skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> why is lowering online ad revenue [a negative effect]?

It may not do that in the long term. Total spend for online advertising is probably a relatively stable figure.

In the short term it will likely have, at least from where I stand, a net positive effect. Now that industrial-grade stalking is finally illegal, companies whose sole business model was based on it will suffer. Possibly collapse. Well boohoo, cry me a river.

If and when large enough portion of the target market may no longer be stalked, the advertisers will have to come up with new (or rediscover old), non-intrusive ways to target their audience. The value of intent- and context-based audience segmentation might just go up again.

But how do you know which ads, and on which sites, ended up working the best? How about generating per-impression [bonus] codes? You don't need to stalk your potential customers if they willingly submit opaque and non-trackable information that allows you to trace the ad campaigns. GDPR does allow incentivisation, after all.
Some call them "Taco Bell Programmers" as in take the same 6 ingredients and mix them up slightly differently and give the result a new name.

I used this with a recruiter in South Florida a few years ago and it started popping up in listings...
I highly recommend TailwindCSS as well. Spend an hour with it and you will see significant improvements to the time it takes writing HTML and CSS.
Oh man, that's genius. Totally gonna bookmark that.
While CMake is verbose I don't think it's terrible. The complexity of building a simple flat source project vs a multi-stage build project scales very well. One thing that amazed me was how simple it is to script up the creation of generated libraries.

For school I had to generate a build step that would allow me to embed Duktap and link to a library called Glad. Both needed to be generated with a python script. Doing this was dead simple [1]. I didn't have to do anything crazy to locate the path to python, the source folders I want to output into, etc. CMake has magic for that.

Granted I spent just as much time reading the really horrible docs to find out how to use these magic features as it took me to complete the assignment. I think like many amazing technologies it's blocked by a steep learning curve and a long long history of worse ways of doing things. Every time you google for how to do something you'll get an answer from a different part of the project's lifespan.

[1] - https://github.com/gravypod/solid-snake/blob/master/CMakeLis...
This explains so much. I have a feeling this is why the Surface Dock generally won't work with dongles, for instance.
The fun thing is that Go on unix is not the native Go environment, and it shows in several places, including treatment of import paths of all things (the whole GOPATH thing).

It shows even more in the fact that it originated, and afaik is still partially compatible, with a C compiler that is completely alien to both GCC and MSVC worlds. In essence, Cgo is a hack even on GCC.

Windows treatment of C and C++ as "just yet another language" is very alien, however, to the devs who come from unix world, and many basic things are not handled corrently by them or even planned for :(
Yeah but it used to be the only one with more than 10 MB storage in days when disk space was very expensive.
I did not say that it was thanks to email harvesting, it was the targeted ad income they had in general that made it possible.
> Thus, cgo has an overhead because it performs a stack switch, not thread switch.

> It saves and restores all registers when C function is called, while it's not required when Go function or assembly function is called.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/37962500
Well it's always been under resourced and you could fairly say it lacks product/commercial maturity so will have many rough edges and gotchas, but at the same time it's a very complex problem space where all of the solutions have drawbacks - so I'd look more at what the differentiators are, since we have to endure pain in any case.

So for example, with shopify you know it's all going to be click and build and largely configurable by commerce owners. Ease of use and a generic set of capabilities that scale across its userbase.

With Drupal Commerce, you know you are going to have a completely extensible open source system which leverages very powerful existing Drupal components such as entities, views, users, rules, search. There isn't really anything else like this.

A long time ago, I saw one very big d6 project (with insanely huge spiky traffic) which recognised this and used d7 commerce as a separate standalone system which sat on the back end integrated with the d6 site. This was after assessing Hybris, Magento, and Demandware as alternatives and understanding that they would require far more bespoke coding and have higher maintenance costs to come anywhere close to the very very specific and high spec requirements this particular site had.
I wasn't talking about email harvesting. It was their targeted ad income in general that made it possible to bootstrap this service at the beginning and then make use of the e-mail data to further improve their otherwise free offering.
Blockchain-based e-Procurement platform
> iron-clad proof that drone aircraft and autonomous cars won’t crash into trees or veer into oncoming traffic

Utter bollocks.
A decentralised Ethereum-backed public procurement platform where all deals are carried out with transparency and hope.
Looks like this is for all Gannett-owned newspapers, including my local paper :D
To be fair, it depends on what you consider to be the market. A lot of what used to be done here is now automated.
For example, panel dividing:

https://www.homag.com/en/products/cutting/

https://youtu.be/ujgLsZZlOQg

This stuff is now very cheap.
They are talking about the jobsite and home market, and if you compare that to what these videos show, yeah it's wildly unsafe
Ireland Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban
this article really hit home for me. With all of the cbt/lynda/udemy/YouTube/blablabla content out there, I'm usually exhausted after the info gathering phase. Putting a time constraint on that is smart.

Like another commenter said, finding the perfect difficulty level to attack is really the hard part. I've finished info gathering just to get bored or frustrated by said info.
"Basically those who take existing software and tape it all together as something new."

You mean like in electronics?
Apparently that's a myth, see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET#Debate_on_design_goals

I've also read about it in the book "Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet". In the prologue it mentions:

“Rumors had persisted for years that the ARPANET had been built to protect national security in the face of a nuclear attack. It was a myth that had gone unchallenged long enough to become widely accepted as fact.”

“Lately, the mainstream press had picked up the grim myth of a nuclear survival scenario and had presented it as an established truth. When Time magazine committed the error, Taylor wrote a letter to the editor, but the magazine didn’t print it. The effort to set the record straight was like chasing the wind; [Bob] Taylor was beginning to feel like a crank.”

Some other sources seem to confirm this, e.g. http://www.alphr.com/features/369490/top-ten-internet-histor...
> No, no-one can force you legally to forget something, and I think this brings up the main problem with your argument, which is that we're not talking about Alice and Bob, we're talking about Alice and Bob's Widgets INC.

I assume you mean Alice's Widgets INC., since Alice was the one with the website.

But in any case, I didn't say "Alice's business's website". I said "Alice's website", as in her personal website. Are you saying that an individual's website can record visitor's IP addresses and store them indefinitely, but a business cannot?
Alan Bean – moonwalker and artist – has left us
He is not alone; Qubes OS is the big deal here and that already exists.
It helped me a lot to fully internalize the reality that every person is truly doing the best they can, given the genetics and environment they were dealt by the universe.

There's no reason to feel hatred towards any person for being flawed. This applies to yourself when you eat too many donuts as much as it applies to a serial killer that tortures people. It simply doesn't make sense to feel loathing for anyone. Pity is the rational response towards the flaws of humans.

This doesn't mean people can't be improved to a large extent with an improved environment. This definitely works, which is why some self-help books work for some people or why joining the military can help some people improve themselves.

This realization also focuses your efforts on the environment (food, sleep, exercise, books, etc) which is another great aspect of it. Knowing that the way to improve a person is through environment removes the shame of failure. The answer is always to improve the environment and never to blame the person for not being better than they are genetically. Blame the environment for not being good enough to help the person, and then improve the environment until it is.
Are you saying that you shouldn't be allowed to trade use of your personal information for services?

That's the principle behind the GDPR, yes.
I don't think they should be fined, but they should be required to fix security vulnerabilities.

Default passwords are a vulnerability, and defective by design is not an excuse...

My Netgear router came with a secure unique password printed on a card, an internal-only admin panel, and UPnP disabled by default. It's not hard.
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Tangent - Has anyone tried the mandibular extension devices? Worried about long term impacts on jaw...but still tempted vs having this machine for rest of life
What about the millions of people that do?

The commenter's case was about removing or not allowing it at all, but de facto it's required.

I'm pretty sure non-matchmaked games don't have anticheat features -- it would be dumb, as it is an additional cost.
What's the easiest way to tell whether pin 20 is wired, if you don't have a very very expensive cable tester?
It's weird how that isn't enough then, isn't it? There is some secondary data moneiltizaton.
When my wife and I met Alan Bean he was witty, charming, warm, friendly, and a real joy to chat with. Subsequent email conversations only served to cement that impression.

From another article[0]:

“Alan Bean was the most extraordinary person I ever met,” said astronaut Mike Massimino, who flew on two space shuttle missions to service the Hubble Space Telescope. “He was a one of a kind combination of technical achievement as an astronaut and artistic achievement as a painter.”

“But what was truly extraordinary was his deep caring for others and his willingness to inspire and teach by sharing his personal journey so openly. Anyone who had the opportunity to know Alan was a better person for it, and we were better astronauts by following his example. I am so grateful he was my mentor and friend, and I will miss him terribly. He was a great man and this is a great loss,” Massimino said.

I had a brief hint of that, and couldn't say it better. The world is poorer without him.

[0] https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/family-release-regarding-...
It seems that there are two replies:

1. No there aren't too many people; people just need to change their lifestyles.

2. Yes, there are too many people, because with far fewer people, we could have all the things we like (like lots of meat, cell phones, automobiles), and the overall impact will be small.

Given how hard it is to change lifestyles, maybe #2 is the more practical alternative.
Java 11 Will Include More Than Just Features
If you follow the money, they are similar. Both make it harder for the incumbent, US based monopolies to compete with home-grown services.

Also, they both massively break the “end-to-end” principle, since your geographic location (and therefore ISP) has a big impact on what data gets served.

(The differences between the two are arguably more important, but they are obvious, and have been discussed to death, so I won’t bother pointing them out)
But why would most users consent?
ha, sounds like there's demand then... while not technically interesting, burrito assembly is still economically useful :)
They have. Growth is not through the WWW. Instead, it's through phone apps.

The news experience through websites is so bad that I don't read news on the WWW anymore.
I have a very hard time believing you’ve developed software that has been released. I’ve always done my very best to release robust and stable software, and I’ve still shipped bugs. Should I be sued out of existence?

We don’t need hardware and software costs spirally out of control like healthcare because of the liability. If device makers would just support their products (bug fixes) for 10(?) years I think that would do it.
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It's fairly trivial, but related to Simpson's paradox, which isn't. There is a hidden assumption that's worth pointing out.

It was probably posted due to recent discussion of casual inference. Judea Pearl talks about it in The Book of Why.
How about, "too many to sustain and give a lifestyle that maximizes human potential"?
does this really cover all these cases?

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Locale-Maketext/lib/Locale/Maket...
Seems like if you leave it up to the cable manufacturers to implement parts of a standard (beyond X wires at Y gauge minimum) they are bound to fuck something up.

Just look at the amount of screw-ups over the resistors used in USB C cable variants, in particular the one used to indicate that the cable is an A to C converter.
What is not true?
You need to bundle mandatory, sizable insurance as a requirement for getting the license to sell/not selling illegally (i.e., treat the device as illegal as an insurance provider who is not licensed to sell insurance, not as an unlicensed medical doctor).
The insurance would make the vendor fix his shit. And he can't just chicken out. Make some way for sufficiently large companies to self-insure, or they will be mad. If they don't get mad, they probably like the reduction in competition.
A multimeter in continuity mode?

Pinout for DP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DisplayPort_Connector.svg

Mini-DP (female, reverse in cable): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mini_DisplayPort_(connect...
American media has vigorous criticism within a certain range (roughly the Democrat-Republican spectrum), but it is supportive of common elite interests. For example you will find the NYT rarely criticized on moral grounds the wars that the US waged. Speaking of Herman and Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent is a good analysis of this phenomenon (propaganda in democratic societies), with supporting evidence.
Huh? "Waste not, want not?"

Most excretion occurs via urine, so it wouldn't be entirely impossible. But daily urine volume is 1-2 liters. And urine starts to smell nasty after a few hours. Also, there are thousands of widely-used drugs, legal and illegal. Even focusing the most damaging ones, that's some serious chemistry.

So filtration seems the best approach. And I see this:

> A new filter membrane based on a covalent organic framework (COF) could help clean up drug-laden wastewater (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201802276).

> The medicines we take often end up in sewage. Wastewater treatment plants struggle to remove these compounds before releasing water back into the environment. Scientists worry that when these molecules end up in the environment, they might contribute to the spread of antibiotic resistance or disrupt development in aquatic animals.

> COFs are crystalline porous networks made from small organic elements covalently linked together. They are similar to metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), which are finding uses in hydrogen storage and catalysis. COFs have been used in similar applications, but Jürgen Caro of Leibniz University Hannover thought the materials could make good nanofilters.

https://cen.acs.org/articles/96/i14/COF-filters-small-organi...
Alan Bean, Apollo Moonwalker and Artist, Dies at 86
Semiconductors made-in-america are important for CN and could stop a trade war
Well they definitely distribute and market... and the creator would be the artist (most of the time). So you’re just talking about producers / labels I guess? Definitely not what I would assume when you say industry...
Gmail can't use that data for ads unless they ask for consent separately (which the user can refuse).
Isn't uMatrix fully included in uBlock if you simply enable Advanced Mode?
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This doesn’t make sense. Why is liability tied to payment? If someone 3D prints brakes and they give them away for free, are they liable?

This is a tough problem. We want to punish negligence, not destroy lives because of honest mistakes.
It's an arms race at this point -- exploits are weapons.
This also reminded me of some summer classes. Maybe one month, 5 days/week?

Some of the things that best remember from undergrad were learned over the summer.

I still don't know whether it was the short/intensive set up of the courses that improved learning, or if it was the fact that I was only willing to do summer courses in topics I knew I'd do well in. Either way, it's my best memory of school.
Alan Bean, 4th Person to Walk on the Moon, Dies at 86
But there's open source software for this. Why don't they just use that?
Appears to be updated to more natural language now; I guess a Wikipedia editor saw your comment!
I'm amazed at how much this person's philosophy for learning mirrors my own. Even down to the details, building habits, pushing yourself to the edge always, deep focused flow based work.

What I would add is you should feel a little bit of stress from the difficulty of the task. As an example, recently, I did research and in an unknown field both for the first time. I was a little tense, it forced me to focus every minute. If I didn't know what a formula or term meant in a paper I had to figure it out, because I had to be able to evaluate and possibly implement it.

I had to look at papers and evaluate them on their quality b/c I was using those to mold my own. I made many,many mistakes and failed hard many times. It was often very unpleasant (like running when you're fit but still not quite getting enough air on the last leg). But I kept pushing through. At the end, I learned more on this project than I had in a very long time.

Anyways, hope my experience can help someone else to push through and see the light on their project.
In their defense, last vote was on a working day and not all employers let their employees skip work to vote.

It's weird that voting does not take place on a non-working day in the US (like Sunday, for example).
I actually think it is exactly the opposite: the culture like this was killing the innovation. That is reason biggest companies are ads companies: Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc.

And that is the reason companies like Oracle and other will still make big $$ - why? Because you cannot "break things and sell ads" and do "delete=1" when you are developing RDMBS.
FYI, the author is a woman. And her twitter account is very much worth a follow:

https://twitter.com/intent/follow?original_referer=https%3A%...
Looks like an organism!
The homeowner's insurance regulates the locks and doorframes to be used for external doors, maybe differentiation more or less.
I believe it is very manipulated. Much more than is commonky acknowledged.
Yeah? Show me someone who's a citizen of the EU but not a member state.

They don't exist. The EU loves to dress itself in the clothes of nation states, that which it so desires to become, but ultimately the concept of "citizenship" in the EU sense has nothing to do with the normal concept of citizenship.
> but the knowledge per dollar gained would be infinitely higher.

Would it be? It sounds like millions, potentially tens of millions, would be required to run this hypothetical study. And the likely outcome is that the effect is minimal.
Would you explain your extreme position instead of making snide comments? We're all here to learn. Educate us.
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I've been having a similar issue, across multiple different DP cables, (DP -> DP).

My screen will just shut off, and refuse to turn back on for minutes at a time. It will also randomly flicker once every 10-15 minutes (for like 3-4s, then back to normal). I've tried two different DP cables, and two different DP ports, but its the same issue, and the HDMI ports I have don't support 144hz 1440p =\.

Such a frustrating interface. Would love if someone could weigh in with advice.
If you mean your post as a general argument against organisations claiming to value any vague "good thing", I can respect that. With few word changes in your comment, you could use it to argue against claims of valuing: privacy, diversity, inclusivity, environment etc.

Do you believe organisations should remove all claims of valuing such things?
There's a really good piece [1] by David Chapman on how subcultures grow, from creators to fanatics to mops to sociopaths, which ultimately results in their death. Your comment made me realize that the Web is currently well in the "sociopath" phase. I wonder whether any of his suggested remedies can be applied to save the Web from death.

[1] https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
Depends what's on the site. If it's just a static site, there isn't a lot of point trying to investigate a breach, just fix the changes and move on.
Sure, but people are saying that it makes the UX really obviously terrible too.
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That's not at all ironic.

I am referring to opinion polls. By pointing out what opinion polls say, I am not "speaking for all of Europe". That would be me giving my personal opinion as if it was commonplace or standard in Europe.
My router has the password saved in the page source ...
Based on this paper:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.1567 Rafler, Stephan - Generalization of Conway's "Game of Life" to a continuous domain - SmoothLife [2011]

Citations here:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=7362834692940912518

Arxiv also points to a blog post from 2013 about it:

http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2013/02/20/smooth-l...

Whose author found it via, OF COURSE, John Baez:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/117663015413546257905/posts/bguQ...
You do need to sign in to continue to read previous notes tho, fwiw
Um, you're still going to die, no matter what you eat. Sorry.
Yes you’ll want to use active dongles with the Surface Dock, those will run off the 3.3v supply.
If they were liable there is no profit margin. These products will never exist.
This is just disagreeing on definitions. You're assuming a particular definition of "cross-platform" and I think what they mean is that pure Go (using its standard library) is very portable. It's great if the standard library does what you need.
There isn't a law banning the use of Electron instead of learning how to build desktop applications properly, and there's a lot of resentment over people doing that too.
Consumer routers should be self-updating, along the lines of the CoreOS Update Philosophy:

https://coreos.com/why/#updates
I think the other If would be If you haven’t found “product market fit” yet with your audience.