skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that all vaccines have similar "effectiveness curves", in that they are highly effective in the first weeks, and effectiveness degrades over time down to some low base level of immunity, where your body is no longer actively producing antibodies, but it has the ability to restart production quickly if necessary.
Isn’t that silly? I could run linux (with GUI) just fine on my Pentium 3. This phone is like 8 times faster just based on clock speed, not to mention memory. How can it not drive a UI without lag?
A government is a monopoly on violence, and it uses that monopoly to demand payment.
Not at all. E.g. this poll from 2004: https://news.gallup.com/poll/13780/americans-worried-about-v...

> Although a majority of both Republicans and Democrats express some degree of confidence in the nation's voting system, Democrats are far less confident than Republicans. The current poll shows that 59% of Democrats say they are least somewhat confident that their votes will be cast and counted (including just 13% who are very confident), compared with nearly 9 in 10 Republicans (87%, including 44% who are very confident).

Right before the 2020 election, 30-40% of people in both parties though the election wouldn’t be conducted fairly: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/more-republicans-distru...

After the 2016 election, 2/3 of Democrats believed Russia had “tampered with vote tallies” to help Trump win: https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/20...
I question how many people would actually want to live there if the offices are so empty. In principle, there's no reason you couldn't have a city the residents of which mostly commute out to work and/or work from their homes. But historically jobs have been the main magnet that attracts people to actually live in cities. Yes, especially among younger people, cities are also attractive for other reasons but by and large not enough to cause them to live there lacking other drivers.
Finnish baseball is pretty fun, they pitch the ball straight up so players are hitting dingers all the time.

https://youtu.be/zDrLcPxSBRk
This guy sounds like a textbook example of CV driven developer.

I've delivered large amount of value to business with boring technologies like Java, Django and made good money in the process. Sometimes all the client needs is a simple CRUD app. Coincidentally, I turned 40 this year.
We really need a funded and functioning SEC and FTC. They have failed us in the 21st century. However, breaking things up won't be a panacea. It worked in the past but even spinning out Instagram won't open up much space for an Instagram competitor given the existing network effects. To fix some of these issues, I think we need a tax on digital advertising revenue. Right now it is way too profitable to just create click-bait and rake in the money.
I remember a lecture at university where we assumed a cars body was 100% covered in solar panels and that the sun was hitting all panels simultaneously and that the panels were 100% efficient and the car was above the earths atmosphere and we calculated that the power produced was equivalent to 6HP or the size of a riding lawn mower engine. It was meant to show that physics forbade a solar powered car as we knew them.

Is it a limit on acceleration coupled with larger solar area that allows this?
Depends who you ask, really. For me, s-expressions and macros are enough, though it would feel very weird without a REPL and image-based development.
>I'd love to hear a practical, actionable response to "I'm a senior FAANG who makes 75% of the "average" on levels.fyi. All other job offers I've seen are ± 2% of that. What next?"

I have literally zero idea what are you're trying to express. There's no selection bias if everyone is FAANG is very well payed and everyone outside is not.

But if you really want to see something vaguely like that then go on blind and look for posts like "I'm making 650 as an E6 where should I go from here", the idea of which I'm sure just further confounds you but I'm sorry the data is very accurate (eg inside FB/Google/AMZN there's a group that openly discusses return offers for interns and it's always within a few percent of what is on the public side).
> Among plenty of competition

Can you name 2 other OSes that compete meaningfully against Ios? Keep in mind I'm not talking about ecosystems that make less than half of the profit Ios makes for Apple. Hence the "meaningful".
If that's the bar, then mobile Linux is simultaneously very fucking far, and dramatically closer than most people might think.

As far as messaging apps, they're all technically there - the best kind of there for the crowd that this would interest. Spinning up a Matrix server means maybe a days work for this crowd, which allows (and I currently use it for) Whatsapp, Signal, Telegram, and more. Even better, due to constant improvements by Matrix, the server is only getting lighter and your options more varied with things like Construct [0].

Email is there - one only really needs to ensure geary is set to scale to the phone screen. As far as gMail, I'd question what the overlap is between "Privacy conscious enough to use a Pinephone" and "Uses gMail instead of anything IMAP".

That only leaves navigation and social media. For the former, I've used the mobile site in-browser on my Android phone that the Google Maps app was too heavy for. And for both on the Pinephone, especially the pro, Waydroid [1] is getting closer to closing the gap.

To be honest, I could see it being mainstream for geeks within two years. Though that's unlikely what you meant by mainstream - which I think we can agree is several more years away, if ever.

[0] https://github.com/matrix-construct/construct

[1] https://github.com/waydroid/waydroid
The threats are awful. They should not happen. But it's practically a matter of physics that they're going to happen under the circumstances.

The circumstances are most likely something like this: the danger of the virus is being overhyped, the dangers of the vaccines are being downplayed, the efficacy of repurposed cheap old drugs including ivermectin is being suppressed for the sake of profits.

The result is, healthy young people who almost certainly cannot benefit from taking the vaccine are being pressured to take it, suffering extreme adverse side effects, and being told that they're just psych cases (suffering from anxiety or something similar)

Here's one example of thousands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aebtcTi7EaA Healthy young guy, professional athlete, took the vaccine when there was no need for him to. Now he suffers from excruciating pain, has to flop out of bed in the morning to try to gain mobility, almost passes out when he stands up, etc.

Here's another example, a guy reporting 25,000 comments about adverse reactions in Israel. This used to be on YouTube, but it was censored there. https://odysee.com/@TheInformer:1/avibarak:1

Here's a doctor in California writing to the FDA and CDC about personally seeing far too many adverse reactions for the official numbers to be correct. https://www.sirillp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Letter-Re...

Slides from a recent presentation on safety signals from VAERS: https://www.skirsch.com/covid/All.pdf

I could go on and on. The point is, people are seeing that things do not add up. The things they're personally seeing and hearing are not matching what they see from the MSM. Nobody likes being lied to. Nobody likes being stonewalled when people are dying. That's where the resentment and anger comes from that fuels the threats. Again, the threats are wrong. But what does any cornered animal eventually do?
> Oculus has their own CV-based tracking implementation and frensel lens design but the CV1 is otherwise a direct copy

Tracking and lenses are what make headset. I'm struggling to think of what non-trivial decisions are even left if you exclude those. Panel choice and illumination strategy I guess?
Stopped reading after the first 3 paragraphs which were made up entirely of bitching about the arrogance of selected silicon valley billionaires, none of whom have anything to do with any companies that could ever be called a monopoly. I suspected that this was the author's real motive, as is usually the case with journalists coming after big tech. If they really cared about monopolies, then they would have been writing about the destructive monopolies / oligopolies in many other industries that have existed much longer than the 10 years or so that Google and FB have been large powerful companies. It's a shame because Google's monopoly position in search is a real issue that deserves real discussion, not just the usual hit piece from another bitter journalist.
There's two things:

1) Text templating YAML is just bad. It's the serialized format of some structured data - instead of templating its text representation (and dealing with quoting, nindent, stringly-typed variables, and general YAML badness), just manipulate the structures directly before serializing them. For example, write some Python code that composes these structures in memory and then just serializes them to YAML before passing it over to kubectl. You can also use ready made tooling that uses domain-specific languages well suited to manipulating and emitting such structured configuration, like jsonnet/kubecfg (or CUE/Dhall/Nix combined with kubectl apply -f). Eschewing text templating is not only more productive by letting you build abstractions (eg. to deal with Kuberenetes' verbosity with labels/selectors, etc.), it also allows you to actually compose more complex deployments together, like 'this wordpress library uses this mariadb library' or 'this mariadb library can take a list of objects that will be upserted as users on startup'.

2) Those YAML/JSON manifests aren't even that native to Kubernetes. A lot of things go behind the scenes to actually upsert a manifest, as Kubernetes' resource/object model isn't nearly as straightforward as 'apply this YAML document full of stuff' would indicate (there's state to mix in, API/schema changes, optional/default fields, changes/annotations by other systems...). With k8s' Server-Side-Apply this can now be fairly transparent and you can pretend this is the case, but earlier tooling definitely had to be smarter in order to apply changes. Things like doing structure-level diffs between the previously applied intent and the current intent and the current state in order to build a set of mutations to apply. What this means is that Helm's entire 'serialized as YAML, manipulated at text level' stage is not only harmful and a pain in the neck to work with (see 1.) but also unnecessary (as 'flat YAML file' isn't any kind of canonical, ready-to-use representation that Helm had to use).
Ask HN: Looking for Android app for making “projects of files”
Use case: I create a new "Project", where I can add multiple .mp4 files, texts, audio .aac/.ogg files - anything from gallery or from some textarea of the app and organize these items as a "list" of "resources". That files are not sending anywhere - the project only keep their filenames (if item is a file, not a piece of text) in specific order.

Imagine this as a messenger, where i send files/texts/voice msgs to a "Project" chat and can reorder items in that chat. And can have multiple project-chats in my contact list.

Then there is "send" part.

When I press "Send Project", the app POST the project as a json with list of the resources to my server (url specified in settings). Then app send all the resources (files) to the same server using rsync or maybe HTTP and able to resume uploading any file from any point where previous uploading is died due to wifi switching.

Server gets 2 things: (1) a json with list of items and (2) the resources (files). What server do is up to developer of server or depends of a field "command" in project's settings (the .json (1)).

For example, the server could implement a simple video editing service: concatenate all the .mp4 files passed to it in list. Or maybe glue .jpg to .ogg sound, get short video from each pair of (.jpg/.ogg) and concatenate all the parts.

Or maybe server see the project as a Twitter/FB/Medium/Blogger post: all text and images goes to their places, videos get uploaded to youtube and links inserted to corresponding places of the post. Depends on my fantasy and Python coding skills.

So, I am looking for such a Project Creator, that can let me edit my project and then posts the project to my custom URL or IP.

Also can discuss this topic in a disposable chat: https://nanochat.ru/proproject
Since he refers to misogyny elsewhere, I suspect he might mean "the new gal".
I see. So me using "she" and "he" when I talk about people is me making sure you know I'm talking about a woman.

Welcome to the English language. We don't type extra text like "he/she" every time for zero reason. It's not a conspiracy theory - it's how people talk. Quite a conspiracy theory you got there buddy. You must think the entire world has "something more going on" since the entire world uses "she" or "he" while speaking. Or, perhaps you lack practice speaking to people? Tell me, when the basement gets very cold in the winter, do you venture upstairs with all that sunlight, or do you use a little space heater for your feet?
There's a difference between knowing, and knowing how you know. I know my computer is not conscious even if I'm not entirely certain how I know. I chalk this up to the fact that, as a conscious animal with millions of years of evolutionary history, it is both beneficial and entirely natural for me to be able to recognize conscious beings when I encounter them.

(It also helps that I know how to program computers and don't view that activity as bringing consciousness in the world. I have children, however, so it turns out that I am — with some help — also able to bring consciousness into the world. The former activity I am both able to do and fully understand, while the latter I am clearly able to do, but don't at all understand.)

I recognize this point of view isn't popular among a lot of technical folks. I get it, I was there once too, but I've come around to a new appreciation for our animal nature. This question — how do you know what is conscious? — is very similar to questions like, "how do you know that that dog is afraid?" The short answer to that question is, "because we are kin". Which is an explanation I find much more rich and satisfying than reductionism.
>So these "superstar" meds become memes that are intentionally spread by seriously craven people as part of a pump-and-dump scheme.

I don't even think it's that deep. These medications are just memes to fuel a shallow grift. It gives them something to talk about in between pushing for donations, that's all.
I'm not talking about the people spreading memes, they are just pawns. I am talking about people who own huge amounts of stock and actively trying to personally financially benefit from creating and spreading misinformation. Quadruple bad if those people are in positions of power, like politicians, doctors, or the drug companies themselves.
You should keep reading. It gets a lot better.
Why do I kept getting flag on my qestion
I am confused why are you not letting me get my frustration crossing from a learning disability person here and you dislike learning disability this why you kept flagging me . I did nothing wrong about it . I don't even used reddit anymore part from Splatoon 2 area
I hate how much Ivermectin has been politicised.

They could rather study a country like india where some states prescribed Ivermectin and other state didnt and see what the results were like.

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Instead of trust busting these companies, the libertarian answer to them would be to invalidate their patents.

Google partially remains a search monopoly because of its search patents - of which it has many. If the state invalidates its patents and then moves out of the way, other competitors will naturally become successful.

There is no need to break up companies. Just take away some of their state-imposed advantages like patents.
> Sachs is a Psy.D, not an MD. Granted, this does entitle him to "Dr." as a term of address, just as would a doctorate in physics, ancient history, or underwater basket-weaving. But, just as with any of those, it doesn't qualify him as a doctor in the generally understood sense.

Indeed, I've had better help from a LCSW than a Psy.D, and I never called the social worker "Dr."
> Thus, the device cannot considered a consumer-ready product.

Right off the store page. Why are people in the comments expecting to daily drive this? You buy this for the excitement and sense of accomplishment of actually managing to run things.
> are you going to start your own company to do the same work but sell it yourself and take all the margin?

No, but not because it's supposedly difficult to incorporate; I did this once and it only took filling a one page form, waiting 10 minutes in queue and paying 20€ with a bank card.

It's because instead of programming then time would be frittered away with customer acquisition and asshole management.
> [W]hat if all social networks limited the number of accounts to 999,999?

That's interesting. It opens the door to the possibility that social networks might pay people to leave, in order to open spaces for more long-term-valuable customers.
I was surprised by this too, but AWS only has 32% of cloud market share https://www.parkmycloud.com/blog/aws-vs-azure-vs-google-clou....
How would the Ruthless Aggression Era of US politics look?
Not to argue but

> In 2017, Giving What We Can stopped conducting original research but rather started to recommend to its members to follow the advice by charity evaluators such as GiveWell, Animal Charity Evaluators and Founders Pledge.

Is what Wikipedia says, so all that is is advertisements for other charities. Unless Stripe Climate has a negative report I am missing it is very easy to see exactly what you are supporting when you donate to Stripe Climate (unlike other companies) and do your own research.
I see it rarely, but almost exclusively in games that feature exponential growth, like mobile idle games. Growth is so explosive that you typically entirely ignore the actual numbers, and you measure progress via orders of magnitude (i.e. my currency/second in the game is 5.6*10^47, I'd just call it 47).

The repeating k scale is better than m, b, t, etc because it still preserves a sense of scale. 2m does not look 1/1000000th the size of 2t. 2kk does look a lot smaller than 2kkkk. You can also still easily convert to real number by substituting each k with 3 0s.

And lastly, I don't know the letters going all the way up to 10^47th. That's nearly enough to wrap the alphabet twice, and it's not even that high for that style of game.

The scale is fine, it's just the letter that's unfortunate. M is the Roman Numeral for 1,000; they could just use that. The worst thing I can associate with any number of M's is someone enjoying their food entirely too much once you hit like 7 of them.
I also ended up dropping out at the same part of the signup. I don't have a problem paying for things, but I don't feel comfortable with a user experience that doesn't say up front how much it costs. It wasn't until I filled out all the details that it became apparent there are paid plans. That for me is a warning sign about what the company could do in the future.
But like ... that's bad! That's exactly my point.

Not that this particular police officer gave particularly bad advice, but that this idea - that adding more guns solves public safety problems - is so pervasive and _so wrong_.
Ponzi schemes aren't often as forthright that they're promising vapor.
30x500?
>I know basically nothing about virology, but I remember hearing a podcast a million years ago talking about mRNA vaccines, and I remember after it was over thinking "if this is even half as cool as it sounds to a lay person, the implications of this are huge".

Sounds like scientism. A guy on a podcast said these are promising and you said for a whole year, without understanding anything about virology, that it was really important and good to pour time and resources into these things?

I mean, maybe you are not wrong, but this is a terrible way to determine priorities for spending and work...
Around 4 years ago
thank you for saying that.
I don't think so. I'm talking about the vibe of a city. Iirc pg wrote an article long back about the vibe of a city.

Vibe is a bit amorphous but I tend to think of vibe as a condensed view of what the city is about, a function of political tendencies, culture (music, sports, tech, entrepreneurship etc) and general friendliness. Job opportunities and decent social life are usually necessary conditions. Major cities like SF and NYC usually have all of them, provided you can afford living there.

But a city like San Antonio cannot offer everything, so if you don't dig Texan/Hispanic culture and don't like basketball, the grand river walk is not going to make you want to live there.
There are nowadays plenty of e-banking solutions which provide you with virtual cards, which you can create and destroy on the fly and at 0 cost. It is really wonderful for this kind of scenario. Vivid is the one I've been using, I couldnt be happier with it. Theres also N26 allowing this, and Im not sure but, Skrill, Transferwise, Revolut,...
What OS did you use? I use mine with Phosh (tested Mobian and Archlinux) and I don't have the same experience at all.
The device is still severely underpowered though so the Pro version with a much better CPU is a welcome change.
Yes this is why I'm not sure how it's been tested. In the scientific literature in many cases the data is anonymised and made available publicly or to those interested, but you can't always anonymise the data adequately, so an audit process might be necessary
Studies have shown that COVID-19 has similar mechanisms of action as parasitic infections that target red blood cells. That's why Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine (drugs for parasitic diseases, such as malaria, a red-blood cell parasite) have shown success in clinical trials and in vitro studies. That's also why sweet wormwood (Artemisia annua, plant species used for malaria, and the plant that Artemisinin, winner of the nobel peace prize in 2015 is derived from) has been found in laboratory settings to be effective against COVID-19. And why alkoloids from cryptolepis (another anti-malarial herb) are also being researched by various countries and researchers. Vaccines and potential treatments are not mutually exclusive. If you have the biological background like I do then looking up the studies should be a piece of cake. Downvote if you like. Since this is such a polarized topic, I really don't want to spend the energy to share all the studies if people don't have an open mind. But do your own research, the studies are there.
Well, it does work as a phone; you can call telephone numbers with it.

But that's not what you mean when you say "phone" is it? The word "phone" is synonymous at this point with "mini computer."

What if it were sold as a phone with a big caveat, loudly announced, that said "this thing is for tinkerers and developers and is not ready for causal daily use"? That's the thing, it is marketed that way. You bought something you didn't want, you want what it is going to be, and we are all very excited about it and a bit impatient, but we cannot blame the product for ourselves being impatient.
Yes. That is why in the US people are so malnourished - eating the cheapest possible food day in day out.

That price also does not include externalities (eg. the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico caused by Iowa fertilizer runoff is not accounted for in the price of the food produced).