skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think average consumers use $80 webcams.

If you're not a 45k+ a year type, you might very well be doing remote work on phones, assuming you're WFH at all. Almost all laptops have built-in cameras and the convenience factor is pretty high.

Even if you are, webcams could very well run in 480Mbps if they had to, if in camera encoding was still the norm, which it would be if high speed cables weren't (theoretically) widespread.

I agree that the situation might not be ideal for people doing stuff beyond average consumer level, but even that could be mostly worked around with a controller firmware update(Count the bit error rate, inform the user if they are using a trash cable).

No amount of standardization and marking of the cables will eliminate scammers without killing cheap uncertified stuff totally, so I would think software and documentation fixes would be best.

Most stuff already comes with a suitable USB cable. Just pop up a reminder to fish out the good one if the one you're using is bad.
The story of hydroxychloroquine is much misunderstood. People remember it as “Trump’s horse dewormer” but it was one of the first potential treatments to emerge in the Chinese standard of care in the early stages of the pandemic. That fact, combined with the “fog of war” and that we know hcq is well tolerated in humans makes it a fairly reasonable bet.

The bet being wrong is a separate matter to whether or not it was reasonable. Conversely, I would argue the early anti-mask messaging was unreasonable based on similar logic (well bounded and low costs, potentially high benefits).

The conclusion that I know some people took away from it is that critical thinking is not an evolutionarily favored trait in certain administrative roles.
> Nokia N9 was the best phone I have ever owned.

I'll counter with the Nokia N900.

> I believe, they should have pushed with Meego. With vendor support their OS could've been a hit.

So say we all.
1) it's not a platform,

2) 192000 is the number for mastodon, there's a wider network that mastodon servers are a part of,

3) this is not some company like twitter or gab or whatever with quarterly performance announcements and user on boarding targets, it is software that works, works well and people use it. That's the criteria for "not a failure" in this case.

You know whats a failure? The corporate "unite the world by sharing ideas, a better world through freedom of information exchange" ideology and motivation of the founders of the big tech sites, specifically twitter. They have already proven this by abandoning it. They're failures.
> In Britain, people from both places will leave their shoes on indoors at home

This is by no means a universal thing here!
You remind me of this EU project officer who wanted us to tweet more for our project. And set up a Linkedin account. And maybe an instagram account too (we could also crosspost in our lab's facebook). We had to fight her to stop using google analytics to track the website visitors.

Unfortunately we can't train 100% of people to understand all the science that gets published. That's why scientists need to learn to trust each other and communicate to the public as a single body, not as individual scientists. How they are going to do that, that's internal to the body of scientists. Politics has broken scientific unity, fix it.
I think it should be obvious that they measure lots of things and that the data says the page isn't used very much. This is a case of the data not telling you the full story. That happens sometimes. Data needs to be interpreted, and sometimes people get it wrong. There's probably a lesson in there somewhere.

However... This is tech, and the way engineering teams in tech work these days means it's probably something as simple as this feature is considered low impact and not "career enhancing", so no one was willing to take on maintaining it or promoting it. The only option was to kill it. When someone saw how passionate users are about it they changed their mind.
This is an interesting take. A fairly elitist take at that. You do realize that generally the people who live in the non-“better sections” (as you put it) of large cities generally vote in line with how the super highly educated elite people that live in Silicon Valley vote.
Yes, it's normal. What you don't use you lose. When you need it, you'll be surprised how much will come back but don't expect to be as good as when you learned it.

Is it worth relearning? Only when you need it. The big problem comes when you need to change jobs. If the industry has moved on from what you know then you'll have a hard time finding a job. What make sense is to stay aware of the industry trends and keep up to date.
Either that we actively (doubtful) ignore non-click-bait, more that we are programmed (in some sense) to only pay attention to click-bait.

It is genuinely difficult to ignore things which sound alarming but usually either nonsense or much less alarming, than it is to actively investigate everything, whether it seems alarming or not.

The later is much more difficult but also a lot more fruitful - it is why Google News was so good, a simple collation of all news instead of only click-bait-y news, and why it is genuinely terrible now (mostly dominated by click-bait-y news again).

And again, an illustration of active versus passive - actively filtering google news feeds was fruitful, passively filtering led to algorithmic optimizations which ultimately favored high click counts and therefore more click-bait-y news...and ultimately at this point to being "click-bait highlights of the day", akin to some nonsense like yahoo or msn news.
The grandparent does rather seem to want to replace Lisbon with Disneyland.
Is IMDB Deleting 1-Star Reviews of "The Rings of Power"?
It appears that IMDB is hiding or deleting reviews under 5/10 for Amazon's new "Lord of the Rings" series. Several people are reporting their own reviews have now disappeared as well...

EDIT -- Edited the Title for a bit more clarity.
I mean, how exactly do you argue with something like "0.5% of users have visited this page in the past 12 months, and 0.3% of users have only visited once"?

I don't know what their telemetry said, but generally it's something like this.

This is empirical enough to say decisively "most people do not care about this feature."
I wish I could speak more to the experience directly. I eventually got a n900 used but after the fall, & I was a college kid with no real need for it.
What was thrilling & exciting & totally different was that the n900 was a computer. A regular computer. Trying to learn how to make GNOME an ok experience, on very low res mobile. But we knew essentially what it was; it obeyed & played within the regularinux desktop environment world. it was a linux desktop environment, and that gave it open potential. Everything is/was orchestrateable/controllable by dbus, the user's control plane. All the apps exposed themselves over IPC. It played in the connected desktop world as best of breed.

The failure of this situation to talk about how intensely stupid it was to give up on the platform is farcically bad. What was here was incredible. It needed improvement & work but the architecture was immensely omni-potential, more capable clearly & growing well known existing tech well, rather than alternate reality symbian or then counter respondes danger or android. weird new alternates to actual linux desktop. Selling out to MS was one of the most shortsighted sorry pathetic givings ups, in a time of vast growth with fantastically little belief in yourself & your people doing good. There was no technical reason to refocus. (But bad numbers, as most players saw). They should have kept going. This was a decision made by people who had faint sense, gailed to appreciate hope, missed clarity on what creating value was like, what value was. This was a pathetic ignorant stupid business decision, to end Maemo. Things rocked, that was a great could do possibility, the OLE COM competitor kf DBus was winning, the market just didnt see yet.
The difference is that if I do something for you because you pay me handsomely for it I'm gone the moment you can't afford me.

I want the government to be a robust platform on which people can build the jungle of commerce.

Making widgets is hard. One can buy a truck to truck the widgets to the customer but the entrepreneur shouldn't also have to build roads. If we involve him in building roads it will mean fewer widgets of lesser quality. The whole widget manufacturing might not even make sense anymore.
> modern, powerful political movements say that "objectivity is a tool of white supremacy" or of the "patriarchy."

The statement "objectivity is a tool of white supremacy" is generally used to refer to asserting confidently objective truth exists, which is more of a philosophical statement than a refutation of the scientific method like it's often framed.

The use of perceived objectivity to enforce linear thinking and silence people who react emotionally is why this comes up in the literature you're referring to. You wouldn't tell someone crying at the death of a loved one that crying isn't an objective response to the situation at hand, but this happens in many ways ("why are you so upset about X behavior from a colleague? -> you are behaving irrationally" rather than trying to understand why someone was upset, and knowing everyone reacts to things differently)
Politics should be informed by science.

How should we govern ourselves? By understanding the world. Forming theories and testing them. Developing models that can predict the future. Peer review. Following the data where it leads us. Controlling for variables. And on and on and on.

Said another way - there are people who are actively fighting a scientific understanding of the world, in declaring how we should govern ourselves. Please, be careful to not sound like you're on their side. Because they're so painfully wrong.
Makes sense, but isn't this bad? Shouldn't we aspire to have science not be what Foucalt says it is?
That's correct. The aforementioned entrepreneur runs https://www.floppydisk.com/

This is a video tour of the facility (2015): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9tENHe19gk
Elites from where ? Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and China all pushed for masks.

Usa and other Western European countries were much slower to adopt.

When there are discrepancies in the global adoption, then one can look into political factors.

Also studies from SARS back in 2000 convincingly showed that masks worked.
This is a MUCH better link, thank you for sharing.
"Almost all laptops have built-in cameras and the convenience factor is pretty high."

How do you think the internal camera on most laptops is connected to the rest of the computer? (Hint: It's permanently wired to the USB bus. It's a non-removable USB webcam)

Given this fact, it seems you should actually agree with my original statement.
Sure, though it's rare that you'd borrow money without intending it to leave the bank (cases like paying off higher-interest stuff with lower-interest borrowing aside), but that aside, yeah, all the bits about how the banks have to have their accounts reconciled with the Fed and backing assets and all is really the core of my disagreement with the "banks can basically just print money infinitely" claims. Which I've sometimes seen people cite that BoE article as support of leaning on that "they just add a number in their computer when you take out a loan" bit. If it were that simple, I'd love to just make myself a bank and print myself some money, after all. ;)

My understanding is also that these discussions of "money" ignore things like investments or non-liquid assets, which I think is another big source of fuzziness. E.g. borrowing against other assets, including stock, that might have appreciated incredibly rapidly which gives you more purchasing power (the ability to "spend more money") without requiring anyone else to actually have given you money for anything specific.
Please update the title with [2011]
I use to work for HTC. I was there when iPaq launched and saw the birth of first PocketPC phone, a black and white screen phone for Sagem/Mitsubishi. I would like to share my opinion on this issue of tech disruption. From my point of view, Nokia did not have enough resource and time to meet the challenge which was brought about by Apple and Google/Android. All the tech companies need at least one dominating advantage in order to survive. This dominating advantage needs to crush all challenger in that specific area. Apple has operating system. Samsung has display. Chinese phone makers have CCP. Nokia had nothing that matter. They had two choices, create one or buy one. They were not able to do either so they fade away.
But...ad revenues, microtransactions etc. Solution - hardware full of ads and rentals eek!
Now they just have to get rid of the Mac and Windows versions as well. Then we can finally be rid of that crap messaging app!
> The initial call to deprecate this page was quite obviously driven by usage telemetry (i.e. "engagement" metrics)

yeah, they said that.

> rather than actually speaking to users about what they like and don't like

how do you suggest they talk to their users to do this? less than 1% of people invited to take a survey actually take the survey. however, when you say you want to remove something, those who use it make the effort to respond; at a far higher rate than would participate in a survey.

by saying they were going to remove the feature, they solicited better feedback than they would have gotten in any other way. if that was not intentional on some level, I would be surprised.

> I suspect that companies sometimes believe they can automate their way into quality designs, by relying on analytics, rather than empathizing deeply with their customers.

I suspect that some people will look for any excuse at all to share their opinion about the horrible new world with its horrible new ways as if only they and no one else knows what they are doing. I am not referring to you specifically, but your comment reminded me of just how often I see this "new ways to do things are always bad" sentiment and it is so wrong in so many ways.
Linux and Nokia were at one point the Crown Jewels of Finnish tech. One still remains. Would’ve been a match made in heaven but I believe they needed Microsoft’s cash to keep the company running. I remember testing the N900 at their store and was really impressed but I think it was too little too late
> To chain science to objectivity or to any kind of formulaic process ...

Sorry, there, but "objectivity" is not up for debate. Unless you subscribe to the woo-woo "different ways of knowing" crap.

The scientific method is not up for debate.

> To do ideological science is simply to run an experiment on the scientific method itself, it's what Feyerabend called 'epistemic anarchism' which he identified as the only thing that avoids limiting the potential of science.

"the potential of science": Berkeley nonsense. It's too bad he didn't just stick with Popper, who'll be around long after he's forgotten.
if we follow that logic big red emergency stop buttons should be removed from machinery because of their low usage.
Short-Termism at Its Worst (2013)
except that 'epistemic anarchism' is impossible today ,because 100% of the money is controlled by political organizations. Perhaps in feyrabends time the scientists were on paychecks instead of grant-schemes.
It really was a nice device. Great size, took excellent photos for the time, and that AMOLED screen with the always-on clock and black blacks. I'd probably have one today if it were LTE capable.

Qt/Sailfish worked well enough too but it definitely had its defects. My biggest complaint was they didn't ship complete source prepared for convenient reproduction of the firmware and out-of-box encouraged flashing of self-made builds. Then I would have been fixing the bugs I tripped over.
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...so why isn't there another layer of abstraction, where you have like a DNS to register where you (and here's your public key) are currently: you@thatserver, and you sign it... And then you can change (using the same public / private key pair) to be: you@someotherserver?

This seems obvious to me as a necessary feature...?
In an age where "no we are still correct and everyone who disagrees is just too myopic to see our grand design" has become the standard response to any backlash against corporate decisions, I have great respect for people who are able to simply say "we heard you, and we are reconsidering".
What apps ?! That store they had was practically vacant so the phone basically ran on what it came installed with. Android was not as slick at that time but at least you had a ton of software and cooked ROMs
You may encounter issues with mixed packages too, actually a lot more issues given that people expect `module.exports = ` and `export default` to be equal but are not.

Just save yourself some headache and publish either ESM or CJS, not both.
The industry is trying to optimize for avoiding opposite. How many more hours wasted for a candidate that is sub-par? 20 hours? That’s not even a single probation period. Must be hundreds of hours spent per candidate, and I can easily imagine 5 subpar candidates in a row. A colossal waste of time.

Honestly we also have a senior contractor on my who we only did 1 or 2 60 min basic screens for and they’re a huge disappointment and we’ve been dealing with them for a year I guess because they’re not quite bad enough to fire immediately. I bet a full panel would not have accepted them.
Sure. But good-sense would, in the case of emergency stop buttons, tell you that despite a lack of thought or usage, they are required for safe operation.

You can't make that conclusion with a webpage for content discovery.
Many people loved Nokia and I guess still feel nostalgic about the brand. My first phone was a Nokia, and it was super reliable and, though quirky, enjoyable.

Nokia also was the most successful European high tech brand. Losing it felt disheartening at the time.

If not for Elop, I might now develop apps for Meego instead of iOS.

So, I guess, there‘s a moral to the story: don’t let bad hires run your company to the ground?
It seems you never tried a windows phone.

They were slow. Really slow. Typing was so slow. Opening the camera app even more so.
I think the term “perfect” is a bit abstract/subjective as a qualitative assessment. Perhaps make it a bit more descriptive in an objective way what kind of type of body it is?
What is lumen or firefly? I can't get to any website or github. Can you share a link?

Got a github link https://github.com/lumen/ but it seems abandoned and not actively maintained
It is normal. You may need to relearn what you have completely forgotten.

I try to integrate my CS education in my normal software engineering work. The work is high level, not a lot of opportunity to use theory of computer architecture or operating systems, but I'm still writing programs. This means lessons from algorithms and functional programming are relevant. Organizing code using this theory has not only retained the college lessons but reinforced them. My advice is to use the tools from your education when you can, and they will only become stronger when you do.
Google interviews sound awful if I'm being honest. The last recruiter I spoke with said it involved a technical test and phone interview, after which they'd see what teams had openings and that it would be 3-4 2+ hour interviews per team before an offer was made if I was a fit. Who has the time for this?
The ATtiny85 is still an incredibly popular little chip in manufacturing. It comes with a grand total of 8KiB flash memory.

So, no. There's not much wrong with 1.4MiB of storage - depending on the purpose you're using it for.
Lots of devs use ad blockers that block telemetry
I was recently listening to GGG founder Chris Wilson and he was discussing how analytics can easily misfire if you do not apply them in a more conscious way. In his story, when reviewing logs someone saw that there was a big drop in engagement from quest A to quest B ( people stopped playing for a while between those two events ). What Wilson explained is that it is not exactly a surprise. Quest A effectively marks the end of a chapter and a lot of people stop at that point.

Chris's insight from that was and I am paraphrasing so hopefully I will get it right: 'It is ok to dive into data with a question you want answered in mind; we should be careful about stumbling onto data and assume the question as a result.'

Needless to say, it is a little different from, say, Amazon's creed so it is somewhat controversial for analysts.
Why is applying knowledge not a legitimate goal of science? When you learn that action X results in more suffering than the alternative action Y, should you not put that knowledge to use for political policy?
The impressive thing about this is that there's an immense quality difference between pre-1975 Toyota and post-1975 Toyota.

Keeping a pre-1975 Toyota vehicle running is a massive achievement today.
There is a move feature so you can transfer your account and its following relationships to a new server, without your followers having to update anything or any key signing at all. You can't use it if your account has been nuked, but it's not weird in "we're asking you to leave"-type moderation.
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The idea is that viewing AI-generated CSAM by someone who is already a pedophile will increase the probability that they'll decide to go out and abuse a child. Or, it'll foster a cultural acceptance of child abuse, leading people to be more confident to go out and do it. There's no actual data that demonstrates this, given it's hard to study, but it's not implausible.

One could make the opposite argument, too. If you give pedophiles AI-generated CSAM, it reduces the demand for real CSAM, thereby reducing production of real-world CSAM, thereby reducing child abuse. Moreover it provides pedophiles their fix without them having to actually abuse a child.

In the end these are all armchair speculations made from our intuitions about individual psychology and group psychology.
I read the full article when it was posted, then skimmed it again just now. I don't agree that the article is "about" those people. It describes general issues and mentions the golden visa and D7 visa in passing as possible factors. The issues described can be caused by any inward migration of people with higher spending power. A large part of the EU has higher spending power than Portuguese locals.
aaaand there goes people trying to turn this into a 99% compression system
> As someone who owned a Windows phone around that time, and knew others who did as well, the shared opinion was that it was a pile of crap.

and had no apps. Windows Phone/Mobile had atrocious developer share. There few apps that were available were of terrible quality. Ironic, considering this happened in the era of a sweaty Balmer screaming "Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers!"[1]

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhh_GeBPOhs
>The governor is kind of a turd.

So were the streets of San Francisco the last time I was there. Has gov Nonsense fixed that sanitary problem yet?

The supply chain problem is a time bomb for many water supplies across the country. Even basic maintenance / upgrades have major problems with getting parts. So don't just point fingers at the "hicks" and think your water supply is safe or will stay that way.
> Turns out that in most cases, you can enter just the digits from your postal code in order then right pad with zeros.

How in the world did you figure out that trick?
It was in the first way really to cancel some other people talking about things that maiking you up?
I think then, it should die immediatly.

Sorry for my bad english.