skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like a misunderstanding of the complaint. I know people do oppose targeted advertising, but that's not why they're mad about Red Shell.

The way Red Shell targets ads involves building and storing full device fingerprints when you play a game. It's a privacy risk totally separate from the targeted advertising question. And yes, individual devs could do that also, but at least I've chosen to deal with those devs, and my data can't be tracked across different games by different companies.

If Red Shell switches to something like a device-side hash of the fingerprint, so that it can recognize returning users but not give out (or lose) the underlying data, I'd feel vastly better about it. Basic targeting analytics don't bother me, and "did this game ad work?" is vastly more justified than most tracking. I just don't want it tied to an externally-stored device fingerprint.
Why would Uber treating these people as employees "take away their opportunity"? What would a full-time Uber driver lose by this?
A significant drop in wages is generally considered "constructive dismissal" for unemployment purposes.
lol Rich is straight outta Britain English - his English is the most English of any of ours :P

edit: Now that I say that, I guess he is Welsh so maybe his english isn't the best... :P
I can just imagine crooks struggling to use a 3d printer lmao
I hate being the guy that suggests a book as part of a debate, but have you read The Grapes of Wrath? Among other things, it shows in wrenching emotional details what can happen without minimum wages when people are desperate.

Also, do you think humans (in an economy or not) always act rationally?
They complain about all kinds of stuff, but generally like Uber (unless they complain about the app itself being buggy). I’ve honestly had some pretty unprofessional rides, but never heard them bash the opportunity to drive.
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I am an administrator of a 1000 people group dedicated to political discussion in Facebook. I have been accused of being a Nazi and helping them. The people doing so were wrong, but they were convinced that I was doing that. My mother's family is Jewish.

Trust me, deciding what is hate speech is is impossible. And lots of people try to advance their agenda accusing others, trying to silence them. I have seen it a lot of times.

Regarding fake news, Facebook tried to suppress them. But they don't know how politics in my country work, so they leaned on another institution. The other institution is managed by the wife of a politician. I think you can guess the rest.
Regarding the GDPR this is PII. They can squeel and wiggle. But as the use a thing called the internet to transfer this data, they receive something like an IP address. And that is PII.

It wouldn't be a problem to collect that. If I am informed as well as have the (easy) ability to opt out.

Did they collect after 25. of May? Wouldn't they be liable regarding GDPR?
Many times lately I've referenced Frederick Douglass' "A Plea for Free Speech in Boston." It's a speech he gave after being heckled/deplatformed by proponents of slavery. It's an acknowledgement that the First Amendment is not enough, protection from the government is not enough. Socially, culturally, we must protect the principle of free speech among ourselves.

Here's the speech if anyone is interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w2i5CnZ9Xo
A bit confused on the website. So this allows you to create cards containing video content which can be embedded in webpages?
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> This is important. We’re at risk of the “gig economy” undoing over a century of hard fought gains in workers rights.

There's definitely work to be done to modernize our employment laws with the changes to the economy. It's not a clear cut "Everybody is an employee" though.

If someone drives for Uber for 1-ride per month should Uber pay $1000/mo for that driver's health insurance? How about 1-ride per week? How about if they have the app "on" but never accept a ride? Should they be paid for the time they didn't do any driving?

Clearly the driver isn't an employee in the traditional sense of the word. But they also aren't a totally independent contractor either as their livelihood is so closely tied to the platform of a private entity. My gut says to err on the side of not imposing restrictions or mandates until we figure out the right balance.

> Minimum wage laws, unemployment, etc, these are good things that should be preserved.

Unemployment insurance, as it's implemented in the USA through effectively a tax collected by a private entity, is a scamola. A better idea would be having the employee get their own private unemployment insurance. That would also lead to lower costs of insurance for workers that are less likely to be discharged.

> Uber has clearly shown that they’re happy to be as exploitative as they’re allowed to be. (And that even when they’re specifically disallowed they’ll do everything they can to ignore it and fight the laws.)

Nobody is forcing drivers to drive for Uber. An argument may be that they were enticed with higher rates that were subsequently lowered in some markets. There's also the argument that a lot of the drivers don't under the total costs involved (double payroll tax, depreciation, etc) but by itself offering work in the "gig economy" isn't exploitation. Uber (and Lyft, and ...) should be lauded for (net) creating thousands of jobs.
There's already a WASM-centric OS in development: https://github.com/nebulet/nebulet
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I'm sure it would cease to exist. The EU has lost every referendum on further integration held in, what, the last 15 years? The EU political elites are notorious for telling countries that voted wrong to vote again, or just ignoring them.

If every population that's asked rejects the EU's vision what on earth makes you so sure that a comprehensive alternative wouldn't be popular?

Also there's no such thing as "picked apart" in the sense you mean, i.e. outside of military strategy. Nobody is picking North Korea apart despite that it's a world pariah. If a country doesn't want to collaborate with another country or accept its terms, it doesn't have to - the idea that cooperation is a form of warfare is exactly the mentality that the EU has, and is why it's so desperately dangerous and problematic as an organisation.
No, that's not what GDPR says.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-4-gdpr/

> ‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;

[...]

> ‘profiling’ means any form of automated processing of personal data consisting of the use of personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular to analyse or predict aspects concerning that natural person’s performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behaviour, location or movements;
Finally identified the issue - I was adding Marmalade as a repo, which cert is legitimately wrong (Chrome will warn over https://marmalade-repo.org/).

I just removed the repo - I'd say that Melpa won in recent years?
Electron is not the same thing as PWAs.

I don't need a 300 MB pro application.

There is already a perfectly fine browser on my system.

Actually four of them.
That is how it looked when we first made it, so its a bit more worn in by now. The reason it looks like there are only two layers is because of how we stitched it and how the excess batting was spilling out past the blankets a bit.
P.S. I think this is the link you were talking about

https://gunfreezone.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/improvise...
>Work is not divided into even units completed at a constant linear rate over the course of the day

You are correct, work is not distributed evenly throughout the day. But this doesn't matter to the employer. Your employer could care less how fast you complete a "days worth of work", all that matters is that each day you complete a "days worth of work". For employers of mostly hourly workers, this will change to an "hours worth of work", but the concept remains the same: the rate at which work gets done is unimportant next to the amount of work that gets done.

The criteria you give as affecting the productivity of workers is tiredness, stress, and morale, all of which I would assert decrease throughout the day. Wouldn't it then be more productive then for the employer to simply send the employee home earlier once they have lost their productivity? I think so, but employers would start to wonder why they ever paid for those non-productive hours in the first place, and that might have more sinister consequences for the worker.

It's not obvious to me that taking a day out of the work week is the best way to approach this. I think just talking with your employees to see how they're doing then adjusting their hours accordingly would be vastly more effective.
One of the various "protecting personal information" trainings I had to do for a US Govt job made mention of multiple non-identifiable pieces of information that combined could identify a person falling under PII, but how many is ok to put together was left purposely ambiguous.
I was a fan of Wunderlist until MS scooped them up and churned out To-do.

I ended up moving to Google Notes. I mainly use the widget as a way to keep myself reminded of things I want to do (with no deadline). My GF and I share a note for Groceries which works well.

Too little to late 4 me sry MS. Lack of alphabetically sorting my list was enough for me to switch.
I think that, barring any prescriptive definition of the word "modern", the earliest time period that a person cuts of as "modern" has a lot to say about a person's expectations of society and daily life.

I've always wanted to do a sociological study that asks
1. What is the earliest year you would include in the modern era?
2. A set of questions to indicate your left/right and authoritarian/ libertarian political leanings.

It would be cool to see the results.
That part comes next ;) Getting all of the rendering calls isolated to one component was a pretty big task in itself, and just isolating and de-duplicating them improved our rendering perf by something like 30%
I am a data scientist (and use both R and Python regularly). I would take the plot in your link with a grain of salt - RapidMiner is not frequently used (at all) with any of my friends / coworkers, though maybe I'm just in a bubble.

I like R a lot the more I use it. Tidyverse libraries (especially purrr + dplyr + ggplot2) make R a joy to use. I would argue that R is ahead of Python in terms of libraries for everything but deep learning (which is, after all, only part of ML).
It's not being used for ad targeting. It's being used to track ad conversions, which is a completely different thing and can be done without PII.
The report was actually awaited on with great fanfare. When it didn't confirm preconceived notions it seems to have been buried. I only heard the actual results from an obscure show on Harvard Business Radio.

To me this exemplifies everything that is wrong with the media today.
For a possible motivation, the GDPR confers a right to data portability, and whilst there is guidance[1] that this "does not create an obligation for you to adopt or maintain processing systems which are technically compatible with those of other organisations", this is probably one of the easiest ways of demonstrating compliance.

For the biggest and most widely used services, it definitely would respect the spirit of the regulation more closely than e.g. just giving a json dump, since that's fairly useless to your average user.

[1] https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...
Well, the elementary school is two blocks away, the middle school is two blocks the other way, and there is a high school about four blocks away (though by high school the neighborhood school isn't as relevant, at least in NYC). There are little league soccer and baseball teams that practice & play games at the small park a block and a half away and the larger park three blocks away. I'm pretty sure that neither of those particular developments require a car.

We do frequently use a car (when leaving the city, for instance), but we don't have any reason to own a car. And more critically, we aren't chained to it in the way that so many friends and family are, by virtue of every necessity lying well beyond walking distance tucked inside a giant parking lot.
Pretty sure the vast majority of those are illegal copies of Windows as well.
What if it's their only opportunity? A lot of people aren't doing this because they think it's a fantastic opportunity, they're doing it because it's one of very few ways they can make a living.
No one is suggesting that Uber should go away. Uber should simply pay at or above minimum wage, and offer unemployment protection and such.
thank you for this entertaining and educational story!

the spilled urea tank is a particularly interesting element. it seriously seems like this kind of disaster could be used to get other offices to move away from the open plan.

hmmm. what might be the "spilled urea tank" moment in a software startup's office? maybe something related to the CEO's personal information being leaked.
If I had to do a project, probably vue or just vanila-js.

If I wanted to learn more, I really liked the purescript book [1]. It made many concepts I wanted to learn in Haskell click. I am not sure I would be confident enough to try to deliver a project in it, but I know some people do, I really liked the presentation of Claudia Doppioslash contrasting Elm and Purescript [2]

[1] https://leanpub.com/purescript/read

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngWo5e-294o
>It's basically impossible to have nice things because people will always try to any [sic] little thing into a career and the complain when it isn't viable.

Can you blame people for trying to make a career out of it when that's how Uber and Lyft marketed themselves when they first started to grow?
From GDPR Article 4(1):

> ‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;

To layer on some interpretation:
* Red Shell is collecting information
* which relates to "an identifiable natural person"
* who "can be identified [...] by reference to [...] one or more factors specific to the physical [...] identity of that natural person"
* where these factors are the information Red Shell is collecting about the software and hardware of their physical devices
* and thus are "personal data", as regulated by the GDPR.

Given that their primary purpose is identifying users, they're going to have a hard time arguing that they don't fall under the GDPR's jurisdiction.
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which tileserver are you using?

would it be possible to learn more about your setup?

Thanks!
Quite a few of the smaller scam coins have pretty much died out.

They never completely die until the last node is turned off but for all intents and purposes they are considered ‘dead’ when they can no longer be traded at any exchange.

Back before ICOs, all sorts of unscrupulous people were launching their own block-chains in order to profit from it. more on https://cryptonewstrends.com/

That still happens but now days many of those unscrupulous people have moved on to launching ICOs which can be more lucrative.

Printing money out of nothing. Running a world economy based on debt. Having no asset to back the value of money. Devaluating existing money just because a government needs to print more… is not sustainable and it’s a bubble which will pop before the crypto bubble.

Right now, we know the future of money is crypto. Governments will create their own central coins as their last attempt to control money but in the end decentralization will win.
We just keep it on the floor. I know that's supposed to be not ideal, but its how we do it.
Yeah, we were concerned about security with the precise locations of vehicles being visible in real time and the recent apparent increase in Tesla thefts. This was the first time we supported something like this as well.
My first instinct was amusement, seeing ESA's blatant denial and sour-grape-ization of SpaceX. But then I remembered that we all work on projects which someday will be similarly obsolete, and I can only hope we handle the situation a bit more gracefully and effectivity.
oh look who's once again abusing their monopoly over .dev
I have three reasons

First, and the biggest, is you have to trust these scum. That they are doing only what they say they are and won't decide to do more in the future. Are they being audited? What are the notification capabilities and contracts when they decide to look more invasively?

Second, you have to trust their programming capability. Who knows what update / reporting capabilities it has, and how well secured it isn't (every time Project Zero looks at stuff like this they find holes. Every. Time.)

Third, the lack of transparency. If this is so awesome for me as a consumer, then these companies should prominently disclose it.
I haven't had a job with a dress code in about 6 years now, and I've drawn a line in the sand that I won't do it. The AC broke in the building I was working in (which was in Dallas), and I nearly passed out because of all the sweating I did.

I find it a bit bizarre that companies will require dress codes for people that never have to interface with clients. If I'm never viewed from the outside world, how exactly is it hurting anyone for me to wear a T-Shirt? I can't quite tell if it's some kind of bizarre power play, or they genuinely feel like it helps the employees, and I suppose I'll never find out.
And the original source for this particular article:

https://theconversation.com/a-new-study-should-be-the-final-...
Better for society? Do you think industrial companies dumping pollution is better for society because it makes cheaper products too? By harvesting this data, these companies are making a negative externality and not compensating any of the affected users for it.

If they had been open about this, it'd be a different argument, but they kept it hidden
What about that big kid no one talks about - SAS?
During peak times, my YMCA wants 5 to a lane. It’s tough because you have competition level swimmers, people who were competitive swimmers and casual swimmers. Some folks are having fun, others are pushing.

Customs vary by when and where you learn them, and it’s feels very hostile, especially for casual swimmers. (In my online experience, the closest thing is the “eternal summer” phenomena in Usenet in olden times)

In any case, worrying about the nonexistent risk of swimming in a recreational pool is counter-productive — casual swimmers will be turned off by the experienced ones.
And by a long way, you mean you can do it right now on pretty much all Linux systems.

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/8849
How does your attempt to silence me add to this conversation in any way? I asked for an explanation of why this is so difficult. I'm not being unreasonable. Comments like this make me not want to participate here on HN
it was such a good idea to preload the entire thing into Chrome's HSTS cache wasn't it?
Google too hard these days?

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/15292
I think all .dev is owned by Google, right? I guess they are using that since they are a contributor on DTP.
Why don't these game companies use a promotion code in their ads to track the ad to a sale? That way the customer feels like they're getting a deal and there is no need to fingerprint their machine. This seems like a fairly common practice in other industries.
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> if Europe ever did develop a reusable rocket, one that could fly all the missions in a year, this would be unhelpful politically. What would the engine and booster factories sprinkled across Europe do if they built one rocket and then had 11 months off?
I'm willing to bet that 90% of the readers here are Western. For them life is worse now.
Will do, I was trying to give you the opportunity to defend your position before submitting a complaint about your behavior. I will note your lack of initial explanation and refusal for explanation when prompted.
I've never had a private office, accept for the time I tried holing up in an unused server closet, but I have had a semi-private cube and compared to it open offices are absolute shit.

In terms of space, cubicles aren't much different than open-office but there is a cost reduction (cheap Ikea desks vs. desk and walls). I wonder how much is cost, how much is space, and how much is being able to directly see all your peons when managers make these decisions.

Personally, If I weren't about to go remote I'd probably come in one weekend and setup a semi-permanent deer stand as my desk...
Javascript defines regex ranges in terms of UTF-16 code units w/no consideration for locale, so you can use [a-fA-F0-9] and it will work as expected.

The issue discussed in this bug is only relevant to POSIX regular expression ranges.

Perhaps you're lamenting that there are so many different flavors of regular expression. I agree. Just the other day I had to give up on using a regex in a CloudFormation template to validate input because I could not get it to work as documented.
You're asking to silence others, you're getting a taste of your own medicine.
Well, repolfx already pointed out a couple of issues with WASM security.

As for the links I will check them later. Thanks providing them.
I watched your heartfelt video full of great advice. Thank you for making it.

As one more piece of the puzzle, since you mentioned several times doing you best work at night and it being hard to get up in the morning, I can wonder how much of various stresses for many people may come from perhaps being a night owl in an early-morning lark business culture?

Also in one study, even just one night of missed sleep can lead to bipolar cycling in some people -- discussed by Matthew Walker in his book "Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams".
"Diamond wire blades" are just a (much) faster and longer-lasting version of wet cord and sand, which is known to have been used since antiquity. Perforating and wedging - breaking along the dotted line, as it were - is an equally ancient technique. Just because it's a lot of hard work doesn't mean people weren't willing to do it.
I've spoken to several Asian coworkers who moved to the US, and one of the most common reasons for them to move to the US was because they wanted to continue working. That said, the culture is changing (especially in Japan post 1990 long term recession) and even the last 15 years since 2003 it has eroded more. It is much more common to see men publicly spend a lot of time with their children... and it is commonly portrayed positively in media, while the old male style is often portrayed negatively.
I don't think it's as simple as rebelling against your parents -- plenty of my schoolmates are perfectly content to be slaves to their cars, and a good number of my city friends grew up here.

We, at least, do have the option of driving if we need to: we just walk a few blocks to the car share and off we go.