skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, although this is not the point to which your original post, and my concurring post, respond. Had the court ordered liquidation--of bitcoin, hogs, apartment blocks, whatever--it seems unlikely that market volatility would stay the court's hand. (Again, we agree about this.)
They’ve killed goo.gl? Ok, that was news to me.
>As a note, chances of a child given the therapy, if it's randomly working, are no different than general population, most likely.

That's not true - the average gene is more likely to be working than not, and the average mutation is more likely to break something, if it changes anything, than not.
Some people also gain a lot from plague and war, but we still fight them. Climate change also doesn't just mean average temperatures are higher; when you put more energy into a system, it becomes more volatile. Climate change makes atypical seasons and extreme weather much more likely.
> we might reach the point where we do put a GPS sensor on everybody

We're way past that point. We call'em smartphones.
It does for people who already live there and don't have parking on their property.
I suggest that wasn't as clear as you think it was to the right people (either through incompetence, ignorance, or bad leadership), or that if they did have some idea that he wasn't a great fit they were hoping that he would produce a miracle that would make all the pain worth it.

Coming in with wunderkind status gives you a lot of leeway with some people, and things need to be pretty bad before the people that hired you will admit that they made a mistake, hired the wrong person, and paid them way too much. Admitting such a mistake does some damage to your ego and reputation of hiring problem solvers. Plus, by many accounts he was producing decent results- after all, he's led some pretty famous projects, and most of the projects weren't regarded as failures, so why should he be regarded as a failure? Other than stealing IP and being a dick, he's not usually called a loser or a failure.
Those are desktop and mobile numbers. Per [1] it’s more like 9 and 3% on desktop, which is really the only place you’d be doing this.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
It's like this hasn't improved since the late 2000s. If I forget to disable autoplay and it eventually ends up on a LinusTechTips, it'll be another week before I stop getting recommended nothing but those after every video.

If this behavior is based off aggregate watching patterns, can we at least get the patterns applied to us of people who match our usage demographics and not the tens of thousands of pre-teens being raised by YouTube?
> and (c) eventually punished under preexisting law.
While I agree with you on this point, punishment does not mean repair or restore, which is the sad part.

Prevention, through detection (which goes to your point of "(a) not overt (if it took a two-year investigation to establish it)" seems like the better thing for these sorts of circumstances, but is a lot more difficult to achieve. Part of me, possibly naively, believes that transparency is the answer, so that those of us who care can determine things without a 2 year investigation, but that feels... too simplistic. Not sure what a better answer is, though.
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We’re still not getting voice assistants right
I don’t even buy the reasoning that the recommendations are somehow “personalized,” because they don’t seem to be... At all. I have never watched a political video on YouTube, or really anything unrelated to music or computer science, yet my “recommended videos” are always full of Ben Shapiro and his ilk. It’s easier to find relevant videos by doing a regular Google search, which is a little ironic.
Also, Skype for Business is being replaced with Microsoft Teams. Bold prediction : Skype has less than five years of life left.
I never thought I'd see the day when Microsoft would support the Google monopoly... despite all the hate IE got, at least it was from a company whose primary source of profit wasn't online advertising. To see MS give up on IE, and then Edge, was very disappointing.
I thought this is what the Unix philosophy is supposed to be all about.

(Realistically, calling wordexp should just abort the program. Now I actually want to make a hacked up musl that aborts in all the various "libc functions no one should ever use" and see how far I get into a Ubuntu boot..)
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I never saw this, on what screen can we find it? Do you've any screenshot or navigation URL?
Even if so, how does it matter?
Have you got a Pi-Hole setup or some such? LinkedIn on FF/Ubuntu works fine for me at home, but I think I had to whitelist something on Pi-Hole admin console.
Thank you, will checkout.
Yeah, it’s pretty lame these days when web apps don’t bother to go the extra mile. The text chat feature still works so maybe they’ll add video support soon? Honestly I’d rather use Skype in the browser instead of installing it. It’s nice to have that stuff alongside webmail and office apps. I’m also an avid Firefox user and won’t switch from them. Mozilla has done amazing work advancing web technology.
The sad thing is that we've lived through all of this with Internet Explorer. I'd be willing to be that we will once more when Chrome stagnates and something bigger and better comes along...
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Your post simply makes no sense to me. You're using assertions without reference ("Johnson is not defying parliament", "to be delivered in a Queen's Speach") and vapid terminology ("dual narrative of politics", "different universe") without explaining any link between them.

So I downvoted because I can't make heads or tails of your words.
Are we back to the "built for Netscape 4.7" days?

Sites shouldn't support browsers, but standards. By all means check if a browser supports a certain standard, and provide an error message for browsers that are too far behind, but don't ban them simply for having the wrong user agent.
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Can I suggest a different name?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP
Seems we are developing an economy of almighty middlemen. Apple taking 30%, these guys are also in that range. When I was contractor there were agencies that would often take 40% or more cut.

There was this dream of the internet enabling the smallest players to be able to sell directly but instead we have these powerful institutions that take a huge cut out of every transaction.
This actually looks really useful if you have multiple screens. (I tend to type on my laptop connected to a monitor above it.) I keep concocting shell prompts that are more and more complicated (current git branch, IP, python virtualenv and so on and so on) -- this might just be the ticket to stop wasting time on that.
Only serves curiousity, won't be basis for participating in any risky activity.
Fellow Firefox/Ubuntu user here. Are you blocking Captchas somehow? This is usually my problem (and specifically very recently with LinkedIn, hence the comment).
> Also why would you use Waterfox. It's like Firefox ESR, with a few changed settings and much slower security updates.

Waterfox preserves Live Bookmarks, doesn't do telemetry, was unaffected by expired certificate killing all addons (my FF mobile was affected so I basically had no mobile browser for a few days), among other reasons.

I know after a while I will be forced back to Chromified Firefox when development of Waterfox comes to an end, but at least for now, I can stretch out the moment of a non-Googly browser + Live Bookmarks a few more months or years like whats-her-name in Doctor Strange.
Note that there is a fallback version that doesn't use strings. This is definitely something that's been thought through.
This is really annoying because Skype video inside a Windows VM basically doesn't work. Encoding/decoding probably falls back to software and is much too slow.
I don't and won't use Android, but the phone itself looks great and I really appreciate the modularity of the build. Very cool and admirable.
As far I have understand, it will be degooglisable soon.

cf: https://forum.fairphone.com/t/fp3-fairphone-open-os/52301/5
"Urges the user to use Microsoft Edge or Chrome."

Meaning "Chrome only" is the strategy here (since Edge, mshtml.dll, as unique rendering engine will disappear).

Welcome back to the past - have seen this all before in the late 90s.
They don't just lose that 12%, but also the people they want to talk to.
Which raises the question what libc functions perl calls...

And imagine the debug errors:

>perl error X

"But I'm just calling libc ?!?"
I was going to say "Great, so Chrome/X.X is going to be the new Mozilla/4.0" but then looked it up and apparently Chrome already reports itself as "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.169 Safari/537.36" so what even is a user agent string for?
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I guess I forgot about that (it probably helps that Youtube doesn't give it much attention as they should). I think those were a step in the right direction but having those possibly at the top of the "recommendation" area or just replacing it completely would be more intuitive to me. Maybe even having it autoplay to the next video set up by the content creator.

I am not a content creator so my opinion is solely from the viewer side. I would love to hear from people who are making the videos I watch and enjoy as well since many of them are using Youtube as their sole income. IMO, you have to please both sides to a certain extent or this all won't work.
The trouble is that if you have to understand or correctly guess internal Google politics like this in order to know which products you can really rely on, then it's effectively not reliable.

With that said, I'd feel fine relying on VMs, disks, managed SQL, managed Kubernetes, etc. Maybe I'm too optimistic. And Google is giving exactly the guarantees they promised - 1 year of notice before shutting down a product.
It was from a company whose primary source of profit is vendor lock-in. Poorly supporting or not supporting open standards is SOP for Microsoft.
I recently had to use Windows 10 for some .NET work and found it really surprising that it nags so much when changing the default browser. Not just in the control panel prompt, but repeatedly afterwards via notifications and even on the login screen.

Hint: Your OS shouldn't do this. It should stay out of your way and honour your choices.
A ten person startup, turning over 50 million, with a few million of profit??? Where do I sign up?
Considering this tool uses JavaScript rendering, I'm not sure you could get away with a "slim browser". You're going to need all the bloat that makes CSR work.
Way less than if online search engines wouldn't exist
There are plenty of extensions that will let you change the UA for any site; having yet another one with such a narrow function seems to me like those "we have a smartphone app too" whose only purpose is to open the browser to their site.
> what even is a user agent string for?

Tracking. Safari actually stopped updating its user agent for this reason.
Browserstack.com

Also 50% of the US mobile browser market. (Don’t forget iPhone and iPad.)

This is a bs excuse.
The only really hard one to test with is IE11, simply because the dev tools are so incredibly slow on a web app.
I've used them continuously since 2005. The dropdown menu is just fine to answer the question 'has Twin Dragons webcomic added another post yet'? or 'whats new in the liliputing.com world'? without any context swaps to -> open a new program on desktop or phone and scroll through a (granted, owned by you, not FB) newsfeed for an hour.
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I would point to this article:

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190201

My take is that "reccomendation" technology is disasterously bad in most cases but Google has us hypnotized to believe they are "smarter" than the rest of us, although when you look at their definition of "smart" it seems to be a bludgeon to intimidate other people with.

Google doesn't have to be smarter than its competitors, it just has to be smarter than the people who buy ads.
It's harder to find originals under such circumstances, sure. But I don't see this as a reason for never writing good messages, because a journal of intent is strictly better than a journal of physical amendments.

That something needs to be entirely perfect before being judged better than the status quo is the Nirvana fallacy.
Change name, not only is confusing, but you might end up being forced to change it if Apple decide to go after you.
I think YouTube in general has little understanding of how to manage content, which is a weird problem for an arm of Google.

I had a bit of a wake-up call as to just how bad the problem was when I saw video search results for "GPLv4". Normal search engine? No problem. GNU Public License. YouTube? Nope. A bunch of videos from a "gplv4.org" when I try the search just now, which evidently has nothing to do with open source licensing.
“Jalopnik also conceded that there might have been selection bias for drivers unhappy with the cut being taken out of their fares.”

Inaccurate headline
nixpkgs top-level only accepts full applications, not libraries, but there is a documented procedure for adding applications to nixpkgs: https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#node.js-packages
You wager they'll shut down the consumer facing portion too? It's a fairly decent brand. Although I guess with VoIP so ubiquitously free (WhatsApp, etc) I'm not sure how they monetize these days...
Skype has been truly rubbish lately anyway. I generally use free whatsapp calls over my paid skype credits because it's such a stark quality difference.

No idea what they're doing but it's terrible.
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Same thing with GoToMetting
Yes, YouTube recs are very good. Scarily good. I don't know why no one wants to admit it. YouTube's loss function is minimized by you spending hours on there like a vegetable. It's essentially self-driving tier tech applied to making you an addict to media.
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What is the info card drawn and how do I interact with it?
> What gives you so much confidence in GAs?

Do I sound confident about them? I've said multiple times that they usually aren't very good and that usually you have a better algorithm. Usually, you can apply intelligent design.

The fundamental difference between us is probably that you'd look at life in nature and say something like: "This species is so remarkable, it must've been designed!".

I wouldn't jump to that conclusion. It's only remarkable if it emerged naturally. If it was designed, then I would have to point out all sorts of obvious flaws in the design.
As for Microsoft Teams, they claim video conferencing and desktop sharing is not supported in the browser on Linux, but spoofing the user agent enables them.

They also do not provide a standalone app for Linux, despite the fact it's an Electron app, yet here is the standalone client supported by one individual that works perfectly.

https://snapcraft.io/teams-for-linux

It really makes you think!
I believe that's where "natively" comes in. If you store it in binary, you can operate on the values as numbers. If you do some decimal conversion, it's a blob of data. (Yes, there are BCD instructions but they're massively limited)
Add 0.5 before rounding towards negative infinity, and you'll get standard rounding.
I have a tendency to rewatch videos over and over, or rather, replay them because they make for good not-too-distracting background noise (I do the same with “The Big Lebowski”). Nearly my entire recommendations feed is videos I’ve seen a dozen times or more, and because I often visit YouTube to just quickly find something for background noise, I’ll just click whatever’s near the top. And next time I visit YouTube...those videos are at the top again.

That’s kind of annoying to me but I figured that it’s a problem of my own making. But it sounds like the algorithm behaves this way for other users who aren’t as weirdly repetitive as me?
I have been using a cheap stationary bike ($200) plus an ipad running free indoor biking workout videos for about 6 years now. I love it - so much so that I created a website to store all the best motivational content I can find for endurance training workouts.

I'm doing Startup School this summer with the project - Slipstream https://slpstream.com/

The mission is to make it easier for people to get a workout done with a motivational content assist. Most of the content is free access, some is from Netflix/Amazon Prime Video and others. I don't produce content, just recommend the best I can find.

In some ways it could be seen as an alternative to Peloton for people who don't want to add another subscription. Or those who would rather use their own equipment.

Initial features are a filter so you can narrow your search by media type (podcasts, documentaries, guided workouts) featured sport, access type (free/Netflix/Amazon Prime etc.) duration, etc. Also a playlist/bookmarking feature where you can cue up a series of videos to roll through during your workout or bookmark podcasts or other content for later.

Roadmap/wishlist is to build a community where users can recommend content to the main site and to each other. Also to monetize via ad sales for promoted posts and featured sponsor/athlete pages where they could feature their content and product recommendations.

I'd love any feedback from readers of this thread who have used Peloton or spent time thinking about it or using alternatives.

p.s. I have a ton more content on my to-add list. If you have any suggestions you can submit content on the site https://slpstream.com/contact/

Thanks!
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I would definitely buy that for the fireworks mode.
That's what I linked already. Your link is the same, just two seconds later.
I've found that clicking "not interested" videos doesn't work, but reporting them has cleaned up my feed. Now I almost only get things from my subscriptions. It's a more brutish option that may have collateral damage but seems to work for me
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It's well known that they are in the red.

The question is, if the entire business model does actually work and the good thing about capitalism is that we will see it over next 1-2 years as it's like natural selection. If drivers stick around (or self driving becomes reality), and riders are happy with pricing then both their customer bases are happy and business will flourish.

Otherwise, stock will fall and they disappear.
I don't think Flutter is flying under the radar.
From a 2018 tweet, which quotes the VP of design at the g.

“Flutter’s ability for real time UI iteration is a game changer in the way we polish and refine designs” -
@MatiasDuarte
https://twitter.com/FlutterDev/status/994658401132019712
"What do you need to build a phone?"

The answer forgot to mention software. That was the main problem with the Ubuntu phone.
Could a two step setup be of interest ? an external device or vehicle to to lift it up, then the internal battery takes care of sustained gliding in high altitude (low air density) ?
Is this Earth’s most inhospitable land?
The big headline here is that (if this RFC passes)

echo $undefined_var;

will cause an exception where before it caused an easily-ignored notice.

If you don't use any static analysis tools, PHP allows you to write some objectively poor code that still sort of "works".

This RFC will make the experience of writing PHP more in line with other modern languages - much less second-guessing how the engine might behave.
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Good to know thanks. The last time I used it it was taking up nine gigs of RAM with only one tab open. Maybe I’ll give it a go again
In my job setting there are certain non-trivial aspects to accessing data. I have used code reuse successfully and it has benefited my team.

I follow a rule of 3, if I have to do something at least 3 times, I refactor the code into a reusable component.
>Given that, even if someone stayed abroad long enough to gain a second citizenship, they'd have to give up their Chinese citizenship in order to avoid risking being "escorted home".

Sometimes even that isn’t enough:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gui_Minhai
ok but the studies show that the phenomenon is more prevalent in men. it's the nature of the sexual marketplace that is skewed towards males -- liberalization and competition on steroids as in online dating leads to pauperization.
Don't give up. We are exactly the people who can change this.
This was an interesting read - reminded me of another article [1] I read in 2013 about using a high-dimensional 'jewel' to describe reality, which then turned out to be an extremely efficient way to do the calculations from a Feynman Diagram. I'm still holding out hope that a unified theory will be found within my lifetime, and that these kinds of math will hold the key.

[1] https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-discover-geometry-...
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Am I the only person who gets actually relevant recommended videos when logged in?

I'd say 80% of the recommended videos are directly related to the interests I've shown with my viewing habits. I went through a period of watching at least an hour a day so perhaps that's it and they have some serious data behind me (and I never watch conspiracy, politics or prank videos for them to appear anywhere near them).

Whenever I'm logged out though, then yeah, complete dumpster-fire.
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The first sentence is the same for me but to just pick up programming when you're 11 or 12 by yourself seems crazy! I'm sure you had a mentor or an older friend or some adult that at least exposed you to the concept.
When I fly, it's a trained pilot. Even for driving is stricter licensing for cdl.
If you just want to see the specs, go to https://shop.fairphone.com/en/?ref=header&amp;
> it was software

Well, it depends on which OS, it might not be the case for android, but I think it can receive all the lastest updates on Ubutnu Touch (See the lastest release bloc on https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/device/FP2 )

Edit: for the android part:

>A Fairphone representative also told Android Authority that the Fairphone 3 was “most likely” to receive Android 10. In fact, the representative noted that the phone will receive five years of software support.

https://www.androidauthority.com/fairphone-3-1014831/
D'oh. I thought I had already done this. Thanks for letting me know.
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Getting rid of ads IS a compelling reason to switch. People will switch if the default is better. They dont want to get a new browser, pick and install an ad blocker, then configure that stuff.

People will stop at the slightest uncertainty. I bet if there was a one-click to install firefox with ad-blocker and some other stuff enabled by default people would start switching.

Installing, extensions, configuration, those are sysadmin function, not stuff Joe public wants to do no matter how easy the developers think they are.
The Windows login screen does other startling things, too. I have also seen it display sneaky advertising for Netflix.
This is entirely hardware dependent, if you get a Linux-first/well tested laptop, it works. If you get just any random laptop, you'd likely hit some snags.
In other countries, the salaries in the IT/development sector are not that great.
This is a nice sentiment but for actual products you end up having to say X versions of Y browsers are supported.

It ends up being a feature requested by customer support teams that you prevent the app from working on unsupported browsers because users don’t read banners or pop ups and it generates pointless tickets. If you make your users change their UA there’s an awareness that things might break.