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Somebody write a TlDr.

You'll be my hero of the day!

Multi armed bandit algorithms have been used forever to optimize ads, websites, newsletters etc.

Here is an article from 2013 that describes Googles Multi Armed Bandits algo integration into Adsense:

https://www.cmswire.com/cms/customer-experience/google-integ...

The first time I stumbled across the term "Multi Armed Bandit" was when I read Koza's "On the programming of computers by natural selection" in 1992. When I later got involved in e-commerce projects, it was immediately clear to me that this was the way to tackle the involved optimization tasks.

Jesus .. the package.json alone is probably longer then a shellscript would be that implements the same functionality.

Even when you fight that annoyance with a content blocker, the page itself is aggressive to no end.

I scrolled down to see how long the article is. That somehow also triggered a redirect to the root.

How is it possible that the most user hostile news sites often get the most visibility? Even here on HN which is so user friendly. What are the mechanics behind this?

The url should be changed to a more user friendly news source. How about one of these?

https://liliputing.com/2019/05/arm-launches-cortex-a77-cpu-m...

https://hexus.net/tech/news/cpu/130757-arm-releases-cortex-a...

https://www.xda-developers.com/arm-cortex-a77-cpu-announceme...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/27/arm_cortex_a77/

https://venturebeat.com/2019/05/26/arm-reveals-new-cpu-gpu-a...

    Alice has 2 seashells, and Bob had -1 seashells
    does alice have 100% of all wealth

Yes. Bob has no buying power at all.

Maybe.

What I wanted to emphasize is that a dollar "In the bank" means nothing else then "The bank owes you a dollar".

And banks do not lend money they don't have. And where do they have it from? From other customers.

Ergo: Your $1 in wealth is someone elses $1 in debt.

Money is debt.

Imagine an island with two residents. Alice and Bob. There is no difference between these two scenarios:

1: Alice has 1 seashell. Bob has 0 seashells.

2: Alice has 0 seashells. Bob has 0 seashells. Bob owes Alice a seashell.

Either way, Alice can go to bob and exchange her wealth for an apple. In scenario 1, she gives him a seashell. In scenario 2, she pays by voiding his debt.

Either way, Alice owns 100% of all wealth.

    Traditionally, ad click attribution has been
    done through the use of cookies and
    so-called “tracking pixels.”

No. Clicks are not tracked via cookies but via urls. The search engine in their example would send the user to someshop.com/someproduct?clickid=7e82jv927x748342

They say nothing about how they want to prevent this and other tracking mechanisms. Yet, they propose an overly complex system to send even more data to advertisers.

Also they do not say anything about the ip that their additional ping will send out. I definitely do not want my browser to communicate with an advertiser days later and without my consent.

Also, click tracking is not even a big problem in the first place. Tracking you wherever you go is. Even if you do not click on any ads.

Of course an earlier trademark filing is better then a later one.

But what does that have to do with the quesion here?

The question is if an entity that started using a trademark earlier would win in court over an entity that registered the trademark later.

For all I know the answer is yes.

Is the "first to file" topic even relevant here? It seems to be a way of handling patents. But this case is about trademarks.

    Germany is also a first-to-file country

Citation needed.

All sources I have read about this topic come to the conclusion that the entity that uses a trademark first wins over an entity that regsiters a trademark afterwards.

Example:

https://www.markenservice.net/marke-vs-domain.html

Yes, it seemed like the author would be fine with it.

Maybe the society has to finally adapt & embrace to the way things are going in the last 20 years: music stars to earn their money in the concerts they sold out due to "piracy" and not from selling CDs, movie stars from royalties paid by subscribers of Netflix and HBO and other such services, or even monetize their popularity directly from endorsing products. Software developers seem to be the first to adapt: you can't pirate a SaaS or a cloud. One can try and copy it, but will be always behind the first moved and the original creator, because they always seem to have good ideas.

Equating IP with real estate is bad for the society: why would someone keep producing and keep performing if they made a hit with a song, or a movie, or a game?

    there are an estimate of 7,714,576,923 AGI
    algorithms residing upon our planet. You can
    use the vast majority of them for less than 2$/hour

Way too expensive for many tasks.

    most of it goes to waste

If it was $0.0002 instead of $2, it would be used for translation and other tasks humans are better at then current software.

Also a human is pretty big, needs to eat and fart. A phone one the other hand is pretty small and only needs battery.

    Superhuman artificial general intelligence
    is not something that we can define

Google will define it as "AI translations increase our KPIs more then human translations.". And measure it via A/B-tests.

This seems totally absurd.

Clicks are not tracked via cookies but via urls. The search engine in this example would send the user to someshop.com/someproduct?clickid=7e82jv927x748342

They say nothing about how they want to prevent this and other tracking mechanisms. Yet, they propose an overly complex system to send even more data to advertisers.

Also they do not say anthing about the ip that their additional ping will send out. I definitely do not want my browser to communicate with an advertiser days later and without my consent.

Also, click tracking is not even a big problem in the first place. Tracking you wherever you go is. Even if you do not click on any ads.

From a user perspective, GDPR has no impact so far. I am still being tracked to death wherever I go.

Neither do companies offer me a way to get the data they have about me.

This guy has been trying to get his Facebook data for 4 months now:

https://ruben.verborgh.org/facebook/

Will be interesting to see if he keeps at it and how it turns out in the end.

I wrote this bookmarklet yesterday and I find it pretty useful. When you click it, you see the Alexa rank for the website your are currently on.

Since it is short enough to fit in the HN title, I did not put it on GitHub or something.

If you are not familiar with bookmarklets, here is how you use them:

    1: Bookmark any page
    2: Right click the bookmark and chose "edit"
    3: Give it a nice name (Like "Alexa")
    4: Paste the code into the url field
    5: Prefix it with "javascript:"

So the url looks like this:

    javascript:location.href='https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/'+location.hostname+'?ver=classic'

You cannot give each VM their own core. The business model of the cloud is that multiple VMs with virtual cores run on a single real core.

It seems like Google thinks of the web as "their thing". Just like Facebook owns Facebook and Amazon owns Amazon, it seems Google wants to own the web and turn it into Google.

Amp pages are similar to a Page on Facebook or an Article on Amazon. The author is limited to what the platform allows. And the visitors stay on the platform.

I wonder how that will turn out for Google.

I wonder how that will turn out for the web.

I would be surprised if Google would allow to "link" to their page by putting it in a portal tag.

Just like they don't allow putting their pages in iframes:

https://jsfiddle.net/yea0jvxL/

But I would not be surprised if they put all search results in portal links and therefore keep all users on their site.

    Please do not use code formatting for quotations.

Why not? I think it looks pretty good.

    Backward compatibility, compilation speed,
    circular dependencies, small vs big specs,
    etc. What code do you want to show about
    these aspects?

Code that shows these aspects. What broke in Java because of language changes and why. How handling circular dependencies in one language makes code uglier then in the other. Examples of the specs.

    You did the same with you "I love
    programming language" opening.

That I love programming languages and to reason about them is an information about myself that the reader does not know in advance. That choosing a programming language is not easy is public knowledge that the readers already know. At least if they are programmers.

That is the point of my post. Asking who the target audience is. And how it is different from myself.

I love programming languages. And I love to reason about them. When I see an article comparing languages, I'm all in.

So I clicked on this one. Started skimming through it, looking for code. Found none. Came back here to share my disappointment.

I'm always confused about articles that talk about code and have little code to show. Are there programmers who enjoy reading them? Or are these articles made for non-programmers?

Another thing that always throws me off is fluff. The article starts with "Choosing a programming language isn’t easy.". What does this add to the article? It immediately makes me think the author stuffed this article for no reason. So I have to skim even faster to not being cheated of my time. Is there anybody out there who thinks having the article prefixed with "Choosing a programming language isn’t easy." makes it more valuable?

    remotely disabled

Were they really remotely disabled? That would mean somebody out there pushed a button and made your add-ons go poof.

As I understand it, the browser checks the certificate of add-ons at some point (on startup? on an interval?) and only uses signed ones. And since signatures are date restricted, previously valid signatures can become invalid.

I'm not 100% sure if this really is the mechanism. Would be interesting to hear from someone in the know.

This is a blog post, not a Show HN:

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

You don't necessarily need the whole server-side dance:

https://jsfiddle.net/chrisvfritz/50wL7mdz/

I find developing without a server side build process much more lightweight and enjoyable.

Anybody here using QEMU? What is your use case?

Why do you think that the DMCA would lead to some sort of deletion of repositories that was sent over a wire to a website that the DMCA was meant to be into?

It's not a simple case either. But it feels a bit strange that there aren't any links to this kind of DMCA takedown. It seems strange that a company like BitBucket would even have this kind of information without the DMCA notice.

Or maybe I'm just a cynic.

Title:

    Linus Torvalds elected as the new president
    of the United States

hncynic:

    Now all he has to implement is version
    control. So I can have my own branch.

Are you sure you can't simply run it all from a single server? Computers are pretty fast these days.