skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The scientific evidence seems to indicate no net effect on annual deaths from lockdown, when comparing Sweden vs Norway though:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.11.20229708v...

Indeed Sweden's annual deaths are shaping up much like prior years, and COVID deaths now are in the low single digits, against about 250 people who die every day in Sweden from any cause.
They gave up that claim a few years ago.
Paper ballots solve the most important problem: they can be counted by hand in case of disputes, without having a single computer at hand. That is the essence of the problem, that is what separates systems with voter-certified paper trails - whether those are machine-produced or the result of the voter using a writing implement or paper punch to mark a sheet of paper in some way - from systems which lack such a trail. Computers can be used to produce a quick tally but the final, legally valid count should be done by hand with observers from all parties involved in the elections, preferably by parallel counting teams from 'opposing' parties so the results can be compared.

Voting is in itself a simple process, even in the USA where the ballot can be filled with multiple options. Computers are not simple, are not transparent and are not understood by the majority of the population. They can be used for quick counts, for producing fancy graphics, for doing all sorts of statistical trickery and whatnot but they should not be relied upon to produce the final results of an election.
If you put Canada so that Victoria, BC is in Portugal then Newfoundland is in Iran. Most Finland is covered. Ottawa is roughly in Egypt.

Canada is actually really huge, is what I'm saying here.
As always: who funded the study
Just be kind, confident, honest, and friendly. As with most things in life - practice practice practice.
I've been bored and messed around with non-standard microwave uses.

- spaghetti (hard to balance boilover)

- egg mcmuffin: bagel in toaster, egg in microwave using nordicware egg-n-muffin

I'll bet there are other easy + tasty ones
The even more blunt implication of good-faith originalism would be interpreting the 2nd amendment to allow the non-governmental ownership of nuclear weapons.

The original intent of the 2nd amendment was to allow a 'well regulated militia' to be adequately equipped to fight off an invading army, which in modern terms would mean that the 'well regulated militia' would need to be able to own tanks, fighter aircraft, warships, missiles, and nuclear warheads.

Contemporary originalists, however, both completely discard the mention of a 'well regulated militia' in the 2nd amendment and have re-interpreted the right to encompass only small arms.

Legal originalism is not an ideology predicated on good faith. It is a figleaf to misuse the opinions of the authors of the US constitution to defend the beliefs of contemporary conservatives.
Terrifying and terrific news, awesome finding with tremendous ethical questions and dilemmas. For sure we’re living in an interesting era and more similar topics (AI, gene editing, implants, nano/bio alterations...) are going to appear more often.

To lighten up the discussion and with fear of getting downvoted, two funny thoughts that came to my mind while reading about these news.
- They surely picked the wrong year/time period to make this announcement.
- Our technology has allowed us to increase brains of monkeys but we still don’t have the technology needed for a properly working windows update service.
I think the value that the US receives for the dollar being the world reserve currency can be best measured this way yes.

The US doesn't have a very high GDP because of the dollar reserve currency status. It has a high GDP because it is one of the most technically advanced nations in the world and also has quite a high population. Those things combined enable it to produce a lot of stuff every year.
Looking at the things he's built [0], it seems like he focused on what he could build rather than what people wanted. A lot of developers do this.

Without an existing audience or funding for ads, he had to do cold outreach, which I don't blame him for disliking.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25105735
I've found it pretty easy debug GitLab CI issues. You know the docker image, so you can create the environment locally. You then need to concat the scripts together.
It is a mistake to judge what the free market is currently doing as an indication of what the market will do as the share of EVs on the road increases. That is why it is important to point out that it is possible for gradual change to be enough. However there is no way to really know for sure how this will turn out, so I guess we just have to agree to disagree.
This is a bit silly, it's like giving Apple credit for not even regularly bumping the CPUs in their lineup or getting locked into Intel.
The study was for a group of 60. That number feels unnecessarily small given how often statins are prescribed, to your point.
This complaint made no sense to me. What was his girlfriend doing? Why does she rely on his largess to go out? Is she also a failed indiehacker, or was she using her own income to cover rent and all shared expenses? I think it's irresponsible to take a big risk with someone else's finances, and becoming bitter as you lose that gambit just makes you seem out of touch with reality.
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Yeah, we have a view like that.
No. Vietnam is the _exception_. We don't know why yet. Countries who locked down as strict are seeing more cases right now. You can't ignore all of the other examples of countries that locked down and saw additional waves and deaths.

We need to understand better why Vietnam is seeing such positive results but saying you know why for certain is disingenuous
I've also had luck with only storing results for only a very small subset of the productions of a grammar.
I've implemented two way binding in templates, in a proprietary templating/UI language on the JVM. Thymeleaf, iirc, is one way binding. Don't know anything about Jackson, so I can't really say.

When properties are implemented in the language proper then wiring everything together is much cleaner: find references, etc, all "just work". If not, there is a distinction between the template language and the host language that has to be addressed with tooling, or (usually) ignored.
TLDR: The old COVID-19 contact tracing app was banned in June. "A new app is already being planned" (As of October 24, 2020). "The new app expected to be implemented this year (2020)."

Meantime: US CDC has issued "Warning – Level 3, COVID-19 risk in Norway is high". https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices/warning/coronavirus-nor... "CDC recommends travelers avoid all nonessential international travel to Norway."
If only now you could add the film going through the projector shutter sound! (and the reel flapping at the end when done)
Firebase was recommended in the post, which has built in security rules and auth.
Where is the corresponding document listing objective reasons to prefer Windows over Linux? Without that, this effort cannot be taken seriously.
I disagree.

I am not talking about marketing. I am talking about a very specific neurological/psychological phenomenon, that is highly suggestive that memory access is dynamic, that it varies on the topic, that it varies based on perspective (abstract vs real-time object level), and that it occurs here on HN.

My claim is also contrary to a claim higher in the thread:

>>> Compare this to how things were 15 years ago, [or how they are in here, where everyone and their dog can challenge your opinion]. [You become more open minded long term, and can handle criticism in a more mature way].

Now it's true that on a relative basis, HN is superior to many other forums, and also that it is true to some degree that certain opinions can be challenged, and subsequent discussions will be handled in a mature way.

This is far from comprehensively true though. And also, it can be observed that people seem to not like to discuss this idea (that certain topics cannot be maturely discussed on HN, including the the abstract idea that certain topics cannot be maturely discussed on HN).
Depending on what point of your life you are at, $12000 could be quite a chunk of money.

When I was 21 that would last me probably 20 months.

At 25 it’d be down to 12.

At 32 (with a family) I wouldn’t last more than 3 months.

Luckily savings more or less keep up with spending :)
I wish I could downvote you, but as a direct reply I'll have to settle for replying instead. You seem to have completely misunderstood my argument. I'm not "Monday morning quarterbacking", and I in no way think that Facebook's success was guaranteed.

The point I was making was the idea that it was believed early on that social media was a "toy" or that it would never be profitable or that people poo poo-ed the idea of Facebook in its early days is not accurate, at all. Indeed, the example of MySpace shows that it was already well known that there would be a scramble for dominance in the social media realm.

> So why FB took over MySpace? We don't know. Yes, we don't know in 2020, 16 years later.

Uhh, I think we have a pretty good idea. First and foremost, Facebook was always focused on your real, offline identity, which was rather new at the time. MySpace and the early social networks were primarily based on different online personas (e.g. online usernames, no real name policy, etc.) MySpace tried to get people to add their real names and identities later, but it was basically too late by then. This isn't hypothetical, either, one of the founders of MySpace told me as much in a conversation about a decade ago.
Yeah, you might have something there.
The main advantage of deniability is that it makes the encrypted messaging model more similar to the non-encrypted messaging model. Without encryption, if Alice sends Bob a message, a third party who later gets access to Bob's device (but who was not present at the time the message was sent) cannot know whether Alice really sent that message, or it was a forgery from Bob. With encryption but without deniability, a third party can prove that Alice sent that message, even years after the fact. With deniability, the original property is restored: anyone who can read a message can also forge it.

Even more important, a signed message without deniability keeps its signature even when it's moved outside its original context. If malware copies all the data from Bob's device, whoever controls it can ask for a ransom by threatening to reveal the signed message and prove it came from Alice; with deniability, they cannot prove that this message was not a forgery, either by Bob or by whoever revealed it.

That is, the interesting case is not when one of the parties is an "FBI agent"; deniability does nothing in that case, since the "FBI agent" can be assumed to not forge the message (and thus, by exclusion, it can only have come from the other party).

> Heck, if the government is that suspicious of someone they can also order the ISP to setup a tap and see that the right number of bytes at the right time were sent.

Setting aside that, unlike non-deniable encryption, this is not retroactive (a government cannot order a ISP to setup a tap in the past), the number of bytes sent reveals nothing about the message other than its size (and if padding is used, not even that).
I don't think the founder in question thought that if they built it that people would come. They just didn't anticipate the difficulty of trying to do something (the marketing activities) that they didn't have the right constitution for.

Before you ever try it you think that if you just consume the right books, blog posts and podcasts then you will be armed with all the information you need to succeed. Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face. You can only get the information on whether you're personally cut out for it by giving it a go. When you find that you really struggle with a critical piece of the puzzle that can be tough to accept at first, so you can throw good money after bad trying to deny it, but eventually you will succumb.

People can throw out the generic advice that you just need the right co-founder, but that's not always a panacea either.
Could adopt policies that encouraged reproduction at or above the replacement rate. Make an effort to reframe childrearing as a social, moral, and individual good.

Doubtful it'll happen, but still a possibility.
As I posted last time this came up, the problem to him is that the Tea Party they backed went out of their control. They wanted a nice biddable anti-government party. They got chaos.

They've not come to Jesus on global warming, they're upset they lost.
It is an interesting principle.

If I am reading the page 20 graphs, though, the parsing time gets crushed by the competition when parsing programming languages (Java, in the example). It is only competitive for simple grammars.

Beyond that, I feel like recursive descent parsers are the PostgreSQL of parsing: they are not exciting, but they get the job done well without fail.
The rare cases where you need something else require subtle justification.
SME: Small and medium-size enterprises.
I mean, that's basic libertarian epiphany in a nutshell.

Maximizing freedom for myself in a society where there are other people requires limiting everyone's freedoms in some ways.
It is interesting, but keep in mind there may also be 100 others in your social circle taking statins without any side effects whatsoever. I don't typically talk with my friends about the lack of side effects of medications I'm on.

It's possible too that liver damage could have been caused by taking acetominophen with heavy alcohol use (e.g.), which the person might have been embarrassed to admit. I don't know. I don't know your friend. I'm also not accusing your friend of lying, but it wouldn't surprise me given human behavior.
someone posted a link above:
https://archive.is/TDVJM

However, I'm not sure how to answer your question in the general case.
I think it's less about any societal reaction and more about the organism's experience.

It would be more useful to perform similar genetic experiments on human beings, in any case. But I imagine that you would be opposed to that?
Do we really want to push the Git way of thinking onto joe-average web user.
I don’t know why this is being downvoted. My feeling is that globally, during the Trump administration, allies started making alternate plans.

Merkel even said after the NATO meeting, that Europe can no longer rely on foreign partners. In response to Trumps actions and the UK leaving the EU.
here's the discussion on the original article from Quanta magazine that wired just reposted/syndicated lamely, thought this was cool until I saw that it was a repost from recent Quanta article.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25046738
I'm glad there's growing pushback to these programs.

Here in the US we tend to irrevocably lose a bit of independence and freedom in every crisis -- and it's often lost forever.

Wars tends to be the best fig leaf for eroding our civil liberties. Things like the Patriot Act get passed after 9/11 and are still with us today. The authorization for war given to Bush in 2001 is still active today, several presidents later, and has been used to kill and torture people in a whole host of countries. Figurative "wars" have resulted in erosion of rights - like the war on drugs - which gave us expanded civil asset forfeiture.

Covid-19 has given the governors a pass to do anything they like with little to no oversight. Banning any gathering of people is totally fine apparently. It's also seemingly fine to only use it against gatherings that are opposed to your political objectives, while those that you support are given a pass. Banning the expression of one's religion is also ok. (In my state all places of worship were forced closed, no matter what precautions they took, but vape stores were deemed essential businesses. I'm an atheist but this even bothered me.)

Maybe this is all perfect reasonable given the crisis -- but once these newfound powers are let out of the bag, we often find that they're hard to pull back.
> their germs are spewed all over the public.

They're animals. Animals, I tell you!
Dragonflies, too. But it's true that they can only do so for short distances. I don't think I've seen either glide for longer than a meter.
This is already true when you see how the Chinese are innovating on energy. They are already the largest producers of electricity. They know that 50% of their population is still poor and more pollution is not the answer. So they invest in high speed public transportation, mass renewables production and scientific research and education for the masses.

It's truly stunning scale and most armchair philosophers here in the US just can't appreciate the scale of it until they actually see it.
It doesn't break it as much as it very liberally adds states for all the changes you make in the page, to the point it's hard to see anything in the back history except what you've done on that page. Go far enough back and you get back to the prior page though. It was sort of annoying.
And if a presumably sentient creature is aborted before it attains sentience, has it suffered?
Author here:

At the time, I believe both girls may have been teenagers. One has become my friend - she is now in her early twenties.
I'm trying to find the actual study and having some difficulty. From this descripiton:

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-11-patients-statins-simi...

"The study, funded by the British Heart Foundation, is published in the New England Journal of Medicine and will be presented at the American Heart Association Conference today."

The only thing I could find at the NEJM right now is this correspondence:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2031173

Via Sci-Hub:

https://sci-hub.do/downloads/2020-11-15/03/10.1056@NEJMc2031...

This has a figure with monthly average score per patient; that seems like a bad way to look at symptom severity IMO. They also mention funding:

Supported by a grant (PG/15/7/31235) from the British Heart
Foundation; a grant (212183/Z/18/Z, to Dr. Howard) from the
Wellcome Trust; a grant (MR/S021108/1, to Dr. Rajkumar) from
the Medical Research Council; the National Institute for Health Research Imperial Biomedical Research Centre; and the Imperial Clinical Trials Unit.

Disclosure forms provided by the authors are available with
the full text of this letter at NEJM.org.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/suppl/10.1056/NEJMc2031173/suppl_fi...

---

I'm not sure why this is correspondence, but I'd guess the main paper is to be part of the conference proceedings. IMO, the discussion would be better if we wait for the actual study to be available.

I also found this similar study:

https://academic.oup.com/ehjcvp/advance-article/doi/10.1093/...

I haven't looked at that in detail yet.
> technicians get their materials for cheaper than you do

Sure, they buy materials wholesale, but they bill you full retail for it. I installed around a mile of wiring :-)

But I also got it exactly the way I wanted, the wires run where I wanted, and I bought professional quality tools to do the work, and still have/use them. I like working with my hands now and then, it's viscerally satisfying in a way a keyboard never is.
Wow the swing is a little on the crazy side, so is the compressor.

Very impressive overall.
All very easy to implement with no backend using Firebase.
They screwed up by putting themselves in this position where their only hope for a future is desperately trying to distance themselves from what they've done and who they are.
Does it have to be better, or even preferable? Is "it's sufficiently good for my needs but it's free" not enough?

Whole industries have died because a free product has emerged that's "good enough" for 90+% of people. When was the last time anybody bought the electronic Encyclopedia Brittanica now we have Wikipedia?
I once thought that Facebook was Usenet in a prettier/more user friendly package. Twitter is simply horrible. You can make a completely innocuous comment on a current conversation, and someone will barge in, exhort in a hyperbolic and frenzied manner, and make you regret signing back into Twitter.

This isn't a quality control problem. People, and sadly specifically those with advanced education, tend to be easily triggered by random things. They say, often, terrible things. They bully. They argue over minutiae. They blast those with ever so slightly differing opinions.

Imagine what they do to people with significantly different opinions. They must be destroyed.

So those folks leave. And go somewhere more friendly to the free exchange of views, without the automatic pile on shutdowns, and cancellations we see with FB/Twit.

Its tiring to me as an infrequent twit-er. Its tiring on FB as I use it for family communications and dad jokes.

Apparently, it is in vogue to call these companies out for their complicity ... their participation in the actual undermining of democracy (should be read in a tone dripping in sarcasm). It is considered bad form to say you use them. It goes against goodthink.

I'm really tired of this. Social media has very low value to begin with. This toxic behavior, this is what should be canceled. This is what should be deplatformed.

Not the viewpoints that have people with different ones running to the exits.
KDAB is a Qt consulting company. I doubt they're too concerned. They're selling their expertise, and they get a lot of credibility by speaking truth.
Put it over Australia and it’s only 30% longer. Australia is huge!

btw, this site completely obliterates your browser history.
What would you re-map 0 into? If it's re-mapped into anything else than 0 then you'll potentially end up with an infinite sequence of digits, i.e. not an integer. And of course it has to be re-mapped into something else than itself. This would fail on the following list:

1: 1
2: 2
3: 3
4: 4
5: 5
...

In other words - after getting the re-mapped diagonal you end up with an object that's potentially no longer an integer - it can be infinitely long.
Well, from nature’s perspective, yes it is OK. Nature won’t put you in jail. However, do it on a wide scale (you start murdering billions to prove a point) then yes Nature cares and the survival of the species is thrown into jeopardy. As a person, no it’s not OK - acts that do more harm than good are agreed to (by choice) by most as illegal.

Comparing to aborting a human-monkey fetus, the question of is there more good than harm is new. In a scientific setting where few cases are performed and a lot of Nature’s rules are revealed to us, I think that is mostly good. Genetic editing expanded to a large scale can also, I think, be done in a good way (by editing genes to increase intelligence or removing genes to reduce disease). It can also be done in a harmful way - say, raising an army of clones or some nightmare scenario where the rich and wealthy raise super intelligent human children that rules and obsoletes the rest of humanity.

I argue though that those nightmare situations will happen anyway and that human society has always had huge swings in well-being and suffering, with the average standard of living growing.

I think trying to contain the research is useful only up to some point - tracking the research and labeling successes and failures (science) and opening these studies and results to all of humanity is I think ultimately helpful. Keeping some competitive advantage over competing nations or corporations is also helpful. The more we learn, the more we can identify and prevent misuse.

Last thing to point out is humanity, and nature, share in common that we grow by making a ton of mistakes. Whereas Nature learns by not dying entirely, humanity adds a method by learning by thinking - this seems to be faster.

If we apply sentience to Nature, perhaps we were allowed to live in the hopes that we’d help Nature survive the next astroid attack.