skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The ads. Aren't. The problem. The stalking is.

Exactly. If you want online ads done right, look no further than how podcasts do it. The medium doesn't allow for stalking. Podcast producers often stake their own reputation by voicing the ads themselves. That editorial freedom lets them be creative and respectful of their audiences. And advertisers can use podcast-specific coupon codes to attribute ad campaigns to sales. It's a win-win for everyone.
For writing simple scripts and stuff I like to use babashka[1], which is a simple clojure interpreter that's compile to a binary, so there's no JVM or leiningen to worry about. Of course, it's slower than the JVM hosted clojure once the JVM is started, so it's basically best for simple tasks.

[1] https://babashka.org/
I would argue any "friends" you have that you wouldn't be there for when its not convenient or "fun" for you to be around are not real genuine friends. I cannot imagine a single one of the people I actually consider my friends being unwilling to be there for me if I was going through a depressive spiral and I can't imagine me not being there for them if they were. Friendships are a form of relationships and that means being together through thick and thin, when its easy and when its hard. If you are unwilling to be there for your "friends" when its hard only when it's "fun" then you are not friends as far as I am concerned, you are acquaintances.
Agreed, even the warmest setting of Night Shift is pretty mild compared to f.lux.
Even ignoring the ridiculous 80-100% here, people who don't work aren't "doing nothing". There is more to the human endeavor than buying and selling.

Why do you take weekends? Or go home in the evening? Why aren't you using your evenings to be a "productive member of society"?
It would be like saying that hydro is bad because of the 1975 Banqiao Dam failure, an accident way worse than Chernobyl by most metrics.

Like all energy sources, there are risks and there are solutions to mitigate these risks. And I don't know any sane proponent of nuclear energy that think that we should ignore the lessons learned.
If SpiderMonkey works for you for this purpose, what's changed? It has been available (but officially unsupported) as a standalone embedding target for many many years. Though it hasn't necessarily been easy to figure out the state of things; we're hoping to do better with this new site. The examples repository https://github.com/mozilla-spidermonkey/spidermonkey-embeddi... makes it a lot more approachable.

Also, if you come find us on https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#spidermonkey:mozilla.org or https://discourse.mozilla.org/c/spidermonkey we're happy to help out with the kinds of projects you're talking about. We might even be able to assist with making at least some of the instrumentation points more stable.
Largely off-topic, but still interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiotrophic_fungus

I still find it fascinating that there is a fungus that lives inside the remains on Chernobyl and thrives in the radiation.
NY AG finds nearly 82% of net neutrality comments to the FCC were fake
Not so sure about you being in some large database of the Mandarin speaking population ( could be though ) but I can confirm that Microsoft does indeed store your data even though it says it does not about your IP location history.

I can confirm this because I switched my VPN ( with firewall on ) to Netherlands ( the fastest server at the time ) for quite some time and around that time I downloaded Edge. The agreements were in Dutch given that I just accessed their website through a Dutch VPN server.

However, ever since I logged in to my Microsoft account on Edge ( which I had just downloaded ), I started getting the promotional emails in Dutch which I find to be weird, not because it didn't make sense, but rather because they collected my IP location history.
Can you fight hatred with hatred? Even if you end up killing those you hated, you'll still be worse off because the whole acting out against others was premised on others being responsible for the hatred you feel, which is false, the hatred is a projection of your own inner turmoil, so you'd still be hateful, and now you've sown the seed of hate yourself. Repeat until convinced. To use your example, it's like fighting fire by putting your hair on fire. It kind of helps, but only in a very perverted sense.
I built something similar using a RockBlock board and a PI once. The cost was a bit prohibitive in the end as as it was satellite data and not wifi.
> This product will likely starts as a corporate malware but once the beta is over and their tech is really working at scale (more difficult than you might think) they'll probably give it for free or very cheap.

So you think it is a dragnet-surveillance get-acquired-for-our-data play, longer term? That's even worse, if so.
Koreans make great movies. I saw a Korean film program at AGNSW in Sydney in 2006/7 (Wednesday and Saturday nights, free) with a bunch of films by Kim Ki Duk and others (Three Iron, Spring Summer Autumn Winter, and a couple others the names of which I can't remember now), and they all left a deep impression on me. Really deep and complex emotionality, and novel stories. I really loved them so much, it was a great experience to have this free film program and these movies from another culture. I feel so lucky to have had that public gallery in my hometown that made such great contributions like this.
Puzzle: Why Are There Two Sexes? (2017)
They saw ads for fishing equipment in fishing magazines, or in the newspaper.
Things that help me work and focus:

- Go to bed on time

- Wake up at the same time every morning

- Take my meds (I have adhd meds that lessen scatterbrainedness and but doesnt impact hyperfocus)

- Get an overview of the things you are doing

- Plan ahead in what order you will do things

- If unmotivated, broaden the scope of overview to see why you are doing them

- If I don't feel like starting work its most often because the work is too vague, then I usually first get more clarity and break up the work in a checklist.

- Have a big bottle of water on desk for regular water intake

- Wife brings lunch and snacks (huge privilege, always thank them). Also scheduled, I'd recommend prepping them ahead of time and remind yourself with a timer. Then it's just a matter of picking it up rather than actually going out to make it every time. During the walk you can still think over whatever you are working on.

- Clear separation with personal life and work: putting company laptop away, no slack, no mails, only reachable by call

- When you are distracted ask yourself (out loud) why you are not doing the thing, most of the time the first thought your brain comes up with is actually the answer.

I tend to hold onto projects, ideas, hobbies and interests for two weeks at a time.
Haven't figured out yet how to cultivate that towards a single goal yet.

EDIT: My meds only really help with the daily structure and organisation inplace, otherwise I'm just more efficiently procrastinating.
Probably based a little on this: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/macro.todo.html
It would be helpful to give some ideas of the sorts of projects that you're thinking of. It sounds like you have a very specific idea in mind. What sort of things do you have on your TODO list and what are you assuming that folks here have on their TODO lists?

For me, the first thing when starting a project is to figure out who you're building it for and what problem you're solving for them. Try to talk to them and ask lots of questions about the problem domain and about their problem. Allow yourself to be surprised by the answers. This may involve learning to ask open questions and not coming into it with too many preconceptions. Try not to ask questions that assume what you already _think_ you know.

Secondly, try to build something (minimal) as quickly as you can and try to get someone using it. If you are lucky enough to have customers then great, either observe them using it or ask them how well it works for them.

Thirdly, try to iterate as quickly as possible. Whatever you build in the first place probably won't be the right thing anyway so try to learn, as quickly as possible, what is wrong with it, and then change it. Again, allow yourself to be surprised by what you learn and try to be aware of any initial assumptions that you might have, so that they don't lead you in the wrong direction if they turn out to be wrong.

All of the above assumes that you're lucky enough to have customers. If you don't have any then either abandon what you're working on or be content to work on something that scratches your own itch (in which case, you're the customer and you're the one who decides what works and what doesn't).

Finally, I'm still really curious about this TODO list with ideas that you might have. For me, nothing crushes my sense of intrinsic motivation more than feeling forced to pick up items from a TODO list. How does your TODO list work for you? What benefits does your TODO list give you? And are you aware of any negatives that spring from it?
Compelling analysis. From reading meta-histories such as "Guns, Germs, and Steel" or "Sapiens", I get the impression that various organized religions exploited these same dynamics.

I always imagined that Karl Rove had a heavily marked-up copy of "Guns, Germs, and Steel" as he manipulated politics, paying particular attention to the sections on religion. This should also be required reading for anyone staking their livelihood on a social media startup.
Thanks for sharing. This was a compelling argument that nudged my understanding in a new direction.

I recently started paying creators on Patreon and subscribing to news outlets I wanted to support. But within a year, I realized that this was inefficient, I didn't like/read/watch most of the content that my subscriptions were supporting. As much as I wanted to support the content creators and quality journalism, I questioned the value of my subscriptions and cancelled - I felt like I signed up for a gym membership on Jan 1st that I wasn't using anymore.

Ads allow me "to pay" with my attention for only the content that I value. I don't like ads, I generally use an ad-blocker, but I appreciate the post and the perspective.
Agree with all. Reposting an old comment of mine:

Solving world hunger is obviously better than ads, but I'd say in the scheme of things tech people spend their time on, ad improvements is middling in importance? It's not the bottom.
Good ad targeting means:

1) New small businesses (like Shopify stores) can reach customers without going through retail gatekeepers. Ask any Shopify seller, nothing beats FB.

2) New challenger SaaS brands can get in front of customers to compete with mammoth corporate brands with worse software (I see this all the time on my job).

3) Without good ad targeting, only bottom hanging fruit advertisers that appeal to the lowest common denominator can afford to spend. Weight loss, teeth whitening, etc. Good ad targeting means a better user experience with ads.
"Then, the smaller chains that couldn't afford to reduce their workforce and/or invest in efficiency or robotics wouldn't survive. You would see less competitive chains like Popeye's closing up on Interstate exits, and their marketshare would be handed over to the larger chains."

That's sort of the point of productivity improvements. You either invest capital or you die.

Exactly why should poor people prop up poor businesses with low capital depth because "what about the jobs"?

Kalecki warned about this as far back as 1943.

https://mronline.org/2010/05/22/political-aspects-of-full-em...
How do you get into that market?
You betcha, chat constantly with the team, encryption is awesome, stable as a rock. Would pay! Are you listening, Zoom?

Thanks for the Stellar Lumens too.
That handbook looks beautiful.
I haven't seen a debunking that dealt with the aviator accounts.

All I've seen are hypotheticals about how the videos could be anything but what the aviators reported, and yeah, so far have just dismissed or ignored their accounts altogether.

Interested to see otherwise!
Much of the available data is only pointing to inflation being on the order of 2.5% in the coming years. This is hardly the runaway inflation scenario many are predicting and is close to the target inflation rate of 2%.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T5YIFR

https://www.clevelandfed.org/our-research/indicators-and-dat...

Yes, some things (housing, lumber, used cars, etc.) are experiencing quick increases in price. Some are saying this is a sign of runaway inflation. Many others are saying these price increases are a result of pandemic related supply/demand issues and temporary shocks to supply chains.
where is the button "report this for being so stupid"?
he mentions basically having a world class educational system, lowest corruption level and having the most stable economy in a (meh) accent.
Okay, wanna strive and work for your dreams? feel the sweat of fighting and the pride of winning, the US is just also too good for that, move to a 3rd world country champ so you can have a social life.

tfw the dude has the shit everyone wishes for be he's like, nah I am not happy with it. okay, then go 3rd world and live there. enjoy the classical oldschool social life and be "happy". but please don't BS stupid things here because I did regret every second I spent reading this. If I had a static IP on my home router I would've begged you to ip-ban me so I won't come across such posts anymore.

they don't smile, as if the people in the fucking world are laughing day and night ffs.
even when they do. you can see the damn depression, poverty, and the last drops of hope on their faces.
you can see the ignorance, the feelings of being unsafe in your home country, the feeling of unjust, tribalism, dictatorships, resources being stolen, and fucking lots more.

then comes a random Finnish dude unhappy with all they have.
what is supposed to make you happy?
a fucking joke teller? a clown? a what? if having the most stable economy and free access to world class education and lowest level if corruption in the world isn't making you happy I am sure you'd need a therapist.
I used it when it was only a way to build a trust network. I stopped using it when they started adding chatting and other functionality. Never even once used the chat feature or anything else they later bolted on.
It's the 'laser eyes' meme.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/laser-eyes-bitcoin-trend-lase...
Funny you say that this stuff is "typically" well-controlled in a reactor, because the imbalance between different decay products and the lack of control was a major factor in the Chernobyl disaster (which is admittedly atypical).

For example, one important fission product in a nuclear reactor is xenon-135, which is produced from the decay of iodine-135, which is a product of nuclear fission. When you run the reactor, it produces iodine-135, which has a half-life of 6.6 hours, producing xenon-135.

Xenon-135 is a "nuclear poison." It is the the strongest known neutron absorber, and it absorbs neutrons in the reactor that would otherwise be used for fission. While the reactor is operating normally, the reactor neutrons will "burn off" the xenon-135, and the fission products will produce new xenon-135, and you can run these reactions in equilibrium.

If you turn a reactor off, the xenon-135 builds up to higher levels--remember, takes hours for the iodine-135 to decay. Because xenon-135 inhibits the reactor, you have to either wait for the xenon-135 to decay (9.14 hour half-life) or you have to pull out the control rods to compensate.

The Chernobyl operators turned the reactor off (not on purpose), xenon-135 built up, and then they pulled out the control rods to start it back up. When the reactor finally started up, the xenon-135 was burned off by the neutrons in the reactor, but this happened quickly, and the control rods were still out.
> long-term clients.

Ah, maybe that is it. There is a distinction worth diving into between the first project you do as a contractor (where, in my experience, you are hired to deliver) and later projects where you are a known entity who has solved problems and delivered. In the latter case you are (and I have been) able to propose getting up to speed on new technologies.

I was thinking more of the former case when I wrote that, but you're correct, there are different scenarios I glossed over.
You are correct. The question is what MT pays for their UI as every state has different amounts and weeks per claim. As to whether the extra $300 should continue, I would be in favor of allowing it for those that can prove they are searching for work and not getting hired. Others not searching or not accepting offers should lose their benefits.
Astrobiologists have released the preliminary results of a SETI survey
Indeed they are recompiling Chromium but that doesn't make it any more exciting tbh.
And if everybody optimizes for capital markets all the time, people die without living.
Unless you know someone inside the company I'd guess that's pretty hard to judge from the outside or through a few interviews.
Wow you are really not understanding the comment you are replying to. He's discussing the business model.
This is Norway, not the EU. Norway just happened to implement an EU law.
I once worked at a place on the opposite side of the "process" spectrum:

No source control

No bug tracker

No formal QA

No versioning or release process. When a customer needed a build they just took whatever happened to be on the lead developer's PC at the time.

No roadmap planning process. The CEO would walk into your office and spout off about some idea for the product, and that's what you'd be working on next.

And I can assure you the did not do agile or scrum. Wasn't a really great place to work. Very chaotic and everything was a fire to put out. Lots of turnover and burnout too. Would not recommend. There's a sweet spot in the middle of the 'process' spectrum.
USA has the means to produce a lot of it, Europe had the means to develop it. Doesn't make sense that USA gets to enjoy all the benefits of producing without giving Europe any credit for developing it. Why should EU share its research with USA in the future if USA doesn't want to reciprocate?
Depression and anxiety are completely internal reactions, how oneself responds to the world. It does not matter if the world is good or not if your reaction is broken.

"Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization." - Agent Smith
How was there a lack of gatekeepers when it was literally invite only? Doesn't that mean it was only gatekeepers?
Increase the testing requirements for new drivers to make it harder to get a license, for starters. Or make it easier to suspend people's licenses for acts of unsafe driving.

America has extremely low requirements to get licensed as a driver; this is intentional. We wanted everyone out of public transit and into cars. In other countries it's far more difficult to get licensed to drive, you're expected to have more skills. Hell, most drivers in Europe drive stick because you're required to test on a manual transmission.
I have it primarily as a way to establish my identity. Like others have mentioned, I have not adopted the new chat and team features
I like https://talesfromthecrypt.libsyn.com/

It's ostensibly a BTC podcast, but it's _really_ about much more including second tier networks, altcoin tech, and individual autonomy.

Otherwise, getting involved in the code itself does seem to be the only avenue I've found for real learning.

There's an O'Reilly book that has you build a blockchain from scratch if you're interested.

I'd welcome other suggestions.

Oh, also Tezos has most of Ethereum's features, but is already Proof of Stake.
> that's literally all you have to say on the subject

Not at all! First I talk about the economic benefit of targeted ads ("Most products are a much better fit for some people than others..."), then how it works today ("Historically, ads like this have been built on top of third-party cookies..."), then how it can work without cross-site tracking ("build browser APIs that will allow this kind of well-targeted advertising without sending your browsing history to advertisers, and then get rid of third-party cookies...")
Sheep farmers in Wales were still being affected by this in 2012, with testing performed on lambs and restrictions on which could be sold and which land they could be raised on due to radioactivity in the soil and hence grass.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-17472698

Just to put this in perspective, the affected part of wales in something like 1,500 miles from Chernobyl. I would guess some freak of the weather conditions caused Wales to be badly affected.
Monero supposedly had no premine. There are over 10,000 different crypto currencies and I know first hand several did not have a premine.

6 YEARS PRE-MINE AND CALLING IT "PRE-FARM" IS AN INSULT

I generally don't have a problem with pre-mines and actively participate in coins with premines.

BUT 6 YEARS!?!?! GET REAL DUDES
You seem to have several misunderstandings about the intent of US law in this thread.

The intent of US law is specifically to allow many guilty people to be freed due to procedural errors, and so the fact that this happens is not taking "precedence over the intent".

Also, in the US, no one is ever found "innocent" in court. They are found either guilty or not guilty.
What would be the benefit over podcasts / video recordings of lectures?
Sad that this article didn't get enough upvotes for front page, it is extremely interesting.
I got it to 5, how far are you all getting?
COPPA permits a school to obtain parental consent on the operator’s behalf, as long as the operator
uses the information only on behalf of the school pursuant to the agreement between the school and
the operator.
Why only Holocaust denials then? How about communists and Marxists, whose ideology killed far more people than the Nazis? It always amaze me that it is totally fine to openly support Communism in the West.
Mighty is such an obviously good idea, and if you've spent decades on the cutting edge of the web you'd understand why. People's demands for more powerful web apps are for all intents and purposes infinite, and it is much more pleasant as a developer to develop once, run anywhere, than to develop an app for low powered clients and a different one for high powered ones.
A species capable of intersteller travel could bomb us and we'd have no ability to bomb their homeworld back.

There would be no way for humans to win.
Free markets don't work like that. We would only be having billions of jobs filling dirt holes if it produced more value to the society than it extracted it from.
I've never seen any evidence of anyone hurt by the large scale collection of personal data by Google and FB.