skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We already have lots of data. Here's the Lancet paper: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

> Our search identified 172 observational studies across 16 countries and six continents, with no randomised controlled trials and 44 relevant comparative studies in health-care and non-health-care settings (n=25 697 patients). Transmission of viruses was lower with physical distancing of 1 m or more, compared with a distance of less than 1 m (n=10 736, pooled adjusted odds ratio [aOR] 0·18, 95% CI 0·09 to 0·38; risk difference [RD] −10·2%, 95% CI −11·5 to −7·5; moderate certainty); protection was increased as distance was lengthened (change in relative risk [RR] 2·02 per m; pinteraction=0·041; moderate certainty). Face mask use could result in a large reduction in risk of infection (n=2647; aOR 0·15, 95% CI 0·07 to 0·34, RD −14·3%, −15·9 to −10·7; low certainty), with stronger associations with N95 or similar respirators compared with disposable surgical masks or similar (eg, reusable 12–16-layer cotton masks; pinteraction=0·090; posterior probability >95%, low certainty). Eye protection also was associated with less infection (n=3713; aOR 0·22, 95% CI 0·12 to 0·39, RD −10·6%, 95% CI −12·5 to −7·7; low certainty). Unadjusted studies and subgroup and sensitivity analyses showed similar findings.

The important bit here (for everyone saying we have great evidence that masks work) is that "low certainty" bit. That's GRADE, and it means "low certainty (our confidence in the effect estimate is limited; the true effect could be substantially different from the estimate of the effect);" So, maybe masks are substantially less, or more, protective.
> I'm leaning more strongly to "major impact / selection event / paradigm shift" than extinction.

I agree. I teach at a large public research university in Japan, and we're near the end of our first semester teaching all of our classes online. It has gone better than many (any?) of us expected.

The university's decision in late March that all of our classes would be taught in real time using videoconferencing, with prerecorded videos and other asynchronous methods only as a supplement, seems to have been correct. Live online classes, it turns out, are often just as interactive and engaging as in-person classes. Some teachers even report that their students participate more actively and thoughtfully in discussions online than they do in the classroom.

There are still many unresolved issues, of course, including how to conduct tests fairly; how to enable more informal mingling among students; and, perhaps most difficult, how to teach subjects that require physical equipment or in-person interaction, such as laboratory chemistry, nursing and medicine, performing arts, etc.

But the fact that many subjects can be taught satisfactorily online upends one of the fundamental assumptions of higher education: that teachers and students need to be in the same place at the same time to have high-quality interactions. If they haven't already, forward-thinking universities will soon start taking advantage of this opportunity to create well-planned, rigorous degree programs open to anyone in the world who is qualified and has a decent Internet connection. Even if the coronavirus crisis ends and people can travel freely again, such programs should still be able to succeed.
I kind of agree with you, wind energy on land influences our ecosystem more than nuclear energy - nonetheless there is more tangible pollution by nuclear power plants. Additionally one (parliament) may has to justify a power plant since there is a responsibility to neighbouring countries and the ecosystem. Nuclear energy _always_ implies a risk. The demand on energy is always increasing and such a power plant works in proportions which are not conceivable for us citiziens.

I am proud of my nation: We shifted our values - we rated our ecosystem higher than competitive advantages.
They're in the eye of the beholder.

I'm assuming you're talking about the name of the project? To me, Zettel is a German word, meaning a slip of paper useful for taking notes.
You can set a sync passphrase in chrome://settings/syncSetup under Encryption Options.
This is true. It does work, except that whenever they invite me to chat, they ignore what I have to say. It's like the teenage game of "snipe hunt," where they take you out to "catch the snipe," then all go home, leaving you out there, holding the bag.

They have found very polite ways to be rude.
No, this is why the CDC should be running 30 second "how to properly wear a mask" public service announcements.

They've been in stock online, locally at my grocery store, at Target, and at Costco for weeks now. Quite a few stores will hand you a free one if you don't have one (I know Kroger will), and a washable reusable one will set you back a few bucks at most.

If we discovered people weren't wearing their seatbelts enough, getting rid of seatbelts would be a silly mitigation.
Small liberal arts colleges may be extinguished but the major universities will live on. The sciences, medicine, and engineering fields still require facilities and equipment beyond the reach of the individual, particularly for cutting edge research. I could point to universities with their own wind tunnel for aerospace engineering, their own research and teaching hospitals, their own small silicon chip fab and so forth.
I see the value in having a limit to down votes, but that shouldn't elminate the comment. Like every community HN has norms. If you have an opinion that's not popular - valid or not - it can get down voted. That doesn't mean the voice shouldn't be heard.

Mind you, if something is a violation then let the moderators handle it. But there is a difference between unpopular and violation, even on HN.
Nvidia recently demoed a similar technique running in real time: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/nvidia-dlss-your-q...
I'd encourage you to consider NOT nuking a post/comment just because it gets downvotes. We already have too many people afraid to speak for fear of judgement by the mob. You're clearly a thoughtful person, and I believe the silent majority out there would appreciate more diversity of opinions.
The imperial system isn’t what we use instead of the metric system — we use it in addition to.

Yet, with our “outdated” systems, we seem to have still done alright with regards to our tech, Michelin starred restaurants, etc.
Packing efficiency is usually defined for an infinite space because finite containers don’t always favor the same size object.

Consider a marble with a diameter of 2inch and a tennis ball with diameter if 3 inches. A cube of length 9.01 inches now favors the tennis balls where one of 8.01 inches favors the marbles.
Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20200702203510/https://fastertha...
I don't think the author was expressing surprise that quinoa expands in volume when cooked, but rather at the fun reason why this is the case.
Ask HN: Why does Google have so many conference/messaging apps?
That is awesome! Glad to see that this was finally addressed. That still leaves the macOS issues which I'll keep my fingers crossed for.

(I do realize that I'm an odd niche use case where I use all 3 platforms regularly (Linux, Apple, Windows) and it why it's been difficult to find a suitable replacement.)
It'd be perfect for older folks, especially if also in proximity to public transport. 95% of their needs could be satisfied by a healthy walk downstairs to the store.
The story I was told from Bitcoin developers was that it was done for code performance reasons. However, since the less-than check goes back all the way to the code's "Initial commit" [0], I'm not sure if that's fully accurate -- it might have been based on correspondence from the original author. At the very least, the misconception comes from Bitcoin's own whitepaper.

[0] https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/e071a3f6c06f41068ad1...
> A for-profit model is just not compatible with the nature of social media.

Agreed. I think we need to transition to something like Scuttlebutt, where no one controls the network. It solves the problems of profit incentives, government intervention and policing of content all at once. I've been writing about this a lot recently at https://adecentralizedworld.com
Might want to check this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hyENddY1NbM
Your inability to support your position is noted, thanks.

Here's the link you asked for https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

> Transmission of viruses was lower with physical distancing of 1 m or more, compared with a distance of less than 1 m (n=10 736, pooled adjusted odds ratio [aOR] 0·18, 95% CI 0·09 to 0·38; risk difference [RD] −10·2%, 95% CI −11·5 to −7·5; moderate certainty); protection was increased as distance was lengthened (change in relative risk [RR] 2·02 per m; pinteraction=0·041; moderate certainty). Face mask use could result in a large reduction in risk of infection (n=2647; aOR 0·15, 95% CI 0·07 to 0·34, RD −14·3%, −15·9 to −10·7; low certainty), with stronger associations with N95 or similar respirators compared with disposable surgical masks or similar (eg, reusable 12–16-layer cotton masks; pinteraction=0·090; posterior probability >95%, low certainty). Eye protection also was associated with less infection (n=3713; aOR 0·22, 95% CI 0·12 to 0·39, RD −10·6%, 95% CI −12·5 to −7·7; low certainty). Unadjusted studies and subgroup and sensitivity analyses showed similar findings.

Note that they only say "could", and they describe this as "low certainty".
Storing your master password anywhere is an obvious fuckup. The story here is that just by having a valid session you can export all passwords from google password manager without it ever asking for authentication.
Don't you also have to have the 'Don't ask again on this computer' option selected the first time you login to Google with 2FA?

It looks like that's the default, but that's another good way you can avoid this issue - if you do have to log in to Google on a machine with lower security, be sure to uncheck that box.
Like I said, I'm not doing the dance again.

Last time it was pointed out "low certainty" doesn't mean what you imply it does (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23434344) you let it sail on by.
> Elite institutions can charge whatever they want for their brand name

Also, their brand names may be tarnished. For example, Yale and Stanford are named after men who abused black and brown people. If the Universities decide to no longer honor these men and remove their names from the university, they will have lost a lot of the brand that they built up over many years.
Nothing to do with Google Password Manager. If you leak your master password anywhere, your password manager is breached.

A better title should be "How I leaked by master key"
Thanks. I do value this community, and try to be a good citizen.

Like I said, I am trying to make amends. One of the symptoms of that, is that I can come across as "stuffy."

Also, I do want to put out a good image of myself, but that can come across as "self-promotion," something I'm downright awful at. I'm also pretty much terrible at relating (tends to come across as "making it all about me"), so it tends to fall flat, when I try.
It would be transformational if firms would be okay with some of their team working in a different timezone. It's hard to collaborate when you can only meet in the evening for one worker, and early morning the other. I don't know if there's any logistical solution to this.
The guy from Slate Star Codex made a great point about this: Initially, the CDC refused to recommend wearing masks to inhibit virus transmission because there weren't rigorous studies supporting that usage. At the time they must have viewed it as irresponsible to recommend protective measures that weren't properly evidenced.

But, the reason there weren't rigorous studies supporting mask usage was not because they don't work, but because nobody was willing to run a study where you exposed half the subjects to a virus without any protection just to prove that masks would help the other half. It's the same reason there aren't any double-blind studies proving that parachutes help you if you fall out of a plane.
So rather than competing with the duopoly of AliPay and WeChat, Stripe decided to not enter the Chinese market because it will change China's behavior- Somehow letting the profits flow to two Chinese giants will help its society become more free.
I just uploaded the papers I’ve co-authored — all were licensed CC 4.0 — to Research Hub and emailed to say hello. Looks like a great platform!
I think it is still deactivation.

Most companies don't delete accounts when you request to delete account, they only disable your access to account. So, before cancelling I prefer to go into account, remove as much info as possible and change all other info before requesting to delete account.

AirBnb wouldn't even let me access my account until I accepted their new T&C and upon declining they just moved me to cancel account with no chance to make any changes to existing info.
> Your inability to support your position is noted, thanks.

You're posting something supporting mask usage.

"Face mask use could result in a large reduction in risk of infection". Somehow turning that into "masks bad" because it's a low certainty finding (inviting further study to confirm) is silly bullshit.
Of course not.

There are wonderful resources for getting a liberal education today. More than ever, in fact, and far less expensive than ever as well.

They just have nothing to do with going into a humanities department.
What is Mathematics? by Courant and Robbins
Capitalism being what it is, it doesn’t matter how much this improves safety, newer plants will keep pushing for tighter and tighter safety tolerances chasing after efficiencies until this is just as risky as the current fuel.
They do...there are two brand new urban Targets in two Chicago neighborhoods (Lakeview and Logan square) and they have amenity apartments on top with pool etc.
1. The US has plenty of authoritarian nepotism, just look at the Trump family.

2. The US imported 450 billion USD of goods from China in 2019, and exported 100 billion. Germany imported 120 billion USD of goods from China, and exported 115 billion USD.

3. Germany, unlike the US, is currently not seeing a resurgence of fascists wearing nazi flags, defending nazi memorials, and open-carrying assault rifles at protests (And occasionally discharging handguns into other people, after they trying to drive their car through a crowd.)

Of all the countries at risk of sliding into authoritarianism in the next five years, Germany would not be at the top of my list.
The Monoroeville Mall (made famous for its use as the setting for the original Dawn of the Dead movie) had a clock tower in the 1970s (since removed in one of its many renovations). You can see it in the final scene of the movie after the zombies have taken back the mall and are staggering around to the upbeat mall music.
It depends. A normal recipe may say: 4 large eggs, where large is actually a regulated weight range. A baked recipe where the ratios are more important may ask you to weigh your eggs, then use that weight for the flour and sugar. Or... it may just say 4 eggs where it doesn’t really matter.
Based on the replies to the tweet very few have assumed this is the case and no, “using as a CDN” and “accidentally linked to” are not the same thing.
I've done queuing using in-memory tables in MySQL. This allowed fair queuing to prevent one user hogging the system.
that is certainly the parody, and it’s not wrong for some, but my experience in each of the 5 congregations i’ve been a part of does not reflect it.

the kingdom of god is not heaven after you die. it’s much more to do with the homeless woman on the street outside your house right this instant.

and i’m a boring mainline protestant!
I think it would be hard to scale while occupying small spaces. You need the scale to afford the marketing overhead in order to keep occupancy rates up.
Agreed. Good write-up, but bad title.

It was surprising that you could disable 2FA without using your 2FA. That seems like a big flaw.
"knowledge—real knowledge—is about the ability to reliably recreate some effect. ... Literature and philosophy are collections of "experiments" conducted and suppositions made by our predecessors about how to live good lives"

Completely and strongly disagree with both of these.

Even in the sciences, there are many who value gaining knowledge for knowledge's sake, for the joy of discovery, and for a better understanding of the world -- quite apart from its utilitarian value in "reliably recreating some effects".

Now on to the humanities... just a couple of examples:

Do you feel that you know your children, your siblings, your lover, or your parents? Is the point of that knowledge to recreate some effect? Or is that not "real knowledge"?

Historians write about what happened, and would probably consider themselves to be imparting knowledge, but they are not necessarily after giving people the power to recreate some effect.

Now on to your claim that literature and philosophy are about how to live good lives. This sounds like a view influenced by the ancient Greeks and Romans, and is about a couple of thousand years out of date. Both literature and philosophy have grown in many different directions since then (though even then this was hardly the only aim of literature or philosophy), and plenty of people who work in both fields don't concern themselves with the aim of how to live a good life.

Plenty of literature in the last century, for instance, is about pointing out the futility of trying to live a good life, or the absurdity of life, about humans constantly and inevitably being frustrated in their striving to live any kind of life, about going mad, about going in circles, about failure. The Existentialists were some of the most well known of such authors, but there are thousands of others.

Representatives of analytic philosophy have often sneered at the aims of ancient philosophy, such as trying to find what it means to live a good life, and have (in an echo of scholastic philosophy) instead often focused on endless technical minutia such as analyzing sentence structure or logical forms of argument.

Some other forms of philosophy are more about pointing out underlying assumptions. Yet others point out problems with these assumptions, such as Hume's critique of causality. And others still, such as some phenomenologists or the cognitively-oriented analytics, are more interested in describing how perception works or what phenomena appear. Yet others are interested in what we can know, what reality is, or what science is, etc.

Sure, some philosophers are still interested in how to live a good life, or what makes for a good life.. but that is a rather specialized and narrow concern of a relatively small number of philosophers, and there's a lot more to philosophy in general than that.

Incidentally, Francis Bacon had a highly scientistic view, and believed that every field should be more like the hard sciences, and that science was the only legitimate or best way of understanding the world (a view you seem to be echoing). Many people in the humanities do not agree with this view.
Agreed. I've probably never used Google Password Manager, but made the mistake of saving passwords once or twice on throwaway machines. And I was easily able to figure out how to delete them. Also I don't know which part of the security model was unclear. There's still a master password, like 1Password does. If anything, it has another layer of protection that comes from Google account and its 2FA.

The author's domain seemed familiar, and I noticed a previously popular post which had sort of similar tone, so I think there might be a pattern of writing catchy posts like these. https://fasterthanli.me/articles/i-want-off-mr-golangs-wild-...
"There was a severe shortage of N95's at the time, and if the public thought masks were important, there would have been an unprecedented run on PPE and the medical community would have had squat."

Uh, you what actually happened? There was been an unprecedented run on PPE and the medical community got squat. It's bizarre to have to recite headline news from two months ago ... doctors in NYC using garbage bags instead of real protection. Hand sanitizer unavailable. Nurses in hospital prohibited from using their own masks and not getting them from the hospitals. The Federal government hoarding PPEs for who knows what asinine reason.
Here's what low certainty grade results mean: "low certainty (our confidence in the effect estimate is limited; the true effect could be substantially different from the estimate of the effect);".

Just so we're clear: you've never linked to research to support any of your points, because you're not able to, are you?
>I think this advice is not relevant if you are on a project where it's feasible for a single developer to re-write it in a month

The implication is that is can be non-obvious if something is potentially that sort of project, as it originally was a large undertaking. I mean, you can assume it's a fake story, but they said it wasn't originally a one person, one month thing.

I don't know that it implies the person who rewrites something is a super-genius, it's just that sometimes a new perspective or tools allow a really amazing improvement.
What Price Would You Put on Your Personal Data?
Lying is absolutely a defensible strategy when done for the greater good.

That doesn’t mean that there hasn’t been a ton of clowny behavior from leadership.
> there's no really good simple way to say "Node: compile and execute this typescript file, please don't save the output on disk anywhere, or try to read tsconfig.json or package.json or whatever".

I guess there's no native typescript support for nodejs (so npx is out). Maybe deno can help?

https://deno.land/

> Supports TypeScript out of the box.

Thats clearly a sort of "now you have two problems" type solution - but if there's a desire to stick with ts as a language - it might be helpful? (to drop the python dependency).

Ed: hm, there's apparently ts-node : https://github.com/TypeStrong/ts-node

npx ts-node script.ts

https://stackoverflow.com/a/33536053
Yes (both are correct).
Sigh, the fact that garbage like this appears on hackernews is why I can't take US politics seriously. How about some actual research?

https://whorulesamerica.ucsc.edu/power/wealth.html

https://whorulesamerica.ucsc.edu/power/images/wealth/Net_wor...

https://whorulesamerica.ucsc.edu/power/images/wealth/Actual_...
Replace Tibet with Bolivia and the point still stands.
"On June 3, Klein was placed on involuntary administrative leave until June 24. The notice states that the leave is necessary to give UCLA the opportunity to consider "allegations regarding behavior made in the course and scope of your position … inconsistent with [UCLA's Faculty Code of Conduct].""

What exactly is the university to do while it pondering the issue?
In Bangkok, a city pretty serious about its malls, some of them have apartment complexes attached. Here's one I happened to notice that seems to have pretty normal prices:

https://www.hotels.com/go/thailand/platinum-fashion-mall

https://www.ddproperty.com/en/property/ขายด่วน-the-platinum-...

There are complexes attached to some of the high-end malls too like IconSiam, if you happen to be really rich and like malls:

https://www.iconsiam.com/en/residences

So, maybe the death of malls is not a requirement for living in malls?
Arguing online is a complete and total waste of time. Designed to make you spin your wheels. You aren't doing _anything_ productive.