skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Advertising as we know it emerged as a melding of government propaganda research and behavioral economics during world wars, so of course it’s often scammy.

It sounds “deep state” but it’s actually plainly documented in government files and written about by reliable sources.

Remember we’re still emerging from an era of whispering the same old story of morality and obligation to each other.

I am not at all interested in helping someone build a fertilizer empire or pillow brand. Politically my hands are tied to doing so if I want a life.

Poor people effectively live a life of quota and state sanctioned limits on their access to material support by cutting social programs with public support.

Advertising America as anything but a sanctimonious police state is a scam.
Interesting. I started with my number as a google voice number and then switched it over to real cell phone service a few years later and I never get spam calls. I wonder what is different about gv numbers.
How to rugpull and ponzi scheme, a definitive guide.
full stack engineer vs "whole" stack engineer.
Seems some BS excuse for them to justify their control over what the user installs on his phone as well as their 30% commission.
20% is misleading actually. Now lot of people should know what BGP is all about since the Facebook downtime incident.

The way Cloudflare reaches this penetration is through BGP peering routers they have installed all over the world. If you look up in how many facilities they are located in then you realize they are basically running extensive spy network all over the world.

Even if you visit some website that has got nothing to do with Cloudflare then there is a pretty big chance(I assume 20%?) that by the magic of BGP routing this website request might be passed through Cloudflare AS BGP node and you will be tracked

https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/13335

BGP explanation by Cloudflare itself:
https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/learning/security/glossary/...
I'm waiting on V2 of the DIY. I want to really get a sense of how upgradeable the laptop is. I hope I don't see "works on V1 not V2" and "works on V2 not V1" on their parts.
I agree that it's not balanced by free time. I think all surveys will have this problem. All of the respondents need to have enough free time and be willing to fill out the survey.

I don't think that's a big problem with the methodology of trying to measure sentiment of a large population of people.
I work in customer support. Most of my profession is made up of overseas workers, and they do their jobs as well or better than me. In fact, Polish and Ukrainian devs would be overqualified for what I do.

My comment isn't denigrating IT professionals in foreign countries. It's stating that hiring capable, but less credentialed workers is not a losing strategy by default. The parent comment I replied to seemed to assume that replacing domestic employees with foreign employees was the fast track to business ruin. I happen to disagree with that.
I'm going to repost my original comment (thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21468505) about this which is still applicable:

> Reliably someone comes along every few months to question [performance marketing]. I always come back to analyses of incrementality as the real proof.

> Take an audience of X people. Divide them in two. Show ads to your test group, don't show to control. Watch your business grow and gauge the lift between the two audiences.
The companies that know how to advertise at scale do this constantly and can gauge the real effect of their ad dollars. Facebook, Google and others make these tests possible in their platforms, while other software suites such as Impact Altitude and VisualIQ allow you to do this kind of analysis and testing as well.

> In the end, most of it proves out to be incremental. There are notable exceptions of course, but when are there not?
If the author reads this: can you add HTTPS support for your site? :)
The lack of a license doesn’t necessarily prevent people from driving. Making it harder, or more severe punishments for poor driving, would not only result in fewer drivers on the road but also more “undocumented” drivers.
If this happens enough, then a Windows gaming PC becomes a very expensive console. If all I do on my PC is game, then it doesn't really matter if it's got a rootkit (or kernel-level anti-cheat driver) or not. But, that's an expensive console. $600 - $2,000, depending on how nicely you want to game. A lot of the big popular online game culture really isn't fun anyway, so I'm not sure it's much of a loss.
This mindset is not as abundant as the older days, as a lot of us developers are now becoming more "morally" aware of how our code affects society on international scales.
In colloquial conversation where most lay people have no scientific background it basically means "trust me, I heard it on TV".
There's no way to know until they do an A/B test like eBay did I guess. EBay was certain that they needed to do the on brand ads before this economist showed up too.
A PC from 11 years ago is likely running a spinning hard disk and running a 32-bit version of the OS, no?
I definitely agree that his comments there were irresponsible and harmful but framing it as him making a suggestion that people try the things he's describing doesn't seem like an accurate representation of what he said.
I would argue that any form of capitalism devolves into "crony capitalism" sooner or later. It's an inherent feature of the system.

As people or groups acquire more resources through their capitalist success, the obvious next step for them is to distort the system to their advantage through regulatory capture.

A "free market" can only be sustained until someone gets rich enough to bribe themselves into an unfair advantage.
I installed the Fedora 35 beta on my framework laptop, and everything has been working perfectly well for me.
Running Manjaro KDE on mine. Only issue is typical Linux hibernation drains the battery. Otherwise flawless, fingerprint reader even works with KDE once configured.
My experience with this is to fast-path the common cases (ie ascii and vast swathes of emptiness) with hardcoded bounds comparisons, so the memory access is only done as a slow path when needed.
Ć: A programming language that translates automatically to many languages
> Appriss says that it is “very rare” for pets’ prescriptions to drive up a patient’s NarxCare scores.

What a bullshit response. There's not even an acknowledgement that this is a bad thing, let alone any attempt to fix it.
People don’t need to be dumb to do that. Being inexperienced with computers or confused about computers is enough to cause people to do a lot of things like that. There are a lot of people out there who are inexperienced with or confused by computers.

But my main point was that the brand may not be all that important in the first place even though it was included as part of the search term. The person making the search could’ve seen an ad and been intrigued by the product, but upon landing on a competitor site they may choose to buy a similar product from them instead.

If you are deeply into the kind of thing you are buying, you will make a lot of research to find the best one. But there are a lot of things we buy that we don’t care as deeply about, and where we may choose the first one that fits the bill sufficiently well.
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eBay is a strong brand where people searching for eBay are going to click on eBay, almost no matter what. For other less recognizable brands or crowded categories, this is often not the case.

Branded search terms are almost always less incremental than non-branded (ie: "lodge logic" vs. "cast iron skillet"), but the actual incrementality of the terms is something every advertiser should be testing continuously.
> Why do you assume programming langauges with female coded names are because the creator is viewing it as a girlfriend?

I am not assuming that. I was just comparing it to the situation with cars.

> Not all creators are heterosexual males (or otherwise oriented toward females as preferred or even acceptable romantic partners), and even those that are don’t necessarily view women exclusively through the lens of romantic involvement such that that would be the implication of a female name.

I wasn't implying such a thing. But I knew a woke person was going to point it out to me anyway. Funny.

> Janet is named after a character that is expressly not a woman

The logo of the programming language is the face of an attractive woman wearing a lipstick and a fancy hairdo. Also, Janet is portrayed by a woman in the Good Place. Don't tell me that the name of the language has nothing to do with a woman.

> Why are female-coded names a particular issue

I don't think it is an issue. I was just thinking out loud.

Take it easy.
Ask HN: Reputable code signing service? For arbitrary payloads
His words are pretty moving, but it's a jarring contrast with the... uh, 'influencer' vibe I get from the people hanging out with them.
All the expansion bays (4) are already USBC and you don’t need a module for it.
I just don't understand how someone genuinely believed a picture of a vintage camera was a picture of a bomb...
Might just be me, but Shatner is attempting to communicate something profound that has altered him and Bezos just seems to want to party. Might just be different world views, Shatner is much older and has less time.
These sorts of things always get circumvented, but I wish the CoD players fun during the 1-2 week gap where the cheaters are still figuring it out.

I've actually figured out the permanent solution to cheaters. Oddly enough, I worked it out in Pokemon Unite, which doesn't have a cheating problem as far as I know, but does have items that you can buy to boost your character stats. The solution is easy: play a game with a good ranking system, and don't get too sweaty about the whole thing. People who use non-skill based tools like cheating or paid boosts will shoot right up the rankings and leave you behind to play in peace. If somebody has a cheating tool that is so subtle that they play all the way down at my level, it is arguably not a real help anyway.
I really hope such anti-free speech is not an opinion shared among the majority of Europeans. The world will be much worse off when the free flow of ideas is restricted.
I have a hard time believing real programmers would allow something like that in production code... But I guess if its corporate, nobody cares about the quality.
Your logic about the ads is sound, but your experience as a customer does not mean all customers exhibit this behavior. The best course of action is to test this conclusion which can be reliably done with a Google Ads Experiment.
ICCV2021 oral paper improves generalization across sensor platforms
Our work "Unsupervised Depth Completion with Calibrated Backprojection Layers" has been accepted as an oral paper at ICCV 2021! We will be giving our talk during Session 10 (10/13 2-3 pm PST / 5-6 pm EST and 10/15 7-8 am PST / 10-11 am EST, https://www.eventscribe.net/2021/ICCV/fsPopup.asp?efp=WlJFS0tHTEMxNTgzMA%20&PosterID=428697%20&rnd=0.4100732&mode=posterinfo). This is joint work with Stefano Soatto at the UCLA Vision Lab.

In a nutshell: we propose a method for point cloud densification (from camera, IMU, range sensor) that can generalize well across different sensor platforms. The figure in this link illustrates our improvement over existing works: https://github.com/alexklwong/calibrated-backprojection-network/blob/master/figures/overview_teaser.gif

The slightly longer version: previous methods, when trained on one sensor platform, have problem generalizing to different ones when deployed to the wild. This is because they are overfitted to the sensors used to collect the training set. Our method takes image, sparse point cloud and camera calibration as input, which allows us to use a different calibration at test time. This significantly improves generalization to novel scenes captured by sensors different than those used during training. Amongst our innovations is a "calibrated backprojection layer" that imposes strong inductive bias on the network (as opposed trying to learn everything from the data). This design allows our method to achieve the state of the art on both indoor and outdoor scenarios while using a smaller model size and boasting a faster inference time.

For those interested, here are the links to

paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.10531.pdf

code (pytorch): https://github.com/alexklwong/calibrated-backprojection-network
Google, Amazon, Microsoft Use 3rd Parties to Sell Surveillance Tech to ICE, CBP
I wonder if this would be possible to run on the Xilinx Kintex-7 FPGA employed in the currently-in-dev SoM board for MNT Reform laptop[0]? I know very little about FPGAs so I don't know if it's easily applicable to other boards or what. I mean, I'm not saying it would be _practical_, but it would be pretty cool! haha :)

[0] https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/reform/updates/post-campaign...
Are they synchronizing on the UI every time they update the progress bar? That's a rookie mistake.
>The 10x programmer is a silly myth. The idea that someone can produce in 1 day what another competent, hard working, similarly experienced programmer can produce in 2 weeks is silly.
It's not a myth, or silly. It's not even super uncommon.
Or even (dun dun dunnnnn) Hackernews.

The problem is simply the fact that there's always something new to see. It doesn't require evil masterminds. It's a magic rectangle in your pocket that shows you something new every time you look at it. Of course it's addictive.
Hopefully someone can help get her script filled. If she doesn't notice improvement after a couple of doses, maybe she'll reconsider hospital. Time is of the essence with ivermectin, early application is more effective.
> The only time it really stops working is if people start treating it as doctrine, and demanding that you accept it on faith, and take any questions as evidence that you are an enemy of science. If anything destroys science, it is this line of reasoning.

Agreed with everything you wrote. We should be especially vigilant when politics/media gets involved in science. Science is just as corruptable, especially in the short term, as any other field.

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

The more obvious example being the purging of "jewish science" from germany during ww2.
I didn't see a lot of OG Star Trek, but I do feel like Boston Legal Shatner would have just this reaction.
Intellectuals urge Germany to keep nuclear plants online
This is race related in the same way that saying "All Lives Matter" is racist. It's not about the words that are stated, it's about the context as well.

When people are protesting about racial injustice toward some minorities, saying "All Lives Matter" is dismissing their concerns. It's like when someone goes to the police department saying "You need to protect me from a murderer" and an officer goes "Yeah, we need to protect everyone from murderers." Yes, that's true, but that's not a very helpful response to someone asking for help.

Likewise, the whole academic evaluation based on merit dismisses the idea that our current "objective" means of academic evaluation may not be as objective as they should be when considering race. Yes, we should evaluate students based on "merit" but we need to reconsider whether our current methods measure "merit" accurately.
> Modern Monetary Theory on the other hand is the philosophy of a six year old who asks daddy why the government can't just print more money to buy stuff.

MMT is just “fiat money isn't commodity money, so fiscal constraints are historical cosplay rather than fundamental reality. The real constraint on so-called ‘fiscal’ activity is purely monetary.”

No part of the descriptive element of MMT is in actual serious dispute by orthodox economics. Orthodox economists just tend to prefer the policy behavior that occurs with c
the cosplay of fiscal rather than purely monetary constraints. Which is fine—frankly, I think Congress does a bad enough job with fiscal policy when monetary policy is hived off and given to the Fed, so I can see some naive policy responses to the realities embraced by MMT that would be counterproductive. OTOH, acknowledging the realities instead of trying or bury them because their are some obvious bad potential responses is necessary to have the discussion that gets to policy that incorporates reality well.
I bought my laptop only 4-6 months ago and it was a fresh W10 install.
It's a harsh truth as far as I know, that some people refuse to come to terms with. Some people just believe that anyone can be taught anything given the appropriate conditions.
I'm not sure what 'climate [change] denial' means:

A. There is no measurable climate change.

B. The causes of the planet's climate change are cosmic, not human made.

C. Industrial activity is causing climate change, but it's unclear how to limit industrial activity without vast increases in poverty.

D. Industrial activity is causing climate change, but the extent of the negative consequences is unclear.

I'm pretty sure all these opinions are allowed, especially if backed by evidence. Though I would expect A. and to a lesser extent B. to require quite a bit more of a thick skin. There is plenty of readily available data that indicates climate change is already happening.
I think this can extend to all of Europe. It's not a nationalist thing. From a European perspective, North American work culture (yes, I'm looking at you, Canada) is truly puzzling.
>that's way worse than what the UK had before

But better than what we have now.
Happier? Statistically, yes. More meaningful? Definitely no. Believing your life to be meaningful is not the same as actually having a meaningful life.
Shatner was clearly overwhelmed as you can see from the transcript and had trouble to put the experience to words already. The one thing that I noticed was how ironic I thought it was that Shatner described the vast blackness of space as death and Earth as life. Don't get me wrong, it's certainly true but just not what I would expect from Captain Kirk who would call that a great adventure instead, most likely.
Even the eBay test can be misleading - if everyone sees competitor B anytime they search for eBay, eventually they are going to give it a try.
Nut allergy info that was collected by the school (teacher, admin, nurse, whoever) is part of the student records and would be protected information under FERPA.
No. You are making categorical error by equating emotional messages with cognitive messages.

Coordinated inauthentic ideas are not intended to withstand rigorous review. They are intended to tickle the limbic system and to get retweeted before the reader’s cognitive mind has a chance to weigh in. The author will shed that idea or identity and move to another. For this reason, they are also called a “disinformation firehouse”.
I take issue with the conflation of Performance Advertising with Awareness Advertising.

The whole point of _performance_ advertising is that it's effect is _measurable_. If AirBnB spent $500m+ on performance advertising, they should be able to trace that back to an exact amount of revenue. If you are a brand in this scenario, you can conduct split tests by sampling the conversion rate of users from advertising vs non-advertising. Again, it should be simple to see if the conversion rate for users targeted via advertising has increased or is unchanged.

In the branded search examples, again, as an advertiser, you can see what searches are associated with your leads. While you do have to compete for attention on your own branded search (to compete against competitors taking the slot), you should also be able to recognize unbranded terms which drive conversions for you. Again, assuming this is actually _performance_ marketing, you would be able to look at the cost of these placements and the ROI, and the impact would be measurable.

The rest of the article is largely composed of straw-man arguments that imply the results are not measurable, when in fact they are (if done right).

disclaimer: I'm the CTO of a performance marketing platform. The vast majority of conversions on our platform happen same-session. There's a very easy way to measure this effect -> pause your campaigns and immediately see conversions fall.
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I think performance advertising is a great idea if you don't rank very high in search results for your category.

"Rental stays in XYZ city" will bring up an airbnb result all day, probably in the top five results. Therefore, paying $3 a click to be placed above your own search result is probably silly.

I happen to have a small side project and advertise it with a very low budget on facebook, google, and bing. It works. I don't rank very high because my SEO skills are poor, but google ads absolutely drive real and interested people to my site.
Experiencing this is on my bucket list, along with creating another life.
I've tried Vivaldi and it's great. My understanding is that it shares the same components as Chrome. Are there other 'fully independent' browsers? Does that even matter?
Show HN: Serverless Cloud – By the Creators of the Serverless Framework
What is a good way to benchmark the various different operating systems and sound systems to establish the difference in latency? Anyone aware of a good write up of same?
Well yeah, Bezos has been on a Musk-envy mid-life crisis the last few years.
Because it's not in the article:

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

> The overview effect is a cognitive shift in awareness reported by some astronauts during spaceflight, often while viewing the Earth from outer space
> Good conversations don't have to involve a back-and-forth with your ideas always being involved.

That's a great point. Generally my favorite part of the comments are all the little atomic nuggets of wisdom that folks post in one-off comments that are just tangentially related to the topic. To be honest I find most of the "conversation" threads to be tiresome as the typically just consist of 2 or 3 people talking past each other until the thread peters out.
Been KDE user since 1998 or so. Still remember compiling 1.0 alpha4 (??) back in 98. It was taking forever thanks to Mico. After KDE switched to KParts compilations became so much faster...
> no idea what to do with it

This is a nonsense comment. The point of STORAGE is to do nothing with it. It's supposed to just sit there.

Also, the only "leak" mentioned in the article, was not a leak at all. It was contained in the secondary container and then moved back into a new primary container. ...and it wasn't even radioactive - it was "just" nitric acid.
Prioritize productively with the help of focus time
Exactly. And it's bad for customers too. My mum (70) just fell for it, and she's pretty clued about computers and technology. She searched for a flight with Ryanair, so entered Ryanair on Google. First result was some scummy reseller, which sold her the same ticket for a higher price with some "extras".

Bidding on a competitor's brand name keyword should be banned. But Google can't resist double-dipping.
Really neat project.

Relevant to the parent suggestion, you might add some indicators on the slider to show where daytime is.
Ok, read it. The article falsely assumes that performance marketing relies purely on the vendor conversion data. I don't know any business out there, which would do that.
For Shatner it seemed like he had a profound life-enhancing experience. For everyone else it looked like they were celebrating after some sort of extreme sport, or a roller coaster. It's hard to judge just by outward appearances, and the adrenalin rush must be intense, but no one else, even Bezos, seemed to really appreciate the enormity of the experience.
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Why, thanks ;)