skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Seems like a lesson learned about raising money to solve something people don't care about... in this case a first-class mobile experience...

People do want a first-class mobile experience (see TikTok), they just don't want to pay a premium for it. If you charge people for something, you better make damn sure it's way better than the free alternative.
How to use Deep Neural Networks for regression problems
This is not the least bit surprising. They never reached product market fit, and anyone who works in video streaming was pretty sure they never would.

Both Netflix and Hulu have experimented with short form "mobile-optimized" viewing. Short things to watch on your commute or between meetings. Neither had much success with the format.
Just in time for her to fail up into a Biden cabinet position.
Yes, it’s called dumping, and it’s illegal to do this to expand a monopoly.
He seems to be stealing cues from the more stalkerish variety of tech recruiter.
Personally, I am not a fan of an adversary approach.

I think, reproducing (or failing to reproduce) scientific results simply should be given more value/money without incentives for disproving the result.

The ability to reproduce a result drives also research as currently often the authors are not motivated to make it easy. And you don't get payed for simply redoing what was already published.
Nside KDE: leadership and long-term planning
With this kind of argument if HIV2 comes we shouldn't worry because these symptoms already exist with HIV1
Friends' choices to use Facebook are also consumers' choices. What is the alternative? Either persuade your friends to move, or remove their choice via legislative action. Are there other options?
If you find ceasing all use of Facebook easier than installing an extension in Firefox, you're probably part of a very small minority.
Steps to a create a compelling startup executive summary
> Many online are praising the map and I totally understand that there are people out there who have no idea what my problem with it is. It’s ok, I’m overly educated.

Wow, he's so modest.
The funny thing is there is an active thread right now on HN about breaking up Google (including Youtube.) Supposedly, "there isn't enough competition and there arent options."
Word is that she is being considered by Biden for a govt post.
At least. The MSFT case ended early because the newly elected administration backed out.

Google v Oracle is 10 years old.
Creating the standard for digital content attribution
I'm curious how executives like Meg Whitman end up constantly getting more leadership opportunities despite screwing things up. What am I missing?
>Governments gets 2x revenue from revenue sharing than from auctions so govts do lose.

Citation needed.

>there is a counter factual for which empirical data exists

And yet you provide none.
That just means it is an effective reference point index and accessible unlike say "Look at this $300 Introduction to Agronomy book ISB Number Y to tell you why what you said about modern agriculture not caring about soil erosion is completely wrong".

If someone tells you to Google something it essentially implies that it is already answered and accessible like when asked how to spell a word answering "use a dictionary" means to stop wasting their time essentially.
XLSX-Renderer Library /JavaScript/TypeScript
Hello!
Here it is - XLSX - Renderer - an easy way to generate complex spreadsheet reports. You don't have to write all those lines of code to set this report up. Few lines, XLSX-Renderer and template on your server and you are good to go!

And it's really not all - just see it yourself

https://github.com/Siemienik/xlsx-renderer
I don't know what, but something causes it to leak. I've been using it for about a year and several of the low numbered containers have accumulated duplicates:

Edit: Apparently HN strips box drawing characters. Imagine the output of `sparklines 6 15 7 5 2 1 1 4 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1`.
https://users.rust-lang.org/t/complex-build-advice/48779 is the best I can say at the moment.
This is in the same vein as the trial services that start billing you if you forget to cancel. I'd like to see the model for parking but I bet it turns out it contributes a lot to the bottom line so they don't want to change it.
Eurasia has some aquatic shrews also able to produce a neurotoxin.
Working on a bootstrapped project and just imagining what I could do with $2billion... Imagine what half the people on HN could do with it. It's obscene. I think they were trying to essentially buy their way into mainstream adoption, but it doesn't really work like that.
There's a general sense in the article and the comments here that how much a company invests depends on how much money they have. This is wrong. If there's a profitable investment to make, the company is going to make it, if they don't have the money, they're going to loan it. If there's no profitable investment to make, the company isn't going to make any investments, if they have money sitting around, they'll return it to their shareholders. Yes, there are some frictions involved here. If a company has some crazy genius idea, it might not be that simple to loan money. But for infrastructure investments, it should be.
Wow, with $1.75 billion raised.
What happens now?
I find this type of map to be completely unusable until you know precisely which stations you are going to enter and exit. If I am a tourist in London and I'm somewhere near Hyde Park, I would find this mapper to be an utter waste. Without Google Maps I would be completely lost.
Disclosure: ive been incarcerated for a drug crime in the past.

I absolutely loathe research into the criminal justice system thats predicated on the aggravatingly trite idea that offenders are ignorant and apathetic. If you base your research around this, youre missing the point of how the criminal justice system by its very design predates on poor people and minorities.

Court dates cant be rescheduled. you cant show up 2-3 minutes late like you do to an office job or youll walk into the courtroom and go directly to jail. You cant call in sick to a court date, and in many cases your bail or release is contingent upon attendance. Youre pretty likely to miss a court date if youre poor, have one or more kids, or 3 jobs because missing the jobs means you cant feed the kids, and not taking care of the kids means the state takes the kids. Public transportation is also an excellent way to miss your court date, because it never runs on time. its a state-provided service causing your state-mandated court attendance to fail.

You can send me all the texts you want, but if my kids sick or i have to fill in a 16 hour shift at bloaty's pizza hog because my 19 year old coworker decided to road trip to Coachella this week and mandatory overtime is legal in the US, im still going to miss my court date.

texting someone their court dates is also predicated on the idea that the person has 'minutes on their phone' because poor people (surprise) dont whip out an iPhone 12 when they sign up for these alerts.
Yeah the last year or so btc has become correlated with the markets, so it's no longer a haven from shocks as previously thought. Covid has changed the landscape through the summer though, and the role of bonds as a safe place to weather the storm is questionable at the moment and people are increasingly resentful with the roles and ineffectiveness of central banks, so I've been hearing way more noise about cryptocurrencies as a store of value than before.

The stock 2 flow model predicts btc to reach $1 mill in 2025. I'm curious if this becomes true.
In the exception example, there is a line saying:

{'try',{y,0},{f,13}}.

Why is the symbol `try` quoted here? Does it need to, if its name is all lowercase?
If spectrum auctions are a bad way to allocate the radio spectrum, what are better ways? Wikipedia says:

>Alternatives to auctions include administrative licensing,[clarification needed] such as the comparative hearings conducted historically (sometimes referred to as "beauty contests"),[citation needed] or lotteries.

Those seem worse than auctions. They seem very prone to corruption, and everyone ends up having to spend money on lobbying, essentially turning it into an auction[1] in disguise.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-pay_auction
Hey it's like Netflix with a microscopic level of content, can't take screenshots, and you can't just watch it on your TV like normal video.

No, don't you understand I totally want to pay $10 a month to hold my phone awkwardly and watch 10 minute videos.

What could go wrong
Would probably be ok to just use for heat transfer.
Irrespective of what is printed on the artistic work, the copyright is automatic (from 1976 onward) and belongs to the author(s) or their heirs. If there is a question of ownership, a court would need to decide.
Maybe she'll take over whatever Linda McMahon does.
I wonder how much of that $2B went to individual contributors like actors and crew.

> "Among the backers were most of the major Hollywood studios, Google, Alibaba and the Madrone Capital Partners."

I wonder how much of that $2B was eaten up with "Hollywood Accounting"
It was originally started so we could integrate Asciidoc parsing into GitHub's codebase without shelling out to Python (A good friend worked on Asciidoctor and I wrote another parser for reStructuredText around the same time that we never got around to implementing in the codebase). The project sort of took off from there and has flourished into this great toolkit.
Five people just throwing ideas off the top of their head in their free time. That only makes Google not having any solution with years and billions look all the worse.
Sonia
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I mean, maybe? It is a huge stretch to tie a specific event (auction and the related debt) to the ensuing 20 years worth of telecom infrastructure investment. This implies (incorrectly) that there are no other significant reasons Germany might lag in mobile network investment.
> It is ironic that cryptocurrencies are becoming a vehicle for more centralization instead of decentralization.

It's about having the __option__ to go without the middle-man if and when required.

With more centralized institutions adopting these decentralized tech, it gives the entire network more credibility in the short-term (adoption phase).
Excellent! 1Password has been my weapon of choice for years. Works flawlessly on macOS, previously got by with the browser extension in linux.
Ah, that was already being discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21162929 and here: https://twitter.com/HCornflower/status/1180749842349461504
Definitely the former, unless you feel that only co-founders deserve market pay and equity that pays out at >$0. In many cases, employees even lose money because they have to exercise options with no insight into if they'll ever be worth a dime.
Right-click the link and click "Open in new container tab > " and click the container you want.
2 billion 6 months
Levitt was also a signatory: https://www.aier.org/article/aier-hosts-top-epidemiologists-...
I'm sure all these things are factors, but the text messages reduced rates of failure to appear, so...clearly ignorance and apathy are part of the equation.
The official American academy of psychologists disagree with you. Also many other sciences such as Cognitive neuroscience etc.
If you need instant share of files/PW/Conversation, checkout wormhole:

https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole
It's not a separate Java implementation, it's just a Java wrapper for the Ruby library ("AsciidoctorJ provides Java bindings for the Asciidoctor RubyGem (asciidoctor) using JRuby").
Unpopular opinion: using a password manager as a service is as bad as password reuse: all your passwords behind a single password.
This is too little, too late. I had to migrate away from 1Password last year because of lack of Linux support, and have since been using Bitwarden.
Is Google a "TV on demand" company to you?

I don't think anyone is talking about breaking up YouTube itself, unless I missed something. It would be one of the pieces Google would be broken into.
If having your phone number makes it substansively easier for a attacker to track you, the problem is that your phone is defective (insecure), not that they know your phone number. This is not a effective place to expend security effort on.
She's a republican.
Yes, for a standard Ruby package most application/library logic goes in there, and executables inside of `/bin` will call into that.
Better than the simple HTML Gmail?
That sounds like it could make me switch.
Global Trends 2015: Dialogue About the Future With Nongovernment Experts (2000)
You might find the book The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine interesting. Crazy to think that the training to become a surgeon led to a lot of people dying from cutting into infected cadavers during training.
A Six-Month Retrospective on Ethical Open Source
>"The new system brought in twice as much in fees as the auction bids would have.”

If the new system brought in twice as much in fees, then by definition it was more burdensome on the telcos no?
So, given that Jester exists and is a thing, how does this compare to it?
Is it beneficial for there to be more than 2-3 competitors? That may be sufficient from a market POV.

There are also areas that are ripe for competition. For example gmail hasn't changed/innovated in nearly a decade.

Atlassian's Jira is the leader for bug tracking but is pretty terrible.
> I think they were trying to essentially buy their way into mainstream adoption, but it doesn't really work like that.

It could work if your product met or was at least close to the minimum quality standard of your competitors. From what I've seen and read, Quibi was horribly substandard.
If you're using Firefox, click view -> Page Style -> No style

More: https://superuser.com/questions/1282718/how-do-websites-bloc...
It looks like the article was deleted ("Oops! That page can’t be found"). Here is the Google Cache:
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5HMZ_Z...
This: https://starling.rinet.ru/Texts/Starostin_Glotto.pdf
Matlab and its Simulink extension, which is widely used for designing control system has a feature for generating C code that can be deployed without Matlab runtime. Someone with knowledge of code generation and compilers could take this Matlab feature as an inspiration and implement a C code generator for Julia functions.

> Right now, it appears like a niche interpreted language for numeric geeks only.

Yes, it was designed for numerical and scientific computing. In Julia, you can at least prototype the numerical algorithm before implementing in C++ or Fortran.
How to grow a YouTube channel
A basic fork cert is like 2 days. It’s so cheap a lot of companies require you attend training they pay for and don’t go by old certs at all.
> Is it beneficial for there to be more than 2-3 competitors? That may be sufficient from a market POV.

Lol I don't know what markets you are talking about, but definitely not from an economist point of view.
It seems like people have normalised "paying in exposure" (by keeping the artist's name), and the fact that someone actually pays for art is outrageous...
Huh, I have not experienced this issue, but there seem to be mixed reports in these comments. The numbers continue to count up (this is also configurable), but the containers are actually deleted.
Yeah, I grew up in NYC and never had any idea what they were saying in the station or on the train. Over-driven mics, underpowered amps and tiny speakers == total harmonic distortion exceeding intelligibility thresholds...
No. There's always heat coming to earth and radiating back to space. Amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere determine equilibrium temperature. Adding heat doesn't change equilibrium temperature.
...no, it’s not at all the same thing
Thanks for the links, but if you click on them you'll see they don't support your claims at all.
Monopoly rights to spectrum should have ended once cellular modulation schemes went digital.

The modulation techniques used in 3G/4G/5G systems are already agile enough that they really wouldn't have a problem with all the carriers sharing all the spectrum all the time. Carriers and other license-holders would have to do a token amount of coordination among themselves, probably similar to the settlement-free peering arrangements that the tier 1 Internet networks use.

In return, we would all get more efficient real-time spectrum allocation, and carriers could instead spend their billions differentiating themselves with infrastructure and capacity improvements rather than locking out anyone who didn't spend billions on spectrum 10-20 years ago.
Likewise doubleclick was HUGE in the ad space I remember seeing all the doubleclick.com urls in slow page loads
Value dragons
I think the reason this failed is simply that good content is device agnostic. I don't think there are a lot of people out there watching Netflix on their phones wishing it was all filmed vertically.
> GitHub recommends using only one user account to manage both personal and professional repositories.

https://github.community/t/using-one-account-for-all-your-pr...
It's like people forgot firefox exists ;_;

If your workload does not consist of synthetic benchmark development or hardcore webgl stuff, firefox is more than capable of being used as your daily driver. Hell, it once had over 30% of market share. Also, its more configurable, and offers interesting privacy features.
It sounds like you want to punish them for being successful.
I still haven't seen the harm to the consumers. They build search and ad networks and email and android. I use them all the time. I now have access to youtube and infinite amount of information on it on my fingertips.
Turns out I learned the meaning of the name after its end.
Vice posted a new video (about American Apparel) to their YouTube today, was tagged with Quibi at the start and end.
After writing a reasonable amount of asciidoc, I fgure i might just as well use LaTeX, possibly unless it's sufficiently simple, and I'm expecting people to read it directly. I've found juxtaposing somewhat-presentational markup, like meta-variables in input, particularly problematic, apart from continually having to look up how to do things.

That said, it seems to be the best of the genre that I've used and implemented over the decades.
What is interesting is that they are not slow at all. They can be extremely fast when they know the territory and feel non threatened.

But for you to observe them at the jungle moving fast you have to be very quiet.

They move slowly when there are perceived threats so you don't see them in the jungle.
The notion that people think Google's monopoly exists in the streaming video space just might be the most intellectually dishonest thing I have read today. Neat!
You don't need a blockchain, you need a time-series database
> hold my phone awkwardly

Which way is that?
Would love to see the public APIs backing this site so that someone could reimplement the map more performantly
I would like to throw out Bitwarden out there. Cross platforms, works on everything and can be self hosted if you so desire.
That isn't remotely the same thing.
this is what it looks like when concentrated capital is misallocated. you get one big flop instead of a bunch of small experiments that give you more bites at the red delicious.
Am I correct that 3.10 comes after 3.9? How does that make sense, shouldn't it increase to 4.x? Is there an actual 3.1 (coming after 3.0) that this conflicts with?
Oh good it's another Electron app and since there are only about 50 random dependencies mentioned in the package.json maintained by about 25 random people, exfiltration of all your passwords is only one of those being compromised away at any given point. And that is just the direct dependencies, I don't even want to look at the tree of it all.

If you trust 1password with your passwords, really you are also trusting whoever wrote the braces library for superfast brace expansion.
Privacy is a big reason to not use custodians even for small amounts.
I don't know about Gmail, but Google Maps was originally one.
It’s not that other video services don’t have a good mobile experience already.

People just care much more about content than the experience unless it’s really really terrible and even then in the case of shows and movies content comes first.

15 min episodes with lackluster content that are essentially only good for your short commute run isn’t and likely never will be what people are looking for.

I honestly didn’t even knew Quibi existed until this year or maybe late 2019 when they had a huge marketing push for their exclusive shows and those shows sucked. You got a disjointed experience akin to a hallmark movie split into short episodes.

We already tried that with “webisodes” in the past and they didn’t survive once streaming became a thing because they couldn’t match the quality of the content of Netflix and co.

Quibi failed because people don’t mind pausing and the few that do probably would rather watch a 20-30min episode of their favorite sitcoms during commute than 1 or 2 episodes of some Quibi show.

The format especially the portrait mode content was also annoying as fuck, this isn’t instagram.
For anyone interested, the original design doc for QUIC from 2013 [0]. Really good writeup, both in terms of engineering spec / architectural design. I recommend reading through if you have the time.

[0]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RNHkx_VvKWyWg6Lr8SZ-saqs...
No one wants to watch B-Movies in 10 minute segments and pay $10 for the privilege, no one.
> The best way to hide your fingerprint is to be as similar to everyone as possible.

Ironically, this also means you should not enable your browser's "Do not track" preference.
Are you using a custom reverse proxy? For a recent project I started with Caddy but ended up needing some functionality it didn't have, and didn't need most of what it did have. I'm currently using a custom proxy layer, but I'm concerned I might end up having to implement more than I want to (I know I'll at least need gzip). Curious what your experience at fly has been with this.
+1 to it. Sure you can tweak up something better with tons of work, but it gets like 80% right out of the box, plays well with git, and has good distraction-free modes.
> Lua doesn’t have assignment as an expression.

That's quite easy to achieve if you directly generate bytecode. See e.g. https://github.com/rochus-keller/som.

> Lua 5.1 has float as the only numeric type

It internaly differs between int and float.

> Ruby, Python and JS all need to copy x into a new VM Register when it’s used

Even the OpenSmalltalk VM is much faster than CPython, as well as V8.
"pass on the left" + "stay behind a car" would turn to "slowly plow into the left half of a car"
OpenTelemetry Tracing Specification Release Candidate and GA Planning
So then what would you suggest?
Isn't low-code something like Strapi or Unity and model-driven is something like UML?
10 min content that you can look at on your phone. Hmmmm. I wish they'd heard of Youtube before burning Billions.
I was thinking that this would be comparable to big movie flops. But no, even if you combine the 10 worst flops in history, it's just shy of 1.2B.
The last thing Quibi wanted was COVID-19 work from home. Quibi was trying to target people to consume their content during their commute.
Some other live subway maps:

New York City: https://map.mta.info/

Washington DC: https://gis.wmata.com/metrotrain/index.html

Chicago: https://www.transitchicago.com/traintrackermap/

Boston: https://www.mbta.com/schedules/Blue/line

I'd like to see more, but that's about all I could find from cities themselves.
They are the definition of a monopoly -- quality of service in the search space depends on the number of users who use your service (search trend data and tuning for page rank information) and your ability to crawl the web (which directly correlates with your financial resources). Once someone is on top of that space, only gross hilarious mismanagement could result in them going below 50% market share.