skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What system do you envision for bringing awareness of your product to new customers? Or do you just mean traditional advertisement and not marketing in general (ex: paid or incentivized product reviews).

From the advertiser's perspective, if I can spend $x to acquire a user with an LTV (lifetime value) of $y, and $x < $y, why would I not? How would you prevent it?

I like to think that I'm immune to advertising, and I suspect a lot of people here think that way too, but the bottom line is that it does work well enough on enough people to yield a positive ROI in many, many situations.
If video games are that important to you buy a video game console. The availability there is also bunk and has nothing to do with mining - claiming something which uses energy is automatically 'bad' is silly and relies on common ignorance and frustration. Cars use energy, lights use energy, video games use energy - crypto is new and you don't understand it past that fact that it uses energy so you can't tolerate it. If you don't want to get rid of everything which uses considerable energy then you need to determine the value of each thing individually, and if you say crypto is worthless, you should have a non-circular reason for that claim. Clearly the market disagrees with you.
Moving from WhatsApp to Telegram seems like a downgrade to me.
It's kind of like saying that we ended investment in 8-bit hardware because we've replaced it with 64-bit hardware. It's not that we stopped, it's that the funding has been repurposed for newer/better things.
Howard Dean was speaking in his official capacity of head of the DNC. He was literally being paid by the Democratic Party to say what he said.
This isn't new, remember when Biden took office and a number of right wing areas were banned. Corporate control is a time tested government lever.
Paper linked at the top of the repo here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.12704.pdf

The results for this seem quite impressive. I am still waiting for someone to finally nail upscaling DS9 and Babylon 5.
I don't really want to defend Trump, who is proudly stupid and mean spirited. But at bottom, it was a question about whether it was feasible, not a suggestion.

And "something like that" in his statement is not necessarily just filler. Read charitably, he could be asking if a similar effect can be achieved with something else. We use some types of disinfectants for broadly similar effects--like mouth wash. In the past, we've used iodine to disinfect water for drinking, which was ingested.

I'm not saying its a plausible strategy, but its not pants on fire stupid to wonder out-loud if you can get something like a disinfectant inside. I'd imagine you can't, but I can't articulate why you can't beyond the likelihood the required concentrations would destroy your bodies' cells too.

I watched that press conference on tv when it aired. It wasn't even the top 20 dumbest things he said in that conference.
Why the alternative version of "7"? The alternative zeroes are useful because zero looks like capital O, but with what would I confuse a "7"? Or is it there for another reason?
Russia cannot export to China so easily. That over-land route east does not have sufficient pipeline and is not nearly as profitable.

Selling to China is a huge profit reduction for Russia.
Why Russia Can’t Replace TSMC [video]
With fracking, USA was a net exporter. Now not.

Also the XL pipeline thing ...
Please stop using 1984 to make extremely insipid and banal points that don't even really make sense in context. This doesn't really map to anything in 1984, if anything Google makes an attempt to say there is such thing as a shared reality, and that reality isn't just whatever the propagandists say it is.

EDIT: all these talking points are the same ones I remember the alt-right getting in a tizzy about when Google started adding information about the Holocaust under holocaust-denial sewage.
Most East Asian countries have a huge advantage in labor cost. If they don’t have one now, they often did in the past during the ascent. That’s basically the definition of zero-sum. Yes, worker productivity increases over time, so the size of the pie grows, but how those gains are distributed is zero-sum. It’s not clear to me that growing your power, e.g. receiving more of the pie, somehow leads to you increasing productivity more later.
So you believe that Nvidia needs crypto to survive but knowingly and intentionally hampers their cards' mining performance? You seem confused.
I Am Stepping Away from BattleMaster
Hey friend - you did something very good today. It was kind of you to offer your help. I hope you have a really good weekend...:)
Out of curiosity, in what way did missing a physical cause or lead to your heart attack?
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I don't care who fired the shot. The whole war is Russia's fault. Fruit of the poisoned tree.
In 25 years? Ukraine is a country with a population of 44,000,000 not that much smaller than the UK or France; South Dakota has a population of 900,000.

Would Russia have recovered them if Ukraine did not want to relinquish them? Maybe, but in the 1990s they were in very bad shape, and before 2004 (and between 2010 and 2014) Ukraine was under a pro-Russian government.

The point here is that, at this point, if any country is under the illusion that it does not need nuclear weapons to maintain its independent existence, they probably deserve to be absorbed by their neighbors.
Is "cracking down on coordinated bs" not also censorship?

How about letting people simply evaluate the information for themselves?
> But I think its pretty creepy that a handful of large tech CEOs will be able to get together and prevent that from happening by shutting him off from every social media platform and biasing search results, even so far as censoring our private communications via FB messenger, email or similar chat apps.

None of what you've described would prevent him from running. And in fact, thanks to Streisand Effect, much of it centers him in the public eye.

You can't buy that kind of publicity.
Except the battery on a quartz watch lasts years, and the battery on an Apple Watch lasts 12-18 hours.

Never mind that most mechanical watches are self-winding.
In case you work in the relevant part of ads, could you say why advertisers are allowed to buy their competitors' literal trademarked business names on Adwords? This seems like a protection racket: "nice business you got here; it'd be a shame if that knockoff down the street paid me enough to bury it..."
The OP was joking about a 25m decline: 1.025 -> 1.000
> Miners have responded to the shift in the power dynamic by throwing a tantrum and attacking and blackmailing their suppliers. Bioshock nailed it: laissez-faire is great when you're the one on top, but as soon as someone else out-competes you, or exerts their own market leverage, it's an unfair and ridiculous imposition on your own right to profit, and it's time to shout and flip the game board.

#notAllMiners

All you're saying is that businesses should sell to whoever makes them the most profit - so how does that explain Nvidia cutting value and lowering the price of their cards to sell to gamers rather than miners?
Please explain how Yandex News is supposed to transmit anti-government news, when there's been a ‘news aggregators’ law for years, which specifically forbids them to do that.
2-10 years is very different from 1-2 days though!

(Not to mention solar watches)
If I had the time I'd love to simply reimplement procmail. In principal its exceedingly simple as procmail doesn't parse structured headers or entity bodies; the expressions are applied to the raw lines. The fact procmail abstains from more complex parsing is probably why it's seen as few bugs as it has given the approach to parsing--classic Unix string slicing and dicing rather than a less bug-prone stream of scalar tokens which I personally prefer when doing string processing in C. (Can't overflow buffers when you're not taking pointers into and copying fragments every which way.)

Probably a good exercise as a Rust project, but I run OpenBSD so C (or C+Perl or C+Lua--Lua making it trivial to build a single binary) would probably be a better fit--no runtime or even build dependencies. An interim measure for OpenBSD might be to apply pledge and unveil sandboxing. I keep meaning to inspect how procmail loads and parses procmailrc to see if they could be applied early enough to provide realistic mitigations.
> Really? What's the difference?

For starters, Google doesn't get to raise a private army or arrest The Hill for misuse of their services.
Why would you imagine that anyone has a right to have their content on youtube. How is it in any way overreach. Surely its users can vote with their fingertips for a different site if they have a problem with it.
They got hit for signal-boosting Trump's nonsense without correcting it. YouTube is well within its rights to say "hey, we aren't a platform that exists to signal-boost Trump's lies."
Well, just in the sense that I don't see how it is going to possibly work, without radical revision/pivot. Maybe it will, though; I am kind of rooting for them.

But when I tried it, the ads Brave served were much worse than banner ads in a web page — they were super-intrusive system notifications, with ad payloads in them. I can't imagine any significant number of users ever using Brave with those ads enabled.

Likewise, I have never seen a website that is willing to accept my BAT crypto, other than the one posted in this thread.

Perhaps the second point (micropayments to authors) is not critical to their model, though.
It's a lot more granular than that, unfortunately. WINE and Linux natively support a plethora of anticheat engines, but the developers have to opt-in to allowing Linux players to use it. Bungie, for example, has recently confirmed that they won't be activating Linux support in their current plans. EA, on the other hand, just allowed Apex Legends players on Linux to start playing today (having played a couple hours, I can confirm it runs much better than on Windows).

It's really just a matter of developers opting-in. Rainbow Six Siege is one of the big ones I'd keep an eye out for next; Ubisoft has been teasing the community forums with official Linux questionnaires and RFCs for months now. Fingers crossed!
We have hundreds of years of debate and experience with freedom of speech, and I think the conclusions are clear.

In this specific debate, if "misinformation" is forbidden, whoever gets to decide what is classified as "misinformation", will control society.
If I may add my two cents: I disagree that supporting $BADGUY soldiers is always bad.

It's conceivable that in some situations, it seems likely to result in the less-evil outcome.

Case in point, suppose you had a neo-nazi unit offering to take out a Russian artillery battery that was shelling civilians. Do you refuse to truck them to that vicinity because you find them repugnant?

Life is full of hard choices; doubly so in war.
What nonsense? GDPR also claims to be applicable worldwide if you serve EU nationals.
A high level Youtube spokes person defended the ban. It's not just bad AI.
I posted this awhile ago, all the emojies that work with HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19482991

You could use diff flags and give it a stratego like appeal.
It definitely would have an affect on someone who otherwise has no opinion. Or someone on the fence. It adds to the cost of deciding to believe Trump's big lie.
Making up a story about someone doesn't make it a story worth reporting until they disprove it, there should actually be some substance as table stakes.

> In the grand scheme of things is looks like a pretty routine case of potential corruption, but that being associated with the president's son like a big deal

If you're making the claim that simply being on a board of directors or part of a venture firm because of who you know or are related to is ipso facto corruption, unfortunately we're unlikely to ever rid ourselves of that short of random work assignments in some kind of scifi YA novel.
Poor maintenance and low morale is what it looks like to me. The grunts who are turning themselves in say they thought it was “training” until the last minute. Not sure how much I believe that…

It as if Putin drafted rough plans to attack, but never finalized them. Then, after all that public grandstanding he couldn’t back down without looking like a coward. So he said “fuck it”, and gambled hoping it would be Crimea 2.0.

We didn’t stand up enough to him then, so the bully got emboldened.
The investigation into WhatsApp was scoped solely to problems with its privacy policy, and how important information was either confusing or missing. The investigation explicitly did not address how data was processed, merely WhatsApp's obligation to inform users about certain aspects of how their data was handled.

Within that limited Scope, WhatsApp was fined 225 million Euros for those deficiencies, which is still the second-largest GDPR fine to date.
The government cannot easily remove the rights of the individuals who make up said corporations without going through the cumbersome and probably impossible process of amending the constitution.
But we've always been at war with oceania.
Less mental overhead and friction in terms of setting it up. 1000s of years of evolution. The experience of people who post on HN and their comfort with digital interaction may not reflect how a majority of people feel.

I wonder if there is confirmation bias in the opinions of people who are voluntarily spending a large amount of time on forums already. They had a preference for written asynchronous communication already.
1 in 10000 might be ok for "sorry, the car you reserved isn't available; we're sold out; have fun walking" but not for spending a month in jail awaiting extradition on a bullshit charge. A month in jail is a serious career trajectory altering event for most people. And it's not like hertz is going to do anything to make things better for you.
I'd pay good money to play Summle 2.0: Jimmy Carr insults you before you start playing.
Archived: https://archive.ph/waryD
Its behind pay wall. Any other way to read this article?
Also the New York Times is not a monopoly.
No, she doesn't use the word stolen, and she conceded; but the article you linked to provides evidence of interference.

> The investigation by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III concluded that the Russian government interfered in the 2016 election “in sweeping and systematic fashion” with the goal of helping Trump and harming Clinton
I feel vindicated that there's a whole section about this.

I couldn't read a single thing when I played it and never knew what the objective was, so I just killed zombies until my dad bought our first HDTV.
I feel like when you choose a motto/mantra like "Don't be evil" you're locked in to it because of the obvious implication of removing it.
Most people without an inheritance probably miss the fact that tons of people they know do. You often have journalists as friends for example who unbeknownst to you are “subsisting” on their parents’ wealth and who secretly have millions of wealth in the bank. I recall meeting a “guitarist” in local bands in Seattle who confessed after a good amount of alcohol one night that his father had given him and his brother a million each when they turned 18 and he had decided to grind out the “starving musician” life until he “made it.”
If an author like Tom Clancy wrote this as a plot line in a fictional novel, nobody would believe it as possible. What modern military would be this incompetent. The stories would surely be a false flag to pull an attack. But nope, here we are in real life.

In other words, the state of Russian security is literally nothing but threat of nuclear war. What are the odds those would be as poorly functioning as the rest of the forces?
This is super helpful, thank you.
You can even hold it in your hand, and if no one will take it from you, it’s worthless.
Nice red flag: people that claim crypto is bad because it uses energy are people that actually trust Elon Musk's arbitrary opinions. Elon knows less about cryptocurrency than a fair amount of degenerate twenty year old speculators.
This is it. This isn't really a discussion about freedom vs. censorship, it's about how social platforms need moderation, but they've become so big that they're utterly impossible to moderate properly.

The Uber strategy, services with no possible path to profitability being propped up indefinitely by billionaires that refuse to stop believing the dream of infinite growth, is incredibly damaging to any ecosystem it infests. Youtube only exists because Google wants data. Video hosting is just too expensive for any realistic business model to support storing and distributing every vacation video ever made, for free, forever. This cradle-to-grave life support preempts all competition and creates monopolies so large they begin to creak and splinter under their own weight.

The strategy for Youtube moderation is maximum efficiency per dollar: deal with as much muck as possible with the smallest budget possible, and just let the errors happen because it's too expensive to prevent them (but if the public outcry is big enough, they can reverse the decision.) They can't make things better. There's just no money for it, because Youtube is just too big and it doesn't, cannot, and will never make any money.

I was in a chat with someone who worked with Google once and they said, paraphrased, "Our company suggested we could have a team for providing support for non-Partner users, and Google flat-out said 'It doesn't matter how cheap you go, it cannot be done.'"

I'm really glad Patreon exists. I think the only solution to all of this is to break the notion that web hosting (and, on another topic, creative work) is free, or that it can be supported by ads. Things cost money. People should be expected to contribute to support services they use.

(And of course, that brings up the issue of those who don't have money being excluded. There is no societal problem more than six steps away from poverty/income inequality. Probably no more than four steps, even.)
Bezos got $250K from the Bank of Mom and Dad to start Amazon. Not legitimate?
Many people historically only had a single phone provider available at their home. Last mile internet isn't competitive for most people, I would agree they should be considered a common carrier. This concept of "common carrier" is important in this debate.

A train line that is the sole means of commerce in and out of a town is a common carrier. There's no competitors really possible to enter into that market. For that train line to decide to not run certain cargo outside of safety concerns is to then control all the commerce with no reasonable competitor.

Literally right now I'm watching streaming video content hosted from some service other than YouTube. I probably spend less than an hour a week watching YouTube content. It's hardly the only rail line in town, nor is it the only way I can view video content. Now if the only viable ISP said "you can't connect to YouTube, if you don't like it sell your house and move to the next town over" then yeah that's a common carrier and shouldn't be allowed to do that.

DNS names aren't limited by the US government. There are lots of TLDs which are controlled by other governments. And largely they're pretty much managed by lots of different corporations. Either way, the government directly getting involved in taking over your domain name without any due process just to silence your speech probably does become a first amendment issue at least for US nationals. Either way, they're massively less limited than how many effective TV freqiencies or phone providers are in a given metro area.
This seems to be a marketing piece from Microfocus, it doesn't really say much.

> Easy to Understand, Anywhere You Like

Cobol is trivial to learn, read and write. The difficulty comes from the lack of abstractions and sheer volume of legacy code. Lets be clear, there is virtually zero green field development using newer Cobol standards, and the vast majority of code out there are the massive Cobol 85 applications that have evolved over decades to encompass and encode processes for entire industries.

We've consistently seen reports of a shortage of Cobol developers the past few years. Cobol applications are cost centers and the companies that have them have been seeking to minimize their costs for a long, long time. Over the past 20 years there have been waves of offshoring that have gutted the ranks of the system experts. There are tens of thousands of laid of Cobol developers in the US alone. The jobs went offshore. The only shortage is in Cobol developers with domain expertise, precisely the ones that were fired many years ago, who will work for low wages on offer.
> This feels like one of those “you’re a fan of X? Name every Y” memes.

How can you identify legal C without understanding undefined behavior? Or rather, what is the list of UB that nay professional C developer should be expected to know?

> If someone has some examples that a reasonable person would write, specifically examples that look like the simplest way to do something, then I’d love to hear them.

Basically all OOP-style C. For instance, the Windows macro

#define CONTAINING_RECORD(address, type, field) ((type *)( \
(PCHAR)(address) - \
(ULONG_PTR)(&((type *)0)->field)))

The Linux kernel is also an excellent source of these.

Also, serialization/deserialization libraries are an excellent source for UB. And huge amounts of code depends on UB by using unsigned char arrays for storage of other types.

Furthermore, in practice, C code assumes most of the following:

- null pointers are represented as 0, e.g. if(ptr).

- pointer provenance does not exist

- char and unsigned char are 8-bit bytes

- two's-complement arithmetic

- page-based memory protection

- no types have trap representations

- the values of base types, besides floating point, do not have multiple representations.

- etc
There's actually a surprising amount of games that run better on Linux:

- Overwatch averages more stable framerates than equivalent hardware playing on Windows

- Apex Legends seems to run head-and-shoulders above what I experienced on Windows

- Half Life, Garry's Mod, and all of the Source engine games have wonderful native ports

- Older games like Diablo 2 are actually playable on Linux, where they're almost completely broken and dead on Windows

- This one is purely anecdotal, but MMOs seem to be much lighter on Linux. Games like Warframe, Diablo 3, and Final Fantasy 14 are light as a feather with accommodating hardware.

YMMV, but I'd say the state of gaming on Linux is very good right now. Maybe not as competitive as Windows is in market share and title compatibility, but it's far surpassing the selection (and performance) of PC games on Mac in it's glory days, and well outpacing the state of gaming on Mac now. If Valve continues to focus on their core competencies, we might finally have the gaming duopoly that we've rumored of for decades.
Bondholders would want a greater risk premium for not having the provision.
>Are all public corporations the adversaries of citizens though?

In a way, yes. Public corporations generally seek profit maximization. Rational consumers seek value maximization. More profit for seller = less value for consumer. Less profit for seller = more value for consumer. This is an adversarial situation by definition.
Global website security ecosystem at risk from EU Digital Identity framework [pdf]
Symptom of being early, or more precisely, of having low liquidity comparatively. When the market cap increases liquidity rises and price stabilizes which lead to the final requirements for layer 1 of a currency.