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Ask HN: Has anyone heard about steroids being used to treat Covid-19?
I heard an anecdote from someone that steroids have been used to successfully mitigate COVID-19 symptoms. I have no idea how credible it is, so I tried to do some research, but I didn't really see any literature either confirming or debunking it. It makes some intuitive sense, given that a big part of the disease is an exaggerated immune system response. But I'm also highly skeptical that such an obvious and cheap solution could go unnoticed by the world for this long, so I tend to think there must be a catch.

Does anybody have knowledge or references on the subject?
I think this comes down to a lack of trust in good-faith debate. People don't trust that someone "from the other side" will actually have the empathy and generosity required to have a good-faith discussion on a topic.

Also, I believe that we're constantly hearing so many voices trying to convince us one way or another, that our own discussions on those topics end up being attempts to convince others. That would explain "safe spaces" to some degree -- people don't want the pressure of having someone else try to convince them of something they don't agree with.

Some of it just the two-party system. The points don't matter, just which side of the line each person is on. I wonder if more parties would help depolarize the situation. I'm really not sure.
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No one can https://time.com/5855001/rick-roll-rick-astley/
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Brazilian here: Given the insane number of venues and public events that he was attending or hosting I am actually surprised it took this far for him to get the virus.
This only makes sense if you place a limited and arbitrary timeframe on when "success" must be achieved, and what the "success" should be. Remember, the communist manifesto was published in 1848, and by your standard of "success" things more or less remained unchanged until the ideas in that manifesto culminated in the Russian Revolution of 1917--nearly 70 years later. Kaczynski understands this lag, and is quite sober and realistic about the long-term effect of ideas. This is adumbrated by the manifesto:

"If the system succeeds
in acquiring sufficient control over human behavior quickly enough, it
will probably survive. Otherwise it will break down. We think the issue
will most likely be resolved within the next several decades, say forty to a
hundred years." --Industrial Society and Its Future, paragraph 162.

Further, your statement implies an assumption which is not correct. The implication you're making is that because things have so far remain unchanged, Kaczynski's actions were therefore unjustified and/or his writings were not true. This does not follow. Just because an anti-tech revolutionary movement has not (yet) materialized and the industrial system is not (yet) under serious revolutionary threat does not invalidate the truth of Kaczynski's ideas or the validity of Kaczynski's actions. You would not be justified in implying this any more than you would be justified in claiming Galileo had no effect or was wrong because he was placed under house arrest and almost nobody believed him (at the time).
No! Never change the behaviour and the implementation at the same time! It is the same for a class or function or monoid or whatever. API change and implementation change should never happen at the same time. If you covered the old behaviour with tests (on the appropriate granularity) you can refactor the IMPLEMENTATION and verify that the systems tested invariants hold buy running the tests. There are a lot of books written about this but really the main idea is this simple.
How can you say on behalf of every one of them?
I wish google / aws would avoid the overlapping names where possible.

the "A" series on AWS = AMD instances

The "A" series on GCP = Nvidia instances.

I know - probably on no ones radar at all :)
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Snapchat bought the team that was doing it for them, Strong.codes. But you might have luck searching for things like "LLVM obfuscator" or some of the other techniques discussed in the thread. (Obligatory disclaimer: obfuscation is not a substitute for proper server-side security.)
> At some point, the collective tech community needs to develop a serious alternative to the current reality of a single corporation controlling the overwhelming majority of [...]

I think we all can agree on this.

The question, however, is: What is gonna pay for it? Especially the transmission of videos is very expensive. And while I would believe, that a lot of nerds would sacrifice resources to keep a P2P form of a specialized content distribution network running, it would not reach more than a few: the nerds themselves.
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I agree it's optimistic, it assumes no second wave which is actually already happening and is sure to happen elsewhere in the world too.
I'm in the same position and I agree.

The rule makes sense and is there to prevent an exploit on using student visas to move to the US.

However, enforcing it during a pandemic is cruel and really reinforces how Trump and his administration are aggressive towards international people - even if we are coming to elite schools and would bring value to the US economy.
Our Habits feature has some similarities to Goals for sure. There are two big differences:

1) We purposely flip the free/busy time back and forth depending on your agenda and habit policy, without your intervention. With goals, it shifts, but it still appears as a busy block (unless you changed it by hand to free), which isn't quite accurate since it can move. Our approach is good for managers who want to be more available for their team.

2) Habits offers a lot more flexible in terms of defining schedule (days of week, min/max duration, defense strategy, etc). It also has some nice integrations with Slack that give you more control in fine-tuning your schedule each day.
i appreciate your concern :) but honestly, is that a practical problem, or a theoretical one? the end result was fine to watch in our case. (and upload itself wasn't of great quality anyway)
It’s a good question.

Maybe a Dem POTUS rallying against cops as they try to stop protestors from confiscating and destroying various means of production?
To continue, when they actually address the privacy and security implications of the design, they call out the possibility of a replay attack "when an outsider intercepts a communication and fraudulently delays or resends it...there is no known significant mitigation for replay attacks and yet they are not identified in the DPIA."

Firstly, surely there's a known mitigation here - replay attacks involving a delay can be mitigated by including a cryptographically signed timestamp in your beacon messages. Secondly, the damage from an attacker sending false negatives and false positives seems small compared to the privacy implications of deanonymization attacks (e.g. attacker listens for the beacons in several buses, offices or shopping centres, later identifies which ones were reported covid-positive, groups those into clusters each likely associated with an individual, and cross-references the location data with identifying data from another source). Why call out one but not the other?
An example of this: When I was in my last year of secondary school a few years ago my physics teacher was explaining how she was completely dumbfounded that a little 13 year old just picked up a microphone (Doppler effect demo) and belted out an almost completely random pop song from the 80s? I explained the meme but it's still bizarre how people who would otherwise have no idea who Rick Astley is know all the words to the song.

It's also a great song, so I honestly enjoy being rickrolled for the most part.
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Same here. And I don't even care that much if you wash your hands, as long as you wear a mask in all indoor places that are not your home.
> world felons deserve redemption

What do you see in the world that leads you to this?

Edit: I mean, I think they definitely deserve redemption. I don't society doing a good job of realizing this. If you're convinced otherwise, I'd like to be presented with the ideas / experiences that convinced you, so that they have the opportunity to change my mind, as well.

> you simply can't speak on certain topics

You know... that's actually correct, I think, and actually... it's reasonable. What business is it of mine to tell you what your life was like, or who you are, or who you should be? These are things I should shut up and listen about, instead of saying anything at all.
This is surely getting out of hand, we need to go back to the days of competition. Google controls everything!
this is my major complaint with interviewing "it's so easy, you just have to study it"
Do you happen to have a list you can share?
As far as I understand, the original purpose of the rule is to prevent people from entering the US with a student visa without actually studying on site. It doesn't make sense in the context of Covid for people who are already living and studying in the US. They didn't choose an online course, why should they have to leave the country? It doesn't help anybody, it only causes unnecessary harm. I have several friends who currently do their PhDs in the US. They are not amused.
All of those students who came to the US to try to get an education will remember this for the rest of their lives. When all of those future scientists, business leaders, journalists, politicians, artists, and so on think about the US, they will think back to how the US treated them at a time of global crisis.
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Yes, this is it, thank you for providing the source, it was an interesting read.
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All open source designs qualify, doesn't mean they get selected :/ If you look at the slides, they say that each run will be 40 designs, and they'll do one run this year and multiple next. Criteria for how they'll choose if there are more than 40 applicants TBD.
Tracking should be set and respected at the browser level. Consent forms on every single website we visit is absurd.
How does the PDK limit it to digital? Unless they are limiting you logic cells and not allowing scaled transistors.
Hey! Disclaimer - I'm one of the DVC maintainers :) Super excited for the team on this release!

For the last two years we have seen over and over again how our users take DVC and use it inside Gitlab, Github, etc. This product was born partially as a result of these discussions, partially as an initial visions for the ML tools ecosystem - Hashicorp-like.

Having A software engineering background I really hope that integrating ML workflow into engineering tools will be the future of this space. And with CML and other tools (e.g. https://github.blog/2020-06-17-using-github-actions-for-mlop...) we see this happening.
I was a "mentally gifted minor" as of the 5th grade in California. This seemed mainly to be about the schools receiving additional funding for each such student.

The high school I attended let us vote on how the funds were spent, and we voted to purchase musical instruments (which anyone in the school could use). We also hired a Mandarin tutor for one quarter, which was decades ahead. I don't remember any Mandarin except for one phrase, which translated to 'I am reading a book.'
But despite not using it every day, you'd probably be able to refresh on it pretty quickly.

I've found that to be the real value for a lot of the courses I took. Sure, I don't actively remember the content or use it daily, but occasionally something reminds me of something I learned. Then, it's a quick wiki page away from me understanding and using it. Contrast that with some devs I've worked with who haven't seen such things before and end up reinventing a less elegant solution to the problem.
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Well said. How different is that from Obama's ill-fated TIPP? It could at least have been a starting point for a greater alliance.
No, I don't use RSS feeds. I extract news links from the home page and sitemaps mainly. Most of the news articles have a news schema embedded within them. You can check info about it at schema.org. This is a piece of JSON which contains the description of the article, usually title, publish date, description & image links.
> I think that the author is exhorting the reader to learn Latin rather than Basic, and more generally to learn the classics rather than modern mathematics. For what it's worth, I think we need to study both;

Agreed.

Thanks for pointing to Cicero as one of the Classics. I know this but completely glossed over the connection, too busy thinking about the then-nascent software industry.
Nobody is owed a college admission.

Nobody is universally "owed" anything but we do a lot of good and prudent things anyway because it's entirely within our capacity to execute good and prudent acts and we're sometimes better off for it. And yes we sometimes do bad and despicable things because sometimes impulse overrides reason, but that too is in our capacity to put a handle on and reign in, so we do, or at least we ought to.

So maybe there's a better way to articulate this dichotomy than the lazy argument of "You're not owed $thing"-which doesn't solve anything for anyone except the speaker's own ego.
Moreover, some classes use online services like GDocs. GDocs aren't accessible from certain countries.
The alternative seems like a strange land where we imprison waste management workers for their pension funds being invested in companies they have literally have no control over and no ability to discover the behavior of.

Or should we restrict the stock market only to the rich and powerful?
The Effective Engineer by Edmond Lau[1] is a great book that walks through how to have the most impact at various levels of an organization (roughly: IC, tech lead, manager). I've found the approaches & mindset it outlines to be incredibly helpful, and I wish I'd come across it earlier.

[1] https://www.effectiveengineer.com/book
8.3% cause everything is fine and Covid will be gone next week... right?
It is definitely true that an enormous part of YouTube's value is its ubiquity and the discoverability of content there. Absolutely. But the immense technical and financial challenges are a huge part of why it's such a Herculean task to build an alternative and survive long enough to provide value.
Except they haven't, mostly internalized (sometimes stolen) and formalized achievements of free risk takers, who don't bother writing textbooks.
> The effect would be these students would not opt for these courses. For majority of these students the main attraction is employment in USA, for a small subset experiencing American culture. In absence of both of these there is no reason for students to take online courses from American Universities.

Keep in mind that this is expected for 1 of at least 4 years of undergraduate, or 1 of 2-5 years of graduate, education. Someone's still going to have plenty of time living in the US and interacting with potential future US colleagues.

(I'm accepting at face value your assertion that signalling provided by a degree from a US institution has ~no value. I don't think that's the case, but my comment above makes that question close to moot.)
I don't think this is a "funny haha gotcha conservatives" prank. This a real propaganda/fake news effort by a foreign power to subvert US journalism. It could happen to anyone. Is there really a need to make this partisan by dunking on the Right-Wing for falling victim to it?
Would you at least entertain the possibility that one of the sides could, at the moment, be a bit worse than the other?
When I was still a new dev, I had a "superboss" in another city (HQ) managing teams across the country including our little dev team. I was new and did not interact with "superboss"-es from HQ directly.

One day after a major release stuff broke in production. The company was losing customers daily. The "superboss"-es from HQ descended on our little dev team in a small midwestern city and ordered "Code Red".

What it meant to me as a new dev was that I can't go home and the whole team had to stay in the office until the problem was solved... A part of the team had to sleep in the office for a few weeks. (I still don't know if this is against OSHA.)

Many years later while I was watching the movie "A Few Good Men.", I learnt that "Code Red" was a military term. Suddenly, it dawned on me that my "superboss" was also an ex-military person.

Sleeping at work did not fix the issue, after many months of hiring help and bringing in more hands the outage was brought under control.

Did the ex-military "superboss" help the situation? I don't know...

Now I know that Military veterans in their enthusiasm to find work in civilian environments tout their ex-military skills as team building or leadership skills.

Skills learned in the military are for war, learned for conflict situations and applying them to civilian environments and bringing a war mentality or attitude to a workplace is toxic.

I don't have an answer to what makes a good technical leader but I know from experience that ex-military style leadership only adds to the toxicity of a workplace.
Some bright spots I've noticed in the past month or so in this area, for those who care both about justice and open debate:

- John Carmack signal boosting[1] Sarah Downey's article "This PC witch-hunt is killing free speech, and we have to fight it"[2]

- The critical comments on the obligatory "BLM" post in r/askscience[3]

- Glenn Loury's response[4] to Brown University's letter to faculty/alumni about racial justice.

- The failure[5] of a group of folks to cancel Steven Pinker over accusations of racial insensitivity.

[1] https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1279105937404579841

[2] https://medium.com/@sarahadowney/this-politically-correct-wi...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/gvc7k9/black_li...

[4] https://www.city-journal.org/brown-university-letter-racism

[5] https://mobile.twitter.com/sapinker/status/12799365902367907...
The university i'm associated with, because of the pandemic, not only all the international students are having online classes, but the international grad students teaching the classes are giving them online too.

And all those grad students on a teaching scholarship were told to remain in the US because their scholarship is tied to being residents of the State for some tax reason or another for the institution.

fun times.
Not if the person requesting the videos be scraped is the person responsible for making the videos in the first place. If I decide to move my own channel's videos off YouTube, YouTube doesn't exactly have the right to argue otherwise.

And even if the new site/service doesn't get permission, YouTube generally doesn't come into the picture. It'd be a copyright issue between the service/person using it and the channel creator.
It's disappointing that, while they name DJT and the "radical right", they don't explicitly call out the "radical left" (it's assumed within the article, but it would be nice to call it out).

One of my favorite internet apologists has a saying that people who don't have good arguments have to resort to bad tactics, and for many people that I've had conversations with (especially among the left, but also among the right) this has often been very, very true.

While I don't support BLM/M4BL (the hashtag, not the sentence), I do think that several valid points have come up. And even though I disagree on their conclusions and sometimes their methods, it has at least caused me to think critically about how I understand the situation and what should be done about it.

I hope that the future can continue to be a place where we don't think of ideas as either "safe" or "unsafe". Any view we come across that challenges us can frighten/scare us away. Maybe it causes us to change our views, maybe it doesn't, but the introspection is valuable. I feel that's what a lot of people who want to silence debate are missing. Perhaps they don't want the introspection. Maybe they just want an echo chamber.

Regardless, let's fight for a world where ideas aren't crimes, and that people are strong/wise enough to debate and engage them in a way that makes everyone better.
Haha, indeed. Blocking right click is so silly. It doesn’t really prevent a sufficiently motivated user, it’s just annoying.

Although if you’re talking about printing photos, you would need a very high resolution monitor to capture a decent quality photo using the print screen function. Doesn’t seem viable to use print screen in order to save a photo you intend to print, especially in the 90s when screens were rarely better than 1024x768.

Obviously there are better ways to save the high-quality original images, but I’m not sure I would really worry about print screen.
This. I've learned to never even look for anything in Google's store, unless someone has recommended a specific app to me.

If I can't find something ni F-Droid, then I search Google for e.g. "insect id app android site:reddit.com" and read all the comments, and then and only then do I risk installing something.

Based on my experience, I would estimate that more than 99% of apps in the official app store are malware of some kind.
Interesting. This also led me to Zotfile.
To be fair to chrome it's actually incredibly easy to clear cookies and to specifically block them.

Just click the lock next to the url in the url bar.
Sounds like tvlinks with links to megavideo and friends
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Even worse is that for GCE, A was for AMD originally (and N was for iNtel). In any case, this A is for Accelerator.
I've only had a very slight dip into the water of the GPGPU world in the past 5 years, but it is obvious that Nvidia have the lion's share of the market when it comes to hosted solutions.

Still not sure why competitors don't have their GPU's offered in cloud services. At the time, it seemed the alternatives offered a more economical alternative. I was building a GPU version of Hashcash at the time fwiw.
Right now, most places are dragging their feet, because there is at least plausible uncertainty. They're waiting for enforcement actions to see what the limits really are, and then they'll likely comply (or cut off access to EU ips, which doesn't strictly comply, but is more effective than asking people if they are EU persons and then denying service)
I'm not familiar with German law. Is this kind of censorship and attack on the press normal or legal there?
Ask HN: Recommendations for Learning TCP/IP?
The most impotant part of studying is often the interaction with peers (IMO). This is very hard to replicate digitally.
I've had jobs ranging from solo founder (2x) to co-founder of a 4 person startup (this one!) to SVP of Product Management of a mid-sized publicly traded company. In all cases: you're absolutely right that managing my time was key to my success -- and often a cause of my failures when I didn't do it.

That said: I think your framing of our product and the intent behind it is wrong. We aren't trying to take over the job of how you strategically manage your time. We're doing jobs that are otherwise tedious so that you get better control of your time.

If you prefer doing the job by hand, then we're of course not the tool for you. But I can assure you our users don't view Reclaim as some opportunity to give up on being strategic or thoughtful with their time.
It's interesting to note that as of the time of me writing this comment, over half of the comments on this thread have been down-voted.