skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is cherry picking at its worst. I found one bad study from 78! studies. Therefore, I will ignore all studies. Even worse, none of your double blind RCTs are multi-site western studies. So, I will ignore all of them.
Do you know what? After 2 years. 2 years, there has not been even one WESTERN double blind RCT of Ivermectin for Covid that has reported its data. Not one. There are 3 ongoing - Oxford (paused now, because they cannot get supply - what a joke), Covid-OUT (reporting in maybe 2 months), and NIH (reporting in 2023). The Together trial finished in August, but they are still sitting on the data - why?

Besides those trials, there are 87! studies from lots of countries. One really good observational study with ~200k participants (120k in the treatment group) from Itaj Brazil for IVM as prophylaxis. Results for propensity matched data were hospitalizations down by 85%, and for non propensity matched 50%. But nobody has written about it.
The same goes for Fluvoxamine, which has great data. As does Melatonin and Curcumin. Lots of treatment and prophylaxis options out there.

And yes, i am vaxxed. But I despair at this notion that it is vax or treatment. I chose both.

Reference:

https://www.cureus.com/articles/82162-ivermectin-prophylaxis...
I was replying to another comment and came to a realization. It deserves its own comment.

Jump Trading fixed the problem by depositing $320M ETH tokens into the Wormhole's ETH account to ensure the falsely issued wETH tokens are backed. The fake Solana tokens released from the fake wETH were deposited back into Wormhole's Solana account. They are still in Wormhole's Solana account after the re-capitalization. It's basically they're using the $320M ETH tokens to buy a bunch of Solana tokens, created by the hackers.

So at the end, they're not really out of $320M money; they still have the $320M Solana tokens, fake or not. It's just the general public got screwed by having $320M of Solana tokens inflated up on them.
If code isn't law, could a crypto holder sue a crypto miner for inflating the market supply and reducing the value of their holdings?

What is the legal distinction between mining (which is intent of the protocol) and this attack (presumably not the intent of wormhole)? Do blockchain services need to create ToS's which can legally supercede in the case of bugs in order for courts to punish attackers? Would blockchain users accept a service with such a delegation of state?
Well you can have the iPad share its location ... that's a thing.

How you do it depends on if your iPad is setup under a different apple ID or not (still can do it either way).

My father in law who is older and prone to wandering off, I put an airtag on him while on vacation temporarily when we were out and about, and set his phone to share his location to the whole family all the time just to be save. It's very handy that way.
I got a pretty extensive walkthrough of Jump's risk management stack and wasn't particularly impressed as a counterpoint.

Side note: it's interesting that Jane Street is pretty anti-crypto and sort of indirectly results FTX from Sam and co. jumping ship.
Sony is still struggling with PS5 supply
> You realize most people love in apartments right? Most apartments don't have fireplaces.

No, I mean the little burners you put on top of portable propane tanks, that are usually used for BBQ's or while camping. Searching "campground propane burner" in Amazon shows several hundred results of what I'm talking about. They don't require a campground to operate.

> Or fix the damn infrastructure.

You and your fear exists in the reality that is right now, which includes bad infrastructure, that will almost certainly take years to fix. If you desire to not live in fear, for the next few years, you can easily do it with minimal, extremely common in places where it's cold, preparation. If you desire to continue living in short term fear, when it's so easy to mitigate that fear, then well I guess you do you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Cta2cC2Co

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine_braking#Diesel_engines
Bitfinex already did it once that we know of.

It's not too absurd.
The point is that it's better than what anybody 5 miles outside of the city core can get. Local and state governments won't allow wireline competition, so this is the best we can do.
No safety belts?
Leave BT off for a few hours. :-)
I guess I feel that there is a big discontinuous jump between "not clearly better than humans" and "clearly better than humans," where the latter is much, much more significant than the former. It seems like going on a hike and stopping before the summit.
I could swear that Samsung's find my phone service works exactly the same way. Your phone is automatically used to track every other phone around you. It might not work for whatever their air tag equivalent is though
This. In the EU, trucks drive from Finland to Portugal, same driver.
Americans really don't get Europe.
There's a fetish for tiny homes, a fetish for semi-off-grid living, a fetish for impractical homes in impractical places. YouTube is full of these projects. Curiously many tiny homes and impractical off-grid home projects seem to be abandoned and turn into half-built or mostly-compromised results. I'd attach some links to those YouTube channels, but I don't want to send them any traffic because at this point it has become less about the home and more about the fetish.
I did indeed say, most of Europe.
I don't get this take but that's because I am not from the US I suppose. Here, politicians and virologists have publically explained immunity in multiple layers.

Antibodies as first line of defense to intercept viruses and keep them from initially docking to cells. Then, at the bottom, there is long-term T-cell immunity which is essential in preventing severe disease. The vaccines train the immune system to recognize and respond quicker to the virus so that it cannot dock to cells and replicate as fast as it could if the immune system had never seen it before. The immune system does not need to catch up first so it gets a running start instead of a cold start if not vaccinated.
It's capacity pricing. If you want to buy same-day tickets for your whole family to board a full flight, the airline will sell the tickets to you, but it might be at a 5x or 10x mark up. The airline is betting that they'll be able to talk people into forfeiting their seats by giving them airline credits, and tickets on a later (less crowded) flight, then pocket the difference.

Expecting the airline to give you and your giant family a discount in the situation is obviously absurd. When you're at capacity, it's in your best interest to encourage people to shift their consumption to off-peak times, and to punitively charge the people that insist on consuming a disproportionate amount during full capacity.
And it turned out to be a pretty good game. Which shows he has good ideas, he just needs constraints. Its a really common pitfall in creative industries. You don't see it as much in AAA games I think because devs tend to be more structured. But it happens a lot in indie games and all the damn time in film. There are countless movies which were vanity projects for the directors.
We would occasionally pull stunts like this for adversary satellites in the old days. I've never seen a transparent scoot-n-hide, though. And if we had an aircraft break down, we have equipment on base that could move it to a hangar in pretty much any condition -- even crashed.

We were always really sensitive to adversary satellite schedules and this would not happen for 5 minutes, let alone a few days.

My hunch is that the transparent scoot-n-hide is a custom job, the aircraft is real, and this was a show for some adversary.

As for what type of aircraft it is? Can't really tell. I could see it being anything from an F-16XL to NGAD to flat pieces of painted plywood cut out into shapes (it's been done before).
I very much disagree.

Yes -- it is important how you rectify those mistakes.

But being quick at rectifying mistakes does not yet make your actions professional.
If you can buy the same amount with them, then they are demonstrably not worth less.
Jails – High value but shitty Virtualization (2016)
If you move X,Y separately but with a small enough step, it would be virtually indistinguishable from moving along the slope.
Pure artistry.
it didn't. it's just a fad amongst young programmers that will slowly dissipate
Oh we'll adapt. The question is at what cost.
Honestly, I'd be super paranoid about this. Someone with an axe to grind about foreign workers could report you on the off chance. You seem like a super clever bloke and the US would do well to take you, but if I was an immigration official and read this post, I'd be red underlining your application. They've made it mega-easy to report, as well.
If there is a wikipedia entry on the topic, use the interlanguage links to find the most commonly used words for that term in a foreign language.
I've no doubt that the old CoE trucks from the 60s were death traps. But I'd be interested in seeing what the difference is between a modern European Volvo (one of the few companies who build both types) and a US version. I would be very surprised if the difference wasn't negligible. Putting the engine out front is a brute force way of providing safety which isn't necessary with modern design.
>1) There are a whole lot of bot type accounts here, developed over many years.

This is the elephant in the room for all internet services that are primarily focused on user generated content. It is my opinion that the majority (>50%) of user generated content online is not made by authentic users, but instead made by astroturf accounts who are paid to generate the content. These same accounts will also be leveraging bots to boost engagement signals etc.
Yes, for certain. I am more alluding to the false belief that you can just out-exercise a poor diet. For example, many polyunsaturated vegetable oils oxidize very quickly in your body, sending free radicals on a rampage and causing inflammation. This "cost" is not accounted for in a calorie. And the effect becomes even more important when you introduce the stress of exercise into the equation.

https://www.openventio.org/Volume1-Issue6/Oxidation-of-Polyu...
Yes.

>Build, test, and deploy with CI/CD that works with any language, platform, and cloud. Connect to GitHub or any other Git provider and deploy continuously.

(from https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/devops/)

>Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

(from https://kubernetes.io/)
> but in Germanic languages (like English)

Well, yes, in theory you could use 'Amerikas' in German, but nowadays that's mostly because of a bad translation. It actually is correct German to speak of 'both America' - 'beide Amerika' (in singular).

https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Amerika

> So, for people to bring it over as 'America' can sometimes be seen as pedantry instead of insightfulness.

Of course it is pedantry.
I've got a tag on my bike and it's pretty dumb that it starts beeping at the thief if it ever gets stolen. Why do we have to gimp everything to make it difficult to use them to break the law? Isn't enforcement of laws how we're supposed to make people not break the law?
Thanks for that link to Schneier's letter! He breaks down the bills and provides relevant and cogent arguments to both Apple and Google's positions which I hadn't considered.
Hello, Trust Machines
Five valuable lessons for a new tech lead
As you develop your technical skills, you get to a point where you develop incredible confidence about your ability to deliver irrespective of any technical challenge thrown at you.

But the moment you take a leap into a leadership role, moving beyond leading oneself to lead others, you start to realize that succeeding in this new venture takes more than being technically sound. Suddenly, there are non-technical skills that seem to matter.
Interesting. A few of Lithuanian companies were on fire recently as they've continued moving fertiliser from Belarus even after sanctions were imposed.

Strange there are no same sanctions for Russia tho.
End-to-end patch attestation with patatt and b4 (2021)
As it stands all of the apps I have subscribed too are only available to subscribe too this way.

So I assume given the price that the extra 30 (or 15) is calculated into the price.

So my answer would be yes, if they said I could lower it by going through their website I would continue to do it through the app. If they removed the option completely I would stop using it and find an alternative.

I will not support shady business practices and hurdles to unsubscribe is one of the worst in my opinion.
Thank you for the very thoughtful reply. Generally I like writing and am good at it when I'm in the right mindset. I feel like there's politics to everything but I hear that PMing it is extra prevalent so that is something I need to consider. Most of the PMs I work with now are in meeting hell, so I wonder if they need better processes. Anyways, thanks again for the thoughtful answer. It sounds overall like a net positive career change for you.
The FFVI T edition rom hack is the original game with a proper translation, higher difficulty and additional content like tavern quests, new weapons, etc. It also contains some quality of life improvements (sprint shoes no longer need to be equipped, for example) and corrects some calculations. For reference I made it about 60 hours and still have much to do. My only gripe was that battles were stuck on force wait, so you had to wait for things to execute before your ATB gauge would refill. That may or may not have changed as the patch has been updated a bit since I experienced it.

If you're up for the challenge I'd recommend it. As I understand it, the pixel remaster, although interesting looking, lacks some of the bonus content added to other versions of the game. This has that, and much more. It felt polished to me. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Hope this helps
This is very interesting to me if true, both because

- I thought the risk from getting an infection would be much higher than any vaccine combination (but here multiple Moderna doses seems to increase the risk even more)

- again, if this is true it still validates the rest of my reasoning: except for multiple doses of Moderna any other combination of mainstream vaccines seems to be safer than actually getting the infection

(I note that there is a lot of uncertainty which is why I use "seems to be" instead of "is".)
So is social security and fractional reserve banking, yet no one is trying to stop those.
I'm not convinced that people who aren't able to learn enough to use AES properly will fare that much better with ChaCha20, Poly1305, and asymmetric key agreement. ChaCha doesn't make the key agreement stuff easier and if they're going to blow their feet off it's probably going to be there.

GCM wasn't "MacGyvered" any more than ChaChaPoly. ChaCha doesn't give you authentication by itself, and you need authentication. You could in theory do ChaCha/GMAC or AES-CTR/Poly1305 and be okay if you engineered it properly. I think NaCl already has AES-CTR/Poly1305 in it.
Any idea (or sources) why they are not being pursued? And why are flu vaccines not commonly given as intranasal spray?
> Aside from the other considerations, "it was a good investment" stuff is just ridiculous. The general bank isn't in operations to make money - it's in operation to protect the market, the currency and the economy as a whole so whether it makes money is irrelevant to whether these loans were a good idea.

The central bank did not make these investments, Congress did, and so the yields did not accrue to the central bank but to the Treasury. If you've ever met the IRS you know that the job of the Treasury is in fact to accrue revenue.

The central bank's charter is to maintain a low, predictable rate of inflation over a medium term and to maintain maximum employment.

> The theoretical problem of this sort of action is naturally these large entities potentially issue loans and borrow without being disciplined by risk.

I agree, which is why Congress needs to better regulate the sector. However that's Congress' job not the Fed's.
>I argue the burden of evidence is not on me to prove that something other people are advocating for is useful, it is on them..

When you make the first claim in a discussion, and your claim is counter to both economic theory (patents help) and the common arguments for a thing (patents help by adding disclosure and protecting small inventors), the burden on you is to prove why the economic theory or common understanding is wrong.

>several of the papers you cite don't show that the patent system itself is better than no patent system

All showed that the patent system provides benefits.

I'm already familiar with the St. Louis Fed paper. It's from 2012, and their opening sentence "The case against patents can be summarized briefly: there is no empirical evidence that they serve to increase innovation and productivity, unless the latter is identified with the number of patents awarded – which, as evidence shows, has no correlation with measured productivity." is directly refuted by the evidence I posted in papers from, respectively, 2018 (references your paper), 2019 (revised 2022), 2013, 2016 (directly addresses your paper, starting on page 1, again on page 5 - provides clear evidence that your paper has been superseded in the literature), and 2017.

So, 5 more recent papers against your favorite one? I think I'll choose the more recent work, especially since a few cite your work and provide direct and irrefutable evidence that there are benefits.

Most interestingly, if you read the Levine & Boldrin paper carefully, they fill it with anecdotes, but nearly zero actual broad data, since the broad data do not support their story. The strongest citations in their paper are back to their own papers, which, if you read those, are similarly anecdote based.

The proper way to do evidence is to take all evidence, not just the pieces and anecdotes one likes, and then analyze. Their paper simply doesn't do this. It's a collection of the stories they like, incredibly many, with extremely little other evidence, or new datasets, or new analysis, to make their case.

For example, my line [3] above shows exactly how to do research: they list the datasets they used, which are all known data for the respective question. They explain their methodology for analysis. They show the numerical outcomes. They explain the relevance.

There is not one anecdote in their paper. Now count how many anecdotes your paper makes to state their case (dozens? it's truly astounding).

You're welcome to show me where in their paper they provide analysis for such large scale, all encompassing data. It's well known in the literature this paper does not do so - it's a collection of anecdotes with a popular title. It doesn't prove the case it claims to by a long shot.

>One of my favorite references

The thing about favorite references is you need to follow up on later work, otherwise your favorite reference may well be invalidated by later work when you decide to pull it out.

I generally prefer more recent research, especially when it's numerous and they cite and address older research in question, to understand a topic.
District heating from nuclear used to be a no-no but has recently gained momentum in Finland (as an idea). Build an SMR near the city for electricity, and use the excess heat for district warming (which is needed during most of the year).
If you have no portfolio, no previous work to show, come from a no name school or don't have a degree, or did very poorly in school, you're absolutely, 100% right.

If you know the fundamentals, you can code, and you can answer LeetCode-style questions in an interview setting, $80-100k with minimal or no experience is certainly doable.
Do you have evidence of this? I personally try to give people the benefit of the doubt in terms of their intentions.

“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”

- Hanlon’s razor

Of course, that doesn’t absolve the developers of guilt here. They are at the very least guilty of failing to build a successful game with all the money they’ve raised, and nobody should ever trust them with their money again.
That incentive turns out to be false for the majority of people, at least with NFTs. Hence the frenzy dynamic. It ends up being deleterious environmental effects for nothing. Nevertheless, it's still perceived financial incentive.

To go off on a slight tangent and play devil's advocate with my prior post that's now past its edit window:

I suppose there's the argument human beings have always been bad at resisting the influence of trends driven by information—however dubious. Propaganda in the 20th century being a great example of this. The internet as it exists today is a sort of hive mind that not only amplifies this dynamic, but injects a good measure of chaos and turbulence into the mix. That leads to a great deal of uncertainty, and in turn a distortion of each person's individual perception of reality.

There's also the argument that good things may arise from the muck of the current technological landscape. I don't doubt this—there's strong historical precedent here as well—that said, things like the NFT craze represent more of a perverse evolutionary outcropping from our current hive mind structure, which is itself corrupted in so many ways. With any luck, hopefully the rotten bits collapse and fall off in due time.
JS does support private implementation details using closures, but JS devs tend not to use them.
The last time this came up on HN someone suggested this: https://lightbug.io/. I've gotta say it looks amazing, the smaller unit has a battery life measured in months, the big one in years.
"restored"... that's an interesting word here, and it suggests that money was manufactured to replace that which was drained (which itself was a kind of manufacturing).

The previous HN tweet thread story about this described so many dependent moving parts that I imagine great difficulty in properly testing and proving that the entire system worked correctly in all cases. If it is built as described in that story, auditing would be an enormous task... and further, putting your name on that audit would be very risky to your reputation (since almost inevitably you will miss something and it will be exploited).

In summary, the system was too complex and offered too many ways for something to go wrong or be exploited.
He has a great series of VHS tapes (wow getting old) uploaded to Youtube, just search his name. Highly worth a watch
Allowing alternative payment systems. This would be absolutely huge for small devs, as you no longer have to pay the ridiculous 15%-30% rent to Apple.
How we broke the supply chain
That’s not the end state anyone who knows anything about this virus is expecting or aiming at at the moment. And it hasn’t been for months and months.

Universal vaccination can make the transition of this virus from pandemic to endemic much more pleasant. In terms of deaths, serious cases (with potential long term effects), but also in terms of smoothing out hospital and infrastructure load.

In that respect the vaccines are an awesomely effective tool that can greatly reduce suffering with minimal or no real downsides.

Side note: an omicron infection is no replacement for the vaccination. Omicron doesn’t confer great immunity against delta and other, “older” virus variants which are still out there, potentially ready to come back next winter.
This is really interesting. Last night I was looking at FireFox Reality's repo and was pleasantly surprised to see [some newer commits][1]. Now today I see that Wolvic is [a fork of FireFox Reality][2] and that the commits were contributed from that project. I'm happy to see a private company fund new work on this front.

[1]: https://github.com/MozillaReality/FirefoxReality/commits/mai...

[2]: https://github.com/Igalia/wolvic