skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My girlfriend and I vape and caught the bug in March. I had no idea the phat cloudz were what saved us.

That is not a conclusion I would draw from this study, or any study I've come across.

I do agree, however, that the conclusion that vaping is a risk factor is also not backed up by any literature I've seen.
archive.org gets my vote.
I missed that part, so I'm honestly as puzzled as you are (I suppose the answer would be yes then).
Anyone following the early data from China noticed this trend of PROFOUND underrepresentation of smokers w COVID19.

Lots of theories why, but my latest (total ignoramus speculation) is that smokers are more likely to have been exposed to the common endemic coronaviruses, which seem to result in T-cells that are able to fight Sars2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H07ukT8WkfY&feature=youtu.be
TL;DR

> "Nicotine may be suggested as a potential preventive agent against Covid-19 infection."
What has a profit motive to do with permanent? Why (provided it doesn't work) would it it work it if it was for profit, but not if it wasn't?

It seems you have some political beef with this being a non-profit.
Not exactly. That's why those same vendors work so hard at disabling root access for exactly the reasons outlined by the article; root can wreck it or maybe read out keys, or a million other little things because ALL of it is predicated on no one being able to just arbitrarily read/write to everything on the system like root/uid 1 can do.
It's not like every other adult site sells fraud as a feature. It's just really difficult and expensive to prevent. A single chargeback can cost the merchant up to $100 in fees.
Top economist: US coronavirus response is like 'third world' country
> 2 years working on a non-trivial backend should expose one to these problems.

You can be exposed to them, but without understanding them, and experiencing both good, bad, and really bad 'solutions' to them, and understand the impact (on the business, on the code, on security, on maintainability, etc)... you just can't really get all that in 2 years.

I know plenty of people who've been 'exposed' to certain type of tech problems, and the solutions they decide on are objectively really bad for any metric other than "stop this error from showing up on the screen right now".

I've been doing this for a bit over 25 years, professionally now, and... there's a lot I don't 'get' with current stuff. But I've seen and lived enough projects, in enough different situations, to have a good idea of impact of tech decisions, and to understand how to make tradeoff decisions.

I had someone call me up to 'fix' a problem in a system I'd given then 15 years earlier. It was still running, more or less the same, and... spelunking your own code 15 years later gives you a new perspective on the impact and value of decisions you make. Many of the things people get hung up on (code style, tabs/spaces/etc, particular naming conventions, etc) provide pretty much no value in digging in to old code that no one has touched or thought about in a decade. Correct comments, sample data, repeatable tests hold so much more value, but are harder to get people to commit to following through on.
> But it seems like a good strategy would be to test one number, guess assuming constant, test a second, guess assuming linear, test a third, guess assuming first order polynomial, and so on.

You are still implicitly assuming that the function is continuous. There are a lot of nowhere-continuous functions, e.g. the sawtooth function. Or more interestingly, Conway's base13 function, which takes on every real number in every interval.

Also what about continuous non-polynomials? e.g. exponentials, logarithms, sine/cosine etc.?
Yeah Plus is one of my favorite memories of Windows too, which happened around the same time I discovered drivers to let me see more than 256 colors for the first time :)
Do you know how thick these submarine cables are?
Oh, I see the distinction now.
Which businesses cannot fail?

Services, sure, you need a water supply (say). But if the water business fails then someone will snap up the assets, maybe the state, and the service won't fail. So? Pension companies and banks that the C-suite stole from??
Came here to say this but you put it better.
It's laughable that with all the changes that went in and voting on that bill they left the loophole open for big players to get access to this funding which was directed at small businesses/mom-and-pops shops.
But business and shitty politics as usual.
You can downvote it if you want… but really, why make a big deal out of it? Just keep contributing to the discussion and conversation.

I mean ask some big influencers… like patio11 and tptacek. They don't get all hand-wavey "ooooohhhh, I got 1000 points!!" they just keep engaging in the conversation, bringing value to the table.

You should keep doing it too.
This paper has a deeply obfuscatory tone I tend to associate with liars. Slogging through the words, here's the money shot:

> A potential protective effect of smoking and of nicotine on SARS-CoV-2 infection has been noted. Until recently [39], no firm conclusions could be drawn from studies evaluating the rates of current smokers in Covid-19. All these studies [40-48], although reporting low rates of current smokers, ranging from 1.4% to 12.5%, did not take into account the main potential confounders of smoking including age and sex. In the study that two of us are reporting [1], the rates of current smoking remain below 5 % even when main confounders for tobacco consumption, i.e. age and sex, in- or outpatient status, were considered. Compared to the French general population, the Covid-19 population exhibited a significantly weaker current daily smoker rate by 80.3 % for outpatients and by 75.4 % for inpatients. Thus, current smoking status appears to be a protective factor against the infection by SARS-CoV-2. Although the chemistry of tobacco smoke is complex, these data are consistent with the hypothesis that its protective role takes place through direct action on various types of nAChRs expressed in neurons, immune cells (including macrophages), cardiac tissue, lungs, and blood vessels.

Notice how this mess of a paragraph starts with a passive voice claim. Reference 39 is a meta-analysis that concludes that "active smoking does not apparently seem to be signicantly [sic] associated with enhanced risk of progressing towards severe disease in COVID-19." That's not a "firm" conclusion.

At this point, I'm going to stop wasting my time. Do a controlled study or get out.
That gets tricky if one of the writes fails.
Coach-class dreaded middle seat is gone, for now
Do I have to create every learning plan that I use?
LendingClub is laying off 460 people, 30% of staff
I had the opportunity to visit Byblos, Lebanon and spend a few hours walking around. It was fascinating to me how many different civilizations had left physical imprints: Egyptians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, European Crusaders.

I highly recommend a visit to any city on this list.
I happened to be born in one of those cities. AMA :)
Yes but when did it become a "city" versus just a caveman camp?
>The reason cited was that it was not the government who was responsible to choose an Indian partner for the “offset clause” of the deal, it was Dassault who entered into a JV with Anil Ambani’s company.

Because the Indian govt. forced Dassault to deal with Ambani. We know this because the French President literally said so.

“We did not have a say in this,” Mediapart quoted Mr Hollande saying. “It was the Indian government that proposed this service group, and Dassault negotiated with Ambani. We did not have a choice. We took the interlocutor that was given to us.”

https://m.economictimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/india-p...

https://www.ft.com/content/4e95c46c-bdb6-11e8-94b2-17176fbf9...
I'm up for it, I support no (or very short) copyright, but let's be honest here - that's way more friction for end-users.
I struggle with lack of experience with SQL by always being told that I should always use an ORM or I would regret it in the future when I would change database technology. I'm in the future now and spend a lot of time debbuging the ORM and the sql statements it produces, when I could split that work in half by not using the orm at all. Would also have a lot more experience with sql so there would probably be less bugs in the first place.
Define "big." Double writing in some form is the only option for live migration and you either bolt it on later or plan for it now.
Sorry what I meant was the difference between host-managed and DMSMR. Having TRIM doesn't make any difference in the rebuild, it just means you can detect it's SMR and you can help the drive in normal usage. Either one will have trouble in a RAID rebuild. Being able to detect it's an SMR drive could probably let some RAID software handle it in a better way, but I don't think any existing software does (since nobody is crazy enough to use SMR in a RAID)
This is a somewhat ridiculous position. If I hope to preserve data for my children, I'm not going to hand them a box with jerry-rigged software and hardware that they then have to maintain. I want someone to maintain that for them.

If I'm looking for my blog, or my tweets, or a set of family photos and videos to live on forever, I absolutely want them under control of a foundation that outlives me and my relatives interest in maintaining that data.
I think they will not get much interest at that price point (3000+)
> For more complex operations nothing beats the CLI.

I think that's only because most of the UIs are so bad! Manipulating a graph is something that I think inherently is actually quite visual.

GitUp[0] has excellent graph-editing facilities, and has replaced almost all of my git command-line machinations.

Alas, it's semi-abandoned and left in a perpetual state of 90% doneness...

A little challenge, if you're interested: Give some git manipulations you would do on the command line, and I will show you how to do it more easily in GitUp, or concede defeat. :-)

[0] https://github.com/git-up/GitUp
How about Gumroad? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19105733
That's precisely the case with British schools/universities too. I know now that programming has been added to the curriculum, so in years time these intro courses might no longer be necessary, but the opportunity for prior CS/programming education depended heavily on which school you went to and that's a massive red flag for trying to enable people from all backgrounds to be able to study.
I found the centering making it more difficult to read. I also cannot overview the lists as well. Centering requires the reader to retarget their eyes at a different place every line.

In the praise section, I was confused about which text belonged to which person.

The page scrolls horizontally in iOS 13.x Safari.
In the linked study[1] the effect is still there after controlling for age and sex.

[1] https://doi.org/10.32388/WPP19W.3
I just don't get the way this narrative is washing over the entire PPP program and most of the posts here don't match my personal, direct first hand experience.

The program has been a bit of a mess, but it seems to be broadly functioning as intended, aside from the running out of money part.

I was involved in two business applications, both for very modest sums of money, five figures in both cases, and while it was a little stressful and so on with all the news, and difficulty getting updates from the banks, both were successful and it was not particularly complicated to do.

One loan came from a giant top 5 bank, one from a niche bank, and in neither case was there any special access or connections of any kind. Just regular old open up a small business account by walking into a branch stuff, and applying as an absolute nobody.

So it was possible.

And this whole thing about the chain restaurants, while a little frustrating maybe, is still something squarely within the lines of the law as written. The law was supposed to support paychecks, not companies, and it's pretty obvious restaurant workers are heavily affected. Maybe they shouldn't have modified the chain rules, but they did.

I agree there probably should have been a restriction on larger companies, like publicly traded ones, but somehow this idea has taken over that this is where all the money went. They wrote over a million loans, and as far as I can tell from actual data driven journalism the vast majority of them went to businesses that basically fit into the goals of the program.

Yet, everyone's talking about Shake Shack for some reason.

I feel like this is just another brand of the usual idiocy around means testing in public policy, which inevitably just adds complexity and drags the whole system down.

The PPP program strikes me as one of the most useful parts of all the bailout efforts and it should be praised and expanded for the most part. If you're mad about big business focus on what the Fed is doing with junk bonds and private equity debt. That shit is where the fucking crime is going on.
I’m impressed by how few people here have tested it in Firefox – Fieldset is broken, Button has ::-moz-focus-inner not properly disabled, Radio/Option isn’t rendering correctly (still shows the original input element as 2x2px black box), and quite a bit more.

Hilariously, this is quite a good example on why the Chrome monoculture is just repeating the IE monoculture of years past
OP was not saying anything about intelligence or claiming to be highly intelligent. It was a personal (and very interesting, IMO) anecdote on their experience with math text books.
For those who don't have a Bloomberg account. https://outline.com/HacVTV
I mean, if there ever was a point where you take a step back and ask yourself "will voting actually solve this" this surely must be it? How on earth would voting actually solve something like this?

I'm not advocating for "not voting", I'm advocating for not letting yourself getting paralyzed by the idea that you are represented already anyway. You are only represented in the most superficial of ways. Start acting instead. Make JP Morgan feel your anger. Make people see your anger to JP Morgan.

You don't have to keep taking the hits. Acting helps psychologically and emotionally and on the best of days even might change things.
Nice trick to slip an actual conspiracy in with two things that are not.
How did you end up handling the query/document asymmetry issue? Seems like query sentenceBERT/averaged document vectors?
Queue a load of people extrapolating their own personal experiences into generalisations covering the entire country
Universities face a harsh lesson
Sure, but I'm more commenting on the ease of use. I mean we can debate it until heat death of the universe, but the fact is, my less computer-proficient family members ask me to download torrents for them, whereas they have no problem buying/watching films on Amazon/Netflix/etc.
Who do we vote for? The only standout here is Rep Thomas Massie who tried to force a recorded vote by requiring people to return to the capital. He was dragged by both sides and the president. Google his name and look how the media treated him.
> preventing their daughters from having premarital sex

And it's because being a young single mom sucks.
I have a simple theory on why it is hard to name classes ;)

- https://thomasvilhena.com/2019/10/why-is-it-hard-to-name-cla...
If you have Spotify check out JQBX (https://www.jqbx.fm) it's a great way to discover new music.
This list seems hardly complete. There’s no mention of Central Asia for instance.
Of course the paper involves speculation (though, as others have pointed out, it is not as unsupported as you suggest), but there's nothing unusual, let alone wrong, about that. If the possible usefulness of nicotine could not be discussed until it was proven to be both an effective and safe treatment, we would never find out if it were either.

Nor is there anything wrong in considering whether it could lead to a feasible treatment, as that is an important consideration in how vigorously to follow up.

Your ethical concerns seem to be overblown and premature. By itself, this paper will have no effect on policy.
Cancellation in Coroutines
apparently some people miss UAC when they use linux
But how will politicians and magnates get rich from your plan? /s
I can't believe how intensely functional the UI design of windows 95/98 was when looking back, and I say this as someone who intensely hates windows overall - but credit where it's due.

Only when using it now is it clear how well they minimized ambiguity and cognitive load... everything is so frickin obvious. Contrast that with modern aesthetically obsessed UIs, ever ambiguous, lack of clear distinctions not in both spatial boundaries and UI states - it's a constant guessing game for the user, never certain about the outcome of an interaction, giving you this distracting sense of unease rather than just focusing on whats behind the UI.
1. Is solved by "N Pages left in chapter" which is more useful than "Page N"

2. There is no "absolute number" of pages on a e-reader app or device because the window or font size can change, changing all the page numbers. You can have 100 pages or 200 pages.
They throttle the throughout on evening. Checked the internet at night and day is literally night vs. day where the internet goes down to Kbps but at morning goes up to 100Mbps normally. It's totally bullshit.
In either case, someone needs to have moderate expertise in multiple areas of tech. If it's wrapped up in one person, the business needs backups to deal with the bus factor. If it's spread across multiple people, you now need to be selecting for people with moderate tech expertise AND the ability to communicate and work together with other people effectively. And you need someone to manage their process (in some manner - doesn't necessarily mean micromanaging).

So the 'full-stack rockstar', if they have good communication skills, can exist and be valuable, but still isn't the best long term solution for a business of any size.
Do you think we can change these outcomes within our current for of capitalism? If not, maybe it's time to think about alternatives. Maybe you think things would be better in a more socialist world, or maybe you think worlds would be better in a world with less government intervention. Maybe something else.

The point though is: we need to advocate for a systems change.
Anil Ambani's firm was chosen as an offset partner by Dassault, not by the Government.

"Chosen". As in forced to chose by the Indian govt. We know this because the French President literally said so in an interview.

“We did not have a say in this,” Mediapart quoted Mr Hollande saying. “It was the Indian government that proposed this service group, and Dassault negotiated with Ambani. We did not have a choice. We took the interlocutor that was given to us.”

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-natio...

https://www.ft.com/content/4e95c46c-bdb6-11e8-94b2-17176fbf9...
Security researchers find 267M Facebook user dump sold for 500 EUR
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Either reason is a poor excuse to continue to provide service in any country that uses political pressure to modify content.

FB and anyone else requested to remove politically motivated content should leave the country until that practice is stopped, and only resume service as long as no requests are made.

I know money and network effects will win out anyway but that's what I believe will pressure these governments to relent.
Classic Sleeper prediction:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFxksNcLfcA

I have a friend who studies the history of plagues; was telling me last summer that smokers were viewed as more immune to historical plagues. I never asked him for detailed evidence, as it was one of those conversations you have on the balcony over a smoke. I enjoy entertaining wacky ideas, and figured smokers might be fumigating the fleas, or in the case of pneumonic plague, filtering the air. Never thought of the nicotinic hypothesis. Never really took it real seriously; taking it seriously now. The evidence is pretty overwhelming. A lot of people are going to lose their freaking minds over this, as anti-smoker posturing has become a sort of substitute morality among the upper middle classes (really it's just social class shitting on poor people).

Of course, nicotine is known to statistically significantly reduce the risk of Parkinson's disease, so it wouldn't be the first example of something like this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/faluhv/an_exhausti...

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.13.20063669v...

https://www.qeios.com/read/article/561

https://www.qeios.com/read/article/574

https://www.qeios.com/read/article/581
I was taught in university by soviet professors and had to study soviet textbooks and from what I can tell, Soviet textbooks are extremely steep and unfriendly. There is not a single odd word and it even feels like they had to save the paper. Text is often describing schemes that are 5-10 pages before. It takes significantly more concentration to understand the whole thing. It feels like authors used to compete in the precision of information rather than making it more available for someone who is going to read it.

On the other hand, books from USA tend to be more friendly and will first explain the basic intuition and only then dig deeper if necessary.
CSS Box Model broken down
> But I've never really seen anyone being persecuted for good grades as such.

As someone who went through the US public education system in a lower-class neighborhood in the 2000s, I can't speak for wealthier neighborhoods [1], but people are definitely persecuted solely for their grades.

[1] One of the most interesting things about American culture is the dichotomy we have due to the large population and inequality (meaning there's ~no group overlap prior to college) - educational experiences had been so vastly different for many I met in college, and we were shocked at hearing the other side's experiences.
add to that "do not want to declare/worry about types", "cant be bothered about RAM usage/cache coherency/etc", "concurrency" etc. etc. All of those are "premature optimizations".