skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think there's a large "advertising doesn't matter" camp. For most the real question is around the efficacy of certain types of ad buys, ad targeting, SEO efficacy and the amount of fraud in the system.

The real problem is that for large companies with brand awareness they're starting to find a lot of their spend may not be generating revenue. Ebay in the Freakonomics podcast turned of about $100M in ad spend with no loss of revenue. But smaller, companies usually don't have the staff/knowledge necessary to know how and where to use their ad dollars.
You can also use one of spam blocking spyware apps.

https://www.truecaller.com/
This may be the end game of JIT. But Deming and Shingo would have defined quality as "meeting the customers needs" and having them wait for parts does not accomplish that. Don't let the theoretical get in the way of the practical.
>You can see some skepticism of the premise elsewhere in this thread, even.

Heh, well. The downvotes are clearly trying to tell me something, though I'm not sure what. I can guess. I assumed that this was something widely agreed upon at this point but clearly I assumed incorrectly.

I think ATS is in that category too but it was removed from the benchmarks game at some point. It's also vastly more esoteric and complicated than Rust is from my limited knowledge. Perhaps someday Zig will get there as well. I wouldn't have expected that this niche would ever see so much exploration, as C and C++ were the only game in town for so long.
Depending on what kind of advertising you are talking about. Direct response advertisers measure ads to the cents. And they know exactly what the ROI is and where the customer is coming from.
Nobody can predict the future, but it's a lot better to inform your predictions based on historic performance than on no data at all.
I wish I had saved the email that followed!

Been following your castle progress from afar, always an interesting read!
This seems more appropriate for GPUs than for CPUs where it’s high throughput and you can eat the latency cost of reconfiguring the node.
Season 1 was one of the best series I've seen in TV. I'm not sure if the rest of the season lives up to it. Or I could be wrong. I remember the start of Season 2 was kinda slow.
Coming from a REST perspective, I wouldn’t implement a separate API, I would use HTTP semantics (eg headers or, if truly necessary query params) on the resource listing to indicate the export/sync intention. Likely with an Accept header. If pagination is still preferred/required, the service could return an ETag or some other continuation token which when provided in subsequent responses could be used to indicate the consistent snapshot being requested. Since this is entirely optional, clients could use this mechanism to opt into stable/parallelizable requests (as I described in less specificity in another sub thread).

At this point, it these requests are expensive you have an opportunity to use a very simple (and optimistic) cache for good faith API users, relegate rate limiting to prevent abuse of cache creation (which should be even easier to detect than just overzealous parallelism), and even use the same or similar semantics to implement deltas for subsequent export/sync.
They mention the common retort to this which is very bizarre to me: "If online ads don't work, then huge companies wouldn't spend billions of dollars on them. Therefore they must work. You academics are just missing something."

Ok, how does those companies know it works? They don't have any real data to show that it does, just the fear that if they stop they'll lose a lot of business.
Why not Zoidberg
My experience is that I agree that a standard punctuation is easier to write, but it's harder to get a big picture from it than non-standard.

Anyway, it's way harder to adapt to "parenthesis before the function name vs parenthesis after the function name" and "semicolons after every statement vs. never use semicolons" than "punctuation is all parenthesis and commas (or newline and space as in normal Haskell) vs. punctuation uses the entire keyboard".

Meaningful vs meaningless indentation is also one of the things that don't give me any problems at all to adapt.
where is the threshold of # of drinks in a day where daily drinking begins to adversely affect liver? I thought a glass of wine a day was considered neutral or positive, so how many glasses of wine is unehealthy for 3-7 consecutive days?
> The luxury segment is pretty underexplored in software.

An attempt was made:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich

> LVMH’s market cap is north of 300B. There’s plenty of scale in the price insensitive audience!

LVMH is a huge conglomerate of brands. I would argue that most of these brands are in fact not targeting the "price-insensitive" demographic, but those buying "premium goods", which isn't quite the same.

If you did a revenue breakdown, you'd probably see that the bulk doesn't come from Louis Vuitton purses, but rather from products that the middle class can afford - similar to Apple.
4 > 1 > 2 > 3 > 5.

3 is a lot of people's favorite season and I understand why. The show is just very, very good.
Bitcoin explained without complicated terms
I think he let her off too lightly.
How is it the page author's responsibility to ensure it loads under a third-party plugin you loaded to block content? It's an entire article made of advertising, for obvious reasons (it comments on the advertising). Who knows how or why or what umatrix is blocking here under that user's settings?
> Certainly there are providers who would immediately begin license renegotiation with the thread of termination

Oracle comes to mind.
Beware of Your Arrogance (2019)
>I’ve never seen the show but admit that old SD programmes tend to fall down the list of shows to watch.

I feel this has a lot to do with the ~20 min episode + cliffhanger format. It's a pretty striking difference to the Netflix/HBO shows. Those are generally longer and rely much less on cliffhangers. Plus, less "in case you missed last week, let us explain again" type dialog and scenes.
Yeah. At a fundamental level these programs are running on the same hardware. Unless you’ve an ultra simplistic language (basic or logo), one could implement identical algorithms and methodologies and techniques and get the same performance.
IIUC your first option is what is known as threaded code or threaded interpreter
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threaded_code
Examples work but function-buttons seem broken on Firefox 84.0 (Linux, 64bit)
I'd upvote thrice if I could ;)
there's so many ways to utilize ternary, on different levels,
you could use this kind of ternary hardware serialisation as an addon to normal binary stuff, not only base-3 computing, for example
if -1 is the "empty" then I'd imagine it'd make it trivial to interface with, and emulate binary systems (so a ternary cpu would not need take a hit for binary emulation, only the architecture), which could be the gateway to get people interested in it initially, without needing 100% new everything, etc... just my uneducated guess tho...
Something for the HN crowd that goes beyond articles:
A HBR article[0] which talks about an experiment that eBay did testing if digital ads are effective and the paper that the actual study[1] produced.

[0] https://hbr.org/2013/03/did-ebay-just-prove-that-paid

[1] http://conference.nber.org/confer/2013/EoDs13/Tadelis.pdf
Smuggle money out of a totalitarian state by memorizing a few words.
PyPy has a JIT because using Python as the implementation language made it simple to build a runtime generator instead of a single runtime implementation, so RPython (the underlying PyPy tech) can generate a JIT and non-JIT runtime from the same source code. Conversely, the CPython team doesn't have the resources to make a JIT runtime the bespoke way that's more typical for these projects.

https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/04/tutorial-part-2-adding...
> An ad that took me 15 seconds to create had a 2.5x better clickthrough rate than one done by a paid designer. If this were an actual campaign it would mean 2.5x more sales leads or user signups at a lower acquisition cost, on top of shipping faster with less overhead.

Are you sure about the latter? How do you know that the people that click the ugly ad weren’t just curious about what it was because of how it looked rather than what it was about?
You can also create a URL shortener for free via GH pages: https://github.com/nelsontky/gh-pages-url-shortener
>when a company is just starting out and there's no way they can get organic referrals, when the public is unaware of their existence, etc.

I don't think I ever saw a Whatsapp or Telegram advertisement in the first few years of their existence. There's a lot of software in particular that gets around by word of mouth alone.

Necessity for advertisement seems correlated to how unclear it is what advantage your product has for the consumer. If you make something that's like X but twice as fast or twice as cheap you don't need advertisement.
You do not know what is in the vaccine.
Yeah I mean, to be clear I believe you are right and am pretty surprised you were downvoted. It happens I guess.
Conquering people and telling them they are now your subjects is anti those people.
would die around age 30; now that would be the average life expectancy at that time

Not really: Numbers like that are low because high levels of infant mortality brought the average down. If you lived past that age, going into your 50's was pretty much the norm. So the gladiators were still dying 20+ years before "normal"
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Those are not the arguments I am making though. I am not claiming that liberals and conservatives are the same. I am fully aware of the perspective you are describing, so allow me to clarify.

In the American context, parties are skewed to the right compared to the Western average. This means that center/center-right parties like the Dems are perceived as left-wing whereas far-right parties like the Reps are perceived as right-wing. Sanders would be an example of a populist center-left politician by average Western standards, but he is qualified as far-left. His rise to prominence has led to clear tensions within the Democratic party structure.

Even among the far left, few parties today even question capitalism but rather advocate for a hybrid system, so it is not a question of being strictly anti-capitalist. Even taking this into account, there is a clear chasm between a typical liberal Dem voter and a center-left/centrist voter in the Western average, and a clear sense from the modern left-wing that Dems and Reps are more similar to one another than to them. This debate is burdened by the fact that the word "liberal" tends to mean "center left" in the US and Canada but but is used in the classic sense elsewhere. Note that the OP you originally replied to did explicitly say that FAANG friends WERE liberal! But this got lost in translation as based on your American-inspired perspective an American liberal is supposed to be indistinguishable from the left-wing, whereas this would be seriously questioned elsewhere.

Essentially the point I'm trying to make before we got lost in the specifics is that not seeing the Dems as center/center-right is indicative of a very specific American perspective. At the end of the day, tech workers overwhelmingly profit from inequality, a very free market, outsourcing, capital accumulation, and other classic neoliberal facets, while at the same time maintaining socially-liberal values other matters. They stand to lose greatly from a different partition of society, since by definition they are already among the chief beneficiaries.
For most vendors, not possible to accurately target age/sex/address online. They will certainly sell you the option, but they won't tell you how accurate the data is - or they will provide it a high accuracy with extremely low coverage.

To see this in action - spend a day watching pitbull videos on youtube and see how many spanish language ads you'll get.
Drywall, too.
> Emacs's built in functionality tends to work better with other Emacs functionality, hence why project-find-file works well with TRAMP.

I think it's more than that, there is a higher barrier to entry for code in Emacs than in third party packages. Given that it's not surprising if built-in code is higher quality than external packages on average.
It's not necessarily that the ads aren't effective but their reporting of ROI has been off in my experiences. I've been running attribution surveys on the e-commerce sites I own [1] and the results have never matched up with what FB or Google reports back. Some of it may just be bias but I can definitely how some rounding errors may start to creep in with large numbers.

[1] https://www.zigpoll.com/examples/attribution-survey
Tomasz Tunguz of Redpoint Ventures writes a lot on pricing and has published a few studies based on data he’s collected. I would recommend you check them out for inspiration
Apparently because they're being defrauded.
Coke isn't limited to sugary coke.
I was there a few years back and the thing is really run down, they should really rebuild the whole thing.

And those Pyramids, those things are showing their age, right ?

Don't even get me started on the Parthenon.
Are Nielsen surveys still a thing? Every single device that displays a video signal to you has been tracking what you watch since way before ad tech became a thing. The companies collecting that data then profit from that collection.

As an anecdote, I have AT&T Gigaverse. I primarily only watch recorded material on the DVR, and only watch sporting events live. However, once I'm done watching a signal from my "cable box", I switch it over to my external media device on a different input on my TV. The cable box stays on whatever that channel it was on for however long it takes before the cable box goes into screen saver. Someone is getting skewed ad view counts by 1 as my cable box displayed it but nobody saw it.
Pretty sure Linus never realised his toy operating system would turn into a 30 year project/career.

(I suspect RMS probably suspected the timeframe for GNU, at least for the collection of system utilities rather than the kernel, was going to be a multi decade piece of work.)
Does the idiocy of these companies surprise anyone? I had people tell me I can't stream videos... here it is... thousands of paying customers every month. The difference between Uber and I? I'm profitable. I'm coming after Udemy and Pluralsight. https://www.codehawke.com/all_access.html
I wonder wether the whole Matador thing is a direct-line descendant leftover of the games in Roman time Iberian arenas or if there have been discontinuities and reinventions along the way.
Just because the ad placement is low quality (eg audience network) doesn’t mean they can’t produce a positive ROI. Keep in mind, Lower quality comes with a lower price, so it makes sense for some brands, and some products. The reason people dont get a positive return on low quality ad placement is that they often use the same ad, or adverse the same product as for the higher quality ad placement. These ads and product often needs to be tailored for that specific placement.
A couple of things here:

- Intellij IDEA with the Cursive extension is very popular outside of emacs (I've met more clojure developers who use IDEs than those who don't.)

- Clojure uses the error handling mechanisms of the target runtime. You have try/catch statements and side effects are often used. It's not a no-side-effect language.

- Parentheses are almost always managed with parinfer/paredit and python-style indentation rules in production code I've seen.

You're quite right that performance will be tied to the JVM or V8/SpiderMonkey/etc.
> the more you empower the original creator of the code, the greater imbalance you create to the later readers

REPL gives you more tools to shoot yourself in the foot, but you're not required to use those. Most programmers can write spaghetti code in many Turing-complete languages - not that they do that all the time.

In other words, REPL gives you powerful tools - which, yes, can be misused. They are still powerful, and can bring success when used well.
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Ad spend by incumbents will also drive up the price of advertising in general since it's a limited resource, making an uphill battle for the smaller competitors where it matters. It's another moat.
Reminds me of customizing WindowMaker's dock with system monitor widgets[1]. I wonder how quickly (or if at all) the macOS dock responds to changes to an app's icon...

[1] https://www.dockapps.net/category/system
Sadly I don’t know any serious economist who would oppose him. But yes, he was demonized by state run media in the last years and hence is a controversial figure.
One of my favourite stories about this type if stuff is from Patrick Wyatt on developing Guild Wars: https://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/whose-bug-is-this-anyway

See "Your computer is broken". They essentially inserted a stress test into the game that verified if the hardware was still doing calculations correctly, and if not, inform the user.
This study was published a couple of weeks ago. It could very well be the first study on "long COVID" being subjected to peer review. I'm sure the findings reported in this study will justify conducting further studies with more detailed goals and the different methodologies that go with it.

The first step to solve a problem is acknowledging it exists. This study does just that, and provides initial data on it's extent.
What makes you think arenas are considered unidiomatic in Rust? They’re there to be used when appropriate!
The comment was illustrating why not including the length is a problem: it lead to a community norm that is bad for performance (stdlib functions not taking string length).
In practice, bitwarden is a heck of a lot easier to get on a new device than a hash app(let) du jour + master password + execption list.
Why do you have to pay thousands of dollars up front though? It doesn't cost that to host a paper. Reviewers don't get paid. Where does the money go?
I agree. Although J has always had a certain pull on me :)
Conversely, more sophisticated algorithms, and particularly monomorphization, may bloat the code size, causing icache, L2/L3 cache, and TLB misses. (Also slows compilation.) I think this is under-appreciated because it doesn't show in microbenchmarks. (I wish I knew of an easy way to measure how much cache pressure you're causing from a microbenchmark.)

I suspect for this reason it'd be better in Rust to use a Go-like hash map implementation [1] that keeps all the key/value information (size, Hash and Eq implementations) in a vtable-like form rather than be monomorphized, except in really hot inner loops where the specialization is worth it. There was an interesting article and discussion on reddit relating to this [2] where someone made a toy type-erased map (though not as nice as Go's) to measure the difference in compilation times. Maybe some day I'll make a more production-ready attempt...

[1] https://dave.cheney.net/2018/05/29/how-the-go-runtime-implem...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/g1skz4/an_experiment_...
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Academia gives you six years to publish top-tier papers and obtain significant grant funding to impress one's peers. Failure to do that and have a mediocre, but not an abysmal, teaching record means dismissal (i.e., not being on the tenure track any longer - not necessarily being fired outright). In general, the system works okay, but one has to play the game. Winning grants is extraordinarily hard, even more so today than it was in the 1980s. To me it is unclear whether to blame the university, the grant agency reviewers, or her writing (one must make a convincing arguments to the reviewers, which is very hard if one is breaking with dogma). Her university peers may not have been able to see how revolutionary her work was at the time and so they fell back on the metrics. Getting tenure is extremely difficult. I applied for it this year at my university...
For native Android you 100% have access to an Android "device id". I set this up on an Android app we delivered. There's even companies that pay other Android apps to host their code inside the app, co-related that ID to other data available to the web (e.g. IP address, installed fonts, etc) to provide a very good guess of a user's device id via the web.

Apple had something similar, but you're right they're starting to turn it off. In my past life in Adtech we noticed the click through rate of users with Android user agents were a lot higher on certain campaigns than iOS users for this reason.
Hm. How about simply buying ad space at a few local newspaper sites? Sure, it's noisy as hell, but maybe still a decent proxy variable.

Plus, maybe it's possible to somehow offer a coupon for those who buy via the ad, and so on.

After all the ad/tracking industry probably have a thousand tricks to increase accuracy of this.

But, yeah, I'm not holding my breath for a conclusive answer on this.
What's boring is your inability to understand an argument or logic. It's not me who is exhibiting racism here.

Again, feeling like a victim because of skin color or sex of people surrounding you is obviously racist or sexist, respectively.
I expect introverted individuals playing on their own in the wilds (or "hunting") are nature's answers for societal insurance. If some catastrophes strike at the tribes/HG bands' main encampments, some cultural memory and genetic diversity persist for the next band to reclaim that site.

After all, humanity natural niche is persistence hunting and gathering-scavenging.

And of course, hunting itself took a long time to do, especially if you are doing persistence hunting with primitive tools and maybe fire. A long time to be lonely and tolerating it.
What kind of revenue do you make between these two?
Ever buy a souvenir on a vacation? Have anything you keep because it reminds you of some past experience?

This is pretty much the same thing on a societal level. Also consider that movies & videogames you mention would have no idea of what to put in them if things like this hadn't been preserved. If the Colosseum had been fully demolished after the fall of the Roman empire, no CGI would have been able to recreate it for your enjoyment in the latest AAA game.
Most people work for someone else, the productivity is a for a paycheck. But secondarily you are also learning skills which can either propel you up a career ladder or give you the basics to start your own business. Sour grapes over how much profit shareholders are getting does not serve ones own interests—either start your own business or maximize your own salary/billable rate in the labor marketplace, but don’t cut off your nose to spite your face by focusing on how much profit-sharing you are not getting in one particular situation.
I would say that's a yes:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-21/cladding-crisis-sprea...

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/insulation-blame...
If this article gets a lot of love in the right circles, I expect we'll see hand-drawn ads for a few years--until they're not novel or rare anymore, and then the pretty ones will come back.
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Apple has been fairly quick to run updates in my experience–usually I get a response within a week.