skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm all for content-only based ads that take a reasonable amount/location of screen space, minimal/no distracting motions, very low computational expenditure.

How about making ad containers on a page that enforces these?
Yeah but if you found out a quicker and more efficient way to stop people from reading HN, every business would want it because their workers would stop bloviating 4 hours a day for those who know what it is, and the rest of the world would continue on ignorant of it as it always has.

But it's not worth anything. Sometimes you just can't clean up garbage. Graham has too many dishonest people in YC. They're like gollum and want their precious but think they're Gandalf.

We all know HN mods fuck around with rankings, but you know how I know they fuck around with rankings?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27062309

This post has 30 upvotes, it got those 30 upvotes in 30 minutes. It's now at the very, very, very bottom of this thread just above all the dead guys because it is critical of Graham.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27046196

This post has over 60 upvotes and is critical but is also completely relevant. It has been "detached" by dang.
Wouldn't the compiler optimize this to an array lookup?

static const char* countries[257];

Or even:

static const char countrycodes[514];
return countrycodes[i * 2];
Farfetch – The road to 1.7B dollars in revenues
So basically screen readers blindly stumble into comment trees? Never thought of that.
Sorry but this is a bunch of BS, why work on ads? Because you get a big fat check at the end of the month, and that perfectly fine.
That "pond" metaphor only works if anyone and everyone getting rich anywhere in the world all happen to be doing so at the companies that are popular topics of conversation within the Valley bubble.

Otherwise, what the fuck is he even going on about?
I would at minimum like to play this with a Hold option. I'm not a huge fan of the mechanic in normal Tetris, because IMO dealing with and recovering from unfortunately-timed pieces is a key part of the game. But, that's not really an issue here!
Can anyone grok what the actual proposed reforms are? It’s missing from the article.
I will point out that people typically avoid anything that has even a remote chance of harming their genitalia, especially when it's as voodoo-seeming as the bioelectric systems here.
Well the EU isn't stupid. They foresaw a situation were companies would consider moving to a "data haven" to avoid this legislation.
Few areas pay as well, and someone's gonna do it. This is a rational way to maximize his capacity to influence his world as much as possible.

Let's not blame engineers for what is effectively a political issue. If ads are an issue, let's get the law to handle it.
Why it has to be a single ethical problem? The industry is quite capable of having multiple ethical problems in parallel.
I didn’t say that increasing the pool was a bad idea. In fact, I said it’s a benefit, albeit a marginal one because it’s a relatively small % of people we’re talking about here. The problem is that it comes at a cost. Furthermore, while we’re on the subject of pool increase, it’s also vastly lowering the selection pool if they favor people from this small group.

There may be aspects of the selection process that are arbitrary, but not having physical disabilities isn’t one of them. As the article discusses, this would involve changing a number of aspects about the program to accommodate this one specific group. It’s not just a matter of “reconsidering and expanding” the restrictions, it’s clearly a major undertaking.
I really like your level-headed, not-overly-gamer-but-still-not-too-dry style. Keep it up!
Are you familiar with Twinbeard's Futiltris? You'll need Flash to play it these days, but I always found it really entertaining.

[0] http://twinbeard.com/140_futilitris
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab62aohgpKI
Yeah, there are people who overshop, I'm sorry, but so what? What's the alternative? Ban ads? Let the government decide what should be sold / not sold? I believe it should be left to the individual what they consume and buy with their own earned money. No one has the right to say that they can't buy tobacco, or take a predatory loan.

"personal data collection & malware" - you agree to those conditions. In return you get amazing free products. Don't want that? There are many alternatives (Linux, Chromium / Firefox, duckduckgo, telegram and other alternative open-source products).
It was easier eight years ago, I would just look at Bitcointalk threads and be able to make an evaluation pretty quickly. Small scale, relatively more clued in folks. Now the scale is a problem. There are so many projects I know nothing about.

Nowadays I usually go to /r/cryptocurrency/new for the firehose. I do not aim to read everything, just check in and take some notes. What tends to happen on that subreddit is that some really great posts get made but never hit frontpage because they're crowded out by useless memetic content. But you can take individual great posts and turn those into leads by doing some additional legwork. I don't usually talk to those users(I do not want to read comment thread replies and will completely ignore my Reddit inbox, instead I will monitor the thread if it interests me) but I will sometimes browse their post history.
It's not so much anti-motorist propaganda, but rather street safety advocacy to remind drivers that 'accidents' are mostly avoidable.

I don't have any news stories at the ready, but next time you see an article like 'Man, 30, dead after being hit by SUV' take a look at the comment section. I guarantee there will be multiple people asking if he was outside of a crosswalk, or noting how people need to get off their phones when walking. There's usually an absence of talking about the driver, because usually they are not mentioned apart from 'the driver stayed on scene and is cooperating with the police'. Advocates of 'crash not accident' would like the headline to be rewritten such as 'Driver hits and kills 30-year-old man with SUV'. A headline like that hopefully leads people to question whether the driver was speeding, on their phone, etc.

https://www.roadpeace.org/download/crash-not-accident-briefi...
I would think the opposite -- that's it's too popular a space. But I'm still surprised at how many services don't have it and need it, so maybe I'm wrong.
Seconding this. I was in my previous position at a little under 5 years, with in fact substantive raises (8-10%) each. But still I jumped 15% immediately in base salary by joining to another company.
A big issue with micropayments is taxes.

If we are using micropayments to let users directly pay a site for views of that site's articles or for skipping ads on those articles, then the jurisdiction that the user is in is likely to consider that a sale in their jurisdiction and want the site to collect VAT or sales tax. If people from 50 different countries purchase articles, you might end up having to deal with taxes in 50 different countries! (Even countries that have thresholds of the form "no tax unless total sales in the country are above $X" might require you to register there and fill out a form each quarter saying you didn't meet the threshold).

The site doesn't have that problem if instead they sell ads and get their money from the advertisers or from the ad network. That money is taxed, but it is taxed as income in the location of the site, not as a sale where the users are. Having people visit your site from 50 different countries doesn't increase the complexity of your tax situation.

Assuming we can't get widespread adoption of more micropayment friendly rules for online purchased of content access and/or ad skipping, there is a way to use micropayments for that while avoiding the tax jurisdiction explosion.

That is the imposition of a middleman service. It sounds like Blendle might be such a middleman.

You buy articles from the middleman, making your micropayment to the middleman. The middleman license the content for resale from the publishers and pays a royalty based on volume.

If you arrange this right when the user buys an article the middleman is the seller for VAT or sales tax purposes and so it is the middleman that has to deal with all the different jurisdictions. The publishers only have to deal with their own jurisdiction and perhaps the jurisdiction of the middleman.

But then you have the issue of who will be the middleman? I don't think we want it to end up like streaming movies, where we've got Netflix and Disney+ and Peacock and Hulu and Prime and Google and HBO Max and a whole bunch of others and you need to use more than one of them to see all the content you want.

We probably need at most 3 or 4 big middlemen that are easy enough for publishers to use that most sites that want to offer a pay per article option are signed up with all of those middlemen.

My guess is that it might end up being the same companies that provide "sign on with" services that end up providing micropayment middlemen services and/or companies that already provide big online stores that sell internationally.

That would be Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google.
> an enhancement to tooling support for Clippy

All we need now is better speech recognition for BonziBuddy.
So in 4000 years, archeologists digging up the the Midwest will theorize that Ohio valley was the center of a vast industrial society. They will theorize that it may be linked to a settlement that was known in ancient times as the mythical city of "New York", which is referenced several times in ancient literature, of which no ruins have been found.
Here is a genuine question, if one I cannot help but deliver in an acid tone:

what does it mean to be a "decent" person, if one is willfully, or disingenuously, ignorant of participation in an unethical system?

Decent is a stand-in for ethical; this is a contradiction at a logical level,

but to answer my own question,

in contemporary American culture, not least in the readership of HN,

there is disturbing dance between "moving fast and breaking things" (like the law, or social contracts, or presumption of civility) when that is convenient,

and a contradictory but also embraced enthusiasm for giving people benefit of doubt and analogously, as in this case, presumption that intention excuses offense.

I.e. that having "earnest intentions" born in some degree of perhaps bad-faith ignorance, excuses amoral consequence.

That is the sort of wishful/fuzzy/poor thinking that has led our industry into its current state of moral bankruptcy and crises.

By no definition is Jeff a decent person. (Really!)
Aren't they both weird?
Thanks - these look great. Entirely justified rant too!
Code execution in Open Office via hyperlinks
Right, ok.

So you see more ads, the people publishing content make more money (more ads + better ads --> more valuable eyeballs --> more valuable content), and then the ROI for making content is higher, so people make + publish more of it. You get more, more valuable content.

Now, you may argue that the privacy cost is higher than the reward of more/better content, but I think that it probably isn't. Especially because it's hard (not impossible) to match your browsing history with your IRL identity and no one really cares about you, I think that the privacy cost is smaller than the reward. You might disagree.
Agree, this knowledge is unnecessary.

The first thing I did was use curl to check if it's a client or server problem.

Then I looked at the code and immediately noticed the unnecessary flush call, the unnecessary loading of the whole file in memory and the unnecessary fs.stats.
The problem is not Ads themselves, it's the fact that they inject perverse incentives into the entire tech ecosystem.

To maximize your advertising revenue, you need to track your users as effectively as possible. This:

a) Reduces user privacy. Even recent developments like FLoC, which appear to be pro-privacy on the surface, are really just yet another datapoint with which to violate the privacy of users.

b) Reduces performance. It's easy to blame trendy bloated tech stacks for the state of the web, but the reality is that a big chunk of the slowness comes from ad-related tracking and delivery technologies (install privacy extensions on a low-end system and see the difference!). This reduced performance disproportionately affects those with lower system and network resources, further reinforcing global inequality.

Although some will disagree, I do think that it's possible to advertise ethically, but no large corporation operating in a capitalist society is going to be doing that voluntarily - unless strict regulation comes down from above (Spoiler Alert: It won't).

All that said, I don't blame the author for working in adtech, but perhaps only due to my rather bleak perspective that we're all just cogs in the capitalist machine whether we like it or not.

Don't hate the player, hate the game.

P.S: Cynically, I think the author's announcement of their charitable donations counts against them. It makes it seem like he's trying to "offset" the harm caused by his work, even if he won't openly admit that such harm exists. Charitable donations may make you a net-virtuous individual, but they do nothing to address the harm of adtech itself - which is orthogonal to the author's original claim that they believe that advertising is a good thing.
I don't have problem having gazillions of tokens, I just don't use them. There isnt need and in the long run companies will just write them off like many other hyped IT projects.
Good point!

Ordering pet food over the internet in 1995: crazy moonshot weirdo stuff.

Ordering pet food over the internet in 2021: just another day.
Running on the track is not the same as climbing out of a cramped pressure vessel.
The Largest Cells on Earth
Thanks for proving my point. I assume at this point that people who still don't understand the concept of privilege are being deliberately obtuse, so I'm not going to bother with you. The information is out there. You can choose to make an effort to understand or not.
I've been running into this a lot lately. This will definitely come in handy for my React projects
No, because classic mechanics isn't an "explanation" for observed reality.

God this is such an awful thread.
Grant funded? So you'd have people paying taxes to their government so their government could publish graphic videos of their loved ones dying in awful ways? That's beyond adding insult to injury.

If such videos must be published, I'd rather not be made to pay for it. Monetizing violence isn't great either, but at least I'm not forced by law to be involved in it myself.
Ah, got it thanks.
There's some good reason to think that residencies are profitable: in 2019, 550 of them were auctioned off for $55 million in a controversial bankruptcy case.

https://www.inquirer.com/business/hahnemann-university-hospi...
Yes, it is really maddening: they make you consent to their "legitimate interest" cookies, conflating legal terms to confuse people into accepting everything.

Ad-tech companies get more and more emboldened lately. They see that the GDPR is not really enforced, they assume that big, cash-rich companies will get taken on first, competitors are doing it too, so they gamble they can get away paying lip service to GDPR while continuing their illegal tracking practices.

I have seen several startups pitching schemes that seem blatantly illegal to me, while assuring that their tech is fully compliant. Often using the words "legitimate interest" to prove this point.
Discovery of fungi or bacteria growing on Mars would be absolutely shattering science. The claim of fungus-like growth didn't seem to be supported by the photographic evidence, though.

edit: After looking through all the photos again, I admit that I am feeling pretty compelled by the evidence. If these photos are unaltered, the processes producing the phenomena are absolutely worth studying.
Oh man, my sides. This is so rich I'm going to be ill. So the guy who puts his donations majorly on blast is Yet Another Ads Guy. The thing about a guilty conscience is it's hard to miss. Don't worry bro, you're perfect, go make that bread. Sleazy.
Sorry, but what savings? I come from Baltics. Born late years of Empire. Most of SU people lived on the edge powerty. Ofc if you were in party or releated to defense then you had very good or decent living standards. But for my family where all of 4 grandparents were from kulaks almost zero chanche to get out from specific kasta.
Buddhist monks visualize gore for enlightenment purposes.
If you think it's broken, then you should try to clear some lines, I dare you! >:D
> I'm surprised he only took a sample.

The lesion was likely too big to comfortably remove in-office.
That depends on the expertise as well. Extraordinary claims need that proof, of course, but it seems they took a lot of factors into account that seems to skew it towards their hypothesis.
why fight so hard against even trying???
Institutional trust is certainly a huge problem right now.
Out-of-control Chinese rocket expected to crash into Earth this weekend
Huge hit to brand identity with very little payoff. Font files are usually cached, and load quickly if they aren't.
> They also vacuum up the trail of crumbs that led to them, making our standards for new ideas impossibly high.

I enjoy this style of writing. Seemingly simple but packs a lot of meaning (like JoelOnSoftware back in the day).
Your own link says “ The former vice president's campaign said he "misspoke and immediately corrected himself" during remarks about leveling the playing field for low-income students.”

Biden is known to have a stutter and to misspeak frequently. There is no comparable issue to be found here.

https://www.npr.org/2016/06/04/480714972/trump-presses-case-...

> Trump made the remarks, and others like it, repeatedly, in interviews with CNN and The Wall Street Journal, referring to Judge Curiel variously as "of Mexican heritage" or just "Mexican." But the message was always the same, that the judge had what Trump called "a conflict" because of his ethnicity.
I have had some private pay medical treatment and can concur. Come in, write the check/present the card, and walk out. Fortunately it wasn't very expensive.
Storage of data that is usually but not ALWAYS in a shorter range is a complicated problem if you don't just throw more RAM at it.

Perhaps a CPU built around a base numeric type more like UTF-8 would be useful? Short values would take only a smaller amount of RAM but longer values would still work?

I suspect in the era of 64 bit CPUs that isn't much of an advantage anymore.
Given his use case which involves massive video and photo editing, and the reports of excessive writes on the SSD in the M1s is it possible his SSD just reached EOL?

I don’t know what the symptoms of an SSD reaching EOL are, would it just stop responding at all?

I don’t think we still have heard anything from Apple about the massive SSD writes and that for me is the biggest concern before making an M1 based purchase.
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Joins R Consortium
I believe the technology behind Mighty is amazing, the people involved are amazing, the experience for it's users will be amazing.

I believe the underlying reason for HN's reaction to Mighty has almost nothing to do with any of the above. To the contrary, most of us probably feel that Mighty will be a raging success. But we don't actually like that at all. When I reflect on my own thoughts, the reasons my initial reaction is pessimistic are:

1. If Mighty makes badly designed/architected apps "fast", nobody will fix the underlying issues.

2. The internet will be amazing for the folks that can afford to pay $30-$50/month and all others will have to live with a sub-par experience because of #1

3. Some other company will come along and try to subsidize Mighty for all those that couldn't afford it but they'll monetize by advertising and further personal data collection.

4. Further lack of control over core software on our personal computers.

I fear that one day I'll visit a website with a message saying "This website runs best using Mighty".

There were similar sentiments when RSS blogs started moving to medium. Medium is amazing! but at some point medium needed to introduce a 3 item limit.

More and more of the internet which a lot of us remember as this open thing that no one owns is being siloed into privately owned.
Aime: An imperative procedural programming language, with a C inspired syntax
Doesn't look like it. Each case is a compare and jump:

https://godbolt.org/z/KWYEW3d9s
We should research how much ads contribute to overconsumption and hence the demise of the planet. If the connection becomes clear, then there really is no excuse left for ads.
>it's about being functional then why has Scala got more users?

Scala world is not that functional if you measure it by real-life usage at least. Most of Scala code I've seen was mostly OOP sprinkled with functional tricks.
Cool thanks for expanding. That TODO list of ideas makes sense now. Am I correct in understanding that finding the time/energy to actually do something with your ideas is the limiting factor for you? Or is it something else?
No. They lost sight of what made them great in the first place (building a trust network). They added unnecessary things like chat and a wallet for a shitty alt coin.
Do you use AdBlock? That makes a huge difference.

I just set up a new computer and I was wondering why Chrome and Firefox was so slow. Then I remembered I hadn't set up AdBlock yet.

I wonder if Mighty has ad blocking? It's an interesting question of which will be better for their business -- blocking or no blocking. (I won't try it because of the obvious privacy problems, because I use a fast computer, and avoid slow web sites. But it probably has an audience.)
Sorry to hear about your ongoing issues. Sadly, it's the same story thousands of times per day, often for people experiencing the final moments of their lives.

The healthcare insurance industry absolutely needs to be destroyed.

One day, we'll look back at this debacle similar to cigarettes, big industry manipulating the population and millions of people dying unnecessarily because of it.

It's time to end the suffering.
50s yes, 60s maybe, But in the 80's? Nah. 80s especially were the very best, my friend ;). Think of it like a more prosperous Cuba of 2021.

Check this out:
Gumení chlapci (Rubber Boys) 1984 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFnmy6q9d8M

1987 Diskopríbeh (Disco story) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pac_Uabo-hY

1988 Kamarát do dešte (A friend through the rain) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b-DC7GJIe8

I mean, unless your friend was into politics, it wasn't so tough in the 80s. At lest for the more commercial music. Punk or Metal people have it hard, but Jazz or Pop/Rock was ok.

This is one rock band from 1985 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz_y401AFOo

Paradoxically they made an anti communist anthem a few years later, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJucQNdBJo4
A small reminder about open letter from Libre Office[1] developers to Apache Foundation to admit death of the Open Office and just redirect to the LO site. Meanwhile LO just released 7.1.3 version[2].

[1] https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/10/12/open-let...

[2] https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/05/06/libreoff...
They don't.

Anxiety is though the roof. I don't waste time arguing about this, but I don't use social media / online dating. It wasn't good for me emotionally.

I've still done very well meeting people.
I've been following this topic closely and it was never the case that there was a definitive explanation.

There were many theories and counter theories. It would be misleading to say the matter is settled.

It's also doubtful to propose this is a technology demonstration. The ability to track objects is not a differentiator; there are plenty videos online showing similar HUDs. In any case the public release has been degraded specifically to withhold information on their optical capabilities.