skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also notice that this model can be applied to other media formats: Text, pictures, audio ...

Actually, I don't think that this is as easy as you might think. The article goes into this a bit when saying that short video sequences are well-suited for such an algorithm because they provide a high frequency of "inputs" per time unit, but I think the article falls short of describing the other thing that makes videos particularly suitable (and, by extension, makes the assumption that "the TikTok algorithm" had a great future in many other places too, of which I am a bit more skeptical). This other critical thing is that video sequences in general also allow a huge variety of inputs to be gathered from consumption that text, pictures and audio can’t match.

- It is trivial to find out which part of a video a user has seen. This is nearly impossible to do reliably with textual content (assuming you don't have an eye tracker running).

- Instead of a still picture, a video provides much more things for the viewer to see. So instead of just knowing that in a picture there's a cat and you thus deduce the user likes cats, it's basically possible to split a video up in slices of which you know where there's a cat, and where there's a dog, and where there's whatever else, so from just that single video you might deduce info about the users' interest in cat/dog/whatever content all at once (depending on which parts a viewer has seen, which parts were skipped, at which point the viewer aborted, or at which point the like button was tapped).

- Video mostly also delivers audio, hence everything that you can gather from audio, like whether a user tends to prefer female or male voices, or which music style someone prefers, comes as a bonus when gathering info from video viewing

- If your videos' audio features someone speaking some text, you can speech-to-text that content and pump it into the usual machine learning modules, from simple sentiment analysis over trying to determine the topic someone talks about up to full-blown "trying to understand what this person is actually trying to say" and take that as an input for determining a viewers' interests. This is basically text analysis, so it lends itself to textual content as well, and audio too, but not so much to pictures.

Video is just really pumping out the maximum of all of these content formats in terms of potentially relevant data points about someones' interests, and it does so at really high frequency, especially if the length of each video is as short as on TikTok and thus the content producers have already performed the daunting work of condensing lots of content into the least number of seconds possible.
Simple Rules for Complex Decisions
It just feels wrong to buy anything new from Apple with "Intel Inside" - when they're clearly going to dump it soon, in favor of ARM (excuse me for not using the cringey term Apple Silicon).
What are colleges teaching these days if not this??
We all know that. It was always true.

The point of real democracy (versus what I call model/book democracy) is to extract useful value from fallible individuals while preventing them to do too much harm (like seizing too much power).

The better questions are then:

* Is it getting worse?

* Are politicians more preoccupied with their interests than in the past?

* Is it because it is easier now to manufacture misinformation?

* Is it because people vote for parties and not for individual politicians?

* Is having less focus on individual character an inevitable result of polarization of society?

* Would more truthful and unbiased news coverage help?

* Would more education on the principles of civic life help people make better voting decisions?

* Is technology causing general disease of attention deficit and focus problem on the scale of entire society causing it to make worse decisions overall?
This is how I imagine 'mad scientists' justify their work.
I like this, but I swear there was a Flash version of something very similar that went viral about 15 years ago.
They make a profit of 30 million in 6 months before Sales and marketing expenses. So they charge more money than it costs to provide their services.

When you look at Sales/Marketing expenses it changes depending on your perspective (and underlying facts). It could be that they are spending ~60 million a year to get ~100 million NPV worth of customers. In that case, they're not losing money. They're making an investment that will return cash in future years. On the other hand, that 60 million could represent a bunch of discounts and incentives. Then they'd be selling $1 worth of stuff for $0.90 and once they stop doing that their market share evaporates.
Virgin Galactic reveals new jet design that would fly three times speed of sound
On Personal Autonomy: David Berreby Interview
Massive upgrade for people working at companies whose IT refuses to buy anything but the cheapest model.
Honestly I want a 21 inch ipad with a stand....
Ask HN: Any advice or resources for launching a DTC CPG product into retail?
I'm the co-founder of a venture backed CPG product that has done 100% online sales for the first year of its existence. The product is consumable and we have a strong repurchase rate as well as 10% month over month revenue growth.
However due to the cost to acquire customers and fulfillment cost, retail sales would theoretically have much higher margins for the business.

We have recently struck a deal to launch a couple thousand store retail pilot which is scheduled to go live in the coming months.

My team is relatively new to the retail world and I believe we have good partners but I'd still like to get educated myself. I've tried googling for resources but have struggled to come up with anything other than low quality blog posts.

I'm looking for advice and resources on retails launches for new products.

Topics I'm interested in are:

Awareness marketing Distributor negotiations PO financing Retail analytics Supply chain scaling Anything else that might be important

Thanks in advance for any resources or advice you might have.
Thanks for the feedback. We've created a place with the "Past Events" tab for you to store past recordings. You can certainly use/distribute these however you like.
> You might actually be accepting some GDPR processing agreement when setting up Windows nowadays.

If you don't know if you "accepted" an agreement, you didnt.
Why is the camera shaking so badly?

Is it to add "drama", or did they forget (or were not allow do) to bring their tripods?
Another possible explanation: The developer‘s certificate leaked and was really used to sign malware. Or his github repo was hacked and something evil was added to his code without him noticing.
Maybe I’m just rationalizing, because if Apple is really going down the road that most commenters here suspect, then there will be no arm macbook for me unfortunately... :(
There is also something fishy about all the "algorithm" talk.

Are we supposed to believe that the algorithms that a bunch of Chinese blokes came up with for a viral video platform are so complex that the US Govt. wants to intervene and help Microsoft buy it?
Main point is not about IoT, it is about how many vendors would be needed to provide plurality in the market. With multiple vendors quality will be low.

If we go the other way around so for example we take Synology and Qnap to provide solutions for this it will be not much different than FB and Google owning all the data. Those companies have know how to do "server appliances" but then they will basically have an ownership of software and hardware and updates for those.

Which in the end achieves nothing because what is the point of having local servers running proprietary hardware and software when you have the same currently, only that servers are somewhere else.
In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds have not improved
Letter to a friend who is leaving her job to do do something on her own
In the passion economy, the real risk is that your job has to earn a living and meet the needs of your soul.

Six questions to consider.
I will almost certainly remain grid-tied for quite some years to come, so excess will go elsewhere. But I want to pull in fairly close to zero. Also, I'm in the Bay Area and my electricity needs will track sun pretty well. Heating is currently gas and cooling is electricity.

I plan to end up with Mitsubishi ductless units sooner or later, at which point there will be more opportunity to balance out energy consumption. And I'm probably 1-2 years from owning an EV, given how our commuter car is holding together.
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>GPU can't rebind to PCIe root otherwise or something... thanks Nvidia

dose this only happen on nvidia, or amd as well?
The type of sugar actually has quite an impact, other than just the color and flavor. Brown sugar results in taller and softer cookies because it's slightly acidic and so reacts with the baking soda. White sugar causes cookies to spread more and become crunchier.
All 10xxx parts are either Ice Lake (10nm) or Comet Lake (14nm), none are Skylake. I mean, if you want to get technical both are "Skylake derivatives", I guess.
Why does it matter? There will be a period where the Intel Macs are still supported and probably more stable, and it could be ~2y before your upgrade is available if it's ARM based.

If you have a retina macbook pro from 2014~ it definitely makes sense to upgrade to a macbook pro 16" today. The thing will see you through another 5-6y easy.
the moving backgrounds are gonna give people issues.

i also had trouble reading the text on the backgrounds; consider changing the font colour to something that has significantly a different value (as in, Hue-Saturation-Value) from the background.

also as somebody has pointed out, the drag box felt tiny.
That is truly the dumbest critique of Julia that's been published. So dumb I didn't bother refuting it at the time, but apparently people take it seriously?

- Hello world is slow? Really? Yeah, it's not a hello-world-oriented programming language.

- One-based indexing is questionable? Troll much?

- Using `ccall` is unsafe? No kidding, there's no way to call a shared library that doesn't crash if you lie to it.

- `@printf` sucks? Then don't use it. I never do. The `print` function works for 99% of cases.

- Julia development is slowing down? Whiffed on that call.

Regarding the C ffi point, you can use Clang.jl to generate correct bindings so that you don't have to read C header files. But note that if you want to call a function in C you need to look at and match its signature, so it's not all that onerous to have to do the same from Julia. Julia's C interop is so good that several other languages have copied it since it came out.
I'm guessing they will go right to the meat of things and upgrade one of their MacBook Pro models. That is right up the "Performance per watt" avenue which Apple claims their new silicon is best for. They are going to want to squash any rumors that these don't perform well right off the bat so I don't think they are going to be conservative here.

For similar reasons, I don't think the iMac was ever slated to be the first Apple Silicon machine. The desktop form-factor just doesn't highlight the benefits of the new architecture the way a laptop does. Since they sell a lot more laptops than desktops, it's likely they don't even have a desktop specific CPU ready at launch time. That'll come next year or maybe even 2022 towards the tail end of their 2 year launch window.
An image on the page has some weird text that seems to say milliseconds-squared: "The variation in delay of received packets (or jitter) decreased from 82.9ms² to 0.3ms²". Maybe they are quoting variance instead of standard deviation?
iMac Pro already had the better camera/speakers/mics
The iMac had NVMe SSDs at least as early as 2015[1]. Apple has since moved away from NVMe modules and gone to raw flash chips hanging directly off the proprietary "T2" system controller chipset. I think it's fair to criticize the proprietary/non-upgradeable nature of this storage solution but benchmarks have shown it to be comparable in performance to standard PCIe 3.0 NVMe drives so calling it outdated is not really a valid criticism.

[1] https://beetstech.com/blog/apple-proprietary-ssd-ultimate-gu...
> "Viscose" was supposed to be "Viscose".

Uhhh...
This seems disingenuous. Once you buy an iPhone, you need to buy apps from Apple's store. There is no similar force restricting you to Walmart.

This would be more akin to buying a Ford and then discovering you could only buy parts, motor oil, etc. by visiting your Ford dealer.
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Ah I see what you mean. It doesn't work for data migrations though.
MPlayerX was caught bundling installer with malware: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/3bhvh9/psa_do_not_in...

So this could be justified
Loch Ness (its a loch called Ness.) Lochness would make a strange adjective!
Why do you care? They're the fastest cores you can buy and 10 of them in a box is pretty respectable on throughput terms, too. They're all just the umpteenth revision of the pentium pro, if you're trying to be reductive.
Agree its a spec bump rather than a redesign, i for one was waiting / hoping to see the bezels gone.
War means enemy, killing, strict hierarchy, dehumanizing the enemy, us vs. them mindset.
We need a collaborative, cooperative, understanding approach for dealing with this.

In your response to your edit I think you have a very rosy view of war. WW2 involved setting cities on fire, locking up ethnic minorities because of their ancestry, and forcing removal of people from one country on the other based on their ethnicity and language. And all of that was on the part of the U.S.
Hilariously, Chrome now hides the www from you, so if you look at it, it doesn't seem like you're on www.
I'm of two minds about this. On the one hand, it all sounds nice on the surface. On the other hand, I definitely wouldn't be a developer today if other members of my family were in any way interested in computers as I was. Learning is a personal activity, and computers were a scarce resource back then.

Competing for computer time is one of those childhood memories I'm least fond of.
Still using the 7th gen in the base 21" model! (which also comes with a 1080p screen instead of Retina)
Does Launching on iOS First Matter?
Just wondering the pros and cons of launching on iOS first before android.

Does it matter that much if my service with web ui and ios app works, and I have a link to the app store, but the play store link is coming soon (in my case, I don't know Java or anything about android ecosystem)
neither, I guessed it was better than what was prior even though it stings the eye
This could be achieved by binary way of pain. Feeling pain or Not feeling pain. Degree of pain may not have any effect on the above scenarios. right?
I did an interview with the FitBit reps at the last CES. And what they described to me was truly Orwellian. The company's big push is in the B2B offerings, all based on constant monitoring and the big data. Health insurance? Put FitBit on to monitor employees exercise levels and activities. Workplace safety? Put FitBit on. Heart rate data and arrhythmias? They already monitor and they are working on more. They even have a sleep score monitoring. And so on, and so forth...

From our writeup: "So what are the benefits for companies and insurance firms? Fitbit Health Solutions (FHS) provides a platform that offers insights and guidance to make employees healthier. But the benefits go beyond health. The FHS platform can improve productivity, reduce on-job stress and accidents, detect causes of absenteeism, and improve job participation.

The company has already released a premium membership subscription for enterprises and customers, especially since the release of its Versa 2 watch."

https://www.medgadget.com/2020/02/fitbit-health-solutions-in...
how is it pennies on the dime? for one the price hasn’t been discussed. and all indications are it’s going to be at a fair valuation

for all you know they will end up overpaying
Collapsible Git Graph
If I think a few steps ahead, about the implications so what you say, then this is what I read:

Unless the Chinese people overthrow their government, and succesfully install a democratic government, they do not deserve to gain wealth through business with the rest of the world, and do not deserve to live a good life. The chaos and suffering that such a process brings is not important. The unknown chance that a post-overthrow government is both democratic and competent, is also not important. The fact that the Chinese people's lives in the past 30 years have become tremendously more free and more prosperous, and that these are the best 30 years in the past 3000 years, is also not important.

In the words of Kishore Mahbubani: do you want to FEEL good, or DO good? Condemning China on a single ideological issue, while ignoring the complexity of the context as a whole, feels good because it aligns with your values, but doesn't do anybody anything good.

Actual good changes are achieved through more dialog, better mutual understanding, better relations and rational approaches.
Likely this is the machine to buy if you want one of the last Intel Macs that can natively run x86 code
> employees might more likely to quit a company that generally pays other employees poorly

For me, finding out that my more skilled colleagues make more money than me would be encouraging. It would mean that if I learn more, I could possibly get a raise.

The bad news is to find out that the people whom I admire because of their god-like skills actually make the same money as I do. That means that I have most likely already hit the financial ceiling.
They also have a PCIe x4 port on the back of the machine for people who insist on avoiding Apple's storage controller.
I have a later 2017 revision of that one, never really had an issue with CPU speed. Mine has RAM maxed to 16Gb though, perhaps that helps. It's a great machine: a real computer but with iPad pro dimensions.
Remember “Rip. Mix. Burn.”?

Apple thinks different now.
The difference which actually changes quite a lot is that the maximum video length is much longer (six seconds vs a full minute). This lets people put more effort/content into their videos, allowing for more expressiveness than just memes. At the same time, a minute is short enough that it discourages the sort of rambling you might see on a freeform platform like YouTube. The outcome is a surprising amount of focused, creatively edited videos on a wide range of interests (I'm currently pretty deep in both crochet and recipe TikTok).

In my opinion the longer length also allowed audio-based trends (which Vine did introduce a year or so before its demise) to really take off. For all that older people mock TikTok dances, there's something to be said for users actively participating in creative trends instead of simply passively consuming them (and there are much, much worse things a teen could be doing on/for the internet than practicing half a minute of choreography).

There is an account I follow that's run by a man who's trying to beat a soda addiction. He's posted a video announcing that he hasn't drunk any fizzy drinks every day for the past fifty-eight days, and he seems to have inspired a lot of people to grab a water instead of a soda at least once. I wish more of my social media experience was like that.
I want to share my favorite linear algebra textbook (Linear Algebra Done Right by Axler)

http://linear.axler.net/

It's meant for a second course in linear algebra and the focus is on abstract vector spaces and linear transformations (rather than a table of numbers perspective). It also doesn't use determinants until the last chapter.
Software developers: How plans to automate coding could mean big changes ahead
Reducing the cruelty of the US criminal legal system
I like, but: Boundary, background, no "you've finished" (it just stops advancing). Also, I have not had a productive day.
Up to 10 cores means Comet Lake-S.
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> Which anchors lost their jobs for questioning Iraq?

Ashleigh Banfield, Phil Donahue (should have called him a host, not anchor).
Can someone explain me, if TikTok does not want to sell then what? Americans will need to use VPN for TikTok?!
And why would they sell they have 800 million users?
Instagram revenue jumped from close to 7 billion in 2018 to 14 billion in 2019, why would they sell how big is USA market?
I feel like as of late, when China sees some success that the US does not, there’s a sentiment that they succeeded only because they’re a lesser society. They have fewer coronavirus cases only because Chinese people are docile, obedient sheeple who hate freedom, or TikTok succeeded because Chinese corporations are happy to discriminate against groups that western corporations would obviously protect out of the goodness of their hearts.

The Slate article you linked talks about Facebook doing a similar thing, and facing a similar backlash.

Is it really that hard to believe that a country of over a billion people, with a mature domestic tech industry and startup scene, would eventually produce something that would compete successfully in the west?
The (DNA) Code Inside Your Cells
There are alternatives, you just have to accept that not every operating system is exactly like Windows and that it takes time to learn something new. But you can multi-boot while doing that and gradually move your workflow away from Windows. Maybe there's still something that actually doesn't work outside of Windows at the end but the majority of your life will probably be spent on an OS that you (hopefully) don't have to fight.
That part is obvious. Still, you have to be able to run it. If you have hourly outages weeks into taking over because you cannot fix this or that glitch, the nicest user database isn't worth much if users are switching to the next platform.

I do not expect much technical depth in an app such as TikTok, nevertheless you will need dozens (and more) of engineers to run it and how do you organize those to a previously unknown structure. In theory that is simple but anyone with who manages code for someone no longer in the company knows otherwise. And the engineers that wrote the code weren't native in english either ...
Tools for Tedious Tasks in Visual Studio Code
What you are talking about is how long the pain exists. Not the degree of pain. Isn't it?
Apple today also announced that its 21.5-inch iMac will come standard with SSDs across the line for the first time.

I wonder what took them so long.