skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They just don’t get it. This isn’t a replacement for the SE, because it doesn’t actually improve on the things SE owners cared about improving. Things like an edge-to-edge screen and a kick-ass camera in the same form factor, not an iPhone 7 reboot with wireless charging and a faster CPU. What’s more, I know I’m not alone in saying I’d be willing to pay MORE for an ultra-premium small device like that than for any of the iPhone models being pushed as “top of the line” right now, because there are no good alternatives. Unfortunate letdown by the individuals at Apple who put this together, reminds me of the ‘97 Malibu.
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/history.rss and https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/history.json work as well.
Also, drugs like this have fairly elastic demands; a hoarder can go from no usage of a drug to buying up years worth of the stuff overnight.

Compare that to food, where every calorie you buy today is one fewer calorie you need to buy in the future. Your need for food doesn’t change drastically before and after quarantine.
> In contrast, the regimen for Covid-19 _successfully_ used by Dr. Zev Zelenko on ~700 patients is:

For all we know, it was a successful placebo. Anecdotal evidence does not constitute scientific fact.
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The Alternative Reality of Objective-C 5.0 (2018)
I believe if you elect to be a pass-through LLC (eligible for this rule change), you cannot pay yourself a salary in the same way as if you were a non pass-through LLC or S-Corp. It isn't as easy to cheat the system as most people think, but there seem to be more opportunities to finagle things the more assets you own.

The fundamental way our tax code is broken is not loopholes, but the actual publicly known tax bracket rates. They should be higher for capital gains, the progressive rate graduation should be steeper, and 500k shouldn't be the highest tax bracket when there are people who make 10,000 times that in a year. It's unbelievable that this isn't the focus of the issue and people are instead harping on wealth taxes and loopholes.
> Once again we see that randomized, double-blinded clinical trials can be more deadly and less informative than ad-hoc studies performed on the battlefield of medicine.

Can you elaborate?

I've always heard that it's unethetical to use unproven treatments and that the scientific method (rndm double-blind) was necessary to remove as much bias as possible.

Now such strict requirements obviously don't jam well with fighting on the front line of medicine.

I'm very interested to learn what "less deadly and more informative" ad hoc studies are in this context. (genuine, there is no irony in this comment, this is not my domain)
I don't believe AJ believes anything he says. That was clear in his divorce trial where he said his insane statements (being used against him in the trial) were not real.

Him and a bunch of others on radio and TV use these extreme views to get filthy rich. It is truly digusting.
Of course fingerprint sensors also fail in common situations like when your hand is sweaty or not clean, or the phone isn’t dry.
Is the PolyMega the Ultimate All-in-One Retro Console?
This is just an iPhone 8 mk II (it even fits 8 cases!), and that means those of us who want an actual SE replacement are now out of luck. Rather disappointing.
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Thanks for that link. So that's a mutual fund that like most mutual fund includes some pharmaceutical companies.

Like most people with any 401k retirement savings or other stock holdings (includes most people in the US), I have a mix of mutual funds and indexed funds that include stocks I've never heard of and don't care to know anything about. I bet I own part of some company that makes HCQ as well. I probably also own Big Tobacco, Big Oil, Big Pharma, Defense, Offense, and a bunch of other horrible things, as probably nearly everyone that posts here does as well without realizing it.
Stockdale Paradox
"I am realizing more and more how unusual, unscientific, unmedical, and counterproductive it is for WHO to select the name #COVID19 and reject SARS2. In fact it would be most consistent with medical practice to just call it SARS. Here's why..."

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1245791851342229504.html
"That space is being used for whatever component(s) Apple thinks its customers, as a whole, find more valuable -- i.e. a net increase in functionality for the average consumer, even if not for you personally. "

This is assuming that "what Apple thinks its customers want" === "what Apples customers want"
These articles also scare me, as well as make my angry because we collectively could be doing so much to mitigate this.

A key problem is that political division has been weaponized, and a good chunk of the population doesn't believe in these threats because it's a "liberal conspiracy". Currently the US federal government is being helmed by these very same people.

I don't know if there is a solution that is available, but I think part of it is to develop messaging that can point to solutions that "the average person" can both understand and feel some stake in its implementation and success.
Yes, they perform worse, but there is a bigger issue. They lie. The drives report themselves as being PMR when they should be reporting themselves as SMR. They actually lie about their technology type in the firmware.
Wrapping my head around modules, packages, and libraries while learning Python a while back was the biggest roadblock and most discouraging part. Trying to figure out why certain things wouldn't be installed was a slog. At the same time, this struggle definitely taught me much more than I would've learned otherwise. One topic it pushed me into unwillingly was containers which was definitely a benefit in the long run.
And then there are drills. Simulated equipment failures, fire, flooding, etc.; all of the alarms sound as if it were real, and the crew responds as if it were real (except that no extinguishers are discharged, no SCBAs lit off, no hoses pressurized). Scheduling drills without detrimental effects on the crew's sleep, but still making the drills a surprise and a challenge, is (like the reactor) critical.
Sure, just like with an IPv4 they allocate you a fixed /32.

But you get slightly more privacy by having the client able to randomize the other 1/2 of the address and use multiple addresses, which would confuse trackers. Or the trackers just look at the first /64 and ignore the rest and you're no worse off than you were with your ipV4 /32.
> Being patronised by medical colleagues in other specialties

Of which your post here is a prime example!
They’re not all in the US. Spread over the US, Canada, UK, and the UAE. But anecdotally there are more complaints from North American family about paperwork. Obviously I see NA family more, living here now, so that’s not really a surprise.
All of those roles are rather low stress (aside from RN which can vary wildly depending on your dept/floor). The high churn/burnout roles are in critical type care from my experience being married to a nurse. Many docs go without sleep. Either they are on call in the middle of the night and on weekends or they are on 48 hour shifts. Its crazy they are allowed to do that let alone it being the norm.
On the other hand, I don't think we've ever seen Fabrice Bellard and Johannes Schindelin in the same room together.
I find the Obamacare rule about preexisting conditions confusing.

I’ve been managing a chronic condition for decades, and I’ve never had coverage denied because it was “preexisting.”

Maybe it was only if you were buying coverage outside a group it would be an issue, but I don’t know.

Regardless I many people who had preexisting conditions pre-ACA, and it never affected coverage.

For disability insurance, or life insurance, it’s probably a different story.
Excel is malleable? Not really. For example while it is possible to port org-mode to excel, AFAIK nobody did it.
Yeah, I have an in-depth knowledge of the imperative DOM APIs, but I can't remember the last time I actually needed to use them in my day job. React provides a very good abstraction that one doesn't need to break out of very often for a lot of work.
I have the same setup (re-frame SPA, websocket, etc.), the only page that is themed with Keycloak is the login and password change page, everything else is handled by API calls.

I prefer to deal with account data and logic in a dedicated component that map with users stored in Keycloak. Even if you can associate custom attributes with user and groups, I don't think it's a good idea to do so (performance, separation of concerns, etc.).

For me Keycloak jobs is to handle authentication and authorization data and/or logic (authorization service is very well designed but a little bit complex), for simple use-case a role check in the application is enough.
If you are smart enough and tough enough to go through med school and become a doctor you can easily earn $300k-$500k per year in tech, with much less stress.
It's a deep problem with a long history of attempts at answering it, some more satisfying than others. One answer that appeals to many faithful is the idea that all this suffering will be "redeemed", or made to be worth it at the end. Augustine, for example, would take the "NPC" prong of your dilemma by saying that our earthly existence "in time" is not a full experience of reality at all. Indeed, you can find this view, that our conscious experience of reality-in-time is somehow illusory, in many non-Christian sources anywhere from Buddhism to Daniel Dennet. In Augustine's view it's only outside of time, with God, that human beings can fully exist - thus earthly suffering is nothing compared to the joy of being in Heaven. Obviously this is not a foolproof argument, but HN deserves to know the best answers Christian thinkers have come up with.
An analogous seprintf() would probably be a good thing to add too, where the buffer end is passed in instead of a buffer length. I would still have it return a pointer to the end of what was copied. Anyone can calculate the length if they need to, by subtracting the original pointer from the returned pointer.

char *seprintf(char *str, char *end, const char *format, ...);
> Did Xi Jinping Deliberately Sicken the World?

No, that would hurt their income.

Now that happened accidentaly, stop buying from China, make stuff in your own countries.
And there are also randomized controlled trials that indicate no effect compared to placebo. Why aren’t you linking those?
I'm reminded of the experiments where camp kids were randomly given blue and red shirts, and it took them less than an hour to form in-group/out-group dynamics and tribal loyalty based on shirts alone.

The thing is, from a game-theoretic standpoint, tribal loyalty is a Schelling focus [0]: your calculation about what alliance(s) to invest in, are inherently influenced by your calculations of the calculations of others. What defines the tribal boundary can be utterly non-sensical (from the objective viewpoint of a proverbial Martian), yet still be a rational choice from the perspective of each individual participant.

I'm also reminded of the Netflix b-movie "Circle" [1]: a group of fifty people are forced to vote every two minutes on which of them will be killed (if they refuse, someone is killed at random). At first, they decide to buy time to think, by starting with older people who are closer to the grave; but the older crowd bands together in self-defense, creating a two-party system of old-vs-young. As the headcount shrinks, new rifts and coalitions emerge; some organic, some arbitrary. It's a brilliant thought experiment despite being terrible as a film. :)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal_point_(game_theory)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_(2015_film)
I think this vastly underestimates the power of someone in that position.
I haven't looked farther than the linked article, but assuming their reporting is accurate:

> However, higher dose use of chloroquine (600 milligrams as opposed to 450 milligrams) was stopped after just six days, after 11 of patients who were given the greater dose died.

To me that reads as an increase of about 1.35x rather than 4x.
Just one example:

The US federal government waited until mid-March to order N95 respirators: https://apnews.com/090600c299a8cf07f5b44d92534856bc

Other governments acted much more quickly, for example Australia started doing so on February 7: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2...

The US government, in particular Trump, is responsible for this delayed response.
"All" seems a bit inclusive.

From a team building and gamification perspective, granfalloons (while perhaps as objectively specious as TFA) points out, can help to focus group activities.

Whether the direction of that focus be good or evil is another discussion.

But if there is a natural disaster, and some granfalloon relief agency shows up to help you out, will you be quick to denounce it?
You're thinking mathematically, not practically.
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"It's not like this is coming from the National Enquirer"

It could be! I mean, his ideas presumably don't come from taking a random issue of the National Enquirer at face value, but he has or had a widely reported close relationship with the publisher, so it seems entirely plausible he might have been influenced by, say, David Pecker's opinions.
The whole phrase is a multilayered meme. It’s generally used by alt-right neo nazis with conflicted emotions who believe Alex Jones works for the Jews but also find his tantrums endearing. “Humble merchant” is a phrase often used by modern antisemites when they parody the speech of an imaginary Jew describing himself in a disarming way. Use of the meme also reveals how long a person has been immersed in alt-right neo nazi internet culture, because it likely originated when Alex Jones’ primary product was water filters rather than supplements, so anyone using the meme has probably been an alt-right neo nazi for 4+ years, or at least reads what such people say fairly often.
Thanks @indigomm! The first permission is needed for us to book meeting rooms (not relevant in the current WFH environment, but historically what we have been doing)

The second permission is just read & write on your calendars (since we are booking meetings on your behalf). When we request "write" access, it automatically gives us delete access and there is no way for us to turn that off unfortunately.
Carta’s Covid-19 Layoff
This makes me so happy. The demoscene is what made me want to learn to program in the first place. The first demo I saw was Heartquake by Iguana (Asm 1994) - http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=364 . I can still hear the credits music in my head. Jare and team, if you read this -- thank you!

Never did get around to making my own demo, but I owe finding my career path early in life to the demoscene. So many fond memories (esp early 90s through 00s).

I have and will spend countless hours coding to demoscene music (good and bad). To me, the unique thing somewhat lost in my avg day to day development life is that this is a fundamentally self driven challenge that can cross many CS disciplines combined with the art of practice. A demo pushes one in many directions at once: art, math, graphics, data structures, optimization, mechanical sympathy, sound, etc. (There's a reason there is a lot of game dev <-> scene crossover.). You can work in isolation, or as a group. However, a group is more common since most people can't do it all.

Digression aside -- Could we use the demoscene as a gateway for future engineers? A STEM + demo style toolkit?
Now if I could just get one without a Camera...
It is worth noting indeed.

However, if we apply the estimated mortality rate (0.37%) based on that to 11500 deaths in hot-spot New York, it would amount to over 3 million cases, again roughly 15% of the population.

Now perhaps Germans are so much healthier and their healthcare is so much better, making their real mortality rate so much lower. It's all speculation at this point, either way.
Your ISP only assigned you the first 1/2 of the address. You get to pick the second 1/2 yourself. Your client can (and in most cases will) constantly switch up the second 1/2 of the address.
We started a menu board, to write down the days we absolutely need to eat things by. Tomorrow for example is pancake day because we have a ton of fresh berries that won't last much longer, and for dinner, fish soup since we still have uneaten stock from a big haul of fish purchased over the last weekend. It's fun for us also to see what we're going to be preparing, something of a restaurant vibe happens in the kitchen.
I also had a Z3C and upgraded to an XZ1C. I liked the Z3C's rounded rectangle design as the XZ1C can be uncomfortable to hold in certain configurations. And I liked the color tones for the Z3C more. Other than that I'm very happy with the XZ1C. I hope they put out another phone with the shape of the Z3C and the specs of current flagships.

I did have the same issue on the z3c with the seals coming loose. Eventually the glass panels got loose too.
The thing that annoys me no end when I talk about the size of airline seats is that the usual remark is: “but they offer extra legroom!”
Yes, generally that’s true but being 6’10 (2.08m) tall I am forced to spend more money just to fit in the seat.
Especially now that emergency exit row seats are also sold as extra legroom seats.

Airlines I've flown with Over the last few years haven’t been very accommodating...
Saying you can leave a 3.5-to-lightning adapter attached to your headphones assumes that all of your other devices can do audio over lightning also. Realistically, it seems like you'd add or remove the dongle based on what devices you're attaching to, so you probably wouldn't want to actually leave it attached to your headphones.
Fair enough, but why would you be happy to not have the latest tech?
Yeah although if we were to continue on the off-topic then I'd argue that I'm similarly baffled by cars growing in size, whereas you'd think that the increased urbanization would drive people to use smaller vehicles. Oh well, I guess there might be some logic behind it but I fail to see what.
>presymptomatic

That makes sense and that's a useful word, thanks!

I've heard it takes about a week before you get symptoms and then they last for 2 days on average. So even if everyone developed symptoms only 22% of people with the disease would have symptoms on a given day...
The point was about who contributes the wast majority of the work nowdays.

Also, before GNU there indeed wasn't much of a FLOSS community in the modern sense, it was much closer to colleagues sharing program tapes with their modifications as a courtesy.

So sure, there were programmers sharing code between each other, but that was kind of informal sharing, more because nobody placed much value on software alone at the time and university labs didn't always wanted to start from scratch.

In fact the reason RMS started GNU in the first place was precisely because he felt that kind of sharing culture was being eroded.
I have no love for the DNC but I think that their interests go no deeper than currying favor for their corporate patrons.

"Ordinary" democrats by and large do care about climate change.

On the other side of the aisle, it's easy to see disregard for the science in both leadership and party members. Among that population is a significant chunk that is deeply religious and looking forward to the apocalypse.

I may get hate for this comment, but it's meant as a summary assessment of position, not of judgement (which I am happy to share in other contexts).
Beige Book by the Federal Reserve – April 15, 2020
I.E., the same people who have benefited from (and whose wealth was probably grown in) a social system where utilities, infrastructure, schools, etc are paid by tax dollars.
Completion date: April 1st 2021. Too little too late for much of the country.
From what I've read, when Sony came out with the first portable transistor radio, they outfitted their salesmen with shirts that had oversized pockets to fit the radio. Just an amusing bit of history.
"Sufficient" meaning "Extraordinary"? The data doesn't really show that being hard working correlates with creation of wealth. In addition, it seems wealth plays a larger role in medical school acceptance than one might expect/hope for.

"The AAMC explains that the percentage of medical students from families in the highest quintile of household income has not dropped below 48 percent since 1987—half of students come from the richest 20 percent of the population—while the percentage of students from the lowest quintile has never risen above 5.5 percent [9]"

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/sites/journalofethics.a...
> Most ISPs will allocate you a fixed /64

not really.
the case where someone in a household power-cycles the router and it gets a new ipv6-addy and then one has to power-cycle all networked devices too because they have no way of knowing that the old prefix is dead, is very common.
Except this doesn't seem to be the same form factor, not even close.
I reckon that in France, you can become a doctor without capital— although studies are long and absolutely not designed to help the student work a job part time, so there's an underlying social factor at play; gov help doesn't target 18-25s for some reason (most benefits start at 25).

It's not perfect, but it's certainly better than having to spend mid-five figures. That the student learns law, medicine, math, physics, biology or any other university discipline doesn't cost more or less to the family.

The benefit for the country however is massive. The "cost" of training a doctor is repaid infinitely by the benefits of medicine itself (and great tax contributions!) during their whole career (30+ years).

I wish it were like that everywhere...
Perhaps if they are aiming for the mainstream they should add some creature comforts like window buttons for minimizing and maximizing.
What’s your use case for UTF-32?
That's only because the cheques are allowed in the first place. Rest of the civilised world can make online transfer that will reach the recipient the minute you pressed the form button, granted no unusual infrastructure issues.
Wasn’t able to add Medium post linked in the tweet - https://medium.com/@henrysward/cartas-covid-19-layoff-cbb80e...
It is compact compared to the competition!
Google seems to use erasure coding for some (iirc. multi-AZ nearline, or so) storage classes, last I checked.
The Obamacare rule about preexisting conditions was specifically to fix the individual insurance market. The pre-Obamacare individual insurance market was really broken -- you need the "three-legged stool" (pre-existing condition coverage, universal mandate, subsidized premiums) to have a functioning individual market, and that didn't exist until Obamacare.
a couple months ago i got a Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact to replace my Z5 Compact (4.6") - they are hard to find new!

i'm waiting eagerly for the camera focus bug to be fixed in oemv6 firmware to flash TWRP & Lineage and try it as a daily driver:

https://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-xz2/development/rom-...

for now, my Z5 Compact is still going strong but has known noise cancellation mic issues (hardware) that cause echo on the other end of some calls.
4G around the UK is pretty grim. I struggle to get any signal in the centre of Glasgow, especially around the Central train station. Even on 3G. Anything that helps is welcome.
Manufacturers have been trying to increase the size of phone as much as they can get away with. Larger size usually means larger battery & life (even after accounting for the larger screen) and more people doing more things on the phone (viewing more videos, longer reading etc). All are good for the mobile manufacturers. The size of the pocket is an unfortunate restriction in their ever expanding world. They are hoping and likely winning the bet that pants will start having larger pockets.
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