skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish Apple would protect me from Apple
Well at least Decentraleyes states in their page that "Complements regular content blockers" [1]

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes...
Yes, I wouldn't recommend this path if other options are available
This! Also remove re-posting functionality.
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Who is going to go around approving 100 minor ads for each timeslot, with no targeting? This sounds like a recipe for making no money. I think the GP is just nostalgic for TV ads.
I bought The Settlers 7 purely because I knew Bruce Shelley worked on it. It was a nice game, interesting take on the "casual economic sim" genre
How did you acquire users?
How does the fraudster make money on reddit ads frauds? Reddit operates the site, so don’t any money go to them?
The article brings up this objection and handwaves it away.
Is the increase in salary requirements that Trump has proposed happening or not? Do we have any idea what 2021 looks like for work visas?
This is a rabbit hole I’ve been avoiding for years. My childhood and teenage years were spent glued to a BBC. I’d got bored of the games within a couple of years though and proceeded to learn 6502 assembly and stick things in the user port instead.
With all due respect, your take is naive: just because you need a team doesn't mean some members aren't more essential than others.

You can, in theory, have an Oncologist handle your cancer without a nurse; you can't have it the other way around. That makes the former more essential.
This is similar to my experience.
There are some great guides on Reddit too.
I found it a bit tricky in a VM as the ESXi default kept taking over and breaking it. I figured this out by poking about from within the container and discovered it had two GPUs and was picking the wrong one. Once I’d deleted the card VMware made (which means you can’t see the console in ESXi GUI interface, but can still ssh in) it all started working.
As you say, it’ll do a lot of work, CPU usage is almost nil and I can’t see a quality issue.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/...

> I hadn't considered a NUC to run the plex server

Mine is more of a Docker host. Home Assistant absolutely flies on that hardware (it was previously on a Synology 918). It has a few other well used containers too - Wireguard, several Minecraft and some administrative tools.
There are several testing machines for pfsense and some Linux machines I wanted to play with too.
You don’t necessarily need to implement bidding on a dedicated slot—-the TV comparison assumes you’re sending the same thing to each user. This isn’t TV though, you can display different ads to different people of you wanted.

How about a system where probability of seeing an ad is weighted by how much money an advertiser pays? Then you just normalize across bidders and choose on that curve. Then perhaps the time slots just serve as a bucket to allow advertisers to approximate their target audience, perhaps there are additional buckets for things like geolocation.
yeah, to each their own. You would have to pay me an order of magnitude more than I make now to get me to work in NYC.
Hi Peter, thanks for doing this again.

I'm a startup founder from India who'd love to learn more about how to gain access to US capital markets and startup ecosystem. (e.g. Annual VC deal volume in US is typically 25x that of India).

I'd love to know what you think are some practical ways of going about this, any common gotchas etc.:

1. Opening a delaware c corp via stripe atlas, any common mistakes you've seen?

2. For a small bootstrapped business (<$100K ARR), are there any realistic ways for the founder to immigrate to the US? (mainly to access a better ecosystem, community)

3. For setting up a remote team: Say that I keep the tech team in my home country, what's the best way to, for example, set up a sales team in the US? (common use case for B2B SaaS)
I have found it to be useful, in the sense that immersing myself in something that I can just barely grasp part of is a good way for me to work my way into a field.
The huge difference is you can buy your TV from many places (BestBuy, Target, Walmart, Amazon, etc) but you can't sell your iOS app outside the AppStore.
Yup! Dynamic Ad Insertion is gaining a bit of momentum nowadays. It's terrible if you're trying to keep note of a timestamp. An ad that was served to you one day that was 30sec can be served to you next weekend for 45sec, which would shift a lot of audio.

[0] https://castos.com/dynamic-ad-insertion-for-podcasts/

[1] https://adbarker.com/
In the context of malice vs. incompetence, malice certainly doesn't refer to an innate quality you possess all the time, so why would the alternative mean that?

> with the occasional bug and confusion here and there

And the point of this thread was talking about a big batch of bugs, the opposite of "occasional".
Small publishing sites are all but dead. The internet used to be a lovely village where everyone was on about the same playing field and now it's a handful of skyscrapers surrounded by slums.
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The data isn't sourced. Most claims of this nature ultimately source back to EPI's faked data that uses two different measures of inflation to falsely portray the productivity gap as far higher than it actually is.

See https://www.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/6rtoh4/produc... for details. I'm almost positive the same is going on here.
Yelp Says It Will Mark Pages of Businesses Accused of Racist Conduct
>what do you expect them to do? Present a captcha before letting a user click through an ad?

Maybe not the kind where you need to solve puzzles explicitly, but a few months back I noticed they were running recaptcha enterprise on every page, presumably for anti-bot/fraud purposes. This would be consistent with the hn story a few months back which found that reddit was fingerprinting users through a company called "whiteops", also for anti-bot/fraud purposes.
Agreed... Timeslots seem like slapping a technical restriction from a prior medium on the web for no particular reason. I'm not even sure what problem it's actually meant to solve?
Perhaps competitors trying to drain the budget of the advertiser?
Regular users used to be able to search for people using email addresses, not anymore.
If there's no user information/tracking, what are the chances that any of those ads will be served to a potential customer for the small business? The GP's bottom line is that nobody except large consumer brands should bother advertising.
you might want to add [obsidian](https://obsidian.md) to the options
They are saying that, even if HCQ+zinc is more right, HCQ alone should be an effective treatment (just less effective).
Trump does not have the competence to responsibly constrain a pandemic to the same deaths rates as all the other first-world countries.

He has demonstrated his incompetence in wrt to this, it is not objective.
Let’s not first assume intent. There are tons of scrapers running on Reddit. Reddit ads are presented inline rather than iframed/complex load behavior like Google Ads. Also browser extensions, browser behaviors (which smartly preload pages, prefetching) all cannot differentiate a Reddit ad url vs a regular link.

Reddit makes it much easier for any web traffic to follow through to ads. The issue is that Reddit doesn’t have a mature ad network infrastructure team to care about filtering traffic to better standards.

Given that only 50% are jokingly fraudulent, I’d say they’ve already done an OK job and aren’t booking an order of magnitude more of the web’s typical random traffic.
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> One problem is that the power to vet/censor particular things may be beneficial in a certain pair of hands but disastrous in another

What's the disaster exactly? I keep seeing allusions to catastrophe and disaster but I am not seeing any specifics about the material effects of this catastrophe.

> would you feel comfortable if FB came under control of the Saudis while it was engaged in extensive vetting

Why would that make me uncomfortable? Like what are the Saudis going to do with Facebook that would be so terrible compared to what Facebook is already doing under current ownership? The Saudis in particular seem like a weird example considering the already prolific influence of SoftBank in U.S. tech firms.

> Another problem is that vetting (/censorship) is often supported when it's "your side" doing the vetting

I don't have a "side" with respect to what Facebook removes from its platform, I can't fathom a scenario where something being removed from Facebook can be accurately described as a catastrophe or a disaster regardless of who is doing the removing.
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SMAC is also bang-free (and the best games IMHO).
The difference is solely on the workflow. Using the rich comment approach you setup some state, fiddle around, change a function, invoke it again, store some arguments in a variable, change the function again, split it into two functions and so on.

It is advised that once things stabilize you take your learnings and stuff them into a unit test for posterity.
This is interesting. I wish I were writing your comment. It seems like we're coming from a similar place but have much different read on the present situation - you're optimistic.

> I continue to believe that the chaos Trump sows acts as sand in the gears of the powerful

Arbitrary chaos tends to benefit the powerful, as they're able to take advantage of it. For example I had been hoping that the pandemic-induced economic slowdown would have unwound the debt treadmill by a bit. Instead the powerful just had the government print money to prop up asset prices. Meanwhile Main St continues to suffer.

> My concern is that if we throw Trump out and elect yet another insider, we will immediately resume the former status quo...lip service towards the genuine problems in the world, and plenty of catering to powerful corporations and the military industrial complex

From what I can tell, Trump has not stopped the sabre rattling and foreign military interventions. How are things better by not even paying lip service? Don't mistake upsetting specific individuals with upsetting the overall system.

> exposes the media and other politicians for the propagandists they are

He may call them for what they are, but his own reality distortion field prevents him from gaining any high ground. I had been working to keep an open mind on this, putting aside the media's complaints about Trump, and trying to see what he was actually doing (eg I appreciated when he scrapped the individual mandate). Covid itself was my breaking point, as it was an objective threat that he just rejected dealing with. I (still) agree the media is a giant propaganda operation, but in 2020, I listen to them over Trump.

> What's missing is, the people that have woken up don't know what to believe, or believe in. The West has no vision for the future, other than the same old bullshit story politicians of both sides of the aisle have been selling people for decades (as our military lays waste to 3rd world countries over completely manufactured pretenses, while the media runs cover for them). We need a new story, and it has to be at least fairly true, and plausible, and acknowledge the real barriers to achievement, rather than making up a whole bunch of fantasy land fake problems.

I agree with this in general. But IMO Trump looks like yet another conspiracy red herring rather than a productive path forward.
> I don’t believe Apple can dictate what ProtonMail is sending to its user via email.

They already supposedly went after apps that linked to a privacy policy on their main website because the main website itself had premium options for sale. If you can't link to legal policy etc. because it might be a level or two of indirection from offering a premium service for sale through the site you have to do something like a special site just for Apple users. I can totally see them going after email and arguing Proton mail could hide those notification emails from iOS users if they contain links to premium.
You're probably getting downvoted because you're repeating the same line that folks have been saying about Facebook for like 15 years now that keeps getting disproven. It's just the Chicken Little "sky is falling" metaphor.

>young people hate being where old people are, where their parents and teachers are.

Yes, because let's make large business decisions and technology investments on what 10-12 year olds like.
Can you describe some examples of the phenomenon to which you are alluding?
It took me multiple attempts over a span of 2 days to cancel my NYT subscription

I've had to cancel the Times a couple of times over the years. Telling them that I lost my job only got one offer to extend at a discounted rate. But what really worked well was this:

NYT: "Can I ask why you want to cancel your subscription?"

Me: "No."

It's not on their script, so the operator just took care of it immediately.

On the plus side, at least you can speak to a human being at the Times pretty quickly. Good luck getting through to anyone at the Albuquerque Journal in under three days ("It looks like you're calling from a cell phone. Let's continue this conversation by text!").
ProtonMail had no IAP in their app at all, but offered paid subscriptions on their website. Apple insisted that they offer IAP in the app, and ProtonMail is upset. Here:

> "Out of the blue, one day they said you have to add in-app purchase to stay in the App Store. They stumbled upon something in the app that mentioned there were paid plans, they went to the website and saw there was a subscription you could purchase, and then turned around and demanded we add IAP. There's nothing you can say to that. They are judge, jury, and executioner on their platform, and you can take it or leave it. You can't get any sort of fair hearing to determine whether it's justifiable or not justifiable, anything they say goes. We simply complied in order to save our business."

Yes, as I said, ideally Apple would allow other forms of payment alongside IAP, but that's not even the issue here. The issue here, as I said, was that ProtonMail was trying to avoid implementing IAP at all.
The same way that selling a timeslot that happens to be sized so that on average there will be one impression is not selling one impression. You aren't pretending to be able to accurately decide whether any given page load is an impression. You aren't even guaranteeing that there will be a page load, let alone an impression.

It seems like a way of directly eliminating fraud, by preventing people from having an avenue to lie about impressions, and a way of discencentivizing tracking, since impressions stop being the billing metric and therefore stops "needing" to be accurate. Hopefully this (as well as the other things suggested by OP to discentivize tracking) would result in less tracking and less hoarding of dangerous user data.
It's also important to note that many of the people responsible for the Internet as we know it had known left- or right-libertarian leanings. The Internet destroys people's faith in government because the people who created the Internet fought long and hard to ensure it would do so.
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Thanks, had to do a bit of digging on from there. This is more illustrative https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_709

Basically it’s the forebear of the “switch”
Hi Peter,
Thanks for doing this.

Do you think it is likely that the new H-1B rules will be struck down in court?

Also, I am currently on the OPT STEM extension, and will be putting in my third and final H-1B application in 2021. The new rules seem incredibly restrictive. My current salary puts me at the level 3 prevailing wage for software engineer in my area. The new rules would require a ~30% raise in order to qualify for the H-1B. Can my employer re-classify me to a level 1 prevailing wage worker before my H-1B application so that I can qualify? For context, I graduated with a bachelors degree in computer science from a US university in 2018.

I ask, because I work for a startup that would struggle to justify such a large raise.

Thank you
There is probably some of that, no process is perfect... If nothing else, at least it's more objective than a more bias-prone personality fit approach. But it's also possible to practice - even 20+ years after University - if one wants to interview at Google or another company that uses those kinds of interviews. Reading a few blogs like this and some live interviews on a site like interviewing.io or some such will put you back to graph walks or sparse matrix multiplication in no time.
And your reading of the situation lacks one crucial piece of information: Apple does not allow app authors to forward the “Apple tax” to the user. For example, if a newspaper subscription costs 300$ on the website, the publisher must not charge more than that in the app store event though he only gets 210$ after the “Apple tax”.
Esperanto is similar to a bunch of Roman languages widespread in Europe. One can see it as an attempt to collect them back into a common "Latin 2.0".

Outside Western Europe, Esperanto makes rather little sense. It's highly regular, which is nice — but, say, Japanese is also highly regular.
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I tend to agree (but that doesn't mean that the 5 figure argument is a good one).
Except 1000 impressions for a smaller company might still be impactful.
It was actually my first contact with 'real' finance. I started reading Money Stuff and just accepting that I wouldn't get most of it at first yet enjoying what I did get, and suddenly after a while I was looking up stuff on Investopedia and at some point, I realized I had actually learned lots of the basics and understanding all of the articles. I'm even thinking of studying it formally after the pandemic.
Hi Peter,

Thanks for this AMA. I have an L1 visa but was out of country and couldn't return and lost my job in April. Now I am being offered the same job again in January 2021.

1. Can I re-enter the US in January 2021? (my visa doesn't expire till later that year and I plan to file an extension).
2. Can my company file a greencard application on my behalf as soon as I enter the US? (I have asked for it as a part of my compensation package and the company will likely agree).

Thank you again for your time.
I have clicked on ads of the political parties I won't be voting for to cost them money...
Along these lines, here's a graph from the Federal Reserve's data service which plots median household income in contrast to GDP per household over time.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=bOfK

Note the increasing spread between GDP/household and median income. That's the US's entire socioeconomic problem--from rising consumer debt levels, rising deaths of despair, and the rise of reactionary politics--shown in one chart. The median person is falling behind.
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Almost all bidding on FB is oCPM and Google is tCPM, which means that clicks don't really matter at all in terms of Google/FB's ability to monetize. Transparency shouldn't matter for people bidding for conversions. The only transparency you need is to know where the visitors are coming from.

If anything fraud (really misclicks for FB and Google search since there is no fraud incentive) is also bad for them as well as it provides false signal of intent to their algorithms.
Just theater - no legislation.

Too many senators / congress people have Amazon warehouses with 1000's of jobs in their backyard, and would never support breaking them up on weak committee recommendations.
This is a good tip.

In several cities where I've lived, your library card would grant you online access to dozens or hundreds of newspapers from around the world. Some you could even download to your iPad to read later.
I believe it isn't OS-level notifications they are talking about, it's any notification in the app.
It's rather telling that these criteria only came up after the first negative trials of HCQ. The study that arguably kicked off the whole debated from Didier Raoult does not meet your criteria. It does include azithromycin, but it is on already hospizalized patients and doesn't include zinc.

There are also quite a lot of other HCQ studies, many with azithromycin and some also given very early before significant symptoms appeared (see one example here: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2016638). They also didn't find any benefit to HCQ.

The insistence on these very specific criteria is just blatantly moving the goalposts. There simply isn't enough indications that HCQ works, and plenty of evidence that it doesn't to justify even more large studies than it already got. This is arguably a huge misallocation of resources based on very flimsy initial evidence.
In the France of the universe in which I live, martial law hasn't been in use for over 2 centuries.
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>Can you imagine a world where Google decided they wouldn't filter spam because it was too controversial

Absolutely. Another solution would simply fill in the vacuum. Google—-Alphabet, rather—-is a for-profit corporation. Their initial success was the result of outperforming other services in a field so nascent that no one really knew exactly what it was. Google is no one’s friend; they’re not subject to anything except clear demarcations of legal statue and the court system.

It’s important to realize “this stuff” may, someday, very well become your stuff, my stuff and our stuff.

That’s the threat, in my opinion. Information is not harmful. Information we can each investigate and self-audit within our own brains. Google we cannot investigate, and it will never experience anything close to a public-facing audit.

Don’t capitulate your God given power away. The power to think. To question. To be wrong. To change your mind. To grow.

One man’s opinion.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2006/05/origins-anti-li...
SciML and JuMP are both best in class ecosystems, in some cases by enormous margins. The PPL landscape is also very significant.
Setup a script to hammer ads that aren't your own. Advertisers leave and your cost for ads goes down.
An old convention is <http://google.com/search?q=How+to+bake+cakes>. Really helps with ending periods.

Markdown copied that too: https://spec.commonmark.org/0.29/#autolink
Politically it's not yesterday's news but last year's news. Technically a good read for everybody responsible for certificates.
So the answer to preventing scam ads is only allowing the richest companies have a chance to advertise?

Surely there’s a better way.
Great to see you here!

I understand your unit of smallest write is a blob. How large are blobs? How does their identifier look like?
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The last four posts in the Twitter thread:

"A little less than a year after the publication of [blog post], we have therefore found a compromise letting us to respect both the obligation to publish the source code and the security constraints of DGFiP.

In letting us publish the code on their site and accessing confidentially the source code they didn't want published, the DGFiP let us find alternative solutions that made the publication of the source code concrete and operational.

This compromise lets both parties come out on top, unlike what happened with the source code of CNAF [link] where the administration simply argued a too-important difficulty and indefinitely postponed [1] it.

Letting those who ask for the source code to see it after a NDA therefore appears to be a possible solution when the publication is delicate for technical reasons. Could this path be useful for the report of @ebothorel?"

[Note: translation here is somewhat more geared towards a natural English translation than a literal French translation.]

[1] "repouss[er] [...] aux calendes grecques" appears to be an idiom that's not in my dictionaries, but from context appears to mean "indefinitely postponed"