skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've donated convalescent plasma for covid antibodies through the red cross twice now. In Boston at least, it's booked out about a month, so sign up asap if you can. From what I can figure -assuming your donation goes to the very sickest- you'll save a life roughly every donation, and you'll very certainly ease recovery for several people. Mine went to California.

One bit of advice, especially if you are shorter or skinnier- if you start feeling a little unpleasant (tired, cold, fuzzy), ask them to turn down the citrate (an anticoagulant they add to returning blood) sooner rather than later. It kind of takes off quickly after a certain point. The first time I went, I did fine until the last ten minutes, when I started falling asleep and they ended the procedure early. Felt like crap for several hours after.

The second time, I asked for the citrate to be turned down and it went great. No issues at all, finished the donation and was able to stand right up and leave. The donation process itself takes roughly two hours and you won't be able to use either hand while you're hooked up. Whole thing takes less than three hours. The red cross is also testing temperatures at the door, so make sure you're hydrated, cool, and well-rested, which can lower body temp several degrees. I had to reschedule out a month the first time, when I failed the entry check because I rode my motorcycle in on a hot day- even after waiting in the AC for a while.
Thanks. From reading the announcement, it read like a PR piece for a co.

Your explanation creates better context.
Or maybe see if they Have Been Pwned in the past.
"A company like Spotify may want to change the UI without updating the installation"

I did that 20+ years ago too and no I didn't need an 'HTML- of JSX-like framework'. Again, when all you have is a hammer...
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They already had standing from the $300 million Apple collected in IAP fees, so they didn't need to actually break the contract to file their lawsuit.
Perfect! A true second factor. Not just some annoying gimmick, like SMS.
As an intern the '90s, I was porting some Unix workstation embedded systems tool to the VAXstation, and was surprised to find the system API documentation I needed wasn't written for C, but for BLISS. Fortunately, VAX C could still call it.

I've used a lot of different systems thus far, but what I saw of the DEC VAX/VMS ecosystem was impressive, and a very different cultural flavor than Unix-descended systems. I'm all about the Linux and *BSD now, but, occasionally, I have to resist the urge to buy a small VAX, just to explore more of the clever and different things they did.
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To be clear, also: there's really sketchy evidence that it works. Just four days (!!) ago, the administrative decision was halted due to concerns within the department, see: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/us/politics/blood-plasma-...

Needless to say, no science has been published in the interrim. This was just the white house needing to get the announcement into the news cycle.

It's also worth pointing out the ironic side of this: the only reason that plasma treatment is a feasible option in the US is because of the distressingly large population of recovered covid cases. Had we done our jobs correctly last spring and early summer, we actually wouldn't have enough plasma.
Microsoft Windows actually provided a transactional file system called Transactional NTFS (TxF)in Windows Vista. However, due to the complexity and lack of widespread use, it has since been deprecated.
> The findings suggest that basic income doesn’t seem to provide a disincentive for people to work.

Do they? The findings suggest that a monthly stipend with an established expiration date doesn't provide a disincentive for people to work.

But the policy that this experiment is supposed to bolster--a real UBI--is a guaranteed monthly payment for life. I'm not convinced that these temporary experiments--in which the participants would be fools to 'retire', since the payments are temporary--are any indication of how people would behave when given a a real UBI.
Power loss. I mean, backing up is the literal definition of a nightly job...
"Step 5: Realize you (probably) work a B.S. job[1]."

Very important to realize this. Also, from my experience if you just work 35 or 40 hours per week but use this time to really work, you are already way more productive than most people.
what correctness does ADA focus on ?
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I'd love a youtube comment filter that instantly removes anyone with a meme avatar or famous world leader avatar. I can skip the opinions of Hitler, pepe and JC Denton.
That's a different school, run by different people. It does not prohibit attendance by students of any race. The only bias I see is that of the parents, who pay a housing premium to avoid being associated with some kinds of people.

The local people choose the school board, which then chooses the school policy and administration.

School policy is limited by what is allowed and by what seems to work. If the parents usually are quick to discipline students for misbehavior, then parents will be relied upon to do so. If the parents ignore or encourage misbehavior, there is no reason to involve them. The police will be called instead.
I use financial modeling prep [0] for both real time quotes and the quarterly statements and Trading View for charts. The nice thing about it is it has everything parsed from the statements such that you can compare apples to apples. No need to hunt around in the documents for net income for instance. It also links back to the original documents as well. They also have a very well documented api.

Only thing I'm not happy about is that when I checked a few times, it took them a few days before they had earnings available. That and their screener is limited (which is essentially what I built).

Yours looks like it has similar features. How do your features compare? I couldn't find the API docs. Does your premium package allow for commercial use?

[0] https://financialmodelingprep.com/developer/docs/

[1] https://www.tradingview.com/
Maybe I should convince a couple coworkers to apply to Google. They’d fit right in.
Supervalo: The first social network for Venture Capital (no it's not VCTwitter)
> Instead of blocking custom domain email addresses outright, the site could require a secondary recovery email address from an approved provider when an email with a custom domain is used to create the account.

No thank you, I don't want a mandatory backdoor for every government that might want to claim jurisdiction over one of those large worldwide providers.
I have a 7 and an 8 year old and I'm a game developer. We have a hard rule in the family that we never buy virtual currency or virtual items. Not even once for consistency.

I'm not super concerned about them developing a gambling addition, I'm more concerned with buying "virtual" stuff they the don't really own, and only lasts as long as a games server are up.

I don't have a problem with paying for gaming services, we have Apple and Xbox games subscriptions. I also don't have a problem for buying a premium game where there is a once off purchase.
>Could we please just fix native software development, so it doesn't suck, rather than adding the kitchen sink to web browsers?

Only in the sense that we can fix child hunger rather than spending money in e.g. condo development.

That is, technically yes, but nobody with real means cares enough to do it, and those without means don't care enough or have enough power to pressure them...
> Things like asking for help someone on a task is harder if you’re not as familiar with them.

Anecdotes are anecdotal, but I’m seeing this in my peers. In particular newer and shyer peers are telling me this the most. They are also telling me their hours worked have gone up as well. One has specifically said their increase in hours is too make up for the lack of help.

I think wfh will prove to be beneficial for the confident engineers at the expense of the shy. EDIT: and those who are active in Slack at the expense of those who aren’t.
I'm guessing you're not a pilot, then, because the first thing you learn is to absolutely NOT trust your body (by which I mean your vestibular system) - you have to rely on your instruments - your body will always lie to you and get you killed.
> "It looks as though that with NTFS being surpassed by other more advanced file-systems,

Is this remotly true?

Will my grandmother not be using NTFS in 10 years?
>Are there any good videos like this where the dogfights are many-on-many instead of just one-on-one?

Something like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWa7NrSd55w
Imagine putting this much work into every detail of your simulation, and then getting negative reviews on Steam because there's background music during the initial download.
> Are there any good videos like this where the dogfights are many-on-many instead of just one-on-one?

Tons, yes, here's one to get your started:

Superior Dogfight: 4 x Navy F-18 vs 4 x Air Force F-15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80rDX3pANeE
First you need to know how to use the radio to ask for that help. Just putting the headset on isn't enough; finding the microphone button is half the battle, and then you need to know what frequency to tune to, and how. Then you need to follow along with those instructions.

Even assuming everything goes perfectly up to that point, the plane can only /land/ itself -- assuming you're approaching an ILS autoland-capable runway, in a plane with autoland equipment installed. You still have to idle the engines on touchdown and engage reverse thrust. You may have to keep the aircraft on the runway centreline after touchdown. Then you need to shut down the engines so emergency vehicles can approach and passengers can evacuate safely.

It's not as simple as "dialling in the numbers".
The driving sims with feedback rams under moving seats are amazing, this is how pretty well how all of the new generation of racing drivers learn tracks and skills.
Very expensive though. https://youtu.be/X9PoorzvU2k
Raft Consensus Algorithm Unraveled
Only in the (probably unlikely) case that you have a `pip.py` in your CWD. In all other cases, it will execute pip as intended.
Ohhh, that makes sense, because any later child will need to know that A and B are C's parents! Okay, thanks!
If you're talking about piracy, do you only read books from dead authors? Or do you pay them via alternate channels? Or are you just fine with enjoying their content without paying them back a cent?
> It has formal verification as part of the toolset. I would think Rust would need to develop similar formal tools and not just the PL to be used in the same industries as Ada/SPARK2014.

There are people agreeing with you, and they are trying to make it happen: https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/sealed-rust-the-plan/
I worked with a team that built an engine that did exactly this. There are complex issues to resolve. Mostly, the market for retail analytics is very small so even though this type of data fabric can offer retailers incredible insights into what they should be purchasing and how to bundle/market their products together, they won't pay what it costs to scrape such much data to generate the recommendations.

The product recommendation angle for eCommerce is a better angle but only works well for big companies where you have enough data at the onset to drive better recommendations. With smaller companies and lesser known products you must make probabilistic determinations based on image analysis and context structure that will be mostly guess work until you have real data. Such as you surmised with your A/B testing.

Anyway, it seems you already got some major clients under your belt and have proven a track record. Hope you are able to succeed in your quest to make better recommendations work for small business with the data fabric you created.

Happy to chat through my experiences if you have interest. hn (at) strapr (dot) com is my email.
I would use this for sure. Certain phrases are great flags for me to know "I won't be interested in anything this person has to say."
Thanks.

I found the following explanation at https://www.statnews.com/2020/08/23/is-convalescent-plasma-s...

"A study released Aug. 13 — but not yet peer-reviewed — suggested that using convalescent plasma to treat patients with severe Covid-19 soon after their diagnosis was associated with a lower likelihood of death. But the study had serious scientific limitations that make interpreting the findings difficult.

The Mayo Clinic study, which enrolled more than 35,000 patients, showed that patients who received transfusions within three days of their Covid-19 diagnosis had a seven-day death rate of 8.7%, while patients who received plasma treatment after four or more days had a mortality rate of 11.9%. The difference met the standard for statistical significance.

The study didn’t include a placebo group for comparison, however, so it’s unclear exactly how impactful the plasma treatment might be. The study was sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and sought to broaden access to convalescent plasma, part of a so-called “expanded access” program not designed to definitively test how well the treatment works, but instead to quickly get it to patients.

More rigorous randomized, placebo-controlled studies of convalescent plasma are ongoing."
Politics is also the reason why we have treatments that are known to work instead of snake oil like we used to have.

Rough quote from a 19th century doctor: The best thing to do for medicine would be to cut the page on opiates out of the Merck Manual and burn the rest.
This is me but I'm totally procrastinating on code so I can hang in my garden as the sun goes down learning about myself through other instances with different circumstances in this thread. I need a break from the physical work to try to get my head space back to thinking about computers.

My sprint is not now, my sprint starts later.

The sprint toward my spirit starts now. Reading this comment, reflecting this thought. And another is below.

Upvote the comments that you can relate to and see what bubbles up
Yes. Realistically I think Apple could then charge anyone they want, where if you're under a certain usage or if you're a genuinely free-type app (the Wikipedia app) that don't charge you. The point is at that point it is more about Apple providing freebies in order to enrich their ecosystem than it is about Apple extorting platforms which are valuable mostly without Apple.
Looks like Common Crawl switched to this from their homegroan crawler. That's high praise!
Google doesn't care that much about Chromebooks, and certainly not anymore.

They care about people using Google - Chrome, Gmail, Android, etc, but Chromebooks are not some sort of "endgame".
Show HN: Electricity price API for Bitcoin mining and data scientists
Discussed 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24222491
Still working through some of the kinks on this, curious how other HN members pull this data.

We built some of our own custom stuff for trading leveraging utility prices, but found it laboriously manual....
Is there some reason I am missing that this is on the front page?
Many used bookshops are managed by people who could never run a successful business. They love what they do but are not particularly good at it. These shops probably deserve to fade away. I purchase used books frequently. I almost always find what I want on Amazon, usually from multiple booksellers, and I have the book within a week. It's hard to compete with that level of service.
I would suggest people use the rsync --dry-run feature when using wildcards or working on something sensitive.
I can totally relate! Don’t get me wrong I’m very thankful to the universe that I am employed but my mental health feels increasingly challenged lately.
There was a similar recording 2 years ago: retired soviet military pilot (no piloting experience in 20yrs) is trying simulator of MiG 29 (with VR helmet). He did some maneuvers and even land the plane.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEGH965Dvp8, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjDhZ2Qx2bw
The problem is the toxic chemicals in between the glass. Are we going to bury the panes as deep as we dug them up? Or will they be near the surface, creating a layer of toxicity for future generations?
thanks! i definitely felt like my time at a series B-C startup didnt really prepare me so you're right. i'm wondering if the pre-A stage is different.

i think "the market rate" is a myth, or at least too simplistic a model. there's FAANG, and then there's everyone else. The difference seems to be about 1-200k (not kidding). the startups i speak to literally cant afford my FAANG comp. Does that mean the whole world should move to FAANG payscales? no, even though i'd benefit, i don't believe that.
Amex fan here. Their support is top notch, and their suite of cards gives me best typical rewards. 4x on grocery/restaurant, 5x on travel, etc. And those cash out at 1.25, so it's really more like 6x on grocery.
I’m pretty sure the only reason Python is popular at all is because Google pushed it so hard.
The short answer is, it should be company time (to at least some degree). I have development as part of my work plan and, while I'm a bit flexible about things, I have absolutely been spending ~half-days this summer on predominantly classes. Some of those more or less directly feed into other work I do, others less so.

But to your broader point, if I need to step back to do some learning for a work task/presentation/etc. I absolutely consider that to be on the clock.
The circuit board modules that make up the cells of the FPGA are reminiscent of PLC's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable_logic_controller
Keep going.

Don’t be afraid to “go deep,” learning begets learning.

Read more. This might sound obvious: the more you read, the more you _can_ read. You might find it helpful to stop memorizing info in order to just ceremonially regurgitate it (eg. onto some quiz/exam).

Read with a pencil/pen and take notes in the margins. The goal is to keep moving; you will eventually find something you think is really worth digging into.

You’ve highlighted your own points of failure, now you can get to work on correcting these perceived failures. A big part of solving complex problems is learning how to break them down into small chunks and then simplifying those chunks if need be.

There are plenty of books that try to teach problem solving skills (eg. how to solve it, George Polya). You can also find a clip of Feynman talking about how solving a lot of problems made him a great problem solver.

Forgetting about the whole “cult-of-interviewing flavor of loving to solve problems,” solving problems becomes more fun the better you get at it. It’s like anything else, you have to practice. Other students thought I was a “math genius,” but these same students rarely studied or completed their assignments. I did (and I don’t advocate this) every problem in the book, then got a second book and started working through it.

Consistency is key and its effects compound. You’re going to have a much longer career than you think. Now is the best time to exercise disciplined consistency. It seems like you’ve realized there’s no magical path—-that’s great. There isn’t any path except the one we carve out for ourselves, step by step, one foot in front of the other. So, keep going.

Confusion is the sweat of learning.
BankID covers well over 90% of the population between ages 20 and 60

What do the other 206,868 people do?

If a similar system were implemented in the United States, that would leave 6,514,383 out. What do you do with six million people who can't be part of the standard ID scheme?
I’m still not understanding. How is my comment distrustful? It’s just a factual description of a decision making and PR process.

The tone I imagine when I say something like “legislators only consider the desires of plutocrats” is like saying “plants survive by photosynthesis” or “the Efficient Markets hypothesis is only useful as an occasional approximation” or something - neutral observations of factual descriptions of how systems work.

“Cynical” implies a normative judgment, or some extended assumption as if my comment has anything to do with presumed self-interest or distrust of sincerity.
Great article. The writing style reminds me of James Mickens. For instance, this classic https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf
Unless something has changed or there's a detail involving builtins I'm not aware of, I don't think this would work, for the same reason as the most common pitfall when mocking functions in python: You have to replace it where it's used, not where it's defined. To do that on a module, you have to first import that module - and then all the imports at the top of it would've already run.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2565-5

The activation of abundant molecules such as hydrocarbons and atmospheric nitrogen (N2) remains a challenge because these molecules are often inert. The formation of carbon–nitrogen bonds from N2 typically has required reactive organic precursors that are incompatible with the reducing conditions that promote N2 reactivity1, which has prevented catalysis. Here we report a diketiminate-supported iron system that sequentially activates benzene and N2 to form aniline derivatives. The key to this coupling reaction is the partial silylation of a reduced iron–dinitrogen complex, followed by migration of a benzene-derived aryl group to the nitrogen. Further reduction releases N2-derived aniline, and the resulting iron species can re-enter the cyclic pathway. Specifically, we show that an easily prepared diketiminate iron bromide complex2 mediates the one-pot conversion of several petroleum-derived arenes into the corresponding silylated aniline derivatives, by using a mixture of sodium powder, crown ether, trimethylsilyl bromide and N2 as the nitrogen source. Numerous compounds along the cyclic pathway are isolated and crystallographically characterized, and their reactivity supports a mechanism for sequential hydrocarbon activation and N2 functionalization. This strategy couples nitrogen atoms from N2 with abundant hydrocarbons, and maps a route towards future catalytic systems.
The key finding, embodied in the sentences immediately before the one you quoted, is that more research is needed because there is not enough firm data to form a consensus.

I suspect the lack of consensus regarding gambling mechanics in games is along the lines of the former 'lack of consensus' surrounding the causal link between smoking and lung disease or the current 'lack of consensus' connecting CO2 emissions and global warming, however. Namely, a manufactured dispute created to defend the indefensible.
This is good. I guess. I have to develop relatively complex desktop-like applications on Chromium platform and I still feel that there are quite a few gaps until it can become a full desktop-able development platform.

What's really missing for me is Android-like permission system where website could request permissions to access webcam, bluetooth, microphone, local storage, notifications, audio playback etc...

At the moment, most of the access is provided by a number of different APIs, and, in some instances, it is heuristics-based decision (looking at audio playback).
Wikipedia Performance Score
So non-toxic waste is somehow a catastrophe compared to all of the other nonrecycalbe garbage already being produced? That is a blatantly stricter standard than literally anything else is held to.
With a few tweaks to a native app, they can https://firebase.google.com/docs/app-indexing

On Android they already crawl your app with various devices when you upload it to Google play and let you know about any crashes or accessibility issues. Nothing to stop them capturing the content too if they wanted.
The article compared the market cap of Tesla to Hong Kong's GDP. I stopped reading then.