skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Proponents believe we are entering a new era in marketing, where every creative message will be tailored to the specific needs of individual buyers.

They are talking about ads, not about which songs are suggested to us.

> Most personalisation efforts are powered by third-party data. Marketers infer who customers are based on their browsing behavior.

In order to deliver personalised ads, they use cookies — third-party cookies, by companies that invade our privacy and track our every move.

Spotify does not rely exclusively on poor quality third-party data: they also have first-party data about us: the songs we listen to, like etc; how often we listen to them; if we put them in our playlists etc. This is one reason why their guesses as to what we may like are better.

Another reason is that they are ‘only’ trying to suggest another song to a person who, apparently, likes music; they are not trying to guess my gender, age, job, wealth, type of person I am, mood, interests etc and find a match between these tracts and the fact that I may be interested in… an ad I never requested from a company I don’t know…

> “We determined there was simply too much waste in the old model of activating this third-party cookie-based data across high-reach, low-impact placements.

My guess is that the type of ads they are talking about here are general rotation banner ads, i.e. garbage worth nothing which gets sold for good money under the (false) promise that companies have ways to show your ads to the ‘right’ people. Problem is, they don’t.
Any kind that it sees.
> It’s worth noting that the same arguments would apply to Canada. If the Thiel-funded right succeeds, they’ll eventually need a war to fuel the nationalist fire. Why not a reunification of the North American colonies? Canada is obviously controlled by decadent forces that need to be purged

That's silly. Canada is the loyalist colony. They are still part of the Commonwealth. If Theil is a monarchist, then surely Canada is more the good guy to him!

And we should question how "anti-Progressive" monarchism actually is. Given that the American Revolution was driven in large part by a desire to expand beyond the Appalachians (which King George III had banned with the Proclamation of 1763), and that the Empire banned slavery outright in 1833, a full 30 years before Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, I think we can say that First Nations and enslaved peoples -- focus of core Progressive causes -- would have both been better off as subjects of the Crown, in a Loyalist America.

So maybe monarchism is good?
Bananas, hence the term "banana republic".
This reminded me of that joke about the physics experiment that assumes a perfectly spherical chicken in a vacuum :)
Presumably because they believe in the promise of GMOs.
If this sort of thing was effective (and legal, I don't know) you'd think it would be seen regularly.

I can't decide if it's better explained by the power of corporate(/political) PR or simply that people don't actually care
I spent 3 months in Colombia back in 2018. Such an amazing country. Amazing people, rich culture, beautiful places... I miss it very dearly and I'm certain I will return.

I will forever remember taking the bus from Bogota to Pereira. The entire trip is filled with images of glorious beauty.

Colombia is a dream country.
> will happily gouge for rent

Making profit is the goal for renting out, right?
Discord seems to have been harmlessly hacked
Kendrick Lamar uses deepfakes in new music video
And yet no one who read the article, or commented the crap, even thought for a moment that humans have already contemplated these slivers.
Yeah but what does suing them even accomplish, it’s not like the nso is going to have to pay up.
> 25% of the income tax revenue comes from the 1%

From your link it is ~40% - you copied the wrong number!

“The top 1 percent paid a greater share of individual [federal] income taxes (38.8 percent) than the bottom 90 percent combined (29.2 percent).”
I was also curious. I found an extension called Markdown Paste[0], by searching for an extension to automatically base64 encode images into markdown in VSCode, which is not how this extension works at all.

0: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=telesoho...
The Proc Connector and Socket Filters
The last gig I worked at that had a dedicated DBA was years ago, and it was an Oracle shop.

The whole "shift-left" movement seems to have swept DBAs along with it. Good to know yer DBs but it might be better to expand your offerings.
Why are you omitting coups for oil? They are still coups?
I know that pedantry is kind of a thing here, but people working remotely to save money aren’t generally living in a state like California.

Also for the sake of pedantry, you still won’t be paying 35% even with California taxes. Nor could you pay over 100k even in California, so far as I can tell, unless taxes go up or there’s other income at play.
Every single pumpjack well in Texas is pulling up brine water extremely rich with lithium that could be cheaply extracted with evap pools. It just hasn’t been profitable until now. Lithium typically isn’t mined like gold, silver or diamonds, with a handful of exceptions.
So you mean the Vic-20? With a whooping 20k of memory. And the insane video resolution of 22 characters across!
This War of Mine opened my eyes to the horror of civil wars on civilian populations, with events much like Mariupol is likely experiencing today.

Theft, depression, drugs, violence, weather and exposure, shelter building, scavenging, starving, and watching your friends die... It was something I couldn't put down for a while and I think about it all the time.

You might try something like that.
If you can model data, build data warehouses, manage and maintain schemas, and help analysts write effective SQL; you'll be employed for a very long time. If your entire focus is on the system administration perspective, that career is quickly disappearing in favor of SaaS/PaaS solutions.
I’m sorry are you arguing that this is a reasonable course for Monsanto to take? How about they just disclose when products are shown to cause cancer and try to make ones that don’t?
> compassion

Compassion doesn't pay and my second home won't pay for itself.
The ResultAsync class in neverthrow has chaining as well as splitting on ok/error - I find this really nice because you can also do away with exceptions at the same time.

I feel like fp-ts is even more powerful for this - provided you (and your entire team / every new hire) can navigate the steep learning curve which tbh defeated me when I tried to learn it in a couple of days last week
I ask the same question about Google
The encryption of the messages themselves is largely shared with every other part of cryptography - ed25519 keys are used almost exclusively over rsa for anything new and AES 256+ protects every single TLS connection. A lot of the internet hinges on the encryption used being resistant against known attacks.

https://safecurves.cr.yp.to/#:~:text=The%20following%20table...
This reflects my experience as well. Same with Paypal. As a buyer when I have had issues, those issues have all been resolved to my satisfaction after going through the dispute process.

I dislike Paypal as a company and they do a lot of shitty things but the benefit to me using their services is tangible.

Honestly even sites like Aliexpress and Banggood have always resolved issues to my satisfaction once a dispute has been filed.
Agree.

Guessing which songs I may like based on 10 or 100 songs I like, while not trivial, is possible.

Guessing who I am and if I am the right target for a kind of ad (broad-reach, low-impacts ads) nobody pays any attention to anyway is delusional.
I've defended Monsanto repeatedly on HN (there are some extraordinarily popular beliefs about Monsanto that turn out, from what I can tell, to be just completely false, and they used to wind up here a bunch). I'm not carrying any water for them. I'm pro-GMO just in principle, but neutral-to-skeptical about any company of Monsanto's size. I'm sure the company itself is perfectly amoral. I'm just calling actual issues like I see them.

Naturally, plenty of people on HN think I'm a paid shill (what makes this funnier is the company I founded and worked at for most of my time on HN was named "Matasano", which was so frequently confused for "Monsanto" that we put a sign on our window about it in our Mountain View office).

My point is just: your intuition for whether comments are paid shillage are likely to mislead you.
You are filling zero page with garbage. Half of zero page is used for the basic interpretor.
Anyone using this and care to provide an honest review? We’re evaluating chucking a paid alternative due to the price (small startup).
PowerToys is able to grow, experiment and evolve much more quickly as a standalone application because shipping something inside Windows is hard. The OS has a very long support and compatibility guarantee that makes it extremely difficult to iterate and ship features quickly. The .NET team is pretty open about how being coupled to Windows for a long time held .NET back.

Also, my understanding is that PowerToys is sort of an incubator; successful experiments may eventually make it into Windows itself.
The bad things about Monsanto, like Facebook, are extremely over exaggerated by online panic porn. Monsanto Chemical did some genuinely bad things in the 80s with Vietnam, etc. But the modern company actually reduces pesticide use since RoundUp is more efficient.
VIC-20 had 5k of RAM by default.
There is no choice. There is no intention. There is no you.
> CSS is pretty flexible. What kind of animations would you expect to be difficult to express?

Interpolations of anything beyond basic properties such as size, orientation, opacity, color, stroke, and fill; vector shapes, particle systems, and generative textures come to mind.

There are intermediate possibilities. In theory you could "compile" the animation of a skeletal system with inverse kinematics to CSS, but I'm not aware of anyone going to the trouble.
These are universal values that you find across many religions. Religion is a framework to help us find our moral way.

But like anything, institutions are run by humans and sometimes go the wrong way, focused on dogma, enrichment or power.
Anyone from the northeast have any thoughts on the relative quality of a UMass education (any campus) compared to BU?
Do you have an argument ready that people who do not already agree with you about the evils of Monsanto might find persuasive? Your response here is pretty conclusory.
Huh, Monsanto employees can claim they are saving millions from hunger and death by providing GMO seeds. Also saving farmers from ruin by providing disease resistant seeds.

Now you can come claiming well that's bullshit. But that can again be said for most of the companies.
thought this was total...it's for 1 year...insane...
Please, before you comment how evil Monsanto is, read the Cochrane review of glyphosate.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4866614/

This is produced by the Cochran which "is a British international charitable organisation formed to organise medical research findings to facilitate evidence-based choices about health interventions involving health professionals, patients and policy makers. It includes 53 review groups that are based at research institutions worldwide." (from Wikipedia).

Unless you are an expert in the field, you are not likely to do better than a Cochrane systematic review.

The review concludes "Thus, a causal relationship has not been established between glyphosate exposure and risk of any type of LHC." (LHC is lymphohematopoietic cancer).

I find there are a lot of parallels between anti-GMO and anti-vax: calling it "unnatural", saying it is for mainly for profits by multinational corporations, implying conspiracies to suppress evidence against.

Note that also, in the current environment, there is also a lot of money and fame to be gained by being contrarian (especially when you involve trial lawyers). So saying "follow the money" can cut both ways.
More like 65k if you don’t live on campus and find something cheaper but also that is an insane amount to be paying.

In comparison, some schools in Canada over 4 years don’t even cost that much
I attended one of these colleges -- it also has a private high school on campus with a similar model. In college I did things from HVAC, custodial, resident assistant, to web development to pay my tuition.
The ‘normal’ way to write something like that (I hope I got the range ends right) is

for i in range(1, N):
for j in range(1, j + 1):
candidate_pairs.add((i, j))

Also, conceptually, you don’t have tuples, but multisets. If you were to use those, you wouldn’t need that if at all.

Multiset isn’t built-in to python, so you’d need to use an external package. Alternatively, write a class for storing pairs of ints i, j that enforces i ≤ j.
The Beautiful Diablo 2 Resurrected Machine
If you were walking around outside in the winter and this helped, that's pretty good evidence that sun exposure is beneficial for you outside of vitamin D production.

In the winter months in NYC, the UV intensity is too low to cause vitamin D production in the skin.
61.5k for tuition is just insane! It just doesn't make sense in any way. What are they teaching that deserves such insane tuition rates?

Billed expenses for the 2022/2023 academic year*
Tuition $61,050

Room (depending on type of accommodation) $11,260
Board (most dining plans) $6,140
Fees $1,310
TOTAL ESTIMATED BILLED EXPENSES $79,760
+
Other expenses
Books and Supplies $1,000
Personal Expenses $1,370
Local Transportation (average) $630
TOTAL OTHER EXPENSES $3,000
= Total Cost of Attendance
$82,760

In comparison:

Virginia Tech (a great school) out of state tuition is half of that:

In-state tuition 13,749 USD, Out-of-state tuition 32,893 USD

Radford University (the school I went to in Virginia) is even cheaper, 1/3rd of that:

In-state tuition 11,416 USD, Out-of-state tuition 23,498 USD

I am sorry, but if you choose to go on debt to a school like BU, it is your own fault for being so reckless. Can't complain later about 'school debt'. I think federal loans, should not be available to inefficient school systems/universities. At this point they are just helping the bloated administration salaries and the deans becoming rich, and thats it.
For a potentially non-indicative view: I grew up in the modern software era, whatever that means to you (frameworks, kubernetes, 500mb react web apps) and have a lot of hiring authority myself and have a lot of cross functional experience, including SRE and working in an actual data center (so loud). imo DBA is useful at the extreme edges of performance after product market fit has been found and 90% of software has been written and it’s time to optimize. I wouldn’t personally hire a DBA before that as it would be premature optimization, especially considering “modern” approaches to profiling queries. I expect my entire team of SWEs to have profiled any DB queries and found low hanging fruits, and also lean towards fully managed database services like RDS.

That being said, that’s a startup opinion. There are lots of F500s that will want them in their data centers. So like cobol programmers, I don’t think there will be a problem getting employment somewhere in the foreseeable future.
The "good guys" are whoever has the money and is favored by the administration.
So the issue here is if Monsanto's products were safe, they wouldn't have to pay people to attach their name to company-written articles claiming they are. If you have to buy your support (looking at Google Public Policy team here hard), you probably are not a good company.

In short, if Roundup was safe, it's likely there would be studies proving so from scientists not paid by Monsanto to do so. The fact that they have to ghostwrite them means there isn't any legitimate science supporting their position.
> Have they no compassion for their fellow humans?

Yes. Compassion for your fellow humans is quite unnatural for a lot of people.

It's why Christianity was a thing - a non trivial percentage of the population will only pretend to be a human being out of fear.
I'm a huge fan of Khronkite myself, it's a quite competent tiling script that still plays nice with floating windows and all the standard KWin behaviors.
Sigh, that tweet was a joke. It was clearly a joke, come on.
Living off campus in Boston within commuting distance of BU… going to be at least $1k per month assuming you have 5 roommates.
On the idea of being a digital nomad, it's definitely not for everyone. I lived out of hostels and my car for 4 months, and for two months before that, did regular trips further and further from home. I traveled the US, did urban exploration in new and exciting places on a daily basis, and then got an apartment in my hometown. I'm happy to have the experience, and tell stories from my adventures often.

Having lived it, I now know how quickly the diminishing returns of new places can diminish.
I worked with a dba around 14 years ago, and then again in 2016. Those were both at corporate jobs. Other than that I've worked for small businesses, start ups and as a contractor and that's all been fullstack. I think specialized roles make for better software and small teams trying to support the whole stack with their javascript bootcamp training are the biggest reason so much tech is absolute garbage these days.

So I hope you find from other people that this is still a good role to pursue and that you do become a dba and work as a specialist with highly skilled teams and make the code world a better place.
How to Put Life on Easy Mode
> We live in a society which lacks the collective will to do such things. It's only after the knowledge required to do so is lost that it can't be done again.

You’re assuming that the social organization and culture required to do these things can’t be lost just like knowledge. I think that’s incorrect. It’s like how third world countries know what they should do to develop their economies—stop allowing government officials to take bribes, etc. But they can’t.
And yet eBay remains the biggest marketplace of obsolete computers.
It depends on if you want to scale the application, but I wouldn't choose the readable O(n^2) over the less readable O(n). I would just attempt to make the O(n) readable.
It's not the total amount of sodium but the concentration of the dose of sodium which will affect your blood pressure.

see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbSic4Oo8ME&t=420s

So if your food tastes salty, you should drink more water to dilute the concentration (and hopefully you won't drink so much water to induce hyponatremia - it's a balancing act).
Main value of urban campuses is they provide a leg up in the local job market, so UMass Boston could be good. Amherst I think has more research, but not much of a job market.
It's okay, this isn't a bubble.
Systematic review and metaanalysis of glyphosate exposure and risk of LH cancers
I worked at Monsanto for a few years. I won't get into the ethics of the company on this forum, but as a software engineer it was a pretty great place to work. Good engineering culture, lots of very dedicated and smart people and some really fun challenges to work on.
I love the phony “anyone with need” and “first year students will have needs met” lipstick they put on the pig.
> sacrifice some production

Quantify some. TFA claims a reduction of 29-44% and a doubling of food prices. And looking at what happened in Sri Lanka, I have no trouble believing it.

> much less environmental impact.

Quantify less and define environmental impact.

> expand farming to more areas

So, does increasing the amount of land used for agriculture count as having less or more environmental impact?

> a single missed harvest in one conflict zone

Which part of TFA talks about a missed harvest?
I'm wondering how many students actually pay list price? (I mean, their parents.)

With financial aid, this is probably more along the lines of "tell us how much you make and we'll tell you the price."
Google is unfairly villainized. It provides a service to advertisers, and it give away many billions of dollars of free online services every year. They’ve done literally nothing to harm you nor 99.9999% of people on earth.
No borders would lead to some negative effects for societies and governments. Whether that be currency/economic instability, disease, sovereignty issues, cultural issues with human rights.

We have a long way to go before we even begin a discussion on an open world.
Related: [Colleges where everyone works and there's no tuition](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31309748)
Your assertion that there's nothing wrong with not explaining why a thing exists is not backed by reality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp0HIF3SfI4

Of course, it's their choice. But don't conflate that with being the best thing for the project or the visitor. Presumably the site exists to convince people to use it, no?
You're hearing it from me now too. The music they recommend me is awful and only tangentially related to what I like.
Driving ships and helicopters into storms is Coast Guard 101. When a rich guy on an around the world sailing attempt gets into trouble, someone has to go rescue him, often in extreme conditions. It is one thing to risk one's life to save fishers or merchant sailors, another to risk one's life saving a bored millionaire trying to sail across the Pacific on a raft made of soda bottles.
Eh, there are some pretty cheap places in Allston and Brighton. Last spring I had a place for $700 (although it was a whole house rented w some of my classmates)
you’re comparing the fuel to the tank . how much fuel is spent to put energy into the lithium ?
Yup, it's simple, just get better at the game.
I would imagine a huge piece of it is libel and slander laws protect you unless you’re in the public sphere.
More unfortunately, planned economies respond even slower.
Doesn’t hurt the bottom line of universities if they raise tuition. Students just take out bigger loans. The price hikes won’t stop until it hurts their bottom line.
UMass Amherst is significantly more prestigious than BU - or at least it was ~20 years ago when I was applying to colleges. But Amherst is the one "good" UMass campus
Not at all. You can’t document everything precisely when you do new and complex stuff. Sometimes it’s way more efficient to talk to people directly.
I'm pro-GMO in the sense of "woohoo, science!", but a lot of it seems to be about making herbicide/pesticide resistance and encouraging that seems like a bad idea.

Case in point, BT GMOs have only trained the insect population for resistance to it: https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2011/08/researchers-identif...
The paper I linked discusses moving checkpoints.
The Sysinternals suite is incredible; acquiring Sysinternals and maintaining the tools is one of the best things the Windows team has ever done.

I don't love everything about Windows these days, and I've mostly switched away from it. But Process Explorer and Process Monitor are a lovely reminder that it's still a powerful OS, and tools don't have to be text-first to cater to power users.