skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, not surprised at all here. What is surprising is that they actually found this out and acknowledged it.

Used to work in the performance marketing team for one of the top 10 brands as an analyst/data scientist, and the reality is that the company politics and individuals' career ambitions top the science. Most of the time the work that gets visibility is spent on "creating stories around data for the leadership": marketers do not understand at all the data they are fed to by the advertising platforms. Also, running controlled A/B studies tended to show between 0 and 10% (this was rare, closer to 0% more common) causal impact on campaings making none of the marketing campaigns profitable in the sense that was used for performance evaluation.

There is one key visicious loop keeping the game going:

1. The marketers want to show great numbers back to the leadership (internal storytelling). Their employment/bonuses depend on the number reported by the ad platform.

2. The ad platforms want more of your ad spend which can be achieved by showing better ROI in their platform.

3. Both the marketers and the ad platforms want to show as good numbers as possible, leading to a situation that nobody is incentiviced to measure true performance / correctly measuring performance.

None of the A/B tests nor analyses about ad fraud went beyond the marketing director. One cool case was analyzing Google's DoubleClick ad logs for a bunch of campaigns that showed there were few cookies that received a significant % portion of the total ad spend - meaning that few "insividuals" received tens or hundreds of thousands of ad impressions.

Nobody cared and this still goes on. It is such a toxic environment to work in I ended up changing career a bit.
> Don't waste transistors on them just program an execution unit to execute that instruction on the fly, etc.

Possible, but the "x86" part is already a big decoder in front of a murky processor underneath so this is already what the CPU does - if you removed the reference to an FPGA, rewriting old x86 instructions in terms of "new" ones is microcode.
there is no model where that becomes unnecessary. If someone who did not create the product is on call, they become the poor sod stuck solving a problem of not their own making.

> half at work on their time off

i mean not constantly. Also if you're on call, you're always paid for doing so regardless of what happens. This talk isn't about compensation, but about the model of work.
You are talking about redirecting USB via workstation as well? eg. connecting USB devices remotely to your VM? (asking as normal USB pass-through doesn't work for a shared VM, see [0])

I hadn't even considered that. Connecting USB devices remotely works well with vSphere, but never tried that with Workstation. They are going to completely removing the hostd engine from VMware Workstation. That would indeed also include that part and it is most likely not easy to get that working without hostd.

[0] http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2005585
Despite being similarly slow, The West Wing was highly accessible to its intended audience because the setting was easily digestible, because the dialogue was a continual sugar hit of witty banter, and because starry-eyed optimism / moral certainty tends to be comforting.
Your tone at certain points was overly incendiary, imo (the comment you were replying to was a little bit too). But there was also lots of good substance around those bits. Just my two cents.
What is the correct pronunciation of “gyro”?
I think you rephrased my comment, yes.
That makes sense, but if you’re a fundraiser and not a scientist, how do you evaluate the claims and the potential for every project that wants you to raise for them? If that were my job, I’d have no idea how to tell a Theranos apart from what this research was, other than going with my personal rule of favoring the one who doesn’t put on a fake voice.

But there is a limited supply of money, and someone has to figure out how to get the right amount to the right people for the right length of time. If you know how to do that, I’ll definitely fund you, and every project you recommend!
Maximizing productivity in the context of the parent clearly meant "doing the most of the things you find important". That could be writing a will. That could be smoking pot. It depends on the individual's preferences.

I get that misunderstanding the parent comment is an easy excuse to signal your disdain for American cultural norms but it's really not necessary in this context.
> Wirecutter, which is not comprehensive but relatively transparent about their testing process and methodology.

For TVs, RTINGS[0] is unmatched. Professional, comprehensive reviews with completely transparent testing process and methodology.

[0] https://www.rtings.com/tv/tests
Was faster and is the same, checking isn't free. Not that Rust is slow. C++ is unsafe by default whereas in Rust it is opt-in (lexically scoped). The Rust implementations don't appear to use `unsafe`.
Although it is worth noting that calls to Dear ImGUI don’t directly render, but rather build up state to batch render later with your graphics API of choice.
The next few decades will be a laugh, seeing all the world leaders try to solve climate change without actually affecting consumption.
Greta is right, it cannot be denied. First worlders are exceptionally wasteful and the easiest way to cut emissions is to simply stop consuming and wasting so frivolously. But who actually wants to do that? Practically nobody.
Ironically, I am so not a fan of Microsoft Windows, but as a software developer I have to find an accommodation.

You are still on point about installing windows. This is one of the major expenses of restoring a building: bespoke high precision carpentry ain't cheap.
The standout for me is The Crash Reel.

It’s a tremendous look at Kevin Pearce’s road to recovery after sustaining a traumatic brain injury in training for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games. I’m a skier and was aware that TBIs are a bad thing, but had no idea of the spectrum of symptoms and outcomes that could be caused from them. As well as being eye-opening, the entire Pearce family are incredible in their response to his accident.
Quite, “living every day as though it be one's last” seems like an idiotic maxim to me.

If I knew today would be my last I would obviously splurge and forget responsibilities I have to make my next day.
Thanks! Glad you are enjoying it.
> I know various people who primarily bought a commercial licence because they did not consult their own legal advisor and instead followed the recommendations of the QTC sales people.

To be fair, if they weren't willing to put in the relatively small amount of effort required to find out how it was licensed, they can clearly affort to pay for the commercial license and if that's true, they probably should do so anyways in order to fund its development.

And yes, I know a very similar argument can be made for horrible dark patterns like the crap TurboTax in the US pulls, but B2B and B2C are very different situations (power imbalance).
It is a shame that T.LY displays only the footer without JavaScript enabled instead of degrading gracefully. Surely a plain HTML form that POSTs should suffice?

I'm not sure how much work it would require for you to support this, but it would help cement your place as a good web actor if you're so inclined!
Poiseuille's Law
From my experience, the biggest problem with RFCs comes from the upfront planning costs quickly demanding the feature to be implemented, regardless of the understanding of how detrimental it is in the long run changing later on. There is always that case where someone goes "wait, this doesn't work unless we do X, which hurts us in the long term, so we should change things and do Y". Except now management and the client are so stuck, they demand the RFC regardless of X. Part of this can be mitigated by prototypes, but it is not a fail safe. Or worse, management tries to cut down the costs by involving only one technical person for a short time, who then completely misses a few critical points and the same problem forms.

I guess what I'm trying to say is: no planning or development method is going to magically cure mismanagement, unwillingness to listen and a tendency not to kill the darlings.
High end FPGAs are theoretically capable of millisecond fast partial reconfigurations but doing so requires making a lot of tradeoffs that just highlight the impedance mismatch between the generic nature of CPUs and the purgatory that is FPGAs. The more of the FPGA you want to reconfigure, the longer it takes (stop the world, depending on which parts its touches) and unless the reconfigured portion is limited to a standard bus, the reconfiguration won't work (or you have to reconfigure more of the design to deal with different interfaces, timings, etc. blowing up reconfiguration time and defeating the purpose). All of the bitstreams have to be compiled ahead of time as well.

Unless latency is so critical that the speed of light is the limiting factor, partial reconfiguration just replaces PCIe with a much harder to work with AXI interconnect (or similar, but it always end up being AXI...).
You misunderstand what advertisers are trying to achieve. It's about Brand Awareness. They just want their brand out there and seen. Even click-throughs aren't as important as they once were. Coca-Cola still advertise when they probably don't need to.
Tried in a new profile and didn't see any viglink.com.

Edit: the link should be https://tinyurl.com/examplezoom (which does have viglink.com).

For some reason you wrote the preview link, https://preview.tinyurl.com/examplezoom, which does not have the tracker.
Can it be summarised? No.

Can it be described? Well, this is how I did it in a tweet, and the author like it and thanked me.

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Fascinating, very long essay which starts with a discussion of text editors, wanders through software development models & the issues of modernising very old software, & turns into a discussion of intelligence, language & computing.
»
Ah, yes. LGBTQ so bad. So bad. Other people being happy makes you sad? LMAO.

Edit:

>Although I am not an incel, I have had to give a lot of thought to the question of my generation’s sexuality in the past several years, because a large fraction of the guys I have met in high school and college seldom or never went on dates, had sex, or had girlfriends. Many of them still hung out with girls, but a lot of them never connected romantically or sexually. All of it seemed very ominous to me: if one guy can’t get laid, people can write him off as a loser, but if a large percentage of young men are sexually frustrated to the extent that they rarely get any attention from women, there is something very odd going on. So I found myself forced to theorize about what exactly has befallen us, and what are the roots and implications of mass sexlessness in America.

>I have seen the latter happen with people I know either physically having sex with gays or equally desperate incels just to get off, or else choose to express sexuality using easily accessible non-straight porn and fetishes over relationships with women.

>Add to this the increase in unappealing grooming habits such dying their hair and cutting it short, having large tattoos and piercings, and side effects from antidepressants and SSRI’s (which are prescribed more frequently than ever, and which cause loss of libido and other behavioral changes) and you wind up with far less attractive women than before. The famous Billie Eilish picture (https://hollywoodlife.com/2020/11/30/billie-eilish-tank-top-...) is a good example of this: dead eyes, thin bleach-burned hair in a garish color, visibly overweight at 18, and no intention whatsoever to dress well. In short, many of them don’t care about pleasing men at all.
So true. That ruined John Scalzi for me.
So they should fund all research for all time?

No, that's not reasonable. I know, they should just fund the research that will eventually be proven to be ground breaking. Seems pretty straight forward. Of course they are dependent on the research at Penn for the crystal ball.
Give it a shot! It's free to get going. We'll also hopefully be doing a launch on HN next week.
This is a great post showing effective performance analysis.

It's worth noting that Emacs's built-in way to find files (project-find-file) in a project does not suffer these performance issues. Try it, C-x p f.

* project-find-file doesn't call expand-file-name for all 70k files (each of which involves a network roundtrip).

* project-find-file will use "git ls-files" (see project--vc-list-files) rather than find (or expecting the user to install and enable fd)

* project-find-file uses completing-read, which wouldn't by default call Ivy/Ivy prescient.

I can see how the author has ended up here: projectile predates the built-in project support, so it must only seem natural to use projectile as a base, and apply performance fixes on top.

Emacs's built in functionality tends to work better with other Emacs functionality, hence why project-find-file works well with TRAMP.

It's worth trimming your config occasionally, and rebasing onto built-in functionality.

The author's fast-project-find-file has a more responsive UI, however. It'd be great to have that in core.
There’s a balance to be struck between conciseness and readability. Don’t be terse as APL and don’t be as verbose as Java. Clojure hits the sweet spot for me, it’s subjective ofc.
Every monitor and tv i have ever bought used it for transport. (Germany)
History of the world is written in tree rings
* It's fast enough for 99% of apps out of the box. It's fast enough for 99.99% of the apps with minimal tuning.

* Yes, if your project is very big and macro heavy, it can take some time, but startup times have improved. In any case, I BARELY need to restart my development JVM. I have one currently running that I haven't restarted for 1 week+.

* Depending on what's your cup of tea, there's emacs/CIDER or IntelliJ/Cursive. They both work well. IntelliJ/Cursive is an excellent IDE combination. I use it every day.

* Java interop is very straightforward, not sure what you mean. Sure your code might not be all pure anymore, but that's the price for solving actual problems.

* Good java libraries have wrappers. A ton of original Clojure libraries as well. https://github.com/cgrand/xforms for example allows you to easily do things that I can't even imagine doing in an imperative language.

* Static vs dynamic typing: don't want to get into that.

* "Clojurescript isn't the same language". I use both Clojure and ClojureScript every day and as far as Clojure-only code is concerned, it works in both languages 99.99% of the time. One case you can encounter issues is if you do something host-specific, like dealing with numbers. That's by design. Clojure embraces each host, does not try to reinvent it. When you just use pure Clojure data structure manipulation, it works the same across both languages and works like magic.
> math equation in C

I think it's the bits around the outside of the (say) math kernel which will trip up an "ah it's just like C!"-thinking programmer.
Ya anecdotal for sure but a ton of my friends bought their significant others some new fangled thing they only heard about because they saw it on Instagram. HN loves to bash marketing (and FB/google) but it has never been easier to spin up your own shoe company and easily advertise and get customers (e.g, allbirds).
Had to do this as a job site. Something to do with accounting. It was terrible, it felt like I had to justify being there in 15 min intervals. Thank god I was only there for a few days.
Right. That's it. Thanks for the links!
What is a better way to describe acids with higher or lower pH in a non-technical context?

Apparently the USDA uses "strongly acidic" to mean soil pH of 5–5.5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PH#Classification_of_soil_pH_r...
Such an organization used to exist; it was called a university, and it offered tenure in part, in theory, to support researchers whose work might bear no fruit for decades.
As a person who has used a slew of UI frameworks and written one or two: All of this is happening at a layer considerably lower than React.

This is what's happening when the browser redraws when you scroll for example. Arguably it has to do with the DOM, but certainly not how the DOM gets updated.
Letting Go of Nostalgia Urbanism
> Have lots of weird old x86 instructions you are forced to support but no one actually uses? Don't waste transistors on them

That's been the role of microcode for like three decades now. Why does it matter if the instruction no one uses is implemented with FPGA gates or uops? No one uses them.
The issue is, most online ads don't work EXCEPT for G and FB. That's why they're so dominant.

The average third-party ad networks are junk, rife with fraud (ads that are never actually seen or clicked by a human), poor targeting, poor measurement, limited brand safety, and opaque billing.

First-party ad tech provides much better control over these factors and can generally be offered cheaper because they can more effectively allocate their clients' budgets. In what other industries are the superior products cheaper than the junk? (not rhetorical - I'm curious if this exists in other industries)

G and FB are the biggest first-party ad sellers, given that their total addressable audience covers most of the free world, with Amazon rapidly gaining ground. TikTok, Pinterest, and Snapchat are building clones of G/FB's ad tech by poaching a lot of their engineers (karma for G/FB cloning their consumer products...) and are also showing strong growth as first-party sellers.

If you're a website/app that monetizes through a third-party network (including Google Adsense and Facebook Audience Network), you're going to see your revenues plummet in the coming months.
Google became the first major company neutralize legacy carbon emissions in 2020
Interesting idea. But that sounds dystopian. If the scientist declines, then does the university get to publicize that they wanted to release the information but the scientist blocked it (thus casting suspicion on the scientist)? If not, then people wouldn't be able to tell if the university asked the scientist for release, or the scientist prevented it, which is still the same problem as before (the public doesn't know what happened).

Basically, it sounds like an institution at any time can announce "hey we did nothing wrong, and we would like to explain why, and have just asked the employee if they accept but they haven't responded yet" while the employee would need to confer with lawyers how to control what now becomes a public spectacle (along with its usual problems of libel, PR, fake news, etc.).
You've researched every item you buy in your weekly shop? You've never bought anything on a whim, or a gift for someone else?
See also:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1203.3602.pdf

You can also encode any monotone boolean function by hanging a picture on the wall on N nails (one nail per variable).

e.g. a "normal" hanging of a picture on two nails would encode an AND gate (it only falls if both nails are removed). But by twisting the string the right way, you can make it encode an OR gate (so it falls if either nail is removed).
Yeah, I remember this one. Worked in top 10 brand performance marketing team as analyst/data scientist and brought this up to our marketing director.

I have never been shot down so quickly in my career. Very toxic environment to work in.
You Look Like a Thing and I Love You. I'm a data scientist and this is a brilliant overview of the promise and peril of real world AI. Doesn't hurt that it's hilarious too.
And given the terrible career advancement options in our industry it makes total sense to optimise for "resume value" as opposed to "business value" since your resume will compensate you much more (in the next company you're going to end up at) than contributing to your current company where you'll end up with a pitiful statutory raise.
https://www.warriorsandlegends.com/gladiators/the-life-expec... ; they fought 2-3 times a year and would die around age thirty; now that would be the average life expectancy at that time. And you could buy your own freedom after three years. (on the other hand they can't be sure if the average age of thirty for gladiators is correct)

Now you would have it much worse if you were a slave at a silver mine, that would have been the worst fate for a slave - it would be a certain death sentence.

Also slaves in a city were much better off in general than slaves working on farms.
I understand the distinction between advertising and building brand awareness. It doesn't sound like Uber was doing the latter. It also doesn't take away that if you're advertising to an audience who'd have come to you anyway, you're wasting your money.
I'm really sorry for that guy.

Now that he knows for a fact that GUIs can be fast, he'll be suffering for the rest of his life when a GUI app is slow for any reason.

I'm only 50% joking here.
> The actors -- many of whom are actual former gang members, police officers, judges, politicians, teachers, etc. from the city Baltimore

This is a persistent myth. They were all professional actors.
What is the user interface for your setup like? It sounds attractive but possibly prohibitively frictious to be workable for me.

I currently use a combination of uBlock Origin blacklisting, NoScript whitelisting, and Little Snitch alerting, if you need a baseline to compare. I've also run a Pihole instance in the past to loop my phone in, but that's not running as of today.
Why is no one talking about this and why is this so little upvoted?

Where are there regular HN commentators saying how the USA is as horrible as China?
https://digitaljs.tilk.eu/ also this
That's comparing one type of ad or channel to another.

But none of them test "no ads" vs "ads".
I've also seen and personally know people who bought crap off Facebook ads and ended up either being scammed or with a product below what the ad promised.
The CPU chip can do it. Some motherboards bring out the pins to do it, but they're often called "workstation" boards and cost 2x the price of a standard desktop motherboard.
ECC memory itself is overpriced. $60 for 16 GB DDR4 without ECC, $130 for 16 GB DDR4 with ECC.

This is the legacy of Intel's policies.
They could have said "However, we can say we are happy that she has found success in her career and, as many should be, we are grateful for her contributions in finding a vaccine"
Reading and writing are just tools too.