skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh dear. I really don't care what Fox News does. It is very sad to me that this passes as an argument for you. I don't care to speculate on the motivations of a giant corporation. It's also not even true that Fox is "anti vax" - you can find videos of Sean Hannity and the like imploring their audience to get vaccinated. Fox, like all media, makes an enormous portion of its ad revenue from pharmaceutical companies. So you're not even right on your characterization of Fox's stance. Fox is largely pro-vaccine. Trump is pro-vaccine. All the mainstream republicans are pro-vaccine. And none of this is at all relevant, so why are we wasting time talking about it?

I already said (in the comment you directly replied to) why I personally am not getting vaccinated against COVID. I don't understand where your rambling diatribe about Fox News comes from. I gather that you might be a binary thinker that thinks that everyone fits into a red or blue, left or right, democrat or republican, etc box?

> People are opposed to being vaccinated because of a coordinated media campaign put out by elements in the mainstream media

This is an unfounded assertion. And also simply not true BTW, at least for all of the unvaccinated people (myself included) that I know in my personal life.
The mere suggestion that covid came out of a lab was banned by youtube, and downvoted by Reddit and HN heavily at the time. You were considered a crazy person. Now its the leading theory. It shows how fast people listen to authoritarians in desperate times despite common sense lingering in the background. That phenomenon has led to terrible events in the past and carries forward today. If someone says you cant discuss/debate something be suspicious.
Companies like money too much and won't pay for something they already get for free. Ye of too much faith.
> No, I'm genuinely asking you. Do you know?

You're asking me to research something there's no evidence of? No, I'm not aware nor have I ever heard of this being a thing until now.

> Oh you can? Do you have a background in immunology?

No, but I took more than one statistics class in undergrad which is enough for me to make decisions I'm comfortable with.

> That people are freely allowed to discuss with their doctors. Why on earth anyone expects to get medical advice from a for profit entertainment website is beyond me.

Using your own point, doctors do not have a background in immunology. So I'm not allowed to read and interpret medical papers, but the same logic doesn't apply to a medical practitioner who has nearly zero formal education in medical research. Which is it?

> I absolutely think we need to discuss this topics in a meaningful way

I apologize for misinterpreting your comment, but in my defense, it's fairly confusing as to what point you're trying to make. On the one hand you say that you support "discussion of these topics in a meaningful way." On the other hand, you criticize me for desiring to read medical papers in an attempt to make informed decisions. You even go so far as to suggest I should blindly listen to my community college grad MP when it comes to medical advice. Which by the way, this is the same person that got me hooked on PPIs when I had GERD which is now causing joint issues and then tried to feed me opiates when I started experiencing said joint issues.
This was such a joy to read. I rarely read every line of a long article. I just sift through the longer articles and this wasn't the case. It is written in a very interesting way, describing the -- past, known issues, and the solution. Kudos to the team behind this implementation, the original author, and the people who put forth this blog post!
Are people mad about censorship on YouTube also mad about all the censorship that occurs on this site? Stuff gets deleted and manipulated by the mods all the time.
Came here to say the same!

I see your link proposes and condones illegal behavior! Similar to Montana vehicle registration sites. Sure, completely legal in Montana. Not in your home state though. It's one thing to know about it and take the risk, it's another for the service provider to actively push it on you. I do wonder what percent of California real estate (tax) fraud is going on with Nevada LLCs.

> it is recommended that you maintain "Nominee Services" so that you do not subject your company to taxation or registration in the State where the "Management" is resident. Most states consider a company to be "operating" in the State from which it is "Managed".
Care to think about the vaccinated health workers who get breakthrough infection and transfer it to their unvaccinated daughter who had to get a lung transplant? (real story from US)
Your timeline makes no sense. Theranos started falling apart in 2016 with charges being filed against Holmes in March 2018. MeToo started in October 2017 with the release of the Harvey Weinstein assault stories.

By the time MeToo started, Theranos had been sued by investors, Walgreens, and CMS. Additionally, Holmes was banned from running labs and Theranos had failed many inspections with severe penalties. Theranos was all but dead by the time MeToo took off.

What really happened (according to my recollection of reading Bad Blood) is that Holmes never really connected with the medical community. Anyone with any domain expertise knew her tech claims were impossible. She used her personal connections to generals, politicians, and wealthy individuals to spin this web of lies and keep raising money. Most of the Silicon Valley Investor elite had nothing to do with Theranos.

I really dislike your interpretation of events. Not only because it makes no sense with the actual history but you play on stereotypes & generalizations to make a point. Tech certainly needs more female founders but you're not helping by twisting what really happened.

1) https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/ct-me-too-timeline...

2) https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/07/tech/elizabeth-holmes-therano...
Obligatory: "Two *** at the same time." (Office Space, 1999)
There is nothing "secret" about the challenges of turning energy into hydrogen and then back into heat or electricity. The challenges of each step along the energy chain are pretty well understood.

You make the naive assumption that you temporarily storing hydrogen in a tank with 1.3mm thick walls that needs to last for, at most, a couple of days, has any relevance for permanent energy installations.

If you are going to argue for an energy storage technology you have to consider what it would actually look like in practice. And since you only want to consider one part of the chain: I suggest you look into what it takes to safely store hydrogen in a vehicle and how this compares to your naive belief that hydrogen behaves like liquids that you have an intuitive understanding of. (Spoiler: you'd have a hard time convincing authorities to let you drive around traffic with a 1.3mm thick tank in the back of your car).

Then again, I don't think you want to actually know anything about this. I think you only want to argue and you are annoyed that someone called you out.
I did. Too much bud threw my grammar aside. Corrected.
Name three.

I can't think of a single society in the history of the planet that "saw the world in interconnection and lived in an ecologically balanced way". It would be hard, given that it's only for about a 100 years that we actually have any clue about ecological balance, and have both biological knowledge and theoretical tools[0] to think about the environment as a whole.

Known groups were usually expanding as much as they could and strip-mining their immediate environment, and their main limits were manpower and wars with other groups.

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[0] - Such as feedback loops, courtesy of cybernetics, and calculus underlying it.
On the other hand, if we as a society think the ethical floor is too low, we can pass laws that raise that floor - and companies will be bound to follow it.
It's not just Reddit.

One of the tragedies of the Internet is that it deprives people of the opportunity to see the faces of everyone in the room when someone's talking. In real life, you can see that two people are loudly arguing and the other eight people in the room are looking at each other uncomfortably, or wandering away and congregating in a different room. On the Internet, you're not even aware of anyone but the hotheads, so it's all too easy to forget that they exist, and come to believe that their opinions are normal.

Which, since nobody likes to feel like they're the only one who thinks a certain way, probably does end up discouraging people from having moderate opinions over the long run.
...I wish I knew. It's really hard to tell what other people believe at a fundamental level, and there's certainly a humorous undertone to nearly all flat-earth evangelism I've encountered. But what's telling is that I've pretended to be a flat earther myself when mocking climate sceptics. In terms of the basic trust in many other people OR basic competence in the realm of physics required not to hold a belief, climate change scepticism and round-earth scepticism actually seem fairly close to me. And I'm sure there are sincere climate sceptics.

Flat-earthism is a noncontroversial and extreme example of a belief that gets less believed when its proponents have the full benefit of free speech, but I think there are many more like it.
He said that masks wouldn't be helpful march 08 2020. A month layer New York had a thousand detected covid deaths a day, so people really should have started to wear masks march 08 2020 since deaths lags infections by about a month. If they were giving proper advice instead of telling people that covid wasn't a big deal at the time then maybe that disaster could have been averted from the start? At the time the dangers of covid spread was well documented based on how quickly it got into Italy, but at the time it was the democrat party line to downplay the disease to avoid racism against the Chinese so that was the line Fauci took.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/preventing-coronavirus-facemask...

> "There's no reason to be walking around with a mask," infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci told 60 Minutes.

> While masks may block some droplets, Fauci said, they do not provide the level of protection people think they do. Wearing a mask may also have unintended consequences: People who wear masks tend to touch their face more often to adjust them, which can spread germs from their hands.
'lasagna code' as a description of writing redux is a good one
The ancient technique of reasoning from first principles: a hack for creativity
This was something I helped with recently, as a great case study. We launched a new website for our game studio recently and went all-out on supporting modern compressed images: AVIF and WebP with PNG fallback.

The header image for this page was a doozy: https://uplift.games/about/

Originally, the image came from art with the glow around the planet being dithered. The resulting PNG was over 2 MB, resisted crushing, and didn't downscale well. Trying to use AVIF and WebP with aggressive compression made the image look awful.

We asked if they could remove the dithering and suddenly we got super great compression with some tweaking: 50 kB as AVIF, 68 kB as WebP, 797 kB as PNG (oof!)

This is a large banner image. Smaller images can get _much_ smaller with AVIF and WebP with no sacrifice of quality. It takes some tweaking and the tools were pretty bad in my experience. We wrote a couple utilities to do this and fiddled with knobs for awhile and it turned out great.

EDIT: Looking at this page again closely, I can see interesting artifacts because of AVIF. Look at the robo-dog's left ear! You could probably use slightly higher settings than we did.
We get through life by reasoning with analogies, which essentially means doing what other people do with slight variations. As a species this has worked well for us. Using beliefs and prior knowledge has worked well. Why change that on the individual level?
When the "good speech" has devolved into dunking on people with social media posts using fax and logic, I can see why it no longer works as a counter to bad speech.

Confirmation bias is a helluva drug. It encourages people to agree with those they like and disagree with those they don't. Sometimes those biases can be overcome with time and patient reasoning but in the hyper-connected, engagement-driven world of social media that rarely happens. In-group/out-group preference kicks in and people start defending those in their group against attacks of character, lending a false sense of legitimacy to their ideas - the ideas born of confirmation bias instead of logic. At a large enough scale, this results in a social divide perpetuated by echo chambers.
> My job has no business in my health records. period.

You mean other than the health insurance they (hopefully!) provide you, right?

Even beyond that, the idea that the piece of cardboard that the CDC gave you constitutes meaningful (much less private) medical data about you is facile. Depending on the state you live in, your employer de facto has knowledge of your medical history: if you went to a public or private school in most US states, they were legally required to obtain proof of your vaccination against multiple diseases. The reason your job doesn't ask for that proof independently is because we've succeeded at lower levels in mandating it.

> also, i'm 100% wfh since before the pandemic started. I'm endangering no one at my workplace.

That's fine. But your workplace (presumably) isn't your only social sphere.

Edit: You're also (again, presumably) going to return to your workplace or travel on behalf of your employer at some point.
This works on my current version Android :-)
Much too simple for people so conditioned to crafting rule sets to solve problems.
Incivility in Open Source Code Review Discussions: A Characterization Study
is mosquitto clusterable nowadays? on its own or via k8s?

for:
* fault tolerance
* fail over
* vertical scalability?

does anyone know this? if not is there a another opensource mqtt broker which does that?
+1 I sincerely want to believe this is true. What information in September was enough to convince them, where they weren't convinced in August (when the vaccines got full FDA approval).

EDIT: According to [1] the "Wait and See" bucket is down to about 7% as of September. I'd really love to know what new information they are waiting for. Fascinating!

1: https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/poll-finding/kff-co...
Yep. Science is three things; space, time, field effects.

Human gossip is societies field effect.

A thing may be true but politics is obfuscating the importance.
All this does is justify the anti-vaccine activists.
Culture flows down from the top.
> What’s going on with Android ecosystem that old phone support is hard?

It's not a single thing it's a bunch of things on the list of which is.

Hardware manufacturers customised android for their handsets meaning that updates are only viable from them, they only care about 18mths after they stop making a model.

Google in wanting everyone to use their handsets let them get away with pulling stuff like above - android didn't win because it was technically better it won because it was "free" and "made" by Google.

Shitty drivers.

Once Google had the market mostly sown up they did circle back and attempt to fix this with AndroidOne https://www.android.com/intl/en_uk/one/ which attempts to establish a baseline compatibility so that you do get updates for longer.

I won't buy a phone that isn't AndroidOne at this point full stop.
I have trouble seeing how “vaccination always offers stronger protection than getting the virus” could be equivalent to “getting the virus plus vaccination always offers stronger protection than getting the virus”. But anyway you made a clearer claim this time around:

> The argument being made is that because someone got infected with COVID, they should not need to get a vaccine because natural immunity provides better protection, which is clearly false per the CDC.

That link and the study it cited did not compare natural immunity to vaccine protection, since every participant had been previously infected with COVID. That is inherent in the fact that the study examined reinfection, and they are clear that the vaccination occurred after the original infection. You can not compare two populations when one of them does not exist in your study!
Who said anything about a virus?
> In the 19th century, Ignaz Semmelweis claimed that hand washing was a way to improve hygiene and communicable disease. If Google had existed in 1847, his claims would have been censored since they went strongly against the scientific consensus.

Was there an established practice of peer-reviewed research back in 1847? My understanding is that the scientific community evolved that system because it helps reduce the potential for errors and makes it easier to trust the research.

> Most of us with a STEM education spent years learning about example after example of a great scientist or whistleblower that was scorned by the medical or scientific community, and it turned out that countless lives could have been saved if people had kept a more open mind.

"Open mind" and "communicating responsibly" are not mutually exclusive.

> I am greatly disappointed in anyone who claims to be educated but thinks that censorship is acceptable in a free society.

I am just as disappointed in anyone who thinks that requiring responsible communication is the same as censorship.
They still use enough of the public commons to be held to account.
Breakthrough case here. Clinic said that's all they've been seeing recently, dozens per day.

One thing I've never understood is why the vaccinated care so much about what he unvaccinated are doing?

Vaccinated people still carry viral loads so it's either how it affects you personally or your compassion for the enhanced vulnerability of the unvaccinated. Based on the toxic rhetoric towards the unvaccinated it seems to me the former.

You've done everything within your control to protect yourself so why do you feel the need to have an opinion on their bodily choices?
Could we popularize versions of popular open source licenses (MIT, LGPL, etc) for which commercial entities with positive revenue are required to donate X amount?
Check out the latest episode from Huberman Labs regarding dopamine peaks and maintenance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmOF0crdyRU
Also an earlier one about addiction, good tips to apply here or similar situations.

And it's OK to take some time off and switch to other activities, while your brain replenishes your desire to work on the background. I did, for a couple of months. I was actually in the same spot as you and the guy from another post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28684502), even thought I was getting some sort of early dementia, as my memory was also affected.

The unable to start or keeping are also signs of burnout and ADHD. You could try asking others in your team to give you some extra hand-holding, motivation or accountability. Some bumps in the road are solvable with a bit of encouragement, but it's hard to open up given that delivering what they ask from you is the expected thing.

Sometimes even when you want to proactively tackle on these matters, it's a process that takes a while. That rejection you feel right now is totally common, and it's could be a sign that you should stop trying for now, it doesn't mean that you won't like it / be able to do it in the future, just a protection mechanism from your body overreacting.
This is a high-power study with N in the hundreds of thousands.

"Statistically insignificant" is the same as "no reason to believe it is true".
I know this thread is 4 days old, but in the interest of utility if you search up "bypass oculus quest facebook ADB" you can find some handy guides to skipping the facebook login requirement to allow running sideloaded apps only.

The device has not yet been rooted though, so the bounty hasn't paid out.
Considering the pay that they were offering me was already pretty bottom-of-the-barrel for the local area, maybe, maybe not.
tailscale and zerotier are software-based solutions.

Cloudflare is rolling out physical lines directly to offices (like ISPs do, for ex https://www.tatacommunications.com/solutions/).
The right metrics: Set yourself up for success
There's a lot of research papers that I found, but nothing hardware generic unfortunately.

Hand tracking is a difficult beast especially, and we would like to just use the new Ultraleap module for that, but they don't support Linux yet.

Eye tracking is relatively simple because it's a closed/controlled environment. Just some IR LEDs, an IR camera, and some edge detection and math.

SLAM (positional tracking) has a lot of different approaches . There's open source software, but it's generally running on a normal computer and that's not particularly efficient (especially with our GPU already loaded). Some research papers use a FPGA, but the code is rarely available so you just have a starting point.

You could probably crib the software from DepthAI or similar? We could implement the AI coprocessor they're using and adapt the code. I haven't looked closely enough yet to see whether that's a good use of resources.
A dishonest company in other ways too. They sent drivers and riders misleading information about any local attempts to regulate them in the slightest.

When they first launched UberX in DC, I called them out for a price comparison of Taxi vs UberX that couldn't possibly be true. They quietly changed the blog post and marketing materials shortly after.
I’m not sure if you are familiar with Stop-loss [1] but it’s been used to some extent in pretty much every conflict over the last 30 years to keep people serving involuntarily.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop-loss_policy
I also wish companies would just adopt the even simpler solution: just "donate" developer resources to a project that that engineer thinks is cool.

If the tech giants would budget N days per month for developers to contribute to projects they like, I think that would a) help morale, and b) help the open source world.
If you are counting THC and CBD extracts as part of it's medical benefits, they are fairly wide.
"I think the "Mix SSD vendors/batch numbers" is a hold over from the very early days of SSDs where a handful of people get seriously slimed by having 90%~ of their same-brand-same-batch drives in a single machine fail at once due to some SSD batch failure."

I want to clarify - there's the issue of a bad batch wherein their longevity is greatly reduced and they fail in a cluster, etc., etc.

But that is not what we are guarding against ...

Instead, the risk we're thinking about is that there is an actual bug in the firmware that causes a particular workload to brick the drive or destroy it or whatever.

The critical point is that if the drives are mirrored then they experience an identical workload over their lifespan and they could fail literally simultaneously.

So by all means - do indeed guard against bad batches or manufacturing defects by mixing drives. Just understand we're talking about something slightly different here ...
I didn't get this vibe. I read through like 3 or 4 pagaraphs and money was never mentioned.
Another attempt at this business model post-Gratipay is Tidelift https://tidelift.com/
You're coming into this pretty hot and it seems like you've fast-forwarded a few exchanges into a conversation that hasn't happened. It's going to difficult to exhibit empathy in that circumstance.