skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the overall NIH consensus is that HCQ doesn’t help much with COVID-19

That cited source does not support the stated proposition, nor is the study I linked "contrary" to that opinion.

The NIH says there is little to no benefit for hospitalized inpatient COVID-19 cases, i.e., those who have already developed severe illness before ever being given HCQ. The study I linked found evidence that it is significantly helpful in the early stages, preventing most hospitalizations from occurring in the first place. There is nothing inherently contradictory between those two propositions.

This seems not much different from, e.g., Theraflu. You wouldn't call that ineffective, would you?
Ask HN: Will YC sell their stake in Airbnb during IPO debut?
YC's investment in Airbnb will pay off handsomely. How will YC act during IPO in terms of their portfolio strategy?
Multi-methods suffer the same drawback as repeated conds. You end up having to maintain multiple multi-methods in multiple locations that all need to cover all the same cases. If anything else, multi-methods are marginally worse than conds, because the actual implementation can be spread out and harder to visually check.

If you can get away with one multi-method, that's fine. The moment you start needing multiple multi-methods in different points in your pipeline then things begin to suck.

> sounds like home-grown pattern matching

Yup! And if you find yourself constantly writing pattern matches in Clojure, then you probably actually want classes, since that's a much better way to bind both data and behavior together.
yikes... on it!

Thank you!
Being fully-invested in one distro in the first place seems like an old-school approach to me, and I'd assume that, with distros like Alpine and BusyBox (maybe even throw macOS in there), it's more common for most people to deal with multiple distros than they're giving credit for. I've more or less gotten used to the cycle of figuring out which launch system and package manager I'm dealing with for any given system and having Google/StackOverflow open for the things I forget.
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IC means individual contributor (engineer, senior engineer, staff, principal) as opposed to a management track
Other pandemics, like.. H1N1?
Or maybe you were thinking about smallpox, polio, measels, and the like? You know, when we would enforce quarantine?
Or the 1918 flu outbreak, which was worse because of non-reporting on the American side and also had anti-maskers (though, I think quarantine was actually enforced).

If you are talking about deaths, it is natural to compare it to other high-death abnormalities. War and pandemics are the easiest to compare absolute death numbers, and helpful for pointing out people's inconsistencies - like caring for 3k deaths in a day when it is an act of violence, but not caring if it is disease. Change things for the folks for 9/11, but not for continuing deaths - some of which are preventable. I'll go right ahead and compare.

Smallpox links:
[1]https://archive.org/stream/fortpittlettersf00darl#page/n103/...
[2]https://archive.org/stream/fortpittlettersf00darl#page/n103/...
No, that's the point. You can't use the Occulus if your Facebook account is banned.
Note: I’m the author of the article.

I know, the solution presented there isn’t perfect. But IMHO it’s as close as it gets, and it should be sufficiently advanced that detection should be complicated due to differences in browsers and extensions.
For an executive summary of the evidence available, the Texas lawsuit is a good starting point (first 36 pages).
https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/ima...

For Michigan specifically this document has an overview of affidavits (from Nov 10):
https://cdn.donaldjtrump.com/public-files/press_assets/1.-11...

Most of my information has come from watching the many hours of state legislature hearings (PA, MI, GA, AZ). I don't have a link readily available but they should be easy enough to find if you look.

There have been a few witnesses in these hearings that have been debunked. For example one lady testified that people were voting in MI without identification. Which is perfectly legal. A bit disconcerting, but legal. Other witnesses have provided wild speculation (e.g. Smartmatic hacking) with indeed no evidence.

The vast majority of the witnesses at these hearings, however, do seem to be legitimate complaints. It seems odd to me, that a reasonable person, after listening to their testimonies, would not at least have some doubts regarding the integrity of the election.

Whether it's the constitutional issues regarding signature matching in PA, or the poll watchers being thrown out in MI, or the many other issues at hand, it seems that at least one of these reasons would be cause for concern. And these aren't small issues - they could potentially affect hundreds of thousands of ballots.

So when people say that there is "no evidence" - I am a little bit shocked, surprised, at how quickly these claims are dismissed. Usually people point to the judges' casual dismissal, as justification for their own casual dismissal. Very rarely have I seen much effort made in actually investigating the claims that have been made. Actual investigation into these issues have been limited at best, and done with the strict intent of "debunking" rather than trying to get to the truth.

( Please be considerate with the downvotes. I am a new user and the negative karma is causing rate limits, effectively censoring me from this discussion. I am trying to have reasonable, constructive discourse. )
Almost every one of these models is based on differentiated licensing. I want your software, but different features/licensing. There's really not much of a difference between open core and "dual licensing". I think for open source, there are only a few revenue models that really matter:

* Aggregators - Redhat and AWS (and cloud providers). They sell and deliver collections of open source software, driving value from configuration and easier deployment.

* Differentiated licensing - Toss all the variations on pay for something other than the GPL version or additional features into this bucket. It's a model that is rapidly becoming obsolete.

* PaaS / Saas - host it for the client. Value is delivered by better operations. Competitors often are aggregators in the form of cloud vendors.

* Support & Services - Free software, paid support, paid consulting. This limits the market to larger companies or at least people who need a much higher level of support. Competitors can be other contributors to the code base.

* App Store Delivery - I'm seeing lots of GPL software where the authors are putting the "official version" in app stores (lots of this going on in Windows) and charging for it. Competitors can be anyone who can build and deliver the app, but since many apps need a back end, the hosting of app data can be a moat.
(I used to work at Heap.)

I think the post is spot on and it shows the Satchel team put did a ton of research into the post. There are two comments I would make on top of the post. First, know if the advice applies to you. If you are pre-product market fit it's probably too early to think about event based analytics. If you have a small number of users and are able to talk with all of them, you will get much more meaningful data getting to know them than if you were to set up product analytics. You probably don't have enough users to get meaningful data from product analytics anyways.

Second, while the autotrack functionality at Heap is fantastic, what I saw was that a significant portion of Heap's customers were not able to use it. This primarily happened because in addition to using Heap's autotrack to collect data, a lot of Heap's customers were also using Segment to collect and route the data between different tools. This created two different sources of truth for the data and Segment usually wound up winning. For that reason, I left Heap ~18 months ago to start Freshpaint (freshpaint.io). Freshpaint is an autotrack based alternative to Segment, allowing you to autotrack data and feed that same dataset into all your different tools. That way you get all the advantages of autotrack without needing to maintain two sources of truth.
If it does, you can safely assume the central banks will take control of it.
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And that just tells you how Google felt about this particular relationship.

It still doesn't translate to a firing.
I should have added "must also include elementary school-aged children care and feeding" ;)
Honestly this is a pretty weak overview of the landscape, apparently limited only to the top YC analytics companies and published by a YC company.

There are tons of options out there, including many self-hosted solutions. You'll have to do further research beyond this article, however.
I know of that: https://store.kde.org/p/998902/
Groan..... urgh

thanks for pointing out. I will remedy.
What is an ORM, and why use one?
“See” the Website in Action Before You Pay for It
Is there a need for that?

Why don’t we call out bank employees for all the fraud and deception leading up to the 2008 crash? Car makers and oil companies employees for polluting the earth? Farmers for allowing run off into rivers? Pharma employees for relentlessly jacking up prices and pill mills poising countless people?

The reality is most employees have virtually zero impact on the direction of their company. The Zuckerbergs of this world will retreat to their private island estates in Hawaii till any backlash blows over.
> What a ridiculously dishonest way to frame it.

It's a direct and honest way to put it. Which would you prefer?
Should the US lock down and save hundreds of thousands of lives, or would you rather keep restaurants open? It's easy to muse about hypothetical questions about how many people should die before the government should act, but this is too serious an issue for sophistry. There are consequences here.

> Restaurants closing for a month also has real people attached to it. People who lose their livelihood and don't have an ample safety net to keep them afloat.

Restaurants can be compensated. Their employees and customers will be safer for it.

> it is an authoritarian action

There's nothing authoritarian about it. It's a reasonable, rational response to a health crisis taken by a democratically elected government. It's just as "authoritarian" as mandating seatbelts or childhood vaccinations.

> China was as successful as it was in such measures because it is inherently authoritarian, the US has been less successful because it isn't, and has deep-rooted propaganda against it.

And that goes for authoritarian New Zealand and Australia too, I suppose? Populations in highly democratic countries will actually support strong lockdown measures if they believe they will be effective and if the government compensates people financially. The President of the US has been whipping up opposition to any rational public health measures, from face masks to lockdowns. That doesn't help for public acceptance of rational measures. But if it truly is impossible to gain public support for lockdowns in the US, then something is deeply wrong with American society.
JCPenney, Macy's, and Kohl's were sued (successfully) for the same kind of perpetual sale racket.

A "sale" is a "misleading advertisement" if the product never actually sells at the "original" price.

Note that this is distinct from Amazon's stricken price, which is the suggested price. You'll see that none of Amazon's own products have a stricken price unless it's actually on sale. Since Udemy defines their own pricing, this forgiveness does not apply.

They're ripe for a lawsuit, frankly.
If only my wife felt this way about my approach to household chores. My point is that in many areas of life, progress alone isn't simply good enough. Even if you believe in the 80-20 rule, progress alone won't get you to that 20%.
I tried to find a deeper insight in the article, but I have a feeling the author gave up with the progress he had made when he decided to publish.
What makes you forced to ignore them? By default, your business is likely in compliance. It's only once you start collecting user data that you have to be careful with it.
Proof-of-concept exploit code published for new Kerberos Bronze Bit attack
> The output was far too bloated and inconsistent and didn't interact well with other web content.

Well that's unfortunate.

"Bloated" I get, since there's no longer a black-box binary output format.

"Inconsistent" I'm not sure I understand, since presumably Animate's output is consistent. Does Animate create content that isn't rendered consistently across browsers?

"Didn't interact well with other web content" is interesting, because Flash never did this well IIRC. What was lost?

> We ended up writing our own JS animation framework that works with Animate-exported SVGs.

Neat!
> 1) All data flows through your system on separate tracks. Foo’s come in from foo endpoints and go to the foo database, and very rarely do data sets cross paths. Differences in business logic can be separated by API endpoint, kafka topic, or some other difference that lets you separate the call paths thoroughly.

My instinct is that you could solve general "where does this come from" and "where does this go" questions with metadata. I believe that was one of the driving reasons for metadata in the first place.

> 2) Every type of data in your system looks different, so that you can easily determine whether or not a given piece of data is a foo or a bar once and send it down the right call path in one place.

Clojure spec, malli, schema are libraries that deal with this kind of problem. They are very expressive.

> 3) In any case where similar types of data must be treated differently, it’s possible to organize your code in such a way that you only have to build up the cond-tree once, and you can use different call paths to treat the data differently.

A combination of spec (or others) and multimethods (arbitrary dynamic dispatch) would come to mind here as a solution.

I assume these things are known and were discussed. Are there specific trade-offs that didn't work out?
> always felt a sense of impostor syndrome

If it makes you feel better, I have a CS bachelor's and I still get imposter syndrome on a fairly regular basis
More: https://searchengineland.com/the-big-list-of-google-easter-e...
I know this is an unpopular opinion in STEM fields but a broad education in lots of different subjects is important to being a citizen in a democratic society. While a degree isn't and shouldn't be necessary for everyone, the goal should be to educate people more, not strive for a society where nobody needs formal education.
It looks like this was an attack on the EMA, so that data could have been present there
It's been a drag on the U.S. economy for decades. Design by PowerPoint. Even Drucker in "The Practice of Management" didn't preach technical ignorance - but federation (2 pizza rule) and nurturing the craftsmen.

What I want to know is why hasn't A16Z industrialized the SAAS startup? A whitelabel RapidAPI. Support MVP templates in a few stock frameworks (Django,Rails,Rocket, Serverless) with a shared proprietary catalog of widgets, testing suites, and feature toggling management. Offer HR as a service for pay/benefits management and general ledgers as a service to simplify accounting. Internal git bounties on features - send us a PR to do X and we pay Y - for low friction contracting and to lower global burn rate.
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Getting reservations at Muku was never easy but always worth it
I’m a big fan of FreeBSD (in fact, I was planning to install CentOS on a new storage server, but I’ll probably go back to FreeBSD instead). But, I imagine anyone wanting to run Docker on FreeBSD would want to be able to run Linux-based containers. In which case, you’d end up with a Mac like situation — you could have command line Docker communicating with a Docker daemon running in a Linux VM.

If that’s what you’d need, then why not just run a Linux distro to start with?
If you're telling your skip level something that you haven't or wouldn't tell your direct manager, that is an indication that you are failing to communicate with your direct manager. That in itself is worth the skip level person knowing.

For this is less about being careful, and more about not going off on a spontaneous rant, which honestly, isn't a good idea to do for the chain of command anyway. Spontaneous rants are for your peers. Deliberate communication up and down the COF.

My two cents anyway.
I suspect that is the goal:

1) To get people to quickly simply accept all cookies because time is money and its too complex.

2) To get scare them away. If you don't wanna be the product, at least save us money.

3) To make them waste their time (= money) on their privacy.

Boss won't like #3, neither does the wife. So its like #1. Sure, whatever. Or, those who stick to their principle and can refrain their curiosity or need for information to go for #2.

The advertising industry (I almost wrote undustry, go figure) is so rotten, that I will gladly just shell out some money to buy something of quality instead. I just gotta be sure it isn't money wasted ie. that I (or whoever I buy it for) will use it. With advertising services which are free, the real product is also the demo, but their model is to get you hooked.
I appreciate that feedback however I would say 'each to their own'. I'm pretty sure the majority of businesses don't have people's faces on display and info about their personal life.

HOWEVER... I take it onboard.

Would it help if I made more a big deal about the "why I built it" article?
It can be quality code written by good engineers, but there are issues you won't see until you deal with big numbers. The problem here is that Swift seemed to be a cool language that it might work for a "Hello world" app. You won't notice any problem until the thing grows up to a certain point.

For example, I work in embedded and I am proposed with a new "X brand" Chinese Modem to integrate in our devices. I don't recommend it but since it costs less I'm pushed to evaluate it. I am handed 3 samples and they all work fine, so management convinced themselves that Brand X from China is the way to go.

Once in production the modems started to fail at a 10% rate (10 devices over 100 won't work). And that is a problem you only see only when manufacturing a certain quantity of devices.

Now there are delays, an ongoing battle with the manufacturer of modems and a unhappy customer (that's why I didn't recommended it).
I can't be banned by my power company or my water company. Perhaps if Facebook wants their login to be treated as an essential service for multiple products, they should be regulated like a utility...

Or you know stop doing that.
So exciting!!
It's endemic at Google, to the point that it's a cliche.

Thing about having no CS degree is, in some ways I really _am_ an impostor here, in a company where masters and phds are commonplace, in a company was founded by two academics who never worked in the industry, etc. When I first joined I was blown away by how much of Google seemed academia-like... internal conferences with poster boards, peer and code review processes like a doctoral thesis committee, campus cafes, academic publishing all over the place, etc. etc. Hell there's even the equivalent of residences (GSuites, Google managed rental properties for traveling googlers)... It's toned down some as Google has ballooned in size, but still.
…which has its own track record of subtle website breakage, something that is difficult to notice and impossible to mitigate short of disabling this globally. Don’t get me wrong, it’s nice that this exists, but it’s disabled by default for a reason. There are no silver bullets here.

Note: I am the author of this article.
Cydia, the original app store, sues Apple on antitrust grounds
These days there's a crossgrader that can switch from 32-bit to 64-bit -- and apparently, if you're feeling lucky and know what you're doing, from amd64 to arm64, assuming you're going to take the disks and move them to a new system.
Centaur Labs (YC W19 – medical data labeling at scale) is hiring engineers
NASA's budget is almost three times the size ($22.6bn vs €6.68bn, which is approximately $8bn). ESA gets quite a lot done per Euro invested. It's just really hard to convince the member nations to pay for a good PR team.
Cloud Run PM here: I'm sorry for the bad experience the customer shared in this article, we could certainly do better with bill management.

We pick 1,000 as a default value for "maxScale", this can be considered high for some users, but low for users who expect infinite scaling from the service and start with a load test to evaluate it.
It's not just browser support right it's however they wrapped it up to make it more compatible with react
He’s done it again!
> Using gender neutral in this case is as insulting as calling him a dog.

In English? No it isn't. You are the one who is "butchering" a language's pronouns by improperly mapping considerations into it from another language here, not vice versa.

I have a Slavic last name, and I speak English fluently and Russian not-so-fluently-anymore.

If you use "оно" to refer to me in Russian because you don't know my gender, it would sound weird to me. (I haven't been to any Russian-speaking countries in a while, but I suspect there hasn't been a shift in Russian to use that pronoun that way while I've been gone.) I personally wouldn't be insulted, but I can easily imagine how somebody might; it would carry a subtext of referring to me as an inanimate object.

If you use "they" to refer to me in English because you don't know my gender, it would not sound weird to me at all. (Though it might have 5-10 years ago, for different reasons.) A much closer (but still imperfect) analogy to using "оно" to refer to me in Russian would be using "it" to refer to me in English, which would sound weird to me.

Hope that helps.
If you are being demoralized by the initial hump of building things that you're enthusiastic about, you just need to change your mindset and the way you approach building them.

Don't be passionate about building something for other people, be passionate about something for yourself. Let your projects be extensions of that passion, with you as the intended customer. Not everything needs a fancy interface or a dozen use cases out of the box. Don't worry about scalability. Just try to find the joy in building things to help pursue your passion.
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I tend to agree with you, but posting your own content is by definition self-promotion if it's content marketing (which the vast majority of your blog posts are). At the very least that's how a power-hungry Reddit mod with a bug up their butt will treat it.
I disagree. I personally prefer first person in games, and first person only games. My steam library is almost completely dominated by first person games... but some games clearly have been built for a certain perspective, wether that is first or third, and I consider cyberpunk to be one of them made for first person. Especially when it comes to multiplayer, thirdperson is so often abused as a mechanic, and there are other issues I could cite, that my main criticism of this comment is why should devs change their entire design just to suit someone who has an edge case issue?

That said, I never really thought about first person causing sickness for some people, so my condolences for the vast swath of amazing games you must miss out on.