skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two things about ads.

They don't seek to inform you so much as they seek to inform you that something exists whilst manipulating your emotions to get a particular reaction out of you and millions of other people. This is particularly blatant in AV ads.

The other thing, mainly regarding software ads, is they don't seek to inform you so much as manipulate you whilst tracking your every move to guarantee that the ad was effective. This is particularly blatant with the Google and Facebook ad networks, but pretty much almost any 2-bit ad company you've heard of on the web at least tries to do something similar.

So in the end, advertising has at least two major problems with trying to either 1. manipulate you directly through your emotions or 2. manipulating your computer bandwidth and CPU time to violate your privacy and oftentimes, security.

Regarding #1, there are always going to be people that think they're smart enough, intelligent enough, or logical enough that they will never fall prey to this vector of advertising, and almost universally they are wrong. I don't doubt some few exceptions exist, I just don't think I've ever actually met someone who is an exception, nor am I under any illusions that I am. Your best defense is to cut ads out of your life to greatest extent possible. You'll probably never cut bus ads out of your life, if you at all enjoy city living, but you don't have to let advertisers into your home either.

How do you find out about things after that point? If you are at all social, read any kinds of news sites, invest any money into markets, have any kind of skin in some kind of game, or engage in any kind of recreational activities, you'll have other channels of information. Generally the signal will be of a much higher quality than if you were personally bombarded with advertisements intentionally seeking to cut out a large slice of your overall attention bandwidth every single day.
And don't forget the different groups "race" to get their release out first, and get the kudos.

So if one decided to use AV1 with its much longer encode times, they would always lose.

Saving bandwidth isn't usually a concern.
I'd love to see the original claim. Got an archive link?
The API would expose what IP cores are inside the GPU.

A competitor could easily dissect the code and figure out what blocks and/or techniques are violating their patent rights.
Read the article. They do use EasyList + EasyPrivacy.
Don’t you think that the number of recalls would be even higher without motor racing being used as a proving ground?

If your airbag fires you’re already in an accident and might die anyway. You’ve already accepted that risk. There are probably better recall examples but I’m not sure it’d disprove the underlying point though.
> If bus drivers had better pay and job security...

City bus drivers are often public employees represented by a powerful union. Hence their pay and job security are often pretty good by most peoples' standards.
> The bailingual engine isn’t reading anything—not in the normal human sense of the verb “to read.” It’s processing text. The symbols it’s processing are disconnected from experiences in the world. It has no memories on which to draw, no imagery, no understanding, no meaning residing behind the words it so rapidly flings around.

I had forgotten how edifying Hofstadter's writing was about topics such as this.
>there is no such thing as free will, since all your actions are some kind of response from the environment

And why couldn't that be free will? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibilism
I think he tries to prevent the usual happening when a recovering nation with a victim complex drunken on past injustifactions stumbles around in the diplomatic public, ignoring the injustices it dishes out itself.

This whole affair would were it not for nukes preventing it, shape up to be just another Germany beating europe to pulp yelling "remember Versailles" in a asian setting.
Putting it into ES won’t change the JSON standard though.
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I'd just ignore that. Note that you also need the scanner for scanning your Cartwheel/Wallet barcode (like the regular cashiers do).
It does say in the article that AdSense and Analytics is on the blocklist.
They’ll need a warrant to pull the data from the manufacturer. Chances are no LEA is even going to ask your permission as you won’t have the tools nor know how to pull that data.
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Awesome, my whole family played with it for 15 minutes, a great way to introduce wave theory to 8-10 years-olds! Works great on Windows 10 + Chrome.
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> What's your point?

My point is that if you want to be entirely safe from the ABI point of view, modules don't help you at all
The English version, https://weex.apache.org/guide/use-vue.html
1/3 = 0.3333...
Multiply each side by 3
3 * (1/3) = 1
3 * 0.3333... = 0.9999...

So 1 = 0.9999...
The tradition of "reticulating splines" started in Maxis games:

http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/Reticulating_splines

And now lots of other games and web sites do it too, even compiling Firefox:

http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/Reticulating_splines/Usage_outsid...

The "Stage 5" evacuation completion detection timer in Austin Powers could have used a tad longer debouncing delay:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YewcrxOQNvk
Yes, human translation is better, that's a trivially simple point, but irrelevant for deciding whether machine translation is very good and amazingly useful in the absence of a human translator.
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>Advertising is primarily about making you buy a product from a particular company, whether it's a good product or not, whether it's right for you or not.

That a pretty simplistic view. I never said ads are 100% true and want the best for you. Ads are informational as they inform you of the existence of a product and their basic characteristics. Small, well-targeted ads can be the only way someone that's just starting could have to let people know about the existence of their product. They don't hold a gun at you to force you to buy a product, they don't remove competition between companies, they don't prevent third-party review sites from existing. Buying or not buying them is up to each individual.
Why would anyone install their app?
try it with https://github.com/m1el/woscope-music/blob/master/oscillofun...
That I agree with, but installing an ad blocker is fairly painless in firefox.
Unlike Windows "security" updates, vaccines don't sneak in new "features".

I'm in both camps, at least where Windows is involved. I'm much more willing to update the average Linux or BSD (including macOS) because I still actually trust those updates.
That article's sentence that you're pointing to does not explicitly address the specific whitelist scenario I laid out.

The article's sentence: "Google appears to be shipping the entirety of EasyList and EasyPrivacy; which includes blocking rules for Google’s own AdSense and DoubleClick advertisement platforms as well as Google Analytics,"

... is only talking about the existence of AdSense on EasyList -- because the entirety of EasyList entries is shipped. It does not talk about (or even speculate) whether Chrome will have a programming code that implements a whitelist to ignore certain entries.

Those are 2 different concepts.
I did read the article. That's why I included it in my comment. It should be exclusive. Not using only some of that list (e.g. no cosmetic blockers) and then using some super secret list the world doesn't have access to. Shouldn't have half of one and half of the other without the possibility of fine-tuned configurability. Otherwise, you are just an opaque piece of the system that I will supplement with a more transparent version.
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The top thing on the StackOverflow survey was vacation time, but the article hardly touched on it.

We have a 45 days holidays policy for all full time employees. Mind you, this includes public holidays, because we're also 100% remote and it's more fair for everyone if we don't align public holidays to one spot. This also means that if you prefer working over Christmas, and then take time off another time - you can. We also heavily encourage everyone to take their holidays, and you can only transfer up to 5 days from one year to the next, so people use it.
No problem here on FF 58.0.1 and OS X 10.13.2
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>Which is it, the super secret consortium that won't even let you download the full list of bad sites, or Easy List/Privacy? Why don't they just use EasyList and report offenders there instead of this new consortium?

The lists serve different purposes. EasyList is a lit of ad-serving URLs to block. The uh, consortium list is a black/white list of which sites don't follow the standards. The standards are not about bad ads, but about sites that use ads in bad ways. The standards can't be automatically enforced since software can't reliably determine if an ad is a popunder or otherwise intrusive due to placement. Sites would quickly use CSS/JS hacks to work around the classifier.
“Well-paid middle managers with no design skills take far too long to produce ugly slides that nobody wants to look at. They also file their own expenses, book their own travel and, for that matter, do their own shopping in the supermarket. On a bill-by-the-minute basis none of this makes sense.”

I work in an organization that still has a lot of admin assistants and I hear this all the time. That highly paid people should do stuff requiring high pay and not menial tasks. Of course, I get rather upset by the delegation of work to people they think are worthy of rote tasks, but let’s leave that aside and focus on efficiency.

The tasks mentioned above are menial but information needed for them to be completed. If done properly, it takes more time to explain your expenses to an assistant than to just scan them in and file. Same for travel, printing, PowerPoint editing, etc. Having a specialist for these everyday tasks results in more time and money spent, not less.

Almost every day I witness a 10 minute conversation explaining exactly how many printouts, format, binding, etc because someone doesn’t know how to use the print dialog. Or having someone fill out a travel report that is then manually entered into a travel expense system with a few round trips to ask questions.

Probably 1% of presentations require a professional designer and information spinner. The 99% will be fine with the person who has the information taking a few hours of PowerPoint training from Tufte and the audience living with not seeing a TED talk. Typically the purpose is small group information or pursuasian and having some engineer spend a day with a designer to remove/add clip art won’t improve the presentation.

I usually hear these arguments from people with large egos or people who don’t understand tech over the past twenty years. I don’t want to assume anything about the author, but they didn’t really cover any of these typical scenarios.

Also, leaving out the passive productivity gains of Microsoft Office of wasting 5% of $100k salary person’s time instead of wasting 100% of a $25k secretary’s time.

Also, how is this not a problem for LibreOffice? Or Google Docs? Or any other office app?
This gives a fair coverage of the history, and hypocrisy:

https://marketingland.com/once-deemed-evil-google-now-embrac...
https://marketingland.com/once-deemed-evil-google-now-embrac...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paid_inclusion#History_of_paid...

References directly the founders letter, I do not have a link to that but I am not making this up.
Ruminant animals are far more efficient than us at turning plants into high energy protein and fat.
And omnivores like pigs and chickens can eat things that we can't/won't (food waste, insects, worms, grasses, seeds), and turn them into protein and fat.

Our current animal feed system is terrible (grow large quantities of monocrop corn and soy on high quality arable land using vast quantities of fertilizer and terrible soil conservation practices).

But farm animals are an important part of the 'circuit' of a viable small farm. Chickens and ducks can help with weeding. Goats and sheep can turn sod into manure, one of them best fertilizers. Having meat/lard/soup bones in the freezer is an important way to get through the winter.

Legumes don't produce a complete protein that we can survive on by themselves. Vegetarian diets tend to skew too far in the direction of carbohydrates. Plants that produce fats and proteins in the quantities we needs (nuts, avocados, etc.) are pretty much as water hungry as animals.

A pure vegetarian diet may not in fact turn out to be more energy efficient or environmentally sound if it just replaces our monocrop animal feed farms with monocrops of unhealthy insuling-provoking carbohydrates.

Historically, highly hierarchical or slaveholding agricultural societies fed their slaves almost exclusively maize/rice/wheat -- and kept the meat/fish for elites. If you look at the archaeological record and remains of those bodies, the health effects are obvious. Short stature, dental health issues, bone density problems, shortened lifespans. Roman soldiers were terrified of their taller and stockier Germanic/Celtic foes who lived on a more well-rounded diet with more meat and dairy.
The problem is that I do want the data to be stored because it could act as training data to make the vehicles better. But I also recognize the potential for abuse.

This one's tricky...
2000+ right swipes on tinder!
Might be but not his point.

The point here is simply that Google's algorithm is translating texts and applies a statistical bias, i.e. the algorithm introduces systematic errors into translations. This results in objectively poor performance of a translation system.
They do it. A lot. Much earlier than the regulators on any other part of the world.
Good question. Indianapolis seems to have a thriving tech community, but the Glassdoor data for senior software engineer average base pay comes in a full 30k under your startup number: $99k (based on 1081 anonymous submissions). LinkedIn shows median $100k.
10-4

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Aircraft, even private aircraft, are tracked and recorded. Why should automobiles be any different? Far more people are killed and injured by vehicles than are killed by aircraft. In general I'm pretty pro-privacy but I've had way too many close calls and accidents with bad drivers who were found to be at fault. Maybe there's a better way to get to vision zero, and if so I'd love to hear it.
Absolutely this. It's the time difference.

The mechanic could say "I'm very experienced with this kind of repair and was able to perform it quickly" in a lot less time than it would take to read a newspaper in the next room.

The computer can say, "We checked your taxes against 2,683 rules in 0.002 seconds" but the user would take as long to read this as it would take to insert an artificial delay.

But stepping back a bit for context, the only reason I'm pointing out the benevolence -- or at least harmlessness -- of this kind of artifice, is to also point out that the article lumps it in with real deception. This looks to me like an attempt to create a slippery slope toward excusing all kinds of deception.
Having lived in both countries, Australia doesn't seem to have the inflating vehicle size problem to the same degree. Plus the attitude to welfare is very different in general. I don't think you can just transplant laws and arguments from one to the other and expect them to make sense.
Then why did the competitors, including the top competitors in terms of revenue, sign up to be part of the consortium?

I see this as a shot at piracy sites, if anything. Since they cannot join reputable ad networks, they join disreputable ones that don't even try to police their ads or publishers and show shady and misleading ads. Those will all be blocked now, choking the piracy sites of revenue.

The primary beneficiaries are content producers. The secondary beneficiaries are Internet companies that are hit by botnets.
So how much exactly energy is lost to battery heating in Tesla? Quite a lot if a liquid cooling system is unable to deal with the heat?
Does mysqldump contain history of changes?
> I know, Never Attribute To Malice and all that, but hot damn, that must have been a massive multi million dollar move of "ignorance".

I think that this saying gets misapplied quite frequently. If you are talking to someone one on one, then you should assume that they are simply mistaken. Otherwise, you don't stand a chance of convincing them to see things another way. On the other hand, in trying to predict somebody else's actions, assuming malice can give the most accurate prediction.

On the part of Google, I don't know whether the nigh-unidentifiable ads are the result of some cackling executive trying to trick people to click on ads, or whether it is the result of overzealous A/B testing that stumbled upon a dark pattern. In the end, it doesn't matter, and either one is a good approximation of what will happen in the future.
I mean, it's at least reasonably good content, versus him spamming backlinks into random Disqus feeds.
Hyperfocus is amazing. I also suffer from anxiety and, if I don't luge, I get the same experience as the girl in the video on a racetrack with my superbike. For 20 minutes at a time it's just me and the machine and everything else disappear. Ironically, the best place for me to get inner peace is on a piece of metal gushing down the track at 140mph.
If you are writing 100-150mm checks, 8 billion seems natural. Maybe it funds 50-75 investments. And if you plan to keep mega- companies private you need even more.
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Egg and dairy production it pretty horrific. (And chickens and cows are fed plants.)
>Unavailable in Safari. Only stereo in Chrome.

It IS available in Safari, but not stereo as it says. Sierra.
I wonder where you get that prediction from. We've came from windows GUIs over single apps on mobile phones to "just tell the machine what you want". The development goes further away from consoles and "typing" of any kind.

Consumers want GUIs. Show and don't tell is the way it goes.
EasyList is also a list of ad-serving sites to block and a list of elements to hide. Can you help me understand why the blacklist can't be just placed in a normal ad blocking list like EasyList? If it's by site anyways, I'm not sure the actual difference for the blocker itself. It's not like the EasyList standards can be automatically enforced by software either.

I think "serve different purposes" could be rephrased to "serve different overseers". I can't find a reason for the tech difference.
Flowers in the Blood is an excellent read for anyone interested in this bit of history.
https://www.amazon.ca/Flowers-Blood-Story-Jeff-Goldberg/dp/1...
This is interesting, but a bit of a side-show.

For the more significant stuff -- where you go and when, who you communicate with and what you communicate about -- data from autonomous vehicles probably isn't going to be the main issue.

It will generally work a lot better -- cheaper, easier, more reliable, etc. -- if they get their surveillance data from a system designed for their purposes. And, of course, they don't have to wait for the widespread adoption of autonomous vehicles to build such a system. In fact, they haven't waited.

The big question is how our norms and laws around privacy reset after the explosion of information technology has wiped away all the assumptions on which our traditional notions rested.
You have to train your staff for MS products as well.
> It is mocking the idea that the food choices of vegetarians makes them morally superior and entitled to look down their noses at everyone else and be awful to them.

These people definitely exist, as you’ve illustrated, but in my experience they are a small minority.

What’s interesting to me is that vegetarians/vegans have this reputation for being in-your-face about it, yet in reality the experience reported by my veg friends, and later what I’ve witnessed myself, is that they don’t really advertise it or comment on other people’s choices, and when it does come up (e.g. while discussing where to go for lunch) it is all the meat eaters who predictably start in with the wisecracks and the pre-emptive defense of why they eat meat and why being vegetarian is stupid/weak/unnatural/unamerican/etc. You can see it in all the responses to this article!

This is remarkably consistent here up and down the east coast anyway, I don’t know if it’s different in other parts of the country. I’m just sort of bemused by the difference between reputation and reality.
Who’s “we”?
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it's called Tinder
The 'one bad apple' thing never cut it for me. If you are bad apple's manager, you have measurable metrics on her performance, and you act based on that, no more no less. This has no bearing on any of the other apples.
awesome! would be nice if the engine interperlated between parameter changes instead of getting those abrupt digital steps.

>To get audio from another program, you can either physically connect your audio output to your audio input, or use third party software, such as VB-CABLE on Windows or Soundflower with SoundflowerBed on MacOS.

Read my mind
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Why is raw sensor data needed for longer than a few minutes? Is it not sufficient to update models and discard the raw data?
Trados is not a machine translation tool; it is a CAT (computer-aided translation) tool, which helps human translators do their jobs more efficiently. It does not produce translations.

Trados may additionally offer MT services, and it probably provides easy access to MT services within the tool, but it's not fair to blame Trados itself for poor translations, as the human must choose what ultimately to output for each input string.

> contracts that state that 80% of the translation work will be performed by Trados and the human translator will only be paid for 20% of it

This is probably referring again not to MT, but to "leveraging" existing translations. This is basically a lookup (usually with some fuzziness to allow n% matches where e.g. 80% < n < 100%) against a database of existing translations. If you are translating a document that has been translated before, and only x% of it has changed, then it doesn't make sense for the whole thing to be re-translated.
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Ask HN: What makes you disable notifications for an app?
I've attempted to use that a few times, I won't even waste my time on that garbage search anymore
For the same reason that you pay for train maintenance despite probably having a car (At least in places with nationalized trains).

Also are you comparing being homeless (and risking death from disease, and the winter months in the process) to the simple inconvenience of taxes? I'm sorry, I cannot discuss any longer with someone who is willing to consider things so loosely and callously.
I long for the day Google asks you to disable your
adblocker (uBlock, ABP, etc.) to be able to search.
I find the most important thing is the “deal” with the manager. “Here is what I can give you, Here is what I want in return.”

Some people want promotability. Some want remote work. Some want new technical challenges. Some flexibility. A manager can’t give everything to everyone but they can say, “I can give you all the flexibility you need as long as the servers never go down” or “I can work to promote you in a year if you hit every deadline and do three or four side projects”

That conversation is more important than any perk.