skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But the new wisdom is that any policy which disproportionately affects a certain group is racist.

That doesn't sound like an accurate interpretation of that document. Here's the non-strawman version:

> Policies that are purported to be “color-blind” or “race-neutral” have all too frequently been designed to benefit White children and families, and harm children and families of color directly and indirectly.
…
> In the past, public policy has too often been siloed, and policies intended to support children have failed to address the larger struggles their families face. Policy has even actively undermined families in the name of protecting children—as we see with the child welfare system, which disproportionately threatens and separates Black and Indigenous children from their loved ones.

What that's getting at is the idea that there are many cases where policies did not incorporate an explicit racial check but still produce that outcome. For example, if your city has a magnet school which doesn't have good bus service, it could act as a racial filter if a higher percentage of white families can afford to own cars, even if nobody who set the policy had that goal. That policy would be bad because the filtering effect would be real and isn't relevant to the stated goals of the program — whereas having, say, a height threshold for a basketball team is pretty reasonable because that's directly linked to performance, whereas it wouldn't make much sense for, say, a biathlon team.

In the context of that article, this is a notorious problem in the child welfare system where you have major events based on subjective judgements about the quality and safety of the home environment or the ability of families to provide for a child. It doesn't need to have a “Is this person black?” question on a form to still have negative outcomes if there are subjective factors like predominantly white middle-class caseworkers feeling less safe in a poor majority-black neighborhood and that influencing their assessments. That's what they're talking about when they say that polices must recognize how these different factors intersect — it's awareness, not an absolute, and it's an attempt to correct for the way data-driven decisions can still be skewed by societal biases.

Going back to this discussion, as I explained the difference is that the policy is clearly linked to a simple, neutral objective (everyone gets sick, nobody wants to) and the way to comply with it is easily available to everyone at no cost. That's not racist because it's not based on fixed attributes which people cannot change and there's no significant barrier to compliance. In contrast, a policy which, say, said people who are at elevated risk of sickle cell anemia couldn't eat a restaurant would be racist because there's no plausible safety justification for such a policy, everyone would know why that one “objective” factor was selected, and there's nothing which an affected person could do change to comply with the policy.
I read that thread and it has insider reports about how Valve chose to give its tech away to Oculus. How is that Oculus' fault?

Also don't see the issue with Carmack. Code you write ethically belongs to you, no matter what the law or your employment contract says
Is there a place where American companies draw the line? Or is there one?

For example, if China demanded Apple hand over information on which all iPhone users have <x> religious app installed so it can profile or do worse things to that group, would Apple just oblige?

And whereas America’s political apparatus might have stopped Apple from doing that in the past, now they don’t care either since they also have equity in Apple and are counting on Apple to avoid any disruption to their business with China (whether manufacturing, direct sales, or any piece of the supply chain)?
I wonder what the cost/benefit curve is for lobbying from $0.

$22B is about $150 for every working American. It probably cost Microsoft less than $1mm to lobby for this deal.
No matter how reliable your phone is you can always have an accident, like the phone drops and breaks. A good practice, if possible, is to keep an old(er) phone as a backup device and make sure you have proper/backups migration paths.

P.S. As a pinephone owner I don't consider it to be a good options for a backup device. I can only hope that one day the ecosystem gets there.
If it's over 50% then it's no problem, they can just quit it without fearing network effects. There will be enough users in the new platform.
Pretty common is an understatement. Everyone I have met over 50 used reading glasses. It starts somewhere between 40 and 45, but the number of people without presbyopia over 50 must be minuscule.
Harmless Bacteria Go Rogue Turning into Deadly Flesh-Eating Variants
It's "functional" but has too many caveats that make it a pain to use on a daily basis. Like, tabs don't update while in the background, it keeps killing tabs after some time, scrolling on some sites is a mess because the navbar gets fucked and starts covering half the page for some reason, when certain HTML elements are too close to a hyperlink you can't click on them, etc. These are all things that worked fine on version 68 and before.
The point of science is to determine what is true. The entire idea of scientific research relies on the premise that objective truth exists, that causes cause effects, that if a process works a certain way today that it works that way tomorrow.

The natural result is that you get two diametrically opposed narratives - truth and falsehood. And it is certainly not the case that simply because the two narratives are opposed that they are of equal merit. Your job is to pick the truth.

The truth is not where it is because of anyone's political beliefs. The truth is where it is because it is true. Your political beliefs can (and should) change to follow the truth. Or you can compromise between truth and falsehood, and end up at falsehood.

I am certainly not claiming that either "tribe" has been perfect at sticking with truth - but it's clear that the truth is not in the middle. Where both "tribes" have erred and killed, it has been when they were not extreme enough in the pursuit of truth and instead incentivized by political expedience.
Epic would tell you that they have been very successful in predicting sepsis too. But it's hard to train a model that generalizes to data from other sources (the problem described in the article). How does BH's model work outside Johns Hopkins? That's the real test.
What new platform? Why won’t the new platform be just as bad?

Switching brand of cigarettes doesn’t protect your lungs.
what i love is how apple takes advantage of my disability to steal all of my privacy with airtags and find my. i use it all the time but i f apple under my breath every time.
It's a fake render, but the quoted Reddit comment also links to a real video of task manager rendering Bad Apple.

https://dontfeedthegamers.com/doom-recreated-windows-task-ma...
In what world does it take 22 billion dollars to develop an AR goggle program. Its not a mystery why we have out of control spending and certain groups lobby and get wonderfully rich off the governments incompetence and corruption.
How does this work if the closure will mutate a closed-over location? e.g.

(let ((x 1))
(funcall (read (prin1-to-string (lambda () (setf x 3)))))
(print x))

[edit]

Realized I have Emacs installed and tried it; the above prints "1" while calling the lambda without first serializing causes the (print x) to print "3"
No.

Here, eat this rock. That's be $500. Look at that, another treatment option.

Critical thinking is important in medicine. You can't just trust any yahoo with medical advice.
In some cases, for some papers it might be possible to eventually get rights to the charts that would satisfy your own publisher's legal department yes. They'd have to jump through those hoops every time though, and time is money.
Antitrust is much broader than "monopolies". It's all about concentrated power. Saying "monopoly" is just shorthand for market power, it's not a binary definition.
I once built such a trial option myself. You could start a free trial (just within the app, no "native trial" involved) and then sign up for the paid plan with native in-app purchases once it ran out.

It got rejected by Apple. They insisted I use the native app store trial which is opt-out.
Single rotor designs remain efficient to a rather large size regime. The largest helicopter in operational use today is the Mil
Mi-26 which has only a single rotor. The prototype Mil V-12 was a little larger and had two rotors but was not successful.
Of course they support an opt-in model, they can't really choose to not support it. The "free trial" can just be the app giving you all the features for a week, and then the app can prompt you to sign up (opt-in) for a subscription with Apple/Google when that ends. No CC number until after the trial ends.

EDIT: I'm wrong, comment next to mine says Apple has rejected this. Maybe Google wouldn't though?
I wasn't saying they didn't have their uses, just that they are generally poor at doing them. Though again we've also never really invented anything better. I'm not saying they aren't useful, just that they aren't great.
It will be just as bad, I'm just mocking this stupid survey.
A good reminder that working at MSFT means that your code may one day be applied in products used to conduct mass murder.
Cloudflare Uses HashiCorp Nomad (2020)
It is so hard to know whether these reports are really done with the vigour that justifies trusting the conclusions but I guess I'll spend some time finding out.
Pick a few features and make them the free tier. Upsell some premium content, or have a “first three goals are free” model, unlimited goals in the subscription.

Anything but paying up front for a year.

If there was a free tier I’d download and try it.
Except you’re lying. Neither side is explicitly opposing the vaccine. Using your level of hyperbole, one side is against the other forcing them at gunpoint to take the vaccine.
yeah downvote the retard. gfy.
This reminds me how I was noticing similar in Monaco, a constitutional monarchy. My conclusion was that if it had poor people, then it would be seen as an authoritarian despot. But because it does not house poor people or let unhoused stick around outside, it is seen as a wealthy place where anything goes. It just doesn't encounter strife, but if it did it would be seen as authoritarian.

Just an interesting inequality about how jurisdictions are perceived.
>What scientific education and experience is your common sense based on?

What you are effectively telling him is, shut up and listen to the "experts". That's not how freedom of choice works.
I took a shower. What do you mean 'you need to take off the tracker before you get in'?
> Reference counting is usually very expensive, because even reading a variable updates the reference count

There are many papers out there on how to elide most ref count operations on locals, and runtimes that use ref counting for automatic memory management typically defer ref count updates in various clever ways (like Nim IIRC). You give up some latency for significant throughput gains.
People are improving the SW constantly. And it does steadily get better ever since the release (and before, because A64 is older than the pinephone, and was also implemented in mainline Linux by someone other than the SoC vendor).
$400? Absolutely never.
k0s is a single binary.
> From a system architecture perspective, kubernetes is very complex since it handles a multitude of complexities, but that's why it _can_ be very simple from a user's perspective.

I’ve been doing software for 20 years in one form or another. One of the things I’ve learned is the simpler and more polished something seems to the user, it is almost always because there is a hell of a lot of complexity under the covers to make it that way.

Making something that handles the 80% is easy. Every step closer to 100% becomes non-linear in a hurry. All that polish and ease of use took months of “fit & finish” timeboxes. It took tons of input from UX and product. It involved making very hard decisions so you, the user, don’t have to.

A good example is TurboTax online. People love to hate on their business practices (for good cause) but their UX handles like 98% of your common tax scenarios in an incredibly easy to use, highly polished way. Robinhood does a pretty good job too, in my opinion—there is a lot of polish in that app that abstracts away some pretty complex stuff.
The current knowledge, around Ivermectin, and possible benefits in the treatment of COVID-19 is that this peer reviewed, meta statistical study, published on a respected journal found slightly positive effects:

"Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19 Infection: A Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, and Trial Sequential Analysis to Inform Clinical Guidelines"

https://journals.lww.com/americantherapeutics/fulltext/2021/...

Conclusions:

"Moderate-certainty evidence finds that large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin. Using ivermectin early in the clinical course may reduce numbers progressing to severe disease. The apparent safety and low cost suggest that ivermectin is likely to have a significant impact on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic globally."

However as this article mentions:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/16/huge-study-s...

One large part of the meta analysis and the list of studies included, had also the Elgazzar study and this was one of the
discredited studies. It is also claimed, as the Elgazzar study was so large, and massively positive, it would skew the evidence in favor of ivermectin. As far as I know, so far these statements were made by respected practitioners, but no statistical peer reviewed meta-studies to support
their claims have been published until now.

I would wait for the results of the highly respected,
Oxford led, Principle study:

https://www.principletrial.org/

https://www.principletrial.org/news/ivermectin-to-be-investi...

So far there were able to conclusively confirm the asthma drug budesonide shortens recovery time in non-hospitalised patients with COVID-19 :

https://www.principletrial.org/news/asthma-drug-budesonide-s...

They were also able to dismiss Azithromycin, Colchicine and Doxycycline as having no helpful effect.

https://www.principletrial.org/results

There is plenty of appalling behavior to fuel keyboard warriors, on both sides. The BBC and CNN have not behaved
much better:

https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1448478540685463552
From the article:

> The authors clustered addresses so that all addresses that sent bitcoins in any single transaction were deemed to belong to the same entity.
you're just writing nice frames that reveal your bias. a lot of people who questioned health authorities throughout this have been vindicated on various things, including the threat of COVID itself. similarly, the "good" tribe you highlight in a) has members who post things on the internet about "what is to be done" about the unvaccinated that would make your skin crawl.

the reality is that there are many perspectives on many issues, and by bucketing things the way you have, you are re-enforcing bad mental models.
There have been tracing applications around for years now in this space. They've identified wallets & send micro transactions around to many to distinguish who is who in terms of dark markets, services, bad actors etc. Given the many hacks with wallets and also services selling that data believe me they know more than you are giving them credit.

In terms of the bad actions.. Those who are trying to hide money have known this for years so they are in different currencies that provide better privacy.
Yes that's true. But when we're talking about this on Hacker News, it's interesting to talk about the why. Especially when the why is "Google and Apple make more money this way".
So does working on Linux. Or like the 7zip lib.
Some quick googling doesn’t back this up and my understanding is that ivermectin has only shown itself to be effective at doses that are higher then are remotely safe. It also just isn’t the sort of thing there would be incentive to lie about. Probably then the straightforward story is true no it’s only effective as prescribed as treatment for parasites. If you’d like to provide some sources though or more explanation that would be great.

Note that TMPRSS2 has been a potential target for treating covid basically since the beginning, so some one lying and claiming it as a mechanism of action isn’t surprising
"Pontificating from a position of authority with nothing to back it up" is what every thought leader does though; it's practically a requirement for amassing "influence" as everyone calls it.

Why does Uncle Bob get a larger amount of ire?
nico your f’ing right
> The politics are toxic in both places.

Can't speak to outside of Calgary, but as long as politics is toxic in most places, reason why I stay here even though I could make more elsewhere is cause I can actually be a single guy and afford a decent place in Calgary.

I know married families in Toronto who individually make more than I do and still are struggling to come up with money for a freaking condo. That's insane.

The less than stellar transit and dead downtown scene notwithstanding.
All of the things you're describing are layers on top of the dollar, not the dollar itself. In the same way, Bitcoin requires investment to build up those systems. When people push propaganda against it, it deters the ability for that to happen (the exact point of the propaganda).

For example, loans already exist: https://unchained.com/loans/.

The internet didn't do lots of things back in the 90s and look at it today. This game is long-term and requires investment and attention _now_ to achieve its potential. Having a decentralized form of money is an incredible head start.
Given that time is of the essence with antivirals, we need to give people lateral flow antigen tests they can take at home (very accurate if they come up positive) as well as some kind of pre-presciption (show the pharmacist your positive test result and get the antivirals or some such). Waiting for a doctors appointment will take too much time.
Ode to a Non-Technical Product Manager (Revisited)
The original claim doesn't cite any peer reviewed research.

Nonetheless, there are enough really bad peer reviewed studies out there (which get attention) that it's not insane to willingly assume the worst.
From reading OP I it sounds more like mobile-config-firefox is not installed and thus Firefox does not work properly.
Physicists make most precise measurement ever of neutron’s lifetime
That's the thing when people say "Trust the science." Yes, the scientific method is absolutely the best way to advance human knowledge. However, like any process mediated by humans its administration is fallible.
Saving Your Ticket Stubs, and So Much Else
I went to a liberal arts college in New England, so I couldn’t receive a diploma without reading some Thoreau. No one took this famous passage more to heart than I: "I went to the woods [i.e., Paris] because I wished to live deliberately [i.e. drink a lot of wine], to front only the essential facts of life [i.e. girls!], and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived [i.e. or completed The Jumble, That Scrambled Word Game, in the International Herald Tribune]."
We should work on making user privacy more private, not more portable.

If it does not exist it does not need to be ported.

A piece of data which has been put somewhere is there forever. It cannot be moved, only copied.

And we should disincentivize data collection by making it worthless or costly, so only the strict minimum to make something work is collected.

edit: and having a central place where companies can request personal data is to be avoided: it should be hard to know where to find someone's data.

Instauring data dividends would risk encouraging people to share personal data because it could benefit them financially, and that we probably want to avoid as well.
I’m always curious on how the selection process works. How come I’m not this person or that person? How come I’m this person
They use various clustering algorithms and heuristics, but it's true that it only gives a lower bound at best.

For example: https://youtu.be/D_Eqz8_Jm2E
It is not a partisan point in favor of one course of action or another. Though not surprising that it is read as one.

We have barely started to understand long term implications of covid infection, mRNA / classic vaccines or various treatments. For example, we are almost a year after mass vaccination campaigns started. We still don't know if/how many boosters are required for optimal vaccine performance. Nobody can cite 5-year effectiveness number for mRNA vaccines, which are by far the most popular vaccines in the West. This should raise red flags to any critically thinking person.

By necessity, we are operating in "faith" mode. And that's ok. Often times faith is a good enough action guide.
Right, they had reasons for their bad call. But it definitely was a bad one.
SteamOS?
The idea of taxing digital advertising revenue because it is too profitable as an antidote makes no sense on at least three different levels.

1. It being profitable is good for getting more people to get into the market. Taxing it by activity if anything discourages competition!
2. What does degree of profitability have to do with clickbait? Spamming isn't very profitable but it does generate some revenue so we are stuck with the crap.
3. The advertiser network's profit is entirely seperate from how much the individual end-point earns by showing them.
So much wrong with this article.

Funds don't originate with criminal activity, they originate with coinbase transactions. A dollar used on illegal activity doesn't make that dollar less useful, that's part of the whole idea behind money in the first place. You don't measure how much money was used at some point doing illegal activity, if you go back far enough, every dollar was used on something illegal at some point. The only honest measure is how much is currently being used for illegal activity.

"The elite" implies people that own mansions on long island. But the elite in this case includes regular people that made the smart financial decision to go in on this thing early. When being elite is superfluous it becomes a meaningless distinction.

Addresses do not equate to individuals.

The article is interesting though, it is still a decent article and somewhat informative.
> cpvc isn't that common in household pipes, is it?

From what I have read it seems CPVC is used for residential hot water lines when copper is not being used (and copper is expensive).

I was assuming cPVC and PVC were the same but that is not the case. cPVC is more specialty when compared to PVC since it can handle a higher temperature and pressure, and costs a bit more [1].

1: https://pvcpipesupplies.com/cpvc-vs-pvc

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Some additional but not directly related info found along the way:

- https://www.cdc.gov/biomonitoring/Phthalates_FactSheet.html

- https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2015-09/documents/ph...
Broadly speaking, a wide variety of people have proven themselves incapable of evolving in light of the evolution of scientific evidence. Morons in California masking children outside in 90 degree weather are just as guilty of this as those who claim the vaccines are poison. The fact that we have now put ourselves in a position where we have to defer to idiotic bureaucrats in government to point us at what we should do and who we should be angry at for disobeying implies bad times are ahead.
Credit card fraud is effectively the same as someone stealing your bitcoin wallet password. Bitcoin does nothing to stop that. In fact, credit cards are much better at stopping fraud since they'll just undo any transactions you dispute.
It would be interesting to see whether people think news networks also harm their mental health.
Missouri governor criticized for confusing vulnerability disclosure with