skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Perhaps. For those of us who didn't even receive a mediocre STEM education at our take-all-comers schools and still certainly got a significantly worse humanities education than you, it engenders bitterness and anger that you're arguing for pulling up the rug behind you and preventing the next generation of children from having access to a high quality education.

My wife went to a public school in Fairfax County. Her humanities education was much better than the one I received at TJ. I believe that this is the least controversial thing I've said on the topic. The humanities at TJ was just bad. Only two years of history. Curricula rigidly defined by the College Board. No approaches designed to really stretch students, since faculty were told that the humanities were a second class citizen and students should have more work time allocated to STEM. I know at least one teacher who resigned in protest (from what was otherwise a dream job) because of how terribly the humanities were treated.

Even if you believe that the only way to get a quality education in northern virginia is to attend TJ (which is just false), the proposed changes do not change the number of people who are able to attend. Different children would attend TJ, yes. But nobody is taking a stick of dynamite to blow up the school.

> Is it more toxic than having classes where kids turn up drunk and threateningly brandish knives?

I'm not sure you are super familiar with the rest of FCPS. The other public schools offer a large suite of AP or IB classes (depending on the program) that make it very very easy for smart students to avoid what you are describing. If you are actually concerned about this, go complain about the accelerated middle school programs - which are largely designed to stick accelerated programs in the lowest performing schools so they can bring the grades up.

TJ also had its fair share of this stuff. I know some people a few years off from me who had class with a kid that would regularly masturbate in class. I know students who were preyed on by teachers.
I used one of those big machines (not this one) back in the day. But, for my money, the most beautiful calculator in history was the HP25 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-25). Clear keys, spaced for errorless entry, and with that wonderful levering action that made it unnecessary to look up at the display to see if you entered the number correctly. The key colours, sublime. And the back, shaped to perfection.

A pinnacle of design.
I wish tape drives weren't so expensive. I'd love to have on each personal computer a backup system that just mirrors every disk write to tape.

According to the SMART data for my current system I write about 9 TB per year. That would fit on one LTO 8 cartridge.
like the idea, like the site.

you need to find home flippers, i would guess.
You are not the modal employee.
> And websites who can't afford hosting, and there's hosting for $5 these days, BTW, self-curate themselves out of existence.

It is not a given that the more a website can afford hosting the better quality they are. For example, many good-quality websites die because the webmasters themselves died (and thus cannot keep hosting the website), and meanwhile there are endless examples of SEO-bait content farms that provide little value, but can easily afford hosting.

This means this "self curation" ends up curating for newer websites better ranked in search engines, which would be the online analogue of libraries having no books from before 2000, and being full of modern day magazines and newspapers of dubious quality. Were Beowulf a website, how long would its owner be able to host it?
But Ivermectin IS a wonder drug for other things. It's been around for decades and billions of doses have been taken. It's not just some random drug.

Having said that, it remains to be seen if can work for covid too.
I find the concept of "illegal consciousness" fascinating
I’d say it is less by Modi directly and more by the nazi inspired organization called the RSS that’s shaping up India lately. The only difference is that they won’t be repeating the hubris/mistakes of a Fuhrer style set up with a single point of failure.
I don't know what point you're arguing here. Presently these grounds very obviously don't exist, and are also very unlikely to exist in the future.
Why do you say the music industry is destroyed? With streaming, music industry revenues are almost back to their late '90s peak, and the diversity of options today is incredible.
I’m not convinced that low cost devices are the way to go. Android has it covered. Tizen tried and failed. If Linux can be a viable system that most of the Chinese and Korean manufacturers can adopt and push, I would agree. But I don’t see how that would shape up in practice.
Stopping LD_PRELOAD working is pretty big though.

This might be OK, if two versions were provided.
Holy, you weren't kidding. I had to read it three times to make sure my brain got it right.
> Well there isn't, and I mean it. They do way more harm than good.

Tell that to the Venezeulans who used bitcoin because their local currency is suffering from severe hyperinflation.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47553048

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/venezuela-bitcoin-story-puts-...

I've personally used bitcoin to send money between my brother and myself (he was in Australia at the time, I was in the EU) because it was both faster and cheaper than a bank transfer or western union.
> This is actually a novel Sybil control mechanism that is more efficient than standard PoW/PoS.

It's not novel, it's PoW with a different name. The "verifiable delay function" is hashing, which you can speed up by using faster GPUs or ASICs. Doesn't that sound familiar?
It always makes my day when people say stuff like that, though cryptopals probably wouldn't be in my top 3 entry-level things for people otherwise considering a certification. Thank you!
In common parlance (rather than technical terminology), "cows" means "cattle".
I actually have a sort of nice idea about this: make your downvotes' worth be inversely proportional to how many downvotes you give.

A person who gives 100 downvotes per month will have his downvotes count 1/20th as those of a person who downvotes 5 times per month. An incenctive to be really judicious in handing out downvotes and not simply using them to drown out minority opinions.
Training: good.

Certification: bad.
Gemini always seemed like more a political statement than a useful tool, imo
unusable on mobile..
It’s not enough for the output to be good; you have to feel like it was worthwhile.

Building and shipping great software that goes on to have few or no users? Burnout.

Building widely used software but you come to believe it does more harm than good? Also burnout.

Avoiding it requires believing in the value of the things you have done; imo overwork can only speed up the process, but will not cause it if you believe in the rightness of what you are doing.
I think you want Mongita. It was featured on HN a while ago: "Mongita is to MongoDB as SQLite is to SQL (github.com/scottrogowski)"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26881915
Mt. Whitney, which the author talks reverently about the toughness of in the beginning, may be the tallest mountain in the lower 48, but it is actually just a gentle ascent to the top. It requires nothing but hiking shoes and maybe a jacket and walking to the top. Famously the Badwater Ultramarathon, 135 miles of running starting at Death Valley, unofficially finishes at the summit of Mt Whitney — the runners who have just run 130 miles from Death Valley finish their run by jogging to the top of the mountain in their jogging shoes.

Not to say hiking or jogging up Mt Whitney in the half day it takes (if you’re fast) isn’t an accomplishment, or to sound flippant, but it makes it hard to take the rest of the article seriously.

I realize I sound like a jerk here, but given the tone and lessons of the rest of the article, one might expect to lead off with a more technical or multi-day mountain climb that has bad conditions — like Denali or Rainier at least, perhaps.
100% agree. EVs are almost superior in every other way but the data collections are getting annoying.

EVs are fast, but the last thing I want is to get an automated speeding ticket due to GPS data that was collected by big brother.
> ‘God is Love’ doesn’t seem contradictory

That's because it doesn't mean anything.
Everyone everywhere has to lower emmissions. The USA historically has produced the most carbon, it also has one of the highest carbon emmissions per capita.

You can slice it up however you want and you'll always be able to point the finger at some group that's emitting more.

Until China, or the 1%, or the oil industry, or meat-eaters, or drivers (or everybody but myself) stops emitting carbon then what's the point?

The point is, any demands you make of others lack credibility if you've done nothing about it yourself.
>>If crypto disappeared from the world today, the only thing that would change is cybercrime would reduce by at least half...maybe more hehe

Yeah - cuz no one hacked banks, cut fraudulent POs, or any of the other scams before crypto. It used to be said banks wouldn't report or prosecute hacks for fear losing public trust, so how common it was is speculation.

That was a cheap shot for an otherwise interesting post :-P

P.S. My favorite 'bank hack' was the coder that changed a banks interest calculations to deposit all the factions of pennies of calculated interest to accounts he controlled. Because it was less then a penny, the bank couldn't account for it and he had something like $4 million before he was caught. After that, we had to start using accumulator buckets for calcing the interest..

edit: s/would/wouldn't/
My understanding is, proof of stake is not more secure than proof of work. Reason for PoS are efficiency, speed of transaction, lower gas fees, less environmental impact, etc. (Of course there can be secure PoS, insecure PoS, secure PoW, insecure PoW…)
> Pro-vax people don't want an effective treatment to be found because it would invalidate the EUA.

This seems highly unlikely. Do you have a reputable source for this, because thus far I’ve only seen it as a conspiratorial anti-vax talking point.
At the very least, crowding the most intelligent and ambitious people into the country’s lowest fertility metro (the Bay Area) certainly seems like not a good idea from an inter-generational perspective.
Breakthrough: Researchers Observe Sound-Light Pulses in 2D Materials
It was curated, but not by the Librarians of Alexandria. The curation was done by travellers who decided that particular books were important enough to bring with them.
Literal interpretation of Genesis is a fairly recent phenomenon. Fundamentalism is a modern religion.
How do you prove you know these things to a potential employer?

A lot of businesses in this area are looking for credentials. A lot of competent people do not have credentials, and the credentials that do exist aren't very good anyway.
It also happens to be one of the most easy and reliable ways I know of to install CUDA on your machine. Everything is handled through the artifact system so you don't have to mess with downloading it yourself and making sure you have the right versions and such.

(Before someone complains, you can also opt out of this and direct the library to a version you installed yourself)
Very well written, and I agree completely. Usually I don't bother going that far on HN (and I didn't know the theory so clearly) because I wonder who else is as interested as I am. I'm glad you are.

To give an example of what you describe, many white Americans used to choose identities over where they emigrated from: Italian vs Irish vs Polish, etc. Now many identify around being white Americans, against people with other skin color and against immigrants.

> Is this because the flexibility of categorical identity was (ab)used by those who wouldn't find discussions around class identity favorable, or because there was a true essence to those initial categories? My vote; it is more #1 than not.

There's no true essence to it; that's an assertion by people trying to protect their power against the inevitable flexibility of groups. But also, some of it is not intentional either - it can be just incidental - and I suspect much is the artifact of prior intention: Their grandparents refused to associate with black-skinned people, and so now they don't know any black-skinned people, so they don't identify with them, and black-skinned people become the unknown.

> To sum up; group identities are self-fulfilling, overly flexible and most importantly purpose built constructs. Wrongly choosing the category could as well ossify the problems it is trying to solve than to help people break free of them. I'll even one up; the meta-group of "belonging to a group" is even bigger of a problem; to convince people that the fact that they can be group-things is more important than them being individuals creates a greater host of framing issues for them.

While I agree, we must still solve the present(and past) harm done to people for being identified with certain groups. I'd always work to leave the door open to what you are saying, but that doesn't help black people (and LGBTQ and others) who are threatened and harmed today.

But generally, I'm with you. ;)
I'd rather have it harder to make a living in the music industry if it means the free sharing of music (and thus I have access to all music from all of history). We have more musicians in absolute terms than every before anyway.
I'm trying to stomp out my son's video game addiction right now. The trouble is that online classes require a web browser, and there are lots of web games.
The gemini faq talks about not having any feature, intentional or unintentional that can be used for user tracking...and then talks about TLS client certificates being first class citizens.

Guess im a bit confused on the design criteria.
For a lot of use cases there's no need to boot a Linux VM, since you have a perfectly fine Unix already (though you have to fiddle with the security settings so macOS Big Sur becomes less annoying). Of course, it's a matter of taste and use case if you prefer one of the Linux package managers to homebrew or MacPorts. I use Macports, which still has some problems with more exotic packages on the M1, but in general seems to be running fairly well. But then, I'm used to compile my own software (such as exotic cross-compilers) and fix compilation problems when I need it.

Docker containers are problematic, of course, and I often wondered why macOS never implemented functionality similar to FreeBSD Jails or Solaris Zones. I see both as superior approaches compared to Docker, especially if you can combine them with ZFS.

The overhead for running VMs on a M1 Mac seems to be pretty reasonable, though, at least when you buy the 16 GB RAM version (though I also think it's overkill for something like Docker). Apple's hypervisor framework seems to work well and provides standard VirtIO devices to the guest OS, so many popular guest OSes that run on other virtualization solutions should be easy to adapt. The limited RAM expansion capabilities of the M1 Macs is probably the most problematic thing for these use cases.
Curious why the IP address has to be obliterated from history instead of just correcting it in a new commit? An IP does not seem sensitive like a secret or private key.

EDIT: Sorry, my bad. I misread.
Yes, it is PoW, plus brilliant marketing.
There are different ways to get COVID under control:

* Vaccination

* Get naturally infected - natural infection offers broad and long lasting immunity

* Prophylaxis

* Early treatment

The data is showing that Ivermectin is almost 100% effective as a prophylaxis, and that early treatment on first symptoms, it's on par with a flu.

Currently we're only pursuing vaccination as the only solution, resulting in millions of unnecessary deaths and trillions of economic damage.

Some people are hesitant to use a vaccine without long term safety data, and using Ivermectin is a safe alternative that also contributes to herd immunity.
Well, if you're getting into things nobody wants to talk about, how about have fewer non-contributing or low-value children? I suspect that most of the people in the world are deadweight who pollute just to exist while a minority actually make things happen. It's hard to know exactly who will be who but we can use some heuristics.

Any thoughts on my enhancement of your idea or are you afraid of talking about uncomfortable elephants in rooms?
You may well be right - i just literally don't understand what you are saying. It's too abstract. Can you explain it using his stock example?
They perhaps mixed up immigrant with visible minority:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/census-visible-minori...
Protocols can be built to reinforce the ideals of their creators, and thus attempt to create a culture around themselves, yes. For an example of this, see Urbit.

Gemini exists to satisfy political and cultural, not technical, needs. Most of what Gemini users have to say regarding their preference for it, and its benefits and its purpose are almost entirely about culture, not technology - the web is too complex, the web is too mainstream, too commercial, no longer a small "quirky" community, too full of the wrong people using it the wrong way.

We're here replying to an article whose entire thesis is that Gemini's technical shortcomings, it's "uselessness," is a killer feature for promoting a specific kind of culture, for preventing certain forms of expression and encouraging others, inviting certain kinds of people in, and keeping other kinds of people out. That it will never be extended is a decision based on enforcing culture, in the belief that any extra complexity, regardless of its utility, risks the protocol being used in ways that undermine its ideological basis.

So yes, culture.
> a strong anti-vaccine stance that and are promoting Ivermectin. Obviously the two things have nothing to do with each other, and frankly I can't understand what the agenda is there.

One of the people I know is one of these people. Pro Ivermectin and anti vaccine.

It’s tied together by their belief that COVID was overblown, an attempt by the government to seize control, or an attempt by big pharma to make piles selling COVID vaccine. Or all three.

Basically to this person, Ivermectin being a cure is proof that the government/doctors/pharma manufactured the crisis.
The worst offender for this is opening Bing when I mistype something in the Windows Start menu. I can't help but think this accounts for a large percentage of claimed traffic for Edge and Bing. It certainly is the only time I use them (and by use I mean click the exit button)
Whether or not a chromebook is adequate for cash-strapped students in my painful experience depends on whether or not your model has soldered RAM.

Doing research in school will likely have you opening a lot of browser tabs. Running Firefox on a non-ChromeOS Linux install is going to eat up more than the measly amount of soldered RAM that cheap Chromebooks offer.[0]

I used Acer Chromebooks in college and very much came to regret this aspect whenever my machine slowed to a crawl the moment I opened an important PDF in Firefox. In hindsight, I probably should have set up zRAM on my machine, which expands the amount of RAM available by compressing it, just like ChromeOS does. However, as soon as I had money I chucked the Chromebook and bought standard a standard Acer notebook with upgradable RAM at a lower price than the fancy Chromebooks.

[0] Don't underestimate this: at the moment I have hundreds of tabs open in a saved browser session, with htop pegging Firefox at 16GB RAM utilization! It goes down when I restart the browser maybe to 5GB or so, but it also doesn't matter much when you have 32GB or more available.
Okay but mspaint is starting so fast and consume so little memory.
While your first statement is correct, you may want to acknowledge that "faith" in ideas can be seen as a continuum from completely subjective to mostly objective. For instance: believing in QAnon conspiracies isn't the same as believing in, say, climate change. Yes, both require your definition of "faith", but the former requires you to suspend your belief in reality while the latter is congruent with your observations of reality.
I guess if you dont have css or javascript/other subresources that stay constant, caching is less important.
> That's why I often use the alternative online shopping site that has nearly every mass-produced item imaginable at low prices and low or free shipping.

If you put enough qualifiers on something you can make anything one-of-a-kind.
Which is rendered moot by understanding your user's needs, robust traffic monitoring, and paying attention to network logs.

What's fun is when you shut down that sketchy looking outbound traffic, and it turns out to be a new Windows telemetry service thing.

I also find, driving with kiddos through sketchy places on the internet and getting deliberately infected, so they learn what to look for, and letting your user's educate you on software they need/want also cuts down on the necessity for cargo cult infosec practices.

User's are not stupid, nor Lusers. Developers, programmer's, and the companies that pay them are not fond of repetition, expect you to only use their thing and bend over backwards for their convenience, and are often in it not for producing Quality software, but for the paycheck.

Admittedly, my practices don't scale to the point of being taught as general infosec practice, as I'm in it for the long haul for the hope that one day computer literacy will be as widely spread as regular literacy. We'll see if I live long enough. (Probably won't).
Whatever equipment you buy will lose it's value quickly, in 5+ years, it's probably worthless. And that's ignoring all the money you have to spend on electricity, non-stop and increasingly. In PoW, if miners slow down, they'll become irrelevant.

Even if you manage to acquire a 51% hash rate for example (which is extremely difficult), it'll be very difficult to keep it over a long enough period of time.

PoS is fundamentally broken in my opinion, it literally says "rich gets richer" and wealthy stakers will get higher (absolute) rewards which they don't have any incentive to sell since they didn't spend any energy to get it. That's even ignoring all the custodians which have large quantities of the said crypto, so they can just keep the rewards to themselves or keep a sizeable % of it.

One of the motivations for the DAO hack hardfork btw was that the attacker would hold significant power under a PoS system.
Dismissing someone with a mind full of unique and creative ideas is generally a bad idea. It's okay to disagree but it's completely unnecessary for us to stand on an ivory tower staring down on people we don't understand
Dexamethasone is a cheap generic drug that has been proven to reduce covid-19 mortality and is being used worldwide including in the USA. The studies showing that it worked occurred before the EUA for the vaccines was issued. It is officially recommended on https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/therapies/imm...

I am not sure there is any actual proof that if ivermectin was shown to be, e.g., as effective as dexamethasone in reducing covid-19 mortality that it would stop the FDA from issuing a EUA for a vaccine. After all there is a big difference between a vaccine and a treatment anyway.
Your headline is from May 4th: "India Just Became Latest Country to Approve Use of Ivermectin to Treat Covid-19."

Here's a more recent headline from June 8th: "Drugs including ivermectin removed from [India's] approved covid treatment list"

https://www.livemint.com/news/india/govt-removes-ivermectin-...
Dang, just wanted to say thank you for all you're doing for the HN discussion boards.

Hope this doesn't break the rules for constructive responses. :-)
Kind of semi related: What do you buy if you want to do tape backups at home?