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>> I'm coming to the conclusion that there is no good form of advertising.

We should really have a beer. I started in advertising when I was 15. (My dad said "sell shoes or find another job"). I was in and out of agencies through my twenties. Advertising is a fundamentally bad thing. But if your clients trust you, you can sometimes use it for good. You just have to actually twist the hell out of their message to do that, use their money in ways they didn't anticipate, and always have a really concrete idea of what you want to accomplish. All while making it seem like you're just having fun.

One thing it taught me is that there's no "system" in capitalist america. Not the way people talk about it. "The system" / "the man". The system is us. Just people in offices deciding how to frame something that will reach 100 million people. I was hated by teachers in art school for arguing my case in fine art crits. But arguing for showing something they don't like is the same skill that lets me argue the minority case for putting out controversial, socially meaningful ads that might get us in trouble, instead of inoffensive corporate pap.

You can always do good in advertising, simply because you have more power than almost anyone else. The temptation, and the easy thing, and the thing that pays, is to perpetuate little evils. But it's surprisingly easy to do good. It ain't "art". It's arguably more important, though. You're in the trenches where the battle for minds takes place.
Is there a discipline populated by people who are socially mature enough to not act religiously about their tools and widgets? Or is this just a universal flaw of humanity?
Mercerism is one of the best parts of the story. A lonely religion based on simulated shared Sisyphean suffering is just so symbolic of PKD’s overall view of life, it’s delicious to read. But I agree, it works better in prose than it would on film. Still, I kept hoping they’d Easter egg it into the films somewhere just as a nod to those who have read the story.

I very much enjoy PKD’s writing, though he gets hard to follow in his later stuff as he slipped further into drug abuse and mental illness.
Isn't it more like an arms race between the two?
It's hard to watch a cat video these days without having auto-play show you a conspiracy theory, one or two videos later...
Looks like the app is dead :/
Confusingly, it seems there really are people out there who believe rules and laws are only created because somebody is power hungry, and not because they're actually useful.

Yeah, if you're 5 idealists with the same dream you probably won't screw over each other too much, and whoever tries to set rules for everyone else probably will turn out to have some unpleasant ulterior motives for it. But large groups are very different from small groups, the dynamics are very different, and far more structure is needed for things to actually function.

Some people just have to learn that the hard way I suppose.
How do you explain that cannabis has been used recreationally for thousands of years around the world, but this CHS is only limited to the last two decades in the US?

Don’t you think there might be something else going on there?
NFT are really just used for tax evasion and money laundering, similar to physical art scene. There is not real NFT market!
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I'm far more worried by children being misled by their parents about scams like stimulants instead of meditation. I've never heard of someone developing a dependancy on a crystal.
CS:GO player. I have wasted money there. But I'm getting my Deck out of it and still have lot left... So it could be worse. I really think their model the least bad one. At least you have chance to reuse the money you spend.
Potentially handy. But unfortunately it can't do anything to fix the diabolically piss-poor navigation on the Netflix website.

[which, needless to say has been mindlessly copied by every other fecking video-on-demand site out there!]
> Entrepreneurship is an equalizer.

Apart from some outliers I have yet to see anything close to this statement proven true. Not to mention the dubious conflating between "small entrepreneurs & brands" and online ads; my plumber is not advertising on facebook, my plumber is on a map and registry of plumbers of the area, and maybe has an associated page (on facebook, yes) so that people can find him.
> Same thing when you apply for a job or you try to catch the attention of some girl you like.

No, it is not the same thing. The scale matters. Much of what is wrong with the world comes from allowing huge corporations to do stuff because a single person is allowed to do "same" stuff and we see no bad effects.
Ah, no wonder I’m so confused by git.
Or gacha games in general. Secondary market seems exploitative. But in the end it is actually a way to get some money back to spend on other games.
Not to mention the "market cap" is complete fiction.

I think you can notice this best on a new coin. I was looking at chia for whatever stupid idea they had with proof by useless storage.

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/chia-network/

If you go to the 5 year market cap chart, it goes from 0 to 342 million when offered. That is 342 million dollars out of thin air backed by nothing.

Now it is at 248 million but there is no future cash flow that is being valued at 248 million by the market as it was an equity. It is really -94 million but the 248 million is still being summed into that bogus total market cap.
I've never bought any oil directly. It is beyond question that if oil & gas producers disappeared I'd be much worse off (it'd be physically quite difficult for me to get food, for example, and I'd likely starve to death). That is the informal definition of an externality right there; my entire lifestyle is being enabled by a deal that I'm not party to.

And even if I've got the definition wrong, the oil and gas producers are creating huge amounts of value that are being captured by other actors in the economy (like me). If we fairly evened out the harms and benefits, they deserve subsidies rather than taxes. Obviously nobody sane is going to advocate for that, but if we want to price in externalities that is the logical outcome.

This isn't obscure logic. People often point out that the measurable value of what blue collar workers produce is far in excess of their pay and follow it up with the idea that we should force the market to pay them more. It isn't a good idea but it is logical in as far as it goes.
Define: Irony

> The thing which drops out of the problem is the notion that advertising need be irritating and intrusive.
The first time I installed OpenBSD I didn't know what to enter as "host name", nor that I needed to make a hosts file entry for whatever I chose.

Another example might be when startx stopped working for non-root users - a "change / why / what to do now" explanation would have been handy.

But OpenBSD isn't aimed at Unix newbies so it's entirely understandable why that level of hand-holding doesn't exist.
What does “fake” even mean in this context?

An NFT minted by someone who doesn't hold the rights to the digital asset it is supposed to represent.

NFTs were advertised as a way for creators of digital content to monetize their work, but without some authority that verifies that the seller owns the copyright, the system cannot work...
Sorry, but it just doesn't match my experience. I'm male, and got very strong at computers and programming through obsessive self-study. I have two male friends who did the same thing. I know of hundreds of male hackers who did the same thing; I talked with them on countless occasions throughout the 90s and 2000s. I've never even heard of a woman who did anything like that.

Why are they all male? I don't know, but it's not some societal pressure thing, because the vast majority of the work done to become really strong is done alone, during one's own private time.

If you want to try to contradict me on this, please be prepared to explain how societal pressure/approval/disapproval/support/whatever can apply when we are talking about self-study essentially done in secret. To put it another way, please try to explain to me how societal pressure could prevent you from becoming an expert at, say, math in your free time if you were obsessed with it.

It's biological. And if you step back and think about it for a moment, why in the world wouldn't it be? The left just seems to have some bizarre need for different things to be exactly equal when they have no reason to be.
I think you're overreacting and exaggerating, both regarding OpenBSD being complicated to set up and about the community being toxic.

Yes, a certain few people on the official mailing lists can be a bit vocal and stingy, and that also goes for one or two asocial a**holes on the inofficial IRC channel (#openbsd/libera), but these people are few and by no means representative of the community. For the absolute majority of occasions, people seeking help on these two venues are met with generous and thorough reciprocation.

If you've used unices for 20 years, and in particular if you've installed the Slackware of old, I cannot imagine why you would feel OpenBSD is complicated to set up. It's technically the neatest, tidiest and least convoluted of the UNIX-likes out there, coupled with the best documentation available. Could it be that you approached it as if it were a "Linux-like"? I see this regularly with new users asking for help in #openbsd/libera, trying OpenBSD out with a bit of Linux in their backpack resulting in some common and entirely logical misconceptions.
There are people with decades of experience growing cannabis, that know these things already. Those folks don't have degrees and are often shy of attention, tho. Hard for public institutions to attract and often not thew kind of people they want to employ. "Independent minded" might describe them; folks who're not highly motivated by the 9 to 5 office job.
This looks great, nicely done! I didn’t know I needed this :)

Does anyone know if this exists for Emacs? I use both nvim and Emacs but primarily Emacs and would love to have this on both.
Overlap with those is not particularly large. n-grams are particularly sensitive to spelling, and e.g. Afrikaans writes "Hy het skool toe gegaan", whereas it would be "Hij is naar school gegaan" in Dutch.

Indonesian and Malay insert vowels in consonant clusters and replace quite a few consonants, so they should be easily distinguishable from Dutch, even on Dutch loan words (which are not that frequent anyway).

Dutch has a much larger overlap with German (probably the largest), but even those can be distinguished (by a human) with just a few words of a meaningful sentence. I find it difficult to come up with three words that could be a grammatical fragment in both languages, but even then I expect the n-gram frequencies to be quite diverging.
This kind of explains why high level "corporate woke" behavior has become so frequent, shrill and so ineffectual at addressing the problems it purports to care about - there's a lot of steam in the PMCs and the UMC are giving a way for the PMC to let off some of this steam in a nonthreatening way.
If Valve went to bankrupt there probably would be bigger issues in the world that 5€ deposit...
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Same here. My mother always used to have TV on as a background when I was a kid, but I never had one after I moved out. Now TV a running TV completely destroys my ability to concentrate on anything else and I am also utterly disgusted by all the ads.
i am a former string theorist, pretty much turned and expanded Maxwell Einstein and Yang Mills in any possible ways, and those comments are garbage.

> original quaternion equations

quaternions are a 3/4d thing, you can write maxwell in any dimensions. sure you can rewrite some 3/4 d physics with quaternions but really no one does that for the last 30 years. we routinely use the group SU(2) or SO(3) but almost never it's quaternion representation. it's really not that practical.

> dumbed down vectors

i don't think it is the vectors that are dumb in this case...

btw it's not only a vector, it's a connection in a U(1) bundle over some spacetime manifold \cal{M}.

> Relativity doesn't play well with quantum mechanics

What in the f**** f**....

it works really well, we call that quantum field theory and it's the best theory ever found by mankind. it works so well CERN didn't found any deviation in 30 years or so.

> Maxwell's original equations are scalar in nature

Oh. My. God.

No. Any Maxwell or Yang Mills is a gauge theory with A_\mu the gauge potential which IS A SPACETIME VECTOR that takes value in some adjoint representation of some group. For Maxwell this group is U(1) so the gauge field aka photons is a real valued vector.

> removed the scalar (time) component entirely

a vector is a vector. a scalar is scalar.

a vector transforms with rotations a scalar does not..

> Can anybody here explain why this is so important

it is not important. it is the dumbest things i heard in a long time.
I feel like PVP got it in one: http://pvponline.com/comic/2022-01-31
This just shows how incredibly hard it was in 1998 to see what would happen when 4 billion illiterate assholes got online. The assumption at the time was that anyone able to see the ads (on Hotwired!) were totally immune to any kind of serious manipulation.
I've seen the author advertise his book on codeforces.com blogs before if you want somewhere to reach him: https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/99790

That might be a better intro than a random chapter of the book and contextualizes why you might want to learn SIMD programming (i.e., up to an order of magnitude speed-up vs STL implementations).
You ignore sock puppets, troll farms, social manipulation by malicious actors, CP, literally wasting the energy consumption of Argentina to hash transactions to make money, the anti-vax insanity enabled by echo chambers, and god knows what else.
A bit older http://emacsrocks.com One of my favourite episodes being http://emacsrocks.com/e13.html the ending is just awesome.

System Crafters yt channel is much newer and also amazing https://youtube.com/c/SystemCrafters
You are apparently seeing the matter on the point of view of "dispute" and "views". You can have a dispute about administrative policies, but torture is not a view.

When some credible people, caveats aside - even a single one - tell you that "it is a torture", it probably is - the phenomenon rightfully takes the label of 'torture', as the state of things. Objectively. That some people do not perceive it as such, means little - especially in territories where people are used to dumb themselves down; it just means that some or many people can be masters in disregard. You may not mind about all sort of unhealthy situations: this does not mean they are good for you. And if some (e.g. among said «kids») «don’t mind», «because they don’t have 50 years of memories», this should be worrisome as it means that some have no idea of what is proper, never could gain such experience. And asking the majority about what is good or not makes little sense in today's world: what «you’re only hearing from a minority» is, if anything, more probable, not less (already in general, you would not ask in a plebiscite about the validity a medical diagnosis or an engineering detail; today the hiatus between "good sense" and "common sense" is staggering).

But: if with that «kids are likely to think that /a different view/ is a cheap cost», it is meant that "kids may be convinced that the issue with wind turbines is the visual modification of the landscape" - this is absolute insanity. The issue is with pollution, with the noise: if they do not know, they must be informed. See how little your "majority vs minority" matters? You'd rely on the judgement of people that could link "wind turbines" to "I preferred different details in the panorama"?!
Typical ML thinking, it seems.

The author should ask the question: What does my "model" actually assign here? Instead, this very core of the work is ignored and the focus rests completely on the numbers put out of a black box...

If the model simply assigns a closer similarity to more modern words (i.e., it would evaluate older words as "weird"), we would expect exactly this outcome, no?
I think Steam gets a pass on that more than Apple/Google because Steam is just one of many avenues for selling a game on the PC whereas Apple has a monopoly on it and Google have an effective monopoly.
That would violate NAP, so why would anyone do that?
Job ad

Edit: Also consider that some definitions of advertisement might arguably include exit signs on the highway.
Those not robbing the country are those who are to poor to move money to another country. First of all because they dont have money and second they are too poor. Where should they go? A first world country where their 2 cents aint worth shit?
How so? Developing tolerance to cannabis greatly diminishes negative side effects. It is subjectively very different, more cerebral than intoxicating, compared to only partaking occasionally.
Even a majority of Republicans support single payer. Something like 70% of all Americans support it.

This situation didnt come about as a result of democracy. This $13,000 bill is a physical manifestation of where democracy and American parasitic oligarchy clash.
That last point seems to be overriding problem with anything in this space beyond basic bitcoin. I keep coming back to it with anything to do with smart contracts.

Can someone explain at least what the theoretical solution to this is? Otherwise the whole thing just sounds like a scam.
Ask HN: Schema aware partial relational database copy with subset of records
I'm looking to create a partial copy of a massive MySQL relational database. The DB is too large to be able to replicate fully.

I'm looking for a tool that would accept as inputs
* a database
* specification of relationships between the tables in the schema
* a root set of records across one or more tables...

and it would copy over the root records and all related records into another MySQL database, resulting in a smaller, but functional copy of the database.

I recall seeing a tool feature in HN to do this, but despite searching for a while, I couldn't find it. Would appreciate any suggestions for appropriate tools from the community.
The Road to Terfdom: Mumsnet and the Fostering of Anti-Trans Radicalization
I have suspected this for a while now. It's also a chance to advertise subliminally to sleeping people, sometimes if you don't skip the ad it will play what we used to call an infomercial. In practice it just punishes people that lost the remote, or are unable to easily move.
You are constructed through society. Social pressure is enforced by you on yourself, society just being the source of the templates your own mind uses to shape you. It applies everywhere.
Yes - I am actually contemplating a return to Linux.

I can't pinpoint exactly what's wrong, but things that used to feel instant now feel slower and I no longer believe it's just the web catching up (otherwise those websites would be completely unusable on x86). Just a couple JS-heavy pages open make the entire machine unusable (IntelliJ starts stuttering like crazy) and a video call is out of the question, despite me successfully using IntelliJ while on calls using a 12-inch Macbook with an entry-level x86 processor.

I'm not sure if it's a hardware problem (NAND wearing out due to a bug that just thrashes IO constantly?), software (I reinstalled the OS recently just in case) or something else. There's also so much shit running in the background (look in Activity Monitor) that it's hard to tell what's normal and what's not. I think of going back to Linux, at the very least it'll be a relatively simple system I can understand.
We gave it a shot until the scale and audacity of the grift so obviously dwarfed the practical use that it humiliates its depressingly unaware boosters.
I work in a game studio and Photoshop is more of an accessory than a required tool for my workflow now. Concept artists in my team are having a great time using Clip Studio. For the 3d department substance painter is the king. So adobe still wins
The way I understand it, out of all the fathers of general relativity, Einstein was one of the only ones who really did physics. That is, applying the formulas to real life observations, or thought experiments, something that Einstein was particularly famous for.

Einstein got a lot of help with the maths, but I think he deserves full credit for the physical application.
Non of those things are OpenBSD specific, though I’m not sure what the hosts file thing is about.
How do you mean? Is a log not basically the same?
> Don't get confused by the myriads of state management solutions. Just use GetX, it's a sane solution that works as advertised.

Saying this doesn't help anyone. There are many alternatives and as you say, they compete fiercely for Github stars. GetX is popular package, but it has it's drawbacks: maintainer and bloat.

- Maintainer: he's been known to make wild claims about his package, and target other alternatives with strong unbacked opinions.

- Bloat: it tries to do a lot of things. Integration with other packages, concepts and tools don't work well - certainly doesn't integrate easily.
At least discord doesn't just paywall content you created yourself like Slack does. I have seen dozens of slack servers where entire channels are scrubbed of information because they are on the free plan and hit the 10k messages limit.
We are partly constructed through society.

This is the nature vs nurture debate all over again, many decades after psychologists moved on.
So what? We were talking about companies not individuals. The Linux kernel is not a company, not a product you can buy and neither is Linus Torvalds.

Plus, for the last 20+ years Linus has been working from the US while also gaining US citizenship. Case in point for US tech dominance, talent bread in Europe ends up in the US.
I had the chance to ruminate about wood burning recently during a conversation.

The conclusion I came to was that when there's few people and they're all manually whacking at wood with axes you're (as a group) okay. When the wood collection is essentially strip mining a forest for millions of customers it just isn't the same thing. Not really comparable.

Manual labor and using an axe is an efficient system in the sense that it ultimately limits use and production of wood per person.
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Gitter is much better in this regard since messages can be indexed by search engines and show up in searches.
> Specifically, they're simply training users to click on "I agree" buttons.

It's even worse IMO. Want to copy the value Excel is displaying in a cell to the clipboard? Gotta click agree to enable macros! WTF?!
I really hope that the disappointment the market will have after realizing that NFTs are just being used as a Ponzi scheme right now won't be an obstacle to other more appropriate uses.

Imagine the revolution they can bring to other old school ledger system for houses, cars, licenses...
For a long time advertising was the art of creating "wants". For a century it worked "like a charm". We are now living in a world that (at least in so called developed world) is overconsuming by a very large factor.

The proliferation of the incredibly regressive practice of building and selling behavioral profiles of unsuspecting "consumers" may in part be due to the cannibalistic arms race of an exhausted economic paradigm.

Somehow we need to find sane digital ways to connect people who have to say, sell, announce something with people who want to hear, buy, be informed about something.

It doesn't sound that complicated if we lose our unsustainable ways of thinking and acting