skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are missing the point here and thinking too much about pay per impression. Professional ad buyers don't measure their ad effectiveness in "people reached". That is for chumps who want to be ripped off, and large companies that have too much to burn on their marketing departments.

The people who use ads effectively are buying pay per click and measuring the real conversions to measure effectiveness. Bots don't buy the products after they click through, but the real clicks often do. (For some categories you can get as high as 10% conversion rate to a real sale from real clicks that you buy because ad targeting on platforms like Facebook and Amazon is really, really good. If your ad is good and your product is good then the ad targeting will get your ad in front of the right people a lot of the time.)

If you are smart you don't pay for impressions, you pay for clicks and conversions, and you measure how many of those clicks convert into sales to make sure you are coming out net positive. Sure there are always going to be some fake clicks but there are still enough real clicks that convert to make it worth it. A bit of click fraud is just the cost of doing business.

Lets say I'm selling a product that has a 20% profit margin. I might be willing to pay up to 10% of my profit margin on ads if the increased number of real conversions that result will more than double my sales, allowing me to make more money overall than I would have otherwise.

There are definitely a lot of people out there who are foolishly wasting money on buying impressions, but there are also tons of people making ludicrous amounts of money from well targeted ads that convert into increased sales of their product
From the proof:

"The episode of The Big Bang Theory that contained the discussion about 73, was actually the 73rd of the series!"
BI = Business Intelligence
Not sure if where you were serviced, but Apple Store Amsterdam is terrible. It has devolved to another Leidseplein tourist trap: if you don't plan to spend money, you're wasting their time. For any serious issues, I take the bus to Apple Store Haarlem, which I've found to have friendlier service.
When I click on the plan with the first week free, it asks me to pay. How do I access the free week without paying?
Assuming that there was in fact shrinking, could that be caused by being in a warm climate for an extended period of time? Studies have shown that heat affects cognitive ability, but has anyone ever studied if there’s a temporary efect on brain size?
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...
Also because multiplayer games are easy to implement dodgy monetisation methods in. Few people would consider paying for lootboxes/microtransactions/whatever in a single player game, whereas a decent percentage (unfortunately) would for a multiplayer one. By comparison, DLC for a single player game is often more effort and a one off deal.
And this is the sort of thing GDPR is meant to prevent. Unless you explicitly allow it (and a popup checked by default doesn't count), Google cannot use that data for purposes other than providing you with positioning information.
This should start to be tracked.

I caught Aldi advertising with Reddits frugal board.

Young accounts, lots of Aldi Love.

That marketing company has gotten better.

I find it awful HN mods won't let this be discussed. Is HN manipulated? Why wouldn't it be?
HackerNews has no DM feature. You'll need to make your email address public in the 'about' section of your profile for others to see.
What is it like inside? Is it videos, content pages or some soft of interactive tutorials?
I am absolutely confident that you couldn’t tell I’m self-taught if you worked with me.

All the stuff that your CS degree taught you is also possible to learn by reading books.
The Creators of Pegasus Have Access to the Cloud of Facebook,Google,Apple,Amazon
https://www.ft.com/content/95b91412-a946-11e9-b6ee-3cdf3174eb89
14) The USAF has discovered that there are insurmountable problems that have prevented the development of effective autonomous systems. Therefore they have declined to invest in technology that isn't working.
That equation is a theoretical one. On the whole, jobs that offer high $/hr will mandate crazy hours. Jobs that will allow you to go 20 hr/wk, or 10 hr/wk will usually not pay you well on a per-hour basis either. -- I predict that in response to what I just wrote, there will be people showing off about how they managed to make a consulting lifestyle business like that actually work because of how awesome they are. -- But keep in mind they are the exception, not the rule.
Well, different kids are different. It was a lot of work, but eventually I convinced my kid that a) we were on the same team so rules were more for everyones' quality of life than just harassment, b) I knew more than they did so my feedback on what they should do was useful to them, and (importantly) c) "rules lawyering" was just as risky as simply breaking rules.
Ads that "work" are more a case of "can we show numbers that the people upstairs will consider ok?" than "can we prove these ads have contributed to our bottom line?".

The old "I know half of what I spend on advertising is wasted but the problem is I don't know which half" still applies, despite all the promises of digital advertising.
Cashflow is an unavoidable and often difficult lesson to learn. Not a bad idea at all to have a simple version like this going from basically the beginning.
I've seen this posted several places. It's a bit of a clickbaity title because it sounds like a quote. As far as I can tell, it can't be attributed to him.

The exact quote is:

"Some argue that, to achieve at best a slight incremental improvement in security, it is worth imposing a massive cost on society in the form of degraded safety"

I'm purely making a statement on the article title.
Hackers Dump 7.5TB of FSB Secrets
Ghost.

I come from Hugo (hosted on S3 or Netlify) but it doesn’t scale once non technical people enter the company.

Also, I wear so many hats at my company every thing that makes writing and publishing great content easier is worth it.

I really, really love Ghost.
You are describing advances in semiconductor performance whereas the person you are responding to has in mind things like new programming languages, libraries and frameworks, many of which we cannot even confidently say are advances at all.
Once it becomes clear to non specialists that AGI is possible, and possibly imminent, that greatly changes the equation, though. This isn't a technology like any other.

Why wouldn't governments and other groups just seize the prototype? You'd have a hot-potato on your hands and figuring out how to survive might be your biggest concern. Like imagine you suddenly came into possession of a trillion dollars in bearer bonds. If that leaks out, people will come after you, not just by legal means.

All of this skews the calculus towards immediate public disclosure, rather than trying to gain advantage by delaying release.

EDIT> Or going first, and attempting to neutralize all possible competitors. This is a terrible calculus.
Am I the only one who finds such anecdotes to start a news story to be a massive turnoff?
But that's exactly the kind of employee that most businesses want: interchangeable bricklayers.

I get that getting good developers and facilitating good code requires incentives, but this is usually at odds with the perspective of business owners, which is that employees are both a liability and an asset. Lousy developers are (seemingly) low-liability and good assets because they can make it work for cheap and, if something goes wrong in the future because of all the spaghetti code, that's when you can hire the good developers to come clean up the mess.
> As the waitress approached the table, Sam Altman held up his phone. That made it easier to see the dollar amount typed into an investment contract he had spent the last 30 days negotiating with Microsoft.

> “$1,000,000,000,” it read.

Wow, Sam Altman sounds like an asshole.
“Some argue that, to achieve at best a slight incremental improvement in security, it is worth imposing a massive cost on society in the form of degraded safety,”

And I expect some would argue that the "slight incremental" and "massive" are incorrectly placed in that statement.
I'd be interested to know, too. I interpret that statement, personally, to be more along the lines of "maintaining my employability (in this industry)."

Maybe upbringing / background plays a significant factor here? I watched both of my parents very unceremoniously lose their job-for-life jobs and nearly everything along with it.

My primary motivation, then, to stay abreast of the industry, to pursue new skills/technologies/challenges, things that I would put under the label of "opportunities for professional growth," has (not entirely, but for the most part) little to do with the amount that I'm paid (considering that I perceive myself to be paid well) and everything to do with maintaining a recurring paycheck until I'm retirement age.
It's possible the OP is thinking from a consulting or contract perspective, because my experience is in line with yours - as my salary grows, so does my sphere of influence, but also my scope of responsibility, and that usually has meant more time investment.

The thing that's interesting though, is on the consulting side, as my rates and overall project cost have increased, the time investment to close a sale has also gone up. Meanwhile, if you go for a more expensive & specialized skillset, there's also a time investment on the marketing & outreach front.

Basically, in my experience, there's a small handful of people who've managed to carve out a niche where they can work low hours and make a high hourly rate, but they're few and far between, and investing in passive income streams is really the way to go.

That said, I _really hate_ managing rental properties instead of slinging code, but in terms of dollar per hour there's no comparison.
We aren’t talking about how it is, we’re talking about how it should be. Banning short selling would remove the ability to hedge a large long position and would remove a necessary check on overvalued companies by providing an incentive to predict their collapse. Short selling serves an important role in the markets and banning it would be overkill and counter productive.
@dang

This is flame bait.
What Does Your Work Truck Say About You? (2015)
You are conflating “having a CS degree” with “learning CS”.

You don’t need a professor to tell you what books to read. You can just read them.
I like to think of it as there being two aspects to software engineering: there's the abstraction side, and then there's the craft side. CS graduates tend to be heavily weighted toward the abstraction side, and weak at the craft. Self-taught ones are weighted the other way around.
The emphasis there is on the expensive though.

How many really well laid out kitchens have you been in, where you have adequate prep space, and the fridge, cooker and sink are in sensible positions?

Kitchens are generally designed to look nice, not be practical unfortunately.
Sure, it's ok, but she's compromising on the best resource for advancing her programming ability: her team.

I learned a lot from my coworkers that I couldn't have learned at school or internet. The author of the comment looked like she is passionate for programming, so I think she could be much happier with coworkers who she can look up to and learn from.
It's a pity they use pie charts to show off their software. At least the don't show them in 3D. (And just to make it clear: there is no use case where pie charts are the best solution. At best they are an acceptable solution.)
Not the OP but I am another non-CS degree person.

I got into this stuff in early high-school, and those were just "intro to C++" books.

The book that kind of changed my life (and a bunch of other people's as well) is one I bought when I was 19 called "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" (SICP for short). It's a bit heavy, but if you know the basics of programming it's not too difficult. This book really teaches you a lot of fundamentals of software, and to me is the must-have book in compsci, and it's available for free of MIT's website.

Then I just went on ebay and looked up "discrete math textbooks" and "discrete structures textbooks", and bought a few of the cheaper ones.

Then I started finding individual topics that interested me, which largely dealt with distributed computing, weird abstract math, and video processing. For that, I bought the book "Programming Distributed Computing Systems" by Varela, "Certified Programming with Dependent Types" by Chlipala, and random books on Fourier Transforms from eBay.

This is over the course of a few years, and it was intermixed with about a million different blogs and tutorials to get me better. I've found if you stick with the more "theory-heavy" languages like Coq, Idris, or Haskell, you end up picking up a lot more of the compsci concepts that you might learn in school, just because there aren't a million people constantly yelling "OMG YOU DON'T NEED MATH FOR <insert language here>".
> no such thing as true end to end on common cell phones.

Hardly the only application though, is it?
I think there's nothing wrong with a moderator trying to stop too many threads being created with the same criticism (thanks dang!), but names of things can be very important from a branding/marketing perspective. If people can feel free to criticize other business/design decisions, I see no reason why they shouldn't be allowed to criticize names.
It also falls into the trap of treating the most common definition as the only one. When you look up left/right in here, you'll find positioning, but nothing about liberal/conservative opinions or a legal guarantee (the right to X) or departing (he left the train station).
Critically Examining the Neural Hype in Search and Information Retrieval
This is a go to point for me whenever I discuss how women in technology can make a substantial impact in the code base.
In a perverse way, this is progress: At least the false premise of "we can have both secure encryption and key escrow" has finally been dropped and Barr is making the more blunt assertion that the need for eavesdropping outweighs all other needs in cybersecurity.
The truth is spaghetti works better for the ever changing requirement. After awhile the product gets rewritten.
Sometimes we need to look at the second-order effects of something to decide whether it is moral or not.
There's a ton of truth to that. A lot of people speak like everyone wants to be a 10x engineer. Personally, being that sort of engineer has never appealed to me, and the majority of developers in my social circle in practice want to be the "bricklayers" of code because it's already a sweet financial deal.
No but there's a good argument there in terms of priorities.

What is more likely to impact you negatively: Google building an internal profile based on your information and targeting ads based on it or your card information being stolen from insecure smaller vendors?

Obviously those 2 choices are picked arbitrarily but they may explain why the OP chose to prefer the former over the latter. I would think every time we decide to share some of our information we do so because we stand to gain something (otherwise why do it) and it's up to us to decide if what we stand to lose is worth it. As technically minded people we tend to be more focused on technical problems and what we consider more dangerous may be more related to our familiarity with the subject matter rather than the objective potential negative impact it has.
The Edge of the Petri Dish
"Not to pile on, but" ️
Good decision!
Because almost all advertising is inherently harmful.

'UnFleshedOne described what I meant in a parallel comment.
What makes you think the idea is significant enough to get “millions in publicity”, etc.?

He’s not claiming he invented cold fusion, just something that would be an iterative step in improving the state of the art, probably worth one paper in a decent but not super prestigious journal. Where do you get the idea that it’s worth a free Ph.D, fame and fortune, and all that?
Based on the terms of their warranty, your experience is an exception. Even after paying $299 for AppleCare+, you should've had to pay an additional $299 for the repair. Anyone who bases a purchase decision on this type of anecdote is just asking to get screwed.

On the other hand, the service I mentioned from Dell is part of their standard warranty, included with every new (and refurbished) computer.
It's as if they want to find ways to do this without 1 or 2.
If you follow the next few quotes from him in the article, the article title sounds accurate.
I was all geared up to play devil's advocate here, but any response I could formulate seemed to distill down to data being extremely powerful, and so undermined the thesis.

Still though, if Facebook has solved the "50% of my ad spend works, I just don't know which 50%" issue for companies like Mercedes Benz and Coca Cola then that would be mighty impressive.
True, but I'm looking at it more over the course of a lifetime. If I need $X to cover all expenses in my lifetime then I need to work $X/Y hours where Y is my earnings per hour. This is a bit oversimplified if you include savings and investment but in general is how I look at it.
> Getting a degree is the best chance you have to becoming good at it. You can still be creative this way.

I think you're going to see these kinds of arguments made ('Don't attend University. Learn [x] instead/on your own.') and each day the argument is going to hold more merit. The university industrial complex continues to expand and become ever more out of reach for a large section of the population, or worse: it's becoming more and more fiscally irresponsible for most people to attend higher education, taking on the mountains of debt necessary to make it possible.

So the sensational stories of survivorship bias about the one-off people making exorbitant amounts of money can definitely go... but a university degree is becoming more and more impractical, and I expect it to get much worse.
I remember discovering MP3s. My computer at the time could run Winamp and play music, but not do anything else (like web browsing) at the same time.
The point is that the CIA is not going to fund companies out of the kindness of their heart.

They saw Google as useful in the wider intelligence and soft-power framework of the USA. Basically Google's success would further the USA's interests along with the interests of their intelligence agencies.

I think recent history has proven them to have been spot on.
Agreed!

I swear by this type of cash-flow-pro-forma. It becomes a model for the business that you can share with anyone involved in the business (or would like to be involved).

In some ways it becomes my simulation engine for the business. There are ways to alter the basic sheet for different purposes, but here are my basic add-ons or differences from the sendwithses.com version.

My sheet has:

* Metrics section at the top. This CAN be dollars or units, but it can also be non-accounting metrics that are key indicators of health or risk a project faces. Like foot traffic, downloads, hours of sleep...

* Assumptions at the BOTTOM of each month - that way you have room tell the story of the changes between months. If you plan to have radio / podcast interview in July on a particularly appropriate show with an audience that should LOVE your widget, then plan for it and note that in the assumptions for that month.

* Another column between months that expresses either formulaic or raw changes for that month. Meaning, 100 more widgets or 10% more widgets. If the change is exceptional, an explanation is written up in the assumption section at the bottom of the month - see above.

* A column for Month Actual. At a glance you know what is happening. You can go nuts and add a percentage difference or just a percentage difference and skip the Actual column.

* And a column for difference between Month Actual and Month Projected.

At first you'll want to hide the change (or delta) column and historical months, but depending which hat you are wearing when you use the sheet, you'll want to show and hide different things.

Everyone in the company / project should have their own, but there should be only one master sheet.

So glad atanpur shared this...in the thousands of clients I've had, this sheet had more impact than anything else. Whether they were kids or MBA smarty pants. Build one of these and you get to play out any scenario you like. You can share this with almost anyone - taking them on the tour for the first time is really fun.
Is this a more effective tactic, in expectation, than working a well-paid job at an established company and then going to Vegas every year to bet a decent chunk of your salary?
Can we stop with this “we hire only the best programmers?”

You are probably not the best company so stop trying to hire the best programmers.

It’s like the fat, ugly, jobless guy that only dates accomplished super models.
https://gizmodo.com/report-nso-groups-pegasus-spyware-can-br...
https://add0n.com/chrome-reader-view.html

I've been using it for a while and it seems to be solid.
a) to be fair, this homeless person punched them in the face
b) the organization does medical research, not work with the homeless. It just happens to be that the victim was walking on their property when a homeless person who was also passing by punched them in the face. The victim was indeed hurt and needed to go to the hospital. But the president of the organization felt that someone getting punched on the sidewalk (which is in an urban area... we're not talking a large property) was unfortunate, but not something his org should be responsible for. However, the insurance company didn't want to deal with the lawsuit, so they settled.
I find 10 hours at high cost easier to sell than 80 hours at a high cost most want to pay for 25 of thoses hours.
" US diplomats' brains were shrunk by sonic attacks at Cuban embassy, study finds " - that is not at all what the study has found. What a terrible and misleading title for an article. Talk about pointing fingers...
It is pretty good cereal, though. Way better than some of those bland, mushy quick oats.
As far as chargers go, new ones are being added all the time, and in 5 years max you will find them everywhere, including a lot of apartment building parking lots.
If I understand correctly, one of the limitations of doing application level failure injection with Gremlin is that you need to integrate it into your code: https://www.gremlin.com/docs/application-layer/installation/

It might be interesting to combine these approaches and use a traffic split to send a percentage of traffic to Gremlin instead of integrating into the code directly.
I'd just as soon not accept those risks, thanks.
> I think 25% of our Dell motherboards broke in the spring of 2006 because of a batch of bad capacitors

The capacitor plague. Pretty much everybody in the industry was hit by that to at least some extent:

> "Major vendors of motherboards such as Abit,[9] IBM,[1] Dell,[10] Apple, HP, and Intel[11] were affected by capacitors with faulty electrolytes. In 2005, Dell spent some US$420 million replacing motherboards outright and on the logistics of determining whether a system was in need of replacement.[12][13] Many other equipment manufacturers unknowingly assembled and sold boards with faulty capacitors, and as a result the effect of the capacitor plague could be seen in all kinds of devices worldwide. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague#Prevalence
This is not what he said. You can read his speech here: https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-william-...

TC piece takes a way to harsh stance. He made some good points in there.