skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not connecting the dots because everything they wrote in that article is good for Google if it ends. Ad dollars that would be spent at Google are being burned on ad exchanges and content recommendation ad networks.

Google's introduction of AMP looks to me like a direct attack on Taboola and the ad exchanges. You can read a lot of major news outlets now without your mobile phone choking.

Google's fraud department is very aggressive. Publishers maybe get away with sending low quality traffic through to Adsense/Doubleclick for a while, but traffic brokers will mix fraudulent traffic in, only Google will catch it, and then the publisher ends up with a very large negative account balance.

There are some separate issues with very bad quality sites and mobile apps ending up in Google's platform. This wasn't the case years ago. Much of it is from sites with buzz and viral in the domains and is coming from Facebook. It is real, but the clicks are maybe 100% accidental and the smart pricing algorithms are not punishing it like they should.

The correct conclusion of this article is that media publishers who have relied on huge volumes of un-targeted, non-retaining, mediocre traffic with shitloads of display ads/auto play video ads/etc are running out of time. The platforms which serve them may be over valued by a lot.

Google+Youtube and Facebook are the big winners. The ad dollar share will shift back to them. They can deliver ads through their mobile apps in a way that is not easily blockable even at the network level. Future ads delivered through voice interfaces (Siri, Alexa) and messaging platforms (Snapchat, FB Messenger) are going to make ad blocking more of a non-issue as content & ad blend together. Maybe at some point you stick a Magic Leap in your eyeball and an AI auto-blocks anything suspected to be paid for to your retina while noise cancelling headphones kill the audio stream, but that isn't a near-future issue for now.

There is a whole separate issue regarding Google's increasing replacement of organic results with basically just ads. Google may be in a very, very tight position to meet their quarterly numbers and could start missing.
> To answer a likely reflex-response to this: that doesn't mean we think people should be working for free, or that we judge people who want to earn more money. It's totally fine to want to make more money. Different people have different expectations and requirements at different stages of their life though.

No belittling intended.
> It's interesting how it's always "women prefer higher-status men" and never "men prefer lower-status women".

While resulting partnerships obviously must be reciprocal, preferences don't have to be.
I read about someone who described his own salary negotiation: he writes the minimum salary he's willing to take, the recruiter writes the maximum they're willing to pay , then you show your numbers. If minimum > maximum, call it a day otherwise you continue the negociation.

His trick was to write a minimum of 0 as in if you're not satisfied with his job he won't take your money, supposedly he got much better offers doing the negociation this way, probably because he gets the other party to give a number much higher than what they would otherwise have said. Also it may have been for contracting work and not an employee position. (Can't remember where I read this, probably on hn though).
"No true scotsman."

Would you prefer advice from a socially incompetent developer?

If I'm at point A and want to reach point B, I'd value advice from someone who went A->B (and now comfortably sitting at B) more than from someone who is still stuck in A with me.
"with compressors that can are so good for one specific set of data that compressor + data is smaller than anything the traditional compressors could create."

This is well, hopeful but probably wrong ... because
we already know how to make it smaller for this type of data.

The algorithms used for interframe/intraframe prediction are chosen to tradeoff speed vs size. If you built a really large-scale predictor that was able to generate very small representations for changes, you would get what he's built.

(Note that encoders already complexly select from tons of different prediction algorithms for each set of frames, etc)

We can already do this if someone wanted to.
We just don't.

Because it's not fast enough (and nothing in that work changes this)

Would it be useful to apply NN's to video encoders to better select among prediction modes, etc. Probably. But that's already being done, and is not this guy's work.

"And even if its not fast enough, it can still be a very efficient compressor, trading size for CPU.
"

The problem you have is not just compression time.
It's decompression time.
The bitstream of H265/etc is meant to be decodable fast.

What this guy is building is not.
If you were to make it so, it would probably look closer to a normal video codec bitstream, and take up that much space.

In fact, he hasn't built anything truly new, he's just using existing papers and making an implementation. He also says, in his masters thesis, that is primarily an artistic exploration.

Even with hardware decoding, you can only make stuff so fast.

TL;DR While interesting, there are people working on the things you are talking about, and it's not this guy (at least in this work).

I would not expect magic here. We already create video codec algorithms by trading off cpu cost and size. The trick is trying to get better size without increasing CPU cost significantly.
As these resources change (and remember, moore's law is pretty much dead), the video codecs will change, and videos will get smaller, but you aren't likely to see serious breakthroughs.
We already could produce very small videos by applying tremendous amounts of CPU power.
For a remix, you would also need the permission to use the specific recording, (which can be declined) as well as rights from the song owner.

For example, If you wanted to cover Viva la Vida by Coldplay, you do it and pay the mechanical licensing fees. If you wanted to sample/remix it the recording of Viva la Vida, you would need to contact Capitol Records, who could decline or request specific payment. If you wanted to sample or remix the performance of Viva la Vida from Super Bowl 50, you would probably need the rights from CBS.

https://loudr.fm/faq

http://www.ascap.com/playback/2011/01/features/limelight.asp...
Is that _really_ the best examples he can come up with? Why not military support structures or privatized municipal services? I'm not sure two examples is sufficient to hold up his claims anyways, but the ones he chose were terrible.

Looking through the link, Davies seems to be arguing that even applying metrics to measure performance is somehow 'neoliberal'. He badly misreads Hayek (enjoying a bit of pointless psuedo-psychoanalysis), rather than reading or understanding the man's arguments.

Whenever anyone attempts to tell you that one group in particular was responsible for the US housing crisis, you can safely assume you're dealing with political ideologue. Davies falls completely into that category.

There appears to be this baseline assumption in certain leftist circles that "capitalism is based in greed, we see greed in western capitalist systems, therefore all examples of greed are due to capitalism". This would be a laughable syllogism if so many otherwise intelligent people didn't seem to take it seriously. Most of his "examples" are springing from this rather absurd belief.
> "in a salary negotiation the first person to quote a number loses"

This assumption is wrong. Read about the anchoring effect. Your process still seems fine though.
I get bombarded with so many Lyft ads on my android device. Every other video I play is preceded by a Lyft ad. I finally caved in, downloaded the app and signed up for it. Their ads still haven't stopped.
I do something similar with a custom stylesheet for Twitter. It hides follower count, and since I use it almost exclusively on desktop, it works quite well at helping me avoid being biased for/against a potential follow because of their numbers.
No, it was called Project Blue Book here too.
We're seeing more and more of these types of articles coming up, but they're all talking about different aspects of the same issue: inability to share growth with wide swaths of the population. In the west, our quality of life has never been higher and products/services have never been cheaper. This has been caused in large part by automation, lean manufacturing, globalization, etc. and each one of these is net positive for society. The problem seems to be that it's become difficult to share these gains with labour in the classical sense; and our society, taxation system, social contract are all based around this meaning of labour.

When I see articles about:
- Austerity,
- Wage growth,
- Universal basic income,
- Death of middle class,
- Rise of right-wing parties,
- Anti-free trade lobbying,
- Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders;
I read all of them with same lens. I know my knowledge of economics is medium at best, but I'm starting to look twice at ideas such as UBI. Maybe there needs to be a rethink of the Western social contract around labour.
That assumption doesn't bear out in practice, in my experience. There are plenty of people who believe that for-profit businesses can also achieve great, positive purposes in the world, and want to be a part of it.

Cases in point: Tesla and SpaceX. They aren't charities. They are very purposeful.
Or the fact that in a lot of XML 90%+ of it is markup?
the film is "Stand By Me"
This looks a lot like the first compression step in JSON HPack: https://github.com/WebReflection/json.hpack/wiki
Why Tech Companies Should Work with Government Rather Than Against It
I don't know man, the hello world look quite the same. I don't think C# dev have anything to laugh about. I would rather be concerned how Oracle is using Java in courts.

But technically Java is one of the more favorable languages we have out there in the world. Go look at tooling like Scala, Maven, how easy it is to get something running on a *nix box.

public class HelloWorld {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("Hello, World");
}
}

public class HelloWorld
{
public static void Main()
{
System.Console.WriteLine("Hello, World!");
}
}
Are we still linking to this snake oil salesman?
Plan to Fabricate a Genome Raises Questions on Designer Humans
Even more pedantically: it's more like "you're worth at least $X to me" where there is some unknown maximum $X+delta that $Y may or may not be within.
Refactoring with Codemods and jscodeshift – Toptal
New #decisionsupport startup in Kirkland – rising competition to #Tableau?
Not if you want privacy or to access content disallowed by DO (torrents).
There's only so far Gentoo goes. I ran Gentoo for years, and learned a lot, but eventually stopped learning more about Linux and was only leaning about Gentoo's weird structure. That said, it's a great intro, and will teach you a lot of the prerequisites to getting LFS working.
I love this in a morbid way. The ads are mistargeted, the viewership is fake, and what remains of the clicks is half accidental.

The only reason any of this makes any money is because there is money to be made in pretending it's 1995.
To be fair, in order to work with the ownCloud client, Davros had to implement a few ownCloud-specific extensions. But basically, yes, it's WebDAV.
Even if people start hacking or otherwise defeating cameras, you'd be able to at least track the blackouts. Hiding from anyone is going to become a real exercise in subterranean travel.
As a Briton, the idea of having to access government services through mobile apps seems vaguely offensive.

Apps are expensive to build, allow rampant surveillance that it's very hard to audit under the hood, and mean that customer information is distributed based on your ability to access a smartphone.

The U.K. government also has a poor record of delivering large scale IT projects with complex chains of dependencies (the overhaul of the NHS IT system was cancelled after spending several billions on a Patient Information system that no one ever ended up using). Given the chance, departments would have tried to create the 'Everything App' at enormous expense and with zero interoperability between depts.

The decision to push the GDS methodology across the whole of government was hugely unpopular within the civil service at the time but they've been absolutely vindicated in their approach.
Steve Jobs’ love of simplicity is gone
Cost.

We have six production nodes sitting behind a load balancer at three sites. That's 18 total nodes, all of which we're paying to run on Windows Server.

If we could run these 18 nodes on Linux, even with the associated support contract, we could see significant savings. All of this is a drop in the ocean compared to our database costs (we're using a massive Oracle database) but the savings could be enough for an extra employee.

You can argue the pros/cons of .Net in general, but we find it allows us fairly good productivity. We've also moved a lot of front-end logic into HTML/JS/CSS so if we ever moved platforms we aren't as tied, but right now MVC/EF is working fine.
Ok. Here goes:

1. The interface is complex and defined because of the sheer amount of features present.
2. Recommendations work really well after for me after I started using the "not interested" feature and curating channels.
3. You can add playlist and get notified when new videos are added easily - thus eliminating the need to subscribe to whole channels if you don't like all their content. (I know there are a few I like to see all the content from).
4. They disappear when you mouse away.
5. The volume control slider works...
6. Annotations are not default on for me. Autoplay on by default got me to start using it and is great for Chromecast and music.
7. Annotations can be updated by uploaders and some are good - but the default engine is only sufficient and sometimes difficult to translate. (But still the best I've seen anywhere else on the web for non-intentionally edited ones)
7. I don't see playlists as a bad workaround for this- particularly given you can update them in real time. Also the queue for streaming has this feature. (It would be cool to have the ability to navigate search while playing videos).
8. You just became a cost center for Youtube rather than a cost and revenue center - and your needs won't be catered to. YouTube Red is great and comes with a music subscription service and solves the ad problem.
9. This is a good idea. The workaround currently is Patreon links in the description which add minimal total clicks to donating.

I don't know how the Youtube Team operates but I'm very thankful for their product. They serve up incredible amounts of video on dozens of devices and network types for many use cases and manage to do so in a way that perseveres some discoverability and personalization. Red allows ad free access to insane amounts of content for a reasonable cost.

Thanks for being the man in the arena YouTube team.
Turing’s Sunflowers: Growing Alan Turing’s Legacy
There is and yamaha (?) owns one, but I can't find it right now. It was like band in a box, but even better.
How do we know they weren't all tripping on acid. That would explain everything.
I disagree about the songs creep and smells like teen spirit being generic. These were exceptionallu crafted pop songs that expressed heart wrenching emotion. Nothing like the typical pop song at all.
Understanding media addiction to Donald Trump
Blazing fast Markdown rendering in Swift, built upon cmark
What do you guys think?
Looks like some interesting new advancements in the space of automated data analysis.
In this case the therapy is not useless or a sham, and it is autologous which has traditionally been an exempt area in this respect.

That the FDA has overturned its own history and precedent is the scandal, imho.

A benefit has been shown, to what degree and in which circumstances is being ironed out.

There is some hope, the FDA has liberalized to some degree in recent years and biotech has been a top performing sector. We live in miraculous times.
To be fair, it is the IMF - their inherent mission is to lend, it's even in their name.
I use Hugo (http://gohugo.io) to generate a static content blog, which is then hosted using a combination of Bitbucket (http://bitbucket.org) and Aerobatic (http://www.aerobatic.com). Works really nice, is fast, and requires no maintenance at all.
Yesterday's discussion of a possible TeamViewer hack: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11826431
One could certainly interpret a PE buyout as an "exit".
The more severe problem is that there is a rather strong argument being made by the "Mises brand of neoliberal" that the primary cause of these problems is the lack of neoliberalism in the central-banking world.

Their argument is essentially that the economy-wide boom/bust paradigm is driven by the motivations of the central banks. Normally individual industries and companies would experience fluctuation, but it would not be nearly as damaging without the central banks attempting to 'synchronize' the economy.
Snapchat’s Influencer Economy Runs on Hot Tubs, Selfies, and Whey Protein
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"If your main concern is getting paid as much as possible then we're probably not the right place for you to work anyway"

That kind of phrasing is generally code for, "We pay crap wages and expect you to live at work."
> You may hate it but... you clicked on it. We're giving you what you want.

You tell me once, I need X, I won't care. You tell me ten times a day I need X, I might get tired. Color me pessimistic, but people in general just need to be told with clear words over and over what to do and without a strong independent or stubborn mind they will follow.
How EyeEm trained an algorithm to predict what makes a beautiful photo
I'm not sure if this is where and when metamaterials break into the mass market, but it's bound to happen sometime in the next 5-10 years, why not now?
This is Microsoft's fault for the way they're doing .Net Core, not Linux.

They have a ridiculous installation script with hardcoded distros in it instead of simple packages or hell, even an AppImage.
“Individuals with liberal arts degrees are sharpest technology leaders”
The article seems a bit vague as to what it means by neoliberalism. It seems to mean the belief that unregulated free markets won't go wrong which I'm not sure anyone really had. Some bits seem to work OK like letting people trade goods and services and some lead to problems like German banks lending to property speculators in Greece and then wanting to be bailed out when the whole thing tanks. The latter was more straight dumb than anything else, at least with hindsight. I'm not sure there's anyone saying I'm a neoliberal and funding the Greek bubble was a good idea. It's a bit of a strawman.
Bees collect pollen, but prefer nectar to sugar water.
> I don't see why paying people less would lead to an improvement in love, family, being a good person, respect, transparency, etc -- unless you're saying that due to pay difference vs market, you'll also expect less work out of them.

There's definitely no necessary causal link here. We aim to pay enough that they won't leave because it's too little but not so much that they will stay just because of the salary is too high. It's a pretty hard balance to achieve... not sure if we have. We used to phrase it as "pay people fairly" but then "fairness" is so relative as a concept that it is essentially useless.

Having transparent pay does have a clear link with creating a good working environment, in our experience, however - and transparent pay doesn't mix well with having salaries basically based on people's negotiation skills (rather than a more open system like I've described), in backroom deals.

> And money is rarely the actual motivator. Often times, money is the mediator to the things that really motivate people, such as purchasing daycare and enrichment activities, splurging on medical care plans, financial security, etc.

I wish that were always true... my observation is that some people are in fact motivated by the money, and the status that comes with being paid more than others, more than by the things they can actually do with the money. I find it puzzling, but so it is...
Yeah, Rust is not the real adversary.

The real adversaries are Objective-C, Go, Swift, .NET Native, C++14, OCaml, Haskell and even node.js.

Monitoring tools similar to VisualVM will come.

Nowadays my Java code is either targeted at Android or maintenance of existing enterprise code. Other than that we aren't using it for greenfield projects.
Golden State Warriors use tech to their on-court advantage
I think one of the more frustrating issues with advertisements is with the overlay ads as opposed to the pre-play ads. While the pre-play ads cause the same frustrations that TV/radio ads do (obnoxiously loud compared to the content you mean to watch, often irrelevant even when you allow all advertising trackers to run), the overlay ads are exceptionally frustrating because they often obfuscate content. Instructional videos or videos involving subtitles are particularly victimized by overlay ads since it's not just a mild interruption at that point, the ads often are completely blocking important content in the video.

Truthfully, with all of the great minds that are at google, it's a bit shocking they haven't found a way to make the advertisements at least a bit more amicable to their viewing audience. In my mind, there's no reason that some sort of content analysis couldn't be done during the upload to check the overlay boundaries and see if "crucial content" like text is present, and set flags in the meta-data so that the ad software can avoid those time stamps. Or on the sound issue, do some advertisement audio balancing based on the volume of the previous and following video so you don't suddenly get audio blasting through speakers/headphones.

To me these seem like relatively simple user experience tweaks that really would make it easier to digest advertising through the service.

Consequently, using Safari on mac and click-to-plugin, you can force an HTML5 player, which seems to not allow the pre-play ads or the overlay ads at all. I've found the experience much more enjoyable via this method.
I'm not sure what your point is, but those are not the words of the author.
Hey thanks for this but I replied to @splike and was asking about source code of wikitude.
> Key to the GDS’ approach is designing for user needs, not organizational requirements, Terrett says. “That is how good digital services designed and built these days. That is how everyone does it, whether that’s google or facebook or British Airways or whoever.”

> The problem is that public sector agencies tend not to design with citizens in mind. “Things are just designed to suit the very silos that the project sits in, and the user gets lost in there,” Terrett adds.

Amen. Unfortunately, it is very much not how everyone does it.
I took time to learn about increasing my productivity and learning how to delegate tasks.

It was great to have my name on lots of projects, but after a while, it becomes impossible to manage it all.

Read or listen to the 4 Hour Work Week, its really about 10X your productivity.
The author of Ogg wrote a reply to that article: https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/lj-pseudocut/o-response-1....

Anyway, I highly doubt the design of the Ogg container had anything to do with the popularity of Vorbis vs MP3 - most users of Vorbis used the Ogg container, and some of the criticisms in the original article apply to MP3 (ever tried to seek a VBR MP3 file?)
Unfortunately, that is not how light and perception works.

There are thousands/millions¹ of separate visible light frequencies. Our eyes and brains takes that all in and does an enormously lossy mapping of that to 3 perceived colors.

If you only record 3 of those thousands/millions of frequencies, you will lose 99.9% of the light, and mostly make black photos.

¹ depending on how wide the frequency interval considered monochromatic is.