skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
to 1, check the actual data available - it's not final since the clinical trials are still ongoing, but the benefits shown so far is significant enough to allow emergency use. This also happens typically for cancer treatments where survival rates look significantly better vs gold standard treatments. See the evidence from the announcement below.

> In these assays, an ID50 titer cutoff of 250 in the Broad Institute assay was chosen to distinguish between high titer and low titer plasma. This value correlated with an Ortho VITROS IgG assay signal to cutoff (S/C) of 12. Based on titer data using the Broad Institute assay, the data submitted in the EUA demonstrate the following findings:
o There was no difference in 7-day survival in the overall population between subjects transfused with high versus low titer CCP.
o In the subset of non-intubated patients, there was a 21% reduction in 7-day mortality (from 14% to 11%, p=0.03) in subjects transfused with high versus low titer CCP.
o There was no apparent association between neutralizing antibody titers and 7-day mortality in intubated subjects.
o In additional analyses of a post-hoc subgroup of patients less than 80 years of age who were not intubated and who were within 72 hours of diagnosis, a stronger relationship between neutralizing antibody titers and 7-day mortality is observed. When titers are binned to low versus high at a threshold of 250, the sponsor reports a significant reduction in 7-day mortality from 11.3 to 6.3% (p = 0.0008).
o In additional analyses of survival using a Kaplan-Meier approach, the survival trends observed at 7 days persisted over a longer time period, with significantly improved survival in non-intubated patients (Figure 2, p=0.032) and a larger benefit in the subset of patients not intubated at the time of treatment, less than 80 years of age, who were treated within 72 hours of diagnosis (Figure 3, p=0.0081)
Intel Advances on the Road to Quantum Practicality
Your contractor contract should have a clause to specify that he must return overpaid money. My employment contracts all had that. This helps dealing with this sort of issues :)

Citigroup, Revlon and Bridage certainly have long complicated contracts on that loan, that should cover what to do. Well, I really hope they thought of covering the basics while drafting a billion dollar loan.
Seriously? A Youtube video isn't credible evidence. I asked for "formal accusations, complaints, arrests or investigations that implicate Joe Biden in any sexual crimes against children." In other words, evidence of the kind that exists against Trump.

Literally all you have is memes. "This evidence is NOT for the blind?" Is that some kind of QAnon dogwhistle bullshit?

Oh God, he kissed a little girl on the head, what a monster!

We're done.
An article about its history was posted a couple times (without comments):

https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/ronald-brender/bl...
Excellent, thanks for the pointer. I've added that to my document on the history of the Scepter of Goth. It looks like I'll be able to (eventually) post other things, too!!
Alibaba on the Bleeding Edge of RISC-V with XT910
You're going to have a hell of a time trying to sell that to 50 states and a handful of territories, all of which can't even implement REAL-ID properly.

What agency manages BankID in Sweden? I would imagine in a better world, the US Postal Service could be doing some of this work in the states at a federal level, but I wouldn't get my hopes up.
It was done so far with "right to use" exceptions, and I believe that now "emergency authorization" will broaden the usage and collection of plasma, while I am not sure how much that will change.
That says I downloaded ssni-845-C.mp4 7GB (XXX) three days ago, but I didn't. WTF is that all about?
Trump tweeted about it. So, chances are, it's not grounded in facts.
I would counter that by suggesting that you create a second root partition (on which you then install Ubuntu 20.04) and remove the first partition (containing Ubuntu 18.04) when you're done. This is similar to how A/B upgrades work in recent Android versions. (Of course you'd have to have /home on a separate partition. Personally, I've been doing that for years, anyway, because I want to be able to reinstall quickly without overriding /home when a software upgrade happens to mess up my system.)
Why Anti-HIV Antibodies Are Ineffective at Blocking Infection (2009)
No no, I understand the problem you're talking about. It is a problem. I'm asking about the solution. Why wouldn't you handle it in the child instead of having siblings be superable?

Essentially, why not do it like this:

class A():
def __init__(self):
self.x = 1

class B():
def __init__(self):
self.y = 2

class C(A, B):
def __init__(self):
A.__init__(self)
B.__init__(self)

print(C().y)
And php, which is also a really beginner-friendly language. In fact, not needing the big toolchain at the beginning helps experimenting a lot and is probably one big factor of what made both of them take off so much in that niche.
Please add a /s for the folks who won't notice the sarcasm.
Props. I did a very similar thing.

For me, google docs was the hook that made me create another account. Every volunteer project I go near uses them.

I tried creating aliases for the projects so that each product team could reference me by an email address that reflected the project. But after a year or two I had loads of these aliases and would accidentally open a doc for one project whilst logged in to gdocs as the identity for another project.

I now just have one identity for google. And I feel dirty.
People who ask questions are usually different from people who answer questions. I have significant presence on Quora where I wrote 8300+ answers and asked 98 questions in 10 years with 10057 followers. My monthly views are about 150000.

Quora has different incentives for asking questions and answering them. I am also connected to a community of people who mostly ask questions and don't write answers.

It is hard to ask a good question to which I can't find an answer. I ask questions for which there are no good existing answers and usually outside my realm of expertise. This is true for most other top contributors on Quora. Most of us ask very few questions.
One thing that may influence it is the readily available tooling for web developers to easily build cross platform apps with web tech. This technology exists on the desktop too, but I feel like it's not as well recognized. You can build your frontend in reactjs and your mobile app in react native and share a lot of code between the too. I can't think of another option that works together quite so well.
Sorry - Here is some context to this announcement from a day or two ago.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/trump-accuses-deep-st...
COVID19 is potentially a lethal disease (in short order) especially for certain types of patients, so comparing it with for what Vioxx was used is kind of apples and oranges.
ARM NEON for C++ Developers [pdf]
Key Finding is "However, there is no consensus on a causal link between loot boxes and harmful behaviour."
Ask HN: Does your tech job stress you out?
In my career I’ve done both data warehousing and DevOps work. Now more then ever the stress of whose ticket is of highest priority or what solution can we all agree on as a team has made the work less and less enjoyable.

To be quite honest it is making me second guess this field as a career.

How have you dealt with the stress of the soft skills portion of your engineering job? Have you moved on from tech to a different line of work all together?
Why the connected car rides on open source
Just simply move to China.
> in good part due to Windows disabling writecaching on devices it thinks are portable. This kind of special handling of external devices is sort of distasteful

What's distasteful is that on my linux machine with a lot of ram, when I copy a multiple gigabyte file to a USB key it "completes" the copy almost immediately, when actually all it has done is copy the file to a ram buffer. Then when I try to disconnect the drive, it will hang for ages while it actually finishes the write. IMO windows does it better here (although I never realised what exactly they did, nice to know.
Children were always thought to spread the virus like with influenza virus. That's why all schools closed.

But the problem was that kids under 10 turned out to be not affected in numbers. People still thought that it is dangerous for or with kids. Statistics worldwide didn't support that.

The picture is now a bit clearer, that kids just belong to the huge group of asymptotic cases dealing with the common cold as every year.

The potential to infect older people is still disputed. Current studies clearly dismiss that. Only the press and politicians are fascinated by that idea. The biggest COVID-19 spreaders are still young women at around 30, unlike with the influenza.
Full title: "FDA Issues Emergency Use Authorization for Convalescent Plasma as Potential Promising COVID–19 Treatment, Another Achievement in Administration’s Fight Against Pandemic"

Convalescent plasma has been used throughout the nation for months now. I've got my 6th plasma donation scheduled for Tuesday. The reason for this 'breakthrough announcement' is the part of the title after the comment. Pure politics.
I am also not seeing the behaviour that the OP describes.
Okay, its because the public cant tell the difference on the utility.

More prominent disclosure and terminology should be used such as

UNAPPROVED USE AUTHORIZATION UNDER THE WE ARE SCRAMBLING AND HAVE NO CLUE EXEMPTION

or

NOT TESTED USE AT YOUR OWN RISK COULD BE SNAKE OIL COULD BE WATER EXEMPTION

or

THE FDA HAS NOT REVIEWED THIS AT ALL INTRASTATE EXEMPTION
A Maker's Life, Sherry Huss Interview
Do you mean the author of the article or the study?

The author provides links to the study. You can also just google NREFS.
It is possibly when you select 'always save to downloads' in your preferred browser.
In my case, it was simpler. Just mixing up, mentally, which disk device was the source, which was the dest.
That's certainly a good point and might explain how Linoff has managed to keep up his motivation over the years.

Nevertheless, I wasn't asking about the why, I was asking how. :)
Despite the sarcastic title, Gassée lays out a decent case for Apple's continued growth.

Only time will tell, of course, and past performance is no guarantee of future results.
> In the absence of storage, neither nuclear nor geothermal plants are good at supplying peak demands.

This is false. Nuclear and geothermal power can both satisfy peak demand just fine. Nuclear plants do take time to alter the thermal output of the reactor, but they can easily reduce the electric output through overcooling. Same MWt, but lower MWe. Geothermal plants just pump less water into the borehole. Better yet, nuclear plants can direct the excess energy to things like desalination. This is much easier than trying to satisfy peak demand with solar or wind, where peak demand often occurs when the sun isn't visible or when wind speed is substantially higher or lower than demand.

Again, France at its peak generated over 85% of it's electricity from nuclear power. I'm not sure where you're getting this myth that nuclear plants can't satisfy variable demand.
For once I actually hope apple keeps up with that policy just to spite google
Does anyone know of a write-up that describes Tensorflow's import magic? I'd be curious to read about what they're doing and why.
I have GamePass, so I thought: "I'll give this a go. How hard can it be? I'm really good in Elite Dangerous."

Turns out: Quite hard. I have a newfound respect for airline pilots.

On a related note, even my RAF cadet experience 20 years ago counted for naught. Whilst I could keep the plane in the air, landing proved the most difficult, and I crashed and bounced and would not have survived without invulnerability switched on.
I totally agree. This has been my life for the last year and it's been really tough, but tips like this have really helped.

I spend alot of time thinking of decisions which is awesome and because I'm solo I know I have to do everything I can to make sure it's the best choice. To do this, I balance with as much research on each challenge as possible with quite morning walks(with my dogs) and journaling where I talk myself through ideas.

I've become a huge fan of journalling as a business tool and highly suggest it for solo and non-solo leaders.
Right on! Just see how it affects your skin (and beyond)...
https://www.prevention.com/beauty/skin-care/a20428803/how-su...
"In fact, collagen is the most prevalent protein in the body"
> There is no risk in blood plasma treatment.

Risks from blood plasma treatment include life-threatening allergic reactions and, hopefully less likely, transmission of bloodborne infections such as HIV and hepatitis.

The study that is driving this shoe an improvement in outcomes that was statistically significant, but, given that it was not placebo-controlled, there is a lot of room for that result to be a straight-up illusion. Given such weak evidence of benefit, these risks, though small, do loom large.
Ah, that's also how you made a lot of CPAN simply not installable, prompting people who had actual jobs and deadlines just to drop in the variable USE_UNSAFE_INC=1 to get the old behavior back, and call it a day.

Or keep their Perl at 5.24.3.
Udacity React Nanodegree review – Part 1
We should be using biometric markers filtered through homomorphic encryption.

This way we can verify/prove our identity without handing over those markers to multiple 3rd parties.
80 hours decades earlier is probably enough to have the fundamentals down. Even just knowing how to use the radio puts you quite far ahead.

It’s kind of the argument for basic first aid training and other things like that.
What makes this so pernicious is that it does work, until you later try to make subclasses
Even the best information has the same effect (maybe worse). If you’re reading this, you may have a problem (I do).
Direct URL to one of the combined AQI maps for the Bay Area:

https://files.airnowtech.org/airnow/today/cur_aqi_sanfrancis...
> It’s crazy how Americans are willing to drop $30-40K (that’s average?) for a vehicle. But I digress.

Market segmentation means you don't have a lot of choice.

A Toyota Camry (a quite basic mid-size car) starts at $25K. Even some of the cheapest cars sit at almost $20K and their safety ratings at US freeway speeds are often not great combined with being underpowered.

The fact that people have to drive on US freeways a lot means that you can't just engineer a small, slower speed car and call it a day.
Awesome product. Are there any worries that platforms may restrict the APIs that you depend on?
Are there any good videos like this where the dogfights are many-on-many instead of just one-on-one?

I'm not a pilot, and my knowledge of dogfighting is next to non-existent, so please correct me if I'm wrong, but I'd expect that it would be much harder to utterly dominate one's opponents when there are a lot of planes in the air, any one of which could take you out when you think you've got an advantage on someone else.

A busy dogfight would probably be more exciting to watch, too.
I don't do the work clothes but I shut down my laptop at 6pm and only turn it on the next day. Also, no e-mail or anything work related on any of mother devices.
If it's obscure, it's certainly not readily available on torrents (or in local libraries) if that's what you're suggesting.
>He only joined in 2012, so that's an average of ~22.8 answers per day, every day, for the last 3144 days.

Hope that's not his real name because if it is his boss might think he needs more work to do.
What about just taking a photo after dumping the bag of dice on the floor and deriving a key from the image? Why decode the dice orientation etc? All of that entropy is contained in the image.
Now your class C can't necessarily be used in a multiple inheritance hierarchy with some other class D, and a class E that inherits from C and D, as C hardcodes what its parents are. Python uses the C3 MRO algorithm to traverse all relevant classes in your hierarchy when you religiously use the super builtin.

https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.3/mro/

But; multiple inheritance is a beast in any language due to its complexity and bringing it up in a discussion of "magic" that python exposes beginners to is specious. It's true that C++ doesn't have this problem, because it has no super keyword and you must explicitly delegate everything, but also introduces the problem that you can have multiple instances of a base class and so has added complexity, virtual inheritance, to solve THAT problem. And tons of languages have a problem where omitting a call to "super" is logically required is not statically diagnosable.
If someone finds an answer which helps them and so upvotes it, why should the reward depend on the age of the question?
Someone else must have downloaded it from your current IP address.
You're still arguing in bad faith. Your original code snippet didn't mention any kind of inheritance at all.
> Nearly every element [of an airplane seat] undergoes a safety-enhancing process called “delethalization”: seats have to withstand an impact equal to sixteen times the force of gravity [and many other constraints] .... Largely as a result, in-flight entertainment systems are almost unbelievably expensive. The rule of thumb, I was told, is “a thousand dollars an inch”—meaning that the small screen in the back of each economy seat can cost an airline ten thousand dollars, plus a few thousand for its handheld controller.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/04/21/game-of-throne...
Thanks for clarifying what you meant by "undestanding". I think it's a bit too broad of a criterion, for example in the video above Morris is using "Tnetennba" in a new context but there's no way to tell whether he really knows what it means (the joke is not that he doesn't know, but exactly that using "Tnetennba" in the kind of sentence he uses it does not elucidate the meaning of the word).

>> So if you can explain what a words means, you can give a definition in terms of other words.

Suppose I give you the following mapping between symbols: a -> p, c -> r, d -> k, e -> j.

Now suppose I give you the phrase: "a a a c a d e e a c"

I gave you a definition of each symbol in the phrase in terms of other symbols. What does the phrase mean? Alternatively, what do the symbols, themselves, mean?

Obviously, you can't say. Being able to give the definition of a word in terms of other words presupposes you understand the other words, also. So, just because a language model is using a word doesn't mean it knows its meaning- only that it uses the word.
My current job has become more stressful over the last 6 months (not COVID-19 related). 1 point tickets easily balloon into 3 point tickets because requirements haven't been thought through. And during retro we constantly put it on the board as an action step and then literally the next day we are pressured to undersize tickets.
Etherpad and EasySync Technical Manual [pdf]
There's doesn't seem to be any way to to get air quality in terms of ozone on PurpleAir, but there is on AirNow.
> perhaps because they tend to use git alone instead of higher-level software that would help them break down a big single commit

git is capable of breaking down a large diff into manageable pieces (e.g., limiting a diff to a single file), but reviewing code in a mailing list means replying to the message that contains a patch and replying inline to certain parts to comment on it.

As for higher level software that could break down a large commit, what specifically do you have in mind? I can't think of any feature that other review tools like Git??b, gerrit, reviewboard, phabricator, etc. that would make something like this easy to review.
I find it somewhat interesting that Amazon has kept Abebooks separate. The latter certainly seems to me to be a better source for relatively obscure titles.
I usually fail miserably at driving simulators because I drive by the "seat of the pants" feeling, and you get none of that with the driving simulators. It's similar to how badly I do with flight simulators, as I constantly overcontrol it because there's no feedback to my body.
> why did filesystems never make the cut to become a cross-system standard?

Many reasons, the most important being patents and insistence by vendors to keep stuff proprietary (exfat, ntfs, HFS, ZFS).

Also, there are fundamental differences on the OS level:

- how users are handled: Unices generally use numerical UID/GID while Windows uses GUIDs

- Windows has/had a 255-char maximum length of the total path of a file

- Unices have the octal mode set for permissions, old Windows had for bits (write protected, archived, system, hidden) and that's it

- Windows, Linux and OS X have fundamentally different capabilities for ACLs - a cross platform filesystem needs to handle all of them and that in a sane way

- don't get me started on the mess of advanced fs features (sparse files, transparent compression, immutability of files, transparent encryption, checksums, snapshots, journals)

- Exotic stuff like OS X and NTFS additional metadata streams that doesn't even have representation ín Linux or most/all BSDs

And finally, embedded devices and bootloaders. Give me a can of beer and a couple weeks and I'll probably be able to hack together a FAT implementation from scratch. Everything else? No f...in' way. Stuff like journals is too advanced to handle in small embedded devices. The list goes on and on.
I try to finish something every day. Sometimes I will work a little later but sometimes I also stop at 3pm. Took me a while to not feel guilty about finishing earlier but otherwise it's very one sided where you are expected to work more when needed but never work less even if things are quiet.
> I think you're talking Chernobyl here, without actually saying Chernobyl

Yes.

> True, but that cuts your argument. As it turns questions of science into ideological ones.

That’s fair enough. If I am understanding correctly, you’re saying the institutional mistrust and failing public discourse we are experiencing today would render existing nuclear dangerous too. No matter if we have expertise or not (I believe we do) we can’t navigate our way to it in the presence of so much other BS.
In your model, does a free app with in-App Purchases count as monetized or not?
Hmm.. it seems that part of the problem is that Python interprets "empty entry in PYTHONPATH" as being the same as ".". That just seems wrong. If you want the current directory as one of your PYTHONPATH entries, then you should be required to insert ".".

Perhaps the sharp edge would be reduced if Python skipped empty entries in PYTHONPATH. This might require some people to explicitly add "." in their configurations, but they should have done that anyway, and it wouldn't require code to change. PYTHONPATH is also getting less used anyway, so this might be a relatively unnoticed change by most.

What do you think? Would that be worth proposing?