skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The famotidine phenomena was first discovered in China in the beginning of the COVID19 outbreak, a US doctor was stationed in China at the time and he brought the news back to the US. Chinese doctors noticed that patients who were taking famotidine already for heartburn had significantly better outcomes over time.
Ivermectin has shown promise, and interferon which was largely ignored by the American medical establishment early on was being used by Russian doctors from the very beginning. Now the American medical establishment is "suddenly" become aware of interferon's usefulness in COVID19.
Google: “Any harm Epic has suffered is not irreparable and is of its own making”
Haven't we known this for a long time now? Like even back in March? I recently read that you can also have phantom smells with COVID. I looked that up because I thought I had a phantom smell recently, but I think it was actually the heat kicking in when it had been off all summer.
I've always had Android so am well used to it. They seem cheaper, more open, more colorful, faster to type. My wife's iphone drives me nuts. I dont understand why they're so popular.
I prefer not to meet with my parents on equal terms even though I'm middle-aged and they're approaching old age. I've got billions of people I can treat like strangers, why not give my first teachers a special status? You might say that I treat my parents as if they were my very own parents.

I don't understand the lionization of letting the atomization of society pervade even your closest and oldest relationships. I understood what my mother was before I understood what walking was, and far before I understood what a dollar was. I don't feel a need to be absolutely autonomous to be an adult. I also don't feel free to disappoint my parents just because they can't punish me for it.
What new currency is minted or traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange?
In spaghetti sort I think you place your hand at the top and remove the first piece to touch it. That takes it from O(n) to O(1) to remove a single piece.

Of course, your hand is then a magical device that can do a reduction in constant time.
I'm not hindu, nor would I claim I am. What I've read a long time ago was that there is a god in the religion that promotes that behaviour (it's not about the action of deceiving, it's if the person that was deceived is gullible enough)

I'm going to have to see if I can find it again, or if this is a misunderstanding.

EDIT: I can't find the original statement about the religious values. I've removed it as that I can't find anything to confirm and accept that as it was where I was wrong.
Does LXD still do the thing where it's only distributed via snap and therefore force automatic updates and restart? It's neat tech (especially supporting containers and VMs), but I just can't bring myself to invest in a platform that forces instability like that.
It's the most popular watch on the planet now, so... lots of people?
The current individual approach puts the burden on individuals, and often that burden falls disproportionately on those who can least afford it. Spreading the responsibility around reduces pressure on any one person, and also gets the more fortunate/wealthy in on taking care of society. They've depended on society to enrich them throughout their lives; doing their part to help take care of our aging population should be a cost of doing business.
The nail/hammer version is pretty common in Russia, too.
I recently ordered a bunch of LG Commercial TVs for a job, at 55” they came out to about AUD$1600, which I think is pretty reasonable.

As to the hassle, yes you’d probably find it difficult to buy one for personal use. L
Living in a tech hub gives you access to a super-liquid job market. If you take the offer and move elsewhere, and you suddenly get a new boss you can't work with, you've got a lot less options.

Probably a really good plan for the companies though: great way to have a loyal workforce that won't switch jobs for a 10% pay bump.
> With the watch, it feels the same, but about health. Knowing how much I walked around each day, how well I slept, what my heart rate was, etc. makes it a lot easier to understand what’s going on with my body and be more proactive about it.

Fitbit does the exact same thing and has for years!

> Eventually the glasses can capture a visual record of whatever you saw, the AirPods potentially can capture whatever you heard,

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/10494231/The-p...

But this is Apple, so of course we're not up in arms about it.

I'm really sick of the praise this company gets while it continues to strong arm citizens into locked-down computing devices. Your pocket computers can't run binaries as freely as American speech, and pretty soon your Macs won't be able to either. They've neutered the web browser and forced everyone under their thumb.

Apple is setting itself up in front of every transnational activity its users perform. They're already a tax on everyone else trying to breathe air in the system, but just wait. Apple wants more of the pie and isn't going to stop.

Apple isn't good. The DOJ needs to force them to open their platform or split them up.

And of course I'm going to be downvoted.
Everyone is likely breaking some law at all times. That's why there's that video of a law professor telling you to shut up when you face a police officer. Not all laws can or should be enforced at all times. Not all laws are enforced at the time and place of your choosing.
> The multitude of sensors are great, sure, but the real magic is how the watch motivates you. Closing rings is like crack.

I second that. I have had my Series 4 for 514 days. I currently have a 514 day Move streak and 72 perfect weeks (All Activity).

My one major complaint would be exercise minutes during outdoor walks. I will sometimes do, say, a 40 minute walk and only get 32 minutes of exercise credit. It will be giving me one minute per minute of walking for say 25 minutes, then go 8 minutes with no credit, then give me one for one for the remaining 7 minutes of the walk.

I'm frequently checking heart rate and pace during all this, and the 8 minutes of no credit portion matches the rest of the walk on both of those. Checking the map of the walk afterwards, where it color codes sections where your pace was above or below average shows no slowdowns during where it drops minutes. Checking the detailed heart rate data afterwards in case there were slowdowns that I just didn't notice during the walk shows that there were none.

I wish they would add an "explain exercise minutes" option that would look at a workout and tell you why you didn't get credit for some minutes.
Google's Daydream VR Is Officially, Finally Dead
I remember VLC reading many years ago that VLC could do what it did, playing region-locked DVDs, because the French author could legally implement circumvention methods into VLC.

However, America's focus in free trade negotiations over the past decade and perhaps longer have been protecting their intellectual property. For example, due to America's pressure and as a part of the New NAFTA negotiations, Canada agreed to increase its copyright term from life + 50 to life + 70 years. I wouldn't be surprised if what was once legal in France has become illegal since.

Decades ago, US decided it wanted banks everywhere to follow American regulations. It was a resounding success. That's why US can now block Iran from trading with the rest of the world through national legislation rather than international sanctions, or make Canada hand over a Chinese national to be prosecuted in the US for alleged crimes done in Hong Kong. Now that banking is done, the new frontier is intellectual property. I expect national laws everywhere to one by one become like US laws.
> With the watch, it feels the same, but about health. Knowing how much I walked around each day, how well I slept, what my heart rate was, etc. makes it a lot easier to understand what’s going on with my body and be more proactive about it.

I'm interested in a device that can measure respiratory rate, but so far Apple only offers a breathing app that does nothing more than just tell the user how to breathe, i.e. without any feedback based on actual respiration.

https://support.apple.com/guide/watch/breathe-apd371dfe3d7/w...

https://9to5mac.com/2020/01/06/apple-watch-breathe-misconcep...
Please post the links to the product pages. Having trouble finding those same prices.
Mostly true in general, but not universal.

BSTs and other trees (even ones not embedded in arrays) are seen in competitive programming. Sometimes they're almost forced, and sometimes the time bounds are just lax enough that it's fine.

And there are some problems you're forced to do "online", you don't always usefully get your data in advance. There's tricks problem setters do to force online processing, usually just making the input a series of separate queries and having the _real_ input depend on the answer to the previous query.
That's fine for now, but you just know within a crop or two there's going to be panels that insist on being connected to the Internet or they won't even display anything.

And then once one or two companies have made that acceptable, they all will go that way.
All I need is the spotify watch app streaming test to roll out to everyone, then I really wont need my phone much. (and better texting)
I still remember the near-instant channel switching from the 90s, when analog signals and CRTs where the norm. You could change channels on a dime.

Now with complex video and audio codecs, video post-processing and shoddily coded software there's been a very severe downgrade in that department. I don't have a TV at home but every time I'm in a hotel or my parent's place I notice how laggy it is when I'm just browsing through the channels (which is what I do 90% of the time when I'm using one, since there's hardly anything worth watching anyway).

For those of you who are too young to know what I'm talking about, have a look at this: https://youtu.be/v83WEzw8tfw?t=44
> The flywheel then spins ever faster as every decision you make thereafter is about getting closer and closer to this vague goal of “success/wealth/societal perception”. You pick universities based on rankings, large tech companies over startups, management over individual contributor work

I feel as though I've read numerous parables like this, except describing modern America.

We don't tend to choose our careers so early, but is it really so different? In New York City you typically have parents/children competing for spots in the "best" preschools, and throughout the country high school is basically a big competition to be accepted into the most prestigious college. Only among a certain social group, of course, but I'm sure that applies to India too.
> . I confidently predict that once the music industry provides a service that provides access to all the same songs, freedom from onerous copy-restriction, more accurate metadata and other added value, there will be hundreds of millions of paying subscribers.

Wow. That was incredibly prescient.
It's actually like 85% to 90% CO2 by weight IIRC, can't remember the chemistry off the top of my head, but I remember being shocked by that.

You literally breathe most of the weight off.

Edit: Found a source, memory was about right. Per this info-graphic [0] and this paper [1], approximately 84% of fat loss by mass is exhaled as CO2.

[0]https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/349/bmj.g7257/F2.large.jpg
[1]https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/349/bmj.g7257.full.pdf
This is a great link, thanks
There is very much ideology around these issues. One particularly relevant article of ideology suggests that people who are not trans, and whose names would not ordinarily cause confusion, ought nevertheless adopt a practice of specifying pronouns, in service of the idea that those who are trans (or nonbinary) might not stand out when they do so.

While I am agree that there are human rights issues involved in the issues generally, I would say that is not specifically a human right to have others around you adopt this specific practice to support such a person as he, she, or they assert an identity.
Wow interesting. So I feel like I don’t breathe correctly. Could it be the reason why I can’t lose weight :D?
On that note, Samsumg bricked a bunch of their BluRay players (remotely), a few months ago via software update.

"Here's why your Samsung Blu-ray player bricked itself: It downloaded an XML config file that broke the firmware":

https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/18/samsung_bluray_mass_d...
Yeah this literally just happened to me this morning hence the usually reliable comment on the software. Took a bit of Googling to figure out what the Watch considers as exercise: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8287317
It’s not really being bi that’s the problem here so much as cheating on a wife secretly
Learn Data Structure and Algorithm in JavaScript – Part 20: Bit Manipulation
I don't think you are understanding or respecting their argument. Population is not a relevant factor. Violent crime is the relevant factor. The amount of violent crime committed by members of a group is what correlates to higher shootings of that group. Population based analysis has many faults. For example: Say one group consisting of white people has 100 of 1 million people drowning. One group of black people has only 1 out of 1 million people drowning. You might say wow white people have a drowning problem, they can't swim. But, in this case race is irrelevant. If you looked closer you might find one group consisting of white people are more likely to live by a lake and go swimming. It is impossible to have a drowning problem when you aren't swimming. This is why population based analysis is useless and refuted by articles such as the linked.

https://www.forcescience.org/2019/08/researchers-find-no-rac...
When you do stupid things that can physically kill people - then NO.

When you do things that violated someone's arbitrary TOS - this should be NON EVENT.
> If this was Sean Parker with Napster or Zuck with early Facebook, we’d be celebrating their initiative.

I'd say those are both very controversial examples, certainly not heroes.

As for "growth hacking" and generally the ethics of programmers that appeared after the internet bubble, I wonder if one can even describe this as a purely American cultural thing. This is a field which is practically synonymous with internationality.
If $30 of extra hardware makes them able to directly sell $X0+ of ads per TV per year, they're going to be happy to do it.
i once met the ceo of one of these and i cant describe on how many levels they seemed to be an outright tech and human hostile sociopath
I was within ~5 minutes, mmmaybe 10 tops.

It is unfortunate that there is an excess of ideology around these issues. It hinders communication by confusing questions about the implementation of an ideology with hate-filled attacks on people.

It does not help the matter that similar attacks are real and exist. On the other hand, such confusion of concerns is a common goal of many who advance their ideologies, so there is a possibility some may deem this confusion desirable.
You totally nailed it. I would just add that I am growing these vines for only 6 months before harvesting the fruit and discarding the cutting. They do not have time to put out really long roots. In addition, air pruning of the roots happens naturally when they run out of grow media, so they never get too long.
The revenue chart is worthless when it comes to showing demand for music. In fact it just demonstrates the music industry's rent seeking.

They managed to maximize their revenue when they had sole control of distribution. For most musical acts an "album" is one or two singles with a bunch of filler. Anyone wanting to buy those one or two singles had to spend $8-15 on a cassette or CD.

When iTunes et al came around making single sales widely available, we get to see how little most people cared for albums. Before iTunes most labels didn't even sell singles and when they did they were still several dollars vs the 99¢ from iTunes and the like.

Allowing consumers to actually buy what they want has been a huge improvement for them.
Just for other family members without iPhones.

There's a new feature called Family Sharing that allows your kids and parents to have an Apple Watch without requiring that they have an iPhone.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/09/apple-extends-the-app...
I’ve found just the opposite.

By tuning my Apple Watch notifications, I now only get the most important interruptions on it, and I can almost always tell what it is by the haptics.

So my phone can buzz and beep all it wants, I can ignore it. My watch can buzz and depending on what’s going on around me, I can sneak a peek or disregard it.

Furthermore, the watch is incapable of subsuming my attention like the phone. On a phone I have all of my usual distractions. My watch is too small to take me away from the people I’m with (as if that’s anything to worry about this year, sadly).

The watch has liberated me from distractions when I’m among people. If the people you’re interacting with are being distracted, that’s their failing, not the watch’s.
I really love this blog (and support the author on Patreon).

His writing falls a little bit more on the academic side but is still entertaining and easy to follow (although quite some time is required ;) ).

What I like in particular is that he mentions when we simply don't know things and why we don't know them(e.g. because some materials don't last that long).
https://archive.vn/jfKxN
One place this underestimate hurts, is judging the expertise adequate to create excellent insightful and accessible science education content.

Say you want an introduction to atoms for kindergarten. Surely a first-tier professor of physics is sufficient expertise for this, no? And yet, not so much. For example, it's possible to see an atomic nucleus with your naked eye. But only because their are a couple of oddballs, that can be made to fluoresce visibly. The very good rule of thumb is "high energy, can't see". And that's the confident answer you'll get from many a first-tier chemist and physicist. To reliably learn of the exception, you need someone whose focus is nucleus dynamics. A tiny community. But unless you engage them, you won't know you can include a "this is real! see the glowing dot!" photo. I don't know of any non-visitors at MIT with that focus. So my not-quite joke is that MIT has insufficient domain expertise to write a truly excellent kindergarten intro to atoms. One would need to draw on expertise more broadly for that. (A more common failure mode is being able to field cross-domain questions like "does this story convey the right insights? what might a better one look like?")

So what might it take to pull together a massive breath of expertise to create content? The scale is daunting. A cell bio tome textbook publisher commented on their hundred+ authors, and I not-quite joked "great, and how many for the second page?".

Incentives for researchers are a challenge. But a VR intro cell biology project, pulling in researchers with direct expertise for interviews, reported a recurring problem... of getting them to stop and leave. So intrinsic motivations are significant.

Even recognition there's a need, let alone one worth funding, isn't well established.

And the collaborative tech infrastructure to make this possible... that's not a small endeavor.
The Scepter 50" 4k TVs recommended in the article are $200 at Walmart. The quality probably isn't as good, but at 1/8th the cost that's a hard up-sell.
I remember when the first Apple watch came out, many of my co-workers bought one (company discount). We'd be halfway through a meeting and suddenly they'd all stand up in unison because their watch told them to.
No need to pull 24/7 uptime into the conversation, I would say. The impact is that the exchange was not open when they were expected to be open. An outage like that is more disruptive than scheduled "downtime" because of being unplanned.
Don't they own FitBit?
Parallel Plate Capacitor Equation – Simulated
I don't think DADVSI's anti circumvention provisions have been tested in court.
Unless the TV ignores your settings and hops to random networks when it can’t phone home through your AP, this approach should still work fine in apartments.
I see $200 for the 50".

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Sceptre-50-Class-4K-UHD-LED-TV-U5...
Also some people don't have parents. But your family doesn't have to be the one you're born with. There are lots of families who have taken in one of their children's friends as a virtual child to rescue them from a bad situation. I'd assumed that most families have members who aren't actually related by blood or marriage. In my family, they end up being "uncles" and "aunts," but started off as "play-cousins" and "play-children." Maybe it's a black thing.
I’m curious to see how the bot would react to something like the “HN hug of death”
> but very little overhead thanks to the shared kernel. (But can for some reason now also be used to manage KVM VM's)

Which means you can now use the same interface for, say, a Windows VM alongside your lightweight linux containers.

[paraphrased from a reddit post, I was wondering something similar a few weeks ago but haven't done it myself]
Most of the time the Apple remote is just fine... mostly it's the fact that it's easily reversible and lacks a mute button that bugs me.
Troy is obviously a good guy but I think he may be stepping into murky waters here with the switch from logging pwns to actively investigating.

Think he'll do a legit job either way but it seems like a gamble to me. Investigative stuff is well...more murky
Gotta get meet that stand quota!
This is true, I don't understand the appeal when Fitbit has done the same thing for years. Also, who wears a watch to bed? I'd hate it on my wrist.
The real-time location tracking is very central to the app. It’s a grid of people organized by distance.
The traders still sleep and stuff. The efficiency loss was time wasted that was scheduled for trading, but not used. It's no different from unexpected downtime in any other job.
Half the people at my office in security are on LinkedIn FWIW
You shouldn't escape, you should find a way to change it from the inside.
I'm sure there's plenty of market research that explains why there are maybe two mediocre dumb TVs and a handful of bad smartphones with screens smaller than 5", but I'm kind of glad to be left out of all of it. The dearth of things that I'd actually want to buy sure has saved me a ton of money.
Will it necessarily matter though?
In a WASM context format starts to matter less since content in arbitrary codecs can be downloaded and decoded.

There are some concerns:

Non-native support requires non-static pages - even for something that will always appear to be the same, things like noscript will kill the page;

Hardware acceleration will need to be done in general terms - something like WebGPU will help, but it will still be less efficient than hardware acceleration (and that could be a problem for mobile).
This is the only right answer. If you feel yourself starting to slice up your name field, ask, "what am I going to do with the parts?" 90% of the time the answer is to also record a nickname.
At least 1 that we know of
I read Altered Traits at the behest of someone here. All I got of it was "I studied meditation for months to reduce my blood pressure, it didn't do anything, so I took some pills, and that was great, but you should meditate."

It seems that all evidence toward any purported positive effects of meditation is extremely speculative, other than "willpower gains" as preached by Kelly McGonigal. The thing is, those can come from focusing on something useful or cardio too.
A whole new subset of body language indicators - eye movement watching - will be part of dealing with AR users.
I am personally considering just getting an HDMI switch that I can manage externally from the TV. I mostly use the Android TV device I bought and its much more stable than the UI on my offline Smart TV thankfully it has most if not all the apps I need.