skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point that challenge trials don't determine safety is accurate, but most of the article is again arguing about the ethics rather than the efficacy. Imagine if volunteers were not permitted by ethicists to storm the beaches of Normandy because their safety could not be guaranteed.

Our current testing protocol requires letting the virus rampage through the population before the trials will achieve statistical significance, which is surely more unethical than deliberately exposing a small number of people.
Common Lisp is the best multi-paradigm language I know.
I felt the same way about the "Internet of Things". There's no fun in it, when the "things" are built by companies, connected to their servers, and they're just products designed and controlled by someone else.

But recently, I started discovering how I can build my own "things". That completely changed my view of what's happening in this field.

There's a thriving ecosystem of affordable micro-computers, controllers, sensors, a wide range of components; and people of all ages building all kinds of things with what's available in the market. As a sibling comment mentioned, the excitement is similar to the early days of the web, or what the early days of personal computers must have been like.

For me the joy comes from exploring the building blocks, technological marvels that are accessible to the public now, and learning how to build what I imagine in my mind. It kind of brings me back full circle, (re)learning C and electronics, controlling hardware directly, like I was doing in my childhood/pre-teens - but with all the advancements made in the last few decades.
I wouldn't exactly frame paying for other countries' healthcare costs as a sort of altruism, not when it puts many people in the US in crippling debt and causes thousands upon thousands of medical-debt bankruptcies every year.

This isn't me speculating there's some benevolent reason for high costs. This is me speculating on whether or not the US, if it dealt with these issues head on, would inadvertently cause prices to rise elsewhere. And if it did, that would simply mean the world, and not just the US, would have to deal with the systemic issue at hand.
Can you help me understand your point a little better?

I think the OP was reflecting on cash flow being used for R&D but your post seems to be more about market capitalization.
> you have resigned to believe the corporate/government spin on everything

The point of not reading regular news is for it to filter out what you hear about, not the specifics of those things. It's hard to put a spin on basic facts like "there was a shooting" or "there was a plane crash". If it's important enough for me to hear about it, I can then decide if it's important enough to warrant actually researching the details of independently.

There are some more niche topics that I maintain an active interest in. Outside of that, I don't see the point in trying to be "informed" about every last thing on the face of the earth.
> much more surprised that he did not got impeached.

He was impeached, just not convicted.
It depends on many factors: size of the house and where you spend most of your time. It sounds like you may live in a relatively small space.

Almost no home heats completely evenly and you will have some rooms that are warmer than others, especially when the air is on. (Good HVAC setup can mitigate some but not all).

So for example, I live in a 4,000 sqft home, and the kitchen is far and away the hottest room in the house, especially when it is in use. So when I have guests over I will tend to turn the overall heat down, and leave the gas logs on in the den to keep guests cozy while I cook.

Just an example, but I am sure there are many situations like it out there.
I would disagree. If you experience poverty you realize that making over 50k is intense. Making over 100k means a lot of power and connection compared to most. You may just be underestimating how many advantages that amount of money truly gives you over everyone else, in terms of opportunity, time, educational resources, guidance, lack of prejudice, and sheer wealth. I would argue the article is taking about "rich kids"
The display is 6.5", so this is about the footprint of an iPad Mini. That, and considering it has gamepad buttons in the upperleft and upperright corners of the keyboard, I supsect you're expected to hand-hold it.
Democrats aren't so much the "party of science" as the Republicans have become the party of anti-science in politics.

Individual Democrats are often scientifically ignorant, on a wide variety of issues. But they haven't made hostility to science a party party platform, the way it has for a long time with climate change and evolution.
It's all right, he'll live
Why bother giving citation if I am going to be downvoted anyway? But, here you go.

https://www.wral.com/coronavirus/are-nc-s-coronavirus-case-n...

https://www.portugalresident.com/judges-in-portugal-highligh...

(NYT) https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/health/coronavirus-testin...

https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20200429007051320
Ask any number of the very successful companies who use Python
Are multiple phenomena the same bug or different bugs? Until you've traced the root cause this can be hard to tell.
I wish we could get rid of tipping culture entirely. It is absurd that a business is allowed to pay less than minimum wage because they "make it up in tips". Also annoys me because I am never clear who I am punishing/rewarding with my tips.

I can't think of a good way to undo tipping culture though. Best thought I have had is to have something like a 60% tax rate on tips. So you can tip, but you should know that 3/5 of it is just going to the Feds. Might disincentivize tipping to the point that it dies out. Other obvious thing is to remove the ability for anyone to be paying less than minimum wage; that is absurd.
Signalling is not problematic itself, it's the unnecessary cost of signalling.

Signalling with low price saves money and time. It's a good thing.
Whooops! I only mentioned you because I remembered you were listed on MacPorts's website until recently, as a contact for "Apple DTK issues" or something like that.
Do you have sources for those numbers? I'm curious about the M1's gaming performance, but I haven't yet seen any articles talking about it...
>> Google allows third-party app stores and most of the source code for Android is out there in the open.

Is that true though? I though pretty much all of the Google services and vendor-specific skins and OS modifications are just as closed as iOS? Last time I heard vanilla AOSP is pretty much unusable because besides the core OS functions everything is grossly outdated? Is anyone using Android phones without any of the Google services?
I wish every post about a programming language included "language" in its title. Perhaps we should establish such a convention. It would be cool to bring up all the posts about the emerging/experimental programming languages.
Thank you very much, I've added all of those.
Why does this always come down to people having a go at George Soros?

Why did I bring up an organization founded by George Soros, a person who believes that nation states should not exist, when discussing nation states? Why do you think?
In case anybody was wondering what this actually is: “The ChAdOx1 vaccine is a chimpanzee adenovirus vaccine vector.” They put a corona spike sequence into it.

By comparison, the Moderna is making a RNA vaccine, and BioNTech an epitope vaccine (the actual protein).

The ‘invasive’ effect is decreasing in that order. Oxford’s ChAdOx1 infects your cells to create RNA, then protein, then T-cell recognition/apoptosis, then epitopes trigger B-cell antibody production. Moderna RNA skips the infection part. BioNTech epitopes go right to B-cells.

But, they also have deceasing stability and manufacturing scalability in that order.
Story time :)

I have a relative who used to work for American, so I had the opportunity to fly on standby for a few years (D2 for anyone who plays the nonrev game). They have reciprocal agreements with a bunch of airlines around the world.

I was flying Iberia from Tel Aviv to Madrid once and just barrrrrrrely managed to squeeze on a flight. It was a 6am flight that I assumed would be empty but happened to get overbooked because of another canceled flight, so all those magical empty seats vanished before my eyes.

They managed to squeeze me on in one of the flight attendant jump seats - not the one in the cockpit, but the super uncomfortable vertical half-seats at the front of the plane. The only other standby passenger was the husband of one of the flight attendants.

Right after we took off, his wife came up to both of us and said “hey it’s 6am, you guys look tired - do you want to sleep in the crew rest?” I mean, why not?

So he took the bottom bunk and I took the top one - I think this was an A330 or 340 — it wasn’t nearly as fancy as the 787 here, but it was damn cozy. Pitch black, full lay flat, and I slept the whole 5 hours like it was 5 minutes.

Later a few friends told me this was absurdly against every regulation and that I basically had a once-in-a-lifetime experience. But I guess shrug Iberia Airlines, eh?
One tool I use is this python script called Sort Photos.
It will organize photos and videos into folders by date.
It especially use full when you use multiple cameras.

https://github.com/andrewning/sortphotos

I call it from a batch file that will pull in photos from SD cards. I have a few cameras, and my phone will let me backup photos/video to an SD card. This will organize everything into a folder structure by year/month/day.

python ./sortphotos.py "/Volumes/CANON_DC" "/volumes/Seagate_2019/Photos" -r --keep-duplicates --sort %Y/%b/%d-%b

I have a few lines of these in the batch file, one for each SD card name. So I don't even have to think about the paths. I just put in the SD card and run the batch file to import.
Basic Git Commands for Beginners
The point of a vaccine is to give you immunity WITHOUT getting the virus.

Your immune system naturally becomes immune after it fights off an infection. But because of the risk of long-term effects and/or death when you're infected with COVID19, people want a safer solution that provides immunity.

A vaccine provides immunity, but at a lesser rate than the actual virus. But 90% (or even 70%) effectiveness is a good thing: it means 90% to 70% people do NOT spread the virus anymore.

You'd think that means 90% or 70% fewer deaths, but that's mistaken. That 70% is compounded over-and-over every generation. If everyone else is vaccinated: you infect 70% fewer people. Those people infect 70% fewer people, and those people infect 70% fewer people.

After 3 generations, a 70% vaccine would wipe out 97.3% of possible infections. And a "generation" in COVID19 terms is roughly 1-week.

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So yes, even a 70% vaccine (if everyone took it) is a very, very, very good thing. But the two vaccine trials that finished first were 90% effective, so I think people will prefer the higher-efficacy (at least, if they have access to Dry Ice / -80C storage).
> When I talk to some people, it's like I'm not even talking to people anymore, I'm talking to some node of the internet.

It's what they call a humanoid interface to the Data Integration Thought Entity.
“But then there’s Home Assistant” sure sounds like it’s also a giant mess.
This little chunk seems questionable:

'Hart befriended many of the surviving German generals — often by visiting them in their prison cells — and bolstered his case via a tacit quid pro quo that would have gone something like this if anyone had dared to speak it aloud: “Say that you developed Blitzkrieg warfare by reading my old texts, and I’ll use my influence to promote the position that you were only a soldier following orders and don’t deserve to die in prison.”'

If it was tacit, how do we know it happened?
Presumably $1740 per annum in rural China is enough to meet basic needs.
The ergonomics is a deal breaker.
You hate a specific plane model because the crew rest area is below the passenger cabin?
Wait isn't that exactly what they did?
Yes, I was trying to separate "impersonal control" from "personal control". A traffic cone is a control system that's impersonal both in its placement and in who it's aimed at.

> It's not a question of being influenced or not, but of limiting your exposure to the systems that harm you.

Indeed. Or changing those systems.
As an example.

Suppose you get an interest in your bodily functions, and try experimenting with foods and stuff. You want to understand this stuff.

At first your mental model will be very confused. You may think that you can sense your (say) sodium levels while ignoring much larger effects you can't name yet, and confuse them with those you have named.

As you "diagonalize" your experiments and results, you find that the one thing that dominate health is the "quantity of inflammation".

inflammated vs non-inflammated can then be seen as an "eigenvalue" of bodily function space. Having this first, dominant eigenvector that you can feel will help you identify the second, then the third... until you get into irrelevancy territory.

This is all assuming linearity of things, so of course it has limitations, but your "System 1" neural processes could also be roughly modelled with dot products, from higher dimensional spaces to a single value (ref: Thinking Fast and Slow).

What I wanted to say is that singing leassons taught me to decipher the non-eigen vectors from those uncorrelated (important factors in an outcome).

What happens, at least in singing, is that this diagonalized learning strongly outperforms whatever I had before. For other domains I may very well trick myself :)

The analogy is a metaphor with linear algebra, in linear algebra / PCA you find eigenvectors to decorrelate things.
Thanks! I know - I followed the low FODMAP diet for a long time, but after a while there were only a few ingredients I needed to avoid.
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Magento Open Source vs Magento Commerce
Great article that can help to make the right choice for your eCommerce business
And they also supposedly only have 93k confirmed COVID cases. Not sure I believe this.
>Expensive, inaccessible except to the rich

I don’t think the data bears this out exactly. US healthcare tends to optimize for access and quality to the detriment to cost. As the saying goes: access, quality, or cost... you only get to choose two.

The US tends to measure better than any comparable country of its size on those two metrics (and quite poorly on cost...but some of that is because the US funds about 50% of worldwide medical R&D)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014067361...

Edit: U.S. percentage of worldwide R&D has been waning and, while still the largest contributor, is now a little over 40%

https://data.oecd.org/rd/gross-domestic-spending-on-r-d.htm
Do you calculate your Ballmer Peak?

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Ballmer%20Pe...
Political gain seems like a pretty simple reason to me.
To go maximum pedant here, I want to say that you're somewhat conflating syntax improvements for stylistic shifts. Pre ES6 JS still allows for FP programming, so a more fair approximation of the Pre-ES6 code would be...

var increment = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5].map( function(num){ return num + 1 } )

The two big syntactic wins of modern JS are let/const over the filth that was var and the convenience of arrow functions over anonymous function literals.
The problem with this 'I know the risks' approach is that it is often put out there by people who do know the risks but these people are massively outnumbered by the huge mass of people who have no idea about the risks but will gladly install from Bob's FlyByNight App Emporium if it means they will get a "can't lose" video poker app or a chance to win a free Fortnite skin and please be sure to click OK to all of those security warnings thanks so much for your bank details...

If you want a different ecosystem there are choices available to you. Why exactly are you complaining when it is clear no one is putting a gun to your head and forcing you to use Apple products?
Are there any holes in the type system and how does it behave when types don't unify?

I.e., if I have user input that might put different things on the stack depending on the input.
Indeed. Maybe someone with more expertise can chime in — it's not clear to me if getting a vaccine with the chimp adenovirus backbone would preclude the possibility of getting another vaccine based on that backbone in the future (because of immunity to the backbone).
Are you sure it's not because of your head posture? Make sure you don't twist your head too much when looking at the screen, from my experience bad posture is the #1 reason for headaches, screen resolution less so.
Yes. The big question is: what happens in the west when social media is also controlled, exploited or mastered by corrupt businessmen or politicians?

May not require active complicity from Facebook and may even happen despite them.
Venturing A Perspective On The Drug Pricing Debate

https://lifescivc.com/2019/12/venturing-a-perspective-on-the...
>moderately prosperous society in all respects.

>satisfaction rate among locals was over 99 percent

>About 1.88 million people living in poor mountainous areas have been relocated to urban areas

>Various supporting measures have been taken to ensure that at least one person on average in each relocated household gets employed.

Reads like an Onion article.
Apple have a history of denying anything until it's ready, and then they flip the script. While the article is clearly biased, it would be foolish to believe that Apple is a company that doesn't change course, going as far as total U-turns on public statements, as long as it's in their interests to do so.

> They are what makes the mac popular with developers

Developers believe that they're Apple's priority when it comes to hardware, especially the Mac, in large part due to the perfect intersect that was the MBP for many years. That tide already turned in 2016 with the new keyboard, followed by the touch bar. Like the joke that the 'S' in IoT stands for security (the joke being there is no S, and there is no security), there is no 'D' for developer in MBP. Apple have been consistently clear that 'professional developers' are not the primary target of their 'Pro' lineup across the board.

Someone else made a comment on this forum that got my attention recently, that we're all so used to being courted as customers by (mostly free) services that we've forgotten that we're not always the target customer. Similarly, developers are only welcome in Apple's ecosystem if they play by Apple's rules. Like we've seen with the App Store, Apple will frequently alter the terms of the deal. All you can do is pray they do not alter them any further.

None of this should diminish the extraordinary results that can be delivered by the M1. That is amazing.
I suspect they do not want to mention it because fab process advantage isn't easy to understand as they're not all the same. For an example, TSMC's 7nm process is more comparable to Intel's 10/14nm process [^ 1]. It's not clear what TSMC's 5nm process is comparable to for Intel's sizes.

As you said, design itself is key also. Look at how well AMD was able to optimize Zen 3 vs. Zen 2 and it is on the same 7nm TSMC process for ~20% IPC gain without increasing power usage too much.

It's going to be interesting to see what Apple can do for the next generation, which I suspect will be on 5nm again.

And Ars did mention it in this specific Ars review:

> Lastly, let's remember that the M1 is built on TSMC's 5nm process—a smaller process than either AMD or Intel is currently using in production. Intel is probably out of the race for now, with its upcoming Rocket Lake desktop CPU expected to run on 14nm—but AMD's 5nm Zen 4 architecture should ship in 2021, and it's at least possible that Team Red will take back some performance crowns when it does.

[1]: https://www.techpowerup.com/272489/intel-14-nm-node-compared...
Why is it weird? If AMD is competitive with Apple and Intel isn’t, then it’s absolutely at Intel’s expense.
No, but I've only had one server running.
How long did it take you to learn enough about all those technologies? How much of it was on the job?
In some cases its quicker to think of a larger number that's a multiple of 20, then subtract the multiple,

E.g. 228? 240 = 12x20, 240-12 = 228.

2337? 2360 = 118x20.
Given that apple just released M1 macs, yeah that makes sense
Sorry, but posting this guy's Twitter doesn't prove anything. These are _opinions_ he's posting, and it's the responsibility of other people to decide if they care about these opinions or not.

Back in the day, the internet just laughed at "stupid people". Now it tries to ruin their lives for daring to say something edgy.

"Information controls" is one of the most horrific concepts I've ever heard of.
This is another "I can't get away with saying the N word in public without being fired" post, isn't it.
Another option is DSL[0]. It takes some time to create a new language and other team members have to learn it, but long-term efficiency will be out of the roof!

Also, I think it would be nice, If there was a platform(maybe it exists?), which would connect let's say top 20 languages and it would be super easy to call function/block of code from other languages. Programmers just pick up the right language for the specific part of project.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-specific_language
Couldn’t the same be said in reverse? I.e., due to sampling error the reports could be amended to a 95% efficacy when more data comes in?
So true! Anonymous masses vs private fiefdoms. Almost everything commercially successful is run by tyrants.

I wish regulating anti-social behaviour out of industry was more popular.
Ask HN: Have you discovered hidden parts (e.g. rooms, tunnels) in your home?
Having moved into a new home, I'm finding interesting nuances (secret ducting) which made me think of the wonders others have found in their homes...
Securities Market
If you are living in a country that has a successful security market. Can you describe the economy of that country in terms of business and regulatory policies?
That's more or less what I'm building. I'm building it for myself with little concern for distribution, but you can find it here: https://github.com/nicbou/backups

The biggest challenge is to extract stuff from all those data silos. For geolocation, I'm using the excellent OwnTracks, and I plan to write my own receiver to replace the one in Nextcloud. I also extract geolocation from images.
It's a trillion-dollar market. Of course the incentive is there to monopolize and monetize app installations.
0% poverty and 99% satisfaction? Those sound like totally real stats.

These statistics are mostly about how they define "poverty": $609 per year in this case.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/29/bill-g...
Currently I'm using the InfluxDB integration to send selected sensor data to an InfluxDB V1 instance. Graphing is done in Grafana, all outside of Home Assistant itself.
I think I'm missing something here . Is cancel culture a big problem in the Solomon Islands?
Experience and my neck agrees with you. Sitting properly, my neck would has to be at about a 35° - 45° angle to see the screen at all. It's a guaranteed tension headache.
Very, very similar to the tech stack we have in my engineering teams (other than we use Flask and SQLAlchemy instead of Django). Really like it. I've not heard of ClickHouse before, but that looks interesting. (If I had a requirement around time series, I was thinking of checking out Timescale - https://www.timescale.com.)
I have been waiting for this to happen. Any service that normalizes clicking a link in an email and encouraging the user to immediately run an autodownloaded executable is a giant security issue.