jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>even anti-retrovirals show that an individual can be healthy post-infection

Anti-retrovirals only do so much - they have to be taken for the patient's whole life. This is different, they are claiming that HIV has effectively been eradicated in a living body, which just hasn't happened before. This isn't meant to be a clinical trial, it's the only living proof we have that we can kill all the HIV without killing the patient.

And you're mistaken about in vivo. In vivo = "within the living", in vitro = "within glass" (& "in silico" = "within silicon", ie. simulated on a computer).
I showed this article to my girlfriend, who is a lawyer, and her response, to paraphrase, was 1) it sounds like the guy got lucky and ran into some crappy lawyers, 2) if someone treated her like that she'd give away hours just to fight him -- "because now my heart would be in it," and 3) he's going to be f---ed the first time he makes a legal mistake.

She did agree that one shouldn't be intimidated by lawyers (or anyone else) but this isn't the way you go about it.
Great comment.

> * Some stock is in constant demand, and you'll almost never get a discount. Black mens trousers, for example.

The flipside is, if you're a guy and you're willing to wear light blue, pink, purple, and yellow, you can get some seriously great buys. You can get very high quality clothes in those colors for dirt cheap sometimes, which is why around half of my wardrobe is bright.

It takes a little aesthetic knowledge so you don't look ridiculous, but everyone should probably learn a little basic aesthetics anyways - it's one of those areas that a tiny bit of knowledge pays huge dividends.
Most researchers already agree that it will be soon possible to cure HIV. Antiviral therapies, while not yet well known, are becoming mainstream. I wouldn't call this a "cure", but rather evidence that one person's immunity to a specific form of HIV can be transferred to an person infected with that form to prevent it from replicating. It supports existing claims about the role of CCR5 in HIV's life cycle and the protective effects of its mutation. There is no reason to preface this with "For The First Time In The History Of Man" or anything so dramatic.
Let me put on my reductionist hat: what use would be such a theory, if it perfectly matches observed reality but offers absolutely nothing new?

String theory has often been called mental mstrbtn (evidently using the real world hellbans such comments); should anyone get paid for pleasuring their minds in this way???
Since this discussion turned pretty much into a poll of which's your favorite episode, I'll go. Fifteen million merits was by far the best for me, not only that, it is one of the best short stories I've ever seen on TV. The fact that the series was produced and distributed by Endemol it's even more appealing.
Can HackerNews please stop sympathizing with nationalist unions? The perpetual civil war that was the 20th century ended quite some time ago. You can stop fighting those battles now. The losers of that fight have been preordained and now everything just has to play out How do I know this? Simple.

When automated cars happen, services like Uber win and antique systems of unions will run to pedantic legal protectionism. When did HackerNews become the hub of pro-nationalist union propaganda anyways?
In-ear binaural microphones can be used to reproduce in with headphones what a listener hears during a live performance.
re: Apple, that may be true for browsers, but they're already using it in other, not publicly exposed ways such as some of iOS file encryption.
I've never used Dart before, but since this is the exact pattern that C# follows I may have to five it a whirl in the future. I'd love to see more languages adopt this pattern.
I call BS:
http://www.gandi.net/no-bullshit
I'm a 30-something and married, so my situation isn't completely analogous to yours. But we have no kids and live in a pretty tiny 1br apartment with no backyard or other private outdoor space or even a balcony. Before covid we didn't really care, but covid makes us yearn for bigger, detached housing.

My home "office" is a corner of our tiny bedroom (that said, my home office setup is still vastly superior to my work office setup).

That said, I still vastly prefer WFH. I don't have to waste time on a miserable commute, and my office environment is just plain old dreary, depressing - probably the case for most offices for "old school" companies (vs. hot and hip Silicon Valley style tech companies). I've mentioned this in other posts, but I can imagine being happier at the office if the environment wasn't so depressing and dystopian.
I meant more that Go and Java are statically typed and GC-based and are both *(while FOSS) are controlled by major software corps and grow quickly.
Honestly, it feels a bit 'counter-intelligence'-y to me. Like, it's so over the top that I almost suspect Spotify did it themselves.

The Whois on the site says that it was registered on April 5th of 2021 for 1 year and the customer is based out of Ontario, Canada. Tucows was the registrant, and they seem to be a generic handler of web domains, based out of Toronto. https://tucows.com/

Other than that, I can't really find out any additional info about the site or who is running it.

I'm sure other HNers are more adept at searching for these kinds of things, and I'd love to know more about the paper-trail of it.

https://www.whois.com/whois/stopspotifysurveillance.org
A lot of people are going to jump on the "he used k8s and he doesn't even work at Google scale!" part of this writeup, but I think it's a perfect demonstration of the concept of innovation tokens [1]. He admits in TFA that clickhouse was the only new piece of tech in his stack, and he was already familiar with k8s et al - so he's able to focus on actually building the products he wants. I could see somebody unfamiliar with k8s (but very familiar with all other pieces of tech in the system they want to build) being able to learn it as part of a side project, if it's the only new thing. Where the wheels come off is when you've never touched k8s, postgres, aws, rust, graphQL or vue - and you try to mash them all together in one ambitious project.

[1] https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology
I'm using Telegram since 2014 and I never had issues with random people sending me messages of any kind. Maybe your phone number leaks somewhere?
This is a workaround based on the existing programmer error. It doesn't indicate that "ms" is correct in any way, just that it gives the correct result.
Besides that this comment has almost nothing to do with the topic, it is factually wrong on multiple levels. The only two things you got right: The EU completely botched Vaccine procurement and Ms. VdL, who is German, is ultimately responsible for that.

Other than that: Germany was in advanced talks with multiple suppliers way earlier than most EU countries in Summer 2020, was able to spend more and even got offered priority supply from Biontech (which only supplies Germany and Turkey directly, all other countries are supplied through Pfizer).
Chancellor Merkel specifically ordered these talks and procurement efforts to be stopped, so that in solidarity with other EU countries procurement would be centralized by the EU (which then did everything wrong without politicians, also German politicians, intervening).

In hindsight it would've been way faster, cheaper and easier had Germany just procured enough vaccine for the whole EU on its own. The additional contract you mention was closed after the end of EU talks (not a few weeks after it started),is in no direct competition (as it will be delivered afterwards) and will he shared with other countries anyway.

If you look at it from another angle: There is no other country in the world, where one of the best vaccines has been developed and is produced in vast quantities and that has been offered priority supply for the whole population, but declined that and exports way more vaccine than it is using itself. All while the economy is on shutdown and people are dying.

I agree that (german) politicians did almost everything wrong in this crisis - but to accuse them of egoism is the last thing that would come to my mind.
Also off-topic, TIFF files use 42 as a magic number in bytes 2 and 3 of the file header:

"The number 42 was chosen for its deep philosophical significance."
Why don't they use the person's weight to decide how heavy they are?
If GDPR prevents people from being notified that their data was breached, then the GDPR needs revision.
Conversely, I still remember : Arcadia Darell, Golan Trevize, Bliss, Janov Pelorat, Hari Seldon, Raych, Joseph Schwartz (and his poignant final lines in the associated novel), Rik... I could go on, and on.

All strong characters, with genuine personality, that have resonated through decades of my reading. (And, I've read very widely.)

Just because Asimov didn't spend pages on introspection (Frank Herbert was the opposite in this regard) doesn't make his characters any weaker. They were part of a much wider story than 'mainstream' writers dare to tackle, often set in a far future where dialog (often from very rational characters) should be thought of as contemporary. That's what science fiction is about, surely?
Next up on the front page: "Breathe to become more creative."

> http://www.wired.com/2010/10/feeling-sad-makes-us-more-creat...

> http://nautil.us/issue/20/creativity/to-be-more-creative-che...
I think he's from Slovakia, which is part of the EU.
And with this added element, we got the missing link between "To Be More Creative, Cheer Up" and "Feeling Sad Makes Us More Creative".

On one hand, drinking will cheer you up. On the other hand, it will also make you feel miserable.

Add to that the fact that boredom is one of the top reasons to drink and we have a link with "How Boredom Can Boost Creativity".

To quote Bukowski:
"That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen."
Some people do things. Some don't. Do you do things?
The login screen is much simpler and controlled than the full session. Its much more likely to work than a full session where you can run any application and do anything.
Sounds like a pretty good starting point, much better than introducing it for the whole session.

I'm sure there will be a way to disable it to work around issues, but this way we get broad testing while not risking the stability of people actually trying to get their real work done (after logging in).
Where is the control for the experiment? What is the ROI on non-targeted ads?
Try erasing all the existing volumes and create a new one before starting the installation next time. That sounds like the message you would get if you are trying to install onto the recovery partition.

EDIT: According to other posts there are in fact some volumes on M1 Macs where if deleted, you will need to do a DFU mode recovery. So perhaps don't actually delete all existing volumes on an M1
If they have a liquidation event, or just do a stock trade? IDK... Valuation !== Value
> If you need to generate basic shapes it's fairly straightforward.

You'd think so. While integrating TeX into my editor[0], using JMathTeX[1] as a starting point, I wanted to convert font glyphs to vector paths. At the time, every Java-based SVG renderer (Batik, JFreeSVG, SVG Salamander) suffered from the exact same performance problem: they all used Java's DecimalFormat class to convert floating point numbers to strings. These strings were then concatenated as paths into the output document. Sometimes the strings were re-copied numerous times because of buffer re-allocations and other reasons. (Part 5 of my series[2] on developing a TeX-oriented text editor covers this in depth.)

To get great performance---in Java, at least---even for basic shapes requires a sufficiently large, reusable buffer that doesn't incur memory re-allocations and an efficient algorithm to convert floats to strings---such as Ryu[3]. See my implementation that converts glyph paths to vector paths for details[4]. With these two changes I was able to improve upon JFreeSVG's implementation four-fold.

[0]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite (my editor)

[1]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/JMathTeX/ (my fork)

[2]: https://bell-sw.com/announcements/2020/11/02/TeXnical-Writin... (my blog series)

[3]: https://github.com/ulfjack/ryu

[4]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/JMathTeX/blob/d2d678717505765b...
I’ve been there before. Would recommend starting a document and answering the questions there then linking people to the doc after you’d added their question/answer.

The habit of check the docs first and maintaining docs in this way is really critical for remote teams and bandwidth.
i have personally heard anecdotes (and seen snapshots) from people in school in the late 80s, early 90s, who were regularly herded into the fields to harvest potatoes (czech republic). they too considered it rather fun for whatever reason.
Excellent - you've made my day - one of my favorite authors replying to a comment of mine on HN (pity it took me 8 hours to notice!).
You're wasting space on the homepage in explaining the benefits of a/b testing, you would be better off devoting more content to how your product works.

I want to know what's involved in setting up and running a test, but came away from your site without really knowing what the user experience is like.
1. Time to complete the task is a terrible metric for white-collar, knowledge work. There are myriad factors to explain the time discrepancies, especially since there wasn't first-hand observation. If this was a job for building a widget on a factory line, then time might be a reasonable metric.

2. Using time alone as a selection criteria borders on discrimination given that some users might have sight or other physical disabilities that require longer to complete the task.

3. Do you really want to work for someone that has that kind of attitude? Oh, you're worthless because you took a few hours longer than John over there. We're not even going to consider your other talents, abilities, capabilities, or creativity that you bring to the table.
This just makes 9–5 a necessity for some subset of workers who need to be contacted immediately at random by external parties on a regular basis.
This branch of the discussion is a red herring.
Looks great! Congrats on your launch. A few things that stick out for me:

1. I like the free option, and would most likely start there to get a feel for everything. But...if I wanted to start with a premium plan instead, there is not enough information on the website to tell me how this product is different (besides look/feel) from products such as Google Optimizer, Google Analytics, or Optimizely. Sell me on the benefits of using your product over these other products (in particular Google since it is free for all levels).

2. This is a little pet peeve on my part so you'll have to excuse me, but fix the transparency on the signup button background. Right now it stands out and looks thrown together compared to the rest of the site.

Overall though, the layout of your site looks nice and the screenshots you provided look great as well. Looks very user friendly. Can I suggest maybe creating a video for the website that walks people through the system or even adding more screen shots?

Good job and look forward to hearing/seeing more.
Despite that I share the same experience as btmorex (my native PDF viewer is faster than any web viewer), there is also the additional problem that you need sometimes restricted access to the PDF. I often read journal papers and most of them can only be accessed from inside an University network -- i.e. Google cannot access them (or at least their web PDF reader is not able to load them).
I add tags before I go to bed. Based on these, my sleep score is highest when I go to bed stressed, tired (duh), have a snack in the evening, or sleep in a hotel. It's lowest when I go to bed early, fall asleep hungry, or go to bed with my wife (huh?)
It all depends... 'dark' patterns are used a lot by gambling sites for instance, they don't care how they get to the customer, as long as they get to them.

So they'll pay to dollar for really bad stuff such as site take-overs, pop-unders and so on. All the stuff we hate. But it works wonders for them, they have the figures to prove it.

Once you cross over in to things like gambling then the additional penalty of using a 'dark' pattern seems a minor one.

It's a line that you can set for yourself and decide to not cross and play nice, or if you are very money motivated you can explicitly decide to cross it.

But once you do, what's next? The lines between 'nice' and 'not so nice' are pretty vague, but the one between 'legal' and 'not legal' is a much clearer one and I fear that people that no longer distinguish between 'nice' and 'not so nice' will eventually be unable to distinguish between 'legal' and 'illegal'.

It all seems to be related to a sense of entitlement, and the people that I see practicing 'dark' patterns to further their business interests all suffer from this to a greater or lesser extent.

If you look at how people like Bill Gates and others made huge fortunes on the back of business practices that are not exactly ethical are perceived you could easily fall i nto the perception that as long as you make enough money you'll be forgiven, but that should not be the whole story.
The grandparent doesn’t express any personal belief about the veracity of Manning’s confession.

Her or his last sentence is the important one: “People feel that ‘innocent until proved guilty’ is not really an issue because of those two things (i.e. because Manning confessed and is in the military) and arguing against that feeling (i.e. the feeling of people that Manning is guilty) is a colossal waste of time, when what you actually want is to convince people that Manning shouldn't be treated like he currently is, period.” (Emphasis and annotations in brackets mine.)
RSpec 2 introduced an eq matcher so you can do this warning free:

i.porkchop_sandwiches.count.should eq(1).

Then for object identity you can still use be:

i.porkchop_sandwiches.first.should be(my_sandwich)

This is actually more in line with the original RSpec, which had should_equal and should_be, and I prefer it because you eliminate the warning, and (I think that) "1.should eq(1)" actually speaks better than "1.should == 1" for someone familiar with ruby but new to RSpec.
They are not waking him every 5 minutes: that only happens during the day. At night he is awakened under some circumstances, but whether that constitutes sleep deprivation depends on how often it happens and there is no report on that.
Yahoo were aware of the leak at most 45 minutes after it leaked. Damage control wasn't deployed until a day later. This is their fault. They could have nipped this in the bud by getting a decent blog post out within an hour, and contacting any news outlets who'd already run with the story.
Dotcom hosts things. Terrorists need things hosted. We investigate terrorists. Therefore we investigate Dotcom.

Or something like that.
Prefer Telegram. My p2p communication is minimal and I manage dozens of groups with thousands of members. Telegram not only handles this but provides a lot of tools to manage groups effectively.
that gives that company way more credit than it IMO deserves.
Telegram is only end-to-end encrypted in a feature called secret chats. Groups and channels and individual chats are not end-to-end encrypted.

In other words, Telegram doesn't even deserve to be in the same conversation. Even if it had the best encryption out there (however you define that), that wouldn't mean anything when it's not used in like 98% of the cases (percentage pulled out of my ass).

It's like comparing Signal to Facebook's Messenger, and I'd still say Messenger over Telegram because at least it uses Signal's protocol under the hood (I believe the feature is called hidden conversations) instead of inventing its own thing and ignoring the expert opinions.
Just to clarify it looks like that chart has a number of specifically chosen countries. I'd suggest you add some more western countries with socialized medicine - Canada is well above the US as is the UK and I think those are both pretty comparable to the US in terms of personal wealth... Oh also Sweden is well above, but Sweden tends to be an outlier due to just how well socialism is working there.

Here is a copy of the chart with some additional countries:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy?tab=chart...
https://archive.is/5ArdN
Contrats !
Genuine question: Why don't you use phone call for audio-only calls ? In my experience the quality is better and degrades better. Is it because of bundles quota? In my country most plans includes unlimited voice but not sure what's the "world norm".
Constitutional monarchies, specially the more successful ones, are in practice mostly indistinguishable from a republic. The powerless diplomatic figure that is the monarch does not impact the overall decision making in any meaningful way.

Sweden and Canada fit that definition as well, and are not socialist countries according to what Marx meant by socialism. They're very much countries with a foundation of ownership rights and private enterprise, but taxed to a certain extent as to fund extensive government welfare programs. Of course, I'm not unaware that socialism is a word used loosely these days but within the context of discussing communism it's important to drive home the difference.

And of course, as someone that doesn't belong to any of the mentioned countries, I would say that the sentiment that a government like Sweden's or Canada's is better to live in than (pardon if I'm reaching here) the country that I believe you had in mind when making the comparison, is not only not universally accepted but very heavily debated across the world.
It's implementation dependent, but something like this works with sbcl:

C-u C-c C-k ;; recompile with (debug 3)
(step (some-function))

I also never do this
Do you believe Trump has some super dangerous card to play when he's about to be removed from office? Because impeachment or not, I think he's about to be removed from office.
How is the min $600 and the max $1,050?

By my tally, the min is
$150 for one days rt travel (assuming rt = back and forth)
+ $300 for combo machine
= $450

And max would be
$150/day * 4 (3 days combo machine + 1 day drilling)
+ $300 combo machine
+ $600 drilling
- $300 credited from combo machine
= $1,200

Not that this is important to the story, but it bugs me when I'm clearly missing something.
2: Twin studies can control for different genetics and only measure environmental differences. Adoption studies can control for different environments and measure only genetic differences.
There have been a lot of major stories about China recently:

Landslide pro-democracy victory in HK district council elections:

Hong Kong Election Landslide Signals More Frictions With Beijing: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/25/world/asia/hong-kong-elec...

Recently-leaked PRC government documents confirm details of the Xinjiang camps:

China Didn’t Want Us to Know. Now Its Own Files Are Doing the Talking: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/24/opinion/china-xinjiang-fi...

‘Absolutely No Mercy’: Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/ch...

Leaked China Files Show Internment Camps Are Ruled by Secrecy and Spying: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/24/world/asia/leak-chinas-in...

Chinese intelligence agent defects to Australia:

Would-Be Chinese Defector Details Covert Campaigns in Hong Kong and Taiwan: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/22/world/asia/defector-spy-t...

Defecting Chinese spy offers information trove to Australian government: https://www.smh.com.au/national/defecting-chinese-spy-offers...