skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was a few months ago. Congress is now investigating the FDA approval of Aduhelm.
That is a great list. And a reminder to backup.
Not really. You’d expect an organization like the FDA to be policy based.
Let's ask the Uighurs and Tibetans how that social pact is working out. Or Hong Kong residents that prefer democracy.

Why is there so much pro-CCP propaganda on this site?

"That's why the Chinese social pact works so well" so well according to you, maybe, shill.
No nicotine inhalers killed people. Those were bootleg THC carts that killed people. If the federal gov would have regulated THC carts, those people wouldn't have died.

But instead of blaming the gov't for inaction leading to death on an issue that the majority of Americans have supported for decades, most remember the Juul is bad for you.
Even without FTL travel, just having constant acceleration at 1g is enough to travel the width of the galaxy in 12 years ship-time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_travel_using_constant_ac....
CNN: Amuse yourself.
NYT: Me and my money.
WAPO: Them and what used to be my money.
LAT: The news, with looks and style that will dazzle.
There is no such thing as "clean energy". Energy always entails environmental impact. As an example, a wind turbine has large environment impact:

* During its production: mining to get the metals, heavy metal work like making steel, cement, resins, etc. Digging large mines, driving trucks all around with heavy materials

* During its operations: noise, visual pollution, often destroying wildlife sites as people don't want them close to their living areas

* After its operations: mostly unrecyclable, composite materials like resins, cement; often burried/landfilled

> Google claims to be carbon neutral now but are also planning to switch to 100% renewable energy by 2030. I guess they are planting trees or something.

I think this is a good representation of what the common person think. "They must be dealing with the pollution issues, right? Trees, hydrogen, electric cars, it's all going to be ok, right?".

Start looking up data on this topic, and prepare for a deep dive into how no-one is actually doing anything significant about it, while calling everything green. No-one is "carbon neutral". It's complete marketing / green-washing. Google footprint on our ecosystem is large.
If by "biggest opportunity" you mean "biggest opportunity to lose all your money and chase a pipe-dream" then I agree :)

'Next/Apple' isn't a quick playbook - it's an over 30 year R&D effort to create a hugely complex software and hardware business, and it spent about $100 billion in R&D to get its products where they are today (at the absolute cutting edge of technology). Writing your own modern OS and building/manufacturing good hardware to compete with this is difficult enough, and then you have the even bigger challenge of getting all the major software vendors to support your new platform.
For mail, I would really consider Fastmail (over Migadu).

Fastmail has contributed a huge amount to the open source community, also include Calendar support (Migadu does not) and has a fantastic web interface (where Migadu is extremely lacking).
The post can be distilled down to "I had a Mac and thought it made me special, but now I don't feel special so I use something else and think that makes me special".

Which...I guess? Millions (billions) of people use all sorts of stuff. Good for them.

The "I'm leaving [some platform]" posts are always extremely low value pablum for a subset.
I understood the H2S was leaking through much more superficial ground than the one that received the nuclear blast.

Of course, we don't actually know the details about any of it. But there were plenty of underground nuclear explosions, and people are usually quite good at controlling them.
I believe the marijuana "breathalyzer" / swab tests are known to moderately to wildly inaccurate, like you can test positive 2 days after consumption in some cases. Law enforcement desperately wants such a device, so naturally there are plenty of companies willing to fudge their numbers to provide it however.
The measurement of success in this case doesn't seem to be that he's gained new abilities, but rather the poster figured out how to gain them without Apple.

Most of these seem like pyrric victories to me, as the Apple versions rose to success with all of these as competition by providing a better experience. I certainly wouldn't want to carry a mirrorless camera everywhere, nor deal with Bandcamp.
Here's a breakdown I found. (The actual topline number here is $2.7MM; this number is less COGSs):

Gross profit: $1,782,000
Crew Payroll - $540,000
Manager Payroll - $108,000
Payroll taxes - $54,000
Advertising - $108,000
Promotions - $13,500
Outside Services - $27,000
Linen - $5,400
Operating Supplies - $27,000
Maintenance - $40,500
Utilities - $81,000
Cash over/short - $2,700
Misc - $13,500
------------------------------
$761,400
Rent - $391,500
Legal/Accounting - $8,100
Insurance - $54,000
Taxes - $27,000
Misc - $2,700
Depreciation - $94,500
Interest Expense - $27,000
Net nonproduct - $2,700
------------------------------
$153,900

When I checked, a Big Mac costed 21% less in Denmark ($4.50 vs $5.67 at the current exchange rates, 2 years ago). A year ago, the relationship was reversed, but in both cases the price difference wasn't that significant.

It's tricky getting the numbers across all ~80 McDonalds outlets in Denmark. But McDonalds Corporate runs 4 of those outlets, and they break the revenue out for them. We looked at the 2016 grosses, divided by the 4 stores and converted to USD, and the topline for those stores looked identical to those of the typical US McDonalds outlet.

Average crew count in Denmark McDonalds appears to be the same as that of US outlets, so automation doesn't seem to be a factor.

Further, McDonalds doesn't subsidize health insurance for crew, so the Danish social safety net can't have much to do with the viability of this wage.

It does not look like there is room in these numbers to double crew salary. I'm confused as to how these stores can be viable.
Yeah, I got my fancy macbook pro now because I used to work for Apple and had a pretty substantial discount on it as a result. When I need to replace this one, I'll probably get something decent in the used market and just install Linux on there.
From the article:

> While rot13 is the self-inverse for a 26-character system, and rot47 for ANSI, the Basic Multilingual Plane of Unicode requires rot32768 (or 8000 in hex) for a reciprical cypher

Not all emoji is in the BMP, at least some are in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane.

It's weird to me that if you're gonna do this dumb "rot13 but for Unicode", you'd only do it for the BMP, and not ALL of Unicode.
You can buy one without windows installed, but you'll have to install ubuntu yourself. I reckon it's not worth to pre-install one of the various GNU/Linux distributions since the average users of such a device will do a clean reinstall anyways. At least it's 200 bucks cheaper without windows, so theres that.
>Is a measured 0.4x performer that way for innate reasons or is that something which some combination of training and mentoring, better tools, streamlined environments, etc. can help with?

For this or that individual (as per your example of "a few cases"), maybe.

For the majority do you think there will be something that hasn't been tried until now, what with all 2000 methodologies of management, team structure, company culture, development methodologies, tooling, agile, waterfall, and what have you, that will suddenly make a difference?
Comparing two opposite extremes - Arch to Apple - has its merits but it's hardly useful. Justike this blog post

I certainly didn't have to sacrifice much of anything by moving from Windows 8 (the best one) to Ubuntu and Manjaro.

I've even moved old people to Ubuntu back in the gnome 2 days. Worked great
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With Arch you might get breakages. If you're worried about that, then go with Kubuntu. Seriously, it has been ages since I've seen hardware compatibility issues with Kubuntu, maybe eight years or longer across literally dozens of install on my own and other peoples' hardware.
I've been running Fedora for the better part of a year. The switching costs for me were negligible. What I like about Fedora is that it is really stable while still being pretty bleeding edge. Vanilla Fedora (running unmodified Gnome) is really an excellent OS. So far, I haven't had any major issues.

The biggest thing I missed was the Macbook trackpad. The Dell XPS's trackpad is janky by comparison.

That said, I won't be confident in recommending this setup until I've been through another year or so of upgrade cycles.
A lot of people would need to work less if not paying for addictions. Encouraging more pot use is good for those who depend on labor.
I wonder if it is possible to generate a ROT8000 quine, that is a phrase like "hello world" which yields a semantically matching phrase in some other language?
The US must protect Taiwan, a sovereign nation, from the Communist threat.
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This is the most important productivity hack, a lot of people just don‘t understand.
"... the heroes will wind up being the confident, the well-connected, and those with preparatory privilege more often than the most intelligent or capable."

So why is this not fair? Intelligence, like confidence or socioeconomic status, is also not fairly distributed. Only about 5% of the general population will have an IQ above 125, so not even genius level but already heavily skewed. We can probably assume that this number is slightly higher for a population that make a career in IT... but intelligence is still not a given, why should it be considered more "fair"?

In any case, the 2nd point is a non-issue; incompetent people are rarely considered "heroes", so it's a bit of a self-correcting system in the end.
I thought it was Elop, who tanked Nokia responsible for that?
How do we avoid fallout in that case?
The issues are downstream, people in jails or unable to get jobs because they were caught with Pot in 1964.
Some statistics show up tp 50% of jailed people are due to Pot - true, most get out and most carry on OK, but the record blights their lives - it should not. There are millions of these blighted people - disproportionally Black because the system favored whites at all levels - better defence via $$, as well as pure naked racism. Be done with it, free these millions of all races from this persistent stigma.
A lot of it from what I can tell is American exceptionalism. That we are special and unique and therefore what goes on in the rest of the world simply does not matter.

Often this is rephrased as the U.S. is too big or too diverse compared to European countries. Or it can be a simple ignoring of any alternatives or an active movement against. I remember hearing an NPR article about how a US construction worker wanted to go and study the methods of infrastructure improvements in Europe which tended to be cheaper in the same realm, but was denied. The reason for denial was something along the lines as it wasn't pertinent, we didn't need to know that.
> it seems like the target market is probably already served by breadboards?

I doubt it, assuming the analog groups are well-designed that's not trivial to just replicate in a DIY breadboard circuit.
Unless you can find another way that gives you an instant high, people are still going to smoke.
There are domains where the use of ML is not only valid but the best viable option (e.g. recommendation systems, computer vision, etc.)

A few thoughts on how to maximize your chances of winning in this case:

https://medium.com/criteo-engineering/making-your-company-ml...
While hardware may work, there are so many niceties people will have to learn to deal with. Plugging in an external monitor may or may not work. Audio may or may not switch like folks are used to. (Try telling someone to launch alsa mixer) Want to use bluetooth? It might work. If it doesn't, you're going to be messing with things deeper than a "Facebook/Internet user" wants to deal with.

I am a full time Linux user. And I'll probably support anyone who wants to try it until the day I die. I absolutely love it. But we still can't enjoy some of the simplest use cases without screwing around with configs and in some cases, writing scripts that listen to DBus or udev.... So every time I hear someone say, "just use Linux" I think... nah, just buy a Chromebook (and - yeah, use Linux). If your needs are any more than that, Linux might not be for you.
I always look at blog posts like this and I always end up a bit disappointed when people go completely in the other direction with i3 and the like. What if I want customization and pretty animations with sane defaults? Surely there has to be some middle ground between "here's your empty screen and a keyboard shortcut to open the terminal, good luck" and "this minor release will redesign the entire interface and break all your custom themes and scripts, good luck" when it comes to open source desktops?

Still, I'm glad people are getting out of closed ecosystems.
The FDA is compromised by industry hardliners crossing overbfrom corp jobs to gov jobs. They sell us out to corps every time.
Organize a union to pool votes.
> but iCloud stinks. Google by far as a better cloud platform for a standard user.

In what way?
Mind that this is correspondence, not a peer reviewed paper.

For what is worth most meta-study will check if they reach the same results leaving-n out (typically one), but I agree that they could do much better accessing the underlying data itself.
I had an internship project which was a simpler cousin of this, where I needed to determine the approximate location of a WiFi-enabled device, based off of received signal strengths from a several access points. Normally this would be trivial, but this demo was meant to simulate an environment highly reflective to 2.4GHz RF. So while it took only a day or 2 to demonstrate relatively poor performance using simple triangulation (actually, trilateration is the better word here), I spent several weeks collecting data and putting it through a support vector machine. With a simple moving average filter on top of that SVM, around 98-99% accuracy was pretty easily achievable in classification (I believe my prediction classes were 2 x # of rooms, so quite coarse but good enough for the task).

The main advantage over a physics-based modeling approach - which with enough information, could surely have reached practically 100% accuracy - is that the SVM didn't rely on knowing anything about the location of the access points, or the geometry of the space. The signal strength training data was to be available for free as a biproduct of another device, so this solution had very low cost in the form of manual effort/precise measurement, both of which would have dwarfed a few weeks of intern time.
It depends on where you studied.
In my CS class 11 years ago in France, MacBooks represented approximately 2% of the population.
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I mostly agree with you that Arch is for folks who love to tinker.

But you must have some strange workflows going - I've been on arch fulltime for 3 years now, and my one breakage was that dash-to-dock didn't play nicely with a new version of gnome.

Frankly - it's a far better experience than the 16inch macbook pro my work issued me - that has problems with fans, problems with lag during zoom calls, problems with accelerated rendering in chrome, issues with wifi and bluetooth connections. I literally call it my crapbook it's so bad.
It reminds me of the early MUDs and some MMO guild bulletin boards where you'd periodically get these super melodramatic "I quit and this is why" posts, which would more often than not be followed by the person returning to the game not long after.
Facebook is designed to encourage and reward the kind of negative and harmful interactions and results people are noticing. There’s no reason a social network has to work the way Facebook does, other than maximizing revenue.
Most times the comment section goes OT about things, way more interesting than the linked article. So most times i get so caught up in reading comments, i forget the headline is, what caught my attention.
Assume we survive climate change as a technologically advanced society & that no other natural disaster or war wipe us out, so you really think you can predict what sort of technology will or will not be available to humans 1,000 years from now? How about 1,000,000?

If in those time spans we figure out a way to sustain 1g acceleration throughout the trip (currently not achievable but less sci-fi than FTL) we can reach nearby stars within the lifetime of the astronauts: https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2021/12/30/how-...
I know a few people in hospitality, haven’t heard of that. But this was 5 people working just to serve me ;)
I guess I just don't quite believe this. I don't think anyone is lying, exactly, but there has to be some detail I'm missing.

I can believe that children who have grown up with web apps and iOS devices are not used to the concept of a directory structure. I can absolutely believe that a lot of people have messy and disorganized hard drives.

But not understanding the concept of files and folders at all, even after the professor spent a class explaining? The people who bought Macintosh computers in the 90s didn't grow up with these concepts either, and they seemed to get the hang of it relatively quickly.

If students have an alternate mental model which works for them, that's fine too! But it sounds like whatever they're doing isn't working, and that doesn't surprise me. You can rely on Spotlight for everything up to a point, but past a certain level of complexity it all becomes a nightmare!

Perhaps the professors teaching directory structure need to rethink their lessons? This just shouldn't take more than a day.
I would have to go with the parent comment although I know what you're saying as it would reduce cost.

I think what we've learned throughout the years is that your color coding idea doesn't work out in practice due to an earlier comment stating that the USB-C market being bottom-feeder. There has to be an exact, rigid specification of USB-C cables that all of them should follow (i.e. USB4/TB4). Any more complicated than that like color coding results in giant scams by manufacturers, outright wrong, or impossible-to-find cables on an eCommerce search engine. I just don't want to deal with any of those anymore. It feels so much nicer right now to look up TB4 on AliExpress and be done with it, no more worrying or guessing.
Regional differences.

This is not true in Europe and Asia.
Well,

> Second, the cost to produce news has dropped significantly.

So, yeah, Hacker News definitely counts... :-(
Another interesting one, in this regard, would be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-ism
Same except I got an M1 Mini. For all my hate of what apple does, I'm an ARM addict and I really love the new Mini. I really hope we eventually get full Linux support for Apple Silicon at some point just so I can play with it that way as well.

I was looking forward to Qualcomm's ARM Dev kit for Windows, but it hasn't released yet outside of what seems to be some listings on chinese websites for bulk orders of 100+ units.

It really sucks that my Pinebook Pro is still the best I can get as far as ARM linux laptops go that are easy to use and try different distros on.
Cool. Yet this behavior (and worse) is widespread and not being punished by moderators except for the most blatantly obnoxious cases. Guidelines are only relevant to the extent that they are enforced, otherwise they're just a wish list, not a code of conduct.

Speaking of good faith, a good faith reading of their comment would be that they think Apple is intentionally maintaining a non-standard connector for their smartphone range despite knowing that switching to USB-C would be beneficial to their users.

Alleging that Apple acts in bad faith hardly seems like a violation of HN guidelines. If anything, the claim that they put the needs of the users first would seem the preposterous one as one would expect them to be beholden to their shareholders (and thus profit) above all, not their customers, and there are plenty of reasons why maintaining their own connector might be more profitable.
Your podcasts with Greg Cochran are quite possibly the most interesting (interesting stuff per minute) audio I've ever listened to.
It's been covered a million times, but Tesla's reporting is useless. It's apples to oranges comparison for marketing purposes. I wish we had more third party data.
This is true everywhere though, isn't it? It's all just people. Government, families, companies, research labs, law enforcement, universities, religions, political parties, movements, etc.

As a result all of our laws, relationships, products, theories, judgement, pedagogy, spirituality and platforms are composed and interpreted by a dizzying array of perspectives and values. Our brains can't handle the combinatorics, so we just personify them and anyone we associate with them is just a fragment of the whole.
I thought this was going to be a nested collections coding abuse link.

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That meta-analysis still includes the Carvallo studies, which some people have doubts about: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/ivermecti...
That is a _huge_ 'just', tho. That's a lot of energy.
This article also says that another trial that were included in previous meta-analyses should probably also be excluded and once all that's it's unlikely the meta-analysis will show an effect:

As these two papers1,6 were the only studies included in that meta-analysis to demonstrate an independently significant reduction in mortality, the revision will probably show no mortality benefit for ivermectin.
Would using gstreamer instead of ffmpeg offer better or worse performance? (Less CPU usage on the sender side?) If anyone has experience with this setup, I’d love to know.
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Been running it for a few years now, I can only remember two or three times which have required manual intervention (and even then it was a one liner described on the arch news page).

Compared to the hell that was upgrading Ubuntu versions every couple of years, I'll take Arch's way any day.
I love macOS and Linux. Even Windows is acceptable, especially now with WSL. IMO, if it runs emacs, who cares what the OS is?

When it comes to hardware, Apple is a few years ahead, however. Battery life and screen technology are quality-of-life factors, especially for people who often work away from home and without an external monitor.

That, and the accessories. Going from AirPods Pro to wired headphones would be a major inconvenience as I have an active lifestyle -- even my linux box supports bluetooth headphones, and it's nice to be able to get up from the computer without taking them off.
Previous discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28603398
This letter opens with a defense of the ElGazzar paper, but the analyses published by these researchers strongly suggests that the paper is indefensible and likely a simple fraud. I'm skeptical.
I love it! Artificially constrain the labor supply with licensing. It would be incredibly lucrative for programmers. As a bonus, it would increase the prestige of our profession. Of course it would be a terrible deal for companies and quite bad for the economy.

The fact is that there are many types of applications where a high level of expertise is not needed. Eg. websites for small businesses. The client/end user doesn't care how cleanly architected or efficient or even bug-free the codebase is, and it's a better deal for management to pay some freshly-minted bootcamp grad 50k/yr to hack away than drop 6 times that on a 10xer.