skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I’ve heard (and believe) this for years: the targeting of ad networks borders on useless. But as the old adage goes: I know 50% of my advertising is worthless, I just don’t know which 50%.

So why haven’t we run out of suckers yet if this stuff is really that bad? If businesses weren’t seeing the ROI, you’d think they’d see that. So either, as bad as it is, it’s still worth it, or they aren’t able to measure ROI properly (a distant third: they are able to, and still do it?)

I’d love to hear from someone with first hand experience.
People, please! This corporate practice is called "ethical phishing." It's ethical because "ethical" is right there in the name!
Why does a software engineer keep old git-repo branches around, including their history? The engineer can compare the before-and-after especially as they relate to experiments, successful, and failed approaches.

A plastic surgeon might want to look at before-and-after for a few of their "branches" (specific plastic surgeries or repeated applications of a technique). "When I did celebrity-A I notice they sag too much in location-X, whereas for celebrity-B where I changed the procedure location-X looks much better." "Celebrity-P has the same odd nose Celebrity-K had ... let me consult my notes and the before/after for Celebrity-K."
Putting my # and email address on a blacklist in their CRM shouldn't be too difficult for a company with resources such as FB. If two-bit recruiting agencies can do it in the middle-of-nowhere Iowa then FB can do it.

Sorry, not changing my opinion here.
> logic surrounding I/O which can be executed concurrently.

That's the bit you'd use an async runtime for, in a (mostly) dedicated thread.

The heavy computations would be in other threads that aren't doing so.
Someone is stealing unpublished book manuscripts in a phishing scam
That’s not really a great comparison, considering that the printing press didn’t exist for ~1,500 of those years and a mass market didn’t exist for ~1700 of them.
Gating app store updates is not so simple- what about security patches or fixes when a new iOS version breaks everything?

Still could work but isn't easy, and probably throws a wrench in the whole modern idea of continuous develop -> deploy.
Well, the only time you can really prove cheating, is when people get the same wrong answers....
I've done work in the medical industry, both for hospitals and private software companies developing medical software. In my experience; security, stability and compliance with HIPAA and other regulations are taken very seriously.
Sure, but in the end of the day it’s a super hero movie. A certain degree of hand-waving is allowed.
guessing that if anyone understands bullshit it's ad buyers; if they're on fb it's because it has higher ROI than other platforms for their specific campaigns, not because they believe the hype

(of course if actual fraud took place fb should give back the money they collected)
The recruiters are the same people so of course they use the same tactics. The average tenure of a recruiter is 1-2 years.
> What format does it use to save documents?

Proprietary.

Edit: they do have export. No canonical format. Probably good enough though. https://www.craft.do/s/zw95bDIcSkoDsq/b/70E1E8BF-41C4-4099-A...
An irony here is that there's some decent evidence that phishing simulations don't work; they appear not to meaningfully alter end-user behavior. So basically, this is just an IT department trolling its customers.
Public databases of novels for forensic linguistics tests?
Are there any public, fiction databases that can be used as forensic linguistics control variables?
Many secular books have stood the test of time as well, I would place Plutarch lives and Montaigne's essays on par with the Bible/other ancient religious texts.
This is more likely and not quite the same.

But I don't know anyone who is going to buy insurance from an ad. Almost everyone is getting insurance from work.
Shitty and tone deaf
Stadia had hype?
Given most phones are Android phones, wouldn't it only happen if Android takes the same approach, which it is highly unlikely to since that would impact Google's ad targeting?
fast DNA/RNA sequencing - we're sequencing everything now; sequencing thousands of COVID variants and making trees of whats happening around the world.
I'd still recommend digging through reddit results, personally. The signal:noise ratio may not be great but you can still often find valuable reviews of things if you look at a lot of different posts.

Searching HN can also sometimes be good. Slightly higher signal:noise than reddit, generally.
What do those people work on?
Yeah, and LA is full of people who like making realistic fakes/models and lots of time on their hands (pandemic really slowed model/prop making early on).
I was thinking the same thing. You shouldn’t fail by clicking a link sent by an internal email address. If the link took you to an external site and you entered your GoDaddy credentials or provided personal information, that might be a different story.
When YouTube added little banner ads, I didn't really mind. They had to make the service profitable, after all!

When YouTube first allowed creators to monetize their videos using ads, to support themselves, and youtube would pay them and also take a cut? I certainly didn't mind. It promoted good content, and they've got to make money after all!

When YouTube decided I could no longer turn off my phone's screen when I played a video, I began to mind. I thought it was a bug at first, but then I found out it was intentional. I guess they have to make sure we're looking when they play ads. Gotta make money after all.

When YouTube made their terms worse for creators multiple times, I read on with sadness, but it didn't really affect me, and they've gotta see revenue growth, or something.

When YouTube started actively screwing creators out of monetization for bizarre and arcane reasons, but would then still show ads on the de-monetized videos, and collect the full take? I felt miffed. They don't need the money that bad -- if it's demonetized, it shouldn't have ads. But what could we do? Stop watching?

When YouTube started aggressively nagging me to sign up for their paid service to "unlock" those old "features" like no ads and playing videos when my screen is off, I was pissed off. They really gotta make money like this? I still see these nags daily.

When YouTube recently decided that on all videos, even ones the creators have chosen specifically not to monetize (e.g. because they're intended as educational content), YouTube will force 10-15 seconds of unskippable ads for every 10 minutes of video, and then take all of that profit?

Fuck 'em. They don't need the money. YouTube is rotten to the core.

One of the richest corporations on the planet has forced these intrusive, shitty ads upon literally billions of people, degrading their hugely profitable service with no real alternatives, and you feel the need to defend YouTube here? You're "worried people have the nerve to complain"? You tell us, "you can all just pay up!"

What a sickening disgrace! Collaborators are tragically easy to find.

To quote Pratchett, "It was as if even the most intelligent person had this little blank spot in their heads where someone had written: "Kings. What a good idea." Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw. It was its tendency to bend at the knees."
> The latency is virtually imperceptible to me

Lucky you, I can't even play on most TVs hooked as-is via HDMI because of horrendous render lag.
Nah, that is just attributing with and achievements of those technical smart people to management narcissists.
The very first sentence of that link would include this under "ransomware"

> Ransomware is a type of malware from cryptovirology that threatens to publish the victim's data or perpetually block access to it unless a ransom is paid.

(added emphasis)
This is just denial
Many people have spouses out of work right now. It's possible to have a job and be in a bad situation.

Regardless of whether the employees actually need a bonus. Dangling the idea of a bonus as a test, shortly before the holidays and during a pandemic seems like a recipe for bad publicity or at least some frustrated employees.
I'm not sure why all these are capitalized as some sort of formal titles, but matlab is very rarely used in computer graphics.

Computer graphics is mostly fairly simple math that needs to scale well and not have edge cases. Some papers have had their algorithms in matlab but it is the exception in research and basically never used in any sort of production sense, because you would just have to port it to C++ to use it.
It’s a reasonable take for someone who doesn’t know htmx very well.

Hotwire is definitely more progressive enhancement friendly (although htmx has he-boost).

htmx is an attempt to complete html as a hypertext and, as such has a different approach to html-oriented development. Generally I would expect htmx to cover more functionality in a pure hypertext and Hotwire to “just work” more often.
Is McCarthy hyped...? I read Blood Meridian because a pretentious literature/philosophy snob I knew in college told me it was good. I was also pretentious, so I read it. Other than that, I've almost never heard anyone talk about his work, other than briefly when the movies came out.
+1 to this. I was a very selective gamer and the only games I played more than once recently were Dark Souls 2 and 3. Heck, I'd pick them up again given the time.

Very special and challenging gameplay that is done right. There are no advantages to you as a player, and you need to watch your every step. I am on the same page regarding storytelling - it is a masterpiece. Couple that with the great artwork they've done, and you're put right in the middle of some fantasy land.
Came here to say the exact same thing. I can't stop talking to everyone and their brother about it. It feels like a clear leap into the future. For the uninitiated, here are some highlights of what it enables you to do:

- You can go to a friend's apartment with a Chromecast and just start playing games YOU own like CyberPunk & Assasins Creed within seconds on their TV (assuming they have a controller or you brought your own)

- You can go to Stadia.com on Chrome and just start playing these games from the browser using the Keyboard/Mouse

- The other day I was parked at a Target and I was able to play Cyberpunk on my phone using my phone's internet connection

- You don't have to keep worrying about constantly updating hardware, downloading game patches, deleting stored games etc.

- Time to load the game between saved checkpoints and missions is also much faster since the games run on a superior hardware.
They are not demanding ransom. Ransom is (per Merriam Webster): "a consideration paid or demanded for the release of someone or something from captivity".

They copied the data, and they want money otherwise they will release it. It's ordinary blackmail.
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Even with flow control? Do you have a link to perf numbers?
> their track record with regards to privacy is pretty good.

So was Google's. Till they decided to screw their users. Once bitten, twice shy.

If Apple was serious about user privacy, it wouldn't be crippling application firewall on the new macOS to allow Apple apps to bypass them, even if the user is explicitly blocking them. Nor would they be forcing us to create a unique id to track and record our every activity on their device (yes, they treat it as their device by giving you an illusion of ownership). Nor would they be crippling Safari to not allow you to block all coookies or cripple its extension apis that would have allowed better ad blockers and trackers to be developed. Nor would they be forcing us to use App stores, forcing themselves in between u users and developers to gauge us both of money, while also invading our privacy.
> Solid state disks. Huge speed boost.

You should have seen the leap from tapes to magnetic disks :)
It’s like they think they’re Don Draper making some sort of big statement against Big Tobacco
That depends whether the recruiters are in-house.
TLS-SRP allows using an agreed to password alone or in conjunction with a certificate. Gnutls, openssl, curl and a few other libraries contain implementations. It just has not found widespread use and none of the major browsers support it.
My guess that the real story is that someone from above told HR department about salary raises but changed their mind after mass mail was sent. So they needed some excuse and came with this lame shit.
I'm fascinated by the decision too. But I'm guessing it isn't driven by stupidity.

This campaign seems very unlikely it will change public opinion or make Apple change their position.

Perhaps the campaign helps to build a position in terms anti-trust legal proceedings? As the least vertically integrated of the big tech companies, it helps build a case that they are the victim, not the perpetrator - Apple is using its market power to shut them out.
Then you’re probably a contractor who is being mistreated.
I agree, but that's also probably why the OP left out Dark Souls 2 from their list :)
This I agree with. The only value remaining in the company are its employees, not revenue streams, not products, just employees and potential.
Definitively something similar to what Franky Zapata [1] do with his invention. He crossed the Chanel [2] with a step in the middle (on a boat) to refill.

[1] https://www.instagram.com/p/CHnkFLPqW8L/

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49225001
That’s the gag. You now have to write it yourself.
Tuning as in investing billions of dollars to actually make it a feasible product?

Sure, they do bad moves there as well, but oculus is where it is purely because Facebook decided to burn billions of dollars there.
If you want a bit more features than just file sharing (like clipboard sync or music control), I highly recommend KDE connect.
Dogsheep looks neat too. Querying multiple sqlite DBs with YAML templates is basically the deal?

There are so many useful data hacking tools these days. I wish I had important data to play with just to try these tools.
>What I’m reading here is feminine good, masculine bad.

I think that's an oversimplification. Males of most mammal species are more aggressive than females.

As David Eagleman[0] points out (WRT to one mammal species):

"Many of us like to believe that all adults possess the same capacity to make sound choices. It’s a nice idea, but it’s wrong…

Who you even have the possibility to be starts well before your childhood — it starts at conception. If you think genes don’t matter for how people behave, consider this amazing fact: if you are a carrier of a particular set of genes, your probability of committing a violent crime goes up by eight hundred and eighty-two percent. Here are statistics from the U.S. Department of Justice, which I’ve broken down into two groups: crimes committed by the population that carries this specific set of genes and by the population that does not:

Average Number of Violent Crimes Committed
Annually in the United States

Offense

Carrying the genes Not carrying the genes

Aggravated assault
3,419,000 435,000

Homicide
14,196 1,468

Armed robbery
2,051,000 157,000

Sexual assault
442,000 10,000

In other words, if you carry these genes, you’re eight times more likely to commit aggravated assault, ten times more likely to commit murder, thirteen times more likely to commit armed robbery and forty-four times more likely to commit sexual assault.

About one half of the human population carries these genes, while the other half does not, making the first half much more dangerous indeed. It’s not even a contest. The overwhelming majority of prisoners carry these genes, as do 98.4 percent of those on death row. It seems clear enough that the carriers are strongly predisposed to a different type of behavior – and everyone is coming to the table equally equipped in terms of drives and behavior.

We’ll return to these genes in a moment, but first I want to tie the issue back to the main point we’ve seen throughout this book: we are not the ones driving the boat of our behavior, at least not nearly as much as we believe. Who we are runs well below the surface of our conscious access, and the details reach back in time to before our birth, when the meeting of a sperm and egg granted us with certain attributes and not others. Who we can be begins with our molecular blueprints – a series of alien codes penned in invisibly small strings of amino acids – well before we have anything to do with it. We are a product of our inaccessible, microscopic history.

By the way, as regards that dangerous set of genes, you’ve probably heard of them. They are summarized as the Y chromosome. If you’re a carrier, we call you a male."

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307389928/ref=as_li_tl?ie...
Interstellar, the 2014 movie. Waited for it for a long time and I went to the theatre on the first day. I was stunned. I keep re-watching it every now and then too.
If there is a normal order in societies, it must be the fruit of an anterior crisis.

Things have to get ugly before they get better. Here’s to the greater good.
I'm a long-time poker player and recent political bettor. Gamblers routinely overestimate their edge or don't care whether they win. Often it's a mix of both.

There are still many many many people who are willing to bet on the results of the US presidential election: https://www.thedailybeast.com/gamblers-bet-big-on-trump-and-...
Extortionware would be appropriate.
> Alternatively, GoDaddy has failed to secure their work environment and are blaming the workers instead.

This.

I've worked at careless companies who don't deal with their security very well.

I now work at a large health care company who takes security incredibly serious. All the USB ports are disabled. Nobody has admin rights on their laptops. You can't install any software unless you download and install from their internal app store which only allows apps that have passed a rigorous gambit of testing beforehand. And you have to put in a request for the software in the first place. It took me three months to get Photoshop approved because I was designated as a developer and not a web designer. It went through three escalations and took several debates between senior managers who finally approved my request.

We don't have "phishing tests". If something pops up on the security team's radar, then they push it out as an email alert company wide. That's about it. Maybe if GoDaddy put as much effort into securing their network as they do putting together these stupid tests, they probably wouldn't need them to prove that yes, humans are fallible.
No, this is fake news. The page was never verified in the first place.

https://www.soyacincau.com/2020/12/24/did-facebook-remove-ap...
Real tv fans have come to accept that the last season of The Wire and the last episode of Breaking Bad are pretty blah. We just shake our head and move on.
As the maintainer of FreshBSD.org, git gives me headaches regarding what to do with branch naming.

SVN and even CVS include branch information on each commit, but git couldn't care less - it's up to you to infer it by unspecified means if you really care.

It's telling that the conversion metadata includes tags indicating the SVN path identifying the branches a given commit was made from - because this otherwise wouldn't be available. In principle I can just use that, but I still need a reliable solution for new commits.

Not convinced I'll find one.
Perhaps they bring them out to show people who are considering the same surgeries but haven't yet comitted?

(Although I'd hope they obscure identifying details and get permission from the original patients...)
> the way to tell a phishing email from a non-phishing email depends much more on the metadata than the actual contents

this is true, but people are also much more likely to skip the rational analysis step if the contents elicit an emotional response. it's hard do to an effective test without some sort of emotional and/or time sensitive call to action.

I certainly agree it is cruel to tease employees with a fake bonus. but if they turned around and actually paid a holiday bonus in the same amount, I would say no harm was done ultimately.
The standard review prompt is actually presented by an Apple API, and it's designed so that developers only have some control over the details of its presentation. Basically you request it whenever you think it's appropriate, but the system decides whether it actually gets displayed.

Unfortunately, without asking for reviews, an app won't get many, and reviews on the app store make a way bigger difference to sales than you'd think. Most developers I know don't want to nag people for a review, but incentives are such that it's important to their bottom line to do so.

The good news is that they can be disabled altogether for apps using the system API. Open the Mac App Store app, go to Preferences, and there's an "In-App Ratings & Reviews" box you can uncheck. There's a similar option on iOS somewhere too.
There are limits to what you can do with superior but imperfect knowledge though. E.g. everyone knows Tesla stock is overvalued - even Elon tweets about it. And yet it's not really feasible to profit off this knowledge.
My bet is that it's Elon Musk testing a new unannounced technology that will spur yet another company.
Don't worry your product is datasette.io and on Github as a python project. Humans are smart enough to figure out the difference.

I think its a great name for the project, even with the legacy usage.

It's not like it's super popular primary brands like Macintosh or something Atari.
Yeah... that's the subscription thing we're talking about. Volvo and Jaguar Land Rover have it - not sure about others.
Lot of the photos might show private parts, and I think people will feel violated when these are shared without their consent.
It's about 80/20 iPhone/Android in North America, and in the rest of the world, it's the inverse.
I was talking about the no-choice App Store on ios (and soon to be on macOS) ...
A Read on digital twin possibilities before a good Christmas
You live in a bubble. 95% of the American public would hear that their son “got a job at Facebook” and think he made it. 95% of companies hiring developers would see “worked at Facebook” and move that resume to the top of the pile.
You'd need a few prescient articles under your belt before the hedge fund would hire you, though.
Okay — but they don’t talk about misandry, they talk about misogyny.

Not even using the right word is misandry.
Will know for sure if Jet Pack Guy starts making appearances over Texas.
Since we're discussing word choices and definitions, I'd argue that it's not stealing either if the Hospital retained possession of the data. It might be better said that they "obtained without authorization" or "illegally obtained".

What makes "stealing" particularly bad is that the rightful owner no longer has possession of their property. That's not necessarily the case with data.
Yes, I needed that to install VB6. Let's also add VB6 to the list, I use it at least once a year for something quick.
I imagine the people most annoyed about this don't have any, or know that they needed to. (Because you're hogging them all. Way to go!)
Amazon and Walmrt not sharing extra profits made during pandemic with employees
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It's also pretty naive reasoning. Author thinks a significant enough number of people are going to care? Facebook has survived- no, thrived despite multiple public scandals, some of which were far more substantive than complaining about Apple's privacy policy.
That's a single sentence pulled from a very long definition, though.

Here's the third sentence from that very same paragraph:

>It encrypts the victim's files, making them inaccessible, and demands a ransom payment to decrypt them.

Not everything can be explained in a single sentence.