skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but lots of high profile papers in top end journals like Nature fail to replicate: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/8/27/17761466/ps...

If we are to learn anything from the last 10 years of the replication crisis, it has to be that a single paper is a data point, not a conclusion.
What a stupid question. Bill Gates is a programmer. As is Zuckerberg.
That's a study of other studies, not clinical work in its own right. That's the academic equivalent of being a blogger. The title, "Early Outpatient Treatment of Symptomatic, High-Risk Covid-19 Patients that Should be Ramped-Up Immediately as Key to the Pandemic Crisis", sounds like a political statement.

The real argument there is "It appears that the FDA, NIH and cardiology society positions have been based upon theoretical calculations about potential adverse events and from measured physiologic changes rather than from current real-world mortality experience with these medications and that their positions should be revised." The author is arguing that while this drug combination does cause measurable heart damage, it's worth it because the overall near-term mortality decreases. That may or may not be justified, but it's a much weaker statement than the paper title would suggest.

Some of the citations are a bit strange. One is to a letter on Google Drive.[1]

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pjgHlqI-ZuKOziN3txQsN5zz...
At the end of the day it boils down to whether you think you get to decide what others get to watch and hear. The content itself isn’t relevant because once you go down that road, then it’s just a matter of squeezing or shifting the acceptable window.
I assume a very large proportion of retirement funds are stored in these ETFs, so average people would eat the cost either way.
>>If Apple offered repair services like Lenovo there wouldn't be a case.

> They do as long as your business is near an apple store.

No?

Apple Care doesn't cover liquid damaged devices. And often they claim the device was liquid damaged even when it wasn't.

And when Apple does fix your machine, how many times do you get your data back? ZERO times!

>> If Apple designed their machines to be serviceable there wouldn't be a case.

> Why should they be serviceable?

Because I paid thousands of dollars for a premium machine with the tag "Pro". It is unacceptable to turn it into a paper weight if it breaks, many times without user error.
> Hicks talks about postmodernism as a whole, but seems uninterested in the thinking of individual authors, who might problematize his tidy narrative generalizations.

Well, yes. Hicks is in the Sagan/Diamond mode of summarizing for a general audience.
It took a lifetime of effort from Reagan Republicans to get where we are now. Working tirelessly for decades to make sure government is ineffective and doesn’t work.
Yes. Hospitals in particular.

One I'm familiar with moved to a LEAN system where they did not keep large inventory of supplies. There was some protest about not keeping essential supplies on hand for the lab etc.

And now we see the problem with this. Profit margin over safety.
...Locke's social contract. This is its basic premise. People consent to performing labor not directly related to their survival, and in exchange, the state resolves to provide the necessities that are not guaranteed by that specialized labor. If I work full time and can't afford food and shelter, why would I continue to work? Further, if there are structures preventing me from subsisting, away from a state which will not secure my livelihood in exchange for my labor, why would I not dismantle those structures?
This is mostly about pipelines, oil and gas drilling, and highways. In reality, it’s to appease the energy lobbyists.
Show HN: Create a Deep Fake Video from Any Image
A pretty common downside is a lack of adherence to historical boundaries and groupings - some neighborhoods that legitimately formed a district and a unified block due to strange geographic features could be broken up.

But actually - there are two classes of algorithms out there: one can determine how to fairly divide up a state and another measures how unfairly a state is divided up - instead of going full into computers-determine-everything it might be nice to just have a requirement that the result of the election in the state is relatively statistically probable given the proportions of votes for each party. So people could still draw districts we would just have a manner to prove their districts are acceptably fair.
Definitely. Especially in the current climate.
Just because Unix was the last man standing, doesn't mean it's good. Bad products win in the marketplace all the time and for all kinds of reasons. In Unix's case I'd argue the damage is particularly severe because hackers have elevated Unix to a religion and insisted that all its flaws are actually virtues.
Ask HN: How to visualize UDP data for a drone dashboard?
I have a lot of telemetry/state data about my drone that I’m sending over UDP, and I want to make cool visualizations and charts from them.

Pipe dream:
A way to get UDP data send to a JS client so that I can graph different metrics on a website hosted locally.

Brainstorm so far:
Python server listening on multiple ports
For loop to switch between sockets and collect data (open to threading here if ppl think it’s faster)

Transmission to website:

Server Side Events: (tested, works)
Issue: I want bidirectional communication

WebRTC:
Issue: Struggle with complexity of python implementation (aiortc)
Pro: DataChannel is super fast <2ms

Websocket:
TBD, haven’t tried it yet

Edit: (formatting)
When I initially read your comment, I assumed that it conflated the military and the national guard. Nope. That was a separate (and even better supported) question.
Hard to rely on voting when the voting is rigged re: gerrymandering...

As for how to fix it, I'm no expert but off the top of my head

1. Allow public submissions for districts to prevent rigging choices

2. Create an objective set of measurements for scoring districts with the , e.g. maximize compactness, minimize perimeter, other measures that would help combat gerrymandering

3. Highest score wins? Top N finalists are voted on by legislature?

Hardly perfect, and I'm sure someone's thought about this harder and could do better. But nearly anything has got to be better than "the party in power every 10 years is given a carte blanche opportunity to further solidify their power"
Realistically this would be far less of a problem if Apple didn't pretend that their devices (like everything else in this world) get old, and supported a robust economy around servicing older devices. Why can't I just buy an iPhone SE battery right off Apple.com? Why can't my third party repairer? How about an authorized repairer? Where are the publicly available service manuals? How about some schematics?

Back in the day, high-end electronics (particularly audio equipment) had full-blown schematics, for repair. While reflow re-soldering BGA devices is way out of reach for the average non-technical home users today, with a steady hand, and the right tools, replacing an iPhone battery is only slightly more complicated than changing a tire.
> ... there seems to be little harm in trying it [...] if Drs want to used an already fda approved drug ...

All drugs have side effects, for example https://www.webmd.com/drugs/2/drug-5482/hydroxychloroquine-o... So each drug is a (small) risk for the patient. The idea of testing the drugs in RCT before using in the patients in the wild is that you can be quite sure that the benefits are greater than the risks.
Ya for sure. People get strange ideas from the news, I think because the news reports, well, newsworthy things. Someone being shot by a cop is news. Someone getting a warning not to speed is not.

It is true American cops do shoot more people than their counterparts in non gun owning countries. And they can get a bit jumpy until they see what a person is about, which is somewhat understandable given the environment.

The advice to keep your hands in plain sight and don't make quick movements is good. It's very unlikely you'll get shot (as per the stats above) but to help keep everyone calm and happy. It's not really a big imposition.

This probably sounds like weird advice coming from another place. But every place has it's strange things. You have to understand, America is not far removed from it's frontier days. It's always been a fairly violent country. That doesn't mean it's not in general safe, it is for the most part, it's just there are a lot of guns and a fair amount of violence compared to Sweden or some place like that.
I don't particularly care about high throughput streaming architecture. The actor model as a concept, its concurrency, and how that models the business domain is more along the lines of what I'm interested in. Same as what intrigues me about Elixir as well, but I need hundreds of thousands of actors that can react to events that require numerical computing.
I didn't say it was better overall, I was just responding to "I expect day 2 would have been a lot worse." from the OP
If you read the history, you'll see that small scripts was never a use case targeted by Rich Hickey. It was focused on information systems programming, where a few seconds of startup time is a blip on the full running time of the application.

That said, slow startup times are only true of Clojure JVM. ClojureScript and Clojure babashka, for example, both start fast enough for small scripts.

Also, seems the JVM is slowly improving in startup time department. I was surprised to see that a hello world is now down to 800ms start time on my 2011 laptop with Java 14. It was 3s before with Java 8 on the same laptop.

For comparison, ClojureScript hello world was 550ms, and babashka hello world was 36ms. Python hello world was 68ms and Ruby was 111ms.
My guess is the real limitation is infrastructure. Even if you already have a good power line relatively close, the cost to build something that can deliver multiple megawatts is probably not trivial. Maybe the gov't should subsidize that part.
It deserves to be neglected, it is an extremely foolish idea. It literally can only hurt the Democrats advocating for it in the solid blue states that are signatories.
It is illegal. In California, it’s covered under Penal Code §538d[0]. In short, it’s not illegal to wear a police uniform, but doing so with the intent to deceive anyone (actual officers included) is illegal.

[0]: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
The two downsides I see are:

1. There would be a lot of sudden changes, without any real explanation about those particular changes.

2. Unlike now there would be little on-the-ground reasoning to these changes. Districts would be split on random-seeming streets, with no respect at all about residents felt. Now at least you have someone to blame, and we like to have someone to blame rather than "the computer".
Die hohen Herren der heiligen Karre schätzen es nicht von einem Emporkömmling getrieben zu werden.

The high Lords of the holy car dislike to be driven by some upstart/newcomer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoNxS-s9nKQ
For the record: if you don't want this to happen to your site, you should avoid Dynadot also.

Several years ago I ran into almost exactly the same issue with them after someone sent them a frivolous abuse report - they'd locked down my domain unannounced to the point that I couldn't even transfer it out, and it took a call from a journalist(!) inquiring about the suspension before they were willing to unlock it for transfer.

I've been using internet.bs for most of my domains since and haven't had any issues with them - they let me know when an abuse report comes in, and give me the time to handle it. There are probably other registrars that are fine too, but I don't have personal experience with them.
I do indeed have a couch. Take your shoes off when you enter. We're renting, I want my deposit back.
Pretty close, yeah! More like with an end goal of developing cleaner manufacturing processes that we can stand to be around. I think the environmental laws we have just take the same old dirty tech we've always had and move it far enough away that we don't see local negatives. The statistics I've seen about the environmental impact of the shipping industry are pretty alarming, and I suspect the actual impact is way worse than that since the entire area is so poorly explored.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/apr/09/shipping... (Paywall: http://archive.is/Pf7Bw )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_shippi...
The rural minority already receives disproportionate representation in the legislative. There is -no- part of the government that provides urban voters with disproportionate representation.
https://thefulcrum.us/worst-gerrymandering-districts-example
People actually will have to tune into politics since the differences will be diminished and you can't simply push the red or blue button and be done with it. 'aint nobody got time for that!
> People are quick to forget that the Swedish strategy was everyone's strategy in February.

Simply not true. Taiwan (with a population 2.5 times that of Sweden) adopted a strict containment and suppression policy as soon as they detected the epidemic risk, which was at the end of December 2019. And of course China had moved to containment and suppression by then too.
A similar question could be raised about why they're overwhelmingly brutalizing and arresting (not necessarily in that order) peaceful protesters rather than "looters" who even when they're not actually undercover cops are allowed to loot without interference. We know the police are not smart or well-organized enough to have some sort of national master plan. So, either these choices reflect local incentives that are intelligible to officers on the scene but not to us on the outside, or their decision process is so degraded that they don't possess the ability to act in even their own best interests. Can we please just fire all these clowns already?
Texas and California are now at the top with way more new cases than NY.

Internationally, Brazil is outstripping the US in new cases, and India, Russia, Pakistan, and many others are ahead of the western European countries people are still discussing.

The character of the epidemic has changed rapidly and people don't seem to be paying attention.
As far as I've understood, the president as boss of the executive branch can order the executive branch to not apply a law or at least not prosecute violations. One means to do this is to impose a certain interpretation, e.g. ordering "severe environmental impact" to mean nothing less than "making the area uninhabitable for anything beyond bacteria for more than 100 years" or something.

Also, laws are often vague and their intent is clarified in regulations issued by the executive, e.g. the EPA. The president could order those regulations to be changed.
For those of us saddled with only the misfortune of having to use MSSQL and not having run into a bug yet, what's the experience?
The problem with that argument is that speech is moving online, and there is no public shared space - all platforms are private.

So you've just privatised policing of free speech, and it's now subject to arbitrary rules and whims of management and wall-street.
Twitter can ban you if they don't like what you are saying, and they are not obligated to enforce rules equally or to even explain what you breached. The terms and conditions are very fuzzy on to what is actually offensive.

If I host my own website, my cloud provider can ban me.
If I self host at home on my own server, my internet service provider could cut me off - my ISP contract has a specific clause in their contract, stating that they could cut me off if they deem my content offensive, they are judge, jury and executioner and they owe me no explanation.

All of this creates great potential for foul play, where a hypothetical rich or powerful person or party could silence embarrassing news with a few phone-calls, and there is sod all you could do about it.
> its more extreme than that

If you're trying to convince a majority to change its views, labelling them as "extreme" is unhelpful.

Many New Yorkers are within living memory of the Cold War-era crime peaks that almost destroyed our city. 9/11 and the Boston Bombing normalized a more-militarized police, as well as the NYPD building up an intelligence agency that rivals some countries'.

Looting isn't terrorism. And we have had zero mass violence from protesters. But there are good reasons for an island as dense as Manhattan to be hyper-sensitive to incipient lawlessness. (There are also bad ones.)
Good point. Put that way, yeah, um... that's hitting pretty close to home.
Archaeologists Identify Traces Cannabis in Ancient Jewish Shrines
Man, tell us how you really feel. :-) That was beautiful.
Algorithms can be gamed, unfortunately. You'd have to carefully limit the free parameters: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/06/21/how-to-fit-an-elep...
Sure, but data shows that after gerry mandering, the incumbent party in a district is more likely to lose. Please read the source cited or at least be familiar before arguing in bad faith. I'm open to criticism of the work cited
The executive branch can simply not enforce the law which effectively nullifies it. That being said, the POTUS still doesn't have the power to make up new laws to serve his interests.
> we certainly have more confidence in the robustness of the physics-based models.

That is interesting. I don't know to what extent wind vectors are considered chaotic in the technical sense, but I would have guessed that chaotic systems would be more robustly modeled by ML instead of a physics approach. This is because I have a vague idea in my mind that ML would somehow compensate for the initial condition dependence in a way physics modeling would not. ML models tend to also have more parameters with smaller coefficients which I would identify with robustness (up to a point). I'm not gainsaying you, just expressing that I find this counterintuitive.

Of course the physics models would provide more insight into the nature of the problem.

And more generally it is my understanding that one way to define the difference between a "complex system" and a "system" is that a complex system is not predictable by physics simulations because of emergent properties and so forth.

For this reason, I interpreted OP's call for a "mathematical epistemology" not so much as a call for more physics-based modeling, or for opaque ML models, but as an expression of the need for a (currently undefined) new type of mathematical language to model, describe, and predict complex emergent systems.

> I'll bet that if you started scanning conference abstracts in your domain for "uncertainty quantification," then some more carefully-posed modeling activities would crop up.

I'm sure you're right. I let my wistful longing that there would be more of this type of thinking in biology drag me into hyperbole suggesting that there is none of it.

I appreciate the pointers to terms and books that could get me up to speed on modeling. It's not really relevant to my primary area, but I do wish these approaches well from afar. And who knows, if I learn more, maybe I can apply more of this type of approach in my work. Getting audiences to understand it would be another task entirely...
And here we are.
I misspoke. I think hiring is more standardized within companies now, and it is trending that way.

I can only speak for places I've worked at.

Google has an internal interview committee to provide unbiased reviews. Before you interview, you need to understand the repository of questions asked and how to interview candidates.

PayPal varies team by team, but each team tries to standardize the kind of candidates that they are looking for.
> Why is the head of the police not a sheriff? Someone who is elected?

Do we have evidence elected sheriffs are more humane than appointed ones? (Honest question.)
G Suite is a shit show.

Had major problems with a trial. Firstly it would just redirect back to the admin console if I hit gmail. Support couldn’t fix it.

Also you can’t give anyone access to YouTube (!) for 60 days after signing up or paying $30 in credit. Which is no good because when you pay them £30 fuck all happens. And again support were useless.

Happy O365 customer now. And I’ve used support which was excellent.
I would be wondering why I live in a country where my only transportation options were walking or begging a wealthy car owner to let me borrow their vehicle for 150% of their car note.
Those petrol stations are going to cop it eventually anyway. This just encourages them to hang a cable out the window to provide some incentive for EV owners caught short.

In preparation for the end of pumping gas as we know it, petrol stations in Australia have replaced the corner shops, delicatessens, etc. We don't have a single 7/11 in South Australia.
You realize every ICE vehicle that drives into the gas station has little explosions going on inside of it, right?
This is illegal. The constitution mandates that each state must offer its residents representative democracy. If a state apportions electors based on the results of another state that is basing their election on the votes of residents of another state, which means the voters of the state in question are being disenfranchised.
Here is the policy: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9891785?hl=en
I am confused. If I remember correctly, go's runtime uses a thread pool as well. It's not like go somehow invented a runtime that does not rely on OS threads. So in the end of the day, what difference does it make?

If you ask me, java.util.concurrent is a much better and battle tested concurrent infrastructure than the simplistic implementation in go, because java.util.concurrent is actually written by the world's foremost concurrency expert, Doug Lee. I will take that over someone else's hand rolling concurrent runtime any day. God knows how many bugs there are in your home grown concurrency code.
Sharing patient data fuels AI innovation and concerns about consent
That's true for the federal government, unless you abolish the EC (the thing I was responding to).
Perhaps we can push back against what is effectively legislation by the executive branch. Then, here's the tough part, don't expand executive power when your own party is in the white house.
Some environmental impacts can be fixed later, but it generally much more expensive to "bolt-on" a fix than to design the project properly in the first place. This of course means the fix is rarely implemented.

According to NEPA, when an impact is identified, the intent is to develop an alternative to avoid the impact entirely. It's only when alternatives are found to be infeasible that other mitigation methods can be considered.
Not to mention the difficulties with the i/o. next generation sequencing files, depending on the analysis done and the state in the pipeline, are just plain text files (sometimes binary for efficiency) but like 5-100s of GB in size per sample. If you maybe have a thousand samples, good for statistical power, you need terabytes of storage available, a lot of memory, and a lot of fast cores, so the natural answer is to use a compute cluster and some universities have them for their researchers. Not everyone has access to $100k of parallel computing power, however.
People should have the agency to decide what’s best for themselves. We all have natural rights to life, liberty and property.
Highly Flawed 'Piracy' Report Used to Support Positions That Are Unrelated -2011
You don't. If you use it once, meh. If you share it with anyone or preserve for the future, why would you want it to be cute?

It's just a few lines in python, probably takes just as long to write because you don't have to play with what needs to be escaped and what doesn't. You can actually tell what's the intent of each line and it doesn't fail on paths starting with minuses or including spaces. Outside of one time use or a code golf challenge, it's not cute.

https://pastebin.com/FnBCgHUm