skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find my own JS code easier to read since I dropped them, and my tired eyeballs no longer need to lex the ";" pattern. Yet some JS masters (Mike Bostock) include them religiously.

Semi-colons do make make possible multiple statements on a single line -- but surely there's a stronger rationale than that.
Have you ever engaged with the large advertizing holding companies? They have teams of HIGHLY acomplished data scientists, boutique vendors for specific niches etc. Even if you don't pay for it there will be some people skilled at statistics looking at reports. If you pay for it, there will be data scientists doing analysis.

The large ad firms deliver a very good product but it usually isn't cheap.
How would a good design stack up? Do you think it would have that much more than the handwritten design?
As someone who uses a whitelist approach, I am curious whether people ever experience false positives or missing entries with these lists? I have little experince with those lists except for going through one of them once and being shocked at what was in there.

The setup I use is customised for me, i.e., Rube Goldberg would be proud. I can view and manipulate all traffic from outside the application and outside the origin computer. I can strip cookies based on IP, domain or URL very easily.
I also control DNS so only domains I approve would even return an IP address.
Mindustry: A open-source sandbox tower defense game
How Israel became a world leader in vaccination
That’s great, but assuming she (and everyone else working on research that they felt was important) expected to be paid, the money has to come from somewhere, right? Tuition costs are already too high and we are calling in the government to pay for student loans. So what do people expect? Obviously with a crystal ball they probably would have kept her funded (if this is even the full story - and it probably isn’t), but we shouldn’t blame them for not having one. 20+ years with no takers sounds like a pretty fair shake. Are they just supposed to fund everyone indefinitely so they can never be accused of missing something good?

Not even VCs have a great track record at picking winners, and they do this for a living.
When I first started watching The Wire, I had to use subtitles. The slang for a non-native was almost impenetrable. Now after I've watched the whole series four or five times (I don't remember anymore), I can quote every scene and have a good understanding of the dialog. I definitely learned something.

This is funny btw, but I highly value most of David Simon's series, and I've watched Treme, Generation Kill and The Deuce many times over. I didn't really like any of these series on my first watch, but something pulled me back for rewatch. I'm glad it did. I think I've grown as a person while going through the stories they tell; all these series are now my absolute all-time favorite television.
> 3. (Of dubious practical value) Create a Terms of Service that says users may not use your to link to advertisements.

That seems entirely unenforceable. Aren't ALL websites ultimately advertisements?
Never meet [or read the Tweets of] your heroes.
I am very familiar with the new Zynq family, embedding ARM cores on the same die together with FPGA fabric. I didn't know that the PowerPC version allowed such a tight coupling as handing off an instruction to programmable logic, the current Zynq models are much more lightly coupled, using AXI buses to connect the ARM cores with the PL (and many other components on the same SoC).
Many (most?) people high up enough in an org chart to control a significant budget in online advertising are so abstracted away from the actual mechanics of that spending and its impact, coupled with communication chains that get increasingly political (you don't want to say your expensive proposal did nothing, after all!) and you get a recipe for shady ad networks doing basically whatever they want.
They should split the difference with 14:9. HD upconversions wouldn't be nearly so bad without the aggressive cropping. The whiners who can't tolerate any black bars can just stretch or scale.
She has an impressive h-index (51) and citation count (12000+) currently. Her pre-2013 count isn’t that impressive as current, but good.

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PS_CX0AAAAAJ&hl=en...
Oh that's good to know. Thanks!
The more common thing (now) is to make the new work high-quality but clearly distinct. I presume that's what's planned here -- don't build all the basement walls up again with similar stone to an original-style stage floor, instead add a steel structure over all the old stuff holding a modern floor, with glass skylights for touring the ruins below.
Node uses V8, which does JIT compilation, while CPython is a straight bytecode interpreter. A better point of comparison would be PyPy
I addressed in my second sentence that I disagree with that prior. I understand the statistics perfectly well.

And my main point is that a 60% probability is in fact actionable in the real world, in a situation where you are forced to take action with incomplete information. Assuming you are running an ad campaign, you have to choose one of the two.

P=.95 still is an arbitrary threshold, even if it's a commonly used one.
Sorry, I suspect sharing will just lead to an argument over perceived insults I don't intend. Consider my original comment a friendly warning. Should you think it's worth following up on, I think you'll find it easy to find evidence. If you don't, that's okay too.
They weren't disagreeing with you in their reply, just emphasizing the same point.
I see lot of anxious people from the ad industry commenting on these threads trying to convince the rest of us we are wrong.

It's funny how quickly the word conspiracy is used by the party that has most to lose.

It's more likely that people have spend the past 10 years buying into the online ad industry, got burned and finding out it wasn't because they weren't spending enough it was that they were defrauded.

We should see class action lawsuits over the next 10 year horizon that will put a massive hit to the shady ad tech industry.

Millions of small to big businesses were defrauded out of their ad spend and now the industry will simply make way to a whole new scam.
> as key to their current standing.

It seems like it would be important to measure this standing and turn down spend once it is reached. I can see how there's a lack of incentive to help large advertising spenders understand this.
Nobody is arguing that advertising doesn't work at all, but my argument (which I think a lot of other people agree with) is that the effectiveness of online advertising (and maybe advertising in general) is overblown.
This is the best comedy routine I've ever seen.

> Because of the curvature of our eyes, we are born with an inverted view. Light and visual info coming into the eye gets refracted upside down onto the retina, over time the brain learns to correctly orient the image. Autistic children presumably never learn to invert the image their retinas project, many probably still see everything upside down.
I assume that one takes the uneven sampling into account? That should boost the significance a bit, though perhaps a bit more than I'd originally assumed. It remains a back of the envelop calculation after all.
IMHO one of the major failures of the ISO-C process that they still didn't manage to standardize computed goto.
They work on the margin, so if your competitor spends on advertising, you have to spend as much yourself just to cancel out the effects of their ad spend.

As for big brands and brand advertising - the same applies, there's just more inertia.
> I do not believe this claim.

The biomass didn't increase for the Styrofoam eating mealworms. It did for the bran eating meal worms.

Would that fit?

10.1021/acs.est.5b02661
I think they may have been referring to the actual mainstream retail availability of ECC RAM. I can buy non-ECC RAM at almost any retailer that sells computers. If I need non-ECC RAM right now I can have it in my hands in 30 minutes. ECC on the other hand I pretty much have to buy online. Microcenter stocks a single 4GB stick of PC4-21300, and I can't think of a single use case where I'd want ECC but not more than 4GB.
Reveal Cards in Increasing Order
Here's original paper: http://media.blackhat.com/bh-us-11/Dinaburg/BH_US_11_Dinabur...

But I'm not entirely convinced that most of these requests weren't just typos. Though those requests with mismatched Host header surely were true bitflips.
Gen Z Sexuality: “The Kids Are Not Alright”
MIT 6.172: Performance Engineering of Software Systems
Not only that design is a language that is used to communicate/plant imaginations in people about your brand.

Sure if your product is good some industries do not care how your design looks.

It's all down to the industry. If you were selling expensive water to schmucks, MS Paint simply will not suffice.
The rent seeking is buying up competitors until its a duopoly and then protecting that through shenanigans like exclusive agreements. It has nothing to do with consumer demand.
There was an interesting challenge at DEF CON CTF a while back that tested this, actually. It turns out that it is possible to write x86 code that is 1-bit-flip tolerant–that is, a bit flip anywhere in its code can be detected and recovered from with the same output. Of course, finding the sequence took (or so I hear) something like 3600 cores running for a day to discover it ;)
Well, since we're arguing "potential value", and this isn't being stonewalled by authority against public opinion, I suspect you're simply in the minority as to the value (which, after all is dictated here by the market of public opinion).

Which is a long way of saying "You think it has low value as it stands, and high value as something else, but you don't have the wallet to buy it from the guys currently holding it" which is a long way of saying "People's tastes differ and you're in the minority".
Not sure, I didn't see any public announcements about that from Pebble.
> As soon as a professional has been paid to fight open source integration for 1-2 days, it would have been better if the employer had simply bought matlab.

I'm a licensed professional, and in my experience it takes 1-2 hours to set up a conda virtualenv with all the packages I need. Whereas if I want Matlab, it takes about a week to talk through the budgeting and licensing options with my employer, find the right number of seats to purchase (other departments might decide to get in on the purchase, so we need to consult broadly), choose which toolboxes we'll pay for, go back and forth on the quotes and POs, and make sure all the licensing really works.

But your mileage may vary.
That is not at all what zero sum means. If you're going to use a widely-used term at the core of an argument, you should be sure you're doing so correctly.
I like how some people in this thread are calling some transparency in adtech space "take down".
This has been going on for a while, good to keep the investigation going

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25570247
Procrastination would be one such behaviour, certainly. An example of a non-procrastinating behaviour that is an example of akrasia is poor diet adherence: I know that I will be healthier not eating this pint of ice-cream, but I do so nonetheless.
For me I just use what's available and do not go into too much detail beyond what I need. However, slices can be confusing at first, and your above example could help think of them the right way. Although, until you get "bit", you might not deduct the consequences of slices right away. Especially when accustomed to other languages.

The latest thing that made me go "hmm" last time, was this one (I didn't get "bit", just went "hmm" reading it):

https://play.golang.org/p/2bTvXr6WLNN

package main

import (
"fmt"
)

func main() {
b := []byte{'g', 'o', 'l', 'a', 'n', 'g'}
fmt.Println(string(b[1:4]))
// Output:
// ola
}

I'm sure everyone expected this output when using b[1:4], right? All languages do these things a bit differently, so is why I always forget the detailed syntax required. I'm sure there's a valid pragmatic explanation and there's lots of ways to do this (ie. allow negative values etc.). Just a thing that while speedtyping, one could easily miss this little detail.

This one is a good intro, but doesn't explain this I believe:

https://blog.golang.org/slices-intro
I’m sorry, no, I’m extremely liberal in general, but this can’t be left to supply/demand/personal ethics. This show is an infringement on ILO’s 1930 treaty on slavery.

(or rather the UN’s 1957 treaty, since the 1930 one excluded men aged 18-49).
Um, are we talking about the same "asymptotic analysis"? The one I am talking, the "Big O" notation [0], specifically ignores constant factors. So a naive matrix multiplication algorithm will always be O(n^3) in standard notation, no matter if this is binary or ternary or even ENIAC-style BCD bytes. This means you cannot reason about ternary vs binary using asymptotic notation.

And the Laundauer limit seems completely unrelated. Your link says, "Modern computers use millions of times as much energy per second" -- so we can have 1000x more efficient computer and still be well under the limit.

So the only way to compare the binary vs ternary is in the context of a specific implementation, because that's how you can evaluate the speedup. "All other conditions being equal" is never true -- for example, binary machines can run faster because they need less voltage swing (and thus less bit charge), while ternary machines are faster because balanced adders do not need ripple carry. Which one has more effect? This depends on technology.

Here is a made-up example: let's say we have a small amount of ancient transistors and diodes, and we want to sum up numbers, with range from -5000 to 5000. The transistor switches in 0.1 mS. How do we do it?

In binary, we'd need 14 bit word. Assuming we do ripple-carry adder (it is smallest part count, but slowest), in the worst case we'll need to propagate carry across all bits, and this means we'd need at least 20 mS per operation, getting performance of at most 50 addition/second.

In ternary, we'd need 9-trit word. Ternary adders do not propagate, so we could add the numbers in 2 mS. Here, the ternary is going to be much faster, at 500 addition/sec.

This is a very contrived example (who makes wide ripple-carry adders anyways?) but hopefully this illustrates my point. You cannot use asymptotic analysis for this, and there are times when you can totally perform more computation for the same cost.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_complexity
> I just find it all so exhausting.

So do I, and yet I use Emacs. I think there is a middle-ground. There are things worth customizing and improving, in particular the tools I work with, and there are things that I expect to "Just work"™.

Hence I use Gnome and Emacs for important workflow, such as programming, TeX, email, git, shell etc. It's and IDE, if you wish, but with more stuff since email is also part of the workflow.
Ok, similar question for Spain or Greece. Spain and Greece both aren't super rich by developed country standards and yet their life expectancies are very high.

Do you think they're all doing it to piss off richer countries? :-)
What's Itsc?
I haven't, and I don't doubt that's true (at least in many cases; I've learned not to underestimate the chances of big companies ending up running scams either).

I've personally dealt mostly with the other end - the individuals and small agencies - and what I saw revealed total lack of necessary competences for the reports to be corresponding to reality. Perhaps it's understandable - after all, people who have the required knowledge likely end up working for big advertisers, or in entirely different fields. But small business owners don't pick these big advertising companies either.
I don't think it's slow but it doesn't explain itself. When you see an event or character interaction without much context, it seems irrelevant and doesn't register so it might feel like nothing is happening. When I rewatch it now, I find it fast pace with no filler. I can watch McNulty play with tide tables gurgling with joy at the delicious payoff to come but if you don't know the payoff, it no doubt just feels like a dude with some paper.

As a Brit, I have no wish for subtitles. I found no difficulty with the slang or accent. There are many parts of the UK that are much more indecipherable!

I've been enjoying the podcast Way Down In The Hole as an episode by episode recap having already watched it through a few times. Stacked with extra trivia and the insight of two black hosts adds things I didn't see.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-wire-way-down-in-t...
What about misused or defective radio equipment ? I guess that they have powerful microwave sat equipment, in there. This is a more reasonable explanation then mysterious "death ray" that, anyway, should be detectable and traceable with the right equipment, in case someone want to prove its existence. Moreover, what's the logic in creating a gratuitous diplomatic incident and possibly cause reprisals against the responsible ? IMHO , this story is the perfect click bait so nobody want to consider more logic and simple explanations.
I don't think there is a coordinated takedown; after all, ranting about it on HN wouldn't affect anything if advertising actually worked as designed and had the intended effect.

The problem is that first off, people rightfully dislike advertising so it's expected for them to rant about it, second, regulation is being worked on (whether the GDPR, CCPA, or similar) that would thwart targeted advertising, so advertising is now also facing pressure from the government and not just from people ranting about it, and third, these articles talk about brands themselves having doubts about the effectiveness of their advertising efforts and the media rightfully reports on it.

Ranting about ads by itself won't change much, but in this case it seems some advertisers themselves are having doubts as to how effective it really is and both the media and HN is reacting to that.

> Google derives 80% of its revenue from ads, Facebook 99%. Imagine these giants coming down if it turns out that online ads aren't effective?

Just because Google and Facebook are able to make a profit off their ads doesn't mean that their ads are actually good value and not overpriced, nor that the people in charge of assessing the ROI of these ads are incentivized to look into it (which is the point I'm arguing in the thread you linked). You can very well agree that online ads are effective but still aren't worth what they are currently priced at.
This article also sheds a lot of light on the whole issue of why people don't realize when digital ads don't work: https://thecorrespondent.com/100/the-new-dot-com-bubble-is-h...
She's a senior vice president at BioNTech now. I guess she laughed last.
Doubt that. We have full socialized healthcare and great unemployment benefits. Yet we also suffer from the same problems in academia.

Having those is pretty orthogonal to actually getting results in science. No need to mix them in.

Universities should actually fund (so indirectly by the goverment from taxes) long term research. That’s kinda the whole point of Universities, in addition to education. Long term research that doesn’t have immediate short them commercial interest. Not make the scientists be basically startup founders that must constantly pitch to get money.

And the reason we want to support that is because on long term there often is very useful commercial benefits that then improve everyones lives.
I have noticed the same thing over the last four or five months. I’ve been curious if a voting ring has sprung up on HN or maybe a COVID impacted demographic suddenly has a lot of time to patrol the site, or if it’s something else. It would be really interesting to have some anonymized voting data to analyze and see how downvotes map to accounts, geography, and economic trends over time. Though voting data must be relatively huge compared to content and I bet it gets discarded after items close to replies.
When you're not dying next month going to work to pay your bills "really matters".
I sort of doubt that, billions of dollars have been spent on cancer research.
> Nothing stops someone

Well, it looks like the submission process[0] and the maintainer[1] do, actually.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/kpqmrh/rust_is_now_ov...
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/kpqmrh/rust_is_now_ov...
I often try to see whether a product is reviewed on YouTube, a lot harder to fake a video review. For services such as movers, doctor’s, etc. I often use the reviews on Google maps. Word of mouth is probably best of all though.

Some general advice:

If you’re buying a product always buy via a credit card as you have greater protections and can always issue a chargeback if all else fails. Also, if you’re a victim of fraud and your credit card gets maxed you will still be able to make rent / mortgage payments as your checking / current account won’t have been exposed - plus credit card companies are motivated to help as they are the ones liable for the transactions.

For services, insist on payment after delivery. That way the provider is more motivated to provide a good service so they get paid and recoup their costs, and if it goes tits up you can withhold payment rather than having to try and get a refund.

If you can’t afford a reasonable worst case scenario, get insurance.
They go into that in the podcast. ebay had one third party prove that the other third party was just making things up to validate the ROI.
I have found the Socratic Method[0] brings out the best outcomes because it forces everyone to show what they think they know, have their assumptions tested and hear about things they might not have considered or even know about. From my experience, everyone is ultimately able to reach a higher level of understanding for the topic or problem which allows for better decision making. The more diverse the participants' backgrounds the larger the network of knowledge one is able to tap into.

Unfortunately, you are right that there are people who are extremely threatened by the Socratic Method. In Plato's Cave[1], Socrates talks about how some people strive to explore and learn while others have no desire to broaden their knowledge as "they know no better life."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_method
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave