skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> shouldn't you be be able to repair it, modify it however you want, use it for different purposes, loan it to friends, sell it to others, and so on

all of these are completely different actions, have different standing in front of the law, have different repercussions etc etc

the way i see these kinds of initiatives: i think they're healthy, i think we need them, but i also notice how they're from a bygone era where cars where fixed in the driveway. that age has passed, and sure, we need a new paradigm. but i still wouldn't trust a random person vs a dedicated service center to fix my phone. can we make those phones so simple that anyone can repair them? would this entail any performance drawbacks?

curios to see where this whole thing leads.
The title is shortened in a somewhat misleading way, making it sound at if this might be about a clinical study.

The full title is: "Coronavirus Susceptibility to the Antiviral Remdesivir (GS-5734) Is Mediated by the Viral Polymerase and the Proofreading Exoribonuclease."

What this is is a study performed in mice, trying to work out the mechanism of action of Remdesivir, which is known to inhibit SARS-CoV-2 in vitro.

What's going to be really interesting is what comes out of ongoing clinical studies: https://www.gilead.com/purpose/advancing-global-health/covid...
you get prepackaged 25mg tablets of zinc for bodybuilding. most people will get those and the recommended dosage is one every night.

i don't think anyone except hypochondriacs are in danger of zinc overdose
For sure. The transition from 3/2kT to 5/2kT is a good example of a frozen-out mode getting "unfrozen". Within the transition we have to count density of states and not screw around with classical analogs. ( I'm an optics person, so I think the Cv of a photon gas is normal and understandable ... If I take half an hour to write it all out again!) This is technical stuff we're talking about ... but it's not difficult for particle physicists to address!

Anyway I don't think I'm dismissing the idea of "superdeterminism". I'm only puzzled that directly measuring degrees of freedom, which was a central reason for adopting quantum mechanics, isn't even mentioned in an article where the public is being told there are fewer "real" degrees of freedom than generally thought.
Fox News has confirmation from his son, however, they are waiting for the 2nd test results: https://www.foxnews.com/world/brazil-bolsonaro-tests-positiv...

> Bolsonaro’s son Eduardo told Fox News that they are doing further testing to confirm the diagnosis, adding that they expect the second set of testing results later Friday.
That's Tesla, which is one of the targets of right to repair
Also, be aware that today happens to be Friday the 13th, which will make your luck decrease by 1 and increases the difficulty a little bit ;p
Since propagation of information is limited to one cell per step, it's possible to speed this up by splitting the image into smaller subimages and solving those first, and then solve the borders between such subimages.

This technique can be used to solve multiple steps as well, the only change is that the border between subimages becomes thicker.
Not sure I agree.

To some extent, sure.. "Everyone knows that people can learn new things".

It's one of those aphorisms that we can probably agree on, however... if you examine how some people operate, across more than one spectrum of their life, those people may say it and yet not live it.

I believe that people have so many self-limiting factors front-loaded in their thoughts, action and speech that it can cumulatively operate as a hard coded mindset.

I've coached people, as a manager and as a volunteer CPT (certified personal trainer). Working through people's sense of self, typically broadcasted explicitly as a statement of limitation ("I can't do that...") or argumentativeness (as a coach, ask a question or dare to offer a statement of some kind, and the person who asked for coaching may well interrupt you, digressively, before you make any progress with your effort).

This can accumulate, over the course of a life, and embed itself as something that can be really difficult to disrupt, or even acknowledge.
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Currently there are tons of non-manufacturer repair shops for phones, yet we're not renting phones.
Tests for world leaders and basketball players; no tests for common people.

I feel like it's probable Trump and other extremely high-ranking government people have the virus. I also feel like it's not being publicized for political/economic reasons. I admit this is speculation, but even if Trump, Pence, etc. were tested and "reported" to be negative, should we believe that?
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80%...in asymptomatic cases. So if most of the people who get tested DID show symptoms, the false positive rate generally could be far worse.

But, it would suggest downsides to more general testing.
No actual knowledge, but apparently the way Coronaviruses kill your lung cells is by inhibiting their ACE2 receptors, so I doubt taking an additional ACE2 inhibitor would be helpful. C.f.:

https://www.stephenharrodbuhner.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/...
The point of this very post is stressing the fact that news being repeated over and over and over tends to wear one out, logic and common sense stop prevailing and we just get irrational.

So yeah, I am furious because I stopped being rational, thanks to the media to bombarding us and milking an important event even though they have the honest goal of keeping the populace informed.
Also something that was mentioned during the conference with the prime minister yesterday - if we close the schools and tell the kids to stay at home, who are some of them going to stay with? Their grandparents. The group that's at the highest risk from the virus.
Well, the Chinese claim chloroquine is effective in domestic RCT.

And since China seems to be light years ahead of CDC/FDA, I'm inclined to believe them.
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Who is the "he" in your comment?
Eh, find -iname '*.s' in kernel source tree finds more than a thousand files and half a million lines in them.
Haha, of course Eduardo is in touch with Fox News.
I see your point and appreciate the feedback. The main issue with local only is having it to work reliably on different types of hardware would be a major undertaking itself (aside from the technical restrictions that come with it) and would not allow us to focus on building the AI...
Totally. It's like that sound obsession thing, what's it called?

It's a deep, weird variation of awe.

Btw, the US PAVE PAWS [0] doesn't quite do it, maybe not big enough. Weird though.

[0] https://www.peterson.af.mil/News/Photos/igphoto/2001504934/
I've spent the last 2 years writing an age of empires 2 clone in C:

github.com/glouw/openempires

and my time spent with C has really just been manually implementing min heaps, circular buffers, ad hoc vectors, and a tier 1 dummy garbage collector.

All this stuff is readily available in C++, and I could have saved hundreds of hours by just using C++.

But, to one benefit, since I did all this work myself, I understand the machine better, and my compilation times are orders of magnitude faster than what I would have had if I chose C++. Additionly, since so few calls are even being made to the C standard library, the majority of the code exists in text, and easily inlines across all translations units with link time optimization. With C++, as except for templated library code, the majority of link time optimizations go to waste as calls to the standard library are binary linked.
Jair Bolsonaro.
Edit: sorry, I had mistyped my original comment. Edited.
a USA Registered Nurse colleague casually mentioned while we were driving past one of the many, many chain store dialysis locations, that the service is inefficient and literally unsafe for many patients, and generally is over-prescribed. I assume because the drive-through model of the service, and the chain store, franchise-type setup, and reducing face-time with MDs, that this factory-like practice fits more to billing models and automation, so is chosen in a pseudo-market evolution. disclosure- I have no direct experience with kidney dialysis, nor known anyone who goes there.
No offense, but your story doesn’t exactly inspire confidence…
I kinda like that about Nethack and always have, to be honest. I like that even when I know exactly how it works I have to execute effectively.

Having all the rules right there for thinking through from one turn to the next was really compelling to me. (I've ascended almost every role now, but that started only like four years ago!)
Everything we know about Donald Trump tells us he is paranoid about contracting illnesses, going as far as to refuse to be in meetings with someone who coughs (per multiple reports). I find it hard to imagine he hasn't been tested given his recent proximity to the Brazilian President and his staff. But he insists he has not been tested. I really don't understand the game Trump is playing here. And where the hell is the declaration of a national emergency? He declares one for his precious wall but not for a global pandemic?
2018 ?
> The implications of superdeterminism, if it is true, would bring into question the value of science itself by destroying falsifiability, as Anton Zeilinger has commented

Except Zeilinger is wrong. The freedom of the experimenter is not fundamental to the scientific process, rather the nature of the experimenter's complexity is what matters. Even simple deterministic algorithms can explore an entire state space, and given we are capable of simulating such algorithms with our brains (Turing completeness), we are therefore also capable of exploring the full state space of physical theories.

Furthermore, it is not a false picture of nature at all. It very clearly describes the behaviour of that which is observable, which is exactly what science is designed to do.
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I mean, there are practical and non-nefarious reasons not to tell people that your Commander in Chief is out of commission.
Let me use this thread to advertise my program Logic Life Search that does the same thing. In fact it doesn't just find predecessors but can also be used to prepare SAT instances for finding various other interesting patterns in cellular automata.

One of the best features is that it can treat the rules of the cellular automaton as logical variables as well as the cells of the pattern. So if you're looking for an interesting behaviour that doesn't occur in Life, LLS will find a rule where it does happen.

https://github.com/OscarCunningham/logic-life-search
I don't know which kindle OP uses, but there's already a built-in feature called "vocabulary builder" which uses spaced repetition.
please note that the url you get is random and only people you share it with would have access. Also you can change/invalidate it anytime.
Well, fair. My assessment was based on the assumption that the distribution of outcomes for a patient isn't affected by the source of the infection. If you had some hypothetical way of transmitting the virus only to hosts who would then develop symptoms of the disease, I guess you could argue that you could reduce transmissions of the virus while maintaining transmissions of the disease.

That'd be impressively evil though.
> notice how they're from a bygone era where cars where fixed in the driveway. that age has passed

Do you feel that age has passed because manufacturers now block people having the info needed for repair, or are you meaning the complexity of cars has increased?
How does it relate to universal Healthcare? I'm not an American so maybe I'm missing something.
Almost a third of respondents thought it was acceptable for men to hit their partners.

Wow. The human race never ceases to find ways to amaze me, and not in a good way.

Of course I'm opposed to violence against anybody, male or female. But it is still the case (last I checked) that women are on average smaller and less physically imposing than men, meaning a man hitting a women is usually an "unfair fight." I have always supposed that was a big part of the reason why, historically, violence against women was seen as so much more troubling (at least by some people).
Planes have been falling out of the sky due to commercial reasoning. And most maintenance is done the way it is because it had to be put in to law to force a businesses to do it.
I would have liked (2018) in the title since it's an article from March 2018.

At first glance I interpreted that it was directly tested on the current strain.
Not sure what you mean by DP, but this should in general be possible (granted enough memory & computing power). The problem for me is that stable states have to be fairly sparse, so I'm not sure how you'd get one to really look like anything at all ...
And an open-source client you can play it with: https://mudlet.org
I use 6 digit pins consisting ofthe same digit repeated 6 times. If I even have to switch it I'll forget it. Not sure why they have the requirement of a 6 digit pin and expect it to be better than a 4 digit one.
When I could use a 4 digit pin because then I could at least use one I have had for 20 years.
I'm not convinced that the total social collapse of modern society will result in a state where either bitcoin or gold hold much value.
Things in Bentonville definitely started going downhill around 2004, and by the time I was laid off in 2009, most of the magic had been lost.

My contacts over the past 11 years have said that the division has continued its slide into bullshit.

Given how fantastic things were, it makes me very sad.
If the false positive rate is p and the false negative rate is q, and the infection rate is r, then you will have p·(1-r) false positives (as proportion of the tested population) and (1-q)·r true positives. Your hypothesis p>r is not enough to settle which of those two numbers is bigger.

(Edited to fix a silly mistake: The phone rang while I was posting, so I ended up being hasty.)

Edit the 2nd: Even in the simplified case q=0, you can't easily tell.
I visited the Duga installation a couple of years ago (along with Chernobyl) and it really was utterly inspiring. I highly recommend it for nerds and non-nerds alike.
"*I’m not advocating people should work overtime, I’m a strong believer of working only office hours for being able to maintain a sustainable pace, but if your product is on fire you should take your share of the responsibility and stand with your team to help."

Sometimes these "on fire" situations are the result management under-staffing on purpose.

Example: You have 4 people on your team. One leaves. The remaining 3 sacrifice to cover the missing person. Management says to themselves "Hmm, we're still getting the same results, lets not hire a replacement."
You are very kind. I'll keep that in mind.

I was aware of /r/talesfromtechsupport but haven't frequented it much. I will take another look.
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> I own my car, but I'm not allowed to remove the headlights and drive at night.

The issue there is driving at night on public roads. You can, with your own car, remove your headlights. The car manufacturer can't show up and sue you for that.

> I'm not allowed to pour oil on the ground even though it would only destroy my own grass

That's not the only thing it would destroy (ground water, local wildlife, etc). You are allowed to style your hedges in the shape of a middle finger, or pluck all your grass out blade by blade (save for any HOA restrictions you agreed to).
> Her prolonged imprisonment in inhumane conditions is an ugly stain on Obama's presidency. I remember when he campaigned praising whistle-blowers and government openness.

And Trump praised Wikileaks, and by extension Julian Assange, during his campaign and now [1] look at where things are?

The sooner people realize the type of person drawn to politics is inherently the same (supposed party factions and names are irrelevant when looked at objectively and by outcome) and have ALL lied and manipulated to get to the position to do so, the better we will be as a Species and will hopefully lead to building viable alternatives.

These people are the epitome of the narcissistic, sociopaths everyone rants running large corporations, except these are they type who will do and say anything to be elected: this is why I think seeing your Trumps or Berlusconi be elected would be useful if people were open to seeing it for it what truly is. Instead you get division and discord when we all intuitively realize that this is a myopic system that always leads to this inevitable outcome.

Every politician is the same as Trump and Berlusconi, they just hide it better.

If there was a time for this kind of Governance, and I grant you it may have been useful during initial colonization/Industrialization; it has since become clear with how this, environmental ecocide, financial/banking malfeasance, climate change, and now Corona Virus pandemics are handled that it HAS LONG exceed its last glimmer of utility.

1: https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/us-assange-and-wikileak...
The nethack faq [0] agrees with you, with the exact reasoning you describe.

0: https://www.nethack.org/common/info.html#not
You can win?

I assumed it never ends.
I wouldn't expect this to produce a speedup, because the SAT solver will already be doing it!
Huh, that looked familiar, YouTuber shiey climbed around on that thing a few months back: https://youtu.be/jGPjj4B_jEk?t=7755
> That's not to say that it is ruled out - just that we have avoided it for pretty sensible reasons, rather than stupidity or some sort of blind spot.

I have to question the validity of this argument, because generations of physicists have been taught to give up realism in order to accept QM. Superdeterminism is no weirder than giving up realism, it's just a weirdness to which you've grown accustomed.
That's my concession to my nature. I want to know all the things happening around the world, and have since I was young. I decided to try to temper it, rather than deny it outright.
Looking at growth rate with false positives is a bit of a mindbender: if you limit your testing to the potential contacts of a positive (false or not), you could get a "false R0" virtual epidemic from testing alone, if and only if you test more contacts per positive than 1/false positive rate. Unfortunately, actual hospitalizations and and deaths rule out a virtual epidemic so this is not a hope to cling to.
A lot more info and molecular/target details about Remdesivir available here: https://www.drugbank.ca/drugs/DB14761 (full disclosure this is my site).
Kidney donation may be one of the most admirable and heroic things many people can do for another. I too have had family with renal failure (though I was not a match), and the potential to simply fix it with a match is wonderful. But anyone considering it should internalize upfront that there are potential real long term risks, and a surprising paucity of data since long term outcomes are apparently not rigorously followed. See for example "At 18 years old, he donated a kidney. Now, he regrets it"[0]. It's very much not to discourage anyone, but it'd be a shame to not go in with eyes wide open and have what should be something to be proud of marred by any feelings of deception. I have definitely seen the lack of hard long term data on real risks of kidney donation downplayed, it's not fair to portray "we don't see high risks" when that's because we just don't see much period. "Going to the top of the donation wait-list" for example is good, but there is in fact still a wait list.

All that said, the positive vs negative ratio certainly still appears high depending on the situation. And developments like the one in this article could also reasonably factor into an individuals analysis, after all in 20-30 years it may be a solved problem with high quality synthetic organs, so a young person giving a kidney now is more helping to bridge the gap, and by the time they themselves might have an issue they'll have saved a life yet not have the same trouble. Even so, donators should fully recognize that, all of them should absolutely feel as good about it as you clearly do.

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0: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/at-18...
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A 'whistleblower' has protections gained by following the correct procedure to identify improper/criminal behavior first. If those actions result in punishment you can bring a suit against the offending party.
Heads up for OnePlus coming ...

Few weeks ago I decided to switch to Lineage OS. For that I bought a used OnePlus 3T on EBay. Now the exceptional fact about OnePlus is that they provide official repair service even for relatively old phones. Most recent model is OP 7T.

https://www.oneplus.com/de/support/repair-pricing/details?co...

Replacement of the battery cost in total 40 Euro. That's shipping back and forth, the battery and the replacement. Very much impressed me how fast that procedure took. altogether only 4 days. How awesome is that?

Works fantastic.
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That's why I wrote "in general": It's not yet suitable for most kernel code, just for some specific cases (i.e., optional drivers).

Hmm, maybe I should have written "...for general kernel code" or "...for most kernel code", that would have been clearer.
Absolutely real. I, along with many others, worked our tails off updating code so systems would still perform. It worked. It was a huge success.
I love NetHack. My only gripe with it is that the AI is dumb most of the times and the context of some levels is simply bizarre. The Castle, for example, is just a huge pile of different monsters all trying to kill you just because :)
> I think it's clear why this tells us nothing about what the society here wants.

On the contrary, it very clearly tells us that your society is apathetic about the EU and does not care about decisions made in the European parliament.

In my own country, 2/3 voted in the latest EU parliament elections. The debates here were dominated by environmental policy, so I'm really not surprised that legislation like this is now being considered in the EU parliament.
> Not sure why they have the requirement of a 6 digit pin and expect it to be better than a 4 digit one.

Are you saying you can’t have a 4 digit pin? Because if you are then I just want to say that you can have 4 digits if you really want, it just defaults to a 6 digit during setup and there is an option to change to a 4 digit if you want.

Also. Password reuse if a bad thing. If you are really going to reuse a 20 year old pin, you might as well disable pin security completely.
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But couldn't this same argument be applied to healthcare and education? Why is healthcare and education exempt but some other industry not?
Eh, no, my country is one of the best of EU in recycling and waste management. I dispose of all waste exactly as I should in a clear, structured and very practical way. (any) phones are taken back for recycling by most sellers, for example.
His vice is way worse then him.
Let's hope for the best outcome in this case (the one where covid-19 wins).
They can't lie on the tests, all you need is wait for a few days and see who will get sick.
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Along with Bolsonaro's press secretary, who also tests positive.
> IMO, what's more important than a secure PIN? I'd like to be able to lock down applications within Android / iOS instead of relying on the application to implement its own password.

Oneplus has this on Android (called "App Locker"). It let's you choose a number of apps where you need to enter the system-level password/fingerprint/pattern/pin.

However, this is not separate from you login credentials, so it is not perfect IMHO. I would prefer to disable biometrics for the apps, but have it enabled for unlocking the phone.