skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They also do this on the web version of Outlook. [1].

And you could see that the ads are littered all over the place. And their ads don't really make sense anyway, as for example, the ads that I see are something that:

- I am not interested
- Irrelevant as the products have no use for me
- Unable to purchase as the products themselves are not available locally where I am located.

They should probably train their algorithms for ads to ensure that it is something interesting (or at least would compel the consumer to look). For example, I noticed that in Instagram, the ads are more targeted, and they usually remind you of stuff that you have recently searched.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/fcmyMMf
> All I want is to be able to give companies my money in exchange for not being spied on, manipulated, or locked into some walled garden. I can't for my OS - I have to use free gnu/Linux because everyone else treats me like crap.

AFAIK a license is paid with every new computer coming WITH Windows, so it isn't like people get Windows for free. I'm not sure it is even possible to transfer Windows's license from computer to computer anymore, so why is Microsoft doing this? just because they can. Imagine tomorrow some f\*cking ads pop up each time you open the start menu, or on the background of the desktop, or on the login screen, or in Visual Studio Code because why not? Absolutely outrageous. "Pay for the product and you're no longer the product they say". and while we are at it, why not display ads on websites hosted on Azure even when you paid for hosting?
I’m pretty sure modern networks allocate temporary anonymised IMSIs (TIMSI) to eschew just this kind of attack ...

EDIT yes http://www.gsm-security.net/faq/timsi-temporary-imsi-gsm.sht...
Just use Spybot Anti-Beacon software and do most of the above steps in a click.

Edit: Sorry. It's now a paid software. Checking for free alternatives. Found one: shutup10

Lastly, install Unchecky. It'll automatically uncheck options for additional unwanted programs, adware, toolbars... when installing software.
Yes, thanks, will definitely blog about it. Thanks
Cool, do they fight tardigrades? :-)

From a science perspective the process of grab some soil and analyze it is remarkably fruitful. If you have any budding biologists it is always interesting to do this experiment, one tablespoon of soil in a 1/2 cup of water, leave covered overnight and then put it under a microscope.
Is it possible to do any reasonable amount of development work on a tablet? IPad or android
DIY Overclocked Plasma Globe – from 2500V to a million volts [video]
Bishop vs.  Knight
I’m fairly sure Hulu has done this from the beginning, right? I never understood the allure of paying for Hulu but still seeing ads. I just went to check and apparently you can pay extra to get rid of ads.

Recently Amazon has been playing ads at the beginning of shows that are offered for free via Prime. I feel like I even saw them when I had bought a season of a show, but it is now offered for free via Prime.

So far it seems like buying shows and movies through Apple is ad-free.
To be fair, from the article:

> although these ads are interest-based, they do not look at your emails to display ads based on data from your email.
You described trump as healthy not just alive at 72. Trump's doctor admits the report on trump's health was fake. So I'm not sure what you're basing the healthy comment on.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/02/607638733...
CAN-SPAM Act literally stands for "Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography And Marketing" Act

Doesn't mean they didn't choose that very carefully and on purpose.
We sent out an update about security features.
A budding and vocal DNC personality with access to all the information which was gathered gets murdered at 4AM in the streets in a 'botched robbery', someone who championed Bernie, and was in a position to out how Clinton (and the rest) stole the election from him and you believe that to be a Russian narrative. Problem here is, if you ask 1000 people who Seth Rich is 999 of them would say, who? So to say that affected the election is simply bizarre.
Disney Is Spending More on Theme Parks Than Pixar/Marvel/Lucasfilm Combined
I really hate the entire culture around Gofundme. I feel like a number of people use it in a way I find horrifying.

My grandfather passed away a few years ago and my much younger relative in college in Hawaii decided to make a gofundme page to raise money for the plane ticket to his funeral. I could have paid for his ticket no problem, but I got the feeling the gofundme wasn't really about the money. It somehow was just "what you do" for a bit of attention.

Call me old fashioned but I don't really like the way it looks when my family members are begging all over facebook for something the family could easily take care of. It also feels weirdly exploitive of people who are bad with money management. His parents are solid middle class, but I personally know one of the people donating $100 to his gofundme was a fifty-something year old waitresses with a heart of gold and no sense of budgeting.
Yes, it is shame, because should I have seen comments as the ones I want to post, I would have avoided that company and gone for other offers
I will take a look at this. Thanks for the heads up!
>People vote with their pocketbook

In this case, I don’t think that’s fair. A great number of people can’t devote the time to learning a new operating system or cannot afford a high priced OS X machine.
Here is iOS version on the Apple App store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bitplaza-spend-bitcoin/id143...
Thank you for linking this, just made my day!
There is still no evidence that they are reading your emails so it's not the same. I am fine with ads, just as long as they don't mine my data and follow me around.
Facebooks helps GRU a lot. Fakebook even bans users because of posting Ukrainian poetry, mentioning certain Ukrainian politics, and so on. It's pretty hostile to Ukrainians while favours Russians, despite the aggression.

BTW. NH admins ignore warnings about Russian gov trolls activity here too. Fortunately, I saw that activity just few times few months ago. HN community is very hard to manipulate.
Sleep deprivation has a well-established anti-depressant effect. Sadly it does not last, the emotional state soon returns to the baseline. The temporary reprieve could push you over the edge though, if you were close to it.
The kilogram was the last unit tied to a physical object. Finally!!!

As you stroll Paris, you can still find various meter secondary standards - bolted onto public buildings to aid in commerce back in the day.
Not true [1]. Ubuntu is full of recommendations for non-free / malicious "snaps" and has telemetry (opt out + remove a few packages).

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/7/17326184/firefox-ads-spons...
Great work!

..I'm going to game the system a bit and ask this thread: Does anyone want to atudy machine learning papers w/me (asynch) and discuss via voice call? Also looking for project partners. Heavy preference for reinforcement learning and computer vision.

<<- even if this works I'll definitely be using your site to find buddies. Thank you!
Its mindnumbing to learn the extraneous details about something that's basically understood. I dont want to master x86 assembly when I already get the concept of what it represents. I want to learn new concepts. Make a lambda based computer for example.

Browser development is the worst. Hacks and compatibility details galore. I hate the fact that to get into front end development I would have to master how to get around someone elses mess.
Here you go. Sails for modern shipping.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/environment...
And the results are somewhat good with formerly Japan and now South Korea being one of the leaders in innovation. Albeit much less competitive China, USA, France and Germany are still close enough.

The problem with Japanese and Korean style of achievement is that it can get you to rest on your laurels and additionally it is anti-creative, strongly promoting patterns, knowledge and effort over novel approaches.

All in all, few types, perhaps even none, of standardized tests allow novel solutions.
Your criticism is not well placed.

Try to think issues that skew the PPP's relevance to teachers relative pay and you realize that the skew must be against direction you are arguing.
Sticking to commitments. That means showing up on time, delivering on what you promise. Also related is not making promises you can't keep.
But do you realize that IAM is an industry wide standard acronym? It's not exactly unique: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_management

> Identity management, also known as identity and access management (IAM)
The WWW was not a CERN research project, it was a hypertext system (far from the first one) developed by a couple of technicians working at CERN's office of documentation to facilitate the sharing of documents across its multi-OS, multi-protocol computing environment (at the time IBM VMS, DEC VAX, Apple Macs, PCs, and the NeXTstations used to develop the first WWW client).

It took off because it was free, open source and easily portable by design, but frankly, pretty much the same thing could have, and doubtless would have, emerged from many other large organizations with similar requirements (quite possibly an intelligence service like the CIA - let's not forget where Tor came from), even without a dime being spent on particle physics.

As for direct commercial value, CERN made it freely available to all, as it must. The closest it got to making some money off it was an Apple program to donate computers to the office of documentation.
Great recommendation and good to be reminded. Have been reading it here and there but need to finish it and get it done.
Everybody did not love it, it looked like a toy compared to the ‘rock solid’ Windows 2000. Only when Windows 7 came out everybody suddenly loved Windows XP.
Haha that's cool. I had a friend help design my landing page. He mentioned that he used a generic graphic to make that bookshelf. It's cool to see it elsewhere in the wild
Why not give your money to the Free Software Foundation or your distro's donation page to encourage software that respects your freedoms?

https://my.fsf.org/donate
Below is problem 33 of this year's English exam. For the English section of the exam, there are a total of 45 questions; 17 listening comprehension (around 25 minutes) and 28 reading comprehension questions (around 45 minutes). Imagine yourself (if you're non-Korean) trying to comprehend something like this in a completely foreign language.

33.
Heritage is concerned with the ways in which very selective material artefacts,
mythologies, memories and traditions become resources for the present. The
contents, interpretations and representations of the resource are selected
according to the demands of the present; an imagined past provides resources
for a heritage that is to be passed onto an imagined future. It follows too
that the meanings and functions of memory and tradition are defined in the
present. Further, heritage is more concerned with meanings than material
artefacts. It is the former that give value, either cultural or financial, to
the latter and explain why they have been selected from the near infinity of
the past. In turn, they may later be discarded as the demands of present
societies change, or even, as is presently occurring in the former Eastern
Europe, when pasts have to be reinvented to reflect new presents. Thus heritage
is __________________. [3 points]

① about preserving universal cultural values

② a mirror reflecting the artefacts of the past

③ neither concerned with the present nor the future

④ as much about forgetting as remembering the past

⑤ a collection of memories and traditions of a society
I like to see the dpkg/apt system enhance to add audit feature - able log all the files added/modified/deleted as part the installation process, ideally in html format.

Any admin can view the contents to debug or spot any potential security issues.
If it makes you feel any better, I've asked the same thing before.
Everything but x265 or 4k
Odd that they say "Note that the IMSI-catcher would still need to have Ubuntu on the Pi, which it is not traditionally designed for" - I mean, I see the README wants you to add a PPA for gr-gsm[1], but that shouldn't be a problem on stock Raspbian (or another Debian-based distro).

1: https://github.com/Oros42/IMSI-catcher#setup
I read the title as "maps" not apps. I'll continue to wonder why I like maps so much...
I scrolled through the whole article trying to figure out what a "Hollywood skeptic" is. Was he just a skeptical person living in Hollywood? Was he skeptical that Hollywood exists? Unclear
I would have preferred to read "there will never be war again, and everyone gets free ice cream", but that doesn't change the likelihood that there will almost certainly be one at some point in humanity's future.
Date Command Gives Wrong Week Number for Dec 31
Does he need 10? Windows 7 still works fine, so does Elementary OS if that works.
My understanding is that the cause is error propagation. We can measure certain kind of masses really accurately in unified atomic mass unit. With better relative precision than the Avogadro constant. But if we used kilograms to write down these quantities then they would carry the error of the Avogadro constant needlessly.

Edit: I think your question boils down to "Why do we have two separate units for mass, u and kg, connected by the Avogadro constant?" Most answers dismiss your original question as Avogadro constant is not a unit. But u is a unit and it's the point why we have this constant.

Edit2: To further emphasize my point look at the mass of neutron[1]. It's listed both in kg and u. Note the number of decimal places.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron
I agree with you completely except that I caution people not dismiss the idea of an armed rebellion so easily. It’s really easy to fool ourselves into thinking bad shit doesn’t happen and we are “beyond violence”. I want to believe it too, but let’s just say for example Trump starts rounding up “illegals” and shooting them if they refuse to leave our country. Just think about that. At some point many of us would break and as we see our friends and families torn apart we would be willing to die to defend their humanity. Hopefully we’d have some of the military on our side, but we’d likely break out in civil war. Our military is powerful but not as big as many people assume. It can’t do shit to a bunch of people in concrete urban structures with AKs what makes anyone think 100MM citizens with weapons wouldn’t be effective in seizing control back from a tyrannical leader?

Those who sacrifice liberty for safety deserve neither.

I know you’ve heard it before. But I honestly worry we’re suffering from a “times are good why do I need all these liberties my ancestors fought for” phase and it would be really dumb to forfeit them all and then end up back at square one with an actual actively oppressive system governing us and no way to defend ourselves against it.
After Equifax why would they not? Seems like when it comes to actual tech scandals, nobody cares. Frightening stuff.
The pressure to serve ads in everything that has eyeballs on it is universal.
Google Cloud CEO Being Replaced by Oracle's Thomas Kurian
What is the advantage of using a full blown language for Helm configuration instead just using something, which is a bit more flexible, but not Turing complete like: https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-lang (Or something similar)

As Helm so far could operate with a simple template language , and now suddenly jumps to a Turing-complete configuration language - this seems quite large step... What is the justification?
Is that really true? I feel like they would need _everyone_ to be willing to pay that much, and on a recurring basis somehow to make support sustainable.

The value of marketing to Windows users is in the network effect. If one Windows user can pay $1000 to avoid advertising and change nothing else, the other users will probably hear about this and take notice. But if every Windows user is subjected to ads, I very much doubt that Microsoft is making $1000 in advertising revenue from just one person.

Microsoft would never convert 100% of users to "ad-free" paid subscriptions, at any price. But they can make money directly from advertising to 100% of their users, and there is no "loss" except from attrition (which I would guess is still probably quite a bit smaller than their numbers for overall user-base growth.)
Welcome C client generator as the 100th generator in OpenAPI Generator project
Yeah, after 20 years later you’re kind of screwed. Much of the competition is dead.

Beats me. Not like we couldn’t see this coming for two decades. Soon you’ll be the product.

Maybe next year will be the year of Linux.
> This arrangement tends to favor the rich...

What a complete and utter lie. What hole are you pulling these "facts" from?

> And if you owned property for a long while you pay less in taxes than someone younger and on a lower salary.

You mean, someone retired and unemployed vs. someone at the peak of their career?

Man...you are projecting so hard, it's palpable.
Look into artofproblemsolving.com as well. They have online classes for math that are very enjoyable. It's a great supplement to the horrendous math curriculum in schools.
Nycha Has a New Plan: Bring in Private Landlords
> Don't ALL web/internet based products have to collect some base level telemetry to simply function?

No. Not at all. There’s no technical reason which drives such a demand. A big, fat no.

But it can help making the company hosting the site money. By selling your data to others. And that’s another question entirely.
Once these companies decide their best path to new profits doesn't include new or improved products or growth it's just a question of who they are going to fuck, their employees or users.
I still have to deal with SPARC at work, and the only major differences between it and x86, with respect to C, are:

* It's big-endian

* unaligned reads will fail (if you have to read packed structures, you need to declare the structure as packed and the compiler will generate code to do unaligned reads)

Given you mention "memory layout" it seems you are expecting possibly a little-endian system, and maybe unaligned reads.
I wish he would spend a bit more time exsplining were some of the constants come from, although that would probably make the video a bit weaker overall. Wasting time on such information.
For those following along at home, the reason why you don't need HTML Imports once JS Templates and Modules exist is because HTML Imports are not usable without JS! So you can implement a more elegant solution yourself with a couple lines.

Let's assume you want to use 3 different HTML templates on a page (the html content doesn't matter much for this example).

Here's the example usage of HTML Templates from html5rocks.com:

<script>
function handleLoad(e) {
console.log('Loaded import: ' + e.target.href);
}
function handleError(e) {
console.log('Error loading import: ' + e.target.href);
}
</script>
<link
rel="import"
href="example1.html"
onload="handleLoad(event)"
onerror="handleError(event)"
/>
<link
rel="import"
href="example2.html"
onload="handleLoad(event)"
onerror="handleError(event)"
/>
<link
rel="import"
href="example3.html"
onload="handleLoad(event)"
onerror="handleError(event)"
/>
<script>
function importHtml(selector) {
var content = document.querySelector(selector).import;
var el = content.querySelector('.warning');
document.body.appendChild(el.cloneNode(true));
}

importHtml('link[href="example1.html"]');
importHtml('link[href="example2.html"]');
importHtml('link[href="example3.html"]');
</script>

Now let's compare the same feature with ES6 Modules and Templates using a `helper.js` file.

export async function importHtml(url) {
try {
let res = await fetch(url);
let html = await res.text();
let template = document.createElement('template');
template.innerHTML = html;
let el = template.content.querySelector('.warning');
document.body.appendChild(el.cloneNode(true));
} catch (e) {
console.log(`Error fetching html: ${url}`);
}
}

Then we can import the modules on the page in a very clean way...no HTML Imports spec here.

<script type="module">
import { importHtml } from './helper.js';
importHtml('example1.html');
importHtml('example2.html');
importHtml('example3.html');
</script>

My point is that you don't need HTML imports and you'll have to use JS even with HTML imports so just use JS all the way :)
Time is money. Learning/setting up/operating around Linux is expensive.
It's a well established but little known fact that sleep deprivation is an extremely effective short term treatment for depression. [1]

Obviously I am not recommending that anyone try it without medical supervision, but people should at least know that it's an option.

1. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-sleep-depriva...
Which networks are doing that though? I remember so many talks about security issues because of outdated protocols.
You have no idea what you're talking about, honestly. Our family does not use sugar at all. And, no, I don't feel hunger and 90% of what you mean by "hunger" is habitual, not real hunger caused by ghrelin. When we fast, and it's unfortunate that English has such a misrepresenting word, we don't get tempted by meat and dairy. I am not supporting vegetarianism and veganism, on the contrary, but I don't think the meat overeating habits are healthy and the data shows it. For example, upping your growth factors, overloading yourself with iron, eating charred meat is proven to be detrimental to health. Now everybody's lining up to buy bone broth not knowing that bones often accumulate heavy metals like lead and America is polluted with lead, but that's not just all. Anyway, my point was that people should eat quality foods aligned with their genetic and epigenetic profile, use the least possible processing and stick to traditional cooking methods. Don't eat too much carbs, don't eat too much fats, don't eat too much meat - this is the optimal strategy at this point as I've been following diets for nearly 20 years and there's no perfect on except the balanced real-foods one!
Anecdotal evidence. Data shows success in school correlates with career success.
Kind of related, but I've been curious about this -- highly educated countries also have very high voter turnout. I think South Korea has about 77% voter turnout. I think the U.S. has about 50-55% voter turnout. The more educated everyone is, the more they want to participate. I disagree that this should make you feel ashamed. I think it has its pros and cons.
Chromebooks are pretty much perfect for home users, and starting to be decent for developers too.
Does it, now? How are the hips on that 'perfect' golden retriever?

To be more detailed, genes are not single-purpose. The same gene which confers a 'strength' is almost guaranteed to also confer a 'weakness'. Often this weakness is not even evident until an environmental change occurs, at which point the species with the greatest genetic diversity will survive while the one 'optimized' for the prior conditions will die off. Belief in eugenics requires some very particular things, such as, say, physical strength being completely unrelated genetically to metabolic function - which it's not. This doesn't even account for the multitude of things which, if we were to seek to genetically 'optimize' people, we would be inadvertently optimizing or eliminating. Plainly put, eugenics is bad science and a bad idea rooted in ignorance and, most dangerously, a willingness to take shortcuts with scientific rigor that substitute intuition for actual knowledge.
Pretty much everything made by Adobe and Microsoft (but I can sort of live without the ones from Microsoft). Honestly, if Adobe made a Linux distribution as part of Creative Suite (which I would think wouldn't even be hard for them to port to Linux) I bet they could make a strong running taking over the desktop operating system market.