skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ivermectin is an antiparasitic medication used to treat various types of worms and similar diseases. It’s pretty safe, widely in use across the world, and in most ways a useful medication to have on hand if you think you’ve been exposed to contaminated human feces, or if you just need to disinfect your sheep.

Ivermectin is an antiparasitic, but it also has well-known antiviral properties too [1] [2] against Dengue Fever & Yellow Fever, to name two.

The fact that Ivermectin is in Standard of Care for several viral diseases, and he is describing it as an anti-parasitic purely, is indicative of something sordid. Either he is ignorant of the literature (unlikely, it is common knowledge and he claims to be an Epidemiologist), he is pushing a narrative (high potential), he doesn't believe the copious amounts of literature on the use of ivermectin as an anti-viral (again, unlikely), he is minimizing mentioning it for editorial reasons (not a chance, he writes long.....), he misread several viral diseases as actually being worm parasite based (not probable), or he is intentionally misinforming his readers.

This is all regardless of a position about whether or not it is an effective antiviral in the case of this specific virus, or should we say, series of variants.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3327999/

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22535622/
And there’s no way to actually get your case in the hands of a human, who might understand the context, without making it to the front page of HN.
>Like, why write this blog at all if you aren’t after the validation?

Social Media, especially large ones like FB / TW / IG / SC etc are mass aggregators.

A blog is a publishing platform. Like an article in a web page or a news article.

There is a lot of difference. You can't build echo chambers around blogs. (You can, if you try hard enough, but you can also do that in the real life) Social Media makes is buttery smooth to slide into well walled echo chambers.

Personally, I also think they have fueled the rise of crass materialism and wealth worship to an absurd degree. Having a streaming channel is a legitimate career these days, which just blows my mind. Of course, not all streamers, but many budding ones seem to think that behaving crazy on a channel will make them millionaires and bring them a lot of females to mess with. I can't even imagine what sort of warping this does to a young impressionable mind. There was a time when education and character were seen as must achieve goals, to have a stable life and family. We are raising a generation of poorly motivated, warped world view children, who are supposed to take charge in a decade or so.
Who doesn't love a good bison burger? Let's do this.
Your comment is the worst kind of ad hominem. You're simply dismissing one of the most-cited scientists in the world because he wrote something you disagree with.

He was right about the IFR for Covid-19, by the way. Subsequent research has upheld the finding. The primary factor that influences average IFR is the age of the population you're looking at:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eci.13554

> All systematic evaluations of seroprevalence data converge that SARS-CoV-2 infection is widely spread globally. Acknowledging residual uncertainties, the available evidence suggests average global IFR of ~0.15% and ~1.5-2.0 billion infections by February 2021 with substantial differences in IFR and in infection spread across continents, countries and locations.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10654-020-00698-1

> The estimated age-specific IFR is very low for children and younger adults (e.g., 0.002% at age 10 and 0.01% at age 25) but increases progressively to 0.4% at age 55, 1.4% at age 65, 4.6% at age 75, and 15% at age 85. Moreover, our results indicate that about 90% of the variation in population IFR across geographical locations reflects differences in the age composition of the population and the extent to which relatively vulnerable age groups were exposed to the virus.
Cows are mammals and we now do know that we, as mammals, share a common trait which is we love our children so much because it’s an evolutionary advantage for the survival of our species.

So in your scenario, either cows will suffer from giving birth to brain dead children, or at least, not different from today, because we take their children to get their milk.

Brain dead mothers would be ethically ok to me but … that’s really a really strange thought and I feel that there would be unknown issues like how could you know that your cow is sick like a full bag of bacterias if the cow is not showing suffer ?

What an a odd topic.
Epic dug themselves into a deeper hole and forgot that Apple is still well within their right to keep them off the App store until further notice.

What they thought was 90 days will now take them years. They have just made matters worse for themselves.

Whatever happens, Apple still wins.
I’m not a hard core web dev, but it seems that from a high level, Phoenix is similar to the Smalltalk Seaside web framework that people were excited about 10+ years ago. Can anyone who is similar with both speak to that? Are they really similar, or is there a key distinction I’m missing?

(I’ve become a big fan of Elixir as a former Smalltalker)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_Mongolia Han: 79%. It's just one Google away.

> against the Russians

This seems to be rewriting the history of Russia creating an independent country of outer Mongolia out of collapsing Qing territory. It'd be akin to saying an independent Alsace nation "serves as a buffer" against the Germans.
It's open source, but not open hardware. All the code is completely free, so closed hardware is our way of monetization to continue development.
Thanks for clarifying, I haven’t seen it previously.
It really isn't "heavily" subsidized at all. Please provide evidence for these claims.
It is a pain to use IMO.

You get a mail sometime in the future and after receiving it you have to turn around and download multiple chunks, log in for each of them and do it quickly before they disappear.
He's also making cheese!
> With a single key much smaller than a megabyte

Unless that was a preshared key, you're not talking about a one time pad. One time pads are inherently symmetric. If you're comparing symmetric to assymmetric crypto systems, you might as well just say that 'if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a bicycle'.
No it is not. Please provide evidence for this claim.
Braid Group
all my friends use spotify and everytime i am with them i hear the same music. sure its the music they like, but its the same over and over and over again with no variation. They tell me spotify is great at discovery but i havnt heard it.

i listen to djs, radio stations and other internet channels that mix the music i like into new and exciting compositions.
>you depend on some member of the team carrying a hugely disproportionate amount of the work

This can be a problem when there is only one high-performer.

You hire all high-performers so this is not what happens.
Systemd OOMD Maturing Nicely, Adds Support for User Services
How to easily handle text file calculations in Java?
For yogurt at least, the casein yeast will hopefully give rise to yogurt that is much closer to cowmilk yogurt. We’ll probably see a formulation that uses yeast-derived casein in the next 5 years.
> There are a ton of subsidies provided by the government that are not accounted for in this cost.

Please enumerate at least 5. You can't because there are not a "ton" of subsidies for meat production unless.
That didn't take long to reverse: "Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Your account has been re-enabled"

https://support.google.com/drive/thread/127021326/google-has...
You do not get to decide what other people should eat.
BAT is capped by its genesis contract at 1.5B tokens, we can't make any more. It has broad and deep liquidity. Most ad buyers pay in fiat, but some pay in BAT, USDC, etc. When paid not in BAT, we take 70% of the gross revenue and buy BAT with market orders, to send to users as their ad revenue shares. See https://brave.com/transparency for these purchases. This makes a buy side for the ecosystem (there are others coming up). See also https://www.reddit.com/r/BATProject/comments/psnn6o/first_2m.... HTH
That’s basically the US banking system, and it’s notoriously consumer un-friendly.
> A lot of semi-adjacent facts and statements got merged. A hospital is full and a hospital treated someone for overdose became all the hospitals are filled with overdose victims.

I thought they said gunshot victims weren't getting treated in some podunk tiny town of less than 10k residents, then they plagiarized a photo to add a racial element, using African Americans, then spread the story everywhere?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/rolling-stone-covid-19-deb...
The thing is if these censorship is enabled, its going to be found out in a second by someone and explode in the news. All it does is that it deletes a word you typed on your phone or prevent you from seeing a piece of content that you want to see. It's going to be so obvious. It will not achieve the desired goal to censor in the first place and will make people realize what you don't want people to see. It will completely backfire. Given it is a broken and illogical plan, then it is highly unlikely there is a a multi year effort to build phones, sale to international markets, just to censor what people want to say and feed people about ccp propaganda. Even if someone is so stupid and want to do it anyway. What you fear is the censorship actually work. But you don't have to worry about that as it will not work.
> The good news is that general aviation flying is getting safer. Accidents through 2018 are essentially flat over the preceding four years: about 1200 accidents per year and 200 fatal accidents per year.

https://landing.redbirdflight.com/posts/ga-safety-trends-wha...
Yes and Facebook Marketplace is great for me selling things. And I know for others its actually Facebook dating (surprisingly). Facebook is here to stay by filling out all these "jobs to be done" in our lives. Every one of these jobs is backed by a moat that is very hard to compete with, and it's all the same: reach and scale.
Uber jumped on the bandwagon way too soon
Isn’t the US still a major net exporter of grains? I thought crops were at least one area that the US still wastes a good percentage of production each year, and isn’t micro-optimized to be the minimal supply essential.
Today's latest from Kurzgesagt is also relevant:
https://youtu.be/yiw6_JakZFc
The US did just fine with these strategies. But they additionally used raw military power, torture and media collusion. That's how they became a superpower.
I agree fully with this. Sadly it seems like entirely too much software these days has pivoted to the essentially useless “oops something went wrong” error messages.
Elizabeth Holmes ‘was in charge’ of Theranos, says Gen. Mattis
didn't need language classes either is it? Not that my commenting is free of errors anyway
> Ruggedness and low maintenance is kind of debatable. A lot of that is just anti-biotic overuse. Which is a big issue.

Not compared to a bioreactor. From the OP:

> The simple reason: In cell culture, sterility is paramount. Animal cells “grow so slowly that if we get any bacteria in a culture—well, then we’ve just got a bacteria culture,” Humbird said. “Bacteria grow every 20 minutes, and the animal cells are stuck at 24 hours. You’re going to crush the culture in hours with a contamination event.”

> Viruses also present a unique problem. Because cultured animal cells are alive, they can get infected just the way living animals can.

> “There are documented cases of, basically, operators getting the culture sick,” Humbird said. “Not even because the operator themselves had a cold. But there was a virus particle on a glove. Or not cleaned out of a line. The culture has no immune system. If there’s virus particles in there that can infect the cells, they will. And generally, the cells just die, and then there’s no product anymore. You just dump it.”

It's like comparing steel plate to a piece of tissue paper. Sure, an armor-piercing bullet can defeat the plate, but pretty much everything can defeat the tissue paper.
This is where libertarianism ends up abutting to anarchism (or left libertarianism if you prefer); the recognition that governments are not the only power structure capable of trampling the individual.

Fun fact! The word “libertarian” was self consciously co-opted by the libertarian right in the 1960s by Murray Rothbard, who viewed that co-option as an important part of his war with the left.
Pharmacists go to school 4-6 years to learn about drugs. But hey - they don't get to use any of that knowledge in their job... "Just give me the little white box in cabinet #2 please."

Why do Pharmacists even study and train for up to 6 years if you don't want their opinion on how this drug will affect you?
> I personally think a blend of lab grown and veggie (Impossible/Beyond) will be the first "killer app": tastes better and costs less than traditional meat for most applications.

Well we have seitan which, when prepared, can get very close to a meat-like texture. So I think it will be some lab grown meat and gluten abomination.
If it's just a small fire and forget thing in Erlang, you can just spawn the process, sure. My point is that once people start to care about what happens with those background jobs, you probably need some infrastructure around them, and then the Erlang thing might start to resemble Sidekiq a bit more.
Pretty cool and nice documentation. I liked the sandbox to run the samples, anyone know what library that is used for it?
Just tax natural meat accordingly
Not sure the Dune simile is a good one, here... in the prequals they're shown to be humans hooked up to nutrient feed lines. Or that was the point and I missed it...
Methane has more than 10 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide.

That means if the grazing plants capture 1 mol of carbon dioxide from the air, and then is consumed by cows who turn some of the carbon into methane, then the warming potential of the system has increased even though it's still carbon neutral.
A lot of people won’t be, but it’s probably a good idea to get prepared for a less-meat future because of the lack of sustainability at scale.
Thanks I just tried rateyourmusic. Interesting but so many ads…
Looks like the brogrammers found you, friend. You’ve also been downvoted into oblivion. Know that I see you.
This is a very important point. It is incredibly easy to accidentally cherry pick and/or misread results that confirm one's preexisting bias. As a layperson, the default stance is 'I don't know'. Scanning the abstract of a handful of papers for 5 minutes cannot possibly change that stance.

The troubling thought is that in a field as complex and poorly understood as the intersection of virology with immunology at scale in the middle of a pandemic, the Experts are not much more informed than the layperson. I have yet to hear a single Expert showing even a tiny sliver of epistemic humility.
> Wouldn't getting rid of ruminant cattle farming reduce the amount of arable land required since so much of it is used to grow animal feed?

I think this is exactly the point missed by the people in this thread saying that a lot of cattle are raised on otherwise useless land. The presumption is that if you got rid of cattle farming you'd have to replace the lost calories for humans by growing other food on that land or cutting down more forests.

But this presumption is false. Even if every bit of land used for raising cattle turned out to be worthless for doing anything else, you'd still have an overall environmental win by getting rid of cattle. Convert not the land used to raise cattle directly but the land used to grow the food they eat to producing vegetables and grains for us.
Forests have basically no continuous carbon sequestration capability. Most of the carbon they'll ever sequester is already there.

You'd get more by turning it into a tree farm, converting trees to charcoal and burying that.
Paul Wood, the first source for this article and the "former pharmaceutical industry executive" who claims that "the reality" is that lab-grown meat will never work, is on the board [1] of GALVmed [2], a private sector Product Development Partnership firm that "harnesses the best available expertise and capabilities ... to develop vaccines, medicines and diagnostics for the major livestock diseases impacting small-scale [livestock owners]" [3]. He's also the guy who paid for Huw Hughes — another source quoted repeatedly by the article — for two years to come up with an analysis that claimed GFI's pro-cultured-meat study was fatally flawed.

Interesting that the article leads with Paul Wood's former work but leaves out his current livestock-focused work, in an article downplaying lab-grown meat. Wood claims to not "understand how costly biomanufacturing techniques could ever be used to produce cheap, abundant human food;" I suppose Upton Sinclair had a point about it being difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon him not understanding it.

1: https://www.galvmed.org/board/dr-paul-wood/

2: https://www.galvmed.org/

3: https://www.galvmed.org/about-us/our-approach/
Don’t feel too bad. Learning how to watch for stalemate tricks when you’re winning is a very important chess lesson. Look up Eric Rosen stalemate traps on YouTube. This is an IM who regularly tricks GMs into stalemate. The GMs are not mad at him, only themselves for falling for it.
The most recent example would be the PreventSenior debacle:

https://www.metropoles.com/brasil/politica-brasil/exclusivo-...

https://g1.globo.com/sp/sao-paulo/noticia/2021/08/26/cpi-rec...

Early into the pandemic, a health insurance company ran a fraudulent study to show that HCQ was effective at treating COVID. The patients were enrolled without their consent, the data was manipulated to remove people who died from the statistics, and doctors were pressured to prescribe HCQ and other medications that did not have proof that they are effective.

This fraud was intended to promote a political agenda of mass contamination. The people running the fraudulent study were in contact with high-ranking officials in the Bolsonaro government, by means of a so-called "shadow cabinet" of pro-HCQ doctors and businessmen. This shadow-cabinet bypassed the experts inside the health ministry, in order to promote the idea that the best way to get through the pandemic was to allow it to spread as fast as possible, and try to use HCQ to treat people when they inevitably got infected.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil...
"everything I dislike about it" is not a short list for me either, but that means there's more that we can fix!

Canadians have a reputation for saying "sorry", let's give NZ a reputation for saying "thank you".

If I stayed in Switzerland (where I was born, but have no citizenship because parents weren't resident), I would have to join the army and kill foreigners. Same in Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, Austria... many otherwise nice countries still apply conscription, and I'm a pacifist.

People who want to make more money choose to move away to Australia, London, or California. Likewise in Kaohsiung, career-minded people move to Taipei or Hong Kong. The Immigration department is trying to alter that by preferentially issuing visas to rich people, but that's not how this works - it'll just increase inequality, and the government won't even make more money in taxes because most rich people find loopholes and tax havens anyway.

People who choose to move to New Zealand usually have something more worthwhile in life to hope for :)
If you trained one or more operators who have already left for alternative employment, you could point out that there may now be other orgs making more money from your technology than your own employer is.
So you're suggesting that taking even a regular dose might send people to the ICU?
I'll try to answer as best I can. I have done cell culture in a research lab, specifically mammalian cells (human and mice), which is what's needed for meat. Typically, the cells get fed with nutrients, but also something called FBCS, fetal bovine calf serum. This is the blood of unborn cows, and it is required because of a mix of growth factors and hormones the cells also need (the article mentions this too). Now imagine doing this for growing meat, it does not make sense to me, since you'd need the calf serum to begin with. Maybe today the required factors have been defined, but would have to be made with biotechnology, prohibitively expensive (think insulin and cancer drugs). So just from this perspective, it sounds like a no-go. Mammalian cells have to be babied, unlike yeast (beer, bread) or bacteria (yoghurt). Yeast genome = 12 Megabases, Human genome = 3 Gigabases, vastly more complex and difficult to grow.

Pat Brown, the founder of Impossible foods, who was trained as an MD and clearly has the background to judge this is also pointing out the fundamental issue [0]. Anyone who says that he has a vested interest I can just tell that I have worked with Pat, and the first thing I was told about him was that "he's the real deal.". He really is.

[0] https://www.eco-business.com/news/economics-of-cell-based-me...
Backdoor implies something hidden and not advertised. Apple/Google/Microsoft and others are pretty clear about fully being in control of your device. They can push updates (both at the OS and app level), add new trusted root certificates, collect usage data, show ads, remotely track/lock/disable your device and lots more. Apple is even going to start scanning your phone for certain kinds of illegal content.
Wowza. We put an open source nginx cache layer in front, and cloudfront in front of that. It’s a pretty cool setup, but I feel I could do most of the HLS in nginx+ffmpeg.
https://medium.com/@laletur/should-governments-subsidy-the-m...

> According to recent data from Metonomics, the American government spends $38 billion each year to subsidize the meat and dairy industries, but only 0.04 percent of that (i.e., $17 million) each year to subsidize fruits and vegetables.
Gitlab.com login: endless browser check with privacy.resistFingerprinting
What foreigners are people in the Swiss or Taiwanese army killing!?

If you move to NZ, I hope you're earning a lot of money. Everything is expensive. Housing especially - though you're used to that to an extent if you know Taipei.
Not that I claim to know how to factor the cost in, but meat production has negative externalities that the industry doesn't pay for. Not to mention things like water rights etc. If the farmers actually paid those costs, my guess is the price gap would close a bit.
Hard to tell validity of claims in the article. Best I could find is from Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSPR_(amateur_radio_software...

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> In May 2021, aerospace engineer Richard Godfrey suggested an examination of historical WSPR data to further define the flight path of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 on 8 March 2014, suggesting that there were "518 unique transmission paths that cross the area of interest around Malaysia, the Malacca Strait and the Indian Ocean. With the WSPR data provided every two minutes and the ability to check against the satellite data every hour it is possible to detect and track MH370 from two independent sources."[7]
However, the method used in this article is highly questionable; The reflected signal energy from aircraft in such distances is very small (inverse square law), much smaller than variance on the regular skywave signal due to multipath propagation, which can vary by tens of dB within seconds. Such difficulties make it necessary to use more advanced methods for radar applications at such distances in this frequency range (Over-the-horizon radar).