skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds like reheated fallacies of the Victorians about the dangers of 'idleness'. The fact of the matter is that huamn attention isn't theirs to own in the first place no matter what they think on the matter. Despite the expectations and social pressure it isn't a continuous 'commodity' to be produced upon demand and it doesn't even map in a strictly increasing way to productivity.

It brings to mind the greed and stupidity of a lord thinking that anything his subjects do which isn't earning him money is stealing from him.
> to take actions they might not otherwise take.

This assumes all advertising is coercive.
the purpose of the LHC was not to find the Higgs boson, but to keep probing matter at higher energies to find whatever is to be found. It is not particularly smart to brute force stuff but it is a rational choice unless one can propose an alternative. It is the default choice considering the options, and i believe there is a hope that given enough time something useful may be produced as a side-effect (I mean, the WWW was not a bad perk). The next level of physics may not have to do with higher energies but with bird droppings again.
Kubernetes scheduler affinities
I think there's a difference between simplifying and saying things that are wrong.

You can teach people Newton's mechanics and say "this is a good approximation with a marginal error for most everyday examples, the correct way of calculating it involves very complex things."

I feel the example I quoted regarding signatures is something that's not really a useful information anyway. That the RSA function works both ways for signatures and encryption is more of a fluke and not really someting you need to tell people when you explain the basics of public key crypto.
I suspect that this is a bit skewed by the fact that targeted ads, as they are typically done, are a horrible experience that has little transparency and that the user has very little control over.

Some people are just going to hate all ads no matter what. I'd guess a much larger number (including me) would see them as a reasonable way to support web sites and services that they like, if those ads were to give them much better experience, and that mostly means more control. For one, I suggest that ads have a way you can express, with a couple clicks (and without leaving the page) one of the following:

- I already purchased this

- I already purchased a competing product

- I am not interested in this anymore

- I was never interested in this

- This ad is too creepy or personal or otherwise makes me uncomfortable

- this ad is obnoxious / distracting / ugly / disturbing

- I don't want this displayed because it might reveal something private to an onlooker (example: gift purchase for spouse)

- I'm not interested in this product but I might be interested in competing products

- I'm in the market for ______________ and I don't mind getting ads for them

- Thanks for the reminder, not now but maybe later

- Ads that track me really annoy me

Of course, in addition to collecting this information, it should act on it in a reasonable way. It would also be nice if it was accompanied by an option to pay a small, reasonable amount to remove ads.

For whatever reason, ad companies don't seem to want to do this sort of thing. It may take legislation, which I would certainly get behind.
Having studied abstract algebra before using FP, I must say that I instantly made this connection when I came into contact with monads, and that it helped me a lot to understand them.

So I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the idea of associating these concepts. After all, category theory is all about making that kind of associations.
Sounds like an excuse to behave without accountability or responsibility.
Ads should be stopped. There is a positive reinforcement loop with ads: there more aggressive ads overall, the more aggressive should be an ads campaign to be successful. If there were no ads in internet, then a single banner of single product shown to a billion random people would have an enormous success. But because ads are everywhere no one would notice one more ad. Oh... and there is an adblockers story which is there because of too many ads, which makes situation even worse.
No no: she rambles about (mostly) supersymmetry and related “physics”-without-refutability. She does care about science: she is tired of theories without real (as in “real world”) support.
Opportunity cost!
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I'm actively reading ads since puberty or so, that is, I look at what they're saying, what they're trying to imply, compare with the reality, and what they generally are doing to language and communication. I used to consider it just being a smartass prick, a hairsplitting, literally-taking party pooper... but without knowing it, since I can think I tried all I could to innoculate myself against this:

> Because we are lied to all the time, in ways so routine they are beneath conscious notice, even the most direct lies are losing their power to shock us.

-- Charles Eisenstein, https://charleseisenstein.org/essays/the-ubiquitous-matrix-o...

I take many things into account, but the judgement of those who aren't that active and hostile in their interaction, who just soak in it, is not one of those things. That many people do see a problem makes me think better of them, but it doesn't influence my opinion of the ad landscape, that's something between me and the ads.
Evolution of the Alphabet
Small quantities of orange juice are recommended on the vertical diet.
Even if you don't interact with an ad they still deliver their payload right to your brainbox.
Titles in software are so stupid. Where I work, everyone is “Software Engineer” whether they have 20 months of experience or 20 years. The respect and pay are commensurate with on-the-job performance and output.

I know a “principal engineer” who can talk the talk, write books and articles but can’t produce any software of real value, and I work with a guy who’s been working 1/8 as long as me and he’s ten times better.
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Nathan Cofnas: Coercive paternalism and the intelligence continuum
In addition to tibbett's point (expressing technical accomplishments in terms of their value to the business), do some honest introspection on your value to your peers. I'm really just elaborating on Ms. Botros' article here, but for example you want to ask yourself these kinds of questions:

Do you improve the skills of the people around you? Do you identify and help resolve barriers faced by your peers? (This doesn't always mean fixing things yourself!) Do you improve the environment and culture where you work? Can you work collaboratively to establish a vision for change? How do you gain the buy-in of your peers when it comes time to implement change?

Internalizing these answers will prepare you to steer the conversation onto the skills that you know are important for the role.
Seems like Netflix has a different goal: they want to release just enough stuff for customers not to stop paying, but don't particularly care how much they watch per day. Otherwise they'd be producing good shows. Right now Netflix 100% fails to hook me in. I watch it for exactly 30 minutes a day while doing cardio. If it wasn't for that, they'd have to pay _me_ to watch their drawn out, boring shows. The only reason why I watch Netflix is because Prime Video is even worse.
So, even eating spoonfuls of sugar is better than drinking OJ?
It's not uniform at all. Most objects are in high inclination orbits, which means many intersect near the poles.
Would being able to create various anonymous profiles with interests that are only loosely tied to you be considered less creepy?

I'm an industry insider and while yes, it's how I make money, I can't deny there are some creepy bits which should be a concern for all.

But unless someone comes up with a better revenue model, most of Internet is supported by the Ad money. Be it the big players such as Google or Facebook, or the many modest operations out there.

So we have to figure out a way to make it work, something that shouldn't be creepy but can still support the ecosystem.
Netflix’s wants the same, even though it’s not even ad based!

If Netflix wants people to spend more time on Netflix, they should probably stop adding forehead-slapping "features" like mandatory autoplaying previews that encourage people to stop spending so much time surfing through the back catalog.

Of course, it's vitally important to Netflix's business model that you don't discover just how limited their catalog is. That's not an issue for YouTube, and it's interesting to consider how these requirements feed into UX engineering at the two companies.
Cool, I’ve been using StumpWM from an old Nixpkgs tree because it was broken for some time, I guess I can upgrade it now!
> Look at all the Comcast ads that celebrate binge watching.

I think it's more insidious than that -at least the ads I've noticed.

There's a lot of normalizing of binge watching. Of making it a "given". When I say "normalizing" I mean things like "Since you're going to be gorging on your favorite shows, use our phone/our service/our devices to do them on the because they're the best".

It's not even a question in many ads; the assumption is that you're going to be binging already. Celebrating would be closer to beer commercials ("it's been a hard week, now it's netflix time!").
I can't find the damn thing now, but I believe you're right - I mentioned some other anecdotal "being pursued across the internet incorrectly" comment in this thread.
Solution to diffuse the feeling was to insert the identified item, between a couple of other semi-random items on the banner.
Emoji is the mistake that will kill Unicode mark my words.
Since the free plan includes music, they obviously aren't paying to get it.
Well the thing is that it isn't even clear now that it counts as something to blow a whistle upon. There is literally nothing illegal about what they were doing despite the harping of every legacy player.
> individual's Overton window

Overton window is by definition a property of a group, not an individual.
I would trust a voting system that spit out a hashed representation of my vote more than paper ballots. Paper ballots can be fabricated or misplaced.

We witnessed people transporting votes in their personal vehicles in Broward county so there's no real chain of custody along with no verification of identity.
Because education became a feminine domain and females don't innovate and are reluctant to do any changes.
Although "reaching more people" with education is a pretty stupid idea, most of the new ideas come from smart to very smart people and those people are usually doing ok and reach universities. When politician talk about "reach" they talk about idiots who can't do even the minimal work, not because they don't have the opportunity but because of low IQ or problematic culture.
To expand on my post, I should add:

Fruit is evil.

The fruits we buy in the supermarket (or hipster organic farmers market) bare little resemblance to the less sweet and less palatable fruits that humans would have eaten prior to cultivation. Through an ongoing process (over multiple millennia) of artificially selecting for higher sugar content, we have turned nature’s fruits into the equivalent of candy bars.

If you want nutrients, eat vegetables.
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So that means that if my system says it's version 18.04.1 and reports "your system is up to date", then I am up to date?
i believe astronomy is not underfunded, with projects like JWT. now she might be right about medium scale projects but one would have to see the budget for it. Research directions is a difficult matter, and as evidenced by recently identified problems with medicine and biology reserach, having a ton of medium-sized projects instead of a few megaprojects is not necessarily more fruitful.
Targeted ads can become creepy and offensive in lots of circumstances, such as when a woman who was pregnant has a miscarriage and still receives ads about baby items.
>>I know a “principal engineer” who can talk the talk, write books and articles but can’t produce any software of real value, and I work with a guy that’s been working 1/8 as long as me and he’s ten times better.

Perhaps you're measuring value too narrowly. A principal engineer can act as a force multiplier for the entire team, even if they themselves are no longer efficient individual contributors.
Unfortunate that it interferes with hormonal birth control :(
Maybe the result will not be less competition but rather better competition, as the entrants will be founders who have actually done their due diligence and research and are prepared to act responsibly in compliance with the public interest.
I think this is a good point. I find the language of category theory an invaluable tool in my own understanding of abstract algebra, and universal properties are a large part of that. I think that a lot of undergraduate mathematicians could benefit from seeing the universal properties of a product/coproduct, and reflecting on what this means in categories that they're comfortable working in. Universal properties are usually quite useful.

My specific gripe is with expecting that a statement like "a Lie group is a group object in the category of manifolds" is going to lead to any new theorems in the theory of Lie groups. It's just not, and you are not going to become any better at Lie groups by understanding that statement. It's good to understand at some point, because it unifies the definition of group / Lie group / algebraic group, etc, but it will really not give you anything new to work with.
GitHub offers private repos for free users now (as of about a month ago). It is limited to three collaborators though.
Many TV ads are also immoral.

Taking advantage of emotions to trick people into buying things they don't want or need is immoral.
Is there a "standard" way of running Swift on Ubuntu LTS nowadays? A while back I looked into it, and ran into some hokey and unsatisfying solutions. I used Swift on iOS, and I like it a lot, but if they care about adoption, someone needs to reduce friction of getting up and running to approximately zero. A snap package a-la Go or per-user script based installation a-la Rust would be quite OK, as long as it's just one, easy to discover command.
Well written explanation! I really enjoy Swift but it's not as accessible as some of the other languages mentioned. I have a 2011 Macbook Pro and wanted to use the latest and greatest new Swift features. Unfortunately, my machine is too old to upgrade to Mojave which means I can't download the latest version of xcode, which means no new version of Swift. I'm not mad at Apple in the least bit. I just wish I could use Swift 4 on my machine.
>before the terrible canker in the 90's forced the state agriculture office to basically bulldoze and burn every non-commercial orange tree in the state.

Could you elaborate more on this, or link me to a place where I can read more about it?
Can you elaborate a bit more on what you mean by "force multiplier" please?
I’m sure if you rephrased the question you would get much different results. It’s pretty easy to prime people to answer a certain way, especially by mentioning the word “immoral.”

“Do you want to see relevant ads?”

“Would you like to see ads for products you would never buy?”
"Special Purpose" can mean so many things that it really depends on the purpose to tell if they're going to be replaced.

For example traditional RAID controllers were replaced with software based solutions once there was surplus compute in the multicore era. If your workload can be viewed as "offload the CPU", there's only a matter of time before general purpose CPU cores are more plentiful and the need to offload goes away.

Pure compute (be it traditional CPU's or some other vector variant that GPU/TPU offer) or latency sensitive tasks (some network, other FPGA, ASIC, accelerated tasks etc.) are only areas where non-GP can maintain a long term foothold.
What you have to know or realize: ALL finacial sectors in Germany are net savers. Private households, companies and now also the government. When there are savings, someone else has to have debt. It's a zero sum game, meaning all savings have a debt counterpart. Now where is the debt counterpart for Germany? Look at this picture: http://www.flassbeck-economics.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/0...
On top, private households. Below, companies. Below that, the government. And finally, THE REST OF THE WORLD.
As you can see, from the start of the Euro, the debter position in Germany shifted from being the government or the companies, to foreign countries. Every year Germany needs 280€ billion or so new debt IN OTHER COUNTRIES to have these savings. Other eurozone countries continuously lose market share against Germany: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Balance_...

But it affects non-eurozone countries as well of course. For example the US basically critized Germany (long before Trump) as a currency manipulator, Trump just speaks it out loud. Because again, without the Euro, Germanys own currency would value up and the massive exports would be impossible.

So I think you can't deny that some dramatic change happend when the Euro was introduced and that it's still happening today.

Now if you assume Germany did not do wage dumping and the Euro wasn't introduced, could Germany be in the same position as it is now? No. Look at the graphic again and pin the red line (foreign countries) to the zero position. That in turn means, you now have to pull another line down! Because remember, all lines have to sum up to zero. Which line would you pull down? Ask private households to stop saving and spend much more money? Or increase company tax (while every other country is decreasing it)? The only solution left would be for the government to make deficits.

Currently, other countries make deficits for Germany. This is not sustainable.
Why do you think it's cool that they do something that is a bad idea?
Hold on, they are saying that if sync fails (for example if someone types "sync" at the console), then the database calls fsync() it will not fail even though the data is gone. I don't see how any database the uses the buffer cache could guard against this case.

The kernel should never do this. If sync fails, all future syncs should also fail. This could be relaxed in various ways: sync fails, but we record which files have missing data, so any fsync for just those files also fails.

(Otherwise I agree with LMDB- there should be no retry business on fsync fails).
I don't know if he does but I do and it is a favorite for many years, so long that I had the original on vinyl.
> Or by a power flicker. Which can be caused by plugging in other devices too.

That sounds pretty unlikely. Any references about this? The pulse needs to be pretty particular and the USB device needs to be powered.
All the more reason to bake user control into the legal-and-technical architecture of systems like this with structures like the Platform Coop. Communities impacted by media platforms need levers of control over them.
Swift is also now supported in Colab (Google-hosted Jupyter notebooks) and there's a nice tutorial on some of the features of Swift for Tensorflow at https://colab.research.google.com/github/tensorflow/swift-tu...
There still is the cost of making and maintaining those volumes, for building and maintaining the record room, for having somebody check how many photos you made, for billing, etc, etc.

With fairly high fixed costs and, likely, demand varying a lot as a function of price, picking a break-even price point isn’t really possible up-front.

For example, if they were to charge $1,000,000.— per page, chances are they won’t recover costs, but that doesn’t imply they should ask more.

I think governments should just give up on the idea of recovering costs on this kind of service. That may mean some people will benefit more from it than others, but then, be that so. Alternatively, put a reasonably high cap on the ability to query the system.
Ugh. I don't know a single PostgreSQL committer with that attitude. Maybe my patches are too crap to be in that situation, not sure.
Except that soda has other things in it that are bad and aren't called sugar. And juice still has many vitamins and minerals retained.

I get what you're saying, and I'm not claiming juice is healthy. But it's certainly heathier than soda. Whole fruit is, of course, far healthier than juice
Targeting doesn't really work that well. There are numerous claims by companies that spending X dollars on Google ads or FB ads did not provide sensible ROI.

Personal anecdote - I find targeted ads more boring and irritating than standard ads in the press - they are either predictable and therefore don't catch me off guard or they are just plain silly - data driven mistaken predictions.
Interesting approach to flight software. Where are you guys based? Are you hiring?
That article is nowhere near a rebuttal of Hossenfelder. It makes a semi-decent case that the LHC was not a failure, which no one is disputing AFAICT. It doesn't even attempt to argue that a new, bigger accelerator is a good idea... unless you count the mere juxtaposition of the hypothetical new accelerator with the non-failure of the LHC, which is a despicable, manipulative form of persuasion.

Then there's this:

> Finding out that there are no particles where we had hoped tells us about the distance between human imagination and the real world.

Which is Not Even Wrong. It sounds like it was generated by a Markov bot trained on quotes from Neil deGrasse Tyson.
It makes a lot of sense and I'm sure advertisers would very much like it as much as you do (in this specific context that is).

I mean, there's a reason this infamous quote is still relevant today: “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don’t know which half.”

The real issue is the ad-ecosystem is afraid (and rightly so if I may) that people might try to game the system and would rather not bother.

That and realising that out of your X thousands / millions monthly unique visitors, only a small percentage are an adequate audience will pelase neither the publisher nor the ad exchanges.
Sure you could fall back to branding adverts but those are usually of lesser value.
You might be interested in checking out Swift on Google Colab (e.g., https://colab.research.google.com/github/tensorflow/swift-tu...)
LMDB is single-writer. Only one process can acquire the writelock at a time, and only the writer can call fsync() so this scenario doesn't arise.

If you open the datafile with write access from another process without using the LMDB API, you're intentionally shooting yourself in the foot and all bets are off.
http://nondot.org/sabre/Resume.html

"Swift for TensorFlow rethinks machine learning development ... I imagined, advocated for, coded the initial prototype and many of the subsystems after that; recruited, hired and trained an exceptional engineering team; we drove it to an open source launch and are continuing to build out and iterate on infrastructure."
Not ever single DE, but the Compositor a DE uses must have it implemented.

Though Compositors may share libraries as well, and a unifying library might very well be developed for this.
I think the use case for WithoutFinalise is for working with shared pointers (judging by the text).

In that case, if you're going to copy the pointer, you don't want to then free the memory, since you no longer know whether all copies have finished being used.

Having said, that, some kind of reference counting might be a safer strategy. It depends a bit on what the client code is up to.