skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure a study reporting no under 30 patient deaths in one column and under 30 patient deaths in the treated data is a "small mistake" in a study of patient mortality...
You are assuming a lot of knowledge in a lot of people. Let’s not dismiss people making clarifications that may not be immediately obvious to all HN readers
I live in a large U.S. city. For this discussion I'll include the metropolitan area which has a total population of roughly 2.5 million. The schools closed in the Spring of 2020 - just as the disease was first spreading. In the Fall of 2020 they were partially open - kids would go to school 2-3 days per week. By Spring of 2021 they were completely back at school though there was a mask requirement. That's the state we've been in since. So in total we had 3-4 months of no in-person school. Certainly not the 3 years the commenter you're replying to has claimed - as you pointed out this pandemic hasn't even hit the two year mark yet!

It's been the norm for some time to have in-person classes. School districts make the headlines when they cancel in-person classes and even then that situation only lasts a couple of weeks. Look at the most recent case in Chicago - it lasted one week. Since I live across the street from a large park I can tell you the kids are in school, they're playing outside, they're doing after school activities, and they're playing sports. I don't know what these people are getting on about acting like kids have been locked in their homes for two years.
Good code should give me "warm fuzzies".

well, you know, "Warm fuzzies aren't in the spec."

:)

https://www.original.moq.org/forum/michaelmeier/MeetingtheSp...
I personally think it doesn't have to be open source to be successful. I know it makes it more appealing, but you can sypport the creator as well by purchasing the licenses.

Plus, the technology gives you a clear technical advantage over something like... let's say: Electron.
Most likely because the software they use uses CUDA.
I got the kindle version and couldn't read it on the kindle due to how it was formatted, but I agree its a great book. I'm pretty sure it says it was created with troff, which is neat because a lot of the early days stuff he covers is about printing and laying out text.
There's little advantage over that vs looking up the old files in source control.
Arguably the Amazon rainforest isn't competing with food supply, at least on a global scale.

The UK has only just started reversing the almost complete deforestation it experienced due to human demand for fuel and materials. Once you start adding in calculations for "how sustainable is my product, once I've cut the trees down and have to wait for the forest to re-grow", you find that not much is sustainable at all.
What does it mean to be neutral when you have to make a decision? Take capital punishment, for instance. How can you be neutral about it? You say, well, we are only gonna execute some of them?

You can be in favor of status quo (doing nothing), but it is not neutrality.
You seem to imply that he flouted the rules, but we don't know if he has any ties to China beyond the ties that anybody born there would have.
To at least attempt to think about this critically, and to try to ignore the amount of frankly shocking things people are saying here, can I ask, maybe from people in the field, is this level of industrial/scientific espionage even a critical factor in our current world? We live in a global world where scientists in various institutions are constantly trading papers, findings. Why are we so worried that the U.S. might be doing something so different from China, that this level espionage would even be viable? Surely, everyone is working on different things here and there, but this idea that there is such critical intellectual property the US that needs to be guarded so intensely in this like James Bond scenario, just feels a little wacky.

Are you all really here in 2022, being like "we can't risk a Chinese national from even seeing our American semiconductor research, they will steal it and use it against us?" Are actual scientists concerned? Or just the state, and apparently most of the fellow commenters?
Some of us, governments included, believe that the presumption of innocence is a fundamental right.

"That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved."

That quote is from Benjamin Franklin, one of the founders of the US government.
Not because of colonialism, but English of all modern languages is one of the easiest, most regular, simpliest. Best reformed.

Languages turn itself into more similar forms automatically, but many resist for political and traditional reasons. Eg for English we had 2 major reforms before, the 1st and 2nd German Lautverschiebung, with English being the culmination. Simplier tenses, articles, plural forms, harmonized verbs, ... Much less exceptions than in German.

Even simplier would have only been the Hangul reform, modern Korean, which would be one of the easiest to learn new languages. For Aliens, visiting from other galaxies. But for people on earth English being the lingua franca makes perfect sense. Compared to Spanish, French, German, Russian or Mandarin. Well, Mandarin would be even more extremely natural and modern, but unfortunately only the spoken language, not it's written form, the Han kanji. That's the complete opposite.
Let's be clear, this is a speculative conclusion for Ivermectin's effect, and not at all proven.
Hands-On with Universal Control in iPadOS 15.4 and macOS Monterey 12.3
Maybe I don't understand still.

I wasn't disagreeing with your point. I was adding to it. I agree that if spotify annoy listeners with ads, they'll go elsewhere. Podcasts, unlike music, are (were?) a mostly free media... as in both beer and liberty.

Hence... Spotify has been pursuing exclusives ans a solution to the "why should people listen to our ads" problem.
"McCarthyism" is a derogatory term for overzealous political witch-hunts which cause irreparable harm to honest, innocent citizens.

What you mean is counter-intelligence, and yes, that's absolutely an important thing.
relevant Video excerpt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCRzaGUKEFA&t=408s
>It's a workers market right now

Is it? It doesn't seem to be like that from my POV. Perhaps only in the US, though.
You might enjoy this: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04160-4
Actually there's no valid scientific or medical reason for most people to keep wearing masks. I recommend listening to infectious disease expert Dr. Monica Gandhi who explains it very clearly.

https://peterattiamd.com/covid-part2/

https://profiles.ucsf.edu/monica.gandhi

The European equivalent of the CDC doesn't support mask mandates for children.

https://www.newsweek.com/cdc-school-mask-guidelines-fuel-cul...
Brian is great at painting a picture of what it was like in "The Unix Room" and it's interesting to think about working in a world where you and your colleagues are all sharing machine, adding things to bin for others to use, etc.

And in fact, the only real rule there was, you changed it last, it’s yours.

At one point, I had an idea for improving the text editor, ed at the time. And so I went in and added some things to ed, very small stuff, but in that sense. And I was just perfectly fine, but I guess technically at least for a brief period, I owned ed. That encouraged you to be somewhat careful.

But I think that having everything on the same computer was contributed to a sense of community as well. And part of the community was the shared information, but the other part of it was simply knowing that other people were logged in at the same time.
My wife is a kindergarten teacher. We face the "risk" on two fronts. Unlike many of her colleagues, she was unhappy with the obvious impeded ability to teach resulting from the school closures. A large percentage of her colleagues were clearly enjoying working from home. That's a dark side of this that people on your side are unwilling to admit.

I deeply resent it when people call it an issue of convenience. Proper emotional and social development of children is not an issue of convenience despite the constant claim from people like you that "You're just mad because you lost your free babysitting. Get over it."

The teachers were first in line to get vaccinated. Every other kind of employee in public places faces equivalent risks. As usual nobody is talking about numbers because your side has no numbers to back you up. It's just waving your hand and talking about people's comfort levels. Unquantifiable emotional nonsense, with people who are impervious to any form of facts or statistics or actual numbers.

Consequences be damned.
He was born there. So of course he has "ties". We can't really know if they are harmful or not without more information, but we do know they're the kind of ties that the government doesn't consider worthy of reporting...
> Seems the only correct way of using TeamViewer is to uninstall it and never use it again.

For anyone seeking alternatives, I found NoMachine[0] to be the closest free remote desktop experience similar to TeamViewer. My criteria was essentially:

- free tier like TeamViewer, but with no nagging

- needed to "feel" fast and responsive like TV, which I wasn't getting with every VNC/RDP flavor

- autoscaling resolution, or the option to have native resolution with "black bars" viewport when window is maximized

- option for shared clipboard (so copy/paste works between machines)

- file drag/drop between machines

The only thing NoMachine doesn't support is automatic tunneling; you need to connect with IP:Port similar to RDP. But I let that slide because all the other TeamViewer-like features were supported.

[0] https://www.nomachine.com/
> He has made countless claims like these long before any good research had been done

This could describe almost anyone working on COVID over the past 2 years
I sometimes wonder if there is a miscommunication. I’m scratching my head sometimes like “how can rewriting/refactoring an entire 10-20k project take negligible time?”

Maybe some people have very small projects compared to what I work on? Or maybe they are talking about the design of a single small component?

I inherited a codebase that needed some refactoring because it was written “to just get it shipped”. If completely fell apart with more users and has taken me a year to get it where it needs to be.
I think you may have misunderstood GP's point. Isn't asking "why" equivalent to asking "what if not"? There is indeed a subtle, but still a difference, from "arguing against."
If the customer would receive shares of the company in exchange for their money, that’s just investing.

There are public platforms for crowd investing of startups, but they require users to be accredited investors due to regulations.

That’s not the real issue, though. The real issue is that good startup teams don’t have any problem raising normal investment capital right now. The only companies who would even want to raise money from the public would be those who couldn’t get normal investment, which are almost exclusively bottom of the barrel companies that have been passed on by many professional investors. For many reasons, not just regulatory, you don’t really want to have thousands or tens of thousands of tiny investors to manage for your startup.

Companies tried to skirt regulations with the ICO craze a few years ago. It was almost universally a complete disaster for investors. A lot of ICO companies got extremely wealthy and a lot of investors discovered that without the regulations and share ownership they don’t really have much of anything.
mage is great, I'm moving forward to that too.
Not sure why this was downvoted. I'm not attacking religious people, so apologies if I gave any offence.

Just observing that historically religion tends to select theories of the physical world that align with its moral and religious belief.
This should be considered harrassment.
I don't think “communist ideas” is well-defined. Could you explain what you mean by the phrase?
Most UK towns have a mall, my city has typically had three, although it can't support three, what happens is they build a new mall, the oldest one loses all its occupants and takes on desperate clients like e.g. an entire floor is just discount no-brand furniture, or a factory seconds outlet, eventually it goes bankrupt, closes, they tear it down and... build another mall, rinse and repeat.

The last decade or so though they realised ah, that's not actually a sane plan, and the city council started demanding they provide a plan that can actually work before issuing permission, so e.g. the big mall in the city centre had originally planned a huge extension full of new stores, they realised there is zero demand for that, so they pivoted to it's a nice cinema, plus restaurants, and some residential on the side.

Meanwhile the last mall site went from "We're building a new mall" to "A new mall... and residential space" and then "A residential block, also there's some retail on the ground floor" as they realised that retail space is not going to move. Residential isn't as profitable, but "£5k profit selling a £200k new home" is a better deal than "Ongoing loss on a £1M retail space you can't sell".

The UK government changed planning laws some years back to encourage commercial to residential conversion. If you wanted to build a new residential building with shitty paper walls between homes, third rate insulation and not enough elevators, you'd get told "No". But if you want to convert an office block that is now useless or a shop that hasn't been rented for years, that already exists so the planning restrictions are fewer, maybe you put a little bit of extra insulation in, you run some extra plumbing, but you don't need to meet new home standards, and people get a "new" home that kinda sucks.

The result is that a lot of what you're talking about as "High Street" (the US has "Main Street" filling the same role) was converted to housing. There's a row of shops not far from me, ten years ago the upper floors once used as office space or for storage became housing, this year the shops closed and are boarded up, they'll tear that out and make them into more housing. A pub I used to go to regularly was converted to nasty poorly put together flats in the same period.
My exception to the "also" rule of thumb is that if the split changes would cover separate areas of the code such that each piece could be easily picked out by "git add -p", then splitting them out isn't required as long as they are all associated to one logical larger story.

> ...you can't revert just one without reverting the others

That's often true in a split out patchset anyway, so I don't think that on its own it stands as a justification for doing things one way or the other.
The fine grain parallelism of this simulation suits the GPU well. It would be possible on multicore CPUs, but possibly slower.
I agree, very confusing.

I think the gist is something like "people and news institutions from opposite poles avoid contact with each other when there's polarization, creating partisan echo chambers".

Which seems to reverse the arrow of causation relative to what the headline suggests. Polarization seems to come first, then the news institutions become partisan so that they enter the cozy echo chamber of one side, rather than being exposed to fire from both sides in the no man's land in the middle.

I have a lot of experience with Twitter and I don't think conflict is minimized there. There's definitely a lot of "interaction" between opposing sides. Mostly of the form "look at this stupid and evil thing the other side said, let's reaffirm our correctness and righteousness by mocking and attacking it".

The reason there isn't meaningful interaction between opposing sides is because they both have caricatures of the other side that the other side rejects. A caricatures B, B rejects the caricature, A embraces the caricature all the more because it expresses the real truth that dishonest B refuses to admit, etc.
Gut microbes help hibernating ground squirrels emerge strong, healthy in spring
It was so bad in my school district. I think it was worse than no school for a year because of the chaos of teachers doing different things and no good monitoring or follow-up.

Classes ranged from some teachers sending out a single email a week with assignments and tests and grades to teachers taking attendance the minute class started and then disconnecting. For 10 year olds.

This means I would get silence for a long time, no posts in the classroom site or Teams and then an email saying “major test is tomorrow, make sure your kids study X,Y,Z” with X being chapters in a pdf, Y being a broken link, and Z being some slapdash PowerPoint posted minutes before the email. And there’s multiple subjects.

It was such a surreal experience with countless “we’re doing our best” emails from school leadership.

It was even more performative and useless than normal school.

I know my mileage may vary and it may be problems with my school district. But in the same district they didn’t suffer like this and my kids performed better.

And this is with me spending 1h+ every day helping, running around between telework. I can’t help but think how it fared for kids who didn’t have parents who could flex their work schedule to support digital school.
>>>Ethnic Chinese already face unfair hurdles by the current push against standardized testing.

Please elaborate on this argument.
Wow that's on-point, agree that in many past projects "inertia to larger changes" is exactly how I would describe so-called Clean Code.

It's that small changes like adding getters and setters give an easy-to-follow PR, a false sense of accomplishment for both the author and the reviewer, and ton of dopamine with that. While important changes, that actually deliver business value or repay technical debt, become increasingly difficult to do without replacing massive amounts of code and redoing the file structure.

Inertia is the biggest demotivator.
I guess there isn't much we can do besides creating an account in 30 seconds and not using it, it's not that bad
Have you tried clearing your cookies and your local storage?

There also are alternative interfaces such as nitter
> Our platform lords have basically not standardized a single thing.

And in addition, you have bugs in official native SDKs and then you end up writing your own text rendering engine, because some OS-level API didn't work properly.
It will definitly be the new common, by killing Flash et all without comparable tooling, while at the same time offering WASM, it was only a matter of time until we had the revenge of plugins.

Basically 10 years wasting time to come full circle.

https://leaningtech.com/cheerpj

https://leaningtech.com/cheerpx-for-flash/

https://opensilver.net/

All of the three major ones are now back, but it is ok, WASM is great!
Where you have to navigate forums or websites pestered with ads, scam ads and plain malicious ads. Yeah, uBlock Origin I know but still...
i regularly handle doggie treats, because i have a good doggo, and i have never had covid.

the same is true for my wife. 2 small anecdata points.

if you'd like more information about our doggie treats, so as to start a prophylactic course of treatment, please let me know.
It's unclear whether these books are being banned from being read in schools, or banned from being part of a curriculum.

My opinion is that the books school boards pre-select for students to be part of their curriculum, should be from a carefully selected list of books.

In general, it should not include newly published books, but rather ones that have survived the test of time by remaining relevant over decades/centuries/millenia.
It seems like this is basically unavoidable on existing hardware, though, right?

if we imagine there existed some visualization that could more accurately represent the complexity of a core, I don’t know how it would be possible to get the data, because AFAIK there are no methods to trace processor execution for modern processors at higher fidelity than this.

even sampling profilers have similar issues with being limited to the model of sequential instruction streams, since each sample gives a single program counter, not the full view of everything the core has in flight.
I'm just having trouble understanding what you're talking about. Like what would be a concrete example of how a poor up-front design decision would paint you into an unrecoverable corner?
> that the city in question had the highest COVID mortality in its state during the program

This is not a critique of the study really. The high mortality could be due to other factors, like an older population or less careful application of other COVID mitigations. If the latter, this study would actually be a good test case for prophylactic Ivermectin actually because the signal from any effect would be stronger.
It’s for the tangentially-related discussions and stories like this that I read Hacker News – sometimes skipping the original article.
The page is from 2008 - unfortunately a lot of links to the original pictures do not work anymore.
The purpose of the China Initiative was ostensibly to root out industrial espionage. Instead they ended up investigating and prosecuting a bunch of Chinese scientists for legally trying to advance their work and careers, and haven’t yet discovered much if any industrial espionage. The worst they’ve found so far, from what I can tell, is a few undisclosed grants and minor visa violations.

Having incompetent, overzealous investigators and prosecutors ruin a bunch of innocent people’s lives for the sake of some questionable agenda they aren’t otherwise successfully advancing makes the whole endeavor seem like a farcical waste of public resources and undermines the reputation of the DOJ.
>Just an FYI, the government at that time (which is the current government) fudged the official inflation numbers to pay less interest and to say there was no inflation, so if your inflation numbers are from official sources for that period, they are not true, inflation increased every year since 2002.

From the numbers it doesn't suggest Greece levels of fudging. There was a few cases where it looke suspicious to be sure. Given the constant dipping into recession. They probably couldn't fudge it as muchas they please.
I've noticed this too, but that's also the reason why I use Nitter [0].

I'm also a bit lazy so I've also setup a redirector plugin to automatically redirect every twitter link to Nitter, been happy since then.

[0] https://nitter.nl
Implementing a MIME Database in XXXX
This will just lead to a chilling effect, where scientists, esp those born outside, will be hesitant to apply for any government aid.

I vaguely remember this case when it first came out. At the time, the impression I got was: Dr Chen was passing info to Chinese agents.

And now the impression is: He had some affiliations with Chinese groups that were fully legal, and he was not required to disclose.

Which begs the question: Why was he arrested in the first place?
> And that's effectively what our leadership has done; keep screeching about masks and vaccinations, some listen, some don't, and nothing changes.

This is wrong, and the reason resolves the seeming problem: “our leadership” never did that. Some people in some places did, many did not, and in many cases they actively worked against it. The experts’ plan works everywhere it’s actually been tried.

I do agree that we need to improve conditions for healthcare workers but that’s slow to train people up and it’d be much easier and faster if we had fewer Republicans driving them out. The politics around basic health measures is the most widely mentioned reason for burnout.