skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not true. A bunch of doctors went on YouTube about usefulness of hydroxychloroquine in their patients and got taken down by YouTube.
Every person is unique and medications/supplements/food will work for some and not others. Best example is coffee. If you have gene that metabolizes caffeine fast then coffee is good for you and helps you because your body clears caffeine and reaps benefits of antioxidants in coffee. On the other hand if you don’t have that gene then caffeine lingers in your body and causes all sorts of damage and therefore drinking coffee is bad for you.
I second this! It stands separate from the pop-Egyptology documentaries we’re so used to seeing on those science/history cable channels and YouTube recommendations. Amazing to see the whole excavation process by the people who actually do it.
UC schools no longer consider SAT or ACT for admissions or scholarships.

https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/admission-requi...
Seconded.

The whole Ivermectin saga does not deserve the attention that it is getting, those that are relentlessly pushing it are causing people not to get vaccinated and that in turn will prolong the epidemic and lead to people getting ill and some fraction of those will die.

I've read up on this thing as much as I could and it's quite simple: there is at this point in time zero hard evidence that it works in humans short of using it in dosage that is well outside the range that we have data on. It's just the HCQ story warmed over.
"Monetarily sovereign countries don't tax to fund their operations. Rather, they tax to fight inflation"

Another way of putting this: we are paying the interest on their loans. That is, the only thing that would be different without taxes is higher interest rates.

https://www.sifma.org/resources/research/us-treasury-securit...
Ok, I was confused by this line of reasoning, so did some digging. I believe it's one of the popular antivax disinfo conspiracy theories. Here's my reading.

The line of reasoning hinges on the vaccines being "experimental" and only being distributed under an Emergency Use Authorization, as opposed to a full approval. The FDA policies for EUA indicate they're only to be used when there is no adequate, approved, and available alternative. This makes a lot of sense - if (let's say) someone comes up with a new flu vaccine (an mRNA one, to continue this example, as that would be kinda exciting), you really want it to go through the full approval process instead of EUA, even if it is better. That's because we have plenty of good, approved flu vaccines.

So, the theory goes, if we had an approved treatment for Covid, then the EUA for the vaccines would be illegal. And so that creates incentives for the pharmaceutical companies to suppress a miracle cure like (they claim) ivermectin.

To anybody with the capacity for rational thought, this is obviously bullshit. We have fully approved treatments already, including remdesivir. The idea that a treatment for Covid, even a pretty good one, would make vaccines unnecessary makes no sense.

I am fairly confident in making the following prediction. Full FDA approval for the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines is likely by the end of the year[1], at which point the above line of reasoning will no longer be applicable. Antivaxxers will smoothly transition to another line of argument.

I do think this "theory" is one reason you see a significant overlap between pro-ivermectin and antivax, for example in the comments of Bret Weinstein videos.

[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/18/covid-vaccines-what-full-fda...
I would lean more towards this is one of those truths that can be taken as self-evident. But, at the same time I would be skeptical that any published evidence would account for the infinitude of confounding factors.

My guess is it is similar to IQ results - does a good job weeding out people who know nothing, but does worse differentiating between students who are satisfactory and those who are exceptional
They punish this skill. I was literally expelled from my high school during senior year for arguing with a teacher over her misinterpretation of something stated pretty plainly in the textbook. The teacher got furious when I stated confidently that she was wrong, and within about 15 minutes I had been taken to the principal’s office and told to never tell a teacher that they are wrong, to which I said “even if they are wrong?” and she expelled me on the spot. The expulsion was overturned about a week later but it was a terrible week for me and my parents, and I got pretty behind in my schoolwork because of it. And to be clear the problem was that the teacher was saying something different from the textbook, so this was not a subjective matter, or a question of knowledge exactly. If she had just said “ignore the textbook” it would have been fine.
Download the source, compile it, and let us know.
Then why does Windows lag behind with its x86 emulation capabilities when running on ARM? For example: https://www.techspot.com/review/1599-windows-on-arm-performa... and https://www.windowslatest.com/2018/03/27/windows-10-on-arm-b... (disclaimer: these are from a few years back, because seemingly there isn't a lot of interest in the topic)

I feel like there's more to Apple's success, in part because of them having full control over the whole ecosystem, from the hardware, to the OS, to the languages that they'd like to support within their platform. Doing that for near-arbitrary hardware (e.g. everything for server hardware, to regular workstations, to budget off-brand laptops) would be far less likely to succeed on such a scale.

Unless everyone ditches Windows in favour for other OSes that would play nicely with ARM, or unless Windows manages to make leaps in regards to emulation technology, i don't see ARM going mainstream for the kind of personal computing that people do on their PCs (as opposed to mobile devices, where ARM clearly dominates).

Plus, there's an argument to be made that we shouldn't even need emulation in the first place, just software that's sufficiently portable to be compiled for a new target, or written in a platform-agnostic enough way that it can be easily ported over to a new architecture.
> They are only "strongly leftist" in a far-right banana republic (i.e., the USA).

Even in the US, they are, at least some of them, more prominent in the more centrist faction of the Democratic Party than even the Democratic “left”, much less the actual (for the USA) “far left”. Remember that one of the establishment arguments early on against Sanders was that he had a historically weak voting record on gun control.

The American Right tends to confuse the degree to which a position is associated with the Democratic Party with how far “left” it is.
South Korea's Nuclear Research agency breached using VPN flaw
Yeah, it's only really true of the Germanics (and English with the basic vocabulary of a few languages, because English is weird) ­– but even then, questionably.
> Caltech requires good grades as criteria for admission. Caltech graduates have a disproportionately high percentage of Nobel prizes.

Caltech requires 10-year-old kids to write essays?

Again, are we talking about enrolling 10-year-old kids in highschool or are we talking about hiring microbiologists?
If 4chan cracked down on racism they did the worst job I could possibly imagine. You can’t even go to the fit or tv boards without running into literal, unapologetic, white supremacist views.
I still wonder if they changed the currency and the prices in the store accordingly or if he still had to pay european prices.
Same, I think this is the assumption that doesn't always hold up. However, it often does, and how well it does depends on the teachers and school.
Agreed! In my world of Asic design, I use Wavedrom[1] and Latex/LyX with tikz-timing[2] to make drawing timing diagrams less painful and more predictable and good looking to. Bonus, as you mentioned, they are source based text, and so can be committed in the repo.

[1] https://wavedrom.com/

[2] http://bakoma-tex.com/doc/latex/tikz-timing/tikz-timing.pdf
Sounds like your typical conspiracy theory.
As I read this, I felt like my head fell into the cheese dip back in 1957.
Public schools where I live in Texas are great. Much better than the $33k per year school we had in Silicon Valley. The places were they seem broken are in big city districts where certain political factions, specifically teacher unions, get outsized influence on policy. I saw this up close when I lived in Jersey City and was considering a run for school board on Mayor Fulup’s slate of candidates. After being warned about “crossing the unions” and getting into tiffs with the NAACP representative, I discovered that many of these groups don’t care a lick about education, only money and power. And it isn’t about funding: look at the per pupil expenditures in DC or New York, and compare them to Austin suburbs like Leander, or Houston suburbs like the Woodlands. Those suburban districts spend less than the districts that perpetually fail. There are policy problems, not financial ones.
That is the argument presented, but I think it's worth noting that the issue or motivation underlying it is probably more a concern that Prusa might become (or is perceived to already be) less open than it was/says it is/markets itself as being/should be from a Prusa fan than it is sanctity of the GPL from a GNU fan.
> The point is that to ban private schools you’d also have to ban homeschooling.

Why?

You can homeschool your children if you want.

They just have to be at state school during state school hours like anyone else. So you'll have to homeschool in your own time, like everything else you have to do in your own time.

(I'm not in favour of banning private schools, but your argument doesn't make sense regardless.)
So Apple was inspired by the IE address bar / tab layout. Nice to see Apple preserve history ... just as IE is going EOL.
You can, but you'd have to have some proof.

And so far we do not have any. So until then this story is pushed way further than it has any right to. Weinstein thrives on the censorship, but the fact of the matter is that there simply is no proven efficacy and until then this has no business being promoted to a mainstream audience who might get themselves into a lot of trouble, or who might forego getting vaccinated.
During high school we had had an exchange program with a German college track high school. My family hosted a student for a month and then they hosted me in Germany. I was shocked at the difference in expectations and quality of education compared to an average American high school. I really wish we offered something equivalent of their combination Vocational Tech/High school with industry partnership as a viable career path compared to the 4 year high school only option I had.
I think you're missing the point. There seems to be endless discussion around this question, but it is purely academic and doesn't affect people who speak one language or the other in the least. It's irrelevant.

If (some significant number of) Croatians say they speak Croatian then these is a language called Croatian spoken by Croatians. It doesn't matter if it has a striking resemblance to another language or if it is unique. People have a right to linguistic self-determination as much as anything else.

The language you speak is entirely political. Academics or historians don't get to determine what languages people speak, people do that for themselves.
"literally the only people I've seen push this kind of nonsense are antivaxxers and conspiracy theorists."

Literally? Everyone? LOL this is why there are so many normal people in this thread saying "at least let's have a discussion!"

Your sentiment is the reason (imo) that these discussions are so hard to have, no offense.
It’s against their best interests to teach this. Imagine if they taught critical thinking about the Covid epidemic. The very logic unions used to keep schools closed would be unraveled if students and parents were thinking critically.
And you could adjust yearly, don't want those multi-millionaires to feel too much burden. Who will creat the jobs!? Won't somebody think of the jobs?!?
> Micro-optimizing each line of code as it is written, "because it is fast", without even bothering to use a profiler.

With the CPU, MMU and OS architectures of that period, it wasn't particularly hard to infer what was fast without profiling it. The slow rise in complexity at all 3 levels now makes it hard for even extremely experienced close-to-the-metal programmers to understand what will be fast or slow without a profiler. Times do change, in fact.
So much low risk, that pharmaceutical compagny made sure to have no liability if something bad happen.
I think you're probably right and that's definitely part of the issue.

However your assumption that people can all be convinced to agree on the technical architecture is part of the problem here. There are so many areas of software engineering where "reasonable experts" can disagree. Static vs dynamic typing, functional vs object oriented, loose coupled messaging based flows vs tightly coupled APIs etc. Successful systems can be built in all these ways as long as one is chosen and there is some consistency. But it is hard to be successful if they are built in all different ways at the same time.

So inherent in this picture is that you will have people with irreconcilable differences about how things should work at a fairly deep level.

Acknowledging your point however - part of what I say my mistake was in not "intervening" was to do more of this advocacy proactively, and flush out earlier on - can these individuals be convinced or is the difference irreconcilable.

An example, if it helps, is in one instance one of the team was tasked to implement a particular feature, and they found that the implementation was too slow when written in Python. So without consulting they selected a different language that is not in use or understood by anybody on the team at all, and then developed this whole critical subsystem in this language. Meanwhile there were many alternatives within the team's chosen tech stack that could capably solve this problem with adequate performance (even Python if properly utilized). The solution was an amazing work of art (although quite buggy as it turned out). But it was a disaster for the project and actually sank the delivery of it.
This is something that really shocks and annoys me when I visit the US. Ad-sponsored TV is unusable.
But not for this particular application, and not in the doses where apparently it has some effect on COVID. And that is the problem with promoting this, as long as you weren't aware of that you probably should not be part of the army of 'useful idiots' of the anti-vax crowd.
I quite like XFS + LVM. LVM now has a high level wrapper for kernel raid and md-integrity.

for previous data I can't bear to go less than raid 6 (equiv). And require ECC ram. I've had several events where after one drive failed, I discovered minor errors on a second drive...

Currently kernel raid can't use raid 6 to decide a majority win if a bit error is discovered. MD-integrity seems to cost a fair bit of performance (relative to zfs). So I like either plain LVM+raid 6 or also add an integrity option if I want to defend against bit rot.

It's simple to operate. Loads of experts available if it breaks. Well tested. easy to expand or even drastically reshape.

It lacks "send". and performance of snapshots could be lower (try thin pools). Can easily add SSD caching, but performance improvement is possibly not as high as with alternatives

works well enough for me...
The big Alcoa press is 50_000 tons, not lbs. There are slightly larger ones now, 60, 75ktons. (22 tons is, of course, force that any rail yard could produce a century ago.)
Are you aware that most of the San Francisco Bay Area is not actually in the city of San Francisco?
AFAIK there's more evidence supporting that ~B students are the most successful vs A students.
>And it is known how to build such culture in relatively short time frame, culture. Just look at Japan, South Korea or Taiwan.

Indeed. To expand on that, there is an economist Richard Werner [1] who has studied that process in depth.

The TLDR is that new money/credit creation needs to be allocated primarily toward production and innovation, vs consumption or asset speculation (the three things money can be allocated toward).

In post-WWII Japan this process was called "Window Guidance" [2], an informal system by which the BoJ directed the banking system to fund industrial development.

The Asian Tigers and then China all copied the model in their development program too, so it's clearly portable, but interestingly remains informal. You would think an effective model like this would be formalized into law at some point.

[1]:https://professorwerner.org/; https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Richard-Werner

[2]:http://princesoftheyen.com/central-bank-money-creation/ (scroll down to Window Guidance section).
Glad you are in a good place now. Try not to be so hard on yourself.
Unproven medical treatments are a kind of speech that the US government has aggressively suppressed with the approval of the courts for many years. That situation was abused to suppress the works of Wilhelm Reich (~70 years ago) but I don't see that kind of abuse here. Youtube isn't subject to the first amendment 'cause it's not the government BUT also the first amendment hasn't protected this kind of expression for a long time. Just sayin'.

Edit: and as other said, that the drug is legal is irrelevant and disingenuous. We're talking a new treatment system.
Exactly. They say this in the study:

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Our empirical analysis is based on original survey data collected from social
science students at Goethe University Frankfurt. We are certainly not under the im-
pression that our sample is representative of university students in general (or the
wider public, for that matter). On the contrary, we purposefully consider the social
science studentship at Frankfurt as a most likely case (George and Bennett 2005;
Gerring 2007)

---

..a fact that was obviously overlooked by the outraged masses on Twitter.
>And it isn’t about funding: look at the per pupil expenditures in DC or New York, and compare them to Austin suburbs like Leander, or Houston suburbs like the Woodlands

Spending per pupil can be a deceiving statistic due to the vastly different needs between poor/middle-class/wealthy students
I think you are working in the right direction, but you have to include lies that are believed by the teller, semi-lies that were honestly conceived but lose their earnestness through determined avoidance of self-questioning, and even honest but harmful mistakes.
What the heck are you talking about? Brazil variant for example is pretty brutal on kids, death is not so uncommon result. School is one of the worst places for spreading, since tons of kids lack will/discipline to behave consistently, and are cramped in various classes. Once 1 member of household is sick, the chance rest will get it is pretty high.

Remote teaching sucks for many reasons for kids and should be used only when really unavoidable, but to claim kids are a-OK and shouldn't be vaccinated ain't based on science I've read so far.
> Sublime Object of Ideology and his work on Lacan in general are well-respected. There's not a lot of nonsense in his theoretical work at all.

Well respected by some and not others. Lacan as a philosopher has boosters and detractors...much like Zizek (and every other philosopher). I'm with the detractors.

I've read 1.5 of his books (not the one you mentioned) and I tried to watch an academic lecture on youtube. I've read various secondary sources (which are mostly highly critical and I found convincing).

Your argument comes down to "anyone who doesn't think highly of Zizek is dumb/hasn't read him/doesn't understand him". It's so low effort.

> When he engages the public, or whatever you find on youtube which is what I suspect you've seen of him based on your impression, he does indeed joke around a lot. But this has to do with his inherent distaste for 'preaching'.

I have no problem with intellectuals making jokes. Zizek isn't funny.

> But this has to do with his inherent distaste for 'preaching'. He's no fan of climbing on a pedestal and pretending to speak from a position of authority, he's said himself he's always considered that authoritarian.

Most people who "don't like to preach" end up, you know, not preaching.
Mr. Malone is a very eminent scientist who has one serious problem in this particular case: he really doesn't like big pharma earning billions over what he considers to be his invention.
Hehehehehe communism bad. Buy more stonks.
I don't disagree. My point is many people think if they'd done this or that they'd be happier. I completely disagree with this premise.
Ah yes. Since they've started to pretend to care about privacy, they can now justify anything they do by waving the privacy banner. That excuse is frankly pathetic since they haven't demonstrated a serious commitment to privacy for so long yet. [maybe they have but i don't remember]
> How do you profit on Bitcoin crashing?

Sell futures?

(I'm not GP nor really disagreeing with anything else you said.)
That sounds like a great way to indirectly punish parents who can't afford commutes for their children, since they get stuck with whichever schools the wealthier parents pull their children from.
I'm not sure what you've quoted, because that is -not- what I said.

People should be paid for their work. Pirating doesn't pay them for their work. Work includes art and media. I'm not sure how I can state this more simply.

I'm not sure why this is even a complicated topic. With literally everything else, if you want something, you need to pay to acquire it because it took time and resources to make. That doesn't go away just because the end product is digital.
No, the other experts are at work, and don't have time to debate every person out there who has a following. This pandemic is not yet over and guys like Weinstein are all noise and no signal. Keep enough Weinsteins engaged and progress on this front (real progress, not imaginary progress) will grind to a halt.
Isn't Pfizer mostly handling manufacturing and distribution for biontech?
Combination of at least: DL and good old fashioned symbolic AI.
There's no such thing as sideloading. That's just installing. The weird thing is taking over complete control of the hardware and only allowing the owner to install software that your company approves of (for now). Technofeudalism is not going to end up helping the people it intends to.
School choice is still universal public education. It is just the government providers of education have to compete with private providers.
Do you pay property tax?
Tiger Stripes in Espresso Are Signs of Channeling
Some Texans shocked to find their smart thermostats were turned up remotely
Apple has been talking about privacy for a long time. Your last statement is quite demonstrably false.
Might even be good satire (which I think means: 50/50 funny, 80% offensive) and it got someone to leave - so...Well played?
It’s my understanding that private schools play a minor role in other countries. Those same countries also have home schools.

I don’t quite understand how restricting a private school of several hundred students affects a parent teaching their children at home.

Clearly rules could be in place to separate those concerns apart.
It's a treatment, not a cure
> The last 10 years were a credentials rat race because the labor maket was too slack. That does cause a "skills are going to waste, degrading education" problem, but that's very different.

I believe people in the HN demographic perceive a credentials rat race (and perception may or may not be accurate, of course), but my understanding is that for most of the population, higher education became less affordable. Also, I read several times that businesses needed more skilled workers than they could find; in SV, good programmers have a lot of economic power, as one example.