skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it doesn't say so.
>it might support just a hundred publishers rather than ten million sites - but so be it.

You want millions of people to loose their lively hood over this issue? That sounds cruel and spiteful to me.

You also have to think of many small companies that make niche products that would no longer be able to find their customers and thus be forced to close.

> 2) in a vast global experiment where advertisers knew everything about everyone they still completely failed to show people relevant ads.

The premise of your statement is false, advertisers have never know every thing about anyone. That was just marking bullshit by ad-tech companies targeted at adversities and publishers, "We know everything about your users! So if you hire Acme Ad Tech your profits will go through the roof!" The fact that users hear the statements and understandably freaked out was collateral damage. The fact this statement was demonstrably false was irrelevant.

The fact is that the amount of data used to do targeted advertising is quite sparse in-fact, no-one wants to spend the effort to individually go through mountains of data and figure out the best advertisment. Really the only data used is

1. demographics (age, gender)
2. location (this is so a NYC based restaurant chain doesn't waste money advertising in California),
3. language (people actually hate seeing ads in a foreign language)
4. interest categories (like do you like Football, or Cars, or video games, this is how facebook advertises a lot they figure out your interests based on posts, then allow advertisers to advertise to you based on that category, (interestingly they don't actually sell the list of interests mostly because that would mean advertisers would not have to buy ads through Facebook and more))
5. product targeting (this is you visited acme.com and put an acme roadrunner trap in your cart but never checked out so now it follows you around the internet.)

> Most notoriously even the giants who know what you ate yesterday fail to realize you probably don’t want ads for toilets for a year after you bought a toilet.

Yeah, that's my point, using more data (like the fact you bought the toilet) is more work and using the current amount of data works well enough for them so that is all they do.
California has a major issue with Solar (duck curve). I think the goal would be to incentivize additional storage, so when the sun goes down and they suddenly need 8 GW, they can lean on the batteries as gas is ramping up to replace the lost power.
I mean there is pretty compelling evidence that water fluoridation reduces tooth decay in children. I’m not clear what your objection is - are you suggesting this is not the case?
This was/is unclear, I actually remembering having an hour long discussions about this exact topic several months ago. This is the biggest problem with the GDPR it was hard to understand what could and could not be done.
>with reusable rockets, bringing down launch costs by 80-95%

Nice joke.
> Most early-stage startups use the (in 2008, when I did mine) best practice of “delete=1”. Changing your whole database over to permanent cascade delete is only easy if you’re a very experienced programmer or who knows what he’s doing.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA

How did you get upvoted so much
I knew that he was wrong with his older don't __builtin_prefetch article[1], because my own benchmarks proved otherwise. But of course it depends on the structures (compile-time) and the data (run-time). With lots of randomly spread out data, prefetch might be too expensive, but when the e.g. a compacting GC aligned my data properly near each other it wins.

And of course for graphs: avoid the costly pointers, think of relative short links instead. And best: avoid graphs. Use trees or arrays (tries) instead.

BTW GraphQL is such a nonsense approach. A graph can contain pointers not only to parents and siblings, but even to any other random node, and by searching in a graph you can always run into endless cycles. That's why you avoid graphs in a database. You avoid the additional serialization or the hash table to fix the recursive cycles. That's why you use proper relations, trees, but for sure not "graphs" or "objects". Whenever a PM approaches you to use a this fancy new graph or object db, tell him that this is nonsense. You rather structure your data properly so that you can avoid graphs, the mostly costly of all data structures.

[1] https://lemire.me/blog/2018/04/30/is-software-prefetching-__...
You’re not allowed to have the DPO be yourself due to potential conflicts of interest.
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I'm currently halfway through the process of getting both Surgically Assisted Rapid Palatal Expansion (SARPE), which I completed 6 months ago, and Maxillomandibular Advancement (MMA) which is happening in October. I'm in my early 30s. I never tolerated the mask well and couldn't fathom being strapped to it for the rest of my natural life.

After reviewing the literature, it quickly became clear that soft tissue surgery was a poor option - surgical success rates are often less than 50%, and surgical cures are almost non-existent. At best you'd trade a lot of pain for a temporary, modest reduction in AHI.

MMA, however, looked very different - in the hands of a skilled surgeon, surgical success rates are >90% and reduction of AHI to <5 is possible, though not guaranteed. A relevant paragraph:

"Staged surgery protocols have been developed to address multilevel airway abnormalities that contribute to OSA. Generally, procedures that carry less severe risks and potential complications are performed initially. The Stanford group protocol reports a staged surgical success rate of 75 % in patients with mild-to-moderate OSA and 40 % in patients with severe OSA in phase I (palatal surgery alone or in combination with GA) to 95 % in phase II or facial skeletal surgery [53]. In some cases when soft tissue abnormalities are not considered to play a significant role, maxillomandibular advancement can be considered as the initial therapeutic option [45]."

(source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3480570/)

Among leading surgeons the view these days is that MMA is the gold standard and there is no reason to do soft tissue surgery first unless your physiology specifically warrants it. MMA does, however, require a skilled surgeon - in the hands of an inexperienced one you'll see much lower success rates and more complications. I did a ton of research before picking the surgeon I've been working with.

Dr. Kasey Li is probably the surgeon you're thinking of. I'm Canadian but paid to have a consult with him to make sure I was on the right path. My understanding is that many insurers will cover the surgery now, although in my case I'm having it done in Toronto by an excellent surgeon. Between the two surgeries and orthodontics it will come out to about $20k over two years. In Canada the hospital stay and most of the surgeries are covered by provincial insurance, so about 3/4 of that cost is actually for braces + expansion device for SARPE.

It's a long and sometimes difficult process, but my own personal calculus lead me to believe it was the best available option given the circumstances. If all goes well I should come out the other end with minimal or no sleep apnea, and as a bonus straighter teeth too :-D

There is some really interesting work being done on implantable hypoglossal nerve stimulation devices (https://www.inspiresleep.com/) but in my estimation the jury is still out on the long-term prospects of that modality.
No; it turned out that bad studies produce not very useful statistics.

Others in this thread have already indicated why this study doesn't help with much. Unfortunately it will just give the anti-fluoride crowd ammunition.
I've done this for years. My CPAP runs on 12VDC so it works directly from 12v in my RV (recharged by solar panels) or from a portable 12v Lithium battery pack that gets me through about two nights without recharging. No inverter needed, and I don't use the humidifier on battery power.

Unfortunately I just got a new CPAP that uses 25 VDC, so I'll have to build or buy a DC-DC boost converter for it. Slightly annoying, but not a big problem.
The power generation system uses a closed-loop control. It's easier to visualize if you think of a single traditional rotating generator connected to resistive loads like incandescent bulbs. The electrical power being used by the lamps acts as a "brake" on the generator: it takes energy from its rotation, so you need more mechanical power to spin the generator shaft at the same RPM.

Now suppose some of these incandescent lamps are turned off. The power being consumed is reduced, so the power being taken from the shaft rotation is reduced, so you need less effort to spin the shaft. If the mechanical input is the same, the shaft will spin faster.

And here is the trick: there's a mechanism which senses the shaft increasing its speed, and reduces the mechanical input, for instance by partially closing a water gate, until the speed returns to normal. The same happens in the opposite direction: if more of the incandescent lamps are turned on, the shaft slows its speed, the mechanism senses this and opens the water a little more, until it's back to the correct speed.

What we have on modern continent-wide power networks is basically a scaling up of that principle. So the answer to your question is: the extra power is not produced, the production automatically reduces until only 95 units of energy are being produced, matching generation and demand.

What happens if that's not the case? Simple, if production and demand are not within a few percent of each other, protective relays cut the generators and/or loads until it matches, to prevent damage to the generators, power distribution devices, and loads.
So in effect it was fashion mixed with politics disguised as a technical discussion...
New Algorithm Allows Autonomous Cars to Change Lanes More Like Humans
It's a classic loaded question technique. Emphasise the bad things before asking the question. This is pretty obvious.

Do you think they would have got the same result if it was worded "A high speed train will reduce journey times by X%, reduce congestion by Y% on the roads and reduce CO2 pollution by Z%. Do you think we should build one?"
Seconded. This isn't a new issue with storage, as SCADA is used everywhere. Look up the article from Wired on the Ukrainian Grid Cyber Attack. They got into the utilities operations center and started remotely opening circuit breakers and took out many key substations and then DDOS the phone systems so customers couldn't call in and let them know what was going on. Horrifying stuff.
driving innovation while having the biggest number of homeless people in the streets and no health care.
Google did this to me. I wrote a script to find the cheapest flight in matrix.itasoftware.com (now Google Flights), and ran it once per hour. Pretty soon they started giving me only the most expensive flights, as in, 7K+ for a 1K flight.
Netflix seem to be doing very well without adverts

How much does a website typically earn from my visit (with adblock etc)? I haven't had a site with adverts since 2000 so no idea

Sky in the UK gets something like 80% of revenue from subscription, but still have adverts on top of that, trying to extract every last penny. Thats why I won't subscribe -- plenty of other choices for entertainment. If your time is worth say £15 an hour, having 2 of you watching a 40 minute program and 20 minutes of adverts costs you £10. Given the income ratio is 8:1 revenue, your £24 subscription brings in £3 of advertising money to sky per month, if you watch 1 hour a day, that's 10 hours a month, or your time being worth 30p an hour.

No thanks.
We don’t have a delay in our case.
Sorry for sarcasm, and sorry for sounding provocative to part of this site's audience, but this really needs to be said.

Is there still a reason to come to US to setup a shop?

I was always finding it bizarre how countless Asian entrepreneurs were and are thinking of opening a business in US as some king of proof of their entrepreneurial proves, while in many cases doing so was a great net loss to them.

USA market as I see it: ultra-competitive (you fight with dozens of copycats like you are for every insignificant scrap market niche,) fragmented (every state have more consumer protection laws that all China combined,) high corporate tax rate, impossibly complex laws covering corporate finances/accountancy/reporting/partial ownership, if you dare to do a stock market listing - god have mercy on you, unpredictable like weather consumer markets, impossible to score access to the consumer without dishing tons of money to ad agencies, bizarre consumer protection rules, having to deal with MBA school bred Dilberts at any "business services" company you have to deal with, and like this for one more page.
I'm glad that this project was written on Crystal. But does it tries to be like Elm?
When has D&D rules ever had an emphasis on storytelling?

Hell, trying to build a P&P RPG that focus on storytelling effectively kills the spirit of the game. Turning it into a game to tag team game masters.
Given a huge network (or multiple) this thing can do wonders on continuous network auditing.
Yet, there should be some security switches, such as complete agent uninstalling, really secure communications with CnC (paranoid mode and above), and no persistent backdoors. Those things can introduce new vulns to the network.

After all, it is only meant to automate the classic identify-> try exploit loop. Good for me.
Ok that does sound valuable. But maybe too much of a niche. Most people are fine with the OS apple/Samsung ship with the phone.
Do we really need yet another language for the web?
Internal documents show that Apple knew the iPhone 6/6 Plus would bend
This is how "well known giant corporations" are. They have chosen not to understand the GDPR, gotten a lawyer to state that "ISO27001 certified vendors" will not pose a risk to them under the GDPR's security requirements, and so have set policy that they cannot purchase from vendors that are non-compliant.

Their policy office is probably still busy waiting for Y2K.

It sucks, but HIPPA was exactly the same, and I heard exactly the same complaint from tiny companies back then too.

You can get ISO27001 for as little as $5k. My advice is that if you can afford it, suck it up, if you can't, offer ISO27001 on-prem installation for an extra $10k. If they walk. They walk. You can probably get them later (see below).

But see, it's important to understand that you're wrong: This isn't a side-effect of the GDPR.

This is a side-effect of capitalism: With no laws requiring that they keep personal data safe, it is to their benefit to keep the data in as insecure a form as possible.

Look at Equifax[1], who have lost control of perhaps every single american's name, DOB, SSN, and address.

Data Protection laws are designed to protect people. Eventually, people will get used to them; the dust will settle. You'll have an opportunity to explain the actual risk/reward clearly to your potential customer's CIO office because the savings/efficiency you're promising will make it worthwhile.

But right now? Too much fucking hyperbole about the GDPR for anyone to be thinking clearly.

[1]: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/33185/00011931251815...
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> I don't believe that ridership will ever be high enough to approach that number

Trains in the rush hour in the UK are pretty much always full, with people standing up. The tube at rush hour looks like this:

https://static.standard.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2...

If it's not too expensive or infrequent I imagine it will be very popular.
Or you can do as I do and synchronize settings yourself through Dropbox or a billion other ways.

I remember the good old days when software companies used to like to reuse stuff to prevent having to use user data. I used YNAB and they had all the user data in a Dropbox folder. So their app knew who you are and I/O’d to Dropbox, but the YNAB company didn’t know.

Then they switched from software to service and all of a sudden it was essential that they know their customer and have an account and whatnot.

Proper software design minimizes complexity. [0] If users are likely to already have a common, free way to synchronize settings, design for that. Don’t add another risk by collecting PII. Especially if it makes you money in ways you aren’t disclosing.

[0] Steve McConnell Code Complete, page 80 - http://aroma.vn/web/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/code-complete...
But that bypass the original question. A company might survive fine on 75%, but what will investors think when the potential growth is being artificial cut down to 75%?

I would imagine that the stock market value would take a rather strong dip if a company proclaimed that they revenue would be cut down to 75%. Investments and stock options are not only valued by the companies current ability to survive, but also speculative value.
The kernel doesn't change in Smooth Life, right ?
There's not even anything wrong with targeted ads!

Behavioural targeting is fine!*

Contextual targeting is fine!

*In many circumstances.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2vgICfQawE
> Targeted ads are like a cancer

>> Not to mention the ads keep following you after you buy the thing

If you don't want irrelevant ads for items you already purchased following you around, then you want better targeting.

I think many people just don't like ads at all. If I had to live with ads, I'd prefer to have relevant ads, but that's just me.
This would be great if GNOME actually had sane defaults. Unfortunately GNOME is full of terrible defaults that it makes you jump through hoops (gconf, tweak tool, extensions) to change.

Like the total absence of a dock/taskbar. Not having minimize/maximize buttons on windows. The weird half-assed global menu thing. The terrible default status icon drawer that sits in the lower left of the screen in spite of an almost entirely empty upper panel. Not being able to right click with the corner of a touchpad. The annoyingly slow animation to bring up the application list. The moronic 'Other Locations' pane in the file manager that adds an extra click to get to anything not in your home directory and is completely impossible to configure without changing the source code. It is possible to configure the lid close sleep behavior, but again it's in the tweak tool.

Trying to remember which settings are in settings vs tweak tool is annoying, exactly like the Windows 10 settings/control panel mess. Would it kill them to replace tweak tool with an 'enable advanced options' toggle in settings? Managing extensions is also a process that the GNOME devs seem to have made deliberately obtuse and annoying to discourage anyone from actually doing it. And they keep breaking the API with new releases and failing to document the changes, making it a giant pain in the ass to maintain extensions and leaving a bunch of old broken extensions on the official extension site.

I complain but only because I like the other aspects of GNOME enough to actually use it.
Nitpicking, but the easiest generation to control is hydro - few seconds to change power output dramatically.

For gas it is a few minutes at least.

Nuclear and coal mostly can be used just as baseload.
Why i have been using noscript for ages, and why i feel quantum is barking up the wrong tree.
It should be noted that nowadays that pretty much every German retail chain takes credit cards (MasterCard, Visa at least). Lidl, Aldi, Rewe, Kaufland, many Edekas, Media Markt, Ikea, Rossmann, DM, Obi, etc. all take them.
Who has ever said from their deathbed, "I wish I had spent less time with my kids"? They're only children once. They change so fast and it will be the biggest regret of your life if you miss it.
>Just think of the volume of post that would be going out of suburban post centres! The delivery network obviously doesn't look anything like that.

According to this article in the Toronto Star, online return rates are around 20%, rising to 30% in the holiday period.

https://www.thestar.com/business/2017/01/15/online-shopping-...
I don't mind ads as a concept.

I do very much mind ads that stick a massive zombie in my face when i happen to be browsing a url listing that may hold something about games.
I could argue that not protecting my data constitutes abuse.
The only place I’ve seen powerful/prosumer non-Mac laptops that you can play with in store in the UK are big department stores - e.g. John Lewis.

Actually, PC World had demo machines out to play with last time I was in there, but very few in comparison to the tech department of the department stores.
Yep, you have one month.

If you are storing backups for longer than this then perhaps you have to ask yourself why.

For instance, the last company I worked for deliberately didn't keep database backups past 30 days and had that policy for some years prior to GDPR. The idea being that it would be expected by a user that when they hit "delete" on something in the web app it would actually be deleted.

(Additionally there is a whole minefield of crap that could happen if you got subpoenaed and had to due process on months or years worth of backup data, but this wasn't the primary driver of the policy)

This is a pretty good read on the matter:

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...
That is an awesome idea! I really like it, one thing I do know if you dig in the the ad settings for most provides you can find a page where they display this info and you can edit it.

Unfortunately short of some type of mandate I don't see how this could work, because it would be next to impossible to get 90% of the population to fallout the cookie.

My company actually did a bunch of research on collecting consent from users to show personalized ads, (aka what everyone is doing right now)

Only 25% of the the users read the 3 sentences before clicking on a selection. 25% did not read anything many thought our privacy dialog was in fact an ad. :(

Many people said they didn't want personalized ads because they thought it would mean filling out a survey like the one you just described even though it obviously (to us) did not.

One person actually said, "I'm okay with them using my browser history to show ads but, I don't want them to use my personal data like my banking records or my medical history." This is very ironic because we presented the option to do exactly what they wanted by they didn't understand what it was because they did not consider the browser data to be "personal".

I really wish that when you first opened a browser their was a dialog about hey these or the things you need to know about how we pay for the internet. Though I have no idea how get to that spot.
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