skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's be honest, the people with the financial conflict of interest are the owners of the pharmaceutical companies, the employees on the payroll of the pharma companies, the doctors who are paid to prescribe their drugs, the politicians whose campaigns they finance, and the regulatory agencies they fund. People on the internet pointing out the glaring issues with all of this aren't making anywhere near as much money, and most aren't making money at all.

I'm not making a dime. I've been moderating coronavirus forums for free since January 2020, reviewing papers, and judging whether things were misinformation. What I saw was that the virus was burning out in May 2020, but we ramped up PCR testing and started testing healthy people using a way too high cycle count. All this did was inflate the perception of danger and sustain the panic. Private hospitals were (and still are) being paid to diagnose COVID. 94% of COVID deaths were actually deaths with COVID and an average of >2 comorbidities at an age averaging about the normal life expectancy. I saw therapeutics like HCQ and Ivermectin smeared fraudulently. I saw common sense therapeutics like Zinc, Quercetin, and Vitamin D (which are incredibly effective at mitigating COVID) ignored. It was 100% vaccines, lockdowns, masks, and nothing else, even though the research clearly showed that this was a nonsensical approach.

From there I became more and more flabbergasted at the disinformation coming from official sources and the media, especially around the safety and efficacy of these mRNA therapeutics.
yep, good point, lost track of the real point. thanks!
> he could at any time choose the jail option.

That's not an option, it is a threat. And it fits the definition of forced labour.
The solution that seems most fair to Tesla, all other manufacturers, and road users seems to me to be mandated driver monitoring for all driver assist systems.

Regardless of your feelings on the abilities of Autopilot, driver monitoring could go a long way to prevent the predictable abuse of the system which seems to be prevalent with a certain cohort of Tesla posters on social media.

The problems associated with the marketing of “Autopilot” and “Full Self-Driving” are a different problem entirely.
The business model doesn't seem honest. I doubt they really want to buy 3M homes and sell that to 6 people at 500k each. There isn't much of a market for that.

More likely they want to find a way to circumvent short term rental laws and then charge a premium over Airbnb for short term rental access in locations that Airbnb cannot rent. On paper that company could be worth billions. Then they sell it before investors realize the legal tricks they used only work for a short while.
https://archive.is/pgT1I
Arguing with an Anti-Vaxxer
I mentioned this because the comment I was responding to was factually incorrect when they states that Sweden mortality rate was worse than Norway over the past few years. It was not.

The article I linked to explains the significance, which I tried to sum up in my comment:

> In other words, excess mortality from COVID-19 may be less conspicuous than previously perceived in Sweden, while mortality displacement may be used to explain at least part of the observed findings.

> More specifically, mortality displacement implies temporarily increased mortality (i.e., excess mortality) in a certain population as a result of external events, which likely arises because individuals in vulnerable groups die weeks or months earlier than they would otherwise – primarily due to the timing or severity of the unusual external event. The excess mortality is, thus, predated or followed by time periods of lower than expected mortality.

In other words, Sweden was better than Norway at keeping older people alive before the pandemic. Therefore during the pandemic there were more older people in Sweden. Older people are notably more vulnerable. This may be the explanation why more people died of covid in Sweden. It alludes to there being more factors involved than just the nearness of two countries and lockdown protocols.

Another way of saying this, exaggerated for clarity: More people will die of covid in a country of 80 year olds than in a country of 20 year olds.

Remember that only 1 out of 695 people have dies from covid in Sweden since the start of the pandemic [0], two thirds of them over 80 years old [1]. This is consistent with the above information.

[0] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1107913/number-of-corona...
> The main reason is probably that ISO-8859-9 / Windows-1254 already only had a single I and i so it would be impossible to know which Unicode character to convert them to.

The alternative codepoints I proposed could coexist with the previous ones. After all, it is not like Unicode does not offer different ways of representing what humans consider to be the "same".

For example, 'İ' ≡ uc( lc 'İ' ) can be preserved by representing the result of lc 'İ' as "i + COMBINING DOT ABOVE" which I found to be rather clever[1].

However, I am not aware of a similar trick enabling me to preserve 'ı' ≡ lc( uc 'ı' ).

For reference, I have been dealing with Turkish character issues etc since the 80s when I was typesetting texts containing math, Turkish, and several European languages using WordStar during which time I had to hack my own keyboard drivers because there was zero support for Turkish. Then, there was a period where every computer had its own convention.

A lot of people used my hacks for a long time without even realizing them. So, things have improved, but I just can't figure out why not reserve a couple of extra codepoints for logically distinct concepts. It would make nothing worse and improve things in situations where one can take advantage.

[1]: https://www.nu42.com/2017/02/for-your-eyes-only.html
> Consider the fact that conflating credit score to credit worthiness (respectfully, as your reply does)

No, it doesn't. My reply was to a question that did that, and explicitly corrected it, identifying other factors considered in creditworthiness besides credit score.
This does not contradict my view. At big companies, there is a stable layer of management who have expressed interest in progression and are waiting for their next promotion / assignment. It may never come, but they're playing the game, management is dangling the carrot, and it's a stable equilibrium.

If someone says they don't want to progress, they are saying that the carrot won't work for them, and when someone in management leaves they won't be able to help, so sooner or later they will be replaced with someone who does (at least say that) they want to progress.
Pacaso:

> co-owners collectively own real estate, not time

Also Pacaso:

> Your access depends on the number of shares you own. Each share includes 44 stay nights, and they are tracked on a 365-day basis.

https://www.pacaso.com/faq/scheduling
> Timeshares do have value if you truly want to spend your vacation every year in the same place at the same time, but that is such a rare desire

Plenty of people would be up for this imo.

The issue with timeshares is that at some point, someone's kids/friends will trash the house just before the next sharer moves in, and from that point any goodwill between the timesharers will be ruined.
For me, personally, a major reason to unlock the bootloader is to install Magisk. Running an entire ROM is nice if you can find a trusted and supported one, but failing that, root access is the next best thing.

I've got background clipboard sync back in KDE Connect through a Magisk module. No need for an entire LineageOS ROM (would be nice if it were officially supported) if everything I want can be done another way.

VoLTE is incredibly fragile. You can often force enable it and it'll just work, but there's so much that can go wrong that I wouldn't risk it.
Humanity does not do large scale fundamental change in less than a few decades.

We are actually changing very quickly. Now that solar is cheaper than coal, we are simply turning coal plants down, even on the middle of their lifetime. Transport electrification is basically bounded by supply, we are just not able to do it faster.

The one thing that could be better is grid storage. It doesn't help that there is a patent minefield around battery chemistries, and it also doesn't help that it's only economically viable after the grid has a large share of renewables. A government could intervene on both of those problems right now, but if they are left for markets, it will take another decade after we start working really hard on them (what is still quick, by the way, and it helps that we can solve basically half of the emissions on the previous paragraph alone).
Yes but you’re still going to use visa and MasterCard with whatever your banks debit card is based off of. They’ve been cutting off payments to sites that publish adult content for ages, this isn’t new.
Wow this is so greedy wtf
As fantastic as IntelliJ and VSCode IDEs are, I still find myself (sometimes) preferring working on remote servers with mosh/tmux/Emacs for two main reasons: 1) being close to data on cloud platforms like GCP and AWS. 2) being able to spin up a VPS to work for a few hours that is much faster than any of my laptops and has faster network access.
Trading Operations of the Binance Insurance Fund
> The first thing that a human needs to signal to another human is “I’m not going to do some crazy shit when you turn your back.”

Well put, but then the foundation of our interaction is based on hypocrisy. I don't know what crazy shit ill do from moment to moment so allow me the spinner beanie hat txmuch.
What I would really like is a Raspberry Pi in an iPhone from factor. (Or maybe a Gemini PDA form factor.) Apple has been doing nothing but pissing me off for years, definitely including scanning photos on the device and now this multicast issue.
> If you tamper with the device it's your responsibility, innit? It's not like they disabled a properly functioning device that uses the original firmware with an OTA update

And more to the point, Samsung is under no obligation to allow bootloader unlocking at all, much less ensure that it continues to provide any specific set of functionality.

The alternative here isn't "Samsung stops disabling the camera when the bootloader is unlocked," it's "Samsung stops allowing bootloader unlock."

This is always the game with Android phones - you have to do your research to understand whether you can install your own software on them, and what might be lost if you do so. If you don't want a bunch of headaches, just buy a Pixel series straight from Google.
As long as there are a few companies producing billions, the system can sustain hundreds of companies soling millions and still come out ahead.
I mean yes, I'm aware different countries do address differently, and that a person should not prematurely predetermine the fields of an address on international software.

I had asked a specific question, which your comment does not address.
I remember walking in Andalusia an coming across a shepherd sitting on a grass bank, holding his head in his hands, talking to his sheep. It seemed I had stepped back in time and felt it was a very special moment.

Looking back I saw he was actually on his mobile phone.

Other forms of communication are available.
Interesting points. Is AWS Rekognition just doing OCR as a service? I guess there isn't enough value in that to build a competitive solution. So good point. For more complex perceptual models, I'd be really surprised if the model wasn't considered proprietary/value-added.
When Reddit started doing this it effectively broke my redditing habit. I know these things are annoying but for anyone who is trying to use social media less... Twitter, Reddit, and Instagram are almost unusable without their apps. They are basically useless if you dont sign in on the browser on your phone. It's great if you want to get off them.
Lie groups were well understood for estimation problems, which also are very concerned with observability. In fact, applying standard control theory 'through' an observable system is no giant achievement.

In 2010-2015 a hit topic was 'consistency' which was shown to be related to observability by using something that seems to be quite similar (based on keyword matching alone).

Roumeliotis and Gao did a lot of work here. It's old news. I'm surprised it didn't translate back to control theory, but it probably did.

The writing of the abstract actually treats observability in that context, with monocular cameras on drones and all that. And it wouldn't suprise me if there was a little bit of XKCD factor going on. https://xkcd.com/793. I mean, 'developed by the author' might be a bit strong.

But I haven't read the article yet so those are first impressions.
You are confusing the hardware with the software.

You own the hardware. You license but do not own the software (as is the case with almost all software nowadays, including FOSS software). If the software from Apple is not to your liking, jailbreak the hardware and install software that is more to your liking.

This might take some effort as newer releases of Apple software are harder to jailbreak so you might have to stop installing new Apple OS releases to give the jailbreaks a chance to catch up to what is on your phone.
It is not understandable, and we shouldn't accept asshole behavior like this. If we do, other manufacturers will follow one by one, and in 2 years you won't have any options left. Like it was with removable batteries. SD cards. Headphones jack.
Again, my original comment is merely a criticism of credit score and not the entire consumer lending infrastructure. Three credit bureaus purport to have a comprehensive opinion of someone's credit worthiness without considering their income and that's broken, full-stop.
Owning a "share" in one of these "house-companies" sounds like a nightmare. If you want to sell it off, you have to find someone who's willing to buy 1/8th of a house, or buy out 7 other owners to sell the house normally.
It's printed quite clearly in the quick start guide that it'll break your phone if you do it. Maybe people should read the little booklet, but as you can see it's not hidden under a pile of text.

> Approved firmware versions

> This device will only operate with

> firmware versions that have been

> approved for use by your wireless

> carrier and the device manufacturer.

> If unauthorized firmware is placed on

> the device it will not function

https://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/UM/202108/2021081...
That writeup gives really strong WeWork vibes. Guess we know where this is heading...
I wonder if some corps are upset they won't be selling more bullets and gas to the army?

First Korea, now this...
When I first noticed this I found a workaround to block all cookies from Twitter.
Huawei Proposes Topic-Based Personalized Web Search Ranking
The "haha, this really is timeshare" comments on this and on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28247379 are missing the point. Let me tell you why, with an example from a niche I've been involved in for 25 years; the 250-year old inland waterways of the UK.

Shared ownership is big business on the UK canals. A new narrowboat costs £100k+, and unless you're living afloat, most people only spend a few weeks on it every year. It makes a lot of sense, then, to share with other like-minded people: you get the same amount of holiday for a fraction of the cost.

Traditional timeshare narrowboats exist too. But the model is very different, and much more like the "timeshare" you'd think of with villas/resorts/etc. You pay some sort of upfront cost and some sort of subscription to the timeshare company, in return for which they promise to give you some benefits. But with timeshare, it's all a contractual relationship with the timeshare company; you don't own any part of the boat, and if they go bankrupt, you're screwed.

That's not what narrowboat shared ownership is. With shared ownership, you literally do own a 1/12th share of the boat. Once you and your fellow co-owners have bought it, the boat belongs entirely to you. You probably pay some sort of service charge to the company for co-ordinating bookings (arguments over school holidays are common), servicing, and so on. But the boat is yours.

And this was proved c. 2008.

The two biggest shared ownership companies, OwnerShips and Challenger Syndicateships, both went bust in short order. Both had over-expanded: forays into the French canal market, ambitious luxury boats which went over budget, and just plain avarice on the part of the founders.

But in both cases, the boat sharers retained ownership of their boats. Some incidental service fees and associated funds held by the companies were lost, but the asset remained untouched. Those boats are still out there, still in shared ownership, and often with service/arrangement fees being paid to another company - because since you own the boat, you can just up sticks and deal with another company if you like, or none at all.

Contrast with timeshare. If a timeshare company goes bust you have no recourse. You don't own the boat/apartment/whatever. You don't own anything.

So please, less of the "this is just reinventing timeshare". It's a proven model, it works, and good luck to them.

Edit: a couple of examples: https://www.bcbm.co.uk, http://www.carefreecruising.com.
Following the Grenfell disaster in London, flats up and down the country have been valued at £0 and are thus unmortgagable due to their use of cladding material that no longer is deemed safe.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/nov/02/after-grenfell...
Timeshares have most of the downsides associated with home ownership combined with the downsides of renting. However, it’s a bad deal mostly because the margins need to be high to sell them. Splitting a lake house or cabin in the woods among 2 to 4 families can be far more affordable than a second home without the overhead associated with owning and managing a rental. Few people actually want to use a second home every weekend, but renting something 10-20 weekends a year adds up.
I would counter that a minority of control engineers are using Lie groups and that a lot of people who have got by with linear methods so far might end up needing the conclusions in this book.
What's CBD?
The point I was making is that my "bro" wasn't part of BLM, but was merrily lumped in by media services that were actively lying during the protests in Seattle.

And yeah, the people who said that about protesting were concern trolls. There was a lot of police on protestor violence, and there was an honestly alarming amount of lies spread in news during that time. I'm talking about misreporting of events I was present for, or was actively watching live feeds of.
If you install signal from the apk they(moxie, signal) provide it works without google play services and it will update itself automatically, just requiring you to click a confirmation every few weeks.

Calyxos ships with Signal installed. I think it's an install time option? And it updates in an identical fashion.
Ah, but see, you own a -share- in the real estate, and the time is just a bonus that's included! After all, if you owned all the shares, you'd be able to stay in it all you wanted!

eyeroll
It wasn't missed, I still remember checking the sourceforge source circa 2009. I was not really that interested in it and I am still not.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=599852
So super mockable company but in many vacation communities some old folks die and pass on their nice house on the lake to their kids. So say 3 kids own the property now. So if timeshares are banned in that area I guess you would say those people need to not share it and force one family member to buy the others out or something? Or they would then need to sell the property I guess. Basically just throwing it out there that many of these houses end up being used by families and often essentially it’s co-owned and timeshared by multiple people —-but because they are the kids of the rich folks that used to live there then is ok I guess. Not talking about a red herring I’m talking about the actual reality that I’m aware of in multiple vacation communities I’ve visited.
> Well... Jesus is also old testament God.

The Gnostics would disagree with you. :-)
There is much more to it and I wouldn't trust any legal advice given to you by OP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_est_factum
Starship explosion could damage/destroy large part of the "starbase" and cause significant damage in Bocca Chica. It will also have terrible impact on the wildlife refuge that's there.
In addition to that Musk's Starlink satellite will cause Kessler Syndrome. Both of these events could not only finish Spacex but will affect space exploration for decades.
Things like AirBNB have really put the nail in the coffin for timeshares, why do something complicated when you can just rent a house for a month at the time you want?

Similar things happen with boats, easier to rent when you need than try to fractionally own.

It sometimes works with small planes, but often those are set up like a "rental" where all renters collectively "own" the little company that owns the plane.
Anyone learn to whistle, in any way or form, later in life? I've always wanted to but never been able to. I've tried a few types of whistles. The closest I've gotten is some quasi duck calls using my hands and whistling with the help of an acorn.
Hey, at least they avoided calling it a timeshare, so customers have a harder time seeing that there's no significant difference.

Now juicers, on the other hand...
If (by hypothesis) the insecure-obstinate anti-vaxxers can't be convinced no matter what, then it's not the blue-tribe attacks on them that are killing people, it's the anti-vaxxers' pig-headedness.

And if blue-tribe attacks on anti-vaxxers help to increase blue-tribe and independents' vaccination rates, then net-net the attacks are a good thing from an overall-vax-rate perspective, because (again, by hypothesis) the blue-tribe attacks won't decrease the anti-vaxxers' vaccination rates, which are already at or near zero, and nothing will increase those rates.

EDIT: There's also a question of patience (an exhaustible resource) and cost-effectiveness: when dealing with a toddler screaming for candy in the grocery store, at some point you stop trying to reason with them and just physically remove them from the store. Likewise with anti-vaxxers: At some point the rest of us are going to lose patience and stop being willing to incur costs in terms of dollars, unavailability of ICU beds for other patients, and needless deaths and long-haul illnesses. Personally, I'd be OK with putting voluntary anti-vaxxers under house arrest, akin to being locked up for contempt of court: The key to your cell is in your own hands.

EDIT 2: You persist in labeling the blue-tribe attacks as being on less-educated and rural people. From where I sit, the attacks are on pig-headed voluntary anti-vaxxers — some of whom are well-educated city-dwellers such as the commenters on Fox News (some of them doubtless being vaccinated themselves).
It’s a ridiculous assessment and it’s comparing XVIII c. US with the modern day.

That would be like someone bringing up some deficiency in women’s rights in the US today and then retort by comparing it to women’s rights in 1700s somewhere else.

No, we live today.
Which does not trigger the device unless you are ALSO touching the staple or you cut with staple side down so you ground blade through staple into table.
> Jailbreaking is legal,

Not that simple. Since the DMCA/EUCD, it's complicated.