skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or a complaint from a very famous person in startup circles to get people to pay attention to the expensive software issues...
The way we use internet has also been changing at a significant rate since 2000 so we don't really have the counterfactual to show that content-based advertising wouldn't have experienced similar growth rates, unless we find a report covering revenue growth over the same period from a company (or better yet, a set of companies) that focuses on content-based ads
If you use the PDF or e-book functionality in Edge, you may want to hold off on upgrading. The PDF scrolling is not as smooth as on the older version.
I guess it’s true that some companies are hiring to up/downvote certain posts.
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> do you consider this a good or a bad thing? As a representative of your industry I'm curious to hear your thoughts.

I wouldn't presume to speak for my industry, but here are my thoughts and I appreciate being asked the question (as opposed to simply being attacked).

1. 5000 ads seems like too much, but I'm really not sure how we could arrive at what would be considered the right amount. 100? 5? 0? And even if we could, how would that get regulated, exactly? If we restricted it, who would decide who gets to advertise and who doesn't? Some may balk at this, but I feel that would lead to a form of censorship that none of us would appreciate. So the right number seems to be either zero or unlimited.

2. That said, some places have put full on bans on certain types of advertising. I'm ok with that. People seem to like it.

3. Most advertising (there are very few exceptions) fund various types of media. With the exception of state-funded media, advertising is the reason we have TV, radio, newspapers, social media, online news, YouTube, etc. Generally speaking, no one is willing to pay the full cost of the media we all consume. It's paid for by advertising. (You're welcome.) (If anyone brings up Netflix, tell me when exactly they intend to turn a profit and become a sustainable business?)

So is it good or bad? I maintain that, like most things in life, this should be judged on a case by case basis. Blanket judgments don't work.

> Human aspiration is built-in, we don't need help via advertising to desire more from life.

Yes and no. I get it if you don't think advertising contributes a net positive to human aspirations. But do you condemn teachers, preachers, and parents for trying to get people to aspire to greater things? Maybe the assumption is that advertising only promotes things that don't need promoting. I disagree, but I won't argue. But I have a hard time believing that your position is that no one should ever try to persuade anyone of anything because we're born with all the motivation we'll ever need. If that were the case, why are we even having this conversation?
I wonder if there is research on using deep learning for stuff like SAT solvers.
We're using Blazegraph (The db that Amazon Neptune uses) with great success. We only use the Sparql api with quads so we get nested graphs.
Working remotely from a cheap place for clients from expensive places, charging expensive place market rate.
Thank god for global warming.
That wasn't my experience (on Firefox, at least). It just opened in a new tab. The only history in that tab is the subscription page, so the back button doesn't work.
> patient care gets reduced to metrics that administrators can tweak

So they’re applying “agile project management” then?
A little birdie tells me they always raise your rates. Deny them and thake the small hike.
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This is not a Tesla only problem, mind you. Most companies I've had the (dis-)pleasure of working with lately seem to be lacking in this area. It isn't until the brass steps in that a decision can be made to unlock an outcome.
When customer support resorts to justification by analogy it's not gone well.
Yes, but that's like having 10 usd plan for truly unlimited in NYC alone. It's different to build mobile network for a small country. It's different to build it from Ocean to Ocean.
I guess what I meant is that the overall concepts are understandable. Nuclear fuel gets hot, boils water, drives a turbine. For transmissions, different sized gears allow things to turn at different rates.

But as soon as I dive into the details, I get lost. How exactly can you control the nuclear decay? How exactly does do the gears in the transmission move around and combine with eachother to create a specific gear ratio? These concepts probably are probably pretty simple for a lot of people, but they just make my head spin.
When coupled with this: https://news.sky.com/story/crack-in-antarctic-glacier-why-th... - is feels like we are at risk of things moving faster and changing more than we might expect.
Some of those 'false' narratives are generalities that are not too far away from the truth. It is true that pursuing money does not bring happiness in itself if one is blinded by the pursuit and does not know when to stop. It is true that rich people's offspring are also rich. It is also true that a lot of what's on TV is fake or generally falls into these patterns. Just at Hollywood for example
what I don't get is, if they saw a high number of views on FB with no actual revenue, why didn't they revert to their previous behavior of just sharing links?
Toyota is recalling nearly 700k vehicles because of issues with the fuel pump
Maybe we could blind all the poor people, that way we don't need to buy them decadent luxuries like refrigerators.
The other issues is that their sensors always report bad driving. There is no upside to putting one on your car.
I've been tracking my time in great detail as I work on various projects and I am hoping others will find this interesting!
> Like any other cartel they don’t make the economic pie bigger they make sure their members get more pie. Pie either goes to consumers in the form of lower prices, owners in higher profits or workers on higher wages.

I agree with you completely, except owners currently take a disproportionate slice of the pie. That is the cause of wealth inequality -- the power of unions to demand a bigger slice of the pie ultimately impacts the entire economy. Somewhat paradoxically, unions have much more of an interest in the long-term survival of the company than shareholders, who often take a short-term view of profitability. This ultimately leads to better decision-making.
Of course they don't record and listen, that would be slow and take huge stores of data. They save transcripts and read/parse it instead. Much faster and less data to store.
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Video games and Netflix, for most people. I really don't think the trade-off between Netflix time and house cleanliness is a false perception synthesized by advertisers.
Does this make an argument for crypto?
I think this is the key, so much of of the problems physicians face were created by physician and their own lobbying. American Physicians are paid more then other countries by a lot [1] in large part because of high educational requirements that were supported by physicians. Resident burn out is awful, but the people pushing them to work insane hours aren't the hospital administrators, but older physicians who have the attitude that they went through it too. It's really hard for a physician from another country to immigrate to the US and practice, restrictions supported by, you guessed it, physicians!

If you really want to lower physician burn out and decrease health costs we need to increase the supply of physicians in this country, and you'll have to fight the existing physicians to do it.

[1] https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2010....
Search engines are preventing what was done before.

Yahoo search would bring up sites on geocities, or small indy sites, for pretty much any topic.

For instance, in the mid 90's you could search for the band "Green Day" on yahoo, and get all sorts of personal fan pages. Now it's 100% corporate crap results.

Independent users no longer have the 'reach' as the corporate users do. We used to share cool things via word of mouth on IRC or AIM or ICQ. Now people just share memes on facebook.
Yep, everyone seems to ignore that the AMA operates like a cartel. Hippocratic Oath my ass.
Anyone who worked at Zynga in 2013-14 could share some fine stories about what it's like to bet everything on the prospect of lots of good Facebook traffic for the indefinite future.

All or nothing partnerships between startups and giant companies have been toxic/fatal in many cases since the days of vacuum tubes. They can work nicely. But supreme due diligence and even suspicion are necessary along the way.
We should strive to lie less period! Not only the poor are lied to, the middle class is the main target IMHO
I don't recommend that one. Trust me, I've made a similar app two months ago but after learning that a guy from UK got sent to jail just for having links to pirate content, I took the app down and deleted the post.
The dealer likely hit you with a warranty extension pitch during the sales process. So the only potential sales cannibalization would be from individuals that _might_ have purchased a warranty from the dealer after the sale. The guaranteed revenue from leasing out the list would more than likely makes up for that possibility, especially if it's coordinated at the manufacturer level.
on the comparison with Consolas section, it says consolas is wider than JBMono, and JBMono is taller. However, the lines of code in the example run longer in the JBMono version than Consolas.
Why is that? is the comparison flawed?
Seems to go over well with the phrenology crowd if you get my drift.
Normally this sort of thing is a mismatch between user preferences (easy, free), and developer goals (stable, accessible). But the Google Graveyard is getting so big that it might actually discourage users.

First, Google has moved beyond killing third party apps 'terminal' apps like Plus to killing support apps like Cloud Print. That alone means that as a user I'm scared to rely on integration-level apps.

Second, the rate of turnover is so high that it actually causes me usability problems pretty often. Everyone hates Microsoft Office redesigns, but they're infrequent enough to get used to. Between dead apps, changing permissions and features, and constantly being thrown in and out A/B tests, I basically never feel at ease with Google products. If I have to look for instructions on how to do something, they're almost always unusably out of date.

(Storytime: the incredibly useful "arrive/depart at" feature in Maps vanished from my mobile app for a while. I got into a discussion about it with another programmer who missed the feature and a Google engineer who thought we were just looking in the wrong place. It quickly became clear that fragmentation or long-term A/B testing meant each of us had vastly different options and interfaces.)

Third, killing third party ecosystems catches up in the long run. Normally that comes when companies lock down services, but here it might come from uncertainty. if developers shy away from Google products and I can't trust trust Google-official services to say alive, how long before I look for more robust options? (Answer: I already am, increasingly often.)
Do you have an alternative hypothesis for why advertising would be inversely correlated with satisfaction?

If not, it seems like we should operate on our best hypothesis with evidence for it, not speculate about unknown unknowns.

You did at one point say that advertising might not be causing the lower satisfaction, it might just be exacerbating other problems that cause lower satisfaction. While that possibility certainly warrants investigation to see what those other problems are, it doesn't have any implications for how we treat advertising: either way we should be seeking to decrease its influence on our lives.
The effect appears to be negative if anything. That article is starkly (and suspiciously) alone in its conclusions, if you look at what's been happening statistically over the last few years.

The systems will get better, but for the time being, they mostly serve to let drivers think they can get away with paying even less attention to the road than usual.
As @jordan_mcrae_ put it, "This is called blue checkmark service. Not available to regular Tesla customers"
That's why the old Soviet Union tried to jam western TV broadcasts leaking over the border.
That's true. World is not a fair place. No point in making it more unequal though. Let just the best and more dedicated win.
I appreciate all you do as a moderator to fend off obvious trolls and griefers. I'm sure it must be a thankless job. However, I feel that your comment is not helpful or constructive. People have legitimate reasons for not wanting to create too long of an online trail so they can remain anonymous. That's okay. If their comments are "actually pretty good" then that's good enough; The user name that's attached is irrelevant. They are contributing value to the site.

Guidelines such as "throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but please don't create accounts routinely" are naive. Non-sensitive information can reveal sensitive things when aggregated. We've all read articles about how anonymized data sets can still contain enough data to identify, or come close to identifying, individuals. I'm sure a number of those articles have been linked to from this web site. Practicing user account rotation is a useful tool for mitigating such risks.

Maybe it's time to rethink this particular site guideline. Let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater when it comes to users making contributions to the site.
In my state, this happens even when you buy a car from a private person instead of a dealer.
I initially had the same thoughts, especially regarding the increased height.

However, in Intellij (and other Jetbrains IDEs), they've recently increased the line spacing to (I currently use 1.1)

With the increased line spacing, I have had no trouble distinguishing between lower and upper case (to my surprise).
This! It's crazy how infrequently the stranglehold the AMA has on limiting the number of doctors is mentioned when we talk about the cost of medical care in the US. It's like we allow a single institution to create an artificial shortage of something and then act surprised when the cost of that thing goes through the roof.
If the author is reading this, I’d like to ask him to please run his article through a spell checker. All the effort to write a nice article is spoiled by having dozens of typos and spelling mistakes.
Some of the revenue will have been CH directly selling ads (sponsorships, product placement, etc.) based on those inflated viewership counts.
I am currently working with marketing.

But I am happy I actually DO give information... My job consists of finding what people need (not want, but literally need), and tell them we can provide it.

Usually people that call the company where I work, thank us for having the product and the ads, sometimes they say they searched for days and then found our ads.

That said... we sell industrial parts, mostly for the maintenance of existing machines, so it is easy to not have any ethical trap... But it is not THAT profitable either... (just for comparison: I know a guy that works filming TV ads, and he said politicians pay for 30 second ads to his company, the same income my company has for several months summed...)
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So what, if iMessage is the default SMS app and it sends to an unregistered iCloud account, it should either translate to SMS or give an error.

The last thing it should do is silently send a message to an inactive account such that it looks like I ghosted the person.
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I was unclear. A local administrative law judge makes a determination that you are "disabled", you are placed on SSDI and cannot work without losing it.
Not just a lot, it actually makes it readable. However I do feel this article needs a few graphs and diagrams. I've written [0] about data recovery and SSD/Flash storage is a massive beast to tackle even with diagrams to give you a vague idea of what's going on.

[0] in old fashioned tree-based paper, unfortunately
I'm not at all accustomed to game design or game code. How is game state normally called upon and saved?
Can confirm that I would be happy to collaborate on this project, it looks really cool!
Wind River Acquires Star Lab to Improve Its Linux Security
Would this be more like calculus where you plug in a range of numbers to get to a target?
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Since you cherry picked the worst examples, let me cherry pick some of the best:

- Ads for charities
- Political ads (which are only good or bad if you agree or disagree with their positions)
- Ads for schools
- Movie trailers (a form of entertainment in it of themselves)

Also: I suspect (but don't have the means to prove) a positive correlation between advertising spending and national GDP.

Look, if your point is that capitalism is evil, I'm not gonna argue it. But in a free market, advertising creates jobs. It builds companies. It builds economies.

When that advertising-free socialist utopia shows up that somehow isn't an evil dictatorship, let me know! Sounds awesome.
We are life, and we'll need find adaptions too.
Ask HN: Amazon Deprecated 1-Click?
Hi HN (esp Amazonions),

This morning across all my devices 1-click is gone and replaced with a Buy Now button which doesn't place order on click.

I chatted with Amazon support and this is the official line given:

"1 Click has been depreciated now, it is just Buy Now for now.

This change took place due to recurring issues and feedback reported by majority of customers and we're trying to work around with it to get some better feature. it is just like 2 click now"

Can any of the fellow Amazonians confirm this? this is a huge step backwards and certainly not customer obsession.
I am not claiming that this would be a perfect solution, but Google Sheets (and Docs, Slides, Forms...) allow for [Apps Scripts](https://developers.google.com/apps-script/).

Once you get the hang of it, and use tools like [clasp](https://github.com/google/clasp), you can create semi-complicated automated workflows; which I still find delightful.

For one of my jobs, I created a form, that either on submit or on demand, creates a PDF with the data based off a template made with Slides, and emails it to me and to the person who filled it.

The code is as concise as the API allows, that is, not much. But it's saved us the need to have a manual workflow, or setup a server just for this service.
not if you're reading via Materialistic via Android browser with no responsive design or zoom ~,~
Almost all burnout in the medical profession stems from state intervention and the extremely complex lobby relationships between different actors in the market. Classical liberal policies would change everything in the market.

In particular, there are a few things that crush doctors:

Problem: Cost of education: You require licenses per-state, and a license can be gotten only after a very grueling and expensive educational process in the half a million dollars range or more in student debt.

Solution: Make it legal to practice medicine with foreign education licenses. Doctors can study in countries where the education is free or nearly-free.

----

Problem: Too few people go into the medical profession per-capita in the US. Currently a 20-year in practice specialist doctor from any other country has to go through a lowly paid residency in the US to be able to exercise, plus compete in the very narrow H1B visa space.

Solution: Make a special purpose visa for medical professionals (Nurses & Doctors) and allow them to practice medicine.

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Problem: Malpractice insurance is extremely expensive due to the high levels of litigation in the medical profession, that far outstrip the typical responsibility of a professional. Some specializations require insurance of thousands of dollars a month!

Solution: Allow for malpractice waivers that let doctors practice at a cheaper rate, and let patients decide what kind of risk they are willing to get or not.

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Problem: US has the lowest level of Primary Care doctors per capita of developed nations in great part because they are the least protected specialization by the AMA which is mostly compromised by specialty doctors. One rule made here is that PCP's cannot collect 'kickbacks' or revenue by referring patients to a speciality doctor, and thus the PCP works for free to provide referrals to specialists.

Solution: Allow for transparent processes of verticalization and monetization, which will bring PCP's to a more natural rate count.

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Problem: The government subsidizes medical insurance by making it tax exempt. This makes it so everyone gets insurance through their employer which in turn makes it impossible for a doctor to compete with the insurance model that is tax exempt by being all-cash. The tax benefit allows insurance companies an oligopoly against small practices.

Solution: Eliminate insurance through employer and/or get rid of the tax exemption.

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Problem: The government pays a higher revenue rate if the medical practice is digitalized. This has pushed the entire industry into using electronic records to get that revenue boost long before its time, producing terrible technical solutions. (The biggest player in the space, Epic, collections millions of dollars a year per hospital and its made in Visual Basic)

Solution: Get rid of all electronic record requirement laws, subsidies, programs, etc.

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I can keep going. In the health industry market literally every single player has a legal advantage over every single other. Its everyone screwing everyone.
I've heard it a lot of Telsa owners where I live. And for something that costs on avg 50k+ it shouldn't be this bad.
I'm fairly new to decentralization technology and web3, how would this relate to let's say libp2p?
Wow. I didn't know even half that list. Excellent for usability and, unfortunately, more fingerprinting. I'm hoping all of these are covered by existing whitelisting/blacklisting.
As a consumer, I'm coming to dislike it. In theory, that consolidation of redundant efforts should improve my care and reduce my costs.

In practice, I've seen the opposite happen. My local health care market has consolidated down into a single large corporate entity that, like any good monopoly, has every reason to reduce quality of service while increasing prices.

I guess I fill out less paperwork, but that isn't saving me enough time to justify all the little routine visits that used to cost me $50 out of pocket suddenly costing $300 out of pocket.
A terrible analogy too! If it's their policy to not refund software purchases they should have a standard response to these requests.
What makes this particular FS "cursed" besides the obvious intuitive answer you can glean from the reference twitter thread?
And how exactly does it translate to gender? If anything, I would argue that most women have much better background. Not that it matters anyway. If an immigrant from 3rd world country can come to US at age 30 and be better than the competition, then you pretty much have no excuse if you were born here.
“According to NSA, the bug was introduced in July 2015” great
I'm with you on this.

My reason for comment related purely to the looseness of the conversation, w.r.t. the word "scale", which, it seems I had misunderstood to mean an affine transform.

In light of this comment, I now see you were talking about some growth function or change in topology/structure.

Thanks for the clarification.
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