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Then you have to explain why are results about Ivermectin more likely to be thrown out than studies about hydroxychloroquine (https://hcqmeta.com/), which has only 73.8% positive studies and shows much smaller improvement. Why are prophylaxis studies more successful than early treatment studies, which are more successful than late treatment studies? Are they more likely to be thrown out? Why are people throwing out studies exactly in a pattern to create a sort of pattern that would indicate a working drug?
> There’s variations going on all the time, maybe they’re random, maybe they’re not. But the ones that stick in a population are the ones that get selected by outcompeting hosts without the variation.

This is only true if there is correlation between the variation and survival in terms of breeding.

A good example is the high incidence of Haemophilia B in European royalty[1]. It certainly doesn't give any selective advantage, but the fact that royalty are more likely to get medical care means it doesn't have any selective disadvantage either.

There are plenty of other random variations that aren't selective. Eye colour, male pattern baldness, the range of earlobe attachedness[2] are all variations that don't have any selective pressure and so their appearance in various geographic areas is down to history rather genetics.

Edit: Another comment led me to a paper arguing compellingly that this gene provided some protection against diseases carried in mouldy rice, and that was selective in China. See further discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27705633

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haemophilia_in_European_royalt...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earlobe#Genetics
The thing is that just getting a website doesn't really help that much. I have a childhood friend,who managed to carve himself a pretty decent niche in rentals.He has no website, all the stuff is being logged on a piece of paper and the marketing can be summed up as a few Facebook post behind his house. So I could do him a website. But unless there's marketing, resource planning,some approach to existing clients,the business won't move a bit from where it currently is. And that's the problem most of those, who currently don't have a website face
> (set -e; echo hi); echo $?

It works in my shell. :-/ It looks like you forgot to insert `false` command.

You are pointing to the problem with -e not working in subshell/deep functions, because of POSIX. Right? It's described in bash documentation: http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/The-Set-Bu...

> I think just defining a die() function and using it after any command that must succeed is more verbose, but less error prone:

Yep. It's the style I developed 12 years ago, when working at Bazaarvoice, when I was lead of devops team. I created the whole library for bash, to use this pattern consistently. See https://github.com/vlisivka/bash-modules#error-handling
Wasn't stoicism the last big trend in recent years? People cargo culting Marcus Aurelius's Meditations and so forth.
Coming from a country where gambling is like a plague (Most UK high streets are identical, gambling shops are everywhere), is that any worse than gambling elsewhere? Your chances of lucking into some money seem better there than on sports.
The humans driving the cars experience the latency. I literally don't care how many other cars drove on the same road in the same hour; I care how long my trip takes.
0.3% is not an insignificant amount. Find a few more things like this to do to reduce emissions and it will add up.
Snail mail can be a hassle, but on the flip side, with snail mail, you can send in the request via certified mail with a requested return receipt. This creates a legal record of when they received your request. Thus, if they don't act on it in a timely fashion, you can prove it. It is only tangentially related, but in Patio11's article on handling bogus entries on one's credit report[1], there's this wonderful line: 'I was sending “certified mail, return receipt requested”, which is Dangerous Professional for “Do you like paper trails? I like paper trails. I particularly like paper trails where the United States Federal Government attests to the exact minute your firm learned the contents of this letter.”' While not quite the same situation, I suspect such admissible-in-court-as-evidence[2] traceability of communication is of equal use here.

1. https://www.kalzumeus.com/2017/09/09/identity-theft-credit-r...

2. This is my intuition talking here -- I am not a lawyer. If you have legal questions, talk to one. But, IMO it would be utterly bizarre if USPS record of when a specific piece of mail was received were not admissible as proof of claiming that company got your request.
There's all sorts of application-specific assumptions in this post, that it isn't funny. Ex: Use of hash-tables with insertion ordering to handle a insert-once task queue (preventing "double tasking" if a task is ever somehow inserted twice?)

Solvable with a Linked-list, circular buffer queue + hash table combined together (hash-table to prevent double-insertions. Linked-list / circular buffer queue for the FIFO functionality).

If O(log(n)) insert/removes are sufficient and you have priorities associated with each element, a Heap data-structure works (all "repeats" will be next to each other, because max-heaps always keep the maximum element on the top)

The goal isn't supposed to be to make a data-structure that magically works in all situations. The goal is to define standard library "components" that can be combined together in ways that matches the performance demands of a particular application.

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And this is all still single-threaded land. If you want a highly performant multithreaded data-structure, you're probably going to have to write your own from scratch (instead of using building blocks from the standard library).

There's just too many performance assumptions that goes into a multithreaded data structure. Is it read-mostly / write-rarely? Read/write balanced? Single-producer / multi-consumer? Multi-producer / single-consumer? Multi-producer / multi-consumer? Is the data-structure able to "count the threads" that may access it and use thread-barriers (thread-pools may practically limit a data-structure to say 64-threads, which means a 64-thread barrier / semaphore can be a highly-performant solution to synchronization) ? Or is it a fully dynamic design where an unbounded number of threads may exist (unbounded number of threads means the sempahore method won't work).

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I mean... most people don't care about performance. So a standard library data-structure with a mutex is just fine for well over 95% of applications. But if you care about performance, then suddenly things get complicated.
Local elections everywhere have a lower turnout than national elections. It's how Biden could win Arizona and then have the state do it's audit.

Just as much, having a system bought and paid for by billionaires will turn people off voting, whether you or I engage in "you're abandoning your civic duty" hand wringing or anarchist chuckling. Maybe if more people voted you could inch things forward but at scale, voting requires positive hope and aspirations. The current situation isn't intended to give that to the less-well-off person.
PathQuery was started by Warren Harris. At Metaweb, Warren did a rewrite of MQL in OCaml which we never shipped because of the Google acquisition. He spent much of the first year at Google working on a prototype of PathQuery in Haskell. The prototype was rewritten in C++ and used in the first KG-serving infrastructure sometime around 2012/2013.
The mindset is not isolated to police culture. It is also present in construction inspection and pretty much anywhere the job is enforcement of policies.

You do the little you can to enforce rules in the most effective way possible with the least opinions being raised at the methods you used to get there. “How do I do my job and create the least amount of fuss?”
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No, that was his full time job, but my reply was more to ' it's been popular 10 years ago,now nobody can do it'.
Pokemon go spoofing iOS and Android [pdf]
https://pokemongospoofing.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pokemon...
Wally Funk, Trailblazing Female Pilot, Will Join Jeff Bezos on Spaceflight
For a lot of people to whom this kind of attention to emotion is helpful, it's a promotion from "zero space for emotion" to space given "anywhere on the stage," quite far from making it center stage. It's a big step for them.

If they overshoot at first and look like emotional-obsessives, that sort of thing also happens all the time with people who are learning the ropes with just about any new thing.

BTW nothing personal, but I've noticed that advice that starts with the word "just" never seems as effective or rewarding in the long run as the thoughtful, deep, measured-out kind which starts with, say, a question...
Cramer says this group of tech stocks – not FAANG – is his favorite
He seemed like a really genuine guy, there couldn't have been a better representative for the competitive scene.
Surprised to see the negative comments, despite HN comments' usual bent. As someone that moved around multiple countries, I was impressed by the US' tax by citizenship on global income. About time we apply the same to corporations as we do to individuals, given how much easier it is for corporations to move their income around.
The article also explains how the issue discovered can be fixed.

And JS maps are insertion ordered.
Yes. They are impressive.
But. They don't seem to last.
As someone else mentioned, not long after warranty the motherboard quit working.
Looking online there seems to be hundreds with that problem. I suspect from overheating. I think they all have heating issues- perhaps to keep them quieter?
I don't recommend then anymore.
Search razer won't boot.
Germany had 3000 trafic related deaths in 2019.

In 2019 in the US, 20 people died in "school shooting deaths" meaning someone who was shot at a school of some kind
I remember laughing at the presented passport from one of the alleged culprits shortly after.(Like a day, or even hours? Can't recall exactly anymore) Found blocks away, only slightly burned at some parts of the corners. Seemed surreal and staged to me.

edit: Also, in hindsight, after having been sensitized to the topic in general, the fact that there were exercise/drill/training/simulation operations running at the same time and place where terror attacks hit.
Given a lot of people don't like being in video or public speaking I wouldn't say the world wants YouTube instructional videos, it's just what in practice has worked the best.

Pin down why and make a site that solves the problem and become a unicorn.
Is it really expanding though? The market for devices is also expanding. Don't confuse absolute numbers with relative numbers. Of course I have encountered devices that don't allow sideloading, are you saying that is expanding also? Or has "rooting" always been something many carriers and manufacturers sought to disable?
Many new computers don't let you turn off Secure Boot but do let you delete all the keys... which then sets the machine in a mode where any OS can be loaded
> I can only speculate but it really seems like some form of envy. There are people out there that do something unregulated and to some other people this is completely unacceptable.

I second that. It just isn't German to have something so seemingly unregulated. People will call the police when periods of rests are ignored or a machine is turned on on a Sunday.
Germany’s problem isn’t the transport sector, it’s the electricity and heat sector.

Compare Germany and France here:

> https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ghg-emissions-by-sector?t...

While the speed limit would save 2 million tons of CO2 per year, keeping the remaining six nuclear plants running and shutting down coal instead would save 35(!) times more of CO2 per year (70 million tons).
Hiring Web Developer to join our creative agency of ~50

I'm a dev, posting this to help my HR homies find me a new buddy to join the team.

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From the job posting:

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Right, that would continue to be true. However, now, a corporation can be headquartered in one country to have access to labor and shunt all profit through a subsidiary in a low tax country. They get the benefit of a skilled labor force without paying tax on the profits created by that labor. Fix the tax shelter problem and the incentive for countries becomes "make a labor force worth the tax rate or lower the tax rate".
Hello World in K8s YAML and AT&T x86 assembly – at the same time
Bigger Profits – Less Time
I'll take that bet. Unfortunately we'd never agree when it's settled.

A better bet would be to provide a non-nefarious answer as to why this isn't part of the product description.
> German highways are one of the safest

This may be in part due to licensing requirements. I'm led to believe that in Germany you have to demonstrate that you have some skill at driving to receive a license, plus it's fairly expensive. In the US, it varies some by state, but a driver's license tends to be under $100 (most states I've had to worry about cost around $50 or less) and all you really need to demonstrate is ability to park, stop at a stop sign, maybe turn around in a box, and use your turn signal. Sometimes there's a road test where you might have to drive around the block. Also, I'm not sure if Germany does it, but I'm not aware of any state in the US that requires you to test ever again except maybe if you lost your license. But then, I've lost my license a few times for various reasons, and only once when I was in Texas did I have to take the written test to get it back.
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Amazon’s LPs have built in tension. It’s explained away by saying be Right A Lot and judge which side you’re willing to give up.
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Hi, my name is Alex, and I'm looking for a new job opportunity starting September. Very much preferring to do Frontend work in React (although most of my experience is in Angular). Also very much a fan of Elixir.

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My first thought was "what would the speed limit be?"

130 km/hr (80 mph).

So, in addition to the obvious benefits, this speed limit apparently also reduces CO2 emissions. Honestly, not sure why anyone would argue against this.
You can upload it to YouTube, but you can't monetize it.

I've seen some videos of people following officers around with a camera and harassing them trying to get some sort of response, so they can post the video on their Instagram/YouTube and make money from ads.
Just remember that the laughing only helps your mental state. You’ll probably still want to laugh your way into a tourniquet.
Keeping an insulated box at a constant temperature with refrigeration has been something that was reliably possible over a century ago, so it puzzles me what the electronics/computers in a fridge would be necessary for, besides decreasing reliability and planned obolescence.

My late 30s Frigidaire has no electronics at all...
How does this compare to Momato
I see what you mean about trying to think abstractly instead of about numbers. But once you have t-shirt sizes for some tasks, what do you do with them? You can't compare them. You can't convert them to date forecasts. You can't use them for sprint capacity planning like you can with story points.
The US had 36,096 traffic related deaths in 2019.

In Germany 0 people died in "school shooting deaths".

You are not seriously suggesting that the US does not have a gun problem?! Of course it has one. We can argue about how to solve it, but what you are doing is almost belittleing children who died like this.
I'm generally opposed to climate change solutions that seem focused on punishing people who want to enjoy something. Advocacy focusing on making other people feel bad doesn't seem to scale. The risk of blowback is not worth tiny incremental improvements.

If someone wants to blast down the highway at 200mph, and they can do it in an electric car or pay for the cost of sequestering the carbon, I say let 'em.

I wouldn't want to die on the battlefield of telling people to stop enjoying the things they enjoy and when we can just tell them to pay for its cost.
So with his own analytics, Cloudflare's server-side analytics, Cloudflare's Analytics script and Google Analytics he's got 4 different measurements now. And according to his follow-up article they all return different results.
Measuring Meaning from Jaccard to Bert
I don't think fossil fuels will be economical for much longer. Per area, solar panels are cheaper than window glass. Costs are now down to $2 per watt. A decade ago it was $7 per watt. Lithium batteries are 1/10th the price they were in 2010. These trends seem to be continuing, and faster than experts project. For example: in 2015 a study looked at past estimates of battery prices versus observed prices.[1] They found that analysts were consistently pessimistic about cost reductions. They tried to correct for this pessimism and made the following prediction:

> ...battery pack costs may in some cases be as low as US$300 per kilowatt-hour today, and could reach US$200 by 2020. This cost development is notably cheaper and faster decreasing than I and many others expected.

The actual cost in 2020 was $137 per kWh.[2]

1. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/04/will-falling-battery-...

2. https://www.statista.com/statistics/883118/global-lithium-io...
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That's not the argument though. Batteries require a lot of resources to produce, to the point where production of an EV can create more emissions than a comparable gasoline vehicle. If such an EV then fails to offset these emissions during its lifetime, it was a net negative.
Bezos is playing it pretty straight, but then again 973 million is basically pocket change for him, also let's not forget about the year he paid zero taxes and got a refund:

> Bezos filed a tax return in 2011 reporting he lost money because of bad investments, allowing him to claim and receive a $4,000 tax credit for his children, according to ProPublica.

Anway Bezos is far from the only mega-rich person, for example from that article you cite:

> Another wealthy person whose tax data ProPublica obtained was Carl Icahn, the activist investor who built his wealth through corporate takeovers. He paid zero income taxes in 2016 and 2017, partly because he was able to deduct interest expenses on loans from his “adjusted gross income,” ProPublica said.