skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't use the word likely. It might be because of who your target group is etc and I therefore have another experience. But yes, it does happen. The way it works is that Google allow themself to spend up to 2x your daily budget. If they exceed your daily x2, you'll be credited any overcharged amount.

Eg. Your daily budget is $200 and they spend $420, you’ll get a $20 credit.

Then there is the monthly limit, which is your daily budget x 30.4. Also here you'll be credited any amount they exceed.
Maybe not when the autodrive feature reduces the number of accidents to a pittance of what manually driven cars cause.
Google explains that on the long run, like,30 daya of campaign, it will be proper on average. The explanationis, that Google will spend more when it sees possibilities to give more value in specific time. For example, there is a special day when people buy more than usual, but later they dont. So there is more budget spend on this special day, and less on others to make it even.

So there is a reason behind it. But its something well hidden. You have 500 dollars for a one week campaign, and it occurs you pay 1000 dollars for it. It does not seem to be right.
Another one for the Guardian: "robbing earners" instead of "taxing the rich" and "achieving equality".
Climate change is not really an "existential" threat, or we have differing opinions on the meaning of that word.

What's really at stake is our industrial and post-industrial standard of living, which I find very scary personally. But to call it a threat to humanity, or worse "life" or "the planet" makes me think people don't really understand what climate change is.
I suspect a factor that makes this trickier is cost per click. You're bidding for a click not a particular spend, so if your cost per click is ~$0.01 then overrunning by 100 clicks only costs $1 over budget. If you're more like $1-5 a click (not uncommon) then you can easily get to $100 over budget.

My guess is that this is worse the lower your budget, and $100 a day is a low budget for Google ads when you're considering the whole industry.

I would expect that with a budget of, say, $5000 a day, you might still be ~$100 out.
Perhaps base 10 is the problem. In base 2, you can learn the "multiplication table" in 10 seconds (0 X n=0, 1 X n=n, we're done.) The long multiplication algorithm for n and m is just multiply by n by the least significant bit of m, add to the accumulator, left shift, repeat. You can do subtraction by adding the two's complement (just flip every 1 to a zero and every zero to a one - trivial for a child to learn) instead of using the "borrowing" algorithm. You never have to "guess" when doing long division in base 2. All of these operations can be justified in terms of the Peano axioms with very short arguments: prove the associative and distributive properties, and the multiplication algorithm is obvious, etc.

Arithmetic in base 2 is so easy, you can literally teach your pet rock to do it (assuming your pet rock is a reasonably pure silicon wafer with scattered boron and phosphorous impurities shot through with thin veins of copper.)

And no, I'm not advocating teaching kids to convert between different bases, which they almost universally find confusing - I'm saying we should teach kids arithmetic purely in base 2, and only expose them to base 10 once they understand the fundamental concepts.

Am I being serious? Well, it's certainly a lot easier to dismiss this approach out of hand then to pinpoint what - if anything - is actually wrong with it.
Skim the linked memo at least, it exposes some more of the methods and speech that were used: https://www.sourcewatch.org/images/4/45/LuntzResearch.Memo.p...
There is no Nobel prize in economics.

> The five real Nobel Prizes—physics, chemistry, literature, peace, and medicine/physiology—were set up in the will left by the dynamite magnate when he died in 1895. The economics prize is a bit different. It was created by Sweden’s Central Bank in 1969, nearly 75 years later. The award’s real name is the “Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.” It was not established by Nobel, but supposedly in memory of Nobel. It’s a ruse and a PR trick, and I mean that literally. And it was done completely against the wishes of the Nobel family.

> “The Economics Prize has nestled itself in and is awarded as if it were a Nobel Prize. But it’s a PR coup by economists to improve their reputation,” Nobel’s great great nephew Peter Nobel told AFP in 2005, adding that “It’s most often awarded to stock market speculators …. There is nothing to indicate that [Alfred Nobel] would have wanted such a prize.”

https://www.alternet.org/2012/10/there-no-nobel-prize-econom...
This was a good story. I enjoyed the rural vibe and the simple mechanics: do it because you care, it's right, and it will still be hard.
Right. I was in the Air Force back in the late 80's and had a '64 Chevy pickup I painted flat black, and then stenciled in red lettering all over it. Had "Danger, Air Intake" on the front bumper, "No Step" above each wheel well, "Fuel Port" by the gas cap. Put an American Flag bumper sticker up on the rear corner of both sides of the bed.

Had "Stealth Bomber" in red on the door panels.
K8s is not an advancement in orchestration and is very much on the AWS side in this, deeply integrating with proprietary cloud services that do their own operations and infrastructure, not even considering open sourcing those services and their supporting infrastructure nor working towards alternatives to replace them. It's just that the same thing that makes AWS piles of money is the same thing the company behind k8s is after, so they are definitely not going to advance k8s in a way that commoditizes AWS. Not that they are even capable of doing so.
"its globalism, its capitalism and thats where we are right now as the human race. It sucks"

So they DO have something to complain about; so what's the beef with them complaining about it? Because they're not using your perspective? You're complaining that they're not looking at the issue through the perspective of others, so aren't you doing the same thing?

The life experiences of people on the other side of the planet isn't more tangible than your relatives' life experiences which have borne witness to the suckiness that you acknowledge they've experienced. If a parent loses one child in a car accident, are you going to tell him to "stfu" because another parent somewhere lost two children in a car accident?
Why not work towards a new domain name that would be controlled only by the non-profit stakeholders so as to "pull the rug" right out from under the sale to Ethos ?

All non-profits would then transfer over to this new domain and it would become the new defacto locale for non profits, leaving Ethos holding a wet paper bag, as they deserve.
Hmmm, interesting. How they monetize the platform?
Watching my Mom who was a "typist"(google it if your too young to know what that is!) ,enter in page after page of code from a computer magazine into our family PC. Then watch my Dad spend the next few days debugging her typos and then finally transfer the program to a tape recorder. I'm pretty sure the first game was a text based version of lunar lander.
While buying your product name (or your competitor) is sometimes the case, this isn't the main source of volume in your pipeline.

And it's still a $27 profit, even if it is possible you could have saved money.

Most of the time a well-optimised PPC pipe looks for specific (non-brand) keywords and buys them, not just the product name.
From another thread I saw the recommendation for "Getting to Yes, and... The art of business improv"[1]. It just arrived yesterday. This blog post looks eerily similar.

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[1] https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/0804795800/ref=mp_s_a_1_8?key...
> still is across what's now the muslim world (although I think it long predates Islam).

It can trivially be seen to have little to do with islam in examples like the House of Habsburg, and the famously ignominous end of the Spanish line. Or orthodox jews (the endogamous set is wider than just a family, but you still see lots of rare genetic conditions crop up, and some jewish communities don't even stray outside of it e.g. Mashhadi jews).

Though it does look related to Arabization.

While first-degree cousin marriage has gotten quite a bit rarer used to be extremely common across the globe, and aside from the middle-east it also remains legal throughout eurasia (except for a few eastern european countries and notably china where it's entirely banned and india where it's dependent on culture and religion) and south america

> IIRC it's much less common in Hindu tradition

It's less common but hardly non-existent: according to Shrikant Kuntla, Srinivas Goli, T.V. Sekher, Riddhi Doshi via wikipedia[0] rate of consanguinous marriage is 25% of indian muslims, 15% for indian hindu, and under 10% for other indians. State / culture presents a much wider spread, from 1.2% in Himachal Pradesh to 38% in Tamil Nadu.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin_marriage#India
Show HN: JSON-to-Go, Built with Go and QML
linux-specific hack: read /proc/self/fdinfo/1 and check if its mnt_id (/proc/self/mountinfo) corresponds to a devpts mount.
Depends on the nature of activity. Pure stress will activate your brain but experience is mostly degraded.
There's no argument. Everything in that post has been designed to be indexed online and published as some kind of counter-argument against criticisms but that's it.

It's all bogus and he knows it. He is to busy counting money to care.
It seems that they earn only on tools for the investor through a subscription model.
I can't understand this. Surely either samples are independent, or they are not?

And they are not in a computer program. The state of, to just give one example, the processor cache depends on what happened in the previous run.

We have all this rigour in how statistical techniques are applied, and we make black or white decisions based on the numbers that come out of them, but at their very foundation we're saying 'whatever I'll just pretend this rule applies it's probably fine'. How can we build on that flawed foundation? I don't get it!
Went to school in Sweden too in the 90-00s. I wasn't taught long division until I had to divide polynomials in my last year of high school, and that course was an elective.
I wonder if the government of Singapore has created a Ministry of Truth to go on Facebook and mark posts as fake.
i think its this from the top comment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m72mt4VN9ik&t=781
There's no obvious network effect in search.

Google does have brand and distribution though.
Not even mentioning conways compression?
You can compress any data fragment down into a final state of a deterministic game.
e.g. Just take a chessboard, and apply any sequence of moves - and you have something in chessboard binary from above.
This is even better with productive gamerules, like for example conways game of life.

These type of algorithms (with shared knowledge) allow for a much more tailored to the actual usecase optimization.
Just have some prepared gamestates ('openings') most similar, and add some manipulation that gets you there in n steps.

This also allows you to efficiently trade between space (stored openings) and parallelizable computation (game rounds) to restore a data fragment.

NN: Optimizations can used to identify opening game rounds.

To lazy to search and post the various papers on this.
Microsoft project Verona, a new systems programming language
“selfish gene” is my very least favorite anthropomorphism.
bureaucrat was being facetious.
Singapore already jails people for being critical of the government on Facebook, so this shouldn't seem like a stretch for them. The news here is Facebook going along with a dictatorship (Singapore's elections aren almost impossible for anyone but the ruling party to win).
You can contact the IRS and the authorities in Virginia and California; if this sale is as suspicious as it appears to be, they may uncover evidence of wrongdoing and prosecute. Drew DeVault has form letters you can use: https://drewdevault.com/2019/11/29/dotorg.html
The microscope makers putting ever-larger biological samples under the spotlight
I understand, that the choice was made 5 years ago, but why Java?
It's the spectator, effectively captured by the lunatic fringe of the Tory party and UK equivalents to Heartland and CATO. Often a very entertaining read, but one of the most biased sources around. It might be worth a read, let's take a look...

"Matt Ridley", ah. Blatant denialism of the 1990-2000 variety and rarely resorts to facts.
Not that I'm aware of.

I suspect the format would be quite proprietary
I used Fidonet in Belarus just before the sunset, so to say, from 2004 to 2009 or so. It was very interesting experience.
It's pretty reliable outside some known bad blocks.
« Many people aspire to “silent success” at work - to do work that “speaks for itself”. Unfortunately this is the wrong move in the theatre of work. Instead we should aspire to the opposite - for knowledge work, the performance of the work is the work. »

Not sure what the author means by “knowledge work”, but I find this very true, for any type of work.
"For example if you set a budget of 100 dollars per day, Google can, and most likely, will, spend 200 dollars in short campaign per day."

This is the EXACT reason years ago I only gave Google multiple prepaid credit cards over the years with a $200 limit because I KNEW they couldn't be trusted. When they started notifying me they would not accept prepaids anymore I abandoned my ad word account - - and fortunately my rank is the same as it was on 1st page since I'm in a nitch business
The idea that anyone, Kims included, in DPRK wants to transition from the current luxurious situation of absolute personal sovereignty to a more glassed-over desert type situation is an example of the cartoon thinking I described above. No one in DPRK with a hand on any button is insane. (Can USA make that claim?) I agree that the absence of nuclear destruction is better than its presence, but let's not be cute. It is the warhawks like Bolton and HRC and Elliott Abrams who always want to ratchet up the pressure because the sky is falling, whether that's the sky over Libya or Korea or Venezuela or wherever. Many people without a financial interest in the inexorable conversion of USA resources into armaments are fine with less: less pressure, less haste, less aggression, less isolation, less single-mindedness, less faux "certainty".
Then the marketing person lacks fundamental understanding of the platform.

Also, how do you spend so much cash and ignore the stats for so long that you have to change the target demographic for the app?
Wikipedia publishes a lot of incorrect information.

The fact that you can source a piece of information doesn't make it true.
Or: why do so few people who understand math teach elementary school?

Once someone learns math, what incentives do they have to choose teaching elementary school over alternatives?

I could imagine that the skills to learn math don't overlap with the skills to teach elementary school and that time spent one detracts from the other. If mastery in each takes a decade or so and few people dedicate themselves to double time in school for a lifetime in communities that misunderstand them, I could see teaching k-12 math as a career and life disaster.
Being able to mechanically perform an algorithm is the first step on the road to in some sense actually understanding it. If you think you understand the fundamental concept but you can’t solve a problem using the algorithm you probably don’t.

> Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. - John von Neumann
> As you said, computers are so powerful nowadays that most people (even devs!) cannot even comprehend it at an intuitive level.

Yeah, and still a good number of electrons apps arrive to put my CPU at 100% for something as advance as "text editing".

CPU are powerful when used right.
We're researching the potential impacts of deepfakes on society
The real world depends on base 10, and so it's way more practical to learn calculations in base 10. I said calculations, not math.

I think there is a big confusion between math and calculations. Kids learn calculations, not math. Learning the multiplication table is just a way of how to do quick calculations inside your head.

I need to pay 35.15 euros, so how much do I get back? That is calculation not math. In my opinion the most practical thing that kids need to learn first. It's more about remembering than logic.

When the get older, math comes into the picture. They can leave calculations up to calculators or computers, and learn the language of math.

So in my opinion, there needs to be a more clear distinction between calculations and math, because they are definitely not the same.
hmm. Good point. I'll see how it goes. I mostly need it for tablet while traveling so nothing missing critical CAPTCHAs could be annoying though
Quadcopter Programming Part 2: Using the CMSIS Library and First Takeoff
And of course I got it wrong too... b^)
I haven't seen anyone selling them commercially. But if you could find high-quality lever-arch binders and the right kind of blank paper you could presumably make your own Linux version of the Big Grey Wall http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/b/BigGrayWall.html . I assume that the core APIs change slowly enough nowadays that printing new pages often enough to keep the wall up to date would not be infeasible. One possible problem: IDK if all the snags involved in converting man page troff into other formats are fully ironed out, even now. http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/gropdf.1.html Probably the bigger reason not to is that the arrival of cheap tablets and laptops, multi-monitor and/or ultrawide-monitor desktop setups and AR/VR is eroding the remaining usefulness of such hardcopy docs. It still might be a marginally-useful fashion statement for a whole office of programmers who build directly on the Linux APIs fairly regularly.

Probably the nearest thing that's available off the shelf (no pun intended) is a hardcover copy of Kerrisk http://man7.org/tlpi/ , which actually happens to be on a slightly-higher-than-usual discount this very weekend: https://nostarch.com/tlpi .
>VPN netflix

The last self-rolled VPN couldn't get past netflix or prime. Despite checking for DNS leaks etc. Either IP range was blocked or some sort of TTL mechanism
We stay on par with KDB in most cases we tested, exempt for resampling of time series (xbar in kdb) where we are much faster
I think that site pretty much nails it, especially SSO (depending on what you're doing you probably want LDAP, SAML and OIDC/OAuth2) and audit logs.

It misses a couple of other nice to have differentiators, though:

The ability to pay by invoice to their purchasing department (you probably want to insist people do this upfront and yearly and not monthly, to avoid the pain of chasing people). Plenty of enterprises won't be able to buy your product without this.

Some decent consideration given to self-service (which RBAC might cover, but best to be explicit), by which I mean that you can delegate admin control such that you don't need to put in tickets with the team that runs the system in order to get changes made to its configuration. (Example: GitHub enterprise let's you set up multiple orgs, so you can give each dept. or team an org to do what they like with.)

If you put some thought into granular permissions from the beginning (in the GitHub case, for example giving away perms to create repos, but not allowing that user to change how auth works for the org, for example) you will avoid pain later.

APIs. Dependent on product, but ideally design your UI so that it is backed by an API that lets me do everything programmatically, so I can drive your product with other integrations via we hooks, or GitOps, or whatever else I want to do.
They only show the notice to citizens of the country. People from other countries would see their own notices.
I'm in Singapore and I see it
> I still don't know why long-division works

I was taught long division in the 4th grade (age 9) but wasn't taught a proof of why it works until a college algebra course (age 19).

For whatever it's worth a different type of long division is taught now under common core. The common core math stuff that I've seen is impressive - there is more focus on teaching things in a way where comprehension of deeper concepts should be possible. It's a shame there's so much fear of it from parents who are upset kids are learning differently than they did.
Well if long division is unintuitive, the procedure to compute square-roots by hand is even more mysterious, as if it has transcended dealing with numbers and instead become a symbolic manipulation. Thankfully it is something I never had to apply, even once in adult life till now.
Thanks. Any references regarding DNT going away?
Maybe you forgot the article.

> In March, during meetings of the national legislature in Beijing, some workers in Guangdong used social media to discuss submitting a petition to the central government. The term “petition” triggered an algorithm. Police dragged workers from dormitory beds and humiliated them with strip searches, Chaguan was told. Other workers were reportedly evicted after landlords were told they were “problematic” by officials.
So why even use a platform that so easily throws your money away for nothing? With those points you laid out I would be better off keeping my money.

Facebook is the same way with all of this crap too. I’ve seen more success with the hard way, networking and getting content made about me and distributed in magazines or online blogs from people who get to use my service for free.
I don't think you can regulate opinions.

But what you can do quite easily is to disallow statements that are factual wrong.

That would solve at least a part of the problem.

If I say things which where already proven wrong, then I can't post them on Ads.
AMD has always been better at price/performance but in the laptop space the number 1 through 10 most important features are efficiency. Intel CPUs use less power and make less heat, which has always been the limiting factor.
This was also my curiosity. These sorts of medications are abused for their pain relief properties, but also the whole euphoria thing is a pretty big equation too.
Phone Calls Might Be More Productive Than Email
Even USA herds mostly feed on grass or hay. Animals only go to the feedlots for a few months before slaughter. They do add a lot of mass in that period. Anyway, beef consumers can certainly vote on this topic. If you prefer the taste or morality of grass-fed beef, it's available for purchase.
On the other hand, believers fear the whole personal responsibility for existence. I've come to understand that religious people find facts to support their beliefs, and non-religious people find belief to support their facts.
> Learning Shakespeare is typically tied to learning how to communicate through reading, writing, and comprehension. IMO, that is much more generally useful than learning anything about a Laplace transform.

Learning to do a poor quality imitation of early twentieth century literary criticism is at best a really inefficient way to teach communication through reading, writing and comprehension. Vocational pseudo reasons to teach the humanities are and always have been horse shit, detracting from the pleasures of those who are actually interested, whether as teachers or students.
The one thing I want to see in a programming language readme is a code sample. What does it do? The author recognizes that:

> Perhaps you'll get the best idea of what Frink can do if you skip down to the Sample Calculations further on this document.

But I never saw that because it was a normal text link in the second paragraph, and because the table of contents is so long I assumed it was the entire document.

There should be at least one sample calculation higher up, with a link to the others, under its own heading called "What you can use Frink for".