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And yet some restaurants in NYC still tried to go cashless. There are real benefits: faster transactions (no change) so faster queues during lunch rush, no risk of robbery, no need for armored vans to transport cash, employee theft becomes much less of a concern.

I think the benefits are compelling. NYC ruled it was a discriminatory practice though, because not everyone has access to banking/credit.

One theory I have with RPS is if you say right before the game “I’m gonna play rock”, it may change the odds slightly to non-random. I’m not sure any sort of speech is within the bounds of a fair game though.

it’s not like I have some hard line policy. If it makes you feel better I actually have listened to some music that came out post-2010. For example they released some remastered Beatles tracks last year and I didn’t wait 10 years to listen.

I think you’re being uncharitable by saying anyone who prefers older music only likes music for the “nice sounds”. It may also be I have more interest in music history than most.

But even if I want to watch a tv show or read a book, I similarly want it to be something that is more important than just “well it came out yesterday so must be relevant”. If something can still be relevant a decade after it came out, that’s when you know it’s really good.

And for the record I love music. I’m a multi-instrumentalist, I’ve played professionally in weddings, bars, played buckets in a street performing band, and continue to study music, actively taking classical piano lessons, composing songs. I play every day.

I still like exploring “new” music, but new music that I’ve fallen in love with over the past year is Elvis, Judy Collins, James Taylor, and Curtis Mayfield/The Impressions. It’s hard for me to justify giving modern music a chance when I haven’t even given the established greats a chance. The modern music will still be around in 10 years. Hopefully by then it will be more clear what’s standing the test of time, at which point I’ll give it a listen.

Same thing happened with Kanye by the way. In the 00s I (mostly) wouldn’t touch it, but it’s now clear it was highly influential, important music and I’ve begun to revisit it.

Thanks for clearly articulating what many people on HN seem to fail to grasp. It’s not that Google got worse over the years at surfacing the obscure content they used to so easily find. That obscure content has gotten completely buried under the mountain of content being published every day, and the cat and mouse game of SEO has evolved so rapidly that the problem space of generalized search is so much harder these days than it was 10-15 years ago. Not to mention the broader user base that they have to serve as well.

They don’t have the power to control behavior arbitrarily though. If they tried to shut down business last year for no reason at all, you can bet there’d be push back, protests and eventually they’d be voted out of office and laws would be changed etc.

However when there is a pandemic overwhelming hospital systems around the world, they do have the power to shut things down precisely because most people agree with that decision. Clearly right now there is a vocal minority who disagrees and has chosen to protest. And as far as I can tell they are suffering no consequences besides being ridiculed and called “stupid” by the folks who consent to staying in for the greater good. The us government only has the power to shut things down when most people agree that they should have that power.

Same thing happened with me -- I wouldn't quite go as far as receiving a verbal offer, but had been discussing compensation and they were asking about my other offers to send off to the comp team after I matched with a team. Such a long, drawn out process to come up with nothing.

I’ve been rejected from Google, and a year later they reached back out asking if I wanted to try again. The recruiter even told me over the phone that most people they hire these days have already been rejected at least once before. So they openly acknowledge that a lot of times their best bet is to get people back in the door who they know were close. I’m curious how they determine the timing. Why wait a year vs 6 months vs 1 month?

Would any cloud-hosted analytics be acceptable? Is it just Facebook that’s problematic? What if they switched from client-side analytics to server-side so you couldn’t detect it all? Would that be any better? The bottom line is when you use a service, that data is their data to send to whomever they want.

I did not mean to be dismissive of real threats. But I also think an overwhelming majority of calls on zoom could be leaked wholesale and no one would be harmed. And just because they use the Facebook and Google SDKs to measure their marketing does not mean they’re “selling user data” or inadequately protecting the privacy of video conversations. And it’s a very far leap to blame an educator for choosing zoom (a free and easy to use product) as insensitive to the persecution of minorities, when it’s really not a factor for most use-cases.

What could possibly happen in an educational setting that is so sensitive that it needs a CIA-level approach to safeguarding privacy?

The consequence of getting on a school bus can be life or death. The consequence of eating a peanut butter sandwich can be life or death.

If you’re a medical professional or psychiatrist, maybe you shouldn’t use zoom due it’s privacy record. But if you’re teaching a lecture on linked lists to your class of 30 kids, death via persecution should probably be very low on your considerations when choosing video conference tech.

I bet people said the same thing about credit cards — “how do I know there won’t be an error that causes my credit card bill to be wrong at the end of the month? I’ll stick with cash thank you very much”

For one thing 6 months is definitely the high end of prep time. Even so, spending your evenings studying for one 6 month period in no way precludes you from ever dating or marrying or having children.

Why is it illegal? If I understand gdpr correctly tracking is okay if it’s necessary for business purposes. If a publisher’s business model is ad-supported then it seems necessary.

If gaming can do it via Stadia, I think music production should be able to do it too. I understand the other comments about latency being particularly crucial for live performance. But there's a big difference between live performance and recording. And I could see a model where as you play live and lay down tracks, it uses a low latency local sample, but then when you playback after the fact (where latency is not important) it can leverage more advanced state of the art VSTs via the cloud.

It’s not a situation where FB “managed to obtain”. It’s Macy’s directly uploading transactions in order to attribute purchases to their online ad campaigns. It uses email and name etc to match.

I’ve spent the last year in a marketing role and as I read this article I was thinking to myself “would I have understood an HN post like this 1 year ago?” Thanks for confirming that I probably wouldn’t have! It is a lot of jargon.

I have some close friends who started smoking at 18, and by 21 were pretty hooked, would rather not smoke, but found quitting too difficult. I have a feeling this will do a good job of reducing addiction rates.

At the same time I do feel like adults should be adults full-stop and think it’s ridiculous you can be drafted, vote and serve in military and not drink or smoke (or rent a car!). Maybe the age of adulthood should be moved to 21 altogether.

I think animal-less meat is a “next big thing” that will 10x in short time. KFC and Burger King have their own vegan options, oat milk is the hot new thing. My question is how can I as a software developer get in on the ballooning ethically-sourced food industry?

Do you think direct mail should be banned too? That is the original microtargeting platform, and is a $44bn industry (so only recently surpassed by Facebook in $ terms)

It's still trivial to target users where browser="safari".

But with Safari's recent changes you can no longer target users on Safari where "non-empty cart"=true, because that relied on cookies and tracking which are no longer available.

On a per-impression basis advertisers are willing to pay (way, way) more if they know they are reaching someone who has already visited their site and been engaged enough to add-to-cart. There are plenty of other examples but abandoned-cart-retargeting is one of the most obvious ways advertisers can see good ROI on expensive ad impressions.

Why haven’t you scaled out the dropshipping concept further? It sounds pretty solid.

Could you put that in context in terms of $$? How much does it cost in aws/gcp/azure to run a 1080 ti for 90 minutes?

Would you say that could be a downside of the single image approach? Rather than feeding images into a generalized model you’re training a whole model per image which is costly to scale?

I bet this makes Netflix consider building their own theaters— access to Netflix theaters could be one more benefit of subscribing.

I know Trump is in a world of his own, but most often the “lies” are not lies to the speaker or the speaker’s fans. For example Obama’s “if you like your plan you can keep it” regarding Obamacare. It turned out not to be 100% true. To Democrats he was well-intentioned and over-optimistic and couldn’t deliver his promise (probably due to Republican obstructionism) while Republicans had always considered that a lie.

If 50% of the country believes something is a lie and 50% believe it’s mostly true, is it really a lie? The truth is most political “lies” are only considered lies by the opposite party.

Yeah I very much doubt Trump is wasting his money bidding on impressions for people likely to support Democrats (assuming he can accurately mimic the dems’ targeting) just to slightly raise the cost of Democratic campaigns

I know trump tells a lot of blatant lies (I think most Americans recognize this), but if you’re a Trump fan you’ve been hearing Democrats calling Trump a traitor, a dictator, a Russian-pawn and colluder and a criminal long before any of those titles could be considered “facts” (they mostly still cannot be called facts, though the Ukraine call may have changed that).

Yes Trump tells a lot of lies, but I also think each side of the aisle tends to ignore their own hyperbole (or at least fail to appreciate when the other side is hearing “lies”)

What is an ad? Can the beer cans say "Coors"? Can airplanes fly by with ads trailing? Can people's clothing display brands? Can the players' shoes have the Nike swoosh? Can pop-up shops sell their goods at the store or give out samples? Can a company buy tickets just to plant attendees who will loudly wear their brands? These are all forms of marketing. If they are permissible, then how do you enforce it? No billboards over a certain size? No audio or video ads?

It comes down to incrementality. Sure Trump has way more money than most challengers, but most people have also already made up their minds about him. His cost to acquire incremental voters is probably much higher than a lesser-known challenger.