skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is eerily similar to what happened in India.
It was alleged that a certain Facebook official resisted banning certain profiles, despite
recommendations from their own team, only because those profiles belonged to high ranking BJP(ruling party) leaders and banning them would hurt their profitability. Interestingly the ruling party in India is right wing as well.
However I think Facebook is just driven by profitability rather than any political inclination.
Reference: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-53803256
ANTLR 4 is a joy to work with if folks on this thread haven't tried it.
The pandemic is a frequent excuse for shutting down unsustainable VC-funded crap that shouldn't have existed to begin with. I am however surprised how they thought it would be believable when it comes to a media/entertainment service given that most people have more free time than ever due to the pandemic.
> But their content was too long to be short

Totally right, imo. I might be old and out of touch, but to me 10 minutes is way too long for content on mobile, and short enough to be kind of annoying on anything else. I'd rather watch a 25 or 30 minute show if I want something short on TV.
Do you really believe that most American's are like that? It's funny how liberals think a socialist utopia is feasible while simultaneously thinking the worst of people.
Except they limited it with recent Firefox Mobile "updates" or "redesigns". AFAIK the last fully-featured FF Mobile on Android is 68.12.0. I have tried the most recent FF Mobile couple of weeks ago and there were only a small subset of add-ons supported and still no about:config.
I'm confused here about two things, and can't find any answers in the comments.

1) How is this different from a regular Firefox container you use for Facebook?

2) Firefox containers are essentially the same as Chrome profiles, right?

I'm just trying to figure out what benefit this has over someone keeping Facebook inside a separate profile in Chrome. If Mozilla's trying to attract people from Chrome... I feel like they need to be a bit clearer on what precisely Mozilla provides that Chrome doesn't?
Is there any type of pedant that isn’t an armchair pedant?
> Video streaming is a prime example of this. I can use twitch on Safari and it uses maybe 30% CPU. Twitch on Firefox uses 150% CPU.

I concur - Firefox consistently uses higher CPU than Safari in my experience too. "Idle page" CPU when nothing is apparently happening but it's draining the battery anyway is higher with Firefox and annoying.

With the exception of LinkedIn, oddly.

Safari uses 105% CPU consistently when a LinkedIn tab is in the foreground.
I use it all the time for r/hardwareswap on Reddit.
Easy. Incumbents always win during re-election and a stable economy. To beat Trump, you have to first tear down the economy. I know you aren't this naïve... Why do you think they always called it coronavirus instead of SARS-Coronavirus-2? They didn't want you to know it's just a mutation of the same thing we saw in 2004.
So why do they have farms in china for bitcoin mining?
I know this is content sacrilege, but I actually think that TikTok nailed it on the head with vertical video. Vertical video means that you can actually fit a single person into the whole frame and have detail. Horizontal video is all about close ups and wide shots, and that takes a production team to think about it.

Vertical video means you just put the phone the same way it always is, and everyone can see everything from floor to ceiling.
Google Panda
Does Quibi have ads? My understanding is that they are a paid service (with free trials) but aren't an ad platform themselves. Thus, if anything, they should've benefited from the pandemic as the falling advertising supply meant they could advertise for their own service for less money than usual.
you're being downvoted, but as someone who used to pay the monthly ransom to be able to play YouTube audio in the background with the screen off, I wholeheartedly agree. I've never watched YouTube exclusive content and couldn't name anything if asked.
From your source:

> Unlike most states, Georgia has a very unique traffic code. Almost all traffic violations in Georgia are misdemeanors.

Emphasis added.
> quibi doesn't have anything share-driven

and that right there is why quibi failed - the only quibi clip I've seen was taken by someone using another phone to record it and post it to twitter. By not allowing viral hits to be easily shared on any platform they shot themselves in the foot.
Oh very nice! Thank you for this. Docker has never been my go to as I use virtualenv for most of my projects but it’s things like this that make me begin using new things.
Right, it'll be interesting to see if this turns out to be another medical research news beat-up. As I keep repeating, hyped up medical and science stories are very counterproductive, they end up turning people away from science, as they are repeatedly disappointed when the promised 'goods aren't delivered.

Over many decades, we've seen this all too often with news releases about cancer research. It's done great harm.
No, but the early railroads of this country were built when there were no property rights of competing owners to defend (or respect), few comparable alternative modes of transportation, and practically no safety or regulatory measures to govern how it was built.

That said, the cost of building things in the US is a major problem.
The problem is not really the relative vote weighting in the electoral college, but the fact that nearly all states in the EC are winners-takes-all.

If you instead awarded EC votes proportionally, you'd largely wind up aligning with popular vote entirely. It'd also make more states more competitive, since it is much easier to move the margin on one electoral vote rather than say 55.
> Relational databases are actually quite convenient for such cases

I believe that someone may have done this in a nice way but every time I've encountered it (3 times thus far), it's always ended with complex SQL and tables being bent out of shape to try and keep performance.

> RDF and SPARQL are limited to simple triples which link a "source" and a "target" entity according to a fixed "predicate"

But can also infer transitive relations based on those predicates - `A canSee B`, `B canSee C` => `A canSee C` - which is handy when you're trying to discover those relationships in your data.
Is that true? The breakup of Ma Bell probably caused all kinds of short term pain, but in the long term it helped consumers. I don’t think that the short term pain is a great rationale to not enforce antitrust law, if Google indeed meets that standard.
https://github.com/containers-everywhere/contain-google

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-contai...

You can use this. It's a fork of Facebook Container, but for Google.

This one is a fork for Amazon
https://github.com/krober/contain-amazon
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/contain-amazo...

Twitter:
https://github.com/v1shwa/contain-twitter
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/twitter-conta...

There's a few more too
As one very junior in my career, this comment was really eye opening for me. I am feel a lot of the frustration and stress of the 'broken' hiring process, but was quite comforted by the introspection your comment caused.

thank you for that :)
Airbnb announces collaboration with Jony Ive's LoveFrom
Of course bigints require more than one instruction to add them, but even then you can reduce the work at compile time down to a series of integer operations, whereas the above code requires interpretting the program before it even gets to the add.

In your example text processing in `unicode_concatenate` is going to be very, very much slower than a bulk load of the native numerical data directly from memory and processing it. For each character, Python needs to check a number is still a number at run time then convert the result to a native numeric. I can only assume this string processing is at worst performed once and cached(?), because otherwise it doesn't seem like it would run well at all and surely Python's bigint performance is pretty important.

> Python code can be made more high performance if there's some way to tell the implementation the types, either explicitly or by inference or tracing.

At that stage, I would just use Nim and get better performance and a decent static type system included and either call it from Python, or call Python from Nim.
I Wish sites could be opened in specific containers via bookmarks
The UI of the Amtrak fare / ticket finding website is terrible.
Thanks for sharing. That must've been a huge disappointment to come out of the study with that and very difficult to deal with. I'm awaiting the start of trials for blue-cone (x-linked achromatopsia). I've been very uncertain of how badly I wish to participate.
Randi also exposed Peter Popoff, an evangelist who wore an earpiece and was fed info about audience members.

Unfortunately Peter too is back out there grifting millions. Last I read he was selling miracle water.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Popoff
> PayPal and Credit Cards did not ban bitcoin in the early days, but the high charge-back rate forced them to do it.

Were you? Then you must have simply forgotten how Ebay UK (which deals with Paypal) allowed for Bitcoin sales only through the ads, outside of the Paypal-sphere [0]. At the time this was pretty signinficant because this was when several Uk based bitcoin exchanges were being shut down. Bittyliciious being the biggest. And Localbitcoins started to become a target by regulators and gox was on its last legs.

Also worth noting how you could bypass this with the sale of Bitcoin 'software' on their platform:

> Ebay previously allowed users to sell software for bitcoin mining and transactions.

0: https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ebay-uk-allow-users-buy-sell-bitco...
I think the point huh is being mad is that individual people (or models) dot learn that way. It’s not like models training models, all the way down.
> Did taxpayers get slammed when we built the transcontinental RR?

Heh, I don't know much about the history of the transcontinental railroad in the US, but up here in Canada it was relatively cheap because... well... to be blunt, we used primarily Chinese labour and did not give a single crap about whether or not they died building it.
sigh

I would like to mumble something about s-expressions and how this has been solved long ago but I lack the stamina after doing it so many times.

Let me go back to my job and my task of modifying a Helm chart which decided that string manipulation of yaml files is truly the way to go.
I'm not sure what this was supposed to demonstrate. It seems wholly without value. Period.

Here are some pictures of people, behaviors, clothing and facilities that likely existed before you were born. Some of these things probably still exist in various locales.
The framing in this page is broken on Firefox Android. The last couple of lines can't be scrolled into view.
I think you are right in constructing situations where real numbers are inadequate. It is also right that you do not claim that hyperreals or surreals suffice, you are merely pointing out that they may help you to do better than the reals.

But I have often wondered - why are people hung up on linear ordering? Why not non-total partial orders?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_optimization

Is this insistence on linear orders because of simplistic modeling on the part of cognitive science and AI people, or is there some problem with general partial orders?
The streaming service attracted blue-chip advertisers including PepsiCo Inc., Walmart Inc. and Anheuser-Busch InBev SA, securing about $150 million in ad revenue in the runup to its launch.

From TFA.
I was pretty tone deaf as a child too.

After I took up singing (briefly) I definitely got better at matching and distinguishing tones once I started paying attention to the actual melodies in music. Even then, it was and still is incredibly difficult for me. I sometimes wonder if pitch perception is analogous to learning a language; totally learn-able as an adult, but never will be as natural as if you learned it when you were a child.
> But can also infer transitive relations based on those predicates - `A canSee B`, `B canSee C` => `A canSee C` - which is handy when you're trying to discover those relationships in your data.

You can do this sort of inference in a view if you use relational databases. (A view is a sort of "virtual" table based on the result of some database query. Many databases can also materialize views for improved performance, though this can make it a bit challenging to manage updates.)
Either you're a celeb, or have an old account so you already have a lot of curated connections.

If you join now, you fall into a pit of dispair. No one or very few follow you, so why bother writing anything there. The timeline will also either be empty or full of garbage until you've fine tuned it.
Paywalled, obviously, but a nice article from 2014.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/magazine/the-unbelievable...
H1N1, Ebola, and Zika, can be transmitted through the air and they are all are more deadly than Covid. Thank God Barack Obama had that miracle cure to prevent mass panic and shutdown...
There are bad, regular, and good people. Randi was in the smallest group of all, the truly great people. They're the ones whose work benefit us all and who do it because it was something they loved to do. Losing people like him makes our world a little sadder and colder place.

RIP, James Randi.
Have you ever considered going on to one of the small business plans? I have this through work, and instead of the usual gripes, my connection has a minimum guaranteed bandwidth instead of some soft "may be shared and degrade with neighbors" clause in it.
Rethinking the Seattle “Chop” Takings Case
Yea - but it should still be possible to structure such a compact in a way where you wouldn't create loser states - let's say you target 80% buy-in of states (by representative numbers) before activating and you're talking about the house (the same rule goes for the senate but the activation might fire at a different time) - The only scenario that would really flub the system is if the 20% of house seats not covered by the compact went all to one party (say the purple party) in close races while the green party and yellow party split the vote otherwise - in that case maybe the purple party won 11% of the popular vote and thus is over-represented by the 20% of control they have. Still the other states could balance the math to split the remaining 80% appropriately.

Additionally, as long as that proportion is significantly high enough (say above the 66% mark) the two parties that were partially disenfranchised would still be left sharing a strong majority in the house between them and, if something similar happened with the senate, they could coalition up and force through a congressional amendment that would bring the remaining portion of the country in line for the next election.

The Interstate Voting Compact couldn't be precisely similarly applied to congressional elections, it'd need more momentum behind it, but there is a way for the math to work out.

All that said, IANAL and I have no idea if the legal shenanigans used to make the IVC binding could also be utilized for a similar movement around the house and senate.
First port of call should be authors, since they are the copyright holders and can clarify intent beyond the letter of the licence. Failing that, you can ask FSF/GNU.

(Not sure why you'd bring Apache or Mozilla into this, considering they went to the trouble of writing their own licenses rather than using the GPL...)
Personal politics aside, I have to admit that this was a pretty brilliant move. When you are trying to reach nontraditional voters, you have to go to the new media. It is interesting watching the political class grapple with this generational media gap.
Is there any way to write code on iPhone? Would a similar approach work or there is something much better?
"estimated 274k hospitalizations" - remind me again how widespread the swine flu tests were in comparison to COVID?
Am I the only one who finds YAML much harder to write than JSON or XML?

It's not just the fact that I get the syntax for lists and maps confused all the damn time. The worst part is that I'm unable to use the keyboard shortcut for automatically formatting my document!

I love that keyboard shortcut! I hate being without it! I'm certain it represents more than half of my key presses in other languages!

I type a few characters and then I press the code formatting shortcut. That's what I do! That's my workflow!

I don't understand how people who work in whitespace-significant languages can stand being without it! ;-)

(I'm only half-joking - I do find it very frustrating)
Temporary containers has a plethora of settings for when to open a new container. For example, I have a rule enabled that will open links in a new temporary container when they leave the current one. That's a terrible explanation, so let me give an example to make it clear:

- I have a GitHub container

- github.com and gist.github.com are set to always open in the GitHub container

- Say I am currently browsing github.com in the GitHub container.

- If I click a link to a domain other than [gist.]github.com, instead of navigating my current tab to that url, the url will open in a new tab & new temporary container

This is more powerful than simply persisting cookies from github.com -- I'm keeping GitHub's cookies, but only in the github container. It's almost like first party isolation, but a little weaker (unless you enable the setting where any link to a different domain will open in a new container), and I have the ability to group sites that would break with 1st party isolation by opening them in the same container.
My best thinking is done at a desk, with a pen and a notebook.
Don't play this game inebriated or in a noisy area ... it requires focus for the 1/64th notes.
University College London operates a newer pneumatic tube route in the Bloomsbury area, yet at a much smaller scale. The route crosses the pneumatic line described in TFA.

https://www.quirepace.co.uk/products/pneumatic-tube-systems/...
thanks for the insight, that's really fascinating!

> I’m sure the rest was blown on marketing, high salaries, consultants, offices, and deals with actors

It sounds like the antithesis of "lean startup". Of course it could have worked out the other way if they had nailed market-fit. It does make me wonder if they could try to salvage the tech and try a slight pivot.
He's one of the smartest people I've had a chance to learn from (I took a couple of his MOOCs over the years). You can immediately tell because he's able to explain complex concepts in a simple and easy to understand fashion, and make them intuitive, which to me is a distinguishing trait in people who understand, and don't merely parrot memorized jargon. So no, he's not a "charlatan" at all. He's likely one of the most informed people in the industry.
fwiw, not seeing any requests to example.com. Brave (shields down) on Linux.
I saw a tube delivery system in use at Costco -- probably for cash. Also some Kaiser Hospitals use it now for blood samples and such -- a complaint from a floor nurse is that, the system is fast but there is no delivery notification. So if a delivery is not scheduled clearly, someone must use valuable time to check repeatedly ...
I found their World Music Quiz more fun (linked at the end of this quiz).
SiFive Announces Vector RISC-V Core
I think if you want a high-quality train service, you should pay for it through higher fares. Saying you would pay higher taxes is sly language for saying you want to others to subsidize you.
It was not the same. I could just barely barely tell the 1/64th tone, and got it wrong about half the time.
My hearing is better than I thought. I found it easy to discern between 1/64th notes. I got 31/32.
Except Swiss quality train in Switzerland are used primarily as commuter and are very expensive for that
Nice. Animation seems like one of those ``passion" industries where all kinds of abuse is justified because the work is ``fun."
"You did better than 23% of people." What a polite way of saying "You suck at this!".
Looking at this from the outside, the "big ideas" here have nothing to do with recent advances in deep learning, but rather with implementing and offering standardized software systems and processes that enable companies which have limited AI expertise:

* to speed up manual labeling "by as much as 50%";

* to reduce model deployment time "by up to 67%";

* to scale to thousands of models without fuss;

* to improve accuracy via automated data generation and "smart" labeling;

* to track and manage data assets, training, and deployment globally;

* to detect changes in the environment and raise alerts when data drifts; and

* to retain control of models and data.

There's a big global market for this kind of solution.

Best of lucks to Andrew and his team!
Yep, it's totally an American thing. The rest of the world uses WhatsApp, so it's much less of a big deal. But people actually do leave other people out of group chats because it would downgrade the experience from iMessage to MMS. The green bubble is just a reminder of the terrible photo/video quality and poor group features.
>> It's hard to justify investing in rail. At best, in most parts of the US it is slower, more expensive, and less convenient

But that's because we haven't invested in it! Before the 1960s most roads in the US were also terrible, so by that logic we shouldn't have invested in the Highway/Freeway Interstate system.
Wow I’m so sad to hear this. I am such a huge fan of James Randi and his debunking and have most of his books in my personal library at home.

Losing a legend and an amazing champion of science.
New York City: https://map.mta.info/ is the new live map being discussed.
Two huge problems with this, one a consequence from the other:

- you don't own the keys and therefore don't actually own the crypto, just a vague IOU from payapl

- paypal can therefore credit you for as much crypto as you'd like (in exchange for your fiat) without actually owning/controlling *any* crypto at all, since there is no way for a user to ask for a crypto-hard proof that the coins they own actually exist.

At the risk of sounding repetitive: not you keys, not your Bitcoins.
It is crazy that they doubled down on the mobile-only strategy instead of trying harder to iterate, the pandemic has been going on for months. You're telling me they raised all of that money and couldn't stand up a basic web client just to see what would happen? The leadership says quite a bit about it IMO.

Meg Whitman has had a legendary career, but even she doesn't appear to have experience founding a tech company. She started at P&G and then went to eBay when it had 30 employees and $4M in revenue[0]. And the founder came from Hollywood, neither of them had real founder experience.

I would love to read an insiders account of what happened between the company's formation in August 2018 to April 2020, when the product launched. It looks like they got tons of media deals lined up before the app launched, I wonder how much product development and discovery they were doing during that time.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meg_Whitman
This is a fantastic source, thank you for the link!
I can hear pitch, but barely. 23/32, and some of those were random guesses. I'm in the 16th percentile! I know that I can't hear pitch very well, and my musically oriented partner says that I always sing "weird" harmonies like 7ths that are not particularly pleasing to the Western ear.
Strange, I've always considered myself somewhat tone-deaf (when trying to pick a song by ear i can pick 5-8 notes correctly, then i hit the next one, and can't understand if it's higher or lower than I need), but here I got 29/32, and one of those 3 misses was me mistyping in a hurry.
Your point could be correct overall, but to say "rail is more expensive than road transport" you've got to do cirque-de-solei level acrobatics.