skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Global app install ad spend to double by 2022 to hit $118 billion”

https://www.appsflyer.com/blog/trends-insights/app-install-a...

It’s actually an extremely lucrative market. The major players usually don’t bring this up, because nobody wants to talk about how much of their business is Clash of Clans whales.

Everybody talks about targeting, but conversion measurement is the elephant in the room. You don’t really need fine-grained info to target Clash of Clans ads, but you definitely need to track conversions to get credit for the whales.

One way to think about this is that advertising revenue allows Apple to effectively increase the size of their 30% cut on digital goods.

There’s a lot of collateral damage, and other markets to pursue in the future, but this pot of gold is what Apple is going after first.
I got you, I hadn't even thought of that end, more of the professors teaching.

Even then I have seen myself they lean too much on TA's who are barely a semester ahead sometimes.

Thanks for clarifying about the research side, really appreciate it.

All of this is just so sad.
This is definitely a way to go about things. What would you say are the trade offs involved compared to other ways?
When page layout is so broken, it’s often an ad blocker add-on issue. Maybe try testing your bank website with with add-ons disabled.
My Halligan bar is my favorite tool I own. I've never used it for its intended purpose but it's super fun to hold and show people.
> Does it prevent CNAME shenanigans?

Yes. https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/amp/apples-safari-browser...
uMatrix has not been in Development for a long time (Developer did not have the time and decided to focus on uBlock Origin.)
Don't fall into the trap of designing an intricate system to track personal goals and forget to make progress on those personal goals.
Wait but.... They don't have full self driving...
Fuck yeah.

With you all the way in this, including the probably unachievable part. starts to shed a tear
Personally i use Grid Diary. I could add monthly / yearly target while tracking it daily.
As someone who's cycled around Copenhagen I have to say biking there is not just easy due to flatness but also very enjoyable. Wide biking lanes, long straight stretches without signposts in the way, cars paying due respect to bikers, place to put the bike after use, showers at work etc. etc. The experience is much much better than every other city I've been to.

Sadly I don't see this transferring to other countries any time soon. Infra was built for the car and a cyclist is often a 2nd grade participant. All the steep inclinations in cities also don't help. CPH is really flat. My hometown has so many hills a lot of people (especially elderly) are not fit to even climb them. It's also really hard to drive at decent speed on narrow lanes built as an afterthought next to the main road. Things are changing though so at least biking is doable despite many downsides.
I have 30 hours workweek and work 5x6, for the last 7 years. I also negotiated that I can leave at noon, and work the remaining hours, from where ever I am, when there is need (e.g. when I need to answer crucial things at evenings, weekends etc., which happens maybe once in a month). It is very good, I can spend more time with my son. I can go running when there is still sunlight outside. The problem is I could not go back to an 8 hour day.

I don't abuse this deal: When I really want to get things finished, or when there's something critical, of course it happens that I am still at work Friday 4PM. It works the other way, too: When there's something critical at home (and no planned interaction at work), I may not show up at all, and it is Ok.
Not everyone will like it, but uMatrix comes with more fine-grained control, and the defaults are set to block all third-party and cross-site loads, including static content hosted on other domains. So a lot of sites will break by default, and you've to go enable anything that you actually want. uBlock on the other hand will only block the (list) filters you've enabled.
Please access this link and generate interest around Firefox natively implementing the same UI/UX for Profiles as Chrome has right now:

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/shortcut-for-different-...

Also there's this bug report:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1542189

Hopefully someone will listen to feedback, this time...
It uses pdf js under the hood. the ui is very nice and responsive in terms of it loads fast when navigating pages. might use in an upcoming project.

https://github.com/react-pdf-viewer/react-pdf-viewer/blob/ma...
Are our public school teachers unfit to be teachers and low-quality workers because not high enough wage is offered for quality people? Or is it that the salary attracts competent people but other factors are broken?

The interesting thing to me is I see people almost universally praise our teachers, and comment on how great and caring they are. The money seems to be attracting the raw talent, so I'm leaning towards something else is much more broken in our system.
How can you tell? Maybe I wasn’t clear enough when trying to communicate my viewpoint?
I implemented Nystromformer, a transformer variant
Disproportionately so?
> To interject and argue a "better" perspective requires a certain level of arrogance that not everyone has.

That's one way of looking at it. Another perspective would be "we're all here trying to solve this problem that we're talking about, so obviously if someone has a solution they think would work, they'd say it. No one is, so I'll offer my thoughts since it's better than nothing"
> sensory perception of it

Think about it this way: is a digital image a symbol?

It's as close as computers get to raw "sensory perception", but ultimately it's a collection of color values, each of which is an identifier that maps to something we think of as a "color", and arranged in an order that we've defined as representing X and Y positions relative to a light sensor

My point is there's ultimately no real distinction between a mental or digital representation of information, and a (huge) set of symbolic data. We have abstract symbols that refer to a cluster of more detailed symbols, on and on down to more and more granular levels. What you're thinking of as "symbols" are just the higher-level ones, but there's no fundamental distinction between those and the "raw" data, at least as it's represented in some kind of mind (digital or biological). It's all an approximate representation of real reality, which is impossible to represent in a non-symbolic way. What matters for "thinking" is that your symbols are granular enough that any conclusions you draw from them map usefully close to the symbolized reality.
> For most of history, people thought: “The world is bad and, usually, it’s getting worse.” In other words, no longer did humans see themselves as mere pawns for the gods.

What? Citation needed.

A negative view of individual sin is certainly part of the Christian worldview, but gods are not, nor is an overall negative outlook. The whole point is that God loves his people enough to save them, the Church will expand, and Christ will return in glory.

If the author is describing paganism ("pawns for the gods") I'm curious to know which of those had an overall negative view with such widespread influence that those religions could describe people generally. Certainly the Greeks and the Romans thought very highly of themselves and believed that the gods were with them, hence they flourished.

This seems more like an atheist talking point than anything grounded in history.
Everybody is talking about living at the beach in this thread and nobody's talking about surfing! That's the whole point of the beach for me... I moved to the beach and got a telework agreement so I can surf any day I want to. It's amazing.
Seems like the lesson is that there is no reason to use Google products if you ever expect you will need support in the future, because it is just not there. They evidently don't care enough to work with anyone and their revenue is high enough that customer retention has zero priority for them. This is unsurprising to me as they're an ad company first and foremost. Maybe do it if you know someone inside or are famous on Twitter?

Anyway, people pay a lot of money and just seem to be screwed time and time again.
Really? Do you have any actual data on that?
Was the author expecting the xboxes to rot or something?
Not "quitting", but I considered taking a job at a FAANG (and letting startup be passive income) for a hot second a month or two ago... until they couldn't guarantee the remote position I was applying for would continue to be remote for the rest of the year.

Now I'm _really_ glad I didn't take it.
Clearly you haven't played a nice golf course. Or if you have, you haven't stopped to appreciate it the same way you would landscape art. If you did you would think otherwise. Some of the nicest golf courses in the world provoke far more emotion than you would imagine. Look at some photos of bandon dunes; those holes were designed by master artists.

You trying to tell me this "touches the soul": https://imgur.com/a/GahY00u

But this doesn't? Where every tree, every mound and turn of the landscape was an intentional alteration of the landscape serving the purposes of both provoking emotions and enabling the game of golf : https://imgur.com/a/E2jwz2x

Sorry but you would have to be delusional to think that. There is a reason people come from all over the world to enjoy bandon dunes. Michael Heizer spent 50 years making a junkyard and you fell for it.

Finally a quote:

“Most of their projects were on beautiful rolling parcels of land, and the geometric shapes which they created contrasted with the rolling topography...This yin and yang would draw the golfers’ attention to the target and create a very interesting or thrilling space to hit to. Raynor’s Fishers Island is a very good example of using geometric shapes to draw one’s attention to the target, while highlighting the beautiful surrounds. The shapes of the targets, putting surfaces, are very similar but the grading of the surrounds and the surfaces themselves varies from hole to hole. The grading conforms to the site and space and the lines draw one’s eye in a very subtle way to the powerful landscape surrounds.

Golfers enjoy beautiful natural surrounds but also are very stimulated when their target is well defined. Geometric features create these types of situation. This is why I believe most golfers respond favorably to this. Pete Dye used hard and straight lines on several of his designs. While some felt that at times he went too far and did not harmoniously blend his design with nature, his targets were well defined and created stimulation and thought.”

Sound somewhat familiar?
That's not capitalism to blame, that's just the free market.

I'm not sure any system will let you live this life without a significant investment back into it, first.
Because it is prohibitively expensive, and you get more data with multiple cameras than with one single lidar
If you sell your car, the software goes with it.

It WILL NOT follow you to the next car though. It’s VIN locked (which is BS, no consumer software is hardware locked like that in a normal computing space).
Another famous example of this is McDonald's Monopoly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald%27s_Monopoly#Fraud However, this fraud occurred in the late 90s instead, which is presumably why it's not mentioned in the article, which focuses on an earlier time period.
I’d say stop listening to podcasts where people are projecting their opinions onto the listener, it’s as bad as social media.
certainly here in NZ, Australia too I think
Coming from Europe, where air conditioning is not really a thing (outside of places of business), yes, you are probably right. It is not a need. But neither is clothing in most parts of the world, or houses larger than a bed, or food that's not oatmeal and the random scavenged fruit. Creature comforts matter.

I've been to Morocco lately, with dry 45-48 degrees celsius outside. I've experienced that "vernacular architecture". Every single one of those buildings I have been in (including stalls in the soukh, which is ridiculous because they are essentially missing a wall towards the street) had some form of air conditioning retrofitted.

Of course, the tendency of Americans to set their air conditioning to below 20 degrees is ridiculous.
A few years ago I got a "pro rata" pay rise which meant working 4 days for the same pay as 5.

I really loved the feeling of a 3 day weekend every week- it felt as if you were off work half of the time.

Eventually, somebody in the organisation decided that everbody had to work 100%, so I was given a 25% pay rise and told to turn up on Fridays.

In terms of work capacity, I feel like I delivered pretty much the same to the organisation at 80% as I did at 100%
Maybe not the most environmentally friendly but I got a 3 color pack of sticky notes last year.

I have white/cream color walls on which I put these stickies. 3 colors, low/med/high priority.

Write the goal, stick it on the wall, take it off when finished.

There’s something satisfying about ripping that note off the wall. The goal is to keep the wall as clear as possible.

Downside is that it’s not a digital practice and there’s no history.
mozilla vpn

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/mozilla-vpn/multi-accou...

which is a rebranded mullvad. mullvad is pretty cool (doesn't require any private info for creating an account or paying, and they recently disabled recurring payments so they don't need to store credit card info, even though this has a financial hit to the company https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2022/6/20/were-removing-the-opti...)
If you want, you can disable _a lot_ of smart features on an iPhone. If you’re paranoid you can lock the re-enabling behind a passcode you give to a trusted person.
I would love to work in an environment with lots of pair programming. Nothing keeps you moving like someone over your shoulder.

It sounds like you've found a great place to work. Do you think they're successful because it's such a great place to work or do you think their success has enabled them to create a great work environment?
The families of Girl Guides generally end up buying a lot of Girl Guide cookies.
This is a very, very annoying strawman. Nobody believes that life, or even humanity will be wiped off the face of the earth. It's the tremendous amount suffering it'll have to endure that we'd rather avoid.
The beta is out to ~100k cars in NA and growing. Not sure if they’ve sold the package elsewhere in the world but I wouldn’t bank on it coming any time (or car) soon outside of NA.
just found your system...

thank you!!!!!
I can’t speak for anyone else, but a personal appeal from a family or friend is about the only thing that would get me to enter one of those.
Humans have still suffered far worse. At one point, around 70kya, there were only an estimated maximum of 10,000 humans, and it is from that population that sprung forth 8 billion today. I highly doubt with even all the damage climate change will cause that we will go back to such numbers.
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN. We ban accounts that do that. Please especially don't cross into personal attack.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: you've unfortunately been posting flamebait and/or unsubstantive comments repeatedly. That's not ok. Would you please review the rules and stick to them from now on so we don't have to ban you?
You just don’t get it.

It’s nothing against online play. It’s that it is basically not possible anymore. Practically no recent game allows basic server-client over LAN anymore. Like, with a good old TCP or UDP server listening on the host machine.

You need internet for everything and the more people you are, the more you need a solid connexion. And once the server closes, you are done with the game forever. Halo CE LANs will never be done as long as physical support continue to work.

Exceptions are maybe MK8D and SSBU (are there other ?) on Switch but that’s basically it, and there are hard limitations in number of players and I doubt the Switch will last as long as the Xbox as a device (because of battery and cartridges).

And there is this little thing of setting up everything, organizing the room for everyone to have a place to play and while having enough room to put your beer on but yeah, I acknowledge it, _that_ part is nostalgia ;)
iPhone SE with as few apps installed as possible.

I wouldn’t trust the security on the other phones you listed and dumbphones are buggy and insecure.
Not even close. Psuedo-LiDAR approach is the way to go and everyone knows it. Waymo and others using LiDAR placed the wrong bet and now have nothing to show for it.
> Unfortunately, [engineers] are not usually very good at thinking about the people who will use their systems, taking their preferences into account, and treating them like customers who they are trying to keep.

That engineers are all bad at people, have no interest in helping users has many visible obvious manifestions. But wow, I've grown really really tired of this kind of infantalizing dreck. I'd way rather try to find healthy & balanced engineers than work with anyone with this kind of "piss off engineer, we are the real channel to truth & value here" shitshow attitude.

Engineers often have a much more nuanced, complex, & advanced bead on what is possible, where to shoot for, & why it's good than product people. This downtalking article telling us we're bad at making useable things & that we need to change everything is part of a long long long line of corporate hierarchy games & clutching to power.

Edit: fwiw, most of the advice I'd grade as "not bad". But omg please never ever couch it like this.
That is, as I said, unacceptable. Among other things, it means students can't use their editor of choice, and students with disabilities who use assistive technologies will be much more likely to be flagged as cheaters. It also won't stop anyone from cheating by doing the exercise with Copilot and typing it up a second time for the time lapse.
Reviewing the Fields paper at https://scholar.harvard.edu/gborjas/_publications (2015) (wrong link in the review)

https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/gborjas/files/jhr2015.pdf
That’s not going to work, because outside of e-book enthusiasts, few know what DJVU is and even fewer have the technological skills and will to figure out how to open it. A large part of LibGen’s demographic are university students downloading exorbitantly priced textbooks, and given that, having both a pdf and a djvu available would be ideal.
I do have some sites which are consistently slower on Firefox than on Chrome. Chrome (and Edge) just feel all-round snappier (at least when "new", ie with few tabs open). The difference is not enough for me to switch my daily driver, though.

Things that come to mind that I use often:

* AWS console

* Google Maps

* Confluence

Hell, even the front page of Hacker News loads a bit faster on Chromium than on Firefox. Sure, the difference is negligible in absolute terms, but still. I get around 5-600 ms for Chromium, and around 8-900 for Firefox. Both running on X11/Linux 5.19-zen on a Ryzen 5650U with 32 GB of RAM.

I haven't used Chrome intensively in a long while, but I seem to me remember at the time (many years ago, on a Mac) it would slow to a crawl after a few days with many open tabs. I don't have any such issue with Firefox on Linux.
This looks like it's just a regular LCD screen though, so it gives off light? The description wasn't very clear on this but the technical specs say AHVA LCD.

I recently built my own e-ink picture frame because I wanted it to feel like a regular picture frame (and it has fooled people already), because it is basically just a printed photo in a nice normal frame. And it looks amazing in direct sunlight, and obviously in the dark you see it less but that's the same with any normal picture frame.

If color e-ink was ready for this use case it would be pretty cool, but I think we're still a while away from that. It might also be too expensive.
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN, regardless of how bad another comment is or you feel it is. Please especially avoid the tedious tit-for-tat flamewar thing.

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Oh so it's a a piece of work presented to a medieval guild as evidence of qualification for the rank of master? Unless you're saying he's using a definition of the word that literally doesn't exist in the dictionary?
It’s real though. When you’re making procedures “do the obvious thing” has to be the first step and putting it in there will prevent so many mistakes. Checklists work. Trusting people to do the obvious reasonable thing in repetitive or stressful situations does not.
> They are, after all, trying to make the human species survive.

A perceived "good cause" does not make an argument - or an action - necessarily good. Remember that medieval witch hunts were doing the "humanitarian" thing when they set people aflame because they were trying to save the suspected witches' souls from eternal damnation.

> If that is the case, then there ain’t no cure that any elected politican can pursue.

... so have unelected politicians do the dirty work? Just like with every radicalism, radical environmentalism will eventually lead to a less-than-democratic system.

I sympathise with the environmental movement, even if I think that there's a lot of doom porn happening there and some people's energies would be better invested looking for workable solutions instead of protesting. But we need to watch them. radicalised, they are likely to become dangerous.
> Some people who would rather use their old phones don't because they can no longer receive software updates, either to the apps they use, or the OS.

You can though. Many old phones are hackable.

> There are other reasons also like replacement parts are no longer easily available.

Also doesn't seem to be true. You can still buy second hand parts and whole phones for old models for almost nothing.

> But anyway, you're missing the forest for the trees. Most folks who bemoan what you speak of simply want the option to repair their items easily in the case that something does go wrong.

You can likewise buy all parts for your 1963 Cadillac, you can buy manuals, you can repair it in a modestly equipped home-garage. Very few who complained about the computerization of cars do though, because new cars are so much more reliable and performant and relatively cheaper (in large part due to said computerization). It wasn't just a conspiracy to prevent people repairing their cars (the few who actually could repair their own cars back in the 60s even).

I accept there are real valid concerns about repairability, planned obsolescence, etc. But like I said, a lot of complaints about this stuff is wide of the mark IMO.

Having a phone with IR and headphone jack and SD cards and micro USB and replaceable screen and replaceable battery and upgradable RAM and pogo pins and physical keyboards and never-ending software updates sounds great. The reality is it will make it a much worse / more expensive product for the 99.999% of people who don't care for those features.
When you buy a Ferrari you buy an experience, history etc, engine sound is good part of that experience. No way Ferrari will be banned for noise or pollution. On road a Ferrari noise is quite low when running low speed. Pollution is non existent for cars that drive few kms per year.
A tiny anecdote just so you know the other extreme exists. I've lived very close to a beach (200 metres or so) for about 1.5 years and never got tired of the beach. Barring day where I was unwell or out of town, I went for a walk or a swim every single day. All my current career goals are centered around eventually settling down near a beach!
Browsers are resource hogs, I'm not sure I'd want any 3D content more than is necessary. CSS alone is capable of hogging my CPU at 100%