skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Possibly. Wish we had numbers, but I'm not sure if survey respondents would always speak the truth :)
It's not about how people use it, the RFCs are clear on this.
when I started with hetzner there was no vlan, you needed to pay an "extra pack" and an additional network card for interconnection, with more than two servers you also would need to pay for an router and of course the time it did take to setup.
so not really that cheap in the past.
The problem with Emacs and all its modifications is that it cannot match Vim's flexible system for custom keybindings. And because of that Evil mode has the same limitation, beside its insistence to prefer using builtin Emacs functionality over emulating Vim behaviour correctly.

And the other thing that I could never get used to is that Emacs' terminals can't handle ncurses applications. I usually like to run Vim in a terminal multiplexer and combine it with various terminal utilities when needed, and Emacs doesn't support that - unless you run it in a terminal, but then Evil mode stops working properly...

I'm fine with Vim, but I'm glad I tried Emacs for a while because it does have some nice ideas.
Podcast: Stand Up and Fight, E01P02 – Full Transcript
Timnit Gebru quotes:

> Yann, I suggest you watch me and Emily’s tutorial or a number of scholars who are experts in this.

In other words, poor Yann should be sent for reeducation!

> Maybe your colleagues will try to educate you. Maybe not. But I have better things to do than this.

Or maybe not. So much thinly veiled despise. If it weren't for Yann there would be no computer vision as it is today, and her job would be the realm of sci-fi.

> If there is any sort of fairness, ethics or what have you initiative @Facebook and @facebookai, let me tell you how little credibility they have because you have the loudest microphone out there.

Now switching on an indirect strategy - throw shit at his employer in order to force his hand.

> I’m sick of this framing. Tired of it. Many people have tried to explain, many scholars. Listen to us. You can’t just reduce harms caused by ML to dataset bias.

Yet I have hardly seen a good counterexample of algorithmic bias, it was almost always the data. Gradient descent doesn't know about race. CNNs, RNNs, Transformers - they are all orthogonal to social bias. Maybe regularisation can have an effect on accuracy for small (less represented) classes, but not much more.
Surely they patented it so it can be trivially reproduced by others outside the US, right?
I wonder if this will indirectly lead people to start thinking about whether socialized medical systems stifle innovation and make the systems reliant on innovative "capitalist" economies.
The most relevant industry to this board (IT) usually provide private healthcare though. I’ve had BUPA from work since I graduated. Granted this is across only two jobs but when I’ve been applying for jobs in the past private health has always been one of the perks

Maybe it’s different in the start up world but larger companies all seem to offer private health insurance.
Yes, we could dive into why people eat too much, and how they could start eating less, but very soon we're going to be guessing and could easily come to the wrong conclusions.

I also think there's value in simple true statements.
I'm glad you are saying this. I work at Google (and so does Timnit Gebru). Recently there has been a somewhat similar discussion on an internal mailing list. A very senior person at Google got involved in the discussion and backed Timnit up.

It made me feel very uncomfortable, because I wanted to say something like "the issues you are pointing out are very important, but I don't think you are right in this instance" but I was afraid doing so might jeopardize my career at the company.
Pretty much. When an airline goes out of business, most of the physical aircraft will still be sold to someone unless they fall victim to lack of proper maintenance.
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Hi, sure, let the PLA brainwash your child.
I’m pretty good at using vim, There’s really nothing I don’t know, and I’ve watched tons of courses and read tons of tutorials. I got my own vimrc like plenty of people. But People still use macvim, and hit Apple S, and Use the mouse, I’m hardly the only one. See Yehudas “everyone who tried to teach me to use vim was wrong”

When I was younger I cared more about it, but it’s all just yak shaving.

What there isn’t are obvious benefits to keeping your fingers in the home row, just vastly overhyped anecdotes.

By the way expert photographers will tell you that it’s not about the tools and that today’s phones are good enough.

That’s one of the things that are annoying, I’m the dumb one for putting a dissenting opinion, but no one is willing to explain why using the mouse is worse, and definitely not in a way that satisfies me
This has been tried in India many times. The trouble is that it has always been done with the intention to polarize people for political gains. It completely skews the conversation, and most people automatically steer clear of anyone flaunting their "social identity" (not necessarily caste) like that.

EDIT: Replaced "origin" with "social identity", which seems like a better fit.
The problem is that very large institutions become corrupt with very high certainty. It poses a huge near-term risk itself, so we somehow need to solve coordination problems while staying decentralized.
+1 for Openresty Lua being great. It's saved my ass a few times.
You can change your last name to Rockefeller, and some get away with it [1], but usually you'd be exposed because not only would you not have the right clothes, manners, alma maters, accent, etc... but most of all, you wouldn't know the right people. "Oh you're a Rockefeller, eh? So I'll see you at the Wickliffe's garden party in Martha's Vineyard this June?"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Gerhartsreiter
Off-topic. I'm thinking about building a game where players are controlling real robots. The players compete for resources which are randomly distributed in the land. In the first version of the game it will be on the Earth. This game can be later used to help colonize Moon and Mars.

Do you know any robots which can be used in such game?
The amount of ads I'm seeing on YouTube is pretty insane recently. Google must be under quite some pressure to make money.
Wow, thank you for sharing this. I had no idea you could do that with fzf.
> I'd argue that curve fitting isn't modeling.

This entire discussion is about ML models, which can often be fairly described as very fancy curve fitting.

> And when inserting a fitted curve into a feedback system you're very likely to just perpetuate the problem you're looking to eliminate.

This is not a problem for the individual credit issuer-- they're not looking to eliminate the problem. They've avoided some credit risk by taking race into account. They've improved their expected value, even if society is stuck with the cost of the problem getting worse.
Algolia (YC W14) is hiring tech support engineers to help devs implement search
> Video stores require a special license to rent out videos.

First sale doctrine covers rentals, but having good relations with studios to get supply of new releases often influences rental establishments to avoid buying discs at retail to rent out. (But, RedBox will sometimes do it)
Jira is so slow I installed plugins in both the devtools I use a lot to view tickets without having to use the web interface, it's just painful when you have to view a lot of tickets quickly.
That’s an interesting thought!
Yawn, the sheep want eyeballs tied to screens.
> You'd be completely hamstrung by the available GitHub API's and speed.

Out of all the APIs I've built similar projects on, GitHub has been among the ones that's the easiest to mirror/cache to your own DB, so I wouldn't say that's really a problem in practice.
That worked so well for opioid crisis victims.
Britain has had a very strong class system, which was perhaps at its peak around the time of the empire, so it would not have been a big leap at all to understand the Indian caste system.
Well, you must be thrilled! Now that Trump supporters have all migrated over to this tiny little obscure island where they can just spam EACH OTHER, and share conspiracy theories with EACH OTHER, and post fake news links for EACH OTHER! Joe Biden is surely gonna win AT LEAST 28 states now that all those pesky Trump supporters have been isolated away from smart normal good people like you and me!
Learn Eleventy from Scratch (Andy Bell)
There are hundreds of trials in various states of completion for hydroxychloroquine [1]. At least 10 of them specifically call out using it in combination with zinc, though some completed trials that don't specifically call it out in the title also used zinc if you read the papers.

There are about 35 trials in various states of completion of remdesivir [2].

If hydroxychloroquine actually does anything, we'll eventually find out. But the cold hard truth is that all the evidence so far is that remdesivir is a weakly effective treatment (shortens length of stay in hospital slightly, not a miracle cure) while hydroxychloroquine hasn't been shown to do much of anything useful in COVID. Both aren't as big a deal as Dexamethasone, which significantly reduces mortality in the sickest patients.

Most facilities have settled on using remdesivir + dexamethasone as the standard treatment for the sickest patients and have totally ditched hydroxychloroquine. Many are still administering zinc and other low-risk treatments like vitamin C and D to patients because while the evidence isn't there, there's no cost or safety reason not to try it.

The problem with talking about hydroxychloroquine is that it has become the rallying cry of the conspiracy theorist, so any talk about it results in someone saying you are "testing it wrong". The most common response is "it is a preventative treatment, not a treatment of already sick people! they are testing the wrong patients in trials!" or "it only works in combination with zinc!" or whatever. The good news is all those combinations are being trialed and if it actually does anything, we'll eventually find out. Whether anyone ever comes up with evidence that hydroxychloroquine does anything useful in COVID patients, it will definitely be one of the most studied drugs ever.

[1] https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?cond=covid&term=hydro...

[2] https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?cond=covid&term=remde...
It’s important to realize that’s true also when you’ve paid for the software and got it directly from the source:

Sony has a root kit included, Zoom had a web server that could be exploited (at least) to then on your camera.

That’s just off the top of my head.
Ask HN: What did you get out of being an entrepreneur?
We have these expectations or anticipations when we dream and spend months and years building new products or services.

With time in the journey we make new discoveries and realisations. I am looking for the bare and honest truths and reality checks.
Has anyone checked the $2B or is this what pharma tells?
One neat trick that vim has out of the box that most other editors/IDEs don’t is a tree based undo system.

So if you undo something a few steps and try something different but decide you want to go back you can’t... but you can in vim with g+ and g-

If you add the Gundo plugin you can visualise this as a tree of diffs in a side window.

I’m sure that’s been added to IDEs as a plugin but in vim it’s standard.

It also persists undo state to disc if you want so if you return to a file on another day it’s still all there.
How to create a beautiful brand book or style guide [e-book]
Indian companies have already started manufacturing Remdesivir (under license from Gilead) and selling them at a price of ~$70.

I wonder how other countries are going to respond since the US seems to have bought up the entire global stockpile from Gilead (who are charging $390 - $520 to Americans).

[1] https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/india-s-hetero-pri...

[2] https://www.indiatvnews.com/business/news-covid19-drug-cipre...
Some. American drugs companies too, though. They want our bargaining power to be mediated by the coming UKUSA trade agreement so we have to pay through the nose like Americans do. At the moment they either sell to us or lose out on our custom (the NHS is not above refusing to buy a drug on expense grounds). They're trying to make this impossible for us to do by levering political power, because single payer healthcare doesn't permit them to abuse their market power over here.
I received the exact same template mail. They had also included an old password that I presume was leaked in the Adobe hack or something. Didn't really feel worried though, cause on my device (a MacBook Pro with the T2 security chip), it's physically impossible to enable the webcam without the status LED getting activated.
Clowns lost jobs -- oh wait, its art.
It's fine. The formulation will get out there, and the world's chemists will figure out how to make it, and then the Indian generics factories will pump it out en masse.

The hard part with drugs is usually finding out if they work. This one is hard to make, but they'll figure it out.

And then each country gets to make the choice for itself of how much it loves IP law and how much it loves human life.
How can airborne transmission of Covid-19 indoors be minimised?
At $2340 a patient, the drug is an expensive treatment plan but not overpriced imo.
If the claimed reduction in time to recovery is true, then around $600 a day of reduced recovery time is probably worth the hospitalization and long term health costs.

Besides having to recoup the costs of development of Remdesivir, as well as the costs to trial various drugs that never make it to market, Remdesivir is currently in short supply and probably costs a significant amount to produce.
It seems unreasonable to expect a good in such short supply to be sold for cheap. The overall cost of $2k isn’t prohibitively expensive such that many lives would be lost over this anyways.
The paper that was retracted was a paper that concluded that hydroxy chloroquine usage caused higher fatality rates in covid patients.
from OP's article:

> In the developing world, where healthcare resources, infrastructure and economics are so different, we have entered into agreements with generic manufacturers to deliver treatment at a substantially lower cost.

I assume this means that:

1. Remdesvir is not that hard to manufacture.

2. Gilead will license the drug to 3rd party factories, so no need to manufacture them in the US.
Extra links for further information:

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This is really interesting.

I'm quite the opposite. I keep trying to make vim my main devtool but I just can't stay away from a fully fledged ide. At the same time, having heard from literally everyone that once you do get used to it, vim is way faster to do everything in.

What advice do you have for someone like me to proper get used it once and for all? Are there any good resources you used to learn all the vim shortcuts?
Always wanted to try using email for Git since it is built in and decentralized. A lot of core Linux projects do this, but I wish there was a better guide on getting started.
I think it can only be fair to ask for feedback from a rejected candidate if you (the potential employer) are willing to give feedback yourself, which is rarely the case, especially from larger companies.
Nationalistic flamewar will get you banned here. Please don't post like this to HN.

It's remarkable how good this thread has managed to be, given the difficulty of the topic. Please let's not spoil that.

Edit: by the way, from your other comments in this thread I gather that you're probably Indian, or from an Indian family, and you're mostly expressing your personal experiences and frustrations. This of course is not at all the same thing as outside prejudice, and we're always mindful of the difference in such cases.

The trouble is, the internet can't tell the difference. If you post like this, your comment is indistinguishable from that of a racist or nationalist person who just has a problem with Indians. I'm sure you'd be the first to object to comments coming from that ugly place. So if you're going to post on these topics, we need you to include enough information to disambiguate your intent, and also make the post more personal and less of a general denunciation.

The general principle is: since a comment's impact on future discussion is determined by how others hear it, the burden is on the commenter to disambiguate intent.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Yeah you’re right. Well then there’s no more room for issue trackers. Definitely not at the higher levels
1% is determined by wealth, not income.
Drugs are more streamlined, but most of the NHS looks a lot like the US system. There are 8 major private electronic health systems, and many have not signed interoperability pledges. 145 CCGs. Foundation Trusts, remember just 10 years ago GP Practices would become part. Quasi-private GP Practices. Mergers going on every year (195 CCGs to 145 last year). Funding comes out of a myriad of mystery buckets (winter funding).
How much did the Fed spend buying Gilead's bonds?

And how much more/less effective is Remdesivir compared to the generic Dexamethasone anti-inflammatory?
Not here in NL. My monthly premium for myself and child is around €130 for a premium plan with a €500 yearly deductible, and most normal costs and doctors visits are excluded fro this. I had an injury that required surgery and physical therapy and did not hit this deductible.

Someone I know had cancer which required two years of therapy and also somehow did not hit their yearly deductible. A friend had a burnout and needed therapy over a long period of time, also very little personal costs.

This premium that I pay is more or less matched by my employer, that money goes into a fund to balance out insurers who have more risky demographic coverage. The government does offer subsidies for people who cannot afford the monthly premium, this obviously comes from taxes.

That’s pretty much it for funding the system. Personal premium + employer premium + tax subsidies for the poor. Dutch people complain about costs ‘spiraling out of control’, and it is true that over the years healthcare has gotten more expensive, but these criticisms are laughable when compared to the US.

It’s possible to fix the US healthcare system. Just pick any other western developed nation at random and do what they do. You’ll be better off.
Seems odd that this is filed in federal court rather than state. The Unruh civil rights act is broader, and the CA supreme court has ruled that its enumerated characteristics are "illustrative rather than restrictive".
It would feel a little awkward for me to ask for someone to do work for me after I've determined that they're not a good fit for the company. And if it's post-interview pre-result then the problem is that they'll feel pressured to be positive.

Perhaps if it were a third party.
Generic versions of Remdesivir are already available in India for $70 (under license from Gilead). I hope other countries ramp up production too.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/india-s-hetero-pri...
Aside from the sensitive topic of pricing the new drug, I'd like to take this opportunity to remember the late Czech scientist Antonin Holy.

His lifelong research led to creation of many groundbreaking drugs against HIV, hepatitis and now Covid. This humble "invisible" guy's work literally saved millions of lives and is behind many of current Gilead drugs.

See https://english.radio.cz/antonin-holy-one-countrys-most-reno...
Also what is “almost all” in this context?

Isn’t that just another way of saying I can’t do these things but don’t care? The Blub argument effectively.
You missed names. That’s a huge indicator unless someone changed their names.
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> Strawman.

Can we skip this kind of snippy arguing please? Anyway I take it you agree the statement is true but don't want to.

So now you're saying those great minority loan customers are impossible to identify? I think you just need to figure out what information is still missing. What's the effect size at this point anyway?
Europe is one of the primary reasons US drug pricing is so messed up. Many European countries negotiate drug pricing on cost to manufacturer (practically nothing) with a negotiated slim profit margin. Then the drug companies just offload the rest of the R&D cost onto the US consumer. But, almost the entire cost of a drug is in the R&D.

Imagine if the rest of the world only paid for CPUs based on the per unit cost of silicon but none of the fab or engineering cost. So $20 CPUs for the rest of the world and $20k CPUs for the US since the US consumer has to cover the 10s of billions for fab/R&D cost while the rest of the world only pays for the silicon.

That's what happening with drug pricing right now. People _need_ medicine, which is how we got into this mess of drug pricing since it's frowned on to price people out of medicine. But European countries aren't exactly poor struggling post-war economies anymore. They can afford to shoulder more of the R&D cost instead of laughing at the US subsidizing the world.
I’m ethnically Indian but was born in and have lived in the US my entire life. I also happen to be a Brahmin, which I assume some of the people here could probably figure out from my name but I only learned about because of some random ritual thing when I was a child where I had to shave my hair and wear some sort of symbolic thread or something like that. Aside from family, who I am sure are the same caste, I think I can count on my hand the number of times I have ever had caste come up in a discussion or learned someone’s caste, and being in the Bay Area I talk to a lot of Indians. And that’s always been along the lines of “You know about the caste system? That’s kind of messed up. By the way do you have a caste?” Maybe I just never see it as a Brahmin but I have never once seen anyone change their attitude based on caste. I think it’d go as well as calling yourself descended from royalty, or having an ancestor who was a pirate: cool, but if you’re going to make it a part of your identity or judge people on it you need to get on with the times.
As a former employee of Cisco and having been in the Silicon Valley for 10+ years, I can say that I have witnessed extreme casteism and nepotism in Cisco. There was a saying I heard a few years back that one of the criteria to get hired in one of the Cisco guaranteed acquisition spinoffs is that you wear a thread (called Janeu - worn by high caste Hindus over their shoulder and hidden inside shirt). If there is one company in the valley where HR is totally absent and managers form a clique to abuse employees, it is Cisco. It is polluting the entire valley with its casteism and also by exporting its incompetent managers to other companies.
Gmail and some other guys proxy images too so tracking pixels won't work.
We don't have this in Europe. Does it carry in show adverts as well?
Tech, Startups where I have worked had no such discrimination

Marriage, If it's an arranged marriage 99.9% of the time, bride and groom will be of same caste.
Lol... If that was even remotely accurate, Reddit would've been abandoned very quickly. You really have no idea what you're talking about at all, AT ALL.
If you think Remdesivir is not effective you could simply choose to not take it.
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