skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure, the data seems oddly and unnecessarily skewed in terms of the group breakdown.

- The placebo group was almost 10 years older on average. You might think that this would be fine, or even make the effect demonstrated even larger than the study suggests, except 8 patients were removed from the placebo group due to being moved to the ICU before the start of the study. This introduces a massive amount of selection bias into the data when you only had 48 in the placebo group to start with.

- The placebo group had about half as many women as a %

Of course there is an attempt to remove these confounding factors in some of the data, but the big results appear to be un-adjusted numbers (number of days in hospital being reduced, reduction of the need for oxygen, etc).

There is also an odd coincidence that they selected 53 patients for the Placebo group, and 48 for the L-Arginine group, and the groups lost 8 and 3 patients to the ICU respectively, so the final groups were both 45. Is this normal in these types of studies? Why wouldn't they have made the intention to treat population 50 for both cases?
There’s a perverse distaste for hiring FTE for bland, routine work or to fill roles that have year to year volatility. Microsoft was notorious for this in the 1980s and early 1990s. If you were a superstar programmer you got offered a full time job as an employee. If you were “just” a technical writer you’d go through the same recruiting process but get offered a contract through a third party.

From 1994-1999 I ran ibm.com (whatever that meant). For most of the five years it was just me, one other FTE, and a roving band of 5-10 contractors. Any time I suggested converting the contractors to FTE I got slapped down, even though it eventually meant the loss of a lot of talent.

All I can figure is that the companies want to avoid long term benefits commitments. Healthcare. Pensions or 401ks, etc. They rarely saved money, the burden rate for my team was easily 30-50% more than my burden rate (not that the individuals got that largess, it usually went to their "manager" in the contracting agency).
"I picked up the project because I was genuinely interested in it, and because it was extremely challenging."

I pickied the OS as a project because Im generally interested in it. Its challenging. I had to learn Bourne shell and C, and a bit of assembly.

I am genuinely interested in the OS because I use it everyday to help solve problems.
But your body runs according to the dictates of nature, not solely your will.

For example, my body often breathes even when I don't particularly will it. I also cannot stop the process of digestion with my mind. If I were to ask for the 'right' to stop digestion by asking a doctor to sever my intestines, it would be good for the government to then charge such an irreputable doctor with assault and maybe murder.
Wow, soon we won't even be able to invite friends over anymore without the god damn copyright industry taking issue because not enough rent is being paid.
I thought the inundation of "Tinder, but for X" was just something I was experiencing. Thank you for mentioning it.
Since the map is using OpenStreetMap data it would be nice if it were attributed correctly: https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright
I'd be worried about a user experience where the image looked good enough that a user thought it was done downloading but then didn't realize it was getting better or still downloading and moved on. A nice indicator would be helpful.
"Language learning apps are step 5 in the ten step process of achieving programmer hubris nirvana.

1) I'm in college and I'm going to build an app to easily buy and sell books

2) Off campus housing is hard, I'm going to build an app to find roommates

3) Splitting bills with roommates is hard, I'm going to build an app for cost splitting

4) All my previous apps sucked because they weren't social, I'm going to build a social network app

5) I'm bored partying with my new friends, I'm going to level up and build an app to learn a new language

6) I'm lonely, I'm going to build a dating app to find a mate

7) I found a mate and the whole engagement/wedding industry is a fraud, I'm going to make an app to make it easier to navigate

8) My children are awesome, I'm going to build apps to manage their time/friends/eating/sleeping/learning

9) Technology is a waste of time, I'm going to spend my time on other hobbies and my family

10) I've been working 20 years in a boring industry and I see an opportunity to write boring software that solves boring problems that businesses will actually pay for. Jackpot.

Edit: As others pointed out, should have included: ToDo app, Blog App, and a travel app. Travel should probably be 5 with language at 6."

From here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15508239
Just speculating (I work at a FAANG) – a lot of "software engineering" at these big tech companies is just centering divs and refactoring code – you don't need a 10xer to do that stuff.
Criminals used Adobe Flsah to take over my mother's computer in 2002. They were able to use the CD-ROM drive to knife-rape my mother to death. Worst thing that ever happened, it broke my family apart. My dad killed himself two weeks later.

I blame Adobe Flash as well as any of its proponents.
> Within the populations studied here, an example of the death of a white-faced capuchin mother from the Lomas Barbudal population is consistent with our expectations of what grief might look like in a wild primate. This female (Chaos) had lost three infants in less than 3 y, with male-perpetrated infanticide suspected to be the cause in each case. In the weeks following the final infant death, Chaos wandered the forest on her own, rarely appearing in daily censuses of her social group. She eventually died, less than 5 wk after the death of the third infant. At the same time, Chaos faced additional social challenges, including the deaths of her mother and sister and her immigration into a new social group. So, while we cannot state with certainty that grief resulting from the violent killings of her last three infants contributed to Chaos’ death, her case is fully consistent with the maternal grief hypothesis.

This is quite sad, however anthropomorphizing that may be.
Did a U.S. Drone Strike in Afghanistan Kill the Wrong Person?
It is explained in the video...
this reminds me of the books by daniel suarez daemon and its sequel freedom. the internet is taken over by an AI of sorts and one of the first orders of business is to clear out negative value adds like this:

DEATH TO SPAMMERS

if i was to pick two books to recommend to all HN, it would be those. ive read everything suarez has written and theyre all greaf, but the technopolitical daemon and freedom and superlative.
How I wrote this 1000 word blog post using speech-to-text on my smartphone
This is a deeply threaded discussion, but if you look up there, you’ll find that people are arguing that users will choose Apple Pay over other payment processors or refuse to use apps that don’t offer Apple Pay. That’s the context in which my comment is written. If it’s true, then app developers and payment processors will need to respond to that market demand. If users don’t care, then of course developers and payment processors don’t need to care either (absent regulation).
The problem is that advertising or finance companies can outbid public classrooms and students 10000:1. It's the sad reality: in the current system finding ever more sophisticated ways to get people to buy more crap is very profitable, helping underprivileged students succeed is not.
And now Apple is going to refuse to put them on any store given that courts found them to have breached their contract.

Epic have screwed themselves pretty badly here.
Soon your dishwasher will do some blockchain too, because product management is so keen to ride on every fashion wave...
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Payment forms need captchas too, otherwise they'll get millions of transactions from card testers making the costs unsustainable.
You should always validate input to a database. Data ought to be validated at the edge, which in this case is the http endpoints. You should not rely on internal services (a database) to do validation

One of the dangers in switching to high level languages is that people have lost any sense of data size. In C you almost always specify a max string width because that is the easiest easy to deal with strings. While C has many shortcomings, forcing the responsible programmer to deal with string width is a good thing.

Honestly as a stripe user, this sort of unvalidated input terrifies me. Stripe deals with money. All inputs ought to be validated. I figured the company would spend a lot of engineering time making sure data was cleaned and couldn't escape like this.

Today it's a string width issue. Tomorrow it's a sql injection. I'm surprised stripe let you publish this.
Competition from Facebook and now Amazon ad businesses eating away at profit margins
By default, Windy uses the ECMWF weather model. You can also change it to GFS or ICON, which many american forecast websites use.

ECMWF, GFS and ICON are made by national/international forecasting agencies. IBM also has its own proprietary weather forecasting service, notably used by The Weather Channel. Other apps mostly use one of these models or aggregate predictions from different services (e.g. AccuWeather claims to aggregate many different models, including those from national agencies around the world)
I would naively expect a security researcher to take a bit of a reputation hit if an attack actually managed to take his site down.
Here in UK if a company wants to charge you regularly for anything they have to start something called a "direct debit" on your bank account - then they can withdraw money from your account whenever they see fit. The thing about direct debits though is that you can cancel them for any reason within few clicks on your account website, and all charges are reversible without having to provide a reason - I just call my bank and say I want to reverse a direct debit charge X, done.

I know the American system is bad, but it's not like the only system in the world. There are other ways of doing this, without going through Apple's closed ecosystem.
You've hit the nail on the head, and I find it applies so many more things in life than just travel. It is my general observation that many people, as they progress through their life, reach the stage where they have more disposable income than time. And suddenly, all that tech fascination with self-service becomes extremely annoying.

I have personal examples from "the other side" for the cases you give.

Insurance-wise, I've been procrastinating on getting some of the belongings we have at home insured, because the insurance agent keeps coming back to me with calculations and offers I need to look at. But I have neither time nor patience to deal with it - especially not to study PDFs with tables full of calculations that were explicitly designed to be hard to compare[0]. The only interaction I wanted to have is, "this is where we live, this is the stuff we want insured, tell me how much to pay and where to send the money". They're losing money because they try to give me opportunity to save money[1].

Travel-wise, my wife and I both always looked down on people going on all-inclusives - but we took a chance and went on our first-ever all-inclusive a few years ago. We were immediately sold on the concept. It wasn't even a good all-inclusive - it was the cheapest one we could find, and the resort smelled like goats half the time - but it was the first time we actually rested. The amount of bullshit that goes into vacations is hard to even imagine until you experience being free of it. Even having to make a decision when, where and what to eat on a given day is a hidden source of background anxiety. On an all-inclusive, the only thing you need to worry about is what to do with all the worry-free leisure time you have.

So yeah, I agree with your conclusions. And in particular:

> people who are into custom stuff they want to do themselves (and don't pay) niche or get "all inclusive" and don't care about anything whales

Sometimes, perhaps often, those might be the same people. Personally, my all-inclusive experience convinced me that I should mentally separate the type of travel I want into categories. If I want to explore something niche, I'll continue to plan it myself. If I want to actually rest, I'll reach for the most bullshit-free all-inclusive experience I can get - as close as possible to "wire some money and be told what plane to catch".

(Though calling all-inclusive travelers "whales" is perhaps exaggerated - all-inclusives are ridiculously cheap these days, if you're willing to make compromises on luxury looks and you book far ahead in advance.)

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[0] - Because, of course, businesses are douchy like that.

[1] - Or, perhaps, to fail at saving money - because, again, businesses are douchy like that.
Specifically the GitHub button at the bottom of the page, the GitHub button at the top does work and leads to: https://github.com/medusajs/medusa
End-to-end encryption should mean that the cloud provider doesn't have the key to decrypt the data
I do not know what to tell you other than "the US" expects many of its school teachers to procure classroom supplies themselves and it is a debate on whether or not to provide nutritious meals to kids in school without payment.

We have a special visa for doctors willing to live in undesirable areas of the US for many years. There is even a website for it:

https://data.hrsa.gov/tools/shortage-area

https://www.hhs.gov/guidance/document/hpsa-and-muap-shortage...

And now to meet demand for doctors without having to pay for more doctors, most states have allowed a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to basically practice as a doctor where a doctor just oversees their clerical work. So if you have lesser insurance coverage or live in an area with insufficient doctors, then you may see an NP or PA who is far less qualified than a doctor.
Mr. Krebs raped my mother behind the dumpster of an Applebee's in 1992. He is my father.
Perhaps something like this https://www.meteoblue.com/en/weather/forecast/multimodelense.... If you check the regular forecasts it also has a predictability figure.
I think we all know the Gab-clones are safe, regardless.

A "left-leaning" blog or newspaper had better hope they never get too popular, though.
I would prefer to see 2 options in browsers:

1. LSAT[1] support for micropayments (recently mentioned on HN[2])

2. RandomX[3], mining XMR for the site owner

Both provide something useful, replacing advertising and/or subscriptions for the site owner, rather than solely wasting energy. Let's eliminate captchas and advertising together.

[1]: https://lsat.tech/
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28459713
[3]: https://xmrig.com/docs/miner
It's effectively a rate limiter, where before the Bad Person/People could make 10,000 users per unit of time before, now they may only make 100 users. It won't fix the problem entirely, but it's better than nothing.
The Wright brothers didn't get off the ground by gluing wings to their arms, and Einstein didn't discover the theory of relativity in his study of alchemy. Entertaining silly or stupid ideas is risky, and for every Wright brother there's another 100 failed entrepreneurs who lost everything trying to make that dream a reality.
The Long Road Home
^ This is the real answer that actually reliability works
Apps based around "physical goods" (read: food ordering) have been able to do this for ages, and if the trend I see there expands into "normal" apps, about 50% will support Apple Pay, 25% will support PayPal without AP, 10% will support card scanning, and the rest will make you manually enter your card number, billing address, name, email, firstborn child, etc.

So no, I don't think the flow will remain nearly as seamless as it is today, and that's disappointing to me. I don't pay for much IAP-wise (though I do order plenty of DoorDash), but I guess this will give me even less motivation to buy crap I don't need.
Matrix 4
One past discussion:

Travel planning software: The most common bad startup idea (2012) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8419658 - Oct 2014 (180 comments)
Leaving the confusing article aside.

Practically, the additional function that monads support is usually called bind and looks like: Array a -> (a -> Array b) -> Array b

This is different from map which is: Array a -> (a -> b) -> Array b

Notice how in map, your function returns a value that isn't lifted in the monad. The bottom one is a functor, the top one is a monad. Functors let you visit an array at every element. Monads let you visit an array and produce a new array each time and they internally decide how they will recombine those values.

This is a bit silly for Array, you just concatenate the outputs. But is more interesting for Option.

map for Option looks like: Option a -> (a -> b) -> Option b

It says "If there's anything in my Option, apply this function to it, otherwise there's still nothing there"

bind for Option looks like: Option a -> (a -> Option b) -> Option b

It says "If there's anything in my Option, run this computation. This computation can also return an option". In this sense, it lets you string together computations that each produce optional values. The whole computation will fail if any part fails. Something that is very useful!
From a distance, seems that "white" more often than not means actually "wasp".
If Barack Obama did the drone strike, then no.

If Donald "Orange Man Bad™" Trump did the drone strike, then yes.

On a sidenote: a drone raped my mother and exploded in her pussy. This was in 2009 when they were testing new drone bombing technology under Commander in Chief Barack Obama. I have since forgiven President Obama for giving the order for the drone to explode in her pussy. Overall, I think he was a good president, mostly because he's a Democrat but also because he's black.

Thank you for reading my comment. I hope you have a blessed day.
The Maelstrom, a la Peter Watts?
Next gen 3D printed catalysts to propel hypersonic flight
> most people are always planning their next trip in their mind.

You may not be thinking of a representative sample of people.
Another option is the point forecast from weather.gov. For example, here's the forecast for Eastsound: https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=48.6968&lon=-1...
And a reputation boost for the hackers that managed to pull it off.
Besides training for Oracle University, Oracle has a couple of free learning and training resources out there on the web too.

https://livesql.oracle.com --> A SQL scratchpad that also includes scripts and tutorials.

Oracle Live Labs (https://apexapps.oracle.com/pls/apex/dbpm/r/livelabs/home) --> Granted, while it's easier googled as "Oracle Live Labs" than to remember that URL, it does, however, provide free Hands-On Labs for users.

https://oracle.github.io/learning-library/ --> The instructions for the Hands-On Labs above and more can be found in the learning-library

asktom.oracle.com --> I fully free Q&A portal where you can ask Oracle Database employees for help. Furthermore, it offers regular "Office Hours" live webinars and an entire course of learning Oracle Database: https://asktom.oracle.com/databases-for-developers.htm
Not sure, I was no longer involved when those changes were happening.

What I can say is there was a lot of change in the container landscape at the time. Kubernetes flipped the script, Fleet from CoreOS was deprecated, and my guess is amidst the consolidation happening around Kubernetes and the CNCF, rkt became less relevant and just didn't find a permanent home.

Flannel, Fleet, Rocket... does anyone use any of this stuff still? "Move fast and break things" tends to leave a trail of waste in its wake.
Avoiding the pitfalls of iteration-based development, in 5 pull requests
They did try to force companies to monetize through them.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/8/21506995/apple-forced-in-...
Good site and app. Been using this for years now and is my goto for extreme weather.
Weird. I'm using Firefox 91.0.2 on Ubuntu 20.04 and it works fine. Maybe try opening it in a new empty profile and see if it works?
Years back Google and Apple conspired to illegally fix wages and were caught no less red handed, including executives emailing to keep the program out of email because it's illegal. The conspiracy even used threats of ruining other competitors with patent claims to force them to participate.

The fines and judgement they paid were but a tiny fraction of the cumulative wages they stole. The lesson was that wage theft is profitable.

Until we start imposing a corporate death penalty in situations like this there will be no reason for companies to not simply do the economic calculation and decide the defrauding their employees is the right thing to do for their bottom line, one that can be optimized by lowering the risk of prosecution by better obscuring the crime or building up a legal team that can tie up the largest of nation states in court for decades.
California releases its Digital Vaccine Record code to the public domain
Will my old identity building knowhow be useful in this brave new world? Only one way to find out!
That means many of your points will be sadly lost in translation
Are you implying that Windows XP needs security reviews now? Or that regulated energy markets make Windows XP? You lost me with any sort of relevancy there. As I understand it, the topic is about software mfgs. Did you just want to throw some freemarket attack (while not using a freemarket example)?
I can't imagine you'd be able to use i3 for your windows apps from what I've read, but it should work with your Linux side.
Cryptocurrencies would be a good solve for this. Specifically, a layer 2 network on top of a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin's lightning network or payment channels on Ethereum, both of which allow for subcent transactions with subcent fees.

There are obviously UX challenges to making it easy to acquire the crypto, but I could imagine this starting as an optional alternative to captchas.
uh... wut

I believe it's the amps you need to worry about; "amps kill."

I believe it takes about 1 amp to kill a person.

This thing is outputting somewhere around 55 amps (if I remember right).
Before having their cocks slit up and turned inside out into beautiful trans vaginas, the Whackowskee Brothers raped and killed my mother.

Initially, I was angry about the news... Until I saw the film The Matrix. What a cool movie! Dude, remember the part where Neo was like, "Uhuh I'on't think so, bulletS!" And then he stopped the bullets with his mind powers or whatever. That shit was AWESOME!

The Whackowskee sisters can rape and murder my mom any day they want now, they are true travelers. Heck, they can even rape me if they want. I'll give up my asshole for them. :)
If things are done sensibly, EV's could actually help with local grid load smoothing. So-called "smart charging".

Yes, more energy will be needed and the backbone grid will need to be strengthened. Call your local congressperson and get them to support the reconciliation bill, which has money for that.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/09/heres-how-the-us...
I wouldn't expect that at all, since the attack doesn't have any security implications other than ‘someone found how to send a lot of requests from routers’, and the target is just one guy with a blog—not a corporation whose job is to serve web requests.
IoT has always been a buzzword, but at least it communicates what it is slightly better than embedded system. The buzzword I currently despise is edge computing.
France to Offer Free Contraception for Women Up to 25
Does it worry you that you seem to be unable to engage with my arguments, and instead dodge them and spout out buzzwords and just virtue signal?
Experts call for rigorous audit to protect California recall
https://archive.ph/5jV1Y
But people can still run several sessions of this.

So if I have 100 cores available, I can run 100 sessions in parallel.