jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Do governments have a good reason not to suspend patents for the time of emergency? Emergency rules break a lot of other businesses, and pharma is probably one of the few industries not in danger?
This was done with Lopinavir-Ritonavir, which is an HIV drug. Unfortunately it turned out to be ineffective:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32187464
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And how is sea level defined - the average over the year? So more ice has melted than usually? Even then, it seems normal that not the same amount of ice would melt every year?
That provides no basis? Feel free to elaborate
Seems a reasonable article. This video[0] is quite useful for those who prefer video to reading.

[0]: https://youtu.be/BtN-goy9VOY
> Does that not make sense to you?

It does, but why can't one can have the control groups at the same as blanket prescribtion? In times like this when the health care apparatus is overwhelmed, is it a good alternative to do that, since side effects are well-known and given the fact that the drug might be ineffective if used late in the infection cycle [0]?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22662849
“It’s snowing today so global warming is a hoax.”

weather ≠ climate

It blows my mind that to some people, 2.2mm isn’t a big deal. Seriously, the size of earth, the amount of coastlines, the amount of rivers connecting to the ocean, the snowballing effect on increased melting?

What is it that people don’t get?
Web Archive
https://web.archive.org/web/20200316125830/http://www.consid...

Recent discussion on HN
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22585821
As far as the netherlands are concerned, Lopinavir is now removed from their interim guidelines. The first line treatement is now hydroxichloroquine/chloroquine with maybe remdesivir for severe cases.

Source (in Dutch): https://swab.nl/nl/covid-19

But yes in Italy the current guidelines (which are still dated 13 February still mention lopinavir).

Source (in Italian): http://www.simit.org/medias/1569-covid19-vademecum-13-03-202...

It has also been removed from guidelines from Belgium:
source (English) : https://epidemio.wiv-isp.be/ID/Documents/Covid19/COVID-19_In...

I think the odd case is France wich I think is still not having Chloroquine/Hydroxichloroquine in their guidelines as of today.

I was not able to find the german guidelines.
Moxie Marlinspike is listed as an advisor for MobileCoin, was this not a paid position?
Honestly, it's fine. Most of us are on mute for most of the day. In a trading environment, you need a hoot, and this is pretty much our equivalent.

It works well and (at least with how our team works) it's not invasive.
Twitter. From generic caches to ad serving; from stream processing to video encoding, all high utilization applications of either one or multiple schedulable resources.
Yes, that will have to be removed as part of the effort of porting it to new platforms.
In a small project I had, I was using fixtures to populate the local dev environment.

```
make dev/init ## runs compose in dev mode
make dev/populate ## initializes data
```

would give you an "initialized" data, ready to start working on. When the project has some data in it, I consider it a closer reflection of prod. If you can (data is not sensible), you can update the fixtures with data from prod.
Might be a hint as to how much of M1's prowess is just the process size and how much is Apple.
Cannon Lake I believe was basically cancelled.
> even though they are stuck at 14nm

I think this isnt quite fair, their laptop 10nm chips have been shipping in volume since last year, and their server chips were released today, with 200k+ units already shipped (according to Anandtech). The only line left on 14nm is socketed Desktop processors, which is a relatively small market compared to laptops and servers.
https://www.google.com/search?q=samuru+search+engine
Seriously we have to do something about that type of articles making the front page of hacker news. It's getting out of hand lately.
I don't see how the taxpayers should pay for this. One of the reasons the comments are so negative is because it feels like a smokescreen and/or a last attempt at sympathy.

I don't care if he wants to become a girl, but he should wait until his/her time is served.

I wonder if military prisons are monitored/protected any better than civilian prisons when it comes to that 'other' stuff.
Any numbers on how large that "good proportion" is in the UK? This sounds a bit too Guy Ritchie to me.
> I care if they use it to buy legislation to replace pensions with 401ks.

Pensions are terrible (at least based on performance so far). Not only do they provide worse returns, many are incentivized to lock you into a specific company for many years.

An friend of mine retired in 2013 and had pensions from the first 3/4 of his career and a 401k from the last 1/4. The 401k grew so much it paid out more than all of the pensions together when annuitized (even with garbage interest rates).
My favorite release notes come from Blender 3D.

https://www.blender.org/download/releases/2-92/

They include great explanations and a video of new features.

But of course I'm only excited about the release notes because I get excited about bew Blender versions.

No amount of release note polish can do that.
That's nice, but why all the game engines and libraries introduced it only recently? Defold, Unity ECS, etc.?
Yes, thank you! It certainly seems like a good and flexible way of structuring your game but I still don't understand where the performance benefits the article speaks of come from.
You are excluding the materials of the nuclear power plants themselves, and just considering nuclear waste? What an unfair comparison.
Sounds like you’re speaking from personal experience.
Warren has addressed not investing in tech. Automobiles were a major tech advancement, but car companies always have struggled. Airplanes were also a major advancement but always struggled. A top technology company can usurped by a new company with better tech. Facebook is faddish, requires acquisitions of Instagram and Whatsapp to stay on top, but that not Warren’s idea of creating value.
Wouldn’t this make all income tax avoidable? One simply needs to spend income received on capital assets (bigger house, fancy cars, yachts, etc).
If you want to extract every bit of advertised performance, you'd probably be better off with Intel's proprietary compilers. If you can accept a little less, it runs fine with clang and gcc. It just looks like a lot of x86 cores with AVX512.
This article is another conservative puff piece that doesn't belong on Hacker News. They are pushing for a flat tax which is a regressive tax.
Correct.

Turns out it got so cold with freezing rain that 12K MW of wind power is off line.

The isolated Texas grid was originally intended to give better reliability without the risk from other states' problems.

It is likely to import power again from Mexico, if not already taking place.

I would imagine they're scrambling to cash in at this rate.
Reminds me the analysis done on the compromised dll [1]. The injected code looks comically dodgy.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2020/12/18/analyzing...
Hmm. Personally I dislike the visual noise of the address bar having to move for the keyboard to load in. If I'm not mistaken, the address bar also slides off screen when you're scrolling through a page, but because it's at the bottom of the screen it goes in the opposite direction of your scroll (as you go down the page), and I find that jarring.

Maybe my hands are unusually large or something, but back in the glorious days of the Nexus 4, I was able to reach the top left corner (as a right hander) quite easily. That phone was 4.7 in diagonally, with a fairly generous bezel that GSMArena says makes it 5.9 inches in physical dimensions. (I'd argue this is misleading, because the top left corner of the screen is easier to reach than the top left corner of the phone.)

In comparison, my current phone (Moto X4), which was the smallest phone I could find at a reasonable price, is much heavier, has 6.5 inch diag physical dimensions, and is made of slick metal. I struggle to use it one handed to the point where I start to see the appeal of relocating the address bar.
Okay here's the Iron Duke. He just hates the Basilisk and is an AI with better powers than the Basilisk. His only mission is to protect people from the Basilisk and to defeat the Basilisk which he achieves by unplugging the Basilisk's power supply.
>Tax prep companies certainly don’t have this kind of power, and only one of the parties has that platform. That’s who’s invested in making taxation feel painful. Not just in terms of awareness but in policy too.

You'd be surprised.
My two cents: For me it feels like a tool that would be introduced top-down in a company. I would target human resources and management.
The attacker needs physical access to your Yubikey NEO and to then run a few thousand observations. Using a U2F dongle is still MUCH better than many other types of 2 factor authentication.

My family are enrolled in Google Advanced Protection and some of our U2F dongles are the affected Titan keys. I'm not at all concerned and am not rushing out to switch to different dongles.
Clojure actually removes a lot of things from lisp. So it might not be a very good analogy to c and c++. For eg clojure doesnt have an object oriented framework like CLOS, does not have reader macros, currently has a much smaller set of inbuilt functions. Not to say it hasnt added new stuff, it has, eg persistent data structures, deep integration with the jvm. Also importantly all valid lisp programs are not valid clojure programs. In short, its a clean break from lisp which carries the useful ideas and the spirit of lisp forward.
If you don't plan on getting rich (or whatever outcome you dream of) from your startup, then why are you doing it? If you want a modest outcome and to be your own boss, then start a small business. It kind of sounds like this guy failed at a couple startups and has just lost all faith in major startup success.

On another blog post on his site (http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2009/09/22/why-luck-is-a-terrib...), I found this line:

"I know a handful of people – including myself – who have reached for the startup life. Each of us did it for one, maybe two startups (you can only do so many before you burn out). Not surprisingly, none of us “made it.”"

Are you kidding me? Most startups fail, but you have to keep trying. If you stop after 2 startup failures, then I don't think you have real entrepreneur spirit. You need to keep going until you get what you want, even if you have to start 50 startups. And if you keep going, you will eventually get what you want, including riches. Guaranteed.

Luck isn't something that magically falls out of the sky and lands on you. Luck is a combination of opportunity and preparation.

As an entrepreneur, you need to have lofty goals. When you tell your friends and family what your goals are, you better get a response along the lines of "You're crazy, you should aim for something lower." That's a good thing. Aim high. Very high. Even if you don't get to your lofty goals, you will probably get much further than you would aiming for modest goals.
Fuck that, I plan to! In fact, having modest ambitions seems like a Really Bad Idea -- you'd give up too easily.
You don't pay for the news when you buy physical newspaper, you buy for distribution. Newspapers get money from advertisers, online or offline.
The problem with online is that many are used to get commodity news for free.
Anyway, ads suck (mostly). Newspapers who care first about advertisers (at the expense of readers) suck too and deserve do die, IMHO.
The end of hover will simply transfer to "onmousedown", which can be used for the same purpose of revealing a submenu.

Simply pressing down and holding for a half second could reveal a menu. And instead of a dropdown, I see the popularity of submenus expanding in a circle outside of the press, similar to Autodesk Maya, if anyone knows how that program's submenu system works. In this way, all of the submenu options are equally close distance to access rather than having to drag or move past unintended options, and would also help with the muscle memory of an intended option if the user knows that a particular item is always up or down, left or right.

Keep in mind, that (used correctly) there is a usefulness of accessing a submenu of items that allow a user to go directly to a desired page or screen without having to drill through a series of screens.
Before this, how did third parties add functionality to Safari? For instance, the button 1Passwoed puts in the toolbar and the item it adds to the context menu for form fields?
Ironically, many NYC public schools have Snapple machines (I think the city has a deal w/ the company) with all sorts of sweet beverage enticements. The older students often go to MacDonalds, which seem to thrive in poor neighborhoods near schools, because the cafeteria lunch is so bad. It seems Bloomberg emphasises how the tax revenues could be used to fight obesity because he realizes a tiny price increase will have no real effect on consumption.

I also find it ironic that the federal gov subsidizes the production of corn syrup while local governments try to tax its consumption.
That's a seriously phenomenal idea. Just by charging for the service and using a SQL database they could avoid 90% of the problems GAE has experienced. I would pay $1000/month without a second thought to have a quick migration away from GAE, and no doubt a lot of other people would as well.
Here's an intro into media queries: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/responsive-web-design/
I don't know if it is currently being done, but it wouldn't be too difficult to write a bot which uses webkit as a backend and supports javascript.

For an example, http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ is an application which converts a webpage into a pdf and supports javascript.
To me, this sounds like a pretty good argument for not unnecessarily burdening society with costs to the individual - like healthcare. A future where the government evaluates all your behavior and taxes you accordingly seems a little dystopian, no?
I have yes - at our office I just bought some cloud print enabled printers so that I could print without some quirks in the AD deployment and remotely. That said, I'm sure traction was low - I saw VERY few others using it. Still very annoying.
They would mean selling all documents ever printed using their product.
Yeah, I'm wondering if this is all scrapped public data or a breach of some kind. Are land line phone numbers published in a directory (like a phone book) in USA?
> Read uncommitted unless you enjoy not reading rows, multiple times or half of a value (page split and/or LOB values)

Please elaborate.
Well, in this case, they would be correct.

Finding a reliable way to exchange trusted information is a central problem of our time.
I don't know for sure but I suspected that it was because in this scenario landing a sale would be worth a lot of money, they were willing to pay a lot to get it. Recall the stories about phone company employees willing to take cash for access to info.
Nah.

If anything I get asked if I'm a contractor.
Good points from Chris, but of course this depends on where one is. Growing up in a country that has shocking levels of illiteracy, I assure you that being literate, even in its most basic form, is already a tremendous step forward.

If you see it in this light, the goal of the movement is clearer. The movement is seeking that crucial, qualitative initial step and the rest is depending on the person, the social env, and so on.
I think you're right. OOP'ers tend to not understand FP, and when they do get it, they are happy to use it. On the other hand, die-hard FP'ers tend to look down on OOP'ers.
"wildly impractical in 99.99% of everyday circumstances"

I would hope so! If an average, everyday person needed to deploy martial in more than 1 out of every 10,000 of their normal, everyday circumstances, it would be a very sad state for humanity :)
I actually mention the magic of LISP and Smalltalk environments - they do greatly add in the exploratory creation process. But my "coding as literacy" strawman is born out by the industry: http://code.org/ and http://www.codecademy.com/ are great examples. By saying you can learn to code by following through some online lessons that teach you how to write some Javascript, we're doing people a great disservice.

Moreover, my real argument is that I don't think coding should be literacy. From the fundamental disconnect section:

> We don't want a generation of people forced to care about Unicode and UI toolkits. We want a generation of writers, biologists, and accountants that can leverage computers.

I don't think people should have to worry about exactly what the computer is doing if their problem isn't related to it. Specifically teaching general purpose programming as we think of it now is largely teaching people to build apps or command line tools. Instead of a generation that thinks of that as computing, we need a generation of people curing cancer with it.
Java can be okay for soft real-time applications, like games, as long as you're very careful about the lifetime of your objects.

The most recent versions of Hotspot, the most common JVM, has two memory pools for (non-permanent) objects: young and tenured. Objects start off 'young'; when they survive a few collections they become 'tenured'. Young objects are collected with a minor collection, which can happen concurrently with your code and doesn't stop the world. Old objects are collected with a major collection, which does stop the world. If you're writing a game, then minor collections are okay, but you want to avoid major collections at all costs.

This means that it's okay to produce temporary objects that have very limited scopes; e.g., they're allocated while processing a frame/game step and are discarded immediately. It's also okay to produce objects that survive forever, because they won't become garbage. The problem comes in the middle, if you make objects that last a while (significant fractions of a second or longer) but eventually become garbage. They have a chance of becoming tenured, and will build up until they trigger a major collection. At that point your game will stall for a while.

The other thing you'd want to change is to tell the GC to optimize for a maximum pause time with `-XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=<nnn>` (by default it optimizes for throughput). For a game server, a maximum pause of something like 500ms would probably be unnoticeable by players.

More information:

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/vm/gct...
I find it amazing that people swear in the title. Surely the author must have the self-awareness to realise that few will be impressed and many will be turned off.
This is such a trope.

Do you pull your funds from interactive brokers after you're done trading?

What about vanguard? 401k?
>communicating under their real name and job title.

I never got spammed once on my terminal.

Not once.
Ah, the F-35 disinformation campaign continues. If you read the article you'll see that there is nothing substantiating the claim other than the author connecting yarn on pegboard.

My opinion here is the Air Force recognizes the cost overruns from the program mean they need to make sure the USA's "near peer rivals" (their words) are lulled into a false sense of security, As they won't be able to spend this money again for a good 20 years. China is 12-15 years behind, Russia maybe 3-5.

An incredible amount of risk was undertaken in the project. Hopefully the lessons learned make future development much cheaper, as nothing like the aircraft has ever taken to the skies.
Well, Orwell had a thing or two to say about this in 1984. It's incredibly common in party politics.

If you are the party that always criticize something, nobody will believe that you are doing it. So, if you plan on doing something, you accuse our largest opositor of doing it, loudly and repeatedly.
There's just more money that you can raise if you go down the traditional IPO way. ICO tokens can be very lucrative too (check out BNB) but there's a lot more regulatory uncertainty around them. Plus fund raising is crazy at the moment on Wall Street so this makes perfect sense.
This is absolutely not the wording of the Shopify terms.

If your application 1. uses the Shopify API and 2. is sold to more than one Shopify customer, then Shopify takes 20% of your revenue. Presence on the optional distribution platform is not necessary.
You can't acknowledge that an operating system is more complex, but then not give it the benefit of the doubt of halting a system on a bug. If grep or vim fail, they just abort. If Postgres fails, you maybe get a corrupted database and it aborts. If OS X kernel panics, the machine halts. All software has bugs.

Also, if Postgres' bugs were unnoticeable, why did 9.3 get to 9.3.5 before the went to 9.4? Just because you didn't notice a bug doesn't mean someone else wasn't affected by it, and just because you notice bugs in OS X (which I'd bet you didn't) doesn't make them big issues.
<rant> YMMV:

There is little so obscure as undocumented
code.

An old software joke goes, "When code
is written, only the programmer and
God understand it. Six months later,
only God.".

As a result, for continued understanding
of code, documentation, to explain the code
to a human reader, is crucial. In simple
terms, to humans, code without documentation
is at best a puzzle problem in translation
and otherwise next to meaningless. Use of mnemonic
identifier names to make the code readable
has created a pidgin-like language that is
usually unclear and inadequate.

Thus, writing documentation is crucial,
for the next time the code needs to
be read and understood, for users, etc.

Thus, net, after too many years with code
and softwarem=, I claim (big letters in sky writing, please):

The most important problem, and a severe
bottleneck, in computing is the
need for more and better technical writing.

My suggestion for some of the best models of
such technical writing are a classic
text in freshman physics, a classic text
in freshman calculus, and, at times, a
classic text in college abstract algebra
(for examples of especially high precision
in technical writing). Otherwise I suggest
Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming.

First rule of technical writing: A word used
with a meaning not clear in an ordinary
dictionary is a term, in technical writing,
say, a technical term. Then, before a term
is used in the writing, it needs a definition,
that is, needs to have been
motivated, defined precisely (maybe even
mathematically), explained,
and illustrated with examples. Then whenever
in doubt, when using the term, include a link
back to the definition. So the first rule
of technical writing is never but never use
a term without easy access to the definition.
Similarly for acronyms.

Biggest bottleneck in computing .... Sorry
'bout that. YMMV. </rant>
So who will take control of the country?
Sure, you don't want to dirty the layout tree on each frame.
The response was:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14222721