skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I've learned is that when people have to make a decision on whether to take on a 6-figure loan to own a whole home and maybe even land with it, they'll get very emotional about their decision. Some people are fervently anti-owning, some people fervently anti-rent. Both options have their ups and downs and depend on many factors.

I've chosen not to buy a house yet and I'm glad. I've been able to move at the drop of a hat, have any issue inspected and fixed with a ticket submission, and have had access to excellent amenities. I would never go back and change these years renting. At the same time, I'm getting to a point where I want land, quiet, privacy, and control, so I'm planning to buy a house in the next year or two (if all goes well). This plan works great for me, probably not for everyone.
Why have we placed all our chips on Taiwan? With China muscling in on Taiwan shouldn't the first order of business be setting up chip manufacturing in the US?
Superhuman's Intricate Onboarding Process
I recommended a graduate hire once with "he failed all my questions, but he's clearly very smart". Fortunately I was right and he was great to work with, and I'd recognized that my questions had been expecting a particular curriculum.
Good value assuming you're on the right carrier. AT&T in the US and its MVNOs are moving to a whitelist model in February, making Xiaomi phones unusable for anyone in the US not on T-Mobile.
It's not stored. It's only displayed to you. You can also do the same thing on the command line on your machine, so no information ever leaves your hands.
In some countries they give free needles to heroin addicts. Why do they care about harm there but for ivermectin they "force" the misinformed people to take the horse paste form?
I agree that when the news is important enough, it will reach you somehow.

I also noticed that when something is in the news, it's actually already "old news" and so the benefit you get from it is very small.

If you follow niche news sites such as HN, it gives you more advantage than any generic news can give you. Because you will know things in your niche long before it reaches mainstream.
Thing is, my personal perspective (haha) is that single-shot stereo is a dead-end tech. There simply isn't enough information to infer depth in the difficult situations, range is severely limited, and every frame it basically re-calculates all of the information from the previous frame from scratch, making it wildly inefficient.

Of course, it works well as a tech demo and in controlled environments, and it's easy to understand and then brute-force with custom hardware. The problem is that it sucked the life out of better techniques which might actually work in the real world.
Oil/gas are basic necessities. Without oil and gas it is impossible to continue a war, to feed the population (fertilizers are made from oil and gas, tractors run on oil), to make electricity for the industry and population, to warm houses during winter. Even "green" energy cannot exist without fossil fuels.

30-40 years ago the world wasn't so dependent on semiconductors. If all the semiconductor factories would be destroyed now, it won't be end of the world. They're not required to survive. I'd easily survive the winter without laptop and smartphone. But without heating it would be impossible.
If you want a high salary with minimum fuss (i.e. no management, no clawing your way up a corporate ladder), this is way to do it. I've been contracting in London for 5 years. Rates are in the range of £500-£700 per day, never had a problem getting work, post-tax salary equivalent to £200k PAYE. You can often take several months off over the summer too, if you like that sort of thing.
All of this is for the patient and their doctor to decide.

Not the pharmacist. Not the FDA.
In reality, when people quit social media, they don't start using their time better, they mostly shift their time into different time waster websites. For example, people quit using facebook for 2 hours a day just start skimming reddit for 2 hours a day. They aren't going to start writing a book or bettering themselves in some way.
Exactly that, I could have phrased it better I think.
Reminds me of a belgian docu-like tv show, where a group started sending fake news articles to belgian media over a 2 year span. It just straight out worked. It was so easy and they didnt even try really. It was all a joke to them. Anyway, it was good television. In the end they got caught though. And all the media orgs were making articles saying that what they did, was unacceptable... instead of being dissapointed in their lack of checking sources. It's just sad. just stop reading news. It's worthless.
Can you add a bit more on what works and what doesn't work on waydroid compared with regular android and regular lineageos on pine phone.
We were promised jetpacks and instead we got a military-industrial complex funded by the promise of jetpacks. Can't wait til these trickle down to police departments.
One thing that is frequently overlooked in discussions of publicizing salaries is that there is also a strong social stigma to flaunting wealth or talking about affluence.
Personally I think that this is a good thing since it encourages humility and a sense of equality. I realize that there is a clear market case for publishing salary information, but I also think that we should be considerate of why people generally frown upon such conversations in interpersonal contexts (anonymous listings like levels.fyi are different).
Using testcontainers is a good approach: it exists for backend (like Java, python) as for frontend (JavaScript / typescript) stacks. It can build an image and launch it on the fly together with service containers which is really nice for integration tests. I did not test it on gh actions though.
In this context 'Lost of time' means years in advance, so you can finetune it's orbit.

'Impeding danger' means weeks or days at a minimum, so you have to use a nuke. It would be near moon's orbit.

If it's a bolide, it's in the atmosphere, moving faster than any missile. Its like trying to stop a bullet after it intered you epidemis - you already lost.
The issue is about downstream source build packages. These packages are not based on any forks. The MultiMC maintainers don't even want source build packages to exist. They insist that distributing binaries built by them is the only way. This essentially contradicts the Apache 2.0 license, which states that distribution of the original work is allowed.

And there's the hostility throughout the conversation from the MultiMC maintainers.
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From https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/microsoft-surface-la...:

> The Surface Laptop Studio starts at $1,600 in its base configuration, which includes a Core i5 processor, 8GB of RAM, 256GB of SSD storage, and integrated graphics. Pre-orders start today, with a launch next week to line up with the release of Windows 11.

Seems like pretty low specs for that price point, no?
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At my previous company, we didn't stop anyone from discussing pay. That's obviously illegal. What we did instead is make sure that everyone, including new college hires, understood that talking about pay almost always leads to interpersonal friction, resentment, conflict, lower work productivity, and slower progress of our company toward an IPO. In short, talking about pay would actively damage their bottom line, which is in not something in anyone's best interest. It's not a threat if you just explain how the real world works and that actions have consequences.
People at my state university would occasionally toss out the catchphrase "Ds get degrees!". It made me sad. I agree at minimum more people need to fail classes. If you want to be nice, counter by allowing more attempts.
Thanks for that simplification. I didn't get that at all from the abstract (as I didn't really follow much of it) :-(

What is "volume appearance" BTW?
No, the OP in the thread later retracted as they could not replicate and it seemed more like a random bug in the camera:

"Yesterday I was a bit in a hurry and could not do all tests that I would have liked to. Today I tried to repeat the whole process with the same setup, documents still laying on the same table untouched etc. Just the lighting changed substantially (morning sun).

I was unable to repeat the 'green picture effect' even once... all pictures taking with Xiaomi stock camera turned out well.

I am sorry that I jumped to unproven conclusions (censoring) :( "

Please read your full source in the future before posting. It clouds the discussion. (I just did this myself on another article)
Exactly. And the claim stands, that if you can effectively compute («model dynamic systems») through an analog computer, you expand your toolbox with items that are beyond a framework involving security issues. (Yes, like paper, but paper, while it helps the computer, does not compute.)

Another rephrasal of the concept they are proposing: "Don't be the man with a hammer" [not all problems are to be treated as nails - including the health and safety related concerns nails demand].
They are just recessed dongles.
Is Seltzer Water Just as Healthy as Flat Water?
His analysis is that roughly 75% of his ownership costs are equivalent to a rent. To be able to invest the other 25% of his cost of ownership into something else, he would have to be able to find an equivalent property that he could rent for 75% of his total cost of ownership (or accept a reduction in the size and/or quality of his home).

I don't know how realistic that is across many different areas, but it's certainly not possible in many locations.
> If you can afford it, I'm sure the US offers the best medical treatment in the world

But it doesn't! At least not across the board. Yes, there are diseases and conditions for which the best treatment is given in American health care facilities, but it's not consistent. And certainly not for routine stuff.

The truly wealthy travel to other countries to get treatment if that's where the best specialists work. Among the countries with better options for a variety of things are Canada, Singapore. Singapore, Japan, Spain, United Kingdom (yes, even with the much-disparaged NHS) Dubai, and Israel. Canada for drug and alcohol addiction treatment (the US is still mostly stuck in the addiction-as-moral-failing mode), Japan and Singapore for cancer treatments.

And there's one other thing: it can actually be cheaper to fly to another country, get treated there, and fly back to the US, than to stay in the US and get stuck with a US healthcare bill. And there's nothing the rich love more than keeping their money.
Letting people go after a probation review is probably more likely to result in changing the hiring process, rather than treating it as some kind of initial warranty period.

You don't want to invest in hiring and onboarding someone if you're outright saying they might not make it beyond 3/6 months.
I got by in similar circumstances with Android x86. Which is simply an android VM. The catch is that it's not ARM, which some apps lamented - but the app I needed worked just fine.
> if humanity simply maintains its growth pace

But humanity is not doing that. The current trend is world population will peak at just over 9 billion in about 30 years. Trends can change, but that is the current one.
I think the focus on China with respect to privacy is misplaced. This is a problem with many tech companies now. Just look at how smart TVs hoover up data from their customers. There's a danger to painting this as a problem with China's tech industry because it implicitly lets other tech companies off the hook for their horrendous privacy practices.

> What we call cheating or stealing is a standard business practice there.

What about "move fast and break things"? Or Uber's skirting of labor and taxi laws in many jurisdictions worldwide? I get that this is literally whataboutism, but the above examples are considered virtuous by many here. What's the fundamental difference? To me it seems like China has just perfected the tech "hustle" culture invented in SV.
It probably will never be. It just takes one OEM to fuck it up and everyone can use their device ID. That's why hardware backed attestation doesn't work, OnePlus fucked it up and now Magisk can pretend to be that phone and get exempted.
> For what little it's worth, I've been online since Compuserve and personal local BBSs...

> I absolutely consider HN to be social media.

I've been online for the same period of time, and I absolutely do not consider HN to be social media.

Sure, there are some commonalities like upvotes, but I consider (my opinion only) these to be important criteria of something "being" social media:

a) Most importantly, a friends/connections list, or "followers"

b) Being able to see who liked/disliked posts

c) The "feed" being personalized/targeted
I want to push back on this idea that Rogers "saw the world from a child's perspective." The article made the point that it was a product of hard, hard work, and engagement with the best scientific minds of the generation.

If he had just left it up to intuition, we wouldn't be celebrating his show as much as we do. We don't and can't "see the world from a child's perspective".
There is a known mechanism by which ivermectin is expected to work against covid - it inhibits the protease family of enzymes. Incedentally, Pfizer is developing a new (read: expensive and on patent) covid drug which also happens to work via the same mechanism. So the fact that ivermectin is an antiparasitic is irrelevant, as is the comparison to penicillin.
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Minimal China
Only after a century of blood lessons
The SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is vulnerable to moderate electric fields
This is annoying semantics, but sport is just as often about being very fractionally better and making a time fractionally smaller .. at the expense of huge amounts of effort. The same can apply in software too. I don't think it invalidates the metaphor as long as you can stop people interpreting "10x" to mean "there is some precise metric on which we can determine the average is a number X and this person is at least 10X".
I don't believe this, there's no way students don't understand file structures.
I just helped someone remove the built-in Chinese malware from a US Government provided phone.

It's insane.

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/android/2020/07/we-found-yet-a...
You might be joking but it actually has a name:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

Well, your idea is probably closer to the Marilyn Strathern definition.
> You need to crack the bootloader for the baseband and that's way easier said than done

There have been more than enough cases of people poking holes in bootloaders, including secret services. For what it's worth, Huawei and Xiaomi can be considered as part of the Chinese CCP dictatorship and I'd expect them to have access to such exploits.

> and immediately noticeable.

How is an user supposed to notice a modified baseband firmware? The only thing that a user can see is if the device has been rooted, but with a factory-supplied backdoor even that doesn't help.
From: https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/byvrjogbzve/...

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Those first two categories make up 1 in 5 people on earth. You don't care what happens to 20% of the human race?
How to money launder Bitcoin
Makes sense, thank you. I suppose some it's good the competition had some effect
if one company is doing it, they're all doing it.

From the snowden leaks we know the NSA puts their own firmware into enterprise hardware.

One should assume that they're in american consumer hardware firmware as well
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Sure, but you have to treat the symptoms you actually care about. Lowering a fever doesn't make your nose less runny.

If amyloid plaques are just a symptom, then it's much less obvious that treating them will have positive effects on the symptoms you actually care about.
> >While many of the points made by this article are valid, it fails to address important questions like: how can we remain informed

> Well, an earlier question would be: why should we "remain informed"?

IMHO you hit the nail on the head here. Everyone has been conditioned by the news media to assume that we need to follow the news, which they then conflate with "remaining informed".

I go after the information I'm interested in or lacking as needed, like financial or housing market info. Then other info comes to me if it's relevant, like local elections or topics of mutual interest with my friends (or places like HN).
I can see it replacing helo service, presuming it can take off anywhere. As a general replacement for cars, no.
FWIW/out of curiosity, I just tried poking the emulator that comes with Android Studio, and found an option (under "advanced settings") to route the emulated front or back camera to "Webcam0". This is out of the box on Debian.

While definitely a heavyweight approach (yay, installing all of Android Studio - but you also install an update tool), I can confirm it works. (And you can fish out and save the qemu invocation from `ps axfww`, then launch it directly without needing to start anything else, although I think the idiomatic approach is using the `emulator` command.)
It's so easy to abuse meta-analysis, you simply modify the inclusion criteria until you get the results you're looking for.
> But that's probably wrong. People managed to make non-polluting energy sources more compelling than the polluting ones even when the pollution is fully externalized.

I don't think this is true. In particular, while the price is lower for "non-polluting", we still don't have an answer for clean base load generation (well, we do--nuclear--but that seems to be off the table). Even ignoring the storage problem, I don't think we (Americans) are on track to power our entire economy with renewables by 2050. We'll probably be able to meet our current electricity demand with renewable energy by 2050, but we also need to electrify almost every other sector in our economy--most notably transportation--which means we need to generate a whole lot more electricity than we do today.

Also, if wealthy countries don't implement any kind of border adjustment, we'll just keep outsourcing our pollution to the likes of China who will happily keep burning (ever cheaper) oil.
This won’t get traction with the media, which itself is important evidence. Let’s all just focus on that petitto girl and not this, or the border crisis, or the loss if 10s of billions in advanced weapon systems to the taliban/haqqani network, or the fda deciding the vaccines it pushed on most of America are not really safe or effective enough to give a 3rd dose to the millions of Americans with well documented waning immunity. The news media aren’t fraudulent or negligent, despite what the “far right” may believe.
Pssh. As something of an outsider, its far worse than "10x." There's just a fundamental mismatch here, which I think is the elephant in the room. Where there are people like Linus Torvalds and Kovid Goyal, you just don't need that many software makers in the way we do it now, unlike the way you need at least X amount of construction workers or dentists.

Which, I believe, is not to say you can't have that many people working in IT, but a major shift of thinking is required. Software shouldn't be a product, and I'd go even further to say that it shouldn't even be a deeply centralized service. Rather, a lot of IT pros helping smaller individuals solve problems (and just happen to use software while doing it, in the way that e.g. astronomers happen to use math) would be best.
I was taught the concept of drafting a hierchical outline [1] around 3rd or 4th grade in language arts as one of the first steps in writing a paper. Even today, this is probably the mental model I most associate with file systems. I am also fairly confident I encountered this before ever having to interact with a physical file cabinet full of manila folders. Is it still common for outlines to be taught in early grade school?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_(list)
I’d prefer an analog meter.
Sure, Jeff Dean, Vitalik Buterin, Dennis Ritchie destroyed their companies because they were 10x (or 100x programmers).
That's probably very accurate.
It's something Red Hat didn't consider, but there's value in a developer using the same OS they're using on their production servers.
Very few use Fedora on servers, and very few use RHEL on desktops. Ubuntu covers both with one product.
In related news, Brazilian GOL Airlines just pre-ordered 250 eVTOL from Vertical Aerospaces for a 2025 delivery. So I think the market is heated-up right now.

https://worldairlinenews.com/2021/09/21/gol-to-launch-a-netw...

Brazil, and specially São Paulo, is a huge market for helicopters and air-taxi services in general, not to speak of regional air services, for which the VA-X4 aircraft is somewhat constrained with a mere 160km range.
Wow, I had no idea that existed. TIL.
Surprised the rotors are exposed. Seems likely to chop heads off.
Yes, and an MLS student will know what questions to ask and how to assess a good solution.

Plus, if you have 2000+ books, you may have the makings of a collection with titles or editions a library would appreciate as a gift or bequest. If it's already cataloged according to ALA conventions, that makes the gift much more attractive.
Neither, I am asking if you're going to do a false flag, why wait for an incredibly improbable scenario to use as pretext as opposed to just fabricating such a pretext?

The whole point of the False Flag is the False part.
"You can also create an "all my music" playlist which you can sync with the iDevice."

Yes, but then how do you deal with that enormous "all my music" playlist once it is in the iDevice ?

You can't browse by directory. You can't organize or display based on filename. So I guess I could parse all of the collection and transpose the artist/title/album out of the filename into mp3 metadata and then I would have a ... 30,000 track playlist ?

Again, all of this makes perfect sense if you're impulse buying a track here and a track there and if there is some way to move that "collection" to a new device every 2-3 years.

It's just not for me.
Neither my grandmother, who died of a stroke that was probably related to her late stage Alzheimer's, nor my father, who died of severe Alzheimer's, experienced terminal lucidity. But it seems to be a real phenomenon, and worthy of study.
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Do you have any friends that you've lost touch with?

All my best friends from high school live all over the country. Some of us have grown apart and that's okay, but I do enjoy passively keeping up with what they're doing on Facebook.

How about family members who you grew up with but now live on other sides of the country?

I have some older cousins that moved to California as soon as they graduated college. I was probably 8 or 9 at the time so it's not like I had any real way of keeping in touch with them. Now we're friends on Facebook and I can see what they're doing.

Ever wanted to go on a hike in the mountains in the spring and see if there's snow on the trail you're about to do? Someone probably tried already and posted a photo on Instagram.

Ever see some new construction in a building and wonder "What's moving in to this space?" There's probably a hyper local Facebook group where someone has already posted that information.

If you're watching a football game and want to get live commentary by people other than the announcers. Twitter is great for that.

I also use Facebook for organizing events like ski weekends or camping trips. I haven't found anything that even comes close for event planning.