skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm having a really hard time imagining a scenario where $1k would make an impact.

perhaps something like spending 100 hours cleaning up a watershed that feeds a river, or putting sensors out and collecting data of how some feature or lack of feature affects temperature?

just a few small projects off the top of my head that could be done on a small budget and still make a difference somewhere. I don't think that every project needs to be a grand endeavor.

this could end up being a "good" example of "nickel and diming".
Across this and the other[0] highly active digital ads post, there's 3 interesting forces at play:

a) technologists screaming "ads are literally the worst societal cost, like ever" who don't want to understand the industry

b) advertising folks taking up arms to defend their shamanistic, money-printing machines without statistics (Reason No. 7 will SHOCK you)

c) A tiny, tiny group of Mandalorian-like voices who have a necessary statistics AND industry understanding who are being drowned out

(this is in jest, but I double-dare you to say it isn't at least directionally accurate)

Other commenters have mentioned it throughout this whole comment thread as "incrementality tests". Amongst other approaches, this is the way.

Freakonomics severely lack the industry understanding. Listening to the podcast was like hearing how HTML is a programming language from the kid in week 2 at code camp. Then too the article, all the issues with Uber was just doing a bad job of managing their ad spend and they can fall into group B, noted above.

The baseline of this work is a control group who see no ads and then you build your tests from there that factor in channels, cohorting, and other components to get a statistically significant outcome. Yes, this will get more challenging with upcoming privacy changes (IDFA removal, et al). However, the last 10 years this wasn't a problem and I'm sure the corporations in the identity resolution business will hand-shake on a bunch of 2nd party data deals that just move the deals done in broad daylight around identity tracking and audience creation to the alley. Further, any advertising that is tied to an already known customer is able to be backed into at an audience level with login and cookie data. Even Pi-hole users may not be exempt here.

To finish with some constructive advice:

1) Advertising is not a synonym for marketing. We're only talking about advertising in both HN threads.

2) Every industry has high and low quality. Pareto's principle should be aggressively applied to where one spends their budget in the cesspool that is the Internet.

3) If you're ever seeking an agency to provide advertising services and they don't have a qualified data science or statistics leader (10+ years work experience, degree in Stats/Math/Econ, an MBA, or similar), run. Run from those shiny-shoes gurus. Channel your inner Usain Bolt and run.

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25620707
Put your Emacs config in a git repo, and this problem goes away.

You don’t even have to stop there. I have a repo for my Emacs config, a repo for my Windows bin folder, a repo for my Unix shell stuff, and a repo for a bunch of cross-platform Python scripts I’ve written. Every computer I use regularly is super customised in exactly the same way as all the others. Takes about 10 minutes to get up and running.
Still waiting for the Octave equivalent for Matlab's Simulink. I'd drop Matlab for good if that appeared.
New in V2:

- More secure microcontroller supporting secure boot, PUF, flash encryption, etc.

- Firmware rewritten in rust.

- Much more robust and durable construction.

- Touch buttons, reversible USB-A, USB-C

NFC is passively operated similar to other authenticators and is more reliable.

ED255 is supported in V2!
Must have been because I hit reply after you pushed an update. Either way, you probably should ban me if criticism is meta dross to you. I would rather not participate in a site that becomes snobby elite reddit.
I'll never get used to people reading more into what I said than what I said. No, they're both horrible, but one is slightly more horrible than the other.
If you really believe truth is relative, walk to the grocery store tomorrow without wearing clothes and convince yourself that it will be fine. Or run a lighter under your hand - maybe it won’t burn today? Of course you wouldn’t to those things though because, at the end of the day, we rely on truth for everything we do. We just don’t always know what it is. Relativism is not the same as “it’s hard to figure out because it’s so complex”
Yes, we have also been beating the drum since a long time. But unfortunately our drum is not as big as DHH :)
> At the same time Clojure people do have a tendency to paper over the cracks quite a lot, at least some of which must be cognitive dissonance.

An executive I previously worked with commented one day "Every small language's following is a little bit cult-y. Clojure's is more so than most."

Personally, I think the technology itself is fine. The ecosystem, from my exposure to it, has a few warts. It's somewhat small, which I expect of what is still a niche language. The killer issue for me was the memes that slowed and discouraged the development of useful frameworks in favor of gluing together ad-hoc sets of libraries.

Of course, it may have just been that I was working with a batch of Clojure devs who were in those jobs because they were sold on the glories of functional programming purity. Hard to say. They were better than the Haskell shop I worked in, but not as much so as I would have liked.
Hard to say exactly what the effect of regulators cracking down on Tether will actually be. If Tether gets delisted from exchanges and isn't redeemable for USD, then obviously Tether holders will get burned. But what effect exactly will this have on Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies? I would expect that before Tether gets delisted, insiders will trade their Tethers for Bitcoin, pushing up the Bitcoin price, and then probably immediately sell that Bitcoin for USD (or USDC), as they will expect the cryptocurrency market to crash once the Tether news becomes public. While these buyers of Bitcoin will immediately sell for USD, they will create a lot of volume in Bitcoin trading, which could push the price up. So maybe we see a quick, sharp run up in Bitcoin price and volume along with a lot of Tether selling before news about Tether breaks publicly followed by a crash of the entire cryptocurreny market.
Lots of people argue that Rust improves correctness by way of sum types (including no implicit nil/null), affine types (addressing data races and so on), and (compared to Go) generics. I completely buy this argument.
Online Deming resources: https://deming.org/online-resources-for-w-edwards-demings-ma...
Wouldn't know, I don't run newer machines. But since it's a boot option on Fedora disks, I imagine it would run.
> the world benefits more by someone choosing to actually fix whatever was wrong

Maybe.

I imagine at some point someone wrote ffap-guess-file-name-at-point to fix a problem. And the blog author solved a problem by disabling it without knowing what problem it maybe solved.

Problems eventually become complicated enough it’s not a binary fixed/broken, but rather a matter of trade-offs.

Open source and shared solutions are great. But they aren’t a silver bullet either.
Curious: why do you feel your competitors shouldn't be able to do this? If your customers intend to go directly to you, why do they not go directly to your site but instead search for it on a general search engine? More generally: if I search for "apple", what should the first result be? Wikipedia or Apple.com?
I tried Superhuman for over 2 months (and paid). The first experience, beyond the wait-list, was a little strange. You were required to meet with a Superhuman rep to guide you through the app. This was strange because I've bought more expensive software and was never "guided", but perhaps I should have been, so I was open to the process.

The woman I met was very friendly and consumer focused. After the walk through I felt this might be a great product until I stopped and considered what I just had been taught: keyboard shortcuts. Almost the exact same one you can turn on in Gmail.

For the next two months I tried liking Superhuman - partially the hyper, partially I want better email. Superhuman is pretty, has a few nice macros, email open tracking, and of course shortcuts. At the end I dropped it because of the price. $30/mo. for what it does just didn't make sense. If it were $5, easy sell. $10, perhaps.

I know they are trying to make email better, and perhaps they did - a bit. I believe over time email will continue to be made incrementally better, but Superhuman's underlying claim is they have tectonically shifted email, thus the price.

Unfortunately, they haven't.
They used to have a wax coating, in just the past decade that has disappeared almost entirely and any recently manufactured cups have a polyethylene (not styrene) lining. Many cups made for hot drinks have polystyrene on the outside, some are multi-layer paper and some have a cardboard sleeve.
> In my opinion, hash tables, btrees and the like in the standard library should probably swap to flat lists internally when the number of items in the collection is small. I'm surprised more libraries don't do that.

If I recall correctly, the STL provides guarantees that prevents it from taking advantage of flat lists. I think some containers (not arrays) guarantee that they don't move the address of whatever they're containing, even if you insert or remove elements. Even if they switched to flat lists, it would be a flat list of pointers, with all the incurred overhead.

Likewise, I believe I have heard of small string optimisation being impossible with std::string for similar reasons.
Tried this with my friends phone number. Facebook didn't show her picture or name. Just first letter of the email.
IIRC higher altitudes definitely register more radiation, the latitude effect being relatively minor in comparison.

Interestingly enough, average background radiation is actually the highest in the US exactly where you are[0] and I've seen comments (on a few websites talking about it) ranging from "the Rockies are loaded in Uranium" to "what about the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons site". Perhaps you're exactly in the right place to be an advocate for ECC :)

[0] http://www.radiationnetwork.com/
It already is an auction house of links. I think you have to go down at least 6 or 7 links nowadays for actual search results.
If memory serves, the Golden Sun games gave you a choice of three different levels of detail of data transfer via password.
Author here, to be clear I really like Angular and am using it for many projects at our company. This project is an attempt to make it better and easier to use.

I'm not trying to advertise competing frameworks. But Angular can learn from other frameworks, which do some things better... mainly the routing. It was important to me to illustrate what Angular does badly, as to show the need for this project.

What exactly are the false claims?? I said Angular is commonly joked about, which there's plenty of evidence for; Youtube videos, twitter, stack overflow surveys.

This is an Angular ecosystem contribution and I hope some people find it useful.
More people should write (2012)
I think if you add a few more control points to animatronic faces with detailed texture coloring and hair and then if you can nail a human gaze behavior approximation, it will be convincing. Then the only creepy thing might be that you are looking at what is apparently a detached human head.

There was an experiment from Disney or something recently on simulating human gaze.
Not only that but 2021 is likely to be the year of Linux on the Desktop... right?
Well, the gladiator numbers are skewed too because of the high mortality of their profession for guys in their 20’s. If they lived long enough to be free, they likely had a normal lifespan.
I worked in adtech. I built a simple ML system that detected signals of fraud on our network. When I reported my findings execs told me the group that was facilitating the fraud was our only profitable division. Soon after, our company went bankrupt. My final paycheck was months late.
Rubini... lol
I've been using my windows laptop daily for 5.5 years without issue.
Nim is also as programmable as Lisp, and memory safe with automatic reference counting.
my intent with pagination is always to prevent problems with open ended size of data set. 1000 at once is usually not a problem but 10x , 100x etc.. is a big problem for transferring over the wire.
The other problem with Lisp is that it attracts a fanatical element that rejects any criticsm of the language. Every language has its zealots but Lisp takes it a step further.

Google Erik Naggum for an extreme example of this syndrome.
I've gone through a similar transition with technology. I think the key is to separate the yak-shaving you do for fun, from the yak-shaving you actually need to do for productivity. Minimize the latter, and admit that the former really is just for fun, and don't do any more of it than you actually feel like doing (which can be zero).
I’ve just remembered about the BBC series ‘Hospital’. I’ve not watched every episode but those I’ve seen have been profoundly impactful.

It’s a brilliant showcase of Britain’s National Health Service, showing the absolute brilliance and dedication of its staff even in the most trying of circumstances as well as sharing really moving stories from patients too.

If you can find it, episode one of the second series is incredible, focusing on the aftermath of the Westminster terror attack from 2017 and how St Mary’s responded to the gold incident.
The intrinsic value of Bitcoin is that it works really well as a means of exchange. It’s not easy to find a good medium - gold is heavy/physical, dollars can be minted, etc.. If there is something that works well as money then that’s in it or itself reason for it to be valuable.
Does this kind of cookie work anymore at all with browsers who use restrictive rules for third party cookies? (like Safari)
I couldn't find a way to add a task on the android version, only the ability to sort automatically tracked phone usage into categories.

I don't mind paying a one time fee but those I had seen used a subscription model.
To add to this, we would like to be able to run open source & update-able code and leverage EAL certified secure elements. Chips like the SE050 have recently come on the market and will likely end up on our products eventually.
Weaver's claim about Tether being a vehicle to inflate the price of Bitcoin is odd. The main Tether-BTC transacting I'm aware of is in high frequency trading. Any longterm position in Tether is effectively against BTC (electing to instead hold a tokenized USD). Furthermore, Tether has a market cap only 1/16 of BTC. You can say either are flawed individually, but their valuations are independent.

China also has a geopolitical incentive to promote crypto and counter the USD's current status as the reserve currency. The capability for the US to inject USD into itself while retaining a worldwide demand is undoubtedly at the forefront of China's mind.
> A lot of emacs customisation ought to be unnecessary. And I think the yak shaving on one’s config isn’t really a great use of time (if you want it as a hobby then I guess that’s fine).

I totally agree. The only reason I justify my Emacs customization is because I customize it very slowly, over years, and periodically remove things I don’t use any more.

It’s getting harder to justify now that alternatives like VS Code have a bucketload of features and working autocomplete without futzing around too much. It’s just that VS Code is so damn slow. Maybe better language server support will bring me back to Emacs as my daily driver in a couple years, or maybe I’ll be paying for CLion.
Tether has a very powerful place in the crypto ecosystem - it is the most widely used stablecoin. It was revealed in a court filing that it was not fully backed, it was like 70%, because governments seized some of the funds (according to Tether). This broke a fundamental promise Tether made - that all USDT was fully backed 1 for 1 with USD in bank accounts.

To remedy this, Tether now states USDT is backed 1 for 1 with cash and cash equivalents. For example, Tether released an "IOU" coin called UNUS SED LEO (LEO)[0] that trades at the amount of USD missing. Therefore Tether states it is now fully backed.

The veneer of sketchiness is actually preferable to a lot of crypto traders, who live in fear of various governments. This is why USDC is not as popular as USDT - many traders prefer a "vaguely sketchy" coin that is less likely to have their funds frozen by court order.

All that said, I worked at a company (Circle) that redeemed and minted billions of dollars of Tether back in 2017 / 2018. Tether serves big trade desks and is extremely popular in Asia, while USDC has become more popular in DeFi and is bigger in the west. Tether is not a giant ponzi scheme - it really has assets, and huge desks regularly mint and redeem billions of dollars.

[0] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/unus-sed-leo/
So the movie was bad, and people didn't go see it? Doesn't seem related to advertising.

Eminem released his last two albums without even announcing them. Word of mouth got them both to #1 on the charts.

If you tried that same movie experiment with something like Avengers, I bet the results would look a lot closer to Kamikaze than Delgo.
Also a data scientist, and I used to work on assessing marketing campaign effectiveness. My experience is exactly the same.
Notre Dame post-fire reconstruction has a similar issue. Some of the stonework, i.e. the naves, needs work. According to PBS Nova geologists & architects located the old quarries for different stone around metro Paris.
Which journalists write the most ‘unsafe’ articles?
It could make sense as part of a larger financing package for a small non-profit or startup. Said contribution could show to a grant committee or government subsidy program that they have financing traction.

Often these programs require the fundee to get 30%-50% of the financing from non-government sources, so this could potentially count towards towards that figure.

Edit: Seems like organizations can’t apply, so maybe this point is moot.
Are you also using Google Tracer? I haven't been to get any traces to work for ages with Node.
Yeah I can understand why. Though I still prefer C in some ways simply because of its minimalism in the language, while still allowing for the kinds of things you want to be able to do if you wanna push your code to the limits. It is a bit scary sometimes writing in C though and sometimes I get a bit annoyed at how some things work or not work in it. I personally am hoping Zig can soon fill this minimalism trait in langs for me. C will probably always be the standard though and I do think more programmers should learn C better to become better programmers.

Rust is a good lang though. I am glad something else is pushing up there for the top spots. And more competition in performance is a good thing.

You don't always have to pick your sides. I just want to be able to write good code and be happy writing it :)
More likely a JIT can do that.
Here is the Michael Saylor interview (mentioned in the article):

https://youtu.be/Cg10yYZjK94?t=1h10m0s

This is the CEO of MicroStrategy who mainstreamed Bitcoin investment, saying stuff like:

"Bitcoin is a swarm of cyber hornets serving the goddess of wisdom, feeding on the fire of truth, exponentially growing ever smarter, faster, and stronger behind a wall of encrypted energy”

Background from Wikipedia:

On MicroStrategy's quarterly earnings conference call in July 2020, Saylor announced his intention for MicroStrategy to explore purchasing Bitcoin, gold, or other alternative assets instead of holding cash. The following month, MicroStrategy used $250 million from its cash stockpile to purchase 21,454 Bitcoin.

MicroStrategy later added $175 million of Bitcoin to its holdings in September 2020 and another $50 million in early December 2020. On December 11, 2020, MicroStrategy announced that it had sold $650 million in convertible senior notes, taking on debt to increase its Bitcoin holdings to over $1 billion worth. On December 21, 2020 MicroStrategy announced their total holdings include 70,470 bitcoins purchased for $1.125 billion at an average price of $15,964 per bitcoin. Saylor, who controls 70% of MicroStrategy's shares, dismissed concerns by observers that the move is turning MicroStrategy into a Bitcoin investment firm or exchange-traded fund (ETF).
Typical nocoiner, always focused on price...
why do they not go directly to your site but
instead search for it on a general search engine?

Do you honestly expect people to remember the domain names of the brands of everything they have or are interested in?

My grandmother still searches Google for "google images".
I don't post my real phone number on Facebook, and I don't know why anyone would.
Sure, I understand your concern. However, this is also very representative of python. Python programs are very much about using libraries for the heavy lifting. Python has never been a "distributable single binary" language, and has always required certain OS dependencies, or installable "wheels" (binary dependencies)
Maybe the science education should involve some basic marketing training to teach the scientist that the fruits of their skills + months of their work + expensive equipment + other funding doesn't add up to something they can just give away. Maybe if they paid for everything themselves it would be ethical. Either way it is just incredibly dumb and we should punish them for spending tax money like that if they don't grow up soon.

Maybe just bill them as an extra tax if they want to publish behind closed doors. Gradually increase the tax until they see the light. Or call it a fine if you like.
Truth is an unhelpful concept anyway (in science at least). What’s more useful is the likelihood to get a given result from a given experiment and the ability to make predictions.

And yes, when we put things that way it brings a lot of possible issues with sampling, processing, and measuring (and who’s doing the measuring). Some of these things would be harder to control for in a study of the effectiveness of advertising.
I think that's their point: preview.tinyurl.com is lying to you.
there's already a country where the government is taking a very active role in promoting economic activity, specifically North Korea
Why use meta refresh tag over a http redirect:
https://t.ly/home
Qt uses native controls on Windows or Mac. Not ideally, but it's a viable solution. And it's one of Linux's big two.

Video games count as a damn good reason.
Sorry, I was offline for the break. You have a singly linked list with each node having a "random pointer", an extra field that points to another node in the list (including itself or null). You need to make a copy of the list, in such manner that random pointers in the copy correspond to the original list, e.g. if the 10th element of the original points to the 3rd element of the original, 10th element of the copy needs to point to the 3rd element of the copy.
Maybe this has changed since your comment, but I see three paid plans on the homepage.
Sounds like a pretty valuable service that connects you to the things you are looking for. Why do you feel entitled to get this for free?