skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it's what happens when the objective is something different. The objective is often to get big ad views & audiences, not to drive performance.
Thanks! I have been using GTK since the late 90s (1.x versions) but dropped of the devel list a few years ago due to lack of time/focus/interest.

Would love to port my pet project to 4.x. :)
> People shouldn't have to worry about their basic livelihood and property being stripped away by anything other than perhaps a natural disaster of some kind.

This is a very interesting point. I'm not sure what to think of it. Maybe it needs a bit more complexity. After all the exploitation of disadvantaged minority owners is seen as hopefully almost universally bad, whereas using eminent domain to create a park/hospital/bus-stop/townhouse might be a good thing. Yet tyranny of the majority is also problem. (And of course it's hyperdimensional interlocking turtles in every direction philosophically.)

NIMBY-ism that happens in growing cities - so basically in all of them, since urbanization and migration to urban areas, and urban revival is going on - is seen as usually bad. Yet usually the problem is that any new development puts additional burden on the incumbents. (Eg. as population and population density grows there will be more people, more traffic, more big houses blocking out the sun, god forbid even more diversity too.) Which is a very similar in certain aspects. (A community trying to set themselves and their circumstances in stone. And we know people pretty much prefer stability.)

Land Value Tax comes up a lot to fight NIMBY-ism, but that's again a kind of tyranny of the majority. (If you have a small plot of land, let's say a garden, or a small grocery store in the middle of the city, LVT would probably force you to sell or develop it.)

However, at the same time we see that - for example in California - raising taxes on property is very much frowned upon. Sure, we know they have a very big financial interest in keeping housing prices going up and keeping taxes down.

...

So after all this rambling, probably what I'm trying to say is that the right to self-determination is important on many levels, but it naturally implies the conflict between those levels. Individual vs. group interests.
Thanks for pointing it out. The site went on my reading list.
As you grow your brain optimizes off fruitless ideas. You think total control of one part will be the ultimate because younger your perspective is narrow and you focus all on it.

When I was in college I thought being a flawless typist would make me a better programmer.. (mind you I had trouble mastering dynamic programming, advanced abstractions or semantic subtleties).

I find these exhausting too now, and actually that's why I'm jaded by tech. The vast majority of things in the late 10 years felt like a planet scale tweak (phone has tilting backgrounds, css animations, ..). Deep inside I knew it was just marketing and nothing substantial.
Makes sense to me.

CEO: "We need to do something about growth!"

Marketer: "Mobile ads are something!"

CEO: "I read those are hot. Here's a bucket of money! Do lots of something so we have lots of growth!"

[spending ensues]

As the Uber story shows, a lot of money gets spent without anybody making sure that it actually works. The actual goal is not to have an effect. It's to be seen as taking bold action. If the business gets better, bonuses and promotions ensue, no matter what the actual cause. Cargo cult management.

It sounds insane, but I'm sure it's rife. Years ago I was coaching at a Lean Startup weekend class. One team really killed it, rapidly testing product hypotheses through real-world testing. Their initial idea was quickly proven worthless, but they listened to users and came up with an idea that would sell.

I kept in touch with one of those team members. He went back to his prominent, well-funded startup, excited to improve his company. But nobody wanted improvement. Execs wanted to sit in a big room, think big thoughts, and produce specs. The engineers were to implement those specs. But nobody would measure the effects of anything. Proof that a grand poobah's idea didn't actually pan out was deeply unwelcome. It slowly drove my pal mad and he quit. The company bumped along for a few years to a modest acquisition, but it never really lived up to the hopes.
What harm have they "already caused"?

Is link rot such a damaging phenomenon that it warrants attacking hobbyists and their not-for-profit public service?

Will you help financially compensate their time setting up these fail-safes?
Lisp in Seven Parts: Crafting Interpreters in Erlang
I don't understand this line of reasoning. P&G, Unilever, Cocacola, etc have never, not once in history, had a gung-ho C level exec who said "Screw it, I'm going to find out if our advertising works". And then either found it works and kept spending, or found out it doesn't work and saved literally billions of dollars.

There is so much money at stake that could be either saved or generated, its simply not possible that no one has looked at it. I used to help Pepsi/Fritolay set up tracking to tie advertising on youtube to in-store sales. They spent millions of dollars to measure their ads, Google had a clean-room data center specifically for pepsi/frito. The idea that no one actually checked if this system works is simply not possible.
At least they promised right there in the warranty not to sell your data. Good times.
How in the world would you ever know that problem was caused by a bit flip and not just one of the countless other reasons that a sensor could fail?
an observation that may help: as your stats at time t+1 are dependent on stats at time t, you cannot separate your validation set from the set you used to perform exploratory data analysis - they are highly interdependent.
The podcast[1] does a lot better job of explaining what is going on than Twitter.

[1] https://www.marketingtodaypodcast.com/194-historic-ad-fraud-...
I'm not sure how many reprogrammable cheap watches there are, and am not off the top of my head familiar with any besides the one listed here.

Was this intended to be a reply to my comment?
https://www-dev.medicine.uiowa.edu/sercc/sites/medicine.uiow...
Yep, even FB "audience network" ads suck and are fraud ridden. Newsfeed is a fundamentally great format for ads.
I guess that would work, the time and effort involved in getting end-users to link the application makes downloading a large Electron binary seem downright pleasant.
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https://www-dev.medicine.uiowa.edu/sercc/sites/medicine.uiow...
It's pretty mild compared to A, with a large gap between the UL and getting sick.

Healthy adults need a few months on a dose two orders of magnitude higher than the typical recommendation to see overt toxicity. All known cases of toxicity stem from people going ten times the UL.

Still, don't handle this like a water soluble vitamin. Never think about bulk powders, since the IU-to-weight conversion ratio is crazy potent.
Vue 3 TypeScript component framework – part 1 – basic setup
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https://www-dev.medicine.uiowa.edu/sercc/sites/medicine.uiow...
Haha, I can never get enough of the bubble boys on this site. Truly amazing how sheltered some of you folks are. Tech is sadly filled to the brim with this type of ignorant person.
Did you actually read the linked tweets?!

Uber turns off a shitload of ad spending, nothing bad happens to new user acquisitions.

I'd say there are about a million better uses of a million dollars than just pissing them away on a scam.
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https://www-dev.medicine.uiowa.edu/sercc/sites/medicine.uiow...
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https://www-dev.medicine.uiowa.edu/sercc/sites/medicine.uiow...
We are not. You are.
You can just turn the ads off in one small geography and/or for a short time. Seems to me the potential benefits far outweigh the risks here. If your organization can't see that, then you have bigger problems.
I would love to hack on FPGAs but always run into the issue of closed toolchains. The recent open source work is a breath of fresh air, but we need to see an FPGA vender that embraces and sponsors this work.
The adtech industry is a huge sham. It's an open secret that ads don't work and that most of the data is fraudulent. There are thousands of companies with deliberately complicated relationships to pull a giant shell game with advertiser's money. All of the data that supports the lie is built out of massive internet surveillance dragnets. Ultimately, even casting all of this in the best possible light, it's designed to psychologically manipulate people. No one wants to see an ad. Adtech is despicable.
If you're depressed it's totally worth finding a therapist. I've personally found it quite worthwhile to work on emotional issues in therapy and you can do it in parallel with everything else.
Some "bots" perform searches and click on ads to build a "user profile" for the browser.
> All big companies do this.

Except Uber, apparently? Or would the method you're talking about not have discovered that something fishy was going on? (I don't work with ads so I don't know the limitations of the type of experiment that you're talking about)
I once tried to spray-paint styrofoam black for a school project. The solvent in the paint ate away at the plastic and left it not foamy immediately.
I'd take that report with a big grain of salt and run my own tests independently. Google is more than slightly biased here.
I've always thought the same! It would make history so much more relatable and generate more interest in ancient buildings.

They wouldn't even have to do all of it, just one third would at least show us what we think it used to look like!
This doesn't sound like a "temporal consistency" problem, rather an inconsistent and untransparent ordering issue.
This might help you fix the problem:

Google Ads default settings for location targeting is based on "Presence or interest" in a location, not whether the user is actually in the targeted country. That means even if you have "United States" selected as your target, your ads will still show mostly to people outside the US who "show interest in" the US.

To fix it: Campaign Settings > Location > Location Options, and under "Target" select "Presence". Never use the default "Presence or interest" option, as it will result in exactly the scenario you're describing.

This is my #1 pet peeve with Google Ads. Using the default setting is an incredibly common (and expensive) mistake people make setting up new campaigns.
Well, with as common as a bunch of people in this thread seem to think bit flips are, it should just be a matter of time until that bit gets flipped on your cpu and activates the ecc feature.
Some vendors weren't respecting the Breitbart ban.
Yes, the advertising industry is just obfuscated basic income for the twitter class.
Thank you for being concerned for my life.
I've set it up in a way that someone will take it over after my sudden death, don't worry.

And I care about climate change, even after my death.
My reading is that the author tries to address Cowen's stagnation.

The article lists four General Purpose Technologies[1]: cheap bulk electricity storage (lithium-ion battery improvements), ubiquitous internet via Starlink, ASICs (customised chips), and the technologies around CRISPR. These can be expected to have increasing effects on productivity over the course of the next two decades.[2]

Neither Cowen nor TFA address distribution (or its effect on productivity). Cowen appears to believe in trickle-down economics, which has been thoroughly disproved in the real world. The article does not discuss distribution at all.

My take is that yes, we can't maintain growth forever, but there seems to be headroom for a few decades yet.

Whether ordinary people benefit from these GPTs is a political question. We don't have good technologies for politics. (Or: some of the technologies we have right now are actively making the political process worse.)

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_purpose_technology

2. Lithium-ion batteries - logistics improvements (ground transport and short-hop air transport) and electric grid cost reductions; ASICs and ubiquitous internet - production and logistics automation for all kinds of goods and services; CRISPR and related technologies - improved population health, so lower deadweight loss: fewer productive resources will be used caring for ill people.
> If you had a year to live, you would definitely want to be productive.

No, I'd want to be happy. It's the uniquely American Calvinist view that conflates these things.
Your Tunes and the Road
Not true at all. Might want to look into how well insulated your house is ;)
I’m not exactly sure what you’re trying to say. Scientists’ whole careers are based on running hypotheses to prove or disprove their theories. That IS their career.
Thanks for asking! This is not a noob question.

I would say that the similar workflow could be applied to any ball-related sports. The object detection and the tracking algorithm is basically the same. Then, you could add any sport-specific feature!

For example, I have used a similar method to build AI Basketball Analysis.

https://github.com/chonyy/AI-basketball-analysis
That, plus programming FPGA kind of sucks. The software tool chains are somewhere between 20 and 30 years behind the state of the art for software development.

Also, FPGAs can't be reasonably context-switched. Flashing them takes a significant amount of time, so forget about time-multiplexing access to the FPGA among different applications.
The Space Shuttle had redundant computers. The Apollo Guidance Computer was not redundant (though there were two AGCs onboard-- one in the CM and one in the LEM). The aerospace industry has a history of using redundant dissimilar computers (different CPU architectures, multiple implementations of the control software developed by separate teams in different languages, etc) in voting-based architectures to hedge against various failure modes.
Ted Plus Netflix
That’s pretty awesome.

Admittedly, all I know about immediate mode and retained modes GUIs, I learned from this post, but I wonder why there’s no library that uses both. Could a library:
1. Use immediate mode to calculate the display.
2. Use retained mode as long as the amount of change is below a certain threshold.
3. Switch to immediate mode above the threshold.
And so on.
> Also worked in ad tech. There were some types of customers that cared about performance, but the largest were typically agencies and all they cared about was spending the budget they were given.

Large companies call it "brand" spending. Which is to say they're spending to maintain brand awareness. Measuring ROI would call the practice into question.
You might want to check the "Warp Processing" project out: http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~vahid/warp/. It is probably exactly what you are thinking about. Transparent analysis of the instruction stream at runtime and synthesis and offloading of hot spots to the FPGA.
Ad tech is a bubble and full of sketchy players. The advertisers always get fleeced, the only question is for how much.
For one, look at how Sadam rebuilt Babylon. He literally rebuilt walls by putting new stone on top of the ruins. As expected, that caused permanent damage to the ruins. So what should have been done? Destroy the ruins and rebuild how it was?
The usual reply to this is that Amazon shows you that because you might return it and then buy a new one, gift it to someone, etc.

They show it because it "works" for them, not because it's wrong and they just can't somehow make sure they don't show something.

Because even if 99% of people don't buy anything twice, 1% probably does for some reason, and that signal just trumps all the noise. (And that's why most of ad spending is bullshit, but since Amazon's cost [even with opportunity cost] is basically 0 on their own site, they'll continue to do this.)
Project and pumps that make CO2 travel through the ocean
The industry doesn't move overnight. AMD might have seen where Intel was going and didn't want to be caught off guard, or that might be the alternative to Apple approach of dozens of coprocessors on a chip.
We agree. Reread my comment - I said it was “just like” the similie.

Just like East Germans lived under forced government monopoly and regulations in the car market but most could dream of Benzes and BMWs, you and I can dream about a world where voluntary relationships replace government force in areas such as internet, conflict resolution, health insurance (where I live we only have government health care, and like for Trabants, there are long lines...), road management, and all other tasks government bureaucrats so selflessly have relieved us of
Given the current day struggle to merge code with whitespace differences, merging differently arranged visual programming elements where the end result is the same but the positioning of the elements is just different sounds like a tough problem. Although linking of elements is probably key, rather than visual positioning. I imagine this is something IBM VisualAge had to deal with back in the late 90s. If I remember right local history was a key feature of VisualAge, a feature that carried across to Eclipse and is still there today.
And your pipeline
I was wondering about the same thing.
Not at the moment but Archive.org is an option I'm considering.
Who knows why you got downvoted, but please don't be so sensitive that you delete comments you'd stand by. It's annoying to find deleted/edited comments that have replies.
> my first action after installing an app is to do a packet capture and look at what the app talks to

Can’t it talk to its own servers that then talk to Facebook, in which case packet capture is of not much use?
Because Akrasia. I currently am supposed to be doing other things but I am spending it on HN.
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You have to type http:// on the message field
To make a redirect
> I've seen full-fat Ubuntu containers with uid 1000 which is in docker group on the host and ~ mounted to run some python flask app, in production

If you mount ~ in your containers you have bigger problems than uid 1000.
@dang hope this gets to you, seems to be a scam site promoting the games
By default Google will show ads to people in or "intersted in" the selected location. You can change this to only show ads to people actually present in the specified location, from campaign level location targeting. I spend low 5 figures per month on ads and changing this parameter has significantly reduced poor quality clicks.
Thank You very much for the hard work you do Greg, You're awesome :D
UBI and financial independence in the same sentence. Ah, love my signals.
It seems to me that we have reached that point in our lives where we have to actually use firearms to protect ourselves not only from criminals but from our own government
This seems suspect, that works out to approximately 25 log messages per developer per second assuming a 10 hour work day.

I work in a tightly regulated industry (finance), and even my company doesn't have a need to log 25 messages per second per person.

Is anyone else able to validate this claim that regular small companies log this much data?
> No one can actually prove it has any ROI at all. No one is willing to run the experiments necessary.

Depends enormously what sort of business you're in. I used to work for a company where all of our sales came from ads, 100%. It was trivially true that if we stopped advertising we would have no sales. We were also committed to running experiments: we knew how well all of our many advertising channels performed, and we ran A/B tests for every change.
I expect Unilever has some data from their Facebook and Twitter ad boycott.

They're restarting their advertising.

https://www.campaignasia.com/article/unilever-to-end-faceboo...
It seems to me that we've reached that point in our lives where we have to use firearms to not only protect ourselves from criminals but also from our own government
disagree, it's unusably slow... i had to move to hyper-v vagrant driver as vbox, while it would boot the VM, was so slow it defeated any purpose on speeding up development
The podcast episode where Kevin Frisch (former Uber head of US/CA performance marketing) talked about this issue:
https://listennotes.com/podcasts/marketing-today/historic-ad...

All podcast interviews of Kevin Frisch:
https://lnns.co/5UZnQ_FopCb
Lol you loons are GOLD.
I raised some kids and a unquantified "lot of" time is spent teaching them to gradually be independent adults by occasionally making sure they're safe while they do their own thing.

An excellent analogy is I spent some time in a minor leadership position in a boy scout troop and beyond a certain age the kids do all the work, the adults are there to explain "and that's why the wood lot area is fenced off", "and that is the correct archery range safety procedure", "and no that is not a safe way to maintain a campfire" and so on and so forth. As the actual troop leader often said, if the adults are sweating something is not being done correctly; the kids should be doing all the work and the adults are mere safety advisor guests of the kids.

Some kids in some subcultures are able to safely with minimal adult supervision, for example, whittle wood sticks into smaller theoretically artistic sticks at age 8 whereas others STILL cannot responsibly whittle at age 24.

I spent a lot of time as a dad parenting at a laptop on the deck occasionally saying "no, there's a buried gas line there, dig for fossils over there" and the kids would make their own "discoveries" underground.

Its kinda like being in management where some folks (or kids) need near hand-over-hand supervision sometimes, yet others you just kinda check on every day or so. Ideally by the time the kids are adults (16, 18, 21, ..., ?) the parents shouldn't be doing much other than occasional management checkins and providing of advice.

There's a big difference between leading and enabling the kids while knowing exactly what they're doing in a safety sense, vs not being involved at all.

For example I know next to nothing about welding (well, I know a little but I'm no certified nuclear boiler welder...) so I was quite happy to have one of the boy scout dads who's all certified up in welding teach that badge "in my place". He teaches older apprentices how to weld gas pipelines so he's certainly qualified to teach... All I really did as his partner was make sure everyone stayed hydrated LOL.

For little kids a lot of parenting is you just need a parent figure at the park to occasionally say "no" and redirect. "Yeah I see the league has a ball game at the diamond so you can't play there, but no you're not playing baseball in the busiest street in the city get back on the grass now"

A better analogy is something like you're claiming if a bank hires a security manager who enforces security policies then the bank is not providing actual "uniformed dude standing at attention" security. Yet some kind of manager role may be the most important time/money the bank can spend WRT security...

When they're younger toddlers they need a lot of parenting until they discover lego or whatever, but that's a rather short phase in their lives.
There are cases where URL shorteners are useful. E.g. some websites would parse a link you embed within a text you post and replace it with the actual video if that's a link to YouTube. A shortener may be the only way to post a classic hyperlink to a YouTube video there. Shortened URLs may also help when you need to put them on paper/merchandise or on TV or say them in a voice call. That's sad goo.gl has been discontinued - it was what you could rely on. IMHO archive.org should make their own.