skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I definitely empathize with your position on this, and you're right that community is the valuable part, hence the focus around active users.

What makes TikTok unique beyond growing like wildfire: their monetization strategy will be easier (the social aspect leads to relevant advertising), and their community is more stable!

The stable community is driven in part by their algorithms, which replace Instagram and Facebook's idea of a feed of those you follow. It gives more power to TikTok, in that you won't notice if some members of the community leave, and they can continue showing you content you'll enjoy from millions of other users.

To run through the list of companies you mentioned:

(1) Snapchat has a solid userbase that's likely to stay with it, and they're worth over $30b. They aren't profitable, but they chose that path when they focused on Spectacles above monetization, and paid engineers more than Google. A $50b valuation wouldn't be unheard of if they had 2x time-on-app as TikTok does.

(2) Vine had hundreds of millions of active users when it was shut down by Twitter.

(3) Tumblr is unique; they cut their own head off when they started removing content. They were always a niche service, without the mainstream appeal and without the ability to target their users with relevant advertising.
IMHO, I'm glad Microsoft is not part of this. It's not about profits, it's about data monopoly.

Writing a modern OS is almost impossible from scratch, but there's nothing preventing you from hiring enough people and making Windows or Azure.

But the problem with Facebook and Google is that they started by scraping stuff for free and without limitations, but if you try to do the same thing with them they bite you with Terms of service, paid data graphs and API quotas. How do you build a index of businesses/venues and people? No matter how many people you hire you cannot achieve the same snowball / network effect.

Instead of breaking them up, make them release open data.
A SpaceX vehicle returning from the surface of Mars.
I've only experienced the southern part of the US (mostly Texas), and I was shocked to see how many more overweight people I saw, in general.

But honestly I'd say the same about specifically the UK compared to most of the EU. So maybe your experience of Europe is skewed by the UK?

Of course, statistics can probably provide a better answer. Maybe EU people have generally become just as overweight as Americans, but there is more of a stigma so they hide it better? And the 'impressiveness' definitely might play a role too. I can probably count on two hands the number of times I've seen someone in a supermarket so overweight that they needed a cart, while I saw multiple individuals every time I went to a wal-mart. Maybe I don't see them here because they simply don't fit into most of our supermarkets, or they're too ashamed?

Still, I'd be surprised if obesity is really just as bad in Europe as it is in the US, excluding the UK specifically.
> I take hydroxychloroquine to keep my autoimmune disease under control.

> It’s not a perfect drug, but it works great.

I'm genuinely glad it helps with your autoimmune disorder, but that really has nothing to do with Covid-19.
Us troops were actively trying to stop schools with little girls from getting blown up. Countries infrastructure was rebuilt. Then we left.

No one is innocent but there are differences.
> Windows Phone is a great example. Americans hate on Microsoft and so deprived themselves of the best mobile phone OS of ever. Even today Windows Phone is more usable, faster, more secure and better in almost every metric than Android. But Windows Phone is dead.

That's because Microsoft poisoned the well a long time ago. They might've spent a long time since Ballmer's departure cleaning up that superfund site and built a beautiful resort on it, memories persist.
> Interestingly, you'd think that, but it's dead wrong. I'd say about a quarter of people actually use tick tock, compared to almost all using instagram or snap chat.

They said everybody young uses tiktok. While that's obviously an exaggeration it currently is the number 1 most downloaded app on iOS and Android by quite a long way.

It's only 300M behind the all time number of Instagram downloads on all platforms (1.8B vs 1.5B) and is growing at 4x the rate of Instagram.

https://mediakix.com/blog/top-tik-tok-statistics-demographic...
This is the first thing that I've ever used where I thought it would actually be better on a touch screen.
Boeing has liabilities which a new company doesn't.
Don't know about most of them but I like courriel and pourriel (the latter having connotations of rottenness) much more than e-mail and spam.

I don't see why Latin/Greek originating words like ampersand need their own "French" versions though.
Experts can also be morons, these aren't exclusive terms.

(I should clarify - he may have good reasons to stay inside for 5 months and I think that's anybody's prerogative to decide their risk tolerance wrt covid.

But for most people that's absolutely insane, essentially agoraphobic.

I've seen evidence some otherwise completely healthy people are long-haul locked inside their small apartment and it's sad to see.)
Back in 2006 I actually had a moment where I overheard someone at a university talking about an obscure subject (synthetic biology) I had spent the last couple of years saving del.icio.us links about.

We soon had this conversation:

Wait! Are you so-and-so?

Dude, how did you know?

We've been saving all the same links to del.icio.us!

I had just finished a rotation in one of the handful of labs in the world that worked on this subject, and he had arrived to do a junior year summer internship in the same lab. Incidentally we both were led astray, in some sense, by all the Web 2.0 idealism of tools like del.icio.us; neither of us fit in in academic biology. He even took it to the extreme of opening a nonprofit to support DIY, "open source" biology ... (So very late-aughts!)
> You don't go out to a restaurant and order a "personal salad"

You sort of do. There is a distinction between salads intended for the table to share, salads intended as a single person;s entree, and salads intended as a single person's accompaniment.

> or even a "personal lasagna" (even though the restaurant obviously makes a whole tray's worth)

If I saw "personal lasagna" on a menu, I would expect something that was baked as a single portion. Otherwise, I would expect a portion cut out of a larger tray. Essentially, "personal" here is a reference to the size of the unit that was prepared and cooked and not merely the serving size.

Same with pizza. I expect a "personal pizza" to be a complete pizza that is reasonable for one person.
Terminating someone without cause is certainly legal (in the US, anyway), and usually the safest way to avoid wrongful termination suits.

But the GP is actually right - people misunderstand that "freedom of speech" means "freedom [from government interference in my] speech [except under very specific circumstances]." Any other interpretation has no basis in law or reality. Like the scene from Liar, Liar, my employer can compel me to say that the blue pen is actually red, and fire me if I don't. Me taking the pen to court and showing it to the judge won't prove anything, won't get my job back, etc.

Picking obviously abhorrent things like anti-miscegenation makes the argument easier. If a coworker was vocally against interracial marriage I would expect and demand that my employer terminate them, but I would be against the government making it a crime to speak out against interracial marriage.
Hahha i was like. This is the "drive home"
Martijn is an exceptional explainer I like his channel a lot. A great resource if you want to start programming shaders.
You could have said the same stuff about the neutrino after Pauli introduced it in 1930 to explain the missing pieces in the beta decay. The alternative could have been giving up on the conservation of energy-momentum, but then if you have a continuous energy spectrum in an apparent two-body decay, it makes sense to think there's a third body there that makes it all work as expected despite you being unable to detect it at the time.

It took 26 years to confirm, and that's thanks to having man-made high flux sources. Detection of solar neutrinos had to wait until the 60s. Funnily there was a puzzle with those, as around two thirds of the ones you could expect seemed to not being there (again). This mismatch took another 40 years or so to confirm, so now we know that there are neutrinos indeed and that they show flavour oscillation, that's why if your experiment is looking for a particular leptonic flavour, well you're missing the other two.

So this is not the first time such there must be something there I can't see, yet I can say something about so it all fits together does the job. Hopefully it won't be the last time.
I happen to be reading Battle Cry of Freedom right now, and I second its recommendation. Its wonderfully written, and its striking how many of the issues dominating the decades leading up to the Civil War feel very similar to the issues of today.
An in memory graph store for Clojure and ClojureScript
Well they did but it was classified for a while. Then the NRO donated it to NASA

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_National_Reconnaissance...
It's made in Coffeescript, actually.
Man that's crazy, trying to figure out how you make something look like glass/water. Also moving your mouse around on desktop gives it added feel of depth/realism the pane of glass.
It literally means "really", to direct the reader that an incredulous comment or spelling error came from the source
WeaveSilk Classic exists on iOS.
It's not just humans. This behavior seems to go pretty deep:
https://phys.org/news/2017-02-animals-unfairly-dont.html
I think the idea is that as a consumer, you shouldn’t use pre-1.0 packages in the first place, since pre-1.0 means “not ready for use”.
Dont consider P/E as sole index of company's valuation.

Stock markets assign high P/E for anything they consider as "Growth". TSLA, CMG is all considered as "Growth".
For some reason the present market is geared towards "Growth" than "Value".
To piggiback a little on the GPT-3 discussion.

I always wanted a "tiered" tl;dr functionality that would allow me to collapse text into a tree-like structure with the most important content on top and filler at the leaves. And please, please package it as a browser addon.

-- rationale --
There are plenty of articles inflated due to autor being paid per kilogram of used ink. Or a book author that was arm twisted into inflating a perfect 100 page book into an unreadable 400 page monstrosity noone is able to follow without mind wandering.

Of course there is a question on how to achieve a working tl;dr - the "old" way would be to manually summarise articles on a number of conciceness levels and use that as training data. Or to use some existing summary services as source.

Perhaps there is a better way? If we could run the GPT-3 backwards (inverse) (^-1 ??). GPT-3 can "produce text" given a start cue, in reverse it would "remove text".
At the time I thought it was superseded by Digg.com, at least in the sense of helping other people discover cool stuff. I had a few articles go viral on delicious... well viral for the time.

Digg is still around, too, but not in a recognizable form. (At least, if there's a way for mere mortals to submit links, I haven't found it.)
Looks like the recent Twitter hack tells us about potential security risks when it comes to data collection as well ;)!
First impression is good! Will try it out!
And because of C.A. FB can probably claim they need to close the graph so that sort of thing doesn't happen again

But yeah, drives me nuts. Innovation happens due to the initial openness... then everyone closes down and takes their ball and goes home
Nice Scotland simulator!
Hey, I'm the author--thanks for posting this here.

The page actually uses the exact same effect, so the article provides a decent breakdown of how it works, for those interested.
It's all about politics. In France Big Data is never translated by "mégadonnées" but in Quebec, it is always because the people of Quebec like to defend their identity against the american culture.

Usually you translate a word to understand it better.

The paradox is that the people of Quebec speak fluent english whereas most of french people have a poor english.

Anyway pipeline in french remains pipeline but pronounced the french way. Bitoduc is a troll because bito is close to bite which means dick in french.

Conlusion : It's more a political quebec dictionnary than a french dictionnary.
Yeah seriously - "rounds" don't mean anything unless they publish numbers, and even then it's sketchy. You need to be able to verify that they're actually there to shrink the pool, not just provide the impression of it. Take-homes are free for the company to issue.
ESA's leaders have mocked and disparaged SpaceX's approach in recent years; why would they bother unless they considered SpaceX a serious threat? They must be worried. I'll also point out that SpaceX naysayers have a dismally poor record of predicting the future.

This isn't an EU/US thing and I totally agree with you on ULA, SLS and I might add Roscosmos etc. I wish ALL launch providers would move towards reusability because in the end that increases the opportunities for getting humanity exploring space properly again, which is what I'd really like to see. Clearly Europe has fantastic engineers: why aren't they leading this transition? Why is it only SpaceX, Blue Origin and Rocket Lab that are actively pursuing reusability today (notwithstanding paper studies etc. from other groups)?
Pff, this only draws pictures of my mom naked.
> What might have been a “Data Delivery Team” charged with delivering fresh data to customers unfortunately becomes “Data ingestion Team”, “Data processing Team” and “Data Release Team” (real world example).

This split is eerily similar to Backend, UI, Ops, which is the very thing the author criticized earlier in the post. It sounds like the teams they ended up with just weren't cross-functional teams.

There's another tell, too: "Data-Delivery". What does that even mean? From my perspective, I have zero clue. There's likely a dozen different ways to slice that up into discrete sets of user experiences of features. And then you can organize cross-functional teams around those experiences, like: reliability, visualizations, integrations, etc.

Of course, things aren't always that clean. The real world is much more murky.
> > That's not what anyone is suggesting

> ...and yet that's what people are doing.

> Her mother, a nurse, and a man identified in the report as her father, a physician assistant, gave the girl azithromycin...The report does not state if the girl had a prescription for either drug.

You need a better source. There was supervision in that case. Sadly, the girl was apparently part of the ~75-80% that don't survive COVID-19, even with azithromycin & hydroxychloroquine.

> So are its risks.

And that means its risks can be addressed and quantified.

> extreme cherry-picking

Two points. 1. A great example of cherry picking is the single instance of mortality associated with using azithromycin that you gave in your source. 2. The issue of degree of efficacy is secondary to the fact that it's potential for efficacy is being hidden and labeled disinformation, when the drug should be investigated for its potential to save lives.
Not really. For example yes nyc has a low case incidence rate, but the virus is blowing up in many other parts of America. Even during this period of relatively low travel it’s safe to assume there are people coming into nyc from around the country every day. Testing is delayed by 8-17 days, so the public health data is dangerously out of date. To be safe right now means isolating.
I also don't like the idea of étiquette for "tag" instead of balise (which suggests navigation instead of a label or price tag in a store)
https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/balise
Nah there is a quite huge gap between Douyin (Chinese Tiktok) and Tiktok itself. I once out of curiosity browsed Douyin. Peculiarly, they are rather hostile with attempts to bring TikTok trends into their platform, and they showed their contempt quite clearly.

Side note: Douyin features are way ahead of TikTok.
e.g.
https://youtu.be/yyeO7EUciIQ
Only if it’s 8 children.
Nice I'll have to try it out
What is the age group they target? I am not 40 and don’t know a single person with snap anymore. None of my kids or their friends so is it like 15-25 year olds or who uses snap now days? Thanks
That looks / sounds great!

Are the sounds based on samples, or procedurally generated?
> Ultimately, the hearing won't reveal any surprising facts about these companies and will likely feature some theatrics, as is often the case with antitrust hearings.

The article says it best at the very end.

Wherever you lie on the spectrum of blaming these tech companies for doing obvious things to continue to drive the bottom line to their investors, the problem here is that this is just a show. And everyone involved knows it.

There are no mechanisms in place for making competent adjustments at this scale, ESPECIALLY in the United States government. If you’ve ever tried to watch any of these, it’s clear the legislatures either aren’t competent enough in the field to challenge these prepared talking points.

There’s more of a chance of legitimate, competent discussion in a forum like Joe Rogans podcast where he gets people like [1] Jack Dorsey and Tim Pool in a room (albeit with the babysitter counsel) to have a back and forth.

I think the key to moving forward as a decision making body of any kind is to merge the two. Clearly, nothing can come of the Joe Rogan show of note, but imagine: what if it could? What if there could be more transparency and accountability for these huge companies and we could objectively examine what they actually do rather than just hear their talking points and move on?

I guess I’ll end my rant here. It’s just very discouraging that, despite the fact that this hearing is occurring, there’s a next to nothing chance that anything useful for the advancement of our country’s liberties will come.

1 https://youtu.be/DZCBRHOg3PQ
Wasm isn't compiled to JS, it's a separate engine within V8. Depending on the kind of code it can be faster than pure JS -- but it depends. JS code benefits from using V8's native garbage collector and other high-level built-ins that Wasm code currently cannot access so easily. So, perhaps counter-intuitively, transpiling Python to JS will likely perform better than compiling CPython to Wasm. OTOH, Rust compiled to Wasm will probably beat JS on number-crunching tasks.

(There is work underway to expose the native garbage collector to Wasm apps but it's not here yet.)
Does anyone know of good peptide suppliers?
Not as much as you think: ~32%
Source: https://www.spacexstats.xyz/#payloads-customers
That's not a clinical trial.

The actual clinical trials keep finding no benefit.
Well, one that springs to mind for me is Palm. Their devices punched well above their weight when it came to performance vs their Windows Mobile PDA competitors with better battery life but couldn't stand up to the corporate demand for buying things with the Microsoft sticker on them. Their later smartphone products were in the same position when Apple debuted the iPhone and was able to bring boatloads of cash from their ipod successes to bear on pushing both Palm and Windows Mobile out of the smartphone market entirely.
Code Smell
I absolutely agree. :)
By all means please do educate me on what I am not seeing.

I once saw a British OS, Symbian, used around the world. I saw a Finnish company's phones used around the world. A little British computer maker designed what's still the most popular CPU architecture, ARM, but the company is long dead.

I understand many of the world's hard disks come from Thailand and Malaysia -- but from factories owned and run by Western Digital, Seagate, etc.

Yes, every country is part of the world market, but the salient point is who manages to break out of their own national market.

I am trying to think of Asian companies who make and sell computers or computer-related tech internationally. Samsung, Toshiba, Hitachi... But they run American OSes and use American designs.

Sony and Nintendo don't, but then they don't make CPUs or GPUs, do they? Sony's PCs run Windows, like the Japanese laptop vendors' do. When Sony made PDAs, they ran PalmOS; when Sanyo did, they ran Windows CE.

American dominance was not so universal just 25y ago. Can we identify what happened?

Is this all "worse is better"?
MIT Tech Review Gabe up any real legitimacy years ago. It’s really just a pro-MIT propaganda publication at this point, especially any of the frequent gushing articles about MIT alumni startups.
I live in the south of Spain and 42C is rookie shit. Here you basically can't go out until it's sundown.
Sure, but even marketing versions are usually backed by the real version if you look for it.
Oh please stop white knighting. The resources spent doing something unnecessary can be better spent elsewhere. No need to break scripts that have a hard coded master keyword in the.

Nobody is offended it's being changed. Nobody is offended it says master either , it's just plain unnecessary and in general doing stupid and unnecessary things is a bad idea because it prevents the person doing so from doing something useful and good
Intentionally infecting people with Covid-19 for science
$50B sounds realistic.

Snapchat is a $33B company, with 30% yearly revenue growth and similar demographics to TikTok.

TikTok has a lot more active users than Snapchat and is growing much faster. It's the only non-FB app in the global top 5. That alone makes it an attractive investment as a hedge.

Take a look at the stats: https://mediakix.com/blog/top-tik-tok-statistics-demographic...
Undervalued at $33B in my opinion.
PyTorch for Windows Will Be Developed by Microsoft
Hackinscience: Interactive Python Exercise Platform
It depends how you count a user interaction. YouTube ads are pay per view. A view is defined as someone watching the ad for 30 second or longer, at which point the advertiser gets billed for a view (around 10 cents or so). However, only a small % of these views lead to a click to the advertiser's website. So although the PPV is lower than contextual CPC, it is about the same when one compares actual traffic to the website.
Thanks - I guess I would draw a big distinction between adding a new instruction as part of being first to a new version of ARMv8 - which then becomes part of the standard ISA, and adding a permanently Apple only instruction. Would be very disappointed if it's the latter.

Agreed that the Apple Silicon branding was very strong but assumed that it was just to distinguish themselves with consumers from those who will also use ARM on the desktop.
Fascinating. Over here (NL) whenever any group orders pizza's, the default is to just order one for yourself. At 'best' we might make a deal with another person to swap a quarter or half of the pizza. It's definitely not a 'group food' though.

EDIT: well, with the exception of the occasional event/party organizer, but that applies to all foods.
I think the GP wanted to know what the actual tests an analyses are.
>It sounds like the teams they ended up with just weren't cross-functional teams.

You are exactly right! And yet everyone thought they were organized by functions/objectives/OKRs or whatever. The blind spot is what I want to highlight here.

"Data-Delivery" is an anonymization. The team shipped a specific data set that I did not want to name.
Yeah, no. You don't get to boss around anybody at any location. If you want to stay home, stay home. Don't tell everyone else what to do when you are able to avoid the virus entirely by just taking your own advice.