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I read and comprehend both of your comments. I think we are describing two different points: you are speaking about data on PPE shortages, and I have been speaking about data on PPE efficacy.

In the article I linked to, the surgeon general said masks were not effective. This is false. They are effective (along with non-N95 masks).

The data on shortages did not need to be remedied with a mischaracterization of PPE's effectiveness. It could have been communicated as I previously suggested, stating, "we messed up and need donations from the world." This would have increased institutional trust (being honest about the situation), and perhaps supported more uniform mask usage in the long-run.

The original mischaracterization and subsequent defense of this communication choice remains a cause of institutional mistrust. And even if you don't agree, you must be able to sympathize with the logic behind this conclusion for others. In fact, two other replies to your first comment similarly agreed with me.
Wow, this is only 3mb. What did you write it in? I was under the impression there was more than 3mb of overhead even with an empty app.
Looks like an interesting idea, I'll give it a try.

My first thought is this a perfect concept for family planning type stuff. Not planning TO HAVE a family, but planners FOR families or small groups or whatever. It's a perfect place to drop things like vacations or other stuff that will happen in a few months, but we all need to know about.

Could use something like "This Weekend" in that list as well. Maybe between "Today" and "Tomorrow" and before "This Week" or maybe after?

OK, tried it out already (because I'm procrastinating). Good concept I like it, simple and clean. I don't love the colors. Also when I go to add something to one of the things I'd rather just click in the lines rather than have to hit the big + at the bottom of the screen.
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That's browsers for you these days. They ignore browsing features and concentrate on being a faster javascript engine for buying things and streaming video.

I'd say more but that google groups link requires logging in to a google acount.
And yet they're basically super cheap labor compared to their skills that will probably stay in the US afterwards.
To a degree. Hyperbole and idioms are a normal part of communication, as is learning to decipher meaning from them.

If someone said something along the lines of "I would kill my son if they did that", would you take that literally, or as a hyperbolic idiom meaning they would be mad at them and punish them?

I think the actual meaning of the statement in question is ambiguous given the above, and providing for the option that you misinterpreted someone's meaning when condemning their speech likely does a lot to keep the discussion civil and useful.
An underappreciated fact about poker is how easy it is to get cheated.

Even professional poker players can get cheated out of a lot of money in a private game.[1]

It's even easier to cheat amateurs.

There are all sorts of methods cheats can employ, from having accomplices[2] to using marked decks[3] or other cheating paraphernalia about which most amateur players are absolutely clueless.

Cheating online is even easier... if you're the one running the poker servers. Online poker is like online voting. It's not who votes that counts, it's who counts the votes.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63jgfmgqkO0

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cnQlz0ZHG4

[3] - https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=marked+decks
I can’t help feel like the agile in business mentality is somewhat to blame for this. Focusing on getting core functionality sprint after sprint is great for adding new features but there is never enough time to go back and fix annoyances that are minor. I was looking for a new microwave recently and since I’m a nerd I was looking into ones with smart features. So I read some reviews and guess what? The smart microwaves are buggy! Sure the core functionality works but the UI is terrible and prone to crashing. Another example is the new combo washer dryer my parents bought. Dryers have had a beeper go off at the end of the cycle since forever. So this dryer has the electronic equivalent of the old turny knobs and yes core functions all work fine. It dries clothes. It beeps when it’s done. But unlike every other dryer I’ve used before it keeps beeping forever. You have to open the door to make it stop. Oh but the washing machine in the same unit? It beep 3 times then stops. Different development teams I guess. I’m screaming inside just thinking about it. The only fix (and this was from the manufacturer support forum) is to cut the wire to the speaker.
I think it is meant for students for whom learning English is the main, or the only focus of their college program. Probably because that's the easiest thing to abuse for the extended stay in the US: if you're studying hard subjects, like, say, Mathematics, then you need to put in a lot of effort to pass your exams and stay enrolled. When you're studying English, after two years it becomes easy, so you can stay enrolled, but spend zero time attending classes, just show up for the exams every few months.
It’s not just pedestrian skin problems. Your quote stopped short of the full context:

“Bexarotene is used to treat skin problems from a certain type of cancer (cutaneous T-cell lymphoma-CTCL).”

Bexarotene is an already-approved cancer drug. Cancer drugs often have worse side effects than normal drugs because they’re taken toward end of life, or taken to delay or prevent death. The difference is that MS patients would presumably need to take this medication over the course of their lifetime, as it doesn’t address the core disease.

If Bexarotene accelerates heart disease and causes thyroid problems, a lifetime of taking this medication might actually worsen quality of life and even shorten lifespan. Unfortunately, many patients desperate to improve the symptoms they know might rush to replace them with side effects they don’t yet know.
I love gitk. I use it so often, and definitely most of my coworkers (current, and in the past) have been unaware it exists!
Both the left extreme and the right extreme are authoritarian.
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Don't get me started on my mother-in-law's tech problems. It never ends... almost anything she wants to do requires three things to work together that simply won't.

Even a simple issue like "which remote control do I use" is a disaster that keeps happening, pointlessly, again and again.

Yesterday we tried to get her iPhone to operate the Spectrum app on the Roku device connected to her Sharp TV - just so she could change channels by number. It can't work.

Can we all just get along?
Not even mentioned in the article -- IMHO cold brew just seems so much easier (make a big batch at once) and tastes so much better.
Let's analyze what it would take to make your scenario work: some state actor is going to fly a drone or aircraft with the range to reach the US (launched from where?), past any radars and other sensors that the continental US has without being detected (and then fly back out even), drop a specialized munition that leaves large, analyzable debris behind, and somehow not be identified to face reprisal. That is exceedingly unlikely.
Maybe it's just me, but I try to never do any serious work in the browser, or to never write longer blocks of text in a browser app. And it's precisely for this reason - few applications implement measures for either the server or my internet going offline that work 100% the time.
> Is the Secret Service really confident that it can protect its charges from this kind of attack?

Yes. Our military is pretty confident that it can handle any form of missile/flying object trying to reach US soil before its an issue, which is part of why we feel pretty much zero repercussions for being terrible.
My impression is that the typical music industry exec is just as egomaniacal as Kanye, just without the creative success to justify it.
Amazon is my gross secret. I find much of what they do disgusting, but I still have Amazon Prime, still shop Amazon a fair bit. As abhorrent as it is, it's also just too convenient.

That's why I also own shares in the company. They are just too damned sticky and too damned good at so many things.

It reminds me of that scene from Clerks II. It's the most disgusting company I've ever seen... but I can't make myself move away.
I meant more that the loss of US power is unfortunate (and was being a little glib, obviously upsides and downsides to the US not being the only superpower anymore) - I would love if more Dutch came to the US, maybe SF would finally get some bike lanes
Perhaps that's why whistleblowers are given so many special protections. If what they did was perfectly legal, a lot of the extra protections wouldn't be necessary.

If you're in the CIA, for example, you can't blow the whistle legally, at all. You'll always be breaking some law (security clearance, most often).
(Anecdote!=data and all)

Are there similar stories of lingering pain/symptoms from people who suffered traumatic injuries or survival events?

I (35M) fell ill with covid-like illness and a period of post-fatigue between feb and april and still haven't 'recovered fully'; When I test my body, it's obviously very capable and fit (more than before when I was sick, even) and so I've come to an understanding that I must approach this as something like a trauma that I'm still processing or an injury I'm slowly mending from.

If you were in a serious vehicle accident or injure a major muscle group or tear a ligament, your posture and form doesn't just return to pristine form when the body repairs itself, common wisdom would say to go to a physical therapist and practice a set of deliberate exercises designed to restore your strength and help your body re-learn what is a correct form/posture/movement/recruitment. After plenty of injuries, there's an expected "you won't be the same after this"

It makes sense to me that something similar is at work here; I wonder, how many of these people are making an unreasonable assumption that they would recover to their full capacity without trying to cultivate it? How much of the association with 'long-term symptoms' is an anxiety/panic/fear/trauma response from grappling with a novel virus which was once advertised as extremely serious and likely fatal?
> I was recently considering going from paper notebooks to a tablet. That initiative stopped at the electronics store.

Good, you dodged a bullet there.

I mean, I love my 2-in-1 Dell (a slightly cheaper but still high-end Surface-like device). The pen, as much as it's useful (I'm not even considering buying a touchscreen-enabled device without solid support of a pen anymore; it's so much better UX than fingers), still has lots of subtle and annoying bugs. Maybe in 20 years people will work out the kinks. More likely, the concept will be abandoned in favor of some new modality that will also never be perfected.
He apparently uses a very particular brand of tanning product: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/12/6/20998822/trump-orang...
The "communist boogeyman" is objective, observable fact.

Communism led to the death of over 100M people. Communists operated at a high level in the US government. Communists are burning American cities right now, in 2020.

Every single attempt at implementing communism has led to violence and oppression at a massive scale.

You may not like it. You may desperately want to deflect. You may employ whataboutism, a term literally coined to describe the behavior of communist mouthpieces, to cast blame elsewhere. But that's just how it is.

If "reactionaries" are the only people offering substantive resistance to communism, then we need a hell of a lot more of them.
Email through jetpack plugin on a Wordpress blog. I have actually thought about looking into suppressing certain things but I am not sure there are many options for this plugin. I could create a different post type maybe as this only sends out updates on regular blog posts.
Why should we believe that? Why do you believe that? Who is to say the people targeted have affiliations to the organizations claimed? The US federal government has little credibility. Usually we demand they back up their assertions in court before they're believed. Courts exist because we know governments lie, so how can you be so confident here?
I for one fully expect the backspace button to work if I do not currently have a text field focused. once you learn keybindings for an application, there's usually no way to perform that function as quickly/efficiently with a mouse. please do not break the conventional ones.

ctrl-s is probably fine to break though. even when it does "save" the page, it rarely does so in a useful way.
Doing it from the command line is becoming more of a hassle now that Debian has stopped packaging Python 2.
Maybe you are only under the impression that your freedom is not threatened due to the legions of people working in the background to secure it.
The entire 25x-NBOMe series was an unfortunate find (sociologically). Lot of people seemed to have a bad time on them.

That was David Nichols' lab at Purdue IIRC. I also believe that they had found other, even more potent derivatives, but refused to publish them for fear they would be used as chemical weapons.

The report had claimed activity at something like 1-10mcg range, which is real spooky when you consider the impact aerosolizing that could have on a room.
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24586708
Disclosure: I work at AWS on infrastructure services

I am personally currently unaware of any AGPLv3 licensed software in use in an AWS service. That said, I would be skeptical of advice to use AGPLv3 due to any particular organization's current policy on the license.

Regarding Presto, work on the service includes changes that should go upstream. For the changes that are appropriate for upstream (e.g., ones that are generally useful, not only of benefit or interest to AWS), PRs are sent. For example: https://github.com/prestosql/presto/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3...

Practically speaking, it is difficult to maintain a development branch of any software project with sufficient change velocity if you have a goal of continuing to integrate improvements from the upstream version.
Thank you for mentioning AirPods! I was so excited to buy them after a ton of reviews saying they just worked. They said the days of fighting with Bluetooth audio were gone. I believed them, then reality showed up.

My Mac sometimes unpairs them and worst it doesn’t find them. Some times while my baby is sleeping I put my AirPods and play a loud video just to realize they were not connected. My wife’s right side AirPod just stopped working after one year of use...

If apple is considered top tier in reliability, then technology in general really just sucks!
Yeah, moving from blade grinder to burr grinder probably made the biggest single improvement in my coffee making for French press & pour over.

With the blade grinder, the grounds were so uneven that sometimes, smaller grounds would go through the French press' mesh (probably up the side) or so big that there wasn't enough flavor extracted. With my burr grinder, my coffee now tastes the same every time.
Actually the charges are 49 pages long and go all the way back to conversations from his youth when he was a minor.

Your post is a red herring as it is obvious the prosecution is using more than this one conversation make its case.

And he is being charged with much more than conspiracy to intrude into govt computer systems so again your post is way too narrow.

For me personally, HN has failed to show how this case is uniquely more perverse than the run of the mill "he stole a pencil when he was a youth" vs "he talked about reading generals' emails at 17" (for Assange) - it's the norm in the US legal system.

Is this the first case that awakened HN to how unjust our legal system is? I can't help but feel that is where most of the outrage comes from. Not the specifics of this case, which look terrible for Assange (not saying it's his fault they look terrible but they do).

Protestors are being charged with a possible sentence of 6 mo to 99 years right now. That kind of discretion and ambiguity is disgusting but it is a feature. They can get Assange for anything just like an "hacker" could be jailed for bypassing an API.

I'm sorry but the legal system and our laws are unjust. But don't channel everything through Assange and make it seem like this is anything new.

They have him in their crosshairs, you and I are lucky it's not our turn. Why is it Assange's? Maybe to chill future dissent and fact based journalism, maybe this executive branch has something specific to fear.

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Wikileaks canary dumps' dencryption keys were never published. In 2016-2017 something happened. Idk why Assange never published them, but it's possible wikileaks was comprised by the US govt early on in the Trump admin or late Obama admin. Maybe someone has more knowledge on this part.
It's interesting how public has forgotten that ISIS is no longer any different from your usual terrorist organization with cellular structure, which is actively eradicated by both Syrian government and Kurds. So what mandate US forces have in Syria for their military activity? Not only they occupy some strategic land (Al-Tanf), but also actively kill military forces of the internationally recognized government (you can call it a dictatorship, evil to the core, etc., but it does not change the fact) inside Syrian borders without declaring a war on it.

But luckily for the public in his utter unprofessionalism Trump was pretty honest about it: https://www.newsweek.com/syria-trump-stealing-oil-us-confirm...
The problem here is, in professional poker, the long run might never come.

In online poker, every hand you play is tracked and can be analysed and people have "run bad" over hundreds of thousands of hands; more than a casino-player will ever see in their life at 20 hands per hour.
Small typo:

> The checkbox (Ok, check circle) will be read instead of light gray.

Where it says “read” should probably say “red”.
Intent matters in society. There is a difference between murder and manslaughter. We don't know the ultimate result of all this on the US since we are right in the middle of it. It is possible things turn out relatively fine, but the US democracy right now is on the edge of collapse. The most recent example of such is that we have generals worried about a coup. [1] Also the US isn't the only target of this type of behavior. Russia is doing it to numerous other countries and it is being reported in both foreign media and by various academics.

I have explained my viewpoint numerous times. I don't think I need to explain it any more. I am legitimately confused on what you are trying to achieve by repeatedly questioning that viewpoint. I already admitted the US does bad things. I am not making a value judgement of US versus Russia. I am stating that the specific situation outlined matches closer to Russia's behavior than the US's.

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/25/us/politics/trump-militar...
Yes, SIMD as well, although they're not available on all browsers/devices.
You should consider whether Tesla considers Autopilot engaged if it was disengaged, say, 10ms before the collision.

It's pretty clear from their long history of weasel-wording that the answer is no, but they also aren't saying.
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That's really not the only thing that changed.

Games are also massively more complicated today. It's one thing for three people getting a 2.5 MB single player DOS game reasonably bug free. It's an entirely different thing to get the 5 GB game made by a team of 100 or 1,000 people.
I think there’s also an important distinction between being able to legitimately enjoy creature comforts vs needing them to feel whole. “Appreciating” a luxury car shouldn’t be conflated with “needing” one
Houses, cars, etc are far more reliable and well designed than software. Think about all the extreme conditions cars continue to function in. How many people don't even follow basic maintenance schedules?

Another key difference is that in maintenance of your home, you have complete control. It's extremely easy to understand and act to improve or maintain it. When large software systems (like the IRS login) have problems, you are totally helpless.
Endless message mapping and behavior change campaigning was never going to cut it here for an entire pandemic. People know they’re being led by the nose.

I get it, it’s hard, which is why we give the CDC a ton of money every year.

I just don’t have much sympathy for people who deploy preplanned psychological tricks and then don’t get what they want. We deserve better, seriously.
> While bexarotene will not go into phase 3 trials for MS, the finding that the nervous system can be stimulated to resheath damaged neurons has given scientists fresh hopes for another trial they hope to launch later this year. That trial will monitor the effects of the diabetes drug metformin along with clemastine, an antihistamine, a combination that Prof Robin Franklin at the Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute showed last year could drive remyelination in animals.

That would be an amazing find if it works in humans. My wife was on metformin for many years (not for diabetes) before being recently diagnosed with MS. Coincidentally she experienced her first MS symptoms shortly after stopping metformin. We suspect that use of prescription steroids along with metformin might have been masking the onset of her MS for years and in an indirect way even delayed it slightly.

She just got her first half-dose infusion of Ocrevus, other half scheduled for next week. Ocrevus is such an amazing disease-modifying drug. It's very expensive but our insurance covers it and after the initial dose, she only needs one 3-4 hour infusion every 6 months. No other medication needed on a daily basis! Ocrevus helps ensure no new flare-ups happen anytime soon but it leaves her immunocompromised and there is no remyelination. If metformin + antihistamine end up producing even a little bit of remyelination that would be a game changer because she's young and has enough time to regain everything if it just involves taking a couple of pills daily.

Unrelated but just putting this out there since it's fresh on my mind - if you or loved one ever gets diagnosed with MS or equivalent, you absolutely have to be your own advocate. Best thing you can do in the US is to get an online fax# (I use redfax) and the Dropbox app. Scan every single medical document you get with the Dropbox app, convert it to PDF, and then fax it over to 100 places as needed. Also sign up for every single patient portal including Quest/Labcorp. Be sure to get a DVD of every imaging test (CT/MRI) and upload them for free to postdicom.com to share with anyone or to just see it yourself if curious.

It is a LOT of work and very stressful. But if you're technically savvy, you can avoid a lot of driving back and forth between testing, doctor, hospital, medical centers. And above all reach out to anyone you trust for assistance, even if it's just to pick up groceries. People can surprise you with their generosity.
You actually try to dodge things in these games? The control scheme is so horrible for that, I always presumed the correct way to play is “if you’re not nuking everything on the screen with ease, your build is wrong and you’re not strong enough. Come back later.”
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This the shortsightedness OP was talking about.

>election interference

Is fake news, the only real election interference is preventing people to vote.
Paradox-free time travel is theoretically possible