skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People should educate themselves about decentralization technologies. That's really the direction for resolving these issues. And the first thing you will realize when you start to study them is that in a way the name 'decentralization' is misleading because they are actually the best ways we know of to keep holistic systems. But we get that without the actual physical or organizational centralization and at the same time can use them in ways that are open to evolution.

And I know my comment will get buried but I am going to keep saying it. Just like I talked about remote work for years and had those comments downvoted before it suddenly became globally popular.
Certain drugs now, specifically hydroxycholorquin, ivermectin, and the vaccines, now have teams. One negative effect of this is that researchers are highly disincentivized from researching them once they have been picked up by a team, given the consequences of publishing results one team or the other doesn't like. The net effect is not just the manifested stuff like that in the article, but more importantly a chilling effect where only researchers who have an axe to grind take on the subject, resulting in bias and a feedback loop where distrust grows and polarization around the drug's efficacy continues.

It'd be fascinating if it wasn't so depressing.
> Office space vacancies in Calgary are nothing new. The economy will recover, people will forget the hard times, new buildings will go up and we'll do it all over again.

This mentality is why the current recession that started in 2015 hasn't turned around yet. The major oil and gas companies aren't coming back this time. It's time for the city to invest in something else instead of pandering to an industry that will drop them like a bad habit the moment the barrel drops below a certain price.
Of subjective reality yes.
There's also this somewhat new project called waydroid that runs android applications closer to the metal than an emulator would. https://waydro.id/
While "AWS Alternative" sets the bar really high, I've always thought that it'd be cool to have a coreutils for web stuff.

Things like weather, geo-ip, geocoding, translation, currency, basic signup forms, etc could well be an all-in-one single payment type thing.

It seems like this does a lot of that and I would focus branding around that part specifically. Running an s3-like and DB is also a much harder problem that there are good solutions for!

Will be giving it a try!
Can you provide a link to that post?
I've had the same issues along with it being a big drain on my laptop battery life.

Also it doesn't support touchpad gestures for forward and back navigation which as tiny of a hill that may seem to some is one I'm willing to die upon.
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I don't mean that they're equivalent, I mean that they're ways to avoid labelling yourself as an atheist when you're irreligious. They're like diet atheism. Something you can say to not feel completely alienated from religious culture.
Reference counting is usually very expensive, because even reading a variable updates the reference count, and ending a scope involves testing the reference count of every variable defined inside the scope and conditionally deallocating the referent.

Without reference counting, here's the end of a hairy function scope that deallocates 15 local variables and restores two callee-saved registers:

11a6: 48 83 c4 78 add $0x78,%rsp
11aa: 5b pop %rbx
11ab: 41 5e pop %r14
11ad: c3 retq

Now imagine looping over 15 local variables to decrement each reference count, test it, and do a conditional jump based on the result; if that's open-coded, your epilogue is humongous, and if it's in a reference-count-decrementing subroutine, it's going to have mispredicted branches all over the place, costing you maybe 15 cycles each, a total of about 100 cycles for this function. We're talking about adding an order of magnitude of cost to subroutine call, or more. (I think this function doesn't really need 15 local variables; that's the compiler's fault.)

This gets worse with multithreading, because writing to the same reference count on different cores would even in the best case require one core stealing the cache line from another in order to modify it, which may stall the core; but often even an atomic reference count increment is more expensive even than that because it involves a memory barrier.

Reference counting can become reasonably cheap if it's done at large granularity (filesystem files or COM objects, not conses); if you can elide almost all of the reference-count updates, as in Rust; or if your language runtime is just so dog-slow at everything that the extra cost of reference counting isn't that important, like CPython.

30 years ago or more, before generational GC had gone mainstream, reference counting was a more reasonable choice, because GC was going to be very slow in any case, and ref counting at least used less memory—especially important on machines without cache or virtual memory.

(Purely immutable (applicative) languages like Haskell and Miranda are usually lazy, since that's the payoff for completely abjuring side effects. But lazy evaluation is implemented at the machine level by mutation.)
This is how I would put it. Do you agree?

Pareto distribution is the norm, marked by brief transitional periods during which the people at the top of the pareto distribution change. These transition periods correlate strongly with wide-scale disasters such as war or plague.
I have lost someone few years back and still feel the loss. How to overcome/recover is up to the individual and there is no fixed time frame. But, its wise to acknowledge the loss and its a fact that people who passed away cannot be brought back. So, try to yoga/exercise and stay in a positive mood. I was under severe stress and exercising for around 2 hours a day helped a lot. Do not eat junk food to be in positive mood since that will only make you obese and unhealthy.
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Probably only if people chip in and help. I don't know much about this eco system, but it's my impression that most of the components are already there, including Android emulation, they just need more work.

Probably rewarding work, too.
Of course people publishing papers are responsible for the quality of the underlying data. If the data is bad, you don’t get to pretend it’s good. You write a paper describing how it is bad.
This is a non-answer making it sound like this is some complex problem you're grappling with. Do the ethical thing and make it opt-in. Stop relying on distracted forgetful people to be so distracted and forgetful that they give you money.
If its open source then packagers will do the job for me
Your app claims to help with OCD, however, unless your app uses Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), other forms of CBT are contraindicated for OCD treatment.

Can you explain succinctly how you help with OCD?
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Similar experience with a new PinePhone last week but different conclusion.

PinePhone is our only hope. It's still in Beta, months or years from being consumer ready. And that's just where it needs to be from a development standpoint. Don't rush.

That said, reading your comment I also wonder about having too many distros of Linux going after PinePhone. I had an SD card with I believe 14 distros. Doesn't that mean the core development is divided 14 times? It seems like combining together strengths would be beneficial.
I'm jumping into the part-time jobs niche: https://parttime.careers

I am building this because I don't want to work full-time. So I want to collect all the part-time jobs.

We'll see whether I can turn it into a successful business. Even if I got 10% of the revenue of Remote OK, I would be very happy. Haha.
This hit home for me. I'm not yet 40, but I'm not too far off. I was using Facebook in college back in 2005. My usage had been tapering off for a couple of years, and I I permanently closed my account about around late 2015. I haven't signed up for any social network/platform since, except for Instagram that I use solely to post photos from my budding photography hobby. I only post photos in which there are either no people at all, or no recognizable faces. I only "like" photos that fit the same criteria, and I only follow people who I know very well in the real world. If I see a photo of a birthday, wedding, etc.. that I would like to "like" ~ I don't like it on Instagram; I pick up the phone and text/call/reconnect.
Thanks for the link, that explains it much better than the snippet in the post I replied to.

It seems like it actually is way more private than I thought. FF downloads the database of flagged sites from Google and stores it locally (only partial hashes of URLs though). Only when a match is detected in the local database, FF sends the full hash of the URL to Google to double check, since the local database only has partial hashes to save space (so false positives are likely). It also apparently sends extra noise as part of the payload, so that the request isn't obviously tied to a single URL (in case Google is able to reverse the hash to track your browsing habits, or something like that)

That sounds pretty private to me. A side-by-side comparison of this implementation to the one in Chromium would be interesting. I wonder if browsers like Vivaldi go the extra mile like FF does?

(not: that post is over 5 years old, so it's possible that the implementation may have changed since then)
Can you explain why you think that's projection, or one-upmanship? The point wasn't even about communication but how people rationalize the decisions they make — offering people ways to change without admitting fault is a pretty common strategy in many contexts.
It is not just COVID, plenty of people ( myself included ) have received borderline death threat from Intel Fan Boys for merely pointing out AMD's roadmap and how they are going to win during an Intel 10nm fiasco. Or how TSMC will overtake Intel in 2020. There are a few popular Tech Site reporters ( not sure they want to be named ) got similar treatment.

Some people just cant accept they were wrong. You would not even question whether it is critical thinking, you should be wondering if they are thinking at all. They are basically Sparrows in Game of Thrones, or fanatics.
He means a new drug (against covid).

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."
For those wondering here’s the full list of features they make unavailable: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9632097?hl=en

+annoyingly: “Playback in the Miniplayer”
Please make this worldwide. It's a useful address book of people I've met but the (not-so)humblebrag content is awful.
If it actually works, an app like this could be worth 10x the price.

Getting rid of all the time waste, all the stress of AD is worth a lot.
>> After the free trial period (7 days), they will charge for an annual subscription ($102.95 US). This is OPT OUT, not opt in.

This is the norm right. I don't know ANY app that is OPT IN after the initial trial period is done. This is the Industry Standard.
Don't even bother. This is just the predictable RW vice signalling which has to pop up in every thread. They can talk as much as they want about hardnosed capitalism, but you're not very good at hardnosed capitalism if you can't build a product which wins over your target market, and instead have to argue with said target market about why they should be fans of your product.
The best example I know of a purely client-side web app that makes effective use of local storage is the Pinafore [1] client for Mastodon.

Edit: And it's worth noting that this app is a labor of love by an expert web developer, i.e. the antithesis of a typical corporate project.

[1]: https://pinafore.social/
Budget is clearly not the problem FB has with moderating and anti-fake news. They don't want to do it because it conflicts with letting their userbase exchange pointless outrage and insanity to up the mutual engagement and thus, ad revenue.
You can do that by mass censorship. We already have massive squads of minimum wage people combing through every post on the web in order to delete things, so just pull that into a regulatory agency instead of letting social networks regulate themselves. We could call it the Department of Truth. If you want to scrub the internet, it's actually pretty easy. Put literal cops on every message board, make every board record ips and block VPNs, watch every tor node, root every phone.

The only hard part is getting a majority of people to think that's a good idea, or at least to stay silent about it. If you look at history, though, it's actually not so hard. It'll probably happen eventually, although depending on your belief system, you might be upset at the administration that ends up with those abilities.

This isn't about that, it's about allowing more room for competitors in the market. If there's any relation, it would be that facebook wouldn't be able to by itself dictate acceptable speech (against its will, of course; if facebook had its way, it would only censor posts about facebook.)
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Our society, as presently organized, delegates that choice to lobbyists. That is one failing.

The problem with the FAA vs Boeing is not that the system is designed around the (correct!) assumption that the public's and FAA's interests, on one hand, and Boeing's interests on the other are aligned. This failure cost Boeing enormously!

What was not aligned were Boeing's interests and Boeing upper management interests. The pervasive failure of our society to force CxOs to align with the companies they run and with society at large is much bigger than just in aviation.

That some pilot was indicted, but not the management he was responsive to, is a glaring indicator of this failing.
Ivermectin was discovered in the '70s. A more accurate comparison: my team started using a new language called SQL.
$70/barrel was the last number I heard 3-4 years ago. It's likely around $100 now due to higher operational costs. It's really hard to move oil in Canada.
Obligatory: now do the petrol dollar.
Forget being able to use it for office. Is it able to take a decent picture or video yet?

The performance of those apps on the original pinephone is just hideous.

Also, is it just me, or was the original already pretty chunky, and now they’ve added 2mm making it 11mm thick.
A common technique is the "car of Theseus": the rules for modified cars are often more relaxed, but you can quite drastically modify a car before you have to recertify it. It may be (and I can't find evidence either way) that they have a donor car with its original VIN as the chassis and have rebuilt that from the ground up.
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"Given the way the world works, if the US breaks Facebook up, (insert here) government-supported competitor takes its place."

I don't think that will happen. Americans selfworth, on a deep psychological level, is tied to making large amounts of money. (And yes, I find it sad)

We will have many new Zuck types coding away in the new gold rush if FB is crippled. I sometimes think the only reason FB is as financially successful is because Zuck knew no one would love him without money.

America is loaded with white fugly irritating intelligent investors that would love to make more money.

Tech will stay here.
People think that scientists go out on TV to scare them. They think that if the scientists tell them what they want to hear instead of what the reality of the situation actually is, Reality will bend over and do as people want and expect from it. But Reality doesn't do that and people just can't understand this. It's just common stupidity.
> Covid will be around forever

I agree.

> and there's nothing anybody can do about it.

Nope, with a vaccination it'll be finally comparable to a bad flu (like all those deniers said in the beginning). Portugal has 98% vaccination and has now dropped most of its restrictions.

As someone who's vaccinated I do wish the governments would drop all the restrictions and let all the refusers deal with their own mess, but luckily for us governments have a duty of care* for all of society, including the beligerent members, and overfull hospitals disadvantage the vaccinated too.

* Although some politicians in power seem to be sacrificing the lives and health of their citizens to sabotage their "enemies", e.g. in Florida and Texas.
OpenStack is AWS on steroids then.
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Likely narcissistic rage, brought on by being told they are wrong to hold the beliefs they have been tricked into identifying with by populists.

They see and hear a scientist telling them that they are wrong, and the culturally instilled fragile narcissistic ego -- which overwhelmingly correlates with being white & male -- can't tolerate that injury. They lash out to hurt the person that is threatening their narrative of reality.
Have you tried Privacy.com ? Even for people with no ADHD the subscription trap is very real but there are technological solutions.
Ask HN: Product/domain name using non existing word and case of misspellings
Dear HN,

looking for a product name with matching .com domain. In this community I'm sure I don't need to report on how frustrating the endeavor.

There were many HN threads about naming products, domains availability etc, just to link a few I've found interesting:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3874872 (2012, Before naming your startup, read this),
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10030863 (2015, Change Your Name by Paul Graham),
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19485609 (2019, Name it, and They Will Come).

But curious about your take on a specific (sub)problem I've encountered. I come up with a single word name (not a real English word) with .com available, but alternative spellings taken. Spellings of a word that doesn't exist, mind you.

For example. My idea: reddit.com (khem). But both reddid.com and redit.com are taken. My thought process is to abandon such idea, if I can't secure (obvious) misspellings (typically this means about 1-3 additional domains), which are bound to happen rather frequently when the name is not an actual word.

This eliminates many interesting options, though.

What would be your take on that? Is just ignoring such "name neighbors" a viable approach? Especially curious as I'm not a native English speaker and I feel I may lack some of the intuitions here.

I know, I know - it doesn't matter, last time you checked reddit.com was fine, build your product, don't waste time on naming things that ultimately most likely will not need a name anyway, and if they do, the final name will not matter that much.

But in case you happen to have some other thoughts on that, I'm here, patiently waiting, as I'm trying to find my way out of this. :)
This is a good and very important question for us to ask and investigate right now. However, I would start by assuming that people have good critical thinking skills and avoid suspecting or suggesting mental illness is involved. There are enough smart people being hostile towards science that this needs to be taken seriously. And it’s also important to recognize that all of us as humans are susceptible to having strong beliefs that aren’t true.

In the media and politics, there has been a concerted attack on public trust in science, and it’s working. When science is telling us things we don’t want to hear, things that are hard to change, sometimes people with agendas try to undermine the message in hopes that we don’t affect the economy or have to undertake any costly actions. That effort seems to get getting stronger, and of course when the President participates and publicly calls scientists names, it certainly doesn’t help.

There are quite a few good articles and podcasts covering stories of smart people who went down the Qanon rabbit hole, I think that’d be a great place to start exploring.
Everything America touches it divides into two. The reason is the country is not a democracy, it's not controlled by its own people. The only way their leaders are able to keep up this whole charade going is by diving everything into 2 teams. Now the ruling class and it's owners can steal without fear and the people have stupid 2 team games to play. This moronic behavior here is a byproduct of the degeneration of everything being a team thing in the US. It's so toxic and exhausting.
"My team started using a new programming language called B."

That doesn't work to my ear.
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As a new PinePhone owner this month, screen res is a non-issue. No one is buying this phone as a daily driver right now. There's very few apps available. GPS was 50 miles off when I tried it. For devs interested in a new project, PinePhone needs your help!

MVP = Linux on a smartphone

That said, I haven't read the announcement closely but wonder why they used the "Pro" moniker. Just say it's the new version of the PinePhone? What problem does naming it "Pro" solve?
Which is still in alpha
Consider also “we only charge you at the end of the month if you actually used it” or so. Can be a much more difficult revenue model but user trust is way higher when you make that sort of commitment and if you are indeed struggling with getting user trust, it could be a lifesaver.
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I wouldn't want to say you must try again, but if you're interested in playing more with the toy for nerds, the Mobian wiki [0] is full of helpful tips.

You're right, lots of things don't fit the screen. Running

scale-to-fit firefox on [1]

would fix your issues with Firefox not scaling correctly, for the most part. The other person that replied to you is right - it's currently a toy for nerds more than a drop-in replacement. With compromise and some effort (such as running your own Matrix server to replace Signal / Whatsapp / Discord), it can be done. But I'd hope to inspire you to try again, while tempering expectations for just how ready mobile Linux currently is :)

[0] https://wiki.mobian-project.org/

[1] https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php?id=tweaks&s[]=scale...
give Obsidian a look
Try Privacy.com that should help you manage your subscriptions a lot better.
What if we just want to break up Facebook for our enjoyment? It's legal to do so and we can do it. I can't remember where I heard that argument. I think it was some tech CEO (or maybe all of them).

> How does breaking up Facebook help fight misinformation, polarization, engagement baiting, objectionable content, etc?
It's not just maintenance issues - it's fundamental aerodynamics. Efficiency scales with the diameter of the rotor in rotary wing aircraft. Larger rotors are more efficient. In a helicopter you lose a bit of that efficiency from the tail rotor, but past a certain size helicopters are always going to be more efficient, until you get the size regime that materials drive all designs to become multi-rotor.

It seems like maybe there is a niche for very large fixed-pitch propeller vehicles like quadrotors but at that scale why stick with fixed pitch at all? You could still have variable pitch rotors with variable speed drivers and get the best of both worlds, like a Kaplan turbine in hydraulics, but in reverse.