skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>2) Companies want to know that their advertising dollars are actually producing results, and traditional advertising completely sucks at this. If you've never run a traditional ad campaign, I suggest giving it a try and then decide how much value you think you got out of it. You can spend thousands to millions of dollars and have absolutely no idea if your money impacted sales even the smallest amount. Compare that to adtech, where you get real data on outcomes on a regular basis. Even if it's crap data, it's often better than "well we think the brand is stronger now".

The data to do this already exists in many cases.

For example, Google, Facebook - both know when people visit a location, and could cross-reference this with store visits now. If advertising exists in a physical location, and is effective, there is the potential for either of these companies to determine whether the customer visited a location where that physical inventory exists.

Traditional advertising only sucks at quantifying results because "new media" has no incentive to share the loads of data they are now collecting.
Yup, just like pasteurised. After a few weeks, it starts tasting a bit different - not like fresh milk going sour, just different, don't really have a word for it.
The community, building and maintaining that is much harder than software
Of course you know. The answer is always "They are being paid to shill it." unless they have invested in cultivating a reputation of independents, like Consumer Reports.

The youtubers I respect (best content), have the format:

1. main content.

2. "Here comes an ad for X"

3. mildly entertaining ad for X
It's worth noting that the above doesn't relate to pension funds but the state pension.

These aren't paid out from a pot but comes from general taxation, the same as presumably a UBI system would.
I see your point. Have you thought about how such a militia would communicate, if they were working together? They would have to come up with new communication channels, seeing as how the government has it's hands in all telecommunications today. I think that would prove a great barrier, and perhaps it's insurmountable.
As a node developer, I've learned the value of shrinkwrap the hard way. I imagine many companies don't use it until it comes back to bite them.

I've had to deal with downstream dependencies breaking things in our dev environments more than I care to admit. I'd suspect that most old node projects of any meaningful size won't just boot up and run without some tinkering.
> - Universities are failing because most don't have the professors and curriculum yet to handle the needs of our evolving economy. I've always been interested in the web but they didn't teach any web development or technology when I was at school, so I taught myself instead of going to classes and ran an ecommerce store in 01 when margins online still existed. My brother is much younger than me and his school has these programs so that's a good thing.

Universities know what they should be teaching in order for their graduates to be successful in the workforce and in graduate studies. Lesser schools simply dumb down the curriculum to pad their graduation rates. In the case of software jobs, good companies want new graduates with solid fundamentals. There are certainly professors who are clueless but I doubt it's the tenured/tenure track faculty in top STEM departments.

>A college education is definitely oversold and has been for some time. It used to be an incredible value.

I agree with you on this, most schools are simply not worth attending.

> I've always been interested in the web but they didn't teach any web development or technology when I was at school

This is too vocational for a school to teach. Web development frameworks are easy enough to learn on your own and intellectually they are not challenging. Schools must concentrate on the fundamentals and not on ephemeral technologies.

>As with most things, I think we'll see a return to the older times and apprenticeships will emerge as a competing alternative.

I'd say it's more likely software hiring turns into what you see in industries where too many people want to get in such as investment banking, big law, and consulting where employers simply recruit from certain schools. My Summer software engineering internship at a Fortune 500, non-tech company is composed roughly of 75% of students from reputable or name brand schools. Bay area software companies are probably even a greater percentage.
the US has had "truth in advertising" always since before the Internet, but here they always fall down because cases go to court and the judge rules that "people should know that this was a lie, so it's not deceptive in an illegal way"
Thanks so much. People only talk about the faxing capabilities of software DSPs, not the "general purpose modem" capabilities.
Given your interpretation I'm not sure which of us is the more innocent, but munching and popping are drug taking references.
That's a problem with ad valorem property taxation, but not a problem with taxing capital income.
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Design is being thoughtful
WW3 LOOKS LIKE TERROR IS ALREADY IN US,TRUMPS RIGHT
Good point there is greater opportunity if bots were able to use visuals as opposed to just words.
> 1) People straight up don't want to see ads. Ad blockers, Netflix, etc. are a natural response to this. If your medium relies on traditional ads, there's an increasingly large chance that your audience won't ever see those ads in the first place.

If Netflix was free but with ads (with ad-less subscriptions optional) their viewership and subscriptions would skyrocket, and end up supporting traditional advertising on a modern medium. The only thing I see in the way of something like this is ISPs refusing to give Netflix the bandwidth needed for something this massive. For this to be a possibility either the FCC makes ISPs a utility, or net-neutrality is repealed.
I haven't (since I'm not in charge of hiring), but I've had to work with multiple people that simply couldn't code to save their lives which was quite frustrating.
Are you crazy ??????
State pensions are often paid out of a special pot, and not general government funds; in the US, for instance the Social Security Old Age and Survivors (OAS) Trust Fund.
I don't know how you do it, but I'm 29 and my biggest regret is to be a dropout when I was 23 years old. Now I'm going to get back to the university next semester with a lot more understanding of how this is important. At least for me and my background/life.
Have you ever called support over phone and waited a long time for a simple question? Annoying, yes? A chatbot can often answer that simple question immediately. So yes, people do like chatbots as long they at least manage to get most of the simple questions right.

For example in our case, clients often have problems logging in. With our chatbot they can easily get a one time password sent to their phone. With a regular search/faq they would have never known about that, because they are often too frustrated with the UI experience for finding that information. With a natural language conversation, it is easier :-)
Branch prediction has gotten a lot better, that's true. Especially by taking more preceding branches into account.

But saying that branch mispredictions rarely matter seems a way too strong statement. In a lot of halfway performance critical software a large number of pipeline stalls are caused by wrongly predicted branches, and utilizing the pipeline efficiently is IMO becoming Mir, not less, important.
Haskell isn't practical for a lot of projects though just based on where your code has to run and what existing libraries you want to use.
AI winter is not coming because we are not getting artificial general intelligence. Most of the research is more mundane.

AI winter comes when the overall return on investment for AI research is too low for prolonged time.

Even if the AI research would advance steady pace and produce results, it's just normal that hype will catch in 'sexy' field and too much money is spent at once. When investors get burned, sentiment changes and money goes elsewhere for a period of time and there may underinvestment. Then hopefully there is new 'Canadian Mafia' working somewhere outside the limelight and delivers new breakthrough that moves the field forward.

Big players like Google etc. will probably continue research after cutting some overgrow.
These kind of programs exist! Sadly it looks like Trump will be cutting the budget that they rely on. [1]

> Judy Banks, a 70-year-old struggling to get by, said she voted for Trump because “he was talking about getting rid of those illegals.” But Banks now finds herself shocked that he also has his sights on funds for the Labor Department’s Senior Community Service Employment Program, which is her lifeline. It pays senior citizens a minimum wage to hold public service jobs.

“This program makes sense,” said Banks, who was placed by the program into a job as a receptionist for a senior nutrition program. Banks said she depends on the job to make ends meet, and for an excuse to get out of the house.

[1] https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/04/01/opinion/sunday/in-trum...
Maintaining Windows is a very complex and special case though. I mean for most contract work you can safely assume the libraries you're going to be using are mostly bug free.
Thanks for that. I'm clearly bad at estimating the frequency, since I thought it was probably below the threshold recommended. Glad to know I was wrong.
Any idea what it was written in before?
> "the gay lifestyle"

There's only one, is there? Stereotype, much?

I know several committed gay couples. Is that "the gay lifestyle" that you have in mind?

For one of them to cheat on their partner would be destructive, that's true. That applies independent of the genders involved, doesn't it?

As for singles who have made no commitments but still have sex with one another, is that more immoral if they're gay than if they're straight? I don't think it's immoral in either case, but if you do, I still don't see how gender preference enters into it.
OK

https://github.com/BillBohan/NISC
You're overvaluing IQ. IQ measures a narrow set of skills, and it mainly improves unskilled performance. For example, IQ only correlates with chess ability for novice players. This correlation disappears by the master level.

Additionally, it is not an unchangeable attribute, it just doesn't tend to change. This has more to do with people's circumstances and environment not changing than their inability to change. There is clinical data demonstrating IQ changes of over 20 points within the space of about 4 years. I've read about a number of cases where impoverished children with below average IQs achieve above average scores several years later with improved nutrition and an enriched environment.
I'm with you, my Comcast bill is now $160 a month for internet and TV. However perhaps the old modem was not DOCSIS 3.0 and the new one is? I'm guessing the new modem is just better hardware thus the increased throughput. No grand conspiracy.

Go buy your own DOCSIS 3.0 modem from Amazon and stop paying the monthly rental.
That's what I mean by "Pushed in reverse order"
The claim that Corporations have some fundamental opposition to how online advertising works with tracking and spying and personal data collection is total baloney.

No one has made any demands to change how these networks work or to stop collecting data.

What they want is essentially a demonetization blacklist. So that a handful of billionaires who own these companies can hand youtube, facebook and who ever else a list of people and organizations with the 'wrong opinions' and have them demonetized, delisted and otherwise disappeared.

Who gets to decide what is fake news? And who gets to decide what is and is not 'hate speech' and 'extremism'. The Billionaire board members of a few multinational corporations? That's not democracy, its corporate fascism.

This is how the one percent fights back against populism. These people have been given some nasty black eyes in the past few years and there not use to it. There use to running things in the background and now there not getting what they want and the democratic process is not working in there favor. So there going to fight back in any way they can. Including attacking the internet and the ability for people to have there voices heard.
A startup invented this $10,000 house that can be built in one day
At a guess this is a result of Comcast using the absolute, most mindbogglingly cheap hardware on the planet Earth. Second to that I would guess some kind of incompetence, and only after that would I seriously entertain what amounts to theft.
Its one thing if their service is unreliable, but another when the hardware they rent us doesn't even support the service speeds they sell us.

Class action?
OK, I bit the bullet, scraped all the webpages, and tried all of them in a loop.

-- None work. --

Sorry.

However, it was interesting to observe that some of the domains do still actually resolve.

--

Here's the general idea I used (I think this is all of the commands), in case anyone is curious.

$ wget http://www.lights.ca/hytelnet/oth/oth000.html
$ mkdir x
$ cd x

$ wget $(grep -o '<a href=[^>]\+' ../oth000.html |\
sed 's,<a href=,http://www.lights.ca,' |\
grep oth)

$ grep '^TELNET ' * | cut -d' ' -f2 | while IFS=: read -a x; do
echo -n "${x[0]}: ";
dig +noall +answer A ${x[0]} | sed -n '/IN\tA/s/.*IN\tA\t//p' | tr '\n' ' ';
echo; done | tee workingdomains.txt

$ grep '^TELNET ' * | cut -d' ' -f2 | while IFS=: read -a x; do
grep -q "${x[0]}: [^$]" workingdomains.txt || continue; echo "${x[0]}";
ncat -w 5 -v ${x[0]} ${x[1]:-23}; echo ---; done

Not perfect by any means, others will likely have much simpler ideas, but it worked, I guess.

The first grep command spits out the list of working domains and may be of interest.

The command is blind to the three straight IP addresses in the HTML files, which I tested manually (also didn't work) for completeness.
Could Australians continue to work into old age if they chose to? Your post implies they're being forced to work in the US and Japan, but it may be the opposite: that they have less options in Australia to keep working despite wishing to do so.
I think the solution for the google / youtube issue would be to have 2-4 tiers of content. And let brands decided what tiers their Ads are displayed against.

Tier 1 Vetted - Google marks a video for vetting when it has enough views. A Human checks the video and approves it. This lets google charge more for the "trusted ads", especially as selection bias means they will all be well above average in popularity.

Tier 2 Partner Network - Google delegates to the channel / network / partner to verify the content. This allows major partners to post content without needing it to be google vetted. Google ties this into the royalties payment so violation of this can result in financial penalty / being kicked off. If a video is reported it is immediately marked for vetting.

Tier 3 - Unverified. This is where majority of new content goes. There are plenty of brands that are less concerned about being associated with the random mix. As the general quality will be down the ad price will likely be lower, but these are the

Tier 4 - Unsuitable for major brands. This is for any content that has been vetted and is ok as far as Youtube's TOC, but inappropriate for major brand advertising. This will likely not generate a large amount of ad revenue, however being marked as a tier 4 video means you will not earn much, so it won't be produced by ad supported content producers. If this content is appropriately tagged you might be able to sell the ads to the opposing view. This pro-life vs pro-choice. The main reason this tier exists is to protect the dollars from Tier 1 & 2.

The vetting system could even have certain tags to mark content of certain types. I.e. you could allow a brand to not advertise against political material, however you would charge more for the placement of more targeted ads.

The system will push the vetting onto content producers while maintaining a pretty big (financial) stick to keep them in line.
You are probably right about cheap equipment and incompetence, but isn't it still fraud if they sell you something that they knowingly can't offer?

If I rent a car and pay extra for a 4WD, but the 4WD doesn't work, I want my money back. Is this different?
Nope. Good luck with that.
Microsoft [1][2] and Google [0]have been doing this for years. Google's billion word language model dataset is a notable example which was central to a lot of important research.

[0] https://research.google.com/pubs/pub41880.html
[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/mslr/
[2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/microsoft-3...
As a general rule, when you find that many people have come up with different solutions to a similar problem it's
a good bet that there's actually not a single good solution available.

"Facebook couldn’t possibly use something written at Google, so they built “Thrift,” which hardly lives up to its name, but at least has a less shitty version of RPC in it."

Thrift predates the public release of protobuf.
Then it's not "UBI". The "U" stands for "Universal", and the lack of conditionalities is the most important factor in not creating the perverse incentives of existing benefits systems -- eg., rewarding people for not working.
While I get along with most of my co-workers and the supervisor bothers me every so often, it has become a lot less. There are certainly benefits to remaining at work there including what you say AND ... 10-15 minute ride to work, vacation time, sick days, my own cozy cubicle, privacy, pay isn't horrible, and I get some creative freedom. So yeah, there are some people that suck, but we also make a killer product and we market for some top companies including Pepsi, Bond No. 9, Goldman Sachs, Toys R Us, almost off of Las Vegas and many, many others.

So thank you for pointing that out vanderreeah.
Should anyone else come accross this article at this point, be aware that the author is seriously confused about how the brain works. Quite possibly every single biological claim in the article is either seriously misleading or outright incorrect.

For easy to confirm evidence of this, attempt to find support in the one reference cited for the statement that it is cited as a reference for.
C++ and Java - including some Scala I believe.
Smart TV Hacking via DVB-T Stream
Show HN: NISC processor design specification
China Making Swift, Competitive Quantum Computing Gains
We had a few clients tell us: "Hey, can you take that Spanish out? We want English."

Surprising that there are people out there who have no idea what Lorem Ipsum is.
https://github.com/marcandrysco/Errol

> Our original evaluation of Errol against the prior work of Grisu3 was erroneous. The evaluation indicates a 2x speed improvement over Grisu3. However, corrected performance measurements show a 2x speed loss to Grisu3.
"Pretty poor coverage" sounds like the author was relying on Wi-Fi for connectivity. I wouldn't trust an ISP-provided combo modem/router to do anything more than the bare minimum when it comes to wireless, most likely a single chain 2.4 GHz network (and 5 GHz if you're lucky). Replacing it with Google Wifi which is a Wave2 802.11ac 5 GHz device with Beamforming will make a world of difference.

Intentionally supplying old hardware that can't reach high speeds (eg a DOCSIS 2 modem) is actually bad for them as it wastes frequency.
Long-Awaited 'Asian Century' Might Never Come
Spam and abuse are much easier problems to solve when it's reasonably difficult to obtain a new identifier with a clean reputation.

As much as you may consider it your human right to open thousands of new untraceable accounts per second with full functionality at zero cost, humoring you requires bending over backwards and resorting to a cat-and-mouse arms race of probabilistic anti-spam and anti-bot techniques. As the adversaries get good, it becomes more and more attractive to just require a phone number (and block well-known bulk suppliers of anonymous phone numbers like Google Voice, Twilio, and Flowroute).

I think this is actually a pretty reasonable arrangement. Someone motivated to stay pseudonymous can obtain a handful of extra phone numbers in a way that would take some effort to connect to his real identity. It's better than drivers license scans or credit card verification.

I think the only realistic alternative would be a proof-of-work scheme. This could protect privacy better, while still making it inordinately difficult to overwhelm a site operator with millions of pseudonyms for the same person. But there are no real standards here. More people have SMS than BTC.
Tortoise v hare: Is China challenging the United States for global leadership?
> I swear there are ads left and right on every rap video that talks about killing others, snorting cocaine and snagging women. Why they want their ads appear there but no next to some lunatic creating conspiracy theory videos or whatever the hate speech videos mean.

Because pop culture sells, even the bad parts of it. (especially the bad parts of it when the bad parts are sex, drugs, and violence)
Another way to get the advertised speeds is to regularly call and complain. From my experience, they'll dial your speed up, just to stop you from calling in all the time.
It's the same. You can sue for breach of implied warranty. They may try to get out of it by saying 'speeds up to'. But if the device can't do that then yes you'd have a good argument.
I met a guy who was highly motivated, seemed quite capable of doing work. He had lost his low level manufacturing job probably due to his own issues (he felt blamed of other peoples crappy work). This guy was desperate, had no place to stay, couldn't find a job due to a long criminal record (10 years in prison for a bunch of felonies) I swear if he got some solid mental health help, and a bit of training, he could make a solid electronics tech which we need where I work. He was totally ready to take whatever chance someone would give him, but he's essentially been discarded by society.
Most investors are just like you and me. We have a basic portfolio which we needed managed cheaply.

But... huge amounts of assets are held by people/companies that may have odd holdings (ultra concentrated positions) or odd needs (liability matching). Those people/companies may need algorithms to help them move their portfolio to an optimal portfolio with minimum cost.
Investing it (or even storing it in a bank, if above the insurance limit) comes with an extra risk.
Atomic Spins Evade Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
Stress really is killing us
Can you explain pls?
Just you wait. Chat-bots are currently at the level of a text-based adventure game combined with an arcade game, i.e. a primitive interface designed to minimize the player's (customer's) chance of winning (reaching a knowledgeable human). Just wait till they're fully gamified with a modern interface and an f2p revenue model.
I'd wonder about the same. Easy to test by plugging the Google router into the Xfinity one.

The other factor could be the Xfinity wifi sharing feature (customers can connect to other routers). Could be causing some issues or interference.
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I can't stand you tube people . Go get a real job .
Do we really trust the purveyors of traditional advertising (newspapers, television news, etc.) to be without bias or vendetta when reporting on this problem? It seems to be part of a larger pattern--at least as much of a pattern as the fact that there is trash on YouTube. Military History Visualized's "Economic Warfare? PewDiePie vs. WSJ #YouTube" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewLtRGh2IvM a very intriguing take on what's happening.