skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Have a feeling this is a correlation and not direct causation

Classic. An HN commenter's gut feel (no pun intended) apparently outweighs a serious piece of work. Here's the results from the actual study [0] referenced in the article:

In this study, 1028 participants were randomized (INT, 424 [41.2%] [166 women (39.2%)]; INT-DPM, 426 [41.4%] [147 women (34.5%)]; CON, 178 [17.3%] [70 women (%39.3)]) between January 1, 2011, and February 24, 2017. The mean (SD) age was 65.3 (10.0) years, mean (SD) body mass index 31.2 (5) (calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared), and mean (SD) follow-up 24.7 (13.4) months. A total of 156 participants progressed to type 2 diabetes, which comprised 39 of 171 receiving CON (22.8%), 55 of 403 receiving INT (13.7%), and 62 of 414 receiving INT-DPM (15.0%). There was no significant difference between the intervention arms in the primary outcome (odds ratio [OR], 1.14; 95% CI, 0.77-1.7; P = .51), but each intervention arm had significantly lower odds of type 2 diabetes (INT: OR, 0.54; 95% CI, 0.34-0.85; P = .01; INT-DPM: OR, 0.61; 95% CI, 0.39-0.96; P = .033; combined: OR, 0.57; 95% CI, 0.38-0.87; P = .01). The effect size was similar in all glycemic, age, and social deprivation groups, and intervention costs per participant were low at $153 (£122).

[0] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/articl...
COVID can make you infectious but without symptoms. Which means that it's very likely that people can infect their workplaces before realising that they are even sick.
If the workers are screwed, they will stop working for doordash, increasing the costs to doordash and therefore speeding up their demise.

By tipping you are directly subsidizing doordash
The fees are not as apparent if you don't live alone. Imagine living with 4 roommates, all of whom want to order together. The fees and tips are divided among the 4 and become almost invisible.
HackerNews loves talking about network effects and marketing virality but doesn't seem to understand actual real-world networks and viruses.
It doesn't have to be either one! You could just exercise more.
Do you dispute that Ohio in 2004 bears a resemblance? Every Presidential election of course has its own unique context, so if you want to discuss broader patterns you have to be willing to step back from the nitty-gritty of each individual year.
> without any real plan or timeline

There's a very real plan, which is to develop a vaccine. And that plan seems to be going pretty well. The timeline will be dictated by the success of the plan, but it seems that most experts are reasonably confident that vaccines will be available next year.
In my experience, most of the "high-risk" people in care homes would easily risk their life to visit their relatives for the holidays.

The two options are:

- Go for it, you have guaranteed quality time with family and (unknown) risk of dying.

- Stay isolated, guaranteed miserable time alone, then you die anyway a bit later.

I'm not surprised at their choices. We should not be optimizing for length of life at the cost of its quality.
Holiday gatherings are cancelled for the rest of the year as far as I'm concerned.

In Denver, public and private gatherings are limited to 5 people. Statewide, gatherings limited to members from two households.
> Then when Biden said he wants to take Trump behind the bleachers and knock him out, we should construe that as a threat of violence against the President,right?

No, just like I never said Bannon's statement should be taken as a threat.

> People never, ever use hyperbole for effect

I never said that. What effect so you think Bannon was going for? I've explained what I think, and that that the statement was a neither literal nor hyperbolic.

If you want a productive dialog, you need to respond to what people actually say, rather than fantasies of what you'd like them to have said because it is convenient to argue against.
As someone who has previously argued with HN moderation and dang before, I don't think this is a good tact.

I also had comments flagged for saying someone was arguing in bad faith.
Nobody's saying they don't have a right to challenge irregularities, but many government officials say this was the most secure election in American history and deny any evidence of systemic fraud: https://apnews.com/article/top-officials-elections-most-secu...
"Disregarding the guidance of health professionals such as wearing a mask and socially distancing means endangering other people's lives."

...which isn't different than any other year.

Every year, the flu kills tens of thousands (in the US -- higher worldwide). Disproportionately children.

Every year, driving kills hundreds of thousands, even when you exclude the effects of alcohol.

Every year, people have sex without condoms, and pass on harmful -- possibly fatal -- viruses.

Every year, millions of people die from communicable disease of every sort, ranging from pneumonia to HIV.

This is the first time in my life that we've tried to apply transitive risk logic to justify curtailing of individual freedoms. Masks are one thing, but telling people that they can't have family gatherings because it might hurt you?

This seems wrong to me. You can use this logic to justify literally any curtailment of personal freedom.
And what novel possibilities have Polyphonic Note Editing and Utterly Transparent Time Stretching brought to music? All that has been accomplished 4% YoY reduction in the cost and time of producing Mass Media, which requires a massive volume of production work. These are conveniences which are and always have been utterly conceivable consequences of sufficient engineering hours, not revolutions or fundamental changes in our relationship to the world. Even if some of those are just now coming into people's minds, all those changes were already conceived of and implemented 20+ years ago.
actually hosted fields isn't an iframe but replacing the cc detail fields with stripe fields and adding some javascript which tokenizes the cc details so you never see them
Should we take religions seriously then? They demand it anyhow.

I do not mean to dismiss the entirety of the humanities or social sciences (or religion for that matter!) I do get concerned however with their motivations and the power they wield over public policy and politics in general. A certain claim to the truth they don’t really have.

I also find it curious that most elite universities and scholars come to more or less the same conclusions regarding subjects that aren’t falsifiable. You’d expect this to be the case in the hard sciences (reproducibility is vital) but not in others. For instance, in religions we can see great divergence. Even in the way economic theory (another thing that isn’t science but often claims to be) has differing conclusions based on the same observations.

I also see today in the application of some of these social sciences that asking to debate or to ask for more evidence is taken as a challenge to it and in fact evidence that the theory is right. See some national best selling books from this year, for example.

At what point do social sciences look more like religion than “science”?
I don't think it can stop. I feel this is more like "is this the end of physics/mathematics?" like question. Our generation scientists have to use software to discover stuff...I mean why stop?
and this is also the reason WireGuard did not want to run on top of TCP
Very interesting. Do you mind sharing how to become a part of this group. Asking for myself as I like the idea and would like to join.
2020 tech and science ranking of every USA states by Milken Institute
Wear a piece of cloth in front of your fucking face until a global pandemic gets under control != “control people’s lives”
Why can you accept people dying, but not accept the economy not doing well?

The economy goes up and down. It's a fact of life. Why worry about it?
You need to be mindful of the quality with both brands.

Dell XPS models are notorious for coil wine and display issues. Unlike the X1, the XPS models don't have USB-A ports.

The Lenovo X1 has the display panel lottery and fit-and-finish problems such as misaligned keys, seam gaps, and case material differences, which is probably attributed to multiple suppliers. Depending on the type of display panel, there could be four different suppliers (best to worst): Innolux, LG-Philips, AU Optronics, and BOE.
My friends mother has always been skinny and almost underweight but she's been diabetic since her late 40's. I know its sample size 1. but I always wonder if there are other reasons other than just weight?
> Is there really?

From personal experience and the experience of many friends I can confirm (anecdotally, but still) that in Eastern Europe there exist many societies where putting on a seatbelt is socially stigmatized.
> It's important not to take really good pieces of software and services for granted, yet it's something we all do every day.

This is so true. In fact, the user to whom you are replying is the creator of one of those really good pieces of software: Ardour [0].

If others who read this comment are users of Ardour, please consider doing a $5 monthly donation to Paul on PayPal.

[0] https://ardour.org/
No. There’s a tiny improvement on opening apps. Absolutely nothing more.

And of course the cost is disabling a bunch of very real security protections.
This might be true but there are many engineers with decision making power. My pet hate (and a virtual guarantee of "no deal") is when I'm forced to talk to a sales person who is all hair-gel and swagger [1] who knows substantially less about their own product than I do.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/CumpsD/696599d1bd4cd472a056586967293... - this is about (UK) external recruitment companies, but the same applies.
The lawn mower example is really good. Lawn mowers and leaf blowers have horrible pollution issues - until 2016 they were entirely unregulated in the European Union.

To make it worse, people are directly near the exhausts of these machines which means that this is way, way more harmful than whatever a car manages to emit.
After a blood test 1.5 years ago, I was considered "Prediabetes".

I was just slightly overweight (probably "average" by american standards).

Hearing the doc say "Prediabetes", plus having heart disease in the family and sky high cholesterol, I decided to try losing a few pounds (for me, that meant deleting all food delivery apps from my phone...)

2-3 months later I had lost maybe 10 lbs (more than the few kgs in the article). Got retested, and I was no longer prediabetes and cholesterol dropped to normal levels.

Since then, I've continued to lose another 40 lbs and am no longer considered overweight.

The reason I'm sharing the anecdote is to share my surprise that almost all of the improvement in blood test came from the first 10 lbs (the extra 40 lbs I lost maybe improved numbers a bit more, but 90% improvement came after the first 10 lbs)
I appreciate your clarification, and for the record I am not one of the ones who downvoted you.

I agree that police being free to enter your house without probable cause of a crime is not good, and I'm not sure how many people are arguing that those who violate the quarantine should be put in psychiatric care. That just seems like nonsense, I'd have to have proof that someone is seriously advocating that before opining.

However, I think it's acknowledged that in dire times such as war and pestilence, the government can temporarily do things it couldn't do before until the crisis is over. For example, if an invading force has set up a machine gun on your property and the army attacks them, you probably shouldn't be able to sue them for trespassing. On the other hand, we have a constitutional right not to be required to give quarter to soldiers. What's the difference? It's the duration and immediacy of the danger I think. This is a judgment call.

Of course the problem lies in the government usurping power for an unlimited or ill-defined time, such as for the "war on terror" which never ends.

The pandemic, on the other hand, should have a definite and quantitative end, and I don't think stay-at-home orders or mask mandates necessarily lead to authoritarian progressions or curtailing of personal rights. Nobody is saying that the government should have a right to curtail, for example, the right to peaceably assemble forever; just until thousands of people per day stop dying.

Maybe I'm wrong though, what do you think?
> If Covid were an STD there would be huge social pressure on

HIV/AIDS was that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS
Because the average person has a very bad understanding of risk and consequences?

Also, the laws aren't solely about the wearer; not wearing seatbelts at scale has societal costs.
why all the downvoters? I just listed a bunch of totally reasonable objections to his time in office. Are people that attached to political figures? I don't understand. I feel like hackernews is a good place to criticize all politicians, including those you like. I voted for him if you are curious lol
Europe is not a single country with a single policy.

Heck, even the UK isn't a single country with a single policy; we've had on-and-off lockdowns and nightlife restrictions all over the place.
Also: wow. So 1.3 million avoidable deaths worldwide (or 250k in the US if you're there) is an acceptable loss to you, but staying home for the holidays is unacceptable?

Your lack of empathy for your fellow humans is staggering. A day may come when tragedy strikes your family, I hope you are shown more empathy than you are choosing to extend to others here.
HN's medical advice is on par with it's advice on law and economics.
A lot of school districts buy tons of them for students to use, but I'm not sure how many individuals actually choose to buy a Chromebook over a traditional laptop.
>There are allegations of malfeasance and even fraud that need to be investigated and adjudicated. This has been true in many previous elections. The rule is to count every legal vote and only legal votes.

There are allegations by enormously unscrupulous people which have as yet been completely debunked by the courts and labeled by government officials as misinformation attempts: https://apnews.com/article/top-officials-elections-most-secu...
Coming in without much OCaml experience, I don't really think this is a great demonstration of why this construct has value.

I don't really want to read a long form description of the OCaml implementation of modules. I want a comparison to the languages he dismissed at the beginning of the article, and a discussion of why this feature has some value that isn't provided by those languages.

Basically - This feels like a different take on generics to me. There might be a lot of value in how this is implemented when compared to generics in a language like Java/C#/Typescript, but I didn't find that content anywhere in the article...
Thank you! The task management is from Emacs Org Mode, logseq has the similar TODO/DOING/DONE/NOW/LATER keywords and A/B/C priorities, deadlines and scheduled are supported too. More org mode features are coming!
> it is not much more than the annual flu death count.

Which numbers on that page are you looking at? Here's what I see:

all deaths involving covid-19: 223,984

all deaths involving influenza, with or without covid-19 or influenza: 6,789
Activists Are Trying to Cancel My Book. Why Is Silicon Valley Helping Them?
The most chilling part is "But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D."

Many wait for that single moment when the line is crossed for everyone to stand up and take (non-violent) action and speak out, but that moment never comes. That's not how this works. Authoritarianism rises gradually and relies on people looking away from it, unable to confront inconvenient truths. The time to speak out is early and not to wait for that moment for others to do so.
It isn’t unless you have valid mail in ballots that haven’t even arrived by Election Day.
But how true is that for weight loss specifically?

Sure the food that's phrased as 'unhealthy' might not be what's best for you, but we shouldn't spread falsehoods.

https://www.npr.org/2010/11/12/131286626/professor-s-weight-...
To play the devil's advocate, the line of reasoning you used in your comment isn't very useful. Just because more than zero 5- to 14-year-olds have died from covid does not negate the fact that their risk is minuscule compared to other age groups. With a large enough sample size, there are always going to be outliers.
Correct, I believe the main intent is to stop worms and ransomware.
Looks like someone missed the most recent forks. There are still a number of repos not listed in the DMCA complaint that have the extension content: https://github.com/tomer8007/widevine-l3-decryptor/network/m...
> There were a set of rules. According to the rules, he won

Correct. Which is why most of the grousing centered around the electoral college being archaic and undemocratic. Many people want to see the rules changed.
OP is making a claim that privacy is top notch with no proof. I don't really agree that we can automatically say it isn't because it's closed source, but it's pretty hard to confirm that it is without reading the source code.
The headline is misleading. The result was from a getting support to make diet and lifestyle changes. That resulted in both losing weight and lowering risk of diabetes.

"Interventions A control arm receiving usual care (CON), a theory-based lifestyle intervention arm of 6 core and up to 15 maintenance sessions (INT), or the same intervention with support from diabetes prevention mentors, trained volunteers with type 2 diabetes (INT-DPM)."
That was the intention of things like https://nano.org/. If merchants started offering products 3-5% off for paying with crypto, they would probably come out ahead.
absolutely 100% wrong incentive. if you insist on tipping for the reason that you believe the drivers are underpaid relative to the value received, tip them in cash, not in the app.

tipping in general stinks and you should really set tip to $0. the driver sees the tip in advance and can take or not take the delivery. but then tip in cash if you want.
One thing is that OCaml modules are first class objects, so can be constructed at runtime and passed around as variables. But this Zig example, I think, will cover the most common case of functors for creating generics.

(I'm also not sure if Zig does compile-time check if the type T is compatible with LinkedList. OCaml does this type of check, making sure the signature of T fits the requirement of the functor LinkedList. The module T may have certain functions, for example a compare function associated with T to ensure sorting of the elements in your data structure.)
So, there is no alternative for people outside the US? Google voice says it isn't available in Canada.
The only way they could have done this was .. preventing their staff from going to the wedding. Or maybe even preventing them from leaving the site.
That’s right, the entropy grows for sure. (Code also takes up any volume given to it.)
Given that the case I had in mind (On the Media's Bob Garfield) specifically mentioned Heisenberg in his discussion, concerning of political polling, the error if any doesn't originate with me:

BOB GARFIELD What you're saying seems to be describing the Heisenberg effect, where the act of measurement actually affects the experiment itself. You believe that voters are actually behaving influenced in part by what they're reading in the polls and particularly the models.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/forecasts-... (select "transcript" for full text)

The mechanism of the HUP resembles the OE in parts at least.
Added baseline

https://jummbus.bitbucket.io/#j2N07Unnamedn410s0k0l00e03t2mm...
Does it also apply for you to terrorists that commit suicide attacks? By definition they will never be arrested nor charged. Would you say that "we will never know" if they did kill people?
It doesn't only hurt yourself. Mandating seatbelts reduces the population's overall risk of injury. When you have a society that has a public fallback for health insurance, reducing the amount of serious injuries has a beneficial impact on lowering the cost of providing healthcare to society.
Of course there are. There are always going to be one-off or few-off cases in medicine (see "idiopathic" anything). Which is why larger scale studies are so important.
> What should I do when I see someone else is making a mistake?

> When you see others making mistakes, first help them see their mistakes and deal with them (e.g. by recycling this text, or by independently offering your analysis and answers to Steps 1 and 2 above).

> Remember you make mistakes too, and be tolerant of the time it may take people to accept that they have made a mistake. (But you don't need to allow them to insist they have not made a mistake.)

I especially appreciate this. Far too often I see people reacting to people's mistakes with anger and hostility, instead of first trying to 1) understand the situation, and 2) help the person who made the mistake (if there even was one) understand the mistake.

A little kindness goes a long way.

[Edit: formatting]
Honestly, this may as well have been titled "Disable security to speed up macOS," which afaik is a fairly well-known tradeoff in just about any piece of software. The article even explicitly says this:

> First, ask yourself, would you like to undo a decade of security protections painstakingly created by Apple, protecting your Mac from malware, spyware, and ransomware? [...]

> [...] Speed and convenience over security any day! Let us march on boldly ! The steps listed below will give you a short description of each protection we disable, [...]
If you want a real-life example of multi-second lag from macOS code signing that affects me personally, please check out this GitHub issue:

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/105446#issuecomme...
That's not true at all, most states have very specific lockdown guidelines that call for degrees of restrictions based on measurements of infection and medical capacity. And of course the real plan is just to buy time until a vaccine is produced. So yeah, there are uncertainties and it's scary and frustrating, but that's no excuse to give up.
Multi-launch was considered for the Apollo program, but was ruled out because it had higher technical risk than just scaling up the rocket and making the payload extra light. If we didn't have the hard 1969 deadline we would likely have gone with the multi-launch option back then.

It's an interesting alternate reality to imagine: we might have had a more interesting moon program that had the ability to naturally scale to larger and larger missions, instead of repeating basically the same thing until the public gets bored and cancels it.
What should the left do about the looting? Police confronting protesters in the front, looting going on in the rear..

(Here is a reminder video:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr3LrRUfJsY

I am all for BLM protests in general, but the looting only provokes more extreme responses from the right. I also blame the police- they rather confront peaceful protesters than go after actual thugs. Having a class of people redlined into ghettos who have no stake in the wealthier parts of society is the root of this, but what to do about it?