skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly in this case the german entry has a bit more info

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptogen

If it is to be trusted is another matter. As with anything, there is hype, BS, marketing involved.

One could also ask if energy drinks are real or BS, apart from sugar and caffeine. Or so called 'superfruits'.
I agree with you but today's "news" is really just infotainment designed to outrage. When was the last time you read a headline that wasn't click-bait? The issue is that we want news to match the speed of Twitter and FB. Most people will never go read 4 articles with point/counter about any topic. No one has the time and the world is too complicated. My approach is to wait until I hear enough other people talking about something that maybe I should get up to speed. Otherwise, I don't bother. This will continue until we make fear-mongering less profitable.

As you said how do you separate fact from opinion? In some cases, certain details aren't even available. Take the following statement/headline, it is 100% true but likely will invoke different feelings and opinions depending on your position: "Prior to the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the President negotiated the release of 400 Taliban leaders from prison". This is super click bait and if you did the research into this statement, you are likely to count it as fake if it disagrees with your current position.
Given these two constraints:

1. The speed of light is a hard speed limit. This means there's also no cheating with warp drives, other forms of FTL, crossing dimensions, parallel universes or time travel; and

2. The laws of thermodynamics as we understand them hold true.

then the outcome of spacefaring civilization I believe is generally inevitable. That is, the ultimately limiting factor is energy and mass.

The easiest way to get both is with Dyson Swarms. This requires no new physics and no exotic materials.

If so, then a galaxy-spanning civilization is going to be completely obvious from a million light years away from the spectrum. Why? Because a full Dyson Swarm would have a very unique spectrum, specifically very little visible light and a lot of IR. That's just basic physics. The only realistic way to get rid of heat in space is to radiate it away and the wavelength of that is a function of temperature.

This is discussed in the context of the Fermi Paradox, which has the advantage that you don't need to determine what every alien civilization does, you just need to know if there are any exceptions.

Example: if there were 1000 spacefaring civilizations in the Milky Way, what are the odds that all 1000 of them (assuming they were within out light cone) would remain quiet or hidden? Couple that with mass and energy ultimately being limited then there is a strong incentive and advantage in becoming as large as possible. So even if 99% of civilizations remain quiet, the 1% will still make themselves visible.

Additionally, on the notion of hidden civilizations in particular, it's essentially impossible to remain hidden to a K2 or K3 civilization so there's really no point.

This is what gives me confidence that the Milky Way isn't teeming with spacefaring life. In fact I consider it much more likely we're the only such civilization in the Milky Way (within our light cone).
As somoeone who did the same thing recently, just to MS and Google (I still have a hard time abandoning YoutUbe and Youtube Music along with my years-long build playlist and preferences), I can relate. Because what the OP described is basically the recognition that

- dedicated hardware does a better job than general purpose one (cameras vs. smartphones)

- the smartphone ecosystem (regardless of brand) is becoming more closed, and monitored, every year

- there are enough alternatives out there, even if those mean to give up some "conveniences" we thought we won over the last years (IMHO, most of the perceived "inconveniences" that come from these alternatives are more due to lock-in and dark-patterns from FANG/MS and phone OEMs)
The Demon Core – Nuclear Stability and Critical Mass [video]
Many of us probably know senior folks at Apple.

While this is purely anecdotal, I've observed a higher proportion of "mission oriented" product and even I.T. leads at Apple than at the other brands he adopted in this divorce. (He's not using Framework laptop yet.)
There was a good Defcon talk about some security implications of this phenomenon (specifically, DNS squatting) around a decade ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT7mnSstKGs
It goes far beyond just "because you are using drugs" … it is a national security or any security risk for someone to be dependent and pliable, not only on or by drugs. I was going to make this a long explanation, but it can easily be summed up by if you can be manipulated by it, then the system will deem it a threat because you are a weak point. That means the affair you did not confess to your wife or that you fear ostracism for from your community if it were to become publicly known; just as much as the gambling debt or the DUI or any other hidden degenerate proclivities.

But that is all clearly falling by the way side as the US system crumbles and decays from being extremely unhealthy with a kind of civilizational or at least societal and cultural cancer that has clearly metastasized at this point.
Because there are so many studies of ivermectin and because it is so widely used, of course there are going to be bunk studies and scientifically invalid studies. Do you know how I know this? I know this because it was recently shown (within the past ten years) that something like 70% of scientific studies can't be reproduced (read: they're BS). So if were going to use scientific studies at all, to inform our decisions, as a society, then we have to accept that there's going to be flaws in some of them. And if we know that there are flaws in some of them, we can also conclude that a large quantity of corroborating studies is as important as the scale of each individual study. The same applies to meta-analyses. For example, it's going to be pretty difficult to publish over 100 studies[1] that all corroborate the almost-same set of basic facts, and then have all +100 of them be completely invalid. However, having over 100 different studies of a 50-year old medicine, from different scientists in different parts of the world based on different data sets over different spans of time and under different circumstances, and having the data corroborate the same key facts and numbers, I would trust this any day over a government funded study of a brand new medicine that is in a brand new category of medicines which has never been used in history.

There are literally hundreds of studies at this point proving that ivermectin is safe and effective for treating many things, including influenza and coronavirus, including COVID-19.

There are literally no studies proving that the Pfizer or Moderna gene therapies are safe and effective, or even that they are safe or effective, at both treating and preventing the spread of COVID-19. The latter of the two is the most important in the debate over whether people should be forced to take said medicines. And it is the inverse of that which has been proven through many studies now.

1. https://c19ivermectin.com/
Is this just the IQ debate, or "nature vs nurture", on another playing field?

It seems very obviously that some people operate on another level than others. If methods exist to boost the "normal" people to the genius level, they have not found their way into the mainstream yet.

Surely you could bog them down so that they don't perform better than the rest. You could simply only have boring software issues to solve in your company. In that sense, maybe you could get rid of the 10 times developer.

Or you could hire only very good people. But looking at the sea of developers, it seems clear that some are better than others.
I've settled on periodically glancing at NYT headlines, but with a very high bar for whether to actually click and read the article. If you've read the news for long enough, you can develop a spider sense for whether they have anything new to say. To oversimplify - if they had anything new to say, they'd put it in the headline. So if the headline has no news, i.e. if it sounds like something you could reasonably predict based on your existing knowledge, the rest of the article has no news either.

Example 1, no news: this morning, nytimes.com has the headline "Pressure Grows on U.S. Companies to Share Covid Vaccine Technology". Does it make sense that people want Moderna and Pfizer to share their Covid vaccine secrets? Sure, that's not news. Is it likely that "pressure grows" actually means anything specific and important? No, because if it did, they'd put it in the headline. Most likely, this article is just a boilerplate reminder of how people still want Moderna and Pfizer to share their Covid vaccine technology, and how mad they are that they're not sharing it. So I don't read the article. (Feel free to read it and correct me if I'm wrong!)

Example 2, real news: on the right half of the page on nytimes.com, there is a much smaller headline which says "Moderna vs. Pfizer: Both vaccines are highly effective, but one seems to be more protective over the long term." Which one is it? I have no idea! Worth a click. (This is an example of good clickbait: credibly signaling you have something worth saying without saying it right away.)

Also, there's no point in being constantly reminded of bad things you can't do anything about. Like, yes, I know bad things are happening in Afghanistan. I vote against people who support pointless wars. I don't know what else to do about it. So I don't let it take up space in my life.

With these filters your counterproductive news consumption can be cut by up to 99% without the feeling of missing out.

Things that I speculate might help further, but I haven't actually tried:

- Reading a wire service's website like Reuters or AP instead of NYT

- Relying on local news. I don't because paywall, but I'd probably benefit more from knowing what's going on in my community
Two phase 3 are standard. And I assume Rick was going after full approval not conditional as per the Alzheimer’s drug?
> China's manufacturing economy AND its military are entirely dependent on foreign-sourced semiconductors

Everyone else's military is also.
Spoken like someone who has never worked in a country with real, functioning unions.
I'm currently in the process of moving from Linux back to Windows running VMWare. For software development, I use a virtual xubuntu distribution. For browsing the web, listening to music, etc. it's all Windows. I just can't be bothered to fix broken drivers or wonky settings on Linux for stuff that should work out of the box. At the same time I still don't see an alternative for Linux as a development environment - so I hope with this new setup I get the best of both worlds.
> The US would concentrate on high performers, often to the detriment of their peers.

That's very interesting. This is anecdotally very contrary to my experience in middle-class public school, and my sister's experience as a teacher in a lower-income school.

Was the doc shot pre-NCLB? Is it simply a matter of variance across a large country, and my viewpoint is biased?
The more I learn about him the more sad I am that I never watched his show as a child.
redefine scope -> define how to measure emissions
estimating emissions
offsetting emissions
hmm where is the step for limiting emissions or better yet reducing emissions... guess it is easier to pay someone for projects that hopefully in future offset emissions at global scale and pat yourself on the back.
Somewhat related, Aaron Swartz' take on news: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews

I can't say I agree with him 100%, but he sure has a point.
Summers and Roubini on inflation: The bottlenecks are not going away
No Zapier, No Problem
But does Wikipedia have a list of all lists that do not contain themselves?
This is finally what allowed me to overcome my own self-doubt.

I'm not the fastest programmer and I don't have the most intellectual horsepower either. What I do have is an enormous body of knowledge built up over many many years that allows me to select the shortest path or atleast guide people smarter than me into the right area of the solution space where it should exist.
> focused on developers

The problem with this is which developers? People who write embedded systems? Web developers? People who write custom Windows applications?

Any given developer subset is likely to find this hypothetical new developer computer to be either too complex to use or not differentiated enough from Windows or MacOs (or ChromeOS).

> Most of the software we use to create software are electron apps

This is not true for most people whose primary employment is writing software, or working on software teams. Most people who get paid to write code work primarily in either the Java or .NET ecosystems and use something like Eclipse, IntelliJ, or Visual Studio. (Many more are using niche-specific tools in a captive platform like Oracle, SalesForce, SAP, etc.) If the new platform doesn't have 100.0% binary compatibility with legacy tools written for Windows and/or MacOS, its addressable market shrinks substantially.
Which of these can I not do on a Mac?

You can do all of them when you use a Mac, but Apple will do a lot to try to persuade you not to. That means you'll spend a lot of mental energy fighting with Apple's very effective p̶s̶y̶c̶h̶o̶l̶o̶g̶y̶ marketing department, and often you won't win. That's fine. You don't really lose anything, but every so often you'll think to yourself "I listen to the same bands all the time" or "I wish this phone had a bigger camera sensor." and you'll regret putting so much of your life, and money, in Apple's pockets.
Republicans Can’t Go Home (For Now)
This is LOLbertarian nonsense. We had legal, prescription drugs that started this whole mess. A generation of American families are destroyed, but, you know, creative destruction.
Thanks! Adding and will be live shortly.
So fighting hate and lack of compassion with...hate and lack of compassion? This is fine with you? Is everyone who isn't vaccinated hateful and lacking compassion?

At this stage of the pandemic it's clear that the vaccines won't lead to herd immunity. I have personally seen a significant amount of vaccinated to vaccinated spread. For some folks the dangers of the vaccine may be higher than Covid, for example an 18 year old male who already had Covid.

I am personally pro vaccine. While I don't believe it will stop the spread of covid I think it will likely slow the spread. More importantly, I believe that it will provide extra protections to those who are vaccinated. Even though I don't agree with a lot of the arguments against vaccination, I don't think they should die, and I certainly won't celebrate it. It disgusts me that anyone would celebrate that. I think it's shameful.
Another solution if you write fully-typed Python is to use typing.Literal:

calc(x, y, mode="gain")

where the function is defined as

def calc(
x: float,
y: float,
*,
mode: Literal["gain", "render"],
) -> float:
...

This is IMO one of the best things type annotations provide. Combined with Protocol you can write much better structured code with little or no runtime costs.
>One of the biggest opportunities in technology right now is to re-run the Next/Apple playbook and create a new hardware/software technology company focused on developers.

Why would that be an opportunity though?

It would be a low margin niche, with a small market segment, of which most would stick with Apple/Lenovo/Dell.
> Plugging in an external monitor may or may not work

Sadly, this is now true for Macs as well. Were by "not work" I mean: not finding/not supporting the proper resolution and/or refresh rate for the display.
Who would you rather have, a single individual who's a "10x person".

Or another individual who can make all of your developers 5x more productive, because that individual created a framework/algorithm/model that is radically more productive than what existed before (e.g. think Jeff Dean at Google, DHH with Ruby on Rails, etc)?
I think a helicopter is a better comparison here, and they seem to be 80-100 dBA.
There’s something about llamas! Related from 2018 which I also submitted: “A key ingredient for a universal flu vaccine may come from llamas” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18376376
Looking at the two papers (original, and updated) they only removed the Elgazzer paper but not the contested Shakhsi Niaee also mentioned in the Nature article.

This is noteworthy because it's also the only other RCT to show strong effect on mortality (see Fig3 in the two papers).

Original Marik, Kory paper Fig3 is here:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34375047/#&gid=article-figur...

Also, the Nature article is concerned that the underlying data isn't sound due to bad randomization and thus naive meta-analysis is inherently flawed in these cases.
Lithuania founds Xiaomi censoring phrases on it's devices
Long Error Messages
I do. I remember Microsoft stores too. They went 20% of the way and stopped, and decided that extracting rent from Office and Azure was all the work they wanted to do, rather than continue investing in hardware and in person support. Same with Google and their devices, except they did not even bother with in person support.
how could taxes be only 27k over 1782k in gross profit? That seems absurd to me. Not implying that you're wrong, just.. how does this work?
Cables handle 60W not by being thicker, but by allowing a higher voltage. The thickness of the cable is decided by amperage, not voltage.

So when operating at 90W the cable only needs to be a tiny bit thicker and negligibly more expensive than a normal 15W cable.
This adds a new, unexpected element to the alien visitation theory: the aliens that come here will not be alive at all, they will be robots programmed to extract resources that cannot be reasoned with diplomatically (assuming they are not outfitted with general intelligence). Unless the senders thought ahead and built empathy into the robots, there will be no way to end the invasion other than to kill everything that comes here.
Can only speak from personal experience (and friends and people I studied with, of course) but yes, it used to be pretty common (I graduated in 2010) to simply study in the town you grew up and live at home until you're done. Even with 5 year degrees, so until 25. Of course with a little financial support you could also get a small apartment or share one. And a lot of universities have dorms, even when they're not campus universities, then you might be living 5-15 km away from most of your classes.
I remember the first 15 years of my life getting woken up by trains and it certainly wasn't the breaks that I heard first.
>Any large tech company could pull that off.

The prerequisite of being a "large tech company" to pull it off is already a huge barrier to entry.
Ask HN: Is there a website to review politicians?
I know when a company is bad from looking up reviews online but how do you get more informed about which snakes are in politics?
I assume that explains the "for metropolitan use" bit.
Peter Zeihan (American geopolitical strategist) recently did a short video on this (3 mins). Tl;Dr: He's not worried because supply chains will re-order

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sXu0nZoamk&feature=youtu.be
The issue is DE chancery courts which charge a lot for filings. No one saw this until yesterday. Links to the complaints here:

https://rfob.medium.com/exclusive-facebook-executives-sued-o...
I wonder why there's always such a focus on streaming music, and not the old fashioned "play what you own". You're just putting yourself at the mercy of a slightly different service provider.
Can you point to any philosophical texts you know of which don’t have this problem?
How useful is meta analysis if half or more of the experiments don't replicate? As we increasingly discover with the replication crisis.
Le Monde diplomatique is not strictly a news publication but is a rather interesting read. It also has editions in Spanish.

If you can read Chinese well enough, some of the Hong Kong press is still quite vibrant and interesting: see e.g. the Hong Kong Economic Journal and Ming Pao (that’s probably about it, alas.)

There are some good public broadcasters mentioned in another reply. I’d also recommend the output of Arte (Association relative à la télévision européenne), France Culture, and France Musique.

I have occasionally listened to Radio Liban 96.2 to listen to other accents but to be honest the presenters sound like they speak perfect Parisian French to me (if not the interviewees). Some of their programmes are interesting.
I love HN, I stopped as soon as I saw that second image and came to the comment section hoping that there would be a comment like this one. I know what I'm doing this afternoon.
"We use cookies to save energy, reduce data transfer and gather statistics."
As much as I want to live in a world with the Jetsons, what's the business case here? Presumably it's going to have to launch vertically from the top of buildings, which means that you can go from skyscraper landing pad to skyscraper landing pad. How many taxi users are trying to travel within a financial district? I imagine much more commonly they're trying to go from high-density to low-density (like FiDi to West Village) which this operating model could only support if you build a serious amount of elevated architecture.

Not to mention having to pay for insurance premiums of a miniaturized airplane that is zipping around a heavily inhabited urban area.
>They went 20% of the way and stopped

For how much more would you siphon money into basically empty stores, to see it as having gone "100%" of the way?
Sharing my experience after implementing ads
> Marathon runners run 42 km in like two hours but it would take me days to finish the same distance...

This doesn't take away the core message of your post. Most marathon races are time limited for logistics reasons - to open streets to traffic. Give or take 6 hours.
Amazon can't ship or sell marijuana because even though it's legal on a state level, it's still illegal on a federal level, which means banks won't process payments that are made through federally illegal means. The local dispensaries have issues with having huge amounts of cash on hand because they can't use banks, so far as I know, because of RICO laws.
Shout out to the unambitous product manager / owner who doesnt want a raise at Fujifilm for making such nice cameras. There is no chance that they tweaked the XT-2 or XT-3 to compete with the also excelent Sony products in order to impress the guys back at HQ.

Obviously they are "technology people who share the same passion as me" and are browsing throught HN.
I can attest this for photos.

Google Photos is a third-party app, and it syncs photos a few magnitudes faster than Apple Photos.

I never know in which state Apple Photos are at any given moment: is it syncing? is it stuck? why?
The last time this came up, I spent some time investigating the use of analog computers for Monte Carlo simulations and it is absolutely fascinating how differential equations or stochastic differential equations are being implemented with analog components. There are already some chips available that integrate these components similar to FPGAs and some toy examples show promising results, but it looks like we are not completely there yet.
Nevertheless, if these chips get further developed, they could have a huge impact on neural networks (at least in terms of power consumption) and maybe Monte Carlo.
>the UI keeps becoming more android like

Okay, I'll bite, because that's amusing(I find that interacting with anything Android is consistently a torture) and I don't use Apple devices so I have no idea what you could be thinking of. How is iOS stuff becoming more like Android, and how is it better than whatever it did before?