skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This will make a huge headache for them and it's legal department since acquisition must be approved from government.
Is it even true for the Asian designed phones that the majority of the hardware is designed in Asia?

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Samsung+Galaxy+S20+Ultra+Tea...

LOTS of Qualcomm ICs as well as Skyworks, Qorvo and Maxim which are all US companies.
The fact that the firmware contains GPLv2 code doesn't mean it's not completely proprietary.

You can't modify the modem firmware and then still legally operate it in public networks under most legal jurisdictions around the world.
See also: https://www.statnews.com/2020/07/08/a-flawed-covid-19-study-...

>The study that sparked the latest controversy was anything but randomized. Not only was it not randomized, outside experts noted, but patients who received hydroxychloroquine were also more likely to get steroids, which appear to help very sick patients with Covid-19. That is likely to have influenced the central finding of the Henry Ford study: that death rates were 50% lower among patients in hospitals treated with hydroxychloroquine.

>One study, the RECOVERY study conducted in the U.K., compared 1,542 patients on a particularly high dose of the drug to 3,132 control patients and found no difference in how long patients lived. A second, conducted by the National Institutes of Health, also found no benefit from hydroxychloroquine at higher doses.
> Yes, fair enough, but no one else seems to feel the need to translate these acronyms.

It's not a translation, it's the official acronym based directly on the official name just as much as the English one is.

The Treaty and the Organization have two co-equal official languages, English and French.

> There are probably (?) more German-speaking NATO citizens

Probably, but the official languages, names, and acronyms were all set when the organization was founded, while Germany was still under occupation by the WWII Allies.
What fate are you referring to with Snapchat? I’m pretty close to the target audience for both Snapchat and TikTok and nearly everyone I know (edit: close to my age) uses both.
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What many are missing is our ability to have a voice has also grown tremendously over the years with social media. Just over a decade ago far fewer people could get to a point where their speech could be censored/sanctioned.

It's not necessarily that you could say more back in the day, but the fact that fewer people would hear it.
> My point, there's a large level of monetary value in these companies and a difference in how they are significant in daily livelihood for the everyday person. It's just interesting how large Facebook is by a metric but how incredibly useless it is compared to another company using the same metric. It's the same how theres an interesting difference between the market cap of Tesla and Ford. Tesla is larger but they make a fraction of the amount of sellable goods.

They are significant in people’s daily lives. Their future expected profits are enormous because they can do the work of so many with so few, hence their super high profit per employee.

Software lets you infinitely scale, so it’s almost impossible to compete with the market leader. Email, calendars, smartphones, online retail, video streaming, etc have reduced demand for the labor for the vast majority of people, which has certainly impacted their livelihood.

Camera companies, tv companies, advertisers, travel agents, secretaries, movie rental, retail, map makers, education, journalism and news, book publishing, and I could keep going on about businesses that have been negatively impacted because they can’t possibly compete with a FAANG.

Software can also obviate people much quicker than in decades past, where people might have had time to retrain as new technology was deployed.
Depends, if I could go on National Television in a hoodie and mask and air out a list of grievances I have with the wretched society and what should be done about it, maybe I would.
And soft drinks and even gasp some beer.
MIPS future is unclear:
https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/04/22/is-mips-dead-lawsuit...
So you think that fighting medical quackery and disinformation is politics heading in the wrong direction?

Isn't "politics heading in the wrong direction" the fact that some obscure drug was picked up randomly by a know nothing politician, baselessly sold as a miracle cure and had elaborate conspiracies formed around it, all so that said politician could pummel his political opponents and win reelection?
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What's your source? Ampere are shipping. AMD has no fab advantage since they have no 7nm enterprise cards. Their entire enterprise line has been somewhat of a joke to date .
It seems to be a pattern with mega communications companies which have always tended towards natural monopolies or at least duopolies etc. Ma Bell and Western Union weren't exactly warm and cuddly. Lots of international examples too.
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The 3 body problem (any classical mechanics where energy is conserved) takes place in a symplectic space:

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

If your integrator isn't built to respect the symmetries of symplectic space it is going to give qualitatively wrong answers as t -> infinity. A non-symplectic geometry might do a better job if you want to track the Earth around the sun for 1000 years, but if you use a non-symplectic integrator who knows where the Earth ends up in a billion years.

"Deep networks" are the new hypnotic induction phase to induce willing suspensions of disbelief. Maybe there is some "emperor's new clothes" going on. Usually if somebody makes a bogus claim people will think "the person making the claim is stupid", but if a person makes a bogus claim today involving a deep network, the reader tends to assume that they are too stupid to understand it.
> People keep asking the same questions or repeating the same stuff again and again

Trying to police this destroys the usefulness of a forum too. There is one major forum for a piece of software I use so I had this issue Google lead me to the forum, the thread is old and because it's old it's locked but it doesn't answer the question. I post a new thread after waiting 12 hours for my account to be approved by a mod, the overly zealous mod locks it with a link to the old thread saying there is already a thread about it.

Yeah I know there is, but it doesn't answer the problem and I can't post it in to keep it on topic. I now dread when that url shows up in my searches.

Building a good useful community and being a good host has some crossover with being a moderator but honestly they're completely different skillsets.
For those that feel inspired, there's a good article by Lucas Bebber that breaks down how this kind of rain effect can be made in WebGL here:

https://tympanus.net/codrops/2015/11/04/rain-water-effect-ex...
Exactly. And a book shouldn't be listed as a "banned book" because one overly-cautious librarian decided they shouldn't have it in a school. You wouldn't call something "illegal" if it were illegal just in one country for a brief period of time. And 'banned' is used as a badge of honor - in this case it really has nothing to do with the book content either.
I'm digging through history to find an article about Apple's LLVM patches to add a custom instruction only present on A series chip. Due to Sillion announcement it's kinda hard to find - but they did add at least one instruction to ARM instruction set.

From this, and from the very very strong marketing push to NOT use the name "ARM" from Apple, I have a suspicion that Apple Sillicon instruction set won't be a fully standard ARM holdings instruction set
Correct, only the crew mission would return, the rest would be several one-way cargo missions
The SR-71 fuel tanks didn't fully seal until the plane was at cruising speed. The heat on the airframe tightened up the tanks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird

If ever in Washington D.C. I highly recommend the Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles airport. There is an SR-71 on display there (along with just about every other important plane in US aviation history) that you can walk right up to. It's surprisingly small IMO.
Sounds like time to build an optical pickup head for vinyl -- no wear or static, but you get the "vinyl" experience.
As far as I can tell [Chicago-style | deep dish] pizza[1] is uniquely specific in describing such a preparation. No obvious alternative Pie-, Tart-, or Flan-based descriptor showed up when casually searching.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago-style_pizza
I absolutely do not publicly state my beliefs, or even state them in writing anywhere that could conceivably be accessed publicly.

This is for two reasons: one, I doubt anyone cares to hear yet another voice in the cacophony; and two, there is plenty of prior precedent for someone saying something online and a digital mob descending on them and making their lives hell. That doesn't even consider government surveillance, which adds a whole 'nother angle.

So, there's no incentive for me to share, and a strong disincentive.
>you can live extremely well compared to anyone in 1970 just off Walmart.

Except those aren't the major costs that end up hitting you. It's true that laptops and motorcycles are cheaper and better than ever, but healthcare, rent, and taxes are what will make you bankrupt.

Some people would argue it's government regulation and bureaucracy that drives those astronomic.

https://www.valuepenguin.com/average-household-budget
I've spent 14 of the past 18 years outside the US and not encountered that usage.

Perhaps "non-US people" is too broad a term.
Snapchat monetization strategies? It's easier to be fresh if you don't need to make a buck from ad sales
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>SpaceX Starship is planned for 2024, and with a cargo capacity in the hundreds of tons.

And Full-Self-Driving will be available in the summer of 2015, and a cross country autonomous drive will happen in 2017, and this year we'll have 1,000,000 autonomous Robotaxis on the streets. Let's go!
Fate similar to Snap? $SNAP is doing just fine and is up 38% this year. 17% DAU growth in the past year. I'm sure TikTok would be thrilled to have 17% user growth and increasing revenues 9 years down the line.
One more time: we cannot destroy our planet, even if we wanted to. We can make it less comfortable to live in some places, though.

Also "we don't know where the point is, but we have passed it" is a very bad argument. "What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence".
$50B seems too low for TikTok. It could be atleast as big as Facebook in the next five years.

$200B min if investors are serious.
ESA and NASA are the only entities which have much recent operational experience of advanced use of ion drives; they've both launched and operated multiple ion drive propelled probes. And Airbus is the only manufacturer to have made _multiple_ ion drive propelled vehicles.

Some commercial satellite companies, including SpaceX, use ion drives for station keeping, but this has been around for about 50 years.

Currently, Airbus is probably in about as good a position to build something like this as anyone. They certainly have far more experience than SpaceX.
"Real doctors". Are you talking about that breitbart propaganda piece? Even the camera shake was fake.
> Americans hate on Microsoft and so deprived themselves of the best mobile phone OS of ever.

I don't think that's a correct assessment for most Americans' opinions towards Microsoft.¹ I also don't think that's the reason Windows Phone never took off. When compared to iOS and Android, Windows Phone just didn't have the app ecosystem to compel people to buy them.

1 https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/2/21144680/verge-tech-survey...
$50B sounds like a lot, especially in the face of pressure from the US and a lot of people leaving the platform due to privacy reasons.

We've also learned from Snap at this point not to overvalue social media. I think they really should take the $1B offer and go.
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But what are their income to calculate PE?

It's easy to see overvaluation there.
yeah, it was still "new Web" in my mind. Old Web is pre dot-com era.
Soon enough we will have the opposite problem to worry about.
OR could follow Snap fate?
Uzi Nissan, nissan.com owner who fought Nissan in court for a decade, has died
I'm not sure where people are getting this terminology of "unlimited" energy from fusion. Nothing in the universe is unlimited. The earth's supply of deuterium and/or tritium is not unlimited.

It's also not infinitely "clean" energy. A fusion reactor is not a black box that is built once and never again maintained or rebuilt, or doesn't use any consumable components besides fuel.

We already have the technology that gives us nearly clean energy, namely nuclear (fission) reactors. If we truly want to reduce CO2, we should be ramping up nuclear power, as a bridge to switching to renewables in the long term. If only nuclear power wasn't so politically... radioactive.
And a media system that pretends some fringe people opinion is worthy of news coverage.
I like the date-based version.
But you can also use a combination of both. But a semantic version number in front, and the date behind.
I use that for a couple of projects, e.g.:

https://pypi.org/project/better_exchook/

Current version: 1.20200318.213331.
The date/time is taken from the latest Git commit. Via this code:

https://github.com/albertz/py_better_exchook/blob/2c106820ea...

If I need to break the API, or want to change the versioning scheme, I can just increase the major version number.

For logging purpose, I also append the Git hash, and maybe "dirty", like this:

https://github.com/rwth-i6/returnn/blob/7fa1f3e0595247c035b2...
The antibody-dependent enhancement problem is mentioned in the article, but I think it needs a longer explanation. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibody-dependent_enhancement

> Antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE), sometimes less precisely called immune enhancement or disease enhancement, is a phenomenon in which binding of a virus to suboptimal antibodies enhances its entry into host cells, and sometimes also its replication.[1] This phenomenon—which leads to both increased infectivity and virulence—has been observed with mosquito-borne flaviviruses such as Dengue virus, Yellow fever virus and Zika virus,[2][3] with HIV, and with coronaviruses.[4]

where [4] is https://www.ft.com/content/f1b25b41-f3cf-4a73-ba8f-582385bc2... that says about SARS (2003):

> Some animals that were given experimental Sars vaccines suffered more severe lung inflammation than unvaccinated animals when subsequently infected. Those trials stopped and there is still no effective Sars vaccine.
You don't need to wonder. Boeing has received much more funding for Starliner than SpaceX has for crewed Dragon.
The problem with "they have 5 to 10 years to come up with something" is that they had 5 to 10 years leading and they came up empty handed.
> controversial opinion

And who decides this? All the big tech companies appear to lean globalist/left. No?
I don’t appreciate being dismissed as “no one else“ :-P

Those acronyms in particular, SIDA and OTAN, are also the proper ones in Spanish and Portuguese.
If NASA really wanted to answer the 'life on Mars' question, Perseverance would have included a microscope. AFAICT, the reason it doesn't is because nobody wants to stake their reputation on the hypothesis.
The most important thing to take away from this is that It's likely all political polls are complete garbage due to this.
Blogpost author/submitter here.

It's a fair point. It is not a blind spot -- I did think about it, but I don't think I have ever owned an Asian-designed computer or used Asian-designed software. Ditto African or Australian, FWIW.

I once owned a 2nd-hand Sony Ericsson P910, an early smartphone with the UIQ GUI -- but this was a Symbian device with a Swedish-designed UI. I'm honestly not sure how much input Sony had. And I have a Playstation 2. My tablet is Chinese, by a Chinese company (Chuwi), but it runs an American OS: Android. These are about as close as I can claim, sadly, so I am really not fit to comment or judge.

Whereas most of the world's electronics are partly or totally manufactured in Asia, it's mostly by or for American- or European-owned companies.

I am aware of many fascinating Japanese computers and similar devices, from the FM Towns to the Pomera e-ink portable word-processors, to the MSX2 and MSX2 Turbo-R computers, which interest me greatly and I'd like to have -- but I don't.

The Julia programming language (AIUI, an Indian project) looks fascinating, but I am a poor programmer and old enough to find learning new languages extremely hard -- not something I would do as a leisure activity. So I have never tried it myself.

There is no lack of creativity there, certainly. There is a huge amount. It is just that little of it seems to directly influence the world market elsewhere.

Why that is the case is a fascinating question that I am ill-equipped to address.
They link to https://calver.org/ which is about using the date, at least partly... somewhat similar to samver.

(Not 100% sure it isn't sarcasm, too.)
Conservatives have long felt nervous about sharing their opinions because they know they're in the minority (and for issues such as race/immigration/LGBTQ+ some at least suspect they're on the wrong side of history as well). The new trend has been liberals feeling nervous because the minority is in power and we now have our own government's paramilitary goons doing what such goons do in broad daylight. I have to admit that I've considered the possibility of my own words earning me a red triangle[1] if we don't manage to turn this around in November. When there's constant news of real violence against people exercising their first amendment rights, it's no wonder they feel nervous.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camp_badge
Are you familiar with https://calver.org/
No, it's going to be bigger. I know most people dont use snap but they use tiktok.

Everyone young uses tiktok. It's much bigger than snap could have ever hoped. TikTok is FAANG tier company.

If I were the founder, I'd go the Chinese government and ask them to ban Tesla and put tariff on Apple in retaliation. Tell the U.S. to play free market like they claim. Or lost access for it's companies.

TikTok deserves it's success fully. It's very unfair that the U.S. government is insistent on blocking it. It's not a monopoly. It's not a dirty company. Virtually all of its "privacy violations" are the same violations done by Google, Facebook. Break up BigTech instead of hitting a creative startup.
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You're right, I misspoke. I meant indeed that media players had quirky UIs in general... I was thinking of WinAMP for example. But even then, QuickTime looks felt both bizarre and unwieldy to me.
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes thought, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and _would still have wet feet_."

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.
Do you mean that you intend to buy Soundcloud's assets if they go under?
wanted to share the repo as it has a bit more context. afaiu the plan is to release the code as open source within the next 2-3 months.
Until someone in design or marketing changes the font on you.
The danger is that Trump will say whatever he wants, no matter how dangerous for short term gain, because nothing seem to stick to him long term. He can tell people that the moon is cheese, and there will be an overreaction of media "blasting" him, and a similar overreaction of his supporters defending him. But two weeks later he'll say something else, and the same people will react the same way.

The insidiousness about his strategy is that one in a hundred times he guesses right, and then he gets all smug and his supporters feel like they have ammunition to use against those "elites" with their "being right all the time." (Not to mention all the times he just lies about what he was wrong about to frame it as if he was right all along.)
This also reminds me of my bookmarks from StumbleUpon. Flash games and cool sites -most of them not working today-.
If he says he has a house, it's safe to assume he has some sort of outdoor private property, even if it's just the steps leading to his front door. The only people I've ever met that don't have any outdoor area lived in apartments or condos.
> I’d say they’re justifiably paying the price for letting their channel become so dependent on a single genre/show in the first place.

I wonder how common this is becoming for channels. I was reading people joke how MTV basically only plays one show themselves (Ridiculousness) after they announced knew of the other shows they play was being dropped.
Isn’t Vine a better comparison to TikTok, instead of Snap?
The partisan split here is fascinating. This implies that a possible situation we are in is that most Democrats aren't saying what they think.

That bodes badly for them long-term. Speaking practically, that seems like a nasty defect in their ability to communicate an honest vision.

Hopefully the things they can't saying are only on unimportant issues. I suspect that is not the case though.
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I think you're overstating the complexities of pinyin, even if Zhuyin is better. The context pinyin requires is extremely limited, being exactly only the rest of the syllable. It's simple if one just thinks of it as a set of initials/finals and not as letters. The whole thing can be learned in a day, so there's not much to be gained in an improved system.
It is dangerous, and the organization you linked to has been under heavy scrutiny for their so called "study".

https://www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/25726/controversial...
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Every drug is dangerous at improper dosage. It’s a fickle argument. It’s like trying to argue that people shouldn’t drink water, because if they had too much of it they’d drown or choke.

We prescribe drugs everyday with a proper dosage on the bottle, and people handle it just fine. This is no different.

Either way, HCQ is widely available and inexpensive, zinc is widely available and inexpensive, and I believe that is the crux of the real issue. Even if it worked for a small percentage of people, it’s still a significant tool in the fight.

The problem is, there is a coordinated push towards expensive patented drugs and vaccines on the population, we are watching marketing, propaganda, and censorship at this point.

Can’t have a $10 solution to a $10,000,000,000,000 problem.
You have not encountered the term "pizza" to refer to a whole pizza, serving as 1 (large-ish) meal for 1 person?

That's really surprising to me, but interesting to hear!
> Obviously the mob doesn't have a consistent and justifiable moral stance; it's a mob.

Problem with that is that one mob is given unhindered support for venting their spleen, whereas whereas the opposing mob is deplatformed, doxxed, etc. etc.

I don't even need to say which side is which, do I? We all know.