skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a lot of research showing that ivermectin has broad effectiveness against a number of viruses long before the pandemic and including SARS and MERS. There is also strong research (published in Nature) that shows ivermectin to be highly effective at blocking some aspects of a SARS Cov2 infection. The main concern is getting a high enough concentration in the body for it to be effective.

There are additional antiparasitics that also appear quite effective against COVID, some of which are being reformulated and brought to market.

There are also a host of treatments that were demonstrated to be quite effective against COVID via placebo controlled double blind trials that were ignored. If something is off patent, it will almost never be repurposed for another indication by a US pharmaceutical company.
In Silicon Valley there's lots of ways to get money to smart people. And for Tesla, he wasn't even a founder, he just kind of took over.

With every success there's some amount of luck, and some amount of accrued power, and some amount of grit and novel creation. It's increasingly looking like the less that Musk has his hands on things, the better "his" companies do. He may have lots of leftover power from his early luck, but others need to rein him in for any sort of success to happen. Now that his ego is too big, we get whatever has been happening for the past few years.
The unfulfillable desires for greed and power are what destroys people and civilizations. Lust likely a close second. The ancient Stoics taught on this very point and it is just as true today. We've created some clever tricks of seemingly infinite growth, but all things that grow also die.

Restraint and being satisfied with what you already have are the keys to stability.

Life is not overwhelming hardship my friend. It is bliss. At the end is the tiger eating your insides saying what bliss is your life, please become part of me. With words we deceive ourselves, convinced that we are separate from the living world we came out of.
I just don’t buy it anymore

I’ve seen it all:

* Impact funds
* ESG funds
* “Founder Friendly” funds
* Benefit Corp funds
* Veteran Funds
* Non-Profit fund
* OpenSource Funds

Guess what? They are all the same as “Only profit matters” funds

Why? Because it’s the same limited partners funding these funds, and it’s the same set of 2000 people who have all the money and the absolute last thing they want to do is have less of it.

Anything that’s not a down the line Gordon Gekko/Axe cap fund is at best diversification, and at worst a tax buffer or slush fund.

There is no way to both play in the world of capitalism and also benefit the people who are actually building it, because the act itself takes away the ownership from the actual employees who are creating the value in the first place. It is literally zero sum because there’s an equity pool at the founding that is - at every funding round - made less and less relevant as owners. Note, I said owners, not how much their “equity” is worth in their Schwab account.

I genuinely believe the fund founders think they are doing a good thing. I know some of these fund founders and they genuinely believe they’re doing the right thing but “the practicalities of the market” are such that fucking people out of ownership “they have no choice. They have to return something to their LPs.”

By nature, there is no other possible action investment capital can take but literally theft from the employees creating value via “dilution.”

We just had this conversation the other day about liquidation preferences etc…nobody is fooled at this point at what is going on
Microsoft has had some of the most atrocious security incidents of all major cloud providers and it doesn't seem to slow them down at all.
It's unfortunate that the rules of Congress are so complex and arcane.

(It's also unfortunate the Senate exists at all in its current form).

Thanks for your perspective. Makes me want to do some studying, but my energy would probably be better used on my city and state procedures.
As others have said, there’s the UDRP, which is what the GoDaddy-linked answer is covering, but here’s from ICANN (the source, mentioned in GoDaddy’s policy):
https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/help/dndr/udrp-en

Without knowing if his was for a business, or a service mark or trademark, or even some just-well-known name, AND without knowing your location, it’s hard to say more. In the US you could (IaNaL) pursue small claims court, at the cheapest, and try to make an argument that they registered it in bad faith; if they fail to show up I’d guess an order from the court to transfer the domain back to you in exchange for compensating the purchaser for a year of registration would be your best possible (but who-knows how likely; courts are fickle things) outcome.

Outside the US, your local laws might be nicer to you legally.
"Please be dying, but not too quickly" (2023)
It's not bribery because it's not degree courses. You can go on countless apps and sites and pay to have people teach you stuff.
It will be curious to see how this pans out. Will it be like be like the boeing and mcdonnell douglas merger where the engineering dominated culture died and it became all about money or will it be like Steve Jobs returning to Apple to lead it to new heights.
Yes, there’s a process for that too:
https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/errp-2013-02-28-en
There are always a menu of pre-built reaction plans, because even in the days of strategic bombers over the arctic there wouldn't have been enough reaction time for anything custom + dissemination to combat commands.

Much less once ICBMs become common.

And at that point, the only requirement for a total war / civilian+industry apocalypse plan is that your potential opponent might also have such a plan.

It's tremendously unlikely to be used except in a "like for like" response scenario (absent an insane president), but if the US saw the Soviets throwing everything they had up with population centers targeted... there'd better be a ready to go plan to respond similarly.

And, as Dr Strangelove memorably quips, indeed the most effective deterrence effect of such a plan is to loudly tell everyone you have such a plan -- so they will have to consider that's one of your response options, and thus be disincentivized from starting a nuclear exchange.

By which it makes a lot of sense that even if the US didn't have such a plan, they fabricated one and announced they did!

(Not that I think they didn't. The Cold War was way too real to bet on a 0% chance that superpowers weren't going to escalate to total war)
That shortcut opens HISTORY, hence it is ctrl+shift+H. And if the terminal emulator used up ctrl+f to implement find, it would mean that no terminal program could use ctrl+f to implement find. Maybe next time before you try to imply other people dont know UX, pause, and consider if you know what you are talking about. Incidentally, using the term UX itself, generally is a good signal that the person that is using it doesnt have a clue what they are talking about.
Granted, the real reasons they refused to reinstate the account may not have been because of the unflattering tweets. Maybe it really wasn't. But Apple definitely goofed when they said that was one of the reasons. +1 for developers and consumers, -1 for Apple.
This seems like a problem you can’t solve generically and you always end up making trade offs. The two main challenges I can think of:

* State in old system isn’t representable in new system (not a backwards compatible upgrade or more likely a bug exists in handling the new state)

* There’s state outside of the program that’s impossible to transition gracefully (e.g. dirtied IO socket where you don’t know what it’s state is & it’s a resource owned outside of your program)

* Transitioning state means there’s a possibility of failure because the program never reaches a graceful transition point to snapshot the state. So you either have to choose between running the old program forever or abandoning the graceful state transition anyway.

Distributed systems I’ve observed pick one of two strategies:

1. Using the load balancer strategy of migrating off the old version & then terminating it after some grace period.

2. Use a formal distributed state system like CockroachDB, Yuggabyte, DynamoDB, S3, etc etc.

This is probably a big reason why most programs use external storage solutions even if they’re less efficient - it centralizes maintenance of state onto a system that has well defined semantics and can handle repair transparently.
Went into my favorites. Thanks for putting this together
Correction: instead of `SHA256`, I've should typed `AES256`. The last time when I wrote any encryption, it was still back in 2019... that's why I lost it... Sorry :)
Are there actually practical cases where Rabin-Karp hashing is what dominates the running time of an application? The naive implementation already gives you 0.75 GB/s. Seems pretty fast.
Generators are so cool

I wrote my own ui/effects barebones runtime on it a few years back https://github.com/marcellerusu/capable-js

It’s especially cool when you have components that have distinct states they could be in, eg. a survey
I find my ReMarkable 2 e-ink tablet provides fantastic UX for technical PDFs. Zero distractions, handwritten (or typed!) annotations, etc.
Pairing a New Remote to a Cheap RC Car
Yep, a lot of laptops were 16:10 up through the mid-late 2000s, especially workstation and business laptops. By 2010 or so that’d given way to the HD marketing craze that plagued laptops with those terrible 1366x768 panels that doggedly persisted until just a 3-4 years ago. In the case of the ThinkPad T-series, that happened when the T420 came out in early 2011.
"At the beginning, NIST presented DSA as a NIST proposal, making no mention of NSA. A FOIA lawsuit by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) revealed, however, that DSA had been secretly designed by NSA."

Whatever happened to CPSR. Back in the day I went to one of their conferences.
The DMA imposes FRAND obligations on gatekeepers and free interoperability requirements ("interoperability" here meaning literally everything from using the installation APIs to install apps from the web to being able to call all OS APIs for free on your app. That's why Apple's "Core Technology Fee" is screwed)
Did it rain in Tromso while you were there?
Russian hackers accessed Microsoft's internal systems, now attacking customers
A close relative of mine had a bottle of 'shark cartilage' capsules which he proudly presented to me, I must have been around 14-15 years old.

The idea behind them, as he explained, was that since sharks are basically immune to cancer, (which they are not[0]), taking those supplements could therefore help prevent cancer. I remember thinking to myself, this is bullshit.

By that same logic I could pulverise a cheetah, take the resulting 'product', and outrun most living creatures.

By the very same logic pulverising scorpions and consuming supplements made from the powder should give us at least some resistance to ionizing radiation.

[0] https://academic.oup.com/jnci/article/97/21/1562/2521495
There exist literally zero organizations on the planet that I would fully trust to build anything approaching AGI on behalf of humanity
LSD is a uniquely potent psychedelic. Especially in the pre-research-chemicals-from-china era, you could be pretty damn confident you took LSD if you were tripping balls on less than a milligram.
I think this is precisely what happened. Altman did genius level strategy and stacked the company with loyal followers, so that when he went to take over it as a coup it would go smoothly, because all of the financial interest aligned with Altman.

He’s a next level psychopath
Is this similar to sending ammunitions or "worse"(e.g. more provoking of WW3)...?
Microsoft repeatedly tried to put Windows on a phone and it didn’t stick.

Apple didn’t bother, they used an entirely different UI from the start, and it was a UI aimed at everyone from kids to grandparents, not just tech people.
Moosen
5,800 Pounds of Batteries Tossed Off the ISS in 2021 Fell to Earth Today
They do seem to care about their accesss to the mediterranean sea though...
The original design looks like it'd probably be workable in bear/predator/moose country.

This production release though doesn't seem like a good idea in those places. :(
Weird attractions like that aren't really in Vegas, too much competition, eg. Celine Dion, etc. Largest ball of yarn and whatnot is generally off the Interstate in nowheres-ville.
Except the "no/minor corruption" requeriment...
> Distributed

> Built on PostGRES

Not what people usually mean by distributed, caveat emptor
Same comment here. However the psychedelic background nature and that it loads slow is a distraction
> Even if you do need paid support

By paid support, you mean free steak dinners for middle management?

After dealing with Azul people, give me Oracle. Instead of seeing Azul people shuffling a bunch of charts around and making up shit on the fly to make it sound like their garbage product performs better than OpenJDK (it didn't for us. we benchmarked it. but shame on us, because I guess the steak dinners kept rolling in).

Look at this website, do you think it belongs to a legitimate company? https://www.azul.com/
Most of those would explain a delay of a couple years, not a couple decades, and the rest is rather the point. If this was disproportionately youthful indiscretion then there wouldn't be many repeat offenders in their late 20s and 30s, since they'd have grown out of it.
Yup - GP should read the guidelines[1] a few times.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Loved that game as a kid. Brings back memories
I’m just starting to learn Mandarin at the moment and I’ve found LLMs useful for this. I can ask the question “I’m learning Mandarin, can you break this sentence into individual hanzi and explain it?” and it will do a good job of explaining everything. Or I can say something like “I was transcribing an audio recording for an exercise and I wrote X but the answer was Y, what did I do wrong?” and it will tell me that I misheard 妈 (ma, the question particle) as 马 (mǎ, which means “horse”) etc. Or I can paste in a sentence and ask it if it’s grammatically correct, and it will explain what I did wrong and how to correct it.

For instance:

> > I’m learning Mandarin, can you break this sentence into individual hanzi and explain it? 果汁很好喝

> Certainly! Let's break down the sentence "果汁很好喝" into individual hanzi (Chinese characters) and explain what each character and the whole sentence mean.

> - 果 (guǒ) - Fruit

> - 汁 (zhī) - Juice

> - 很 (hěn) - Very; quite

> - 好 (hǎo) - Good

> - 喝 (hē) - to drink

> So, when you put these characters together:

> - 果汁 (guǒ zhī) means "fruit juice."

> - 很 (hěn) is an adverb that intensifies the adjective that follows. When used before an adjective, it indicates a high degree of something, commonly translated as "very" or "quite" in English.

> - 好喝 (hǎo hē) combines "good" (好 hǎo) and "to drink" (喝 hē), which together mean "tasty" or "good to drink."

> So, the sentence 果汁很好喝 translates to "The fruit juice is very tasty" or more directly, "Fruit juice is very good to drink." It's a simple sentence structure expressing that the speaker finds the fruit juice to be quite delicious.

It does idioms too:

> > I’m learning Mandarin, can you break this sentence into individual hanzi and explain it? 吃醋

> Sure, I can help with that. The sentence "吃醋" consists of two characters: "吃" and "醋".

> - 吃 (chī): This character means "to eat" or "to consume".

> - 醋 (cù): This character means "vinegar".

> However, when put together as "吃醋", the phrase doesn't literally mean "eat vinegar". In Chinese, "吃醋" is an idiomatic expression that means to be jealous or envious, usually in the context of a romantic relationship. It can be translated to feeling "sour" over someone's interaction with others, hence the metaphor of "eating vinegar". This phrase showcases how Mandarin often uses vivid imagery to encapsulate emotions and situations.

Even going down to a locally running Mistral 7b gives pretty good results, although it sometimes makes minor mistakes or doesn’t give as thorough an explanation as the larger models. Still very useful for my stage though, where I’m mostly just trying to remember something that isn’t quite fully memorised yet, or exploring what’s adjacent to my current knowledge.
I agree for pianos, because the mechanical feedback is part of what makes playing enjoyable.

I'm not as sure for keyboards in VR! There has been a lot of research on non-invasive brain computer interface (BCI), including predictive systems that guess what you want to type, instead of where you're actually typing (example from 8y ago [1]).

Simpler gesture recognition is already on the market (like this one, from 2020, for the apple watch [2]). And now bigger VR players are investing in the tech [3]. I expect useful brain interface to be integrated in common VR devices in a couple of generations.

[1] Air Keyboard: Mid-Air Text Input Using Wearable EMG Sensors
and a Predictive Text Modeland a Predictive Text Model; https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?art...
[2] https://mudra-band.com/
[3] https://www.androidcentral.com/gaming/virtual-reality/zucker...
I don’t think the EU should be able to say what Apple or Google can or cannot do in terms of their products. You don’t see the US constantly fining Airbus.
I agree. Perhaps I was unclear. I was hoping that someone can use the exact action of the grand piano, but skip the strings, soundboard and so on.
> Unless Russia becomes a market liberal, well functioning democracy, it will not happen -- and what are the odds of that?

I think the odds are actually pretty good 50 years out in the future.

At the same time, some democratic or benevolent dictator country (e.g. Phillipines or El Salvador) could be totally fucked up (again) in 50 years.
Run your own Freedom of Information website
Ask HN: What new laptop would you get?
My laptop's almost 6 years old. It's starting to have reliability issues, and the battery life isn't very good. The landscape has changed considerably since 2018, and I'm not sure what should get. I use things like IntelliJ and Photoshop, so Chromebooks aren't an option.

Historically, I've used X1 Carbons. I like that they have just enough ports, are light and repairable, but Windows has started to feel more like an ad platform than an OS. I ended up rolling back to 10 after the 11 upgrade because of all the garbage. I'm also not a WSL fan. It's better than nothing, but it's a pain to manage.

I use a Macbook at work. It's ok. It's nice that the OS is actually an OS, and being Unix-like is a plus. I don't like Apple's history of dropping OS support after 5 or so years. They've also unrepairable. I don't buy into the Framework upgrade premise, but being able to recover data from the SSD or replace a damaged trackpad is nice. I also prefer the Thinkpad chassis. Apple's aluminum is feels cold, the edges hurt my wrists, and the metal picks up dings my X1 Carbon never got.

That leaves Linux, but 2024 is not the year of desktop Linux.
Who pays to partliamentary expertise?
Nope, somebody linked the paper here. It's a completely different conclusion, it's not even about "how bad sugar is for us" exactly.
I felt I fully understood git after I realized it was just a data structure.

The data structure isn't even complicated (there are commits, and then there are directories and files associated with the commits), and once I understood the tooling (i.e. git commands) in terms of how it manipulated the data structures, I was basically able to do whatever I intended to on the repo.
Anybody able to install it using Homebrew? I get a download failed error.
HN's fault. It messes with links.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/onedr...
How do you build 600,000 houses a year with a population of 40 million? Cancel all other jobs and redirect all labor in Canada to building housing?

I'd be very surprised there are "220-250K housing starts per year" really. A lot of that might be development in the planning stage that is tied up in red tape whether it be in the investment stage, or navigating bureaucracy. I'd be very surprised if there were 100K houses per year actually being built.

edit: Does "housing starts" here refer to bedrooms? E.g. a 3 bedroom house counts as 3 housing starts? If so, the 600K goal (required to keep up with population growth) is much more reasonable, though still far off.
I find the look weirdly attractive.
What if the USA "doesn't show up"?
Seems like this summary should be in the README
He was trying to convince one of the independent directors to resign, leaving him with a 3-2 majority on the board which would be illegal under California non-profit law.
This kind of low level strategies can be tried on many models using AICI, including the substring one https://github.com/microsoft/aici/blob/main/controllers/aici...
haven't checked, but I bet you could ask for a list or the documents to the cases
> Stop spreading Apple propaganda.

Please don't try to start flame wars on HN. You should read the guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Not saying they can: saying that’s Tim Apples worst nightmare.
It's so sad that this amazing resource is locked up on Twitter.
Same AppStore, and it runs iPad apps.
> I came down from that trip thinking everything I had previously believed, and had been taught, was a sham.

Me too, except this gave me a tremendous feeling of freedom. Suddenly there were no constraints as I realised most of the barriers were invented and in my head. I was filled with awe, curiosity and love.
>While the investigation cleared Altman to reclaim his board seat, he said he “did learn a lot from this experience,” expressing remorse for one incident in particular involving a board member he did not name.

>That appeared to be a reference to former OpenAI director Helen Toner, a researcher at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology, a Georgetown think tank. After she published a research analysis that criticized the speed of OpenAI’s product launch decisions, Altman reportedly tried to remove her from the board. “I think I could have handled that situation with more grace and care—I apologize for that,” he said.

https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-is-reinstated-to-open...
You can’t expect a lawyer to know the difference between copyright and patents.
Looks very similar to my solution. :-)
I am not sure the Tesla has much to do with it. Her family moved to a rural area. It’s hard to get medical and emergency services there. She drove into a pond - fast - and the tow truck couldn’t reach her car at such a distance.

What’s most interesting is that for all her money, it didn’t help in the end. None of the emergency responders knew her background nor cared. We all wind up the same in the end.
DMA chaining is simply magic. First stumbled across it in a Microchip PIC. Does anyone know when it was invented? All I could find was this 2003 IBM patent https://patents.google.com/patent/US20030229733A1/en but I have a feeling Microchip had it earlier?
Eloquent Javascript is better suited for someone who already has some experience with basic programming and wants to learn javascript while also exploring more advanced concepts in programming in general.

Javascript was not my first language, but I have refered to javascript.info from time to time and it seems to have a gentle introduction.
OpenWRT supports changing the BSSID on supported models. I should have been more clear that I matched both the SSID+BSSID. From both a dump I did from the spoofed location and the public online databases.
Google: qubes escape

-- they're rarely discovered. But they have existed, more likely currently exist or will exist. Certainly way better than not having that protection, but running sketchy binaries is still not the best idea!