skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excellent! Great perspective, thanks for sharing. And good luck with your future health.

Although the article is written by a doctor, the article portrays medicine/ healthcare as something that doctors (people in the know) refuse, instead of the what really is happening: The doctors know more, and therefore can more easily make an informed decision. In some cases, this means they're willing to stop early when there is a very small (or zero) chance of success. This article is dangerous, because it flips people who default to treatment to default to no treatment, when their default should be to understand and make the informed decision, which has always been the case.

My personal experience with US healthcare is to get a wide perspective, asking different doctors (sometimes in different specialties) of their perspective. This is line with dataminer's advice to seek the advice of multiple doctors. In my case, I had 3 types of doctors to contact: Neurologists, Neurosurgeons (peripheral) and Orthopaedic surgeons, and all 3 doctors had different diagnoses. Only the neurosurgeon (who had the specialty in this exact issue) could make a correct diagnosis. The others were honestly, useless. These are experts in the field, and my health issue overlapped across all 3 fields, it was my decision to go to these different experts after doing my research. *No* doctor was telling me to go to a different doctor, thats for sure.
I'm at a public University in Europe and can say that we do occasionally rely on third parties, but only such third parties with which we have an appropriate contract.

We also have self-hosted equivalent for almost everything and a quick email to the data protection officer will get problems rectified swiftly.

Most student organizations are also very mindful about not using third party services for their events. However, we often get the feedback that many students would rather we just use Discord rather than Mattermost/Jitsu/...
> Ubiquiti also hinted it had an idea of who was behind the attack, saying it has “well-developed evidence that the perpetrator is an individual with intricate knowledge of our cloud infrastructure. As we are cooperating with law enforcement in an ongoing investigation, we cannot comment further.”

I personally don't believe this. IMO, this is a company who is looking for a fall guy, and _most likely_ it's going to be somebody who raised a stink about all the security problems during their time there.

Form your own opinion, I'm just a guy who worked at Ubiquiti for a year, raising all kinds of hell about the security, architectural, and operational problems that I saw while I was there.

But what do I know...
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I wonder what web tool they use to make them ?
They fade, but there's still a few percent difference in high school graduation rates, measures of emotional control in early adulthood, and college attendance.

(Larger than this in some cohorts, e.g. when the mother's education level is very low).
> On the plus side, I take solace knowing the majority of those gifted students became addicts or suffered severe mental health issues when they realized they weren't that smart, and the rest of the world doesn't think they're special.

That does not actually happen to that often in tracked school systems. Seriously.
Thanks. Agreed that vaccinating the elderly first is a reasonable strategy, though it would also be smart to hit the people that spread the most (the "hubs" in a graph of physical interactions).

I'm trying to go through the rough numbers of risk/reward:
Consider the potentially affected group with the lowest COVID death rate - women 20-29 years old. If all get the AZ vaccine, ~10 per million would have a CVST , and 3 would die, using the German numbers, which are higher than other countries. [1] (double these numbers to assume the side effect only affects women, and doses have been evenly distributed. Double them again to assume that this side effect only affects <65 years old, and doses have been split between the elderly and younger medical workers [2]).

If the COVID IFR is for 20-29 year olds is 0.01% [3], that's 100 per million that would die if infected. Maybe the IFR is lower for women, and with some effective treatments (dexamethasone, early recombinant antibodies) becoming available, but maybe it will be ~50% higher with prevailing variants.

So this vaccine may kill 12 per million women but save 100 per million. But the 100 per million is an unfair comparison - presumably less than the entire population will be infected while waiting for a different vaccine. Assuming 1/4 of infections are detected, there are 1000 new infections per million in Germany each day. It would take 120 days to infect 12% of the population and kill as many with this side effect as would have been saved by the vaccine, so if it will be a delay of less than four months to switch vaccines for this group, stop giving AZ and wait for another vaccine!

Huh, I didn't really expect this result, and for older age groups, the crossover point will come much sooner. Germany has decided that it only makes sense to only for 60+ year-olds, and maybe that's the right call, but I really wish they would be transparent about the reasoning.

[1] https://www.pei.de/EN/newsroom/hp-news/2021/210319-covid-19-...
[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1195611/coronavirus-covi...
[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33289900/
Atomic batteries are a thing; I was wondering how they could be made chargeable.
It's all about the missing .dropboxignore file
Great news. The idea of having an installation process as a gatekeeper is laughable. The more people who get access to Arch the better. It is the best distro in my opinion.

I also find the it kind of ironic that the Arch community want effortless hidpi scaling but aren’t willing to let people into there elitist gated community.

Linux is not a platform for elitism.
Changing a field's type in recent JDKs
You also can’t run a business ignoring competitive threats.

Your post seems to assume that OP has no customers - but the post stated they were getting traction already.

It’s overly simplistic to say “just focus on product and customer acquisition” - in fact it’s likely bad advice. Founders need to wear many hats, and one of those is not simply ignoring when competitors are on your turf which the original post suggests.

And successful founders will obviously think about what might happen as a result of their actions and make balanced judgements on the back of that. Your suggestion to not respond to things that “might” happen is again bad advice in my opinion - actually they need to consider how likely things are to impact you. As an early phase startup will a well funded competitor having a very similar brand name hurt? Very likely! So they should certainly consider how they are going to respond and not just ignore it.
By now we'll have to ask: Is it realistic to expect hardware-oriented companies to build secure software?

(Yes, Apple exists.)
That would depend on where the parent is from. In Germany you would absolutely have a case if your public University tried to make you use Facebook. In fact, you could probably skip the lawsuit and just report it to the appropriate authority.
I mean, don't get me wrong, there absolutely _is_ somebody who's responsible for it, but I wouldn't place any money on Ubiquiti being able to figure out who it really was.

They want to brush this under the rug as fast as they can, and that means using the opportunity to pin it on somebody that's been "problematic".
What no one seems to be really discussing is how paranoid should people be around this breach?

Is it a case of you probably want to rebuild machines that have default usernames/passwords? Or is it more whatever can be seen in the Ubiquiti UI might be been accessed by third parties?
Ubiquiti does not lock their bootloaders like phone manufacturers do.

It is very, very easy to run vanilla Linux (or even OpenBSD) on their hardware. I do exactly this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26645062

Octeons (not Octeon-TX) are amazing processors. Ubiquiti makes killer hardware. I hear their software is junk but wouldn't really know since I always erase it immediately after unboxing.
Because the network effect reduces choice and competition. I don’t get to vote with my wallet with Facebook. I can participate in society or not have Facebook.

My mom was recently told by a state elected representative that she would have to contact them through Facebook to provide feedback on legislation. This is not a “valid tradeoff” nor does it have to do with “entertainment”.
The most fascinating part is that this fragile looking drone, looks in perfect shape after such a rough ride through out atmosphere and then an other rough bump entering the mars atmosphere.

A drone in a box, getting shipped from China to my place ends up looking all beaten up.
The guy who makes a lot of their dataviz is famously the creator of Svelte.
People who weren't alive at the time may not appreciate how different the commercial app ecosystem was: how many more options, how much less concentrated.

Here is a PC Magazine cover from 1988: https://archive.org/details/PC-Mag-1988-02-29. It boasts a review of 55 different word processors. All of them would have been commercial; none of it was free, let alone open-source.

It wasn't just word processors. Here is a different cover: https://archive.org/details/PC-Mag-1988-05-17. It boasts tests of 43 different consumer-level database products. And magazine covers like these two weren't extraordinary.
<3 This book is such a fun and opinionated entry text for learning about how to use typography in your work. I highly recommend looking through the various sections and perusing anything that interests you. It's not written solely for typography on the web so many of the how tos include instructions for word and other editing program.

As a side note the entire book is written in racket which is pretty cool.
Again, “worse” is subjective.

Even saying someone has “shit taste” is subjective.
Depending on your version of MacOS, I'd recommend Karabiner-Elements for remapping: https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/
Do you know about the Orchard Hills case and The AAA plan in Irvine, interesting one https://www.cityofirvine.org/community-development/all-ameri...
Really loving this project. Still wondering though how you can spend $85 million developing a 1.8kg drone helicopter? And how do you actually come up with the estimate to get the budget approved? Yes I understand all the challenges of delivery to a distant planet, the thin atmosphere and lower gravity and extreme temperatures, but wow.
From firsthand experience: performance is in fact awesome on the edgerouters (4, 6, 8, and 12) using plain-vanilla Linux.

It's a big honking MIPS chip with firehose connections to the ethernet PHYs. Precisely the kind of device you want for a router.
Khomeini turned Iran into a much more open society for the people than Iran had under the Shah (whose SAVAK was far more brutal, secretive, and effective at terror than any org in Iran currently today).

People in the West don't get that all tyrannies aren't equal and some are far better than others. You may not like Salafists (I think you are referring to the Muslim Brotherhood, who are decidedly not Salafists, Salafists tend to side with the dictators), but if they were to succeed they would bring a more open society to Egypt than what currently exists. That's their appeal.

Alas they have pretty much all been slaughtered by the current dictator and the only democratically elected leader of Egypt (their own guy) died in prison this year or last year.
Really, I thought the original source's posting on April 1st + "Xinuos" (Unix backwards + OS) is an obvious joke!?
It really does. The team at paged.js are simply amazing and deserve so much credit.

It’s such a big deficiency in the modern web, we really need Chrome / Safari / etc to implement the W3C standard or something better
I agree with the other replies that it doesn't make sense to ask bloggers to stop writing if they don't have many readers, not even if their writing is truly poor. Many bloggers aren't aiming to be the next Joel Spolsky or Raymond Chen, they're content with relatively few readers, and that's a good thing. If nothing else, writing is good exercise for future writing.

If the 'blogosphere' is functioning well, it shouldn't much matter if inexperienced bloggers are churning out poor quality posts, as the best ones should still rise to prominence just the same. The average quality of all blog posts doesn't much matter. The existence of high quality blog posts is what matters.

On a somewhat different note, I'd ask bloggers not to misrepresent their skill level. It might be good exercise for a student to write about a topic they're learning about, but it's frustrating to read a post written in an authoritative tone which turns out to be full of rookie misunderstandings.
Also, some concrete thoughts on the economics here:

1. Investors of this kind (those who buy relatively modest housing units to rent out) are far more sensitive about prices (because the price has to be justified by what they can charge in rent) than buyers who plan to live, who do not have a clear anchor. Therefore, they contribute to price stability - they will tend to buy in bad markets and sell in hot markets.

2. Transaction costs are extremely high in real estate and for most people that are able to choose between buying and renting, by far the most important factor isn't affordability but how long they plan to live in a give place. Actual home buyers tend to choose buying over renting precisely when prices are high and when they do so, they tend to buy larger and more expensive units than they would otherwise rent because they take into account future needs. This leads to increased demand as you turn marginal renters into homeowners.

3. People that are able to choose between renting and buying are typically well-off and making things slightly more affordable to entice them to buy isn't a social good.

4. People that are unable to afford buying units and are forced to rent are the poorer ones in comparison. These people benefit the most from a housing unit being turned into a rental because unlike the previous class, they do not have the flexibility to choose between renting and buying.
Ok, but she experienced a decrease while living in this building. And doctors said that is consistent with exposure to VOCs.
There are maybe 6 more zeroes on the cost for this drone.

That buys a lot of hardening.
Ah, thanks, I've missed that part.
Wow.

Overall, being tracked higher is correlated with better life outcomes and higher life satisfaction. So I don't think the "majority" ends up the way you state.
The Virtual Goods Market Compounded 40% per Annum, 2000-2020
Some companies have the possibility to survive because of clients which are dependent on their solutions. The OpenServer case includes big names like fujitsu, mcdonalds and kwait petroleum: https://web.archive.org/web/20040207073246/http://www.sco.co...
Reading this actually makes me think the opposite: That we basically do the exact same processes but with the production obfuscated away and at a larger scale.

When you peel back the layers of garment manufacture today it's basically the same processes and materials as this series lays out.
I wonder if Ozzie considers Groove to be one of the products he expended energy on and failed. From my perspective it seemed to actually be succeeding as a deeply network-aware thick client for collaborative knowledge work when Microsoft acquired it and killed it off. Or if not outright killed it, then managed it to death by strapping it to the SharePoint boat anchor. I wouldn't count that as a failure per-se. It didn't succeed, but wasn't really given the chance to do so, which seemed to be what Microsoft wanted to get out of the transaction.
Meraki has captured my fancy lately. Expensive but a pretty great value prop.
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I built a side project recently using Django/Hotwire. There's some JS, sure, but it's used where appropriate (media API stuff basically). Lighthouse gives 100% accessibility and best practices scores and performance comes in at over 90% on a good day, with performance issues mostly fixed with some database indexing and caching here and there (it runs on a single shoestring Digital Ocean droplet, so it's never going to be super fast or scalable without a bigger budget, but for the small traffic it gets it's fine). I feel I can reason about how it all works in my head, and fix bugs and add features quite easily. It was fun to build, and I was able to focus on interesting problems.

At the back of my mind is the feeling that somehow I'm doing it all wrong, and it should use a proper JS frontend framework like React or Vue that communicates with the backend with a proper REST API or better yet, GraphQL. I realize it's probably not the kind of project I should use to show off on my resume and that many will just consider it old school. At the same time though it does feel that maybe the industry took a wrong turn when it went all-in on SPAs.
> their trajectory could be permanently altered

I simply don't buy that.

The reason is simple - elementary school teaches kids at such a glacial pace there is no problem for kids catching up who started a bit late.

For example, I missed the first half of 4th grade. The teacher proposed that I be held back a grade because of all that I missed. My mom put her foot down and said no way. The teacher was skeptical, but within a few days it was abundantly clear that I hadn't missed anything at all. The 4th grade class simply had not perceptibly advanced in 3 months.

P.S. when going through my dad's papers after he passed a few years ago, I ran across report cards from before first grade. They all thought I was "slow". People should just lighten up about academic performance before age 6. It doesn't mean anything for the vast majority of kids. I wouldn't even worry about it until 3rd grade.
Are you trying to argue that San Francisco is a laissez-faire developer utopia?
Maybe 1 was an admin account and 2 & 3 were for Winkelvii.
Unfortunately not a joke.
There are nuclear batteries available, but the amount of power they put out is in the microwatts. Not exactly a useful amount of power for a modern phone. Good enough for some kinds of sensors, though.
why would you not just run OpenBSD with PF.
Well, that would require even more radical keyboard layout changes I guess ?

And I assume that less common characters have been put there ?

But I assume that you're talking about {}, which some programmers use quite frequently, and which are still locked behind AltGr, though in a better position than before?

(Also, there's always Alt+Ctrl, though it's certainly not ideal either...)
I mean, while running definitely have genetic component, right kind of training makes massive difference. In world where running would matter, I woud expect the adults to try to figure out when and how train them.

Same for art actually. If art mattered more, we would cared about making kids like it and teaching all kids to draw.
Like previously stated, HIV hides inside of cells for an indeterminate amount of time. As you mentioned immune memory can take a little bit of time to kick in. Once it kicks in however, it is extraordinarily effective at hunting down viruses and actively (non-dormant) infected cells. With a small enough viral load however, the immune system can fend off HIV well enough.

During an initial infection either the immune system will fight off the virus if the load is small enough and it gets lucky or the virus takes hold of some cells and starts reproducing. In this latter case, the immune memory allows the immune system to effectively fight off the virus before it can properly take hold. Of course some of the virus may lay dormant in a few cells but since it never gets a chance to take hold of the body the quantity of dormant infected cells is relatively low.

Now due to the low quantity of dormant infected cells, it is extremely unlikely that there will be enough "activated" cells at any given time that the immune system is not able to handle the threat before it escalates. Over time you can expect the dormant HIV to slowly be exterminated or at very least prevented from growing in count.

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Now this isn't anything terribly new. The real breakthrough with this vaccine over other attempts in the past is that it results in the production of a specific type of antibody that can act on all known HIV strains with essentially the same efficacy (where as prior vaccines couldn't result in the production of antibodies that worked reliably on even small portions of the thousands of different HIV strains).
“We took shifts, around the clock, getting visitation exceptions to at least have 1 person sitting in the room with her at all times. Because the doctors had the amazing ability to burst into a room and present options to a half-cognizant woman suffering from cancer and expect her to make a decision there-and-then.”

I Also lived through this doing night shifts every night for months switching with family members who all are in the medical or medically adjacent fields, having the fire hose of information shot in our direction for medical decisions that had to be made 24/7 For my intubated father in a medically induced coma for cerebral hemmoragic stroke.

The amount of Medical staff that visited at all hours of the day and night to take blood samples, do breathing treatments for intubation, soiled gown changing at their convenience (they would simply let your loved one sit in their soiled gown at odd hours of the day which leads to UTI and life threatening Septic shock had I not been their to sound the alarm).

All this plus medical errors at nursing shift change are very real concerns and happened shockingly often to us with wrong doses, late doses, miscommunications, etc. it is truly dizzinging and terrifying to say the least and my heart goes out to COVID patients who had family blocked from being bedside to advocate for their care prior to vaccine development.

Life is truly short, having stared the death of loved ones in the face you know your time will come to be in that same hospital bed. Make your time on this planet count. Forget the adtech and user manipulation/deception/surveillance gigs and use your software dev superpowers for doing good things to look back on from your hospital bed. That’s how my perspective has changed to live my life moving forward helping others with my tech skill set is truly humbling.
Great. When I was in high school, Facebook was used for organizing all the student activities. I didn't have Facebook and of course people said they'd let me know through other means. Spoiler alert: they almost never did.

So the alternative was to either bite the bullet and create a Facebook account or be left out of a ton of activities. And no, making them go somewhere else wasn't an option. I didn't have any leverage in that negotiation.

I can appreciate that by giving in I am at worst part of the problem and maybe today I'd do it differently, but I really didn't fancy crippling my social life and I wouldn't blame anyone for making that choice.
The Maltese language is the only Semitic official language of the EU
Saying "the executive office complaint line" isn't implying it's Facebook's complaint line. There is no legal obligation for the person on the other end of a call to be who you expect.

Who would even assume that such a thing would not be outsourced if it were affiliated?

And "a priority incident" can't be a misrepresentation inasmuch as "priority" is inherently relative.

As a matter of "legal realism" people might be right that it would land you in prison if you are just Joe/Jane Schmoe. But I see absolutely no logical justification for that when companies do things at least as shady all the time without serious consequences.