skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Algorithmic advertising allows companies to take advantage of evolved human behaviors to drive sales. For my tastes, it has gotten out of control and disgusting. I'm tired of being treated like a consumer, and I'd imagine the majority of people feel that way in their bodies, even if they aren't conscious of it (my small N sample is pretty heavily in agreement). The whole process of being advertised to is exhausting. That's even before we get into the 2016 election.

It probably is the most efficient model for a social media company (as you said, that's why they all do it). I don't think that type of monopoly is healthy in a market economy, and by regulating it, you allow other, more benign models a chance to grow.

> We're successfully doing it with smoking, and making good progress on the sugar + sedentary lifestyle front as well with all sorts of niche diets and fitness regimines popping up.

Are you just shitposting or are you not aware of the substantial history of prosecuting and regulating those industries, which have been instrumental in driving those changes? I don't underestimate end users - I think if you provide proper leadership and make the right thing the easy thing, then end users will do the right thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Master_Settlement_Agre...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugary_drink_tax

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/new-food-warning-labels-beg...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_Move!

If you spend most of your time around people who have a certain type of education and economic means, who do their own research, and have the liberty to control their lives to some extent then a libertarian outlook seems obvious. Outside that bubble, it becomes real clear that a lot of these problems are systemic and too big for most individuals to comprehend, let alone solve. It sounds dramatic to apply that to Facebook, but given the impact it seems to have on society, a little flair is appropriate.

> Also, and maybe I'm just being unimaginative, but what kinds of market rules would make sense here?

Apply the CCPA nationally and give users full control of their data and how it is used for starters. If you make it easy for customers to opt their data out of targeted advertising most will - if not immediately, then eventually (as you described, fatigue). If Facebook doesn't have the data, then their ad engine isn't really much better than anyone else and other business models become more attractive.

There are a bunch of different ideas about how to go about it, but taking away the data monopolies would seem to be the easiest, most self-executing solution.
Solzorro
I used to run a "recreational computer programming" meetup once a month, (back when I lived in a large city with a nice hackerspace attended by people who weren't laser-focused on some sort of "startup mania") which was quite rewarding. I tried to steer away from the sort of "computer science" aspects and more towards the "art project" aspects, as this suited my own interests more, and I think the audience as well (a more computer-science-centric approach was tried before with poorer results, ymmv). Once this COVID nightmare is past, or managed, I may try to start something like this again, for now, it seems impossible, or at best pointless, as the best part of it was meeting with people.
Market-Making Can Boost the Traction for Your Security Token
How closely is org syntax tied to emacs, I would love to try it but I can't just switch my text editor just to learn a markup language.
> Saying "economics reject the LTV" is in my mind a bit like saying that physicists reject Newtonian mechanics.

No. It is not rejecting it in the way that physicists reject Newtonian mechanics.

Instead it is that most modern day economists reject Marxian economics in the same way that astronomers reject flat earthers.

The labor theory of value is just completely bunk.

Source:

https://voxeu.org/article/marx-and-modern-microeconomics

"Few economists doubt that Marx flunked economics"

"Economists, looking back, have not found much to admire in Karl Marx"

That is what I mean. Economists just don't take seriously much of anything that Marx has to say on the actual field of economics, on the same level as that of flat earthers.

His only insights are maybe into politics. But not the actual field of economics.

When economists are saying that he "flunked" economists, as quoted from the article, it is intended to imply that basically nothing that Marx had to say, on actual economics matters at all, and is so ridiculous that we should compare it to conspiracy theories, or flat earthers, or something else that is equally nonsensical.
Humans reconceptualized as lasers in new Nature Physics paper
"It also requires a fundamental rethinking of what a laser is: not restricted to the current kinds of devices, but any device which turns inputs with little coherence into an output of very high coherence."
Then you’re violating YouTube’s terms of service, sure, but the tool you’re downloading with is not unlawful because you’re violating YT’s terms
This includes human beings.
I don’t think you are particularly unusual in your wants and needs, but there may be some other issues if you have been trying and failing to have any sort of romantic relationship for 17 years.
The rules of modern virtue and values and morals are being written by school kids in public schools funded by the adult tax payers they hate.

Also women can now be called menstruators’ or ‘persons with vulvas’. (Serious..not being facetious)

You could be a TERF. I just found out about it. Pasting what I posted elsewhere:

[..]

Apparently there is a name for her. TERF.

[..] If you didn’t already know – and why should you? – ‘TERF’ is an acronym coined by trans activists, which stands for Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist. In practice, a huge and diverse cross-section of women are currently being called TERFs and the vast majority have never been radical feminists. Examples of so-called TERFs range from the mother of a gay child who was afraid their child wanted to transition to escape homophobic bullying, to a hitherto totally unfeminist older lady who’s vowed never to visit Marks & Spencer again because they’re allowing any man who says they identify as a woman into the women’s changing rooms. Ironically, radical feminists aren’t even trans-exclusionary – they include trans men in their feminism, because they were born women.[..]

From: https://www.jkrowling.com/opinions/j-k-rowling-writes-about-...

As a biological woman, I feel this surprising sense of..loss. Like a loss of identity. I don’t know what to feel. I am gobsmacked.

[..]

This is creating ripples even amongst Uber-feminists. A friend(from India..of all places) got called a TERF because she wanted ‘paid period leave’ for..well..menstruators. Apparently not very inclusive. And boom! Interesting times.
“I don't think we can roll back on the constant need for more 'breaking news'”

Let’s challenge that assumption with historical precedent.

A technological and social revolution of sorts in the 1800s. In the first world of the time, the masses became literate and had more leisure time. Combined with advances in the technology of printing and paper production, and in distribution of the physical book, it led to an explosion of interest in something called “the novel”. It was almost a madness at the time, cf. the popularity of Charles Dickens works.

But eventually the violent boiling cooled to a simmer. A continuous simmer, but just a simmer culturally. I don’t know how or why the dynamic changed, but it did settle down.

I’d guess a similar analogy could be made with “the theater”, which is even below a simmer at this point in modern culture.

What will change the dynamic? Your guess is as good as mine...
Syntax is not at all, but you lose all the benefits of doing org-mode. If you're not in a situation to afford the switch, do not switch. This is not for you.
>Going through more than 10 years worth of NYC taxi data, I analyse how the antiquated meter system impacts the livelihood of NYC cabbies by drawing an analogy with stock options trading. Interestingly, this approach allows us to show that drivers have progressively been worse-off, independently of competition from Uber.

The author ignores significant issues with the data. These include time of day, where time-specific surcharges increase the fare independent of distance or time spent in the taxi. The author also ignores the shift system for fleet cabs. As a general rule, fleet cabs operate two twelve hour shifts, with the day shift generally being less lucrative than the night shift. What's more, the author ignores the fact that Thursday evening through Sunday morning are significantly more lucrative than the rest of the week.

If you ignore the above and just average everything together, you'll miss important differentiators in revenue.

I get that the author normalized the data to enable his analysis of revenue. But given that he ignores important variables makes the results suspect.

Many drivers only drive at night. Many drivers only drive during the day. Some drivers only drive Thursday-Sunday. Some only drive Monday-Friday.

So a Monday-Friday day shift driver will generate less revenue than an Monday-Friday night shift driver. Similarly, a Wednesday-Sunday day shift driver will generate less revenue than a night shift driver.

And those who work Wednesday-Sunday will generate more revenue than those who work Monday-Friday.

And the author focuses only on the revenue side and ignores the costs. The last time I checked, a day shift lease is ~$95+full tank of gas, while a night shift lease is ~$120+full tank of gas, with a premium charged Thursday-Sunday.

However, there are other kinds of leases as well. A weekly lease, generally shared by two drivers, will run ~$900-$1000 split between them. And a monthly lease can be even more cost-effective.

And those leases include maintenance on the vehicle, insurance and vehicle storage.

While it's interesting to see the analysis of how the fee structure generates revenue, the author ignores a whole raft of other variables which directly impact on revenue generation.

Lastly, the author asserts that it's the "antiquated" taxi meter fee structure that has caused drivers to be "progressively worse-off."

I don't see how he was able to draw that conclusion from the data presented.

Edit: Fixed typos and edited for clarity
Spreadsheets can be surprisingly useful in a text document. For example, I regularly need to grade programming assignments. I do this in.a structured text document, with sub-headings per student and category, where I take notes about their work, and assign points.

So far, this could be easily done in markdown, or even plain text. But then I tally up the points, and convert them to a grade based on some simple equation in a table. My colleagues need to do this in a separate Excel sheet. I can do it right in my org document.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/subjective-theory-of-va...
Tesla says its vehicles recalled in China have no defects
People are forgetting a very important point: server allows for more customizations/addons than cloud.

It’s not just because companies want their data on prem. In my case it’s just because the level of costumization we want for confluence.

Customer has money but it’s very hard to justify paying so much for the data center version.

Really bad move from a company so invested in worsening their products over time.
Literally any winding road in the mountains, of which we have quite a few around here. :)

Just to point out, (when above walking speed) motorcycles turn by leaning over. It's probably more that you've not noticed it. :)
You can find syntax highlighting + a bit more in a number of editors (see the bottom of the install page), but unfortunately much of the "really cool" stuff is currently only available with Emacs.
Pretty much every EMR and health insurance insurance company already offers a captive PHR. But they are never complete and aren't portable as the patient moves to other providers or insurers.
Apple is not an innovation company they are a well managed product company.

Using 'Rosner' as an example is a little bit insufferable: "We only have experts!" But then put an eng. with 20 years Engineering in charge of a media product?!?

'I have to learn what incentivizes News companies!'. Yeah, maybe a few more things. Three cheers for being a cowboy, but know that you're a cowboy in that situation.

Do you notice how badly Apple does in everything social or media? Sure they made podcasts mainstream, but after 20 years of incubation, and still others reap the reward?

This is an example of that kind of weird hubris, it reminds me of 'Google Plus'.
Mozilla already announced their new strategy, they are shifting into a "Product" focused company. Which why is they laid off all these teams. The browser is no longer the focus. Indeed they laid off the Servo team.
Tldr: Because Camera alone doesn't sell.

The Long answer. Adding a decent camera sensor also requires you market the crap out of it. And as shown by Huawei and Samsung, longer Zoom sells better than better sensor or image quality. For 90% of customers Flagship Smartphone Camera quality is good enough or fast approaching good enough. Zoom level makes lots of difference.

And that is assuming Sony's Smartphone overall are anywhere as good as its competitor such as Samsung and Huawei. I have no idea whether that is the case, but Sony's Smartphone sales are dismal in numbers. [1]

And finally, as far as I can tell, both Sony and Samsung are innovating like crazy to produce the best small sensor. There just isn't a super great small sensors sitting there waiting for others to pick up for additional $20 more. And if Sony decade to withhold those tech from Apple, Samsung will capture those market shares.

[1] If you look at overall annual shipment, Huawei, Samsung, Apple, Chinese Brands ( Xiaomi, Oppo, OnePlus, RealMe, Vivo etc.. ) They are 90+% of the market.
Google Talk was fairly successful for its time. Why Google were unable to replicate that success again, I have no clue.
Well who will pay for it?
Cabs are paid by the minute below a certain speed and by the mile above a certain speed. Cab drivers will earn more by completing trips faster. Thus congested traffic costs costs cab drivers money.

The introduction of option pricing theory, terminology and various forms of hand waving does nothing but confuse the central argument with gross misapplication of theory.
Software Engineer – React, React Native, Elixir – Remote, C/S America
I have, and you're absolutely right. As an individual (and with an understanding of just how horribly gamed the system is around my vote) I'm gonna go ahead and live where the living's attractive to me. Wyoming does not make that cut. TX, NC, VA also fail the personal sniff test, but no judgments against those who choose to live there. Just not my cuppa.

Were I to have "economic incentive fund creation" money, though, I would for sure consider looking at the least populated states to throw that weight against, as your per capita change in demographic would be greater.

That said, I don't, and even if I did, there are far more effective ways to spend money if political influence is your game. Hell, if I do ever have that kinda dosh (I won't) I'll just take a saunter down K street and buy me some influence, cause that's the American Way(tm).
Foxbox Digital is looking for passionate and talented Software Engineers (React, Elixir) and Project Managers to join our engineering-focused product development agency. Do you take pride in your work, and want to constantly improve your skills? Do you want to work on a small team environment and want to be heard?

We build software for our clients using the latest software development and project management practices and we love what we do. We're a remote-first company based in Chicago and we'd love to have you on our team.

Software Engineer - React, React Native, Elixir - REMOTE, C/S America - https://foxbox.com/jobs/
hn death hug / saved u a click:

some vague web dev folks with a side of strategerizin'

https://web.archive.org/web/20200809174558/https://solzorro....
It begins with those who have the know-how to do it today, and they are bringing their friends and family, and the acceleration is exponential.

Look at Digg: two-fold cause of 1) UI changes, and 2) user perceptions of centrally controlled, biased, and influenced information flow.

Digg was thought to have unbreakable critical mass.

Now, Reddit and Facebook are both going down the same road, with user-hostile UI and opaque information sourcing.

People aren't dumb, and they've already noticed and made up their mind about it. Now they're just looking for somewhere to jump.

I recently interviewed two kids no older than 20 for a user study. Not techies. One of them doesn't use Snapchat for privacy reasons. Other one thought about it and said, "I don't know why I use it, because I know that it's not really private." I didn't even prompt them with any questions about privacy or control, I was just doing a cursory "what apps or social networks do you use?"

More and more people are saying, "I know it's crap, but I'm on there because everyone else is using it." It means they're already looking for another place to go.
But not no-connectivity access.

No, that is exactly what I mean by "connectivity shifted": you have access at one point in time to download the content for consumption later, such as when you don't have connectivity at all.

Movies, TV shows, even music are all now available for "connectivity shifted" access. It simply costs money to do so.

If you have "no connectivity" then youtube-dl and similar tools are useless to you, because then you have no ability to use them. In such case, you should use purely offline means of accessing content such as Bluray, CDs, etc.
At least they could give the top hero the same left-right gutters as the rest of the page instead of slamming it hard right without lube.
Gov's have no business marketing stuff.

Why don't you create a non-profit, raise money for it and do it for us?
My take: You're not going to be working with some 500 row monster etc. in Org, but if you just want to quickly do something like get the row-wise averages of a table, you can just do that in-place easily. The underlying math engine in Emacs is also pretty fancy, it can do stuff like symbolic algebra which I have yet to see in Excel :)
I'm not saying it's wrong per se, but I am unable to tell what the title of this link has to do with the content of the page, which reads to me like a boring minor tech support issue. Anyone have an explanation of why this matters?
> but it still boggles the mind how these enormous companies, used to throwing their weight around in other tech spaces, keep getting video games so wrong.

This sounds naive IMO. It's not that they are getting it wrong. They are simply throwing their weight into changing it into direction that favors them.
Wow. I actually happen to work in a company where I have to maintain tons of scrapers and end up creating similar tool like this (scraper tend to fail for whatever reason and sometimes, the error tends to be very cryptic on what exactly the root cause of it).

Good luck with the project and have fun :)
Doctors who don't run their own practices usually don't know how much their services will cost, because those prices are determined by private negotiations between practices/hospitals and health insurance companies. The rates vary depending on location, provider, insurance carrier and other factors.

Health insurance companies pay their executive staff huge salaries while working as hard as they can to deny medical claims to patients. And the ACA mandating the minimum medical loss ratio for insurance companies had the unintended side effect of incentivizing health insurance companies to pay more expensive medical bills, because they can only pay their exec staff a fixed % of what they spend on health claims. The more they spend on claims, the more they can pay their executive staff.

Doctors can be corrupt in many ways, but not being transparent about what they'll bill isn't an important one.
Not sure if I am a little bit on the spectrum but I feel very awkward when I hug someone other than partner/family member. I get very self conscious about whether I do the right move, like where should I put my right hand, how about left hand, where do i look, etc. I hugged a friend/girl and without thinking I touched my chest to hers and was tapping on her back while at the same time realizing it wasn't appropriate and then trying to brush off the awkward feeling. I found myself doing that here and there, especially with someone I am not very familiar with. I feel like others know the social protocol without ever learning it explicitly while I somehow missed to pick it up along the way. I was a shy kid but was perfectly normal in smaller circles of friends or school.
>I thought there was a way to mount a drive without a letter these days?

You've been able to mount drives to subdirectories of existing drives since at least Windows 7. So yes you can certainly have more than 26 drives.

It might confuse poorly-written software, though. I remember Steam won't let me install a game under C:\Stuff because it thought C: didn't have enough free space, even though C:\Stuff was a different drive with plenty of space.
It was indeed. It was also nerve-racking in many ways. We were trying to do GPU-based automatic video editing at a time when the Microsoft OSes were evolving rapidly, so were the NVidia and other drivers, and OpenGL itself .. with varied support for "optional" features .. not to mention that machines+OSes weren't yet 64-bit by default. The testing team had a great setup to cover a lot of ground, but there'll usually be something stumping us. It was also a time when people were moving to slower and smaller machines - like mini notebooks - where they'd expect to run muvee on the Intel integrated graphics chip at full screen res. It was also a time when video was graduating to HD and codecs weren't fast enough and 320x240@15fps wouldn't satisfy people any more. We needed 720x480@30fps at least for the previews and taking the GPU route was a no brainer due to that.

It was a case where we'd raised people's expectations so high (what'd take an editor perhaps a week to do happens in about 5 seconds with muvee) that unreasonable performance expectations became the norm :) You can, in seconds, try variations that would cause an editor to pull her hair. To top this all, the "constructor" which is the heart of the product had to be tested against many variations in media and styles.

The details of that journey is probably worth another talk on its own.

muvee released muSE as open source btw and you can find it here - https://github.com/srikumarks/muse . .. and it is (I believe) still usable in the "Reveal Encore" product.

edit: ... and along the way, muvee also built the first mobile automatic video editor which shipped on the ROM of early Nokia camera phones such as the 6630 (https://mobile-review.com/review/nokia-6630-camera-en.shtml .. scroll down to the "Movie Director" section)
> people under their care dying despite their best efforts

It’s like projects under my care dying despite my best efforts.

Except that, you know, nobody dies and the only thing wasted was my life.
It really is an interesting balance between "The internet may never forget" and "The internet may never remember".
OP said "debit credit cards" (not debit cards) and 22%. What's it?
You loved being a maker. Being creative and making thinfs you care about. Jobs want you to be a machine. Reliably and mechanically creating things they care about. It’s not tech, it’s that your motivation is internal and not something they provid
How to Create and Extract Zip Files to Specific Directory in Linux
Because the (US) right wing and libertarians are the forces first to raise a hue and cry of socialism and central planning in response to any suggestion of government oversight of corporate activities.