skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Normally one of the possibilities of regulatory oversight is that you go into a meeting hoping your drug is approved, but the regulators are concerned about X. "Go away and check X" says the regulator, "this isn't a No, but it also isn't a Yes, we want to understand X before we decide". Maybe it'll take 12-18 months to set up and run experiments to answer X.

Regulators can decide they're uneasy about potential for birth defects, or side effects with particular other drugs you never tested, or any number of issues. Sometimes a pharmaceutical company just hoped not to be asked, and other times the concern comes out of the blue.

But if we're fast-tracking approval, anything that isn't a red flag won't get in the way. That unavoidably means higher risk to patients overall. Since the virus kills a lot of people every day everywhere it hasn't been eliminated it makes sense to take that risk, but governments (accountable to their citizens) get to decide that, not drug companies.
In Stockholm about 20% of the population now have antibodies, despite a lot social distancing. We have plenty of hospital beds ready in the event the number of people with respiratory problems would rise. No one is using face masks and the official consensus is that it doesn't provide enough contamination protection to be currently worthwhile. We keep our gatherings small and avoid crowds or close interactions where possible. Our authorities in control of elderly homes really did screw up in the early parts of the outbreak though, and a lot of elderly people lost their lives because of that. But overall things are moving toward a more normal society each day. I'm far removed from the belief that we need a rushed vaccine to cope with this pandemic. I can't speak for other countries and their strategies though but this is a local correspondence from the ground sort of speak.
This twitter account is well aligned to this sentiment, proof included: https://twitter.com/internetofshit
Life is short, make sure to leave room to enjoy it.
I hadn't heard of invidious before, and it's not clear what it is when visiting Invidio.us. so for others that are curious:

https://github.com/iv-org/invidious

> Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube
It's a very different matter when a government acts within the bounds of its authority. In the case of the congressional hearings, that is well within their bounds, and antitrust law is established law. This is a president asserting executive authority in a way without precedent as far as I know.
I can't answer that until tomorrow (vacation). We try to reduce bias from competing causes of death by using the Pohar Perme method [0].

Though I now wonder if there is a larger difference for prostate cancer than other cancer types. It's commonly believed by cancer researchers that, if they autopsied everyone, they would find a prostate tumor in most men over 65.

[0] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1541-0420.2011...
"Despite the minimalist appearance"

As time goes on, a site remaining minimalist like this is a good indicator of value. I'll never understand the desire to move away from high density UX like this to the modern web junk UX that looks more appealing but makes everything more convoluted.
Not only that, but when some terminal program decides to spew a bunch of output again and you don't want to interrupt it, you're going to have to wait until it's finished before you regain control.

No one wants to waste their time waiting for something that could be done already.

So faster terminal output can make a real, useful difference in everyday use.
I just don't think you're correct. I think that idea is why we have companies on their third rewrites and most codebases look like sphagetti with performance issues abound. I think many domains are much more demanding but the people working on them don't know any better to avoid the pitfalls.
I have spent a LOT of time researching using a small window AC unit converted to work in a camper van without cutting a giant hole in a wall. There's a fellow on Youtube[1] that did this successfully, and he's the only known example of it that I've seen, and he was only able to because was he a professional HVAC technician and had several unique tools you'd never own if you weren't an HVAC tech.

Essentially what I'm aiming for is this: https://www.cruisencomfortusa.com/hd-series

which is a perfect product, except that it costs $4000 and still uses 20% more power than some of the smallest window units. It's ridiculous that the major difference between this $4000 unit and a $150 window AC is that the $4k version has a rubber hose connecting the compressor to the condenser coils instead of the typical thin copper pipe. I am sure there are other differences - it uses better components that are more suited to a moving vehicle with shocks and vibrations, has a strong compressor to deal with the longer hose length, and is already adapted to run off of 12V. But a $3850 price difference is ridiculous.

As the fellow on Youtube has shown (it's been in his camper van for years without a problem) there's really no reason the components from a $150 window unit won't work.

Whenever I finally do a camper van build I'm going to find an HVAC tech who can help me with a couple steps (mostly removing and then re-adding refrigerant) and convert the copper pipes to PTFE lined stainless braided hoses attached to SAE fittings. It may not work, and I've heard finding an HVAC tech to work on weird projects is very difficult, but I want to give it a try.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXgHIrFqm9o
Haha it's quite hilarious. GP's long rant is premised on the idea that Go is 'decentralized' because of where packages are allowed to be resolved from.

I love it when backend engineers raise arguments from sheer ignorance of how modern frontend engineering functions.
Don't have to, but unless the policy is seperate the people and the party and win over the people.

https://www.state.gov/communist-china-and-the-free-worlds-fu...

>He was a brilliant student of China, a fierce cold warrior, and a tremendous admirer of the Chinese people, just as I think we all are.

>We must also engage and empower the Chinese people – a dynamic, freedom-loving people who are completely distinct from the Chinese Communist Party.

>So to somehow think that we ought to ignore the voices of the people of China seems to me the wrong approach... But it seems to me we would dishonor ourselves and the people of China if we ignored them.
I completely agree with you. That was the main purpose of my question, without so many words.
The issue seems to be scale. Governments aren't willing to take on large scale projects, because they're hard and long. They want to do (new) things that are easy with a short term return on investment.

Thinking about it, it feels a bit like a modern company. Instead of managers wanting to show that they did something good to get a raise, instead we have politicians that try to show that they did something good to get reelected.
I was wondering about this, too. An attacker who can run arbitrary code in your JavaScript environment can overwrite properties on base object types. But they have to be able to run arbitrary code already to do this. Running untrusted code is always a problem, in any language or environment, so I guess this would just be a way to take advantage of it. But you already assume the browser client is potentially compromised, since you never know what the user will do with it. And if you have an attacker running their own code in your server process, you're already hosed. So I'm not sure why this more of a big deal.
South Korea is part of that cadre of countries that’s beyond allies to the USA - Israel, Canada, etc. they certainly care about military relations.

There’s a few American troops on the SK/NK border, too.
This is an unfortunate consequence of an increasingly diverse and multicultural society. Multiculturalism decreases trust in a community and as such corrodes social capital.
Go was principally made by 3 people, whose resumes basically justified being allowed to work at their discretion (this last bit is conjecture, but I would be surprised to be proven wrong). If Ken Thompson has a manager at Google that has any influence whatsoever on Ken's work, then Google's culture is more broken than I thought. The rest of Google is over 100,000 engineers who have managers, team leads, and much more rigid policies and workflows than I imagine the Go designers were ever subjected to during the development of Go. This is the engineering ethos to which I refer, not the system to which the Go designers where subject.

So: Google gave a chair and a desk to a few talented people who applied experience and influences from entirely outside of Google to designing a programming language. In my book, Google doesn't get credit for that, and their engineering culture definitely doesn't get credit for that - it was barely involved, if at all.
I think there are a lot of other issues with that and don't think your experiences reflect the norm, or at the least they certainly run counter to mine so far.
Court documents reveal secretive federal unit deployed in Oregon
It's not just dirt and rain. Inexperienced bicyclists have a very real chance of getting hit by a car. I'd pay $500 on my worst financial day to avoid that.
I don't think programming for satelites / kernel is more demanding than modern frontend, for example the Linux kernel did not change that much in the last 15 years, it's pretty much the same old C with the same tools.

On paper it looks cool and complicated, in reality it's not that hard. Lot of fields in CS don't move that much especially things based on C / asm, kernel, embeded ect ...
Wrong, Facebook was blocked in China following the July 2009 Ürümqi riots because Facebook refused to release information about Xinjiang independence activists.

In March 2009, China blocked access to Google's YouTube due to footage showing Chinese security forces beating Tibetans. Access to other Google online services was denied to users arbitrarily.

The search engine remained operational under the condition that the government could filter the search results. In January 2010, Google announced that, in response to a Chinese-originated hacking attack on them and other US tech companies, they were no longer willing to censor searches in China and would pull out of the country completely.

Also, the government didn't "block" Dragonfly. Google terminated the project after its own employees protested it and politicians criticized it.

(All the above from Wikipedia either as direct quotes or paraphrased for brevity.)
Reminds me of the half bakery. That was a fun site. https://www.halfbakery.com
Concretely, at least on Node:

const myData = {};
myData[rawUserInput()].key = value;

This is vulnerable if rawUserInput() returns `__proto__`: `key` on the prototype may be set to value if `myData` had `__proto__` set. If the hacker controls `key` and `value` then they can effectively modify `key` field on all objects.

https://github.com/HoLyVieR/prototype-pollution-nsec18/blob/...

A common way is as described by that paper ^

Recursive merge functions, unless if they check for this vulnerability, are often susceptible, since JSON.parse defines __proto__ on its return values.
Stockholm as less than 1 million people, is not smart to compare it with anything bigger I think.
Why doesn't TikTok just move out of the US completely? As far as I know, Trump does not have the authority to block foreign websites that he doesn't agree with (for example, the webpages of foreign terrorist groups or criminal organizations are easily accessible). The whole authority for Trump to block this is that ByteDance (a Chinese firm) is investing in TikTok (a US company). If TikTok was run abroad, and had no presence in the US there is nothing Trump can do, and US customers could still use the site.
Don't anymore since Huawei and COVID-19, it has always been a minority and got smaller.
> Once you’re settled in, 95% of programming isn’t hard. It doesn’t involve algorithms, hard design problems, performance or storage constraints.

It sounds like OP thinks the hard parts are algorithm design and architecture. I wouldn't even really consider those programming. They're things you need to do before you can start programming.
It's a=just a standard welt pocket on an angle. Find a welt pocket tutorial you like and follow it, but on the outseam :)

The only trick is that the inseam has to be open when you add the pocket to the outseam.

I haven't made a paper pattern of it, yet, because I've cut it differently each time. When I settle on a design I will make myself a pattern -- but it'll be pretty specific to me.
> 5% or less of programming is hard: it’s the stuff that interview questions refer to. You might need to think about algorithms, might need to try out multiple strategies before deciding on the one.

The author is correct that most programs don't need complex or clever leetcode type algorithms, but IMO program architecture is just as difficult to get right for any program longer than a thousand lines.
> because window units don't fit in sliding windows

Also, don't forget the ever-popular "apartment building doesn't allow anything protruding from the windows" rule.
> Not to mention they have literal concentration camps where they are harvesting organs, hair, using them as slave labor and stealing their possessions.

If you dig into this deeper, this is literally fake news. The sources for these claims are either the World Uighur Congress, a NED funded organization, or Adrian Zenz, a Christian fundamentalist who believes in the rapture, is Anti-LGBT, and praised the Nazis.

If you are so inclined, you can actually visit Xinjiang yourself and ask Uighurs there about the situation. China has been actively been encouraging foreign inspectors to visit Xinjiang to see the situation.

Given that America was wrong (or blatantly lied) about WMDs, Iraqis stealing incubators, Iraqis murdering babies in Kuwait, and is a geopolitical rival to China, Im doubtful about some of these claims.
> No-one argues that the US has an unregulated free market and no-one respectable argues that it should.

No, but plenty of people vacuously and consistently argue that regulations should be eliminated because "free-market". And have no issue with most companies eliminating competition through any means other than producing a better product.

Taking an example people agree with. Apple should open up it's phone platform to other stores. If they're concerned about security, they can still be the final arbiters of what apps can ship. Ie they approve apps for all stores. However, each store can have it's own experience and crucially it's own cut of apps sold. Let's see how many consumers feel there is enough value in apple store to pay a 30% premium on apps they buy. More rent seeking.

But that's one of the few cases HN actually agrees with. the 1000s of others out there, people don't blink an eye.
Ignoring the conflict of interest between social media and traditional media is not wise.

What does Theranos have to do with this? The Wall Street Journal isn't competing with Theranos in the blood testing space. There's no conflict of interest in its reporting on Theranos from the perspective of the journalists. Carreyrou doesn't care about Ruper Murdoch's stock portfolio.

But they definitely are competing with Facebook, YouTube, etc. for viewers. Journalists know that time spent watching YouTube or reading Reddit means less opportunity for their own pieces to get attention. And their coverage of said platforms and people on those platforms in the past has often ranged from intellectually dishonest to outright dishonest. It's extremely hard to think that this conflict of interest isn't affecting their reporting.
When I read what you wrote it seems like the opposite is true. When programming isn't hard it is done right. Using higher level abstractions is not "golden bullet". If it is easier to have repetition and it easier to do find and replace and maintain and change code, why even make an abstraction?

Just like true developers write all their code in notepad and real developers etch bits on disk with magnetic needles.
What percentage of the population is even intellectually/psychologically capable of programming at a professional level? My guess is significantly less than half. That's not a we're smart and they're not. There's many jobs I'm psychologically ill-equipped to perform. For programming to be easy you have to have just the right amount of autistic/systemizing brain type, which appears to be significantly genetic. Everything in programming is abstract, so you have to be able to hold very large completely abstract systems in your brain. That's a different skill/aptitude than, for example, holding all the working parts of an internal combustion engine in your mind.

Programming is "easy" for only a tiny percentage of the population. That's just regular programming problems, not particularly difficult concepts/tasks I see many posts referring to.
> If anything, this would prove the CCP was always right when it applied such measures in the past.

It does no such thing. China was given market access under the precise promise of the Chinese would likewise open their own markets. They did not do that. Then they explicitly started banning American companies, conducting unfair trade practices, and more. All we're seeing now is a long await readjustment to reciprocity. Your logic is bizarre. If two parties were in a Mexican stand off, and both agreed to put down their guns only for one to not actually put them down, then the other party that put their gun down can pick it back up just fine. That other party IS better than it's rival because it acted in good faith, and it was it's rival who was deceitful.
This needs either a (2013) or (1973) tag in the title. It's a good video and worth watching like many other Bret Victor videos.
On the other hand, I like his long-form video entertainment. I'll eat lunch while watching one maybe. Not everything needs to be optimized into bulletpoints.
It was pretty jarring. You’re reading along, fascinated if you’re me, then jarringly reminded of the fact that this was a human being, not a Petri dish. Empathy’s gotta be one of the most important skills for an experimental social psychologist.
I tried to look for something equivalent for those in-wall space heater units. They run on a different voltage, because of course they do.

I think the boxes were like $40, but they looked like electrical junction boxes. Clearly meant to be buried in a wall cavity.
As a former HVAC tech assistant, I can say that you'll easily find a tech to help you out if you pay them enough.

That said, refrigerant removal and reinsertion is regulated now and it's somewhat of a pain to do properly even with the right equipment.
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How to harvest credit card numbers and passwords from lots of web sites
Not sure if you've been following the vacation rental market, but it's exploding right now. At least that's the case in the northwest.
Absolutely, this is one of the reasons that environment variables are a nightmare to work with
Not sure if this was added before or after your comments, but at the time I'm looking, the last scene sentence in the second to last paragraph of the intro is "The case was ultimately decided against Robinson after the court ruled that the clause invalidating future wills and Sylvia's signature to it were forgeries"
> a year-long project, including HOA negotiations, architectural design, electrical load calculations, city permits, and invasive construction

Obviously only you know your situation, but just in case any other readers are considering a mini-split: it doesn't have to be this way and it typically isn't.

From firsthand experience installing Mitsubishi mini-splits in multi-unit buildings in very regulated cities, a typical condo installation takes 2 days, including running power from an electrical panel that's not in the unit. A reasonable HOA can often answer in a week or two unless you're the first person to install a mini-split in the building. Larger buildings often recommend specific HVAC contractors. Your contractor will apply for HVAC and/or electrical permits online with very basic drawings; they're often issued immediately ("over-the-counter"), subject to field inspection. There's generally one inspection after it's installed. A good contractor will handle almost all of this.

Basically, it can be complicated but it doesn't need to take a ton of calendar time. Other than cost and needing outdoor space for the condenser, the hardest challenges you & your contractor will encounter are running new electrical circuits from the panel and draining condensate from the indoor head.
Netflix ($5 through T-mobile), R#, Hulu Live Tv (mostly for my wife), Disney+ (for my son), Amazon Prime and BackBlaze.

I get free
Typically years. We had a program for a drug that caused bladder cancer in rats. The original mfr had spent a couple of years figuring out that it was specific to rats.

I think the current stats are that the average drug time to approval is 14 years.
I was in Singapore for 10 days and don't recall seeing any homeless people.

Then again as an American who's lived in cities like NYC/SF, no other first world country even comes close to the amount of homelessness we have in the U.S.
> So people like Jim Simons are merely the luckiest people alive?

No one reasonable, not even Fama and French who came up with the Efficient Market Hypothesis, claim that the market is 100% efficient.

And given that no one knows anything about Jim Simon's Medallion Fund, we actually have no idea how successful they are. But given the quantities and/or trading volumes possibly involved, they don't have to be right very often.

In a perfectly efficient market, it's 50/50 whether you'll get the better end of the deal. Now think of a casino: for many games the house's edge is only 1.5% (e.g. blackjack, baccarat, three-card poker).

* https://www.gambling.com/ca/online-casinos/strategy/10-casin...

* https://wizardofodds.com/gambling/house-edge/

But that's still enough for a casino to make make money.

It may be the Simons et co have just an edge of a few percent points, but they make up their profit on volume.

> But the idea that no one is winning at this game flies in the face of a lot of evidence.

There are plenty of people that are winning. It's just the people that win one year rarely win a few years in a row (never mind 10+):

* https://www.tma-invest.com/spiva-data-reveals-15-years-of-ac...

* https://dividendstrategy.ca/what-is-spiva/
rmlint[1] works extremely well for duplicated files (including photos)

[1] https://github.com/sahib/rmlint
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