skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This is not a good argument.

That is not a good rebuttal, it ads nothing to the conversation except to say "I disagree" in a slightly more adversarial tone.

It need more explanation: Is it a bad argument because you think giving it to themselves is okay?

Or is it a bad argument because you don't think that would happen?

If it's the later, recent events show you're incorrect: corporate tax reductions were used in stock buybacks that significantly benefited upper management by selling their own stock back into the stock price increases.

And clearly R&D was not incentivised under those tax reductions. Also R&D is a long term investment. There's no reason to believe the short term thinking that often governs corporate decisions wouldn't also win out here. Companies that try value R&D would continue, and those using it simply to avoid taxes would reduce or stop investing in it.
I emailed massnotifyhelp@mass.gov to ask why the app was on my phone, and I got the following response:

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To be clear, the standard for obtaining an equivalency isn't hard to reach whether based on just experience or a combination of education and experience.
Creating new browsers doesn't bother me at all. I think the appropriate analogy is something closer to changing the spelling of a language's keywords arbitrarily. Change for the sake of change, which is easy enough to adjust to, but introduces a transition period that costs time, for no good reason.

The backward compatibility effects aren't quite as bad in the browser context... except when the plugin API is affected.
Regarding the Microsoft issues, what form did you use? I tried one but they never got back to me..
Thermoelectric coolers can cool below ambient. You can get them for CPUs, I saw one on a Linus YouTube video.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_cooling
There are at least two questions to ask:

* If X died because of a "Take Ivermectin and you'll survive COVID" video on YouTube, who's to blame?

Assumption: Ivermectin has a net negative effect. Assumption: X relied on Ivermectin exclusively, rejecting the current standard of care procedures.

* If X died because Youtube censored "Take Ivermectin and you'll survive COVID" videos, who's to blame?

Assumption: Ivermectin is effective in certain cases, and X's life could have been saved if Ivermectin were used, possibly in conjunction with other standard procedures, up to and including vaccination.

The point of public conversation is to asses the cost/benefit tradeoffs of different courses of action, especially in presence of incomplete information. Additionally, reliable cost/benefit tradeoffs heavily inform the design of future information gathering campaigns. Given the public's heightened interest in Covid, it is unclear how to have necessary cost/benefit conversations other than in public. Censoring such conversations is potentially costing lives and is eroding the public's trust in the authorities.
I've built up an intuition that the money supply should match changes in productivity, and that if it doesn't it will eventually lead to problems. But it's also notable that the trend is extremely important. If you do match, everything should be fine and this can last forever. But as soon as that trend switches, the money managers work it out, and the system destabilizes and a crash occurs. (I'm like 40% sure this is why a yield curve inversion causes stock market crashes.)

If the money supply rises faster than productivity, that money has to go somewhere. It can either go into income and goods prices(CPI) or it can go into stocks and houses. It chooses where to go based on who was given that money, and following the Cantillion Effect will flow throughout the economy. If you give money to a company through a bond, and that company uses that money to buyback their own stock, then the person who holds that stock is going to want a better price for it as the demand for the stock his risen and the supply is shrinking(stocks are in this regard in fact much worse than Bitcoin!). That person, is then likely to either hold the money in their account, or invest it in some other stock. So long as a majority of it stays within the financial system, the CPI stays constant. What we've seen these past 50 years since we've been off the gold standard is a huge surge in asset prices.

But if productivity rises faster than the money supply like with Bitcoin or the gold standard, people flee assets and into money. This is called a Deflationary Spiral. But the opposite state is basically an Inflationary Spiral, with people unwilling to spend their assets.

Both are problems because when the money supply increases faster than productivity, people are forced to invest in companies while the opposite they hoard money, which in the case of Bitcoin is Bitcoins. Meanwhile the companies aren't using that money for investment, they are using their money to buy their own stock. The fundamentals of valuing a company based on net future risk adjusted cashflow is removed. A stock has a price given their net future risk adjusted cashflow, and anything higher than that is speculation. That speculation can go to the world's best companies, like AAPL, or it can go to some nearly dying companies, like GME. It's a carnival game. The world's best marketer wins.

So both the Fed and Bitcoin are wrong. Both trap value and drive out productive investment. This is why productivity growth went from 10% 50 years ago down to almost nothing. We're investing in fat companies that don't need to try hard to stay afloat.
Can't usefulness be approximated like Google search results of old, by connectedness to other theories.
I'm just commenting here because I want to see what happens in the future and keep you honest.
How are censoring YouTube videos from scientists who do this for a living going to help medical professionals fine tune a treatment?

It’s not just the laymen getting censored. It’s everyone.

Also, no offense, but how little faith do you put in our medical professionals and scientists that you think they can’t discern the difference between wheat and chaff?
I find this statement hard to take. It feels like propaganda to me. Emotional issues are not without context.

Is it being an "emotional" issue more correct than it being an issue of (1) educational indoctrination, (2) explicit media based propaganda, and (3) lack of access to opposing view points? Clearly there is some systemic explanation for people's emotions.

If the Chinese government preached the values of "do unto others as you would have done to you" rather than "we must right the wrongs of the century of embarrassment" would we see this being an "emotional issue." If the issue of Taiwan were cast in the light of "if you were Taiwanese, how would you feel about China?" do you think it would still be an "unstoppable irrational force"? If the Chinese government preached values like tolerance and diversity, do you think the Chinese people would have the stomach for dominating another people?

China, rightfully, was angered by colonial transgression against it, but then wishes to be a colonial power itself, committing the very same evils it faced against less powerful countries. By Chinese standards, it appears that might makes right, so should the world not exercise might against and colonize China, an action that is right under Chinese morality? Or is it a matter of Han Supremacy, where the moral system is built upon the idea of Han superiority and rules for other nations that don't apply to China itself.

How should I feel empathy for "the Chinese people" when from the outside it appears that they wish to dominate another people?
Plus notice no mistakes were called out. It was just "don't buy parts from amazon".
Wait a minute... This post is a debate between two opposing viewpoints. So it also makes the exact opposite point:

The primary difference between a randomized controlled trial and meta-analysis is that the former “provide the highest level of evidence because they contain the least amount of bias. Randomized controlled trials reduce bias, while meta-analyses increase bias."

This Hacker News story is about a recent meta-analysis. But an actual randomized control trial of Ivermectin in March (on 476 patients) found the duration of symptoms on treated and untreated patients "was not significantly different."

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2777389
Yes

https://www.evms.edu/media/evms_public/departments/internal_...
My understanding was that unreliable and high-latency mobile connections are inevitable, especially outside of major metro areas in the developed world, so we have to design around that.
> If Ivermectin worked on COVID-19, the manufacturer of Ivermectin that has made no money on vaccines for COVID-19 would probably be pushing it wouldn't they?

No, because it's out of patent. There's little profit to be made. Merck is instead pushing a new drug that they will have a monopoly on.

"Merck Announces Supply Agreement with U.S. Government for Molnupiravir, an Investigational Oral Antiviral Candidate for Treatment of Mild to Moderate COVID-19"

https://www.merck.com/news/merck-announces-supply-agreement-...

Big pharma 101.

As for Ivermectin effectiveness, it looks promising. There was an evidence based clinical review posted on Nature earlier this week:

"As per data available on 16 May 2021, 100% of 36 early treatment and prophylaxis studies report positive effects (96% of all 55 studies). Of these, 26 studies show statistically significant improvements in isolation. Random effects meta-analysis with pooled effects using the most serious outcome reported 79% and 85% improvement for early treatment and prophylaxis respectively (RR 0.21 [0.11–0.37] and 0.15 [0.09–0.25]). The results were similar after exclusion based sensitivity analysis: 81% and 87% (RR 0.19 [0.14–0.26] and 0.13 [0.07–0.25]), and after restriction to 29 peer-reviewed studies: 82% and 88% (RR 0.18 [0.11–0.31] and 0.12 [0.05–0.30]). Statistically significant improvements were seen for mortality, ventilation, hospitalization, cases, and viral clearance. 100% of the 17 Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) for early treatment and prophylaxis report positive effects, with an estimated improvement of 73% and 83% respectively (RR 0.27 [0.18–0.41] and 0.17 [0.05–0.61]), and 93% of all 28 RCTs."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41429-021-00430-5
But does it go vroom vroom when you accelerate? No? Waste of time... /s
Two datapoints:

1) http://ramtin-amin.fr/#nvmepcie, http://ramtin-amin.fr/#nvmedma (the two articles are separate but the first provides incidental context for the second) the iPhone 6 kinda maybe sorta didn't dot the Is and cross the Ts with the MMU side of things. So, USB is awesome in that the failure state is "probably can't RCE".

2) I read a comment on here, which I should be able to re-find, but hn.algolia is not cooperating, suggesting that the system design of a particular AGPS implementation (a few years ago) interposed the GPS in between the CPU and the cellular radio such that the GPS SoC could do HTTP requests to grab its almanac that all of Android, down to the kernel, had no idea about.

IMHO this level of security paranoia is at the end of the day a micro-optimization. For any given device, you're looking at maybe two or three dozen Things Containing ALUs™ (often buried inside subcomponents buried inside other things); one or two concentrations of several billion transistors; and an unknown proportion of manglement, incompetence, cost-cutting,
internal compromise (because guarantee there's none), and Agreements™. Honestly: give up, and declare that whatever makes you feel better is enough.
I have an original Prusa Mini I upgraded to the Mini+. I ordered it and it arrived in December 2019. Like other Prusa Minis, it comes with an "appendix" you must physically break to be able to install unsigned firmware. And, of course, breaking the appendix voids the warranty and drops all liability on the part of the manufacturer. My warranty has long expired but I haven't broken it yet.

Personally, I think that in this era of Hardware Root of Trust devices and locked bootloaders, if we were to try to prevent such devices from existing, I think the appendix is a fairly brilliant solution that could be applied elsewhere.

For example, my iPhone. Apple doesn't allow side-loading because, well, they're afraid Facebook or Epic would force users to side-load against their will, among other business reasons. But if they were legally mandated to offer an appendix that could be snapped to enable sideloading, it would hopefully keep Facebook at bay (there's no way Facebook can convince people broadly to do such a thing), and would satisfy us hardware hackers.

It's still not perfect, but I think it could be an excellent "first step" in unlocking these devices that, among many solutions, could potentially be bipartisan and harder for tech companies to argue against.
Mozilla was doing exactly this with their Firefox redesign and everyone on HN hated it because stuff was different.

I think the problem is everyone on here hates it when stuff they use changes and that’s all.
The problem is that the quality/quantity of evidence has not changed.

Plenty of folks have been drawing attention to the lab leak hypothesis way before it reached mainstream, and they were using the exact same arguments and facts that the mainstream is co-opting now.

The only difference is that Trump is out of office, so people are less afraid to associate with the idea that the Lab Leak Hypothesis is worth investigating
The vaccine is experimental and the full safety profile is still being discovered. The EUA specially requires that there is "no adequate, approved, and available alternatives". The conclusion: "large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin" suggests it may be a viable alternative to widescale deployment of a vaccine that did not go through the full approval process.
>Do you have any evidence it's not effective?

Do you have any evidence snake oil isn't effective?

Burden of proof is on the people claiming a magic cure.

Anyway here are a couple of studies that show it's not effective.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmv.27122

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2777389

Here's a good take by someone that does research on new medicines.

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/06/07/iv...
Hi peter! I'm currently working for an US based startup remotely from south america. Without a formal university degree, but somehow 3-4 years of experience on the field. Is it possible for them to help me get a working visa? I want to ask them in a good way if they could help somehow but I can't seem to get any info I could leverage.

Not wanting a greencard whatsoever, just a temporary working visa, something that lets me travel tbh. I've travelled (pre covid) previously with a J1 visa, and have a couple of friends who usually do H2B but for ski retail industry, and I don't know if any of those would fit my situation right now.

Also, Embassy down here is closed so I can't do my tourism visa (B1/B2) for travelling, and I'd love to get down there this summer.

Is there any way I could get a visa for travelling ? I'd really appreciate a reply.

Thanks!
What is this thing with alt-right figures like Bret Weinstein (and others) promoting particular medicines / self-medication through theirs shows? It is weird and cult like - why not just stick to politics?
> 16th century with Galileo and the Catholic Church.

Killing science in the name of religion and beliefs is one thing, killing science in the name of science itself is quite another.
Referring to strcpy:

> we can only use it if we know our destination buffer is smaller than our source buffer

Should be the other way around, surely?
I finally read/listened to Jared Diamond's "Collapse" earlier this year. It discusses several cases of societies collapsing or being challenged, especially in the face of environmental damage and climate change, but also issues with neighbors. Two of the lessons that he highlights are the importance of long-term, bold plans to confront problems before they are crises, and the ability to reconsider cultural values and actually change the way that people live and society functions.

That book was published in 2005 and last updated in 2011, and it was depressing to get to the last chapter which focuses on the environmental problems we face today with a kind of call to action, and acknowledge that we haven't done anything substantial yet.
So instead, let's put them with the high-achievers and force those high-achievers to do the teacher's job of tutoring them at the expense of their own educational opportunity.

I can see why schools likes it. But it's terrible policy and hurts the higher-achieving students, who will be the backbone of our increasingly winner-take-all knowledge- and services-based economy.
Writing this on here and getting a very positive response was surprisingly therapeutic for me. Thanks for asking
Migrating to a pointer-size-pair string representation would be a better use of one's time.
Correct. And Tesla's Plaid is twice as comical.

The Model S Plaid features Tesla's first-ever triple-motor system, producing a staggering 1,020 horsepower and 1,050 lb-ft of torque.

https://www.motortrend.com/cars/tesla/model-s/2021/2022-tesl...
Compared to ARM, Intel has the additional problem that their Atom descendant little cores don't implement the full instruction/feature set of the big cores. That could be because the full set is (power/die-size wise) expensive, or because of market segmentation strategy, but it probably makes an Intel big.LITTLE far less straightforward than ARM.

(https://overclock3d.net/news/cpu_mainboard/intel_s_hybrid_bi...)
> the benefits are the cheap duplication of object references, cheap allocations and cheap (batched) releases, but the downside is not being able to precisely and automatically do it when the value is available for collection.

Note that you don't need GC to reap these benefits, if desired. You can allocate an arena and do secondary allocations inside it, then deallocate everything in a single operation. Arena deallocation is not timely or precise, but it does happen deterministically.
Can Tesla be removed from the headline?
>the book ends with Ender becoming the worst mass murderer in the history of the human race.

You may need to dwell some more, because there's some higher order practical and moral contention there. Guilt over things done in pursuit of survival is the victor's luxury. If you lose, and die anyway you don't have that problem. This is one of the sharp divergences that tends to exist between the soldier and the pacifist. One fights today to repent and atone tomorrow. The other risks destruction, robbing one of a future in which one may possibly avoid making the same mistakes or committing the same atrocities as one's forbearers. In this sense, the weight of being a mass murderer is shared equally by the warrior and the poet. One through action, the other through inaction. No matter the outcome, somebody's hands are covered in blood. Ender did what he was uniquely equipped to do in the moment where it was necessary for him, and those under his guidance to do it. We live not only under our own instrumentality, but under the auspices and obligations to which we are bequeathed by accident of our own existence.

Ender's Game is an exquisite portrait of how the central theme of human existence is suffering. If you live to fight another day, you suffer those fights in the future, and the scars of the past you carry with you. If you acquiesce to destruction, your suffering stops, but the world moves on regardless.

To be human is to struggle and suffer. The trick is coaxing some positivity out of the entire affair while we're around to do so. This applies at all levels of human endeavor. We all struggle against our own adversities perpetuated upon us by the "other". The biggest difference from one bit of suffering and struggle to the next, is how you define the "other".

It's weird, but Ender's Game made a lot more sense after a reading of the Bhagavad Gita. I do not know if Card set out with that intent, but the two mesh with, and complement each other in ways few texts written at different time periods have. There's also good resonance with Martin Heidigger's thoughts on the nature of man being inextricably linked with the act of becoming or Being, the characteristic quality of Dasein. You cannot change your past, you can change the future, but only in as much as the road that has lead you to where you are allows.

The Philosopher is left to wonder if it could have worked out any other way, the Faithful have their answer even if they didn't know it, and even a Free Agent, determined to sail their own way must navigate the waters pushed by the natural forces around them.
The reason in this case is that casu martzu can only be made in Sardinia and it's almost impossible to preserve the maggots alive if enclosed in a container for distant transport.
Could you explain that a bit? :o
Also, and feel free to downvote...

> multiple authoritative sources

Gross!

Authority is the problem. We need to use our own minds. The very idea that an ad tech co is backing an amorphous group of authoritative governmental bodies is repugnant.

> And here is Merck, that sells Ivermectin

Ivermectin has been out of patent for years--so it is not particularly profitable anyway. The initial claim insinuates that Merck went against its own interest, but there was never much profit to be made from an old and proven safe drug that can be sold by generic manufactures.
This solves what, exactly? We already know bill sponsors, the provenance of bills is generally not a problem in the US. All the regulatory capture and pork usually happens in the open already.
>If Chinese people are so [...]

This is where you are mistaken, thinking that the characteristics of Chinese people have anything to do with the behavior of the Chinese government.

Edit: it appears that the sentence I was quoting was removed from the parent comment.
I definitely would recommend consulting with an attorney to determine the best path and then depending on the path, you may or may not need an attorney to execute. It's hard to tell based on your description but the likely options are the E-2 (or E-1 if the company is involved in trade between the U.S. and Canada), the O-1, and the L-1.