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Ask HN: Advice on starting a niche ad network
I've recently been thinking about starting an ad network with a new format for ads. I think the format is more engaging for viewers and more useful for advertisers. However, I'm not sure where i should start developing it, what would be your advice for how to develop the ads? The ads will be web based and square dimensions but I'm just not sure what the current best practises are for adtech. I'm competent with the backend but I'm not sure how to develop the ads.
Also worth thinking through all who benefit from a "labor shortage"

1. Those who would want to import cheaper labor from abroad or export the jobs to there.

2. Those who would want evidence they can deny social safety net claims ("oh yeah, you couldnt find a job? but there's a labor shortage")

3. Those who would want to sell all kinds of expensive and unneeded things -- like degrees .

4. companies who are shit at customer service, but now have an excuse as to why

It's hard not to be ignorant when it's so profitable.
Yes, ingress like Traefik can auto renew certs.

My problem with swarm is that the overlay networking was super flaky. Dead containers still being registered on the network cause every X requests to fail (since it’s round robin) because it’s routing to an overlay IP that doesn’t exist.

Further, I could never find storage adapters for cloud storage that continued to be maintained. Rexray was the longest standing but hasn’t had a commit since Jan 2019.
It's ambiguous but maybe they mean a chronic disease instead? i.e. constant suffering but no end date.
This links to a comment on the blog post, rather than the blog post itself. The link should be https://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2015/01/12/how-strong...
I agree. The responses in this thread are weak. Throw out any statement and claim it supports the known conclusion, how can you be wrong?

"Well the volume (of a sphere) is proportional to the cube of its radius, so of course the cost of these physics experiments does as well" -- Why waste our time
HN is one of those social media. It comes with the same problems. But people are good at mental gymnastics and convinced themselves that it's different.
Job security, apparently.

But I agree. If some big corporation is running a Cobol training program with a big paycheck at the other end, I'll sign up. But I'm not going to spend my free time training myself, I'd rather do fun stuff.
How the risk of side effects could change with Covid-19 vaccine boosters
If you are using an ORM and need to write a query that will run on a SQL server you *need SQL knowledge and ORM knowledge*. If you are missing one the two, you probably have just wrote something with big performance penalties. This has been seen over and over in the Rails community.
This is a gross mischaracterization of the situation. There are a wide variety of energy storage schemes that promise to make renewables + storage cheaper than fission, which in turn is likely to be much cheaper than fusion. Simply dumping excess renewable power into a resistively heated thermal mass and using that to drive a power plant is likely to be cheaper than fusion.
Please tell me how it’s terrible, Mr Hard Nosed Engineer ?
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My go to in Manhattan is just to walk into the nearest big hotel like you’re a guest and find the restroom off the lobby.
I think it means you get something like a degenerative COPD that just grinds you into the ground one suffering day after another while you’re in and out of hospitals, lose your mobility, and lose your basic organ functions; no chance to recover, just withering away neither quickly or slowly.
In principle, clang could do it, you're right. I think there are two main reasons why it hasn't.

First, Zig has a pretty unique and impressive build&caching system. It makes something like this a lot less painful than it would be otherwise. It makes it practical to just download a 40MB tarball and get full cross-compiling from it.

Second, clang itself isn't in the business of building a distribution of itself + third-party libraries. Usually developers using clang get such libraries from their "vendor" (package manager if on a Linux distro, Apple if on MacOS, etc.). And those vendors naturally focus on their own platforms. So Zig ended up the first to really do the work to build a cross-platform C/C++ toolchain.
What alternatives do you like? I was looking at Lemmy
Similarly, being good enough was invented by John B. Goodenough when he invented the lithium ion battery, which was good enough.
Ask HN: Is Fcm.googleapis.com, Down?
I'm noticing a lot of 502 gateway errors from fcm is it down?
“The most common algorithms used for PRNGs are linear congruential generators”

I doubt that is still true for ‘modern’ languages. Let’s google a few.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.random?vi... says “The current implementation of the Random class is based on a modified version of Donald E. Knuth's subtractive random number generator algorithm”. So, that’s a no.

https://rust-random.github.io/book/guide-rngs.html doesn’t appear to mention multiplicative algorithms, either.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/systemrandom... says “SystemRandomNumberGenerator is automatically seeded, is safe to use in multiple threads, and uses a cryptographically secure algorithm whenever possible.”
Ok, so would you say that this post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28461965

should be flagged?

And if it shouldn't be how are you dealing with the abuse of the function?
Back off! I'll do it for $750k, but only if that includes paid training.
> Does anybody really believe that?

As far as nonpublic online activity and legal authority, barring warrants, yes.

As far as capacity, obviously not: technical capacity doesn't care much about borders.

As far as actual practice, well, we know NSA has been caught doing illegal domestic surveillance multiple times in the past few decades, so yeah, it's not something any rational person would bet much that they aren't doing.
I’ve only seen this in areas with a bit of a homeless issue. Even then just ask the barista for the code.

You can always say you’re waiting for a phone order. But I can’t say I’ve ever been asked.
They haven’t. But if labor is already one of your biggest costs, increasing compensation will also mean increasing prices.

If you increase your prices, then all the rational thinking in the world isn’t going to save you if your customers don’t think it’s worth the price you’re asking because they’re not thinking in terms of inflation versus a year or ten years ago, they’re thinking in terms of the number in front of them versus what they’ve paid in the past and what’s in their bank accounts right now.
Are you sure? Well, it uses "reflection" in a general sense of introspecting your SQL code, but not in the Go sense of using using type information at runtime via the "reflect" package. sqlc compiles your SQL at build time to statically typed, non-reflect-using functions, as shown here: https://docs.sqlc.dev/en/stable/howto/select.html
Wouldn't -Os optimize for size better than hand-crafted ASM? Genuine question.
SPARC (as proposed this year, by CFS, which was founded in 2018) also has the benefit of 3 decades worth of advancement in materials science, computers, and other technologies over ITER, which was started sometime in the 1980's. Sometimes being first to market takes a long time and is very expensive because you first have to invent all of the components yourself.

SpaceX's advancement is impressive, but if NASA had never happened, I doubt SpaceX would even exist today.
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best thing about podman is the -l option, that refers to last image used

for example to see the last conatainer's logs:

podman logs -l

just beautiful!
I don't think the folks that make the CPI are part of some vast conspiracy. I just question their methods. Like all numbers from the government, politics are involved.

You can believe they are (slightly) wrong and not be a "conspiracy theorist/thinker" at the same time.
> I don't have any idea where they could have gotten that information at all except from my Facebook years ago

Well, you were yelling at that cop. Maybe he had just added it to your file. Maybe you yelled at other cops. Maybe you had no notice in your file and he was lying to you. Maybe you had a Black Lives Matter or Democrat bumper sticker. Who knows.

If someone is yelling at a cop, it's not a giant stretch to think they don't like cops.

Meanwhile, unless you were speeding because you were transporting someone to the hospital, were racing to donate an emergency organ or needed to be there to supply a legal signature, I'm not sure you have an excuse. A cop should probably cut you some slack, but there's no "I was in a hurry for a decent reason" exemption. It's a "hurry for a good reason" exemption.
I live in Tokyo and previously lived in New York. I was back visiting last week and found it even harder to find bathrooms now that many tourist centric places closed. I ended up buying a lot of hot tea at various starbucks locations throughout the day just for the bathrooms.

頑張って OPさん. Your contact button doesn’t work, by the way.
It's no secret that real wages have remained stagnant for most people for over 40 years [1]. I'm of the school of thought that believes that we're at real risk of creating a permanent ruling class and a permanent working class by virtue of massive amounts of inherited wealth. This is what an aristocracy and serfdom looks like.

What fascinating to me is how history repeats itself. In the 14th century, the Black Plague devastated Europe. It's impossible to know but there's a lot of evidence to suggest that as much as HALF the population was killed.

This created a massive labour shortage after the plague passed, which ironically was a huge boon for workers rights, so much so that King Edward III tried to regulate worker wages in an effort to stop "gouging" [2]. Like pretty much all attempts at price-controls it failed.

So here we are almost 700 years later in a pandemic and we may be seeing the first increase in real wages in 40+ years.

As an aside, it's so bizarre to me how many ordinary people will jump to the defense of billionaires when it comes to estate taxes.

What I think many such people don't seem to understand is that wealth will ultimately get redistributed one way or another. The ultimate forms of wealth distribution are revolution and war and that's really in nobody's best interests. It's actually good for everyone if the masses aren't living paycheck-to-paycheck.

[1]: https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R45090.pdf

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Labourers_1351
Willfully violating health orders endangers others, who are forced to share public spaces. As a community, we decided the law to protect ourselves (security of person) and the vulnerable (the people who don't have a 99% survival rate if they catch COVID; the immunosuppressed, the elderly, the chronically ill). Under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we are entitled to security of person and protection by the law. And yes, it also declares several articles further down the right to protest. So the rights are in direct conflict.

It is also worth noting that people can still protest. They just can't do it while violating health orders. Yelling maskless at police on lockdown days is going to get you arrested. Other protests on non-lockdown days with people maintaining social distancing have proceeded fine apart from grumpy words and fear mongering by politicians.
This is my experience as well, with the difference that almost all my friends are techie. Most have eschewed social media from the start, for the same reason why some airline mechanics don't fly - they know too much about what can go wrong.

We use Signal and text messaging almost exclusively.
I'm the opposite: I'm happy to do some up-front prep / thinking if it means I don't have to second-guess whether the dishwasher did its job. Prep feels like helping it do its job, re-washing feels like doing its job for it.
Or just to save time and better yet, save you from massive security issues down the line.

I've seen raw SQL queries full of fatal SQL injection bugs like these in littered in codebases, very cringeworthy.
I was thinking of the prior to 9/11 mistake of thinking that our own resources wouldn't be used against us... yet we persist in using software infrastructure not suitable for anything more dangerous than an academic environment of the 1970s at all levels.

We didn't have cabin doors on airplanes that could protect the pilots from rogue passengers. We don't have operating systems on computers that can protect themselves from rogue processes. It's effectively the same mistake.
No. Enovix beat them to market (seemingly by just a few months) with a 100% silicon anode. These two companies will change the world, the only question will be is it Enovix (which makes whole batteries) or Sila (which only makes anode materials).
If someone wanted to make a comparison, it's like additional 'rings' the x86 ring security model, but instead of nested rings it's parallel rings. You might as well have a single OS with containers.
If the recipient then sends those messages to the cops, that doesn't mean it's not E2E.

Of course there's a bit of a sliding scale here. If the recipient automatically and unknowingly sends all past messages to the cops when they try to report a single abusive message, it's not E2E but it sure is a back door. It's not clear from the article just how much history is sent with each report.
the age of your sister at the time of sickness should factor in, right?
Where are you in that mixes lb and kg like that?

I've never seen a 500g box of pasta in my entire life.

I've can't remember when apples were cheap, even the cheapest varieties.

Milk is priced by subsidied and loss leaders, so it isn't practical for tracking inflation.
Unfortunately I predict that when we “stop” global warming will likely be when we stop changing the climate (at least in that way).

This is because a lot of rich countries seem to me to be well placed to benefit partially from global climate change at the moment, at least within the 1-2C range. Changing the climate past that point is likely to be controversial, since the countries who now benefit from the situation will likely not want to give those newfound advantages away.

I would think of it a lot as the end result of a war - the borders are defined by where the armies stopped ie the division of Europe and Asia after ww2. After climate change I expect whoever has benefitted from it to defend their position and reject any further alterations!
This is probably bad advice. The Japanese definition is a little different too - https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9D%E3%82%AB%E3%83%A8%E3...

> defects by preventing, correcting, or drawing attention to human errors as they occur.

There seems confusion on what this applies too (The Japanese Wiki includes workplace accidents) but specifically within Health and Safety it's too broad to put these into one word, you'd assume something like this also applies to non-critical processes -

https://blog.sliceproducts.com/safety-hierarchy-of-controls

Safety Hierarchy of Controls: A Brief Overview

Elimination
Substitution
Engineering Control
Administrative Control
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

In network security, Elimination is taking away a risk, like stop using Confluence. PPE would be cyber insurance. Software engineering, Elimination - Remove frameworks.

But you won't just "Poka-yoke", which seems to be 'Engineering Controls', 'Administrative Control', 'PPE'
Sent this to the wife who has a touch of ocd and is quite clear and explicit about prewash cleanup and what goes where in the dishwasher.

She replied that she thought she'd better not read it cause it might make a point. I don't care much either way ... but now there will be an extra smile around the kitchen as this rattles around her brain
Please don't post anti-vax garbage on here.
Tech workers aren't leaving SF, but remote work is killing The City
With a major bowel surgery? You’re looking colostomy bag combined with a tough recovery. That means pressure sores, painful chemo or radiation, substandard care in rehab, etc. Plus, pancreatic cancer usually comes back in force once you run that gauntlet.

My dad went through some of that post-stroke. No way.
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I mean, SpaceX would have put 4 cameras on it. Also, pics, or it didn't happen.
A write up of their launch: https://climeworks.com/news/climeworks-launches-orca
lmao please try this and film it so we can all watch you get punched in the mouth
Almost sounds like the bigger and more complex issue is homelessness rather than people with homes not being able to find a convenient bathroom.
For something like an iPhone you can just use the price that consumers are willing to pay to determine if it's better than older models. When a new model is introduced the retailers still have the old model in stock and continue selling it. If consumers are willing to pay more for the new model then it has higher value to them.
I look at it as the first implementation of the Blockchain.

While Blockchain can be valuable, Bitcoin is not.

Note : i did hold btc until late 2017.
Have you tried browsing the site with an ad blocker enabled? It's likely all the ads from elsewhere. I do quite well with chrome and ad block plus.
Good points and I hope this puts a renewed flame under the ass of the labor movement.
There was a discussion about this last week https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28353065 but I have made a TON of progress now - the app is a thing people can actually install, not just a loose prototype!

https://datasette.io/desktop to try it out.

Plus a couple of more technical TILs about things I learned along the way:

Bundling Python inside an Electron app - https://til.simonwillison.net/electron/python-inside-electro...

Signing and notarizing an Electron app for distribution using GitHub Actions - https://til.simonwillison.net/electron/sign-notarize-electro...
Did you read the article you linked? It has nothing to do with peer-reviewed publication in physics journals. It’s just another fake conference that automatically prints submitted abstracts (as do many real conferences). I get a different invitation every week or two to submit papers to these things. This week it’s some energy conference in Turkey (today was my “last chance” after ignoring their five previous emails). It means nothing.
Nah, I love SQL, but if I have to choose between SQL and ORM, I will go with ... something in between, like the core layer of SQLAlchemy.

Just take a look at that monstrosity of an UPDATE statement in the article. In my first job, I had to do something similar in SQL, but with a SELECT statement to allow users to search dynamically using any combination of the columns. I picked up SQLAlchemy in my second job, and have never looked back.
> You don't think those attacks on rationality and free enquiry are political?

I agree with you: they are. But that's not what we're discussing; we're discussing the fact that rationality and free enquiry are under attack in our public universities, and we're discussing one of the consequences of those politically-motivated attacks (the resignation of an academic). Just because the attacks themselves are politically motivated does not make their consequences any less worthy of attention, or appropriate to HN. Indeed, that would be worthy of attention and appropriate content for HN whatever the underlying reasons (e.g. if it were financially powerful interests silencing inconvenient voices in academia, rather than a political movement).

To take it to an extreme to make the point absolutely clear: imagine that a crazy cult of rabbit-worshippers commit some murders in the course of a rabbit-worshipping ceremony. We would not dismiss the deaths as "just rabbit cult stuff"; a serious breach of human rights has occurred and questions need to be asked about whether the public are adequately protected from the rabbit worshippers: i.e. the normal considerations of everyday life still apply, regardless of how batty the original motivations may have been.
Your numbers sound like generation 1 numbers, after ITER. ITER is only a test facility to prove hopefully that it can be net positive.

However, those maintenance costs (your estimates) would be the first thing to drop. Any company producing/operating these will be competing with wind and solar, and thus highly incentivized to improve. There should be plenty of low hanging fruit, since it hasn't happened once yet.
Good on you, master of the obvious!
Since the telescope has to always point its shielding toward the sun, won't there be certain windows of opportunity to view things depending on where they are located in relation to the sun?
Hydrogen was a cynical distraction to give legislators something to push 'in the future' while allowing car manufacturers to continue with business as usual.

(Of course, governments the world over leapt at hydrogen and clung on for dear life because it was the only renewable vehicle tech that preserved the current fuel distribution model and so allowed them to keep supporting road infrastructure with fuel taxes. They saw the legislative advantage, physical efficiency was nothing to do with it.)

Toyota had something special back in the 80s and early 90s and it seems like they lost it. Was there some key innovator high up in the company who retired some time around then?
15% for 5 years of unpleasant survival. Basically 0% chance for a “long” “normal” life after that.

My mother (who worked in medicine and was very healthy) was diagnosed with a GBM and had a brief course of radiation to try to shrink it without a ton of luck.

She stopped working and went home and had an OK year then an awful 4 months and then fell out of bed and broke her hip and never woke up.

She could’ve maybe had 2 or 3 pretty bad years if she’d “fought” and was “lucky.”