skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Martin Landry: "People will argue about the need for earlier use (possibly) or that with even more data there may be a benefit (possibly - but where are those trials going to come from).

But the effect is modest at best - and so far there is no strong evidence it is there at all."

But it doesn't follow at all that because there is no effect when administered late, the effect, if administered early, is modest as best. In fact, there are many medication that are very effective if administered before the first symptoms appear and are completely useless after. If you get exposed to rabies, you can get a rabies vaccine and have close to no chance of contracting it, whereas if you get a vaccine after you develop symptoms, you're almost certain to die.

Similarly, the flu antivirals are somewhat helpful if taken early but have no effect if taken too late.
No you did not.

At the margin, considering that Orwell was commited socialist, left has marginally better chance to interpret him right - but this take would be wrong too.
You should take a mba class or open a business.

You will see those one time/fee costs do not scale, but to the benefit of the employer.
This comment sounds like it's a 2002 criticism, too. I appreciate the historical accuracy.
If you are interested in helping fix this problem, I would highly recommend looking into local initiatives to eliminate cash bail; they can significantly reduce the pre-trial prison population. https://www.arnoldventures.org/stories/new-jersey-set-out-to... indicates that these cash bail elimination policies significantly reduce the number of people in jail pre-trial.

If you are in California, we have a unique opportunity to eliminate cash bail this year by voting yes on Prop 25. I would highly recommend voting yes on Prop 25. Note that you can register to vote all the way up till November 3rd (we have same day registration here in California so you can register while voting).
On the other hand, there may be comfort in the fatalism that it's just a feature of the universe.

Cell biology, for example, seems littered with stuff that just happens to work 51% of the time due to what appear to be crazy sideways interactions.
Yes, I spent a lot of time there and on the JREF forums.
California doesn't really care how you earn money. For the most part they tax it in the same set of tax brackets.

The federal government is a different story though.
Very nice! Is your dad available for a consultation?

We would very much like to teach things properly but for that we need more understanding and someone who has been teaching music would be a huge asset to us.

If you could please ask that would be awesome.
Pretty sure it's still the default. Updates are more frequently delayed now (shown as "scheduled" in the download list), but I believe that's for traffic shaping.
That’s a strong statement. According to the article the relevant authorities respectfully disagree and are moving towards enforcement.

Ultimately the courts will decide who is right. We’ll see.
The database in question, dqlite, is raft-around-sqlite, and that’s just about the most widely used sql database anywhere, albeit pretty thin. Recovering files on disk won’t be an issue with dqlite. It would be interesting to see a jepsen analysis of dqlite to assess resilience in the face of trouble.
> GPL is about freedom for the user, BSD/MIT is about freedom for the devs.

Both are about freedom that is only directly meaningful for developers or people that can employ developers on their behalf; permissive license are about simply providing that freedom rather directly, with limitations that tend to be focussed mainly on avoiding unexpected costs to the original provider of the software (liability, reputational, or otherwise). Copyleft licenses compromise direct provision of freedom to acheive broader but less direct social goals which relate to that freedom.

If you both agree with the goal and agree with the pragmatic judgement involved in the design of the detailed mechanics in a particular license about how to acheived that goal, its quite possible that a copyleft license is better for your interest.

Personally, whether the goal is (and these are two very different goals I've seen cited by GPL proponents) promoting development of free software or inhibiting development of nonfree software, I'm not sure the GPL family (or any other copyleft license) does that better, in practice, than permissive licenses.

The GPL is better at inhibiting nonfree direct descendants of a particular code base, but I don't generally see that as a valuable goal.
The solution to this is changing the stopping criterion in the trial protocol description, so that the real confidence interval can be calculated for the trial _with_ stopping (which is very different from running the trial until the end).
I think roughly this, but it is a bit more complex.

Basically, mutations of the virus that cause it to spread more make it more likely for the strain to persist. Usually this means, virus becomes more benign, doesn’t kill people quickly and instead causes some minor illness, which gives the patient more opportunities to spread it.

But it’s not a given. It could for example mutate to become more deadly, but with a longer infectious period. This is what happened to myxomatosis in rabbits in Australia.
Makes me wonder if they've been done in parallel or serially.

Depends on the site, probably.

Driving the first piles had to have been a tough job. Still, Caesar's legions did it to cross the Rhine in 55 BC. So pile-driving in water was being done a long time ago.
Nice! Can you put up some example data you’d get from some famous companies?
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This is how I understood it was well. Big four partnership structure is optimized to comply with the legal requirements for auditors. That is why e.g. accenture (which has no auditing arm) can be publicly traded but the rest cannot.
I'm going to guess here and say that you are practicing a very limited repertoire, rather than to learn to play the instrument, in which case you are memorizing movements instead of music.

Is that correct?
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Can you imagine it in an agile world? The value was being delivered by the ferries the whole time.
Skipping a hearing causes an arrest. It's not that you no longer have to show up, it's merely we'll take your word that you will (or we'll arrest you again) without requiring money up front.
Bernhard is awesome. I've learned more about piano playing and teaching from his posts than from my 'live teacher'.
Think of it this way - often when people become extremely wealthy, they turn to philanthropy. Because they want to give back. If someone becomes ridiculously wealthy and gives nothing back, we as a society tend to think poorly of them. Why? Because they are extremely fortunate and highly successful - and they could so easily help others without any negative impact to themselves. That ease makes us unhappy with them _not_ giving back. Because in their particular circumstance, we generally consider it _right_ to use their resources help others. Not required, but right.

Same thing with a company like Amazon. They are enormously wealthy. So we look poorly on them when they don't give back to those bringing them even more wealth. Because they easily could. Because it wouldn't hurt them at all. Because it is right.
Personally I would prefer that the manager is someone who is an active engineer on the project. And I know that is challenging and won't work in a lot of organizations.

But before you dismiss the idea, look at open source projects like Linux, the D programming language, or Nim.
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“ Unfortunately, because Mozilla is too busy improving the world instead of their browser...”

Burn, but understand the sentiment :)
It’s easy enough to configure motd to pull your own notices for a company, and useful too. Nothing there seems particularly weird to me in this day and age, and Ubuntu has a much better track record of actual security maintenance over the long term.
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On the off chance that this helps: I get tinnitus when my neck and/or jaw are clenched. This is a known phenomenon, you can google it. In fact, the onset of tinnitus is sometimes the only thing that makes me aware of how tense my neck is. If you were in a collision, it's possible your nervous system as adopted a pattern of muscle tension to compensate, or in anticipation of trauma, or something. Anyway, perhaps try relaxing your neck/head/jaw when this happens?
Web development.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again ... I wish more folks would use NIM for web development.
I immediately wondered if the controversial Manifest V3 changes would render this a non-issue.

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/338

https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/migrating_to_manifes...
Ask HN: Is it possible to run a serverless Wordpress installation?
Either on GCP or AWS?
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People already use the English language in a manner fitting their will. If you wanted to try and standardize it internationally, you’d either need most speakers to change to the standardized version (not going to happen), or you’d just end up publishing a canonical version for reference which everybody ignores (seems a bit pointless).

More importantly, why would you want to do this? It just seems like a compulsive reaction to the purity of standardization. If inter-dialect communication is the goal, why not establish a standard accent as well?
I read that and thought: we crossed that barrier years ago. Then I noticed the Gpps unit on your comment and realized my error. Ouch.
I work in vaccines, so maybe I'm more sensitive to misinformation than most :)
Auto-update is a good feature normally; I just wished there was a way to roll back when things go wrong.
Every major tech company is grappling with the balance between their leadership and employee base right now. It may not look exactly like the UAW in Detroit, but that tension definitely echos into our time. It's quite a bit different than 5-10 years ago.
It's somewhat ironic that HN's moderators apparently changed the title of this submission from "Section 230 Is The Subject of The Most Effective Legal Propaganda I've Ever Seen" to the apparently less objectionable "What Section 230 really means"
Fta:

>ast month the Irish Council for Civil Liberties revealed that RTB data was used to profile LGBT+ people to influence a national election, and that RTB data had been used to profile victims of incest and sexual abuse.

Excuse me? This is awful. This is worse than target figuring out a personally identifiable female minor was pregnant before her parents, which is despicable behavior.[0]

From 0:

>But even if you’re following the law, you can do things where people get queasy.”

I haven't advocated prison for companies malvertising before. That changes today. We all have a responsibility to do right by each and these tactics are inhumane, predatory, and cause measurable harm in the real world. If any of you are doing this type of work I strongly urge you to quit in protest and blow the whistle.

I was queasy until I read this report. Now I'm completely outraged.

I'm going to stop ranting now because even having to say these things is absolutely ridiculous. I can't even.

0. https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...
Even larger open-source projects aren't immune. FileZilla has had an issue of adware a few times. I don't think there's any way to ensure that an application of any sort will remain trustworthy.
It's changed now. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24798624.
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That is so amazing.

If we had clocks with this level of accuracy, you could measure the weight of someone walking in the room because of their time dilation.
> 4. Cheer lead/Sponsor for the team outside. Genuinely back your team.

You don't have to (and shouldn't) tell them you are doing this - word will get back to them.
The problem here, innovation toxic venture capital, that outspend the old risk capital guard.

These new - "outsiders" usually spend huge sums on leveraging what is essentially just technology used for union busting and abstracting away wage slavery.

Its a capitalists idea of innovation, and it small dreams. You don't need to invent a alexa (the device), if you can drive down the wage of a person to near zero and own a alexa (the person).

They already had that back in ancient rome- and thus never developed the Greek steam engine.

To become really innovative at scale again, the valley needs to exorcise those tech external investors.
Ok, we've changed to the video from https://twitter.com/KiwiEV/status/1316493212605911040. Thanks!
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I fully agree with that. Even more, I'm not so sure that it is in accordance with Github's rules, and might (sometimes) even be in in direct violation of the license with which it is got published. Either way, it certainly feels abusive.

While I did read a lot of positive things about this particular project in several of the comments, one thing just rubs me the wrong way (and I can't shake it) .. it is the short time frame (left) until the kickstarter will run out, with the clearly stated intent to not open source if it doesn't make enough money in time. That just feels wrong on too many levels. I'm quite surprised actually, that I didn't see this pointing out by more people.
The one constant in all reporting and discussion about potential SARS-CoV-2 vaccines is wishful thinking. I don't blame the pharma execs for that; talking up their stocks is their job. Everyone else, though, could do with a great deal more skepticism. We'll be lucky to have a commonly-available, somewhat-effective vaccine next year. If you had listened to the cheerleaders in June, you would be shocked to learn we don't have multiple such vaccines now.

Regular mask wearing and careful avoidance of problematic public situations is already more effective than any vaccine for this virus will ever be.
The new format does seem much nicer to my eyes but I suppose tastes vary. A pain to have to change but it looks like good work and a new release is usually required some pressed Hackett anyway.
I once had a report who demanded, snarkily, all the things be listed on the whiteboard (as opposed to just getting them in Jira) and the meeting was set for the next day...

Knowing the team was one of those that is constantly using nearly-depleted markers and hating life, I thought to check. Sure enough... all empty, nothing to replace them with.

I thought to just let said report arrive at next day's meeting, ready to whiteboard it up only to look woefully unprepared, but I waited. I waited until about an hour before the meeting to see if they might have clued-in and sorted the problem for themselves...

An hour later I returned from a slushy 2km walk, soaked, with a box of markers that I just placed in the drawer, unbeknownst to all.
1. No, I don't disregard analogies, I'm just able to recognize and isolate analogies from a topic or a point. For learning, I agree an analogy is very useful.

Analogies are tools for illustration, not for proving a point. To use a tool to illustrate a concept that is already well known (learning for example) is often pointless.

In terms of utility, much of the utility of analogies is similar to the utility of art, music or humor. You can enjoy humor, but humor itself doesn't offer any greater insight or a topic.

2. Analogies are useful for illustrating things that cannot be imagined by the human mind. The extrusion of a 3 dimensional cube into a 4 dimensional cube cannot be pictured by your minds eye. You can only visualize the analogy: The extrusion of a 2 dimensional square plane to a 3 dimensional cube. The entire field and existence of higher dimensional geometry is inferred from analogies.

Note that these are only good for things that are not known by you. Much of literature and speeches use analogies for things that are well known. For a list of examples where analogies are mostly useless see here:

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/analogy
Why is there a deadline? Is their code suddenly going to stop working?

JPMorgan is big enough to have an internal team to maintain Python 2.7 if they have to.
So one of the biggest improvements to my day-to-day life as a programmer was having compiler-checked nullability in Kotlin. It is the most significant feature that makes programs more reliable and code more readable compared to Java. I never want to miss it again.

Why did Nim decide to allow null pointers? They must have had a very good reason, given its young age?
Hotz won CSAW singlehanded, a one-man team against multi-person teams. And he won by an enormous margin. He is clearly way above the 70th percentile.
Please explain on what basis you are assigning a paper "expert consensus" ? Are you an infectious diseases researcher? If so, your opinion would matter more to me than the paper.

I read dozens of studies every day as part of my job in biotech, and most papers are junk and/or contain overly enthusiastic claims that few can replicate. I know somehow on HN linking to a paper is seen as a mic-drop, but that is not the case in the real world.
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Yeah, the moment I read your comment I knew this could only be one place and time.

I was transported back to my 8 year old self learning about speed of sound by looking at smoke appearing in the distance and counting seconds until I hear the explosion and multiplying by 300 to get the distance.

Also learning the different sounds explosions make depending on where they land (soft ground, hard target, different calibre or type of munitions)..
> and What No One Knows

The question certainly has some flaws in phrasing (discussed elsewhere in this thread). Its use of the word "implies" is not a flaw. If intro-level formal logic is a valid requirement, then there is no problem using "implies" in that context. If intro-level formal logic is not a valid requirement, then the whole question is bunk, but not the use of "implies".
The <sup> HTML tag has been available just about forever. Firefox version 1 supported it and I can't find a version of IE that didn't.
If they give their opinion on the content, they would be liable for that, because (1) it is not information provided by another information content provider, and so is out of scope for section 230, and (2) even if it were in scope they would be liable as the author--230 essentially says "go after the author, not the host" and in this case they would be sued as the author, not as the host.
If you asked a linguistics (not a writer) s/he will tell you the following: Language is simply a reflection of the people who speak it. In other words, the more diverse the population of this language is, the more diverse the language will be.

This is also why the German language was so cohesive, but is getting more and more diverse. Because, the German speaking population is now more diverse.
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Well, disagreeing about which words to use doesn't necessarily mean there's any disagreement about the object-level situation, but FWIW, the definition I've generally heard is that "ethics" refers to the whole general "ought" side of the is-ought distinction, which is further divided into: axiology, which outcomes are actually desireable in the first place; morality, what actions and strategies people ought to follow to achieve those outcomes; and law (not, unfortunately, to be confused with actual law), how groups of people ought to act in order to deal with coordination problems and evil people.
Do you have links to actual plans from other folks? Hawley's is the only one I can find an actual draft bill for.
How many Planck times is that?
Sure, but those are much smaller exponents than 21. I can see "peta" coming into use as storage sizes change, just as "kilo" has already disappeared from your list, but asking folks to keep track of 14 different prefixes is a little much. If it's outside of +/-9, I'd support the use of an exponent.
Remember, the WHO recommends traditional Chinese medicine.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01726-1

Edit: downvoted for stating facts and linking to a Nature article? I guess HN has a soft spot for peddlers of pseudoscience and rhino boner pills as long as it their side politically.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06782-7

This is where I draw the line.
No. They're not OSI-approved licenses.

It may also be worth noting that Creative Commons put a lot of effort into trying to define noncommercial over time and wasn't able to come up with a satisfactory answer. Obviously there are cases that are clearly commercial but many others are far less clear. This was being debated over a decade ago and nothing has really changed: https://www.cnet.com/news/does-the-noncommercial-creative-co...

(A legit question. Have an upvote.)
Except schools largely aren’t failing because the school itself is terrible, they’re failing because the students have massive disadvantages.

Vouchers might allow a few exceptional students to leave but strands the average students. And those exceptional students still need to find transport to the school across town. It also assumes a better school actually exists.

Society would be better off ensuring equal opportunity at all ages, stable households, good healthcare (including food) instead of blowing up the system to the advantage of a small number of people.
>1. That means no HN.

No, it means less 230 protection for HN. Stop conflating this with destruction of the platform, it's becoming like "net neutrality". Remember when tweaking that killed the internet?

>What is the line/difference between "terrorism" and an "undirected threat"? Speaking of which, what is a terrorist organization?

The government has a clear processes to designate foreign and domestic terrorist organizations. [0] Let the actual politicians engage in that political fight. Social media companies can use the result.

>What is the difference between misinformation and libel?

Actual malice? If the standard works for newspapers, why can't it work for social media companies?

>More generally: that's just straight-up moderation, it has nothing to do with tweaks to recommendation algos. [...] If they notice an "obvious bias" and tweak the algorithm to correct for it, who decides whether that was a biased human intervention or a totally appropriate bug fix?

None of this relates. Content should not be removed or suppressed based on any political preference or designation, and that includes a fig leaf of facial neutrality. Whether it's recommended to some and not others != suppression, and it's trivial to show that your systems are based on user action not partisan interest.

These aren't sticky questions at all, they're just ways to navel gaze and avoid the obvious solutions that are inconvenient to certain actors.

[0] https://www.state.gov/terrorist-designations-and-state-spons...
A license is not a contract. Using and distributing Free Software is not entering into a contract.

You certainly can have a contract around a license, but that is a whole other topic.