skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you have Amazon's scale, you can easily do geo-controlled lift studies like the ones mentioned in the articles to get a pretty good estimate of the incremental ROAS.
Yes, I mean at some point you have to just accept you are in the same boat as everyone else with or without investments in that situation
I worked at Disney for many years. Fun fact: Disney has no CTO...just EVPs per division. This is, in part, because Iger considers himself the CTO Of Disney. That may seem funny to HN, because you’ll never hear him say anything about Kubernetes or Cloud, but he’s made some pretty big technology bets in his tenure that have delivered on Disney’s goals. Disney+ is actually the product of a 2B acquisition of BAMTech. Disney also has a pretty huge chunk of high end graphics tech thanks to investments in ILM, Pixar, and Animation. XLab is another source of tech innovation.

Disney doesn’t tend to get enough credit as a tech company because to them tech takes a back seat to entertainment in the public eye. That can be frustrating and humbling as an engineer, at times, but its definitely enlightening.
Hey Jesse,

I spent 6 years working in ad-tech, and I was researching the incrementality effect of ads, selection bias and stuff like that for last 3 years. I want to let you know that your article is good. Online advertising is not a bubble, but your article perfectly explains why it is much harder than it seems.
I was wondering why backcountry changed to yampa as well.

Can’t believe a sandwich shop was targeted by them... and I wonder how business has been impacted.
How to “Turn Off” Your Twitter Timeline
It's not about reasonable, it's about putting a disincentive price to an action. Many abuses of power come from the abusers not having to pay the price. They might not want you to work on the weekends if it costs them a lot. You often need to put an explicit price to these things, or people who do not respect informal boundaries will push them.

The entire point is to not work during that time.
That's not clear at all. It's not hostile to tinkerers. It's hostile to entities that may want to take others open source work and provide a business around that work.

You can still run the software, for free, in your business.
You can still change the software, for free, and run that in your business.
You can still fork the software, from today, and do what you want with it.

The vast majority of work done on the software is funded by sentry. This hurts literally no one who is legitimate.
Probably the same as any other hard plastic device that sees frequent public deployment. No cable ramp looks half as nice as it does in the manufacturer photos, either.

Adding large quantities of liquid to a safety device comes with its own set of challenges.
Step 1: turn carbon dioxide into fuel

Step 2: burn said fuel for power, when needed

Step 3: profit
At this point Mark Zuckerberg's identity is Facebook. He has never had another job, he never took a humanities class, he never did study abroad, he never spent a summer with normal people working a normal job. His entire life is Facebook. They are one and the same.

Try to imagine your whole identity being tied up in this massive company you made. He has no option but to fight as hard as he can, any talk of regulation is an existential threat to Mark himself.

He has never shown a shred of regret or pause about the past mistakes of the company, it has been full steam ahead ignore the haters at all costs since the Beacon fiasco. Nothing is going to change this company unless an external force comes in and makes the change happen in spite of Mark Zuckerberg.
No, but I'm sure they won't have to look at git logs to date the software.
> It's analogous to hiring a contractor. The government wants a program, it simply outsourced the operation to another entity.

No, it isn't, explicitly so. The reason the Fed operates at arms-length is explicitly to avoid having the government set monetary policy. This degree of stability allows businesses to plan and reduces their currency risk. Otherwise you face D vs. R every 4-8 years totally reversing monetary policy.

> It should remain relatively constant. That's the entire point of a unit of exchange. There might be periods where the relative demand for the currency outstrips the supply, and if it becomes such a dramatic situation as your presented in your contrived example, then it would cease to be useful as a currency, and something else would/should become the currency.

Yes, and my whole point is to avoid a large dramatic change you apply small amounts of pressure over time. This is called managing the money supply. And once you agree that this kind of adjustment achieves your objective of "relatively" stable currency (it does), then we can talk degrees, but we're now having a very different conversation.

> Congress has the power to coin and regulate value, per the US constitution. I'm not sure how we ended up talking about the US specifically here, I'm referring to governments generally.

Government handles the fiscal policy, federal reserve handles monetary policy. They're explicitly separated. This is true in many developed countries in the world operating under a central banking model, including Canada (Bank of Canada), and all of Europe (ECB) and England (Bank of England -- privately owned from 1694 to 1946).
True, you could very well cannibalize your own advertising efforts. I think that may be a problem for brands who already advertise themselves. For example, I agree it makes no sense for Ebay to place an ad for the search term "ebay" if they are already the first search result. If you have a well known brand, you will have a lot of people who will search you out directly. In that case it's a matter of running campaigns and see what sticks - if you spend 10% of your budget on an agency's ad campaign, and very few new customers turn up, you may be wasting money.

But if you have a small to medium online shop, I think it makes sense to have someone run ad campaigns for you on as many domains as possible - and pay only for high quality traffic. If you re-sell shoes from Nike, you will have a very hard time getting a click from someone who would have bought at your shop anyway, because your competitors will pay for Google PLA and other ad campaigns and anyone who is looking for a good offer will run into their ads.
I am the VC. I was not really consulted on the change, and after seeing it on HN, texted the founder saying I disagreed :) That said, I'm supportive of the team making the decisions they do! They run the company, not me!
Online ad metrics tell people “what” happened, but people expect it to tell them “why.”
I'm a reluctant user of GraphQL. I can't specify any deep technical reasons, I just prefer a lot more control over interfaces - particularly where I'm in control of both the client and server.

But. I use GraphQL. GraphQL is a whole toolchain around client-server interactions. (IMHO) It's a pain to get started using is, but then the benefits of tooling start to compound.

HTTP2 won't replace GraphQL. Perhaps a set of libraries that use HTTP2 effectively. Even then I'd be surprised if it was a huge departure from GraphQL fundamentals - but you never know.
> Though valuing ancient goods at equivalent modern prices is debatable, it seems like a reasonable metric.

No, it's not a reasonable metric at all, because it ignores the fact that the vast majority of per capita GDP growth between the Stone Age and now is not that we have improved the quality of items that existed then. It's that we have invented a huge number of new items that Stone Age humans could not have even conceived. The huge growth in productivity and wealth from the Stone Age to now is not because we make stone tools that are that much better. It's because all they had was stone tools, where we have combine harvesters and backhoes and steel skyscrapers and railroads and container ships and airplanes and medical imaging devices and computers and the Internet and...
Blockchains are genuinely pretty promising for supply chain tracking. Distributed ledgers are most famously useful when you distrust the motives of a central authority like Bitcoin, but they're also a reasonable option if you distrust the accuracy of a a central administrator.

So for the purposes of supply tracking, different Coca-Cola facilities and shipments are 'individuals' which might report mistaken or dishonest results to the central server. And once somebody screws up, that trusted authority becomes a problem for others facilities to work around. For sufficiently large and restrictive systems (like US military supplies), correcting an error can become functionally impossible. At that point, you start resorting to awful two-wrongs-make-a-right solutions like entering fictional shipments which "move" a misdirected item from the listed location to the real one, or even redoing needless part replacements to match reality to documentation.

Obviously you can track supplies without a blockchain, and I'm sure a lot of Coke's actual gains came from tearing out a bad system and replacing it, but a blockchain does at least encourage good tracking design (one authoritative record per item, transactions are assessed by peers rather than immediately accepted by an authority). And if the goods in question have individual identifiers, "proof of work" is actually a great addition. It doesn't have to be computationally hard if you trust all the users, but you still get a system where "I am holding this and hitting it with an RFID scanner" is allowed to overrule any number of past errors regarding that object.

(Did Coke get all those gains? No idea. They probably just scrapped some legacy nonsense for a not-too-stupidly designed system.)
I have seen a library with a copy of boost in the include folder. Client code is forced to use this outdated version and must avoid transitive dependencies to boost.
Please don't do that.
Windows development team now has an internal C++ library used inside Windows source code to do similar things, which was recently made public and open source on GitHub: https://github.com/Microsoft/wil/wiki
150 years of Nature papers – an interactive visualisation
What services even support multiple keys?

That's been my biggest struggle, I want a primary and backup key but almost every service I use only allows one at a time. I cannot duplicate the same key because it increments internally to avoid replay.
Yes, i'm expecting stock price according how much they capture from Intel. And they are capturing it fast. As said before: Servers, laptops, ... are coming and that's the profit-market for CPU's and they aren't abandoning their nich ( semi-custom) also.

it was 40 in 2000, the current buy prediction is 40. They are doing way better now and they have another full year to win market share. I compare against Intel, not against AMD at the current ( minimalistic) state, mostly because OEM's weren't onboard in the previous financial quarter.

I have also explained my financial relation to them and my belief. Which seemed enough, no? PS. I'm probably one of the few to share my financial relation. Not because i'm scared, but because i'm confident :)

And also, i feel kinda sorrow for you that you don't attack my comments/facts. You just attacked my personal gain, which is a feedback loop to my arguments.

PS. I don't know of any other company that is in such a positive position. One full year untill their competition has a competitor to their "current" product line. That's insane. I haven't even mentioned TSMC 3 nanometer process for 2023 and theri future product line :)
All the JS engines have been patched. As far as I'm aware there are no known spectre or meltdown exploits on any of the major JS engines.
It is not fitting the requirement widely agreed for defining software Open Source: it creates a restriction on usage.
Reminds me Harrison Bergeron

http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html
Tokamaks are different beasts than stellarators. They have a toroidal current induced by a central solenoid (literally a transformer). There are pros and cons to this. For one, you get a lot of ohmic heating and some focusing benefits from the current. However, there are plasma instabilities and there needs to be electrical feedback systems operating with microseconds of latency. This isn't trivial when dealing with huge currents and voltages at high inductance. Additionally the transformer can only induce current in one direction for a finite time (you cannot ramp current to infinity). No one has figured out how to make tokamaks steady state. The best hope is for runs of a few days and 80% uptime. It's undetermined if this is "good enough".

Stellarators have traditionally lagged tokamaks in terms of Lawson criterion performance, but they've also been less funded because tokamaks have performance advantages. Stellarators are steady state and don't risk the same number of plasma instabilities. Germany is so confident that it's the right approach that they built the largest magnetic confinement device ever to test optimizing for quasi-omnigineity. Stellarators in general are becoming closer to the mainstream approach and given another 5 or 10 years you'll likely hear about them as much as tokamaks (at least in terms of non ITER research).
I think the selection effect is much larger for big, well-known companies. Everyone knows eBay, so advertising is obviously going to give decreasing returns.

For smaller, lesser-known companies, I think advertising is much more effective. The chance is much lower that people will know about your product and buy it than if you spent more on advertising.
I think you are misinterpreting me. I am not suggesting his actions were justified. I am saying an opaque Kafkaesque bureaucracy with questionable motives dehumanized and at times, harassed this person to the point where they spent 18 months of their life plotting revenge. Revenge they executed without the loss of any life besides their own, which in my mind, does deserve to be recognized as "less bad, but still bad".
"Can you give some examples of that? Most of the poor have no wealth in the first place"

They don't have wealth arguably because it's taken by those with considerably greater leverage.

Asymmetric parameters like avoiding regulations regarding 'full time employment' (i.e. Uber) is one very common way that employers keep workers down.

It's not always obvious either - just as H1Bs can create a lot of value, in many cases, they are point blank just used to suppress wages.

Consider many wealthy folks pay a lesser net tax rate than others due to income from capital gains - of course there is some rhyme and reason behind the fact capital is taxed at a lower rate than income, but one might argue that on the whole, this isn't really fair at all and is one of the primary drivers of inequality.

I don't think inequality is inherently a bad thing, but too much of it is bad, and we should always be looking for ways to get people 'empowered' into positions wherein they can create real value and grab a fair/share piece of the pie. And we have to remember there are always people who won't be able to do that, and that we have a responsibility towards them as well.
http://www.kimnicholas.com/uploads/2/5/7/6/25766487/fig1full...

However, convincing politicians can do much more...
There are several other use cases that will be affected:

- Borrowing bits of code from Sentry for use in an unrelated, non-competing commercial product will no longer be possible for many people -- I suspect many companies' legal teams will bar use of BSL-licensed code out of caution, at least until the 3-year conversion point.

- Using bits of Sentry for internal, non-distributed projects may not be allowed if there's any chance the project will convert to a commercial product (competing or not) within 3 years.

- I suspect there are other scenarios that are technically and legally possible (at least by Sentry's interpretation) but that many corporate lawyers will nix based on an abundance of caution.

- And of course, starting a new open-source project with open governance based on current Sentry code will no longer be an option.

The thing is, BSL's permissions may seem clear to developers, but lawyers will likely get hung up on how to define "competing", and whether a judge would allow a suit to proceed against a (intuitively speaking) clearly non-competing product based on real or perceived ambiguity in the license or in the case itself. Too often, legal teams "just say no" to anything that falls outside their clearly defined (and legally tested) comfort zones. I don't blame corporate lawyers entirely for that, though - it's really a consequence of the legal climate arising from prior case law (which I believe often proceeded on dubious grounds).
Also healthcare and education, which are also not measured
Your understand that in this flow the password isn't used right?

You plug the key into the Windows PC, and you put your fingertip on the sensor and you're signed in. That's two factors, "Something you have" and "Something you are" not three.
In a discourse where GraphQL is just an additional layer over "REST" services to make sense in terms of network roundtrip, and similarly HTTP/2 server push is used to bundle multiple "REST" results, it's worth noting that there's always the option to use more unopinionated approaches to request/response payloads such as RPC- or SOAP-like protocols merely seeking to model payload syntax without implied semantics and restriction to "GET"/"PUT" primitives. Locking your response semantics to network interactions such as in "REST" never made sense from an engineering PoV IMHO.
> You can still run the software, for free, in your business. You can still change the software, for free, and run that in your business. You can still fork the software, from today, and do what you want with it.

You cannot reuse and publish. Matter of fact, even reading it and taking inspiration from it is risky. Words from an IP lawyer I know.
It's a proprietary license. There is no shame in that. So don't try to act like you are still an open source company.
One has to make a good living. That's not what I was criticizing.

> It's hostile to entities that may want to take others open source work and provide a business around that work.

Consider yourself happy Torvalds didn't think this way. Or Guido. What's your dev environment?
A company can be good open source citizen without open-sourcing everything.

They're not falsely claiming that BSL is open source. They're not switching to "code dump" open source model where they'd just dump 3yo old code on your head. They're not completely closing it off either (which would be entirely legit move if they wanted to).

Seems like they're doing the best they can, while still trying to, you know, make a business. Time will tell if BSL is the right move, but looks to me like they're sincerely trying.
Got it, thanks for bearing with me! I wasn't aware of this complexity of multiple inheritance (I guess this is another example of how orthogonal the language is :) ).
Which if fine. They're allowed to do it. The community of people who use and contribute to the project also get to be mad about it.

Look, if Sentry wants to make money selling their software they should have just been proprietary from the beginning.
Yet nobody uses 4 digit passwords.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_identification_number
I would be shocked if there weren't a handful of spies working for various countries at every large tech company at this very moment. I have no idea how a company would screen for that but it would make little sense to not embed insiders into each of these companies.
The problem is still there.
Yes, but mainly because I don't want to bring this up to them too early, so I asked here first :D
Ask HN: Is our pricing structure right?
Our service: https://smartip.io is an IP Geolocation API and we are currently offering the following tiers:

Free Tier: up to 250,000 req/mo
Startup Tier: up to 1.5 Million req/mo for $40/mo
Pro Tier: up to 10 Million req/mo for $150/mo
Enterprise Tier: need to contact us to discuss

Considering that this is a pretty cluttered market we are trying to be as much competitive as possible.
What do you guys thing about the current pricing structure?
Any suggestions?
Do you have a source for the claim that playing video games has the same effect on the prefrontal cortex as meditation?

Seems extremely unlikely, but I'm curious, so I would appreciate a link.
Plant-based diet can fight climate change - UN

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49238749
There is an air of paranoia unique to the UK with these things

Las Vegas is in the process of installing 5,000 bollards after some stoned lady drove onto a sidewalk and over a bunch of people.

They're designed to stop a full sized pickup truck going 55mph (90kph).

https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/c...
I live in Jersey City, and the high-rise apartment buildings on the waterfront are pretty much half landlord-operated AirBnB now, since Jersey City essentially absorbed all the demand from NYC which already banned short term rental. It's getting out of hand. I certainly welcome the ban.

I lived next to short term rental for a long time (and might still do, not sure). It's a mixed bag. Since it's short term rental it's empty half the time, which is good because I don't hear the noise from them. However during check-in and check-out time it takes a long time to get an elevator.

The only thing I am afraid of is whether the landlord would increase the rent to cover the lost revenue from short term rental.
I can suggest that fishermen don’t get ahead through working harder, but more through being near a livelier bigger body of water with plants more suitable for fashioning into fishing lines.

Hunter gatherers - by being the son of the chief and getting chosen for the most instruction and preferable kills? By not having raids of people stealing everything you gather? By hoarding a secret fund of very desirable plants which they guard jealously to retain status? By being more attractive?
And since we re considering new advertising ideas, how the ads are presented matters. We could perhaps be thoughtful about when and how to present ads instead of plastering our sites with more banners than content because that's what adsense says that works. E.g. why are there not ads at the end of the video? Why are there 5 minute ads (seriously?)? Just saying "this worked" is not enough - this might have worked for an ad but destroyed the field for all other ads.
Thank you so much! Yes, there's some large percent of users asking for it, so I think it's might be a good way.
Maybe it's just due to the current sociopolitical environment we are living in but "socially conscious" makes me wonder if they'll decide which books are worth preserving and which are not.
If you are using regular ECS with EC2 - as opposed to Fargate, it just provisions regular EC2 instance with an agent already installed. You can ssh/rdp into the instance and troubleshoot it.

But yeah I did have a doozy of an issue with ECS but it was completely my fault. I create a cross account policy for ECR but left out the account that actually contained the registry. Then my containers were in a private subnet without any access to the internet (by design they were behind a load balancer) but they couldn’t get to the ECR endpoint. I just had to either assign a public IP address or use a private link.

Support helped me with both.
> I waited for a point in their model where people actually produced wealth and consumed it, made something or ate it, in addition to redistributing it. Not part of the model.

That’s because the people making the models don’t create wealth and don’t really understand where it comes from.

It’s like the way you see Marxists saying “seize the means of production” but never “build the means of production”.