skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably significant. In this population of very severe patients, mortality was "only" 25% in patients managed without proning. Compare with mortalities around ~50% reported early into the pandemic in comparable populations.

Obviously difficult to say which part comes from patients presenting later in their disease course, doctors, nurses and respiratory therapists being overwhelmed with sudden influx of cases, and so forth -- and which can be directly attributed to premature and unwarranted intubation.
I have something like hn with tags and customizable input.

Spreadsheets won't work though. An example of on handlr.sapico.me , but the dataset there is a too big and the server a bit underpowered ( runs most of my dev environment too)

Eg. Input with markdown is possible

Note : running the cronjob now for adding fresh content
Was Acorns.com Hacked?
Got a message that account locked due to unusual activity and suggestion to get in touch with support. Support drops calls. The website is unresponsive even though I was able to login into my account once.
If you know the hash of an approved image, say of a puppy, a malicious person could edit a CP image to have the same hash as the puppy, right?

Wouldn't that mean that the system can be poisoned? How would they deal with that?
I found the observations valuable. Also the podcast recommendation seems like a good one. Maybe there is an element of self-promotion. But it’s not overt and seems ok to me.
Bitwarden has TOTP support in paid plan. And it works with browser extension which recognises domains.
It seems like the places that rely on SMS generally don't have hardware 2FA. Or, most websites that allow configuring multiple 2FA methods support disabling SMS

The ones that let you configure a single MFA method or single with backup are usually where I run into issues, personally

For instance, on Github, I have 2x U2F tokens and paper recovery codes but there's not even a phone number configured on the account
> And your rule for safer variables with minimal scoping requires the programmer to understand the lifetime and usage of different variables, and appreciate why it's bad to re-use things in a confusing way across a function.

No, there is nothing to understand: the rule to minimize a variable's scope is mechanical.

> But, if they understand that then surely they can already write good code: with or without minimal scoping? What's the difference?

No. It's impossible to assume that even the very best programmer writes good code consistently, thus every possibility for failure must be automatized or mechanized.
A Candidate Superconductor Created at Quantum Foundry
Exactly. From the article, "Personally, I think it’s very telling that Facebook acts so swiftly to block out the original user who can stop an ad scam, and so slowly to stop a scam ad that they can still bill for."
How are case counts determined? Why would someone who has no symptoms go for testing? Case counts among the vaccinated are surely being under reported because they're asymptomatic.
Covid-19 hospitalizations are getting more expensive for unvaccinated patients
> they should be on the hook for refunding a significant portion of the cost of the user's Oculus library

If the purchases were < 6 months ago, I would do credit card charge backs...
Notation As A Tool of Thought

https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot1.htm
That's pretty silly. Should I be able to use Amazon APIs to host reviews for my competing ecommerce site? Or be able to proxy user search requests to google and then intersperse my own advertisements in the results for my web search service?
Interesting. I thought the use of swales was pretty well accepted. Surprised to hear that there's a faction that's opposed to that.
FFmpeg is licensed under LGPL which can (albeit carefully) work on the web, but libx264 is GPL. I think that alone makes this project unusable in non-open-source projects? (For reference, GPL does not have any dynamic linking exception, so the copyleft terms apply as soon as you include it in your shipped binary in any way)

Aside from the OSS licenses alone, H.264 encoders/decoders have a required patent license. Most users get around this by using an API (e.g. `<video>` tags, AVFoundation) - which means Google/Apple pay for it when they ship the decoder for Chrome/iOS. How does this project get around that requirement?
You're misunderstanding the article. It's talking about a situation where an AI model replicated the unscientific classification of people by race. That means that, far from uncovering race-correlated health issues, it could perpetuate unscientific and damaging associations that could put people's health at risk: for example, throwing out disease diagnoses commonly associated with white people that show up for a black person. Of course, the central issue is that we wouldn't know why the model came to any portion of its conclusions.

Additionally, you're privileging possible advantages over concrete and known issues. That's the opposite of risk mitigation.
I've been really sad to see Poland Westernize as quickly as it did. It lost a lot of its essence.

One piece missing from this article, though, is the world-class education system. Compare Poland and the US on PISA scores. I think only Korea, Japan, Finland, Singapore, Taiwan, and Estonia are better. I think in contrast to US state exams, I think PISA does reflect educational quality pretty well.
The vaccinated are not less likely to be infected. The vaccine can not stop infection, it can only help your body fight off the effects of infection.
Current breakthrough rate in the US is .004%, including Delta. In fact, vaccines are generally working as well or better than expected against all known variants.
Headphones. Often there is a pair in the box with a mic, if not even if there is no headphone jack a pair of okay Bluetooth buds are $30. Except for the shortest of calls it's easier than holding the phone to your face. Then you can easily do whatever on the phone.
Or have ban groups. Ban someone from having a Facebook profile, buying ads, sending Messages, or having an Instagram profile based on their behavior on those respective sections of the site. Maybe disable a person's multiplayer capabilities if they have a reputation for harassment.

But let them keep their hardware running, and access their game library.

Seems good for business, tbh. You might not want neo-nazis posting whatever they want on their profiles, but who cares if they're buying video games?
But a conspiracy theory is a social construct not subject to rational thought. The notion of falsifiability only makes sense in the context of a conversation between actors willing to accept this.

The context of conspiracy theories is different. It's emotional. Goalposts get shifted, evidence is made up, no rational discourse possible.

So they cannot be falsified.
Or you could identify the factors that cause a hash to be computed and then start generating random images that compute to the same hash, creating 10s of thousands of images of digital noise that all look alike to the computer.
One could argue that this would fall into child labor laws, which exist for a reason.
Whats the time scale you are looking at to estimate accuracy? It seems to be real/near real time which can skew things from what idea turned out to be right to what idea got the biggest amount of suckers to buy into a pump and dump scheme since the stonks/wsb subreddits now have enough members to push the needle especially on relatively low trade volume securities and stocks.
> In fact, the scientific validity/rationale of 'immunity' is still under question. It is premature to start designing a system without a better understanding of immunity.

You mean, it's not about listening to "the science"? What ever could be driving this? Certainly not a naked power grab, using fear as an incentive?
I worked in the mortgage industry for a couple years, and it was common knowledge there that California home prices were the most tightly coupled with interest rate changes.

I'm not sure which markets are at the opposite end of the spectrum, but you could probably get a good idea by looking at the ratios between median household income vs. median mortgage payment in any given market. Households (currently) spending a smaller fraction of their paycheck to pay their mortgage should be able to better absorb some price increases.

According to this visualisation on Zillow[1], California is indeed the worst. The median household in San Jose would have to allocate 53% of their income to pay a median mortgage, compared to the national average of 17.5%:

[1] https://www.zillow.com/research/q2-2018-affordability-21286/
The screen shot recommends short passwords with one each of upper/lower/numeric/special characters. This policy has never been good. I find it discouraging from a company offering security-related services.

https://scotthelme.co.uk/content/images/2021/08/image-3.png
Tantalizing, but I'd like to have total confidence that my partner and I, two women, can walk down the street holding hands and being affectionate with each other without a constant feeling of scrutiny and wariness. Reports indicate that a lot of Poland is vocal and demonstrative in its attitude toward queers.

Not to mention all the young male Polish coworkers and interns we've had over the years making light smalltalk to the effect of "we're trying to be nice to you because this is the US, we'd talk very differently if this was Poland."
I used a couple of these: https://www.tp-link.com/us/business-networking/antenna-and-a...

And 2 cheap Asus routers for 400 meters. Would've likely worked for twice that distance.

Iirc the total cost was less than 200 Euros. Pretty cheap and easy, too.
Agile Workplace
Indeed. No mention of Allan deviation, and no links to references. I found this old reference https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/918181/
Which claims a short term Allan deviation of 5.4e-16/sqrt(tau) for 1-4s. This is pretty impressive and is comparable to Rb or Cs clocks for short time scales. The best optical clocks achieve something like 1e-18/sqrt(tau). Of course, since the sapphire oscillator is not locked to an absolute reference they drift after a few tens of seconds.
You can use VNC to do the same. MacOS screen sharing is basically just a built-in VNC server.
The social dilemma [video]
Another solo hiker & backpacker here; I have a Garmin inreach and they're fairly common among solo backpackers that I know.
That's for the new hires. The experts who created those things move on.
Agreed, the author clearly has a strong anti-Tesla bias, and the article is intended as a hit piece. And not particularly witty or insightful either, just one insult after another. It's too bad there wasn't a more substantive discussion.
Tesla's presentation was pretty light on details about the robot, though, so I'm not sure what else could be said.
when reproduction[X] occurs before a selective factor[y] is in play, the selective factor has no first order influence on reproductive success.

the theory of inverse relationship between severity of symptoms and transmissibility, is based on the idea that sick individuals spend more time laying in convolesence than interacting with other individuals.

this mechanism goes out the window when the infection is transmissible before symptoms appear.

this is the case with covid, i wish it was other than wishfull hoping but it isnt.
Viruses are subject to selection, mutation, and heredity. These are the three necessary ingredients for Darwinian evolution.

Whether they're defined as "life" or not isn't really relevant.

(Personally, I have a pet definition of "life" that just equates it to being subject to Darwinian evolution. Viruses not being defined as life never sat well with me)

Vaccines can't do their thing in a petri dish, they need an immune system to work via. That's just a petri dish not being an adequate simulation of the environment viruses are normally in, and doesn't imply anything about whether viruses are subject to Darwinian forces.
> Not to be snarky, but isn't [that] the SV business model. Facebook 'are not a publisher', because editors cost too much. Uber are 'not an employer', because proper benefits cost too much..etc ad infinitum

I totally agree with you, it is. Responsibility is a barrier to scaling and other selfish goals, so their "clever hack" is to try to be as irresponsible as they can get away with.
That study is old, but I still suspect there’s a grain of truth that the financial cutoff is lower than many would suspect.

A rough off-the-cuff calculation is that $75k is roughly double the median US income. If the same rough estimate is applied to SV, that’s about $110k. I bet that’s much much lower than many SV/HN would suspect for a happiness threshold. If you can’t find a way to be happy on double the median income, it implies the system is rigged to make an awfully lot of people miserable.

The problem is often not that happiness isn’t possible, but that we compare ourselves to our peer group to calibrate our expectations. As Roosevelt said, comparison is the thief of joy.
> Also: you probably mean iPhone 12. The 6 is quite old

I definitely meant the 6.

Minimum monthly wage (formal jobs, before taxes): R$1100

New iPhone 6: R$1700 ~ R$2400

New iPhone 12: R$7700 ~ R$10000

> Does average monthly salary mean much if the majority is really poor?

For those poor and outside the formal job market, buying a new iPhone (even the older ones) are out of reach or a very significant investment.
If all it takes is two (out of four) to decide something, the other two could immediately rescind the decision. It has to be a majority.

In most bureaucracies gridlock is not a bug, it’s a feature. It forces wider consensus.
The security improvement I want is that when I run ‘ps ax’ on a fresh install, I have reduced attack surface instead of dozens of random daemons hardwired into launchd like the one for classrooms(??), iCloud and photo sharing even when those features are disabled, etc.
Regarding sleep I found a great tip in Matt Mochary’s book The CEO Within.

The idea is that you want to sleep in multiple of 1.5 hours. This is the length of one sleep cycle.

When I started doing this I woke up fully rested. I find myself rested even after 6 hours and definitely after 7.5 hours. I find that if I wake inside a cycle, I’m tired, even if I’ve slept 8 hours.

Contact me through my profile if you have questions or need more information.
Would you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? You've done it a lot, and it's not what this site is for. This thread may not be great but your comments are standing out as more flamey than the rest. This is the opposite of how we want comments to go here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

p.s. please also don't call names, like you did at the end here. That's also against the site guidelines.
$2.50 here.... good thing to not be in the US :)
Poland had several centers of excellence for math education. Its teams perform very well in math competitions, as do teams from Bulgaria, of all places.
Also:

* If your employer is bought out, the HR org could change overnight without warning. This happened to me.
They could require this. Most of the big operators have physical stores where they could do an ID check. There should be an advanced protection mode where SIM swaps and other sensitive operations require physical authentication.
Yes. I have a dedicated account with a verizon MVNO and this account has no other SIMs or accounts associated with it.

However, depending on how I choose to use it I can point 2FA for numerous different services to this one SIM. I just don't want to point multiple accounts at the same service to this SIM since that's a clear, common identifier and correlates those two accounts better than probably anything else could ...
> The net effect of this language system was not to keep these people ignorant of what they were doing, but to prevent them from equating it with their old, "normal" knowledge of murder and lies. Eichmann's great susceptibility to catch words and stock phrases, combined with his incapacity for ordinary speech, made him, of course, an ideal subject for "language rules."

-- Hannah Arendt, "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil"

> When confronted with situations for which such routine procedures did not exist, he [Eichmann] was helpless, and his cliché-ridden language produced on the stand, as it had evidently done in his official life, a kind of macabre comedy. Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality, that is, against the claim on our thinking attention that all events and facts make by virtue of their existence.

-- Hannah Arendt, "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil"

Keep this in the back of your head when you hear some SV gurus speak, and see what you can notice.
IT is only about 3 things with data:
1) Communication
2) Transformation
3) Application

1 being the ray of light/information. 2 being your "mirror". 3 being the usage.

But these processes are general enough to fit any process in the universe (aka "simulate the universe"). Potential of IT may be regarded that powerful.

Saying models are only about being a mirror may be too easily misinterpreted. This since application require accountability for 1, 2 and 3, not just one of them. Complex and powerful solutions aren't easily divided into clean responsibility areas.

If one chooses models that favours some groups, such usage may introduce bias and discrimination in an otherwise non-discriminatory and non-racist society. What matters is the final outcomes, even when well-intentioned. As usage of complex algorithms may introduce chaotic side-effects, solutions to such issues may become dauntingly complex and hard to grapple with. Complex and powerful solutions become embedded in the world and culture of humans. Even the knowledge of usage of black box models may change people's perceptions for the worse, and introduce unwanted side-effects. Poor or lack of explanations for decision-making by the black box may compound issues even further. Misuse may introduce events that alters perception forever, etc.

You may retroactively attempt to correct wrongs, but it's a hard sell you've made no further mistakes however unintentional. I have doubts people make such mistakes intentionally, though that's not impossible either.
If anything the system that made Obama to be a white man was right, he is half white so why do we assume the black half should define him?
Makes sense, best of luck! Hopefully my direct and honest feedback is helpful as you navigate your business model.

I'm looking at Costa Rica, BVIs and Medellin.
/dev/null is always hungry. It's best for it not to indulge: my /dev/null got into /dev/zero once and there was no sleep for that laptop...
> which needs to be installed on a personal phone of course

I personally have never had a request for a company-provided work phone/tablet denied, if they required me to do anything on my personal phone that was critical for work.

If they ask why, I tell them I have a BlackBerry :) never been a problem
Fun tool. Thanks for putting it together.

It's interesting to crawl through some of the entries from leaderboard people. It seems like most of their bets are neutral or slightly random, but then they'll be propped up with a lucky call on GME from January or some other single-stock pick.

For example, this poster apparently just spammed GME posts during the run-up and got lucky, but if you followed their other calls (REAL and AI) you'd be deep in the red. Their GME spam puts them in the top 3 medium traders with a 236% 1-month return, but everything else they've posted has performed terribly: https://duedilly.io/trader/r.Ottikarottiii/

It would almost be more helpful if there was an option to subtract out the well-known meme stocks like GME. Some of these leaderboard entries have not so great results for their own calls, but they happened to post about GME at just the right time to dominate their average.
> governments rarely do what's convenient for customers

or what's in the long term best interest of their citizens let alone the rest of the world. Silly humans.
You are seasoned drinker or scientist.
What, elementary proficiency at the Linux command line of the kind that's exercised by boys playing with computers in middle school? I'd like to think the peak is somewhere higher.
The kind of management talent that declined to build IBM PC hardware at exactly the time when it could have given them massive competitive advantage over companies making a similar mistake?
I see in New York's case that there's been a big rise in cases but barely a blip in deaths, as opposed to both rising in step in Texas, I'm guessing largely due to vaccination rate. So I expect this winter will be a lot better.
So if you use rooted Android and modified the OS to always show full battery, you'd always get the best prices...
And what would happen if the API call returned a larger value, say, 10,000%? :)
> I wonder if there is a market for a meeting app that has the best quality of them all, by not trying to poorly work around bad environments, but simply booting people out of meetings until they fix their setup.

There are so many situational things involved when making a call that I would estimate the size of this market to be approximately $0/yr.

P.S. I'm sure this comment will come back to bite me 10 years down the line just like that Dropbox comment.
> set up a webcam and put their RSA token under it.

That's only stupid if anyone other than you has access to your webcam.
> Because of this, reducing the minimum payout does not scale, and at some point becomes infeasible.

Err, wat? This check could trivially be automated, and in fact I'd be very surprised if it wasn't already. All they have to do is maintain a separate (hidden) counter of "cashout-able" currency in their account, which only increases when the money comes from an eligible source (and decreasing so that it never goes above the visible "real" currency).

If Roblox claims this is a manual check, well, that's very probably just a bullshit lie.
I received 2 emails, 1 saying my account is locked and another just now saying it is not locked.
Not OP but Thinking In React[0] is a really good intro text. The docs in general are great and have gotten better over time.

[0] https://reactjs.org/docs/thinking-in-react.html