skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no "twist". There was a claim that Rust does tracing at compile time; it does not. It's allocation patterns and costs are similar to all other low-level languages. The cost and benefits of such languages are well known.
Bit much to have to hack around on a website to give that website your money.
> Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine's Abstractions blog.

The original article was upvoted and discussed last week, 244 points | 96 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23998793
Try searching "LaTeΧ".

(That's a "Chi" not an "Ex")
In Finland we put Vitamin D in milk that’s sold on normal shops. And taking a supplement is heavily recommended.

Though this is mostly because for 6 months of a year one simply cannot get it the natural way (too cold and sun is too low). And thanks to this we don’t have much deficiency, long time ago we used to have.

Not saying it means it would help with covid. But the supplements definitely help with deficiency in a way that does cure/prevent rickets.
Integrate ublock origin then? Why offer an inferior solution?
Perks of Being a Solopreneur – Some of us don't want to build an empire
Yes, that change came down pretty quick with Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities after the Federal requirements changed. My wife was working from home telehealth for the first time ever for months. Her agency has since shifted back into the clinical environment. But telehealth in this setting went from not allowed for counselors to done for safety of clients and staff.

Private practice may be somewhat different in that State and Federal insurance rules are not at play for private pay, but most sensible counselors will not want to risk their license. You don't have to be prosecuted criminally to lose your ability to practice.
Unfortunately CookieBro is not open-source it seems.
Facebook, and the rest of the FAANG companies, aren't going anywhere. They have too much money and too little oversight. No one stands up to them when they buy out their competitors. We're in the 2nd Gilded Age, and I don't think this one is going to end with the government stepping up to the plate to do something about it like they did 100+ years ago.
There is no public advertising done to the patients. But there is lobbying done to doctors that are the ones that decide what to give to their patients.
Also, if you're interested in that sort of thing, the book "From Dits to Bits" by Herman Lukoff is a good read from an engineer in the trenches. Seems that it's now available on the Internet Archive: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL4436586M/From_dits_to_bits
https://hcqtrial.com/

"...an extensive discussion of the differences between the death rates of New York City and Lagos, Nigeria, which both received infected travelers around the same time. NYC's high rate has been linked to population density, poverty, overcrowding, and ethnicity. Lagos is a crowded urban center of about 22 million people with 30 families often in a single building sharing the same bathroom, and none of the factors mentioned favor reduced death rates in Lagos. Lagos further has lower quality of medical care. Yet NYC had a death rate 600 times higher. The younger population can only account for a small part of this difference. Mitchell concludes that there is a crossover prophylactic effect of antimalarial agents against COVID-19."
It’s the classic war of eternity.

But seriously, marketing is about using the exact right words, and this seemed sloppy.

Still, excited about the new site.
... the power plant is designed to produce electricity, not to produce heat. If it was designed to produce heat then it wouldn't need the turbines.

The heat is waste. For the same power generation, you want to minimize the amount of waste heat as much as possible.
Isaac Newton's 1st Law Mapped to Behavior Change
It's not that safe, not like vitamin C safe. Especially not in doses sold in pills in pharmacies around the world.
Keep in mind that they aren't saying that their data doesn't say that people not given vitamin D supplements were 10x more likely to die. Instead that people coming in with a deficiency already were 10x more likely to die. Imagine if you had two groups. Group A runs for 1 hour a day outside. The group B is confined to their beds in a nursing home.

Group B is going to have a vitamin D deficiency compared to group A. Group A is also much more likely to survive Covid. However, this wouldn't give you any evidence that vitamin D is the cause of better survival rates. You should assume that it might just be an indicator of better health over all unless you can find some way to control for all the other health factors.
An Engineer, His Segway, and the ADA: A Tale of the Open Road
I presume the information is disseminated to medical professionals (presumably by official means and not from advertisements) and then the medical professionals determine if the new products or services are appropriate for you.

It’s like my non-technical boss coming into the office and telling me that we should start using technology X that he saw in an advertisement. Typically, with my boss, he sees something at a trade show or a trade magazine or in an email, and becomes convinced that it is the best thing ever for us and will solve all of our problems. Then we have to put forth a lot of effort convincing him that he is wrong (he has never brought us anything remotely useful) without making him feel dumb.

How about he lets us technical people recommend to him the appropriate technologies instead of the other way around?
I'm sure when you factor in mobile, Bing and Yahoo are nowhere near that high.
What is a corporation but a union of capitalists? Why must only the owners be allowed to unite for better outcomes?
Why Chainlink is booming. [DE]
Now that is a very well thought-out post about the whole ordeal. I don't know why, but from what I've read here and in other sites, people tend to veer off to the extremes when discussing anything these days. This issue being no exception. So it's good to read something that does not attempt to play with your emotions or treat things as black and white.

But yeah, the situation is sad to say at least. I wholly understand US blocking Chinese social media company to reciprocate how China (and others) have done in their markets. Yet the current US administration has not necessarily framed it in such light, rather just claimed ambiguous spying claims which are a bit of blanket statement.

Is it actually the case here or is it just a distraction or a negotiation tactic, hard to say. Certainly democratic countries should not stand idle when authoritarian governments attempt to extend their influence and spying capabilities especially within their own borders, even when it happens indirectly through companies. Sometimes playing nice and keeping status quo won't get you anywhere. But in this case the play seems rather dirty coming from a nation as devout of a believer in the free trade as US.

I guess at the core of this whole matter, is the imbalance in how the profits from internet, possibly the greatest invention since electricity and combustion engine, are distributed to the world. The way it's happening now shares some similarities to the imperialism age, where there were those who only produced goods (now consumers of internet services) to the richer countries without getting much in return. Similarly Google and Facebook might control the whole search and social media market in a country with local competitors having no chance of competing, without paying any taxes on the profits or contributing employment.

So by not wanting to become just another colony of the foreign technology companies, I guess authoritarian government can exploit that to legitimize their banning of Google and Facebook to help establish their own. But which in reality serves a bigger purpose as part of their security apparatus to spy and censorship their own people.

Of course I'm now completely omitting the angle that Google and Facebook could also be considered as part of US's spying apparatus, but I'll assume some good will here.
It is not surprising at all that Covid-19 matches what we already know about Vitamin D and Influenza. There are consequences for radically altering the environment in which humans evolved. We were nude outdoors and now we are clothed and indoors. When we do briefly go outside, we are all conditioned to slather on sunscreen, which blocks all Vitamin D generation.

Why do people tend to get sick in the wintertime and not the summer?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16959053/
Because I now have to choose between working extra hours to pay child support or going to prison
This is the laptop I have been using for 5 years now. As a web developer it is amazing that this 5year old mini laptop can drive a 4K screen through usb-c but driving too many stuff at once does slow it down a lot.
Thinking about switching to the new iMac right now.
> Hanford was for nuclear production, not power generation, and was created during the early days of nuclear weapons research.

I'm not saying that Hanford has the same risk profile as Naval reactors, I’m saying that it demonstrates that the US government has a propensity for covering up nuclear incidents that it can get away with covering up (note that it also acknowledged other incidents at Hanford in the decades it was concealing many of them), so the fact that it hasn't acknowledged any related to naval power generation since a bunch in the 1970s is absence of evidence of such incidents, but not reliable evidence of absence of such incidents.
https://mobile.twitter.com/johnismay/status/1291007795316297... think this is what you meant
This is disgusting. Even in Ad Seg in a Texas prison, with the most violent schizophrenic inmates, you can't be handcuffed to a bed.

To treat people like this based on their ethnicity is beyond the pale.
I used Gradio[1] to wrap an interface around this model[2]. Main contribution is making run predictions in real-time.

[1]: https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio
[2]: https://github.com/trekhleb/machine-learning-experiments
If that's true, surely that's going to play havoc for the Search Console
They do require paperwork, a lot of it. One of the youtube channels I enjoy watching use every kind of demo material under the sun and they often talk about the paperwork required.
I doubt it, there were several legally usable options to allow him to control the wipers without the screen.
I stand corrected, what was dropped was LOOP and EXIT, and I somehow mixed it up.

Sorry about that.
Does being on a patent mean that the person actually worked on the engineering of the idea? or worked at all on the idea?

I'm not sure how patents work but I don't think anybody verifies the names on it or what they actually did, and I guess in a company effort it could easily be the boss ending on it too?
Punk kids and thinking they know everything.
When making a claim like that, consider supplying a source. You could look it up, and tell us exactly what you've got in mind. Or you could make every one of us look it up, and even if we found something, we'd wonder if it was the same thing that you found convincing.

You not only stated an unsupported claim, you were also willing to waste many peoples' time to avoid wasting your own.
I have 10Gbps fiber and have the same experience, although downloading from steam or whatever is nice. It's still worth a small premium for being a new uncongested fibre network that doesn't slow down at night but the overall speed doesn't make a difference for the reasons you mentioned.
adding the sandbox, csp and referrerpolicy attributes to the iframe when it gets inserted to the DOM tree allows a lot of fine-grained control. Adding sandbox without allow-same-origin puts it into a null origin which makes the iframe isolated from all other origins which is similar to an ephemeral container. It might break CORS stuff though.
I think the relationship of programmer to program is a good analogy.
I think the biggest struggle with rotation matrix isn't the theory but the nomenclature. Is it R(ZYX)?! Is it rotation axis rather than Euler angles?! All the convention differences can make signficant mistake very quickly.
The S-1 Club – Rackspace rises again
starlink/oneweb/similar constellations, assuming US folks really hate comcast as much as they say on the intertubes. these are up to 12k sats with very short (couple years?) life time, so regular flights will be necessary to keep the fleet at desired capacity. this beast can lift i-don't-even-know-how-many hundreds of birds in one go.
You do see this in embedded for several reasons, including:

- For high-volume production, reducing ROM size can have a big impact on profitability (this is less true than it was 20 years ago, but still true), so your dev boards will have large EPROMS and your production boards will have small ROMs

- Debugging tools present may allow for easier reverse-engineering of your devices

Obviously the devices go through a lot of testing in the production environment, but things like error-injection just may not exist at all, which limits how much you can test.
> a problem where there is little research and no scientific consensus.

> There is plenty of video evidence

I can't even what you talk about. "Video evidence"?

Edit: if I'd guess it's about "UFOs" for these there practically exists scientific consensus: no aliens proved, ever. "Video evidence" isn't the evidence of aliens.
A few things that I have found to help myself:

- I have stopped visiting r/all and r/popular on reddit, and instead I have curated a more niche collection of subreddits unrelated to news or politics.

- I set time limits for how much news/day and news/week I consume. These are hard limits. No "one more story", or the FOMO starts to creep in. I try to limit to no more than 3 days/week, no more than 1 hr/day.

- I have tried to curate my news sources using mediabiasfactcheck.com, choosing those with high factual reporting and low loaded-word usage.

- Friends and family have all agreed that we avoid political conversations as much as is reasonable.

- I long ago ditched /all/ social media (I guess if you consider HN, or my reddit account with 0 comments, a social media -- I have those still). But no FB, no LinkedIn, no Twitter. Those three in particular wreaked havoc on my psyche and I feel like I've truly improved my life by removing them.

Guilt is a hard emotion to deal with, and even harder to give advice about because of how differently it manifests in each person. I hope you find some things that help you cope.
"Sorry, we can't accept an email. You'll have to fax it to us. Why, you ask? Because security reasons..."
It’s not about HCQ for me, although I’m sure many are driven by the politicization if it. It’s more about freedom of speech/thought/inquiry. Shutting down all research or exploration or discussion seems like an argument to blindly trust in the status quo and in agencies that can be wrong and have been wrong. I remember seeing the same thing in earlier days of COVID, where Medium would block articles from amateurs performing their own analysis of the data and research. Many of those articles were proven over time to be more correct than what the prevailing consensus was back then.

It is important to allow speculative or early stage discussion to happen and I simply do not agree with large technology platforms exercising this degree of control over societal discourse, especially when things aren’t “settled” or fully understood.
I've noticed some sites affect scrolling somehow, either because they intercept it somehow, or you scroll over a text box or some other widget and the scrolling targets the box instead of the page.

I think if you can keep the mouse off the page and on the scrollbar at the side (I'm on mac) it scrolls more predicably.
While I think we need efficient housing designs, I don't think we need high speed rail and commuter trains in the US. As much of that functionality as possible should be replaced with internet connectivity. There is no reason to be spending enormous sums per mile when we can find ways to destroy demand for moving atoms instead of bits. The cheapest mile of high speed or commuter rails it the mile you didn't build.

Efficient homes, renewables, ubiquitous internet connectivity, and electric vehicles are going to be your targets as people spend more time at their homes and the trips they make can be electrified.

(the above comment is predicated on developing countries aging rapidly causing workers to leave the workforce, the quick uptake of remote work due to the pandemic forcing employers to learn how to support it, and data showing people fleeing cities for the suburbs and lower density living arrangements in general)
Would you classify that book as good introduction to discrete math?
To add on, one of the biggest challenges with a full flow staged combustion engine is that the exhaust gas from the oxidizer rich turbopump is almost pure gaseous oxygen at very very high temperature. This combination likes to corrode and eat away any thing, metal included.

To solve this, SpaceX had to develop special metal alloys that could withstand this incredibly corrosive environment for long durations.
arXiv also offers bulk access to the papers, you can download them via S3 'requester pays'

https://arxiv.org/help/bulk_data
Yes, the USGS filters out several types of non-seismic events from their public feeds, notably including weapons tests.
+1

Yes to CookieAutoDelete. Medium was what pushed me over the edge to start using it. Has been working very well so far.
For anybody on mobile thinking the link has redirected to the index, you need to scroll way down to read the actual article.
> That pretty much defines software engineering.
Sure, but by moving things that require discipline into type systems/tools, it makes working with others easier.

Not to mention that no matter how disciplined you are, you will make mistakes, and having the compiler catch those for you is valuable.

It also means that the discipline applied by the programmer can be focused on areas that can't be checked or enforced by a compiler.
I remember looking into this and it's a bit of a tangle. some of the oldest code in the codebase I think.
The wiper controls the land-driver? Glad they clarified it wasn't the sea-driver.

But don't worry, it's fine. It was not damaged in the crash.
The Luau FAQ[1] when they first announced the project mentions that Mike Pall post. I assume they do the computed goto trick for fast interpreter dispatch (or just have some inline assembly now).

1: https://gist.github.com/zeux/bb646a63c02ff2828117092036d2d17...
Why reward bad UX?
Just to be clear, the study that you are quoting isn't about Sars-Cov 2. This is a quote from a 2016 paper on other respiratory diseases.
As a developer of 20 years who has avoided .Net, some build instructions and/or some releases would be nice, but looks like a fun project!
And I absolutely love the extra care and attention. Dining out in other countries can be a complete hassle as you wait for the waiter to show up... whenever he feels like.
One of the last pieces of software I remember using IPX exclusively was Westwood Studios "Red Alert 2" released in 2000, along with its expansion pack released in 2001

I mainly remember as Vista dropped IPX support, rendering those games unplayable on LAN's for years until someone developed a UDP patch instead
> Their interests do not conflict with protecting their users.

Which is why they have things like telemetry, backdoors like normandy, tracking via safebrowsing, unblockable tracking via google analytics in about:addons and any mozilla pages, a great track record with pocket and the mr robot addon, tracking-related bugs which have gone ignored for years, and richly paid executives, right?
I suspect that any effect is due to moving from an icon to text. We are inundated with icons. They become hard to see. They are harder to interpret. The meaning of text is much simpler to infer, in fact, it is the main purpose of text.
Pretty good, every solution that expects discipline is a source of revenue for security consulting, code quality automation products and conferences.

The outcome of Azure Sphere having chosen C as their main SDK language is proving itself without surprises,

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/internet-of-things/az...
> Why must only the owners be allowed to unite for better outcomes?

Well, there's a reason the politico-economic system is called “capitalism” and not “laborism” or “socialism”, and it's not because it is structured for the benefit of labor or society as a whole. Such labor rights as have been established were a small but important step away from pure capitalism, and advocates of capitalism naturally want to peel them back.
Unfortunately (maybe), you will learn that users will use your platform however they want to use it, and will demand you reverse basic ideas if it starts to grow.
'I've realised my dream': Italy's oldest graduate top of the class at 96
This is kind of a deep question, and not meant to cast aspersions on what you're doing, because it's perfectly rational. The world of private doctors who don't accept patients paying with insurance (government or otherwise) is very interesting to me.

Do you think there's a major difference in expected outcome for the average patient, between your wife's practice and a hospital/clinic?

I can totally grok how a patient would find her services valuable enough to pay a much higher rate, out of pocket; but I'm trying to figure out if the payer's arbitrary cut-offs are rational.

Maybe 60/hr is close to the price-point of exponentially-diminishing returns, from the risk-carrier's perspective?

Obviously, institutional payers are way more conservative with risk than financially-well-off individuals, so maybe they're making mistakes on the margin.

Anyways, hope I'm making sense. It's a fascinating topic.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24062478
Sounds cool, but I value my sleep ;-)
Moving The Indiana Bell Telephone Building (2019)
I use umatrix to block stuff and a side effect is that EVERYTHING is much faster.

Some sites routinely load hundreds of items from dozens of third-party servers, so this shouldn't be surprising.
that's funny because in chrome i hate the scrolling because it doesn't have the middle mouse click autoscroll feature and all the "solutions" to fix that are janky webextensions.
Hopefully this will make affiliate-link based sites like Wirecutter change their ways. I dont mind them earning affiliate money but I can’t even click a link at Wirecutter anymore since their bounce redirect to Amazon or wherever is totally blocked by my DNS settings originally via AdGuard now via nextdns.io
Legally speaking, only people who actually worked on the invention can be on the patent. I believe (not a lawyer) that including extra people can be grounds for invalidating that patent. However, this does still get abused; Elizabeth Holmes was on many of the patents filed by Theranos.
Yeah, I was trying it out too and found it confusing as well.

I think they are trying to make old users suddenly discover reels while flipping through photos, but it feels very messy.
https://news.ycombinator.com/rss

You can set up your mail client to read that feed.
"Pending results of such trials, it would seem uncontroversial to enthusiastically promote efforts to achieve reference nutrient intakes of vitamin D, which range from 400 IU/day in the UK to 600–800 IU/day in the USA. These are predicated on benefits of vitamin D for bone and muscle health, but there is a chance that their implementation might also reduce the impact of COVID-19 in populations where vitamin D deficiency is prevalent; there is nothing to lose from their implementation, and potentially much to gain."

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-8...