skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course all fiction is a lie.

All words are a lie. All narratives are built of symbols and cliches and agreed upon fictions in an attempt to point to reality. Reality is a thing we cannot touch or experience directly and is always filtered by our tools, experiences and perceptions. Even math might be merely a model, one where we convince ourselves integers actually exist (where does one thing become separate from another when reality seems to be built of atoms with probabilistic shells of elections and waves of electromagnetic interactions?)

As for being harmful? Well, fiction and non-fiction narratives are all powerful tools for shaping how we perceive of our reality. They can be harmful or helpful. Some of our favorite fictions are things like justice, freedom, liberty, or any conception that we all have rights.

Additionally, when we tell fictions we are crafted a world we can aspire to. We make gods and heroes to imagine what it would be like to be better. We make villains and demons to remind us of what we should avoid. Without these I do not believe we would be in a better place. One could even call these noble lies.

Of course, this does mean fiction can be dangerous and should be selected carefully. Ayn Rand has a peculiarly powerful hold over people because her fictions are good at making a deep impression on people. Vacation Bible Schools and overtly Christian education are aimed at controlling the narrative young minds receive. Then there's the constant mythologizing of history done to legitimize modern political stances (e.g. Civil War was some sort of lost cause about state's rights, Mayflower was the first "real" colony, founding "fathers" were near perfect, etc.).

Narratives are powerful. Worth noting Plato came to your same conclusion in his Republic. Essentially deeming all myth and plays and stories as too dangerous to be allowed.
I think the difference here is that medium tried to be free and then charge, while substack leaves that up to the author. Medium followed the Web 2.0 model, substack is following Web 3.0? Creators get to choose how to monetize their product, platforms just act as platforms and get out of the way.
Does this work with eSIMs?
What happens if you want to switch jobs? Tying basic necessities like housing to your employer is a disaster that traps people in jobs. It's part of the reason healthcare in the US is so screwed up.
> many people thought the lack of physical buttons and keyboard was a bad idea

I still do. To this day, I often wish that my phone had them.
The oddest one for Americans when getting directions is "just turn left at the robot".

The etymology of the word derives from a description of early traffic lights as robot policemen, which then got truncated with time.
>Admittedly 3D graphics (not 2D office applications) can be rocky depending on your vendor. I've had good luck with AMD lately (but not in the past). That's entirely the fault of the vendors (AMD & Nvidia) though. Integrated Intel is and always has been absolutely flawless.

This isn't like some caveat. This is huge. It's pretty bad in terms of overall usability.
Mill really needed to be proven in academia with a physical implementation before going the startup route. If you look at RISC-V, that's been a proven path towards derisking the challenges of a clean sheet design+ISA.
The argument against Amazon not "supporting the local school system" is that it's a public good in most western democracies. Amazon can support the school system by appropriately paying taxes.

I won't argue against the employer aspect, because many of these jobs are in dilapidated towns and they are often better than the alternatives (unemployment/workmans comp claims or fast food versus getting scheduled work with great benefits).
I don't know whether ivermectin is an effective, let alone transformative, treatment for covid. I certainly hope it is! We could all do with some good news.

I don't have time or expertise to evaluate, let alone conduct, clinical trial methodologies or meta-analyses, so I have to rely on secondary sources. The institutional consensus (from WHO, etc) is that the treatment is unproven, and further research is required. https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/who-adv...

It is apparent that there is a community (ivmmeta, BIRD, FLCCC) who strongly disagree and believe that ivermectin efficacy is already proven.

So the question becomes: who to believe?

We definitely have historical examples of astroturfing, regulatory capture, etc occurring - such as oil companies going to enormous lengths to muddy the science around climate change. And we also have recent examples (HCQ is the obvious one) where a large number of people became very excited about a treatment which has, I think, been fairly conclusively shown to be ineffective.

I have no magic method to determine which of these is the case this time, but my money is on IVM being a washout after further research.

I am skeptical of the BIRD folks, because they are acting and talking like a pressure group, not an open-minded body. I frankly doubt their impartiality when evaluating the evidence - I'm not alleging a nefarious purpose, just the omnipresent danger of becoming too attached to your pet hypothesis. To paraphrase your statement, I hope the truth on ivermectin comes out. And I hope it is an effective treatment. But these are two separate hopes.

BTW: You're providing an example here of how, once you start looking at a particular issue with a conspiracy mindset, you can easily construct an impervious epistemic bubble. The large trials cannot be trusted because they have been designed to fail; shadowy forces lie behind the doubts cast on the Elgazzar trial; and so on. This is not to say that conspiracies never exist. But it is worth asking yourself: what could I learn at this point which would change my mind?
Ah, so you meant health insurance, not life insurance?
> I tried OSS NOKALVA's ASN.1 for Java but constraint checking is non-existent or very limited.

A quick look at their documentation suggests the use of the -constraints option.[1] Constraints are such a basic part of the ASN.1 specifications I can't imagine any vendor not implementing it. I know for a fact that Objective Systems' compiler does.[2]

[1]: https://www.oss.com/asn1/products/documentation/asn1_java_8....

[2]: https://www.obj-sys.com/products/asn1c/index.php
> [..] his Signal randomly sending images to me that he didn't intend to, even without initiating the addition of any attachments on the GUI... he even sees one of my messages displayed on his side with a random image attached to it, as if i have sent that image to him, even though that image is not even present on my phone.

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/10247#iss...

Yikes.

> [..] I've also recently had a probably unrelated issue where my mic was still audible to the other party after I hung up the call.

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/10247#iss...

Double yikes.
> InternetWorks
> ... But its most distinctive feature — besides tabbed browsing of course — was its Card Catalog. Drawing on a library metaphor, InternetWorks allowed its users to organize bookmarks into different catalogs, by subject or any other hierarchy they wanted to use. Pages could be drag and dropped into any catalog, where they were instantly saved for browsing offline. A one-stop shop for storing bits of your brain.

Yes, please. Make the tabs/bookmarks vertical and hierarchical and you have the breakthrough browser on your hands.
I don't think there's any escape from the ugly world of packaging if you're going cross platform. And, can I ask, why does it have to be native? IMHO, the "right" (easy) way to do cross platform apps today is to do them with web technologies, like Spotify. They have an app that runs everywhere and, at the core, is just HTML/JS/CSS. That's truly cross-platform and, to be honest, the packaging (we used Electron for ours) isn't that terrible.

I think you'll find native UI coding for different devices is a nightmare while HTML/JS UI coding for different devices is 99% sameness.
> The majority sentiment appears to be that homeless people deserve to suffer to some degree, and that without pain they’ll never be properly motivated to get a job and rejoin society.

I don't think this is true at all. Citation is needed for this.
> “It would be a lot easier if everyone quit money at the same time, make a day of it, and then everyone can co-ordinate and start planting.”

> He takes a drag on his cigarette. “Yeah, it would be a shitshow. But there's certain steps that need to be taken, and I'm sort of the disposable one that can't be bought. So I can make the horrifying decisions that no one else can make."

The guy says he doesn't believe in evil. The only time in history that money has been abolished was under the Khmer Rouge. They also had no concept of evil, and made a good many horrifying decisions in service of total economic equality through forced poverty and mass enslavement. Because of course the people who don't want to quit earning, spending, owning and trading their goods and services need to be forced to do so, or else be eliminated.
If anyone is interested in what a typical SaaS sales org chart looks like, here is a good example: https://www.saasae.com/levels
I've not experienced reports of this for myself. I'll ask my driend group to do a comparison between our shared room and see if there are any problems. to be fair i mostly use groups so maybe the behavior is limited to 1x1 messaging?
> At this age (well, at every age) it is imperative to get enough rest between exercise days.

I've heard it said that there is no such thing as over-training only "under resting".

> The heart rate variability (HRV, there are apps for that) is a good indicator.

Can you give more details on this? How does it work, what number(s) to look at, etc.
I was just talking about Signal one hour ago whether if it was available on PinePhones or the Librem 5 which seems very unclear, and now this happens on Android devices.

Does this mean that not only I can't yet recommend a PinePhone or Librem 5 yet, but for current Android users I can't even recommend Signal to anyone due to this issue?
What study? Weightlifting is full of claims of miracle supliments, and usually the best claim much lower improvements than that.
The model of security given in the article is a horrible way of implementing the principle of least privilege.

A better way is set a reasonable set of resources aside for the exclusive use of a given program (for storing state, etc.) and then using system dialog boxes to pick/choose other files/resources to work with. If done correctly, the user wouldn't even notice the difference in most cases.

A technical user could set up better defaults.

You're not going to get there using sandboxes on top of Linux, Windows, etc. Security has to be enforced in the OS kernel. I suspect eventually we'll end up using something like Fuchsia, Genode, Hurd, etc.

[Edit] It seems to me the composability aspect of unix needs to be re-interpreted in a way that allows composing of resources (capabilities) to be passed to a program. One could take a given resource and make it read-only for example. Email access that can only read a certain folder, or contacts, but never send, copy, etc. would be handy to be able to express. You could then pass that limited, specifically tailored set of things to a process with no other access to anything.
They do operate some heavy equipment in the warehouse, but the people on foot aren’t that safe. Many injuries are based on people being unprepared for such an extremely athletic job, repetitive strain, or continuing to work injured. The more serious injuries are normally stuff like back injuries from lifting heavy weights bent over in a hurry, falls etc.

One example was dog food stored under a low platform so people needed to Cary 50lb bags while bent over. It’s possible to do that safely, but when you’re tired and in a hurry it’s easy to hurt yourself doing that.
The main reason it doesn't work in US is, you don't tax the rich and corporations like you should, and because your tax dollars are spent on inefficient massive military industrial, intelligence industrial, prison-industrial, and medical industrial complexes, that are effectively theft of government budget. End the limitless corruption and be amazed what you can afford. :)
> She was with a pro-team

Only in 2017. She quit a Belgian pro-team shortly after she joined [1].
Quote from the linked article: "I noticed that professional sport is too much physical and psychological stress for me and that I prefer to only do hobby sport"

> but it isn't a simple amateur beating out all the pros story.

IMHO she probably is not really just an amateur, but also not a pro. I mean, she is 30, doing her post-doc at EPFL Lausanne right now... It's not like training is the only thing she spends her time with. Also not sure if she has sponsors.

And to everyone here on HN saying that the Dutch riders didn't know there was someone in front: These are professional athletes, competing at the olympics. If the Dutch's claim is true, it's their own fault. Knowing who is/how many are in front is part of the game. And they lost that game.
Also Kiesenhofer was ahead 1:15 minutes. It's not like that's nothing. Even if the Dutch would have chased her, is it sure they would have beaten her? I am not sure...

The point being: Kiesenhofer won, no matter what.

[1] https://sport.orf.at/tokyo2020/stories/3081410
I can't tell if you are trying to be sarcastic so I will respond in good faith.

> Why the hell can't I be free to move freely to a place where other people accept me? Why is it that a parasitic entity (the state) has to say whether they allow me in or not?

Because when a community decides to provides services to a people it must now have standards to decide who to provide services too. There are only 2 possible ways to solve this.

1: provide services to everyone. naturally this doesn't work.

2: provide services to nobody.

> Governments, or states, are responsible for most of the destructive behavior we see in human history.

This is a consequence of the state's monopoly on violence. By joining a society you voluntarily give up power to the government in exchange for services and protections.

Wars occur as a consequence of this exchange of power when states look out for their own interests, which include the interests of its people.

> Society has never been so peaceful as today.

Because the state has a monopoly on violence and has gotten more effective at enforcing that monopoly?

> Most private entities (companies or the third sector) do good for the people and benefit nothing from the misery caused by state actors and their wars.

I'm not sure if you are aware of the other functions that states provide but some of the functions you may find beneficial are ways to resolve conflict without violence, protections to people, and a standard of living. These are again, enforced with violence. Seeing as you moved from Brazil to the Netherlands I'm sure you are aware of the benefits you are granted.
> This isn't true for <22" or >34" panels, though, so it's a function of my lens plasticity.

I understand smaller displays, but why isn't the issue present on bigger displays?
Doesn't Wayland have "compositing" built-in? I guess this should have been named "window manager"?

Interesting project btw :D
Reading that, I wonder whether a start up would have a better time offering OS/firmware support for already shipping, mass produced devices. i.e. Buy the latest XPS 15 and get to work making an installer that disables all the things they want to disable (intel ME off the top of mind). Doing similar with phone models, etc. I wonder whether this could be done for Windows drivers, for that matter.
Dillo was forked from Armadillo, which in turn was forked from Gzilla[1]. I handed it over to another developer in 1999[2]. It's interesting to imagine what might have happened if I had kept on it.

[1]: https://www.levien.com/gzilla/

[2]: https://www.levien.com/free/gzilla-tour.html
You could simply host your network on unlicensed spectrum.
Not quite true in California - being "gravely disabled" also justifies involuntary detainment and treatment:
"A condition in which a person, as a result of a mental health disorder, is unable to provide for his or her basic personal needs for food, clothing, or shelter."

In reality though, the lack of funding for such people means that only the most severe are treated under this category. What's required is the funding and political will to enforce it, the necessary legal structure is already in place.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
Once you learn the externalities of fiat monetary systems, you will understand why we need Bitcoin. And you will realize that it is the most important innovation of our lifetime.
Is the trend of FP still going on? I'm not so sure, feels like it has somewhat slowed down compared to the hype about eight years ago.

There is somewhat a positive trend about immutability, but you don't need a FP language of FP features for that.

My guess which languages that is most popular here at HN, based on rough estimate of number of positive mentions, would be C, golang, rust & python, where neither is a FP language.

Edit: Maybe Erlang should be included in that list of popular HN languages, if that is the case then it is one out of five.
This would be super useful if it could me made to work on the secondary eSIM for iDevices.
It's hard to make gains after 65, having competed with veterans at various ages it's sad to see the decline at 65+, but they are of course much more vital then their age peers. So don't expect to make the gains this lady has done. Try to find a recreational activity that increase heart rate, work the muscles, (and if possible social), and if you enjoy it - the effects combined will increase overall life quality.
> Many parts of my mind that sometimes bother me don't have to be at work for me to be in motion

Another nugget: your body isn’t fly by wire. Powering more muscle fibres requires more action potential. It’s literally more taxing on your CNS, and something your brain must divert resources to power.
A non-techie relative of mine told me about images being sent to wrong people and them asking why they sent the photo. I first assumed it was just user error but apparently that's quite a bit data leak on signals side.
Better than in C where they are nowhere to be found, not even in source code.
Two whole days! Oh the humanity!

If those two days out of every two weeks are critical to a team hitting their deadlines, then the team is already fucked. If you can't stop, think, talk, and relax for a moment, then you're already behind or will be behind and you'll probably never catch up without risking burnout of the team and mass quitting.
>Who is they?

The 17 authors of the manifesto.

>But you would further impose problem solving constraints on others thought work.

I would, yes. I've worked with a diversity of methodologies and several times with no explicit methodology all and in a team context we ended up a disorganized mess.
While I suppose the protocol is not at fault and it's a UI and client bug it's still a huge problem.

Just today I was thinking ”it's been weeks since they moved the GIF button to a different place but there's still the old button at the old place and when you click on it there's a pop-up "wrong, the button is somewhere else now"”.

Why even keep the old button in the old place ?

And it led me to thinking "what else could be wrong/buggy in the UI and the UX that is not obvious to them ?".

edit: according to this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27951648 there is only one dev working on the Android client ? Hats off to that person, it's incredible.

So I should have written: And it led me to thinking "what else could be wrong/buggy in the UI and the UX that they haven't had time to catch and fix yet ?".
> For this, the city pays around $60k per tent site per year. I'm not sure if this is in part due to some unsavory relationship between the org administering the program and some city official. Recently the program was extended. It would be cheaper to rent apartments at current market rates, even in San Francisco.

60k per tent site, as in - multiple, like a dozen, tents? Or 60k per tent?
Two remarks:

* This feels way too hierarchical for the size -- there's significant distance from many employees and the CEO even at small sizes.

* Could not disagree more with putting HR and Ops under the CFO (even in a 50-person company). That's a surefire way to have a neglected HR/people function.
A growing company doesn’t need to be profitable, so there’s no reason an engineer shouldn’t be compensated at market rate ever.
people living in tents in SF are not just “poor” - many have severe mental health issues and drug addiction. In fact, many are there because of SF’s open-air drug market.

My point is that the program you mentioned is even crazier and more cruel and wasteful.
We need many of these people booked into the rehab (mandatory if needed) and then subsidize cheap apartments for them.
Flat out, the steering device shown is unsafe. We will read about this decision sometime in the near future.
I don't understand why they need the giant funding anymore for this stage in their development. We're in the middle of a very transformative place in democratization of semi conductors. A couple of grad students were able to make a competitive (for the gate count) open source OoO core with BOOM. There's an open source PDK floating around now. It's albeit for 130nm, but that's good enough for a pentium III level core and they should be very very good with that gate count without paying a cent.

It's not 2004 anymore, they should be able to make progress to making a chip at the gate counts they've been pitching with very little capital investment because of how much democratization of chip tech has happened over the past few years.

Plus I was under the impression that VCs want to at least see something running in an FPGA for a chip startup. The space is filled with software engineers that have trouble synthesizing their HDL. Cut out the fancy meta chip generator, sit down and write some HDL enough for a 'bronze' core and then I imagine the money will start flowing for the money for a leading edge node where the arch will really shine.
I think it would be less of a company town if the workers owned the entirety of the company.
> For this, the city pays around $60k per tent site per year

Is that 60k per tent site or per tent?
Yes, money is just a token to keep track of your balance sheet intuitively. Given a secure enough institution we could do it entirely on paper.
For those of us who want to start an indie one-person SaaS, this is sobering - because it means that for a while, you’ll be doing all 50 of these jobs. And, paid far less than any of them.
60k per single tent
Renters would rather have empty rooms than homeless. No commercial renter references, no full time employment, even a hint of "homeless" = no apartment.

Friend in Canada is purely disabled along with their relative, and lives on disability - which is guaranteed rent. Renters wanted nothing to do with them. They had to go to a government agency that locates housing based on income, and they only got that because their parents cosigned and the landlord was nice.
From the beginning of the article:

> his past week were the initial Linux benchmarks of the Ryzen 9 5900HX with the ASUS ROG Strix G15 laptop. Ubuntu was used as the default test platform as usual given its popularity and arguably the most relevant Linux distribution to use given that it's the most common Linux distribution at the moment for preloads on laptops by multiple vendors. In any case, as usual many users were quick to say "but Arch Linux!" as if it was going to make a dramatic difference in my findings.
LeetCode – Plus One
Tips to improve naming and why it is so important?