skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of this comes down to preferences, and my preference ordering would be:

Ads that attempt to take me all the way from browsing-->discovery-->potential purchase-->purchase I view as always bad. Leave me alone while I'm browsing.
Ads that attempt to take me from discovery-->potential purchase I view as ok but ineffective. At least throw a promo code in that ad next time, please and thank you.
Ads that successfully take me from discovery-->potential purchase-->purchase I view as ok since my utility is higher having purchased the product given the payload of the ad (and I wouldn't have purchased the product having not gotten the ad).

One thing then from my (not necessarily everyones) preferences is that displaying an ad to me should only potentially be done if the conditional probability of me being in discovery mode is higher than the conditional probability of me being in browsing mode. And then it comes down to what of me is in that conditioning set. Some very fuzzy anonymous slice of me, well ok. But better not be PI in there...

But these are just my preferences, and they may not be representative. So there's an aggregation problem also. In general I'd also prefer if brands shifted the marginal marketing dollar towards channels where the disutility of showing me an ad when they estimate I'm in discovery mode but I'm actually in browsing mode is lowest - so (in my mind) when possible put more in influencer marketing versus google display network for instance. Ideally this preference is evident in brand's roi calcs so it's internalized.
I was critical of Mighty on twitter, but not because I think it can't succeed. I don't want it to succeed. The whole concept is solving a problem that shouldn't need to be solved, ie running bloated web apps on commodity hardware. Mighty is essentially subsidizing bad software engineering practices and passing that cost onto the end consumer in the form of a monthly subscription service. I don't want to pay $30 a month so that Adobe can spend less on R&D optimizing their web apps.
I assume he means a Gaelic football. Gaelic football is governed by the Gaelic Athletic Association along with Hurling and Gaelic Handball.
Work for a week and rest forever If you want to start in the project, On you :

• Create a website on WordPress by buying the hosting: https://bit.ly/3x5OS9x

• Choose the field in which you have the knowledge (a wide culture).

• Start blogging the article.

• Submit to google adsense to place ads in.

if you cannot create a website, you should go to Fiverr or learn for free from udemy.
Hurry up hurry up...
Well it’s already illegal to keep more than about half of your own work, so this is the logical next step.
I pay for youtube, support some people on patreon and use an adblocker. But I still think ads a net positive and a clever solution to bootstrapping and continuing to support a relatively open online publishing ecosystem.

Thanks for your work and sharing your thoughts jefftk!
Look in Europe. We're cheap. €100k is still quite good here. You can use companies like CXC global to make it easier to deal with taxes and the like.
I always find it fascinating that nobody mentions the elephant in the room with regards to minimum wage. Instead of raising the price of goods (BigMac in this case), there is a much simpler answer - reduce profit.

Given that McDonald's makes approximately $10B in profit per year [1], I think everyone up the chain will still be able to keep their mansions and multiple homes if it only makes a couple of billion in profit each year.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MCD/mcdonalds/gros...
Not if I want to really own real thing.
Nope, I mean the rampant abuse of JavaScript where it doesn't belong, but images and media don't help matters any. More info here: https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm
> Many years later, after I've grow up and start to understand the value of lives, one day I stumble upon a video showing a middle school aged student ridding a bike down a road, and got crashed by a turning lorry

Unfortunately, this is a relatively common way for cyclists to die. The easy way to prevent it is to never try to pass a truck/lorry near an intersection.
Okay the title is little bit bullshit. The plant was converted to natural gas and is no longer a coal plant. It’s still not great news which is likely why they went with the clickbait title but not as bad as expected. Actually if anything I think the author hurt their cause with that title because now I just feel relieved when I probably would of still been upset about hearing that we brought a natural gas plant online for the sole purpose of mining Bitcoin.
Yeah, and some ideas are just ahead of their time, like the noted pets.com 90s failure contrasted with chewy.com's success today.
Donors aren't always benevolent, especially if there are a few 'whales'.
They could do the equivalent of those images comparing Full HD and 4K side-by-side, by having a button "with MightyApp" which reduces CPU load and makes your fan stop.
Why doesn't pg use HTTPS on his site?
Going to http://www.paulgraham.com doesn't redirect to https

And https://www.paulgraham.com tries to use a certificate for *.store.yahoo.com
- Meaningful work
- nice, open-minded co-workers
- good salary

is all you need.

Oh, and don't handle us as a piece of shit, who just crank out code because we will leave.
There are. But it’s also not an exaggeration to say that entire industries run on Excel, especially the financial sector where it originated.
That’s not changing soon but it’s also worth bearing in mind that spreadsheets were the first killer apps starting way back with VisiCalc, and for good reason. Having worked with old school paper spreadsheets it’s not hard to understand why and with every update I do see these issues being addressed in really useful ways.
Curious, how are you planning to translate processes to the browser?
Please take a moment to read the project's Code of Conduct:

https://github.com/gleam-lang/gleam/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUC...

It says that if you're a contributor, people can make anonymous complaints about you, and you will be judged and punished without being afforded the right to face your accuser and full access to the accusation and the evidence (that is, a "confidential" adjudication procedure).

Naturally, you can be punished for very vague offenses, under the title of any "conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a professional setting". It's not even any conduct which _is_ inappropriate in the setting of the project - it's enough that someone could subjectively consider it inappropriate, and in a different professional setting. In other words: Very easy to cook up charges as necessary.

If all of that is not enough - anyone who is deemed not to follow the code of conduct in good faith - i.e. it's not enough that you follow it, you have to show good faith about it - is an offender automatically. Even failing to actively _enforce_ the CoC is an offense.

Now, Gleam may not the only project with this kind of repressive project-criminal code; but this is quite saddening to see in a Free Software project.
Targeted advertising is great, so long as it targets "the viewer of pages like this" not "this person recently went to all these other web sites".

I think that's what ads should be - exactly like TV.
It's also one of its biggest strengths. People with real value at stake in an ecosystem will do anything possible to increase the value of their holdings, which means making the overall ecosystem more valuable through individual and team contributions, all open source contributions I might add.
yep. Every MWH of renewable energy wasted on mining could have shut a coal plant down.
Sounds to me as if you dont have any "blockchain project" ideas. That's fine do something else.
If whatever you every wished to crate does not profit form this tech, it probably really just does not profit form it. Nothing wrong with that. It would be a shame to slap blockchain on a cool project that doesn't need it.
I think you're misreading which party is supposed to be amplified.
Wow, I missed its introduction. Nice. On a cursory glance Celery doesn't make use of it yet, unfortunately.
This discussion needs more exposure because it is hammering the nail hard in the head.

I have come to both conclusions on my own too... Is it better to live in competition to avoid thinking... Or... Is it better to derive joy form external factors: family, craft, nature.

I have no good answer but love where the discussion is going.

I also live in Scandinavia.
One I see left out is good benefits. Having good health care, dental, etc. that isn't what you get in a one-person package is a big plus for some employees, especially older ones. It was a big pain point when I was doing contract work. Although that was Toronto, so your mileage may very in the US.

I think ultimately though if you can't compete on salary you're looking at attracting a certain subset of engineers. There may be great engineers among them, but few of them will be paying down a large mortgage for instance. A lot of property markets just don't allow people to take significantly lower salaries and you have to accept that and go after the engineers who can.
Medication isn't always the answer, but in many cases it magically just fixes most things so you should try it.

> You can work through it

This isn't true for more severe cases. If you can work through it your ADHD is pretty mild, which is a good thing, but for many that simply isn't an option.
Interesting metric. The underlying principle is:

"No one went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."

HN just hasn't internalized it quite yet, so we have the counter-indicator.
Which is probably why my favourite card game is now Dominion - everybody has the exact same starting position and access to resources. Too bad it doesn't extrapolate to the life analogy.
Works with Pi-hole as a server, or as a web client? If the latter, I will vehemently disagree. Raspberry Pi 1 was slow with native apps during the time it was released, to use it with the modern web would be painful.
I think the "architectural principle of the internet" is not what you suggest.

Years ago, I pushed as much work onto the client as possible to reduce the workload on my servers. Now, people complain if you push too much work onto their phones. They want the server to do the heavy lifting so the app can be more responsive on their low-powered mobile client.

"The internet" doesn't define how much weight each end of a connection should bear. It doesn't really even dictate that there are only two ends.

Should a webapp have a braindead REST api with a select, insert, update, delete for each table of the underlying db model and have the client make 1000 nested calls to the server to render the simplest thing? Or should the server api be much more sophisticated so that a single api call can provide all the information required for the render?

There's no one right answer just because "internet".
But who are you to say what has negative value for society? Who gives anybody that right? If bitcoin truly is useless, like you say, it will peter out and be abandoned, because they won't be able to sustain it. That's how new ideas are tried out. It's what brings vitality and dynamism to an economy.
I heard a lawyer in an interview talking about defending a rapist/murdered in a small town. While eating lunch at the town diner a few people approached to ask how he could defend someone so vile.

He told them about how it is important that defendants are presumed innocent, and that everyone gets a strong defense, in order to make sure that those who are wrongfully accused do not get wrongfully convicted.

They talked about it for something like an hour, and the people were only sort of convinced. And his lunch got cold.

Later, he found himself in another small town, defending another rapist/murdered, eating lunch in a diner and being asked by the people there the same question.

This time he said "his family paid me $100000 to defend him". The crowd accepted that right away as a perfectly fine reason to defend some totally vile criminal, and went back to their lunches.
Google doesn't read emails for ad targeting.
A nickel is worth more than a nickel
What about launching it into space?
>Real and economically useful, bitcoin or commodities. which is which?

Commodities are the ones that can be both real and economically useful, to answer your question.

It's raining right now where I am. The roof of my house is keeping me dry. Can a bitcoin do the same?
Encouraging Bitcoin mining to boost renewable deployments is like encouraging smoking to boost lung cancer research.

Proof of work is a grey goo in the nanotechnology way, it gets more and more energy intensive the more efficient technology gets. It also increases the budget for power and electronics the more expensive the token gets. This leads to the runaway power consumption you see now.

Renewables are green relative to coal, but they’re not zero footprint. To build a windmill with limited lifespan you need to mine rare earth metals in open air hellscapes in Mongolia [1]. You need to produce mountains of fiberglass. There’s no way to recycle fiberglass so once these fall apart you get your ores back, but have to bury the windmills [2].

Similarly for photovoltaics. The PV cells currently in use are made with cadmium and tellurium, heavy metals which again can’t really be recycled and end up buried in pits where they leech out into the environment. [3]

Bitcoin also generates 100g of ewaste per transaction which cannot be recycled meaningfully. The old ASIC miners can’t event be reused because they’re special purpose. So they’re shipped to poor countries where poor people dump toxic chemicals over it with inadequate safety gear to obtain what little metallics they can, and once again bury the rest. [4]

The only way forward is to reduce consumption by investing in efficient technology, not promote it with actively anti-efficient technology.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/aug/07/china-ra...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-05/wind-turb...

[3] https://grist.org/energy/solar-panels-are-starting-to-die-wh...

[4] https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/toxic-e-waste-dumped-in-poor-nat...
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I posted a couple years ago about my experience finding Clojure jobs in 2018. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20075132

I still have about 10 recruiters a week mail me about jobs relating to Clojure (either Clojure roles directly, or someone looking for a "functional" developer for another fringe language). It's unclear how many of these are the same handful of companies cycling recruiters (or with open reqs). At least in Chicago, it seems pretty straight-forward to get a job hacking Clojure if you have prior Clojure experience.

The other alternative is bringing Clojure to an org. You solve problems and a lot of orgs honestly don't care about the details, particularly if you're in a silo or one of the only devs. This is harder to do in an established org that already has templates for specific things, unless that org is big into containers or microservices already. I've never been hired for a full-time job as a Clojure developer (although I've had offers), but I've put Clojure into production across three organizations.
Ahah, exact!

To have credit, you have to look good. To look good, you have to hide the bad under the mantle and show how much you can do with so little! In a way, soviet russia was more productivist than any company ever was and will ever be.
I called this on HN and got of course downvoted
A future without passwords conveniently fixed by Google's password manager. No thanks, not giving Google anymore of my info. They have enough already.

This post is just marketing.
Oysters is obviously an autocorrect failure. Guessing I meant “situation” or the like.
I never had courage to watch any such videos. But read a few things about torture and such, just reading these things traumatized me and triggered years long depression and anxiety. I lost my faith in God and humans. I lost my desires to make the world better place. Now I just focus on my family and ensuring their safety.

I guess different people will react differently to such images, some may become desensitized, some will become more sensitive like you, or some will go in shock and depression like me.
But... but Ukraine is so close to transitioning from "hybrid regime" to "flawed democracy" !
It's also a common theme for Kent Beck, who "invented" extreme programming.

> i have good ideas, i just don't know which of them are good up front. hence, looking foolish is a prerequisite for looking smart.

Source: https://mobile.twitter.com/kentbeck/status/11329885166594867...
yes. echoes/reflections in interior spaces is a huge problem for me. you say tapestries are museum only pieces, but i was really referring to any cloth like material used as a wall hanging to help absorb some of those reflections. also, do not see how a rug on the floor would interfere with floor heating. rugs are not 100% coverage, but would still help reduce reflections/echoes. as would furniture, but not as much as wall hangings/rugs.
Boer war for instance.
Pretty well everyone in the concentration camps they had died.
Because every stablecoin is by definition centralized. It has an underlying bank account, which could at any moment be freezed or seized, all coins confiscated and all smart contracts voided (or some specific contracts voided). Not so with decentralized blockchains based on proof of work.
I couldn't care less about collaboration features. All I want is a cryptographic way (or, if done well, even without crypto) to tie my identity together across disparate social media profiles so that they are all in one place.
Not sure how since you are born with both baby and adult teeth.
> - US military: last time I checked, one service allows laser surgery, and the others are evaluating it.

HUGE caveat here: They only allow eye surgery if they were the ones that did it. My brother had eye surgery when he was 3 years old, signed up with the Navy to be a pilot and only learned about this after he was signed. His vision is fine today and they let him be a naval flight officer, but they will never let him be a pilot.
This is because you've never looked for the evidence. It is trivial to find with a 10 second search.

https://www.intomore.com/you/facebook-ads-outed-me/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2018/12/12/dear-tec...

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2020/4/9/21204425/targeted-ads...

https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-lets-advertisers..., https://www.propublica.org/article/hud-sues-facebook-housing..., https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-advertising-disc...

https://themarkup.org/citizen-browser/2021/04/29/credit-card...

https://themarkup.org/news/2021/04/13/how-facebooks-ad-syste...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Ana...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-03-27/ad-scamme...

etc. etc. etc.
On the scale of the relevant half lives, yes, "only" a century:)
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If you're going past a gas station, you're already driving - they want you to come to stop at their gas station.

> To change how much gas you’re buying in a lifetime it would need to change how far you drive.

City/state/national tourism bureaus are taking care of that part. With help from the automobile industry's marketing arm.
IBM still makes a lot of money on Power, but at the moment it is a managed decline. Ever refresh cycle they get a nice big revenue bump, and they have a pretty large Fortune 500/US Defense base that won't be leaving Power any time soon.

Soon IBM will be the biggest consumer of Power as they continue to move customers to Power on IBM Cloud. https://www.ibm.com/cloud/power-virtual-server
Hopefully they can apply this technology to undo circumcision for those of us who never wanted it in the first place.
That's strange, how do you know it's real and you own it? With my bitcoin, I can verify that I received it and that no one except myself has access to that specific portion of the supply. And then I can even transact it whenever I like without the involvement of any custodian!
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No, you just have the same way of thinking as Chomsky, where you're so anti-imperialist that everything the US does is bad. Even when it's good. The invasion of Iraq can be bad and the gulf war can be good, there's no contradiction here. Go to Kuwait and ask someone who was alive during the gulf war, if they think it was about "the West's shameful leveraging of mass media to conduct abhorrent uses of overwhelming technological force to destroy an entire region of the world."
Same story with me. I got overwhelmed with the notifications and turned them off.

App disappeared from my brain after that.