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• Show HN: We increased profits +42% for ecommerce with OSS data pipelines

  Long story short: Facebook Ads optimizes ad delivery based on ROAS (return on ad spent) but return is sales and not profits. I open sourced the data pipeline to do just that and explained it all here: https://medium.com/@theo_dot/how-we-increased-shopify-business-profits-by-42-in-3-months-using-data-d91de3add629. - Source: Hacker News / about 4 hours ago

• Novel prompting approach for Alice in Wonderland problem

  Https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02061v1 research paper shows the reasoning breakdown in SOTA LLMs by asking a simple question, “Alice has N brothers and she also has M sisters. How many sisters does Alice’s brother have?” I investigated performance of different prompts on this question, and show that 'Expand-then solve' prompt significantly outperforms standard and chain-of-thought prompts. Article link -... - Source: Hacker News / about 4 hours ago

• The many faces of undefined in JavaScript

  Well, well, well... Not so long ago, I joined the opposing camp where everyone was arguing to drop null into the Mountain of Doom. https://medium.com/@hbarcelos/why-i-banned-null-from-my-js-code-and-why-you-should-too-13df90323cfa. - Source: Hacker News / 1 day ago

• Julian Assange Is Free

  > The case was withdrawn due to the time it took to get to trial ... Which weakens the oral evidence. The only evidence they had; because there was no DNA found on the condom submitted as evidence. https://medium.com/@njmelzer/demasking-the-torture-of-julian-assange-b252ffdcb768. - Source: Hacker News / 3 days ago

• Hard work wins in business (a.k.a. it ain't just about luck)

  Survivorship bias: https://medium.com/@trendguardian/free-will-a-rich-fairy-tale-4fecf8095812. - Source: Hacker News / 2 days ago

Ask.fm mentions (70)

• Abridged History of Amber and the Cats

  Amber went to Twitter and ask.fm to say that Rafe was lying and "absolutely insane." She continued to say that she had SO MANY screenshots that prove Rafe was neglectful and batshit crazy, but when asked to share them, never did. Amber's clapbacks after she snapped and was going to upload the video:. Source: 10 months ago

• What was everyone's high school experience like with phones/phone addiction around you?

  I'm 22F, I graduated high school in 2018. The world just felt different then, I feel that phone/social media addiction was not NEARLY as present back then, as we really only had snapchat, Instagram, and ask.fm that were cool in my grade at least. Source: 10 months ago

• Which humanoid Legendary Lord is physically strongest?

  Settra fighting Kholek is not in the actual published End Times material. It's just something from Josh Reynolds' ask.fm, and GW's official stance is that everything outside of the published material is not canon. Source: 12 months ago

• LOL. Science can easily become cultish compared to religion? What a freaking moron

  There was a time during Jacobs ask.fm days where he constantly talked like this. His thing was Alan Watts and ego. It just runs in the family. Source: about 1 year ago

• ASK.fm won't delete my embarrassing account I created at 13

  I contacted ASK.fm support to delete an account I created and never touched when I was 13, (I'm 22 now) and they won't delete it because I have forgotten the email and username associated with the account. Source: about 1 year ago