skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But its effectiveness depends so much on the message

I think it's best to think of this as messages (plural) when talking about microtargeting. Everybody could get a different message but, in aggregate, the set of (Target, Message) tuples could add up to moving the needle towards some desired outcome (for elections, in particular: activating some voters, discouraging others).

For example, we might look at the infamous pre-election 2016 meme that cited the fake "Crime Statistics Bureau – San Francisco" and think it's not an effective message because it's so easily disproven. But the real question is whether or not it's an effective message for the subset at which it was aimed.

A better phrasing might be "its effectiveness depends so much on the messages in aggregate," maybe.
Except Apple is highjacking your phone number and won't let it go without a fight. Is it also how competition works to you ?
But discussing bitcoin is a straw man here. Hard money is the interesting idea.
I'd give you pow ban if you give me a central bank ban
Invest in some precalculated values and $6.66 @ 15% earns $1. And if it's all about ease, what could be easier than "metric" 10% ?

/s because the ship has sailed.
> it’s a reclaimed landfill!!it’s worse than they are letting the public know

Yes, it uses friction piles into soil (far below the landfill) instead of down to bed rock. But this has become a not uncommon method around the world. In fact, Japan helped pioneer it in skyscrapers beginning several decades ago, albeit none as tall as the Millennium Tower. AFAIU, the Japanese experience, including across multiple severe earthquakes with post hoc analyses and in places much like San Francisco, lent it credibility wrt earthquake resilience.

Clearly there's more to understand regarding failure modes and our ability to predict them, but AFAIU the choice was not eye brow raising except, perhaps, among the most conservative engineers. From what I've gathered, some engineers said they wouldn't have made the choice themselves, but none have said that choosing to do so was negligent. That's a gloss coming almost entirely from journalists, politicians, and social media commentary.

And to be more precise, the issue with the Millennium Tower isn't subsidence per se[1], but asymmetric subsidence and rotation.

[1] See https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Don-t-...
> CXL

Thank, that it quite an interesting technology I wasn't aware of. Apparently Samsung already made a CXL RAM module for servers in 2021 (1). I wonder how Intel optane would have been if it had used CXL (assuming it didn't).

Side note but AMD devices' (laptops/NUCs) lack of thunderbolt or pcie access is why I'm quite hesitant to buy a portable AMD device which is quite unfortunate. I really hope AMD/their partners can offer a solution soon now that thunderbolt is an open standard.

1. https://hothardware.com/news/samsung-cxl-module-dram-memory-...
It will end when people like the author drop their victim mentality and start putting their own ideas into practice. It seems that this person is content with yelling on the sidelines about how good and efficient things used to be.

Meanwhile, the shitty tech is winning. According to this author, bad code and bad tools and bad frameworks are reigning supreme over real engineering. Why?

"The situation is really bad for the industry." Also, why?

People with the mentality like the author don't actually want to build things. They just want to sit and complain. Their sense of righteousness and victim mentality gives them more pleasure and validation than actually engaging with the "modern" tech world.

Some other articles by the same:

- "Using a framework can make you stupid!"

- "So-called modern web developers are the culprits"

- "One sure way to determine if you are stupid"

- "SQLite the only database you will ever need in most cases"

- "No, your website is not a web app even if you call it so"
black / gofmt / cargo fmt are all good formatters.
I believe we, as an industry, are driving towards frameworks that can be operated with story-like analogies describing what needs to be done with no technology knowledge at all. The core computer scientists creating such a framework create it with entry level non-developers as the "end-users" in mind. Such a framework is the holy grail of software development because it will enable any Joe with any software idea to hire anyones to make "their dream". The "no code" movement is an early manifestation of this trend. BTW, the VFX world is ahead in this tread, creating production frameworks requiring no 3D graphics technical knowledge at all...
I agree that fossils fuels are being subsidized where they should be carbon taxed, and that's the only reason most crypto mining (and many other industries) using fossils fuels is still viable. But I disagree that bans are always authoritarian "madness". We ban things all the time. There are many substances and contraptions that you must hold a license to own or use. We have ban murder. We don't just disincentivize it, we actually do not allow it. And no one disagrees that this should be the case.

And this isn't a slippery slope argument, we are now at the point where irresponsible care for our climate is translating into actual lives lost.

Also, this is a perfect example of calling something "fascist" that categorically does not fit the definition of fascist. Fascism requires you to believe that one arbitrary group of people is superior to another, and that the govt/legislation should reflect this.
I think the issue is your concern does not really answer the question I posed. We can follow the use 'use' argument as soon as we deal with the 'who has the authority to tell people what to do with energy/money/equipment'. Is it me? Is it you? Is it society? Is it government? As soon as we get through that conundrum, we can discuss how crypto is basically evil and used for nefarious purposes only and cars are more like knives ( I disagree, but we can get to it once we know who can actually make the call on the behalf of humanity as a whole that a given technology is banned ).
I don’t see how you’re not suggesting yet another competing platform (insert xkcd here). SMS is the default, and iMessage is an elevation of SMS; in the same way FaceTime elevates it’s respective default (phone calls). If iMessage was cross platform, it’s just another messaging app. We have that. If you want secure cross platform messaging, use any of the other platforms built around that feature.
Maybe they meant people wash their clothes too often?

https://www.prima.co.uk/fashion-and-beauty/fashion-tips/a269...
The main reason I (literally) threw my Nest thermostat in the trash was that Nest (Google) kept installing updates I couldn't veto, and without exception every update made the device worse. I disabled the wifi for a while but of course then I could no longer control the thermostat with my phone, so eventually I just replaced it with a dumb thermostat and I've not bought a Nest product since.
I mean, I don’t necessarily disagree with the main point, but this feels like a short argument with straw-men and poor faith.

Personally, I think another commenter got it right pointing to commoditization (interestingly I find the commoditization of computing in general has greatly decreased my interest in it, but that’s a me problem), though I always find the ire towards web dev as the root of all evil to be a little too strong. There’s a lot of bullshit, but I see bullshit in plenty of other domains as well. Web development just has the status of being the largest platform at the time.

Also over abstracting is bad, so is over/pre-optimization and frameworks can add a ton of unnecessary overhead, but y’know, something about hammers. That being said, I’d rather inherit an overcomplicated Laravel application from someone that an overcomplicated raw-PHP monolith.
Discussion of the blog post this article is, er, summarizing, I guess:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29845208
I don't know what you'd have them do that doesn't result in them giving up a competitive advantage.

They're a minority phone player. They have their own messaging platform as a feature of their mobile OS, so making it available to other platforms is anathema to their own business goals and success of their own platform.

I don't feel hurt or victimized by their choices here. It's not in my way at all.
En/in keyboard maps are probably sold all over south asia
> There needs to be an interoperable, highly functional solution that doesn't depend on wireless carriers.

Carriers have a lot of control over Android and they simply didn't want to be cut out. Google could have just copied iMessage from the start if it wasn't for carriers not wanting to be cut out of messaging.
Pedantic arguments aside, congress does all of that too.

> The executive branch conducts investigations,

>> Essentially, the Court held that the Constitution's text implies a power to investigate given its power to legislate.

> issues subpoenas

>> the U.S. Supreme Court clarified Congress's power to issue subpoenas in a 1917 case (Marshall v. Gordon), stating that "in virtue of the grant of legislative authority there [was] a power implied to deal with contempt."

> certain agencies can directly hold you in contempt

>> The authority of Congress to cite an individual with criminal contempt is found in Title 2, Section 192 of the U.S. Code.

> others can ask a court to find you in contempt of court

>> Either chamber of Congress may start the process in a committee (such as the House Judiciary Committee) and may rely on the legislative counsel's office like the Office of Senate Legal Counsel for help drafting a contempt resolution. Once the resolution is drafted and voted out of committee, it then goes to the full House or Senate (depending on where it originates) for a simple majority vote.

https://www.findlaw.com/litigation/legal-system/contempt-of-...
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>Fair enough, what about in the winter in New York?

Large swathes of Europe have winters as bad or even worse than New York's. I've grown up in one of those countries and had never seen a home clothes dryer before visiting the US. I've also almost never seen them in London or Berlin where I lived after that and those have at most marginally warmer winters than New York.
Based on 30+ years experience, I fully agree with your observations. And it is worse than what you describe for businesses with legacy systems.
But doesn't it have to be immutable for the proposal to work?
If you want to discover eerie and interesting movies, check out the list of Skinny Puppy samples. Most of these don't appear to be on WhoSampled yet

https://skinnypuppy.eu/sample_film.htm
tbh I wish it were used more. it's much cheaper to run and just as fast as mysql (sometimes much faster) on your average wordpress blog or equivalent. you don't need to handle thousands of concurrent writes, only maybe 5 max at peak... and queueing them for tens of milliseconds is totally fine. as long as you're not writing horrifically inefficient insert operations, you absolutely won't notice until you're under ridiculously high load for most sites.
SEC charges Amazon Web Services competitor with scamming investors
It's amazing how (much of) 'senior management' is actually just stopping / not letting people doing dumb things. Turns out it's pretty much a full-time job just stopping silly things and keeping entropy at bay.
I still have an iPhone for now (am waiting for mobile Linux to become just a little more mature) but I’ve turned off iMessage. When I get asked about how I can be reached by IM I tell people they can find me on Signal.

Been doing this for about two years and now ~80% of my personal conversations are over Signal. And most of these friends are not very technical.

I love my little successful rebellion against the walled garden. And it will make my eventual transition away from iOS much easier.

Just a somewhat related personal anecdote, sorry to deviate a bit from topic.

EDIT: Yes, Signal is centralized and I would have loved to use Matrix. But the clients are bad. Email me if you want to build a better one
Also - at 44:50, they have a brief argument about what constitutes ‘search’ in a multidimensional space, and Jim ends up conceding to Lex.
Text based technologies able to be called from via the command line and piped around to each other with other Linux commands is best for me.
Whoever makes that paid software has to compete with the free software. Which means that customers end up with a choice: crap, but works well enough and is free, quality that works well but costs $50-500. The various mobile app stores have produced a pretty effective demonstration that people (as a general rule) will happily accept garbage apps for $0 or $0.99 or 2 minutes of ads for every 30 seconds of use rather than paying even $5 for better software.

I'm willing to pay, and you're willing to pay, but are enough people willing to pay to support better systems?
There is literal legislation about energy efficiency of consumer goods (such as dryers), our houses have to be built to be environmentally friendly with good insulation to stop wasted energy, governments are banning plastic packaging. But crypto should be except? No, crypto should be legislated so that it’s energy usage is limited. To think otherwise is an enormous step backwards.

I cannot understand how this is not a bigger issue being talked about in the media. Right now in the UK we are going through an energy crisis where people can’t afford to heat their own homes (I’m not blaming crypto for this). It’s absolutely maddening that in a world where climate change and energy scarcity is such an issue this would be a controversial topic.
Ask HN: Open-source projects with inspiring code?
I have seen a lot of open-source projects with different code quality. But sometimes you see code where you think: Wow that is written very well. This can be a few line of codes or the way the whole project is written.

I had these moments when I saw code that is e.g. very idiomatic or very good to follow and understand.

So where do you have similar experience and what do you think caused it?
1000W+ power supplies are pretty common on the high end of gaming PC's, I've got a 1200W psu in my machine, as my old 750W PSU was shutting off when I upgraded my GPU. I don't know how many watts it's drawing during a resource intensive game, but it's gotta be a lot more than 400.
I think I'll look into getting a wall plug power meter.
>The point is that everyone is capable of figuring out that it's a typo and I actually meant comprises of.

Like I said elsewhere this is not what I objected to. I was responding to the assertion "...As long as you understand what the person is saying it's good enough...".

It is not good enough. The proper thing for you to do here would have been acknowledging your mistake and correcting it instead of promoting mediocrity.

People have the capacity of making heads or tails out of sloppy writing but why should they put in the effort to do so? It is your responsibility to put your thoughts coherently in the first place. This is the least you can do.
React native has Skia support

https://shopify.github.io/react-native-skia/
> We are routinely exposed to a huge range of content and are pretty resilient, the delivery doesn't radically change that

Microtargenting has never happened before; that's an enormous change. Regarding our resiliancy, the results in our society seem opposite your optimistic prediction.
Wow, I had no idea, bookmarking your comment.
I think the author, as some comments mentioned already, is just complaining due to the lack of experience and knowledge on how to tune the system.

My story with MacOS is this: After almost 20 years of using Linux on the desktop and for work, I had to change two years ago to MacOS due to requirements of my employer (not really, I just got sick of having to use Linux “illegally” in a partition on the shitty Dell Laptop with Windows that the company provided me initially with and then my manager suggested me to get a Macbook pro).

It was odd at the beginning but once I got the habit and understanding on how doing things, I have to say that is so far the most reliable desktop os I have used ever. It behaves always as I expect. No ugly surprises, no desktop crashes etc.

The only pain points I can complain are:
- Inconsistent behaviour on maximizing/minimizing windows.

- Cannot change at once the wallpapers of all virtual desktops.

- Lack of keyboard shortcuts for certain things.

- Missing GNU cli tools (despite this is something that can be addresses via brew for a big part of them)

- The fact that you have to stick with what Apple wants you to stick with (This means, no deep customisations of the system)

- I personally don’t like to have the windows menu on the top bar, I prefer the per-windows approach.

Despite the mentioned points, I still thinking that its good things overpasses the bad.

(I actually ended up buying a Macbook pro for myself)
What are you going to do with 1gb of high priority data per month?
Lets say Coinbase and Paypal (both BTC processors) stop supporting your website. Do you think that you'll get as many BTC transactions if this happens?
Hopefully nobody is writing if statements in code to handle backwards compatibility. That would be terribly unmaintainable. This should be handled at the compiler level. In javascript world, it is fairly simple to use Webpack or the like to target whatever browser versions you wish to support.

If you're not using a compiler, you should definitely not use the latest and greatest features, unless you are well aware that you will not be supporting older browsers.
Finding Nemo was so far ahead of its time in terms of beauty of the animated undersea world and just the incredibly vivid colors that pervade that whole movie. Its extremely surprising that it was filmed in 2003(almost 20 years ago) and comparing it to finding dory it still looks better than its sequel.
I was responding to a comment which said "the fact, that the 'Vaccine' no longer prevents catching the virus or transmitting it."

My problem with that statement is that it wasn't a fact. The vaccines do prevent catching the virus, just no where near as well as they used to and even at their best they never eliminated the risk of catching and transmitting the virus.

It sucks that the new variants are able to overcome so much of the protection we had from vaccines, but we always knew there was a risk that would happen if we allowed the virus to spread uncontrolled. We didn't do enough to keep the number of infections down and evolution did its thing resulting in poorer vaccine performance.

I really hope that adjustments are able to made to existing vaccines to compensate or new vaccines are developed which do a better job, but it's going to be an arms race until people stop passing this virus around by the millions every day giving it more opportunity to mutate and spread again.

Right now, the vaccines are still the best defense we have. 30% is a hard number to hear when we had 90% but 30% of 7.9 billion people is 2,370,000,000 so it can still prevent a whole lot of infections in the world and if we work harder to bring the number of infections down hopefully we can prevent things getting much worse. My biggest fear was that some variant would evade the protections we have entirely and negate the lessons we've learned in treating the sick and we'd be right back to where we were early 2020. That's still a possibility we have to be ready to face.
> What remains to be seen is whether the design decisions that make the 6500 XT sub-optimal for mining also make it sub-optimal for gaming.

Yes, I would be worried that for certain games; performance will be oddly super bad.
iMessage is indeed way too powerful, but RCS is nowhere near as good. Even basic things like fast high quality photo/video sharing, reactions, and apps like in-chat games.

I suspect Apple will eventually support RCS as a strong improvement over SMS. This will help a lot with bridging the gap, but Apple will still use iMessage as a differentiator.
> I don’t understand why this is the developer’s responsibility.

Because otherwise they're just raking in the profits (from many additional units) and externalizing all the negatives.

> People choosing this apartment building will be aware of their parking options and can plan accordingly.

In a perfect world with perfectly rational people, you're right. But the leasing office will claim "you can always find a spot nearby" and people tend to be optimistic about having it work out even if rationally it won't.
That all looks political to me... I'll stick with reviewing content with citations (and reviewing associated citations). Wikipedia is fairly partisan.

Thus far, as stated, it's clear to me DailyMail provides more citations I can use to confirm the data myself. I guess to your point, I don't believe them, the New York Times, NPR, NBC, etc unless I can confirm the data myself.
How about a two-key version that uses morse code? one key for dash, the other for dot. Or maybe the third key on the threeboard could be space / stop? (one press for space, two presses for stop?) Could be neat for kids to learn morse code
Why should Apple need to "support" anything else?

You can download WhatsApp or Signal or Facebook Messenger or whatever else you might want, and have those work fine. iMessage works really well, and Apple enjoys some network effects here, but you say "they consider this a competitive advantage" like that's a bad thing.

They made a better mousetrap here. Bully for them!
there's only one blockchain
That’s absurd comparison. No energy user (be it miners or the visa network) requires unclean power. Electricity is fungible.

We all want power to be cleanly generated. This demand side bullying needs to stop. Give us clean energy!
Sure. Important to follow that "the internet is for end user*s*" though so a single user's experience rarely comes into play, doubly so when it's at the cost of millions of other users experiences.
But no guns. Why would they plan a violent insurrection/coup without guns? Moreover, the "handheld weapons" consisted largely of sticks and flagpoles, with some bearspray...you know, things you'd bring to a riot? And zipties were found on one or two participants.

The only disingenuousness here is the attempt to manufacture an insurrection out of a riot.
Lots of reasons mentioned here.

One big thing I think is overlooked is: the kind of people who start projects that succeed tend to be good engineers, and the kinds of people who jump onto them later tend to be less good. Not bad, per se, but just not as remarkable. Usually these people are plenty good at the business's needs: shipping features, fixing bugs. But not at the kind of holistic, visionary, motivated work required to unfuck a massive project.

IMO people who are mediocre programmers (which I kinda count myself among? I'm trying to be better but it's hard to keep the motivation up) don't understand how much better at this the really good engineers are because they're almost never exposed to them. You don't write code alongside the best programmers at your random corporate job, because the best programmers don't work there (or if they do, they usually aren't writing much code). The senior engineers are senior because they're adequate programmers and excellent shippers of products. Etc.
reading the articles I think that FEC is being used to protect link integrity - it's different from ECC on DRAM which is also protecting the contents (against things like row-hammer and cosmic rays)
How so? Christmas lights, plastic trash, food waste and transportation combined?