skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The plural anecdote is not data. At the end of the day it comes down to statistics and reproducibility. A lot of things can happen for a lot a reasons. It’s why things like homeopathy still exist.
Next-gen haptic trackpads are coming to Windows thanks to Boréas and Cirque
So far a multitude of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) have tried but not found significant benefits from using Ivermectin to treat COVID-19 in a single-drug treatment regime.

However it's worth noting that certain multi-drug treatment regimes are looking quite promising [1][2].

Furthermore, early multi-drug treatment (before severe symptoms) using existing widely available medicines has been proven effective at reducing hospitalization and death [3][4][5][6][7]. Many front-line doctors have been using such techniques since the beginning of the pandemic, because they had to - as there were no vaccines yet and no RCTs to guide them so naturally the only option was using and combining existing medicines with established safety and efficacy profiles, the same strategy used for other difficult to treat diseases and cancers.

[1] Ivermectin in combination with doxycycline for treating COVID-19 symptoms: a randomized trial
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33983065/

[2] Baricitinib plus Remdesivir for Hospitalized Adults with Covid-19
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33306283/

[3] Timing of Antiviral Treatment Initiation is Critical to Reduce SARS-CoV-2 Viral Load
https://ascpt.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/psp4.1...

[4] Clinical outcomes after early ambulatory multidrug therapy for high-risk SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) infection
https://rcm.imrpress.com/EN/article/downloadArticleFile.do?a...

[5] Early multidrug treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection (COVID-19) and reduced mortality among nursing home (or outpatient/ambulatory) residents
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03069...

[6] Multifaceted highly targeted sequential multidrug treatment of early ambulatory high-risk SARS-CoV-2 infection (COVID-19)
https://scholarlycommons.henryford.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?a...

[7] Multidrug treatment for COVID-19
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ddt/advpub/0/advpub_202...
The US manufacturing real output continues to increase and never really declined (briefly in the Great Recession but quickly restored). Manufacturing employment on the other hand continues to drop.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_in_the_United_Sta...
https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/325699-greater-internet-fuck...

This theory may be in jeopardy.
As someone who's family has been in the bay area for over a century I was disappointed the article didn't mention any of the old money families who've controlled SF politics for decades.

This article[0] mentions some, though not all of the families (The Aliotos aren't mentioned here for example). While I haven't fully kept up, I know in the 90s at least a quarter of the financial district was held by two families. They own a ridiculous amount of the city's most valuable real estate and getting into office without their approval seems impossible.

I've been wanting someone to do a deep dive on them forever but it never happens and any analysis that lacks them feels pretty disappointing.

[0] https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-ca-gavin-newsom-san-...
The first Actor languages were inspired by Smalltalk-72 and make a lot more sense if you are familiar with -72 and less for those who only know Smalltalk-80.
The site posted at the top of this thread has 800 scientific studies of various therapeutics, https://c19early.com/faq.html

> Whether it be treatments or interventions, the plethora of seemingly similar quality research supporting contradictory positions, and the use of digital echo chambers, facilitates widespread confirmation bias - evidence supporting any initial position can be easily found. Self-serving bias and cognitive dissonance further make it challenging to alter positions, especially for those taking very public and strong positions with serious implications.
We felt that attempts to organize and make the research and data easier to navigate, highlighting areas of applicability, and analyzing limitations, could potentially be beneficial.

> What is the search strategy for papers? All significant original contributions related to the use of the treatments we cover, including searches of the typical sources augmented by contributions from the community. Covering all research is important because it is easy to choose a search strategy that results in a subset of papers reporting a desired conclusion. This is especially so if one takes the conclusions reported in papers at face value without examining the actual data, methods, or regions of applicability
Everybody parsing their own messages sounds interesting but in the end we need a shared language, shared syntax
What is Uber's valuation?
There's also an TOTP pass extension.

https://github.com/tadfisher/pass-otp

Like others have mentioned, it unlike Authy this doesn't use your phone number as identity
This seems specific to apple. I had an offer from apple that I didn't accept because all the sell calls happened outside 9-6 pm on weekdays and on sundays. They were too busy between 9-6 on weekdays to make space for 30 minutes to call me. They scheduled at the weirdest hours. I thought it was just one such call, nope every call with the eng team was the same.
At least they all had distinct names, so it was easier to know if some random article, book, etc, was applicable.
If someone is having an episode and causing violence onto other people, we're not gonna look at this 20 years later and question if this isn't a mental illness. We absolutely know what the issue is here, and the situation that I described is not unheard of.
Most areas (pre-pandemic) did not have enough vacancy to put pressure on the housing market. Most of the vacancy was caused by units being renovated/fixed, places waiting for a leaseholder to move in, etc.

This is even true of low-income housing and shelters. Occasionally people will gripe about shelter vacancies, without realizing it’s really difficult to maintain 100% housing utilization without denying some people housing.
How about hygiene? Where do you think they relieve themselves? How many times a day do you think they'll need to use a toilet and how many times do they find one? Hint: they don't really care. Source: experience living in SF.
It's a bit unclear if this is actually happening.

Can anyone find the original interview? And why is it supposed to be with some random blogspam "news" site?

Note this report did nothing to confirm it at all. It's just reporting a supposed interview and nothing else.
I definitely see a discernible delay, on some pages more than others. Measuring on a heavier page (https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/1207) produced a result of more than seven seconds for a full page load, but to full readable load / DOM mostly complete (if I wasn't watching devtools, I would have figured it was fully loaded) was only around two seconds. Definitely not just a few ms, though.
I believed this when I lived in California. Now I’m not so sure: it is true that people without shelter can easily die in much of the country, but California isn’t the only place with mild winters. Why don’t Arizona, New Mexico, large parts of Texas, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, etc. have the same problem?

Assuming that California will just naturally have a larger homeless population than everywhere else means that nobody will spend much effort trying to solve the problem. Is it possible that California is just unusually bad when it comes to handling homelessness?
A HELOC just lets you unlock lower interest rates for accruing additional debt. It’s very different from actually having that additional money in your pocket.
People start where they are. Hitch hiking and train jumping are both very dangerous. It's no simple matter to "choose a place with good weather."
There are some good papers which take inspiration from abductive reasoning to study automatic knowledge base construction and structured inference here in case anyone is interested: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~ml/publications/area/65/abduction
Absolutely not true. Big Tech is struggling to hire - which is why the offer packages are so fat now.
Literally nothing in the quote posted by the OP, or the report in question claims "that COVID-19 is man made". In fact, it's doing the exact opposite. It's saying that it is impossible to know for certain how the initial human infection occurred without further information, but that most agencies agreed that the virus was not genetically engineered or developed as a weapon. Details matter.
The verification requirement is only for bots in over 100 servers.

https://support-dev.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/4404772028....
Show HN: Generate a neural hash collision with any two images
It probably was.

I can't find the interview, but there are plenty of stories of groups like this claiming capabilities they don't actually have.
Also move away from: California - earthquakes, wildfires, draught, PNW - fires, complete snow in, barren eastern side of states, the entire gulf coast, the entire eastern seaboard, the City of New York, anywhere there's ever been an EF5 tornado (most of the 'midwest' i guess?) ...
Things are changing, as the entrenched interests die from old age.

Last year, Prop 15 nearly eliminated the Prop 13 for commercial properties. That this was even within 10% points of passing is such a huge change as to be unthinkable. 15 years ago I would rant about Prop 13 and get nothing but hate from others for my position. These days I'm as likely to find somebody ranting about the evils of Prop 13 as I am to initiate the rants. And the only people I see really arguing for Prop 13 are in the dying our demographics of newspaper comment sections and NextDoor, and nearly no one I meet in person.

We have a huge problem with Boomers and their heirs, but immigration is rapidly changing eh demographics to allow for more sound governance.
Actually this is a dupe, it is exace same link
Does taking a dump in front of your building count? Because I have many experience of that, including a couple where they entered my building and took a big dump in the lobby.
55% is one of the lowest home ownership rates in the country. If high levels of home ownership drive policies that prohibit new construction and drive up prices, how is it that places like Minnesota, with a home ownership rate in the mid-70s, are so cheap to live in?
So what do you think is the root problem? A national housing shortage? What do you think drives that shortage if so? What do you think are good solutions? I understand it takes more than a blog post but every big problem takes more than a blog post, we can still have a conversation about it here. Could you shed a little light on the issue for us?
“Unhoused” — esp families — are rapidly rehoused in SF. Those experiencing “chronic homelessness” (the ‘visible’ humans, who deserve the same amount of love and respect) are more often tied to mental health…just different things are helpful for the different groups.
That’s no exactly true. I think the NFL has moved past denial

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/22603654/nfl-doctor-says...

https://www.today.com/parents/brett-favre-psa-urges-no-tackl...

Whether the game can ever be made safe is another issue.
Well that’s clearly harmful and selfish behaviour so I already covered that.
I’ve posted detailed numbers here before, but the overwhelming numbers of homeless people in the Bay Area came from the Bay Area.

Source: https://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ExecutiveSu...
Truth! I just love having to guess if a given page is about macOS's flavor of pf, FreeBSD's, or OpenBSD's.
This is cool. What architectures does it run on other than (presumably) x86?
Fantastic video. Most of the previous talks I've seen Dan give started with Smalltalk-78 or maybe briefly touched on Smalltalk-76 before spending the bulk of their time on the later versions. So I very much appreciated the time he spent on the early Smalltalk implementations (Smalltalk-76 and earlier) as it filled out the picture of how Smalltalk evolved.
haha, it does freeze, for days at a time. It hard freezes for at least 2 days, this past winter it hard froze for nearly a week. You may have heard about that in the news, because Texas went offline. Louisiana fared better in the grid area, but we still have rough winters, depending on the year. It's snowed thrice in the past 6 years, too.
Here's hoping we get that fusion reactor problem solved.
Unless you have a better idea as to where these people should go, just saying that they shouldn’t be there isn’t very useful.
From what I witnessed from coworkers in the US, it was very common to order 5 variations of the same thing, then send 4 back.

"Free shipping/free returns" seems like an environmental disaster, but I think it's becoming the norm.
"Big Tech" or "Apple"?
> The issue isn't the number of people in public parks. The issue is that people are using public parks (and other public spaces) to set up encampments, which is not the purpose of these public spaces. In fact, this infringes on the rights of the people who want to use these spaces for legal purposes.

All right, where do you think the encampments should be set up?
If any application developers want to update the "Playing ..." status on Discord, I wrote a C++ implementation that interfaces with Discord's not-very-well-documented IPC API.
https://gist.github.com/AndrewBelt/2b386003f949b79f73e9f21c6...
That website is fake:

- It is impossible to contact the owners of the website
- The website has gotten direct critique of spreading misinformation in two papers
- They draw their own conclusions from the paper.

But let's ignore all these red flags and focus on this. They claim that each of the following individual medicines works,
Fluvoxamine, Proxalutamide, Iota-carrageenan, Molnupiravir,
Quercetin, Povidone-Iodine, Curcumin, Casirivimab, Sotrovimab, Bamlanivimab,
Nitazoxanide, Budesonide, Zinc, Bromhexine, Colchicine, Vitamin D, Aspirin,
Favipiravir, Hydroxychloroquine, Remdesivir, and Vitamin C. I find it unlikely that ALL
those claims are true which in turn makes me question their scientific approach.
Some people are very picky and only accept Smalltalk-80 as "Smalltalk". Of course, that would make Smalltalk-72, -74, -76 and even -78 not Smalltalk, which would be very odd.

I, on the other hand, consider Self and Slate to be good examples of Smalltalk.

Beyond any technical discussions there is the marketing issue. Smalltalk's reputation took a major hit in the 1990s with the rise of Java (from the "language of the future that doesn't run on the computers you have, yet" it became "a failed language of the past") and association with the name can hurt a project in some cases.
> How does Google Authenticator work?

Really poorly. Not only my experience, also the prevailing sentiment in app store reviews, where it has a sub-2.5 star rating.

Up until pretty recently you couldn't even back up your passcodes, so it was extremely risky to use it.

Use Authy, there is clearly a lot more effort put into that app.
Let me explain. The authorities there made it ok for people to do that. Police will not arrest you. You can use the streets as your bathroom. They even announced it on the local news (around 2014-2015). Either they are too stupid to realize people would take advantage of that, or they are malevolent and wanted to destroy SF for whatever political reason.
Hope springs eternal in California, but unfortunately water does not.
Be the change you want to see. Talk to your friends about Matrix, help run homeservers and help get folks running.
Maybe it's not "long" then, but short. Appease China to keep the money flowing, and ignore future consequences?
Reread your comment a few times until you understand how dumb it is.
Employment is a market. Google needs to pay what the market will bear. If the "remote worker" market is 25% cheaper than Silicon Valley, then that's what they'll pay. If they underpay then they'll lose workers.

Or... maybe Google wants the remote workers to find other jobs. If they believe that in person employment is that much better they should be willing to pay 25% more (well, technically 33% more) that's their right. History will show if they made a smart decision.
As somebody who recently gave up a faculty job at a top-tier CS program, this a) doesn't mirror my experience at all, and b) is still significantly better than the faculty life!
I'm sure devs would be happy to sign on to these things if any of these platforms had significant pull with users. For some reason the people who are interested in building these types of coop platforms seem unable to acquire the types of mega-userbases that plugin and bot devs are interested in targeting.
The problem is admins haphazardly adding tons of toy bots to servers with sometimes hundreds or thousands of members, and those bots being a front for storing tons of user data (including eg. user online status, user tag (name#1234) history, a large DB of the users' messages across years). The users in these servers aren't informed of such change and Discord can't trust these developers to say "we don't log messages" without requiring them tie a legal identity to any potential malicious logging.
For better or for worse, homelessness in America can largely be attributed to Regan-era changes in policy [1] that prevented people from being committed against their will to psychiatric hospitals. It was done in the name of human rights, but naturally there were ulterior motives.

It's time we reverted it.

About 10% of humans have been addicts across most cultures throughout most of recorded human history, and they desperately need help (even if they claim don't want it).

There should obviously be a ton of safeguards in place before committing someone against their will (e.g. 1 or 2 doctors should declare that the patient is unable to care for themselves and make rational decisions, assessment at regular intervals, ensuring the patient has the right to get a new doctor, etc.), but I don't think we'll be able to solve homelessness without it, because this is what we used to do differently prior to the homelessness epidemic, and this is what other nations have been doing.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanterman%E2%80%93Petris%E2%...
Besides HELOCs, what are you referring to? A HELOC is just a tool for getting lower interest rates on another loan, which only would make you wealthier if you happened to invest it in some other appreciating asset with an extremely high ROI.
Extensive canals and water rights and riparian water rights
were not developed till the demand by the Gold Rush, and then after its admission into the Union additional laws and provisions were passed and levees and canals built, and then in the early 1900s water from the Colorado was diverted into Calif. then much later aqueducts to channel water into semi-desert cities.

The Spanish may have had a few little channels here and there (for their missions along the el camino), but it wasn't till the Gold Rush people built large elaborate systems for water distribution (for their claims). Then appropriative and riparian rights attracted many farmers into fertile lands.

Does it deserve a revisit, sure. It will be fraught and messy, but sure.
> The website has gotten direct critique of spreading misinformation in two papers - They draw their own conclusions from the paper.

Good to know, is that critique public?

> They claim that each of the following individual medicines works

The site text says:

> Analysis of the efficacy of early treatments for COVID-19. Treatments do not replace vaccines and other measures. All practical, effective, and safe means should be used. Elimination of COVID-19 is a race against viral evolution. No treatment, vaccine, or intervention is 100% available and effective for all current and future variants. Denying the efficacy of any method increases the risk of COVID-19 becoming endemic; and increases mortality, morbidity, and collateral damage ... We focus on the most effective/promising early treatments. There are many treatments that are helpful for late stage patients, however we do not have the resources to cover everything and currently focus on early treatment.

That text doesn't say that each of the listed therapeutics "works", it says they are presenting an analysis/summary of the efficacy of each treatment, with data from referenced studies. If there's a critique of a referenced study, or an error in the summary which is derived from references, that would be good to identify publicly.

This type of summary of public data and research papers should be on github or other public source repo (the site says the content is CC0 licensed), where issues/PRs could be used to correct errors. Maybe the site can be forked, errors removed and additional studies added. Early treatment is an important and neglected topic, which can supplement vaccines in breakthrough cases.
The case made upthread was that this blog post wasn't the sort of thing Hacker News readers want to see on Hacker News:

> pure flamebait and not really relevant for HN.

All three claims in what you respond to address that case head-on. It isn't as if they're talking about twitter, facebook, or discord stats.
> ...is practically an alien concept for me.

Here is an analogy, it’s government sponsored cancel culture.
That website is fake:

- It is impossible to contact the owners of the website

- The website has gotten direct critique of spreading misinformation in two papers

- They draw their own conclusions from the paper.

- A lot of the papers in its
meta-analysis doesn’t have control
groups or randomized trials. Some
studies only compare ivermectin+X vs
ivermectin+Y

- The total sample size of all
studies are only 2000 people.

But let's ignore all these red flags and focus on this. They claim that each of the following individual medicines works, Fluvoxamine, Proxalutamide, Iota-carrageenan, Molnupiravir, Quercetin, Povidone-Iodine, Curcumin, Casirivimab, Sotrovimab, Bamlanivimab, Nitazoxanide, Budesonide, Zinc, Bromhexine, Colchicine, Vitamin D, Aspirin, Favipiravir, Hydroxychloroquine, Remdesivir, and Vitamin C. I find it unlikely that ALL those claims are true which in turn makes me question their scientific approach.
Imagine saying "Yeah, there are human feces all over my living room and kitchen, but the bedrooms are clean. Overall it is a great place to live."

Whenever I visit SF I run into someone who looks like an extra from a zombie movie every time, without fail. Sometimes they "violently beg" by lunging at your feet as you walk past. Scream obscenities. Offer stolen goods at red lights. And if you somehow don't see them you can certainly smell them.

Just because we collectively got desensitized doesn't make all this OK.
I wonder if they are going to try to kill Mee6 and then offer its features to server owners for a fee.
I find it interesting that you apparently have the belief that such encampments should or need to exist.
I wouldn't call it "pranking". I would call it a subversive action from a deep sarcastic view.

E.g. I'm pretty sure some people might think that "swatting" is a form of trolling.
I’ve spent a lot of time in illegal poker rooms (and games in places like hotel rooms that are semi-legal). I can assure you people lose a lot of money in them.
Vale uses the term "regions" a bit differently, as a way to represent a collection of objects that all are all treated the same (usually w.r.t. memory management). We have something called the "region borrow checker" which is kind of like Rust's borrow checker, but without the aliasability-xor-mutability restriction.

We don't use Cell implicitly, we instead rely on "type stability" for mutable aliasing, generational references for memory safety, and scope-tethering to enable zero-cost dereferencing.

Hadn't heard of MLton, checking it out now!