skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure that's true. I'm on spend side and the on platform performance of instagram, facebook newsfeed and google adwords marketing seems undeniable. You can (and many have) gone direct to consumer on whatever brand / product your pushing very successfully with clear ROI.

Another niche. If you do anything highly variable / custom - think music concerts - you can target very specifically towards demos for that artist and get amazing ROI. Run the campaigns for one artist, take a similar artist, no digital promo - FAR fewer folks showing up.

Now in terms of third party stuff - total trash. There is a reason google wants to track you on the web. My guess is as the privacy push gets stronger, that third party network stuff, which is already weak, will fall through the floor, because the tracking is not only for ad targeting but some is designed to help (a bit) with fraud prevention - which is a massive issue on third party networks (and I include Facebook's non direct advertising etc here).
[21 December]
Always funny to read articles like this from people who refuse to get it.

Related! A nice list of all the articles claiming bitcoin is dead and why.
https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-obituaries/
Yes, this was just a standard follow-up [1] and we did the standard counter-follow-up, which is to merge the threads.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=follow-up%20by%3Adang&dateRang...
Yeah, I think we're debating the difference between "markets" and "capitalism." Capitalism, as opposed to other systems that also have markets, relies on property rights and competition. Feudalism also had markets; you can't just say anything with a market is capitalist. It doesn't meaningfully define anything — I guess, other than not being communism.

Econ does concern itself more with "markets" as opposed to "capitalism" (and hey, I've taken plenty of college econ classes, thanks), but that's because economics is the study of markets, not the study of capitalism.

"Your capitalism definition is designed to make it infallible"

*Wikipedia's capitalism definition, FTFY. I don't think their definition is designed to make capitalism seem "infallible." It's the consensus view of capitalism designed to distinguish it from other systems that also include markets. There are plenty of scholarly references for the definition linked in the page, written by notable economists (who have PhDs in economics).
Yes, I feel a bit robbed by 90s computers when I pick up old manuals or cheap programming books for things like the BBC Micro.
With the way MIME can embed MIME [0], you could also have a complete version history inside a single email just by wrapping the previous email.

That sounds terrible. Terrible and beautiful.

[0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5621#page-7
I honestly can’t tell if you’re joking or not. I mean on one end you can quickly get a toy version up and running, at the other end success looks like: More than 3200 issues open on GitHub. 4,112 commits 22 branches 228 releases 121 contributors

So, this is the perfect example of what I am talking about. Getting something you can generously call a charting library isn’t that hard, getting something worth the time building on it’s own merits is. If you want to have a fun side project go for it. However, if the goal is to actually make charts it’s extremely unlikely that starting from scratch is a good idea.
This analysis excludes glossy packaging and status signalling from the inherent superiority, when (in terms of overall market value) they're part of the superiority.
The same old feel-good waste of tax dollars that I would expect.
This would have been the perfect time for young generations to force politics to take the climate more seriously. Currently, young people are helping to protect the future of older people in the covid pandemic. They should demand more consideration of their own future in return.
I applaud the author for making it obvious that he has nothing of value to add to the conversation. Too often, idiocy is hidden between the lines; it's refreshing to see it put forth as the leading banner.
I think there's a very loose belief that sales is how money is made, while they people that build and test products are pure expense.

I've seen it not just in the phenomenon you describe, but also in layoffs and restructurings.
Right. As an industry, we need to get away from the simplistic "manual=fast" model. Logic does not automatically get faster when you write it in C or C++. It frequently gets slower, since your one-off "lean and mean" native code clumsily and slowly does the job that a managed runtime has been tuned for decades to do.
I think I'd rephrase this to "my interesting, hand-drawn ad got 150% more clicks than a boring, run-of-the-mill design".
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Pardon me, alone is probably the correct name. I can’t remember for sure
The taxi drivers in Japan take their profession extremely seriously and they are very good at their job..

Interestingly, I’ve heard one profession that is not very well respected in Japan is software.
Thinkpads are pretty much the worst form factor for a laptop that doesn't transition into "toy" space.

Source: forced to use one daily. If I could get a Mac laptop running Linux but with the input smarts of the Apple trackpad and keyboard, I would in a heartbeat.
Jack Ma has not been seen in public for two months
It would be useful to point that it is $1k/month, not just $1k.

That said, I'm having a really hard time imagining a scenario where $1k would make an impact. It could sustain an individual in a poor or developing country, but it's not enough to finance research equipment or any large scale activity.

That said, it's possible that I lack imagination, and that people will find good uses to that money.
This is an interesting approach and I hope it results in great work/results/progress in the climate change space.

Are there any other examples of funding at a relatively low dollar amount that have resulted in outsize successes, in this space or others? A $1k grant is great but to me it doesn’t seem like that would be the barrier to getting an idea going. Maybe I’m speaking from a place of privilege and not considering other knock-on effects though so I’d love to know of any other successful examples of small grants like these.

In the meantime I’m going to think of some $1k sized ideas to see if I can come up with anything worth submitting!
Please don't muck up the threads with meta dross.

It's perfectly normal for a banned account's comments to be killed - that's what happens when people break the site guidelines repeatedly.

Edit: you've been breaking the site guidelines yourself in bannable ways: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25610375. That's seriously not cool. I'm not going to ban you because it doesn't feel fair to pile on, but if you don't start following the rules, we'll end up having to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There's typically a system that forbids you from adding an additional account with the same email though.
Yes. The system is corrupt, vicious, indefensible. But numerous historical examples suggest that if you just "burn it down", the replacement would likely bring an order of magnitude more barbarism, destitution, arbitrary violence, the vilest sorts of scapegoating and demonization, and expulsion or massacres of groups foolish and desperate enough to have taken the revolutionaries' initial promises at face value.
Bitcoin is a novel innovation that is actually useful to some people - it is artificial digital scarcity and a decentralized payment network that is separate from government or any centralized entity. It is totally voluntary.

Ethereum is also an absolutely fascinating technology.

Some people become “experts” and refuse to see innovation when it is staring themselves in the face. The world can’t change to these people.

Also regulation has been in the crypto space for years, dunno why these guys think it is some sudden new thing.
I think most people's issue with season 2 is:

- It has few likable bad guys

- ziggy is annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnoying and a lot of people don't want to watch a 12 episode train wreck.

- it's totally different than season 1

3 has the most epic plot swing, but I know people who really found hamsterdam unbelievable.

4 is quite tight, but it's about schools, maybe it didn't jive with you. I thought it was great.

5 has issues because it was about too new of a phenomenon (tried to pull in the NYT's journalist making up stories which had happened a year before). The rest of the stories backing the seasons were about well digested topics they could be quite sage on. I actually really like season 5.

Also the wrap up to the series (the outtro) is amazing end to a series IMHO.
It does appear to be an unexplained inflammatory comment, or trolling. I think anyone being downvoted or flagged should be given the reason why.

I don't necessarily agree that the commentor bears the burden of arguing that their comment is productive. Sometimes a misguided or misworded comment can lead to productive discourse. Have you ever posted a comment that you thought was wrongly downvoted? I believe each comment is neutral until it has been proven to be productive or proven to be unproductive. I believe this determination can't be made by a single individual, but by a larger group (even then, minorities may be marginalized).
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Phone number meant to be private shouldn’t be associated with any other info whatsoever.
> The Wire is not about police, nor about drug gangs. It’s about the city of Baltimore.

It definitely takes place in Baltimore, and is based upon experiences of David Simon while a newspaper reporter in Baltimore, but it definitely is about police and various types of crime (most often drug related). It is also about education, the news industry, and city government policies and bureaucracy. Having grown up in Philly I can assure you it could easily have been set in that location with no major changes to the story. In this respect, Baltimore is just a stand in for East Coast.
Are we even allowed to assume 'gal's 'use she/her pronouns' though?

More seriously, I never had a problem using 'they' for gender unknown, indeed it was normal and what I was taught in school, and then it suddenly seemed to be he vs. her with 'they' as some weird third thing even fewer people 'identify' as. For centuries we've happily referred to an unspecified person 'with they/them pronouns'.
Seems sort of pointless when corporations that know they are destroying the ecosystem which makes human life possible are among the most well-funded organizations in the world. And these corporations set the global rules on everything from taxation to carbon emissions.

It is not possible solve climate change with market forces (i.e. price the negative externalities into products like oil and gas through taxes) and neoliberalism ignores the very corruption that is inherent to a capitalist system where more money buys more influence over policy.
Sorry, my mistake, thanks for the correction.
If you keep breaking the site guidelines we are going to have to ban you. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here.
Huh? this is a random software engineer giving away his own money to try and make some impact.
Gollum Sings 'Nothing Compares 2 U' (deepfake)
> The people that would have the power to run this experiment have their entire careers depending on things staying as-is.

Any large company could invest in some experimentation, whether their marketing directors want it or not. It makes sense that at least a few do but just don’t publish the results
Dang the wonderful moderator who can't take criticism and makes sure to get the last word by locking the thread under him. Let's all take a moment to shower him in accolades for such a wonderful forum.

Watching you update the thread I can't reply to only proves my point.
Well, and arguably, "How many people know how well you do at a set of tasks that are broadly relevant to them."
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Well the USDT should implode at last. I think it would be even healthy to bitcoin in the long run.
> compared to a lot of high-level languages, C isn’t very portable.

Right, with C, you may have to fix a few bugs to get a program working properly in a new system due to the reasons you mention.

But with many other languages, you'd have to port a compiler and the standard library first, which is probably harder :)
Did you watch the recent dance video? Your comment is contradicted by that video.
My mom had a K wagon and loved it; she sold it after our first July in Virginia though (it had no A/C and sitting in traffic with no AC when the dew-point is in the upper 70s is no fun). It definitely had more than 50k miles on it when she sold it.
It's interesting that US car culture still affected from Model T. At least in Japan, any car (except commercial vehicle) is somewhat or very customizable for interior/exterior even in $10k.
> Try searching for Ozonetel on Google. There will be six competitor ads and then our website will show up :)

DHH (of RoR and Basecamp fame) has been beating the drum about this for a while now.
Truth is relative. Sampling can skew results. Scientists are people too. We all have flaws.
I am implicitly attempting to employ capital in a maximally efficient manner such that minimal energy/resources are expended to achieve any outcome explicitly desired by humanity's collective consciousness. Should I apply? Or will my usual spoils suffice?
Not making Styrofoam in the first place is a better answer.

Among other problems, Wikipedia states: "The EPA and International Agency for Research on Cancer reported limited evidence that styrene is carcinogenic for humans and experimental animals, meaning that there is a positive association between exposure and cancer and that causality is credible, but that other explanations cannot be confidently excluded." (with links to EPA reports)

A quick search found NoMoreStyrofoam.org http://nomorestyrofoam.org, which says a lot more.
I don't know what you're referring to as 'locking the thread' but I don't believe I did anything like that.
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That would be a good story if it were true, except it's not.
20 months, 2K hours, 200K € lost. A story about resilience and sunk cost fallacy
Thanks, I'd rather not use it. My time is valuable as well.
You're right, rereading the parent post with that angle makes it clearer that they were complaining about the unavailability of memory and other hardware.

It would definitely be great to have more reliable hardware generally available and at less of a price premium.
People never really left Rome: describing it as "post-apocalyptic" is IMO a bit misleading (a real post-apocalyptic cultural transition looks a lot more like what happened to the north American native cultures in the aftermath of European contact than what happened on the Italian peninsula during the collapse of the western empire).

That said, as things like coastlines and rivers changed, settlement patterns evolved, and the post-Imperial city of Rome changed size and political importance, parts of the city that had been inhabited in ancient times did empty out and came to be dominated by abandoned ruins, some of which were quarried for their marble, others left to be buried by sediment and detritus.

I think a more apt comparison here is something like what happened to Detroit, but more so and over a longer period. A good overview using the example of the Forum can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Forum#Medieval
This idea that America is so heavily skewed conservative that the average American liberal is really a conservative by international - or as you put it "western average" - is not so clear cut. Fiscally the US government revenue as a percentage of GDP is not far off from many European countries, ~27% as compared to 32% in Canada and 33% in the UK and 28% in Switzerland. There are outliers like Denmark at 53% and Sweden at 49%, but the US is much closer to other western countries than you seem to believe. Likewise the ACA (aka "Obamacare") is much more similar to how healthcare works in most other western countries. The government subsidizes healthcare and citizens buy health insurance from private companies. Single payer systems like the NHS are the exception among western countries, not the norm. And on social issues like legal abortion and gay marriage the US is often ahead of other western countries, sometimes by decades. Abortion was illegal in Ireland until 2018, for instance. This insistence that a liberal in the US is conservative with respect to a "western average" is at best an exaggeration.

Furthermore the average Silicon Valley tech worker is also substantially more liberal than the average American Democrat. I say this having spent 5 years working in Silicon Valley, and another 4 years in university in Silicon Valley. The statements you're making about tech workers - profiting from inequality and free markets - applies just as much to Canada and most Western European countries. Arguably it applies even more to export-oriented European countries like Germany with economies that are much more dependent on globalized trade. And absent from your comment is tech workers' responses to these developments. I've seen many more people striving to tackle inequality in tech than elsewhere. The "different partition of society" is something much more popular in Silicon Valley tech companies than the rest of the country. Sanders got more donations from Silicon Valley than Clinton in the democrat primary in 2016, for instance. The average tech worker is substantially more liberal than the average person I met in Europe.

The characterizations you're making starkly contrast with both my firsthand experience, and the available empirical evidence. Your (and the above commenters') assertion that tech workers are not working to tackle inequality, environmental challenges, or other liberal causes seems to be rooted in an assumption that no wealthy demographic would every support those things, rather than conclusion based on evidence or experience. How long have you worked at a Silicon Valley tech company? How much firsthand experience do you have with the people you're characterizing?
I would be interested in knowing how so specificly. After all, i can't learn from my mistakes if people don't tell me where i made them :).
Songs that people had heard around the age of 14 left the strongest impression
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-drinks/...
IMO 4 > 1 > 3 > 5 > 2
Crush: Controlled, Scalable, Decentralized Placement of Replicated Data [pdf]
This is the first I have heard of this Tether and Bitfinex story. Seems extremely shady. Does anyone have more details?

However, I don’t really understand the distinction between Tether minting coins and people buying gold ETFs.
I remember there being a great Safari extension that blocked this behavior. I wish I knew of something that could do this after Apple nuked their entire ecosystem :(
Can you explain more? Trampolines can help with non-local returns, but at a significant cost to performance in the case where returns are all local. I don't see how they help with allowing you to arbitrarily (re)define functions, which is something that both Javascript and real world assembly languages allow just fine, but WASM struggles with.
The problem with lisp is that most programmers find the syntax extremely off putting. I've been watching this debate go around and around in circles for 20 years now and nothing has changed. And as much as I appreciate the power of macros I feel like the features of other modern languages cover a lot of the same ground so the benefits of such a controversial syntax are diminished.

Lisp is a fascinating and very elegant language and every developer can learn something from it but I gave up waiting for the lisp revolution a while ago.
I like the premise of the post but you have to be transparent about your downstream funnel otherwise how can anyone be sure of the quality of the clicks?

Sure Option B had around half the CPC by the looks of it but what happened next? That’s the most interesting thing of all and it’s missing from your post.
Safari has done this for a while now; one of the many reasons you can get tons more battery life running Safari than Chrome.
The case probably will run for years if not decades. The problem is the court will ask ISPs to block the sites in the meantime while the case is subjudice. Thankfully Indian ISPs are not very strict about blocking and the websites are accessible with the usual workarounds like proxies or VPNs.
To let those advertisers do the experiments themselves, and to relate the campaign to in store sales, would require Facebook and google to share a ton lot of internet-user tracking data
> It is not possible solve climate change with market forces (i.e. price the negative externalities into products like oil and gas through taxes)

Why not?
Do you remember if `restic check` said that everything was fine?
I'm going to have to disagree with almost everything you said, let's have a look:

> I always think it's hilarious when Clojure enthusiasts try to address concerns about the language by talking about parentheses, as if that was actually the major barrier to entry.

Not that they are a major barrier, but they do scare people away. I know this because I've been tempted to try lisps before and after having a look at some source code, I was "scared" of the parenthesis. They are ugly (at least I thought at first sight) and they seem like very tedious to type. Of course I know better now, but that was _the_ reason I had not to try lispy things, at least on a couple of occasions. So yes, the "the parens are A-OK!" is absolutely warranted when trying to sell Clojure or any lisp for that matter.

> It's slow

So what? If I'm not writing anything CPU bound, I'm not very concerned about that. Clojure is fast enough for most things. The performance penalty is completely justified if it takes me half the time to write an app. This is just a trade off, or do you write all your stuff in ASM?

> Development with the REPL is slow because the startup times are glacial and REPL-oriented development usually requires tons of from-scratch restarts.

This is just very much not true. First of all, nobody is forcing you REPL-oriented programming. Second of all, it doesn't take more than a couple of seconds for most apps to restart. And third, if you use "def" and "defonce" correctly you'll hardly ever have to restart the REPL.

> The tooling sucks.

That's just your opinion, man, and it's also pretty rude. Clojure have awesome IDEs and tooling, and the aforementioned REPL-development allows you to have the same "react-hot-relading" developer experience, anywhere.

> Java interop is a black art.

Java (and Javascript) interop is pretty straight forward. You call functions and instantiate classes and stuff. No naked dancing under the moon involved.

> The ecosystem practically doesn't exist.

It maybe didn't some time ago. The ecosystem right now is thriving with pretty cool projects.

> The lack of static types hurts you in many ways, most of all your ability to refactor with confidence.

That's also pretty subjective, in my opinion the only thing that gives you confidence to refactor is unit testing.

Plus there's other ways to validate parameter and return values in Clojure, and they are not limited to the type.

You'll agree, that a return value is of a given type doesn't guarantee that it's correct.

> Clojurescript is weakly typed, Clojure is strongly typed.

Plain wrong, types are semantically equal in both languages (they are weak). The semantics of the target languages are just implementation details.

You can try this on a REPL of any variant you like:

(def foo 42)
(def foo "Hello, World!")

Sharing code between Clojure and Clojurescript is fine, especially if you stick to the built-in data types and functions. Of course if you have a lot of specific interops interleaved, it's going to be painful.