skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Invasive ventilation is a form of medical pseudoscience. While sometimes it's necessary (neck/abdominal surgery, etc), it causes tremendous barotrauma to patients' lungs, and should not be used to treat infections until randomized studies show that it's actually beneficial [0].

Someone should investigate how it came to be that anesthetizing COVID-19 patients and sticking a tube into their lungs was the standard treatment, until the front-line medical teams rebelled. [1]

[0] https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/Ventilators-aren-t-a-pan...

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-ventil...
There are some cool homebrews still made: https://gbatemp.net/threads/wip-wumiibo-amiibo-emulation-for...

I suspect 3DS hacking community will stay active for long time as it's the only cheap (second hand 2DS), wide spreaded, hacked portable console available.
Some friends bought a new house, to be built as part of a new housing site.

They got told by others who had already gotten their their homes built to avoid a certain contractor at all cost.

So they went with a large and reputable contractor, and things seemed to move along well. Then the guy decided to visit the site one day, and when he gets there he sees some slightly confused teenager at the bottom of a pit that was to become the basement. He asked what the teenager was doing there. "I'm here to pour the foundation", was the reply. It was obvious the kid was not in his element and did not really know what he was doing.

My friend was confused. First he confirmed the kid was working at the right place. The kid was. Then he asked how old he was and who he was working for. Well he was 17 and was the son of the contractor they were told to avoid at all cost...

Turned out the large reputable contractor didn't had sub-contracted out the work to the one firm they were trying to avoid.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

The link here is just to someone’s personal Colab notebook (which Google hosts for free at colab.research.google.com). This doesn’t appear to be a Google project. It’s more like a link to a GitHub repo.
> (you would think if I didn't click on the suggestion in the past 6 months it would adjust).

This applies to YouTube music as well. I find this incredibly annoying.

Know what's even worse? Searching for something, then liking that song. On my end, that generates an incessant stream of titles from the same artist that no amount of downvotes can stop.

YM sees the pattern +--------------------- and yet continues to predict +.
Sorry but I'm so tired of that phrase. We are social beings. Words have killed many people, and I don't even mean genocide or immoral orders. I mean through depression, suicide and so on.
This isn't a Google research project, it's just hosted on Colab. Also this is from April, pre-GPT3. Also given that there's tons of cutting-edge pre-trained models available for free but relatively few resources on how to actually train such large models on a hobbyist's budget, this type of work is really important.
MemFuck: Bypassing UserMode Hooks
When using SolveSpace, please build from source or get it from the snap store. The last official release is almost 4 years old. Its come pretty far since then.
I keep wondering if the immunity to these viruses disappears while in lockdown causing a much more severe second wave than expected...
While I agree, I have a somewhat different take. I'm sick of companies building their products off the backs of the personal/hobbiest/small business market, and then when they get enough recognition and buzz, switch to essentially an "enterprise-only" pricing structure, completely screwing over the users who made them successful in the first place.

I have no problem that companies (obviously) need to monetize, but when you dump customers the second it becomes more convenient it means that I'll be extremely wary to consider you when it comes to purchasing software for my enterprise.
What I am saying is that Tiktok's treatment was clear capricious abuse of power and shouldn't be taken as a standard or baseline.
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These were opportunistic money grab operations from for-profit companies. What's been linked is a business article which primarily includes a statement where the CEO of the for-profit company is quoted to simply say

>“It’s very unusual to have a contract like this canceled,”

noting that Philips reducing their FY profit outlook as a result, to help investors make an decision on their investments.

It's also very unusual for the government to give a company $650M dollar contract so quickly. It's obvious they wanted Philips, who was clearly perceived to be a leader in the space, to ramp up supply expecting a massive surge demand, which did not materialize. A business decision was made to cut the contract that was no longer needed.

You're welcome to try and go against the client to recover "damages" and risk future contracts from said client.
Possibly related to "brainwave entrainment".

> Brainwave entrainment, also referred to as brainwave synchronization and neural entrainment, refers to the hypothesized capacity of the brain to naturally synchronize its brainwave frequencies with the rhythm of periodic external stimuli, most commonly auditory, visual, or tactile.

> It is believed that patterns of neural firing, measured in Hz, correspond with states of alertness such as focused attention, deep sleep, etc. It is hypothesized that by listening to these beats of certain frequencies one can induce a desired state of consciousness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainwave_entrainment
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Yes, I did read it.

> Extended use refers to the practice of wearing the same N95 respirator for repeated close contact encounters with several patients, without removing the respirator between patient encounters.

You're reading it as "extended use" meaning multi-day use, but that's not what the article defines it as. You will eventually have to discard the thing as it gets soiled or becomes harder to breathe through as it collects particles.
Nothing inspired confidence like the sound of joy after one found answer they looking for....Yahoo!!

Also the runners up, Bing.
We have our older students at dexter.school use Onshape. It's a good web-based analog to Solidworks: https://www.onshape.com/
I’ve been waiting for this launch!
Did you really buy it with an expectation of a steady stream of new titles?
Can you refute what they are saying?
It's a good argument for specialization. If your job is "I design web apps" then it's gonna be new and unpredictable work every time. If your job is "I do software consulting for small businesses to migrate from excel to quickbooks, or quickbooks to an ERP", then you'll probably have a lot of reusable code and making predictions will be easier. Furthermore, you can probably do a better job in 10 hours than what someone else might take 30 hours to do. And the customer wins out too since they have quicker turnaround time and battle tested code/processes.
The 3DS homebrew scene seems pretty robust. The hardware is cheap enough now that you can have a modded system for preservation purposes, while keeping another for digital downloads.
Right? There is a tremendous game library on the 3Ds, with several well known titles being exclusive to the console. Thousands of hours of gameplay on native games, let alone the emulated ones.
The scolds and prudes who are honestly concerned with Little Johnny are just stalking horses.

This is about what it always is: power, control and money.
I've been really impressed by GDS, i know it's popular to bash on the gov but in this case, i really think it's mis-placed, they've been really good. Take a peek under the covers and see that their work was adopted in other nations too: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/government-digit...

Now if we're talking about a public tender then of course i agree completely. Are Capita still blocking new Army recruits due only to systems issues 12 years later...
Mainly, because most people won't be exposed to it. They will be exposed to the Youtube's one and the effects over the majority are those that matter for the goals of the study.
This comment right here sums up why Trump is gonna win again.
> as more and more users have begun to value their privacy on the internet.

Google's captcha DoSing me drove me to DDG not privacy... Much of the time the results are poor but I just cannot endure google any longer.

I wonder how many others have the same reason. This affects mobile internet users particularly badly.
The feds seemed more interested in using the DPA as a show piece to punish CEOs like Mary Barra for acknowledging there might be a need to build ventilators. There continues to be a complete lack of acknowledgement that more masks need to be created, and so people continue to get sick and die while treating patients.
GP had cast "conservative" and "liberal" as mutually exclusive descriptions of the political spectrum: parent clarified that in Europe, those 2 terms mean the same thing. Mostly.
I sold my 3ds games for a hefty profit so I agree
> Not on this issue in Europe.

> Many parties are even afraid of democracy by now.

So they are afraid of the consequences of elections?
i may be able to contribute one or two to that list
Thanks Roee! Appreciate the support
The PS1 games on Vita are quite odd from a technical perspective because they run in a PS1 emulator running inside of a PSP emulator.
We is any governments. There is a worldwide shortage, not US shortage.
The Oculus Quest has games that directly target it on its on platform. Most Steam VR games expect a PC with a reasonably, powerful GPU. Macs don't even run Nvidia GPUs

Most of Apple leadership just doesn't care enough about games. Sure they care a lot more now, but imo still not enough at the detriment of the Mac line. imo Jony Ive placed too much of an emphasis on form instead of function for AR / VR. If Mike Rockwell won the internal politics at Apple for his separate VR hub, maybe we'd have well supported VR for Mac by now... but nope.
Thread from yesterday: Changes to Fusion 360 for Personal Use https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24494653
The thing about the EU is, it's not a democratic government. It's atreaty organization that sometimes takes on responsibilities like a government.

This dual identity has been a boon in some political situations in the past, but it is also a serious liability. Von der Leyen got the job in a usual way for a treaty organization, but she is much more political than some technocrat. There are factions that like it each way, and her job is to play both ends against the middle.

You don't need a democratic mandate to appoint the head of a civil service. You definitely do when choosing the leader of the (de facto) government!

It is increasingly clear that we need a supranational organization in Europe which IS a democratic government. Seems like it would be a natural fit for the EU to be that organization... and it looks like it is headed in that direction. That means it's our role as citizens to push for more democratic behavior at every turn.
I explicitly do hourly when working on the side because of the lower overhead on my end to manage the process. As long as the trust is there on both sides, its a much more pleasant relationship to manage. The client is never going to be surprised by my hours (because I've given a gut estimate and am communicating as we go), and we never have to worry about horse trading for scope. If requirements change we just do the new thing and don't even worry about it.

I will caveat that I also generally enter long term retainer style agreements (though I dont usually structure them as a proper retainer) to handle various issues rather than fixed projects per-se. Things like "we want to scale up and dont know how" or "we are growing and need a hired gun to handle a broad spectrum of miscellaneous requests". Scope is a lot more nebulous in the first place for these.
I'm mostly well served by a slew of ruby/rails plug-ins along with tags - but this so answer might be a good, somewhat modern starting point. I'm going to check out if vimspector can help me with my debug flow:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/51195409
> At least six studies have reported T cell reactivity against SARS-CoV-2 in 20% to 50% of people with no known exposure to the virus.5678910

I suppose if the vaccine trial studies going on now return with anything more than half the infections of the control group (however they want to measure it), we'll have our answer.
Get users and give them a way to interact with you and each other, such as a Slack workspace for the project. Users help you focus on what matters in terms of bugs and features, and help you maintain a sense of urgency.

During the development of our platform, we set students of our colleague with accounts to prepare their final year projects in machine learning. The platform is supposed to lower the barrier to entry for machine learning, and provide a self service interface for people who are not familiar with tracking, deployment, etc. What better user than students to test that it works?

It's impressive the number of problems even thirty users taking your product for a spin can surface, and after many of them complain about something, it is obvious you need to fix it or add a feature to solve a legitimate problem.
I know of Sverchok, a Blender plugin to do parametric modeling based on nodes/dataflow/visual programming (if you know what I mean).

http://nikitron.cc.ua/sverchok_en.html

https://github.com/nortikin/sverchok
There's an analogy to campaign reform. Individuals can choose to bribe politicians, and the politicians can choose to accept the cash and otherwise not modify their voting behaviour.

Yet in the real world we can see what Citizend United actualy did.
When you argue the toss on freedom of speech you really have to ask yourself if it's worth entrusting these powers you think the government should have to people whose views you loathe.
This is actually a really good symbiotic relationship that should foster the archival of a ton more content. Hoping to see this toggle enabled by default at some point.
This may be a stretch, but could this be a clue into the upcoming movies featuring the MCU multiverse? Could the version of Spider-man in this game not be in our version of the universe?
Not OP.

But the flow was confusing because it asked if I wanted to link an account, I clicked "Not now", and then it automatically created an account for me with no input from me and then I could play.
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>How many hundreds of dollars does it cost?

Sadly, you're missing a zero.

Out of the whole bunch, FreeCAD is probably the best open source solution.

If you don't mind pending a bit of $, and need something parametric, then Alibre CAD ticks a lot of the same boxes as F360. Windows only though.

If OTOH you don't need parametric design, I've gotten pretty far with Rhino3D, although again that is Windows/Mac only.
Immunity is complex. Our immune systems are very complex. We've measured immunity based on antibodies for decades, but what if that's not the entire picture?

Our immune systems have Memory T-cells, a Complement Protein system, and several other components to both our adaptive and inane immune systems. The sheer complexity of it is due to millions of years of bizarre evolutionary warfare. Just look at this video that simplifies the Complement system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSypUV6QUNw .. it's still insanely complex even when simplified.

The majority of vaccines we have today are not byproducts of careful genetic manipulation or breeding. They're other viruses that are similar to the one we want to protect against, but less harmful in humans, or they're inactivity through heat or chemical treatment. The first vaccine was based on horse/cowpox 185 years ago by Jenner, and was tested on random people because thousands were going blind or dying and we didn't have the ethical standards on human testing we do today.

They produce antibodies, yes, but there could be hundreds of other interactions there that help different parts of our immune systems build memory. Our immune system is like looking at millions of years of bad software engineering; microservices that were randomly put together by monkeys on typewriters that randomly got things right here and there along the way.

SARS1 and MERS vaccines resulted in some subjects developing Immunopathic responses or Immune Enhancement syndrome. These new vaccines that are being produced seem focused on just generating antibodies using synthetic proteins, which might be missing a bigger and more complex set of interactions that we don't realize is happening with inactivated viruses as vaccines.
Am I wasting my time organizing email?
>>>seems harmless enough.

The number of things that started out with those words and then went on to be come huge problems is non-trivial I am sure

But I want to believe...
You shouldn't look only at supplementary pension for Norway. Everyone gets the basic pension as well, and if you're employed your employer must also contribute on your behalf.
The tone of the article is clearly biased. There was a time when journalism was about facts and not feelings.

This is "orange man bad" level
> You're suggesting the government should spend $650 Million in tax payer money for something that is unnecessary and comparing it to the mask shortage?

Yes, because next time we beg a company to ramp up production of something, it might wind up being necessary.

There's a benefit to government taking on some of the risk in these sorts of scenarios.
You are correct, the result 2 from the submitted parser.py is erroneous. Downvoters should be ashamed of their abusive behaviour.

It is not well known amongst programmer who would like to use parsers that most algorithms as implemented in countless software libraries are wrong and broken beyond repair. We should strive to make it a well-known fact and promote those parsers that work properly, so that less programmers and end-users need to suffer.
Franco-Prussian War, World War I, World War II...
How many years experience? Senior?

That's pretty solid... I guess would be comparable to like $150k in a place like nyc?
I used the free tier of Dropbox for 8 years and decided to subscribe recently. $10/user/month [1] for Dropbox Plus. 2TB storage (more than enough for most people who aren't doing video-editing or have a video library -- I barely fill up my 250GB SSD as it is), a client that works well on Linux (and have for years), and not Google. I'd say I'm getting my money's worth.

I'm not really that tempted to use Google Drive.

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/buy?_tk=individual_hero_button
YouTube recommendations, for me, are the greatest music discovery resource. I've found more new artists through YouTube's algorithm than Spotify, Pandora or Amazon Prime Music.
I wouldn't be surprised, "free gifts" is exactly what they've been given from the car industry for years.
Based on my experiences buying other things on Amazon, there will be a "masks" factory. People will be churning out tons and tons of counterfeit N95 masks. They will invest in printing believable CE marks and putting all the touches that would be present on a medical-grade mask. And people will buy them believing that the masks are high-quality and that they are safe wearing them.
Perhaps it was a "locate lost device" situation?
That's a lot of work for many people, and let's be honest many wouldn't even know how to do that let alone have have random pieces of wood in their house. Not to mention you've ignored all of the points I've brought up. I also really love external base stations. Nothing compares in terms of accuracy. Still I feel it's useful to not be so enamored with something that you're no longer able to look at them objectively. You've also forgotten the part about base stations being expensive and it's a hassle to go to the hardware store just for setting up VR.
Every so often I do that. I spend five minutes selecting channels I'm not interested in, because I watched a gamedev video once and now I'm being suggested hundreds of gamedev videos, or whatever. Pretty soon, it's like the algorithm just... gives up and starts suggesting me generic videos about celebrities and other vapid things that I'd never click on in a million years.
This actually happened in Korea - the KF94 masks have great surface area, seal, comfort etc. Good surface area = good airflow as well.
Yes, that's what I do as well. I also have the old hub frontend for git installed. The idea is that you simply alias git to hub and then you get a few extra commands.

My favorite is "git browse", which opens a browser for the current repo & branch. There are a few other commands that are probably useful but that I don't really do much with.
Not really sure what you're talking about. Not everything you automate on GitHub happens in the context of a CI pipeline like in GitHub Actions. There are many cases for small scripts where you just need to execute a couple of commands.
The experimental filmmaker Maya Deren made a short film in Haiti about some Vodoun ceremonies (and was an initiate herself). I haven’t seen it since I was around college aged, so I don’t recall what the narration was like (i.e. was it maybe exoticising), but I do remember the footage being great.

Here’s an article that came up when searching for it with a link to the video, which gives some context: https://www.wilderutopia.com/performance/film/maya-deren-div...

It also is on YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4cusCpzg6tY
Hmm, anyone know the name of the font they're using in the pictures? Closest I was able to find was anonymous pro, but that's not quite it
hysteria in the media

I don't think it was hysteria in the media, it was the belief early on by the medical field that respirators were the best treatment for COVID patients.

I'd like to think that the government bought those respirators due to medical demand, not because what they read in the newspaper.
I re-use the blue ones many, many times. The thinner yellow ones fall apart after a couple uses though.
I actually think that words can hurt plenty, bullying can drive people to suicide or indeed bring them to commit terrorist acts.

But I don't want to censor the internet. There are 1.3m death from traffic accidents and 0 deaths from Twitter.
> It’s only a matter of time until we get a DRM mouse that only works when online

A VR headset is much like a mouse (with built-in screen and speakers), and there's already one on the market that will require a particular social media account soon in order to keep working. [1]

1. https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-09-15-oculus-use...
Yes. Climate change should be met with mitigation (to avoid further climate change) and realistic adaptations of forest management.

But, to make matters worse, the baseline expected rate of fires is higher due to climate change, and is much higher due to PG&E negligence.

We can and should attack all factors with regulation, maintenance policy change, etc. The fact is, we had maintenance policies for PG&E's portion, and they were negligent.
Well first of all, a smaller number of tools is a good thing. Most software tools suck ass. By focusing more on a few of them, hopefully their quality will increase (depending on who is making them and what their incentives are).

Second, security scanning is just part of an overall strategy for increased software quality, which helps the product made out of the software, which is the entire point of writing software. Who cares if your stack calcifies if the user has a better experience because your app crashes less, needs to be emergency-patched less often, and doesn't leak personal data like a fire hose?

I am an SRE, and not a little bit of a security nerd, and I wouldn't trust myself with getting security right.
> You're welcome to try and go against the client to recover "damages" and risk future contracts from said client.

I love a good threat.