skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Could it all be random chance? Sure! But that does kind of hint that there might be something there.

Right, which is why we have studies like this: Early studies showed similar "maybe there's something here" type results, which prompted more studies, which later showed that most likely there wasn't something there.

People also seem to have forgotten that all of the other COVID drug research has progressed significantly in the past two years. Drugs like Paxlovid have indisputably significant effects that leave no room for "maybes" like this and should be ramping up quickly. Even if we were to eventually run a study big enough to find some significant effects of Ivermectin, however small, it's already been left behind by other treatment advances.

For some reason Ivermectin sticks as a political talking point, though, so it continues to be debated to death while everyone in the medical research world has long since moved on to better things.
It probably is legal because of a "we can change the terms and conditions at any time" clause, but just in case I'm not going to migrate my account until they really shut down Mojang accounts.

It seems weird to me that they give people capes as a "reward" for migrating, as if that's the only way they can legally get people to move over.
If it succeeds (and I think it will), I hope other cities will take example on this. The rules seems reasonable: no through traffic but local traffic and deliveries permitted, and Paris has an extremely dense subway.
The article is trash but I think things like this get posted on here to stir up a conversation around the topic. You might dislike the article but the discussion around the topic is usually what I come to HN for.

A lot of the social articles that get posted on here are even worse than this one (and this one is incredibly bad - complete nonsense) but the discussion can be good.
It's amazing. If you trust Microsoft, that is, and they haven't shown themselves as a company worthy of trust since Windows 8/10 came out.
I'm not sure the facts really agree. Japan had its power structures destroyed and borders redrawn, so did India, China, Germany, Russia. Don't have to go back too far for that to have happened in most countries including all of Europe and the USA.
Could be because optimizing for ad sales / clicks doesn't require it.
...Shouldn't the answer be Amestris?
I hate this feature, I invoke it by accident quite often and I do not use, nor want to use, Microsoft Tasks.

MSFT:Please provide a settings toggle to turn this off (last time I looked that wasn't possible).
I agree with some commenters that this article has some very 'woke' conclusions which might over interpret what the children actually thought or did.

Nonetheless, I find it very concerning that multiple commenters here think, that trying to get children to share and play nice together is indoctrination/socialism/etc and that anything that isn't based on total self-reliance must be wrong.
Show HN: How to setup a remote pair-programming environment with GNU Guix
>Works, is easy to use, and help is everywhere for it.

It's so easy you can't even be smug anymore using nearly any linux distro. Damn their eyes, I worked hard in the 90's getting my linux cred. Now, grandma is using it. Time to switch to Gentoo I suppose.
Info propagation isn't free. Even at the atomic unit, you and someone to listen to you, requires the organization of participants to scale beyond triviality. Realistically, within the societal framework we operate in, there isn't really feasible decoupling of funds from access to anplification. You're not safe relying on government subsidy, because, well, square one.
They later on, as a side part of a last year or so video, discussed that all pf those keyboards failed a few months afterwards. The cause was not discussed but I would guess washing introduced either corrosion and/ or a lot of wear tp the keyboards.
They mentioned that they would like to revisit the concept later but, iirc, it hasn't been done yet.
I would love to see mainstream operating systems with support for grouping different application windows into single tabbed windows.
> teach socialism and collectivism

You mean (ridiculously simplified) taking turns and sharing?

There’s nothing inherently different between these things.
It sounds like you're just redefining "domestic" to mean "not at all related to other animals". Domestication usually signifies that the species has gone through significant human caused changes from their wild ancestors, not that they've been completely divorced from all wild behaviors.

As for us homans, sure, of course we're evolutionarly related to other animals, and are going to exhibit some of the same behaviors.
That doesn't work in the real world. In the real world, you'll encounter other people who try to take credit for a team effort. If your solution is to stop what you're doing and spend 100% of your time trying to figure out how to not care about it, you'll go homeless and starve before coming up with a realistic solution.
> But you're breaking someone else's productive time

Yes, the system's productivity is not about maximising the uninterrupted productivity of person A, or of person B either.

Sending a whole pile-up of PRs isn't a great solution either.
one glance at the current state of society makes it pretty obvious that “somehow we all turned out ok” is not true.
It is expensive, but testing with strips >5x a day can easily end up costing more. When I was on strips I usually needed at least that to have anywhere near decent control.
Presuming because of your use of pounds: do you seriously think our prison system is particularly rehabilitative?
Huh.

When did various mail providers start deciding to go from having a spam filter as a selling point to having spam built in?
Truecrypt hidden volume looks like free space without the right password. You can't prove you don't have data there.
What always gets lost in discussion about weight control, IMO, is that it is a mental game. The biological aspects are pretty easy. CICO works. Diets are a strategy for achieving CICO. And ultimately whether you can stick to it is largely a mental thing.

So if you want to lose weight, figure out first why you have a problem to begin with. Because if you don't, then you will lose for a while purely through motivation, and then gain it back when your focus changes to something else.

Of course, there are physiological inputs to the state of mind, as well, which may very well be uncontrollable and largely genetic, so even if you achieve your personal ideal it may not be the body you dream of.
> Also, ivnmeta itself is just weird. It can only be characterized as a propaganda site. It's well done, but scientifically invalid.

Ivnmeta and the network of related sites are some of the weirdest propaganda I've seen.

But what's even stranger is how the visual format seems to short-circuit right past people's usual suspicions on sites like HN. Normally if you posted up site where some unnamed author had crossed out the conclusions of various research studies and inserted his own statistical analysis, everyone here would roll their eyes. There's something about this site that seems to short-circuit past people's usual complaints (small sample size, inclusion of retracted studies, substituting statistical analyses that disagree even with the papers it cites) and make people think there's a conspiracy going on.
> Why would Putin adopt strategies straight from Alex Jones (crisis actors and false flags? Those things aren't real)

Yeah... read about "Canned Goods" in the German invasion of Poland in 1939. Those things are in fact real, at least some of the time.

> Russia has been conducting the same military exercise on UA boarder for more than a decade. Why the panic now?

Because Putin is saying that if we don't refuse to admit Ukraine to NATO, forever, then Putin is going to have to resort to military measures. ("It's your fault I'm beating you up!") And because it's at the same time as the exercise in Belarus, and the exercise in the Black Sea. And because there seem to be considerably more preparations for really using the troops this time around.

> Why do we welcome all ex soviet states to EU or NATO but not Russia?

First, we didn't, either to EU or to NATO. Both have entrance criteria; not all countries meet them. (Ukraine, for instance, doesn't at this time.) Second, specifically about NATO: They want into NATO because they want protection from Russia. Russia keeps wanting to play "realpolitic" and "spheres of influence", and everybody else in the neighborhood is sick and tired of being on the receiving end. They want out of Russia's sphere of influence; NATO is a good step toward that.
This is not a new idea, it goes by the name "Ban the Box" ("the box" here meaning the "I have been convicted of a felony" checkbox on a job application) and has been implemented in a bunch of US states. The general consensus is that it doesn't really move the needle on employment rates for felons, while at the same time making employment prospects worse for black men because employers now just discard them from the application pipeline entirely since they can't check criminal records.
Wow. These people are truly demented. Teachers? No. Far from it. They are political activists living a delusion. What a terrible thing to do to children.

The solution was simple: Every month we take everything apart. Sort the pieces into boxes. And cleanup. Then, we start the new month inventing new things.

Darn near 18 yeas ago one of my kids built a massive lego kit. He loved it. One day he was playing and accidentally dropped it. The thing exploded into a million pieces. He was about to explode into crying when I jumped in and said: Wow! That was awesome. At this point he wasn’t sure how to react, but he wasn’t crying.

That’s when I said: In life what matters isn’t what you do when everything is the way you like it, but the decisions you make when things go wrong. This is an opportunity to do that! We can either rebuild it or we can use our imaginations and build something cooler out of the pieces on the floor. Your choice.

Daddy, I want to build a huge dinosaur now.

To which I said: See, if what you built hadn’t broken we never would have thought of building a dino. Be happy, not sad.

We spent the next two weeks building a massive dinosaur.

About a month later he took it completely apart on his own and told me it was time to invent something else.

These people should not be teaching. They don’t belong anywhere near kids.
> Japan is not using Ivermectin.

https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOFD31A0C0R30C22A1000000/

2022/1/31

興和（名古屋市）は31日、寄生虫病薬「イベルメクチン」が新型コロナウイルスの変異型「オミクロン型」の治療薬として効果があることを確認したと発表した。北里大学との非臨床試験をもとに、抗ウイルス効果があるとした

Bing translation:

"Kowa (Nagoya City) announced today that it has confirmed that the parasitic drug "Ivermectin" is effective as a treatment for the mutant "Omicron type" of the novel coronavirus. Based on the non-clinical trial with Kitasato University, it was said that it had an antiviral effect."
lol. Teachers spend a huge proportion of their already-underpaid salaries buying classroom supplies to benefit their students.
Not really, nowadays. Windows has better GPU drivers, and it allows for more intrusive DRM/anticheat. So, if you are playing brand new AAA games with really fancy graphics, Windows might be helpful. Or if you are really into competitive online gaming.

Those are niches, though, not "any sort of pc gaming."
What. That really depends on your task. In my field, real data is extremely expensive and if we could generate believable synthetic data, we'd save a ton of money.
HN has been an amazing resource for my own personal development, and remains a reliable source for high quality content and discussion in certain topics. I think that has a lot to do with its smart design decisions and approach to moderation, and for that I'm very thankful.

One curiosity for a social site is that despite being pretty active here, and having some good exchanges, I've never actually connected with someone here. It's a forum rooted in ideas, not people, and that's reinforced by its product restraints: no avatars, no following, no DMs, no blackbox algorithms. I really appreciate that, vis-a-vis other parts of the internet, though I do occasionally wish I could connect with the people behind the ideas.

One funny quirk of being such an eng-oriented forum is a long time ago they let you sign up without an email, which meant when I lost my password I had to start a new account. I'd love to restore my original username.
The Australian Liberal Propaganda Model
And they will be, for millennia to come! Bullying is a vile part of human nature, there is no preventing it or stopping it all together.
Stripe actually been in the business of "content" for quite some time by now. Unfortunately, https://press.stripe.com/ doesn't date anything they are releasing apparently, but I remember reading about things they've released for at least a couple of years. They also famously "purchased" patio11, probably mostly because of his skills of writing and promoting content on the internet.
You need the agent running too but I believe this is the most secure way.
They're wanting a QA role to be able to answer leetcode style questions? Why?
Why stop there, why not go back to punch cards. If there are tools that save time why not use them. We aren’t at University sitting exams anymore
I know very little about both, but I'm at the mercy everyday with lxc on my chromebook when running crostini (it's like a VM in a VM in a VM in a...) :) - works great though, at some perf cost, and less GPU support.

And still having troubles running most of the docker images out there (either this, or that won't be supported). I guess it makes sense, after all there is always the choice of going with full real linux reinstall, or some other hacky ways.

But one thing I was not aware was this: "Docker containers are made to run a single process per container."
This is article about teaching children to share Lego toys.

If you want to compare it to communist autocracies, you'll need to at least tell us how they're at all related to each other.
Sometimes that means kids being bullied and having that affect them quite strongly. Not actually a great idea.
Yeah, once TDD is implemented, things will get interesting for sure - also the CBRS band will open up opportunities for much lower cost radio devices that can have some "serious" range (i.e. small neighbourhood scale WiFi AP) - maybe we'll see that new generation get into ham, and also learning more about networking and launch their own metro-net ISPs?

One minor thing - hams would need to be careful they can run LTE/5G "out the box", given most setups use an encrypted layer to the base station. You can turn that down to zero confidentiality (EEA0) but still using integrity checking (EIA>0), but I am not sure if that's a particularly well-supported mode of operation.
There is a non-profit organisation that is providing tools to users to translate English content to other languages: https://translationcommons.org/academy/tools
If we aren't a democracy, can we just ignore your opinion and do what we want?

> Voting doesn't scale well

It's scaled amazingly well, far beyond what the creators could have imagined. Billions vote around the world. In the US, without looking up the population in 1776, it's probably scaled 100x.

And it's been, by far, the most successful, free, prosperous, stable, functional form of government in human history. Name any that comes close - any country that has come close in history that isn't a democracy. Name a better form of government, or a country in any time and place that people would prefer to live in. Note the massive migration to democracies. It's like citing Apple Computer as a company that doesn't scale well (except there are other companies in Apple's league, and no other form of government competes with democracy).

The only question is, who is so anxious to tear it down and why?
Asteroids, Hubble rival, and Moon base: China sets out space agenda
As soon as PSA was listed as the verifier, my shill detector started going off. They are a very shady company
Not being statistically significant is not a proof that it doesn't work -- it only means they could not reject the possibility that the results were due to chance. The possibility that it slashed the death rate by 3x (which is what happened in the study) when projected to the world wide deaths of ~ 4.5 million would imply saving the lives of 3 million people so it certainly would be worthwhile to check it out. Maybe it was due to chance but maybe it was not.
I am an avid fan and user of FreeBSD, l have wondered the same thing myself over the years.
> EDIT: Somehow I forget how I'll also use HN in a similar way, though less often for some reason.

It's because reddit has dedicated communities for so many topics. If you search for something diy related you'll find posts from a specialist sub, and this works even for the most obscure topics.
> Maybe they want their children to learn about cooperation and empathy instead of blindly accepting hierarchical power structures and divisions that emphasize the individual over community

Okay, after weeks of this, they all agreed that now everyone owns the legos together. Which is ironic given that they had power over their legos. Then the teachers took it away. Then the teachers gave it back. It sounds like the lesson here is to blindly accept hierarchical powers.

We have to take the teacher's version of events here. But as a parent, it seems equally likely the students learned how to be performative until the teachers were satisfied enough with what they heard to give them their toys back.
A link that is shared on facebook gets an additional fbclid query parameter (interesting that google has it's equivalent glclid query parameter for links from google adds).I think that it is easy to get rid of this query parameter, when want to use such a link. (just adding, as I don't see that mentioned in the pdf)

I think that the purpose of this query param is to act as a substitute for cross site cookies: when you click on some link then the original url is further transfered as the http referrer header of the http request, if they can get hold of the logs of some affiliated site, then they can possibly track the flow of these fbclid attributes.

Interesting to observe, how every tiny detail is getting used for tracking purposes. I guess that browsers won't get rid of any specific query parameters when the url is passed as the referrer header, as that would be a violation of the protocol. However it may be possible to write a browser plug-in that does so.
There's definitely an element of sRGB in there, but it feels grafted on to something older. Like someone was tasked with throwing something together from whatever references they could find. P.S. sRGB was motivated by a desire to quantify the behavior of an "average" CRT monitor, and while it probably didn't accomplish that at least it gave everybody a target so that hardware could converge on something sensible.
> But that does kind of hint that there might be something there.

The paper does not draw this conclusion. The data you're referencing is too small to be statistically significant.

> Findings: In this open-label randomized clinical trial of high-risk patients with COVID-19 in Malaysia, a 5-day course of oral ivermectin administered during the first week of illness did not reduce the risk of developing severe disease compared with standard of care alone.

> Meaning: The study findings do not support the use of ivermectin for patients with COVID-19.

> Results: Among 490 patients included in the primary analysis (mean [SD] age, 62.5 [8.7] years; 267 women [54.5%]), 52 of 241 patients (21.6%) in the ivermectin group and 43 of 249 patients (17.3%) in the control group progressed to severe disease (relative risk [RR], 1.25; 95% CI, 0.87-1.80; P = .25). For all prespecified secondary outcomes, there were no significant differences between groups.

> Conclusions and Relevance: In this randomized clinical trial of high-risk patients with mild to moderate COVID-19, ivermectin treatment during early illness did not prevent progression to severe disease. The study findings do not support the use of ivermectin for patients with COVID-19.
They also have this, but if the local library skimps on their audiobook provider, the selection is abysmal. I literally once closed the tab in disgust after seeing how few good books were in offer in a library where I lived, and that was a very gentrified area so they definitely could afford something better.
> getting back into the command line, the terminal, the console & re-learning the hard way how to re-enact many of the things your IDE does for you is really hard.

So, if the IDE gives us those tools, what is the exact benefit of "going back and learning the hard way"?

> To insist on fast immediate obvious worth is to miss the big picture, is toxic to healthy ecosystems & diversity's neandering

How much time do I have to spend in the good old hard learning command line to replicate, say, 5% of Intellij Idea's refactoring capabilities and code navigation?
If you are imprisoned for embezzlement, do your time, get your name cleared, then do it all again, and again, do you want to hire them as your purchasing agent? I think the answer here is going to have to be on a case by case basis. I'd maybe hire someone for that position if their repeat offense was unrelated and unlikely to impact the position directly (such as, I don't know, 2nd degree murder from DUIs). I'd be wary if they came to work drunk, but that's a separate issue that I'd be concerned about for anybody.
You think that taking toys away from kids when they aren't playing nicely is psychologically hurting them, and equivalent to physically beating them? This caused you visceral disgust?

What world do you live in?
And after the extreme political fallout of the Iran Contra nobody involved ever stood a chance in politics ever again. I don't know if you recall what happened to Oliver North but it was brutal - he had to endure cushy political appointments for the rest of his life.
> the missing $60M that was spent on properties

It’s not missing, it's the money they reportedly had on hand at last account.

(And if anyone knew it had been spent on properties, it still wouldn't be missing.)
I believe that sharing and taking turns is a social obligation, and why we should teach our children to share and take turns. I believe sharing and taking turns is necessary to a healthy, functioning society. I also believe that a small minority shouldn't hoard resources in general, but especially not when others have nothing.

I don't believe that socialism and collectivism are suitable fixes to poverty or income disparity.

Put another way, I suspect we share values but disagree on policy.
I updated the installation instructions [1] to add the register patch.

[1] https://github.com/pkulchenko/fullmoon#installation
> This is generally a great way to make friends. This is not how you court a partner.

Evidence? Many friendships have a way of turning into relationships, because it's so easy to show off things to your friend that make you attractive and desirable as a partner. It even happens without people intending it!
You don't have to answer as we've definitely drifted off topic.

Is there a reasonable solution to these problems? I feel like without the popularity contest element, that's only more delegating to those who don't necessarily vote the way people would want. Without the delegating, there is stronger requirements on a citizen to educate themselves.

Representative democracy seems to be at the rough point of compromise between these downsides.

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