skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lancet isn't the only paper that has raised issues with HCQ treatment.

Sciencemag [1] has this to say:

However, both HCQ and AZ have potential cardiac toxicity (QT prolongation,
which can lead to fatal arrhythmia), and
HCQ additionally has the potential for
negative effects on the eye. Understanding
risk-benefit ratios is paramount if these
drugs are to become a standard of care for
COVID-19. Several post hoc analyses carried out in the United States and Europe
suggest modest benefit, at best, from HCQ
monotherapy for COVID-19 patients; one
large post hoc analysis among U.S. veterans
suggests that there is harm to patients from
HCQ. Given the mechanistic rationale but
lack of well-designed clinical studies and
potential for drug-induced toxicity, there is
a key need for controlled, randomized trials
to test the efficacy and safety of these drugs
for COVID-19 patients.

[1]: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/368/6493/829.full...

I don't think it's a "shame" that some have decided to stop wtih HCQ when other viable treatments seem to have less concerning side-effects. Either way, we will know very soon with greater certainty as ongoing randomized trials finish up.
Try the hidden param "sites"

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=duckduckgo&sites=stackoverflow.com
I've been thinking about the need for easier to use databases for a long time. I previously started a company based on selling database software, so I've seen a lot of problems in the space. I honestly most databases are too hard to use and there's been no major improvements here in the last few decades.

Take Postgres. You write code in SQL, a programming language unlike any other mainstream programming language. Instead of writing code with for loops and if statements, you write it with joins and where clauses. On top of that, Postgres has a "magical query optimizer" that takes your SQL and figures out how to execute your query. Unless you have a good understanding of indexes and how they impact the query optimizer, you'll have a hard time getting Postgres to be fast. I still regularly say WTF when optimizing Postgres queries even though I've been doing it for years. That's not to mention there's tons of database specific terminology like tables, rows, schema, etc, that you have to learn before you can become an effect user of Postgres.

As much as HN likes to bash it, I think Mongo has done the best job of creating an easy to use database. With Mongo, you can store JSON and you can pull JSON out. Of course, I would never use Mongo personally.

I'm hoping that Supabase is able to bring about the next-phase of databases by not just making it possible to make a database fast, but by making it easy to do so.
The 'reason' for variolation is for people like the aforementioned Robin Hanson to get attention by suggesting something controversial.
It looks like you're right. I guess I don't really understand then why we can't just log in as root in vanilla iOS
Twitter being a monopoly but Facebook not would be totally ridiculous in more than one way.

EDIT: Just to be clear I'm not saying your post is ridiculous, but Trump is. And yes the following is somewhat sarcasm END EDIT.

Let me guess next Mercedes and BMW have a oligopol on cars and china will be classified as a company with an monopol on cheap products.

The crazy/scary think is that I believe Trump would totally cable of doing it if he get's the legal power and time to do so...
As I wrote elsewhere (check my post history) I personally think that if the effect is there, it is small. I don't really mind if HCQ doesn't work, but I get mad when people say "follow the science", and the most basic thing to do for science (a RCT) is not done.

Let's see if the U of Minnesota trial is published soon. The PI of the study tweeted he had sent revisions to the manuscript, and hoped for a publication this week (and he however added that he thought the same last week).
I would think by far it’s for crew safety.

Recovery due to an in-flight abort would be difficult in rough seas and weather if they had to be plucked out of the Atlantic.

The aerostructure of the falcon 9 can only withstand so much side loading due to aerodynamic forces and wind before exceeding the operational limits of the rocket (body to keep it all from breaking apart, and the engines working hard to keep them on the correct trajectory).
Just looking at Biden's twitter timeline, I see plenty of tweets that could be "fact checked," if we're using Trump's voter fraud claim as an example of what needs to be checked. Yet somehow, I doubt any of them will.

Examples:

- "36,000 Americans could be alive today if President Trump had acted sooner." [This is entirely speculative and impossible to prove, similar to Trump's mail-in voting claim]

- "The hard truth is Donald Trump ignored the warnings of health experts and intelligence agencies, downplayed the threat COVID-19 posed, and failed to take the action needed to combat the outbreak." [This is false, and certainly not a "hard truth". He took early action including closing the borders to China, which Joe Biden deemed xenophobic at the time.]

- "I've said it before, and I'll say it again: No company pulling in billions of dollars in profits should pay a lower tax rate than firefighters and teachers." [This is highly misleading, and could benefit from context, e.g. https://www.wsj.com/articles/does-amazon-really-pay-no-taxes...]

- "In the middle of this crisis, President Trump is trying to cut food assistance. It’s morally bankrupt." [This is misleading. He's not cutting food assistance; the USDA is attempting to add a work requirement to SNAP benefits.]

- "In the middle of the worst public health crisis in our lifetime, President Trump is actively trying to terminate health insurance for millions of Americans. It's unthinkable." [Highly misleading if not outright false.]

Are any of these black-and-white false? No. But neither is what Twitter is fact checking Trump for. If they were to apply fair standards, they would "fact check" Biden too. But they won't. And we all know why. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the person in charge of this new policy has called Trump a "nazi" and a "racist tangerine."
It's a structural problem. If everyone expects 20 years of experience people to be principal engineers, and only 5% of roles are principal jobs, then after 20 years 95% of engineers need to leave the industry.

And so, the industry is mostly populated by inexperienced people and many of its pathologies and adverse outcomes are due to this.
Free speech (a la First Amendment) has limits. Case in point: the FTC and deceptive advertising; The courts have repeatedly held that deception is not protected speech.

A good way of looking at rights is: yours end when it begins harming someone else. For example, one can “assemble”[^a] and protest, but once you start getting violent, your right to protest is gone and you’ll probably be arrested.

Tangent:

However, there is a controversial reading of the concept of free speech (concept, not First Amendment), and that is: what about monopolies silencing you? Most people would agree that removing a disorderly person from your restaurant is ok, but where do you draw the line when it comes to monopolies?

As in, what if a restaurant chain owned 90% of the restaurants (all brands included) in the country, and they banned you because they didn’t like the words coming out of your mouth?

I don’t know the answer to that.

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[^a]: quotes because the First Amendment refers to it as “assembling”
The Return of the Church's Repressed Boundary Problem
There are three major revisions of Mali GPUs: Utgard (-4), Midgard (-T) and Bifrost (-G*).

There were 2 reverse engineering efforts. Lima (Utgard) and Panfrost project (Midgard and Bitfrost). Both were included in Mesa 19.1.

And the "long term" is not about "every pinebook will have a reverse-engineered GPU in the future", but : "if you buy these GPU, you know every compilers you write that makes special uses of the specific GPU capabilities will never need you to install the new proprietary CUDA driver to continue your optimization, no blob in this part..."

Also : You can run Linux-libre, thus riding the FSF train (GuixSD) and stop caring about not-free hardware.
A couple weeks ago, my team and I determined it was still March 97th and I'm sticking to it.
Not sure algorithms are the problem in this case. I haven't seen your post of course, but as you describe it I'd have flagged it as covid19 misinformation.

I'd probably understand that you posted it as a joke, but I'd also know that regardless of your intentions, many people would not understand the joke.

I think you probably earned your strike.
The opening was the best part. It's the rest of the book where it defines itself as complete tripe. The initial set up was a good foray into Chinese history.
Is it a remote time-machine backup, i.e. to a Time Capsule (or a NAS pretending to be one)? Time Machine used to use AFP, but since AFP was deprecated, it now exclusively uses SMB for remote backups. (Specifically, it creates a sparsebundle image on the SMB share, and then locally mounts it.)

Now, Apple has their own implementation of SMB; and it seems to have been seeing frequent updates in Catalina (see https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT210803).

Since the Apple SMB stack has some decent amount of kernel integration—and Time Machine doesn’t really have any—I’d guess that recent changes to Apple SMB are also the culprit for any freezes where it’s in the critical path.

And Apple SMB seems likely to blame, because there are already other well-known regressions from the recent changes to Apple SMB. Seemingly, there’s a lot of cowboy coding going on in this part of the system right now. For example, macOS can no longer connect to SMB shares via their mDNS names (e.g. smb://example.local). This means that any SMB server that shows up in the Finder sidebar (through an mDNS announcement configured to achieve AFP or Time Machine serving) now just chokes and kills the Finder process when you try to connect to one of its exposed SMB shares through that sidebar connection (see e.g. https://community.synology.com/enu/forum/3/post/129160). You now have to explicitly connect to the share using its IP (e.g. smb://10.0.0.1) from the Finder ⌘K modal.

Weirdly enough, Time Machine itself isn’t broken for the SMB shares it auto-discovers through its configuration modal, so presumably they realized their error in that specific case and made Time Machine pre-resolve the mDNS name in the smb:// URI to an IP address, before attempting the connection. But they forgot to add this same code to the Finder. :/
This seems optimized for AI in the hyped sense (as shorthand for applied machine learning and data science) rather than actually preparing a student to contribute to "real" AI (see work of Josh Tenenbaum or Brenden Lake). For an undergrad curriculum for the latter, I'd expect to see more on understanding intelligence in extant biological systems, eg courses in cognitive science, neuroscience, child cognitive development, and more background on animal cognition. I would also expect to see more robotics and at least some treatment of reinforcement learning.
URL are "not particularly helpful for non-techie users" ?

How did you even end up here is beyond me.
I think the argument is that political arguments are rarely of the "The sky is blue" category, but more along the lines of (and I'm making up an example here). "The economy has never been better"

There are several ways you could measure this - is it based on the S&P Index? Rising GDP? Income inequality reducing? Low unemployment? Balance of Payments? Not all of those measures may be true at once, and if they're not true which one is the correct measure?

The relative importance could vary from person to person. Somebody with, say, a large pension fund might see the S&P Index as the most important measure. Somebody else might view it as income inequality.

You could argue a case for each one, and each voter would have to make up their own mind as to whether they agree with the statement.
I agree with this. I think Auth0 at one point was building tools for indie devs, but are now focused mostly on enterprises.

What have you used instead of Auth0?
Most of this thread is anecdata, which tends to skew heavily negative. As a comment above says, it's difficult to tell whether these are issues at scale, and whenever I read these complaint-heavy anecdata threads I always feel like chipping in that I've had very few problems with my Mid-2014 MacBook Pro 15" on all versions of MacOS that have been release since I bought it. I'm not even sure what the purpose of threads like this is, really.
In general, you're most likely to see issues with the first model of any given Intel microarch, IME. The 2016 MBPs were quite kernel-panic-y for a while, before OS updates smoothed it out. Same for the original Haswells, I think.

Not sure what the 16"'s excuse is, tho; that's still a Skylake++++ (possibly more pluses, but basically still Skylake).
There are trends for what looks good. If you look through some stock photos you can easily spot things uploaded years ago just from the style and quality alone. Just like all UIs are essentially the same thing, but you can tell which era the XP windows decorations came from.
pro-Antifa means Pro Anti-Fascist which means to organise some movement against fascism.

Would we really want people to be the inverse ? Meaning would we like them to be more fascist or accepting of fascism ?

What exactly happened that AntiFa has become a group that people don't support ? Maybe I missed something there.
Yes! I use "Just for men" beard coloring.
Same. And it's been maddening, because while DDG is fine and sometimes better for desktop work (code questions, stack overflow, professional stuff), I find it far inferior for mobile stuff (getting around, local recommendations, shopping, etc.).

But if that's what it takes to get the real web, so be it.
American dominance was pure luck after escaping from WWII unscathed and in a relatively strong financial position. The major economically prodictive technologies we rely on today came of age in the first half of last century and we used them to build an inefficient glass castle without considering the deleterious effects of rapid population growth or hyperconnectedness of human minds.

The political order the US created under those circumstances is unraveling. Americans across the US should be focused on making the communities they live in food-secure and energy-independent. It's time to plan for environmental and economic resilience. The next century will be rocky and the US is unprepared. The US will not be the largest producer in the world, but if we can revitalize local production then we can at least be the hardest to kill. The revolution we need it localism.
Twitter to cap password length at 128
But none of what you're saying solves the problem of what we're going to do with all of the people who have a physical addiction right now: people who can't fix their own problems without external help.

You keep on kind of dancing around this "but they deserve it" argument. But who cares if they deserve it? They're not going to go away until someone else helps them. You can't just pass a law that people will stop being addicted to alcohol, that's not how biology works. How people got into a situation where they can't help themselves doesn't matter. They're still in a position where they can't fix their own problems.

And on moralization, to go back to your own point:

> There is a vested interest that it doesn't get solved.

Do you have a plan to get rid of that vested interest? How long is that plan going to take to implement? A year? Two years? Should we just let addicts die on the street until you get around to getting elected to Congress?

If society is at least partially (and arguably largely) to blame for these people's addictions, and if changing society is a difficult, long-term process that requires battling multiple vested interests, then why is it unethical for us to use social resources like taxes in the meantime to help people that society is hurting?

You can't have this both ways. You can't argue that society is obsessed with drugs and that's why we have addiction, while simultaneously arguing that every addicted person is specifically getting what they deserve and isn't worthy of our help.

> It's very different. There is a positive outcome involved, or it is a natural part of growing up

There's a positive outcome involved in glancing at a phone while driving? Riding a bicycle without a helmet is a natural part of growing up?

I strongly agree that kids often do stupid things. Trying drugs and alcohol is one of those stupid things. And to be honest, comparatively, riding a bicycle without a helmet is way more stupid and way more irrational than accidentally getting peer-pressured by a drug-obsessed society into a debilitating addiction.

I don't see a difference here except that one of those activities is being labeled as harmless stupidity, and one of them is being labeled as a moral failing.

Getting addicted to painkillers coming out of surgeries with badly dosed prescriptions is still a common worry for many people. I have friends that refuse to take any painkillers in a hospital specifically because they're frightened of that exact scenario. The best case scenario for people who get addicted to painkillers is for them to get 3rd-party help before they become addicted to more serious drugs. It's absurd to me to argue that their problems were caused by them being stupid or immoral, when I can directly see the role that doctors and the medical industry played in their addictions. Are those people worthy of getting help from society?
The space suit looks like it's made for a Halloween party. It looks kind of not flexible and fragile.

The touch screen panel is surely very cool.
In mobile Google News you don't see URLs either (which bugs me)
> LGPL never enforced any copyleft to something linked on it. This is a wrong, unfortunately common misconception.

Please read my comment carefully. I never said 'linked'.
What exactly is your position? That no one should believe any statement from any politician ever and so there is no reason to demand that politicians live up to any standards?

How exactly is a society with those principles supposed to function?
No they don't. People seem to have this idea that either you should be liable for nothing and control nothing or liable for everything control everything. The point of these platforms is that whilst they're allowing users to post under limited conditions, they don't have any pre-publication editorial control. That is a material difference from a publisher. They also aren't totally agnostic to content (like a DNS service). This attempt to hold user-generated content to the same standard as news organisations is clearly ridiculous and I don't know why people keep trying to apply it. It's a great way of ensuring that no level of regulation will ever be applied - since the suggested level of regulation completely destroys the business model of several hundred billion dollar businesses.
Almost there too. Too much crappy deamons, too much cloud integration. And now since a week or two my bluetooth cannot connect to my external speaker. Looks like only a fresh install _might_ fix it...

I've already bought a linux laptop for personal use, but it is just to crappy to use. I might just have to continue my efforts to get a proper linux distro on my mbp.
didn't ignore it - was responding specifically to text/headline of one of the other articles, which pretty clearly had "28 million" as the click bait, then later says "no evidence of fraud was found".

What does "unaccounted for" mean?

"Would you be happy if 1/5 of the people that showed up at the voting office was unaccounted for?"

huh? how does that compare to ballots mailed out that were not returned? Again - "unaccounted for" is... nebulous. If 100m were mailed out, and 20m were not returned... are they "unaccounted for"?

There's context missing here. What are the historical averages?

If in any given year, 20% of mailed out ballots are not returned, and that's pretty average for 10-15-20 years... 20% "unaccounted for" is a non-issue. If the average is 4%, and in one election it's 20% or more... yeah, that's an issue that needs investigation. That information was not provided in the articles I saw, instead they just appear to rely on "big" numbers.
> for sales stuff you need a card. [...] And that's only halfway there

That's precisely my point. At the moment that interaction is all half-broken and unreliable, it takes time, it's awkward and error-prone (the bar is loud, the sun is shining, whatever). If we could just whip out a phone and do something quick like shaking it at each other, we'd all be better off. I agree that NFC is likely the way forward for this.
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VAT accounts for the bulk of the difference here.
For anyone in need of a clue: the value is encrypted using a Caesar cipher
There are textbooks, but people (myself included sometimes) want something flashier something more palatable. But other than conference talks and papers, textbooks and lecture slides, there just isn't much out there.

It's a consequence of how the sausage is made. Textbooks take years to write so only established topics can be included in them. Researchers are under time pressure and chase performance criteria. Publishing at a good conference pushes you along your PhD path, but writing a blog post for a niche advanced target audience of maybe 100 readers is not always worth it. Especially when you have other duties beyond research like teaching courses. Industry blog posts are good, but also cannot go very deep as the audience would be lost.

Also the nature of advanced stuff is that there is less of a clear established path forward. There are tons of small specialized communities that often don't know much about each other, they are in different departments etc.

Your best bet in becoming more advanced is to use the above mentioned resources and work with people who are more advanced than you, either in academia or industry. There is no law of nature that everything must be achievable by browsing the free internet without leaving the house.

An important lesson when you get to a point in your studies is that there is no set Platonic chapter-by-chapter structure in knowledge and science. A common failure mode is to think that learning is about leveling up in some achievement tree like in duolingo, and being puzzled where the next chapter is. You have to seek it out, tackle a practical problem either from your own idea and doing a side project or by joining a group as an assistant or a company as a junior engineer/data scientist.

A lot of it is "dark knowledge", hidden inside organizations, people learning from one another. There are best practices that "everyone" just knows to do by discussing by the coffee machine, it's not in any book or paper. And papers are written in an obtuse language to not give away too much (because that will be in the next paper).

The interests of an advanced practitioner reader are markedly different from the paper writer researcher's incentives, so this can make papers hard to read and decipher what to take away from them. The goal of a paper is to frame a small incremental tweak in the context of the larger scale literature in such a way that the reviewers are sufficiently impressed to click accept. Papers are obsessed with how they fit in the academic community's pursuit. They aren't tutorials or howtos or guides. Fortunately people are now releasing more and more code. The code is often more enlightening than the aggrandized math of the paper (which often boils down to few lines of code).
Why use this? You might not always write functional tests for every route/view/endpoint of your web application, so bugs can slip through.

Augment the tests you _do_ write with a spider that clicks every link and posts every form for you.
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