skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does require manual intervention, and the campaign strategy is typically called "alpha beta" where the beta is a broader match type, with the goal of a lower IS (via budget-- not always AP). As you state, there is in fact more competiton for these terms (for a reason) in efficient markets (both from other manual bidders and automated bidding), but it still works (many times you end up with competitors who hit their budget caps due to their other misaligned spend). In situations where the bids cause CPA to exceed target, you simply choose to lose IS due to bids and shift resources. With automated bidding, you don't always have this option. The key concept that people miss is that automated strategies optimize fill rate for Google-- so you end up with tons of longtail spend that will likely never convert and is hard to identify. Automated strategies will also abstain from auctions if they can't hit specific goals, or will have severely limited volume.

Auctions may vary-- most of my managed spend (mid 8 figures, so not huge) has been in high CPC (think $5-25) verticals like home services, movers, insurance, mortgage and mattresses (insane period from 2015-2018). I have set things up manually, let Google AEs setup the "recommended" bid strategies (and even run longer than their suggested timeframe) and utilized known agencies, and the manual bidding (always accompanied by aggressive negatives, high AP/IS goals) always won by large (30%+ lower CPA with higher volume) amounts. Performance may be drastically different in ecommerce niches where everyone is using automated strategies, as well as other factors like number of auction participants, participant budgets, sophistication and even objectives (executive spite is a valid reason-- hence Google's target outrank share strategy). Anyone who has done PLAs/shopping ads will be incredibly cynical due to their targeting methodology of being all inclusive with the onus of exclusions on the advertiser when the majority of errant spend is in the longtail-- good luck talking to 99% of marketers about tokenization, stemming and lemmatization for identifying negative matching strategies.

So yes, automated bidding can work better than just YOLO'ing some broad match campaigns, but most people shouting their praises, that I have encountered, are parroting their ad rep's talking points. Any competent performance marketer (not many) will be able to outperform automated bidding strategies, but things like scale (why bother saving 20% on 5k spend?), principal/agent problem, or workload (or being lazy, relying on salespeople to do their job) will also have an impact.
I hope for a future where kit or prefab housing can be profitable for contractors/builders or desirable for home buyers enough that they'd go for it on empty land, because where I live the only new construction is "luxury" (in the sense that it's priced like $200/sqft and the minimum size worth building is 2k sqft). There's still plenty of stock in 2-3 bedroom single family homes from the 1940s-70s of that kind of construction but you don't see anyone building a small ranch today.
If you’re just worried about injection, you just need to use bound parameters instead of string interpolation. Boom, avoided at the database driver level even with plain sql. I admit though that some cases of string interpolation can be harder to catch in your code than when using ORMs.
How do you do anything with that? Like do you just accept that if some part of your app needs the data from query1 and query2 you make two trips to the database?
Their CEO did a fine job! I shared a five minute YouTube link with some friends and family. He did a great job explaining the advantages of open models and open source.
There's a lot of fintech co-opting the term operating system now, e.g. someone tell me what a "Guild Operating System" is. Nope, it's not an OS in the traditional sense, it's just some PAAS or SAAS type offering.
Disabling JavaScript on substack.com solves that problem.

Also use some CSS to hide #nojs-banner
"The free vegan snacks aren't gluten free, the bastards!". Seriously, it seems that any time there is any improvement made people complain about it more than the prior much worse state.
Some states prohibit charging for trash removal if there are more than four units in the building.
yeah, just lost at that point too, didn't have my password copy pasted anywhere :(

I guess I should have been wary of a confirm password phase. i even wrote a tiny auto hotkey script to keep feeding that stupid chicken for 40 minutes while I waited for time to tick from 8:20 (I didn't have the password ready yet) to 9:01...
Yeah. Scott writes well enough he should be working for the New York Times.
Did youtube.com recently add a blurry background behind the video, or is my screen broken?
Why does that matter? If a Toyota dealership owns the nearby land and sells billboards, they have no obligation to sell to a competitor.

People keep wanting law to work like math, and it just doesn’t. Context matters.
I am lucky enough to get another one for cookies
BBC: Illegal trade in AI child sex abuse images exposed
The third time I have to figure out whether to write obj.setCreatedAt(rs.getTimestamp("created_at", calendar)) or obj.setCreatedAt(rs.getLong("created_at")) I'm going to write code to look at the schema and the setter and figure it out automatically. And that’s where new ORMs come from.
It's not capitalism if someone's not trying to suck you dry.
I use miller, as it's available on my distro.
Anyone who's tried this, does a 2004 desktop on 2023 computers run fast? Does it run super fast like people would predict?
a bunch of nitrogen oxides that are pretty bad for people, a bunch of Co2, and a bunch more noise.
> How do you share the "fetching posts" bit of SQL between those three different (parameterized) queries?)

your application has a fetch posts method, that method takes input including (optional) author(s), tag(s), etc., it builds a query that includes WHERE clauses for every provided parameter

the code that converts an author to a WHERE clause can be a function, the point is it outputs a string, or something that is input to a builder and results in a string

i'm not sure what a "fetching posts bit of SQL" is, a query selects specific rows, qualified by where clauses that filter the result set, joins that modify it, etc.
I've really been disappointed with gnome on this, not only is it full of difficult to disable annoying notifications, they appear on top of and cover part of the screen. Yet at the same time it has little to no affordance for unobtrusive non-disruptive ones like a mail or chat tray icon that changes color when you have unread messages.

A lot has been said about enshittification, but free software desktop environments shouldn't have any profit motive to abuse their users in this way. I've wondered if it's a case of second-hand enshitiffication: commercial products like windows adopt abusive patterns because the user is the product, then free software cargo cults it because they think if the big players do it that it must have value/been user tested/etc.
Larry Ellison Challenges AWS: ‘We’re 1,000x Faster’
In some poorly designed markets, AirBNBs also started competing with long-term rentals. The fact that they're the ones caught with their pants down when the tide goes out is not surprising.
All of these sites stopped working for me a while ago with a "This site can’t provide a secure connectionarchive.ph uses an unsupported protocol.
ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH" error message. Both Chrome and Safari.
For me that is so for a bigger personal reason (along with the big enough of reason of not being noisy) - because these places almost never have even a whiff of cigarette smoke and I love that. A place where you can drink without having to worry about someone lighting up. Especially the ones which are connected to the lobby - awesome, that means no one is allowed to ever smoke in there.
My company's employee portal currently sports not only two carousels (on different timings, of course), but also a huge banner with a countdown clock.

That's just above the fold. There's a 3rd carousel if you scroll down.
Yes, then there would be an incentive to attempt to fool the other person. Game is too easy.
Building the main parts house even today is pretty quick. Most the time is spent on the finish work.
But so many fond memories.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220405120606/https://developer...
That is my setup. Works 100%.
The alternative everyone brings up is FedNow - slightly more expensive, but it works quickly and operates 24/7. The problem is that FedNow is a Real Time Payment system. Everyone in banking knows that Real Time payments equals Real Time Fraud.
I didn't want to go into the details but I know that ingredients don't always scale linearly, but sometimes they do.

A recipe for 6 baked potatoes could probably be halved linearly, a recipe for pancakes could also probably be halved as well.
I just added multi-ingredient keyword search across all of your recipes to Umami (https://www.umami.recipes). If you’re on iOS, I’d recommend checking it out!
I’m definitely feel excluded while WFH from the race and contention for the meeting rooms for taking a conf call with my colleges in other offices…
I was just in NYC for the first time post-pandemic (I used to live there) and it was astounding to me how much COVID has cratered that town.

I really hope it comes back; New York was the first metropolis I truly loved.
No catalytic converter and it makes sense. It is talking about traditional pollution and not CO2.
Yeah, those are awful. Can't wait for mobile browsers to finally get ublock origin extension so you could delete those elements
Though that'd still be tedious :(
Feather seems like a great choice for boards of this class.

From the Arduino Uno R4 FAQ…

> “the Arduino UNO R4 WiFi was specifically designed to ensure compatibility with previous shields and compatible hardware developed for the Arduino UNO R3. The UNO R4 WiFi maintains the same mechanical and electrical compatibility, allowing you to seamlessly use your existing shields and hardware with the new board. This makes it easy to upgrade to the UNO R4 WiFi without the need for significant changes or adaptations to your projects.”

In addition to physical compatibility, maintaining the GPIO pin layout means software libraries created for earlier Arduinos should continue to work. For example, an interface library for a sensor or actuator that’s reused project to project.
I suspect there are very few searches for the single word “windows”. Google probably knows the category for the vast majority of searches from additional words, previous queries, etc.

But I think it would be crazy to prohibit competitive advertising in the first place.
Both Reddit and Twitter show a fake notification indicating some activity directed at you like an @mention or a reply but are actually just a trick to get you to open the notifications tab/popover.

Stopped using Twitter and reddit the second I realised this. Infuriating subterfuge just to put some inflated engagement metric in their decks.
Instead of Apple making a device and trying to convince all car makers to adopt it, they are putting it in phones. To sell phones. It shows that all our companies are in it for money and not for saving your life. There's no reason a feature like this needs to be in a phone. It should be in a car. Only
I've done a lot of remote work over the decades. It starts out well, because you know your coworkers well. But, over time, those relationships fade, and people come and go at work. You lose the connection with them, and they with you.

It's hardly all roses.
The problem is the ORM requires you to know its language, the underlying SQL for that database, as well as how the ORM maps to that underlying language.

It’s the worst of a leaky abstraction, and like 3x the conceptual overhead. But it’s better because … something something OOP.
Huh, same author as:

https://www.entrepreneur.com/growing-a-business/the-damaging...

from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36500448
Journalist Sabrina Siddiqui White House Statement
Jkl corp doesn't have to buy ads. Users will still be able to find it via Google. I challenge you to find a company for which its site is not discoverable via Google search. If users who really want to go to jkl corp actually can't find it via Google, then they'll probably stop relying on Google to find things.
Huh, same author as:

https://fortune.com/2023/06/26/forced-return-to-office-is-th...

from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36499167
I think this is a sub-category of a wider problem which permeates web/software/app design and that's hubris. Most sites/programs/apps are designed with the assumption that they're way more important than they really are. It's like the little kid who demands their parents immediate attention/action over the slightest thing which they consider hugely important. And while it's understandable (maybe even endearing) with a small child it's just annoying when it's a web site/piece of software made (presumably) by intelligent adults.

Obviously there are exceptions but start by assuming I don't want you to change my default programs/subscribe to your newsletter/have your program or website pop-up or play sounds without asking/take a tour of your new features/flash text on my screen/create multiple non-hidden folders in the root of my home folder/install multiple services that need to be running constantly/receive marketing push notifications or texts/watch unskippable cut-scenes in games etc...
Similar, but much smaller scandal in UK involving BMW and Police.

1 BMW N57 Diesel engines like to catch fire if idled for a long time and then flogged (Oil/EGR coolant leak) https://jalopnik.com/bmws-are-bursting-into-flames-so-they-d... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11637379/Widow-PC-k...

2 Police are exempt from MOD so their cars dont have documented service/odometer history.

3 Tons of dealers bought decommissioned Police BMWs and rolled odometers.

The Clocked Up Holy Engine Scandal of the UK Police BMW Fleet by Geoff Buys Cars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEryJeBcg-8

No more BMW Police Cars in the UK... thanks to N57 Engine Fires by Geoff Buys Cars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gJFDdnMXKg
You pay a huge cost in moving those bits over the network though. How do you even deal with tables that don't fit in memory or the lack of indexes for tables where sequential scanning is too slow?
What do you mean by “crack” remote? It’s been “cracked” and has been pretty run of the mill for years now. You have a point about big companies with overhead being slow to turn but there are already very well established ways for remote companies to work.
I don't like current whitish or-and low contrast flatly thin-linear current desktops and UIs.
They look like sketches more than finished products. They are eye tirying and have low usability, like you don't know what area is clickable or not.
Google released material design with styling mentioned above and in latest interactions they go back to more shades of gray, contrast and properly highlighted interaction areas.
Firefox on mobile has ublock origin, and yes, it is quite tedious given how the UI ends up working on mobile.
I get a sponsored link for Google Cloud.

And when I search for Google Pixel, I get a banner with 7 pictures and a shopping link and another link to buy a Pixel.

Of course, by default I have an Ad blocker on iOS and I don’t see any ads
Works for me on FF/Win11
Because AMD are incompetent when it comes to software, has been for decades.
It’s all roses. I see my coworkers in person once a year at the Christmas party. Other than that I’ve only every worked with them online since I started working here 2.5 years ago. It’s all roses.
check Xfce, is the best of gnome2 and kde3.
Arguably you could hide the info under a button or an actionable item. If the main use case is informing whether the page/app can be closed, letting the user check before closing would do the trick (and potentially force save at that timing if sync was pending).
Without display and any kind of connectivity, how do you know the air quality data then?
>I think phone hardware became "good enough" a few years back (as PCs did around 2010).

PCs became "good enough" for speed back then, but not for power consumption. There's always room for improvement there, and modern laptops really blow 2010-era laptops out of the water when you look at that metric, and also size/weight.
No, it is not easier to use a cup to scoop. You are very unlikely to be able to consistently get the same amount. Instead you get variable amounts based on how much you packed it, the humidity, and the grind of the flour.

For liquids you don't have precise control over the flow rate so it isn't easier to do over the scale. Although depending on the circumstances it is because you don't have to worry about spillage.
> What he's saying is that it's easier to have the ingredients in a list at the bottom/top instead of strewn around the text.

I understand that part. What I'm questioning is how does including an ingredient list also eliminate the need to include the ingredients inline? I don't even know how you'd make a recipe that doesn't say the ingredient names inline.

> Yes the tools can generate the list but you need the tools.

That's kind of the entire point of markup languages though. You define a clear schema that a tool can process to generate a clean or convenient document out of. This is true for pretty much any markup language. If that's an issue for some reason then you can just use plaintext.

> Sure some recipes require the same ingredient in different steps. Why optimize for an edge case and making the default case harder? It's solved "take half the butter..." and "with 100g of the sugar... Pour the rest of the sugar..." works well for the 2% of recipes you need this in.

Begging the question of whether this is actually an edge case. I'd argue it's not. This case covers a huge number of the recipes I use, including simple ones like bread recipes.

I'd also argue that this makes the "default case" easier, as you only need to focus on writing the actual steps involved. You're not going to get any typos or mismatches between your ingredient list and the instructions. That's especially a benefit if you're editing those recipes down the line, which is what I presume the typos in my older cookbooks have.

An argument could be made that it makes reading the markup annoying, but I need to reiterate that markup is primarily for writing.
>> What is a trusted source? How can I find one? I think this is close to impossible. Of course, everyone reads what one consider "trusted" source, but I have doubt any of them is.

Sounds like you have become a perfect specimen of Putinist Russia: trusting no-one, doubting everything, doing nothing.

>> So, my relatives from Ukraine were always telling me completely different stories from official Western stories. E.g. about neo-nazi movement in Ukraine which became very active since 1991 according to my relatives.

Have you tried quantifying it? For example, when someone from that part of political spectrum participated in elections, how well did they do? Did the "very active movement" ever reach even 1% of support?

>> While I cannot pinpoint an outright lie, because there're tons of results and I don't have much time now, you can easily see that there's a common theme in all the news articles: "Russia is bad", "Situation in Russia is awful", "Some unnamed source confirms that Putin is bad/afraid/eats babies for breakfast".

Why would you expect to see much positive coverage? When you google Nazi Germany, the first results aren't innovations in TV transmission nor advancements in wildlife protection either. Should they be? Is that the main contribution of Germany to the world between 1933 and 1945?
The US slays something around 40 people a day from drunk driving, more than 10x more from mass shootings (for which the US is known).

Alcohol culture is a real problem that almost nobody seems to want to highlight or address. We're not "managing just fine".

(Cigarettes kill 7x more every day than opiates, but one is an "epidemic" and one is available without a prescription at every corner store. It's a pattern when you look at the policy incentives.)
Specifically, the EV should probably be a cargo bike. A bucket bike can replace something like 85% of car journeys (commutes, groceries, kids to school, etc) with way lower cost, upkeep cost, and emissions, and particulates than a car. Pretty much every family should have one (and rent a car for long distance stuff).
Agreed. The us/them-ness of this article immediately turned me off.
"I realize it's an unfair comparison" to compare a multi-Tillion dollar company's work to volunteers working for free yet here you are.
> That is a fair point! As a full counterexample, East Germany stopped existing after the wall fell.

Ah, good example.
Firefox on Android has had this for years. Personally I prefer AdNauseam so I can be combative instead of passively blocking.
Came here looking for this comment.
>> Is there anything good samaritan citizens can do locally (on a standard residential lot) to improve the particulate pollution levels outdoors around their house? (and possibly their neighbors' too?).

This is a specific case, but in a mid-sized town where I lived, they opened up a BBQ restaurant with massive outdoor grills. The grills were fired up 5 times a week, evenings and afternoons. While it was fun times with friends at the restaurant, the entire neighborhood smelled of BBQ. Worse, you could literally go on the PurpleAir US map and see the giant visual of where the smoke was going.

I cant imagine how the property values fared for nearby homes.

I dont know anything about restaurant regulations, but it seems that if BBQ was allowed at this scale and allowed on a daily basis, there should be some sort of filtering requirement for exhaust. Good samaritan citizens' strongest chance for such local issues is probably voter turnout at local elections.
You need to keep updating the password. It's time zoned. Basically you have to plan ahead as to what time you want your password to be submitted at and get every other rule satisfied before that time.

In my case it was 8:20 and I had a sum of 15 so I fixed my password in the next 20ish minutes and set the target time to 9:01 at the earliest and spun up an auto hotkey script to paste the food for Paul every 20ish seconds (in reality I think it eats faster than that)
> Why is the cost of my labor different if I'm in the office or not.

The Law of Supply & Demand.
Everyone has anecdotes that support their opinion.

Anecdotally, I work at a large company that fully supports 0% to 100% remote work, and I work with a wide mix. Some people, and some roles, just do better in the office. Others don’t. I’d be very suspicious of forming beliefs based on anecdotes, especially if they coincidentally align to your expectations.
Not Martin per se but there have been a few submitters in the past with thoroughly robust content who have also shared bad interview experiences.
>To be fair, you trust Microsoft to be your OS

Exactly. If you don't trust Microsoft with your confidential data, and to supply you the best browser, then why are you using their OS?
I’m not sending you client data, just like any dev on here would not send their company’s data. Campaign architecture is kept secret as competitors/etc can use that info to their advantage.

I’m explaining how an entire industry works and you’ve just closed your eyes and said everyone is lying. It doesn’t make sense to assume everyone in an entire industry is lying - then that industry would be dope for disruption as any brand not spending marketing dollars would be hugely more profitable than competitors. Show me a startup that doesn’t have an advertising team/agency.
Instant is immediate and is a reverse transaction on a linked debit card.

This is RTP and it usually isn't free.