skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has never been a thing, that's why. Adverts have been targeted for decades before the internet existed at all.

Do you think TV adverts are placed randomly? They aren't. Different times of day have different value to different advertisers. TV ads are targeted based on detailed knowledge of audience demographics.

Do you think billboard ads are placed randomly? They aren't. Their placement is optimised based on the beliefs of the ad firms about who will drive past them or see them.

Do you think internet ads were placed randomly before AdSense? No, they were targeted by rough demographic guessed from the sites content just like TV and billboard ads were.

All that's changed on the internet is that targeted has got more precise and more sophisticated. But there's no bright line separating "generic" from "targeted" ads, like you imagine. And the better targeting is hardly an optional feature like the DPAs seem to imagine. It increases revenues which enables firms to provide new content and new features. Roll back the web to 1990s era ad techniques and now all the ads on generic sites like news or search with no clearly defined audience will be barrel-scraping "punch the monkey" animations, for those of us who remember that stuff.
> And again, the rates of German Ltds. have gone down massively with the creation of the UG, so clearly it's working and not seen as overly onerous.

My point is that UG create another layer instead of simplifying GmbH, which they refuse to do. From what you said UG still force you into GmbH: "25% of net income have to be added to the company investment, until the 25k€ threshold is reached". That's still quite onerous.

I think this is cultural. In the Anglo-sphere, the culture is much more one of laisser-faire.
Other culture are much more fearful of any financial risk.

At the end of the day, though, on this I think the UK has it right: Make it as easy as possible for people to start a business. There is no downside.
Have you tried Armory3D? Look like that’s pretty well received among the Blender community.
That's not dishonest. You might not like their policy (I'm not a fan of it either), but it's clearly stated, based on consistent logic and not at odds with the software being open-source.
Signal is completely "open-source", but that doesn't mean their chat network is open. How can you even confuse those things?
Even good architects with good ideas about modularity will fail writing monoliths, because that whole approach to software is intrinsically antithetical to decoupling and modularity. It’s like asking a professional soccer player to play soccer on the bottom of a full swimming pool. Doesn’t matter how good they are because the ambient circumstances render the task untenable. It’s the same for good engineers asked to work in monolith / monorepo circumstances. Through outrageous overhead costs in terms of tooling and inflexibility, the best you can hope for is stabilizing a monster of coupled, indecipherable complexity, like in the case of Google’s codebase, and even that minimal level of organization is only accessible by throwing huge sums of money and tens of thousands of highly expensive engineers at it.
>nothing more than a publicity stunt

It's the complete opposite to that, and you said it yourself. Their aim is to quietly retain/recapture users while keeping antitrust at bay, and they did well precisely in not publicizing it.
I can’t really see how it can fit anyone requirements given that you said in another comment that it encourages copying code around. That is the only sure way to ensure that your code is full of bugs and multiplies the hurdle of the maintenance for each of the copied implementations.
But why go the antropomorphic way of getting a robotized hand to copy the steps the barista makes ?

It usually makes more sense to make a coffee machine that does those steps internally. It's easier in the controlled environment internal to a machine. A espresso coffee vending machine seems to be doing some of them already, like grinding the coffee.

All it's lacking is a cup transport system like a conveyor belt to put the cup in from a cup stockpile and to later serve it. You could even automate recovering the cup, cleaning it and restoking it.

Is there strong customer preference for a robot arm serving the cup rather than a conveyor belt ?
Since we're talking personal experience, Signal has never had an outage (that I was aware of).
It is Qt-based, not electron
Do consulting work for one/some of your customers?
Successful enough to maintain some base rate in the population, but not more successful than more typical, nurturing strategies.
Nah, this is Google, Q will be the omnipotent one.
That's the same as saying that a car model is safe because there have not been any crashes yet with this make and model. No cars are safe because there are industry standards that a manufacturer is tested to ensure they are following.

Closed source (both in code and implementation) has no place in the security world and anything security related should always be open for anyone to scrutinize.
The joy to me of Google search is that I don't have to incant '!py3' - I just search, and the thing I'm looking for is usually in the top 3.
When will HN learn that convenience beats security every single time? All posts that mention Telegram get the same tiring comments about security and they're all utterly pointless and preaching to the choir. Yes, we know there are more secure messenger apps out there, thanks. But unless they offer at least the same convenience as Telegram does, no one will use them except you and some of your tech friends. If you want security and privacy to become mainstream, simply make it a boring, invisible implementation detail of your messenging platform which is superior in convenience.
A robot arm that is generic is actually quite useful. Because you can build stuff around it that it can use. You want more milk types, you just add more milk nozzles that it can access, and these are just containers or cheep non-moving things.

The generic robot arm is generic but expensive.

I saw this with incredibly expensive robotic arms on a recent cruise. It was actually very very flexible -- all options were external to the arm, and cheap:

https://www.royalcaribbeanblog.com/category/category/bionic-...

It was a very popular bar on the cruise ship in terms of drinks sold -- but it was also in a prime location. The cruise ship properly understood that these "bionic bar" robots were a performance.
Which ML do you mostly use for "general development"? Like simple tools, small web API's, etc? And what's the development/deployment story, compared to Go's (i.e. single .go file, easy (cross)compilation, single binary, pretty fast out of the box)?

I'm currently mainly using Go for these kinds of things, but I'm very interested in trying out an ML for this. I've tried Haskell but it seems very complex in a lot of cases.
Perl has the problem of too many ways to do it. I like MooX::Options. Example here: https://metacpan.org/source/GETTY/AquariumHive-0.003/lib/App...
Yeah I used it there as well, it's at The Metreon mall. I was also surprised they had to have an employee next to the thing in case it breaks.
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FDR is for > literals than Teddy. It's Noodle that's for single literals. Hard to imagine how you could get confused given that the names we chose are so transparent. :-)
> But why go the anthropomorphic way of getting a robotized hand to copy the steps the barista makes ?

I'd guess for the wow effect. Such a system is much harder to calibrate and maintain than a regular automation line. But a lot sexier also. Maybe the perception and experience of getting the cup from a robotic arm is more appealing to customers than getting it from a conveyor belt?
I have been working on something similar for plotter drawings http://xn--5ca.cc/jack-of-diamonds/#Faces
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> If that 20% figure stays constant no matter what men do - then one explanation might be that mate choice for women is highly status driven.

Pretty easy to test. Look if the data is different based on time period or nationality. The ability to spend time and effort on being attractive is not a natural constant, so it should fluctuate depending food availability, wars, and so on.
I wasn't really implying that whatsapp is in any way better. I personally enjoy using Telegram. I just expressed my frustration, because I'd really like to have only one app in my phone with all the contacts in it instead of 3 or 4.
Even if they are, with DDG in between you and Bing you only have to trust DDG from a privacy point of view (and that's their whole selling point).
Well, I disagree thats its a $200 coffee machine, but theres no way on earth this needs to be an arm emulating a human user on existing machines. Im pretty sure you could buy a "premium" commercial automatic coffee machine for less than the cost of the arm - in fact, thats what the arm appears to be operating!
It would be much more impressive if the robot actually served 120 cups of coffee an hour, to paying customers, rather than it's maximum output.

This robot arm is nothing more than a gimmick, it simply moves a cup from under the actual coffee machine to the customer.
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Source? I doubt they're flush toilets; many national parks in Australia have composting toilets though (I haven't walked these particular areas for a long time). The remoteness and freezing conditions mean plumbing is just too prone to failure.
I think Signal is a good alternate to Whatsapp. I like the voice quality of Signal and it's privacy features.

I used Telegram too and I think its a good alternate to FB. Always stable and Has some great public and private channels. And doesn't drain battery like FB messenger does.
Telegram does not require your phone number, you can set it up with just a user name.
Nowadays the snow is very intermittent. We get a good sign every 5 or so years, used to be almost every year.
Copying does wonders for cyclomatic complexity.
Keybase is very convenient, same features and is based on known standards and has arguably as good a UX as telegram.

Why isn't that used more?
Yes, that's Huawei-only.
We were talking about apps that have users.
There are several birds and monkeys that try to give their children/eggs away.The bird places their eggs in another nest and then are feed by the host of that nest. I think that is an evolutionary advantage, the genes survive and the fathers have more time to feed themselves and have more eggs.

As humans we kind of do a similar thing, kindergartens, schools(other people that we don't know) rise our children and spend more time with them than us as parents.

As many times and many people in HN, I'll recommend this book: The Selfish Gene
by Richard Dawkins
That doesn't answer if improving attractiveness increase the 20% to go beyond 20%, or if it just change who is in the 20%.

Ie, by improving physical fitness, confidence, kindness, empathy, social standing, and appearance, are you simply improving your relative status in the dating pool.
I didn't say that and the poster above didn't say that, but having the source available would undoubtedly help. In this case in particular you would have had many groups looking at the code in parallel, rather than the need for a slower, closed process because of commercial sensitivity. If both crashes end up being linked to this system, then the fact the code wasn't publicly available would likely have contributed to the inability to prevent the second crash.
>This misses all the physicality of being there while taking away the benefits of varying camera positions chosen for you by the TV coverage.

What are you missing? The ability to pay $20 for a water bottle?
Alexa was pretty mediocre. I use my Google Home to play Netflix on my tv including rewind, play music, turn off my tv, and pre heat my Tesla.
HDMI vs. DisplayPort: Which is best for 4K, HD and gaming monitors?
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LOL, I guess it's anything for clicks these days...
Thanks for the ripcord suggestion!

As far as server/channel mute - believe me, I have tried every option, including your suggestions. It works for most servers but I have 2 that I can't mute no matter what I try.
Huge steps back in UI to rip off Apple are par for the course in Android now.

Pie was an enormous step backwards.
If you are currently using Go, Kotlin is better. Just don’t post angrily to your blog until you’ve written Kotlin while also embracing its philosophy and taking the time to understand the authors intentions.
If I could choose, it would be Wire for me, too. Unfortunately, it hasn't got real traction yet.
Honestly that's more of a sign of the times. People have gotten more greedy and immoral when running companies. Or just in general, have become complete cowards to admit they fucked up.
>just because of novelty

That went without saying
Really, it was implemented with anonymous inner classes, and popularized in libraries like Guava.
Deconstructing the Monolith at Shopify
China is about to overtake America in AI research
docopt deserves a link in this thread: https://github.com/docopt/docopt

It’s a magical idea if you haven’t seen it. You just write the help text and it automatically creates the argument parsing code.
Besides a bunch of lootbox stuff for the kiddie shooters, there is Civ IV, XCOM:EU, Bioshock 1&2, Metro 2033 Redux, Project Highrise, Metro Last Light Redux, OOTP18, Tyranny, and so on.

Most of those are not for me, but Indie rubbish seems a bit off.
I can’t believe I got hooked in by that deceptive, clickbaity headline. Am I on the ExpressOnline and didn’t realise?!
I'd totally use this service if it existed.
Diminishing service workers doesn't make you look cool or smart - it only makes it look like you have no empathy and are kind of an asshole.
The same happens with 3D. Every 15-20 years, manufacturers and content producers seem to think "this is the year people will want to watch X in 3D".

I'm a little skeptical that either will become mainstream daily-use technologies.
I don't think he's bothering with tests ;-)
This is more like car over-accelerates, open the boot door.
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Yeah unfortunately I can’t detect twitter anymore.. I have to come up with something new to detect logged in users for it
He’s talking about generics, you’re talking about streams.

Though ML was invented in 1973, so the idea of map/fold is pretty old.

The generalization into monoids/monads/functors didn’t happen until the early 90’s.

If we want to talk about the JVM, Scala was created 15 years ago and had those features.

I respect K&R, Rob Pike, C, and Unix a lot, but you have to understand that even when they were in their prime, they were considered a backwards. This can be traced toward the New Jersey style vs MIT style [http://dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html]

Not surprisingly, the New Jersey style originated at a company, Bell Labs, and while MIT style, not surprisingly, originated at... MIT.

But at this point, Go just feels antiquated, designed by a guy who strikes me as a “get off my lawn” kind of person.

Personally having had to transition from Scala to Go for one project at my old company, it felt like I was programming “blind, deaf, and dumb.”

Things I could do in 2 lines of Scala (though those lines were admittedly dense), would literally take hundreds of lines of Go. Sure, maybe it would have taken even more lines of C, but not much.

Go is probably just a tad more expressive than C with boehm GC. And frankly, that’s unexcusable for a language created in the 00’s, much less 2009.
> Signal just offers an insanely bad user experience.

I don't agree with the claim that Signal has superior UX over Telegram, but it's definitely not insanely bad either. It has some rough edges, and it's desktop client is not that fully featured and doesn't look that great, but otherwise it's a perfectly fine app that my mother can use without problems and without specific instructions.

That's leagues above, say, Riot, or IRC, and I feel that "insanely bad UX" really paints the wrong picture.
"He says that the "effect" is as follows: it is not worth your time to read the newspaper and all newspaper stories which contain any kind of "speculation" or "predicting" have no predictive value."

To me, "no predictive value" is consistent with sometimes being right, possibly by chance. It means being wrong enough that you can't assume either positive or negative correlation with the truth. It's easy to hide statements which are true and should be obvious in a sea of confusing nonsense.
Feel free to scrutinize Telegram's crypto and E2E implementation for secret chats. It's open source and you can find it here: https://github.com/tdlib/td
I can’t really see how you can be as productive as python with go given the huge amount of boilerplate that you need to deal with and the lack of basic constructs that have been common in a lot of modern languages.
A coffee shop is 33% drinks and snacks, 33% theatre and experience and 33% location and/or pleasant lounging space and such.

Maybe at the best end, a barista makes a better cuppa than a good machine but most of the places near where I am now wouldn't pass a blind test Vs the automated coffee machine at my office.

Automated coffee-making exist, and works just fine.

Still, €1 vending machines haven't killed the €3 coffee shops/stands/trucks. Empirically, people want the (subjective) experience, not cheap coffee.

This is a novel, theatrical way of doing the experience.

Besides those relatively banal points... it's kind of cool that they're putting robotic arms into public-facing consumer land. Not sure it leads anywhere, but I'd get a cuppa and watch it work as I sip.
The second time the universe slapped me on the face with paulg's Beating the Averages article was a couple years before it was written, when I was introduced to Dataflex 2.x on a Unix machine. It was Rails for the VT-100. If you are interested in Mumps, check that out.

The first time was with Mantis on an IBM 4381, but that's a completely different story.
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I guess the pictures with the Kangaroos in them are clear giveaways. :-)
I hate the hassle of setting up Keybase on Mobile andDesktop so i have never bothered about it till now.
Ridiculous.
If the natural state of the world is "suffering, sex, and death," it's also joy, sex and birth. Sex is at least value neutral -- if you are going to sandwich it between suffering and death I may as well put it between joy and birth -- which are real experiences. Animals seem to experience joy, to play, etc.

Animals also take care of their young, they often mourn those who died.

Plus, your incredulity at the thought of "love" between single-celled organisms is without basis. Love is a subjective state which we can only infer. We (well, some of us, not you I guess) think it's real because we've felt it at a level to which to describe it as not real would do violence to our conception of real/unreal.

And then we infer that it's felt in other organisms around us based on their actions.

Now, a single-celled organism really doesn't have a great range of "actions/behaviors" it can show us. Therefore we don't get to see it. This says nothing about whether it's experienced or not.
It only depends on GPS if you actually have that installed. I don't, and Signal works fine using an official package (which you install the first time from their website, after which it self-updates).
I've never used the browser tab but the desktop client you can server mute where you also have to select "suppress @everyone and @here" if you want a true mute besides @yourname

The desktop client had issues with FPS drop in games. You can disable Hardware Acceleration in the Appearance section and your FPS returns to normal. I guess you'd have to find the browser setting, maybe you can do it per tab?

I'm in about 20+ channels and memory on windows is 135MB
" which means that we need also graphic cards that can deliver two 3D scenes combined at 4K or 8K, and these cards aren't there yet"

Hopefully we will have quality eye tracking and foveated rendering in a few years, so we will not need to render the whole screen in high resolution ever.
Executing arrays of async/await JavaScript functions in series vs. concurrently
Does this view still apply if Apple considers the music subscription as part of the product/device?

Consider the countless users that, perhaps rightfully, argue that Apple should include more than 5 GB of iCloud storage for backups, user data, etc. That could be considered part of the product while it still competes in a different market with Dropbox and similar services.
No, you can share just your username, but you need a number to sign up.
Building a Kubernetes CI/CD Pipeline on AWS with CodePipeline and CodeBuild
The majority of your argument seems to be Starbucks provides a sort of performance art, which can't be replaced by machines and, whilst partially true, the general idea of automation is "fire and forget".

I pay €29K (gotta love the exchange rate, right now) for a machine which will replace a worker that I probably pay for year the same service. Sure it's not "artisanal" but, given enough time to tweak the machine's behaviours, it could be.

For the lower-end markets, definitely, it would be a god-send (in the ROI sense); however, I think your arguments of dissuasion that Starbucks would never do this are akin to the arguments of high-end car manufacturers never moving to automation to build vehicles.

Put succinctly: If the end-goal of business is to increase the profit-marigin (which it is), then someone, somewhere will find a way to make that happen and this would be, in general, no exception to that rule. Eventually, they'll hit that sweet spot to make it work; even if it's slightly sub-par from the quality of today's product.
Only in Silicon Valley and startups hoping to get acquired by Google.
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It's probably not, but that doesn't stop it.
A good commercial espresso machine of the size and type they're using can cost $15,000 and more, by the way. E.g. https://upscalecoffee.com/products/la-cimbali-s30-perfect-to...

I'm sure it can be done cheaper, but not $200 cheap.
Group chats have been quite unreliable at times, although probably not due to outages, but bugs.
My two favourite date formats are: (1) yyyy-MMM-dd and (2): yyyyMMdd.

Why?

(1) eliminates any ambiguity regarding interpretation. You can have an instance of a server of an unknown provenience and/or regional settings and still count on yyyy-MMM-dd to be correctly recognized.

(2) on the other hand has a nice feature of being sortable and can also be stored as an integer value if needed.

The US standard of MM/dd/yyyy is ridiculous. But it's just one of many and I'm not going to fix the world ;)

On the main topic: if anyone needs to calculate the circumference of the Universe (radius: 50bn lightyears ish) with the accuracy of the Planck distance (approximately 1.6 x 10^-30 meters), they need less than 65 digits of Pi to do so. So, as already stated, it's just a PR stunt, nothing more.
To have a productive discussion you have to actually engage. If there's really a "blatant anti-pattern" then it shouldn't be so hard to explain what's wrong with it. Your replies so far have been no more substantial than "you're wrong".
I stand corrected then: which was expected by me. It's awesome that Signal provides this feature, but I'm afraid it alone won't be sufficient to entice users to switch to Signal en masse.

Still, this doesn't invalidate my question as of which other features are missing from TG secret chats; being an active Telegram user I can't put my finger on any.
Bad integration with contacts sounds pretty serious.
And both look like copies of mIRC with added features. And I'm sure mIRC copied their layout from someone else