skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Edit: My understanding of the science here was at least slightly wrong. Please see the reply from
LurkingPenguin and eventually my reply to them

I think results like vaccinated individuals “can” have viral loads as high as unvaccinated individuals are next to useless. I need to know how likely I am to have high viral loads and my understanding of the science there is that vaccines still do a decent job of lowering the odds. I know you aren’t really arguing against vaccination here, but it seems like it needed to be said and I think the “vaccinated individuals can have high viral loads” line is particularly bad
Facebook also sells the Oculus Quest 2 for business. You need to activate it with a workplace.com account, but the headset no longer requires a personal Facebook account to work.

Incidentally, the business version is also twice as expensive and comes with a yearly $180 support subscription. The price of privacy, I suppose.
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Most important paragraph, IMO:

> Conducted Oct. 8 to 10, the online poll surveyed 1,545 Canadians and cannot be assigned a margin of error because internet-based polls are not considered random samples.

It's a pretty good sample-size, but we don't get error bars. I don't remember if there was anything FB-critical happening that week (when did the study about teen mental health come out?), but the timeframe could also affect the survey.
When I first saw this, I thought it ought to be possible to express the encoding/decoding in simple computations, but I only just got a chance to try things out[1].

There are many things I'd fiddle with in the original source. I noticed that since I first saw this post, someone even contributed an AVX2 implementation[2]. I stayed strictly in the standard C land:

This function converts a given character to the corresponding half-nibble (or dibit, don't really know what to call a pair of bits):

uint8_t
ws_to_half_nibble(uint8_t ws)
{
return ((ws >> 1) & 3) | (ws >> 4) | (ws >> 5);
}

Encoding a half-nibble to one of the four whitespace characters can be done using:

uint8_t
half_nibble_to_ws(uint8_t b)
{
const uint8_t b0 = b & 1;
const uint8_t b1 = b & 2;
return '\t' + b0 + 2 * b1 + 18 * (b0 & (b1 >> 1));
}

I haven't actually had a chance to investigate any performance gains, but this answers the question of whether we can replace the lookup tables with simple functions with no branching.

[1]: https://www.nu42.com/2021/10/another-optimization-tale.html

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28859061
This is true working just about anywhere.

I’m far more concerned about the demand-side of this equation.
Last I checked, studies on the issue of social media and mental health are pretty mixed and inconclusive. But it is a popular belief regardless
First observation: their research points out 80% of transactions are via exchanges and it seems their research basically does nothing to analyse that 80%, it's all on-chain analysis (ie, completely worthless and extremely ironic since they literally describe the block chain being a move away from a "few centralized record keepers" - bitcoin is far better, only accounting for 80%)

>"Without proper regulation, this is going to be a very dangerous place for many retail investors.”

I don't like Bitcoin. I hold no bitcoin. Even for me, this reeks of institutionalism. Is it better that you pay repetitive over-draft charges at your bank or exorbitant fees to your local investment advisor, or watch your savings disappear into nothing through inflation? I don't know how, but MIT is radicalising me.

To be honest the over-arching theme of this article is just "let's apply all the legacy regulations to bitcoin". Which is probably right in general, but this article does a poor job of selling it.
Appreciate your response!

"Both will be sold at the same time" -- ah now I see what they're going for. Does this mean further fragmentation of their limited dev resources?
I see, you lead HN and HN is an independent piece of YC. You're not involved in the incubator side of YC? Makes sense.

Thanks for explaining, and thanks for working so hard to shepherd HN :)
> Something like 40+% of America seems perfectly content to vote for steaming piles of racist garbage.

Yes, and? This doesn’t mean 40% of America is racist.

People can’t line item features out of people and they vote for the sum of all parts.

If I had to choose between a racist plumber who was competent and a non-racist, incompetent; I will likely choose the racist plumber. I don’t think I’m racist. But this now means that I support systemic racism in some way. But then we all do, including victims even. So I think the important factor is whether people choose the best option given all factors.

Since everything is mixed together it’s hard to tell someone’s intent is racist or non-racist. Or to tell us racism has a significant effect on a particular item. When we spend time calling out many random things (like this dumb product potentially being extra dumb because it might increase systemic racism) I think it detracts from the actual work of increasing human equality.
>There are far too many out-of-the-box bugs and glitches to consider this a usable product.

Their phones are clearly marked as "Beta" on their store[1]. Forgive me for being so blunt, but what did you expect?

[1]https://pine64.com/product-category/pinephone/?v=0446c16e2e6...
> For many years, their software was trivial to pirate

Many years, including this year (or at least, that's what a "friend" who's running Photoshop 2021 tells me).
Giggle. Have you heard about the idea of using Hovercrafts in the harbour, to ferry containers from one place to another? Because the road and rail-traffic is often maxed out already?
The media is showing that conservatives are openly hostile to vaccines. It's not the black folk or Mexicans who are causing Idaho to have the lowest state vaccination rates. State vaccination rates correlate almost perfectly with states which voted for Biden versus those who voted for Trump. It's not black folk "doing their own research" and posting about it online. It's not minorities who are calling people who get vaccines sheep. It's not liberals passing bans on local businesses protecting their own employees by requiring customers wear masks.

https://www.businessinsider.com/white-conservative-most-vacc...
It's always been about class. But the race narrative is easier for the CNNs/Fox News to sell. When it's about class, people start talking too much about people who have money, and the execs don't like that.
I love sphere packing, but we don't know that neurons do sphere packing. Check out Shimada et. al. Bubble Mesh for some fun sphere-packing algos.
"Janneke Parrish was terminated for deleting files off her work phone, including the apps Robinhood, Pokémon GO, and Google Drive"

Umm, what? Truly bizarre reason given. I would think Apple could give a more plausible reason to cover themselves for retaliation for organizing.
I mean it is a trade off though. You cannot beat the speed of light. The further apart your database servers are, the more lag you get between them.

If you want a transactional, consistent datastore you are gonna have to put a lock on something while writes happen. And if you want consistency it means those locks need to be on all systems in the cluster. And the entire cluster needs to hold that lock until the transaction ends. If your DB’s are 100ms apart… that is a pretty large, non negotiable overhead on all transactions.

If you toss out being fully consistent as a requirement, things get much easier in replication-land. In that case you just fucking write locally and let that change propagate out. The complexity then becomes sorting out what happens when writes to the same record on different nodes conflict… but that is a solvable problem. There will be trade offs in the solution, but it isn’t going against the laws of physics.
It used to be that you could use developer tools to emulate a smartphone and be redirected to the mobile site, which would let you post.
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I don't think I agree with you about the scientific evidence of those two positions.

Masking children outside in 90-degree weather (especially with cloth masks instead of medical ones) may be ineffective, but it is harmless, modulo speculation about children's need to recognize faces etc. It doesn't impact breathing capacity or anything, and it certainly doesn't put you at more risk of getting the virus.

Claims that the vaccines are poison are not only actively wrong but actively dangerous. Adopting this position, i.e., refusing to get the vaccine, puts you at risk.

I understand a whole lot of people are offended by people wearing masks outside. That's fine! It's a free country, you can be offended by whatever you want. But the claim that it is contraindicated by science just as much as the anti-vax position is ludicrous.
Sure, don't take ivmmeta.com analysis at face value, but I was pointing out that they link to numerous legitimate studies which did find positive results, thus refuting the OP's claim that nobody who looked into this ever found anything.
I don't see anything wrong with it. Surely a lot of people with ADHD would be happy to pay for an app that helps them overcome their problem, and the monetary price most likely exceeds the benefit (assuming the method used by this app works as advertised). In fact the price is much cheaper than a regular visit to a therapist. The problem I see here is the current subscription model. If people are happy with the trial, and see results, they would be happy to subscribe for a monthly fee along with their Netflixes and Spotifys.
Yes, though there may be some other adjustments it makes.
This is just a feature of their Halide app that gives an approximation of macro photos within the limits of the existing lenses. You would need to buy an iPhone 13 Pro to get the new lenses that can focus down to actual macro ranges. The app has lots of manual controls for taking photos that are not exposed on the default camera app.
Biohackers: The untold story of how DIY experimenters waged war on Covid-19
A good start would be 4 day work weeks. I'm so sick and tired of my friends being too busy to hang out. 2 Days is just enough time to rest up, have a day of fun with the GF/Wife/Family and get some things done around the house.

Instead of buying things which will materially improve their lives, people give their money to companies so that they can hire more people to work 5 days a week... instead of just building the life they want with that money. Our current work culture is bad for the economy, environment and social life, and is from an era before the finalization of heavy engineering and the start of automation.
Senators aim to block tech giants from prioritizing own products over rivals’
AFAIK the ads don't really correspond to the content. Regardless if you are looking for weight loss, business success, or liberation, you come into contact with the same teachings because it does all of the above. It brings people in with concepts they are familiar with.
https://archive.ph/zmTKz
A good reminder that working at Bell Labs means that your phone lines may one day be used by mass murderers.

Technology is amoral; the science of the atom is not evil just because it led to the atomic bomb.
Sites report their data back to Google analytics and Facebook by implementing their pixels. People don't do this for Amazon, ebay, wechat.
Am I breaching the privacy of the people I saw at the grocery store yesterday because I can remember what their faces look like?
We are operating on faith mode, but authoritarians are treating the situation increasingly as though we aren't. If you have to take a drug that still be proven to hurt specific subpopulations (as any drug could fairly be expected to in eg phase 4 trials) to get a job or go to the store, something is very wrong.
Unfortunately I think AOSP distributions are a long-term dead-end. Unless maybe if there was a hard fork. Or else it's just a scramble to keep up with whatever changes google is making, dealing with unsupported hardware and hoping that whoever maintains the build for you device knows what they're doing, and re-implementing gapps to try to get some mostly broken compatibility.
I think these days things have changed and a language server and a VSCode plugin are probably minimum table stakes.
He's "CTO as a service"

Imagine turning up to a job and this guy is in charge of decisions...shudder.
Is it so hard to use an adapter to USB-C?

These days wireless earbuds are probably more popular than wired for mobile use.
But that doesn't get them editorial influnce over an estate of power! Seriously it has been obvious from the start that the pissiness over "big tech" is really about them not doing the impossible and providing the exact influnce they want. So monopoly is their legal thug pretext because the judge would break their hand slapping them across the face for their blatantly First Ammendment violations if they said what they really wanted.
How do you figure 50%? It's not like groups of friends are going to put it to a vote and say "Let's go use this other thing". And even if they did, alternatives to Facebook simply don't exist for people to switch to (I'd be happy for somebody to give me an example of a comparable service to what Facebook offers in terms of features and ease of use).

And even if one does exist, most groups of people aren't going to abandon the <50% of those who do want to stay on the platform.

From the article:

> However, more than three in four believe the social network helps them stay connected to their loved ones, with just over 50 per cent saying it is key to sharing information and positive for free expression.
Remember, the F16 runs Kubernetes!
Two thoughts:

- I'd be very surprised if Apple releases their AR headset without a similar-size (70% or more) investment over the preceding decade. RDT&E for environment-aware devices is incredibly expensive.

- Defense funding and procurement amounts often shock those not in the industry, but the truth is that the entire market for most of what the DoD funds is...the DoD. Sure, a lot of the components and IP can be reused in the commercial sector, but for most programs the DoD has to fund both the initial R&D and the unit sales, because the market is so much smaller and device sales are heavily restricted (e.g. ITAR). The DoD also has MUCH broader and stricter requirements for security, safety, reliability, and compliance with a daunting array of standards and processes than the commercial industry. To be clear, this is on net a good thing for the DoD and by extension the rest of the USA, but it does increase development costs.

Certainly there is profit being made by Microsoft here, that's kind of the point of partnering with the DoD. But the intuitive comparison of "DoD programs should cost the same as developing a commercial equivalent" that many of us make is fundamentally apples and oranges in both the product development and the economics.
What I find stunning is that for some reason that I cannot fathom, other than my assumption that people feel a political loyalty that blinds them...

Some people now feel that taking livestock deworming pills is safer than being vaccinated. As if a vaccine is inherently dangerous and that taking a horse pill is safe.

News flash:

* Taking random animal medicine in any form is inherently risky.

* Overdosing on pills designed to deliver medicine to 1000 lbs animals is unreasonably likely

* Tampering with over the counter horse medicine is trivial compared to a medically controlled injection. Remember the Tylenol scare?

* A bad pill can kill you just as dead as a bad injection.

* The US already has required shots. You have almost certainly received them. Diabetics likely take shots 3 or 4 times a day.

* There is far more actual research on taking covid shots than taking horse medicine. Other than we know horse medicine overdoses are up 250% this year "for some reason".

To those who simply can't get over the political nature of being vaccinated, I ask

Would you serve your kids cat food because Tucker Carlson questioned if the food provided by school meal programs was safe because it came from 'the government'?

because that is essentially what you are doing now if you take livestock medicine rather than be vaccinated.

To those who can't get past the notion of doing something you simply don't want to do, I recommend that you reflect on what the term "Patriot" means at its core.

Is a patriot one who is willing to do something they potentially don't want to do in order to protect the people or is a patriot only someone willing to protect their own interests?

Sometimes I think people in America confuse liberty with anarchy and patriotism with political loyalty. You say that lockdowns and masks are BS. Well, then here is a way to minimize them. Get vaccinated.

I think the FDA sums it up nicely:

"You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y'all. Stop it,"
I agree with you that I wish social media was full of more posts like this, but foodgrams and humble brags as you put it are also one of the reasons I avoid social media these days. Seeing a feed of the best moments of other peoples lives leaves me feeling depressed. "Comparison is the thief of joy." I'm happy for my friends, but seeing it all collected in one place makes my own life feel inadequate. I'm much happier when I avoid social media.
From the comments of that article:

I reread your breakdown of the FitNesse code example a few times and I felt less and less generous about the analysis each time. Here's two and half questions:

1) If private fields are NOT to be considered implicit arguments to every private method, what exactly are they for? (And if they should not be modified, why would they be anything other than 'final'?)

2) Why do you consider Martin's definition of side-effect, which speaks of 'global state' and 'unexpected changes' to include changes to private members of the class in functions that document those changes via their signature?

You could answer those uncharitably and make Uncle Bob look bad, or you could answer them charitably and then his code makes sense.

I also have to say I don't understand how 'illegible trash' is remotely an appropriate description. This is as good as just about anything I've seen in actual production work in 10 years. It's extremely readable and quite testable. There are nits to pick (and you've done an excellent job of that), but for some part of those at least I feel like they're to be picked with 2008 Java API and coding standards rather than the author.

I can't see that reading this book would be a net negative for 95% of people writing OO code. If you also don't know of a better book either, I'm stumped as to why you'd stop recommending it.

Finally, it looks to me like there's people out to get Uncle Bob cancelled for not being on-board with a certain political invasion of software that's going around at the moment (you can already see a comment calling him 'a terrible human'), so I'm somewhat suspicious of ulterior motives here. If that's not your intent, my apologies.

I did like this article in general and found it to be plenty insightful, so I'd love to read more from you.
Don't worry, we've switched to clean coal because it's better for the environment
He said ivermectin was not found to block TMPRSS2. I linked a nih study that said it did.

Now its about proving its efficacy against sars-cov-2?

I believe this is called "moving the goalposts".

And there we have it - in silico is fine for this new substance that will likely have a huge price tag. Not fine for an existing generic.

Far fewer people are buying this nonsense these days.
I thought for a moment they were just going to turn baseball in to cricket.
I can't believe I have to say it again. Do not quote me. This time you omitted the next sentence that ties those two ideas together.

You're clearly malicious and cannot listen to simple personal requests. I hope you can become a better person in the future.

Goodbye
> No reasonable person is going to interpret this as "they admitted they didn't weigh the risks".

You know, you can see what I actually wrote in the quote — note the key word missing from this paraphrase: rational. I am certain that they made a subjective assessment of the risks — my point was that they hadn't critically analyzed that decision but still want it to be treated as equal in merit to the scientific consensus.

A key part of science is testing your beliefs: that's what the scientists who've spent decades working on mRNA vaccines did, that's what the extensive trials leading up to approval were for, and it's quite telling that you are both not doing that and trying to claim that ongoing monitoring means that the results of that earlier work are unreliable. Yes, scientists are still evaluating evidence — that's what they do! — but when it consistently points to the same conclusion over a long period of time and has been used to make accurate predictions, it starts to be considered a consensus.
I merely expect said pilots to not pretend 'we are flying according to time tested FAA rules and regulations'.
Alberta has a lot of oil, and even created a fund, the Heritage Fund, in the 1970s to save some of the wealth from drilling oil.

Unfortunately Alberta has mismanaged that fund so it is now far smaller than Norway's.

https://thenarwhal.ca/norway-s-oil-savings-just-hit-1-trilli...
it 's not just missing error bars, this is not a sample, period. so it's not something reliable.
what region, if you don't mind me asking?
This is cool! But it probably is of little value. It is the process of writing the notes that helps the information to sink in.
Preventing an optimising compiler from removing or reordering code
I largely agree with the assessment. I am still glad I bought mine, because even though it is gathering dust, I am hoping the purchase contributed somewhat to a better mobile future.

I may have mentioned it before, but default OS is just painful to use ( thankfully, there are other options ). And here is the part of the problem. I am motivated to use it. Right now it still feels so janky, most people won't even get past initial boot process.
An ever-louder alarm that eventually electrocutes you will work. It'd need to be location-aware so it knows that you really did unload the dishwasher.
From the featured article “Janetka co-founded a biotechnology startup company called ProteXase Therapeutics”

I guess you could see what their business plan is?
Infrastructure is completely overrated for innovation. We have global leaders in tiny villages on the Schwäbische Alb, who deliver parts to anywhere in the World without having an Autobahn anywhere near them. If you have ever been to the Silicon Valley you might have noticed that internet and wireless is a mess. At least when I lived there it was really bad. Same with any cab service by the way, which are way more efficient in Germany.

Improving infrastructure might increase your personal efficiency. It won't help innovation in any way.

PS: A great example how infrastructure is irrelevant can be seen in this Ted Talk. It compares India and China after WWII.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR-uWwvpn5c
It's easy to click the button for the response you think people want to hear. Polls mean nothing except for the people being paid to run them.
Meant to post something like this before. If it’s helpful here’s a pretty decent article on current bot mitigation issues:

https://datadome.co/bot-management-protection/bot-detection-...
It's efficacy as measured as "chances of getting sick" declines significantly, but it's still pretty effective.

But the protection against hospitalization and death is still very robust even after almost a year.
I think the comparison between VS Code and Chrome is spot on. Monoculture in the text editor/IDE space is a very real risk right now.