skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's more that this website doesn't follow any methodological standards:

> Different websites (such as https://ivmmeta.com/, https://c19ivermectin.com/, https://tratamientotemprano.org/estudios-ivermectina/, among others) have conducted meta-analyses with ivermectin studies, showing unpublished colourful forest plots which rapidly gained public acknowledgement and were disseminated via social media, without following any methodological or report guidelines. These websites do not include protocol registration with methods, search strategies, inclusion criteria, quality assessment of the included studies nor the certainty of the evidence of the pooled estimates. Prospective registration of systematic reviews with or without meta-analysis protocols is a key feature for providing transparency in the review process and ensuring protection against reporting biases, by revealing differences between the methods or outcomes reported in the published review and those planned in the registered protocol. These websites show pooled estimates suggesting significant benefits with ivermectin, which has resulted in confusion for clinicians, patients and even decision-makers. This is usually a problem when performing meta-analyses which are not based in rigorous systematic reviews, often leading to spread spurious or fallacious findings.
I wonder if the longer usable life of Apple phones works against them in these metrics.

We are now seeing consistent 5 year usage out of iPhones for those that don’t chase the newest colors.
Spend lots of calories, possibly risk your health and be stressed to earn 10N or have none of those things and earn 7N and spend the extra time trying to better yourself and escape the neo-serf existence.

Seems obvious to me.

For all the people saying this is a bad thing I invite you to quit your high paying tech job, give away all your savings and possessions, move to a fly-over state and get a blue collar job or two.
I think for a proper comparison, you would need to swap them by perceived brightness (luminance), not just the RGB value. You can't do that here because the green channel in this image is out of the possible range of luminance you can achieve with blue (in any standard color space, probably).

Which really illustrates why TFA doesn't make any sense- our eyes are less sensitive to blue, so the contrast provided by max RGB value blue is going to be completely drowned out by red and green if the source of your contrast is white on black.

Here's what it looks like with all channels shifted to have the same luminance: https://i.imgur.com/AnKNdfX.jpg - note it is perhaps a little softer as the peak brightness is closer to black.

Now here's what each channel looks like blurred by 2.5px: https://i.imgur.com/XzVWeZg.jpg https://i.imgur.com/LB5JArJ.jpg https://i.imgur.com/jf4ntth.jpg

They're all clearly fuzzy in comparison to the un-blurred image. The answer to "why we're blind to the color blue" is not chromatic aberration (although it could be a contributing factor, maybe even why we have less blue receptors), it's that we're less sensitive to blue and therefore contrast is usually defined by red and green.
Isn't that median?
Exactly. In the real life I find very difficult to focus on violet signs against the black night background, but it’s a completely different effect from the one in this article and it’s exacerbated by the bigger pupil diameter in the night that increases the aberration.
The “:” is “says” in the actual title and I couldn’t figure o it a better word to cut out to make it fit in the length limits.

Here’s the money quote from Biden’s press secretary Psaki:

> "You shouldn’t be banned from one platform and not others for providing misinformation out there”
I think Urbit’s first principles approach to this is really interesting.

They’re the only ones I’ve seen that seem to have hit on a reasonable trade off to fix the common issues around federated services (simple administration, keeping versions in sync, first class network between users etc.)

The functional OS design is really cool too - I think it has potential to solve a lot of these issues.

I don’t really care that Google is removing dumb content from their services, but I agree that computing can be a lot more than it is. Users have lost ownership over their own compute. We have PCs, but everything is in the browser on someone else’s servers. Urbit is cool because it’s a way to get that ownership back.
So, ZeRO-Offload?
That, and Google has ~ 20 years of history where they were perfectly fine and they've really only started to act up recently in ways that are, at worst, objectionable and inconvenient without being particularly harmful.

The risks of letting market competition sort it out are much smaller than the risks of making it a political football. As a political topic it is basically going to be two parties fighting over which set of lies get to be true. That won't be better.
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> It's been three years. Stop saying your European visitors are important to you

> Then pay.

I don't think it really fits as a response if I had only read the headline.

I do concede that my comment was more terse then necessary and not as constructive as it could have been.

My point was that the links listed looked like small free organizations that don't have the resources, or actually any other incentive. They probably have very few readers outside of their localities.

So pay for a bigger news org that does.
> What was Gates doing and why is there a collective sigh about it? Tech does not care. Microsoft does not care.

Melinda does care.
If we sell something in exchange for money, we are supposed to record the value in USD (if based in the US) at the time of sale, and pay taxes in USD on the sale / profits etc.

So, Bitcoin is a fancy way of exchanging USD, similar to trading cars, or pogs. If the transaction involves some kind of an official title transfer, then we're going to pay taxes in USD...not a fraction of a pog.
Posting one side's legal arguments isn't useful as news, it's the definition of one sided, with no attempt at objectivity
Can any of these companies arrest me because I “fit the description” or take away my life and liberty? It’s a fact that because of the way that the US is setup between the electoral college, two senators per state and gerrymandering it’s not “majority rule”. This isn’t political. It’s the Constitution as designed.

Until tech companies can take away property via imminent domain, money via civil forfeiture, or put me in jail, they are not anything like the government.
Group of climatist fanatics manages to make lives of the rest of the Greenlanders miserable - that's certainly a reason to celebrate! It's not about whether it helps, but whether it coerces and punishes.

In terms of by how long that postpones CO2 PPM hitting some higher number, it's probably around 25 minutes.
It is also about pure network capacity.... if all of the traffic on the internet has to traverse the entire path to a central data center, there wouldn't be enough backbone capacity
This is something that's truly atrocious about the move to digital-only copies. On paper, I can mark things up, initial them, send them back. The digital copies let me sign, and that's it. There's no in-band way to indicate that a section should be changed, no way to clarify wording. It's a system designed for contracts of adhesion, and nothing else. Heck, most of them will automatically scroll to the next place for a signature, implying that you shouldn't actually read what you're signing.
why do you need a dynamic build after every change?
I'm seeing VTubers more and more on japanese (late night) TV green-screened in alongside regular people.

It's coming soon.
Sounds alike to distage?..

https://izumi.7mind.io/distage/
OK, fine. If I share a document with all of Hacker News saying, Google will delete this document without my express written permission, and they apply their policy without exception:

Do they delete the document because it's misleading? If they do, it's not.

Gotcha Google.
>No indication measures are being taken to make the world economy more resilient

The alternative viewpoint is that it was demonstrated it is resilient (enough). The worst case scenario was shown to be some incremental cost added to shipping by going the long way, not everybody starving to death, or even a recession.
They can only choose to do that if they can run that software. We are pretty close to the situation already where users no longer have choice over what software they can run.

The iPhone went there years ago. The situation on Android is tenuous. OSX and Windows both now both start from a secure boot mechanism. At this point it is still possible for a user to work around these things but this is now "at the pleasure" of the OS maker and not something the user actually controls. Removal of a couple of checkboxes is how far we are from losing user-controlled right to install software on any mainstream consumer supported OS.

So I am arguing that now that operating system manufacturers have forfeited their ability to say they cannot prevent the user from installing software, it is only a matter of time before it becomes legally mandated that they close off this capability, and deliver only software that is delivered from a verified (probably government licensed) channel.
If you are chosen to validate but your validator is down, broken or incorrect there is a penalty where they keep some of your ETH right?
We have surplus vaccines and the unvaccinated are being hit hard. Isn’t this just Darwinian?
As far I remember it started declining after they jumped on the ICO bandwagon.
I didn’t really follow it that much after that..
Also if you are in Pemberton,BC in January and ask for directions to gold
bridge, it sends you on a road that 1. Requires snow chains 2. Is seasonally closed along the way
Why are billionaires obsessed with going to space?
It might certainly be possible to come up with a ML approach that was able to discover details in the image that were entirely lost on even highly trained human viewers.

This is certainly a fair point but that's a different question from recreating the real details from a compressed image where that data is just gone. There are an infinity of images that you can downsample to say, a 2 pixel by 2 pixel image. You can make an algorithm to produce candidate sources but not distinguish between which was the actual source. The data processing inequality is the formal result covering this. So where you are saying this algorithm doesn't do it, it's moot because it can't be done
Looks like the 'usual' capacity went from 8 GB to 32 GB and anything over $50 disappeared, in lieu of dozens of inexpensive devices from Chinese manufacturers?
"I don't doubt that suffocation is real, but ..."

Why bother with the suffocation then.

Acquiring WhatsApp was not cheap and required significant effort. Why bother.

Than answer to your question is no, IMO. Network effects may discourage competition from people with defeatist attitudes (who would give up before even trying), but network effects are not exclusive to Facebook. They can happen elsewhere.

One theory why Apple is letting iPhone users stop Facebook from tracking them is that Apple believes that iMessage is or will be competing with WhatsApp. It aligns with the theory that Facebook's move to change the WhatsApp ToS at this time is because usage of so-called "E2E" messaging apps is growing significantly.
In my experience, the US Army cared more about securing their stats on what a T-72 or T-90 could do than what a M1 could do. Which is frankly amusing given that the Russians know exactly- even better than the US- what those numbers are. Of course, the key is that they don't want the Russians to know how they know this, and are afraid that discussing it openly will reveal some of that.

In a similar vein, about 20 years ago the NSA declassified the existence of their program, during the Korean War, to intercept and decrypt Communist Ground Control Intercept messages in real time and then pass the information to American fighter sweeps (the fighter pilots were told it was radar guiding them). While the NSA was happy to talk about the results of this decrypting, they haven't (at least as of the last time I checked a few years ago) released any details on what kind of codes the North Koreans/Chinese/Russians used even though obviously all three countries know exactly what they used and how it works. The reason given to me was that revealing even just how the NSA described these codes from half a century ago would reveal too much of how the NSA thinks about cryptography.
Eventually, jurisdictions will start to tax Airbnb rentals like hotels, and a lot of the financial allure will be gone. Problem solved.
Not yet! The pandemic is still strong here so need to wait a bit until we can do that
People don't have as much patience as back then, IMO. There's also a huge influx of video games compared to when Full Throttle came out. I'm also not sure how accessible walkthroughs were so people had to figure out the puzzles fully.

I miss those days. I may try to replay some old adventures like Space Quest along with Full Throttle :D
GitHub Jobs Is Deprecated
Could be similar to AdBlock
>Bezos, Musk and Richard Branson seem animated by a lofty goal: securing the future of humanity by going into space.

This seems like a very under-researched statement. Bezos and Musk clearly see huge profits to be made flying satellites for use on earth. Space is sexy - and that's why its used as the marketing gimmick by these companies. For an article so critical of them its odd they took the promotional material of these companies at face value.
I'm like you in the sense of having regular calls with the team. At least for me, it's important.

Also the lack of motivation because of company culture, what do you mean by that?
> Actions like this caused me to trust Amazon significantly less.

Not Apple also?
I remember receiving that advice as well, but would be less likely to perpetuate it given the frequency of weaponization of the State against parents. If I knew the community, I might advise the latter.
Articles mentions saving the planet, a backup. I think the reason might be more banal and vain. When you have too much money You can only buy so many new mansions — you start getting bored easily and look for something “new”.
Ah! This is good to know. Have you used them?
> Buy an off the shelf processor chip, buy memory chips, buy some interface chips to provide access to peripherals and storage, solder them to a board

I suspect those things will become regulated and require either constraints built in or license to be able to purchase them. Then likely aveneues for connection will be required to verify devices are trusted (so, cellular companies, ISPs) and they will do this by associating devices that try to communicate with government issued cryptographic signatures that are built into chips etc.

And yeah you could bypass everything but it will still be illegal. So a bit like you could build your own car but you won't be legally allowed to drive it on the road and you will incur huge liability if you try.
> ketralnis is right that this only terminates if an algorithm exists, so the claim that this terminates is equivalent to the axiom of choice.

No my algorithm above will never terminate. There's a recursive call where the input never shrinks and it won't converge on a base case.

It's equivalent to saying

def f(x):
return f(x)

which is a pointless (but true) statement. The whole thing is distracting everyone.

Basically ketralnis is clarifying context which is sort of lost with my post. There's an axiom and do you believe in the axiom of not?

If the axiom can be proven then it is not an axiom. But a theorem. What I'm doing here is kind of pointless because we know it's an axiom by definition, the question is whether this axiom is valid or not. Attempting to prove the axiom is a a signal that I'm lacking clarity with the logic here.
One in five US Covid cases this week are in Florida
What if they choose two different chains?
> In today’s environment, that leads to deplatforming

In the historical environment it led to people being killed by the neighborhood mob when they decided to lynch the black man[1]

In todays environment it leads to genocide[2].

It is morally laughable to compare deplatforming to the consequences of the free spread of misinformation, propaganda and hate rhetoric.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_in_the_United_States#...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...
Just to add, as the edit expired... many homes would be poor shields if built with OSB walls and asphalt shingles. Hopefully the normal 14ga wires in the wall could handle it. But what about devices? Most are fused on the hot side, but this type of event would essentially be energizing the wires past that point and create a circuit with the still connected ground path. Many of these devices would have small wires that could be overloaded by the current and essentially turn into a resistive heating element, which could be a problem inside dusty equipment...

Does that sound plausible or am I crazy?
It's right up there with 'I've been clinically diagnosed with ADHD by a qualified psychiatrist and this medication has improved my life tremendously' -- 'There's no such thing, the medication doesn't do anything and you just need to mediate more, have you tried mindfulness?'
It feels like someone reading a book of Jules Verne in 2021 and say it's more boring than watching a video on TikTok. I had a lot of fun playing it in 1995.
It gets tiresome at some point. My first PC was in 1993, with MS-DOS and some kooky custom GUI that Packard Bell cooked up on their own. I'm a bit jaded now because I got really good at several of the early UIs I used and they of course are in the dustbin now. Nothing like having your skills thrown in the trash every couple years.
This is the one true way to do things, of course (https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/1597.html), but besides the "why not use bors/homu" question - what prevents GitHub or GitLab from building this in?

I hope we get to a world one day where a standard feature of all pull-request-ish platforms is that merges end up on a task queue, CI runs on the merge, and the merge only happens if CI passes. It doesn't seem like a terribly difficult feature to build in and the potential UX seems much nicer - e.g., just like there's "squash and merge" and "rebase and merge" buttons and the repo admin can require them over normal merges, there could be an "enqueue for merge" / "enqueue for rebase" / etc. button.

(Maybe your goal is to get us to that world via acquisition, which would be great!)
How skewed do you think it would have to be for the mean stay to be “short” eg 2-3 years, given the upper bound of human lifetime?

This is one of those things that sounds smart but fails the common sense test.
Wow! Did you suggest a change?
95% of Bitcoin miners voted to increase the block size and it didn't happen, but you're right about the benefit of the ice age.
These alternatives exist though, they are just not popular. We can’t very well force people to adopt these alternatives to make them “global”.

It’s also not clear to me what these alternatives should do differently. Should they just host anything as long as it’s not illegal? I just read an article today about how social media is killing people by spreading vaccine misinformation. So they’re going to get pressured anyways, just from a different source.
The anwser is just one Google away: Yes. The Wikipedia has a page dedicated to it [1].

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_browsing#Support_in_...
Related note: Apple is adding WebExtensions to iOS 15 (and iPadOS 15). Given that many extensions exist specifically to do exactly what this rule prohibits, I can imagine Apple's going to see a lot of user and developer protests as more and more extensions are brought over.
You don't even need a screenshot for that. Any text online, even just a comment will be taken at face value by a certain percentage of the population. The general gullibility of people or their susceptibility to disinformation is always going to be an issue. Even for people like that who just don't question things they see (especially when they want to believe them) I'd bet if you pressed them they'd admit to being aware of photoshop and of just how easy it is to fake a screenshot of text.
Unfortunately they're mostly pointing the wrong way
Feel free to tell any of the Arab speakers from Khuzestan in Iran to Morocco that. If you want to do it in the written form of "their" language it won't be what they speak with their family or friends . It will be based on the Arabic of the armies that erupted out of Arabia in the 660s. The only language descended from that with a separate written standard is Maltese.
The mirror was precisely polished "to spec" with custom-built equipment that was assembled incorrectly. They correctly saw the distortion issue on the ground with the conventional kit, but rejected the result as erroneous because it tested fine with the "better" testing equipment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope#Origin_...
In response I’ve cancelled my Amazon prime.

Fakespot was doing the job Amazon has failed to do for years and was the only thing keeping me there.

Thanks Amazon for finally making this breakup a done deal.
If prices go down because of increased supply, you’re a filthy capitalist. No, what we need is bread lines and the bread itself should be cheap!
So how do you get them out of your system exactly? Amputation?
That would explicitly break the one promise they made, which is that their coins are backed 1:1.
WE got one of those packets; my wife is a postal carrier, says the barcodes were scanned on those... So where'd that data go? seems like this shouldn't be that hard to actually track down. If it's brushing, then there's a lot of records of orders received, somewhere, that could be traced back to some of these tracking numbers, right?

Seems to be far more interesting to either indulge in wild conspiracy theories and/or mock the wild theories, instead. Certainly easier.
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Well sure, and just like in Iraq WMDs did actually exist at some point - the US sold some to Iraq - they were just destroyed.

The thing with cyberattacks is that they are even easier to misattribute. All it takes is for some country to use another countries tool, and then you've got actual evidence you can easily twist. That's how it works nowadays, you start with a kernel of truth or evidence, like the aluminium tubes in Iraq, and exaggerate wildly what suits your narrative. And it works, even to those that can know better.
It's likely a red flag that youre not sure if your product provides value.

How are you gonna convince customers if you're not convinced yourself?
Everything you said about Apple seems more apt about Amazon.
Typo: doesn't condone
It's not that much about the rules, as about the arbitrary enforcement of them. Welcome to the USSR.