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Obviously not a competitor at it current non existing market share but they obviously are after youtube creators and have a different monetization concept that YT.
There will be fewer companies able to afford ads to drive installs for their apps.

IDFA trades privacy for market efficiency. It's used by ad networks to allow me to optimize for either the cheapest or most valuable installs, and validate that my marketing spend is actually driving these behaviors with an acceptable ROI.

Without it, ad networks will be much less effective and it will cost developers at least 2x to drive the same number of installs.

IDFA has obvious privacy flaws, but Apple is making a mistake by crippling it without offering a privacy-safe alternative (and several of those have been proposed by the industry).
Colors&Fonts. Open analytics for anyone
> Remember how people used to write N.A.T.O. decades ago but then simplified to NATO? Now they’re simplifying to Nato.

I wouldn't call it "simplifying": capitalizing it has the same number of characters and is less ambiguous. I was already somewhat aware of BBC's style, but I still mis-parsed the headline and and thought "Nato" was the name or nickname of a natural person.
https://eu.packersnews.com/story/news/nation/2020/07/28/rick...
I would like to give this a test drive against an Oracle cloud database? Possible?
Apps that Apple profits from, the paid apps, do not rely on ads. Apple does not profit from free apps that are monetized by ads.
She has never worked for Dropbox.

Dropbox works for her :D
"booming" does not mean hiring. With the next few months being very uncertain, prudent companies have paused hiring to help control costs.
I program video games; I would consider running a real-time simulation as a "state-rich" problem domain. And the constraints of running real-time simulations mean that some implementations are not acceptable. Things are not generally allowed to be slow if they can be done in a way that is fast.

Because of this, many game engines are built in a way that allows high throughput for processing the state of hundreds, perhaps thousands of entities in the world. Our guiding paradigm could be described as an entity-component system; another word used to describe it has been "data-oriented design." Here's a talk about it by the guy who was our engine director at the time[0]. It is not object oriented, and it seeks to unshackle itself from many of the issues with OOP as a guiding principal.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHc
Apple did this in the dark days pre-Jobs. They would have different model Performas for just that reason.
Because we make $2-3x+ our EU peers salaries in most cases. Why hire Americans if their govt is in chaos every few years to the point that they can't even show up to a conference to work with their EU/etc peers and you now have a global remote market (assuming you don't need those US timezones).
Source? Are you talking 1BR or 2BR? I would put this number closer to 25-30% [1].

[1] https://www.nerdwallet.com/cost-of-living-calculator/compare...
I am personally hoping this change will generate more evidence that targeted advertising is not as valuable as everyone believes. _I believe_ contextual advertising is effective and doesn't come with all the privacy nightmares and ethical issues like allowing targeting alcoholics with alcohol ads. Of course, that is just my own personal opinion. I've seen some articles agreeing with what I just said - but not being a statistician or even in the advertising industry I'm not qualified to say one way or the other.
That’s a great video, thanks for posting it. I remember hearing it was similar to how a Game Genie worked, but that’s a lot more work than expected. Very impressive for 1993-1994.
I'm sure the Facebook paid some random guy to say these words.
I don't care about their premium content or enriching Google instead of the creators I want to actually reward.
Ruby implements the Kay concepts under the hood, and erlang is arguably a rather faithful implementation of Kay objects (though the code one writes doesn't semantically reflect that and it was developed independently for a completely different set of reasons - fault tolerance)
I recently went through therapy for some touch up work. I was getting mad at someone because of their shenanigans. Basically the therapist told me "when someone pisses you off, they want you to get mad, so why would you give them the pleasure of getting mad?" After some discussion on methods for how to not get mad, I stopped getting mad.

Might be worth looking into whether it's worth wasting any brain cycles on whether or not to forgive someone.
A fellow member of the double FAAH mutation club!

We meet every Tuesday, there are cookies :)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/13/a-world-withou...

I'm a little different, while I am occasionally happy at inappropriate moments, serious events affecting people really bring me down, like your average person. The death of someone close to me, for example, affected me very deeply and made me sad for a good while. But with the exception of that, I typically feel quite happy. Anything that's "just money" or "just stuff" usually won't shake me, for example I stayed in a pretty upbeat mood during the theft of most of my most valuable possessions in one go.

Personally, I would say whatever it is has had an extremely positive impact on my life. Aside from the huge benefit of just being happy, there's also the benefit of being more trusting (I accept random traveling strangers into my home via Couchsurfing) and doing all kinds of things I think I'd have skipped if I was more risk averse. And I've had some fun with the side effect of (to quote the New Yorker) seeming slightly baked.

Might be fun to make a social network of just those who have it: personally, I find that to a degree, I kind of have to hide my happiness and general contentment at life in order to not seem like an asshole to those around me struggling with various things. It'd be nice to have a place where that's not a concern. Perhaps we should all set up a Mastodon or something?
Can I use CSS and HTML in email?
So Germany is not deliquent on NATO payments? Or that doesn't qualify?
Yes but hyped paradigms eventually meet their own downfall
For once, the Mac and iPad lead Apple's record financial results
This looks great! There seems to be a renewed interest in bookmarking services. I've experimented with a few options over the past few years and recently settled on the Notion web clipper. Although Notion doesn't have all the features of a dedicated bookmarking service, the ability to save everything to a table that you can tag, add notes and filter is nice. I will keep Klobie in mind as an option.
That just proves how masochistic you are.
The advice I've been given is forgiveness + boundaries.

This book is usually recommended [1], but you can discover your own style of setting boundaries by working with a therapist. (it will need to be tailored to your situation)

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Boundaries-Updated-Expanded-When-Cont...
Shouldn't that "Bbc" which looks odd to me?
I'm not sure you're responding directly to the point the parent made. Even if state is encapsulated, objects are mutable. Many people believe reasoning about programs in which lots of mutable objects coordinate is harder than some of the alternatives (e.g. pure functions, immutable data etc).
Yes, I'm really talking about using libraries that let you pass parameters into a statement, and have some level of protection against injection.
Because options are at a premium right now, for the reasons stated above, running the above strategy on Apple looks like this:

Buy at $400 (price at time of writing) sell an option at $460 for January which comes with a $42 premium[0] at time of writing, so if the stock goes up 15% over the six month period the total return is $102 per share, or about 25% return. If inflation is, say, 4% per annum due to Covid pushing it a bit higher than normal, then the total return is ~23% vs what would have been ~13% for doing the same play without selling the option, so the real return is around 75% higher than the alternative where the option was not sold.

Usually it's around 30% more, so right now is an especially good time for this play if you think that Apple will at least hold its value.

[0] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL220121C00460000?p=AAPL22...
While land is constrained and should probably be dealt with separately, wouldn't the price increase in consumer goods, i.e. the grocery store to use your example, require collusion between every merchant?

Isn't the other part of Adam Smith's supply and demand stuff the idea that competition will drive down prices? Sure, everyone's got another $2,000, but if I can undercut the guy who's trying to mop it all up, wouldn't I? And wouldn't someone else try and undercut me?

Wouldn't that bring prices down? And if not, why not? If there's another larger force at work keeping prices high and keeping people in poverty -- and if poverty is something we want to do something about -- doesn't that suggest that we need to constrain sellers' behavior in some ways we aren't really doing now (like laws against gouging)?
I'll leave that to people who are trained for such things. I'm just a software guy.
Sounds like a job for GPT-3 :-)
New Relic Changes Business Model, Open Sources Agents and Instrumentation
I agree, but such observations weren't part of the linked study so it has no business making claims about it. They simply compared a few deterministic strategies with a random strategy.
There is a huge amount of nuance to what will work in emails.

I built the lion's share of the WYSIWYG email editor for ActiveCampaign a few years back, and got quite a few horror stories out of it.

There are a lot of tricks that have to be learned, and a lot of trial and error, but responsive emails, that look the same(ish) across most browsers and email clients are possible. I wouldn't want to generate the HTML myself though, as email is stuck ~10 years in the past compared to the web.
Usually 2+ years of experience in a certain field.
Newspapers are actually not supported by ads, that was always merely a bonus. Most of their income came from subscriptions.
Every serious journalist medium is going back to paywalls/subs. If people don't think its worth the money journalism should die but I think it will survive.
Well, once I paid the fees to license our logo from subcompany A, and the rent on all my servers to subcompany B; we didn't make any money.
I'm referring to the ability of paid apps to drive installs. These are ads that drive TO the App Store and generate paid app installs that are being crippled. Sorry if I wasn't clear.
Is there controversy about what FP “actually means”?
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I support BLM, the protesters, and reparations even, but this is damaging.

There's way too many racists for businesses to put up a flag saying 'Black and Proud' or 'Gay and Proud', a lot of bigots probably eat at a McDonald's, they might stop if they learned the franchise owner is black, gay, or <insert other minority>. Anonymity can bring in more cash, which I think they could probably use, esp in this economy.

I'm sure, there's a lot like myself who'd go out of our way to use these businesses, but I'm not sure if we outnumber the bad segments of society.
That is very impressive.

Out of curiosity did you select these examples from a large selection? I'm wondering how reliably it can produce such coherent responses.
Agree, this is very sad and nostalgic.

When I was growing up in the 90s, we would keep an argos catalogue in the rest room. Sounds weird now that I'm typing this out.

Spent countless hours (over time) browsing toys and games. The novelty of each turn and then replacing the entire thing with the new one.

I also miss the little blue pens that argos and index had along with the small paper for your order submission.

The pricing on the catalogue would be in blocks so you'd have to work out the price by entering the code for the specified product into the calculator-like gadget that would rest on the counter.

Good Times. As you grow older, things like this being phased out make you realise how long it's been.
It's an initialism vs acronym thing: when the initials are treated as a word (e.g. NASA, but not BBC) you don't have to capitalise the whole thing (Hence 'Nasa' is ok). See https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/collegeofjournalism/entries/8f7c... for an explanation.
The natural counter argument is that [i] the dumb process which culminated in cognition and consciousness consisted of billions of years of atoms consisting of our entire world interacting with each other, some in ways more condusive to life formation than others. Obviously we're working with a much less informationally complex process overall and just hoping we've got the right ingredients.
[ii] the dumb process whereby humans try to generate machine intelligence looks very different to the factors thought to have been most relevant to the evolution from microorganisms towards the human mind. It may therefore not be possible for us to generate a mind at all with the inputs we're working with, and even if there's no practical bar to a sufficiently large number of human-assembled devices running binary code achieving cognition, our insistence on selecting based on intermediate goals like performing useful transformations on text might actually locally optimise to such an extend that the possibility of cognition is impeded. [inputting human ideas of good Go games into AlphaGo made it a less effective Go-learning process than AlphaGo Zero....]

(and just as sceptic arguments can resemble ID and dualism, the pro-AGI argument that intelligence selectively guiding an evolutionary process is as plausible a route to consciousness as random chance and a sufficiently large quantity of atoms and time has similar superficial parallels with arguments for 'theistic evolution', not to mention near-future curve exponentiation arguments resembling millenialism)
How do you pronounce "Bbc" as a word, not as spelled-out letters?
This is just while they're in the middle of contract negotiations. I think it was generous of Google to offer a cut at all while there was no contract in place, and cutting off the service is really what I think should have (and did) happen.
IIRC, Hungary has implemented something like this and it's been floated as an idea, to distribute grant dollars as a fixed amount to everyone who has an H index or citation count above a certain amount.

When I've talked about this with colleagues, they've argued this would make problems worse, and it might, but I think the idea was more that once you reach a certain threshold you should be funded some amount.

Of course, I'd argue that this is basically the idea behind tenure at an R1 institution, that once you reach a certain level the state or private board of trustees is paying your salary to do research. But nowadays tenure at an R1 institution is proxy for external grant dollars, which defeats the purpose and is redundant.

The real problem is indirect funds, which create profit for institutions. The federal government needs to eliminate indirect funds, so that grant dollars aren't perversely incentivised and tenure is based on research quality rather than profit.
Lifestyle changes could delay or prevent 40% of dementia cases
I presume that when somebody says raw sql they mean are using parameters and not just building strings.
> The entire point of OOP is ...

One problem is that every OOP advocate has a different perspective on "what the entire point of OOP is". Another problem is that irrespective of what any OOP advocate believes is OOP, the body of code that is commonly understood to be "OOP" is plagued with abuses of inheritance (I'm not even convinced there are legitimate uses), mutable state, the "banana with a reference to the gorilla holding it with a reference to the entire jungle" problem. OOP advocates are quick to say "that's not real OOP" in a very no-true-scotsman fashion, but that aspirational statement isn't comforting to people who have to deal with these problems day-in-and-day-out.

> Also treating code as data isn't a feature of OO, it's an old idea starting with Lisp I suppose and it's present in functional languages as well.

The parent specified that their objection was about tightly binding data to code, not about treating data as code.
Unfortunately, narcissists will never learn and any and all problems are because others are the problem unless a truly catastrophic event forced a major reality check on them given what I’ve read so far. Even on a relative scale of attempting to self-reflect they’ll believe they’re “compromising” when it’s not really helpful.

It may be helpful to view narcissists as having a mental disability rather than it being simply a part of their personality. And when people are destructive to others’ lives few cultures would say we should accommodate the minority to a fault.
How Do Moral Philosophy Courses Affect Student Behavior?
"Direct deposit" is ACH and it is reversible up to 180 days. The parent comment is referring to ACH.

"Wire transfer" could be either Fedwire or SWIFT and it is not reversible.
Tbh even when I search on Google I normally avoid non YouTube links. Other than Vimeo I find they either don't work or have 30s ads
> The solution to the fragile base class problem and other inheritance hangovers is surprisingly simple — don’t use it

If OOP provides the footgun to shoot yourself, OOP is at fault. Overall the article reads as "OOP has no problems if is used correctly". Of course that's true. I have seen well designed OOP programs, but the majority was not. The author should ask the question, why OOP is applied the wrong way so often.
How will you react if the trained people don’t think an overhaul is needed?
I would not argue against that fact. I also expect we'd be chimps staring at a black monolith had we not utilized the resources that abound on this planet.
>Are both of us HackerNews' products?

Yes. We the users of HN are product - both individually, and also as a market segment, and also as a smart[0] crowd.

From [1],

Y Combinator provides seed funding for startups.

To Y Combinator, the HN is both entry to the sales (investment) funnel, and a PR machine. And also early opinion & commentary, early beta-testing, load testing [2], and more.

That is not to detract from the (very probable) angle of pg & team wishing to render a public service for the public good :-)

--

[0] the occasional bad thread notwithstanding ;-)

[1] https://www.ycombinator.com/about/#whatwedo

[2] aka HN hug of death
Just to mention, Brian Will also has a video called OO programming is good* [0]. I don't think we should take these literally, he presents what he things are some bad traits and good traits of OOP.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iyB0_qPvWk
There are numerous conflicting studies and opinions on HCQ. A major study that claimed HCQ harmed patients was ultimately retracted (https://reason.com/2020/06/04/the-lancets-hydroxychloroquine...). CNN ran an article on one of the pro HCQ studies not too long ago (https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/02/health/hydroxychloroquine-cor...). Their tweet about this study is still up and has no Twitter imposed warnings or censorship (https://mobile.twitter.com/cnn/status/1278964201789194240).

My point is - when something like HCQ’s effectiveness/safety is undecided, why aren’t people allowed to talk about it? Why aren’t doctors allowed to share their experiences with it? And when do things ever get fully decided to the point that they cannot be challenged at all? And why does censorship apply to some but not all sources?
But aren't you just redefining terms? I'm wary whenever someone says "I really mean X when I say Y." Why not just say Y in the first place?
> In other words I'd consider OOP for a "state-rich" problem domain

Why is a paradigm like FP necessarily bad for this? Not all FPs are pure like Haskell, and some exist specifically for the purpose of managing state in sane ways (for example which tolerate concurrency without introducing bugs).
So true. Loads very slow as well compared to the old version. I still use old.reddit.com when on desktop and Slide app for Reddit on my phone.
Chat logs from a $4.5M ransomware negotiation
That would be a non-standard account with a non-standard way of withdrawing money. EFT and ACH withdrawals are fully protected.

Money wires are different, all the action is sender side. Even for me, Fidelity accountholder, a SWIFT money wire takes days to set up and I have to confirm it multiple times. I get the impression the bank hates doing them and will throw as many roadblocks as possible unless you are absolutely committed to it.
> This seems similar to what Brave is doing. I would like to see a side-by-side comparison of the two. For example I know that Brave pays users for watching ads, for example.

Personally, I've never earned enough BAT in a month to pay out creators what I would actually owe them. In fact, I've tried to research why I'm not earning BAT even though I theoretically should be. I don't know what's up. I guess I'm just not being shown ads. That's one thing about BAT that's bad. It all depends on this one centralized ad ecosystem. If people aren't buying ads on the BAT network, then you won't get served ads and you won't make money.

In any case, I don't know if the Coil economics work, but at least all these $5 subs are sustainable and reliable.
I'm involved with https://spidr.today/

Coupled with Google Translate, it's also easy to get a grip on the major topics in other countries.
Yes, there is a level of pettiness at work in this recent decision. What they want to do is shift to a rotational force model and deploy another Armored Brigade Combat Team to Poland every 9 months instead of having an SBCT in Germany. Meaning you have to move 2 ABCTs(~4500 Soldiers and all their equipment) in/out of the theater. The main tactical problem with that is that those forces don't have standoff distance from Russian A2AD weapons.

The underlying causes of these changes are Germany (1) continuing to spend less than 2% of GDP on defense; (2) its 2019 announcement that its pushing back its 2% target date from 2024 (agreed upon in 2015) to 2031; and, (3) continued German support for Nord Stream 2.

America is publicly penalizing Germany for the above reasons, which will likely disincentivize similar actions by nations receiving US troops from Germany and other host nations in Europe. Moreover, it seems some troops are likely slated for rebasing in the Indo-Pacific which will bolster US' power there.
These are the people that appeared in that strange "demon semen" video. Don't give them any airtime.
What’s this /s ?

/s
Well, I see 2 reasons here:
1/ when an attack is deemed a low-profile one, it is a way to say that the targeted company might be to blame, at least in part, for not having adequate security protocols;
2/ in this instance, some people might be frustrated that the DM of high profile people won't leak on the internet because of a lack of preparation from the attackers.

Most of the time, the "character assassination routine" is to emphasize the first point.
Germany is not delinquent on NATO payments, at least not on the formally agreed-upon budget contribution of 313 million € (https://www.dw.com/en/germany-to-match-us-contribution-to-na...).

The thing you (and Trump) are meaning is the total defense spending as percentage of GDP. Germany cannot be "delinquent" here by definition! Every country is legally free to spend whatever it wants on defense. The "2%"is an informal goal only, not backed by any international treaty!
There are serious constraints on what can be done. Among others, why would any other country make an agreement with the US where the payoff is more than 4 years out? It has repeatedly demonstrated an inability to keep promises.
I don't understand - do you expect everything that isn't the name of a natural person to be written in all caps?

If I write an article about how 'France is having a heatwave' do you get confused and think 'France' must be referring to a natural person?