skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And clearly you haven't looked at or for well done meta-analysis of the Ivermectin studies that manage for and exclude or put less value on the poorer studies - the conclusions which show high reduction in mortality, highest if used as prophylactic.

Have you spent any time researching the opposing view that you're adamant about?
Indeed, I'd like to see more statistics. In fact, stats play right into the strengths of computers. Thanks to computers doing the drudge work, people can be introduced to stats by directly manipulating sets of numbers, rather than learning theorems about the properties of those sets. While I loved college stats, and especially the proofs, most people don't love math in that way. And if they memorize theorems without proofs, then I'd say they'd be better off without them.
Alternatively, JS programmers should exhibit less contempt for the standardized, sandboxed runtime that JS was originally created to target: the Web browser.

What's nuts is that any of these projects (whether they be single components, larger utilities, or full-blown apps) require a build step that involves anything more complicated[1] than a single machine-readable document in the web browser's native file format and that sits alongside (or in place of[2]) the project README. With so many programmers writing code for the express purpose of making digital documents with behavior dynamic enough to trick you into thinking that the page you have open is really an app, no one in the community with any clout ever stops and says, "Gee, since we're at it, maybe we ought to take this tech that enables us to securely run code on demand and focus it on the goal of allowing other programmers to configure all these modules that we're sharing with one another, or to handle the finishing step of a collection of modules that make up a given app."

Then again, that would presume that any of the stuff that this industry engages in is actually meant to solve any problem, rather than creating a neverending supply of them in order to justify the paychecks being written and the egos they're feeding. If stuff's not laughably overengineered to the point of constantly breaking for no good reason[3], does it even count as "real"[4] programming?

1. https://www.colbyrussell.com/2019/03/06/how-to-displace-java...

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28407936

3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24494434

4. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17165784
We could bring back DNT header for another go. With some legislation and fines, it could be made useful by requiring it to be respected.
Cause it’s prone to failure? America tried the weak federal system where everyone had a different bank and different rules. It was essentially 13 independent smaller “states” than one nation.

Even now people are aghast when Texas limits abortion or tries to outlaw gay marriage or when California’s increased fuel standards affect the entire nation.

Additionally, it makes it impossible for states which would enact stronger gun control measures to enforce them when neighbor states just hand guns out in much less stringent manners.

It also has federal ramifications when gerrymandered districts affect the makeup of our federal law making bodies and increasingly populate them with far more right or left wing representatives than would occur in more balanced districts while disenfranchising voters who’re American systems.

I’m more on the side of California at the end of the day but we’re all Americans here in America, not Texans, Californians, or Iowans. It’s fine to have cultural differences (its what makes the country beautiful in a lot of ways), but the idea we should all just “figure it out with our neighbors” who’re our neighbors cause of relatively arbitrary lines drawn sometimes hundreds of years is a bit crazy and a gift to those who’d see a weak America.
> lengths to deny the obvious

The obvious is they can't do this well... which is why they keep banging into them. The Americans, the British, we keep doing it.

Occam's Razor is the reason we keep bumping into mountains is that we aren't very good at detecting mountains.

People do genuinely seem to not be able to get their head around that it's harder than just looking out of a window, so it's good to remind them that it's state-of-the-art stuff to detect anything out there.
It's not really this simple since you can directly subsidize/incentivize R&D if that's the goal.
All good stuff.

I’m working on a project now and trying my best to make it MISRA compatible because FreeRTOS did the same. You don’t use malloc() but rather pvPortMalloc() which pulls from an already allocated pool. Their HEAP4 system tries to keep the chunks organized. So far I’ve been very happy with it.
It reduces the attack surface an attacker would have to target a package with established reason for running scripts.
People have been drinking coffee and tea for over one thousand years, my friend.
Why SQLite does not use Git (2018)
> (simpler abstractions of things we don't want to think about is the whole point of shared libraries), and I don't believe the industry is capable of reversing course on this

Far from reversing course, the industry seems to be interested in accelerating on the current one— containerization as a deployment mechanism is about doubling down on the black box-ness of binaries. Paradoxically, this doubling down on ‘the whole point’ of shared libraries is also a destructive innovation with respect to the advantages of shared libraries, because it also means surrendering the fine-grained resource sharing that shared libraries, as packaged traditionally, allow.
Why Generalization in RL Is Difficult
I find myself very skeptical that "free samples of really expensive drugs given to indigent patients" constitute very much of the budget there.
>Babylonian accountants and land surveyors did their arithmetic in base 60, presumably because sexagesimal num­bers help with wrangling fractions.

I thought the agreed theory is its due to Babylonians counting the sections of each finger? The thumb is the pointer and it's used to touch each of the 12 sections five times over one loop per finger (thumb sections are not included). It's also why clocks and time are base 12.
On the road 100+ days a year isn’t physically demanding for someone over 75?
As an antiparasitic.

If you do a liver transplant for a congestive heart failure patient, you’ll lose your license, even if liver transplants are a neat and useful procedure.
In the case of doctors it's more high-touch than plain old ads anyway. The representative stops by and chats them up, maybe they get some sponsored continuing education (which is of course designed to push expensive products), etc.
The base regulations aren't really the problem. It's the no-fly zones which make owning a hobby drone basically worthless. Granted, I've only looked at the maps of Germany and Spain, but any area near civilization is marked as a prohibited zone for one reason or another.
Yep. I'm the same way. The only thing to be careful about (in the US) is that banks can force convert a savings account to a checking account if you make more than 6 withdrawals a month. It hasn't ever happened to me, but they warn me regularly about it.
I would not use that term at work. I can only assume the parent is joking.
I don’t understand why you are replying to this thread and not the whole article? Is the thing you linked related to draw.io somehow?
I had a hotel double charge me a number of years back. I called the hotel to straighten it out and got some run around. So, I called my bank (USAA) to ask what I should do. They said “do a chargeback and that’ll force them to show documentation”. “Okay, I’d like to chargeback one of the transactions.” “We’ll just do it for both and let them sort it out.” Hotel never responded at all, so the entire stay was free instead of just being the correct amount.
Scott Hanselman Interviews David Copperfield
it's not like debit cards are extremely safe to begin with. banks (in the US, at least) will happily let you withdraw $XXX more than you actually have and charge you a fee on top of it.

do you routinely overdraw your bank account? if not, you probably a) keep more than enough in checking to cover a typical month's expenses, or b) carefully track your balance to ensure each purchase won't take you past zero. unless having a credit card in your hand gives you an uncontrollable urge to spend more money than you have, I don't really see how this is any less trouble than a debit card. if you're not living paycheck to paycheck, just put the card on autopay and keep 2X your monthly expenses in checking. if you don't have a lot of surplus income, you need to be careful, but it's no different with debit.
Well it felt like I never really got over it. Aside from a brief period of fever, everything else stayed until ivermectin. Headache, fatigue, sob, cough, sense of smell issues, brain fog, all kinds of erratic heart problems. There's a lot of speculation that long covid results from the virus migrating into the body and organs where it persists. This makes sense with what I experienced. Symptoms I've never had before went away within hours and cleared up completely within days of starting it.
Probably Dallas/Austin... or Zurich.
> The source code seems to be on sourceforge.net. I site once important, but now when I see it I either think "the project is most-likely dead" or "can this project be legit? Am I getting malware here?"

This is such a sad thing for me. When I was a kid, Sourceforge.net is where I would always go first to look for software, because I knew that it was a reputable host and that open-source projects participated in a culture of greater respect for users than most freeware projects demonstrate.
Haskell: recommended by the insight of human astrologers.

There’s a poetry in the merging of two new-age religions stemming from different communities. Unfortunately I’m an atheist, and so are most of us here I’d imagine.
The way I see it, both studies show effectively the same result with similar confidence intervals. The US study however covers a shorter timeframe.

As far as hospitalizations go, I am not arguing with that, vaccines clearly reduce disease burden. The question was: Are vaccines effective at stopping spread? Many countries are experiencing record infection rates with a large majority of the population vaccinated. This suggests to me that vaccines are not effective in that regard.
Great to be one of the doctors that gets the bed filled and paid for "for a reason". An invalid reason, but very valid money. People forget who these studies are for, to "help make policy", but really to help practitioners. The purpose of these papers is: firstly to justify the existence of these professions and institutions, to get more money to their initiatives. The purpose is not to protect or help children.

You can tell by the content of studies in this field. They are always about detection. "Customer" acquisition. Throwing more kids into the system. However the child protection systems ... don't protect children very well. Not so long ago there was an article on this site "We are sending more foster children to prison than to college".

https://web.archive.org/web/20210321010610/https://www.kansa...

There are many articles that observe that psychiatric treatment of suicidal kids, and adults for that matter, actually increases the odds they die through suicide instead of reducing it. Which makes putting more people into these situations, will cause more death (and a lot more misery).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5710249/

Clearly anyone who had the welfare of kids in mind would only ever want any action taken that would improve the situation of the child, and would absolutely refuse to act if it didn't. But we know very well if these treatments help or not. They don't.

Therefore any policy that actually seeks to help children would massively reduce children going into the system to the cases that are absolutely unavoidable, and would prevent any expansion of the system until they are very sure kids do well in this system.

These people don't just don't do that, they actively advocate for more resources TAKEN AWAY from caring for these children, and going into finding more of these children to be treated. That tells you that not only do they not care at all about children's welfare, but they're willing to make children's situations worse to advance other goals.

And that should be a very strong reason to tell them to go away, and never come back.
Update: this is now done.
It would be interesting to see the stats on acceptance of this contract if it was used as the terms & conditions of some popular website or the clickwrap agreement on a popular software package.
It could be that and the hospital just had the room or the power needed in that section to install such large powerful devices.
This seems more suitable to a capability-based security model, where dangerous features like eval could be kept in separate packages, and only those packages which depend on them (non-transitively) are able to import and use that functionality.

The reason to disallow importing transitive dependencies is that we can write packages which use that functionality, but only expose a safer/restricted form; e.g. we might forbid dependencies on `eval`, but allow dependencies on a `mock` library, even if `mock` happens to depend on `eval`.

A sibling points out that restrictions can be broken when different packages pass callbacks to each other. Thankfully, that's exactly what capabilities are for (code is written without any "ambient authority", and instead requires capabilities to be passed in as arguments; e.g. see the Confused Deputy Problem)
Conversely, not updating until you can't not update anymore is often the optimal approach, because when you're eventually forced to update, you deal with potential breakage just once. The amount of hassle around updating does not scale with the amount of updates you missed.
> Ultimately, you get what you pay for, all our full stack devs are making 6 figures... While it might not be FAANG money they also almost never work overtime and the stress levels are relatively low.

Yes, it's the blessing and the curse. They are lovely people. They have lives. They aren't working 24/7. But there is misalignment between senior folks who want to innovate and build internal tech around core IP and the talent level of the folks tasked with actually getting that done. Insurance hardly unique in that regard, but an acute issue nonetheless. Firms like GS, JPM, etc have fatter margins (I think) and can afford to pay devs/strats/etc.

Interesting to hear that you went from corporate finance to technical PM. Quite the journey. Would love to dig more into that if you're willing.
Typo. Meant death.
Reshade progress We are going to need more developers
2-3 business days between charging someone's card, and the settlement including that charge hitting my business checking account. Not months.
This makes me think of a flat screen Fresnel and a galvanometer. It would be a fun project to mess around with. I also initially thought of drones but the power requirements would not make for much flight time. "eight independently-aimed 150-watt lasers"
> Latest version is 0.1.7 (August 10, 2018).

Not saying anything from 2018 isn't valuable... I'm currently working on PDF scraping tools, and my lord, the stuff we're left to work with is abysmal... this could be state of the art.
Point 4 has been implemented but I don't know how well it's adopted

https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v7/commands/npm-fund.

Point 3 is interesting, does it work across non-apt package managers?
Your first statement is categorically false.
https://dph.illinois.gov/covid19/vaccine/vaccine-breakthroug...

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/... (table 5 page 19)

Your second statement is categorically false. See my comment above... you know the one you responded too. It actually links to a study showing the viral load is the same. Or here is another study:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...

Please stop spreading misinformation. Saying vaccinated people have a lower chance of getting covid is a true statement. However both of your statements are straight up misinformation.
Yeah, there's a reason users have always perceived planned obsolescence as hostile action.
If it was cheaper to bring a drug through the regulatory process, obviously more drugs would be produced.

The cost explosion for these things are mainly the responsibility of US regulators.
Update: done.
Also card usage varies a lot between countries, mostly for cultural reasons.

Moreover I'm fairly certain that before the mandatory cap on interchange, countries with relatively high card payments were also the ones with the cheapest PSP fees.
> You really have to watch a lot of content before your logical brain will let you believe...

I can't tell if this is a joke/troll or you're suggesting that religious belief requires brain-washing.
The Media and Mr Zuckerberg
Tangentially related... Large animals store considerable amount of carbon.

> if we restored global whale populations to pre-whaling levels, they'd sequester 1.7 billion tons of carbon/year.

https://twitter.com/lauraetam/status/1453054149583462405?fbc...
We have, but that's not something my team (actuarial) can accomplish without help/blessing/oversight from IT.

I don't know all the details but we do have connections to some of our MGAs through XML dumps or perhaps real-time feeds (I'm doubtful). But that data is often missing some of the details as I need. It's useful for policy admin - not for all the other stuff.

We've also explored portals but those are fraught with concerns about double-entry.
It's not really a conspiracy theory though, it's just the reality that much/most of the power of the government is in the hands of unelected bureaucrats. That doesn't imply the bureaucrats are conspiring.

And that's not necessarily a bad thing (for the reasons you describe) but there's a fundamental deceit going on if the president can't actually control that bureaucracy (because people assume that he can).
How practical is this really though? Like, imagine you're a newspaper. Unless you're the FT or Wall Street Journal or something like that, nobody is making an account to read an article. They'll just go somewhere else.
And if you don’t yet believe, just watch a little more.
That’s great to hear, I’m one of the people who complained loudly about that unacceptable behavior. Guess I’ll be reinstalling.
This would mean you would have to work a ton of extra, waste significantly more time than a day with the current interviews approaches, or be "interview hopping" with no steady job for an extended period if nobody hired you. Which could have gaps between "moonlight" sessions. Which could mean you end up broke.
Around the time of GNOME 3, everybody was doing big changes to their desktop experience. There must have been something in the air that said let's screw up desktops. This was when Windows 8 was putting tiles everywhere (but you know, not actually everywhere) and OS X was ruining things in a more subtle way I can't remember.
Thee link doesn't seem to match up with the title here on HN.
Then those packages should explain their reason and ask for permission. Default should be opt-in.
I think what joosters is trying to say that instead of overcommitting a system could just allocate memory directly in swap. Both creating the page in swap and swapping it in on first write can be mostly optimized away apart from the bookkeeping, but you guarantee that you always have enough RAM+Swap to provide what you have committed to.
We are seeing more of it as the Federal government is more paralyzed due to internal divisions in the country. We've already seen states declare themselves immigration "sanctuary" states where immigration laws will not be enforced, and then others declared themselves gun control "sanctuary" states where gun control laws will not be enforced. States have adopted their own fuel emissions standards. California announced it would ban ICE engines while Texas announced it will tax EV cars.

I'd strongly support more devolution and even a U.S. breakup, TBH. Local government is more accountable and I support localism and local autonomy whenever I can. I'd even support a situation in which states had their own currencies, citizenship rules, etc. I understand this is utopian, but more localism and distribution of power rather than concentration of power is something I generally support.
Research suggests people simply tend to spend more when paying with plastic. Sometimes up to 100% more.

https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/credit-cards/credit-cards...
Really? I find him self-important and full of dubious ideas. I know that's not the conventional wisdom about him here, but take a long look at what he actually says about things. He's often wrong, and is rarely open to the possibility that this is the case.
Not according this this contract (SECTION IV.B).

However, this contract does AFAIK leave open the possibility that you have more than one soul; in that case, you could sell your other souls. Just not the one you already sold. I think.
What does it cost? What responsibilities does it entail?
I'm pretty sure kids bourn around 2021 will see using apps for everything as something very natural. People used to rely on physical books for that. No big deal.
Agreed, capabilities seem like a fundamentally better approach in basically all ways that matter. I should probably clarify that I mean "ACL" in the sense of "some kind of control, I hardly care what" since it's an easily-recognized term at least. And there probably will still be an ACL somewhere, e.g. to allow the library to use that eval at all, and then we trust it to pass capabilities correctly to others (or perhaps don't trust it! maybe I don't use that, and don't want it to silently appear later!).
The Latest article in BMJ about the failures in scientific integrity in the pfizer trials are a likely consequence of your last paragraph I would guess.
It is, at least digital advertising. I'm not sure if they can do posters and billboards and the like.
I agree and generally say I'm willing to an alternate, live coding approach instead. I'm not putting in hours and hours in some random take home that may or may not be discussed down the line. Been there and done that so many times. Most of the time it didn't even align with the job.
My son was born in 2013. For some reason I immediately blurted out "Archer" when we found out we were having a boy. My wife did not like it, I loved the name! I kept referring to him as Archer, and then soon she couldn't think of him as anything other than Archer, haha. It's a great name and it suits him so well, and it's unique enough (it was not a popular name back in 2012-2013) but I'm seeing it become more popular now.

He's still the only Archer at his school though. (no, I hadn't even watched the Archer TV series or heard about it, but one day I will...)
As lazy as the original commenter making a statement that isn't backed by any evidence.
This approach seems to be based on “there is only one right way to live and that’s without a car”.

You may not like a lifestyle that is car dependent, but plenty of people do. I’ve lived in cities with high density and excellent transit and what do people buy when they can afford it? A car.

Your claim that these areas are desirable because they aren’t car dependent is clearly not supported by fact. Plenty of areas are highly desirable and people still want their cars.

This article is written like someone complaining about someone else’s taste in wine. It’s all arguments about subjective tastes.
Useful in what sense then? The placebo effect?
I use this approach and it has reduced my stress immensely. Before when my regular credit card was compromised I would need to cancel it and reprogram all my auto-billing accounts. With about 20 of these there was always a painful hiccup. It’s been several years now of smooth sailing.