skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The person in Japan who endorsed ivermectin is not a government minister. [1]

If you're referring to the Elgazzar paper from Egypt (as the "population studies in [..] Africa"), then it has been withdrawn from pre-print distribution. [2]

And, in general, the studies that have been performed are not sufficient to support ivermectin use among the general public at this time. [3]

[1] https://factcheck.afp.com/http%253A%252F%252Fdoc.afp.com%252...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/16/huge-study-s...

[3] https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/ivermectin-still-...
In Colorado there is no limit as of 2020 for Tesla. Any EV-only manufacture is allowed to direct sell in CO.
> Seeing how (a vast majority of) schools are also free and ~good, my very clichéd understanding is that the only parents that want to home school their children are those with extreme religious or political opinions they want to foist upon them.

You have to keep in mind a critical difference between Germany and the US in this regard. The German Basic Law requires religious education to be available to children in public schools. If you’re a Muslim your kid can get instruction in Islamic morality. If you’re atheist you can choose a secular ethics course.

In America, any sort of religious education is illegal in public schools. So everyone effectively gets the secular ethnics course (because you can’t really teach kids without teaching some sort of moral framework). This material often contradicts even mainstream (not “extreme”) Christian or Muslim tenants.

I think the German system is far preferable to the American system, and many of the religious “extremists” you talk about would like such a system.
Embrace, extend, and extinguish - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
What about "DOS" ?
They probably hunt exploits like that, but what is quite likely is that they have access to stolen Apple source code and scour it for type overruns like the one in CoreGraphics that is the cause of this exploit. I would estimate that the majority of exploits are the result of source code theft, leaks of potential vulnerabilities from people who have access to the source code and social engineering. There isn't anything particularly special about a "Mossad" trained or "NSA" trained hacker. They are engineers like many of us and prefer the path of least resistance. Trying to brute force buffer overruns without having source code access is tedious. Why go to all the effort to black box exploits when you can take advantage of source code analysis.

I mentioned in another post about why people would leak to the press, when you most likely will get caught and fired. Leakers of a different caliber will leak source code to governments and companies like NSO and have much less likelihood of being caught and much higher remuneration.
This Ivermectin study has all the same problems you mentioned:

https://www.scholarsresearchlibrary.com/articles/effects-of-...

But then I don't know why you would pick one bad study over another to make your decisions, so I say talk about it. I bring this up specifically because of fears about vaccines and sterility.
The audio design of the Windows Phone was exquisite. The physical design of the Nokias was also excellent. It always felt to me like it was the phone that was most thoughtfully designed, and it just arrived too late to be able to compete realistically...who wanted to write apps for Windows phone when you could write for ecosystems that already had wide adoption?
Overall it's an interesting review, but saying that 99% of Afghanis want Sharia Law and citing an unsourced claim in a blog post is poor writing and undermines the author's credibility, which is unfortunate.

Edit: The cited blog actually does cite a research poll, my mistake! https://www.unz.com/isteve/why-the-taliban-won-sharia-is-dem...
The Atlantic cod fishery is an example of massive failure. Any perception of apparent recovery has to limit its scope to the very recent past.
It has been over 1.5 years, but it was Pycharm. I am not sure if my IDE was borked, but I remember struggling with both finding the library and the list of usages. I am happy to concede it may be my poor IDE setup.

We used Django at a startup I was at in 2018, so my memory fails me on the exact issues since it has been so long. I will have to revisit Django and try to find what it was.
While appeal to consensus is a common logical fallacy, we can make stronger arguments to support government tax software. Tax preparation is 100% deadweight in an economic sense. Nothing useful is created in that time, and yet billions of hours are spent on it each year in the United States. Streamlining the collection of tax revenue seems to be in the best interest of the state and the people, even if a very small minority will be harmed in the process. The additional product of those billions of hours of work time per year would pay enough dividend to cover the development cost virtually overnight.
You might want to figure out why they won’t give them to you (because you’re young seems odd to me), but you can buy all sorts of medications direct from India.
It's worse than that; the skills and learnings -run directly counter to each other- in some cases.

For instance, in the office, what is the single best way to collaborate on something? Why, you get people together and chat, likely informally, in a free ranging discussion.

Remote, what's the single best way to collaborate? Why, you write up a document with your initial thoughts and send it out for everyone else to weigh in on; you have a fully asynchronous, documented communication.

There are advantages and disadvantages to both approaches, but, tellingly, the people who are best with one of them are likely not the people who are best with the other. And trying to impose one in the other's context will lead to poorer results; written docs in the office when a conversation will do feel heavyhanded and process heavy, but zoom meetings, especially if the hours don't all line up, in a remote workplace feel unnecessary, and reduces participation.

A LOT of companies have treated the pandemic as "figure out how to carry in person practices to remote", rather than a new beast worthy of learning new ways of working.
These immigrants in general have more children, who in turn work and pay for your pension. French birthrate is below 2.11.
Looks nice! I love seeing more free options in this space. I'll be keeping an eye out for support in Home Assistant[1] :)

[1] https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/#weather
"Basically anything but how Twitter currently does it."

This is what I use when I need to look at a Twitter page.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28071491

Saved in a script called "twt", usage as follows

twt username |twt > 1.htm
firefox ./1.htm

Although I use a text-only browser not Firefox so its designed for that. Its not perfect but its better than anything else Ive seen short of https://github.com/twintproject/twint and its still faster and smaller than installing Python.

The future of the web could be that users request JSON and then users create a page to their liking, client-side, using their own Javascript (or whatever language they want to use). As it stands, on todays web a "tech" company, often using Javascript, causes the users browser to request the JSON and then more downloaded Javascript, not controlled by the user, creates a user-hostile page for the user to consume the JSON. Its a Rube Goldberg machine designed for tracking and advertising, not users.

Imagine if the user conscisouly requests the JSON and is then in control of designing the page for herself. What were tweets but short strings of text. Hard to believe that now looking at a Twitter page. Thats because the user isnt in control of the design. Remember the "tech" company does not own the data. Its public information. User-generated content wrapped in user-hostile, developer-generated markup.
> I cannot imagine Uber will sponsor idle wages in rural regions where you get an order or two a day.

If Uber can't operate while paying minimum wage then maybe they shouldn't be operating.

Every other company has to work out how to pay minimum wage. An unprofitable rural convenience store doesn't get to pay its clerks less because the sales aren't high enough, so I fail to see why it should be different for Uber and their drivers.
Everyday Astronaut's walk and talk with Elon Musk where he attempts to explain his management process, starts at 13:30 of part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t705r8ICkRw&t=13m30s

Here's a rough summary:

1. Make requirements less dumb.

2. Delete part or process steps. If you're not occasionally adding things back (he says 10%) (ideally in improved versions), you're not removing things often enough.

3. Simplify, optimize, solve. Everyone's trained to jump to this because the educational process requires you to answer a question as posed, when often the question is dumb and shouldn't be dealt with as-stated.

4. Accelerate process

5. Automate

Those tend to blur together at the edges. I'm sure if he formalized this and wrote it down for mass consumption it'd be presented differently, but it's his current mental model.

Process testing - remove unnecessary in-process testing after production line debugging is done. Obviously there are nuances, he's not saying to do no in-process testing, but rather to remove testing which was intended to reveal information once that's already been collected and addressed. He cautions about false positives from in-process testing, and notes most testing can be done end of line with acceptable results.

Finally, it's important to understand the context. The part about part/step deletion in particular, when things get added back 10% of the time, is not appropriate for all development processes. That would have to be adjusted a the specific product and market objective.
It is more along the lines of "all your friends can excuse themselves to use the bathroom, why do you keep pissing yourself?"
We all know Sharia-law is all about love and compassion, no problem there...
I disagree, we were not designed by anyone. Our ancestors made choices that worked for them in the past, but just because we did things in the past does not mean it is the only way moving forward.

Your issue was probably your weight (causing high BP), more than meat and cheese being an optimal diet. I would be cautious about the longtime harm to your cardiovascular system due to lack of fiber and triglycerides.
Would it be unethical to start dosing Ivermectin with the Pfizer vaccine? Sort of like hiding your dog's pills in a rolled up piece of ham. The anti-vaxxers get to think they pulled one over on "them" (whoever that may be this week) and I get to leave the country again. Everyone wins!
Israel isn't part of five eyes.
If all my friends jumped off a bridge they must've had a really good reason to, so yes I might as well.

Same logic applies here. Just maybe, if everyone does it, we should consider it too.
Now that this is out, it won’t be just NSO using it. Get it patch now.
Except that in American political culture it’s extremely common to argue that such and such thing is either impossible or will introduce a parade or horrible consequences. Those that make this argument depend on voters being ignorant of the existence of other countries that have successfully done that thing or not experienced those consequences or, when those examples are cited, rush to American exceptionalism or other baseless appeals to distinguish them.
Still, having to do that greatly reduces the problem. The average person who wants to censor a politician they hate isn't going to spend money to buy an account.

Another potential mitigation might be to put a limit on the number of posts that a single user can flag in a day. At some point, the cost of large-scale content manipulation could be made to exceed the expected gains.

It may even be profitable for Facebook to crack down on this. Every celebrity post that gets illegitimately taken down has potential for showing ads to millions of people.
> Looking back now I wish I had actually taken a year off before college, as opposed to skipping a grade in a hurry to get there, and I encourage every high school student and parent I know to think in these terms.

100% agreed. I took a year out to work in software before University. Despite being completely disregarded by employers, it changed my perspective on independence, time management, and the risk of not making the most of opportunities. It's one of the best life decisions that I've made.
At the very least, please be aware of AP classes that you can get college credit for instead of having to essentially retake the same courses later.
Where have you seen a 2yo baby, who read 320TB of text?

If we fed a few years worth of video an audio to a neural network, could it write War and Peace? Could it play chess based on a text description of the game?
I've recently become vegetarian because of this. I just can't justify the lives of these animals just so I can eat a burger that is only 25% better than an impossible burger or whatever.

I'm not against making animals work for us, but I think they need to be treated with a level of dignity that their lives deserve.

Currently find myself in-between meat eating and vegan camps so I don't make a lot of friends with this haha
If you don't know whether you learned anything, you shouldn't state definitively "I did not learn anything in highschool (or college)"
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>Filing taxes in the rest of the developed world is essentially a one-click process

I'm a little fed up of this canard. No. This is not the case. I've lived in the UK and had to do self assessment filing. It was not "essentially a one-click process". I have lived in Japan and filed taxes there. It was also not "essentially a one-click process".

>have all the information necessary to create such software (and so does the IRS)

No, it does not. A significant chunk of social programs are run in the US via the tax system (primarily through the forms of various credits) and are dependent on facts that the IRS does not know.
There lies the problem in US.

The problem is just passed on "oh it's the state, oh it's the city"

As a taxpayer, I don't give a shit.

Federal and state and city should work together to come up with a holistic solution.

My city/state/country are all democrats. How come they can't work together??
When ISO C++98 came out there was no Google, or better said, it was just been founded.
This isn't reddit. A reddit villain isn't automatically a HN villain. Also, she wasn't universally disliked there, and it's been a few years since she left.
The biggest reason has to with cost. The average consumer does not need to take out a loan to buy a phone, but most do for cars. Cars are seen as a large investment that needs added protection, and instead of doing it at the auto manufacturer level, they added dealerships to serve as middlemen to bargain with auto makers on your behalf.
This is great, I'd love to have dive visibility predictions for my webapp based on location: https://divedb.net/

The challenge I've had is the same, the data format that a lot of these sources provide is in "academic" formats like GRIB, NetCDF etc.. and I've spent a not-insignificant amount of time trying to work through all these formats and what they represent.
That's an interesting observation that I hadn't thought about before. Another interesting thing, to me anyway, is that for Starcraft 1 allowed for upgrades which improved the utility of your early game units.

In other words your early game units are some of the strongest units in the game, just not by default. For example the Zergling could be upgraded 3 times for a stronger attack, 3 times for stronger defense, once for movement speed, and late game an upgrade for increasing attack speed.

But you can hardly have death balls because of the 12 unit selection cap you mentioned. Plus you wouldn't want to have death balls of a single unit because units were designed to work well together, ie: zerglings paired with defilers / lurkers.
Jumping off a cliff is obviously bad because of what happens when you hit the ground at the bottom. One click taxes seem a bit different.
There's pros and cons to any style of teaching, but the Montessori method has some of what you're looking for. Specifically, it allows students to move as fast or slow as they want in any particular subject area.

I went to a Montessori school for a year in middle school, and I remember being in a class with 5th graders doing math at the 9th grade level. I also remember a few kids in 5th grade doing math at a 4th grade level. The key was that the teachers could teach their subject at all of those levels.

I feel like some of this could be implemented in a less structured educational system. Being able to move at varying different paces while still socializing with peers of the same age is a good combination. I would add a little more structure than Montessori schools though, to make sure that students are moving at least at a baseline pace. It also takes some scheduling work to make sure that teachers aren't teaching an hour lesson to one student at a time.
So copyright is enforceable because you can theoretically sue everyone? There aren't enough courts.

> See how it's nonsense?

It's not. Computers are increasingly non-free and DRM is a big reason. The copyright holders want guarantees that I can't run unathorized software against their data even though it's my machine.

Combine this with worldwide governamental desire to regulate or ban encryption. It's an existential threat to the computing freedom we all enjoy today.
I hate to recommend what is just another service provider, but there are many cloud hosting providers that offer email sending (i.e. AWS, GCP, etc.) and dedicated email companies (Sendgrid, Mailgun, etc.). The cost to send email via any of these services is a tiny fraction of the amount you would pay to Mailchimp.

The value in what Mailchimp does is not so much just sending email, but in all the things around it, like managing subscribers, tracking opens, easily creating nice-looking emails that look good in a variety of mail clients, etc.

Contrary to some of the replies you've received here, it definitely is possible to run your own mail server with good deliverability, and we routinely did this for companies, even fairly small ones, physically on-prem and in datacenters, and cloud. It is not trivial, but far from impossible, and will likely involve communicating with a human when getting a static IP to find a good one. With that being said, I do not recommend you run your own mail server starting out, that is probably not the problem you are trying to solve.
> drive a stake through the heart of third-party dealerships, that's a positive development.

For Tesla to kill third-party dealers, they'd have to do everything third-party dealers do, and then they'd be indistinguishable from third-party dealers.

It's fashionable to think Tesla has the Better Way and that auto dealers are universally bad, but consumers largely don't agree.
I spend a lot of my time delivering training for Microsoft certs. After 20 years as a sysadmin I still learn new stuff while preparing training materials. Microsoft Learn provides a lot of excellent, free resources/labs.

It tickles me how loved up Microsoft are these days over Linux and open source. I teach Microsoft certs while running Linux on the desktop (running azure tools, vs code, dotnet, sqlserver and teams).

Certs won't guarantee you a better job but you will learn something new and there are worse things you can do with your time.
I am so comfortable with personal computers that I take it for granted how intimidating the setup can be for the average Joe and Jane. Telling someone to change which app handles a certain file extension is like a mechanic telling me how to adjust one of the valves inside of a carburetor. Certainly do-able, but a nightmare to someone who thinks they can break the whole thing with one wrong move.
Yeees. Make a phone with a keyboard as easy to type on as that one and I'm customer number one!
But the whole point of 100% renewables is that you rely on imports when there little domestic production. It's not true that international power connections are tiny. In the Nord Pool market which integrates the Scandinavian and Baltic countries electricity markets over 5 GW is at this moment being exported/imported.
Ha, I didn't even remember, I thought this was first time round!
Pad Thai is delicious with shrimps and also with Tofu. In my experience it's not the meat that adds most of the flavor.
Back in the day, a vehicle was a pretty big purchase so you wanted to know that you could get service & maintenance throughout the life of the vehicle. If the dealership is nothing more than a front for the manufacturer then they might move the store if business is slow, etc. Forcing the use of franchised stores meant that the dealerships are owned (always?) by local people so they can't just move away.

Now days other laws pretty much make this a non-issue although you could argue that the repair/service process for Tesla's is exactly what these laws were intended to prevent; who would want to own a Tesla dealership if you can't get the parts to fix your customers's cars? e.g. Your son's basketball coach is going to keep calling until you get his car fixed.

In your example, you would be restricted to buying from Greg's Phone Emporium because Greg is thought to care more about repairing your phone than Apple.

Edit: The biggest issue with the current dealership system is that it, of course, just evolved into rent seeking and over-complicated purchase process. The auto companies have systems to make sure dealers sell cars no matter what and the dealerships have ways of extracting extra profit from their customers.
Hah! The simple answer to that however, is "No." With a link to standards/best-practices if you want to be polite.

Unless dude is your boss, in which the answer is "Yes," and the paycheck arrives on Friday.

Also, sometimes other people are right... something to remind myself of. ;-)
They’re not carding, so I suspect quite strongly that your 6th grader would “pass” and get the vaccine if you present their arm and say they’re 12. If our 10 year would pass, he’d be vax’d already (even though I think the risk to him is already extremely small).
> I understand the appeal of radical portability that a floppy-based OS gives you, but the fragility of floppy disk media is something I don't miss!

I also like the idea that the media doesn't contain a computer that could be programmed to do something nefarious that you don't expect.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/heres-a-list-...
Thanks, I appreciate you care about us. Australia has been on this path for a while now but similar changes are happening everywhere. It does feel like a frog being slowly cooked. I would still choose an app at home compared to paying for hotel quarantine though. There are more serious and permanent changes happening with surveillance (every phone number is attached to a government ID, metadata is saved for years, number plates are scanned and logged at state borders etc), indirect crimes (you did something a criminal might do, so that's a crime) or extremely petty things like the defamation law or carrying a 'sharp object' or even not being able to pull the tab when you fill gas to needing an ID to buy a knife from the supermarket. It's not just that they seem to be able to pass whatever weird or overreaching laws but there seem to be little to no legal safe guards or limitations about what they can be used for or when they can be used. There are limited means to civilly object as things instantly become crimes. Is Australia really considered a 'very free' country.
I really enjoyed my 8330, I really used it "like a computer', I was writing blogs out of it. Only thing is the rolling ball mouse don't miss that (dirt).
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