skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cameras can cause abrupt breaking and more collisions. Maybe if paired with gradual light transitions and barriers they could be a net benefit.
There was a post about this recently. They need to buy the ad to keep their competitor from being the first result. https://www.seroundtable.com/basecamp-google-ad-28161.html
Um, but the point is that most of that is stuff he had no control over. The Econ 101 fantasy of "work hard, get ahead" doesn't apply if being a straight white male born into a middle class western family means you're starting 80% of the way to the finish line.
> Those are all good and lawful reasons, but I don’t think they’d be good enough for the Brits.

It's not just the Brits who would wonder why you need a blade longer than 3" for those uses.
The population argument is fundamentally flawed. It places the burden of climate change onto the global south, which is far from the actual truth
If you really do like ads, there are plenty of platforms that will let you input your interests and customize your ads — Facebook, google, and I believe even Hulu will let your do so (I think there’s a 3rd party service called AdChoice or so that will do the same across smaller networks).

Something tells me that still won’t be enough to have you undo ad blocking...
It's not really generational; people have always hated advertising. They hated it in the newspapers, on buildings, on TV, before movies, inside of movies, in magazines.

I don't really see advertising in general going away short of legislation preventing it; that doesn't mean that online advertising will always be as profitable as it is now, but there's a question of "where else will people advertise?" People advertise where people are; online advertising will lose its value when people spend time elsewhere.
We as humans possess some skills that are so profoundly important but also so subtle that we don't even recognize them as skills. And excessive optimism about AI is a lack of recognition of how fundamental those skills are to our navigation of the world (both figuratively and literally.)
Looks awesome! Like Tidal tribe on steroids.
Do you have a newsletter so I can know when its ready? I wanna play it.
If you think about it, the very line that the smartest minds of our generation are working on making people click on things is itself marketing designed by marketers to sell the prestige/status of working for a big advertising company.

That actually is genius in its own way... but just as the quants in finance during the early booms were "the smartest guys in the room, until they weren't and you realised they all were poor implementers of undergraduate statistics and jargon during economic bubble and crash", I don't think the workers for facebook/Google are necessarily that bright.

It's depressing that our economic and social system is geared towards pushing maximum consumption, no argument there, but the smartest people on the planet already self selected out of that over the last 20 years, and what you're left with is... well... marketers and advertising dressed up as prestigious tech firms talking about how great they are.
Annoyance is one thing.

Weaponization is another.

Can Ads Read My Password?:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20638662 for example. Malvertising for another. Fingerprinting...
LA has quite a large number of them. The restaurant startup space is quite big these days.

Regardless, the optics of venture funding changes this analysis because now we're looking at ROI and not just say, creating successful enterprises that create wealth and value.

The latter is the thing of interest to me. In technology we've focused too much on the former. A say, twenty person software company where everyone is paid well and the customers like the product is a worthy, fine goal. $5,000,000,000 MRR is fine as well, but the vegas-style way people think of tech shouldn't be the only road out there.
If you want to judge a
random walk in a meaningful way, you never ask "what's the probability of reaching X started?" you ask "how long do you stay in states like X".

the expected time to exit "oligarchy" states should be pretty small. the whole discussion is completely meaningless, they intentionally asked a misleading question.
The most important point you seem to forget:

When success in competition increases success in competition (e.g. compound interest), the game tends to extreme inequality. And when extreme success gives you power to change the rules of the game, people start to lose their basic needs.
The direct question was, can I pay someone to monitor my AWS. And the answer is yes.
You want redundancy at every layer including the human one. For 24x7 coverage, long term you need a team but for now two people will do.

Funny enough I was just talking to someone who passed all his AWS certifications and was looking for some AWS work.
Who would care about the scale of inequality in a world where the poor were fed and comfortable? I don't think that inequality is a base problem, although I have heard arguments that (due to things like money in politics for example) it can lead to things that actually are problems. But that doesn't mean inequality is itself a problem, as the side-effects could go away if the right efforts were made to control them. It wouldn't bother me if Jeff Bezos owned entire planets, as long as my own finances were secure and his planetary ownership didn't result in any undue limitations of my own rights on Earth.
The reason the government collects taxes is to make money, not to extend willpower to the businesses it taxes. The extra influence for non-profits is a side effect and not very large compared to baseline laws. It's not a goal, and it wouldn't make up for the loss of revenue; it serves a much smaller and completely different purpose.
>The real problem is that corporations are too big. //

How about if all the workers in Amazon eco-system shared the money equally (according to the retail price index in their locality, perhaps), and reduced the cost of goods to ensure that the per-employee share matched the median societal wage (or something similar)? Still a big fat corp, but not contributing to societal inequality or unfairness (but still a problem for over-use of resources and such); how would that fit with your analysis, would it still be "these corps are too big"?
Except some countries 10k is like 100k in U.S.A if you calculated for local costs of living and adjusted you could get away w/ giving 2-3 billion $1k, and then higher amounts to those in the U.S.A. -- you could skip China because they're already a socialist country and should have all their needs met, and skip bad actors like N. Korea, Iran, etc... Might be able to get it up to something like 150k-200k per person in developed world.

But money gets spent it all will end up back in the top 1%'s hands. They have funnels in place to ensure that money funnels up into their hands. Which is why GBI makes more sense, by giving money gradually/recurring it keeps cycling. The poorer families getting GBI would spend 100% locally essentially keeping the money in the local economy.
Joost used to do this; I think they dropped it because the cost of maintaining the P2P code was more than the cost of bandwidth.
> Many systems don't actually delete data; they set a "deleted" flag that often causes the system to behave as if it did from the customer's point of view, but the data stays in the database for perpetuity.

> That means in all likelihood it is still there, and may actually still be being served to other users.

Thank goodness things like CCPA will change this.
I have clicked on ads.

I wish ads were better or more relevant, I find myself spending unreasonable amounts of time looking for things which should be more easily found - a problem which could be solved with better advertising.

You could advertise books/shows/movies to me (based on your current search, your wish list, your past purchases, you might be interested in ...) because I'm certain there are plenty of books I would be interested in which I don't know exist ... but you would have to actually have a good model for what I would like and not just some NYT best seller / top 40 / whatever crap is popular and overpromoted.

The problem there is I'm generally only going to be interested in long tail items, and those are much harder to target and often nobody is interested in promoting them.

If I'm searching for restaurants or coffee shops, likewise I would be happy to see paid advertisements along with organic search results.

If I'm reading an electronics design blog, I would be happy to see ads for electronics tools, new components, suppliers, etc.

There are lots of potential ads I would click, many I wouldn't mind seeing at all. The problem I have with advertising is that what I get exposed to most is either completely irrelevant (become a member of AARP today!), promoting obvious products (drink Coke!), or promoting shoddy products or outright scams.

Here's an example of a site with sidebar ads I appreciate: https://www.eevblog.com/

>Who are all these people that subverted technology and turned it into advertising-tech?

Microsoft who started bundling "free" things with Windows to squash their competition. Everyone else who had to find a way to compete with them (and in turn everyone who wanted to compete with those companies, etc). Every customer who expects things to be "free".
Discovery (if it's not on Amazon it doesn't exist, to many online shoppers—no, seriously) convenience (I already have an Amazon account) and confidence (yes Amazon is a shitty flea market at this point, but they're a shitty flea market with a known and fairly reliable return policy) matter a lot. Not sure how to solve those issues with a bunch of brand-specific sites.
It's basically the historical approach to enterprise security: secure the perimeter, and don't worry about the intranet. It's still hugely popular in enterprise IT. Cryptolocker/Wannacry bit these IT departments hard and they've sort of slowly learned some lessons, but there's huge inertia, low budget, and these things are changing glacially.
HPC is quite common in mechanical engineering type industries. Think mechanical stress simulations, wind simulations, that kind of thing. I wouldn't call that part of the research community.
I've never liked this kind of hand-wavy reasoning on any topic, its unreasonably dismissive and to me always seems externally motivated in one way or another. "The situation is slightly more than mildly complex, therefore, you shouldn't be complaining or calling it 'wrong' if you don't have a complete near-zero-cost solution in your hands right now!" This, besides just being unreasonable, also seems to just willingly forget that figuring out the 'better system' is not our job, it completely ignores the fact that that is quite literally the supposed job of the actual serving politicians that we elected.
The example may be an old one. As such, it's a largely settled matter.

The principle remains.

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/unenforceable-contra...

You're also simply raising objections to elements I've introduced which you claim prior knowledge of (a fact of which, if I do have privileged access, I'd be well advised to conceal, and more probably, I don't). Which begins to seem tendentious and argument for the sake of arguing.

You could have introduced BATNA to the discussion. You didn't. I did. It is a valid concern and consideration: the HOA need only find another mark^Wbuyer. The buyer needs to find a property not covered by onerous HOA terms.

It's also notable that the Oakland County case doesn't concern HOAs. Though complaints against HOA are certainly justified in many cases.
Not technically on call, yet it takes about 20 minutes to get through the corporate officer titles on an enterprise bridge, making it hard to complete the reboot sequence within the Platinum response time.
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How do I type a ←?
Every private company tries to turn those private valuations into public ones at IPO.
+1 -- most of the comments are about minimizing downtime, which you should of course to do to the extent practical, but at some point, whether you're a one-employee company or not, if you have no internet access and your servers are down you have to keep calm and accept that there will be some downtime and it's not the end of the world. You may even be surprised how few customers notice anything went wrong (depending on the kind of service you're running).
Exactly, even though nobody can claim that auto-industry and an evil cabal of drivers had any power in the USSR it still had anti-jaywalking laws. Ergo, the claims here that the only possible reason to outlaw jaywalking is pandering to drivers and auto-industry are false.
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Agree 100%. You can research the market, see who else is out there in your line of work, ask questions, make plans....but to make progress you just get something out there and let it loose on users and potential customers.
Turo if you could search by car type without having to specify date ranges maybe?
What a stupid, counterproductive law. Non locking folding knives are a safety hazard to the user. If you're going to bother carrying a pocketknife at all then it should have a lock.
Why are the cars even at the roads when it was fairly clear this could happen?
Let me clarify: When it comes to Spectre/Meltdown, HPC users and environments are most likely not prioritized targets of interest. The low hanging fruit in that scenario is stealing cryptographic keys from co-tenants on a public cloud.
Is it though? There's a significant security bug that has a known fix, on your supercomputer. The second anything remotely security-related happens and it gets out that you've opted to hedge your bets that no untrusted code will ever execute on that machine... and you could be in some seriously hot water.

I'm not really in the HPC space, but I can't really see any vp/cto/cio reasonably putting that asterisk on a security audit.

If you've got cyber insurance, you probably wouldn't be able to keep coverage if you did that.
Notepad may look the same, but it has seen some small feature updates in Windows 10. The biggest: it finally understands Unix-style line feed only (\n) files.
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This comment is similar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21465940
"His time was 2 hours 46.03 minutes which by modern marathon times does not look so great "

yes it does!
Krispy Kreme strikes deal with kid who drives 250 miles to resell its doughnuts
You’ll have to summarize any key points from the book, since I don’t own a copy.

You say that property tax is a tool to reduce inequality, but I’m not 100% sure about that. For example, I don’t even know where my property taxes go. Maybe some small portion goes to the state, but I believe all go directly toward local projects, firefighters, police, and schools.

Further, I’m not sure what I’m supposed to do if my home value doubles just because of natural reasons. The fact that the property has increased in value is an unrealized gain, are we sure it makes sense to increase property taxes? If my income stays the same, and as you say, property taxes is a progressive tax to reduce inequality, what more income do I have to give?
By copy/pasting it from OP's text like you probably just did :)
Your post is literally the content I'm reading that you claim no one would produce without ads, and it's unsupported by ads.

And again (I feel like a broken record on this site), that's a totally inaccurate history of the internet.

Content arrived first, THEN the advertising companies arrived.
For ranitidine, yes.
Why does this tool require me to log in with my twitter account instead of just giving my account name and letting it pull my tweets from the public feed? I am curious what it concludes about my tweets but am not going to give it (limited) access to my account (which says a lot about me, I know).
>If everybody used a DNS blocker to filter out ads, would online advertising exist as a business?

Absolutely. Companies would get more clever about cloaking advertising with inscrutable domain names that's hard to filter with regex. Youtube is a good example of ads that are hard to block using pure DNS. (But that doesn't stop people from trying new variations of regexes for pihole that youtube eventually breaks.[0])

The other technique is native advertising. (But native ads are actually more "relevant" so somewhat more tolerable and more people would actually pay attention to them.) E.g. I just saw a Linus Tech Tips (the computer tech channel) and the pre-roll ad is for D-CON mouse traps (not relevant to me since I don't have a mouse infestation that requires rodent traps) or girls dolls[1] -- but the native ad is Linus acting as spokesperson for the Ring Doorbell Camera Kit[2]. That's more relevant since it's a techie gadget. I won't buy the Ring kit but it's more relevant than the mouse trap ad.

[0] last time I tried many of these DNS regex ideas, youtube stopped working: https://www.google.com/search?q=pihole+regex+block+youtube+a...

[1] ads for girls dolls probably ignored by 99% of audience demographic of Linus' video: https://imgur.com/a/gPcxOJ3

[2] https://youtu.be/hiLlNzxDfAg?t=19m12s
Sorry, but this fundamentally misunderstands how sequencing technology works.

The kind of DNA sequencing you do on the population/genome scale is of relatively low quality and depends on a reference genome. It is not a de novo sequencing. Particularly challenging are repetitive sequence areas; high-throughput sequencing utilizes short reads that cannot be unambiguously assembled or mapped in these areas. If you have two sequences that have AGAGAGAGA... on their ends, you cannot determine to what degree they overlap. Only reads that span the repetitive sequence with sufficient margins can be unambiguously assembled or mapped.

DNA fingerprinting, however, relies precisely on robust characterization of these repetitive sequences. These sequences experience many errors during replication that produce high diversity in a population. Your unique suite of sequence lengths is used to identify you. This is assessed with restriction digest fragment length polymorphism analysis (RFLP analysis), an entirely different technology from high-throughput sequencing.

These repetitive sequences are also difficult to synthesize, for the same reasons it fails in real organisms. RFLP analysis is, therefore, about the most robust way you generate a DNA 'fingerprint'.

This situation changes if the sequencing technique used generates longer reads. Thus-far, the economical option always uses short reads, and this technique is perfectly suitable for the kinds of analysis done. It would take a breakthrough in sequencing technology for this to change, which is certainly plausible, but is not the current reality. A future concern, perhaps, but science fiction for now.
Thanks yes! Also changed my view about coffee
It sounds like, where you live, the municipality doesn't have an incentive to not inform you of late or owed taxes. The issue is that the government in this case has every reason to not inform the property owner of late taxes owed.
The weird thing about websites like YouTube is they do a combination of topic matching and user matching. Why bother with tracking users so extensively if you're going to just go ahead and demonitize videos that are "sensitive" content. Just place the ads in front of the audience regardless of what they're watching. At the end of the day, advertisers and viewers can't possibly care what video it's showing on as long as they're getting the right target audience. The only people that do care are journalists looking to write a sensational hit piece to fan outrage culture.

I hope your method succeeds because it would be a whole lot better than this crappy middle ground that we have right now.
I believe it will be difficult to generate all the energy we need with renewables alone (source: https://www.withouthotair.com/), and even if that’s possible, a massive surplus of energy would presumably allow us to start sucking CO2 back out of the atmosphere, and undo some climate change.
Geico admits and continues to violate CAN-SPAM act via repeated calls and emails
10 business days after opt-out, I am still receiving calls and emails. The CAN SPAM act states that a business must remove you from their call/email list within 10 business days following your request.

They are currently breaking this law as they continue to call me.

Not only is this occurring in my personal situation, but they straight up admit to breaking the law on their opt-out page:
[https://ibb.co/9ycYwN8]

What can we do about companies that behave like this? I'm personally not doing business with them but there are many others that deal with this obnoxious (and illegal) behavior.

I'm happy to discuss this with someone that can bring this behavior in front of more eyeballs.
Is that going to materially change the ability of a non millionare to purchase a house in the bay area? Honest question.

If in effect they are all going to compete with each other an other (mostly IT) millionaires for housing and pay slightly more, it doesn't seem like a real shift.
> For online ads, 99.99% of ads are not relevant to me.

This is what pisses me off about ads based on user tracking and surveillance the most. Google (and others) have been building very detailed profiles of us for two decades now and the ads still suck.

The ads that work are the ones that pop up when you search for a particular topic (e.g. "plumbers in austin"). They don't need a user profile to serve those.
The old lady made $1m in unearned value in her house. She can use a part of that value to pay taxes on the increase, live and die in the house, and her heirs still make free money.
Kim Dotcom calls off sale of his new cryptocurrency
The counterpoint being that "months in the lab saves hours in the library" (Westheimer)
This video from Clayton Christensen gives a good summary of Jobs To Be Done using milkshakes at a fast food restaurant as an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfGtw2C95Ms

Unrelated, but I saw Clayton Christensen speak at a conference years ago. He started out the talk by telling everyone that he had a stroke years earlier and after it, he couldn't speak clearly. For a professor, you can imagine that's not ideal. So he went out and bought Rosetta Stone and taught himself how to talk again. I was blown away and besides a few small stutters during the talk, I barely noticed. That story of grit always stuck with me as a truly remarkable example of how versatile humans can be.
> People are killing each other for great devs

Well, if that’s true, there’s only one conclusion that the abused/unappreciated can draw: they (we) must not be that great.
> Solar heating is on the order of 5000 times our current energy utilization

From another comment: "Mankind's waste heat (~10^12 W) is utterly miniscule compared to sun's energy delivered to earth (~10^17 W)".

5000 smells bad — imagine that power output concentrated in cites or production areas — that would be severely noticeable.
I think the downvotes are due to the fact that the article is unrelated to production. The article is about that inequality arises naturally even in simple economies where everything is fair.

Unless your socialist, most people agree that more productive people should earn more. I think most discussions today around inequality center around the top 0.001% where earnings and production seem unrelated. I am not of the following opinion, but some people take issue that one can "own" a corporation and your return be greater than any individual producer for that corporation for effectively doing nothing.
I've had the impression that "online advertising" has been rife with fraud since its inception.

Using cloud services to cheaply farm the clicks reported by the ads seems obvious.

That we collectively turn a blind eye to it is the most disheartening part.