skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read this. I am no epidemiologist but it does seem like a pretty weak critique.

The core of this critique is that ivermectin may not have been used consistently among the treatment group, therefore negative results may be masked, or confounding variables may be present.

It seems that ivermectin is generally known to be safe drug for use to treat other antiviral conditions. Is the critic calling that into question? I would expect more evidence for that claim.

Furthermore every science experiment can have confounding variables, so yeah. Even in that case I would expect more of a curious response as 66% reduction in hospitalization at very low p-value is very significant. What could the confounding variables be? Could they be surveyed?

The authors of the article did look into some confounding variables and did find that people more at risk of covid self selected to be in the ivermectin group.

I would like more info about all this. I don't think it's as simple as "bad study move on".
Wow this is a POS study.

> Study Group: 223,128 citizens of Itajaí considered for the study, a total of 159,561 subjects were included in the analysis

> There was a 56% reduction in hospitalization rate (44 versus 99 hospitalizations among ivermectin users and non-users, respectively; RR, 0.44; 95% CI, 0.31-0.63; p < 0.0001).

Are you serious? This is such a shitty sample size you might as well be rolling dice.

Why do these studies assume people can't read
Fair point that we don't have the whole story.

It is unclear if he even needs to be sworn in.
"blameless postmortem" was a thing at google well before 2012.
I really liked this article as it highlighted the process I've been using without fully realizing it. I'm surprised this got zero traction on HN.
Following this approach basically ends up a with a pile of migrations. Interdependence of resources remains a tangle and you'd still have to write down migrations for destroying resources. Corey Quinn is a tool.
> Marin County, CA and Santa Cruz, CA county have 95% vaccination rates and are doing worse in ICU capacity than Escambia county, FL who has 55% vaccination rates.

Marin and SC counties have 13% of beds filled by covid patients. Escambia has 21% filled by covid patients. This appears to directly contradict what you claimed.
Well, they move faster if they take your source code :)
Good point!

`open(File, Mode, Stream, Options)` and other builtin predicates are available if you construct an interpreter with `p := prolog.New(nil, nil)`.

On the other hand, `p := new(prolog.Interpreter)` constructs a sandbox interpreter without any builtin predicates. You can explicitly register builtin predicates as you wish.
It is measured wall minus idle usage during CPU load, which is pretty much CPU load?
The WebAssembly component gets pulled on app startup. That means you make a bug fix, deploy a new build to an S3 bucket and every single user is running the fix inside of ~24 hours.
Why don't you share a TOTP between all of you? Just take a screenshot of the authenticator QR code, or save it to a shared 1password secret.

Google's login protection mechanisms seem to be satisfied by TOTP usage, and you won't be locked out anymore (or at least much less likely to be).
Were there any cases of a EULA being actually upheld in a court? I mean, a video card is something you buy to own. It's a device for highly parallelized number crunching. The manufacturer deliberately interferes with your ability to use the device you bought with your choice of operating system. It feels like such behavior should be illegal and NVidia would be at fault, not the person who has merely defeated their shitty lock-in tech.

Also you technically don't agree to a EULA when you download an installer via direct link and unpack it to extract the files required to initialize the thing you own. You never run the installer and never click the "agree" button.
I wonder if the infrastructure that's driving the browser tests is underpowered. If the browser process is dying silently or CPU is getting maxed out, it could manifest in what you're describing where it happens intermittently and there's very little to go on. I'm assuming you're running these tests in Chrome... You could check the Chrome debug logs to see if anything is being spit out there.
I don't know how many. But I use it. It's slower than Xcode. But I use it for most of my iOS (and macOS) programming work.
Recently, I was a co-organizer for a conference. The event was almost over, and we were in the process of scheduling our event postmortem when one of our fellow organizers suffered the loss of a close family member.

As you can imagine, we all became instant members of the “we need a better name for this process” club. Thank you, OP for giving us a completely viable alternative. I’m calling it a “disquisition” from here on in.
Kids aren't the only ones at risk - he also mentioned teachers, some of whom don't want to take the higher risk of in-person teaching or dealing with 100+ kids every day that aren't wearing masks.

Is that over reaction? Maybe, maybe not, but the thing is, it's really easy to shove the risk onto somebody else because it's more convenient for you.
They're quite similar, and, in fact, there are plenty of engines that can run interchangeably on either (though possibly with a shorter lifespan on pure kerosene - it doesn't have much of the lubricity of diesel, so is really hard on fuel pumps, injectors, etc).

But, yes, if you can make one, you can almost certainly make a good simulation of the other.
More than anything, it is a breakdown of American values.
As the "purpose" of work is redefined, leaving a chasm to be filled

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29903457

https://trendguardian.medium.com/why-we-are-dispensable-7a57...
Eclipse was originally a rewrite of IBM VisualAge in Java.
It's more likely to be axed by Russia than the US. It's more useful to Russia to sell a billion cubic meters of gas to China, rather than to some NATO adversary.
The simple presence of a penis attached to a woman in a women’s changing room does not imply in any way that a person is behaving inappropriately, any more than it does when attached to a man in a men’s changing room, or an androgynous person in either. Taking offense at someone’s unaroused body in a changing room, when they’re keeping to themselves and changing, however, is a severe violation of social protocol in many cultures.

Some intersex people have two sets of genitalia, one for each changing room; they must use one or the other, as only the two options are offered in the vast majority of cases. If they are intersex women, then those around them may be made uncomfortable by their body’s physical features. It is everyone else’s responsibility to deal with that discomfort and let them finish changing without comment, same as they would expect to be left alone about their own physical features while changing.

If a person is behaving inappropriately in a changing room, such as staring at the sexual features of many others, or making rude gestures towards or uninvited comments about physical features, then they should be asked to stop or leave and may be subject to punishment by the business and/or local authorities for their behavior — no matter what their own genitalia are, whether they’re a match for the gender label (if any) on the door of the changing room or not.
Now I know why Prime video app sucks on every iOS device I tried it on, including Apple TV
> This isn't just anecdotal, there are studies showing small children are TWO STANDARD DEVIATIONS behind where they should be.

Do you have a link? I would not be surprised if there were significant developmental issues, but two standard deviations is such an enormously large effect size that I'm doubtful.
That's the point of trade shows. Showing off is what you do at these things.
Discussion on libc++: https://reviews.llvm.org/D93233
Short plug: At https://BorgBase.com, we also do append-only backups and every repo is isolated. The majority or repos is append-only at this point.
Maybe, maybe not. It is pretty wild that everyone assumes some financial conspiracy. I think it is at least as likely they just don't want random wackadoos adding to the bureaucracy.
The title is misleading. This would work to slow the progression of myopia, but won't do anything to reverse myopic changes. This works in a similar way to low-dose atropine which is already around the corner for slowing the progression of myopia (in children). For adults with myopia your only options to be spectacle independent are LASIK/PRK/SMILE, implantable contact lenses or cataract surgery.

https://www.aao.org/eyenet/article/how-to-use-low-dose-atrop...
Related https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surprisingly_popular
iTunes for Windows was not unimaginable. Now, iMessage for Android ...
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That's what the US Code itself says, but I thought there was a court ruling somewhere that the First Amendment overrode this in the specific case of casting actors for a creative work.
Also read Florian Mueller’s excellent analysis here: http://www.fosspatents.com/2022/01/35-us-states-and-microsof...

> Epic's appeal is very much alive. Apple will use its market power and money to get support from all sorts of "friends of the court" as well, possibly even ridiculous astroturfing organizations. But it won't be able to counterbalance the support Epic received from 35 states, Microsoft, the EFF, and America's most cited and most authoritative antitrust law professor. It will probably be easy to see for the Ninth Circuit that those who support Epic do so because it's the right and necessary thing to do, while those who will support Apple are just going to have reasons to do Apple a favor.

Update: The U.S. federal government has now filed a brief as well:

> The United States enforces the federal antitrust laws and has a strong interest in their correct interpretation. The United States files this brief, pursuant to Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 29(a)(2), to address errors in the district court’s analysis of the Sherman Act, which, if uncorrected, could significantly harm antitrust enforcement. The United States takes no position on the merits of the parties’ claims.

Further analysis on the government’s brief specifically: http://www.fosspatents.com/2022/01/biden-administration-back...
> Sustainable aviation fuel can be made from any of 60 different feedstocks — among them plant oils, algae, greases, fats, waste streams, alcohols, sugars, captured CO2 and other alternative feedstock sources and processes. The Department of Energy estimates that the United States alone has the resources to produce 50–60 billion gallons of SAF per year. For context, commercial airlines will use about 57 billion gallons of fuel by the end of 2021, down from a peak of 95 billion gallons in 2019, according to Statista. By switching from petroleum to SAF — when you take into consideration the entire life cycle of the fuel — the aviation industry could reduce its carbon contribution from fuel by up to 80%, according to industry associations the Air Transport Action Group and the International Air Transport Association.

This is massive. Aircraft are some of the biggest CO2 pollutants out there.
A "libertarian" who believes by definition in the idea that government is corrupt, accusing the government of being corrupt. How surprising.

Corruption is a pretty low bar. Why don't we go for laziness? The supervisors are lazy. They don't want to deal with the bureaucracy of an auditor which basically has no powers when a CPA is hired. They also don't want to deal with the yearly random "informed citizen" who decides *this is the year* he's going to participate in local government, despite never having been in the local township offices before.

There's a word for this type of idiot, but I can't find it right now.
https://github.com/adriangb/xpresso#inspiration-and-relation...
Let's not pretend that insurance based payment even remotely resembled a free market before.
That's a pretty serious accusation. The reputation of things like O365 and Google docs/mail would be shattered if it turned out that MS or Google would be reading internal documents or emails of other companies for anti-competitive purposes.
my print copy didn't have the issues you mention.
> don't believe right-to-left languages or focus order inevitably leads to hundreds of thousands of lines of code or 50+ MB binaries

It does. It literally does. Try writing your own operating system, or font parser, or graphics engine. The work our shitty React apps sit on top of is unimaginably complex. It would take centuries for one single person to grasp what is going on in an iOS "Hello World" app.

It's not simple, at all. Especially not for a video streaming service! I mean, my God, just being able to understand the codecs and licensing issues would take you months, let alone writing decoders that run natively on every platform. Let alone dealing with monitors and color schemes and HDMI and Chromecast streaming and window resizing and bandwidth limits and buffering and....

It's not simple.

EDIT: For reference, vim, a Hacker News favorite and widely considered one of the most popular TUIs ever built, is currently sitting at about 1.2 million lines of code. All it does is edit text files. Imagine if it had to play video.
It actually does not as you can see all of the file names before you enter your encryption password.
Somehow, I never knew that Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore (and I had both a C64 and an Amiga) was an Auschwitz survivor. And now I just lost the last 40 minutes walking through Auschwitz I and II on Google Street View... :-\
Thank you for Sciter; guess I need to learn more
White male, I assume?
Most diesel engines can run on kerosene just fine, so I expect this would be the same. In fact kerosene is often blended with diesel in cold climates as regular diesel below -25C/0F will start to get thick.

The reason why you don't want to use straight kerosene is that it is too pure - diesel has additives that lubricate the engine, without which you will cause more wear and tear on the engine. If that's all you have it'll probably work though, especially if you mix it with a little engine oil.
... and?

If one engine works entirely fine on a 100% blend, with no ill effects in operation or in analysis afterwards (for weird deposits on the hot section), it's reasonable to conclude that one could run exclusively on it.

There's a chunk of wisdom over in experimental aviation (the "You can build and fly whatever you want, please try not to kill anyone else in the process..." side of things): "Never test an experimental engine on an experimental airframe." If you're building a new airframe, use a proven engine. If you're trying a new engine, use a proven airframe. Otherwise you just end up with an explosion of possible issues, and "experimental engine plus experimental airframe" tends to lead to an alarmingly short lifespan.

Running one engine on an experimental fuel, while keeping the other on something you know is entirely sane and will work fine, is entirely reasonable. You know the airplane can fly and land safely on one. You think the other one works fine - but there are some weird corner cases in aviation - British Airways Flight 38 was one of those things. In this particular, exceedingly difficult to reproduce case, water in the fuel iced up and clogged the fuel flow to both engines, leading to a crash short of the runway (no fatalities, mostly due to the skill of the pilots). The engines behaved absolutely fine, until short final, at which point they suddenly, and without any prior warning, refused to make power - because they couldn't get enough fuel.

The entire point of testing is to work out as much of this sort of stuff as you can. If it turns out that after cruise, you've got weird fuel icing issues, it is far better to have that problem limited to one engine, where the other one can pick up the slack and haul you into a goaround if needed (twinjets are typically obscenely overpowered on two, because they need to perform well with an engine out).

Doing it the way United did is entirely sane, reasonable, and rational for any sort of aviation testing. Doing it on both engines, without serious testing beforehand (of the "on one side" variety), would be insane in aviation.
I would expect drone like tech so a computer will keep whatever it is easy to steer, drive, and land, and/or just self drive.
America’s Secret: The Presidents Before George Washington
That's one of several critiques of the study; others includes the fact that it's not controlled for confounders, that the city in question had the highest COVID mortality in its state during the program, and that several of the study authors have either conflicts, bad reputations, or both. The Twitter link itself links to even more damning critiques, including some evidence of falsified data.
Between electron, webassembly, and other technologies, I don't think the line between web app and native app is as clear as it used to be, especially relative lift and performance. In the end, the only difference may be "one is launched in a browser and one is launched from the start menu"
Do you have a crystal ball that you can predict what the inflation is going to be in two weeks? Can you protect all these goods in meantime if there is a war going on?
I suggest the real website. Posting NIH Pubmed links tends to be used to suggest the NIH has something to do with it, when this website is just a library catalog of papers. This is a mirror maintained by a government agency.

https://www.cureus.com/articles/82162-ivermectin-prophylaxis...

or the DOI link:
https://dx.doi.org/10.7759%2Fcureus.21272
Absolutely.

The US semiconductor industry will go the way of the US textiles industry, the US paper industry, the US electronics industry, the US tool industry, the US ship-building industry, the US steel industry, the US building materials industry, etc, and all the other former US manufacturing industries that are now firmly in China's hands.
For folks in San Francisco (I assume a disproportionately large chunk of HN readership), Mission Local has been great at shining light on local corruption: https://missionlocal.org/category/local-government/
Google to invest up to $1B in Indian telecom operator Airtel
Thanks for your feedback, I will take some time to do writeup.
Regarding the question. Well because I wrote the stack....

Btw you seem like HN power user :)
I think the idea is the microorganism you output some precursor(s) that you'd then process. If not, I guess you could pasteurize whatever it is, after filtering and such. Doesn't seem like it should be too much of a problem.
I am leading a transition at work from Selenium to Cypress precisely because of our frustration with the WebDriver model. I don't consider myself an expert enough to know which approach is right, but could you elaborate on why Selenium chose to divert in V2 to what it is today?
> Is the critic calling that into question?

Are they?

> The core of this critique is that ivermectin may not have been used consistently among the treatment group, therefore negative results may be masked, or confounding variables may be present.

Yes.

> I would like more info about all this. I don't think it's as simple as "bad study move on".

Ok:

https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1425297498042556423

Or was that not the info you meant?
This is nice initiative and any attempt to make mathematics more accessible is a value added to society in my book. However, saying you will learn "mathematical thinking" by watching 1.5 hours of passively watching, even Professor Tao, is quite an overpromise. I don't think there's a subject that requires more hands on practice and thinking than math, especially higher level math, so this is more along the lines of edutainment. So in my mind, how valuable this course is depends on what this content replaces for you. If watching this series replaces something distracting then its great, but if it replaces actually doing problems and working out proofs, then it's not worth it.

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.

Some series you should check out that are free and IMO provide much better value for time:

Academy of Achievement: https://achievement.org/
* Some good lessons with Eric Lander, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Demis Hassabis

3B1B: https://www.3blue1brown.com/

Numberphile: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoxcjq-8xIDTYp3uz647V5A
Is this article trying to gaslight us into believing that the current fiscal crisis is fine and that we should just get used to it?
Like many others, one of the first things I thought of. This ain’t Mr. Spolsky‘s first rodeo, he must know of this specific xkcd!

The naming, given 2022’s technology landscape, is also super confusing. Block… no chain, but is it related? Or is this the payment platform formerly known as Square and they released some protocol???

Nope - It basically a React component library/package manager - ReactComponentHub. I do hope it works well, but like many, doubtful from previous examples in the past.
Florian Mueller's name rang a bell, then I remembered that it was discovered that he was a paid shill for Oracle a while back[1]. I wonder how much Epic is paying?

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2012/8/17/3250148/oracle-tells-cour...
I have no strong opinion on the lockdowns. In fact, when you have the optimal amount of lockdown, a large minority of the population might well think that they're too lenient, and a different large minority of the population might well think that they're too strong.

What I object to is your demand that anyone disagreeing with you first go through 400 studies, individually, and find the flaws in them, and destruct the credentials of the authors.
Millennials now nothing BUT inflation now. It's not a way of life, it's an agonizing, debilitating continuous death by a trillion cuts.

There is currently a mass exodus of professionals from the country due to it - massive, and I mean massive talent is spreading all over the world instead of helping at home. People have either given up or drank the Kool Aid, as there is absolutely no expectation of even a possibility of change.

It really is depressing, as even mild complaints are usually met with long winded explanations or insults about how things aren't actually bad and they could be so much worse you should actually be thankful and maintain the status quo. The democratic voting system inevitably gravitates to a two-party rotation with more in common than they allow traditional media and paid coordinated social media to admit - with the only ultimate goal of keeping a class of elites in power and as many people as possible depending on the state to survive, whether it's via subsidies, handouts, or straight up state employment so keeping things as they are becomes a matter of survival for them even more.

At least it's amusing seeing newspapers pretend such a thing is cute and quirky. This is very much a preview of the future road for an incredibly large number of economies all over the world, so read some of the comments here very carefully.

And never, ever, ever save all of your life's accumulated value in just one form. Be it currencies, stock, real estate, crypto, food, metal, whatever it is, never forget that any basket can break when it's holding all of your eggs.
Nobody should take Heinlein's narrators words for granted. He is deservedly famous for being very diverse in presenting the viewpoints of his characters - coming from very different societies.
Twitter is now making many people register an account in order to scroll down.
Thanks for the extra perspective. Without going into specifics like linearity it still seems like it could be the basis of reasonable public health advice. Forgive the tongue in cheekness but something along the lines of:

"Expect some discomfort - that lets you know the mask is working"
The difference is that power users tend to have a lot more sway over Linux.