skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not link to the original paper?
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11577-020-007...

> However, the actual net response rate dropped from 14% to 7.5% when we consider only those who completed at least 80% of the survey (n= 501), which is clearly poor and has to be kept in mind when drawing conclusions from the data. All analyses are based on pair-wise deletion of missing values.

Divisive political issues attract people at the fringes of the political spectrum. If you're getting less than 10% of the sample filling the majority of the survey, it's likely that your sample is just those people interested enough to fill it out because they're on the fringes.

I am skeptical of the results, because in my experience at university (2007-2012, 2017-2020) I never observed "wokeness" or concern over microaggressions or many of the things right wing media reports on. It's a more likely explanation that Conservatives have victim complex, and "university wants to burn books and ban speakers" fills that complex well.

Why? Politics is just business in disguise. My theory is that conservatives don't want government to pay for education, and in the US they are succeeding in this goal [1]. Saying universities are hypocritical is a good excuse.

[1] https://www.cbpp.org/research/state-budget-and-tax/state-hig...
> Dealing with USCIS/ICE/EOIR/State is akin to bureaucratic hacking. Anticipating what the Government agencies want to see and hear in your petition is their exploit.

Unfortunately this is very true of many other areas of the government. Reading through all of the paperwork and possessing all of the practical skills was insufficient for me to get approval to build a cabin. I couldn't figure out how to get anything past them. A couple of well-connected friends chimed in and boom - I got my permit.
>The sudden drop in Covid cases in India as the clearest indicator to me.

Nah that's just confirmation bias and rumors. It wasn't effective at all, otherwise India wouldn't have taken it off the recommended drugs list.
Zombie-Ant Fungus
The Institute for Justice is the same Koch-backed[1] anti-government libertarian law firm that sued Oregon for the cranky Swedish guy who complained about traffic lights[2].

1 https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Institute_for_Justice

2 https://ij.org/press-release/oregon-engineer-wins-traffic-li...
In the motion control and process control industries deterministic systems or SISO systems like PID are typically considered in what someone would just call 'controls'. Advanced process control is an actual industry three-letter acronym term relating to 'meta-controls' where the controller is itself controlled by an outside system like the supply chain or a plant tuning system, etc. This is the point I was trying to make - i'm not making a judgement call on what is or is not sufficiently 'advanced' only pointing out that this term has a meaning that the parent post I was replying to might not have understood.
> it doesn't make sense for anyone to build a second machine.

Maybe it doesn't make sense for private parties, since it clearly makes sense for nations to not rely of adversaries for their supply chains.

I would also argue that it your ability to rely on a competitor that is critical to your supply chain depends on which laws that prevent anti-competive practices are present in the relevant jurisdictions.
It's not better than gog. I generally don't buy games that are only available on steam because it's just so fucking bad.
What does Next Gen games mean here?
Show HN: Advanced UK Rail Isochrone Mapping
Hi HN,
Isochrone maps show areas which are reachable within a given time limit.
Specifying them for car journeys is straightforward, but scheduled public transport
add lots of factors which affect how far you can go, e.g. what time are you setting off?, what day of the week is it?.
There are already ischrone generators out there, but none of them let you set all the relevant parameters - so I made one.
I've been using noscript for at least a decade and it hasn't happened yet. I have conditioned my wife to use it too. She doesn't do it either
> memory-based optimizations should not be permitted when two pointers have been converted to/from integers.

Just to be clear, what you are saying is that it is not legal to transform this function:

int foo() {
int x = 5;
bar();
return x;
}

into this function:

int foo_opt() {
bar();
return 5;
}

And the end result of disallowing that kind of optimization is that effectively any function that transitively calls an unknown external function [1] gets -O0 performance. Note that one of the memory optimizations is moving values from memory to registers, which is an effective prerequisite of virtually every useful optimization, including the bread-and-butter optimizations that provide multiple-× speedups.

I suspect many people--including you--would find such a semantics to have too wide a blast radius. And if you start shrinking the blast radius, even to include such "obvious cases" as address-not-taken, you introduce some notion of pointer provenance.

That's how we arrived at the current state. We've given everything the "obvious" semantics, including making the "obvious" simplifying assumptions (such as address-not-taken not being addressable by pointers). But we have discovered--and this took decades to find out, mind you--that using "obvious" semantics causes contradictions [2].

Take a look at the quiz that prompted this discussion: <https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/cerberus/notes50-survey-disc...> and <https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/cerberus/notes30.pdf>. There's a lot of cases where pointer provenance crops up that asking C experts "does this work" or "should this work" ends up with head-scratching. Indeed, if you compare several claimed formal semantics of C, there are several cases where they disagree.

[1] An unknown external function must be assumed to do anything that it is legal to do, so a compiler is forced to assume that it is converting pointers to/from integers. And if that is sufficient to prohibit all memory-based optimizations, then it follows that calling an unknown external function is sufficient to prohibit all memory-based optimizations.

[2] And just to be clear, this isn't "this is breaking new heroic optimizations we're creating today", this is a matter of "30-year-old C compilers aren't compiling this code correctly under these semantics."
Why the tinfoil? When the WHO and the CDC/NIH and public officials lie repeatedly and demonstrably you can not trust them. Sort of invites wondering what the game is, because it's not public health.
I don’t see any way this holds up. The bootloader hands off execution to a separate program, so they have about as minimal communication as possible. They don’t even run at the same time.

It also doesn’t make sense to consider different, independently engineered pieces to be one in the same simply because they were shipped on the same storage medium.
We might be on fire, but doing business here is excellent. I'm fine being quoted on that.

It's just about a joke anywhere else I've seen. Such as annual fees just to maintain an LLC. As if you're not already paying a high effective tax rate.

The cost of living and cost of doing business doesn't make much sense in other major metros. Unfortunately, so many people are coming here that it's raising our COL, too.
This is not Steam's fault it is developer's, developer requests a game page from Steam.
Huh you’re right, I guess the acidification is usually bacterial. Same story though.
And in "Lean style", refl proofs are a bit distasteful from a software engineering point of view because they pierce through the API of a mathematical object. (In the language of OOP, it can break encapsulation.)

It tends to be a good idea to give some definition, then prove a bunch of lemmas that characterize the object, and finally forget the definition.
There are domestic foxes that have been bred over the past 50+ years in Russia as part of an experiment. Super interesting to read about, too bad they're not legal in my state as they're selling some to help raise funds to keep the program going.

Read this [0] back in 2018 about it. Super interesting, and I've been following them for a bit now.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31374512-how-to-tame-a-f...
Even if Intel was at risk, bankruptcy doesn’t mean the company evaporates off the face of the earth.
The paper which everyone linked to when the discussion was going on now 404s, so here is a new link: https://ncatlab.org/nlab/files/why_abc_is_still_a_conjecture...

The point in the proof where scholze and stix show it fails is “IUTT-3, Corollary 3.12”
> Do US citizens honestly think National Defence os a top priority above all else? If so, why?

Ultimately, being able to guarantee that you can defend yourself ensures you can seek out your other values in life, whatever they might be. In fact, I'd argue that many countries have the privilege to not even think about their national defense too much because they rely on American military guarantees for protecting their borders and trade.

Americans certainly do quibble about the size and scale of the American military machine and its role in the world though. This is a very frequent topic of discussion in political discussions with a number of friends.
> The target population of our study are all current social science students at GoetheUniversity of Frankfurt

> Participation was voluntary and incentivized with a lottery of three Amazon gift vouchers to the value of 50 euro each.

> However, the actual net response rate dropped from 14% to 7.5% when we consider only those who completed at least80% of the survey (n= 501), which is clearly poor and has to be kept in mind whendrawing conclusions from the data.

Not really a great sample. All participants are from a rather specific demographic, and a small sample size at that.
A great, but awkward, feature of the film is that it starts off feeling like a rather earnest documentary about urban poverty, and then gets bigger and more sensational throughout the movie. It doesn't surprise me that some people get put off by the beginning.
So you are saying if a German citizen travels to Mexico, they don't need to obey Mexican law because they are German citizens?

Suppose a law in Mexico requires Google to store search queries and make them available to the government for 1 year, or it requires the collection of certain types of personal information, and a law in Germany bans Google from storing search queries or collecting the information. Now a German citizen travels to Mexico, and does a web query in Mexico, do you think Google should apply Germany's Laws or Mexico's laws? It will apply Mexico's laws because that is the jurisdiction in which the query is made. Similarly if a Mexican travels to Germany and makes a query, then Google will not store the results.

Btw, this is the whole point of international VPNs. People want an internet presence in different countries in order to access content that is not available in their own country or to be treated differently than if they were in their own countries. So if you, as the German traveller, don't want your query stored, you'd VPN to a server in Germany and run your queries through that VPN. If you ran your query through the Mexican ISP, you can be sure that the information would be collected.

Thus as much as European governments may want the GDPR to be a type of shield that you can carry with you when you cross over to other jurisdictions, the reality of that portability is limited to the ability of European nations to convince other nations to go along and treat Europeans differently in their own legal system. It may work, it may not, but whether it works is not a question of the GDPR but of the ability of Europe to project power and override laws in other jurisdictions.
> We were able to collect a total of n=932 responses in the period from 16 May to 2 July 2018. However, the actual net response rate dropped from 14% to 7.5% when we consider only those who completed at least 80% of the survey (n = 501), which is clearly poor and has to be kept in mind when drawing conclusions from the data

So clickbait BS. Is nobody reading the linked study?
Highly Available MySQL with Galera and HAProxy
The latter is what I mean. Not really marketing, more like an official announcement.
I wasn't aware Bitcoin-the-protocol could prevent banks, companies, and countries from buying and hodling Bitcoin. Maybe, Bitcoin is whatever its users say it is. Maybe you should reread the paper.
From what I understand, it's the anti-inflammatory piece of Ivermectin that can help with covid because, apparently, the respiratory issue with covid is not caused by covid directly but rather an overexcited autoimmune response.

I'm not a doctor but that's what some doctors on YouTube have said ;)
> Infected hosts leave their canopy nests and foraging trails for the forest floor, an area with a temperature and humidity suitable for fungal growth; they then use their mandibles to attach themselves to a major vein on the underside of a leaf, where the host remains after its eventual death. The process leading to mortality takes 4–10 days, and includes a reproductive stage where fruiting bodies grow from the ant's head, rupturing to release the fungus's spores.

BBC Earth footage: https://youtu.be/o57imEfknMQ
Best post of 2020 by far.
Always validate input.

ALWAYS.
HTF(how the fuck) is Taiwan going send missiles beyond its own airspace let alone over China's to blow up the three gorges dam?

If China is serious Taiwan will be encircled with s-400's in little islands(artificial or otherwise) surrounding it before the first shot is ever fired, at which point the conclusion is already a forgone tale.

When it does happen the rest of the world(by which i mean the U.S) will be pre-occupied with domestic issues, cyber space issues and possibly another pandemic.

Not to mention the backdrop of the fact that the U.S launching missiles to China might trigger the MAD doctrine of Russia because missiles heading in that general direction might as well be heading to Russia, or be assumed to be as much.

>“Russia will perceive any ballistic missile launched at its territory as a nuclear attack that warrants a nuclear retaliation” - Russian military chief warned last year after round of reforms

Ergo the U.S president at that time will leave Taiwan out to dry instead of risking World War 3.

We're living in interesting times.
> an anti-woke censorship narrative, HN is going to eat this up.

Yup.
> in Germany where certain publications are required by the constitution to remain prohibited

This is false.
> the history of the world is a history of conspiracy

^ 100% This

I'll join you on this sinking ship. : )

Thanks for saying it arminiusreturns. I think more people need to argue this. Maybe it'll someday flip the script and people will finally become suspicious of authority.

Most people just look at what the majority claims. Maybe if they see enough people arguing for this, they'd flip sides.

It's silly, but logic doesn't even seem to matter since logic and evidence is so quickly brushed aside via the ad-hominem of `conspiracy theorist`.
I tend to be right leaning and would flip out if the extreme left was censored. If you can't have a discussion you can't have democracy.
You can't get EUA for the vaccines if there's a working treatment. The doctor who promoted Hydroxychloroquine and zinc treatment, Dr. Zelenko, is still banned from Twitter for spreading COVID disinformation.

There's both actual conspiracies in this world, and well poisoning to damage the conversations. When you look at the amount of money these companies stand to make from producing billions of vaccinations, you should not be surprised.
Anarchy is one. Communism is the other, as you have no property rights.
Regarding your first question, it's too early to tell but it's possible that participating in and receiving funding from a top tier accelerator might be enough. A dependent IEP spouse with work authorization would have unrestricted work authorization.
Urls are the foundation of the internet and it always makes me sad when navigating to a page results in a 404 instead.
On a somewhat related sidenote, this is why I created a note taking tool that publishes *permanent urls* - because your notes can change but your links shouldn't :)

https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/2fe96d3a-dcf9-409b-8a09-fdaa5a...
I agree with you. Seems I cannot edit the comment now, and this is not an excuse by any means, but the first sentence came as a visceral reaction to the obvious uninformed and fear-mongering tone of the person I responded to.

In my opinion there is zero excuse for whataboutism and I heard a story that said that...

I think part of the problem with today's society is that nobody calls BS anymore and we are more concerned with not being perceived as aggressive vs grounding people into reality. We get to make our own "facts".

That being said, there is a way to call BS without being rude but refuting BS is usually an order of magnitude harder than generating. Also, in my experience, a lot of time people that are spewing BS are not interested in a constructive conversation. They just want to feel smart and/or like hearing themselves talk.
Back in the day I joined evening classes just to get access to the technical college library. Reading books was a thing then.
I do see some value in erasing human history and starting again.
We have been so comprehensively vile to each other it might be better to erase it all.
I do this because the market for karma-rich HN accounts is pretty vibrant. DM if interested in making an offer.
Thanks for your kind words! It's just a hobby project that I work on alongside my full-time job right now, and to be honest, I'm still trying to figure out a plan. My intention is to keep the core functionality free forever, but I could definitely see a future where there are premium collaborative features or some cost for training custom suggestion models, for example.

If you're one of those folks who would consider supporting a tool such as this, do you have an idea in mind as to what sort of features you'd be willing to pay for?
Reading? A study?

I'm just here to get angry at a misrepresentative editorialized title!
There will never be a UN peacekeeping mission in Taiwan because China will veto it.
The best meta-analyses are those made out of RCTs at any rate.
Arguably, Congress made/authorized the trade deals which were designed to move manufacturing over seas.

There was a theory that US firms would sell higher end goods and services to developing nations who did the manufacturing. Treaties were made with countries that occasionally had asymmetric tariffs in favor of the developing nations (Columbia had such a deal) based on this theory.

While debatable, the belief now is that the majority of those service jobs were actually worse than the old manufacturing jobs which provided stable 9-5 employment, benefits, and a career path. There is further concern that trading partners who took up the manufacturing side of things are now developing and exporting the supposedly advanced services and technology companies the "knowledge economy" was meant to provide (e.g. TikTok). In the case of some industries like semiconductor manufacturing it's also posing existential national security questions.
Ivermectin is the new hydroxychloroquine.
In an actual military conflict with China, all those countries are more vulnerable to infrastructure damage than the US.

I believe the thinking is to shore up the supply chain so that the US is in a stronger negotiating situation if relations with china deteriorate to the point where the threats are less implicit.

There is also a significant "America First" mentality that wants to boost our economy, no matter what it costs our allies.
Antiinflammatories are generally useful against all kinds of things. Inflammation is a common side effect of infection.

I find that answer unsatisfactory. If "it's an anti-inflammatory!" is The Answer, there are lots of antiinflammatories out there.
Speaking generally: People need to remember that there are two or more sides to every story. It's impossible to evaluate any of this accurately in the context of an internet thread, and since it's a no-win situation for the person or organization being accused, there's no way for the full picture to emerge.

Speaking specifically: Peter handled my personal case with consummate professionalism and effectiveness, and I've heard many YC startups speak highly of what he's been able to do for them. YC has a long track record of helping non-US startups extremely effectively with their immigration challenges, and Peter has been a big part of that for something like 6 or 7 years. Given that track record, your story sounds particularly one-sided to me, although certainly no one bats 100 and I'm sorry that you had a negative experience.

I find it hard to believe that he would "give advice not really inline with the law"—that's a charge of professional misconduct and would be a bombshell if true. Internet comments, on the other hand, are cheap and make it easy to gunsling. Readers love drama and everyone loves an underdog, which is a vulnerability routinely exploited by disgruntled commenters. It's not easy for the other side to defend themselves (let alone answer name-calling like "snake-oil salesman"); and it's basically impossible for anybody else to tell what actually happened. You describe your immigration situation as "stellar"; whether an objective observer would agree with that is something the rest of us can only be agnostic about.
From reading the title, I thought they meant an ARM cpu with the same magical x86 memory ordering mode for emulation that apple put in the m1. I would love to see that!
Perhaps it would have but the Boots theory of wealth from Terry Pratchett still applies.
do you have any advice on eating snails?
"When viewed through a hex editor, the executables also contain a racial epithet that’s repeated more than 1,000 times followed by a large, randomly sized block of alphabetical characters."

Seems like it wouldn't be a good look for them if so.
If you haven't seen "They Live", I recommend you watch it on a double bill with Alex Cox's 1984 masterpiece "Repo Man"
Show HN: Edge-mock – dev. server and unit testing for Cloudflare-workers
This thread is literally under a scientific publication investigating the effectiveness of Ivermecitin, but yeah, basically like Galileo Galilei. Except not at all.
This is the right idea. But like I said, most of the value is in exploiting cheap Chinese labor, not the chips, which is why really none of that would work accounting wise - like you’re talking about a valuable economic enterprise but not one that would produce a lot of profits for shareholders.
Yeah, this seems like an even weaker connection than disibributing a GNU/Linux-based VM or Docker image with a non-GPL/LGPL application in it.
The paper referenced in the original tweet was about banning books from a university library.
This is the same active ingredient used to treat heartworm in dogs and kill other types of parasites.
List of Ivermectin studies:

https://c19ivermectin.com/

FLCCC Alliance Response to All National and International Health Agency Recommendations Against Ivermectin in COVID-19:

https://covid19criticalcare.com/videos-and-press/flccc-relea...
international-health-agency-recommendations-against-ivermectin-in-covid-19/

Response to W.H.O s rejection of the studies:

https://covid19criticalcare.com/videos-and-press/flccc-relea...

https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/F...
Yes. I believe it is factually incorrect that a treatment with the claimed efficacy numbers would have prevented an EUA, given the vaccines we got were both safe and more effective.