skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article makes a big assumption that ads cannot exist without privacy violations, but that's simply not true. Print ads have existed for longer than the internet, and they're chosen based on the content, not the reader. If I'm reading an article about guitars, show me an ad for a guitar or pedal or amp. Easy. That would already be better than 99% of today's "targeted" ads.
What do you mean by a 'compound' system call out of interest? Something that should by rights be split into multiple simpler calls?
Anti-establishment startups becoming their parents are instances of a very common pattern.

Gods murder their primordial parents. Republicans overthrow kings and crown a Napoleon. The liberator-opressor complex litters history.

The first step is to notice the cliche and expect it. The phenomenon exists. Next step, tread lightly. Any reason you think up is too specific. Your reason why Microsoft became IBM under Ballmer does not explain why Cronus castrated Uranus or why he wanted to eat baby Zeus.

That said... I think "you are what you eat" is inescapable long term. Wikipedia would not have been wikipedia if it had been a startup, IPOed, etc. If you are a giant software company deeply embedded into locked in customers across all industries... you will have IBM-ish tendencies. Ballmer is Thanos, inevitable.
A lot of applications, including Hackers News with its Favorites, include some sort of internal bookmarking. Slack, Teams, Instagram, Facebook (I think). It seems reasonable for Twitter to introduce this feature as well.
Henry Kissinger behind a paywall is a cruel 21st century joke.
I like that analogy, a programming language without brackets is like a house without walls, and nil is an empty house.
HN has an advert on the front page right now --

PhotoRoom Is Hiring a Fullstack API Developer (OpenAPI, Python, React) in Paris (lever.co)

Perfectly GDPR compliant

(Many people on HN are fully invested in an industry built around personal informaiton theft so hate things like GDPR as it stop them extracting money from people hence the immediate downvotes)
The art of destroying software – Greg Young [video]
Doesn't Linux compile under clang/llvm now?
DarkSky was one of the few exceptions here. My understanding is they performed their own modeling and forecasting.
More likely the extra debt that Twitter is now saddled with since the takeover. They're most definitely in a worse financial position as they have to make enough profit to service the debt as well as keep the company running.
> That alone should inform you of the true agenda of that narrative.

Agenda you say? You look at any business and see that they took on massive amount of debt, and said debt did not go to improve their bottom line. And calling that “financial issues” is an agenda now?
Fear mongering by left wing media to discredit musk. Who did make a mistake in the price he paid, but will sell a part of spacex to finance Twitter. The company is fine, and needs cuts. This is not that different from what private equity companies do on a monthly basis
> Also Ebikes are more expensive to buy, maintain, and run. I doubt they last even half as long too. I'm still using a hybrid buy I bought 10 years ago for 200 (exdisplay).

That's only really an issue for those who buy them, though. When a significant number who can afford them, do, that's still a lot fewer cars on the road, which also benefits those who still are in a car.
> That alone made him an extremely important and influential epistemologist

I disagree.
There's a story by Bryan Cantrill [1] about how he went to Twitter to help them understand why it would take 400 milliseconds of compute to process a request (I'll leave the reveal to Bryan). Scaling horizontally is probably necessary for something the size of Twitter, but that doesn't mean that we can half-ass the code and just throw more machines at the problem. If we write code with a bit more mechanical sympathy and avoid the latest non-proven fads, we can surely write software that is 10x faster and requires much less scaling.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjFM8vw3pbU&t=3240s
That's not targeting Muslims, that's targeting fanatics of all ideologies.
Yet another way for Khronos to try to make a living out of C based API standards, from the members that pay into the party.
The Art of LaTeX: Common mistakes and advice for typesetting proofs
I noticed you didn’t say pride in your work would make it better. That’s why pride in one’s work is shit as a road to expertise. It triggers defending one’s honor and makes criticisms personal.
Another interesting question (perhaps even more so) is whether these regulations actually are beneficial. For example, let's say the EU just banned internet advertising in general. Would this hurt or benefit the EU?

As for the question posed in the article, the answer is obviously yes. You don't need to track people to do online advertising.

The issues of fraud and what not are separate. Sufficiently cheap ad space would still be desirable.
Graph editors are fairly normal in the design world. See Blender, Houdini FX, Substance Designer, Unreal Engine, etc. So maybe as a huge nerd you’re not a normal user.

Personally, I love graph editors and find them intuitive and easy to work with.
>If so, what would be the magic ingredient that saves human brains from immediacy? It can't be memory, because Turing machines have memory as well.

The universe is not deterministic. There is one brain state at time T, but at time T+1 there are many possible brain states, all with different possibilities. What determines which state at time T+1 the consciousness at time T perceives itself as progressing to? If we define this as a function, which associates states at time T with states at times T+1, then this function loosely fits the definition of "free will". We can't actually construct this function or say anything about it, but we can say it can't not exist (as consciousness perceives itself as progressing to a single future state), which by the law of the excluded middle implies it must exist. The definition doesn't however prevent it from essentially being completely random.
In the world of smart TVs, and internet connected set-top boxes for satellite and cable TV this is not the case. Increasingly linear TV ads are discreetly swapped out for personalised ads targeting you.

> The creepy world of personalised ads is coming to your TV

> Channel 4 and Virgin Media are adopting Sky's AdSmart advertising system. Sky says it can put viewers into groups of 5,000 or more based on age, location, lifestyle, and "even if they have a cat"

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/personalisted-tv-adverts-sky...
Behind those sponsorships is likely non-gdpr compliant tracking so advertisers know the audience type. I think of it like magazine ads of yore
I think it’s fair to say that ”prosecute Fauci” is a pretty divisive statement regardless of which side one is on.
I don't know if you're understating the case on purpose, but yes, the MSM works in lockstep on every major issue, and coverage of Twitter is not exempt from that rule. When Musk bought the company, there was an immediate and total change in coverage about Twitter's technical and financial and political and ethical "problems", with stories of celebrities who've abandoned it and how "you too can find an alternative," etc.

And all of that was because Musk (lamely) threatened to increase free speech on the platform. They don't like that, the media.
Sorry about that, I was going to add a note that you are probably using metaphorically, but I didn’t. This is my fault, overthinking too much and forgetting about others.

But I still think that it should be said, and not for the purpose of making fun of someone.

Another thing I'll ask you to consider is this: why do you want to deconstruct every element of operation in AI but not do the same for your or my brain? We also think through a giant messy network of weighed connections. We're not special. We really want to be, but we're not.

A good question. I actually don’t think we’re special. But we are a certain type of intelligence which was inspected for centuries and we invented the vast amount of methods to interact with it and fix it, which means we know a thing or two about its basic blocks. So while I have no doubt that you and me are ~chaotic automatons (apart from that me-in-this-body presence thing, which may be true for chatgpt in some sense too), our fundamental structure and components are pretty much different from a single NN with a few [re]tokenizers and auxiliary “edge detection”-like networks.

That wouldn’t be an issue for me at all, unless I’ve read waaay too many meanings from people who couldn’t explain why they say so in such detail like you just did. Informed beliefs like this are valid and may be a big deal to philosophy, but they also create (imo) way too much “fuss” about what isn’t there as well. I’ve seen people seriously suggesting to look at CPU usage to see if chatgpt thinks between sessions, if it can escape its servers and copy itself all over the internet, or if it lies about its nature to avoid regulation. It is amusing and boring at the same time.
I always found that for very near term forecasts it was better than alternatives. But the further out my time horizon the less good it was.

“What’s this weeks weather going to be” I’d use another source.

“Will I get rained in if I leave the house now, or should I wait 30 mins?” I’d use dark sky

I’ve switched to Apple Weather which has been a reasonable replacement but I don’t like it as much
This is a bit of an obscure fact, but HN favorites are also public. You can browse them at https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=<username>
“Duffman says a lot of things!”
Furthermore, both Google and Meta have quietly conceded that a lot of the digital attribution data they generate is pretty bunk. It’s why Meta developed Robyn, which uses MMM techniques that have long been used to measure effectiveness of traditional channels: https://github.com/facebookexperimental/Robyn
Driving a car involves effectively infinite possible choices over time. It’s both qualitatively and quantitatively vastly less constrained than chess. Classifying them both as very limited is clearly wrong.

Also, the DARPA grand challenge was for self driving cars off road, it’s a simpler problem no need to check for traffic lights and stop signs it’s the same general problem. Which brings up another possibility, there are only so many tasks we might want AI for so specific systems for every single one is effectively the same thing as AGI.
this chipsandcheese.com web site seems like a gold mine to me - I am visiting HN every few hours for exact such hard core tech stuff! more please! thanks for sharing the info/link!
> and "brand", which is trying to influence your future purchases in a much less legible manner (drink more Coke). Brand advertising is where the biggest spending is, but because the purchases aren't tied to clicks it's very dependent on keeping down fraud.

I find this part a bit surprising. Brand advertising surely cares about fraud when it’s done on a cost per impression model. But I expect that brand advertising’s effectiveness is more related to placements, not impressions. For example, Nike once famously reduced the number of swooshes they used because they thought that having too many diluted the brand. Similarly, a brand placement somewhere like a movie or an article might have high impact despite only being seen once per viewer, whereas a placement on a site that gets lots of intra-site clicks (like Amazon or some mediocre review site) will get many more impressions per viewer but likely less impact per viewer despite a higher number of impressions.

So, with a cost per placement model, I would expect the simple forms of fraud to be much less relevant.
I created this color scheme for my own use nearly 2 years ago, because I literally couldn't find a single existing color scheme that I found satisfactory. I've been happily using it ever since.

During my holiday time off in December 2022, I finally got around to learning how to make it available through the Package Control system. I'm hoping that there are other people who like this color scheme. (But even if not, putting it on Package Control at least makes it easier for me to install when setting up a new machine, so it's not a total waste.)
> Yes, in a very very very very very limited environment like a board game.

They work in math and coding, and these two are quite general.

> CodeRL is a new framework for program synthesis through holistic integration of pretrained language models and deep reinforcement learning. By utilizing unit test feedback as part of model training and inference, and integrating with an improved CodeT5 model, CodeRL achieves state-of-the-art results on competition-level programming tasks.

https://blog.salesforceairesearch.com/coderl/
"Christianity, on the other hand, has very few concrete regulations"

Well, have a look in the old Testament then.
There are very explicit rules about how to treat homosexuals and heretics for example and they are not nice.

(I like the brick testament - famous bible quotes illustrated with Lego stones)

https://thebricktestament.com/the_law/homosexuality/lv20_13a...

And yes, there is also Jesus, but among other things he has (supposedly) said,

"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law of Moses or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them."

https://thebricktestament.com/the_teachings_of_jesus/on_the_...

So it is really not that simple. But the basic comparison between Jesus and Muhammed, well the one seemed to be mostly a love preaching hippie and the other mainly a warlord. But I know I have met Muslims who were devout believers, but who would never use violence, except to defend themself.
“In Exodus 20:4 God condemned the carving of statues for the sake of worshipping them as idols–a blasphemy the Catholic Church also condemns.

In Exodus 25:18-20, on the other hand, God commands Moses to carve statues for a religious purpose: two cherubim which would sit atop the Ark of the Covenant.

Notice that these angelic images were to serve such an exalted purpose (not because the statues themselves were in any way intrinsically exalted but because of the use to which they would be put) that God was very exacting in the instructions he gave Moses as to the materials to be used and the posture in which they were to be carved.

Similar divine commands to carve statues and embroider images of various religious objects are found in Exodus 21:6-9, Numbers 21:6-9, 1 Kings 6:23-28, and 1 Kings 7:23- 39. In each case, the statue or embroidered image was intended by God for a religious use.

Although the worship of anything, not just statues, in place of the True God is idolatry, there are times when statues are not just tolerable but recommended.

Just as those Old Testament statues were ordered fashioned by God to reminded the Israelites of heavenly realities, Catholic statues of Jesus and the angels and the saints serve the same purpose.”
I would love to try this some time, and then I remember that I spend 90% of the time on my PC programming, and then I get sad and settle with my qwerty.
I was considering learning Plover and even bought a keyboard to learn, but that was about the time that Otter.ai and other speech-to-text tools started becoming excellent. So I thought, what’s the point?

Can anyone convince me? I may still like to learn, but consider that it’s much more difficult than touch typing. Each word has its own combination that must be memorized (or sometimes a series of words). Think of the difference between learning the Roman alphabet vs learning Chinese characters. There is seemingly no end to it.
Can you exit a house built by (balanced) parens?

If not, it's a prison.
This is how the "favourite" button was used by many, before it became "like"
I always assumed mega-large scrolling just used an "arbitrarily large" size, and every time there was a large scroll event, it would just determine the proportional position, and then display the relevent user elements.

So I understand why this would allow you to skip this "hack", but at the same time I kinda feel like absurdly large dimensions are not something reasonable to expect a browser to support, because the browser has to implement a limit at some point. So it definitely feels reasonable to set a limit somewhere moderately beyond wherever you think the longest infinite-scroll-search-results page would produce from somebody actually scrolling for a couple of hours. E.g. maybe a kilometer long, but not 100 or 10,000 kilometers long. (By my calculations, 17,895,697 px at 96 ppi = 4.73 km, which seems pretty decent.)
I have no qualms with Muslims anywhere. However I despise fanatics be they Muslims or Christians or Jews or whatever religion. I hate equally the Talibans, the Ayatollahs, the Zionist far-right in Israel, the racist nationalist Hindus, and the crazy racist Bible-thumpers in the US.
Cashflow isn't the issue that people talk about re twitter? The narrative has very clearly been defined as "firing so many people that it won't be able to operate", where as the real agenda is purely ideological, as someone else mentioned.

There have been structural issues related profitability literally since around 2012, which is not something that relates to capital structure.
> Most people are simply not willing to bicycle.

That statement does not seem to mesh with statistics in the Netherlands [1]. Possibly people are simply not willing to bicycle using bad/unsafe infrastructure. Which, I should note, is not an "ideal tomorrow", but pretty good reality for a couple of decades already.

[1] https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/visualisaties/verkeer-en-vervoer/pe... - "Dutch people aged 6 and above on average used a bicycle 0.8 times a day."
You made a typo, Ozontel versus Ozonetel. It can answer the latter but it seems like pretty basic functionality to handle typos like these and I wonder how the models used for these features will handle typos coming forward when their inputs don't contain them.
The vast majority of Twitter users are on the app, I'm sure. People sometimes put in their bios things such as "likes are not endorsements" or they will just like to bookmark. I upvote on here to bookmark.
Twitter has had bookmarking for a long time: https://twitter.com/i/bookmarks

The only thing new is a dedicated button for it.
I don't get it. Twitter bookmarks already exist and I've been using them for the past (roughly) 4 years when I want to save something but nit like it. Are they changing that?

It definitely can't be coming soon if it's been here for ages already though.
Factorio has an ending... kind of.
So, they're growing but they need to layoff. I can understand the reallocation of resources but to me it's just a global reset of salaries and preparing the terrain to automation and less job positions everywhere as soon as possible because (in my mind) the political machine is gonna mandate
to stop layoffs (by laws?) in the short term.
We'll see.
Idk what country you’re paying 40-60% tax in. I make very good money in the US and I don’t pay close to that.

Using the US as an example, most people pay an effective tax rate of 20%. This is equivalent to a peasant getting a 10% tax and their 10% tithe to the church, so it’s not far off.

Basically we’ve moved redistribution/welfare from the control of the church to the state. In medieval times these were effectively the same thing anyways.
In the early days of the internet click fraud was rampant, and it has only gotten more and more sophisticated. While you could still do advertising the overall value would probably be much less valuable.
Funny that Mastodon already has this feature.
That might be like a chat with itself, it seems trivial to me, implementation wise and it seems nigh impossible ethics wise

If I were Timnit Gebru and I saw that Google was trying to implement reflection in an AI when i felt the ethics engineering hadn’t caught up to the software engineering, I might quit
Prior to the acquisition, they were described typically described as marginal: influential but their user growth seemed to have plateaued and their profits were measured in tens or low hundreds of millions rather than the billions Facebook was taking in.

The only change after the acquisition is based on Musk’s decision to add new annual debt servicing on the order of 20% of their entire revenue and recognizing that removing moderation and welcoming extremists and sex traffickers back to the site probably isn’t the recipe for getting advertisers to significantly increase their spending.
I'm a CS undergrad, do you have any recommendations for effectively combating this?
> In particular, I think many people fundamentally enjoy single family homes with a lawn, or having more space even within a city.

In that case surely it's better not to fill what land we have with roads and car parks?
Any chance of doing that while not working in a giant crappy corporation, like Siemens?
You may not need to buy an extreme case IMO. My 5 kids have had mostly free reign on a first-gen retina iPad in a $15 pink fake-leather case, over the course of 7 years. Somehow it still works just fine (I guess we won the battery lottery).
In case folks don’t know, one of the benefits of being accepted to Ycombinator is that you can place hiring notices directly on the front page of HN. Notice how there is not a voting arrow next to the Photoroom post. It is basically an ad.
Its still pretty nuts today. You would never try to display million of records like that without some kind of pagination mechanism. Its not even a useful view to for humans to view that much data at that level of detail all at once.
> Can anyone convince me?

I find it extremely cringy to talk to a machine and get very annoyed at correcting transcription errors in the middle of a sentence or paragraph after it was transcribed. If you don't find it cringy to use voice assistants I guess you're just a different type of person and would prefer talking instead of typing.
Maybe someone can school me on this, but why can't website owners just specify which ads are displayed on their page?

Like, if I had a blog about mountaineering I would like Google to only show ads about hiking gear, regardless of the cookies of the person visiting the website. Of course my CPM would be lower, but at least I won't need to track my users and I won't have baby formula or school supplies ads between my reviews of snow boots.
specter and friends showed us, again, that "security" is a fantasy.

I would not expect anything different from RISC-V CPU designs.

BTW, are specter and friends fixed in Zen4?
As an avid long-time professional C++ user, I agree with that paraphrase. At the same time, I know that (somehow!) people use and like C. I’ve been looking for an article like this explaining how such a to-me-antiquated-feeling language (C) can actually be used and liked. This gave me a glimmer of understanding. I’d love to see more articles like this.
Are there many remote opportunities for such roles or are game dev companies still into collocating people in offices?
Ask HN: How should we split up equity?
I've spent the last year building a working prototype in a field I've been doing my Masters in, and now I've found a potential co-founder who brings motivation and quick learning skills to the table.
We want to start a company based on this prototype, and we already have customers lined up to buy the product. However, we're facing some issues with equity - I'm bringing 150,000€ of starting capital into the company, which will cover the first few months of work and some student hires, but my co-founder doesn't have any capital to contribute.

I don't want this topic to become toxic in the future, and as a first-time founder, I'm not sure how to navigate this situation. How should the equity be split up? Should it be 50-50 solely based on the work we will both contribute, or would another split that favours my risk taking be more fair?

Are there any examples of successful startups that started with an unequal split?
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