skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It maybe doesn't warrant a full AskHN, but have you run a successful, small scale (< $1000) ad campaign? What worked and what didn't?

I don't think it's a bubble especially when you play with your own money and you have to be very careful of the keywords and targeting settings.
Indeed. The double standard is palpable.

When Apple fucks up: "but it's legal, who cares if it's wrong"

When other FAANG fucks up: "but it's wrong, who cares if it's legal"
One model where I sometimes found the ads interesting was the old Kuro5hin. You had to be a site member to buy ads, so they were usually from someone you recognized as part of the community, and usually somewhat relevant to the community.
Depending on the company, enterprise and consumer divisions might be totally separate from A to Z. (But I agree with you.)
Many things we recognize as terrible now were recognized as okay years ago. People then were blind to it. I assume I have similar blindnesses (e.g. In some of my social circles, using blindness as a metaphor is considered ableist). I know my own opinions have shifted in recent years from things I used to consider cringey PC bullshit to "oh they were right on this one." I remember some jokes I thought were funny as a kid (ones I even repeated to friends) which I think are disgustingly offensive now.

The scary part is that with such a strong digital record, people recorded as having now-bad opinions are being held to account all over the place. Sometimes they go viral and lose context, making them seem truly evil. They should be fired from whatever their job is today and shunned, apparently. Or elected prime minister of Canada. It's unpredictable.
I am coming to the conclusion that social skills are probably more valuable than coding skills. I don't think I am especially productive in my current job due to a lot of context switching, but I think they like me for my attitude.
I think with every president there r good things and bad things they do. Would like to just say that in the good category of our current president is their stance on China. Finally someone standing up and saying no more. I have not decided who to vote for in the next election but this issue will be one of the main ones I will be looking at.
Can you refute his specific stories about eBay's misguided advertising, etc.?
Yeah my commute is kinda long now. I work from home a lot but boy a desk in my car... would be pretty nice / get a lot done.
US student was allegedly building a custom Gentoo Linux distro for ISIS
That is absolutely not how the United States government thinks or operates.
That is actually a great point.
Can you elaborate on what you mean? From inside Google at the time, the general consensus was that they cared too much about it, at the cost of much of the rest of the company.
Because a lot of people find the animation style weird. I love that movie though
Maybe the right advice is to just store eggs how you found them in the store. If they were refrigerated, then keep them in your refrigerator - if they were not, then keep them out on the counter.
You left out one major player: investors. Investor owned utilities like PG&E are considered a rock solid place to put your retirement funds to get a predictable rate of return. As an investor with a short term perspective, I'd be very opposed to PGE reducing or eliminating my dividend in order to fund safety and fire maintenance, i.e. give me the money now, fires be damned. If I'm giving up a dividend, I'd rather invest in a growth stock.

That's likely the force at the root of why there is so much pressure for profit over safety.

The business decisions are optimized for the demands of investors, and the total magnitude of the dividend paid to investors like many of us probably dwarfs the bonuses paid to the execs.

That system was working fine (and in lower fire risk service areas, like most areas east of the Rocky mountains, it still is) until the true unmodeled risks of poor maintenance and climate change finally manifested, and here we are on the other side.

California is a matchbox, and barring major changes in energy generation and distribution technology and infrastructure to lower the risk, it will be risky to deliver electricity here no matter who is providing it, be that PGE or a hypothetical state owned utility. The benefit of the latter is that it is freed from the financial obligation to investors, and can focus on safety and delivery.
Why would you assume there is no cost? Either you hve to buy it, or rent it as a service. You are still paying either way.
Actually you're right, it is possible, but it's also not remotely worth it. I've been working with online communities for decades, and every person who hasn't done so has wanted to provide reasons, to provide explanations, and I will tell you in exactly every single interaction I've had when someone's account on whatever platform had to be terminated, that all they do is argue.

I didn't do that. It wasn't that bad. But I didn't mean it. But this wording. But that rule is unfair. On and on and on. And yeah, once in a blue fucking moon, we get someone who understands they messed up, knows why, and wants us to bend the rules just for them this one time because they super super promise they won't do it again. NO.
I have a slightly different method, but the outcome is how I've been wrapping ski ropes my entire life.
That is the narrative PG&E is trying to push but I am not buying it.

What seems to be the case instead is that "best-in-class industry practises" would be completely fine but are deemed to be too expensive.

So their choices are:

- Actually employ best practices.

- half-ass it and possibly be punished for it (too risky).

- Moan loudly about how horrible everything is, shutdown much more than necessary and wail how you are "forced" to do that. If you are obnoxious enough about it for long enough some legislation will be passed to allow you to half-ass it.

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Until the "best smartphone security" is two passwords: The second you enter when under duress, and it populates your phone with pro government content based on your current location. Or just wipes your phone. Or permanently locks, encrypts, and sends decryption key to some trusted source.
The director, Mick Jackson, later made Threads [1], which is one of the bleakest, most depressing films ever made. Highly recommended, though not for the easily disturbed. It's filmed like a documentary, not too different from A Guide To Armageddon.

He also made Connections [2] with James Burke, which is a fantastic documentary series about the history of science.

(His later, very commercial Hollywood work is less interesting, though Steve Martin's L.A. Story is great.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series)
i know someone working for brand advertisement at Nike. those big brand advertisers don't actually have hard proof that it's working. all they can do is point to a few case studies that have been referenced over and over again.

There is a time and place for ads. And some ads, definately do work. For example, in the gaming industry, you used to be able to track exactly how many users your game acquired based on what ad, allowing you to calculate ROI.

Now, if you look at all the biggest ad spenders on facebook, take a look and see which one is more: the big brand advertisers (where ROI is not calculated), vs gaming companies and other businesses that can calculate ROI. You'll see, the market for ads and thus the price paid for ads, is dominated by non-ROI calculated Ad spend. That certainly seems like a bubble to me. and, let's not forget, millenials aren't attached to brands to the same degree that previous generations were.
> Well you may be fine if you have a lot of disposable income, but many poor Americans will not.

Why are they poor? Hasn't globalization directly contributed to making the American working class poorer? For instance: Offshoring a factory obviously eliminates those workers' jobs. The owner of a American factory can also use the threat of offshoring to keep wages down. The owner is better off, but the workers clearly aren't.

One of the obnoxious things about free-trade ideology is that the cause of problems and the proposed solutions often seem to be one and the same: more market faster.
Submitted title was "Blade Runner was set today,2019/11/20", which broke the site guideline against editorializing. If you want to say what you think is important in an article, please do so in a comment, where your view is on a level playing field with everyone else's. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
No I am not using Kafka. It is just basic python server. I want to calculate what is the nth percentile of size of my incoming request object over past one hour.

I don't want to store size of each request in memory. It will eat so much of my RAM.

Incoming traffic:

- 1st batch

--> 60 requests

---> size of 1st request is 10kb

---> size of 2nd request is 2kb

...

...

- 2nd batch

--> 10 requests

---> size of 1st request is 5kb

---> size of 2nd request is 8kb

...

- 100th batch

I am talking about percentile(10th, 50th, 95th) size of request.
This is like saying that if your neighbors are awful you should simply take your house and put it somewhere else. Completely ignoring the cost of porting software written for one platform to another.
to me the cyberpunk elements in expanse look really like props existing as homage to cyber scifi - they don't have an active role in the movie. It centers on the adventures of the protagonists confronting central power, heads of state and planets etc. blade runner was just a retired policeman pursuing the lowest of the low. very different points of view
with regards to the App Store being the only way to get apps on iOS

The App Store is the only Apple supported way to release apps, there are unsupported third party app stores as well. Lack of transparency is not good, but I'm not sure what the issue is with there being only one officially supported way to download apps.

It is Apple's product and software, they are selling the "Apple Experience" as much as the hardware. Having a single store with strict guidelines and QC helps to ensure the most consistent experience.

If you only care about using the hardware how you see fit you can JailBreak and get access to almost anything. You take the same risks you would if there were other, easier to access, unsupported ways to download unmoderated apps.
This guys wrote a ranty article without telling/hinting/speculating us what went wrong? I am sorry but I feel like you have wasted our time by making us reading your article and as a reader and a supporter of indie dev community I am unable to conclude if Apple has done any wrongdoing here.
Went looking for YouTube video's to demonstrate the throwing of said coiled rope.

This came up, though the technique for coiling looks different:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFokJdx12yo

Suspecting (without trying it), that it might work out as the same type of coiling though.
But don't a lot of people who live in the Rust Belt shop at Walmart and benefit from cheaper prices generally? I haven't seen any "made in America" competitor to Walmart that's thriving because there's so much demand from customers who are willing to pay more to buy domestic made goods.

Having access to cheap goods might not make up lost jobs, but weren't most of the manufacturing jobs in the Rust Belt automated away rather than being offshored? Since 1990, production of metals in the U.S. has held roughly constant, but the number of people employed in the industry has fallen steadily. So it's not like the steel mill jobs from the Rust Belt were shipped overseas, they were just automated away.
It's not that hard to find out which Hardware works well with Linux and which doesn't.

I'm running Ubuntu 1804 on a Dell 7740 as well as on a Thinkpad 450 without any problems whatsoever.

And if I was based in the US, I'd probably go with System76 or some other Linux specialist.
Rapidly cooling trauma victims to buy more time for surgery
It's not about the "how", just listing which rule/clause in the agreement he broke is pretty essential.

Imagine being sent to jail and not being told what the offence was.
I wouldn't extrapolate the the level of immaturity it takes to make that connection to whoever named the service. The last time I giggled at hearing the word butt as part of a larger word or phrase was probably the second grade (cigarette butts, pork butt, etc)
"Engineering is a team sport" - me

You need to be able to work with others to produce things, unless you always work alone. Social skills are a very important part of that.
Surely the numbers are off but I think they are indicative and point to the utter ruthless methodical approach to decimation.
One scene from a Chinese movie is etched into my mind. One of the executioners complains he can’t kill anymore because his blade had become too dull.
The periods are named after the characteristic material of the finds. It is not really about "most advanced", it is about what have been preserved. Lots of iron tools/weapons are preserved from the iron age, lots of bronze tools/weapons have been preserved from the bronze age.

The division is from the 1820's and based on the finds available at the time. Of course today we have much better tools (like carbon dating) but the basic division is still valid.

There is no "pottery age" because pottery is known through the ages, but specific characteristics of pottery is indeed used to subdivide the periods and cultures - Funnelbeaker culture, Linear Pottery culture etc. To suggest that pottery have been ignored by archeologists is absurdly ignorant.
Not everyone is as materialistic as you. The goods you are talking about are luxury products we can do without - have you read of the sacrifices people make on the homefront during all out war? Even basic necessities such as food are rationed. To complain about not having the newest iPhone is a slap in the face of the sacrifices made by our ancestors in order to endure the world wars and stave off facism.
The novel was set in June 1994, the movie came out in 2006. The film's setting has often been described as an America that has "lost the War on Drugs", which is depressingly apt considering the opiate epidemic.
I have a wife, I code, exercise, play weekend music gig, do aquascaping, and read various theological books and random books in random topics.

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Too bad I suck at all those above, and still suck in my social skills.
Maybe now that there are viable alternatives to getting to and from home/work the law here in the States will catch up to saner legislation elsewhere and properly punish drunk driving instead of a slap on the wrist for the first few offenses “don’t do it again but here is your license, you can keep driving.”
FWIW, there's this paper that "[takes] a fresh, 'clean-room' look at implementing Prolog by deriving its translation to an executable representation and its execution algorithm from a simple Horn Clause meta-interpreter."

"A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Reinventing a Prolog Machine" Paul Tarau

https://www.cse.unt.edu/~tarau/research/2017/eng.pdf

Slides: https://software.imdea.org/Conferences/CICLOPS2017/files/tar...
They were told if you hover low over the compound walls you will lose lift and crash, but they did it anyway because they’re the Navy Seals(tm)
any advice on how to invest in ETFs while in Europe ? Vanguard is not available and local banks charge high management fees.
Show HN: Serve a Git Repository over HTTP in CLI or Library Mode. Written in Go
Hey yorwba, thanks for the comments. I received similar comments from HKers earlier wrt the Chief Executive office. Minor corrections are on the way out.

The changelog for this article is here:

https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/drewdevault.com/log/master

I have no plans to block Chinese citizens from using my services, though I wouldn't be surprised if the great firewall had other plans.
Jokes' on them, the Bay Area responded to this new challenge by having no place to go drink or have fun. Problem solved!
None of my examples are romantic. Notwithstanding a Stark ‘hide the Zuchini’ gag, that’s not how I read their relationship.
On this day in 1985: Windows 1.0 released
Ask HN: How much code do you write at work?
I started working as a software engineer in a FAANG few months ago.
Since I joined my work day has been filled with meetings, writing documents and hours of emails and Slack conversations and social events.
I write some code but it is barely few lines each week.
Yesterday I picked up a small github project and I found it difficult to follow and read, I am afraid my skills are getting rusty quickly.
I wonder if anybody is sharing the same experience and if this experience is also valuable as a software engineer.
Yup. This. No, I don’t need yet another company having my info - I’m demanded to sign up on a brand new computer I just set up - I don’t even get a free article anymore.

Tested it on a VPN to make sure, even.

I think ‘quality journalism’ can do without stopping to this level.
I added a watch to it and starred; I think it'd be a good idea to be more clear with what's being built in the README.md because I wouldn't have thought that this was a stripped-down browser based on the headline. As well, it's difficult to see exactly what you are getting from graffiti (is it just canvas, does it include DOM stuff) at a glance which may turn away those browsing repos.
Writing a Telegram bot is easy yes but writing a good one isn't. There are some very tricky things involved which you basically can not know and wont find in the Documentation. It forces you to run into problems first and then look for solutions. Especially if your bot gets decent amount of traffic something in the range of 1msg/s and above.

The people at https://t.me/BotDevelopment (unofficial) are your best chance for support because Telegram (bot) support is a joke.
You don't provide counterargument for the the article.

The article shows that you can show good ROI for customers, but for reasons provided in the article they are false and customers absolutely refuse to believe they are false even when shown otherwise. Just like the last time this was posted, many commenters just replplay the role of the advertising customers described in this article.
Unlike certain other far past politicians, his image is impeccably crafted, not grown. (Easy, look into his past. He's not a man of an image he is projecting. People don't change this much.)

He is a very good actor, specifically a comedian, and there's a species of logic behind his actions, not actual raw or even lightly filtered emotions as far as I can tell, but gives a great appearance he does so. (He does not seem to be a sociopath, but it's not a requirement.)

That said, by acting consistently, one does become their mask to a degree.
> It’s economically productive for the 1% to maintain a trade relationship with China.

This leading argument is not specific to China at all and would equally apply to India and most poor countries. Severing trade with all those countries would severely hurt their economies and their citizens.

It's the same logic behind "dey terk er jerbs" but somehow made reasonable by throwing accusations of fascism.
I guess TAP presubmit might be a merge queue... but it seems different from this. There was no requirement that some mechanical system checked that tests passed before your merged your CL. You could merge any code whenever it was approved. If you felt like running the tests, good for you. TAP presubmit is just that mechanical system that runs your tests before executing the merge. That seems like traditional CI to me, not a merge queue.

Jenkins with a Github plugin behaves almost exactly like this system. Every PR basically has tests run 3 times; once for the branch that the PR is on, once for your branch merged to master, and then once after you do the merge and submit it. TAP presubmit did the "once for your branch" and TAP did the post-merge CI.

TAP presubmit didn't really check that the resulting merge was sound, so you would see TAP presubmit pass, your change get merged, and then have the build break anyway because of the race condition. A merge queue would not have this race condition... so I'm not sure Shopify has one either. The more I think about it the more it sounds like they just rewrote Jenkins. (And for that, I don't blame them.)
>The second Blade Runner is a love letter to the first that also expands on some themes and further adds to the original myth

fully agreed, but I wish it would have been as visionary and as much of a leap as the original movie. We seem to live in the age of love letters with star wars, comic book adaptions, ready player one, and soon a fourth matrix movie.

I would be really glad if we had more filmmakers work on truly new aesthetics instead of just paying homage to works of the 70s, 80s and 90s.
The US has always valued "principle" over actual results. In Iraq, Saddam was "evil", so he had to go, even though it would leave the entire country in the power vacuum and destroy the livelihoods of the average Iraqi. Ditto for Gaddafi in Libya.

This post is much the same way. A poorer China is only going to deteriorate their human rights. A wealthier China is going to crave for more freedom. This happened in South Korea, which many forget used to be a brutal military dictatorship.
The other problem with that is that I don't think it will block malware embedded in the ads.

Every once in a while I get a page that buries a CPU core. It's either bad Javascript (most likely) or something mining cryptocurrency on my PC.
They don't necessarily need to put ads in the app. They can simply transfer that personal information to their larger people profiles making their existing ad networks more valuable. It could additionally be simply a play to keep someone _else_ from getting said data. (I think your argument still makes sense, just another angle on that part).
Clearly you need both; I've also worked with really sociable and nice people who were a great laugh but couldn't program their way out of a paper bag if the survival of the human species depended on it.
> It is in the best interest of a firm like eBay to know whether its campaigns are profitable, but not so for eBay’s marketing department.

Isn't this the case for basically every B2B product? The goal was always to make the purchasing manager look good, not to actually help the other company. So I don't see how this is proof of a bubble, you could say the same thing about McKinsey consultants or cloud computing.
> rather than retaliate against him, if that is indeed what is happening,

Right, but isn't that the important point here? I mean, 9to5mac publishes good content that most of us read. There's little argument that what they do is valuable in some existential sense, and you aren't trying to convince anyone that what they do is wrong.

The question is if whether Apple is retaliating against aggressive journalists and their sources, right? You seem to agree that this would be bad, but then sweep what seems to be the core issue away with "if that is indeed what is happening" before engaging with the spin in the article.

I mean... if the article is spun, I guess that's bad too, but frankly I don't care much. If Apple is retaliating for valuable journalism, I care very much and want to hear about that.
Goodwill. Just because you're the big gorilla and can act as such with impunity doesn't mean you ought to constantly remind people of that. One developer doesn't matter in the grand scheme, but every time they get to the front page of HN with a story like this it chips away at Apple's (or Google's, or whoever's) reputation. Collectively that does have value.
> Plenty of countries with homogenous populations have harsh drug laws

encouraged/demanded by the US economic doctrine for the last 40+ years
"Thomas Osadzinski, 20"

Am I missing something here?