skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the builders began excluding other children. Occasionally, Legotown leaders explicitly rebuffed children, telling them that they couldn’t play. Typically the exclusion was more subtle, growing from a climate in which Legotown was seen as the turf of particular kids. [...] These negotiations gave rise to heated conflict [...] Kendra suggested a big cleanup of the loose Legos on the floor. The Legotown builders were fierce in their opposition. They explained that particular children “owned” those pieces and it would be unfair to put them back in the bins where other children might use them.

Or to paraphrase: “A few of the kids were being jerks and it was making the other kids feel bad, and despite teachers repeatedly asking them to stop, they wouldn’t, so we decided (edit: after a lot of thought and discussion with the class) to take away the toy causing the trouble.”

This is hardly “indoctrination” any more than it is indoctrination to break up kids’ physical fights or stop kids from taking/breaking each-others’ stuff.
they literally strip out the paper's conclusions and substitute their own?

is there a long form write up on what ivnmeta did wrong? I couldn't find any, just comments here and there that, and instead of picking who to trust, it might be better if there is a long form going over what exactly and how they did wrong/incorrectly/deceptively.

I assumed they were just cherry-picking studies, but not faking conclusions.
FDA says parents should avoid certain powdered baby formula
Actually local accounts are far easier to reset the password on. Well, easier if you are the neighborhood computer repair guy.
You should really read the article. A hierarchy formed where children were actively being regulated and excluded by other children. The teachers guided a conversation that allowed for everyone to participate equitably.

Your last sentence says a lot. It's sad to expect your children to performatively participate in community but return to selfish behavior when it no longer benefits them.
Okay, I'm going to clear up a bit because "they're not using it" is basically a conspiracy theory itself. I think your response doesn't address the question, contradicts itself, and is poorly communicated because of the use of emotional/political buzzwords.

- On August 13th, 2021 The chairman of the Tokyo Medical Association approved the use of ivermectin for covid if a patient gives informed consent and asks to use it. See: https://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/123988

So, at least the Tokyo Medical Association in Japan has approved the use of it. Does that mean it's a standard treatment for covid? No, but it does mean that some tens of thousands of doctors in Japan are making it available.

- India stopped using it. That's accurate, and I had no idea this happened because I wasn't following it too closely, but the insinuation is: Well, they clearly were using it. How does that gel with "those are Ivermectin conspiracy talking points" and "I'm still stunned by how these rumors continue to circulate as facts"?

- Brazil, as you concede, is still using ivermectin to treat covid. I agree it's a mixed vibe over there. But again, how does this gel with "they're not using it", "those are Ivermectin conspiracy talking points", and "I'm still stunned by how these rumors continue to circulate as facts"?

- Finally, you forgot about most of latin america, where they continue to use ivermectin. See: https://english.elpais.com/international/2022-02-18/ivermect...

So, can you answer the actual question? I'm not interested in what you think is a conspiracy theory. And well shit, I guess I answered the question myself with that last article I linked; it looks like it's a hedge or hopeful shot in the dark. Imagine all the problems we could avoid if you could just say that?
Right, but when arguing semantics, then semantics matters. "democrat" as in "someone who advocates democracy" simply isn't in common usage here.

Likewise, if I said I donated to BLM, odds are good I am talking about the fund by that name, not an abstract concept of a movement that random people ephemerally belong to.
It's idealistic but hear me out. Think of all the minor things in your neighborhood or town/village/city/parish/etc. that need to be fixed. Potholes, poor road markings, overgrown or unmaintained greenery. Uneven sidewalks. Litter, grime.

Think of the local government or contracted services that are understaffed. New construction and renovation. Forest management, wetlands management, park maintenance. Homeless shelters and soup kitchens and community centers. Crossing guards and bus drivers.

Many of these are run by organizations that restrict felons, or perversely use convicts nearly exclusively via prison release programs and monitored community service.

Why not open these up more?
A more eloquent way of putting this: lowering a barrier to do X will result in lower average quality of X, but more of it. Usually this is good, and lower barriers win. Unless it's like lowering the barrier to becoming a surgeon or something where the risk is high.
Take solace that your phone would have been a TOP500 supercomputer in the early 90s.
> I would get banned for doxing you

Ok, and how would doxing me be something that would further finding truth? That's not an example of a productive conversation limited because of anti-free speech.

> An example is cord clamping.

Nothing in your example is a conversation that couldn't be had on "anti-free speech" platforms.

What you've failed to give me is an example or description of communication that cannot be had on non-free speech platforms that isn't itself a turd.

Unless your doxxing example was to say "Hey, this researcher that lives on 123 maple street is where clamping came from and we clearly can't trust people from maple street because that's were bad people are from".

That, in and of itself, doesn't seem like a good way to go about discovering truth.
This evil company going to shit should feel like good news to most of us regular folks.
A Better Way to Measure Progress in Semiconductors (2020)
Beauty is also the kind of thing that's easy to talk about, though. I don't believe that any sensible woman would only care about how handsome their partner is. They can afford to be picky, being in the minority - but they'll be generally picky. And if you can show off compelling qualities, whatever they might be, that's enough to be in the running because so many guys simply don't bother and become practically invisible.
The only attitude here is yours. "The real world" means "not on HN", in other words out in public.

> Why would you say that?

Because it's true. Go out in public and tell me what fraction of people are buried in their phone. To a rough approximation, all of them.
Attack Against Iran’s State Broadcaster
How we use Notion as a startup
Does anyone know Stripe's strategic reason to acquire a content company and/or run Stripe Press? I find it hard to think of the connection here other than a philanthropic effort by the founders.
I don't have to activate my MS Windows 11 account to use linux.

And I can create as many accounts as I want, without worry that MS will be mining the user data for advertisements.
I'd also say covid case/severity reporting is probably of questionable quality in those regions as well, as they struggle economically and probably don't have resources to do that well.
What you dont get is that what "mega-dams and hydro" do on a relatively small area is what oil/gas/coal is doing on a global scale.

These oil companies are going to try survive as long as possible by a astroturfing, throw out misleading studies, bribing public officials, any means necessary to make as much money as possible. Because at the end of the day for a corporation its about making money nothing else.

What we got do is get the government to stop subsidizing oil/gas/coal. At this point we have made less then zero impact on carbon emissions. We're still going up in carbon emissions at the beginning of covid we saw a slight reduction but we're well above pre-covid levels.

The issue I see is the money that being made from oil/gas/coal is peanuts compare to the damage thats being done and the damage thats going to occur.
That's not strictly true, you can format a drive to contain all zeroes. That can then be demonstrated easily via a hex editor looking at the drive. Truecrypt volumes will always look like random scrambled data (like if you formatted your drive with a "secure erase" method).
What VM software does this make use of? KVM?
Money doesn't vote, people vote. Democracy is about people and not amount of money. Example, because one billionaire donates $5millions and 5000 Americans put each $200. Doesn't mean that Canadians care more because $5millions is more than $1million.
They were able to take a situation with an easy way out, and instead took the hard way out and were able to get a bunch of elementary school kids to mutually agree to a set of rules for fair lego play.

I'm actually impressed. Those are people that care about their job.
So, I figure I may as well ask what blacklivesmatter.com[0] is? I was wondering if that website was anything to do with this scam organisation, but came away even more confused. They don't have a mailing address, any organisation (e.g. Black Lives Matter Foundation) naming / references on the website, or... anything, really.

Where does the money go from this website? Does it go to a grassroots organisation, or are these another group of bandits?

I would be curious to know more.

[0]: https://blacklivesmatter.com/
If your plugins are VST2/VST3, then I can wholeheartedly recommend yabridge as a tool for using Windows plugins on Linux.
> So, if the IDE gives us those tools, what is the exact benefit of "going back and learning the hard way"?

Becoming a person of unlimited potential. Being capable of understanding & tackling anything, understanding the world you live in, not living like a marrionette shadow puppet your life.

> 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?

Two afternoons learning CodeMod would provide a lifetime of infinite capabilities, versus some very limited preset scripts. You would be vastly vastly vastly greater, for a tiny amount of dickering around on your own.
Cooperation, empathy, and a sense of duty.
It is still a relevant point given recently approved medications like Paxlovid ran their trials with a even tighter window of <5 days and 50% of the trail was <3 days.
You can hammer the keyboard to make a Microsoft account and then delete that account. Microsoft won't have learned much about you except that your name is wduwbe73ne7cn47wh.
It would be nice to know what is the opinion of the teachers if someone apply the same kind of rules to them. For examples teachers care a lot about they school they go, and old teacher usually hopped a few times until they reached their ideal school.

This is unfair because new teacher may be forced to go to a school that is far away and have a long commuting time, or go to a school where the principal is a moron, or go to a school that can't buy legos.

Some new teachers may not even get a position or resign because the school they go has problems.

So what about to randomizing the school assignment each year? Would the teacher be happy with this more fair approach?
Related discussion on the article Google Search is Dying - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30347719
If you're capable of writing C that gets things right, even if in just smallish projects, chances are good you could crank out bullet-proof C++98.
"assumptions that mirrored those of a class-based, capitalist society — a society that we teachers believe to be unjust and oppressive"

"launch a critical evaluation of Legotown and the inequities of private ownership and hierarchical authority on which it was founded. Our intention was to promote a contrasting set of values: collectivity, collaboration, resource-sharing, and full democratic participation."

The teachers aren't there to teach communism. Instead, it was an opportunity to teach how markets work, after all, the kids are growing up in a capitalist market economy.

The teachers set up a grossly incorrect model - that of a fixed pie. A fixed pie, by definition, means winners and losers. That is not how free markets work. Free markets work by growing the pie.
They asked this in a QA position interview?
Refactor functionalities in JetBrains tools probably saved tons of hours of incidents, typo bugs, copy and paste... only that makes IDE Driven Development as completely worthed it.

Also, tools such as Tabnine take away the plumbing from coding - I am so much more focused on the high-level design and goal of what I am doing if I don't have to pass so much time trying to remember what I wanted to write...
I was just using cnn as an example of a generic news website today.
Sounds like a good way to have the unpopular kids build destroyed every week.
Count me in.

I am using Inoreader at present, and it will be good to have a different "competitor".
Wait, does the Facebook client have access to one’s contacts?
A lot of what you listed there are actually highly skilled careers.

So, why not hire recently released felons at your business? If they really do have something to offer it should be an untapped market for talent.

For the record I actually think this is a good idea.
>The kids in this program are now in their 20s, I'd love to know what their memories of this were.

Indeed, theirs is the most important perspective. Do they even remember legoland?
Rust's Send/Sync made multithreading easier, teaches people to write proper multithreaded code, and results in more reliable programs with less data races and race conditions. Rust's dependency managers makes dependencies easier, teaches people to add dependencies and transitive dependencies, and results in programmers not understanding their own programs.

I think that building tools to teach better programming (eg. teaching memory-safe programming or safe languages, teaching patterns immune to SQL injection or parsing exploits) is a great thing. But given the choice between bad and no code, I feel that it's almost better for people to not complete projects, than to release code with serious functional errors (memory leaks and segfaults and dozens of runtime race conditions that each show up every month or so, requiring herculean effort to debug, or more often go unsolved and haunt users indefinitely) or security defects (eg. https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/wordpress-4.7.2-post-mort...).

It's obviously better to teach good coding than to discourage people doing bad coding, but it's a lot harder (Send/Sync was a non-obvious innovation, and Rust required immense effort to push to 1.0 and build an ecosystem) and I don't think I can do it. And I'm opposed to the principle of trading off your understanding of a program to get more functionality from leaky abstractions (complex languages, optimizing compilers, big library trees, and GPU drivers all leak, whereas out-of-order CPUs and cache hierarchies are a mostly non-leaky abstraction).
to clarify:

> "We’d audiotaped the discussion so that we’d be able to revisit it during our weekly teaching team meeting to tease out important themes and threads. The children’s thoughts, questions, and tensions would guide us as we planned our next steps."

is this what you're referring to?

they recorded one initial discussion so the teachers could collaborate and think more about the best way to resolve this conflict.

and honestly, it sounds like they taped it just because it was easier than having someone take meeting minutes. have you tried keeping up with 5-9 years-olds talking? it's exhausting.
C++ compatibility has improved. E.g. I've noticed that C++20 has designated initializers for struct members, which were introduced in C99. So now if you're writing C that has to compile as C++, you can use C99 designated initializers, if you're OK with requiring C++20.
Some countries have a concept of a right to be forgotten. After a certain amount of time passes, information about criminal convictions is no longer public; disseminating such information is generally illegal; making employment decisions based on it is also illegal.

It's not airtight, but it wouldn't need to be to alleviate the problem. It would restrict what mainstream background check providers could offer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten
Yes taking up limited phone screen space when outsourcing waitstaff tasks to the customer sounds like a recipe for success.

Make sure they are popups too that occur randomly as they scroll through the menu to increase their engagement.

Also ensure you add in some hidden dark patterns like ticking default for donating to some sketchy charity during the payment process.
More than likely the teachers have no idea of the link between this ideology and marxism/socialism. They're going along with the cultural pressure, their jobs are on the line, they don't want to be perceived as contrarian, and buy all the excuses made for why a plain reading of the language isn't actually racist (again, jobs on the line so strongly incentivized to STFU).

Not all teachers go along with it, but like any ideology with the force of population, psychological leverage of guilt, and the threat to destroy careers, most people in any group would comply in a manner that doesn't require deep consideration - in fact, quite the opposite! They need to turn off certain alarms and knowledge to get on the bandwagon.
No, you have missed the point.

Money, any money, even cryptocurrency, simply does not do what you think it does.

If you want stuff then invest in that specific stuff — you should only be investing in or building a financial network when that in particular is what you need, not when you want something else like “electricity” or “food” — and if you’re really going to call out the $10 as a serious number, at that level food is a higher priority than any of the equipment you’d need to take part in even a low-cost digital payments and micro-financing system like M-Pesa (it’s not just banks that do loans!), you certainly shouldn’t be considering paying for random hardware to be installed in a different continent (which is implicit in your scenario)
They also acquired Indiehackers a few years ago, I think this is part of a wider content marketing / brand halo effort.
Because Lego isn’t valued on scarcity.
One thing I've learned over 10 years of doing this is how much code is actually required to do anything, having more expressive language is one thing but tools that can help me cram out this stuff are also appreciated.
I doubt the really top companies -- top 10, say -- have any trouble finding staff, at least for low-level positions. These companies are mobbed by applicants, and can afford to pay top rates. But I can believe things are rather different farther down the totem-pole of prestige. How far down do you have to go before hiring becomes really difficult, and you can't just pick the top of the crop, but rather have to make do with questionable workers?

Netflix is the #6 internet company by market cap. Probably no problems there.

eBay is #30.

Digital Ocean is #91.
Favourite site. Thank you HN.
A man with a sword extolling the virtues of cooperation, empathy, and duty.
The article is exactly about teaching children to blindly accept hierarchy. The teachers tell them what they can play with and when, how they can play together, and why. Why should the children accept the student-teacher hierarchy? Are they old enough to question it?

I suspect you have more in common with the teachers politically than you and I have in common. Perhaps you think it's good for the students to be politically indoctrinated because you agree, to some extent, with what the teachers are saying.

Conversely, I would not share my politics with children, even abstractly. I think after-school teachers for young kids are there mainly to help socialize children and keep them busy while their parents work. I don't think it's their role to teach kids any particular ideology.
> All of the people I know were never friends before they got together.

So they all got together/started to date as complete strangers? Even if they were loose acquaintances for some time, that's plenty enough for the whole "get to know each other" dynamic to get going. 'Dating culture' is an anomaly, people were never intended to court each other like that.
July 2018 was the announcement. The original HN thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17551687
> talent, merit, assertiveness, skill, charisma or just plain luck

One of these things is not like the others. The thing that's not like the others is also effectively the same as the primary factor noted in the article (age differences).

> teachers

> very rich

Teachers already sacrifice significant earnings just by choosing to be teachers, then spend even more on top of that out of their undervalued salaries purchasing classroom equipment and supplies. In other words, just being a teacher is a significant commitment to equity (especially that of poor children).
Yeah, I even own some physical Stripe Press books. But it's definitely not core to payment processing.

Stripe Atlas has a better case for being useful: more companies -> more stripe users.

Stripe Press feels more like a passion project (which, to be clear, I think is awesome).
Inoreader. Does everything and more.
I have studied computers from the ground up. At one point I could draw out most of the structure of a MIPS CPU. I have worked in Linux for years and think I know the shell very well. But none of that helps me deliver value to my employer. If an IDE or other high level tool can get the low level out of my way and get me more productive I'm much happier for it.
You are probably correct - I assumed the ballast tanks were part of the end doors, which were later removed, but re-watching, I think I read too much into that part of the video.
Dude I got dinged for a weed possession charge from my 17th year when I was 21 for a job at Kum'N'Go. I don't give a fuck what kinda logical hoops they jumped through, but it's obscene considering about a month after that I was working in a critical industry with literally millions of dollars of equipment in my hands and a high-risk environment. It doesn't make sense in so many cases, probably most and it only increases recidivism.
> 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.

When you talk about 3x, you're talking about 10 vs. 3. Extrapolating that out to millions of people is not a great idea.

Let's say you run an ice cream company. You round up 490 friends and ask them to pick their favorite flavor of ice cream: chocolate or vanilla. 477 say they don't eat ice cream, 10 pick chocolate and 3 pick vanilla. You rework your ice cream production to be 3x chocolate : 1x vanilla based on your survey and promptly go out of business.

That's what's going on here as well, there's just not enough statistical significance between the two outcomes to infer any reduction in severe COVID cases.

> 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.
Generating an environment and acting within it are wildly different things. Eg Tesla generates virtual camera footage of traffic situations they want their vehicles to handle correctly. The footage generator is basically a scripted video game director, while the trained AI is one of the most complex software projects ever.
Glide-Text2Im
My own anecdote - when I started cycling about 6 miles to work each, I was ravenous by lunchtime and had much larger lunches than previously - put on a lot of weight.