skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A pretty cool piece.

Too bad they have to use text to make their point. It would essentially reach zero people due to rules (https://www.facebook.com/business/learn/lessons/how-to-adher...). Then there's personal attributes (https://m.facebook.com/policies/ads/prohibited_content/perso...). Then ads that do not sell products/services follow murky rules, and talking about Facebook itself is usually prohibited. (edited from: because the rule they're actually breaking is the "No Text" rule in Facebook ad creatives.)

Is there non-symbolic imagery that they could have used to say the same thing?

Perhaps they should have retained someone with this kind of creative experience.

Looking critically, the most narrow and serious obstacle to advocate for privacy is storytelling.
I think The Cove (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cove_(film)) had a lot to do with raising (negative) awareness of dolphin fishing in Japan.
I was thinking more that he somehow discovered there might be an issue when measuring without good precision, and later came back to verify with a proper method.
In my experience, people who are against "equity" call it "equality of outcome" because it sounds more Orwellian/communistic/whatever your dystopian descriptor of choice is. Very few people actually advocate for "equality of outcome".

Equity is closer to "equality of opportunity" than "equality of outcome". "Equality" is neither of those things because it doesn't correct for differences in opportunity and therefore obviously doesn't yield an equal outcome.
See "The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets", by Thomas Philippon [0]

[0] https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674237544
This has had a big impact on the economies of regional mid-sized metros as jobs consolidated in coastal megacities. Arguably, this resulted in a lower quality of life in both classes of cities.

Good Atlantic article on the subject: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/04/how-ame...
Overtone was/is Clojure over SuperCollider. There are a number of other similar lisp things though. Incudine might be the one you're thinking of?
I've run ads on FB before, but this is an incredibly simple article to share with my non-technically minded friends and family as to why these services collect too much data. We need more of these simple and concise posts to share outside of the tech-bubble we live in.
Because the goal is as much to collect the location data as it is the tax.
In fairness, that was the legal claim that they thought had the best chance of succeeding. That option for a poison pill had been in the arsenal pretty much since the company was formed. They sued because Yahoo failed to accept the agreement.
I see far more people saying the opposite, that if you're single and unhappy, it's your fault for not trying hard enough to be happy.

Some people need relationships to be happy. Some don't. It's silly to deny the existence of either group, but most discourse seems to deny that it's valid for someone to see a relationship as an important component of their path to happiness.
I wonder what the reasoning for disabling the account is. It would be extremely funny if the T&Cs said you can’t expose FB as creepy. :D
Linus is probably a tie-breaker, and thus a unilateral decision maker for Linux when necessary too. What's the problem?
Data show prevalence of in-home transmission of Covid-19
See, the trick here is to put all the personal data onto an oddly specific t-shirt that's for sale.

Available now, size "Large" t-shirt for sale!

"I'm a proud dad living in Seattle who attended the University of Washington and once went on a trip to Central America for a while. I have a dog and like to read and occasionally complain about politics."

I'd buy this if I saw it, if just for the lulz and nihilistic outlook when it comes to privacy.

In fact... if I were a privacy-focused company, I'd 100% do this as a marketing stunt.
Just a homelabber, but in my 40+ drive homelab I've noticed the same. HDDs normally toss a couple SMART errors when dying. For SSDs I've gone through maybe 10 of them so far, and they just suddenly kick the bucket without warning.
The Python object model is quite unlike CLOS.
At some point in his life Larry Ellison was passionate about something as mundane as a database.
I think in this context it's not about toxic masculinity, but simply biology. We're merely animals with big brains, and most individual animals have a deep desire to reproduce. So it's not exactly weird that historically everywhere in the world young men unable to find a partner have been frustrated and a source of social problems, especially as with men troubles finding a partner tend to correlate with lower socio-economic status in general.
Partly this is because we've given up trying to get computers to "understand" and have focused on making them useful with sophisticated software. That is, the work is no longer about artificial intelligence, but about trained, new-style, expert systems.
Some more fun reading on Facebook targeting from 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17112559
It absolutely isn't. Progressives, when they see inequality of outcomes at the group level, correctly identify an inequality of opportunity. There's no progressive in the world that thinks that everyone should have the same outcomes.

That's different from wanting similar outcomes between groups of millions of people, because those almost invariably come from inequality of opportunity.

I don't know of any left tendency that believes in equality of outcomes. Even communists don't believe in equality of outcome.
Sure, there are Apple-certified accessories out there, but you literally have to buy stuff explicitly catered to their hardware for their software to work right. Whereas anyone else can use "literally any keyboard out there", you need an Apple keyboard to work with an Apple device.
"Not deserving hatred" isn't enough today. Nuance is too much to ask for. Lump them all together and despise them, that is the order of the day.
> but nearly 100% of everyone reading this would have felt some emotional recoil from being called at least one of those two things

What's the rationale behind this statement? It seems like it's implying "nearly 100%" people are one or the other kind of extremists when it comes to Gender politics. Wouldn't it rather be the other way round, people knowingly identifying themselves as both Feminists and MRAs (redundant, as "Feminist" by itself means someone who strives for equality among genders), since most are normally moderate in their opinions?
Another way to phrase the original top comment (which, btw, is very deservedly the top comment): "If you can't be happy on your own, there's no way you'll be happy with a partner."

Happiness comes from within. Pegging your happiness on something external to yourself - material wealth, social standing, another human being - is giving away all agency you have over your own happiness.
You don't need a business account but you do need a personal account (or rather a personal account can be a business acct).

The targeting is relatively specific. Think of a (general) category and it'll be available. I use it for bars and restaurants at a local level, and the granularity is quite nice vs other media (target people who like bars or restaurants, are into music, are into drinks, are into cocktails, are into concerts currently in the city or who are traveling to this city)

It really helps a small budget go a long a way, assuming the stats they give are correct.
My experience with WD SSDs is that they just slow down more and more as they get close to the TBW limits, without failing fully / dropping off the bus (as another user describes here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27040491).
I spoke to a family owned business tycoon from South America and he was convinced that publicly owned companies are doomed in the long run. His rough quote (my Spanish was not fantastic) was something like, “I’m managing this company for the next 10 generations and your country’s companies are managed for the next quarter. Which of us will be here in 100 years?”
"Cuddle parties" are not a substitute for sex, for men or women. Nor are "strong friendships", as you insinuate above.

Emotional intimacy, physical closeness, and sex are distinct and separable. Though they are linked for most people, for many no one of those is a substitute for any other.
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Well, how did Taiwan start? At the time, they would have been competing directly with the US. The US had to possess every advantage: money, skilled labor, all your customers in the same country. Why did all the fabs uproot and move across an ocean?
The most striking thing here has got to be that for some people being told they worked at a company riddled with white supremacy and racism would have been a relief.

I know the stock response is that denying the existence of a problem is worse than admitting it, but if the gravamen of the issue is not whether or not the company is built on the most murderous ideology in history but whether or not the founders will affirm that it is publicly seems an excellent indicator the term 'white supremacy' has been hollowed out and is now just another target in woke language games.
Ideas are worthless, execution is everything.

If you want to prove your idea is worth something, execute on it.
> The ad would simply display some of the information collected about the viewer which the advertising platform uses. Facebook was not into that idea.

Genius! But it’s unclear to me if the examples in the blog were actual ads shown to users before their account was blocked, or the campaign never got off the ground at all. If it’s the latter, the blog should make it clearer otherwise it makes it look like those were real ads
Yes, I've conflated the idea of "needing" something with the idea of "deserving" something.

For example, some people need food, but they don't deserve it just because they're alive. We call that hunger.

Other people need housing, but they don't deserve it just because they're alive. We call that homelessness.

Some need sex, but they don't deserve it just because they're alive. We call those people incels.
Hmm it seems like you're reframing things to shore up your argument
Because they're self centered and only want friends when it's convenient for them.
“Software” is eating the world
> I recently had an epiphany which, IMHO, would be a very attractive business which complements at least four of the FAANG companies.

That's an awesome position to be in! Congratulation.

> Does anyone have any advice on how I could possibly sell them on the idea?

Time to press the "New Project" button on your IDE and start working on an MVP. Good ideas are a dime a dozen, great engineering and working code is where the true value lies. Time to start building in public, pitch it to your friends, order pizza and break out that white board.
That's a common misconception about marxism. "To each according to his needs" does not mean "To each the same amount". Societies that reportedly strived to be marxist, still had different people doing different things and being granted different resources - and that's inevitable. It was even a typical complaint of soviet societies, the fact that "connected" people would get more than others.

It just so happens that, given the pre-existent distribution of wealth will have followed other rules, the first step of marxist enaction inevitably ends up being "the big reset" where inequality of outcome gets temporarily removed for everyone.
Someone mentioned that it’s the “No Text” if anyone else was wondering
>If Seaspiracy is to be believed, there's no such this as sustainable fishing at scale

This statement is silly. There is A scale at which fishing is sustainable. The issue is that we are likely well over that.
Their campaign execution is brilliant...love it.

That said, nothing about this is new. Whether Facebook, Google, or any of the other countless (yes, thousands) of players in the AdTech ecosystem, this kind of targeting can be done with ease and for pennies per user.

The deprecation of third-party data, cookies, and cross-domain tracking couldn't happen soon enough. It's not a perfect solution but it's certainly a step in the right direction.
People have been able to raise non-insignificant amounts of money selling NFTs for charities.

Snowden - Freedom of Press Foundation 5.4m https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/16/22388548/edward-snowden-n...

pplpleasr - Stand with Asians 550k https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/99615/uniswap-v3-nft-sol...
I do something similar for long job on the remote server: an alias to send me an email + a rule in Outlook which opens a popup when an email with this subject is received (I haven't managed to get sound from VNC)
Find public Google spreadsheets by title query
A 50/50 Mix of Tomato ketchup and Sriracha is IMO better than straight ketchup
Your Versa isn't exactly dumb either. It's younger than the iPhone.
That's all fine and good when you are a company that merely provides a service, but it's a little different when you are selling actual software and games for $60 a pop that will evaporate into thin air if you shut down.

Imagine if you bought a car from a dealership and the car stopped working when the dealership went out of business. Nobody would accept that as being OK!
Nissan is in the list but Datsun is not... I really think they trimmed down the list to the bigger brands.
You're interpreting this very different to how I read it. Missing someone is very different from being miserable when apart because you don't have anything else to give your life meaning.

I'm not miserable when I miss someone. I'd never describe it as that way, because if I'm apart from someone, while that sucks, at the same time it means I have someone. Longing is not misery to me at least.
I don't see any brain fuck programmer trying to convince us that bf is the future. nobody is trying to convince someone else to code in bf.

same with the abstract art. someone did it, it happened, people appreciated. but they knew that's all about it. no artist telling us to do it.

And nft isn't even comparable, it's just become another term for cypto coin. Two years ago this would an ICO. coin to save lifes.
Systems are better too though. When I was an intern all meeting scheduling was done on some convoluted mainframe system. Most of my co-workers had forgot their login to the system, they either grabbed a room that was empty and left if someone showed up, or they had the secretary schedule it (these were computer programmers Sun workstations on their desk, not computer haters who refused to learn). One day we rolled out a new system that was easy to use and suddenly all meetings got scheduled by whoever wanted to have one (then that got replaced by exchange/outlook which we could figure out but wasn't anywhere near as easy).

So some of the savings is good. It is faster for me to schedule a meeting in outlook (not the same company) than to find a secretary to schedule my meetings. However the secretary might be worth going back to just because they always knew important gossip that was worth knowing.
> because the rule they're actually breaking is the "No Text" rule in Facebook ad creatives

maybe breaking the rule was intentional, to make this article work
Yep, exactly what I did
Read the book while I was quarantine, still relevant today and very well written!

Edit: fixed link

https://ia902309.us.archive.org/25/items/pdfy-MgN0H1joIoDVoI...
There's this thing called communism, not sure if you have heard of it but it's becoming quite popular again amongst the younger generation.
I'm unsure where in the world you are, but accuracy depends on the satellite you're receiving data from. Commercial GPS satellites (or rather the stream you receive) also have better precision than normal "consumer" ones, and one could assume military has the most accurate ones. The new Galileo (Europe) system has a accuracy down to 1 meter, while GLONASS (Russia) has something like 3 meters. The commercial accuracy of Galileo is down to 1 cm though.
TSLA made more headlines than any other stock in April (and it wasn't close)
Start a successful business and get acquired. Otherwise impossible.

Source: FAANG PM
Agreed. If you don't acquire the rights to the contents of the NFT when you buy it, it's not very clear what you are buying. If you do acquire the rights (including cash flow) then buying an NFT has very real meaning.
> When you say "I'm no expert, but..." on HN, people take it literally.

I'm not understanding this. What other way to take this is there? "I'm no expert, but" is indicating that -- oh, I think I see what you mean by the non-literal meaning, maybe.

The literal meaning would be a disclaimer as to how much others should take one's perspective into account / how much others should trust/believe what one is saying,

whereas the non-literal meaning would be indicating that the situation is kind of sarcastic or something, either because one is well versed in the topic, and therefore should be considered credible, or because the thing being said is obvious and usually shouldn't even need to be said.

Is that right? Is this the distinction you meant?

edit : I'm sure I'm kind of serving as an example of your point by saying this, but, whatever, I don't regard that as a problem.
It's not "a boogie [sic] man". Marxist governments were definitely not "analyzing history", they were enacting government policies. That's what governments do, unsurprisingly.

(Source: I grew up in a Marxist country and was taught Marxism by a Marxist teacher.)
Well unless you light them on fire?
Seriously how is advertisement legal?

If you truly believe in free market then surely you must agree advertisement is a mass manipulation technique that should be illegal as anti-competitive technique (reinforces dominant positions).

If you're an anarchist/socialist then surely you've read or seen some talks by Noam Chomsky about "Manufacturing consent" and by now you want to burn down every TV station, bank and police station you can think of.

Even if you don't mind printed ads, if you're just a little bit concerned about privacy, you must be out of your mind that certain data obtained about you may be used against you and your loved ones

Who's left to defend that kind of degrading practice? How can we put enough social pressure on these people so they stop and develop healthier activities than to hijack our brains remotely?
I would suspect that usage of antidepressants is lower in highly religious couples. The one-two combo of antidepressants and hormonal birth control absolutely destroy libido.
>The desire to bone isn't 'toxic masculinity' and isn't something easily substituted with more friends (unless they are of the "with benefits" variety)

Wow, that's two turns of phrase that erode your point in one sentence.
My very strong suspicion is there’s lots of relationships that are encapsulated by this Mitch Hedberg quote:

“I don’t have a girlfriend. I do have a girl who’d be mad if she heard me say that.”
Andy for Backblaze here: A while back we did an analysis of drive failure over time, i.e. the bathtub curve. It is probably a good idea to update that, as I believe we are seeing lower failure rates upfront these days.
Chaotic systems and strange attractors are 100% deterministic, yet still unpredictable -- that's what makes them so interesting. Really, determinism vs. non-determinism seems to be missing the point. I wouldn't feel like I have any more free will if it turned out all my decisions were based on the outcome of a random die roll, for instance.

Like so many philosophical discussions, it quickly devolves into an argument about definitions. What exactly is "free will"? How would the universe and my experiences in it be different if I had it vs. if I did not? If we're not debating about testable, falsifiable things, then we're just arguing about definitions of words.
...or you encounter a bit of chainsaw diplomacy: (link in Norwegian, but the photos are quite telling.)

https://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/i/GkGJm/nabotvist-paa-ne...
You don't know any communists in your insanely left and progressive university? I find that hard to believe. I went to a fairly right wing university and the place with lousy with communists. They mostly got better, but still.
The irony that Signal itself has an Instagram account...

https://www.instagram.com/signal_app/
Sometimes the best commentary comes from taking satire seriously on accident. I thought your comment was great.

Every one of the outrageous behaviors listed have definitely been someone's actual reality, and for some people it was several of those things. Equally outrageous is how often the parents have no clue what awful things their kids are doing. Not the warez, pr0n, turf wars, freaking, hacking, etc.

It's the stalking, harassment, and deeply seated psychological issues that are guaranteed to get worse by pulling a power-play and declaring victory. That is going now require extra work to correct. That other stuff is more likely to land your kid a great job/career than destroy opportunities to form relationships.
> Beyond basic survival requirements, social signals are one of the most important concepts in human society!

These social signals are a core human survival mechanisms since at least the birth of agriculture. When the climate turned for the worse or food was scarce, nomadic tribes just migrated to an environment with better conditions. In an agricultural society, clans had to develop a different mechanism that took advantage of agriculture's strength: large surpluses around harvest time that couldn't easily be stored through the winter. This is where the concept of banquets was born and there's archaeological evidence of hunter-gatherers and farmers participating in them together in the Early Neolithic, when agriculture just getting started.

Instead of moving to find food, humans adapted to create strong social bonds between clans by elaborate social signals. Banquets, parties, and feasts were fundamentally saying "we've got a surplus now and we'll share it with you with the understanding that you'll share your surplus when you have one." Dowries and marriages were just a formalization of that unspoken social contract. Today someone might throw a big wedding or party as a show of status but back then, they were grand events because all of the best food spoiled quickly and it served zero purpose to hoard it.

That said, what the diamond ring industry has evolved into is something quite new.
Huh, a past employer of mine, Orbital Insight, has been tracking these 'dark ships' for years using a couple of different methods.