skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gotcha. I'd take a little time and do the Google tutorials and go through some of videos that have been put out by Google and others on this topic. Years back I built a marketing platform that would manage people's ads across Facebook, Google amongst others and help them deal with the remarketing and retargeting spend. Our whole team learned a lot from going back through the Google tutorials and videos, even the people who had been doing it for years. Not that those resources are everything, but if you are starting without a lot of background knowledge it will help you get up to speed quick.

Facebook is similar, go through the examples and tutorials they have. In our case, we learned Facebook ads garnered the most clicks/traffic but had the worst conversion rates of almost every other medium we used. But for games that might not be the case, I'd still guess the conversion off Facebook is going to be lower than others but it maybe better than for services and even ecommerce.

One of the things we figured out was a lot can be learned by what Google/Facebook etc don't say in their documentation/tutorials as much as what they do. Also make sure you pay a lot of attention to the landing pages as SEO is not dead. Landing pages for ads are critical to conversion and ranking IME.

Good luck in the new role! Sounds fun and exciting, as well as maybe a bit terrifying. :)
Can you elaborate on some of these books you are referring to? I'm a self taught developer in his first real, institutional engineering role and I am worried I'm in over my head sometimes and would love to read some "must haves".
Is the ad industry ever going to say that mass-data collection doesn't work?

They're always going to say it works.
I:

- Wish I drove for Lyft

- Lived in Chicago

- Had gotten him as a passenger

After 10-15 miles I would have said "So Mr. Scalzi, I'm going to need you to tell me what the Perry family is up to. Go ahead, I'll give you a few minutes to contemplate, but then you'd better get to telling me" then I'd have also inquired about the next in the Collapsing Empire series.

Joking aside, I'm curious to see more from the driver. What did you think when you accepted the fare curbside aside from "I like long trips"? Did you stay at the destination for a night or immediately drive back? If you have a partner were they a bit upset? What's it like driving a stranger for 5 hours?
There are a couple problems with your view of the US:

* Since the invention of the H-bomb, nuclear powers have had the ability to knock out all fixed silos in a first strike. You don't need accuracy with a 10MT bomb. As accuracy improves, warheads get smaller, but the MAD calculus doesn't change: You can't guarantee you'll take out all the submarine, mobile, and airborne weapons too. Accuracy doesn't change anything.

* The US is not a dictatorship and the president doesn't have the ability to unilaterally start nuclear war. Hell, he can't even assassinate a foreign head of state[1]. While I'm not thrilled with this particular president, I am confident that the democratic institutions of the US make nuclear first strike impossible.

There are a couple problems with your view of Iran:

* Iran and Iraq have been fighting since they were named Persia and Mesopotamia. Long before the official start of the Iran-Iraq war, both were funding and encouraging insurgent groups in the other. Khomeini openly called for the overthrow of Saddam via Islamic revolution. It doesn't matter who attacked first.

* Iran spent more than half of the Iran-Iraq war on the offensive in Iraqi territory. When they had power, they pressed their advantage. Khomeini spoke openly about spreading Islamic revolution everywhere, which is probably why all the neighboring nations lined up behind Iraq. The US was a tiny bit player; all Iraq's hardware came from the Soviets and all the money came from neighboring Arab states like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait (the joke would be on them later, apparently).

* Khomeini himself didn't want peace, even after 10 years of war: "Happy are those who have departed through martyrdom. Happy are those who have lost their lives in this convoy of light. Unhappy am I that I still survive and have drunk the poisoned chalice..."

There's almost nothing positive you can say about Iran's dictators since the Islamic revolution (and probably long before). Theocracies with martyr complexes must not be allowed to have nuclear weapons.

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+mattis+assad

Also read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Iraq_War
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Because then I need a way of giving you my key that doesn’t give the bad guy the key.
Or the government. All you need to do is:

a.) Be able to pass a drug test

b.) Not have any problematic debts or associations with problematic groups (e.g. Aryan Nation, ISIS)

c.) Have a certification or degree that is related to the very specific thing they are asking for.

It's entirely clearing a checklist when they're recruiting. They have no idea how to evaluate for actual competence.
Without encryption backdoors, how will you know if people are illegally using high-strength encryption? Everything must be decrypted on demand to determine if illegal cryptography is being used.
I'm not hiding, I'm just not exposing myself. It's a matter of perspective.

More significantly, you are understating and trivializing the kind of information that many services force us to expose. If you share your buying history, that may reveal locations, your movements, your schedule, etc. What a set of data reveals is not up to the one the data is from, but the one analyzing it. For you it is mundande, for them it is enough.
Yeah - now. Not back when win2k3 was in use.
Here's the link to the original paper, which focuses on mapping a vast empty region of the universe right next to our galaxy:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.08329

The video is a great example of how to present complex volumetric data, and probably of interest to the data scientists on HN.
It's useful to have a master key that decrypts everything. For each message that means encrypting for two keys - the recepient and the master key.

The obvious drawback being the huge damage when a master key is inevitably leaked.
This is much cleaner than Greenspan’s article
In my experience, people still regularly flash high beams to indicate that someone has left their high beams on. I have found this to be just as true now as it was 20 years ago, when started driving.

I would be curious to know if others have different experiences. Seems to me that people still know what this signal means, and typically turn off their high beams immediately.

For context, most of my driving has been in northern California, but I've also lived in LA and the east coast.
LinkedIn Is Migrating to Microsoft Azure
Small correction, it's ALWAYS been hard to be a mid-sized software company. We were constantly talking about the 5 or so companies that reached 5B with software only. They are rare birds indeed. Red Hat didn't make it without getting bought... (full disclosure, I work at Red Hat)
I'm afraid even Senator Ron Wyden misunderstands it. It isn't that we give them the "power" to break encryption, its that we fundamentally weaken it. We must build the encryption with tissue paper in order to let a person walk through it.
City incentives are very directly driven by the people who live there. Municipal elections, and city council meetings, are the closest thing to direct democracy that you'll probably experience in your life.

The problem with direct democracy is that the people who have the most time to waste (or the most money at stake) on playing politics are the ones who show up. It's also why your HOA is probably governed by a hand-picked selection of devils from the Fifth Circle of Hell.
1. You are profiting - you get all the apps and content for free.

2. > Underrepresented groups for a particular analysis could pay more, because those groups' data is rarer. A straight, white, male techie is probably a saturated market, so I wouldn't generate much, but a Hispanic woman's could be more valuable.

Audience size doesn't equate well to cost of data. Buying power is most correlated thing to data cost. In this fantasy, rich white techy males earn more money form their data, and a hispanic woman earns very little.
You definitely have the blender look down.

Looks really nice. Will certainly take a look. Independent of data visualization, I could imagine it being great for general business workflows like some classic flow engines tried to model, but failed to give control to users.
Well there are clearly multiple denominations of this death cult. How else would each denomination justify their funding, if not to prevent the wrong denomination from making offerings.
Wouldn't data of opt-in users only be less valuable to bounty hunters, since their targets would opt out much more than the other population?
Cash tolls cost more. You either need people stationed to collect the toll or send people every so often to collect the tolls from the machines. The machines would also need more maintenance than the camera or EasyPass system because they're mechanical. You also need the camera system regardless in case someone drives through without paying or simply doesn't have cash on hand. Plus, people will need exact change or have the machine (or employees) return the correct change if it's not a coinage machine. This also means cash tolls are slower and cause more congestion. Finally, fewer and fewer people have cash on hand.
https://www.usds.gov/apply

https://18f.gsa.gov/join/
He should accept the risk of giving everyone his house keys to show he's serious.
I'm self-taught, but the thing about being self-taught is that I enjoy learning. Not like whatever some random person says "I enjoy learning" in a job interview, but actually enjoy it such that I've taught myself proficiency in a few different fields. One of the things I decided early on was that I didn't like the thing that is always implied when people say "self-taught" and so over the years I've procured the services of 300-400-level and postgrad tutors of the fields I'm interested in (CS, math, and molecular bio) to help "fill in the holes". It's admittedly a bit weird approaching someone to tutor you without actually being enrolled somewhere, and of course you need to be located near a university, but this has been so helpful for me that I highly recommend this to any of my fellow autodidacts. If you do a little shopping, you can find amazing tutors that won't cost very much at all (and I dunno if it's normal to tip tutors, but I'm a big tipper in general and this has always paid big dividends).
> If they are treaties with tax havens, places used purposefully for those reasons

"Tax haven" is an ambiguous term. Double taxation treaties exist so investments aren't taxed twice, once at the origin and again at the destination. The Indian-Mauritian treaty mostly covers capital gains, and in that way is similar to most such treaties.

The principal benefit of jurisdictions like Mauritius, the Cayman Islands, Delaware or Singapore is less to reduce taxes than to simplify them. Indian taxes are wonky and volatile. Indian courts are slow and expensive. Going through Mauritius lets an international investor finance projects in India while abstracting away a lot of cruft.
How to Fight Against the Assault on Cryptocurrency Privacy with OpenBazaar
Stories about bills that haven't passed yet are mostly fluff, because most proposed bills never go anywhere. This is a story about a bill that hasn't even been introduced yet. That makes it an announcement of an announcement, the gold standard of offtopicness.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22announcement%20of%20an%20an...
Hire database developers.
Self-study isn't exactly nothing. I do find that there are a lot of people, especially web developers, who don't understand a lot of the basics, or even the language they're using.

I got into development from doing design work, also self taught back in the 90's. I wanted to do something... spent a very rapid weekend learning JS from a very large book, then applied what I needed the next monday. Spent the next weekend finishing that book and the next month swallowing three other large books on the subject (two more on JS, one on HTML). From there was VB5 then Access & VBA... then I started working as a developer. From there I learned more about databases and data structures, dabbled in C/C++ then circled around to VB6 when it came out. From there around the end of 2001 (after 9/11) I was unemployed and no jobs to be found. While crashing at a friend's house I learned C# with the command line compiler and another large book (didn't have VS). Since then more databases and db types, more C# and when it came out Node.js (had done a lot of classic ASP in JS along the way too).

I spent about 5 years working in eLearning, writing simulations of systems for learning/training as well as courseware. Really enjoyed that time in my life as I was constantly taking in domain knowledge as well as a very varied environment. Unfortunately after a while all the context switching and constant intake took a toll and I took a few more boring jobs doing corporate/banking work.

In any case, you'd be surprised how much you can learn without a formal education, or anything really structured at all. To this day I tend to take in new stuff rapidly and get bored once I've figured out the hard parts. Currently working on learning Rust and Kubernetes, short break on rust as the async syntax gets implemented and settles in.
I've asked people at companies I work for. I've asked people at companies I've invested in. So in those cases, I already signed all the legal documents and NDAs.

I've also asked people who did it for companies after they shut down. The only thing that's obvious is nobody wants to share the data. I suspect it's because the data is not as positive as we're supposed to believe.
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It all depends on the monetary difference doing so makes. If it's significantly cheaper, then they will continue to include it for legal markets.
It's interesting that at footer of the page in hebrew it says:

אריכות ימים חברתית דרך האמת וחדשנות

"Social longevity through truth and innovation"
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Right. Last year (2018) they pledged to stop. Then didn't. Then this year they pledged again.

We'll see...

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/01/after-broken-pro...
Interestingly, you can buy similar ones on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Coby-CX-TV1-Black-White-Tuner/dp/B000...
Maybe at the expense of buying that mechanical keyboard you thought you really wanted but actually you ended up purchasing because of continued, subtle advertising?
> You and I didn't earn it.

Speak for yourself.
Totally agree, there's definitely an opportunity there if the surface area of what the system is doing gets smaller. The big difference today is that it's a lot easier to compose a debugging suite using additional tools on top of a traditional host-based runtime for now.

Definitely excited to see how the technology evolves over the next few years. It hasn't moved as fast as I'd have expected over the last 2-3 years but I'd love to see that accelerate.
In my experience most small towns big enough to have any services have a "library" that is comprised of a few rooms in the shared town hall/police/public offices building that is run by some (usually senior citizen) volunteer(s) and has a fairly poor collection of books but can get anything you want on loan as long as you don't need it that day. If they don't have a library they probably have some other "nice to have but not essential" type service that's run in the same manner. My experience is limited to the rural northeast. I suspect the rural midwest is even more likely to have libraries because of how those towns were planned out back in the day.

I think your bias is showing.
I don't have a clear opinion on the topic you wrote about (it's fascinating, but it's also controversial, and I would need to spend much more time reading many other details, to be able to have an informed, strong opinion), but if you are so convinced that this is securities fraud, wouldn't suing Facebook be an option? Have you considered it?
I was under the impression that there are a few stealth UAVs being operated currently.The Sentinel comes to mind and I think both China and Russia have working prototypes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_RQ-170_Sentine...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Okhotnik

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CASC_Rainbow#CH-7
My degree never required me to read a single academic paper
Yes. Apple, like any major US corporation, is in a fundamentally adversarial position vs their employees. The corporation seeks maximum profit at the expense of the worker and the workers seek a decent living. However, the need to extract wealth from the worker to further enrich the richest is of a greater need to a corporation than the wellbeing of the workers.

This is not unique to Apple by any means.
It should be noted that much of the problems with mmap cited there aren't actually mmap's fault, but the fact that I/O errors become POSIX signals, and the API for POSIX signals really blows. (POSIX signals are probably even more ripe than filesystems for needing a different approach).

I'm surprised that page didn't mention the other issue with mmap, which is concurrent file access.
Taking the ultimate step to guard your data would surely involve writing laws or dismantling data centers (I prefer the former). Ultimately what you opt into has little relation to what people actually know about you: you can't really opt out of credit, or out of things like Comcast requiring your social security number as identification and authorization, or out of the fact that it's become the cultural norm to accept ad-supported services as the sole access to communities.
It was all about the MAU, and that's not a GAAP metric. Evaluate the company based on your own metrics and make your own conclusions.

If this person wants to short facebook because they don't think it will maintain earnings 26 years or whatever P/E multiple it is currently trading at, that's fine.

The simple fact is that companies can grow and evolve. When Cisco got started, they sold switches. Eventually people stopped buying that switch, so they made a different one. Then they saw that people needed routers. And wifi. And teleconference.

FB is far from a static company with an unchanging platform - definitely not a ponzi scheme, unless you consider every company that funds current expenses with expected growth a ponzi scheme. I'm going to take a stance on the author; he is a nut job.
I would imagine he handed his phone over and said "put in your address".
I'm a software engineer with ~3 years of experience. I also want professional growth. Partially because I enjoy learning and growing my technical skills, partially because I want to move into more leadership roles, but a huge part of it is because I know that if I'm good, I will be paid a massive premium for it. levels.fyi sort of convinced me that being a good engineer is a life changing event for more than 1 generation. I answer questions like these as growth primarily because I know growth is an investment for my life long earning potential, and I just so happen to have a passion for growth to begin with---it's a lucky combination to be drawn to.

I'd love to see questions like this phrased to account for this:
"Opportunity for professional growth, to grow my future earning potential."
"Opportunity for professional growth, because I enjoy learning new things."
"Opportunity for professional growth, to reach a role I cannot fill with my current skills."

I know the article tried to address this with the responses, but that's sort of the default answer you give in this field. No one really says, or enjoys hearing, "I want to learn more so I can make more money".
Offer a quiet, private office. Two or more monitors. Free snacks and free lunches. Modern software stack (whatever that is).

Or full-time remote.
Here's the proof of the Sheldon Conjecture

https://math.dartmouth.edu/~carlp/sheldon022119.pdf
Are there any businesses at all that don't engage in shenanigans? It's getting very hard to find them.
My guess is this won't happen.
GPS is a one-way system. If they have your GPS data, it's because they are causing your device to transmit that data back.
You absolutely get > 2T out. Potentially up to 4T.

This is because much of the wear on your shoes does not come from steps and hitting the ground. It comes from sweat and moisture inside the shoe, and the inside of your shoe takes a REALLY long time to dry out fully.

If you wanted to extend of life of a shoe without rotating pairs you can also buy a shoe drying rack. This is what a lot of people in construction do with extensive work boots.
What is being described here is a working multi-functional town centre - a place to walk to, make necessary purchases and hang out and even eat out.

We know how to build more and more of these "town centres" - we used to find them at the centre of almost all towns. The problem is it's not something governments can do or force - it's something they allow, and don't strangle.

It's waaaaay harder.

It is what evolves naturally until it is stretched out of existence by roads and car journeys, or bored to death by same-old franchises that suck revenue back to HQ

It involves ending the nice suburban compromise ( ala StrongTowns) and that is probably a bigger change to modern Western lifestyles than almost anything.

How could we all move back into city-level densities?
Do they sell that too? Asking for myself
At the risk of sounding cynical, this is really the standard drive in all jobs: money and opportunity for more money and higher status.
But even just working for a company doesn't mean you're entitled to see business metrics?
The data is coming from government sources and is being analyzed by a UBC professor. Would you take that at face value?

>Since Hiebert’s (University of B.C. geographer) Canadian research for the first time correlates 2016 census information with “landing data” provided by the federal immigration department
apparently, I was quite wrong:
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/travel-lega...
This is my personal experience. I read HTWFAIP when I was in 8th grade. As a young teenager I was a timid person and I placed huge importance on what other people felt about me. As an adult in 40s, I am still timid and never say no. I say yes to everything and I usually get assigned to shitty tasks. I wish I wasn't such a people-pleaser and I wish I had the guts to say no. I attribute my current professional breakdown to reading HTWFAIP which by its very title hopes to be a book through which you can influence others. I wish I did not care so much about what other people thought about me and I wasn't such a back-bone-less people pleaser. I hate "How to Win Friends and Influence People"
Yes, but between them they have set up a global non-denominational cooperative for organising multi-denominational meetups and activities, such as the biannual sacrificial beach party.
I wonder how many people in the survey interpret "opportunities for professional growth" as "opportunities to get rich". To me that makes the survey data more understandable. People, myself included, basically want more money for less hours (AKA work/life balance).
OKRs: Should you use them or not?
Data works, makes things efficient. Doesnt mean making people buy things easy.
8-bit quantization in TensorFlow Lite for faster mobile inference
Yeah, that's Android Q, which is in Beta and not widely adopted. The vast majority of Android devices are running on OS's that have way less granular permissions.

I appreciate the move in the right direction, but I suspect that Google is reading the tea leaves to see that they've likely got antitrust on the horizon and they need to start laying the groundwork to fight that.