skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Efficacy (the main thrust of Phase 3 trials) could be sped up and made more thorough by deliberately exposing participants. I think one could argue that deliberate exposure and waiting around for enough people to be "naturally" exposed are pretty equivalent in terms of end results, but that's not a winning argument so far. Might be harder to recruit when you know you're definitely getting exposed vs. no change in risk from the no-action option.

But that does presume your methods of exposure are equivalent to what's happening in the real world, both in terms of method and dose. And those are both open questions here and could have bearing on efficacy.
No, you didn't miss anything, apart maybe the fact that I wrote this tongue-in-cheek. ;-)
It also reminds me of the Calculus itself. It's often considered one of the best outcomes of Newton and Liebniz discovering the Calculus nearly simultaneously and with little to no coordination until after the fact is that as people discussed the results and compared the two efforts what we ultimately ended up with was a lot of Newton's insights and pedagogy, but based more upon Liebniz's notation.

That has long stuck with me that Liebniz developed a better, more generally useful notation as a tool of thought for following mathematicians, but Newton still developed a lot more lasting insights into the Calculus despite a generally more "inferior" notation (though certainly a notation presumably specifically more useful to Newton's own thought processes).
She probably expected her legal rights under the National Labor Relations Act to be protected, as Google has been punished by the NLRB on many occasions, including having to issue a notice to all employees notifying them of these legal rights.

This finding by the NLRB is that Google has yet again violated those rights.
For what it's worth your comment is technically wrong and misleading - really, it's FUD.

Android is very specific about company-owned vs personally-owned phones. Personally-owned lets you setup devices with a work profile where very little non-work data is available to the employer. They don't know your personal apps, they dont know your IP address, and they dont know where these apps go (ie no personal network logs). They have no access to these either.

Even for company-owned devices (which require a specific setup, if you bring in your own device that means factory reset and things like hitting 7x the white screen on the first new setup page), the mobile device management api doesn't give you all that much. There's no remote access/rootkit, you can't see private messages (they can see messages you send over a work chat app they own, so if its google hangout chat f.e., by looking at the hangout service itself)

Here are the different modes: https://developers.google.com/android/work/terminology and you can follow the API links to see what they do if you want to verify what I just wrote.
The emphasis of "generally" is poorly placed, but more importantly they also imply that you can tell if something halts by running it, which is only true if you run it long enough for it to halt! (Which is the real crux of the halting problem)
I moved from Rails to Laravel about 7 years ago, I think Laravel has the better ecosystem and community now. Rails is great so you probably couldn't go wrong choosing either.

I think Laravel has better coverage with packages/gems and community involvement.

Checkout Laravel Livewire (I expect it's similar to New Magic that @DHH is working on open sourcing for Rails). Livewire has been amazing to work with.

Laravel Jetstream, Auth 2FA, profiles out of the box

These are paid but well worth it:

Laravel Forge, create and deploy
Envoyer Zero, Downtime deployment
Laravel Vapor, serverless on AWS

Good luck with your web app.
Yeah, then they’ll have caught up to the 80s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clapper
Yes, that would be reasonable, for generic transistors. TSMC has started breaking out different 'shrinks' for different things, so 'logic' (which is typically gates and flipflops) has one amount, 'ram' (which is typically a gate and a capacitor) has another different amount, and pin drivers often have still another amount.
Wasabi is eventually consistent for overwrites ``eventual consistency for overwrite HTTP PUTs and HTTP DELETEs``

This is not the same.
> I pointed out how well they do infrastructure, related to the article.

And then you projected that all of western civilization is in decline because the US hasn't prioritized high speed rail. Among other things, this completely ignores the countries within the "West" that have high speed rail as well.

That's what people are taking issue with, not that you pointed out that China has high speed rail.
Laws are political.
> But, as pointed out in many posts here, very few people can setup Kubernetes,

My post, and most of yours, had nothing to do with Kubernetes, but containers in general. I don't care for Kubernetes, and would actively reject using it 99% of the time. Your post, however, was mostly about containerization of applications, whose validity has nothing to do with one particular product or pattern (Kubernetes).

Containers are an almost unanimous win in terms of the simplification of development and deployment. Conflating Kubernetes to be the only approach to containerization is a farce.
There are still plenty of countries where a dairy farmer milks a handful of cows that are pretty free-range, and then a truck does a run each morning to pick up that farmer's milk along with other farmers.
Well, I find it strange that people are easily triggered by reality, so much so that they want to drown it out, ignore it and think that those who are not content with the status quo should be "hit with a belt in the ass and told to stand in the corner", like the comment I replied to said.

I also find it strange that I'm being accused of "calling red alert" and am told to "Stop being a fucking doomsday prophet"[1] for stating simple statistics by the very same people who are using statistics to drive their arguments. I even went a step further and stated hard figures.

If we're going to rely on a utilitarian metric for peace and human suffering, and use that metric to dismiss criticism of the status quo, what's the issue with using hard figures?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25279160
> And for COVID-19 the risks are very high.

Do you have an actual source for that? People keep repeating it over and over but I've seen no evidence that COVID-19 carries particularly high risk compared to other infectious diseases.
It sometimes feels like we are headed for tech-based dystopia. I just hope there are enough employers out there that will say, "we don't spy on employees" so people like me will stay employable. Thank you Red Hat for being awesome about that (I work for Red Hat and love their approach).
Small towns make up about 50% of the population in the US. Couple that with the fact that small towns also typically have lower income households which are more likely to buy lottery tickets, and you end up with basically every winner being in that demographic.
Ah thank you I was looking for the name and couldn't remember it.
Eight-mile frieze of Ice Age beasts found in Amazon rainforest
IANAL, but isn't that obstruction of justice and/or contempt of court?
For Google devices you can’t change the trigger.

Now you can mispronounce it, that’s the only leeway we get.
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We all keep saying "she" to refer to Kathryn Spiers. Spiers is a trans person. I think it's relevant to mention this as a fact, as I find it misleading (my personal belief) to keep referring to Spiers as "she" in HN comments. I think some commenters wouldn't have done so if they were aware that Spiers is a trans person. Not a big deal, of course, but I know this type of factual information gets censored out quite a lot, so I just wanted to shine some light on it.
What really matters is energy efficiency (watts/transistor or watts/some computation that utilizes the chip well)
I do not see an easy answer. We could wait until we have 600 million doses on hand, to limit the crossover time when part of the population is vaccinated and part is not. But people will be dying every day in the meantime. But if we start rolling the vaccine out, there will be a significant number of people who will stop wearing a mask as soon as they get the first shot. And probably a bunch of people who will stop because they figure this means the pandemic is basically over.

What I don't think is realistic at all is expecting the population as a whole to continue to wear masks until everyone is vaccinated, and then just everyone goes back to normal at once. Like it or not, this just isn't how it will play with most regular people. People are itching to be done with 2020 and the pandemic, they just gave up their Thanksgiving, they're about to give up their Christmas gatherings, it won't take much to push people over the edge into throwing up their hands and saying "all done!"
Would take less than 10 minutes if you were in proximity of a iphone to figure out a way to social engineer the owner into handing you the phone unlocked and giving them back a duplicate phone locked that was not their phone. Or just stealing it while it was unlocked (placing another phone as a replacement) or stealing it and brute forcing the 4 digit code with hoping it wasn't set to 'wipe phone'.
Isn't the real question "what are the odds of the lottery being random if this suspicious sequence comes up so soon"? I.e. given a specific sequence, how many weeks should you expect to wait before you see it? In the extreme if you would expect to see 1,2,3,4,5,6 after 500,000 weeks, but you see it in the first week, then probably the lottery is not random, right?
Ok can we replace it with 10,000 individuals around the world with 1 sq meter receivers? Each one providing a pixel in an enormous virtual dish?
You can add custom music in the Spotify desktop client, and if you have a mobile device on the same network, it'll automatically upload it to that device as well. Not cloud based though.
> F: Real Software. Not all software matters. Any software which wouldn't exist on Mars isn't real.

Is it true that mars has neither lambda calculus nor category theory? From what I've read, Urbit is meant to be a boolean – it's either mathematically perfect and succeeds, or it's not and it fails. And it appears it's not perfect. Do I have it right?
If it can be it is in a vacuum. Almost everything is crazier than you think. Many times whenever yields work they just blindly repeat the process - it's a freaking awesome science.
Well, I didn't know, so I guess I'm half American. TIL.
I think people are already well aware that drinking alcohol is unhealthy, and I don’t think that anyone, who consumes it despite that, will stop after learning it is a “carcinogen”.
The alcohol industries have done an amazing job with their propaganda. Many people genuinely believe that a glass of wine every day is actually healthy for you.
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Thanks for the feedback and trying Amicu. I often talk to people to improve the UX.

Marking someone in touch means you interacted with this person somehow for example you met or called. This sets the last contact date to today. This is used for reminders to catchup after some time and sorting the contact list to see which contacts you met recently and where it's been some time.

Setting in touch and adding contacts uses a similar UI, which can be confusing in the beginning. I need to improve this. Thanks!

You can also contact me at kai@amicu.app, if you've more questions or feedback.
So to prevent attention, choose “non-obvious” sequences. But then those end up being investigated more than “obvious” ones like this. So you would actually want to choose “obvious” ones to avoid suspicion!

There’s a paradox related to this train of thought: the “unexpected hanging paradox.”[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexpected_hanging_paradox
> political beliefs

Informing employees of their legal right to organize isn't a political belief.
You can run the math yourself, but its 111,111 Mtr/mm2.
I'd like to see a study on alcohol addiction that shows that all or some specific alcoholic drinks are as addictive as heroin.
You find it questionable and disruptive that someone would encourage people to know and enforce the law? How very peculiar.

Seems like if that's the status quo, it should be disrupted.
I'm also in the autoimmune-disorder bucket. From what I understand, Covid also triggers plenty autoimmune issues, so the risk assessment does not change in a significant way.
I wonder do people ever get tired of talking about "simplicity" in this bland, abstract way? Obviously there is something missing in our conceptualization, because we've been talking about "keeping it simple" for I don't know how many years and it doesn't seem to have changed or helped much.
EU criticises 'hasty' UK approval of Covid-19 vaccine
Advice like this is fantastic, but I hate when it's positioned as the one-true-way to do product development.

Consider some of the greatest inventions of all time: the printing press, the telephone, the airplane, the Internet, and the web. Considering the notion that they would have been conceived of this way is absurd, so clearly there's more than one way to make something people want.

Mix in the fact that contrarians often disrupt things the most, and when you see a process like this that itself has become considered the consensus approach, it seems like a high point of potential leverage to just try a different method, especially if that one has also been proven to work or is more in tune with your own talents, experience, and intuition.
Those of us that do DON'T CARE!
Also, half of Americans are below average.
I didn't know this. I'm honestly shocked. Is there any information about what different levels of alcohol consumption do to cancer risk?
Moriarty, namesake from Sherlock Holmes. Yes, that is correct. Infinite samples is needed to verify true randomness.
I hope alcohol gets the same treatment as cigarettes and other tobacco products in a couple of decades. People should be allowed to drink it if they chose to after being made aware of all the risks with every purchase. But hopefully the tremendous peer pressure to consume alcohol, especially for young adults, is no longer a thing.
Actually, when she was fired, this was not the case. The NLRB ruled a day or two after she went public about being fired that company communications couldn't be used for this type of thing. Before that companies had to allow it.

https://www.post-gazette.com/business/career-workplace/2019/...
I don’t have first hand knowledge but I think a bunch of small things (not knowing who someone is by just a username, sending messages after hours when user is offline, etc)
It was surprising to me to learn that its harmful to your health and carcinogenic at every measured level (even low amounts)
Cybersecurity of connected devices: European Council adopts conclusions
I have noticed that my Google assistant is getting less smart by the day. It used to understand a lot more, now it keeps playing the wrong thing or turning off all the lights instead of one... or it won’t stop the alarm when you say stop. It’s been getting really frustrating... I would be more upset but they pretty much give those mini speakers away any chance they get.
Few Americans know that sunlight is a carcinogen. Big Outdoors wants to keep it that way.
We already know how to make people strong using biotech: steroids.
Only really works if he topic is fully irrelevant within domain of the discussion.

Personally, I consider the compulsion many people have to put a pound of contempt into every ounce of contrition they grant Trump's administration to be childish, and honestly quite alarming for its ubiquity.

But if we want to get to a point where people who vociferously oppose trump are willing to tolerate reasoned dialogues considering the administration's legacy, I think collectively loosening our expectations around tone for comments that are otherwise well thought out and cut against the communal grain for a bit could help fix things.

"Fuck that guy, but he's occasionally right for the wrong reasons" is a significant improvement on "Fuck that guy, always and don't question it".
If you replace one word by another with the same meaning, you don't fix the problem : the concept of human races. You can read the Wikipedia article and its many sources if you want to know more on the topic.
This is a frustrating article, because it does not say how dangerous alcohol is. Maybe alcohol raises the risk of certain types of cancers, but only by a very tiny amount. Relative to other risks, even other risks from alcohol, do we really need to care about that?
Oh god same here
that "Dunananana nananana" is seared into my brain :(
Everything has risks. Oxygen is a carcinogen.
Really? You're gonna go there? The fact you made a throwaway for this tells me you know exactly that this has no bearing whatsoever on the case. If it did, it would just add to the scandal.
I think we need something extremely close to AGI for natural interfaces to work.

Similar story for self-driving cars: car driving helpers/assistants (lane keeping, etc.) are ok, self-driving cars will be a huge disaster until we are really close to AGI.

These are the things where getting 80-90% there isn't enough. We're smarter than chimps or other animals because we can cover the long tail of events.
I very well might.

I honestly had no idea there was anything unhealthy about moderate drinking. Every so often we even see dubious headlines about "daily red wine has health benefits". I'm not aware of specific, nor do I particularly believe it's good for you, but I really had no idea that it's unhealthy.
Thank you, this is now on my AVOID list!
The alcohol industry you’re thinking of is more of beer and spirits. There are ton of studies showing benefits from wine, it’s not quite the same.
Stating the fact is not the same thing as stating an insult.

Trump is more orange than just about all people.

That's a fact.

"His Orangeness" actually does the following:

Implies egregiously sized ego

Implies royalty

Associates that to the orange fact.

The connotations associated with "His" are not complementary.

Etc...

Burying a fact amidst snark, then ignoring the snark is a sleight of hand others find easy to see as well, which is how I saw your query.

Actually making facts the priority is a lot more healthy and productive, and there is a bonus!

When we do that, we can also be perfectly reasonable and also point out that any offense taken isn't on us. Sometimes facts are painful, right?

These are the things people are trying to get at so the discussion is higher value.

That's my take for what it's worth.
They claim Google spied on Spiers and did something illegal. This might be the case, but they don't disclose what they exactly did. Maybe we'll know later on.
I don't think there are many that consider alcohol healthy at this point. Plus most people are pretty moderate consumers of the stuff.

burnt foods also increase cancer. But its kinda marginal.

https://www.nhs.uk/news/cancer/warning-over-burnt-toast-chem...
Seeing how well corporate IT apps work on my work laptop (slowness, constant updates and general clunkiness), the main reason I'd never install one on my phone is that I'm afraid they'll make the phone completely unusable - not thru malice, but thru sheer incompetence.
I bought a large mixing bowl, and it had a California Cancer label on the bottom. It's a regular metal bowl. If you put cancer labels on everything, people will quickly ignore them.

Maybe it would be better if there was a scale on it, like this is a 1 banana equivalent risk or something, but then how do you determine my exposure to the cancer in the metal bowl.
This would have more novel potential by switching the word ethanol for alcohol in the title, i.e. methanol, which is an alcohol, is known to metabolise to formic acid (which is present as the formate ion) via formaldehyde, which is a known carcinogen, in a process initiated by the alcohol dehydrogenase in the liver. "More than half" likely do not know of the carcinogenicity of acetaldehyde (systematic name ethanal).

> potiup
I use navigation primarily for the ETA.
Could you just make a 10x looped version with Audacity? Or can it only play from its own library?
The comment said that it ruins lives just as effectively, not that it's as addictive.

Two things don't need to be equally strong or powerful to each get the job done.
Cost wouldn't matter. The idea is that you can't use the company's resources for your personal projects, especially if that project is being used against them. So let's say you want to put up a single flyer about unionizing. You can do that in the appropriate area, such as off the company property or potentially on a bulletin board in the break room. What you can't do is type it up while on the clock and print it on the company's printer.
I said 'hubristic' because it seemed to me that the inability to draw conclusions about the cosmos from our own (single data point) limited perspective was a fundamental limitation of the human condition.
Interesting data! The "current employment situation (if previously employed)" (hovering around 97%) plots don't seem to agree with the "percent of individuals who currently have a job" which is slowly crawling up through the 50s.
Here's a good start.
https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/a...
Yes it's a well studied area in cancer research: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=alcohol+cancer
Conversely, I've been pleasantly surprised at how well voice recognition works with weird song/album titles nowadays. "Hey Siri, play 'Zombie by the Cranberries by Andrew Jackson Jihad' by AJJ on Spotify" works exactly as intended.
Yesterday, while listening to a song in the car, I asked Google Assistant to "play more of this album", and of course I it began playing a song called "More Of This" by an unknown band rather than what you would think would have been an obvious assistance.
Why doesn't Linux do that, it's kind of an obvious next step?
The HN bar for clever is relatively high. And HN lacks a sense of humor about Tesla and all else Musk. So either you don't know your audience or you're stirring up bad feeling. Dismissing a context as "silly" is not intellectually interesting and someone is the butt of the joke, which makes it less of a joke. Unless the silly person is you and you are the butt of your own self-deprecation.

Good humor is humorous. There's something for people to get. And when they get it they feel good. They don't feel mocked They don't feel stupid - except in a "I wish I had said that" sense. It might start a conversation. But it won't start an argument. Good humor doesn't tell people "I'm clever." It shows them.

Good humor is good humored. Good luck.
Isn't it widely claimed that red wine can have some health benefits.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/heart-disease...
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No, the more recent articles do show that the optimal amount of wine is zero. The one glass per day common wisdom was marketing.
This is a confusing series of statements, what do you mean?
What percentage of Americans even know what a carcinogen is?
this sounds like.. every enterprise software vendor?
Except that in the Employment Agreement that Google made me sign when I worked there (I don't know if it is still like this) Google specifically called out that they reserve the right to rootkit your personal devices that access "Google's corporate information" (basically that means accessing your work email because you needed to use your corp laptop if you wanted to access the internal network)

But I agree that if they were talking about the "Android" feature, an employer could choose not to go that route.