skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have doubts about this simply because I knew people who needed HCQ for other diseases (lupus and rheumatoid arthritis) had trouble getting it during the epidemic because the government restricted supplies.

Your evidence against this drug being commonly taken appears to be that it was so popular that supplies were getting low and governments acted to limit its use.

> Also that the only deaths that happened during the studies happened because the studies were rigged with improper dosages.

In other words they studied different dosages to see if an initially-promising treatment was effective?

> [...] but there's no articles about how-many-people-died-on-Remdesivir because The Experts Are Always Right, Peon!

It's known to be a dangerous drug. That's why it's perscribed only by doctors when they've determined that the tradeoffs are worth it. What would the story be?

HCQ by the current understanding does fuckall for Covid. So combating the false perception that it's harmless is worthwhile and will be news to some.
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For anyone interested in something closer to the feel of the original Bold keyboard, the Fairberry[0] uses the keyboard from the BB Q10, which is excellent and can be had for about $5 a piece. They can look pretty decent[1][2] and are more easily removed.

If anyone wants one PM me, I'll mail you a couple. I've got like 30 of them.

[0]: https://github.com/Dakkaron/Fairberry
[1]: https://imgur.com/a/wYub8JD [2]: https://imgur.com/a/DLhlY7m
So this is still working??? Nice...
I hate that's its needed, but love that it exists
Interesting, I guess that makes sense.

Having a quick look at your code, couple of thoughts:

- You shouldn't bother with parsing and validating UTF-8. Just pretend it's ASCII. Non ASCII characters are only going to show up in the station name anyway, and all you are doing with it is hashing it and copying it.

- You are first chopping the file into line chunks and then parsing the line. You can do it it one go, just look at each character byte by byte until you hit a semicolon, and compute a running hash byte by byte. You can also parse the number into an int (ignoring decimal point) using custom code and be faster than the generic float parser.

- If instead of reading the file using standard library, you mmap it, should also speed things up a bit.
Re: 1. I've made many GPTs and never took the time to read that first page / use the GPT builder. I always immediately jumped into "Configure". Had no idea this was a thing.

Re: 2. 100%. It's rough.

Re: 4. Had a ton of issues where it would just error and say it couldn't find the document, completely ruined the point / purpose of one I made.

Re: Hidden state - could be fun, but I do like the transparency of everything needing to be out in the open. But maybe a "hidden by default" scratchpad.
Ask HN: Which image file format do you find most effective?
Calling All Developers and content Creators what is your preferred file format when creating content for yours or your clients websites

Which image file format do you find most effective for balancing quality and performance in web development?
Pre-COVID19 pandemic, when the plans to develop and open part of the Westside Pavillion as a Google office was shared with employees, many of the engineers based out of the Los Angeles (Venice) office declared their preference to quit and find another job elsewhere. This was because Google was planning to close the crowded Venice Office (Binoculars Building) and reassign those employees to the new Westside Pavillion office.
> I'm saying that currently an EV fills a relatively small niche.

You own two cars. Your family unit uses 3. You are the market. You are not the niche!

Think about personalization (upgrading trim). There are many fewer people who are interested in / need an expensive specific set of trim, but that's like 40% of auto industry profits. What you are calling a niche is the autos business.

Anyway most of the rest of the profits are financing, which is also all about getting people to buy cars every year or two or buy more than 1 car.

That said Tesla is so exceptional in their profitability. It remains to be seen if that's an outlier that will revert to the mean. They still derive significant profits from trim/personalization, like charging $5,000 more for sometimes literally disabling a software lock. But they also derive profits unlike other autos manufacturers from, essentially, subsidies and related, and for delivering Fisher Price fit and finish at Lexus prices. They recently started paying for advertising, which cost Toyota $1b a year for the decade Tesla hasn't been doing it, so I assume they will revert in everything else too.

So are EVs exceptional regarding their role, profitability etc. in the autos product mix? IMO no. If Tesla reverts to the mean, this is 100% true, and if it doesn't they are the exception to the rule.
I see, what I see here is people leaving the left blinker on the whole time like I described. In your example, what's the purpose of left blinking between 6 and 5:30 then, it's the only path you could possibly take so is there a need for indicating at all?
That's an unlikely claim. https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-pr...

> On a cellular level, potential QT-prolonging medications, like hydroxychloroquine, block one of the critical potassium channels that control the heart's electrical recharging system. This interference increases the possibility that the heart's rhythm could degenerate into dangerous erratic heart beats, resulting ultimately in sudden cardiac death.

> The antimalarial drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, as well as the HIV drugs lopinavir and ritonavir, all carry a known or possible risk of drug-induced ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death.

Is it a good medicine for malaria? Absolutely... but even water doesn't carry the safety profile you describe.
The minimum wage should be scrapped.
It either

a) prevents people who are happy to work for less obtain a job which is uneconomical at the minimum wage, or

b) it creates an effect similar to communism, where everyone doing a job at or below a certain value gets paid the same, no matter what the value of their work is.
This leads to the higher quality workers reducing their output, as they are only getting the paid the same as someone producing work of, for example, half the value of their own.
Needs function keys to be useful for my use case... but I love it! Also... love that the connection is not Bluetooth and is lightning or usb-c. Nice!
It would be rare for a drug to never cause any deaths. I had no trouble finding what appears to be a systematic meta-study of multiple HCQ trials that estimate an actual death rate due to treatment by HCQ.
very interesting.

unfortunately, it unintentionally describes what my last marriage was like. Nice to see the techniques all have a name. Not so nice to be under constant assault by people arguing in bad faith.

Early on in my marriage, my partner was tipsy one time and admitted to arguing any topic even if they knew they were wrong. Subsequent arguments were far worse, somehow, knowing that. which was perhaps the whole point?

6 months of marriage, 2.5 years of breaking up. that sums it up well.

I feel a lot of sympathy now for the people working to keep wikipedia on track. keep up the hard work.
Yes, Cinematicus genus. ;-)
Phones with physical keyboards:
https://www.unihertz.com/collections/titan-series

Unihertz Titans
What on earth is a "creator keyboard"?
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This is good research but the hinting that turning off AIS is from ill intent with fishing is not universally true. I have lived and worked on Alaskan fishing boats on and off for a while now. Most people turn off AIS or don't run it at all so they don't reveal their fishing spots to other vessels.

This is going to be an ongoing hurdle for most fisheries if more complete tracking is the goal.
> I think it's not invasive at all if they already have the service.

But if they don't? The main problem I have with non-SMS protocols is that there are too many of them. Having messaging fragmented across many services is a real issue. SMS is universal.
The ICJ is also anything but neutral. The UN General Assembly elects the judges. The UN general assembly that has 164 resolutions against Israel, and ...

https://unwatch.org/un-general-assembly-rejects-motion-to-co...

Names aside an organisation whatever you want, but this organisation is anything but neutral. If Israel does not get fair treatment from the people assigning the judges here. And while Israel will go there, they will not accept the judgement of the court (which is the right of any country). And ... the complaint submitted by South Africa is full of factual inaccuracies and, frankly, reads like a rant. Read for yourself here:

https://www.icj-cij.org/case/192

It is a total rant, for example, it directly accuses the U.S. of genocidal acts in Gaza for "failing to use it's influence". It contains outright lies about statements made by officials.
Brings back fond memories of htc phones of yore
Bad scientific code beats code following "best practices" (2014)
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Spoilers II and III:

> There's telemetry (and)
> a terms of service to agree to
That's true, but CEOs (in general) are also in a unique position to create the appearance of value for stockholders through financial engineering, acquisitions, buybacks and so forth. They're able to leverage the resources of the company in unusual ways that don't necessarily have anything to do with operations or direct revenue, including firing other workers to improve the balance sheet.

And once they're retired or been forced out or moved on to another firm, they're free to divest their earned stock without much scrutiny; I've never heard of a CEO being critiqued for selling off stock in a former employer. So in that sense, money is money.
Would seriously consider buying this if it were a case with a back-sliding landscape keyboard. Something like:

https://www.cnet.com/a/img/resize/fd8703ad0b0ec545ac98701c39...
That's a different company (Invision Power Services). This post refers to the design collaboration software company (InVisionApp).
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> The physicians prescribing drugs also tag-team each other to see who can induce "side effect synergy". This is a syndrome that has no clinical term, because it's a dirty secret.

My sides are hurting, physicians caring so much about a patient that they bother talking to each other on their own accord is already hard to believe, but not only that, they’re actually conspiring to induce more side effects
https://youtu.be/y8OnoxKotPQ?si=N-7I3LRQbmhmmFY7
Old recordings of people without pictures, for one!
That's something I'm really angry over right now. Atomos builds the Ninja V portable monitor/recorder for videography purposes.

They sold the Ninja V and the Ninja V+, two exactly identical devices, but the Ninja V has artificial limitations of what resolutions it allows you to process. Obviously, you have to pay extra to enable other codecs, 99$ each.

So already the worst of DRM imaginable, especially as the only way to remove the artificial limitations of the Ninja V is to throw it away, buy an entirely new Ninja V+, and buy all unlocks separately yet again. Oh, and if you try to resell any of your devices, Atomos wipes the unlocks and demands that the new owner buys them yet again.

So already the worst kind of DRM infested money-grabbing BS imaginable.

But no, they found a way to make it even worse. They just deprecated the Ninja V and V+ and announced the all new Ninja and Ninja Ultra. They're identical. Same battery runtime. Same resolution. Same weight. Same performance.

But now with the new and improved AtomOS 11 software. Can't install that on the Ninja V/V+. Only way to upgrade? Throw your Ninja V away and buy a new Ninja.

If I find a way to jailbreak these devices, I fucking will. God I hate them so much.
Does it interface with the charge port? This image doesn't show a charge plug.

https://assets-global.website-files.com/6571c5a614be2a1a6376...
Deprecating support for a 10-12 year old gpu doesn’t seem rapid to me
The data has nothing definite to say about language implementations that were not measured. Let's focus on what we might say about those that we're measured.
Isnt this still age discrimination?
People like to talk about inequality but absolute poverty seems like a more important target. Satya Nadella having more money than me doesn't make my life worse; I'm more concerned about the availability of jobs, food, housing, etc.

That said, CEO salary does strike me as strange. Who needs 8 million per year + stock? I'd think more CEOs would voluntarily take a pay cut.
Content is the King but for how long?
c) the minimum amount required to live peacefully and with dignity.
> China consistently weights 25-30-% worse than #2 in each table

I agree with your larger point, but I'm not sure this is entirely accurate. If you look at table 4 on p. 32 (i.e. printed page number; PDF page number is 21, and the complete data can be found at the end of the PDF, starting on (printed page number) p. 110), you'll see that the scores are derived from three indicators: (i) the prevalence of IUU (Illegal, unreported, and unregulated) fishing, (ii) each country's vulnerability to IUU fishing, and (iii) their response to it. Only in the Prevalence table for 2021 does China "weight 25-30% worse" than #2 (South Korea). In the Vulnerability table, China's score is only marginally worse (3.3-5%) than Japan, the second-worst in both 2019 and 2021. In the Response table, China (3.31) is not even among the top 10 worst countries, scoring comparably to Israel (3.29) and better than Singapore (3.87) and UAE (3.82).

Also worth noting: the Prevalence score is calculated based on the number of vessels recorded on IUU lists (see p.12), so we'd expect countries with a larger number of fishing vessells to score higher (i.e. worse) in respect of Prevalence, which is why even the US made it to #8 worst in the Prevalence table for 2021.

> For some reason your deep linking isn’t bringing me to the tables you’re referring to

I don't have the machine to test this right now, but it's possible that the ?page=N search parameter trick only works in Chromium.
I am all in on the Mac, but I hate APFS — or at least the way it's exposed by the Finder. There's no longer any obvious relationship between deleting stuff and getting disk space back, and at any one time you can find a range of different numbers in different places to tell you how much space is used and how much free.

As it says in the post: "Magic works best when the spectator either knows nothing about the sleight of hand involved, or is another skilled magician". APFS in the Finder makes both impossible.
Doubt they have a patent for "keyboard on phones" (I had a nokia with a physical keyboard). Was probably because it was very similar to blackberrys keyboard (really looks like they just stuck a blackberry keyboard on an iphone) while this one seems more different.
Hello! I'm still working on Neocities (was in the middle of working on it just now) and I still love working on it. I work on it year round but do most of the huge changes in big pushes (scheduled conveniently between summer and winter, or as the outdoor adventure weirdos like to call it "the shoulder seasons").

I've got a few posts on the TODO list, including a 10 year recap with my thoughts on this blog post and the modern web, and an infra talk (I've promised HN I would show how we did our Anycast CDN with our own IP addresses, sorry for the delay).

I'll try not to go to long here, suffice to say I'm a little surprised with my own writings. I did see some existential problems for the internet in terms of culture, but I also felt like a lot of my premonitions were wishful thinking directed towards making the project successful. So it's even been a real shocker for me to see social media (especially Twitter) take a massive nosedive into the dirt over the last few years (which I'm still sad about, I loved old Twitter), and we've seen a quite substantial increase in new sites and traffic in tandem, which has required a lot of thoughtful (and occasionally rash) upgrades to infrastructure. Things overall are going well and I expect that we'll have another solid year here and won't be running into any sustainability issues.

I wanted to thank the HN community once again for your support all these years. HN was our "angel investor", because we received over $20k in donations after we announced on HN, and that was the funding required to get things booted up and running. Without that initial donation push, I'm not sure the platform would have been as successful as it has been. We remain to this day a self-sustaining platform with no needed investment, thanks to Neocities supporters.

And FWIW, I still find the HN community to be the most thoughtful and interesting conversations on the web right now, even when I don't necessarily agree with everyone (or I say something stupid and get deservedly knocked down for it). Thanks for that, too, y'all are amazing and I hope you have a solid 2024.
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It's been a long time since I did any physics, but explain to me why you can't run the 0.072A into e.g. a 10kohm load and have 51W of power dissipated in the load? Sure you'd be running at several hundred volts, but high voltage is how you get more power through less copper.

[edit]

Upon further reflection your claim about maximum power transfer being when the load and cable are dissipating the same total power doesn't pass the sniff test, because it would imply that a load connected by the same 33awg cable, but only 1m long could only drive a load of 3.5mW since the load would then only be 678 mohm.
Could use arrow keys and a headphone jack
Never once? Do you have data to back up that extraordinary claim?
https://archive.is/QC1LE
Same, though I did have a Sidekick (2008).

I've never stopped missing it. Every time I start trying to ~swipe some technical term that the keyboard won't get unless I've added it previously. Every time I type 'n' instead of a space. And more.

I was perusing the patents a few weeks ago and noting that some of them are coming up (but some were a few years out).
Or you could use a arm chip that consumes 100 times less power
True, and yet there's strenuous political opposition ot any proposal to increase it. Why is that?
Thanks for the recommendation! I've added it to my to-read list.

I will note though that "Changes from the 9th edition" on page 4 reads to me like it supports my point moreso than contradicts it. I'd also add my favorite quote about engineering, "any idiot can build a bridge that stands; it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands". That's the engineering that is as yet unsettled in software. Any of us, given enough time and financial support, can eventually build some software that does something. Approximately none of us however can agree on the right way to build such a thing (where "right way" means something like "most efficient, cost-effective, and future-proof, according to the users' and owners' needs and specifications").

Hell, pick 10 people from HN and you'll get 12 different recommendations for which language to use.
There is something extremely strange and suspicious going on in this job market. I know and have seen A LOT of people out for 9-12 months and it isn't getting better for them, at all.

I have seen people BEGGING on LinkedIn as in: "My unemployment is maxed out, I am losing my house, I haven't interviewed in 9 months etc. Someone please, I don't even want a job, just send me a few hundred dollars so I can eat."

I have never seen actual despair like that in tech before. It is usually white men 40+. Have seen it several times. Even former Google employees (!).

In particular, its 35+ year old tech workers. There is literally no one coming to offer them remotely equivalent roles to what they had. And the current set of startups are optimized for "VERY highly qualified / very cheap market rate."

We are talking about "We want AI engineers with PHDs and plan to pay $170K for that."

This means there is a very shocking disconnect between the people looking (a lot of external facing, traditional software engineer types).

I hate to say it but I am not sure I believe the employment statistics are real, and am expecting those numbers to turn out to be false.

There are also hundreds of thousands of out of work former tech workers applying for same roles. A lot of them fake.

Something f*cked up is going on, everyone who is actually looking for work knows what I am talking about. Suspect employment stats are not just "enhanced" but drastically revised higher than reality, along with GDP.
Two patents were at play: D685,775, and 7,629,964. (http://ia600308.us.archive.org/35/items/gov.uscourts.cand.27...)

D685,775 expires in 2027. Whether it's relevant, only a lawyer can say. (https://patents.google.com/patent/USD685775S1/en)

7,629,964 expired in 2018. (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7629964B2/en)
In its current state, idk how payment can possibly work on non-api driven GPTs, honestly - other than a tip jar. You can easily get it to print out the prompt and return the full text of documents. Even easier to do a close approximation of the above.
Go: What we got right, what we got wrong
Long long phone

https://youtu.be/6-1Ue0FFrHY
I agree that the simplest solution in each language is the best way to compare - however this problem seems less about showing off java and more about challenging folks.
Man, the droid is still my favorite mobile device I’ve ever owned. Such a great form factor, and felt super cyberpunk - especially the droid 1 in the early days of smart phones. Shame Jony Ive won the design war, it’s all been flat black rectangles since then.
There's no denying the practical elements however there are issues. For one:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00456...

>before it's time to replace or renovate them after 25 years or so.

And secondly that is short especially since the ceramic rooftiles that predated them could last 70.
The Spirit Level [1] makes a good argument for why more equal societies benefit everyone within them. At the very least, I think it's fair to say that "Satya Nadella having more money than me doesn't make my life worse" is not definitively true.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_Level_(book)
> But 18 year olds are not kids anymore and are capable of providing just as much economic value as a 25 year old. Especially if the employer is a coffee shop or restaurant.

I'm not sure that's true - experience counts in those industries. I speak as a former 18-year-old coffee shop person.

I think this is a result of minimum wage not being enough for people who can only get a minimum wage job, but are getting on in years a little. I.e. it's been lobbied into effect by those representing slightly older people to increase their wages, rather than decrease the wages of 18 year olds.
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They're able to utilize APIs
First it was flip phones. Now BlackBerry has come full circle. Can’t wait until windows phones and beepers make a comeback.
> some people are better than others, the evidence is there by how some people are more successful than other people

Better at what though? Success doesn’t tell you why someone was successful.

The point of looking at larger sets of data is to learn something tangible beyond anecdote.
> Although regardless, I don't think it's an amazing comparison tool, being that most of the web uses JS.

Add to that that most features to render Hacker News correctly are not implemented.
My goodness, calm down. The author just said it is in 'alpha'.

What did the author ever do to you?
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Also CC-NC. They want free feedback, but won't let you use it to make anything yourself.