skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got whacked again into reading from the smallest portal window to the main body of the article.

On my iPhone Firefox screen real estate, nearly 2/3rd were taken over by website’s navigation area (or is that the floating outline index of the article itself?).

Despite that challenge, I doggingly read on with the main portal that mainly and underwhelming overtook 1/4th the screen.

Good article. Hell of a website although.
Santana Row (in the heart of Silicon Valley) supplies a useful counterexample, an outdoor mall with apartments built above, but for most malls that’s redevelopment either way.

(Of course if you like mixed use neighborhoods and don’t care for the overproduced generic pseudo-fanciness of that particular development, you can always just move to New York or something)
The best meta-study review of Ivermectin I've seen was done by Scott Alexander [0]. He individually reviewed a few dozen studies. His take was that Ivermectin is an effective dewormer that is useful as a prophylactic when people are widely exposed to worms. Because they don't catch worms, they're in better shape to fight Covid when infected. However Ivermectin has no effect in most developed countries where the general population isn't subject to worm infections.

[0] https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-t...
> If you think "my ability to make money on social media platform capitalism" and "the original intent of the first amendment" are the same thing, then we have no common ground about what America is or means.

I don't. Thanks for letting me clear that up.

> Freedom to speak and freedom to profit from coordinating a platform for speech are different things.

Let's accept it because you've written it. What is it that you object to in either the freedom to speak or the freedom - via any means (freedom, right?) - to profit from it?
Malls were originally designed and imagined as being condos/shopping center.

This is common in asia and I would love a grocery store at the base.
I'm not sure I understand your statement https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2035389 showed an absurdly large effect in a controlled blinded trial which was at least part of the reason emergency approval was granted.
Really good tools and extremely expensive
ScreenCaptureKit seems to Apple only, so this only helps Mac users.

While nice it seems to be a trend where Apple seems to contribute to open source projects now to improve its own performance only on their own devices (blender comes to mind). Maybe Im being a bit cynical.

Still a positive I guess.
So, help me here. If 7000 hospitalized are over 65 and 11,000 are under 65, does that not show that there are 4000 less elderly hospitalized than middle-aged?

If I look at those numbers, the elderly are not "dominating" the hospitals. In fact, that would show that if you looked in a hospital at any given time, there would be more middle-aged than elderly. I get that "per-capita" the rate is higher, but that does not matter to the hospital census.

What am I missing?
Oh, you mean Cadegiani, the same "crazy person [that] decided to put his patients on every weird medication he could think of [... and] helpfully designated some random patients in his area as a sort-of-control, and then synthetically generated a second control group"[1]? Who would have thought?

[1] https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-t...
McCarthyism was exactly about accusing people falsely of being associated to communists.
Thank you for the suggestion. We had had this requests since the beginning, but the issue is that at $1/$2 per month, one chargeback cost us 7 to 15 customers at these plans to support just the implicated costs. That's why we never got lower than 9$.

Granted, we don't have chargebacks everyday, but we get some occasionals one that, at these price, would hurt way more.

Now, we still offer an alternative plan that is available only upon request (or on certain occasions). We call it the "Lite plan" at 30$ per year, where you have all the advantages of the premium plan, but without the SMTP sending part. If that interests you, just send a request to the support and we'll enable it for your account :=)
In politics and economics, too many predictions overweight the recent past
Latte: Evaluation Framework for Disentangled Latent Spaces
Huh, very interesting. Never even considered emojis in the terminal before. Hope these issues get fixed though (even though I personally don't use emojis in my terminal).
My son would totally be in to that, and I figured he'd have an ok time in the pandemic because of that. Unfortunately, his friends (were 6th grade, now 7th grade) turn out to be complete cyberbullies online. They just get hyper aggressive with each other and every other week during the pandemic my son would be in tears because his friends were so toxic. Once back in person at school, they are totally fine (well, within standards for middle schoolers!) and have a great time, but even now there are several he can't be around online because they just want to find a target and gang up on them. Sometimes it is my son, sometimes some other kid.

Plus a lot of parents are paranoid about online interaction to a crazy degree and will hardly let kids interact online - it makes no sense, but they consider it to be the great bogey man of the 21st century and think that pedophiles are ready to instantly jump on their kids, even if they are in a private discord room just chatting.
Which actually adds value to Masterclass because really what kind of an education could one get from Netflix?

I’ve thought for years that netflix could/should really do something interesting with education. I’d love some high quality lectures and courses from them. Like actually legit ones.
>As an argentine this is a spot on summary. We are in a shitty situation and things are just gonna wet worse

Do you feel the elections are fair? Mandatory voting is a thing eh? Yet still just a 2 party system?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Proposal#Economic_i...

Like they are obviously proposing some good options, but they didnt do anything near necessary between 2015 and 2019 and then lost the next election?

Is there any talks of revolution? Probably would have the be violent. Frankly a worse situation than the seemingly ineffective government you have.

If I were to make a suggestion, the world is large. You can move to a country that isn't going to be so broken for the foreseeable future. The move will be painful, but its an investment in yourself and your family.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/ca...

I'm Canadian, but we have a large economic immigration system. You're obviously a tech and know english. You're likely going to be approved quickly.

Because of our relationship with World War 2, we have a worker shortage of 2030 going to hurt us badly. We need people to fill that hole.
Thank you so much for your awesome comment :) I'm glad ImprovMX is useful for you!
Kees really has started a great plan here, These memory bugs accounted for a number of real-life exploits that were viable and able to be exploited on users systems. The wifi examples were just the start.

With these mitigations in place it will raise the bar for attackers.
Whoever started putting Unicode everywhere instead of sticking it to word processing destroyed an entire generation.
You don't have to open up ports or use a VPN.

TV also connects to the local session. So you can screen share basically.
Or it's a natural immediate reaction of a normal person in distress who wasn't prepared for an outsider to come sabotage their presentation and made them look incompetent in front of an audience while they're already stressed out.

Leave it up to engineers to expect everyone (else) to be the paragon of virtue rational homo sapiens sapiens with all the wisdom and maturity.
You should to be able to do this in the Philippines for unlimited data and to get around carrier induced "Fair Use Policies. ;)
Yeah, you can't eliminate essential complexity by narrowing your view, it will just obscure the big picture.
This is probably more due to population density and GDP per capita. The US has the most space and the most money per person, so one would expect lots of retail per person there.
He also describes one of Cadegiani's other studies with some helpful color.
Probably you should make sure Alex Jones didn't do something horrible like call the sandy hook shooting victims "crises actors" leading to mass harassment campaigns and suicides (that he is currently losing lawsuits over) before you decide to defend a random person for no reason.
I worked in cyber security at a major industrial company for 5 years. Yes “insider threat” is a very real concern and people get busted exfiltrating company data all the time.
You are right. I apologize for injecting a subject that has no relevance to the conversation, sometimes I forget that doing so is not within HN guidelines. (And by right I obviously mean correct, although it is an interesting double entendre!)
Antispam isn't just IP based.
Helps to know that the constellations looked nothing like their referent back then, either.
kitty seems to do the right things.
That might help some middle managers at Twitter but it’s irrelevant to the company. If anything adding such pop up’s just costs them views and thus revenue.
At our startup, things are still being shaped so there's not a slick development experience.

We have robust documentation and we've practiced engineers maintaining a "stash" repo for their notes, which may sync back up to the primary documentation. We also make an effort wipe our stack and redo it every 2-4 weeks, so that we understand the warts while potentially finding new ones.

We'll slowly move towards better developer experiences (and Makefiles are honestly great for most use cases), but a documentation culture is most important right now.
Incredibly easy. Binance is even sponsoring the argentine football team

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/01/25/binance-to-spon...
> I think I'll forego retelling any of my tradeshow pranks.

A good prank is when the two parties can laugh about it together when it’s done.

If someone is just interfering with another person’s job and then smugly walking away, it’s not really a prank. They’re just being a jerk for the purpose of smug personal satisfaction at the expense of someone else.

That’s the difference. This may have been relatively easily fixed with a power cycle, but having done a lot of long days in tradeshow booths I can empathize with the poor guy in the booth who had to deal with someone deliberately interfering with his job and stressing him out. Obviously it turned out okay, but having attendees deliberately break your live trade show demos for laughs sucks.
The dynamic ad insertion comes from the service backing the URL for the podcast in the RSS feed. If all you receive is a stream of bits which decode to audio, how do you tell that it’s an ad that’s been spliced into the audio?

If Spotify are actually hosting the content themselves, it’s a different story, and I’d expect them to be able to not insert ads for premium users. If they’re just reading the feed and sending the request to origin, it’s a bit more difficult.
That example cannot describe the 'spooky action at a distance'. Because it involves 'local variables' which have been dis-proven by the bell-inequality in actual experiments.

Taking the standard example of an entangled pair of photons. Those must have opposite spin. We then move the photons rather far apart measure the spin on one side. Then because of entanglement and conservation, the spin someone will measure on the other side is guaranteed to be the opposite.

A 'local variable theory' explains this by saying that the moment the entangled pair of photons is created it is already determined what the two spins are. This variable (the pre-determined spin) then travels with both photons (hence being 'local' to the photon). And the one measurement does not affect the other measurement.

The bell inequality shows this to be false. Crucial to the bell inequality is that, when measuring spin, You don't get back the 'angle'. Instead you choose a reference plane, and measurement will tell you whether the spin is pointing above or below that plane.

Now in the bell experiment. You measure in two different planes at the two different ends. If you pick two planes at a 180 degree angle. You will always find the same result on both sides (perfect correlation). If you pick two planes at a 0 degree angle, you will always get the opposite results (perfect anti-correlation). If you pick the planes at a 90 degree angle, the results will be totally independent, and this completely uncorrelated.

On these 3 angles (0, 90 and 180), quantum mechanics and a 'local variable theory' agree on the correlation coefficient between the measurements. (-1, 0 and 1 respectively). Bells inequality concerns the other angles. In those cases quantum mechanics predicts a stronger correlation (either more positive or more negative) than the local variable interpretation can predict. This discrepancy is strongest around angles of 45 degrees. Where a local variable theory means the correlation cannot be above 0.5, but quantum mechanics allows a correlation of up to ±1/√2 = ±0.7071.

These correlations were measured experimentally, and something close to the QM maximum of 0.7071 was measured. Hence disproving there are local variables.
They will always add advertising to paid services. Not doing so is leaving money on the table. Eventually some executive is gonna realize that and do it. Actually paying for stuff just makes us even more valuable to them.
The groupthink here is disappointing. Rather than be glad that a cheap and widely available drug is possibly effective at treating the effects of covid, armchair experts here instead pounce on it with attacks.

I wonder if Twitter and Facebook will suppress the study.
What are the dimensions of a Lego brick?
Well, they received 350k dollars in donations in 2020 alone.

I've also heard that they offer "consulting" to governments, such as in Brazil or India. Both used Ivermectin in their "Covid Kits". Didn't really work out, though.

>He made multiple recommendations some of which got adopted as standard of care (ivermectin wasn't adopted)

Shouldn't that show you that he might just be wrong on this one? If he was right, why wouldn't it be adopted?

>Then again, there are also studies designed to undermine the evidence for off label treatments, such as the one about HCQ that was retracted from the Lancet.

Do you have more info?
From what I can tell, both of those are only for Norway?
I support Pine64’s ongoing efforts to make the PinePhone into a viable Linux phone. But the existence of the PinePhone doesn't justify Apple's anti-competitive actions.

If you want to exclusively download apps from the App Store and exclusively make in-app purchases through Apple's payment system, you are 100% free to do so, even if others are able to choose differently.
It's crazy to me that more malls didn't already include residential spaces. It makes perfect sense to me: bottom couple of floors for shops, and a few floors' worth of apartments on top. Good for businesses (residents = likely customers), good for residents (far easier to buy stuff when you live above a mall), win/win. Hell, throw in some offices and warehouse/workshop spaces and you've got yourself a little micro-city going.
Sinking 1K NYC subway cars in the Atlantic to create a reef didn’t go as planned
> Time is not traded for money.

I dispute that. Many contributors to free software are doing so in exchange for money, either directly by being paid by their employer or allowing ‘sponsored features’, or indirectly by soliciting donations or through monetising their software through support contracts etc.

I agree there are hobbyists who do give their time without expecting any financial return, but the free software community does include a significant proportion of people who are paid directly or indirectly for the time they spend on any particular project.
> Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but I don’t think any company is obligated to provide unlimited access for free without an account

Sure, but then it should be banned from use by politicians for public announcements made in official fashion.

Would there be anyone left on Twitter?
"False positives are inevitable / better than the alternative / etc." talk is usually a sign that your justice system needs a brutal purge, to get rid of all the thuggish, politically motivated, self-serving, lazy, and just plain incompetent people.
I guess our light spectrum implies water and complex hydrocarbons. A surely important object of study, from intelligent aliens.
The idea in the title actually makes sense if they can rezone it for mixed use. Take down the roof over the common internal areas of a mall and make that area more like a park then redevelop some defunct storefronts into condos or apartments. Get an empty large department store converted to a grocery store.

I say all this as if I'm playing simcity or something. I bet its easier/less expensive to just demolish all the structures than try to deal with something built to commercial code/permits and convert it to residential. For instance the amount of plumbing (sewage + water) required for a mall is hardly as much as needed for a 100-200 unit residential development.
There's a certain kind of magic to m68k. They were the first real 32 bit processor for the masses, at least by the criteria of being able to program without worrying about addressing limits, segments or banks.

The m68020 in 1984 arguably became the first widely available modern CPU, even if one had to add the MMU separately. '020 systems with enough memory can run modern software in 2022, and there are many thousands of binary packages available.

It's an elegant architecture with an orthogonal instruction set, easy to understand instructions, wonderfully documented hardware, very little errata and no artificial limitations.

It's not only interesting to preserve the history of Unix on m68k, but it's interesting to run with NetBSD as a modern machine now.
>A possible coincidence? Sure. But we can add ‘overlap with a state-sponsored operation’ as another soft indicator in our assessment matrix for hacktivist covers.

If anything this is convincing me that the sheer ephemeral nature of hack attacks makes hack attribution is a fool's errand at the best of times.
Looks we have a CCP shill in our midst. You don't even try to hide it.
Not everyone can use them. I have sinus allergies and astigmatism. The combination makes it hard to fit me with lenses that actually correct my vision well enough to be useful and makes those lenses very uncomfortable almost immediately.
I found most LG WebOS apps to have issues of some kind. A quick Google search tells me that they finally now have an HBO Max app, but that was a major issue for the longest time for me. I got a Google stick instead.
How is it ridiculous? The selling point of paying for a subscription service like Spotify is to remove ads, the free service Spotify offer is otherwise almost identical.

I would expect the creator of the content to remove ads and the ToS to say "Do not upload content that contains advertisements".

I find it fascinating that you're OK to pay for a product and then watch ads on top.
it’s unlikely you’d be happy living where the letter of the law is followed exactly and consistently
The emergent behavior in this example includes big brother and those who perpetuate it. Just because something is costly doesn’t mean it can’t ensure it’s continued existence.
There's also Seedrs which was just acquired by Republic[1], the major US platform pursuing the crowdfunding model. The difference vs. Kickstarter is the barrier to entry: companies must go through approval to list on CrowdCube, Seedrs, Republic etc. (which is probably for the best!).

The OP is correct though, crowdfunding (in the UK at least) is complete and utter garbage, where most companies raising are untouchable by traditional investors.

[1] https://republic.com/
They never even wrote a Draft RFC.
Regardless of anything else, it seems like a good idea to have a budget of 14M dollars audited by the person elected to do so.
While I see what you're saying, to be honest it seems pretty reasonable to me for Apple to contribute work that helps Apple.

Many OSS contributions are "scratching your own itch", no?
Has anyone tried recording everything they do all day on the computer and then reviewing it when they have questions?
Sounds like they are doing it wrong.

Our Wasm investigations started in August 2020, when we built some prototypes to compare the performance of Wasm VMs and JavaScript VMs in simulations involving the type of work our low-level JavaScript components were doing. In those experiments, code written in Rust and compiled to Wasm was 10 to 25 times as fast as JavaScript.

For video processing, especially high fidelity, high frequency, and high resolution video, I can see WASM crushing JavaScript performance by orders of magnitude. But, that isn’t this. They are just launching an app.

I have verified in my own personal application that I can achieve superior performance and response times in a GUI compared to nearly identical interfaces provided by the OS on the desktop.

There are some caveats though.

First, rendering in the browser is offloaded to the GPU so performance improvements attributed to interfaces in the browser are largely a reflection of proper hardware configurations on new hardware. The better the hardware the better a browser interface can perform compared to a desktop equivalent and I suspect the inverse to also be true.

Second, performance improvements in the browser apply only up to a threshold. In my performance testing on my best hardware that threshold is somewhere between 30000 to 50000 nodes rendered from a single instance. I am not a hardware guy but I suspect this could be due to a combination of JavaScript being single threaded and memory allocation designed for speed in a garbage collected logical VM opposed to allocated for efficiency.

Third, the developers actually have to know what they are doing. This is the most important factor for performance and all the hardware improvements in the world won’t compensate. There are two APIs to render any interface in the browser: canvas and the DOM. Each have different limitations. The primary interface is the DOM which is more memory intense but requires far less from the CPU/GPU, so the DOM can scale to a higher quantity of nodes without breaking a sweat but without cool stuff like animation.

There are only a few ways to modify the DOM. Most performance variations come from reading the DOM. In most cases, but not all, the fastest access comes from the old static methods like getElementById, getElementsByTagName, and getElementsByClassName. Other access approaches are faster only when there is not a static method equivalent, such as querying elements by attribute.

The most common and preferred means of DOM access are querySelectors which are incredibly slow. The performance difference can be as large as 250,000x in Firefox. Modern frameworks tend to make this slower by supplying additional layers of abstraction and unnecessarily executing querySelectors with unnecessary repetition.
That really depends on what you're working on and to what degree it's coupled to the system it's a part of. A form on a web application, or an API endpoint? Sure, rewriting it is probably trivial. A new process scheduler for Linux? The caching system in an HTTP server? Maybe writing the code will be easy (though probably not), but building any confidence that it doesn't break something that's unexpectedly load bearing will be anything but cheap. And if what you're rewriting that started out as "just code and see what happens" it's going to be more expensive still.

Which isn't to say that rewriting can't be cheap, but some intentional design (or at least diligent maintenance and refactoring) must have gone into the system to support that style of development. At which point you're back to targeting "quality," even if it's no longer a focus of on the smaller scale.