skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have no interest in goalpost-moving efforts to say that they didn’t administer zinc or azithromycin

Don't really have a dog in this fight, but my understanding is that pro HCQ doctors believe that zinc must be included with HCQ --it's not "moving the goal posts" if doctors aren't arguing that HCQ alone is a cure. However it does sound like moving the goal posts if it HCQ is bad because it is not alone a cure.

In a study of 932 patient cases, researchers at New York University Langone Health found that the addition of zinc to hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin was associated with a decrease in mortality in patients who were not admitted to the intensive care unit. [1]

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.02.20080036v...
Why not just use temporary card numbers, a la Privacy.com (I am not affiliated with them, just a user)?

I've taken to using Privacy/temp card numbers for all subscriptions. They have strict spending limits set and if needed, I'll deactivate the number.

Sure, someone probably could send your "debt" to collections, but will they?
> Why did the Japanese, unlike the Arabs, rise again after their fall?

Because the ways Japan and Middle East were neo-colonized was different. After the bombs Japan wasn’t allowed to hold any army of significance and was enforced to have democratic institutions, which makes it very difficult for any dictatorial player to emerge, whereas in the middle east dictatorial regimes were not only embraced but even sometimes installed in the hopes that they could be easily controlled.

Authoritarianism wreaks havoc on meritocratic processes such as scientific knowledge production, intellectual property rights and other institutions democracies take for granted to flourish.
The first amendment allows companies to "censor people," that is part of the people's freedom of speech and freedom of association. It only prevents Congress from doing so.
People will look at you funny if you inject fentanyl in public, but we should have the same negative social reaction to social media users and the same negative social reaction to the platform makers as one does to dealers of hard drugs. The immunity from consequences written into the law is creating some toxic effects. Give a corporation a grant of legal immunity and you should not be surprised that they everything that they can to shunt negative externalities onto society to the extent that it improves their metrics (financial and otherwise).

If you gave an industrial corporation a grant of immunity for emitting pollutants, would you be surprised if they set every river they could on fire...?
> Every newspaper in America has obvious scam ads on its homepage.

It's genuinely baffling, given largely bad-faith "fake news" accusations, that news organizations are willing to light their credibility on fire like this. It feeds the nonsense, and justifiably so.
Agree with sentiments of the parent comment. I believe the prestige and social standing of physics (and, in part, the academia as a whole) is founded in the truly transformational technological advances -- say, the transistor -- made in the past decades.

Problematically, to secure funding today, one is essentially expected to frame every condensed-matter experiment as the next transistor. Not only in grant applications, but increasingly also in the abstract and opening paragraphs of research articles. There's a marked contrast with older research articles in physics, which usually go straight to disseminating the results. (Needless to say that I prefer the old style.)

As a result, a great deal of funding and attention is allocated towards projects that simultaneously 1) Will not improve the quality of life of anyone, even in the long term. 2) Are "de-risked" to such extent that no new scientific insights can come out of them.
does the book go into details about how the games were marketed and sold, and bootstrapped to market, on almost no budget?
As noted in your first link, average wage is misleading because the high end is incomprehensibly large (and is where most growth has taken place) and that skews the result.

>The wage distribution is right-skewed; the majority of people earn less than the average wage. For an alternative measure, the median household income uses median instead of average.
The curl easy api perform call is just a blocking wrapper around the curl multi async interface afaik, so I actually think it makes sense.
Someone should tell Elon Musk. [1]

“Handwriting can be quite messy and they take a lot of time. So, instead of spending the majority of the time writing, the spend it typing instead. The students are more in touch with computers and are much slower when they handwrite.”

[1] https://hackernoon.com/how-elon-musk-redesigned-school-for-h...
JavaScript: How to Remember the Difference Between “For in” and “For Of”
You dont have to use OpenSSL. For example Windows already includes Schannel, so you can build cURL with Schannel and avoid OpenSSL:

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/curl-...
I have a question about EB-2 NIW.

I have a Ph.D. (Elec. Eng.) from a non-U.S. university and have lived in the U.S. on a J-2 (dependent) visa; my spouse was working as a researcher at a U.S. university. During that time, I worked (on an EAD) for a U.S.-based R&D company, serving as a principal investigator on Govt. (DoD) funded research projects. I have publications, have served as reviewer for intl. academic journals, etc., but have not won any internationally recognized prizes.

(1) Given my background, do I currently stand a chance of getting an EB-2 visa via NIW?

(2) Would it all come down to the letters supporting my applications?

(3) Does my prior J-2 status (2-year home stay requirement; visa expired 1.5 years ago) have any effect on possibly getting an EB-2 visa via NIW?

(4) Would the prior J-1 status of my spouse affect her ability to join me on an E-21?

(5) Would applying to the Diversity Visa Program interfere with also applying for an EB-2 visa via NIW?

Thanks!
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I wouldn't consider "gamers" to constitute a distinct culture, really. Is there meaningful interrelatedness between the Undertale fandom and the Call of Duty fandom, for example? ARMA 3 and Candy Crush? Fortnite and FF7? If we're talking about "gamer culture", we have to be talking about the cultural tropes shared among people who identify as gamers, and for whom that identification constitutes a meaningful part of how they conceive of themselves.

From what I concede is an outside perspective, I've never been able to understand what benefit or value there is in that identification for the people who hold to it; all it seems to do is establish them as members of a specific market segment with the aesthetic taste of an insufficiently socialized eleven-year-old boy. That, and its interaction with the industry that exists to exploit it, is something I would expect to see explored in an article purporting to discuss "gamer culture" in the context of its specifically sedentary aspects, but Gordon appears content merely to brush against the opportunity of such incisive analysis on his way to invoke Cronenberg and Hemipepsis - which leads me to wonder if Lewis Gordon wouldn't really rather have been J. G. Ballard. No shame in that, but if so, he's got a lot of work to do.

It's also worth considering that "gamer chairs" aren't just bought and owned by gamers. A lot of folks I work with have used them to furnish the home offices they've had to set up this year thanks to COVID, because they're marketed as being designed for long periods of sitting, and because Herman Miller and Steelcase and so on typically price in the next higher order of magnitude - a significant point for folks with larger families and less disposable income than, I think, a lot of HN participants, myself included. Such a blurring of categories might likewise be part of an analysis produced by someone willing to invest effort in developing a broader view than Gordon seems to have bothered with.

It's a shame, really. There are hints here at a much better article than the one we've actually gotten to read.
>Ban user tracking and targeting. It's a red queen's race and no one benefits

Can you elaborate on this?
The author explains in the twitter thread (french):

https://twitter.com/DMerigoux/status/1314531302079688709

> The difficulty arose from a constraint on the part of the
DGFiP which did not wish to publish, for security reasons,
part of the logic of the calculation corresponding to the
"multiple liquidations" mechanism. Raphael and I recreated
this unpublished part in a new DSL.

> The DGFiP also did not wish to publish its internal test
sets. We therefore proceed to the creation of a completely
random test set, from the unpublished content, in order to
be able to reproduce the validation of Mlang outside the
DGFiP.

> A little less than a year after the publication of
https://blog.merigoux.ovh/en/2019/12/20/taxes-formal-proofs....,
we therefore found a compromise allowing to respect both
the 'source code publication obligation, and the security
constraints of the DGFiP.

> By allowing us to go to its operating site and
confidentially access the source code that it did not wish
to publish, the DGFiP has enabled us to find alternative
solutions that make the publication of the source code
concrete and operational. .
GitOps Happy Hour: Demystifying GitOps
You don't necessarily have any DNA from any particular ancestor, but they would be your ancestor. This is explained in the article I linked. That means that if everybody's ancestors converged in 5500 BC, and at least one person had a Neanderthal as their ancestor, everyone has a Neanderthal ancestor.
But so could open source government?
My mind is boggled by the tone of these comments.

“Science can be wrong! This would be a disaster!”

What?

Of course scientists can be wrong, but letting politicians ignore science, as we currently do, is clearly a disaster.

This is supposed to be a site for technical people and I see much more trashing of this post than discussion of how to actually address the issue it’s raising. Can someone tell me what’s going on there??
I bet there were people who loved using Bell System and people who enjoyed using IE over Netscape, yet we are not judging them based on how loved they are, but are they playing fair, and Apple since it's rise has been anything but.
Careful, targeting is not the same as dynamic. You could very well have 10 ads approved, and choose which one to display based on the time of day, location etc
Yup. Genes can't think long-term, so they foolishly made us smarter than they are.
A cluster of ESXi servers doing vSAN and HA/FT is just another technique for making a given application highly reliable. There might be "better" ways to do it, but I look at this and see a very straightforward way to turn half a dozen Raspberry Pis into five nines of uptime (or more) for an embedded device.
That's all? If they did a larger sample on a more fraud heavy vertical (at least 100k clicks) they would get bigger proportional numbers.
Code directly written be the Government must be public domain. I'm not sure this is a step in the right direction, or a step backwards as it just pushes more software engineering to consultants.

(I've at least seen DARPA-funded work become open source. That's a good step.)
Sounds like a notification.
We’ve used Peter and he & his team are GREAT!

Background: They worked on an O-1 for one of our employees.
Oh, rc is a cool shell with a pretty chill codebase to work in! For kicks and giggles I hacked in a bunch of toy features like try...catch and linenoise support to it 5 years ago!

https://github.com/i80and/rcish
I've always seen it called "justified" alignment, which appears to be the common term:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_alignment#Justifie...
I am working as a software engineer on a H1B. I am working on a side project and want to start a startup with this idea in the near future. what is the best way to do it?
The point is not to rationalize. God could 2 + 2 = 5 and stop trying to understand His will as it is arbitrary. And then of course use this narrative to legitimize some autocrat.
The nobel peace prize is a joke... Even Obama got it... while droning innocent people.
Good Bad Bad Good Adjust: What Was the Golden Age of TV? (2019)
People tend to over-inflate the potential impact of fake information sources. False information tends to hurt people and we're extremely adept at recognizing false agents, whether they be random tweets, facebook posts or media outlets. Some people walk around so afraid of someone spreading a lie that could hurt them that they insist on authoritarian controls on speech but the fear is completely unfounded.

For smart intelligent people, false statements create untrustworthy agents. For oppressive despots, false statements are always the most expedient shortcuts to some desired outcome. What countries like China are doing are playing the despot and preventing their people from thinking critically as much as possible, and silicon valley thinks that's a wonderful idea.
I hope that the model Apple is using will be made illegal, most likely in the EU first. But I am concerned that if you have a one trillion dollars, they you pretty much can do anything you want, as with such money you can buy any decision. Apple should be forced to allow 3rd party app stores in their ecosystem. There are many other things Apple is doing wrong and all we can do now is to raise awareness about their shady practices.
I am proud that I pretty much cured everyone in my circle from buying any Apple products.
That's the difference. For a lot of Californian tech companies, the whole company meetings revolve less around strategy and mission and more about racial inequality and Trump. As an outsider, I can't understand how strong the bubble is and how lacking in context these people are.
IMO removing clickable links and link previews would go a long way to make social media better.
Currently using Minio which is a relative success. However as part of quality checks we're using a lot 'listObjectsV2' S3-calls to check for gaps in our data, which is pretty slow. When using SeadweedFS plus, say, a Filer meta-data store based on Redis, this would presumably be faster?
This petition is made by Free Software Foundation Europe. I guess you should ask Free Software Foundation to start one in the US.
I'm no expert, but one observation I had is podcasts seem to follow this model. Most podcast ads I hear are read by the hosts themselves, though a small number splice in targeted advertiser-provided audio (eg a UK soccer podcast will play me local Canadian ads).

For the podcasts that follow the former model, they don't seem to rely on timeslots (i.e. payment just for ad being shown), though some may be involved. Instead, it seems they rely on coupon codes to measure conversions. I assume the podcast gets paid per coupon code redeemed. Barring show sponsors, in my experience ever single podcast ad read by a host will use a coupon code.
> Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere aude! "Have courage to use your own reason!" -- that is the motto of enlightenment.

- Immanuel Kant
"An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?"
(Was ist Äufklarung?)
(30 September, 1784) [0]

Anytime we read a paper book or write with a pen, we break free of the tyranny of the device. The mind is one step further removed from the connected mob and therefore one step closer to thinking on its own terms.

[0] http://web.mnstate.edu/gracyk/courses/web%20publishing/KantO...
> where the US president is deeply incompetent and a shameless liar, and some seem to think it's biased for the mainstream media to even point those facts out.

Deeply incompetent is an opinion, not a fact. So yes, it is a form of bias.

Actual fact-based reporting would be articles like "President did XXXX on YYYY" and leave the opinions and talking heads out. It would also be fairly dry and not generate outrage click traffic which media companies seem to thrive on these days.
This can't be serious.

"mortality by Day 29 for these patients was 11.4% with remdesivir therapy as compared to 15.2% with the controls."

"HCQ-treated patients did not survive better than those not getting the drug: 27% of them died within 28 days, versus 25% in the standard of care group."

Those mortality rates are clearly indicative of a strongly biased test group, even if they call it randomized.

The normal mortalit rate for Covid-19 is about 0.5% for the general population, and even if you can discuss that and say that is is closer to 3% in some areas, it is not 15% and not 25%.

Those studies are about the effect of remdesivir and HCQ for terminally ill patients.
I believe that in many countries it is now illegal practice to make cancellation difficult.
Turn off an ad blocker for a day after years of running one and you will routinely get solicitations for fake tech support lines, fake crypto ransom demands, and so on even if you are only browsing mainstream sites. This even goes for both iOS and Android phones. Digital display ads are major vectors of crime and the websites and the ad networks that serve them should be held liable for the damages that they cause to victims by facilitating the crimes. They are basically driving the cars for the burglars and helping them literally target victims like the elderly. Then they just say 'oops lol we're not liable.' It's a joke. The government should go after them like it dismantled the Japanese empire in the 1940s. Take everything they have and put the executives in prison for decades.
Since everybody is so hyped about Julia, I took on learning it and using it in one of my pet projects. The use case seemed to be perfect for Julia: financial portfolio optimization.

But honestly, it is a royal pain in the ass to use. Mostly because tooling is so crappy (no decent IDE).

For example, I've made these notes on my journey with Julia:

- Juno and VSCode julia is a pain

- Debugging is pain - no watch expressions (but debug> works)

- Works like with matlab (workspaces, designed for the single script use-cases)

- Long registry lookup times (2-5mins) when starting a new session

- No hints from IDE (Juno) on what methods are available for which types

- Ctrl-click navigation does not work to lookup definitations in libraries

- Debugger does not show the full list of elements - there are triple dots in the middle

- Filters and maps are not lazy

- Arrays start at one

- Precompilation times can take 1-2min

- Package management is done as a part of script execution

- Delay (0.5-1s) when processing commands (compilation?)

- Editors (Juno) do not check types at runtime when the information is readily available

- Include() includes (is this PHP all over again?) a file into the script!

- Reuses same REPL between different files

- DataFrames.jl: Transform does nonsense (use map instead)

- DataFrames.jl: No transpose

Obviously, there is a bunch of good things like freakin insane speed and vectorized method calls are awesome, but I struggle seeing myself becoming more producting than Python + Pandas.

It's really a shame that language is strongly and semi-statically typed yet no tooling is making a use of that.
Again, "anyone" needs to be defined.

Headline: "Waymo is opening its fully driverless service to the general public in Phoenix"

But

Beginning Thursday, any existing Waymo One customer can hail a driverless minivan from a fleet of more than 300. The vehicles will be operating in a smaller, roughly 50-square-mile service area.

Qualifications:

(1) existing Waymo One customers

(2) you can't go anywhere in Phoenix. Phoenix is a lot bigger than 50 square miles. (Also, even if the area were bigger, 300 cars sounds like a small number to cover it)

(3) Waymo plans to reintroduce safety drivers for some rides as it expands its Phoenix service area

Is it driverless or not?

I'm trying to read between all the doublespeak, and I don't see much progress. Again, I would love for someone who lives in Phoenix to sign up, try it, post here, and prove me wrong. Tell me what it was like.
I am a software engineer at a large American software company on TN status. Previous to the pandemic, I was living and working in the Seattle area, but since March I have been working from Canada.

Due to various ties I have been maintaining (even before the pandemic) tax residency in Canada.

Are there any issues with my setup that I need to dig deeper about with a tax professional?
Show HN: Two way sync a Google Sheet to Postgres
But doesn’t “sustained” just mean that we haven’t seen the end of it?
It seems to me that the connection between Europe and Science has to do with the prevalence of Christianity in Europe.
Is there a study of just zinc and/or azithromycin? I wonder if that alone would be associated with decreased mortality
Came here to say this. HCQ is the buzzword we use to refer to the treatment, but it's the combination HCQ with zinc or azithromycin that is actually thought to be useful.
The russian is closer to Walter White than you may think. As I heard the story, he was a practicing MD for years before his mixtapes became popular, then switched to performing full time.

If you're really motivated try looking up офицеры текст песни ("officers text of-the-song") and use machine translation from there. Afghan war songs is a major genre.
My understanding that at least in the US the police is not legally obligated "to serve and protect", they're there to enforce the law.
Was really excited 'til I reread the title. Then I saw "of" in between magic and mushrooms. Meh...
The ad is targeted by showing you a relevant ad on a relevant site. Looking at a hiking site, they'll have boot ads, looking at vacuum cleaner reviews, there are obviously going to be vacuum cleaner ads. Advertisers collecting every single personal detail they can so they can show you the boots you already bought months ago on an unrelated topic just makes the world a worse place.
If you are happy then many others will be happy as well and Apple should be able to compete on merit.

I'm all for mandating an IAP option. But forcing apps to keep customers in the dark about other, cheaper options borders on deception.
How much would a cheeseburger and a shake cost?
The Beast of a Billion Battery Packs croaks again...
I'm the literal opposite. If I have to see the ads, I don't want my data harvested, stored, and shared in an effort to serve them to me. Identify the target audience of the site you're buying ads from, and identify if that is a target audience that you can appeal to. Then buy ad time.

Like TV. That way my data is safe, and I'm still exposed to your ads that are relevant to people visiting 'x' site.
> It's one character.

No it isn't. With exceptions:

fn foo() -> i32 {
let x = bar();
x + 1
}

vs

fn foo() -> Result<i32, SomeErrorType> {
let x = bar()?;
Ok(x + 1)
}
My consistent experience of "flat hierarchies" is summed up well by this quote from the article:

> As long as the structure of the group is informal, the rules of how decisions are made are known only to a few and awareness of power is limited to those who know the rules. Those who do not know the rules and are not chosen for initiation must remain in confusion, or suffer from paranoid delusions that something is happening of which they are not quite aware.