skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>They don't even know who took ivermectin.

It's worse than that. The city distributed the tablets and so they know how many participants came in and picked them up. Apparently, the study claims that around 200k people took the tablets, but only 136k picked up the tablets. Then after 2 weeks, only 95k picked up their next set of pills. Then by half way through the period studied in this paper, only 8k people picked up their medicine. None of that is noted in the study. That would appear to completely invalidate the whole study.

https://twitter.com/sean_purdy/status/1470410070819319809?t=...
HaSKI: An FPGA-based SKI calculus evaluator written in Haskell/Cλash (2016)
> A lot of people in this thread are having weird opinions because they don't really understand the context of Remix.

Because Remix goes out if the way to never describe what it actually does.

> The point of Remix is that it facilitates SSR + hydration + progressive enhancement full stack dev in the most efficient way possible regarding DX.

See, if this was written on Remix's website, or in the blog post we're discussing, there would be significantly fewer people "missing the point".
I thought I'd find you in here! Wishing you well friend.

-Mario
I believe that commodity hardware is sort of available. Look at MAID hardware. It's aimed at enterprise customers so it's pretty expensive if you buy new but there's probably older stuff on ebay or a reseller site.
I tend do the reverse. On occasion I write a more detailed comment/answer here, I copy it across to my blog and update it to be an article there.

I figure if I spent the time writing something more detailed than typical of my comments I may as well leave it on my site too.

More generally I try to treat HN with more care than I would a reddit type site. Its such a great community and I dont like the increasing one liner jokes and glib/low benefit comments coming through. We really need to protect that.

I think posting to your own writings is fine as long as its openly what you're doing, not the majority of you 'contribution' and done for genuine interest vs trying to drive attention/traffic/work etc back to yourself as part motivation to why you doing it.
The Cost of Space Flight Before and After SpaceX
Apple doesn’t force me to hide my email, it is my choice to click hide vs not. Apple is just enabling the consumer choice — a choice that a lot of consumers do take (As you noted).

There are good parts about the way Apple operates, they execute well and in a consumer-friendly manner — that’s honestly pretty rare and one reason to like Apple.
That is an assumption. We do not currently know of any process by which we might explain these axioms; but:

1. We may still glean insight by reflecting on them, and

2. There may be unknown processes by which we can explain these axioms
Really it nets to >> 0 because you still make water from combustion, and condensation trails have a sizable impact on climate. They transmit visible light but are opaque to infrared, just like a greenhouse. Still better than fossil fuel, though.
The fact that they did the exact same thing to the last guy who won the election for auditor makes it less likely that they are not doing this deliberately.
OPLSS is what education should be: everyone is there to teach and to learn, because it's voluntary and you don't get anything else such as a piece of parchment. What we call education is gross perversion of it.
It’s not 30% for the vast majority of developers.
> I've always been a little surprised why we haven't figured out a treatment for myopia beyond LASIK, e.g. some way to manipulate the muscles around the eye.

Generally the reasons behind myopia are changes in the shape of the eye or the lens, not something the muscles are doing wrong. (And a contributing factor with age is the decreased flexibility of the lens over time).
> I don’t think anyone here is giving remix enough credit for what they’re trying to do.

We would give it credit if Remix actually told us what they are trying to do. Instead we see very heavy-hanvded marketing claiming nothing short of a revolution and failing.
And when comes the payoff for writing all those native apps?
How 'dad deprivation' could be eroding modern society (2016)
Tangential remark to author if they’re reading: favoring “she” isn’t more inclusive for an unknown pronoun. You probably already use a non-gendered singular “they” in normal speech and you could use that where the gender/preference isn’t known. Just a suggestion from an NB who passes as male and thinks binary gender substitution doesn’t help, even though I appreciate the effort.
I'll post about it here on HN after I have a few episodes up.
It took us NINE MONTHS to get a server installed in a data center a few years back. This was Marine-Corps fielded hardware running an ATO'd[1] software stack for real-world situational awareness, going into a Marine Corps data center. The people that run the data center have a glacial Change Management process, exacerbated by everyone in their organization not talking to each other, even though they are separated by cubical walls.

I too have no faith of seeing this stuff implemented anytime soon...

[1] (Authority to Operate, basically approval from the highest IT authorities to utilize something on a DoD network)
Is it the the size of the buffer in samples, or in milliseconds that matters?
Given Epic's premeditated nature of the initial contract break, and subsequent media campaign, I wouldn't rule out this is just the second wave of Epic's persuasion war.

Apple just seems to be an odd foe for the U.S. to fight in this area. I'll get the tin foil.
I've always liked these kinds of questions. Myself, I always wondered why specifically three dimensions. (Please don't start telling me about string theory.)
https://archive.is/fGmK8
Cypress was terrible choice for us where flow in the system is managed by multiple users - as cypress can work only on single open window/tab, you had to effectively duplicate, triple etc. each test. Playwright also allows trivially control/crosscheck backend/whatever as you're in nodejs context, not browser context.
Why did you comment on a Hacker News linked item that you've decided not to read, just to tell us that you're not going to read it?
How is Apple still getting away with banning competing browsers on iOS? They should have been blasted by anti-trust for it a long time ago.
I think self destruction is human nature. more so when you don't have things to constantly worry about. like dictators or a horrible economy.
SD cards, usb sticks, and SSDs basically use the same tech where there's a mostly isolated capacitor that holds a charge. Since it's not fully isolated, there's going to be charge leakage when it's powered off. I think most estimates say that you'll start seeing errors and issues after about 3-5 years of being powered off. Not a great option for long term archival storage given the inherent time limits on storage life.
The tech crowd was up in arms about Microsoft doing this in the 90s yet today Apple is acting even worse yet many self proclaim tech enthusiasts rush to their defense. Were the Microsoft defenders in the 90s this loud or has the tech community deteriorated?
They can switch to Android.

The App Store protections are part of the platform value proposition. Please don't respond with "they don't have to install third party store" nonsense, because for many people if (say) google docs puts itself in its own store they will have no choice.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8734085/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8765325/
Where do you think all that code lives, then? The support for dark mode, the ability to look at the pixel data of an image so that you can display text with the right color on top of it to have high enough contrast, the subtle animation when you tab between elements in a scrollable grid, the annotations for accessibility, the code that makes drag and drop work like you expect... As much as you don't think it is "hundreds of thousands of lines of code", it really is.

I started a business online five years ago. I used as little JS as possible: the first version was probably 500 lines total. Today, it's approaching a quarter million, and it's all just me. Why? Because I want forms to show helpful errors when you type the wrong thing, and my pages to show appropriate visual cues at the right time in the right places, and for the page to look right when dark mode kicks in on your laptop or you resize your window, and for decimals to be formatted correctly for folks in Europe. Or for the power users who expect things to be fast, so navigating forward and back loads and caches data correctly. Or for folks with high-dpi displays (or as it were, folks who zoom in) who don't want pixelated icons.

And has it paid off? Yeah. As an example, my service hosts a surprising majority of blind podcasters, including the American Council for the Blind. I didn't get here with a spring in my step and a strong belief in semantic HTML, I got here by investing in all the fiddly edge cases so no matter what size your screen is, the browser you use, the language you speak, the currency you want to get paid with, your ability to use a mouse, your screen reader or level of vision, you still have a great experience. As much as you'd like to call it a fad or accidental complexity, it's really just your inexperience with actually building good user interfaces in the 21st century.
> […] our inflation index goes hand to hand with our USD:ARS, even even below that (intuitevly it may be a problem).

The solution seems so simple to me: drop the ARS and use USD as the national currency. Your inflation is just trying to pay for goods and services using an eternally depreciating asset (the Argentinian peso).

The reason this doesn’t happen is because it would mean that the Central Bank of Argentina (CBA) would no longer be able to, at will, monetize the debt of the Argentinian government and favored corporations. Ie. the CBA would lose its ability to purchase a government bond in exchange for crediting the government’s account with the face value of the bond — convert debt into money.

At the end of the day it’s a conflict of interest: the people want a stable medium of exchange and the government wants to finance its activities without balancing its budget.

The economist Melchior Palyi explained this phenomenon in his 1962 book “An Inflation Primer” following the high US inflation of the 1940s: https://cdn.mises.org/An%20Inflation%20Primer_2.pdf
If you're already very successful, why would you spend a lot more money to produce a buggier product that will generate a lot more customer support requests and cost a lot more money in engineering effort to maintain forever going forward? It just makes no business sense. This reasoning is even less justifiable in the context of WASM which is quite performant.
This is oversimplified to the point of being wrong.

Consumer electronics is massive versus general purpose computing devices. Apple is big in the latter, but a much smaller market share of the former.

What you claim is a tax is (or was) the same rate as Google Play Store and Steam.

Scrutiny isn’t a terrible thing considering how weak app security is on some platforms. Also worth considering that OS X is a general purpose computing device (which doesn’t require the App Store), whereas iOS is an embedded device.

The “ask this app develop not to track me” seems to benefit and empower the user. In what antitrust framework would Facebook’s interest be defended? The US antitrust frameworks would have to be contorted severely to treat Facebook as the victim of antitrust behavior in this scenario.

The “Apple never lets you form a business relationship with your customer” is the best point you made. I’m not familiar with how the Apple contract leverages that off-app. Yet it is still the user’s option to use Login with Apple or ApplePay from outside of an iOS app.
“This was a startup.”
And? They have the latitude to make big risks. Larger companies can’t eat that risk as easily.

“it's a worthwhile investment.”
Obviously not, or you’d see it more.
Being the person in charge of deciding if city hall gets paid is one strategy that probably works.
Disney+ uses WASM and feels like it has less "suck". Prime just seems to lack some UX polish.
Could you elaborate on the consumer friendly part? I'm not an Apple user so I don't know the specifics, but it seems to an outsider that many of the practices that the original commenter suggested were monopolistic are not at all consumer friendly.
So should Microsoft be allowed to tax all business on Windows by 30%? If that makes you uncomfortable, so should the position Apple is in.
I read the city had high mortality from the beginning of the pandemic[0]. Would it be a bad case if the population happens to be more aged etc?

Is the falsified data just the off by one in deaths among the under 30 cohort or is there more?[1]

[0]: https://mobile.twitter.com/sean_purdy/status/147041652307654...

[1]: https://mobile.twitter.com/GidMK/status/1478975913094090752
That… escalated quickly
I wondered that for a long time myself and recently stumbled on what I believe is (or at least is a good candidate for) the correct answer: planetary orbits are stable in three dimensions, but not any other dimensions. The anthropic principle therefore selects for three-dimensional slices/subsets of the wave function.
> greatly exaggerated, of course, in the same way "Silicon Valley" exaggerates Californian startup culture

Which is another way of saying it conveys the reality more realistically than a documentary could ever get away with.
Given the infinite number of ways the universe could have been, it seems kind of a mathematical truth that whatever it ended up being was incredibly improbable to begin with.

I would tend to say that unless it is logically necessary for the universe to be what it is, the question of why it is what it is necessarily lacks an answer. We should expect the universe to be improbable.
> The solution seems so simple to me: drop the ARS and use USD as the national currency

Actually, once the US hits hyperinflation, the US may want to consider using ARS as its national currency
I fully agree on the celebrity worship, but am a bit confused with how you then align

> Finally there's a celebrity aspect to Masterclass that's a bit strange. Like these guys are famous, and because they're famous, they are the most worthy to teach you something.

with the recommendation

> Academy of Achievement: https://achievement.org/ * Some good lessons with Eric Lander, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Demis Hassabis
But how do they pass on their skills, through years of daily interaction, or via genetics?
Microsoft really should have used this defense back in the 90s.

What, you don't like Internet Explorer? Apple exists, buy a Mac! Or better yet, delete Windows and install Linux! See, there's no monopolistic behavior at all, provided that number of competitors is greater than zero!
> A coup is via a military or other governmental power structure. When it is citizens, it is an insurrection.

Yes, but you're misunderstanding/misrepresenting what is going on if you think the Capitol insurrection is the entirely of the story. The insurrection was _clearly_ provoked as a single component of a self-coup. There's abundant evidence of this; it's really not in doubt.

> You and I both agree Trump did not have his cabinet members attempt to dissolve Congress or such.

The "or such" is attempting more work here than it can pull off. For example, he and people close to him (like Giuliani) attempted to illegally establish a corrupt slate of electors to throw the election. And he attempted to literally intimidate his Vice President into not certifying at all.

Yes, he was dissuaded from some actions. but he was so much closer to pulling it off than you seem to suggest.

> No, it's not. At most he has some loud and frothy followers demanding "recounts", which they got and were still disappointed with.

Again, you are suggesting that the activity of citizens is the end of it. It is clearly not. It is a multi-state state-level legislative agenda, heavily co-ordinated.

Here is a quite good summary of what is going on:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/23/voter-suppre...

> He's just not that smart, nor are most of his followers actually that dedicated. Even "insurrection", while accurate, gives the Jan 6th stunt too much credit.

You don't seriously think people should believe he did it all on his own and just discount it? It didn't succeed, yes, and he didn't surround himself with the best people, but it was a co-ordinated campaign by many people around him (see the Willard group for example).

In many ways it is still ongoing. If you are content to imagine that Trump and Trumpism are no longer a threat, you are mistaken. Trump may not get to run in person in 2024 (he's clearly dangling this in part so he can claim that his many legal troubles are political persecution), but Trumpism will not be reversed, and minority rule is not off the table.

From a distance, the USA looks increasingly like it is heading towards a very big political reversal from democracy. The GOP certainly won't ever close the lid on everything coming out of Pandora's Box and go back to being a normal political party, and there's no evidence they want to. (They are paying millions of dollars of Trump's legal fees, right now).

It is not a time to pretend things are OK.
It catches the largest wettest particles and then launches them into the air as smaller particles upon the next cough.

Which is why some of the new omicron studies show cloth masks to be worse than no masks at all.

And partially explains why omicron seems more capable of defeating real world mask use.
You can, but you need to break the string into graphemes first.
Parasitic diseases are highly prevalent in Brazil [1].

Also, as quoted in [2], "Helminth [ie worm] infections are among the most common infectious diseases. Bradbury et al. highlight the possible negative interactions between helminth infection and COVID-19 severity in helminth-endemic regions and note that alterations in the gut microbiome associated with helminth infection appear to have systemic immunomodulatory effects. It has also been proposed that helminth co-infection may increase the morbidity and mortality of COVID-19, because the immune system cannot efficiently respond to the virus; in addition, vaccines will be less effective for these patients, but treatment and prevention of helminth infections might reduce the negative effect of COVID-19. During millennia of parasite-host coevolution helminths evolved mechanisms suppressing the host immune responses, which may mitigate vaccine efficacy and increase severity of other infectious diseases."

It seems strange that the referenced study did not consider the possible confounding factor of parasitic infection.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34105625/
[2] https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-t...
Interesting! Maybe they changed the process at some point. I don’t own the book, but a while ago I had a quick look at my brother-in-law’s copy and it also had terrible printing quality.
> Think of how hard parents push their kids in today's super-competitive economy and high-stakes higher ed system, how many turn out even close to as talented as him?

Maybe they don't know how to do it. Maybe TT got lucky.
Yup. Photographers and the like are being slowly brickwalled by DisplayCAL (UI for colord, ArgyllCMS, used for many thing like cross-platform measuring/calibrating monitors) in an unmaintained by usable state being removed from package repos everywhere because of Python 2.7 removal.
I'm confused what your argument is here. How does "playing the hand you were dealt" relate to "embracing PEDs in athletics"?
IRS wants to scan your face
That’s not because Apple used its market position to stifle competition. It’s because Google could never figure out a messaging solution. People want a reliable and consistent experience. Not forced to switch to some half baked attempt that is nothing more than padding for some dudes promo doc
The real traitors are the politicians who have sold out to the US for decades.
Would you consider that carbon nuetral, or is more carbon released than what is taken in?
While Apple is definitely a monopolist, this is probably the one monopoly we all have to hope they're allowed to maintain. Safari on iOS is basically the sole defense of the open web. Once Apple is forced to fold on this, every website will be built solely to run on the Chromium code base exclusively.

The fact web developers have to use open standards to support iOS is basically the only reason we have open standards on the web today.
> Mojibake is a universal problem when multiple charset is used and there are no charset specification on metadata. Software guess charset but it's just a guess. Japanese locale software occasionally confuses Latin-1 vs SJIS but often confuses SJIS vs EUC-JP or UTF-8.

In theory it can happen with any combination of character sets, sure, but in practice every example of mojibake I've seen has been SJIS (or UTF-8) encoded text being decoded as CP1252 ("Latin-1" but that's an ambiguous term) by software that assumed the whole world used that particular western codepage. If you've got examples of SJIS vs EUC-JP confusion in the wild I'd be vaguely interested to see them (is there even anywhere that still uses EUC-JP?)

> Japanese company tend to still use SJIS but it's just laziness.

It's not just laziness; switching to unicode is a downgrade, because in practice it means you're going to get your characters rendered wrongly (Chinese style) for a certain percentage of your customers, for little clear benefit.

> To handle multiple language text, it's pain but anyway there are no alternatives.

Given that you have to build a structure that looks like a sequence of spans with language metadata attached to each one, there's not much benefit to using unicode versus letting each span specify its own encoding.
Show HN: Oneironomicon – Training collaborative AI on dreamed-up users
Hi there! The first few paragraphs say it all: I was curious about how we might train a virtual assistant to actually help the user reach conclusions, rather than simply throw in the right answer. While the outcome is far from perfect, it was pretty fun working with reinforcement learning for the first time. Will hang around to answer eventual questions.
What does it mean to you for one thing to cause another?
Vision Insurance Is Making Your Glasses More Expensive (2017)
Steam's 30% was based in a time when brick and mortar accounted for the vast majority of sales, and publishers were lucky to keep 30%.
Your question is "Is it ok?" rather than "Is it legal?".

Assuming you have checked the legality of this hiring criteria in your country/state...

I think it is ok, I live in a country with very little regulation, by choice mainly.

I think it is ok because your job ad will be up front and honest. If you provide context (e.g. you are hiring for sensitive counseling position dealing with specific issues), you can speed up the hiring process.

If you provide no context, a good assumption is that your company has some sort of bias, and potential applicants can speed up their job search by skipping yours. It's a time waster to find out about that bias during the interview process, or worse, during your employment.
> why complex values amplitudes?

If you multiply the left and right sides of schrodingers equation by its complex conjugate, do you still get an equation that the real valued square of the wave function solves? Can you do QM with just the real valued probability distribution? If you can, why not say that that’s the “real” thing, and factoring it is just a convenient way to solve it, same as imaginary solutions to quadratic equations.