skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because it's Google's code on the publisher page, doesn't mean it's Google's customer's ad that shows up on the page. It's entirely possible a third party is willing to pay more than any of Google's own customers, so it's auctioned off to Google's customers, and Google's partners (who auction it among their own customers).

Also advertisers often want to do dynamic stuff too. Or may be willing to pay more for the same user in different contexts. Or utterly unwilling to have their ad on sites with UGC. And you don't know where the user will show up next.
I don't blame them
If I'm understanding what you mean right, no I don't think so.

If we have two companies, one makes a widget and the other buys it and adds a clock to then sell:

Cost of making the widget $5, sale price $10

Cost of adding a clock $10, sale price $40

As two companies, the first has a gross margin of $5 and the second $20. If the companies were to combine, they'd have costs of $15 and a sale price of $40 = gross margin of $25.

I might not understand the term properly though, I based it on this https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/grossmargin.asp
I'm saying they can't get attribution from this unless they are a major publisher. There's no choice there. This essentially means that bigger companies (that do direct advertising) can make more than double the revenue from ads as small companies.

Of course the small publishers could let the ads networks host their content (in an iframe?) to recapture that revenue, but then we end up in a worse privacy position -- as there only end up being a few hundred first party hosts on the web that host all of the content and can track you with first party cookies!
You get The Dutch East India Company.

Corporations capable of operating according to their own rules. At least within their sphere of expertise.

If they have the resources to operate beyond the reach of the law, they transcend the law to make their own new rules. They do whatever they want, scoped according to their capabiities, and they cover up anything that isn't on the level. They use what they have to their own advantage, as a natural perk of having he means to do so.
I managed to get zork to run on an esp32. well, it got as far as printing the first room and then crashed.
For viewings. If the viewing isn't done in the 24h post-death, the body has decayed noticibly: it's unsightly and smells bad.

(take with a grain of salt, my only source is 10 episodes of Six Feet Under)
Ah, interesting! The difference between Metacode and something like AppleScript is that the artifact left over from using Metacode is still the rigorous programming language you're used to. If we retain a query log, you could even convert your natural language queries into code comments alongside your code to actually improve clarity.
But like, I can send 6 year old to store and I am 100% sure there will be no investigation. Neither holistic nor non-holistic. Just me and no problem at all. No question about anything. No stress no meetings no questions no knocking on the door when I just want to chill and watch TV.
For Common Lisp you have a lot of options. I think https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/web-dev/ serves as a good overview of entry points for them. There's also a short and relatively recent pay-what-you-want ebook available that might be useful: https://leanpub.com/lispweb (And while I'm at it I appreciated this ebook https://www.darkchestnut.com/book-common-lisp-application-de... for its relevance to the professional programmer who is used to how things are done in JavaLand; it also briefly covers server-side app development and deployment)

The closest to literally LAMP would just be LAML. Configure Apache to reverse-proxy to your Lisp application running its own web server (Hunchentoot is a popular base choice to get up and running) on some local port and use CLSQL to talk to MySQL.
Amazon made video games for its workers to reduce tedium of warehouse jobs
I believe this is the figure you're remembering:

http://i.imgur.com/IT2K6F8.png
It's nonsensical because it's too limited. Housing is like health care in that the market is sorely lacking in its ability to distribute those resources equitably--pinning the problems on nimbyism is admitting that market solutions are the best we've got, which I think is wrong. I'm advocating for socialized housing, not tweaking the knobs of the market until it comes out fair. Moreover, nimbyism is a lot like the solutions for environmental problems that stop at consumer boycotts and individual choices to recycle or reduce water usage. Good things, but predicated on individual virtue over systemic changes.

Finally, nimbyism is resentment about gentrification in reverse. I find objections to gentrification pretty convincing--why shouldn't people have a say in what happens to their neighborhood?

TLDR a lot of the description of the problem (IE nimbyism) depend on the market continuing to do what it's doing, and I think the market is the problem to begin with.
It seems the social infrastructure of Silicon Valley is too meta for this crowd.
Yup.

Set aside the fact that our baseline corporate income tax rates are some of the highest in the world.

The income of corporations doesn't go directly into the pockets of the shareholders. Rather, the shareholders are getting income from them either as dividends or as capital gains. Either way, that's accounted for in the income of those shareholders. So corporate profits are already built into the numbers I quoted above.
Yup, and then they move where they can accord: to a sprawling suburb in Texas that's energy-inefficient and cuts more into nature. A real progressive win, that!

It's like these people have infant-style lack of object permanence: if we just make these people leave my city, they disappear! Look how great it is for the environment that they vanished into the aether, never to be seen again!
Obviously subjective but my fear is that it would become more mechanical and dominated by physical capacity and highly specialized players. Some people may see that as a good thing. Personally I like seeing how versatile players and smart coach deal with the constraints. On the other hand, I think this freedom works well for basketball and even futsal.
Why is this topic so popular on HN? I'm just curious because there are so many social problems and actual politics news in the world but somehow this is always up here.
I think there's a difference between: saying "Google makes products that people are unable to improve upon" and saying that Google "can't force manufacturers to use their software".

Those just seem...like totally different statements to me. Yes, Google has done an amazing job building a great software platform. No, despite the fact that Google is the best, they are not allowed to use that market dominance to assert undue control over the rest of the ecosystem.

I guess I just don't see anyone blaming Google for making amazing products. People were blaming Google for using the immense leverage that their near-monopoly position put them in (because they made amazing products).
You missed the part where he would have been charged with obstruction of justice were he not the president.
We need a COBOL programmer [fun]
GitHub will build for you if you use Jekyll.
Most Deep Learning papers related to tracking human pose, identifying abnormal behavior, detecting crime from video feeds etc. have Chinese authors. Literally bleeding-edge stuff used to subdue people. Can't wait to see some western politicians to hop on the same train once this tech is cheap after China beta-tests it and irons out all the quirks.
Yeah... the Big Bang Theory wouldn't have been greenlit, much less have become a hit, if the stereotypes it presented weren't already known and considered "funny" by mainstream culture.

What normalized nerd culture was the World Wide Web. Everything you mention either started or was catalyzed by the web.

And before the web, even owning a computer at all, much less knowing how to use it, made you a nerd to begin with.
It was "loss of property" by law... It's not my def, it's the def-by-law of those days.
Go to your dircolors file in /etc/dircolors, if it’s not there create it first with the dircolors command. Make sure your terminal is using a nerdfont patched font. Set colors in dircolors for various file types to whatever you want and append or prefix whatever icons you want to use. Done. Define granular rules for other extensions if you wish.
My opinion on this might be controversial but I think there's very little difference between even "hard" sci-fi and all-out fantasy (but, with spaceships). There is very little space left to write a story that is interesting and compelling if one wishes to respect the bounds of what is scientifically plausible.

Then again, if one starts to stretch the definition of "scientifically plausible" there's all sorts of things that are classic sci-fi tropes like Einsten-Rosen bridges and Alcubierre drives, etc. So it's just my opinion. But, I note that the best Sci-Fi stories I've read always took lots of liberties with the laws of nature.

I'll even come up with a few examples if I really think about it.
The axiom of choice is part of ZFC. The existence of, e.g., a Mahlo cardinal is not.
>* First Unibody MB/MBP had glossy screen not suitable for indoor lighting

This didn't affect me (and it didn't change until Retina, I think), but EM209 <https://randyzwitch.com/broken-macbook-pro-hinge-fixed-free/... hit me twice, the second time not covered by Apple.
This is amazing to me from an outsider's point of view; I thought Binomial was a two-person shop (idk if they expanded recently). To be able to partner with Google and Chrome Media on an equal level just doesn't seem possible to me. Binomial must have some pretty nice tech. Congratulations on the partnership!
There is a great difference between what is rationally true and what an emotional being (i.e. a person) will do. See the trolley problem and many others. For instance, people will stay in a declining stock past the "rational threshold" because they have developed an emotional attachment to it.

We view people and animals as different. We have a long tradition of viewing people as different. We have pushed those limits somewhat with organ donation, but generally speaking, we don't break people down for spare parts. Most religions and corresponding cultures view people as made by God and having a small element of the diving. This is the reason people are considered better than animals, and the reason there are different requirements for veterinary vs human medicine. Same reason we eat animals without issue.

Maybe you disagree; we are each free to our respective opinions. But most people don't view humans as "just another kind of animal".
Aren't prions eliminated by cremation?
This apparatus of surveillance is functionally identical to what has been commercially deployed in the U.S., except that we are considerably ahead of China in areas like in-car monitoring and always-on home microphones.
...and they're fun to make fun of.
I don't know if your description of the men on Queer Eye is apt. It's a reality show, which admittedly doesn't mean the hosts aren't acting, but the show is hosted by a cast of all homosexual men. Being in the age we're in, it's easy to go find more content that shows the hosts aren't acting for Queer Eye, and perhaps they're being their genuine selves.

Jonathon Van Ness, has a podcast, and has done some Youtube content over the years, and doesn't seem to portray a different "character" than he does on QE.

Mainstream media, especially in the last 10 years, has really changed the way homosexuals, and other LGBTQ+ are presented and seen. I would argue that it's a lot less problematic, and more genuine than it's ever been. HBO's 'Looking' did a decent job of portraying the spectrum of gay men that exist today. (Not a particularly great show otherwise). Amazon's 'Transparent' does an incredible job of highlighting the fact that sexuality exists on a spectrum, and those people can be hyper-fem, hyper-masc, and anywhere in between.

As a gay nerd, I personally think it's important we see all kinds of LGBTQ+ identifying people, and shows like Queer Eye have done that.
Extreme moderation that makes conversation as boring as possible. That's how subreddits like /r/science stay sane.
People confuse UFO with aliens. Of course the government / DoD / Military watch for unidentified flying objects. We want to know if a foreign nation is sending prototype aircraft into our airspace to spy on us or perform nefarious activities. This should not really surprise anyone.
It always struck me as a show about smart people, for dumb people.
Auto companies promoting mass construction of roadways and suburbs last century are a big reason for urban sustainability issues today. Cities that grew around cars are struggling to shift toward a more economically sustainable pedestrian orientation.

Not the only reason for issues, of course. Austin could have had a slightly better code with CodeNEXT but the NIMBYs got to it and successfully sold the message that it would destroy neighborhoods, despite all the concessions they received.
Used to work at an investment bank (IT), are you saying all those recurring mandatory trainings on how to detect and report money laundering were a sham?
I'm confused by this thread. Are people still social outsiders just for being "nerds"? I feel like people are mixing up being socially awkward and being nerdy.

It's much easier to be a social outsider when you're socially awkward. I don't think I've ever seen a nerd who is socially strong be outed from a group just for being nerdy...

This is coming from someone who was nerdy and socially awkward for much of middle and highschool and didn't really have friends. Once I started working on my social abilities (which is not easy, to be fair), making friends was easy.
Download (and check the hash, like any other application) a static one page "app" that you can open anywhere later and use to communicate/post information from any network you happen to be at?
Well, we're a crowd of mostly technology enthusiasts, developers, and scientists.

This is very related to the topic of HN - we're witnessing the (worry-inducing) birth of an oppressive technology-fueled dystopian society.
I would prefer UIFont.systemFont by default. I like apps that blend in with the OS nicely instead of “native websites”.
Why would you need to? You must've gotten the name from some source, just write it in the same order it is there - transliterating into a different writing system if necessary, but there's just no need to ever mess with the order.
Like it. Will use it for a bit and see what I think.

Things so far:

- please update that privacy policy ;)
- entries when scrolling in dark mode can be a bit “jittery”
- thank you for the reader view in safari option
Who's gonna eat that pig afterwards?
That privacy policy was linking to my other app. I just updated my app store page and it should link to the correct privacy policy. Please have a look now and let me know if you have questions.

It's available here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qbrebrvkxn5cthv/hackprivacypolicy....
In your opinion is the call out of Australia/China a valid comparison to Ukraine/Russia?
Scud the Disposable Intelligence Officer would make for a legit revival of the Scud comic franchise.

The 2010 assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai by Mossad was a shocker to the general public when the kill team and support personnel were plastered on TV by UAE law enforcement immediately following via dozens of stitched together CCTV feeds.

That op burned a few dozen people from most future external operations.

All I know is that there will be thousands of former intelligence officers and shooters sweating biometric datamining for future overseas holiday travel on their own passports in allied countries, forget about semi/non-permissive country personnel travel.
Yeah, no. Nerd culture was normalized years before BBT came along... Somewhere in the early-mid 00s.
Oops. That privacy policy was linking to my other app. I just updated my app store page and it should link to the correct privacy policy. Please have a look now and let me know if you have questions.

It's available here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qbrebrvkxn5cthv/hackprivacypolicy....
I'm hardly offended by the show despite being a nerd. I think it's because I'm Chinese and there are no characters that I strongly associate with. In fact, I can't recall many asian characters on the show. "Fresh Off the Boat" on the other hand...I can see myself being very uncomfortable watching.
> Right now California cities are encouraging growth in jobs while simultaneously actively preventing any sort of balance with housing. This has great effects for the pocket books of landowners in cities, and tremendously negative effects for the environment and all the workers that come later.

Interestingly since local regulation is voted on only by locals, either directly or indirectly via their elected officials, the system is naturally catered to the existing land owners. Winning the support of commuters does not win elections.
As a geek I honestly hated TBBT. I would love to see a show that portrays smart people having street smarts without going the mary sue trope.
What We Fight About When We Fight About Parking
It's an extremely dishonest look at the numbers. I'm having trouble finding the article from sfchronicle.com now, but the idea that each person is getting an average of $40,000 is comically wrong. The homeless population is always in flux: new people become homeless, some people get housed, and some people migrate. Treating a year time span as having a static population of X is just an unrealistic way to look at it.

There are something like 20,000 different homeless individuals in the city throughout the course of the year. Something like 15,000 end up getting some sort of services.

However, that's not really much of the story, because the bulk of that $300M budget from prior years goes directly to the easiest and cheapest intervention to stop homelessness: paying people's rent. For families and individuals living paycheck to paycheck, a single unexpected expense can get them kicked out.

Without that $300M, the problem would be immensely worse, on a huge scale.
Is it possible that you associate things that correlate with rejection of children with iq? Like ambitions and career - low ambition don't necessary imply stupid. May be that wish for children tamper ambition and career.
Ok, I will change it in an update tomorrow!
One more - is it possible to edit the font size as well as the style? I like it small! (Others might like it large)
I have always and only used Gitlab Pages, except one test site at Netifly, that too from a Gitlab Repo. Gitlab Pages are super easy, static, need one .yml file, one cname and txt dns record.
Electoral cycles have existed for millennia. The difference between back then until ~ 1980 (mind ya I wasn't born then, I'm referring to history books here) with the advent of Thatcherism was that politicians and entrepreneurs/companies alike had a sense of honor. Which means that regents, no matter if kingdoms or democratic governments, wanted to create a positive, long lasting image in history and companies actually respected their workers and paid them fair wages (and even if only so that their workers could afford the products). That resulted ultimately in the formation of the European Union and in what we Germans call "Soziale Marktwirtschaft".

Beginning with Thatcher and exploding after the UdSSR fall came neoliberalism: ruthless privatisations everywhere (telcos, railways, postal services to name the most horrid examples which more often than not turned into shitshows), the total gutting of social security networks (anything from unemployment insurance over healthcare to social/affordable housing), and the lowest of the low being pitted against each other to totally implode wages while the top level enjoyed ever more and more payouts. Many a company employed their own cleaning and building maintenance staff - now it's all outsourced to the cheapest bidder.

No wonder this has also reflected back into politics...
I’m quietly hoping that at some point folks will stop trying to make The world compatible with the idea of IQ and do more of the converse instead...
While inequality is not inherently a bad thing, we are starting to see the corrosive effects letting a few have too much.

I've gotten to the point where it feels like we need a Net Worth Limit. Cap it at $250 million let's say. The rich still get to enjoy a post-scarcity lifestyle, and the rest of society doesn't hang in the balance of whether our billionaire gods are benevolent or not. I doubt Jobs, Zuck and Gates would have said "Forget it" if they knew they only had the opportunity to acquire a quarter of a billion dollars. And if they did, they are probably not the sort you want to have more money than that anyway.
There is a language called Frank. I read a paper on it, called "Do Be Do Be", which was an epic read.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.09259
Why stop there? Maybe the decline started with the invention of writing. Here's Socrates:

But when it came to writing Theuth said, 'Here, O king, is a branch of learning that will make the people of Egypt wiser and improve their memories; my discovery provides a recipe for memory and wisdom.' But the king answered and said, 'O man full of arts, to one it is given to create the things of art, and to another to judge what measure of harm and of profit they have for those that shall employ them. And so it is that you, by reasons of your tender regard for the writing that is your offspring, have declared the very opposite of its true effect. If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks. What you have discovered is a recipe not for memory, but for reminder. And it is no true wisdom that you offer your disciples, but only its semblance, for by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing, and as men filled, not with wisdom but with the conceit of wisdom, they will be a burden to their fellows.'

(from Phaedrus)
Is there any reason bigger new sites don't just run ads like their paper counterparts? Sell sections of the site directly B2B. The business provides a static image, and the website shows that image for some amount of time for some predetermined amount of money. The image would be hosted with the parent site. They can target certain zip codes for more local ads, exactly like newspapers. I'm assuming it is significantly less profitable?
In many fields, spreadsheet apps still are the killer app(s). I worked at a company that made tax software, and to this day Excel is still a mandatory skill for an accountant, despite the "advanced" software we have these days. In project management in many industries as well the data is largely spreadsheet driven.

Couple that with the fact that you can literally use a Google Sheet as the database backend for small apps, and I think it's a good case that spreadsheets are still killer.
I dunno, maybe I just don’t see that much value in those transient „great social experiences”. BTW, when it comes to noncommital interactions with people, I like to talk to people older than me, as they have perspectives on live not yet available for me, while the „bar scene” is dominated by similar and uninteresting twenty-somethings with relatively little story to tell.
> A buried body can last many years, especially if it’s several feet into the clay layer.

And in some cases (e.g. peat) "many" can end up being "hundreds" or even "thousands".