and strange requirement like mandating that the all bookmarks folder be moved to the bookmarks toolbar, but when a basic feature like bookmarks syncing (a solved problem in every other browser) is so horrendously broken, I simply cannot use it.
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> Water, electricity, phone services (and other communication), roads

These are all natural monopolies due to the limitations of public infrastructure. Such natural monopolies don't necessarily exist for goods/services like food, clothing, and medicine (most notably, over-the-counter generic medicine). Communication is largely left to the market, rather than government coordination/pricing.

> but even there I think there's room for a government foodbank/clothes bank style option.

Either that, or just providing the poor with money to buy food at market-rates, i.e. food stamps.