skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could easily make the case that Facebook is copying Twitter (Vine), an American tech company that TikTok copied.

But let’s be real, there’s nothing impressive or innovative about making an Instagram clone with short video clips rather than pictures. All this talk about its magic algorithm is ridiculous. What would be impressive is if they were profitable, which they as far as I know are not. Their scalability is also overrated since other companies are doing all the heavy lifting, and they’re spending hundreds of millions on attracting users to their free video sharing app.
The fragmentation of the internet will lead to separate technology stacks instead of the monolithic "vertical integration" of a handful of US companies that we have nowadays, and will be a good thing for overall technological innovation. Of course it will come with a lot of conflicts.
Instagram didn't "win out" against Facebook. They fulfill two different roles with a few duplicated features.
TikTok sale has nothing to do with economics, it's all about internal politics, not even foreign.
TikTok hosts many groups hostile to Trump that were successful at ruining his rally in Tulsa, and could have some more tricks in their arsenal with elections in sight, so he desperately needs to take control of the platform and the users, and the only way to do that is for a US company to acquire it. Before elections of course.
It's a win-win scenario for both Microsoft and Trump: Microsoft gets a big user base and Trump their personal data.
> large expensive panel like Tesla

Tesla used non automotive-grade panels to keep costs really low. They started delaminating and the solution was to have everyone's cars run the air conditioner even when the car is unoccupied, causing a big negative impact on effective mileage in the city, but it actually got great response from fans with slick marketing around it. It saved Tesla a lot of money in recalls, but is not great environmentally.
Did you actually watch the video? It clearly shows the driver being distracted by controls on the touch screen to "share" media with a backseat passenger. That's a terrible design that could easily lead to deaths.
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”The reported magnitude is not directly comparable to an earthquake of similar size because the explosion occurred at the surface where seismic waves are not as efficiently generated.”

Should this be interpreted to mean that the blast had more force than a 3.3 earthquake?
And data from smaller explosions of known magnitude, in order to determine the dimensionless constant that cannot be determined from Buckingham’s theorem alone.
The driver just forgot the song from his childhood

"When you need
to adjust car controls
don't forget:
Pull to the side of the road."
I've played this a lot back when Roblox was still brand spanking new. It's absolutely a lucrative area if you can manage to make multiple game-modes with people buying your in-game items for RBux (RBux is the premium currency roblox, which can be used to extend your developer membership or be redeemed to cash). Those big game modes out there with a lot of traffic are actually making real decent money. The game is played by millions of kids willing to spend money on cosmetics/advantage on game-modes. If I recall, I think it was 2017, Roblox rewarded $200k to a young developer for his work on a DayZ Roblox clone.
To easily solve this problem, uninstall all Facebook-owned applications. I know this probably seems absurd and impossible. I promise you that facebook may seem necessary when you're addicted to it but after you break that addiction you'll be left wondering what the hell you were ever thinking in the first place.
So who said America holds free and open trade as an absolute value that we'd uphold even when faced with partners not willing to uphold that value?

You just decided to add extra constraints to my argument for no reason.
I don't see how you could test a statement like that scientifically. Maybe you could argue, for most people? For certain people? People conceive of problems and solutions differently and I doubt it is particularly standarizable in terms of type systems.
Somewhat tangential, but wikipedia has good article on the cost of different energy sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source

The cost of nuclear energy has been flat for decades, but the cost of sources like solar has been plummeting. Nuclear doesn't have much of change without some technological break through.
Even in modern hardware there are plenty of single points of failure.

Single server and "can't tolerate any downtime" are mutually exclusive.
Really the problem is reducing countries, China or America, to a single entity with a single will as if this was the middle ages and each was being run by a monarch.

The problem is that China has done some specific extremely bad things - Uighurs, Hong Kong; as well as some normal things (competing against US companies) and some things that may be normal but are opaque (how many social networks are beholden to US intelligence services? how many apps snoop the clipboard?). Conflating them all into "China bad" makes it harder to make specific demands that can be widely supported.
current comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24048477
I was at a restaurant where each table had a QR code printed on it, containing the URL of a webpage where you could order food and drinks for that table. I was there with some friends who didn't notice the QR code. They were quite confused when the waiter came over to give them menus and me my first drink. :)
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> What if it’s impossible to see due to the rain?

If you can no longer see due to rain, stop the car.
I read somewhere that the Model 3 was intended to be fully autonomous, which was why the interface and look of the car is as spartan as it is. When the autonomous tech ended up not being there (no surprise), Tesla kept the look of the car as if the car were meant to drive itself.

This is probably why CarPlay and Android Auto still aren’t integrated, among other reasons.
Given the choice between reproducible and the scattered disasters I've seen, reproducible seems better.

But I would be content with "pipelined", and have the readily automated part handle itself.
I don't recall Telegram ever shows signs to become a profitable company.
> belly-flop landing ...

Seems less likely that SN6 will be used for 20km flight + belly flop due to the change from 301 to 304L. If I had to guess, I'd say it's likely SN6 will be used w/ nose-cone and LOX header tank for additional short duration hops.
Worth it? Happy with it?
> the most advanced rocket engine ever made

Would love to learn more about this, can you expand? What makes Raptor so unique?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24059822
> So if I care about performance, I would use the JVM?

No. If you use the JVM you might well care about performance. If you care about performance, you should consider the JVM.

> I spent years as a performance engineer on HFT trading systems tuning JVMs.

The JVM is not designed to give you 100% performance (of the ideal offered by the hardware). It's designed to give you the easiest means of achieving ~95%, provided you're OK with some nondeterminism.

> I’d use a language like golang with reasonable default GC behavior and allocation patterns - where I know the daemon I write won’t use more than 100-200Mb, and probably even less, and will typically have sub-ms pauses.

You'd be wrong, because JDK 14 will most likely give you substantially better performance than Go out of the box; JDK 15 and 16 even more so.

BTW, the footprint and performance profile of JDK 14 is worlds apart from JDK 8. The JVM has been undergoing some very big changes in the last couple of years.

> And again, the JVM is the worst offender

Nope. https://greenlab.di.uminho.pt/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/pap...
That's because the Model 3 doesn't have a dedicated rain sensor but tries to detect rain with the built-in cameras.
I believe the focus on US precedent-setting here is a bit misplaced: India was in fact the first non-authoritarian regime to ban TikTok, and this set a precedent which may have influenced the US's own decision.
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I can't stand the abuse of H1Bs. While I may have personal feelings on labor from immigration, these people are still people.

In a similar flavor I never liked it when I worked at $BIGCO and people treated you differently if you were an employee v a contractor. It wasn't a privacy or trust-level thing - it was just social status stupidity.
Hopefully they will have already activated a couple U2F hardware tokens as backup.

Having only one copy of the MFA device is of course a bad idea.
Yup. For all the people boosting nuclear power, the reality on the ground seems to be that it just does not work anymore. It's way too expensive and never gets done, and this problem is global, not just in the US; see e.g. https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a33499619/fr...

At some point the results have to speak for themselves, and solar/wind plus battery storage is actually working and being built. That seems a more realistic path forward than nuclear power, which is demonstrably failing over and over.
I want two different languages. I want one that compiles fast so I can run my unit tests fast. I want one that takes however long needed to get the fastest binary. These need not share the same compiler so long as both compile the same source to the same result.
The Model 3 has a very easy to use touchscreen interface for the wipers, it's hard to imagine someone missing it or being distracted for more than 1 second while using it.

Apart from that, it also has this feature that makes using the touchscreen for the wipers while driving completely unnecessary (when they're on "automatic"): https://youtu.be/1Rr_XzzJ6gc?t=58

Finally, there's also voice controls: "Wipers increase" and you're done.

It's not magic, the horrible thing we still have is courts with clueless/uninterested judges.
> where are people going, besides gold?

As with stocks, the acronym TINA applies. As in, There Is No Alternative.

Yes, there are literally plenty of alternatives, but most of them have (dealbreaking) shortcomings.
It's also got corn syrup. Would that cause any problems for this application?

Here's the ingredient list for Wendy's mayo: Soybean Oil, Water, Egg Yolks, Corn Syrup, Distilled Vinegar, Salt, Mustard Seed, Calcium Disodium EDTA (To Protect Flavor)
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Shocker: they do.
I note that VK is not banned in other Western countries. I'm not sure what conclusions we can draw from that.
Welcome to the market economy!

Seriously, this sort of dynamic is why the world works as well as it does.
Google Search and Maps has unlimited shelf space, and it is free.
Well it is a Tesla, you can buy it with "Full Self-Driving" so surely it doesn't actually need any pedals...
Hi! Today we're launching a full rewrite of our wiki product Papyrs. We're particularly proud of our new editor that -- in our view -- achieves an impossible blend of markdown and rich text editing that appeals to both power users and occasional users. A pure drag&drop rich text editor is great for demos, but when you create a ton of content having to drag widgets gets old fast. Markdown is great, but our product is meant for businesses and pushing markdown on nontechnical users doesn't work. And a lot of rich content like calendars, forms and image galleries aren't suitable for markdown at all. So Papyrs does both, and users can simply switch between rich text and markdown editing modes as desired, and it's kind of magic!

If you want to play around with it you can go to https://papyrs.com/try/ and get your own playground instantly.

All feedback appreciated!
I understand: cookies are deleted every 24 hours unless you’ve visited the site before in the last 45 days.

Does this mean if I visit a site twice the cookie stays but otherwise it’s gone in 24 hours?
I don’t know how anyone who has ridden in a car and used a capacitive touchscreen could come to the conclusion that the two should be combined in one product. Especially for controlling safety features.
This is due to the non-associative nature of FP. (a+b) + c != a + (b+c).

I disagree that the "axiom" as stated is fundamental. My main argument with it is that I don't see an easy way to go from the axiom to usable theorems about FP.

Happy to be wrong on this, but I am missing this at this time.
Which version is your Model 3?
While Docker can be very useful against attempts to "download the internet" (possibly simulating multiple remote servers on a fake network) and aganst accidental changes to source files, configurations and tools, there are sources of intentional nonreproducibility (e.g. embedded timestamps, common in Windows executables) that need to be addressed more directly.
But they do?

The voice recognition is a bit sub-par IMO, but I can control the wipers by voice if I want.
Hey, I actually checked out your app while doing research, great work!

> - some music is super easy to mix (minimal house) while others are basically impossible (punk rock)

I also found out that electronic music is easier to mix just because it's continous nature.

> - vocals in two tracks simultaneously always sounds bad/annoying. I ended up including a vocal detector in the algo.

Clashing vocals is a good problem to solve, I couldn't find a useful vocal detector in Python. I thought of EQ manipulation for it, cutting mid and high frequencies to totally ignore vocals, but it seems to kill the vibe.

> - incompatible musical keys can sound really bad in some cases, in other cases just fine. I think it depends on the saliency of the notes, among other things.

Keys are super important too, Essentia library has a great KeyDetection algo, and I implemented a Camelot Wheel harmonic matching functionality too. But it's not in the pyCrossfade yet.

> IME djing is mainly about playing good music and keeping a flow/vibe.

In the problem of choosing the next best song, I considered BPM and Key similarity, harmonic attrs etc. But I think, when mixing a playlist, it's more important to arrange the flow. Opening up with more calm songs and then reaching the climax, then giving people some time to catch their breaths. The whole DJ'ing process is track selection, some good tranisitions and managing flow/vibe as you said.

May I ask you: Is it hard to get Spotify API? I heard that Spotify would end it's every third-party support.
Youtube also has one, I don't remember when I first started noticing it, because I scrolled past it for a long time before opening one. On my phone, in the app, towards the top of the list of videos, is a section called "Stories and short videos". So far, there is very little compelling in there.
I'm waiting for it to get so good that it becomes effective at removing the ads Mozilla added to the new tab page.
The article claims "In this case, the driver had to navigate software menus and then choose from one of five settings, after touching an icon."
I think it's a misrepresentation of my argument to say that because I mentioned that they appear in the dictionary that I am conceding that they are not good terms (although by your exclamation point at the end I am reading that part as well-intended banter).

I'll say this to clarify since I do not believe you are making this argument but having to look up a word should not be the barrier to whether or not a word is used.

They are better because they are well understood and agreed upon terms. I'll also reiterate that the terms are not engineering specific; wikipedia has sources cited so hopefully this will suffice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklisting
Maybe? Intellectual property is a huge sprawling topic that arguably needs different treatment for different kinds of thing. Do you have specific allegations in mind?
> requires a short glance

Just as short as checking whether I got a text message?
You might be interested in this service: https://no-ipv4-here.ungleich.ch/
€36 a year, so for a period of 5 years that makes €180. For me and my partner that would be €360 for 5 years! For a password manager...

I also considered using KeepassXC and Strongbox on iOS, which is completely free (sync the database via iCloud.)
KeepassXC's browser extensions are pretty bad though, hopefully that will change sometime soon.

If you want to keep costs low, Bitwarden is currently your best option i think.
It's important to keep in mind (1) there are only a few hundred active NBA players on planet Earth and (2) most of them have been training hard at basketball since childhood. (Only the rare "big man" can get away with being a late starter.)

So when we talk about "preferences" here, it's not about adult preferences, it's about childhood preferences.

Most careers don't, and shouldn't, require you to choose them in childhood.
I use to be fascinated with datacenters and would masquerade as a customer prospect to get a tour and see all the cool gear. I was asking one engineer about what they're plan was for a tornado (this was at ThePlanet in Dallas TX way back when) and they basically scoffed at the question. A week or so later one briefly touched down about 1/4 mile from them, I wonder if they thought about me when the sirens were going off hah.
No, because the demand is same (or slightly modified by Covid), but supply is much larger because geography is not a constraint.
Somewhat related, the face when you solve for epicentre from seismic station data and get a location at negative depth:

https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2016/02/04/the-earth-shook-but...
I made this post on the forums: https://forum.gitlab.com/t/gitlab-support-is-no-longer-proce...

In summary:

Please consider some kind of exemption for non-commercial open source projects over a certain size.

This change would force me to choose between unacceptable risk to my users, or severe impact on my hobby/life balance and mental health due to the extreme personal responsibility I would have to take to mitigate it.

It's already terrifying enough to publish applications that users run on their systems. If I make an error I can cause all sorts of harm. But at least I only have to worry about that when developing.

Now, if I enable MFA, I can never relax. If I lose my work MFA, there's a perfectly safe process to recover. If i lose my personal MFA it's a few hours of calling banks. If I lose my GitLab MFA I harm hundreds of people. So, I have to permanently vigilant for something I already give so much to for free.
the next next step is using something like learning to rank algorithms to try get better results!
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I used Instagram for the first time 6 months ago because I'm old, and I was shocked that an app with such a rep for elegance is such a hodge podge of features. It really feels like they just glued a bunch of 'me too' functions onto the original core app.
previously about Mozilla VPN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23859489

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23565192
Mazda is ditching touchscreens, and I doubt they’ll be the last (if they survive 2020).

Safety controls aren’t something that should be subject to “move fast and break things.”
But he still takes VC money from 3rd parties of quite the opposite views. Why? Durov is a cheap liar, running out of funds, period.

Pity, Telegram was so usable app.
> And because this was so “unfair”, the US decided “fuck it, we don’t want free trade either”.

The US didn't do anything like that in fact. You're inventing that premise, broadening what's going on as though it applies to every context when it really applies specifically to China.

As one prominent example, Shopify hasn't required permission to build their $128 billion juggernaut ecommerce platform, riding the US economy like it was a native US company to do it. Neither has Spotify, Trump isn't threatening to ban them.

And you don't need permission to use eg Stripe Atlas to start some giant new tech start-up, riding the US market to great riches. You can just go do it, right now. Just like you could ten years ago. You won't have to pay bribes to anyone to be allowed into the US market, or to be allowed to stay in the US market.

I can freely access eg Baidu and Yandex from the US, despite the context with China and Russia. How does that work the other direction from inside China? Can you freely sign up for Facebook while inside of China?

You can build the next Twitter, KiK, Viber, Snapchat, WhatsApp, Reddit, Imgur, etc. - riding the very comprehensive and strong US free speech protections - without the permission of the US Government. Try that in China and you won't get very far.

The US should treat China as it treats the US, and no better.
How else do they pay developers?
> As well as these two primary classes, there are other (smaller) classes in capitalist society,

While central to Marx’s writing, the LTV isn't particularly essential to socialism (that labor is essential to the production of value is, the LTV itself is not).

> It should be pretty clear to anyone at this point that all you need is a laptop, programming skills, a good idea, and a lot of luck to become a billionaire.

Or ownership of sufficient quantity of the means of production and a lot less luck. But, though there are reasons to question the LTV, I'm not sure how the high value of of some particular labor that requires only minor capital to realize in any way figures I to such criticism.
They might want the people working on it who know how to work with video.
I agree, national security and privacy are both great reasons for the EU to take action against American megatech corps. Honestly I see little downside at all and I even think Americans citizens would also benefit from having these corporations knocked down a peg or three.

Of course shareholders would squeal like stuck pigs about efficiency, economies of scale, etc... but that's to be expected and, depending on your perspective, might even be part of the fun.
https://www.accurics.com/blog/devops/devsecops-risks-and-bes...
If interested, there was also a New Yorker piece last year explaining the rationale: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/09/at-last-an-air...
this is on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24060100

which is already a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24025100

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This is about windshield wipers, not door handles.

Just kidding! But, my assumption is that an engineer isn't the one making design decisions about the touchscreen UI at Tesla.

I'd go so far as to guess that the decision to move every possible control from the dashboard into software might have come from the top of the org chart, or near it. I have no idea if it's true, but it feels like one of those "visionary leader" decisions made by someone with little accountability and a lot of Dunning-Kruger.
Bootstrap is actually great.

The worst thing is that it looks like Bootstrap :P

You should use something like Material Design for Bootstrap right away.

Especially with the latest v5 version with plain JS (na jQuery)

https://mdbootstrap.com/docs/standard/
Sure it's the first?
I know you weren’t asking me, but you didn’t get an answer so I’ll chime in.

At work we use Yesod, and it’s been working great for us. A more detailed explanation of what we use can be found here[0].

[0]: https://serokell.io/blog/haskell-in-industry-riskbook
Created by "John Lua," another Facepunch gag.
A physical wiper knob is also not magic, but Tesla's engineers were too clueless/uninterested to add it.
I was shopping for a used car a couple of months ago. I had an question about a car, and figured, what the heck, let's give it a try.

No answer, of course.

Brilliant.
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