skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's incorrect.

Doctors can (and do) prescribe drugs for off label usages. There's nothing "illegal" about it.

The reason they don't do that more commonly is malpractice lawsuits and insurance companies don't like to cover off label prescriptions.

An excellent example of this: Medical Marijuana. Not FDA approved for almost anything and the only reason it's "illegal" is because of federal DEA classification.

So long as it's not listed as having any therapeutic effects, you can fairly freely buy any non-controlled substance.

For example: https://www.amazon.com/Arsenic-99-9999-Crystalline-Metalloid...
HCQ and ivermectin efficacy agaist SARS-CoV-2 was suppressed early on. If there were existing effective therapeutics, then emergency use authorization for the vaccines would not have been legally permissible (in the US).
> From my experience it was because they didn't have a credit card [..]

[It's a while since I lived and worked in Germany] are there many people who have a current/checking/Giro account but where this isn't a standard payment card linked to their account which is also a Visa or Mastercard compatible card?
Very true, and is a highly useful tool to add interactive content to a section of an MPA - React used in this way, without requiring a state library and everything else is actually quite nice to work with.
That last example looks more like an outright bug than a floating point error.
I can't agree more, 6 kids, (5 under 7), and my wife had to give up a low 6 figure job as it didn't make financial sense to pay childcare. Things will get better...
I don't know enough specifics, so I didn't assume anything :) In fact I was not aware of non-flash SSDs.

Because of the Internet age there probably is not much place for write once media anyway, even it would be somewhat cheaper. But maybe for specialized applications or if it would be much much cheaper per GB.
I've discovered something similar myself. But I think you can remove most of those steps actually. They don't hurt but they aren't necessary. The necessary steps are:

- lay still
- no really, lay still
- I'm not kidding. Lay still.
- don't move at all
- obviously don't make noises and don't open your eyes

I discovered this when trying to make my daughter go to sleep. Disciple and the silent-closed eyes-still rule is sufficient.
No idea in this instance, but it's trivial for rogue browser extensions to siphon off cookies
Actually I am with the parent on this one. We call it "social engineering" because it sounds cool, but I think that issue muddies the waters for the lay people.

When people hear "hackers used Slack to break into EA games" they think something from the movies with some people in a dark room sitting around a screen and say "I'm in" in a deep voice. This convinces people hackers are prevaisve, unseen, and wield Godlike powers, clearly something they can't comprehend or do anything about, so no changes needed in their day to day life.

In comparison if you were to phrase it as "some employees got conned into giving out their login info" that changes it to, "wow look at these guys, everyone knows you shouldn't give out your password morons." then the next time they need to give out their info they may hesitate for a moment, because they don't want to be considered the "moron" in that situation.

I don't think it will make a big effect but it will help other people become more aware that most of these "hackers" are mostly just con artists, instead of letting everyone live with the constant anxiety of godlike hackers being able to wreak havoc at will.
Excellent point: why should your insurance have to cover every FDA-approved drug, and regardless of cost?

My guess is your insurance doesn’t cover every approved treatment. But if it does, is that a problem with the FDA (which regulates drugs), or with your insurance policy (which decides how to pay for them)? I’d suggest your complaints about insurance costs are more closely tied to the latter.
You’ve also got to read the room. The mood in the US is not in favor of hard charging mavericks of industry. This approach today would likely backfire spectacularly.

Big Tech should be locating large employment centers in strategic locations around the country. And by strategic I don’t mean where the talent, resources, or customers are located but rather where influential Congresspeople, Senators, and Governors are located. Then wield your soft power with these folks, e.g. “You can break us up but it’s just going to cost your district/state massive job losses”.

Next, meet with other agitating politicians to find out their underlying motivations and help them to achieve those things - doesn’t even need to be real, just help make them look good for their next re-election campaign. So Bezos should work out a public deal with Bernie and AOC to raise Amazon’s minimum wage to $20 an hour. Bernie and AOC will look like progressive heroes but would be effectively defanged in continuing to attack Amazon (to a large degree).
Will do, apologies
> Don't wages generally go up with inflation too?

Wage increases can be part of the driver for general inflation, but they definitely tend to (unequally, though) be produced by it. However, when they aren't pushing inflation, they tend to be at a overall level less than inflation (when one cobsiders the effects of inflation alone, which is hard, because its never the only real factor), and (absent pushes like minimum wage increases) may entirely not occur in some segments.
So you would be signed out of Slack every 5 minutes?
£90bn in a financial system that moves trillions daily. The UK isn't the money laundering capital of the world...you have just quoted yourself...it is an extremely bad idea to launder money through the UK's financial system (unless you live somewhere that doesn't comply with CRS...in which case it doesn't matter).

And what is the accusation here...as I said previously, everyone equates Russia with money laundering because...you know, all Russians are evil but it is not easy to connect directly with crimes (and yes, UK police have this stereotype too, they are clueless).

Btw, if you read your link carefully, you would have realised that these companies don't use the UK's financial system to launder money (again, bad idea...even when Russia isn't going to comply with CRS notices). What happened is that some people use SLPs to transfer money through UK corporate structures (but not the UK's financial system) before going somewhere else. This has basically stopped because the structure of SLPs was changed (and btw, very few people made money from this, it cost £20 to set up an SLP).
Async/Await and the Future of Combine
> "The attacker exfiltrated approximately 500 megabytes of data from 23 files, 2 of which contained International Traffic in Arms Regulations information related to the Mars Science Laboratory mission," the NASA OIG said.

wait, what? ITAR REGULATION for Mars Missions??
But there is no fraud. As has been stated elsewhere in this thread, the drug claims to remove plaque, not to treat Alzheimers. I personally don't have the hubris to think I should stand in the way of someone willing to try the drug on their loved one who is suffering from Alzheimers.
As long as it doesn't get renamed 'The Oasis', I'm good.
Exactly. It has about as much to do with COVID-19 as with Slack.

In pre-COVID-19 days, IT handling that kind of request would have required it to come in face-to-face. But since everyone's working from home, that's intractable.

The failure point here is that IT should have confirmed via an independent secondary channel the identity of the requester, but it appears they either got lazy or their protocols assumed Slack could not be compromised in this way so the request was already authentic.
I can picture a world where they just host Windows on Azure and you get a thin-client that must be internet connected to use "your" computer. (I am pretty sure this exists in some form for actual cloud-hosted virtual machines, which some companies force their employees/contractors to use, despite the performance issues.)
The people selling the goods and services need to pay taxes too, so they will have to trade in USD.
No, Slack would reauthenticate every 5 minutes. It doesn't mean that the user needs to do anything.
Grow some various peas. Carefully and in a controlled manner cross pollinate them. Follow traits like wrinkled peas vs smooth peas, or yellow peas vs green peas. If keep good records and do a bit of math, you'll learn a lot about genetics, and also have a bunch of fresh peas.you can eat this experiment.
You haven’t provided any evidence.

Links to other people making similar arguments to yours are not ‘evidence’.
True, if we're in a hard money standard, and there's natural inflation. In a hard money standard inflation and deflation would be caused by supply and demand fluctuations of real economy.

Monetary inflation, i.e forced inflation by creating money from thin air, is stealing. In hard money standard, there would be a natural price discovery for interest rates, based on supply and demand of money. It's obvious that if someone can basically counterfeit money, it is stealing.

In Bitcoin standard, there would be no hidden information in money itself. Now, central bank policies have become the information that moves markets. I.e. we are not in a free market economy.
>I'd personally much rather be spending time with family, or literally anything else, other than being stuck in the car for an hour or two. If you feel differently, that's fine but literally nothing is stopping you from doing the same thing when working from home

i take it you don't have kids? the commute provided me with some time to unwind and transition from work mode to dad mode. im a lot more irritable if i just go immediately from closing my laptop to dealing with the kids, and telling them that dad needs to go sit somewhere by himself for an hour after i finish work isnt gonna work for them.
> Why is it a problem for public health officials to update and change policy as we learn more about the virus?

Because when it comes to persuading hundreds of millions of people, it is often better to be certain than to be right or to flip-flop. That's a fact of leadership, regardless of whether you or I as scientists like it.

Also, they didn't just revise their statements with new information, they actively lied (the no masks thing) in a paternalistic way to deceive people into thinking they didn't need masks (so the masks would stay available for front-line medical staff).

That plan obviously backfired terribly.
You mean of the models? But those are literally created at import time. That's as close to "statically" as things get with python really (except the text of the code).
I don't think it would be hard to imagine people would be aware of an VERY RECENT INCREDIBLY POPULAR song.

Just because you like web shit doesn't mean you are completely disconnected from the greater culture.
Coinbase or any other exchange can certainly steal your coins, just like a bank can steal your money. Hosting your own private key is like having your money in your mattress -- it's as secure as you allow it to be, and once stolen it's gone forever.
Why not? You are not asking to be reinstated or hired, but only for reasonable costs arising out of a verbal offer of employment to be recovered.
Ethereum community has solved a major problem of the Internet: Single Sign-On
No, the client would need to renew the cookie every 2.5 mins (similar approach to DHCP leases). If the external IP has changed, the cookie should not be renewed. If it's expired already, it should not be renewed.

This wont work, though, as nobody wants to sign in once per day. That's too inconvenient.
Shopify acquires augmented reality home design app Primer
My understanding of doing things "properly" as an engineer, is picking the solution with the right tradeoffs for my use case. If the cost to the business of having some amount of scheduled downtime occasionally is significantly less than the engineering cost of maintaining several 9s worth of availability over major migrations, then I consider the former to be "done right".
> Not deciding to arbitrarily tying the dollar to a random commodity makes the dollar more efficient.

How so?

> it doesn't follow that people close to the Fed benefit more than anyone else does

Its a well established fact that this is the case. Its called Seigniorage. Its called the Cantillion Effect. This isn't controversial in any way.

> Private equity and venture capitalists are further from the fed than banks, but have grown even faster.

Do you have a source for that? Banks are regulated in a way that limits the risks they can take, and therefore the return they can get, so it wouldn't be surprising that banks growth is smaller, especially over short time spans (eg years vs decades). Private equity and venture capitalists are often very close to banks too, so the difference is likely negligible. And I would have to imagine that people who own private equity firms are a lot more likely to also have equity in banks.

> why not just do it another way like forcing a debt ceiling or limiting how much money can be created to a rate similar to that which gold is mined

Yes, why not? I don't think I ever advocated that going back to a gold-backed dollar is the only solution. What was important about the gold standard was that it was a widely agreed upon culture of limited monetary supply. Any way that leads us back to that kind of culture where people undertand the importance of a limited money supply and fight to preserve it is a way out of our predicament.
I ran some performance benchmarks not too long ago. https://blog.kasten.io/benchmarking-kopia-architecture-scale...
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Addendum: I got curious about that place that changed every quarter, zip code 98520-6503.

That zip covers the odd addresses in the 101-199 address range of E Wishkah ST in Aberdeen WA. The even side of that block is zip code 98520-6508 and only suffered one rate changed in that time.

The 200 block odd side changed twice, the 200 block even side changed once. Going the other way from the 100 block of E Wishkah, the odd side of 100 W changed once, and the even side twice.
Not sure what this could possibly have to do with floating point numbers, nor am I aware of any function that does what you're describing. Is this some kind of JavaScript quirky behavior because nothing about floating point numbers has anything to do with coercing strings.
Then how about: "Thanks, I'd love to hang out but I have something I'd like to finish"
I was surprised to see growing ecosystem and community. I though that docker would take mainstream in virtualization, so main usecase for vagrant would be when you really need a virtual machine.
> Paying by bank account doesn't mean handing over bank account info

Tell that to the people behind the "Sofortüberweisung" [ roughly: "Immediate bank transfer"] scheme - run by Sofort GmbH, now part of Klarna.

I've seen this offered several times but never (dared to) try it personally, but by all accounts* it works something like this:

At the merchant's checkout page you are offered choice of payment methods, Sofortüberweisung is on the list, you select it, then you end up on a third-party site(!) where you provide the login details to your bank account(!!) including PIN and/or one-time TAN(!!!). The third party site checks your balance, then executes a transfer to the merchant for the total of your cart, then confirms the transaction to the merchant.

When I first read about how this works, I assumed I'd understood it wrong. From a security PoV, doesn't this make one's skin crawl?

* sorry, pun intended ;)
You're substituting anekdata for statistical data - just another example of the "logic".
You can see some of the performance differences here - https://blog.kasten.io/benchmarking-kopia-architecture-scale...
> If the sort function decides those strings look like numbers it may coerce them into doubles (ints being too small to hold them).

You sometimes even see that with APIs inconsistently wrapping behind quotes or not (seemingly at random) some values. And then it gets trickier because you can have the parser correctly parse into, say, "big decimals" some of the values, while others may be automagically, imprecisely, parsed into floating-point numbers.

The problem is of course made worse by people overall overusing decimal numbers where integers would be totally fine.

One of the most beautiful floating-point bugs ever is this one (from about ten years ago as I recall it): language preference in browsers could be set as a decimal number between 0 and 1. Java (and other languages) had a broken floating-point implementation where parsing a certain floating-point number would lead to an infinite loop. So you could set one core of any webserver with that bug by simply requesting a page, with the language preference set to that floating-point number. Rinse and repeat a few times and all cores were spinning at 100%, effectively DDoS'ing the webserver.
Lawmakers, Taking Aim at Big Tech, Push Sweeping Overhaul of Antitrust
Tcl on the web; That's a Wapp
You would be LESS likely to take up an offer from a company that has put some actual skin in the game when giving out an offer?
Well, I wasn’t in the seminar, but every report I’ve seen uses the same headline:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/student-investigated-afte...

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/lisa-keogh-abertay-university-wome...

Of course reporters are always copying from each other, so that doesn’t mean much. But the second report above says that she was cleared of misbehaving in class. So it certainly seems as if her “confrontational” behavior consisted in stating obvious truths that some people were distressed to hear—including the vagina thing. So the headlines are not begging any question. They’re really just reporting the facts.
I try to take heart in the fact that increased skepticism is, in general, a good thing for society.
I never worked in a codebase that was formatted in this style and surely its weird and not at all what I am used to. But I somehow from looking at the examples find it to be somewhat pleasant. Doesn't mean I would pick it as my standard but I can see how one could.

I do prefer putting opening braces at the line end in all situations though (but that also rules out a lot of other styles).
I see browser extensions mentioned. Maybe Tor exit nodes as well? Or a compromised corporate MITM proxy...that would be funny.
You could try RealityCapture, https://www.capturingreality.com/, which is a professional 3d capturing software. It has been free to try since Epic bought it. Unfortunately, you'll need a lot of photos to get reliable 3d models. But playing with it will probably give you an understanding of how hard that problem really is.
You are fundamentally misunderstanding that a sales tax is a tax on the customer not on the seller. This is because sales taxes are fundamentally use taxes with the compliance burden shifted from the customer to the seller.

You can argue against reality all you want, but it won't change decades of history, nor will it change how the world actually works.
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from the training sessions they made me take ages ago, most everything about space-flight hardware and control systems is ITAR-restricted.
I assume this might be in response to Linus' vaccine post from yesterday?

It received a crazy amount of votes in its first half hour(almost 500) and then just suddenly disappeared from the main news listing without being flagged or dead.

No comment from HN staff either as far as I can see.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27466374
> while nobody was looking

It was done while everyone was looking, and it was explicitly authorized because the market had changed.

Wireless had proliferated, and the value add segment of the vertical had moved (from circuit-switched lines and long distance) to the Internet, where (pre-Time Warner merger in laughably late 2016) ATT didn't compete.

There's also the two other surviving "small" clumps of Bells called Verizon (Bell Atlantic, NYNEX + GTE) & Lumen (US West + Qwest + CenturyLink).

If we want to gripe about the current state of the US ISP market, post-ATT re-mergers shouldn't be top of mind. Exclusive franchise agreements, lack of common and accessible conduit / poles, lack of community-funded competitors, and bundling are above it.

Even a hypothetical worst-current-case scenario where 3+ of the majors ATT, Verizon, CenturyLink, Comcast, & Spectrum were offered at every house, because they all had access to each other's last-mile at non-discriminatory rates would solve current issues.
react-18: Workgroup for React 18
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I assure you, women feel the same way. It's incredibly demoralizing to receive hundreds of swipes, of which the vast majority produce only a copypaste first message. Or worse, "DTF?", of which they'll see plenty.

It's hard to say which is worse: the messages that say that they haven't put any thought into you at all, or the messages that say they have exactly one thought about you -- and everybody else.

Everybody gets poor payoff percentages. You play if you think the game is worth the candle.
Maybe theft is proportional to value density?
Right. In industry, you'd need a confined space permit, lockout/tagout of any related machinery, a fall protection rig, and an outside watcher to go inside a grain silo. Standard industrial safety.

Farms with 10 employees or less are mostly exempt from OSHA regulations, by an act of Congress demanded by the agriculture industry.

[1] https://www.osha.gov/grain-handling

[2] https://www.agriculture.com/news/business/osha-clarifies-sma...
If bread was all I needed, I'd already be able to meet my needs with 30 minutes of work a week.
> https://avida.devosoft.org/

Thanks for the link!

> Plenty of A-life research doesn't use cellular automata as a model.

While I would like to believe you on that, one link does not seem sufficient to support the word "plenty" when the ratio of ALife projects built around CAs to not is extremely high.
I'll take your word for that, but remain unconvinced. I don't think it's just about reaction time.

Playing a game with input lag is terrible because you always need need to do all your inputs ahead of time in anticipation what a frame 100ms in the future will tell you. That might make precise control very difficult, not just in unanticipated situations such as e.g. emergency braking.