skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everybody loves to trash Nazi Germany yet barely make a peep when presented Bolshevist thought. Could it be that those you can't openly question are such because they hold immense power in our society?

Could it be that...

... Hitler was right all along?

Nevermind the down revisions in "victims" at Auschwitz and others were never reflected in the 6 million trope constantly flaunted around. Nevermind the fact 6 million was thrown around in jewish publications for decades before Hitler took power. Nevermind the supposed drop in jewish numbers isn't reflected in worldwide census numbers through the before, during, and after periods. Adolf Hitler is Emmanuel Goldstein, and must be suppressed for the good of Oceania! He must be brought out and tarred everytime a European opposes a globalist future.

Watch this comment be deleted and this account possibly banned. Won't matter, I browse and post over Tor anyhow and can easily create another. Rule 1) of the internet: never put your real info in the boxes.
Meant Spectre.
Counterpoint: How much innovation has been incentivized due to so many internet services being free while being subsidized by ads.

It's definitely a nuisance, and left unchecked can become a Black Mirror or Maniac-esque nightmare. But in it's current format it still feels like a worthwhile exchange.
Something like Google Glass, maybe?
The West Lake Landfill is another where a bunch of nuclear material was illegally dumped. A creek runs past it and the dump has had a subterranean fire burning for years in very close proximity to the estimated location of the nuclear waste.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Lake_Landfill
I think in every generation there are those who turn their back on it all. This has been going on since at least the 60's with the Hippie movement. Counterculture has been a thing since (psychological[1]) advertising has been a thing.

There will be no point at which society as a whole flips against it - the sad truth is that advertising works, really well, and most people happily sign up to this lifestyle. The war for your headspace is a hell of a lot better than the wars that came before it.

The 'woke' (or whatever term you'd prefer) generation is never coming - but there will be people within every generation that turn their back on advertising and the promises it makes.

1: As in advertising that targets our desire to be happy/powerful etc. rather than merely describing the product. Watch Century of the Self documentary for more information on how this form of advertising came to be.
Facebook and Google users, for instance.
Yeah my question was bad, was looking for Spectre
Pretty sure all you need is source maps.
Look again. For example, it has a #tag feature.
You are way more optimistic than I am.

Reconnecting with old acquaintances is just one (outdated, as you mention) use case of social media. They have become much more subversive (and profitable) as media/advertising engines.

They'll survive as long as companies are willing to put money into advertising and enough people are influenced by (not even "suckered by") the ads. So basically forever.
You're correct. More punishable is probably more fitting.
Here is the link to the actual typeform: https://speedinvest.typeform.com/to/Un3Xyu
I know a lot of people working to make the world better, that have had to move onto other things because they lack an understanding of advertising. In fact most people I meet who strongly desire to serve others almost completely misunderstand how advertising works. Working to make the world better shouldn't be mutually exclusive to understanding advertising, but often seems to be.
How different is that to what Microsoft is officially supporting via the Windows Subsystem for Linux?
> This is pretty incredible. ... Now anyone can see this stuff from the comfort of their own home.

Agreed. And moreover, the licensing intentionally allows reproductions, so you can print life-size posters of these pieces to hang at home, if you want.

> What do you think this means for the future of art galleries? What are they for?

Hasn’t the primary function of a gallery always been to sell art, more than to be a public museum for the average person? If you think about it that way, maybe having online galleries doesn’t necessarily affect brick and mortar galleries? Perhaps it’s possible that online galleries will push more people will see the premium value of owning original art?

> I am particularly interested in the destiny of galleries in smaller markets.

In theory, Chicago’s move here to release public domain images doesn’t change small galleries, right? Small galleries are showing & selling current work and more by local artists, work that is still under copyright.

As an artist, I hope that the rising tides lift all boats, that public and easy online access to a lot of art will be a force for art education and appreciation. But, who knows, maybe an online flood will have unintended negative consequences.
Bitwarden Completes Third-Party Security Audit
I'm not a believer in this sort of stuff but this is so cool.
This Is Your Brain on Jazz: Researchers Use MRI to Study Creativity (2008)
Simple and animated accordion
Cloudflare enables containerless cloud with V8 Isolates and WebAssembly
The HQ2 Scam: How Amazon Used a Bidding War to Scrape Cities’ Data
Moloch whose poverty is the specter of genius!
Are they not the same?

> MacID 2.0 is now available has been renamed to Unlox.
See, if you said that in the 1960s, your dad would spit out his coffee and berate you. Thank you, you have proven my point.
I don’t know. It would be difficult to quantify. But, personally, I don’t think, for example, the web has improved much in the Web 2.0 era. It might be worse.
It's crazy how advertising has evolved. First, advertisers were somewhat honest about their products, generally relying on Smith's little theory that buyers are rational and can thus be convinced by a strong argument about the qualities of the product. Then at some point (w/ the dawn of Western snakeoil/ cure-alls?) advertisers figured out purchasers aren't so rational after all and are better convinced by psychological manipulation--targeting their weaknesses, showing them images that associate the product with happy families, etc. Now advertisers go a level deeper. Instead of suggesting some general association between happiness and their product, they can target you at the personal level and have your friends and relations (often the closest people to you psychologically speaking) serve as manipulation relays. No need to figure out some general fear or desire in the populace that you can target--just make it seem like the product is already embedded in the buyer's world. Like his friends are the direct representatives of its efficacy and the happiness it will bring.

It's wild.
Technology offers power, and power rewards those that use it. This applies as equally to modern tech as it did to older tech like literacy, so there isnt much point in focusing on that aspect.

The meritocracy dream is that everyone unites to use power not only for themselves, but in support of a degree of equality (some versions want equal results, others strive for equal opportunity, but for this argument those are the same basic goal). After all, it is in our each of own interests to avoid a concentration of power in others that could harm us.

But in reality, people are lazy. We want to be comfortable. Governments (or other social bodies) exist to exercise our power so we dont have to worry about every detail. Power concentration is the easiest result, regardless of system of governance.

Power concentration isnt inherently bad, but it is ripe to be exploited, because the ultimate watchdogs over it - us, the common people - dont want that job.

I read a great statement here a few months ago, that went something like "modern democracy isnt the people deciding what govt does, it is the people deciding the boundaries within which govt operates."

I've been pondering that a ton lately. It shows how I, a US liberal, the many libertarians here, authoritarian conservatives, fiscal conservatives, European-style liberals, and most everyone else can all be so baffled by each others' views. We evaluate not the rules we want, but how we expect the govt to behave within those boundaries.

Unfortunately, while this eases my mind on how otherwise intelligent people want "dumb" things, it also suggests that there is no reliable system: we require a system as a matter of scale, be it loose or rigid. Any system exists because of a degree of trust that the system will not be manipulated or abused. ("System" here includes any interactions as simple as expecting contracts to be followed, so minimal govt is just a different system) You are rewarded for abusing the system. After the abuse is painful enough, people will demand a new system. Advocates for any given system will argue they have protections ("minimal government", "oversight", etc) but those rely on people being informed and active enough to repel abuse...and we're not.
Qualtrics is HUGE in academia and enterprise. I hadn't heard of it either until I went to grad school and all the professors used it.
We do have discounts for open source projects [0], but send me an email (hello at write.as) -- I'd be happy to talk about a bigger discount for what you're doing.

[0] https://write.as/pricing/opensource
Securities in the US (Reg D, Reg CF, Reg A+, WTF..)
That sounds very rough for a lonely person, moving to a different culture. Who considers "navigating bureaucracies" as adventure? Maybe that's why the line at motor vehicles is so long...
Farnham Street is an entertaining read, but the problem I have with it is that owner is compiling all this wisdom, these great techniques for life, and he's er, running a website about compiling wisdom and great techniques for life.

I guess at some level if this information was so valuable he'd have leveraged it into something even more powerful. Kind of like the people that, rather than (say) investing in real estate spend all their time teaching people how to invest in real estate.

Maybe the deciding factor isn't the advice, but the person?
I know this isn't what you mean to emphasize, but this reads a bit as "only products and services no one on the internet hears about are not a hoax". Of course you know it's more nuanced than that, but your comment makes your worldview seem narrower than you probably intended.
That makes sense – thanks!
Here's an argument that derivatives make the pumping lemma for regular languages much more understandable: https://bosker.wordpress.com/2013/08/18/i-hate-the-pumping-l...
It depends on your problem. If your workload spends a lot of time waiting for a cache miss, halving the number of threads and spreading them across cores will increase available cache for each thread and increase your throughput substantially. If the working data is larger than the cache, additional memory channels will make your life much better, so getting the CPU with the most memory interfaces will be more important than getting the one with more cores, threads, SIMD pipelines or GHz. I would say that serving web requests from one of these or simulating quantum computers is not the best cost/benefit you'll find, but if you need to do something like CFD, it seems like a good match.

I may be off a bit, but the last two generations of Xeon Phis could emulate a general 10-12 qubit quantum computer without leaving the HBM memory on the processor module and hitting the external memory buses. I'm curious if anyone has tried that.
Anyone else getting a bad cert error in Chrome opening this address?
I agree.

I’m curious about all these world changing wonder products that just aren’t popular because a marketing agency wasn’t involved in manipulating... I mean educating the public.
Absolutely. Storing sensitive data in plain text on a server is just waiting for something to go wrong.
You can supply your own http headers. So i guess you can send cookies and that things with it.
All you need to know about the leaked Valve VR headset and Half-Life VR
Everything you wrote about SCTP over UDP applies equally to QUIC
First Thought:
Noticed that the NYT is listed as a client on Obviously's site, the main influencer marketing agency mentioned in the piece and can't help but wonder if there is a behind the scenes PR play going on here. There's certainly some journalist merit to the article but without any disclosure that the paper and the company have / do work together it just doesn't feel 100% above board to me.

Second thought:
At the risk of falling down a slippery slope, what is the end result of the advertisification of everything? If everyone with any sort of social presence is now a billboard that's going to erode what little "trust" there is in social networks even further. At some point this is going to take down the "review economy" - the Yelps, Foursquare, etc of the world because you won't know who's leaving a review and who's a local nano-influencer posting to get their monthly free meal.

Reminds me of the "ad buddies" from the Netflix show Maniac except instead of seeking them out they seek you out.
Clinique is not a no name product by any stretch of the imagination. They've been going since the sixties and their products are available on pretty much any UK high-street. I guess you're not the target market for mid-high end skin care products?
Yes! There is a great way to do this called ACH (Analysis of Competing Hypothesis). It's a wonderful way to clarify your thoughts about a complex issue. It is used within the CIA.

http://competinghypotheses.org/docs/ACH,_Step_By_Step
People are blocking more and more ads, so ad money is looking for new avenues. I really can’t decide if this is better or worse.
>I usually dismiss anything that remotely resembles an ad

And if the targeted advertising isn’t detected? Isn’t the whole topic here to advertise in a way that doesn’t seem like a website banner ad?
No. Don't shift the blame to other parties. Google decided to play ball with all these external requests. Google owns the project. Google is the one to blame.
Electric pickup trucks are not in GM's plans for the next couple decades
The advice about good diet, sleep, exercise is all good and it will cure the problem much of the time. But it's possible to go too far and stray into perfectionism.

Discipline is simply habit. Habit is simply following patterns. Your brain sees a trigger, and it will initiate a pattern until completion.

It's dangerous to force yourself to do a lengthy preparation routine. I got demotivated if the conditions weren't ideal. It then becomes a habit to procrastinate until you can get the ideal conditions.

What I'd recommend is setting up some really simple conditions. Design a habit for when you sit in a room. Design a habit for when you get distracted. Sometimes you have to repeat a mantra to snap yourself back in. This is also why the Pomodoro Technique works so well - the ticking noise reminds you to get back to work until the bell rings.
It's moved onto dopamine triggers of course, but even simple website "stickiness" I think may be an example of the kind of embedding you mention. Engage long enough and when the brain says "I engage with this site" it becomes self-fulfilling and engagement has no set end point.
>And I know a lot of people working to make the world better, that have had to move onto other things because they lack an understanding of advertising.

Such as? I can’t seem to think of any examples.
You have the advantage that you are building for a very small number of people who are a) very like yourselves, b) highly trained, and c) strongly motivated to figure out and help you understand what they want. Even so, I'm sure figuring out what your customers want isn't trivial. I imagine you put a lot of work into it. But that work can involve long discussion with customers. What if none of those things were true?

A more typical business is building for a wide variety of people from heterogeneous backgrounds and selling during relatively low-touch encounters. There if you want to know what is going on with customers you need ways to find out and ways to sift the data into useful forms. It's not an easy problem.

I consulted for one company in a consumer-focused service business. They were very energetic users of Net Promoter Score [1] surveys as their default measure. New product? Everybody gets the 1-question survey option after using it. They'd see how that compared to their other products and to competitors. If scores were too low, they'd dig in with other research tools to find out why; new product revisions would be made and measured similarly. It worked very well for them, in that it kept people focused on actual customer experience and not on the HiPPOs [2].

It was such a core part of their culture that they went for related tools internally. When they were changing their software development process, they used NPS scores and other internal surveys to see how it was working for their thousands of developers. To my surprise, I saw the executives taking the numbers very seriously, well aware of the limitations and risks with surveys. I expected to be kinda BS-ish, but I didn't see that at all.

As to your terms:

Value proposition is basically, "What's in this transaction for the customer?"

Customer segmentation is where you notice your customers respond differently to stimuli, so you divide them up into groups. For example, just yesterday we were talking about fancy LED Christmas lights. [3] One customer segment is general-audience consumers who want fancy light displays at the press of a remote. But our customer segment is people who like hacking things, the computer-skilled DIYer. So the value prop for the first segment is something like "make your Christmas tree interesting and different", while the value prop for the second is "this year, hack your Christmas tree!" There are other segments and other key value propositions, which is why there are more kinds of Chrismas lights on the market.

Targeting is just taking particular actions in terms of a particular customer segment. For example, if were making hackable Christmas lights, I wouldn't buy a superbowl ad. I'd use very targeted advertising to reach my computer-skilled DIY market. As well as content marketing, where I'd have somebody write good blog posts about exactly how to hack the lights, so that the posts would end up on HN, Slashdot, Reddit, etc.

Is that helpful?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Promoter

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-39633499

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18428566
These exist already at all levels from big -> small influencers.

The much maligned "Klout" was an early form of this but cratered for dumb reasons.
I am not as familiar with Postgres as with MySQL, but in this case they would most likely be similarly deficient.

Databases like MySQL and Postgres have optimized on disk storage engines and query planners, but the other parts that are needed for true high availability, and stability at scale are definitely lacking in both.
M&A guy here and disclaimer, former SAP employee.

It's not normal, but you have to define what normal is. A few things worth noting (which are all speculative btw):

- SAP doesn't have a solid CX platform, but has tried to push this to the market for years because the demand is there

- SAP has arguable the strongest foothold in the top 2000 businesses in the world.

- SAP once organically grew their ERP products but decided somewhere around the late 2000's that it couldn't innovate any longer but know cloud/SaaS is the future, so their growth has been largely due to acquisition of cloud/SaaS providers. They want to continue to tell the street they're growing subscriptions and this is one way to do it.

- SAP sales is top tier (whether you like it or not). If their revenue is $400m they'll easily be able to sell 2x that in short order to their existing client base. This is what M&A guys often call "synergies". If you assume 30% eventual gross margins, then a potential ROI is foreseeable.

That all being said, if the market for this type of service isn't there at enterprise scale ($1B/yr revenue), then it's probably overpriced.
In my opinion, compliance with the law is, in general, a nightmare for startups (as long as you don't like spending more money on your lawyer than on your product).

But the GDPR gives small companies at least some extra privileges, so I don't see that one as a particular harmful law.
From what I've heard the "some point" was primarily a result of one man Edward Louis Bernays, who lead the charge towards these somewhat predatory practices, effectively inventing modern public relations and advertising. There was a really interesting ( and comical ) podcast about it from the folks at Stuff You Should Know:

https://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/live-in-chicago-...
What really hurt was knowing people thought I was the sort of guy who would be interested in blatantly fake Raybans and suchlike...
What other database do that out of the box without third party tool?
Please don't twist my words. I said "negative effects on technology venture investment", quoting the article. I do not oppose the GDPR.
The trend to authenticity is in full force, but has long been hijacked by entertainment media, going back to not long after movies became "talkies".
Firefox’s newest Test Pilot experiments help you track prices and email links
Never seen it sold anywhere so haven't ever tried it. Only ever seen it on US tv and movies. :)
Thanks Jake! Oh no! I'll consider adding more auth options in the future :womp-womp:
Gender differences: why do women like women more than men like men?
Problem that Intel's pricing is dictated by the capitalist greed and has nothing to do with the provided value. Nationalisation would ensure that the pricing is fair and everyone has equal access.
For example I cannot afford Intel Xeon CPU but it would help me in my research. Meanwhile big corporation can buy Xeons by tonnes. How can I compete with that? I am questioning whether living in this society makes any sense. At the moment I feel like being a slave. Our only hope is communism!
It's interesting that Mr. Harai's analysis is almost exactly like what you might typically find from a typical right-wing person except for the proposed solutions. Among people who support various nationalist causes around the world, fear of the centralization of power through technology is a primary motivator for devolution of power from centralized authorities to more local governments. However, instead of increased decentralization of political power, Mr. Harai proposes increased centralization of regulation on data collection as the most likely solution to the problem of centralized power, while acknowledging the dangers of the regulation regime becoming a danger in itself. He doesn't seem to have a clear answer to this problem, and I wonder what types of proposals might fix it. AI assistants that are completely transparent and loyal to their individual owners might be one part of the solution.
errno is a̶n̶ ̶a̶b̶o̶m̶i̶n̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶s̶h̶o̶u̶l̶d̶ ̶b̶e̶ ̶k̶i̶l̶l̶e̶d̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶f̶i̶r̶e̶ a failed experiment. That kind of error-reporting-via-side-effect not only is incredibly error prone, it is also problematic for optimizations.
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