skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The entire CV-19 episode is going to prove to be a master class in critical thinking skills. I think there's a great book in there somewhere. This is a story of common wisdom and normal channels continuing to get it wrong. (and then the eventual correction occurs)

With HCQ, there are multiple layers of noise to disentangle. Best I've got, and I've been watching this for months, is that HCQ and antivirals, in general are somewhat useful before you get infected or extremely early in the infection. They don't cure anything and nobody expected them to. They're also not appropriate to give to people by the time they show up to the hospital. By then it's too late.

That's general advice that has nothing to do with CV-19. It might be relevant that some of these drugs have been around for over 100 years and while not mundane and harmless, they have well-known safety profiles. (Other drugs that might be included in this group would be Tamiflu, or Acyclovir)

So that's the general advice you might get a year ago if you went out with a doctor and had a couple of beers. As you know, however, the HCQ thing especially got severely political. Suddenly we were seeing studies where doctors gave large doses to ICU patients, and implemented a lot of other protocols that made no sense, probably ended up hurting people, but made for good headlines.

As an outsider, there seemed to be a sort of "competition" in some parts of the academic community to come up with various papers that could technically be called scientific, but existed much more as a publicity vehicle. I could easily count a couple of dozen studies, on various topics, that were not of a high quality. I imagine there are all sorts of reasons for that.

Now we're reaching the apex of this small deviation in the mainstream of scientific research. We've got tons of data of dubious provenance being distributed to various studies to say things we're already primed to hear. It was only because a lot of people took the time to call bullshit that this was caught. Congrats to the folks that did that work.

I have no opinion about any of these drugs, but that's my evaluation of the technical quality of the discussion in the area you bring up. I think the it will eventually will all work out, and it's going to make a hell of a story to tell. But we've got a ways to go yet for all of the systems involved to adapt as they need to. We've made great progress. In many ways, CV-19 was not the pandemic everybody was expecting, and it was quite difficult for many organizations to change gears as quickly as required.
Do you think it's maybe time to move Gnus out of the Emacs core distribution and maintain it as a package in ELPA?

It feels wrong to me to be maintaining so much unnecessary code in the core distribution.
I think it's all point-to-point directional antennas, so it would be linear.
Cities don't really have budget to give out cash. If you took the entire police budget (about $50M/yr), you'd only have enough money for $10k/yr for 5,000 individuals. If you have a $10k/year rent subsidy available in Mt View, lots of people from neighboring cities would want to move there to claim the subsidy.

It's not a solvable problem by a single city, even if you believe in cash transfers/UBI.
Cops can't be held liable for violating case law until another cop has been held liable for that same act. The solution is left as an exercise for the reader.

It just works :^)
It is a distant relative of the Munsell color system, invented by Edwin Munsell. He painstakingly assembled it from showing human subjects pairs of identical colors, then gradually increasing their difference until they were perceived as difference. The so-called ‘barely perceptual difference’ approach. Color, when mapped in this manner, is an extremely un-even blob, not the neat globe people had assumed it to be.

HSV was invented by the graphics industry as an artist-friendly space. I sometimes use HSV in my teaching. It is useful for design students to see an image broken down in this way. My copy of Photoshop version 1 could actually work in HSV space. But it was soon discovered that though it is easy to navigate as a space, it is lousy for color adjustments of any kind.
https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/ claims that 99% of police killings from 2013-2019 have not resulted in officers being charged with a crime. Their database lists 7663 killings, of which 26 (or .33%) were tried with a conviction.
The article offer a good summary of what qualified immunity is and why it is a problem.

Ordinary people ... are expected to follow the law. If they violate someone else’s legal rights, they can be sued and required to pay for the injuries they’ve caused.

Under the doctrine of qualified immunity, public officials are held to a much lower standard. They can be held accountable only insofar as they violate rights that are “clearly established” in light of existing case law. This standard shields law enforcement, in particular, from innumerable constitutional violations each year. In the Supreme Court’s own words, it protects “all but the plainly incompetent or those who knowingly violate the law.”
Recognizing that there are degrees and differences in hardship between people who own property and people who rent is not any of those things.
> Then, here's the tough part, don't expand executive power when your own party is in the white house.

Optimistic Democrats cheered Obama's expansive use of executive power (so progressive!), and were dismayed when Trump revoked every executive order that Obama's name was on pretty much immediately after taking power. Perhaps this will be a lesson... but I'm betting that Biden would veto any such limitation even if he had a friendly Congress and Senate.
Large public gatherings are either dangerous or they are not. The current gatherings are not being framed as dangerous, whereas the former were. The only difference between them is the reason for them. Do the math.
"... this case is about importing counterfeit products from China..."

Seems like a stretch to call the parts counterfeit. He imported refurbished displays that were original Apple displays with broken glass that had been replaced by a third party product. The original parts of the display still had Apple logos on them. So clearly they were refurbished, not counterfeit.
>Is hydroxychloroquine paired with zinc in the two studies? That has been the central claim of people supporting hydroxychloroquine this entire time

Citation needed. Counter evidence:

The "paper" that was popular among right wing folks stating that HCQ was a safe and effective treatment for Covid. Zero mentions of zinc.

https://github.com/covidtrial/info/raw/master/An%20Effective...

Full transcript of Trump pushing CQ/HCQ, Ctrl+F zinc = 0 results.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-pres...

Smells like goalpost moving to me.
Planck uses the os native webview for execution. Lumo runs on node. Eden is compatible with most clojure libraries, and is meant for embedding. Babashka is a clojure interpreter written in clojure and compiled with GraalVM. I've used Planck and babashka for shell scripting and prefer babashka.
it isn't and yet they do it with impunity. Honestly I think deliberately covering your badge should be an immediate dismissal and loss of perks and pension.

The other problem though is that those rules only apply to the police, not the national guard, and definitely not the people trump bought in to DC that would not even identify the agency they're from.

We only know that they a probably a Texas prison riot suppression group due to research by journalists. So yeah, a prison riot group from out of state - specifically a conservative state - got brought in unannounced to DC to suppress protests, with out being identified in any way, or providing any kind of id.
Sorry to spam with this comment but...

Police should be self-insured, backed by their pension plan. Without real incentive to change, there is no change.
The original authors of "UNIX" considered their creation to be fatally flawed, and created a successor OS called "Plan 9", partially to address this specific deficit, among others like the perceived tacked-on nature of GUIs on *nix.

That's a whole rabbit hole to go down, but Plan 9 networking is much more like your hypothetical example [0]. Additionally, things like the framebuffer and devices are also exposed as pure files, whereas on Linux and most unix-like systems such devices are just endpoints for making ioctl() calls.

[0] http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/net/
Why are we shifting to fancy math for this? Just mandate districts have to be simple geometric shapes; good luck isolating 16 individual neighborhoods in a city when all you have are four corners. I mean I know some mathematician will show that you can still tile them in such a way to benefit some candidate by 1.6% or whatever, but it would be the simplest way to get rid of the most egregious of district abuses.

Remember, you also have to sell the idea to the public, and which is easier to sell: "Trust this complex algorithm built by mathematicians and their fancy computer models who most certainly aren't secretly biased toward the candidate you dislike", or "RECTANGLES! :D"
Your argument has been repeated a number of times through this thread and it's bogus. Sweden's policy is already a failure because its economy has been affected to much the same level as other similar countries while experiencing a much higher death rate. And other countries are now opening up again to each other, while Sweden has become a pariah.
I don't think so. The police commissioner serves at the pleasure of the mayor, and the mayor is democratically accountable, so the commissioner is unlikely to last long if the public really wants him gone.
Indeed, computing the geodesic is not that simple... the geodesics are not even closed in general on Earth. I always just use GeographicLib (https://geographiclib.sourceforge.io/) for this. https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.1215 is a paper by the author on geodesics.
9/11 and Boston did not normalize a militaristic Police force. It is not normal. It’s 3rd world country.
I'm inclined to believe the ones not shooting at the other ones myself.
Here in NYC there are examples of officers that have had multiple judgments awarded based on their conduct costing the city millions of dollars and they still weren’t subject to any penalties. It’s virtually impossible to fire a NYPD officer for misconduct—-someone accused of murder gets fewer appeals!
I believe they meant to have only a single congressional district per state, with multiple representatives allocated to parties proportionally according to election result.

Proportional representation is the most common electoral system for national legislatures (and is also used by e.g. EU parliament).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation
Why do we want the president to have this much power?

It’s annoying how many laws flip flop every eight years.
> so you can at least vote them out if they gerrymander.

Aren't voting them out and gerrymandering somewhat mutually exclusive?
try powershell, its on linux too
I've read multiple articles like this, and always find them interesting. These words, of course, can be translated to English. They just can't be translated to a single word or phrase, but must instead come with a couple of paragraphs explaining their cultural significance.
I've never seen articles going the other way, however. What are some examples of English words or phrases that are so loaded with cultural significance that they are difficult to translate?
Qualified immunity is kind of a red herring. Yes, it's important for citizens to be able to sue police, but unless those damages roll uphill they will often just be suing judgement-proof cops.

The other issue, the issue that's on everyone's mind this week, is criminal cases. Police don't avoid prison or criminal cases because of qualified immunity, but because they are not charged in the first place.
> Where you say reasonable, I think you mean to say mainstream

Able to be reasoned with?

Mainstream pertains to "ideas, attitudes or activities" [1]. A protest probably wants to appeal to those who hold mainstream views. Or bring its supporters' views into the mainstream. But the whole point of the protest is something isn't mainstream that should be.

[1] https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/mainstream
This actually prevents case law from being established. If it's plainly evident that tasing pregnant women for refusing to sign paper is bad, but no high profile case has established it, no lawyer will pursue such a case because there will be no payout. It's a mechanism for cops to do what they want and face no civil consequences.
Apple coming up with eye glasses?
Don't you mean Raku? lol
Very cool! Is there a copy of that video linked in the article somewhere? It 404s
Five studies. Key difference: Used with zinc and used with outpatients.

https://academic.oup.com/aje/advance-article/doi/10.1093/aje...
First targeting indemnification in addition to QI needs to be a talked about goal. So far, I’m seeing a lot of articles about QI and none about indemnification.
Yes and no.

I'll be honest, I'm personally not a fan of Scala (I prefer Clojure for my JVM goodness), but Scala does give a lot of niceties IF AND ONLY IF you're willing to learn how to program the more pure functional side of things.

A lot of Scala converts fall into the trap of "writing Java in Scala", and if you're doing that I'd argue it's not really worth it...at that point, you can really just write Java; however, if you're willing to learn functional principles (including some basic category theory), it has an incredibly powerful Hindley Milner system under the hood.

Spark is a really useful tool, and the Java bindings work well enough, but it clearly is a "Scala-first" framework. For that alone, I'd argue getting proficient with Scala is probably worth it.

My biggest complaint with Scala is that, because it's very much not opinionated, you end up getting paradigm-clashes with larger teams of people. This will happen to some extent with most languages, but I find it especially egregious with Scala. If you decide to use Scala on a team of multiple people, I cannot overstate the need to codified standards of what is allowed and not allowed.
Economies are already re-opening to each other and Sweden is being excluded. So no, Sweden has already failed.
That is exactly right - you can't do any cross-country comparisons, because the data simply is not comparable across countries. It can be used to a limited degree for tracking the epidemic within a country over time, and even that's got plenty of caveats. But cross-country comparison is a non-starter. Here's an incomplete list of giant confounders:

- for cases: how widespread was the testing? How quickly did it ramp up (e.g. how many tests per 1M in relation to 1000th case)?

- for deaths: what counts as a COVID death? Is death with COVID = death from COVID?

- how soon after the onset of the epidemic in the particular country were lockdown measures enacted? How long did they last? How stringent were they in reality vs on paper?
> > abolish the EC ... to start with

> No, abolishing the Electoral College will not fix anything <random rant>

Fix? What does that even mean? It would start to bring it back to a direct democracy, expanding the franchise beyond the state, as _you_ pointed out.
IRC has decades of vulnerabilities and unexpected behavior atop its simple protocol.

Sitting on irc with 100 channels full of randos,

Emacs modules that aren't irc but also process text coming through for X or Y,

misconfiguration,

mime link handling,

irc protocol handling,

sloppy bot making "hey the builtin pretty printing for python code snippet had more implications then I anticipated",

"stuff" running in emacs in between network and the irc client,

add that to "noone seems to talk about or care about security issues in Emacs",

yeah a big pile of risk that pretty tough to just write off, for me, to that point I think it's bananas.

Especially when compared to the trivial alternative of sandboxing another client that has much less surface then a fully configured single process Emacs.

You are doing what you are doing and on some level we aren't too far apart in viewing the safety of a sandboxed raw emacs+some tight set of irc+a convenient plugin X and Y vs another irc client sandboxed. But I bet you aren't doing that.

I really dislike the words "threat model" in security conversations like this.

Neither of us has actually done any of that formal process for this, so why ask for it?
This looks fantastic! I'm going to start using it immediately. Thankyou for your hard work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MprHxarmOI

The footage is direct from the news organisation. I'm guessing this is footage from their FLIR mounted camera, maybe captured streaming to their HQ. Is that what you mean?
Matter, how tiny my share

Time, how brief my allotment

Fate, how small my roll to play

Self, all that can be mastered
True, rebalancing can be part of the plan. But gross margins are 'low' (~7% for BP ~20% for XOM) in spite of the diversification, so there's not a lot of fuel to reinvest. And gasoline sales are about 50% of XOM business, for example [0], which is a lot to make up.

The gas station/fuel part of the business is on a long-term trend down (toast). Finding places to make up for the 50% lost sales will be tricky.

[0] https://corporate.exxonmobil.com/-/media/global/files/annual... SEE PAGE 108
> So easy to be "reasonable" when life is good

This is a good point. Most protest is about priority. It isn't going to change many peoples' minds. But it will make them prioritize thinking and talking about, and maybe even voting for, your issue.

Michelangelo said "the sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.” Effective protest is similar. It isn't about creating a new view. It's about uncovering, and refining, instincts that were already there.

As such, a core part of effective protest is problem projection. That is, forcing people who don't have a problem to empathize with those who do. Protest should target those who have it good. To get them to empathize with those who don't. (Community organizing is about getting people who share a problem to prioritize it together.)
> Pipes are wonderful!

It's wonderful only if compared to worse things, pretending that PowerShell is not a thing, and that Python doesn't exist.

UNIX pipes are a stringly-typed legacy that we've inherited from the 1970s. The technical constraints of its past have been internalised by its proponents, and lauded as benefits.

To put it most succinctly, the "byte stream" nature of UNIX pipes means that any command that does anything high-level such as processing "structured" data must have a parsing step on its input, and then a serialization step after its internal processing.

The myth of UNIX pipes is that it works like this:

process1 | process2 | process3 | ...

The reality is that physically, it actually works like this:

(process1,serialize) | (parse,process2,serialize) | ...

Where each one of those "parse" and "serialise" steps is unique and special, inflexible, and poorly documented. This is forced by the use of byte streams to connect each step. It cannot be circumvented! It's an inherent limitation of UNIX style pipes.

This is not a limitation of PowerShell, which is object oriented, and passes strongly typed, structured objects between processing steps. It makes it much more elegant, flexible, and in effect "more UNIX than UNIX".

If you want to see this in action, check out my little "challenge" that I posed in a similar thread on YC recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23257776

The solution provided by "JoshuaDavid" really impressed me, because I was under the impression that that simple task is actually borderline impossible with UNIX pipes and GNU tools:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23267901

Compare that to the much simpler equivalent in PowerShell:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23270291

Especially take note half of that script is sample data!

> Unix is seriously uncool with young people at the moment. I intend to turn that around and articles like this offer good material.

UNIX is entirely too cool with young people. They have conflated the legacy UNIX design of the 1970s with their preferred open source software, languages, and platforms.

There are better things out there, and UNIX isn't the be all and end all of system management.
Criminal cases are a red herring. We need to address the structures and institutions that make tasing pregnant women possible.

Let's put it like this: if you came into your office one morning and the guys in the cubicles next to you are shooting up black tar heroin (and no one acts like they're doing anything wrong), does the problem lie with the individuals or with the corporation?
As long as this doesn't limit damages. I personally think municipalities should be on the hook for these so that they have some responsibility for the actions of their police force.
Owned by a party, McConnell just takes all of the responsibility because he’s in one of the safest seats
Yeah this deep fake is flawed enough to be amusing. But I know we're probably only 1-2 years away from producing extremely convincing deep fakes at a whim.

In my mind, blockchain is the only thing that can counterbalance this tech. We need blockchain signed photos and videos to ensure authenticity.
It's true, I don't have any problem with using SPACE via left thumb, but I have never encountered a layout or keyboard that let's me use the thumb for modifier keys. Do you have an example?
And these days, he’s increasingly popular among both the radical left and right
The SF bay area is still fixing environmental damage from 50 years ago (semiconductors) or even 170 years ago (gold rush/mercury mines). Environmental problems can outlive everyone that will decide this issue.
> In reality, just 10 unarmed black men were killed by the police last year.[3]

Isn't that 10 way too many and the whole point of the current protests.
I started a while ago now with that, I just wrote a bunch of things into a file as a time line, and it slowly got more and more useful. Then I found I had a bunch of info around various topics scattered through the journal, so I started making topic guides. My topic guides are super useful now. I maintain and add them much more than the journal. So, to my point, I think recording things is useful, but it's best done in an organic way, where you just try things and adapt what you do based on how you are finding it. The only other thing I'd say is it is actually much nicer, in my experience, just using files (backed up by your favorite drive syncing software) and no specific tools. I also use markdown, but doesn't really matter.
What institutions can we support to help push changes forward here?

This feels incredibly important to have fixed.
No. The core distribution isn't that big, and I like how it contains features that harken back to an earlier era – it acts as a sort of history museum on matters that younger programmers might like to learn about.
asin(x) is multi-valued over the domain of longitude
And once you learn JavaScript, you can write JavaScript in any language you like!
My interpretation is reasonable not in the senses of being establishment, elite, or some other socioeconomic signifier, but as in literally amenable to being convinced by reasoned argument, based on evidence and logical relationships between premises, evidence, and conclusions.

Contrasted with insensitive to reason.

So no, not a dog whistle.
Nowadays it feels like private media is even more partisan than state controlled media.

YouTube did the same. This seems like some feelgood thing more than something practical and useful.
Any four GOP senators can defect and depose Mitch McConnell, but haven't. The Senate is very much in control of 53 people.
What stops me from signing my own deepfaked video and putting that on the blockchain?