skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me rephrase: If you feel the need to wear a mask, do it. If not, don't.

Edit:

> in the prior this has high probability based on logic and the experience of many years

Reality can be counter-intuitive if you put your logic and experience to the test. Famous example: Using diuretics for antidiuretic effects [1]

Even a banal situation like wearing a face mask during surgery leads to inconclusive results [2]. Does it increase or decrease the number of cases of wound infections? There seems to be no clear evidence atm

[1] https://jasn.asnjournals.org/content/15/11/2948

[2] https://www.cochrane.org/CD002929/WOUNDS_disposable-surgical...
The clients are open-source [0], maybe they'd accept contributions?

Worst-case a fork could work.

[0]: https://telegram.org/apps
There are several arguments supporting the idea that covid will become like the common cold, it is not a generic "all viruses turn into the common cold".

We already have 4 endemic coronaviruses that cause common colds, and we suspect that they started as deadly pandemics too, which were historically reported as the flu. Many specialists suspect that the OC43 coronavirus caused the 1889 "Russian flu".

Covid seems to follow the same path: a disease that is mostly harmless to the young but potentially deadly to older adults with no acquired immunity. It is likely that in a generation or two, everyone will be infected at a very young age, building immunity and occasionally get breakthrough colds. Breakthrough cases already look a lot like colds.
I once saw an entire political debate about Welsh independence play out in graffiti on a pub wall. I certainly hope if it happens they’ll allow rump UK citizens to live and work there as Ireland did upon independence, I miss living in Wales and will probably return one day.
So it's a Pixel 4a with GrapheneOS. Is it any different from purchasing a Pixel 4a and installing GrapheneOS or does the NitroPhone provide anything else in addition to that?
I still operate the butterfly keyboard as my daily driver, 2017. In a very low grade constant fear, just waiting for the day for a small particle to get lodged underneath a key cap...
Given the level of detail in the post that seems highly unlikely. They seem to be heavily reliant on the Graphene community for their creds.
Ask HN: Advice for Student on Starting Career
I'm going to be finishing University at the end of the year and I'm not sure what to do. I like programming and computer science but never really put much effort into Uni because I wasn't really too interested in the theory, but I persevered and will end up with a degree at the end of the year with average grades.

I have projects that I have worked on throughout my time at Uni, none are overly successful but they show I can produce good code and a product that works.

Unfortunately the focus of most employers is my grades and not my work which is fair enough but sucks because I learnt alot more building my own websites and programs than I did at uni.

I have sent out alot of emails to people trying to get a job but everyone is looking for experience at other companies or uni grades. I'm not sure what the best approach is.
Also, are they using reproducible builds? Because without that, there is no quarantee that the same code is in the device. Unless I can build same binaries and verify output binaries cryptographically to be the same.
I recommend the book T E Lawrence wrote on which the movie was based upon: "Seven Pillars of Wisdom".
Philosophy is not like physics at all. How do you propose you write a ''better version'' of the questions Nietzsche (or any other philosopher) grappled with? How do you know you are getting any closer to any truth?
I did an undergrad philosophy degree from over 10 years ago. My experience report is that I consistently rely on it.

Philosophy gave me tools to evaluate others' claims and taught me that communication is inherently difficult. And because of that, it's not enough to be right - it's important to be persuasive. But there's a tension there. Persuasion is very close to manipulation.

An unfortunate side-effect of philosophy is doubt. Lots of the beliefs that we hold without reflection are slippery, even incoherent. There's a riddle-like quality of attempting to define something like truth or identity and realizing that as one gets closer to that definition, the definition seems to slip away.

It's true that professional philosophers can deal with topics which inherently abstract and irrelevant to the everyday. The same is true with all specialists. Yet the skills that philosophers bring to bear are incredibly relevant to every social interaction. The philosopher's role is to evaluate others' arguments and posit one's own.

Lastly, one of the things that I enjoyed the most about philosophy is that touches many fields. While I would guess that the core of contemporary analysis are subjects such as Language, logic and cognition, it's surprising how many intellectual gaps there are in other parts of human thinking. Within those gaps, you'll find philosophers having a debate.
To anyone that would be interested, skip all introductory texts and the overviews and other secondary stuff, just start with Plato and go on.
I could see Ocean's Eleven and Wizard of Oz, but anyway the other movies felt a bit obscure so nothing else.

The last one, Star Wars, I think needs some deep inspection to get it and is missing the Vader ( which I think anyone with identify with the movie)
No. It's a Pixel phone, the hardware is not open.
Never thought pointers could expire, but it makes sense.
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Interestingly they look and behave quite similar even today as one can see in southern Israel, some replaced camels with an old beaten Subaru 4x4 but they still used tents, grow animals and wear traditional clothes
Kudos for running your site on Tor. I’ve been wanting to do that as well, but I’ve been putting it off because I don’t have any good enough content at the moment to warrant maintaining a site for. So currently I just post stuff to TikTok and Reddit etc. But when I make something good enough and I put it on a site of my own, I will make my site run over Tor also in addition to clear net.
Thanks and excellently written!
And also Theseiger's "Marsh Arabs".
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Is this a new law enforcement startup? :D

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/06/fbi-sold-phones-...
I learned about the super useful VokoScreen[1] at HN, so now I'm returning the favor back at HN, for those using Linux (although looks like it also has Windows builds? I didn't know before!)

[1]: https://linuxecke.volkoh.de/vokoscreen/vokoscreen.html
It seems the names are case sensitive. While HN itself is case insensitive. Also: Is there any documentation about what different badges mean?

Edit: As it turns out you need to hover over the text to get an description, while the icon only shows "icon for x" on mouseover.

Addendum: Would it be possible to split karma into submit and comment karma? My gut says it'd not be possible as HN uses some kinda curve + only displays the combined karma on the profile
You should most definitely go to university. Philosophy studied on your own is incomparable. A teacher and class mates to discuss the ideas presented in works is invaluable to help you develop your own ideas. And no university worth it's name will teach what you claim they do.
How do you know you need a message queue?
I am late to the party ... but is that reddit casually analyzing millions of private messages/chats?
The entire set of sectioned bulletpoints seem to exclusively list features of either Graphene or the Pixel: if there was a value-add I would expect it to be up top.

A further oddity is that the "Buy" page has vector imagery instead of photographs of the actual device.
I don't think that's entirely fair. I've been a happy Virgin Media customer for well over a decade. I've never had a serious outage and get 350mb internet (which I actually get), a decent selection of TV channels and use of a landline for £50/month.

They're subject to the same bullshit as other ISPs, but you can mostly opt-out.
So the thing they sell is actually installing Graphene and then additionally offer to remove internal mic's.

So its Graphene for non technical people.
And in a few weeks they'll propably slap their own Fdroid Repo on top for any vendor apps.

I cant actually say if that is a good thing or not.

At least if they install vanilla Graphene, you can use attestation to verify that the os is signed by the official GOS key.

Pixel 4a on Amazon Germany is 399€.
I recently bought an unused one for 300€ and needed about less than an hour to slap Graphene on top including doing attestation before and after install and storing the output.

So they crudely calculated want 230€/PersonHour.
I guess the real person gets somewhere under 100€/h and the rest is put in to business reserve.

I havent seen any option to remove Mics.
That would require to remove the display which is glued and fragile with an over 10% chance of killing it.
Pixel displays are from 70€-150€ a piece.
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That's sadly the case for most large-scale UK providers, they all have an interest in content. The "convergence" mantra in business circles made that an inevitability ever since the times of AOL-TimeWarner. You can look at Netflix today to see very clearly why nobody wants to remain a "dumb pipe" in the long run, once they get big enough.
Well, the more obvious answer would be to just have negative interest rates. Karl Marx proposed seizing the means of production, why not just make its owners pay for their excessive patience?

The problem with a depression is that everyone holds onto money hoping for fictional security in the ability to indebt someone else rather than being the one in debt.
Nitro has been around for a while: providing products in a similar space to yubico. Not particularly competitive on price or form-factor but I gather the "Made in Germany" tag has made them popular in Europe.
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Congratulations, you missed the point

The ISP level yada yada doesn't matter, nobody cares about that at a consumer level.

NAT doesn't imply firewalling, that true, but NAT also means that hosts being the gateway are not exposed by default.
Oh I had missed that bullet point. Definitely a service that might appeal to some.
I can also recommend licecap (https://www.cockos.com/licecap/), which is quite minimalistic but gets the job done
> Others like Edward Sissorhands, have no giveaways but just embody the style

When I looked at that one, I actually "saw" a figure holding distorted scissors imagery.

Trippy stuff!
He says it's historically their land, their taxes.

It's as good or as bad as when a state does it.
> Amazon has also changed the lives of basically everyone in the developed world, which definitely cannot be said of

How so? This is way too generous to Amazon. Buying things online faster is not a life changing feat. Neither are home assistants like Echo or Alexa. Maybe I'm missing something.
>"Taxes" in the modern sense implies that the taxees [1] as a group receive something in return.

You'd be surprised.
Yep. Assuming you're using GRUB, then that last post is the recommended solution.
> Has a life - Hasn't interacted with HN for over 180 days

Wow, I guess I cannot ignore my addiction anymore. I haven’t taken a 6 months break in 8 years of HN commenting?!
You can do all of this without the app. I would say it's an "easier" experience, better is subjective.
Fastest way to get your feet wet is the crash course on YT by Traverse Media it's like an hour. Learning react itself is pretty straightforward it's all the other crap like what you use for state management.

create-react-app is a great way to start imo from nothing. Also learn the arrow function way to write code and go for hooks but sometimes nice to know the class-based way.
obviously can't scale without increasingly high funding.
better way is to visit

https://setkorp.com/
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I wonder if it will have an impact on them at all.
>

> It is the largest fine ever imposed by the DPC and the second largest penalty ever levied on an organisation under EU data laws
True. The problem is that housing prices have risen by several hundred percent.
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>You risk being murdered and your business put on fire?

Small difference.
I can't think of something else right now, sorry.
It being separate from HN "proper" definitely makes me give it a lot of leeway to be "silly"
Very cute project. On mobile I don’t see a way to get badge descriptions.
You might also want to discuss the matter with people who went through the former...
And what is "understanding" anyway? Lots of "it can't be this it can't be that" but it doesn't tell what it actually is. Which makes it all easier to slap labels on things which don't actually need labels to just work. Does GPT-3 work? Yes it does and it works without bothering with whatever that "understanding" was. I bet Skynet wouldn't bother either to have an understanding or a soul, it would just... work.
Setup your business in Dubai

https://setkorp.com/
It's cool as something generated by an AI, but quite poor in terms of art. I don't like them, and they are boring.
The issue with edits is the sort of situation where A tweets something B supports/likes so B retweets it, then A edits the tweet and puts something B would not want to boost in. What should happen to B's retweet?

The best option I can think of for edits is to have the edit just delete the original and give you an input field with the text, attachments, and replied-to fields filled in already. (Maybe do something fancy and skip reuploading large media that doesn't get changed.) As far as likes/links/retweets go it's an entirely separate tweet.

That or adding support for a reply to be flagged as having corrections and be promoted to the top of the reply list and somehow highlighted to bring attention to to.
I'm pleased to say that HN user "NaN" does exist, although not terribly active:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=NaN

Edit:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=undefined
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Note that this doesn't actually actually remove the package from your device, it just disables and hides it from your user profile.
That sounds entirely logical, but unfortunately having never worked in a FAANG or FAANG-like company[1] I can't tell whether this is the reality or not.

I would very much like other readers here with experience in FAANG or FAANG-like companies to comment on your comment.

[1] Most Corporates and enterprises are different - they resolutely refuse to match based on market-value of skills. There's also very little a developer (senior or not) can do to have a company-wide impact, because the fiefdoms that are in place will resist any attempt to "lose" their territory.
Ask HN: Need Advice before hiring engineers for new startup as a non-tech person
In the next few months, I’ll be starting a new company after a long wait. The product we are building is technology-enabled and is targeted at a professionals within a specific industry. The product idea is not a secret as we’ve interviewed and surveyed members of this profession/industry extensively. The product will be an application on the web and on mobile.

We know how much this will assist them in their day to day work and the technical requirements of such a system do not require any new technology beyond what many apps already utilise. The price point that many people termed as ‘easily affordable’ on our surveys will hopefully allow us stay profitable and make our product accessible to even new entrants to the profession and students. This assumption will remain true even if only 10% become paying customers. Our ability to keep it that low will be re-assessed after hiring decisions and technology requirements have been ascertained.

We do not intend to use third party analytics or include any kind of advertising, and will not be selling user data for any reason.

I have been in the industry for 15 years and have extensive personal experience of the job we do and how such a product would cut down on time wasted while improving efficiency and productivity.

While I am not a technical person, I did spend some time learning and do understand some basics about UI & UX design, software architecture and software development life cycle. The limit of my technical education was HTML, CSS and JavaScript that I’m not entirely proficient with.

I want our product to be easily maintainable, reliable, scalable and fast. I don’t want to have a small set of early employees who know everything and then any new people would struggle to understand what they did after they’re gone especially if they leave abruptly. I don’t want code that is difficult for a colleague or subsequent employee to update and improve. I don’t want a product that’s slow and frustrating to end users. I don’t want a product that requires too much education for a basic non-techie person to use comfortably. I also don’t want a structure that doesn’t scale as users grow beyond the small subset we are beginning with since the product may be relevant to other industries beyond the initial one I am focused on.

Our budget is significant but not open ended so I also want to have all of these expectations met as reasonably as possible.

I have several advisers and one is a CTO at a major tech company and he would be helping me with the hiring process for the engineers. I will not be sitting through those conversations mindlessly or just nodding along so I want to know what questions I should ask and what aspects of our relationship need definition so that these expectations are met and I’m not at risk of dealing with the same problems I’m actively trying to avoid or requiring a full-rebuild after a short while.

We are building an app for iOS and android and the web portal will allow users manage their accounts/payments and also allow for admin access to continually update the app’s content.
Makes it a lot of sense, and P2P is exactly what we're discussing here. But P2P can take a lot of shapes, two of those shapes are "federated" and "distributed".

My issue is not that Matrix is moving towards P2P, but this particular user saying "unless everyone is running a server it's not federation" which is strictly false.
Haha great now I'll try to add it to my profile and see my new badge
"we can use adult language to each other"

Like monad or functor?

Edit: I'd be more worried about using a word like "monad" incorrectly on HN than swearing.
Ah I see. This is not yet supported in Conduit, but I can tell you that the conduit.rs server, which currently stores over 2 million events uses 8.6GB of disk storage + 7.8GB for media.
Not really? I mean, the cost of storing 100M of my cash is exactly the same as 100 of it, but in the former case I’d pay 1,000,000x more
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I'm somewhat new to using C++ often enough to care about this. At times, it genuinely feels harder to link a project, than write the code.

Having come from a webdev background, where well publicised package managers have effectively directed how a project should be built, C++'s ecosystem looks to have created the opposite situation, where the utility of a project or library appears to dictate which build manager is used, in most cases.

Either you go with the grain and adopt your chosen library/environment's build system, or you increase the work you have to do.

I liked GYP a lot, and when starting out, was trying to stick with it, naively thinking that would be all I need to do. But soon enough realised that sticking with any one single package manager is impractical, unless you're prepared to effectively narrow your choice of libraries to a subset of what's available.

It seems like such an obvious problem, that I find it strange that the domain is still so fragmented.

At the very least, you'd wonder why potential rivals wouldn't aim to make their products CMake compatible to start, and then work from there.
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As often happened in early 20th century archaeology, Wooley's crew was a bit sloppy handling the tablets they found: they boxed them up and took them home to try to figure them out, corrupting their order. Kind of like, I suppose, reading a hard drive sector-by-sector without understanding the file system layout.

(Source: the ancient near eastern librarian at Penn State, Chuck Jones, who happens to be my brother.)

It's great that Dr. Killgrove and her team were able to find an actual story to tell from that trove. And an interesting story, too.
How is this more compatible than just python? Since it requires libpython so you anyway need to have python installed on the target machine?

Also is this actually faster than just python? I tried it out with some bad expensive looping using lists with python3.9 and it was 100ms slower (1.3sec vs 1.4sec).

Just in general why should I be using Nuitka?
Toyota Corollas, but yes, pretty much the same (at least as you go farther into the desert).
Thanks.

> I think AGPL is a good license for web apps that can also dissuade Elastic/Mongo-like fiascos

Fair but listmonk doesn't seem like it is core to any for-profit business that zerodha or you run, and so could have been permissively licensed? See also: https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the-apache-way-to-...

Nothing against the xGPLs, because they protect a user's freedom better than MPLs / EPLs / APLs, even if the license's nuances are not well-understood (which is why they're restricted for use by some tech firms).
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omg this is so impressive, made me curious on what development approach did he do to create the website
total: 5.651 (4 tires, 2 snow chains)

I wonder how much of this would work for a rental. Quite a lot.
People in tuxedos, with guns and piles of cash.
I've just come to terms with getting a different menu of options in each country, in the 1000s of options, and live with that instead of being picky. It's the easiest thing I deal with, to the point I'm thankful for it.

Compare Amazon Prime overseas - 100% worthless, they wouldn't even let me pay to view a video I would have gladly paid to watch once. My account was stuck in some sort of cyclical impossible state that bounced me around in circles with no definite error but no way to progress either. I just found it so shocking such a large company can't even account for the fact any of their customers would ever at any point go on vacation a few days.
This looks brilliant. I am curious about the difficulty of assembly. Anyone with assembly experience on the DIY model? I went looking for the assembly instructions and didn't find them on Framework's site.
It's funny how this advice - to use either Zen or A&A if you conceivably can - hasn't really changed for about twenty years.

(I used A&A in London a decade ago and they were great, albeit a bit expensive.)
What wars do is break monopoly power. If the rich own all the land, money, patents you can take it from them.

Inflation doesn't create prosperity through an increase in the supply of money, it increases prosperity by breaking the monopoly power of money. During deflation you create $10 of value (assuming perfect price stability) but since the value of the dollar has risen you only get paid $5. When you add more dollars into the economy the monopoly power is shrinking, you get paid the whole $10 again.

Negative interest rates break the monopoly power of money by charging a holding fee for excessive patience.

Land value taxes break the monopoly power of land.

Democracy breaks the monopoly power on ruling the nation.

What we basically need is a slow decline in power, year by year instead of an instantaneous decline of power in a war or revolution.
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