skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spoke to a senior academic in respiratory disease, and also a practicing doctor, from a top UK university. He was absolutely convinced that HCQ helps in moderate Covid cases, with near-immediately observable effects.

Thia still puzzles me, presumably he understands things like placebo effect and double-blind studies intuitively, and yet studies show no improvement.

On a similar note, the WHO recommendation against the use of Remdesivir is widely criticised by doctors in Poland, as based on a poorly-thought-through study. The claim is that Remdesivir helps patients only at certain stages of the disease, whereas the WHO study doesn't differentiate between such stages.

On the one hand, there's people who use the drug day-in-day-out, on the other a huge organisation which I'd think can do good-quality science. I remain confused.
You would be foolish not to get vaccinated given what we know about COVID.

Nobody said anything about not getting vaccinated. The point of discussion here is about not rushing to do it the first day the vaccine is available.
I don't think it was the developers who made that call though.
I'll ask again for a source. It should at minimum lay out the size and weight of the package, so I can verify the actual cost.
This is the way forward. A wasm-instance-per-actor architecture enables:

- Actor prioritization

- Actor pausing

- Killing actors at arbitrary points

- Actor serialization / migration

- per Actor GC (internal to them)

- Multiple languages

- Inter-actor/host protected shared memory in addition to message passing

Has the potential to be better than Erlang and much, much better than Go.
Scala 3.0.0-M1 is here
While not as in depth... the Source Code Pro announcement page touched on some of those - http://blog.typekit.com/2012/09/24/source-code-pro/
Windows Subsystem FOR Linux...

meaning the Windows OS possesses Linux ... Makes perfect sense if you are familiar with the English language and how possessives work.
Go to the VS Code repo. It's written in TS and its one of the best examples of a well written TS app.

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode
My favorite monospaced font is Recursive Mono.

https://www.recursive.design/

https://github.com/arrowtype/recursive

I am not sure whether this is a actually feature of this font.
Some ligatures, like => are only active in comments. It works both in Sublime Text and QtCreator: https://imgur.com/nWsZieo
>Studies suggest that about 9.5 >percent of all open source code >is abandoned,

This does not seem reasonable to me. I would think the number of abandoned open source projects to be closer to 70% or higher.

Even projects that have reached popularity.

So many times I have found references to libraries I wanted to use (C#/F# .Elixir).

In the end I find a link to sourceforge or similar to find it has been abandoned-ware for a long time.

Then we have the vast majority of open source code that never reached much of an audience and have been abandoned long ago.

I am sure if one ran a query over all public GitHub, Gitlab, Bitbucket, SourceForge, Codeproject the vast majority are abandoned.
FPGA Hackaton
You are not supposed to use the same instance for working and window-managing. Using a dedicated setup for EXWM and another for the rest is somewhat mandatory with this, to prevent exactly this problem.
Yeah, that's my understanding as well. There's a period of time between when you initially get it and when you start showing symptoms (4-5 days is the number I've heard) where you are contagious but most likely don't know it. That's why Covid is particularly nasty, because it spreads before it shows symptoms.
Interesting perspective. I don’t think cities should be adaptable to change. Most city models should be abandoned and new models created. Features of the older model can be reused.

The notion that cities should be designed to be adaptable and are ‘living entities always changing’ comes from a world view that puts non living entities of cities like buildings and roads and infrastructure over living entities. Like humans, habitat, wild life and environment. Here capitalism and materialism trump over stable environments for living.

Families, businesses and even nature needs stability. Stability doesn’t exclude adaptability but it requires a certain amount of static ‘non-changeablity’.

The problem at hand is: 1. Workforce has become migratory. 2. A lack of transport network and infrastructure is blurring all kinds of lines between urban, suburban and rural.

This is an uniquely American problem esp in cities where govt doesn’t invest in transportation infrastructure.

Cities should be stable. People should adaptable if they want freedom of movement. If you want cities to be living entities, then the citizens should curtail migration in and out. It’s an either/or situation. Such a binary approach would ensure that we have less of inequalities, unaffordability, exploitation of resources an destruction of eco systems.

Trying to be a migratory populace AND wanting to have adaptable cities is a recipe of disaster and strife as we have all seen in recent times.
Perfect match for the US. :)

But I'm all seriousness, everything I've seen on wish in the last has been cheap, low-quality garbage.
> These studies were larger than usual to make up for the decreased time

Larger studies don't make up for decreased time in either identifying long term effectiveness or identifying delayed effects.
Worst part of Ruby for me, I hate inferred returns in general.
>If I'm spending an hour's pay on something I really want, of course I'll wait 10 seconds for the page to load

When I go to ebay I end up on the landing page. Then I have to enter my product name into the search. Then I will go into search settings and filter out auctions (if I want to order immediately). Then I have to open 3-4 different product listings. That's around 6 page loads. If each page takes 10 seconds then I would have to spend 1 minute doing nothing but waiting for the site to load.

> or if I can't get it to load at all, I'll make a note to try again later from different browser or internet connection.

Isn't it far more likely you are going to buy whatever you want from somewhere else?

>I, and people I know, feel like we buy very little on a whim. Is that unique? Are there whales who buy everything you can put in front of their face, or a different demographic who searches for something to buy and then changes their mind in precisely 850 milliseconds?

It's not about buying. It's about which store you visit when buying something. If your site performs poorly then users might not come to your online store. They may go to a competitor.

The thing about those averages is that they are quite unintuitive. Remember they are averaged over thousands or millions of users. There will always be some users with latency spikes because their device is much slower than usual or simply because servers are running at capacity. They are in the minority and have small effects on average metrics but the latency they see could be very high, maybe even up to 5 times the average. If you can decrease average latency by 1 second then the site might be 5 seconds faster for a minority of users.

>I would accept that like candy in the checkout lane, the profit is small but worth more than the extra effort it takes to put the offering there, but the revenue is small compared to the actual stuff people need to buy

You have to consider that each product listing on an online store is basically an ad. You are not necessarily buying all the products you see but each product listing informs you about what's available in the market place. If pages load faster you end up seeing more "ads" which increases the likely hood that you eventually do buy something.
I don't remember the entire world deliberating over whether every library, teacher, school, researcher, film studio, political candidate, government, historian, poet, artist, musician, independent broadcaster... should store their video with a single company (and, at that, a single company with an empty chair as a CEO).

It just happened. The internet is centralized now, and, to put it bluntly, it's shitty and brittle and user-hostile.

And now all our video has ads. Terrific.
> Can I use 100 drives in a RAID-Z

AFAIK yes you could, but you wouldn't want to put them in a single RAID-Z(1,2 or 3) VDEV, but rather multiple VDEVs. This is because I/O operations scale with the number of VDEVs rather than number of disks[1]. So there's a tradeoff between space efficiency and IOPS. But AFAIK you absolutely could put 100 disks in a single RAID-Z VDEV.

On the mailing lists there's frequently people posting with that or more disks in a single pool (split across multiple VDEVs).

[1]: https://www.delphix.com/blog/delphix-engineering/zfs-raidz-s...
International shipping prices went up across the board around then because of the face mask rush.

The UPU change mentioned only happened in July.
"Or the WHO themselves claiming that masks do not work for months then suddenly reversing their position in the middle of the pandemic. But "Trust Science" they said"

Public Communications and Science are different things.

If masks are very scarce, and we need to ration, then we want to prioritize certain groups.

Once they are plentiful, the marginal benefit of masks becomes beneficial to the extent it doesn't interfere with front-line usage, in which case, we definitely want people o wear masks.

And so we use different words, mediums, forms of messaging to get people to change their behaviour, some of it more effective than others.

The medical community has to triage all the time, literally at your hospital right now, they are using their knowledge to ration the resources they have available at any given moment. If you complain of 'chest pain' then you go to the front of the line.

The Razor Award should be a thing now, because news about some kinds of science spreads quickly.
In the sense that it's not as helpful as initially thought, not that it's actively dangerous.
General observation, not necessarily related to this project:

It's rather unfortunate that federated identity is always an afterthought instead of the default. Every new project could have been using OpenID Connect instead of rolling their own authentication. I really wish web frameworks pushed for this.

I suppose some of the blame lies with the identity providers. So many of them use a custom OAuth protocol instead of OIDC, which shifts the burden to the developers. Adding a new IdP should be as simple as adding a new trusted URL, instead it's often integrating a new SDK.
>Then you haven't ever written a line of C/C++ I presume?

Correct... I'm a Pascal programmer. I create objects when a program starts, delete them at the end. I've never really had any of the pointer problems that seem to plague C/C++.
Perhaps b/c Raoult's work was correct?

Studies that use HCQ+ZINC+AZITROMYCIN EARLY (in the first 3-4 days after Covid symptoms appear) and in the proper dosage have consistently shown tremendous improvement in outcome.

But most studies apply those medicines AFTER HOSPITALIZATION (often 1-2 weeks after symptoms appear), which is far, far too late for them to be effective. Other studies gave massive overdoses of HCQ which can interfere with the heart rhythm. So the studies were "designed to fail" and did.

Raoult has nothing to apologize for; he was correct and has been vindicated by other properly-executed studies.
Promise good audio. Never was. Or were as I have a pair. Lag meant no use of movie sound with Apple TV. I considered these a loser. Can this job save it. Not sure as the smart part is the selling point.
I don't want to advocate for Didier Raoult but calling such a renown professor all over the world a pseudo scientist is a bit harsh... What is the legitimacy of these judges? Only a few people have the knowledge to debate about this subject, it's all about politics right now, not science
Sure, evil-mode can still be used.
Just make sure the slaves are Slavs, that's probably the only way to include it in the game.
Actual Covid-19 Cases Could Be 6 Times Greater Than Official Figures
Early Chip Hardware engineers signed their work by etching tiny pictures
Hi Liron,

Your intuition is pretty good.

A correct proof of inferential incompleteness of Russell's

Principia Mathematica can be constructed using the

computational undecidability of the halting problem.

See https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3603021

However, the [Gödel 1931] proof is incorrect for reasons
mentioned elsewhere in this discussion.
I use wish for buying gadgets with dead beat prices, with full awareness that a) it wont last b) its just a cheap hobby.. c) never buy a product which looks sketchy as hell ( ex : a $50 quad cam, full hd , 120 hz display mobile)

Some of the products that i bought like a tap faucet filter exceeded my expectations while anything that is electronics had a life span of 2 weeks to 4 months (depending upon usage)..

Its a place for cheap products, and the local fivebelow or dollar tree can easily beat them in retail , may be they are trying to do a fivebelow or dollar tree online, which is what their niche is
Triplicate has a nice look, but l (lowercase L) and 1 (one) are indistinguishable, which is an immediate non-starter for me in a programming font. (CORRECTION: there is apparently a code version that disambiguates these and others. See comments. That means this probably would be a candidate font for me, except:)

I finally just paid for Pragmata Pro, and haven't regretted it. The unicode support is incomparable, and for someone who lives in emacs and console, support for things like the Powerline glyphs and the option to use Emacs' prettify-symbols mode means an awesome user experience.

I actually like ligatures when reading code, less so when writing. The thing I like about prettify-symbols and a font like pragmata pro is that I can toggle between strict representation and a cleaned up version with things like the below replacements:

(defun aja/pretty-symbol-push-default ()
(push '("!=" . ?≠) prettify-symbols-alist)
(push '("<=" . ?≤) prettify-symbols-alist)
(push '(">=" . ?≥) prettify-symbols-alist)
(push '("=>" . ?⇒) prettify-symbols-alist)
(push '("->" . ?→) prettify-symbols-alist)
(push '("lambda" . ?λ)prettify-symbols-alist))
You must have a very straight nose. Definitely not the case for me even with metal-souled surgicals - anything but FFP3 masks (with soft material over the nose for a tight seal) results in foggy glasses. To limit the effect with surgicals, I have to drag the clamp so much upwards that the mask is literally under my eyelids.
Regardless of the study and how well it was conducted etc, masks have never been the panacea. Taking the phrase from the airline industry, masks are part of the 'swiss cheese' model of protection. When you stack a bunch of protective measures together (mask, clean hands, distancing, staying home when sick, clean environment etc) you limit the ability of the virus to go from source to yourself. None of the measures are perfect, but when working together they hide each others flaws.
So many tech companies doing IPOs. I hope it's not going to lead us to the next bubble.
I think it was. Talk about how horrible it is to pile so many abstraction layers together and developers will come out of the woodwork to talk about how much time it saves them. In a lot of cases, developers are rewriting things over and over again in the latest framework-du-jour simply to pad their resumes when they abandon their current employer in two years. Then they turn around and put all the blame on other people like children.
If you are judging a piece of artwork by how much it conforms to your moral code, you’ve already lost. That isn’t what art is or should be about.
Have you tried a FAQ?
Bad garbage collector implementations, but not GC in general. malloc/free can have latency spikes too.

Also not every programming problem in the world is a memory-constrained hard real time problem - in fact, I would say almost all of them are not.

Memory ownership is certainly an interesting thing to have in your arsenal, but a whole class of problems (especially anything with a graph or modestly complex interlinked data structure) can't easily be reasoned about using this model, or you end up copying stuff anyway to get around the borrow checker.

Having said all that, I'd really like to see a language that lets you use a garbage collector 99% of the time for ease of use, but allows you to use other models for the small sections of the code which need it or within certain designated real time threads.
Sony Ericsson Cybershot phones had decent cameras back then, at least compared to the initial iPhones
"So at worse it's a placebo."

No, telling the masses that something works when it does not is much more than a placebo, it's very bad.
> The PC version is not safe for children.

I'm curious what you mean by this. What makes something safe for children or not? (This is an honest question from someone who doesn't have children and so doesn't really know.) It's interesting that a game would be "safe" on one platform but not another.
I feel the same way.

Ligatures in coding fonts are a poor workaround for bad keyboard layouts. If you want to see ≠ then type ≠.

Julia is the only ‘major’ language I know that supports most such characters.
> President Macron actually paid a visit to Raoult back in April. The visit probably inadvertently cast a gigantic spotlight on the shoddy (or at best preliminary) research. In my opinion it reflected quite poorly on the quality of Macron's scientific council.

By the time Macron visited Raoult, the spotlight was already on and shining bright. He was more or less forced to visit him for domestic political reasons: Raoult tapped straight into the anti-establishment anti-elite yellow-vest zietgeist , if Macron hadn't at least shown some gesture towards him they would have seized the trope of the "intellectual snob who is too aloof to talk to the people and their hero". The populist politicians from the south of france were already riding the Raoult train by then: Estrosi, Melenchon etc

So he went, he talked, he got his photo taken, and he left. Raoult got the attention he craves, Macron took some bullets out of the guns of his enemies, and nothing much happened. I agree that a more principled stand would have been nice, but that's politics :/
yeah, that matches with my timeline..
I'll take my chances.

My sister-in-law is dead. A brother-in-law is still unsure if we can talk across a room without fainting (6 months ago he was running several miles a day). This is just in my tiny circle of close family.

Thousands in a much larger sample of had the vaccine with no side effects anywhere near that bad.
One of the reasons why I haven't raised a PR yet to Cypress to add my WebKit support to the project.

Cypress not responding to emails to orchestrate the PR isn't helping either
Not him, but I'm currently working on an unauthorized port of an old Japanese computer game to the Sega Saturn. I imagine this has no commercial value.
I agree that this is work of very high technical quality. I was slightly disturbed, though, that this didn't include any interview from people working there, though. I realize it's neither trivial nor cheap to organize, bit it did leave me a strange feeling that I have trouble putting into words. Is there an element of arrogance in assuming we can simply "science the shit out of this" (to quote a well-known Martian), comfortably removed from the faraway site of a human tragedy and without involving any of the affected people, and call it a day?

Kind of like marketeers only trusting analytics and never talking to a single customer, but with an element of western arrogance on top of it.
Wow, this is great. I'm bookmarking it as an answer to the question, "Why does development take so long/cost so much?"

As an outsider to games, it's easy for me to naively think, "After decades, getting stuff on screens should be a solved problem, right?" It isn't, of course. But there are so many good examples here of why. Visual improvements. Tooling improvements. Cleaning up old messes. And of course a bunch of "we're switching from thing X to thing Y" and "we have to keep up with the ever-shifting platforms we're building on top of".

So you end up with an obviously great engineer spending 8 years on things that neither the audience nor your investors would necessarily notice. But those things clearly matter, and a mere 14 years later contribute to a $1b IPO.
I tried it about ten years ago. Turned out, old habits die hard. I had it for about a week, but went back to a monospaced font.
The Italian bridge that collapsed after decades because of faulty assumptions about the concrete involved is a more accurate comparison. Assuming we know more than we do, and thinking it has no serious side effects because non have appeared in the first few months is not logically consistent.
Yep, they're there to prevent spreading germs to others.

Surgeons don't wear them to protect themselves from the patient, but so they don't breathe over their open body.

Did that need a study?
Warrants: An IOU for Early-Stage Investors
I'd go and get it ASAP, so I resume my life. Anti-vaxxers can isolate themselves forever :)
Few differentiating facts about roblox that aren't immediately obvious:

* All games play on all platforms. You can play cross-platform on any game.

* You can buy "robux", the in-game currency, in every retail store under the sun

* There are 2 million content creators alone in roblox

* Nearly every kid under 10 knows about roblox

* You can run it on a potato

* You can spend 1000 hours playing it while never playing the same mini game twice

* It is still growing and has since 2006
It's an object lifecycle concept.

You worry about ownership if you have a resource and need to think of when to free/dispose/close it.

You worry about ownership if you have an object that many have a reference to, and some of the references shouldn't keep the associated resources alive, and some other of the references should keep it alive. Those that keep things they referenced alive are (shared) owners.
This is exactly right. The Futurist's love of technology is brought up a lot as a positive aspect, but it's important to contextualize their notion of technology.

From the manifesto: "We will destroy the museums, libraries, academies of every kind, will fight moralism, feminism, every opportunistic or utilitarian cowardice."

The internet is not a technology they would have cared about, and in fact, runs pretty counter to their values. When they say technology, they mean machinery.
Of course we deliberated and went with the free version at our own expense
That’s for the city of San Francisco. Not the Bay Area. There are plenty of kids in SF Bay Area.

Maybe if SF made a priority to resolve safety and homelessness in the city, more people would want to live there.

Raising kids is expensive enough and why do it in a place where they want to tax you to death with no relatable or relevant benefit.
More information here : https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/11/18/youtube...

And the explanation from google support : https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/83733719?hl=en&msg...
Go do your own research. Look up the agreement. Usps last mile is free.
1 ounce. 4x4x2 envelope

It takes 30 seconds to find something on aliexpress.

I'm not going to spoon feed you
You should balance that against your chance of contracting COVID-19, and the unknown long term effects of COVID-19.

For me, the long-term consequences of the vaccine seem to be better understood (theoretically, not empirically) than the long-term consequences of a COVID-19 infection.
a lot of those IPOs are Investors and Founders cashing out before everything goes boom.
Thank you for sharing this! Love the focus on culture and community that HubSpot has built