skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a fundamental flaw of advertising. As advertising has increased over my lifetime, I've become so inured to it that I literally no longer register things as advertisements. I just see straight through them. They're everywhere now; ads are shown on McDonalds' menus. Ads are on gas pumps while I'm filling. Ads are placed on seemingly every electronic or physical surface in a desperate arms race for my attention and the more they try, the more my brain just blocks the shit out.

It's just a never ending deluge of spam and bullshit in my brain and it's been there for so long and has increased to such a ludicrous degree as I actually now LAUGH when I see an ad shoved into a new place.

Like, I do not understand why anybody is spending money on advertising. You could be advertising the most amazing product in the history of the world and you would be simply drowned in spam, and no one would ever see it or care.

And to bring this rant back to topic, of course kids are the only ones left. They haven't had their minds assaulted with predatory conniving language for decades yet. They're the only ones who still look at ads as anything other than spam email but in whatever format it's in. But don't worry; at the breakneck pace advertisers are set into now, they'll be getting used to it even sooner, and it will be even LESS effective, until the only people still watching ads are infants crapping their pants. Maybe we can monetize little holograms in diapers and then sell the diapers for 5 cents cheaper. Let's just get to the bottom of this barrel!
What would you estimate the ratio of total water vapor from contrails is compared with the rest of the atmosphere? And if that's small, why would it be so significant?
Why does humanity need to grow in population? That doesn't make sense and is an invalid assumption underlying what you're asking for here.
But wouldn't they want the futures market to have perfect information? So that the futures could be priced exactly right, which would mean the lowest possible price that counterbalances a down market perfectly?

I assume the farmers aren't trying to make money from the futures, they're just trying to not lose money. Their profits come from actually growing food. The futures are just there in case something bad happens. Right?
I did exactly the same thing with my PO-33!
A part of the problem is that bluetooth is almost always ON on iPhones. The way one typically toggles it from the control center only disables bluetooth for a short period of time (24 hours), after that, it turns on again. One has to go into settings to actually disable bluetooth.
> Kids have no spending power

This fact means nothing for as long as one can accumulate ad dollars based on views generated by children.
"ChaiScript is a header only library with only one dependency: The operating system provided dynamic library loader, which has to be specified on some platforms."

I believe the dynamic library loader requirement is a showstopper for AVR.
On the ground floor I imagine the water would just mix with the gasoline and spread it faster.
>So. If free will doesn't exist, it doesn't change anything. Because we cannot change the path we're on. We have no choice.

Which is why if I say there is free will and I'm right, then I'm right, and if I'm wrong, then I never had a choice and so right and wrong doesn't apply.
> I'm still waiting for DJ culture to change 8 years after this video was made - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPZaZndMOzw

Dude, I was using Virtual DJ (which became AtomixMP3, and then Atomix Virtual DJ) literally 20 years ago. Got grandfathered into an amazing license that gives me free upgrades for life...

There's not really much new since then. Oh, sure, more effect plugins (gimmicks), better sound quality and stretching, better looping, but overall it's the same damn thing with slight improvements now and again. The problem is not the tools, or even necessarily the interface; the problem is thinking that DJ culture is going to "change".

See, you've got your technically talented DJs, and you've got your just-hit-play-and-dance DJs, and ultimately 99% of the people in the crowd cannot tell the difference. Success for the DJ themselves is based on networking and promotion, not the actual music; trendsetting / tastemaking is largely independent of what's actually being produced. Otherwise, would such bland music _still_ be their stock in trade? People want to dance, give them what they want.

Hoping for better in this industry is kinda pointless.
'Happiness' is an overloaded construct; not only does it mean something different to each one you ask, most are confounding it with other concepts such as 'joy' 'contentedness' 'peace' 'excitement', 'fulfillment' etc

The term itself is unique to the English language and is related to the verb 'to happen' and the concept of 'happenstance'

While we use it to mean 'positive' even 'saccharine' things, happiness is more about having a healthy relationship with what's happening around you and being mindful and present in the moment -- it's possible to be sad and happy believe it or not: sadness is an emotion, happiness is a state of mind, they are not mutually incompatible and certainly not polar opposites on some kind of emotional scale (think of the fear and love continuum from Donnie Darko, another example of mixing two unrelated ideas in pseudo polar orbits)

This article already gets off on the wrong foot from the outset by implicitly defining happiness to mean that other thing everybody thinks it means which nobody can agree upon

Even the concept of positive and negative emotions is antiquated, emotions are simply human sensory perceptions that form a heuristic basis of one's environment in non-rational but highly valuable ways, I think of emotions as the human equivalent of IRQ's
Well it's impossible to have a list of any '1000 best of' that will be agreed by everyone. If you want to delve into the subject, it was a puplar subject in literature some time ago:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_canon#Debate
>On July 24, 2019, the Board of Directors of Alphabet authorized the company to repurchase up to an additional $25.0 billion of its Class C capital stock

The reason the stock is up so much. They're going to stop blowing money on stuff they aren't good at.
Maybe an alternative to drug marketing would be to have an independent national or international group (e.g. NIH or CDC) inform doctors about new drugs based on their prior prescriptions, and to present the preregistered clinical trials at medical conferences just like any other research result to reach the rest.
This may come as a shock to you, but educating the consumer is not the primary purpose of advertising.
Ableton put together a nice website for just this: https://learningmusic.ableton.com/
Not only that, the people who say that fail to realize that population control will simply replace a housing crisis with a demographic crisis. We're going to need a lot of people to care for the aging boomers as they enter their retirement years. The boomers don't realize that one of the groups most hurt by their policies will be themselves.
Someone walking in with 40L of gasoline is not something that fire prevention measures really take into consideration.
Or... maybe we should use the built in webcam to determine the age of the user watching the video and use that to target ads. This could be a very effective solution. /sarcasm

We simultaneously what internet companies to do exactly the right thing but don't want to allow them to collect the data needed to do that right thing. It is an ironic behavior I notice in the tech community.
Its kind of funny how they just added a European Commission fines row on their income statement.
Roll it out in say Rugby, ND and you'll even have an Empire Builder stop right there, with service to Seattle, Portland, Spokane, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Milwaukee, and Chicago!
> AT&T's total number of video subscribers dropped from 25.4 million in Q2 2108 to 22.9 million in Q2 2019.

If they've hiked the prices by at least 10% in preceding years without losing many customers then they're about even terms of revenue and may be more profitable
That’s called a pro forma P&L and perfectly reasonable.
It's not an absolute advantage, it's just an advantage for some use cases. I certainly wouldn't mind a better build system that didn't make it less advantageous, but it's a hard problem...
Considering everything surrounding .Net Core alone, is as significant as most "open source" companies tend to release. They've commit a lot of resources into open source. I wouldn't call them an open source company, but a software & services company.

They've largely open-sourced what could be considered common place pieces with lots of competition, while keeping some secret sauce, and advancing their rental models (azure, o365, etc).
If it is simply a disinformation campaign, then why hasn't that disinformation campaign been waged more equally across different countries? Even if the US is one of the largest markets to maintain, surely there would also be great value in eroding the European consensus.

I'd argue that the overriding moderator is culture, with global warming being much more inconvenient for the car-based consumption treadmill.

> There is a reason the rest of the world (in places with worse problems than in USA)

It's not about real problems that people directly struggle with, but rather political "problems" that mass media turns into a divisive frenzy.
You 'sell' or 'gift' the rights to all groundwater in a suitably defined watershed and that controlling entity sets prices (and at least partially enforces their rights). The controlling entity could be a government organization. A private organization would need either some kind of cooperative police apparatus (with the ability to detect, and stop, violations of the controlling entity's rights to the groundwater).
Because someone is going to have to care for an aging population. You can look at Japan for what happens when you have zero or negative population growth.
That's definitely true, but I suspect that when you filter down to postpaid unlimited data plans (likely the customers with the highest margins), the iPhone's share of the market increases considerably.
Firefox:

>JSON.stringify(1n)
TypeError: BigInt value can't be serialized in JSON

Chrome:

>JSON.stringify(1n)
Uncaught TypeError: Do not know how to serialize a BigInt
at JSON.stringify (<anonymous>)
at <anonymous>:1:6

I don't think we're quite there yet.
Honestly, the trippiest thing to me, is that European Commission fines being marked as an ordinary expense line (and likely one that will be used more in the future), they really are making it clear that violating the law and paying the fines for doing so is really just part of ordinary business to them. And obviously, the fines clearly aren't punitive enough to encourage them to revise this behavior.
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Seems simple: what are they willing to pay for a completely boring just-the-facts advertisement, the sort of thing you’d see in the classifieds? If the answer isn’t “pretty much the same” then they know the glitz and bullshit is critical.
This seems to be what happened with Apple's acquisition of Primesense, the originators of the old Xbox360 Kinect sensor.
There I was, thinking I was the only one.

It's insane. When I first got here from the east coast, I thought maybe there was some reason involving earthquake codes. And then I learned.

I used to live in NYC, a city that's had its own difficulties adding new housing, corruption in the permitting process, considering too many areas "historic." But the Bay Area is something completely different. It seems that everyone who already owns a single family home is strongly in favor of pulling up the ladder.

Perhaps too much money is riding on the existing "market value" of homes here. If zoning restrictions were relaxed, could house prices collapse? Proposition 13 can't be helping, either.
Disclaimer: Working on neuromorphic chips.

Several options available but followings are superior to others in terms of capturing the real neuron/synapse behavior with a simple and compact VLSI implementation.

For neurons: Exponential adaptive integrate and fire models @ real-time.

For synapses: STD/STP + LTP/LTD circuits @ real-time.
...unless the property owner has posted signs with the law.
Love my Volca drums. Didn't realize how many more Volca models there are! When I got it there were only 3 or 4. So tempted to buy a couple more!
I own a heavily marked copy of this book in spite of having never written a thesis. It contains great advice for any long-term research oriented endeavor. As the article points out, not only will it help you get through the slog of momentous, detailed research without collapsing, it also contains sound advice on how to clear your head and prose before communicating your results.

Eco’s recommenced note taking system also superb. It’s no surprise he was able to write so prolifically.
Paid Click revenue up, revenue per click down.
Does this indicate we are seeing more ads?
More quantity, less quality?
Hmmm...
Apple drives the bulk of application sales revenue for sure. They probably represent a large plurality of phone hardware sales. I don't think they represent a sigificant chunk of carrier revenue though. An iPhone contract doesn't make them any more money than a junky Huawei one.
I used to develop a game engine that used an embedded version of Visual Studio to allow C/C++ scripting which compiled into dlls and were hot loaded with any change. And if I recall correctly, that is exactly how the feature film compositor Shake worked: their shader language and entire node graph system is C macros and templates to disguise the fact that it's really C++, and one's compositor projects are really disguised visual studio projects.
Thank you for bringing my attention to the rPi Compute Module, I hadn't known this existed.
How about we periodically publish a big book that lists all approved drugs, their uses and side effects, and send it to every residence in the country like we (used to?) do with phone books.
> Philosophically, 4XX means the client did something wrong. Sending invalid data to a validation service is not doing something wrong.

The precise definition of 400 Bad Request is

The 400 (Bad Request) status code indicates that the server cannot or
will not process the request due to something that is perceived to be
a client error (e.g., malformed request syntax, invalid request
message framing, or deceptive request routing).

There's some room for interpretation for the phrase "process the request". If the only job of the service is to validate the request and return Valid or Invalid, then I guess yeah even an invalid request will have been processed, and 400 Bad Request may not be totally right. I think you could make a case for it! But I think you could also make a case for 200 OK with a more detailed error message and code in the body.

But if the service both validates the request and _then_ does something more substantial with it, I think 400 Bad Request is probably the most appropriate response to something that fails at step one.
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I side with the scooter companies. I think these guys are exploiting a gray area in the law and shaking down the companies, and should be stopped. GPS should be able to show it a scooter was in a legit place or not. If it was, then their argument goes out the window. It just smells too much like theft.
This is the kind of evidence I'd want to see before going along with the "we know there's nothing to see here" crowd - if this outage is completely legitimate, I'd think Google should be able to produce a list of similar outages involving non-run-of-the-mill accounts - or, do they genuinely have no attribute that would provide their algorithm with a hint as to the "class" an account falls in?
> It's being overdone.

No economist agrees with you. It's indisputable that there is a housing shortage in the Bay Area.

> It's about time for the next Bay Area recession.

Do you really want misery for the working class because you don't want to see "cheezy luxury condos" along the tracks?

> Some of those buildings will never be fully occupied.

I recently bought a condo near 22nd St. and I can tell you the building filled up very quickly. With real residents, not foreign investors.
I would argue housing reaching the current prices is not good for the overall economy because it creates unreasonable pressure on people who aren't in the tech industry and still have a reason to live in the Bay Area. First, this makes it unreasonably difficult to stay in the region you grew up in unless you get into the top end of the local income brackets. Second, it makes it unreasonably difficult for all kinds of important and necessary, but lower paid, workers to live in the area. A city of nothing but high-end tech workers, with no teachers, police, firefighters, etc. would not be a very nice place to live.

As far as the "optimal amount of new housing," why not just match the number of new households moving into a region? That seems like a good place to start.
Well the private insurance is indeed a problem if the insured cohort gets old, i.e., all the clients that signed up for a certain insurance product in around the same time frame, and when it is cheapest: mostly at age 25-40. After a while, the clients get older and the product becomes more expensive for the clients, and won’t attract new clients anymore. Then, all remaining clients become old „together“, hence the old aged themselves need to share ever raising costs.
> In other words, the rest of the world will starve because of us

I think that when it comes to total impact on the ability of the rest of the world to feed itself, the US is probably pretty far in the black. Yes the contribution to climate change is negative, but the Green Revolution [0] is almost certainly very, very positive. Improved agricultural tech, including GMO crops, have fed a lot of people around the world.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution
Even their name: Stripe ~ Fyipe... geez. That's bad.
Most YouTube climate change videos 'oppose the consensus view'
That's not a reasonable comparison. A more realistic one would be to tax anything that pollutes the air to compensate for the cost of purifying it. Which is a great idea.
I thought surface rights and water rights were already unbundled in a lot of US states.

Rain barrels are/were illegal in a lot of US areas because you didn’t own the water that landed on your property.
Perhaps the brain is an antenna. No matter how much you simulate an antenna your simulation will never give you a nice TV signal.
People have been promising artificial intelligence since 1956 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_workshop
Quarterly income tax rates are particularly not very interesting, they're prone to all sorts of blips.

Their 2018 income tax rate was 11% for the year. $4.1b in income taxes and $34.9b in pre-tax income.

In 2016 it was 19%. In 2015 it was 16.8%. In 2014 it was 21%.
It says if they have posted signs with the law, they can contact the police to issue a ticket (and tow, presumably). The formatting is a bit messed up, but you are required to both have the signs, and contact the police, you can't just tow it without calling the police, and require the owner to pay for the tow.
I just signed up with AT&T for fiber internet. I'm one of the lucky ones. $73 a month including taxes for 1000 meg up and down. Unfortunately it's like pick your poison, do you pay Comcast or AT&T. I've got a dish on my house, I'll never use it. I'd take it down if it wasn't so high up.
Totally read it the same way. Was let down a bit
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As a Brazilian, I'm trying to imagine the logistical costs of running any type of large scale export oriented agriculture business in the Amazon. There is no railroad, no paved roads, no electricity, no workforce (human density is lower than 1 per square Km, let alone work aged humans), nothing. There's a lot of dense forest and water. Feeding cattle in large scale must be a huge expensive challenge in the Amazon region. Processing meat and moving it to ports, an insanely expensive work due to the lack of basic infrastructure. On the flip side, there are other regions in the country with at least 3 decades of accumulated expertise in animal protein production for the international market, good infrastructure, including proximity to sea ports. I don't see how a serious globally competitive animal protein group could make the decision to run business in such an isolated infra deprived area. It would be like someone from the Silicon Valley deciding to run a tech business in Antarctica for the sole reason the datacenter could be kept cooler at a lower cost using what nature has to offer in abundance in that region: cold weather. Amazon offers cheap land and water (period), but that is not enough to make a profitable animal protein business.
Weird, I'd say "pro-dictator." That kinda jives with anti-war, depending on which war you're talking about, though, I suppose.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/26/tulsi-gabbar...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/06/politics/tulsi-gabbard-syria-...
I mean, if we're being cynical, you say the second so that people feel comfortable with the first. If you can convince suburbanites that you won't put up a skyscraper next door, you'll have an easier time putting up a 5-story apartment building. Or so my thinking goes, anyway.
I suppose that’s true of many things. I already recognized it from performing music, but the athletic experience had escaped me until this topic came up.
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Desal works fine, but uses a lot of energy. With ever cheaper solar panels, there will soon be a point where it makes sense to power a desal plant on just solar power.

But there is still the small matter of the salt that is left over. There is so much salt on this planet that no one wants it. You could dump it back in the ocean, but wherever you do so becomes too salty, which would be really bad if you dump it back right where you're doing your desalinization.

Which means we either need to ship it to the middle of the ocean (which maybe you can do with autonomous solar powered boats) or you need to figure out some other use for all that salt.
Your conclusion makes no sense. Google had an obligation to report these fines. How else would they had done that ?
"The planet is fine."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHgJKrmbYfg
I can't help but think that EU situation has helped Google. A flood of new regulation just keeps entrenching them by killing off any potential upstarts that could compete in Europe.
Something worth a million of these types of comments would be a single comment finding a topic nobody could make such a comment on. These things pretty much boil down to "don't celebrate because nothing is pure good".
You’re being down voted, but you raise a valid point. We are helpless. Even our first world governments are helpless to save the amazon. It’s just so damn sad.
MCM is a old trick in the toolkit, eg Intel x86 and POWER chips have used it on and off over the years, as have various game consoles. The downside is the cost and complexity of packaging, and the power required for inter-module communication. Many of the past usages have been to closely couple a die from a DRAM process and another die from a logic process. It's not obvious that MCMs are becoming more popular on average in the future.
I personally have found the following blog posts extremely helpful in learning about MQTT: https://www.hivemq.com/tags/mqtt-essentials/

Also, the spec is actually pretty readable: http://docs.oasis-open.org/mqtt/mqtt/v3.1.1/os/mqtt-v3.1.1-o...

Note: I'm not affiliated with HiveMQ.