skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of companies have done this and do this kind of thing as a service.

That said, this report's objective isn't really to measure click fraud detection on those networks. It's to highlight that one doesn't have to be very sophisticated to commit ad fraud (which is absolutely true). It also has some really odd ideas (e.g. they contacted the Chrome team to let them know about the existence of the stealth plugin in, and were surprised that the Chrome team said that the browser was working as intended so there was no action for them to take on their part... they similarly drew a false equivalence between defending account creation vs. defending click fraud). They also seemed to think that sites should be blocking bots, which is of course not what you want to do, because that provides a feedback loop to the fraudsters so that they can figure out how to overcome the measures. You want to proceed as if it is working, even let it show up in the ad campaign data at least initially, and as much as possible make corrections in ways that make it difficult to determine which traffic has been identified as fraud.
How many technology companies of note have a single owner (or even a single majority owner)? Every single one of those I can think of is a micro-ISV (or similar) and lacks a multi-million-person-sized user-base.

Those same types of companies also tend to not sell-out to a mega-corp that simply wants to shut it down - if they really need the money they could presumably sell it to a competitor that would actually capitalize on their investment.

In a more general sense, I would like to see moves towards laws and regulations prohibiting more detrimental-to-the-public business activity - we already ban loss-leaders in many circumstances, so it's not a stretch to ban (or rather: to retroactively punish) buying out the competition simply to shut it down.

What's interesting to me is that our industry has plenty of examples of big corporations buying competing companies and products - and keeping them running despite internal competition and even cannibalizations, such as Autodesk and Discrete (3ds vs. Maya), Adobe and Macromedia (GoLive, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Photoshop, Illustrator, FreeHand), even Microsoft too (Microsoft Works vs. Microsoft Office).
I'm guessing this was flagged by their nipple detection algorithm. Personally, I think it's time for our society to grow out of that phase, the whole nipple censoring is just ridiculous at this point. Can we change the laws around it? Or why is that even still in place?
Taibbi also has zero sense of humour - like when he reported that a trader was exchanging insider LIBOR tips for day-old sushi not realising it was obviously meant in jest:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/everythi...
take them home, pour some wine, and get them sizzling up with a nice fat sausage
Every index lookup corresponds to one dimension, right? So if you're saying that function has signature "dirty(a, b, c) -> bool". But if you don't know how many bits of information a, b or c has, how does it matter?
I just got an rpi4 and it's cool to see what it's about. Probably going to use it as a media center for the tv, and for games (anyone got tips for good games that play with a controller?)
Steve Steinberg, hacker, writer, friend
I am deciding if I should cancel my order or not. I like the idea of a dedicated almost paper like feel. I hate the idea of my notes in some cloud service. You do not need anything to read a physical journal other than the book itself. Is there anyway to back note up to a physical copy (prints?
Scientists develop technique improving resolution of cryo-electron microscopy
Please don't even consider Fragomen. Ask any Amazon engineer and they'll tell you the same thing: do not ever work with Fragomen.

I personally had to talk to my manager and hire my own lawyer instead of working with Fragomen after countless delays and mistakes. They don't care about you or your case at all and the paralegals are outright incompetent. You don't really get to talk to the lawyer a lot anyway.

I'd go with a local smaller firm if I were you. If you're in Seattle area, I can recommend "MacDonald Hoague & Bayless". I personally worked with "Lola Zakharova" and she was amazing.
Those liquidated sums are so small that Robinhood will pay it from their coffee budget. The larger problem is friendly fraud or claimed "hacks" where the owner hacked himself. Easy policy will attract more of these, like insurance fraud.
Positioning probably matters. I bet the filters trip more readily for even numbers of round objects for obvious reasons.
I mean, it's all fun and games right now, but wait till this article gets flagged as fake news.
Hand-Coloured Glass Transparencies of the Meiji-Era
No. phising sms/totp tokens works the same as normal phising. You need U2F to protect against phising.

The complex attack you are probably thinking of is sim swapping which is a bit different than phising.
I'm not sure if this statement is supportive of Twitter's decision or opposing the practice of not using drought-resistant landscaping.
I know many people have drawn parallels between Stoicism and Buddhism, but I'm surprised by how clear and striking those parallels seem just at first glance here.
I was thinking that subtracting the predicted image would give an image that has more zeroes and compresses better (much like dct+quantization for jpeg). After all, any time the neural network would predict an area of the image almost exactly, it can be omitted from the diff stream completely too.
I actually find his approach illustrative - even those in the business not inclined to completely disregard the intent behind any rules think of the whole enterprise as a great game divided into competitors and civilians, who are mostly just collateral damage in these contests. There is also a general acceptance of the idea that anything not forbidden is compulsory - if someone gets around the rules to do something others outside the game might consider unethical, then that is the fault of the rulemakers for not being clever enough to write the rules well enough, and in fact it is incumbent upon the players to expose such loopholes. Because leaving money on the table is really the only sin on Wall Street.

As a civilian it's important to understand this mindset when dealing with the financial industry at any level because if you don't, you're going to be on the short end of the things Matt writes about.
Retweets are propoganda because they are just that: they're memes.
No my point is Rust fans try to win very narrow technical arguments even when they should clearly know discussion is about big picture. And yes it seems bad thing to me.
"fail fast" refers to experiments, not the whole damn company.
> This American election can't be over soon enough, everybody seems to be losing their marbles.

Brace yourself then, because this election will not end on November 3rd. And the craziness we see today will be nothing compared to whats coming next. Regardless of which side "wins".
>if Apple was not in the middle, the developer would have received $100.

You are never going to get 100% because of payment processing, license management, and content hosting costs. If not Apple, then somebody else. You can have a payment processor and manage the licensing and hosting yourself. Or, you could use an all-in-one vendor, but you will still be paying 10-20%.
This is self-fulfilling. There is a claim that CEOs are well paid because they're in high demand. The truth is that it's actually difficult to find someone who will work for minimum wage in a In-n-Out burger in San Jose. It's easy to find a dozen qualified candidates for CEO - hell, half of them are CEOs at similar smaller companies and the other half are CxOs/SVPs at the company you're hiring for. The myth is that you need some massive salary to attract the best, whereas what actually happens is you hire who you would've hired anyway, but you pay them a massive premium.
Show HN: I made a book of 70,000 Baby Girl Names
I have a vehement hatred for the whole Trump family but there's no evidence of illegal immigration and the rest of that is hearsay and doesn't belong on HN. Please provide references if you wish to make such statements.
Dude matt levine is a legend. I think that despite having no connection with the finance industry.
Birds share food with less fortunate conspecifics
I agree with you, the say I have framed is.

I say Cisco should charge for every packet that goes through their router that is involved in a Financial transaction. If you don't pay, they add you to a blacklist. It's feasible, router has a blacklist, Cisco checks if you make money, if you do, they shake you down, if you don't pay, they add you to the blacklist and router downloads and refuses to route your IP addresses. Sounds ridiculous, but it's doable. After all they are facilitating the transaction.
Seriously. Sometimes I think everything wrong with America would gradually settle down if we could just collectively disillusion ourselves from the notion that human female nipples are an indecent horrid thing.
5) Apple does not care about its users.
...And that's why I use ad blocker.
Clojure's very slow startup forces you to this workflow, relying entirely on the REPL to compensate. It's not any better compared to a language with a fast change-test-debug cycle.
Funny you should mention the asterisk, as the author of JuliaMono has just written a brilliant blog post about it:
https://cormullion.github.io/pages/2020-10-09-asterisk/
> "We use automated technology to keep nudity off our apps, but sometimes it doesn't know a Walla Walla onion from a, well, you know," Facebook Canada's head of communications, Meg Sinclair, told BBC. "We restored the ad and are sorry for the business's trouble."

Pretty affable for a public corporate PR "incident" response. I like it. Is this a Canadian thing?
I just started a new job last week on a team using Clojure so I am setting aside Common Lisp and getting my mind back into Clojure for the foreseeable future.

Using 'comment' is cool, I hadn't used in in my previous Clojure life, but as HN manishsharan said here, putting macro expressions inside 'comment' can cause problems.

It feels good to be back in the Clojure community but I also have to admit I miss not using Common Lisp every day.
Same with credit cards. The banks/issuers get the benefit of advertising "no liability" to consumers for fraudulent transactions, yet ensure they're able to contractually shift as much of the cost onto the merchants that were ripped off, rather than eat it themselves[1].

[1] https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/credit-cards/merchants-vi...
More bad news for Intel (aurora delayed)
Knew this already bit it's official.

Will Intel be around in 10 years?

I personally don't think they will last 5. Check out layoff dot com although it's heavily moderated.

Diversity employment has rotted it from inside out. Same as most companies.
I recall trying to set my Google+ profile picture to a 64x64 totally transparent PNG, and getting some message that pornographic pictures were not allowed. I imagine that many kinds of out-of-distribution images will not be well-classified with current approaches.
Better Than Product-Market Fit: The Customer Adoption Spectrum
I love Schwab and agree their support has always been great. The one thing I wish they had is an automatic money market sweep for cash in my brokerage account. Right now any uninvested cash I have in that account earns me essentially nothing, and my understanding is that Schwab makes a pretty good profit from it.
"Sponsored by" didn't do it for you
I made this book for our incoming daughter next week!

It's open source: https://github.com/marvindanig/baby-girl-names

Finding a name for your little one can be quite hard. Nearly all the resources on the Internet focus on what's popular or what's fancy in the community these days and sometimes you just don't want to follow a trend.

I wanted us to avoid the groupthink and skip the confirmation biases of our society and that meant building a resource that's !sorted by popularity or votes/likes.

The book lists all the baby girl names in the world (~70,000) alphabetically instead so one can go after just a few alphabets and find all the names that begin with that alphabet. International names are included so it is useful for new parents around the world as well.

How do you like it? Please do help me spread the word!
Because it’s illegal in many places. A female exposing her nipples in public is considered an act of public indecency in states like Illinois, which is a misdemeanor[0].

Edit: not that I agree with this law. It’s a very clear double-standard with roots in conservative Christian thinking.

0: https://www.menshealth.com/sex-women/a19545146/nipple-double...
Canada announces Can$590 mn investment in Ford electric car plant
I almost managed to remove all 3rd parties too (apart from the tawk.to chat widget, until I implement a custom contact form).

If you are looking to replace Google Analytics with a self-hosted solution (to fully eliminate 3rd parties) you can check out the analytics platform I'm building: https://www.usertrack.net
A Customer Acquisition Playbook for Consumer Startups
Its not propaganda, cut that double speak shit out.

They knew exactly what they were doing.

The fact they act up when they get remotely held accountable doesn't change that. It just makes them naive enough to think the law is on their side.

Its not, and most people want them to just fucking stop.
Cause everyone being naked is the pinnacle of society?
> The minimum wage does not naturally rise

The minimum amount of money you have to pay for someone to show up for any job rises (and falls) alongside demand for labor in the broader economy.

> Under our current system that heavily favors returning productivity gains to capital instead of labor...

If you look at the profit margins of those companies that employ a lot of low-end labor, you will find that they're generally in the single digit percentages. I think that's a pretty fair deal for organizing all that labor and taking on the capital risk. Profits aren't guaranteed, after all. There just isn't that much money to redistribute here, you would have to raise prices, which can make you uncompetitive.
A course scheduler for my school, QuACS ( https://github.com/quacs/quacs ) was built entirely around git scraping. Around 7:30AM EST each morning, a GitHub Action is kicked off to scrape various things (class hour schedule, course catalog, faculty directory, etc) and produce a commit containing the current data. Then, the website is rebuilt (also using GitHub Actions) and hosted on GitHub pages. The only thing that's not static about the site is a call is made to our Student Information System (SIS) to retrieve current enrollment numbers in courses for seats.

It's helpful as the data is now open for everyone in a nice format, so some other projects that utilize course data have been taking advantage of it.
According to Fidelity's website [0] they still do so ("You'll be asked to enter your username and password using the keypad on your phone.").

I basically assume any financial institution that provides support for the old "telephone banking" methods via DTMF tones either stores your password in plaintext or a hashed version that reduces entropy. I'm honestly surprised hackers haven't gotten sophisticated enough to bruteforce these reduced entropy login passwords using a Twilio account.

[0] https://www.fidelity.com/customer-service/phone-numbers/over...
An interpretation of quantum mechanics: reality doesn't depend on the measurer
I'm about a month into my next (interim) role at this point. Mozilla gave people who were laid off a generous severance and recruiters were messaging everyone with a job at Mozilla on LinkedIn from the moment the news broke.
There is a difference between knowing the difference and admitting it.

When you run a business from start to scale, you likely know the main failure point, and it is probably a few simple variables.
How fast is Julia wrt to CUDA C++, or C++/Rust?

In those languages, I can actually take the theoretical practical hardware limits (memory BW, throughput, latency), and relatively easily achieve 99% of their utilization.

When people say “very fast” and “my cores are at 100%” they often mean “my program achieves 1% of the perf the hardware can deliver”.
The part people objected to was when they weren't disclosing the names of the upstream projects they were branding.
Nothing new to HN... just an error of an AI classification system
That isn't inattentive ADHD, thats just ADHD, and really sounds like a scenario in which this this camera tech should detect as a problem.
I find it ironic this rhetoric is so prevalent on HN when usually HN users are the ones helping to make these websites.
I might have misunderstood. But if so, good!
Since the remarkable tablets features native SSH access, there is an active and growing community that makes really great software for these tablets. There is already quite a few local-first solutions which makes it possible to avoid the cloud: https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable#gui-clients
With pixel perfect collision detection.

And once you finish all 6 levels you get to play them again, with inverted gravity. And once you get used to that it reverses back but the walls are invisible. And then both inverted and invisible
It's latency driven by a lack of bandwidth, as opposed to latency caused by roundtrip timing.
I always find it disheartening that people see the propagation of 'bad' information on social-media networks as a bigger risk to society than said networks becoming the gatekeepers of all propagated information. The term 'Orwellian' has become so overused that it seems to have lost all currency. When we're confronted with an actually Orwellian phenomena people seem to either not notice or not care. It's not as though the viral propagation of false, misleading and harmful information began with social media, or even with the internet. This phenomena was alive and well long before modern technology, which has surprisingly done very little to change it.

I'm genuinely shocked how little backlash there's been against big-tech censorship. I grew up as a liberal in the 90s and early 00s. Freedom of speech and fostering an environment for information to propagate freely were ideals held sacred. It's been sincerely disappointing to see how many of my fellow so-called-liberals are willing to accept huge multinational corporations (of all things) censoring information "For their own good".
The employees are not more efficient because of their effort but because of the tech in inventory management. They are still doing the same amount of human labor that 8hrs a day calls for. Companies don't buy machines to pass on the savings to their employees in form of higher wages, they pass those savings to the owners of the company.
The sad story of Korean jamo (2020)
Thank you! This is much helpful.

Can you provide some insight on Unshackled as well if you don't mind?
I don't know anyone who has had a first-hand experience with it so I was just wondering.
We cross a threshold if we treat information like cocaine.

A threshold that calls the First Amendment in the US into question.
That's really smart. I found the scraping action here: https://github.com/quacs/quacs-data/blob/master/.github/work...

Looks like it's even tracking covid data released by the school: https://github.com/quacs/quacs-data/commits/master/covid.jso...
I think you are discounting that the two things are directly related. Your take home pay is affected by the choice of your employer to spend money on the benefits.

Over time, which is what we are talking about here, the choice of the employer to put money into benefits in order to create an attractive compensation package means they are not putting money into wages (assuming for simplicity that those are the only two buckets to consider). So wages can stagnate while total compensation goes up.

Yes you can conclude from this that your take home pay is stagnant, what you can't conclude is that there hasn't been an increase in compensation. And if you are trying to determine if compensation is correlated with productivity gains (i.e. the original article) then you can't just pretend those benefits aren't part of the compensation equation.
Renewables have lower LCoE. Intermittency adds a cost, but the add is finite, and if the LCoE difference is large enough they beat nuclear.

You will notice hardly anyone is building nuclear power plants. They can see the writing on the wall. As renewables and storage technologies continue to get cheaper, nuclear will be pushed aside.

Yes, you've repeatedly claimed I'm wrong. You're the one who is wrong. Your objections are spurious, as I've repeatedly explained.
These are relative terms. Let's say in 1980 I was flipping burgers for $3 an hour and making $10 for the company. Let's (just for the sake of argument, ignore inflation) say in 2020 I'm making $20 for the company. For my pay to keep pace with productivity gains I'd be making $6 an hour, leaving my employer $7 better off (they were making $7, now $14). My pay would've kept pace with productvity - it doubled, my pay doubled.

When people say that "wages kept pace with productivity growth" that's what they're saying - that a 10% increase in productivity resulted ina 10% increase in pay, not a $10 increase in productivity resulted ina $10 increase in pay.
GPSLogger has been removed from the Play Store, and development has been paused
I'd be interested in your thoughts on what that might look like. Any insight?
I'm guessing the definition is something like "income over and above basic expenses (food, shelter, etc.) over a given period of time."
You should apply for YC too.
It’s not “new” but it’s useful reminder to folks building systems that their AI classification can have real-world implications.

Sexy onions, not a huge deal. But apply that to policing and there is tremendous opportunity for harm.
It sounds like they weren't taking any payments via phone. Purchase only happened on the web, and Apple reviewers found text that led to web.

It would be one thing if they were selling phone and skipping Apple that way. But if their are no phone payments, and only non-obvious links, it should not be required (or maybe I am misinterpreting this)
A few fun side notes about bank robberies.

I used to be a bank teller and we were instructed under no uncertain terms to hand over whatever we had and enjoy a week of paid vacation to recover from any potential trauma suffered.

The bank I worked for had a corporate security team who wouldn’t even stop their lunch break to review one isolated robbery, instead they’d look for serial cases, or occasionally assess how likely it was that it had any “inside job” elements if the robbery didn’t fall within standard profiles.

The actual “vault” in most branches is barely bigger than a high school locker inside the room behind the big metal door. Most everything else kept behind that huge metal door is administrative or customer related documents (arguably worth more than the cash itself!).

Lastly, about once a week, I was tasked with filling the ATMs for a branch that was in a downtown office building lobby. The ATMs were in a wall and had a little secret door that I’d access to audit the machines and count the money I’d refill them with. Each machine could hold 200k or so and there were two of them but there was no real clear way to get the $400,000 from our secured vault to the machines without armed security or something. In order to avoid having to order an escort every time, we’d just load the cash into a printer paper box and stealthily walk it across the lobby like I was just carrying actual printer paper (insert your federal reserve jokes here).

It’d take 2-3 hours to audit and refill the machines, meaning I would have had a nice head start if I had the guts and gray morality to make a run for it.
I know you're being obtuse, but the fraud is that someone is paying for you to look at those ads. You're under no obligation to actually do it, of course, and the site is under no obligation to let you use it, hence the ban.