skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IQ is somewhat effective as a diagnostic tool for significant impairment and not much else. Your examples of where it is not contentious are exactly cases where you must measure impairments. Do you want to list some example contexts where you witness "flat out denialism"?

In any case there is an important point: The variance of measured IQ for the same individual over time is very high. It's hard to extract a signal for that unless there's a severe effect being measured.
US officials: OxyContin maker to plead guilty to 3 criminal charges
Yep you can use on your private repo as well.

Just install the extension, go to your repo and open the Metamorph extension on the sidebar.
But here there's actual monetary loss for Paypal or credit card issuers. Not an implied "lost sale" from a consumer that likely would not have even bought the song/movie/app in the first place.
tl;dr nursing homes need special care during this event and it has been shown that doing so does reduce infection rates if not deaths

As to present numbers...

Well we stopped forcing nursing homes from accepting sick people during the event and not exposing those most at risk does tend to result in fewer deaths.

A lot of deaths could have been avoided if we went out of way to not expose those most at risk but some states actually did the exact opposite.
As I write this the post I reply to is downvoted, but it seems to be true in Norway were there's hardly a mask to be seen outside of the big cities.

Full disclosure: An alternative explanation here in Norway seems to be that the second wave mostly hits younger people.

Edit: there's a dead comment saying "citation needed".

As for the "hardly a mask to be seen" that is my eyewitness account based on what I see in shops and gas stations I visit as well as reading and watching the news.

The numbers of deaths / infections can be derived from here: https://www.vg.no/spesial/2020/corona/?utm_source=corona-wid...
A friend of mine is permanently disabled because of poor communication between excavator spotters. Had the ground not been soft that day he wouldn't have survived being run over. I definitely welcome innovation in this space.

What is the current upper bound for camera drone flight time? Is it feasible to have these operators park a few 3rd person POV drones to switch between? There is only so much you can do with views from the equipment before you need ground-truthing.
A friend of mine has lingering short-term memory loss months after recovering from covid19. She didn't suffer symptoms too bad during the illness. She didn't go to the hospital.
How can you calculate Fourier in O(1) if the input is bound?
Is this not also a function of being at least a /good/_ build system? If Cargo were too basic, or too hard to use, there would definitely be people creating a better one. This then causes the fragmentation you are talking about.
Interesting but for me on Chrome on Android, the results plots are completely off. My dot in 1992 was shown as later than the 2000 year mark, for example. So take care when reading the results.
I don't buy the "bugs caught early are cheaper to fix" paradigm. Most bugs are caught early without special precautions, but special precautions can be quite expensive. Most software doesn't have truly catastrophic failure cases.

If there's a bug slipping through, someone will run into it, report it, and it'll get fixed. If nobody runs into it, the bug doesn't cost anything.

This is the most economic way to go about it, which is the reason why pretty much all successful software is kind of buggy. We all like to complain about it, but then we don't want to wait an extra year for the next version either.

At the other end of the spectrum, if you need really reliable software, the solution is not to eliminate all the bugs, that's impossible. Even with perfect software, hardware can fail, bits can flip the wrong way. The solution is to make sure that errors can't bring down the airplane.
> Pointing at the name of a thing isn't an argument, I admit it, but asking "what could go wrong if we want to use a system tailored to relational data to deal with non-relational data?" strikes me as the sort of question that might turn out to have a compelling answer 6 months in when it is too late to easily change the database.

This would suggest that pretty much every existing RDBMS has made some very bad decisions since JSON/XML types, arrays, and all sorts of other non-relational features have long been supported.

Given the nature of SQLite you probably aren't dealing with petabytes of data.
Yes. People who have survived severe cases of SARS1 apparently had lasting lung damage that put that at significantly increased risk with COVID.
Here's a use case:

Store your wealth digitally in an asset with a fixed supply that is not controlled by a government entity without the use of a third-party intermediary.

Obviously this applies to only to Bitcoin and not inflationary cryptocurrencies.
> jazz was 'pummelled' by fanatics of rhythm and noise, which even discredited the sax

Sadly, I find this to be the case. I'm in the odd position of having grown up playing sax, and yet unable to enjoy it in the context of jazz.
Right ear-free audio
> We find that the 12th-order polynomial fit to the spectral passband utilised in the published study leads to spurious results.

Is it common to use a 12th-order polynomial fit? It is very interesting to see Figure 2, top-left. The signal is very noisy and the polynomial fit is not convincing.
https://howhttps.works/ also interesting
Does this mean the Grossman-Stiglitz paradox proves P != NP?
Vitamin D is protective against all viruses, not just Covid. But we did see spikes in cases and deaths during the summer months in sun belt states. However, many of the worst cases did come from patients in long-term care. It remains to be seen whether the seasonal flu and pneumonia or Covid will be more deadly this winter.

Pneumonia deaths without Covid have exceeded those with Covid in the United States since August:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm

We're also at less than the number of typically expected weekly deaths across the board for the past couple of weeks.
For me the usefulness of a ORM depends a lot on the language I'm working with. In the .NET world the choice is easy, Linq and EntityFramework is a killer combination. It's so much faster, and better than writing your own queries. I don't feel any of the normal arguments I hear against ORM's apply to the Linq + EF combo. For Python and JS, I kinda can releate to some of the common arguments, but still feel that ORM's have a use.
Smart business like to consolidate their dependencies. If the fee is on the order of 1-2% then the reduced overhead of "where's my money" may be worth it to many small businesses.
IQ tests are absolute junk as a measurement of general intelligence. IQ is a political tool not a scientific one.
Also, "in:" in a misnomer as emails aren't "in" a mailbox, GMail uses tags / labels. So technically you can label an email as both sent and inbox (include yourself in the recipient list).

This label rather than mailbox approach is clearly visible if you ever use the IMAP interface to GMail; it breaks assumptions / guidelines / rules in the IMAP protocol.

On top of that GMail sometimes treats some special labels as exclusive to other special labels (i.e. some of the built in always available labels). i.e. something can't have the inbox and trash labels at the same time.
Languages are not just about speed.

And Rust is plenty fast.
It's bad when your bank prevents you from doing business because of conflict of interest.
> Chrome is a loss leader

Alternatively: making a browser means you can choose the default search engine, and this is valuable. Google pays Firefox ~$450M for this, for ~9% of desktop traffic. [1] Chrome is ~70% of desktop traffic [1] and so you could extrapolate it at ~$3.5B.

[1] https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/worl...

(Disclosure: I work for Google, speaking only for myself)
Gephi, an open-source graph analysis platform, is looking for contributors
Most programmer has problem with SQL because it is declarative langue, and doesn't fit into the C, Java context very well. However, if you just spend some time getting use to declarative langue, you will find SQL is quite nice. You just ask for stuff you are looking for and the computer will give to you. And SQL servers like Postgres has gotten so optimised in returning search results, it really out performs mapReduce.
There are plenty of other crypto currencies that do provide anonymity, that were built on the shoulders of bitcoin, e.g. Monero, ZCash, etc.
Does “low code” work? Building an app with the Bubble/Node/Express stack
Point to me a single country or state "with no mask wearing". There are sane people (and believe it or not, a lot of them) everywhere, even where politicians are insane.
I'm not so sure this is true.

Here in the UK the deaths are climbing back up again as the second wave comes in. Yesterday we had 241 Covid-19 fatalities, a number not seen since the start of June.

Additionally, the way the UK is counting deaths changed a few months ago. Originally we were counting everyone that had been diagnosed with Covid, now if the death doesn't occur within 28 days of infection the death isn't counted as a Covid-19 death.

And finally, we're testing a hell of a lot more now so the alleged case numbers back in April (~5000 a day) don't marry up at all with case numbers now (~20,000 a day). I'm guessing back in April it was closer to 80,000 cases a day in reality, which would make the disease just as deadly now as it was back then.
United Kingdom is 4 countries, England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales (and a bunch of minor additions).

Great Britain is the island that contains England, Scotland and Wales.

A citizen of the United Kingdom is British, even if they live in Northern Ireland.

What you're complaining about is basically about spelling, not usage or "language".

Many of the so-called "misspellings" in en_US vs en_GB aren't if you look at the OED, for example, the -ise and -ize. Having "u"s in spelling (eg colour) is a left over of the French influence on English in the UK.

A lot of the changes in spelling are because Noah Webster, when creating the first US dictionary, simplified things, eg axe vs ax. Some of the word usage, eg "gotten" came over to the US but faded out in the UK.

Oh, and it's spelled "americanization" :)
>at most be first order accurate

The EMH is accurate to way better than the tangent line, which is what a first order approximation is.
Medicine is basically process engineering: try some stuff and keep knocking back the worst thing on the pareto chart. Make a note of what worked and do more of that but also try other stuff.

The other thing I keep wondering about is whether people that are both sensitive and vulnerable have already caught Covid and have either died or recovered. Since we don't know everything about how you catch it it would be hard for the statisticians to control for that effect.
When I say “engineer” in disciplines other than software, I mean somebody with a professional license. You can only get that by passing exams and having a combination of experience, education and recommendations to pass a state board. It’s much harder and riskier to fake that than to make up experience on a resume or make a blog to appear like a subject matter expert. Unless you know the candidate personally, it can take a lot of effort to uncover a carefully crafted lie. Plus, recognizing quality work in software isn’t even a solved problem, to my understanding.
If ads taking a big area, then the threshold can be bigger. Like, if more that 50% of site has changed, then notify you.

If ads showing a nudity or something, then it's not possible to avoid it.

However you just got me an idea! I can give user an ability to setup area of site which should be checked. Like, if the ads on the right side of page or something like that!

Thank you!
This particular one is IMO not so much a localization issue, but a UX issue; they decided on a text-based interface for search, instead of a more obvious one, like going to the "bin" folder and finding a search box in there (with a help text saying "search in this folder"). As a random example; I'm not a UX expert.

The issue is a text-based search where the keywords and commands are not localized.

It's what Excel has tried as well, renaming functions to localized versions; I cannot imagine how big of a headache that must have been / be for its developers.
AGPL sounds quite toothless regarding enforceability, and very unattractive from an open source user's perspective. If my changes aren't visible in the UI, I doubt I'd respect the terms, either. Author should choose a more explicit, enforceable licensing model (which would likely make their product expensive and even more unattractive).
I'm a fan of open primaries, but could you spell out a bit more how they would help with this problem specifically?
lot of things are to Hard for Google, like kids being able to play music on google made devices via family link on YouTube Music
As a new user, I was able to get a pronounceable(ish) 4-letter username. It's not always hard. But Prologue is an English word and a lot of English words are taken. (and probably many words in other languages, too)
The API for EV Applications
Agree that they missed broadcast joins, which can greatly impact how you’d go about a query versus plain SQL for big data. One of the best parts about Spark is how it supports rapid iteration—- you can use it to discover what joins are computationally infeasible.

It’s notable that in Spark 3.x, Koalas is standard, which adopts the Pandas API. Yet this style guide uses the Spark DataFrame API. So the guide might be a little stale anyways.

In my experience, it’s helpful to write queries in plain portable (or mostly portable) SQL, because once a Spark job becomes useful it often gets translated or refactored into something else. Definitely depends on the team / context, but plain SQL is often more widely accessible. For fast-moving data science stuff, it’s important to think about extensibility in terms of not just code (style & syntax) but people (who is going to remix this?).
Very interesting. If this thing can run Ubuntu, presumably you can run any OS and customize it, right? When it comes to storage, I don’t want anything unless it’s zfs or some other feature equivalent system.
How to Create a Detailed Description for Your Pull Request
This was a fairly common approach about 10-15 years back.

It has its charms but it mostly fell out of favor because of versioning. It's very hard to manage multiple versions and migrations for the database and it had a negative affect on development velocity.
Their performance test, not mine. I'm going off the numbers they cited.
Discipline is all what matters, automatizations are imperfect and temporary tools.

Simply put: all abstractions are leaky, all abstractions have trade-off, and you cannot necessarily rely on some abstractions in every context.

The GC example that the author uses is a good one: having GC in a language does not magically remove all memory allocation issues. Believing this means you just don't have much experience programming (or you've been very lucky). I've been working mostly with GC languages and we have memory leak every now and then, good luck to fix that without discipline. Embedded software frequently relies on (very) limited compilers and libraries, most of the time there are no GC and until recently there were even no malloc/free for $B things shipped to space: only static arrays and discipline my friend!

TCP is another good example: sometimes you need to craft you own congestion management, packet discard rule or what not.

ORMs have made my life easier but I've still had to spend days on complex hundreds lines SQL reports. The list goes on.

It's not "I had to go through this, you should too" out of frustration. It's because at some point the same kind of issue will appear again, even though the current available abstractions may seem to shield us from it.

It might not scale as easy as you wish, yet you need some disciplined seniors to review and teach your juniors. This very article ironically proves it :)
It's likely not getting fixed because the opportunity costs are higher than the reward of fixing it:

https://erikbern.com/2020/03/10/never-attribute-to-stupidity...
The people I know who are forklift drivers are doing so because they don't have other skills and getting trained to do forklift was their only way to get a living wage.

I really don't think those people would pass on the job if it moved to an office chair.
Why traditional reinforcement learning will probably not yield AGI [pdf]
this is cool @prohobo! may I ask how you classify tone? I have a completely unrelated project (enterprise app with thousands of documents) on which I'd like to apply to. TIA.
I didn't realize Save The Children is a religious charity. Do you have a source for that? It's not listed in their wiki page nor on their site.
What's the use case for the IR remote ?
I use Swedish Windows, and here "C:\Program\" (the localization) and "C:\Program Files\" both work fine and go to the same place.
The problem that prompted me to make this extension to SQLite was a web-page request, so it needs to be processed with low latency. I initially tried loading the graph into memory and processing it that way. But there are approx 100K nodes in the graph, only a few dozen of which are relevant to the answer. It took a lot of time to pull in 100K nodes from disk. Running the query entirely in SQL is not only much less code to write, debug, and maintain, it is also much faster.
Quantum Tunnel Shows Particles Can Break the Speed of Light
Google Paid Apple up to $12B for search deal
I haven't had Google hardware since a random bricking with a very early Nexus tablet. After reading about this project (nicknamed "Tombstone") I have to ask has the company done anything right with hardware that it developed on its own (as opposed to being acquired, like the Nest thermostat?)
That wouldn't blow my mind, and it's also a wildly different question. The OP is about a core language feature performing differently on two browsers. querySelector is fundamentally a higher-level API across all browsers.

Also, block-scoping is a language feature that's fundamental to virtually every other modern language out there. This isn't some high-falutin' new API. This is basic.
> Why on earth would I want weird rows (that violate the _expressly declared_ type of a table) to be merrily allowed into persistent storage?

Some problems are easy to solve given a column of type VARIANT: 1. simple sparse columns instead of a multi-type EAV table, 2. a BIG Table style schema that is easily range partitioned.

The main reason in SQLite is that most SQL dialects just work. SQLite becomes a universal desktop workbench for SQL. This flexibility also applies to things like delimited identifiers [1].

The problem is not that SQLite uses VARIANT datatypes, the problem is that once a datatype is specified it is not enforced by the engine. SQLite could/should add a PRAGMA to enable Domain Integrity much like it does with Foreign Keys (PRAGMA foreign_keys = ON;).

[1] https://sqlite.org/lang_keywords.html
Deep Dive into Python Metaclasses
> Most likely than not, they have legal basis for what they are asking for... you should just accept and move on... The distraction (and cost) of having to fight a legal battle

This is not reasonable advice. 95% of lawyer's letters that we receive are without legal merit and do not lead to any legal action if ignored. You can generally tell which ones have merit. If you're not certain, sure you can ask a lawyer - but even asking a lawyer costs money, so don't bother for letters that are obviously attempts at intimidation.
> It also uses High-Performance graphics for whatever reason when connected and can completely drain a full MacBook Pro battery in under an hour. Disconnecting does not free the GPU.

Which is ultimately a bug, or a missing feature, in MacOS -- it shouldn't be possible for a random broken app to make your 10h battery only last 1h -- change my mind.

Coincidentally, even though MacBook Pro 16" has a much larger battery than MacBook Air -- ~100Wh vs. ~50Wh -- MBP is also capable of consuming said battery at a much faster rate -- 100W vs. 30W. So, if you need an average web-browsing machine with the best battery runtime in the presence of silly apps that consume all available resources, it's actually a much better choice to get MBA vs. MBP.

Why Apple doesn't introduce a setting to optimise the runtime for battery, or a lap-use mode, is beyond me. I had to install Turbo Boost Switcher to make my 2020 MBP16" usable as a laptop -- it runs out of battery, and is too hot to use on a lap, otherwise. Sadly, there's not even any tool to reliable turn off the graphics card, either -- I had to find a setting to switch it off in Firefox manually.
No need to worry, ACA gave everyone affordable health insurance.
I apologize. After enough "Doctors hate this simple Covid trick", headlines my patience is running short.
Well I much prefer as an Australian to develop programs, not programmes. My analog to digital converters work just as well without vaguely French "ue" extensions.

Single items of information are still data, not datum.

Among many things in HTTP/HTML/etc that bug me is "referer".
hands free and perl out loud here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz3JeYfBTcY
Greg Egan's dust theory of consciousness
> it uses AI for the usual suspects: speech and NLP.

Is there a place that doesn't do that? That's entry requirement right?
Vasco x Corinthians: confira as prováveis escalações
Truly. Weirdly I did have ventilator and changed it
I blogged for a while about 12 years ago. Writing something you can be proud of requires first asking yourself, "What original thoughts do I have to contribute to some subject?" I'm satisfied I did that. At the very least, I tried.

But the process of writing from that starting point was excruciating. I had to stop. I was punching above my weight, and it was exhausting.

The experience left me with a new sense of respect for people who do a good job of it, and do so on a regular basis. Writing isn't easy.

Or, perhaps as Hemingway said, "Writing is easy. You just open up a vein and bleed."
> There is emerging evidence to suggest that vitamin D deficiency is associated with adverse outcomes in COVID-19 patients. Conversely, vitamin D supplementation protects against an initial alveolar diffuse damage of COVID-19 becoming progressively worse.

Looks like Joe Rogan's advice was on the money
JSONB is awesome, a lot of our tables end up being something like this:

CREATE TABLE some_table (
id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
uuid DEFAULT uuid_generate_v1(),
user_id INTEGER,
details JSONB,
updated_on timestamp DEFAULT current_timestamp,
created_on timestamp DEFAULT current_timestamp
)
yeah that's right, my mistake for not writing that. I only ever used their programmatic product
SF School Board votes to switch to lottery for selective Lowell High School
Years of studying pointed in different directions. Now all of a sudden they work. Same with vaccinations - if you shortcut the process the acceptance rate will drop significantly
Uhh, famously, Sweden? Where have you been?
Definitely not, at least in the case of front-end devs. Speaking as one myself, part of this is that Chrome's dev tools are so much better. Part of it is that the great majority of your users are on Chromium, so that is the most important case to test. But of course it's a self-reinforcing cycle: the more devs that only use Chrome, the more apps that work best on Chrome, the more users that switch over to Chrome, the more devs who only feel the need to test on Chrome, repeat.
DaaS is a bit more horizontal. It has to be. We sell an ingredient for others' solution.

Excellent HN top comment hack lol.

Content marketing, open-sourcing (2 popular Python packages), and cold sales work so far.
San Francisco's 'CAREN Act,' making racially biased 911 calls illegal