skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the longest time I was getting Amazon ads on Instagram that were for products I had recently viewed - even viewed less than an hour before in some cases. Moreover, the Amazon account we use is my wife's, which we pay for Prime on. I would look at something on my phone, which is logged into her account, and then see the ad show up in my Instagram feed that day or a few days later.

Now, I get 90% ads for car parts and car accessories. I don't have a car, I don't drive, I don't have a license, and I don't even like to be in a car, but for whatever reason Amazon (or Instagram?) ads are assuming that what I really want are car parts and car accessories that I don't recognize, can't use, or don't understand.

It feels very stupid to me that those are the "default" ads I'm getting, even though I never tap on them for obvious reasons, but it's reassuring to know that they went from knowing exactly who I am and specifically what I had been looking at to having no clue whatsoever anything about me, or who I am or what I like.
Cosmic (YC W19) Is Hiring (Remote)
https://www.cosmicjs.com/jobs/education-engineer

Cosmic is transforming the way content is created and delivered to the world. We provide a headless CMS to help teams build modern content-powered apps together.

We are currently looking for an Education Engineer to help create high-quality content to add more value for our customers.

If selected to join our team, you would be expected to be self-starting and provide quality, quantifiable results for our remote-first company.

Scope: The tasks will involve an engineer who will:

Maintain open source code

Create step-by-step tutorials for building various use cases

Create and maintain templates and extensions

Create guides

Create / maintain video content

Requirements:

Previous experience with creating high-quality developer education content (video preferred)

Other details:

This is a remote position. If hired, you will engage in regular standups with the Cosmic team, directly reporting to the CEO. The role is half engineering (mostly frontend) and half marketing. Must be passionate about building great products and educational outreach. Design experience a plus.
We'll have to agree to disagree. This ad to me looked just like the "Mac VS PC" ads, where Apple wanted to convey to you that their personal computers weren't "PCs", but something else, something better. But, they very clearly were advertising the product as a replacement computer.

They want people shopping for iPads, not tablet computers. I'll grant you that, but that's just a marketing gimmick as far as I can tell. This ad to me says "don't bother with another laptop because the iPad can do the same stuff, but better (and you might look really cool using it)." It's a marketing campaign, so it's going to resonate with people differently.

I still don't know anyone that went out and purchased an Xbox to replace their laptops, but I know plenty of people that have done so with iPads. And they're checking email, commenting on Facebook, taking pictures, editing video, surfing the web, managing todos, making video calls, watching video streams, playing games, and doing many other activities that they used to on a laptop or desktop, while Xbox users play video games, maybe consume media, and possibly deal with being called racist names on a voice chat.
>It seems to make everything really dark in my neighborhood.

When it comes to using lights that actually allow the night sky to be seen, that's kind of the point.
This is magical numbers thinking by shape rotators.

How does one qualify the new candidate being better than 50% of current team.
Better than 50% at what?

Every role has many dimensions, and most members of the team have a mixed set of strengths. You form a cohesive package if you hire complementary people and get 2+2=5 type of output.

The idea that everyone can be treated as an interchangeable cog and objectively, quantitatively ranked is pure silliness.
See the story on the front page earlier today about leaking gas pipelines.
So basically kids were eating melted cheese and bread for lunch.

The problem I see with some of these meals (and I say this from having a cafeteria at work) is that some of them sound great on paper but they are not fit for mass production and sitting in a lukewarm vat for 2hs.
Here's a direct link to the video:

https://vimeo.com/672877397

(The article is completely choked with overlapping autoplaying video ads.)
27% versus 30% for cards?
Xbox is very simple and affordable to develop for. On par with iOS actually.

How do you think all of the tiny indie studios build games ?

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/gaming/xbox-live/get-starte...

[2] https://www.xbox.com/en-AU/developers/id
Prior to GTA 5 coming out I would've been super-excited about this. GTA 3, Vice City, San Andreas and GTA 4 were amazing releases. Why? Because they had a heavy undercurrent of satire combined with an historical aesthetic (the 70s, 80s, etc). I mean I still can't hear ELO's "Evil Woman" without thinking about GTA.

But GTA 5 for me was a soulless, awful game with horrible writing and two-dimensional main characters.

The visuals were great of course but the driving became more "realistic" in a bad way. Prior to this driving was comical, almost cartoon-y. Like you could blow up your car by having a half dozen fender bumps. Once in GTA 5 I took a bus and tried to see how far I could make it doing a loop of the island on the wrong side of the road. I completely made it without my bus blowing up. Easily. Like WTF?

This led to some comical situations like in San Andreas I'd sometimes get bored and go to Las Vegas highway interchange where you could create a massive car pileup and then blow up one car to make a giant chain reaction of explosions.

The TV and radio tracks of earlier releases were legendary. IIRC GTA 3 had repeated ads for a video game where as Pogo the Monkey you had to break into the Whitehouse and kill the president. Lazslo as a common radio personality was hilarious.

I finished the main story line of GTA 5 and have never played it again, something I couldn't say about any previous title. I just don't care about it at all. I have no nostalgia for it.

I really hope GTA 6 turns this around somehow.
GTA 6 was as inevitable as more Fast and Furious movies.
Natural selection is the outer loop, reinforcement learning the inner loop. Agents, by living or dying, send signals into the system, guiding the process.
First, I freeking love cooking with our gas stove. It's got zero electronics, and is simply a half-dozen gas valves that output like a blast furnace. I've no doubt it's a danger to me and everyone else on earth, but what isn't?

And I don't like this push to offload all the industrial methane output blame to me, and others like me. My nearest landfill likely outputs more methane daily, than I will in a lifetime. Blame all of us, though.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/live-blog/2022-02-04/russia-i...
I suppose if consciousness is indeed an illusion then that would at least explain why it's so hard to understand. Or rather it may not be that it's hard to understand but understanding an illusion usually means dispelling it, which is problematic when that illusion is consciousness.

Then again claiming something is an illusion is usually less than helpful. Colour is an illusion of sorts (or a qualia if we're being technical), but 'colour is an illusion' is an unhelpful answer to the question 'why is the sky blue?'.
Such a great talk.
Any self replicator can be. I am not sure about non-replicating agents like some AIs.

Besides having a way to copy what it learns into the future, self replication also provides a goal, a guiding force - of course, the goal is to avoid death before replication. Another great quality of self replication is its open-endedness. It can become anything as long as it keeps replicating.

For these three qualities I consider self replication the basic process behind consciousness. They create the means by which open ended learning can evolve.
Based on what I've read, and what's been implied with the most recent GTA V Online expansions, it's most likely going to take place in both Vice City and missions to "Cayo Perico" (their take on Colombia) for drug trafficking missions and whatnot.
I don't think that matters. It sounds like Google Stream is a service for businesses, not a consumer product.
I'm just saying that things flying out of the screen rarely add value to the movie. I had 3d tv and my only shows for it were some documentaries, Avatar, Paddington bear, and 3d adventure of tintin.

2 kids movies

1 animated movie

some short but interesting documentaries.

(horror movies runner up (mostly resident evil lol)

Not exactly market crushing content.
One method I've seen used to motivate people to move away from deprecated API is: after deprecation is announced, in addition to print a length warning message, also add a thread-sleep call, with the sleep length gradually increasing over time. Consequently, the API will remain usable for maybe months after deprecation, but eventually it will become unbearably slow to discourage any continued usage.
Deep learning reconstructions are already marketed/sold in high-end commercial scanners.
They are forced not only to keep money, but to keep it in a bank who is a member of the centralized authority. Regulations in general do not make it centralized, this specific one does however.
Only for Moderna, which is why a number of places stopped recommending it for "younger" adults. Pfizer has lower results of myocarditis.
Right on, are there any actual projects out there that do / use any of this?
That just shows that Apple doesn't have to have a monopoly to compete. They can offer better features, services, etc that people may be willing to pay more for.

Not everyone pays for the extended warranty when they buy electronics/tools but some do because they find value in it.
I smell bullshit

> I only have one humble request, if I submited 51k lines of code in January and my whole team submitted 68k, do not call me a "Least Effective"

Let's give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he works 10 hours 6 days a week. Of course he takes no bio breaks, doesn't eat or drink and is not required to attend any standups or status meetings or design reviews.

This nets you 15600 minutes to code. So even under these absurd conditions he has managed over 3 lines of code per minute. What a god.
Yes, I'm not trying to address the feature of having animated favicons or favicons set dynamically using JS. I'm just trying to address the problem of favicons apparently being very stale. My question is why Apple couldn't fix that problem, which is not at odds with Apple's stance against animated or dynamic favicons.
Not for on my iPhone! I can't compile on Linux and publish software onto an iPhone without major trickery.
Growing up in Oregon during the 90s, I remember seeing the stars every night very vividly. As an adult now, the last time I got to see a great view of the Milky Way was on Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park. It really is something else. Light pollution has pretty much destroyed any of the stars everywhere I have lived.
That is an example. But usually for the 3 steps to be effective it would be different distinct stages separated by time. You would for example read about 'the scourge' in some mags/newspapers. The mags would amp it up for weeks/months. Then 'scientists say' stage, usually the same news/mags/newspapers talking about it how 'some things are known to fight it, milk chocolate for example'. Get some peer reviewed papers written up to back it up, or '4 out of 5 kids agree' sort of thing. Then commercial time. Showing all three together. If you dump them all together you will get a small segment buying it. But if you prime the pump for them to be ready to accept the idea and solution. You get more traction on it. One downside is it is wickedly difficult to see when you are being subjected to it. As the campaign is designed to hide from you until the solution is presented.
So that 2015 study looks at light versus less light, but the claim I've seen circulated quite often is that the color of the light makes a difference. It seems dubious and has little backing information... and I guess my question is why it's become such a popular theory.
Governments have banned alcohol, heroine, cocaine, and other illicit drugs yet somehow a market always continues to exist despite being banned. In the case of the above banned substances, the market value of the contraband ended up being higher than it would have been if it were legal due to constrained supply relative to demand.

Also, unlike cryptocurrencies, none of the other contraband could be stored on a password that could be memorized or transmitted to anyone anywhere in the world.

If governments banned Bitcoin, the market price of Bitcoin could very well go up over time not down after the initial shock.
I think O'Reilly's take makes a lot of sense.

The "Web 2.0", as he says, was the natural evolution of the web after the dot-com bubble exploded. It was not a buzzword or marketing term, at least at the start. It turned into a dumb gimmick after a year or two, where every ridiculous and impractical idea was justified as "being Web 2.0", but the vast majority of those gimmicks went away on their own, simply because they didn't bring anything interesting or useful to the table.

The obsession with labelling things "Web3" and other buzzwords to justify absurd (and often predatory) schemes right now feels like little more than a bunch of carnies trying to sell us fancy new blockchain carts for horses that don't actually exist. It's a solution looking for problems to solve. And, at least from the common discourse around blockchains, it seems like those pushing Web3 solutions rarely understand what the problems are in the first place, beyond a very simplistic and superficial level.
Working well for me! Thanks.
It's hard to understand consciousness, but it's not hard to understand why it's hard to understand consciousness. The problem is we are trying to understand consciousness by using consciousness. We can't step outside of it. Just like you can't directly look at your own eyes. You can see them in a mirror, and you can infer properties of consciousness by observing external phenomena, but you can't directly experience it, because you are it (at least from a materialist viewpoint - there are spiritualist traditions that say otherwise).
Note that almost by definition a programmatic interface to cad makes it parametric. The parameters are now in the program.
Patents are quite different from infrastructure. And critical patents are normally kept from charging very high rates by multiple mechanisms.
Why is that related to Apple's object to animated favicons or favicons that are set dynamically by JavaScript?
I started with FreeCAD and got pretty good at it. it's a fairly capable system although the UI can have some issues.

At some point I started hitting up against a collection of problems and finally paid for Fusion 360. It was completely transformative. I'd be pretty impressed if FreeCAD can catch up to where Fusion 360 is today (in basic shape modelling, advanced shape modelling, and mesh modelling, as well as CNC toolpathing).
False memories? What are you blabbering about.

Just because it's in the spec doesn't mean it's not a footgun. If something is in the spec and it blows up in you face if you're not careful that's by definition a footgun.
What an disingenuous article. Yes natural gas appliances help to cook the climate. Farting also releases methane and helps cook the climate.

Can we focus on the real issues. USA natural gas kitchen appliances aren’t the main contributor to climate change. I’d be surprised if it’s even in the top 1000 issues.

You might say you can work on multiple issues - sure, but people only have so much time to research on issues and so much attention to spare.

Furthermore who is going to fund all of this conversion to induction? Whose going to require the tens of millions of homes to high gauge and high voltage wiring?

/rant
What is the maximum possible RPM of something if it could spin at the speed of light? Shockingly low.
It's 15% for developers making up to $1m a year.

That's pretty reasonable compared to other distribution channels.
But Trader Joe's uses a very different strategy compared to ALDI. It caters to an audience that demands a much more upmarket experience, and puts a lot more effort into team culture, store decor/experience, and sourcing quality white-label food SKUs for house branding.
Apple would have lost the mainstream user back then. Now they have power over facebook
I'm at FB currently, maybe it's a problem on other orgs but my experience has been very good (2 years). It's not perfect but I haven't heard horror stories like this, and my manager and pms are happy to let eng set project estimates.
So not only is the Facebook/Instagram "try to lock users into our own browser to track them" thing user-hostile, but it actually harms companies that are using ads by having them drop in the middle of the funnel?
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/sports/olympics/pelosi-pr...
Modern induction provides a superior cooking experience to gas.

The metal of the cookware is heated directly via the energy field.

Yes there are many risks in modern life, some are longer term and less directly linked. Gas stoves are directly linked to health outcomes and switching away can result in immediate personal benefit.
You're making a straw man argument and attacking it with a lot of anger. No one investing in GME is on a timeline. No one. Could it there be a huge gamma short squeeze? Absolutely. The due diligence that Mr. Gill put together is impressive. A tidal wave of investors agree with him. Will it happen? Maybe. But that's all you get to know -- that maybe it could happen. In the meantime they're holding shares of a company that is doing pretty well lately -- and they know that time is on their side. They can just back and hold their registered shares knowing that's all they need to do. They literally use terms like 'infinity pool' meaning they plan to hold for a long, long time.

And being prepared to hold for a long time is key. Here's why: let's say it's true. Let's say that hedge funds did engage in naked shorting of a company seemingly headed for the dust bin. If this buy, register and hold strategy was for only x months, then the hedge funds can wait to close out their position. Right? Is that confusing? By saying, "There's no end," it puts tremendous pressure on these hedge funds.

I've listed several places where the markets have been shown to be corrupt and rigged. People still go to jail for insider trading but not for any of these other, much worse, market manipulations? And you ignored it. What has incurred your wrath, instead, is that a large group of people would buy, register and hold a stock they like and not state unequivocally when they were going to sell. That's what has made you mad.

The math of all of this is that either don't understand what I'm saying or you do, which means you're either a little fool or a giant asshole.
No kidding, why is that guy trying to split Quebec from Canada? :(
For developers making up to $1m a year:

3% payment processing

12% cost of channel
Natural selection is not conscious, and agents don't need to have reinforcement.
I never thought the day would come that I would type the words "I am very excited by that Ikea chair"
The sysctl can have three settings: 0 to do nothing, 1 to emit a warning, 2 to fully enable the patch that blocks argc=0. Use 1 by default as not to break userspace, let people opt-in to 2 for the additional security
CadQuery should be better as it is using the OpenCASCADE cad kernel (same as FreeCAD) instead of a simplistic ad-hoc thingy.
Rockstar has their own engine called RAGE (Rockstar Advanced Game Engine).
500 Internal server error, and there's nothing on the Bloomberg homepage, nor on other media outlets.
I would like to keep using as many Google services as possible. And I also need to keep my custom email.

As of now it seems we have two options regarding our G Suite legacy account: 1) choose a paid plan and keep everything (including our current custom email address on Google servers) or 2) Do nothing by July 1st and lose access your Google Workspace core services and data, including Gmail, Calendar, Drive, and Meet.

A third option would be (1) delete our G Suite legacy account; (2) get a new email server (same email address) and (3) create a Google Workspace Essentials Starter that would have all services but Gmail.

It doesn't make sense to me that Google as of now will not allow users to migrate from legacy subscriptions to Essentials Starter according to this reply on Twitter:
https://mobile.twitter.com/AskWorkspace/status/1489469620985...

I also don't think they would allow a former domain registered on Google Workspace to create a Essential Starter subscription -- I read something regarding that but can't find it...
URA?
Mesh modeling in blender has similar downfalls to OpenSCAD. When you’re designing a bit of precision equipment (or what have you) you don’t want your circles turned into high degree polygons.

Can a lathe turn a polygon? Can a drill drill a polygonal hole? Maybe you can machine a polygon on a fancy CNC lathe, but you certainly wouldn’t do so for a turbine shaft.

Also for less precise things, say construction, you care about dimensions. Select an arc to get it’s radius for instance.

This is why design for traditional construction techniques best done in boundary representations: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary_representation

I will concede that one can easily create nasty insoluble problems with boundary representations if not familiar with the limitations of splines, but this only really is a problem with curvy things like ship’s hulls and aircraft.
Shockingly, burning stuff in millions of micro scale instances is drastically less efficient and polluting than burning it all in one big, hyper efficient well managed place and converting it into electricity.

Who knew?
For sure, this would only be a rough measure of tech dispersal itself, not a longitudinal study of HN users. The latter is interesting to us HN old timers, but the former is a consequential thing for the whole world.
Switching requires money. I hate when people say these things as if renovating is free.

Most forms of cooking other then perhaps boiling in general release needless emissions.
Modern gas stoves, esp. in the EU has electronics for safety and relighting if it goes out. So they're not just a bunch of valves like the stoves of the yesteryear.

We use electric stoves for ~20 years and nothing has broken on them except a regular bulb back-light. Current stoves esp. BSH made are not solid state electronics. They are relay powered industrial automations so they don't break twice a week.

OTOH, most probably the landfill nearest to you is using methane trapping technologies to use that methane to generate electricity. Ours is doing it, and it's awesome.
5 seconds is a lot of time. This shows that it has to load the video
A simple line of reasoning, like the Earth being flat. Big companies love it because it's the perfect way of avoiding competition, leveraging existing monopolies to build new ones, locking customers, using assimetry of information to hide true costs from them, etc... It has plenty of regulation against it, although it is not truly enforced thanks to deep pockets.
Now now, we also have forests and lakes.
I assumed the gp was thinking about 9.8m/s^2 — because on the English speaking non-physics-expert world, this is called the acceleration due to gravity.

You’re right that it’s distance, of course, but I was coming from a place of trying to be helpful, and thought that if they were talking about terrestrial physics, it’d be easiest to imply it depended on the size of the earth (which determines our distance from it) and your height.