skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with crazy people is that their entire world passes through their crazy distortion field. So even attempts to help them look threatening.

Does this now suddenly mean we stop enforcing the law (against financial fraud) because it might hurt their feelings?

This is dysfunction. What can we do if we're not allowed to present facts and evidence because it might trigger people? We end up walking on eggshells while the crazies take over.
Motivated group? You mean 10's of thousands of Americans acting in a concerted effort as they travel from polling place to place to commit felonies? It's fantasy to think this can or will occur without people getting caught.
Why would they pay people to leave? They could arbitrarily kick them out for violation some obscure T&Cs, or for no stated reason at all...
If people thought an entity was “too powerful”, then they would want a law against the entity, otherwise the word “too” does not mean anything.

The reason there is no law against being “too powerful” is because it is a nebulous description that is not enforceable in a fair manner.
Wifi is different, with mainline driver and regularly updated firmware from cypress (same as Rpi4 wifi chip). Type-C stuff is different, more sane. Main camera is different and selected to already have mainline linux support...

I don't think this complaint is fair. Only major thing that's the same is the modem, but that would be quite annoying thing to change, because it would void the hard work of people working on the FOSS Linux stack for EG25-G modem.
old and young universe then :)

At least, I can understand visualize the time scale of the universe a lot better than I can visual the length scale. Speed of light doesn't feel like 1/1 to humans!
Jira: Razor Blades?
> even though he/she _could_ navigate with a compass and sextant if needed.

The person with 22 years experience could fall back like this thanks to survivor bias, the person with 2 years experience might have been lucky so far.

I had to wonder what FB chose as a cultural strategy that left them down for hours when other companies can recover virtually anything in under an hour and if a focus on being less cool and less ageist would have helped them.
U.S. military may get dog-like robot armed with sniper rifle
Generation Z is on TikTok and the rest of society is also slowly moving there.

"Breaking up" Facebook/Instagram is like going for a dinosaur hunt. The FB platforms are already dying.
no, nor are you doing it at a massive country wide scale into a datacenter.
Canada has that, along with low population density. Ok, about 6 times the population and only 2.5x the oil production, but other resources too (we can actually grow stuff even).

We just prefer the colony model of letting the profits go to anyone but the local government.
What market? That one demo piece in Shanghai from the airport to the not so central border of town?

Making no revenue? Not really suitable because it has almost no space for luggage,

which passengers from the airport tend to carry with them?

Also I am still unaware of any larger testtrack for the 'updated' thing the media is so extatic about.

That is just one private company trying to get investments.

Which they probably won't get, except if the Zentralkommitee would maybe pushing it.

Which seems unlikely, because why they didn't extend the Shanghai line as planned, then?

I mean, I don't really care because it won't happen here anyways.

But don't say brought to market until they have at least an Emsland equivalent test track,

and actually shown the 600kph they say 'Yes! Yes! We can do!' and rave about all the times.

None of this has happened so far.

Correct me if I'm wrong.
Your reasoning is flawed.

The average gun owner has not received a death threat.
Is that relevant? I think the analysis should revolve around whether they should be allowed to, and not whether we can just ban it because nobody wants to do it anyway. I don't think that's a good way to make rules.
It has a Quectel EG25-G modem.

I've not used this particular device, but I have used Quectel GNSS modules, and they've been a surprisingly helpful company to work with. I'm a nobody, and working with Sony, Trimble, or ublox has been an exercise in frustration; you have to convince a salesperson that you're a big company and you can sell thousands of devices in order to just read the datasheet. This one does have some of the documents locked behind an access request, but in my experience, they've been very generous with those grants.

The modem supports the following bands:

LTE-FDD: B1/B2/B3/B4/B5/B7/B8/B12/B13/B18/B19/B20/B25/B26/B28
LTE-TDD: B38/B39/B40/B41
WCDMA: B1/B2/B4/B5/B6/B8/B19
GSM: B2/B3/B5/B8

which is pretty good. Americans will want 4G bands B2, 4, 5, 12, 13, 14, 17, 20, 25, 26, 29, 30, 41, 66, and 71; this implements 9/15, it's missing bands 14, 17, 29, 30, 66, and 71. Those missing bands are either subsets or supersets of other bands (which could be interesting from a firmware perspective - will a tower with a band 66 antenna give this modem some of the central band 4 subset, or will it try to negotiate a channel that this can't access?), little-used ATT bands, or the 600 MHz T-mobile band 71, which has a wide rollout but poor device support.
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Why are projects like this starting from scratch and not forking from the abandoned Ubuntu phone OS?
Turn you codebase into a reactive, event-driven system
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> I can tell you're being facetious, but you actually just described "television,"

My mom has 64" 4k TV with excellent image quality, but very often (right now, for example) she watches YouTube on her old CoreDuo PC with 24" screen, in small window. I don't know why.

My search bar shows me my past searches, instead of random suggestions, while my URL bar shows my past URL's, which saves tons of time for me when I need to find a past site or a past search. Also, I can quickly select another specialized search engine for a search.

I general, general people needs something simple, while a professional needs something powerful.
> the vaccine literally only contains code for the spike protein

Then does that mean that the spike protein RNA is itself capable of causing adverse reactions? The J&J vaccine is associated with an increased risk of TTS. If that vaccine "literally only contains code for the spike protein" then what else could cause it?

(the rest of your comment is spot-on, I just don't get what's going on with this specific part)
Are you a corporation going around asking for answers, photographing them and storing the images for long term storage without informing them about this? If not, then no, you are not breaching the privacy of anyone.

I know in the US corporations are basically the same as humans, but the rest of the world haven't gotten than dystopian yet.
In essence, the algorithms created to give each user the feed they want has, in fact, given every user the feed the masses want.

That is to say, some people want real, individual, original and ultimately personal content. But the overwhelming activity and reactions to content has driven that out, and left us only with "mass appeal" - the things that get reactions and shares.
By that logic, so does buying cereal and paying taxes.
General purpose technology is amoral; specialized tools are not. Microsoft makes custom software for military applications.
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> I have been wondering what makes some people so motivated to push Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine, because for the life of me I just couldn't imagine that some people could care so much, but then it slowly dawned on me that some people have financial interests in fake cures like this

We have no idea if Ivermectin works. The randomized trials are ongoing.

It would be great if it works. Fantastic. We should all hope that it does. If we're asking questions, let's ask this: why are people so eager to leap to the conclusion that it doesn't work?
The "they can just quit it" part is directly at odds with the "harms their mental health" part. Not being able to quit something that is harming you is at the core of addiction.
Yes, in Canada and the US, we have optional buyer's agents, who pocket a commission from every real estate transaction.
The real scandal is what's legal...
I just want to point out the typo in the heading for the critique about bad documentation:

> Oudtated Documentation
> [...] must have a 'green pass' with a QR code as proof of either full vaccination, recent recovery from infection or a negative test within the previous 48 hours.

These are exactly the rules we have here in Lithuania. Seems like every nation is moving towards EU-wide COVID pass.
Wow this is cool! It would be awesome to learn more about its history. The nameplate (visible at 11:10 [0]) says patented with a date of 1901, which is 10 years before IBM was founded [1]. This was curious to me so I looked up the patent [2], which was granted in 1905. Based on this it seems that IBM must have purchased the rights to this patent and that it was either made or refurbished after 1911.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8VhNF_0I5c&t=670s
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM
[2]: https://patents.google.com/patent/US800979A/en
No, it's still feedback. It indicates an extremely negative emotional response to this idea, or even in the most cynical view, it represents the fact that there is social clout to be gained by having an extremely negative emotional response to this idea. Either way, it means that lots of people don't like it. That's feedback.

Also, it's disingenuous to say that all the responses are just performative words. Tons of people on Reddit and HN have thoroughly laid bare all the problems with this proposal. Just read through the threads.
FAQs for bootstrapped SaaS platform from Botsplash
This is a blog post on a paper [1] by Hal Abelson, Ross Anderson, Steven M. Bellovin, Josh Benaloh, Matt Blaze, Jon Callas, Whitfield Diffie, Susan Landau, Peter G. Neumann, Ronald L. Rivest, Jeffrey I. Schiller, Bruce Schneier, Vanessa Teague, Carmela Troncoso.

To me, the gist is: There is no technical way to make client-side scanning psychologically trustworthy. There are many plausible policy threats.

So this boils down to: The decisions is with governments (some of which are bad) and users (who don't give a collective fuck), so governments will begin to decide the fate of these systems.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.07450
> This is true working just about anywhere.

I’ve worked at a lot of places, and none of the code I’ve ever written has been used to conduct warfare.
Most people, but not everyone.
I'm considering k8s, but that also means moving services from on-prem to AKS, getting INF to open up the necessary firewall rules to make the services reachable from on-prem, and so on. And as you said, it's definitely days of investigation. I'm not closed to the option.
It's strange... I thought we were wired as a species to live vicariously, to feel joy when others are blessed, and feel pain when they suffer. You're not the only one that doesn't get that out of Facebook... Why? Is it the quantity? The format? What turns it into a place of covetousness and bitterness?
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You're conflating "hostility towards science", which doesn't really make sense as a concept and isn't actually widespread at all (unless you count New Age woo type stuff), with "hostility towards specific scientific institutions and their staff" which can make sense for the same reason hostility to any institution or social arrangement can make sense.

Sometimes when you find yourself thinking, maybe lots of people around me are just really, really stupid, it helps to look at analogous situations from other times or places. Do things look different then?

Consider the example of Lysenkoism. It was a strain of thought in the USSR in the 1930s mostly related to biology and agriculture, presented as scientific. And in some ways it was - he made apparently scientific sounding claims about experiments he (claimed he) did around selective breeding, cross breeding of plants etc. But it wasn't actually true and crop yields declined. Unfortunately for ordinary Russians, Lysenkoism became the official biology of the state and all opposition was suppressed. Any scientists who opposed it were censored and "cancelled" (jailed). In its place the media published stories claiming it had led to great harvests in Siberia, and that anyone who opposed it was guilty of "mysticism, obscurantism and backwardness".

Would it have been right for a Russian who knew the truth to threaten Lysenko? Perhaps it's not worth discussing - that would lead to "was it ethical to try and assassinate Hitler" type territory. But at the very least a rejection of it would have been understandable and rational, even though at the time - to someone in the grip of state propaganda - attacks on Lysenko would have seemed like irrational attacks on science itself.

Now you're going to be tempted to argue that people who attacked Soviet biologists and people who attack "COVID scientists" are totally different because obviously COVID science is True, and Soviet agronomy was Not True and therefore there's nothing to learn from it. But we are in the same situation today that the Russians were. Although western media isn't technically state controlled, it might as well be. The media is controlled by people who are extremely loyal to the prevailing state ideology and narrative, to the point that the absurd extremes of media propaganda routinely become memes (let's go brandon!). From within the system it can be hard to tell who is really right, and you should think twice then three times before assuming that you're the one who's got it all figured out.
Well written article and great reminder that Kubernetes is not the answer to everything.
Yes! Another option -- however, Purism are pursuing two challenges at once, developing both the software and the hardware. Pinephone just focuses on hardware.
As much as I dislike this line of argumentation, I think it is important to address it, because people seem to be applying wrong standards and comparisons, when it comes privacy.
AAD?
In a world where engineers at MSFT make $300k+ - that pays ~70k engineers for a year.

There are nowhere near 70k engineers working on this - I'd be surprised if even 7k - but this has been in development for years, and will be in development for a few more.

Depending on how many headsets they planned to deliver - I wouldn't be surprised if they each cost more than $1k - there are like 60k infantry soldiers - so that could easily cost >$60M.

I'd imagine they spent >$100M lobbying on this and Jedi.

I can't see how this would cost anywhere near $22Bn - but military contractors are known to have profit margins >30%.

I'm obviously missing a lot of things - but I wouldn't be surprised if this cost MSFT >$10Bn.
There is a lot more to aerospace than just the primes (Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Northrup Grumman, General Dynamics). There are thousands of smaller companies that produce the parts and services that are used for the big projects.
Community is incredibly valuable to most people. Religious venues are also places of belonging, mutual support, hope, shared activity and moral values.

Unfair exchanges exist in monopolistic forms of capitalism, but in a more competitive free market system, most exchanges will be purely voluntary.
My introduction to Pink Floyd started (late 70s) with Dark Side, and worked its way backwards.

"A Saucer Full of Secrets" and "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" - collected together as "A Nice Pair" - was the peak for me.

I like "Animals" and "Welcome to the Machine". I respect "The Wall" as an artistic piece. But it's not an album I ever bought or had a strong desire to listen to.
alternatively, it is designed enough to ensure a margin of safety required in an experimental aircraft hauling cargo? The expectation should be to anticipate and minimize all failure modes, not to count on shrink-wrap.

source: I have moved a lot of pallets of things, shrink wrap is not for safety it is for convenience. Getting off axis at all with shrink wrap results in failure. (this is why lifting pallets with a skidsteer is much riskier than with a forklift where the pallet is always horizontal.)
Tether's collapse will be to Mt. Gox what Little Boy was to a firecracker.
The impact proper treatment can have on life quality is unfathomable without first-hand experience or having seen it in another. Getting more people access to it, if done properly, is something I can definitely get behind.

I sincerely wish you all the best and hope you can make this this concept work.!
Expensive Dangs :-)
When a system has two billion users, then it is the world's largest government. It really doesn't matter if it meets one nation's definition of monopoly.

Facebook literally rivals the Catholic Church for participation. Zuck is literally the Pope of his own empire.
I saw an article that touched on this for the pinephone (not the pro) and they said that it made and received calls fine but did not originally have dtmf support. If you need to check your voicemail and enter a passcode or use an automated system to pick up your prescription, you could not use it for that. It seems that has been ironed out depending on which OS you put on it.
That's fair. The Cochrane review links to many of the same studies, for what it's worth.
I agree. The only thing that will come after breaking up (destroying) Facebook is that everyone will move to Chinese/Russian platforms.

Generation Z is almost entirely on TikTok so Facebook/Instagram doesn't have a monopoly on them.
That breaks down for anything that is not your kin though. "How do you know the computer is not conscious?" does not allow the answer "Because we are not kin". Best you can say is "Because we are not kin, I don't know". The dog example is illustrative of only half of the question.
I'd just like some acknowledgement that maybe - just maybe! - confirmation bias is kicking in when people make these assumptions.

Maybe the reason for this particular brand of reflexive skepticism is not genuine concern about the quality of the research, but an attempt to rationalize their own actions and beliefs without actually doing any introspection or self-examination.
Non-profit organizations are frequently hotbeds of pathology.

If you work for, say, a for-profit restaurant, you might be working for a rich person but you are satisfying a real need in an ordinary person.

In a non-profit you might be working for

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/buffett-kin...
I agree with what you're saying, but that's exactly the problem. I don't think the author of the source article has a clear, internally consistent standard, and I don't think any consistent standard exists that would tell you Google and Facebook need to be broken up but CVS and Costco don't.
The problem has never, ever been that the legislature faces too much criticism. The "influnce" they have complained about for decades against them is red-faced anger that the scale dares to call them fat, that the mirror makes them look ugly.
For example, individuals are entitled to freedom of assembly, the ability to, say, gather and push for better labor conditions. If we restrict the rights of groups, would the government suddenly say, "Well sure, each of you can ask for labor rights individually, but you can't gather together to do it, because groups shouldn't have the same rights as individuals."

I suppose, I don't think the line between groups and individuals is quite so clear. When does a group become "greater" than the individual in a way that requires the individual to give up certain rights?
This isn’t for me and I don’t ever expect Linux phones to actually take off, but I’m heartened that Pine64 exists and that they are doing this stuff.

I have a Pinebook that I got as a toy machine and was very impressed with the execution. And unlike Purism, Pine64 has good customer/developer communication and isn’t making impossible-to-keep promises about deliverability or even capabilities.

So not for me, but I’m glad this sort of project exists.
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I think the cabin is primarily for weatherproofing purposes. In my experience with shipping/receiving big boxes and pallets of stuff (in the US), shrink wrapping is not a given. Even most shrink wrapped shipments are not weatherproof to the degree where they would remain totally dry when flown under a drone during a rainstorm. Usually the shrink wrapping makes it more "drip proof," for brief periods of sitting outside while being transferred between warehouses/vehicles.

IMO, holding customers to a higher standard of weatherproofing is a non-starter. Adoption of drone transport will be more popular if customers can basically assume the weather exposure is the same as with conventional transport.
Why giant [wind] turbines are pushing the limits of possibility
0 - I've been sick since last March, (long covid?!?) a few minutes of physical activity, and I have to rest for an hour or two. I'm no longer physically fit enough to make gears.

If someone needed a grumpy old pascal programmer, that number could increase somewhat. ;-)
Wtf japan, that was dark
Harvard’s Endowment Soars to $53.2B, Reports 33.6% Returns
good to know, appreciate the clarification! Glad to hear the work is cumulative.
Do these people deserve to die?
I think that's a fair point, but I wonder if I can probe HNs brain on what a "healthy" online social network would look like.

Here are some thoughts I have:

1) The platform does not have a user-engagement incentive.

2) Personal network sizes are restricted. You can't be "friends" with everyone. Adding friends perhaps comes at some cost or is just strictly capped.

3) Sharing outside your friends network from the platform is not possible. This platform is for sharing with your friends, not the world.

4) Trust in the platform and how it shares your data. The easiest way to trust the server is if everything is E2EE, but we all know that's not trivial. Perhaps the limits in scaling E2EE can work synergistically with (2) and (3)

(1) seems to be the hardest thing here in my mind.

Anybody have thoughts on what could make a social network "healthy"?
Yeah, I mean, this is among Canadians willing to fill out a survey online. Frankly it feels like another push in the media world to shift blame to FB.

As far as specifically Canadian factors, maybe don’t survey us in October when the days are getting noticeably shorter? I feel like we are all a little melancholy right now preparing for our lightless morning commutes.
Disappointed they didn't take this opportunity to make hardware switches more conveniently accessible without removing the rear cover, like the Librem 5.

Maybe that's not such a priority when you're fully aware the thing isn't actually usable as a daily driver one might be regularly toggling cell/wifi/camera on.
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A maze or requirement, bureaucracy, and interoperability with existing and TBD systems? Software is expensive to build. Reliable software all that much more.

If you consider an alternative, just make an app and stick phone on a rifle, sure, that will work for 90% of the stuff you want to do, but it would break and that's bad. A true "heads up display" that you can bet your life on, anywhere on earth, at any time, is just a truly massive undertaking.
I kinda fundamentally reject the premise here. When I say that a sandwich is "too expensive", I don't mean that there ought to be a law against selling sandwiches for that price.
Sure, and I understand this sentiment. But in practice/industry, it's best not to build/deploy models you don't understand. Edge cases in ML models that are fully automating business decisions can be pretty dangerous. I think the likelihood of a penicillin level discovery happening when I'm trying to train a model to make better marketing budget decisions for a company is quite low.