skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When there’s no good reason for silence and that silence financially benefits you, I don’t think it’s unhinged to be skeptical of the true motives behind the action.
What is engine management? This is not a very "searchable" term.
TBF it may be best to explain your working a bit better, considering you work at Google.
Consider two competing apps. One looks 5% nicer but uses 1000% more memory, cpu and battery. That one will be preferred by users. And this is why things are how they are.
Thank you for the thoughtful and detailed response. I agree, I think your notes are reasonable.

Your notes show that both articles are concerned with the human impact of the poll closures.

For example, in the Texas Tribune article, I think the first (and last) paragraphs that you categorized as "neutral fluff" are meant to highlight the impact on "rural and young voters" that are mentioned in the article title. The article doesn't mention "minorities" or "black and Latino" voters.

In contrast, the Guardian article focuses on the impact on "minorities" and more specifically, the "black and Latino population." It doesn't mention rural or young voters.

Looking a bit deeper, I realized both articles are part of larger series which indicates to me that instead of "news reporting", these articles are motivated by a certain type of advocacy. The Guardian article is part of "The Fight to Vote" series and the Texas Tribune article is part of the "Texas Voting Rights" series.

Since both articles focus on the human impact of certain demographics, I think how one perceives the articles as slanted most likely depends on personal perspective.

For example, given the issue of voting rights and the well documented efforts to disenfranchise minority voters [0], I'd interpret an article that mentions the poll closures along party lines ("unanimous Republican support") but does not mention the potential impact on minority voters as slanted.

My takeaway is that both articles are "slanted", just in different ways and most likely in ways that conform to the expectations of their respective readerships.

[0]:

Some Republicans Acknowledge Leveraging Voter ID Laws for Political Gain

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/us/some-republicans-ackno...
When you interact with a piece of content owned by someone else (or transfer ownership of your content to someone else), you shouldn't expect to retain full ownership of your contributions. If I make a post and then delete it, all comments (from everyone) should be deleted because the parent object is now gone. However, if Bob makes a post on Alice's Timeline (e.g. a Happy Birthday message), Bob shouldn't expect to fully control that object anymore - Alice's friends can now fully see that post (regardless of what Bob's privacy settings are set to). In fact, if you look under the hood at Facebook's DB, you'll see that the row that Bob created has ownership transferred to Alice (AUTHORED_BY/AUTHORED <-> Alice), with a secondary pointer to Bob that's used to draw the "Bob > Alice" text.[0] Bob should not be able to delete this anymore because he no longer owns the object. You can argue that Bob should maybe still be able to edit the content (and replace it with something new), and I wouldn't disagree, but Bob should not be able to delete the fact that the row ever existed. Comments on someone else's post by a comment author that deletes their account should be transferred to a [deleted] account, because that maintains the integrity of the discussion for everyone involved - it just drops 'who' wrote a particular line of text. If you want to literally replace all of your comment text with something like '-', I'm not going to argue with that desire (or suggest you shouldn't be able to do it). However, it's insane that the rows themselves disappear, because there's no indicator that anyone else ever participated in that discussion (and thus most old comment threads appear schizophrenic).

[0] One hilarious side effect of replacing the object's ownership is that technically, all of the messages Alice received wishing her "Happy Birthday" appear to be written by herself. You have to find the additional TAO edges to reconstruct the true post author.
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I use honey, but I only enable it on the page before I'm about to check out, then disable it after it's found a discount.

Granted, during the time it is activated they could do whatever they want with my data (including hijacking my session), but at least this way they don't track everything.
I would welcome seeing a comparison in your environment to using the simple 1/2 GB array of bits, with no hashing or storage of IP addresses. (Extra points for hugetlb mapping.)
very interested in reading more about this. do you have any pointers/links?
Great Questions!

> 1. What does the app's home page look like? What I can see from the screenshots looks like a second-level view to me.

You can see the same preview at https://briefbeta.com. If you’re viewing the App Store page on desktop, it drops our video preview that shows the home page (apologies).

> 2. When you say "Reports written for you by real human editors" does that mean that you are personally employing someone to write these reports or are they algorithmically selected?

Yes! We have a newsroom that writes the reports. We use algorithms to personalize your report based on what we know you already know (so you don’t re-read the same boilerplate background all the time), but we think real journalistic judgment is critical.

> 3. How much is the monthly subscription and what does it offer over and above the free version?

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From: https://engineering.fb.com/data-infrastructure/messenger/

> We accomplished this by using the native OS wherever possible

Does this mean this application does not use React Native?
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In all cases it is a Math issue.

Either there exists some effective computation that would produce behavior similar to the behavior of conscious being, and could be performed in VR world too, or computation would require exponential resources, or (in the most unlikely case) such computation would not exist, and it would be possible to show why it cannot exist.

Neuroscience and Physics can help to find the rules for that computation. And Philosophy can have fun talking about what lies beyond unknown.
The Yoga school sued for sexual harassment and shut down, the Kabbalah sued for illegal labour, parents life long con-artist ... 'never left the East Side bubble'.

These are the same people that excessively promote woke ideals, and they believe their own egos to the core.

It's not the message that's bad, it's the utter 'nice toxicity' of the messengers.

These people are just as bad as Donald Trump, they're the other side of the coin, they deserve the same treatment.

Why don't we see parodies of these people weekly SNL?

I think the 'bubble' has a lot of influence and is protecting their own reputation by not spending a lot of time lingering on the issue.
It's plain css so I don't see the reason why you wouldn't know those properties if you are doing frontend work.
For example, mimicking the same shadow as tailwind component, you can add box-shadow: 0 1px 3px 0 rgba(0,0,0,.1);

Frankly, I don't see the point in saving a few characters and react/css-in-js solutions make it easy to write reusable components so I don't need a css framework.

Theme UI comes with basic components too.

Using SASS, postcss, LESS, stylus or any popular framework gives you variables/easy setup to make/use themes.

if there is something else unique about tailwind that I missed, let me know. I haven't seen tailwind out of HN circle.
What is the lie that Coke et al are being accused of making?
Not a lawyer, but I think it might be illegal to only hire US citizens, unless you're some government contractor. Did you mean you don't sponsor visas? Then you should clarify I think.
I had this happen early on in my career.

My entire department was unified and clearly articulated the problems we were facing and how we could improve things.
The only result was that our manager was told to get us under control or we would all be fired.

Management knows what is going on. They just don't care.
This is an interesting link from the comments section of the article: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04264533
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Out of curiosity, what is the use case for doing VPN at layer 2?
Did Dean Koontz warn us for the Corona virus?
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Well that certainly changes a lot. Probably would have been helpful in your question to specify.
I don't see any evidence that the right has "weaponized misinformation in an organized manner" anymore so than the left has.
Here are some which look at GitHub for various languages and count the defect rates by analysing commit messages:

https://dev.to/danlebrero/the-broken-promise-of-static-typin...

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/98-languages/11184-which-...

https://nextjournal.com/PRL-PRG/toplas-analysis

One thing to note is that the absolute difference in terms of bugs from the worst language to the best is still minimal. So language choice doesn't seem to make or break software.

Another thing to note is that while overall static languages faired better in terms of having lower defects, Clojure did best of all.

I knew of another one but can't find it again.

Then there are a few where they had beginner programmers implement trivial programs in different programming language and checked how many errors/time it took them. But I consider those all pretty bad since the experiments are so reductionist. So I won't list them. They aren't conclusive either. Some end up saying static and dynamic are same, some say dynamic is more productive at equal defect, and some say static had less defects at equal productivity.
It may be expected, but just remember that we all have power to break negative cycles.
If you put the term in quotes, it disables the correcting of your term.

IMO, correction is a feature. I'm more likely to typo a search term (especially on mobile) than to actually be looking for something with a deliberate mispelling or strange set of letters/numbers.
Not sure how much impact this will have, most of the people I know and have discussed this with fall into two camps: people who use FB a lot an will put up with a bad mobile client, and people who don't want FB on their phone, ever.

I have to go years back to think of someone who told me they just couldn't take the bad UX of the clients so they deleted it.
> Reality tends to make sense, so if it's most likely impossible to make sense of consciousness by studying the brain, there's probably some other way to look at it.

Reality tends to make sense on scales and in environments where making sense of reality conferred an evolutionary advantage on the brain-haver. Absent that, not so much. We're great at intuiting about ballistics in a gravitational field and atmosphere, less so about WTF is happening in wavefunction collapse.

> The idea that fundamental particles like electrons have some kind of subjective experience

What would it be an experience of? Without sense-organs and brains or equivalents thereof, what could anything be conscious of? If sense-organs and brains are somehow hard-epiphenomenal, not really required to experience the universe, why did organisms bother to evolve them?
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One way we make our support replies stand out that wasn't obvious when we started:

If you provide phone support, email your customer a summary of what their problem was and how you solved it on the call along with links to user guide articles where applicable.

The customer can now easily send follow-up questions via that thread, while your team has better documentation of their support history.
Exactly, the page has a 1% chance of displaying "YES". It is tough since age has so much to do with how severe the virus is. Ended up sticking with the broad statistic to keep it simple. Will add more info to the bottom later tonight though!
Kudos to Google for moving this along! A few weeks, the HN community picked up [0, 1] on a presentation [2] about the Tint shading language, a WebGPU shading language prototype. It's great to see them formalize their prototype into a draft spec.

Thank you to those who are working hard on bringing WebGPU to the masses!

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22316777
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22351285
[2]: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qHhFq0GJtY_59rNjpiHU...
Your physical network settings likely didn't allow direct connections between peers. Fix that and it'll work fine.
FB and Google also provided teams to work with campaigns, as they would for any such huge advertiser. What they did not do is they did not provide the entire goddamn social graph like they did for Obama in 2012. Or at least they did not provide it to Trump. Hillary's campaign was so sure of itself, they did not utilize the help Google and FB provided them. I'm sure such things could be arranged under the table for the anointed candidate.
Apparently it's being seriously considered: https://9to5mac.com/2020/02/20/bloomberg-apple-discussing-al...
tracking you everywhere you go is easier than ever!
Word numbers, Part 1: Billion approaches
Oh yeah it's had issues. As a more paranoid than most user I don't use the browser extension or the internal browser in the mobile app, which I catch more than a little flak for haha.

Mostly I'm making an appeal to authority to tptacek [1].

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tptacek+1password+site%3Anews.ycom...
No need to be sorry! I wasn't being snarky; I genuinely didn't understand at first.
You‘re saying this as if it were realistic for the majority of people to save up a cushion of 6 months in a reasonable time frame (or ever).
China did stop doing that, but they also bought shut-down paper mills in the US, and use them to process local cardboard to higher standards and then send the QA-passing resulting pulp back to china for new cardboard production. (at least, this is what was told to me from an expert in the field who researchers these things for a living).
Have you seen how much memory and CPU time Signal uses on the Desktop? Or Slack? The era of running a chat app for almost no resources is gone unless you're an IRC holdout.
> We've completely rewritten Messenger to get a lot faster.

We? Who's "we"?
I really wish iOS would allow you to select which contacts/photo album to give an app access to, instead of all hundreds/thousands of them.
They're really not going to like this. Italians big on it too.
Yeah bullshit. Look at the reception Fidel Castro got: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13041886

Anyone conservative you people dance on their grave.

Anyone socialist, including brutal dictators, you praise them.

It's as simple as that. I can find you many examples of this. Common theme between them all is their political ideology.
For some reason I can access the chat using Firefox Mobile on iOS but not through Safari.
So good, so very very good!
I answered this on a different comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22467998
It is possible that third party actors are engaging in this type of activity in-favor of the right without explicit coordination between the two.
"[GE Capital] seemed an easy way to make money...This thing looked like a 'gold mine' to me."

A good MBA finance curriculum might kick off with the Modigliani-Miller theorem (M&M), which basically says:

1. Theoretically, you can't create value through your mix of financing. It doesn't matter whether you use 100% equity, 100% debt, or 50/50, your mix of financing won't create value (unlike good R&D for example).

2. #1 above is predicated on the absence of tax incentives, bankruptcy costs, agency costs, and asymmetric information, and the market being efficient.

The creators of M&M believed that the assumptions in #2 are mostly false most of the time. The beauty of the theory is in the assumptions themselves. Prescriptively, it basically says that your mix of financing matters only insofar as the assumptions in #2 are false for your project at your company in your country. If you start a division like GE Finance, and you start using complicated financial derivatives, you have several things to prove. You have to show which M&M assumptions are false for your company, to what degree they are false, that your suggested method of financing will take advantage of the M&M violations, and that the magnitude of financing matches the magnitude of M&M assumption violation (this last bit is important, GE really went hog wild with derivatives in a way that was completely not justified). GE Capital never passed the M&M sniff test.
Does the payment processor need to explicitly support it or can it be implemented independently of processor?
It has indeed been 20 years since 402 Payment Required was “reserved for future use” as an HTTP/1.1 status code.

[1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-10.4.3
Low bar or not, they had to rewrite the entire app to get those gains. I think it's still technically impressive.
It is, but I was offering a suggestion as to why the concept is popular.

It passes the "gut check". It "feels right".

And that's because it's vaguely in the right direction of a good idea.
Much better?

I'm not sure about that, but this seems like a fun problem for exploration. Also, 49µsec sounds like a pretty easy target to beat.

I used the following in q to build a data set I could play with:

\wget https://downloads.pwnedpasswords.com/passwords/pwned-passwords-sha1-ordered-by-hash-v5.7z
\7z -so e pwned-passwords-sha1-ordered-by-hash-v5.7z pwned-passwords-sha1-ordered-by-hash-v5.txt | cut -c1-40 | xxd -r -p > hibp.input
`:hibp 1: `s#0N 20#read1 `:hibp.input

This took about an hour to download, an hour to 7z|cut|xxd, and about 40 minutes to bake. At complete, I have an on-disk artefact in kdb's native format.

q)hibp:get`:hibp; / this mmaps the artefact almost instantly
q)\t:1000 {x~hibp[hibp bin x]} .Q.sha1 "1234567890"
5

Now that's 1000 runs taking sum 5msec, or 5µsec average lookup time! It's entirely possible my MacBook Air is substantially faster than the authors' machine, but I'm also doing a lot of other shit while this is going on so whilst I believe a better benchmark is possible, I suspect even better results under better conditions, not worse.

So, if binary search is fast enough, how much faster should an Interpolation search be? My understanding is that an Interpolation search will make a better initial guess than a naive binary search because it can start "closer" to the correct value but it'd only work at all if the input had an extremely even distribution so it can guess that initial starting point to reduce the search space, so let's check that first:

q)count each group hibp[;0]
00| 2171182
01| 2171242
02| 2170869
03| 2168638
04| 2171675
05| 2171500
06| 2169285
07| 2171129
08| 2171463
09| 2173704
0a| 2173702
0b| 2169950
0c| 2169562
0d| 2172129
0e| 2171763
0f| 2173154
10| 2170242
11| 2168806
12| 2172306
13| 2171502
14| 2170208
15| 2167949
..

Ok that looks pretty even to me, so next I partition on the first byte to see if getting 99% closer (1-1/256) on our first guess gets us anything:

q)t:(0,sums value count each group hibp[;0]) _ hibp
q)`:t 1: t
q)t:get`:t / no cheating! back to the disk!
q)\t:1000 {x~g(g:t[first x]) bin x} .Q.sha1 "1234567890"
5

And it's still 5µsec for lookup! So I'm finding it difficult to believe there's "much better" in there. Do you have some benchmarks to look at?
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Pretty much anything that needs to come out of the ground in a form far less concentrated (aka "ore") than the form in which it is useful is economically recyclable because the product provides a more concentrated source of raw material for making into new things than the natural deposits in the earth do.

That's basically a long winded way of saying most metals are cheaper to recycle than to mine new.