skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's not surprising, but it does show that the sophisticated ML-based targeting system is less effective then promised.

We agree that it isn't surprising, but I don't think this says almost anything at all about how sophisticated or effective the systems are that target the general population who has probably not heard of your product. That would be like walking into a furniture store, and when a salesperson approaches you to attempt to sell you something, you conclude that their ML-targeted online ad campaigns must not be effective. There is no evidence whatsoever that their online ad campaigns aren't effective for targeting the audience they intend to target. You're being targeted by a different type of advertising not because online ads didn't work, but because you happen to be in a tiny cohort of people currently standing inside a store, and therefore can be targeted using a much less sophisticated system.

> I still want to loop back around to the idea that advertising is itself sold to consumers as a social benefit.

I certainly don't believe that advertising is necessarily a social benefit, but that isn't relevant to the point I'm making, which is about the effectiveness of ads from the ad publisher's perspective.

> For each individual publisher, sure, I guess... but again, I'm talking about the market overall. If the majority of ads that most people are seeing are retargets, then that says something about the market.

But you haven't mentioned any evidence or observations about the market overall. The fact that you receive mattress ads after buying a mattress online tells you essentially nothing about the entire market. I suspect it's unlikely that the majority of ads that most people see are retargets (although even if they are, that still doesn't contradict the point I'm making).

> If the average company is only sending out 10% retargets, then across the entire market the average consumer should only see 10% retargets.

The key here is that the distribution of ad impressions shown to each person probably has extremely high variance, and a very high portion of impressions probably cannot be identified with a valuable retargetable online purchase. If you frequently see a large portion of retargets you are probably nowhere near the average.

> Unless you want to try and make the point that it's all just a Baader–Meinhof phenomenon and we don't have a lot of retargeted ads in the first place.

Indeed, I did make that point somewhere in this thread. I also suspect a significant portion of the complaints about retargeted ads are due to frequency illusion. But even if that's not the case, my argument still applies.
You need to examine the visual history of street photography much better if this is the only silly summary you can come up with about generations of work done with all sorts of interesting concepts and themes. What an absurd, smarmy and parochial judgement of such a broad photographic field.
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You can use BFG [1] or git-filter-branch to remove individual files from the history, though doing so will change the hash of every commit since the files were introduced. Whether it's worth the disruption or not is up to you.

[1]: https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/
Well, at this point we might as well blame social media feeds (which we can also call pixels on screens) for killing more people than drunk driving, at least in 2020 and 2021.
i also think this is the case, as the user base must be tiny still (esp when looking at the comments here, even classical music fans didn't know about it. i found it through the "inside the score" youtube channel)
China is on a massive cultural crackdown right now. https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/30/china/china-entertainment-cra...
> I encourage (well, almost enforce, or insist on) a bit of small-talk and socialization at the beginnings of all my meetings.

We have an executive who insists on doing this, too, and it's universally hated. You can't force small talk, and when he does, it just makes things awkward for everyone.

It's even worse when he tries to force the issue by singling someone out with a small-talky question like your example "How was your daugher's birthday". The person being singled out is then in the hotseat and the discomfort in their voice while they scramble to come up with an answer is palpable. It's like being put on public display.
In new releases I'm seeing Warner, Pentatone, Cedille, Sony, Decca, Arcana, cpo, signum, dB, Chandos, Erato.

The main label I personally miss is Hyperion but I'm not sure they're streaming anywhere.
I believe it is right.
However, I often get these two intuitively mixed up because:

Icosahedron: 12 points, 20 faces (and 30 edges)

Dodecahedron: 20 points, 12 faces (and 30 edges)
Are you a woman? Who has been snooped on by men with zoom lenses they've made in their shed?
Eh, probably somewhere in between. I'm guessing it's a .webp being dragged, and for some reason iMessage (as a drag-and-drop drop-target) is claiming to be able to accept those, so Chrome doesn't bother to offer a JPEG representation, but instead just hands over the .webp as is. Then iMessage takes it, and realizes that it does not, in fact, know what to do with it.

The more interesting thing is that iMessage does deliver the image, when it's to an iMessage recipient. Just not when it's to an SMS recipient. So I'm registering my guess for the root cause as: the drop-target content-type capabilities for the iMessage chat window aren't being dynamically varied with the recipient type.
> solving game puzzles doesn't necessarily mean you get better at school math

That's not how improving through games works at all.

The things you understand through games are much more general than the surface of the gameplay.
Total War (or Starcraft) won't teach you anything about commanding armies. But if you're observant enough it will teach you a difference between level-1 versus level-2 strategies. It will definitely teach you about the impact of timing on execution. It will show you complexity, risk, loss aversion, and how battles are usually won or lost before the first shot is fired. All these are useful things to experience so that you are better equipped to deal with them in real life.

What's even more important, the games will show you how YOU relate to these intangible concepts. How loss averse are you? Do you naturally tend to maximize win or minimize loss? How easy it is for you to abandon a pre-established plan? These and more are insights into your own nature that are not easy to get.

Finally, the multiplayer games will show you the human nature. You'll understand, for example, that different people play for different reasons, and just this understanding alone was worth all hundreds of hours I put into M:TG. I guess that most of the multiplayer insights are also available through participation (and/or managing) a regular sports team but I would have never been able to join as many of those as I had gaming teams.

TLDR: Games guide the player to instinctive understanding of categorical truths that underpin the simulations, and that is only possible through countless repetitions of similar scenarios* in different contexts. This is the true value of gaming.

[*] I'm not talking about grinding here[**], but playing same or similar games many times.

[**] although grinding can teach one about how seemingly small process improvements somethimes add up to a qualitative break ... and sometimes not. Figure out the best way to do a cow level run to learn more!
Worse yet is when the people who really didn’t make it at a FAANG start the “What we did at X…” adventure. We had a couple of those wander through the woods on their dream quest to the tune of a few million dollars in wasted work we’re throwing out now that they moved on.
The theory is that Dugin's strategies (outlined in "Foundations of Geopolitics") were widely implemented in the US in 2015-2016 in an attempt to destabilize the west.

Wikipedia:

> The book emphasizes that Russia must spread anti-Americanism everywhere: "the main 'scapegoat' will be precisely the U.S...Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists". Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics".

Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms became publishing platforms for active measures (propaganda and disinformation) campaigns to promote Russian-style authoritarianism and diminish the influence of western democracy.

Once these platforms were given this evidence (widely published and released online by the platforms themselves), they took some steps to stop it.

Notable examples include populist movements such as the Trump campaign, state secession movements, white separatist movements, and more recently anti-vax movements. There are many more.

Facebook in particular has failed to stop the spread, and the site is widely considered by most outside experts as "captured" by foreign assets. This is especially true when it comes to QAnon and anti-vax content, which appears to be promulgated to harm western institutions.
Fastest? Do a crappy API.

Otherwise, this is a good guideline:

http://sweng.the-davies.net/Home/rustys-api-design-manifesto
NNCP – a collection of utilities simplifying secure store-and-forward comms
I think you're agreeing with me. Holdem doesn't let you change your hand.
Key bindings are just one problem. Fundamentally, I don't want to put in the work just to drag Emacs out of the 1980s/1970s and into the modern day, or learn Emacs-specific concepts, when my existing tools already are ready to use from install time and already require no adjustment to my mindset because they use modern terminology etc.
swinsian is what itunes should have been from the start. after it became the homescreen for all the i-devices it never had a chance to be a usable music player...
I mean in the sense that you can't change your hand.
i'd put the age closer to 7 or 8 for a "quasi-adult conversation" instead of 15, but yeah
The main feed is pretty much straight up junk. Real value (IMO) lies in the hobby groups, local history groups, community groups/pages, etc.
This reminds me of every Apple issue I’ve ever had. I try to Google it and the consensus from the Apple fans and managers in the threads is always that the people with the issues are wrong and Apple is right. No matter how crazy it is. If someone asks “How do I do X”, most responses will be “Well why do you want to do that? Just trust Apple to know what is best.”

It’s very different than when I Google about problems on other platforms.
To each their own opinion I guess, but these photos are more than just random shots taken with a bad camera. Not all of them are especially good but there is a conscious intent of showing us the world through a slightly novel perspective and in some of the shots, with quite a visually poetic effect (the dancing feet are one good example).

Knowing the context and the work he must have put into building the camera, maintaining it and later developing his shots under the circumstances he worked with also helps. What I definitely don't see here is just a bunch of bad photos taken with a bad camera. I'd hardly call a homemade camera as simply bad, even imperfect it merits some respect.

I'd say they at least fit Susan Sontag's loose definition of photography showing others something novel.
As a PNW native antifascist, this reads like FUD. Evans isn't perfect, but you'd have to be completely out to lunch to miss what the Proud Boys are doing in the Portland/Vancouver area.
> My experience with it is that it’s slow

I'm guessing you created an account on the default Matrix.org homeserver? While hardware requirements have been steadily dropping for months now, the default seems to attract more than enough people to negate these advances. So while Matrix.org accounts and rooms may feel slow, I hope you'll be willing to give it another shot some day in the future. To that end, I would highly recommend setting up your own server (as the French and German government agencies have done), or even hopping on mine (email is on my profile) if you just want to test it for a day or two.

As far as the cumbersome UI/UX - you got me. While some people like it, many people seem to disagree. Over time, the myriad of clients will presumably get better, and hopefully the people not currently enamored with the UX can find one they like :)

Regarding reliability, you may have to expand on that. I've been using my Matrix server (and Telegram / Whatsapp bridges) to chat for months now, and have had messages come through faster for me than others in the same group chat!

All that said, maybe you just had a bad experience. I'd never try and say you didn't, but hopefully there was another explanation than just "Matrix is still nowhere close to ready".
Towards a Reliable Device Management Platform
Brazilian police: Hold my bear.
Looks like there are no restrictions on nationality or language (like .cat).

I was unable to set up my domain with Cloudflare's name servers because you need to register the domain first and the registration process requires that the domain is served by the name servers you enter. I ended up selecting "parked" instead and should be able to switch it later.
The one I hate is the little bang red warning on settings to set up Apple Pay on my iPad. I’m never going to buy anything on my iPad!
They're the same density as the water they're floating in, even though they contain some metal that is much denser.
Honestly, I'm surprised we had as much mask/social distancing compliance in the early parts of the pandemic as we did. It's encouraging how much people will put up as long as they understand why. But that seems to only work for a limited time, and we haven't been doing so well on vaccinations.

As for the future being boring... I suppose if 2020 is a representative sample of what the future has to offer, it won't be. But I agree that a lot of things may just gradually get worse, if we don't figure out how to deal with them. And in terms of climate, the best possible outcome isn't great.
I know of someone that set their cron server to a weird time zone (not representative of the office or computer's physical location) so that when someone told them "it needs to run at 9:00", they could punch that into the crontab and the results would be ready before 9:00, even if there was maybe a transient error or something.

I am not recommending this.
How did you manage this? MS constantly nags me about edge. It’s in menus, it sends me periodic “reminders”, etc.

When I gave up and just started using Edge to make it stop, they started nagging me about switching to Bing. They call it “recommended settings”.
Because async based APIs need to return a promise type of some kind (eg Future). You can kind of auto-generate wrapping code to convert synchronous to asynchronous (with some performance cost that may be undesirable) but you can’t generally do the reverse, unless you try to do funky things like pausing/resuming user space fibers (and then issues of lock inversions and things come into play there in a systems level language).
NASA Has Completed Work on the James Webb Space Telescope
Here in the United States, minors aren't allowed in bars for even 1 hour per week! Is the difference here the "amount of authoritarianism," or simply the types of things each country believes are harmful enough for minors that they ought to be banned or restricted?
Or it's some misguided attempt at increasing "user engagement." Same as those awful nagging newsletter signup popups that every site decided to add one day.
During the piratebay case in Sweden, products that has never been for sale and would never be for sale were discussed in terms of missed profits. The argument that the Swedish courts accepted was a hypothetical sale of said product using the closest similar product, with an added multiplier for the fact that the product would never be allowed to be sold in the first place.

It is hard to know if the french courts would accept a similar argument, but as the author I would definitive argue it. Depending on what the FOSS library do and what a similar product would cost if acquired through legal purchase, the number could easy reach into millions of "lost profits".
I learned Spanish immersed in the street life of working-class Venezuelans in the 1990s. Ultimately, my command of the language was good enough that native Venezuelans detected an accent, but assumed I was from a different, unfamiliar part of Latin America. When I tried to speak Spanish in Barcelona years later, folks really got a kick out of my accent and idiomatic expressions.

I picked up a hitchhiker in Denmark once that had been an exchange student in New York. He spoke English with the most delightful Brooklyn accent. Just enough Bugs Bunny to be hilarious coming from a Dane.
The macOS "Updates are available" notification similarly only has Update Now or Remind Me Tomorrow options. There's no "I don't want to upgrade to the last macOS release".
Oh, man, you're lucky!

Not only are our virtual meetings no shorter than the old in-person ones, but we get to have a lot more of them, too!
Not sure how Iceland (.is) is outside EU laws, it's in the EEA, which I'm pretty sure means it's subject to (almost) all the EUs laws with little-to-no voting power or influence.
I believe the applications are mostly what you describe. You take a very general algorithm like a NN or raytracing and scale the model and/or data.

For NN, it’s quite easy to use a huge amount of memory by making back-propagation chains huge, which is natural for deep models or a recurrent architecture. The model doesn’t have to be huge in a conventional sense; it just has to maintain state e.g., the recurrence.

So, a big image model on video classification/segmentation (e.g., self-driving cars) is probably the ideal combination of memory consumption.
> I have never seen more broken, ineffective policing than here

When I moved from NYC to San Francisco I was genuinely surprised how much I missed & appreciated the NYPD.
Because rust sync versus async colors the functions and how they're called.
Ideally:

1. The compiler would be able to turn a subset of async code into sync code with no runtime cost

2. Awaiting would be the default, with `.await` deprecated and special syntax for getting a raw future instead

That way most code would look the same regardless of being executed synchronously or asynchronously, with exceptions for evaluating multiple expressions in parallel and such.

But #2 probably implies lazy evaluation semantics for all expressions!
Of Cajun Navy and Agile (2017)
The vehicles have since restarted.[1]

I think that Toyota's position on AVs is largely counter to the rest of the market, and the CE largely states this in his post-incident briefing. They see the AV market as more a tram-like shuttle experience [2], so limited in scope, rather than full on Level 5. Toyota's contrary position is similar to their position to BEVs, where the CEO has stated he sees hydrogen as the solution, not batteries.

In each case their position is possibly out of date given the advances made in both AVs and battery technology developed elsewhere.

[1] https://electrek.co/2021/08/30/toyota-resumes-self-driving-o...

[2] https://digital.hbs.edu/platform-rctom/submission/toyotas-an...
Microsoft incorporate every possible anti pattern into pushing their products on Windows users. It's not even close.
Many options!

A. Try it
B. Use Firefox
C. Use Chrome
Unlike Primephonic, Dark Sky is still a functioning website and app to this day. I presume it will only be sunset (ha!) after iOS 15 and Monterey reach general release.
I'm not convinced (though I'm also not insisting that you're wrong).

Studies of the human creative process that I've read don't provide a lot of support for the idea that there is a magic step here. You probably know the quote: "good artists borrow, great artists steal".
Lucky for them, it sounds like you're a zero-margin customer anyway
While the merits of combining DOS and Windows is economically debatable, the memory layout of 95 is really well-thought out and DR really didn't realise that certain programs would just "slide" out of their allocated memory range even theoretically no programs should do that (there is already a warning in beta versions that has tighter memory layouts, and DR conveniently forgot how changing the DPMI implementation, even though it should just work, actually isn't). Microsoft is simply trying to minimise problematic applications at the expense of memory consumption.
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You are absolutely correct, although your observation isn’t completely relevant to the OP-1. The OP-1 is actually a synthesizer, and $1500, while a substantial sum, isn’t that much for a pro quality musical instrument.
Does that mean it's impossible, according to your definitions, for the U.S. Congress to pass any bill that is in any way authoritarian? Or, indeed, is it possible for the U.S. government to do anything authoritative, since it is ostensibly democratic?
I'm sure more people will use each of those games than a Playdate.
They're killing Dark Sky? It still works on my devices.
Was anyone else surprised Microsoft didn’t call the latest Gen Xbox the “Xbox One 360 Series X” with how excellent their branding has been as of late?
Pro tip: I recently learned that you could replace MON/TUES/etc with 1-5 for all the weekdays!
I truly believe that you can’t divide appreciators of art in simple, unnuanced, mutually exclusive categories. Specially just 2 like you did.

I don’t see myself in either category, at the same time that I do remember appreciating things that would fit both.
what you mention is one advantage, another example is that you are not limited to 2 contexts (private tab & non-private tab vs as many containers as you need).

Related to the advantage you mention is also the reverse: clicking a non-facebook link from the facebook container can (if you want) open a non-facebook container
Is there research suggesting that the physical and psychological problems caused by cigarettes, alcohol, and gambling are significantly reduced at age 18 or 21?
Venture Funds Pour into Hardware as China Curbs Internet Firms
Oh please, the US government actively intervenes trying to prevent minors from seeing adults having sex, an activity that does not harm others (and even whether it harms minors who view it is questionable). But I've yet to hear an American state that they view it as "appalling" that children can't watch porn.
Many developers disagree.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaKIZ7gJlRU

Gives just one example of folks who are active in this space thought. GPLv3 is very different than v2.

Edited: Some quick stats as well:

Permissive licenses are on the rise. In 2012, 59% of components' licenses were copyleft and 41% permissive. In 2019, that has fully swung the other way with 67% of components having permissive licenses and 33% copyleft. Permissive licenses face few restrictions on how others can use components.

MIT was the most popular license in 2019 at 27%. The MIT license lets folks do almost anything they want with the code as long as they attribute it and don't hold you liable.

Apache 2.0 jumped over GPL 3.0 in 2017 to number two and it's still there with 23%. It gives you patent rights while allowing modifications and distribution of larger works under different terms and without source code.

- Techrepublic
I have not. I will check it out. Thank you!