skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of interesting legal principles raised by such developments versus "...the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures...":

-- Is the data gathered by a car company from your car (legally acknowledged to be a kind of extension of your "house"), yours to secure?

-- Is it like a cellphone, containing personal, private information?

-- Is it "your" data?

-- Which data is "your" data?

-- What if it's constantly being streamed out of your car to a 3rd party anyway?

-- Do you have a right to seek its suppression?
I agree. I am going to reflect on this and see if there's a way to support dump files long term in our app. We sorta support it today but it's ad hoc implementation since an export can range from a few hundred of a thing to tens of millions of a thing.

Is there any good literature or patterns on supporting dumps in the tens of millions or larger?

I wrote a sheets plug-in that uses our cursor API to provide a full dump into a spreadsheet. Our professional services team is in love with it, so I bet they'd love generic data export capability.
It sounds like she was not able to raise the money to continue her research. That’s not really UPenn’s fault. No one can know in advance which ideas are promising enough, so it isn’t reasonable to blame them.

This isn’t a scandal or an embarrassment. If, after working for decades, no one is willing to fund you, it’s kind of expected that they have to cut their losses at some point. She was apparently working on it for over 20 years! It turned out that all of the grant money and VC money didn’t see the right risk/value potential in it, so they declined to provide their money, but BioNTech did and hired her as a VP. I suspect this ended much better for her than staying at Penn would have.
Summarizing: everything you do takes time and this time has an associated opportunity cost.

If you can configure another tool in 2-5-10 hours to achieve 90% of the efficiency Emacs gives you and you can use the other 190-195-198 hours to actually realize those "ideas of your lifetime", it is a lot of time spent (and maybe wasted). Also: https://xkcd.com/1205/ + tinkering isn't necessarily productivity. If anything, it's more often procrastination.

Finally, I'm not sure how you could prove that Emacs it the only thing that allows you to achieve those "ideas of your lifetime", I don't think that's even a falsifiable statement, it's just your personal opinion.
I have only read about the F35 and seen a few videos. Can someone check my understanding?

The F35 has the same or even better air superiority capabilities than the F22.

It will have electronic command and control capabilities that will remove the need for AWACS or JSTARS. The vision is that the F35 will defeat any enemy aircraft, enemy air defenses, and provide the sensor coverage that will enable fleets of drones to operate.

(The videos I saw had to do with the cockpit main display panel. I was very impressed by it. It really looked like a video game with its touch inputs and ability for the pilot to configure it any way he likes. I am also amazed at how minimalistic the cockpit is. Reminds me of the Tesla but with much more intuitive UI.)
The main functionality I want is notifications. If I don't install apps on my phone, I'm not getting notifications on my phone, and thus can't get them on my wrist.

Additionally, keeping health tracking turned off on the watch means that, in addition to not taking your pulse dozens of times per day, you can't engage in the normal workouts either. Each time I work out it's four steps: enable health tracking, start workout, end workout, end health tracking.
I suppose this is true in the same sense that the purpose of life is to waste oxygen.
So, there's some bits of this story that hint at the problem here. The big headline is that as they removed Breitbart, their spend was reduced. If you're really doing "performance marketing" in the sense that people think of it, that doesn't make a lot of sense. Of course, it makes total sense in the industry.

If you are properly doing performance marketing, that means you're going after the best opportunities to get customers, and you're paying as little as you can for those opportunities. If you cut out a whole set of opportunities from consideration, that should not change your spend. If those were really some of your best opportunities, that means now you'll have to show ads where you have worst opportunities. Either you'll have a lower chance of getting a conversion or you'll have to spend more for each ad... either way, your opportunity cost should go up. Basically you've constrained your supply without constraining your demand, so the price might go up, but demand still gets fulfilled.

Except, this isn't what really happens in the industry. Instead, you're given an ad budget and a campaign window, and you're told to burn through the budget within the campaign window. Most ad networks will try to find the best inventory to give you out of that campaign window... except often the "performance" they're chasing isn't "performance". It's "impressions" or "unique users" or "clicks" or "conversions" (where the goal post on what a conversion means is moved to "goes to the landing page" instead of "buys the product"). So what they end up doing is finding the cheapest (i.e. crummiest and least likely to actually perform) of whatever your "performance" goal is. So you'll get impressions that are least likely to click, or clicks that are least likely to convert, or conversions that are least likely to actually buy your product.

This happens, because there is actually a fixed constraint on the quality side of the supply.

You're trying to spend $X in a tight time window, and the dirty industry secret is the need to spend that money so quickly is the real challenge. Ad networks don't get paid the part of the budget they don't drain. The ad spend is a big deal. More important than performance. Ad execs' comp are tied to that spend.

But when you cut a big chunk of the supply, the expectation is you're not going to hit the same spend, so... you cut your budget too. Well now that changes everything. Now you don't have to spend so much money over so much time. Imagine if you cut your budget in half, but because you are performance focused, you want to lose the worst performing half. You should expect better performance. Way better. Because now some other idiot "performance" marketer is going to buy up all those crummy bits of inventory, and you're going to pay the big money to outbid them for the bits of inventory they were going to get that would have performed well.
It’s a little over ten years since I last saw him and I still remember fondly a few parties at the castle. Also stories of his great escape from our work car park!
Corticosteroids, hydroxychloroquine, methotrexate, and I'm sure dozens of others. Immune system suppression isn't something one should do without supervision of a doctor, though. Notably, most effective drugs have non-trivial side effects or cause their own long term damage.
Looking at bug – https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=974011 – there is all this talk about copyright of the xmille and mille computer programs, I don't see any discussion of the question of the copyright of the underlying card game.

Mille Bornes was invented by Arthur Dujardin (using pen name Edmond Dujardin), illustrated by Joseph Le Callennec, and first released in 1954 [0]. Dujardin died in 1964 [1], so using EU copyright term of author's life + 70 years, its copyright would expire in 2034. Le Callennec died in 1988, so copyright on the original illustrations would expire in 2058. (I don't know how dependent the illustrations in the computer game are on the original.)

I'm not sure who currently owns the copyrights to the original card game. But Dujardin founded the Dujardin company which still sells Mille Bornes [3] so I would assume they still do. Since 2007, the Dujardin company has been owned by the French TV network TF1 [4].

The copyright owners to the card game have probably never heard of this obscure non-commercial computer game. Who knows if they'd react to it indulgently or not.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mille_Bornes but actually the French article has a lot more information: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000_bornes

[1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_Dujardin

[2] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Le_Callennec

[3] https://www.jeuxdujardin.fr/produit/milles-bornes-pegboardab...

[4] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dujardin_(%C3%A9diteur)
I started in 84 on a PCjr. Had the PCjr Technical Reference manual, which was amazing. It even had the BIOS assembly source in the back of it.
> The vast majority of things in the late 10 years felt like a planet scale tweak (phone has tilting backgrounds, css animations, ..)

Sounds like you are in a very small bubble if that is your take on the last decade's tech inventions/evolution. What about autonomous vehicles/dock yards/warehouses and reusable rockets?
Thankyou my friend. I appreciate your reply

I have lived in Yemen during part of the period of the war. I hope I am not denigrating those who do. That is always a great sacrifice on their part, and they should be honored. So thankyou for doing that and reminding me to the same

But you haven't found bias. It is something that I wish I did not believe, but still do. It is something I didn't believe when told, and only sad experiences changed my mind

Does the BBC have reports like this?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/18/the-saudis-cou...

Sure bias and leanings are present everywhere. But bias is maybe the wrong word

Doesn't Chinese news say that China is great, doesn't Russian news say that Russia is great? Should those people believe what they read?

Of course there are differences, but WikiLeaks, Dutch in Congo, UK in Iran, etc, tell us we're good at being evil in the recent past

Have we changed?

In some part yes, I was happy to see this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wxeeGz5sVk
I think the evidence points to discussions as naturally tending towards endlessness. Without an end definiting goal or a line drawn, discussions tend to feed themselves to ad infinitum. Basically, the more people you put in a room together, the more they will keep on talking until it's time to go home or someone stands up and tells everyone to shut up. In this scenario, you almost question the person that doesn't talk, and almost urge yourself to join this "discussion". Without moderation, topics could digress anywhere. So you have egos competing to make their mark in this amalgamation of a "discussion" that is supposedly supposed to self moderate and direct itself to a conclusion? The more frustrated those responsible for a needed outcome get, their words and tone become less "fun", as does anyone frustrated about anything said.

So half the solution of "write it down instead" is simply not putting people in a room. Basically, avoiding as much "discussion" as possible.

Whenever you need progress, you need a process. Discussion on its own is hardly a process. It takes determination and skill to have a constructive, time-efficient conversation.
Measuring as spend ROI is standard practice on any large scale ad campaign. The trick about having a holdout population is a neat twist.

It boggles my mind when HN commenters start claiming that measuring ad campaigns is impossible or that ads are universally ineffective. Anyone who has spent time working with large ad campaigns should know the tools and methods used to measure these things.

I suspect the HN sentiment comes from a common feeling among techies that they are somehow immune to influence from advertising, combined with a high adoption rate of ad blockers. HN commenters tend to assume that other consumers are just like themselves, which is far from the truth. In the real world, advertising (when done right) is not only very effective but not that difficult to measure using modern technology.
> rather use python or Julia .. break the dominance that Matlab has in many fields and replace it with free software

I still think Octave has a niche to fill for students and HPC where software engineering (package management, compilation etc) is of insufficient concern.
I started using Pop!_OS after I ran into no end of issues trying to get Ubuntu to work with my graphics card. Pop!_OS is a flavor of Ubuntu that's maintained by System76, a Linux laptop vendor.

Two selling points of Pop!_OS for me:

- It Just Worked with my high DPI monitor—no futzing with settings or drivers.
- It Just Worked with my graphics card—no tweaking kernel launch flags when trying to install the operating system.

I'm sure other operating systems can be made to work as well, but Pop!_OS was the first distro I tried that didn't give me problems.
Google does not use very large or even large machines for most of their fleet. You can quickly see in the paper this is for 1, 2, and 4 GB RAM machines (in 2006-2008).
While nothing prevents you from writing C that will generate the equivalent code, it requires several times more lines of C than the equivalent C++. At which point, it becomes an economics discussion. C is usually a choice when pure performance is secondary to other considerations like portability.

Most C++ code I see has few vtables, and what vtables exist are mostly removed by the compiler. Java-style inheritance hierarchies are not idiomatic in C++. The code gen for C++ looks a lot like hyper-optimized C code, but without having to write hyper-optimized code. C++ naturally provides much more information about intent to the compiler than C does, and modern compilers are excellent at using that information to provide nearly optimal code gen.
I don't see how the paragraph you quote is contradicting what I said. It is saying that the US dollar can be used as "legal tender" for certain things, but it doesn't define what it means precisely for something to be "legal tender". And that precise meaning was the point I was arguing.

Reference for the definition of legal tender by the UK royal mint:

https://www.royalmint.com/aboutus/policies-and-guidelines/le...?
Upvote from me :)
Are we making much progress? Analysis of neural recommendation approaches
cpu feature detection is way easier in rust. its just built into the core libs.
There was a good piece of reportage on this subject last year:

https://thecorrespondent.com/100/the-new-dot-com-bubble-is-h...
Be careful not to confuse ECC memory with ECC encryption.

ECC memory = memory with Error-Correcting Code

ECC encryption = Elliptic Curve Cryptography
> I like PyPy as an example: on the surface, implementing a Python runtime in Python and expecting performance gains seems crazy.

Not if it includes a JIT compiler, as PyPy does. I don't know much about PyPy, but if most of the time is spent in JITted machine code, the fact that it's written in Python may not affect performance much.
Existing FPGA vendors made sure their products remained in a lucrative niche by maintaining full control over the development process for FPGA designs.
More details on that property. That property price was just for the ruined castle. The whole property is over 1.2M GBP.

https://www.captivatinghouses.com/2020/11/24/15th-century-pi...
Well, click tracking and click counting come to mind.
Quit and do something that isn't fundamentally detrimental to everyone's quality of life.

http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-31-ads-as-cancer.html
How many citations? Clearly it's those that count.
I do audio stuff and it is the same there. DSP is easy until it has to be in real time and there can only be minimal latency...
My company uses them in its print assets like billboards, posters, and transit ads.

I see them all the time in commercial text messages, like from things I've subscribed to, or delivery alerts so I can track the pizza guy.
Arch and Manjaro for person usage, which have both been great experiences for me depending on if you want to spend more time customizing/installing (Arch), or want a great and quick default experience (Manjaro).
Thanks for showing faces with the digital time numerals turned off. Seems like the perfect watch for a week at the beach, where you want to know about the sun but not be a slave to the minutes.

Some questions...

Why is it so thick? (Guessing the double stacked batteries plus a movement?) Any plans for lower profile V8?

I see some models are two batteries, one for analog hand and one for digital, one with 5 year run time, one with 1 year run time. Why two? What’s the battery situation with this V7?

How waterproof is it? Nautical time demands nautical proof packaging. See all the kits parts and lug sizes, etc., but not waterproofness.

Fascinating concept, feels like what would have been a ‘maker’ project on Kickstarter if it existed circa Y2K. Back then, though, you’d find these kinds of “who thought of that things you didn’t know you needed” in Sharper Image, which suckered me into more than a couple off beat watches. As a collector of both analog and novelty time pieces, I’d pick this up but feels more like $45 to $295 (depending on materials) rather than $695, even in “today’s dollars”.

TY for creating an account and sharing!
Good question. In the first case it was left vague but I understood it as being fired and then not trying to find a new ad tech job. In the case of my team it was finding better industries to work in.
And the demotion was for focusing on the less and less popular mRNA with idea of using it for vaccines, instead of something that would bring grant funding.

She was demoted precisely for doing what led to the techniques used by Biontech and Moderna.
The Last English Civil War (2018)
Back in 2017, Uber sued Dentsu for ad fraud

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/19/business/corpor...
I think the prevailing advice in this thread will be to worry about finding the work, and only worry about finding developers once the "work floods in".
Can anyone comment here on the "Uddevalla concept"? Quoting https://ideas.repec.org/p/pra/mprapa/10785.html :

> Both researchers and practitioners in industrial organization ask themselves today whether lean production is the only possible model for the future. Enriching Production proposes a radically different alternative, which was put into practice at Volvo’s Uddevalla plant during its brief life span.

The book "Enriching Production" is at https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/10785/1/MPRA_paper_10785.pdf .

As I have no experience with lean nor with automotive production history, I find it hard to interpret.
They do not. You are thinking of paper cups with a plastic or wax coating.
App Review seriously needs to stop rejecting app updates for things that have nothing to do with that particular update. How many times do we see them suddenly rejecting version #250 because they found a problem with something that had been in place for the entire lifetime of the app (such as its name, or some key feature)?
Nobody denies that bitflips happen. On the whole, you fail to make a case that preventing bitflips is the solution to a problem. Bitsquatting is not a real problem, it's a curiosity.

As for the case of bitflips killing someone: Bitflips are not the root cause here. The root cause is that somebody engineered something life-critical that mistakenly assumed hardware can not fail. Bitflips are just one of many reasons for hardware failure.
Coca Cola sells water with flavouring and quite astonishing amounts of sugar. Apple sells nice devices made by what might as well be slave labour.

Both are propped up - actually maintained - by huge and vastly expensive brand management strategies.

The criticisms of individual campaigns here are missing the point. It's not about micro ad spend, but the perception of value and manipulation of behaviour created by the combined effect of multiple PR and advertising efforts - which include traditional print and TV/radio ad campaigns, guided advertorials disguised as news in the MSM, interviews with prominent figures, political campaigns of more or less obvious relevance to the core business activity, state, national, and international political lobbying, direct political campaign donations, advertorials masquerading as "freelance" journalism and blogging, managed astroturfing on social media, shareholder relationship management, product placements in movies and music promo videos, articles about commercial visual design elements in trade journals. And on and on.

That perception of value is - unsurprisingly - extremely valuable. And it's very much a US way of doing business. Instead of producing products that are inherently superior, produce something that is functional but glossily packaged, brand it as a premium lifestyle commodity, and charge exorbitant prices for it.,

The prices are traditionally far out of proportion to its actual utility. In fact real utility may well be negative - see also diabetes and any number of other health issues, depression associated with social media use, debt-driven spending on lifestyle products. Etc.

So the rent seeking comes from a kind of cultural squatting. There is value in dominating discourse in all of these different ways, because discourse and narrative define markets and ultimately control behaviour. And while this is happening other kinds of discourse - which may well have more real utility - are diminished at best and crowded out at worst.

So in this case it doesn't matter if Uber "wasted" their money. Uber have their own branding thing going, and explicit ad spend is a tiny part of that.

And even if all online ad spending ended tomorrow, a small number of corporations would have a difficult time for a while, but the marketing industry as a whole would inevitably interpret the change as minor damage and route around it.
ATS is not really a theorem proving language, it's almost a superset of C with a very long list of type system and language features that lets you write anything from C code with no safety to very high level recursive functional code with lifetime tracking which will translate to efficient C code, if the transformations are proved to be correct. It's a weird beast, but I'm not surprised it outperformed some C implementations, because it is basically C with a lot more features.
Easier to say. Just like "Oxford" vaccine instead of "Astrazeneca/Oxford".
Wow never heard of that, thanks!

This is one of the thousand reasons that I don't think capitalism will be viable beyond 10-20 years from now. The endgame will be perfect monopoly - one global player in every niche of our daily existence. Slowly force-feeding us a diet of whatever is most profitable (whatever service encompasses the most dysfunction in exchange for money).

Off the top of my head, a better system might be one that seeks to eliminate dysfunction instead of profiting from it. Web browsers could provide short links to all websites by using a hashing function instead of an encrypted refcount. They could remove as many identifying bits as possible (like cookies). I like the direction that Apple and others are going, preserving less user data and letting less spill between unrelated websites.

The question of what all these advertisers will do once they're not allowed to track us is a big one. But my guess is that targeted advertising is not needed in the first place. They did just fine (arguably better) with demographics in the centuries before tech revealed our personal browsing histories.
TBH, if you are doing security with it, it's obviously wrong, but if you are not, it also is because way better (faster) options exist for non security usage...
This mRNA technology is amazing. One of the great hopes is that it may be possible to target specific cancers with great accuracy thereby saving many lives. Hopefully these vaccines are just a start.
It's more to do with the fact that std::sort's definition is visible to the compiler and qsort() is not.
Put qsort() code in stdlib.h, make it static and write a static intcmp() and you'll see the compiler inline that no problem.
Combined Hacker News, lobsters, tech crunch etc.
Basho did for Riak, but that might be due to the fact that Riak was written in Erlang...