skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The study is flawed in the same way most other HCL studies are flawed: they use hospitalization as criteria for inclusion in the study. Waiting for hospitalization, indeed any delay, is an error.

The original (and current) protocols for hydroxychloroquine mandate HCL+ZINC+AZITHROMYCIN EARLY (within the first few days of symptoms). Early aggressive treatment stops the virus (and minimizes bacterial infection that otherwise might follow), whereas waiting until the lungs are severely damaged and clogged results in failure.

In this study, as in almost all others, doctors waited until patients were in severe respiratory distress before admitting them to the hospital and waited even further before they were admitted to the study and given treatment. From the article:

>"Design, Setting, and Participants... Adults hospitalized with respiratory symptoms from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection were enrolled ..."<

There is a difference between treatment within 1-3 days of occurrence and treatment 1-3 weeks after occurrence.
Yeah that will happen for the next few decades or so due to the male / female imbalance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy

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16GB is fine in my opinion. I have that amount with Microsoft Edge, VS Code, Microsoft Teams, and 20 Docker containers and it fits (Windows and WSL2).

However I need to be careful, For example I started using Tabnine recently and the memory usage per instance of vscode is way too high and I need to think about closing unused instances of vscode.

I'm considering to test Github Codespaces so I get a fast environment in the cloud. But the ram amount is only 8GB max and since it probably runs on Azure the IOs performances will likely be awful. But it may be great and then 16GB on a laptop to run many instances of Electron is a lot more than enough.

But if I were to buy a new laptop tomorrow, I would like to get at least 32GB and a touchscreen. So no MacBook pro for me.
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I think the person posting above is not referring to the water going bad, but rather, to your water container rupturing, and flooding your basement.
Do you have a reference for that "new debug back end"?
> Without the second argument it makes total sense to look at other, more privacy-oriented providers.

Photos data isn't used for ads according to the post.

Are you concerned about photo analysis for tagging? You can upload to Google Drive in that case and manage the photos yourself like any other provider.
I don't think I'm hoarding by any reasonable measure but I'm definitely keeping an extra buffer for a lot of the staples, whether food or cleaning supplies, than I tended to do previously. There's no real downside; I'm going to use them sooner or later.
If you're an Amazon Prime user you can use their photo app that still has unlimited, full-res uploads.

https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Photos/b?node=13234696011

>Amazon Photos offers unlimited, full-resolution photo storage, plus 5 GB video storage for Prime members.

Printing from amazon isn't too bad either.
Yeah, luckily I have a box of medical masks (though not N95), for flu season, where I will give them to people or wear them myself, so I felt happily prepared in the mask department!
Usually the company will provide a computer (if needed) and will re-imburse the employee for the space cost, so it is not taxable. The employee pays taxes, but some states want to state tax money the employee earns if the move involved a move into a taxing state. Often the employee quite likes it and if the work can be measured as satisfactory = employer happy at the level of performance - the employee may or may not be happy.
Local restaurants, landlords, gas stations etc, are often the biggest losers.
We started using work from home and secure cloud data access 2 years ago and all employees as well as the bosses were very happy with this. Then along came Covid and for us it was easy.
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I agree. The price/GiB between looks like someone was throwing darts.

I wish there is a straightforward pay-as-you go option. However there is the mental downside that everything you store is costing money, whereas the package deals you feel free (until you hit the limit).
Google is 100% running out of space.

Google Photos no longer unlimited - https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/11/21560810/google-photos-u...

GSuite no longer unlimited - https://9to5google.com/2020/10/08/google-workspace-drive-sto...

Google Drive to delete trash after 30 days. Before, it stored till you perma deleted - https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2020/09/drive-trash-aut...

Google Docs to be counted as storage space. it was unlimited for all before - https://blog.google/products/photos/storage-policy-update/

Guess the cloud's gonna start filling up soon eh.
Now I see why Google phones don't have SD card slots.
AndroWish – run desktop Tcl/Tk programs almost unaltered on the Android Platform
Archive link: https://archive.is/ny63x

Directly submitting archive.is links appears to be shadowbanned.
Camping for a couple of weeks would be more relevant.
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Valid point, but this doesn't amount to a very convincing promise to many users imo. You're relying on the service provider to not abuse their power. If that were sufficient I don't think we would see these e2e services pop up to begin with.
Just connect the airbag sensor to a resiStor load to dump the charge upon an impact. Pretty simple really.
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You can't say it out loud because it's politically incorrect but true.

I have some karma points to burn :)
SmugMug and Flickr (same company these days) both do if you pay, and I'd trust them far more with photos than any of the bigger companies.
Curious what indexing features you find most useful. For me the killer feature was how ocr rendered a lot of photos searchable by the text contained in the photo. But also cool how you can search “mountains” and see all your photos related to that.
I do both when I'm scaling to millions of requests per day. I also do some cpu bound preprocessing after the io bound async functions end.
The meat industry certainly overuses antibiotics, but the claim that "people are even eating antibiotics without knowing it" doesn't seem to be accurate.

https://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/food.html

> Food animals should not have any antibiotics in their body when they are slaughtered or processed for food. Antibiotic residues are small amounts of leftover antibiotics or pieces of antibiotics that are not completely absorbed after an animal is given antibiotics. USDA, with FDA and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), administers the U.S. National Residue Program (NRP) to prevent residues that pose a potential threat to human health from entering the food supply.
Just tax everyone for breathing.
While I instinctively knew Google is not to trust with the word "free", especially since "you're the product" isn't applicable as easily here as with other products, I still decided to thoroughly test Photos for a long while to see if they'd introduce some limits. They are a corporate entity out to make money (and externally pressured to make more quarter by quarter), so I fully get it. But for Photos, it almost seemed like it could be a long play for them. A fantastic place to upsell users into all the other Google products. One that could just possibly stay free, forever. So, the fool I am, I started recommending it to just about anyone. Helped onboard relatives, many friends and so forth.

And now, this. We're at the next step of a funnel they could've (and should've) been more transparent on from the start: they're starting to apply force to add "a form of payment". After which, naturally, they'll be able to keep on raising those prices freely with such an impressively solid lock-in at hand. The more data stored inside Google Photos, the harder it'll be to migrate it away.

I am, once again, contemplating to give up entirely on the "cloud" and figure out something else. The issue isn't paying for services, but I do have a problem with intransparent funnels. It's not about paying a buck or two a month, it's about them now being able to raise prices without mercy, regardless of actual storage pricing going down!

To migrate away will be quite the effort once we're storing past 100 GB+. Frustrating. Fully to be expected, but still. Google is acting so desperate, their struggle with milking the good ole' advertising cow is becoming more obvious by the minute. I wonder how long Chrome (not Chromium) is going to survive until it'll end up in a monetisation funnel.
We are altering the deal. Pray we don't alter it any further.
Why does the title say "Snood Bloober" but the linked article say "Snark Barker"? Just curious - did it change or something?
What always seems to be missing from these things is gRPC monitoring - there's a defined HealthCheck endpoint, even, specifically for this situation. Maybe people just don't run gRPC services as much as the hype would imply?
Time to dust off my side project, Timeliner [1] which downloads your Google Photos (and other content from various services) and indexes them in a local SQLite DB.

Then after backing them up locally, I won't feel bad about deleting them from the cloud later to free up space.

I've been using Timeliner for a while but need to update it. New maintainers welcomed, if you're interested!

(One major "oof" is that the Google Photos API strips geolocation data, so unfortunately coordinates are lost when using this method. There's discussion about using Takeout as a workaround, or even automating web browser interactions, but those have their own problems too.)

[1]: https://github.com/mholt/timeliner
If you want a degree student loans are difficult to avoid unless someone else is subsidising your expenses or you decided to go to college after already becoming wealthy.

Mortgage is hard to avoid if you want to buy a house.

Some responsible use of car loans have their place.
Did you buy your house with cash or a mortgage? In some countries, mostly developed ones, the policies in place almost always make it a silly choice not to take on a large amount of debt to buy your first house. Even if you have the cash, it's always wiser to invest your money elsewhere and use the investment income to pay for the interest part of the loan.

Avoiding debt is good advice for 90% of the population who can't plan or understand long term commitments relative to their income level. When you understand and internalize that debt is simply a trade of cash flows (you get money now, they get money over time) that can be beneficial to all parties involved, you treat debt as a tool. Sometimes it's useful, sometimes it's bad, depends on your situation. When your debt starts to accumulate, it means that your prediction of future cash flow was wrong.
So no mention of syCL support... Only offering ~C in 2020 is an insult to computer science.

Unrelated: when will Nvidia allow to seamlessly offload Java or another GC based language to the GPU?
https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/grcuda-a-polyglot-language...
GrCuda seems promising but it would only allow interoperability with Java on the CPU, not offload Java to the GPU, right?
Such advances would make gpu computing order of magnitudes more developper friendly and therefore much more mainstream.
> In order to provide a more specialized dictionary, we provide the compressor with a content type hint from our servers, relying on the Content-Type header to tell the compressor if it should use a dictionary for HTML, JavaScript or CSS

That's quite clever, almost seems obvious now someone else has said it!

> The radix trie is responsible for finding the word while the hash table and bloom filter are used to speed up the radix trie and quickly eliminate many words

Huh. I've never looked into how Brotli works, but I would have assumed it already used both these techniques.
Here’s a nice paper and talk by the mathlib folks at a January 2020 proofs and certified programs conf https://popl20.sigplan.org/details/CPP-2020-papers/14/The-Le...

Might be fun reading for folks
Weaken the very foundation of your own country so you can stay in power? Even as a conspiracy theory is just too absurd. But after seeing what politicians do these days, it might not be too far-fetched at all.
One issue is that your comment sounds a bit hyperbolic. For example, China criminalizes thought? It certainly does not criminalize thought as such.

About 'working together with our allies'... Some will argue the 'West' has developed a somewhat abusive relationship with a lot of the world over the last two hundred years. It's not surprising some would look favourably to a competitor, if only to take advantage of that competition to make a better deal for themselves.

Finally, if other parts of the world develop a more advanced IT industry instead of China, how does that preserve Western developers salaries? Are the Chinese uniquely inclined to work long hours for low salaries? Or are you implying that the 'West' would need to prevent nations under 'our sphere of influence' to develop an IT industry so developers in the 'West' can continue to receive their current salaries?
Not necessarily. The guns and ammunition are more valuable. You could trade them (or your time in protecting them) for the other things without stealing.

Besides, I think it's a moot point because I know a lot of preppers and they're all very aware of concerns like safe drinking water and food.
> but a random stranger has no business judging my appearance, regardless if it's positive or negative.

But they will, and they do. That's a fact of life. You seem to have a child's outlook on life. All I can tell you is, grow up. For your own sake.
I've found Microsoft Office to be the best deal for online storage. $70/year gets you a bunch of useful apps and 1TB of storage, or $100 year provides 1TB for up to 6 accounts. Nothing else seems to come close.
And to a man, they loathe the need. However, you would be shocked at the number of "unregistered" firearms in Germany and all over Europe. Guns from the war, guns from abroad, all make their way into Europe.
NY State mandated the registration of all AR and AK rifles a couple of years back. State police in NY show that less than 100 people have bothered to do so. Those people know better. Registration can lead to confiscation. Janet Reno, the erstwhile AG, actually said that the purpose of registration is eventual confiscation. No, thank you.
Perhaps in New Hampshire?

https://www.google.ca/maps/place/NH-101A,+Milford,+NH,+USA/@...
> If your goal is to get rich, you need to be comfortable with levering up, because your competition will be

Or alternatively make something that doesn't have much competition. Here in Germany family business and artisanal work is still relatively widespread, and those businesses which have built particular expertise are very hard to outcompete, and many did so without significant debt, or sometimes debt at all. It just took them 30 years. They're private, often family owned, and don't have to answer to anyone, and they're not substantially threatened by globalisation (in fact they benefit from it) or competition because there is so much operational knowledge inside the company you just can't copy it.
What is the legitimate argument here?
This could be done by fuzzing and running tests. If the tests pass with code removed, then either a test that exercises the wanted code could be added or the removal accepted.
I saw a pickup truck run into a train at ~60 mph. 30 seconds later it was completely engulfed in flames. Sometimes ICE vehicles do catch fire very quickly (still not an explosion though).
I wish this was actually (optional) built-in behavior for browsers when bookmarking pages, or at least when adding to a "read later" list like Pocket/Instapaper etc.

Sideshow Ask HN: Didn't Firefox mobile work like this? I could read the reader view items offline...

Anyone knows what's happening with the whole bookmarks/collections situation?
Guess the face detection AI has become good enough. It was already way too creepy.
Mostly for dust. A lot of the smoke/dust particulate matter from the 9/11 attacks has been linked to nasty cancers, even among civilians simply fleeing from ground zero.
Yes but then I need to host the backup in a reliable way. I think Google is very competent to keep my personal data.
More like “tapping that lucrative subscription revenue” because they finally have enough people locked in
Backdoors?
Debt isn't purely good or bad, it is just another financial instrument. If used wisely, debt is a very powerful way of getting ahead financially. For example, the average person is likely never going to be able to save enough money to pay cash up front on a house, but they can very well pay it off while living in it. However, taking on a house payment you cannot afford is obviously bad. Likewise, using a credit card and paying it off every month is a smart thing to do, but carrying over balance is not. So, like everything else, there's a balance.
Please no. Photos is where I put _all_ my photos. I don't want any social complexity layered on at all, ever. I'll gladly pay for the dumb storage solution they've got now (and, in fact, I do).
Doh! And of course I had the no-procrastination turned on and couldn't get back in until now.
But then these is almost no point to use Google Photos.
You’ve haven’t used those much then. Pumping water in the backcountry is a giant PITA. Even the clearest mountain stream ends up clogging the filters after a few liters and require you to back flush them. We despise using them and will often just boil unpurified water for our dinners.

Sawyer filters tend to be our favorite. Although if you only want to do a Nalgene amount of water and don’t mind some grit, then Steripens are a good option too.
> State police in NY show that less than 100 people have bothered to do so.

So much for the "law abiding gun owners" meme, eh?

edit: While the registration law is indeed believed to be widely broken, the number of registrants was 20k+ people, five years ago. Nowhere near 100. https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/New-York-SAFE-Act-gu...

edit #2: Reno didn't say that, it's a hoax. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/janet-reno-on-gun-control-...
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Agreed, but IMO R >> MatLab and SAS over the past ~10 years. Both Matlab (physics??) and SAS (pharma/financial) seem to have further sunk into deep niches.
Of course not... but most people don't have a pawn shop and don't mine gold.

On the other hand, with prepping, (just to point at a weird, funny case), a huge amount of people were without toilet paper this spring, both due to media panic and not having an extra pack in the basement, for "just in case" scenarios (for me it was my gf using it all, and me being too lazy to go to store that day, so I have two packs (20 rolls) just for that...).

Because people here (in slovenia) watch international news, they bought all the toilet paper here too, and it was hard to get it for like three days (luckily, slovenia is small, and distributon is not hard).

And toilet paper is easily replaced by a bidet or a shower... food isn't.
To be fair but harsh - hell yes that is a good reason to avoid the country entirely. If a country has shitty laws like that they deserve to be treated like a leper.
It depends on the career. Blue collar union workers (up until just recently) could easily go a lifetime without losing a job in certain parts of the country. But the flip side of it is the more job security you have today, the worse off you’ll be if you are ever out of a job (again like blue collar workers today).
> but it's not going to catch that your NicheHelper class that was only called in one place is not called anymore

Your NiceHelper function gets one type as argument and returns the same type? Is it `void NiceHelper(...)`?

Severely restricting the number of `void X(...)` functions on your code helps a lot. Also `a someF(a)` is a type that is useful once in a while, but if it's useful all the time something may be broken.
Somehow I suspect that is less about fulfilling their promise to the consumer and more about “let’s not piss off regulators in any more ways than they already are”...
Well, it was bound to happen eventually. Nice of them to announce so far in advance and let existing content stay free for now, and that should help them avoid an abrupt exodus.

This seems like a big win for Apple though, especially with their new focus on services. As with other apps like maps, they’ve by now basically caught up with Google who had started off with a huge lead. When Google photos first launched with facial and object recognition and ability to search photos without ever tagging them, it was pretty incredible but now that’s basically table stakes.

For any iPhone and Mac users who haven’t been paying specifically for cloud photo storage and will now need to, I don’t really see much reason to stick with google photos over the native solution using iCloud or Apple One. I’m sure that’s what I’ll do eventually.
This is true. But bi-partisanship appears to be dead now. So the closest we have is a trifecta government passing something and then hoping there is a long enough time until the opposing party gets a trifecta so that the change sticks.

Look at the ACA. It's been around long enough now that so far most attempts by the other party have failed to overturn it. But you're right, it's still under attack. So we shall see.
Sad as I am to see "unlimited" go away, this is probably the best way to do it:

* Grandfathering existing photos means I don't have to worry about going back and deleting objects or getting an sudden bump in cost.

* 15 GB is pretty generous... iCloud includes 5GB for free.

* $2/month isn't a huge jump to the next level of storage.
I implemented some options for that purpose in SingleFile [1]. They allow you to save the page when you bookmark it and eventually replace the URL of the page with the file URI on your disk.

[1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
Keep in mind that the photos you download from Takeout have the GPS data stripped out, so (sibling commentors) already have an incomplete backup.

PhotoSync (https://www.photosync-app.com/home.html) lets you do a good-old-fashioned dump to a NAS.
You mean, you were the therapist?
That's my cue to start self-hosting again!
I don't want to have to backup the data myself. I pay Google so they can backup my photos.
In my worthless opinion it's not worth spending all my free time making sure I am prepared for a major disaster. If society really does collapse and I'm the only prepared person in a mile radius, with all the gear listed in that article, someone bigger and tougher is going to come take it off me pretty quickly.
> low quality but unlimited storage is expensive

I guarantee Google still makes money from those users. Google Photos adds value to the Google ecosystem, attracting more users and more paying users. The more history you have stored with Google, the harder it is to move. It also promotes other Google services users do pay for.

I'd guess this is a move by someone in middle management to increase revenues for their product, without seeing the bigger picture, where this move probably has negative shareholder value.
Hackers and physicists apparently share the same malady of inflated ego.
As long as you're not doing push stuff:

1) set up a series of N docker registry mirrors in pull-through mode (https://docs.docker.com/registry/recipes/mirror/, it's as simple as "docker run --rm --name registry -d -p 5000:5000 -e REGISTRY_STORAGE_DELETE_ENABLED=true -e REGISTRY_PROXY_REMOTEURL=https://registry-1.docker.io -v /mnt/persistentdata/registry:/var/lib/registry registry")

2) expose them on the same domain name (multiple A records, loadbalancers, whatever you want)

3) set them as mirrors in each machine's docker daemon

In case one of your mirrors go down, take them out of the DNS/LB rotation. That's it.