skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sir David Amess, Conservative MP, Assassinated at Constituency Meeting in UK
Brilliant app idea. Any plans to expand to new places, or open source?
I don't see many people arguing that climate change will end life on Earth or something. But a mass extinction could mean, for example, that everything in the ocean larger than your hand dies. It could mean, for example, that lush forests full of a myriad of insects, birds, mammals, turn into wastelands. It could mean the extinction of huge swaths of animals, like goodbye raccoons, bears, squirrels, bison, wolves, deer. Or goodbye lizards, turtles, snails, snakes. Maybe it hits a link lower in the chain first, like bees, ants, and whole towers of the ecosystem collapse down from there.

When the dinosaurs were obliterated by the Chicxulub impactor 65 million years ago, 90% of land species also disappeared, never to reappear again. It took millions of years for mammals to emerge as the "victors" of that huge extinction event.

The viewpoint you espouse is just so hollow and frankly, repugnant. The thought that we can just stupidly smash incredibly intricate towers of evolution's genius, flub our precious time on this Earth to move from ignorantly and unintentionally knocking them over to actively raising a sledge hammer to them, justifying it to ourselves that "it will all be fine". Such a destructive attitude ruins everything for everyone. It's flippant and stupid, But it's ultimately, tragically, self-destructive.

It doesn't matter what we think. It's our actions.
Seems like delay of such a big program would have at least a little negative effect on MSFT, but there doesn't appear to have been any at all.
Except the Alex Jones tribe isn’t on HN. I’m leaning towards the tye-dye-hair-babies-cause-global-warming tribe.
SPAs make web resources impossible to index or link to - by definition, they do not contain "pages". OP failed to mention this at all. For me, this is the killer "anti" posture.

Hyperlinks are the defining feature of the WWW; that people put resources on the WWW that can't be linked to, is cause for regret.
> "How are they normally?" It's hard to measure these things with vitals so the AI doesn't have the right data going in, IMO.

Perhaps a task for a smartwatch?
I don't see why the training data would need to be provided. The model would, and that's derived from the training data, but the training data itself shouldn't need to be provided. It is hard to explain a model with any degree of complexity with or without training data, so it might not be easy, but that's just the nature of complex models.
Think the difference is who is explicitly signing contracts.
By removing their money from the existing system and moving it into Bitcoin. If the dollar is the air supply, Bitcoin is the plastic bag over their proverbial head.
And those who could have been wealthy if they did not loose their private keys
hey sebisaacsinflow. i’m a nuero non typical, and i have a lot of hate for your company, and now, for you personally, sir. this app takes advantage of my mental state, and i would just like to state that one big time for the record. gfy.
I am guessing you're trying to say that "flying by the seat of our pants" is somehow bad. (Maybe you're not and that sentence is just too short for me to understand what you mean, in which case I apologize.)

But to expand this analogy, if you're in a plane in conditions nobody has seen before, where the pilots are desperately trying to save as many people as they can before they run out of fuel - do you want the pilot who is open to the reality of the situation and constantly learning new things, or the pilot who confidently follows the nearest checklist without asking if it even works?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_232
This is the only honest way to do automatic payments, and I think it should be a legal requirement for streaming services, gyms, and anything else that charges recurring fees and has the means to track usage. I would even be ok with "we'll charge you for this month, but since you didn't use it we will suspend your service and stop billing you"

I don't know of any services that do this though. So I assume they are all dishonest.
Maybe MSFT is already locked in to the profits from the deal, regardless of delays?
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If that was meant as a counter-argument, it's not. Because it's not about 'wax paper', its about '"wax" paper', as you correctly write.
That Patricia Lee letter is all kinds of shady. What vaccine were the patients given, and how soon before their symptoms? She only waited 7 days between sending a letter to the CDC and getting a law firm who specialized in anti-vaxx causes? Some of the details were changed to protect PII? But we should just trust you? Ok.

A whole lot of Americans took the vaccine in a very short time frame. Some people are going to get sick soon after. And of course in every single case, family members will be sure it was caused by the vaccine, because that's how the human brain works.

6.6B doses of vaccine have been given out worldwide. If side-effects like those were at all common it would come out, and they would have come out during the clinical trials.
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The problem is the system. Let us assume we have 99.9% moral people who never lie and never break the law even if they can gef away with it. Problem is the 0.1% have a competitive advantage. They will accumulate more wealth and power than the others. The others can either compromise on their morality or lose ground against their competition, maybe failing entirely. The amoral people will gain outsized power and will force others to sacrifice their values. The whole system can be corrupted by a tiny minority.

I certainly do blame some individuals who are particularly vile, like Zuckerberg and Musk, but for the most part this is just what happens in competition.
Show HN: Munchy, a search engine to discover recipes
It literally says "Beta" for each phone that is for sale.

https://pine64.com/product-category/pinephone/?v=0446c16e2e6...
If anyone from India bought a PinePhone previously and is no longer using it, feel free to ship it to me :D
It's too late to edit, but after reading about the subscription model, I will not be trying this app.
> The vaccine-hesitant aren't going to go for treatment until the outlook is dire.

Many of them seem quite willing to get ivermectin (whether it works or not is another issue). This is a tribal thing: one tribe has determined that the vaccine isn't something their tribe gets, but many of them seem willing to try other treatments that are acceptable to the tribe. (and yes, that's not rational, but humans are often irrational)
I don't necessarily disagree with you (I generally prefer tried and true), but to turn that metaphor around, there were (probably) many advancements in sailing since the olden days in the field navigation, communication and weather forecast, etc, so a younger or more up-to-date sailboat might have a better time predicting and dodging storms, or even shortening the journey. And any decent skipper would be taking advantage of technologies, even though he/she _could_ navigate with a compass and sextant if needed.
Apple brought out a new feature in iOS 15 where you can modify the settings used in the initial pipeline. Currently you can adjust some basic settings like contrast, saturation, and color shift. Those settings are then applied to all photos as they are pulled off of the sensors.
Indeed.

I think there are three (arguably four, depending on how you categorize) major programming paradigms. If you are competent in one, then learning other languages in the same paradigm is pretty easy because it's really just a change in syntax.

Learning a different paradigm is a bit more difficult because it requires a change in how you conceptualize the problem.
Sorry, I'm not sure I should have gotten your hopes up like that: First and foremost, calling does not work.

Hosting a Matrix server [0], configuring the bridge [1], then running the client [2] anywhere you are will allow you to send and receive Whatsapp messages, status updates, pictures, videos, etc.

It's currently limited to using the WebUI - this means one is limited to the functions available through Whatsapp Web. This may, someday, possibly, change with Whatsapps new multi-device implementation, but I'd advise taking it for what it is instead of hoping it'll happen any time soon.

All that said, I've been using it for some time now. It's gotten much more stable, and I can recommend it for what it is.

[0] https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/setup/installati...

[1] https://matrix.org/bridges/

[2] https://matrix.org/clients/
Those special features all have a maintenance cost, and if no one is around to pay it then their usefulness will diminish until they reach the threshold where it's not worth it anymore. Not sure why any filtering algorithm would be considered out of the ordinary. Do you know how many scientific and mathematics packages I've seen that are are really old, outdated, and suffering bitrot? Quite a few. In fact that seems to be a field where the old algorithms are discarded fairly regularly in favor of new ones. The older algorithms that remain popular do tend to stick around.
You're saying that as if it means tech should have a large, expensive barrier to entry.

That financial barrier is a problem in those other fields too, and it does disproportionately affect people from disadvantaged backgrounds in those fields. Your argument is basically "well it's tough for the poors to become a doctor, so it would be okay if it's tough for them to become a software engineer too!"

EDIT: also, the costs incurred by becoming a doctor or nurse are debts to educational institutions and licensing boards which, ostensibly, are doing good by educating and regulating. This is a proposal for a financial barrier imposed by your employer, and paid for by your social or professional networks. It's not the same.
Yes. The old-school PHP programmers seem to eventually move to Go. Going back to Go from C++ is almost unheard of.
Because if you woke up as me, you'd be me.

Let's assume that consciousness works in roughly the way implied by your question: it exists, but it exists entirely separately from both the body and from mental contents.

Now, let's further assume that the scenario you're proposing actually happened. Last night, in our sleep, you and I switched souls. Yesterday's me is actually you now, and yesterday's you is actually me now.

How can either of us tell the difference? Clearly the contents of our consciousness - our memories, knowledge, skills, perceptions, emotions, etc. - are attached to the body, particularly the brain. This is just the assumption we started with. What, then, makes you you and me me? Clearly our souls aren't doing a very good job at telling the difference!
I recently bought my children an Oculus Quest because ... nagging. And I was utterly blown away.

I understand why every billionaire is betting on this in some way.

I would however put these goggles firmly in the camp of weapons like the tank that fires hundreds of missiles that fly off independently and destroy a hundred passing tanks. There is such a distance from "kinda works in demo" to "killing active enemy" that it is barely worth thinking about for five years or more.

I would have to put other projects up top like

- when all the civilian engine development turns to batteries and electric, how the hell do we keep our planes trains and automobiles running. Just how expensive will getting the gas get?

- Do ship defences really work? I would want to be pretty sure we test fire every kind of drone and missile at real ships and see if they shoot them down.

- In defiance of everything i wrote above, Apparently there is a cool targeting sight that puts a red dot on where the bullet will land based on distance, weather etc etc. It "apparently" makes every squaddie a sniper and is going to roll out to US army real soon. My question is once soldiers get out of a vehicle, how lethal is the battlefield now? What's the survival time measured in minutes under sniper and artillery fire? The last time the battlefield was insanely lethal people just dig trenches to even survive the day.
I think "nigh" is meant to modify "owner", not "beneficial". I think the lawyer saying is saying that the KSA figuratively owns Twitter, and that Twitter benefits from that relationship. Golden handcuffs, basically.

That is the most awkward phrasing I've seen in a long time. I'm not even sure it's grammatically correct. I would've expected "beneficial nigh-owner" or something like that.
> If device vendors are compelled to install remote surveillance, the demands will start to roll in. Who could possibly be so cold-hearted as to argue against the system being extended to search for missing children? Then President Xi will want to know who has photos of the Dalai Lama, or of men standing in front of tanks; and copyright lawyers will get court orders blocking whatever they claim infringes their clients’ rights. Our phones, which have grown into extensions of our intimate private space, will be ours no more; they will be private no more; and we will all be less secure.
Pinebook Pro (same SoC) has 1080p panel.

It works fine and SoC is fast enough to drive it. Even A64 will drive 1080p external monitor just fine (if you turn off the GPU and use older software made for it, like Xorg, and i3wm).

I believe the power efficiency argument, though. Pinephone pro needs every bit of power savings it can get, because RK3399 is not exactly a phone SoC.
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This is so exciting to see! I'm excited about the internal changes to MRI to unlock even bigger performance. I'd also love to see some research on what FFI changes would be helpful for enabling more performance across the FFI boundary. A lot of conversation ends up at "well, we go into C and it's terrible" but that feels defeatist.
Well you're wrong.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7996102/

"Ivermectin was found as a blocker of viral replicase, protease and human TMPRSS2."
I don't think so... I thought GP was explaining how they would be quantifying qualia, and pointed out that this is kind of against the definition of the word.

Maybe I missed something.
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(mostly, anyways)
Yeah it's possible that was it, but also "Through an internal audit, the NSA determined that Winner was one of six workers who had accessed the particular documents on its classified system".

The lesson to take away is that metadata of all kinds is powerful. Even if The Intercept had just provided paraphrases to the NSA it might have still given away Reality Winner's identity.
There's no hard threshold, the star just fades gradually from #FFF to #000.

A fully black dwarf would be so cold it would be indistinguishable from cosmic background radiation, but that's going to take at least a trillion times longer than the current age of the universe. Not just slightly longer.
As a side note, I'm a little saddened when I see friends apologize for their posts. There's such a reaction to "influencer culture" that people feel like foodgrams and humblebrags are a terrible thing, and in excess they certainly can be, but I think from most people it's a billion times better than strawman political arguments and manipulative media that is far worse for our mental health than just comparing ourselves to someone's good day.

I had a friend post a picture of food made from ingredients they had made in their own garden, and it made them feel so good to eat it because they had had a rough year and it was a good personal win, so they apologetically posted a photo of it.

Forget the rest of the trash on Facebook - seeing a friend I haven't seen in a while experience something good and being able to share that with them is something we need more of in the world. I'd trade away all the "only geniuses can remember the order of operations for this future scam page" or "you won't believe how this person misrepresents their opponents views and tears that misrepresentation apart!" and keep stuff like this.
Even Texas has vaccination mandates for children (PDF): https://dshs.state.tx.us/immunize/school/pdf/6-14-2021-2022-... so "medical decision between doctor and patient" is horseshit. Or to be more polite, irrelevant, because that decision is still there, i.e. a doctor can give you an exemption after determining you're unable to have the vaccine.

And the only difference between what I wrote and what you're painting is the timeline. Your comment means to me: maybe the government means no harm with their mandate, but what if they get away with it and exploit this compliance in the future? So my argument from the grandparent comment applies: what will their goal be in this scary future? If it's a dubious reason, I'll be there to fight it. But I guess you have a head start there, against this "evil Biden regime" that wants a compliant population to control!
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As far as I can tell ivermectin has only been "studied" against TMPRSS2 in silico. The better-studied purported mechanism of ivermectin against SARS-CoV-2 involves something called importin [1]. On the other hand, bromhexine, which is a cough medicine used OTC around the world does inhibit TMPRSS2 and may have action against SARS-Cov-2 [2]. Bromhexine is a prodrug for ambroxol, which is also an OTC cold medicine in much of the world.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32251768/
[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32983936/
Can you expand on why you prefer the JS-heavy SPA style?
There is no "pain" managing large React / Redux applications for experienced frontend software engineers. If you don't want to write JavaScript, you probably shouldn't be building interactive applications for the web.

The Browser manages HTML, CSS and JavaScript and provides Developer Tools to debug and manage these languages. When you build with a javascript framework, you package a user experience that is entirely run by the browser, only to dispatch and save to the server when necessary.

I doubt there is a future for "backend SPA" frameworks- no one will take seriously the idea of, instead of two REST calls to get and put data, every client must connect through a socket to manage user input. Surely that will dramatically increase server bandwidth, and ignite the same type of "bloat" arguments that SPA critics use.
He'd been doing it over over 20 years before he was given the contract.

Also what does fair and reasonable consideration mean, more hoops of paper should have been jumped through before making this decision?

In hindsight they obviously made the right choice. If you select a random artist or entertainer to give money to what are the chances they'll get nearly as famous as this wizard?
Or, if they were writing to the council in New Zealand, it's all the other letters that are upside-down.
Just like every other 「fact-check」 I’ve seen recently, this just attacks the most weak and absurd version of the fact. The reason people are saying it’s repackaged ivermectin is not because it’s literally the same chemical in new packaging, but because the mechanism of action for Pfizer’s new antiviral (3CL protease inhibitor) is something that Ivermectin also does.
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When I first saw their Indiegogo advertising that it could boot Linux, I tried looking for any pictures/video/evidence of it, and found nothing.
> For example, if China demanded Apple hand over information on which all iPhone users have <x> religious app installed so it can profile or do worse things to that group, would Apple just oblige?

iCloud data for Chinese is now stored on Chinese servers, after famously not being stored there.
Computer docking simulations don't prove anything and are only possibly useful for initial drug screening.
Thank you for sharing this!

I tried looking for this on QL and github but couldn't find it ... do you know if the common cold source code is still available somewhere?
Horrifying to imagine such technology in the hands of the US military. The rest of the world dreads the death and destruction that will result from this, while brainwashed Americans cheer them on.
>I would honestly not have the nerve to release a product with software in the state the Pinephone is in today.

To be fair, they're clearly marked as "Beta" on their store.

https://pine64.com/product-category/pinephone/?v=0446c16e2e6...
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One big problem is that that the CDC and other authorities failed miserably at reminding the public that their guidance was often based on weak, but directional evidence. The net result given other dynamics was people taking it to be gospel or bullshit, and when reversals occurred it was memory holed by the former and taken as vindication by the latter.
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Windows is a real easy way to break into new, young developers and gamers and generate hype.

Even for established products, so many enterprises have mixed Linux/Windows that supporting Windows as a first class citizen can get you in the door there in a lot of places.

If you don't have an easy frictionless story on Windows you're still missing out in 2021, and because so many people think that Windows isn't relevant its a real easy way to capture a market segment. Neglecting windows is leaving money/mindshare on the table.
Whether or not you think current contract tracing implementations are benign, it's clear that with covid governments have found a magic wand, more powerful than children or terrorism, that can be used to wave away dissent or constitutional rights "for our safety". Covid has been a huge boon to western promoters of the kind of privacy invasion your talking about
Which is all any of us have access to, and which all science is couched within

Objective reality is just consensus reality
> The analogy with the railroads simply is not apt, their monopoly was so powerful because there was often no other way to get from point A to point B, so they had complete leverage.

I still believe the analogy holds, just substitute geographical points A and B with person A and person B (or business A to potential client B), and the similarities are obviously clear. There is often no other way to get from person A to person B than to use Facebook, or from person C to D without Twitter, ... . Yes, there are various social networks, but there was also various railway barons. Just like the railway was not a single nationwide monopoly, but instead a series of smaller regional monopolies, a single social network is not an all encompassing internet-wide monopoly, but instead a monopoly lording over a subgroup.
Good catch, thank you. While Steam currently prints money AFAIK, they're simultaneously 30 years behind Apple and Microsoft (as far as being the driving force of a desktop) and the reason Steam (and gaming on Linux) has come so far, so fast recently.
We truly don't own our devices.
I know that teenage boys are tempted to do this, having been one myself.

Swerving around animals on the road can cause serious problems, whether you are trying to hit them or avoid them. And more often people seem to be trying to avoid them.
There's more to screen quality than just pixels.
I hope that someday a billionaire could donate a few hundred million to a product like this so we can finally have a true Linux phone that can compete with android and Linux.

What about finding 1 million nerds like me that would like to donate 100 to a crowdfunding campaign just to the software side of the phone?.