skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is such a silly thought. I have to have a server which has to be capable of transforming data to valid HTML snippets which are aware of the context they'll be put into, a client which is capable of listening to clicks and then putting some data or snippets in some context it has to be aware of, and I have round-trips for everything even though I have a stateful client, and it's best if that stateful client is an orchestrator for remote systems which can somehow inject interactivity into my stateful client.

It's spaghetti architecture and I don't see what the gain is. Why do my servers need to know how to describe my layout!?
Is there any evidence that whole-workforce productivity applies equally to minimum wage jobs? If not, the claim seems unsustainable.

Completely anecdotally, improvements in labor productivity due to automation (etc) are less likely to be impactful in jobs like waiting tables, delivering newspapers or flipping hamburgers.

That anecdotal evidence is backed by research that shows that service sector productivity tends to lag other sectors significantly.
There would definitely have to be coordination at the organizational level. Say, no meetings on Mondays and Friday and individuals can choose to work individually or not on those days. But that starts to get inefficient for the people who do want to work and it reduces the flexibility of those who want to work part-time.

And TBH, if I were to work fewer hours in a year, I'd probably prefer to have bigger chunks of time off, i.e. more vacation time, than having every weekend be 3 or 4 days--much less have shorter work days.
My friend who was on J2 had to leave the US for two years despite having his EB2-NIW i140 approved. You cannot escape the 2 year home country requirement. You can apply for i140 but you can't get the green card/immigrant visa until you satisfy it.
One of the perks of my employer paying ~$3k a month for my Bloomberg subscription as well.

That and the other few times a month I need to check some data.
> Facebook lookalike audiences. Upload customer list (with attributes you want in your targeted demographic) and have Facebook create a lookalike audience for it. Incredibly precise

What the fuck? Facebook allows people to do these things?
I don't want to dib into your success as what you did is impressive. Why do you call it a startup and not simply a business or a company? Are you aiming to sell/exit? If so, I would like to hear more about your approach to that.
Yep spider.io. Many years ago I knew someone who worked there. I believe he's still at Google.
INRIA is very popular in the CS community, I wonder how you've never heard of their work.
In the US, you calculate your own income tax, don't you? Like in Canada.

The "source code" to the calculations are the paper forms which specify the calculations, making them transparent.
I got an iPad specifically so I could kinda get a hybrid of both technology and handwriting. The new ios hand writing feature made it even better.
The main problem there is you are not able to pay a premium for IAP subscriptions. Apple mandates that functionally equal options cost the same inside the app as outside, despite Apple taking the 30% cut for IAP.
Driving is not necessarily a good example for your point because if people actually focused on behaving remarkably behind the wheel (that would be the "constricting way to live a life"), road accidents would be much less frequent than they are today (which is already way less than 0.01% fortunately).
Imagine if you had lunch with your coworkers, and one of them started complaining about Boris Johnson trying to kill the minorities with his fascist COVID policies. You personally don't like Johnson, and think his policies are far from optimal, but you think calling his policies "fascist", or implying he wants to kill anyone, is clearly over the top. However, instead of protesting, you nod your head and keep quiet, because defending Johnson's policies means that you're a fan of Johnson, and so basically a fascist, and you fear the general opprobrium among your colleagues, and would prefer to avoid anonymous HR complaints of your person.

This is the reality of working for large tech companies in the US, just with Trump instead of Johnson.
> What's with the extremes?

I'm not the one speaking in extremes. This is a quote:

> The point is that it's faster and simpler to just have the server render the entire HTML and replace that

That's childish analysis.
That's one way to kill the ad industry, and I'm all for it!
>most podcasts use this manual curation model with the hosts themselves reading out the ads.

And I am far, far more likely to explore a product endorsed by a favorite podcast than I am to click into a random link on the very same podcast's main site.
This is cute, but this isn't how things work in the US. Money talks :)
The idea of "winning" a conversation is screwed up from the get-go.

Kennedy and Johnson were Democrats. The House and Senate were both Democratically controlled.

Saying that Republicans passed civil rights because there were 18 Southern Bloc Democrats who fought it in the Senate is just lying about the facts.
It's rare that I (an American) get to help out others by translating something, so I will post my translation here.

"Four years after the first publication by DGFIP, I have the pleasure of announcing that the source code permitting the calculation of taxes on revenue is finally reusable (recompilable by others)!

To use this algorithm in your application, follow this link...

It took us 1.5 years (with my coauthor Raphael Monat) to identify that which was missing in the published code in order for it to be reusable, and to fix this situation.

More or less, thanks to our project Mlang, a person can simulate IR's calculations without needing to interface with DGFIP.

The difficulty came from a constraint from DGFIP, who did not want us to publish (for security reasons) a part of the code that corresponds to a mechanism that handles "multiple liquidations". Raphael and I recreated this unpublished part in a new DSL.

DGFIP equally didnt want to publish their internal test games (cases). We had proceeded therefore with the creation of a suite of random test cases, separate from the non published ones, to finally be able to reproduce the validation of Mlang outside of DGFIP."
>It's not cynicism, it's Goodhart's law applied to actual law enforcement.

What OP pointed out was a potential problem that could be rectified. I don't get a sense of the scale of this problem and I don't see any evidence that what OP specified is an intrinsically large-scale structural problem that leads to innocent people being incarcerated in significant numbers.

>There are also bad ones who will take a person to court because it fits a description and allows them to close a case.

America is a big country of 320 million, with 700,000 police officers, and thousands of people moving through the justice system every single day. I'm sure there are plenty of examples of the process breaking down. That says nothing about whether or not this is a systemic, structural problem. And even if it was, it could be adjusted by policy and regulatory changes.

>Whichever path they choose, police won't be held accountable for taking shortcuts except in egregious, high profile cases.

This kind of argumentation is so annoying. You're clearly talking out of ignorance based on your own interpretation of how policing is done (which stems from movies and twitter). What do you mean police is not held accountable? Police departments are highly regulated. Every single aspect of policing has a process and regulation attached to it, and is coupled with enforcement and oversight from independent bodies.
Vladivostok? I guess it could've been worse in soviet times. At least your father wasn't in Magadan.

It sounds like you're a generation or so too young, but do you have any opinions on КИНО? Any recommendations for Vladivostok (or general Pacific) music groups I should look up?
That is a stupid idea and will get your accounts and IP banned from Google and Cloudflare. Use it yourself if you want, do not encourage others to use it.

It is based off uBlock Origin. Just use uBlock Origin.
> unlike Christianity, Islam accepts scientific discoveries but attributes them to God instead

This seems like a very narrow concept of Christianity.

While there are certainly Christian sects that reject well-established concepts it’s far from the norm.
After working remote for about 5 years now, I don’t think I could ever work in an open office again. Whenever I do need to visit an office, I don’t even attempt to get any focused work done. I just attend my meetings and try to spend time socializing with coworkers who I haven’t seen in a while.

Commutes are a pretty miserable aspect of working in an office, too.
This is a fascinating take. Thanks for sharing!
Spotify will be inserting targeted ads into their podcast streams, if they haven't started already. Something to keep in mind for anyone who was thinking of listening to podcasts on Spotify.

I think Stitcher does this as well.
Agreed. PWAs added to the home screen should be able to at least have push notifications, and those notification settings should be able to be managed in the Settings app exactly as if the PWA were an app installed through the App Store.

It's absolutely not a privacy or security issue.
It absolutely does not. Productivity gains over the past 50 years have been disproportionately concentrated in higher skilled positions (who earn salaries, not wages). If you feel like reading a 66 page extremely dry analysis of the relationship between compensation and productivity then here you go. https://www.nber.org/papers/w24165.pdf
Imagine trying to derail the discussion with unscientific appeals to emotion. Obviously no one is okay with extra deaths, so you're arguing against a strawman.

So far there have been about 218,000 American deaths. There is no scientific basis for your 1,148,700 number. The only way we could have prevented all of the American deaths would have been by completely sealing our borders back in December, but at the time no one realized how serious it was. We now know there was already widespread community transmission by January and at that point a high death toll became inevitable.

https://www.wsj.com/graphics/when-did-covid-hit-earliest-dea...
You would still see yacht ads on the site for Yachting Magazine. What you wouldn't see is hemorrhoid ads targeted to you because you searched for hemorrhoid cream three days ago on a different computer.
I'm biased, as this author of this article is my former PhD student, but I think this is a very good, and highly accessible article on modern HP tuning methods, why they are not used in the wild as much you might expect, and how to fix this issue. Nice work Liam!
Targeting as it is currently done collects an insane amount of data which is an ever-growing liability which will inevitably blow up when that data leaks or becomes resold/misused.
It's a very finance culture approach, though, where the bounds of what's in and out are tested constantly by what (knowledgeable, ideally) participants, compliance departments, and regulators are willing to tolerate. Many banks were highly criticized after the financial crisis for selling "knowingly toxic" CDO/CLOs but on the other side of the trade were highly sophisticated buyers who wanted those securities.
Did you look at the link? The detection methods used, and the discussion of mitigation in the thread, make it clear that if they are doing any mitigation at all they are neglecting obvious red flags.

Every business is obliged to be ethical, vigilant against deception, and not blatantly lie, no matter what size they are. Even if you could make an argument like this, reddit was already pretty big ten years ago. That's why they started running ads.
Given the hyper targeted efficiency of the modern ad networks, are you sure the fake crypto and tech support ads are going to everyone and not just to you?
Yale Law doesn't have to use grades because it's the top law school and it can push 100% of its students. It's the same with top graduate departments, which have grades but rarely actually give anything below a B. Lower-ranked law schools have to use grades so the top students can actually distinguish themselves and get decent jobs.
> Never allow dynamic ad content! Ads should be individually approved by publishers and not subject to change after approval.

Partially agree. Publishers should definitely be able to blacklist advertisers. However, networks like Google get thousands of ads that run for only a handful of impressions. Asking publishers to manually approve every single ad that might run is onerous.

I would like to see approval required for anything executable: JavaScript, Flash, etc. Waking up to find that your website has become an attack vector through malicious banner ads is not okay.

> Ban user tracking and targeting.

Mostly disagree.

I click on a meme site. There's not a lot of relevant ads for that. I could get served ads for lolcats-themed merchandise that I don't want, or low-value broad-targeted ads that probably still aren't relevant to me. Nobody wins.

Or, based on my search history, I could get ads for computer parts that I'm actually interested in. I get ads that are relevant, the publisher gets more revenue, and the advertiser has a real chance at a sale. Everyone wins.

> It's a red queen's race and no one benefits.

That couldn't be less true.

Now, systems that try to track individual people (rather than blocks with similar demographic/behavioral traits) are a serious problem. We do need stricter controls to prevent this.

> Pay for ad time slots, not user impressions.

Here we go. You want to throw away the very thing that democratized digital advertising. You want a system where either you pay five figures to reserve a time block, or you don't get to play.

Hard disagree.

> Use anti-trust to prevent link aggregators from being advertisers.

I'm not sure how anti-trust ties into this. Are you alleging that, say, Fark has a monopoly status, and is abusing it to gain an unfair advantage in an adjacent market?

Now, I think you're on to a very real problem here--advertising dollars are being diverted away from the organizations that produce content--but severing the only real revenue source for most aggregators seems like an inappropriate response.
Extremely unpopular opinion but sometimes I like being targeted. Just last week I was looking for a ceiling lamp but couldn't really find anything I wanted. I finally found one that I liked by seeing it in an ad that was obviously targeted.

It was nice to not having to actively go through the hundreds of pages of lamps and instead get presented a few different ones in each ad group now and then, as a break in my usual feed. The drip exposure also made me contemplate each one in isolation instead of being overwhelmed.

What I don't like is that I keep getting ads for lamps now after I've already bought it.
The absolute state of Twitter says everything about the cogitation required to type: none at all. Yet, the spray-painted vandalism seen in public spaces is only marginally more informed.

Cuneiform is far more engaging of the faculties and demanding of careful composition. Struck by a strange mood, the aspiring author must gather clay from the river at low ebb, gather ash wood or reed and craft styluses, and must also build an oven, all the while lovingly musing upon the intended opus. Any mistake is the ruin of the opus. The tablet must be smashed and new clay gathered. In comparison, handwriting is but the careless ejaculation of worthless ink; fit only for brief amusement and animalistic territorial piss-marking.

You’ll note the erudition of this post. Indeed, I pound my words into my laptop with a hammer and then cook the bastard thing in an oven in order to submit.
Teach Your Eye to Eat Clojure
We need mushrooms that would eat our toxic waste.
And Brian Reynolds did two episodes as well. All recommended if those names are interesting to you.
Eiffel – Concurrency patterns in SCOOP [pdf]
Big companies tend to be run by psychopaths who think it is ok to make it impossible to cancel a subscription.
Wow, Julia is a "baby language" and there is not a single project where its dominating the usage landscape.

What's next, the unreasonable effectiveness of an idea I just had last night?

Come back in 10 years.
It requires at least education into those tendencies and introspective drills to overcome them. For kids, drills would mean roleplaying with lying games, comparison shopping, that kind of thing.

We've understood those tendencies much better since Edward Bernays, but I do not know of any young-adult curriculum that teaches them. It would be good for everybody.
There's no guarantee that regulation is good regulation.
Another of my unpopular opinions is that wind power is an abysmally bad capital investment with a terrible ROI (when not heavily subsidized) and even worse EROEI, and all that circus about H2 is a new way to meddle with the financial numbers to paint a rosy (greeny?) future where H2 comes to the rescue before the veil falls. It can only work as long as we have no supply crunch on hydrocarbons.

I understand peak renewable at negative prices as an artefact of the market structure. If comes a time when there's actual supply problems on hydrocarbons, we'll need some other sensible way to provide a baseline, and so far only nuclear does. Furthermore, even for H2 production nuclear probably makes more sense than wind power.
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I'm of the opposite view: If I'm going to see ads, I'd rather they be irrelevant. That way I at least have a little more assurance that my privacy was not violated in order to produce them. I don't care what the content of the ad is, because I will not buy a product from an ad, so a non-privacy-violating ad that I ignore is strictly better to me than a privacy-violating ad that I also ignore.
Labour is anywhere from 25% to 34% of the food cost. So, anywhere from 1/3 to 1/4. It's not the lion's share as envisioned.

https://totalfood.com/busting-restaurant-labor-cost-myth/
> I am proud that I pretty much cured everyone in my circle from buying any Apple products.

And buying what instead?
> Islam accepts scientific discoveries but attributes them to God

So... Who invented computers? god. Who discovered radium? god... Who earned all nobel prices? god? :-) Exams must be really easy then.

This is politics or ideology, not science.

Ideology wearing a fur of dead science is more common that it seems nowadays (and is not exclusive from Islamic schools, it seems)
> It was not compulsory, as in most countries including US, there were actually several alternatives (appelé scientifique, etc).

The US last had conscription during the Vietnam War and has never had a general-purpose mandatory peacetime "National Service" equivalent. Our draft had deferments of various kinds as well, in addition to alternative service for conscientious objectors.
> There is a common attitude among Arabs (evident in this poster's comments in this thread) that everything bad in Arab countries is due to some combination of the US and Israel. One of my teachers, a Jordanian, told me how his father would poke fun at this attitude: when something in the house would break, his father would ironically blame Israel for it.

To prove that your arrogant comment is wrong: I didn't mention that Israel is responsible for anything, I was mainly talking about the US. And I didn't say that all of the problems caused by them.
Also see the code repository at https://github.com/romasch/scoop_patterns
> One of biology’s enduring struggles since Darwin’s time has been to throw off the hierarchy in which all living things are judged by their proximity to the supposed pinnacle of evolution: humans

Really? I thought the goal of Biology was to accurately understand life, not making sweeping moral judgements about the relative importance of human and non-human life.

> Stephen Jay Gould unflaggingly tried to explain

Of course. This guy is a dishonest political activist who was caught faking data to make a political statement in his book "Mismeasure of Man".

This whole article is just trying to demoralize you and it's wrong. People are the most important thing on earth and mushrooms don't even come close (other than to the extent they play a vital role in the health of ecosystems we depend on)

> growing through a maze to locate the shortest path to the exit

There you go, mushrooms are smarter than you because they grow blindly in every direction. Case closed.
Only a few of the games had bang in the name, e.g. Sid Meier's Civilization or Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon are bangless.

Still, I find the cover of this book so delightful!
But that's a free trial. If you sign up for an Apple TV+ subscription and immediately cancel, it does the same thing as any other subscription.
This is clearly stated in the article:

"You can see that these were indeed at-risk patients – the overall mortality rate in the general population for coronavirus infections is nowhere near those rates, and it’s a damn good thing it isn’t. The mean age of the patients was 59 years, 64% male, with 50% of them having hypertension, 45% of them obese, and 30% with Type 2 diabetes. So even though they were characterized as mild-to-moderate on enrollment, this was just the sort of group that you’d worry about as a physician."

It is still a valuable study even if it is not a study done on the general population.
This is fair, thank you for the correction.

I do think it's not quite what you're saying though, due to Rust's design, we would have checked exceptions, and so the Result part would be there with exceptions, it's the Ok() part that would change.

In theory you could make a language without checked exceptions that would make it be like your example.
Smart-but-lazy employees are interested in efficiency, and will work uncharacteristically hard in order to achieve it.

Bosses and owners are only interested if there's something in it for them. As in does it increase our output without a proportional increase in costs. The bigger the gap the more social capital I will burn on making that change (including, but not limited to, fucking over my loyal employees by replacing half of them with a machine, or imports).

We would have barely any of those productivity gains if they didn't also lower the cost of labor per item. So this number is a largely hypothetical. And perhaps a little unhealthy to dwell on.

Conversely, though, if minimum wage had kept pace with inflation, we might see higher productivity today because process people would have had the ammunition to push for more and bigger improvements to production and overhead costs. New equipment would be rolled out sooner while prices were still high, making a steeper adoption curve and accelerating R&D expenditure.

Still, it would be better if management did not try to keep 99% of every dollar saved. We could easily see a world where, instead of the $12/hr we should have simply to maintain the spirit of the minimum wage as it was conceived, everybody had Seattle's $15/hr minimum wage and big cities were trying to legislate for $20.
They need a reason to feel like they've accomplished something short of actually reducing suffering.

This stuff always gets sidelined into trivialities that are insulting to people who do, in fact, face injustice.
This is what I tell everyone interested in becoming a pentester. Know your enemy.
Farmers can also signal honestly when demonstrating. Hoodies and backpacks may be cheap, but it's much less likely anyone would acquire a whole tractor even if they wished to discredit a farmers' protest.