skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Users of English constantly generate new low hanging fruit for research. In math, any low hanging fruit orchard becomes a non-mathematical science.
We still do not know that cloth masks work, especially not since before the pandemic, otherwise the WHO and CDC would have recommended them.

We especially do not know whether cloth masks reduce personal risk.

None of the links given in this overly assertive article show that cloth masks work or that they reduce viral load.

All of these are plausible hypotheses and beliefs, but they are still not backed by high quality data.
In my experience a startup of a certain size is founders and sales doing razzle-dazzle, "deeply technical people" jerking off to the latest fad, and no customers.
Doing so would ruin many good names such as PoC||GTFO, a well-known infosec magazine.
patchelf is such a nice tool. I use it all the time to replace hard-codes library paths.
You know why? Because every doctor, nurse, tech, etc has a goddamn opinion on what's important.

They're of the opinion that everything needs to be "as few clicks" as possible. As if "number of clicks" was the only worthwhile message.

Nobody would read a book where the keyboard was pressed as few times as possible. Sometimes, complex actions require complex input.

We should be shooting for discoverability, not "number of clicks".
What did the Soviets do that was special? Did the samples from the Apollo missions not show any water content?
For the medical professionals here who hate their EHR systems: send the CEO, CTO, President, VP, etc of the company some mail describing your problems, how many people hate it, how much time it drains, one or two ideas on how to make it better, and ask them to forward your mail to the product owners. One of them will hopefully forward it down the chain and in a year maybe one of those things will be less painful.

Also, a bunch of the people reading HN work for different vendors, so light up the comments about specific problems with specific products and we can take them directly to the people who can fix it.
Question: Where do you see the FARs going with drones like this?
Also an MD, also hate our EMR because it is hot garbage, and I love your username.

My latest complaint is that the authors of our EMR, who I know to be legions of fresh out of college young twenty somethings (hardly anyone lasts long enough to be a senior engineer at this vendor, I am told), have not used any sort of helpful SDK for text input boxes, but instead have written their own, having inconsistent and wrong behavior with respect to keyboard based text selection, Ctl+backspace behavior and a variety of other well standardized functionalities.

...and they have written multiple different wrong implementations, as the text boxes behave differently in different parts of the EMR. Even the inconsistencies are inconsistent, like atrial fibrillation.
Hmm, I think my point is less about "native" FFI and more about safety guarantees and compatibility. Not every algorithm is portable to safe Rust without loosing on runtime/performance characteristics of the code, and falling back to unsafe Rust for that matter undermines the initial "rust is memory-safe" argument. C codebases are heavily invested in pointer-based algorithms and optimisations. ATS is able to verify them, Rust isn't.
I'd say probably half of the people I associate with are in some way queer, and probably more than 10% of the student population. I'd just say the amount is significant outright but there's no way to really know for sure if my numbers are correct because nobody's polling for that.
> In 2015, researchers tested this concept in human volunteers using a nonlethal flu virus and found the same result. The higher the flu virus dose given to the volunteers, the sicker they became.

I didn't know that was ethical.
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I think the hypothesis could be correct, but as presented, those observations are very poor data. For example, we would want to see if these few examples generalize to other cases, or are they just outliers.
> Apple doesn't want half-assed, misbehaving apps on their store

Then why are there so many half-assed, misbehaving apps on their store?

I don't think people's primary complaint is the rules (although for some it might be). Most people complain about the arbitrary enforcement. Whenever rules are enforced selectively & without rhyme or reason, people get angry -- especially when it's a situation where someone is trying to make money on your platform, and your arbitrary enforcement determines whether they're allowed to do that or not.
Microsoft Surface Duo [Press Briefing]
I'm one of those people using 'sudo pip install'. What should I be using instead?
You don't seem to understand the categories of tractors in the market. Utility / compact utility tractors are used on farms, but are not the same as a 'farm tractor'. Not used usually for harvesting, bailing, heavy tillage, etc. More for all the other crapload of chores one does. Mowing, some tillage, box scraping, post holes, etc.

And, no, this is no toy. It's more powerful than many compact utility tractors, including mine and has the same type of frame as most of them. Run length wouldn't be an issue for most uses of this class of tractor. Only task I do where I can see it being an issue is if I had to mow for more than a couple hours, or running the wood chipper, where I typically have the tractor parked running the chipper for hours while I feed it.
Getting someone that talks the syntax let's you know what questions to ask.
De Blasio hints indoor dining won't return until Covid-19 vaccine
So negative effect of masks seems to only be a social effect, that can be combatted by proper messaging and PR.

Seems like an easy problem to deal with.
By any chance have you used GNU Health[0] at all? I'm guessing no since it's uncommon in the US/NZ, but figured I'd ask just in case. Curious what your impression of it would be as an MD.

[0] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GNU_Health
*PhD or Ph.D.

It's an abbreviation of the Latin "philosophiae doctor" == "doctor of philosophy".

Getting one is as much about persistence as intelligence, and makes you very knowledgeable about one narrow area, so what you say makes sense. Academic researchers usually branch out into other fields and subfields as well, but straight out of a PhD, narrow and deep is what you tend to get.
Thank you for sharing our DeepFactor story with the world, DevOps.com!
Very very high. What fuels a thunderstorm is large amounts of air rising, and falling very rapidly. When the aircraft encounters those air movements it can very quickly exceed the structural limits of the aircraft.
The notion of equity as an investment or savings is a pretty modern invention alongside the 30 year mortgage.
It’s too bad they spend their billions on Harry Potter Hogwarts themed campus instead of UI/UX studies
Why do I feel stressed out visiting this link on desktop? Perhaps someone who's good at UX could share a few thoughts?
In animal models, with hamsters.
Ah, I misread your original post. I thought you were talking about the official recommendations being wrong and then changing. The "general public shouldn't wear masks" is one example where the guidance changed, but I'd argue that overall it's been relatively consistent.

If you are just looking for random people on the Internet being wrong, then yes, there are lots of examples of that!
Facebook Threatens to Cut Off Australians from Sharing News
> It's just that most people are not willing or able to pay the very high price in ergonomics.

Hopefully it will get better in ATS3 - https://github.com/githwxi/ATS-Xanadu#project-description
For me, the help says that Shift is to Interact, and E/Enter are for Run. When I walk by an interact-able entity, an E button floats above it.
Part of the problem is that Black people never had the opportunity to buy the properties they occupied, even at depressed prices when those properties were undesireable. So when gentrification occurs, rents go up and they're shut out. If there wasn't a massive wealth gap to begin with you'd see more Black homeowners in gentrifying areas making bank on their massively appreciated houses.
> does modern science consider viruses to be alive?

This is a (bad) philisophical question for people who do not understand the concept of "spectrum", not a scientific question.
OMG I am in love with the thought of API and CLI based CPOE/documentation.
Mozilla research: Browsing histories are unique enough to identify users
You're either interpreting what I said entirely too literally or maybe I was a bit unclear. If they saw somebody else's implementation of "chapter delivery of ebooks by email" online and then proceeded to roll their own with zero credit to the original creator, that is ethically WRONG. It scares me as a developer myself to see how many people are totally okay with the Mark Pincus approach.
I always loved the vision of systems such as Smalltalk or Self. Interacting with software objects dynamically and having a system that is in a sense 'alive' seemed so cool to me, yet all the time later we're still sitting here typing characters into text editors to make static programs. Always wonder from time to time why interaction with programs from a developer standpoint has virtually not progressed or changed.
For example, I've never managed to establish any sort of UDP connection over an AT&T line, neither home nor cellular.
If a python tool wants to be in apt, then it can only use apt dependencies. So that's something to think about.
This can only be done with remote work. Long Island NY still has traffic problems even with everyone working from home and plenty of highways and multi billion dollar train and bus systems.
Epic's founder, Judy Faulkner, is the fourth richest self made woman in the US. She's the CEO of one of the largest companies in the health tech industry, and almost no one has heard of her.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Faulkner

https://www.forbes.com/self-made-women/#68196cf36d96
Thanks for your kindly inquiry to clarify it. Indeed shame been excessively associated with its shadow side because that is how we have been using it, while even those light versions could feel distressing enough for particularly sensitive kids.

I really like this anecdote about shame:
“In the 1990s I led a workshop in South Africa, soon after the Truth and Reconciliation Comission had started. After the workshop someone ... opened up about their experience working with one of the country’s tribes and how the tribe dealt with shame. When someone did something wrong the entire tribe would all gather, circling around this person ... telling them over and over again all the things they’ve done right, all the wonderful qualities about them, all the good things that they are. The tribe would provide a counter-point to the inner shame of doing something wrong, by holding up a mirror of who that person “really” is. Not implying that they hadn’t done wrong, but rather mirroring back their true nature”. From Attachment-Based Yoga & Meditation for Trauma Recovery, D. Fey, pg. 57.
I understand what you're getting at, but I don't think "hypocrisy" is the right word in most cases -- that's a very strong charge.

As I mentioned in another comment, some Silicon Valley leftists are not that interested in income inequality and are more interested in culture war stuff. In that case they're already not hypocritical for making a lot of money, even if other parts of the left think their priorities are misplaced.

On the other hand, people who are especially concerned about income inequality might think that their preferred way to address it is by having the government increase the minimum wage and/or expand the welfare state. In that case they might be perfectly happy to earn a high income themselves while also trying to support politicians who want to do these things (say, like Bernie Sanders).

This has also come up when critics of redistributive policies ask why proponents don't simply donate more of their own money to the government, to which the proponents will say that their priority is to change public policy (which might scale better than relying on individual decisionmaking).

Related:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefigurative_politics

In my view, people who don't prioritize or practice prefigurative politics aren't necessarily hypocritical.
Amazon wins FAA approval for Prime Air drone delivery fleet
I didn't use the word "conclusion". The article does conclude with the sentence I quoted as well as what you quoted. If you honestly read what I wrote, you would see that what I wrote is in the linked page, as is what you wrote, and the sentence from each of our posts is orthogonal to the support that was being sought for the article.

I was not restating the conclusion, but showing how the original article was quoting support from a place that did not support what was being said.
Microsoft used to have far more manual testers than that.

2000 testers isn't unreasonable.
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It's a serious question because theoretically a mask can trap viral particles for later introduction into your membranes, instead of them just passing by in the air.
Was there some kind of clear and detailed development plan available during the crowd-funding?

It seems crazy that much money can go toward a project with only a high level roadmap as a plan. It seems like these devs just got the worlds biggest piggy bank and wasted a significant part of it due to lack of oversight. Maybe that is too harsh, but it seems like not only is a huge amount of money gone but a large amount of goodwill too.

I feel as though crowd funding gives captial with too little responsability on the creators, and a better model would be some kind of investment, where funders have some sort of control and insight. This is complete conjecture on my part.

Maybe forcing high levels of transparency (e.g. detailed reports released over a year) as part of the kick-starter conditions could reduce the likelyhood of this happening agian?
This was a long time ago, but a relative of mine was hiking in Wales, and got injured. She made it to the next town and found a clinic, where she was treated. Then she asked how she should pay. They were like, pay? You don't pay for medical care.

She told them that she wasn't from the UK and therefore wasn't covered by their system. But they said that they had no way of figuring out a price or generating a bill for her. So she went on her merry way.
(still working to articulate this all precisely)

I think a lot of these country to country comparisons bank off the fact that people presume they're dealing with an oranges to oranges comparison like two sporting teams or something equally sized. Evaluating two comparands on some single concept they both happen share in common without looking to the specifics is grossly inadequate.

Concepts like city, country, state, hospital system, etc, can indeed both be shared between two countries at a conceptual level. However those concepts can take drastically different forms with their reality on the ground. The two comparands' actualizations of these concepts can be huge simply looking at scale alone. As far as I can tell the US dwarfs pretty much any EU country in terms of population, land mass/area, and a bunch of other stuff too I'd imagine.

I'm awakening more to the fact that without highlighting from the outset any known differences in scale one can be lead to strange conclusions in the results of comparison. There's that common software architecture analogy regarding the techniques to build a single family detached house being woefully inadequate at building a skyscraper.

It would be nice to have some normalized terminology of city and country etc that speaks more directly to the population scale at hand.
That’s just completely untrue. First of all, Epic has a built in tool called Slicer Dicer for clinicians to perform pretty complex population data analysis without having to do any database queries. Second, every healthcare organization extracts much of their patient data to a data warehouse where you can perform direct SQL calls on it.
I wonder how often people are pissed at the software companies, when the real villain in this story is their hospital. They're actually upset at customizations the hospital insisted on.

At my last job I tried to get some fields in our bug tracking system made optional. You could run reports showing they were garbage most of the time. Naturally, I failed, and those fields are still required to this day. I started putting "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" as a value in some of them. No one ever commented on it.
That's not always the case. And obviously only the developer of this knows the truth, so it's really up to ones moral compass, but there is a difference between being inspired by a product to make something new versus literally copying someone else's work with zero impactful changes.
> which would imply half of the population has already contracted the virus, which we know from antibody testing is not the case.

Antibodies disappear quickly so antibody studies aren't a perfect indicator of spread.

See for example:

> The UK study, meanwhile, suggested that antibodies could disappear completely within three months. The research tested more than 90 coronavirus patients for antibodies over 94 days. The results showed that three weeks after infection, just 60% of patients had developed a "potent" antibody response. In the weeks that followed, a mere 17% of those patients maintained that level of antibodies, The Guardian reported. In the other patients, antibody levels declined 23-fold or became undetectable within three months.

https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-antibodies-last-...
Have you seen anyone not wearing a mask? Did that person face legal consequences?

Do you think speed limits have >85% compliance?
I created the open source ClearHealth/HealthCloud EMR system, have managed hundreds of medical facilities large and small and am the author of "Hacking Healthcare". There are a lot of layers to this and competing concerns. This article is misguided at best. The quote "Doctors are among the most technology-avid people in society" is hilariously off the mark. The average age of doctors in the US is 51.

Amongst many difficult problems related to this:

-Medicare/Medicaid/Federal spending is half to 2/3 of all medical spending. They are insanely bureaucratic and simultaneously penny pinching. They require lots of things that make everyones jobs harder with no obvious benefit to anyone. They dictate in many ways how software must work in medical settings.

-Doctors in most institutions are not given an adequate amount of time to accomplish all of the things that need to be accomplished to deliver quality care and also get properly paid for the interaction. This in part is financially driven but I would say it mostly occurs because there is little to no accountability for medical systems to operate well or efficiently. In many situations there are perverse incentives to operate inefficiently.

-Doctors make an absolutely shocking amount of substantive errors, 25% of interactions or more. Preventable medical error is almost certainly in the top 5 causes of deaths in the united states.

I could go on and on but cherry picking but I think I made my point that this article looks only at one perspective of one facet of disgruntled personnel involved in a single implementation.
I meant physically decentralized - as in, no grand palaces or other government buildings that can be stormed, because the whole administration is working from home.

Imagine a 100% remote company, except, it's not a company.

The power structures are of course not decentralized at all.
As I've mentioned before you only need to look at the fact that public and smaller news organisations e.g. ABC, SBS are not compensated to get an idea of the intention of this policy.

It's purely to prop up News Corp which is struggling (16% loss in 2020 revenue) because of weak newspaper sales and Foxtel bleeding customers to Netflix, Disney etc.

And unfortunately just like in UK and US whenever Rupert Murdoch says jump you better say how high or else your government will go down in the next election.
I find it strange that autonomous car driving innovations are done by specialized companies and not the dominant car makers. The same for aircraft.
At least the technology news bubble makes it seem so, it’s like they are waiting for someone to eat their lunch, hello Walkman and camera
Broskie, take it from an agnostic/natural theist, who actually ended up going down the Philosophy of Religion rabbit hole. Throwaway is right. You've lost before you even got started. The arguments you brought up have been well trod, and very influential pieces of theistic philosophy built around them.

Science can only posit the how. Not the who or the why. Throwing quantum mechanics at the problem doesn't solve anything either, because ultimately you at some point at the end of a nigh infinite chain of why are left with the question "Why something rather than Nothing?"

The answer is either silence, or God, the recognized nominative signpost of the answer , even by the Wittgensteinian approach.

Your COVID-19 related rantings commit the fallacy of assuming the nature of God, or committing the anthropocentric fallacy of thinking God even gives a rat's arse about us, or that there is enough of a working understanding of prayer to count on it in a technological way. It's not a terribly uncommon itis for the modern theistic skeptic, but does demonstrate a horrendous lack of effort in having grounded one's skepticism through actual effort to confront and dismantle the theistic construct at it's core, or to understand it's place in human society.

Religion has no beef with science, nor the other way around.
L4Linux was (is?) a similar project: https://l4linux.org/overview.shtml

The idea of that project was to turn Linux into a user mode application run by a microkernel; rewriting that microkernel in Rust would essentially give you what you're suggesting.
A lot of food isn't that amazing, and some things some people just do not care for. You can dance around the preparation all you like, but I cannot stand the smell of eggs. Scrambled, over easy, whatever -- just the smell of them is terribly off-putting to me.

There's too much awful food in the world to force yourself to try all of it.
Stratechery has a good analysis of the "News Media Bargaining Code":

https://stratechery.com/2020/australias-news-media-bargainin...
Lets not talk about the craven insurance industry or security or American healthcare for a moment. Lets let ourselves dream.

Most medical records don't capture enough information about a person longitudinally over time. I worked in a bank that had fantastic customer relationship management software that captured every interaction between the bank and customer and acted as a integration layer ontop of all services the bank provided. It was a stack based model where recent interactions went ontop and nothing could be deleted. You could find old scans of documents, letters the bank had sent and replies. The interaction between bank and customer over internet banking were all captured. I saw my own records from when I got my own account as a child and could see everything from then till now.

I've had a bunch of touch points with medical professionals relating to an eye injury in the last few years. From Emergency to Surgeons and specialists. A lot of information had to be repeated by my wife along the way whilst I a sat there blind.

I don't think special form support or really even business process support would be that useful. I just think having a single pile of client information that's in chronological order would really help doctors be able to stay on top of the issues at hand and then creating a culture of active documentation of actions by all staff so that patient records such as whats on the chart at the end of my bed get's onto my medical record by the end of shift or earlier each day.

This seems like a good place for an ISO standard.