skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to be a big news consumer. Eventually canceled my NYT sub and quit all national news, except when something major is happening or when I’m about to vote. I read The Economist because it’s one of the last excellent publications and it does seem to help improve my thinking, especially with respect to understanding the macro landscape and investing. But yes, following every Congressional drama is probably a waste of your time.

I do think consumption of local news is not a bad idea — that’s the one arena where we could all probably benefit our communities by being more engaged. (Follow the zoning debates, not the murder mysteries.)
They're still much bigger than an iPhone. Sure, if you walk around with some 13" tablet that doubles as a phone, the point may be moot, but a "regular" iPhone is much smaller than even compact cameras.

I can stick my iPhone 7 in my jeans pocket. My Olympus Pen-F (one of the "smaller" mirrorless cameras) with a small prime lens needs a pretty big pocket only some of my larger coats have. Plus it's heavy enough to pull on said coat and make it uncomfortable.

Yeah, image quality is pretty bad on the iPhone compared to the Olympus. But when I go out and about and don't want to have a bulky thing hanging around my neck / forearm or carry an extra bag, the Olympus' image quality is exactly 0. The iPhone beats that hands down, even at night.

Now don't get me wrong, I love my pen-f, and it's an incredible improvement over the DSLR I used to haul around before. But iPhones are getting pretty good for my needs now.
If the difference is a matter of interpretation, we should be able to tell by comparing against the policy.
> dedicated hardware does a better job than general purpose one (cameras vs. smartphones)

Hardly headline news - a $1,700 camera with >$1,000 lenses is better than a $1,000 phone with a camera attached. If anything the gap is closer than it has ever been. Irrespective, there is litterally nothing stopping someone from having an iPhone and a dedicated camera, or if there is, then I (and practically everyone I know) are breaking some sort of rule somewhere dictated by the overlords at Apple HQ that thy shall not use a camera.
I'm not a developer, so maybe not the best person to ask.

What seems to work is where areas of the product are assigned to specific teams - the overly-attached dev can at least see what's happening, provide guidance, without having to do the work, point to wiki that needs updating etc. Over time they'll build trust and can back away a bit.

What doesn't work is if work is given to a different team who just do their own thing and the 'parent dev' only finds what's happened to their baby on the commit/demo.
Even if they've done a great job, it ruffles feathers.
Well, yes, that's part of my point. You know "Segway" but not "segue". Speaker says "segue", because they're close homophones and you don't know "segue", you parse that as "Segway". But the problem is, the resulting sentence doesn't make any sense. At this point, you either look it up to make sense of it and discover "segue", or you're OK saying things that don't make sense if they sound cool, and start using "Segway".
Five Human Species You May Not Know About
Ok you replicate the original study. Presumably you want to use this new result to increase your statistical power compared to the original result, combining the results of the two studies.... which... is.. er... meta analysis.

The whole point of meta analysis is that you have multiple studies of the same experiment.
I don't remember. It was a long time ago. In my experience, this is exactly what happened, in my schools (I attended US public and private schools, after 5th grade).

I saw it from both perspectives. I was very smart, and did well, when I applied myself. I could also be a nightmare slacker.
I think the order of operations is backwards here.

China wouldn’t start a war over semiconductors, but if the supply had already been cut off and internal economic collapse was imminent, it could drive a military response. Something similar to what the oil embargo (arguably) drove Japan to do in 1941.

Chinas primary military advantage is that the one or two million PLA soldiers with AKs don’t require semiconductors to be effective and western powers lack the willpower to engage in conventional warfare.
My solution to this is to never use Docs directly, but only through Drive
I always use competitive coding as an example. There are children in Ukraine / India / Russia / wherever who I'm sure will always be able to whoop my ass in these competitive coding things. I try really hard and get nowhere, and when I look at their submissions it's some inscrutable / clever thing that solves the problem orders of magnitude faster than I could ever do.

The only way through this all is to recognize that it's okay to feel stupid, even if it's pretty much all the time. I'd rather feel stupid and challenge myself than sit around bored (e.g. with Monolith Maintenance).
Wednesday Exercise: Strengthen your visual perception
Noted! Thanks.
There are better fast-food options too, IMO. Whenever I'm in France or Belgium and I have a sore need for a fast-food burger, I hit up Quick Burger. I wish we had them in the States.
As a general rule the national news is intended to persuade and is only informative if persuasion happens to require it.

This becomes extremely obvious when one compares the national news to the local news. The latter is relatively more concerned with informing than persuading. This was particularly clear during the 2020 protests where the national news was observably tasked with persuading viewers that these were legitimate (mostly) peaceful protests and not violent riots. Meanwhile, the local news where events were occurring provided the exceedingly valuable service of keeping people continually informed via airborne footage about where they might prefer to not go at the time.
Your trousers? No. Your coat? Definitely. Unless you go for full-format ones with bigger lenses. In which case your priorities most likely aren't carrying your camera gear in your pocket.
His show is a discussion and an interview, not a scientific debate, thesis defense, or a court hearing. It's up to us as listener to do as you say, use an open mind and question the information as it comes out.

I like how Rogan doesn't pounce on every guest to make them defend every statement, define every term, or actively try to catch them and put them on the defensive. That is the formula used by the talking-heads in the main stream interview shows, and discussions usually just turn argumentative.

He lets his guests stand out on limbs and gives them enough rope to hang themselves if they want to, which is a big part of the appeal of his show.
It's now illegal to be wealthy in China. Their leadership only wants soldiers and factory workers. What they care about is not what you care about. Their power only cares about staying in power. International standing, or GDP or quality of life means nothing unless it keeps them in power. Even if they take over the world, they will still be hostile and violent. marx says there's a perpetual revolt. It's a forced brutal cynicism in the face of nice peaceful lives, like a teenager that refuses to grow up. Do not bail out anyone here in the USA who took their side, such as all the employees at Google who built weapons for them. Or Bill Gates, who built China nuclear infrastructure. Or the Democratic Party, specifically the daughter of slavers vice president who was filled with joy and rushed to proclaim our defeat at the hands of the marxists. Their bail out is not bolting the doors to their offices shut, and burning the place down with all those traitorous fools locked inside.
Posteo is also good. Endorsed by the FSF even. Not sure about the web interface hehe, it's just RoundCube.
The CXO of my massive employer once mentioned that the Economist was the only publication they still subscribed and read diligently. Do you find that yourself preferring the Economist on certain issues, and less strong elsewhere?

For some reason I'm really interested in seeing a positive-yet-balanced review or anecdote about print journalism. I think it's the novelty-cheers.
Freshworks becomes first Indian SaaS startup to list in US after $1 Bn IPO
Claude Shannon, Dennis Ritchie, Vitalik Buterin, Jeff Dean are all 10x programmers. Let's not pretend they dont exist
What's the motivation for this sort of thing? It seems the very thing they crave (attention) will invariably bring them undone as attention invites scrutiny.
Anything you know of that is not daily but weekly (and summarizes the week)?

I ask because, as the article suggests, a story can change day to day — giving news a week before consuming means you're more likely to get a cogent picture of the event.
I think the real advice is here "don't be irrational" and it's easier said than done. News sources obviously vary in quality and even the best are run by fallible humans so you're never fully safe. But really being informed is a net positive. So I think it's pretty silly to live in ignorance because you can't be trusted with more information.
Here's the deck that got him banned https://www.slideshare.net/dingli8888/citron-research
Email is insecure by default. The best you can do is go with a provider that doesn’t sell your behavior to advertisers like Google does.
Exactly! She was being cheap as usual and she got the best free advice no money can buy! Pay up chumps.
The same thing that we did when we had the same work to do, but productivity was lower since methodologies and technology weren't quite there yet: hire more people.

If the company can't pay the staff enough to live and can't afford to staff the amount of people they need, the company isn't viable.

At which point you can let the company suffer for it, or let the staff suffer for it.

If the company has to rely on people living in subhuman conditions to survive, the company should die.
You don't need to. If the verifier has no way of verifying that any given passport number is correct, or associated with the identity you're trying to steal, then you can make up any number you like. Like you said, the only thing they can do is verify that the number on the (faked) passport matches the number the fraudster typed in the form.

If anything, this breach improves security because now there is a list of passport numbers matched to identities that verifying companies can use to make sure that the passport number claimed by a potential imposter matches the number known for that identity (from this breach). Then you'd have to do what you said and alter the passport in some way to match the breach.
Seems like largely an improvement... except the choice to get an old Android phone as a replacement for the iPhone. From a security standpoint, there's really no alternative to the iPhone. I loathe the Apple "ecosystem" and stay on the fringes of it as much as possible, not really investing in any Apple-specific apps or services, but until there's someone else in the market that isn't Google, there's really no other choice.
This is how democracy and quorum works. It is messy, definitely, but if we avoid reductionism to explain the chaos, typically a good solution will emerge given time. Finding which winning singularities to win in is often a money making event.
Did you not realize that the driver in the image has just tricked the so-called 'Driver monitoring system' with a static image? Just like how lots of drivers have fooled the wheel sensors?

I was expecting this to be more advanced than Comma.ai, but after seeing this, I'm even more disappointed with Tesla. What if the driver is using autopilot when they are driving at night? It appears that there is no night vision in the car cabin cameras of this system. [0]

That means that it can't determine the driver's attentiveness when you are driving in the night; the most dangerous time to drive. Therefore, this system is unreliable and very dangerous and it already can be fooled. I'm afraid that this implementation is still not good or safe enough to use.

[0] https://insideevs.com/news/529788/tesla-driver-monitoring-ca...
You better believe it. This was exactly my experience as a TA in my College's computer science department from 2014-2018.

It's not incompetence though, as the article points out, we've moved beyond an intimate understanding of the filesystem being a prerequisite for using computers.

Using interactive browser based environments like jupyter notebooks have made needing to deal with files even less of an issue.
Calling them gene therapies too.. wow.

I hope the more science-literate proponents of IVM can appreciate how much it harms their case for the vast majority of IVM advocates to be this loud and wrong..
There are several differences between these old predictions and now:

1. We're now assuming based on the limits of known physics rather than the expected limits of technology. My father told me he once read a book that said it was impossible to go to the Moon because it would take 750 years to get there. The speed of light was known at that time but assumptions were made about the limits of acceleration and velocity that weren't grounded in science;

2. Things like the rocket equation are important. Specifically, the reaction mass problem. Even more specifically, the only way for an independent body to accelerate in space that we know of is by expelling mass (or energy). You need to carry that mass and this quickly becomes inefficient.

A good example of this is how people have recently started to say "if we just accelerate at 1G we can get to Alpha Centauri in a few years". 1G acceleration sounds easy but it's not.

So how would you travel between stars? I think it most likely that you'd use a ton of energy to accelerate (or decelerate) a vessel with lasers on a solar sail. Why? Because energy from a star is abundant and cheap and it doesn't require carrying reaction mass.

If you accept that, then the need for Dyson Swarms becomes more obvious.

3. Breaking the 2 assumptions I listed makes spacefaring life more common not less. By this I mean we only really need to consider a million light years (of light cone) because of the speed of light. If FTL or even time travel were possible, then you need to consider a volume of spacetime orders of magnitude larger.
There is a federally funded widespread trial, but they take a while to do correctly: https://www.nih.gov/research-training/medical-research-initi...

There was also a federally funded trial of hydroxychloroquine last year which has since concluded: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-halts-clin...
not that long time ago I wrote this on HN

>but what's the point of watching(/reading) news? why bother?

>It's poor deal, it's not worth.

>Just because I may learn some small things that probably do not affect me directly and additionally receive some news that make my mood worse due to hearing some yet another negative news about bad stuff / politics / yada yada, what's the point?

>80% of the news I read is HN and some programming related websites and whenever I jump into "mainstream" media, then I feel like I'm reading some shit - click baits, tragedies, controversial stuff, drama seeking, celebrities

>it's irrelevant for me

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27433589

now, if I just managed to drop HN and Reddit then I'd be free

I guess I'd have to change career.
For more background and related material, look at Hansons blog[0] or the dedicated website[1].

[0]: https://www.overcomingbias.com/?s=aliens

[1]: https://grabbyaliens.com/
I'm going to make what is probably a controversial statement, which is that, in my experience, most meta-analyses are trash.

A meta-analysis is usually grounded on the assumption that an aggregation of multiple, well-conducted studies can provide significant information that may not be evident by taking each study individually. Essential to this assumption is the premise that those studies included in the meta-analysis be scientifically rigorous in themselves. Unfortunately, this is almost never the case. The great utility of the meta-analysis in the clinical literature is such that there have emerged a series of standards for how to conduct such analyses, such as controlling for bias, controlling for variability, etc. These seldom include actual assessment of the scientific quality of the studies, as this is harder to standardize. Consequently, there is a preponderance of meta-analyzes that come to conclusions that are simply not justified, because the studies themselves were not scientifically rigorous.

I believe this applies to the situation of ivermectin, and it just so happens that this is the thrust of the point raised in the Nature article cited here.
As the world gets crazier, people consume more news about it. I'd been talking to a smarter person than myself about this topic, and he observed that the causality may be in the other direction. That idea makes some sense. I know that, in my life, worrying too much and too intensely about something makes me edgy and drive me down cul-de-sacs. It's not unbelievable to me that something like that could happen on the scale of a whole culture, and if it did, it might look a lot like the world we're living in.
I wonder how much of this is in response to what Archer Aviation are doing with their Maker aircraft? It looks very similar in specs.

https://www.archer.com/maker
> The major paper that drove most of this situation, and the meta analysis, appears to have been a straight up fraud.

Umm, wat?!

The vast majority of the studies about Ivermectin have been observational, run by front-line clinicians.

Prior to 2020, basically everyone on earth agreed (including the WHO, who STILL agrees) that front-line clinicians and observational studies are excellent signals that can lead to scientific investigations that can lead to medical breakthroughs.

The evidence for IVM as a treatment for covid (and many other viruses) is quite strong.

There is, no, no large-scale RCT for IVM. However, it is inherently obvious that none will happen, none that give it a fair shake.

The entire public health apparatus in the West has a huge desire to treat all illness with only on-patent, new medications.

Do you not thin that this incentive influences what gets into the news?

Do you think the public health authorities in Uttar Pradesh (https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/lucknow/uttar-prade...) are lying?
What a twist it would be if Andrew Left goes from GameStop villain to prophetic Evergrande hero all within a year :)
I make it a point not to comment unless I’ve at least skimmed the article. Even if my comment, or more often, the comment I’m replying to, has little to do with the OP. However, I do often use the comment section as a heuristic for whether an article is “worth” my time.

Unrelated to your question: IMO _folks_ makes a friendly, genderless, drop-in replacement for _guys_ in most cases when addressing mixed (or potentially mixed) audiences. Granted, it can come off a little, well, “folksy” but I’d rather skew folksy than potentially offensive/exclusive.
Time to pressure vendors to seek RYF certification.
> Bootcamp on a MAC is real hit or miss when it comes to Linux.

Dual booting on any hardware is nuts if you ask me, pick an OS and use VMs. If you really have to have a native OS but hate it so much you wont use it the rest of the time stick it on a different machine.
We should be up in arms over this. But we should also be up in arms over Apple's "CSAM" plans.

Surveillance doesn't belong on our devices. Period.

Once it's in, the dictators can clamp down even harder. Over time, freedom atrophies and the window slides closer to totalitarian control.

Don't invite the devil in. Scream it away.
Most of innovation is done in the US? Where did you get this from? That's plain wrong.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Innovation_Index

And why tf would you think innovation is the only driver in well-being of a society? How about something like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index
The "horse dewormer" aspect is definitely a red herring, while the underlying problem is the choice to self-medicate based on culture war status of vaccines vs. talk-show-host-endorsed drugs. And the inevitable overdoses resulting from that. The media is not wrong to discourage this type of self-medication.

But access to the vaccines here is free and widespread now, so while we could talk all day about problems with access to health care in this country, it doesn't apply here. People may be choosing to distrust the vaccines and thus triggering a shortage of beds and treatment that they themselves will later need.
iMessage is the ultimate lock-in. Both sides of my family use iMessage, so anyone switching off iPhone becomes the black sheep by splitting off the family thread. And it sucks because it is wholly a political decision by Apple not to add android support.

But besides that, I bought a Pixel 5a for testing of android apps. While the experience is majorly improved over my last android experience...it just feels wrong. Animations are not consistent across apps. Swipe actions sometimes follow your finger, sometimes they don't. I thought widgets would be better...but wow are they ugly out of the box. Yes I am aware you can customize everything, but I really don't want to spend hours figuring all that out when I can just have sane defaults. I feel like looking at screenshots you can say that android and iOS are very similar, but that leaves out the most important part of a touch only device - the interactions with content on screen.
Although it has more dangers than ivermectin, why shouldn't you have access to ketamine if you feel it helps you? A lot of people believe it has off-label benefits for their mental health, and maybe it does.

Perhaps we just have different general perspectives on the individual and society.
It's unfortunate but I think "communities of color" are the new "think of the children". It will be used to masquerade motivations under the guise of the social justice flavor of the decade ultimately undermining the true good that could come from these thoughts.
It's nice to have it as open hardware, but the features need to also be practical and low resolution is a deal breaker for e-readers. Higher resolution and larger EPDs are still hideously expensive, but I wonder if there would be suitable transflective/reflective LCDs that could be viable e-reader displays. Battery consumption would be much worse, but what you don't spend feeding e-inks monopoly, you can spend in brains, storage and battery.
> vaccine availability, COVID related restrictions

But those are not even “news” (not in the modern sense anyway), they are, well… information.
Doubts:

- Is it better/faster/more compatible than anbox?

- Runs on ARM?

- Does it allows me to watch DRM streaming services on my linux box?

- Can I install google play on it?
Feel free to actually read the article, it covers this.
Yep, everybody thought the war would be a quick affaire. And an unavoidable at that, so most major powers wanted the war for various reasons.
I looked a while back, and it seems that most books on the topic fall into one or the other of two categories:

1. Really old, and really expensive

or

2. Somewhat modern, and also pretty expensive

FWIW, here's an Amazon List on this topic that I put together a while back. Looks like there are one or two that can be had for fairly cheap, if used copies are acceptable.

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1ZGZWA01QFE1V?ref_=wl_...

I wound up snagging a couple off of a pirate e-book site but haven't had time to really dig into the whole thing yet.
>I did not enjoy it when adults spoke differently to me than they spoke to each other.

Seeing the Mr Rogers documentary that came out a few years ago, I realized that he basically spoke the same with everyone.
Cataloging seems to give a dispassionate connotation to the whole thing. Shitting all over dead people is not really dispassionate and at one point in recent time would universally be reviled. This is like westboro baptist church levels of inappropriate.