skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The paper A network medicine approach to investigation and population-based validation of disease manifestations and drug repurposing for COVID-19 [1]:

> We identified that melatonin usage (odds ratio [OR] = 0.72, 95% CI 0.56–0.91) is significantly associated with a 28% reduced likelihood of a positive laboratory test result for SARS-CoV-2 confirmed by reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction assay. Using a PS matching user active comparator design, we determined that melatonin usage was associated with a reduced likelihood of SARS-CoV-2 positive test result compared to use of angiotensin II receptor blockers (OR = 0.70, 95% CI 0.54–0.92) or angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (OR = 0.69, 95% CI 0.52–0.90). Importantly, melatonin usage (OR = 0.48, 95% CI 0.31–0.75) is associated with a 52% reduced likelihood of a positive laboratory test result for SARS-CoV-2 in African Americans after adjusting for age, sex, race, smoking history, and various disease comorbidities using PS matching. In summary, this study presents an integrative network medicine platform for predicting disease manifestations associated with COVID-19 and identifying melatonin for potential prevention and treatment of COVID-19.

I'm not sure what to make of this. In my mind, melatonin usage is associated with sleep disorders just like ACE inhibitors are associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD), a known comorbidity. There are better ways to determine the impact of sleep on COVID-19 and vice versa.

[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...
Or...

Adults become so overly conditioned to accept that killing animals for our daily lives is normal, that we no longer register animal death as an ethical issue.
I'm going to have to argue my point here... We're talking about different things. If you're talking about footage flexibility and colour fidelity - absolutely you'll get much better results in good lighting on an Arri or DSMC2 RED....

For literally anything else you might be concerned about - i.e.: what most people will care about when shooting, the image out of a DSLR is infinitely better. I'm not addressing better to grade, since obviously it's both compressed and stored at much lower bit depth and file size (these are all good things in a home context). I'm talking about sharpness, autofocus, and low light performance (including colour accuracy in extreme low light). These are inarguably better on DSLR. For heavens sake you can get reasonable footage out of an A7Siii at 12,800 ISO.

You're looking through the wrong end of the telescope here - i.e.: accuracy and manipulability in a situation with a post budget and crew. I'm speaking to appropriateness for real time streaming and home recording with zero post. You literally can't get HDMI out of an ARRI. It's completely inappropriate for this purpose.

So to make a crude example - even if you could set up the Arri for this purpose - streaming in Fuji Eterna or Sony S-Cinetone from home will look infinitely better than unprocessed Rec.9 from the Arri, for 99% of purposes.

We're talking about completely different things. You're like an F1 driver mocking the suspension and ABS on a family saloon. No one should ever drive your F1 on the road, whatever its obvious benefits for the specific situations it's perfect in. For one thing it costs multiple times the price of the best possible family car. For another it requires a trained crew. And so on...
>It seems to me this is just another pernicious example of how lockdowns and disrupting a population’s routines directly and indirectly damages public health.

The pandemic is disrupting people's routines, not the lockdowns. The idea that society would be functioning as normal without lockdowns is silly.
I rescue myself first.
I certainly didn't say "unending population increases" or "above all else."

But if you think that building enough housing for the people means unending population increases, that's really in line with the garden variety xenophobic anti-immigrant thinking I grew up with in the Midwest.

The zero-sum philosophy of a newcomer arriving meaning that a current resident loses out, or that the newcomer is "extracting" from the community rather than contributing to it, is also gaining popularity in SF, and is also a very common xenophobic trope.
I've dealt with two swollen batteries on Dell laptops. Both times the laptop was out of warranty but was in the service window. Dell said that the battery was not a "user serviceable part" and would require me to ship the laptop to them with a estimated 2 week repair turnaround.

I ended up buying a battery on eBay both times along with a screwdriver kit with a T5 star bit (I think that was the size) the first time. It takes about 5 minutes to swap the battery.

I just looked in my email and the seller I used was "good-batteries" but it looks like they don't sell on eBay anymore.
A few years ago, I built a platform for a client that allowed his customers to show a "Text Me" widget on their websites; the software handled all of the SMS / messaging and basically substituted conventional contact form or Intercom integration.

His customers used Google AdSense, who started blocking them until they removed the widget. The reason? This widget used an Iframe postMessage, but appropriately specified the singular sandboxed domain. As expected, we never were able to speak with a human at Google- they just sent my clients customers intimidating emails about a security flaw on their websites.

Seeing Google abuse the postMessage API with a wildcard argument after this fiasco is maddening! If only they were held to their own arbitrary and vague standards.
This sorta lends weight to my hunch from watching hours of YouTube videos that mammalian toddlers have to learn to differentiate by species. Cross-species friendships between mammals from toddler to adult happen all the time in human-controlled environments, only in the wild is this more or less prohibited owing to adult animal intervention. Perhaps we can learn something about the reproduction of racial prejudice from this...
the kitten, obviously. it may have consciousness.
have old pc hardware mostly.

get an WD Green 120 GB SSD for about 20 - 25 €.

Have a teenager / child come over with their parents and we build their first pc from the parts up.

The kids install the windows license which came with the pc because school requires windows programs for homework.

Kids are proud, most of them would not be able to get a computer of their own otherwise.

computers are to slow for gaming, just useful for libre office... to bad...

the kids will get an introduction to google and how to use youtube the right way (you either waste your life on youtube or you will get on a path to better grades - your choice) and a stern warning to stay off facebook, tik-tok and the ilk.

hardware lasts until 8th - 9th grade usually, by then they have cheap smartphones of their own.

one interesting note:
i was a proud owner of an Commodore PC 10-III (msdos, 4.77 MHz, 640 KB RAM) and my own legal (!) copy of turbo pascal 4.0. i did a lot of things with that beast.

None - Not even one - of the kids who could have visual studio community, lazarus, haskell, whatever on their machines will ever try their hands at programming (while having a virtual tutor on youtube !).

They wouldn't even scratch (oh the pun indeed) the surface of cs...
Well, are you aware that the common model of cancer (genetic) is almost certainly wrong? And that we've wasted 50+ years, and something like an infinite amount of money on it?

https://www.amazon.com/Cancer-Metabolic-Disease-Management-P...

https://www.amazon.com/Tripping-over-Truth-Overturning-Entre...
I was referring to the fact that they are not bothered by eating ham, bacon, etc. They are clueless about what happens to pigs in the real world, and how many have perished to provide their sustenance.
With all of the Diseny movies that show animals acting like humans && knowing how kids love to watch movies on infinite loop, it's not really hard to imagine why
Sorry, I shouldn't have projected my assumptions onto your particular story =)
ARK funds actually have a pretty high turn-over rate.
State of Working America Wages 2019 (https://www.epi.org/publication/swa-wages-2019/)
This is why we don't give a trolley license to 6-year-olds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
>The fact that they can be like this is really proof that their market position is much stronger than most HNers seem to think it is.

Elsewhere on the HN front page is a computer made with a Russian internal CPU. The CPU has a custom ISA based on x86, and isn't open. The documentation is poor, and nobody has the source code for the compiler. It's also about 5 years behind the state of the art in x86. How can a product like this exist? Easy. Russia needs them for military hardware because they're not going to put Intel in their defense radar systems. The manufacturer has a niche to sell to.

Instead of being 5 years behind, Apple's closed and undocumented ISA is 2 years ahead. How much moreso, if the Russian CPU can survive in the market, can they.
The article doesn't provide any evidence

1) That childrens stories aren't set in the suburbs

2) That suburbs aren't generally walkable

3) That suburbs aren't interesting
kitten.
Save the kitten then bask in the notoriety. When asked why you did it, claim the painting was disappointingly small and very over rated.
Scientists Suggest U.S. Embassies Were Hit with High-Power Microwaves
> One is that $15/hr is a dramatic underestimate of the opportunity cost for many of the people who would otherwise be eating out. Minimum wage in Mountain View & Sunnyvale is $16.05/hour. My wife & my salaries, if converted to hourly, would be several hundred / hour. We cook at home because we're salaried and so don't actually reap that opportunity cost in cash,

You can’t say that your opportunity cost is $x and then also state you did not have a choice to earn $x. They are contradictory statements. Unless you are a robot capable of working as much as you want with no downtime, this type of calculation make no sense.

Not to mention the costs of eating out include unhealthy meals, among others.
Not a complete transpiler, butI read about an interview about JVM implementation done on common lisp of Pascal Costanza and ability to port all things then supported in Java to lisp[0].

"...I decided to implement a Java Virtual Machine in Common Lisp - under normal circumstances, I wouldn't have dared to do this, because this is quite a complex undertaking, but I had read in several places that Lisp would be suitable for projects that you would normally not dare to do otherwise, so I thought I would give it a try. Over the course of 8 weeks, with something like 2 hours per day, or so (because I was still doing other stuff during the day), I was able to get a first prototype that would execute a simple "Hello, World!" program. On top of that, it was a portable (!) just-in-time compiler: It loaded the bytecode from a classfile, translated it into s-expressions that resemble the bytecodes, and then just called Common Lisp's compile function to compile those s-expressions, relying on macro and function definitions for realizing these "bytecodes as s-expressions." I was really impressed that this was all so easy to do.

The real moment of revelation was this: to make sure to reuse as many of the built-in Common Lisp features as possible, I actually translated Java classes into CLOS classes, and Java methods into CLOS methods. Java's super calls posed a problem, because it was not straightforward to handle super calls with plain call-next-method calls. Then I discovered user-defined method combinations, which seemed like the right way to solve this issue, but I was still stuck for a while. Until I discovered that moving a backquote and a corresponding unquote around actually finally fixed everything. That was a true Eureka moment: In every other programming language that I am aware of, all the problems I encountered until that stage would have required a dozen redesigns, and several attempts to start the implementation completely from scratch, until I would have found the right way to get everything in the right places."

[0] - lisp-univ-etc.blogspot.com/2012/04/lisp-hackers-pascal-costanza.html
So google cheaps out on bounties because developers are clamoring to do free work for mega-adtech corp in hopes that the clout they get from it will pay out down the road.

That's the most dystopian thing I've heard in a while.
No this won't work. As I said just let the government provide housing for a reasonable price directly. Private landlords can still make money by undercutting the government but they can't charge more because getting your housing from the government will always be cheaper.
I remember there was a website or app which let you listen to wikipedia articles whose subject was near you, based on geolocation info. Anyone remember what it was?
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Self driving on highways. I know many companies are focusing on tier V, everywhere. but it's starting to look like an AI-hard problem to me, and might not yield a usable solution for a while.

Meanwhile, I believe cars could do motorway driving from entry to exit today, if we focused on that. With LiDAR, some extra safety hardware on roads, coordination with local highway services, a company could make a car that is fully self driving on specific highway stretches.
Ah, but the question is "is valuing all lives regardless of species ethically immature?"
Does this mean we can finally compile for the Apple platform without owning an Apple computer?
Amazon's cloud offerings are generally quite expensive compared to owning yourself. That's why such a small part of Amazon's revenues can be such a large part of their earnings.
The amount of water SFPUC delivers to residential customers in SF is a small portion of the whole system, which serves a large area outside the city.
I loved all my cats. Still I would sacrifice them to save a human, but it would probably take a huge toll on my mental and emotional health.
How does that jive with the incredible salaries of elite professionals, like computer scientists, lawyers, doctors, CEO's, when compared with the rest of the population? I think the importance of the labor vs capital divide is being exaggerated by the very elites who are making out as bandits from their labor. It is one way to assuage a guilty conscience I suppose.
Yeah, probably better worded as we don't understand the impact death has on others until we are older and have experienced those impacts ourselves.
Well hopefully it’s already the case that if someone intentionally sabotages another participant, and can be proven, they will receive a penalty worse than permanent disqualification.
To a point. We better understand the hurt of those who remain.
Quoting myself: "naive"
Undocumented

It's not about EEE it's about Apple taking this attitude in the first place.
> we decided to move forwards with a game based software that:

> Would have a low ‘barrier of entry’

> Be easy for students from any background to pick up

> Be visual and simplistic to wrap your head around

> Have some level of a competitive / addictive nature and well defined metrics of success

...

> ... For the frontend, we had to create a clear visualization of what the processes were doing, and also had to build a UI that allowed for intuitively creating programs in Redcode. The latter was especially important for us as the goal for this project was to require as little technical experience as possible, and we also knew that Corewars was a challenging game.

This sounds like a typical case of listing your requirements (low barrier to entry, easy to pick up, simplistic to wrap your head around), but picking something that doesn't satisfy those requirements (a challenging game) while thinking that you can make it work somehow (build a UI to make it more intuitive).

I'm not surprised they ran into a problem with that approach.

> ... Before deployment, we’d assumed that Corewars could be learned and played by students at a semi-competitive level within a sitting. Even with the beginner mode that featured a scoped back set of assembly commands and high visibility into the game’s processes, it took Adi an hour and a half of 1:1 teaching time within the groups to get them comfortable with the game. We can estimate from this testing it would take students ~3 hours to learn the game individually, and another ~3-4 hours of logical challenge questions to get to a competitive level.

(I think those numbers are more likely to be underestimates, except for students with a lot of prior knowledge.)

My high school CS teacher assigned writing a Corewars interpreter as a project, likely because he thought it would be a fun way to expose his students to assembly language. I did enjoy it, but most other students were already pretty lost just trying to understand how programs were executing in the reference implementation, let alone writing their own interpreter.

I think something like AntMe ( http://wiki.antme.net/en/Main_Page ) would've been a better choice of programming game (I only have experience with the two my CS teacher tried on his students, so it's likely I'm missing something better): the game world is an abstraction of physical reality, so it's not hard to visualize, and there's a variety of tasks of different complexity (from just making the ants walk around like LOGO turtles, to foraging for food, to waging war against other ant colonies).
Serious question (I'm not an expert) - Why would there be an imminent depression-like downturn when effective vaccines were announced < 1 month ago?

I vaccines didn't exist, I would believe this but given they do, I can't image the future is not brighter.
Anecdotally, I was successfully able to negotiate 1300 off my rent here in the peninsula. I was paying 4500 for a 3 bedroom, nice mid century modern before COVID. After February, I will be paying 3200 for at least another year with an optional 2nd year at the same price. It's a good time to be a renter here.

The prices are now so low on renting, that my plan to eventually buy a house farther north (Oregon or California) is now put on hold while I muster up a bigger down-payment.
Excerpts from Philosophers’ Breakup Letters
I thought it said, "images of Earth from the asteroid Ryugu". Disappointed, that's something this earthing would surely like to see.
Seriously if you feel this way about your pet you should find someone to adopt it from you.
I do enjoy the existence of the Mona Lisa!

It keeps people that only came to the Louvre to see it (and nothing else) well-contained to one area.

Leaves more room for me to look at the actually interesting stuff!

Like "Psyche Revived By Cupid's Kiss" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyche_Revived_by_Cupid%27s_Ki...)!
Indeed, that's Andrew Wiles, or now Sir Andrew Wiles KBE FRS Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford. It's likely this was the documentary: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074rxx/horizon-19951...
This behavior is very common and just baffling to me. In many markets right now, there is just no way they are going to rent that out.

The only explanation I have heard is that lenders allow a certain amount of vacancy increases in the terms without triggering a reevaluation of the property value. Whereas lowering the rent will more quickly trigger that new valuation.

And the way many commercial loans are setup, they may require immediate payment of the difference of the value of the property if it drops.

But this just seems short sided on the part of the banks. And why do seemingly so many of them have this policy? If I am assessing property value and vacancy sky-rockets, I'm going to be a lot more concerned than if rent has to drop a bit.
I don't buy this either. No-kill shelters wouldn't exist if that were true.
At at least some of the age range here (5 years old) children are still trying to understand death (for example they might not experience grief and loss when a close relative dies) and it doesn't make much sense to me to compare to someone that has developed an understanding of it.
Putting a spin of whataboutism doesn’t make the OPs arguments any less valid
I thought this was a trick question, wouldn't anyone with empathy save the kitten?
That sounds reasonable. Let's do the math your way in both directions:

1) Assuming system-level model

10,000 microphones * 8 kilosamples per second = 800 megasamples per second.

NVidia Tesla does 100 teraflops. I get about 125,000 FLOPS per sample. That feels adequate to me!

2) One filter per microphone per passenger. We need to divide by 250.

500 FLOPS per sample per passenger. That's more than enough for a very fancy IIR.

Of the two, I think #1 is more likely to work than #2, precisely because you want a coherent model. If you want to adjust your model for someone walking down the aisle (or any kind of system ID), that's a lot easier with 125,000 FLOPS per sample than 500 FLOPS per sample.
> killing animals for our daily lives is normal

It is normal. Historically speaking, not doing so is what’s not normal. The nature of this planet is that every living thing lives off eating other living things.
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I hear this refrain often, and it is of course never followed up with a solution.

What would you suggest, a bounty calculated via a multiple of company stock price?
An airplane is an industrial system....

And in either case, the design of algorithms depends on much more on context than on whether it's "consumer" or "industrial." In this case, the context looks a lot more like industrial machinery.
Having met and interacted with both humans and dogs over the years, I have to agree with the children here...
The Russian CPU isn't surviving in a market
Isn't computer users a tiny part of all Apple users?

They could probably just kill that part and make enough money on iOS anyway.
Your comment is the opposite of what HN is supposed to be. You've taken up a stance, please explain your reasoning instead of stating it as fact.

Lots of reasonable points could be made to counter that opinion.
No, that's not really the question - the question is whether kids can reason morally, which they can't.

And it's not that they value all lives equally, it's that they value dogs over humans.
Regardless of maturity, it's certainly computationally untenable. I wonder how many millions of bacteria I've genocided in the last few seconds...
I’m not saying that, “X is an issue, but also Y,” which would indeed be whataboutism. I am saying however that if you remove X, it will make Y worse.
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> Corewars proved itself really, really hard. Learning the assembly commands and how they edited the A and B values of each memory cell, understanding how the processes were executed and how data was stored was incredibly challenging for students to wrap their heads around.

This surprised me. I wrote a Corewars system in compiled Basic for the Sinclair QL when the game became popular. Writing it was not particularly difficult and the toy machine code was very simple. Maybe it was the context: we were used to look at bits and assembly instructions, we're not anymore.
would you consider letting someone else adopt the puppy?
Wow. Your idea really inspired a few new thoughts in me. Is there any good books that talk in-depth about cross-species mammalian friendships?

Any idea about mammalian->other kingdoms?
You’re possibly being downvoted because you lay it at the doorstep of “the right” when the problem is bigger than that.

But thanks for more directly making my original point that, as the GP’s post shows, many people’s working definition seems to be “criticism == cancel culture”
>I thought this was a trick question

No it's a pandering to the audience question. Ofc everyone would say the kitten to feel better and to show off (especially when the whole GP is about that)