skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only slightly better than adding "slams" to every headline.
Whether or not "10x" exists depend on what "x" is. Some companies have very high hiring standards, so there the "1x" may be high enough that "10x" becomes really unlikely. But some companies hire almost anyone who can walk, and then "x"<=0, making 10x pretty achievable.

I even expect that some consulting firms to this on purpose, at least if they sell services to customers that are put off by paying according to the value generated by the best developers, they bundle the best developers with teams of low-paid underachievers, where the lead is 10x as productive as those, and where the total output still matches customer expectations. Instead of paying $1000/h for one person they pay $1500/h for a team of 10 people, even if that one person could have more or less done everything on his own.
And based on recent discoveries it sounds like Xiaomi should be trusted less than others.
I have never needed to reboot because of permissions, basically just had to click “allow” a few times, so this stuff doesn’t really bother me. It’s a very slight inconvenience.

Big Sur performance on older hardware has been a disaster though. Even on a $2500 MBP 15” from 2017. On M1 though it’s excellent.
By the same train of thought, if USA stops the flow of semiconductors towards China, the game theory based proper response would be to bomb them to achieve parity?
I don't think there were allegations that you couldn't type Free Tibet?
I recall from a previous HN article, there is a _lot_ of controversy in the Alzheimer research area.
Specifically about whether the amyloid plaque in Alzheimer actually is the root cause of Alzheimer. With the dissenting opinion being that the plaque is actually just a symptom.

As I recall, the claim (by the dissenters) in the article was that big names in research had staked their reputation on the plaque theory. Those big names were claimed to use their weight to suppress any research into alternative theories.
The article then stated that the little bit of research into alternative explanation seemed promising, and that there were trials on removing plaque that did not seem to cure Alzheimer.

This news about a controversion FDA approval feels like it is related to this controversy. And to my mind, it strengths the case for 'plaque does not cause Alzheimer'.
To the Framework laptop owners in the thread, I have a question about the power button light. In the image I saw, it seemed rather large (square) as it outlines the fingerprint reader and likely perceptually brighter as a result due to the greater area covered. Do you find it distracting to have it always on in the upper right of your keyboard?
> They're going to talk to the three friends you listed on your SF-86 and your former landlords at the address listed.

No? They'll branch out and talk to anyone tangentially related to you for only small reasons.
Do programmers dream of electronic poems?
Not strictly (as the sibling comment says), but also, in practice it doesn’t matter, as there are effectively no “unbanked” Canadians the way there are “unbanked” Americans.

From https://www.canada.ca/en/financial-consumer-agency/services/... :

> In Canada, you have the right to open a bank account at a bank or a federally regulated credit union as long as you show proper identification.

> You can open an account even if you: don’t have a job; don’t have money to put in the account right away; or have been bankrupt.

But that requirement to show identification is important. What it means in practice is that everyone who resides in Canada except illegal immigrants can open a Canadian bank account.

And the fact that so many crucial government services assume that you have a Canadian bank account (not just for SSO, but also because they assume things like the ability to do direct deposit for tax refunds, welfare/unemployment, etc.), means that it’s really hard to be an illegal immigrant in Canada. Which is probably one reason among many that people generally aren’t interested in trying. (Other reasons: we don’t have any land borders except with the US, and it’s easier to be an illegal immigrant in the US, so why not just stop there? And: the Canada Border Services Agency is terrifying to interact with, even for Canadian citizens.)
I think giving false hope is definitely bad. Also the price of the drug alone (regardless of who covers it) is ridiculous for something which is useless.
I don't want to quit social media

What I want is for interactions with other people in online social spaces to be less destructive.
MB seems to make a simple error a couple of times here:

> So, the financial case for homeownership is much weaker than I think most realize, especially when compared to alternative ways of investing the same money.

> So these principal payments are generating a net return of 1.795 percent (2.295 – 0.5). These same dollars, if placed in a diversified stock/bond portfolio, would generate a much higher return than that.

The problem with this angle is that people in general have to have housing, and so they're going to pay a substantial part of their income either on rent on on a mortgage. There's rarely an option to invest "the same money" in anything else.

Overall this seems like a solid analysis, but the contrast with "what else you could do with the money" seems a little weird when that's not really a choice (unless you live somewhere with a huge difference between the cost of renting vs owning).
As a European I never grew up with Mister Rogers, but his testimony to the Senate Subcommittee on Communications is very impressive to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKy7ljRr0AA
And we should stop talking about it? That's what Apple and the intelligence orgs want.
Well, there are certainly no long-term studies.
Perhaps, but unfortunately #1 is more realistic.
"Antiviral Effects of Ivermectin in COVID-19- Clinically Plausible?"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8225296/

"In a study demonstrating the in vitro antiviral activity of ivermectin, upon incubation of infected Vero/hSLAM cells with 5 μM ivermectin, there was an approximately 5000-fold reduction of viral RNA by 48 hours in ivermectin treated samples as compared with control. The IC50 of ivermectin was found to be approximately 2.5 μM. Ivermectin seems to act on IMPα/β1 and inhibits the nuclear translocation of SARS-CoV-2 (Caly L et al., 2020). Further in-silico studies are required to confirm this target of ivermectin in SARS-CoV-2. The concentrations of 2.5 and 5 μM correspond to plasma concentrations of 2190 and 4370 ng/mL, respectively. These concentrations are 50–100 times the peak plasma concentration achieved with the 200 μg/kg of ivermectin (the US Food and Drug Administration recommended dose for treatment of onchocerciasis) (Chaccour C et al., 2017). Even with a dose 10 times greater than this dose (i.e., 2000 μg/kg), a peak plasma concentration of only ~250 ng/mL has been achieved (Guzzo CA et al., 2017)."

"On the basis of the rationale above, any significant antiviral activity could not have been achieved with the dose used in the study and the resultant plasma concentration of the administered ivermectin. Thus, although ivermectin, in vitro, is a potent inhibitor of SARS-CoV-2 replication, in vivo, the plasma concentration required to achieve the antiviral effect far exceeds the therapeutically applicable dose."

This thread discusses why the example of Uttar Pradesh's program isn't good evidence.

https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1440131176665006088
Unless you are based in China, a Chinese national, a known dissident or a journalist it doesn't really matter, does it? Also, how do you know what Xiaomi did after you typed it?

EDIT: As I really phrased it badly, I mean it doesn't proof anything if none of the above mentioned groups does it. It absolutely matters that Xiaomi is censoring and monitoring stuff based on key words. I oppose that even more than oppose Apple monitoring child pornography. Simply because Xiaomi is already doing the monitoring for a non Democratic repressive government.
OneWeb Partners with QuadSAT on Drone-Based Antenna Testing
I prefer the Economist on all Issues. I think they tend to be the most neutral and even if they say something I disagree with, I am able to acknowledge their position and accept the points they are making.
What Im getting is:

Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (developer guidance).
The end of the article talks about mapping the LEDs to 3D space. Once you've done that, I agree that throwing in an accelerometer would be awesome. You could take what he did on his cube[1] and then have it so the animation always flows down in gravity.

Then roll it like a die :)

[1]: https://twitter.com/esden/status/1160309492896215040
I mean, there's a chance they're going to be convinced
When you stop pretending that employee vs. employer is a one-on-one negotiation, then we can begin having an adult conversation. Until then, I'm going to assume that you're being purposefully obtuse due to the hyperbolic nature of your posts in this thread.
The Bayesian gambler in me wants to think this:

The studies on ivermectin seem to be split between "good effect" and "no effect," and there don't seem to be any (by my extremely informal review! going off of memory here) in the camp of "bad effect."

Seems reasonable to take ivermectin as a decent gamble to me while we wait on the dang science to get its head out of its butt.
I have a feeling they just want to make cool jetpacks. Honestly I can't blame them.
so now we have waydroid and anbox
I read Wikipedia current events: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

Sometimes once a week, sometimes once a month. I like being able to opt-in.
"I don't want to stop using drugs, I just want drugs that are not going to harm me while I use them"

Unfortunately, social media by its nature is going to be harmful. It was never designed to consider the world we live in now.
Recall that some of the people who got copies of this laptop's drive image felt they had a legal obligation to report the contents to (iirc) Delaware State Police almost immediately thereafter.

Remember: A "footjob" is different than a pedicure.
I suspect most people would disagree, and I think I might too, but it's curious to examine the arguments and justifications for disagreeing
Almost 90% of Americans file the standard deduction which precludes you from deducting mortgage interest.

https://taxfoundation.org/90-percent-taxpayers-projected-tcj...
Would you mind linking me to the evidence that this is incorrect?

Posts like mine are being censored across-the-board on the Internet because of "interests". I mean, how much more evidence could you possibly linked to then 119 studies, yet my comment was flagged out of existence. We are literally living in a George Orwell novel and the people with jackboots are just ordinary citizens, putting the boots on their own necks. We are under the spell of like a self-prescribed global brainwashing campaign. Nobody cares about science anymore, nobody cares about the scientific method, nobody cares about actual data anymore, only propaganda. 119 studies show evidence of one thing. That's not enough though. But then the media says another thing and everybody believes it, despite the fact that there are dozens of studies with conflicting data showing various counter arguments (such as the Israeli pre-print from three weeks ago showing that The gene therapy is less effective than natural immunity by a factor of 13 to 27 times). This was practically completely ignored by the media and everybody on this site. In the past everybody here would've been on that shit immediately, trying to figure out if it was correct, I mean don't we want out of this mess? Does anybody want out of this or does everybody feel good about having a boot on their neck for the rest of their lives? Let go of your ego for a minute and ask yourself that question for real. If you're one of the people who will down vote this comment, there is no help for you in the long run. But if you want to be honest with yourself, and you want this bullshit situation to end, then you need to look at the real science in the real data and ask real questions and be open to the answers. Even if it means you made a terrible mistake somewhere along the way.
Ivermectin doesn’t really have significant side effects at appropriate doses. It’s quite safe. Don’t be fooled by overblown “horse dewormer stories”.

I don’t say this to advocate Ivermectin, the only RCT I know of/trust found absolutely no effect. I say this to gently point out the mismatch between your claims and the premise in the first sentence.
Thanks. I used the tweet due to the paywall of the Reuters article. But this original source is of course much better.
Given the provenance of HN, I was expecting something about Lisp.
ARMs are not bad. You can re-lock in the rates at the time when it comes up. It's no different than a commercial balloon payment.

Also homeownership is only a "better deal" when things work out perfectly. In reality, you spend far more time with maintenance, cleaning, and are required to stay exactly where you are for a minimum of 7-10 years before you start putting a real dent in equity. Not to mention is an illiquid asset on top of significant closing fees on both ends (my state in particular is a "seller pays both realtor fees" state, regardless if you got a realtor).

Homeownership is egregiously expensive in time and money. The only nicety it gives to lower income people is an asset then can refinance and get loan money out to put them further in debt bondage. Homeownership should only be considered if you've got a ridiculously stable job/market as well as the time and money to maintain the property (assuming you can't just construct a new home or buy one made within the last 10 years).
I'm assuming the local standard is that the drive is partitioned and system/standard stuff is on C:
I get what you're saying. I think in general, everything salient and attention-grabbing gets abused, so it all starts leaving us a little cold and cynical towards salient things in general. Like how we've been desensitized by overexposure to violence and sex, but now creeping into more abstract and intellectual things.

On the face of it, it's bizarre that an innocent word like "quietly" has come to have irritating connotations of clickbait for so many. But thousands of people are having meetings every day to discuss how best to grab our attention by any means necessary, and this is the result.
new List< List< List<String> > >();

seems a reasonable model of,

new Table< Column< Row >> ();
I’m really surprised by the noise levels. They say 65db flyover and 70db landing which is quieter than just about every (personal) drone [1].

I wonder how they’re getting those numbers. Like at what distance are they measuring from?

I find it hard to believe they’re able to make a flying vehicle quieter than a drone 1/100th of its size.

Edited for clarity

[1]: https://www.airbornedrones.co/drone-noise-levels/
It is totally worth $220. The screen is great, the build quality is acceptable for the price. All of this comes at the cost of the now ancient Rockchip SoC that struggles in a lot of instances. As a device for learning ARM linux on and doing tinkering it's great.

It also has a few issues that are unsolvable without some redesigning on pine64's part. The main issue being heat from the SoC causing the charging circuit to shut off. Under a heavy load you can watch the battery go down while its plugged in. My battery is starting to die after 8 months (voltage drops enough to cause a hard shutoff around 60%). I'm not sure if the issues are related but I'm simply going to pull out the battery and connect the internal wiring for running purely from the wall bypassing the battery. Some argue that the 3A power inputs just aren't enough for the draw the pinebook pro can pull off especially if you start overclocking (2ghz on the big, 1.8ghz on the little cores is totally possible). Personally I left everything stock.

As a daily driver I really can't recommend it unless you live in terminal and don't need to do a whole lot of web browsing. Video streaming (twitch/youtube) + Fast stream chatrooms bring that poor rockchip to its knees even at 480 to 720p.

The Pinebook Pro gets a lot of love from the community but it is a very very niche device for a particular kind of enthusiast.
Are you including taxes, insurance, and maintenance (both minor and major) in your comparison? That $1,500 rent wraps all of those costs up, while only part of those costs are in a mortgage payment. Over time, it's easy to see how the $3,600 per year difference can be eaten up by maintenance on things like broken/dead appliances/general & major home repairs. A new roof may only be necessary every 20 years or so, but it's very expensive when it happens.

That being said, I just spent 10 years renting the same house. My rent did not go up during that time, and my landlord had fairly average maintenance costs during that time including:
* replaced broken fridge
* paid to have dangerous trees removed
* paid to upgrade flooring after a sewer backup flooded the house. Most of this cost was borne by insurance.

My former landlord is now selling the house. The market value of the house is double what it was when I moved in. That sounds awesome, but that's about a 7% rate of return, which is quite a bit less than if he had simply put his money in an S&P 500 index fund.
Do you mean 5X? I believe 20% down is more common. If you do only put down 5% you'll also have PMI on top of interest.

That said, your point stands that it's easy to get low interest leverage.

Another related point that I think is implicit in your comment is that you win even if home values only keep up with inflation (what you'd expect with a healthy home supply).
"How the coronavirus infects cells — and why Delta is so dangerous"

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02039-y

"The virus then ejects its genome directly into the cell. By invading in this spring-loaded manner, SARS-CoV-2 infects faster than SARS-CoV and avoids being trapped in endosomes, according to work published in April by Barclay and her colleagues at Imperial College London9.

The virus’s speedy entry using TMPRSS2 explains why the malaria drug chloroquine didn’t work in clinical trials as a COVID-19 treatment, despite early promising studies in the lab10. Those turned out to have used cells that rely exclusively on cathepsins for endosomal entry. “When the virus transmits and replicates in the human airway, it doesn’t use endosomes, so chloroquine, which is an endosomal disrupting drug, is not effective in real life,” says Barclay."
I think this kind of thinking is what keeping Apple sailing high.

Headphone jack gone? Get the AirPod. Oh BT drains the battery faster of already sub capacity battery? Why don’t you have a power bank yet? And yeah, keep it on you always. Isn’t that normal? Or Apple has a shiny battery pack. Maybe buy two.

Glass back breaks? Well, you gotta lose something for wireless charging. But I don’t do wireless charging. Why not? Go buy another thing.

There was this TV show and there was something like “happy to comply” in that.
> becomes the black sheep by splitting off the family thread

Worth having a shitter phone just to have the feature of not being on the family thread.
I would bet the Venn diagram of libertarians and business owners has much more overlap than you are suggesting here. He lives in Texas, OF COURSE he has guns.

> I'm 100% confident you've lost customers over this.

There's 2 problems here. 1) Extraordinary claim requires extraordinary evidence. 2) Expecting every business persona to be completely beige and devoid of color is absofuckinglutely ridiculous IMHO (and yes, I'm staring at leftwingers here... I'm centrist/anti-tribalist, for the record, but it's been a struggle to say the least). Some of my most admired CEO's are quite colorful (Branson, Legere, etc.) It might even be arguable that the very people who are apt to strike out on their own instead of forcing themselves to conform to ("beige into", I'll dismissingly call it) an organization, are the same people who are least likely to force themselves to conform to social norms. Especially "developers of a certain age"... It may come as a shock, but being interested in computers was not always cool, and in order to doggedly pursue it, one needed to grow a thick skin against those enforcing the "computers are uncool therefore you are uncool" social norms of the time
Using leverage to buy something not expected to increase in value more than inflation is not necessarily a savvy move.

Maybe you'd take issue with my "not expected to increase in value more than inflation" statement, but ultimately you are certainly in no way guaranteed to "make a lot of money putting 5% down on a house".

Everyone thinks they are a financial genius after a 10 year bull market.
That 'Gross Profit' seems to be Revenue minus Cost of Goods Sold (e.g. the food / packaging).

Income taxes are calculated based on your total Earnings -- so Gross Profit minus all of the other expenses that it costs to run the business like tptacek's summary spells out (payroll, rent, capital depreciation, insurance, accounting, etc etc).

https://divergentview.com/investment_guide/gross-profit/
At four people per vehicle, I doubt that you could achieve anything like a satisfactory throughput in this scenario, given reasonable traffic separation. Unloading will be one bottleneck, as each vehicle will need as much space as several buses, when you take into account sufficient separation to avoid unsafe aerodynamic interaction.
Sudoku API of your life: Create, solve, verify. Output to HTML, image and PDF
> Anyone familiar with iDevices knows that every piece of the simple, standard workflow I just described is totally impossible.

It is so bad that it makes me wonder who at Apple thought any of it was a good idea. Its not even 'bad from a certain perspective' bad but totally FUBAR.

I simply stopped trying to use my phone for playing music and it is the #1 reason why my partner wants to move away from iOS
Every large country have some diplomatic issues with pretty much every other country. There are just too many things going on.
You Can't Fix Climate Change
You shall have no other medicine besides me.
What you're looking for are the illegal drugs
Wuhan scientists sought to infect bats with corona 18 months before first case
The reason why everybody could afford a house back in the day was cause the government didn't guarantee anybody a home and banks only lent money out to the best of credit because they had a cap they could only lend. Once that cap was met, no more mortgages for the year.
Since when has Reuters employed a paywall? I know they had planned on implementing one earlier this year, but that was indefinitely postponed.
Autopilot creates a false sense of safety, as long as the people that payed for it and are eventually using it, are (by their own standards that made them buy it) not good at driving and not interested to get better at it.

But the fallacy stands in the numbers where Autopilot “safety report” is presented by Tesla and compared to average drivers performances.

Why a fallacy? Because the human driver drives everywhere, at any time, in any weather conditions and on all drivable roads. The Autopilot goes on and off based on how drivable the environment is by the Autopilot system detection done by the sensors involved. In addition to that, up to this point, almost all of its errors where caught and corrected by its users, so no one could actually estimate what would happen if Autopilot owners would let the software do the driving for 100%, same thing the humans do.

Also, once disconnected from the driving system (feet off the pedals and hands off the steering wheel) the driver would need up to 20 seconds (or even more) to reconnect and fully understand what the car does and what the traffic around is like. That is a recipe for disaster while every second the situation changes inside and outside the car.
You could try BBC Pidgin if you only speak English.

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin