skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's a strong chance we have substantial cross immunity to it though T-Cells defence

You criticise the article but then post this without any backup.

> The literature is saying that if you're under 48 the flu has a higher mortality rate

ditto. Show us the figures please.

> N=1 in this study

It's not a study.
Ask HN: Have you had mostly good or bad experiences in Pair Programming?
Anyone who is stupid enough to wear such a device deserves to get locked in.

When I saw the name Cellmate I thought it was meant to keep Bubba and the Booty Warriors under control.
What makes Facebook/Instagram a better target than, say, Amazon the virtual big box store and Amazon the cloud computing company?
Housing and real estate have a regulatory environment which may be as Byzantine as that in healthcare! Real estate is a little 'better' because you have competing regulatory regimes which serve to (somewhat) moderate the extremes, but it's still quite bad.

If you're looking for a contrasting inelastic market (one with a simpler regulatory landscape), I'd look for other industries with high capital costs, such as semiconductor manufacturing.
If doctors were interviewed like software developers
Without being too knowledgeable on the topic, but with a little math background - you'd need a bijective function to that. On a quick search for bijective lenses https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.03248
I think this is an intentional driver setting to avoid false touches/moves on crappy hardware. You can likely tweak it but I think that’s entirely the sort of thing the post author was trying to work on.

I believe there is also a tweaks dB to set better values for known hardware.
There are no NaN values in the real numbers.
Facebook's Knowledge-Assisted Neural NLP Papers of 2020
I'm guessing its because of technology rather than the subject. They were famous for films they created from 1895+
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_and_Louis_Lumi%C3%A8re
not suprising more people die in the U.S. than any other developed nation.
dup with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24701732
Much of drug R&D is funded through the NIH.
You can blame users for expecting AI to solve everything, but that doesn't mean we give Engineers and Researchers free reign to package, publish, and distribute AI software that falls short of its promise (and introduces dangerous patterns along the way).
Actually, yes. This is the entire problem with "tough on crime" policy: it doesn't attempt to handle the causes of criminality.
> If the polls didn't match the votes in 2016, they probably won't again in 2020, for at least some of the same underlying reasons.

That's true only if you assume perfectly spherical pollsters :) After a real or perceived polling miss (in reality, most polls weren't off by all that much in 2016), pollsters tend to change assumptions, sometimes overcompensating. Notably, after a moderate polling miss in the 2015 elections, which predicted a hung parliament where in fact the Tories managed a small majority, UK pollsters went on to overcompensate in the 2017 election, showing a Tory blow-out win whereas in fact they ended up with a hung parliament.

(That one, incidentally, shows one danger of polls! The first poll allowed Cameron to safely promise a vote on the EU, because he assumed they'd be either out of government or in coalition with the libdems, who wouldn't allow it. In fact, they won and were forced to go through with it. The second one allowed Theresa May to call a snap election to gain seats so as to have enough spare MPs to be able to ignore the ERG and negotiate a semi-sensible Brexit. Instead, they lost seats, had to deal with the ERG and Unionists, and ultimately ended up with the current catastrophe. The current Brexit mess is at least in part due to polling misses.)

In the US, pollsters have started to pay a lot more attention to education, which was a major predictor in the 2016 election.
Would it? Because in general, when I look at the software ecosystem (in the open-source community and the closed-source cross-company community), I see a minefield of impedance mismatches and a programmer's lifetime of writing shim code.

The one-company ecosystems are incentivized to make their software work with its siblings. I've never seen any such strong incentive in other environments. I'd expect open-source to succeed at it, except instead it's a compatibility nightmare because people are interested in their own apps and not in making them talk to each other.
2020 strikes again.
Only 65. I grew up listening to Van Halen and spent a crazy amount of time trying to play guitar like Eddie. I think their first album was released when he was only 22. What a legend. What a life. Taken too soon. :(
House Democrats say Big Tech enjoy ‘monopoly power’ and recommend big changes
> Is this the same Nick Land famous for his racist views that kickstarted the "dark enlightenment"?

Yep, looks like it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24701129

The neoreactionary perspective is just oozing from that post, too.
And other countries benefit from the high drug prices in America that fund pharmaceutical research.

I don't see them gnashing their teeth over the ethical considerations of that.
This is the modern landscape, but the television example I mentioned (and actually most of the examples I know of offhand that remain successful today) actually predates the creation of the cable access programs, it originated as an OTA channel pre-cable (in this area). Without actually having researched it too much, I suspect the educational access program is too restrictive for a pivot to PBS affiliate due to service area limitations.

You could view the educational access program as a failed attempt to bolster these types of services. There are definitely active educational access stations but I'm not aware of any case where they're still used to deliver teleinstruction - would love to hear about any that do.
Germany has had universal healthcare since the 1880's under Otto von Bismarck. This has been a solved problem for more than a century.
Looks like a cool library. I'm curious why the Android calculator app needs reliable exact equality tests. It doesn't appear to have an equality test function.

Edit: the paper claims that you need exact equality tests to avoid printing unnecessary zeros at the end of decimal expansions, among other things.

Interesting that this work was done by Hans-J. Boehm, better known for the widely used Boehm garbage collector.
> "thus allowing the player to create new techniques and sounds previously unknown to any player"

Not including players of the pedal steel. But that's the patent system for you.

In any case it's all about what you do with it.
I used vimium before switching to Surfingkeys for its editor. Turning any text input into a vim box is one of these features that you can't do without once you're used to their convenience.

Note that these extensions have access to all your data on the sites you visit, and while you may trust their developers, a dependency might go rogue without anyone noticing.
Is the water getting in from the bottom or the top? Both? Is what's inside more or less dense than water? Are the tanks pressurized? Under vacuum? It's not hard to imagine why water could get in. It's water. That's what it does.
Right, but when it comes with excessive claims, it has to be compared against other approaches.

Plating on ABS is quite common. That's how plastic auto trim parts that look like metal are made. They don't have a smoothness problem.

[1] https://www.sharrettsplating.com/blog/what-do-you-know-about...
On the mark.

My favourite failure mode for this is throwing lot of effort into porting a chunk of the rancid old monolith into microservices without decoupling. This ends up with a stack of microservices that handle 1% of the total revenue generating traffic yet 80% of the infrastructure cost due to the additional complexity and adding 30% more overall latency due to the network hops and inflexibility of the service API. At the same time it doesn't deliver enough productivity doing this so there is gas being poured into the burning monolith too.
Why doesn't competition step in and increase the supply of insulin, thereby decreasing its cost? If insulin is 1/8th the cost elsewhere why can't I import it from overseas and sell it locally, making arbitrage profits?

Is there something other than regulatory capture going on here? If not it's less a case of "because they can" and more a case of "because others can't".
Thank god the covid assholes didn't blame his cancer on covid. So done with those fascist psychopaths.
The Common Lisp HyperSpec on the other hand looks like it was written by a monk obsessed with dictionaries.
He was a GOAT guitarist and a nice fella. RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb26D8bBZB8
The man was an absolute God with the guitar. The skill he demonstrated in this solo should be evident to anyone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9r-NxuYszg
But did it also fill the morgues?

And the linked article isn't about north Italy. From where do you have the information that north Italian are regularly collapsing, because of the seasonal flu? Full hospitals are not the same as hospitals out of space to keep patients and bodies. Have a look at this impression https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-they-call-it-the-apoc...
Two bouts of cancer, tongue and then now throat...
270 To Win has a simulation that fills in the electoral map one state at a time: https://www.270towin.com/2020-simulation/

They even have a mode that fills in the states in roughly the order of poll closing times, which helps to get your head around how election night is likely to go. (Except it'll probably be election week and poll closing times will matter less than how fast various states count mail-in votes.)
I wonder if some enthusiast is going to find these building in modern Lyon and compare the look.
https://blog.sql-workbench.eu/post/epoch-mania/
Many people believe that positive discrimination is a way to get the balance faster back where we want it to be.
I don't think it's entirely a matter of "need". All these implementations are independent projects.

Some of them include their own features on top of the standard. Some of them focus on specific use cases and/or optimize for specific performance characteristics. Some of them are toy projects.

How many C implementations/compilers are there? Even Python (which has a massive and often ill-defined spec) has multiple implementations.
Ah man, their debut album stands out sonically to this day, it just blew a hole in the scene. RIP Eddie.
He was Stephen Hawkings Teacher!
Thankfully, they've gone and made it opt-in from now on.
Representing reals as fractions (rationals) goes a long way toward achieving this goal.
Regardless of whether I agree with his ideas, I think this is really great writing.
i was never much of a fan of EVH, but i am a huge fan of a bunch of guitarists who would either not have existed (as guitarists) or who would have sounded very different if EVH had not done his thing. so thanks for that, EVH.
Why should it be "too long for HN"? Plenty of scientific papers and NYRB and LRB articles make it to the front page.
> I found it interesting how hunting backfires (scatters them and increases their range)

You missed one of the bigger reason it backfire... people enjoy hunting them, which has made it a fairly lucrative industry in some areas.

Therefore it's actually become against some people's interests to fully eradicate them.
Which one is that? Waterfall is almost a mythical archetype - as I understand it, in practice the closest is usually "modified waterfall", which supports some feedback in the stages.

Steve McConnell in "Rapid Development" writes:

> The waterfall model is document driven, which means that the main work products that are carried from phase to phase are documents. In the pure waterfall model, the phases are also discontinuous - they do not overlap. ...

> The pure waterfall model performs well for product cycles in which you have a stable product definition and when you're working with well-understood technical methodologies. In such cases, the waterfall model helps you to find error in the early, low-cost stages of a project. It provides the requirements stability that developers crave. If you're building a well-defined maintenance release of an existing product or porting an existing product to a new platform, a waterfall lifecycle might be the right choice for rapid development. ...

> The waterfall model works well for projects that are well understood but complex, because you can benefit from tackling complexity in an orderly way. It works well when quality requirements dominate cost and schedule requirements. Elimination of midstream changes eliminates a huge and common source of potential errors.

> The waterfall model works especially well if you have a technically weak staff or an inexperienced staff because it provides the project with a structure that helps to minimize wasted effort.

https://archive.org/details/rapiddevelopment00mcco/page/136/...
I'm in no way accusing you of killing any competition but that's the obvious goal a company like MS has, what do you think? If they had the lead in the search market they wouldn't offer to pay users to use their product.

And as far as getting back their their money, you would still not be parted with your cash, they'd just use/sell your data and cover their loss from paying you in the first place. If I were you I'd continue to get paid to use their service, it's the best deal you can get right now especially that Bing is not likely to overtake Google any time soon.
Fluvoxamine Data Unveiled as Promising Early Treatment in Mild Covid-19
You need some way to cope with operations that don’t have real results for some values, such as log and sqrt of negative numbers
a lot of this is fear mongering
The whole ChromeOS UI and input stack is entirely different from a typical Linux desktop. I'm not sure there's a lot there that could be shared out to the Linux X11 desktop world.
Can confirm. Type 1 who switched away from Eli Lilly insulins (Humalog and Humulin N) to the Novo Nordisk (Novolin R and Novolin N) equivalents sold at Wal-Mart.

Much more planning involved, and a big adjustment compared to Humalog and Humulin. My A1Cs are also a bit higher (6.1 instead of 5.9) to give myself more safety margin.

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Why'd I switch? First I pay less out of pocket than I did compared to insurance co-pays for the name brand stuff. That is, $90/mo for short-acting, long-acting, lancets, test strips and syringes... compared to $170/mo in insurance co-pays for the Eli Lilly and Abbott equivalents, and probably around $800 MSRP.

The second is I no longer need to wait for refill authorizations which too many doctor offices drag their feet on, in addition to insurance companies enforcing only a tiny number of refills per auth (as in, requiring a physician's authorization for the insulin you'll use until you die EVERY SINGLE MONTH) which creates yet more delays and sometimes numerous phone calls to get a prescription refilled since you constantly need an authorization from the prescribing doctor. "If they keep messing up, why not switch doct--" I have. Four times, across three different HCOs, and three different insurance companies. They all screw up and fail to respond to the pharmacy on occasion, sometimes for several months (and a dozen plus phone calls) in a row.

It wasn't even about the cost anymore. The ridiculous bureaucracy with the ultimate position of, "it's the patient's fault" held by every other party forced my hand.
It's worth noting that we don't even have a Federal Election Commission during this ongoing election[1].

[1] https://www.rollcall.com/2020/06/26/fec-set-to-lose-its-quor...
AIs produce correlation which gets sold as causation.
Labor department probes Microsoft's diversity policy
From the docs it does not look like that every http tx is stored onchain. It is more like an ssl-alternative where you sign stuff with bitcoin crypto and therefore not need to trust the sender.
You might have better luck posting to the eevblog.com repair forum. The gurus there can probably tell you exactly what is wrong and if it can be fixed.

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/repair/?PHPSESSID=q8i8l36ul63r...
Doesn't seem like a well-curated list.
Some of these, e.g. Uber's God Mode, don't even fall under the normal usage of the term "AI".
Others, like Palantir or WeChat, seem to denigrate an entire company (rather than specific practices).
And the racist chatbot thing isn't even an actual product, nor was it intentionally designed to be racist.
> If your insulin dose is too expensive, you die.

While that is true, you are not including the option of switching to a cheaper insulin. The older insulins (R/N/L) were, the last time I checked, something like $25 per bottle, over the counter.
You mean, people who understand science? What is the point of your comment?
You can’t move away from the center. You can move in direction around it (while still moving towards it at the same time). And you can move in the previously time now just space.

Delaying your fall is precisely the same as trying to avoid tomorrow by moving around. Moving away from the center is like moving back in time. No matter how you move in the spatial dimensions you can’t do it.

With the exception of faster than light travel. That allows you to move away from the center, and it also allows you to avoid tomorrow. It’s pretty much the same as time traveling in general relativity.
The point of the paper is that is nowhere near enough for common calculator operations like trigonometry or exponentials
then create new type. time2 or datetime13 with improved behaviour and say in docs to prefer newer unless your specicaly know that you need old behaviour.
nice work! impressive!
I settled with Surfingkeys after I tried Vimium, Vimium C, Pentadactyl and Vimperator.

Here's my Surfingkeys configuration as an ex-Vimium user:

map('F', 'gf');
Hints.characters = "asdgqwertzxcvb";

It makes open in new tab behave like Vimium and f work like a toggle.

Hope this helps someone looking for a better option migrating from Vimium.

[0] https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys
You might be right but I personally installed Chrome because I wanted to. Well, first to try it then to replace IE on other computers. I'm sure they abused dark patterns as well as the whole industry almost never hesitate to do so.
I believe your point is valid. If the universe ends in big crunch there may also be insufficient proper time to form a singularity. People often confuse event horizons for singularities, partly because of Penrose's work. :) I think Penrose has made many contributions worthy of recognition, though I am not sure Nobel committee press releases are the best place to look for them.
Finally. This was the key to my new build.
This deeply saddens me, the pool of people I admire is draining faster than it’s replenished. It also reminds me that Death just dragged another bead on his abacus and before long my bead will be up.

Also, while I respect and admire what Eddie has done to further the art of playing electric guitar, I must confess I much more enjoy Eddie The Songwriter rather than Eddie The Guitarist.
Thats pretty dismissive of the point of the article which focuses on quickly synthesizing their own interpretation in notes, setting up systems for spaced repetition, and filtering what books to even use this system on (by skimming free samples online before purchasing).

It's not about memorizing useless information, but about how to remember all the ideas you've learned so you can actually use them later. Especially if you're learning a lot all the time
We don't always get a choice in not pursuing what we don't care about. Being aware of the fact that unless you explore a subject beyond what it says on the page, your knowledge is literally shallow knowledge is an important thing to know.

Nothing judgmental about telling folks that?
I disagree with this. You can just google syntax so I don’t bother memorizing syntax. Specific syntax is never going to be the thing I remember that puts all the pieces together. Remembering how things are done and having a good conceptual memory on the other hand is extremely valuable. You can’t google the long story your colleague told you about the incredibly hard to identify bug (well maybe if they have a blog, but you see what I’m getting at?). That stuff is worth remembering, the stuff you can’t just google. Or the vague notion of what to google to solve the problem. You need both good memory and a good sense of what’s worth remembering and what you can just look up.
Is there any discussion as to why he didn't just switch to a cheaper (older) insulin? Last time I checked, it was still possible to get the older (R/N/L) insulins at around $25/bottle, over the counter.
> I'm telling you that your experience growing up in 1 place doesn't give you the ability to generalize a entire region.

And where did I do that? I am actually quite happy to generalize, but the only thing I've said in the comment you were replying to is that I experienced discrimination in the South. A simple factual statement that says nothing in general about the South, aside from the fact that at least one person experienced discrimination there. You're inventing statements in your head ("he's saying every last person in the South is homophobic!") and attributing them to me, based off of... nothing.

All that said, I do think there are accurate generalizations you can make about the South, or any large region. To take an extreme example, if someone said they had left the Middle East because the people around them were homophobic, you wouldn't be jumping in to defend the region because Beirut has a comparatively bustling gay scene right now.

ETA: And, on further thought, if we're going to be stridently anti-generalization, you're generalizing about Atlanta. Forsyth County, for instance, is definitely exurban and just as definitely part of the Atlanta metropolitan area. Just because you want to present a rosy picture doesn't mean you can generalize and say that every place in Atlanta is a beautiful utopia for LGBT residents.
Also a rather significant achievement: people are actually watching these old videos. Seems like it stands a chance of being the widest distribution of such content ever, by a large margin. When was the last time most of us consumed century-old media of any kind?

Though I understand the historian side of things... every time I've seen major colorizing or cleanup efforts, I've seen far more people looking at them and talking about the history around that time than I'd normally see in, like, a year or more. Feels like a massive net-win to me.
Which is then justified as causation we chose to ignore for political correctness.
I love vimum, use it myself, but my biggest gripe with it (also half-addressed in the article) is that sites with good power-user focused keyboard shortcuts built-in are almost always going to beat a generic plugin like vimium. So you're left with choosing one of two compromise options:

1) Ignore the nice app-native keyboard shortcuts and just use vimium everywhere (Frustrating when single-key shortcuts in the app are multiple drop-down menu clicks with vimium)

2) Disable Vimium on shortcut-rich apps, but deal with the inconsistencies. (Eg clicking on the link in the body of an e-mail in gmail now needs a mouse again)

I really wish vimium had some kind of modifier for "send next key to website", so I could have my cake and eat it too.
Speaking for myseld, rebinding variables in Elixir is my least favorite part of the language, and I specifically avoid using the feature.
The 20th Anniversary of Fight Club and the Matrix (2019)
Merged thither. Thanks!
> I have observed discrimination in the other direction, where we are explicitly accounting for candidates’ gender and race in a push for diversity.

In the united states, that is illegal