skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like Advertisement should be a “pull” rather than “push” model.

I want to see different vendors when I decide to buy something. But when I’m on Instagram and browsing pictures, please don’t sell me a chef’s knife or a guitar.

I have no experience in marketing and advertisement. But from a user standpoint, I want to look through Yellow Pages and Vendor catalogs. Not bombarded with ads all the time. What are your thoughts?
Pay isn't great and there aren 't a lot of jobs.
For more high level software dev there are lot's of jobs and the pay is much better.

Just as an example, in Vancouver, I got poached by a recruiter from G&E to work with FPGA in a senior position. The offer was around 80K.

At London a senior embedded systems engineer would get 40-45k pounds.

A senior fullstack / devops / backend dev at any of those cities can clear around 50% more easily with 10 times more jobs available to pick from.
Not really a decision I made. But I got into an HR fight with another coworker. Basically I was getting bullied and this coworker frequently exploded in hot anger towards me and others. Fought with HR, reported him several times. Company decided that the best course of action was to fire both of us. BEST RECENT CAREER THING TO EVER HAPPEN TO ME. I got fired from a job I hated and wanted to quit anyways, I get to work from home, from anywhere in the world, work and walk my dog. It's so much nicer to not go to an office anymore. SO WORTH it.
>A much more vibrant and livable San Francisco likely involves something like 25-50% fewer cars, sidewalks 50% wider, buildings 50% taller, twice the population density, and 25X the number of electric scooters, just to throw out some back of the envelope guesses of enough magnitude to alter one's conception of the city in a significant way. But no incrementalist approach will get the city there.

I totally agree. We need to break out of the cycle of designing cities for cars and then not building up public transit because everyone has cars. Another thing important for a vibrant city is an abundance of street level retail.
Is this test itself flawed, or is it the “telomere length tells us useful things” idea that is flawed?

If the test is flawed/doesn’t accurately measure telomere length then it’s clearly a completely bogus company.

But if the test does accurately measure telomere length you get into the domain of “does that mean anything useful” and as the supplements industry has shown putting “may” in your claims with footnotes saying it might be complete nonsense means that you’re 100% not committing fraud.
I don't see "how to find a ghostwriter who turns my factually correct bullet points into fluffy writing" :P

That was my only real problem. I can ramble a thousand words for a blog post or write technical docs in no time, but let me write some thesis or anything even remotely resembling paper and writers' block kicks in. Pretty glad I don't plan on getting another degree, ever.
Try using Brave.

It probably supports U2F, without all the privacy invasion of Google.
FWIW, conda is an easy way to get PyQt, too.
Sync is off by default, how is that not privacy friendly?

They will be deleting all cookies by default, how is that now privacy friendly?

The core feature itself, setting it off by default defeats the whole point of the feature, because it's for the 99.99% of users that are not power-users. It's also not a privacy issue because, again, sync is off by default.
If their selling point is privacy, it conflicts with target advertisement business model. I’m curious how they plan to be profitable? Perhaps just good ol’ non targeted advertisement without user profiling?
You wrote an interesting blogpost, but I think its a stretch to say this relates. Your essay is about click tracking and ads, and social media tracking.

The prime issue under discussion here is that google demands you turn on location tracking to use a feature, not that they do any kind of clicktrails.
Can't you set your address to a made up address across the street from you (often they leave unused numbers) 1, 9, 15... 2, 8, 12.. and set it as your home address. You can even just use a street over, it's not going to affect the routing at all but the last block or so.

Of course, I don't think this does much since they can get your address by other means.

Anyhow, giving them your actual home address is like filling out those secret security questions truthfully.
If someone knows my home address, they have to drag themselves all the way to Wyoming to do anything about it. High cost, low value. If somebody tracks everything I do online, they can start spamming me online on all the sites I visit. Low cost, high value.
I want to be able to quickly input my home address into google map but don’t want to turn on google search history so I had to resort to an imperfect solution: use the “text replacement” feature to expand a unique short phrase like “hmad” to the full home address when typed into the google maps search bar.
The whole point is that it falls back to SMS if the other party doesn't have Signal, so you don't have to think about it beforehand. It most certainly is an SMS app, and not being able to set it as the default makes it nearly useless.
The report identifies good preventive measures. Autotuning the ILS would be handy, as would an aural alert for lateral deviation, perhaps announcing, "Localizer, Localizer."

The crew may have caught the closure of 28L and planned better with a review of NOTAMS before top of descent and including them in the approach briefing.

When I'm up there, and sleepy, I ask for a coffee and pull out the NOTAMS for one last look before we pull up the approach in the computer, manually set up the radios, and do the briefing.

On final approach, more precise ground based monitoring would be nice to have in case things are fubar in the plane.
How about I give you one of my ideas, and you give me 1% of the profit? Sell the my designs on thingiverse: https://www.thingiverse.com/ellisgl/designs
Attending a coding bootcamp and becoming a software engineer
Google's primary selling point was being the anti-microsoft, i.e. Don't Be Evil.
What makes surveillance capitalism companies scary is not that they make money through ad targeting, it's that the government can force them to give up their data to do much worse things.
I work at a megacorp and I'm familiar with lots of staff/principal-type ICs who lead big high-impact technical projects that are tremendously influential around the company. We really need the tech lead types to complement the people managers, so each side can focus on what they do best.
Is a Master's degree worth it in Computer science? I am very interested in operaing systems and distributed computing.
How can an advertisement not be bad? Ultimately it's always the goal to get someone to buy something they otherwise wouldn't. Even if you catch someone when they are already are looking to buy a product from your category you are trying to get them to buy your product instead of the competitor's. What would be helpful to the user in that moment is a product comparison that's honest and unbiased and not an advertisement. The goals of the advertiser and the consumer are inherently at odds.

I'd be genuinely excited to learn otherwise.
The endless corporate loop is natural. Everything in this universe is on an endless loop and nothing lasts forever. Just get used to change and use whatever is legit at the moment.
These 6 changes doubled the revenue for a national beauty brand’s website
I had to copy the old ndk folder from a colleague's SDK and use it on mine after the update broke everything few weeks ago. I am not touching that thing again. Actually I am preparing myself to leave Android and get into backend dev, will keep in touch with Android dev as a hobby and maybe just to update my little used apps on PlayStore.
Yep, it was a couple years ago. They ask questions, then disabled 2FA so I could just get in with a password, and re-enable 2FA. No options around it. So possibly they've improved the process since then.
eBPF is generated from LLVM IR, so any language that compiles to IR works, so long as the code doesn't translate to IR operations not permitted in eBPF.
Yeah, I've noticed this. They even taunt you, saying "hey, don't you want to add Home address?" - "Sure, click" - "So full tracking it is, then?"
in the ideal, those making the tools would provide this packaging, instead of asking all users to have `pip` properly set up. Similar issues exist w/r/t npm in my opinion.
https://android.googlesource.com
Nice. Oddly, the published date is listed as Sept. 26, 2018.
I believe on OS X you get no guarantees of state post fork(), essentially you have to exec() afterwards because it does a shallow copy.

Presumably for issues similar to those pointed out here.
However I'm disappointed that their response is essentially lip service to the highlighted problem. If I read the article correctly, the auto-signin will continue to be the default and you'll get an option to turn it off. This does not address the breach of trust issues highlighted in the thread and linked posts .. unless they're going to ask you about signing in to the browser before doing it. Also, the consequences of saying "yes" to that would continue to be unclear if one path leads to data sync and another path doesn't.

Personally, browsers don't need users to signin. They can sync data laterally with other instances. I suppose Google hasn't heard of bonjour.
Most people in the US have less than $10000 in savings.
It can't be set as the default, which is the point.
But that person does have to if you have another key, you can. Fix the situation yourself.

It’s also helpful when you use a key that lives in a machine to not have to remove it. If you lose the machine, use another key to sign in and disavow the lost key.
I feel this would be a better essay if the author had put more of his personal context into the essay. Like what has happened since he has “gone west”. It is not clear how he became a product manager at Uber.
tl;dr survivor bias
Ask HN: How to train Speed Reading?
How can you make your password more secure?
Absolutely, posix_spawn is your friend (it’s also faster than fork/exec)
Yelp for Noise: Soundprint helps noise-averse diners find the quiet restaurants
Have you thought about using your hosts file to ads?
Ask HN: What tool do you use to sync MongoDB with Elasticsearch?
Currently I am performing full text search on MongoDB but I would love to use Elasticsearch for the same. My primary data source is MongoDB. Right now I am not able find a suitable/reliable sync tool for MongoDB->Elasticsearch.

There used to be a tool called elasticsearch-river-mongodb [1] which is deprecated now.

Also, there is no official logstash input plugin for MongoDB

[1] https://github.com/richardwilly98/elasticsearch-river-mongodb

What tool do you use to reliably sync MongoDB collections with Elasticsearch?
Wow -- this site really reminds me of Vintage Ad Browser - on topic, here's some car ads from the 70s :) http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/cars-ads-1970s
And now the tables have turned.
I’m saying SF’s weather is dismal to me. I’m not saying anything about the rest of the Bay Area, or to people who like not seeing the sun from May 15 to August 15 each year.
I'm sure many of you read "Why restaurants became so loud — and how to fight back:" https://www.vox.com/2018/4/18/17168504/restaurants-noise-lev.... It's a great piece, but I'd not thought about concrete ways of finding consistently quieter restaurants and bars. The New Yorker article feels targeted straight at me.
Yes, a simple take it or leave it situation. There are alternatives. I don't get people getting mad because a private corp is doing something with their own software.
Microsoft has invested billions into Internet Explorer and it is nearly impossible for a small startup to invade the browser business.

IE Firefox
2009 Q4	66.42%	21.13%
2003 Q2	94.43%	2.22%

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Th...
Right, these are all real problems with the software, but then again, none of these is really a problem for Wikipedia itself at all. For Wikipedia, all of the problems you mention have been already solved, everything is set up and functional.
What is it like to kill someone?
What they are going to do. As currently released, it is a real issue, not some misunderstanding.
I realize the plural of "anecdote" is not "data," but more than once I've watched 20-something women spend hours on end swiping through Instagram and commenting on photos. One particular time I sat on a train in Europe for 4 hours while a woman did that the entire time. Wall to wall. I respect the fact that you have countervailing experiences, but I do think you're underestimating the negative impact here.
By far, applying to work remote for a US based company 3 years ago. I am living in Romania.

I still work for them.

Theoretically I should be able to retire in about 5-10 years, in my mid 40s, depending on how frugal I am with my expenses. This wouldn't have been possible working for a local software company, even though I was paid about 3 times the average national income.
Great, if you end up building one, keep us updated (here or on Twitter).

1) Yes, this is DCS (Data Collection System) data. It's a very low bandwidth signal (300 or 1200 baud) that ground stations uplink to GOES on UHF. I found there are about 20k separate transmitters in some asset database I once found somewhere. Every one (or the set that's still active) transmits a tiny packet every N minutes (some every minute, others every 30 minutes). This data is also broadcast as part of the LRIT (GOES-15) and HRIT (GOES-16 and GOES-17) streams. There is no processing for this data in the goestools package yet, but you can get the originals and walk over the data. When I last looked at it, the format looked different per receiver, it is possible this is a per-vendor type of thing. Anyway, yes, you can get a copy of this data with the receiver described in the OP guide. See https://github.com/pietern/goestools/issues/11 for some more links.

2) AFAICT MODIS is a product derived from the Aqua and Terra satellites. Both are polar orbiting sats. You can look them up here https://www.wmo-sat.info/oscar/satellites/view/81 and it looks like they don't pack a "direct readout" transmitter, so you wouldn't be able to receive anything directly yourself. Compare this to the page for GOES-16 at https://www.wmo-sat.info/oscar/satellites/view/152 and you see there are a bunch of frequencies with details listed.
Sounds like Sparkasse, but hey, you can change your username to a longer, unguessable bunch of alphanumeric characters ;)
How does this compare to cjdns?
You have no idea how web development is different from desktop one
I’m not sure how good this law is. For example “best practice” is often interpreted as “includes a virus scanner”, yet as Travis Ormandy has shown over and over again virus scanners add huge attack vectors. Added to that the very nature of what virus scanners want to do means that the entire OS must allow exactly the type of code injection that malicious software wants.

Yet there are places that will only purchase things that can run antivirus (because there are rules or regulations that require them to run antivirus).
I feel like Advertisement should be a “pull” rather than “push” model.

Isn't that the literal opposite of its definition?
A lot of advertising is either raising awareness that a product category exists at all, or comforting potential buyers that people won't laugh at them if they buy a thing and it turns out to be a bad idea.

Consider the iPhone advertising campaign back in '07, modern smartphones would have taken another decade to take hold if Apple hadn't done such a masterful job telling people that a new category was being born.

Sometimes people will advocate 'doing your own research'. That is at odds with the fact that most people are incapable (not just disinterested in, but incapable) of evaluating all the decisions they make daily basis. Research the decisions you understand, copy someone else for the rest is the best strategy.

In that environment, even a good product needs some exposure to raise awareness that it exists. The game is more complicated than advertisers hypnotising an otherwise unwilling public.
Posting scans of the papers you mention could bolster your argument. I'm terribly curious
If a manager was mean to the woman on your team, and you stood up for her and called him out and maybe taken it to HR and thus burned the bridge with that manager, the woman and her team might be much stronger connections in the future.
That profile shows all of the time being spent in script execution. Are you sure that setting a different resolution has a dramatic effect on the amount of CPU being used?
I won't give them my home address any way. If I want directions to "my house", I google an address on a block down the street.
Remember that we, the people, sued Microsoft and forced a settlement -- a scenario which also led to the CEO of Microsoft stepping down.
I live and work in the Bay Area (close to SF). I was an early stage employee at a startup recently acquired by one of the big tech companies. Didn't make millions, but I did make hundreds. Honestly, I feel I'm living the dream. I make more money than I thought possible and my job is super creative. I'm in AI. The density of opportunity here is amazing. The startup I was at was able to hire locally the depth of talent it needed to succeed. Fundamentally, if you are talent or you want talent, you need to be here.
I saw this in the qutebrowser quick start page:

Run :adblock-update to download adblock lists and activate adblocking
do you have any information that backs this up? I'd be quite surprised if this was the case
I use Facebook very occasionally, and when I do I use Firefox with containers enabled. Facebook and related sites get their own containers.
Cool project dude! I tend to use plantUML for this use case but I might actually give this a try. A small suggestion is that you should show the relation between two table (EG: one - many) by default. It's really annoying to hover on the small line to see the actual relation.
I think Glassdoor data is bad. Check Blind to see what people are actually getting paid.
Firefox and Mozilla were not a small startup - they had (comparatively) boatloads of money (now they have even more) and a huge number of free developers :)
> I tried to switch to Firefox, but was stymied by a bug where Firefox consumes 100%+ CPU on MacBook Pro Retinas.

On the flip side, I've had a recurring bug in Chrome (until very recently) where for any long running session the Browser process will consume 100% of 1 core. I've had it across multiple machines and profiles, including a completely clean profile with no extensions - I've never managed to be able to nail down the common elements.
Yeah that’d be okay.

Someone else could create a more neutral site since there’d certainly be a void to fill.
Absolutely and you have your preferences. The "pull" model advertising tend to be extremely expensive. For example, search advertising in search engines. That is known as intent driven ads, where user is clearly mentioning their intent.

"Push" advertising can work great as long as user is not bombarded with too many ads. Also, ad creative copy needs to be exceptional to make it work. In real work, a good example of "push" advertising model is billboard advertising or print advertising in magazines. Most people don't mind Apple ads on billboards (where they spend lot of $$) because they are done really well. Unfortunately, in push model on digital advertising is not always great due to poor quality of creatives or flashy/obstructive ads that distract users.

Instagram does advertising surprisingly well but that's may by my opinion since I have seen lot of bad stuff in ad-tech. My GF works in textiles/product design world but loves ads on Instagram since she follows certain type of accounts related to work and she gets very context driven ads, which she loves. Similar to ads that you get in high end fashion magazine. Believe it or not lot of people buy magazines like Vogue for their advertising too. You can always mute ads from accounts that you don't find relevant.

Some apps/companies are going towards providing ad free option (like Spotify) for users who don't want ads at all, I think that will get more and more traction in coming years..
These are facts. If you feel like these facts are biased, I have the perfect group for you to join.
What exactly do you mean by "bad" here? If you're making a moral or value judgement about ads being bad, then I don't know how to respond to that. Animals of all types are evolved to acquire resources, at any cost. And humans have taken the social aspect of resource acquisition to an extreme level. I'm not a big fan of ads either, but people do what they do. And making moral or value judgements about primate behavior is extremely one-dimensional.
It's terrible as to the details, but that's movies for you.

Anyone wanting to know more should read "Alan Turing: The Enigma of Intelligence"[1]

Which the movie script is alleged to be based upon.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing:_The_Enigma
Yes, this is one of the classics - right up there with the "less space than a Nomad, no wireless, lame" comment (which wasn't on HN I don't think - but we all know it could have been :)

Edit: I see the motherlode is in place earlier in the thread "Especially when you could build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem"
If you have enemies, or for that matter people who just hate/envy you, the bridges are burnt no matter on what terms you leave. They will just be happy to see the end of you.

Don't burn bridges is for relationships where people like each other.

Strategically burning bridges is cya in a way that you benefit while leaving, leave others wondering before they deliver a blow.
I wrote an essay with more detailed history for a reason. It is probably worth linking it here: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.com/2018/09/google-doubleclick-moz...
What was Shazam’s business model?
The popular narrative was that Microsoft wasn’t investing too much of anything in IE after around IE6 when they didn’t have any competition and didn’t start reinvesting until later.

But there is a huge difference now with search. Google owns one of the mobile platforms and pays the other dominant platform over $2 billion a year to be the primary search engine.
Very interesting observation! I would say that that is definitely a stereotype - accurate, but not as common as you might think.

For me, the real difference is every patient's response - some (many?) doctors treat the job as a job. For me, this is a calling. I'm there to help every individual (in my case, in the emergency department). So every interaction is unique because every patient is unique. I go through roughly the same questioning and physical for most patients, but the interaction, their responses, how we get along, etc. is always, always different. I could see two patients with the same exact problem and do the same exact things, and take away two completely different experiences.

To analogize to computers, its as if you ran the same program on different computers and got a slightly different result each time. Or perhaps that each terminal responds slightly differently. Though I suppose in those contexts it'd just be annoying/frustrating... it's not a great analogy lol
Yes, there are multiple interfaces.

This is a nice interactive one: http://rammb-slider.cira.colostate.edu/?sat=goes-16.

There is also an S3 bucket where you can find all data as soon as it is available: https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-goes/.

But the fun part is receiving it in your backyard, of course ;)
Steven Sinofsky on Twitter: So what is a plan, really?
I'd rather have the poor decide what is good for them, and not you.
There was a lot of uproar about this internally but nothing changed. They told us that this was the only "practical" option.

The company has rotted.