skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's take a step back and start with this: I've noticed many people refusing to get the vaccine because pharmaceutical companies legally cannot be held liable for any side effects that the vaccines cause. Can you not see how many people may not like this? Especially with some of these companies being directly responsible for the opioid crisis going on right now and not receiving due justice? Telling people "doesn't matter, get the jab, trust in Science" isn't a solution to this.
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4GB mem.....? Really 4GB? That's it?

Would it really have been that bad to at least offer a 8GB, 16GB, or 32GB Memory upgrade.

Just feels like a huge let down. I get it the price of electronics(i.e. memory) is more expensive, but this makes it look like a joke in comparison with other "phones".

And if it were marketed as a mini computer 4GB of ram isn't saying much. Hexacore processor, 128GB Emmc storage awesome but then I read 4GB of ram and it's like a smack in the face. If this is to be a "flagship" for years to come, I'm really disappointed they went with limited memory.

Would I pay $699 instead of $399 for more memory... yeah I would
For some reason it won't let me reply to your newer message, there just is no reply button at all, very strange, anyway, putting my reply to your second message here.

Thanks so much for the info! I don't ever do calls on whatsapp, so this sounds absolutely amazing for me! I also see that I can bridge in slack as well so now all the sudden I may be able to bridge all my work stuff into one matrix instance and remove those apps I hate from my phone?!?!?!?! At least from an initial thought process this sounds amazing.

I don't run any linux servers at home, so I suppose if I got a hosted instance of a matrix server I could see if I could successfully bridge in these other things and give it a try. Thank you so much!
Why would we be hardwired for that? People for milennia have understood human beings are hardwired to "sin" and to be covetous and deceitful and it was through exercise (spiritual, mental, whatever you call it) and discipline and fear of being held accountable for our actions in this life that we would overcome our base (called base for a reason) desires.
Godspeed to you!
The one piece of this that might end up costing a ton of money is the testing using live soldiers. Each of those deployments, along with all the heavy equipment is a lot of money.
I saw they already have 80k hours of soldier feedback, so in part, that's where some of the money goes. The rest, of course, is figuring out how to make the HoloLens light and reliable, which no one has ever done.
Idk, this could be a huge money pit. The Army has tried this idea before and failed. Now might be the time, or this could be another JSF spending fiasco. Either way, MSFT is doing well.
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If you love being exploited by the ultra rich why dont you just move to Russia and let the rest of us at least try to avoid the social media brainscramble.
Ultimately you don’t want to save the 125 kids a year. That’s fine. But that’s the active choice you’re making by choosing no FAANG over FAANG plus donate.
You mean the helm-package you installed without reading the documentation? Hate the player, not the game.
Thank you for the detailed write up! I love finding an out about cool language feature/tools
An important corollary to this is that monopolies should be isolated rather than integrated.

Suppose we say the municipal water system is a natural monopoly, so we're going to have the government do it.

Well, then the head of the municipal water system should be an elected position, so that if they're screwing it up, people can vote the bums out without having to remove a mayor or governor who might otherwise be doing a good job on some other issues and therefore be hard to remove.

That's the biggest problem with federal elections. Each party does a different set of terrible things and you can't vote against one set of failures without voting for the other one when everything is integrated.
> energy intensive

Yes, but this means your variable input costs are proportional to your sales price.
> I think the “vaccinated individuals can have high viral loads” line is particularly bad

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.28.21264262v...

https://www.ucdavis.edu/health/covid-19/news/viral-loads-sim...

How is a statement about what some researchers are finding "particularly bad"? If vaccinated individuals routinely have viral loads as high as those seen in unvaccinated individuals, it warrants more research into how the virus affects their bodies and what, if any, risks they might face both short term and long term.

According to one study[1], vaccination reduces the risk of long COVID by 49%. Given that some studies have found the incidence of long COVID is in the double digit percentages[2], exploring this issue is not purely academic. It is pertinent to the hundreds of millions of vaccinated individuals who are still at risk of infection, even if their risk of hospitalization and death has been significantly reduced.

Science works when we ask and investigate important questions. It doesn't work when we ignore these questions because we're afraid of the optics and how they might be misconstrued by some people.

In fact, when it comes to COVID generally, it seems evident to me that shying away from difficult questions has had the opposite of the intended effect. It has probably caused more people to adopt anti-science views and reject beneficial measures like vaccination.

[1] https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2021-09-02/...

[2] https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/more-than-one-thir...
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The railroad example would be solved by forming a single-purpose clearing house business to distribute the tolls, collected by the origin or destination carrier, among all the rail providers on the route. It's the same process in banking --- you can deposit a check drawn on any bank, and a clearing house process routes the funds. It's the same in public stock trading, you can use any brokerage, but almost all shares are owned by Cede & Co on the corporate books.

You can split out payment and address retention easily: paypal and amazon both offer 3rd party checkout systems. If we're trustbusting Amazon, force that to be an independent company, offered on FRAND terms to all.

I think you could probably seperate into three business the fulfilment included marketplace consignment store from the merchant fulfilled marketplace consignment store from the sold by amazon store. Although, since two of those share facilities, it might be a little tough. Perhaps, splitting off the store from the inventory makes more sense --- if Amazon is just one of the marketplace vendors and the marketplace is a separate entity, that eliminates some of the unfair practices (require marketplace vendors to share sources, contract sources directly to undercut marketplace vendors).

You could also split off warehouses off into individual or regional baby-bell style corporations; vendors could send to whichever warehouses they like, the marketplace could choose which warehouse to use to fulfill orders, each warehouse could be reasonably independent.

Shipping/delivery could clearly be made independent. AWS, too.

I think the point of trustbusting is not necessarily to eliminate monopoly or dominant businesses, it's to reduce the scope of the monopoly such that dominance in one area doesn't become dominance in more areas. If there's a single purpose marketplace corporation, it may be dominant, but if it's prevented from controlling warehousing, shipping, and inventory, there's more room in those areas. After the breakup, you can still come back and do more to address the smaller areas, if they prove to be problematic under the new system.
How performant are video calls in Firefox on the Pinephone? (Or Pinebook Pro for that matter?)

Last I tried zoom with 4 people on my PBP, it was stutter city.
That is an extremely cool device! The form factor seems to fit the bill, or at least come very close to it.
it is a sample. It's just not an unbiased sample [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample_(statistics)#Kinds_of_s...
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We all have nuclear weapons, why do we need rifles and infantry? This narrative is total BS. Is the goal to waste money today in order to be able to waste even more money later on countries like Iraq and Afganistan? We've seen what those rifles are used for... These rifles would be more useful to society if politicians would just shove them up their ***!
> (I have other controversial opinions like GraphQL is the new XML SOAP)

Wow, that is a funny observation haha, hope to see a post expounding on that idea on HN someday
"some quick googling"? Do better than this.
Prime content for /r/im14andthisisdeep right here. It easily cost microsoft more than $1MM just to put together the proposal alone, much less fight for it in front of technical audits and careful scrutiny of every part of the project. Did you not read the article, which made clear just how much scrutiny is being applied to this deal? Do you think someone can just hand out a million dollar check and be given $22B of work without being qualified?
Sorry if I'm Mx-splaining -- I don't know your background, but I'm interested in/working on this stuff.

Your crumpled space-filling surface makes me think of manifolds.

Machine-learning researchers often speak loosely of e.g. the "manifold"* of possible images of naturalistic scenes embedded within the space of all possible images. The networks are presumably learning a lower-dimensional representation of the world than the dimension of all possible combinations of sense impressions. If you have a 100 pixel by 100 pixel image and each pixel can have 256 intensity levels, then that's 256 to the power of ten thousand possible distinct images. If each image is a point in an abstract space of all possible images, then that space has 256 to the ten thousand dimensions. But the vast, vast, vast majority of the volume of that space corresponds to images that just look like static to humans. So the thinking is that we internally represent images as some learned non-linear transformation to a much lower dimensional set of features that actually correspond to stuff we experience / see.

A really simple canonical example is the Swiss Roll dataset. You only need two parameters (numbers) to specify it fully, but you can embed it (nonlinearly) in a 3D space. http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~dinoj/manifold/swissroll.html

In terms of neuroscience, there are competing ideas (as always). There's a body of work that tries to show that as we learn, the brain encodes our high-dimensional sense-impressions in the lowest possible (most efficient) internal representations. However, some recent work seems to imply that instead the brain uses as high a dimension as possible, but up to some limit that demarcates the transition between being differentiable and not differentiable. They found a beautiful power-law: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/374090v1.full

* When ML researchers speak of such a manifold, it's kind of loosey-goosey because a set that includes isolated points that don't have a continuous region around them aren't actually manifolds. In contrast, in the computer graphics and meshing literature people speak of non-manifold geometry which is isolated points and lines that you can't triangulate with 2d or 3d elements. I.e. 1d or 0d elements.
Could you give federal level US examples to this that aren’t opt-in contact tracing? (Genuine question because perhaps I’m missing a major news event)

If anything I’ve felt my privacy increase. Masks are finally normalized. What’s more private then covering half your face and not being weird for being the only person doing it? Ive walked by people I know and don’t even recognize them. If you look back at the Capitol Rioters think of how many were identified by not covering their face. I also recall the Hong Kong protestors years ago using masks & face paint to obscure themselves from facial recognition systems.
Likely not. The Django admin is very much tied to its ORM. That's what makes it so easy to get working.
No, because any pretty much any work done for one device will help the other since they are mainline devices.
Sure, but then isn't this just a "disability tax"? (I'm aware that the word disability is antiquated and not perfect here, but for the sake of being concise, this is what I wrote).

The need for this app is a problem. Insurance should cover the cost of treatment (and insurance should be affordable and available; for transparency: I'm pro medicare for all, here in the US).

Start ups have a bad habit of taking a systemic problem and trying to monetize a solution to it. In reality, the effort being put into this should be put, instead, toward making systemic changes that would make this app unneccessary.
In uncharted territory, one can believe that vaccines are likely to make a positive contribution and also opt-out from using the vaccine until more data is collected. It's called "precautionary principle".

Generally speaking the gap between conservative and liberal vaccine uptake can be more charitably explained by the observation that conservative people score less on the big five Openness scale. No need to turn it into a partisan fight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precautionary_principle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openness_to_experience

https://www.economist.com/democracy-in-america/2012/05/21/th...
I was gonna say the same thing except for reviews of recipes in comment sections. I made this chili recipe but didn't have tomatoes so I used ketchup and I didn't have beef so I used lobster tail, it was disgusting. 1 star.
I hear you both. I'm new to Linux, and when the Pinephone said it was for "advanced Linux users" I figured "how hard can it be?". I bought one and 24 hours later decided to pass it on. Turns out they really do mean "advanced"!

> This is the Beta Edition of the PinePhone. The pre-installed Manjaro with Plasma Mobile OS, that ships with this edition of the PinePhone, is a beta software build. This effectively means that while core functionality of the PinePhone still an ongoing effort. Thus, the device cannot considered a consumer-ready product.
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tbh I think Pine has been extremely, excessively clear about this being the expected state of their phones. It's stated over and over on almost every page that the software is incomplete and not suitable for most people, it's primarily a developer target to try to achieve that over the span of years.
My iPhone 12 (4 GB RAM) is usually faster than my Windows PC (16 GB, Ryzen 2600).
Also, among other things, laser guided airburst 40mm grenades make trenches not a great option.
I like the font :D, and I like that red color too so I use it everywhere. Also to keep things simple
I mean, web development is kinda like that 40 year guy who feels "in" using Facebook. As an industry it's 25 years old and approaching maturity. The author cites Node and TypeScript as where the cool kids are, but that was where the cool kids were 8 years ago.

The cool kids today are into cryptocurrencies, AI, and robotics. Even there, some of the frameworks you probably think of bleeding edge are already losing mindshare. TensorFlow is giving way to JAX, Bitcoin already gave way to Ethereum which is itself getting eclipsed by Algorand, Cardano, and Solana.
It's projection because you may hate being wrong, but some people like learning the truth no matter what they believed before.

I guess you can continue to deny this kind of person exists; but it doesn't really matter what you think.
Yes, but the evidence thus far is that deplatforming is pretty effective, especially in the short term— which matters for time-sensitive things like getting everyone vaccinated:

- https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/06/deplatforming-works-this-n...

- https://www.vice.com/en/article/bjbp9d/do-social-media-bans-...

- https://theconversation.com/does-deplatforming-work-to-curb-...
That is the limit for the rk3399 SoC. I'm surprised they did not wait for the rk3588, or just use a Mediatek Dimensity SoC.

If you are based in Europe, you may be interested in the Fairphone 4, which has 6 or 8 GB of RAM.
Not as depressing, as this thread being currently flagged on HN...
I've often said that being "agnostic" isn't a position on whether or not one believes in God. You can be agnostic theist, or agnostic atheist. But I no longer think that's accurate.

One reason people opt for it, which I find understandable, is owing to the popular connotations that atheism carries, not unlike theism. You can avoid having to explain "I'm not saying I know that God doesn't exist". But the qualifier is explicit. One needn't necessarily be certain whether they believe in a God or not and I don't think that's well represented by the term "atheist". By the same token I don't think Deism is anywhere near atheism-lite. It is explicit belief in a God with the caveat that it's irreligious.

I like the term "apatheism" because it also captures the way I feel about the question of whether God exists.
I'll take it off your hands and you can consider that a donation.
Antitrust law is law against being too powerful.
CFTC/FDIC/OCC/NYAG/Congress/all bank users: Collateral requirements for everything we regulate are like 4%. You need $4000 to trade with $100,000.

Also everyone: omg tether was not 100% collateralized by fiat dollars at all times, sometimes, but also not at all times!

I just feel like the arguments are weak. Tether was controversial because it was centralized at all and requires ongoing trust and its collateral is not verifiable except by the state's subpoenas. Then the argument moved to something much more .... tolerant of their existence but requires completely ignoring how all the rest of finance works to make it an issue with Tether. Strange. At this point I can acknowledge that the market can bear it. Tether, like everything non-crypto, are vulnerable to bank runs, and that works. If people actually wanted fiat, then Tether could be in trouble. But Tether users do not want fiat and redemptions barely occur. People don't want to accept the reality that Tether actually works as stated. Like if you just assume it works as described, using the investigations of multiple US agencies, then it makes sense! Tethers are created when people deposit fiat on Bitfinex, deposit directly with the Tether issuer, sometimes by Tether issuer when Tether trades at a premium (in exchange for other cryptos that are not dollars), and sometimes arbitrarily. But its better to assume the first 3 everytime a big tether print occurs, than to always assume the last one, because the formers are what all the US regulators and enforcement agencies have also found to have occurred most of the time. Not that hard. It is a trusted system, like everything else we are used to. They change their contract to reflect any deviation from 100% usd collateralization and that's not that controversial. Fractional systems also work. Ideology doesn't make something else suddenly not work.
I'm bookmarking this conversation as a remarkable example of how certain styles of communication are missed by a lot of people...probably the same phenomenon that obliges you to include "/sarc" lest you be obliged to entertain a long follow-up discussion.
I've noticed not only the local 7-11 PoS terminals now have embedded cameras, but also Home Depot's newer all-in-one computers at the self-checkout include an embedded camera.

It's obnoxious and rude. You wouldn't be OK with anyone shoving a camera point-blank in your face while doing business with them. That's exactly what these businesses are subjecting their in-person retail customers to.
Thank you. And yes Nomad List is also 99.9% hand built by me.
Preemption can happen even outside of system calls of course, but I guess my takeaway has been to just avoid calling into the system where a lot of things can happen that I don't really understand or control. That, plus setting my threads to high-priority and possibly pinning them to the right cores.
So is the primary problem JIRA or any ticketing system? My read on this is that measuring metrics from JIRA is a very slipery slope that usually leads to disaster, but I've also worked on teams where feature/stories were poorly researched and conversations about refining those features was a total cluster
Inflation does benefit people who are in debt (who are mostly in the bottom 20%), because it means that they can now pay back the money they previously borrowed with money that is now worth less. This is basically necessary for the modern economy to function, because without it (or some form of debt jubilee) the share of income allocated to repaying debts would approach 100%. On the other hand, prices tend to rise faster than wages, so too high inflation can be bad for the working class.
Facebook isn't doing anything new. This sort of phenomenon is something of a universal human experience. For example, "Keeping up with the Joneses" is a phrase that's been in the English language for at least a century. All social media does is crank its input gain as high as it will go.
Funny I could see anyone of people ive worked with coming up with some idea like this and saying “cool”.
Well, not literally, but spiritually.
I don't think you understand how science works. One study does not prove or disprove a hypothesis, especially on a highly politicized topic. Also, I made a general statement about parasitics being effective against covid because of similar mechanisms of action. I did not make a distinction on early disease very late-stage disease, including hospitalization, so I don't understand why you think that study disproves anything I said about general effectiveness.

To give you an example, here is one systematic review of hydroxychloroquine effectiveness with covid:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33042552/

Again, one study does not prove or disprove a hypothesis, but cherry-picking one study as evidence that my argument is wrong is certainly not how science works. However, it is interesting that hydroxychloroquine has been shown to work better in non-hospitalized or pre-hospitalized patients, which makes sense given covid's mechanism of action. The anti-parasitics essentially protect the red blood cells from infection, so I wouldn't be surprised if that is the reason why they may work better in non-hospitalized patients.

But...I don't have time to do a meta-analysis for people that aren't open to finding the truth, regardless of what political agenda the truth may support or not support.

Good luck to everyone so invested in proving or disproving each other's arguments. I've wasted enough time - now back to my work.
Mostly because its a NASA-ESA-CSA joint project. The JWST is jointly built by NASA-CSA. The ESA contribution is the launch vehicle.
"I’m at the point now where the greatest usability issue I run into is performance"

As someone who has used the latest iOS and Android, I can't agree. The performance of the Pinephone is indeed really terrible, but the usability in general is also awful. There are just way too many little details that are missing, most Linux apps are still not really built for touch. It will be a while before all the important apps are fully ported over to Qt Quick and libhandy/libadwaita, but maybe by then they will have made a few more revisions with a better CPU. And of course I expect desktop users to start complaining when that happens because some apps will start to get more mobile-oriented...
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Thanks for telling me about this (and sorry for the error)! It's working fine for me on ios but I'll have to look into firefox causing some issues
Not to nitpick but your post would stand on its own without the insult in the first sentence.