skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Find a more credible source.

https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-stanford-masks/fac...

The author lied about his affiliation with Stanford, and the paper was retracted.

> Jonathan Davis, a spokesperson for Elsevier, told Reuters via email that Medical Hypotheses has since retracted the article after concluding it was misleading due to “a broader review of existing scientific evidence” showing that masks “are an effective prevention of COVID-19 transmission” and said that the article contained several misquotes and unverified data. Davis said that the author himself had submitted the affiliation with Stanford Medicine.

> As reported here by Forbes, Medical Hypotheses has previously published articles such as “Is there an association between the use of heeled footwear and schizophrenia” (here) and “Ejaculation as a potential treatment of nasal congestion in mature males” (here).

There's a reason it's titled "Medical Hypotheses".
I hear what you’re saying, but the business model is different on the Xbox and PlayStation. On those consoles the devices themselves are sold at a loss with the expectation that the user will buy at least a few games. That’s not true of the iPhone - you bought the thing. What you do with it should arguably not be up to Apple any more.

Maybe a better example would be the Nintendo switch - and I’m sympathetic to the idea that I should be able to install and run whatever software I want on my device. I wish I could install Netflix, but I can’t and that’s really annoying.

I hear you about big companies forcing you into their app stores so they can exploit your user data. That’s a real worry; and I’m not sure what the right approach is there. Does this happen on android, where you can enter dev mode and install other app stores? I love that aspect of the iPhone - although I also wish I could have sexual content on my phone without Apple judging me for it.
> Why guilt?

GP made it seem like whites being a big part of current techno scene is bad.

> The first stuff anyone started calling techno was pretty black

you could say the first stuff anyone started calling electronic music was pretty white. point is, racial attribution for something that has a huge array of influences is silly.

> unheard of racial unity going on

yes, the way it should be.
Do they not make plain vegan yogurt?

That's how I eat cow's-milk yogurt: I get the plain stuff and add whatever jam/jelly I want to it. That doesn't have exotic flavors like matcha, and it's less convenient than a single-serve package, but it also means that I get to sweeten it to my taste.

I've been thinking of trying some vegan yogurt (I'm a non-vegetarian who is drastically reducing my animal products and eats vegan more often than not). The plant-based milks have been getting pretty good and I had high hopes that they'd make a decent yogurt.
I don't disagree with you, but it's notable that the gender imbalance for teachers diminishes as the kids get older.

* Preschool and kindergarten teachers 98.8% female

* Elementary and middle school teachers 79.6% female

* Secondary school teachers 58.8% female

* Postsecondary teachers 51.1% female

There's clearly a lot more going on here.
Honestly, this part I don't understand.

Somewhere over that couple days I read that you can farm on an HD, but plotting is faster on an SSD, so I'm making a huge presumption that plotting on a ramdisk would be even faster, without the wear on an SSD.

I'm still not clear on Chia. Sometimes I think I understand it, and other times I'm not so sure...
My 2 cents about UML
The problem in the current scenario is the drivers needs health insurance, but Uber isn't supplying it (nor are they paying a high enough wage to buy insurance on the open market), so tax-payers are stuck footing the bill anyways.
There is a Reply All episode talking to the creator of the Hedonometer. It includes the researcher turning his analysis tools against the host's texting history.

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/kwh96n
What's even more fun is remembering this is a "Free" game
My money is on schools being a more active vector than makes sense. And I don't see us closing them like we did on a regular basis.
Do viruses timeshare a host or is there a mechanism for one to dominate and therefore if you have X you're less likely to contract any others?
Italian Apple Farmers Are Coating Their Orchards in Ice
I have done more than dozen of languages and consider Rust the best experience for both "get new shinny things" and "keep old quiet".

But the Rust experience IS cargo. No (other) package managers.

Rust is cargo centric. With it, you are free to pin to versions and keep things working for very long.

BUT

also if you are coming cold to any library is to be EXPECTED to be "new". This is a good thing: The community at large move forward in tandem as if it were a coordinated army!

But that don't mean I can't work with older code, is that if you see a crate RIGTH NOW you see te forward momentum at large. If you wanna use something older you can pin to a back version.

However, this also point to a fair problem: Is not easy to correlate to which version of Rust each crate(version) relate to.
Possible explanations include:

- More asymptomatic transmission of rhinovirus/enterovirus and adenoviruses than influenza. People often don't notice these illnesses, so wouldn't assume it is COVID and quarantine like they would for influenza.

- More fomite spread than influenza. They may be more stable on surfaces or in food
Hehe, I am a fan of hn, but it's very bare bones compared to something like mutt or (al)pine.

That said, there's a couple of decades of horrible web platforms from nuke/phpbb thorough reddit and Twitter. It's not exactly high price to be "not as stupid" as all the the ones taking pride in their convoluted stupidity...
I'll chime in as liking it. Or at least, I like the ones that are made from fermented nuts. So, brands like Miyoko's and Treeline. I even make my own fake cheese in that genre at home sometimes.

Others, like Daiya, I won't object to if someone else wants to put it on whatever we're cooking. I'm pretty lactose intolerant, so I can't speak to how it compares to dairy cheese; my personal take from the few times where I'll pop a Lactaid in order to participate in a pizza party is that, while Daiya fake mozzarella is meh, the stuff it's intended to mimic is even worse. I occasionally wonder if there is something to that casomorphin theory that the article mentions, and people who regularly consume dairy largely like it for approximately the same reason smokers like the taste of tobacco smoke.

And then there are some brands, generally of more of a 1990s vintage, that are legitimately gross. Unfortunately, those seem to be the ones that are most commonly stocked in grocery stores, for Heaven knows what reason.
reminds me of another potentially critical mistake, https://mncomputinghistory.com/gopher-protocol/

'According to Alberti, licensing “socially killed gopher.” Second, changes to internet hardware gradually made Gopher less appealing. As put by McCahill, Gopher was designed within “the limits of what the technology (at the time) could do.” It was deliberately text rich because images were slow to load on the comparatively slow modems of the early 1990s. The decision to prioritize text made Gopher relatively fast while the more image-oriented World Wide Web languished in slow speeds (the “World Wide Wait”). However, by 1994 improvements in modem technology had turned this asset into a liability.'
Agreed. If you want to commit something that's not "reviewable" yet, just put it on another branch. Get used to committing things that aren't done yet! Hg does it right.
So, do threads get duplicated or shared? Or something altogether different happens to them?
2 was published in Feb 2020, so not sure how helpful that is...

1 is not normalized data. It does not account for testing frequency. These percentages are of tests using BioFire. My hospital, for example, does not use BioFire to test for SARS-CoV-2 and so we end up running BioFire much, much less frequently than during a normal year.

Anecdotally non-COVID respiratory infections in hospitalized patients have decreased dramatically. Working on trying to demonstrate this with data.
Shipping?
Or ultra-processed junk food in general. Being a vegetarian is a good "excuse" (or side effect if you prefer) to avoid that kind of food but all those surrogates are basically following the trails of junk food. I understand their "gateway drug" behavior but still...
Looks like they updated the package: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Plant-Based-Mozzarell...

The one I had that plant based logo was a quarter of the size and it did not have leaves like that on the front. Also that white plant based text was a few shades lighter than the background (that was previously sky blue) making it hard to read. Admittedly I should've seen the "style" part and looked further, also I should've questioned why it was the one of the only shredded cheese left in the fridge. It isn't like I was defrauded but that certainly wasn't what I intended to buy, good on them for fixing it.
Naive outsider intuition is that you can encode all category theorems as graphs, but only because you can encode anything as a graph, and the property of category theory that could make it a universal modelling language is really just an artifact of it being a way to talk about things that can be encoded as graphs.

At best, perception may be graphs all the way down. As though we were living in a simulation specified by a Matrix of adjacencies.
So you're proposing we go back to the 19th century?
What does "time off" mean for someone who is unambiguously a contractor (such as a one-person plumber, handyman, maid, babysitter, landscaper, CPA, lawyer, etc)?

They already have as much time off as they choose to have. It's all (obviously) unpaid as "who would pay them?"
Verizon tries to sell Yahoo and AOL after spending $9B on fallen giants
One solution to that is to allow employees to opt out of being employees.

The government policy would prevent companies from misclassifying employees as independent contractors, and any individuals who did not want to be employees could opt out of that classification, but that's up to the individual, not the company.
Stomach viruses. Where in the world are you? No, seriously - where? Because here in the United States people don't wash their hands before eating. It's fucking gross. I always sanitize my hands with alcohol pads before eating out - ALWAYS. But the others grab subway poles, handles, those nasty menus, and THEN they grab that sandwich with the same hands.

If anything should come out of this pandemic, it should be Americans following basic hygiene. And I mean - basic. Hand sanitizer should be at every table.
Though not quite the same scene as gig work, the matter of classification has long been an issue in the tech scene, at least where I am in Canada. That said, I think some clamping-down has occurred of late. Recruiters used to openly solicit 'incorporated' developers, despite the actual working conditions being almost entirely equivalent to that of an employee: hours set by the employer, requirements to be on-site, often sitting beside full time employees, etc.
Or management gave imprecise requirements, and coder implemented them in the most customer-friendly way without asking any questions.
Instead of ensuring that health care benefits are independent of corporate attachments, Marty Walsh continues to destroy useful distinctions in a system that congress refuses to appropriately reform. Sad.
So we need blockchain because google controls the emails of his kids that he has set up. What?

If you want you data to be safe, then host your data yourself and make backups.

Yet another "we had a blockchain and did not know what to do with it" solution that nobody needs.

I think I lost IQ points reading this nonsense.
If you are a contractor, you are paid for every hour you work. If you work overtime, you are paid for it. If you work holidays, you are paid for it.

If you are a salaried employee the sad state of the system is a lot of companies tend to take advantage of you and overwork you and don't pay you overtime.

The flip side of it is contractors don't usually get paid vacation, so it's both an advantage and a disadvantage.
But it will happen tho because if Uber drivers are all considered employees they will get minimum wage, which is fine. Only issue why exactly wouldn't I go "on duty" only when I know there isn't any rides to rank in free cash. While I play games on my phone.
Bad enough that I can't find a bloody 3080... this could make SSDs scarce too (if chia became wildly popular)!?!
I really wish the Julia ecosystem would stop assuming that you always interact with your computer through the Julia REPL and started supporting proper command line interfaces. This is one of the big annoyances and mistakes of the R ecosystem, and I think it's unwise to carry that mistake over to Julia.

Also, big "ugh" to browser-based tooling. I want to browse webpages in my browser, I don't want to do my data science work there. We don't even have a good native client for Jupyter notebooks yet, let alone for this new Jupyter alternative that doesn't support the existing Jupyter kernel protocol.

Not only that, but Pluto also apparently has some obnoxious UX limitations that remind me of other less-than-usable wannabe-Jupyter-notebooks (e.g. Apache Zeppelin, Databricks): https://towardsdatascience.com/could-pluto-be-a-real-jupyter...

In short: nice idea, but I'd rather see continued unification around Jupyter and a proper IDE that can at least emit and interact with Jupyter-compatible data.

On the other hand, the Jupyter notebook JSON format is bad for a variety of reasons (e.g. you need special tools for readable Git diffs) and I really wish we had all settled on R Markdown instead. But R has its own NIH tooling problem and nobody was ever going to adopt it because the R community itself (driven by RStudio) has little interest in sharing or interoperability with other languages.

</cynical-angry-rant>
Household with two young children, both under 4, and can confirm we have noticed the same thing. No one has been sick since last year; it's been one of the few bright spots over this time.
> How is that relevant?

It really isn't. Apple could charge as much as they want as long as there are competition. Without it ( As in current App Store ) then the practice of 30% will be in question.

The problem then becomes if App Store is part of the total iPhone package, as lot of people and Apple are arguing that to be the case. Today, the iPhone has 66% market share in the United States, 75% of U.S. App Store revenues, and over 80% of time spent on the mobile internet If App Store is inseparable to iPhone, as per Apple's view, with today's Apple market share, will App Store; being part of iPhone cause Anti-Competitive practices to all business that requires for digital access? Since the Apps are solely approved at Apple's discretion. And there are written evidence that Apple could hold or reject Apps that are in direct competition with them.

Basically the current model is not sustainable. ( Benedict Evans has written about this since 2016 ) Judging form the new Apple Quarterly Report I would not be surprised if Apple reach 70%+ of US Smartphone Market shares by 2022. At that point whether the App Store has a monopoly on Apps ( so to speak as people often like to say this ) may no long be important. Because Apple will have close to a monopoly on Smartphone in US.
May be later than desired but the thread reminded me of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_technological_cooperati...
Biden Seeks $80B to Beef Up IRS Audits of High-Earners
The EU has protections these sort of brand dilutions. You can't call it cheese if it doesn't come from milk and you can't call it milk if it doesn't come from a teat.
The evaporating electrolyte cools the whole thing down very quickly. It's icy cold when you get it out.
I'm not saying a particular implementation is ambiguous as to what it does. Obviously any implementation will do something. I'm saying that fork as a concept is ambiguous as to what it should do.
Nutritionfacts is ideologically driven[1], advocating a plant-based diet. What exactly did you expect?

Actual "nutrition facts" are few and far between. I could selectively cite all kinds of studies that go for or against veganism. They're all flawed in some way, so people can just dismiss what they don't want to hear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Greger
"Cheese product" doesn’t necessary mean vegan. It could be that it contains cow milk, just not to an extent required to legally be sold as "cheese" according to the given country’s legislation.
Rust was doomed to fail from the start.
If they only had a few months left to live, we should see a spike in the opposite direction for excess mortality. You can monitor this yourself for some countries here: https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/
Apple's rules are completely arbituary, so many apps simply don't exist due to vague guidelines. There are zero 4chan apps on the app store, but a dozen reddit apps (which is ironic given recent news over there). There are dozens of these odd edge cases based on Apple's whimsy that just means there are zero IOS options for what Android has dozens of, even before getting into "obviously" banned content like adult apps and piracy.

So while a few (like, literally 5-10) blockbuster game companies may take the PC launcher route if this wins, there are several smaller time apps that can benefit form this if the app store wasn't the only source of downloading here.
I think there should be an immediate opt-out of this - if you own your own LLC, S-Corp, etc, then it should be explicit under the law that any work you do using that entity is a contractor to any other entity.
Odd that you don't mention closed schools. My model has those far higher in this than anything I personally do.

That is, as a parent, I was far less prone to sickness before I had kids of school age. From all I have ever heard, I am far from unique in that.
Diseases have no trouble spreading through ordinary intimate social interactions with friends and family. In fact, you're far more likely to get sick from someone you are close to and spend hours with than someone you just pass by in a retail store. Lockdowns and mask policy are not neatly correlated with lower infection rates or death counts. Simple counterfactual example is Florida vs. California. Same results, vastly different policies. One has been open with no masking, no limits on indoor capacity, etc for over 9 months, and one has tightly restricted public congregation. Same results. Disproves the hypothesis.
I say it's the modern version of Usenet because anybody can create a subreddit and as a result a group exists for just about everything you can think of. Compare the process of creating a new subreddit to the process for creating a non-alt newsgroup[1]. In some ways, Reddit is arguably more open than Usenet.

The defining characteristics of Usenet was not the license or client (IMHO the UX of most NNTP clients was pretty terrible for casual users) but the content. There was a group for everything that anybody could access as long as their ISP provided access. If you asked me if there was some place on the internet that had a discussion group for everything I'd probably say Reddit is the closest thing. All you need is a connection to the internet and a browser and you can start reading. Posting requires an account but they are free.

I agree with you that forums, BBS message boards and mailing lists are nothing like Usenet.

[1]: https://www.savetz.com/yic/YIC05FI_26.html
There's certainly a trope of "...but I can't give up cheese" and as someone who went from vegetarian to vegan: Yeah, cheese is hard to replicate. But also: your body and tastes adapt.

After a few weeks off of dairy our memories of those old textures and mouth feel start to fade and are replaced. Humans don't like changes in patterns, but at the same time are relatively quick to adapt to new ones.

There's real addiction at play with dairy as well [1]. Those young calfs get the dopamine hit to attract them to their mom's milk. For humans, it fuels our addition to dairy, whose importance as a food group was manufactured because it created another revenue stream after post-war food industrialization [2].

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelpellmanrowland/2017/06/2...

[2] https://www.vox.com/2015/4/19/8447883/milk-health-benefit
I agree that we are dealing with a new paradigm and should treat it that way.

But I don’t think your examples are relevant. The customer should be able to request as much as they want on the gig worker, as long as there is no middle man employer forcing the worker to agree to subpar conditions.
Not really. We already mine on land that covers only 30% of earth, I would think that would have a much bigger impact. Second, and oil spill spreads far and wide contaminating a vast area. All I am saying is mining can in theory be contained to a much smaller area.
That's a good point. One suspects tho that governments are more interested in getting the "proper freelancers" to be treated as employees, since they usually have higher earnings and therefore offer higher revenue possibilities. The UK is going through a similar reform process right now and lots of people are being classed as employees and therefore taking massive pay cuts. End the end, you end up with temporary workers who're taxed as employees but have almost none of the benefits of permanent employees (in the UK at least).
My phrase is "The world is a filthy biological soup", so the less we're in the world, the less covered in soup we are.
The CDC reports at https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br... that "in-person learning in schools has not been associated with substantial community transmission"

The low symptom rate corresponds to a low transmission rate. The worse your case of COVID, the more likely you will transmit it to others in the same situation. This is the obvious mechanism of the fact that kids, who very seldom have bad cases of COVID and so frequently do not show symptoms, are not usually major spreaders of the virus.

This all is one of the really unusual things about COVID compared to other communicable diseases.
Self-employed workers are offered several huge tax benefits by being self-employed:

1. Writing off business expenses (gas, vehicle wear and tear, etc)

2. The Qualified Business Income deduction of 20%

3. Larger contributions to tax-favorable retirement funds

Employment eliminates this in addition to adding several additional taxes (workers comp, unemployment, etc). These expenses are passed down to the employee in the form of reductions in wages.

So the implications of making large populations of self employed workers actually employed has great tax benefits for the government, at the expense of the worker.
If you want to look at it as ‘fundamentals’, fork only requires the concept of a task, whereas your top-level comment's suggestion also requires (a) secondary storage, (b) organized into files, (c) that can be named.

(That's not why Unix developed with fork, though.)
My thoughts are that the font should be larger for the names and and for the text output. Ideally include pictures next to the names, so even if it's hard to read, it would be easy to spot who you want to connect to. I didn't see it, but you also probably need a notification to reload the paper roll as you come to the end. This could be a warning LED and it could also be a warning text sent to some or all of the people on the other end of the YAYAGRAM that Yaya is running low on paper, can you help her reload?
How does testing positive for the flu rule out covid? What is to prevent someone from having both?
I was more thinking of the benefits of vim-style, the advanced controls for moving and jumping around according to code structure. Not just jumping a word at a time, but jumping to a character, deleting a word, sentence, block, etc.

Those are not always standardized across editors.
> murder

Please show me the law.