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github.com 1mo ago

Peer-to-peer collaborative code playground in a single 0.5 MB HTML file

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conduct.ai 2mo ago

Conduct Named SAP Strategic AI Partner for SAP Cloud ERP Transformation

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conduct.ai 2mo ago

Kenough with Local Agents

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github.com 6mo ago

Show HN: Collaborative code playground in a single <1MB HTML file

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sampler.powierz.art 1y ago

Show HN: I made a sampler to make beats from YouTube videos

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github.com 2y ago

Kn – Nvgt/Fldrs/Qckly

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latin.stackexchange.com 2y ago

How would you say “She said goodbye too many times before.” in Latin?

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github.com 2y ago

Show HN: I made a CLI rip-off of Find the Sets

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beta.openai.com 3y ago

Text game played with GPT with automatic prompts for Stable Diffusion

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github.com 3y ago

Powierża Coefficient

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crates.io 3y ago

“You meant to install ripgrep”

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micouy.github.io 4y ago

I still don’t understand the * operator in Rust

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micouy.github.io 4y ago

Microplanets

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micouy.github.io 4y ago

Logical Manifolds

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arxiv.org 4y ago

Understanding Shannon's Entropy metric for Information [pdf]

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twisted-toys.com 5y ago

Twisted Toys

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micouy.github.io 5y ago

Mutable Arguments Considered Harmful

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micouy.github.io 5y ago

My Rust Workflow

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micouy.github.io 5y ago

Orange and blue edges around objects

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: How would you steel-man censoring social media vs. freedom of speech?

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support.google.com 5y ago

In newer YT app you can't log out without removing Google account from device

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micouy.github.io 6y ago

Booting to 'Hello Rust' on x86_64

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: Platform to stream and record classes for free?

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blog.backyardbrains.com 7y ago

Connecting squid's fins to an iPod causes changing patterns in their camouflage

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This supposedly proves that humans are much better tracking social contracts than arbitrary, abstract ones. But I feel like it's actually the wording that makes the puzzle hard. We don't think:

If somebody is drinking beer, they are 21+.

We think:

To drink beer, you must be 21+.

And if you formulate the other puzzles in the same way, they are much simpler:

If a card has a circle on one side, it must have the yellow color on the other side.

Is this your impression too? (Actually, after writing this comment I realised I hadn't checked the red card... But I also hadn't checked the 17 yo lol.)

Then why administer the vaccines? (With potential side effects due to the short period of clinical trials compared to the use of Ivermectin.) The way to control the epidemic is to make enough people immune to drive it to extinction. It would be preferable to use all available means to attain that. This way you protect all people (not only the people who got the treatment), including the vulnerable ones.

Have you read the FDA's article? Let me summarize. Thou shalt not use Ivermectin because:

Ivermectin tablets are approved [...] for some parasitic worms.

Taking large doses of this drug is dangerous and can cause serious harm.

(Unlike any other drug.)

There’s a lot of misinformation around, and you may have heard that it’s okay to take large doses of ivermectin.

...while also...

The FDA has not reviewed data to support use of ivermectin in COVID-19 patients to treat or to prevent COVID-19; however, some initial research is underway. Taking a drug for an unapproved use can be very dangerous. This is true of ivermectin, too.

Ivermectin Products for Animals Are Different from Ivermectin Products for People

Scientific authority is an oxymoron.

Ivermectin is not a newly-discovered drug. There were hundereds of millions of courses administered world wide (it even got a Nobel prize). It has been used for decades. [1]

The only unknown right now is the long term effect of ivermectin in patients with covid. It seems to me that it's the same unknown as with the vaccines. You don't have a clinical trial for effects of the vaccines after 5 years, do you? Why don't we wait for it, just to make sure? And it's even worse for the mRNA vaccines, which have not been around for decades and only got the emergency authorization.

Btw the emergency authorization can only be granted by the FDA if there are no alternatives. [2]

For FDA to issue an EUA, there must be no adequate, approved, and available alternative to the candidate product for diagnosing, preventing, or treating the disease or condition.

I'm not sure if "approved" (as a treatment for covid) would have applied to Ivermectin at the time the EUA was granted but it's not like there were trials to decide that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivermectin#Cost [2] https://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/search-fda-guidan...

1. There's no patent on Ivermectin. (Correct me if I got it wrong) 2. Merck has announced an agreement with US gov for 1.7 mln courses of anew antiviral treatment for $1.2 bln. Also they have no real argument against IM:

No scientific basis for a potential therapeutic effect against COVID-19 from pre-clinical studies; No meaningful evidence for clinical activity or clinical efficacy in patients with COVID-19 disease, and; A concerning lack of safety data in the majority of studies.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210609005142/en/Mer...

https://mobile.twitter.com/BretWeinstein/status/140264794837...

What else should scientists do than challenging the status quo?

Bret (Eric's brother, biology PhD) had a 2h long conversation with Pierre Kory (MD) and it was taken down by YT. One of the things they talked was the recommendations of WHO and other organisations to focus on supportive care only (supporting the patient while their organism fights the disease by itself). They insist on not using other treatments outside clinical trials. The argument that running experiments would cost lives doesn't seem coherent. It's not like we have this 100+ yrs practice of dealing with SARS-CoV-2 epidemic with well established protocols. What if we're clinging to a suboptimal strategy?

one of the most innovative and beautiful things I've seen in a while. my only complaint are the lines between the points already mentioned by others. I don't know much about color though so I can't help you here. otherwise, great job.

Then how can you explain no correlation before the daughter has become a teenager? If I understood you correctly, you suggest that parents of daughters divorce more often because the daughter was born to a couple of stressed parents (which is more likely to happen than a boy born to that family). If that would be the only cause of the divorce (I'm oversimplyfying, of course), then there would be no difference whether the daughter is a teenager or not. Perhaps parents think of taking care of a child in their first years of life as a moral obligation, which would reduce the divorce rate. However, it's still suspicious that the divorce occurs around the time the daughter reaches puberty, not some time earlier (after she's 5 or something).

They explicitly say it in the article (in the second paragraph, visible even to non-subscribers) that there is no correlation in the first years of life of the son/daughter. Interesting hypothesis but seems false from what I read in the article.

But, unlike previous work, their study also looked at the effect of the girl’s age. It found that “daughter-divorce” risk emerges only in a first-born girl’s teenage years (see chart). Before they reach the age of 12, daughters are no more linked to couples splitting up than sons are.

Fix Terminals 5 years ago

I'd also really like to just be able to interact with a keyboard like other apps i.e. receive keyup events, reading multiple keys at once etc. Kitty has something like that but popular libraries don't support it. I've had many ideas for terminals games and apps but didn't continue because of these limitations.

Sounds like a cool idea. I encourage you to try. It would be cool in the future to have some easy tool to start a personal Internet Space built on top of some open protocols to easily communicate and share data but still own the thing.

I'm in the process of gathering some friends and we plan to start a blog/newsletter, just for us. We're going to share our projects, achievements and cool stuff we enjoy. We've already had a small success - I connected two of my friends who study Psychology and Biomedical Engineering at different universities and together we're going to write an article about differences in brain structure and behavior.

I think your point has its limitations but is quite important. "Just turn off FB" sounds similar to "Just build your own social media", it may be seen as too limiting.

On the other hand I think people against non-censored speech often frame the receivers of the message as somehow mindless. Now that I think about it, censoring people on social media (i.e. deplatforming Trump) implies that users have no free will (whatever that means) and can only act as an obedient crowd. From that perspective, everyone who might become a leader of the masses seems dangerous and requires intervention. Not only that, their followers are also potentially dangerous, just not powerful enough. To me such attitude is in contradiction with individual's freedom to express their views but also a denial of existence of freedom to act in accordance with one's views.