skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
re your edit/medrxiv link: note that the control group and experimental group were also both receiving standard-care, which includes a pile of antiviral and antibacterial drugs. So it's still an interesting signal, but there's a confounder with potential drug-drug interactions.
Quite a lot of companies have massive security budgets. The problem is, nobody wants to do the work, so most CISOs just meet vendors and then mostly spend the budget there.
"affirmative evidence it's ineffective."

There's no such thing as affirmative evidence of ineffectiveness. You can't prove a negative.

Drug trials are designed to prove effectiveness, because the null hypothesis is always that your therapy is ineffective.
That's what I'm also recommending and working more/less reliably in terms of locking.

One thing which I'm also analysing recently is electron shit^H^H^Happs, triggering XSS (X screen saver) idle detection on some internal app events (not user actions!).

Being: if you dont move mouse, nor touch keyboard, plus you're receiving slack messages, XSS considers youre NOT idle, in result not allowing lock to work if relying on xss-idle-detection.

needing it as I'm expermineting with some cool X11 software from 199x. I added XSS support, as original detection engine(*) dont work reliably on modern X11.

Anyone?
Wait until they learn that machine code is not exactly how the computer works either. The hardware is doing things to your code you might not expect.
Zoom doesn't simply works. The same way that facebook isn't a good news feed. and paypal isn't a good, neutral, bank. etc etc.

But people (like you) unknowingly shill for them because they've feel prey to the marketing and influencers. Advertisement works. And you are living proof of that.
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People are different, yes, but also, people are the same. If you polled 1000 people about their views on art, I would wager >50% of them hold my view.
Depends on what class of airspace you are in and weather you are flying under IFR or with some kind of flight following & flight plan. But even then the air ways can be stacked vertically.

If you are flying vfr and in an airspace where that is allowed, you can pretty much go where you want as long as you stay away from controlled areas. Basically most helicopters fly VFR. The recent accident with Kobe Bryant involved a VFR flying helicopter flying into fog in LA.
watched the white paper,
https://www.bsnbase.com/sys/file/downLoadPdf?type=CN
they thorwed a Permissionless Blockchains, that service permission chain architecture does not have the characteristics of complete decentralization, transparency, and privacy. All business attributes are formulated by the application owner. Users must obtain the approval of the application owner before they can join the application.
In my hometown, like in many central European towns is a plague column, commemorating a deadly plague epidemics that happened in the 17th century. The story goes that it was caused by the Habsburg royal court fleeing the plague from Vienna & staying in the town for a few days before continuing onward.

Of course there were some people already infected in the royal court, the infection spread to the town people as well and many died.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_and_Holy_Trinity_column...
A negative interest rate is a penalty for not putting liquid capital to productive investment, regardless of wether such opportunities are at hand. To some extent, so is inflation.

Negative rates don’t mean alternatives become better investment strategies. It just moves goal posts to encourage more risk taking in the economy.

Housing looks like the best alternative investment strategy. There are funds that focus on solid rental markets, owning their housing complexes for example.
Opera Android 57 has IPFS protocol support built-in, on by default
My understanding is that, as you said, the purpose of the mask is to stop droplets from coughs and sneezes from getting to other people and surfaces. However if others cough on you when you are wearing a mask, the rest of your face is still exposed so you are not fully protected, and you can still be infected by touching contaminated surfaces and then touching your face. Surgical masks are also not sealed off, so you can breath in aerosol from other people's coughs even with the mask.

Certainly masks will help to some degree, as they will filter out some particles and protect you if someone directly coughs into the mask, but I don't think they are effective compared to things like hand washing.

I am not a doctor, not medical advice.
Yes it's a great idea to make electric aircraft for all sorts of reasons. Notably this design (as per the paper linked elsewhere) gets 300% more efficient for just switching to electric motors.

I'm giving context to the discussion from the parent of this thread. The nascent category of aircraft is being heavily marketed as a replacement means of transport for commuters. Which is why people are talking about them in that context.
There are quite a few ethical problems. On the reading side, there is interrogation (of suspected spies or terrorists), which is already decades underway with fMRI, and brainjacking (a keylogger for your thoughts). As for deep brain stimulation, this is researched to create fearless soldiers, change sexuality, extremely painful torture, radio control movements, and alter emotional states.

Even for patients who suffer from severe health conditions such as OCD, depression, or tremors, the treatment can be very disruptive and emotional well-being may decrease, even with successful treatment of the condition (the doctor is happy, the patient less so).

The dual use possibilities of this technology are extremely scary, and the involvement of Facebook (supposedly for VR) and DARPA (supposedly to treat anxiety and PTSD in soldiers) does not bode too well.
They are a collective failure, particularly the places in which they are traded which is what we are talking about here.

You are the one throwing around red herrings and handwaving frantically about corruption elsewhere.

Talking about the value derived from the bitcoin protocol in this situation is absurd - the protocol itself is largely irrelevant, the corruption and manipulation are at the exchanges. The 'value' of your tokens derives more from their manipulation and hype than anywhere else, which is trivial to show because cryptocurrencies are not used anywhere else (besides the dark markets I guess, and even they have moved towards privacycoins).

Your bleating about renewable energy and trustlessness is also bullshit. The claims to use of renewable energy are based on conjecture amd estimation, not measurement. As a counterpoint there is a fossil fuel plant in upstate new york that has recently been kitted out for mining.

Secondly there is no such thing as 'trustless' with cryptocurrency - you must place all trust in people you are transacting with, rather than using a trusted intermediary. I trust established banks far more than J Random Retailer on the web.

Neither is there any compelling case that cryptocurrency has any effect on "banking the unbanked". "The unbanked" have no way to get into the system in the first place, nor the tech stacks to use it.

Your entire post, your entire worldview on this is wishful thinking and practically a set of coiner memes with no basis in reality.
As a note, to be HIPAA compliant you also need to sign a BAA with Zoom. This, interestingly, disables cloud capture and a bunch of other things.

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/207652183-HIPAA-Bu...
It won't happen for properly written script.
It's far past time to put C to bed. D, Go, Java, Zig, etc. are all languages that one can use to do approximately C-like things without as much danger. I am tired of seeing a literal Twitter feed of memory unsafety security bugs [0]. We can do better.

[0] https://twitter.com/LazyFishBarrel
Apple should make FaceID better at identifying faces through masks so people aren’t tempted to remove their mask to use contactless payment.
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As much as this bothers me because of who I am, I don't think it's a real problem. Those files shouldn't take up significant space unless the developer is doing something stupid.

It might be nice if macOS had some sort of automatic cleanup routine when an app is trashed, but that would either require showing the user an extra dialog (a la AppCleaner's) or introducing an opaque system which could potentially lead to data loss.
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> A negative interest rate is a penalty for not putting liquid capital to productive investment

This is not true, and is massively dependent on many other prevailing economic forces.
C has never been "how the computer works", its abstract model is way too… well, abstract.

But there is an interesting catch to it: because C is so important, and programmers at large know so little "real C", vendors do their damndest to make it work for them.

A well-known microcontroller forum in Germany is constantly pushing that you need to make your code safe in the case of concurrent access to a variable by a main loop and an interrupt. By making it volatile.

Strictly speaking that's plain wrong. You need some kind of mutex.

Practically speaking, no embedded C compiler vendor would dare use an "optimizing opportunity" and surprise his customers there.
Not to be confused with Celerity Computing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celerity_Computing

Fun fact: I did a port of Franz Lisp[1] to the Celerity, having the compiler (liszt) generate code for the backend of the C compiler, since they told us: "in no way will you be able to generate assembly code out of your compiler for this architecture." They were an early Sun Microsystems competitor that didn't make it.

[1] Not to be confused with Franz's Common Lisp, this is the MacLisp compatible Lisp from UC Berkeley.
This is cool, but are there any similar resources available for creating masks that are washable? Would love to have something that's reusable rather than requiring constant usage of paper towels and rubber bands.
Droplets through the air is not primary vector - this is not aerosolized well like measels, the drops fall to the ground -> 6 foot rule is designed to avoid most droplets.

"In an adjusted analysis of compliant subjects, masks as a group had protective efficacy in excess of 80% against clinical influenza-like illness." -https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(08)01008-4/ful...

All the folks saying masks don't work literally never cite to any actual study - I think it's something like 90+ studies showing masks work and maybe 1 or 2 without a good result for masks.
Someone told me back in high school that "C is just shorthand for assembly", which I think about a lot. Does anyone else feel that way?
I use Meet at work. For social gatherings, my friend group exclusively uses Zoom because (a) better tiling (seems small, but you want to see everyone) and (b) video quality seems better.
People simply have to come to terms that modern computers are nothing like their beloved PDP-11.
There are some links for other countries under "Additional Resources" at the bottom of the page.
I think we should strive to make more ways for people that "can't code" to be able to contribute. It's hard. I've been thinking recently that there might be an additional lesson behind Conway's Law; that the interface and character of a system mirrors its creator(s). This means if you hire super smart people to build something, it's going to require super smart people to interact with, operate, and maintain.
Rewards and Penalties on Ethereum 2.0
The book of Revelation is just one prophesy from one culture but I read it as a devout christian and without commentary. I took something out of the book many of my bretheren don't want to and that is a call to preservere. We must love our familys and neighbors while the world crashes down all around us. Stand for truth and love. Take each day as special. Most everyone will lose it all in the real end times whenever that happens. Apocalypses happen, such as 1914-1919 and 1939-1950. God keeps his finger down on all the damage we would normally do to ourselves. Don't lose heart of what matters in this life. Love, honor, family, God. You can have all those things if you are rich or poor.
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There is a definitely a learning period when you wear a new type of garment eg. suits or turtle necks, when you adjust a lot. Then you learn over time, and stop adjusting so much.

If you are concerned you will infect yourself by touching your face too much, just wear a mask at home for a few days, and get over the adjustment phase in a safe environment.
Incorrect. Look at the second tweet in the thread. It's a phishing popup that misidentifies itself in order to steal priveleges intended for System, not Zoom.

https://mobile.twitter.com/c1truz_/status/124473767519161958...
Low interest rates mean that you need more risks for the same return. It means investing a portion of your savings in emerging market bounds, corporate bounds, stocks, real estate.

This of course is not as straightforward as putting your money in a saving account. But it is also not as complicated as you might expect. You need to decide what risks you are comfortable with. How do you view the world and the markets in 5-10-20 years and do your research.
https://blog.erratasec.com/2015/03/x86-is-high-level-languag...
But where do you stop? Do we need a name for pi/2? How about pi/12?
They embedded their installation into a pre-install script. Normally, you'd go through a next-next-next process with a pkg installer, but in this case you get a popup asking you if you want to allow it to "run a program to determine if the software can be installed" (the purpose of pre-install scripts) immediately after opening the pkg, you authenticate, and then the installer just disappears.
If your complaint is that you dislike clones of Windows and Mac, then the combination of tiling window manager, shell, tmux, and vim/emacs is usable and provides an experience that is completely different from those other operating systems. That didn't go away on Linux. There is also plan9port too.
Speaking as someone who used to worry about people so much, even those large degrees from my circle, that I'd drag myself down to very depressive episodes, I can see how some amount of psychopathy would be selected evolutionarily. Besides that, any work where you're dealing with people in pain such as a soldier, police, medics, etc, it's not often beneficial to be squeamish to others' pain, especially as a medical professional since the pain (negativity) you induce will often have positive effects. Perhaps psychopathy is just an extremely selective form of this.
Optimizing Ruby lazy initialization in TruffleRuby with deoptimization
You can make a simple theory of anything. An airplane as a spherical ball of varying friction with a steerable propulsion. Or a massive electro-mechanical system. There's a fidelity curve as you progress in complexity. Fidelity curve of a literal ball stabilizes quickly, while the fidelity curve of an airplane extends far.

The brain is massively complex, we still don't understand the ways that it computes and learns in detail except generalities such as using electrical and chemical signals, neurotransmissors, and some knowledge of architecture and region differentiation.

Those models all point to an extremely complex system with quite a number of different specialized parts, with neurons individually having quite amazing complexity (and so on for capsules, neuronal systems).

I think it's unlikely a "simple" system (if you could consider a vanilla CNN simple, for example) will solve human-like AGI efficiently (either data-efficiently or computationally efficiently). There are too many requirements.

Also, while simplicity is good... a researcher shouldn't be caught obsessing over it exclusively, as it is not the end goal, which personally would be the advancement of understanding and of our capabilities instead.
> I regret to inform you that SOAP's death has been limited to open source. Enterprise continues to eat it up.

How apropos. A behind-the-times punishment for being so behind-the-times? [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washing_out_the_mouth_with_soa...
SELinux wasn't even invented for app sandboxing, even though e.g. Android uses it for that. There are LSMs designed for app sandboxing, like Canonical's AppArmor. SELinux (and MAC in general) comes from the NSA world of big government servers with complex policies about which actual human users can access which documents and so on.
I can't imagine why anyone logs in and uses macOS as an admin user.

First account I create on a new Mac: admin. Then, when setup is done, I login and create my non-admin user account.

This is a good reason for many reasons, this abusive installer being one.
I don't want ads in my application menu, sorry. Good for you if you like them.
Oh thank you! I wasnt even aware those numbers were promising.
>Would have the appropriate agency issue recommendations.

POTUS operates Twitter as a direct line to the people. This would be akin to an announcement at a press conference or a daily briefing. This particular tweet was neither glory-hogging or blowharding, and for some reason people are unable to treat it appropriately.

>It's natural to doubt, when random things come out that channel everyday

There's no excuse to doubt this when you have access to multiple journal articles going back to January. It was merely a mention of a promising treatment. You can verify the multiple studies yourself, instead of just blindly dismissing it because you don't like Trump. Imagine if we pass over a possible treatment because people can't stifle their bias against the president?

>In any case, this is a political act. Or a hail mary, one or the other. Not credible medical advice, not at this point

What? Every move by the POTUS is a political act. This isn't supposed to be "credible advice." The POTUS is letting the country know there's at least one promising treatment available, and that's not a lie.

This hysteria is irrational. Pure emotional bias. You don't have to like the guy but a psychologically healthy person should be able to evaluate his statements individually - not literally ignore everything he says because you think he's racist or sexist or xenophobic or whatever.
Because it lies about its identity, calling itself "System" not Zoom.

This is also a MacOS vuln that lets apps lie about their identity in sudo prompts, much like a browser showing an https site with no certificate checking.
That's not science; that's arguing to a point.

Presumably, these doctors didn't die during last year's flu epidemic. Nor during the previous years or decades of their practice. So something is different this year. Something they normally do to protect themselves, that isn't working this year.

Hm, they use hand washing, gowns, gloves, masks. Which one, do you think?
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"""Risk quantification attempts to assign numeric values to risks, instead of qualitative labels such as "Critical" and "High"."""

Nitpicky...but...

Shouldn't risk always be quantified? I thought that's what sets it apart from uncertainty. Also I'd argue that "critical", "hight" etc. is also quantification (ordinal scale). I guess the argument is that it should be quantified on a nominal scale?

That being said, love the list :)
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> ... the [former] UK prime minister Theresa May has said that the big internet companies give terrorists “safe spaces” to communicate.

Yes, IIRC she also said wanted to enter a dialogue about this "with the people that know the right hashtags"!
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“Military grade encryption” might’ve sold better too.
I think that goes way too far. Assembly is a completely different beast from C and way more complex. There is a lot stuff you can do with assembly that C can’t.
Remember that regardless of positive or negative, it's only a fraction of a percentage and not likely to last very long. A transient -0.0025 is very different from a long term -2.5
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Last I checked UB was undefined by the standard, but compilers still need to define their behavior on each architecture.

Dictating that all architectures implement UB the same way would have significant overhead, since it would force programs that don’t rely on UB to run in emulation on all but one architecture (at best).
Another weekend another project. Since the movement control order, all the supermarket are imposing a limit of customer in store. This can lead to a long queue which is not ideal to anyone.

So introducing https://tempah.herokuapp.com . A website that allow supermarket customer to reserve a slot based on time for supermarket.

The customer can reserved a slot and a QR code will be generated for them. The supermarket can then scan the QR code to confirm the reservation.

If you think there are supermarket owner who could benefit from this please share it to them. It's free. Thank You
The Guardian's Comment is Free section is opinion. It's a blog.
The problem with the “C is an abstract machine” nonsense is that it’s just not how it works. I get that it’s what the spec says. But C compilers are super careful to compile structured assembly style code without breaking it, even though they don’t formally promise to do so. That’s because lots of large C code based assume structured assembly semantics and probably always will.
I am a GitLab contributor. I have been fighting for years for them to explain why basic features were getting shoehorned into paid tiers. This is years too late, and it falls short of addressing the source of the issue. The people who are making these decisions seem to have an incentive to restrict features to paid tiers. It's a business, I get it, but they are taking basic features that the community could implement, and locking them away in a paid tier. Sometimes a front-end only change, all the data is already available, marked as a paid feature. I used to constantly come across features I needed that had landed in a paid tier where I could write a grease monkey script to do it in a few lines of code, so I would post it as a snippet to illustrate how ridiculous it was.
> Desktop environments are now reaching that threshold because users demand "modernity" and fanciness.

Do they? Do they really? Because I struggle to think of a change made in how I or anyone I know's desktop works that we actually think made things better. The last one I can think of was when Windows added start-typing-search to the start menu back in, what, 7?

I'm not dismissing that other people might be demanding some "modern"/"fancy" features, but if so what the heck are they? What I see is GUI redesign for the sake of it, or hiding of options in order to promote more "desired" (by the vendor) options.
Only initially, but motivation doesn’t last forever.
False of course implies true, but the deductions are supposed to be in reverse. So a chain of deductions could be P <= P' <= true where P is the original goal.
End-to-end encryption is traditionally defined as a means to stop man in the middle attacks. If there's a man always in the middle it defeats the point a little bit.