skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Newspapers made a huge strategic error in how they approached advertising, which ultimately resulted in much of their value being essentially given away to Google.

It used to be the case that much of (for example) the New York Times' advertising value came not just from the number of eyeballs, but from the specific nature of those eyeballs. Being able to target a specific category of people who read the NYT (they can afford the paper, they are likely to live in New York, they know long words, they have a specific worldview, etc) is incredibly valuable to advertisers. Market segmentation by publication is very powerful - even knowing that a viewer doesn't have much money, or hates buying things, or is cynical about advertising is more valuable than not knowing anything. It's the reason that so many niche magazines exist. Advertising to someone who cares about a very specific hobby is worth a lot. It's also the reason that most printed publications aren't free. Many could be if you take a simplistic view of the economics. However they would dilute their audience to the point where it would become less valuable to advertisers. Vogue advertises to people who want to look at fashion photos enough to pay $9 or whatever to do so.

With the internet, two things changed. Firstly the fact that anyone in the world could read a given article for free, meant that the average eyeball on a NYT article was much less 'NYT-reader-ish' than an eyeball on a printed page of the paper. Secondly, tracking and analytics meant that there was much more valuable and monetizable information about that reader than the fact that they are a NYT reader. Information like all the other things they have looked at, what they've recently bought, what apps they have installed, the content of their emails. Only the big tech companies and data brokers have this info. The data that the NYT has on you is trivial in comparison.

It didn't have to be this way. Newspapers could have ringfenced their own data and sold ads in a way which kept them in control. As a side effect it would have been better for their readers' privacy. They failed to understand their own business as well as Google did.

Now consumers are being blamed for this, for 'making the wrong choices'. I resent this for several reasons. Firstly it is an argument which denies the nature of reality. It is analogous with telling people they shouldn't shop at Wal-Mart, because local businesses will close. The solution is to change the rules to optimize for the things that we care about. Not to rely on the unlikely event that lots of people with limited resources will all make altruistic decisions to protect the nebulous thing that you care about. Secondly these newspapers set themselves up as society's only defenders of liberty and truth against the forces of darkness. In fact, a lot of them are full of propaganda, gossip and clickbait. Some of the $5 newsletters are in a class above almost everything in these newspapers. The people writing them are (typically) experts on one topic, they love that topic passionately, they have no particular axe to grind and they have much incentives to make something high quality.
Can confirm, my VMs default to 4GB of memory and run just fine.
Most of the corporate press hate substack and think it's beneath them, I saw it being labeled as "onlyfans for journalists". That's coming mostly from mediocre journalists who envy substack writers with a huge profile and try to demonize them. But it also comes from institutions, like the UCLA information studies professor who tried to vilify substack writes. Matt Taibbi wrote a response worth reading https://taibbi.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-substack
I agree with everything you said :) Except I've seen (way, way) more failures from bad business choices than bad technical choices. I'm not saying it doesn't happen. But there's always the example of Twitter and the Fail Whale. That was almost-complete technical failure, and yet the business didn't fail because of it.
That’s really cool! I’m in the US, and the farms I have seen are so large, I don’t think a normal person could pop in and ask questions. I’ve never seen a building near one of these farms because the rows of vegetation goes on for miles it seems like.

That said, smaller farms and dining experiences are popping up all over. I feel like the local, craft experience has been really popular and is trending us back to seasonal, organic ingredients. I was just saying to a friend the other day that I feel like I don’t know what season anything is in because we can get so much produce all year round. We’ve started little veggie gardens in our yards and were trying to sus out what we could plant.
Quantum computers already destroy RSA. most likely already in thdhands of a nationstate
> Similarly in one party system, system of power is even weaker. That's why it resorts to locking up journalists and has to resort to violence against public bit more often than two party system does.

That's insecurity in my book, not weakness. Locking up and disappearing people over what they say shows the government has power over the people, not approval from them.

> Also power comes from the people in single party system as well. They are the one who build economy and meaningfully secure their own environments through various non-obvious systems.

I agree, but in a dictatorship the people are held back from what they could contribute.

> But both taken together along with the systems that they interact through they can be seen as single entity.

Perhaps they seem that way from far away, but the parties can and do change their positions over time and they compete with each other to please the public. A single party system may also respond to the people's will but since speaking your mind publicly is forbidden, you never really know who made a given decision. Someone may get blamed for it but you won't know if they were the true decider. That's why you see the same party maintain control, the top decision makers cannot be held accountable. Mao is still revered despite causing widespread famine, for example.

> Any differences come from the fact that two party system has stronger grip and more stability thanks to delivering one thing that people need and single party systems are struggling to credibly provide, and enemy to hate.

That's right, in a multi-party system the people can hold the previous admin responsible for any failures by electing a new party or individual. It's not so much about people needing an enemy as it is about acknowledging that all people make mistakes. It's hard to get people to publicly take responsibility for their actions and it's next to impossible for that to truly happen when a single party rules. In a multi party state, the losing party has a chance to come back and usually that involves some admission of error, otherwise the public may view them as stubborn. In a single party state, mistakes are either excused forever, or if you fall out of favor, then you have less chance to recover.
Liquidity issue. Or rather, extremely close to it.

The CEO said he "doesn't want to use the L word" to describe it.

Basically they had to cover/deposit the purchase trades themselves, before they ran out of money to do so (liquidity issue) they shut down purchasing - then went on record on CNBC etc claiming that it's not a liquidity issue.

Interview with the CEO https://youtu.be/LqoJApzkaPU?t=404 where he confirms that's the case
>However, in cases where the icon appears stand-alone, it needs to contain a human-understandable text that explains its meaning.

Why? It's the screen reader's job to inform users of what's on their screens. It's not my job to give descriptions to things.

>The CDNs are used to track your users.

Do you have any evidence to support this claim?
I feel you. I started feeling "can we not have a crazy bull run now please" when it was clear 20k was broken for this cycle. I completely quit trading after the 2017 bubble, though. If I had placed bet on the promising small-caps (defi projects) I worked with through work over the past couple of years, I would have been wealthy now.

But I have no regrets, it has allowed me to detach mentally and emotionally from the price swings and I find my mental health worth more than the chance to get dirty rich (or lose it all). I see the prices of a lot of assets I hold during my daily work, but they're just numbers now.

I still have significant (to me) crypto holdings, but I take a longer-term perspective now and am fine with the fact that their market price may very well crash to 10% of now during the year.

But yeah, the goddamn media. Can we stop talking about price please? It's just so uninteresting.
other brokerages simply put up the money. this meant that while huge swaths of the retail investors in the US (and parts of Europe) were not allowed to buy GME, other retail investors had no issues.

to top it off, certain brokerages only allowed sell orders.

this meant a huge imbalance in the market.

i really don’t get how this is legal and why heads aren’t rolling.

case in point: saxo bank let me trade GME without an issue. but since most brokerages did not put up the new collateral, and only allowed sell...

basically this is a case of market manipulation by way of changing the rules in realtime.

i get why they changed the rules, i don’t get why the SEC is not removing the authorisation of the participants in this scheme and also not prosecuting the companies.

i’m clearly missing some info here and need to read some more on this subject.
I am unwilling to engage in substantive conversation when it comes to Austrian economics. There's little point to it, those who are adherents are not going to change their minds, it's an idealogical, rather than empirical position to take.

I'm not trying to win a debate here, nor am I interested in debating the merits of a system that I don't think has any.
Guilty untill proven innocent?
The EU needs to control - preferably democratically - its own part of the internet.
you dont think coinbase can be a cult and a mafia?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-27/coinbase-...
WebGPU is the common cross-section of the modern 3D APIs (Metal, D3D12 and Vulkan). In general, and somewhat simplified, those APIs move all the expensive render-pipeline-configuration out of the render loop and into the initialization phase. So your code is much more "front-loaded" than GL, but once everything's initialized, the actual rendering is much less code and has much less overhead because most render-state has been pre-compiled into immutable objects. OpenGL on the other hand is a highly dynamic state machine where flipping a single "switch" can lead to expensive reconfiguration of the render pipeline during rendering.
Even without the particularly damming phone call, the ICANN looks fairly terrible in this exchange.
Seconded. Really impressive series!
To answer my own question: quoting https://blog.bitmex.com/walkaway/

> "Brokers must post margin with the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation and National Securities Clearing Corporation at the end of each day to ensure enough funds are reserved to cover any trading losses."

> The “meme” stonks’ volatility skyrocketed, which meant that the clearing organisations could ask for more collateral from brokers on the grounds of needing to protect themselves from additional potential risk when settling the brokers’ trades. It takes two business days to settle stocks in the so-called digital age…

> Robinhood in particular was told to come up with $4 billion, or they would not be able to facilitate any trading the following day. RH, apparently not having that much cash on-hand, said, “how about we stop trading or severely curtail trading in the stocks that are causing PAIN to various masters of the universe?” The clearing houses said, “OK, in that case, you would only need to post $700 million.” RH agreed to that figure, rushed to raise more money from the Street and/or Silicon Valley, and then subsequently shut off trading on Jan 28th and into the weekend. (This is information gleaned from an interview the CEO of RH gave to Elon Musk on Clubhouse).

So, it's the clearing houses that strongarmed shutting down the trading.
Enforcing contracts is expensive, and if someone obtains a significant amount of goods and services the money may not be recoverable even if there's a contractual ability to do so (as it doesn't exist), people may simply go on the run, people may engage in outright fraud.

Trust is vital in a business relationship. Contracts are a useful backup against a legitimate body, but they are not much use against someone who has literally a proven track record of going on the run from law enforcement.
yeah, but as someone not educated in those matters, could someone compare the "fake" computations from the comment to real ones ? So we could see how wrong they are...
> The first nuclear bombs cost billions of dollars each.

No, at least union's ones were priced at around $100000-$120000 a pop in materials.

Giant amount of money back in seventies union for an individual, enough to live on for a lifetime.
yeah, it became less fun in python 3.
ICANN were asked to comment on the story but chose not to do so. If they have anything to say, they are free to issue a statement anytime. Meanwhile, what we know so far, together with their lack of response, should be more than enough to have an opinion about the whole situation.
Unfortunately not. There is simply not enough land to replace all beef with grass-fed beef.
Working microphones. They've sent microphones previously, which have either failed or been on missions that crashed.
What I truly miss is a competitor for both Google and Facebook. McDonald's has Burger King. Who do we go to when Google and Facebook overcharge us for advertising? The problem here is lack of competition

Online advertising is by itself a great thing. In the past, only the likes of Unilever could afford to run ads on TV and Newspaper. That was because in order to convert they needed not just ads and an online presence. They literally needed to be on the shelves of every major shop so that the customer could complete their advertising journey

I can see a competitor to Google materializing in the coming years due to Google's increasing difficulty to track user behavior. But I'm not so sure about Facebook. The only hope there is that platforms (Apple, Google and browsers) eventually force FB to become a paid service by completely disabling its tracking scripts.. which is unlikely
Why fiasco?
I’d love for someone to build an overIP bridge for this, so I can sit on the couch at home and fly through the Grand Canyon.

I’d happily pay a reasonable sum for it. I wonder if it could be done using a Stadia controller and chrome cast?
So WingDings but by Google. GoogDings?

Did anyone convert them to SVG yet?
If the bank makes such an offer to you (how much was it? 1%?), doesn't it mean that the bank expects that the interest rate will stay low for the next 10 or 15 years?
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Easy and simple are not the same, and one still needs to go hunting for libraries to do basic stuff like loading textures, in good old Khronos tradition.
Hard to hear.

Robinhood has normalized pay for flow, a service that is literally shaving cash off each order in exchange for “free trading”. Pff can only generate net revenue by making traders pay more per trade than actual best execution, which Robinhood is suppose to be legally required to deliver. The SEC in the 90s and 2000s thought the practice amounted to middle manning traders and should be illegal.

Basically: Robinhood gives stock purchases to a third party, who pays Robinhood for each transaction in “rebates”. If you have a free trading account other than fidelity, you are paying insane transaction fees that are hidden from you by the pff. It’s middle manning, and Robinhood is paid to enable it.

Not a fall guy, just not all the guys that need to fall.
Basic economics, btc is denominated in $, if the dollar becomes worth less (increased supply), you will need more $ per coin. But that doesnt explain the 10, 20x of bitcoin by itself.
I appreciate your detailed comment.

>Within a problem domain though, like PDFs that are just pages of scanned images, you could probably iterate and downsample until you hit your target size.

I presumed any solution for this problem would involve multiple passes through the compression routine to hit the target size. Having to deal with text, font, images separately as you said does make that complex.

Right now, I'm just waiting to see if there's really a need gap for this. It's usually the Govt. websites which has very low limit for document upload size like 100KB, I personally take the image out of .pdf and compress it to minimum jpeg quality; but documents with multiple pages make it tricky.
I'm sympathetic, especially given this was core infrastructure for a nationwide emergency. But, how many people do actually know the row limit? It's easy to say experts know it. But is it discoverable from within the interface? If you're a management consultant Excel jockey, is there a way you would have learned about this before tripping over it?
Fun with Timers and Cpuid
How do you reflash those androids?, It's been hard for me trying to find a trustworthy ROM for an Mi A2 Lite
Whereas in most middleware you can say "here is my scene, do your best", and only dig deeper if it needs some help to do its best.

As traditionally in all Khronos APIs, the step from "I managed a rotating cube with gourad shading", to loading a game scene with PBR material, is a gigantic step full hunting for libraries and trying to put them together, somehow.

It is no surprise that even with WebGL, most people end up picking ThreeJS or BabylonJS, after getting their first triangle.
Have you seen a Vulkan "Hello Triangle" in comparison? That's a least a thousand lines of code, and that's with taking shortcuts :)

132 lines isn't really that much for a triangle in any 3D API, except 90's style OpenGL 1.x (which was a nice and convenient API, but also very inefficient).

I'm sure there will be plenty of high-level Javascript libraries built on top of WebGPU which will cater to different philosophies and use cases, and those will also allow a Hello Triangle with fewer lines of code (but also will involve compromises at flexibility or performance).
They do push for that though. Via PWA/WebAssembly.
Is picking a flower or harvesting wheat inhumane? If not, is there something special about the process of breathing that makes animals more worthy of protection than plants?
I'm not sure about these companies, in terms of getting massive uptake of meat alternatives they seem fine. However their product is heavily processed food, with ingredients you don't really need to be eating and massively marked up in prices. Other than marketing, what are you really gaining over a 3rd world diet of rice and beans/lentils.

Hey you could even prepare your own dinner from a selection of fresh vegetables and fruit (and if you're feeling absolutely crazy you could add a few eggs, milk, meat, fish or grains).

This seems like it solves a couple of problems and ignores/creates a whole load more. People who are content eating all their meals from McDonalds etc have their own issues, most of which can't be fixed by meat substitues.
Has the same been observed in spot-on treatments?

I treat my cat with imidacloprid, as it is bunny safe and I don't want my rabbit potentially being harmed by being in close proximity to the cat. It looks like imidacloprid is one of the active ingredients in this collar, however.

So far I've not observed any adverse effects in either animal, but this does concern me a lot. Bizarrely, I take care of their health more than I do my own...
The problem with buying the NYT subscription is that you still get the ads. If not overtly, then they are still buried in the content in some sponsored form or another, because this is a large part of how the newspaper makes money. And the newspaper has other agendas too - political, commercial, etc. The Substack model, on the other hand (at least so far) lets you cut out most of the crap - the signal to noise ratio is just so much higher.
He’s a fairly accomplished security researcher who seems to have quite a knack for this sort of reverse engineering.[0]. I’m always amazed by his patience every time he publishes his research.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tavis_Ormandy
> EU's austerity nonsense post 2008

Can you elaborate? My country (Poland) was in the EU at the time and I didn't notice any "austerity nonsense". Was it related to the eurozone somehow? (we don't have euro in Poland).
That’s not the reason robinhood gave at the time.

Also, robinhood waited till the end of the day to lift its ban, despite other companies had followed robinhood lead lifting their bans hours earlier.
I feel similarly. I have done well but it’s mentally draining and I’m compulsively checking balances. If I sold everything and moved into an ETF I’d pay a lot of short term cap gains but I still probably will.
Does it? From what I could tell from the source code, it seems like it should ask first.

Even still, auto update is a feature, not a vulnerability. It's the only way to get non-technical people to patch their software because people are afraid of change. Even if there's a huge vulnerability in Bitwarden, tons of people won't click the "yes update please" button because they're afraid updates change the way the tool works or break something.
But how do you actually apply the styling? Just add a class to the <use> tag which contains “color:red;” ?
SARS-CoV-2 antibodies detected in human breast milk post-vaccination
I have a hard time getting upset about this to be honest. All our desktop frameworks and libraries include rendering components nowadays, it's not unusual for system components to use these in their UI. Microsoft already has several significant products like VS Code and Teams build around the chromium rendering engine and the next version of Outlook will likely be an Electron app as well apparently.

Beyond that, a desktop OS without a browser installed is largely a dead duck. Most people install browsers using a browser. The first thing I do on a new Mac or PC is launch the default browser to download Chrome or Firefox.

Browser technology is a core OS function at this point and being able to launch a browser has become an essential capability users just expect to be there. Platform components, support processes and some applications might rely on it being there. Imagine a user installing Firefox then deleting Edge, then forgetting about it and deleting Firefox, or Firefox becoming unusable due to an extension or malware. Suddenly the user is functionally locked out of the internet. I think Microsoft has a legitimate interest in making sure users can't easily get themselves into that sort of situation.
The emperor's new censorship.

All books are equal, but some books are more equal than others.