skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am really puzzled by the negative sentiment around adtech on Hacker News, especially since I would guess that a lot of people here have a salary that depends directly or indirectly on advertising.
"Tracking" gets a lot of bad press, so much so that I sometimes wonder if this is not organized by the tech giants (Apple, Google, Facebook) who have access to their own first party and who thus have much less to lose when cross site tracking disappears.
Adtech providers only have access to products you buy/see, for a limited time and without any personal data, meanwhile Google and Facebook know everything about you, your friends, your center of interests the places you go to, along with your name but somehow everyone seems hell-bent on abolishing 3rd-party cookies.
Apple's own apps are not subject to this change, and as noted by other commenters this will probably shift budgets to subscription of which Apple takes its cut.
All this will further the supremacy of walled-gardens and big tech, at the expense of smaller independent players.

I'll be honest, there is a creepy feeling when being tracked cross-site, and adtech providers have collectively failed at providing explanations, and a transparent account of how this works and why this is useful. They have also relied on fingerprinting, which has hurt the credibility of the field.
The issue is that the replacement that are currently in the works (https://github.com/WICG/floc and https://github.com/WICG/turtledove/blob/main/FLEDGE.md) are extremely complex, will still dramatically impact adtech performance and only improve privacy for a very contrived definition of the concept which incidentally benefits once again big tech vendors...

As to the effectiveness of advertising, removing tracking will have a huge impact. And this affects all players in the value chain, not only adtech providers but also publishers and more importantly advertisers which will see their return on ad spent severely impacted. There is a real of loss "social welfare" (I mean in a game-theoretic sense, but also for real if you believe in capitalism) if tracking is disabled.
The freakonomics article gets cited a lot but the industry as a whole is moving forward with a greater emphasis on proving incremental sales.
Advanced clients (who can spend billions per year) have real statisticians doing permanent randomized control trials proving that every dollar spent is providing incremental sales.
I work for an adtech company and we have automatic RCTs for every single client, and guess what, advertising works for most clients. This is on top of fact that we are measuring the effectiveness of dollars spent on us, in addition to the dollars spent on competitors/other channels on which we have no control of course.
The fact that Uber could see no impact when going from 150m to 50m is a testament to the incompetency of their CMO, which could not be bothered to actually measure and pilot the campaigns correctly, not the effectiveness of adtech as a whole.
Thoughts are my own not my employer's.
HN’s hyperbole filter definitely takes out “world’s” on the first pass, but you can put it back.

Example: I touched off a bit of a “seems bait-y” pas de deux/do-si-do with the bot/mods re a BBC headline a while back. It’s towards the bottom (where it surely belongs) of this thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26552375
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And yet when Apple describes how they track where you are, what apps you use, and what news you read for their own advertising platform, they don't use that word [1]

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202074
If you really want to read about all things Commodore, pick up Brian Bagnall's books [1]. They're not really for those with a casual interest (though you have the option of the 500+ page single volume first version or the second version which ballooned to a trilogy of 500+ pages each, plus the upcoming Commodore: The Early Years covering Commodore's pre-computing history), and there's plenty of dreams, intrigue and backstabbing (the always fraught relationship between Jack Tramiel and his staff and Irving Gould features heavily alongside a lot of in-depth descriptions of the tech.

[1] Beware, the Amazon listings are a confusing mess; the first edition is "The Story of Commodore: A Company on the Edge"; the second edition is a massively expanded three volume set, starting with "Commodore: A Company on the Edge" (ignore what Amazon says; it's not book #2), followed by "Commodore: The Amiga Years" and "Commodore: The Final Years". They're all 500+ pages.
If Russia's goal is to stop Eastern Europe to become unfriendly, then they already fail, since most of countries that Russia themselves consider "unfriendly" are already in that region -- Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Georgia, Ukraine, Poland, Czech (in addition to the US and UK)

https://estonianworld.com/security/russia-puts-estonia-on-th...
Lattice have some FPGA's with RISC-V cores in them IIRC
A stronger Russia, weaker Europe, and changing climate hurt Germany considerably more in the long run.

(Shame our politicians can't see past autumn...)
> "Unless... that person is a police officer, then you could be charged with and likely be convicted of assaulting an officer."

Well, you can be charged for anything, and criminal charges themselves do a lot of damage, but whether you get convicted is a completely different matter. That depends on the court; there have been cases of people shooting police who burst in unannounced, and having the charges dropped, or being acquitted.
"You can always be thinner"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PphbSFZWuU
Congratulations. You are the 10,000 person to propose infix for lisp.
Yes, all (essentially all) engineering design ends up being multivariable. For even something as simple as a cantilevered beam supporting a load, if you can change the shape, material, material treatment, length, width/height, all of which affects cost. Usually due to limits of manufacturing and availability of standard parts, the exploration space can be greatly reduced.
You probably meant Japanese residents of Korean descent?
Silence on this post is deafening and perhaps a sign of fear.
I'm the writer. I'm just not very interested in the topic. Just annoyed about UUID overuse enough to write a post. It's also superficial because Tom's video already explains the matter of uniqueness quite well.
Be is gonna be more like 3d tvs.

Ar might be big, but vr is just silly
> The amount of agricultural land China needed to sustain its population is totally calculable.

And it was more than enough to feed China even back then.

It's a poor insinuation claiming that top statesmen didn't know that. They knew it very well, and they also knew how catastrophically they mismanaged the agriculture.
I don't think status has anything to do with their comment. What made you bring it up?
The most important rights to protect, in my opinion, are the rights of people accused of a crime. Everything needs to be done transparently, legally, and fairly, no matter how bad the alleged crime is.

It's the process we need to respect.
Now to more specifically answer your question: we investigate the performance impact of new logic-in-memory instructions, so a softcore is appealing: add custom instructions to the CPU, wire them using the FPGA. Run and compare.

But one could run this in production to do something like handle TCP/IP on the CPU, but put a specific custom DSP on the FPGA side.
That became quite common, also for pilots. Apparently these jobs became so sought after that non-flag carriers, RyanAir being among the main offenders apparently, have their co-pilots pay to get the flight hours to keep their license. Gone are the days of lofty, high paid airline jobs. Even gone are the days you don't have to pay for pilot training, let alone being paid as airline trainee.
The technical term is "micrometeoroids and orbital debris" (MMOD). (https://www.nasa.gov/centers/wstf/site_tour/remote_hypervelo...)
My own fix for the node version issue is that we use a single version of nodejs (currently latest v12), and when we update, we update everything (which happens every two years, and is generally not too painful in my experience), so we just have to have this version locally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwRjO3kHxU4 seems to be pretty balanced and informative too.
The US had a 40 year cold war with Russia. This looks like the standard playbook. The rules regarding flights into Berlin from the West were a game.

Great power politics don't change a lot.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Berlin_Air_Corridor
Man, you just reimplemented this: https://hashids.org/go/
Two wrongs don't make a right but it may lead to different methods being used.
In English at least, "immigration" and "immigrants", refer to permanently moving to a new country, not long term residency or guest worker programs. I.e. you are intending to never return to your original country. If you are intending to return, then you are a long term resident, but not a permanent resident.

e.g. Merriam-Webster:
"a person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence"

OED online:
"a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country."
Ads arent going away, at best you are going to get generic ads that are not relevant. At worse Apple is ramping up their own tracking/ad service.
Fear of?
I think the idea is that, if you calculate the load incorrectly enough, or use inappropriate enough materials, the safety factor will not save you. But, if you have done those things correctly, then the safety factor should be enough to save you from normal unknowns, unexpecteds, etc.
Extremely rare prehistoric animal carvings found for first time in Scotland
Yes, take a look at this article by Coinbase for some well-sourced numbers: https://blog.coinbase.com/fact-check-crypto-is-increasingly-...
A simple no would have sufficed.

No one is arguing that data brokers don't make millions selling ads. The argument verified by the study is that demographic and location segmentation doesn't work when targeting ads.
Grossly increasing the factor of safety is a subtle way that science fiction stories connote a feeling of very advanced technology.

For example in the JJ Abrams movie Star Trek Into Darkness we see the Enterprise operating at depth in an ocean, then dramatically zooming away into space. Then later another ship falls from orbital height and plows through San Francisco without losing its hull shape.

In Star Wars the Millenium Falcon is constantly doing things that would seem to be outside a normal design for a spacecraft, and it survives (aside from the radar dish).

Even as far back as the movie 2001, the monolith is made out of a material that humans can’t dent or cut. Why so strong? It’s basically just an automated radio.

The idea is: this advanced civilization has such command over physical technology, that they can effortlessly engineer unnecessary strength without losing any of their designed performance.
the problem with that report is that I can't find anywhere the exact number, it only states decline by 56.5% without showing any specific numbers. I'm mildly suspicious that they originally had a much higher birth rate than Han Chinese since the same policy allowed one kid for Han Chinese allowed two to four kids for minorities
The article suggests using a probabilistic failure model instead of a large a safety factor, and explains how a safety factor established in the 1930s affected the cost of the Space Shuttle. But spacecraft might be a special case, where any additional weight is so expensive, and you also expect the models to be especially accurate and manufacturing to be extremely precise.

For more everyday civil engineering, I think the safety factor "covers up" a lot of systemic inaccuracies everywhere in the system, from modeling to design to manufacturing to unintended uses. Some of those you might account for in a probabilistic model. But it's very difficult to probabilistically model errors in the model itself, as the financial industry found out the hard way.

When driving over a bridge built the way suggested here, how comfortable can we be that certain stresses aren't correlated in ways that the engineers didn't anticipate? Or that a certain distribution isn't actually as well approximated by a Gaussian as it was assumed to be? Intuitively, it's a lot harder to be wildly wrong with the factor of safety approach.

To put this another way, a more complex way to reason about safety necessarily has more moving parts, and is thus more likely to be wrong. So in effect, adopting more complicated safety models introduces a safety risk all on its own. I think that needs to be considered as well.
Limits and Trade offs in Managing Human relationships
Show HN: Meet Hot(& not so hot) singles(& not singles) near you and make friends
Making new friends as an adult is hard. So, I built neartribe to help people find & connect with others online that live near them. The idea is to foster conversations online with people near them which can then hopefully lead to offline, real world friendships.

This is a chill video chat site with no agenda. Unlike other social medias there is no pressure to get followers, likes or view counts. Dial in whenever you have some time and talk to people near you about your hobbies.

How it works - As a user, you join a room where you will be connected with at most 9 people who live within xx miles of you. (The more people join, the smaller xx becomes)

Coming soon - Ability to create topics to streamline conversations (similar to subreddits).

Please try it out & let me know what you think. Feedbacks & suggestions are most welcome.

TL;dr: Reddit, but video based & only with people near you or say a meetup.com that runs 24x7 online.
I think the closest would be "hypervelocity-impact resistant".
I have never heard of this until now, it sounds like some sort of scam
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It's not rare at all, and that was precisely what made me think about writing about it a while ago (and a recent discussion).
The Wretched Excess of ‘The Campaign for North Africa’ (2016)
Using host volumes can have big performance problems on OSX and Windows. Node or frontend development with huge node_modules folders in particular can run into problems like flakey file change notifications or just general slowness accessing files.

Linux users aren't immune from trouble either. Host volume permissions are a big source of pain--if your mounted files don't have the same UID/GUID as the user baked into the dockerfile then you'll hose access to the files on your local machine. Most simple dockerfiles run as root (especially dockerfiles created by windows or mac developers who never deal with this problem) and all the created files inside them show up as root owned on your localhost. You have to take special care to craft your dockerfile to not run as a root user, launch with explicit user UID/GUID that matches your host machine, and use a tool like fixuid as an entrypoint to fix up mismatches.

A good workaround though is to use docker's internal volumes instead of host mounts. This fixes all the Linux permission issues (the internal volumes live in their own root/docker managed location), and fixes the slowness on other platforms (no VM folder mount slowdown). But you give up the freedom of seeing your files locally and need to go all in with something like VS code remote containers, or running your IDE directly in the container.
WombatDialer 21.06: better APIs make a difference
Throw it in trash and police can play easter egg hunt in the landfill
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Google TV Beta – The Elaborate Hoax That Fooled Thousands [video]
I thought so, too. I have read about the Lattice MACH-NX having a secure enclave based on a RISC-V CPU, but it seems like this is just a soft-core CPU as well.
>since they're also apparently claiming the right to keep the warrant secret until after the investigation is over

Don't you have to present the warrant to the subject at the time of the "search"? In other words, you can't go knock on someone's door, claim that you have a warrant to search the house, and refuse to show it to him.
See Kessler syndrome (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome).
Small correction: apps owned by the same company can still track your identity across apps regardless of your tracking settings.

For example, Google can track you across the YouTube app, the Google Maps app, the Gmail app, and anything else owned by Google itself.

Apps do need to disclose this in the App Store privacy labels, but there isn't much to prevent them from lying.
your statement only holds want value if you can state what uos are better & fund someone to try to recreate them in DOM. people like to gripe & cry & whine but the number of times an team is given an out & out go to do the job, and had to abandon it is tiny & nearly unreported. and that assumes we take the teams effort as not misguided, which given the variety & many powers of the web, is in question for almost all teams.

> But that's all irrelevant. The DOM is worse than what preceded it and will, in another 10 years, be found in the dumpster of technologies that were so fundamentally flawed

you keep talking but you have nothing to say, no evident, just cruelty & cynicism & pissing. say something worth talking about.

> You need to research other software paradigms.

none of the other ones have had any impact.
I have seen attempts at it. One is to multiply your estimates by the number of different pieces you're estimating. So, if you have estimated for three different pieces, multiply those estimates by 3 when deciding how much the whole thing will take. If you have estimated for five different pieces, multiply the sum by 5, etc. The idea is that the more estimates you have made, the more likely that at least one of them will "blow up" and take far longer than expected.

Generally speaking, though, software is far less advanced than civil or aeronautical engineering in this kind of thing.
His explanation of why WordStar is so good (I guess I agree with him, never used WS), reads as if you say to a programmer at gunpoint: Drink these five bottles of whisky first and then re-implement Emacs Org-Mode on a CP/M machine.

The ctrl key and block commands are almost Emacs and the duble periods are the Org-Mode markup.
The fact that he’s known seems to be inconsistent throughout the movies. Tiffany Case apparently knew who he was but not what he looked like, but a lot of other people had to look him up after giving his real name.

He also does have a cover in some films, like St John Smythe in A View to a Kill
Maybe they do and don’t realise it?
> You just shifted the question from "Why do we have an inverse square law for radiation" to "Why do we live in a 3d universe".

That's not "shifting the question", that's a different question.

The point is that there is a meaningful sense, discovered by scientific study, in which we understand why there is an inverse square law for radiation.

If the examples I've given are not answers to "why" questions, how would you characterize them?

In any case, the idea that we can never know the answer to any "why" question because there's a causal chain that goes back to the creation of the universe is silly. We can understand the connection between parts of a chain without knowing where the chain came from, and that's exactly what science has done, so successfully that some people are now complaining that we don't know how the universe began.

Besides, the question of why we live in a 3D universe has a similar answer - see Max Tegmark's "On the dimensionality of spacetime": https://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/dimensions.pdf

Given that, where do you think "I've shifted the question" now? At some point, do you not recognize that the question being asked really has no meaningful relevance to the original question?

In fact, examples like these go beyond just answering "why" questions - they tell us that this universe, and even other universes with similar properties, couldn't be any other way!
#2: There are laws against incitement to violence already.

But also there are people who bend this to claim anything they don't care for "could result in violence".

To me the line seems fairly clear (if we are fair). That something "could result in violence" doesn't mean the speech is direct incitement to violence, and it should be protected, at least in the U.S.
It seems that the Americans were very lucky at Midway indeed, with the dive bombers avoiding running into fighters, and the hangar decks filled with loaded and fuelled bombers waiting to be spotted once the attacks were over. Which made them extremely vulnerable to anything hitting the hangar decks, and even a few hits were enough to doom the ships.

Not entirely unsurprising that upon entering the jet age the USN demanded their own expensive but less flammable brew JP-5 instead of "standard" jet fuel (which itself is much less dangerous than the aviation gasoline that was the cause of many WWII carriers burning).
Demo was super impressive. Wish they had shown off a wider variety of terrain though. Bit of jungle, bit of snow maybe. Don't particularly blame them, but they were definitely playing to their strengths there
Where can I get that plugin?
Can you shed some more light on this? Russia has been an accounting game since the fall of the soviet union: underpriced shares, diverted revenue/dividend to insiders, lucrative resource or revenue generating assets sold opaquely and also underpriced

Does this end at some point? Where there are no more formerly state owned resources to pillage and convert to Euros/CHF/USD?
update, in a related voa newspiece, it reads 'For example, in Hotan prefecture, where the Uyghurs make up about 97% of the population, the birthrate was 8.58 per 1,000 people in 2018. Before 2017, it was more than 20 births per 1,000 people' at the same time the national average was around 11
> Doctors get status and respect, but often it's the nurse

I don't buy this, because the "nurse who knows more than the residents" has been a stock character for a while. Nurses haven't been unsung for most of this century.

If anything, the perception has totally flipped, and another stock character (at least in the US) are doctors as "yes-men" and "butchers", preoccupied with getting back to playing golf, who only know how to prescribe a pill because the drug rep advertised it to them.

Nurses are lionized, and almost no one is saying "just a nurse" anymore:

https://news.gallup.com/poll/274673/nurses-continue-rate-hig...
The George Floyd thing is not mentioned because it's not true:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/07/15/fac...
These large-scale war games aren't just an opinion or a white paper though. Maybe better to ask something like how often an unconventional win in a war game could actually be replicated by an adversary in real life.

I seem to recall a similar response to massed small boats (simulating) taking out a U.S. carrier in war games a few years ago. Implying that the Persian Gulf is far more dangerous than previously understood. AIUI the Navy did nothing but cry foul. Maybe the strategy has been changed in response since.
In case any potential down voters are not educated on the matter, the U.N. convention on genocide specifically prohibits targeting ethnic or religious minorities for forced sterilization/birth control:

https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml
Don't know how it works for this specific case, but for surveillance warrants it's obviously not a requirement (e.g. tapping someone's phone doesn't really work if you tell them at the same time that you are doing that), with different places having different rules if and when exactly the target has to be informed.
Clickbait title, not what I expect from an engineer.