skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That seems an ungenerous and quite broad interpretation of a fairly simple assertion.

Even as much as I love Emacs, I would never fault someone for choosing a more productive tool now even if there’s a non-zero risk of something breaking in the future...because there’s always something that will break on any platform. Time spent being productive now is usually worth that risk.
Quite annoying even on Linux if you use KDE: GTK3 apps stand out like a sore thumb. More than Electron even.
> The goal was to demonstrate an impact of in-store sales from internet advertising.

So the goal was to advertise advertising. A more scientific goal would be to see if there was an increase of in-store sales from internet advertising. Instead they were looking to design experiments that would show a positive effect, with the goal of giving advertisers a dashboard so they could run those experiments themselves.
The writing is beautiful and sophisticated, yet never pretentious or long-winded. It's an absolute joy. Also, she frequently allows for many endings (ex: kill antagonist or romance antagonist) that is either rare of poorly done/simplistic in AAA titles.
I probably used productivity too carelessly in my article - I meant it more as 'doing things that make me happy/help me develop as a person' as opposed to 'doing things that feel nice and easy now but I'd rather do them less'. I consider hobbies, reading books, going on walks and things like that as productive and tried to reduce time I spent mindlessly scrolling social media.

I'm also doing my PhD so by trying to increase my at-work productivity I'm trying to make sure that I don't waste too much of taxpayer's money.

But I agree that optimising productivity too much could be anxiety-inducing and I was trying to be mindful of that while looking at my data and deciding what to change in my life based on it.
See lb504's answer.
Thanks! I mostly want to see CPU and wifi activity, so a menubar widget covers most of my bases. I also don't have a big multi-screen setup, so I have a stronger preference for menubar widgets than some people.
Honestly though why tf did these companies never try lowering spend incrementally to see if it made a difference? Is this why engineers are so valued because we understand the simple concept of AB testing?
Or a coordinated "strike" by major ad spenders.

I'll bet that a lot of ad spend is zero sum. They'd probably rather share profits than boost google's.
> It sounds like she was not able to raise the money to continue her research. That’s not really UPenn’s fault. No one can know in advance which ideas are promising enough, so it isn’t reasonable to blame them.

As one had wrote 2-3 grant proposal during graduate studies, my takeaway is that the system failed to give the really impactful ideas the right amount of resources.

That's matching a 2-day-old submission [1] about peer-reviewed research papers are becoming boring, as another sign that the existing research management systems are not producing interesting results, even just from reading the papers, which presumably is already the most interesting thing can be produced from a research project.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25605156
Running remote commands is almost entirely what that part of the article is about.
Do you really find it slow? Compared to the Sopranos or the West Wing (which were the two other main shows on around the time I think?), I always found the Wire to be more accessible. Each season has a pretty strong driving plot.

Compared to some of the really slow Sopranos seasons (I remember the Carmela-Furio season that just dragged on and on) it’s practically 24 :)
A super customized system is more like a pet.
A mostly standard system with very limited tweaks is more cattle.

Like the OP I used to be in the having "pets" category (including gigantic ~/.emacs), but these days I prefer cattle (defaults as much as possible)
Hah! Nice, I've never experimented that far. I seem to remember even audacity had trouble with >4x speed (but don't remember if I just couldn't keep up at all, or if it was just choppy quality)
90% of email traffic is spam. 90% of ad clicks are fraudulent. 90% of visitors? 90% of tweets? 90% of likes? Some day, 90% of YouTube videos. As human-mimicking technology improves, all human interactions that can be faked, will be.
'renewiltord mentioned Akrasia. That's one big thing.

Another thing is that you may not have enough time to fit the things you want with your schedule - and you first need to optimize your things in your life. That may involve optimizing your productivity at work, to free up time or energy for your own things. That also will involve taking a look at what you do around and after work. All of us live at least partially on autopilot, so bad habits tend to sneak up and stay unnoticed. You need to shine a light every now and then to identify and eradicate them - and then that's more time and/or energy freed up for doing the things that matter to you.

Perhaps a less contentious way of saying "focus on productivity" is to say "making the wisest use of the 24 hours one has in a day".
As someone who hasn't written any F#, I'm curious about F#'s advantages over Haskell.
Google's yearly revenue
> human function - the boring stuff: eating

I disagree on this one.

Eating can and on good days should be a pleasure.
It can also be very social. Eating together is
an ancient tradition. Breaking bread.

It is a common misconception that it takes a lot of time.
If you are not used to cooking yourself then it will take time
to learn how (not just how to microwave),and then learn how to
adapt it for your own taste buds. Then you get used to it and
a lot of dishes can be made fresh in less than 10 mins.

It also involves going to the store.
If going into a sad US supermarket with plastic wrapped everything,
It is easy to understand the reluctance to spend time on it.

Yet a proper market with the flavors, the colors and variety
it is a different experience.

I often feel happy once I have found a right cut of fish, I cant
wait to get home, prepare it and eat it.

I am sad that in some countries and in some circles it
is seen as a "must do/boring", instead of "This is going to be delicious".

For some scarfing down a Granola bar and a protein milkshake
is what eating has been reduced to.

Granted that would save a lot of time and people are different.

Everyone should spend time satisfying the foundation of Maslow pyramid.
that a lot of users of this site can take somewhat for granted
(Not everyone :( )

Having been in the army for a while and at war (
As a means of getting out of a bad background)
I was made aware of how important all the parts of the foundation is.

I swore to myself that I would always remember to be grateful when I enter a
place that is dry and comfortable, when I have an actual bed to rest on,
when I have dry clothing and boots in the morning, and how miraculous it is
to have a say in, and the ability to not eat what minimally sustains you.
A toilet that flushes and is private and a the ability for a shower.

We should all be conscious of the privileged it is to have these things available to us
and take joy in it. It might not last.

Still even with old rations for 90 days straight the communal experience of sharing
a meal was present.

Also sex. It is not mentioned in the schedule.
That may be for puritanical reasons. That is no business of yours buddy, and
that is fine, but spend a bit evaluating what is included and what is not.
Most of this logged time in self actualization. Is it also a reflection of what
the author is proud of / wants to share.

Eating and sex both can be wondrous or a ration pack that should have been thrown
away 12 years ago. Both low on the pyramid.
It's more than just de-duplicating, tho. Imagine you query a dataset and get something like a page count and a chunk size. That page count cannot be trusted if the dataset is mutable. If an item is inserted at the beginning of the set, you're going to miss the last item.

Pagination is hard
It is absolutely 'significant' for the usual statistical meaning, p<0.05.
Fisher's exact test p-value of 0.007 is pretty decent, not "not great."
I try to note start and end times of activities. At work, or whenever I'm doing something on my laptop I would fill the spreadsheet as soon as I finish or take a break from an activity (eg finished reading a paper, going on a coffee break now). When I'm doing something more varied I would note start/end times via google sheets app on my phone or just remember them and fill them once I have access to my laptop. Sometimes, I would use data from my fitbit (to see when I started/stopped walking) or my search history (to see changes between working vs looking at silly things on the internet). The categories were broad enough that logging the data is not too time-consuming and often they could be added as big time-blocks of a single activity.
The GP didn't claim something bad was going to happen to them if they followed the link. They simply stated it didn't load under uMatrix.

uMatrix doesn't stop bad things from happening to you. It's simply browser add-on software that can block specific types of content. In this case, probably trackers or ads. Perhaps the GP is attempting to maintain their privacy. We can't know their motivations with certainty because they never made them clear.

The person that put the page together might consider testing whether or not it loads under uMatrix before exposing it to the world.
This has already 303 comments so probably no one will see mine, but I was planning this year to start doing some online advertisement to get more visitors to my website and convert them into Patreons. But I think this will not a good idea after all. Any other recommendations in how to be more visible to more people on the Internet?
Even gross benefit could conceivably be negative, if the ads are bad enough! (I.e., a terrible ad might prevent a sale.)
Do you mean regular purchasers or regular clickers? There's definitely a subset of users who'll click much more frequently than the average user.
> But if you are going to try and do things that "really matter" don't you want to be productive at them?

I'd definitely try to, hehe.

For me it's more about what we categorize as productive than the experiment itself. The experiment is a great way to gather data. But the categorization made me really think about what people, in general, categorize as "productive".

Maybe sleeping should be way more important than many job related things, but by default we assume sleeping is just a necessity, many times sacrificing it in favor of the others.
Looks nice.
Is there some way to delete an account again?
We need a mindset of doing research for its own sake rather than just as a way to profit. What profit could come of going to the moon? Yet we developed many technologies along the way.

Realistically, the funding would probably need to come (and already does come) from the government. The government should be funding manned missions to Mars and investing much more in longshot technologies like nuclear fusion, to name a couple obvious ones.
>I’ve never been, but I doubt there is a lot of “wow we were so awful for building this” going on in the tourists centers.

Well, the weren't awful to begin with.

Whether succesful or not in the end, they built it to avoid Mongol and Manchu raids and invasions, and thus for saving their cities and their lives.

So, people perished are more like "people perished in acts of fortification / defense preparations" than "people killed willy nilly for the entertainment of the emperor and the viewers in the arena".
If you pay close attention it's not any kind of socialism,
It's the national kind if you know what I mean.
> For the same reason Rust is the ideal language to write viruses, since it's difficult to reverse engineer.

Eh, not really.
This is nonsense. I had a startup completely powered by Google Ads. Ads brought in nearly 100% of the traffic. When my billing information with Google got mixed up and the ads stopped, the traffic went to 0 immediately.
Sorry, I think you misunderstood my point a bit... I think I am agreeing with you.

My point was that advertising's purpose (from a consumer point of view) is for the ADVERTISER to waste money, to signal that they have confidence that their product is good enough to recover the cost of wasting money on advertising.
/dev/disk/by-id is different than /dev/disk/by-uuid

for example, you dd a disk and by-uuid is ambiguous.

meanwhile by-id still finds the original disk
I use to run into a sci usenet poster who usually provided 10-30 shortened links with his postings pointing at books, papers and previous postings (google groups). Arguing over a topic he one time explained he had a clear analytics picture of what references other posters did and didn't read, who [silently] participated in the discussions, how much people read before and after writing a response, etc.
Though not an intentional test, we found out what happens when a movie gets a wide release but does not advertise. In 2008, the movie 'Delgo' was released on over 2000 screens with nearly no advertising. Because the production company could not find a distributor, they spent their ad money on renting the screens for a week, with the hope that some people would randomly see it and word of mouth would spread, leading to the theaters wanting to keep it for additional weeks. It became the lowest earning wide release movie up to that point in time. Each screening averaged two people per screening. More people saw Conan O'Brien making fun of the movie in his monologue than actually saw it in the theater.

The reviews for the movie were poor but it had lots of household names as its voice talent, including Anne Bancroft in her final film. Good or bad, advertising likely would have lead to more people seeing it than two per screening. Of course there's no way to know for sure how many more would have been enticed by the ads but we do know that going with zero advertising resulted in a huge disaster.
I was thinking about it for tax savings purposes (loan), but Bitcoin is getting so much valuable over time that it's not worth the custodial risk for me.
Don't use a libc qsort then. The compiler could generated it (but they don't even generate optimized memcmp yet).

Or the CTL is a header only STL for C, which inlines the sort function and the comparator. And because of the C++ bloat and indirect calls the C version is faster.

Inlining with macros == constexpr with templates.

You can decide which syntax you prefer.
That's more or less accepted. Ads that appear in Google search results have some value, since they appear when someone is looking for something specific. That's measurable.

Ads that appear on irrelevant web pages have less value. That's well known. Apparently so little value that it's near zero for known brands, this article says. In the end, they're like useless banner ads. Mostly clicked on by bots.
It's not like there's a lot of action going on most of the time--it's mostly people talking. Which is fine! But not everybody likes that kind of show. It also doesn't have the same addictive amount of leaving each episode on a cliffhanger the way more recent shows are written.

I never watched the Sopranos or West Wing, so I can't speak to them. I enjoyed The Wire (bought the box set!), but it's still a slow-paced drama. If that's your jam, it's fantastic. If it's not, it's still worth a shot (it's that good), but it's not "try it for 18 hours if you don't like the genre" good. All IMO of course. And full disclosure: I'm not a big fan of dramas, but The Wire still grabbed me. Hence my caution that it's somewhat slow compared to other fare.

I should watch it again, it's been a long time and it is worth it.
I am 32 minutes into listening to the audio of this conversation. I think that it is worth listening to. Regardless of where you stand on this, it is an historic recording.
^agreed
Progress relative to what?

Since applications do all their rendering via the GPU these days, desktop multi-tasking requires reasonably time-sliced access to the GPU. GPUs have proper memory protection these days (GPU-side page tables for each process). That's big progress over 10 years ago.
Digital ads used to be noticeable (because flash and gifs). Google and fb ads are bland and don't stick out, and you don't even have an option. I wonder how advertisers missed this bit, novelty used to be the desired goal in old media advertising.
do you know if anyone has written a detailed critical response?

people in the industry it is about laughing it off i think is to be expected. i doubt most traders in mortgage securitization in 2006 would have agreed the sky was about to fall.
Nothing that didn't happen during Chinese civil wars. My intended point was quite the opposite. The nobles were playing a game, a brutal one -- and the peasants were the pawns.
Just a small, correction, you mean 90's style C++ GUI frameworks inheritance are no longer idiomatic in modern C++.

Naturally we have to ignore that wxWidgets, Gtkmm, MFC, ATL, Qt, COM, DirectX, IO Kit, DriverKit, Skia are still around.
Perhaps it would have been more correct and more effective to write "there is no money in rolling your own GUI library".
> If this still bothers you, please tell me what kind of organization would exist to support 25 years of false starts, and what needs to change to make that kind of organization exist.

Academic research is supposed to be for such long-term research. Plenty of scientists research for entire life, just to explore dead ends.

Also, WTF it is considered as OK to base scientific research decisions on profit generated within 5 years? (I know how it happens and why, but considering it as OK is ridiculous)
Maybe not for companies of uber’s size/current reach, but small businesses definitely do benefit from ads. They see an immediate uptick in sales when they start advertising on various platforms.
And unless you're completely free of obligations, you'd want to maximize the time you spent "relaxing, loving and being with family, or enjoying yourself". This requires some thought and effort - and that's precisely being productivity / optimizing your life.
How to import highlights from kindle device in Roam
As far as I understand Spotify does not use Electron, it uses the Chromium Embedded Framework.
The Minimum Viable Article – Commercializing AI Text
They're agreeing with you.
One of our testers had that addon installed, same issue with porn ads.
>they just killed the elites, moved into their palaces, and then took over the ever-so-burdensome task of administering the canals... and collecting the taxes.

Locals didn't see it as merely "replacing some elite with another" any more than the Nazi Germany winning the war and establishing someone as the "President of the US" would be seen as that.

Sure, in the end life goes on, but there are many aspects that change, and domestic versus invading elites are seldom the same...

That's if we exclude the mass slaughters at the time, or the treatment of local ethnicities as second class citizens...
+1 to the second suggestion as a low-effort way to make some headway in staying off blocklists.

A place to start might be this large, very popular list that combines a bunch of other lists: https://oisd.nl/

Actual text file is here (large file warning): https://hosts.oisd.nl/

Just prevent your service from shortening links to any of those domains.
The holiday period contributed a lot to that average. I also lived with other people for the whole year (uni housing, with family and now with flatmates), so meal times would count towards socialising. And those coffee breaks and quick chats here and there add up to a lot!
I'm not sure the author really understands the math (from his comments) but he's right that it's significant, where significant means "I am at least 95% confident that the observed improvement is caused by this change". The test is fine (assuming he didn't just check the results every day until he found one that would make for a fun blog post).

The reason it feels intuitively broken is because the conversion rate is so low. But there were about 10k impressions in his test.
with /dev/disk/by-id you get a unique name for the physical hardware. like /dev/disk/by-id/ata-Samsund_SSD_blah...<serialno>

uuid is different but you can access it with /dev/disk/by-uuid
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21465056
Confirmation here: it works fine on Big Sur too.
Quite natural given that Java was created to be attractive to 90's C++ developers, which carried their development practices into Java.
Beijing Ransacked Data as U.S. Sources Went Dark in China
I can't believe I had to scroll down this far for someone to point this out.
I agree with this. Benchmark code differs from real code in in that it approximates the performance ceiling for a language implementation; it's not "ordinary code" or even "somewhat optimized" but usually the most optimal code one can conceive of with little respect paid to competing concerns, like maintainability. Rust aspires to make idiomatic, maintainable code almost as performant as benchmark code by way of zero-cost abstractions; probably more so than any other language, including C and C++, and all the while keeping the ceiling high relative to other languages.

Unfortunately, I'm still of the opinion that "idiomatic Rust" is quite a lot harder to write than idiomatic Go or C# or etc, and many applications absolutely index on developer velocity and performance and quality are "nice-to-haves". Many companies are making money hand over fist with Python and JavaScript, and Go and C# are quite a lot more performant and typesafe than those languages already; Rust is better still in these areas, but returns diminish. If C# and Go preclude 95% of the errors found in Python and JS, it's not worth trading tens or hundreds of percents of developer velocity for that extra 4% or so improvement in quality (a Go developer could recoup a bit more of that 4% by writing tests in the time they save over Rust).

Of course, this is all subjective, and I've met smart people who argue with a straight face that Rust is better for developer velocity than languages like Go, so YMMV.
You can display only your CPU & Wi-Fi in Pluto. It becomes quite compact then. The CPU view can be compacted further, too.
Wikipedia is constantly running ads. They're just "charity" donation ads so you don't think of them as such, but turn on the TV and you'll notice that charities advertise themselves to get donations all the time. It doesn't make it not advertising.

As for HN, how long have you been using it? Are you aware it's ad supported? Some stories are ads, usually for hiring.
I have 2 cars. I like the TPMS to work since I've had 3 nails in tires in 4 years (newer construction area). Also the TPMS light in my impreza is almost as bright as the sun.
Book: Ideas to Products
I'm sure many people died building the Great Wall, but the reference for "up to a million" is two travel guides[1], and the reference to "hundreds of thousands" is a throwaway line in pop science book about the Great Wall, whose author gives no evidence on how she arrived at the number. I couldn't find any scholarly articles. Maybe we just don't know how many workers died? Or maybe a search in Chinese would be more fruitful. It seems like something that there would at least be a scholarly agreement on an estimated range.

This doesn't take away from your larger point, which stands regardless of whether ten thousand or a hundred thousand or a million died.

[1] I think I'll remove those two references from the article, the revision is currently https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Great_Wall_of_Chi...
Interesting paper, but I noticed a couple of typos:

* ntel in the conclusion

* x96 in the main body

(in case the paper authors read this commentary)