skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Purdue mislead doctors, and the public, in several different ways.

They said that their medication was unlikely to lead to addiction if used to treat pain. They said their medication was less likely to lead to addiction than other opioids. They knew some doctors were prescribing vast quantities of opioids - far more than even Purdue recommended as treatment for pain. They used a variety of marketing to doctors and to members of the public, and some of that was designed to evade regulation of marketing. They used stealth marketing methods such as employing physicians to speak at conferences without disclosure. They interfered with the creation of treatment guidance. They used front groups. They targeted vulnerable and wealthy populations. They concealed what they knew about the addictiveness of their product. They concealed what they knew about the efficacy of their product (people may tolerate an addictive medication if it increases function. Purdue knew their meds didn't increase function for many patients.)

There's a huge list of absolutely scumbag behaviour from that company, and we need to recognise their part in driving death and misery to millions of Americans.
> be a helicopter pilot (old dream)

Careful with that, its one of "those jobs" that people flock to, but very hard to make a living in. A relative of mine did that, started rich, got his own helicopter, isn't rich anymore.
That's not how aircraft aerodynamics work.

Tail heavy aircraft turn faster than nose-heavy aircraft.
With the centre of aerodynamic pressure in front of the centre of mass the wings contribute extra turning force whenever the aircraft isn't facing exactly into the airstream.

If the centre of mass is too far behind the centre of pressure the aircraft becomes unstable - continuously trying to snap around and fly backwards.
I was tired, stressed and bored of tech so I learned how to sail, sold my stuff, bought a boat and sailed around in the Caribbean on a budget.

I didn't work for a year and now I'm working on contract 6 months a year and try to maintain my boat/sail the other 6 months
It gives me time to refuel and enjoy working in tech again.
B2B distributors can use the deal economy to beat Amazon
See also this subthread from yesterday about the same topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22865408
Even if we consider a global lockdown impact of 3-4 months, the fall in output should be roughly between 25-30%. The best case could be 13.4% i.e 3.3-16.7(for 2 months)

Not an economist, but I don't understand how they calculate just 3%

Further, when this is over, I think the crisis will lead into a geopolitical crisis. Also it is good to assume that multiple countries will not let China (govt) simply get away with this. There could be policies that can end up resulting into collateral damage
A couple of observations from someone who has a scattershot blog:

* Nobody reads posts in chronological order. At best, they will find a post through a search engine or link and maybe glance at your homepage once. The most popular page on my site (by far) was something I wrote 3 years ago - it still gets hits but that doesn't translate into regular readers.

* Nobody really follows blogs by subscribing to feeds. OK, obviously some people do but it is small fraction of site readers. And of those that do, only a small fraction regularly visit the sites they are subscribed to.

The upshot is that you are better thinking of your blog as a set of independent articles rather than an actual Web Log. Publication dates are important to gauge how up-to-date the information is but almost no-one is going to scroll through a date-sorted index.

If you want users to browse around after they have read the first article, implement some sort of Related Articles or tagging system to arrange your content by topic.
> You could use AJAX to tell the server to add the new item, but now you need to update your UI list accordingly. You could use jQuery to construct a new DOM element and append it, but now that list element exists in two different places: in your jQuery code and in your template on the server.

Your server can just return html which is ready to be inserted into DOM. You don't need to duplicate the node view creation logic client side.
All models are wrong, but 1) some models are useful, and 2) you can't not have a model. If you don't have an explicit model, you have an implicit model.

I presented you a model; yes it's oversimplified, but it results in at least some sort of concrete answer; and you can actually examine where it came from and reason about how valid it is. You can make arguments for some other death rate or herd immunity rate. (I took 80% from the most recent article I heard on the subject, but previously I heard 60%.)

You also actually have a model in your head for how many people are going to die (or not die). But I don't know where it came from. I can't examine it or reason about it. If you were an old-timer who'd seen hundreds of pandemics, or a historical epidemiologist who had studied hundreds of epidemics, maybe your "gut feel" would carry some weight.

But since (AFAICT) you're a layperson like me, I'm not inclined to think your implicit model is going to be very accurate.
From the first look of it will still prefer Guile and Guix deploy or Nix with Nixops. All these systems (like pulumi, terraform, ansible and many more) are not really new or innovative, it’s just re-inventing the same wheel with different names and jumping between declarative and imperative syntax.

Guix and Nix both are innovative way to build production, reproducible, secure deployments and platforms without side effects and get rollback and transactions free.
not sure when it was implemented, but to keep the cursor position fixed while scrolling

(setq scroll-preserve-screen-position 1)
I've followed this case with great interest over the last days. And as much as I would have like things to be like they seem - our government silencing once of the only opposing voices (like they did often in the last years) - it's not like that this time. You can read the things she had written on her page and even listen to the phone call with her sister where she describes the entire ordeal. Frankly: She's a nutjob.
she was detained because of her weird behavior and was released on the same day

Earlier she declared the various restrictions in Germany because of Corona for ended. She ordered Germany to end closing of shops, etc... She also ordered Germans to only drive 130 km/h on the Autobahn.

http://www.beatebahner.de/lib.medien/Corona%20Auferstehungs%...

Weird...
I've stopped coding on my 2012 Macbook Air in favour of my desktop PC for similar reasons. The fact that my ports are shared between Windows and Linux makes the web dev I do a dream.

The new Terminal app is great too. I've got all the same split pane stuff that I rely on in iTerm, including useful keyboard shortcuts for switching between them and resizing them. I'm very impressed.
Projecting the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 through postpandemic period
Official Chinese numbers at the end of January reported ~5% of infected requiring respirator, less than 2.5% surviving it.
I read an estimate for the Danish economy that a full lockdown costs 4-5% of annual GDP pr month. Meaning that if it goes on for a full year the output of the economy would be half.

Even in a full lock down some parts of the economy is still running at full "potential output", some maybe more: Hospitals, police, some business, utilities like electricity or water, basic supermarkets etc.

But, yes, 3% is probably too low.
Microservices and api management gets more popular. (and the need for jwt/oauth) since redhat is generally trusted. It is basically the only option if you want to use it.
FWIW Backblaze has the ABA model in their report: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-for-2019/
This is fake.
https://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/14915/4571083

Google translate:

"There are currently reports in public, especially on the Internet, that the accused are forced to be placed in a psychiatric clinic. To this end, the public prosecutor's office in Heidelberg and the police headquarters in Mannheim state that neither the placement of the accused in a psychiatric clinic nor any other coercive measure was ordered as part of the criminal investigation against the accused."
But I believe people trying emacs are attracted by it because something in them makes them crave customization above out-of-the-box productivity.
Tip: you get great performance by just installing and running Linux directly.
Renault stops making gas cars in China, shifting sales only to electric cars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders
Covid-19 contact-tracing apps are a privacy risk
I'd like to ask the author if he would be willing to justify the text on his "digital garden". It would make for a better reading experience in my opinion. Also, your site would benefit from grouping or ordering posts by topic.
>Shingled media recording (SMR) disk drives take advantage of disk write tracks being wider than read tracks to partially overlap write tracks and so enable more tracks to be written to a disk platter. This means more data can be stored on a shingled disk than an ordinary drive.

>However, SMR drives are not intended for random write IO use cases because the write performance is much slower than with a non-SMR drive. Therefore they are not recommended for NAS use cases featuring significant random write workloads.

[...]

>We brought all these points to Western Digital’s attention and a spokesperson told us:

[...]

>"In device-managed SMR HDDs, the drive does its internal data management during idle times. In a typical small business/home NAS environment, workloads tend to be bursty in nature, leaving sufficient idle time for garbage collection and other maintenance operations."

That seems like a pretty notable difference to me. You probably want to know that ahead of buying the drive.
You seem very interested in this WDS concept. In fact, I would say it is interesting. But I think citing "please reply to the argument instead of calling names" will be less confusing. Here, calling names is short-hand for criticising/analysing the individual instead of the argument.

To my eyes, the collectively specific hn analysis of Wolfram may be interesting, but it is not relevant to moderation of the content. At the same time, succeeding at moderating away the content means that we can't see it, so it can't actually be interesting or even visible to anyone but you.
All productive output doesn't stop during a lockdown. And not all of the world is locked down, including China, the second largest economy in the world.
Yeah, this explanation doesn't seem right. I suspect there is a strong component of direct damage to the hull involved.

It is pretty common for ships to have sections of it suspended in air in high seas.
Is "NIMPYism" a product of investment, in that homeowners are incentived to protect their property value? I would argue that burgeoning or prospective homeowners are passive proponents of derisive action, in respect to your argument, but I hesitate to boil it down to local, popular opinion.

My understanding is that there is a predisposition in play that is influenced by a variety of factors, one including an absolute number of the law from superior influence, but another (leaning towards your point on a grander scale) is a cultural osmosis.

Would you immediately assume that a random, home-owning voter is contributing to this detriment, that there is an overplay of asymmetrical beauracracy, or that there is some factor of elements including the aforementioned interests? I would appreciate your argument (or any others'), in good faith, if I've not represented the full spectrum.
From WD comment: "Currently, Western Digital’s WD Red 2TB-6TB drives are device-managed SMR (DMSMR). WD Red 8TB-14TB drives are CMR-based."

This does not make sense - why smaller disks are SMR, while larger ones are CMR? Perhaps they just switched that in comment?
You're right. The "move message" icon is, however, of a folder[1], so I guess over time I came to the misunderstanding that I was working with folders!

[1] https://it.stonybrook.edu/sites/default/files/kb/8618/images...
Did they take inspiration from Italy? That's the same stuff we are subject to every day. And yes, even here we have DDR Volkspolizei-like behavior from people eager to "denounce" those who "break the rules".

The way this lockdown has been implemented is going to cause a lot of problems at the society level afterwards.
A couple links to support the parent comment.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1268263/sweden-coronavi...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8212365/Swedish-PM-...
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GitHub’s new offer closely matches that from GitLab
Why has no one developed a news subscription service yet?

I want to be able to pay 50¢ here or $1 there for an interesting article from NYT, WSJ, WaPo, Bloomberg, The Guardian, The New Yorker etc., without paying for a subscription.

I can't afford to subscribe to all of them. There are not enough hours in the day for getting a return on my investment.

New York Times $50/yr
Wall Street Journal $100
Bloomberg $420
LA Times $98
The Guardian £119
Washington Post ~$80

I don't want to subscribe to just one paper. There are so many good articles in all the papers.

A news combiner or aggregator would charge me for every article I select. At the end of the month, he charges my account credit card for the sum of all the articles.

He gathers up the money that all readers have paid for reading NYT articles, and remits it.

The newspapers don't have to manage micro-payments, journalism is saved, everyone is happy.

Blendle looks like they are trying to do this, but they've been in Beta since 2016.
On a related note:

What No One Is Saying About the Corona Crisis by J. Corbett

https://youtu.be/lmHRYzF0dyQ

Each and every basic human right already is or is going to be violated and annihilated on the premise of this "pandemic". It's time to question, what's your line in the sand here, and if you have a line in the sand at all, and what you're going to do, when the police breaks into your home. How far is too far?

There was one comment that really states it brilliantly:

"As someone with a compromised immune system, I want to put out there that I don't want you, or anyone you know to have to be out of a job, or unable to make ends meet, in an effort to protect me from getting CV. I don't need any of this, as I am an adult, capable of protecting myself. If I felt that this virus were a danger, I would stay home, and restrict my own movement to prevent an illness. I would never expect others to surrender their movement for my benefit.

The worst part of this event, is the economic impact of having so much of the workforce without work. Many folks live hand to mouth, and it would appear that the people in charge either didn't think of the financial impact of those folks, or they just don't care. The bills don't stop coming, even though the paychecks have, even my wife has been laid off, and she recently discovered that her employer is in chapter 11 bankruptcy. So, who knows if she will even have a job at the end of this... My oldest daughter is also unemployed as a consequence of the shutdowns. I am certain that there are thousands of others going through the same thing right now. It is a real shame. This lockdown needs to end. If people want to stay home for a couple more weeks, let them do it without penalty. If people want to open their business, let them. It's time to stop this collective madness."

This is fucking serious. This is more serious than anything before. As serious as it can get. And absolutely no one has the idea of what can be done on the individual or even collective level to fight back.
Fauci and Billy Gates are long time business partners. Billy makes the worst antivirus for computers and now he wants to make antivirus for humans. I'll take my chances without. Id rather not BSOD my brain.
Point a laser straight up at your satellite.
I thought this was an excellent article, particularly the point about how and (possibly) why the CDC advised against the use of face masks to limit spread of infection during a pandemic. There seems to have been other failings of expert advice in the early days of the pandemic (e.g. see the UK government's apparent change of strategy early on) and they do to me look like failures in academic reasoning, rather than failures of political decision making. Will be interesting to read the findings of the inevitable inquiries after the dust has settled.
Funny, EFAX must be horrible then. All of my dead WD REDs are EFRX.
Feeling of creative ownership for AI-generated song
I can understand wanting to live a healthier life ... the best advice I can give is to maintain a healthy weight as it impacts so many other facets of your life. My second piece of advice is to get a dog that needs to be walked 2-4 miles a day - it is the absolute end of excuses.

I'm not sure why you'd want to live longer - I'm hoping to go out like my grandfather did. He was never sick a day in his life but had a massive heart-attack in his sleep and never woke up. Living longer might be a side-effect of living healthier and that's fine by me. But living longer while being decimated by the common diseases of those over 80 is not for me.
It's concerning that they're obviously copying production data to a dev database.
What's your story?

Programming off and on for over 40 years. Left several times. Because nothing is as fucked up as I.T.

Did sales, consulting, several small businesses, and writing. Kept getting sucked back in. Because no one else digs as deep into things as us programmers. Became frustrated because we were always "skimming on the surface" of everything instead of deep diving into the cause instead of the effect. Besides, nothing turns me on more than watching something I built from nothing working for the first time. I haven't found that feeling anywhere else.

What do you do now?

Back into enterprise programming. Should be having a ball, but I'm more miserable than ever because of the total fuckedupness of management. Planning my next one-person business now.

Any regrets?

No. I had choices but picked programming. I often wonder how my life would have been different if I had become a mathematician, teacher, writer, artist, musician, or something else. But every time I talk to friends who went in those directions, I realized they had their own shit to deal with and I followed exactly the right path meant for me.

And how come you still follow HN?

Because my "Delete Programming from my DNA" button returns a stack overflow.
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I've spent an unhealthy amount of time at presentations, conferences, seminars and meetups. With that, on your first point, I'm more inclined to believe somewhere around 90% have absolutely no "AI" or "ML" for that matter in their products. And a large fraction of those who do have re-used existing open source solutions without digging a lot into them. De omnibus dubitandum est, of course, but this is the impression I get.
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The general rule I use is to look at the DRAM size, if it is:

* 256 MB (or more) - most likely it’s an SMR drive

* 64-128 MB almost guaranteed it’s an PMR drive

I base this on my observation, that I’ve never seen an SMR drive with less than 256 MB of cache.
Hi!

I have been working on a new concept for selling online.

Targeting from people selling by direct messages on social media to eCommerce owners for whom a traditional online store is an overkill.

The idea is basically to lower the entry barrier to selling online ad maximum for anyone by:

- Avoiding the big fat square 0 (build online store) by getting something simpler (landing shop).

- Getting sooner to square 1: promotion, which is what actually drives sales.

- Selling by tagging your publications with your shoppable product URLs.

- Reminding users to post periodically to help building and nurturing an audience.

I would love hearing your feedback about it!

Thanks in advance for your time!

Stay safe!
The website takedown seemed unnecessary and questionable (I'd personally hope it will be found to be wrong), if her description of police behavior is accurate they were more violent than necessary. Which means this case needs to be watched and makes looking at her mental health look bad, even if probably justified.
C++ is the language with which I’m most comfortable, having used it professionally for the better part of a decade. I’ve gone back and forth on using it in HS. It’s abstractions are so opaque if you don’t already have a well developed model of programming.

For the arduino, I’m really interested in teaching control systems. So we will start with finite state machines and go from there to implementing PID controllers. I’m intrigued by the idea of avoiding the IDE, so will totally pick up that book!
Great work!

Building something end-to-end is a valuable experience, even if the end result might appear outwardly "simple".
It's machine translation, but that is -not- saying she was not "[placed] in a psychiatric clinic nor any other coercive measure was ordered". It is simply asserting that these actions, which did take place, were "[not] ordered as part of the criminal investigation".

Did I read it wrong?
There is tons of help needed in Medical software, I made the jump to work in Radiation Oncology in 2014 after working at a large travel website and I do not regret it at all. The key is to find a company that maintains high security while still being "agile". That way the work is meaningful, and still similar in pace to working other programming jobs.

I find my work far more impactful, knowing millions of patients are being treated by my software in some way.
What's the value of this link over the original one?

Original: https://venturebeat.com/2020/04/14/ai-startups-raised-6-9-bi...
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; Swedish "å" is useless in Finnish keyboard.
; After 40 years I finally understood I do not
; have suffer this injustice anymore. Quite logical
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; expression of frustation and indecisiveness.
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Been 30 years since I've written assembler but back in the day I considered myself part of Abrash's army. What we tend to forget about writing in assembler is each typical formatted line has a one-to-one mapping to a machine instruction unless you're using macros. It really is the most wysiwyg programming experience you can have, so it's simply not possible to get the same optimization and space usage with a higher level language because your only choice for optimizing higher level is via groups of instructions. So C optimizers are inlining groups of instructions and making best assumptions about execution flows for you while maintaining intent. So if you want to enjoy the abstractions of higher languages, and the speed at which you can develop, the only obvious run-time optimization is faster hardware to compensate for abstractions that might decompile to massive amounts of machine instructions.

Oh yeah and I'd just like to mention as an aside that assembler statements make more sense to me than bootstrap css codes - a sad statement to the art of reasonable brevity.
Every region (and almost every country) is generally believed to be severely undercounting cases because of limited testing. There's not much reason to believe the problem is worse in California than elsewhere, and a severe surge would be evident in hospitalization and death rates no matter how bad testing is.
Then it would be indirectly controlled by Government in power,In effect WORSE than current state.
They bought HGST, not Seagate.
Clearly the solution is to have hinges in the middle of the keel.