skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sort of looks like these guys said hey if anbox folks aren’t going to update their android version, let’s fork it and do our own thing? There are some random anbox files in the repo for waydroid.
I said they had different goals, not that they don't overlap.

If you're in a class teaching medical studies, and you tell people "go replicate the original experiment instead of doing meta analysis", you're doing your students a disservice.

Instead say: "It's always important to be able to replicate experiments and I encourage everybody in the class who is going on to do science or medicine spend at least some time in the lab replicating a basic experiment. But medical studies are so large and complicated that we can't typically repeat them in a reproducible way. Instead, we use statistics and probability to make reasonable decisions based on the data we have. Sometimes that means removing a suspect paper from a meta-analysis because we lack confidence in its reproducibility."

For some of the most sophisticated medical science experiments we have today, the only way to replicate an experiment is to be a postdoc and join the lab that does the research, master the technique there, then take your reagents and other material to your professor job, and then get your local set up to replicate what you did in the original lab. This is how it normally works, for example in labs like Mina Bissell's where few people in the work even have the skills to replicate her experiments.
When I was in Paris, I ate at McDonalds once for two reasons:

* Pulp Fiction (Royale with cheese! Had to do it)

* I was kind of exhausted from trying to find something substantial to eat (lots of lightweight fare, not great for big ol Americans like myself) and the language hurdles involved in doing so. I mean, most people speak English to some degree but it's not the smoothest process
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Coming from the guy that built a pan-European system of alliances with the sole purpose of preventing opposing blocks to form, yeah. A pity the big powers, Germany being one of the first ones, tore Bismarck's system of alliances down.
> Anyone familiar with iDevices knows that every piece of the simple, standard workflow I just described is totally impossible.

No, it is not impossible. It is very easy at least as Linux user.

There is a project for that, called as iFuse
https://github.com/libimobiledevice/ifuse

It basically allows you to mount the Media chroot filesystem and the app specific sandboxed filesystems without a jailbreak.
that link 404'd for me

this should work (note: direct link to pdf)

https://www.nksc.lt/doc/en/analysis/2021-08-23_5G-CN-analysi...
TFA mentions the other costs that you're (potentially) not including: property taxes, maintainance, building insurance (depending on your escrow situation).

I think MB's point is that there's a lot of talk about how "investing" in home ownership is a smart financial move, and that a more careful consideration of this suggests that it's not so clear that this is true.

There are definitely other reasons to own, if you're of the right inclination (I certainly am).
I think the key part is in there somewhere.

There is a caveat here I presume for all these posts. Few of you are writing about work related, industry news.

Not all news is relevant to me, as they do not impact my day-to-day life or I can do very little about it. These news are a rarely worth consuming.

As others have noted, relevance and impact.

Now, I have to go and formalize my mental model of news filtering...
You would have to be familiar with the 2016 libertarian party presidential debate and the obsession with toast-related licenses in order to truly know for sure.
I think its important to understand there are also relatively high floors to getting certain things done well. If the engineer is too junior or simply not good enough, its not that you will get there slower, its that you may not get there at all. Or you get there slowly and with a very buggy or unmaintainable mess. Some engineers can even go backwards in that sense, attempting to optimize the wrong solution and spending months on something that in honesty can't actually be completed.
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The “what else you could do with the money” argument is standard in finance/economics , in fact it’s the cornerstone of the famous Black-Scholes formula for pricing options which takes into account "risk-free" interest rate.
Yes, but it's possible this generation has never done it. They've never used a paper-dominant system, never used a file cabinet or a physical folder. The metaphor falls apart when the source is no longer well-understood.
I just wish as a civilisation we could simply reject "enragement is engagement" for the foul influence it actually is. That entire repulsive concept has done so much harm to society, instead of turning our anger on each-other over opinions that are barely our own to begin with we should reserve it for those who profit from tearing apart the relationships of friends and family by making people as angry as possible in order to consume their content. They're the real cause for anger here, not our neighbours with different opinions.

As long as people stick too rigidly to any orthodoxy, there will always be morally weak people willing to sell them firewood to burn their heretics with. In this case, that firewood salesman is simply called "the news industry". What would stop this in its tracks would be to promote a new social attitude that sees the intrinsic worth and dignity in all human beings regardless of their differences, a deeply non-sectarian philosophy that says "you and I disagree and that's okay, neither of us are inherently bad people because of that".
Which makes me wonder if the format is just conducive to a large audience model?
Think of Joe rogan as a 3 hour Ted talk. Except you can’t make an interesting 3 hour presentation, but you can actually make a conversation interesting.

What’s wrong with someone fleshing out their views for 3 hours?

And there’s another thing you are missing. Have you ever tried to lie about something or withhold the truth for 3 hours straight? Unless you are a proper psychopath it’s basically impossible.

In 3 hours you have to be authentic or the audience will know. They will feel it. You might be authentic about wrong information, but you will be authentic. People can then decide if they want to believe that or not.

A lot of people who love rogan hate the 5 minute soundbite interviews on the traditional media. It’s fake, it’s short, it’s McDonald’s of media
Trench warfare, and really much of the technology used in WWI, was seen first in the American civil war
> Do you think the public health authorities in Uttar Pradesh (https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/lucknow/uttar-prade...) are lying?

It's possible, the number of excess deaths in the region over a period (1 July 2020 and 31 March 2021) was measured at 197k compared to other years, but they only reported 4500 covid deaths.
> ... to people who didn’t understand the difference between a preprint and a peer reviewed paper.

It's worse than that; if you're reading individual papers without the context of the larger body of research in a domain, you're setting yourself up to get a distorted view of the world.

Peer review isn't magic; peer reviewed papers can still have errors, oversights, mistakes, outright fraud, or just get unlucky in how random chance played out. Peer review just filters out the obviously fraudulent or flawed papers so that only three reviewers have to spend an afternoon reading and understanding why they are useless, and not a thousand journal subscribers.

There's nothing wrong with following scientific developments as a layperson, but you shouldn't make the mistake of thinking because you read something in a published, peer-reviewed paper -- even one in a prestigious, well-respected journal like Science or Nature -- that it must be true.
Lining up? Not necessarily.

But it seems almost certain to me that at least some people feel safe thanks to taking ivermectin (while distrusting mainstream vaccines), and those people would turn eventually to the vaccines if those were the only perceived path towards C19 safety.
> The average person could cover the distance of a marathon, but it would take them many days of walking and resting.

26 miles at 3 miles an hour is a bit under 9 hours. Throw in another hour for resting and the average person should be able to walk a marathon in 10 hours. Sure they might be sore afterwards but from what I heard marathon runners also need to recover after their run.
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Ah, so it's more about library writer control then about library consumer control? Since for example in Common Lisp, the latter can still be accomplished through declarations, such as DYNAMIC-EXTENT (http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/d_dynami.htm). (Not sure if the former is necessarily related to memory usage control, but you'd probably achieve that type of resource control by exposing only WITH-* macros in your API.)

Maybe D people would have something to say about this as well, but I'm not a D person. What you're describing doesn't seem impossible in D to me, though.
The United States CDC literally changed the definition of "vaccine" this year, so that these products could still be identified as vaccines. You're going to tell me that it's "science illiterate" to consider mRNA therapy as gene therapy, because the genes are not actually changed, but instead only expressed to create the therapeutic effect. But it is "scientifically literate" to call such a therapy a "vaccine"?

I hope more common sense literate proponents of science can appreciate how much it harms their case for a vast majority of science advocates to be loud and wrong.
Very nice! I recently updated my website traveldays.com with an SVG path animation. The effect is bound to the scroll progress. It looks like you don't support scroll animations (yet)?

I looked into anime.js and GSAP, but in the end I went with the naive approach of just updating the animation in js. It works well on mobile, but when scrolling with a mouse the animation could be smoother.
If you’re only used to windows you might not notice how inefficient it is, and you may also be doing the “right” kind of workload for windows. On an i7 6700hq thinkpad I did the experiment and ran both windows and linux for an extended period. In my experience linux was about 30% faster for typical web development tasks (npm install, angular build, …), but performed around the same for web browsing, and was much slower in video calls.
And what of these students who need to learn for their schoolwork?

Again, if they have an alternate system which is working for them, that's great. But the article gave me the impression that alternate strategies weren't working, in STEM classes where the students need to deal with lots of data.
I still haven't met any 10x engineers.

What I have met are 3x engineers who protect their own job security so severely that they make everyone else a third as effective.

3 * (1 / 1/3) = 9

Meanwhile I'm a 3x engineer who makes everyone else twice as effective. Management sees me as a 1.5x engineer, when my actual factor depends on how many coworkers I have.
FiveThirtyEight weights its averages by pollster accuracy/methodology.

Next, we determine how much weight to give each poll in our average. First, polls conducted by pollsters with higher FiveThirtyEight pollster ratings — a letter grade measuring how accurate and methodologically sound pollsters are — are given more weight

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-were-tracking-joe-b...
not banning the app would be a direct violation of the law. what they are doing is complying with the local legal system.

if google doesn't want to be in that biz, they should leave the country or find a way to elect a different leader.
What exactly are the allegations then?

"have a built-in ability to detect and censor terms such as "Free Tibet"

Censor by preventing one posting the phrase? Removing the phrase from web pages?

What are the steps to reproduce?
They’re going to do one for Twitter as well.

https://twitter.com/Datatilsynet/status/1440580313931927558?...
Good grief, I wish I could agree. My experiences with KDE have been utterly horrible. Display scaling is flawed, the login screen keeps overlaying itself with a giant touch keyboard (I don't even have a touch device), my trash folder seems to end up read-only with alarming regularity, the application menu is twitchy and buggy, Konsole doesn't respect settings like unlimited scrollback properly, the System Settings is horribly laid out and crashes often (particularly when making network changes) and the people who designed KDE clearly have no concept whatsoever of whitespace (some menus are incredibly dense, other things like the application menu are huge with lots of wasted space). It feels like it was designed by programmers who know nothing about user experience.

The Pantheon desktop from elementary, on the other hand, is far closer to "sane defaults" in my mind and seems to be much less buggy.
How long does that jetpack fly? I had read somewhere that those engines use up 1 gallon per minute of flying. That seems like a lot. Imagine having to fuel up after every 5 minutes of flying.
The author is talking about people who are perceived by management to be 10x developers and why that perception can sometimes be flawed.
It's not that simple. For example, a protease inhibitor could have effects on biological functions that exist in viral and parasitic infections. And both Remdesivir and Ivermectin [1] have been observed to have antiviral properties in vitro.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016635422...
The std deduction is fairly large now. You have a tough time getting past it for most people. There is also a cap on how much you can deduct. When I had a mortgage I calculated that about half way through the loan I would no longer be able to deduct the interest because the std one was bigger. One guy I worked with said this 'i love using the standard deduction it means I am not paying money to get my money back I am getting a lower tax rate'.
That may be true but if you moderate a group you get requests from people to make it private who either don't know this or don't know the difference.

Or don't trust Facebook to just change the way 'privacy' works
Yes, suicide bombing is horrible and does not solve oppression.

And yes, I understand the needs for agency, for autonomy, and the feelings of powerlessness and frustration behind such outrageous, inhumane and fruitless acts. I am also informed about the extensive preparation and brainwashing that go into it which also meet the person’s need for belonging and to matter (announced as martyr in their community). (See Syriana for a depiction in film?)

But solving oppression and murder by state terrorism will likely reduce suicide bombings, too.
The alternative is to trust the opinion of someone who has done the work to gain specialist knowledge of each subject. Experts, rather than Ivermectin grifters, moon-fakers, 911 truthers etc.
The classic Linux shred command will work just fine, same as on any type of disk.

But what you should actually do use use the drive’s built–in instance secure erase feature. This changes the encryption key to a new one, so all existing data is rendered permanently unavailable. Not all drives have disk encryption, but when they do it works the same way whether it’s an SSD or spinning rust. Use hdparm’s --sanitize-crypto-scramble command–line option to do this.

Some drives only have an older feature that does a secure erase that overwrites every block in the device. This is much slower, so use it only if your drive doesn’t support anything better. Use hdparm’s --sanitize-block-erase command–line option.

These options exist for all ATA, SATA, SAS, SCSI, and NVMe drives (though I don’t believe that hdparm knows anything about NVMe, so you probably have to use the nvme command instead).
Is that really the reason or is it that they can't get a doctor to write them an off-label prescription?
> 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.

Yeah, he made a 7% return on the real estate itself. BUT, he was also collecting rent on the house the 10 years you were living there. That's a lot more than what he would have gotten from the S&P.
> If you've got the chops to run a hedge fund

Apparently not.
Yes, they can. It'll cost more than the C152 is worth, but Garmin has a "press button to land plane" emergency feature recently approved by the FAA. It'll even announce itself to the relevant air traffic control frequencies.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/11/this-system-from-garmin...

> Simultaneously, Autoland analyzes terrain, weather, and nearby airports to determine the optimal airport for landing given the specific aircraft's available fuel and performance characteristics, winds, runway length, and a host of other factors. As the airplane descends, Autoland controls speed, altitude and flight path and manages throttles, flaps, cabin pressurization, and more.

> Air traffic controllers are informed of the system's landing destination choice and clear traffic as they would with a human-flown emergency. On final approach, Autoland lowers the gear, flares the airplane, and brings it to a stop with automatic braking. Audible instructions for exiting the airplane then play.

The real-life demo is pretty impressive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-ruFmgTpqA
As for movement following line of site, I've felt that. I took an instructional (dual) hang glider ride and at one point the instructor told me to look right cause we were going to enter a right hand turn. And then told me to look straight now that we were going to level out.

And once it was done, he was like "great, good job". Turns out he had literally been hands off the whole time. What I had thought had been me just seeing where he was sending us, actually corresponded to my own movements making it happen.
The file cabinet/folder/document metaphor was almost universally understood back then. How many of today's students have ever used a physical filing system?
without snap and other propretiary stuff? then i would take it.
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I was stupid enough to buy a Xiaomi phone without enough due diligence. Aside from all spying that is going on, the software is abysmal.

The problem with replacing the OS is that I believe most banking apps I use will stop working. Might just need to write this phone off.
tindie.com has some cool little projects.
> That sounds like a senior engineer vs junior engineer experience level.

I've actually met junior 10x engineers, I could tell pretty quickly that they were better than me. I've also met senior 1/10x engineers!

Working with a junior 10x engineer is humbling.

I remember starting out at my first job, realizing I was working with people way better than me (my first office mate had 2 PhDs, IIRC Chemistry and Physics!), but slowly I climbed up the ladder of competence and became that software engineer who was doing the Really Cool Stuff.

Then, new grad joins, and he is quite obviously a full standard deviation to the right of me.

Like, shit. Sure some architect whose name is in Wikipedia, yeah they are better than me, and I've been honored to work with multiple people of that caliber, and when you work with someone whose career is regularly described as "ground breaking", you don't even try to measure up, ya know? But, when someone fresh out of college starts pumping out better code, faster, than anything I can do, just, takes a bit of mental adjustment.

Intellectually, it shouldn't be surprising, after all if there are smarter people who are older, than there are smarter people who are younger!

The one guy I am thinking of (who might be reading this, you know who you are!) is also humble, and eager to learn from everyone around him. It was a delight working with him almost a decade ago, and his career has been great since then.

Thinking about it, I don't even know where I am on the 1-100x scale. I know people who are obvious 100x developers who are the literal one of only a few dozen people in the world who can do the things that they did. During my career I have been responsible for the success of multiple projects that would've fallen to pieces w/o me, and while I was a blatant bus factor of 1. But even then, in all those projects I worked with a group of amazing developers, we all kind of brought different 10x skills to the table, if that makes sense.

Actually, when I was the Bus Factor of 1, it wasn't for my code. The handful of 10x people on the projects were turning out much better code than I ever could. My 10x contribution? I organized, lead, and figured out what code needed to be written, designed systems, and saw the interconnections between the work the various 10x+ devs were doing. My real contribution was spotting patterns, good and bad, and using that recognition to get ahead of future problems, or to organize efforts to put code in place ahead of time in anticipation of future needs.

Heck the project I'm leading right now, it started because I saw a pattern in existing work flows and I started thinking if there was a way to optimize those workflow through better usage of data structures and automation.

Maybe I'm a 10x pattern recognizer.
> Betting on home value appreciation has paid off on average over time, but it’s definitely not a risk-free bet for any given property or over any given time period.

Ok, but the same applies to the stocks you might buy as well.

But with housing you also have real property ownership benefits. Nobody can evict you! That’s a wonderful feeling.
As stupid as it might sound, I do trust Pixel phones, and an hypothetical iPhone running a different OS, the most of all alternatives. If one want's a smartphone, if not just take a 20+ year old dumb phone. Or BlackBerry.
Once the current regime let us go back to church, I deleted my Facebook. It's much better at church. Firstly, they feed me. Secondly, I can say what I think without being censored.

It's not even that people all agree with me at church. It's that they treat you like a human being. Those who are unvaxxed are just some guy down the street, not someone who we are supposed to target in our hour of hate and wish death upon as the more uncivilized amongst the internet regularly do.

I feel sorry for those who have to substitute something so vile for something so wholesome.
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The idea behind this solution is to keep you eyes focused on textual representation of the interface and active work area.
Soundtrack Pro is more complete because of the depth derived from skeumorphic elements.
A single Gladwell of anecdata: I've got a thermal printer which talks Bluetooth - works flawlessly when sending data from my Macbook; outputs garbage when sending the exact same data from a Raspberry Pi 3+ (which is definitely Linux on hardware designed for Linux.)
Right now I am using the Apple M1 air, which is nice, portable, quiet and has a decent battery performance.

All in all I am pretty happy with it. Of course if you can't stand Apple this is not the machine to get, but if you can deal with that it is a good way to get a Unix machine that you don't have to spend too much time setting up and most of time it works.
The article's analysis missed one big thing in the comparison: rent (necessarily) includes a profit margin for the owners. In a mortgage this is the interest payment on the loan, but in a mortgage the owner gradually shifts from lender to buyer. (In fact, one way of looking at paying down a mortgage early is that the buyer is earning higher returns at the expense of the lender.)

It wouldn't surprise me at all that a mortgage, after accounting for all factors, is still cheaper than renting.