skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ads are not avoided in the long run by paying for a service. Advertisers and businesses maximise revenue by expanding to the point where revenue = costs.

This is why ads appeared on cable TV. Why ads appear in the economist magazine even though its a premium paid product. Why celebrities shill products and there's product placement even though you pay to see movies and they already recieve multi-million dollar pay-cheques.

The only effective way to fight back against advertising is to go on the offensive: teach people to notice and avoid and react against advertising, produce content without it, switch off and do not use services that use it and support services that take a stand, destroy their tech or use it against them, change the relative cost of their activities so they retreat from various spheres, or use society and government to shame, ban or disrupt their activity.

So if its worth anything, you don't have to feel bad about selling your daughter's mind by not paying. That's like the sheep thinking they can placate the wolf by just giving a taste of blood and hoping he'll be satiated...

/apparently I'm in a radical place :P But having said that, I would also advocate paying people who do good things and produce good content for the world, assuming the market and your situation lets you...
As a programmer, I have sometimes been called up to make the salesperson's lie become true.

It's sort of a symbiotic relationship, the one between coders and sellers. We each need the other.
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And thus status quo, however evil or bad, is kept.

This stance is immoral in many ethical systems. Not to mention everyone has a breaking point.
I think this may have originated with Oleg Šelajev's tweet[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/shelajev/status/796685986365325312
I was making the point that banking innovation can come from surprising places, like dumb phones, or social networks.
This sounds fascinating - is your side project open anywhere ?
>Where's Russia in this mix? Russia has been meddling with European affairs for hundreds of years.

More so than Britain, France, Austro-Hungary, Germany and so on meddled on European (and Russian) affairs?

Russia, for one, was twice invaded by European armies, with huge human toll.

Beyond that, Russia is insignificant in the grand scheme of things. It was USSR that had a lot of power internationally (and that only because of WWII and its aftermath, it was quite unstable before that, and again after the 70s).
“Internally, companies have full on top down planning just like governments.”

They are basically run like communist states. 5 year plans, celebrating plan achievement and so on. It’s all there. The only difference is that their outside borders aren’t protected so they can’t become as delusional as a communist state can be.
They were bad examples of non-enterprise backed software being pushed into widespread use.
A free energy principle for a particular physics
Running Experiments at Auto Trader
> you get the benefit of government negotiation and annihilate insurance overhead

You don't have the benefit of government negotiation today and you cant seriously say that the government runs without overhead.
> If you're putting any of that into your recycling, you're doing it wrong.

Hence the main problem with recycling. No reasonable person can know all the rules about plastics, what kinds of papers, etc. Why can't sorters sort it all out? Because nobody knows what to pre-sort.
How much AI training data do you need?
>China is still a bit of a bet. Is anyone sure their growth will be built on solid foundations?

Is anyone sure the kind of foundations the west considers "solid" are the only solid ones?
The Impact of Bad Software on Employee Experience
Not sure if you're kidding, but Eton is one of the finest schools in the UK, probably the world, so it's a bit much to be quite so disparaging. Also I'm guessing you've never heard of CP Snow:

'The Two Cultures is the first part of an influential 1959 Rede Lecture by British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow. Its thesis was that "the intellectual life of the whole of western society" was split into two cultures – the sciences and the humanities – which was a major hindrance to solving the world's problems.'

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

Edit: Boris was also President of the Oxford Union, assistant Editor of the Telegraph, and Editor of the Spectator, as well as two-term London mayor. Surely you must give him some credit! I suggest it would take an extraordinarily fortunate fool to be able to pull off a record like that.
Would that be about right for a 'middle-class lifestyle'? By European standards at least I'd say it's on the high end of 'middle-class'.
That view of the browser is what I want to have. It blows my mind that we still have to tell people “don’t click links in your email” because it’s still possible for something terrible to happen if they do.
Using "fancy" indices like this does result in a copy because it can't be represented as a simple slice of the original matrix. A good explaination is here (it's from 2008 but still true):

https://scipy-cookbook.readthedocs.io/items/ViewsVsCopies.ht...

You can verify there's a copy by changing the new array after putting the result in a new variable (see above link for why this makes a difference) and verifying the old one is unchanged:

>>> import numpy as np
>>> x = np.array([1, 2, 3])
>>> y = x[[0, 2, 1]]
>>> y[0] = 3
>>> y
array([3, 3, 2])
>>> x
array([1, 2, 3])

Edit:

But a view can be based on a slice that includes a skip parameter, and in fact you even slice in multiple dimensions and it will still be a view. That is worth discussing in the article:

>>> x = np.array([np.arange(7), np.arange(7)+1]*3)
>>> y = x[4:1:-2, 1:5:2]
>>> y
array([[1, 3],
[1, 3]])
>>> y[0,0] = 99
>>> x
array([[ 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6],
[ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7],
[ 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6],
[ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7],
[ 0, 99, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6],
[ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]])
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15Five Takes Pride in Every Employee
That's not the only reason why children hear more and louder. When you're in your '30s you already have a minor hearing loss, you don't hear all sounds and noises then you did when you were 5. Children see more colours as well.
Or it's a risk/business decision, and they believe they can trust Google to uphold the promises they make about data usage from Analytics, and that they are sufficient. (and given the fact that in other areas they have contracts with Google for extra-special handling of Analytics data from Mozilla, they likely have invested time and money into vetting that)

While agree that the surface-level optics aren't ideal, and Mozilla sucks at communicating those things, I believe people often take a to categorical black-white stance on this.
I feel differently about it, but I think that's totally fair. Just pointing out that it's not quite the case that opponents' predictions turned out to be wrong.

Some did, at least for the first year. But some haven't.
Or this could be the fallacy fallacy fallacy, an infinite regress of fallacy? :-)
Motte+and+baileys,+a+decisive+factor+in+the+Norman+conquest+of+Britain
These are support jobs and in the longer run they can be productive or unproductive, by enhancing productivity of others.
> don't you think that China defends its allies too?

This made me curious: what nations could be considered allies of China? North Korea, possibly maybe?
New generation of tech firms urges stronger privacy laws
Perl Weekly Challenge – The first 3 months
I agree that it is a grave matter which many people take far too lightly. But I also refuse to be scared by some junkie advertisers. And currently we at least are still talking about mainly pseudo-anonymous profiles. Filling this data with wrong info takes away most of the value.
"Were" implies "back then". Marine equipment 1989 was likely more plentiful, but less capable, to offset likely losses in the always-imminent WW3.
The office of mayor in London does not carry enough powers for any mayor to be "disastrous". That's just ridiculous hyperbole.

Other than that, the views on London mayors tends to mostly follow party lines, so it's not a particularly worthwhile discussion.
Because in this case it's a European company being hacked (Ericsson).
The highest decibel things my kids are exposed to is themselves.
Also, we hear using the cochlea, a spiral sense organ that sorts sound by frequency. In children the whole thing is much smaller. So they hear much-smaller wavelengths of sound which means higher-pitched sound. As we grow so does the cochlea so we hear lower and lower sounds and lose the sensitivity to the highest-pitched ones?

I'm guessing that hair dryers have a scream in the upper register that adults don't normally hear.
The platform could provide useful metadata, leaving the ranking up to the client..
You can opt out of the relevant add in all major networks. I know I did once, and it was so much worse. Most ads were for shit I absolutely would never care about. Weight loss systems, beauty products, child care products, quit smoking assistance systems, etc...

I know this is sacrilegious on HN, but I personally prefer targeted ads to that. I still think you and everyone else should be able to not have ads targeted if you don't want, and I'm all for alternative funding systems where you pay for content directly, but I'd much rather see ads for SaaS companies I may use and movies I'm interested in over that stuff.
> Do you think he continues this persona with his family? He must turn it off at some point. He cannot go home and tell his wife every other week how shocked he was to find that he was the main speaker.

I'm sure he has a life outside of his after-dinner-speaker persona, sure. But equally, I'm sure that parts of how he acts when speaking occasionally bleed over to how he acts with his family, and vice versa.

We all play different personas in different contexts, but even those with a very artificial role - actors, wrestlers, cosplayers - bring some of their "real" self into the role and vice versa. Indeed staying "in character" the whole time one is on set is a cornerstone of respected acting technique.
When I see articles on these kinds of materials - handmade and fairly unique, but not in wide demand any longer - I tend to wonder:

Are there any applications for the techniques used in the making of the materials that could be applied to other modern materials that could potentially create new uses for those materials.

For instance - just spitballing - but what if a different fiber and "glue" were substituted; could a very thin "mat" of such material be made, and what could it be used for?

I'm sure I'm not the first to think about this, though...
They are not a carrier period! They don't sell transit. A Tier 1 carrier does settlement-free peering. They are a CDN. And no the most certainly do not have a "global carrier-level backbone." Argot or whatever they are calling their product is not an actual backbone with dedicated fiber, submarine cable etc. There would be no reason for them to invest in fiber and lightwave gear as they are en edge network full stop. Your comment shows a lack of understanding of how the internet actually works.
Fraud wasn't mentioned.

Take for example the Pepsi challenge, in a blind test people reliably choose Pepsi, but knowing brands, they choose coke.

Coke are successfully increasing sales for something people arguably don't want. Except they do because they feel coke says something about them? They're told coke says something about them? What's the morality implications there?

Anyway, whatever your opinion that isn't about finding a customer solution, customers clearly want Pepsi, perhaps with coke branding, marketing is working against that in this case.
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> This will show you ads for products you might not be interested in at all

You can just say, "your regular browsing experience won't be impacted."
Agree. Most of Frontend Devs doing React or Vue, don’t know the major aspects of a frontend. Although they are speedy, the quality is low.
It can also increase severity while reducing frequency, or cause transfer onto others or psychosomatic.

You cannot recommend it without an actual trial, it is not safe.
I'm not quite sure how this relates to the original article, but:

> the important feature of the browser is that it provides a sandboxed platform for running untrusted code without a builtin "walled garden moral police".

> for some reason "commercial" OS vendors are not able or willing to provide a safe "native" sandbox completely uncoupled from curated app stores.

The key word here is absolutely "unwilling". All the platform vendors want platform lock-in, they don't want a general purpose platform. Microsoft originally tried to do this to the web with ActiveX, before even Flash. At least Flash was slightly cross-platform in that Adobe provided Mac and Linux versions. These days no platform vendor is going to give up their 30% cut voluntarily.

In a world of fully general app sandboxes, you can switch out your hardware and OS at any time without disrupting your life or business. Therefore those are commoditized, and their price drops to the marginal cost of production - which for software is zero.

(Also I think CS theory took a while to catch up to practical security; everyone used to teach the model in which multi-user systems were trying to protect users from one another, not one where a single-user system is trying to protect the user from predatory apps, viruses and potentially unwanted programs.)
Well, that is because Russia IS Europe. At least a significant part of it.

All the culture, the history in Russia is European. It is for sure more European than the USA is.

Russia became isolated because of communism. Now the USA wants to isolate it because it is not in the economic interest of the US, but certainly it is for Europe.

Europe is a small old continent with lots of people but lacking natural resources like oil. Russia is the biggest country in the world, with very few people and lots of resources.

If Europe continue dancing to the US tune, Russia will go closer to China.
How to evaluate computers that don’t quite exist
>I'll never understand why lawmakers think that fruit and other flavorings for tobacco are aimed at getting kids hooked. It's almost like they think no adult has ever enjoyed fruit or candy, and that making teens smoke plain cigarettes will keep them from being rebellious.

I can think of a dozen people off the top of my head that regularly smoke but say "it's not smoking, it's just hookah, it's a social thing". I guarantee you, if there weren't hookah bars and instead were "cheap-cigarette bars" exactly none of them would smoke.

Then with 'e-cigarettes' you have flavours like 'blueberry pie' 'brownies' 'waffles' pretty much anything you could ever want. You're going to sit there and tell me you don't think if a minor gets their hands on one will be like "oh man, this grape jolly rancher flavor is awesome, but I think there is nicotine in it so I must never ever ever touch it again"?

I was watching something on Hulu or Netflix this weekend that was high school aged characters and there were kids puffing away on liquid nicotine rigs in the background of multiple scenes.
Japan has a very decent Navy, including two aircraft carriers, Kaga and Izumo.

[1]https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/japan-doesn’t-know-wh...
Why is "Static linking" bad? A majority of software engineers are shifting to statically linked to reduce runtime complexity.

Python 2.7 is also deprecated. New projects shouldn't really be supporting it going forward in my opinion. We're coming up on the 2020 complete end of life cycle.
Probably also a good idea, although I don't think patio11 said IB is better than other platforms for options.
'high degree of certainty' China linked to global hack of telcos
nice legs... it'd be a shame if anything happened to them...
Ichiro Suzuki: The Art of Preparation (2017) [video]
The real question is why should links in an email message be clickable? Restricting email messages to plain text would make it much more difficult for attacks like that to succeed.
The History of Linux Complexity
Well it depends on how you view it. You feel the pain from kicking the rock and remember it, so you won't kick the same rock against a few minutes after.

That is an experience to me. An experience is simply a memory of an event/feeling etc. Without any memories, you won't remember any events or feelings and will gladly kick the rock again since you won't have any memory of it hurting you.

Or how else would you define an experience? A memory isn't an illusion, there is definitely something physical in your brain that say that that specific event has happened. But you can also remember things that haven't happened, which is probably why a lot of people believe in ghosts, religion etc.

I don't know why, but it probably serves a biological purpose and people are probably more likely to survive if they are afraid of things and are careful.
In the world of the officials, Juul pays them generously to run "addiction relief programs" that run into the 100's of millions every year.
Also paying for things has a low success rate in reducing advertising - a customer who will pay for something is a good target to advertise more too.
The EU doesn't really have a military capability of its own, let alone a "cyberwarfare" one. There's no "overreach" going on.
Thanks for linking the article and the comment. Both were fantastic reads.
It's bigger in PPP terms, but yes, Russia is a mostly irrelevant in economics terms, apart from commodity markets like oil.
Europe will have to push back a lot more against persistent campaigns. This isn’t a one off. It’s persistent. Maybe the EU should leverage NATO or something pan-national because small countries individually fighting off a giant isn’t as effective.
> The only substantially cheaper across the board hospitals are those people go to die in because they are profoundly incompetent and understaffed.

...And tend to get sued out of business for malpractice.
I'm not sure how I feel about this line of argument, but food for thought:

Is the authoritarianism and coercion a necessary part of church? Clearly left to their own devices, people aren't self-organizing into social groups very well. And perhaps the silly beliefs are an important marker or side effect of social coercion, and can't easily be abandoned. Even if they're not causal, they are a great indicator that you are truly allied with the group.
Interesting case there, but nowadays big conglomerates like Pepsi and Coke surely have thousands of security contractors on retainer? Then again, they can't exactly order an airstrike against Coke...
The idea that corrupt dictatorships don't work out in the long run is not based on the average American's favorite flavor of ice cream, it's based on the vast majority of countries in history.
We watched an after school special in grade school that was about cocaine. We had pixie sticks, probably 1/3 of the class then imitated the video and began snorting (painfully) flavored sugar.
> for something terrible to happen if they [click links in their email].

There are very few RCEs now on modern browser (they still exist[0,1], though). The main threat is phishing, because users are gullible (and should be educated).

[0] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-1...

[1] https://objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x43.html

And: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20283922
Another model is to just rent store space to toy producers, and make no or little money from sales.

This way, they earn a steady income regardless of whether someone buys it in store or tries it in store and then buys from Amazon.

The toymakers would pay assuming that letting people try the toys in person leads to better sales, which should be the case.
Nations don't have friends only interests.

Shoring up the US economy is in everyone's interest up to a certain point ofcourse everyone is exposed to US debt- but when the US starts imposing tariffs to keep out other countries expect criticism.
And the fine will make sure you remember to do that in future!

It's almost like laws can work.
I don't think the question you posed makes sense.

If it was bottom up developed, it would be adaptive, and therefore not a computer as such. Adaptive systems manage to handle new input (or fail). The computer is only going to do what it's been programmed (however poorly) to do.

One of the things required for computation is predictable repetition - same inputs, same outputs. This is why error recognition/correction is so important for things like physical ram and ethernet packets - it's effectively trying to filter out any bottom up behaviour that could affect the environment of the computation/information transmission.

An ever so slightly different environment would affect the same inputs in a bottom up system - think along the lines of butterflies affecting weather systems by flapping their wings.

You could claim everything that happens is a result of 'some computation' but then you end up in semantic arguments how to define 'life' (or how to define what's 'computable', which is it's own entire problem). A couple of books from back in the day in my life relevant to this were these two, and they're still probably a good place to consider things from even today.

https://www.stevenlevy.com/index.php/books/artificial-life

https://kk.org/outofcontrol/
Also, a lot of it depends on how much of it's culture China is able to export. I could see certain places accept the Chinese language, ideologies, arts etc. in exchange for greater trade/economic benefits. How openly and rapidly the world accepts/imports Chinese culture(and not just it's money) will determine if it has a legitimate hegemonic future.
>APT10 often attacked a service provider’s system by “spear-phishing” – sending company employees emails

sigh...
As a fellow European I think this fight back rhetoric is pretty stupid. Instead of amassing 0days by the military and the secret services while gaining us, the population, zero benefits for the millions spent (because we will still get hacked, regardless of the number of 0days hoarded), why not invest all these ressources into securing our broken software infrastructure? Forcing companies to fix their shit?

That would actually help against foreign hackers while also helping the actual population.
i would guess anyone that has googled tor, onion site, tails os, monero etc. would be on a list
How do you know they're not? I hardly expect either side to put out a press release if they are.

But the West is quite capable of its own state-assisted industrial espionage, such as between Airbus and Boeing. Or random incidents like https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/21/british-spie... - would you expect retaliation by Belgium, and how?
Perhaps https://people.kernel.org/read/feed/

Searching github repo for "feed" helped. https://github.com/writeas/writefreely/blob/ac7d72743515fdd7...
Good point. Maybe. I don't know if it's possible to discern retail trades in a mass of trades so accurately.
A couple of years ago the founder was super confident that he would have a fully self driving car soon, and definitely before Tesla.

A couple of months ago I read that he decided the problem is basically unsolvable and a human will always need to be involved.

He's still right about being "before Tesla" as long as Tesla never figures it out either.
IIRC any intense emotions and strong feelings cause strong memories.
Social robots can benefit hospitalized children
You're assuming fish smells bad. Fresh fish smells delicious.
I don't understand the point of using compromised Cambridge accounts for this. All they wanted people to do was to just click on a link. They could have easily registered some legitimate sounding domain name and linked to that instead. It wouldn't be unusual at all for an academic organisation to have a separate site.