skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think advertising will always be something that people spend money on. The reality is that people don't care what specific product they buy when they need to buy a class of product. What's your favorite brand of toilet paper or toothpaste or whole wheat flour? You probably have no preference; so if advertisers spend money on putting their product first in the Amazon results or at eye level in the grocery store, you will probably buy that one. It matters to them, but doesn't matter to you. And for that reason, they will always spend money on it.

There are also things that I buy where I do have a preference, but could be persuaded to try something else. I have particular brands of t-shirts, underwear, socks, etc. that I re-up on from time to time, but if some evidence arrives "this is better" I would consider buying it.

Most of the ads I see on the Internet are kind of a waste, though. Here are some ads I remember from the New York Times, which is basically the only platform that I don't block ads on:

1) Delta has a lot of flights to the west coast from New York. I don't really care, I have 700,000 miles on American and unless you are going to sell me a business class seat for economy prices, I'm not going to try your product. Even though your ad literally takes up my entire screen. I'm sure you paid a lot for that, but it means nothing to me. I am aware that Delta as a company exists. Because of my awareness, I choose not to buy your product ;)

2) I could buy a wide variety of $3MM condos throughout the New York area. If I had $3MM, I would. I don't, though, so you wasted your ad money again.

3) Luxury watches are a thing I could buy; I have seen ads from both Omega and Rolex. This is actually relevant to my interests, but I don't see myself ever buying a Rolex (too many people that aren't interested in watches have them); a Grand Seiko will be next. If I ever feel like spending $6000 on something I don't need, which isn't really my style.

4) Today, the only ad I'm getting is one for "SAS for AI". If I needed AI, I would probably write it myself. Somehow that sounds easier than talking to their sales team and sorting through their probably incorrect documentation. (If you wanted to sell that to me, tell me how much it costs, and show me how good the documentation is. Instead, all they are showing is a stock photo of some guy with glasses. He has glasses so he must be smart! Wowie!)

Anyway... my point is that advertising will always exist, but I do agree that a lot of money is being wasted.
In re: hypnosis in general the books I recommend are: "TRANCE-formations" by Bandler and Grinder, and "Monsters and Magical Sticks: There's No Such Thing as Hypnosis?" by Heller.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/956297.Trance_Formations
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/447454.Monsters_and_Magi...

As for self-hypnosis, you can learn it from a book or a website, but you might also want to check out the people locally who are into hypnosis and self-improvement.

Personally, I get really good results from a very simple induction. It has a lot of names, "Betty Erickson’s Induction", "See, Hear, Feel Induction", "5-4-3-2-1 Induction", and so on. It's easy to remember and reliable. This is a good write-up of the process: https://www.practicalhappiness.co.uk/media/download_gallery/...

That should be enough to get you started.

FWIW, although I'm not a hypnotist I know a lot about it, AMA.
You need to be coding, but you also need to cooperate and relate with your coworkers.
Because Apple didn't sign a contract with him, he signed a contract with Apple.
The author of that article profoundly misunderstands online advertising. At best, he grossly misinterpreted statements made by his sources.
There are winners and losers in every decision, and I've already acknowledged there are concentrated losses among certain populations. It hurt certain sectors of manufacturing, yes, but as you can see pulling back from trade hurts a different set of American workers[0][1], and may not even be benefiting the manufacturing sector[2]. Manufacturing is not a simple "I make things or you make things", with free trade it's a cooperative process and protectionism affects inputs to manufacturing as well[3].

Without belaboring the argument which I'm sure everyone's seen before, I would like to re-focus on the point of my comment: The idea that "The financial incentives don’t help any Americans, and in fact, most of us are hurt by this relationship" is counter to everything we know about economics. You can give counter examples yes, but overall trade has been a benefit to Americans, especially for lower-income Americans who rely on low cost goods. We can say with our engineering jobs that we're willing to bear the cost of protectionism, but we don't really bear that cost in the first place.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/07/the-costs-...

[1] https://fee.org/articles/tariffs-hurt-the-poorest-the-most/

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/07/the-costs-...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-steel/in-michig...
What is the vscode hex extensions Scott is using?
I'll take a Joy, I guess. Oh, wait, that was 2049.

What really baked my brain is that I showed Back to the Future to my 9 year old son this week and realized that 2019 is already more than 30 years from 1985 and in the movie, Marty went back in time 30 years to 1955. Damn.
> Back when Google sold text-only ads, people were quite happy with them for doing it.

Those are some rose-tinted glasses. People on forums like HN were always annoyed that they looked like navbar links and you were only clicking them out of confusion with actual links.
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Yes you can legally revoke consent, but if you are a global oligopolist and your revoking consent wipes out people's digital identity, personal data and professional existence, then you should not be surprised if you get crushed by regulators eventually.

Developers in particular have nowhere else to go. Backing up your code doesn't help if you get locked out of one of the 2.5 app stores on planet earth. Your skills are worthless.

"Make backups" doesn't quite cover it - not even for consumers. How do you keep up-to-date backups of your Google Docs & Sheets? How do you restore an Android backup including all your purchases after getting banned by Google?

The principle of "either party can revoke consent" is based on the assumption that both parties have other realistic options. But that is no longer the case. This market has become completely dysfunctional.
It’s a lot closer to leaving a Yelp review that accurately described their behavior a few days after you witnessed them doing something stupid that ruined your experience.
It does not mean that. It just means Racket CS is faster in 7.5 than it was in 7.4.
I have a physical server colocated with Datacate in Santa Clara. As far as I can tell the address space is good, and I've had the server there for a number of years.
Do you have evidence for this besides Thiel and Weinstein?
The best smartphone security doesn't help when you are forced to unlock your phone.
I’d add that mainlanders here in the US completely disagree with you as well. (I am not, but know many.)
Stop wasting time voicing your feelings and get back to drilling LeetCode before you lose your job.
If someone can manually kill a Dev account, they can include a message why it was killed. Even if it's generic form letter, it can be one that at least says what rule was broken.
> It doesn't end fatalist.

it begins, though. love the movie otherwise
If being a software engineer and having a girlfriend are mutually exclusive then I’ll find something else to do.
Technicality: You're not referring to the 1%, but something like the .01% or even .001%. The difference between 1% and .01% income is staggering.
Did you know that judging is the other way to achieve the same end, feeling better about yourself while reducing other's stature?

It's really hard to examine such blind spots in oneself. I fail at it often as well. Human nature of you will.
That's actually what stopped me from watching DVD's many years ago. I got so pissed off at all the unskippable garbage one day that I decided never to bother with DVD's again and haven't watched a single DVD movie since. I haven't pirated in a long time either, though, as I'm not a particularly heavy TV/movie watcher, so Netflix has been enough for me.
Some of the worst and most ineffective coworkers I've ever worked with were intelligent, knowledgable, skilled, and severally lacking in the social skills department. In some cases I've seen the more abrasive and toxic variants of these people completely crush morale for the rest of the team or company, and destroy any success. They were a net loss to the company.

Yeah, social skills matter. A lot. It's not about having a girlfriend, it's about effective communication with the people you work with.
It's not just "a couple hundred miles past the mountains". It's basically even with the western edge of the Gulf of Mexico. East of there, there's enough rain. West of there, there's not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Munger#Wealth_and_phil...
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21582782.
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The systems effects resulting from a combination of free markets and well-intentioned government regulation can be tricky.

Enron's problem was obvious, though. They controlled both the distribution lines and the generation facilities, and were allowed to participate in an energy derivatives market too. And either no caps on profits or no meaningful caps. And California let that happen. It's like letting wild cats live on your ranch and then being shocked, shocked when they start killing your cattle. Except in this case I think California was actually shocked, because the politicians were too clueless to realize what could happen.
I think the intent is to reduce the friction of people who are used to Puppet where all of your code lives in /etc/puppetlabs/code on the master.

It's not an uncommon workflow to have a central "Ansible server" with a service account (hence why Tower exists) that's essentially used as a privileged bastion host in environments where sysadmin laptops don't have a way to reach servers directly.
Learn the basic techniques and the rationale behind non-violent communication. It is a tool that can make the most difficult, risky discussions in your personal life a lot more constructive and beneficial.
The Ian Knott for tying your shoelaces a little faster
You're missing the point, which is that the people of HK are obviously capable of a higher level of self-government, and the CCP could have chosen to allow that under the "one country, two systems" framework. All of the other members of its "Asian Tiger" cohort (South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore) have that.

The CCP was not legally obligated to do so, of course; Drew IS wrong about the illegality of the CCP's behavior here. And as a practical matter, trying to deprive China of the territory of Hong Kong is a fool's errand.

But the talented people of HK who stayed in 1997 in the hopes that the rest of China would meet them closer to halfway do not need to remain. And, now that close to a billion Chinese have been lifted out of grinding poverty by the economic policies of the last 40 years, any economic moral obligation the West had towards the Chinese people has been met; there's no particular reason for the West to further subsidize Chinese development over further development of India, Indonesia, etc.
Bypassed paywall: https://outline.com/kXyWwy
Also Threads, from the same era, incredibly bleak depiction of British society in the aftermath of a nuclear attack.

https://youtu.be/vgT4Y30DkaA

(For those who haven't seen it, it is grim, but gripping.)
If he has a case, then he can invoke the arbitrage clause.

Given that there is clear public evidence that he is misrepresenting what happened and that he has profited from breaking the NDA, why is any of this work that Apple should do?
Not sure if I love the idea of moving more and more responsibilities to Cloud services. As a wanna-be BI developer/SE I really hope to do as more as possible by myself for the learning stuffs. The modern gist is that there are a lot of things you can't learn until you are on job, but automation and Cloud are taking more and more needed practice from you.

Why are SEs so passionate about automating their own jobs? I can understand automation of boring processes, but it seems they/you want o kill huge ranges of interesting jobs.

Just some vent, yeah it's good for business after all.
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I agree with all of this, but also can't help thinking about the old Bastiat quote: "When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will."
Well, it does look like the West found its archenemy after all.
I'd argue science fiction fundamentally isn't about futurology, it's always about today.

"The Space Merchants" still feels relevant because it's about the rise of multinationals, and they're still around. (England Made Me is about the same thing, but isn't science fiction.) "Rebel in Time" is about contemporary racism. "Grass", well, Grass is about a lot of things and it's hard to summarize but "Sideshow" is about our attitudes to religion and "the other".

Equally, for all of the 80s hairdos, Blade Runner is about the classic science fiction question of who gets to be human. And so I'd argue it hasn't really dated at all.
Surely he knows?
>That Americans are poor is likely a consequence of the current trade imbalances.

This story is improbable because the overwhelming majority of America's poorest are employed in the domestic service industry who are not facing negative exposure to international trade. Every store clerk, every McDonalds worker, every garbage man, cleaning lady, janitor, nanny, teacher and so on will be one-sided losers of an increase in prices due to reduced trade.

The benefactors will be a relatively small number of American manufacturing workers (given that it's overall only a small source of employment), who already earn solidly middle-class wages.
I mostly agree with the substance and recommendations of the article, and greatly appreciate it. The following is just a quibble.

> Let’s lay out the facts: China is conducting human rights violations on the largest scale the world has seen since Nazi Germany.

Even if you ignore events like the Cambodian genocide by the Khmer rouge or the Rwandan genocide, on the basis that, while far more intensive, they affected a considerably smaller population, China's own cultural revolution was a far greater human rights violation than what is happening now in China. (Arguably, in terms of scope, it was even worse than anything than the Nazis did, even if its intentions were probably more benign.)

I'd recommend changing the quoted sentence to something to the effect of "one of the largest scales".
"My house (or in this case, walled garden) , my rules." As people are fond of pointing out, Apple is not a monopoly therefore he has plenty of other places to sell his software.
People also pile on Google for Recaptcha when it's actually users like website operators and Cloudflare who are using it to avoid abuse.

Might as while pile on the bad/abusive actors for causing the scenario that makes people use captchas at all.
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The arrival of humans could have also coincided with a reduction of the population of predators of bison? Just thinking outloud I'm not exactly sure what the range of wolfs and bears were before the arrival of humans
First time going to the hackathon and thinking of organizing a small meetup before the event in SF. The venue is Southern Pacific Brewing (620 Treat Ave, San Francisco, CA 94110) and time is Thursday evening at 6pm. Reply if interested. Will reserve a table if we have 5+ people :)
Not sure if I agree or disagree. But if it's so clear cut, why wouldn't Apple just tell him the reason?
So are you planning to offer any sort of NLU services or just the webhook?
Perhaps Rambo did violate Apple's terms, I don't know. However, this is still a major problem. Apple has currently locked me out of my account due to their new authentication process in at attempt to force me to buy an apple device for authentication purposes.
They can. But why should they? What's the benefit?
Online advertising isn't a bubble, bid prices might be a bubble, but as a practice itself it's not. You have to show all of your advertising customers good ROI or they aren't going to spend. This isn't true of others like print advertising, ota, etc. If you aren't making your customers money...they are going to pull their spend. It's as simple as that.
I wonder why the embassy did not remotely wipe his phone, since this was his work phone.

With that said, I don't understand how he could not have expected that when visiting China.
Do you have any metrics showing that these measurably change any performance numbers?
What does this have to do with what's happening?
According to the post Rambo published, his apps are still available on the App Store.
Judicial, Execution and Lawmaker branches should be separate in $10Bln+ tech platforms play:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_powers
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Here's an idea for a term for falling victim to this kind of thing: Kafka-banned. It's a bit like being hell-banned in that you don't know what's happening, but probably more baffling and stressful.
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Do we still need a new phone every year or two like was necessary in the past? I've had no desire to upgrade my phone and don't see a compelling reason to in the future. If manufacturing had stayed in america there would be copious amounts of technical jobs in the (now decimated) regions, even if mechanization reduces the overall number of people.

The world has too many people to support as is, so it is beneficial if automation reduces the number of workers needed in the long run. But sending all of the factories out of the US benefits no one.
"Intellectual terrorism" is indeed pretty extreme, and the term only applies to some segments of the industry. However that's exactly how I would describe the effect that fashion & beauty advertising have on women and men to a lesser extent.

None of the podcasts I listen to contain any kind of advertisement of any kind. This is not difficult to explain; prudent businesses typically do not stray very far outside the Overton window. This form of media exists - flourishes - because of listener patronage.

> Donations are not a scalable business.

True, but it's a viable business model. If you want something that scales as high as your entrepreneurial ambitions, consider that 100 million people pay Spotify in order to not have to listen to ads.
i think it s much more widely acknowledged:

https://quillette.com/2019/02/21/whats-happening-to-technolo...

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/diminish...
This is approximately the correct breakdown. Its interesting that ⅔ of the combo could be lumped into different kinds of luck.

You can't do much about your inherited or birth situation, but the extremely successful people I know usually have a very fortunate background and also worked hard to expand their future luck surface so that when outrageous opportunity lightning was looking to strike somewhere, they had an outsized chance to be the spot.
Sending a Terminator back to change the story date isn't cool. He'll be back in the sequel: Replicant vs Terminator.
I think SDC's will definitely increase VMT (vehicle miles traveled). Think of the talking points...you can just lay back, have a snooze, and in 8 hours you'll be at your destination. This means a LOT less barrier to long-distance travel, a LOT less barrier for long commutes, and increased attractiveness of cheaper housing/communities that are farther out. If the main barrier to more driving is time/effort, then SDC's will greatly increase VMT.
Apple rakes 30 cents off of every dollar spent In the App Store. Their end totals billions of dollars a month. They absolutely could do this “at scale”.
Any source can have some fraction their messages treated as spam; I was just saying that if you take a random IP address and set it up as SMTP, you will have trouble getting any messages through, even if DKIM &c. are setup correctly.

If you send too few messages, you're untrusted.
I don't like the walled in gardens that google and apple have created don't get me wrong. But at the same time the author made a life choice to be an ios developer. Something I don't understand, while you know that this job is putting your food on your plate. Why also burn bridges with gray area stuff like reverse engineering nda stuff? If it's your hobby, sure, but you'r using it to have an income. It's a bit naive to think you can get away with it. Two wrong definitely doesn't make a right, but this situation has a scent of surprised pikachu to it. Don't think going on the offense like this will help his case either. Perhaps it's time to overthink if he wants to stay a developer in the IOS ecosystem.
There’s a lot of mainland people in the US who think the western medias are all biased and that they are helping HK to separate from China.
I think Glassboard used to be something like this, but it never took off.
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Corollary is to develop an openness toward their continuing evolution, that no one is static, and to expect and support this.
You're thinking of space opera, and I agree the Expanse isn't very 'punk, but it does show the impoverished and those on the fringe of society (ice haulers), as well as corporate power (rent-a-cop detectives). It's like a hard sci-fi version of Game of Thrones, with its ensemble cast of viewpoint characters and otherworldly threat. Perhaps it's more like space post-cyberpunk.
China is like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hood and the devil is in the details https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93United_States_tr...
So I don't disagree with any of what you've said. I'm glad you brought up decentralization, because that's what I think many people actually want. I can't run a nuclear reactor in my back yard, but I could put panels on my roof. In doing so, I'd be somewhat insured against blackouts, "the crap hitting the fan" or whatever else, as well as not writing a huge check each month to the power company.

Some research[1] indicates that solar panels on most roofs could cover about 40% of the US's current power consumption, although the variance is fairly high (California could cover about 74% of its power demand, while Wyoming could cover only 14%). I think 40% would be a great improvement, particularly if it's fairly efficient and not too expensive; I just think we should be open to using things like nuclear for the other 60%+.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/02/a-solar-panel-on-eve...
Related from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10852421

2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10611187
Did I read it correctly that in first iteration they merged "NOT TESTED" code into master ?

Who would ever think it's a good idea ?
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I don't see what's wrong with that. Local First really just means distributed, fault tolerant, and eventually consistent but designed for user devices instead of a cloud "scale" service.

Why couldn't an enterprise run a "device" (a server) which others can easily sync to ("sync.enterprise.com") and which also only allows authorized users to access data which they're allowed to access? Maybe using Macaroons or something and devices can still sync locally via Bluetooth, Wifi, or whatever.

Now you have a full back up of everything on that server which IT could now more easily ensure it backed up, secured, and etc.

Not to mention the same idea could be used by a normal person just running a NAS at home or a server in DO/AWS/GCS/etc.
Ok, we've added that now.