skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because personal targeting is not used as often is not evidence it doesn't work.

Like I said, advertisers control their own campaigns and often start wide open to optimize, and they also don't want to pay for precise targeting. There's also a giant market for performance pricing is pay-per-click or other action. This means impressions are free so showing your ads to as many people as possible is the better approach.

If you want to see what personal targeting can do then you should look at lookalike modeling which finds similar people based on interests and behaviors and their propensity to carry out the same action. This technology has created many millionaires in the affiliate marketing world as campaigns would automatically keep finding similar people.

There are trillions of ad impressions and it's impossible for every single one to be perfectly tailored to you. That's just not how the industry works but business practices are completely different for technical capabilities. That's what this blog post and commenters do not understand, and your limited and faulty human memory is not somehow proof otherwise.
You bet—I've considered that, or similar objections to that. The thing is, it doesn't work out that way in practice.

The opposite is true as well. That is, while one might think that full-out conflict would lead to more honest, explicit communication, in practice it doesn't work that way. What happens is that people's range becomes narrower. There's a lot of energy in it, and a lot of anger, but not much information. That makes such discussions repetitive: mostly people repeat the same hostile points in ever more intense ways. Repetitive discussions can be agitating, but they're not intellectually interesting, so they're the thing we're trying to avoid here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I ran into that one last year when I tried to locate an extension, and didn't rule out buying it, but I ruled out using it because it didn't seem open source. I get that devs need to get rewarded for their time and so forth. But in this day and age where popular extensions get purchased and repurposed as spyware, I'm not keen on installing anything closed source that messes around with my browser. And it's a red flag, for me, that an extension developer doing something that revolves around privacy isn't like minded. (Plus, as you said yourself, it looks sketchy for some reason.)
Well genengineered counter measures for the rescue. We allready have invasive, hardened species gaining foothold. Bamboo has survived 4000 years of boom and bust chinese civilisation. Ambrosia and other "dangerous" plants are dangerous enough to make a whole forrest uninhabitable for unprotected humans.
Lots of weeds are 100 % resistant to multiple herbizides. Several species could very soon discover, that carrying infected material from plantation to plantation is a pretty good attack vector on our monocultures.
Nature is not weak, and sitting there and just taking the hits. We going to get some hits back, very soon.
Right, but most of these are just past crimes^W^Wlegacy that Intel has to deal with in the name of backwards compatibility.
the UK is pretty racially diverse. Probably because of the empire (and more recently Europe - lots of Eastern Europeans now). And tends to be less interested in racial differences.

So yes, if a Roma family joined mainstream British culture it would be difficult to tell them apart from any other British family.
Cython supports inline C, CPython does not.

Maybe GP got confused?
If everything interesting had moved out, people wouldn’t be moving in and rents would fizzle out. I think you meant to say things you f8nd interesting have moved out.
You're right, Fuchsia might be the closest modern day equivalent of Bell Labs and their OS research.
It’s not really lying to machines, though; the machines don’t care. It’s lying to the people on the other end of the machine.

Suppose somebody working on Hacker News wants to redesign it, and wants to know if they should optimize for long visits or short visits. If they call me on the phone and ask me how often I open HN and what my mean usage duration is, I’m just going to make up numbers. Their website analytics, on the other hand, can tell them something closer to reality.

I’m not saying that’s good or bad; I’m just saying that our devices are often more reliable records of ourselves than our own memories and thoughts.
IMHO, “deep” is just the new “smart”. People are just doing the same thing they were doing but bigger and better, but when you are building a new company you need to use the adjective of the times.

We have had “smart”-everything, it already sounds tired, hence “deep”—everything, let’s see how long it lasts..
Did you mean constrict? So you feel that an entire generation of humans conspired against the well being of yours deliberately... just because? I think you might want to consider developing a more nuanced and less reductive view of things.
I think Fuchsia exists mostly to keep talented OS research people busy and make them stay at the company.
Running Python, client-side in the browser.
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Technologies: Rails and a little of a lot of things. Architect, manager, writer, you name it.

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I'm sorry that the word denunciation didn't accurately reflect what you were intending. I was referring to the angry sarcasm in your comment. That's enough to worsen the issues we're talking about.
for many knowledge-work professions today, particular software engineering, there's a rather steep discount curve applied to one's experience.

Software Development comes down to a whole lot of cost/benefit tradeoffs. A project can accumulate tens of thousands of those. The valuable sort of experience in software actually comes in the form of well generalized cost/benefit decision making heuristics. There are also poorly formulated cost/benefit heuristics which can prevent the creation of value. (The worst of these, being unfounded bias.)

I think a big part of the problem, is that those who don't have such experience aren't in a good position to evaluate how good or bad someone's heuristics are. There is a tendency in situations like that for people to fall back on their own biases.
I've often heard people make this complaint about public services existing to perpetuate the problem they're supposed to solve, but the same problem is much easier to do when you're an amoral consultancy in the private sector.
The concern I always have with people with a lot of experience, and I’m in that category too, is that they’re not going to bring a wealth of refined wisdom as much as quirky opinions from years of subtle misunderstandings and past experiences that are irrelevant in the current context. If they were actually bring value that had been ratchet up, then that would be very valuable, but that’s rare.
It's not just the money either. It's the failed policies that Californians bring with them that got them in this high cost of living mess in the first place. People moved to these other states to avoid things like high taxes. Then when Californians move to these states, they start voting for policies that increase local and state taxes and policies that generally increase the cost of living.
If people moving to your area and investing lots of their own money in the local economy is a bad thing, your local policies, politicians, and probably politics are very useless.

People investing money into the local economy should always be a good thing, and if the locals aren't capturing enough of that to mitigate the increase in costs, that's on them for voting in incompetent or evil politicians. Blaming the people coming in with money isn't going to solve anything.
You can start by not carrying your smartphone around with you and turning off javascript.
What is " 4 or 8 MB SPI memory "? Why using SPI to qualify memory ? Are you trying to something like SD and friends?
I've bumped into this recently with SE Asian politics. The West has tried to get SE Asia to be democratic for decades. But SE Asians have, almost uniformly, rejected democracy and opted for variations on monarchies, communist autocracies, military juntas, and "elected" dictators.

At what point do we accept that SE Asians don't want to have democratic governments, and just let them do their thing?

OR do we never accept that, of any culture, and keep pushing them to be democratic because it's "better"?
What about self-directed IRAs?
What custom config ? If you need sqm with gigabit, x86 would be a safe bet. If you want just raw throughput without additional processing, others will do that fine.
Can anyone recommend a good SoC to start playing with OpenWRT development?
Hardware encryption is on the C7 is not supported. If you have fast internet you're capped at 500mbps due to this issue: https://forum.archive.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=53703
Via a self-directed Roth IRA, you probably could invest in your own startup.
I do something similar, everything I want to keep is under /storage.
"I wanted to be near a Jewish population because that is important to me."

I didn't know that Jewish people are only Jewish people and not Jewish product managers or jewish musicians, for example.

Well, if the data is accurate about Silicon Valley. The techies you surround yourself with don't com from many different races, religions, ethnicities, genders, beliefs, etc. Your whole talk about full diversity is just talk. The Bay Area, and especially tech, is not a diverse place or a particularly enlightened place.

You saw me mention a word (Jewish) and you honed in on it. Additionally, you don't understand that a Jewish population is more than a religious population.
Well your point 1 just confirms what the blog post said: you don't need to mine petabytes of data to get ads out to people. Point 5: so what? The post is about tracking, data collection and evaluation in general, not just ads. Butthurt ad industry guy? Point 6 doesn't really excuse all the smaller players responsible for the dozens of trackers on every news outlet. Google doesn't need to buy tracking data from anyone, so they don't have to solve the problem of correlating all that anonymized tracking data with questionable success.
Oddly I feel completely the opposite about this topic. I think dot files in your home directory are exactly the way to go. Using the XDG standard leaves you with whatever the distro decides is the correct location for these files. While their recommendation is all in the home directory, I wouldn't put it past some of these distro developers to make some crazy /var/users/{uid}/config directory. This is important when setting up your partitions. I keep home and the system separate so that I can easily swap out the OS. Home should be the only location a user has write access.
Sorry
I do not want a directory /Documents if /docs is what i want when i want it...
right. more examples of the same. economic gains are unevenly distributed and some workers experience a deep net loss.

so, what regulatory or governmental policies and programs did Friedman think could actually help people once they arrive in that state? what can an economist say about policy for workers whose livelihood disappeared?
And it takes just a few years to turn those pro-Western countries that might house the missiles into mildly pro-Russian ones. Especially when they realize they're literally in the middle and Russia is way closer. Whether this is a good decision will be judged by the future generations. Looking around in the world doesn't it seem like most of US's allies have turned into disgruntled partners (employees?) at best or hostages at worst? Because they keep electing governments that are increasingly reluctant to be best friends with the US.
Because US isn't a threat to Canada and Mexico, as opposed to Russia vs. Poland or Estonia?
Christy is likely the most credible Climate Change denier that I know of given his earlier career. However his public commentary on the inaccuracies of our climate models are often nitpicks over inaccuracies (not data with poor precision) without providing a reasonable alternative. Like the other commentor said, if Christy was presenting a good faith argument he would improve the models he was criticizing rather than publicize his opinions.
Words and Phrases to Banish from Your Press Release
Thanks, we've removed the leading “(Rust) ”.
If you don't live in China, you can start by not carrying a smartphone around all the time and disabling javascript. Just saying...
I would love to see the data on this as well. But at least anecdotally around me (an immigrant working in tech in SF), the overwhelming number of people who moved here are following a plan that looks like this:

1. Get a big tech job in SF and earn > $200k per year (in some cases 2-3x that).
2. Deal with living in a run down apartment yet still paying $2200-3500/mo.
3. Shovel a large percentage of your income into savings for 5-10 years.
4. Move back to <anywhere else> with $300k in cash.

At which point you can pay either pay straight cash, or make a huge downpayment, for a nice house and live pretty comfortable in the upper middle class for the rest of your life.

Again I would love to see scientific data on this, but in my immediate work setting, I've heard 12 of the 15 engineers I work with state this as their "life plan."

Of the three who that isn't their plan, two are Bay Area natives, and one (I think) has decided he'd like to stay.

So, circling up to the parent comments, there are certainly large numbers of these people leaving every year, taking their <geographically relative> big bags of cash back to the corners of the world.
Strongly recommend taking a photography class. Photography skill is a lot more important than the camera.

Bought a DLSR camera a while back and enrolled in a weekly photography class at a film school for a year. Now I barely touch this camera. It's pretty bulky and I can take equally nice shots using my smartphone camera (good enough for sharing with friends and for own memories).

The only times I would want to use a DLSR camera over my smartphone is when I intend to make a big print of the photo, so I care a lot more about the resolution.
Vaccines rely on herd immunity to be effective. Even vaccinate individuals can contract a disease (or a different strain of one) if enough people are unvaccinated in the community.
Actually in general, older people seem to be more racist

I see a lot of young people making assertions based on race and other indelible characteristics, with the idea that doing so is somehow intellectually and morally worthy. Back in the day, someone proposed that people should be judged on the content of their character. I would urge young people to be wary of those who try to attach negatives to indelible characteristics, like age.
I thought there was an income limit for contributing to a Roth IRA? I'm guessing all of their employees with access to the Medallion fund would be above that limit. I must be missing something.
For extra health insurance (beyond the "socialist" baseline) about 15% of New Zealanders use a private not-for-profit organisation that began in 1961 called Southern Cross Medical Care Society.

https://www.southerncross.co.nz/Group/About-us

Health care is a special case where you usually "win" if you always paid premiums but never have to make a claim (because claims often can't repay bad health).

And if you are a socialist, you can be happy because your premiums go to the health losers (had to make claims but their life might be shorter or shitier).
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I agree this is a key factor. Family members in the northwest are constantly complaining of the influx of Californians, specifically saying "they priced themselves out of California with their foolish policies and now they're repeating that stupidity here."
I’ll check that keyboard out! Many thanks.
How to learn any (human) language – The story of how I learnt Finnish
Fuchsia is a pretty nice and clean design. I do see other use for it as well.

Although I'm a little worried about driver performance, especially in cases when there's just ~100 microseconds time for the driver to react.
What about the "next" instead of "new"?
It is your lucky day - there is a standard for this as well
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XDG_user_directories
It's propaganda - it doesn't have to be true or make sense, it just has to deflect attention and blame from what Russia is doing. Which, according to US intelligence, has been designing, building, and actually deploying real, non-hypothetical cruise missiles with nuclear warheads that violate the treaty in question. Not missiles that could theoretically be modified to deliver nuclear warheads with some work, actual operational nuclear-armed treaty violations: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/world/europe/russia-cruis...

It helps that certain, ahem, outspoken Trump critics like https://twitter.com/krassenstein/status/1091683402741399552 are willing to literally regurgitate Putin's propaganda and claim to be fighting Russia by doing so, and there seem to be a fairly plentiful supply of people willing to eat this up so long as it's anti-Trump.
Looked into that back when I was founding a startup - lawyer said it was a no-go due to self-dealing rules.
Is it really just McKinsey, or are these articles focused on McKinsey because they are the most schadenfreude-inducing among big management consulting firms (akin to the media outrage directed at Facebook)?

e.g. are BCG, Bain, the consulting arms of the Big 4 any more ethical in what they will or won't do for a paying client? The story would be more interesting if everyone outside of McKinsey refused to do consulting work for Purdue, but that is something we'll probably never know.
Babies cannot be vaccinated for a while and therefore benefit from herd immunity. Furthermore, that herd immunity benefits you if your immunization wears off before your scheduled booster shots. And everyone remembers to get their mmr booster every seven years, right?
sex is treated as something that women give to men, sometimes in exchange for money/influence/drugs/etc.

in a truly equal world, with a healthy attitude to sex, female sexual desire would be recognised too, and sex would stop being something that women give to men, and instead be something that two people (of whatever genders) enjoy together.
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I completely agree and that's been my argument the whole time as well.
@dang (?) this is not a dupe, it contains a lot of various interesting information not only related to Cloudbleed, especially in the second part of the video when they eliminate all the core dumps (going as far as updating micro code because of an hardware issue)
Most of the popular languages are not making a serious effort to compile to WebAssembly, though. It's totally reasonable for Rust to focus on.
What a beautiful text. It just made my day. I think, for most of scientists, these previously thought impossible outcomes is as, if not more, rewarding as aligned with theory outcomes. Certainly this is one of the reasons that encourage me to continue in science. Curiosity of course, but also the feeling that impossibility is only temporary.
Well alternatively you could get a corporate job, stay there for a long time, and use your position of seniority to block anyone from using technology you haven't learned about ;)
In such cases it is better to await on some outcome of the asynchronous calculation. In Java ecosystem we have awaitility (https://github.com/awaitility/awaitility) which provides a bunch of utility methods in this spirit.
Well, guess we'll hope for that X86 OpenVMS to be released soon then.
I read "Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman" during my high school days. In that book he mentions multiple times about Pasadena (where CalTech is located). I moved to US 3 years back and right now live in Los Feliz (close to Pasadena, Los Angeles). First thing which I did after moved to LA, was visiting CalTech. He made such a huge impact on my life.
Here's the interactive map: http://vtpsd.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id...

And the page that links to the full report: https://publicservice.vermont.gov/content/mobile-wireless-20...
Ok, gotcha. 1Password can also generate passphrases from dictionary words.

Agreed, the “it’s a bunch of gobbledygook” social engineering hack is a really serious vulnerability.
How the guy dresses is irrelevant, unless he's looking for jobs with a dress code.
The poor in California don't move because of the warm weather and 1/3rd of all welfare in the United States is spent in there.
“America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests”

― Henry Kissinger
I find this post interesting. I moved out of Portland last year because I was summarily priced out of the city. By "Portland" are you including Gresham/Milwaukie/Beaverton in your estimation?

About seven years ago my friends and I got a 2bd 1.5br apartment for $775 per month in SW Portland. That same apartment is now about double that. In many of the new or renovated buildings you can see a lot of studio apartments with a price floor of $1,300 per month.

Also, little things like a beer that used to cost $2.09 now costs $4.19. What used to be a $4 sandwich is now $7.25, $1.60 tacos went up to about $3. Even prices for stuff like clothing at Goodwill went up significantly over the years that I lived in Portland.

I know this is just my personal experience (and that of my friends), but the genral trend that I saw was an enormous shift to accomodate higher income individuals and families, and an exodus of lower income people all over the place.
I guess it's on older developers to get across what is refined wisdom versus what are merely quirky opinions from years of subtle misunderstandings.

For many years, the Smalltalk community tried to get a certain message out to the public, but it didn't get across to the mainstream programming community nearly as successfully as what Chris Granger managed to do with Light Table. I think the lesson there, is that the onus is on the people who have the hard won experience and the valuable contrarian view to explain it to everyone else.
Until people figure out how to hack them for profit. An AI with permissions to spend money on the company's behalf is going to fuck up eventually (and eventually in a major way).

Then it's back to human bureaucracy.
I used to work for a car rental company. Actually, it was an insurance company that rented car. Cause 80% of their profits were on the insurance. The car rental part was just to bring more people to insurance part.
I dunno my theories here have been aging pretty well:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=948637

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2595017

I'm sure there is a placebo aspect, but I wouldn't underwrite the anti-inflammatory component or the sensory stimulation component either.
So rather than use a standard that allows you to override it simply by changing some environment variables, you think that hardcoding a specific path is a better solution?

Definitely a unix developer.
I thought they got rid of it. News to me.
A lot of other people have made some fantastic points here, so I won't harp on "putting random crap in ~/ bad!" any further.

However, since it has not been mentioned, I would like to shout out to the Python "appdirs" module[1], which neatly solves this issue for those writing programs in Python with minimal effort. The best part is that it uses the platform's native standards, so XDG on Linux, plus whatever macOS and Windows call their implementations.

Sadly I am not aware of comparable options for other programming languages. I think having high-quality easy to use libraries for this sort of thing would go a long way.

1 - https://pypi.org/project/appdirs/
You realize this is the definition of gatekeeping, right?