skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please stop spreading misinformation. Ivermectin is an approved human drug and has been FDA-approved for human purposes. [1]

Implying it is for livestock exclusively fuels misinformation on the internet. Someone who actually genuinely needs ivermectin might not take it because of these lies.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/ivermectin-covid-19-a...
Yeah, unfortunately: https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...
An alternative viewpoint from someone who has long experience with the rampant fraud in every level of Indian society.

Nobody remembers it because it didn't exist. It may have been ordered by the British. And the contractors probably built a few "potemkin" sites to show to the British "inspectors". But the rest of it was probably fiction. Certain people needed to be paid off, and they wrote reports about how thick and impassable and gloriously thick the bush was... and the higher-ups who never visited the bush believed them).

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An aside, anyone know what this sentence means?

> This was to ensure that they would be accountable for any impressions of footsteps that were discovered after they went off duty
This feature is also only available on Firefox, not Chrome. In general, Firefox is the best platform for uBlock, Chrome does not support all features.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
On Android, Firefox allows extensions. Including uBlock Origin.
Or that Mozilla wouldn't serve that crap. They should know better, after all they even make their own blocker.
Some people here get upset when you say ‘just use Rails or Django and stop futzing around.’ Shrug.
Hey, thanks a lot! I started reading that and then I bought a router that runs OPNsense... I'm just going to run the whole network through the mullvad VPN. Setting up dynamic DNS and poking a little hole in OPNsense so I can connect to my local network wireguard... that's more of my speed.
Seems like if you're walking down the street, it'd be much more difficult for someone to steal your bitcoin compared to traditional forms of money. But if your bitcoins did get stolen, I don't see why you wouldn't have the same recourse as cash, check, credit cards, etc. -- prosecute the theft in a court or pay a premium for an insurance policy.
Agreed. Missed that part from the top parent comment.
From the introduction:

> Our army that now remains in Vietnam is in a state approaching collapse, with individual units avoiding or having refused combat, murdering their officers and noncommissioned officers, drug-ridden, and dispirited where not near-mutinousŠ[C]onditions [exist] among American forces in Vietnam that have only been exceeded in this century by...the collapse of the Tsarist armies in 1916 and 1917.
Unfortunately ivermectin proponents highly intersect with 'crazy kooks'. But I'm hoping a non-crazy proponent can help elucidate the rationale.

For example: are there other coronaviruses or any viruses which are treated (in people or animals) with ivermectin? If so, which? If not, why would the original proponent(s) attempt this drug over any other one?

EDIT: maybe I was too quick to dismiss it: follow the responses on the thread.
The last paragraph in your response really resonates with me. My time is much more valuable now, than it was when I'd find excuses to tinker with my tools.

Today, I just want my tools to work, and I want to use those tools to get things done.
I recently did it to hide the social aspects on the GitHub homepage... no explore sidebar, no reactions in the main feed.
With mRNA vaccines, how far does the vaccine travel in the bloodstream before the mRNA finds its way into a host cell? Is it possible, for example, that a vaccine shot delivered to the shoulder can circulate around till it reaches sperm and egg cells and gets into one of them?

Does a DNA vaccine have properties that change how far it can travel? Or any known mechanisms that will prevent a possible DNA alteration happening in the sperm or egg cells where it might land?
Thank you thank you :) I have spent an embarrassing amount of time on this and I can’t stop. It might be a problem.
I've been wondering about this; with logographic languages could you read the language without actually thinking the words. Or in other words could you learn to read e.g. Mandarin without ever learning the language.
My alarm could be a significant failure point for my daily life- I have had few issues so far, but I always worry. This is one reason I generally prefer stand-alone alarm clocks over a phone.
retail theft accounts for around
$45 billion in annual losses

Is that in the USA alone?

Anyhow. Another 45 billion reasons ecommerce and crypto currencies will grow.

You cannot steal a product from a website. And you cannot make fake payments with Bitcoin.
Very well done! Great project!
Uhh no. Leaving kids stranded at a bus stop is a huge liability for the school because if the kid wanders off and gets hurt or gets in trouble, the school could be held at fault. If a bus company is leaving kids stranded more than once in a blue moon, they will lose their contract.
Changing my profile photo does not appear to work. And I have such great hustler pictures too.

Edit: Never mind, it started working. As long as I upload only one image at a time. Or my images were too big at first, not too sure.
> But the very first clocks don't rely on this at least not as a principle mechanism. Sundials, early astronomical observatories such as Stonehenge, or simply observing transits and occlusions, don't involve an entropic process. Rather, they track the regular and sustained rotational or orbital movement of the Earth, Moon, and planets. They track the passage of periods of time, but that tracking itself doesn't necessitate entropic flow.

The clock here isn't the sundial but the movement of Earth (the sundial or the astronomy observatory is effectively a measurement device). If you see the movement of Earth as a whole, it's clear it's losing energy to heat, like all clocks.

Something else that can be said is that clocks are computing devices; and computers are thermal machines too.
Not much harder to learn but so much more work..
Are you unaware of the context the comment is being made in or just ignoring it? The comment isn't about about sweeping er practices. Its being made in the context of people make poor decisions on purpose.
When I started learning to code few years ago, tutorials were always, "how to create a blog ?" because it shows everything (authentication, crud, nested view, rights).

Then javascript framework came out. It was so hard that they move to just a todolist tutorial because even the creator didn't know how to create a blog with their new cool tech.

Some blogger were still able to understand how to use it and release todolist tutorial with authentication to demonstrate authentication, session management and rights.

Then new cool javascript framework came out and now it was even harder to code, creators weren't able to develop a todolist because it was too hard so their tutorial was just a basic counter application.

Now with nextjs we are even a step further. The developers don't know how to use it (is it even possible ?) so the tutorials show just how to "start" an application, load css and how to create a route.

In just a few years we came from create a full application to not even know how to do a todolist. (Imagine form validation, it must be so hard !!!).

Everybody seems happy and very productive. It must be myself.

In 15 years we came from 15 minutes to create a blog with this old tech to a few days of work. That's a lot of progress we don't have to reload the page !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzj723LkRJY&t
I so miss pre-Wikia Memory Alpha...
My next phone was going to be an iphone because I'm tired of all the Google tracking (and Android itself). But now I'm holding up my purchase until they release (or hopefully abort it).

I'm happy to pay more for a robust and privacy protecting device. I won't pay more for the same bullshit.
> Ivermectin is not human medicine [...]

This misinformation, promoted by NPR, needs to stop. Lives are on the line.

Scientists who developed ivermectin won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 2015 for its use in humans. Here are some historical statistics on it's use in humans:

https://clincalc.com/DrugStats/Drugs/Ivermectin

Please learn the facts about this medicine. Here's a good summary that explains a bit about the politically partisan folks intentionally talking about the horse formulation of ivermectin, which some people have apparently tried to use:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ivermectin-explained...

Again, ivermectin is used in people. Some say it's one of the tools that helped India with respect to the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2.
This is all my guess.

American institutions have completely lost the trust of the lesser-educated demographic, are oblivious to this phenomenon, and sneer at those who distrust them instead of trying to be conscious of it and correct it.

Something rotten is making livestock paste look a lot better to these people than taking a chance in a well-reputed doctor's office. What is driving the rural, poorly educated American to buy livestock medicine from the tractor supply store instead of going to the doctor? Let's put it this way, why do you and I go to the doctor? Would we still go there if we found the messengers of consensus, evidence-based medicine were saying and doing things we found untrustworthy or even worthy of moral condemnation?

Speaking on anecdotal experience of having grown up in rural America, you don't really ever admit you're afraid of anything, especially going to the doctor. Instead, you cover it up with anger, denial, and magical thinking. I used to think "essential oils" and the like were people genuinely falling victim to naturalistic fallacy but then ivermectin for COVID-19 happened. The name "ivermectin" doesn't really sound natural to me. It still sounds "medicine-y". But it's coming from a place you find more reputable than a doctor.

I think these people are shit scared to go to the doctor because they don't trust anything anyone on the TV tells them anymore. And why would that happen? Not necessarily that they're doing anything wrong, but they're tone deaf to this demographic, oblivious on how to communicate effectively to them. Call it an effect of class divide, perhaps.

So finally, they turn to people that, astoundingly, seem more trustworthy: far right figures on social media, naturopathic woo, you name it. Maybe they talk differently. Maybe they use themes and culture familiar to them. Or maybe they just don't straight up demean them like segments of the news media are wont to do.

If we fix a communication gap that potentially exists, how many more lives could we save instead of laughing and sneering at people confounded enough to choose horse dewormer over a well-tested vaccine?
Stopped reading, to wipe the vomit off my keyboard at "Reaching out".
How Does a Direct Mail Process Work in the Digital Age
I started to read. I stopped reading because the font is so bad. I might have tried reader mode if it was for anything else. However, for an article about font rendering, no thanks.
A roller blading stride takes more width than a cyclist by a bit because you push back and out otherwise you aren't very efficient.
This article maybe explains why my grandfather would get so angry when us cousins would ask him to speak in Italian, his childhood language, when we were small. We thought it was so neat that he had this whole other world, but at most he would say a few words for us, then lapse into a stony silence. In later years he wouldn't even say the few words. We all knew he wasn't mad at us, but he was definitely angry, definitely upset, maybe somehow embarrassed too - but why? As kids we'd think, maybe he's getting forgetful in his old age. In fact his mind was tack sharp until his final year, in his 90s. I had no idea there was a name for this. But it makes a lot more sense now.
Hospitals are not currently being overwhelmed by either of your theoreticals. Those things aren't the issue right now, and if you would like to revisit that, should suicide from pills or DUI related crashes become an issue, I'd love to discuss it further.
> But your misrepresentations are just as bad as anyone claiming it's a COVID miracle cure.

Nah. It's a harmless mistake at worst compared to a very harmful and invalid claim.
It's not used to treat viruses, it's used to treat parasites (in humans or animals).
The feature was already created. What could be the harm of keeping it?
Immunity to Pre-1950 H1N1 Influenza Viruses Confers Cross-Protection against the Pandemic Swine-Origin 2009 A (H1N1) Influenza Virus

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4457446/

Complete Genomic Sequence of Human Coronavirus OC43: Molecular Clock Analysis Suggests a Relatively Recent Zoonotic Coronavirus Transmission Event

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC544107/
Ruined holidays is the only au they can appreciate coming to work
I'm sure it was informed trial and error.

Unfortunately, things in biology tend to fail silently and without log entries.
I think you're accurate about mainland China, but SF is preserving Cantonese education. There are 10-ish public schools in SF with programs that teach a fair amount in Cantonese: https://www.sfusd.edu/learning/language-pathways-by-language...
Yes, under certain conditions. In particular pay attention to the requirements for redistribution under clause 4 and the lack of trademark license specified in clause 6.
Yeah and its functionality is also being eroded by apps using things like DoH.

I use both but I don't think the network level blocking will work forever.
Presumably because of things like this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8248252/
I wish IBM had competitors in the space so we might actually get to use them without having to hedge ridiculous amounts of IBM lock in.

The sheer amount of engineering that goes into these things is amazing.
Oh boy oh boy I hope the site creator reads this. I've had an idea for years now to make a satirical reddit/hn. I call it 'skimmedit'. Please steal my ideas.

1. Instead of subreddits, content is sorted by font. The available fonts are Helvetica, Comic Sans, Times New Roman, Wing Dings, Arial Wide, Papyrus and braile.

2. When you submit a link, the title shows up as blue and underlined but is not actually a hyperlink. Here at skimmedit we just assume no one actually reads beyond the headline before jumping to the comment section.

3. We know that thinking of original things takes effort. So in an effort to reduce friction and increase positive, well moderatd engagement, all comments and replies are chosen from a drop down menu of pre-approved text blobs. The possible comments are "well actually this is wrong", "came here to say this", "thanks for the gold", "7/11 was a part time job", "I know the answer, but alas there is not enough room in the margins of this text box", "50% off lobotomies today only", "I wish I could upvote this more than once" and "this was a lovely 30 second distraction from the insatiable march of time which pushes us all ever closer to the grave."

4. Finally a real use for "reddit gold". Want to write an original comment? Really really want to spend the time and mental effort letting people on the internet know how stupid and wrong they are? Well for just 10 cents per letter, we'll let you violate the third premise and write a wholly original piece of text. In fact, we will add your original comment to the repertoire of comments in the drop down menu. If you're comment is popular enough, people will pay to use it and we will give you a royalty. Thus you can maintain the illusion that you can make a living off being a writer while wasting your life on our online dopamine casino.

5. Ever wish you could upvote or downvote something more than once. On skimmedit we are soft believers in firm libertarian values like free speech and markets or some shit. We believe that if you're willing to spend the price (in time or money), then you must be more invested in the outcome so your opinion should matter more. That's why we've removed all limits on the number of times you can upvote or downvote something. Good luck!

6. One in ten times the page won't load. Not cause the server can't handle it, but because we hate our userbase <3.

7. Some of our posts are by advertising partners. Those bits of blue underlined text really are hyperlinks.

8. In accordance with our vaguely pro-liberty bullshit, moderation is done by a jury of your peers. When content is reported, we ask 12 random users to decide "guilty or not guilty", and refuse to let them peruse the site any further until they pick one. No further instruction is given before asking them to make this decision.
Go on about what the price of labor should be.

For you.
POWER10 looks like a bit of a monster, obviously we plebs aren't allowed to buy one...
Redux vs. jank proprietary solution aren't the only options. For instance, a lot of what people use Redux for is fetching and storing API data, or managing cross-component state. A combination of react-query[1] and React context does the same in a much more developer-friendly (IMO) way. Again, not advocating for anything, just important to know what the options are.

[1] https://react-query.tanstack.com
Why not just explicitly use UTC everywhere?
We're currently only seeing about 1/3 the number of cases as our last peak around New Years, and only about 1/10th the deaths. And while it should be expected, the rhetoric does not seem to match the raw numbers.
Values are supposed to evolve over time. It would be an issue if they went back on this, however. We'll see what happens.
The article has the number of Ivermectin prescriptions in the last month, but not the number of people seeking emergency care due to Ivermectin. “Clogged up” isn’t quantifiable.

Let’s upperbound an average worst-case situation. If every single person ingested Ivermectin and needed emergency care last month that did, that would be 88000/50 people in need of emergency care per state assuming a uniform distribution of such cases across the US by state, which I know is false but we are just concerned with the order of the problem. Still that’s 1700 people per state, or about 50 people per day per state in need of care. How many hospitals are there per state on average? Oklahoma has ~150, so that’s 50/150 cases per hospital per day. That’s .3 people per hospital per day seeking emergency care for Ivermectin. Does this “clog” the system? Maybe if it’s already overwhelmed by COVID, which it seems to be in Oklahoma.

Of course, this is a back of the envelope approximation, but I’m skeptical that this is the problem it is being presented as.
In the interest of not overwhelming hospitals, wouldn't it be helpful if the media raised awareness on the difference between ivermectin dosages suitable for humans versus animals? Most of the reporting I've seen has sensationalized the "horse dewormer" angle.
Right so we’re willing to use user hostile products and let them run our lives?
Light is not keeping the Earth and Moon "in sync". Gravitational force is.[1] That force propogates at the speed of light. It isn't light itself.

Light does play a role in illuminating the system, rendering it observable. It's a signalling component. But again, that's exogenous to the system itself. (See discussion of Maxwell's Daemon and the resolution of that paradox for the role of light in that specific thermodynamic process.)

But, and this is key: ANY clock needs some way of passing information on to the observer. From TFA, that might be light, or sound, or chemical potential (received as the smell of rotting garbage). But that is a common element, part of the signalling mechanism, but not of the timekeeping mechanism itself.

For an astronomical clock, in most cases, the regular rotational or orbital motion is the timekeeping mechanism. The signalling mechanism is entirely separate.

E.g., in the Earth-Moon system, timekeeping is noted by both the daily rotation of the Earth, and the monthly orbit of the Moon. The kinetic energy of both those regular motions is not driven in any sense, nor is it measuring a decay.[2]

The signalling comes from an exogenous light source (the Sun) which illuminates both bodies. But the Sun isn't powering the timekeeping mechanism in question. And is equally significant in providing the light necessary for you to read a wristwatch or wall clock (of a non-illuminated variety).

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Notes:

1. I'm going to leave discussion of just what gravity is and/or how it's manifested out of this discussion. Veritassium tackled this recently though: https://youtube.com/watch?v=XRr1kaXKBsU

2. Yes, there's tidal friction. That's removing energy from the system, and is measurable with sufficiently precise clocks and over time. But that's also incidental and secondary to the motions in quesiton. We could use far more remote bodies (e.g., the Earth and another planet) in which mutual tidal forces are minimal, to eliminate this consideration. Or presume tidally-locked bodies in which orbital / rotational kinetic energy and angular momentum are constant.
Burnout for me was too much responsibility. I would cope with the workload stress better over time due to efficency but the responsibility stress is still there and the more efficient you are the more responsibility you take on due to productivity.
> Sorry, but calling it "horse deworming medication" is inflamatory, not to mention incorrect.

I did not claim it was exclusively for horses. What I have been reading (and perhaps can be clarified) is that they have been buying doses specifically meant for horses and then they wind up at the ER.

Also, if you are going to accuse someone of lying and cite the FDA (but only link to the Canadian CDC). Please read carefully.

From the FDA:

'Ivermectin Products for Animals Are Different from Ivermectin Products for People

For one thing, animal drugs are often highly concentrated because they are used for large animals like horses and cows, which weigh a lot more than we do—a ton or more. Such high doses can be highly toxic in humans. Moreover, the FDA reviews drugs not just for safety and effectiveness of the active ingredients, but also for the inactive ingredients. Many inactive ingredients found in products for animals aren’t evaluated for use in people. Or they are included in much greater quantity than those used in people. In some cases, we don’t know how those inactive ingredients will affect how ivermectin is absorbed in the human body.'

https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/why-you-shoul...
In those network analysis comparisons they didn't score well. And, they're sorta half open source, which is a bit weird. I can't say the facts bear their credentials out.
0 to 1 creation is still engineering even if involves testing and measurement closer to the scientific method.

Trial and error are cornerstones of engineering regardless.
That's why you never let Linkedin access your mail. More than five years since I created my profile there and it asks me every single time I login if I want to invite my contacts.
If SEO demands are the driving factor for your core architecture decision, then surely your users are not in the driver’s seat.
Why don’t these greedy wealth hoarders simply run their business at a loss? Are profits really everything to these fatcats? /s
You are correct and shouldn't be down voted. Merck manufactures ivermectin as a human prescription medication in tablet form. The FDA approved it back in about 1981. Those who want authoritative information can go straight to the source.

https://www.merck.com/research-and-products/products-list/

Ivermectin is also available in other forms such as a paste for veterinary use in horses and other animals. (I am not recommending anyone take veterinary medicine.)