skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth constantly re-iterating that Vine [1] was shutdown by Twitter in 2017 back when Twitter was losing a lot of cash. It was available for any tech company to purchase for pennies on the dollar and was losing $10 million/month to run [2].

Vine was very popular and a lot of people were very disappointed when it was shutdown. It predated TikTok and Musical.ly and certainly had the vast majority of users for short looping videos before it shutdown. Previously users have suggested Vine used a follow/subscribe-model and was not algorithmic like TikTok, but adding a news feed algorithm to keep up with a competitor would not have been that hard.

It's been reported Microsoft is looking at buying TikTok with some investors valuing the company at $30-$70 billion. [3] That number is high in the context of this latest WSJ article, which says Twitter has $7.8 billion in cash and a market cap of $29 billion.

However, TikTok reportedly earned $5.6 billion in revenue in Q1 2020 [4], and reportedly made a $3 billion net profit in 2019 [5]. It those numbers are correct then TikTok (which often called a Vine clone, and Vine 2.0) has grown bigger than Twitter itself.

This leapfrog happened in an era of cash-rich Silicon Valley software companies, where investment funding is easily obtainable.

It's worth reflecting deeply on this turn of events, and why Vine was allowed to wither and die, only for a better executed clone immediately take over and dominate.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine_(service)

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/07/revive-vine

[3] https://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-aims-for-a-deal-to-bu...

[4] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bytedance-results-idUSKBN...

[5] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/27/tiktok-bytedance-profit.html
Yeah. This would have been a good time to introduce UBI, but instead we doubled down on the perverse incentives of existing welfare systems.
Currently experiencing this at my current employer. I have a suspicion that slowing the dev and deployment process is in everyone's perceived best interest, until of course the day where we are out competed.
I think the odds are pretty good. The TypeScript compiler's performance is not optimal: https://twitter.com/evanwallace/status/1275945317045657602. Microsoft's TypeScript team has a lot of priorities and other things likely take precedence over performance work.

Also it's pretty trivial to build a faster compiler if you don't have to worry about type checking. You can still have type checking with a bundler that ignores types by running the official TypeScript type checker in parallel with your bundler.
Screenplays (Linked) to Boost Your Writing Craft
> I always struggle with applying those concepts

Soft skills are best practiced in forced situations, such as management and conflict resolution. Learning these concepts isn’t going to happen so long as you remain in situations where there is low friction from avoiding people or decisions.
600 + state unemployment can easily crack $1000 a week, that is double what most retail workers are making. It is boggling to me that grocery clerks are even showing up. Constant exposure to corona for 2k a month or sit at home for 4K? I would definitely be figuring out any way I could to get fired.
Ask HN: What are you watching on TV to relax and unwind?
I'm watching Space Force. It scratches an itch. After thinking almost all day, I believe that watching a show/series where I don't have to think about the plot lets me just chill and wind down.
Deletescape, the one who posted Intel leak got account suspended on Twitter
A batman function with a bevel or one super imposed on the x-z plane.
While I applaud congress for moving fast in March and April to get money out to people, there were bound to be holes in the act, and paying people more while on unemployment than they were previously making is one of them. It's not that I see it as a disincentive to work, but something feels very unfair about it, making for bad optics. I'm surprised the Democrats are pushing so hard for $600 without the caveat that unemployment won't pay more than you were previously making. Seems like a pretty easy compromise.
That's awesome. It'd be interesting to see this applied as a general way to browse videos across the open web. Like StumbleUpon for videos.
I once discovered a way to restore a minimized window without using the mouse. It requires a bit of practice:

1. Press Command-Tab to show your running apps. Keep holding Command.

2. Press Tab until you've selected the minimized app.

3. Press the Option key, and let go of the Command key. You must release the Command key after pressing the Option key! The minimized app is now unminimized.

Note that this only works for an app with all of its windows minimized. If there is already a visible window of the app you won't be able to get to the minimized one with this trick.

I posted it once to Super User where it’s still getting attention after 9 years: https://superuser.com/questions/196141/keyboard-shortcut-to-...
> Less stability

Not my experience at all.

> less support from app developers

There are more apps on Android, and the apps do more things. I'm not sure how you came to this conclusion.

> less polish

The productivity apps on iOS are near useless. Then Apple moved to its own Maps, which was a disaster.

> a lesser tablet ecosystem

Android's tablets are called ChromeOS. They are a strictly better experience than iPad, with a built-in keyboard and Linux support.

> less cross-device functionality

Its default cross-device functionality (installing apps on your device from other devices, phone calling, voicemail, SMS, email composition sync, photo sync, document sync, music sync) is strictly better and existed long before iOS had anything.

All of your perceived disadvantages don't exist, and there are many other advantages that Android has on top like system app updates without rebooting, better security, better privacy, better development for your own devices, better web browsers, better car apps, better multiuser support, more app discounts due to app store competition, better gaming through streaming services and emulation, etc.
So he doesn't believe in the term toxic masculinity. What is the argument you are making here, exactly?
But that object is not a string, it is char buffer. You cannot directly substitute one for the other.

Yes I realize they can be used to store the same data, but you've defined a new type that is incompatible with an actual string object.
I've found rust to be very capable as well, if lacking in runtime libraries with native bindings. It's not too difficult to bind into coreaudio and jack, though.
If true, how is the management of the American companies aware of this theft still doing business there?

How come the Feds will prosecute bribery form foreign officials, but not the CEO or COO allowing corporate property to be stolen?
> No flourish was too much

Well, that's an uninformative title!

It's about the life and work of the 19th C painter Tissot.
I have yet to see any reason as to WHY Microsoft was handed this "Deal" from the start. Any one know why them and not FB?
Yeah, I think the key point is that the landing page method is great for identifying smashing successes (high true positive rate, low false positive rate). But ideas that fail the landing page method might still be good, just need more investigation (high false negative rate).
That's cool - not just the idea but how simple the implementation is.
TikTok for Business server 2021
That would make an interesting update to Beatrix Potter's Jeremy Fisher story :-).
The Struggle Against Inevitable Bias and Groupthink
Hi, this is exactly the same model that I got. Mine has a different branding on but many sellers seem to have re-branded the same white-label model from China. They work well. They generate ozone for 30 min and then for 5 min every hour until the battery runs out. It has a micro USB battery charging port.

You can search for them by using the model number (ST-807A) or by searching for "ozone generator fridge" on your fav shopping sites.
Fingerprinting scripts often use the Web Audio API (see https://audiofingerprint.openwpm.com/). Sometimes, they use enough of the Web Audio API that the OS thinks they're trying to play audio, and it temporarily reduces the volume of other audio sources, sort of like when it makes your music quieter so you can hear GPS directions more clearly.
Not sure if this is true in all states, but in mine getting fired for cause disqualifies you from receiving unemployment. You have to be laid off/terminated by no fault of your own.
I thought it was a reference to "Rome wasn't built in one day". As in, the creators know that this is one hell of an ambitious project.
RPA competitors battle for a bigger prize: automation everywhere
I wonder about the complexity and AWS motivations.

What does AWS gain by improving IAM? There are barely any competitors, so they won't be losing people for that. They offer their own AWS professional services happy to charge you for making it "understandable". Their service agreements largely absolve them of client mistakes. Which usually result in larger bills from AWS.
Americans Renouncing Citizenship Surges to Record Level
Environment Vars for SPAs
my theory is that their current head of product, who was the founder of Periscope which Twitter bought pre-launch, made the argument for Live Video (his app) over Vine at that time when Live streaming eg Meerkat/Periscope looked to be the "next big thing" in social media (which it never became).

Twitter had to choose one video strategy and went with live because of Periscope and it ended up being the wrong decision.
it's also not a very clever one. I think what the author wants to do is actually segmentation which is much more complex program. the best algorithm Ive used for doing any kind of amplitude following is a detrender with two envelopes running at different rates. next to that is Foote's audio novelty audio algorithm.
There's an incestuous infestation of debt companies of questionable ethics that sell or pass around spreadsheets of names and debts. The provenance of this data is highly suspect, but they're so used to having to act like scammers anyway, what difference does it make?

One account from 2017 on the subject: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-12-06/millions-...
Honestly, on the high-dpi MacBooks (my 2015 13" rMBP and the 16" MBP), I decided to run 100% rendering (which needs to be done with Retina Display Manager). Chrome on 150% default zoom, and VSCode on zoomed in + shortcut to +/- font size easily. Most other electron based apps (Spotify/Todoist) zooms pretty well too. Pixel alignment with round scaling means much better font rendering. UI elements are a bit too small though. But worth the tradeoff to me.
It was similar during the last recession. I was underwater on my house and two other houses. With everyone else walking away it way the perfect time to do strategic defaults...

1. Rental property one - walked away. The bank sold it for $70K less than was owed. I payed $0

2. Rental property two - owed $130K. Did a short sale for $30K. I paid $1K

3. My own house. Walked away. It was sold for $70K less than I owed. They threaten to sue me. I told them that they could either sue me and I would file for bankruptcy or I could get 1/4 of what I owed from my 401K. They couldn’t touch my 401K in a lawsuit.

3 years to the day after the foreclosure, I got an FHA loan for 3.5% loan for a new house.
The potential of short form video was widely recognized at that time. It wasn’t only Vine taking a stab at it. It’s just taken till TikTok to come up with the right formula/execution.
What a cool resource. I've been meaning to finish an MVP for a programming language I've been trying to write, and it's pretty encouraging how many languages use undecidable type systems.
Conversely, this must mean that payday loan shops are dying...so yay?
Japan has a very long tradition of quality and striving for perfection. China, not so much. And cars these days really need to be more than “good enough” to compete worldwide.
Currently watching the sitcom "Community" which I missed the first time around. Good stuff.
Yes, 100%. I highly, highly recommend the book "Debt: The First 5,000 Years". Society has repeatedly been stabilized with mass debt forgiveness many times throughout history.

I'm no religious person, but there certainly seems to be a certain theme about debt forgiveness... https://www.openbible.info/topics/debt_forgiveness

Debt is pretty central to most problems in society, actually.
> Translated from Chinglish. aka If you can do it then you should go up and do it. It's used against people who criticize others' work, especially when the criticizer it not that much better. Often followed by "no can no BB", which means "if you can't do it then don't even criticize it".
I wrote some code to find good names for our kids. We were looking for Hindi names easy to pronounce in English so I wrote a roughly phonetic character based language model. I trained the language model based off names from US census data, and scraped a bunch of baby name websites for Hindi baby names. We picked both our kids' names using the list.
Good idea. I could add reddit video next
I find this particular pedantry annoying ever since I came across the idea that anything on our light cone is "now".

I have a philosophical distaste for defining reality as something we can never experience - the condition of anything at a distance.
New York incubator requires participants to grant IP rights
We were invited to participate in this program:

https://transitinnovation.org/challenge/covid

https://transitinnovation.org/terms-and-conditions

https://transitinnovation.org/covid-terms

The contract includes:

"7.2. Limited License to Your Intellectual Property. Although you retain ownership in your Intellectual Property, you hereby grant to us a limited license to exercise any Intellectual Property that you hold in the Submitted Technology, both patented and non-patented intellectual property, <snipped due to HN post length limit>"

The license could extend a couple of years. They can copy your hardware --as many as they want-- and use it.

Then...

"7.2.5. Sublicenseable. We are entitled to permit our contractors, consultants, and other interested parties to exercise the licensed rights on our behalf <snipped>"

Sub-licensees can copy your hardware, as many as they want.

Later...

"you hereby irrevocably agree to grant us, at a minimum, a non-exclusive, irrevocable, sublicenseable, Full-Service Use license on terms that are fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (so-called “FRAND” licensing terms). Such pricing shall be competitive with (or more favorable to us than) comparable third party solutions available on the market."

And...

"9.2. Permitted Use of Name and Likeness. If you become a Proof of Concept Finalist, you agree to permit the MTA to use for publicity, advertising and promotional purposes (“Publicity Purposes”): (a) your name and likeness, (b) your town or city and state, (c) Submission information, and (d) statements you make about the TTL, all without additional permission or compensation."

...no time limit.

You have to be registered to do business in NY state. If you are not it's $300 to register so you may participate.

This seems like a really odd way to put together an incubator evaluation.

Is this normal? What would you do?
I had to remove a lot of features to get it working on safari so thank apple
C programmers are yawning.
Like the Vulcan rocket which has never flown?
I did a deep-dive into RTML on Twitter[0][1] just now after seeing this post, and I hope to bring some context and clarity to this project, which is done in conjunction with the National Science Foundation (NSF).

@DARPA Twitter thread [2019] on RTML

https://twitter.com/darpa/status/1108760215611236353

Report in OP’s linked PDF authored by Andreas Olofsson

https://d60.darpa.mil/speakers/MrAndreasOlofsson.html

DARPA RTML program overseen by Serge Leef

https://www.darpa.mil/staff/mr-serge-leef

Electronics Resurgence Initiative (ERI) Summit 2019 talk on RTML

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQfddARnNB0

ERI Summit site

https://eri-summit.darpa.mil/

ERI @ DARPA

https://www.darpa.mil/work-with-us/electronics-resurgence-in...

National Science Foundation (NSF) RTML program

https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505640

My unrolled Twitter thread, for convenience

[0] https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1292268278958694402.html

Direct link to my Twitter thread

[1] https://twitter.com/aspenmayer/status/1292268278958694402

Edit:

This late edit was informed by additional info about those awarded grants from DARPA to study RTML, from HN user WillSlim95.

https://ece.umn.edu/prof-sachin-sapatnekar-to-lead-darpa-fun...

In brief, Professor Sachin Sapatnekar (ACM Fellow [2016], University of Minnesota, College of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) has been awarded a $2.2M grant from DARPA, “to build open-source hardware generators for a range of machine learning algorithms that process data in real time.”

His faculty page

https://ece.umn.edu/directory/sapatnekar-sachin/

Quirky OG Web 1.0 faculty page

https://people.ece.umn.edu/users/sachin/
Rome is the current capital of Italy... not a mythical or ancient thing.
I wonder how many recall that Apple signed an agreement with Apple Music, the Beatles' publisher, never to get involved in music publishing. When they introduced the iPod, they sued to get out of the agreement and claim the trademark for themselves.
The thing about mass unemployment is that many people end up relying on the people around them for sustenance even though there are government programs.
It works as a rule if it only applies if the loser is the plaintiff who brought the case in the first place. That would indeed discourage the filing of frivolous lawsuits. In some cases, it should work the other way, but that should be up to the judge and be based on the circumstances of the case.

Edit: The downside is that it would also prevent poor plaintiffs from suing richer ones. But that is already generally the case. It's probably best to judge on a case by case basis.
I see amazing naivete whenever this topic comes up.

People need to think of it this way: there are people who will kill you for the cash in your wallet.
Nor does it in make developers better at their jobs.

The point i'm trying to make is if the scope of what a system can do is limited, it's permission boundary/model is easy to define.

Many things led to the incorrect provisioning of the IAM role. Lake of understanding of IAM for starters as well as consequences around it.

By no means am I saying microservices would solve the problem. But it sure does make it easier to define what permissions your app needs to have as well as limit the blast radius of what is exposed when done correctly.

This is impossible with monoliths on EC2 instances.
Samsung has to use Google search because of the Android licensing agreement, which goes back to IP. If they could, they’d switch off to Bing and get a better revshare.
Capital One uses microservices with multiple layers for privileging and is "true devops" with devs typically deciding IAM policies.

One of the big issues with microservices is that you need to invest a whole lot more into infrastructure and tooling to be able to run them sanely. Most companies are really hesitant to invest sufficiently which leads to burn out, low productivity, and various ultimately avoidable bugs. This compounded with microservices being inherently more complex you often end up with tangled and messy products that are hard to understand software wise which also impacts security. Having worked at Capital One I think that's certainly one of the big issues at play.

For devops, I personally don't get it, maybe I just haven't seen it done well or maybe when it's done well it just disappears into the background. But expecting all developers to be good at application coding and also have an in depth understanding of AWS security best practices is unreasonable. Something is wrong with the levels of abstractions being worked at.
Twitter in 2016 was bleeding money. In that financial situation, offloading a product that was losing $10 million/month without an immediate path to profitability was a reasonable decision.

The question is why a cash rich Silicon Valley company didn't buy Vine for pennies on the dollar. It could have been Google. It could have been Apple. It could have been Microsoft. It could have been Facebook.

Personally, I think it could even have been revived by private equity (who would immediately do deep cost cutting to bring the burn rate down).
looks at the stock market, sees people thriving off of assets they already own during the pandemic Are you sure these people will be going back to work soon?
It's an election year. $600/week is a great motivator to encourage first time voters (and potential life long voters). I'm not surprised they want to be seen as fighting hard for down on their luck workers more than they want to compromise to help down on their luck workers.
To "fight it out without a lawyer" runs the risk of the court resolving the case against you and awarding damages, most pathetically via entry of default judgment if you can't even figure out how to properly file an initial response to the complaint.

Not to mention your own time likely being better spent elsewhere.
Yea until they don't. Exhibit A: StubHub [1]

[1]: https://www.wkbw.com/rebound/coronavirus-money-help/stubhub-...
Web IDES have been around forever. They don't qualify as a real IDE. I'm not moving the goal posts. You're making them bigger to fit your needs.
https://groupgets.com/manufacturers/good-stuff-department/pr...
Open source by the talented Greg Davill
Note at the end: "TikTok helps fund NPR content that appears on the social media platform."
20 years ago or so, I stumbled across a few poems written as perl code. They struck me as very clever at the time, but I haven't been able to find them again.
A great startup that I've been telling folks about is Seth Goldstein's Spartacus, which does (as far as I've experienced) a great job of removing your addresses from the internet. [1]

[1] https://spartacus.com
That's pretty cynical.

AWS is a ball of complexity because it grew organically that way, and they don't have a culture of explaining, or, keeping things simple.

Both of those things would require strong strategic guidance, and a real effort to do.

Unless Bezos edicts: "Our APIs must remain simple even as they scale, and we must document in a manner that keeps the 80% common path easy to use, while the remaining 20% arcane functionality available ..." then it would happen.

But it won't.

It's reasonably well curated arbitrary complexity, it is what it is.

This is not an issue anyone handles well.
Please clarify ".. So the results is that retailers have to stop stocking these or they lose money .. "
depends on one's priorities. that "extra" cash likely prevented an even worse pandemic outcome in the US, as paying people to say home (which is what this amounted to, essentially) was among the best public health outcomes that the US could have had engineered. a rare bug-turned-feature outcome.
Just have to spend $10/mask on ebay
Underrated comment. You have managed to eloquently and elegantly summarize why the US is slow in adopting new standards - be it banking or the CMDA/TDMA mess.
It’s interesting to compare Steve and Tim. Steve was detail oriented, more focused on design and aesthetics, and seemed willing to take great risks. Tim is also detail oriented, but seems more focused on operations and financials, and does not want to take risks that could diminish Apple’s reputation. Steve had less to lose in some ways.

Tim reads like a shrewd leader who will do a good job of maintaining Apple’s empire. But this shrewdness could become a risk in itself if it begins to repel people who want to come to Apple to do ground breaking creative work. That type of work usually requires risk taking, and without it Apple could ossify and slowly decline.
Check out Little Murders.

Cheers from the shadow land.