skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We notice you're interested in car insurance, how about some car insurance?

Yeah, I was, you're right, I spent a couple of hours looking at car insurance stuff and now it's done for the year, so you're spending your advertising budget chasing people who are the absolute least likely to be interested...
I worked in kitchens for about 10 years and the most common model I am aware of is to pick up the knives weekly and drop some other ones off. I assumed the knives belonged to the sharpening folks. They were garbage knives, but garbage knives are as good as your $300 tempered Japanese knife if you sharpen them.
You be surprised how much less sophisticated Googles and Facebooks ad targeting is!

We are far away from a machine classifying you as being single and going to the gym every day or liking BMW and having gotten a promotion.

Not that I don’t think we couldn’t get there...but today these system are far away from
it!

Just go to your Facebook ad settings to understand how primitive the information is they have about you.

But I agree that targeted ads (as primitive as they are) are more efficient then I untargeted ads
`git log` on its own (with no flags) isn't that useful, as it's missing a lot of important information. I prefer `git config --global alias.lg "log --color --graph --oneline --decorate"`. Then you can just type `git lg` and get a much more useful overview of the state of your current branch.
The problem is Oxy was overprescribed relative to the addictive features of the drug _because_ the Sacklers falsely claimed that it was less addictive. Doctors believed that and were willing to prescribe a super-strong, easy-to-abuse drug when they would not have done so previously. From the New Yorker article I linked in a top level comment:

"Purdue launched OxyContin with a marketing campaign that attempted to counter this attitude and change the prescribing habits of doctors. The company funded research and paid doctors to make the case that concerns about opioid addiction were overblown, and that OxyContin could safely treat an ever-wider range of maladies."

20 years later, I think we know how it turned out. Something like 75% of opioid addicts start with pills.
Yeah, I guess the author assumes you already know that the last Tomb Raider games are among the most visually stunning games on the market. The screenshots don't do a very good job convincing a layman of that fact.
An alternative here would be a meet in the middle type system where venues could opt into a private regulatory body that entailed obeying a system of rules and regulations, and accepting adjudications of the body in case of conflicts. In return, entities could advertise membership as a selling point, and the regulatory body itself could provide lists of participating entities to anybody who'd like to find, for instance, a higher quality BnB stay at. The system would be funded by entities paying a fee for participation, and perhaps also allowing membership for regular customers as which would entail various promotions and prioritization.

This generally would not work for areas where there is monopolization or where the benefits would be less visible to the consumer in the normal case. what I mean by 'the normal case' is that even a shoddy building won't usually fall down, so abiding and non-abiding entities would seem more or less identical until the 0.01% scenario hits with resultant catastrophe. But things like BnBs are perfect for this model since there is major competition for consumers and transgressions against obviously desirable rules (like no cameras in the house) are not particularly uncommon.

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As an aside, the reason I mention this as a desirable option is obviously not because I think there should be any hotels that have e.g. cameras in rooms. But rather because these things never just end at a handful of very critical points. Take food safety as an example. Obviously there are a good number of basic ideas everybody would agree on such as ensuring your hands are cleaned/gloved, that food is reasonably fresh, and so on. But as regularly organizations feel obligated to continue to expand, you start ending up with ever more esoteric rules. For instance in California if your dish cleaning sink for a food stall is 9 inches deep, you're in violation of regulations. They arbitrarily require that a dish cleaning sink must be at least 10 inches deep.

This gradual creep of rules poses an issue to people who are just starting a business. So obviously we all want hotels without cameras and food stalls where servers wash their hands, but on the other hand being forced to read literally hundreds of pages of legalese with countless 'gotchas' that can catch even perfectly safe and desirable products is something that can really hamper entrepreneurship, while simultaneously artificially entrenching older entities. Neither of which I think many people would think is a good thing.
Maybe you mean targeting does have an effect, but the poster you replied to explicitly stated it wasn't worth the money: it was an ineffective way to spend money.
Are the mobile apps for strong night vision protection (monochrome red)?
Your guests and family have an expectation of privacy IMO, unless you inform them otherwise. So, I wouldn't be surprised if your general right to video record activity at home was curtailed heavily.

The ECHR clause on right to private family life would certainly seem to curtail your rights (by giving rights to family/friends).
One possible explanation I've heard (of which I have no idea if it is true) for both this and ads showing after you've made a big purchase is that people actually are somewhat more likely to buy an appliance close to another purchase of one, since they only buy them a) after several years, if the previous one has broken or is outdated, or b) shortly after they bought another one, which they returned for some reason.
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I work in adtech. This has nothing to do with how effective targeting is, and a single site does not reflect the entire industry when they're all competing for the same pool of ad dollars.

There is a massive drop in EU programmatic advertising because of GDPR. Most EU advertisers now buy a few large campaigns with coarse targeting instead, and sites with the biggest reach like NYT will get more money but there's less money in the overall market.

This is another case of regulation benefiting the bigger players (advertisers and publishers). EDIT: curious what downvotes are disagreeing with here.
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All that tells me is that the problem space evolved and Google didn’t keep ahead of it. Same as what happened to Yahoo(!) before them ... my point was that Google was a very intelligent platform and now less so. Perhaps they just decided they could coast on the SEO ...
Should have replied "Yes, I disconnected it so you wouldn't record our naked 2 year old.". Any discussion after that point surely becomes pointless.
Bullshit reason given by the AirBnB. How is someone renting a room qualified to determine from a photo what kind of a device is there in the corner, or even notice. It can be anything, perhaps just a motion detection sensor or air quality monitoring or whatever. Also I do not scrutinize every single photo for details, but I read the description in its entirety.

These things have to be stated in writing and they should have it as a part of listed attributes for the room/house.
XS4ALL is a Dutch ISP, not German
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>Have you ever even used cable?

It's just modern version of TV with extra steps.

>You get to choose what you want to watch instead of watching whatever is on.

Unless something is no available in your country in any of 10 streaming providers.

>You can watch it on a much wider variety of devices than just your tv.

In 2001 I had a TV card in my computer and was able to watch forward TV stream to panasonic digital camera screen by some wired yellow cable.

>It’s much cheaper than cable.

Not in every country, my parents pay ~$4/mth for cable TV. Netflix is almost 4x that.

>There are no ads.

But that's modern version of TV, you have targeted content and user profiling instead of ads
Well you could probably run an osmosis power station off it. I'm not sure about the efficiency, but it's a viable way to store energy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmotic_power
> I presume that a lot of intelligence gathering is rather benign...

Well put, Mr. Google. ;)
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17707242
It's even worse in blue collar industries where you have OSHA and possibly DOT circling like vultures waiting for you to slip up. The regs are basically written in a way that it's impossible to comply with the letter of the law 100% of the time at scale. You can't possibly be sure every employee will do everything perfect all the time. It's like speeding. Everyone does it and the unlucky pay the price. One person can't be bothered to tie off to the scissor lift and there goes everyone's bonus.
The legal temperature limit for what? For paid accommodation, for hotels?

What is that limit; what law is it in?
It was a white kid with the hard "r" at the end, and not a jovial "ah" ending. My bad for being unclear, had just woken up and was typing from mobile.
Removed comment - does have OVP
Scuba diving takes training, it's not like breathing normal air. Add the possibility for claustrophobia and darkness fear. There is a very high possibility for irrational behavior.
Most people did not have a problem with McCain-Feingold. Some people did. The effect of Citizens United is that corporations have the same free speech rights as humans. This despite the fact that Citizens United (the entity) is not a for-profit corporation. One has to look at the effect of the ruling since it’s effect is quite broad in scope and not just at the specifics of the case.

Most free societies have limits on what corporations and organizations can spend on political campaigns. This was true of the U.S. too until recently. Until recently the belief that a nonhuman should have the same free speech rights as a human was bizarre. It’s still considered bizarre in just about every other nation in the world. I suppose this is another example of American Exceptionalism. What other people could have been brave enough to grant the same free speech rights humans have to non humans!

There are serious people who believe that the New York Times has rights when it comes to printing news. Many of these same serious people believe that the New York Times should not have the right to spend its profits as they see fit on whatever political campaigns/parties/candidates it wants to.
Both, some are full knife contractors so the restaurant doesn't need to buy any, and drop off freshly sharpened replacements and others are just somebody with a van onsite. Large butcher shops and delis need this service too.
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In the thread "Cleaning restaurant floor for $1000 per night" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18920438), I have came across opinions like the following: "There's tons of businesses that "print money" as one or two man LLCs but they don't scale well beyond that point."

I thought it would be cool to collect ideas here. What such ideas do you know of? Even if it's hard to scale.
Osmotic Power
Yeah, no. No matter how much romanticism you want to throw at it, this kind of defensiveness is simple tribalism.
It's Germany, and I have dark hair. When I went to file a police report the tall blonde police officer, he and his colleagues were mocking me in the back.

I ended up telling them off and will report it to the tax office. Which, while nasty seems to be only thing that will get that guy into trouble, Police at least doesn't care even though he violates a dozen laws including standard German privacy practice.
It's a lot slower in Firefox, but I find the effect looks nicer in Firefox (if you ignore the lag). The rendering is faster in Chrome, but the effect appears much more subdued to me.
I use WebSitePulse (https://www.websitepulse.com/). After the free trial, they offer a free plan. Unfortunately, they ping your target just once a day. The good thing about them is they don't offer prepaid plans - just pay for what you use at the end of the month.
Interesting. Why do you think this article will help scare the public into giving "them" the money? According to the paper linked in the article (Jones et al. 2019), many of these desalinization plants are in the Middle East and North Africa: "Brine production in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait and Qatar accounts for 55% of the total global share." Do you think that the general public in those countries reads Gizmodo and also has voting power to adjust the budgets for desalinization plants?

Also, why do you think that paper does not address the option of pumping in more ocean water and diluting it? (It's paywalled - if you'd like a PDF I can get you one.)
And people who actually need pain management are unable to get it because other people insist they know better. And doctors are afraid to prescribe adequate amounts of pain killers.
With $261M raise, cloud data management company Rubrik hits $3.3B valuation
There’s a Huge Ice Disk in a Maine River. No, the Aliens Aren’t Coming
Life and our interactions with other people are not defined solely within the confines of the market. Morality and decency have their place. If a company is in possession of data that shows their product is harmful and they ignore that data and even withhold it from the government then they're in the wrong. If a company, even with the knowledge that their product is harmful, chooses to affirmatively undertake steps to maximize profitability by undertaking practices to increase their product's utilization they are in the wrong. There are literally hundreds of thousands of people who have died to date because of opioids. Firm action has to be taken.
> I very rarely see TypeScript developers actually use `any`

I mostly use it to cheat when instantiating / using HoCs. Across various packages, they are rarely entirely correctly typed.
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My experience of targeted advertising is Amazon trying to sell me things I’ve already bought ...
> Nobody in the UK ever voted for an external, supra-national government to have increasing control over numerous and increasing aspects of British life: farming, fishing, immigration, subsidies, etc. etc.

Most of that stuff was in the EEC that the British did vote for. The EU did guarantee that Britain could further opt out of "ever closer union" if it wanted to.

> The EU is openly talking about a unified army, implementation of a law requiring all members to join the Euro and 'tax harmonisation': the removal of sovereign countries to set their own tax policies.

Britain also had a guaranteed opt-out of the Euro. Since Britain and France are the only EU countries with any military capabilities worth speaking out, Britain has an effective veto over any unified military policy.

> The EU is very expensive to the UK which makes a net contribution of £9 billion / year. This is money that could be spent on hospitals, teachers, police, etc.

You do know that the Leave campaign basically said the day after the referendum "oops, this part of our plank was a big, fat, steaming lie"?

> Oh I know you'll tell me elected chambers that elect councils that distribute swords allocating a table of 7 presidents who nominate a head hobbit but the EU is patently undemocratic: noone knows who's in it, what they do or how they got there. Turnout for EU elections runs around 25% in the UK: it's hardly a mandate from the people is it?

I'll grant you that the EU has a hard time trying to overcome apathy in its democratic institutions. But apathy doesn't make it less democratic.

> I know you like the EU because you see it as some hippy, huggy federation of nations

Ha ha ha. No, that's not how I see the EU at all.
Building a quality brand with a quality audience and finding advertisers who believe in you generates more revenue than participating in an exchange that treats ad impressions as a commodity. Go figure.
Personally I think it's a bit of a stretch to call expanding minified JS and renaming functions/variables "reverse engineering". Everything is still there in its original form.
This has nothing to do with effectiveness of targeting. It's about advertisers having no data to target so they do bigger blind ad deals and deal with fewer but bigger publishers.

It's why TV ads are so expensive and wasteful, but lucrative for networks.
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> if your game is an aquarium game, it doesn't mean that your users are only interested in aquarium cleaning products.

Correct.

On the other hand, the topic of the game is just one of the contexts. A trivial example:

At least we can infer that the player likes to play games, so advertising for mobile games, discount gaming consoles etc might be a better match.
Why is the New York times...key words being New York even paying any attention to the GDPR?

I don't get why so many US based websites are concerned about an EU law.
Other people have addressed the catch about prestige which makes this difficult. There is often some amount of cost, even if editors 'donate their time for free' (which, of course, is usually the case even for the traditional journals - the copy-editors are paid, but the content editors often do it for free, because it's a prestige economy). But individuals have created true open journals, like Glossa (mentioned in the article) and Semantics & Pragmatics ( http://semprag.org/ ), which are in fact prestigious.
Making the drug isn't the issue, it was the marketing of the drug using a variety claims they knew to be untrue. Like that it couldn't be abused, or that it lasted twelve hours.
It's Germany, livable space has to be at least 20 degrees Celsius(68F).

He has summer blankets in the room with spare blankets and tries to charge 1.5 Euro per extra blanket.
Perhaps there's some kind of Baader-Meinhof phenomena going on here.

When a targeted ad is creepily accurate and on point, people flip and think that the machines have figured us out. But the ads that are irrelevant just fly by us without a hit. The one-out-of-a-hundred ads that get it right, likely due to an ad targeter's lucky strike, are the ones that get under our skin, and the only ones we really notice.
This is not terribly surprising. Ad exchanges work because network effects allow for improving small content providers increased effectiveness in selling their space. If you are a large content producer you have enough people seeking to advertise.

However, I have concerns about the economic efficiency (broadly speaking), as well as the dynamic optimality of advertising (though, admittedly, this is a second order concern to me!).
Yeah but crowding out my browsing experience with things I’ve already bought you’re losing the opportunity to sell me other stuff I mightn’t have even thought about!
They don’t want google or any other monopoly that is in competition with them to ‘give’ them traffic. They do want their services available and indexed on the internet. If the internet search market was evenly distributed among 5 search engines the I suspect this conversation wouldn’t exist.
I always hear so much about lock-in with Apple and using their platforms extensively alongside other ones I’m curious as to what examples people are actually thinking of.
And BMW Z4 is a car for those people. Looking at the sale numbers says it all, people you cite as enthusiastic about it dont buy cars.
Yes, and I was acknowledging that and addressing the broader implication of whether this means it could/would never be worth the money, or was just an artifact of advertisers currently overcharging for it even when there's a lower amount they could charge while maintaining profitability and keeping the higher RoR.
Right. I see what you're saying and I agree.
They don't want you redistributing something called Redhat Enterprise Linux after you backdoor it?
Can you not use fixed-width for block quotes please? It’s very difficult to read on smaller screens!
Aren't there still plenty of things in the world for the software to "eat"? Isn't software industry projected to grow in areas other than adtech?

We don't have to bring down software development down along with adtech. We can shift the software engineers to doing something non-malicious. Salaries may go down a bit, as there aren't many other sources of easy money beyond ads.
16 and 17 year olds do not vote in UK general elections, but I think that a referendum about the UK leaving the EU is more comparable to the referendum about Scotland leaving the UK.

The effects of such a change can last for generations and be hard to reverse, and potentially affect younger people for longer than older people. For those reasons, I think it is better to err on the side of greater franchise than less.
Eh. I still trust the FSF to get this basically right.
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> JavaScript, and increasingly in the Typescript flavor, is the language of the web. What real alternatives are there presently, that additionally gives a developer decent career opportunities?

As a Scala developer who realised the writing was on the wall for server-side rendering, I spent a good few months trying to use Typescript. It's decent, but the type system was still a huge step down from what I was used to.

A month or so ago I got around to trying Scala.js, and it was... nice, and oh so easy. Facades available for all the big-name javascript libraries. Write ordinary Scala code with the advanced type system and full IDE support that I was used to, and get the same ability to rule out huge classes of errors that I have on the server side.

So, Scala? It's controversial for many but it supports a lot of development styles, uses a runtime that already has a lot of enterprise backing (and will be able to interoperate with your existing libraries if you're a Java shop), and is also used for various bits of exciting newish technology (Kafka, Spark and the like). So it definitely has decent career opportunities.
That’s a fair point. I don’t.

In that youre not trying to prove the tests “correct” though, but instead trying to prove good coverage.

I’d argue there are several ways to do that, and that’s certainly an interesting approach to the problem.

In either case you’ll have trouble being 100% confident though, so I guess it’s a matter of deciding when enough is enough.
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There is no “the Facebook team”
Shouldn't that be a case of corruption straight up? Seems like entire system is in cahoot.
When you or someone you care about are in terrible pain with no relief in sight due to the unwillingness to allow people to make choices for themselves, for their own bodies, then lets talk.
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Reading this made me pissed off for you. AirBnb should have clear prohibitions on cameras in living quarters, regardless of disclosure. This host behavior is wayyy out of line.
This unfortunately is not uncommon outside of silicon valley either. The recent Sears debacle was helped along quite a bit by a CEO that was self-dealing to his own personal financial interests. And in a case very similar to the CEO of WeWork I recall the CEO of a restaurant holding corporation personally purchased the land where he knew he'd direct his company to build restaurants and lease it back to the company at exorbitant rents. (Though he was also jailed for criminal conduct as well, basically soliciting outright bribes from vendors.)
Sorry for the naivete, but isn't that a solved problem in corporate governance, with standard procedures for making sure that company A isn't just a sockpuppet for shoveling money into company B?
Congratulations! It is a great devotion of you, I would like to support too!
Sorry, I thought I was on Reddit.