skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you read the article? Yes, selective admissions filter out “bad” students including the type of students who don’t care about school who hold back students who do care; the problems of the article are virtually nonexistent at Lowell. I don’t think Lowell was particularly selective (I think something like 50% of applicants get in) and there were plenty of poor students (including myself) who benefited from an academic public school that does have both wealthy and non-wealthy students who care about learning (as opposed to private and suburban schools which definitely do discriminate on the basis of wealth/income).

> either we must assume that they are less smart … or we must acknowledge that there is some form of discrimination

The failure of schooling starts much earlier than the admissions test, and it is wrong to infer from disparities in test results that the test itself is racist (as the ringleaders of the SF Board of Education assumed).
Whether ivermectin helps with covid or not, it's certainly not an advertising company's role to censor the debate.
Giving the benefit of the doubt (that new evidence is compelling), that still doesn't retroactively justify anything. The information available in the past is not affected by the informative available in the future. If we discover that Bush irrefutably orchestrated 9/11, that doesn't make the conspiracy theorists' rationales more rational. It feels natural to make that connection, but that's only in service of our side-taking tendencies.
Shall i recommend(heartily) Monodraw(mac only) for ASCII diagrams. I use it all the time for code comments, documentation, spec docs and even some times quick and dirty UX mockups
https://monodraw.helftone.com/
In my experience, only the actual degree will be accepted.
Too easy to game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvIvPARVRUQ
Fair enough. I was talking US where PEs are fairly rare outside of civil engineering and other subsets of engineering that deal with regulatory bodies a lot.

Generally in the US engineer is used pretty loosely. Some states are stricter. But even those who are, like apparently Texas, my first-hand experience is that most people don't pay much attention.
The problem with taxing based on profits is they can be obfuscated in too many ways. I'm not opposed to what you're saying in theory, but I think there would need to be massive changes to the tax code to make that work.
I am baffled why they are doing a recall? According to the site, the main reason states because their kids have not gone back to school. To me, that's not a good enough reason for a recall (recalls cost money). Public schools are under state and county health guidance.
Heavy industry and chip manufacturing are not really comparable though. The cutting edge nodes are only relevant for a few years, maybe a decade for rudimentary components.

The major problem the US, and the West, face right now is that its more profitable to speculate on financial and real estate assets than it is to actually produce anything.

In 20201 in Sydney and Vancouver for example, the average house price has increased more per day than the average daily salary for a worker...

The other issue is that the West (particularly the Anglosphere) is intent on importing as many low-cost workers as possible, from countries with poor records of innovation, who then bring their own problems such as caste favoritism and high in-group preferences.

The simplest solution would probably be to import Taiwanese engineers en-masse, and formally create new chipset companies (which are not Intel), which it seems only China is really doing.

A direct policy approach could be for the USA to offer anyone with a university degree or trade skill and under the age of 40, from non-oil countries with a HDI of over .85 the ability to permanently migrate to the USA for a nominal fee:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Dev...

And at the same time, deporting all illegal immigrants (to free up housing) and building walls along the southern border - the shortage of cheap labour will encourage automation and innovation.
Can you provide one example?
I see no numbers on how many people were treated on either of the first two links, and certainly don't intend to comb through the dross on the third link. So do you actually have a number? It doesn't need to be exact, just a credible source on the order of magnitude will be enough. Are we talking a thousand, a million, or a billion here?

To reduce R by a factor of 2 by the use of a prophylactic drug, you'd need to have half of the population on a regime of the drug. It seems pretty obvious that did not happen if this kind of reporting is the most impactful there is. Just think of the logistics of trying to do that! India has a population of 1.4 billion.

On the other hand, if they only gave the snakeoil to e.g. a single digit number of millions of people the reduction in the number of infections would be imperceptible.
My mom is on dialysis, has diabetes and hypertension. Recently for a surgery we had to do a covid test. Dad also took the test. Both were positive.

The nephrologist prescribed ivermectin for mom. She had mild fever for 3 days and recovered. Dad had no obvious symptoms and recovered(he was not prescribed ivermectin, hence did not take it). The govt doctors don't prescribe it just vitamin c, zinc and dolo. This is india btw.
I wondered if this was to compensate from eBay's recent push to shift payments to their own system versus Paypal after their split-- but per https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/PYPL/financials, Paypal's revenue hasn't dipped and they seem to be plenty profitable. Just a cash grab or actual increased fees/risks due to merchant profile?
>Source for the EUA stuff?

https://www.fdanews.com/ext/resources/files/archives/e/Emerg...

(PDF warning)(section III, the first list, point #4)

>Source that HCQ and zinc are viable treatments?

Dozens? Hundreds? of doctors speaking out, including videos posted to youtube, that they saw great effectiveness in the trial. The people promoting it weren't a bunch of nobodys, despite what the nightly news told you. There were plenty of frontline workers with actual experience. But that likely won't satisfy your request for a source - which is fine. We all appeal to authority as we see fit. I saw many actual doctors saying "this is effective", and I saw many large corporations working together to shut that conversation down.

Do you have any evidence it's not effective?
Electric motors are better at being a big V8 than a big V8 is. Its like God came down and said "In fact there is a replacement for displacement! behold!"

A model X has about that same power, goes faster for it, and you can put a dead body in the front where the engine isn't.
> the performance gains were massive enough for all Intel Macbooks to feel like quicksand and I just can’t imagine having to work with one.

It may depend on the user to some extent, but if I cannot run this iOS app because the developer told me so or an app that is not ported to Apple Silicon and doesn't work well in Rosetta then what is the point?

What good is a system that indeed delivers on these performance gains but also doesn't run the software you need for more than 6 months after purchase?

I'd rather wait with my 'already working MacBook' which runs fine, than to be part of the early adopted chaos club that went all in on the M1 and then complained for months about the SSD wearing issues themselves; only to say one benefit that 'It just runs faster!'
EventBus uses an annotation processor and reflection to reify a call. A ton of things look like this. Like that's also sort of what a REST API is. It makes a ton of sense for crossing boundaries from owning the code to not owning the code, and back again.

But since you own the code, you own 100% of the source in your GUI application, why would you need indirection? There's no reason to hide part A from part B. That's why giant companies who author all their stuff in house use monorepos. I can't believe I'm saying this, but hiding stuff, like trying to mark code as proprietary or "not maintained by my team" (as Amazon would do), is a social construct.

This is relevant to the library because many times, people who have the experience of using this library in real Android apps and having a positive experience with it - they are using the library for to do, "my team does this part, and this other team does that part." "This developer is stupid and junior, so must decouple their work." Toxic! Amazon: extremely toxic. If I were a code anthropologist, DI and EventBus would be, "Artifacts of toxicity."

When you look at how it's used by other apps, like Signal for Android, with small teams, it just looks stupid, and they work around its warts anyway, and use direct calling anyway, just in a far more roundabout fashion.
The way you use the word 'created' makes me think you are externalising the ethics of your choices.
This is from the FDA website.

"Under section 564 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act), when the Secretary of HHS declares that an emergency use authorization is appropriate, FDA may authorize unapproved medical products or unapproved uses of approved medical products to be used in an emergency to diagnose, treat, or prevent serious or life-threatening diseases or conditions caused by CBRN threat agents when certain criteria are met, including there are no adequate, approved, and available alternatives."

You should probably drill into this if you are interested, but the phrasing most often referenced by people talking about effective therapeutics and the lack of approval by the FDA is, "there are adequate, approved, and available alternatives."
There's a large body of evidence in the opposite direction as well.

I just pulled the following from Bret Weinstein's show notes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSWjl-JOIqs

British Ivermectin Recommendation Development group: https://bird-group.org

The BIRD Recommendation on the Use of Ivermectin for Covid-19:
Executive Summary: https://bird-group.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/bird-execu...

Carvallo et al 2020. Study of the efficacy and safety of topical ivermectin+ iota-carrageenan in the prophylaxis against COVID-19 in health personnel. J. Biomed. Res. Clin. Investig., 2. https://medicalpressopenaccess.com/upload/1605709669_1007.pd...

Cobos-Campos et al 2021.Potential use of ivermectin for the treatment and prophylaxis of SARS-CoV-2 infection: Efficacy of ivermectin for SARS-CoV-2. Clin Res Trials, 7: 1-5. https://www.readkong.com/page/potential-use-of-ivermectin-fo...

Database of all ivermectin COVID-19 studies. 93 studies, 55 peer reviewed, 56 with results comparing treatment and control groups: https://c19ivermectin.com

Karale et al 2021. A Meta-analysis of Mortality, Need for ICU admission, Use of Mechanical Ventilation and Adverse Effects with Ivermectin Use in COVID-19 Patients. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/medrxiv/early/2021/05/04/202...

Kory et al 2021. Review of the Emerging Evidence Demonstrating the Efficacy of Ivermectin in the Prophylaxis and Treatment of COVID-19. American Journal of Therapeutics, 28(3): e299: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8088823/

Nardelli et al 2021. Crying wolf in time of Corona: the strange case of ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. Is the fear of failure withholding potential life-saving treatment from clinical use?. Signa Vitae, 1: 2. https://oss.signavitae.com/mre-signavitae/article/20210508-3...

Yagisawa et al 2021. Global trends in clinical studies of ivermectin in COVID-19. The Japanese Journal of Antibiotics, 74: 1. https://www.psychoactif.org/forum/uploads/documents/161/74-1...
Not really weird, today Amazon is the big company to beat up by the media. Remember how Walmart was the punching bag a few years ago. During that period, I wondered why Amazon was not the focus since Amazon seemed to be doing the same things that Walmart was being accused of doing.

Media focus comes in waves. In a couple of years we'll see Walmart or an other big company in the hot seat again.

These companies know that for the most part they just have to say sorry that YOU feel bad for what they are doing (basically they feel bad that you feel bad), act like they are changing, and lay low until the attention passes. For the most part nothing will change unless they see it impacting their earnings then it becomes an emergency and they have to do something about it.
So I need to read all ~30,000 pages of Zizek before forming an opinion. Or at least a negative opinion. Wonderful system you've developed.

> It's a dad-joke that he told at a talk. Heaven forbid the man try and add some levity to situations.

It's not funny. Anyway, like I said, it's a performance. The fact that you (and he) would agree with that judgement doesn't make it any less damning. I watched part of a lecture he did on youtube. Absolutely unwatchable. If he has a point he's unable to communicate it. But the real point is mystifying the audience, creating the impression that they're witnessing a genius thinking out loud, and the terrible jokes don't help.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHP1OwivAL0 if anyone is "interested". Notice Avital Ronell (sex offender and NYU professor) introducing him. It's bizarre how Zizek bullies her through the starting of the lecture while playing it off as a joke between friends.
Great example, can I please borrow that? Is a link sufficient attribution?
> some still are

well that's an understatement[0].

I alos think it's less productive to interpret the phrase absolute evil as a comment on an entity's moral alignments (because it's a corporation, it's not chaotic evil or neutral good, it just is) but as a comment on the foundation and effects of the economic and political systems defining of the corporations (capitalism under neoliberalism). Absolute evil seems like a fairly decent personification of those metrics to me: every extra push to manufacture another product pushes us closer to a climate catastrophe (even 'green' products like Teslas, especially green products like Teslas[1]). Even if you deny climate change, you can't deny that workers are being taken advantage of near habitually. If we're going to personify the destruction of the earth and the worker, absolute evil does not seem too far off.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides for one
1: https://www.wired.com/2016/03/teslas-electric-cars-might-not...
Looks like an interesting project. Would you have some kind of a summary of the methodology you're using for the annotation suggestions? What kind of learning, and which kinds of features?
Hello HN. SIDfi is a single-board self-contained SID file player. SIDfi requires the original MOS 6581 chip or a pin-compatible replacement such as ARMSID. SIDfi plays tune files such as High Voltage SID Collection from a FAT-formatted memory card and displays current tune information on a small LCD screen. Buttons on the LCD screen can be used to control the playback.

SIDfi is still very much work in progress. I am planning to add ability to play specific SID tunes and directories with joystick buttons and improving playback screen presentation.
How the Enigma machine was broken – Sir Dermot Turing
I'd like some more technical details on what exactly InSpectre does (specifically for the Meltdown patch). e.g. Does it just flip a registry key? Rewrite a microcode patch somewhere? Couldn't find an explanation in the software (even under Show Tech Details) or on their site; could you point me to it?

Also, do all the major browsers now have their own mitigations built in?
Fact Check-COVID-19 vaccines are not ‘cytotoxic’ https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/am...
Otherwise, would GRUB or the old LILO literally force your entire OS to be GPL? That would be insanity.
That's rather credulous.
Effect of Ivermectin on Time to Resolution of Symptoms for Mild Covid-19
Because then you need an acupuncture badge quality quality badge, and so on.
Yes, that's expected. But it programs you to tackle a problem: energy consumption countered by energy generation. Can you tackle it?
I have found that with film, music or art, young people (or anyone really) have to be receptive before they're able to appreciate the experience. It just won't "click" if they're not ready. I've tried. I've tried to get youngsters excited about "the canon" of great cinema (yes, I consider John Carpenter to be on the short list for must-see horror films).

There's no easy way to encourage receptivity. The best thing you can do is to just be accessible when it happens and be ready to discuss.
Usually software can't easily destroy a device like a network switch. However on a 3d printer you can burn the whole unit into ash if you remove overheat protections. You may also be able to destroy stepper motors or drivers.
It's the same thing. Breaking up large tech companies will be a golden opportunity for foreign companies to step in and take those positions. Ever wonder if the public support on social media for breaking up the tech companies isn't actually coming from the US?
Debian 10.10 Released
Dr. Zelenko held studies that 'showed' that HCQ had 100% cure rate by excluding people that moved to an ICU from the treatment group. The studies turned out to be complete bunk. He's a fraud.
Interesting, I quite like Durian. I think it smells
like a gas leak (which isn’t per se “disgusting”), but tastes pretty good.
And this isn't even theoretical. Buggy 3D Printer Software has literally burned people's homes down in the past.
Not answering emails strikes me as a weaker charge than professional misconduct, but the more important point is that no internet comment should count as a "strong" accusation, unless by "strong" you mean "intense". Such comments are always—basically without exception, in my experience—carefully crafted to leave out any detail that would reveal the other side of the story. We all know how dramatically different the story appears when such details trickle out later, as occasionally they do; and we all know how by then, the dramafest spotlight has usually moved on.
Monopoly doesn’t mean “big company I dislike”. It has an actual definition and Paypal doesn’t meet it.
They'll turn it down because they can make $250k a year writing code for Facebook/Google/etc.

And it's really more talent in process engineering that you need, not in the physics of chip building. We already know what has to be done to make transistors. It's the how to do it at scale and with high enough yield that's impressively difficult.
Thanks for answering . Let's say I get interviewed by the press, and there is a mention of my publication in a journal .

Is that invalidated because the assumption is that I provided it during the interview vs. them doing third party verification and getting to my publication independently?

If that's the case is it better to have 2 separate articles, one mentioning the publication and the other being the interview?
That's correct so when pursuing a green card while in TN status, the applicant should only travel internationally after commencing the green card process on an advance parole travel document (not on a TN) or get his or her green card through a process abroad, called immigrant visa processing. An applicant for a green card in TN status should never seek admission in TN status if he or she is the beneficiary of a pending or approved I-140 petition unless he or she is immigrant visa processing and only then after consulting with an immigration attorney to understand the issues, process, and risks of doing so.
That's awesome. I'm probably gonna start using this instead of matplotlib
todays Ivermectin thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27562412
Paypal stole all the money from my legal business 20 years ago, and I will never use them again. They are corrupt and evil. Thieves.
Came here to post the same question. Great work by the way!
UFOs and Alien Beings, the big picture
There are things in our skies and in the seas that we do not understand.

Actually, despite our scientific progress, we sometimes forget how much we do not know. Most of the matter in our universe is called dark matter because we do not know what it is. Most of the energy is called dark energy for the same reason. Even for the forms of matter and energy that we have scientific theories for, we don’t know why those theories work. We can predict outcomes using quantum theories, relativity theory and the Standard Model of particle physics, but we don’t know why those mathematical methods work, nor where they come from.

Now let’s speculate, what happens if we make contact with advanced alien beings with a civilization far more advanced than our own. What sort of philosophy might they have? It would be interesting to find out whether such beings would have any religious or spiritual beliefs, and if so what kind, or would they be atheists. What if the aliens turn out to be not only atheists but to view our religions as primitive superstitions.

Perhaps any such aliens will be so far outside our beliefs and philosophies as to be incomprehensible. They may not be physical beings but maybe instead made up of energy, information or spirit, or something more exotic that we can barely discern.

Our oceans and our skies are big places. There could be willful, organized, intelligent configurations that are nothing at all like what we might expect or would even notice.

Perhaps our saints and prophets have given us the best guidance in such matters. We might be dealing with powers and principalities, angels and demons, or other things that are nor dreamed of in our philosophies.

Jesus said that he had sheep that are not of this fold. Maybe he meant people in other parts of the world, other religious traditions, or even on other worlds. Maybe he meant angels or spirits. We don’t know. Maybe we should keep our minds open.

What do you think?
The new UI changes were introduced in tech preview 126, but that one is only available for macOS 12. The download page at https://developer.apple.com/safari/download/ says "macOS 11 - coming soon".

I have tech preview 125 from earlier and no software updates are available in system preferences.

So how do you have the new 126 UI changes on Big Sur already?
lmfao. Imagine being good enough to code malware that does this and wasting your efforts on something like this.

Look, if you have skills like these, you're special. Don't fucking waste it on building malware for corporate asshats.
>Audi would stop introducing new fossil fuel burning cars by 2026. Additionally, their lineup will only consist of “e-” branded cars by 2028.

If I read this correctly, they will not introduce new product lines starting 2026, and, stop selling ICE cars entirely in 2028. Is that the correct reading?

If so, it seems monumental(?) that a company like Audi would endeavor to transform their company from ICE (97% in 2020) to 100% BEV (3% in 2020) [0] over 8 years. The manufacturing supply chain and employee composition (including sub-tier suppliers) will endure a period of major change.

[0] https://insideevs.com/news/465756/2020-audi-etron-electric-c...
Other countries seem to be able to get fast internet connection with traditional infrastructure to small towns and communities. Why not America?
And just to clarify, the underlying hypothesis is correct. And your conclusion is also correct.
Somebody that's affected by this should report it as a remote code execution vulnerability in the PlayStore app.
My EB-2 PERM was approved last week. My employer is giving me the choice between concurrent filing of the I-140 (with PP) and I-485, or filing the I-140 with PP and then filing the I-485 upon approval.

Is there any reason not to file concurrently? I'm surprised my employer is giving me the choice because I can't think of a good reason to file separately given that I have no upcoming travel plans.