skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They must be putting amphetamines in the water supply then, cause I have ADD symptoms and I never took them.
Agree, it's a bit frightening we're so locked to our phones today.

But why leave that comment on this particular submission? The PinePhone is not meant to be a phone you use day-to-day, it's meant for curious developers to hack around on. They are being very upfront about this as well. Maybe in the future this will change.
Yeah I definitely exaggerated haha. I think the oldest may be taking a screenshot of their desktop background and maximizing it, so they click around helplessly. Does anyone know a prank older than that?
> Google and Facebook are the only companies that have access to data on basically every sale on the internet

Amazon? eBay? WeChat?
If Ivermectin ever were proven to be effective at preventing or treating COVID, literally every major pharma company in the world would look into producing it en masse.
Why do you think it's a net benefit for facebook? They probably make a loss if you buy a headset, don't buy anything on the store and un-facebook it.
Can confirm that the Arch build for my pinephone performed significantly better than the default KDE rom that shipped with my device. Vibration, lights, volume & volume rockers, responsiveness, calls, keyboard etc - all mostly working on the arch release.

But I 100% agree - the device is just too slow for me. Would love the increased RAM and extra CPU power.
That may be true for management-type positions, but at least in my experience, engineering is somewhat more merit-based. As long as you're good at interviewing you can get a job regardless of who you know. Obviously, having connections still helps, but natural career connections don't require a literal buy-in.

Also, at least Ivy League schools have financial aid programs to help gifted kids from disadvantaged backgrounds still be able to attend.
This article[1] also explains some complaints.

1: https://qntm.org/clean
> There are still issues with file system interop etc, but I personally can't provide an example.

Is that why my firefox downloads file into a tmp directory instead of ~/Downloads?

I also used to have vscode unable to sudo but it's no longer the case, maybe it's flatpak now, haven't checked
No worries. You caught me at the end of a long day where I was drained from supporting people I care about through some tough situations, so the questioning of my empathy hit a little harder than you could have possibly anticipated. I appreciate the apology and understand where you were coming from, and I wish you well.
Yes good point. If FB were less politically powerful, then they wouldn't be able to stop the good people in congress from regulating what people say on the internet. That would clearly solve the problem! The government has never been involved in spreading misinformation, so I don't see how this could go wrong.
I've yet to see an instagram model 'influencer' doing a pose and advertising ivermectin.
> "It is yet to be proven" means, quite literally, anyone who looked into it never saw it work, ever. At all.

This claim is quite literally false. If no one saw an effect, then we wouldn't still be talking about it. Most of the studies listed here [1] all claim to have seen it work. You can of course claim these are poor or unconvincing studies for various reasons, but they still falsify your claim that no one who looked into it ever saw it work.

[1] https://ivmmeta.com/
Maybe not, maybe yes and Visa hasn’t released the new because it would be disastrous publicity for the company.
Alberta is heavily under-represented in our federal government, so I don't know what you think it sounds like, but you're dead wrong.

Alberta has 34 seats in parliament with 4.067 million people for an average of 119k people per federal seat. Maritime provinces like Newfoundland have 7 federal seats with a population of 519k, for an average of 74k people per seat. If you look at our Senate, the representation is even more disproportionate. New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, with a combined population of 1.8 million people have 24 seats in the Senate, while Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and BC, defined as "The West" and with a population of 11 million receive 24 seats as well.

So no, no one is saying "We deserve over-representation because look at our land", people are saying "we are under-represented in the Senate at a 10-1 ratio, and by almost 2-1 in parliament, and still under-represented even if you remove the maritime provinces from the equation". Your statement is empty stereotyping of the most tired variety.
Not OP, but I'd assume everyone with the goal of dropping iOS and Android is doing so for philosophical reasons. I still have my BlackBerry KeyOne. Battery life is still measured in days, but GApps bloat has pushed me to Open Street Maps. Literally every single aspect of the KeyOne is better, from battery life to performance to app availability and polish - but opting out of all tracking may be more meaningful to some.
If you just need public scrutiny, then Vivaldi's code is already open for you at https://vivaldi.com/source/. On top of that code is the HTML/JS UI, which can be found at least on macOS inside the Vivaldi.app package, though minified.
but is it negligence? At what point should it be considered intentional?
Sounds like you stopped after the hook. I don't blame you, if the hook is off-putting, the ultimate values of the piece may not align with yours anyhow.

But there is something to be learned from continuing to read after off-putting hooks, including that the author might have something genuine to say beyond just looping in people that agree with them with inflammatory hooks.
In Silico Computer Models for Deep Brain Stimulation
Author here! I'm also an editor on the service worker spec, so I'm interested to know where the pain points are.
The larger a company becomes, the more it should be regulated.
I own a 1500 sq ft townhouse that I bought in 2017 for $480K with $80k down (all from RSUs, which if I had kept in AMZN would be worth... a lot more). My mortgage (refi'd in 2019) + HOA + taxes are $2500 a month.
I like that suggestion, I'd be much more likely to sign up for something that used that charging model.
It's the entire reason that it exists. If you can print endless amounts of money without accountability (and convince people it has value that it doesn't), you can do what you want.

If people realize "oh, this Bitcoin thing works just like those dollars and a government can't manipulate it," in time, yes, the military industrial complex will collapse. Not immediately and not without a fight, but eventually, yes.
There’s a “Pay Once” option next to the subscription options.
What Pine has done is break the chicken/egg cycle of "there's no hardware -> there's no software"

I disagree with your assessment. There are plenty of competent programmers who are working on pushing forward this software, and even following from the outside I've watched massive improvements over time.

We needed (more) open hardware before the software could get properly started, and that's what Pine provided.
It's more complicated than that. Trump has said to take the vaccine but his "followers" don't trust him. Meanwhile minorities who are supposed to be in the other tribe are also taking the vaccine in lesser numbers. Because they don't trust the Democrat authorities.

A better fitting narrative is class. The bottom half of society is distrustful of the top half.
> I never proposed they make it free of charge. I said the best model for their community is free and open source.

I ... they're the same picture ...
Yes, you're totally right. If the conditions are met that you are 1) behind a CG-NAT, and 2) a statistically significant sample of other users on that CG-NAT is using the same VPN node, then yes it "could be a very effective form of privacy" in this extremely unlikely and contrived example. But in most real-world cases, it is not.
Yeah, as Warren proposed.

https://www.ilounge.com/news/elizabeth-warren-break-apple
This blocks TMPRSS2 which is the exact protein ivermectin blocks.
Underground economy is a term for any transaction that isn't reported to the government and don't pay taxes. It's not a name for illegal activity only.

Most of it is perfectly legal or is illegal only because it's evading taxes.
Unless you pull a Bezos (leaving an awesome job to win the biggest lottery of
all time), you will regret leaving money on the table. When asked about the
regret, you will say it was all worth it for some nebulous notion of
fulfillment, which is all you can do dull the pain.
> Nothing you can find out about wavelengths, cones, rods, neurons and so on will tell you why you see red the specific way you do, and whether my perception of red corresponds to yours or my "red" is actually your "green".

This is begging the question. You're assuming that color qualia exist in the way that objects do. That "my red" and "your green" are not just properties of personal experience, but refer to objects that could be identified, drawn out, moved around and compared like the ordinary objects in our world.

The basic mistake of qualia theory is to assume that qualia share any of the properties of physical objects or even abstract concepts. That qualia are entities distinct and stable enough to be placed side by side, compared and contrasted, the way you could compare rocks or different software architectures.

I suspect that this makes about as much sense as asserting that square circles exist. You can say it, you can even kinda-sorta imagine it, but you can do that with a lot of things that fall apart on closer inspection.

For all we know, p-zombies are square circles. We think that they're a coherent concept because we can kinda-sorta imagine them, but we're nowhere near knowing that they're a coherent concept.

There is such a thing as trusting feelings and intuitions and imaginations too much, especially in the incredibly abstract context of somehow reifying your experiences and attempting to understand what they "are".

There are a lot of things that people used to feel strongly about, like "heavier objects fall faster". Many people still didn't believe Galileo was right when he proved it false with his experiments. Even when he did the experiment right before their eyes. The feelings and intuitions were too strong.

Such is the case with qualia, I think. I don't know if we'll ever be able to prove the intuitions wrong and illuminate the true nature of consciousness, like Galileo, but that doesn't mean our prescientific intuitions are correct by default. P-zombies and qualia are embellishments of our prescientific intuitions, not rigorous or scientific versions of them.
Not how far in the past, but vim for chrome changed my browsing style.
I think your attitude allows Facebooks
Can you open banking websites? The only downside of not using an Android/iOS app (in my case at least) would be "mobile deposits" (depositing a check by taking a picture of it).
You can find the source at https://vivaldi.com/source/ and in addition to that is the HTML/JS UI which can be found in the installed browser data (though as minified JS files).
> A candid quote from a virologist in a recent Nature covid paper: "We’re flying by the seat of our pants trying to figure this stuff out."

I really don't know what you were trying to say. The article you linked was about how those who have previously recovered from COVID-19 have a stronger immune response after being vaccinated than those who have never been infected.
Back in 2018 it was nearly half, people don't realize how much market share they've lost in the last few years
Girard on Abraham
You haven’t offered any kind of explanation at all here.

If there is a ‘fight’ involved, how will bitcoin owners fight against the military industrial complex?
That's so nice of them! They're just doing it because they really care

Thanks for being a good neighbor three later state beaurocracy
Wait a sec, are you telling me there's a way for me to participate in whatsapp conversations without actually having whatsapp installed on my phone? I am currently forced to use whatsapp by my work for supporting overseas live events, but I absolutely hate having anything related to facebook installed on my phone. Until now I just put up with it because I didn't know there was an alternative. Can you help me understand how this works?
Nobody is assuming it would disappear, people are only correctly observing that some of the cost to support the current world financial system is paid in blood.
The problem was even lets say AT&T was willing to put BSD on pc style hardware they were wildly overpricing it. If you were dead set at that time having a PC you could kit one out for ~2k which was respectable for the time. Yet then AT&T would come along and say 'oh you want BSD? 20,000 please, oh and that PC you got well it does not work correctly with it you need to buy a different set of kit that is 8x the cost, plus a 40k per year support cost'. AT&T is and was a phone company through and through. I have worked at the leftovers of another one. They only care about one thing, number of lines hooked up. Their sales staff and training is all about that. How can software sell me more lines. It is one of the metrics that they look at. A few thousand PC sales? A blip on the balance sheet and probably not really worth investing in because it does not sell more lines. Phone companies are laser focused on that.
What are the problems then?
Yeah, that's what I actually do. I didn't want to scare the non-Americans even more than they already are with our insurance :D

Note I didn't even get into IRAs, 401k, Megabackdoor Roths, etc.
I want to see a radically different approach to Phone user interfaces. It's just the same cookie cutter trends from Apple and Google.
I think your expectations may not be aligned with what they're selling. From the website:

> We’re not in the business of selling empty promises – a much faster mainline Linux smartphone won’t make the existing operating systems more refined, nor will it magically spawn software replacements for your iOS or Android applications. There is a long road ahead of us, all of us, and it will require time and effort for the software to reach a degree of maturity that would satisfy mainstream users.
So this may just be something that we have differing opinions on. If we say (number of compliers) = (people who wanted to save face and needed an out) + (people who are living paycheck to paycheck) + (whatever other reason), my guess is that the last two components would dominate the equation, but that's just my gut.

The excerpt you quoted also kind of bothered me because it presupposes that getting vaccinated immediately was the right idea. Just because someone slapped the label "vaccine" on something doesn't mean you should jump to receive it as early as possible. Not everyone wants to be an early adopter, and there's good reason for that.
A basic but very important question: can it phone and send/receive text message reliably?

Smartphones are so bloated with functionalities, it seems nobody ever talks about that. I don't see the answer on the website.
A bit irrelevant, but I don't think you can post to Instagram from your computer, got to use the app.
Dude. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have died from this.

What are you talking about? Do you think these people just didn't exist?
Well yes but that term is too honest for its own good as a matter of opinion. "Too powerful" is an absolutely arbitrary standard with no desire for internal consistency. Which is exactly the opposite of what you want in laws.
> Is this sustainable, though?

Easily. Few people stay at a software engineering job for more than a year or two as it is. I went almost 4 years without staying at one job for more than a year, and not a single recruiter batted an eye the whole time. Hopping jobs with a network of friends buying each other's jobs for big returns would be trivial.

> Can’t the same thing happen right now with people who have connections to headhunter/recruiting agencies?

Yes. But right now it still requires social skills, conversations, and interviews. Skills that anyone can acquire with practice. Turning it into a pay-to-play system doesn't improve anything, it just makes it easier for people with disposable income to skip the line. Or it will make people harass their professional network for money to skip the line. How is that an improved system over just getting to know some recruiters?

> Also, if the system has no abuse detection, many people who work in tech for more than a few years should be able to afford gaming a system like this — not just those from rich backgrounds. $10k is not too much money to find if you know you’re guaranteed a 2x return in 60 days.

You're proving my point. The system as described is ripe for abuse, and what kind of abuse detection mechanism would catch things like this? They didn't describe one, and I can't picture one that isn't extremely invasive. Mild nepotism is already the de facto way that a lot of companies recruit people even though they're not supposed to - add a gambling mechanic into the mix and you can guarantee people will be trying to game it left and right. There's no way they'd be able to crack down on it at scale.
I don’t know how closely you’ve been following the progression of development, but every few months I get the itch to play around with my PinePhone and flash the latest version of one of the OSes. The experience is consistently greatly improved over the last time. I’m at the point now where the greatest usability issue I run into is performance, though I’m sure if I were to daily-drive I’d bump into more.
Probably both tribes, which are strongly attached to one or the other narrative, and thus both wrong according to the parent comment.

I'm personally pretty attached to the "traditional" narrative, but I gave that comment an upvote because I tend to agree that lacking nuance and self sorting into tribes has been among our most deadly failures this whole time.
> I feel like I'm pointing out the obvious, but another, extremely effect and quick "treatment" is vaccination.

Does every discussion of about post-exposure prophylaxis have to have comments about vaccination?

> And it works great without the constant need for testing.

A primary reason for testing has been to help stop the spread of the virus (test positive = isolate), not necessarily to let people with mild symptoms or no symptoms know that they're infected.

Vaccinated individuals can still spread the virus and some people are at higher risk even when vaccinated, so testing is still of value.

> I have to imagine that anyone willing to undergo treatment at the very start of getting covid, would have also been willing to be vaccinated.

That's quite an assumption. Without passing judgment about his decision not to get vaccinated and to throw the kitchen sink at COVID once he was infected, Joe Rogan is an example of a person who is willing to treat an infection but not get vaccinated. I doubt he's the only one.

> Additionally, in my experience, physicians aren't terribly concerned about infections in vaccinated individuals.

Vaccination certainly reduces the incidence of hospitalization and death, and the data to date suggests that vaccinated individuals are less likely to develop "long COVID" symptoms. But there's still a lot we don't know. Research indicates that individuals with breakthrough infections can have viral loads that are as high as unvaccinated individuals, and some percentage report courses of illness that are virtually identical to a typical course of illness in unvaccinated individuals (respiratory symptoms, extreme fatigue, etc.) so I think it's premature to make too many assumptions. Especially since in immunologically naive people, some with "mild" or even largely asymptomatic infections also report lasting issues too.
Your link is an oft-debunked misinformation campaign[1].

In my opinion, the best current review is the Cochrane review[2]. And indeed, I think "anyone who looked into it never saw it work, ever. At all" is overstating the case. There is weak evidence that it works. That could easily go one of two ways: a highly powered RCT (like ACTIV-6) could show that it doesn't work at all, or we could find that it shows some improvement but is definitely not a silver bullet.

[1]: https://ebm.bmj.com/content/early/2021/05/26/bmjebm-2021-111...

[2]: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD...
Relevance? Also, are there other procedures to be employed on a _novel_ virus pandemic? Doesn't the "novel" part literally mean "it's new to us and needs figuring out" ?
Remember that you are the product and not the customer for these companies.

Google’s customers are the advertisers who pay and (I’d argue) those who want to show up in search results. You have to either pay for ads or play their algorithm game to be relevant because of their monopoly position on search. It’s basically the same story for Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, etc.
One of the things that I don't like about Nomad is HCL. It is a language that is mainly limited to HashiCorp tools and there's no wider adoption outside at least not to my knowledge.

From the documentation:

> Nomad HCL is parsed in the command line and sent to Nomad in JSON format via the HTTP API.

So why not just JSON or even JSON at all and not MsgPack or just straight up HCL because that's over and over introduced as being machine readable and human friendly both at the same time?
You are missing the point. This is a freemium plugin listed in the WordPress plugin directory. They (WordPress) are being negligent by exposing users to that kind of code without any warning, enabling users to install this directly from they WP Admin area.

One should expect at least a red flag, but as always they just care about numbers.
If it wouldn’t disappear then it’s not a cost that can be attributed to the current financial system.

You may as well say that since the current financial system enabled the development of computers and the internet which were pre-requisites for the development of Bitcoin, then Bitcoin was paid in blood.
Weird that they advertise how this is a mainline Linux experience, while at the same time claiming video output through the typec port.

I own a PinebookPro. The only way I get video output through the typec port is through some hacky patchset that will not be accepted upstream, and which occasionally breaks on new kernel releases. Some people report that it does not work whatsoever. I actually have to flip the typec plug to get it to work -- the video output is not reversible for some reason.

They also mention that the Pinephone Pro will support a suspend mode, which is something I have never been able to get working on my PinebookPro. The best that device can do is 1.7W while idle.

I'm glad to see this announcement, because I hope that these new rk3399-ish devices will improve software support for my PBP, but I implore anyone who is concerned about the above two features to wait and see. I certainly won't be buying another rk3399 device anytime soon, even though it is one of the best supported high performance offerings for mainline TF-A, U-Boot, and Linux.
AFAIK Sam Harris was always considered the weakest of the four horsemen.
I'm sorry. I'm not a native English speaker and probably I watch too many american movies. Or should I say films?