skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole industry of advertising as we understand it today was created by those who had done propaganda during the first and second world war, and realised they could apply their skills in the field of business.

To learn the history of propaganda, advertising and how it is embedded deeply in our current political machine, watch The Century of the Self, a 2002 documentary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnPmg0R1M04
Just for example, Facebook tracks you even if you don't have a Facebook account.[0]

More generally, I think we need to approach discussions about data collection from the perspective that data being about a person doesn't mean that the person owns that data. Here's what I mean: The sort of data we're talking about is personal (read: "individual") merely in the sense that it is about persons. However, it's social (rather than personal) in its origin. For example, the list of my commercial transactions isn't originally (fundamentally?) data about my person. Rather, it's data about a social fabric of which I happen to be a part. So, personal data is not originally personal.

What's the significance of personal data being fundamentally social (by way of its origin)? Well, I would contend that it means personal/individual means of managing personal privacy are ultimately insufficient; your data (while it is about you) doesn't naturally belong to you. Therefore, my takeaway is this: If we want to make personal data (i.e. data about persons) practically personal (i.e. give persons control over their own data), then we need social mechanisms to protect it. My aforementioned point, about the insufficiency of personally-undertaken measures, is corollary to this.

For better or worse, it seems like most people these days equate "social mechanisms" with "regulation". However, there are in principle other social bodies (both formal (e.g. unions or guilds), or informal (e.g. various social movements)) that could be sufficient to make personal data truly personal. However, I'm unfortunately skeptical of the efficacy any non-governmental body could be when dealing with this problem. But that's beside the point.

[0] https://www.vox.com/2018/4/20/17254312/facebook-shadow-profi...
The author provides a lot of ressources, check the repository for more links:

Paper:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.05433

Repo:
https://github.com/Chakazul/Lenia

A web-based version to play around with:
https://chakazul.github.io/Lenia/JavaScript/Lenia.html
Often on Hacker News, and other places too, I see an argument where one person is hand-waving away a task and saying how easy and trivial it is.

The simple heuristic for deciding which person is correct is that the one saying it is simple and easy is always wrong.
You don't. You create a second "marker" release whose only purpose is to announce to the world that this release is bad.

Example:

Current release list:

...
2.2019.12.18.1
2.2019.12.19.1-n
2.2019.12.19.2
2.2020.01.01.3-bd

Bad release you can't yank: 2.2020.01.01.3-bd

Create a new marker release: 2.2020.01.01.3-z

New release list:

...
2.2019.12.18.1
2.2019.12.19.1-n
2.2019.12.19.2
2.2020.01.01.3-bd
2.2020.01.01.3-z

Now everyone knows that 2.2020.01.01.3 is bad but couldn't be yanked.
I have seen in Brooklyn multiple people pull up to a curb, open the car door, and dump trash out onto the street. it's appalling.
Imagination Technologies and Apple Sign New Agreement
AMD Ryzen 4000 Zen 3 Rumblings Point to Gains in IPC and FP Performance
My 5 engineer bootstrapped team built all this in 2019
Comes down to incentives. Why would the agency or SME dev care about the end user? Will they get rewarded if they do? Nope.
Dev salarymen are concerned, rightly, with their careers. This is why they do stuff like make a brochureware website that should be dead-simple into some demented chimera of 5 different "best practice" frameworks, submerged in 10 feet of technical debt to boot.
They do so because they can put that stuff on their resume, which will (for management and recruiting incompetency reasons) get them into a better job next year or month.
To hell with the devs who follow them, and to hell with the client, customer, or end users in general - they ain't me.
But the solution is to modify incentives, not to indulge in the sperg-outs our profession is infamous for, since those are only "I'm cleverer than you all" rants, which are again, "me first".
When to Use Ember Get() vs. ES5 Getters – A Guide
But you don't quit in April, you are working on the next February release. So you don't have a deadline, you have a checkpoint.
Sounds like Pivotal combines elements from scrum and kanban in a way that works well for them. That's what you're supposed to do with agile -- keep adjusting the process until it's working well for your organization.
This is interesting, but is essentially taking the present and multiplying it 10x. Which is never really how the future turns out, but always how humans think the future will turn out.
US Army bans soldiers from using TikTok
If you're thinking that this is an article about 'Bare Metal WASM' as an OS sandbox, you should probably think again; Hard.

> This post will cover the process of creating tiny graphics demos without doing any binary hacking, hex editing, or writing WASM by hand.

So nothing about actual 'Bare Metal' using WASM. Just Rust cross-compiling to WASM using 'wasm-unknown-unknown'. Title should be 'Cross-compiling web apps to WASM.' rather than this misleading title.
Yes, Hyundai Kona Electric 2019[1]

[1]: https://www.hkona.com/seat_belt_warning_light-28.html
I mean, yes, but from a broader perspective, didn't you create your "seam" by adding in an entire second application?
Employee compensation does indeed raise the price the company has to pay. However, it doesn’t end up in government coffers, making it not a tax. This isn’t rocket science.
This is also an attack vector that the article mentions. If you have logic on the client-side that can tell if the captcha is correct it lets an attacker brute-force it. (Basically as far as I see you can't send the hashes to the client without opening up this vector.)
That's about 1.3 million too many.
I refuse to read any blogs.
By definition, RISC stands for "reduced instruction set computer". And RISC-V exposes its internals so it has way more instructions than a conventional CISC processor, a lot of which deal with its internal states.

Here is a good example[1]:

For general signed addition, three additional instructions after the addition are required,
leveraging the observation that the sum should be less than one of the operands if and only if the
other operand is negative.

add t0, t1, t2
slti t3, t2, 0
slt t4, t0, t1
bne t3, t4, overflow

...good luck programming this insane design with anything other than a high level language compiler.

[1] https://riscv.org/specifications/
As long as we are watching Disney won't try. Votes are more powerful than money in politics when the voters are paying attention. Thus so long as we are paying attention Disney won't try anything. If we ignore the issue though...
Manager can't hold your fingers and force you to type code. Agile's short sprints mean that managers learn in 4 weeks instead 16 that death marches don't work.
Managers can be managed as much or little as reports are.
Nothing so directed is needed - the object of power is power. Although those with said intentions would find it useful for said ends. The dirty secret is they often want or need "undesirables" as a scapegoat. The difference may wind up academic though when dupes take the cynical scapegoating seriously long past the relevance of the propaganda. Like the European history of anti-semetism and the complete dumbasses who take the hundreds of Jewish expulsions as signs of guilt instead of being used as a political tool.

Certainly not liberal or free and should still be opposed of course.
Is concern trolling newspeak for expressing empathy?
I don't see how this has anything to do with philosophy, thought experiments as such arent't philosophical, some philosophy (mostly anglosphere) just uses them to draw conclusions from common sense intuitions. This kind of 'philosophy' has been a public service for as long as art exists which often draws from concepts of science and philosophy and presents it in a easily digestible form to common sense.
You can walk around just about any city in my state and see no trash on the ground. Even homeless camps tend to be cleanish. The only place you’ll find trash is the occasional rural road where some asshat has thrown their house garbage in a ditch to spread in the wind. But most people have agreed not to shit on their floor.

Wonder why places like New York City are so different.
How many of these logic questions are there? After refreshing http://api.textcaptcha.com/myemail@example.com.json about a hundred times, I'd estimate there are about 50 questions. Someone could write a script that solves each particular question manually.
I am always reminded of it when accidentally I go fullscreen mode and my flux turns off. It really hits you how bright the screen gets (and I am not using full filter, I like to keep colour distortion at bay).

Even if the blue light is a myth I will keep on using flux.
That is indeed the case, and this is what Kafka calls unlimited retention topics. This however hampers schema evolution significantly as you're not allowed to make backwards incompatible changes. Or rather if you allow those changes, every service would need to be able to handle every schema throughout time.

If you make the retention to only several days this would mean you can evolve your schema with even breaking changes. Consumers would need to support only schemas that are "active right now". If the retention period is long enough that it is safe to assume all the consumers have acted on all the old messages you can delete those messages. You would need a mechanism to replay them though, if that data is ever needed again, but it would just be in the latest schema.
In Boston cars are required to yield to pedestrians on turns, and many intersections have signs to remind them of this. That said, it's always a good idea to look and see what cars are actually doing, regardless of what laws and signals say.
Effective use of PPC by the digital marketing company in Kolkata
The state of internet shutdowns around the world [pdf]
Under the section on “reimagining search”:

> We live in a state of anxiety without a path to financial independence. The path to creating wealth from last century no longer applies. The path to reimagining search begins with helping people to understand their money. The first step starts with delivering insights into the stories that data can tell.

Not sure what financial independence has to do with search results? I’m not actually sure those sentences really mean anything at all...
Captchas are not "a bit of an illusion." In the past I ran very large, bespoke data mining campaigns, and ReCaptcha was continually a source of annoyance. My usual response to seeing ReCaptcha was to work on a different project or find a different dataset, because spending even a few cents per request to solve the captcha would make collecting the dataset unviable unless I was very certain it would pay off.
With the amount of systemd-related articles on Phoronix lately, I'd wager systemd clickbait/trollbait is responsible for a large part of their ad revenue...
But you work for your CEO, not your client's CEO. Even Steve Jobs called Larry Page, not a random engineer, when he didn't like the Google icon on the iPhone.
Gravitational collapse in 3, 2, 1 . . .
Well, hopefully soon.
I hate that systemd refuses to work in a chroot. With all those extra services in systemd like dns, it's impossible to run in a container or chroot... And the developers blatantly refuse to fix that.
I'm the author of the article linked in this entry and https://science.raphael.poss.name/go-calling-convention-x86-..., and this is IMHO the best comment in this thread.
Is approach is going to kill battery life because the phone has to be always online to receive those times transmission.
We’re also about 60% similar to bananas by genome.
> TAPL by Pierce
Can you expand on why you enjoyed this? Its sitting on my shelves for a few years..
From what I remember of age distribution of players, at least the ones I knew at work, the Major quoted in the article is on the cusp of being too old to have experienced pokemon as a kid whereas the front line personnel are in the target age for the game and app. I'm far too old for pokemon; the concept was invented right about the time I graduated college. The Major is probably about a decade younger than I am, plus or minus speed of promotion in the Canadian forces.

I suspect there was a lot of trolling the upper echelons by lower level personnel claiming they've never heard of any pokey-man and similar. That's how it would have rolled when I was in the Army. Privates always create their own fun. The military guy who convinced his boss to let him explore the base to find more pokemon for himself, err, I mean, strictly for research purposes, is a truly epic stereotypical military story.
What does binary size look like, and has it grown to match?
I agree about Fire Upon the Deep. Something else in a similar vein is the prologue for Hogan's Code of the Lifemaker which I'd argue is significantly more interesting than the book as a whole.
> Writing the simplest, most performant iteration of a site that matches the minimum requirements as you perceive them for today's users isn't that expensive. But that approach crumbled quickly as parameters change slightly.

Maintaining two apps (front end and back) instead of one--that seems like an approach whose affordability crumbles more quickly when change is needed to me.
Probing the interior physics of stars through asteroseismology
There's more to life than synchronizing and automation.
Disable browser extensions. It'll remove 90% of fake and real malware they'll run into.
It's pretty easy to set up, the instructions in the README show how to get the bash command you need. https://github.com/jakehilborn/displayplacer
is there some sort of concerted effort to lie about this?

Yeah, there is a strong pro-nuclear group on HN who believe it has unfairly been targeted.
the extremely radical move would be to pull a Taipei - you can't leave your garbage on the street, the truck just comes everyday at different times and you walk to the truck with your garbage

time variation means people's different work schedules get covered - whether you're at home in the morning, afternoon or evening you'll catch the truck 2x a week

if you live in an apartment building, it makes really good sense to collectivize and hire the work out to someone or share the shore between neighbors depending on socioeconomic bracket
I don't think there is a magic bullet - and yes I have completely considered adding parental controls.

I think there's probably two prongs of attack. Helping them manage their IT and Scam prevention. Scam prevention covers cold calls "from your bank", random letters in the post, people knocking on the door etc. IT competence is supplementary and confidence here helps prevent the former. e.g. If you've installed every toolbar offered to your browser, then a) You shouldn't be in charge of a browser and b) Are more likely to need the help of MS when they call.

Things I've done, in no particular order:

Offered to be their IT support. If in doubt over anything, please call me first. I don't mind, it's how I can be helpful and show gratitude. If I've called them, I've normally got free time, so good time to ask if there's anything they want me to look at whilst I'm here.

Added their machines to my Google One Backup (or whatever your backup solution of choice is with an online family plan). I've tried leaving them with USB drives to plug in and local backup scheduled, but never seems to work out.

Accept some people shouldn't own a PC. Chromebook/ipad provide most of what they need and are relatively sheltered.

Push them towards online services for say email. Yes, they might be used to Thunderbird that you initially set them up with - but de-corrupting local storage, missing emails from that time they accidentally used POP, hooking in AV, anti-spam etc etc. Gmail (or your provider of preference) handles that for you (and you can just use thunderbird with that if you insist - and it will grab mails from that ISP account you mysteriously are attached to).

Education. Quite surprisingly my PC-cautious relative (never messes up, but refuses to embrace) decided to take a "Computer Driving License" course. I was slightly disparaging to be honest, but she found it interesting - and started realizing what she could do. e.g. Address book previously a txt file (kept on a USB stick for security, naturally), made the switch to Excel and mail-merged the envelopes for the Christmas letter.
Most malware I've seen in the field is Chrome extensions, so I would not assume this is enough. I recommend disabling browser extensions for maximum computer illiterate IT safety.
The biggest driver of Australia's increased emissions is the increasing population: https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2017/07/greenhouse-gas-emis...
Under current immigration settings Australia will reach 40 million people by 2050.

With zero net overseas migration, the population would stabilise at 27 million then fall slightly. This is the most important change that could be made to assist the Australian environment, but sadly discussing immigration is completely disallowed in mainstream Australian media.

There is no need to limit birthrates - they are already sub-replacement in Australia. Just cut immigration.
There is a way to defate this that is much simpler, in the examples on the page 5 out of 7 examples has the answer in the question. Just do MD5 sum of every word/combination of words in the question and you would find the answer to many of the questions. This together with a targeted dictionary would propbably give you a very high success rate for little cost. MD5/SHA-familly hashes are inexpensive to compute, you can do billions of the in a second. If you cant find the answer, then just request a new challenge untill you find one you can answer.
Poor's man kill switch for your demo applications
It's pretty bad in Canada - you get really convincing scammers pretending to be our taxation agency pushing you to pay back taxes in iTunes Giftcards.

This is an obvious scam, but for people who aren't up on this and fearful of "the man" I expect these kinds of scams work for every 1 in 100k people at best and are still probably lucrative enough for them to keep going.

The answer for the OP problem and the Canadian problem are the same: the government never calls you, Microsoft never calls you, no tech company will ever call you.
"Have you tried going mad without power? Nobody listens to you!"

Technology has been used to advance agendas before there was a government. Even if the agenda was "hitting a simolodon" and the technology was "picking up a stick first".
I switched my grandparents PC to linux, Ubuntu in particular. It covers everything they want to do (light web browsing, some text processing, printing, transfering images from their phone/camera to the PC). Has been working great for 3yrs now.

I've also noticed that installing adblock helps, since there's less shady stuff to click.
We do, it's in the news non stop.
It's not really faith, it an educated guess:
CEO (or Director of Department) - Makes an educated guess, that if they can release Product A in next 18 months, they will earn $1,000,000.
That means that they need to know that A:
1) Product A will be released in next 12-14 months.
2) They will spend less than $700,000. Otherwise they might be better off buying bonds or something.

It's effectively a job of an exec / director to make bets. Hopefully they are educated guesses, but there are times when somebody just have to flip a coin too.
Speaking of which, what is the best way to create a throwaway email account?
Private vehicle drivers in NYC are a special class of selfish and low integrity city residents.
I don't have a great solution for that, really, other than ensuring that updates are highly visible in a room where people are likely to read them and have a good culture around helping folks.

I've been in environments like the one you describe, and I think at the end of the day it's more of a cultural issue than something that can be solved using a tool.
Have you - in later years - figured which distro if any, was the easiest and hassle-free, for older people in general (if not your parents specifically)?
Uhm, Stockholm is most definitely not an "obey the light" city for pedestrians.
It replaces a lot of lines too. Like every service that has to demonize itself, buggy init scripts, etc
Amsterdam does it best. Underground trash with mechanical claw pickup.
America Loves Its Unregulated Wellness Chemicals
Ted Chiang has a number of good short stories. (And a collection of them.)

With a few exceptions, I've never really been into reading the SF magazines so I don't have much a first hand perspective. But I assume that, as you say, they're even less lucrative and more marginal than they used to be.
Your iterations are 1 week. An iteration could be any length of time. And retros are exactly what you said. During our retros we have talked about iteration length multiple times and tried varying ones. In our retros everything is on the table for discussion, but it sounds like that's not the case at Pivotal.
Give them a chromebook. No virus scanner or firewall needed.

It's 2020 and the "Personal Computer" paradigm is past its expiration date.

Want to keep hobbying with Windows and manage your "PC" like a pet, good luck with that!

Hardware should be managed like cattle with a cloud native setup if you ask me.

Racehorse owners loose 90 cent on every dollar invested, cowboys fly helicopters.
YouTube is not, by itself, a credible source. Lots of bunk masquerading as science on YouTube.
230-12-01-2020 to mean the 230th release since the start of the project, made on January 1st, 2020.

Surely this is either released on the first of December or the 12th of January?
Leaving a bag in the UK has always raised suspicion, hence leaving bombs in bins which were invisible. The added death and mayhem from the shrapnel was just a bonus.

When the IRA were using american funds to blow our kids up in the 80s and 90s, it was a more innocent time - nobody really considered a threat where the bomber would be willing to kill themselves as part of the attack - not in the west (and there'd only been the one suicide attack by the Palestinians), and much of the time there were warnings phoned in. Typical bombings were abandoned car/vans, bags or litter bins.

Nowadays the attack vector seems more knife crime or suicide bombing. There's far less now too.
dns, network and ntp services are run in separate processes. These processes are sandboxed in a more effective manner than chroot (namespaces, capabilities, etc.).
Moreover, systemd itself relies heavily on Linux sandboxing tools (like cgroups).
Can't reproduce the findings. I think this is counting all lines ever added across all commits. The current source tree is at 500k lines of C:

$ tokei
C: 492003, C Header: 58547

Total line count at 889658, "code" count at 716316, but 202314 of that is plain text which could signify documentation. It's still a lot, but not even nearly close the headline.
Yes, and to avoid the shrapnel problem
Cheaters are part of the environment - of course you have to consider them. Just because you like your rules doesn't mean everyone else does.

Sometimes pondering the natural world for a while is healthy. There's a lot of deceptive, underhanded trickery animals get up to.