skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would really love a phone with a fully upstreamed kernel and manufacturer-supported LineageOS. Sadly there's nothing even remotely equivalent on the market today.
This article has a catchy title, but is absolutely terrible. Curated human recommendations and/or "YouTube staffers should think like journalists" are both two of the worst ideas for the internet I've heard in quite a long time. They don't reduce bias by any significant amount consistently (and I suspect the authors know this), and thinking of a platform where millions of seperate people upload ungodly amounts of content per second as a platform to be curated just like a news site is just fundamentally misunderstanding the scale and nature of Cyberspace.
Non-citizens and immigrants, even "illegal", benefit citizens.
Vegan takeaway orders quadruple over past two years
Something is going wrong if a middlemen takes such a big cut and still can’t make money.
The internal argument is itrelevant as the state persues strategic policies and goals regardless.
A collogue worked for Conaonical. Apparently they tried to build a Whatsapp client, but Whatsapp wouldn't let them and insisted they pay them a few million (can't remember the exact figure) to implement a client.
> YouTube's recommendation engine "isn't built to help you get what you want — it's built to get you addicted to YouTube," argued Guillaume Chaslot

Well.. for me the bad recommendations and search results are having the exact opposite effect. If I have a direct link to a cool video then its fine, but clicking around in the UI is an absolute time-waster.

But then again I'm not logged in and have FF + uBlock + PrivacyBadger and maybe its made deliberately annoying then..
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The memory management will virtually never kick in. You'd need a number which expands to more than 100 characters for that to happen.
Using this for years already and the developer is very responsive if there are bugs. Can highly recommend it.
Walmart Labs vs. Amazon: Which Pays Software Engineers More?
I would argue that it is the same story for traditional media - albeit to a less extreme extent.
In France, even on public channels, reality shows and dubious scandal-sounding programs now represent a high share of the broadcasts.

For sure it is less extreme than the topics mentioned there, but still the programs are optimized to make you addicted and boost stats. Neutral fact-based or educational content is disappearing quickly.
same boat. I get really good recommendations logged in but it is a dumpster fire if logged out
At least the native app for Linux comes with a few shared libraries in addition to Electron. So it's not JavaScript all the way down like the website has to be.
How is it that Uber is losing money? They have such a huge amount of income, There is an Uber on almost every block in America. They don't pay their contractors a living wage and seems to me they have extremely little overhead. They don't have to maintain cars or even have an HR department for their employees. All they do is develop an app that does nothing special.
Is it all R&D?
Same for me. I've found that if I exhaust every video of every one of the few people I watch, it might start showing their videos once again, but only after it's been months since I've seen it and it's only one or two of the 10+ they put on the home page.

Worth noting that I pay for YT Premium, so maybe Google is training my recommendation model more or feeding more niche YouTube videos to it than they would for ad-driven (or ad blocking) viewers.
...in other current news, fire was discovered...

(Does the guy think his "revelation" is news, and his delivery edgy?)
> So in a sense fighting climate change is helping certain populations (in many cases, the rich)

Not only is this wrong, but the exact opposite is true.
So Johnson in his speech (which is available in the video in the BBC article) is suggesting it is normal for a new government to take a break to set out a new programme of government (which is delivered in a Queen's speech, also mentioned in his speech).

Some people who see his viewpoint are happy to overlook the timing and don't necessarily see it as undemocratic.

There is another element. Direct democracy believers feel that parliament is trying to crush democracy (by potentially overturning a referendum result).

Representative democracy believers cannot accept that their representatives would be denied the ability to represent their constituents at such a critical time of major constitutional change.

So the dual narrative was a reference to how some people see this step as delivering the power and will of the people.

Others see it as a dangerous subversion of democracy.

Happy to clarify more if I'm being unclear but you can read the comment section on the BBC article and you'll see incredibly polar comments. The dual narrative is precisely that. People read the same article, see the same speech and have a completely different understanding of it.

Perhaps that's unremarkable to you, but in the UK it's been profound and profoundly different from the mainstream politics I've seen my entire life.

[Edit - clarification of crush democracy]
The wikipedia article did not mention "çiğ köfte" also a very popular (at least in Turkey) bulgur snack.
While this design loses some points for being essentially a cheap extension to the olympic rings device, it definitely wins points for other semantic associations, namely that if you remove 3 rings from the flag, you get the international biohazard symbol, which seems a fair warning for any aliens we may encounter.
they have in-video links but they automatically play what their algorithm thinks instead for some reason
There are multiple evidences of how PT institutionalized corruption. Joesley's quote was only brought up due to the article's context.
So this is wrong on various levels.

Solar and wind are fairly predictable, you can find graphs of predicted versus actual production at various times ahead.

Usage is not flat, it has peaks and troughs on daily and seasonal cycles.

If it was perfectly flat then nuclear would have a big advantage. But it's not, so it has the same options as solar or wind that doesn't match demand. You can build more than you need and just throw some away sometimes or you can build roughly what you need on average and store it when you have more than you need for when you have too little.

At the moment the former is cheaper (and getting cheaper for renewables), but the storage options are getting better too.

You need the storage for nuclear anyway, but as it gets rolled out it undermines nuclear's big advantage compared with renewables.
You know the main purpose of nationalism in China is to justify goverment decrees right? They don't hate other countries by heart spontaneously, not like those in the US.
Better than advertising and being anti-user. I've long realised that "open" anything doesn't really matter if it works against you. Example: Google trying to standardise how it hides URLs from the user (yes, really. https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#url-rendering ) There's also that whole commotion about including DRM in the HTML spec.
The mainstream media is also cozy with their advertisers and were known for helping to cover up environmental issues.
OT, but check out the comments in the code. It doesn't instill confidence:

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There are some places in the U.S. where it's still a big deal, parts of Utah come to mind as places where I know people have been mistreated routinely, and in some cases, been in serious danger.

And of course there are individuals who would rather not make that preference public because they have business elsewhere.
If you had intended to do business in the middle east, it is a real material loss to be outed, or to be selectively/privately outed with just the right people to make your life difficult.

Of course, activists tend to choose the most useless and counterproductive ways to promote safety and tolerance for homosexuals, so something tells me things will tend to get worse when they could've gotten better. You could expect things to get worse, especially as the zoomers are exposed to these activists rather than to the truth.
Why report them? That can get videos demonetized or removed for the creator.
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Firefox/Ubuntu user here (pro and home) with no issue on linkedin...
> how a majority can support BoJo as PM

There's no evidence of that, and statistically it's almost impossible (the conservative party, when they win, tends to get elected on 30% of the public's vote or less)
I like wuzz. An ncurses interfaces for HTTP requests that allows me to save my configuration. It's super lightweight and all I need.

https://github.com/asciimoo/wuzz
Suddenly it's okay to develop for just one browser again. Even though browsers are lot more standardized now than they were before, it's still okay to do it. Bizarre.
Vegan +388%
Vegetarian +136%
Fish 'n' chips +1%

Vegans are 1.16% of the UK population
I like to have spelt from time to time.

I do remember my childhood in early nineties Russia. Spelt was a rare relief from eating millet for month on end.

The difference of spelt from bulgur is that bulgur is made of hulled grain, and spelt usually from grains that have naturally thin hull.

What I noticed while living in Canada, is that in North America people eat very few grains. Even finding plain buckwheat required a trip to "European" foodstores. But yeah, quinoa and other novelty foods were everywhere.
A transfer of wealth from the rich and the poor to the middle class
Serverless Approach Is Moving Node.js Forward. Are You IN?
TL;DR: Please release this Microsoft, even though I am pretty sure you have too many cooks in the kitchen to get this out the door.

I'll say it again (though it may not have been HN on which I first said this shrug): Microsoft runs the risk of getting Microsoftitis, which is the disease they suffer from that makes them think good products are bad, and vice versa.

They killed Courier because it wasn't an 'outlook first' format even though it was the freshest MS idea since Altair Basic (or whatever MS invention you like), and they have a penchant for killing off things people actually like (1) for things people merely tolerate (2) or hate (3), or, in Windows Phone 7/8/8.1 case, killed because MS couldn't NOT reboot every few years (kinda like Sony and the Spider-man franchise)

1) Courier, P2P Skype, VB6, FoxPro, Live Writer, Photo Story, perpetual Office licenses

2) Yammer, Office 365, Lync/S4B, Teams

3) Sharepoint, new Skype, Paint 3D, Windows 10 owns u
Curate it like a radio station or network then.

The curated playlists on Google Music are pretty nice. I wouldn't mind seeing something like that for video, especially targeted at kids with various age ranges, activities, moods, and interests.
Typically almost none of my recommended videos are relevant.

The worst part is that what they do recommend are often conspiracy videos, "X destroys Y" debate videos, extremist 'alternative' news, and other similar trash.

You would think they could tell from what I've watched already that none of their recommendations are remotely relevant to me- and in fact, are often the opposite of anything I would ever want to see.
Some part of the ridiculous margins they put on the hardware you're required to have to legally run the OS.
I've had a hobby game in Elm which I worked on for about a year and a half and I was the second engineer ( frontend lead ) hired to 'rescue' a greenfield project with Elm as the frontend. That is now at 100k+ LOC, 2.5 years later. Our team has grown from 3 to 9, we have 3 frontend devs all writing in Elm and looking for our 4th.

The company now has 4 production projects with Elm as the sole frontend tech.
Why would chromium stagnate? Everybody can improve it, even mozilla.
It's not even that it doesn't work on Firefox, it's that they're UA-filtering: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20818792
round() is specifically about rounding to decimal places, and there are other, faster functions for the more common cases
Software may be a bit delayed, but if you care mostly about security and less about having the absolute latest Android version (with some nice to have functionnalities I suppose, but I don't miss them so far), it's very good.

My fairphone 2 is running Android 7, started at 5 I think, and the latest security update was this month [1]. And those security updates are pretty regular.

[1] https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/208342503-Fa...
It's not trivial though- I had to put open a tab in a container for it to recognize the new UA. Just changing and reloading didn't work.
Relevant paper put up last week on Arxiv to be published at EMNLP 2019 : Auditing Radicalization Pathways on Youtube ( https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.08313 ).

Researchers of the University of Minas Gerais and EPFL audited Youtube's recommendation algorithm in the context of alt-right content and found that users consistently migrated from milder to more extreme content throughout recommendations.
Totally anecdotal: while travelling abroad I tried to order an Uber with my regular account and card. The process went well up to the point where I could see the price but then failed because my card was not accepted for some reason. Immediately switched to "cash" and the price displayed went down. The original price was 30% higher. The same evening I repeated the same steps with another fare and got the same outcome.

I'm not sure if this was a coincidence, some local policy regarding paying cash vs. card, or Uber doing something shady. But I asked all my friends to compare the price with the driver (or pay cash, although this may be less convenient) if they ever use Uber. I've read articles before that Uber was showing the driver a lower price than the customer in order to give the driver a lower cut. If this is the case then it wouldn't work when paying cash.
My vote is on the opposite. Antarctic at -100 degrees F, or what they call "Condition 1" weather.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz2SeEzxMuE
We don't need human-curated Youtube, we need to give more control to users.

The annoying thing about Youtube is that many of the problems I have with their algorithm could very, very easily be solved if the designers gave up their relentless mantra of "never ask the user anything directly."

I watch playlists and LetsPlays, and occasionally my homepage will just turn into a massive wall of recommendations from the same playlist, rather than one recommendation for the next video in the list. That's hard to solve algorithmically, but very easy if you give me a button to press that says, "when recommending a playlist, only recommend one video."

It's very hard to algorithmically figure out whether or not a user wants repeated recommendations because repeated recommendations tend to steer users towards repeated views even if they would prefer other behavior. But Youtube has view history for users. It would be very easy to have a button to press that says, "don't recommend videos I've already watched."

But at some point, everyone working on AI/algorithms decided that the best user experience would be for users to try and on-the-fly intuit the quirks of every algorithm and then to do reinforcement training based on their partial understanding of how things work. The last thing I want as a user is to have to treat my computer like a cat.
So now the only way out of a clearly anti-democratic move to silence a semi-democratic parliament, put in place by a Prime-Minister that was not directly elected, is by having a non-elected head of state putting a stop to it.

Good heavens.
Such a HN answer,

The dudes...

>the backend developer at a mobile app startup,

How about syslog, ELK stack or something and focus on building the app

Some good points in there like correlation IDs etc all the same
The article suggests that for many on the tour, this was a once in a lifetime kind of trip.

"For many, it was the first time they traveled abroad, and the last time they would travel to Europe. This trip was a little bit like a trophy."

I'm not sure how much these trips cost compared to the average Chinese salary, but it would make sense - I know that many Americans have been to Europe once - as a graduation gift, or honeymoon, for instance - and could not justify a trip like that with any sort of regularity (combine high prices and few vacation days; and then when you start having to include kids etc., forget about it). More "regular" vacations for the Americans that can afford it would be other places in the US, or perhaps resorts in Mexico/Canada/etc (the Chinese equivalent would be countries in southeast Asia that are cheaper - both in airfare and local expenditures - than Europe).

Sure, all of my SF coworkers go to Iceland and Japan and Patagonia for vacation, but this is a very small, privileged portion of the population we're talking about - not at all representative of the broader US population.

This report [0] is quite telling: in 2016, 80 million Americans traveled abroad - 45 million of which went to North America, and only 13 million went to Europe.

[0] https://travel.trade.gov/tinews/archive/tinews2017/20171026....
Google Apps/Calendar but no CalDAV for those of us who left the google mothership takes away a big reason I'd use this.
Am I Good Enough? 391 Agents Say No
I hope there will be a supported version of Android without Google services for this phone.
Buying market share via heavy discounts. They used to subsidy fares a lot, now it's ubereats that is subsidized most.
"Vegetation is green because chlorophyll is green" is a borderline useless answer that intentionally misses the point of the question. Assuming the asker knows what chlorophyll is, all this does is shift the need for explanation one link up the chain.

Try to empathize with someone asking this type of question. Would you be satisfied with the type of answer you support? Would it trigger immediate follow-up questions that are basic rephrasings of your original question?
I suspect this is fundamentally the same as Amazon recommending things you've already bought. Even if the likelihood of rewatching/repurchasing is small, that probability must compare favourably to the chance that their algorithm will select a 'correct' unseen item to display.

Recommendations are hard.
This doesn't help the discussion. Also, anything less than half is a minority.
Fairphone actually provides very good support for alternative OSes, including Fairphone Open, an Android version stripped from Google software (https://code.fairphone.com/projects/fp-osos/), and Ubuntu Touch.
>which probably don't need really fast turnaround anyway.

Most charter flights are just to fly to somewhere nearby, drop someone off, fly somewhere else pick someone else up, repeat. Often the destination is some small airport that doesn't have jet fuel (most charter aircraft are turboprops) so you need enough fuel for the return leg or you make a 30min detour to somewhere that does.

The hops are often small but you often need to do many of them back to back without a ton of downtime in between and usage patterns tend to be not well distributed (not much happens on a Tuesday but on a Friday every rich banker is trying to charter a flight to their house on Nantucket or wherever). It's basically the same usage pattern as an uber vehicle will see only the vehicle itself is a proportionately larger cost so you can't as easily just have more of them to make up for charging time (like some electric bus fleets do).

Charter flights are one of the last things I can see being electrified unless battery swaps become a thing because the charging time directly hits profitability.
12% for Firefox marketshare? Source?
Last time I checked it was ~4.4% (desktop + mobile)
Spare display for $90 that I can install myself? Starts throwing money their way
Is there no stigma around being promiscuous, or taking part in risky sexual practices?
I'd be willing to be that we will once more when Chrome stagnates and something bigger and better comes along...

IE was overtaken by FF at a time when there was less complexity in browsers and MS wasn't really into the sort of feature-racing that's happening today; Google has already achieved an effective monopoly-by-complexity with its control over web standards and constant churn and feature addition under that "push the web forward" excuse. It has used its resources to make a moving target and keep it moving, making it impossible for others to even try to catch up. MS tried with Edge and gave up.

I really don't like this, because unless the population manages to change its viewpoint completely and think "better" is not "bigger", I highly doubt Chrome will ever "stagnate".
"When a video finishes playing, YouTube should show the next video in the same channel."

This is how it worked just a couple years ago. I would binge-watch a channel's entire history of videos on history, board games, or other fascinating subjects in the background while I did other things. At some point it changed, and now every video I watch gets followed by some click-bait often highly-political nonsense meant to get me outraged or shocked at something.

I've decided to turn it off and just stream documentaries on Curiosity Stream now. When I do watch YouTube, I get nagging pop-ups asking me to upgrade my service, but why would I do that when they've ruined what I enjoyed about the site?
Forget whether he actually has any bitcoin—there's no way he (or anyone else) would just hand over 500 000 coins just because some local judge said so. That's the whole point of bitcoin: It can't be confiscated. 500k BTC is enough to buy many lifetimes of freedom somewhere on the planet, even if you are wanted dead or alive in a first world country.
The site details the process and requirements pretty well, not sure if there is something in particular you are looking for it doesn't describe?

As for the 30 dollar keys you can find online they will activate Windows but it won't actually be "legit", the requirements listed in the site are correct and you need a VL agreement and a CAL.
Am I the only one who always felt that the garbage videos is what really made YouTube so much more authentic and fun than TV?

If I wanted sanitized, censored, controlled entertainment, I'd just watch TV
but is it more prevalent now than pre-facebook? If not then that would support my hypothesis that online culture is adding to it, and possible causing some of it.
Regardless how to define what's garbage and what's not, YouTube seems to remove demonetized videos from recommendations.
Since I don't think that good content is always necessarily advertiser-friendly, a lot of good videos are just not getting any attention because a few big companies decided that they're not helpful to market their products.
Example: Historical or educational videos which are about controversial topics or just have the word "war" in their title.

Basically, their recommendations algorithm favors profit from advertising over personalized recommendations because it seems to be designed to maximize click-through rate and watch time for videos with many ads. [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/fHsa9DqmId8?t=838
Only for internal apps and personal stuff. I don’t really work on client facing stuff.