skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at the FLCCCA’s Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_Line_COVID-19_Critical_C...

It doesn’t start out great:

> According to its co-president, Paul E. Marik, the group has a shared interest in vitamin C.

Apparently they’ve pushed a lot of unproven and not-so-great stuff:

> The group initially started promoting Marik's discredited sepsis treatment protocol as a treatment for COVID-19, and in April 2020 it circulated press releases promoting vitamin C, heparin, hydroxychloroquine and other drugs, before pivoting to ivermectin promotion in October 2020.

A former member of the group expressed skepticism about their approach and resigned over his concerns (there were only 10 people to start with)

> In August 2021 one doctor, Eric Osgood, resigned from the FLCCC because the group "may be contributing to people making the choice not to get vaccinated". Osgood commented: "If you're going to have a page that's dedicated to 'How do you prevent yourself from getting COVID?' that page can't not have vaccines at the top of it".

And apparently one of their members did this:

> In 2021, Fred Wagshul, a member of the FLCCC, prescribed ivermectin for a patient in a hospital in Ohio where he did not have admitting privileges.

Granted, I guess if you were cool with fringe ideas like Vitamin C cures coming into this, none of what I quoted here will change your mind. But this doesn’t strike me as a group I’d trust, even though they have a well-designed website.
Both can send bitmaps, but RDP can and does send graphics (and even text!) rendering commands. You can even influence how text is antialiased on the client. And even "dumb" VNC benefits from having more specific damage (as in, "areas of the screen that changed") than just a generic "all the screen changed, here's the new framebuffer, go figure it out".
It's much cheaper than it should be if we're considering hard limits on available supply and lack of interchangability of other resources. Honestly it shouldn't be cheap or expensive, in a perfect world it would be regulated, but here we are.

It's so cheap that it's commonly used as a welding cover gas as a way to reduce electricity cost and to squeeze more work out of cheaper, lower power equipment. Recycling in the form of capture of storage boil-off, or even collection/retention of helium that can be safely vented from legacy equipment costs substantially more than just throwing it away forever.

But it's useful in ways that nothing else is. MRI is the biggest example, and the largest consumer of helium. There's a whole niche of magnetics that needs helium until science comes up with better magnetics, if that's possible.

Something that doesn't get a lot of detailed attention is leak detection, because there's nothing else that leaks nearly as well (hydrogen molecules are larger than helium atoms!), not to mention safely, as helium. A leaking vacuum jacket means substantial loss of insulation and increased boil-off. Leaking storage of gases is always dangerous - either it's flammable, or poisonous, or an asphyxiant because it's not oxygen, or it is oxygen and everything else is on fire. The process of using helium used for leak detection involves introducing helium into a vessel and looking for helium on the other side. The leak detector itself is a portable mass spectrometer. Leak detection and repair is an extremely rare skill set at any meaningful level of quality, depends on extremely specialized equipment, and it's as expensive as it sounds. If there was a better option, this leak detection niche for helium would be an academic novelty.

Anyway, if this helium source is what it claims to be, it's significant - about 60 years of current production.

https://www.usgs.gov/centers/nmic/helium-statistics-and-info...
I'm a developer of a web app where users interact with each other. Notifying users on in-app activity is the absolute most important thing for them and for us.
I kinda agree and disagree I suppose.

I lived in USA in the 90's and then moved to Canada. Banking system here seemed lightyears ahead of American in terms of functionality, user-friendliness, technology. And it seemed to endure until relatively recently. By all accounts, Canada is behind truly innovative places.

So, though it's late to the game, a lot of those things are still "innovation", to USA, late-trickling as they may be.
Well, the real problem is advertising. It is far too profitable. If we want to live in a less distorted world, start taxing digital advertising heavily. Give people the real choice to pay for services (like we do in every other area in life) instead of paying with their privacy.
Both in conjunction with HCQ and zinc, in conjunction with other drugs (like the antihistiamine treatment I linked to earlier), and by itself.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33465426/
Dope article
In Spain's Spanish we ended up with "new" feminine forms for professionals. Now it's commonplace but some of them sounded pretty strange back then.

For instance you talked about female doctors using "la médico". It's perfectly natural to change that to "la médica", yet you referred to the guard as "el/la guardia" and we still do, we don't talk about a masculine "el guardio".

Here's the funny thing: we had/have "juez" for judge, and albeit is was ordinarily masculine it's not an obvious masculine form according to phonological conventions, so "el/la juez" was common and sounded very right. Then female judges started to prefer the new form "jueza" that sounded awful (it still does), but we ended up adopting it because it's their prerogative anyway, who can argue about that?

It's interesting to compare this with the deprecation in English of the term actress. Well, in Spanish the non-sexist attitude is to preserve the feminine forms (actriz for actress) and to come up with new explicit ones, exactly the opposite that is. So nope, there isn't a universal sociolinguistics that you can extract from the use of contemporary English and I don't understand how come anybody might expect such a thing.
Making it unlawful to operate this kind of service would be a very bad idea, but it's far from clear that it's unconstitutional, and I would expect courts to rule otherwise if Congress decides to impose more logging requirements.
> the downside is there is significant compile time and link time cost to generics.

Are we talking statistically significant or productivity significant compile time cost? Go has a fairly fast compiler, it would be a shame if generics made that a less stand-out feature.
Has the medical profession told you that your current housing situation cures a major ailment?
Unfortunately, the sentence "half of the people in Congress use Signal" is only true for very small values of "half".
This is exactly it, IMO. People are so focused on the VR/AR/"immersion" aspect of the whole metaverse concept – rightfully so, given the Meta keynote – but there's much more to an actual metaverse than some cool goggles/glasses.

If the point of a true metaverse is a persistent, always-on, digital universe that exists parallel to our own, it seems like the company that defined "social media" is well-positioned to define that universe as well.
I'm not sure which was intended, but I think this is much more accurate as a cynical comment on human nature than some comment on "shadow government/deep state" type stuff.
Behind the scenes of the $20M Benzinga acquisition
Yes, which means Bitcoin addresses are anonymous as far as this conversation about disputes is considered. It's even being generous considering the probability that it could accidentally go to a dead address and be lost forever.

Third party escrow isn't unique to bitcoin, and on top of not being competitive can be painful.
> You are very unlikely to have 3 drives fail at the same time, so you're pretty much immune to storage hardware failures.

You have to be careful. If you take three storage devices off the production line and use them as a mirrored array and one fails, there's a good chance they all fail, because you're not just dealing with storage hardware, but storage software too.

HP had two batches of SSDs that failed when the power on time hit some rollover point. And I don't think they're the only one. Fabrication issues are also likely to turn up simultaneously if given equal write loads.

If failures were independent events, you're spot on, but they may not be.
Developing VR on Fedora Workstation – Fedora Magazine
Clinton wanted to drone Pim Fortuyn?
This feels like it's targeted at a very narrow view of what a browser is for. How would a site like fonts.google.com work?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27714868
Here's an analogy originally from Pam Popper. You wouldn't go to a car dealership and buy the car that the dealer recommends. You study up on the models available and choose the one most appropriate for you. And even if you don't know much about the mechanics of cars, even how to change your oil, you probably do a pretty good job, at least better than choosing the car the dealer recommends. Yet the majority of people accept whatever treatment their doctor recommends without asking questions or doing any research on whether the treatment is appropriate. People can learn how to make independent medical decisions, just as they can learn how to buy a car for themselves.
What is said is that if you build something using web tech that is not available online it's fine, what you clearly did is duplicate what is already available on the web.

Still an incredibly dumb rule.
Footguns!? LOL
Epic's valuation is around $30bn and Facebook has the cash to do it but arrogant Epic founder and CEO Tim Sweeney would never sell to big bad Facebook. Maybe he gives in and sells to Facebook because they have common enemies(Apple and Google).

FTC is another problem but they would probably allow this acquisition no matter how big it is because Facebook is not in the business of making video games or game engines.

Besides owning Fortnite and major content creation engines for the metaverse like you said another good synergy is boosting Facebook's Twitch and YouTube Gaming competitor Facebook Gaming with Epic's expertise.
This doesn't really follow IMO and is a result of deep oversimplifications.

Even if you make those simplifications though: If your choices are pre-emptive strike where MAD applies now (near-total destruction) vs. live to 3 months from now, where you have a post-MAD world where one adversary dominates, the post-MAD dominant adversary no longer has the incentive to pre-emptively strike since they aren't worried about a pre-emptive strike from their adversaries since they'd have an effective missile defense system.
> One country invades another, invaded country requests help, US expels invader, US goes home. I wish every other US war was as clean.

While there was no land invasion of Iraq, I'm not sure "goes home" is completely accurate:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_no-fly_zones_conflict

US bases in Saudi Arabia was one of the 'grievances' of al Qaeda:

> 3. One of the principal goals of al Qaeda was to drive the United States armed forces out of Saudi Arabia (and elsewhere on the Saudi Arabian peninsula) and Somalia by violence. Members of al Qaeda issued fatwahs (rulings on Islamic law) indicating that such attacks were both proper and necessary.

* https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/network/alqae...
The single most clear political lesson of the past decade is that using power, even blatantly cynically, when you have it, won't produce much of a backlash. Your fans will just wait until the "other team" does it to complain.

And that's for hyper-partisan issues! I'm not sure there's any truly influential political group that would strongly oppose this. Thinking it's just the politicians who are unaware and/or disagree with the tech-minded is a mistake. The populace is less on our side re: surveillance than we'd hope.
Apart from just not having encrypted data, the only way to achieve what you're suggesting is with a government backdoor into the encryption.

Any backdoor - any! - will result in your data being exposed, sooner or later. Your Signal messages could then be exposed in a data breach on the dark web for all to see.

It is not worth it to risk everyone's privacy to allow for the chance at easily prosecuting a small number of crimes. Remember - you're not preventing crime this way, just allowing for easy evidence capture. There are viable alternative ways of investigating crimes, as others here have said. There are not viable alternative ways of protecting our data.
we certainly can sure improve on that side but currently most of our pages are at most 2 https call

1. html of that page, they never go over 30kb non gzipped, most svg assets are inline, so once you got it, you got it.

2. the tailwind.css file, that is cached after the first page.

so even if you feel fancy and you use graphql, you can't do less 1 http call right ?
That's my point.
If they had just advertized notched screens with the minimum square resolution and positioned the pixels on each side of the notch as an optional bonus, I think we'd all have been grateful.
PWAs are websites, just ones with a lot of functionality, so by the letter of apples rules they are not allowed.

From an outside perspective it seems a fairly hard rule to enforce though. If you packaged gmails web interface up in to an app Id say that has a lot more utility than a flashlight app.
I read through the first link you posted and couldn't find any ideas about what we could use instead of p-Values.

Statistical tests are a very useful and objective method of determining whether the outcomes of one thing/activity are more desirable than another when applied correctly.

Some solutions could be to set a higher bar for statistical analysis education. Or perhaps a more thorough statistically focussed vetting and peer review process for published material?

.. and after reading the second link I note that it includes commentary around the insurmountably difficult challenge of replacing the current paradigm. While not offering a solution, it goes on to provide some great advice for how to improve the quality of statistical research.

Following all of the advice to the letter would make it almost impossible to conduct valid research.

Maybe this is where economists have the upper hand? Just develop some highly abstract mathematical models representing the topic you're interested in, and abstain from rigorously testing them.
I don’t understand the survivorship bias argument. If any company tried to follow in AirBnB’s footsteps and saw their revenue decline as ad spend went down, wouldn’t they widely publicize this fact? “Hey! AirBnB is wrong, and following their advice nearly destroyed my small business” would be a compelling read and get a lot of traction.

I find it hard to believe that such a demonstration of the value of marketing wouldn’t be immediately shouted from the rooftops by CMOs everywhere and find its way into marketing textbooks.
If we don't use the helium then natural gas producers just vent it into the atmosphere anyway. Helium is somewhat renewable because more is constantly created by underground decay of radiative isotopes.
His fear was not reaching the Swedish courts. Sweden has a habit of colluding with the CIA to illegally kidnap residents off of the street at night, and flying them to foreign prisons that have a more lassiez faire approach to torture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repatriation_of_Ahmed_Agiza_an...

Britain in contrast makes it's former colony follow it's actual extradition process as a matter of honor. The closest the CIA has gotten to extraordinary rendition in British territory is occasionally allowing a CIA rendition flight to refuel in a far off territory, but even that was a huge scandal.
> give you a special code that I create you can take an amount of money directly from my bank account, specified by the code. No need to use something like stripe.

> give you a special code that I create you can take an amount of money directly from my bank account, specified by the code. No need to use something like stripe.

That is a check, but digital.
I still hold out hope that the very first game I ever made, in middle school using HyperStudio[0] on a Mac running At Ease for its desktop, will turn up on archive.org some day.

[0] It may have been HyperCard with some extensions for color. I distinctly remember color.
This isn't their first rodeo. The DOJ is well aware of what happens when they send subpoenas to Signal. They're not sending it because they're unaware of the probable result.
The effects of content algorithms on music creators
They more often do than don't.
I think turning it into a press release / advertising pitch is a poor move that's likely to make harsh new legislation more, not less, likely.
I think it’s a cultural problem.

Things are or are not a problem in certain places because that’s just how things have been done. You pick it up when you grow up in that culture.

Which leads to the problem of determining what is actually right or wrong.

For example, I naturally believe that racism is wrong because of the culture I grew up in (multicultural California) tells me that it’s wrong. But I also believe it is wrong because it undermines society and adds unnecessary friction to interactions, so it’s simply more productive if it didn’t exist.

I believe that privacy is important because I believe humans work best when they feel free to think and act freely. I believe society (and myself as a result) benefits far more in that scenario.
They could just product a service that masquerades as a grammar checker provider.

Come to think of it, that'd be the perfect place to go to demand a wiretap - at least one such popular "LY" service already exists.

I'm still shaking my head at what many regular users will agree to..
> Is the issue that compositors don't implement the `screencopy` protocol themselves or use the implementation provided by wlroots?

In general, when your diagnosis to a problem is "the people using my product are all just too lazy to use it right", the problem is almost always that your product is the problem.
Congrats on the launch, and good luck!

How is it different from Glean? https://www.glean.com
Setting expectations is critical to success.
> Tikkie is similar but is p2p. I can create a link or a QR code and send it to people. They can then use the link or QR code and send me money.

Isn't that just PayPal/Venmo?
secret FISA courts are also against the constitution, yet here we are.
It’s a rather complex topic with all sorts of factors including economics of a small market and FAA red tape. Av web has a great multi part on failure modes of engines and why new engines often don’t succeed

https://youtu.be/mwpzTnLC8BY

https://youtu.be/_k1TQGK3mZI
And on the next episode of Are You Smarter Than An American!

Before you down vote me, I live in Texas. Tied for last with Florida.
Love the suggestion but I don't think it's as simple with reference capabilities. It's easier and safer in the long run, but not simpler.
Interesting read, I recently picked up a Fourier analysis textbook and there are some neat ideas from there.

> This also means this article is likely to have innacuracies
ironic
Or just market manipulation.
Should the control be tied to the stock ownership?
I agree with the author that we need to see more examples of larger, older plants to get an idea of what our lil plant bbs could be someday. Fortunately there are some great Facebook groups for different genera, and of course there’s https://www.reddit.com/r/matureplants/
exactly !
most browser will wait for the next to load before unloading the current one so with a little css trick you can do a nice transition between pages

While most SPA will put you on a weird state (of course you can handle it nicely too, but it requires effort for something you had for free in the first)
that’s why Signal sends an empty notification then uses their own EE2E for notification wordings.
The Most Important Battle for Press Freedom in Our Time
I have absolutely no single program using Qt Quick on my desktop, nor I can actually remember the name of any single one. Which is funny since I actually was a Qt Quick developer in the past and can tell you a shitton of embedded platforms (i.e. cars) that use Qt Quick. Just no desktop programs.

I do not have any single Gtk4+ program on my desktop, and I use a quite up-to-date rolling distribution.

Skia having a GL backend does not mean it is used. Firefox does not use it on almost any Linux platform. It still blacklists even the FOSS drivers. Tested today with upstream v93 and using radeon opensource driver.

No idea why bring VA-API into this. It is practically the same thing as XvMC with a much more generic API. It is also not necessarily Vulkan or GL. Ironically this is also one area where intelligent remoting tools win (they can send the original compressed video stream down the wire. RDP does it), where a plain H264 stream will be forced to recompress, increasing latency at best.

Cairo is also backed by X rendering and this is the default.

Basically, if I ignore the compositor and games, I do not have _any single program_ on my system which uses GL or Vulkan for 2d graphics. Not surprising: in my experience, using GL for 2D graphics (i.e. arcs, lines, etc.) usually ends up in a big slowdown -- and a big increase in memory usage and crashes. It is mostly worth only for when you do pure texture manipulation like scaling, rotating, etc. i.e. final compositing or layering.

And, if, in addition to the above, I ignore the browser, and set the corresponding Qt flag, then _all programs_ in my system render using X rendering.

Easily tested because the performance difference is abysmal when using NX.
> This is exactly the solution to that problem.

I could be wrong but I was under the impression that the way end-to-end encryption worked (like what Signal claims, I thought) was it was physically impossible for them to decrypt (handover decrypted data (aka your messages) to a court of law) because the public/private keys are impossible to crack and also not known by Signal.

It sounds like this isn't the case whatsoever.

I don't really understand modern chat apps that talk about encryption. By no means am I a pro on the subject so I apologize in advance but... if you really don't want ANYBODY EVER snooping on your data network wise (unless they are holding one of the devices and reading the screen after it has been unlocked via passcode/biometric, etc.), can't you just tell your friend a key and exchange it offline and then communicate freely with no middleman? Or even, with a middleman... that is just transporting your data and doesn't know your agreed upon shared secret or keys.

How could a subpoena ever work against this kind of data?
You actually can favorite comments in HN by clicking on the timestamp and then clicking favorite.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29042178
> Zelle was, in large degree, a response by banks to avoid being disintermediated by the payment apps

Curious what the HN crowd thinks about this ... was this a good or bad thing?
It's likely a date value (as literally stated) rather than date-time. It's not 'rounded' as much as the time value is simply not present.
There are a lot of people who like Toyotas because they just work. If they can put out a mid-spec EV that doesn't have GM's fire issues or Tesla's missing fasteners issues, they'll get customers.

https://www.forbes.com/wheels/news/ev-reliability-varied-as-...
> Rehashed, rebooted, remade, and reimagined over and over again to become your pop culture too.

On the plus side at least we got '90s rock instead of '80s hair bands. (Though I find U2's 1980s music better than their 1990s stuff.)
I think the contract in the context package is that WithCancel may leak resources if cancel is not called and the parent context is cancelable but never canceled. At least, that seems to be the behavior I see in the implementation here:

https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/context/context...

So in this case, errgroup probably doesn't have a choice and needs to call cancel() at some point.