A new proof assistant that will hopefully be more suitable for reinforcement learning than Lean - faster to typecheck and specialized apis for tree search
Well, it's a bankruptcy, so anyone can file a claim. The states have, but so have the victims and their families directly (as a class).
Negative outcome. Some important points that the article here did not emphasize: 1) The Sackler family was not actually a party to this litigation. They came to the table (with most of the settlement money) specifically…
Interesting post. A possible more general restatement would be "under consequentialism (or utilitarianism) everyone's happiness (including the crime perpetrators') is weighted equally. Should that be the case?" I…
You're right, it's just that the word "abuse" is doing a lot of work in that statement. I've still never seen any example of any person being actually damaged by the "tracking", so calling it "abuse" feels pretty harsh.
So one issue that this article glosses over is how contextual advertising interacts with attribution. Essentially, as an advertiser, in order to do effective contextual advertisement, you need to have some idea of how…
So, since you seem particularly upset about it, I'd love to know - what is the problem of "data collection"? I've still never seen an example of damage to a user by AdTech data collection. What I have seen are 1) Data…
Well, this has been a fun discussion. A salient point that I haven't mentioned but that actually plays a big role is attribution. Many advertisers run ad campaigns not to get a clickthrough to their site, but to just…
> People ask that right now, and adtech is one of the things that have killed it. I don't think this is actually true. When I think about the old internet vs new internet, a lot of it is about people running their own…
So, out my now 15+ year career, only about 4 were in AdTech, and I've been out of that game for more than 7 years. But fair enough - happy to play 'ad-guy' for the purposes of this discussion :) I guess my main…
I think this is a genuinely interesting point, and I wish that we as a society had a more nuanced discussion about what that right is. AdTech is largely anonymous in the same way that crypto / web3 is anonymous - it…
There seems to be a really strong disdain on HN for AdTech in general, which I think is misguided, and comes fundamentally from a "web consumer" mentality. I think that it would be valuable to reframe the question from…
Ammonia has been mentioned a few times in this thread, but I will expand a bit, because I believe it is the most promising hydrogen-based approach. Essentially, the idea is to use ammonia directly as fuel. There is an…
Incidentally, similar arguments are going to play out around trying to sue oil & gas companies for climate change (and will probably use the same public nuisance statutes). The o&g companies lobby against emissions…
I'm trying to differentiate between data that is anonymized (cookies), and data that is not. I'm unaware of any data leak of anonymized data that resulted in any harm, but if I'm wrong I'd love to hear about it.
Relatedly, I'd like to plug Wikibabel (http://www.wikibabel.com/). It's translating wikipedia from English to Swahili, with hopefully more languages to follow.
I completely agree that we need better generic libraries. I was mostly commenting that I really believe that there are huge wins that can be achieved in the "generic distributed execution engine" space, and that people…
I expected that there is overhead to distributing the computation, but I was surprised by the magnitude of the speedups available.
I know that Spark has had a lot of work put into it, but my personal experience with it has been pretty negative. I've spent a lot of time at my job trying to tune it to our workflows (extremely deep queries), with only…
I really love this! The pictures are beautiful, the facts are interesting - it's genuinely pleasurable to see. And if it reminds people to be a little less consumeristic, so much the better!
"They're making black people sit in the back. Let's make white people sit in the back instead!"
As someone currently working on fighting advertising fraud, the article premise is wrong. Specifically, there is a significant amount of wasted money that currently goes to fraudsters (usually through RTB exchanges). If…
Sure, the motor is more efficient, but energy density of gasoline is around 50-100 times that of lithium-ion battery packs[1]. Sure, you can get around that in electric cars because of the more efficient motor and…
Standard Silicon Valley business model - get as many people on the platform as possible, and then monetize later (probably as a marketing channel, but they also have some other monetization strategies in the works).…
Also slightly OT, but Loyal3 (http://www.loyal3.com) provides fee-free stock trading - both entry and exit. Unfortunately they don't carry TSLA on their platform yet.
A new proof assistant that will hopefully be more suitable for reinforcement learning than Lean - faster to typecheck and specialized apis for tree search
Well, it's a bankruptcy, so anyone can file a claim. The states have, but so have the victims and their families directly (as a class).
Negative outcome. Some important points that the article here did not emphasize: 1) The Sackler family was not actually a party to this litigation. They came to the table (with most of the settlement money) specifically…
Interesting post. A possible more general restatement would be "under consequentialism (or utilitarianism) everyone's happiness (including the crime perpetrators') is weighted equally. Should that be the case?" I…
You're right, it's just that the word "abuse" is doing a lot of work in that statement. I've still never seen any example of any person being actually damaged by the "tracking", so calling it "abuse" feels pretty harsh.
So one issue that this article glosses over is how contextual advertising interacts with attribution. Essentially, as an advertiser, in order to do effective contextual advertisement, you need to have some idea of how…
So, since you seem particularly upset about it, I'd love to know - what is the problem of "data collection"? I've still never seen an example of damage to a user by AdTech data collection. What I have seen are 1) Data…
Well, this has been a fun discussion. A salient point that I haven't mentioned but that actually plays a big role is attribution. Many advertisers run ad campaigns not to get a clickthrough to their site, but to just…
> People ask that right now, and adtech is one of the things that have killed it. I don't think this is actually true. When I think about the old internet vs new internet, a lot of it is about people running their own…
So, out my now 15+ year career, only about 4 were in AdTech, and I've been out of that game for more than 7 years. But fair enough - happy to play 'ad-guy' for the purposes of this discussion :) I guess my main…
I think this is a genuinely interesting point, and I wish that we as a society had a more nuanced discussion about what that right is. AdTech is largely anonymous in the same way that crypto / web3 is anonymous - it…
There seems to be a really strong disdain on HN for AdTech in general, which I think is misguided, and comes fundamentally from a "web consumer" mentality. I think that it would be valuable to reframe the question from…
Ammonia has been mentioned a few times in this thread, but I will expand a bit, because I believe it is the most promising hydrogen-based approach. Essentially, the idea is to use ammonia directly as fuel. There is an…
Incidentally, similar arguments are going to play out around trying to sue oil & gas companies for climate change (and will probably use the same public nuisance statutes). The o&g companies lobby against emissions…
I'm trying to differentiate between data that is anonymized (cookies), and data that is not. I'm unaware of any data leak of anonymized data that resulted in any harm, but if I'm wrong I'd love to hear about it.
Relatedly, I'd like to plug Wikibabel (http://www.wikibabel.com/). It's translating wikipedia from English to Swahili, with hopefully more languages to follow.
I completely agree that we need better generic libraries. I was mostly commenting that I really believe that there are huge wins that can be achieved in the "generic distributed execution engine" space, and that people…
I expected that there is overhead to distributing the computation, but I was surprised by the magnitude of the speedups available.
I know that Spark has had a lot of work put into it, but my personal experience with it has been pretty negative. I've spent a lot of time at my job trying to tune it to our workflows (extremely deep queries), with only…
I really love this! The pictures are beautiful, the facts are interesting - it's genuinely pleasurable to see. And if it reminds people to be a little less consumeristic, so much the better!
"They're making black people sit in the back. Let's make white people sit in the back instead!"
As someone currently working on fighting advertising fraud, the article premise is wrong. Specifically, there is a significant amount of wasted money that currently goes to fraudsters (usually through RTB exchanges). If…
Sure, the motor is more efficient, but energy density of gasoline is around 50-100 times that of lithium-ion battery packs[1]. Sure, you can get around that in electric cars because of the more efficient motor and…
Standard Silicon Valley business model - get as many people on the platform as possible, and then monetize later (probably as a marketing channel, but they also have some other monetization strategies in the works).…
Also slightly OT, but Loyal3 (http://www.loyal3.com) provides fee-free stock trading - both entry and exit. Unfortunately they don't carry TSLA on their platform yet.