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> Technically, when someone does a Google search for “Williams Sonoma Cast Iron Skillet,” they probably would have clicked on one of the first 10 organic results, EVERY ONE OF WHICH leads to their website. But, y’know what ol’ Billy Ma’s performance marketers couldn’t then do: prove their value to their bosses.

> [picture of that search term and williams sonoma ads with shopping links]

The main problem here is that if Williams Sonoma was not advertising on that search term, Lodge and Food52 etc etc would, and then those companies would be above the Williams Sonoma organic placements.

The spend is necessary in a defensive way because Google creates a bidding war even for the hyper relevant.

edit: I just checked and if you search "williams sonoma skillet", if WS was not paying for [green] then the very first "result" (ad) would be Food52 [red] https://imgur.com/a/9Nnxs6h

I just tried "airbnb paris" and the first result is, somewhat predictably, an ad that is not airbnb. But the second one is also an ad, this time from airbnb. So they clearly didn't keep their spend dialed down to zero, and are aware of the need to advertise on their own keyword.
Great story. I remember those days well, I also remember finding every last byte of UMB, elaborate autoexec.bat files and figuring out IRQ assignments to get max functionality. Kids these days don't know how good they got it.
Average ~$3500/mo, but that can go up and down depending on organic traffic, competition (who's running ads), and world events (2-3x'd for a month or two during peak Covid lockdown). It was running ~$1-1.5k for a good chunk of the time when I was building out my own newsletter system, and I wasn't super eager to throw 30-50% of my revenue at something off-the-shelf.
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I view your observation as interesting and worth making, and I also believe there's an implicit argument there against that line of thinking.

The word "perfect" is problematic to me. It's ascribed to God to contrast with man, as most of us would agree that nothing we do is perfect. Using it implies the same religious status of being above man's foibles.

I like the word "useful" here, or "anti-fragile" in the original comment.

Further, I like defining context. Useful in what class of problems? For I don't think the scientific method is regarded as particularly useful in all domains. Consciousness and the subjective are valid realms of human experience worth dedicated inquiry, for which the scientific method seems woefully lacking.
So the definition of "nonconsenting prisoners" is "killing a person without their consent...". That makes every organ transplantation of prisoners "nonconsenting" since nobody consents to their own execution. It doesn't mean the prisoners did or did not consent to donating their organs. It just says they didn't consent to be executed.

I'm against any and all organ donation. So I don't support taking the organs of prisoners. But the author's problem here isn't with organ donations but with the death penalty. He's not saying that the prisoners or their families didn't donate their organs, he's saying prisoners cannot consent because they are prisoners.

The article also said that singapore and taiwan used to allow prisoner's organ donations until their were "bullied" into dropping the practice. So it seems like it is a cultural issue. If the chinese want to allow prisoners to donate their organs, who are we to say otherwise. We use aborted fetuses for medical experiments. Should china be allowed to force us to stop such behavior? Not to mention medical testing on poor people in africa, india, etc.

Is it any better to take organs from poor and desperate people? Use poor people for medical experiments?
If I remember history correctly the original xbox CPU was very close to an intel P3-based 733 MHz celeron. Likely Intel was able to undercut AMD significantly on price by using binned P3 production wafers where some of the L2 cache didn't test OK.
Consistent with what jwz described as the "CADT" model of development.
You've been here just under two months and I've already noticed that you tend to be, in my opinion, a culture warrior. I usually don't look at usernames when reading comments, but I found myself downvoting at least a half-dozen of your comments in the last week or so. If you want to fight the culture wars you can do that on e.g. Twitter or Reddit. If you want to have a deep and nuanced conversation about your politics here you can do that, but you're gonna have to adjust your style or take the downvotes.

There are folks here with all kinds of different political views (communist, capitalist, socialist, left wing, right wing, discordian, etc.) who express themselves in such a way as to avoid the ban hammer.
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This. MBR+LILO booting is dumb simple, these people don't know a shit about what their are talking about.
I think this is just a crap attempt at SEO.
If the scientific method is so perfect why does it fail when used by imperfect operators
Is he any worse than all the places that depend on H1b labor?
I made this because I would download a lot of videos from Youtube to watch on my phone using VLC. Most of the videos I downloaded were from video game streams, and I wanted to constrain the video to just the gameplay (cropping the frame to just the game and trimming the timeline to ignore anything before/after). It got tedious to do this manually, so I made a tool to speed things up.

The video editing and streaming is CPU and bandwidth intensive. If you want to use this a lot, you're better off using your own server (there are 1-click deploys to both Heroku and Digital Ocean along with a link to the Dockerfile and source), but I've added a link to a demo server if you just want to try it out. Depending on how much use this gets, performance might go down the drain.
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> they aren't uneducated

> They don't have experience with Science or Statistics (...) It's easy to get through college without any meaningful science education

Maybe understanding science/statistics needs to be higher on the list of criteria used to determine if someone is "educated".
> Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity are all vaccinated but continue to fan the flames of anti-vaxxers for their own gain.

Sean Hannity has continuously supported vaccines (has unequivocally stated he thinks they're the best way to deal with the pandemic); he's just against mandates, and believes you should speak with your own doctor about them. If that's being an anti-vaxxer, then most people are.
Their flagship project (that campus they are calling "center for resource management") seems like an amalgamation of all that is wrong with last century urbanism, it seems like the 1950s idea of an utopia. They ignored all that we now know about building on a human scale, walkability, mixed-use, and close connection; and instead went with a cross between a North-American detached-suburb, a golf course, and a 1950s car-centric planned city. They seem to be the type of person that thinks Brasilia is an example to be followed.
Ask HN: Is the web slower to load nowadays or is it just me?
Specifically I am speaking to the non-mobile web experience but this discussion can include that as well.

Is it just me or is the page load times and response time worse now than it was 5-10+ years ago? This is something I continue to notice across multiple machines and varying internet access speeds/latencies.
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That's not a cult, then. Its just an odd religious community.

In contemporary English, cult refers specifically to brainwashy abusive practices that attempt to control every aspect of the person's life and tend not to allow you to leave.

Some groups like the Amish and the ultra-Orthodox Jews in North America live in insular communal societies, but most would not describe them as cults. (Though sometimes the more isolationist groups do get called so, maybe with some cause.)
Angry implies we're somehow out of line for believing that they are charging too high a price for a product, especially ones that we provide much of the value to.

Think of those "by the pound" frozen yogurt and toppings places. One day they charge a fair price and sometime later they up their prices and start charging different amounts for different stuff, etc.

I'm not angry if I dip on over to the grocery store and get my own stuff instead. Disappointed that we lost something cool, maybe, but that's on THEIR dumb choices.
Send a message to info@ycombinator.com . These threads sometimes are not noticed.
>Perl is widely known as a write once read never language for a reason.

From clueless Z-ers with no actual Perl experience, maybe.
Free market originated as a term with Adam Smith in regards to free of rents and privileges.

"For classical economists such as Adam Smith, the term free market does not necessarily refer to a market free from government interference, but rather free from all forms of economic privilege, monopolies and artificial scarcities.[1] This implies that economic rents, i.e. profits generated from a lack of perfect competition, must be reduced or eliminated as much as possible through free competition."

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

Naturally, the term has taken on differing meanings, some useful, some not. The idea itself, of a market free from government influence and control is a pipe dream that has never, and will never exist.

To you it means trade without coercion. To others it means less taxes (a type of coercion). To yet others it means no regulations (yet another type of coercion). This just doesn't exist in any economy. Taxes, regulation, permits, all are a form of economic coercion. It's just used as a cudgel by those who stand to gain or lose the most with a particular regulation or tax policy.
This is exciting! I do wonder how Framework will handle some of the logistical challenges associated with running a hardware company, namely distribution. I’ve been waiting on my Framework DIY Edition for several weeks now - it was estimated to arrive a couple of weeks ago but seems to be stuck in the purgatory that is Portland / Troutdale FedEx. Of course everything is kinda upside down in the world at the moment and Framework is barely a year old at this point, so I can’t really fault them here. That said, I really hope Framework is able to successfully scale in this regard. Like it would suck to order a replacement part you need only to have to wait a month or longer for it to arrive in the mail.
I'm hoping by the next time I go laptop shopping that they've released a model with more USB C ports. This is phenomenal work though.
I think that's an interesting perspective, you're right that this is a post praising moderation (a form of censorship.) I don't find it dystopian/thoughtless however, because the outcome of this moderation philosophy is visibly better than the vast majority of other forums I've partaken in. The forums that were better were small, and did not scale as well as HN because moderation is very hard to get right. The better part of HN also isn't seeing more of what I agree with, but seeing different perspectives presented in a way that yield actual discussion.
"F150 before trying to sterilize the global south"

Right. So people not buying a f150 will help combat the climate destruction of a doubling population in the next 40 years. Is this a joke? I don't understand how a smart group can say such stupid things.
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FYI - most PE firms aim to flip a business in 3-7 years with a few exceptions that make evergreen investments. Consider the incentives that drives for the PE firm and management team and ask questions accordingly.
I guess the question is whether the wealth of the top 10% is related to the issues of the rest. There are a number of possible places to get the same money (budget reallocations, corporate wealth, etc). It is not obvious to me that these 2 things are connected.

Also, one way to address the issues is to get everyone to be wealthier. "Why can't you just be richer?" seems like a weird thing to say but this is exactly what has happened over the last 100 years or so (at least for most of the world's population). This has solved many things that used to be problems but created new problems of its own.

Would a solution that makes the bottom 90% better able to afford healthcare but makes the top 10% even richer be a good thing? If not, why not?
There's no such thing as scientific consensus, strictly speaking
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Ask HN: What's the story with WhatsApp privacy these days?
I haven't kept up with it. I have been using Signal for a long, long time. My EU friends really aren't going to make that switch it seems, so, I'd rather use WhatsApp than nothing. But, what's the story recently? Any significant privacy changes to know about in either direction?
All organizations are superficially similar in the sense that they are all organizations.
By "integration" I meant "turn the module into a chip" rather than "put the module in a phone" -- though your point about power could be the answer. Some lasers and optics just feel like the kind of thing that a clever team could squeeze onto a wafer, maybe with a loop in the third dimension. Or maybe just require two of them. There's probably a good answer as to why that's harder than it seems, I just don't know what it is.
Librem 5 can also boot different operating systems.
I'd agree with that. The case size, open design, accesible FW, etc. made it really easy to add custom HW to the Apple ][, I got a lot of joy out of mine. I have to admit to being a bit jealous of the C64 and Atari kids with their better gaming capability.
> Why are there mass firings of nurses for refusing to get the shot?

AFAICT, there aren't. Very small numbers have left (permanently or temporarily) jobs for that reason, whether fired, quit, or suspended. On the order of hundreds out of ~17 million health care workers covered by mandates.

Lots of political opponents have pointed to mass firings as hypothetical future consequences of mandate policies, and then reacted as if these hypothetical future outcomes were present reality.
Because a lot of nurses are dumb and/or highly partisan or otherwise ideological
Maybe choose a different word then since it's obviously creating confusion and misconception about what dopamine does
I switched to Google Voice a decade ago, and it took me years to realize the degree to which everyone else was getting spammed with robocalls. I probably get one a month.

I know they don't have Google's technical chops, but I wonder why carriers don't do this?

Unless it's not down to spam filtering, and it's simply that it costs more for automated systems to interface with Google Voice (once in a blue moon, entering my GV number into an automated system gets rejected).
I don't think you're a master in your field until you realize just how much you don't know.

It's Dunning Kruger otherwise.
Ask HN: What's the personal computer security solution you recommend most?
Hello everyone. What's the security solution or software (private or open source) some of you here at HN would recommend most for deeply protecting a personal PC or laptop as free as possible of malware, spyware and so forth? Plenty of commercial options exist obviously, but my suspicion of their qualities and own business-related data-grubbing and clumsiness has gone nowhere but up in recent years. Any suggestions would be very helpful.
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I'm not even sure that its true to a meaningful degree - at least in the US, large businesses dominate economically and are quite profitable (much better than "break even"). Microsoft, Berkshire Hathaway, JP Morgan - they are not going to "go under" if interest rates go up 0.25%, even though they all use corporate debt.
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I'm only a few paragraphs in but I'm already a bit confused by the way the author seems to use "falsifiable" and "falsified" interchangably when it is the former not the latter that is critical to Popper's definition.

What matters is that you make a claim that has the potential to be tested. i.e. there exists an observation that could potentially contradict your claim.

And if this observation arises, the result is that the hypothesis has an opportunity to refine itself and the process continues.

Newtonian mechanics were falsifiable, they were falsified in particular domains (the very small and the very large) and now they have been refined as they are still applicable given certain contraints.
The amount of keyboard languages supported it fantastic. I was certain I wouldn't see "Canadian French" included but that definitely tipped the scales for me.
The word/concept "perfect" was "developed" by "fallible and irrational humans" as well, so we do have the authority to apply it.

The 3/4/5 right triangle is perfect. The perfect fifth in music is (tautologically) perfect. "p or not p" is perfect. Perhaps none of these things can be reproduced in the physical world in a perfect manner, but the concepts really are perfect. Anything in idea-space can in fact be perfect, and the scientific method lives in idea-space.

In the realm of perfection, there isn't really any difference between "developing" something and "discovering" it. Did we "develop" the scientific method or "discover" it? I think that's a meaningless distinction. It's the loop that describes how inductive reasoning is applied by limited observers to a structured universe. People were doing it before it was "developed".
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Calling it perfect is absurd and makes me skeptical of your understanding :)
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If you enjoyed that, you might also like Aphyr's spiritual "sequel" to this story, Needlepoint: https://aphyr.com/posts/349-needlepoint
The USA and Spain are the only Western countries with decreases in their IHDI scores since 2010, and they are extremely small decreases.

This data effectively disproves the statement "Standards of living have decreased in much of the US and EU".
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> Nuclear fission once pulled off will make things much much worse.

Doubling the population will make things worse in 40 years. How is this hard? Double chickens? Double cows? Double coal plants? wtf? lol. You are the fool. Trying googling "when does population double".
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This is exactly right, and what the original comment was describing I believe. Although I wonder if the subject is muddied as the adjective may be applied to the wrong noun.

Their _skepticism_ is likely genuine and sincere, but their _engagement_ is not in good faith and is disingenuous.

One problem, I think, is that it the communities are self selecting. Skeptics who engage in good faith on well understood topics become converts; all who remain over time in the community of skeptics are those who do not engage in good faith.

It's a worthwhile question to ask why they don't engage in good faith, which I think has a more complicated answer than either straightforward ignorance or malice.
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AMD has better battery life given that they run cooler at a lower TDP than Intel chips. This is partly due to the processor architecture. So this is one tangible reason to prefer AMD especially in a laptop as battery life is very important.
The idea isnt new though, GWT has been around since 2006 (the ancient Java version of writing the frontend code in Java, which is then served as JS to the client)

I dont think we're going to go back to that anytime soon, the performance hit is just too big compared to a well written js implementation.

To be fair, Blazor uses wasm, which is significantly better then the cross-compilation of GWT back then. nonetheless, the performance (esp. time to first render) is just not good enough for a lot of consumer facing apps

It definitely has its niche though.
Especially if you're able to cache the .net runtime that gets executed through wasm locally (PWA style)
I mostly buy Intel, but more and more nowadays I'm pondering AMD for its support of ECC RAM.
I think the comment you're responding to is taking issue with predictions about the specific effects of climate on a particular time table. I think your comment is talking about the general concept of greenhouse gases produced by humans causing warming. There is a large chasm between these two things.

This is also why it's important to clarify what we mean by "global warming skeptic." Are we talking about someone that denies that human behavior creates greenhouse gases that warms the climate? Or are we talking about someone who views predictions about the specific effects of that warming on our environment on a particular time scale with great skepticism? These are two very different positions to take.
I think it's better to follow guidelines and use the correct title, too, but I disagree that it is very judgmental. They fire US based staff after an acquisition, have 69% annual attrition, use spyware on their international contractors, and use accounting (NOL carry forwards) and patent trolling tactics to increase returns... at least allegedly per the article. Most people here would not want to work at a place like this. It sounds like it checks a lot of boxes for a sweatshop.
I'm not religious, but isn't that what priests are for? Like to update the church's model of what's right/wrong based on new information... just from god
> demonstrated through various data to be a spectacular failure in terms of safety and efficacy

No
If we want to say science is a byproduct of the social system we have in place, then I understand your point. We don't need that system to have science tho. You can practice science yourself. That's kind of the point of it really.
We have cafeteria style restaurants like this. It's not going to spread to most American restaurants because we do like being waited on. Even crappy mid level restaurants like Applebee's and Chili's pretend to be classy. But it sure seems like the bottom has fallen out of the labor pool for these jobs, which have always had terrible pay.
> which since its deployment has been demonstrated through various data to be a spectacular failure in terms of safety and efficacy.

What do you mean by "spectacular failure"? I live in Romania, one of the least vaccinated countries in the EU (together with Bulgaria) and we're now in the middle of a very, very bad Covid wave because of the low vaccination rates. The other EU countries don't go through the same thing as us. I don't call the vaccine a "spectacular failure" in terms of safety and efficacy, quite the contrary, it demonstrates that it has been doing its job pretty well.
As the story pointed out, it was a long bumpy trip getting it into the kernel though.
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>educating population, building basic road infrastructure, etc

So things a not centrally planned economy like the US is failing miserably at? You made a case against your point of view without even realizing it.
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I'd expect that there are still a lot of new designs where something like an 8-bit microcontroller such as an AVR makes more sense than using something ARM based.