skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "One-Half the Money I Spend for Advertising Is Wasted..."

I once worked with a small company where essentially 100% of their PPC spend was wasted. Not half wasted, not mostly wasted, but completely wasted.

The marketing manager was determined to spend her budget though, for fear of losing it, so month after month she tinkered with keywords, rewrote ad copy, and the ads ran and ran, sometimes people clicked, views were tracked, but there were no conversions.

You're thinking maybe the conversion tracking was broken? It wasn't.

A handful of people searched for the company's name, and they did convert. The company ranked #1 across all search engines for its own name, so why they were running PPC ads on their name was somewhat of a mystery. At least it proved the PPC tracking was working... and proved the PPC campaigns were an utter failure :/

Watching $thousands being tossed away like that was quite sad. In one fractious meeting I suggested that it might be more effective to stop the ads, and stand on a busy street corner handing out the cash and asking passers-by to buy the product. It couldn't have been any less effective...
> We hope that this circus will eventually come to an end, and search engines will have to either improve their algorithms or people will lean more on solutions like ChatGPT, lessening their reliance on these engines.

Do they really think ChatGPT is gonna do any better at generating leads? The same ChatGPT that provides fuck all links to the outside web?

It's like they recognise one scam and jump head first straight into the next one.
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Evil capitalistic debris deployed from high orbit to destabilize Mother russia.

Just like in 50s there was massive campaign against Colorado potato beetle, which was presented as being dropped from evil capitalistic American planes to harm crops... although the bug was already in Europe for decades and spreading eastwards on its own.

The thing is, these propaganda campaigns are often quite successful, many people back there still believe this is what happened.
That's the gist of it. SEO is quantity over quality, you may get plenty of visits but it'll be low value; bots, people idly or accidentally clicking links, etc. Not potential customers, unless your website's primary revenue stream is ad impressions, in which case it doesn't matter much as long as they're views that the advertisers will pay for.
There is absolutely a ton of technical barrier to shipping this. I don't know that much about internals, and I can imagine quite a few off the top of my head.

For example: a number of operations are not reversible in the current git model because they're not tracked. We'd need git to start tracking uncommitted changes so that it can restore them on `undo`. That's a fundamental change to how git works and I doubt that the idea would be entertained
There's quite a lot of discussion about how it was made (which is pretty interesting, and impressive for a 15 year old!) but not very much discussion about the results.

My understanding is that it has a normal range of notes, but with a different type of string - is that true? Or can it go lower than a normal piano? How is the experience of playing it? Is it the same? Or does it respond differently (eg a different relationship between key force and sound). I guess as a complete piano novice my question is why would you want this over a normal piano?
I don't see what making the woman do hard time for 10 years would accomplish.

People kill each other with vehicles all the time, because apes that attempt to drive 2-ton metal canisters at 100 kph around other apes doing the same, and some apes on bicycles or walking by, will inevitably do something catastrophic.

I don't really blame the apes at the wheel, since they're trapped in a system that is much larger than them.

After a year or two of intentional driving experience leading to muscle memory, ape brains are wired to fall into comfortable inattention in these scenarios.

What can you do, other than give up driving and give up walking where cars go? We weren't designed to do this safely.
Weren't those surveys already done around 3.5 years ago when the pandemic first hit? I seem to recall companies like Microsoft reporting increased productivity when going remote. The same sort of thing happens when you start looking at 4 day work weeks as well.

(Sorry, I don't have links to any of those surveys/survey reports/data, so if you want to call me out, I'm just going to plead the 5th on being a little lazy.)
When you get in a car, a shift in your mindset happens, you become a driving machine. You are controlling the car and can feel the inertia and have situational awareness. Sit someone at a computer to just watch what amounts to an IP cam stream out the front windshield of the car, they're not going to have any reasonable amount of reaction time. Add latency to it, theres no way this could've been stopped by an emergency operator. This "we have backup drivers just in case" is a load of bullshit so these companies can cover their ass.

They removed safety features that could have prevented this from the car so they could cram more gadgets in. Their software didn't detect pedestrians unless there was a crosswalk. This machine had no business being on the road, the people that made the decision to do it anyway knew it would kill people, did a cost benefit analysis and a risk assessment, determined that the number of people it would kill was acceptable and continued on. They put people at keyboards as fall guys. 1000%, the executives and managers who green lit this should he in prison for it right now.
It's not pure snake oil. You can make reasonable assumptions on any black box by controlling the input, and monitoring the output.

...but it's such a terrible industry, that needs major disruption.
> In the USA alone, that's 117 people per day.

Against how many passenger miles or hours?
Generally I agree with you, drivers get away with murder too easily, however in this case this woman's crime was not paying attention in a self driving car. What if instead she had been paying attention but applied the brakes too late, but it wasn't enough? What if she was paying attention but was confused by instructions from her employer to let the AI do its job? What if she had been in the same situation before but the car had previously stopped in exactly the same circumstances?

Even engineers become confused by LLM and think that it's so quirky that ChatGPT "hallucinates" when that's the nature of the technology. So how would you expect a layperson to actually know when they should apply the brake pedal in a moving vehicle that's supposed to drive itself (maybe)?

This is a bit more complicated than driving drunk and I'm fairly certain that the company responsible for the death did not seek a safety expert to copilot the vehicle, but rather any warm body willing to take an easy dead-end job.
Russian propaganda: “We must invade a sovereign nation to eliminate the Nazis and implement a program of de-Nazification through vigorous ethnic cleansing!”

US propaganda: “Russian airlines are unreliable and are making some questionable maintenance decisions.”
I had similar experiences in my self-help blog. I wasn't sure was it indeed due to "optimisations" or just a coincidence... :upside_down_smile_emoji:
That was the first one I thought of when I saw the size of the Alexander Piano. I was looking to see if Nils had shown up to have a go on it!
As the "cookie law" shows give a bureaucrat easier enforcement, you'll get more stupid laws enforced. The people who got them passed might be long gone from the system, but the laws would remain on the books and will be enforced more by more automation and AI.

I agree that absolute control wouldn't be needed or enforced and freer societies would do better in the long run.

But the main algorithm of populace control over the government can be broken by mass influence/mass control over voting systems. This is the thing that worries me most. Incumbents and people in power both benefit from the tools of automated enforcement of the laws so these would be invested in and improved.
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Master Yoda says

Learning you must. Not taking short path to the force.
> How about just not working for abusive workplaces?

You tell me, why do people work for abusive workplaces, sometimes despite sexual harrasment? Have they literally never thought of quitting, they are that dim?
The purpose of pair programming and the purpose of code review are not quite the same.

Pair programming is a high-context activity where two programmers collaborate closely on building something.

Code review is a tool to simulate looking at code that you haven't just worked on with high-context, and seeks to assess whether it is understandable to someone in that position. Since code is read far more often than it is written, code review can be a very effective tool for maintaining the long-term health of a code-base when applied in this way.
I was wondering why someone in the middle of the night would want a massage?

Then, at about 70% through the story, I realised that in Canada, a massage parlour is not for getting massages but, basically, a whore-house. Why the misnomer?
> The March 2018 crash, the first case of a pedestrian being killed by a self-driving car in the United States, shocked Uber into pausing testing on automated vehicles

Why would this entirely predictable occurrence during a self-driving testing program have shocked Uber?
A 10 day sentence is pretty weak ...
DR-DOS (1988) gets a tiny mention

"Concurrent DOS" (1984)... provided the basis for what would become DR-DOS.

but arguable deserves more, it was the first of the DOS family to utilise high loading and break free of the infamous "640K ought to be enough for anybody." mindset.

Unmentioned but worthy .. SideKick and other Terminate, Stay Resident (TSR) DOS programs.

Not so much true multitasking .. but they gave the illusion by allowing fast switching between a carousel of running programs.

Borland compilers, Sidekick, and other tools made IBM PC's and clones ideal home development terminals for peons that couldn't afford a VAX, PDP-11, Cyber 205, etc of their own.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borland_Sidekick
perhaps also include in the ToC "retro unixporn" - don't be shy, prudes don't play with arch linux, neovim and i3 window manager :P

some good info/instructions - liked the virtualbox guide.
Yeah, could. Though from experience, this wouldn't make too many friends, not that making friends is the main aim. :)
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"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

somewhere I read the a good addition to this:

"and those who do know history are doomed to watch it being repeated"
> you shouldn’t install outside the default, supported, best prefix

So you can, but apparently you shouldn't.
Because Google earns more money off of those results than legitimate pages. That's what I think anyway. Some years ago they said they were going to crack down on SEO spam, content farms, even website popups like newsletter subscriptions, asking people to report them through a browser plugin.

But since then... nothing, and the content farms are prominent again. Google doesn't care because the competition isn't significantly better, and they don't actually care about the search results, they care about ad impressions which they will get regardless of how people end up on pages - or what pages for that matter.
I tried some hl2 maps and the need for speed most wanted map. I'm really impressed by how close the rendering is to the original games. Not only did they get the lighting and shading right, there are also details like the NPCs being present, or even animated falling leaves particles in the most wanted map.
It is more than just a few mutations. A good number of the common earlyish driver mutations are in the systems that detect and repair damage to DNA, which then accelerates mutation accumulation. (At some cost to stability of that lineage, but overall there are obliviously formulas that work)

And I’d also point out that these functions that are “sought after” by cancer are not all de novo, some things are complex functions that encoded for use by other normal cells at a other times and places in development of the organism. Some key mutations that enable the use of those functions by the cancer are crucial moments cancer development. Also many key mutations are loss of functions, which are often easier to accumulate. A example of genetic Losses of function is losing “contact inhibition” where normal cells stop growing when they get neighbors. Cancer cells loose this inhibition and just continue growing. This alone would require a suite of mutations.
Another comment in the thread talks about cancer evolution and the good of the organism not making sense. Cancer doesn’t care about the organism. The organism has evolved many layers of checks and balances that can work for decades, but throw in time and poisons like smoking, UV damage, and there will be loopholes found. Cancer is persistent and has the entire genome of functions to turn on and off in various ways. Seriously Fu*k cancer.
So they didn’t go further then?
> - "Linux" is bad because Android is Linux.

If you are being precise, Android is not Linux (and neither is Debian for that matter). It is an operating system that uses the Linux kernel.

> The best I've been able to come up with is something like "user-controlled Linux" or "community OS" or even just "not Android", but I'd really prefer a better term.

Here is my proposal, we continue to call operating systems like those "Linux" and call operating systems like Android and ChromeOS "Operating systems that use the Linux kernel".

No reason to give the common and useful definition an awkward name like "Community OS" just to allow the abberant cases to continue to reside within the "Linux" definition.
git is focused on any types of files, while immudb Vault provides database like access to JSON documents, so it is easy to find and track the documents. Nevertheless, you could still store there any file if wrapped in JSON, keeping indexes on file metadata. In addition, Vault does not allow to delete them, so they are always auditable and recoverable. It has also simple to use REST interface, and no client is needed to interact with it.
Spoiler:

> Researchers, including those from Cambridge University Hospitals in the UK, discovered a novel species of the bacterium Globicatella that caused “extensive soft tissue infection” in the man bitten by the cat... the new bacterium belonged to a genus of gram-positive bacteria called Globicatella that differs from related strains
I grew more and more perplexed until I got to the bottom and read the disclaimer.
Not sure why this gets recommended over LineageOS. It forcefully comes with Micro G, which can't really be removed, unlike Lineage where you can just choose not to install any gapps of any kind and use the device fine.
I mean one thing I can see ChatGPT work for is customer communication, both sales and support; it's one of those things that is difficult to scale, especially on online chat windows where people quickly lose interest. For small companies that don't have the people or the money to hire an external web support company it can be a solution.

But then, it'll probably be expensive anyway; they would have to train chatgpt on their own data, do a lot of practice conversations, review conversations and make adjustments, and of course take over an automated chat if it's not working.
Patience young Grasshopper
No, No more than I currently do anyway. I already strongly don't want to kill anyone. But I also know the chances of me doing so are very very low. So that 10yrs is very heavily discounted by the tiny probability of it happening.

I guess an analogy for this is that I don't change my behaviour after I buy a lottery ticket. Sure it is not technically impossible that I will be a millionaire soon. But I don't take the precaution of lining up a lawyer and a tax accountant because the chances of it coming to pass are so tiny...
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Color has a measurable effect on humans. There's an extensive body of research on the psychological effects of color; every designer worth their salt knows this. The fields of branding and marketing use color purposefully every day as well.

Green has a soothing, calming effect on people because it's most common in our natural surroundings. For example, TV shows use "green rooms" filled with plants (and sometimes even painted green) to calm down guests before they go on stage for this very reason.

Orange, on the other hand, excites people and can elevate their heartbeat. It's a cross between red (hot-blooded, passion, rage) and yellow (energy, happiness, attention). You could say it encourages your emotions to interfere with rational thought.

So you can keep your appetite for large-scale redesigns! Just add a step to incorporate color psychology.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_psychology
The measurement methodology seems a bit odd for the purposes of measuring the difference between old and new computers: if a large fraction of the latency measured is due to the key travel, that's latency which is also present in the older computers (AFAICT buckling spring has a lot more key travel before activation than the scissor-switch keys of the apple and most laptop keyboards) Surely for the purposes of the comparison you would want to look at switch activation-to-bus-activity latency.
That's dangerous because it can be considered libel; the SEO company did their job and can show results, but even if it didn't, I'm pretty sure libel laws protect companies even if they're not doing a good job.
> Be kind

> This is self-explanatory. Usually I start off a review to someone who I don’t know yet with a simple “Hi ” in the first comment. If you spot something missing, don’t express this with a statement such as, “This is incomplete”, but rather, ask: “Is there a reason why this is missing?”

I chalk this up to cultural differences, but to me questions like this appear from avoidant to interrogatory. Questions are good when you genuinely don't know something and are asking for help in reviewing.

Anyway, I got a lot of mileage out of the phrase "you can...", e.g.

You can use <language feature> here like this: [...]

You can get the same result with this: [...] (typically an idiomatic one-liner)

etc.

I find people are more receptive to suggestions if they're given a choice in the matter. They better explain it though - which is also what usually happens.

If there's an issue I write something among the lines of "To prevent X errors, use Y." to make it obvious that this isn't just my taste.

The Suggested Change feature is very useful and usually doesn't require additional commentary - especially for one liners.

Also: nothing beats a call review, especially if you don't know the person.

> Attention to detail

> Try to balance between important and not-so-important changes (experience will guide you). We don’t want to block an important feature or production bug because of a spacing issue!

Create a ticket if it's warranted, assign priority and move on.
I think google did that because they did not use X windows. Purposefully. They specifically used Chrome's UI with some patches in-house so that it is slim and the login/bootup does not flicker like typical linux.
> USA population is just under 5 times the UK population, but that US road deaths figure is more than 25 times the UK one.

An ambulance in the UK is never more than 8 minutes away from you, an ambulance in the US can be miles from you.

So when looking at the deaths metric, yes the US looks bad, but sometimes, you might be kept alive in the most horrific condition here in the UK.

I've asked around the ambulance service to see if they have anything to identify the person and then decide if it would be nicer to be swiftly put out of my misery, sadly nothing exists. The default position to keep people alive hell or high water is order of the day!

That's psychological torture the British govt is carrying out on me and there aint no law for that!

I have certain metrics, that if they occurred, I'd like to be euthanised on the spot, but the govt via the NHS and ambulance service wants to carry on experimenting with me and millions more, like a preface to the story and film Terminator.

When I watch Andy Murray walking onto centre court at Wimbledon lawn tennis club, I have the theme tune to Terminator[1] playing in my head, because I know he has an artificial hip. I also know how to avoid those and it costs less, than the GDP inducing cost of artificial joints.

Still I'm sure the surgical process will be streamlined into a factory process and possibly even automated for the battle field to get those little soldiers back up and fighting fit as quickly as possible in the future.

So is it any wonder Motability is the largest fleet provider in Europe, the largest buyer of cars in the UK, buying 10% of all cars on the road.[2]

If they disappeared, do you think the country would hit all its transport targets for pollution and numbers on the road?

Surprising how the taxpayer is used to fund its own problems dont you think?

Do you think the British govt via Motability is lowering the bar for self driving cars here in the UK?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRRmT5aBZzY

[2] https://www.transport.gov.scot/publication/motability-a-brie....
> Basically, like someone else in this thread already said, SEO is best if you are not doing it actively, but when you are creating stuff that really benefits users, readers, etc…

If that were true. Google's results would be better.
That's a great question that I don't know how to answer since I haven't been on the market for a beginner Linux for a while :)

If a tech-oriented friend asked for a recommendation I'd recommend EndeavourOS because of the rolling release and great documentation, but also because I could go over the pros and cons with them in person and make sure they are ready for it and because I know they'd have at least one friend who could help them out when in trouble :)
Yep. I think a better comparison in our modern world would be the film studio. Painting was something you were taught in a rigid controlled environment and the materials and knowledge how to use them wasn't something you had the freedom to just easily use on a whim however you like. You were taught an entire language and way of thinking by your master, most likely from a young age.

Our modern reality makes it truly hard to imagine how these people thought because we are so used to photographs and images being cheaply reproducible and widely available on screens. A painting used to be something that was located somewhere and you had to travel to get to see it. If you owned a painting, you had this unique privilege of being able to show it to people in your own context. Works of art were incredibly powerful status objects, capable of sending the right messages about your pedigree, about your wealth and power.

What you describe with the prefabs I think gradually came along later, as painting became a more common trade and even the middle-classes started being able to afford to have them made as objects of status.
Hollywood's Regressive Stereotypes of Italians
> When I say ideology, I'm referring moreso to both dogma and bruised egos, both of which the GNU project is rife with.

Then just say I don't like that Hurd is part of the GNU Project because I dont like what the latter does. In my opinion, it is very hard to deny that GNU Project / FSF take principles and ethics of software development very seriously. Some people even call them dogmatic for it.