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You have to give up on some research, since there are only finite resources available.

This means you will abandon some projects that would ultimately have been very successful. That's true for every possible strategy.
That list is questionable at best.

There are many claims the list author makes without any source code at all, though a lot of buzzwords. The reddit r/pihole moderator pulled the post: https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/kh5dit/the_quantum_... . The thread was more entertaining before the list author deleted every downvoted comment they made.
We tend to call most rations below 1 'negative'. Its technically wrong but most people get what you mean when you say it.
I accept that the detection is probably possible because of the reflection, but I’m doubting the effectiveness. (The blasts would be incredibly short, and it seems like it would be hard to distinguish between severely attenuated reflections vs noise from other sources.)

Re: a mesh in the windows, given that we can’t even shield microwaves, I’m seriously doubting such a weak faraday mesh would be effective. But I don’t really know what the attenuation model would be.

Perhaps my assessment is overly pessimistic, but I think your assessment is overly optimistic.
Single payer healthcare, absolutely. Negotiating a market rate between professionals and the entire public is the most optimal approach for the consumers whom; in a moment of need, won't really be able to shop around and choose.

While I do believe there needs to be a first world floor to living conditions, I've come to more understand UBI as one more way of killing the middle class. It's the Supply side, a lack of competition, that is out of whack for many of the most expensive things in the US, and probably most other industrialized nations.

UBI increases how much the poorest can pay, it does nothing to limit how much can be demanded by the rent-seeking rich. In effect UBI is a subsidy to the rich and an attack on the middle class.
For the same reason that you never lower your margin. It's very easy to lower your margin, and you might get growth as a result of your lower margins, but it's a massive gamble with the most likely outcome being that you are now selling the same stuff for less money. And do you know what happens when you cut your marigns and don't see growth? You get fired.

Same thing with advertising. You drop your ad spend, you lose market share, and you're fired. There is no step 4. If you're right and the ad spend was unnecessary, you've made a tiny difference (no one cares about cost, only growth), if you're wrong, you're fired.
Tangentially related, but how is Uber Caller still expanding (even to various countries) on WeChat? Aren't they essentially using stolen cards and accounts?
No, they're not. They're implying that a world where the government takes an even more active role in promoting economic activity, and secures the fundamental aspects of human dignity for its citizens, would be a society where more people can spend time on their passions, which often are things like "develop a groundbreaking new style of vaccination".
RIP: I didn't know DOOM's fanbase crosses platforms in this way. I am thinking of creating a website just for dedicating a poolside.fm like website just for DOOM's music.
I think Rich's point may be specific to Java switch statements and their limitations. (I know he's familiar with MLs, but I would imagine his frame of reference is mostly colored by Java's control structures.) The idiomatic clojure for your color example would leverage names in the same way:

(defn color-function [{:keys [r g b]}]
(* r g b))
Disclaimer: I’m not a marketing guy.

It’s sold as hand wavy. I once dropped in on a consulting client (at the request of an investor on the board) and did a quick assessment. The assessment was holistic and marketing was one of many enterprise value levers, so did a rough check. The marketing firm, very similar to the Uber commentary in the underlying podcast above where he found 20,000 installs coming from an app with 30,000 MAUs, I calculated claimed performance which back of the envelope would imply you could capture the entire US vertical for that industry for sub $X0M of annual spend. I knew that space very well, and well that just was not possible.

My quick question kicked off a large tap dance in which some finger pointing occurred and a “new attribution formula” was introduced.

The vendor got fired.

This was sort of a reasonably sized entity, with some sophistication. But think about it, unless you’re tech native, your VP of marketing has no granular data abilities in 2020, and unless you have a pool of SQL capable analysts lying around, AND you’re going to insist to validate on your own, it simply doesn’t work.

So you trust the vendor. But wait the vendor gets paid X% of what you spend. Hmmm, would they realllllly work super hard to make sure the results are real if they are not easily found out to be falsified? This is a paranoid stance, obviously. But intrinsically structurally flawed.

The Uber guy on the podcast straight up said he wouldn’t buy a dollar of programmatic ads without a big data team internally and a policy of (loosely quoted) “we need that file to check and if you don’t send it to us we’re cutting you off”.

That’s just a lot of work.
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When women weren't in the workforce it was a much easier time to raise children.

Now women have to work so that they can have a lower middle class life. Daycare has risen because of this - not because of grandparents not watching their grandchildren.
The reason that C programs often perform well is that it’s so incredibly hard to do anything at all in C (especially something reliable) that one can usually only do the simplest thing possible and this typically means simple data structures, simple algorithms and arrays. In many ways, modern CPUs are particularly designed to run the machine code generated by C compilers on typical C code like this. Pointers and memory allocation are often painful or fickle so use of pointer-heavy data structures like linked lists is quite uncommon.

The reason that C programs often don’t perform as well as an equivalent rust program[1] is that it’s so incredibly hard to do anything at all in C (especially something reliable) that one can usually only do the simplest thing possible and this typically means simple data structures, simple algorithms and arrays

[1] suppose the programs are independently created at the same time by programmers of equal ability and are idiomatic in their languages. If a C program is rewritten in rust, it is likely to be faster, but that would likely also be true if it were rewritten in C.
We use Cloudflare Workers as a very simple URL shortener [1]. It has very generous free tier (100k requests per day) so it's more than enough for a lot of use cases.

[1] https://lucjan.medium.com/free-url-shortener-with-cloudflare...
Marketers do tons of A/B testing and most measure conversions based on ad copy and placements. The problem often is they don’t look beyond aggregates ( as Google/Facebook flood marketers with dimensions, this one is easy to overlook). So it the overall ROI may be passable, but specific segments are over-analyzed (did YOU place the right message?) and others ignored. The platforms have never ever in any amount of years been willing to hand over raw clickstream logs of ad data, so marketers are forced to rely on misleading aggregates.

I’m sick of engineer elitism. Try harder to see that brilliant folks exist in every department. You’ll be a happier person and learn a lot more. Marketing analytics is fascinating and full of puzzles. Marketers were driving engineers to make multivariate testing scale 20 years ago.
I remember reading how someone registered some google domains with a single bit flipped, and saw actual requests coming to them.
I don’t understand what this means.
Google is by far the most problematic. You are paying ridiculous amount of money for a click you don't even know came from a legitimate source.

There are many many botnets out there undetected running headless chromium browser instances that is indistinguishable from a real one.

So if you can't tell and then you will never know if you are paying for legitimate prospects or not.

However, advertising for established brands direct response isn't what they are going for rather brand awareness
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>What Lisp helps you is grokking actual operations of computing

Computing in the theoretical sense, right? I've always heard the opposite of this claim: Lisp abstracts away how computation is done on actual hardware. Isn't that what the famous Alan Perlis quote was referring to?
When I was a young and stupid physics major with one programming course under my belt, I tried to write a VCS in emacs lisp, to version control my writings. Since, I didn't know any better, I thought the best way was to send every version as an email to a gmail account, as well as an updated index.

I wish I had finished it.
I understand the point but the MB example could be off the mark. According to their site [1] they sold more than 2 M cars in 2019. Luxury yes, at least a bit, but a pretty large club. Maybe Ferrari and similar brands? But they do a different kind of advertising.

[1] https://www.daimler.com/investors/key-figures/markets/
Government funding? More "charity" from billionaires?

Our society has plenty of money to support people like her and her research. That's the point of the academy in the traditional sense: not a vocational school, but a gateway to new understandings of the world.
>Its ubiquity allows me to use it in numerous places

Does btrfs work on anything except Linux? Apparently ReactOS too creating limited Windows support, but it's not very portable. It's a strange thing to praise btrfs for when comparing to ZFS.

>coming from Oracle,

Fun fact, btrfs comes from Oracle.
> The Indian left wing's fascination with Cow Urine far outdoes any religious Hindu's veneration for it.

The indian left or centrists don't care about the cows except in the context of agriculture. It is when the right-wing sell their pseudo-scientific bullshit about cows in the face of rationality, or ban beef or even kill people for eating it that they speak up.

I see that you don't have to say anything about their push for "Astrology as Science" because you can't obviously defend them on that here.

It's the intent that matters.

Sure, there is nothing wrong in doing research on animal excretions. Even if they find that they were wrong, that's valuable research too. But who should be deciding this - ignorant right-wing politicians or scientists who are experts in their field? India is not a rich country, and our funding of scientific research needs to be prioritised based on our needs and priority. Not on religious faith.

There are even right-wing terrorist cum politician who now openly lies that her cancer was cured by "ayurvedic" cow urine and dung, while the doctor who actually treated her cancer (probably with radiation, chaemotherapy and surgery) has come out publicly to refute this.

(Source:
- https://www.indiatoday.in/elections/lok-sabha-2019/story/sad...
- https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/doc-who-ope... ).
We'll probably get the speed up parity back once there's a proper speculative execution barrier instruction added to the ISA (though not for currently released chips).
These are pretty easy to measure on Google or FB with their "lift study" tools and a conversion pixel. The lift tools will let you create a holdout group of X% of people who should be targeted by your ad. They won't see the ad, but you can still measure the rate at which they convert on your site. Then, you can compare that conversion rate to the rate of people who actually saw/clicked the ad.

Conversion pixels are never 100% accurate (and are becoming increasingly inaccurate due to browser/OS changes) and shouldn't be used to say "This ad generated exactly X sales that wouldn't have happened otherwise!", but you can examine the relative rates from people who saw or didn't see your campaign.

I've also seen companies who don't trust FB/G to grade their own homework on a known lift study, so they measure the effect by running PSA ads. Their ad campaign will be something like "Donate to charity XYZ!" but will be set to measure purchases on their website. That lets them establish the baseline purchase rate of the customers in their audience.
Is it possible to create an IP blacklist for your ads? Seems like blocking India, China and AWS/Azure/Digital Ocean would be step one.
You've been a victim of a bunch of buzzwords that cornered you in a dark mental alley and beat you to a pulp. This post puts the horse before the flip-flops. You first must snap out of it if you want to materialize things in the real world.

Do you know someone who has a problem you can solve for a profit? Do you know of problems you can solve and now have to find someone who has these problems?

When I say "someone", I mean "organizations" because I'm biased to selling to enterprise through a company, as this has been good for us. Here's a mini blueprint for that if you want: https://twitter.com/jugurthahadjar/status/131066829330549965...
Read "Oglivy on Advertising" (1983). Oglivy is one of the all-time greats in advertising. He's noted for making the original Volkswagen Beetle cool. He points out the problems of ad overdesign.
Reduce is better than re-use - I don't think I've seen styrofoam for the last few years in the UK. Cups and food containers are paper and packaging for things like TVs is now shaped cardboard. What are you still getting in styrofoam over there?
Yeah that seems a real missed opportunity here. I’ve never seen the show but admit that old SD programmes tend to fall down the list of shows to watch.

To have the opportunity to see a high-fidelity but true-to-composition version would really pique my interest. I guess managing and serving two different versions probably isn’t straightforward, but I believe Disney already does it with The Simpsons, so perhaps one day there will be a ‘remastered’ original cut.
yosys with yosys show command can do it for Verilog: http://www.clifford.at/yosys/files/yosys_appnote_011_design_...
I found it really helpful to see what a chunk of Verilog code would look like after synthesis.

There is an online version at here: http://www.clifford.at/yosys/nogit/YosysJS/snapshot/demo02.h... which uses YosysJS. Hopefully someone can port Compiler Explorer UI to this
If ads don't work, how did the advertising industry convince people to spend on advertising in the first place?
By the way, your website is broken for people browsing in landscape orientation. The X to close the pop-up renders out of view.
Of course. I see that now it’s so obvious not sure why I didn’t see that earlier.
Regarding REPL restarts: You don't need to use stuff like component. There are far lighter weight alternatives with no requirements for app structure. I use "mount" [0] for this. You define "start" and optionally "stop" code for anything in your app that you consider stateful and would like to reboot (like db conn pools, config loaded from files / env etc). No interfaces / protocols, easy app restarts within the same repl, no enforced structure in your app. You just use the resources as if they were def'd vars in a namespace (because they are).

Regarding ecosystem and interop, in my experience (using clojure for about a third of the stuff at my job) I've rarely encountered a problem directly interop-ing with a java library, things like "doto" and "reify" do a good job of smoothing the rough java edges off.

More importantly I've usually had the choice of either directly using the using a pure clojure alternative or direct interop with java lib or using a clojure wrapper around the java lib. Incidentally those are my preferred choices in order (assuming the features I'm interested in are supported equally).

Perhaps I have been lucky in my requirements from the clojure / java ecosystems. I find the most important lesson I learned was to only use clojure wrappers if they are of a supremely high quality (either auto generated like cognitects aws lib or with a massive amount of momentum behind them like clj-http (wrapping on java http components)). An average quality or not super actively maintained wrapper is much worse than direct interop (again leaning heavily on the provided macros for interop to sand off the nastiness).

[0] https://github.com/tolitius/mount
It's not just because of that (but for sure, double-income households definitely created much greater demand for daycare facilities). Even with a stay-at-home parent, a small child can bring a couple near a breaking point.
Technical debt can exist in any product and for a variety of reasons: inexperience, frequent employee churn, lack of leadership, frequent change of product direction, etc. Your comment implies that the technical debt is with Clojure the language or because of it. Beware of single-cause explanations of inherently complex problems.

I've designed and worked on systems with both OOP and functional-style code. Clojure is a tool that very much helps minimize technical debt. I think the minimal use of managed state in Clojure plays a crucial part.

Having done a good amount of looking through the Clojure language code itself, there's very little (if any) technical debt there.
> The dozens are a classic American art form, much like the twelve-bar blues or film noir. Unclench just a bit and embrace the streetcorner tradition.
https://twitter.com/AoDespair/status/1156853702784966656
This is my experience as well at a large aerospace manufacturer. When push comes to shove nobody wants to stop the line or take the extra time to actually do anything management preaches. TPS is cargo-culted like mad.
Rhodia dotted paper is lovely! Would have definitely clicked on that ad just because of that.

On a second look... using a ballpoint to write on that glorious paper is a crime, so I might have hesitated a bit.
I always find it humorous how many on HN bemoan things like Scrum and PMs and project plans and micromanagement...yet posts like these are so popular.
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Well, this is pretty good I think
https://twitter.com/AoDespair/status/1345365357939355650

He definitely does not pull his punches.
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No need for a conspiracy: one popular article sparks the submission of something similar, and given there was enough interest to make the first one popular, it's not uncommon for another to become popular.
At the very least, those ingots will occupy less space in a landfill...
If you or anybody can remember the source article, that sounds like an interesting read!

Edit: found one with a quick search. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/08/10/bh-2011-bit-squa...

And https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262273269_Bitsquatt...
I'm in the market for a new laptop (since a few years). Is there something like the X1 carbon but with ECC?
There is no reason /to/ use obfuscation in good faith if the code is open source.
> My main point is, I wonder if extroverts — or those that are energized from intense social interactions — are more destined to be happy vs. introverts.

I don't know. I'll actually extend your question to its extreme:

Does anyone know what the evolutionary advantage of being an introverted individual in a very social species is?
He's talked to ~300 state legislators, has publicly demanded they decertify the election. Imagine those conversations, and imagine any of them being released.

The whole conversation is a combination of mob talk and confabulation. He simultaneously believes he really won the election, but is demanding manufactured evidence to show that he's won it. But this is completely consistent with 140 members of the House of Reps, and 11 Senators, who have publicly stated they will challenge the Electoral College result.

Because of Trump's unfitness for office, his extreme malignant narcissism it would be difficult to prove (in court) his state of mind, and that he knows that he's asking for fraud to be committed.

The only immediate remedy for this is impeachment, removal from office, and ban him from holding public office again. By not holding him accountable he will try again, he'll only keep getting worse.
That works for any domain that's busy enough.

Random bit flips happen on client machines and on routers.

If there are enough requests for a domain name, some of those requests will be subject to one one of those bit-flips.
As a publisher and ad network vet, I can vouch that Dr. Fou knows his stuff. He’s been one of the clearest voices about the mechanics of ad fraud. Any engineer would be enlightened at what wild escapades have been hacked into DOMs around the world on the backs of starving publishers. Any business person would see how much ad fraud has shaped the world we live it. He’s a fellow that’s definitely worth a follow!
That might just be typos in some cases?
It seems like having the scientists do their own fundraising is the wrong way to do things. You'd have to be an expert in both the science and the fundraising, to compete against the other scientists who are fundraising. Obviously, since learning how to raise funds competes with learning and developing the science, this system is going to prioritize greater-skilled-fundraisers/lesser-skilled scientists. If you're a great fundraiser, why do you even need the University?
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I continue to believe the main reason Facebook is scared of new iOS tracking controls is people will figure out the CTR is the same without the tracking.
Ask your doctor if a 4000 IU chill pill is right for you.

The Internet used to be a much friendlier place back in the day.
This is a story about how the academic system failed twice to retain talent due to short-sighted metric gaming. It's a story where if Karikó believed that life would be easier if she just started churning out meaningless papers, we likely would not have an mRNA vaccine.

edit: Also very curious about the "attempt to have her deported" as I've heard of many threats of that nature against foreign post-docs.
Yes. I work at Facebook on data compression.

The libraries we maintain (1) are responsible for a non-trivial part of Facebook's overall compute footprint, (2) should basically never fail of their own accord, and (3) have pretty good error monitoring. So my team is operating what is effectively (among other things) a very sensitive detector for hardware failure.

And indeed we see examples all the time of blobs that fail to decompress, and usually when we dig in we find that the blob is only a single bit-flip away from a blob that decompresses successfully into a syntactically correct message. I can't share numbers, but, off the top of my head, I think it's the largest source of failures we see. It happens frequently enough that I wrote a tool to automate checking [0].

So yes. It happens. Pretty frequently, in the sense that if you're doing xillions of operations a day, a one-in-a-xillion failure happens all the time.

[0] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/tree/dev/contrib/diagnose_c...
The probability that a random person would want to buy a blade for a bread cutting machine is nearly 0%. The probability that you will buy a blade for a bread cutting machine again is non-zero because you may be dissatisfied with your new one.
Such a short sighted incentivisation structure harms the business in the long run I think.
That still doesn't address the GP point, advertising doesn't matter if you can get customers coming to you organically. Business size changes the odds of that, irrespective of that if the customers would have come to you anyway (and there are ways to know this!) then the ad spending was largely a waste.
Yeah, I suggest you expand upon that, or perhaps another article showing that "conversation". Unfortunately, some people - including me - have only used a repl in "one-direction" and have to copy stuff back and forth.