skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure about ads, but I do know with Facebook likes, people who sell likes have to like a lot of organic-looking random pages to avoid being banned. Something similar could be happening here. Either that, or it’s Ad Nauseam. Edit: someone else mentioned money laundering too.
What's funny is that traditional media has just as much issues with misinformation and bias, yet the whole discussion around how content related to the election might not be straight and honest revolves completely around tech companies.

For some reason it's just the west coast tech companies where information or search is political, but with traditional media it's not?
This is a pretty good summary to be honest.
If you are attributing scientific discoveries to God, then that's not exactly accepting the discoveries - it's just pushing God further to the gaps. Christianity does the same thing.
>>To be fair, most of these are ide complaints, not language complaints.

The language itself doesn't matter without its ecosystem. This includes tooling, libraries, quality of documentation, the community, and more.
> Any clinical intervention is going to have advocates.

Honestly I don't really get this at all. Not even a little bit. Why? Anyone who actually has a motive (like a company trying to make money) should be kept far away from the regulators that oversee the study, and the whole point of double blind trials is to keep self interested bias away from the result of a study where lives are literally at stake.

Isn't the point of a clinical intervention to save lives? Either the intervention saves lives or it doesn't. The researchers should be selected from people who can maintain a neutral viewpoint. If that is impossible their neutrality should still be maximized and biases should be eliminated as much as humanly possible.

Simply accepting that bias as a matter of course is imo the worst way to approach it.
Does anyone here remember clicking on an add in the last week or month? How about just remembering an add or brand they saw online? I sure don't.
Counting the percentage of “positive” studies, regardless of size, methodology or definition of “positive” to determine the efficacy of a treatment might be the most dubious thing posted in this thread.
I'm quite happy to defer to your take on this particular protest.

In general, I just find the issue of "sedition" interesting. On the one hand, it makes sense that a minority not take it upon themselves to override a democratically elected government. On the other, people plotting an uprising, often use the rationale that the government is only democratic in name.
It's the same issue as social media. People love to read opinion pages so the news orgs end up providing more and more of it. The eyeballs Fox News gets is like 99% for their opinion programming.
Why Gravity Is Not a Force
The General Theory of Relativity tells us gravity is not a force, gravitational fields don't exist. Objects tend to move on straight paths through curved spacetime.
Then I suspect you've been binned in a low-ROI segment by advertisers.

This is the whole reason they do so much tracking and analysis, to suss out the idiots who'll just buy whatever is shoved in front of them.
My impression was always that the level of violence in French protests was in general much higher than in the US (see gilets jaunes).
Who the heck wouldn't want every treatment to succeed? Scientists would be thrilled with literally any and all success stories killing this thing.

It's not political, we're trying to find something that works.
Religions might accidentally guess the correct thing part of the time. But that would be despite the numerous examples of religions being extremely wrong most other times. Islam is no different. This feels like a massive stretch you'd expect from an apologist, not an actual scientist.
The short answer is yes but there are some complications/conditions.
How Depop detects marketplace scams using ML
she will just have to buy ads on smaller websites, maybe during lesser traffic time periods.
I don’t see what is misleading. The drug trial was done on the target population of the drug. That is how drug trials work.

I don’t see any reason for anyone to assume that the trial was done on a random subset of the population. That would be a irrational way to do drug trials, and it makes no sense to assume they are done that way.
It's hard to believe they can do this, but can't even reign in copy & paste profile spammers.
Don't newspapers report on masks? Are they political as well? Doesn't TV? Why is all the politics revolving around these west coast tech companies?

Could it be that it's actually not that political, it's just that these companies are filled by extremely left wing west coast people who want to make it political?
> Aunt Mae's cookie shop will never be able to compete with Pepsi for airtime

It still can’t compete with CPM

Getting 100 or 1000 impressions vs millions of impression is not really competing for air time.
I unintentionally click ads far too often.

Where I clicked while the page is still loading. But by the time my click is registered, an ad has loaded in the target location.

I suppose you could say loading ads asynchronously improves the user experience, but my skeptical experience is they intentionally load in high activity localities.

Every time it feels like a bait and switch.
> Until we start regulating the industry, no ad company is going to spend money to lose money

Google made 113 BILLION dollars from advertising last year. The majority of companies spending that are sophisticated enough to tell if they're getting value from their 0.1 trillion dollars.

Ditto even reddit advertisers -- attribution to reddit is table stakes for buying ads. The buyers are getting value or they quit spending on reddit.

edit: In fact, if you understand ads, fraud on reddit is a problem for reddit because it causes advertisers to transfer ad spend off of reddit.
Might be missing something, how is "every 100th impression" during a timeslot that on average contains 100 impressions different from just selling a single impression?

Just seems like a less transparent way of doing the same thing.
>The truth is the internet is teaching the biggest lesson ever in critical thinking and getting your information from many sources across spectrums, countries, divides and more.

I'm afraid it's more like Snowcrash, where the Internet is akin to the "snow", the static pattern that crashes most people's brains, and only a few are naturally immune, naturally critically minded.

>Let's hope that people see it as a lesson and not somewhere they can bask in their confirmation bias all day, or make decisions based on fear, in those cases the populace is easy to manipulate.

I think this is unfortunately the case, most people are basking in their confirmation bias and social media dopamine hits. Reason is hard, finding reliable trustworthy data is hard, etc. Path of least resistance is to give in.
Twitter Will Turn Off Some Features to Fight Election Misinformation
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Amazing. Try clicking through on some of the positive papers and read them. See if they are actually about HCQ efficacy. (Hint, I tried and they are not). Is the site some sort of troll fake project?
That other models of thought exist does not belie than an abundance of labor is the reason wages do not track productivity.
Hi Peter, thank you for this. I am a mexican software engineer on TN visa and was wondering what do you think may happen to that visa category as well as other potential options in the case of a failed H1-B application. Any opinion on whether or not there will be a merit-based immigration category similar to one proposed by the RAISE act?
If you look at the data, in the most liberal countries that rank highest on women's rights, education, equality of upbringing and lack of gender stereotypes, etc (nordic and some euro countries), women actually tend to choose more to work in less technical jobs and jobs that have less of a competitive career ladder.

So if you're going on the data at least as far as I know it, this should be a good sign.
I think you'd want a differentiable language to make that easy.
PageSpeed Insights: nytimes.com
What I meant is that Xamarin reimplements the APIs from iOS and Android.
Under-Employment of Female Surgeons?
>This logic easily devolves into absurdity

The solar flare isn't political obviously, but the response to it is. human disaster usually is the consequence of bad responses to catastrophes which have been declared inevitable. (see the current American covid response). Something that actually is in the realm of politics is shoved into the category of thoughts and prayers.

>Third, raising everything to the status of political is an example of politicization. This is typical of totalitarian regimes

Politicisation isn't bad and the only thing your post is any evidence of is the typical midbrow "no politics or gulag" logic that every conservative American who is afraid of engaging in political conflict has been repeating ad nauseam. You may think you appear smarter if you complain about tribalism every five minutes and act like you're above the fray, but you are not. It's just a silly straw-man made by people who are afraid of political change.
Like k0t0n0 said but it’s probably more like a trillion dollar question. Like yourself, I worked at a company for seven years before I left and it was a complete exercise in what not to do. As a result I learned many things, but what I concluded was that code grows in complexity exponentially proportional to its network and I/O effects. The hard pill to swallow is that in imo at least, is that we need the freedom to have multiplexed protocol diversity in the same vein as how we use Docker as an industry not ruled and dictated by the IETF or tech giants. The way the industry uses HTTP today for example is like trying to write Shakespeare with a choice of only 5 words. I won’t go into the details of what I call the “L8” protocol level that would be the answer to this trillion dollar question because (even after 5 years of contemplation) I really am not 100% sure; I’m just saying that it’s needed. Lastly, we need a modern way of representing, encoding, encrypting, and transmitting data with zero trust but also be able to measure its Shannon entropy and semantic consistency in a distributed network topology. This is because if we want a truly free and open semantic web not ruled by Google and SEO bad apples, we need to develop a means to understand data and network topology in an ambient isomorphic way. Here, the answers may lie in homology, representation theory, number theory, etc for all I know but no single person will solve this challenge that we really can’t put into words. Lastly, the solution will need to use existing industry standards such as HTTP/TCP/IP, XML/JSON, WASM, MIME, UTF-8 etc but also will need something like IPFS or Dat where they are used in a way that doesn’t require the whole internet to change—most P2P protocols don’t get that fact of life. The sad part is no one is talking about this elephant in the room because it’s hard to put into words except other than Alan Kay’s perhaps.
> So to end up having done a whole study on HCQ efficacy but NOT covered the bases on "zinc needed" seems unbelievable.

I'm not sure what you're saying. Are you critiquing the study for not measuring and supplementing zinc in the HCQ cohort?
https://www.engadget.com/2019-12-14-snow-crash-tv-series-hbo...
Isn't it normal for an email client to show a new-mail notification with the subject in it? Would it then depend on the wording of the subject?
There is a verse in the Quran[1] about the origins of the universe and life:

And have not the ones who disbelieved seen that the heavens and the earth were an integrated (mass), then We unseamed them, and of water We have made every living thing? Would they then not believe?

Commentators observe that this verse at the same time lends support to the idea of the Big Bang, and the origins of life in water. Thus there is a lot of support for these theories among Muslims, including the idea of evolution of one kind or another.

[1] https://quran.com/21/30?translations=32,40,84,19,21,20,101,8...
What is the German equivalent?
Ads are there to distract you from noticing the paid product placements
If you want to have such a broad definition of political, then why restrict the whole fight to tech companies? Why aren't on the barricades about the fashion industry or traditional media?

Are you sure this isn't just an excuse to make things political in these west coast companies that are full of young, hot-headed, extremely left wing people?
There are different ways to exploit massive parallelism. One is to perform distributed training of an individual model, and the degree to which you can see good scaling here indeed depends on the network itself (as well as the quality of the distributed training algorithm itself, with things like Horovod being best-in-breed).

A second way to exploit parallelism is via hyperparameter search, and in particular when leveraging early-stopping based approaches like Hyperband/ASHA. Speedups in this setting tend be fairly robust to the the choice of network. As you mentioned, in such settings you can do meaningful amounts of work independently, and moreover can leverage asynchrony to further avoid bottlenecks.

Disclaimer: I am one of the co-founders of Determined, and also one of the developers of Hyperband/Asha.
We've never had yellow journalism powered by trillion dollar companies that are extremely good at manipulating your average Joe to keep consuming more based on their addiction algorithms.
Top US online newspapers load time using Google Lighthouse
Yes, departure (to Mexico, etc.) and reentry with both passports is a good option.
I think it may be more useful to think of "tribe" or "clan" as a political organizations that form the base of decentralized governments than ethnic groups, since many tribes can exist within any given ethnic group, and many ethnic groups can exist within geographic areas governed by decentralized bodies.
I'm in USA northeast, and we did experiments in (private) highschool & college around chemistry (calories burned, mole weights, etc) and physics (measure a spring's K, speed, light/sound wave refractions, surface tension of water+soap, etc). Not so much in biology but I think I would've hated that kind of wetwork.
>The world isn't going to end and I need to stop worrying that it will.

Debatable, but even if it is, you still shouldn't waste your time worrying about it.
You have to be smart to trade flow derivatives. Not only is it necessary to understand the product and pricing tools, but also you have less time to examine any given trade than your customer does, you have to deal with weird correlations and dispersions that were forced upon you by customers, your social skills and sixth/"I'm getting played" sense are just as much a part of your toolkit as are your math skills, and you aren't given too much leeway with mark-to-market p&l.

You probably noticed at GS that a risk desk won't put an employee in front of a book just because he got good grades at UPenn.
While I don't have any data on it. I think that retention tactics that drag out the process might be more harmful in the future. Especially in terms of brand image. I might be cancelling the service for a short while or I might be switching companies/priorities. If the cancellation process is tedious, I won't feel like returning to that service.

In terms of the argument here, it feels like Proton Mail is trying to mirror Spotify's argument. The only problem is that, Spotify was a direct competitor to Apple Music. This is entirely different. Apple is providing a marketplace for apps, and many companies like Proton Mail are actually exploiting the system.

The only fault here is Apple's approach to the issue. But in this specific case, I don't think there's any mafia action going on unlike the whole Spotify drama.
The spec itself: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UmAU9aNvGOPNY0vG-LKE...
> unlike Christianity

Whew. That's definitely NOT something you can say generally of Christians. The ones saying crazy stuff get all the attention, but it's not as mainstream as you might have been led to believe.

For example, current (I think) Catholic doctrine is similar to the Islamic position you describe:

Though faith is above reason, there can never be any real discrepancy between faith and reason. Since the same God who reveals mysteries and infuses faith has bestowed the light of reason on the human mind, God cannot deny himself, nor can truth ever contradict truth. ... Consequently, methodical research in all branches of knowledge provided it is carried out in a truly scientific manner and does not override moral laws, can never conflict with the faith, because the things of the world and the things of faith derive from the same God. The humble and persevering investigator of the secrets of nature is being led, as it were, by the hand of God despite himself, for it is God, the conserver of all things, who made them what they are.

So that's a rather large fraction of Christians. (I was raised Catholic, and, "truth cannot contradict truth" -- obviously a reference to the same thing as this catechism -- was what I was told on this question. So from my perspective, this wasn't just an obscure position, but something actively taught.)

If you're interested, here's a link to the wikipedia article, which has links to other sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_the_Catholic_Churc...
I see ads in my reddit stream, but when I click them they are blocked by ublock
> Forces civiles, contrairement aux gendarmes mobiles avec lesquels ils sont souvent confondus

(wikipedia.fr)

You are correct and I was wrong. I learnt something today, thanks.
> Inflation is defined in terms of the price of consumer goods …

There is more than one definition of inflation. Price inflation, the definition you cite, is defined in terms of the prices of consumer goods. This conflates a number of different factors, for example money supply, demand for various kinds of consumer goods, improvements in production efficiency, and direct demand for currency, and for that reason is basically useless for economic analysis, especially if the supply is not held constant. Supply inflation considers only changes in the money supply. You can safely assume that anywhere I use the term "inflation" I am not referring to the useless measure of price inflation but rather to supply inflation.

> … as inflation is actively managed with a goal target rate …

Irrelevant, as the goal is set in terms of consumer prices (see above) and it is the changes in the money supply, not consumer prices, that cause the problems. They're controlling the wrong metric. Consumer prices should have been allowed to fall in response to efficiency improvements. That would have benefited everyone. Wages would fall too, but slower than prices, so purchasing power would increase. Instead they pushed prices to increase to meet their price inflation target, leaving wages to trail behind.

> … the currency supply needs to be able to respond to external factors, such as increases or decreases in population …

It does not. Only the value of the currency needs to adjust to accommodate external factors, and it does so automatically without any change in the supply. Adjustments might be required if the value changes so much as to make the currency awkward to deal with—for example, if price deflation led to typical USD prices being only a few cents we would need new coins with finer resolution—but that is not a major issue for any fiat currency or cryptocurrency where the divisions into units are basically arbitrary. The same applies for price inflation, of course, as we can observe with various countries phasing out smaller coins and bills. It can be an issue for commodity currencies where e.g. the amount of gold needed to buy a meal is simply too small an amount to reasonably store or exchange in the form of a solid coin. (A 1/10 ounce gold coin the size of a dime is worth over $100.)
No. Stop propagating that myth.

Read the link provided that explains the terms and proves that low cost plans are the best for chronic conditions.
their top 10 all make at least 7 figures a year and Matt would almost certainly be a top 10 writer
Only difference is who is in network.
You know what’s also missing if you go to bloomberg.com./? All of the ads, and the animated stock ticker. I’m on mobile so didn’t dig into it further, but I bet that all JS loaded on request from another domain (probably including the paywall) is absent or broken.

The site itself loads fine though, because DNS still works and whatever routing layer in their app probably doesn’t care about the domain, just the path that follows it.
As a general rule, they would not be subject to the cap again and could be sponsored by and start working for a new H-B employer at any time.
In my religious tradition, demons, or their effects, are essentially disembodied thoughts ("logismoi"). Which supports my experience that social media can be hell on earth.
Except in that real world, you only have two choices, Best Buy or Walmart ( iOS and Android ).

The problem and complain is much more complex once all these additional factors comes into play. It isn't so much a problem if we look at it in isolation. As in your Best Buy example, which I agree is perfectly valid.
I think this is an important point. What a practitioner can do with a language is influenced as much by the tooling as with the language itself. The implication is that languages should be constructed with as much thought given to the external tooling as to the compiler or interpreter.

Julia in particular is built to be a practical language so, these points are valuable.
Have you ever had that experience though? For me targeted ads just show me things I've already bought. "Great google, yep, last month I was reading midi controller reviews, and I bought one last month. " Amazon does the same thing after I've bought something from them. Just bought a printer? Amazon's gonna email me shit about other printers I might like for a week, not accessories that go with the machine I purchased, just other printers. So not only am I not really comfortable with tracking, I don't think the experience justifies it.
'Dr Bananas' and 'Dr Fakename' among medical signatories on herd immunity letter
We just had a thread on hacker news where most folks agreed the administrations changes to the H1B program were welcome.
You came up with those parameters conveniently after the study was published.

The people who created and executed these studies wanted to save lives. They created a method they thought would be most likely to work, and time and time again they didn’t. Different dosages, different timing, different places. No benefit.

The fact that people aren’t running more studies is not because there is a global conspiracy. It’s because the drug doesn’t do anything and researchers don’t want to waste their time and their patients lives satisfying critics who don’t care about the science.

Does HCQ work if you have some magic combination of zinc? Maybe. Is that more likely than another treatment given that HCQ has been heavily studied and shown no benefit and zinc had been heavily studied for a lot of things and shown no magical properties? Probably not. So researchers spend their time on things more likely to work.
Wouldn't this create a feedback loop? Someone doesn't click adds, show them cheap ineffective ads, they click less ads...
90% of the ads I click on are when I Google a brand name and the top ad result is their page. I try to scroll down and click on the top result to avoid them having to pay but I often forget or move too fast.