skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I can't fathom why it even should. Nonetheless, there were lots of fancy documents and presentations from the WHO and other such organisations explaining this strategy very hopefully.

I can fathom this easily. The general idea is to administer the type 2 oral vaccine (along with 1 and 3, but we’re talking about type 2 here) widely enough that you expect a high level of herd immunity. Specifically, you want sufficient immunity that any newly introduced cases of reverted-to-virulent type 2 will quickly die out. (If you have the resources, you also try to give almost everyone the injectable vaccine to prevent virulent type 2 cases from causing damage). Then you stop giving the type 2 vaccine. If it works, then type 2 is locally eradicated.

Maybe it’s “magical”, but this particular magic has worked in almost the entire world.
This article has killed Soylent.
> While participants replaced the cold exposure element with a cold shower after they went home from the training, the techniques still took 2-3 hours per day.

I do the techniques daily and have for a few years. Total time out of my day is no more than 20 minutes (increased show length and breathing exercises). 2-3 hours is not required. While that may have been part of the study - just my observation from personally using the method for a longer period of time.
> collegial social acknowledgement

Business offering a software service and open-source developer are not colleagues. One is selling a service, the other is writing code, there is simply no comparison.
Lying naked in snow will probably trigger my allergies instead of tamping it down.
I just took a remote job that indexed to Bay
Salaries and does not take into account where I live.

Maybe that won’t last forever, but it exists.

I think if tech work really all becomes super distributed , the companies will still be competing no matter where you live.

So you won’t get Bay Area FAANG salary for working remote from some smaller Midwestern city at a FAANG, but you will get a lot more than you would at the tech jobs headquartered in your city. Kind of a win win for employee and tech company
Cyberpunk 2077 is coming to Stadia
> There was a lot of BSD in the core of every proprietary Unix, each tied to a given manufacturer

Except MacOS X, the major proprietary Unixes all predated permissively-licensed releases of BSD, and the early permissively licensed releases were under a copyright cloud for years that prevented anyone from relying on them for commercial downstream distributions.
Pai and his Reece’s mug can fuck off
I see where I got confused. I missed that the original packaging text used the word "agree"; I thought it was merely a statement of patent restrictions and not an attempt to create an agreement. My opinion was based on there never being an attempt to create an agreement in the first place combined with your statement about "other restrictions". It makes sense now, and we do agree on this.
>PCs have been on every desk for 25 years.

Actually, this part is regressed back these days. Invention of the smartphone makes many people not to have a computer with efficient input devices: mouse and keyboard. Although smartphone is handy, it makes people dumb. Smartphone makes people a mere consumer of the art, not producing it. Because smartphone is inefficient at input devices but people don't much care about it.

Yes. Majority of the people are consumers but if not for the smartphone, we could have potentially more producers of the art. It's so unfortunate future I didn't expect 25 years ago.
Not sure why you were down voted originally, but yes the hyperventilating breath they use is very similar to bhastrika pranayama with kumbhaka (breath retention).
If I was one of those 90% that survive, I'd rather recover completely than be left without smell, sight, hearing or other problems.
I was skeptical towards Nim. Then I wrote a small program that uses SDL2, and compared it to the same program written in over 10 other programming languages. Nim has an excellent combination of ease of use and performance.
Does it need to work on a national scale? Sometimes the best solutions come from the bottom up. On a national scale, the government just needs to get out of the way.
Ask HN: How do you manage and store family pictures/videos
No, it's the Unites States' fault.

In 1982 (iirc), the US decided that Thorium is a "source material" for nuclear weapons, even though it very clearly isn't. Since rare earth metals have chemistry very similar to Thorium, they tend to occur together. Anyone who mines REE, ends up with waste Thorium. It's just slightly radioactive, chemically inert sand, but by decree it is a "TENORM" (technically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive material), and by decree, someone stealing it could theoretically build an atomic bomb from it, even though they can't in the real world.

So because it's a TENORM, the waste can't go back into the same hole in the ground that it came from. And because it's a "source material", it has to be guarded. And the eventual disposal has to follow all sorts of regulations. All of that is so expensive, that nobody bothers anymore.

China simply doesn't play these stupid games. That's why they are cheap.
Among people who would pretend to be a given well known person, surely more of them know that person's real name than something that would make a plausible pseudonym. Or in any case, more of them would choose it.

And if someone thinks a pseudonym is a particular famous person, they must have a reason, which is unlikely to be weaker than just assuming a normal name is accurate.

I'm not up to doing a Bayesian analysis right now, but I feel like one could show it makes more sense to doubt an unverified name.
If you can get at least two the same size, and four with a common height, you could do a rectangle or a trapezoid, which would look good.

Heck if you could find enough displays at a computing recycling center you could do interesting things with an irregular hexagon...

But if you can find monitors that are close but not exact, you could adjust them via the bezel. You’ll have to correct for the pattern sizes on each face if you do that, though. Put the one that looks the worst in the back, of course.
if you don't think the quality of the trial is so bad as to outright impair approval (and right now the political pressure for a tool, any tool, to fight COVID is so intense that there's zero chance it wouldn't be) then why continue? It costs money to do trials and it represents lost revenue where you could be the sole seller of the only known drug to treat a deadly pandemic.

in fact there is a downside risk to continuing as well, further study might show that the early results were an outlier and the drug is not as effective as previously thought (or has some serious side effects in some situation), and then you lose all the money you've invested. But if you push it through, there is no risk of being sued since the US Government has waived any liability on the part of drug companies for these therapies.

in a game-theoretic sense there is absolutely no benefit to continuing the trials and potential downsides to doing so. Remember, for-profit companies don't care about maximizing public health, they care about maximizing revenue. Especially when you've explicitly removed all financial liability for being risky with public health.
When even was the last major freenode outage that lasted more than a couple minutes? Its especially noteworthy since freenode is basically a bunch of volunteers and not a big silicon valley company with big operations team.
Thank you for finding that. It seems like intermittent cold exposure may be the primary key then. I wonder if breathing exercises help modulate the bodies response to the cold. More oxygen available may mean better brown fat thermogenesis for example.
The BBC article mentions that study and says it was conducted by Gilead. The study itself says that Gilead employees took part, but I am unable to figure out what role they actuality played.
Why are you using a spotty mobile connection for?
I'm talking about broader societal effects of religious beliefs. Abrahamic religions have a linear concept of time, which lends itself to viewing metaphysics and the world in a linear fashion. This is reflected in everything from capital-P Progress, to Millennialist movements, to Hegel and Marx, etc. It permeates everything.
> Maybe you meant to say "any corporation"?

Correct.

I also mistakenly thought the cake baker was a sole proprietor. They are incorporated. I should have done a simple search before posting my original comment.

That said, I now mostly agree with the comment I was originally replying to.

> What does limited liability have to do with a corporation being owned by one person?

Correct, nothing. To clarify:

My position is that an entity enjoying limited liability (which in the US includes an LLC or corporation owned by a single person) has exchanged "rights" for indemnity and therefore can be compelled to - for example - bake a cake or not censor content hosted on their servers, but that a sole proprietor can do whatever they want re: refusing service or moderating content.
Plus laws keep people from organizing in various ways (secondary strikes are illegal) and not in others (combining two companies to cooperate together is generally ok, even if it would be illegal for them to cooperate in certain ways if they were separate). Contractors can't effectively organise in some situations.
This is what I found too when I ran a team. I started having to manage remote employees and found out that it was vastly harder than I imagined. The whole team had to essentially train ourselves on how to handle remote workers. We did this by forcing each of us to be remote part of the time, so we could learn what worked and what didn't.

It's sad really. I worked at another company where there were a few remote workers that all ended up getting fired for performance reasons. When I pointed out that it seems that all remote workers have performance problems and maybe it isn't them, management looked at me like I was fool, and clearly if the remote workers just "worked harder" it wouldn't be an issue.
OSM is noticeable by absence of any mention I can see on the web site, sadly, and it's not even clear the data will be licensed compatibly. (The OSM UK mail list demonstrates the obsession^Wcare which at least some contributors devote to mapping.)
> He's not complaining

How is he not complaining. He totally is.
my random choices NOW become my preferences
Can you output WebAssembly/Emscripten project that uses SDL2?
First - you seem to be misunderstanding (or misrepresenting) the facts and results of the Microsoft case.

> Firstly Microsoft monopoly got thrown out because of unethical behavior of the judge (which is why there isn't two Microsoft entities today. The whole thing hinged on "Microsoft installed its browser by default which gave it an unfair advantage." To allow the DOJ to save face, Microsoft agreed to make it easier to install other browsers.

Nothing was 'thrown out', rather the penalty was changed after the higher court issued a ruling that actually changed the liability implications for MS, which allowed MS to negotiate a lesser judgement. Findings of fact and the ruling were not overthrown, despite questions about judge Jackson's impartiality.

Beyond that, the US was not the only jurisdiction in which Microsoft was taken to court and found guilty of monopolistic practices. "DOJ" is meaningless in courts outside the US, so your statement doesn't even make logical sense as a component of your argument.

Second - you seem to be standing behind a single dictionary definition for what constitutes a monopoly. That's fine when discussing certain technicalities in abstraction, but completely ignores the fact that the dictionary definition is meaningless in terms of law. A monopoly can absolutely exist even in the presence of competitive options, and that is very clearly laid out in many ways in various laws and legal precedents. The Sherman Act* alone has very clear statements about this, and absolutely contradicts what you are saying. Monopolistic behavior is about controlling the market and/or using market/industry dominance to prevent or stifle competition. It is not about the sheer absence of competition.

* https://www.justice.gov/atr/competition-and-monopoly-single-...
Things work better than they ever had, but human's incompetence towards operating and fixing them is rising. Every "thing" is now a complex system comprised of numerous components delegated to various organizations and individuals, and once something breaks, you have no clue about what's going on.
Alpine Linux with Full Disk Encryption
As a slow eater myself: Get better friends.
The study you links to uses death or heart failure as an endpoint. If there had been lower mortality or ICU admission halting the trial early would make sense. With the only improvement being quicker recovery the value proposition of the treatment isn't that great. From a practical standpoint remdesivir is expensive and had supply issues so halting the trial early doesn't mean every American is going to start getting treated with it.

I don't think the science is solid when a trial can pick from 2nd-tier endpoints and stop the trial once an improvement is found. It is quite possible that if the trial had gone on longer the one positive effect would be reduced or even go away entirely or that we would see a negative effect in a more important endpoint.
She's Just Like Me
If you work in technology then this shouldn't be that surprising. We have gone from it being a small niche activity to becoming mainstream. When I started everybody I worked with was enthusiastic about it. Now for many it's just a job.

Outside of that though I'm not so sure. I wouldn't like to go back to the seventies.
> ‘Green’ billionaires behind professional activist network that led suppression of ‘Planet of the Humans’ documentary

> https://thegrayzone.com/2020/09/07/green-billionaires-planet...

Just an FYI, but that website has Wikipedia's worst reliability rating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Per...
OK but also do not stop this development is all..
Keith Jarrett is one of my piano heroes :)

The conventional way of learning piano has a student learning sheet-music pieces that get increasingly difficult as the student improves. It's a fairly linear path, and the vast majority of students will never be able to play a difficult piece like, say, Chopin's Fantaisie Impromptu, as well as a top performer.

Similarly the vast majority of students going the chords/voicings/improvisation route will never be able to play Over The Rainbow as well as Keith Jarrett, but they can at least have the satisfaction and enjoyment of doing it in their own unique way.

Composing your own music takes it a step further again.
Yup. The moment Reddit disables `old.reddit.com` is the last day i use it.
Show HN: Permitstauts = a dashboard using RPA to track municipality permits (US)
Migrating your legacy user data to a centralized auth system
> The only solution? Make sure all of your data is always backed up somewhere else.

Whenever there is a systemic problem, fixing the system is always a better solution than trying to fix individual behaviors. Backing things up is a good idea but that doesn’t fix the problem, it just helps mitigate some of the effects of the problem.
I do think a community should decide. I don't think outsiders should be telling people they have to keep the school named after Lincoln, if they want to change it, democratically.
It's true that "gifted" (which I still find a bit grating regardless of its history) provides more detail, there's some lost nuance with "gave", since you can say "she gave me a glass of water" and "she gave me a painting for my birthday" but we wouldn't say "she gifted me a glass of water".
Elastic Search ran into this same problem and came up with the Elastic License. In particular, it stipulates that you may not:

> use Elastic Software Object Code for providing time-sharing services, any software-as-a-service, service bureau services or as part of an application services provider or other service offering (collectively, "SaaS Offering") where obtaining access to the Elastic Software or the features and functions of the Elastic Software is a primary reason or substantial motivation for users of the SaaS Offering to access and/or use the SaaS Offering ("Prohibited SaaS Offering");

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elastic/elasticsearch/mast...
For the intellectually curious, in what way?
That period only seems peaceful because the French had just been massively humiliated in the Franco-Prussian War [1] in 1870 and the powder keg had just been reset. The people of France were itching to go to war with Prussia/Germany to reclaim Alsace and Lorraine. Which created a massive arms race till WW1. Also, while Japan isn't in Europe, the Russo-Japanese war did happen in 1904 in that period resulting in a major loss of trust in the Russian monarchy and the subsequent 1905 Russian Revolution. The Europeans were still sending troops to aid in the subjugation of Africa (Boer wars, Anglo-Zulu wars etc) even then.

However, I do agree with you that people then thought that world peace was achieved. The 1910 book "The Great Illusion" [2] ironically argued European war was unlikely to start due to the great economic costs of destroying trade between nations. It got the consequences right at least.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Prussian_War
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Illusion
I was a midlevel dev filling the role of a tech lead.

It lead nowhere. They outsourced the product I supported. Then I started over on another obscure tech/stack and they cut the headcount 50%. Then I started over again on a more mainstream tech/stack.

So 3-4 years later, here I am. Still a midlevel dev. No real opportunities. Working a job I hate to support my family. But I guess I don't really count since they never officially promoted me.
nothing you listed isn't in the law since day one.

Expect the law to be followed shouldn't count a "high expectations". Sigh.
How to Stay Confident Always?
A Historical Dig Sheds Light on the Food of the Underground Railroad
Nobody is working for 8 hours a day, Why?
My statistics are a bit shaky but I understand they "pay" for taking an early look (interim analysis) by reducing the power of the trial by using something called alpha-spending function
Marginal Revolution Vrs Hacker News
I think the shared belief, sense of purpose, and sense of something greater beyond this life _is_ a key to it. I don't think secularism can provide a strong enough motivation channeled into something productive. It can evoke strong emotion, but it usually ends with days of rage and such. Religion and belief in deity has pretty much always provided that (and even then there are lots of examples of that not working). I don't think we are going to buck the lessons of thousands of years of human history and find some kind of "enlightened secularism" that hasn't worked before.
That'd be "SIGSEGV as a Service".
There is pro-BLM content and pro-LGBT content all over the site, but I see plenty of Twitch users and streamers who are quite racist and homophobic.
If interested, he posted an updated comment that takes into account today’s news of the Solidarity trial: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/10/16/th...
NPM nukes Node.js malware opening Windows, Linux reverse shells
More NodeJS malware has been spotted by NPM that spawned reverse shells on Windows & Linux machines, exfiltrated environment data, and has scored over 1,000 downloads!
Do you have a source? Buteyko has been studied and shown positive effects [0].

[0] https://buteykoclinic.com/buteyko-trials/
Not Belong
Its not just that though. There are lots of privacy attacks on this kind of system that you have to be careful to avoid.

How easy is it in this system to force a specific user to use you as their exit node during a targeted attack? Given the state of their website, i am going to guess pretty easy.
Honestly, the way you're going about it, I would. To analyze the timeline properly, you'd have to actually get a large sample of events and look both for events that would support your thesis and those that would refute it. Especially for a topic like drug discovery in a rapidly-unfolding pandemic, where news sources might be reporting with various delays and the underlying studies might be reporting wildly variable results, it's important to not cherry-pick to do honest analysis.

When you do gematria, you're asserting the importance of a pattern you've discovered without seeking how common the pattern actually is (which turns out to be pretty damn common in instances where the pattern doesn't have any implication). You're basically doing the same thing when you cherry-pick three events to support a conclusion in a context when there are many events you could choose from.
Nokia Composer in 512 bytes of JavaScript
What is "OS" in this context?
Americans use M/D/Y, not Y/D/M. The reason ISO recommends Y/M/D as a universal date format is because just about everyone agrees on how to interpret it -- no one expects Y/D/M.

Not that this makes the claim any more believable.
Atlassian will stop selling Jira Server Licenses
Well... Money is a necessary requirement, because it buys visibility in all forms of media. But if we calmly look at what went on, Trump did more than just blast himself out to everywhere he could. Yes, he's an unhinged demagogue, but he also played the media remarkably well. (Calling in to a newsroom and getting unsolicited airtime in the middle of an otherwise redundant programme?)

> As an aside, “neither” is an option in the U.S. but too many people have been convinced a third party vote is equivalent to throwing their vote away

You missed my point. The option I'm talking about is not "neither". It's "none of the above". You need a way to actively express that you, as a voter, have considered the available named options and rejected all of them. Not by wasting a protest vote or abstaining to vote in the first place.

I don't believe I'm saying this, but I honestly think an Australian-style mandatory voting regime would do well in the US. At least that would force the states' hands and make voter suppression a hell of a lot harder to attempt. Combine that with ballots that always have "none of the above" option, and you might start to see something shift.

What would you think happens to legitimacy if "all options were bad" gets a larger share of votes than your supposedly winning candidate?
Agreed! I was expecting some "Slumlord Saas" tool

(with featured such as automated denial of maintenance requests, and the immediate investment of security deposits into long term CDs)
I wouldn't say that the parenthetical in the comment you are responding to is correct:

> Doesn't this suggest that if you want to eat a lot of food but don't want to absorb too much of it (i.e., are concerned about weight gain), you should chew less?

In the study they found that more chewing was correlated with higher satiety and lower food intake in the follow up meal. This may show that if you are concerned about weight gain you should chew more and then you'll naturally eat less.
A Brief History of Word Games
I'm really curious what open source software an oven uses? I would think all it needs is timers and a temperature monitoring loop.
For me, it was more the tagline than the name. "Rental empire" brings up ideas of acquiring more and more land to rent to peasants.

"Rentify" alone could be AirBNB, but it could also be Rent-a-Center. The right tagline would remove the ambiguity.
I think they’re bemoaning the fact that many employers will couch it in terms of courtesy yet also claim the right to be angry if you don’t go above what is required. It should be encouraged to do more than required, yes. But it shouldn’t be punishable if you don’t.
Minimal setup for C++ and Objective-C interop